Star. — London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. —.....0. TUESDAY..APRIL 25. 1826. Be. MAIL/h.-CLOU 1101. MAY. - CITY; TWELVE O'CLOCK. In conwquimce ofita being a close Holiday tn-day at the Bank* the Stock Exchange, and Voreign -Market. most of the Brokers and Jobbers have assembled on the Royal Exchange, but up to the present time no business worth mentioning has been transacted. Consols ,may be quoted nominally at 7911 for the Account, the s ame price they left off yesterday. Mexican Bonds have been done at GS Buyers, Colombian at 4S. Pr ONK O'CLOCK. Within this hour, the assemblage of Brokers and Jobbers on the Royal Eackange have increased, and a good deal has been done in South American Securities, which has risen in price, in conse quence of a prevailing report that the PYILAMUS frigate had arrived frOm Vera Cruz, with a great quantity of dollars on board from the Mexican Government, to pay the dividends. Consols have been entirely nf sleeted this - morning, and scarcely a bargain done in them. Accounts received this morning state, that the corvette Bolivar, going to the. United States, with Officers on board for the' ships Purchased there by the Colombian Government, has heel taken by two Spanish ftigstes. The gracious donation of his Ma jesty to the distressed at Macclesfield and Blackburn is the general topic of conversation, and it is to be hoped that the Nobility and Gentry will adopt the hint in the STAR of yesterday, and follow so glorious an example. • Consols are now 791 I for the Account, but little is doing. Current Prices : Mexican 65i, Colombian 431, New Scrip • $ prem. Peruvian 31. FRENCH FUNDS, Pious, /Item VI. Five per Cents. . . . 96f. SSe. Three per Cents. . . . 65f. lSc. Bank Stock . . 2010 f.: Reines de Naples . . 74f. 3.5 c. Royal Spanish Loan . . 441 f. Waytian Loan . . . 76Sf. Exchange on London. One Month 25f. 80e. Three Ditto 25f. 30c. Private letters from St. Petersburg'', which are x') the 3th inst. are by no means sanguine as to the disputes between. Russia and Turkey being amicably settled.— It is said the Emperor NICHOLAS, ao longer bound, like his predecessor, to the Holy Alliance, and weary of negotiating with a power which for six years has evaded the fulfilment of a former treaty, is anxious to bring to immediate issue the question of the- evacuation of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, The attentions to the Duke of WELLINeTON, during his stay at the Court of St. Petersburgh, were of the most marked description, and the several persons in the suite of his Grace were honoured with paisicular notice by the Eturanon. Count LIEVIN, the Russian Ambassador to this Country, was still at St. Petersburgh, where he was honoured with peculiar distinction by his Sovereign. A private letter from Lisbon of the Sth inst. written by 2n English Gentlernan,states that the utmost confidence is placed on the friendship of our Government in pre serving the tranquillity of that century, which appears in a somewhat restless situation. The Pertuguere army has become very relaxed in its discipline, and the people are now very anxious for the return of Marshal BERES PORD, who would be received with enthusiasm irr Portugal. German Papers to the 19th inst. reached us this fore noon. An article from Berlin of the 1&h inst. after announcing the arrival of the Duke of WKLLIWGTON there on the afternoon of that day, and that his Grace would not make any Stay, adds, " Several couriers from St. Prterssurgh are said 40 have brought import ant dispatches. There have been several conferences between Count BERNSTORIF and the Russian Minister Count A LOPEtle. We are still without any authentic account of the recent operations in Greece, the Observer of Trieste of the 1 Ith inst. not containing any news horn the seat of war, and the statements in the Moils of Sunday and the Allgetneine Zeitung being unworthy of credit. They assert, on the authority of letters from Cot fu of the 26th of April, tha laßAutat PACHA made, on the 19th, a.)other attempt to storm Missolonghi, which was no more fortunate than the preceding, and that he after. wads offered the garrison