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I- refit to the Colony from the importation of these choice fruits and ver , etables, and have no doubt that the Lam den and Cai • onian Horticultural Societies, as will ai many of their corresporaitii Members in foreign part. (who have been written to), will send us some very valuable presents. The subscribers to oor Stock Fund have, as long ago as by the Shipley, remitted the sum of 1,0001. to their Agents in London, to be expended one-half thereof in lieep, chiefly ewes, 3001. theteol in Inn ses, and the remaining 2001. in horned cattle. Furthermore, on account of the General Fund of the Society, 1001. has been remitted by the hands of our associate, Capt. King, H.N. of the Bathurst, to be laid out in grass and corn ,eed,, and agricultural books. "fo t h i. head of premiums may he referred a letter which the Society have written to the Secretary of the Society of At Es, Manufactures, and Commerce, upon the %Ant of the i r proposed premiums for 1822-23, to the nelson who shall, in the years 1821:, 5, and 6, m.tnu• facture aed impiet the finest speciaien of oil, not less than tea gallons, the pro•ince of olives grown in New Son:h ; and to the person who shall imps: t, in 182 or 1523, the finest w i rw, not less than twenty made from the i,roduce of vineyards in New South Wales. Our Society have not failed to express their due sense of the benefits which our Colony will derive limn the lim,oarable premiums proposed by the Society of Art , , both in the former, year and in the peseta, for both quantity and quality of fine wool exported ; but we have ventured to suggest, that there having been till the past year only one olive-tree in the Colony, there can be no competition for the oil premium so soon as the year 1826; and that the Society's medals would be more be neficially offered for propagating the olive -tree, or for the greatest plantation of young trees; so of the twenty gallons of wine, it would not be vet y difficult to make that quantity from the table grapes in one's garden: the premium should rather be, either for a much larger quantity, for a real exportable cargo, or else for the greatest number of acres planted as a bearing vineyard, or for the greatest number of bunches of grapes ripened. " While I am upon the subject of the olive— protein tarde crescendi olivx, the slow product of Minerva's tree, I am to report that young plants have been introduced into the Colony during the past year by Mr. H. M'Ar thur, one of our Vice-Presidents, and by Dr. Carlyle, an intended settler, so that the olive is now in the hands of several more than one individual, and will certainly be to our posterity an article of export. " Tobacco may be considered to be now fairly demes ticated as a denizen of Australia. The Government Agricultural Establishment a; Eutu Plains has greatly contributed to this desirable object ; and I understand from our Vice-Patron, that New Zealand flax is to be made the next experiment of public cultivation and ma nuficttue. Our Patron has succeeded in raising this plan: from seed; and although chemistry has not yet been able so completely to free this yarn from glutinous mat ter as to prevent the thread into which it is spun from being knotty, yet rope made of this flax was found by the Master of the Dromedary store-ship to be nearly one third stronger than Engli.h tope; and even it this ar ticle should not, as long as we ate at peace with the Northern Powers, he able to compete with the cheap ness and quickness of transportation of Baltic hemp, yet a small quantity of it will, as I atri informed by the must respectable mercantile authority, easily supersede the Italian hemp, which is required for the strength of shoemakers thread." 14,VENING STAIt. I,ON DON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. KING CHARLES'S :11ARTY RVIONI.-11oliday at the Bank. TIIE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE. O'CLOCK. ,Consols opened this morning at 91 to h, and 90i d for Money, with little doing, as the Batik remains shut, and nu money transfers can be made. FOREIGN FUNDS. The mot doing this morning is in the Mexican Lnan, which is chiefly supported by certain Brokers, sent into the Market to buy it up, and keep it from falling. In Spanish Bonds there is but little doing, which opened at 24i, Current Prices :—New Spanish 161, Old '242 to y, Colombian 6.51 to 66, New Austrian Si, Chilian 771, Russian 691 New Prussian 891 to 4, Old 911, French Scrap 7to Mesican Poyais 33 3. This morning we received Brussels Papers to the 28th instant, by which it appears that the commercial intet course between Russia and the Pow: is as limited as ever—and that the vessels of other nation, on the best terms with the Porte, are no better treated by the Talks, when it is known that their destination k 14 a Russian port. The Government of the Nethe:lands Las followed the example of the British I.egi,lature, and declared that it cannot point out any cettain means c.f alle viating that te:rible bugbear with which almo , t every Se,sion h.e been pestered—Agricultural Distress. The following ate extt acts : AUGSBURG, JANUARY ! Ncmithstanding all that is published relative to tie! favourable dispatitions of the Porte towards the Chris tian Powers, we learn from good authority that the commercial intercourse with the Russian ports in the Black Sea continues to be in a lamentable state of star: ) . nation. It is very rarely that ve•: , :els 1:om the West of Europe are seen to pass the Bosphorus, on their way to the Etairx.