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THE SINOINU TREES, AND GO DEN vt %Tarts. •Harleguln, Mr. Howell; Pataloon, Mr. illanehard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Cola n inbine. Barnett. To-marrow. MassitirterN Fatal Dowry. The very extraordtnary popular new Pantomime every Cr ening. THEATRE COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, THURSI) %Y. Jan.d, will be performed CLAM. The Doke Vivaldi. Mr. T. r. Cooke: Rolston. Mr. Fawcett. Clari, Miss M. Tree: Vesphia, Miss Love. After which, ANIMAL MAGNETISM. Marquis de Loney, Mr. Cooper: Dvetor, Mr.W. Farrell; La Fleur, Mr. Fawcett; Jeffrey. Mr. Meadows. Lisette, Mrs. Whim To conclude with HARLEQUIN AND - nig imma.im or WANTLEY; Or, MOHR OF MORE HALL. ifsriliuln, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon. Mr. Barnes: Clown, Mr. 3. J. Gri maldi. Columbine, Miss Romer. ;„.. To morrow, A Woman N. , ver Nest, and the new Pantomime. .4 D ,PI 211 E , STRAND. TbM Zrenine, THURSDAY, Jima. VIII he presented a new Coenle Rurlerra, called THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR. TN P. NI nil Characters by Stews. Wrench, J. Ree•e. Wilkinson, Powys., 1 e, drown, Campbell, Salter, and ; Mimes Rodeo, LINO, Seas... and Bryan, &e. &c. After which a new Comic Pantomime, sailed MOTHER imp ('Al•; Or, II IRLZQUIN AND THE FAIRIES OF TII! ROSS. ligaSliguln, Mr. Kirby; Pantaloon, Mr. Elliott; Clown, Signor Paulo. Columbine, Mrs. Searle. THE APOLL(MICON . , UNDER Tint IMMiDIATE pATRONAOI OP nra MAJESTY. On S‘TUR DAY NEXT. at Two o'Clock. The following SELFCTION of MUSIC will be performed by Mr. PORKIS on the APoLLONICON, a Crand iiinsieal Instrument. invented and constructed by Messrs. Flight sod Robison, Organ Builders, 101. St. Martin's-lane:— PART 1. Overtme, Taira (Winter) —Duet, • Ah perdona• (Morart)--Glpsk)if Glee (T. Welsh)—liong. • The Pilgrim' (W. il. Bellamy, Esq.)—MuutJng Churns, Der Freischuts (Weber). PART 11. Overture. Der Frelsebuts (Weberl—Song. • let not farrow,' Der Treiscbuts (Weber)— %Ir. • My pretty pone (Bishom—Seleetions from Itochea's Grand Militnry Concerto—Finale, ' God save the King.' . N.D. Mr. Pyre's's Performances will be continued every Saturday dv.ring the Season. The Meehanleal Powers of the Apollonicon am exhibited Daily, from One till Four (except during the time of Mr. Purities attendance), performing Beethoven's celebrated Overture to Prometheus, Nlozart's nerture to 7.auberitote, and Ileydn's Grand Military Movement :ruin his Twelfth Symphony, in the execution of which it has been honoured with the stt • lion of the most ernlncut mechanical and musical men of 11w age, and Is allowed to possess a gra n deur and r . ....!cty of effect, with a precision and n dellency of cepreseitm, supe r:Of to any other lusts torero In F.unope. The Music arranged for and set on the Cylinders by Mr. Flight, Jun. The 2SalTisx rites' commence, publishing yesterday reueraing at five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY. Ja\v*r.i G. 1825. The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday came to hand yesterday. They hare not much intelligence worth no- ticing, except the measures of dotne3tie finance, to which we have eliewlit re adverted. The progress of the Greeks k manifestly straitening the Sublime Porte more closely every day ; and it seems highly probable that the Great Powers will soon deem it their duty to interfere, in order to put an end to the destructive conflict. The Divan nivy afFect to talk as loftily as in the days of SOLYMAN toe Crest; but swagger as they may, they must listen to the united voice of Europe, and follow the course it prescribes. The Turks are conscious that they have not degenerated from their ancestors in any respect ; and they wonder why • they are sinking into powerlessness and insignificance. They cannot comprehend how the Greeks, long their most ttibrnis.ive subjects, have emancir ated themselves from a ) oke which four ycats ago appeared to be fixed on their neck for ages yet to come. In order to avert the downfal of his empire, the SULTAN in vain orders the religious austerities of the Prophet to be enforced, and the scan dalous length of the ladies' Ji r•rdgis to be curtailed. Neither he nor his councillors seem to be aware that the very measures they pursue arc those that lead the most' rapidly to their overtlirow. The Turkish power is de caying, because it has been stationary in unmitigated • barbarism. The Greeks have partaken of the progress of the ag-•. The spirit of improvement is at work amongst them. The system on which they have proceeded has called forth all their energies, and those energies have been e directed, as to produce the greatest possible effect. The Turks arc exactly in the same state in which they were 'live centuries ago, while all the other nations of Europe have made vast advances in wealth and science. The Turks are not positively less strong than they were; but they arc comparatively less strong, because all other nations have become much stronger, and, therefore, in the race of power, the Turks are left behind. It appears from Spain that the reported landings of par flies of Constitutionalists are