Star. — London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

Dragonetti were mounted so high as to preclude the tea of at least twenty persons. They manage these things better in France. At the Comic Opera La Dance Blaxche has been performed inces -sandy. It is said to have been taken from one of Scutt's novels, but- bears, little resemblance. It is, however, very interesting, and the music, with the exception of the Overture, is excellent. Many of the choruses are admirably done. The air of Robb, Adair has been in trdduced, and is a great favourite in Paris. `The perfect silence in the streets, after twelve o'clock at sight, is remarkable in so gay and populous a city. No , watchmen bawling, no drunken squabbles, not a sound heard, nothing stirring. It must be allowed that the French are rational in their hours of recreation. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 18213. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 80 to 6 buyers for the Account, but soon after tbe market became heavy, and Consols recedtd to 791 80, and for Money 791 I. No business of importance has been done as yet. The heaviness of the market is attributed to tbe unsettled state of the negotiations between the Turks and Russians. In the Foreign market there has been some fluctuation in Mexican Bonds, and they have been done as high as but went down again to 12 I, although the Portsmouth letter is a forgery. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols which were, in the earlier part of the morning, at 80 to i for the Account, receded to Toi, and for Money at 79i; after which they became alternately buyers and sellers at •Ob for the Account, and 88 for Money. The speculations have been of a very limited description. but the market still appears Wavy. In the Foreign market, Mexicans which opened at 621, receded to 611, at which price they now remain stationary. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock Shut. M per Cet t Red. Shut. • 3 per_Cent. Cons. 80 7934 80 SI per Cent. Shut. 3i per Ceni. Re i. Shut. 4 pet Cent. New 96 1 / 4 1/ 8 • 4 per Cent. 1826, Shut. Long Ann. Shut. India Bonds 29 1:1,000 hxci,eq. hills 16 16 4:500 ditto 15 16 4:100 and L2(10 ditto 17 19 Cons. int Account 80 1 / 4 79N 80 1 / 4 FORKION FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK# rtarilian 13,aid-,65 6 Oani.sh liocuis. 3 p Ct. Chilean liar 1%, 6 p Ct. 42 59 Ditto Acct. 58 Do. Acct. 49 Mex. 1825, 6p. Ct. 62114 Colombian 621 4 Do. Bonds, 1824, 364 51 hies. Acct. tf9 1 11 1 1 1 / I Do. Acc. 35,) Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 101 1 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK. SWAIM rem. Anglo Mexican 5 pm. 100 65 13 17e kkazilian 100 15 t9i British Iron Company 100 Sii 3i Potosi La Paz and Peru. Au. 50 5 • 1 i United Alozicao 40 35 13 General &eam Navigation 100 • id EXCHANGES. AMSTIBILIMM, Ssrr. 92.—0 n London, 40. 6. .2 M. 40. 3. liasinusam, Sin. 19.—On' London, 57. 0. 2 51. 36. 9. Si. Prrassounon, Sin. s.—On London, se. Lyme., Sm. 15.—0 n London, 5 M. G. 17/. Swam, Sum 16... -On London, 3 M. 7. 1. Dutch and 1-famburgh Mils, bringing the Journal de W. Petersburgh of the 7th inst. and accounts from Moscow to a late date, were received this morning. The St. Petersburgh Journal has no further mention of the incursion of the Persians. there are some minor notices of movements connected with the Coronation, but they have for the most part been anticipated. These Pa, ers also supply a Manifesto published by authority at Moscow, reciting the laws enacted by the Emperor PAUL on the subject, and fixing the line of succession to the sceptre of Muscovy. The H.emburgh Papers contain, under the head of St. Petersburgh, Septem• ber 9, the commencement of the criminal proceedings against the accomplices in the conspiracy of Lieutenant Colonel MIRAJEW APOSTOL, is the Tschernigow Regi ment of Kiew. The following are extracts: MOSCOW, &mums 3. The following Imperial Manifesto has been published here, which was drawn up at St. Petersburgh 10,h July : We, by the grace of Goo, Nicholas I. Autocrat of all the Russian, &c. &c. In the regulations which our fattier of glorious me mory, his Majesty the Emperor Paul, laid down on the 16th of Apri1,1797, respecting the Impetial some princ;pl, s arc establish••d relative to the accession to the Throne, and rules for various possible cases.