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of that Pr(nee to treat, was the sending back of the Asiatic troops to Anuoiiw ; and the last news from Constantinople justifies our pre . dictions. The Sultan has just sent back the troops, as formidable to him as to his subjects, in consequence of their undisciplined state and their natural ferocity, Armaments in the British ports, destined for the Mediterranean, are Token of, and A: is said that two vessels of 120 guns have been put in commission. If they are intended to assist the Sultan, it must be owned that they are provided rather late in the Jay. The choice of vessels of this description disproves the supposi tion which gives them this direct destination. A vessel of 120 suns, according to the English systeM, requires a crew of 1,100 men, and with 100 more two 74-gun ships might be equipped.— Two vessel+ of this description would be more fit for general service ; they could be more easily steered. and would sail better ; they might also be navigated in more shallow water than a three decked vessel. The English Admiralty, by this choice, appears to have renounced the idea of procuring a free passage in the Dardanelles for its Beet ; for beyond that pass, and particularly in the Black Sea, three &eked vessels, especially when the ports and roads are in the 'hands of the enemy, are, of all constructions, the least proper for those narrow seas. __._., ANCONA, Sm. 19. Since two days four extraordinary couriers have arrived from Constantinople, but almost as soon AS they alighted they set off for London. They did not say a single word in answer to the ques tions which were addressed to them ; and, indeed, the English Consul-General says that he himself had no means of ascertaining the time of their departure. The vessel) in which they come do not sail from Constantinople, and it appears that a sort of maritime estafette has been established ; that the couriers leave Pers by a steam-boat, and then they embark in !mother vessel which brings them here. This is in order to preserfeibe greatest secrecy with tespect to the negoclations, and the important affairs which are going forward at this moment in the Ottoman capital. According to some private letters which we have received from Smyrna, on the 4th of Sept. it was announced Lo the Ambassadors that they might rely on the promise nude to the% by the members of the Divan that the Sultan would accede to the demands of the Ru sian General; and that, whatever might be the sacrifice* re quired, he would make them, in order to terminate the war, and to secure the tranquillity of his States, and that of Europe. THE EVENING STAR. [ of. 301* f,„.lificArTOS - LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. bar.h Stock Shut. ! India Bonds 59 3 per Cent. Red. Shut , South Sea Stock 89/ 1 - per Ct. Cons. 891 I i f I New Annuities r t per Cent. 1818, Shut. 11000 Excite+ BUls, 66 7 -1 per Cent. lied. Shut. 1500 Ditto 67 7 4 per Ct. 103 2i 1100 and 1200 Ditto 66 8 per Cent 1826, Shut Bank for Acct. 2161 Lang Ann. Shut India for Acct. 221 I::dia Stock 222 Consols for Acct. 89/ . FORKIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Dna! Bonds, 5 pt Ct. Port. Bds. 5 p. Ct. Do. Acct. 61/ Ditto Acct. 461 Creek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Spanish Bds. S per Ct. 81 De. lids. 1825, 18 Do. Acct Int ITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO OCI SICK. SHAM. PAM PIM 1111/17.8. 300 300 36.; 1,1! mof A iistralian 100 SO 101 General Steam Navigation 100 13 44 Eariy this morning Mr. HoLmEs, one of the King's Messengers, arrived at the 'Foreign (Mice, in Downing stteet, with dispatches from Constantinople. The Times of this morning contains another laboured article in defence of tho POLIGNAc Administration. Conscious, however, of the impolicy which ho at first manifested, by casting before it the shield of his undis 4iiised advocacy, ho goes to work on this occasion vecunthlni artem jesuiticam, and endeavours to ac complish for it inferentially, that which he begins to feel ashamed of doing by directer method. This is no sign of better principle in the Times: it only proves that he has been taught a lesson of circumspection, by the public disgust which his opener championship elicited, rtEd that he is manoeuvring to repair his error. He still fancies that he possesses the strong holds of the national mind : confiding in his large circulation—to which he rose by a line of political assertion, since utterly aban doned for its extreme opposite—he trusts to corrupt over to his new views and advocacies that mass of inflexible popular integrity and pure opinion, which once found its echo in his no longer congenial culuums. But we can tell him that he miscalculates egreiously : his influence is extinguished with his vir tue ; his prevalence has passed with - his sincerity. He is an apostate from the cause of the people, to become the servile pander of tyrannic lower: he loves the wages of baseness, better than the reward of indopend cace to wriggle—rather than to go straight in his political career. The justice of these prefatory remarks will be too obvious to require any insistence from us, cer tainly at least with those, who have been at the pains to follow our contemporary, step by stop, through the succession of essays which he has elabo rated in support of the French changes. He knows, as well as we do, that M. de POLIGNAC for a long time refused to take any oath to maintain the Charter—that he only suffers the Charter now, because he is not strong enough to destroy it—and that the men whom he has called to take office with hirir are the ferocious and fana tical apostles of religious intolerance and absolute rule. The Times knows all this as well as we do, mid yet ho has defended these men through thick and thin, and persists in defending them still. Why not—exclaims the corrupted journal—why not support the Prince DE POLIGNAC, and his colleagues in the new cabinet ? Are they not ap pointed as constitutionally as those were whom they have displaced ? So far from perceiving any cause for outcry, we regard with sincere pleasure—as promising most be neficial results for England—the accession of this new Ministry in France. Besides, what right have we to make a splutter about the Ministerial regulations of our neighbour—surely the French may make their own Mi nisters without our interference—what is it to us who the men are that France calls to her Government? Such—we do not mean to say in these precise words — but such ; in their nature, were many of the breathless exclamations and apologies of our contemporary, when it became first known here that extensive anti-liberal ar rangements had been completed under the auspices of M. DE POLIGNAC. We replied to his profligate plead ings in 'two or three articles, which we know produced their effect—as well upon the tergiversa ting Paper, as upon n.any of its alarmed and dis gusted readers. We showed beyond contradiction, that it was something to us—aye, and muck too--what kind of Ministers were appointed to govern France : we de monstrated the political understanding always more or less existing between their Government and our own, and the influence—be it good or bad—thence inevitably reciprocated over both countries. In short, we proved the Times to be insincere in the opinions which he promulgated concerning the French changes, and convicted him of an endeavour to establish—by a series of disingenuous insinuations and sophistries—the ascendency of principles the most repugnant from con stitutional purity. . . Since the publication of these exposures, he has re turned—whenever occasion offered—to his vindications, but they have borne the stamp of a more artful elabora tion. He mingles affected censure and disapproval— spices of doubt and inquiring candour—with large masses of apologetic and defensive argument: but his summing up is sure to be in favour of the individual, whom, at the outset, he made a show of suspecting. Every body re collects—though, to say the truth, it was clumsily done—with what pertinacity he bolstered the nomination of the odious Boy tem o NT. Take a sample this morning, of his vindication of M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE: in their odiousness, it is well known " they are not di vided ;" they are—indeed—arcadcs ambo. " When any individual, or body of men," says our disert oontemporary, " have once become an object of suspicion or distrust, whether justly or not, every rumour tending to lower their characters, or to increase their un popularity, receives an easy credence." This is the ex ordium defensionis, or—what the ArroRNEY-GENERAL would call—" opening of the case :" its drift is per ceptible enough, but at any rate it cannot be mis taken in the next sentence. "ft must be upon the force of this principle that some of the French opposi tion writers speculate on their attempts to throw addi tional discredit on the Ministry, by the propaga tion of tales which they themselves cannot be lieve." Here, then, is a direct assertion that the new Ministry, which—consensu bonorum onepium— is composed of men as hostile to the principlthi of tha charter and good government, as they are hateful for tha remembrance of past political enormities, is brought into undeserved "discredit,"by the propagation of lying tales. If this be not thick-and-thin support of the Austro-Po lignac branch of the great triple Cabinet confederacy, we should be glad to know what is : but let us trace the ex culpatory argument to its climax. "M. DE LA DOURDONNAYE, from the violence of his almost Jacobin royalism"---this is a spice of that afected condemnatory admission, to which we have just alluded—" has been, ever since his accession to power, au object of their unceasing hostility ; and hence they can ascribe to him, with nearly a certain assuranco of obtaining belief, the intention of commit ting almost any impossible political offence.