Star. — London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

"on which he thought he had given a satisfactory expla nation last year; but as the Honourable Member had again referred to it, he would testate what he had then said. It had been reported to him, that in many parts of the country the House Tax was unjustly and un equally levied, houses of the same size and quality, in the same street, being differently rated. This appeaied to him to be the very es.ence of injustice, tit, ugh no on e WAS charged more than the law allowed ; and lie had consideied that, on a survey, the increa cnt the total annaunt would have enabled biro to have pro- Ped a general decrease of taxation. In th a t vi ex he •w load directed the re-survey ; but when he heard that it has complained of, lie gave directions that no sur charges should he made. Certainly there conld be no injustice in !Waking a man, mho had been paying less titan lie ought, pay the proper amount ; and on that point he thought his convince had not merited the ani madversion of the Honouraillt• Member. Mr. HUME said the Right Honourable Gentleman had made some observations which had much sorprioal Ile had on a former occasion stated the retitle non of debt to be 24,000,0001. but he had now ad vanced it from that sum to 39,000,000/. but how he had arrived at that conclusion it was impossible to say, for there was no document on which he could have founded himself. The whole amount of surplus from ISI6 up to last year, was only 7,000,000/. and the LIU*. Terence of figures must arise from the change of the denomination of the stock. During that petiod, also, we had been bortow•iug money on deferied annuities, which the Ri t iht Honourable Gentleman bad not taken into the account. But he would pledge himself to cve that the assertion of the Right Honourable Gen tleman, that thine had been a reduction of 39 millions, and a con esponding reduction of interest, was emit ely unfoutn:ed. The Right Honourable Gentleman bad hoped ti;:: House would not be so inconsistent as to ac cede to 1 is Honourable Friend's motion, but the House had already snnctioned greater inconsistencies, for they had declued that not a shilling of taxes could be re pealed, and )et the Right Honourable Gentleman was h ow taking credit to himself for the amount of taxe, bcen taken off. Taking the Sinking Fund, x. Lich the Right Honourable Gentleman called the st,ri.las fund, at three millions, he would :Lk was it to 11. at it should be employed in paying off sloe three I •et ceLts. at 96, 97, and 98 ? lle (Mr. Hume) was quite satisfied, that if the Right Honourable Gentleman would extend his liberal views on commeicial subjects to the -,:ff.iirs of fiva•ue, he would find that the 3,000,000 f. it left in the pockets of the people, would be productive of ten times the benefit they were at present. On the..: giounds he was anxious to support the motion. Mr. Alderman HEYG ATE opposed the motion. He the Assessed Taxes as much as any one, and khew the people of England were better pleased with a partial !eduction of those taxes than with all that had been done besides. But, notwithstanding this, he thou:Olt the Sinking Fund necessary to the credit of the country ; and that he was bound in honour to support it. :lie also thin:e,ht the Ilouse was bound to maintain this hind, which it so many times pledged itself to do. Mr. N. CALVERT said, he was no friend to the Sink fond, as :lie Hon. Member who spoke last was, and ;It he should come to the sickle conclusion against the reo:ion. He thought the surest pledge of prosperity that tics country could have was the establishment ot cheap labour. To this he thought all reduction of taxa tion ought to tend, and therefore he could not vote for the repeal of these taxes until the tallow, soap, salt, and other similar taxes, were repealed. Mr. PELHAM said a few words aoaiu>t the motion. Ile had full confidence in the Chancellor of the Exchequer cuatit:g turw:,rtl 'with some plan of reduction. Mr. MA BERLEY replied.