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CITt, 'TWO 016LOCIt. The Consol market has improved per Cent. since the early part of the mnrning, when they were done at 714. and at present may be quote,'. ,it sO buyer; for the Account; and Reduced 79 to 4. in coo...queree of information that a courier has arrived from Nladrid w Govenmtent, WI )1 favourable accounts from FERDINAND ; also, it i; now known for certain, that some of our troops from Gibral tar have landed some time past. at Lisbon, and it is said that part of them had proceede.! to Oporto.—Consoli buyers at 110 e. In the Foreign market little or nothing doing. poitgli;N FUNDS. TWO o'CLOCK. Cotrohiln Pond', 6 p Ct. Mea. Brislß2s. 6p. Ct. 64 Do. Rands, 1824, Do. Acct. 64 164 4 Do. Ace:. s s 34} Portuguese Bds. 5pC p.•okh Pen; %1•.,1 p Ct. 573 4 1)0. Acct. 70 0..1c,. 573 1 Span.Bottels 5 p Ct. 124 Creek Ronda, 5 p Ct. Ditto 510,12,1 C. 1711 Ditto Acct. /11:ITISII AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK. it rglo Ilelicaa lIIIA ll r. 100 'AID. 80 SO Trizilian 100 20 v!oni;.iln 100 15 151 .I'utosi La Paz & Pertn. Assn. 50 5 aG2 103. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. -or- ARRITALS. Cal. and Mrs. Gore Langton and family, at their seat, Newton Park, Sonsersetshire, from Southampton; Lord Lynedoch, at Warren's Hotel, Regetit-street, from General Trevor's seat in Sussex ; Major Fox, ih New Burlington-street, from Dover ; the of Go,ford, from Ireland; Sir A. Campbell, Bart. at the ritrlin g ton Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork -streets, from a tour; .a..igu,tus Bradshaw, Esq. at ditto, from his seat in Kent; I;e.erley, Est at ditto, from his seat in Yorkshire; Campion, yc q . at Jordan's llotel, St. James's -street, from Oxford; Colonel 31onscll, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from Ireland. DEPARTURES The Duke of St. Alban's, from Crawford.bridge, for Sir Gilbert East's seat, Hall-place, Berks; the Marquis of Camden, for his sat, the Wilderness, Kent ; Mr. and Lady Caroline Cape!, and the :bree Ladies Beauclerk, for Sunning Hill, Berks; Lord and Lady Anson, from their seat, Athenston Hall, for Shugborough, Stafford shire; Mr. and Mrs. George Byng, from their seat, Wrotham Park, for Walton House, Somersetshire; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy, front their house, Dover -street, for their seat, Toddington, Glou :wet-shire ; the Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. from the Duke of Bedford's, Woburn Abbey, for Shugborough, Staffordshire; Col. A'Court, and Captain A. A'Court, M.P. from their seat, near Salisbury, for Bath; Sir Charles Saxton, Bart. for his seat, Abing don; Wm. Lushington, Esq. M.P. for his seat in Kent; Sir R. Cunning, Bart for his seat in Northamptonshire; J. Calvert, Esq. M.P. for his seat, Albury Hall, Herta; Mrs. Snoyd, from Brigh ton, to the Countess of Dysart, Elam House, Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Young and family, front Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Eton; Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. Hope, Bart. from the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, for Portugal; C. W. Tupper, Esq. from ditto, for Oxford; J. Page, Esq. for Kent. Prince POLIGNAC, the French Ambassador, trans acted business on Monday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. _ Mr. Secretary PEEL arrived in town on Saturday, from the seat of his father, Sir Room Pm, at Drayton Park, Staffordshire. The health of Sir ROBORT is considerably better. Dist Aches were sent off yesterday tram the Foreign Office, to Sir WILLIAM A'Couar, our Ambassador at Lisbon. An affair ~ 1 honour took place on Monday, on Wim bledon Common, between AUIPUSTUS FRXDIRPCI &mu, Esq. at tended by Homy SMITH, Esq. and Captain At iamr Howaao Win ton, R.N. attended by WILLI AM J. H OOPIR' E'q. Mr. S. haying fired without effect, Captain W. immedi ate ly discharged his pistol in the air, upon which the seconds interfered, the affair terminated, and the parties, who reside at Richmond, Surrey, left the ground. The aff.ir originated in some supposed reflections by Captain W. on the part of Mr. A. F. S.'s family. CITY 01P CottlE ELECTION (SEVENTH DAY).