Star. — London, England, 1829-12-02 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHA NGES. The Duke of Devonshire, from Devonshire House, for Kemp. town, near Brighton ; the Earl of Ilchester, at his seat, Mahn!) , House, Dorsetshire, from Redlynch. Somerset ; Lord Viscount Granville, in Bruton-street, from the seat of the Marquis of Stafford; Sir Hugh Palliser, Baronet, in Park -street, Grosvenor square, from Ramsgate ; Mrs. Watt Smith, in Great Cumberland street; Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Ellis, in Bruton -street, from Brighton ; Mr. John Blackburn, M.P. for Warrington, in Lanca shire ; Sir Wydham Dalling, Ban. for Bungay, in Suffolk; Colonel and Mrs. Macdonald from Canterbury, for Bath ; Major and Mrs. Time., from Torquay, for Bath; Mr. Bridgeman Simpson, for Rugby Hall, in Warwickshire ; Captain Townshend, for Maid stone ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Hobart, for Bath, from Brighton ; Major Leigh for Cheltenham ; Sir Thomas Tomlin., Bart. for Chaidon, in Surrey ; Mr. John Fane, M. P. for Sherbrooke Lodge, in Ox fordshire; Major-General Murray, from Salisbury, for Brighton ; Colonel Woodward for Chatham ; Colonel Hay for Chatham ; Major Drummond for Brighton; Colonel Pontifes for Paris ; Mr. John Round, M. P. for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. W. Hale, at Rich mond, from their seat in Hens; Captain and Mrs. Paterson, in Harley-street, from Bath ; Captain and Mrs. Hughes, from Albe marle-street, for Brighton ; Lady Church, at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Derbyshire; Mr. and Mrs. Garrett, at Hawkins's Hotel, Dover and Albemarle-streets, from the Conti nent ; Mrs. and the Misses Ricketts and Miss Watts, at ditto, from Hens. ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM. Viscount Mahon, the Hon. Mrs Leigh, General Capel, the Rev. Sir R. and Lady Wolseley, Col. and Mrs. Taylor, Colonel Kingacote, Capt. Inglefield, R. N. Capt. C. M. Leeky, Commis sioner Briggs, R. N. Re•. W. Aylmer, Rev. R. Corry, Rev. W. James, Rev. Mr. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, &c. &c. ARRIVALS AT BATH. Sir R. and Lady Bickerton, Sir R. Hill, Sir J. Perkins, Sir S. Watben, the Hon. Vesey Knox, Lady Bathurst, General and Mrs. Cameron, Col. Chatterton, Col. Cassell, Colonel Phinote, Colonel Havertield, Major and Mrs. Trevor, Major White, Captain and Mrs. Brown, Capt. Barrett, Capt. Lely, Capt. Orbe, Captain Young, Capt. Havelock, Capt. Forbes, Capt. Gage, Capt. Potters, Captain Jennings, Rev. Mr. Barlow, Rev. Mr. Ireland, Rev. Mr. Wickham, Rev. Mr. Waterhouse, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Wick liffe, &c. The Marquis de PALM ELLA arrived in town on Mon day, from the Continent. The Marquis proceeded in the afternoon to the office of the Secretary of State for Fo- reign Affairs, and transacted official business. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial Office, for General Sir G. Dow, the Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar. Viscount MEIN ILLS transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD left town 011 Monday, to join the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen staying at Wo burn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke of BEDFORD. Sir GEORGE MURRAY arrived in town on Monday, from a visit to the Marquis of ANGLESEA, at his seat Beaudesert, Staffordshire. The Lords of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were— Lord WYNFORD, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chief Commissioners of the Woods and Forests. The Marquis ORMOND and family are on a visit at Clarisford House, with the Lord Bishop of KILLALOE. The appeal of " White v. Parnther," (from Jamaica,) was marked for hearing on their Lordships' list. Mr. BUCHANAN, on the part of the appellants, opened the appeal, which was, in fact, a case of equity in the Chancery Court of Jamaica, from which Court reference by appeal was made to their Lordships. The Court, by a Decree in 1828, founded on a bill filed by the respondents in 1822, ordered the sale of an estate in the island, and which the appellants, as mortgagees, had been in posses sion for a number of years, in order that the respondents might be permitted to establish a claim on the property prior to that of some of the mortgagees; amongst others the wife of the deceased proprietor of the estate, claims 3001. per annum, under her husband's will, bearing date 1775. The Decree, it was contended, was wrong, inasmuch as the respondents in their bill,on which it was founded, did not offer to become liable for the payment of the claim of the mortgagees, and also for the costa and expenses of the suit. As to the claims of the wife, the words in the will making the bequest were—" after all my just and lawful debts are paid :" and as the appellant stood in the character of creditor, the claim, even under the words of the will, could not claim precedence. The Counsel for the apellants occupied the Court about four hours. The Counsel for the respondents then commenced his reply. At half-past three o'clock Lord WYNFORD intimated their Lordships' wish, that the further hearing of the case should be postponed.