— That he is a man actuated by strong prejudices"— another of these pseudo-candid admissions—" nobody who has read his harangues iu the Chamber can doubt; but that he would commit an useless crime against public liberty, from mere caprice or wantonness, no person acquainted with the extent of his capacity can suspect !" _ . _ Certainly not ; we no more suspect him of that than the Times does : but what does our contemporary think of a useful crime—that is, a crime useful to the attain ment of the end proposed—and that end the destruction of public "liberty ?" Does he presume to say that DE LA BOURDONNATE is incapable of such? Nay, does he not know him to be animated with as fierce and liberti cidal a spirit, as ever repressed a people in its constitu tional aspirations—aye, as ever panted to slake itself in the blood of freemen ? It is not the question —nobody asked that—whether M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE would be guilty of useless crime, in " wantonness and caprice :" this is the artful hypothesis of the " unpaid defender" of domestic and foreign oppression. But it is notorious that the worst principles of arbitrary power do not pos sess a more violent assertor than the Minister whom the Times has just made another impudent attempt to white wash. We recommend hi:n to keep a guard upon his language, for " out of his own mouth will he be con deinned"--the false apostate. Frankfort Papers to the 26th September are received this day. Their contents are unimportant. The follow ing are extracts : MUNSTER, Sm. 17. A lawsuit which has been pending for several years, and which from its importance has excited universal attention, is at length decided. On the 74th September, 1821, Prince Emilio. of Ben. theim Pecklenburg.lpresented a memorial to the Tribunal of the Province, in which he required that " Prince Alexis of Bentheim should be sentenced to deliver up to him, the plaintiff, the county of Steinfurt, with aU its dependencies; and the other ancient possessions of the family of Bentheim, situated in the Prussian dominions; and also in the juris diction of the Tribunal, &c." The plaintiff grounded. his claim on a derogatory marriage, alleged to have been contracted in 1661, and on a supposed compact. By a sentence passed on 2.5 d August, 1825, by the tribunal at Munster, the plaintiff'. claim was declared to be unfounded, and be was adjudged to ply the costs. Prince Binning having appealed, obtained a decision in his favour, 28th August, 1897. Against this the Prince of Ben. theim appealed to the Supreme Tribunal at Betlin, which decreed, " That the first sentence, of 234 August, 1825, should be re-esta blished. This sentence was published here on the 11th, and arrived the same day at Steinfurt, the residence of the Prince of Benthebn, where the inhabitants expressed their joy in the most unequivocal manner at the agreeable news.—Fsenifies Papers, Sep. ILL SMYRNA, Aua. 16. The Courier de Sosyrne gives a letter from Argos of 3d inst. which says—the Speech of the President. in opening the National Assembly, may be reduced to the following phrase Gentlemen, I may perhaps allow you to busy yourselves about certain affairs ; but, for the present, you will let me do everything. Myself and you will not forget, that the only use you are to make of your full powers, is, to put them into my hands." " The Assembly answered in the most complaisant manner, and placed all the power in his bands, with a degree of liberality of which the Danish histayaleste affords an example. Nobody ven tured to speak on the most ailing subject, and all oppo si tion to the will of the President hu vanished. _ " His Exeenency Hassan Padre. our Governor, set out yester day morning. A detachment of add artillery, with the gunner, and a strong detachment of regular troops, in blue uniforms, had set out at ten o'clock. At eleven the train quitted the Palace in the following order : The remainder of the regiment in bine nai -1 form, to the number of one hundred men ; Ave !kindred regular infantry in red uniforms, preceded by drummers, fifets, and a band of music, in the European fashion ; 400 irregular infantry, the Boehm standard of three tails, with a guard preceded by a stan dard of white satin; a squadron of regular cavalry, in purple uni form, and perfectly well equipped. His Excellency Hassan Pasha, in military costume, preceded and followed by all the Turkish au thorities of the city. Among them we remarked Omer Effendi, the receiver of the public revenue. The principal persons of the Greek