Star. — London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

,~ '..r ~. wki :!•' 1- y°:•lC THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1824-. TOE FUNDS. - STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 963, a, at which price they have kept steady up to this hour ; and for Money 963,3, with little doing. It is reported on 'Change that au Express has arrived from Paris With the prices of Wednesday, bringing the Reines 1071. 65c. and Spanish 18i to 19. FOIIEIGN FUNDS. Very little business has been done in the Market this morning.-- C :rent Prices : New Spanish 15/ to 16, Old 171 /, Russian 971, Chllian 84/, hlexican Scrip 91 to In, Austrian 17/ /, French 18, Colombian 92i, Colombian Scrip 3 pre. Alliance Shares 16/ to 17 2 Irish Shares 1/ /, Paladium / 1, New Prussian 99/. -FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ABUT/RDA/4 APRIL . 27.—0 n London, 39. a. 2 M. 59. I: PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 24.04 243 1 /i I•er Cent. Reduced 95% Vs 3 per Cent. Consols 96% 1 / 2 Si( l per Cents..lo2 l / 4 -1 per Cents. Old 100% 4 per Cents. New 107 3 / 4 7 / 8 3 / 4 4 per Cents. Assented 101% 7 / 8 . Bank Long Anns. 23 1-16 % India Stock 299 298 1 4—India Bonds SOs. 81,s. Exclieq. Bills (£1,000) 495. 52s.—Small 495. 525. Consols for Acct. 96% 3/4. Although we have no wish to enter into political con troversy, and have too kindly a feeling to our brother Journalists, whether in town or the country, yet we deem it necessary to advert, though briefly, to the reply in the Glasgow courier of Tuesday, to some ob servations we considered it our duty to make on an ar ticle which appeared in that respectable Journal, •on . the subject of Mr. SMITH, the Missionary. We cer tainly thought, and do still think, that it. was not in good taste, in ignorance or in defiance of the evidence on the trial and the pardon of his MAJESTY, to accuse Mr. SMITH of being the principal in a rebellion for the purpose of destroying or expelling all the whites from the. Colony. That the Editor of the Glasgow Courier is rtill convinced (and conscientiously no doubt) of Mr. SMITH'S guilt we regret, since his opinion is not only so much at variance with Christian chaiity, but with the sentiment of the Press and the Public is general. The GlaJgow courier says, our complaint against it is the stating that the London .Tournals had omitted the evicluxe on Mr. S::lTlt's trial, and given comments a‘ variance with the proven facts: but the Scotch Journal went much further than this, and declared that the boldest of the London Journals did not dare to impugn " the competency -ef the tribunal, or the decision it had cometo." It wa.; against this gratuitous assumption of a sort of negative admission by the London Press of Mr. SMITH'S climinaiity that we complained. We had not at that time, nor have we now, the files of the London Papers to refer to, but we believe, with the exception of one, they have been universal in not only imi.ugn;ng, but actually condemning. the verdict, as not bottie out by the evidence ; and should the Glasgow Courier still doubt the tact, we will collect the evidence in proof of our assertion. We have now before us one respectable Journal, the St. James's C'hronicle, winch thus strongly expresses itself on the subject: " The Minutes of the Court-martial which sentenced Mr. &fiver, the Nlissionary, kr k hanged by Me neck until /It should be dead, have been printed; and we do 11Z.t tiesit , ate to say, they conatitute a re cord of the most monstrous persecution and. injustice to be found in the history of civil or military law." Such are the terms in which a temperate Journalist treats the decision of the Demerara Com t-Mattial ; and such, indeed, is the general opinion cf the Loudon, and, so far a; we have seen, tile Country Journals, one . - - or two excepted. The legality of trying Mr. SMITH by a Colin tial, has been very properly queAioned by one of our tontemporatits, on the ground that the colony was not Under martial law at the time the alleged offence was committed ; we confess, however, that much as we differ with the Court-Maatial as to the verdict, we acknow ledge that they were- individually highly respectable ; we cannot, however, agree in the conclusion to which the Editcr of the Ghtsgoze Courier o nips— that the com mutation of the