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'! / 1 1 -: •'! • • NI ! • I ‘. Y.i' °L t 4 S 4 *, • -4 .4 t - . • ...WINES. - • . ; share. Pahl. premium per larei. ~...‘lOO 36 121 14 10 11 60 3 16i 14; 14 PIM^. Peruvian, .. lOO 6 24 2 Peenai.-La. gas, and Peruvian 50 6 2 di, 2'lalpux has 4OO 20 13 26 United 31e:lam VW New ROUE• 25 2 91 4 Aid IA els Alliance Dritisbanu qah Iron f.... «. ........ British and Porgies Veber British, Irish, & Colonial Silk r%p ods *.v ellet Distillery ?mien , lno 1 O T de die Stredio.l Iran ,")s 100 I *die ' Zit e' Urti(oll, aprroo. t)RflllY-f,ANE THEATIIF. Taste tvoritut, MONDAY. Dee 5 will be performed the Tragedy of nod - rug. esies Justus Brutus. Mr. Vialfeek ; Titus. Mr. Young; Tullis, Mrs. Bunn; T e r qu ipie.pfre W. %test. Arta wltios the Serto•Ctuele rip z•lttle Bombastic Piece of AMORO9t),_ PING OP LATPLIe BRITAIN. •Amelnee. Mr. nailer; Resounds, tan J. Rowell; Mollldusta, Mrs. el To eonudo with the firsie LA r Nie Pantomime Drama of Pg P ItO r init: Or, Tug IWAOIATS ISLANns persena, Mn Noble ; Madame Perottee, Mies Smithson. Tomorrow. Per Vrelsonats, Tbe Camp. and The Panel. • - r -COVRINT-GA EN TN RAT. 71 1 7. This Evesksg,MONDAT, Dee lkarill be performed the Opera of A R.TA YZTIXES. Artstlertleg, Madame Teltrie ;. gress, Mr. Poulain ; Mandsee, Mtn .error whisk me Ulric Xilperatle Place, salted 'TWAS I. The I=l , pal Clisreetere by Messrs. Otuuset. Keeley. Lysol. end ; Mies /ones, /Adam' Vestrts, and Mrs. Pitrenport. To ennelude with the Melo-Mame of Tilt %MAAR AND INS MEN. o:hitAegf, lfiereyley t Lethstr, Mr. Cooper t Karl. Mr. INfusebard, Mrs. Vining; fis.rins. Mrs. Fatten. Foitleif ESO,OOO, and other Prises, exceed . -iv; a Qcarter Qf ; Mftlitm in Sterling Money. Al! T TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tilt wileslit• neimuniestion oe the sabject of the SA Trade, signed '• A Caul Osseaysn," steal appear to.morros. earewmeennerem•-• TM: Bat, el H Pitts* cunt metered publishing on Saturday morn. •Ing at halt-pest flee o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, Decimate a. 1024. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night. The French Fuside'hino fluctuated Atli tik s illconsequence of a large .failure 0w . .11111 fitOelt Esehauge, from the settle *eft of tifer , MAiski I P sisst ektootiv!4,•ddring which the fall ,„ • u t • • r w wail SO gees t• 14111 e. advance, believer, has been well ' 'Nenhiselsed, id.tis Five pee Cents closed at a higher' : 1 74trIes Mall ortO v prec . eding day since the commencement Aof the shins. The panic, it appears, is now spreading , era: the Continent. At Vieena, the Metalliques had de . . tined to bbj, and the depression was simultaneously felt .it Bamburgh, Augsburgh, and Frankfort. There will probe* yet be some further agitation before confidence be completely restored, and the capitalists of Europe will paeaeed witlttbeir business as heretofore. tribbe.Joornale of the Liberal Opposition are filled with utes in prose end poetry to the memory of General 1", or, A subscription has beta opened to raise c monument Tivielek ,isp*ln the cemetery of Pere is Chaise, with • kW' isesdption " Honour to General For." With the I aucpltte i landed estate is to be bought for his widow and . Attires: Among the subscribers are M. JACQUES LA _ . . :eters 80,000 f., M. BEN:AMIN DSLE!7Car co,ooof, M. 11113tgleetNX (a Swede) 10,000 f., M. T E SN•CX, 3 COO f., and Castreta Peewee 520,00 E. The Constitu t.onnel announces that on Thursday evening the whole sum °ejected exceeded 167,000 f. It has been suggested to cheoge the name of the rue de la Chaussi:e d'Antin, and call h henceforward Ia rue Foy, but this can be done only with the consent of authority. M. Mecerx, however, who has been building a passage from that street, which be Intended to call the passage d'Antin, has given notice of Lis Intention to style it la galerie Foy. No Frenchman has eve: been followed to his grave with more respect and tmerte. The Coerricr Francais contraelicts a report, published by the Arfstetrgee, that " serious troubles had broken out a: Port-au-Prince between the regroes and mulattoes, and that President Ilona, after having evacuated the capital, bad been compelled to solicit assistance from the Governor of Martinique." The object of the publication eaktilfestly to depreciate the Hayden loan. Advices kid been received at Havre from Port-au-Prince to the • 10th Of' October, In which no *Luskin is made to any of • e ;Use troubles. Egyptian expedition, which sailed lately from • -.Alexandria, has, it appears, been placed under the coo. Mend of theCartran PACHA. The V.711T1 are reasonably seen& szspicious of Elea emir Au's designs, and he uses to have had no alternative but to submit to this a--rang.tment, or at once openly to declare his revolt. The CAFITAN PAc eA, it is axed, inrited him to accompany the • ex?edition to some distance from the shores of Egypt, but :ilsnamer understands too well the stratagems of Turkish pel'cy to confide himself to the hands of an old personal err y. There is evidently telt a misunderstanding