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mom I MR t he dignity and elevation of lips sentiments. He has ever hell the object of public veneration at Rome, from his charity ; his piety and simplicity may be truly called even ,:die. The whole of the Roman population of all classes 'manifested the most lively joy on learning his exaltation, which promises not only to the Church a great and holy p o p e , but gives cause to hope for the pontifical monarchy a logs reign, Pope Gregory XVI. not having yet attained his 1:1;th year.—La Quotidienne. POLAND. Cy letters from the frontiers of Poland, dated January we are informed that the Austrian and Prussian au thorities have received orders not to allow any travellers to the frontiers of Poland, unless they can prove that thoir journey has no political end.—Le Globe. A phrase of the new proclamation of General Diebitach, CIIISeS HA to reflect upon the daring ambition of the Cabinet rt St. Petershuigh, in saying that Russia will never give pan inch of her conquests. Napoleon alone dared speak :11us.—Lc Temps. BELGIUM. Several Journals announced this morning that the King of the French had yesterday declared officially, in the solemn audience which he had given to the members of the Na tional deputation, that he would not accept the crown for bis son. This news is completely incorrect. In the first place there was not yesterday a solemn audience. M. Surlet de Chokier and his associates only dined at the Palais Royal. Afterwards Louis-Philippe made no official refusal, for the official demand has not yet taken place. The so lemn reception in which that demand must be made, was fixed for to-morrow ; and we are assured that it is now adjourned to next week. We should not lightly propagate such reports, as they may produce the moat disas trous effects in Belgium. The entire population expects with anxiety the reply of the French Government. A re t'usli will, perhaps, be the signal of a civil war. Humanity consequently requires that we should not spread without exa mination news which may have such dismal results. The situation of our neighbours is truly painful. Every where they hope for, every where they await the French prince, triumphal arches are erected to receive him, illuminations are prepared in all the cities, particularly at Mons, and upon the route to Pi :nice. The couriers have a difficulty in effecting their tourney—the populace interrupt their passage, and demand with loud cries their young King. Whatever may be the solution of this problem, the results will be grave ; the des tan• of a whole country is attached to it. The unlooked-for events in the Italian peninsula may have an influence upon the decision about to take place : time is, at this day, the best auxiliary of liberty.—P.S. Two Belgian couriers ar rived yesterday at Paris. At five o'clock in the evening, another left for Brussels.—Le Constitutionnel. " The hesitations of the Cabinet of the Palais-Royal com mence to bring their fruits. Whilst they are deliberating at Paris, they are acting at Belgium, and the struggle re commenees between the parties remaining by the foresight cf the refusal of France. It has just been announced to us, th. t a movement among the Orange party took place yes terday at Brussels, and that it was seconded by a great part of the Civic Guard. That which confirms this news, is that one of the members of the most influence among the titTutltion, M. Felix de Merode, left this evening in great lei.-te for Brussels."—Lu Quotidienne. SPAIN. M " A telegraphic despatch exhibited from Bayonne on the .nth Feb. at four o'clock, brings the following Torrijos has disembarked at Algesiras, but has been repulsed. At Arragon there is being formed a division of 4,000 or 5,000 men, ready to march into Catalonia or Guipuscoa.' The Revolution adds to the above news—' We have before us a letter from Perpignan, dated Feb. 6, which, Le Globe, in re ferring to the news brought by the Catalonian smuggling boats from Andalusia, informs us that the imposing place of Ceuta has been taken by the Constitutionalists. We at first hesitated to give this news; but to-day_ we think it our duty to report it. In the supposition that Tor** has been repulsed at Algeciras, he will probably go direct to Ceuta, which is situated on the other side of the Strait, and seven lea.zues from Algesiras. He will then repair his check en tirely to the advantage of his cause. The two pieces of in tehtzence nearly reached us at the same time. POLA ND. LETTER OF GENERAL CHLOPICIEL WARSAW, JAN. 31. The Polish Gazette contains the following letter from General Chlopicki to the Emperor Nicholas, which was read to the two Chambers on the 24th : 111Itrlp " SIRE,—The Diet, notwithstanding the talent, and eren the popularity of its