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PRICK 04: STOI KS A Balk Stock, 203 26 S per Cent. Red. 811 1 per Ct. Cnnt. 816 806 :ij per Ct. 1818, 901 per Ct. 9-t1 00j 3 . 1 per Cent. New, 901 i9O .1 per Ct. 18 , 26, 991 4 Long Ann. Jan. 1860, 171 Do. Oet. 1059 171 Ann. Jan.lB6o 16 15-16 "' r TWO O'CLOCK. ladle Stock, India Bonds 19 South Sea Stock New Annuities XlOOO Kid'. Bilis 32 28 .1500 Dino 33 28 AlOO and anon Do. 33 28 Advertised 33 28 India for Acct. Cons. for Ace. 81i 801 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWo ()LOCCK. 'MAUL PAM FM SHIM S 5 20 25 15 214 4 0 391 101 lirazillanlmp. Om £5 pm.) Ditto National United Mexican (iss. at Sii pm) FOREIGN FUNDS . Brasil 1111% 5 pr Ct. 541 Do. Arc. 54 Dlni%ll ltd. 3 rer rt. 591 Port. Bonds, 5 per eta 041. Account 43 Puns Bonds, s pet Ct. Do. Acct. Do. Ekls, 1822, 95 Ditto Acc. Do. 4 per Cent. 80 _ . TWO O'CLOCK. Rum 13411.1822, 5 per Ct. 911 Do. Acct. Bp. M 1.5 per Ct. 161 Do. Ace. 161 Sp. Bds. 1823 121 Ditto Acct. 121 Fr. Rts, 5 p Ct. 93f. 50c. Rzehange, 25f. 30c. Fr. K. 3 pr Cents. 61f. 50c Exchange. 251. 30e FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Prices per S. to the consumer : Bur—Finest Roasting, 7d to ad. Boiling. 4d and sd. Equal quantity of each, 6d Rump Steaks, 94.101 Beef Steaks, od. Rump of Bed, 6id. Warman Murros—Leg, 70 and Bd. Loin, 6441. — Saddle, 60. Shoulder, 5d and Sid. /launch, 74. and Bd. Ned. Ad. Breast, 4d. VIAL — Leg. 7ed to aid. Fillet, 90 and ad. Loin, 7d. and Ted. Breast, 7d. and 74d. Neck,7d. Shoulder, 5d and 64. Posc, 61d and 7$ per lb. NRVIGATE AND LRADENHALL—THIS DAY. By the Carcase.—Per stone of 61b8. Beet 25 4d 5s 2d 58 6d Mutton 21 6d Zs 4d Ss 6 d Veal usd 4. • ds4 4d I Pork 38 24 Ss SA 48 4d CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, ,E 2 Os. to £2 Ss. Useful' ditto, £2 ss. to .C 5 10s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, .f 2 15s. to £4 ss. Clover Hay. 42 ss. to £5 ss. Oat Straw, l LI 12s. to £1 141. Wheat Straw, £1 14$. to £1 141. per load of 56 trusses. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 Ss. to sC2 15s. Useful ditto, sE3 Os. to .14 Os. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, £4 Os to .e 4 Ss. Clover Hay, £3 Os. to AS ss. Oat Straw. sel Os to Li tOa. Wheat Straw, £1 121. to .21 16s. per load of 36 trusses. TI-1 E EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. Despatches were this day received at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, from their Excellencies Lord GRAN VILLE, and Lord PONSON BY, our Ambassadors in France and the Netherlands. Our Readers will observe the arrest of Mr. O'Cowtor EL. We have, since the receipt of that intelligence, heard that Mr. Sit LELA. is likewise arrested. An official letter has been sent sent from Lord PALuzze- TON to Lloyd's, stating that he has communicated to the Agent at Antwerp, that the Scheldt is to be opened on the 20th instant, for the free navigation of British vessels, by the orders of the five allied Powers. The Moniteur contains the official notification of the f01..' lowing diplomatic appointments :--M. de St. Atowww, on a special mission to Switzerland; Boron DuaswD Ds MARENIL, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hague; the Marquis de DALMATIE, to Stockholm; Baron MoRTIER. to Munich ; Baron ALLEYR Ds Arlin, to Frankfert ; and Count RINE DE &MIELE, to Carlsrahe. By the Brussels papers, received this day, we have the' protocol of the 9th instant, signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Great Powers; and which cannot be considered in any other light, than as a declaration of war against the Belgians by these Powers. The details are of the highest importance ; and taken in connection with the information given in a previous article, we, at once, per ceive the violation of the long-spoken-of policy of non intervention. The perfect observance of the principle of non-intervention, experience is proving to be, as entirely theoretical, as the antiquated principle of the balance of power, or of the universal peace, with which HIRAI' the FOURTH of France, and some speculative Philosophers, are said to have amused themselves. What we now see, is five great powers basing their right on treaties, to which the people of Belgium were no parties, and whose interests were sacrificed, interfering even to the sacrifice of that which they have ostensibly been active to preserve. The preservation of peace in Europe is important ; and we believe the governments of France and England, have been anxiously endeavouring to preserve it, but it is daily proving itself impracticable. BRUSSELS. NATIONAL CONORESS.