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Greek Bond. 57! 7 6( 74 as div Di t to Acct. 57f lex iv Mexican Bowls Thf 6 51 7 61 f 61 6 f 5f 61 etc div Ditto Aect. 754 6 7647 64 61 61 f fiff64 co div Neapolitan - Bonds Ditto Bonds 0020 911 Ditto tinny 11 Urn Ditto Acct. Peruvian Bonds 1114 1 Ditto Acct. 111 2 1 f Portuguese Bouds 06 4 Ditto Acet. Prussian Bonds MC Ditto Bonds OM) 994 f ex div Ditto Acct. Rtrodan Bonds 961 6 67 6 Ditto Acct. 661 *Ditto Metallic Spanieb Coos. 221 4 2 Ditto Acct. 11/ Tim Britt oh flreoo. THEATRE ROYAL, DRUR)'-LANE. This Evening, TUE E4 iDAP. Jannary 4. will io ocrformed 0 PREISCIII' Otto-ar, the Prins*, Mr. Mercer: Bernhard, Head Ranger. Mr. Nad i ; Hermit. Mr. O. Smith; Adolph, Mt. T. Ca.kel Caspar. Mr. barn ; Kilian, lineman to the Head Ranger, Mr. BAught : Demon of ',e Hirt -, Zatiftel. r.O. Slott's; Vi Itch of the Olen, Ur. Blanchard. Liuda, Hiss Graddon; Ross, Mrs. Ledford. After which, HARLEQUIN 'AND THE TNLICING BIRD, THE siNravG ?BEES, AND 00' DEN WATER'S. Harlequin. Mr. Hon ell; Pantaloon, Mr. Elanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, Mtn Barnett. • To.morrow. The Patti Dowry, and the new Pantomime. TITEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. Tbia Evening, TI:FSP inn. 4. will be performed AS YOU LIRE IT. Orlando, Mr.C.Remble Amiens. Mr.Pearman: Jaques, Mr.ftennett ; Tonetistone, Mr. Fawcett. Roaaiind, Miss M. Tree Colts, tiles Ham. mersley Audrey, Mrs. Gibbs. After which, HARI.EQVIM AND THE. DR AEON OF AVANTLEY Or, MORE. OF MORE II AI.L. Harlequin, Mr. Elise Pan Col taleon. Mr. MIAs ROMer.lo Barnes; Cwn, Mr ..). S. Gri maldi. umbine, To-morrow, Her Frolschuti, and the new Pantomime. Tile BRITISH PRESS commenced publianing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, JA\L'•RT 4, 1843. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived last night. The only article of foreign intelligence they contain is a confir-. melon of the victory of the Greeks over "ISLAMIC Pants. Many Egyptian prisoners of war had arrived at Hydra The Addresses of the Chambers in reply to the Ktsm's Speech were presented on Friday. As usual, they merely echo the royal sentiments. That of the Peers concludes in a style which would almost lead one to suspect that M. de CHATEAUBRIA ND, though be was himself rejected from the Committee, had, by means of his noble friend, •the Duke de MoNt Mo nrN cy, contrived to employ his pen in drawing up this document. " The France of Clovis and St. Louis will be rerewed in the Trance of Charles the Tcnth, and the restoration of the monarchy will he the anniversary of its foundation. The successor of St. 'Clovis will he seen receiving the holy all from the hands of the succesor of St. Remi, and attesting the same God before the same ' altars. There will be seen another Clotilde, full of courage and of faith, who has obtained the blessings of heaven for the arms of her r•tsband, and who will implore them for the kingdom of her father. Jr. the two great bodies of the State present at this Royal cere monial, who, to use the expression of your august predecessor, unite the present and the put, will be found the Chiefs of the Army and the Nation, who will devote themselves with Clovis to the wor ship of the Christian religion, and to the service of the Monarchy- And whilst your Majesty shall invoke, as a witness to the purity of your engagements, Him who judges people and kings, and shall renew the oath of observing anti main!aitting the lows of the State, and the institutions confirmed by your brother, we prostrate before the same altars, happy in obeying a l'rinee who is proud to he cur ruler; and will offer up to Heaven our ardent wishes for the preservation of your Majesty's life, the prosperity of your rein, and the happiness of trance." The KING'S answers will be found below. They are nowise remarkable, but, perhaps, as breathing strongly that spirit of retrogradation which marks the proceedings of his Cabinet. The Opposition Papers observe with re gret that neither in the Addresses of the Chambers, nor in the Royal Speech, was the Charter once named. When we published the latter, we remarked that it was strange that in the first public declaration of CrrAut.Es X. he s'reuhl avoid any mention of the Charter, while lie affect c.lly talked of the " institutions grantett by his brother." The French Ministerial Journals hold a tone decidedly eclinter-revc,lutionary. It seems probable that the pur posed, indemnity to the emigrants is but the forerunner of designs yet more dangerous. On... Monday, the projects of law respecting fhis indemnity and the civil list, were to be laid before the Chamber of Deputies. M. de Vit.