—He thought the argument of the Worthy Alderman too absurd and disgraceful even for an Alderman. Lord MILTON apologized fur 6j - caking atter the reply of his Hon. Friend. He could not, however, let the question go, without stating that bis reason for voting fur the motion was, that he was satisfied from experience that there was no more means of obtain lug reduction of taxes, but by forcing it on the Ministers by such tutors as that of his Hon. Friend.—The numbers were Ayea 78 hoes. • 171 Majority against the motion - —93 COVitTi . BILL. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the further camideration of the Report of the County Courts' Bill. 31r. SCARLET'!' declared that be 'lever could agree with that part Of tle Bill which went to appoint twenty-one places with sa laries of XBOO a-year each, which were to be placed under the op poirunent of the Chancellor. He would not, however, divide the Committee upon Clause was agreed to. 51r. SCA RLETT gave notice that he would propose a Clause fer cur - opting the County Palatit.e of Lancaster from the opera don of this The I louse then resumed, 2rtl the Ch:tieman obtained leave to tit again on Thursday. The other Orders of the Day were then dispo,;ed uf, and the House adjaurnid at I half-past One o'Clo.A. THE EV EN IN( LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 16'24. T 111.: STOCK EXCII .1 GE. TWELVE t.Ye Ct•esols opened this mort.irg at . Lgal fur the ilecutwt, and, up - 0 :al,l3our, they are 96} ; atal tar Monty B;. - 4. There has been a great bust:e i.. the spattisli fiends this morning —they opened at 21, and low. afteewards want up to 25, but dipped again to 21 a 12. 11 is reported that the above sullen rise was twin to the ;TAMA Ambassador making inquiries, through ii :3 A3ent, it a !nail could not be raised for Spain, which he found was .:hour lAng something for the old one. FOREIGN FUNDS. "Ikeze has teen a good deal doing in the Market, particularly in trovida, which had taken a sudden rise, but have failen to 1 Current Prices : New Spanish 16i to 17, Old 21 ; ', to 4 A:l6i/es Flit to I, Russian 961 to Cl 7, Mexican Scrip 84 I, Austrian ", ireAfy !8!, re i, (,retk 1 dis. Alliance Shares 17 to Co f:.*:, 1, Colombian Scrip T to 2 pre. New PrusEian 991 !r) 1O t), °id !Mil a, Trish Shares Ito Paladium 4. PKICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.. 3 per (.t. ltekkiced 95 3 A3 V 2 3 / 8 i 3 per Cons. 96 1 4 96-3 i per Cts. 101 7 / 8 102 1 / 2 t pet . Cts. Old 10W,4--1 per Cts. N. 108 :y8 107 7 7; 1 Per Cents. Assented 10 11 / 4 % Long Aims. 227 .!!tdo Stick 299—India Bonds 803. 82s. t:lls ;€1,000) 4.25. 40s. 455. 4)4 tc) Small 4.1 b. 45s.—Do. (£500) 395. 435. C0,i,113 for Acct. 96% 1 / 8 1A• Active eiv4rations are making for reinforcing our force off Algiers. The INteetNAL bomb, Cap 13.tacr.AY, is preparing at Deptford with the utmost ti4alc!), to follow the TERROR, which has proceeded to the rendezvous at Gibraltar. 'fhe latter vessel, it is be ready for sea in less than threi weeks. Three other vessels of this description are also equipping, (supposed for the above destination), therefore it appears mote than probable the attack on Algiers will ulti mately take place, provided our proposals are not ac ceded to by the Dey. Letters of a late date from Algiers, state, that the harbcur is still under the strictest blockade, and that the city has been abandoned by the merchants, but oilictlier from apprehensions of a bombardment, or in order to be prepared for it by filling the town with troops, seems doubtful. The Constitutionnel, Pat is Journal, has renewed the rumour of there being six French ships of war at Rio Janeiro, and we find the same report re-echoed in an article from Lloyd's List, inserted in cur Naval Intelli gence of this day. We know ivell the fidelity of the agents to Lloyd's, and the credit due to them, but be it recollected that the intelligence does not rest on such an authority; bur on the statement of the master of a ship which had arrived at Jersey; and neither this statement, nor the repetition of the stale intelligence of the English Papers iu the Constitution/ref, ought to weigh for a mo meat against the very satisfactory explanation of the French Government, and the assurance of the Right Honourable S,:cretary for Foreign Affairs, that on the Brazil, and on every other station, our fw ce outnumbers that of