between the Ports end its powerful subject at Alexandria, that if any serioes misfortune should WA the C APITA:4 Pomo', armament, the Viceroy of ZO'iPT would gladly seize the • cecaort to deliver himself from the perilous state of uncer tainty in which he lien. In that cite he would necessarily become the ally of the Greeks. The Genoa Gazette men t:ons a report of the arrival of the Turco-Egyptian expedi- I tics at IsTiverfne ; but we suspect Cols wes a mere rumour, A • ••• we also consider the statements respecting the negotia - a:. • aloes between IslAana PA VIIA and COLOCOTRONI• The Greek Chief must'know that no faith would be kept with 11. Is iah', whit:ever might be the pledges he could obtain. He can be refs only while he can protect himself by erns. • The Moniker Eatea that the twenty-five millions of realm, the free gift of the Spanish Clergy, and the four et. r .Uer.e from the Duke lel Isrini *no, have leen:lily * •be paid into the royal treasury. In whet a singular al tuadon is tlia: monarchy, which is supported in this man ner, like our hospice:a. by voluntary contrihntins ! The itipsintinnt of M. ZeA to the Saxon Embassy is con • • Enned. , (From toe Journal de Paris of Prilay, Dee. 2.] N3Y. 2. • (Priers letter. Oct fts!l, which hod !teen, have resin deelizel. Tie Metal- j i L . v ; liven have been quoted at 9si. This decline is caused by that which has taken place at liamburgh, Augsburg, and Frankton. The maritime authorities of Trieste have transmitted hither the substance of the various act:aloft given them captains of merchantmen lately arrived from the Levant. it appears front then that the Cepitan Paths had succeeded ito fulfilling the Mien , tier* - of the Sultan, by inducing Mahomet Paths, atter.many solicitations, to place the Turkish Beet, lately equipped at Alexan dria, under the command of the Turkish Admiral. Thus this naval force hes tailed from Alexandria all at once, and not in di visions. The Viceroy witnessed the embarkation of the Egyptian ' 1 troops. It is affirmed that the Capitan Podia has strongly soli- I cited him to come on board hie Admiral's ship, and accompany the expedition to a certain distance. But Mehemet Ali thought fit to decline this invitation, his suspicious character lancing him to believe that, if he once went on board the Turkish Ad mirer* ship, he might very probably have to make a voyage to Conitactinople. In truth, his distrust is founded on the certain knowledge which he Lai acquired, by means of confidants, that the most influential members of the Divan are jealous of the in dependent authority which he exercises over one of toe most con siderable parts of the Ottoman empire. As for the great Greek fleet, immediately on the sailing of the Egyptian expedition from Alexandria, it retired from the coasts of Egypt and of the tale of Rhodes, and sailed towards the Mores. The Turkish and Egyptian fleet had arrived oflCandia, without accidert, there to wait a time before proceeding to the coast of the Morel. There is no news from that province. Ibrahim Pacha maintained his central position at Tripolims. [From the Quotidienne of Friday.] FnAtiNFOItT, Nov. n. We learn from Lemberg, in Galicia, that at the departure of the last courier salutes of artillery had been heard at Bonder, cm nouncing the arrival of the Emperor Alexander at Bessarabia. The Rospatiar of Moldavia has appointed two of the principal Boyanis ofJa-ty to compliment the Russian Monarch, as soon as notice has been received of his Majesty's arrival among his troops. hatever Inferences may have been drawn front the assembling of some Russian corps on this Pruth, it Is not believed that it has any other object than to observe the movements that may take place on the Moldavian frontier. GENOA, OCT. 24. If it is true that the Turkish Egyptian fleet has arrived safe at Navarion, it is not probable that the negotiations said to have been set on foot between Ibrahim Pacha and Colocotroni will have any favourable issue. The impossibility of saving Grerce by arms, chiefly on account of the internal dissen:ions, has induced Coloco troni to propose to Ibrahim Pacha to divide Greece into four provinces, each of which should have a Greek Hnspodar, nominated by the Sultan, to whom an annual tribute should be paid, tte. Ibrahim Pacba is said to have answered that be had no instruc tions on the subject, and that he would transmit this proposal to Constantinople and to Alexandria. Nevertheless, hostilities were not suspended. It is now asserted that the ani.wer of the Viceroy of Egypt has been favourable, which has not hindered him from sending to the Mores an expedition which Is still stronger than those that have preceded it. It may be readily foreseen what answer witl be given by the Divan at Constantinople...Xi:eve of • • I • .".• • (1 . 1 r t .• THE BR. • a_ PRICES It lo DR; Tll9l STOCKS 4)N SATUR DA Y. Mile Stock 214 : --- • ----' Leos Aso. 90 i 1.16 1 1?