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P ■ ~' = a A • 1 f likp . r E7I Iba IRz god INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of the cITY of WORCESTER. WNCOURAgED by :be most fl attering promises of y _ll:4 especet. I ea! Motif a CANDIDATE as one of your • MEPRESENTATIVEE is Me next PARLIAMENT. Agit:bed to ostouitlist Constitution, end farutirable to those wise sod solightteW geseiweis of Government which pee repidl amPionaba ig tha tram. in a saw of .soapsPo uf, 1 row ea is Inialdyd the anisliei balapendenee, voids. that so ethos et alehl sablial• ass to discharge hi s t I 611 4 deemie dul ltEsr ut ysit rillegp mcitst a tA Pl tia • ?MC eatiesksitios f to avoid the at a Wmosso I leavetny year beads. ounidady ants, Übewe *won Wllot ratios * skid= *Me ef gnaltirda, by a meow iirtatian ay boot to mar service. I P 114111"1 e 1F f NOPOstfolly. Asele-Meal;;;;T2i 125 Wllhop IN • 14 211 Colombian 43 Wn. Mining Association 19 Hibernian 10i Ili PlllO3 PeTIIVIIII3 Y7l i faal old 3lonm II SW do la Plata 321 33 Tlalpulabna 219 United Mexican 143 IN Dirto New 34 33 pin Welch Iron and Coal 13i 8 was LIGIIT AND COSI 0014 PAX IX!. ... lie Unit WOO. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This csisning. MONDAY, March 7 will be performed KING RICHARD THE * THIRD. Date of Gle'ster. Mr. Kean; WI of Richmond, Mr. Wallach. Lady Anse, Miss Smithson. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKING BIRD. THE SINGING TREES. AND GOLDEN WATERS. Darleguln, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, Min Barnett. THF:ATI?E ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Tale Evening, MONDAY. March 7. will be performed RODEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. C. lambi; Dercutio, Mr. Jonas. Juliet, MIAs F. H. Kelly. After which THE IRISH TUTOR ; or, NEW LIGHTS. Terry 0 Rourke, Mr. Connor. To conclude with A TALE OF MYSTERY. Count Remold!, Mr. Cooper; Fnuwisco, Mr. Farley; Michell!, Mr. Blanchard. Ulu Jones; FLunetta, Mrs. Davenport. The BRITISK PIEIII commenced publitstuns or Saturday morning at live o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 7, ISIS. The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday have been received in due course. The Chamber of Deputies was still engaged with the consideration of the amendments proposed in the second article of the law of indemnity. The debates on this measure have begun to lose their in terest even in France. The people know that a charge of thirty millions of francs is to be imposed on them for the benefit of the emigrants, and they care little as to the division of the spoil. The amendments discussed on Wednesday and Thursday were unworthy of being de scribed. Among those which yet remain to be considered, is one of General For, in favour of the creditors of the emigrants, whose claims were liquidated in the depreciated paper money of the time. The Parisian Journalists remark with great scisfaction the intended reduction of the duties on French wines. The Coarrier Francais observes, that " if the Holy Alli ance raise no obstacle, England is disposed at last to open to the maritime towns of the South those markets which the (French) Ministry have seen closed against them with a staciii indifference." Tile revolt in Servia, it appears, is not suppressed. The severity of the Governor has rendered the Insurgents des perate, and the Turkish garrisons are too weak to put down the force arrayed against them. This revolt will, especially if it should spread, as there is reason to believe it will, prove of material importance to the Greeks. theta Vitiowx, we find, has actually opened negotiations with MAUIIOCORDATO, and ity a pledge of his sincerity placed Prevesa in the hands of the Greeks. Fresh disasters fall on the Turks every day. _ The M.:miter. of 'Saturday contains, in the official part, a royal ordinance which, referring to previous edicts and ordinances, (the tirst dated March, 1ti794 granting to the Duke of Orleans liberty to bare made at his expense navigable canals from the Loire, near Orleans, to the river Loing, &e. orders that the spares which shall return into the hands of the Duke and Mademoiselle d* Orleans, shall be replaced by others in a different fmm, of which a model is annexed to the ordinance. FRE trcH Furrns.