- LELE, in order to strengthen Lis influence in the Upper Chamber, intends, it is said, to create a great number of Peers for life. Ile has succeeded in sending away the Prince the Po truNA c, who left Paris on Friday morning tc return t.) his embassy here. The Journal de In co! it Or states, that an Ordinance - vas issued on the 18th ult. for etnivelying 60,090 men of the class of 1824. It is singular that this ordinance has net eppeared in either the Monitrer or the Bulletin des Lois. I From the Moniker of Saturday.] The offichl part contains the Addresses of the two Chambers. The deputations were received at Irtlf-past seven, on the 31st, to present both the Addresses and the respectful compliments of the Chambers on the New Year. The Address of the Peers was read by the Chancellor. The King replied— " Gentlemen—lt would be difficult for me to express the satis faction I feel at the sentiments expressed in the name of Ate Cham ber of Peers. I shall embrace every opportunity to give it proofs of my confidence, and I depend on The reciprocity of their sentiments. " I shall cause a law to be presented to the Chambers, which I doubt not will unite all the French, u they are united in my heart.; but I shall not stop them, Gentlemen ; the Sessions will he renewed, and I shall congeal' thove ameliorations tuba successively proposed to you, which I shall judge useful to the happiness of a people so dear to me. •' What glory for the Throne and for you !—for I shall completc, I hope, this happy wish, in concert with you, Gentlemen, and seconded by the God that protects France." The Address of the Chamber of Dept ties was then read by M. Raves. The King answered— •• Geutlemen,—Deeply affected by the sentiments which the Chamber of Deputies has just expressedho me, I can arty answer with my heart—Yes. we shall always agree, for the 6lery and hap.. pines of France. A anion of sentiments; a union of principles: we-shalt never separate. Proud of contibuting to the felicity of this beautiful France, which we all love, I shall faithfully fulfil theinten. tions of a brother, whom I lament. I shall not confine myself to this, Gentlemen; be assured that I shall always seek whatever the welfare of my people shall require of me. What a satisfaction to us, Gentlemen, as I have said tcrthe Chamber of Peers, to repair our misfortunes, and cause them to be forgotten. I shall succeed, if God grants me life ; but if Providence should not allow me time, there is my son, Gentlemen, who would complete what I should have begun. Gentlemen, believe my sentiments, and if I express them to you 'with sensibility, believe also, that it is with satisfaction I receive the expression of yours." [From the Etaik, dyed Sunday.] A lettet from Trieste, in the Augsburg . Gazelle. lays—" A vessel from Constantinople brings dispatches from Hydra of 6th December, perfectly confirming the event! of I:2th November. It was after being again beaten by the Greeks that Ibrahim I'acha retreated to the Bay of igarmarissa. Another division of hie fleet has already steered for Alexandria. The Greeks say he had three brigs burnt : they have taken, besides, five schooners and seventeen transports. Several Egyptian Captains, prisoners of war, have arrived at Hydra. We cannot state the prices of the French Funds, as the Caere Authenthisc did not come last night with the papers, nor does the Etoile contain any statement of the prices of the funds for Saturday. The Ji.urnahles Debuts, also, was not received. It was stated yesterday with great confidence, by those who ought to be well informed on the subject, that an official communication was made on Friday last to the Foreign Ministers at the British Court, informing them that his 111AJESTY had resolved to conclude Commercial Treaties with the new Governments of Mexico and Colom bia. This resolution will of course lead immediately to the recognition of the independence of these States. The policy explicitly declared by the British Government, with respect to South America, has left it perfectly free to pursue its own interests, without any reference to the feelings or prejudices of Spain, or the other European Powers. We knew, by the Parliamentary statements of his Mao eser's Ministers last Session, that this question was considered by the Cabinet as one purely British, and there can be no doubt that during the interval nothing has occurred to change their views of the subject. The sole reason for deferring the recognition was, the want of accurate information as to the ability of the new American Governments to maintain the rank they hail assumed. That information has been, we believe, must satisfactorily obtained by means of she Commissions sent out specially for that purpose last year. It seems to us, therefore, highly probable that the report of yesterday may prove well founded. The two States of Mexico and Colom bia appear to be as securely established as any indepen dent Power in the world. The Governments of both are in the tranquil exercise of (heir functions ; and it may, without the least exaggeration, be affirmed, that either of them is more capable of subduing the mother country, than she k, unassisted, to reduce them again under her authority. The question has for some time been substantially decided. All that remained, then, on our part with regard to Spain, was that diplomatic courtesy which we owed to an unfortunate ally ; and with regard to the new 'States, that politic caution which should give our counsels weight in the eyes of surrounding Potentates, and save us from the inextricable absurdities into which rashness might have plunged us. Let us hope that the time has at length come, when, in the judgment of Lis Ma.; sne's Government, commercial relations may safely and properly be formed with the new States. From this quarter we may calculate upon a progres sive