communion, several dragomans, and many persons belong ing to the European Consulates, joined the procession. Lastly came Hadji Bey, who has for many years acted with indefatigable seal as chief of the police. He was at the head of a strong de tachment of irregular cavalry. On the 14th a column of 1,600 irregular infantry and 800 cavalry left the city. The remainder of the troops, that his Ex cellency is to assemble under his command, is stationed all along the road as far as Magnesia. A considerable number of persons of all nations filled the road, from the palace of the Pacha to the baths of Diana, a distance of pearly three miles. The good wishes of all accompanied the respectable Vizier, who will be so much regretted here, and whose dignified air and affectionate salutation called to mind the noble affability which he showed to all who waited on him. It was curious and affecting to see the numerous groups of Turkish women, covered with long veils, whose modest costume could not hide their tears, which they hardly •erstured to wipe away. " The departure of his Excellency was announced by the guns of the fortress, and when be mounted his horse and displayed his standard, the French brig of war saluted him with 13 pmts."— Frankfors Papers. CITY. Twn.vg oTt.ocz. Consols, which left off yesterday at 891 j for the Account, opened at 854 to , and for November Account 89!. sellers, without the least business doing. In tie Foreign Market they are as idle as in the British Market : prices are nominal as per yesterday. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 891 sellers for the Account, and 89k for the November Account, without any signs of business. Consols for Account, 891, sellers ; for November, 89k. Three failures are announced this day—one in the sugar line, a wholesale grocer, and a merchant. When alarm was excited, many weeks ago, on account cf the orders to prepare the Britannia and Gloucester for the Mediterranean, we stated-that those ships were merely to replace the Spartiate and Ocean, whose time of foreign service had expired : in confirmation of our statement, orders have just been received at Portsmouth and Ply mouth, to prepare to receive the Ocean and Spartiate in November, and to place tlicia in ordinary on their arrival. Accounts received from New York by the last arrivals, state that a draft of 1000 seamen had been recently made there, from which number the crew of the United States ship Ohio, fitting out for the Mediterranean station, is to b selected. Owing to the great demand for seamen in the mercantile service, the American Government has laboured under considerable embarrassment in procuring suitable seamen for vessels of war. It appears that the schemers employed in the African slave trade from the Island of Cuba, enter the American ports, ostensibly in distress, as vessels engaged in the gold and ivory com merce, and obtain such supplies as are had at a cheaper rate in the United States than at Cuba. It appears that there are nine banks in the city of New York, which, according to their own reports of February and March, 1828, have together issued notes to the amount of 3,085,804 dollars, payable on demand in specie, and that the amount of specie in the banks for the re demption thereof was only 945,829 dollars, being seven dollars in paper for one of specie. The bank of the United States and branches, 22 in number, have issued notes to the amount of 24,139,175 dollars, and have specie in the banks to the amount of 5,815,821 dollars. Letters from Virginia, of the 28th August, state, that the quantity of rain which has fallen there exceeds am thing recollected by the oldest inhabitants ; that some of the rivulets were so swollen as to carry away the houses on the banks, and in the Toguier country the waters are said to have risen 30 feet ! The stone bridge at Buckland, with its heavy stone abutment, were carried away. The Augusta Courier, of the 13th September, says, that on Tuesday night last an incendiary attempt was made on the city, by setting fire to a lot of cotton, ' which was fortunately discovered in time, and the city saved from destruction. It is not only the bad weather which causes a gloom in the Consol Market this morning, but we are also de prived, to the present hour, of any information from the theatre of war. Private accounts yesterday, from Paris, state that the French Government were in hourly expec tation of a telegraphic dispatch, with the result of the signing of the Preliminaries in the East. Therefore it is not supposed that we shall remain many hours without some official information on the above subject. We have no arrivals of the least consequence ; not even a ship letter has come to hand. The funds are damped this morning in consequence of a considerable failure in the mercantile line ; and we are sorry to say that