Star. — 1831-02-19 (London, England)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.  Mama Alamo Tana Mr.—Dublin, I ; Waterford, 3.  Dam., Few 111.—Wind N.N. W..—Arrived the Bowdkch, Goddard, from New York, and Tin Tln, Meta, from Bilboa. Sailed the Hope transport, for the westward. Arrived the Mika, from Demerara. _ _  ____ Poutrarru. Fn. 111.—Wind W.  FALMOUTM, Pas. 17.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived off the port, the Narcissus, Watson, from Seville. Ltvaaroor., Fs& 17.—Arrived the 16.—Arrived the Ire, Simpson, from Sierra Thomas, White, from New Orisons, and Manchester, Shetchli.hafritnkelew York. Coax, Fn. Leone, and Oliviers, from Si. 's. The Mary Ann, Jones, from Drogheda to Runcorn, was driven on the rocks near Castletown, hle of Man, 9th inst. Part of the cargo saved, in a damaged state. The Swift, LyaU, from Liverpool to &rangford, was wrecked over Castletown 9th inst. Crew saved. The Hero, Earl, from Sunderland to Dublin, was driven on shore at Port Sandrick, Isle of Man, 12th inst. sod sunk. The Flor de Amlzade, from Lisbon, was lost near Para previous to the gd ult. Part of the cargo saved. The Derrick, Mead, from Picton to Belfast, drove on shore near Wexford so Tuesday. The Idris, Leiden from Savannah, was on shore in Bootle Bay on  The *daunt, from the Disurithis, has arrived of Dover. Captain M'Dooald of the Thainston, just arri►ed at Leith from Corfu and Messina, (from Gibraltar in 19 day.,) reports the loss of a number of awls, both English and Sardinian, on the LW. nowt of the hieditavansan, and that the crews of some of them, who had escaped a watery gra►e, ware barbarously massacred by the Moors of. Tunis,. Three indi►iduals had been ransomed by the British Camel for about 80L and they belie►ed themsel►es to be the only survivas of the crews and passengers of eight or nine vessels, wrecked en this inhospitable coast. Captain M`Donald says, that while at Mes. sins, he learnt that the big.eyed barber, who murdered the young man Baird, in the Bonowstnunnees barque, the particulars of which were stated in this paper on the 15th ult. was executed lice days after his ap. a • am • a • SU/  A most respectable meeting of merchants and shipowners was yesterday held at the City of London Tavern, Mr. Ali derman Thompson, member for the City, in the chair, to discuss the propriety of petitioning against the proposed increase of duty on Canada timber. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, all clearly showing the cruel injustice of the proposition; and several resolutions declaratory of the just sense of the great assembled body upon the subject were unanimously passed, The resolutions are given in another part of our Paper. The meeting, in point of talent, worth, and property, was one of the most imposing ever convened in the City. When in 1794-5, the depreciation of the currency by paper coinage reduced the relative value of money of account, the land proprietors of the United Kingdom quickly raised their rents from the gold estimate to the paper estimate ; but as the abundance of the cheap currency enabled persons to speculate in land, they contrived to double or treble their rents. By this means the war seemed to be a gain; and instead of being oppressed by taxes, their incomes and means of expenditure were astonishingly increased. They did not perceive that their estates were undergoing a mortgage, and that their increased incomes were the mortgage money ! But,lwhen it was foreseen, that we were at all hazards to return to a gold currency, when rents must tumble and estates be fixed with taxes, the land proprietors iced the address previously to carry a corn bill, to keep up the price and their rents, thereby throwing the taxes on the eaters of bread and farming produce. The repeal, then, of this gross fraud on the industrious classes, is loudly and unanimously demanded ; while if frauds and abuses were not so numerous, it would, as it ought, be the universal and sole object of petition. Secured by their corn bill, the landlords laughed in their sleeves, when Peel's bill mined all the mercantile classes ; and perhaps they will now, as an alternative be proposing to return again to the paper currency, if the tors bill cannot be maintained. Such are the distractions created by the landlords' late wars, and their Heaven-born minister.