members, is always too exag zerated in its decisions, and too weak in the measures Which it takes, to be able to restore order in the midst of the tempest. Being the more convinced of this truth, as I had still before my eyes the experience of the first days of terror, I resolved to take upon me the execu the power in its fullest extent, that it might not fall into the Lands of agitators and turbulent men, who, without courage in a time of danger, have, however, the art of misleading the multitude by falsehoods, and to turn to their own advantage the noble sentiments of the people. An enemy to anarchy, I su it ovei turn in a few days three different combinations of government, which made me take the resolution to support the Provisional Government by an organized force, and to unite the thole power in one hand, securing to it the co operation of the army and the obedience of the people. " This resolution, Sire, has had the effect of tranquillizing in general the minds of the people. The soldier again ac- Inottledges the power of military discipline ; the working classes return to their usual occupations; all entrust, with out fear, their dearest interests to a power which desires the general good, and which has succeeded in effecting it ; in a word, the storm is laid, and the traces of disorder begin to disappear. " But the sentiments, Sire, which in a few hours armed the whole capital, united under the same standard the whole army—these sentiments which, like an electric spark, spread through all the provinces and every where produced the same effect, these sentiments burn in the hearts of all, and will never be extinguished but with their last breath. Sucb, gracious Monarch, is the state of things; the whole nation demands a reasonable liberty—it gees not desire to abuse it —but for that very reason it requires that it shall be secured against all violence and all infringement; it desires a Con stitution adapted to its m .nners and its habits. As through an unexpected concurrence of circumstances, it is in a tem • per of mind perhaps too enthusiastic, it is ready to sacrifice every thing for the dearest of causes to the national in dependence. " Notwithstanding all this, the nation is very far from the thought of dissolving the ties which bind it to the supreme w•ii! of your majesty. The provisional government hu already acknowledged the necessity of sending to your ma . sty two deputies, commissioned to lay at the foot of your throne the sentiments of the nation, and at the same time to ask that the Polish provinces, formerly incorporated with the Russian empire, may be permitted to enjoy the same liberty. " May your Majesty, considering the humanity and the favours shown to us at the beginning of your reign, be 1 4 eased graciously to receive the petitions of which those Deputies are the bearers. May Poland, always grateful to yLur Majesty for the kind intentions which you have always mainfesteul towards it, devote to your Majesty the same love "hick it retains for the regenerator of the Polish nation. V May our expectations be realised, and may your Majesty, fulfilling towards us the promises of your august predecessor, prove that your reign is only the uninterrupted continuation of that which regenerated a part of ancient Poland. " Lastly, the enjoyment of the liberties insured by the Constitution, is by no means a concession proceeding from the throne, but merely the execution of a contract between the King and the people, and cemented by a mutual oath. " As I am well acquainted with your Majesty's elevated sentiments, I venture to hope that a deputation which seeks only peace will have the desired result. The provisional directs its attention to the internal administration, and its orders, as well as mine, will be respected till the meeting of the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies. The adoption of subsequent measures will depend upon those two bodies. " Most august Sovereign, as an old soldier and a true Pole, I venture to address you in the voice of truth, for I am convinced that your Majesty will listen to it with kind ness ; in your august hand is the fate of the whole people. With one word you may place it on the summit of hap piness—with one word you may plunge it into the abyss of despair. As I place the greatest reliance on the senti ments of your magnanimous heart, I venture to hope that your Majesty will avoid the effusion of blood, and I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if by the strictest union of good order and energy I succeed in attaining the end so ardently desired." z3n ..11. 1111 . :•. . SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFICE, StvEw o'CLocK. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tnis DAY. MT. BARING and others, frost• the Commons, brought a message praying that the LORD Csarcar.Loa may have leave to attend and give evidence before the Select Committee on places, pensions, dm. con nected with the Civil List Question. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was usual in such cues to grant the prayer of the request, as far as he was concerned, he should have much satisfaction in attending, inasmuch u he then might have an opportunity of pointing out sundry reductions to the Commons, which he would lay before their lordships to-morrow week. Leave was then given, and the Commons having been called to the bar, The LORD CHANCELLOR then informed them that he should be ready to attend the Commons Committee to-morrow morning, should the Chancellor of the Exchequer deem his attendance necessary on that day. HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS DAY. CALL OF THE 110171111-411701110. Mr MAXWELL gave nodes that he should move that the house be called over on the 2Rth (instead of the 18th), the day before that motion which was of so much importanm to the country. namely, Lord J. Rus sell's motion on the subject of Reform. 111 11l DUBLIN. Mr. LEADER presented a petition from Dublin, in favour of a re• peal of the legislative union, expressing his satidaction that then had been an amicable termination of the prosecutions in Dublin. He was sure it would contribute to promote the tranquility of the country. — Ordered to be printed. WEST INDIES. The Marquis of CH ANDOS moved for various returns respecting measures taken for the amelioration of slaves in the West Indies, &c. also for accounts regarding the quantities of rum and sugar imported, 'dm. .Ordered. Also for accounts of raw sugar expected from Ireland. —Ordered. The Marquis of CHANDOS gave notice that he woad.° Monday next call the attention of the house to the present state of the sugar duties. _ _ Mr. HOBHOUSE presented s petition for Parliamentary Reform from Wilts.—Ordered to be printed. He then presented a petition from Lancaster far reform, annual Parlia ments, unirenal suffrage, and vote by ballot. He felt quite assured that the more the demand was considered the more fear, end just would be the prayer for the vote by ballot. Without that improvement be was persuaded that reform would be inelibetuaL--Ordered to be printed. 00SXWALL WITOIX PETITIOX. 31r. PENDARVIS presented serval petitions ,from the Cornwall for Parliamentary Reform most numerously signed—one by nearly 20,000 permits, and being " seven yards long'•.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. WYSS presented a petition from Tipperary foe the Repeal of the Union. One from Tyrone against the grant to the Kildare street Society; one from Tuam, for extending the franchise; of Galway —Ordered to lie on the table. _ _ Lord MI )RPETH presented a petition for the repeal of the taxes on newspapers. COI. SIOTROIP, Mr. STIES, and Mr. Duwcomat supported ite prayer. Several peddotw were presented for reform. OrASGOW 'vermin PETITION. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from the East Barony of the district for Glasgow, for parliamentary reform, universal suffrage, and ballot. He entirely concurred In the prayer. It had been mentioned that some thousands had petitioned from Wilts, had the petitions prayed for vote by ballot there would have been 40,000 signatures. A noble lord (Morpeth) had presented petitions for reform, but In presenting those for the ballot his Lordship bad been silent. Knowing how intimately his Lordship was connected with ministers, be respected his silence. Lard MORPETH said he had neither concurred in, nor dissented from the prayer t and as to the intentions of Ministers, he was as 'goo. rant of them as any one could be. Ordered to be printed. IRELAND. Mr. HUNT presented $ petition from the Tin Plate Workers of Dublin, for the Repeal of the Union. He presented it with great plessure:beeause he thought the Irish were the best judges of their own wishes and wants. O'GORMAN MAHON was glad to hear these liberal sentiments— the observations were true. He begged to say. that be called fur the repeal to be 'acted by legal mesas—hs would countenance no other. He had been misconceived the other night when he said that had " he belonged to a secret society for the repeal of the Union," it was not to 'Abet that repeal by force of anus. The Amchitka was a Club. He wu the only Catholic in it, he believed. It bad existed before the Catholic Emancipation. He bad mentioned the fact to show that the demand for the repeal of the Union was not new. Mr. COOPER, adverting to the Roscommon petition, said, that none of the respectability of the County had attended it. • O'OORMAN MAHON said it had been attended by the Sheriff, O'Connor Don, Itc. Mr. COOPER did not deny that some were reepectable.