four millions cf crowns and sone retreat, but his offers were rejected, and they refused to listen to any terms. Four millions of crowns is no trivial sum, and more than the army chests of the whole belligerents,could furnish—to say nothing of the improbability of offering such a bribe (if liitAHIM had it) to a garrison so closely pressed as that of Misso. longhi. The Allgenreine Zeitung after giving this statement, adds, "A few ells must, we think, chew how these accounts are to be reconciled with the news of the taking of Missolonghi by IBRAHIM. which the French papers so positively fix on the 20th March." A Return has just been made to Parliament, which chews the sate of British trade for the last two so far as regards the Exports and Imports. From this document, which is of much - importance, it appears that the Imports of last year did not vary much from those of ' the year preceding, the Imports in Its 24 being to the amount of 1:40,412,300 ; and in 1825 being 131,737 : 609. The increase in the'Exports, however, was very great, amounting to 121 per cent. The Ex rorts in 1824 amounted t01:56,234,663; and in 1825 to 1:65,225,272. In looki lit at the respective countries with which we here commercial intercourse, it is impossible not to be struck with the di,proportions the Imports and Expluts bear to each other in sorb of them. Thus the Imports from Germany were, in 1824, only £951,460, and in 182,5, £1,505,456; • while the Exports to that country were, in 1824, 0,828,957, and in 1823, £7,552,176. T4e Imports from Italy in 1824 and 1825, did nor average a milli n and a quarter each year; while the Exports in 1824 were nearly four Millions, and in 18'23, oonddetably clot ecird that sum. To the Brazils, onr Exports are wore than threa times the amount of the Idworts, and thi same remark will apply to Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Frew% Colombia our I.mpokts 12st year were only £73,496, while the Exports amountedio £425 140. With the United States, our Exports are nearly double the amount of the Imports, and on the whole, it w ill be seem the balance of trade is in our favour. -; The French Papers of Saturday and Sunday- contain the conclusion of the trial of the Abbe de MINNAIB, and a'copy of the sentence, which does much honour to the Comr Royale. will be found in another column. It will be seen by the latter, that this fanatic priest, not withstanding the supposed support of the Royal Family, and of a great body of French courtiers, has been con-' demned to a fine, and has had, as a consequence, hi► work seized and suppressed. If the Roman Catholic Religion does not gain ground, it is not owing to any want of exertions on the part of its professors, for they certainly were never more active than they are at present. In this country, while the Priests are making every effort to gain proselytes, raise new colleges, and extend their sway, the Laity are equally intent on obtaining poli!ical power. Th France, bigotry and intolerance are in the ascendant ; the Jesuits are rapidly regaining their influence, notwith 'standing the checks they sometimes receive from the, press and the tribunals of that country. In Spain, ti e Clergy trample as much on the neck of the SOMILIGN as ever the Pura did literally, when all Eutope acknow ledged his supremacy; and in Rome, the yre . ent Sova. Lucia Potartsr is determined to be every inch a Pope, and to maintain all the authority which. the Catholic world acknowledges the bead of that Church to possess. We have been led to these remarks, from set ing in the Allgemeine Zeileng received this morning, a pom pous and insidious article on the way in which the Easter holidays have been kept at Rome. It is at fes. tivals such as these, that the Roman Catholic Chntch, by the splendour of its ceremonies, hopes to increase its votaries. It appears that there have been a/Nig visitors than usual at Rome during the Passion Week ; and this is attributed partly to the cessation of all public amusements at Naples while the mummery of the ju. bike is going on, and " partly to the interest which the numerous religious ceremonies which take place in Rome during