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efficient annual furpiua of revenue beyond the expenditure of the country to the amount of five millions of theft five millions two are already provided out of the excefs of the finking fund after taking from that fund thiiteen millions for the public service the remaining three mil lions it is intended to obtain in the fol lowing eftimated proportions by inctcafed taxation the fiist article is a consolidation of cuftoms which including a duty po fo reign wool to the amaunt of ooooo is txpeed u produce 500000- the next fource was a malt tax to the amount of one half the doty which was paid upon this article during the war or is 2d per bushel this is eftimated to produce 400000 the chancellor of the ex chequer obferved however and indeed proved from positive calculations that this tax ought not to have the effect of occa sioning any increafe in the price of beer that important beverage of the working claries the total repeal of the war duty had produced no corresponding diminu tion as was expected in the price of beer the brewing of a quarter of malt which in may ial year ctfft 9 l6s 8d would now coll only 6 17s 4d the govern ment propofed to take g 4d for the pub lic leaving a balance in favor of the brew ers upon the difference of the two prices above quoted of l 19s we do hope therefore that no attempt will be made to increafe the price of beer upon the pretext of this tax the remaining articles arc britifh spirits 500000 tobacco 500000 coffee and cocoa 130000 tea 130000 to be raifed from 96 to 100 per cent duty pepper 30000 in looking at this lift it is pleasing to ob- ferve that none of the commodities are among the prime necessities of life if we except beer and that as we have fhown ought not to be at all affeded by the pro pofed duty we are entirely piecluded today from doing more than to lay before our readers the above recapitulation the manly and energetic fpech of lord castlereagh the quibbling and evasive one of mr tierney the caustic and fevere retort of mr can ning which made mr calcraft break into the ring to fave his man from a more com plete catigation are topics to which we fhall assuredly return and then too we hall venture to fay a few words upon the tactics of the party who have now proved to demonftration that their only vo cation is to cavil and accufc to embarrafs the march of the executive in every turn and to fcreech and flip their heavy wings over the ftruggling tfforts of that country whife calamities they affeft to deplore with fo much si ifter fympathy the maj nity in favour of ministers was i97 on mr tierneys ill- fated motion they had a majoi y of 179 what alarm ing fympt ms in the new parliament whofe birth was fo bepraifed losdom june 9 the loan the loan was contracted for this morning and upon terms advanta geous to the public and we truft alfo to the conttaor mr rothschild it will be recolleed that the first lord of the treafury and the chancellor of the exchequer propofed for every 100 fter- ling fubfcribedto give 80 three percent confols and the biddings to be in the re duced three parties waited upon the miniflcis this morning with their biddings meitrs rothschild meitrs ricardo co and meitrs reid irving and co the biddings were mr rothschild 62 18 8d meitrs ricardo 65 2 6d ftieffrs reid irving and co 6 108 iutereft 4 5s 8d mr rothschild proposing to take the loweft quantity of reduced was of courfe declared to be the contractor the chancellor of the exchequer men tioned in the courfe of his fpeech on mon day night that taxes to the amount of near ly nineteen millions had been repealed re duced or fuffered to expire since the teimi nation of the war the following efli- ftate farmed upon average of the two lad years of their collection will hew in what branches of the public revenue and in what proportions the relief has been ob tained property tax 14267956 ivlalt tax england and ireland 291 2- 571 cuftoms exports goods coaft- wife tonnnge 1105675 assessed taxes husbandry horfci 268000 windows c lrcland235ooo total 18789202 tn the lipase of commons the 10th earl grey moved for the second reading of his bill to repeal declarations required of roman catholics relating entirely to questions of faith and doctrine and which had no reference whatever to the supre macy of any foreign power the bouse refused its second reading by a majority of 59 june 10 the chancellor of the ex chequer last night brought forward his budget for the year the gross amount of the supplies voted and to he voted for the present year is 20177000 to meet those supplies parliament had hitherto provided only 7074000 lea ding an excels of expenditure beyond the revenue ofaboutl3500000 if this excess had been all that we were called upon to supply the sum appropriated from ihe sinking fond would have pre cisely accompli- h d it but the meas ure lately adopt d of returning to cash payments requires that 5000000 of the debt due to the bank should he re paid this year and 5600000 of un funded debt be reduced to meet this additional charge the loan of 12 millions has been negociated upon terms which we partly communicated yesterday and of which a more detailed account will be found in this nays paper tfc was stated by the