—Their Lordships then adjourned. LA BOURDONNAYE.—II is well for France that this man has been expelled from her councils. Haughty and arrogant, and overbearing and violent—a man who has shifted opinions to gain pre-eminence--who appears not to have a spark of feeling in his composition—and who has, on every occasion , comported himself with outrage, and violence, and insult, he would have only proved an inextinguishable firebrand in the councils of the King. As he is no longer of the Ministry, perhaps his expulsion will extend to his minion, the Prefect Margin; and then we shall hear of fewer prosecutions for libel, a frightful list of which we have perceived in a very recent number of the Journal des Debats. Where the slightest vestige of public freedom is discernible, there ought to be tole rated the Liberty of the Press.—Foreign Review. A meeting took place early yesterday morning in a field near Chalk Farm between two Gentlemen, the one residing in Montague-square, the other in Regent's Park. Two shots were exchanged without effect, when the seconds interfered and caused the parties to with draw, but unfortunately without any amicable arrange ment. The affair is said to have originated in the one Gentleman endeavouring to supplant the other in the es teem and affection of an amiable young Lady. We regret to hear that the Hon. Mrs. Heneage Legge still continues seriously ill at Twickenham. The remains of the late General Garth were removed, at an early how on Friday morning, from his mansion in Grosvenor-place, for interment in a vault under st. Mar tin's church. The funeral was strictly private, consisting of a hearse drawn by six horses, followed by two mourn ing coaches, containing the relatives and friends of the deceased. Captain Garth was chief mourner. The following inscription has lately been placed in the parish church of East Grinstead, Sussex, in memory of the late amiable and highly- gifted Lord COLCHESTER:— " Sacred to the memory of the Right Hon. CHARLES Assoc, who, after filling with distinguished firmness and ability the office of Speaker of the House of Commons for more than 15 years, was, June 3, 1817, created Baron Colchester. Not less exemplary in the performances of the duties of a private than a public station, he devoted a long and active life to the advancement of religion, the of his country, and the welfare of his neighbours. • Oct. 14th, 1757. Died May Bth, 1829." A General Meeting of the Governors of the Royal Mr Diseases of the Dar was held a few days since, at the Dean-atreet, flokosquare. It appeared that since she Bea of tlgs asvfig Amity, in 1116, upwards of $440 petiaat.,'aLeted with deafness and other diseases of the Ear, have been admitted-3410 cured, and WO relieved, Melodies several cases of deaf and dumb. ,It is the intention of the Governors, as soon as the funds will allow, to extend the present building, so as m receive patients from the consul into the establishment. THE TRAVELLING DOCTOR. FROM TILE FRENCH OF PEPIN DE 1131.7RGEY. " How happy could I pus my days In travelling!" quoth Doctor Fume.— " Oh! could you leave us? Go your ways, Since 'tis your wish front hence to budge." —" I've thought again ;—'twould be but queer To roam unknown through foreign places , And never meet, as one does here, With well-known and familiar faces And In our rounds, well-pleas'd one Kea Faces familiaris'd by fee, !''-- -Then, Doctor, be your s:,11, unfurt'd, And seek them—in another world! PSTIL SCULS)11111. THE THEATRES. THE ADELPHI.