Passion Week excites in foreigners of all religious parties." Curiosity no doubt enters largely into the compo. sition of human nature, and we do not doubt that many English travellers, who rarely entered a church at home, might be tempted to go to the Sixtine chapel, or St. Peter's, at Rome, where, we are assured, they flocked in great numbers on Palm 'Sunday and Ash Wednesday; we trust, however, that no Protes• tant was so recreant to his faith as this Papal narrative asserts, when, in giving an account of the POPS dis tributing palms, it is stated that ig numerous Protes tants were among the persons who approached the Papal throne to receive "them:' If this were really the case the Court Newsman of the Vatican, who re• ports the proceedings, may well ask, 41 Is thisa momen tary impulse or the result of a previous determination 7 English travellers have often been reproached. with forgetting their country when abroad, and if this account be true, they appear to have forgotten their teligion also—we say English travellers, for it is notorious that our countrymen and countrywomen are almost the only Protestants in Rome. It appears that in the whole of these ceremonies the Poem has displayed a degree of 'health and vigour which must disappoint those Card,- oats who, during his late indisposition, were waiting for bis shoes. This will be seen by the following extract from the article on which we have commented : a The Pope has gone through the extremely fatiguing duties of the whole week with a degree of energy which astonished every body. If we consider that the reading of the Mass on Easter Sunday (to speak of that only), with the benediction that follows it, is an act which re quires great exertions of the lungs, both in • speaking and singing, for three full hours—that the pontifical robes are of cumbrous weight—and, above all, that the whole must be performed fasting from midnight, a person who is acquainted with the history of the Pope's illness might be tempted to see in it the effects of Divine influence. He sang the Deus Vol.iscuns, in St. Peter's Church, with such a loud and powerful •oice that it was plainly heard in every p.trt of that immense edifice: the same may be said of the Benediction, deli ♦ered from the balcony, which was perfectly intelligi ble to persons standing on the second great landing of the steps of the Church." WPDSOR, APRIL 21. Yesterday afterra , n his Abarszr nude another visit to the Castle, accompanied by Sir CHARLI3 Loma, in his poney phaeton. His Mazzavv continued his airing in the Great Park until half-past Biz o'clock.—The bells of St. George's Chapel and the Parish Church have both been tinging again this day, and the usual salute Was fired In the Bash.- hns' Acre. De parches were sent of on Friday night for the Duke of WILLIAMSON to meet hi, Grace at Brussels.. . Yesterday atternorp., at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, summonses for which were issued on Saturday. The Council was attended by the Loan CitAxcit.coa, the Eat! of lavuoroot, the Earl of HARKOWIIIT, the Earl of WesisroacLams,Viscourst MgLYILLII, Mr. HUIIIICISSON,_ Ur. Secretary PILL, Mr. Secretary CAVNING, Earl Ilaemossr. the Craw cat.Loa of the Excunaoca, Mr. Wrote, and Lord llaiLar. The Cabinet continued sitting till near half-past four o'clock, when the Ministers separated. Prince Pt GNATELt.I, Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires at the Cunit of Copenhagen, is going to marry the widow of the Coun cilor of State, Gam's+, partner in the house of Mama° and Sow.