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w ' -) t ~ '. , John Couplaq.and Charles Bromley, proprietors and publishers of the Southamptap Herald newspaper. Peter Smith Payne and Richard Alven,Vaewkerne, Semersetshire, dealers. Edward Cow ling and Thomas Cundall Hammond, Richmond, Yorkshire, clock and watt% makers, working silversmiths, and jewellers. General Weekly Average of the Price of British Corn, tibia governs Importation, made up to the 29th of July. Wheat 1695. Id, I Oats 275. ad. I- Beans +75. 3J.. Barley 325. 4d. Rye 425. I Peas 495. 7d. The Average Price of Brown or Muscavado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the 2d day of August, 1826, is 295. 11d /. per cwt. etclu.ive of the duties of Cus toms paider payable thereon on the thipOrtation ther..a. COLOMBIA. The following are the principal articles of the Dectee which pas s ed the Colombian Congress on the 19th of May last, for consolidating the whole debt of the Re public, boils foreign and domestic, and for providing for the payment of the interest : A RT. I. The Colombian Republic recognizes as national debts:- 1. The sum of 2,000,000:. sterling, contracted in the name of the Republic at Paris by Francisco Antonio Zea, in March, 1822, without prejudice to the duties belonging to the Republic, for the liquidation which the law of the Ist -of July, 1823, ordered. The sum of 4,750,0001. sterling, contracted in Calais on the 14th of April, 1824, by Manuel Antonio Arrublas and Francisco Montoya.-3. The sum explained and liquidated by the Com mission of Liquidation, established in this capital, and which up to this day amounts to 1,181,470 dollars and 78 reals and the sum which may subsequently be explained and liquidated by the same commission conformable to the law on the subject.-4. The sum of 814,710 dollars, which was contracted and is unpaid, in virtue of the loan decreed by the law of the 25d of July, 1823, year 13, ro cover the military furnishing fur the troops and officers of Apure; and the sum which Will be contracted for the perfect fulfilment of the said law.-5. The sum which remains unsatisfied Of the 5,458,600 dollars for military property, which, according to the law of the 28th of September,lB2l, year 11, which was declared to the servants of the Republic, aid what further may hereafter be de clared in virtue of the said law.-6. The sum which may exist without payment of the half of the allowances withheld from the civil and military servants of the Republic, by the decree of the Pet sideut Liberator, of .the 14th September, 1819, of which sum the Secretary of Finance shall render an account to the next Con gress, in the first days of its sitting. - 7. The sum arising from the third of the pay, withheld from the same persons by the law of the Bth of October, 1821, year 11, of which suns the Secretary of Fi nance shall have to render an account to the next Congress, in the tirst days of its sitting. Alt I I. It is declared—l. That the foreign debt mentioned in 1 and 2 of the preceding article has yielded, and shall yield, the in. serest of six pet cent. per annum, stipulated in the respective con. tracts.-2. That the debts mentioned in numbers 3 and 4, which have yielded five per cent. per annum since they were contracted, shall yield the same in future. But the debts of the same number 3, on which a less or no interest has been paid, shall in future yield five per cent. per annum, from the date of the inscription in the great book of the national debt —3. That the debts mentioned in numb: is 5,6, and 7. shall bear an interest of three per cent. per annum, from the first of July of the present year 1826. Art. 111. For the regular payment of the interest, and gradual ! redemption of the foreign debt, the following resources are spe cially appropriated :-1. All the clear produce of the revenues of tobacco.-2. One-eighth of the produce of the customs.-3. The whole produce of uncultivated lands which may be sold or let.-4. The whole produce arising from the sale or farming of the mines of every kind of metal belonging to the Republic. Att. IV. The following are especially appropriated to the pay ment of the domestic debt :-1. The revenue arising from the mortgages, and sequestrated or confiscated property not yet adjudi cated ; and the revenue arising from the property sequestrated or confiscated by the laws of October 1, 1821, year 11 ; and the 29th of July, 1824, year 14.-2. The revenue arising from the property of Majurats, which, conformable to the law of theist of July, year 14, are to be included in the national property.-3. The revenue 6f the lands and other property within the territory of the Repub lic, and which, under any title whatever, belonged to the Republic as national property.