and indefinite increase of our trade. What have we offered to us? Avast continent to be gradually peopled by freemen, able to supply themselves in abundance with the products of our tnanufactures. The external prospects of our country are, we thank Heaven, in every respect as cheering as we could wish. The wise policy of the Cabinet has carried us with peace and honour through the perplexed mazes in which it was the hope of the Holy Alliance to have entangled us. His MAJIIITY'S Ministers have avoided Scylla without splitting upon Charybdis. They have prudently forborne from mixing themselves in the struggles between the revolution ary epirit, which, on the one hand, would overthrow all institutions, and the monarchical principle, which, on the other hand, would consecrate all the abuses of power. Our renovated strength and increasing prosperity are the best cvideuces of the soundness of their judgment. We are now enabled, at our own unfettered discretion, to chose for ourselves, when we will acknowledge the political existence of the New States which supplicate our recognition. One of the French journalists, when lamenting the degrading subserviency of his Court to the Holy Alliance, pointed in admiration to the dexterous manner in which the English Government had, as he represented it, withdrawn from the league of Sovereigns without firing a shot, or even ex changing an angry word. In fact, however, England never formed part of the Holy Alliance. She belonged to the general confederation of European Powers for defensive and conservative purposes; but the moment it was pro jected to convert the Alliance into a superintending authority to control the internal affairs of every people, and compel them to conform their political institutions to the Russian and Austrian models of perfection, England refused to become a party to the new compact, aid protested against the principle on which it was founded. We have thus been left free to consult our own benefit, while the other Great Powers are involved in the endless intricacies of their tortuous policy. Let us feel grateful to Providenco, in the first place, for our insular posi atm ; next, for that excellently balanced Constitution which has fully demonstrated that Orders anti &grecs jar nut with liberty, but well consist ; and finally, for the sound neutrality which the KING'S Government has adopted, and which insures us the com plete enjoyment of all the advantages of our singularly happy situation. The ATTORNEY-GEW SAM. of Ireland, it is stated, has filed an information, ez-V4.io, against Sir Macaws-1. 1 Lars, for the inflammatory letter he published some days ago in a Dublin Paper, entitled the Currespondcat. The Reverend defendant is well known for his enthusiastic at tachment to the principles of the Orange Association, and he apprehends, or pretends to apprehend, that the conci liatory coarse pursued by Lord WE I.I.ILSLEY has brought the Church and State both into great peril. Ile therefore judged it necessary to undertake, or assume, the ofiice of protector of the l'rotestant interest, and lie issued his orders to his faithful Orangemen to meet him in arms on a certain -lay, to take measures for their own defence, as the Popish faction in the Cabinet had abandoned them. All this may, and doubtless must, appear simply absurd to us in England, and with English feelings ; but it by no means follows that we should deem it prudent or fitting to pass it over in contemptuous silence, if we were sworn to discharge the duties of Mr. Pt.o N ETV . ' elation. The Irish papers say, that the Reverend Baronet has retained Mr. SAC SIN, the late Attorney-General, for his defence. We shall, therefore, have the unusual spectacle, and we believe that it is the sole instance on recoil], of an Ex-Attorney.. t;eneral defending a political offence prosecuted by his suc cessor ia office, and in this case they will meet to contest the very principles which discriminate them as Statesmen. This prosecution will at least be an evidence of the impar tiality of the Irish Administration, and should, therefore, satisfy the Catholics that the object of his MAJESTY'S Government is not merely to crush them, but to uphold the equal reign of the law over all. I TIiE BRITISH PRESS. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. I' 11AI:11'011T, DEC. 21. The arrival of Mr. Stratford Canning front London, on his way to Vienna, and thence to St. Petersborgh, has given our politicians a subject for various conjectures, which in sonic measure agree with the observations in the Courier on the object of his mission. The discussions relative to the north-west coast of America have long been a subject of attention : but it seems that the Uniusi States were considered as the aggrieved party, and that England has assumed the part of mediator. Four or five months age et was reported that the negociations promised • favourable result ; and it is affirmed that there is now no apprehension of any icterruption of friendship between the Powers concerned. A more interesting object of this mission is presumed to be the termination of the struggle of the Greeks, it being a ffi rmed by persons , whose means rn of infoiation are unquestionable, that all the great Powers are re solved. by a powerful intervention, to put an end to the sangui nary contest.