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~. ~, ~~ ?RICER 09 BRITISH STOCKS YESTERDAY. I Stock 209 202 India Stock Cent. Rod. ;9} 80 79i Ditto Acct. 230 1 Ditto Bead. 55 AO 'Nail Conx. Ex. Bills 10.1.001. 30 36 32 : 2 6 i II i i Adis Ditto. 3001. 13 13 19 Ells 4. “ sei Ni 971 Ditto , Small 3 9 dis IA I 111 Lottery Tickets or I,olt.rifiN Aub li t u arA Ilksai 111TOOK6 YBBTBNI►A V. ikroaeh Rant es 3 per Ct. 621'. 696. lashings 25f. 15c. Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1825) 14 16 Uultstriala Honds Ditto Scrip 15 13 dis Mexican Bonds Ditto Bonds (1C25) 58 94 I 9 604 60 1 604 I)itto Aest. 59 4 9 61 59 60 a 1 Peruvian Roods 42 43 Portuguese Bonds 78 94 8 Prussian Bonds 90 Russian Bonds (1852) 85 j 4 Spanish Cons. 13i 3 14 12t Ditto Aect. 141 131 ti. _ bit 44 Strip a 90 18 di. nonce A yrirs Boads 72 1120114 a Bends 51 allipubiaa Bonds U 4 V. Amt. 83 Mile Roads (1824)&8 7 II 9 8 _ fle Lois Aott. 17 8i 8 9 8; 80 Mt 4 4 %1 96 Melo Boodo ( 18'25) 48.1 heath Roues b per Ct. 911.92 f. 113 g. *. sir. li ll 7 -1 0n00 —. 2 . 01:23e. Me. 20e. 10e. mucus OF ARES V E.STEHDA • •satxts. Share. Paid. Premium per Sbare. A gee- lienteno k 00 3 24 AnsoeXtddias 1 2 Jig par 1 dis caoseßna ropiritoSanto Brazil 100 6 1 dis t'obalt and Copper 100 1 1 25 24 1 Cis retool, La Pas, and Peruvian SO 6 2 nis Vaited Mexican Pius New 4O 10 3 Wash Iron and Coal 25 20 Si f dis ASSUILIOICt COUPAWICI. Alliance British and Foram) lOO 10 14 Protector Fire YitacEt.l.•vtious• 1171tish Rock and Patent Salt 10 6 Brititb Annuity Pres% Westminster Dairy l5 0 Provincial Bank of Ireland dii dis (hi *gite ri i IVreoo. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This Evening, FRIDAY. Dec. w1:1 be performed the Rumantie Diem. of FAUSTI'S. Faaenes, Mr. Wallace; Wagner. Mr. Harley; Mephletophllea. Mr. J. Russell. RUGUIIIL, Mita I. Paton: Adine, Miss Graddom After which the Dlvertisement of THE CAMP. Principal Dancers, Mr. and Mre. Noble, &c. To conclude with the Extravaganza of GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Den Giovanni, *1 Cuh4tl Leporello, Mr. If c-ley. To-morrow, Leocadea, and The Sleep-Walker. - - - ('OPENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This Evening, FRIDAY, Dec 16, Will be perforated the new Play of THE THREE STRANGERS. Ti.• principal Characters by Masers. Warde, C. Rerrble, Cooper, Bartley. and Blanchard ; Mesdames Chatterley and Glover. After which the Operatic Piece of 'T WAS 1. 'she erinsipal ChAreeNde by Messrs. Durueet. Keeley. Evans, and Barites; YIMJaYe Madame Seattle, and Mrs. Davenport. 4,l4l.thids With the new Pim of THE IC SPE-GOAT. lb. CEINIkt V W. Blanchard, Cooper, IT. Farris's, and ; Misses Junes and A. Jones. Testurow. The !Urals. sad 'Twu I. te rim Pasts connustesd publishing yesterday owning at flys ts'eLck. LONDON, FRIDAY, Dscrxisa 16. MS. • At an early hoer yesterday morning the Earl of Liven :ow. and the Cmancrttos of the EICHLQCr.a arrived in town from their eauatry teeidenees, and at twelve o'clock held a consultation 4.llMitoble Earrs house in Whitehall with some official gintl4Wit. upon the alarming state of the monied interest or capitalists of the country, particularly the bankers of London. At three o'clock a Cabinet Connell was held at the F:ireip-office, summating for which were issued on Wed neatly evening, by order of the Earl of LivearooL, after the Nobk Earl's interview with the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. The sumitonses were despatched by messengers to those Members of the Cabinet who were at suflleiendy short distances from the metropolis ti be in time to attend the Council, particularly those con versant with financial afrairs; and, considering the season of the year, a tolerably numerous assemblage of the Minis ters took place. There were present the LOAD CH ANCE L- Loa. the Earl of Livitarow., the Crinarczt.con of the . EIC/NAQUr R, Mr. Peat, Mr. CANNING, Mr. HUSEISION, Lord Mer.vrire, Lord BEILIY, and Mr. IVrarN. The ('abinet Council sat in close deliberation till half-past five o'clock. At the breaking up of the Cabinet Council the Earl of Livtaroor. and the Cmastcsecoa of the EXCHEQUER went to the Right Hon. Gentleman's office in the Treasury, where the Governor end Deputy Governor of the Bank of England were in waiting to receive them, having left the Bank at five o'clock. The Ministers communicated to the Governor and Deputy Governor the result of the delibera tions of the Cabinet Council, which had occupied their special attention two hours and y half. The deliberations of the Ministers and the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank lasted upwards of half an hour. Afterwards the Governor and Deputy Governor returned to the Bank of England, to report to the Directors the communication which they had received from the Fresr LOAD of the TREASURY and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHICIUKR, as to the malt of the proceedings of the Cabinet Council. The Earl of Livearooe afterwards left town, in his travelliog chariot and four, for Coombe Wood, near Kings.. ton, Surrey. The CuaNceccoa of the Exchequers left town for his house at Beckenham, Kent. Times could not suffer even the Mansion-house . pass without taking occasion to throw in the discord, and to bring all those efforts into sus which have for their object the restoration of com confidence, and arresting the ruinous progress of groundless alarm which it bad taken so much pains to vimesmiserte, end width tt tttlydll eqted pliWto keep up. step is to militate the purport 6f the Resolutions Watt moved by