chancellor of the exchequer that in order to affect the funds as little as possible he intended to divide the 12 millions to be taken from the sinking fund into 12 monthly payments during which the stock would remain in the name of the commissioners in the jan uary and july quarters however only 900000 would be called for monthly instead of one million and in the april and october quarters 1100000 tbis scale of appropriation would siiil leave about 310000 per month applicable t the reduction of the national debt in the ensuing year it is calculated that a loan of only four millions will be requi red to complete the remaining payments to the bank supposing parliament should aain sanction the application of 11 mil lions from the sinking fund after next year no more loans will be necessary during the continuance of peace london june 10 we are sorry to learn that dreadful storms have ravaged many places in the south of france a letter fromorthez dated the 25th ult says that on u the preceding night about three oclock several thousand farmer inhabiting more than sixty adjoining communes had the misfortune to see dis appear in the space of an hour one of the richest harvests the fruit of their toil and labour a dreadful hailstorm beat every thing to the ground so that it is impossible to describe the deplorable state of the vines the corn and the fruit trees all is ravaged all is lost another letter from pan dated the 28th ult says u the storms in this unhappy country succeed each other with a rapid ity which excites despair communes spared at uiht are overwhelmed before next morning today a part of the canton of pan has been ravaged the vines broken the com cut up and 3ft hay destroyed hailstones were gathered of the size of a pullets egg petersburgm may 15 r the port of cronstadt is entirely free from ice fifty ships have already entered the har bour thirteen of which are loaded with the productions of the south 44 many persons who pretend to be well informed continue to assert that our august sovereign has returned a let ter addressed to him by king charles john bernadotte unopened the con tents of which being known by duplicate were at variance with acknowledged forms and might have been seriously of fensive to the feelings of our monarch stockholm may 24 ci if wemay cre dit the rumours in circulation a consid erable body of troops is assembling in the environs of petersburg with re gard to our own military establishment it is at its effective height and we do not see how it can be augmented it is said that in denmark all the military absent on leave or furlough have been recalled other reports which do not guaran tee any more than the above notice an invitation made to the prince regent by a great continental p wer to form a strong camp upon the elbe which is to be in communication with a neighbouring state a letter dated stockholm may 17fh states m count pose who mar ried the second daughter of the prince de canino lucien bonaparte has just left sweden for italy to join his father inlaw british parliament house of lonntuse 10 state of the nav the earl of darnlcy made some obfer vati ns on the papers relative to the ftate of the navy which had been lately laid on the tablcbut as his lordship spoke in a low tone of voice and the bar was very crowd ed we could not correctly hear what fell from him from the perufal of the paper in his band he admitted that in no former period of our naval hiftory did the navy appear on the whole to have been in a late of greater efficiency in time of peace he fpoke ftrongly in approbation of the exertions of mr seppings whofe improve ments had been of great advantage not withstanding the praife which he thought generally due to the admiralty there were fome particulars with refpect to the rate of the navy which he tkought it right to notice as they might be of importance in cafe of the country being involved in a conteft he could not overlook the naval power of another country he meant the united states of america which the e vents of the laft war had tended to raife to a ftate of confidcration it appeared from the papers that mtans had been taken for building hips of large dimenfions corres ponding with thofe of the fame rate built by other powers- it was known that the american two deck hips were fuperior to thofe of the fame rate built in this coun try both as to guns and men he did not however think it would be advifablt to have all the britifh navy raifed to the fame fcnle it appeared to him that to attempt fuch a meafure would be only a nfelefs wafte of money the ameiican frigates were of a very fuperior clafs com pared to the fcale on which britifh fri gates had formerly been built but he could not think it neceflary that all the britifh frigates fhould henceforth be built on fo enlarged a fcale he thought it would be better to build frigates ot a fie between thofe formerly fitted out by tbis country and the american frigates this feemed the more advifable as the latter could not be expected to be very numerous in the piefent ftate of the country economy in every department was molt di arable but he did not think the naval fervice one in which economy ought to be too ri gidly enforced every reduction that cgu confidently with the great object