—Ordered to be printed. SPICIAL Mr. HUNT presented a petition foe an address to his Majesty for a commutation of the sentences of those tried under the Special Com missions. He then presented a petition hens fientbanspton for a gene ral feast and jubilee (laughter) on the relent being carried, Instead of a fast. (Cheers.) 311. O'CONIIZLL. The Marquis of CHANDOS asked whether Mr. O'Comtelre plea of " Guilty" was the resulillef nap compreatise with the Government. Mr. STANLEY replied la the Depth,. lasts had been made by Mr. O'Comment Meade ; but it was defined that the Goversinest could pursue se other worse, sad that the law must take its same.— (Load cheering.) He added, that inquiry was staking as to arms fated in vessels es the Irish coast. The adjourned debate on the Budget ►egan, just as we go to press with OUT Second Edition. 1,11.111111,1 1 !!!! ; 040 -:;• r SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. POST.—Lord Althorp's financial career has commenced most inaus piciously. His on rageous proposal of taxing the Transfers of Stock has raised a storm that men such es constitute the present Ministry are totally incapable of allaying. In their distressing embarrassment, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had yesterday (Sunday) a meeting not only of his official colleagues but of his commercial and city friends. Lord Althorp informed them that he continued unaltered in his opinion respecting the justice of the proposed treasure of taxing the Transfer of Stock; but that if his friends dissented from him, he would not persist in it. Mr. Baring stood prominently forward in the declaration of his opinion, that the proposed tax was at once obnoxious and impracticable, and must in reason and in policy be abandoned. An Income Tax, chiefly referable to the funds, was then suggested, but received with disapprobation ; and on its being proposed to be made general, it was objected that its application to Ireland would under the present circumstances be highly itnprudent. Nothing sped. fic was determined upon. All was dotilt and uncertainty at the break ing up of the meeting ; and Lord Althorp, in his perplexing and pitiable situation. had only to request the EARLY attendance of the friends of Ministers in the House of Commons this day, when he hoped to be able to submit some new proposition to Parliament. Cnaostic La.—There is, we believe, but one opinion with regard to the propriety of the choice of the taxes about to be repealed or reduced. The duty on sea-borne coils was one of the most wickedly partial and oppressive that could possibly be devised ; and were there no other prcof of the superiority of our own times, we might cite this tax, which no statesman direst think of proposing, and which, at all evens, no Parlia ment would now grant. The wonder is, how such an infamous tax has been suffered to continue so long. The reduction of the duty' on newspapers and on advertisements will also prove highly beneficial. To allude only to books The duty on advertisements amounted to a prohibition to publish works below a certain size ; aid it made a deep inroad into the profits of all books to which the pubic attention was drawn. We instance books ; but the observation is susceptible of ge neral application. The effect of the reduction of duty will necessarily be an extension of the means of communication to the public. To avoid all cavilling about lines, as columns of newspapers are of various breadths, • and the print may be large or small, it would be better to say a certain ; number of words. The disposition of ministers to favour the diffusion of knowledge through the press, is, at all events, highly praiseworthy. The repeal of those duties which pressed with peculiar severity on in. dustry, as the duty on printed cottons and an glass, also meet with Cealapprobation. The repeal of the duty on candles is also a great o l .With respect to tobacco, opinion is not, we believe, so favourable. It strikes us, too, that the use of tobacco being attended with very in. jurions consequences (a veteran snuff-taker can hatdly speak to be un. derstood), a better subject for tarsation can hardly be selected. It is, at all events, a luxury; and before relieving luxuries, the catalogue of ne cessaries should be exhausted. With respect to the taxes substituted for those repealed or reduced, we are happy to be able to state, that it has been determined to abandon that on the transference of Stock. The tax on the transference of land, will, we suppose, be also abandoned. Indeed, of the two, that on land seems the most partial in principle, as it will bear almost exclusively on the smaller class of landholders. The great landholder's estate goes by succession to his eldest son ; but the owner of an estate of 5001. or even 1,0001. year, usually conveys is to trustees for sale, and distribution among his children- By the smaller landholders, therefore, the tax would almost exclusively be paid. Tin as.