— Retirensent of " BILLY TATUM" Notwithstanding the pompous announcement of the forthcoming prodigy—" the greatest Performer that has ever yet trod the Adelphi boards"—it is but an act of justice to more modest merit to assert, that " BILLY TAYLOR" maintains all his magnetic influence to the last ; and though, at the approach of the "prodigious and unique" candidate for histrionic honours, " that gay young fellow," " like a little star, hides his diminished head,"—or rather, with the gallantry becoming such " a perfect gentleman," he remembers the old adaire, that When a lady's in the cue Of course all other things give place." and bows with deference to the attractions of die docile debutante,—" he bears his blushing honours thick upon him" into his temporary seclusion ; and as the Edinburgh Review once observed of some other young hero prema turely removed from the scene of his glory, he leaves our sight—" extinguished, not decayed." On Tuesday even ing that classic Theatre, in which the " gentle BILLY" has so long been " the bserved of all observers," was crowded at an early hour, and the boxes displayed a galaxy of beauty, whose tenderest sympathies were evi dently much excited by the coming extinction .of this " particular star" in the dramatic horizon—fated, it would seem, but to enjoy what Tom MOORE calls " the chance of an Heliacal rising before the luminary, in whose light he was to be lost, should appear !" There are very few, even amongst the best of our mo dern Farces, so humorous as " Love Laughs at Bailiffs ;" which loses nothing of its effect even in the frequency of its repetition. Mr. BENSON HILL'S Lightfoot is one of the mo,t expert, vivacious, and enter taining of valets. Mr. HEMMINGS enters very spiritedly into the serapes, the expedients, and the entanglements of the Captain. WILKINSON'S Chatter is most agreeably loquacious. And as a genuine portrait—which it must be—of some practical member of the legal Catch- Club, the " Singing Bailiff " of MATTnews is admirably " uncommon !"—his snatches of songs, and snatchings of persons—bis chuckling anticipations of successful manoeuvring, and the dry quiet humour in which he at tempts to hide the mortification of defeat, are in his happiest style. Miss APJOIIN and Miss DALY have very little to do—but that little they do well. Miss DALY'S fine figure is by no means displayed to advantage in the dress which she has chosen for the cha racter. If Dr. JOHNSON thought that" a man who could make a pun would pick a pocket," what notion would he entertain of the author of " York and Lancaster," in every second line of which some pun is perpetrated Out of " the thousand and one," some fifty are partially good—but not even one has the merit of originality. Nevertheless, the comicalities of MATTISEWS, YATES, and Wn.xtmsow, kept the audience in a roar ! THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. &R e ... 1 have noticed with considerable interest the account In your Paper of yesterday, *hewing the prodigious extent of the export of Grain from Ireland, which I find considerably to exceed the quantity exported from the United States of North America to an parts of the world—which annually, on an average of the ten running years ending the 30th September, 1825, was as follows, viz. : 974,493 Barrels of Flour, of I 961bs. each, 1,344,437 Bushels of Indian Corn and Meal, 154,432 Bushels of Wheat. The largest exportation of Grain and Flour from the United States appears to have been in the year ending 30th September, 1903, in which year the quantity was -1,311,853 Barrels of Flour, 9,213,214 Bushels of Indian Can and Meal, 686,415 ditto of Wheat ; and the exportation of the preceding year was nearly as great, prin cipally imported into Great Britain, where, in 1801, the average price of Wheat was 1154,11 d. per quarter ; in 1802, 87s. 9d. and in 1803, 575. Id.—so that the Americans seem then to have acted on the principle of the British manufacturers of the present day •ia. to make up in quantity what they lose in price. —Yours, &e. JOHN BAINBRIDGL The Rev. Wm. CouRTHORPE, at his tithe-audit for the parish of Westmeston and hamlet of Chiltington, on the 17th instant, reduced his respective claims on his parishioners 10 per cent. on account of the distressed state of agriculture. Accounts from Colombia, by the Leeward Island Mail, state that Bolivar is busy in organizing the Pro vinces, and commerce begins to revive. The political news is not of importance. There are many persons in the City who have great doubts of the surrender of the Spaniards at Tampico, owing to the late accounts received, via of France, not mentioning the circumstance. A Philadelphia paper, re ceived this morning, of the 29th Oct. says, " The editor of the New Orleans Argus, of the 3d Oct. expresses a strong doubt of the truth given of the capitulation of Barradas. Extract of a letter from the Havannah, Oct. 11 :—" I take the opportunity of informing you that a report is circulated here, and entitled to credit, that the Intendant has received from Spain a Royal Decree, disapproving of the duty of five dollars per barrel on Spanish flour, im posed on foreign bottoms, which he had attempted to levy on the importers. This Decree will have the effect of inducing Spanish shippers to monopolize the trade.