Mr. BAILING, and unanimously Car ; which were as follow: That the unprecedeeted sotarrassinson sod difficulties V& the eireulatien of the country at present labours are Greetridatuf b e gewevelpewie,for whisk there are leo smolt ; that this Meeting has the fullest confidence In sad substance of the banking establishments of the ea , A. emote,, and they believe that the acting generally theteimlideme would relieve all these symptoms of distress show themselves is a shape se ala►ming to the timid, M these who are forced to sacrifice their property to demands upon them, which it is no imputation upon jaggiest sad prudence not to hare element. It it having bean stated to this Meeting that the Dime- Bask of England are occupied with the remedy for a things so mfirsordinary, this Meeting will refrain from any with the esessures of the Directors of the Bank, who, satielled, will de their duly towards the public. baring the rimmed confidence in the stability of the et the country, we dealers our determination to sup / utmost of our power." advice suggested by Mr. Bastimo, and embodied lations,"says the 7 nisei, in its leading article of , " might eettainly, if acted upon by the mer the metropolis, tend to relieve and lighten the eviL That advice, and those resolutions, are in the country has the greatest confidence in die salablishments—chef 'sort., will tArrefore dierniss twat panic, and will eisteit presenting hi* . • 'for payment more than at other times." Now it will be seen that the meeting, being assembled to deliberate on the best means of relieving the unprecedented embarrassments of the country, began by ascribing those einbarassinents to their cause, " a general panic, for which there was no reasonable grounds;" but they did not resolve, as the Times here represents them to have done, " that people will dismiss their present panic"—for, u 113 body of men can answer but for themselves, such a preposterous reso lution, had it been passed, must expose them to ridicule, and this wits the effect intended by the misrepresentation. Neither was it at all resolved that the etortz —" will ab stain from presenting bills for payment more than at other times." 1 here is no phrase in the resolutions which ad mits of any such interpretation. As far as the public ex pression of their undoubting confidence " in the means and substance of the banking establishments" might have the effect of rallying the public mind, and inducine others, by their example, to have the same faith in their stability which they themselves reposed, the object of the meet ing was attained. To hold them up to the public as re solving that the people at large—for whose will we all know they could not be responsible, and for whose nets they could not answer—would refrain from presenting their bills for payment, is to represent the meeting as composed of persons devoid both of common information and of com mon sense ; since there is no man at all acquainted with mercantile concerns who does not know that all Bills, if due, must be presented for payment, or the holder will become liable. To represent a public meeting of the prin cipal Merchants as passing in effict such resolutions as those which the Times describes them to have done, serves to show to what an excess a public journal may carry its malevolence when it has a purpose to cover. The meeting itself is next aspersed. To deny its usefulness at this eventful moment would not do ; to pestion the cha racter, uprightness, or ability of the Merchants com posing it, would not have done either. It was so ma nifestly calculated to dissipate that dismay which had so rapidly spread itself over the country, and which threatened in its progress the extinction of our prosperity as a com mercial people, that openly to have reprobated it would have betrayed the spirit and discovered the machinations of the party. The Times, therefore, artfully shifts the odium of objecting to it from itself, by raising it as from another quarter. The public are told that " the BANKIMS of real solid credit are nifimded at ;it. They want no such meet ing ; they consider it as an unnecessary interference in their affairs; they call for no consideration at the hands of their customers, which at last they never would obtain to any important degree." We are entitled here to ask for proof. When the first merchants of wealth and character in London assemble to devise the speediest and best means of putting a stop to a train of calamity that makes every man in the king dom stand aghast—when Banking-houses, hitherto of the greatest eminence, are stopping payment, one after another, and involving thousands in wretchedness and ruin—when this deplorable state of things is known to arise, not from any failure in their funds, but by the utter stagnation of all public credit, and the sudden and exces sive run upon them, occasioned by an alarm spread by means of the public press into every quarter of the king dom, which alarm, although entirely unfounded, yet hav ing more or less infected the whole country, is rapidly sweeping away all the resources of public credit, and burying all the securities of property, and all its substantive funds, in one common ruin—is the Times warranted in affirming of the meeting thus assembled—thus imperi ously called for, that—the BANE sits of real solid credit are nfj►ended at it ; that they want no such meeting; and that they denounce it as an unnecessary interference in their affairs? What! to turn aside, if possible, the distress which is fast extending itself over every class of society, and