-4. The revenue of property and temporalities which have not been alienated or adjudicated.-5. The revenue of the property belonging to the extinct Inquisition which may not yet be transferred or adjudicated.-6. The revenues arising from mortgages on real propetiy condemned, and which may be realised in troney.-7. The clear produce of the sealed paper, and the fines which arise from the infraction of the law, regulating its use.-8., The produce arising from the notification of hypothics, and of the registration of deeds and titles.-9. The produce of the duty on. auctions or sales.-10. The ninth of the tithes which were to be consolidated.-11. Ten per cent. on all municipal revenues.-12. That part of the 'tithes allotted to dignitaries, canonships, preben daries, and deaneries, which may be vacant, or shall become vacant in the different cathedrals of Colombia.-13. The fines liable to be paid for infraction of conditions, under which exclusive privileges ! have been granted—or for the non-fulfilment of contractseoncladed with the executive powers.-14. The revenues and property for- silkily appropriated to the Caw of Nobles at Madrid. Art. V. For the redemption of the capital of the domestic debt are exclusively appropriated the produce of the sale of all the landed property mentioned in Article IV. in Nos. 1,2, 3,4, and 5, solely , excepting the property sequestrated in virtue of the laws of the Ist of October, 192.1, and 519th of July, 1824. Art. VI. To the funds for the foreign debt accrue all the sur pluses appropriated to the payment of the interest of the domestic debt, the same being satisfied. Art. VII. The special appropriation of the said revenues and property, for the payment of the interest and gradual extinction of the national debt, does not do away with the obligation by which all the other revenues of the Republic are hound to make good the deficit which may arise after the above appropriation, because all these revenues are declared to he pledged for the debt. Ait. XIV. The Commission of National Credit shall annually render an account of all its proceedings, shewhig in detail the state of the national debt, the receipts of the funds at its disposal for the fulfilment of this law, their application, and the improvements re. lative so the national debt, which its knowledge and experience may suggest. Art. XV. The Commission shall also present to the Congress, on its next meeting, a particular account of all the landed property appropriated to the payment of the debt, and of its value, in order that the Congress may determine on its sale, when, and in what planner, it may think proper. Art. XVI. 'the Commission shall also annually submit all its books and documents to the examination of the Chamber of Re presentatives, thruugh the medium of a Committee or Committees appointed fur that purpose by the Chamber, and composed of its own members. Art. XVI I. Among the books of account which the Commission may think fit to keep, there shall be one entitled " The Great Sub iddiary Book of the National Debt," in which shall be individually entered all the items of the different kinds of debt which are by this law recognised as national, and also those which may be extinguished. this book shall be annually presented, to be tiansctibcd into the grand hook mentioned in Article 8. Art. XXIII. All the bonds issued in Colombia for the debt already liquidated, until the 30th of June of the present year, shall bear the date of July, and the Commission of National Credit, at the moment of renewing the bonds, which may have been issued by the Minister of Finance, shall add to the capital the interest arising on the said bonds till the 30th of June of the present year. Art. XX IV. To facilitate the reckueing aid payment of the interest of the current debt, which is not liquidated, the account shall be made up to the last day of December, atiteriur and next to that in which the liquidation is to lie elh.ctetl. Art XXVI. The interest due., or which may hereafter become due, on the debt contracted in Europe, as well as the kinds destined for its gradtial extinction, shall be paid at the periods and in the place stipulated at the contract. Fur this purpose the counniesiun of national credit shall place at the disposal ut the Executive Go. vet i.ment these sums, and those mentiuned in Art. ii, in order that the payment may be opportunely readaed without any other appli cation being made of the said sums. Art. XXVI I. The lute-rest upon the domestic debt, from the I fir.t of July to the present year, shall be paid half-yearly dining the thirty days ot the mouths of January and July; but the first pay. seem shall be made ia the course of the thirty days of the month of