— Among other things they reserve to the reigning Em peror the right of appointing a Regent and Guardians in case of his death, and the minor ity of his successor: In conformity with this, and animated by a wish to give our dear country, upon nor accession, tie first proof of our care for the stability of the laws, which insure the permanent security of the State, We ordain, with the bkvsinig of our much beloved Mother, the Empress Marta Feodorowna, and with the previlus approbation of our dear brother the Cesarewitch and Grand Duke Constantine, as fonovrs: As the days of our life are in the hands of Gon, we appoint, in case of our death, and till the legal majority of the successor to the throne, the Grand Duke Alexander Ntkolajeinitsch, our beloved brother the Grand Duke Michael Pawlowitsch, to be the bead of the Government of the Empire, as well as that of the kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland, which are inseparable from it. Should it please the ALMIGHTY after our death, to take to himself also our son and heir, the Grand Duke Alexander Nikolajewitsch, our next son, should Pisovrotscs bestow une upon us, shall legally succeed to the right of the eldest, and in this case as in the first, our beloved brother the Gratkd Duke Michael Pawlowitsch, shall be at the head of the Government. If on our death and the decease of our successor in his minority, we should leave no other son, but our beloved Consort, the Em press Alexandra Feoclorowna be pregnant, our beloved brother Michael Pawlowitsch remains at the head of the Government till the delivery of her Imperial Majesty. Should Paovunume bless ; ber Majesty with a son, the infant succeeds, according to , the rights of our Hereditary Emperor and our beloved brother, the .Grand Duke Michael Pawlowitsch holds the Government, tW the majority of, the yang: Emperor. But if her Majesty should be delivered of a Princess, the titbit of our heredadlry Emperor devolve, iceording to law, as our beloved brother; the Grand Duke Michael Paw. low itsch. In all the three socceeffing cases the guardianship of all our dren, till they'are of age, belongs to our beloveci - Consort the Em press Alexandra Feodorowna, in the manner determined by the Imperial family Statute of Sth April, 1797. At the same time that acting upon laws formerly issued respecting the succesdon to the Throne, and cares of minority in the Imperial Family, We establish these rules. We implore the Supreme Ruler of Princes to take our Imperial House and our dear Country for ever under Hu Almighty and Gracious protection. Given at St. Petersburgh the 28th of June, (10th July), in the year of our Lotto 1526, the First of our * Reign. ' Published at Moscow, in the Printing office of the Senate, 22d August, (3d Sept.) 1826. BERLIN, Sznimno. 16. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meck lenburgh Schwei in, the Dukeof Cambridge, and Prince Charles of Bivaria, have arrived here. A great number Geneials and superior Officers, are come to be present at the grand reviews. The half year's jubilee was solemnly opened at War saw on the Ist of this month, with a procession to the Metropolitan Church, and Divine Service. In the pro cession were the Guilds and Corporations, the Clergy, the Senate of the KingOom, the Ministers, the Council of State, and other public .bodies, and above 30,000 persons of all classes. STOCK H 0 pi s "Srrnuessz 19. The College of Justice has approved of the com- mencement of legal proceedings against M. Filen and the trustees legally appointed. One of our Journals publishes a genealogical;table of the family of Filen, ac cording to which the Counsellor Filen (the defendant) is not the brother of the wealthy individual of the same name who died at Demerara. COPENHAGEN, &mamma 16. The Russian squadron of three ships of the - line, &c. passed this city on the 12th, sailing to the South. The Brussels Papers to the 24th inct. confirm the probable suspension and breaking up of the conferences at Acker ' mann, and state, that the Persians who invaded the Russian terri tory were commanded by French and English Officers, and amounted in number to 200000 men, which is evidently a gross