—Allzenselste .Ztitong, Dec. 26. A I:Gant:non, Mx. '22. Orders have lately been sent front Vienna, prohibiting all Aus trian subjects, and especially those of the kingdom of Lombardy and Venice. from visiting Rome during the Jobilee of 1823, unless they have obtained permission front the High Police at Vienna. We learn from iletlin that Professor Cousin has been interro. gated. in presence of one of the Secretaries of the French Legation. It is thought that his affair will soon be decided.—Brussels ()rack, Dec. 31. FASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis and 31archioness of Cholmondeley have left town for Brighton. Emily, Marchioness of Londonderry, left the Marquis of Cam don's seat, the NVildemess, Kent. yesterday, for Hastings, Sus,ex, on a visit to the .Marchioness of Hertford. hoed and tit Huntingtield base left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for their seat iii Suffolk. Major Gardiner arrived yesterday at Gould's Hotel, Jerrnyn street, from Tunbridge Wells. Lady Ellenborough left town yesterday for Brighton. John Dingwall, Esq., has arrived at his house in St. James's street, from his seat in Scotland. Arrivals at Reid's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street :—Captain Charles White, from Berkrhire ; John Morshead, Esq., from Ludy Morsliead's seat, at Richmond ; Mrs. Townley, and son, from Cambridgeshire. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:--l. B. S. Moran, Esq. and John Moratt, Esq. from Brighton ; George Gray, Esq from a sporting excursion. Mrs. Keating has left ditto for Clifton. Arrivals at illivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—John Chil ders, Eq. and Mrs. Childers and faintly, from Yorkshire; St. George Caulfield, Esq., from the festivities at the Duke of De vonshirc's seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. Lord John Throne has arrived in town from a tour. Pascoe Greaten, Esq. M.l'. has left town for his seat, Taplow, Berks. There were two confidential persons sent to Nice by the Highest Personage in the country the other day, to endea vour to alleviate the sufferings of a Noble family, by their attentions to an amiable young Nobleman, at present sojourning in the South of France ;—we believe Sir William Knighton, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Ba tting. The last report received from these gentlemen came from Lyons. The Duke of Saxe Meiningen has announced to the States of the Duchy, his intention to marry the Princess Maria of Ilesse Cassel. The Loid Chancellor, Lady Manners, Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, Sir Josias Rowley, CounselLir Hamilton, Colonel Talbot, Colonel Caulfield, &c. &c., are on a visit at Rock• Ingham near Boyle. Lord Stowell gave au elegant entertainment, on New Year's Day, to the Duke and Duclugs of Montrose, Lady C. Graham, Lord and Lady Sidneouth, and a large party. Yesterday his Lordship entertained the Judges and a dis tinguished party, at his house in Grafton-street, Bond street. Lord and Lady Manners, Lord and Lady Combermere, Lord and Lady Lorton, and several other ilistiuguished per sonages, are shortly expected on a visit at Loughcooter Castle, the seat of Lord Gort. Mr. La , nbton left his sear, Lambton Hall, for Oxford shire, on Thursday. New TRAGEDY.—We understand that a new Tragedy has been received and approved of at Covent-garden. The piece had a stage rehearsal yesterday, and will, of course, be shortly presented to the public. The mildness of the season depriving the holiday youths of their wonted out-of-door amusements of skating, throw ing snow-balls, and other seasonable diversions, they are left somewhat at a loss for amusement; for new panto mimes cannot be afforded every day, and the versatile taste of young miuds would not relish a repetition of " More of More IIall," or any other effort of genius, however splen did. We should suggest, therefore, in this predicament, that all the new things round about the metropolis should be shown them—the new churches and streets, for in stance, not forgetting the buildings in Regent's Park, and while there, perhaps an boar or two could not he more profitably employed t han treating them with a peep at the Diorama, where those who possess a love fur the arts would receive such impressions from the two views now exhibit ing there, as would, in after life, be reckoned by them among their most pleasing reminiscences. We understand that on Saturday there was a numerous assemblage of the corps diplatmatigue at the Foreign Office in Downing-street. The Ambassadors from Austria, Rus sia, Prussia, and the several Representatives of the South American Governments in this country were present. Af ter some prefatory remarks, Mr. Canning proceeded to read a note, intended to be transmitted to the different Courts, in substance announcing, that, after repeated communication end correspondence with the Court of Ma drid, on the subject of the new Governments of South America, his Britannic Majesty had came to the resolution of recognising the independence of Mexico and Colombia; and had therefore entered into Commercial Treaties with these States. The information thus communicated was intended to be announced with the usual formality to the several Ambassadors, for transmission to their respective Courts.