sentence by the Royal authority, the fountain'of metcy, stamps the " decision as upright, its judgment just"—as monstrous an assumption as any we have had occasion to condemn. We now take our leave of our Northern Friend, to whom we acknowledge ourselves indebted for the fol lowing, article of West India intelligens:e: GI.Ai4:OW 2 APRIL 27. " This morning a Jamaica 'Alai' was received in Gfas,vo”... "fhe principal news brought by it arc, the execut , :rt of one of the rebels, the apprehen,ion of tlbeah Jack, and some import.lnt communications with Memhers of Lk Ala . ;esty's Government, the Agent for Jamaica, and ,Mr. Gladstone, whi...11 we must reserve till our next. Private letters, we regret to Si,y star, that the Ne groes were anxiously looking fer the zrriv.d of the next p..:cket from England, which they e4'ectcdtig:.ft order to the Governor to proclaim their freedom." Thi; forenoon we received Dutch Paper; to the 28th inst. They contain an account from Na,ples of one of th-),e dreadful convulsions of nature which are so fte zat in that part of Europe. The following are extracts: NAPLES, APRIL 5. Continual and e::cessive rains in the course of last snonzh have caused a sinking of the ground in the dis trict of Avigliano, in the province of Basilicata. which Las shaken a great part of the bill on which the town is built. This terrible phenomenon first manifested itself in the night of the 17th, by the fall of a house close to the barrack of the Bens d'armes. This house, which is totally destroyed,. earned with it in its fall the barrack and several adjacent buildings. In the morning of the 23d, a greater misfortune followed, for a gulf opened near the inhabited dart, and swallowed under enor mous masses of earth—two hills, of which not a vestige remains. The same day all the young girls of the place were nearly the victims. They were going in procession to the Church of St. Mary, about a mile from the place, to implore the Divine mercy In this moment of calamity, and they had hardly passed A certain spot, when the ground, to the extent iff five acres, sunk in with a dreadful crash, over throwing all the trees that covered it, anddestroying all traces of the road for about a quarter of a mile.— At the same time another gulf opened on themorth side ; It may be supposed that many buildings in the town have been damaged by this event : the Intendant of the Province immediately sent an architect' tp:sktve them . from entire d es t ruct i on: H app il y no 'lives . were lor4, except one gendarme. On the same night there was a l dreadful storm in the Adriatic. ODESSA, APRIL 3. We have letters from Constantinople of the 27th of March, but they bring nothing important. Letters from St. Petersburg]) say that M. Minziacky is ordered to demand an indemnity of the Porte for commercial losses sustained by the Itus',ian subjects of late years by seve ral Firmans issued in that period. No formal mission will be sent from our Court to the Porte, till this affair is arranged. It may be sup posed that die Turkish Ministers will, as usual, protract the uegociation. CASSEI„ APRIL 20. Our readers will recollect the sensation excited by certain anonymous threatening letters, addressed to the Elector. A Mr. Horn, some time ago, adveiti,ed a work ou the subject, by the title of " The Conspiracy against the Elector, William 11. of Hesse C. it , • history and criminality, &c. &c." From the mail'ner in which this work was announced, the name of the author, and other circumstances, the public imagined that it was partly official, and were eager for its appearance ; but now that it is published, we find in cur Gazette the following article : • " Several public Journals advertialiti, sOkie Tithe a work under the title of Conspiracy against the Elec for of Hesse Cassel, William 11. &c.. by John Horn ;' and the Minden Journal even published the preface. This work has just appeared, and we are authorized to .declare, that almost all the statements which it con, . 