without foundation. In one instance it was only a handful of, smugglers who want ed water; at 'viva there was a commotion to prevent the • collection of the taxes. What might we to think of the state of a Government which orders a General Officer with 'tee regiments to the coast, because a few stnuggling boats tad made their uppAiranee to take in water? Yet this is the Government which refuses to recognise the indepen :slence of Mexico and Colombia! It is worthy of observation, that BAII.I.MITTIOS had a .private audience of the DA r niN on Saturday. Mot:ILL°, it will be mu:lnhered, had a similar honour a few days ago. What are we to untd:rstand from the countenance thus given to these men? Is it not a direct reproof to Fri:DINA ND for violating the capitulations concluded with him ? larxen Fustnt.—Pants. JAW. 3.—Fire per Cents. opened at 15 . 5 r. 45c., closeditt 182f..10c.; Bank Stuek, 1950 f. ; Neapo. Ulan, 5 per Cent. Royal Spanish Luton, (1823) 571 f. Ea c`langs on London, one month, 2.711. three months, 241'. 85e.— Comes Autlica;pte, jam. 3. 11. de V t.r Ls has, as it was anticipated, opened the legislative campaign With vigour., (in Monday three pro ice's of law were laid before the Chamber of Deputies. 11 --~ The first relates to the Civil List, which is to be fixed dur ing the present reign at the yearly sum of 25 millions of franc,. Seven millions are to be granted annually to the other members of the Royal Family ; and six millions for the expenses of the late KING'S funeral and the coronation of the reigning Monarch. To the House of 0111.1:ANC is to be continued the possession of its restored property until the extinction of the male line. The second project relates to the indemnification of the emigrants: this is a comprehensive measure, at once laying down the principle, and prescribing the mode of execution. The indemnity is to be extended, as well to the represent ' mires of those who were transported or condemned by the Revolutiortry judgments as to the emigrants. The amount of the indemnity is to be a capital of three per cent. stock equal to twenty times the revenue arising from the property. Where no estimate of the revenue was made, the indemnity is to be equal to the sum for which the property was sold, making allowance fur the deprecia tion of the sssignats. In those eases in which the property has been re-purchased by the emigrants, or was originally sold to their relatives in the ascending line, the iodamnity is to be the same in amount as the real value of their payments. Assuming the justice of the principle, we see nothing objectionable in these modes of carrying it into execution, though we doubt much whether the provision made to meet the claims will be found suf ficient. For this purpose GOO minions of stock, at three per cent., is to be placed at the disposal of the Minister of Finance ; one fifth portion to be given to the emigrants yearly, with dividends, from the time of the grant. The term for preferring claims is limited to one year for France, eighteen months for the other parts of Europe, and two years for the rest of the world. This project was presented by M. de MareTtcxsc, who, we are told, "in an eloquent and luminous speech, de veloped the motives which had determined the Go vernment ,to propose tbe law." M. tic Vit.!. ZIA after wards ascended the tribune. We have not these speeches before us, but we may easily guess what would constitute the chief arguments that would be addressed to a body compos.:el like the French Chamber of Deputies. Our Paris Correspondent has lifted up the veil which covered the proceedings of the Secret Committees ap pointed to prepare the Addresses; and our readers may judge, from what then passed, how anxiously those bodies will manifest their desire to be convinced, by M. de Lb I.M . S rhetoric, that all he asks them to do is right. The third was a financial project, " having for object to afford the means of indemnity without new taxes." Ac cording to general expectation, the Sinking Fund is to be applied from March next to meet the charges on account of the emigrants, and the stockholders arc, until June, to have the option of converting their capital into three per cent. stock at 75 ; that is to say, for every 100 f. at 5 per cent. 133 f. 33c. will be allowed; or, into 41 per cent. stock at par, on condition that they shall not be paid off' till Sep tember 1835. The amount of the sums saved by these conversions will be remitted to the public by a propor tionate reduction of those fiscal burthens, which resemble our land and assessed taxes. The security against repayment for ten years, given to those who shall reduce their renter, so evidently holds forth the menace of immediate repay ment to all who shall refuse to make the reduction, that few, we apprehend, will be hardy enough to try the expe riment of retaining their income undiminished. The French'Funds rose considerably after the project was made known. They closed at 109 f. 50 c. for money, and were afterwards done at 103 1. 