—British Traveller. . _ It was reported yesterday, on the authority of a gentle.. man who left Callao on the 3th September, that battles had taken place on the 29th and 30th elf August, between the Royalists and Patriots, in which the latter had lost 4,000 men. Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's, at Deal, dated Jan. 1 :—" The Catherine, Forrest, arrived from Valparaiso, sailed the 27th Sept., brings advice that the Spaniards were, by the last accounts, in possession of Lima, but it was expected the armies would soon meet. The Asia Spanish line-of-battle ship was at Callao; and a brig, under dpanish colours, had arrived at Arrics, with de spatches from thence. Ilia Majesty's ship Aurora would sail from Valparaiso for England on the arrival of his Majesty's ship Fly from Peru." Letters from Bahia, dated Nov. 2, contain some details of the events which led to the assassination of the Governor, General Fillisberto Gomez e Caldeira, who, we understand, is a relation of the Brazilian Envoy now in this country. It appears that orders had arrived from Rio de Janeiro for disbanding the Portuguese regiment stationed at Bahia, in consequence of some doubts entertained of its fidelity to the Emperor. The order was communicated to the officers who comtnanded it, but who, not obeying with the promp titude insisted on, were placed under arrest. This irritated the troops of that regiment so highly, that they took up aims on the night of the 28111 of October, and marching to the house of the Governor, murdered him in his bed. After the perpetration of this act, with a levity not uncom mon among the soldiery of this part of the world, they re tired to their quarters, uttering cries or—" Live the Em peror !" On the event becoming known, the other regi ments were called out, by whose aid the mutinous soldiers were disarmed without bloodshed, and lodged in safe custody to await their punishment. The tranquillity of Bahia ismaderstood to have been completely restored. Axornza Moe !Nu 800 !—A respectable gentleman in this town has received a letter from Ballymoney, dated December 24, in which it is stated that the peaty matter, Ballywindlin bog, situated about 24 miles from Ballymo ney, began to move on Wednesday last, and has already covered about 40 acres of arable land, in some plac.i from six to ten feet deep. S.Neral fir blocks have been thrown up by the floating peat. We presume that some subter ranean stream, swollen by the late rains, which may have penetrated to its channel through shallow and pervious soil, has burst through its usual boundaries, risen to the surface, and hurried the buggy matter in its precipitate course, from its former site.—Beilizst News-Letkr. Ott Saturday evening an unfortunate young woman, who had come out of the Edinburgh Infirmary the same (lay, fell upon the pavement, in consequence of intoxica tion, unit such violence, that her frontal bone was com pletely shattered. She hat since died. .. ADVICE TO VARIOUS PERSONS, 111 VARIOUS WALKS OT LIVE, OX ♦ARIOUS OCCASIONS: SHOWING MORE ESPECIALLY !lOW TIM MOST HUMBLE MAY CAUSE THEMSELVES TO BE RESPECTED, AND POINT ING OUT HOW SLENDER MEANS AND SLIGHT urroaTv • NITIES MAY BE TURNED TO GOOD ACCOCN r. BY A PHIL.I-NTIIROPIST. Ti l adies with Parizsols.—Fo - get that there is such a thing as an eve in the world ; don't see where you are poking the fine picked points of your parasol which would blind a spider, and never for one moment remember that most heads have two vulnerable places which, the odds are, you will one day hit. At an exhibition of paintings always teas ii the beauties of the pictures with the end of your parasol. To dirty Idle Boys.—My dear dirty idle boy , if it should so happen that a gentleman should give you his horse to hold while he goes into a house, mind the very moment his back is turned to climb up into the saddle, thrust your feet into the stirrup-leathers, and see whether you mu rule : if you should find that you cannot, as is very likely, and I should be thrown, as is extremely probable, roar as loud as ten thousand devils or a little angel in arms ; yrotest that you are broken into five hundred pieces, and be sure to blame the cruel gentleman for having bid you ride the vi cious 'horse up and down—so shall you challenge the com passion of good people, and a store of halfpence shall. assuage your pains. To eltetnney-Sweepers.—A chimney-sweeper is a charac ter that should make himself respected in his walk through life. You have much in your power—people are greatly at your mercy. All decent folks make way for you, and the cleaner and smarter they are the more they fear you ; now mind what I say, never let them pass, but show your manners by stepping aside as they step aside, and so dodge them till you jostle. You are indeed a very unhappy class of urchins, and often very ill-used ; and, to make some amends for the hard treatment you get, I would earnestly recommend you to act like greater men, and blacken the world you cannot enjoy he all the soot in your powtr—vou cannot wear tine clean clothes yourselves, my children, but you can foul your neighbours', acid pray do so, it will be a comfort to you, believe me. To Footnien.