Star. — London, England, 1826-11-28 00:00:00

• eassacnort.wetee zoo v. summer. Mr. Ihrovorwa suoved to Sit an information against' Mr.Olement, fin" libel. published ip Bdi's Life ix Leadoff. a which he is the proprietor. Tire publication appeared yesterday, and was of a nature to stop the course Of jus tice. It had a tendency to injure Mr. O'Neil, M.P. for Xingston-npon-Hult, and prevent him getting a fair trial. Mr. O'Neil sometime since brought an action against Mr.Ciement, and having had a bill of indictMent found against him by the Grind Jury for Surrey, Mr. Clement, who was tee proprietor of three Sunday Papers, bad chosen that opportunity to publish his fake state ments. The publication had led Captain O'Neil to suspect that Mr. Clement was privy to the indietiment. Mr. Clement yesterday published the libel. It pur ported to be observations on paragraphs - which had ap peared in other papers, and which Mr. O'Neil never au thorized. He should not trouble the Court with reading ail the comments. They complained of • Mr.. O'Neil 'having been engaged in a conspiracy to deprive a young Gentleman, named Auldjo, of a large sum of money, by pl .with him at cards, not in the usual way, but with marked catds, when he' had been drinking. Mr. Brougham then read the article complained of from the Parer of yesterday. bin Justice Nosatovn asked whether the affidavit of Mr. O'Neil, denied all cheating? Mr. BitouortAll—Mr. O'Neil states that he was asked by an old tri,nd to allow him to introduce to him Mr. John Auldjo, a young Gentleman educated at Cam bridge, and that Mr. A. was introduced to hint. He conversed with him at Lord':' Cricket Ground about horses. Mr. O'Neil invited him to come down with a 'friend of his to Richmond. Mr. Waldron, an old friend, 'Silas also introduced by him to Lord Olanricarde. Mr. O'Neil or Mr. Waldron proposed a game at cards, and the waiter was sent for two packs. He brought them ia. The Marquis and Mr. O'Neil played two games. It .was then pioposed that the game should be a round one. They played at km. Mr. Boland said he did not • understand the game. Mr. Auldjo also laid he did not Know how to play. It was fait play. All the wine was eight bottles among six persons, and two bottles were returned to the bar. He denies that false cards were 'used, to his knowledge, and says there was no ad. vantage taken. • Mr. Justice HOLROYD thought there was not sufficient evidence to warrant the Court in granting a criminal information. It a rule were granted, it could not be made absolute this Term, and the parties had therefore a quicker remedy by going to the Sessions. Mr. Justice Larruinni.z was of the same opinion.—Rule refused. COURT'OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 27. TUN MG O. VITO. Mr. CLARKE in following the Attorney-General in reply, observed, that the question lay in a •e. y narrow compass, namely, whether the issue found for the Clown was immaterial or not. The Attorney-General had shewn a breach of contract. The defendant's Counsel pleaded as if the Contractor was an injured man. But when a building cost such an immense sum, and in the course of eight years falls down, the Crown bas a right to inquire into it. It seemed very strange that be should think himself injured when only called upon'to account for the non.perfrrmance of a contract which he bound himself to perform, and that, on no stronger grounds than having followed the directions of Mr. Lainp. the architect, who, in fact, was not au thorised to give any directions at all. Mr. Scarlett had remarked, that he hoped his client would not be entrap. ped by any form of law. Now, it seemed by the view which he (Mr. C.) had taken of it, that if time was any entrapping, it was on-the part of Mr. Peto. Mr. Den man had said that 1e could not build a house upon a bed of sand, and felt it his duty, as an hottest man, to tell the Commissioners of the fact ; and that he did so by informing the surveyor. In answer to that it is only necessary to say, that the surveyor had. no power to Make alterations. It has been hinted that there was a collusion ; then it was not shewn that a collusion did not exist between the contractor and the surveyor.