the French or of any other country whatever. Frankfort Papers to the 4th instant retched us this forenoon. One of them contains a speculative article on the independence of Greece and South America, which the writer seems to think contingent on one another. According to this account, the Emperor of Itttssin has declared that he will not recognize the in• dependence of the South American provinces, even if an exalted rersonage should place himself at the head of the revolution—alluding, no doubt, to Br azil. The Frankfort writer considers such a declaration as decisive against the independence of Greece, unless, indeed, which he thinks by no means improbable, the succe.s of the Greeks in the ensuing campaign shal induce even the Ottoman Porte to put 411 end to the conte.t by an equitable arrangement with the Greeks. We are far, however, from considering tire situation of Greece and I . South America as the tame, or that the decision of the Court of St. Petersburg!) can prevent the independence of the latter,which it is impossible can ever permanently return under the government of the mother country, even although a temporal y dc,mination over it might be assumed. It appears that there has been a strong disposition in Germany to emigrate to Brazil, which it is attempted to check by accounts of the disastrous state of those who had already arrived there. An Englishman, with an un- Eirlish name, is said to have enticed the adventurers. liheos, where the letter is dated, is a province in Brazil, and one of the four Captainships of Bahia. The fol lowing are extracts: FRANKFORT, MAY 4. The accounts floan Odessa, of the 14th April, state that the last letters from Constantinople had brought the intelligence that the Tui kish Government, being in great want of men to man the fleet, bad caused all the vagabonds that could be found in the coffeehouses and other places of public rest:lit, to be seized, and sent on board the ships destined against the Greeks. It is said there are some Franks among them. It may be easily supposed that no very heroic exploits can be. expected from a fleet manned in such a manner. It appeared that the Captain Paella would sail shortly. Private letters from Sr. I'etersburoh, of a recent date, say that nothing had yet transpired respecting the mis sion of M. de Tatischeff, who is at Vienna, and that in general very liale was said about the affairs of Greece. In the diplomatic circles, however, it was presumed that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh was favourable to the plan of forming Chi istian provinces in the Morea, which should remain tiibutary to the Porte. This opinion seems the more deserving of credit, as it coincides with the contents of an official communication made to the English Government at the end of March, as an answer to the memorandum of Mr. Canning on the concerns of the Colonies, in which communication the ideas of the Russian Cabinet relative to the independence of the South American Celunies,are said to be expressed to the follow ing effect :—" Russia would not acknowledge the inde pendence of those provinces, even if an exalted personage should place himself at the bead of such a revolution." This is supposed to allude to the Prince Royal (now ! Emperor) of Brazil. We have no reason to doubt the correctness of these expressions on the Colonial question; and we therefore believe that if Russia acts consistently, according to this system, the Greeks will find that obstacles to the entire independence of their country will be raised in a quarter where, a few years ago, they would not have expected them. On the other hand, it is highly pro bable that the approaching campaign may decide the emancipation of Greece, for should it prove as unfa vourable to the Turks as the preceding have been, it might happen that the Divan itself would be disposed to seek means of putting an end to the contest, by an equitable arrangement with the Greeks. FROM TOE MAINE, MAY I. The countries situated on the Rhine and Maine being great sufferers by the plan formed by the German pro jectors to establish colonies in Brazil, because many fa milies are induced to listen to the delusive hopes held out to them, and suffer themselves to be enticed to that remote country, the Manheirt Gazelle has very properly published an extract from an authentic letter, which is well calculated to awaken serious reflections in those who may feel disposed to undertake so hazardous an experiment : " Rums, Acorn? 