threatening to bring down the whole fabric of our commerce—do the Bankers, of all men, take offence at this, as an unnecessary and uncalled-for interference in their affairs? Away with the base insinuation. It is a glaring and slanderous falsehood. Every man who has the spirit and principles of an Eng lishman, will hail the ardour and activity with which the Merchants of London, with the Bank Directors at their bead, have devoted themselves to the removal of those embarrassments in which the interests of all classes—from the highest to the lowest—are so deeply involved. What is the cold, apathetic, unsympathising language which the Times holds upon the occasion ? " As to the Bank of' England, it must look is itself anti its Proprietary: it is an establishment of business, and must conduct its affairs on the principles of business. What would be said to the Directors hereafter, if they should be found to have plunged their concern ir.to embar rassments, and should say in their excuse, that soft pity had moved their hear is—that they had listened with sym pathy to this tale of wo, and that history of distress, and let the INSOLVENT BANKERS of town and country run away uith their assets?" We have bete the tone of Conzurr, undisguised and unqualified. It is no uncommon thing in the intrigues of party, that those who are bitter enemies to each other be fore the curtain should be sworn friends behind the scene. There are those—and they are not few in number—who look to the destruction of public credit through the depre ciation of our paper currency, as the sole pathway to the object at which they aim. The panic, which the party has been so successful in creating, promised at least a chance of making this great nation the instrument grits own internal rain. There is, however, yet enough of firmness, and wis dom, sad fortitude, left In the great body of the British people to foil the daring attempt when they shall discover the design that lurks under it. That design has long since been visible to many, and the organ of the party brings us every day better acquainted with the character and views of the enemy. CITY, Tftt7llllDAY EVININS. To that portion of the public (and we should apprehend that it is a very large and important one) which has duly appreciated the firmness and liberality of the London Merchants and Bankers in all periods of great public peril, whether of a financial or political description, we need scarcely state, that the highly respectable meeting of yes terday at the Mansion-house, comprising as it did men of the first consideration in the City, held for the express purpose of checking the wild and disastrous panic which has afflicted the mercantile world in a degree for many weeks, but which, during the last seven days, has threat ened destruction to the most opulent establishments, was attended with the best possible effect. It has already checked the fears of the timid, and blighted the hopes of the mischievous. This latter class wu emphatically com pared by an eminent Banker, this morning, to a snake gnawing a file: for their efforts, even with the 7'imes Journalist rounding the trumpet of alarm at their head, have been ineffectual in preventing the restoration of confi dence; and a bitter disappointment was experienced by them at the announcement and result of the public meeting which has produced such excellent effects. In the present . - • 4 THE BRITISH PRESS. instance, it probably opented more powerfully than any previous meeting ever had the opportunity of doing ; be cause this assembly, representing so large a share of the wealth, integrity, and respectability of the City, had nut to contend against a panic arising from external circumstances, when all that could be done was to endeavour to strengthen confidence by rezommentlations of patience and forbeare ance, as was the case in IRO and other periods during th war ; but it had to meet and rebut an alarm that arose ou t of circumstances that were comparatively, at least, unde r the control of the leading bankers and met chants of the City ; for, as Mr. T. Wilson truly observed, the embarrass ments were caused, in a great measure, by banking and other establishments holding securities to an enormous amount, that were not immediately convertible into cash. This was readily assented to, and a declaration of confi dence by the principal houses of the City was con sidered all that was necessary to ally the ferment ; and the altered appearance of affairs on the Royal Ex change and Stock Exchanges showed how accurate was 'the prediction, for confidence appeared restored to day in a manner that the roost sanguine could scarcely have anticipated. The business in the Consols Alarket was by no means so heavy 8, it has been for several days past, and it was conducted with a degree of regularity, or rather an absence from agitation, that has not recently been experienced in the Stock Markets. Console opened at 821 f ; but the failure of a very respectable broker's firm, and the report of that of one or two mercantile cstabliah ments, had the effect of depressing them to but a re action afterwards took place, and they left off at The Reduced Annuities were done at 79f 80 791 80f1. — Exchequer Bills were 303. ets. dis. The settlement in the Toreign Market was the only business attended to amongst the brokers and jobbers there. With the exception of the house we have alluded to above, no defaulter was declared, and the balances were not heavy. The following prices were reported : Spanish Bonds 131 ; Greek ditto 14, 16; Danish 38, 9; Colombian ditto 384 9 ; Mexican ditto 60& Brazilian Scrip 17 13 dis. ; and GuateMala ditto IS 13 dia. Money was quite plentiful, and South American Stocks so scarce that the Bears of them were obliged to borrow them to deliver, particularly Colombian Bonds. The Bank has been extremely liberal in doing all the y can to alleviate the distress, by lending money on Stock , Exchequer Bills, and even Bills of Exchange. This conduct, in addition to the effects of the meeting yesterday, has prevented the Bankers from experiencing any incon venience to-day. Everett's house is expected to resume its payments, as is also the establishment of Wentworth and Citaloner. 