The National Register. — London, England, 1821-05-06 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXI Amsterdam, 12 14 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 11 Rotterdam, 12 15 Antwerp, 12 10 Hambergh, 3$ 7 Altoua, '33 8 Paris, 3 days' bight, 25 80 Ditto, 2G 1; Bourileanx, 26 15 Frankfou t on the Maine,lsol Petersburgh, 91 3 U. Vienna, Ef. Flo. 10 20 Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 20 Madrid, 30—Cadis, 30 }lilboa, 351—Barcelona, 35 PRICE Bank Stork 1234 3 per Cent. Red. 724 3 per Cent. Consols 724 3} per Cent. 4 I:er tent. 90 sper Cent. Navy 1084 Lou; Ann. 1184 :RANGE, MAY 4. Seville, 35i—Gibraltar,301 Leghorn, 41—Genoa, 44 Malta, 43—Venice, 47 60 Naples, 394—Lisbon. 50 Oporto, 60—Baltia, 56 Rio Janeiro. 48i Palermo, 115 Dublin, ei per emit. Cork, 8k per cent. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 10Id. per oz. New Doubloons, New Dollars, 4s. 10d. Silver in bars, standard, 4s. 11d. STOCKS. Omnitins 0. Imp. 3 per Cent. 701 India Bonds 43 India Stock 2301 Exchequer Bills 44. dis. Cons. for Ac. 73 Lottery Tickets .£l4 14s. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. L 01 1 nOn. SUNDAY, MAY 6. -new The Paris papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last have arrived. There were none published on Thurs day, the preceding day having been entirely devoted to the festivities in celebration of the baptism of the Duke of B.urdeaux. We have no later ac counts of the progress of affairs in Spain, Italy, or Turkey, than those furnished by the papers pre• vioudy received. Advices from Sicily state, that fourteen vessels perished in the port of Palermo in a storm that I:tstcd three clays. It is said that a great many vessels were also wrecked on the coast of Sardinia. The Five per Cent. Consols are 82 f. 25 cents Bank Actions 1,546 f. 25 cents. The vacation having expired, the two Houses of Parliament have re-assembled—in the House of Lords no important motion has been brought for ward ; in the Commons the Army Estimates have been proceeded with, and numerous reductions moved by way of amendments; these have, it• is true, been negatived on divisions, but they are not without their attendant benefits—in the first place, they prove the infamous extent of extravagance to which an Administration will go when it is sup- ported by its own minions of corruption, to support whom the expenditure is in part requisite, and that n opposition to nine-tenths of the people who con tribute to subsist the reptile breed—in the second place, through the independent part of the publio press, it will be known who support such a set of Army Estimates, which knowledge ought to act as a proscription on a future election—and in the third place, by pointing out the increasing necessity of Reform, it will, we hope, be the means of uniting the Reformers of every class—the most moderate with the more extensive—the Whigs with the Ul tras or Radicals—and if ever such an union take place, the present Farce will have approached its last Act—a Reform cannot be resisted by the few, if the many resolutely insist upon it ; and however unwillingly they may consent to it, a Refiirm they must submit to, as soon as all the pa. lies who wish it unite to elfin -cc it by every legal means, and that day, we believe, is not fur distant. It certainly appears as if there was an intention on the part of the Holy Alliance to turn their arms against Spain. In a Vienna article, in the French Papers, it is said, " Every thing announces that our whole army is about to be put on the war foot ing, and that the Landwehr will be charged with the interior service. These extraordinary measures lead to the presumption, that after the occupation of Piedmont, there will dill be another enterprise for the re-establishment of the tranquillity of Europe." There can be little difficulty in conjectur ing witut!is the enterprise here alluded to The motley market would seem to have all along anticipated something of the sort, for the Austrian success in Italy have not in the least tended to restore its onfidence in Austrian paper ; and if the occupation •-. • • • 141 A novel machine, invented by a gentleman of Christ College, Cambridge, was tried last week at Newmarket. In shape it is nearly that of an isoceles triangle, and moves with the great end forward, on four wheels. It has a boom 32 feet long, and a very high mast. It will arry twelve persons at the rat e of 30 miles an hour. The axle of the hinder wheels is fixed a rudder. It can go on a wind and tack as a vessel at sea, and is capable of being so correctly guided, that the pilot at pleasure can run the wheels over a stone. A Lisbon packet has just arrived, with advices to the 23d ult. The