25, 1N2.5. " All the colonists in the first transport who have not yet sunk under their fate, -are in the most distressing state. Fever, and even famine, will soon put an end to the misery of the third part that still remains. It is much to be feared that the same fate awaits the 161 indivi duals who have come in the second transport, the Anna Louisa, Captain Snaak, unless speedy succour saves them from mi::ery and death. These last were enticed to Una by ooc. Thommint', an Englishman, but the resources of this man ar^ so limited, that they will not be able to prosper, or do anything but work for his advantage. " I cannot describe the indignazion with which the respectable strangers settled in these tountries wtre filled when they were made acquaintYA with the ridi culously lying prospectus which the pretended founders of Colonies had the impudence to send to Europe. " As I have lived five sears and a half in this coun try, I think I may assure you that I am fully acquainted both with the advantages and infinite difficulties which the country presents to strangers who think to settle in it as planters ; and in consequence of this knowledge. I most earnestly intreat vou to do everythin , z in your power to put an end to emigrations from Eu.ope to this country. You have an irtr.fragahle confirmation of my opiiiion of the ill s:icce,:i al tl:e Swiss colony at Canto Gallo, whi,:h makes no progress, uotwithstanciing the support of the Russian Government, and M. Von Langsdorif, the The Pali.; Papers of Saturday and Sunday have reached us. One of them contains a notice published at Parii, and signed by a " XAVILR r);_ltuos, " Wilf - se name we believe is new in France as it is to us ; and styling himself Commissioner of .the loyal Spanish I Loan of GUEBIIARL'. In it he arnonrces tl , at the F.rst half year's intereq, which was to be paid on the Ist of danuaty, Fi2s, is to be paid on the Ist of July, 1V.3. The mote of payment, however, is not yet determined, and it is difficult to conceive where the resources are to come horn, ; unless this first be a bait supplied by speculators as a temptation for some scheme l of a further loan. The authenticity of the signature even may be doubted. Part of the produce of the loan had already reached Madrid, asd was destined, ac cording to some of the Journals, to deft ay an at mament for the conquest of Saudi America! A private letter, however, dated MadtLl, the 2flth of April, states what we readily believe, that the mohey is otherwise approptirted.--." All the money that comes from Guebhard's Loan," s tys the writer, " goes out ar fast again. The claimants ate without end, and the payments are made very slowly and with great pomp, as if the ring of the dollars was a new thing, or they did not like to part with them, or out of ostentation to sheet that they have them. It has only been in the last week that four thousand doliars (i:S00) could be mus tered up to send to the Marquis de CASA FLORES, the Ambassador at Vienna, who has been six months u ith• out receiving a penny, and was absolutely locked up on account of his small debts, and his son here has been daily soliciting the Minister to send him something, even for charity's sake." We subjoin the letter of XAVIER DE BURGOS, with the only at tides worth quoting from the French Papers: FROM THE ETOILE OF SUNDAY. PA It IS, MAY 8. It is expected that we shall shortly see the answer of . the Portuguese Government to the first overtures v.-I,ich have been sent by the Brazilian Commissioners, who are now in London. " The undersi2,n..d Commissioner of his Catholic 3% hjesty for the affairs relative to the Itoyal Loan of Spain, and Charge d'Af faires of the Caissc d'Amortissement of the same kingdom, at Park, has the honour to inform the Public, by virtue of the special pow.