July, 1827. Art. XXVI 11. In order that the interest of the domestic debt may be punctually paid, and false bonds at the same time detected anti marked, the holders of bonds shall deliver, from the year IVO forward. to the commission of credit, or to persons appointed by it for making payments between the 19th and 20th of June and the ' 19th and loth December, correct Hats of the bonds which they hold, -prettying the value, number, and mark of each. • Art. XXIX. On the payment of the interest of the last half ! year, there shall be requited from the holder of the bond which has been presented, a precise and circumstantial account of its number; and if tluring ten successive years the interest be not dentauded, the same shall remain in the Ka-public. ' ' Art. X LVII. The law of the 28th of September, 1821, and any' other laws, in so far as they may be conttary to the present, are abrogated • &goal, May 19.1826. •, Lois A. BA RALT, President of the Senate. Lots VARGAS MAMA Secretary of the Senate. Lam4sao &EA, Vice -President of the Chamber of Repre sentatives. • MARIAN/ Mmo. Secretary for the Chamber. Palace of the Government, May 27. FRANCISCO OR P. SANTANDA Vice-President of the Tfeptiblici Joss ?d. Dm. CASTILLO, Secretary of State for Finance. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1826. . STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off yes terday, 79.1 to i for the Account; soon after they.becatne byers at 791, ate/filch price several lots were done : since which the market has receded to the opening price, with a firm appearance. Money is so plentifulthat the Bankers are everywhere in search for good hills to discount at 2/ to 3 per Cent. Consols have just fallen to 78/ 79. The Foreign Market remains steady, with little doing at present. Current prices : Old Spanish 91 10, Mexican 531 Colomkian 35 #. Russian 84 b, Brazilian Shares IS 16 piem. Brazilian Bonds 60 61, Greek 12. Exchequer Bills 18 to 20 prem. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, which were in the earlier part of the morning at 79i to *, have since receded to 784, owing to a reaction having taken place,, supposed in consequence of some of the parties having realised. Up to the present time Consols may be quoted at 781 j for the Ac count, and for Money the same as for time ; and th• Market looking rather heavy. We can state, from a goad source, that the next Quarter's Revenue, up to the present time, is very productive, although it will prove a heavy Quarter. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 200 202% S per Cent. Bed. 79 5 4 V 4 3 per Cent. Consols 79 1 / 4 78% 3i per Coil. Bed. 86% 1 h 4 per Cent.. 943. t 14 4 per Cent. 1826, 95 Long Ann. 19 1 4 .5 16 New Annuities 78% £l,OOO Exchey. Bills 21 18 £5OO ditto 21 18 £lOO and £2OO ditto 21 18 Cons. for Account 79 1 / 4 78% FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Colombian Bonds I Peruv. 1 . 3da..4 p C._27 Do. Bonds, 1824, 35 Danibb Ponds, 3 pCt. 571 Ditto for Acc. 27 Una. Ms, 1822, 8 p C. 84 3a a ___ Vv. Acc. 58/ 71 Ditto Acct. 841 Greek 800da.1825, Sp C. 13 Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 10 Ditto Acct. 121 15 Span. sp. C. 182.3, 7 Mex. lids 1825, 6p. Ct. 536 k I Ditto Acct. . 50 French !denies, 3 p C. 86f 50c Mex. Acct. 531 I I a Exchange, 25f 60c URITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. SRA %IL TA in. Brazilian 100 15 351 Castello & Espirito Santo 100 5 31 Haytien 100 5 I / Real del Monte 400 400 330 United Alezican 40 221 131 Alliance British & For. 100 10 7 Continental Gas 100 $ 11 General Steam Navigation 100 10 41 FRENCH FUNDS, Non, AUGUST 3. Five per Cents. . I uOf. 15c. . . Three per Cents. . . . 60. Renteide Nap's* Spanish Bona - rszchange,at Three Months Money • • ' 72f. 23c. - 6f. 25f. 65c. $5l. 50c. The German Papers received this morning are bar ren of leading political information. We subjoin an article from Berlin, in the Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 29th ult. on the report of the Russian conspiracy. The tower of the Town Hall, at Limberg, fell op the 14th ult. and killed several persons, but the damage was not so extensive as might have been anticipated. The ac counts of the harvest generally, and the vintages in par ticular, are very favourable. BERLIN, JILT 22. Our Journals now publish at full length the report of the Russian conspiracy. The perusal of it, independent of its horrible contents, makes a disagreeable impression; it shews, in the clearest light, how low the conspirators are in the scale of intellectual knowledge. 