—Satur. day evening the state of the Poll was as follows :—Mr. Hum/m -oon, 956—Mr. CALLAOUAY, 876—Majority 80. W. P. CRA FORD, Esq. cashier of Widows' Pensions ii, the Army Pay-office, is appointed Deputy Paymaster. General of the Forces in the Peninsula, and proceeds for Lisbon imme diately. This appointment looks as if a pretty long occupation of Portugal was contemplated. Lord COCIIRA Ne has at last re-appeared on the Euro pean stage. He was at Geneva on the 17th inst. with his Lady, and spent three days in that city, Mr. Britten, and the Members of the Greek Committee paid him the most distinguished honours. The eldest son of BOLIVAR is said to be en his way to Geneva for his education, and the son of the Passanaut of the 7 :nitt-cl States of La Plata is mentioned as having already resided six months in that city for the same purpose. Strong hopes ate indulged by a great number ,of Officers belonging to different Regiments at present on half-pay, that they will soon be called into active service; and many of them, who for some time past have resided at a distance from the Metro- polis, are repairing in great number either to,Londmi or its imme diate vicinity. A boy, three years of age, was particul.trly backward in his tot:gue, and his parents feared that he would never talk.- 4 , Send him to a girls' school," said a friend. The hint was adopted, and succeeded beyond expectation. IMPKIIIAL GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY'S OP rice, No 10, CoLIMAN Stator, 2Szt Dac.lB96:—Nofee is hereby given, that the Special General Akeeting of the Proprietors of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, which was held at the Old London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, in th e City o f L on d on , on FRIDAY, the 22d day of December instant, " for the election of a Proprietor to be Governor of the said Company in the place of Row LAND EDW. WILLIAMS, Esq. deceased," stands adjourned until Wednesday, the 10th day of January next ensuing, at the said Ta vern, for the purpose of deciding, agreeable to the Act of Parliament, the said election of a Proprietor to be Governor of the said Com pany, and the Ballot will commence at Teo o'Clock in the Fore. noon, and close at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon precisely. By Order, HENRY CLA RK E, Clerk of the Company. BANDON ELECTION.—LARD JOHN RUSSELL. —At a Meeting of the Provost and Free B u r gesses of the Borough of ec y Bandon Bridge, held at th e T own er k' s Office, on Tuesday, the 19th instant, Lord JOHN RUSSELL aving been proposed by the Mon. W. S. BERNA R D, and secon d by the Rev. ROSSAS MEADE, was unanimously elected to represent that Borough in Parliament, in the place of Lord Duscasmou, sibo was lately elected for the same, and also for the County of Kilkenny, for which he made his Bleed in. PERTH, DECEMBER 21.—Last night a most melan choly accident occurred to the Caledonian coach passengers from Inverness to Perth. While the coach was turning round the tor ter of the hill Craig.y-barns, about a mile beyond Dunkeld, either the pole hook or pole ch a i n ( we h ave not b een distinctly inTormed which) gave way, and the coach ran upon a stone fence by the road side, by which means it was instantly overturned. We are sorry to 'slat,: that the consequences are most fatal. Mr. William Robertson, painter and glazier, in Dunkeld, was killed en the spot. Nr. Donald lntnTh, the guard,haviag his skull and several of his limbs severely fravured, survived the accident only a few hours. An English travel. ler and Lady are said to be dangerously ill; and of gel passengers all are more or less injured. The horses, too, so suddenly disengaged ficm their draught, took fright and ran off, and on the road a little f rther on, overturned a carrier walking by the side of his Cart, trod hint down on the road, and left so severely injured, that his life is also despaired of. A little way farther on still, a young lad was run down ; but it is said his injuries are of a less dangerous rature. The fate of M'lntosh, the guard, is particularly distressing, having left a widow and family. He has been upwards of twenty years on that road, and was always remarkable fur his obliging and attentive disposition. Monday, as the Belfast up, Fair Trader coach, was paising through West -street, Drogheda, immediately a ter changing horses, a lovely little girl (five years old) daughter to Major Wilson, 74411 Regiment, was looking nut of the winJow, when the door not being properly fastened, flew open, and the poor infant fell upon the hind vtheel, which instantly crossed her chest. The ac cident was made known to Major Was' n, who was outside, by the screams of the distracted mother ; and in an equal state of distraction he carried his bleeding child to the shop of Mr. Boyle, apothecary, where in a few minutes it expired. Major Wilson and his family left Scotland a' few days back, with the pleasing anti cipation of speading a happy Christmas with his mother iu Wexford. SINGULAR FACT. A most curious discovery was made a few days ago at Farnham, St. Genovieve, near this town. Men had been for some day; em ployed in felling a pollard ash near the Church, which had the ap. Laurance of great