exaggeration. They also contain advice' from Constantinople to the end of the last month, which admit that the Captain Pacha had failed in his attempts against Samos, and had retired to Mitylene, whither the Greeks had followed him, and done gleat damage to his fleet. The reported arrival of Lord Cocuamtx in the Archi pelago had "excited an extraordinary sensation amongst the Turks, , who endeavoured to console themselves with the idea that the re port was unfounded. The French Papers to the 231 instant, have arrived, and extracts will be found in the brst page. The Etoile denies the statement published by the ocher Journals, that the conferences at Ackermann had either been suspended, or entirely broken off. It contends that they still continued, but at the same it gives the fol lowing account as entitled to credit: " We learn front Vienna, that a rumour had reached that city, of its having been signified to the Turkish Commissioners at Ackermann, that if the points submitted , for their consideration were not accepted to their whole extent, on the 7t4 of October, the Hu ,ian troops would occupy Wallachia and rioldavia without delay." This is certainly an effective mode of negoclating, and shews that blierroxas does not possess the tern ' Porizing spirit of his predecessor, but really wishes to bring the tong pending question between Rustle and Turkey to a crisis. The intelligence from Madrid comes down to the 14th Inst. It consists chiefly of a now Decree issued by King FERDINAND, di- recting that the Officers, non-commissioned Officers, and soldiers, who lately abandoned their colours at aivenza to go to Portugal, or, in the language of the Decree, " to desert to the enemy," be hanged the moment they should be retaken, with the exception of those who should surrender themselves within a week after the publication* this act of atr. v ,ty ! Does FERDINAND already consider himself at war with Portugal, that he calls the Portuguese people " Ike enemy ?" Tbis is the firs time that be has spoken so plainly. New South Wales P4pers have been received to the end of May. The Colony has been thrown into a state of great agitation by the embarassments of the Bank, the dollars having disappeared, on account of the rate of exchange, and the new coin front England not having mad. its appearance in time. On the fact being announced, the Govetnors came immediately forward, offering a Loan of the new coinage to the amount of £20,000. On the application for a renewal of the charter, the Governor peremp torily refused it, as a letter from Lord Barneetsr to his predecessor was perfectly conclusive as to the wish of the English Government to put an end to the monopoly. The Doke of Sussex and the Duke of RUTLAND visited the Duke of Your yesterday. His Royal Highness took his usual airing on Saturday afternoon for about two hours and a half in his open barouche. Sir /I . Tavroa, his Military Secretary, and Sir Ilesav Tortaxxs, Adjutant-General, transacted official business with the Royal Duke on Saturday at the residence of the Duke of R UTLA ND, in Arlington-greet. Sir HINNY lIAL ruaD and Mr. M Garoua visited his lioyal Hignhess yesterday. Lord llowAnn de WALDEN, Under Secietary of State for Foreign Affairs, is expected to leave town this day for Paris, on a visit to Lord GRAM/11.1.14 our Ambassador there, with whom; Lord Ilowato's father (Lord SRA FOND) and Mr. Secretary CANNING are at present staying. Mr. STAPLETON, Private Secretary to Mr. CANNING. entertained Mr. PLANTA, Lord How* an de WA ID CD, and a number of Gentlemen connected with the Foreign Department, to dinner, un Saturday, at his house hi Queen street, May Fair. According to' letters from Warsaw, the Coronation of the Emperor NICHOLAS. as King of POLAND, is expected to take place there about the end of November. Splendid preparations are making in that capital, and it seems as if the Polish pulpits of his Maaiorry were resolved to rival the Russians in magnificence on this occasion. Baron SoLobrox DE ROTHSCHILD and Baron JAMES DS Rornscuitar, with their Ladies, left town this afternoon on their return, the first for Vienna, and the latter for Pails. Mr. Secretary CANNING bad an audience of the King of FKANCI on Thursday last. '' In consequence ()I accounts received