ot havjng t navy in an efficient ftate on t t commencement of a war ought to be carrr j c but nothing mo fhould be attempted he thought the number ot hiips in aftive feivice on foreign rations m t- more an the number of guardftiptkk this change would pro- duce a greater efficiency withon materi ally angr trie txpenfe he had heard thai the regiment of marines were reduced 1 numbers below whr might have been expected but he hoped that uc ful corps would be preferred in fuch a ftate ot tliciency that in cafe of a war unfortunat occuring it might be em ployed with the ufual advantage to the fervice parliament had been occupied with mcalures of great importance and in particular with the great meafure of re- doting a fixed ftandard of value to the country without which 1 here could be no fecwrity for any improvement amidft however the great qucftions to which the attention of the legislature was called thia fubject of the navy ought not to be omitted when all the papers were print ed he fhould perhaps again troublejheir lordfhips witk fome obfervationson them the practice of impreffing fearncn had been long a fubject of complaint and re gret he was afraid that on a fuddea emergency the navy could not be manned without the imprel9 it would hovvever be advifable for their lordfhips to confider how far the evils of that practice might without public inconvenience he diminifh ed he concluded by moving that the papers be printed lord melville exprefted his acknow ledgments to the noble lord for the can did and hatdfome manner in which he had fpoken of the ftae of the navy lie con curred in he propriety of this country building hips on a fcale fimilar to thofe with which our navy mig pr to contend it was e duty of the le giflature to look frvard t0 the future and to be prepared to maintair on any emergency that navj g and fu- premacy which the country had acquired with refpect to the dfouenfiobs 0 the fhips of war it is true tha f w building on a fcale confiderabiy bcyind what had formerly been thought proper for the fame rate he did not h think that ail the twodeckers of h- nav ought to be raifed to that fcals many vclfels were wanted for convoy other purpofes in time of war and frigates and hips of the line might be employed though not con ducted on fo large a r a8 thofe of other powers with which th country might hap pen to be at war the fame time he did not concur with the noble earl in his opinion that it would be proper to build fhip3 of an intermediate fize between that fcale hitherto adoptetj j the navy and that of ether countries he did not think it right to place the c5 of the britifh navy in a fituaiion which would compel them to go ino aftio with a great difpa rity of force were fiii f the defcrrp- tion the noble earl futftcd to be built it would be a clnfs different from any uher in the navies of europe or of the united states of america the officers of the britifh navy would herefcre be placed in fhips of a kind with which it was not pro bable they would ever have the opportuni ty of encountering with regard to what the noble earl had fefd as to the number of guard fuip corriprj vritli th fhips in commiffion he hought that upon rcflction he would perive that there was no disadvantage in that frangement the men employed in the uard fhips could be removed to others a a moments no tice and the having thez for fuch a transfer would be very ufeful onany an emergency the noble earl had albded to the date of the marines and he concurred with him in hisview cf the propriety of maintainingthat corps in that efficient fttc no force was in his opinion more ueful han the ma rines and he could aflue the noble earl that any report of an mention to reduce them to a fcale lower nan that of the lad peace ellablifhment wasiounded in miftake lord darnley explained after which the papers were oiderei to be printed london june 10 covent garden thuttre mrs sid- dons appeared once mre for the benefit of mr c kemble a lad randolph the theatre was crowied from an early hour in every part nd the particular friends of mr c kenble were accom modated with seats n the orchestra which was fitted up foi the occasion the symphonies between he acts were per formed behind the series when the great attraction of threvening wade her entrance the spectator i the pit box es and galleries all stood up and hailed her in the most enthutic manner a tribute due to her faror bringing back all the proudest recoittious of her cele brated life could notbuthave a momen tary effect upon her actings she how ever soon divested ft mind of every idea save what bhorrfcd to the charac ter which she had to stain and it was here peculiarly in tr complete surren der of her thoughts anr to those of lady randolph that the ascendancy of her talent was exhi and its high reputatioiijustified when siw listened she caught every sou ln her soul which was breathed on hf car he ever changing expiession her countenance the animation of her y the motion of her lips he cloqu of her gesture the variety of her a lddes p that the spirit within wt kindled in all its divinity and that it freely recognized theinrtuenceofaddedy this is the secret of dramatic el for this perpet ual attention upon tr performers part to the buiiuess of the the au ditors