antiquity, being not less than 18 feet in girth, and I very much decayed, and standing upon a small hillocks which seemed to have been left at a very distant 'period, when the rest of I the soil around it had been lowered. Ott the fall of the tree, the roots of which were an unusual size and length, tore up the ground to a considerable extent, when immediately under the trunk were dis covered a large quantity of skeletons, or rather fragments of skele tons, all lying in a circle, with the heads inwards, and piled tier above tier from the depth of about four feet, being probably the remains of several hundred bodies. The most perfect of the bones was a lower jaw, of large dimen sions, containing the whole of the teeth ; all the rest were very much decayed. It is well known, both from history and the tradition of names,* that in the reign of Henry 11. A.D. 1173, this village was the scene of a sanguinary and decisive battle. According to Hove den, the Eurl of Leicester, having made a descent upon Suffolk, at the head of a great body of Flemings, to support the claim of the King's undutitul son to his father's dominions, and having been joined by Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who put the Castle of Framlingham into his hands, was encountered here by Richard de Lucy, the guardian of the realm in the King's absence, with a less numerous but braver army; and the Flemings, being mostly wea vers and other tradesmen, were broke up in an instant-10,0u0 of them put to the sword, and the rest were glad to compound for a safe retreat into their own country. It is therefore probable that these were the slain of the victorious party, from the careful yet singular manner in which the bodies were deposited ; and that after the earth was heaped over them, the ash was planted to mark the spot. If this supposition be correct, it affords a striking instance of the longevity of trees. Single bodies, bones, and remnants of arms and armour, have been not unfrequently found in the same neighbour hood; but it is rather remarkable that on the present occasion no warlike implements were discovered. • A heath in the neighbourhood is supposed to be called John's Heath from the Christian name of the Earl of Leicester, and a shallow in the River Lark, at a short distance, still bears the name of the Countess of Leicester's ford. Near the latter place, in clear ing out the mud a few years ago, a ring was found, exactly answer ing the description of one related to have been ►ost by the Countess of Leicester in her Bight,—Bery Ant. THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The Tragedy of Jane Shore was acted at Covent garden Theatre last night ; the parts of Lord Hastings and Jane More by Mr. C. KEMISLE and Mrs. SLOMAN. After the tragedy, to the great relief of the galleries, the annual Harlequin Pantomime was produced, under the title of MotherShipton, or Riquet with Me Tuft r the last of which appellations belonged to a fairy piece, performed about two years since at Paris, in which POTIER acted the part of Biquet (the deformed Prince) with very great success. The first scene, by GRIEVE, a landscape in a fog, with a bridge over a stream iu the foreground, and mountains in the distance, is extremely well painted ; and the fog, clearing off, discovers Mother Shipton's cottage, with Mr. PARSLOE, in waiting, as her favourite torn cat, and a cock at the door, gallanting sundry hens, whose crow ing gave general satisfaction. From this, we proceed to the kitchen of Prince Riquet's castle, which is a scene extremely well imagined and arranged, as well as paint ed. The festivities of Christmas are "toward," and the dinner bill exhibits more than even fairy profusion. An enormous hog, an ox entire, and a stag, are all roasting before one enormous fire. On the right side are coppers smoking and steaming, out of which a plum pudding, as large as the body of the Lord Mayor's coach, is lifted into a platter capable of accommodating, with standing room, half the Court of Aldermen. On the left opens an oven, the mouth of which looks like the entrance to Tartarus ; and, while a brood of gigantic cats feed the fire and turn the spits, ten cooks clad in white, with Mr. GRIMALDI at their head, souse an old Scotch Lady—the Dowager Baroness Mae Thistledown—(afterwards the, Pantaloon)—in the dripping-pan. In the mean time, Prince Riquet, who becomes the Harlequin, having delivered Allen Star, the Calontbine, from a serpent—. who is one of the very best we ever saw upon a stage— the customary changes take place, and the " comic business," as it is termed, of the pantomime commences. —The scenery continues very good ; Leith harbour by moonlight received applause, and the forest incantation in which