* 4 4N- god. lip tt • India Bend. 3 d is p ie I 'Veto itr7o: Booth Sea New Annuities Awe' P 41•1 i 1 i - pal Cent. 9 L B Ex. Biuk lid. Loon/ 87 641 i Ditto. per Cent.fted. 91/ 911/ j Ditto, SOW. 6 6 dii Smelt 11 6 dis aw 4 per Cent. shot Lottery Tickets IW. 199. - PIi;IFITIZAfigtIIIOO4 S'ilieks ON 8 ITI3 it DA V. Fran' Odoat - ' Presiett Rentes9 ri , x Ct. 63f. 40c. .Scrip...., ~ ..„...- „,,. r 4 lischanse24f. 10c. Mto A ett:111 'I - mg ow. -• • 'Greek Bonds ~ gy3oinVisit_jiotiOa Ditto DondstlC2s) 19 111 / 19 Ditto April 0624) 611 4 41 Metienti Bond. 60 2 If ik i 4 Ditto Bonds (1823)07i 01 7 ti Okla gll.t, cif/ 11 61 144,461 CI 6 1 4 . Danish onds In i 1 6 1 6 1 6 Ifittte7rlaMtome3 196' ' Peruvian Bonds 47 9 Ditto Bond, (1823)69' 4 ' Russian Dt.nds (1622)90/ kripett.ltentes Leer Ct.96r. 50e. Ditto Acct. 99 R9l -W. 95/. Wet' lit . ' . B Pan lllll C"l' 10 h E thongs 28f. 111 e. Ditto Aect.l6l P C R ..S ON SAftlit DAS.. ___ Genoa. [From the Etoik, dated Saturday. Dee. 31 PARIS, Dsc. 2. A failure for four milliot•.s, one of the roultabi the liquidation of November, gave grounds for fearing tbekihe decline would. continue. It has been otherwise; the foods eitirs kept up, and there even wss a tendency :n rise. Faestci FETXDS.—PARIS, Dkc. 2.—Fin per cents. opened at 96f ; closed Nat 95f. ; Three per Cents. opened ct 64f. 25c..; closed at 63f1 26e. ; Bank Stock, 2615 f. ; Neapolitan Rentes, 78f. 50e.; Royal Spanish Loan, 48f. Excha-ge on London—One Month, 44f. 95c. ; Three Months. 24f. 75c. —Coop, .434/antique The true principles of trade have been so fully illus trated of late years by the writings of the political Econo mist:, and the great questions of commercial philosophy have been so ably discussed, that the doily Press, if it contributes nothing to forward the progress of their labours, ought to he, at least, careful not to impede or counteract them. It is this which has made us the more ;solicitous to prevent, through this medium, the circulation of opinions tending to undo what they have done, and to pull dcwn what they have been at so much pains to build. Mill tit's view we have been induced from time: to time to bring under review the doctrines propagated by the Times, in order to prevent the erroneous conclusions to which they lead from being too hastily imbibed. We continue our remarks from the British Press of Saturdcy.—" How far the Haien," says that Journal, " may have lent its aid to encourage and stimulate the previous rage for speculation, which now recoils upon the whole paper world, it may nut be easy to decide."— No mode of attack on this great public Body can be more illi beral, or more unjust, than to charge it with having ma terially contributed to cause the pecuniary distress which has convulsed the mercantile world, and then to evade all proof of the fact under the pretence that the extent to which they have been thus accessary, is a point that " it may not be very easy to decide." Before this serious imputation was made, it ought first to have been shown that the Bank had abetted " the previous rage for speculation." It would no doubt have afforded strong prervmptke evidence, bad this accusing journalist shown the benefit which the Bank world have derived from encou raging all those chimerical projects, the failure of which has been attended with so much embarrassment. Can any ore undertaking be pointed out among the whole of them to which the Bank has given the aid of its funds? Not one. Whr.t ground is there then for thus seriously charging this great public Company with " having lent its aid to stimulate and encourage the previous rage for specu lation?" What confidence could the public at large repose in the wisdom or the integrity of the Directors, if they could be believed to have lent themselves to all those vi sionary speculations with a view to their own personal pro fit? Such a charge ought not to be lightly sent forth by any public journal, muck less by a journal which spreads the aspersion so widely. It is manifest to every man of reflection, that the BANK or ErrsL►ND, so far from hav ing an interest in encouraging that pernicious rage fur spe culation, which has ended so unhappily, had an interest— could it have interfered at all—in suppressing it. Can we for a moment suppose that, in common life, any man of property would furnish his prosnisseny note: to encourage the wild schemes of projectors who he previonsly leer were not able to fidfil their engagements? And yet this insanity is imputed to the Bank, and this, too, when then notes so issued were liable every day to come in upon them to be exchanged for gold and silver ! A charge so prepos terous carries with it its own refutation. • The Times proceeds thus :—" It seems obvious enough, that where a paper currency is convertible at the will of the holder into gold, an excess of papa cannot long con tinue to circulate through the country ; but ever since the Bill which authorised country banks to issue one-pound notes, there has existed much practical difficulty in obtain ing, at a great distance from London, any other description of money." Now we aver, without hesitation, that no nick practical dyNculty Furs existed. We will say a word or two on the subject