15e. for account. It was repined yesterday, that advices had been received, by way of Bordeaux, that the Burmese had gained con siderable advantages, and advanced within a few leagues of Calcutta. We have no doubt that this report will turn out to be only a French version of the Chittagong alarm at the commencement of the war. The following is the paragraph from the C.ataiittitionnel, on which the report was founded. Oar readers will see that no dates are men tioned, and the whole statement is in the highest degree vague and unsatisfactory : The news which we have received from the East Indies, by way of Bordeaux, announces that the war with the Burmese and the English has taken a serious turn ; the Burmese, by their suc cesses, have come within a few leagues of Calcutta, which town is threatened with great disasters, and has been deserted by most of the r►ch inhabitants." iVe glided some time ago to the improvement that had taken place in the revenue for the quarter ending yester day. To-morrow we shall lay the official details before our readers, when our gratifying statements will, we have no doubt, he fully justified. Meanwhile, the following particulars will not be una:ceptablc. On the year there is, we understand, in the Customs an apparent decrease of about 160,000/. ; but allowing for the autos repaid on ac count of silk, and for what would have been yielded by the repealed duties, amounting altogether to about 700,000/., there will be found to be an actual increase of more than half a million in this branch of the revenue during the last year. In the Exeis?, the improvement is still greater and more agreeable. O:t the quarter alone, it is expected, that the excess ever the corresponding quarter of last year will be at least half a million, and on the whole year, nearly 900,0001. As the revenue in this branch is derived from the consumption of articles used by all classes of society in common, its growth is the more cheering and satisfactory as indicating the increasing comfort of the great bulk of the people. The taxes remitted last year, we may state, in round numbers, at a million. Nut only, however, does the revenue still amount to as much as before, but there will be, we learn, almost another naion of surplus! We may therefore look forward with confidence to further reductions of taxation next Session. The following was the substance of the communication made by Mr. Canning to the Foreign Ambassadors:— "That in consequence of the repeated failures of the appli cations of his Majesty's Government to the Court of Spain, relative to the recog nition of the Independent St a t es of South Ameriett, ltis Majesty's servants have come to the determination to appoint Charge des Atfaires to the, States of Colombia, Mexico, and Buenos Ayroi ; and to enter into Treaties of Commerce with those respective States, on the basis of the recognition of their independence." The Emperor of Russia has addressed a rescript to the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affair:, charging him to exercise the most rigorous surveillance over all publications that touch on religion or public instruction, in order to prevent any from being published that have not received the sane lion of the Synod. The 31adezd Gazette announces that the Bishop of Leon had received the abjuration of Protestantism by two English fatnilies.—This is the same veracious journal which has, for these twelve months past, been announcing the defeat and capture of Bolivar, and the overthrow of the new Ame rican Statzs. The following is the official account of the destinations of the regiments ordered to India:-6th regiment of foot, from the Cape to Bombay; 31st regiment to Bengal; 2.1 regiment to bay;ll6m 9711, regiment to Ceylon; 45th re- Liment, from Ceylon t o 111adrax. T hoarregimenta ordered ome are now countermanded. THE PRESS. FRAYCE. ITCOM Ohl COURESYONDENTI PARIS, Jax. l. The discussion which the Address to his Mar sun. un derwent the day before yesterday, in the Chamber of Peers, evidently proves that it is in that Chamber that the last elements of a Representative Government, and of an Oppo sition, have taken refuge. M. de Ho x Arm, who was charged with drawing up the projected Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, has not failed throughout the whole to leave a strong impression of his ultra-monarchical, and ultra-jesuitical principles. lie had formally declared the resolution of the Chambers to support the measure of in demnity to the Emigrants. Some, even of the emigrant Peers, observe.!, that his MA.IFSTY hating restricted him self to the intimation of such a measure, without further committing himself, the Chamber ought not to interpret this intimation in more explicit terms, nor appear to call peremptorily for a law, of which the presentation was at present doubtful. M. de DONALD, agreeably to his fa vourite custom, was pleased to designate the latter period of our history by the following expression: trente aarv'es de crimes,—" thirty years of crime." This expression ex cited the most violent and authorized indignation. M. le Due de BAOGLIV, and M. de flirts?: TE, replied with great warmth. M. le Comte de Moir.): twice mounted the tribune, and spoke strongly against the proposed Address; lie was on the point of rising a third time, when another