on Wednesday morning at Perth, of the dangerous illness of one of his Lordship's sons, Lord Maanowsaor was obliged to leave that place before opening the Circuit Corn, along with Lord GILLISL A report prevails that another Spanish regiment had deserted to Portugal. Letters of the 16th July, from Angustina, state, that General Ilteatuna hid arrived there—all was quiet up to that period. Advices from St. Thomas state, that the Spanish Admiral Laotians had made a descent on the coast of Santa Martha, and occupied the capital of that Province. Sir F. ADAMS, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, transacted busbies' on Friday, and also on Satur day, with Mr. Hay, Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. at the Colonial Ofikee Sir F. ADAMS was engaged with Mr. Hay upwards of au hoer on Friday. The Danish Minister, and the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires transacted business on Saturday, with Mr. PLANTA. Under Secretary of State lox Foreign Maks, at the Foreign Office. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. We unientiyed, frbm rtspectable authority, that the Russian add 1 Turkish Commissioners* Alsermann, have nearly concluded their negociatioiss. The only obstacle 'nOw remaining is, .the sum of money which the Russian Governinent demands for her expenses from the Turks. They are also willing to give up the fortifications which the Russians have conquered ; but the Turks demand some certain bridge, which formerly belonged to them. The two Turkish Commissioners, fearing to come to a final set tlement without the consent of their Government, lest they might lose their heads, have demanded of the Russian Commissioners to draw op the final settlement,which was to be sent to the Grand Seignior for his approbation, and there was every pnobability that the arrangedients would be accepted by the Turks. It Is repotted from Moscow, that Prince DOLGOS6NCZI, camp of the Emperor of Rill's's, had set off with orders to the General-in• Chief YeassaLore; with impnrtant orders and that war is looked on as certain with the Persians. The account also states, that Prince Mvitiorr, the Russian Ambassador in Penis, had been assassinated. Another important report prevails. 'tilt& the Poituguese are arming against the Spanish Government. DRURY-LANE 1 HEATItt. • this 'theatre commenced its season on Saturday night. Tbe sceptre of management has been transferred from Mr. F.traerok, who was so long Monarch of this Stage, to Mr. Yates, who is well known in this country as the conductor of several theatrical estati. lishments in America. The play was The ;Fonder, a comedy of admirable ingenuity in plot and dr lightful sprightliness of dialogue. Miss E. Tara, a sister of the Miss Tam who was so great a favourite as a singer at Covent Garden, made her first appearance in London in the part of Violante. Her figure is good, her countenance agree able, and not inexpressive, and her voice sweet—not remarkably powerful—but capable of distinctness and modulation. She played with grace, vivacity, and intelligence, and was warmly applauded. A Mr. Hoopes was to have made his debut in London as Colonel Briton, but was prevented by indisposition; and A PICaKIL sustained that character. WALLACE was pleasing and easy in Bon Felix. J. Itussect, performed the part of Gibby. The Comedy was succeeded by a new Divertissement called The Dutch Fair. The dancing is skilfully arranged, and the grave and the grotesque are well mingled together. The scene is as picturesque as scenery in the land of dikes, and canals ' can with propriety be rendered. The entertainments cl ose d with The Marriage of Figaro, in which another branch of the fa mily of the Tags s—( Miss A. Taxx)—made her first appearance on these boards. She seems at home upon the stage, and has a brisk ness of manner which is well suited to a certain line of parts.