—Evimso &Truro or JAW. 15. bl. Le lion in the name of the D ipiontatic Committee, made the following communication to the Congress:— PROTOCOL or JAW. 9, 1831. Present the Pknipotendaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Prussia. The Plenipotentiaries of the Five Courts have met for the purpose of examining the complaints which the Court of London has received on the part of the Government of Belgium against the prolongation of the measures which continue to impede the navigation of the Schelde, and on the pert of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands against the acts of hostility committedbythe Belgic troops, consider. ing that the protocol, No. 1, of Nov. 4,1830, contains the following set. tepee :—On both sides hostilities shall entirely cease. That by the document, letter B, annexed to the protocol, No. 2, the provisional government of Belgium is engaged to give orders, and take the near easy measures, to put an end to all hostilities against Holland on the part of the Belgians. Considering, father, that by the document, letter A, annexed to the protocol, No. 3, of Nov. 17, 1830, his Majesty the King of the Nether. lands declares that he accepts the proposal abose•mentloned, (that of the entire cessation of hostilities on both sides) according to the tenor of the protocol No. 1. That the protocol No. 2, of 17th Nov. says, that the armistice being agreed to on both sides, constitutes an engagement entered into with the gve Powers, and that on both sides a faculty will be retained of comma. sleeting freely, by sea and by land, with the territory, places and points which the respective troops occupy beyond the limits which separated Belgium hem din united provinces of the Netherlands, before the treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814. Considering, that by the protocol No. 3, of 17th Nov. the palm have rcgardedmite engagement for an neenlisise as an agagentent entered into with themselves, for the execution of which It is their duty to provide. That la thorium/punt retool, tio.4, Iliartostkor,dte Pieai. peteatiety We Ilopetp the Kin it the ilodsoessio, fdesoned those of the Yin ranee of the cadre meat of es Zing. hie enter, to their protocole:of the 17th IfeneaborOilla 111 at k was uedteoteed, that from that time hostilities should entirely cease by sea and land, and that they should not be resumed litany case, the armistice having been de. dared indefinite by the protocols of the 17th Nov. and the cessation o f hostilities having been placed under the immediate gunnies of the flip Powers by the protocols No. 4of N0v.30 and No. bof Dec.lo 1830. That the nature and import of these engagements were explained to th e provisional government. as far back as the 18th Dec. In a verbal note of Lord Ponsonby and M. Bremen, after which the provisional govern ment of Belgium declared that it adheres to the protocol of Nov. 17. Considering, lastly, that on the faith of this assent a common appli es cation of the five powers was made to his Majesty the King of the Ne - therlands, with the view of obtaining the complete revocation of the measures which still impede the navigation of the Schelde, the plenips. tentiaries are unanimously of opinion, that it was the duty of the Ave powers to insist on the faithful, prompt, and entire execution, of the engagements which they declare to have been taken towards themselves. In consequence the Plenipotentiaries have resolved to signify to the Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands that tits five Powers having taken under their guarantee the cessation of hos. Odes, cannot allow on the part of his Majesty the continuation of any measure bearing a hostile character; and that such being the character of those measures, which hinder the navigation of the Schelde, the five Powers are obliged to require, for the last time, the revocation of them. The Plenipotentiaries have observed that this revocation should be entire, and restore the free navigation of the Schelde, without any mkt duties than those which were established in 1814 before the union of Belgium and Holland in favour of neutral vessels, and of those belonging to Belgic ports, his Majesty the King of the Netherlands baring declared, through