Peer, M. de Benuaro NT, observed to him that it was con trary to the rules of the Chamber to speak more than twice on the sante subject. This interruptive remark, however well justified by the fact, was considered so uncourteous, si dirobligearde, that it was very ill received, and the Count reproached M. de BEAUMONT in very strong terms. M. de CLEamosr de TONNARE took part in this discus sion ; anti had the boldness to declare, that the expressions made use of by M. de Do x.sur in the Address, were per fectly accordant with the intentions, and the sentiments of the Kixo. The Opposition at length triumphed, and the Address was sent back to the Secret Committee, in order that they should modify the expressions which had excited such vehement disapprobation. These modifications having been made, the Address was adopted the following day. The Secret Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, which took place yesterday fur the purpose of making the modifications in question, presented quite a different scene from the Chamber of Peers. Never was baseness and ser vility carried to a greater extreme. The first observation to which the proposed Address gave rise, emanated from M. de Cot.t Iris, D.ldtty for the department de r Ainse, one of the most imbecile of all the Members of the Chamber, who took offence at the words an Dieu qui inspire—" a God who inspires." He observed they were ill-sounding words, and savoured of heresy ; for, ;said he, if you admit " a God icio inspirer," others may admit " a God that does not inspire," am! that consequently the proposed terms of the Address expressed the ideas of Polytheism, and that he should say " to God who inspires ;" yet so in credibly feeble-winded arc the majority of the Chamber, that they did not appear to ace the foolishness of this pour ruan's scruples : however, the phrase remains unal tered. A more serious circumstance next arose. M. Boca- DEAC, Ex-Procureur General of the Cour Royale at Rennes, who was dismissed last Summer at the same time with M. FRETEAU de Pexv, expressed his great astonish ment that the word Charter was not to be found in the Address. lie observed, that this omission vas :1 very alarming incor.sistency on the part of the Chamber of Deputies, who wire bound to support the popular lice rests, and ought consequently to dwell emphatically on a circumstance which went seriously to affect all those rights which are specified and declared sacred. This motion was supported with much warmth by General For and M. Casimir. Pt:tette. The General mounted twice into the Tribune. The motion of M. dc Bov JUDEA!: was opposed by Messrs. Denox and PAnnessus ; the latter observed, that since his Mai tarn had not thought proper to name the Charter in his Speech, the Chamber ought not to go beyond the limits of discussion his MA.. es-rx had chosen to prescribe; this sycophantic and servile observation was assented to by a majority, and the motion of M. BOUIIDEAC was rejected! Thus the word Charter is for the future to be proscribed from all official acts of the Chamber of Deputies, in compliance with the precedent contained in the K xo's Speech. If it was not thought worth while attaching much consequence to the omission of the word Charter, in the discourse of the open ing of the Chambers, what has just passed at the sitting of the Comite is sufficient to prove how far that omission was worthy of attention. The Chamber of Deputies suppose that the K sc omitted the word Charter intentionally, and with design, and they appear fearful lest they should appear wanting in subserviency, were they to articulate this mot proscrit. This circumstance, which fully de monstrates the shatneless venality of the Chamber, shows at the same time as clearly the accomplishment of the counter-revolution. Hitherto, some regartl had been paid to appearances : in violating the Constitutional Chattel, they at least spoke of it with becoming respect ; but at length its very name is banished from all courtly discourse and men are not afraid or ashamed openly to proclaim their contempt for oaths, so recently renewed that their con sciences have scarce had time to shift them off: From this date the popularity of €IIAULLS X. may be consider e d as having received a fatal blow, and his wily Ministers as having accomplished their design. In the short space of ten years, the Charter has paused front its cradle to its grave.. Accounts were yesterday received of the arrival of the Little Sally oft' Ala!ta, on the 30th November, on her way to Napoli di Romania, with upwards of 50,01/0/. on board for the Greeks. Letters are in town from the city of Mexico, of the elate of the 2sth October, mentioning the arrival of the Diamond frigate with Mr. Morier. They alto state that every thing was perfectly tranquil. The Etude of Tuesday remarks. that since the com munication between England and France has been carried on by steam-boats, it has been subject to more frequent and longer interruptions than were before known. Yet, the French Journalist observes, the great advantage ex pected froth the steam navigation was the perfect regularity with which it was to overcome all obstacles of