wind upon the same oirject find thus creates that delusion which is at once the wonder and delight of the hu man intellect in this qualification of her profession mrs siddons still stands without a rival her narrative of the birth and supposed fate of douglas the questioning old nafv flatter the discov ery of the jewels and the last parting with douglas were all in the finest style we were much gratified in the scene of the recognition of her son by lie eagerness with which the public sei zed an occasion to testify their high esti mation of her when douglas zski but did my sireupa the rest of men as thou excellesi all ot womankind a burst of applause ensued which con tinued for some time without intermis sion we wish it were possible she could often appear for the frequent contemplation of such a model would do more in the present state of the stage to wards reforming a certain false taste in acting that now prevails than any other circumstance that can be named a letter from irun in spain dated the 12th of this month says that a peasant has found in a field near vittoria a very valuable diamond there is every rea son to believe that it belonged to joseph bonaparte who lost all the riches and valuable effects which he was carrying away in consequence of the total defeat of the french army near that city the value of the diamond is stated to be about 400000 reals 100000 francs london june 1 r we are forry to ftate that the news from the cape of good hope is of the mod fe- nous description letters and papers to the end of marck have been received all tne inhabitants capable of bearing arms were ordered to join the military force wt have reccivecl tlamburgh auctdutcjh mails the king of prussia has had an awkward accident diverting himfclf in defcending a kuftlian mountain a pastime well known in paris his mrjeftys sledge was overturned by which he bruifed his face and broke the lower part of the bridge of his nr fe the broken pieces of bone however were immediately extracted and no ferious confequences were anticipated from the circumllances the emperor of aoftria has granted a pension of 500 florins to the widow of hoffer the celebrated tyrolese chiefcain and one of 200 florins to each of his four daughters with a promifc of 500 florins on their marriage h- ffers son is to be placed in an inn at the public expence an article from stockholm contained in thefe papers indicate with evident re luctance fome uneainefi at the various ru mours which prevail with refpeft to that country london may jt the carlisle weavers the following account of the proceedings of these men in the pursuit of their object namely an increase of wages is copied from a carlisle paper of saturday last we have already adverted to the low rate of wages which the manufacturers of this neighbourhood hive for fome lime patt been compelled to allow their gingham weavers in confequence of the depressed stats of this branch of trade 11 it is natural that this state of things vrmm h r e pf cnrrtrilitnt nnd agitations 1 he sulriets congregated together and it will be seen by the pro ceedings in parliament that they have peti tioned the legislature to be removed to fome of the colonies perhaps it would be going too far to believe them all earnest in this request their real intention is pro bably to fix the public attention upon their condition and thus to gain fome kind of relief on tuesday evening they assembled upon the eands in great numbers a com mittee of 12 was appointed and the whole body agreed to the publication of an ad dress which was read in manuscript c the following day many of the leading men determined not to work unless the manvifacturers allowed them more wages and thsy went from shop to shop in every part of the town and neighbourhood and compelled all others to follow their exam ple taking the unfinished work from the looms and fending it home to the masters in the evening they again afiembled on the the fands to hear a letter from mr carwen read in answer to one transmitted with the petition before alluded to on thursday strong parties went to penrith wigton daloton brampton longtown c and compelled the weavers there to follow their example many would fain have continu ed their labours but were forced to desist by threats of all kinds of visitations from the washington city gam of july 23 state of venezuela by a royalist a spaniard refident of the city of ca- raccafl and in the intereft of the royalifts lecently arrived in this country gives the following ftatement of affairs in the pro vince of venezuela that many of the inhabitants of the in terior in favour of the royalifts have in confequence of the protracted warfare car ried en by the patriots quitted the inte rior towns and repaired to the city ef ca- raccas that this emigration in order to get as far as pofllble out of the reach of the viciflitudes of war h38 fo far augmen ted the population of that capital that it now contains nearly as many inhabitants about 50000 as it did prior to the great earthquake which buried in its ruins fo many of its citizens in march 1 8 1 2 that whole ftrcct8 have been rebuilt and that the public funionaries of the royalifts re fide there as heretofore for the adminis tration of gsrernment that a mint it nor in