'f he stoppage of the bankinn•-houre of Sir Walter Stirling, in the Strand, caused but little sensation cast of Temple-bar. We trust that we may now congratulate the public upon this frightful consternation having for the most part passed away, and that business in a few days will in sonic degree resume its wonted serenity, although the effects of it must be felt for some time. It has been reported, that it is the intention of his Ma jesty's Ministers to assemble Parliament early in the eu suing month. IYe can state, that there is nu foundation for this rumour. The Mansion-house was crowded yesterday with mer chants of the first respectability, all eager to sign the reso lutions entered into on Wednesday by the Lord Mayor, Bankers, &e. public notice being affixed in front of the Mansion-house that it lays for signatures relative to the late failures, &c. We are extremely sorry to learn that the old and re spectable firm of Sir Walter Stirling, Bart., Stirling, and Hodson, of the Strand, were obliged to suspend their pay ments yesterday. We have good authority, however, for stating, that they will eventually pay twenty shillings in the pound. We understand that all the notes of Messrs. Seward, !Tetley, and Co. hankers, Salisbury, will now be paid at Messrs. Barclay, 'fritton, and Co.'s, bankers, Lom bard-street. We omitted to state, that on the day when Messrs. Williams And Co. suspended their payments, Messrs. Cooper and Co., of Bridgnorth and Wenlock, trans ferred their account to Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co. We are requested to state, that the notes of Messrs. J.C. and H. Simonds, bankers, of Reading, are payable at Messrs. Frys and Chapman's, Bankers. We are authorised to contradict the report of the stop ping payment of the very respectable firm of Messrs. Mil len and Twiss, bankers, Gravesend, which unfounded re port appeared in the Star of Wednesday. A public de claration has been issued, signed by the principal inha bitants of Gravesend, declaring their perfect confidence in the hank of Messrs. Milieu and Twist+, and that, as a proof thereof, they are ready to receive their notes as usual. The, mails which arrived yesterday stated that so cagey were persons in the different post towns to gain some infor mation relative to the London bankers, that hundreds assembled round the coaches for intelligence. Several instances of magnanitnity and generosity are sta:ed to have omitted in the city during the panic; two of them, much to the credit of tthe monied men. One of the most celebrated of the capitalists sent one hundred thousand pounds to his banker, when he heard of a run upon the house. It was refused, as there was in this case no occasion for the assistance. Another, the head of a West India House, was favoured with an offer to assist his banker to a very large amount, 300,0001. We are sorry, however, to say. these arc rare instances. The bankers generally have been shamefully used, their constituents drawing all their money suddenly out of their hands, occa sioning the greatest distress, and promoting the panic which they themselves were publicly deploring. Three instances of this are stated to us, but we refrain from giving the names. Two persons had large balances at their bankers', and sent their clerks with checks to be cashed. Such an unusual circumstance attracted the attention of one of the partners (as both the drawers were exceedingly wealthy), and he very promptly not only sent the amount of the checks but the small residue left in their hands, with com pliments that their accounts were closed. Another drew a large amount, and in presence of the banker's clerk locked the notes in a strong box to be kept at the bankers. It is unnecessary to say the box was sent back and the account closed. We are sorry to state the failure of a linen-house in the city of some eminence : the partners were extensive under writers at Lloyd's. 'I he Council which was sprinted tole held yesterday, and at which the Recorder s Report was ordered to be made, was postponed.. . . Accounts received from the Cape of Good Hope yester day, state the arrival of the Enterprise steam-vessel, in fifty-six days from the English Channel. The passage is frequently made by merchant ships in from fifty-five to sixty days. The private letters received from Calcutta state that the head-quarters of the Burmese were at Mangpoo, on the right bank of the Irrawaddy, and that they were in great force, commanded by the Chief Mung-cra-ro, the suc cessor of the famed Bundoolah. This Chief bad approached within two days' journey of Promo to reconnoitre it. It was again stated that the King of Ave had resigned in fa vour of his son, ten years old, in consequence of his " favourable nativity," and all the learned of the Burmese prophecy his long, glorious, and successful reign. THE PRESENT Kt tqc or Sw co ex—Among the wounded French prisoners in the attack of