of paper credit, • subject at all times. intricate to persona whose attention hat not been much turned to it. Paper is so much more convenient than gold or silver for all common purposes, that it will alwaylt he preferred, so long as the solvency of the firm eon:posing the banking establishment from which it issues is undoubted. That the Bill which enabled country bankers to issue one-pound notes would not at all increase the difficulty of obtaining " any other dtseriptior of money," may be readily tittron- " " ITISi. PRESS! stratrd. For if the credit of any particular Bank became eazperted, being liable to pay in cash, cash would instantly be demanded ; and either the demand mast be complied with or the Beak must stop payment. The moment any practical difficult!, was felt in procuring cash for the notes of any country Bank—at whatever dis:ance from London that Bank might lie—its credit would be gone. It cannot therefore be true diet the irsaeuf one-pound notes has Gent sioned any such difficulty as the Times has here stated. Aegis the reason assigned for the readiness with which country-bank paper is everywhere received, it is enough to say, that it is on a par with the rest of its statements. " The habit of accepting country bank-notes has been pretty general throughout England.; as much, perhaps, be cause few neighbours of a country banker would like to in cur his resentment, and so exclude themselves from his occasional courtesies in the way of business, u for any other reason." If any country banker should manifest any symptoms of inso/vency, however slight, we suspect he would receive very little courtesy from the holders cf his notes, on the *core of any displeasure they might chance to incur in de manding payment of them. It is unworthy of any public journalist to throw out such invidious and random asser tions when writing on a subject of such grave importance. It is quite obvious that the ready circulation of the notes of country bankers bring " pretty general throughout Eng land," is owing to no other wise than the confidence enter tained of their stability, and that colfiderce can only have arisen from the regularity with which their notes have been exchanged for cash v ::en required, and from the evidence thus furnished of the solidity-of the funds appropriated to the payment of them. We are next told that If the Government was unwise in passing the Small Note Bill, the Bank of England was equally indiscreet, and a great deal less disinterested, in its motives for prolonging the extended scale of discount after the course of the foreign exchanges ought to have warned the Directors that they had already passed the limits of commercial discretion. 'That the evil would, after a certain season, return upon the Bank Itself, was manifest; but the thirst of immediate profit was an overmatch, as it is too frequently, for the calcutationa of common sense, and the Directors are now reaping the fruits of their indulgence of a short-sighted cupidity." This writer has manifestly no very distinct conception of his own meaning. The policy of the Legislature in passing the Small Note Bill has no connection with the principle, whatever it might be, that governed the Bank discounts ; no inference drawn from the one can therefore be applied to the other. To accuse the Directors • of •' prolonging the extended scale of discount" from in terested motives, is to use terms not merely ambiguous, but =intelligible. We will assume it to mean that the - Bank issued in the way of discount a much greater quan tity of notes titan it ought to have done, and that in doing -this it was governed by interested motives. Now we would - ask this writer how he can reconcile this assertion with what immediately 'Mims it, when he says, " that the Mil -would. after/I:mous season, return upon the Bank itself, was manifest?" These assertions negative each other. Every one at all acquainted with the theory of paper circulation knows well, that if there is an over-issue of paper, the excess will return to be eAchunged for gold. To charge the Bank Directs with increasing their dis counts to excess from interested motives, while the evil of se doing was manifest, is an inconsistency so glaring, that we may well dismiss it withoutfluther comment. What follows is in that style of vulgar scurrility which the Times is so apt to employ as the circulating medium of its opinions : `As fur relief from the Krecs's Government, we can tell the speculating people, and their great foster mother in Threadneedle-street, that they will meet with nene—ne, roil a particle—of the species of relief which they look for. The KING'S Ministers know very well the causes of the evil, and the extent of it, and its na tural and appropriate remedy; and we may venture to fore warn the men of paper, that no such help as they are seek ing will be contributed by the State. An inundation of Bank-notes has aimed at overflowing the real capital of the kingdom. Lord Ltvenrooe, thercfre, will think a long time before he does any thing to countenance that original mischief, under