• It has been erroneously stated In the Papers, that the late Bishop of Du imam died wofth upoi ards of a million sterling ; but we arc enabled to state, from undoubted authority, that the' will of his Lordship ha, been proved under ht),000/. Mr. JOIIN SINGLLTRRRY. of Putlgage C aunty, Ohio, has recently been initicted in GOO dollar, damages, for a slan der uttered by his loving spouse. Your ft liuw t ha had much better remained Mr..titr.:le Tinter all his life, tligh to takes Lary meet who will talk away his hard earning thus. FASIIIUNATILE INTELLIGENCE. The lion. ljnily Smilit entertained # distinguished party at din ner yesterday, at her hem in Piccadilly. Arthur Stanhope, Esq. bad a dinner party yesterday, at his house ie Tilney street. Countess St. Antonio entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Sunday, at her house •in Hatrover.square. In the evening her Ladyship bad a concert of sacred ntu.ic, at which Mailame Pasta and most of the principal performers of the Opera house *molded. Mr. and Mrs. Tynte arrived yesterday at their house In Lower Grosvenor street, from a tour. " Sir Joins Sebright, Bart. &Ili/red yesterday at his house in Park street, from his seat, Beachwood, Herts. The Hon. 11.. and Mrs. T. Coventry arrived yesterday at their house in Upper Brook street. from their seat in Kent. H. Beckford, Esq. left town yesterday, for his seat, !Ilkley Hall. The Hon. William Powlett left town yesterday for Newmarket. Mr. and Mrs. Prendergast arrived yesterday at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford street, front India. Mr. and Mrs. Angerstein and family arrived yesterday at their house in St. James's square, for the season, from their seat at Blackheath. Mr. and Mr.. Brummell arrived in town yesterday, from Mar ket Ilarborough. T. C. Blicke, Esq. left his house in Regent street yesterday, for Cheltenham. James Daly, Esq. M,P. Mrs. Daly, and family have arrived at their house in Green street, Grosvenor square, from Cheltenham. Thomas Whitmore, Esq. NI.P. arrived yesterday at Fenton's New I Intel, St. James's street, from Brighton. Ashton, Esq. arrived yesterday at Jordon's Hotel, St. James's Street, from his seat near I.iverpool. Arrivals at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square—Lad- Harvey and Miss Keathtg, from Ireland; and the Count and Counteaus dr Villa de Flora, from Portugal. • Arrivals at head's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor street—The Hon. Mrs. Howard, front Ireland; Captain Hind, from India; lion. Francis Ryre, from Derby; Colonel Horner, from a tour. De , part ure—C. Lyall, Esq. for his seat, Berkeley Lodge, Southampton. Arrivals at the Burliavots Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets—The Marquis and Marchioness of Ormond, from South• ampton ; Sir Edward Kynaston and the two Mrs. Kynaston. from Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Ward, ft inn the Continent ; Lady Walpole and the two Misses Walpole, from a tour; Lady Stewart and family, from East Coombe; Captain Mitchell, from Edinburgh; Moore, -Esq. from a tour. Departuresir Joseph and Lady Ratcliffe and family, fur the North ; rolonel Macdonald, for ditto; J. Itainsbottont, Esq. for Kent; Lieutenant Oakes, R.N. for Suffolk ; Colonel Stewart, M.P. and —.Potter, Esq. for Southampton ; French, Esq. M.P. on a tour. Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street—Mr. Mrs. and the Aliases Farnden, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Broughton, from Dorset ; .Lady Smith and family. from a tour. Dcpartures - M . . ajorand Mrs. Marsh, for their seat near Southampton. Mrs. l'rothero and Miss Waterhouse have arrived at the Bruns wich Hotel (late 131,ike's), Jermyn street, from Gadsden, Herts. MASQUERADE. The Masquerade, last night, at the Argyle-rooms was very well attended, and the amusements were enlivened by some humorous pmts. Two representatives of Paul Ply looked like the original, hut their " intrusions" were a monstrous bore. A living skeleton made his appearance, but bow any individual could suppose that the inhabitant of a charnel could add to the whim of the entertain ment last night is " passing strange." There never, however, was a skeleton that seemed to have a more capacious stomach, and if " good digestion waits on appetite," be wilt anon have abundance of flesh on his bones. A good-humoured ralste . , evidently preferred master Charles Wright's sparkling champagne to sack—he bore his pillows well, but as to a word, talking was not is his line. Sir AU had a great talent for silence. . . . A g;and Turk was splendidly dressed, but was very solemn and very dull. There were, as usuil. a number of Sailors, who did not know a top-sail from a main-sheet. Some of them boasted of having passed the line in sailing to Gravesend, while the voyage of others never extended beyond Chelsea Reach. There were two or three groups that added considerably to the animation of the scene, by singing catches and glees; and several fascinating Sower girls, who were not a little vain of their attraction and charms.