•rs with which he is furnished, that the first half-year's interest of the obligation of the Royal Spanish Loan, contracted by M. Louis Guehhard, which was to be paid at Madrid on the Ist Jan. 1827,, will be paid at Paris on the Ist July, 1324. By virtue of the same powers, the undersigned has charged tLe house of Baquenault to ef fect the payment of this first half year's interest. 'r ho mode of pay ment will be stated in a future notice. " Paris, May 7, 1324." " X AVIER DE BURGOS." [M. J. Lahora, the Spanish Consul-Cencral, declares t 1 signa ture of M. X. de Burgos to be authentic.] The project of law respecting Septennial liam:mts passed in the Chamber of Peers on Fliday, by A majo rity of 117 votes to 67. THE WINDSOR ; MAY 10.—This day, at two o'clock, his MAJESTY trade out in his phwton through the Park, and proceeded by a toad near the Princess AIMUSTA'S mansion at Frogmore, to the Royal Lodge, and tl , e surrounding pleasure grounds and . plantations, which arc in a great state of forwardness towards completion . The KING was accompanied by the attendants in waiting. This day a Cabinet Council assembled at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was numerously attended. Prince LEOPOLD dined ye,terday with the Duchess of KENT, at her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington. The Dtfke And Duchess of CLAnENCE rode out to gether yesterday, to Putney. Yesterday, the Duchess of ISF;NT and the Princess Fsoixiar, visited the Doke and Duchess Of CLARENCE. The Eail of Ltvincrom. left tow n on Saturday, for Coombe Wood. The late fete at Stamford-hill, given by M. Horns- CHILD, was preceded by a dinner, at which were present Prince l'ounNac, and other Members of the Foreign clops bildionotique. The Marquis of lIUNTLEY, Sir CHARLES and Lady llowt.rv, sir Joins and Lady IlAsistosn, were also present. In the evening, there was a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music, led by Itossrm. The Ball at ALM ACK ' S lath night, for the benefit of the ltoyal Academy of Music, we ate happy to say, WAS very nume rously and most splendidly attended. The denouement in a late case was produced by the following incident : —On the arrival of the Lady at Dover, the Custom-house Officer insisted upon searching her jewel c:tw, which she resisted. She said she had brought nothing back from France which she had not carried with her to it, and has: underzone an examination previous to her departure front Eagland, and that a second examination would be an at-line:toy and unnecessary exer cise of authority. The Officer, however, felt it his duty to perse- vere, but being aware of the rank and conseTtence of the Lady, proposed to proceed to London, crying the jewel else wi'a him, for the purpose of hiving it exami..ed there. The Lady, feeling herself fatigued by her voyage, and the pet it she had encountered at sea, gavelled but slowly up to towo, while the Oirrer comp', ted the journey with o.pedition ; and . on his arrival, presented himself at the house of the husband, and stated his business. The hu s b an d, without hesitation, opesied the case far the satisfaction of the Offi cer, when, to his own great dissatisfaction, he found a letter from Capt. W—, which made a deep impression on his feelings. Ile immediately ordered a chaise, and set out on the Dover road, and having met the Lady at Rochester, an interview took place,and the arrangement was made which we have stated.—Kent Mercury. Saturday seamight the gold medal belonging to the Thistle Golf Club was played for on Leith LMks, and gained by JOHN OGILVIE, Esq. Leith, at 63 strokes. THE ARMY. The late General Order, permitting such Officers of the Roy. I Nlarines and Corps of Royal raigincers as h•tee served twenty ye..ls to sell their Commissions and retire front the Service, has, it ap pears, been availed of to a very limited extent indeed—no ccr of the former Corp: having as yet retired, and only one ( Af.,jor- General D' Auer) of the latter, has yet apneared in the Go-etre, whose plate in the list of Colonels, in the ilLgi,ttt moil List of the Corps. will be fi!led up by Colonel Aiirl.o rt. .nt, from the tenty.rary I lalt.pay, but will cause no other promotion in th t bratic!, of :he Service. Tuesday, the 15th Regiment or Foot were in.peeted by Getitral Sir JOIN LAMBERT, at Waterford, who ty.vreck.cd himself highly gratified with their military evolutions and conduct. The Loyal Briton sailed from Gret:rock on Tue,day evening for Gibraltar, with a detachment of the With Ilecim...nt on board. DEATH OF BAIWA MASERES. We have to announce the death of Baron Masters, Cursitor Boron of the Exchequer. This distinguished individual yesterday noirit- Mg closed his long and valuable life, at the advanced age of Mtn y three. 