pretence of curing it. Hs will not throw more Government paper on the market. He will not coun tenance the Bank in an attempt to keep afloat the paper with which society is now infested, by any protective mea sure there will not he, we can vouch for it, another Bank Restriction Act, for which some persons closely connected with the Stock Exchange are beginning, we perceive, to clamour ; the worst of our sufferiags, in what regards a forced circulation, and famine pri'cs, take their date frets 1797. The evils that new ixset us, of inordinate specu lation bringing after it-inevitable ruin, might, without much difiicelly, be traced to the same point of time. Yet a repetition of the -same dreadful measure would now, by some knaves, no doubt, he called a liberal' policy, on the part of his Mests-v's Ministers." The parties to whom this ill-considered language is ap plied may very safely disregard it ; such forbearance can be no imputation on their courage; but when tills sapient Journalist talks of—en :NUNDATTON of Bank-notes aiming to omerion. 5031 capital,—we think they are fairly en titled to call for an caplunat;on. CITY, SATURDAY EVRYINO. The Comm% Market was not po buoyant to-day as yes terday, which may he accounted for in rome degree' by the cire;:mstance that very Lute:lnkiness was doing, and. o by the report that two more West Country Banks had sunpend:d payments. Consols at the commencement of v:cre S for the Account; they subsequently de clined to 1, and left off at it, Excllrqu,r Bills were Gs. discount, and India Bonds at par._ The transactions in Foreign Securities were not nu merous, and the quotations were affected by the depression in the English Funds. -Colombian Bonds were 641} ; Mexican Six per Cents, 116/1; Guatemala Scrip, 11, 10, dia.; Brazilian ditto 11, 10 dim; Spanish Bonds 151; Greek ditto 194 19; Danish ditto, 61 62. The money market is very much improved, and loans were easily ob tained this morning on-the Stock Exchanges at three per cent., and eves upon these terms tliere were more lenders t han borrowers. The establishments to which we refer in the Wtat of England, as having suspended their pay. ments, are a bank at Ashburton and another at Totness. In other times the fact would scarcely hare been known beyond the immediate precincts of them small towns, Br the !liminess of a banks in either of them must be upon a very limited scale; but such is the feverish state of the Stock Markets at present, that every mole-hill is magnified Into is mon»tain. In short, they are in the condition of a convalescent who has been suffering under a severe malady. upon whos^ frame the must trifling circumstance of an untoward nature hos an unfasourable effect. the leading Snick of Saturday, for " compotitien to Capitalists, read —c•mr putition uf Ca pi la'ists. rs. ROTA!. MINT. On Friday, his Majmny's stag-hounds turned out a fine deer at Longford, where there was a numerous field of sportsmen assembled to enjoy the diversion. The deer, itt starting, showed great sport, taking to the left by Ar lington and Cranford, to the left of Hounslow by West End and Sandmen. crossing the Uxbridge road to the left of Harrow-on-the-Hill, keeping towards Statimore and Watford in Hertfordshire, and was at last taken in Hartfield Park, near Rickinersworth, after a',ove two hours and a half hard running it is supposed the titer ran fifty miles, and was 26 miles from home at the close of the chase. The Earl of Liverpool left his residence at Whitehall, on Friday, for Coombe Wood. The Chancellor of the Exchequer a-d Lady Sarah Ro binson entertained a select party to ditmer, on Friday, at their house at Beckenham. Mr. Huskisson left town, on Frisl<ty evening, far Lis sent in Sussex. Don J. Hurtatlo, the Colombian Minister, transacted business for a considerable time, on Saturday. with Mr. Secretary Canning, at the Foroign-olnee, Downing street. We regret to learn, that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slightly indisposed, at his Palace, is Lambeth. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, family and suite. are not expected at Portsmouth to embark in the Herald yacht, for the Mediterranean, until the question of the Deccan prize-money has been ducided.—lfinn /Aire Telegy a ph. Letters from St. Petersburgh of the 9th and 12th No vember, state that his Majesty's ship Glasgow, Hon. Cart, Mande, arrived at CronFtatit on the Saturday afternoon previous, with his Exc-•Honey Lord Strangfbrd and smite: His Excellency went to St. P•:tersbutgh on the following Monday. • Lord Yarborough, who visite,l Cork, Gibraltar, and Lis bon, in the Albion, returned home in the Superb, with Sir Thomas Staines. Lord Charles Somerset wilt return home, from the Cape' of Good Hope (on leave of absence) upon the arrival in that colony of Lieutenant-Governor Bourke.