—Your master or mistress, who is always unreasonable and full of whimsies, will perhaps send von with a large pitcher to a distant pump for water which they absurdly choose to think better than other water; as if water was not water all the world over, or as if any water was good to drink. Now, carrying this large earthen ware pitcher full of water is a very fatiguing tedious busi ness • but if yeu co!,trive, as if by accident, to spill a little of the water on the toes of the decent passengers as they go by you, you have no notion how it will divert you and turn a pain to pleasure—the way will only seem too short, and the further you go the lighter will be the hitcher; nay, if you have had good sport, it may be quite empty by the time you get home, in which ease fill it out of the cistern. The amusement of spilling the water on people's toes is most in season in intensely cold weather, when they do skip about on such an unlooked-for hilly salutation to their cherished pedal extremities in a most diverting manner. _ . To Women in Dirty Weather.—lf you etoold get tired, as very likely you may, of walking in your pattens, you will carry them in your hand ; in which case take care that they are sufficiently dirty, and then you may cause your self to be respected by holding them out straight before you with all the length of your arm, pretty much in the attitude in which sign painters delight to exhibit red lions —you will thus set a clear handsome black print of a double 0, 00, on the clothes of any rude fellow that ob structs your line of march. To Pot Boyr.—When you carry out the frothing pots of beer the wind always blows the head off; there is only one way of preventing this misfortune, and that is to drink the wind's share. surely it is better that a Christian should , have the liquor than that it should be wasted. 7'o miseAireovs and truant Ur( hins.—ln frosty weather you will all he sliding away your time. I would, how-, ever, by 110 means have you make your slides in the ken nels, because you may there chance to be run over, which would be a sail thing, seeing how ill any of you can be spared; but mind to make them iu the very centre of the foot-path, where you can take your pleasure comfortably and with more safety to your precious sulree. I do not object to your sliding on ponds, even though the ice were no thicker than an egg-shell , , because your destiny, my children, reserves you fur a higher fate ; but I recommend the foot-path for a slide, the rather as it is more accessible and commodious to you all ; awl, by keeping up a long continuation of slides, as may easily be done, you may slide away your errands from one end of the town to an other; and when you can, without any sacrifice of your enjoyments, unite business with pleasure, you know it is so much the better. I particularly recommend this sport to apothecaries' and surgeons boys; it will always save them from anger if that, whets they arc blown up by their masters for loitering on the way, they answer they were making a slide on the foot-path. To the Reader.—ln this particularly well watched and guarded metropolis, it will doubtless one of these nights be your luck to be attacked in the public street and knocked down by thieves; in which case by no means cry robbery and murder; for if you do, people will run away, or fortify thetnselves in their houses: and further, those things are nobody's business, but roar fire, which is every body's business , and every window will be thrown open in the twinkling of an eye, and every soul will be on the alert to examine the danger. To Bearers of Umbrellas.—Carry your umbrella poised in the manner of a javelin, the ferrule pointed to the rear, and swing your arm vigorously backwards and forwards with it, so shall you prevent people from treading on your heels, and keep a clear space before and behind you for your motions. A stick is too light to be used with effect in this way ; it is better to give it as you step a good swing to the right outwards, thus it protects your flank, and woe to the shins of him who endeavours to approach or to pass you on that side. To Apprentices, Porters, arc. shutting tip Shop.—ln car rying out your shutters to shut up the shop in a populous thoroughfare, you would lose the whole night if you looked to the right and left and considered how you could bring them out without breaking the heads of the pauengers. The most approved and usual method of performing this operation is, just to take a shutter on your shoulder, shut your eyes, and rush out—one or two people are perhaps knocked down, and then they learn to be more careful for the future, and to keep out of the way. When you bring out the iron bars with which you secure the shutters, carry them as St. George of England couches his lance, and run a tilt, or char g e with all your strength and spe ed into the street ;it is g ood exercise. Perhaps one day yen may im pale some one •, if an, your master, alarmed by so warlike an exploit, will employ somebody else to shut up the shop, and thus you will escape a troublesome duty. Lamp-Likliters.