more are expected. The house alluded to is an old established one in the colonial trade. The private letters from Liverpool received this morn ing say, that the state of credit generally is depressed there to a lower degree than ever it has as yet been, and that unless a very extraordinary change takes place, great mischief must arise in the commercial concerns. Large sales of cotton took place during the week, owing to speculations being entered into on the short supplies from America. A Medical Officer writes from Jamaica, under date of the 9th August, that the fever had entirely disap peared, both from amongst the troops and vessels of war. February and March were the two worst months. The ship Harlequin was entirely abandoned. Accounts from Lisbon say, that Don MIGUEL has deferred his vengeance against Terceira until next spring; when he is determined to act as High Admiral of the fleet in the operations against that island! The winter assemblies commenced Wednesday se'nnight at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, and was graced by all the rank, beauty, and fashion, of these towns avid neighbourhood. Among the distinguished company pre sent were—the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Brownlow, the Earl of Northesk, Lords Valletort and Borringdon, Sir Digory Forest, Sir John Sinclair and Lady, Hon. Mrs. Pole Carew and family, Lady Lopez, John Bulteel, Esq., Lady Elizabeth Bul ted, and Miss Bulteel, Sir William and Lady Louisa Call and the Misses Call, Sir John and Lady Cameron, Mrs. and the Misses Morehead, Hon. Mr. Carnegie, Capt. Cameron, A. D.C., A. Harris, Feq, and family, Commissioner Roes and family, Capt. Clifford, Major and Mrs. Booth, Major Elliot, R. Freeman, Esq., the Mayor of Plymouth and family, Captain Wise, the Mayor elect and family, Captain Lockyer, R. N. and family, Edmund Lockyer, Esq., Captain Pym, R. N. and family, the Misses Gennys, Mr. and Mrs. Hope and family, of Trenant Park, S. Trelawney, Feq. and family, the heads of the principal Government depart• ma n ta a t this port, Officers of the Army, Navy, and Royal Maim, &c. &c. • THE KING WINDSOR, OCT. 3.—His MAJESTY has, during the late inviting and cheerful weather, taken nearly to o hours additional exercise daily, varying his drives alter nately, chiefly in the vicinity of Virginia Water, Belvi dere, the Great Park, &c. Monday last Prince ESTE:: tia.zY arrived at the Royal Lodge, on a visit to his MAJESTY, with whom he had the honour of dining and passing the evening. Tuesday his Highne s s. after taking leave of his MAJESTY, left the Royal Lodge on his return to town. Wednesday forenoon the Earl of ABERDEEN arrived at the Royal Lodge, where he was introduced to his. MAJESTY, and his Lordship was honoured with a long private at:- dience. Shortly after Mr. PEEL, arrived, and had als.) the honour of a long audience of the KING, when the above respective Cabinet Ministers, after partaking of some light refreshment, left the Royal Lodge on their return to town. This day, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, his MAJESTY did not leave the Royal Lodge. It is now well known from experience that the Royal Lodge is very damp, owing to the humid swampy soil upon which it is erected; it had been long ascertained, that, although on a rising acclivity, the ground was of a swampy nature ; but that idea was se• at nought by the intervention of the agents em ployed, representing that the constructing of cdi dent drains would answer the purpose of keeping the surface dry, and preventing damp ; but it is ev:- dent that these stratagems had not the desired effect, or never will, where the ground is of the nature show, described. Temporary improvements have been latterly making on the west and east side of the Royal Lodge, by cutting down the trees surrounding it on the above sides, in order to afford a more thorough air in admitting the sun, and so keeping the surface of the ground dry. Ad ditional walks have been laid out, and other alterations making on the above site, which it is expected will he a great improvement. His Majesty, I am happy to say, enjoys excellent health. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at their seat, Sothic!) House, Lincolushire, from Newmarket ; the Marchioness Dowager of Lansdown, Mrs. Mellish, and Miss Giffard, in Albemarle. street, from Surrey ; the Earl of Ferrer., in Harley-street, front Staunton Harold ; Lord Saye-and-Sele, in Grosvenor-street, from Belvidere Park ; Viscount Templetown and the Hon. Miss Upton, from Stapleton Park, Yorkshire, to the Hon. Colonel Howard's seat, Levens, near Milnthorpe,Westmoreland; Count Matucsewits, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Lane Fox, for the Earl of Harewood's seat, Harewood House, Yorkshire; Mr. J. Smith, in Belgrave square ; Capt. Fraser, in Pail-mall, from the lonian Islands; Major and Mrs. Wharton, for Brighton ; Capt. Heron, from Houndow, for Dublin ; Lieut.