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destitution ; and, as if finds" perplexity were wanting to the problem, French bankers (and a Latina among them) are toe agents, and Parts the chosen spot, for concocting thole financial frauds, whereby alone FERDINAND and obso!utism exist and flourish. But the folly will one day pay her reckonirg for all this. Alas? the cause of liberty sill have to shore it. I remain, Sir, your's, die. -.8.-- FRANCE- Ancona evacuated, the election of the Prince of Cobourg decided, and the approaching Issue of our differences with Don Miguel ; these are the three questions which now occupy all minds. For Poland, we cannot believe but that its salvation is assured, a salvation which it owes to itself alone; or rather, it will be saved in spite of the efforts of the powers which surround it, by surmounting all the difficulties which have been thrown in Its way. The election of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg appears to us to have brought about the de finitive solution of the Belgian question, in all that which the question had of European. All chance of war is removed from that side. The good intention and perfect harmony of France and England have incontestibly produced this result so desirable—Messager. The French Cabinet is in the most lively joy at the elec. tion of Prince Leopold. It is a curious thing to remark, that the choice of the Duke of Nemours inspired a leas per. fect satisfaction. Belgium, under English influence, appears to its eyes a combination more interesting, than Belgium under a French Prince, which was neither more nor lea than an approaching union to France. It is a very national man ner of observing our exterior politics; it is one of those generosities which we cannot very well understand. That which gives enthusiasm to the Ministers of the Palais. Royal, is, that they consider the Belgian question as a finished affair ; because the Belgians haven King, they con sisin that they have nothing more to desire ; for the grand want of nations, now-a.days, is royalty !—which renders all those, who consent to make sacrifices to wear a crown, wor. thy of the devotion of Cortina.— Courier Francois. The men of the German Legion, stationed in depot • Usr-le-Duc, continue to desert. Twenty-two of them have been retaken by the National Guards of the Meuse, and con. veycd to the prisons of Bar-le-Duc. The Nantes Paper, Lc Breton, states that 500 muskets and 25 barrels of gunpowder, lately landed from an Eng. lish vessel on the coast, at Saseau, in Itlorbihan, have been seized by the Authorities of Vannes, and taken to that town. Le Consfilutionnel argues that the conduct of England in not having taken measures to have the conditions Insisted on by the Belgian nation complied with before the election, and thus consolidate and secure the independence of the throne before it was offered to Prince Leopold, affords ground for suspicion that the British Cabinet never seriously in tended the prince to become King of Belgium. Le Journal des Commerce and Le Courtier Francais conclude, that even should Prince Leopold be elected King of Belgium, he could not accept the Crown on the conditions attached to it, by the decree adopted in the last Session of Congress, viz.—that the King can only be inaugurated after having sworn to maintain the Constitution of the king. dom and the integrity of the territory, u determined by Congress. Lc Temps still harps on the question of the want of openness in Government, and displays no little soreness at not being as much in the ministerial confidence as it pro. bably thinks it ought to be. It appears dissatisfied with every thing, and now begins to argue that the election of Prince Leopold will be disadvantageous both to Belgium and France. It expresses astonishment that a Protestant Prince, connected with the Holy Alliance, and allied to the House of Nassau, can be thought fit to reign over a Catholic State, founded on the principle of insurrection, and violently wrested from that very House of Nassau. It then indulges in somewhat gloomy forebodings as to the rums; fearing that the means by which Government has endeavoured to preserve peace at any sacrifice, may ulti mately have the effect of producing war under the most disadvantageous circumstances. In conclusion, It remarks that want of candour has occasioned the downfal of every dynasty which has adopted that system of policy, and ap peals to the future to prove whether the present Ministry ought to consider itself more firmly fixed than a dynasty. Le Temps concludes that no difficulty will arise to prevent Prince Leopold accepting the Ciown ; it is for the Interest of England that he should do so, and means will therefore be easily found to induce the Conference of London to con sent to the adjunction of Limbourg, Luxembourg, and Zea land Flanders to Belgium. France must endeavour to con. sole itself for the humiliation of seeing Belgium separated from it by a formidable barrier, and thrown open to English industry, by the consideration that the internal peace of the country will be facilitated by it, inasmuch as Belgium will no longer furnish the agitators with the means of creating disturbances. The most important result of the Belgic question, however, it considers: to be the recognition of the Holy Alliance of election dynasties as resulting from revolu tions, a recognition which must be followed on the same principle by the acknowledgment of the independence of Po -1;"d. Le Coarrier Francais and Le National refer to the or tl.