operation there for coining provincial money to defray the expenses of the war that the royal army confids of 2000 spa- nidi troop3 and 4000 creole militia that general morillo captain general of ca- raccas is popular both with the army and people this is very doubtful and that he grants many indulgences to the lattcr particularly their favourite exhibition of bull fights not with ft and ing the interfe rence of the clergy who are againft it that on a late occaiiun in order to height en the dfveiiion morillo had the redcoat uniforms stripped from fome britifh pri- foriersj taken fighting under bolivar ufed indead of cloaks to irritate the bulls put on the arms of the combatants who enter ed the arena this novelty gave great fatisfactfon to the populace who teftified their approbation by contemptuously ex claiming againd the britifh partifaus for fighting again ft them we learn that morilio lias promoted fe veral creoles or native to important civil appointments and that the higheft eccle fiaftical office is aftually fitted by a creole prieft who was formerly a member of the republican congrefs that he evinces a ftrong difpoftion to try the policy of con ciliating the natives the abfencc of bolivar who has fet out with the main part of the army to join the patriots of new granada at st fe will prevent any further military operations this campaign though it is afterted that mo rillo has been always on the alert per forming long and tedious marches endea vouring to bring the patriots to a general battle which they have as cautioufly avoid ed as to the poffeffion of the plains in the interior which the patriots fpeak of the royalifts pretend they are of no more ad- vantaae than fo rr jr3ffitexf jva r only partially inhabited and fubjeft to fre quent inundations from the apure and 0- ronoko by the fame fource we learn that at la guira there exists no apprehenfion of an attack from the margantia naval forces that they feel so fecurc they have actually turned their attention to internal improve ments in reviving an old projed to con- ftruft a carriage road to the city of ca- raccas by the way of cape blanco in tended to be more commodious than the prefent which prefents many obstacles to the traveller by croffing the fummit of a great mountain but which in faft adds very much to the fecurity of caraccas in cafe of invafion by fea the refources of cuba ft 19 faid have largely contiibuted to the fupport of the war of venezuela the moft valuable mili tary lores aa well as money having been drawn fiom thence on the whole the royalifts confider themfeb out of dan ger for the prefent and that in addition to the many ftrong places they hold both on the main and in the interior st fer nando has been added during the prefent year this pofl was razed to the ground before bolivar evacuated it as opportunities but feldom occur to get information direft from the royalifti we have been very paiticulai to fet every thing down that appeared interefting and to give it to our readers as we received it only reminding therh to make allowances for party feeling as it comes from an fn- terefred quarter but ftill we believe many prefent ftate of affairs in venezuela fyom the boston daily adv of ffuly 24 the st louis gazette after givinjj fome account of the testimonies existing in fupport of tbe opinion that there is now inhabiting the fouthern branches of the mirfuri a race of men defcending from the welsh emigrants who embarked to the number of 323 perfons in ten veffeli under prince madoc in the year 1170 from north wales mentions that an expe dition is now on foot for a thorough in vestigation of the fact the perfona en gaged in the undertaking are meflrs ro berts and parry welchmen who fpeak the language of north and south wales- it is faid that they are induftrious perfe- vering men and that they will purfuc the fearch as long as the probability of a di covery exifta in the year 179 j and 1796 john tho mas evans and john mackay afcended the miflburi to the mandan villages 1 700 miles from st louis in fearch of thefe welch indians and after an abfence of two years returned without fuccefs but it is faid thefe people are located by the mft credible authorities 2000 miles from the mouth of the miflburi and confequent- ly 300 miles from the termination ot the journey of evans and mackay their fruitlefs fearch therefore i9 not regarded as furniffcin arv fatisfactary folution of thia interefting problem from niks register want of employment the greatest evil to be deprecated la the present deranged state of things will be the dead loss incurred by casting ma ny thousands of productive persons into the cousuming classes of the people most of our manufactories have stopped or are about to stop aud every branch of mechanical industry is reduced from onethirdto one half of its recent amount the first by the great sacrifice that is made of imported goods by bankrupt owners in england or bankrupt impor ters here to raise money to riot upon un til their accounts with their creditors are settled tc according to law the ef fect on the others is produced by the sud- deu stoppage of the circulation of mo ney in consequence of the frauds com mitted in banks and the jealousy and fear which these iutitulioos have of one