'tams on the operations of the several Authorities at the time of the investigation, particularly of the arrest which has taken place, the inquiries hitherto made, and theii result, are false and unfounded; and it should seem that the pen of Mr. Horn has been made use of as a means to deceive the public, end' to attain other criminal objects. —For this reason the Authorities have been required to oblige Mr. Horn to indicate the sources from which he has drawn his information. Neither the Committee of Inquiry formed bete, nor the General Board of Po lice, have furnished him with the slightest information; on the contrary, the two Commissioners have expressly refused to make any communication to him. It is there • fore almost unnecessary to observe how presumptuous it is to attempt to amuse the public with an account of an inquiry of which the author has not the slighteA knowledge, and respecting which, when it shall be ter aninated, and after a mature consideration of the docu ments, well-informed, upright, and impartial men may ' 'be called upon to decide." Ikussels Papers have reached us, but their contents, with the exception of the following article, which is dated Augsburg, April are merely speculative, on the affAirs o= Grteve; " Inteiligetlee Lis been received, that the Engli it Admiral has required of the Regencies of Tunis and Tripoli, what part • they mean to take in the present state of hostility between England and Algiers? their answer has been very simple ; they have declared that the Dry of Algiers, nut having consulted them when he in sulted the English Consul, they.svould not interfere in the• matter, and would consequently maintain a ,sti:ict neutrality, This resolu tion is the more rem:it - 101e, .e.S secret agents from Constantinople brought them positive orders lioni the Sultan to assist the Regenci of ."biers with all their power, in the :tintest in which it is engaged." We have received Bengal Papers to the 24th Decem ber, from which we cbpy the following articles : FllO3l TOE 1011 N MAT. OF THE '2 . Accounts from Gangam sate, that after a tranviliitr of several years, some of the Chieftain's inhabiting the hills in the neighbour ing districts round llirkarupore had made an irruption into the low lands, and harm many villages. It was hoped, however, that the dis turbance would he put down without the aid of the regular troops. Letters from Moradahad, of the i7ith November, state that sta •ion to have been generally healthy, although-, in some parts of the district a number of the natives ►tad been attacked with fevers. The weathrt had been cool, during the huttrst day the thermometer orly tising to 71. TOE SAME PAPI:a OF NOV. 2.. A rather smart chock of an earthquake was experienced yester dny, about ten minees before twelve. No damage was sustained by it, either to persons or dwellings. ilisinoot, Nov. I.—The produce of the district may be estimated s nearly as possible at 7,6ek maunds of indigo, being about half the amount of list year's crop. This has been preserved chiefly by cut ting the nearer part of the plant from the water. StNna iortK, SEPT. 26.—The Good Sacce.ss brings most diszbal ac clouts from China; not an article of Indian or Straits produce, that is not selling as cheap or nearly so as where they were pur chased; opium is expected to come down everywhere. The mar kets here and in Java are overstocked, but the high duties paid at Batavia prevent our opponents underselling us. All our produce mlitinues high, notwithsLnding the wretched accounts from Canton, being kept up by the purchases for the European market. Five free-traders are expected to load within the next two months for England and Holland. Pepper is 121; Fine 2:4 ; Rattans 21; Tortoiseshell 9 50; Camphor %GOO currency dollars per p ecu l ; Saw)? ; Gambier 6 ; \Vax 48 50; Japan wood 21; and Coffee roc. 21. FROM SAME PAPER. OF NOV. 3. A circumstance is mentioned*: the Journal of Saturday, which, if ;:ue, demands immediate attention. It is confidently stated, that 150 Ein.uchs have been landed at Calcutta this season by the Arab ships. fnr the purpose of sale; and It is also averred that those ships are it the habit of taking from hence natives of the country, prin cipally &males, for sale in Arabia. The Courier, from Rio de Janeiro, the vessel- which brought the intelligence of the arWval of a. French squadron in that port, had on board dispatches for Mr. CANNING from Mr. CHAMBERLAIN, the COnsul. General. Nothing additional transpired yesterday on the subject. A Morning Paper, stating the arrival of a gentleman from Mexico, says, His report of Ole general state of this important country is extremely favourable. The roads were infested