— The Cumntrssionets had the power to omit any rooms or other part of the building specified, and Mr. Peto vast() be paint for the materials he had provided; but there was not a word by which any man could think that the architect had the power of ordering either ea riatieus or additions in the manner in which the work should be done. The clerk had the power of rejecting thus materials, but had no power of making any ahem ttons. In allusion to thepiling, the inefficacy of which, he observed, caused the building .to fall, he was to drive the piling not; less thaa.two feet in the stratum of gta- Itei. Of the existence of this gravel there is some doubt; . but even, supposing it was not there, then it became the duty of Mr. Peto to have apprised the Commissioners, and not to have followed the directions of the surveyor. A man, if employed to build a house, which house falls d .wn in two, years, is not to answer that he followed the directions of the employer's surveyor, between whorn and the contractors a collusion might very easily exist. He had contracted to build the house, and if the directions of the surveyor were not sufficient, the con tractor was alone responsible for the failure of his work. With regard to the filling up of the spandrels, the bond requited that they were to be filled up with solid ;nick work, but they were filledup with stones and rubbish, and grouted in with mortar, but which was finished so as to have the appearance of solid brickwork. This, it appears, was done by the direction of the surveyor. It might undoubtedly be very well to look at, but expe rience proved that it was insufficient for the purpose, and the difference in expense was between 20001. and .80001. in favour of the contractor. Now here might be a collusion to some purpose, and he did not hesitate to say, that if a contractor knew that he was doing wrong, and the surveyor did not give notice of it to the Commissioners, it would be gross fraud on both sides. Mr. MILTON and Mr. PARK= followed on the same side. The Chief Baron ALIMANDIER observed, in giving his judgment, that it was evident tte intention of the in strument was never to give so great a power to the sur veyor as to destroy the effect of the bond, which would have been the case by the skewing of the defendant, and stated his opinion that the Crown was entitled to a ver dict, in which opinion Baron GRAHAM concurred.— Judgmcnt for the Crown. The splutiry and unrivalled effects of ROWLAND'S with respect to one of its multifarious eminent pro perties, i. daily evidenced. A• Lady of high respectability, during - the period of suckling, received the most soothing relief from the use of that iimaluable article, which, possessing Balsamic and Pu rifying Qualiti e s, is pre-eminently successful in preserving the Skin •Arem the Heat Summer or "Winter Blasts, and for effectually excluding and resisting, with a rapid energy truly•astotoishing, all Disorders which disorganize the Beauty of the Countenalice ; and as increasing the Fairness and Transparency of the Skin, exceeds 4 0 competition. •To Gentlemen, Rows-safe Keane". is an in follibk specific in allaying the smarting irritability Of the face, and will tender 'Shaving, heretofore painful, now a ?knowable opera glen, To prevent imposition, ask for Rowzasse Kalalioa i as its Mgt popularity has °crash:me Imitation. i IMPERIAL PARbIAMENT. • • ITOLISt OF LORDS, NOVIEMBII 27. The flail et LAUDERDALE ragweed for a Return from the s iteisistrar Of Eton, of the prices of wheat from 4540 to 1826 Web. iite,in the market of Windsor. The Noble Earl statsl that such a return mold be made from the aceerints of the establishment, ' and that it would be estremely desirable. The measures differed' lat various periods,No that *4 would be neiriery to have the prices , reduced to the Winchester measure in the Return.' From such a document their Lordship" would k' able to ascertain the variations in the price of wheat from a 4esty early period down to this time, a thing whlch at present their Lordships were enable to do.—Or- HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Sentra took the Chair at the usual hour. JOLLIFFE obtained leave to bring is a Bill to Incorporate the 'General Steam Navigation Company. A Petition was presented from the Freeholders of the County of Westmeath against the Return for that County. A Petition was presented from Cavan against the Return of Mr. Bouthwell for that County. • Mr. HUMS gave notice of a motion, for Monday next, relating to t►e retirement of Oaken on Half-pay. Mr. HUME, seeing the Hon. Secretary for the Colonial De partment in his place, wished to ask him a question relative to the Cape of Good Hope and Sierra Leone. He wished to ask what condition they were in with respect to the labours of the Commis sioners at the Cape of Good Hope. He wished to know when the Hon. Member would be prepared to lay befor► the . Hoeft the Report of that Commission. The House had very properly sus pended any proceedings in regatd to that Colony until they were in • pet : session of full information upon the su►jeer. He also desired to Itatow when they were likely to receive thp espected Report front Sierra Leone. Mr. WILMOT-HOR.TON said, that the