-ly A... 1 peaceable manner in which the late elections of the cffieers and noncommissioned officers of the National Guard aye been conducted, and which has even received the corn. plimentary notice of the Monifeur, as proving the absurdity vf opposing the principle of universal suffrage in the munici pal and legislative elections, on the ground of Its being pre judicial to public order. Le Journal des Debate concludes its arguments on the question of the electoral mandate, by quoting the 7th Article of the 3d section of the Constitution of 1791, which is in these words :—" The representatives nominated by the de partments shall not be the representatives of a particular de partment, but of the whole nation, and no mandate can be j:ven to them." It then maintains, that although this article 1, not in words in the Charter of 1830, its principle pervades it were it otherwise, we should have to return to the States Caleral and the imperf.ct liberty of the middle ages; thus destroying the fruits of the revolution of 1789. 31ausiria. Es, JUNE I.—Our superior authorities have just left for Tarascon : did the events of that city appear, nil the present, too little serious? It was in fact nothing: tw•o regiments in full revolt ; a peaceable population put out of the law, sabred and massacred by a ferocious soldiery ; two hundred citizens; the greater part mutilated in this as •assinating ambush, arbitrarily imprisoned and guarded by their executioners ; a city without magistrates delivered during several days to all the miseries of anarchy ; a French city bubn:it trd in full peace to treatment which would have been spared to a place taken by assault! Wbo will believe it? l):d it require the telegraph to carry them the order to set ar,tl to overthrow the tree of terror ?—Gazette die Medi. " La Revolution contains the following passage upon the tt•whlcs of Tera.con " Bat our small lilachiavels of the the juin' milieu have not taken into account the progress of the army. The lesson of July, lost for them, has brought its fruit elsewhere : it has destroyed the passive obedience in those eases where the bayonets would be directed against the I , , mzens. Two regiments refused to obey their chiefs who commanded them to Are. PORTUUAL. I.ct:ers from Brest, received this day, inform us that the r'sNel captured by the French division before Lisbon, is a Goelette, laden with oranges and salt. It is announced that seven other vessels, nearly of the same importance, have been captured since.—Journal du Cameros. By the capture of the Portuguese ship sent into Brest, says the Journal du Commerce, we have commenced war with Don Miguel, and the merchants have consequently begun to effect insurances against war ; it is said that three per cent. premiums have been given for ships passing between Kane and Cadiz. La Quolidienne renews its accusation against the French Government of being entirely under the direction of Rag land, maintaining that the insolence of Don Miguel is oc casioned by his conviction that France dare not attack him without the permission of England. It then argues that even if the expedition against Portugal proceeds to extremi ties, and takes hostile measures, no advantage will result to France, as the Mediterranean would in that case be soon covered with piratical vessels under the Portuguese flag, which, being secretly protected by Ragland, would subject the French commerce to all the evils incident to a war with England.:ln conclusion, it treats the expedition against Don Miguel as a mere trick on the part of the Ministry, to dis tract the attention of the country from the feebleness and ti midity which characterise every part of its foreign policy. AUSTRIA, ITALY, AND TURKEY. A letter from Colmar, dated June let, contains the fol. lowing remarks :—All the roads of the Austrian states are covered with troops. An army of sixty or eighty thousand is formed upon the frontier of Bavaria, and Lindau is crowded with soldiers. The Emperor has called under arms the Hungarian population, in the parts adjacent to Turkey. PIEDMONT, TURIN, Max 31.—We are assured that it is to force the new King of Sardinia to enter into the errors of his predecessors, that the Austrian army is assembled on his frontier ; and that M. Metternich has raised the question of the Koran:ls, and of the route of the Simplon, under pretext, that the concession made by Austria to the elder branch of Savoy, can be withdrawn from the branch of Ca. rignan. One can easily understand that such a pretence, of which the result will be the remitting the Key of the Alps to the Cabinet of Vienna, will give rise to serious reflections. This question of the Novarais is but a lure, an occasion of threats, which will probably engage the new King to re seek alliances capable of aiding him to repulse the yoke which Austria would impose. Austria would be Regent of his interior and exterior Government, and prevent his giving to these States a Constitution which will excite the envy of Italy. It is by threatening that she hopes to spread that new vassallage which the great powers would impose on the most feeble States. No new light is thrown on the shocking affair at Merthyr Tydvil; and, if we can trust reports, the killed have been buried without the forms of an inquest, but we conceive this must be a mistake. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Funds this morning have been in a feverish state. Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 3 for the Account, opened at 821, but immediately went down to 821, owing to the report of some change going to take place in the Ministry; since which they have improved, and may be quoted at present 381 i. In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock was done as low as 51, since which a re-action has taken place, and they have got up to 53i ; owing to the private letters received this morning from Rio, that all was quiet there, and every thing going on well. A sudden depression has taken place in Russian stock ;it has receded about 1 to 2 per Cent. owing to reports that the Russians require a new loan ; also of information being received that France has come to a resolution to assist the brave Poles. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols continue heavy, the fluctuation during the morning has been from 82a down to 821, and are at present 821 fur the Account. The French 3 per cents. are said to have come 2 per cent lower. Brazil Stock 52 to 53. THREE O'CLOCK. &roc' Exasswoz.—Bank Stock, 1991. Three IKT C t fled. 81i I. Three per Ct. Consols, shut. Three and a Half per Ct. 1818, —. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. 891 1. Three and a Half per Cr. New, abut. Four per Cent. 1820, —. Long Ann. Jan. 1960, 161 11.16. India Stock, shut ; ditto Bonds. 3 2 prem. Old Annuities, £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 9 11 ; £llOO ditto, 10 11 ; £lOO and £2OO ditto, 10 8. Cons. for Acct, 821 11. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent en tertained a large and distinguished party at dinner yesterday. A few days ago, two children, at Metz, who had been beaten by their parents, threw themselves into the Moselle, and were found dead, locked in each others arms. ... The Courrier de l'Herault gives the following extract of a letter from St. Pons:—" M. de Peyronnet, President of the Civil Tribunal, who had hitherto afforded proofs of attachment to the fallen dynasty, has just received the decoration of the Legion of Honour. On the same day a long eharivari was given him, to express the displeasure of the inhabitants at this unexpected favour." The ship l'Ocean has just arrived at Bordeaux from Martinique, with 378 bags of sugar, consigned to M. Jacques Laffitte, being the produce of a subscription made in the island for the wounded and widows of July. On Wednesday last a poacher was condemned to death, by the Court of Assizes at Rouen, for attempting to kill one of the keepers of the Forest of Bray, by Bring upon him. His Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood, on Wednesday, at the Levee, upon Colonel Stephen Remnant Chapman, of the Royal Engineers, Go vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bermudas. We learn from Copenhagen, that the captains of the King's regiments have d ec ided upon discontinuing flogging in their regiments, which resolution has been sanctioned by the King. Col. Amor, a brave cavalry officer of the Spa nish army, who was imprisoned at Valladolid, hu lately, with his own hand, put an end to his painful and melan choly existence. The Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by Count Villa Floe and two Gentlemen, who arrived in town yesterday, visited Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office, yesterday. Viscount Palmerston and Sir James Graham had interviews yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Treasury. Viscount Melbourne is recovering from his re cent attack of indisposition. Several persons have been taken up at Antwerp for having, on the 2d instant. committed depredations at the house of ao officer of the civic guard, and will no doubt be punished. The court of assize at Liege has been occupied with the trials of the men concerned in the plunders at Ver. viers and the neigl bwrhood. Of the 35 p.i.oners tried 21 were acquitted and discharged, 13 condemned to five year*, and one to six years' imprisonment. The population of the great manufacturing towns of Blackburn, Bolton, and Stockport, have increased nearly 19,000 in the last ten years, i.e. from 75 to 94,000; but this depends on the increase of manu facturing buildings, which has been immense ; and then the population is swelled by children and hands brought from all parts of the kingdo ~, to be put to the miserable employments which the factories pre sent, and in which the average of life is seven or ten years less than in agricultu:e. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Extract from the Speech of I. Sydney Taylor, A. M. in se conding:the Resolution moved by Dr. Lushington, at a Public Meeting held at Exeter Hall, Monday, May 30. After making some excellent preliminary observations, Mr. Sydney Taylor proceeded to say—" It is," as Mr. Jus tice Blackstone remarks, ;‘ a kind of quackery in Govern. meat to apply the same universal remedy—the whinturn supptioluns to every case of difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind, yet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and cruel surgeon who cuts offevery limb, which, thro' ignorance or indolence be will not attempt to cure." There have been unfortunately for the character of English justice, too many of those weak and cruel quacks, of whom Blackstone speaks, engaged, from time to time, in the delicate and difficult task of criminal legislation. They have certainly, like quacks in the medical profession, shown that it is much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind. They have indulged their ease, and endea voured to conceal their ignorance by neglecting the curative process entirely, and making a liberal use of the exterminating knife. For ages past, multitudes, whose offences were of inferior degrees of guilt, end who, under the treatment of a judicious penal regimen, would have been restored to moral health, and have become ;good and useful members of so. ciety, have perished the pitied victims of their remorseless ignorance and unscientific butchery.—The grave has covered the offences of their victims ; but what mountains can cover the crimes of the inhuman legislators! Those crimes stand rubric against their memories in the volumes of our penal laws—laws written not whir ink, but with blood, as if the law-makers had bccn emulous of the execrable fame of Draw, whose cnsanguined laws the Athenians erased from the books of their republic, but saved his name from ob livion, to float it as a warning down the stream of an odious Immortality! Do I colour the description of the sanguinary nature of the English laws too highly ? Blackstone says, "itis a me lancholy truth that, among the variety of actions that men are daily liable to commit, no less than 100 have been de clared by Act of Parliament. to be felonies worthy of instant death." Since his time the number has been more than doubled; and our revenue lam at one time—as stated by Lord Holland, in the House of bowls, in the year 1810— contained no less than 75 capital enactments, tire most of which had become obsolete, through their odious ,and im. practicable severity. At one period the rage for enacting capital punishments went so far in this Christian land that almost every country gentleman, who could distinguish himself in Parliament in no other way, was sure to try his hand at a new felony, with. out benefit of Clergy. It was in allusion to this custom that Edmund Burke sarcastically, but truly, observed that, " if a country gentleman could obtain no other favour from the government, he was sure to be accommodated with a new felony, without benefig of Clergy." He tells us that having, on one occasion, gone into a ;committee-room, where, I think, ha rays but the Chairman, one Mem ber, and the Cl,rk, were busily engaged in trans acting business, with papers before them, he was in formed, as a reason why there was no necessity for • greater attendance, that they were only preparing a bill to enact a new felony, without benefit of Clergy 1 I know not to what lengths that exterminating spirit would have gone, if it had not been for the appearance in the House of Com mons of that man, the energetic arm of whose virtue arrested the destructive machine of criminal legislation, which, like the rolling car of the Indian Moloch, found new victims to crush beneath its wheels at every new impulse which it re ceived from the ministers of its cruelty—a man, of whose enlightened benevolence the legislature of England was too soon deprived, but whose virtuous example can never be lost —over whose grave Mercy weeps, amid the unwithering gar lands which humanity has strown on the repose of her bene factor—the amiable, the great, the lamented ROMILLT. It Is true that, since the time when Sir Samuel Romilly commenced his humane and wise innovations on the crimi. nal laws, several capital Statutes, which, for the excessive disproportion of the penalty to the offence, had become ob solete, have been lopped cff ; but scarcely in a single in stance has the criminal code been purified from any but those obsolete enacumnts which were hideous in appearance, but had become harmless, in fact, being paralyzed by pub. lic opinion, and, like fangless serpents, having no longer the power to inject that venom whose touch is death. If, as I said, the Legislature have the right, as well as the power, to take away human life, whether the resort to that terrible power be intended to prevent a repetition of the offence by the culprit, or to deter others by his example—if the sante end can be attained by means equally efficacious, which do not involve the destruction of life, no man, who does not feel a pleasure in shedding blood, for its own sake, or whose heart has not been rendered ob. durate by the influence of the system which he upholds, will venture to assert that death ought to be inflicted—that punishment with which the Almighty forbore to strike the first murderer, leaving him to become a mole fearful exam. plc to men, by the agonies of an accusing conscience, and the desolation of a living curse, ought not surely to be lightly inflicted by weak, fallible, sinful man, sitting in judgment on his guilty brother. I have shown that the criminal laws of England are not temperate. l shall now prove that they are not moral, and must, consequently, have the dangerous effnt of giving wrong notions of the de grees of guilt, and confounding the moral perceptions of the people—the worst lesson that legislators can teach man. kind. It will be allowed by all Christian, and, indeed, by all civilized, people, that every system of justice which is not founded in morality, has a false foundation.