—Hampshire Tele , graph. It is announced in the higher circles, that \fr. Stuart Wortley, jun. the son of the Member for Yorkshire, is about to be united in a matrimonial connexion with Lady Georgina Ryder, the daughter of the Earl of Harrowhy Lady Harrowhy has fur some time been in London, giving directions relative to the splendid dresses and other preva -1 rations fer the approaching ceremony, which will be per formed at his Lordship's seat, at Sandon, in Stafferd shire. Both Lord and Lady Harrowby leave town for Sandon in a few days. AFFAIR or HONOUR AT Di/SUN.—We copy the fol lowing from an evening paper. There have been many other versions of the same affair, which has been a good deal the subject of conversation during the last two or three days:—" It is stated, that in consequence of some allusions made by Mr. O'Connell at the Association, in which he attributed Mr. Leyne's renunciation of Popery to a wish on the part of that gentleman to inflict pain on Lis aged parent, Mr. Leync in the course of Tuesday evening sent a message to Mr. O'Connell. Mr. O'Connell, it is said, declined the message, and stated that he was held in heavy recognizance. Mr. Leyne's friend pressed for an answer, and fixed an hour for a second intemew with Mr. O'Connell. The result is stated to he, that Mr.O'Connell, midi. the circumstances in which he is placed, declined re c: icing the message. It is further alleged that his son (Mr. Maurice O'Connell) had sent to Mr. Eerie to say, that he was ready to receive any communication from him tonchirg his (Mr. Leyne's) misunderstanding with his father. Mr. Leync is said to have declined this proposal, alleging he had no cause of quarrel with Mr. Maurice O'Connell. In this state, it is said, the matter rests."— Dahlia Morning Post of PriG'ay. MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF IRELAND.—The Irish Raman Catholic Prelates are to as setnble in Dublin on the 18th January in the approaching year. It is not alone, we understand, the affairs of reli gion that will occupy the attention of the Right Rev. Per sonages, though these, of course, will experience their soli citude ; but, if our information he correct, other matters of considerable importance will be discussed. In the pre sent state of the Catholic Question, a meeting of this dis tinguished body, if at all connected with the political con dition of the people, must he regarded as an important event. —Southern Reporter. A very rich and splendid stained glass window, which has been executed by a lady of high rank and fashion, under the immediate stirecti•nr and superintendence of Mr. Buckler, is now on its way to the north, and is intended to adorn Lowther Castle, tie seat of the Earl of Lonsdala. The design is very ornamental, principally composed of heraldry, introducing the Order of tae Garter around two immense shields, richly emblazoned with the Lowther arms. There is also some beautiful Gothic tracing iu the three principal compartments, into which the window is divided, and the whole is surrounded by a splendid Gothic bordering of foliage, red, green, and gold.—Carlisle hint. We are sorry to say, that a mercantile house at Gemer sal, in this neighbourhood, of long standing anti great re spectability, but wholly unconnected with any banking concern, has stopped paynnent.—Leeds Paper. The commercial embarrassments in the money market in London, and in some of the southern counties in England, have preduetl a great sensation in every part of the king dom. In Yorkshire the shock has been felt, but not se verely. Money, indeed, is scarce, and trade flat here, as clesewhere, but commercial credit on the whole stands firm, and we are looking for the revival of trade soon after Christmas with considerable confidence. The mania for speculation in foreign stocks, mina, &c. which has proved so disastrous in London, never reached this pint of the country to any great degree, and of the twenty-five milliois of pounds sterling embarked in those speculations, and principally sent nut of the country, Yorkshire has not, we dare venture to say, contributed one-thousandth part, al though this county contains a twentieth part of the popu lation, and possesses an equal proportion of the wealth of the kingdom.—Lerds Mercury. On account of long and excessive rains on Sunday night and Monday the rivers Eden and Caldew rose to a great height on inesilay morning, overflowing all the low grounds through which they pa ssed , . but did little damage, except at the works of Davison a banks for supplying the canal with water. The dam banks and ore or two of the bridges were partially injured, and a portion of the sluice stone-wotk gave way, but the whole may be repaired without much expense. On Wednesday a sharp frost commenced, which continued with a biting blast from the south-east till this morning, when there was a partial fall of snow, and sleet. All the mountains are perfectly white. —Carlisle Putriot. It is at the Sessions House, in Westminster, that all the weights and measures arc scaled and marked before they are delivered fur public use. This operation com menced. on Friday with the new weights and measure made according to the directions of the Act of Parliament passid last Session. DISTASSED WORIOIEN AT 13kADFORD..