—lt will be seen that the chief objection urged by Sir It. Peel was to the imposition of a stamp duty on the transfer of funded property. We objected to it likewise, and if our information should prove correct as to the sum likely to be raised by it, there will be no great difficulty In relinquishing it for some other less offensive. The removal of the duties upon seaborne coals merits and meets with decided approbation. The abolition of the duty on candles is equally satisfactory, anti will be sensibly felt. The chief subjects of discussion in the Budget are, the diminution of the tobacco and the newspaper stamp duties, and the im position of the transfer of stock duty. To the reduction of the stamp duties on newspapers, speaking professionally, we can have no ob. *deo. As there may, however, often be difficulties in de. maiming the number of printed lines in a manuscript presented for insertion, and as misunderstandings might thence arise between the advertisers, the newspapers, and the stamp. office, we think that it would be better to fix one rats (say Is. Gd.) tor all advertisements, than to have a double scale of Is. t t 2s. bd. accord ing to their length. The produce of the tax would then be as greet, while the inconvenience of its collection would be diminished, and one motive be removed for giving imperfect notices from the desire of avoid ing Government charges. These doubtful points, however, may easily be modified or changed t and, upon the whole, notwithstanding the local troubles in the rural districts, we cannot help remarking on the easy tone of confidence with which Ministers, both ins and outs, speak of the resources of the country. So much the better for England, we ay! flasaLD.—The following table will present . the present financial opera. flocs in a dearer view than we have before pawned to our readers Taxes Reduced. Estimated Loss. Tobacco £1,400,000 Newspapers 190,000 Coals and Mate........ 830,000 ....... . . Candles •• • •.. 420,000 From October"... 100,000 Cottons Glass Auctions BO,OOO ..... 60,000 80,000 ... .... 80,000 £4,080,000 Taxes added. Wine .. £4.0811,000 43,170,000 ... ... £240,000 Timber .. .. ••• ••• 040 Cotton ... Steam Tranfen 600, - 000 10,000 .. 100,000 ... 1,200,000 2,740,000 .. 1,340,400 Mie Taxation reduced .. • Thass.—Of the details of the vast ministerial measureof reform, we, like others, have heard • good deal, but so antbotity of sufficient weight to be quoted or relied upon. Late hit be, and rapid the approach of the hour at which it must be produced, we doubt whether the bill has yet received so much of definite shape or finish as to justify even its authors in venturing to announce what will be its provisions. There are two difficulties of which one cannot dissemble the importance—let, To make the reform so " temperate^ (we employ a bad expression, because it is a common one) —so temperate as to in. *innate its own way through that assembly whose vices it severely re. bukes, while it purifies t 2, To make it so vigorous and extensive, ar to ensure a good reception from the people. IRELAND. T DUBLIN, SATURDAY. THE PROSECUTIONS. Notice has been served upon the traverser' of the inten tion of the Attorney-General to apply to the Court of King's Bench, this day, for a postponement of the trial in the case of the King v. Daniel O'Connell, Esq. M. P. and others. Freeman's Journal. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. EXTEAOZDINART SCENE.-IFLATIAGAN AGAIN. After hearing Mr. Jackson in a long argument upon the lighting of Kingstown, the Court was about to retire for a few minutes. when The famous Flanagan, who occupied a place in the aide bar, rose and said, he would sake the liberty of occupying the time of their Lordships for a few minutes. He had, he said, already applied for time to file a criminal information against Patrick Lavelle and Edward Duffy—the proprietor and the publisher of the Freeman's Jennie; foe a libel upon his character— A laugh.) Chief Justiceor:That it a motion fur counsel ; and even if made by counsel, we should stop it now, the three days being passed by. , Flanagan—My bold, I cannot. Chief Janice—You really cannot Le now heatd. Flanagan— I apply upon affidavit. Chiet JustiLe--lou had better not persist, sir. Flanagan— I am afrind to the freedom of the press ; but I don't like to see free discussion crushed by fellows. (Roars of laughter.) Chief Justice—l advise you, sir, to sit down, after the Court bas in durated its determination. Flanagan—l am accused of having been sent down to forge an ad dress to the Lord Lieutenant. (Continued