'lite sight of simple ignorance is tolerable, but it appears in this ' instance mixed with shreds of heterogenous civilisation, patched together as a dress to adorn the awkward barbarian. Nothing can be more disjointed, more wicked, and more ridicu lous than these plans; nothing more shocking than these repeated projects of assassination. But it seems quite out of the way to connect, as some persons are "posed to do, this Russian conspiracy with the revolutionary intrigues in Germany. If inexperienced youths have formed childish projects in Germany, no man of any weight has taken part in these plans, and nowhere can there be any notion of actual danger, But in Russia the conspiracy has been formed among the great Nobility, and must be founded on something else than merely ac quired opinions. The activity of the Russsian Commission of en quiry deserves all praise, it has accomplished in six months what would hardly have been done in Germany in six years. By the Penelope, ariived in the Clyde, Trinidad Papers and Letters have been received to the 13th June. A general meeting of the inhabitants had been called for the 24th, in order to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Imperial Parliament on the subject of the late laws enforced in that colony, connected with the slave population. We have received French Papers to the 3d instant, and the Eloik of Thursday. The latter contains in telligence from St. Petersburgh, which states that sen tence was to be passed upon the convicted conspirators on the Tld of July. The Russian Plenipotentiaries had arrived at Ackerman as early as the 3d of July, but those from Turkey had not yet made their appea•ance, which confirms the statement of the Journal des Mats, that they had been prevented by the Janissaries in arms in the provinces from proceeding to their destination. His Royal Highness the Duke ot Yonx took his daily drive in the morning frum 11r. GRICENWOOD'S villa at Btompton, through St. James's Park, &c. in his cabriolet. Yesterday morning the Duke of WELLINGTON ar rived in town from a visit to the KING at the Itny..l Lodge. in Wind sor Park. His Grace afterwards transacted business at the Ord- nice Office. Mr , . CANNING has been incli.iposed for some days past, and has been attended by Sir MArvnew TIERNIY. Mr. ATABAYENA, Minister tram the Emperor of Bum, transacted business yesterday with Mr. Secretary Cat:lunch at his office, in Downing -street. BRIGII TON, AUG. 3..rhe Fancy Articles' Fair of the District Society, devoted to the cause of benevolence, was elegantly attended at the Old Ship Rooms yesterday. The aggre gate of the general proceeds was 124t.--F.ast Lodge, the, seat ut the Hari of I•iaattatOui, has beets the scene of refined hospitality for several dayspast. GLASGOW, Avous! THE LINEN BOUNTY. It baa often been justly remarked that our brethren on the North of the Tweed are a little too auldfor us, and this has been pretty evident elate in regard to the bounty on linens. . As the law now stands, linens under the 'Value of sd. per yard get the bounty of a halfpet•.ny per yard, from sd. to 6d. they get Id. from 6d. to Is. 6d. the bounty is lid. all subject to a deduction of 20 per cent. The depressed state of trade having brought the article of Osna burgh from 61. to 41 they are, by law, entitled only to the lowes t bounty; but Satoney turned them all into .No 10 annum, and shipped every piece in Great Britain, prior to the sth ultimo, at a bounty of 241. per ell, free of all deduction. It is a little strange that he did not think of shipping Highland plaiding as No. 10, canvass, and c laiming the bounty on it: He did, however, ship a kind of pack sheet, called Hessians, as canvass, worth about 4ad. to 41d. per yard. New Wistax.—Harvest proceeds rapidly in every quarter, and from no part of the kingdom, some districts of Scotland excepted, do we hear of any aerious fears of the general results of the crop. On the contrary, iH England and in Ireland, every account speaks about a fair crop of different kinds of grain, while the wheat crop is every where represented as abundant in quantity and excellent in quality. On Tuesday last, 144 bolls new wheat, mill free, were delivered at the Incorporation of Bakers Mills, Partick. The quality we have seen, and it is excellent. Last year, the first new wheat delivered at the same mills did not make its appearance till :he 25th August, so that the harvest in the present season is just so many days earlier. Several hundreds of shearers appeared at our Cross on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, n ..st of whom were hired. Wages ran front 2s. to 2s. 4d. EDINBURGH, AUGUST 3. A party of Gentlemen, who are warm admirers of our late poet Robert Ferguson, celebrated his anniversary by a dinner, in Ilep burn's Tavern, High street, on Monday. The glass and song went round, many appropriate toasts were drank, and the social spirit was kept