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Jforctgm Late from England. Londch and Liverpool papers to the 16th May, have been received at New York. The markets for our sta ple commodities continue dull and languid, without any material variation in prices. The follow ing are the principal items of po litical intelligence. A letter from Ancona states, that the United States having fail ed in their effort to obtain from the Porte, the cession of an island in the Mediterranean, they had opened a negociation with the Greek government for the same obiect with every prospect of success. The London Morning Journal, of the I (3th May, says that the Duke of Wellington and the, King quarrelled about Lord Anglesea, and that the Duke and Mr. Peel both soon go into retirement this is denied by other papers. The distress of the manufactu ring districts in England has ex cited the people to riots of a se rious and alarming description. There had been some rioting in Spitalfield among the silk weav ers, many looms had been attack ed and destroyed, and immense mobs continued to parade the streets until the 9th of May, when it was announced that the masters had agreed to restore the prices of 1824, according to the demand of the workmen. On the same day there were disturbances at Stockport; a large crowd assem bled, resisting the attempts of the magistrates and police officers to disperse them, and finally yield ed only to the military the turn out among the workmen at Stock port has lasted 17 weeks nor is there yet any hope of adjustment. At Manchester from eight to ten thousand operatives had turned out, in consequence of an attempt to reduce their wages. A large mob collected before Lancas ter castle, demanding the libe ration of twenty-three individuals who had been enuaired in a riot a Rochdale; the mobthrewstones at the soldiers and wounded one cf them, when the military fired on them, killed five and wounded twenty-five the cause of the riot was a reduction in the wages of the weavers. Meetings have been held in va rious places in England to peti tion for the abolition of the corn laws. Petitions from farmers and others complaining of the depres sed price of wool occasioned by importations of that article and praying for an increase of duty on foreign wool, had been presented in the House of Commons, and on the 11th May some discussion took place on the question. It was said that wool which had for merly sold for 58s. was now sell ing for 23s. Reform in England. A gene ral revision of public offices is go ing on in England conformably to the pledge of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "that it was in tended to institute a particular in quiry into the state of each and every public department." Local commissions have been formed, with instructions to institute a rigid examination of the mode in which the business is transacted, the competency of 'the persons employed, &c. with a view to a reduction in their numbers which it is expected will be elfected to a considerable extent between this and next session of Parliament. Reform in France. The mem bers of the Lower Chamber of the French Legislature are acquiring boldness in the exposure of abu ses and the demand for redress. A Committee of Deputies appoin ted to examine a certain branch of the public accounts has discov ered that M. de Peyronnct, the late keeper of the Seals, had ap propriated certain monies to the use of his office, or ordered cer tain expences of his chancellerie to be paid, without applying for a vote of credit from the Chamber. The Committee pronounce the act illegal and unconstitutional, and recommend a demand for resti tution. It appears that the high price of grain has occasioned some lo cal tumults in France. Portugal. ...Tho London Globe says that the English Government in connexion with the Great Eu ropean Powers, have intimated to Don Miguel, that he must not on ly resign his crown, but also quit Portugal. Spain. A letter from Madrid of the 23d April says, that the go vernment have been much en "a ged in preparing an expedition against Mexico, which is destined to depart for the Havana about October next, and then attempt a descent on the coast of New Spain. The King and Don Carlos are said to patronise the measure; but granting them all the inclina tion in the world to do mischief, we question whether it is in the power of Spain to fit out an ex pedition likely to cause the least apprehonsion in Mexico. Russia and Turkey. Ur to the latest dates, the Turks have the advantage over their invaders, and Constantinople is by no means in the state of starvation which has been represented. The Sultan has re-established free trade in corn, and the capital is now well supplied. Hussein Pacha has moved upon Varna, and the other div isions of the Turkish army hold the Russians at bay. A good deal of fighting on a small scale has taken place. The Russians have been defeated before Giur gevo, and they have done nothing before Silistria except looking at its walls. Letters from Bucharest of the 18th April allege, that the Turk ish troops recently arrived on the Danube, from Asia, brought with them the Plague, and that the Russians, alarmed at the intelli gence, have partially retreated, and taken various salutary pre cautions. Letters received from Holland state that a new and awful system of warfare is to be adopted by the Turks in the ensuing campaign. Orders have been given to tho Turkish commanders, on the ap proach of the Russians to any town, to dig up the church yards, and bring the dead bodies into the houses. The inhabitants are instantly to