his Plenipotentiary, that vessels belonging to the Belgic ports had not been, and would not be, molested, so long as the Belgians did not molest the vessels and property of the northern pro. vinces of the Netherlands. _ _ Convinced that, in his probity and wisdom, the King will not fail to accede to all the points of their demands, the Plenipotentiaries are, ne vertheless, forced to declare here, that the rejection of this demand would be considered by the five Powers as an act of hostility against them, and that if on the 20th Jan. the measures which hinder the navigation of the Schelde do not cease in the time above-mentioned, and comformably to the promises of his Majesty himself, the five powers reserve to them. selves the right of adopting such resolutions which they should find ne cessery for the prompt execution of their engagements. With a just regard to reciprocity, the plenipotentiaries having been informed that a recommencement of hostilities has taken place princi. pally in the environs of Maestricht, that movements of Belgic troops seem to announce the intention of investing that place,:and that the troops have quitted the positions which they ought to have retained till the Seal determination of the line by virtue of the annexed declaration of the Provisional Government of Belgium of 21st November, 1830, have resolved to authorize their Commissioners at Brussels to inform the Pro. visional Government of Belgium, that the acts of hostility above.men tioned mist cease without the least delay ; and that the Belgic troops mast return immediately, according to the above-mentioned declara. tion, to the positions which they occupied on the 21st of November, 1830. The Commissioners will add, that if the Belgic troops should not have returned to those positions by the 20th of January, the Five Poems will consider the rejection of their demand in this !mates an act of . hostility against themselves, and would reserve to themselves the right of adopting such measures as they should judge necessary to cause the engagements entered into with them to be respected and executed. The Plenipotentiaries repeat in the present protocol the formal de. claration, that the entire and reciprocal cessation of hostilities is placed under the immediate guarantee of the Five Great Powers, that they will not allow the renewal of them under any supposition, and that they have taken the immutable resolution to obtain the accomplish. ment of the decisions which are dictated to them by justice, and their desire to preserve to Europe the benefit of genets! peace. (Signed) Erma', Winsusiza, TAUBMAN', PALUNIATON, &mow, Lonna, bicrosawrrse n. A true sopy. _ _ (Signed) Pexsosirr. Basesop. A erne copy. _ The Vice.Presideat, Count s'Aasczot. M. de Robaulx.—You answered so well to the preceding protocol, now reply to thisiby:sendlng it back conformably to the dignity of the elation. There is no longer any Belgian independence; we are no longer our own masters; we are no longer free ! O.LeHon.--It is a question of peace or war, and must be decided within five days. The responsibility of it should not lie upon any body not even in the congress. This protocol ought to belmaturely con. sidereal. Our eagerness alone has caused it to be communicated to us We cannot reply to it without having duly considered it, and for that, time is necessary. The commut;ication shall be printed and distributed manonow morn. ing. M. D'Ansebot.—l had an interview this day, at eight o'clock, with Means. Brewton and Peosomby. The result was, that it is ne. maw that we withdraw our troops to the distance of a league and a half; cc two leagues, from likestricht ; but not that we suspend their movements in the interior. As it Is a question of life or death to our commerce, I propose that it be decided by the Appel Nord. nal, that orders shall be given this ray night to the army of the Ileum to retire. M. C. Rogisr.--Though the diplomatic Committee has coin= cued the protocol, it does not follow that the Congress must take or not take a resolution on this subject, this would be putting it entirely in the place of the Committee. I beg the assembly to observe, that the prow. eel emanating from the five most powerful legitimate governments is low" they address themselves to a people who, according to their gdmelple, are in a state of revolt; and that if their demands are obeyed, they will reply by the cannon. M. Jottrand..