up unabated till a late hour. Monday night, betwixt ten and eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in the attic story of that large tenement at the foot of the Whale Brae, Newhaven, the greater part of which was occupied by Mr. Macintyre, as the Britannia Inn. The flames spread rapidly to the lower story, and by twelve o'clock the whole tenement was in one complete blase, which had a most terrific effect reflected upon the water in the Firth. The engines from Leith, &c. were soon on the spot ; and au engine from Edinburgh, placed in the sea, soon had a powerful effect. By these means, and the wind being from the west, the lames were prevented from communicating to the adjoin ing houses. The fire was not, however, completely extinguished till four o'clock next morning, when the whole tenement, the walls 'excepted, was consumed. By this calamity six poor families, who occupied the upper part of the house, are rendered destitute. BROADSTAIRS, AUGUST 4. The following are among the late arrivah at this place; Lord Teynham and family, Lord Henley, Captain Henniker, Misses Petree, Mr. Robarts, Mr. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Rothery, Mr. Penfold, Rev. W. Bennet. Mr. and Mrs. Burmester, Mr. and Mrs. Tyburn Pares, Mr. and Miss Harber, Mrs. Davis, Miss Simmons, Mr. Ricmondie, Mr. (sway Cave, Captain Otway Cave, Mrs. and Miss Simpson, Miss Viper, Miss AlacLinnin, Miss Austin, Mr. and Mrs, Eylon, Miss Radcliffe, Rev. IL B. Radcliffe, Mrs. St. Georgia, Hon. Mrs. Si. Georgic), Mr. Inchbald, Mr. H. Blanchard, Mr. Bednell and family, Mrs. Fdllowes, Mrs. aercuty and family. A more decided preference never was shown in favour of this most delightful little place than among the fashionable world here at present. COLCHESTER, AUGUST 4. Monday, about ten o'clock, a storm of lightning and thunder passed ever Chelmsford. The lightning was vivid, and the thunder was loud and awful. In Danbury Park, the electric Isdd struck a large oak tree standing by the side of the great road ; the bark was stripped of, and the tree shivered in a surprising manner; an elm tree near was also much injured. Immediately after the tree re ceived the shock, the inhabitants of its vicinity were seen scrambling for the fragments.—At Ingatestone, the electric matter was re markably forked, and the thunder resembled the rattling of artil lery. Mr. Coverdale, of Ingatestone Hall, appears to have bad Very narrow escape. He was measuring timber with some esi r t e pemen in a wood belonging to Lord Petre, and had just left a tree under which they had been shekering, when it was obi- Vered to atoms. Two trees were also much damaged at Iluttsbury. At Malden, a young man, son of Mr. Demaid, of South House, was stacking wheat with his father, a lash of lightning struck him, andise called out, "Oh! my eyes." He worked fora few moments atter this, and then fell upon his back, ea if dead ; his distressed panel, with some of the labourers, lifted him up, under a full con viction of his being a corpse, and carried him home. After some time be recovered, but in complete darkness. The poor lad remains in this gloomy state, but his medical attendant flatten him with a chance of the restoration of one eye. CANTERBURY, Auourr 4. The weather has been so favourable For the operations of the Harvest, that the Wheat crop is generally secured in this neighbour hood in the best condition ; and from the information we can col lect, it is above an average crop, but not quite se fine in quality as the crop of last year. A great quantity of the Spring corn is also well housed,which is considered, from the long drought, to be below an average crop, particularly Beans and Pease, which will be found very deficient. The Hop Plantations are generally very promising in appearance. A ludicrous affair occurred with one of the Margate coaches the other evening :—An unpleasant intruder in hot weather having been placed on the coach, from the excessive heat of the weather, could no .longer contain itself, when the ivhule contents of a large cask of yeast were soon exploded among the passengers, to the great annoyance and distress of many fair damsels, who were completely bespattered and clothed with the distracted element. IPSWICH. A VOUXT 4. .r.