with robbers." . . THE ARMY. Tire New tenet —Orders were issued on the 27th instant to the different recruiting parties in Great Britain, to discontinue the enlistment of any more men for the 97th Regimeht, it appearing by the last returns, that the quota, allotted. to be raised for that corps itt that portion of the United Kingdom, has been completed. By the last returns which have been received from the recruiting Oar ties throughout Great Britain and Ireland, it appears that the tot./ of the recruits raised for the 98th Regiment, amounted to 170, and for the 00th, '260 men. The Culonelcy of the Ist Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, has, in consequence of the death of Major-General GAIRSEL Dove rots, become vacant. The detachment of Royal Marines, of 250 men, under Colonel TREMENAIKI, that has been at Sheerness for six months past, has returned to Chatham, having:been relieved by a part of the 5d Ve teran Battaliun, which arrived there from Cork on Sunday last. MATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT REGIMENTS or cArAurr OF THE MIME ol , ' GREAT BRITAIN, Ist Regiment of Life Guards - - Knightsbridge., 2d Ditto - - . - Regent's Park. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards - Windsor. Ist (or the King's) Dragoon Guards - FAlinburgh. 2d (or the Queen's) Ditto - Birmingham. 3d (or the Prince of Wales's) Do. . Manchester. . 4th ('Sr the Royal Irish) Do. - - Newbridge. sth (or Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Do.„ Ballinrobe. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards - Dublin. 7th (or the Princess Royal's) Do. - Dandalk. Ist (or Royal) Regiment of Dragoons - York. 2d (or Hoyiti North British) Do. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 3d (or the King's own; Light Dragoons Hounslow. 4th for ;he Qiren's own) Do. - • - Bombay. sth ilishenarrel during the rebellion in Ireland, and broke. Gth (or Inoiskillio) Regiment of Dragoons Glasgow. 7th (or the Queen's own) Hussars - Hounslow. Bth (or the King's Royal Irish) Hussars Norwich. 9th Itel;iateitt of Lancers - - Catlin lOtit (or the Prince of Wales's own) Hussars Dublin. no, liegimetn. of I.'ght Dragoons - Prngal. 12:h (or the Prince of Wales's) Lancers Cork. 15th Regime:at of 141tt Dragoons .. Nladras. 17th r, , , the Duchess of York's own) Do. I Poch ester. 15th (pr the King's) Hussars - - Canterbury. pith (..r flit: Queen's) ant.ers - - Bengal. 17th Lati,!ers - - - Ittiantord. Roy..) Waggon Train - - Croydon. NA VAL, I.‘I'ELLIGENeE. The biprai, ArCiri., has arrived' at Git:enock from Calcutta, after a quick passage, having left the Sand Heads 30th December. nti.srouvir, APRIL 28.—Wind S.W.—No'arrivals or sailing% I'LYMOVTII, APRIL 98.—Wind E.S.W.—Ncrarrivals or sadings. ro k ysmo t iv o , Ar a n, 29.—Wind S.—No arri'Vala or *Hugs. DEAL, Aral' 29.—Wind S.—Arrived the General Ciackbuni, from the life of France and Cape of Good Hope; Oracle, 13haravv, from St. Vincent's ; Florentia, Wmari,.from Bengal; and L'Aigle, 'Stualafocit, !ions the South Seas. Sailtd. she Navigator, 13aarom, for Jamaica ; Eggintun, BORTIIIN ICI:, for Quebec; Prosperite, BAY- Noir', for Havre; Aries , Bugs‘c,, for Africa; Acasta, G RISWA for New Fork ; and Mary, WATSON, for the Cape of Good. Hope. ltethain the HoMkurable* Company's Thames, Orwell, and MulgraVe Castle.. Livaaroot, APRIL r.S.—Anived tha. Mary, FRAZIER, from Mobile; Stranger, D'AviEs, from Savannah; Portland, DRINKW'AIER , from Charleston ; Cambrian, M•PlisaisoN, from Ceara; Esther, Fosa from St. Michael's; Dove ; --, from Vadiz ; Matilda, Nlonst:; and Hardware, ERWRALL; trona Lisbon ; and Vigilant, — 2 7-, from Oporto. M., AL% . • WINDSOR, APRIL 29. The we are happy to state, is much beater to-day, his. cough having greatly abated ; but his MAJESTY is still confined to his room. Hopes are entertained that his M AJESTY will in a day or two be sufficiently recovered to enjoy his favourite excursions to the Lodge. Yesterday, the Princess A UOUSTA received units #tom the Ductless of (hentusTra and du. Princess SOPHIA. The Princess ,iyouvrA dined with the Duke and Duchess of GLorcFsrun yrgerday. The Alaiquit, and Marchioness of LassnowN enter tained a party at dinner yesttrday, at Lan.sdown Douse:. The Duke of lionx had a large dinner party yester d.ty,at his house in St. James's. The Duke of GitAFroN