— Then, the crowds, the confusion, the bustle, the eternal moving about; the ludicrous collision of characters, the commixture of heterogeneous substances, the chaos of jumbling personages—just as old Spencer described it some two hundred years ago: " Kings. Queens, Lords, Ladies, Knights, and Damsels, Gent, Were heaped together with the vulgar sort; And mingled with the rascal rabblement, Without respect it person or of port." Then tile music, the harmony of the professional people, occailonally heard, and occasional/ drowned by the discordant instruments of . . the masquerading amateurs—ringing of bells, whistling of eat-calls, creaking of rattles, blowing of horns, scraping of eat.gut, and Len don cries—Love ditties from Maiden-lane, pastorals worthy of Smithfield—hunting songs fit for Houadsditck, and Irish Melodies that would do honour to the Hibernian bowers of Saffron-hill-- forming, altogether, such an anarchy of sound u may be said to bother all description. The dancing room exhibited several splendid displays of qua. drilling, by a party of prophetic glpseys and travelling tinkers; some Irish jigs, by a band of Cherokee Indians ; and a Highland fling by au admirably executed grOup of Lapland witches. Asumptuous sapper, about two o 'clock, recruited the flagging spirits of the company, and copious draughts of Charles Wright's crusted Port and creaming Champagne sent them bask again to the amusements of the ball room, with hearts and heads and heels prepared for a freer enjoyment of this splendid fesdval of fashion— tun—and fancy. NAVAL IN I'ELLIGENCE. The Atlas, Relies, from China, was at the Cape of Good Hope the 20th of February, waiting for Lord Qum.= Sots who had taken his passage in her. The Maitland, STUDD, was to sail from Bombay on the 26th of December; the Sarah, Teets'', 7th of January; Upton Castle, sth of February, all fur London ; and the Alfred, Lassa, 19th of January, for Liverpool. Ihe Lowther Cutle was to sail from China on the 16th of January, for London. . The Mayflower, Snow, sailed from Bourdeaux for Philadelphia in October, and had not arrived on the 14th nit. Arrived off the Wight, the Magdalena, Dew., front Ilavannah ; and the Seneca, LIVeLY, from New Orleans. Off the Start, the Charles Miller, front New York; and the Balite, front New Orleans. Off Dover, the Rawlins, Rusturot, from Jamaica. raucous's, Aram 23. Wind N.—No arrivals or sailing,. PLYMOUTH, Aram 23.—Wind N.W.— Arrived his Majesty' ship .----, from the West Indies. Sailed the Lord Friuoutb s Baeserr, for St. John's (N. 8.); and the British Union, Times for Faro. - Naosiours, Arm. 24..—Wind N. to N.W.—Passed hy,.the' Minerva, Poses, from Bengal; and the Dutch ship Nederland, from Berbice for Amsterdam. Sailed the Mary, Damon, for Jamaica. The Parntelia transport, for Guernsey, went out of harbour, and remains at Spithead. Cowes, Aean. 24.—Arrived the Shepherd,Hais,tromMatansas. DEAL, _Aram 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived and sailed for 'the River, the Stately, Emma, and Posey Hall, —, from Jamaica ; the Hou. Company's ship Farquharson, from China; Iris, BUTCHiII, from Almeira ; Apocrate, GILBERT from Trieste; and Tula, Vicesas, from Smyrna. Also, the Sara h, Gissox, from Shields for Malta; and Two Brothers, Minium, from Memel for Oporto. Passed through from the River, the Indemnity, Woooau., for Demerara; George, DUPARIG, for Antigua; and the Maria, C • , for Honduras. The homeward bound have sailed for the River. PA an, Aram St —The Bolivar, Colombian corvette, bound t• the United States, having on board Officers for the squadron pur chased there, has beau captured by two Spanish frigates. Yesterday the Duke of DEVONSHIRIC and Lord &SUM= had a long interview with Mr. Sccretary CANNING, at the Foreign Office. FUNIRAL or Ma. Coorsa.