13arou Maseres was of a refugee family; his grandfather came over with King William; and his mind, as might naturally be expected, was early embued with a hatred of everything in the shape of religious perseCution. He was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and very early displayed that profound knowledge of mat:Non:1;11cl, to the peculiar study of which he had devoted him self, and to which he was no doubt excited by the many celebrated names which, iit this department of science., Lave done honour to that celebrated University. Ile published, as early as 17:.:9,a work on the negative sign, in which he argued against the received docttine of negative quantities; and ssme time afterwards mil:dished his valuatle collection of the Scriptures Lufarithmici, in six volatiles, 4to. a work on Life Anuoitiei, anti several historical works, among which were May's Ilisturll sr the Parliament, and Ludlow's Lahrs. It was to the liberal and enlightened patronage of B . tron naseres th it the public are indebted for the Rtv. John ilellins's v.duable translation of Donna Agnesi's Insinuzioni Autlyti<il:e. it iod beets traltslated flung years before by the then late Professor Colson, the ingenious commentator on the Fluxion.; of Nro.vion. Baron Masc-es, who, in his early life had kiloton Colson, and had reason to infer, twin his conversation, that he bad vetittr..n a treat i se on geome try, which he had never published, w..s desire:is of discovering this manuscript, and of giving it to the world. 1:1 hit search lie foetid, not the work he looked for, but ;to-lodation just men tioned ; and after removing some pecuniary (Into:tics, which, without such generous assistance, would h .ve been for ever withheld from the wo-:d, he obtained a copy ..f it, and put it into the hands of Mr. I!llder . •ak t , ) h:-crone its Editor, and under whose inspection it was printed ;a: I tTot. In private lie, the disposition of Bat In Maseres was kindness itself, and his integrity was the result of a mind discipliind from early life in all its feelings, •nd etsinteresoal is all its habits. In politics he was a Whig, of the Old School ; averse Irons all wild innovation, bat loving liberty for the sake of humankind. Hiere !igloos tenets were those of a staun:h thin:titan, bat with perhet good fright.; towards every one of disTtrent milite:.ts, and deeming it the height of injustice to chastke any man's conscience, or to silence any man's opinion. His memory—as will often happen with those whose lives have been devoted to abstract studies--had fdle .1 bins almost totally for many mooths !sefore his death. He was or-vor married, and has loft no very near relatives. ;le died at his house at Ilytozate,iii Surrey, to which place be had been iemoWed sotac rinse before his (Lath. i NAVAL INTM,LIGENCE. The Susanna, Turizrn, (tom Swansea to Liverpool ; and Berkeley Caqle, from Bangor, ware lust on the Silt inst. nettr Milford. The Fair GHIL I I TIIC, of Cardigan, was totally lost near Stornaway. the '_'Bth and all the crew drowned. FALMOUTH, MAY 9. to S.S.G.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Twean, foe Smith America. l'uYasourtt, MAY F_—Arrived the Wakefield, WAEII - front Liverpool, hound to 111iramichi, out five weeks, very leaky and much d..maged. PORTSMOL.TH, MAY 10. - Wind S.E.