gave a grand dinner yester day to a party of distinction, at his house in adrgeg-street. Lord HENLEY had et dinner party ye,terday, in Hett ford-street. Sir CfrARLES and Lady HULSE entertained a large party at dinner yesterday, at their house in Burlington -street. The Duke of ST. ALBAN'S and the Ladies B-EAUCLERK have returned from their seat, G.ltton, Surrey. Lord and Lady COLCHESTER art ived yesterday at their house in Spring-gardens, from Brighton. The Hon. iNIr. and Mrs. SrortoEs BOURNE- arrived yesterday ir. Scuth Außty-street, from Westbrook, Alban's. The Countess of DA I+ TMOUTEI at rived yesterday at her :$0113.! in Bet Itcley-scriare, for the sea;o11, from her seat, Blackheath. Sir JOHN Suu,f;wr and f.tinily arrived yesterday in town, from tlicir seat in The NJat gni, and iliarcidonecs Of STAFFORD arrived at Clevel,nd 1 louse yesterday, from their seat, Richmond-hilt. Yeverday the Duke of Wet.t.rNGTox arrived in town, !:it we are concerned to state that he does not appear much improvt-d in health. LoNuEvi•ty —A few days since, died in the work holm of S.,int Botolph, Bishopsgate a female of the n a me o f Bridget Atiderson, w h o h a d attain ed her 107th year; she re. tiitied all her faculties to the last, she was formerly a respectable inhabitant of that parish, and had been an inmate of the above work house twelve years, where every attention was paid to her. Wednesday a young Lady of most respectable con nections went to an eminent haberdasher in the neigh bourhood of Oxford -street, and, after bespeaking a silk cloak, she requested to be shewn some laces, in order to choose a pattern for the trimming to go round it. Many pieces v:eee displayed before her for the purpose, when at the same time she carelessly took from her muff her handkerchief, and laid by the side of them. After a few minutes spent in a careful inspection, she fixed on one; aid, while giving the necessary directions of the manner in which it was to be placed, she very adroitly swept off several other pieces with her handkerchief, and secreted them within her muff. Fortunately one of the shopmen on the opposite side of the counter had watched the motions of this I - Alienable peculator, and made known his suspicions to his master, who, just as the Lady was leaving the shop, very politely desired her to walk up stairs into his dininivroons, as he had some thing of importance to communicate to her; to which she very readily acquiesced; and when requested to re store those laces which she had put into her muff with her handkerchief, she at first betrayed considerable emotion, but, recovering from the alarm which such a discovery so naturally occasioned, she returned them . with the greate s t com p osure , at t h e same t i me apologis ing for her • mistake. In consideration of her being a person of consequence, she was suffered to depart with a severe reprimand. • The projected bridge from Hammersmith to Barnes will shorten the way to Richmond, as well as to the great Western Road not less than a mile, besides avoid ing the town pavement of Br entford. it is stated in the American Newspapers that the Ir.. dian tribes suspected of forming a league against the Whites, have 20,000 warriors, and the American set tlers opposed to them are stated at only :; 4 000, thinly scattered along a frontier of immense extent: Several French men of war had , been hovering ark, the coast of Hayti; which circumstance, in conjunction with the ru moured arrival.of an expedition at Martinique, had ex cited fears that an attack was meditated on Hay t.. . .... • 6, BOGNOR, APRIL 28: This delightful and healthy place brgit s to assume a busy app, 4 ,... ance. Several houses have been taken for the season ; the also having undergone adi improvement for the better, hv the a,' •._ thin of a C(' ace and Reading-room. Much building is going on, a : .) it is looked for that Bognor will be equal to any Watering Place the coast. There are now four coaches daily, and•the et - retie:. ,; the market-house, with the fishing boats, must be considered as great convenience to the visitors. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The subjects of importance which stand most pro. minent on the List of Notices for discussion, when the House tree.