— Freights to the United• States and Europe are very scarce. Exchange on London 181 per cent." The Austrian Observer of November 17, adds the following particulars to the account already given of the extraordinary attack made on a young man at Nurem burg, by a secret enemy who pursues him :—" We un derstand that it is necessary to remove the unfortunate foundling Gaspar Hauser, of Nnremburg, to another re sidence, as the solitary situation of the house in which he at present lives renders the repetition of the late at tempt at assassination probable.. When, on the screams of the maid, the murderer, led, he said, " You shall not go alive out of Nuremburgr Unfortunately, Hauser, after the attack made upon him, hid himself, from fear, in the cellar of the house, and lost his reason. It was t hen necessary to secure him and watch him ; bat he has s ince recovered his senses. THE ARMY. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 25, 1829. The object of his Majesty's warrant, of the 14th of November, 1829, and the regulations annexed to it, for the pensioning of sol diers, being to secure the deserving soldier a provision proportioned to the length and nature of his services, and, at the same time, to prevent the royal bounty being bestowed on unworthy individuals, or on soldiers whose abort service can give them on just preten sions to be pensioned for life,— I have deemed it expedient to issue the following instructions, in order that the records of the services and claims of everysoldier may be correctly kept, from the day be enters the army, until he is finally discharged. A consideration fur the soldier's welfare and justice towards the pulilic, equally demand the most scrupulous attention to these de t .i:4, raft the part of the regimental staff, under the superintendence and re4pansibiiity of the commanding officer, and I therefore confi ,iency rely, that the irregularities and frauds so discreditable to the army, anti injurious to the public interests, which have recently been proved to so great an extent, in keeping the regimental re cords, will for tar future be prevented by the fidelity and vigilance with which this important duty will be performed. (Signed) 11. UAW/INGE. Secretary at War, &c. &c. A detachniriq belonging to the 79th (Cameronian Highlanders) regiment, recent«il •orders to proceed yesterday by canal boats, to Burc:ley, in join the reserve companies of that corps. CHTSTItIt, Nov. 29. AI Ajor-General Sir H. F. Beuverie, K.C.B. the General commit:ding in this district, Lieut.-Colonels Jordan and 'I hunt, William Anderson, Esq from the War-office, and the other Members who are to ont.htute the Court of Inquiry into the sta.: of the 67tit Regintent, arrived an this city this afternoon, and will enter upon their !shouts tomorrow. The scrutiny into the affairs in all the Regiments in this district has been to:um:ally rigid and minute. In the case of the 671 h the late Lieutenant- Colonel (Ilurslein) and some of the Officers who are pine oft half-,,ay, are r (pored to attend this investigat ton. —The investigation into the conduct of the il,,noutable Colonel Millyneux is the topic of getter alentiversation, hut we abstain from giving what common report says, while the matter is in • course of re ular inquiry. The late Mayor (Robert Morris, Esq) has re ceived an anonymeus letter from London on the subject. Its pur pow was to dissuade the 'Magistrates from prosecuting the cant plaint. The letter was written in scrawling hand, and was sealed with a crest of some -art, but which was after wards studiously obliterated ! blosresat„ OCT. 21$ Ingall. of the 15th, Ensign Nixon of the 66th, and John Adams, Esq. who were employed ou the part of the Como 3t ** inners appointed by the Executive, to proceed on a scientific tour, fur the purpose of exploring the country lying between tht Ottawa and Sr. Maurice Rivers. arrived iu this city, on their return from this expedition, last Thursday eve ins. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. M&lrs Alwyn) Tins par.—llubli:: I—Li•bnn I—Leeward Islands 1. The Caledonia. of Glasgow, was fallen in with on the 4th ult. in lat. 42. I.ng. 68. abandoned, waterlogged, and disma.ted. The Harmony, Cruise, front Mentyl to London, was abandoned on the 26th ult. totally disma.ted. DIAL, Dec. i.—Wind S E. . Posreasount, Dee. I. Wind E S.F.—Arrived the Harmony, Taylor, from Jamaica. PLYMOUTH. Nov. 50.—Wind E.S.E —Arrived the Argus, --, from Quebec ; Emilia,—, from Smyrna; Colyton Union, Good, from Messina ; Ashburton, Balbach, trout Naples ; and Restitu tion. King, from Charente. FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Magnet packet. from Lisbon—sailed the 15th instant ; and Barracouta packet, from the Leeward Islands—sailed from St. Thomas's the 12th October. Also, the Sultan, Rogers, from Smyrna. DARTMOUTH, Nov. W.