—This state of thing, which is in mal;ifest contradiction with the pronikes lately made by the Iteis Effendi to the Ministeis of Austria and Engiand, v. ill increase the difficulties of the extraordinary mission which the Consul, M. Minziacky, is charged to the Divan. A letter has been communicated to us, written di rectly from Pent, by a person of some distinction, I'e eNpiesses himself as follows "The vei!sels corning from tiwl..•. , vant are still sti:jeTted to the most rigarous search ; those belot , ging to nations with which the Porte is on the best ttrms, and whose Governments have rendered it of late the must signal set vices, arc no better treated than the others, as soon as their destination is known to be ior the Russian ports in the Black Sea." A SCVdrALC Legociation has been carried on between wisp Lord S:rangford and the Reis Effendi, relatively to the expedition prepared in the Mediterranean by the English against the Regency of Tunis The Porte is said to have made off,:rs of such a nature as to suspend all hos tile plans against that State. It is known that Lord Strangford has sent dispatches to the English Admiral %%lio is at Malta. They will doubtless reach him in time, for he had not made any serious prepay atiuns to aii fur Tunis. 9 " 4 BRUSSELS, JANUARY 24. One of our Journals states, that Cie negotiations be tween the Papal Nuncio and our Government are in ten opted for a month. It is supposed they wi.l not be resunied till alter the return of the courier, whom M. de Nasalli dispatched to Rome a few days ago. Ills Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived here yesterday, from London. JAN. 2G.—This morning a Royal Decree was com municated to the High Court of Justice, permitting those advocates who have not yet pleaded in the Flemish language before that Court, to plead in French, till the end of the year 1823, provided that such advocates have been naturalised previously to the date of the said decree. Ve learn from the frontiers of France, that the troops of all arms, cavalry, infantry, and artillery, who have been in the campaign in Spain, are returning succes ,ively to the Isioi them Provinces of France, particularly French Flanders and Artois. The 18th regiment of in fantry of the line is expected to-morrow at Lille, where brilliant fetes are prepared for its reception. The officia: papers relative to the free trade in corn are now published at the Hague, by his Majesty's order. The Committee appointed by his Majesty on the 7th of March, 1822, after rejecting the plans laid before it, proposed as a salutary measure,.ja the critical state of agriculture, to fix a maximum and minimum for the importation and exportation of grain.—This proposal was made by a majority of six to five. lii a report to the King, Mr. Roell, Minister of State and President of the Committee, thought it his duty to support the opinion of the minority, it being his opi nion that nothing could be done with success, and that, consequently, nothing ought to be done. The opinion of M. de Roell was afterwards adopted by :he Ministers of the Interior and of National Industry. The last paper is a report made to the King by the Council of State. After a mature examination, the Council concludes by saying, that it cannot point out any certain means of relieving the farmer, and that the English Government has lately made publicly the same avowal. It considers unrestricted freedom of the corn trade as the only remedy fur evils which it is not given to man to cure radically. The Council, therefore, joins the abovementioned Mi nistets in respectfully soliciting his Majesty to abide by his resolution of preserving and securing this liberty to the nation, and not to adopt the proposal of the Com. mittee.—His Majesty acceded to this opinion ; and after se rigorous an investigation (the collection con tains 307 pages, and several tables), we may believe that this affair is finally set at rest, and that there is no reason to jear (says the Hague Gazette), any restriction in the corn trade. Lisbon Gazettes to the 21st. inst. reached us this moi fling ; they are wholly silent on the affairs of South Amei ica. The following are extracts. LISBON, JANUARY 15. The Gazette contains a circular letter from the Board of Commerce, to the Superintendents of the Custom- houses in the several parts of the kingdom, in which) they are ordered strictly to put in force the laws against smuggling, grievous complaints having been made by the Silk Manufacturers, of the illegal importation and sale of foreign goods of that kind, as well as others, to the great injury of the national manufactures, and in contempt of the salutary laws and ordonnances which have been from time to time enacted and published against this