—We have seen that every time the Ring is ember reseed, be asks the intervention of the plenipotentiaries at London. Let us, then, order our mops to gain ground. The Dutch have never consented to secede to the question of the &beide. The Dutch minis. twig journals have declared that they would not yield to the live Powers even on this point. The diplomatic committee must wait till a discussion shall have dratted it some information on this subject. Let the Dutch open the Sehidde, and then our troops will retire from Maastricht. (Applause.) After some disension, during which a member announced that sews bad arrived that Maestricht was on the point of surrendering, it was resolved to meet in a secret committee to.mortow. BRUSSELS, lax. 16. A French courier arrived here yesterday at noon, with despatd►p for the Pro•isional Goverment. The Count de Alias, accompanied by a member of the Governmest, set out yesterday swain at 10 o'clock for Paris. Anonymous loam, accompanied by a lithographic caricature against the Provisional Government, and abentUe atoning' cockades, have bees sent to several persons Is Ace In last Random A private letter boa the Hague, of 4th Jan. pesidvaly mats, that the King will net yield wilt respect to the saviption of the Schelde.: A detachment of 700 man *am Namur, arrived at Hay on the lath. It is going to Liege, whence it will go to Peaces, to join the corps of General Daine. JAW. 11...4n cos of the Secret Countlittem of the Esngress yeast ! day, 11.705 y communicated to the Assembly the Merin letter e -66 The English Consul at Antwerp has jam received the following credal communication (Saturday, llith January, 1131) 44 4 Pessign 011 m, Loden, 13th January, 11131. 64 6 Hy radar of Viscount Pahneesean,l have the honour to acquaint you, that you may infers the English Captkna in general, that the Schelde Is to be free es the Seth of this month, and that so hindrames will be Iskrafed by the live Pones. Mimi) "G. SUN. " To the Nasal of Me lidtamie Wear at Aunty": is An account of the proceedings In the Bea* Committees was pub. fished by the Emancipation, but was complained of and declared fake inithe public sitting of the following day. At the close of the secret committee M. Rotunda demanded that the sitting should be wide pub lic. for the purpose of bearing him develops his proposal conceived in the following terms PILOTOBITION—In the name of the Belgic people-- The National Grogram, seeing the Protocol signed by the Plenipo tentiaries of France, Austria. England,Aussla, and Prussia, dated 9th January, 1831, and communicated to the Assembly the lath of the same month, considering that the Belgic people several months ago shook off the yoke of the Dutch, without the assistance of any foreign power, and constituted its own independence, as has been acknowledged in principle by the five Governments above mentioned; that war existing between Belgium and Holland no Foreign Power has the right to interfere in the affairs of those two countries. That if, on pretexts of humanity, and to prevent the effusion of blood, the five Powers have offered a purely friendlyediation by way of negated" only in order to palliate an armistice . Neither Belgium nor Holland l has submitted itself to thidiscretion and decision of the said pewees. That on the contrary the powers have themselves proclaimed the Principle of nonintervention, a principle then asserted by Frusta That the condition of the armistice not having been executed on the part of Holland, Belgium, which has hitherto faithfully observed the saki conditions, as far:as it is concerned, could not and cannot be forced to maintain a state of things ruinous to itself and favourable to its enemies; and yet it is Holland that has resumed hostilities. That the Congress and Belgium do not know and will not recogabe any convention by which the Powers may have made themselves tuthlse of the differences with Holland, especially if it gives the right of eat. outing it by force. That Belgium does not ask the support of the powers to compel King William by force to execute the armistice, because it will not acknow. ledge the right of intervention against either of the belligerent parties. That the protocol of 9th Jan. in which Belgium has taken no pare formally, lays down the principle of direct and armed intervention, a principle contrary to the rights of nations. That if the Governments league together at London to stifle the germs of liberty, whenever they appear, the Holy Alliance of nations will find means to break the fetters which despotism is pteparkg for them. Protests solemnly against all intervention of foreign Govern meats in the affairs of Belgium and its relations with Holland, and con. Tiding in the symprhy of nations for the Belgium, and the sacred cause which they defend. Declares that the nation will rise en mane to preserve its rights and its independence. (Signed) Ann ROBAULZ, Member of the Congress. BRUSSELS. NATIONAL CONGRESS.