% again, are—For Monday, May 3, Mr. SCARLETCS, for Conilsers_ thin to Cnrsitors of Lancaster. Tuesday, 4th, Capt. MAIIEMLEV... for Employment of the Population of the South of Ireland ; anti .)'7, Mwaiwea (of Galway) for Increase of :.:31alie: to the Gnat Olf.ce- s of State, and Persons in High Judicial Situations. Wednesday, sj. Mr. Islasentmes, for tie Repeal of the Assessed Taxes. On day, the Gth, Mr. HUAlleS t to consider of the Church Rstab,:‘ , ... ment of Ireland; Mr. Wooenoi::,es, fora Continuance of the sent Salt Duties; Mr. P. Muoses, for a Repeal of the Conib- z _ Lion Laws. And on Tuesday, the 11th May, Lotd At.titoar . s •;.; the general State of freland. BOWSTREE7 7 -11113 DAY. THE FX-LADY BARRYMORE. This extraordinary personage, who has so repeatedly been hrfcrt the respeCtive Magistrates of tl.e different Police Offices, was, though only disch..rged last night, again brought up from Garden Watch-house, charged by .lohn Lloyd, a watchman, being disorderly in James-street, Covent Garden, at four tic:a:lc the morning, and also with acting in the most isplecent m luau-. So resolute Via" she hi not going to rite wat:h-house, teat tbc: were actually MAigect to procure a wheelbarrow, in which she conveyed to the lock-up room. The ittleo.!,olt appe:ired •:- thtt 'Alagistntte strong) ) impregnated with the fumes of her •• is:id Mr. .a114,..tre Lt. remanded ker. cuutous citANGE. _ _ _ ..... I:Whom Tuck,., and blint:otrl iliqinnts were brought np Ir, c -, - tody, by the watchman of St. Clement Dane's, coat t . le d with , sauiting Sheen, one of the patrol, about halt-past e!e - ..en •o'clock last night. Mr. Tucker, it appcared, commenced the disturbance on fir,-. 'day morning, but was then sent away; but last night, in coin," with his fats nd , Mr. Williams, they went to the residence of . ..Ind then to his heat, collared him, and thrvatantal to take him fore .11r. Perry or Mr. Bishop, the tact rs. For this they w, taken to the watch-house. The defenttatits amo-ar e d to be b very respectable, and the worthy Magistrate havthg censure-el tlh.a conduct, discharged them on paying the fees. Yesterday Theresa Ileplimg,-apreity looking genteelly tirs-ssed gir! ,of IS years of age only, was brought before Sir It ..ICHAILD 11114M+: Stevens. one of the patrol, ch a rg e d w i t h a idi ng and a b etting in ke, p. ing a Little Go,. or illegal Lottery Insurance Office. The girt was placed trembling and in tears before the Magistr:e and a woman, who stated her name to be Julia Carter, stated t:,, : .she went on a certain day Ma house In Muor-street, Seven lha, kept by the defendant's father and mother, and expressed a , insure the number '21,000 in the Little Go,. to be drawn that There was a drawing at the house regularly three days a ee,.,s, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The price paid for an insuratte: for ss. 3d. was three pence—that is, a person paying the latter suit receives the former if the number he or she fists upon lie dr.,w:: 'on that day. Witness saw the defendant's mothet, and told Ina s 4 wished to insure 21,000, and the mother told her she ceuid and assured her that if her number came up she would be cert.,i of having her money, at the same time calling her thiughter float an inner room to receive the money and enter the number, wlnca she did.—This was the evidence against the defonelant, who, MI 'being called upon for her answer to the charge, st.-eineu from terror, of making a single observation. The young tte•-.. - 11kiLLt was' then conveyed to Covent Garden watch-house. CASE OF 'I . /Ott:SA II morning the fug :her of this case was gone into. Mr. ADOLPHUS apto!dreil ;or the pros-Ice. Cion.—The Magistrates, in conchtsion,.said it would hare 1 , 4:el: glean the utmost reluctance, hail they been under the necessity of C./L.. :slatting the young creature, who-certaitity was the dupe other !owe guilty parents, on the evidenze said to be brought forward, hut there was a witness not in attendance, she shouts! have the behe... of it, and be tow at the same time they feelingly r,- honed her to be catetul for the future. MR. SAIIIII, THE MISSIONARY. The New Times of this morning gives a long an,i well abridged abstract of the proceedings against Mr. Smith, at Demerara, embracing the substance of the charges against him, hi defensive statement, and the whole of the evidence in the case. As the analysis given in the STAR of the trial, immediately