—Panis, hlancit 4.—Five per Cents. opened at 106 f. ; closed at left. Mk. Bonk Stock, 2034 f. ; kente de Naples, Certif. Fakontiet ; , ; Rente d'Espagne, 19f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, ; Eachangeon London--one month, 24E; skate ditto, 24f. Wk. —Cowry Aktlsentiva, March 4. . The Brussels Papers of Saturday reached our dace last night ; they mouth] nothing worth extracting. The States General have unanimously agreed to the vote of credit for eigtat million, to repair the damages caused by the late inundations. The Marquis de (:HABANNSS, who lA a prisoner for debt in Brussels, has addressed a letter to the Journal de la Belgique, the object of which is to inform hiscreditors that he will give op to them the share of the indemnity which may accrue to him by virtue of the French law at present under discuroii, with the exception of a sum of 24,000 francs, which he rew..rves to himself. We have received Papers from Rio de Janeiro to the Bth of January, from which we give extracts in a subsequent colamn. They bring no information of an important clia. Tarter. lime greatest interruption to which the public tran quillity is exposed, arises, it is alleged in an Imperial Or from the defectiveness of the regulations of Police. To remedy this evil, the En virus has established a rigor roue aysteiu of personal examination, according to which every passenger in the streets must, after ten o'clock at shit in the summer, and nine in the winter, submit to be stopped, questioned, searched, and taken into custody by the Police Guard ; and if any citisen be found after those boars in a tavern, shop, or gaming -house, he will be liable to a due, to be progverisively increased for every additional I miiii .-- "7"—"-- lltom ihaMilas o rw ave t . 117 — aii i r;liiiiiiski, _ youtißtititat humble Servant, e - 11404146 - llarchi 1203 ONO. RICH. ROBINSON. Rt; Or si lib rrW ".-----li s ON sA'rutum Y. • Oast fit Ace. 249 I India Bonds 28 pm Stier Cent. Casa. 954 i Long. Ann. shut DAM Aut. 99, i Ex. Bills,l V 1 . 1 ; 1: 0001.31 3836 pm 3.1 per Coat. 11111 Ditto, 3i pm Cent. Red. shut Ditto, Small New 4 per Cent. 1061 1 4 Lottery 'Wickets, 1112. II& PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS ON SATURDAY. Atwell. Boots IS Ditto Acct. 811 1 lisoilliso Nash OK Ditto Scrip (143) 4 13 pm • - ..1= 1 4 6 11 11 : 6 1 1 6 i Iti n° Acct. 31 1 tor Neapolitan Bon& 11:6 ai Ditto Bonds (1111911 3 . ...kuji e m. a.... 2i 11 I:on:g ill :es. io al tisia,9 l ; i i Acct. Pl 3 i 1 i Prussian Bonds 1111 Roods lel k• Ditto Acct. 1011 Timis lonts. NON M. 106 L Ditto Bonds (1122)1001 1 . e.... r.rir la. Russian Bonds (1822) 254 i i 4 4i i 4 Ditto Acct. 95i •.: MO. 94_2 Spauish Cans. 24i ii i •',,. Snip OM Oa a di* Ditto Acct. 241 .. :to; AOtts2adio 4 1 4 i i Ditto Con{. (18 - 23) 194 1 Ditto Acct. 194 • PRICES OF SHARES ON SATURDAY. • &OM SAWCZ COMPANIRS. IRON RAILWAYS. Albano, Brit. and For. Binning. and Liverpool 4 Ditto Marine 84 1 London and Binning. li xixtes. London and Northern 21 t t Anglo.llexican 120 126 Manchester and Liverpool 58 Anigiv,Chitian lb* 4 MISCELLANIOWS. 24 Atlantic and yacitic 4 21 pm ' 1 1 1 11 1 11 " 21 211 British Iron Company 124 * Colombian 43 Bristol Ship Canal *as. 