—SvrTiso or Jos. 17. M. Rogier rose to refute a letter addressed to M. Firmin Rogier, by Gat. Sebasdani. He justifies his brother by quoting a letter from M. Brawn, in which the statement relative to the Duke de Leuchtenberg is contained in nearly the same terms. As for the alliance with the Princess of France, he cannot answer the reproach made by the French minister but by drawing deductions from the letter of M. Bremen. Ha very well understands that that minister must have been asesehisi as the strange :proceedings at the congress.—(Murmurs.) Yes, Ow demen, it is a strange and unusual proceeding to require ccallfimdsi diplomatic communications to be read in public. M. de Strasaart considered the exclusion of the Duke de Laminar burg as a result of such a timid and odious policy that he could not attribute it to the noble Monarch who now is the happiness of Fraser. He did not accuse our Government or M. Hasson. All than manauvres appear to him the work of some lame diplomacy, and be was delighted that General Sebastian' had facially contradicted it ; this proceeding, so honourable to himself and the French Go. vanment, leaves us at full liberty to choose the son of the vitamins and illustrious Prince Eugene, if the interest and dignity of Belgium require it. AL de Robin's. I think that the lame diplomacy of the hide powers goes mote straight forward than ours. Al. Delwaerde. This discussion leads to nothing. I mg= dr order of the day, (adopted.) M.Le Hon proposed to declare the account given by the taffulpatise of Jan. 18, of the Secret Committees of the Congress of the lith, is false. He observed that that Journal had published a manifest and ex tremely dangerous falsehood, by saying that the proposal of IL Re. ' baulx bad been adopted. This is making us &clam war against all Europe, and it is necessary, that such an assertion should be con. tradkted. M. Robaulx confesses: himself in that measure to be the author of the article in question, the Emancipation ; and without sedeavoaring to excuse the falsehood which it contained, Ind which he says was the result of a mistake, he muerte that the Congress parka* the *dons expressed blithe protocol. He also declared that being IS gum to all mystery, be did not think himself bound to annoy with Tempest to the proceedings of the Committees of the Congress. He added --" have mode a mistake; say so, butt abide by my pro redden. De Forgoer says that to mind what passes in the secret Commit', is a want of respect to the majority of the Congress, sod paralyses its acts at the will of one, or a small number, which is not permitted. A warm and noisy debate arose on this point. M. Ls Hon observed, bow imprudent it was to excite the mass of the people by falsehoods of this nature, when it is found difficult to restrain the avenues of the army; and, ca the other band, we are resolved to observe the armistice. If the Congress does not do justice to such asser tions, the Executive GOUTIMINIt has nothing to do but to resign its pewee into its hands.: In the end, M. Le Hon's proposal was adopted by a great moistly s and the President, in consequence, declared the report made by the Essaneipstion, of two Beam Committals of the 16th, to be false. After some debate on M. Rebottles proposition, be was induced to withdraw it ; and the Assembly then proceeded to dhotis the project of I law relative to the civic guard. not - BRUSSELS. J.ur. 18. The Secretary of*. Englbh legation set out last night in peat hosts with despatches foe thelgiague. A courier of the Provisional Govern. meet, and an English Cabinet meaner, are gone with despatches for London.