Mother Shipton raises her spirits—with the transparency shewing the flying demons, &c. in the back ground—is a fair comic imitation of the Demon scene in Oberon. The 'I Steam-washing" scene is not without whim: in fact, where three women have to duck a man in a washing tub, the situation acts itself it is impossible not to be delighted. Another inci dent of violence is also pleasantly effective, where the Dowager Lady I%lac Thistledown does wonders (in a breakfast quarrel) with a muffin as large as the moon, stuck upon a toasting fork as long as the Monument. —Among the best tricks are those of Mother .:hiptors (managed by means of a hollow figure) suddenly va nishing, even from out of the hands of her pursuers. The tailor's shop, with the sign of the Golden Shears, which cut off the Pantaloon's head,with which a Newfoundland dog runs away. And the conversion of the Light-house in Leith Harbour, into a sloop in full sail, which passes (against the wind) across the stage. The ar rival of the steam-packet is new, because nobody is blown op in it ; the scene of the cranipleger's shop is,,, what the same subject has always been upon the stage, a failure; and the Stock Exchange story, with the !ast lottery, Ike. except in the whim of introducing the ghost of the " Bubble System," flying over the ruins of his trade, is not quite so humorously dealt with as it might have been. Some of the .incidents, however, have a measure of comicality about them— such as the Pantaloon's falling out of a window through the roof of a pig-sty; and running off, pursued by the swine mother, for having abstracted one of the sucklings in his pocket. Mr. GRIMALDI, too, furnishes some amusement, by putting his leg through a parlour win dow, as the readiest way of entering a house. Besides these temptations, the piece has the advantage of Mr. ELLAR'S agility as the Harlequin; Mr. BARNES is the best Pantaloon on the stage; and Mr. WILSON and Miss BA NNISTEH, in a scene of " the interior of Vanxhall.gardens," dance a pas de deux upon two tight ropes, concluding with an ascent to the top of a tower, and a display of fireworks. A repre fentation was also given of the ascent of Mr. GREEN'S balloon, in which was a young Lady from a temporary platform over the Orchestra, which, after ,making a circumvolution of the chandelier in the centre of the Theatre, descended again, being managed with great ingenuity and effect. They are then seen wan der ing in the ruins of St. Magnus, where they are released from their labours and received in the Gland Pavilion of Pantomime. The scenery for the greatest part is exceedingly well painted, par ticularly the opening scene—the View of Edinburgh.—The Tri umphal Arch erecting for the Palace in St. James's Park.—A Land scape—The Ruins of St. tlagnus, Ste. including the Forty Fountains, and the splendid last scene. The tricks are exceedingly well de vised, and entitled to much praise-..i.ne of them, a piano forte.sent to a tailor's daughter is changed into a concert of tailors, fi ddling and blowing Runt inharmoniously, while one with an extending lace and up wiling eyes is warbling borrible-dikord. There is also a I . . • , - • a very pointed aatiti upon tbsi- Ipateulators ind bubble-mOngert of the day, among which the Greek Lain stabil* prominent. Their offices seen open, are presented almost immediately boarded up, an explosion is heard, the bubble has burst, and the ghost of them rises and dissolves in air. The music is characteristic and pretty ; the vocal part is also gene rally entitled to praise —a very p rett y tr i o an d c h orus b y three little " Bin? a Brooms" was Infored, and the whole raitominie passed off to the applause and satisfaction of a very crowded audience. DRURY-LAN& • After the Tragedy of Barbarossa last night, the wished-for Pantomime at length came according to custom. It is entitled the Man in the Moon, or Harle quin Do,gstar, in order to pa rt i cu l ar i se i t ; b ut such i s the num ber and variety of incidents, that it might be as properly designated by any other title. Most parts of our own globe, as well as the moon, are put under contribution to make up this annual tribute. The Pantomime opens with a view of Hudson's Bay, with a ship stuck fast amid mountains of ice. This scene is by STANFIELD, and is well painted. Mr. YAH. NOLD, as the leader of a Joint Stock Travelling Corn pany,had some raps at Joint Stock Companies in general. In the " Whaler's Storehouse," also by STANFIELD, Mr. COMER, the Man in the Moon, descends from that planet, and affects to be witty on all brother lunatics.