pernicious abuse and abominable crime. The Gazette continues the publication of the papers relative to the mission of Conde de Rio Mayor; it pub lishes also the Speech of the President of the United States. Letters of the Isth from Madrid mention, that the Commissioners for the Liquidation of British Claims were about to take their departure for London; but they say nothing of an Ambassador coming over. It would scull that in Cordova and other places, cries of " Long live Charles the Fifth," meaning FERDINAND'S brother, had been openly heard. It will, however, be seen by the following pr ivate letter from Madrid, that the ru• mours about the deposition of FERDINAND VII. ate unfounded : ,' MADRID, JANUARY 11 " For the last ten days there Inti been a dearth of matters of political interest or otherwise; great glomni iiess without a cheeriiig r.ty either to Constitutionalists or Royalist , . Of the former, who followed the King to Cadiz, none are yet permitted to approach Madrid, and those who found their way here have been turned out aithoogh the birth-place and continual resi• deuce of rn...r.y. Forty-two passports were delivered in one day last week, .ind for thu,e not having fiiends near at hand, a do m i c il e was designated—that is to say, a town, but :ai:hcr lodging, provision, nor pay. The latter complain i.hat their solicitations remain unattended to, that nothing is done fur them ; the fervour of their loyalty abates consi,:ei ably in consequence, and they will find out veiy soon that they were as well off before as now. " No hay dincro, " is the universAl cry. It was the want of money, or the inability of satisfying the applicants, that pi evented the march of the Constitution, and Ole .ame want, or inability, now impedes the march*of the Mona: chy. And yet, if the Governmeu would di vest itself of die idea of regaining the Am, tica:— at least, of wing any money for that purpose a very little, comparatively speaking, would put things current, and the amnesty, without a single exception, might, in that case, come out to-morrow. I beat that the French Government is assisting, though bnt on a very moderate scale ; be it so or not, the em• ployed in the Palace are paid. They are not two months in arrears now ; but if these supplies cease, and the country produces nothing, it can only be the Fiench troops that will keep up a shadow of Government, and Royalists and Constitutionalists will be confounded in one. The impatience already shewn in various parts of the country, and the fear of what may occur, has impelled the King to desire that 15,080 more French troops may come in. This I hear from high authority ; it may, perhaps, be held out as a threat. By the bye there have been various rumours afloat respecting his Royal Highness, the Infant I)on Carlos, such as he wished to depose the King—that he had been arrested, and was to be sent to Portugal ; which are all false ; they cannot be traced ; squibs of the Ccnstitutionalists to distract men's minds. The Duke del Infantadoo‘ho has been rather in the back ground, will again come forward and enjoy his usual influence with the new set. He took so much to heart the dismissal of M. Saez and his friends, that he could not be brought to speak or behave friendly with the present Ministers; he shunned them entirely." Charleston and New Brunswick papers, the first to the 25th of December, and the latter to the 17th of No• vember, they do not contain any news worth extracting. THE KING. We have the happiness to state that his 111.tazsTY con tinues daily to improve. Our account from Ifrighton of last night informs us that the answer to the numerous inquiries in the course of the afternoon was as follows : " His MAJESTY has again had a good night, and is better than yes terday."—Thursday, January 29. Parliament will be opened by Commission on Tues day next. The principal topics of the Speech to be de livered on the occasion were finally arranged at a Cabi net Council yesterday, and will be submitted to the KING at Brighton to-morrow by Ministers, for his MAJESTY'S approval. The Duke of YORK has been extremely fortunate in all his shooting parties this season ; in fact, his Royal Highness has been Nyhat is called the hest shot of the company, particularly last Saturday, at the seat of the Earl of VERULAM, in Hertfordshire, when his Royal Highness killed 98 pheasants, besides other game. The Royal Duke continued the pursuit of his sport till dark, as is his Royal Highness's custom, and afterwards dined with the Earl and Countess, stopped to an evening party, and left for London between one and two o'clock, and arrive d in town on Sunday morning about four o'clock. His Royal Highness went to attend Divine Service at twelve o'clock, at the Chapel Royal. The Duchess of KENT is on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, at Bushy Park. Yesterday the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave a grand dinner party to Prince Potimec, the French Ambassador, the Russian Ambassador, and other distinguished characters. C. W. WYNN, Esq. M.P. entertained another distin guished party at dinner yesterday, at his house,Whitehall-place. Lord