despatches from the new Govern ment of Bahia, addressed to the Regency and Cortes, and containing the whole of the details of the revolution there, had been received and real in the Cortes. Accounts had also reached Lisbon of the declaration of Pernambuco to adhere to the Porto. guese Cortes and Constitution, on exactly the same plan which had been adopted at Bahia. A Beurdeaux paper mentions a report, that the vessel in which Gen. Pepe had sailed from Naples had been captured by the Algerine squadron. The Select Committee on the existing regulations relative to the making and sale of bread, report to the House of Commons their opinion, that fitr one your at least Parliament should impose no restriction as to the denomination of loaves, or their weight. They do not recommend any alteration of the law, so far as it relates to the adulteration of bread, otherways than by increasing the penalties. They desire also, rather whimsically, that bakers shall keep legal weights and scales in their shops, to weigh bread when required, though they are at liberty to • make and sell it of any weight. The Constilutionnel contains a paragraph .under the head of Krajowa, in Wallachia, dated the itath of March, which states, that in a sanguinary battle fought at Kudschuck, a town in Bulgaria, a great many Greeks perished ; but it does not say to which party the victory belonged. It is asserted positively that not only has the Turkish fortress of Galcz fallen into the hands of the Christians, but that they have taken upwards of thirty Turkish vessels on the Danube, and have, according to their barbarous custom, slaughtered the greatest part of their crews_ 'this latter intelligence is the repetition of an old report. Intelligence received by a commercial house in • the City states, that a desperate and sanguinary con flict has taken place between the Greeks and Turks inhabiting the city of Petrasso, in the Morea, and that the city has for the greater past fallen a prey to the flames. We learn from the same authority, that the spirit of national independence prevails universally throughout all Greece, leading the • Greeks unhappily, in every instance where the opportunity offers, to stain their righteous cause with the blood of their Turkish oppressors. The Turks, in self-defence endeavour to retaliate, and thus the whole of the provinces present one dreadful scene of almost mutual carnage. We further learn that the town of Smyrna has been the scene of similar outrages between the Greeks and the Turks, and that a considerable part of it has shared the fate . ut Pat Sasso. On Friday evening the anniversary festival of the General Benevolent Institution, for the relief of distressed artists of the United Kingdom, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street.— • The institution is also intended for the relief of their widows and orphans. About five o'clock the com pany consisting of nearly 200 persons, sat down to dinner, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair, supported on the right by the Lord Mayor, and on the left by Sir T. Bell, Mr. Blake. M. P. Mr. Ord, M. P. and numerous persons of distinction. Several speeches were made in support of the institution, and a handsome subscription was made by the company, who remained to a late hour. In consequenee of Mr. Humes exhibition of abuse in the ordnance department, an order has been reeeived at the ordnance office, Dublin, from the Master General and Board in this country, to sus pend all gratuities for length of service till further notice ; and similar orders have been forwarded, it is said, to the other departments in Ireland. His Majesty held a Levee at Carlton Palace on . Wednesday last. The presentations were very nu merous, and among them was the Marquis of Lon donderry, on coming to his present title. And on Thursday his Majesty held a Drawing-room, which was numerously and fashionably attended. By an Act of Parliament, of the date of the 24th • of March last, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for any court-martial, before which any non-com missioned officer or soldier shall be tried or convicted of desertion, to direct, if it shall think tit, in addition to any other punishment the court may award for such desertion, that the deserter be marked on the left side, two inches below the arm-pit, with the letter D, such letter nut to be less than half an inch long, and to marked upon the skin with some ink, or gunpowder, or other preparation, so as to be visible and conspicuous, and not liable tube obliterated. VIE NATIONAL REGISTER of Italy were only io contemplation, it is not easy to see how the discredit should still contimm. In a letter from Frankfort, in the Allgemeine Zedung, it is said, that " there is yet no confidence inlAustrian paper either in Frankfort or in Holland, and the lots of the 2d Lottery of Rothschild were, on one of the last redemption days, offered even under the ne.