— Morality, whether its principles be taught us by the light of nature, improved by cultivr.ted reason, or by tire clearer sight of s ealed religion, distinguishes offences as of different de grees of moral guilt, which the laws of England confound by the denunciation of the one merciless punishment. Can the English system of criminal law, then, have its foundation in morality ? if so, there is • morality which teaches what Sir Robert Peel does, in his " amended law"—that the offence of stealing five pounds in a dwelling-house is equal to the most cruel spoliation of the most precious of the gifts of Gon, which is the life of man—that the burning of a heap of straw or bean-stalks, in a field remote from any dwelling, is not inferior in crime to the burning a family in their beds—that to steal a horse or a sheep is quite as cri minal as to maliciously slay the rider or the shepherd— that to fabricate a one-pound promissory note is not leas atrocious than to assassinate a Bank Director—that to counterfeit the King's image and superscription on a piece of gold or silver coin, is as malignant and dan gerous • crime as to compass the death of the King, or to rebelliously attempt to dis,olve into the chaos of savage anarchy all the elements of civil existence - for all these offences are equally punishable by the extinction of the offender. If there be a code of morality which teaches the doctrines proclaimed in Sir Robert Peel's " amended" legislation, where is it to be found—in what place of educe tion is it taught ? Has the light of nature disclosed it ? lies it been revealed in the authentic word of OOD ? The un perverted reason—the natural conscience of man revolts at the monstrous confusion of principles which such a sys tem of " wild justice' displays, and religion, while she pours upon the mind the clear light of divine instruction, breaks in pieces upon the altars of a merciful dispensation, the tablets of sanguinary law. But our " amended" code of criminal law visits with mild punishment some atrocious offences which are far more heinous than the ordinary vio lations of vulgar property, tor which the two unfortunate criminals were strangled on the scaffold the other morning —and even some acts that inflict the most deadly injury, and produce irreparable affliction, meet with no punishment whatever. e a • e Again, the man, who, in the grossest violation of the con• 6dence of friendship and the rights of hospitality, plunders his friend of that jewel of domestic peace which is above the price of rubies—who tuns the ornamvnt and the solace of his life into his disgrace and affliction—who makes his home desolate and his children worse than mothetless, in curs no punishment whatever; while the man who steals to the amount of 51 in his dwelling house, of that metal which our legislators deem to be more precious than human oloud, must expiate his offence beneath the sword of the inexorable law. It is hence, and from other in stances that I could adduce, rather evident that our criminal laws are the work of the rich and great, who, while they affected more than the indignation of the loftiest virtue against the offences into which the poor man is likely to fall, have either altogether overlooked or been exceedingly lenient to such crimes as their own "older^ are but too prune to commit; therefore, the thief of a few shil -1 hogs, or the forger of a one-pound note, was sent to the gibbet,but the fashionable gambler,who, by the basest MU of ' circumvention, plunders families of their fortune, and chil dren of their inheritance, may have the agonies of human despair—the crime of suicide—the miseries of destitute wi dos hood and unprotected orphanage—to answer for before a higher tribunal, but the lightnings of our criniisial Jaw pass him by to strike and exterminate the diebortest savant, who pilfers a small portion of Ms ill-gotten wealth. Such is the morality of the system ! I hope those who take an interest in the reformation of morals among ourselves, will exert their influence and abi lities so as not to allow another session of Parliament to pan away without something being done to introduce substantial improvement and amelioration into our own code of criminal laws. In this struggle, if there is much to be encountered, there is much to be gained. If the conflict be severe, the trophies are glorious—you engage in it to give new a n d per manent and inestimable advantages to