MELVILLE had a dinner party yesterday at the Admiralty. Dowager Lady NCAVE had a select circle of fashion able. yesterday, at her house in Albemarle-street. The Dowager Marchioness of LONDONDERRY has left town for her seat, North Croy, Lord BRUCE has left town for Oxford. Lord HOLLAND has taken a house in Sackville-street. The Earl and Countess MORTON have arrived at their house in Par's-street, from a tour. Sir FRANCIS WILLES, Batt. has arrived at his house in Chalk., street, Berkeley -square, from his scat in Herts. The Mtn. Colonel ARUEN has arrived at the Waterloo Hotel, ..fcrmyn-street, from his seat, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. RALPH ;JUBA NK, Esq. has arrived in town from Earl Coweeit's seat, Pausenger, The Duke DF:voNsiftitz intend , . to return to Eng land in tie: Spring, when his Grace will resume those splendid par ties, which, during the last year, were so much distinguished for their good taste and admirable arrangement. The Duclies of DEVONSHIRE does not, we believe, return to England this season. Her Grace is most worthily and charitably employed in Italy, where her good taste has already led to :the discovery of some valuable antiques ; and her bounty has contributed to the relief of the indigent artizati. Letters fiom Trieste, announce a dreadful inundation at Messina, by which several villages were laid under water, a number of cattle destroyed, and above 400 pet sons drowned. Letters from Cadiz, dated the 9th instant, and re ceived by the post of yesterday, mention, that every thing was prepared for the sailing of the small naval force, so long announced, tor the Pacific. Major BRIS TOW, who was with Sir ROBERT WILSON in Spain, had arrived at Cadiz, in the Steam Packet, and was imme diately ordered to leave the town, by the Spanish Au thorities ; he appealed to the French Commander; but lie declined interfering. A private letter from Frankfort, dated the 17th inst. says..." It is g enerally reported that when Messrs. ROTHSCHILD, BARING, and IRVING, were lately in France, they made a great speculation in colonial pro duce at Havre. They bought coffee and sugars to the amount of 17 millions of francs, between six and seven hundred thousand pounds sterling." By the Caroline, arrived at Liverpool, from Jamaica, we have letters of the 2.1 ult. at which period no news had been received from South America. Mr. H V IITA Do, the new Colombian Minister, was expected daily in Jamaica in a frigate, on his way to this country. The trade of the island was very dull, there being but very few Spaniards in the market. Extract from a letter written by a medical student in London, to his friend in the country :—" We have Thurtell's body at Bartholomew's. Making allowance for the distortion of his featui es, from the manner of his death, I may ray, be was an iii-iooking fellow. I was near the celebrated Law' coce when he felt for the organ of murder; but, alas! for CI anioiogy, its place was usurped by the bumps of benevolenze an] veneration." Letters dated the lOLli ult. have been received from Antigua, which state that the greatest tranquillity pre vailed in that quarter, and that not the slightest appre hension was enter tained that it would be disturbed. Di. Iloyzn, of Minden, hrii Ftibiidied in the Sunlay Journal of that town, A detailed account of his by 1:t;• thesis, that the titic'teu:, or.. ale S.::: raulttr,l BRIGHTON, JANUARY 29. I have the happiness to inform you that the K ING continues gradually to recover. This being the anniversary of his M_AJEsrsf's Acces. sion to the Throne, a Royal salute was discharged fro m the battery at noon, arid a feu de joie was fired br tie 58th Infantry, on the vibrating surface of the new Cha;!, Pier. The picture presented by the latter was novel, animated, and interesting. The 7th Royal Hussar., upon the Cliff, with their colours, trombones, bugl e% and trumpets, were drawn up in honour of the occasio% The national anthem, and the hiizzas of the sev - aal corps, closed the inspiriting ceremony. E.`•GLISII FESTIVITIES AT GENOA. GENOA, JAN. 16.--This place has been the scene of unusual gaiety this winter, owing to the increasing number of English visitors. Upwards of .twenty dis tinguished families have made Genoa their residence since the month of September, and we are every day itnessing fresh arrivals. The Countess of Westmor land and suite, arrived last night at the hotel de Lon dres, and early this morning, her Ladyship, accomp.viied by Mr. ('har ks Barry and M. J. Lavers, proceeded. to Albaro, one of our most beautiful suburbs, to inspect the villa lately occupied by Lord Byron. Her Ladyship was so much delighted with its appearance, that she im mediately engaged it for three months, to the great de light of all her countrymen here, who have already benefited by her generous and liberal disposition. The Consul, James Stirling, Esq. opened the festivities of the season by a splendid ball on the Ist (January, which was attended by no less than 400 I.ei sons of rank and fashion. The ball was opened by the Hon. Captain Edward Augustus Frankland, it. N. nephew of Lord Colville, and Miss Fielding, daughter.ot Lady Elizabeth Fielding, and niece of the Marchioness of Lausdown next followed the Marquis de Boyle, Aide-de-Camp to I the King, and the Countess Durazzo, who vies in beauty • with the most eminent of our British belles.