- gociation price, and the house of Rothschild was compelled to take back by no means a smaller num ber of them to prevent a further depreciation." An opinion must, we think, prevail among capitalists, to the effect which we have stated, and, considering the significant intimations on the subject in the shape of articles from Laybach, &c. a Lich are allowed to appear at Vienna, where the Press is altogether in the hands of the Government, there seems to be much reason for entertaining it. The vigorous measures of defence which the Cortes have determined on, and the good sense of the Monarch of France, will, it is hoped, disconcert the plans of the Royal Conspirators. It is very ge nerally believed that the French Monarch altogether disapproves of the idea of allowing a passage through France to a Russian army ; and that the Ultras who confidently expected the presence of the Rus sians, and who were unable to contain their joy on that account, are quite enraged at finding them selves disappointed. If the King consult either the feelings of his people, or his own safety, ha will keep out the Russians. The Bishop of Winchsster.—lt was highly credi ble to the memory of Mr. Pitt that he died poor.— During his life-time, several of his friends lent him 1,0001 or 2,0001. each, upon bond. On his death, when the same parties met to devise the means of liquidating his debts, Mr. Geo. Kose set a good ex ample, by tearing to pieces his bond, Sir Charles Long did the same—so did Lord Carrington, &e.— They turned to the worthy Bishop, who owed every thing to his pupil, and asked him what he would do. To this the Reverend Prelate answered, that his debt was of a very particular nature. He had in convenienced himself by the loan; but, to show his good will, he would agree to take the books and effects of his friend, by appraisement, in payment of his debt! At this very time, if the lib rary and of of the late Mr. Pitt had been brought to a public sale, many noblemen anti gentlemen, his fol lowers and admirers, were prepared to purchase articles in remembrance of him at any price. Tata DISCOVERY Sense---The Fury, Capt. Parry, owing to an unfavourable wind, was towed down to Northfleet by the Eclipse, steam-vessel, on Sunday last, and the Becht, Captain Lyon, on Monday, they will remain at Northfleet for a few days, and then drop down to the Nore, from whence they will pro ceed on their voyage direct about Sunday next.— Their crews are in the best state of health and highest spirits. The indefatigable and minute at tentirr which has been given to ensure the ultimate success of the expedition, as well as the individual comforts of those employed in it, reflect the highest honour upon the Naval administration, and entitles the Noble Lord who presides there to the unqualified praise and approbation of the country. The emi nent qualifications of the commander of the expedi tion, Capt. Parry, and the merit of the second in command, Capt. Lyon, are well known to the public through their former services. Indeed both officers have been selected without regard to any other re commendation than excellence of character and fitness to command ; and, from the judicious measures that have been adopted in fitting out the vessels, and the unanimity that prevails among all employed in the enterprise, every possible exertion of energy and judgment may be confidently expected. Caution to Parishes.—On Wednesday last, an in teresting case to parishes came on at the Warwick shire sessions. It was an appeal against the removal of a pauper, upon the ground that no indenture of apprenticeship was illegal, when signed by the churchwarden of a parish in which an immemorial custom only to elect ONE churchwarden could not be supported. Mr. Stockdale Hardy, from the Ec clesiastical Court, produced a number of ancient documents to prove that, at former periods. Two 1 1 churchwardens had been elected and acted for the parish, which now only had one churchwarden; and the court upon the authority of the case of the King a. Baraby and some others, quashed the order of removal. We insert the tam: as a caution to parishes in general, to elect two churchwardens in future, unless an immemorial custom to send only one can be established. An act has been introduced into Parliament to cure the defect; but as it will probably only have a retrospective effect, the cau tion as to the election of two churchwardens, is necessary, in order to prevent future inconvenience. - -3 ••• J