Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-04-26

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iorte won.d not, IN any event, send neSoca
tors Ia The frontiers 10 re-cstahsIl ,'o.l I'M
| derstandng with Russia, and that ii was for
| the Court of ST. Petersburg To take the first
step, because it had given III. iirst offence ia
the Porte. II is hoped, however, here, that
the armed Russian negocia;ors will soon pass
the frontiers IN great masses.
The following extract is dated Petersburg,
Feb. 4 =
:" We expect every moment the official
nianilesio OF the declaration of war; il is no
longer doubted that IA campaign will begin
IN HE Spring. Madame krHdener who is
supposed To have great influence over the
Emperor Alexander, is SAID TO be in favour of
war. IL rs added, that The second army, com
manded by Count Wittgenstein, will com
mcnce hostiiities.-ThIs army has Just been
reinforced by the third corps Of the first army
under the command of General WoronZow,
and the fourth corps OF cavalry of the reserve,
commanded by General BorOsdin"
When upon the subject of the Navy five
per cents, on the 4th of March Sir Roman
WILSON, addressed the following question to
the Marquis of Londonderry whether within
the last few days he had received any advices
tending to Increase or diminish tlle hopes held
out in the Kings Speech of AN amicable ar
rangement between RUSSIA and Turkey !?
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY replied that he
questioned much the sound discretion of put
ting such an enquiry, but as he saw its tenden-
cy was to excite alarm, he should at once an-
swer that there existed no ground whate, err
for depressing the hopes held out in his Males
tvs Speech On that subject.
from Beirs JYeskiy Messenger, Feb ~
The country is in agitation from one corner
TO another by premature discussion of the
Agricultural Question. County meeting, are
called and holden, and attended by all classes
of persons. We find dukes and ears, squires,
and farmers, with Goblet not un(rcquentIy
taking the lead amongst them, collected in 4,
market town, and proposing petitions To
Parliament, filed with strange and unaccoun-
table demands. The subject of these peti-
tons is various. In Suffolk, and Norfolk, Re
form in Par!iaments put in the van, which is
considered as .ihe source of all grievance, and
the nostrum which must indisputabIe G ure all
complaints.
They endeayor TO point the attention of
the farmer, as the cause of his distress to the
metallic currency, and 10 the Bill which COM
pels the bank to pay in gold. 1t is this return
to metallic currency, they contend which oc-
let the bank once more open its foodgates,
and pour out brisk circulation of paper. and
things will come right. We shall then have
corn at its proper price: that is to say, eighty
shilllnSs to an hendred quarters barley will
resume Its ancient prosperous price of forty
shllllngs, and oats will reach their suitable
standard of FIVE shiliinSs per bushel. Moth
ingcan he better than this state of things
The manufactures will never grumble To pay
two shillings for his quartcrn loaF if the
brewer will make better profit by selling his
porter at sixpence per pot, than he does now
by being obliged To reduce it TO fourpence.-
Such are the arguments of some of the landed
gentry who got the ear of County meetings
and claim TO dictate maxims ofPolitical econo-
my at their provincial meeting.
The truth is, that the distress of agricultu.
rlsts lies IA causes which time only can cure
and the good or evil Of which, generally con-
sidered, istoo doubtful to admit any tainper-
ing by the Legislature. 1t is very possible,
that plenty may be the particular inconve
Dience ot those who raise prod ice, but it can
not be general evil to the community at
large. The excess ofone year must pass into
the scarcity of the next; and the farmers
themselves lat more moderate rentsl will he
ultimately indemnifcd. The evil is 10 high
Fents--rents too high for the prices. The
complaining parties tine landlords) must
themselves give way. The farmer must have
some relief
BosToN, April i9.-On Tuesday afternoon
the Hon. JOHN PHILLIPS was chosen
Mayor of this City. The whole number of
votes was 1850, efwhich the Hon. John Phi
lips had $500, Others $50.
On Wednesday the remains of Gen. PcR-
TER, of the q. S. Army, were conveyed to
the tomb under full military honors, and by
long procession Of Civil, Military and Naval
Officers, Friends and Citizens, and the U. S.
troops on this station. The troops ON duty
consisted of a Battalion of Light Infantry an
der Maj. Darling, complying seven compa-
MES. viz. the MinsInW Rlues Ranner, EnSi