— I Her voice is a soprano, of considerable power and compass. She was rectived with warm marks If approbation, and encored in Should he Upbraid,. and La Bose d' Amour, two songs by litswor, absurdly enough Introduced into the bpera. Mrs. AUSTIN, who sang here about four years ago, took • the part of the Cnudess, but was obliged, by a severe hoarseness, to omit her 'ongs. Ilisowsis, the " Actor a All Work," here, was the Costal. Alosavien, in consequence of the absence of Mr. dawns. There bas been no alteration in the decorations of the Theatre since last season, with the exception of a new drop-scene, by STAHMLIN It represents a colonnade of the lonic order, with a landscape in the back ground. It is pretty and well painted. The liouse was tole rably well filled for the season. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. •-••11111 , .-- Slit—Having read, in the Horning Herald of this day, a paragraph stating that the neighbourhood of New Broad street was in an uproar yesterday, owing to certain persons •having forcibly takes possession of the premises belonging to Mr. John Wilke, jun. in that street, I beg leave to state that the matter was brought before the Lord Mayor early this morning, and by the interference of his Lord ship the intruders were instantly removed, and Mr. Wilke restored to the possession of his property. lie is now taking the necessary legal steps fur bringing the delinquents to public justice. Kennington, Sept. 25, 1826. MURDER. At the Perth Circuit held at Perth on the 2lst inst. Duncan Clark, 'Ate a writer of that City, was put to the bar, acccused with the murder of a female infant, in the autumn of last year, by locking it in a writing desk, which caused suffocation. Several female witnesses, who were examined in Gaelic, deposed to the fact of bringing the child from its mother, and giving it to the prisoner, and of its alter wards being found dead in the writing desk. Among other evidence given of the like n4tore, was that of David Low, a day police man, who accompanied by a blacksmith, opened the lock of the ptisoner's desk, in which they found the body of a child. Drs. Malcolm and Stewart were sent for, and the body was not touched till they came. Dr. Malcolm , gave a ratified report of what he saw at the prisoner s house. Read the certificate, which concluded that the child had been put alive into the desk, and its death caused by suffocation. Tile cheeks were livid and the lips also—the nose flat, and the blood squeezed out of it ; the tongue protruding a little. The pres ure of a ruler on the arm haJ been so strung as to force the blood to the border of the mark, while the concave part of the mai k was white ; the lungs were tinged with blood. In his opinion, had the child been dead before putting in, such appearances would not have ensued. The lungs also bore appearances which warranted the same conclusion. Dr. Alexander Stewart agreed entirely with the evi dence given by Dr. Malcolm. He had no doubt but the child died by suffocation. It had been a fine biota child, and eves ything proper seemed to have been done for it at its birth. The prisoner's declarations were then read, in which he acknowledged having received the child from the women, on their insisting on le wing it, and stated that it had been taken away by Mrs. Shaw to find a nurse for it. He denied putting the child into the desk, or of having knowledge of how it came there . . The Jury, after Wearing the opinion of Dr. Johnson and Pro fessor Christian for the panel, and the evidence of several persons, who gave the prisoner a good character for humanity, Om retired, and In a quarter of an hour returned with a verdict of Gulley. The prisoner, on hearing tl.e verdict, fell down► at the bar. He was then sentenced to be executed at Perth on the 3d November. WINDSOR, SEPT. 24.—This morning his MAJIISTY and suite attended Divine Service in the private Chapel in the Royal Lodp, which *as performed by the Rev. Dr. Pia xsota, Dean of Salisbury. Yesterday afternoon the Kum, attended by his suite, left the Royal Lodge, in phaetons, and proceeded through the en closures by Frogmore up the Little Park to the Castle, where his blaaasry was received by the chief clerks of the works, who con ducted the Kis° over the various apartments, &c. His Majesty returned to the Royal Lodge to dinner. Mr. MICARBS, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Friday night, from Lisbon, with despatches from the Right Hon. Sir W. A'Cevav, our Minister at Lisbon; also from the Right Hon. F. LAMS, our Ambassador at Madrid, to Mr. Secretary Cilium. New York and other American Papers have arrived to the 40th