--Brwssek Papers, Jan. 19. We have private accounts i from Brussels, which state, that a part of the volunteers stationed on the frontiers, between Antwerp and Breda, with some battalions of troops of the line, have received orders to advance on Breda. Fur ther accounts add, that this small army has already advanced several leagues on the Dutch territory, without meeting any obstacle ; the greatest part of the Dutch troops having pro ceeded towards Maastricht ; and Breda has been left to its fate. Information from Luxembourg states that the garrison is provisioned for a year ; and was to receive, on the 13th of January, a reinforcement of 10,000 men. The garrisons of Mets and Thornville are also to be reinforced, and the whole of the French frontiers are furnished with troops. The Courier do Is Meese of the 12th state, that a strong cannonade was heard in the direction of Masstrich, and that fortress, it appears, was firing= the workmen in the trenches. 500 shells are said to have arrived to the Belgian form, and they were determined to take the fortress by storm The arrivals of to-day bring no very important intelli gence, which can be considered authentic, from the North of Europe. The amounts from Poland are all details of pre paration for the expected warfare ; but it does not appear that the Rued= army are making very rapid progress to wards the field of addict. There is some acoonst of an segeginnent as the frontiers et Poland, between the 'Lithuanian and Rumba trope, which nearly Idea- tifies itself with a similar account, received some days ago, and which we then communicated, as we re ceived it. The authenticity of the intelligenc e any naturally be doubted, so long a period having elapsed with out confirmation; but we still should not be surprised to have it confirmed, as far as respects the defection of the Lithua nian troops. _ _ Our views of the policy of Russia, and what should be, and still in all probability will be, the policy of France towards that Power, are much in coincidence with the opinions ably stated in the leading article of this morning's Herald. These views we have be fore briefly stated. Success to Russian arms in the Polish conflict, would only bring on war in another, and more dire ful shape; and the true and legitimate policy of France and England,would be, at once to declare protection for Poland. The interests of the people of Europe must ultimately decide the present contests ; and the more earnestly their interests are taken, as the bases for international policy, the more chance will then be of preserving the peace and prosperity of Europe. CITY, ONB O'CLOCK. The information of the Schelde to be opened this day for the free navigation of British ships, has given much satis faction to the merchants, and by this order of the five Allied Powers, it may be concluded that they are determined to bring the affairs of that country to a speedy conclusion. This is settling-day in Consols ; the brokers and jobbers are busy in paying and receiving their accounts. To the present hour we do not hear of any defaulters. Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 for the account, opened thi, morning at 81 to 1 ex div. and for February account 811. In the Foreign market little doing. We have an arrival from Bombay of the 23d September. No Papers as yet received. The letters do not bring any news. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The account is nearly settled, and it is a bear account for money, it being higher than for some time. The account is going off well to the present hour, and we do not hear of any defaulters. Consols have been done at 79f 80 ex div. since which they may be quoted at 8011 for the account, and 8011 for money. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing, at present prices much the same as yesterday. We hear that Government are going to permit sugars to be used for the Distilleries, owing to the high price of corn. Accounts from Manchester this morning state, that the turn outs, with the cotton-spinners and their masters, are on the point of being arranged. THE ARMY. Piestosass. —We eadentalu=ihe District Staff Sargent!. have received orders for an tmmedlate inspection of all out-pensioners under led. a-day, to report as to their Steels for service, and what family they have "der fu n years, preyeratory to the being called Into mediate service.