that the Pa►liamentary papers were issued, set the subject in a very clear light, v. c do not think it necessary again to advert to the evidence, but shall quote from the Morn ing Paper to which we have already alluded, the ob servations that acczmy.iiiy the abstract, together win: an account of the funeral of the ill-fated Missionary We call the attention of the Public to an Abstract (2f ceedings againA,l Mr. at Pemerara, and we must say that ea have near in the whole cetric , of our legal reading met with a sentence so sturdy unsupported by the semblance of ratinm! prct We are indeed to this moment at a loss tr understand In- w!..!: reason Mr. Smith was sentenced to be hanged ;or wh.tt tht crime that he is alleged to have committed deserving death.— He is acquitted of any intention to excite rebellion, but found guilty of the nondescript crime of promoting discontent in the minds of other people without any evil. intent. He k oho convicted of having advised on a certain day touching and cm cerning a certain rebellion, the proof being most distinctly that the only advice he gave was to hare nothing to do with it. This ad vice, too, was given without knowing or suspecting that the parti;% had rebellion in their thoughts, but merely on an idea that they had some vague diseontent which might lead them to illegal conduct. It comes out incidentally in the course of the trial (though not necessary to be noticed in an abstract); that Mr. SMITH was not at rested on any information against him ; but that two Militia Cap tains, one of whom had a quarrel with him two years before, thought fit to command him to take up arms, and because, as a Minister of the (impel, he considered himself exempt, they seized his person and his papers/ lie is charged with having preached disaffection for six years together, and is tried upon this monstrous plea without specification of a single expression, or of any one day, week, month, or year, within which hi; alleged crime was committed.. lie is tried by Martial Law for the general tenor of sermons preached and chapters of the Bible read years before he became. subject to that law Ile is found guilty of aiding and assisting in rebellion because man, whom he did not know to be even'a reputed rebel, came on: day to his house unexpected by him,stayed there a few minutes and left it, without proof of a single word having passed between them. It is monstrous for a Court-Martial to be sitting to judge a Mi nister of the Gospel, not for specific incitements to rebellion deli vered from the pulpit, but for the general character of his doctrines as loosely stated from the vague impression of ignvrant hearers le is still more monstrous to find that one of the doctrines which the prosecutor, the Officer of the Crown, argues to be treasonaLle, is the duty of keeping holy the Sabbath-day ! FCIiERAL OF Ma. SMITH, DEMERARA.— On the evening before his interment Mrs. Smith received a message from the Gm er.ior, informing her that the funeral must take place at four in the 'lron ing, and that neither she nor ber friend Mrs. Elliott would be al.. lowed to follow the corpse to the grave. Mrs. Smith was exceed • ingly distressed by this mandate, and, though not permitted to 10:- low her husband to the grave she rose at three, and :team, ante,! by Mrs. Elliott, and conducted by a slave with a lantern, pruelded to the burial place to meet the corpse. The usual service was read by the Rev. Austin. It is easier to cunceive than to :west; what a heart-rending scene this must have proved to the affLicte: widow. We hear that Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Elliott arrived England a few days ago. The Emperor cf Russia has assigned thirteen mil lions of rubles for public buildings in Petersburgh. The Revenue of the city of Moscow amounted las! year to 2,195,000 rubles, the Expenditure to 2,76`2,C0 ,1 . In the night of the 11th February a slight shock s:f an earthquake was felt at Irkutzk, in Siberia. A poor woman went recently with tears in I;er eyt t 6 the Clergyah:o parish in Stisstx, to complain of a man w:• , ) ! died of small pox LAI, buried Lear the hod) el her husband, .Wish cow Bahl this RAI IA a- <pc g Ol iDt I side' and The gine of si flues ?no vt lupor ,not hive crow a vit respl the ealab 'Brill in a , 41sIX ie• - ) gray( 01:ve thAt t`ride tr.tits