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in the advantages of our improvements in machinery. We understand,
however, that the cotton manufacturers assert, that the new tax, added to the
present tax of a half-penny per pound, will have considerable effect on the
sale of the manufactured article; and that they intend to prove that our
export would be greatly increased if all taxes were taken off raw cotton. The
Ministers have consented to allow the drawback on printed calicoes on exportation,
for three months; but have refused to allow drawback on the stock in
hand for home consumption. This appears to us very unfair on the persons
who have stocks of goods fitted only for the English market.
Instead of allowing the drawback only on exportation, and that but for three
months, the drawback should be allowed on all the stock in hand; and the
holders should be permitted to export when they please, and not forced to glut
foreign markets with existing stocks, and throw the trade out of work until
they are cleared off.
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THE FUNDS, Saturday, One o"Clock
ENGLISH.
3 per Cent. Consols - - 78⅛
Ditto for Account - - - 78⅛
3 per Cent. Reduced - - 78¾
3½ per Cents. 1818 - - —
New 3½ per Cents. - 86⅞
4 per Cents. 1826 - - - —
Long Annuities - - - 16 13-16
New Annuities, 30 Years - 16⅝
FOREIGN.
French 5 per Cents. - -
Ditto 3 per Cents. - - -
Russian 5 per Cent. Bonds 92¼
Austrian 5 per Cent. ditto
Prussian 5 per Cent. new
Brazil - - - - - - 57½
Greek - - - - - - 23 25
Spanish - - - - - - 17½¼
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NOTICES.
The sentiment of the Journal treated of by 'Pubicola' is unworthy of his
contempt.
Surely nothing that was inserted in the Examiner could have had (even at
the time) the mischievous influence apprehended by 'An Old Subscriber.'
We believe that Bolivar did not deserve the character.
We extremely regret that we cannot make room for the letter of Mr. Ensor
in this Number.
Our correspondent mistakes in supposing that any slight was intended to Col.
Jones, whose labours, under the signature of "Radical," in the Times, for the
exposure of jobbing and abuses, entitle him to respect and gratitude. Any thing
cavalier in our tone was addressed to the Vice-Suppressing Society.
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LONDON, FEBRUARY 27.
The late tumults in Paris have been viewed by all parties in France
in a far more serious light than the accounts at first received in this
country made them appear to merit. Moderate, time-serving
newspapers, and moderate, time-serving deputies, have now publicly
declared their conviction on the following points:—That it is now
obvious that the National Guard, and the middle classes, at least, of
Paris, are not satisfied with the present state of the government,
either in respect to men or measures;—That, until they obtain a
government with which they are satisfied, the feeling of security
will not revive;—That until there is security, the laboring
population will be without work, will be dissatisfied, a prey to agitators,
and ready for continual tumults: which tumults, so long as they do
not endanger human life or private property, the National Guard will
give themselves as little trouble as possible to suppress. All this has
been obvious to every man of common sense for the last six months;
and the popular journals have been dinning it into the ears of the
King and the Chamber since August last. But they would not listen
to Reason, when she came with a gentle whisper; and now they
must be fain both to hear and feel her, returning with a loud shout
or a thundering blow.
One point is now admitted by the unanimous voice of all parties—
the necessity of dissolving the Chamber. This measure, so odious
to the majority a few days since, is now pressed on by them with
indecent precipitation, to escape from the approaching debate on the
electoral law, and have the opportunity of presenting themselves
once again to the same narrow body of constituents, which elected
them before, and by which they believe that they will be re-elected.
The côté gauche are now the opponents of an immediate dissolution.
They were always so. From the beginning they demanded that the
Chamber should (to use their own phrase) make its last will and
testament before it expires; should determine, by an election-law, to
whom the estate which it leaves behind, its constitutional authority,
shall descend.
The commission, or select committee, on the electoral law, has
presented its report. This proposes to lower the electoral qualification
from 300 to 240 francs of direct taxes: an that of eligibility
from 1000 to 500. Trifling as is this diminution of the qualification
of an elector, it seems that it will increase the number of the voters to
210,000; and though nothing sort of a million of electors ought to
be accepted by the sincere Reformers, either in this country or in
France, even as a compromise, the chances of some improvement in
the composition of the Chamber even from so inadequate a
Parliamentary Reform, if adopted previous to the dissolution, are sufficient
to be worth a hard struggle.
The usual quantity of absurd misapprehension has displayed itself
in England on the subject of the troubles in Paris. The hatred of
the populace to the fleurs-de-lis is partly understood; but their antipathy
to the crosses, and to the priesthood, is, not unnaturally, somewhat
less intelligible to Englishmen who have never stirred from
their fire-side, not imbibed any ideas but those which it suited the
purpose of some person or other to carry thither. All persons who
have conversed with the working population of Paris must have been
forcibly struck with the intensity of their hatred to the Jesuits, and to
les mauvais prétres (as they phrase it) generally; a hatred which has
partly for its cause, and partly for its effect, a notion that those
against whom it is directed are capable of the worst of crimes; and
we have ourselves repeatedly heard persons of the lowest class,
subsequently to the revolution in July, expressing their fears that if Louis
Philippe persisted in going about without an escort, some Jesuit
would be found to assassinate him. But the very persons in whom
these feelings appeared to be strongest, always qualified the expression
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