—lainp-fighters arc dull dogs, with no tut n for wit. It is very strange that though I have seen these fellows on the top of their ladders with a huge can of oil that would tempt a saint to mischief, while well dressed people passed immisliately under them, yet I never saw one of them spill a drop of the juice of the whale on a handsome coat ! This shows that they are strangely de ficient in that species of pleasantry which abounds in our country. Now that the gas has come in, it is too late to give them a lesson in humour. To Housemaids cleaning the Steps is Me Morning.— Whenever a respectable-looking person passes by while you arc at this work, show your skill and dexterity by trund ling your mop in such a manner as to splash them like a shower-bath with your soap-suds. This will make them feel what a handy wench you are, and show them that you mind nothing Intl !form business—a great virtue in a servant. • Button-holders.—At this season of the year a button holder (or man who holds his acquaintances by their but tons), who knows his own powers, is justly formidable to his friends. Old Isaac Walton, in directing his young fisherman how to impale a frog, says, " use him as though you loved him ;" and I would desire the button-holder who wishes to assassinate any one to " use him u though lie loved him." The beat time for catching your man is in winter or the early spring, when a keen easterly wind is blowing sore throats, coughs, and catarrhs ; then hook him by the button just at the corner of a street opening with a good sweep to the east ; any sort of gateway or tunnel is however still preferable, provided there be a good blast— there hold him and ask him how all his family, his • friends, and relations, do, till the teeth chatter in his h ea d , and his nose turn bine. Ile will struggle with you per haps, and, making a desperate effort fur life, end eavour to break away, but stop hint with " one word more," and " I will not keep you another moment," and so forth, as you well know how to do, till you perceive the usua l . symptoms of ague, then let him go, for he will only go to his bed and send for the apothecary, and when he dies, i n due course, you will tell all his friends how singul ar i t was that you had inch a pleasant chat with poor -- in the streets on the. very day that he fell sick. Banat. holders, if they made the most of their powers, might render infinite service to administration, by means of ea t . ting of troublesome members, or giving diem such cold s as to silence their patriotism. Just let us fancy a T ory button-holder catching Joseph Hume, on the eve of a retrenchment question, at the end of Harley-street, in a cutting northerly gale, and holdin; him until all his radical heat has escaped, then letting him go after a space, with the full assurance that he hiss had such an airing that, n the least, his organs of speech will not be in a state to say nay to a money-bill for the rest of the Session. ST. BRIDES STEEPLE, FLEET-STREET. The following account of the destruction of this beauti ful structure by lightning, which happened on the Nth of June, 116 L, is taken front the Annual Register of that year:-- " Happened in and about London one of the grrattst thunder-stonns in the memory of man. Some buildiwz, sulfured by it, particularly the elegant spire of St. 11iitle'F, Fleet-street, which was shattered so much that it was obliged to he rebuilt. Several balls of tire were seen i❑ the streets at the sante time, but soon disappeared, without doing any mischief: some persons, however, were hurt Ls the stones that flew froth the damaged buildings. A: Chttham the lightning killed one man, hurt tome others, and, bad it not been for a heavy rain that attended it. would probably hare set the Ramillies man-of-war on fitt. In London there was no rain until the lightning was over " On the 16th of September, in the same year, when the workmen were repairing the injury which the steeple licd sustained front the lightning, the wind blew so violently al to carry away all that part of the newly-erected seaffoltl en St. Bride's steeple, which stood above the stone-work. It was remarkable, that the timbers snapt in two in the middle, while all remained firm underneath." BRITISH SETTLEMENT lN UPPER CANADA. The following extracts from a letter, dated at Queenston, Upper Canada, 30th Oct. 1824, will be found intertsting. to Goods are sold very low here, and the number tt merchants continue to increase. A good living can be made in this country, but the time for making fortunes is gone by. I believe a more free and happy people (if the. only knew it) does not exist on the face of the earth. The taxes are nothing, when compared with those of the United States. A man, with a fine farm of , 2uo acres, plenty of stock, full barn, fine house, and every thing in Plenty around him, has at the most only thirty shillings of tax s to pay, and a majority net half of that sum. The moot c • the farmers have a patch of tobacco for their own use. At Sandwich, 300 miles above us, this article is cultivated to a very considerable extent. Your ideas respecting the va lue of landed properties in this country arc erroneous. I, for my part, have no wish to have any interest in lamb, either as security or property, particularly the latter. Much trouble and botheration attends it, and the value era scarcely be called real. The reason of this