—Ninhing could exceed the polite attentions of out Consul and his Lady to their numerous guests, who did not icave the ;' Palazzo Spinola till a very late how:. Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart. of Charlton, in Kent, has since given a brilliant fete, to which not only the English but the Genoese Nobility were invited. Mrs. Graver, Mrs. Paoli, Mr. Saunders, and Mrs. Le Mesta:kr, have also given very handsome entertainments, in which a selec tion of Rossini's and Mercadatite's music made part of the amusement of the evening. The news brought us yesterday, by express, of the death of Victor Emmanuel, brother of the King, and formerly himself King of Sardinia, will put a stop to our gaieties for some time. The Governor, M. le Comte d'Yennes, has ordered all the Theatres to be closed, and has requested the English visitors, in the politest man ner, to issue no more invitations for balls till the plea sure of the Court is known as to the duration of the mourning. The Consul and the chief British residents left their cards this morning at the Governor's as a mark of respect. He is very popular here, and allows us pri vileges of which no other foreign nation can boast : in deed, if an Englishman wishes to be well amused or well received abroad, he has only to present himself at Genoa or Turin. SPRiNG CIRCUITS, Isec Norfolk —Lord Chief Justice Assorr, Mr. Baton Gssitsit. Midland—Lord Chief Justice Girroan, Mr. Baron ilut.r.ucx. 110111e.--...1.0RD CHIEF BARON, Mr. Justice BRAT. Northern—Mr. Justice BAYLEY, Mr. Justice lioLsorn. Oxford --Mr. Justice Taal:, Mr. Baron GARROW. Western—Mr. Justice Fussounn, Mr. Justice RICHARDSON. Saturday, the admirers of the principles of Mr. Fox, dined in the Ball-room of the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, RORERT WALLACE, Esq. of Lelly, in the Chair; Sir JOHN MAXWELL of Pollock, Baronet, Croupier. The number present was about O. The meeting was en livened by a variety of speeches from the Chairman and others, and terminated at half past eleven. CONSUMPTION CF BUTCHEit's MEAT IN LIVERPOOL.— Bullocks, 15,217 ; calves, 19,876 ; sheep and lambs, 85,933—T0ta1, 1'21,086. The population of Liverpool is 120,000. There was a meeting of the Bank Directors on Wed nesday, when it was proposed that the late of discount should be lowered to three per cent. This proposition was negatived by a small majority. CHARLES THE FIRST.—This is the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Charles I. In the Rev. Mr. Spence's Anecdotes, the following curious circumstance is relate.!, on the authority of Mr. Pope:—" 'rile night after Kirr, Charles the First was beheaded, my Lord Southampton and a friend of his got leave to sit up by the body in the Banqueting-house at Whitehall. As they were sitting very melancholy there, about two o'clock in the morn ing they heard the tread of somebody coming very slowly up stairs. By and bye the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled up in his cloak, and his face quite hid in it. lie approached the body, con sidered it very attentively for some time, and then shook his head, and sighed out the words Cruel necessity I' He then departed in die same slow and concealed man ner as he had come in. Lord Southampton used to say that he could not distinguish anything of his face,but the by his voice and gait he took him to be OliverCtomwell." Some people rema: k " it never rains but it pours, ' which may not inappropriately be applied to the late Rise in the Funds, for ever since Mr. SIVEWHIGHT con tracted for this Lottery (a Moiety of the Prizes in which are STOCK, the other MONEY), the Price has rapidly aria progressively risen upwards of Nitre per Cent. and many think Stock will, ere long, fetch more in the Market than the same Nominal Simi of Money, but even at the pre• sent Value there has accumulated about £lO,OOO, which will be gained by the Holders of Tickets and Shares i 4 addiiion to the SEVEN f... 20,000, Scc. originally allotted (Or the Scheme—no wonder, therefore, the Sale of thii Lottery is uncommonly brisk, especially as the Di aw;:.g is so near, and the Two First Prizes will each hav: f.:20,000 Sterling Extra. JoIIN SALTER, 35, Strand, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Sword-cutler to his Royal Highness the Duke 0 SUSSEX. 1 ,s;. ( et ally returns his most grateful thanks to the Nobility, Gentry. his Friends, and the Public, who have so liberally supported him during twenty-four years. Ile takes this opportunity to inform them that , he has rebuilt the house (lately destroyel by fire), at Ole corner of the Adelphi, where he has laid in a new and fashionable Assortment of Goods, such as, he trusts, %t ill merit the continuance of their patronage, support, and approbation. Every attention has been paid to in crease the accommodation of his Friends, and he is de termined to meet the tiMes, by selling the best Article; , oit die very lowest terms,