laughter.) Chief Justice—You had better be silent, sir. The four judges were then retiring, and JutlgeJebb had actually got into the Chamber, when the impertutbable Flanagan again said—My Lords. I have a serious charge to make oginsf the officers of this Court. (Roars of Laughter.) I don't know who they are. (t laugh.) They are called Lord William, sod Lord Hobert Seymour, I Wier*. CHIEF lerrica—Again I advise you to be quiet. Flanagan—l have to charge the officers of the Court with gross ex tortion (laughter), and if I don't get justice here, I will apply to my respected fried Lssd Althorp (shouts of laughter). to take away the salaries of these geollentin who does no business for what they resolve, and I hope to see the day when the salaries of the judges also will be brought down (peals of laughter). The redoubtable Sligo man was continuing to talk, but the judges having left him " alone in his dory," he bundles up his papers, and " exit Punch in a pemion."— •PIPICT Snow. STATE Yesterday, at feu; "U'efoci, -- iir:ii - CoiiellUPtl the other traverners attended, for the purpose of finally settling the On the clerk of the crown entering the (Ace, Mr. O'Connell = L ind what was the practice to be observed. Mr. Boume.—The Crown Solicitor rejects one and then the attor ney for the traversers rejects another, and eo on. The following names wir • 4110 , meßmArrw. - ... were then struck out of the list of forty-eight, in the order in which thry toliuw Rejectid by the Crown. H. Grattan, A. Guinness, Sir D. Rome, 11,jee ed by tic Trc•creeu. N. Sneyd, Alderman Hodge%, Aldtrman Sir J. K. James, ~...,,.--- Colonel NI otris, P. Mitchell, R. Costallls, F. S. Parker, P. Savzge, W. S. Magee, Alderman APE. nry, Colonel Cash, Alderman S:r E. Nugent, J. D'Olier, John Alley, Co'onel Seaton, Charles O'Neill, W. P. Lunell, Hickman Henry, R. Law, A. Joy. B. Neville. The following now forms the yarel, and the firt twelve sho aeswer to their names will compose the Jury :—Aldermen West, At.hett and Morgan; Messrs. John George, R. White, 11. Bunn ' P. Flood , Thomas Finlay, James Chambers, George F. Brooke, W C. Colville, Thonris Crosthwaite, N. Hone, James Jackson, John Stewart, G. Cur, Ti ontas Wilson, M. haw, J. B. Ball, P. Doyne, H. S. Close, Francis Leigh, A. Nimmo, Ralph Shaw. ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY. Accounts arrived in town on Saturday representing tha. fellows have been taking advantage of the confusion occasioned throughout the coon. try by the late extensive forgeries, detected by means of the great acti vity of the Agents of the Rankers, and that numerous stump's have been trade to obtain money upon the assurance of a disclosure of the particulars of a conspiracy to commit forgeries. The following Circular has been issued throughout the count!y by the e° nmittee of the Country Bankers' Association : " London, 10th February. 1831. "Gentlemen—By direction of the Committee of the Country Bank ing Association. 1 forward you, annexed, the copy of a let:cr which oppears to have been extensively circulated among the country banker . The object of the writer is evidently to extort n:oney ; anti this cox. tnunication is made fer your government, in the event of ynnr receiv , ; s z a similar application. Those letters that have hitherto been received are dated from Worcester, Kidderminster, and Stourport, and measures have been taken to expose the authors thereof." "To Messrs. ——, of the -- Bank." r, Feb. 5,.11F31. " Gentlemen—You will, no doubt, be surprised to hear that their are parties near Birmingham committing a forgery on your Bank. It is in the power of a person who is known to the writer of this letter to give yru every information on the subject, so as to enable you to detect them. lie will do so provided you give him bffi. the one-half paid in advance, and the remainder afterwards : and you arc also to engage that one of the party shall not be prosecuted. Inu may find hint useful as a witness. It remains fur your consideration to advance the money or not: if you do so, you may place the greatest reliance on having evcty particular sent to you. His family is respeciable. and he will not have his name brought into question. " I am, Oentlenan, your obedient serval*, " Please to address, post paid, Post-Office Kidderminster. t•P.S. If you wish an interview with the person, and you will er n& 101. he will wait on you." i We are given to understand that en intelligent officer was dispatched to the neighbourhood of Stourton. with directions in what manner v. deal with any of the persons concerned in this scheme of getting money ; 1 and that two men were apprehended by him while receiving a letter directed to "H. H." and brought before a Magistrate. It is believed ithat those of the " great gang" who have escaped