is that the will lands are so easily got that the value of property will always be a kind of nominal thing until the country is mere thickly settled ; and I do not know of any estate in this countn that would rent for more than one halt' of the interest of the money that would be asked for it. A person that hat money here can get six per cent. interest for it, which is better than converting it into land, and is also a little better titan the interest in sour country. The crown and clergy reserves arc in the heart of the settled country, and if pro- per encouragement were given upon them to emigrants, it would add much to the strength of the country, and value of property. These reserves, besides large grants made in early times to favourites, has touch retarded the pros. perity of it. " This is one of the finest climates in the world. I wish I could have shared with von some of our fine melons, peaches, and grapes list summer. Last year the crops were but poor, and people's ideas of the value of grain rose much beyond what the state of the markets even then war ranted. Many of the Upper Canada merchants have suf fered much this year in flour, and some at least lost ten I I shillings on every barrel. The harvest here, this season, has deem very abundant. Wheat is now about 2s. 6d. per bushel. A steam flour-mill was ereett d last year near Niagara, and there is now another building a few miles distant, which will of course operate somewhat against the mills driven by water. There is a good deal of stir here ,just now about canals, and if the projects arc carried into effect the country will be greatly benefited, by affording facility to transport." John Holmes, Esq. the High Bailiff of the Borough, having, in consequence of his election to that situation, re signed his office as Prothonotary in the Ancient Court of Record in the Borough of Southwark, the Recorder, in wlese gift the place is, has appointed John Newman, Esq. the son of the worthy City Solicitor, to fill the vacancy, and that gentleman accordingly attended, and was sworn into his office,before Mr. Recorder, the Judge of the Court, at the Town-hall, yesterday. Ma. O'CoNxxtx.—The Commission will be opened at Green -street, this day, before Mr. Justice Jebb and Mr. Justice Moore. The Grand Juries will he sworn and some bills sent up, but it is supposed that those against Mr. O'Connell will not come before the (rand Inquest until Monday. This is thefirst prosecution for words instituted by the State in Ireland. The indictment contains the ex traordinary number of thirty-two counts! Mr. O'Conmll will conduct his own defence in person; but he will also have the advantage of the talents and experience of Mr. Wallace, K.C., in addition to the Gentlemen whose names have already appeared as his Counsel. Mr. Hickman Kearney is, we understand, to be the Foreman of the Grand Jury. The number of persons summoned to attend as Petty Jurors is said to be ninety-eight.—lrish raper (1 Saturday. IRISH NORTHERN BANKING COMPANT.—The number of subscribers, or share-holders, to the Northern Bankinc Company, is complete, and to morrow it starts for the first time in the execution of its duties. This is the first banking company formed in Ireland under the new Act of Parliament, and becomes additional evidence of the proud position in which Belfast stands at this moment is the commercial world. The proprietary body is composed of large lauded property—of the dust mercantile and manu facturing character and wealth in the country. The Di rectors are not in trade ' consequently the public has ail the security afforded by the first, amounting to some 'nil lions, and all the necessary security attending the mansg mem of a private establishtnent.—Bellicst Paper qf Friday. A BENLVOLENT JOINT-STOCK COMPANr.—A project has been in contemplation for some time, and is, we be lieve, now fully matured, for building, by means of a joint stock company, houses for labourers and persons in poor circumstances, and letting them at moderate rents, the rents to be taken in monthly or weekly payments. The plan originated in benevolence rather than its calculations of prolit.—Edinhurgh Paper. BRUTAL CONDUCT OF • WATCHMAN...-ElTly on the morning of Sunday last a dreadful transaction took place near to the Abbeyhill. The watchman of the Abbey w:s found lying upon the street, all but murdered outright; and, so precarious was his condition stated to be, that the Sheriff-Substitute the saute day felt it his duty to take hs declaration. According to the sufferer's statement, his lan tern had gone out, when he went to the watchman a the next station eastward, to have it re-lighted, and found hivi stretched on the ground, and much intoxicated. lie er deavoured to raise him, which the drunken nun resentei! by some gruff and inarticulate expressions ; and, finding his kindness so indifferently requited, he left him. But lie had not gone snore than a few yards when he received a dreadful blow on the back of the head, which pierced the scalp, and felled him to the ground; and next a blow front the same weapon, immediately above the ear, one beneath the ear, and another ou the back. It is doubtful whether he will survive ; and the supposed brutal assassin is i 3 custody. —Ediuhurgh Parer. -1.