— The "Interior of the Moon," painted by MARINARI, is a splendid scene, extremely rich in colouring and in fancied objects, including moors and manors, hills and lakes, and living human creatures of various monstrous shapes. Some of them, finding their heads too heavy for their shoulders, carry them under their arms. The machinery introducing the King of the Moon and his consort, heralds, &c. in splendid cars, was sell contrived. Among the rest of the scenery the best were a view of Vauxhall Bridge by MARINARI, and a Battle-field bySTaNeret.D.This lastwas much applauded. After this notice of the scenery, which is a chief ingre dient in pantomime, it is fit •to make mention of the actors, Miss BARNETT played Colorable with ease and grace. She did not skip about with all the lightness and agility of a fairy form, but she danced with elegance, and obtained great applause, particularly in footing it to the air of " Blue Bonnets over the Border,"which she was called on to dance twice. Mr. HOWELL is already known as Harkfuin. Mr. T. BLANCHARD as Pantaloon, bore the usual quantity of thumping and bumping, with a great deal of good humour. But the most amusing of all, as usual, was Mr. SOUTHPY, as Clown. Another Clown, Mr. USHER, made his appearance last night. In a seen* representing Vauxhall Gardens, It. DIAVOLO &mom° performs his reaUy surprising and seemingly perilous evolutions on the slack rope; while Mademoiselles ANTOINE/II and Fume/mint are exhibiting on tight ropes, Ramo Sams balancing his balls, and three other young foreigners balancing themselves with heads in verted on poles, chairs, and ladders. One of these runs down head foremost between the rounds of a ladder with the velocity and pliabiUty of a weasel. With exception of two or three occasions, in which the machinery did not answer Harlequin's wand, the whole pantomime went off well, and a very full house received with applause the announcement of it for' every night till farther notice.'t ADELPHL After the performance of The Flying Dutchman, and 23, John. street, Adelphs, which latter was somewhat curtailed, " by parti cular desire" of the gods above, who seemed determined to have nothing but " pantermine" at Christmas, for not six words could the major part of the audience have heard of the two first pieces.— The long-desired pantomime at last began, and caused some degree of order to reign among those who, on such occasions, are the high and mighty. It is named Harlequin and the Nagle; et, the Man-in-the-Moen aud his W. The fable of the piece is drawn from one of the popular Irish tales, published in Blackwood's Ma gazine. The present adaptation contains part of the drunken ad ventures of Daniel O'Rourke, who pays a visit, on the back of an eagle, to the Maw-in-tire-Moon, and for a piece of incivility to Mrs. Man-in-the-Moosb, is kicked down stairs. He happens to tumble at the feet of Harlequin and CWonshine, and is immediately trans formed int* Mom, and, that he might not be without his wonted companion, a muscle is vivified for his satisfaction, and starts up as Pontatoors. The customary tricks having been gone through, the piece finished in the usual way, and with great applause. WORCESTERSHIRE CORONERSHIP. A remarkable contest has taken place for the Coro nership of Worcester, between two Attorneys, which closed on Saturday last, by the return of Mr. Smith by a majority of 189. The numbers on the gross poll were—. Smith 3175 Stokes MUG The poll lasted ten days ; and what is more re markable is, that though the whole of the money last year divided among the-Jour Coroners of the County, including travelling expenses, only amounted to 960 and some odd pounds, the expense of the pre sent contest, for a quarter of these emoluments (by no means net, as may be imagined,) is calculated at between &and 5,0001. on each side: Another remark able circumstance is, that the losing candidate was sup ported by nearly all the aristocracy of the county. Ow of the objects of the contest is conjectured to be to ascertain the state of the political strength of parties in Worcestershire, Such is the anxietyltGoiern i inent to hasten the sail. big of transports for Portugal, that several steam•boats were actively engaged during the whole of Sunday in towing them down the river. A Gentleman who left Madrid the sth instant, de scribes the country to be in a state of complete decay. .Regular business is entirely suspended. He laughs at the idea of Spain acting offensively in any contest, and declares it as his opinion that no great country was ever more entirely hors de combat than Spain at present. Letters received yesterday from Paris, state that all fears of war had ceased among mercantile men for three days. Letters from Antwerp and other parts of the Netherlands do not take so favourable a view of the present state of European politics. They say that no body there has