Ceryitadssioners had not yet made their general Report, because their attention bad been directed to a variety of inquiries which had prevented them from making their Report until a later period than had been anticipated. He expected, however, to be able to lay that Report on the table of the House on the first day after the Recess, and that it would corn., prise a statement of the isnprovementswhich the Conunissioners _ . thought Drees nary in the jeneral administration of the Colony. Mr. HUME said, he had a Petition to present to the House similar to many he had presented list Session, and which called the attention of the House to the state of the Poor Laws of this country. It was signed ltobtrt Gourley, was respectfully worded, pd in every respect deserved the attention of the House. It rayed that a Select Committee might be appointed to examine into the subject.—Ordered to Ue on the table. Mr. H U ll fs gave notice, that he should take the earliest oppor tunity of submitting& motion to the House gpott a subject to which he had before called the attention of Parliament.—he meant the Church Establishment of Ireland. Mr. HUME gave notice, that he should take an early opportu nity of submitting a motion to the House for recalling the . Viceroy Establishment of Ireland, with a view to complete the union of the two countries; and also .with respect to the number of Navy O. curs placed on the Half pay list, Navy Pensions, Ste- CORN LAWS., Mr. HUME held in his hand three Petitions from three different bodies in the Royal Burgh of Medlin, one of the places he had the honour to represent. They stated their full approbation of the conduct of Minis ters in opening the ports to foreign Corn, and expressed their opinion that but for that measure the state of dis tress to which the people must have been reduced, would have been incalculable. The Petitioners went on 1 , to pray that the House would make . such an alteration ft the law as to prevent the necessity of any such future interference on the part of the Government. And from everything he could learn from that part of the country, the prayer was unanimous. This as the only instance in which all classes of the inhabitants of this Burgh had been unanimous upon anyone subject. He had already stated his opinion on.the subject to the House ; and he now begged leave to notice a . circumstance which had occurred with reference to whit he said on the occasion. He knew that the House must be - well aware of the in veterate malice and rancour with which some portions of the press had been , feeding the pfiblic with calumnies respecting certain transactions which he had been connected, and in regard to which he hoped the time would not be long before a full explanation would be made. At the close of the few obser rations which he ad dressed to the House at the last sittingof Parliament, he said that he had heard much of the agricultural in terests and the manufacturing interests, but nothing of the interests of the people at large.. It had been stated that at that part of his speech he was coughed down.— It was true, he was aware, that a disposition, bad been manifested sometimes, by certain persons In that House, to. hear no more of his opinions upon particular subjects ; but upon this occasion he begged leave to say, that the interruption did not occur until he had con cluded all he meant to address to the House. He had at all times experienced the impartial favour of the Speaker, and the indulgence of the House, in common with all those who wished to deliver their opinions, and he trusted that the same treatment would be continued towards him. What he did then state had been misun derstood ; and he would repeat his concluding sentence, in order to set himself right. He said that the broad principle on which alone the peace of the country could be secured, was by setting at rest that question which could no longer be postponed with safety. The first p.m of the sentence was given, but not the last ; and he therefore wished that it nfght now be attended to. So far was he from having changed that opinion, he was sorry that the Right Hun. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was not now present, that he might warn him 'against the consequences of further delay. If during' the trials to which the people must be exposed in the approaching severe season, any mischief should arise' in the country, it would be attributed to the postpone.' ment of this question alone. So much was that opinion confirmed in Lis mind, that if he could persuade thel House to support him, be would individually undertake to bring in a Bill on which a discussion of the question might be had. He was not sure that be should not move fur letue to bring In such a Bill during the present week, even if he stood alone. He did net tee' what interest thy/House could have in not going into the subject; but he would sir that the fears of the country Gentlemen were ex aggerated, and that nothing but discussion could satisfy their minds and relieve them from the delusion under which they laboured.