Star.
London, England, 1828-04-19 00:00:00

!4AYENCE, Aran. 4.

The prices of corn had risen, in consequence of the
ri ein France. Now that they have fal.eit in that king-
dom, they decline more and more among us. At Mat-
seines the price of wheat was, on the 23J March, two
francs, in consequence of the permission of importation
At Lyons, Gray, Dijon, floc. where the hectolitre was at
30 francs, it is now sold at from 25 to 27 francs. The
prices at Toulouse, Rouen, and MITI!, are likewise fall•
ing. and they have declined also at Strasburg, Basel,
Worms, Frankenthal, and on the Maine. The general
tendency to a decline in France could not fail to pro-
duce a similar effect on our market, where wheat,
which
.on the 3d of Jan. this year was at 10 fl-iins SO
kreuzer. is. now worth only seven flotins 40 kreuzer,
Some consignments, but not considerable, continue to
be Made from this place to the Moselle and Strasburg.
We now receive very little from the Maine, because the
prices are nearly as high at Frankfort, where the maker
of wheat is sold for • 7fl. SOkr. chiefly for home con.
sumption.
Letters from Dantz'c of the 18th March, say, that
the corn trade there is very dull. The navigation of the'
Vi.tula was interrupted by floating ice, and no supplie.
could come yet. Wheat of the best quality was worth
oily I Ift. 87c. on the spot; delivered at Havre, all
charges included, it would come to 151 r. Under these
circumstances a farther decline in the prices may be
expected in Western Europe, as soon as the supplies
from the North shall be received. In the ports of the
Mediterranean the prices appear to keep up, and rather
inclined to rise.—Algerneine Zcitung. .Ipril 12.

DARNISTADT, Arita 9.

Considerable uneasiness having been felt for the
health of his Royal Highne.s our Grand Dske, a bul-
letin has been issued to day by Dr. Wedekend, his phy-
sician, by which we are assured that our beloved Prince
is much better.

NUREMBURG, Aran $.

Yesterday the ceremony of laying the first stone of
the iniended monument to Albert Duver was performed
with suitable ceremony. Artists and friends of the
Arts had assembled from all parts of Germany, and
even from Italy, and mild spring weather favoured
this patriotic festivity.—Franifort Papers, April 12.

It was a remark of Dean SA ter, that in the Arith-
metic of the Customs, two and two do not always
make four, or in other words, that high duties do not
invariably enhance the Revenue. The case is pretty
much the same with protecting duties, which do not
necessarily ensure prosperity to the interest attempted
to be protected. By making the public pay for their
Corn twenty millions a year more than they would do,
if..importation were unrestricted, the agriculturists di-
minish the productive power of the country to that ex-
tent, and consequently prevent a considerable annual
accumulation of capital, which, if not arrested in its
progress, would be continually increasing the number
and means of the buyers of Corn. In this point of view,
therefore, we think the Landowners have widely mis-
taken their permanent interest. We do not wish to join
in the cry of selfishness and oppression that has been
raised against the country Gentlemen, for we trust mote
of them are influenced by shortsighted notions of ad•
vantage to the kingdom in general arising from restric-
tioat than by motives of individual emolument. We
should be the last to approve of the destruction of the
country Gentlemen of England, and with them of that
public spirit, those kind feelings, and those honourable
principles, which have distinguished them for so many
generations. For their own sake, therefore, we do wish
that they would consider the Corn B II with rather more
enlarged views than their tenants or bailiffs adopt, and
instil into the minds of their masters. If Corn is sold
at a neighbouring market at a trifling reduction, the
steward, in handing in his accounts, adds, perhaps, the
concluding reflection—" Prices must be kept up higher
than this, or we shall be all ruincl." And this makes
r deep impression on the Landlord, who comes up to
town red hot against Free Trade, and prepared to op-
pose, tooth and nail, any thing in the odious.shape of a
Corn Bill. But, good ►Mr. Steward! what %souk! you
‘ay, if your master's team should some day return home
from market with the wheat unsold, for want of any
ustomers at all? Wculd you not think this worse
even than low pikes? It is to such a point that mat
ers will inevitably be driven, unless the poialation can
be protected against that state of starvation which
would be the malt of a stoppage, or even a severe de-

pression of the manufactures of Great Britain. And
let k never be forgotten, that•.the preservation of die
foreign inntrket w ill lest to us only so long as the foreign
manufacturer can be undersold by us—and no longer

Dispatches were received this moaning at the Colo
nial Office front Haifa:, the Mauritius, and New Soutl

This day, at noon, their Boyd Highnesses the Doke
and Duchess of CLARENCE and suite, in four carriages
and four, arrived at their house in the Admiralty, from
Bushy Park, for the season.