Cuddalore, in 1783, was a young Sergeant, whose appearance and manners attracted the notice of Colonel Wagenheim, commanding the Ha noverians, who took him to his tent, and treated him with much kindness, till be recovered and was released. Many years afterwards, when the French army, under Goners' Bernadotte, entered Hanover, General Wagenbeitn at tended his levee. He was immediately accosted by Ber nadotte, who asked him if he recollected a wounded French Sergeant, to whom he showed kind attention at Cudda lore. After some recollection, the General answered, that he did remember a very fine young man of that descrip tion, but he had lost ail sight of him, and would now be happy to hear of his welfare. " That young Sergeant," said Bernadotte, "was the person who has now the honour to address you, and who is happy in this public opportunity of acknowledging, and who will omit no means within his power of testifying, his gratitude to Gen. Wagenbeim." FeISHIONANLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Carmarthen has arriveed at his father's, the Duke of Leeds's, in Brutoo-street, from llornby Castle, York shire. Lord Muncaster arrived yesterday at his house in Curzon-street, from Melton Mowbray. Earl Pomfret lee. I.ls seat, Easton, Northamptonshire, for Shug borough Park, Dare-.try. Lady and 31. , s Lovett have arrived at Miller's Hotel, Jertnyn street., from a twin Lord Melbou:n arrived in town on Monday. Lord Milton arrived in London on Wetlnestiny, from Yorkshire. S. Crawley, Esq.. M.P., and Mrs. Crawley, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from their seat in Suffolk. Sir George Nugent, Bart., left Gould's Hotel, Jermyn.street, fur his seat in Bucks. The Marquis of Titehfield has arrived at his father's, the Duke of Portland's, Welbeck, Notts. from a tour. Sir Roger tr'r' eiley, Bart., arrived yesterday at Stevens's hotel, Bond -street, from his seat, Drakelow. Derbyshire. Count Woromow has left town fur the Earl of Pembroke's seat, Wilton Ilouse, Wilts. Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street : William Fawseu, Esq., for Bath ; and Captain Gunning, R.N. for Portsmouth. Lord and Lady Frederick Beauclerk arrived yesterday st their house In Fitzroy-square, from their seat, Ritopton Vicarage, Herts. Antosls at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square:—Viscountess Keith, from Kent ; Sir John and Lady Smith, from ditto. Dr partures from ditto :—The Duke of Buocleueb, for Cambridge ; and Sir John and Lady Claridge. FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND. • [From a Nottingham Paper.] On Friday last the remains of the late much-lamented Duchess of Rutland were deposited in the family vault at Bottesford. The anxiety to witness the mournful event was intense, and at an early bout crowds of inhabitants of the vicinity Lad assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to their esteemed benefactress. Every precaution bad been taken to insure the preservation of order, and to secure that solemnity desirable on so melancholy an occasion. For this purpose, his Grace's tenants, of the parish of Bottes ford, had been appointed special stewards. The Parish Church of Bottesford, in which is the family vault of the Rutland family, is a neat and beautiful edifice with a lofty spire, and a peal of 'six belle. The Church, on this sad occasion, was hung with black cloth, and beneath the pulpit was placed au elegant es cutcheon, on which were depicted her late Grace's armorial bearing,. 'Early in the morning of Friday, the Duke of Rutland, whose feelings at this melancholy period it would be vain to attempt to describe, arrived at Bottesford in his carriage and four; he immediately proceeded to the house of the Rev. Charles Thornton, followed by a post-chaise, con taining some portion of his disconsolate family. 'rhe funeral procession left Belvoir Castle at ten o'clock, and proceeding through Redmile, Leicestershire, and Elton, Nottingham shire, arrived at Bottesford about one. It was followed by a long line of carriages and other vehicles. The following was the order observed : Mr. Pound, his Grace's Woodman, accompanied by twelve tenants of his Grace, in deep mourning. The Duchess's Coronet, on a crimson velvet cushion, carried by a gentleman uncovered. A favourite pony of the late Duchess. enveloped in a black cloth, in the corners of which were e nbossed, her Grace's armorial bear ings ; led by two of her Grace's oldest servants. The hearse, drawn by black horses which had belonged to her Grace, and driven by her Grace's coachman. Five morning coaches, drawn by six horses each. Her Grace's carriage, drawn by four horses. W. F. Norton, Esq. in his own carriage, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Salmon. _ Two carriagea and four. Forty-six of his Grace's tenants in deep mourning. Two of the carriages in the procession were occupied by the im mediate family —one by the Earl of Carlisle and his brother, and the other by the brothers of her Grace. The procession, in the first instance, proceeded to the Rectory-yard, Bottesford, where it was about one hour. The remains of the lamented Lady were then taken from the hearse, and carried into the Church by eight gentle men. The coffin was covered with a rich pall of black velvet, decorated with her Grace's armorial bearings. His Grace joined the iltocession at the Rectory Twenty-six of the noble ancestors and relatives of his G4ce lie entombed in the vault, which now also contains the remains of his late amiable Duchess. The coffin, which was understood to weigh nearly eight hundred, was covered with crim son velvet, and a brass plate bore the following inscrip tion : ELIZABETH, Dachei.a of Rutland, Seconil Daughter of Frederick Earl of Carlisle, K.G. Born 13th November, 1780, Died 29th Nov. 1826. Prince Leopold arrived at Marlborough House on Wed nesday, from his residence at Claremont. His Royal High ness returned to Claremont in the evening. Earl Bathurst left town . yesterday for Brighton. . . The Marquis of Cholinondeley arrived in town on Monday. Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, Mr. Walters, the King's messenger, was despatched from the Foreign Office, for Ireland, with great speed; he started in a chaise and four. On Wednesday evening, a foreign courier was sent off with despatches from the Secretary of State's Office for the Colonial Department, for the lonian Isles. Yesterday, about half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Kraus, one of the King's Foreign Messengers, arrived at the Foreign Office, in Downing -street, said to bring despatches from Madrid. He had travelled with much speed, as he Caine over from Calais in an open boat, although he only arrived in Downing-street in a chaise and pair. REFREBENTATIVE PEERAGE OF IRELAaD.—State of the poll this day : Lord Farnham 40 Lard Moaateashel . 40 Dublin Evening Mail, Dec. 19. Sue TRADE or TAUNTON.—The principal trade in this town is that of silk, the weaving of which was first introduced, on a small scale, in the year 1778, by Messrs. Forbes and Wasdale. In 1795, Mr. Leney Smith, of London. was induced by Sir Benjamin Hatnmet to com mence the weaving of crape ; and about 180 G, Mr. Every was the means of considerably augmenting the silk trade, which has been progressively increasing ever since. The principal articles manufactured here are crapes, persians, sarcenets, Bandana handkerchiefs, modes, gauzes, satins, ladies' shawls, and different sorts of mixed goods, figured and plain. The gentlemen concerned in this trade have I tte'y made great improvements, in the variety and beauty of the several fabrics. The number of looms in the town amount to abolit 1,000, and there are 200 in the vicinity. Each loom is computed to give employment to two persons. The annual returns of the silk trade in this town may be estimated at not less than 150,000/. The wages alone are about 10001. per week.—Taunfon Courier. _ IRON 'TRADE. —Iron is getting exceedingly scarce all Over the kingdom. There never was so small a stock in Glasgow as at present. A great number of important ope rations are retarded in etcus;quenee. Forty year; ago there was only one foundry in Glasgow, which melted from a ton to two tons a week. The foundry was situated near where the barracks are built. The founder generally per formed all the operatims of melting, blowing the bellows, and casting, by six o'clock at night, and was then ready to appear dressed in the fashion of the day at the Exchange, to enjoy himself among his friends. There are now 23 foundries in Glasgow and vicinity, that will melt nearly 300 tons of metal a week fur making cast-iron goods, ex clusive of the castings that arc brought into Glasgow from other foundries. The quantity of steam-engines and the larger species of machines making at present is quite un precedented. On an average, the unexecutell orders in that department will lst.st seven or eight months. The Monklaud Steel Company have just finished a blast fur nace. about a mile and a half above the termination of the Monkland Canal, which will be in operation immediately, for the manufacture of pig-iron, under the liirectiou of time intelligent and scientific. manager.—Ghtsgou. Fit r. We understand that as yet no di scover y h as been made that can lead to the detection of the assassins of Mirs Scott and her servant in Hillsborough, though the Marquis of Downshire, Mr. Moore, of Eglantine, and Mr. Reilly, are incessant in their endeavours to find some clue to this dreadful transaction. Some persons had been taken up on suspicion, and subjected to examination ; but as they have been liberated, being considered innocent, we forbear men tioning their names at present.—Belfast Chronic*. INDIA. By the Duke of Lancaster, arrived at Liverp oo l , uh • have been received from Calcutta to the soth of Joy elusive. The latest news from the Burmese ter;u stated that the main body of th e B r i t i sh troops, under ' command of Sir A. Campbell, remained in Prome s o d ' neighbourhood. No military mov ements had taktn front the date of the previous accounts; nor were sose pected to take place, the rainy season having set to the war should not be terminated by negotiations, sa Campbell intended to embrace the first opportunity t o, offered to march his troops towards Ummerapoota, army was uncommonly sickly, above one-third of them. being in the hospitals. General Morrison wi t h h is di ► sion, was cantoned i n A rracan. A trifling, but affair had taken place in Assam, bet ween the troops sod . the command of Li eu t enant Neufville and the flum es . in which the latter were defeated. The followiag or , r e tracts:— [From the India Gazette of July 20.1 BURMESE WAR. Judging fr M i l ey we have beard, as well as from eteerience the impractic of calculating upon their most peculiar t i e., we are inclined to suppose th at t h e termination of the flan 'Z' war may not b e so speedy as many (among then) ourmileem at w , time imagined. With the people the war, we believe, is dreie w i; unpopular. The Despot, and his adherents, however, appe al , e; termined not to succumb; and if it is true that they e a ; been joined by the Siamese, that resolution , in all Isk e ne w 4 has acquired the greater strength. Perhaps they will 144' come to any thing like a pitched battle with our troop. er ' They will rather retreat as we advance, destroying all they tie -. 