wind and title. Mr. Littlewowl, a King's Messenger, was sent off from the Foreign-office yesterday evening, to Aladrid. Despatches were yesterday received at the Colonial Office, from New South Wales, dated the 14th of August. The colony was rapidly improving, particularly in agriculture, for which every encouragement is given to free settlers by Government. TITHE COMPOSITION understand that Dr. Woodward, the respected Hector of Ulauworth and ad joining Union, has accepted the offer made by his l'a rislaioners of 1,2001. a-year, in composition for their tithes, which were valued at over 2,0001. per annum. The I I moderation which Dr. Woodward has always evinced in Ibis dealing with the parishioners, and the friendly inter course which 41e has uniformly preserved with them, have secured fur him their best and kindest wishes.— Curk Pope?. FRENCH PA PERS. (From the Eloik, doted Tueeday.l CHAN( BER OF DINPUTIES, J•x.3. All the Ministers were present. 31. du V illele presented the project of law respecting the Civil Art. 1. The property acquired by the late King, anal undisposed of„ as well as the 31ews of Artois, acquired by the private property of the reigning King, are added to the endowment of the Crown. 2. The Civil List is fixed for all the reign of the King at 26 millions (francs`. to be paid annually on the orders of the Minister of the Household. 2. There shall be paid, moreover, seven millions annually as an appanage to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family. 4. The property restored to the (louse of Orleans in execution of the Royal ordonnanees of May in and 20. and September 17. and October 7, 11:24, and arising from the appanage erected in Ithll. 1672. and 1692, for Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV. for him and his descendants in the male line, shall continue to be possessed on the same title and condition, by the head of the branch of Orleans till the extinction of the nude line, in which event they shall return to the State. 6. A. sum of six millions is to be paid for the obsequies of the late King, and the coronation of the reigning King.—To be die cuesetßon ‘Veilnesday. M. de 31artignac then presented the project of law for indemnify ing the emigrants, entitled, •• Draught of law on the indemnity to be granted to the former proprietors of real property (bite foods) confiscated and sold for the profit of the a:ate, in execution of the lass on emigrants." TIT I.F. L—AI.I.OOATION AND NATFIIE or a'nx INDEMNITY. Art. I. There is allowed an indemnity to Frenchmen, former proprietors of landed property situate in France, confiscated and sold to the profit of the State, in execution of the law concerning emigtit. 2. For property sold, the indemnity shall be an amount of three per cent. stock equal to 20 times the revenue ascertained by the prores-rerboos of adjudication. (Where the revenue was not estimatr*, th • indemnity is to be equal to the amount of sale, making alk wane: f •t• the depreciation of sssigt:ats.) Where the relatives in the ascentlieg line bought the pro perty. the indemnity is the real value of the paymen s by them. 4. Where the firmer proprietors or their rrpresentatives have re• purchased, the indemnity is the real value they have paid. b. The renter 3 net. cent. given as indemnity, shall be delivered to the former proprietors or their representatives. in fifth a, i t five years, to bear interest from the time of the delivery. 6. A credit of thirty millions of rentes is placed at the dis posal of the Minister of Finance, to be inscribed in the following order : . millions - 6 - 11126 6 22d . 11127 6 2'd - 1828 . - 11129 iVith dividends from the day on which their inscription is stub°. riged. Title li. regulates the manner of preferring ela;nl., and the allowance to be made for debts due on the estates, anti defrayed the ,%uthorities at the time of sale. Title 111. declares the law applicable to the representatives of those transported or condemned revolutionarily. Title IV. Property nuached to establishments of bemOcenee is provided for. Title V. The right of creditors only to be considered as f.:r as concerns the capital of their credit s. Title VI. Term for preferrinc claims :--one year for inhabitant. of France, eighteen months for those in other parts of Europe, and two years for those out of Europe. The Minister of Finance then proposed the following project. which has for object to altonl the means of indemnifying the f: rris without new taxes : FROJET OF ♦ LAW CONCERNING THE SINEINti FEND. ♦ND TIIE OPTIONAL CONVERSION or PER 1:1:N T. RENT ES INTO 3 OR 4 PER CENTS. 1e:;;; — •AulieTI by the Sinking Fund from its establishment up to 22J June, 11115, shall not be nnoiltilated nor diverted front their application to the purchase of the p4blic deb: before 2211.1une, 2. The Rentes which shall be acquired by the Sinking Fund front June 2 - 2, 1325, to 22,1 June. 1331), shall be cancelled litr the benefit of the State, as they are purchased, as well as the coupons of interest attached to them. . _ . 