—LBSit Monday evening an adjourned meeting, for the relief of the unem ployed workmen and their families, in Bradford and the neighbourhood, was held at the Court-house. It appeared from the reports that several hundreds were in a situation that ;called for the symrathy of the inhabitants, although the number so circumstanced was proved, by these re ports, to he entailer than at onetime believed.—Leeds Mer cury. Pool Ravea.—A Supplemental Appendix to the Re port of the Select Committee on the Poor Rase Returns, containing an account of the money expended for the maintenance and relief of the poor, in every parish, town. ship, or other place in England and IVales, for the three year, ending March ES, 1822, 1823, and 18g4 respectively, has just been printed by order of the House of Commons.. This Appendix exhibits the following gratifyin; results:— Tout/ of %Vales ; ytars 1822. 1823. 1824. crding2sth March ..0230,449 2 . £238,404 . 0a9..748 18 Total of Eogland ; years ending - 26th March 152,233 9 - 6,04.954 . 6.437.149 4 Total of Webs 4.419 2 . 238.404 . 239,748 18 Total of England al.d Wales 48,358,702 I - 6,772,958. 6,736,W3 2 COVENT-GARDEN THEATi A pretty light sort of operetta in two acts, yid, t h e centric title of " 'Tsar I,' less produced at this then., Saturday night. It is a translation from the French, A possesses all the characteristics usually found in the dreerre tic productions of our mercurial neighbours. s oy , pleasant situations, agreeable dialogue, and a sufficies of delightful singing by Madam Vistris in the prk, character, carried the piece through the ordeal of first representation with applause, and procured it I honour of a re-announcernt ut amid lively demonstrarioni &aid:lc:ion on the part of . b e audience. It were an st inis'ng a butterfly to enter into an 'analysis of the pl ot such a trifle as tl.is ; in whlcli, if there is some malfuns lion and an abandonment of the nice rules of proporri p. there is also enough of liveliness and motion to insure ; approbation of all persons " to be pl eased th know rot how, an d care not wherefore." Madame Vestris finds a character well suited toter st y of acting and singing in Georgrite, an amiable prude. possesses a (looted admirer in Ilforerl (Keeley), a n d • about to receive a crown of r oses a p po i nted by a certsi, March!oness, as a re ward for the most prudent and vin. tuotur damsel of the village, when a sort of female P o t Pry in the person of alta , lante Mae (Mrs. Davenport) slip in and dirpotes poor Georgette . ' title to the prise, oe s ground of alleged indiecretions. By the contrivance p &forme (Duruset), the charge, for which there was beu e alight foundation, falls to the ground, and Geoei r k, erowueel with the garland of virtue, and, like " a vire sou woman," becomes " a crown to her husband." " Madame Vestris, as has been already intimated, p et formed the heroine with . great animation ar.d arche s Her mode of singing the following song, which was * cored, possessed the same beauties as her acting.— Oh ! where's the harm of a little kiss ? One, one—only one? And I'm sure my heart never went with this; Eat, e'en if it had, I can't seir what there is So very amiss in a little kiss__ One, one—only one ! If the young man offered you a kiss—. . One, one—only one ! now cruel 'twonl.l be to take it amiss Or if it were stolen. I can't see what there is ' So very amiss Ins little kiss— One, owe—only one! Miss Jones was extremely lively in a bustling lady (Julienne), wife to the farmer Drinrme, and Mem Mak. that 'Pry in petticoats, wee admirably sustained b Mrs. Davenport. Duruset had but little to doh' Drisirs, hut that little }mad well. Keeley, on whom (in tone, with Midatne Vestris) the whole weight of the pieced,, volved, deserves the highest praise, and received stn.% testimonials,of the delight experienced by the audience. In the course of the piece there is some pretty music Mr. Watson, anti scenery by Messrs. Grieve; and on tht whole we are dispoced to conti,ler it a light and agreetlis trifle, likely enough to grow into a favourite as an afte. piece. MISS KELLY'S LADY TEAZLE. Some of the papers having censured Wa Kelly form. dertaking tie part of Lady Teazle, it has been deemed a: act of justice to cmasnunicate to us the Mowing letters, the first adereised by that lady to the stage-manage, previously to her consenting to undertake the dm*, and the second antssequentlyto her performing it:— (No. I.) Henrietta-street, Noveniber, rt. DEAR Srn—l read Lady Tcazk last night, and again ti morning. e.:th great attention. Ido not see the slightest dilloaln In myself in performing the part--my view of her charaeter is stll tt.e same. She appear.. to me any thing but 2,1111E14y ; indeed, there is no , a single line In the w hol e play which describes he either as a b:autiful or an efejsret ,Iroman; but, on the minim'. an having been, six months Wort, ails) of limited education sad of the most homely habits. Now, if I could reconcile It to my common sense that each s person could aceplire the fashionable e'egance of high life in u short a period, I hope it is ro lain boast