civilization—to pro mote the moral and social welfare of the people—to give to power its best security, by placing it on the imperishable foundation of enlightened justice—to vanquish and wrest from legislative barbarism the weapons of human extermi nation, and lay them at the feet of rejoicing humanity. THEIR MAJESTIES. WINDSOR—FaiDAr. The principal Officers of the Cavalry and Infantry regiments stationed here had the honour of dining with their Majesties yesterday evening, by invitation. The Earl of Munster and Lord Frederick Fitz clarence arrived at the Castle yesterday evening, and also joined the Royal party at dinner. The carriages and saddle-horses were ordered to be in readiness at half-past two this afternoon, when their Majesties and suite proceeded to take their usual airing—the King ins close carriage, and the Queen on horseback. The Earl of Niunater and Lord Frederick Fitz clarence left the Castle this forenoon, in one of the Royal carriages, and proceeded to the tliltary College at Sand. hunt. After examining the young Cadets, who were to pass In review before them, their Lordships were to dine with Lord Edward Paget, the Governor, with whom they intended pas sing a day or two. Her Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was to leave Hanover yesterday, the 9th inst. and is expected to ar rive at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, on Tuesday next, the 14th instant. PRIVATE LETTER. FALMOUTH JUNE 9, 1831.—Arrived, H. M. Packet Lt. D o wnie , from the Leeward Wands, sailed from St. Th omas's May 13th ; May 31, Cerro bearing S. S. W. 15 leagues ; spoke the brig Hibernia, from Liverpool for Charlestown, out 13 days, all well. H. M. Pkt. Opossum, Lt. Peter, from Bermuda, sailed May sth. and from Ha. lifax May 15th, with mails ; found at Bermuda H. M. Ships North Star, Gannet and Ranger. 11th May H. M. Ship Cordell* sailed from Halifax tor Newfoundland, and H. M. Pkt. Briseis for Bermuda; also arrived the Duke of York Pkt. Lt. Snell, from Buenos Ayres, sailed Mar. Sth, Monte Video March 16th, and Rio de Janeiro 10th April, with mails and dispatches, containing the account of the abdication, on the 7th of April, of the Emperor Don Pedro I. in favour of his son Don Pedro de Alcantara, now Don Pedro IL, a child of five years old. Every thing was very tranquil, and a regency formed to govern, comprising the Marquis of Caravellos, Mr. Francisco de Lima, and Mr. Vergueiro, who had taken the oath to %ppm the Roman Catholic Apostolical religion, to observe The Political Con stitution of the Brazilian n ation, and to be faithful to Don Pedro H. The cause of this unexpected measure was the Emperor's dismissal of the ministry, and appointing one altogether obnoxious to the native Brazilians, from whom emanated a deputation, requesting the dismissal of the tben ministry, and the reinstatirg of the former one. The Em peror peremptorily refused to comply with such a request, and immediately attempted to head his troops, who refused to march against the people, and left their barracks to join their fellow.ccuntrymen. The Emperor then immediately abdie tel the crown in favour of his son; on the night of the abdication the Emperor, Empress, and Queen of Por tugal privately proceeded on board H. 51. Ship Warspite. Since writing the above, H. M. Frigate Volage, Lord Col. cheater, has arrived, and is now at anchor off Pendennis Castle, with the above personages on board from Rio de Janeiro, having left that city three days after the Packet; they do not intend landing, their present destination being to Portsmouth. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The great attractions of PASTA and TAGLIONI drew last night the most crowded house of the season. The occasion, moreover, of Fart BEN'S benefit conduced to ensure an ova- Bow. PASTA sang 0 rairia and ll soave bet content°, and the applause lavished on her performance was almost deaf. ening. Like honours were paid to Taratioxr, who danced the Tyrolienne with La 'zone and KANIEL, in a pleasing little Swiss ballet, got up for the occasion. The dramaiie pieces were—Charles XII. and the Legiod of honour, in both of which IF.Saltan acted with all that force and effect which renders all his performances so deservedly and so highly popular. The entertainments concluded with l oss Thumb, which ISCIUded in its cast DOKTON, LISTON, Milk C. JONES, and at ones least and greatest, !ilia:. POOLE. KING'S THEATRE. Signer Paganini made last night bis wand appearance at a concert given by him at this theatre. The pieces se lected for his own performance consisted of a concerto aid] the three usual movements, a sons.a on the fourth (silver) string, and a fantasia, in which the well-known air calleJ " the Carnival of Venice" was introduced with veriations. Signor Paganini having, through vast exertion, procured himself the aid of two entire additional cctsves with dr it half notes, making in all 28 notes on the fourth siring, by means of the harmonies. Is able to execute pieces r f a very extensive scale on that string slur . The labour he must have gone tl rough before h. cou'd so compictely obtain the command of the harmonic rotes none but violin performers of experience can form a