leave the towns. This is to be done in the hope that, should the Russians take posses sion of these places, a pestilence will immediately assail them. The Plymouth Herald says, it is confidently reported, that the government of Great Britain, 1 A joined by that of France and Aus tria, will inform Russia, that they will hot remain silent spectators, and sec Turkey become a con quered country. If Russia perse vere, it is more than probable that a higher tone will be used, and perhaps the torch of war, lit in the east, may spread its flames thro' out Europe. A letter from St. Petersburg of tho 20th April, in relation to the late assassination of the Russian Minister and his officers at Tehe ran, says that there is every rea son to believe the Persian gov ernment had no part in it, and that it eagerly offers the most com plete satisfaction that the case will admit of. ceurs to clerks for labor out office hours, are now disposed of in a few days, without those d ceurs, and the loss of time a'iri expenditure of money which has heretofore been the ner-rn,,, consequence of having unsettled accounts with the government The necessity of reform is now generally admitted, & the chan which has been made in the man ner of attending to and despatch ing business, has already been experienced by hundreds of our fellow citizens, from Georgia to Maine. Although the attention which is now paid to business will render the services of almost fifty of the clerks unnecessary, yet the saving of fifty or sixty thousand dollars is considered ab solutely insignificant, when com pared to the enormous expendi ture, both in time and money, which will hereafter be rendered unnecessary on the part of thou sands who are daily transactim business with the Departments. The present Cabinet is empha tically one of business, and from six o'clock in the morning until ten at night, the President and Secretaries are busily engaged hi the discharge of their ail impor tant duties. This incessant and untiring application is now how ever, drawing to a close, and they QJThc Rev. Joshua Lawrence is' anticipate some little relief in the Xarborouc$, FRIDAY, JUNE 2G, 1829. expected to preach at the Old Church in this place, on the third Sunday in July next. Comryiunicatcd. The Mails. We noticed in our last paper, the increased speed of the mails j on the main northern and southern I route. From a note addressed by the J He as will astonish even those course of a lew weeks. Abuses and defalcations have been dis covered where least anticipated, and when Congress convenes, a committee of that body, will lay such a statement before the pub- Alexandria Gazette, we learn that on the western route, a saving of six days has been effected in the intercourse be tween Washington City and Huntsville, in Alabama three days sooner in, and three days out. Postmaster General to the Editor of the ! who have for years been urnn the necessity ot reform. The rumors which have at dif ferent times been published, of "troubles at Washington," are ab solutely false, and without the shadow of foundation. The moat perfect harmony prevails among the Secretaries, and each one ap pears to be devoting all the ener gies of his mind to the correction of those abuses which had increa sed in a tenfold ratio under the late bargaining President and hb travelling Cabinet. Dr. Cutbush, of the Navy, han ded in his resignation yesterday; because he was ordered to duty, after a quiet and undisturbed re sidence of nineteen years in this city! A hard case indeed." Raleigh, June 19. A letter from Charles A. Hill, Esq. to the freemen of the 5th Congressional District, appears in to-day's Re gister, from which it will be seen, that he has withdrawn himself as a candidate for Congress, in con sequence of the exclusive atten tion which his private affairs de mand from him. Res. From Washington. A corres pondent of the N. Y. Enquirer, under date Washington June 9th, writes as follows: "Previous to my arrival here, I heard it frequently said that the President was in the habit of vis iting daily the different offices and examining into the manner that the auditors and clerks perform their duties. I supposed it quite possible that he had done so in some few cases, but certainly was not prepared to find that it was a daily, constant and habitual prac tice. Such however is the case, and not a day passes without his devoting some time to this impor tant and necessary duty. The consequence is, that the idle clerks and there were many of them instead ot spending their time at billiard tables, or lounjr ing about the offices, are now bu sily occupied in attending to those duties for which they receive from the government a liberal support. Accounts which formerly required months to scttlr, and larrre do- Dr. Watkins. Thesecond de murrer in the case of Doctor Wat kins has been sustrined by Judge Cranch, whose opinion of tour columns, few will takethe trouble of reading. There is a short cut which common people take to reach this subject, viz: Is Doctor Watkins a defaulter, and has he used the public money fur private purposes! Undoubtedly he has no one denies this. Of what con sequence then, can a demurrer be to him, or the legal discrepancies and bewildering technicalities ot his friend Judge Cranch! He has applied to private objects, the mo ney belonging to the people, and entrusted to his safe keeping. This attempt ofthezdams par ty to sustain defaulters, is the most barefaced outrage ever offer ed to common honesty. They were equally abusive as to Mr. Nourse. when lie himself admit-
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