any opinion of the faith of the pacific declarations of the French Court, and they allege that their markets are still affected by the prospect of a war. According to private accounts from Vienna, it was believed there, that in the approaching settlement for the half-year, the extra dividend for the Bank will amount to 21 florins, and besides this six florins per share to be laid by for l the reserve funds. In the course of the week very little has been done in foreign bills. Our wool trade has lately been rather mote brisk. Several parcels are said to have been sold for exportation to France and the Netherlands; but, with respect to the prices, the settlements are too uncertain, to found any general conclusion from them.—Frankfort paper. A singular circumstance occurred here lately : a Jew who had embraced Christianity was interred in the Jew ish burying-ground. It appeared, several days after his burial, from an examination of his papers, that he had been baptized at Turin several years before, but had concealed his conversion, and even in his last illness had been contented with the attendance of his former bre thren, so that they, not suspecting his aposlacy from their religion, treated him after death as one of their community.—lbid. - It appears from a Quebec Paper of the 16th of No vember, that the Parliament of the Lower Province was summoned to meet on the 23,1 of January for the dispatch of business. • The EJitor of the Staastead Paper has been confined, by otdcr of Judge FLETCHER, for contempt of Court, for which an action is now in .proAress for false imprisonment. The case appeals to attract great attention. The winter has set in in Canada. - THE" ARAIt A general detachment Court Martial wag held on Thursday at Government House, Plymouth, for the trial of two privates for desertion (their second time of being guilty of this offence), when the Court found them guilty, arid sentenced each of them to be branded with the letter D, and to receive 500 lashes. A detachment of the lit Royals, under the command of Captain Calm, consisting of 250 men, bewides their wives and children, were brought from Perth on Thursday to Dundee, in the Hero steam packet, and skipped on hoard the smacks Dundee and Glasgow, iu Leith roads, which are to carry them to Chatham, preparatory to being sent to the East Indies. The Ist division of the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons(Uncers) marched on Monday, and the 4d division marched ye,terday from Exeter, for Hounslow, where they will arrive on the 3d an'l 4th of January. NAVAL INI'ELLIGENCE. The Indefatigable French corvette arrived at Cadiz on the 27th ult. from Bourdeaux, in six days, with 85 troops on board; the Garonne corvette arrived on the 50th, from Rochefort, in twelve days, with the same nuusber ; and the American brig Atlantic ar. rived there on the Ist instant Irons Bourdeaux, in twelve days, with Hour, for the use of the French squadron. FALMOUTH, DEC. 25. Wind E. N. E.—Sailed the Sandwich packet, for Lisbon; and Hope packet. for Blooms Ayres. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived from London. the Seppings, LOADER, for the Isle of France ; and the Berlina transport, for Lisbon. Dam., DEC. 26. —Wind N.E—During the first part of this day there was a light variable wind, and thick weather and rain.— The two transports, letters D and W, came down front the River yesterday afternoon, and sailed this morning. The transport R passed to the westward this morning. ills Majesty's ship Biz- TERN, and the homeward bound, remain. GaAvasauu, Dec. 26.—Arrived the Ricardo, Haur.Lint, from St. Petersburgh ; Isabella, WILDGOO9I, from Demerara; Regalia, 'awns, from Quebec; Gambia, GROVIL from Sierra Leone; Erin, MALLARD, from Rio de Janeiro; Kent, LOCKHART, front Mira michi; Florenza, MANSON, from New Truk; Ottawa, DOUGLAS, front Quebec ; and Syrene, Seville, and .Delmarnock, front New York. Sailed the Charles, Sums, for Barcelona; and Mammas, HAILTLY, for Demerara. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 24. The utmost confusion and alarm prevail at this mo. ment (12 o'clock) in Dame -street, which is one of the leading commercial streets in this city. A tire was dis. covered in the extensive stores of Sir Abraham Bradley King. Sir Abraham is stationer to his Majesty; and supplies all the offices, acc. with stationery : the stores were full of this article closely packed up in piles. The flames spread with the utmost rapidity, in a few mi nutes the whole of the stores were in a blaze, and all hopes of preserving the property were out of the ques tion. The fire, in a very short time, communicated to the dwelling•house in Dame -street, and spread with alarming impetuosity. Sir Abraham