ration of. The mrst turprising part of the use be makes of them is the clearness and surer gth of their tone ' which renders them 114 audible as the tua notes at any distance. In thl fan as's, the cirri ton was in staccato and pizzicato passages. Signor Pagan ni's usual manner of executing the anceoto is not conform Isle to the ordinary rules, and differs also in effect. The rapidity and neatness with which it is done form its principal beauty. The pizzicato passages were given with a neatne , s and ra pidity that greatly enhanced the merits of the execution. In one of the variations they formed an aceompanim nt which was a striking imitasion of the mandoline. The applause bestowed last night on Signor Paganini's performances was as enthusiastic as on the previous Friday. Several encores were vehemently insisted upon, and partly complied with. The other parts of the concert were sustained by Signor and Madame Rubini, and Signori Curioni and Santini. The house was completely full in every part. ALLEGED _MURDER AT SEA. On Wednesday last Ale. Charles Russell, the saloon keeper of the Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Road, waited on Mr. BALLANTINZ, the presiding magistrate at the Thames Police Office, to give information of a murder committed on the high seas, more than seven years ago, tin der circumstances of a most extraordinary nature. He said, that in the latter part of 1824, he went out as musician in a ship belonging to the But India Company. In January, lB2b, while the ship was lying off the shore at Second Bar, near Canton, the quarter-master committed some offence,by which he incurred the displeasure of the Sd and 4:b officers, who seized him on the gun-deck, fastened a rope rout.d his body, and lowered him down the after hatchway, using him very roughly during the lowering. They then called for the gunner to put him in irons, which was accordingly done, and he was placed in confinement in the spirit. room, a very small place, and the door closed upon him. The acting master of the band, who witnessed the man. ner in which his shipmate was used, said it was a great shame to use a man in that way ; and he had no sooner uttered the words than the two officers collared him, put a rope round his body, ironed him, and lowered him by the rope into the same place. livery one was forbidden to give the poor fellows any food. The smallness of the room and the heat of the weather must have been dreadful. They continu ally exclaimed " Give us water r " Open the hatches; Let us out 1" but their cries were unheeded. Towards morning the cries of the men gradually grew fainter and fah.ter, and they appeared to be quite exhausted. At six o'clock in the morning the hatches were unbarred, and the doors were opened, when the qaarter.master was brought out suffocated, and quite dead. Every attempt was made to restore anima tion, but without success. The acting master wu much exhausted, but he eventually recovered. Collateral circum stances strengthening this statement being proved to the Ma gistrates, they have caused rigid Inquiries to be made, and the affair, in the course of a week, will be inves;igattd. The Noblemen and Gentlemen composing the Deputation from Belgium, waited on P.iree Leopold yes. ttrday, at lUarlborougb House, and . odience of his Royal Highness. The Deputation also .1 Farl Or( y. at t..e Treasury, sad had a conference witi. L.:e I:. 11 , CHOLERA MORBUS. A Suppkmentary Gassed* of hit night conuarn, tile fol lowing order: At the Court at St. James's, the Bth day of J:at?. 1811 Present, the King's most Excellent Majesty u: "Whereas info:madam bath been received that the cholera morbus has lately been making alarming progress in cena:ii provinces of the Russian empire, Ws Majesty, under the authority of the said above recited Act, by and with the advice of his Privy Calmed, (loth hereby adjudge and de clare it probable that the said disease is highly dangerous to the health of his tlajesty's suhj cts, and may he brought into the United Kingdom, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark. or M .n, by wessis coming from, or having touched at, certain pots or places of the Con tinent of Europe, which are herein, Ler more particularly described, either without clean bills of health ; and nit 111:1- jesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of I. Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all vessels coming from, rr haring unwind at, any port or place in the Baltic, or in the Categattc S.a , or any port or place on the F.lbe, and bound to any port or plane in the United Kingdom, or to the islands of Guernsey, Jen.ry, Alderney, Sark, or Man (having clan bills of Ituriltii),,as well AS all vessels, boats, and persona having had com munication with such vessels, shall proceed io such of the under mentioned ports as may be the near:st and most con venient to their port of destination -viz. Cromarty Buy, in the Murray Frith, to the anchorage in the Frith of Tay, ' near Dundee, in the Frith of Forth, between the North Queen's-ferry and Lord Elgin's Linic.kilns ; White Booth roads, (between Hull and Grimsby) Standgate-creek ; the Nlotherbank, at Portsmouth; Plymouth; Falmouth; M:l. ford-harm; Brornhor&-pool (in the ri,er Mersey, mar Liverpool) Holylocis, (in the Frith of Clyde) and all velar Is arriving with foul bills of health, or coming (without bills of health) from any port or place where the cholera is known to prevail, sisal proceed either to Cromany.bsy, in the Mur. say Frith, to Standgatc-creek, or to Milford-haven, and s h a ll there perform quarantine, and be subject, with their mgr., pilots, and all persons having communication with such ves sels, to all the rules and regulations established by his WC Majesty's Order in Council, of July 19, 162 i " And the Lords Commissioners of his Alajetoy's 'Pres. sury, the Commissioners fur executing the othce of Lord High Admiral of Grcat Britain, the loud Warden of tiu- Cinque Ports, the Master-General, and the rest of tne p inci pal Officers of the Ordnance, his Majesty's Secret. , .ry at War, and the Governors and Commanders-in-chief for the irate being of the said Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark and Wan, arc to give the necessary directior.s I.th in a. to them may respectively appertain. " C. C. GREVILLE " STAPLES OF BRITISH COMMERCE (THIS DAY.) • rrict.p. WCIODT [NM AND i ll EAS' II N. Bowed Pernanta N. (Mean• Saxony pr. Aubtria pr. Segovia S. Down Blanket Pied. white Modena IPer pound 1 Bengal China Antwerp Pig 'Swedish British S. Amcric Bars Blocks Lump Powder Bengal Jamaica Maryland Virginia Cuba Florence Linseed Pale rape Bordeaux Jamaica Demerara Iriab ISe.3.lth Good Prime 92 gs) Putts U. Arcs British C. S. D.•ming. %lochs Java ,otegou flyson Cott Do h 1k shire Yellow White Carolina Bengal &ef Mutton Veal Pork Wheat Barley Oars Brans Kent Sussex F.ssez COTTON (Lie.)l I 61 to 7d 7.1 to ttd 16:,d to 7d 3s to .5s Woos. (Lon. :6 6d to 4s :1 to 3% .s to 1% nd id to 10J IN to 44s 13: to 15s lOs to 14s 12s to 16s SiLa (thrown: (raw) FLaz Il k • Per ton I tom "! £55 to £6O €4 to IES Xti to .Z 6 £l2 10 to X1:1 10 ..-- £B7 to £llB £72 to £73 £l3 t XIS £3 It, 14 I Prr t wt. 48. to M. (tin) )70. to 74s —22 s 25. —50 s 57s : ) .r pount 4d to 54 5d to sid Is Id to Is 44 Ilalf chro 21a Ai. cwt. 40s 50s Per garcon 3s to 4s —12 s to 2. 51 - 2. 102.6,jJ ps to Ms I Corns • • LEAD - .1 TIN - SUGANS - . TOBACCO - Ou. . BRA MDT . Rom - (1 4) (10 a 20) WHISI/if 10 to Its G - Pon: - Stumm - - \1•a1111111 • CATE . - Hums . . Per pipe 2. 6d to 2- 9.1 .C. 7.5 t. 1:39 £1.6 to £39 4'o to /40 £8 to £l5 dud to 23d 9.1 to lld ES 13. to £2 15s £3 4. to £4 2 to £2 2s £5 to £6 : Is 10d to 2. 21 Id to 24 6d 4s 2d to 4s 5d £4 10s to £4 15s £4 to £4 12. £3 Ss to £3 16. £2 Ss to £2 Itts £2 to £2 Is F 2 Os to £2 Is 14. to 16s 12. to 16s 6J Its Sd to 3. 101 5. Od to 4s 0.1 Is to 48 Sd s to 4. ad ;to to 74. 4 to 46. to 31s , to 38, to £l2 101 to XS les to £9 9s to £lB 15. to £4 58 to ZS 15s Ss to £1 IS. to 35s to 311 44 lid 94 ed Per pours IP• r ewt Corrals . TEA - I :Per pmet:e. Barna - 1 ,Per cwt. CHEESE . TALLOW ( R OS:, Rica . 31Lsf (Lond. Per atone Coax (London, Pr quarto Hors (London: F Per cwt. irarnharn IGood HAT (London: Per load- I X3 "AI --- LEI Per ettald.l32. 241 Pr quarter 66. - 'Us - 26. - 401 Middling Straw Wttilsend Others Wheat Barley Oats Beans COALS . Gaztin Avis.' COVKNT•GARDEN MARKET-THIS DAY. Peas, witkit avery short tnniiiinmviere a luxury it; three guincas per quart, were this day plentiful at market, at one shilling per quart. Of Fruit and Vegetables genemby, there was a good supply. PRICES. Peaches, 21s to 42z per ittzen. Melons, bs to 164 exit. Nectarines, 21. to 42s per dozen. Green Peas, Is per quart ; ditto per halt sieve, is 3d to Is 6d. Cherries, 2s to 10s per lb. Strawberries, 9d to 21 Gd per r ottle. Pines. 6s to 16s per pound. Grapes, 4s to 101 per lb. Cucumbers, Gd to Is 6dper brace. Mushrooms, Is to Is ed per small basket. Asparagus, is to 4s 6tl per bundle. trench Be a ns, Is Gd to 2s per 100. Broad Beans, 4s 6d to 6s ptr halt sieve. Gooseberries, 2d to 4d per quart. Currants, Gd to W. Rhubarb, 64 to ls 9d per bundle. New Potatoes. Gd to is per pound. Apples, 9s 6d to 4s 6d per halt sieve; do. for dessert, Is to 21 ed per dos. Pears, 5s per dozen. Turnips, 4d to 9d per bunch. Catrots, Dd to Is 62. Cabbages, Is to is Gd per doz. Spring Onions, 3d to Gd per bunch. Cauliflowers, 2d to 6d each. Horse Radish, 4s to 8s per bundle. Old Potatoes, 91 to 7. per Cwt. Celery, Is 8d to 21 6d per bundle. Lettuces, Is to Is 04 per score. Outages, 4a to les per 100. Lemons, 4s to 12s. Spanish Nuts, 8s per peek. Almonds. 7s. COUNTRY 11 A R S. Uxsarnoa—Wheat, per load (40 busl:tl•) •E'!3 10. u Z2O 10s; Harley, per qr, 32s to 40s; Oats, as to 34• Beans, 44a to 48a ➢ear, to —a. Hamm 1110ISTSTSAD-IVheat. per load (five bo•hels), 40, to 465; Beau, 20s to 30s; Maw, 264 to 28- ; l e y, p er qr, 30s to 444; Oats, '4841 to :42a Od. RomroaD—Wheat, Err qr. 644 to 7;s; &why, 34• 425; Oats, 28. to Ws ; Wus, 30s to 48. ; Peas, 34 6 to 104; Rye, to —I, , I, i 1 , £3 £6 £ 7 le in KM Lin- *ln Lent or Nit- k to po by 'hat :are rmt, glib Dun. 'the be. the la I e di. cock and the f the, the rn to ile of ring h of ,can both tberg e) to gh is It is. um, pain. , will ny is Psi- rn in brave been ton." troops at the over lets of sets upon uuis. P°P ll ° with- Prue ale 0 friend ri.o LS.