—Thursday evening the mortal remains of the ill-fated Mr. Cooper, of ll•gh •trret, were removed for interment. Tne street fronting his late house was crowded with people, all commise rating his most calamitous deAth. The coffin was borne to the grave upon men's shoulders, and was followed by nis three young children (theoldett of whom is not yet ten), his brother, .and four other relations. The bo.iy wAs borne into the church, where the Rev. Mr. CHAP • MAN read the burial service; the body was then borne 'to the grave in the Old Mary-la Bonne burial-ground, and the funeral service bring concluded, the last cere mony was finished by tweeting the coffin into the grate. Tile poor children seemed much atte-ted and wept, bitterly. MI s. Cuorkit is recos►e.ir6 loon► her ts ounds. NEWMARKET. APRIL 25. --am AaarrAss.....Dozes—ilis Royal Highness the Duke of York, Grafton, and Portland. Mamma—Enter, Graham, and Titchaeld. Tirou.s—Jersey, Orford, Sefton, and VcrulAm. trial's—Lowther, Anson, Dusiwich, George iientinck, Frederick Bent irk, Fitzroy, &c. General Grosvenor, Sir John Shelley, Sir Robert Cliften,*Sir John Byng, Hon. Mr. Irby; Colonels Russell, Wilson, Keating, and Synge. - - • - •• Messas.—Cbrist. Wilson, Stuart Wortley, Wortley, jun. Mills., Douglag, Scott, Holyoake, Itantabottom, Page, Russell, Batson, • Greville, Vansittart, DINNER PARTI*II.-...AT ?az PALACII Mr. Douglas entertained his Royal Highness the Doke of York, Lord Lowther, Sir John Shelley, &e. AT Tut Roosts—Christ. Wilson, Esq. Duke of Portland, Marquis of Titchtleld, Marquis of Graham, Earl Jersey, JAW& G. Bentinck, Anson, Dunwich, and Sir J. Byng; Messrs Keatin, Vansittart, Holyoake, &c. . . Lord Sefton had a select dinner party. His Lordship will have parties every day. Sir John Shelley's carriage was overturned near Harlow this morning, in consequence of the driver making too quick a turn. His Royal Highness the Duke of York was pacing at the time, and took up Sir John, who, we are happy to add, received no injury AMERICAN AND COLONIAL STEAM NAVI- GATION COMPANY. --oss.-- • A Special General Meeting of thil Company was held yesterday, pursuant to. advertisement ; Sir Put.- TENEY MALCOLM in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN observed, that the Meeting was called at the request of ten Shareholders, for a 'pecific purpose, and he trusted that every Proprietor would confine himself strictly to the question. Dr. Aissue regretted that the Company WAS not in a more prosperous stile, but it was evident that the Directors had done all in their power fur the benefit of the Shareholders. He concluded by moving a Revolu tion, that there be paid out of the Company's funds the amount of expenses incurred by the Directors, in getting cancelled the contract entered into for the purchase of the ship United Kingdom. Mr. W. PORTER begged leave most cordially to se cond so honest a motion. ‘Vhen he looked at the body of the Directors, he was confident that they had dealt honestly by the Proprietors, and in return the Propri etors were bound to deal honestly by them. Mr. BOWRINO rose to oppose the motion, On the ground that the Directors had violated the Act of Parliament in almost every feature. He then detailed various points, to prove that the a'leged company was a mete nonentity. He did not accuse the Theectors of wilful deviation from their duty : they had acted in - error,. violated the Act cf Parliament, and had destroyed the company. Utlder the circumstances, he opposed the motion for indemnity. _ _ Mr. AnDaiws said, that the Counsel of the Company had given it as his opinion that the Company was legally conltituted. The Directors admitted, however, that the contract for the United Kingdom was not made under the Act of Parliament; had it been, diet e wouli have been no occasion for this meeting. The only ques tion, he thought, was, whether the Dirt ctors had entered into the contract with honest mctives. If they had, they were entitled to protection. He did not view the Company in the desponding way which Mr. Bowling did, but the contrary. ' After a desultory conversation between - tome of the Shareholders and the Director,, the CHAIRMAN put the question, which was carried in the airmative; and after a vote of thanks to the Chair man, the Meeting separated. We believe it is not generally known that • Lnrd Brame, beautiful lines of " She walks in Beauty," were addressed to the Lady of Witsaor-Hokron, Fs.A. The I.ORD MAYOR has unequivocally declared him self against the Catholic Claims. DEW v. CLARK AND CLARK, PREROGATIVE COUNT.