—Arrived the Lovely Cruiser, Pad. BRISTOL, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Coral, from Vi rg i n ia, and Anne and Mary, Forster, front Sicily. Lreseroor., Nov. SO.—Arrived the Corsair, Graham, from New York, and Amethyst. Nye, from Boston. Off the port, the Sappho, front Jamaica, and Richard, Blakely, from De . Menu, Nov. 50.—Arrived the Bolivar, Mitchell; Unity, Betts; Samuel, Duff; Latona, Ormond; and Scohnuan, Rice, from St. Petersburgh; Urania, Alcamo, and Arunstead, Glendy, from Riga. HeLL, Nov. 29 and 30.—Arrived the Amity, Stubbs and Daniel Wheeler, Wharton, from St. Petersburgh ; CornwaWs, Buns, from Wyburg ; Glenora, Wace ; Mary. Johnson ; and Tianby, Layton, from ditto; Rebecca, Anderson, and Wonky, Ridley, from Gottenburgh ; and Columbia, Pearce, front Pernau. &mains, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Ibbotsons, Leman, from St. Petersburgh, and New Concord, Watson, from Mensal. His Imperial and Royal MAJESTY has Leen pleased, by a Cabinet reacript dated Oct. 9, to grant, on her own application, the rank of Austrian Baroness, with respect to the discharge of taxes, to Mademoiselle ANNA DE PONTIIIEV, of Esher, in the county of Surrey, de scended from one of the most ancient French dynasty.? families, naturalized in Great Britain.---Austrian Ob server. The Viceroy of Egypt has for several years intended to open the mines which are in the mountains of Cordo van, and are supposed to contain several kinds of metals. It has just been decided that a company of English miners, who have uselessly been employed in looking for coal-mines in the province of El Seerkani, shall be sent to Cordovan. It appears that Mr. BA )(Row has withdrawn his ad dress from the columns of the Waterford Chronicle, and that he is no longer a candidate for the representation of that county.—Dublin Morning Register Venice Preserved is preparing for representation at Covent-garden in perfect costume, both as it relates to entirely new and appropriate scenery and dresses like wise. The Messrs. GRIEVE have painted some delightful and vivid scenes, from accurate drawings taken on the spot; and Miss ABBOTT and Mr. HEAD have prepared the dresses. CH ARLES KEMBLE, with his usual good taste and delicacy of feeling, under existing circum stances, will act the character of Pierre. WARDE per forms Jaffier ; and Miss F. Ki.sißLE, of course, person ates the interesting Belvidera. A young lawyer, boasting of his readinesss to under take the defence of any person accused of crime, de clared he would as soon undertake the cause of a man whom he knew to be guilty as one whom he believed to be innocent. An aged Quaker being present, he ap pealed to him for the correctness of his views—" Whet say you to that, old gentlemen ?—" Why, I say," re plied the Quaker, " that if thee lived in my neighbour hood, I should keep my stable locked—that's Berkshire American. Thursday morning, William Warde, charged with the murder of a man named Ryan, at Barbaha, county Tip perary, last July, was apprehended in his father's barn, near Nemagh, by chief constable Kittson, and a party fo his police.—Clare Sentinel. The suits commenced by Messrs. Fitzgibbon and Stanton, against Mr. Carey, Editor of the York Ob server, for libels, were tried at the last York Assizes. The damages were laid at £lOOO in each case, and in both a verdict tvas rendered in favour of the defendant. —Montreal Paper. Joseph Hunt, the notorious comrade of Martell, who was transported for life for the prominent part he took in the murder of Weare, and who was stated to have died on his passage to New South Wales, is still living, and in excellent health. Various other stories have been circulated about his death, which are all fabulous. He is —from the last accounts from that Colony—employed in the Bathurst district, about 100 miles from Sydney, by the Government, as a posting-messenger, the duty of which office is to convey letters and dispatches from one station to another. His average journey is about 30 miles per day, which is considered very heavy work, over a mountainous country, where his fatigues are of course of no ordinary task. We have received this information from a gentleman on whose authority we can rely, and who saw him about seven months since, when he re tained all that cheerfulness for which his company was so courted when residing in his native land. COURT OF ALDERMEN. The Lord Mayor held his first Court of Ahienaon yes terday, which was