-Colonel Brodrick, from the Isle of Wight, to Brighton ; Major Felix Ramsay, in Ciarges-street ; Major Mu well, for Canterbury; Ueut.-Cal. Montresor, for Dublin; Mrs. Dyneley and family, in Manchester-square, from Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Pownall, in Grosvenor-street, from the Continent; Capt. and Mrs. Ramsey, in Harley street, from Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith, at Talke's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street. front Dublin ; Walter }lore, Esq. and the Ladies Stopford, from Spumoni's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's -street, for Ports mouth ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morris, from the British Hotel, Jer myn-street, for their seat in Essex ; William Hicks, Esq. from ditto, for Bath; J. Wadi, Esq. at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur street, from Dublin; H. Brown, Esq . at ditto, from East Sheen , J. Anwyl, Esq. from ditto, from the Isle of Wight ; J. Trevelyan, Esq. from ditto, for Bristol ; B. Hlnde, Esq. from ditto, for Dub lin ; Col. Dickens, from ditto, for Hastings. The Princess AUGUSTA left her residence at Frog-more Lodge, on Thursday morning, on a visit to her sister, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER at her seat in Bagshot Park. ' The Austrian Ambassa dor, the Spanish Minister, and the French Charge d'Affaire s, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign Office. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived in town yesterday evening from Apthorpe, near Wandsford, Northampton shire, where his Grace has been staying in company with some Noblemen and Gentlemen on a visit to the Earl of WESTMORLAND. Orders have been received at his MAJESTY'S Pavil lion at Brighton to have the Palace in readiness for the reception of his MAJESTY by the 10th of the present month. The Earl of ABERDEEN entertained the Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY, the Countess of VERU LAM, and a select party, to dinner on Thursday, at Argyll-house. TUE EARL or ERROL. —This much esteemed Nobleman has been extremely ill since Monday morning, having been suddenly attacked by violent pain and in flammation in the ear and face, which occasioned his being confined to bed. The liberality of the Duke of BEDFORD towards Covent Garden Theatre, sets a noble example to the No bility of this country, his Grace having yesterday, in the most handsome manner, transmitted £l,OOO to Mr. KEMBLE, towards relieving the Theatre from its present The Earl and Countess of HA RCOVRT are at present on a visit at Swinton Park, near Masham, the seat of tiler relative, WILLIAM Dix BY, Esq. The Hon. GEORGE and Lady GEORGIAN A AGA u. ETA's have arrived at Harewood House, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of HAREWOOD, from the Earl of CARLISLE'S, Castle Howard. His Grace the Arch bishop of YORK has also been on a visit at Harewood during the last week. The MASTER of the ROLLS is at Brighton. The Learned Judge's health is said to be much improved. Sir CHARLES MORGAN, Bart. with two of his sons, arrived at his house in Brecon, on Friday last, to be pre sent at the races there, which commenced on Wednesday. REPRESENTATION OF SOMERSET. — E. A. SAND FORD, Esq. of Nynehead Court, has addressed the elec tors of Somerset, offering himself as a candidate for their suffrages at the next election of members for that county. The rumour that MONTAGUE GORE, Esq. nephew of Colonel GORE LANGTON, intended to offer himself, is, we understand, without foundation. Lord Viscount GORT, is perfectly recovered from his late illness. His Excellency Sir R. W. O'Callaghan, K.C.B. Colonel Tidy, C.B. and some gentlemen from the War Office, have proceeded to Aberdeen Fort George, &c. to examine the books of the regiments stationed in the north of Scotland. In the course of last week Lord Melville inspected the Western Breakwater connected with the new naval Yard at Leith. This work is making great progress, and will soon afford considerable shelter to the entrance of the harbour on the westward, as the Eastern Pier is now affording in the opposite direction. Mention was made a few days ago, that there was some prospect of the long talked of monument to the memory of the Duke of YORK being at length likely to be erected in Edinburgh. There is another monument, the idea of which is even of longer standing than his Royal High ness's, and for which the means have long ago been accu mulated ; namely, that voted by the members of the Pitt Club to the memory of that great Statesman. About 12 months ago Mr. Gine of Aberdeen offered to excavate a column of Aberdeen granite, in one solid stone of 110 feet in height, for the sum of 2,0001.