1 " prevent our reaping any adventage from an invasion. If do so, sad make no sincere overtures to negotiate, the must be that offers of negotiation must copse from us , are to terminate by treaty. O ur l ast letters from Prome ea: ta a if generally speaking, all was w e lL Th e ra i ns were setting rtha, and the temporary h uts o f our troops were about finished. IfW;* habitants of the place and the adjacent villages had all ne at l y turned to their homes, and daily brought in such few anklet's; the country produces. They appear quite happy at the thine that had taken place. Twelve elephants (for the COSSlnilisriat partment, we believe) had been got from the head men of the mate. and several more were expected. They are, we believe, cousigewa as property, and bad been valued by a committee accordingly. " As to our enemy," observes a correspondent, " I shaft be s m . prised if we have to fire another shot. The , game seems to hall beep up. in despair of doing any t hi ng .' The Court of Ava Is either too proud or too ignorant hew to proceed in diplomacy to conic forward first with proposals; dw ara from all that could be learned, there are hardly any terms dim could be offered which would not joyfully be acceded to, to p i rid of us. A man, who seri red from Ara, reported that they were gon g through the ceremony of repairing the fort ofAmmerapoors. terays every thing at the s ame t i me was kin readiness fo r the flight el of the King and royal family, and (what is of mo re moment min the white elephant ! They were also, it was understood, trying in collect troops (affecting that they intend to attack our loten a. Prone) but rind it immenfible to keep them together. The in, happy conscripts are caught one day, but give:their oppressors the slip the next. The. " great moral lessons" that have been emits them (writes our correspondent) have had all due effect upon the.i minds. The spirit and the pride of the nations have been brokr. and the Government is already, con:paratively speaking, vent ot authority and disorganised. It wan reported, that on our advancing towards the capital the King and Court will fall back in the first instance on Monetaboo. North of that again is another strong hold, at the distatre of fifteen days' march, which they were understood to be rewstricg. Beyond that place again, et three months' journey from Ava(for the natives say no, doubt in th e i r usua l style of exaggeratenl is another strong hold to.whieh the Golden Court will fly as we as. Vance. This was the current opinion at Prome, and reported to be care. manly talked °fret the capital. If the Burmese adept tt:e ; , lan referred to, we Shall be no nearer peace when at Are rhea we were at Rangoon. So* that, unless we comnence at. gotiations, we shall be reduced perhaps to the breathy tr taking possession of the country in Coto. Though our usual and professed line of policy in the East is in opposition to further teen. torial aggrandizement, the acquisition would be a splendid ate, it might be retained ; and with reference to its fertility, products, its people and capabilities, superior to any part of India of the same extent. The population now is extremely small (a matter of course under so despotic, grinding, and cruel a Government ;) but the ma. teriel is uncommonly good, and, under an enlightened rule, met be made anything of. Our friends at Promo have of late seen ti;great deal of the Burman people (mere especially since their arrival at that place), and they state that they certainly appeared to greater advantage the more that was seen of them. Their failings are those that naturally result from subjection to a Government such as they are cursed with such as dissimulation, mendacity, and cruelty of puni s h ment among those in euthority, but in thos e only. The men are fine, open-honed, cheerful, manly fellows, and kood-tempered to a wonderful degree. Seth a • thing as a quarrel or abuse is quite unknown ; and they continually amuse themselves with games and sports that sea more likely than most things to try their tempers—such as boxing, wrestling, Toot. ball, &c. In the former they are not very scientific; but they go to work heart and soul, laying it on to the utmost of their ability .; in short they are what the fancy would call out-end.outers, or pet. feet gluttons. Of the ladies our correspondents do not profess themselves so well qualified to speak. There is no unpleasant restraint, shutting up, or concealment, enjoined nor known among thim. They Wye about, paying and receiving visits, just as they think proper. Chat. tity is a virtue not so much inculcated amongst them as in most others; but there is reason to suppose it is more practised titan in is m s 3 v i er ly y m s or tri e k e in ta g il:z i in houses or walking about, or keeping their shops; and such a thing as an Immodest gait, gesture, or look, has never been observed, ou men r o b f y th h e un w dre amg ed hey on a n re con T s h m e n o tl u y tw ee l e r n d by be one although they will enter into conversation with one, sit with one, or talk with perfect freetionl. Should we hear further particulars of these interesting people abd their country, from the same enter. raining and instructive Correspondent who supplied the above, we shall not fail to submit them to our readers. [From