to say, that haring had the good fortune to be received for years past into society far abort my rank in life ; and having, therefore, had the best oppordunl:iesed obseryirg the manners of the best meteors. I meet he a ad bungle!, in my art if I could not at leant convey some notion of those man. ners in the p2rsonation of Jody Teaale; but this, I repeat, It contrary to my common-sente.view of her character: still th town has been so long accustomed to consider her, through the presentation of Mien Firm' and all her successors in the part is this and no other light, that I should really tremble to attempt a simple reading of her character, from the dread of drateing o myself a severity of criticism which I have ever bad the Jbartzs to escape,. and perhaps a censure from the public, V have hitherto received me witt so much kindness, as cat eerie; I have never ventured beyond the limits of my hum abilities. After saying so much, I must leave it to the brads who have sugge-ted this hazard to me, to detenr. whether the business or the theatre in in such a poen* as to mei the tff , it (as ntial to its interests. In which nap, and in sis case alma., I could be induced, tl•ongll with fair sad tremblir; Lot "by prnicular &she," to put un feathers and white ut. acid make a tool of mys..lr. I out, dear Sir, four obedicr.t faithful servant, F. M. KELLY. To the Stage Manager, Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. (No. II.) DEAR Sta—ln my great anxiety to aveertain how far I was " in my anticipation of the consequences of my playing Lady Tot I have ventured to look at all the papers this morning; acd, thou the generality or them are highly Catering and indulgent, yet dit. arc two which (an indeed I expected would have been the race vi• all) accuse me of folly and presumption in undertaking dud rseter : there apricots also to have been b feeling (which is trennely painful to me,) that Alm. Davison has been diariact. for my advancement to one of her characters. Now, as cannot tell them, what you told me, that Mrs. Davison Ins given up . the part ; and that you have presaed me agsim wy own Judgment into the performance cf it. I do hope sod request' that you will take the trouble in write a line to cis Editors of the IWonsing Herald and the New Tlstn to wanness me from the charge of having sought to obtrude myselt as lii Public in a character which is entirety' out of my line, end abed I neve: Was ambitious to fill. -- • -- - - I 3111, tear Sir, your obedient faithful servant, F. M. KELLY To the Stage Manager, Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. We are authorised to state, in contradistinction to nervation in a morning print of Friday, that klin Kelly. instead of thrusting herself into the part of Lady Trade, absolutely refusedto act it; she at legth was prevailed on to wave her own opinion by a kind feeling to the theatre, and admire to add novelty and strength to the cast. he English stage is likely to lose Mr. T. P.Conke for I while. That gentlemen has, we understand, accepter! 311 engagement from the manager of the Theatre Pont Martin, at Paris, where he is to come out as the Norte. In Frankenstein. As the novel is remarkably popular France, the success of the melodrame is considered Nladame Catalani has lately given a concert nt (fr. which was honoured by the present , :. of their tiar.le l Majesties. The air which is said to have produc greatest effect was the English national anthem, "u save the King," adapted to Italian words. REPRESENTATION OF YORKSHIRE.—The mattri.2l3`. a contested election in Yorkshire are fast BCCUMULIE 4 At a Meeting held in Beverley, last week, Mr. Betlit:. I rawer to a dignified invitation to allow himself to he, :nnomination, as a candidate , at the next grnerci elm non, declared his intention to off r himself; and , consequence of a similar request made to Mr. re tayne Wilson, by certain freeholders of the West Ihel!r-1 enemies to the Catholic Claims, he has declared hinne4 candidate for the representation of the county. OP } ,r day a meeting of gentlemen, " who are solicitous ti some of the representatives of this county, in the Cr.; ing parliament, should be decidedly opposed to am turo concessions to the Roman Catholics, was hell the George Inn, in York," when it was ellenenel to present a requisition to Mr. William Pentr::% of buncombe - park , inviting him also to come fault. , a candidate..making, with the present tnembers and Morpeth, six candidates, out of which the freeholders to return four. Of these half-dozen gentlemen, 1. 9 namely, Mr. Wortley. Mr. Bethel, Mr. Wilson, sad • buncombe, are tories in politics, the two former bt:' understood, to be in favour, and the two latter in ore , lion to the Catholic (+dine. The Whig candidates 1 ; Lord Milton and Lord Morpetit, and the contest, s should ever come to that crtastrophe, is expected to toot rather upon what i s called the Cathalic question than general politics.—Leeds Mercury. The Basilisk cutter, Lieutenant Bough, is board :peck, at the Tower, for the us:: of Ireland. ; tit iln ek. 0, _