— Whether the House should adopt this course or not, he should be satisfied with having done his duty in having now thrown out (loosely bit admitted) what he conceived to be the course required by the situation of the **unary. • Mr. FERGUSON (we understood) said, that, on the important subject of the Corn Laws, he could assure the House that the Country Gentlemen, as a body, did not express that exaggerated alarm, or entertain that delusion which the Honourable iember for Aber deen had attributed to them. They had the greatest 'confidence in the House, •and were convinced that it would not adopt any measure which went to the de struction or injury of any of the great interests of the ' country. He was sure that the Government would not delay the discussion of the question longer than was necessary, as the commercial interests were no doubt much agitated by the unsettled state of the question, and that all business respect ing leases and rents were suspended. He had only risen to express his entire and well grounded confidence in die measures of that House, and his hope that their proposal by the Ministers would not be deferred longer than the necessity of the case required. Mr. HURST said, that the landed interest, as well as the other interests of the country, bad every reason to entertain an anxiety u to the satisfactory adjustment of this question.. He badevery confidence in the wisdom of Parliament, that the landed interest would be duly protected In any come that might •be determined , upon. It teas expedient and desirable also, that it should be men disposed et, aa landlords at present Were entharratse3.upoo wisat terms Whet their lands; and as great difficulties must necessarily exist, until *Mt• ever dew measures it was intended to propose should be generally known and explained. The "endow were ordered to tie on the table. Sir A. GRANT brought up the Report of the Committee of Sur. e rr HUMS put some questions as to the nature of the Rosa lutluas. Mr. HERRIES Weed in effect, that they were "firma Reich , lotions, and that no • vote for the Supplies of the succeeding year would be called for during the present sitting of the House. In all probability the &Notate" would not be ready before the Recess. Sir A. GRANT brought up the Report of the Committee on the Corn Laws. The Resolutions recommending the indemnity for the advisers of the Orders in Council were read a second time, and a Bill ordered to be brought in founded thereon. Mr. C. WYNN gave notice, that upon an early day after the Recess, he should move the thanks of the House to the ORlcers and Army engaged in the late glorious successes width had terminated the war in India.—The House adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS-THIS DAY. Names or Monors: Mr. Husuassow—to brinigiii the iiiiiit;"&deennify Minbters for the Order in Council, to impose thq Import Duties named in such Order, &c. _ _ _ wove the Appointment of a Select Com mittee of Appeal on Private Bills—in accordance with the pro ceedings of April IA last. Mr. Amato= Dawson—to move that there be laid before the House certain Returns respecting the Borough of Athlone. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1826. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This is a bustling day in the British market, owing to its being settling day, and but little doing, except in settling their Ac. counts. Up to the present time, it appears to be a Bear account, as the centango is going of, and no defaulters have as yet been an nounced. The fluctuation of this aceount has been about 4to per Cent. Consols, which left off yesterday at 85 opened this morning at 835 buyers, and afterwards were done at 831 for Ibis Account, and 844 for next time. At present they may be quoted lit 234, and for next time at $4. In the Foreign market little is doing, except in Brazil Shares, which have improved, owing to the arrival of a Mr. Oz.zuroas, the projector of the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company ; but as yet it is not known if he brings any gold over from the said mines. Current prices: Old Spanish 131 I, Mexican 68 1, Colom bian 411 42, Chilhui 38 3s, Russian $7 i, Danish 6! 1, Greek Bends 191 201. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The settling of Accounts in the British market, seems to go off' , smoothly, as only one defalcation has been declared, and of no great importance. Consols have rather improved since the earlier part of the morning, when they were at 831 for Account, since which they have been done at 331 for money, and 841 to * for next Account. - - In the Foreign market, South American Securities remain steady, with little fluctuation. The letters from Buenos Ayres of the 6th September, received this morning, state that Government bills there are at from 60 to 65 per Cent. discount, and dollars bear a premium of .0 per Cent. Also that the war continues. PRICE OF STOCKS AT POUR O'CLOCK& Bank Stock 203 S per Cent. Red. 82% % 83 82% S per Cent. Cons. 83% % 34 per Cent. 11914 SI per Cent. Red. 88% 89 4 per Cent. New 9854 1 / 2 4 per Cent. 1826, 9754 Long Ann. 19 7-16 3 / 4 India Bonds $1.7 39 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills 19 17 18 1400 ditto 18 19 £lOO and £2OO ditto 19 21 Cons. lei Ditto 84 1 / 4 84% FORRIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. I !dm Ms 1825, 6p. Ct. 6$ I Do. Acct. 66k Peruvian Bonds, 6 p C. ZS Bonds " Milian Bonds, i p Ct. ES Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. Do. 80n4.11.0824, 41i 41 41i Do:Acct. 421 21 /- Portuguese _ ipC. 79j Danish Bonds, 3 pCt. 621 Russ. Ms, 1822, Sp C. $7 Ditto Acct. 621 • S).Bonds 5 p 131 Greek Bonds, S p At. Ditto Acct. 131 D0.800d5,1825, Sp C. 191 20 Fr. Rentes, 5p C. 100 f 754100 f 19 1 1 1 i Exchange, 25f 50c Do. Acct. 201 191 French Bente.. 3 p C. , 72f 11112 Mex. Bonds,s per Ct. Ni Exchange, ildf foe BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazilian Colombian United Maxima MAIM PAID. 100 20 41 4$ 100 15 $ 10i 40 U lee FRENCH FUNDS, PA RIS, NOVIAIM IL Five per Cents. . . . loof. Vree per Cents. • . . 71f. SOs. tUnk Actions . . 11062 f. Ms. Ream de Naples . . • . 7111. Se. Royal Spanish Loa; . . . ISO. We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to the sth of Sept. inclusive, from which the following are extracts : nom TS 11 ♦11ir2471110 or gym ATM, Amor 10. CHILI. I' The first business of the Congress, since its installa tion, has been the nomination of a President of the Republic, who shall remain in office till the Constitu tion, which is going to be made, shall be carried into effect. The President elected is Mite-Admiral General Manuel Blanco lincalada; and the Vice-President, Senhor Izaquirre. Oa the 9th of July, &labor Freire gave up his office, in the manner prescribed by the law, to his successor. AUGUST 12.—8 y the list mail from Chili, we find that the squadron still remains theie, and that. besides other causes of delay, the new circumstances in which the Republic is placed by the events in Chiloe. occa• :ions other difficulties. 17th.—The President Rivadavia has issued some decrees for the purpose of making the receipt of stamp duty come into the general Treasury of the Republic, it having been declared a national tat, by a decree of the 15th of March, 1826. 19th.—Senhor Borgono has resigned the office of Minister of War. The Public Journals of Chili contain nothing important respecting Chitoe; but the insurrec tion seems not- to have had the effect which the authors l i of it expected : their attempts in •arious parts . of the' Republic. have doubtless been bailed by the patlietism of the inhabitants. 12d.--We have spoken, on another occasion, of the disturbances in Catamarca, proposed by BOStOS, and which may perhaps tend to his ruin. The accounts from . Tocgman and Catamarca give reason to hope that this will be the case. 44th.--A pJuject of law Was bcen presented to the eg„. gress for improving cite navigation of the river Berm ey 26th.—We know for certain that his Escellenci t h, General in Chief of the Army of Operations, Don Cat. los Maria de Alvear, landed on the Banda Oriental withlut accident on J im morning after his dep arture from this port. ' - - - • Slst.—ln the sitting of the 28iti inst. the Committee for Constitutional Affairs presented a Repott:and Project of Law, relative to the illegal removal made by the Junta of Cordoba of six Deputies from that Province. &truism s.