the Bengal Harkens.] DIPIAPORE,JULT 9. The filth native infantry is tow embarking to peened to Calcutta. Bzsmexs, JOLT I. Our corps (the 14 t h na ti ve i n f antry ) reac h e d t hi s stat i on yestEr• day, from Dacca, after a very quick peerage; so much so, indeed. that the General h as b e en t a k en by surprise . There being no.u.es vacant, he does not know what to do with us, and we have bun ordered to encamp and wait further instructions. The Nth came in our rear as far as Ghazeepore, but were ordered bark from dime to Dinapore, where they are to remain for a time. . ssi JUNI 29. We are seriously looking for-rain ; God only intows what the poor inhabitants will do if we get none! It-is said that two. thirds of the entee have died for want of fodder, and thaw that remain are walking-skeletons. Grain of every docripties extravagantly dear; indeed grain is scarcely procurable at chit place, but I hear they are pretty well at Neermuch. The twelve new regiments will in all. probability remove many of us. Yoe bare no idea how uncomfortable weere, In consequence of lector.: clouds of dust flying about all night and day. We stiU use our Tatteea. Fortunately this station comintas heslthy. although I understand the cholera has prevailed at Neu. much and Bhopalpore. Tho Brothers of the Kilwireoring Lvira en the East, gave a ball and supper on the 7th proximo, to 511 uk beauty and fashion at this place. Bursaßya, JrtY9. The 14th regiment disembarked to.day, and marched interim? (From the Governmost Gazette.) The following is understood to be the tome of *swam/ at Ch. long, Sembewgheon, and 51angpon : At 31angpoct, IWO Burmese, 1000 Siamese at Chslsrg, 2000 Burmese, 1000 Siamese ; at Sembewgheon, 3000 Burma:, 291:9 Siamese, making a total of 10,000 :um. PENANG. Letters from Pensrg, by the Eliza. state that they cont , r.uri there in an attitude of defence. The Rajah of Ligon ass it thj Quetta river with 250 prows of all sins. and about 9000 foil" . "°. and had requested permission to pass with his fleet through Pers..; harbour on his way to Peirah and latingore. This has been re. fused, and it was conjectured that he would in a few wetks retntit northward to Ligon, and nettle the war in that quarter. The 8 ,- jah is stated not to be in favour at the Siamese CAM, A 3 ito to viewed with distrust by the new King. Extract of a letter from Primolen :—:" Jt aesn-s !fir M . 's! leaving Beaconlen, declared yattil and Tappanooy, tree rolls. The Sultan of Palembang has been for some time on the Litis the interior, it is supposed for no good purpose. The chit's tier however. although in utter abhorrence of the Duter. rise ni proaching tr.irster with that kind of apsthy and disrcgati is often the toots: feature in the Malay." AnnACA%.)y . NE: 2I There is a flying report here of the occupation of Arr and Sandowe on the main, for the purpose of acing in corral • Sir A. Campbell on the re-co.ni..encement of hostilities. The from Talek to A•ng is only :bout three days' journey, and It ", thence to Sandowe from t•n to eleven days the road thtar:n latter places is very pr‘salth.• ; but hetwean the formers mere - gle footpath • taking It altogether, allowing the greatest and for the Selisys necessary. consequent or. crossing ii• Wen. &c. when a practiaahl.,: road is made hrwro ,, '%'i 4 and the army could ' , arch to Sandowe in less than a month. 1:y possessing ourselves of Sandoire, an easy coinmunicrion can b opened with Sir A. Caniphell. There appears a great tletioencv populaticn all through this country. The *iamese have ion , " the Burmese, and upwards of one half of their force is ro:nru . , ' of them. A regular concentration of their farces we Mee, eu t'''' place, but the positive situation is not yet determined upon. The Manchester mail was upset yesterday morning vn! its way to London, and in consequence the &bray 01 letters from the General Post Office was delayed of"" of four hours beyond the usual time. town mic IS souse at neezenness, The news could rmt sake evo . , Meeting fe ;mei salon' taking oco torch of Aimed, and le bring an ti Vasa, Winch have for their ohiect th menial confidence, and arresting th that groundless alarm which it bad ti aississiome, mid winds it taken . etp lts first step is to mutate the puma , which were moved by Mr. BAILING, vied, and which were as follow: •' 1. !list the unprecadeated embers under wish the agitation of the count mei* Iv iirearliated re e general pone .essigaalls email; ; That this Meeting hat the Meals cad sibilance of the banking plug and the mentry. and they believe I open that Mildews woad relieve all tiv shirlt am show thesselres in a shape s end as fatal to these who are faced to s meet sodden Mounds upon them, which shek judgement sad prudent* not to have e " 1 That it bay* been stated to this tin of the Bank el England are irrupts etas ei things so sursordinary. this Meet iaterfcrence with the 111M141111 of the Din they see satielled, will de their dal sneak " 3. That liming the drew* cicadas peitlie milt or the country, we deniers o pert it to the utmost of oar power." " The advice suggested by Mr. B 4 is Use resolstto* na,"says the 7iones, ii yonterday, " might eettainly, if acts chants of the metropolis, tend to ref existing eviL That advice, sod the 'feet, that the country has the great bolting enliblialimesta—thou PIOPLI their present pure, and mil, sisters 1 r --- scil .0016 4 / 8 11 . Sys R' I dass, shag hp& 41/11 04.1 the afiliP pivio watha Bl Jodi] rity c *bid share Mail) Craw twe t is ad the a ~~ ~.~ Sian It saps GIN dam id 4 w of c 1 1 4 , dell