3. Dating tram March 22, 1824, the sums scatting from the Sinking Fund shall not he applied to the purchaae of public stuck when the price is above par. 4. The pmprietors of 41 per Cent. Renter on the State shall have, dating from the day of the publication of the present law rill June U. 1825. the faculty of demanding from the 3linistry of Finance, their conversion into inscriptions of Hemet. at the pace of 74, and to date franc the same clay of the publication uf the same law to 224 September, 11t25, the faculty of requiring this conversion into 44 per cent. at par, with guarantee agamat reimbursement till 22d Sep.. tember, 1i133. The Renter so converted shall continue to bear interest at 5 per cent. till ?2d December, 11125. 4. The snots arising from the diminution of the debt under the conversions authorked by the foregoing article. shall be ap plied to the reduction. front the year 18211, an equal proportional number of hundred puts, of the land tax. personal tax, taxes ow moveables, doors, and windows (ewtributiourpnelete, poi tonna, wobilidire, et des porta et foretres.) To this end a statentent of the annual produce of' the diminution of these interests shall be drawn up by the 31inister of Finance, Ist October. 1825. and sera as the hams of a Royal Onlosmance, which shall realise, on the assessments of 18%, the diminution of impost granted by the present law.—(l.eft sitting.) I.rciltomx Dec. 23. - - - - • Several commercial house* have received letters front their core spondents at Corfu, dated the first day of this month. They speak of a new naval action between the Greeks and barbarians. The details are not given, but it is certain that some action took place on the 12th or 13th November. It was of Candia that the battle was fought, which may be re garded as one of the most important of the campaign, as Ibrahim Picini's loss it estimated at fifty ships of all classes. The blockade of Patras is become very strict on the land side. The garrison lately made a sally, which seemed to promise success but when the Greeks thought that the Turks had advanced fu enough they fell upon them with their usual impetuosity, killed many, and took a considerable convoy of oxen and sheep, which the besieged had hoped to get into the fortress. Soto^ letters state that the Greeks have begun the regular attack of l'atras, and that they have. already made themselves mestere of Fort Seattantm. We have, however, no positive information on this subject. Omer Pacha has been obliged to fall back upon Arta; his corps is almost entirely melted away. The citations for the renewal of the Greek Government passed over very yuictly, and ended the 12th of November. All the 31em bets of the Executive Power are co minted in their places. The President of the Legislative 1:ody is Panauo Nutara, and the Vice-President is the Bishop of Prate. 1 ODESSA. DEC. 10. ! We hare just received letters from Constantinople of the Sth. It has heroine public that Ibrahim Pubs has not executed the orders of the Sultan to make a desperate attempt on the Mores. Ile went first inwards Candia (probably to take in tr oops ), but the victorious lireeks came up with him, and made h im suffer new losses. Ile then took refuge in the bay of Slarmarissa, on the roast of Asia, where lie labours to repair the damage done to his fleet. _ _ _ No change has yet taken place in the relations of the Porte with the Ministers of the Christian Powers, particularly with M. Min. ziacky. From saute expressions that the Reis Effendi let full in a conversation with a diplontraic character, it should even seen' that the ()annum llosernment Attaches but little itniwassuice to the Si. rival of a Russian Ambassador, and especially if. as is believed, his instructions should enjoin to interfere in the affairs of tfteece. Some persons go 140 far as to asserr, that the Reis Effendi has for. malty declared, that the Porte would refuse to receive any Russian Envoy, who should be charged to make any arrangements respect. ing the existing roiliest between it and the Greeks. However, the Great Christian Powers are so strictly united, that they cannot attach mush importance to the resolutions of the Turkish Govern. mint. J•N. S. On the 16th ult. sailed, from the port of Cadiz, the frigate La Fame, for the IlavAnnah, and the brig Maria Isabella, for lion duras. Thew vessels, it is said, aro to rejoin the expedition which sailed from Corunna; and the ship of the line San Francisco which went out with L'Aquiles brig of war, January 13, 11124, to proceed to Lima, and to protect the Royalist army in those seas. I From the Moniker of 31unday. I Palm, JAN. 2. This day hit Majesty received a deputation of the Court of Cu. cation, and the Council Royal of Public instruction, and several other public bodies, to pay their cangnitulations on the New Year The following is the answer of his 31ajcity to Comte de Sete, Pre sident of the Court of Cessation ‘'MONSItIII-1 MU very sensible of the sentiments you express, in the name of the first Conn in my kingdom. I calculate on your devotion, in seconding all the efliirts l shelf make to render France happy. You are right. Monsieur, in saying that legitimacy is the surest guarantee of the public good ; but I must add, that the nisgistrary has al w.sys been, and always will be, the firmest sup. port of legitiniacy.