fully attended ; and his Lordship, upon taking his seat, shortly addressed the Court. rever lug rh..ir ci operatinn and support throughout his Nlayoralty. Mr. Baron Holland attended the Court, and re of his office of Common Pleader, which he had field nearly 25 ve.rs, re pressed in a very handsome manner his grateful f,elings o•stards the Corporation for the kindness he had r.ceived at their heeds. The Baron then presented Russell Gurney, Eq. who was admitted a Common Pleader in his room. The Court passed an order for the removal of the stand of hackney-coaches from Fleet-street. and for allowing 25 coaches to stand in Ferringdon-street in lieu thereof. An order was alto passed for the Police Officers of tire City to enter to books, to be kept at the N:anslon-house, the and the Compters, an account of the propel ty taken by arm from inch parties as they may apprehend THE NEW POLICE. The Commissioners of the New Police force have announced their intention of appointing a medical attendant to each division, consisting of 180 men, and for the purpose of receiving proposals from those willing to undertake the duties, have set!t tEr foitowicg letter to a great number of respectable surgeons resident in the die triers where the New Police are stationed. The object of the Commissioners is to prevent the men absenting themselvt* front their duties oa any frivolous pretence of illness, and to afford them proper medical advice, free of expense, when actually posed : Whitehall place, Nov. 25, 18-29. Sia—l am directed, by the Commissioners of Police, to inquire if you wish to become a medical attendant on one of the poliez divisions, consisting of about 180 men, more or less, in your own neighbourhood ? It will be required that you furnish the sick men with cv ry requisite medicine, and visit them st the s I statiod him e;,-et- at their own loslgiit,o,w unesle to attend at your how... Y,iu will have th- means of di piper% of evreme cases, such as infectious fevers, bad accidents, or any other disease requiring more attention than can be given at their own dwelling', by adiois :on into any of the public hospitals. It will also be required that you make a daily report to th • nii ii inners of the sick in the division, and a weekly report to to • Superintending Surgeon, together with any observations that y he necessary. f you are desitous of undertaking this employment, you are • quested to send into the Commissioner.' Office, Great Scotian' yard, on or before the 4th of Dec. a statemetit of the lowest saia. y for which you would perform the duties.—l am. &c. &c CHAS. Alt OLE T, Chief Cierk. Several surgeons have offered to undertake the proposed tbattes. and furnish quantum elf of medicine at the rate rat £1 per man year, others as low as los. each matt per annum, and some at variota, sums between those above nanud. Saturday last the Commts , ioners of the new metropolitan police cau•ed 150 circwat I to he torwarded to the candidate. fur situation.‘ as police constables, directing the applicants to attend a.t the offi:- in Scotland-yard un Monday. for the purpose of selecdtig the m oc efficient men. A nmil number of cireubrs are ta It • i•sued ever% alternate day, until an additional number of I,noo men are ap pointed, wko will be placed on duty on the Sut rey side of the watt t The above-mentioned force •will contotroce oper atolls at Chri-t - MIS neat. The greatest circumspection used by the Conuni. 'goners in selecting not only able mar. , , but those whose charactet 4 will bear the strictest investigstiun. We understand that the Cum. enisdoners have come to a regni.aion to discharge every race cot stable who may be found intoxicated while on duty. COMMERCE. Tut Titassrzn 80l KS —The Transfer Books at 11,1 flank of England for the Three per Cent. Coons, shut this da% preparatory to the payment of the dividends. All transfers in t.i.• New Four per Cents, will cease on Thuraday, and the Books f.:r the Lit! Annuities, and the Three per Cents. of 17.6, will stint on the 10th instant. The days flied by the Bank of England for the re-opening of the Transfer Iks Its, after the payment of the dividends on these Consols. on the 20th Jan. the New Four per Cents. on the 21st ; Life Annuities on the 12th ; and the Three per Cents. of 1726 on the 14th January. India Stock close. ou the 3d instant, and opens on the 14th January ; and the Books at the South Sea House will shut to-morrow, and open on the 20th of January, In Three per Cent. Consols, private transfers will be allowed some days previously to the 20th January. EAST INDIA COMPAN Y'S TF.