-. CONSISTORY COURT OF NORWICH. CUFFLEY, THE WIFE U. CUFFLEY, THE HUSBAND. This was a case of divorce a mensa et thoro, by reason of cruelty and adultery, promoted by Mrs. Sarah Ann Cuilley against her husband, John Robert Cuffiey. The case on the part of the complainant set forth acts of violence committed by the husband, which a ere proved by the testimony of the female servants, who lived with the parties from or about the time of the marriage in February, 1821, until the time of the separation of the parties,in December, 1822. Evidence was also adduced of adultery committed by the husband. The Court gave judgment for the complainant, and decreed a di vorce a mensa et thoro, as prayed by Mrs Cuffiey, and condemned the defendant in costs. The Chancellor, in delivering judgment, recapitulated the depositions of the several witnesses, and decided that the complainant had fully established the charge of cruelty, and that the charge of adultery was so sufficiently made out as to entitle the complainant to the redress for which she 'applied to the Court. He also decided that the defend ant had failed in proving the charge of adultery alleged by him against . the complainant, and stated that with respect to the evidence of William Keeble, he must put that out of consideration, for it was clear that he was the mere tool of the defendant, and his testimony was so improbable as to entitle him to no credit, and de clared he fek no doubt whatever in his own mind of the justice of the sentence he pronounced, that Mrs. Cuffity was entitled to the divorce for which she prayed. The Gentleman who tougni a tidal duel on the verge of Windsor Forest, on Saturday last, turns out be a Mr. Cosirrox, who lived retired at Benfield Heath, Berk:, near where the duel took place. The accounts from the country continue to be fa vourable- ThiS day being the commencement of the oyster sea sons the streets and lanes in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate, at a very early hour, presented an animated scene, front the im mense number of persons assembled for the purpose of procuring the oysters. At the ringing of the market-bell for breaking bulk, the ru,h to get on board the boats was tremendous ; five men and two women fell overboard, bat all were picked up except one man. The average Wee of oysters is 16s. a bushel. TUE ARMY. One troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards has been ordered front Manchester to Dudley, and another troop of the same corps t o Wolverhampton. The Depot of the 35th Foot. from Winchester, is to be stationed at Fort Monckton, near Gosport, till further orders. A Detachment belonging to the 90th Regiment of. Infantry em. barked, yesterday morning, on board a vessel in the River, - cra route to Carlisle. A Detachment belonging to the 135 d Regiment of Foot embarked yesterday norrning, On hoard a vessel it] the Rive., for Tyneruouth. NAVAL IN 1 ELLIGENCE. Arrived off the Wight, the West India Packet, R1V.01.011 from Jamaica. The Martha, FIDLER, from Whiteheren to Cardiff, struck on Arklovr Bank on Mon.lay morning, and tilled with water. Paulen:it. Aucurr 3.—Wind N.— Arrived the Eliza and Jape d Vivra, from Jersey. Sailed the Barbadoee, Let, for Quebec. AUOUsT Z.— WiDO W.--Arrived the transport 20, from Portsmouth. The brogan tender, Lieutenant Beeman, nailed on Teeadat for Liverpool. The Pzwaus, 18, Capt. 11. E. NAPIER, IS ordered to be fitted for foreign service—it is suprosed fur the Mediterranean. PoarsMQuTls, Auoun 4.Nand S.E.—Arrived the Brandi, TAYLOR, and Abeona, Wassail, from Riga; Four Brothers,. from Dantzic ; and the Wm.r cutter, from a cruize. Sailed Lis Majesty's ship BLONDR, on a cruize. Dam., AUGUST 4.—Wind E.N.E.—Passed through for the Ri ver, the Essex, BARCLAY, from the South SCas.9.4, full ship; left Stollelena the Ist of June. The Portsea, LAMP, from Bengal, passed the Island about the same time. Spoke the Wellington, SMITH, from Madras, in lat. 39. N. long. 56. W.—Sailed the Regent. packet,. Cowin. for Barcelona. GRATURND, AUGUST 3.—Arrived the Brantley, Barns, from Constantinople; Glenbtrvie, Wools. from Hamburgh ; Ceres, WA • LIES. and Experiment, BATMAN, from Eatbden; Staff of fife, Barnes, from Dantzic ; Nancy, Tolima, from Dunkirk ; ind the Majestic, GLocxt.iNn, from Norway. Livenroot., Moor 3.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the golden Fleece, —, and Alice, FRANCIS, from Macaio ; Panmure, LIAMS, and Isabella, —, &pm New Orleans; Amaion, lixowza, and Friends, CLARK, from Quebec ; Lord Exmouth, ---, and Duxhury. Jonzs,frout Newfoundland; and the Fletcher, Honsisost, from New Orleans. _ _ Ramsay, Isci or 'MAN, Just 29.