Bradley King's family do not reside in this house, and there were no inmates save a young Gentleman and an elderly servant woman; but a number of individuals on perceiv. ing the fire burst into the house, and in the most dis. interested manner exerted themselves to preserve the premises. It is melancholy to state what followed; the tire, notwithstanding all the exertions that %sere made, increased, and at eight o'clock the roof fell in with a tremendous crash, bearing down all the floors of the house, which fell with accu:nulated weight upon the unfortunate individuals inside. These persons were instantly buried under the ruins ; the number is not known; but several persons have already been taken out, two of them, I understand, are quite dead, and others mangled and wounded ia a frightful manner.—. The flames in the meantime spread tar and wide, and seemed to threaten the whole neighb-asrLood with destruction. There was little or no supply of water, so that the engines for some time were of little effect. Hap. pily, however, by the most eztraordinai y efforts, the fire was arrested in its progress, and little other injury to property was done save what was on the premises of Sir Abraham Bradley King ; the property on these premises was very considerable, and little or nothing was saved. Not only an immense stock of paper, but money, expensive furniture, and an entire and valuable service of plate were totally lost. The Princess Charlotte and William Yning have arrived at Liverpool from Calcutta. They do not bring intelligence later than July. It Calcutta Paper states, from the information of a person lately returned horn Ava, that fines had been levied on all who had lived on friendly terms with our Army during the war, mores particularly on females, and if the unhappy individuals - on whom the fine was imposed could not immediately pay it, they were mutilated in a most barbarous way, sometimes having their ears and noses cut of. At Prome, no sooner was the protection rf the British flag withdrawn, than a fine of fifty rupees was levied upon every male, and of one hunched upon every female. it is further stated that the native inhabitants of Rangoon had emigrated, and continued to do so, to our settle, ments of Mergui, Tavai, Martaban, and Amherst -town, in great numbers. The Raywoon, who is only waiting for the total evacuation of Rangoon, to reassume his authority, requested Mr. CaAwroap to interfere, and put a stop to so draining an emigration. This request of course was not complied with by Mr. CRAWFORD. By the Potomac, advices from Batavia to the Bth of September were received yesterday. The situation of the Dutch Authorities in Java is evidently one of in creasing difficulty. They make no head against the insurgents, who are improving in discipline, and had had their spirits raised by some partial successes. The Dutch force was acting on the defensive until it should be enabled to act with greater vigour by the arrival of reinforcements from Europe. These successes are ad mitted by the papers published under the authority of the Government at Batavia. The details of them would be of no interest here. The advantages gained by the insurgents are of a trifling nature, and under other circumstances would be quite unimportant ; but in the state of affairs then existing, both men and money being urgently required, they were extremely alarming. Art order had arrived from Holland to recall two of theMem• bees of the Council at Batavia. One of the most for m:dable•bodies of Insurgents was commanded by a na tive Prince, named DEPO NEGORO, and with a view of distracting his proceedings, the Governor had caused to be set at liberty, his father, the old SULTAN of Jacatra, who had been kept twelve years a prisoner at Sama rang, and he was proclaimed anew, with great pomp and ceremony. It was found, however, that the mother of DEFO Nzoorto possessed too much influence over the young Chieftain, and all the attempts of the SULTAN to bring him into terms of friendship with the Dutch proved ineffectual. Orders had been dispatched to all the islands, dependencies of Java, to furnish all their troops that could be spared, but no reinforcements had recently arrived from Europe. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Dee. 27. Notwithstanding that Monday was a close holiday, we had but few buyers at market this morning; and as our supplies of ev T ry de scription of Grain were immense, the dealing business was very dull, indeed so much so, that scarcely a sale has been made, and our prices were completely nominal. in order to form some idea of our supply, euffict it to say that in the article of Oats alone we hese nearly ithooo gutters: still the same prices were demanded.