• SALE. —Monday morning the periodiet.l sale of Teas by the East India Company commenced, and was very fully attended. Vie quantity of tea to be put up during the present a .le is 7.8C03D00 lbs, being precisely the same as offered at the last declaration. The following are the quantities of the several sorts :—Of Bata, 1;300,000 ; of Cungou, Campo', and Souchong, 5,200,000 lbs. ; of Twankay and Dyson Skin, 1,150,000 lbs. ; and of Dyson, 2.;0,000 lbs. In the last mentioned there are 50,000 lbs. len thin last sale, and in the third qualities 40,000 lbs. more. The sale commenced with some acti vity, and the Boheas went off briskly at from Is. sd. to Is. 741. per lb. excise duty, being nearly the quotations given at the last sale. The declaration will not be got through for some days. The duty on all Teas sold at the Company's sale under 2s. per lb. is 911 per cent, and above 2s. 100 per cent. SUG Alt.—The delivery of Plantation Sugars from the West India Docks last week, amounted to nearly 2700 casks, all for home consumption, excepting 21 lads. and the stock on Mon day was 40566 hds. and 2840 fres. The purchases have as yet been very limited. Good St. Vincent's are quoted 60s. to 645. Good Brown Jamaica, 50s. to 51s. Good and fine Tobago, 58s. to 65% Good brown Antigua, 48a. to 425. p..r cwt. Of Maur'. tins Sugars, the tonnage is extremely am-11, and the stuck is not higher in the West India Docks than about 38,000 bags. In all other sugars there has as yet been no bargains reported this morn ing. and very few public sake are announced for this week. Coffee remains firm. _ _ _ -------- Hu m.—The delivery last week uas considerable, .at above 800 puncheons and SOO hhds. of which 468 puncheons were for export. The stock is now 24,500 puncheons and 1910 hhds. prices as last quoted. COTTON . —The increasing demand for cotton in the Liverpool market has bad a corresponding Vfiuence here. Bahias, Maranbams, and Egyptian, are from t to i higher than list week, and more business doing. ToBACCO.—In the month ending to-day, there has bees a good demand fur home consumption, but leafy and stemmed have given way id. per lb. as good and fine sons are scarce, they have maintained their value. There is a great anxiety on the pat of the holders to make sales. For Ireland, few purchases have been made, the prices demanded being too high. In stalks little has been done, and prices are lower. Several parcels are in the market, at Xl6 per cwt. BALTIC PR() C E.—The price of tallow in again lower, vii. from 355. 3d. to 355. 641. per cent. The delivery Ls week was 1706 casks. The stock is about 26.000 casks. The St. Petersburgh commercial letters received yesterday to the 1301 ult. state that tallow there was 92 roubles, and the exchange 10. There were about two degrees of fruit, and 811 ships had sailed. here have arrived in the Thames 13 vessels, with from 6000 to 7000 casks of tallow. CII ESTER, Nov. 29.—These are rare times for ha!;- pay officers and Government annuitants. The prices of provisiors and agricultural produce of every description are ruinously low.— Tbe landlords in this district need expect no rents this ye..r. 'Yes terday in our market delicious Wekb wether mutton was sold the quarter at ed. per lb. l'wef from ed. to Sd. and the pruner', eS Sid. to 64.1. only. A pair of turkeys 3s. to Gt. a fat goose (ready fur the snit) 3c. fowls and ducks 2s. to 2s. 6d. a coupe. Potatoes, per measure of 901bt. ls. Fish of all sorts wouriertudy cheat —a turbot, I fibs fur 3s. The Police C•ommistuosers of Sheffield have given no tice that they will institute proceedings against the owners of all steam engines and furnaces which ere not, by the end of the year so constructed as to corn:tine their own smoke. CORN—EXCHANGE, XIAIIK—LANE, Lac. 2. We bad some vessels in from the gorfolk and Suf ulk coasts, laden chiefly with Barley ; hut the reater pan of it was stained, and unfit or malting; thr 6 w quality, however. obtained as Wet as 355. per quauer. The Wheat trade was dull, at Monday's prices. Oats sold freely, and in some instances more money was realized than en Hu market day. IXTOILTATIONI UNCI MOPDAT. Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1550 Barley, Foreign Irish . . 710 Oats, English Foreign . Foreign Barley, Etighsh . 4,550 Irish . Irish . . ISO Floor (sacks) COAL NIA It K ET—Tria DAT. At this day's market there we. again but a very moderate supply both of Sunderland and Newcastle Coal—poly IS new ships b4ving arrived since Monday last. The Coal &change wu well attended by merchants to-day ; bet In consequasee of the smsU supply, unly a modeeste business wu done. Ships arrived during shamans! Beta Wallsend SOL Sd. SUs. 641. • Other sorts • Migsst Market . , T.• :.L e5O . 4CO 5,0Z0