—Continue, Gentlemen, to administer justice with the same int inirtialit v„ discharge all your duties with the same vigilance. and I shall not be unmindful of the zeal by which you are always distinguished." 3lmantn. 14:e.40. Lists have been made by the twenty.two different Chiefs of the Captaincy-General of the l'rorince, of the military charged with offences, their mimes. the corps to which they belonged, and the rival before whom they hare been examined. It is not known what is the object of preparing these lists but it is said to be thought to relate to an act of clemency on the part of the King. The Trappist is said to have exchanged his sword for the crozier, and is travelling through the country preaching union. union, and mutual pardon. It is thought lie has been employed by Government for that purpose. [From the Conttitution set of 3lnnday.l n. etc. 23. General liassecourt, as you hare seen, published a Prod: motion at Valencia. in which he announced a landing of LW Constitution. 'lists. Government ordered him to depart immediately fur the coast, with a cvnsiderahle force. consisting of tire regiments of the line. Venetia ilac , e:ottrt was decettroO, and the latt:”Pg was 0:11y • ' , a body of smugglers, who landed to obtain water ; but I cart sure you some more troops have been put . in . niortment tar th a coast, and others are going for the same dellttilltlOD. The ham p er of vessels which have been seen on the COMM at different *m a are seventeen, all haying troops on board to land ; the ramose prevails that the Constitutionalists are organizing at Tangier, a considerable expedition, but the above report must be taken sigh caution. General Downie is mancenering on Andalusia. to advance' w, the volunteer corps ; hesuceteds in sonic villages. l'he Trap*. to whom it was thought a military command would be g i ven, hasp,. calved contrary orders, to place himself in a convent O f t h e t . pueins at Burgos. He has left 3latlrill for some time ; b. ; instead of polar.; to the place indicated to ,he has go t , to Logrono. The French General conunantling at Cuenca has armed all the militia under the name of Royal Volunteers. Sir William A'Court, at Lisboa, has sent a note to the 5.,, x of Portugal, which requires, in the name of his Britannic Mi. testy, the dismissal of General Pamplona, !Bird's.? at It'ar. It is thought that the independence of the Brazils, whit the wk._ tication dictated by Great Britain. will take place. Front (:aliganars Messenger of Alonslay.) A private letter of the 10th ult. from Cronstedt, states that, consequence of the exhaustion of the Ottoman treasury, 1,, es heavy tax have been imposed on the inhabitants that some 1:, vines, of the empire are left nearly desert by the emigration. I . j the most ardent wish of the hearts of this oppressed people is, Q s ,. the Greeks may he successful. According to letters from Barcelona. the rumour of the Constjti l „, tionalists haying landed in the Island of trite arose fife s the circumstance of a popular commotion in the Wand. in nr, sequence of the Mary taxes with which the people are burdened. FIRE IN PARIS. A correspondent informs us, that a dreadful fire brai t out in the middle of the night of New Year's Day, at Bazaar, on the Boulevard de Italiens. This fashitinai,; lounge for strangers is wholly destroyed. So sudden air' unexpected was this catastrophe, that hardly any ins PcrlY could be saved, and as the little shops were occupie principally by those whose whole fortune was their stock in trade, these unfortunate people, who, by their Waste.. hail realised an easy independence, arc, by this calami: reduced to absolute want. An immense Boa serpent, teen feet long, and many other animals, perished in ti e flames ; the beautiful magazine of furniture at the come of the passage was emptied into the road, and the elf. articles all promiscuously were heaped upon each othe and covered with mud ; the interior of the Rotund: s completely destroyed by the ravaging element. The following account is front the Cour rier Frameth : " The fire at the bazaar was as destructive as we mats yesterday ; all the accounts we have received agree is stating, that the shopkeepers in this establishment are en tirely ruined. They have not only lost their capital, bu: many of them had borrowed different sums for the prom, of increasing their stock for the beginning of the bet 1 year, the day on which the retail trade is, of all others Paris, the most productive. The total loss is estimate(:; 1 nearly 600,000 francs. " Some wild beasts that were kept for exhibition in apartment connected with the bazaar were burned. li t Boa serpent, measuring eighteen feet in lenoh, hissed frig... fully when it felt the first approaches of the flame: amid crocodile, a cameleon, and sonic amphibious animals, were 3 like manner consumed by the tire, or iinfrocated by tit smoke. The public have also to lament the destruction: some of the Egyptian antiquities, eolleettil by the care!. M. Belzoni, whose recent death was a loss to the scien e . There could only be saved sonic works in granite r bronze; but the entire of the Egyptian tomb, (item. under