ultimo. Accounts from Colombia repeat the report that an express bad arrieed from Botrraa, the liberator, in which he hly disapproves of the movements of General Pan. The latter is represented to have immediately quitted Valencia. The follow ing official notice has been issued by the Consul General of Colons his in the United States;—" The new law regulating the duties of importation and exportation in the Custom House of the Republic of Colombia will go into operation on the Ist of September, 1826. Persons interested in that trade are hereby notified, that the 25th sod 28th Articles of the said law, which exact a consular certi ficate to the respective invoices will be rigidly enforced, an t . on default of producing said certificate, duties will be levied on the value of the goods at the place where they may be imported. (Signed) " I'ALACIO." . •r - C OWES; SEPTEMBER 22. The sailing march for the Gold Cups given tbe inhabitants of this town, as a mark of gratitude to the Members of the Royal Yacht Club, in making this port their rendezvous, commenced yesterday at ten o'clock, for the 100 Guinea Cep, between the under mentioned yachts, viz. Miranda, James Mazse, gal. Hierlet, the Eari_of Belfast; Ar. row, Joseph Weld, Rl. Elizabeth, Daniel Migniae, 134 Easierairk.% J. L. Symonds, Esq. Mary, J. S. Pepkaze, Essi. Elizabeth, Earl ' of Darnley; Giulia General Mauston ; Dolphin, Capt a i n B rowne • (cutters) ; Mary embooner), Viscount Deerinnik; Eliza (yairl),. - Sir George Thomas, Bart. They started with a fine breeze from the E.N.E. from Cowes Roads, round a vessel off Newtown, front thence round a vessel off the east black buoy of the • middle bank, to go three times round the course, distance of about seventy miles. In the first round Lord Deerhurses American clipper Mary carried aw a y. her jib-boom ; and Captain Browne's Dolphin sprung her ruast : these two fine yachts were obliged to give up the contest, and come into harbour, leaving the other nine to do their best, The Cup was won by Mr. Mazse's Miranda, new cutter, lately built at South. empton, this being the first match she was ever en gaged in.—The second vessel in was the Arrow ; th e third was the Harriet; fourth, the Emerald; filth, Eli zabeth, Mr. Magniac ; sixth, Elizabeth, Lord Darnley; seventh, Mary, Mr. Penleaie; eighth, Giulia ; and the ninth, the Eliza, 'l'his day the other• Gold Cup, of the value of .50gs. also given by the inhabitants of this towi,, was saikd for between the Elizabeth; D. Magnige, Esq. Dolphin, Captain Browne; Emerald, J. L. dymonds, Esq.. Mary; J. S. Penlease, Esq. Ann, the Earl of Lis. towel ; Elizabeth, the Earl of Darnley ; Gallia, General Johnston (cutters); Jane (schooner), Hon. Wm. Hare; Lord of the Isles. Colonel Seale; Ladi of the Lake, Simon Halliday, Esq. Eliza, Sir• G. Thomas, Bart. (yolks); and Zoe (lugger), the Ban of Belfast. They started at ten o'clock, with a fresh wind from the eastward. In the first round the Zoe got athwart the bows of the Mary, and carried away her mainmast ; soon fitter the Emerald earned away her boom. Both these vessels were obliged to come into the har bour. leaving the other ten to contend. This Cup was won by the Elizabeth, 1.). Margie; Esq. The second vessel in was the Mary, J. S. Penlease, Esq. the third, the Ann; fourth, Elizabeth, Lord Darnley; fifth, Elsa; sixth, Guilia ; seventh, Dolphin. Despatches, dated the 27th of May, were received on Sathrelay, at the Colonial Department, from the Governor, Lieut. General R. Maim, at New South Wales. The great anxiety which was felt during the whole of Saturday, concerning the truth of the letter received at the Noah and Sluth American Coffee-house, from • Portsmouth, of a Spanish Beet from the Havannah landing at Tampico, from 5 to 6,000 men, increased to such a degree in the evening, that the Coffee-house was crowded to excess, both with Mexican bond-holders and subscribers, to ascertain if Mr. DAVIS had received any further inforination on the subject of the above intelli gence. Mr. DAVIS, whose exertions and endeavt•urs are unremitting to proCitre the earliest intelligence for his friends and subscribers, immediately dispatched his head waiter, Mr. CHARLES MANSFIELD, to Portsmouth { to ascertain it any such passenger had landed at tr.at port from New Yni k, and was the writer of said letter. This walling at an eat ly hour, Mr. MANSFIELD returned with the following account:—That on his arrival at Portsmouth, he proceeded to the Custom-house, searched the books ; also proceeded to the Wateh-house, and to every Inn in the town; neither the arrival of the vessel, nor the person was heard of, consequently the whale of ti.e letter is a forgery. A person had landed at Ports-' mouth by the packet from Havre, and put: a letter in the Post-office, and proceeded to London, on Fader.. Moscow, SEPT. s.