— Arrived the Johannis, HURARTII, from Memel ; his Majesty's ship RATTLY:SNAKY, from the Eastward; and Lady Francis, BARRY, from Sundeiland, very stckly, having the smallpox on hoard, and already lmt one man. Sailcd the Resource, THORtiIIILL, fur :Madras and licegal. DEAL, MAY 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the S.irah, Nienotsosi, from Messina; Julius Caesar, STAEFORD, front Honduras; and Mary and Eliza, DAvis, from Cork. Passed through, the Hope, DEAN, from Sierra Leone. The following is an extract of a letter from the A g ent to Lloyd's Jtrsey, dated Bth May :—" The Fiiend:-, BrtstliT, arrived here ,on tile Sat inst. from Rio Janeiro, from whence she s. fled cn the 4(11 ht which time there wete lying there the A.trea and Alagicienne French frigates; F.speratice, Ddigente, and Prte..knte corectted ; and two othtrs, whose names I cannot ascertain. Three of the c,,r. - ettes were about to proceed to Lima ; and two ship: were expected root Toulon. I lis ships SPAR rxxxx and CAN1.1171.1: , ..t were at We are glad to find, that, in c usequence of a tequi siti.,n most numeroasly and respectahly signed, the Lon!) PROVOST of Glakgow has convened a meeting for the purpose of aiding the Fund fir the Relief of the Di,tiessed Settlers at the Cape of Good l - lope.- We do not know of any class et persons who have stronger claims on public sympathy than our feilow.countrymen now anduting all the miseries of puvLrty and sickness at the Cape. evening, in consequence of the absence of Mr. K FAN,In wAs detained at Derby by indisposition, Mr. MA.:ILEADY, with his usu rood nature, undertook the character of Richard the Third, ..t a shot( notice, and played it with great Feitit. Consider able disapprobation was manifested by the audience at the delay and disappoint 'milt, but when the Ttncily was once cotntu.•uced, good humour was restored. Covent Garden Theatre was full almost to an over flow last night. The performance was the first part of Henry IV. ,yr. Uri A lux, Keanicis has much improved in his playing the part of John fa.'42 . f. No one who had seen Mr. Kvitat.g hut in such ch.tracters es Ronvo, Orlando, and Charles SuTace, could imagine h!ni competent to p1.,7 the fat Knight so well as he dru.s. . . Priddy, the Presbytery or Glasgow unanimously agreed to send a respectful letter to Earl BATH nits?, representing the claims of Presbyterians in the West Indies to public counte nance and favour. They also ordained and solemnly set apart Mr. ALEX. MACLEAN, to be Minister of the Scotch Church in the town of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. The battle between Sampson and Josh. Hudson, which takes place this day, between Royston and Cambridge, caused this morning, at an early hour, a greia bustle on the Hack ney and Mile-end roads. Every kind of vehicle was in motion.— .10%L. the favourite. 1 , 101 A ID.—We are informed a Captain of an East Indiatnan has I.ite'l brought home one c:f ;Lew rare productions of Nature, and which he has , •iitiniitted to thi oispectioi: of the most eminent Naturalists in London, who have declared it as th,ir opi nion, that it is genuine. Not fewer titan thtec coui.le have passed through Cat lisle, doting the past week,, front-the south,. on, their •.vay to the far-famed shrine of Gretna-Greek —names of the parties at present Lnicnown. The last went : for ward on Thursday evening, s' ith great swiftness, : in a carriage and four, .al,d retni :,ed the whole distance (about 18 miles) in little • mere than two hour.' 'The bridegroom was a gentleman''f resident in . Liiii`iton. DEPARTURE ob• Tile Funy.—The final orilers fur' the sai:ing forthwith cf . this ship on the voyage of discovery, were received on Saturday evening, •tad Capt Dubs, tad his Officers, were on board by seven o'clock on Sun day morning, accompanied by some ladies of diAinC lion. The Comet steam-packet, which had on the pre vious day towed the IlrcLA (10. i n to Nottlifleet, in a few hours came alongside, and the Ft.tUY,.being loosened from her moorinls, was kstened to the Comet, and being swung on the buoy, the steam yacht prepared her tackle, Ste. The signal for was given by (he Commander at a (platter past seven o'clock, and the Bluc Peter" of the FUItY being run up, all was in readiness for depatture. The ve,sel proceeded down the liver, thee: e w of the G al l'E ft cheering as she passed. Several pleasure bm.ts and'yachts iellow•ed with bands of music, and the river presented a most interesting and animated spectacle. It is said that no delay is•to take place at Nordifleet, hut the ships ate to proceed direct on their .qaluous voyage. i‘ E ! I (I ~ 1 f