• - A large quantity of balk tim ber, marked " B," and numbered, was picked up off Manyhold Head on the 23d and .24th instant, but does not appear to have been from a wreck. LAW REPORT. COURT OF CHANCERY, Auum 4. Mr. HART applied at the sitting of"the Court for an habeas corpus, directed to the Warden of the Fleet, for bringing up a prisoner for debt,of the name of Smithson, and to enable him to attend de die in diens,u Cuunsel, for the purpose of laying before them papers, and giving them other instructions necessary for the prosecution of a suit, entitled " Smithson v. Sikes." It appeared that the prisoner, who was plaintiff in the suit, claimed to be entitled to property of the value of 130,0001. but was at present wholly destitute of the means necessary to pto secute that claim. lie had sometime ago applied to and procured the order of the Master of the Rolls for leave to sue in forma pauperis, and a solicitor of the name f Hunter had been assigned to him. This solicitor applied to the plaintiff for 21. to enable him to take a copy of the Master of the Rolls' order, and as he could not furnish that sum, no further.proceedings had been taken in the cause. Another part of the plaintiff's present applica tion was, that Mr. Hunter should be directed to give up certain papers in his possession. Mr. Hart said he did not know anything of the merits of the case; but be had submitted the business to the Court, because he had bees requested to do so by the plaintiff, whohad caused the papers to be left at his chambers. The LORD CHANCELLOR said f:e had no power direct the Warden of the Fleet to briog up a pawne r for any such purpose. Ac, however, an attorney had been appointed, he wished that Gentleman to attend him be. fore he came into Court to morrow, lied he mould see what could be done. Mr. Hass did not know whether Mr. Hunter had received notice of this application. The_Loan CHANCELLOR said, that as the plaint ff was not committed by the order of this Co*rt, he had nothing to do with the matter. There was a bill now in progress' which would effect an improvement in that part of the jut isdiction of the Court which related to pi isoners con fined for contempt. He hoped in the next Session the bill would be carried. It provided, that if a party was decreed by the Court to sign a conveyance of the estate, he could not bailie the justice of the country by saying, " I will stop in the Fleet until I die, rather than give up • possession of an estate to which I am not entitled; " but that a person should be appointed, as in the case of lunatic trustees, to execute a deed on the part of the refractory prisoner, which should have the same effect as if signed by his own hand. He knew that a great de.' was occasionally said to the disparagement of the Court upon the subject of prisoners for contempt; but if the subject were to be fairly and fully looked into, it would be found to be wholly misunderstood. No man in this country could feel any pleasure in keeping another in prison, at least he had never met with such a man. With respect to the persons now it prison for disobeying the orders of the Court, he had a right to say, that from• his own knowledge, they stayed there because they would stay. MAWMAN AND OTHRD3 V. TWO. This was a ease of literary piracy, in which the defendant had; printed and published a work, alleged to be an infringement of copyright in a work entitled The Eseystepottia Alletropeldales!. It appeared, for the plaintiffs, that their book had been copied even to its errors; and the defence, which is not completed, turns upon the defect of plaintiffs claim, owing to repeated transfers. _ _ Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH transacted business yester day as the Foreign Office. Thursday, Mr. JOHN Wruts, jun. resigned the soli citorship of the British Annuity Company ; and yesterday the Directors of the Cornwall and Devonshire Mining Company, upon . the receipt of a letter from Mr. %%quo, declared the solicitorship of that Company vacant. Frfte.—Yesterday morning a fire was discovered at a house in Pall Mall-buildings, in Oxford-street, prin cipally occupied by the lower class of Irish, each house containing from four to six families. TheSre was got under, but a man was sadly hurt, in dropping from a window. EXECUTION.—At Horsham, on Thursday, at noon, the sentence of the law was carried into effect on the person of Daniel Leaney, aged 19, who was convicted on the previous Friday of the murder of Benjamin Russel, at Brightling, in Sussex. Hannah Russel, wh4 was convicted with him, has been respited sine die.- 1 . The demeanour of the prisoner since his convicfon he* been unexceptionable. He admitted having been en gaged in many offences against the laws, particularly smuggling and poaching; but whenever questioned about the murder, his answer was, that lie bad i:o par ticipation in or knowledge of that crime. This &CIA.. ration he persisted in to the last moment. At a little after noon, the Sacrament having been adminis:ered to theprisoner, and the usual preparations male in front of the gaol, he was conducted to the platioim. His ex pressiun of countenance was mild mad placid, looked to be a mere boy. Tile lope h tying been adjusted, the signal was given, and in a few moment* ne Laci ceased to exist. • 1