committal are very willing to give evidence for money, now that the usual sources are stopped up. " li. 11." LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THETIS, TWENTY OF HER CREW, AND A MILLION OF DOLLARS. Falmouth Packet Office, Saturday, Half-past Four o'Clock, rag. His Majesty's brig Barracouta, Lieutenant James, has just arrived from Buenos Ayres, whence she sailed the 21st of November, from Monte Video 25th November, and from Rio de Janeiro 15th December. By this conveyance we have received an account of the loss of his Majesty's ship Thetis. It appears that she sailed from Rio de Janeiro mi the 4th of December, and on the following night she stnick the Headland of Cape Frio, and sunk in five fathoms wntel . She was bound to England with a large freight--one million of dollars—the whole of which is lost; and, we regret to say, about twenty of ber crew, among whom is Mr. Bing ' ham, son of the late Captain Bingham, who met with a similar fate a few months before. The Druid, Clio, and Al lgerine, under the command of Admiral Baker, were at the wreck, to ascertain the probability of saving any of the treasure. I We, have received Buenos Ayres papers to the 20th.— ! The French tri-coloured flag was hoisted with great cere mony on the 21st of October. General Fructuoso Rivera bad been elected President of the Oriental Republic of the Uniguay, and his salary fixed at 9,0001. dollars per annum. General Paz has also been formally installed by the nine provinces of the interior as supreme military chief.—The istate of Buenos Ayres appears to be still unsettled in the interior. Divine Service was performed yesterday, before the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highness's household, at their residence in Kensington Palace, by the Dean of Chester. The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland, and their Royal Highnesses' household, attended Divine service yesterday, in their residence at the King's Palace, St. James's. Prince Leopold is entertaining the Russian Ambassador, Princess Lieven, Earl and Countess Grey, Sir Henry Par nell, and a select party of the Nobility and Gentry, at his residence at Claremont. The Prince had a grand dinner party on Saturday. A deputation of refiners of sugar, headed by dr. Wood, M.P. had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer on Saturday. A deputation of the tobacco-manufacturers of London, including Messrs. Hatfield, Caney, Vondethoyde, R. Lloyd, and Alex. Grant, attended at the Treasury on Saturday, and had a conference with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A numerous meeting of members of the House of Com mons efts hold yesterday in the department of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Treasury. About 150 members were present; among whom were Earl Sefton, Viscount Ebrington, the Marqi is of Tavistock, Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon, Sir J. Newport, Sir Geo. Warrender, Sir J. Graham, Messrs. C. Grant, R. Grant, Littleton, Ma berly, Byng, E. Dundee, Cavendish, Bariug, Spring Rice, Ellice, Esq. These gentlemen were engaged with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer nearly teo hours. After the meeting had broken up, Viscount Althorp and Sir James Graham went to the Colonial Office, and joined the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Dube of Richmond, Viscount Goderich, &c. The Ministers were engaged in deliberation nearly too hours. A deputation of glass-manufacturers had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at the Treasury. The Speaker of the House of Commons gave , his first dinner this season, on Saturday, to a party of Members of the House of Commons. A Dublin Correspondent informs us, that Mr. (Mos NIL'. was to leave that city on Saturday afternoon for London; his trial being postponed till next term. THIRTEEN REASONS.—On a certain King's Counsel proposing marriage to a fair, young, and very beautiful de scendant of Galen, the lady replied, that she had thirteen objections to wedlock with him. He asked her to state them, when she said there were twelve in his twelve chil dren, and the thirteenth was himself. MIRTH. &b. 9. at the Gametal Aln. Freeing. of a son. MARRIED. Nor. 23. in the English Church, Cape Town, Samuel Smart, Esq. late King's Advocate at Skmt Leone, to Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. Eat Oakes, D. D. DIED. Feb. 11, Mrs. Ann Truwhitt, of Devonshire-street, Quay-square. aged 79, widow of use late George This/hitt, Eel. many years vestry &TIE of St. Maryale-Strand,—Nov. 9, in the Wand et St. Vincent, 11 • Cosiaghwat, Esq. aged 700—At Munich, the Iles. Margaret In. king, daughters! Lord Erskine, his Majesty's Envoy Esuaortlinury and Anniston Plenipotentiary at the Coen of Rook. -. " 41.1.( ' , AFT