—We have the satisfaction to be the first to inform the public of the complete defeat of the savages by our troops, under Colonel F. Rauch, 0 13 states that the enemy had not less than two hundred killed, among whom was 'Comas Gode, a Spaniard, who commanded thirtyfive deserters from Chili. Our lozs was one killed and thirty wounded. The Msnsagero Argentine, of the 2d September, is chitfly filled with a long Report of the Committee of Constitutional Affairs, in presenting the Project of the Constitution ; and that of the .sth (except about half it page) is occupied by the Project of the Constitution ro self, divided into ten sections and 171 articles. The Nati in is declared independent of every foreign Power; the religion, the Roman Catholic, which shall always receive the most effectual and decided protection and the greateit respect of the inhabitants, whatever may be their private opinions. The Government is republican, exercised , by the three powers, the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial. The Legislative to reside in a Congress of two Chambers, Ist, the Representatives, and, 2d, the Senate. The Executive power is confided to a President, who shall bold his office for five years. There shall be five Secretaries of State, viz. for the Interior, Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, and Finance. Mr: RIO DE JANEIRO, &mama 14. The Report of the Committee of the Constitution, on the documents presented by the Minister of Pleign Affairs, relative to the Convention of 29. h August, 1825, between Brazil and Portugal, gives the following state. ment of the respective claims of the two countries to indemnity from each other. The claims made by Por. tugal, are 1. Seven ships of the line,Sfrigates. 12 corvettes, 16 brigs, 11 schooners, itc. in all 61 ships of war with their artillery, all which remained to Brazil. 3,534,000,0 M 2. Portion of the Infantas who went to Spain in 1616 606,000,000 3. Debt contracted with the Bank of Lisbon . 2,1186,000,0C4 4. Old Consolidated Debt . . . 9,39.),000,00 , 3 S. Old Floating Debt . . . 16,400,000,000 G. Indemnity to the Donatories of several Pro vinces of Brazil, who receive Pensions for life froirs the Portuguese Government 220,000 3 000 . . 7. hideamity to the Proprietors of Offices who, on account of their employments, accompanied his Most Faithful Majesty . . . 200,000 00 1. Indemnity for his Majesty'sprivate property, 1,000.000,00 Total 34 . 17 5A10N51 Rejecting the. Ist claim, on account of the bad state of the ships, the imperfection of the estimate and error in the sorb; the 2J, for want of proof of the portion stipulated with' Spain ; and the 3d, as being a debt contracted since the separation of the two nations. The indisputable claims of Portugal, under the other heath, are 95 millions and three-quarters,viz. half the debt con tracted while the nations., were united, 12,899,000,000, and claims 6,7, and 8, as above stated, making to 14,919,000,000. Brazil had 151 millions to claim, being the half of the 301 millions of debt. Comparing the article of indemnity between the Governments, there is a balance of 201 millions in favour of Portugal; and as the Brazilian negociators only stipulated the payment of IS millions, being the value of two million sterling, the Committee is of opinion that the national honour and interest have been perfectly attended to in the conic. tion of the 29th of August, 1125. 16th.—The Diarie contains a list of ships taken for attempting to break through the blockade of the Rio de la Plata, after it was officially known to them: Vales. Xesison...-Moisarsit Pounds sterling WOO William 50,000 Anne 30,000 • A Stag tlantic • - 0AR 90,060 atllo ll2o a o , from Canton, ea secant of slier Clause of Buenos Ayres.—Leanklas - 110,111/3 Fames, from France.—Juno . 30,000 Courier 30,000 Darasat.—Fortune - - - MOO Taken under the enemy's lag, at the ell. trance of Buenos' Ayres, a Wander - WO A Brazilian ship, captured by the Lavalleja sis months ago, and recaptured under the enemy's flag.—Ben Vinde - - 2,000 . Pounds sterling 595p00 The pound stetting at the me of Exchange at Biota ire R.s 5,000, Reis 1,075,000,000. This is the loss to Buenos Ayres merchants & besides the profit ; and the Government having lost the fourth part in duties, it follows that the whole loss to Buenos Ayres, in 21p months of blockade, is above seven millions of Cruzadoes; besides that, as many other ships which on account of some doubtful circumstances,were allowed to go to Monte Video, by which the Custom-house luties were lost to the Government, and the profits to the merchant'. Brussels Papers to the sth November have also come to bud, but their content are asimportaat. We have received French Papers to the 26th instant, with the Etoila of Sunday. They are almost entirely filled with extracts from our own Journals and tranala• dons of our Parliamentary debates. The only article of foreign intelligence is a kind of official statement taken from the Austrian Oiseroer, placing beyond don's: the exchange of the ratifications of the Convention of Akermann. The KIAJA BEY of the Head Comm:s• sinner of the Posit.' who bad carried the Convention to Constantinople, had returned with the ratified cop and was come back to Jassy to wait for the. Commis' sioners themselves, who in ten days mord were to_lears