—Glasioss auras.. Major-General Sir Thomas Arbutbnott, on Saturday last, inspected the arms and 'convenient* of the 52d Reserve Companies at Hoyle. The Ordnance Magazine and &ores in the vicinity of Cork are or dered by Government to be sold off. The Rom Colonel Hondas, M.P. Colonel of the 23d Regiment, at F.nniskillen, is ordered to inspect the Yeomanry Corps in that district. Government have issued orders for a military guard to be from the Royal Hospital for the protection of each of the Pap s er u ll e ts in the vicinity of Dublin in which the new machinery has been intro duc.d. The guards are to be permanently stationed at each WU. Tooth um anima antopann unamtv. The English and Sandi With' new calling out foe permanent day by Government, an adored ler make in this esantry. The ballot lag proceeds behhly in the Welsh menden. The urvia impasies et the nth Regiment from Harbado.s, which arrived at Creddman in the Neva traneport, will, it is pre. MM., march to Ifenghall, where the reserve empeoles are stationed. The 28th Regiment, stationed at Galway, has commenced mesh. log in that town. Captain leinner's troop of the King's Dragoon Guards, hoe retained to Cloonan, from Messy. The Cosiness of Racoon waseport, with 150 soldiers fran Corh, ran ashore the lab Desember, on the island of Corrente, near Cape Passage. Soldiers and grow boded in safety. This information reached Naha the 20th Dumber. There is no tintelligenee to what regiment the soldiers may have been attached, bat the regiments in Corte are, the t ith, tab, 51st, oath, aOth, and 15th. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain Alexander Nairn., of the ship General Kyd, took leave of the Court previous to departing for St. Helena, Bombay, and China. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Robert O'Callaghan, K.C.B. was sworn in as Commander-in-Chief of the Company's Forces, and second member in Council at Fort St. George. The General afterwards dined with the Directors at the City of London Tavern. The comet was distinctly visible at Brighton yesterday morning. It may be seen at six o'clock, in the south-east at an altitude of about 19 degrees, forming a triangle with the star Zeta, and that numbered 30 in Opinchus, the tail extending towards the two stars. Its right ascension, about 16 hours 50 'glint( s ; scuth dtclit ation, about 9 degrees. TRADE CONIPLINENTS.A music-seller in Dublin has taken advantage of the present period of party feeling, by publishing some Orange and Green Quadrilles, respectfully dedicated to Mr. O'Connell ; also Mrs. O'Connell's Orange and Green Waits, together with the Anti-Union Quadrilles and Anti-Union Waltz, most respectfully dedicated to the King ! ! A few days ago, a gunner of the artillery at Woolwich stabbed a corporal of the same corps with a bayonet. It ap pears that the corporal had charge of the barrack-room in which the gunner was quartered, and in endeavouring to get bin to bed, being in a state of intoxication, the gunner drew Ms bayonet and inflicted the wound. LITTER IN ERZ Times.—l observe in your paper of yesterday, in a letter signed by Mr. H. Hunt, my name emeriscted with several transactions in trade, stated with an strident intention of exciting the animosity of the poorer classes of 'Gaiety. Ouse public threats from the same quarter leave me net wilsilremprepared for attacks on my character, which I riall elms be ready to meet when they are made, w here my presumes maks me to do so. lam induced to notice this at tompt because you, have thought proper to give circulation to it *rough your respectable journal ; and I have, therefore, to sops* your permission to state, through the same channel, that I an entirely retired from business, and that I have not bad, for the last two years, the slightest interest, either di mity or indirectly, in any speculative or commercial opera tion of any sort.—l have the bonoar to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, ALIIXANDRIL BARING. AI:WANED of WAOss.—lt always affords us peculiar gra- filmdom to ammo, an improvement in the rate of saga ; and we have, therefore, numb pismire in stating that an arms of 3d. par cat has been made upon certain descrip tions of melba by the principal manufacturers in the trade resident in this town., lAn adeanes has also taken place in Manchester and Bolton; and the mat trade is spoken of ss being in a more prosperm stets than it has been, this sewn, far amber of years. This is highly g ratifying; and we hope that no Abet will be wanting, on the part of the musters, to obtain snobs price for their goods es will enable dm to give a further advance of eagol , which an alone restore pease sad prosperity to the manu facturing districts—" a cemmutaation most &reedy to be wiebed."—Blackbern Ossette. } p , t , 1 ~;