his directions with such rare perfection and suilo . correctness, has fallen a prey to the flames." THE BRISTOL RAIL ROAD, versus THE SH2 CANAL. Erzox A cotarsroxor.x7.l The spirit of improvennut reigns universally in w happy islaml, and one plan is soon excelled by another. The projected Ship Canal for union of the Bristol British Channels, bas excited a Company for a Rail IL from Bristol to London, the distance being only 1101 by land ; whereas, by sea, it must be betw•ceu Goo and miles. It is, on reflection, matter of deep surprise, that Rail Road was not executed several years ago, fur the lies tol Channel is a most dangerous coast to navigate, owie to the rapid ebb and flow of the tide, from 311 to 4u perpendicularly, and its mouth exposed to the Adair,: gales. This Rail Road certainly appears calculated to superset the necessity for a Ship Canal ; at least, it dirt-emus ti divide the profits expectal from the Canal. We coo airier that a Barge Coel may answer very well (particu laly from Taunton to Exeter), hut we have many team for supposing the present Ship Canal will be abandonel. The Rail Road will answer its chief purposes in conveyin; goods in much Ices time, anti at much less expense, without rink or insurance, direct to the metropolis. The Bristol -m -imeo (w!..0 are celebrated for being good watehnien)appor to have slept till aroma d by strangers in self-defence, u project a Rail Road, to which the Canal has given bird. In every view this undertaking promises Bristol a success. ful rivalahip against Liverpool and Manchester, in saw anti means which time only can fully develop. Bristol has long lingered, while Liverpool has qusiti rupleti its trade and population. Bristol may now restored to its former prosperity, for goods landed thcie will reach London much dumper and quicker, as it will ne '2OO miles nearer to London, while, on the other basil, exports to all parts of the world may be despatched mac expeditiously than from London, avoiding the danger of the Downs, and the risk of privateers in war. It is itel known what immense fleets are tletaitictl every winter 0 Cie Downs, anti at Ramsgate, &c. where 300 are detainel at this moment, and where dreadful losses of lives a3l propel ty constantly occur. Why not, then, cut a Ship Canal from Bristol direct to London? Liverpool would rue the day such an Act tray pass, which would revive Bristol. Thus, a spirit of emu lation is afloat, which must advance the Commonweal:h. and form new eras of gas, steam, itke. and manufactures. Arrnoactitxc ELCCTION.—The Ministerial party • the west of Scotland are beginning to whisper, as use:, about their great prospects of success at the next electi; - , which cannot be far distant; but we do not know of a , change likely to take place in that respect. In Lanarks6 . : Lord Archibald Hamilton is firm in the esteem and e'• port of an overwhelming majority of the freeholders. 1 Renfrewshire Mr. Maxwell, we have occasion to kn..% will decidedly have the majority. lu Argylesbire Campbell, of play, there is every reason to helior• will be re-elected. In Dumbartonshire the son of Succoth will probably succeed Mr. Buchanan, which 5..1 be nu change; and as to Glasgow and the other )3Ur.',llS tutted to it, Mr. Campbell. of Hlythswood is. as mat . . sure of the few leading Tories who constitute " the Bo'' Politic."—Gfasgote Fres. Press. On Thursday last Sir R. Vyvyan canvassed liet,! , , W r. where lie was very flatteringly received ; at the head of WI) his carriage was acci dentally overturned. but innately Sir Richard escaped unhurt : the coat:blimp caved a cut on his forehead.— N",,tern Lemino%q. ' Slr. Houldsworth has address,al a letter to the editor •t the Chester Chronicle, in which lie disclaims any inter' - .0 Ito " contest the representation of' the city of Chester. .1; •• communication concludes in tl:e following words :---- am perfectly satisfied with the honour conferred on fir the Electors of Pontefract ; and so long as I possess confidence and support of that respectable Bei outlh, 1 v.:l • never barter them for any other." It is a curious fact that Sir A. M. Mackcorte. who !i acted with the Duke of Athol for so mmv years in tical imitters, has now " turned tail," anti refuses to To:, for his Grace's friend at the ensuing election.—Dua.:‘: roper. Same evenings since, a few friends of the " right sot:. in the mighbourhood of Eakenhani, having met to t 1 t over the pleasures of the day's hunt, stir some and no little noise, of the eft-/c of Sir Jacob, the Hammitt, the skill of Dewing, and the steadiness of 1):1- roy, a bet was proposed and accepted, that a Chesnut Rig (('oyer) lately in the Melom hunt, and now the pr. - perty of John Brown, of Pudding Norm), should, in course of a month, carry his present owner over the clippet holly fence iu Weasenham Park (not less than till tL.: high, and about S fevt wide at the top) the rider being st liberty to take the leap either into, or out of time park. day is yet named for this extramdinary feat, but front t' , .l well-known character of the horse, aria no less celebrity vt the rider, the performance is already backed at 6 to 4 :3 ! !—Barg Go•:st.fr. M. 1 r,