—The Persian's who have made an incursion on the frontiers of * Russia amount to 10,0 be men. They have carried off women and children, and licks, burning several villages. The Emperor was much distressed at this news, and what increased his, sorrow was, the assurance given him that 'English uni forms had been seen on the troops who had committed these ravage. The BranciPbank in King-street, Manchester, wag opened on Thursday. It is not intended that these establishments should interfere with the businescof pro= vincial Banks, but that the object in establishing them is merely that Bank of England paper may replace the local notes that have been withdrawn by failures. UNEMPLOYED JuURNEYNIEN PRlNTgas.—The per. I tormances at the Coburg Theatre, on Saturday, the benefit of this meritorious class f the community, we are happy to state, were well attended. A neat and sp. I propriate Address, written by a Compositor, was very effectively delivered by Mr. RowaoTuarts. The " Wandering Minstrel," Colonel M'Donald, pe rambulated the principal streets of Canterbury on Wed nesday afternoon, playing on his bagpipes, and excited . general interest. The contributions of the public were very liberal, and no doubt is entertained that he will win his wager. Thursday, James Wild, a bread baker in Leeds, applied at the - Eagle and .Child public-house, where he had b: en drinking, for a further supply of liquor, which was refused to him, on the ground that he was already in a state of intoxication. After a good deal of alterca tion, he eedeavoured to force his way into the bar, when the landlord called to his ahl Richd. Speight, a recruit, billeted hi the house, between whom and Wild a contest arose, during which the latter fell. and died almost in stantly, leaving a widow just recovered from her con finement in child-birth, and three children. A Coroner's . Inquest was held en the body of the deceased, by whom a verdict was returned of " died in a fit of apoplexy, from violent passion." PRIVATE Soar MANUIP Acrowy.— A few days ago, in consequence of private information, and having re ceived the necessary warrant, Geater and Ellerin, offi cers of Excise, proceeded to the premises of Mr. Tweed, a cabinet maker, in Globe-lane, where, atter traversing, a number of subterraneous passages, most ingeniously contrived, and making their way through a number of difficulties, they discovered a complete apparatus for the manufactory of soap, together with a boiling of near a ton weight, which had been recently run off, and was then drying in the frames. On a further examination, they also found, in the upper part of the dwelling house, a large quantity of manufactured soap, which, together with the frames, they removed to the Excise office. The same officers, on the same day, discovered a private still, in full work, which, together with 100 gallons of wash and raw spirits, they likewise secured, and brought away. ... Foaccurs.s.—Wednesday, two young men, calling themselves Aseph Shackleton i and gear, and who say they re. side at Thornton, in the neigbbtsurhood of Bradford, were arm: funded for uttering forged notes on the Bank of Eitaliad.—Tuesday two young men were apprehended at the Hammer and AnviP pub lic-house, in Qssett.street, near Dewsbury, charged with tittering forged notes upon the Leeds Union Bank, a number of which they have changed at Lee Fair, and in the neighbourhood. A Gentleman on going into the Theatre atDoncaster .me of the race evenings with his friend, had his pocket-book ev .racted by a clever ",transferer," and after taking out die consents, a was adroitly placed in the pocket of his friend. We hive beard of a similar trick having been practised on the 'laic Course. CI