— The judgment pronounced on the 12th instant. in this suit, whereby the late Mr. Slow was declared to have died intestate, has been appealed against to the High Court of Delegates. A letter from Vera Cruz, dated March 1, says : " convoy of six million dollars is daily expected from Mexico, ttlicit will have the 'effect of lowering the exchange, at present 54 to 55. A considerable part of this will probably go by his Majesty's ship Pyramus. Mr. Moans was expected to leave 51ex:co in the Py tames, about the 20th of March. No progress. it is said, had beeo made in the adjuitntent of the treaty with England. The Congress bad ordered the immediate payment of the tobacco bonds (held chiefly on account of London merchants), and Earrea, the Minister of Finance, bad drawn bills on England for the amount, which raised the exchange to 524; at the last date it had again fallen to 50. •Accounts from Bengal state that Lord Cos:Ban:dent and General Nsonota had a very narrow escape of being taken pri soners by the Bhurtporeans ; they were in advance, and reconnoi tering the Fortress, when a party of the enemy surprised them, and it was only by the superior speed of their horses they were enabled to escape. A gang of ruffians, armed with bludgeons, attacked a man named George Byrne, a sawyer, In Stephen's Green, Dublin, at nine o'clock oa Frlday morning, and having beaten him in a most inhuman manner, retreated through Stephen's-street into Auogiv:. street. Two persons charged with this outrage hava Deco taken and committed for trial. Frets.—This morning a most calamitous fire broke out at the hpuse of Mr. Cross, a furi.iture-bsOker, in Vere-street, Cl.tre•market, which, though trivial in ap pearance, and confined to the building en'efhich it ori ginated, has !moved fatal in its coniecpieno es 'to some of the inmates. A few minutes after one o'c'oc k a dense body of smoke was discovered issuing horn thew hollows of each story, and immediate alarm being given, tl.e inmates of the first and third floor boa rooms wt re, with much difficulty, aroused from their slumber,. and, at the most perilous risk of their lives, succee.ied in escaping by the windows—those of .the an ; glow by precipitating themselves into the street, fortunately with. out material injury ; and those of the third floor by be ing hauled over the parapet to the roof of the adjoining house by persons above. %Ve are sorry to add, that three of the unfortunate persons inhabiting the back rooms fell victims to the suffocating vapour which filled the house, before any assistance could be rendered them. Two children, a man, and a woman, were brought out by . means of ladders, from the back of the premises ; the woman has been restored ; the children wet e quite dead. The fire originated in the cellar. Great credit is due to the watchmen and officers of the parish, •for ti.eir promptitude in giving alarm, and procuring the parish engines, four of which were almost instantly on the spot, and had nearly 'exceeded in reduiing the fire, when several of the larger engines also arrived. A countryman named Adams, with only one leg, was robbed of five sovereigns oil Saturday night. The poor fellow went into a carpenter's shop, in Kent street, t I purchase a new wooden leg, the old one being nearly worn out in the service. While strapping o the new one, lie was observed by some persons outside to tram• fur some sovereigns from the socket of the old leg into that of the new, and on his leaving the shop he was knockeed down at a little distance from it. The rob. bens eiperiencing some di ffi culty at getting the money fromits place of concealment, polled away the uew wooden leg hom the stump, leaving the poor country man on the ground, unable to follow theta, &fie' der iv , kith oh 114 niancy and his kg.