'fining Association 19 Canada Commie y 41 414 Hibernian 104 111 Equitable lam Bank Pasco Peruvian 37391 Gen. Saran Navigation 10 foal del Monte 11 20 Gold ascot Assoetatlon 7 lii Rio de la Plata 324 33 Great Westminster Dairy 24 Tialpulainia 210 Rib. Joint Stock Con. 31 5 pm Uniasd Mexican 145 lie Mexican Company 11 104 pm Ditto New 34 33 pm Metro. Fish Company 34 Welsh Iron and Coal 84 8 New Corn Exchange 8 9 OAS LION'S AND COLT ROW. Pearl Firhery (Yellow) 204 234 PAMIRS. Prov. Bank of Ireland 134 •Cootinental Patent Bricks 3 United General 174 Royal S:aonary 1 pm WI, offence. The restrictions upon slaves are, of course, more severe still. We very much doubt the expediency of these regulations, which, in our opinion, are more calculated to disgust the people of Brasil with the Imperial Government than in any proportionate degree to insure the public tran quillity. Rather than be subject to an authority so vexa tious and intolerable, we would even prefer the risk of being sometimes robbed ; but we know, from the example of our own country, that it is quite practicable to establish an efficient system of police for the repression of crime, without giving up to the discretion of every petty officer of justice the absolute dominion over the personal liberty of every member of the community, after sunset. Don PIDRO, we apprehend, too often forgets that he is ruling in Ame rica, surrounded by republican governments anxious to see the institutions of Brazil assimilated to their own, He is pursuing a course directly calculated to provoke his sub jects to fall in with the wishes of the neighbouring States. .—........—_ One of those arbitrary and indecent violations of private rights, in which the continental governments do not hesitate to indulge when their pleasure or their interests are con cerned, was committed last week at Boulogne and Calais by order of the French Government. On Wednesday, the commercial letters travelling by private expresses from this country to their respective destinations, were stopped, opened, and read. Some of them were detained for nearly four hours, in order that all the despatches might be care fully examined. In one bag there were forty letters, all of which underwent perusal. It was then made known, that in futare the same practice would be continued regularly. As an excuse for this scandalous breach of confidence, it is pretended that the French Government is suspicious that dangerous communications of a political nature were trans mitted by these conveyances. Power will never be at a loss for apologies to cover its abuses; but surely, con- . _ sidering all the circumstances of Europe at this moment, Mitre never was one so utterly groundless as this. What should we think of an English Minister, who, because he might fancy that the whole of the private correspondence in the kingdom did not abound with praises of his administration, should give directions suddenly to have all the letters in the Post-office broken open and read? Yet a measure of this violent and tyrannical cha racter is carried into execution in France almost like one of the laws of paramount importance to the State. The reduction of the duty on foreign iron, and the establishment of a British Iron Company, which is already in operation, has given a considerable impetus to the rail• ways, and to other public undertakings, which had been suspended owing to the high price of that article. The high duty on Russian and Swedish bar-iron amounted almost to a prohibition ; but its high price had the effect of turning an increased portion of capital to the working of our mines, and the consequence has been that the use of foreign iron, burthened, as it has been since 1793, with accumulated duties, is nearly superseded by British iron in the home market, and now that all the powers of improved machinery will be applied to it in this country, it will soon become, owing to the great demands from Spanish America, a leading article of exportation. We have before noticed the disgraceful combination that has been formed on the Foreign Stock Exchange against the new Greek Loan. On Saturday, it appears, there was a general depression in the market, though no body could assign any satisfactory reason for it. Of the so lidity of the general peace, or of the success of the Patriots in South America, there can be no doubt whatever. Some reports were circulated as to the apprehended hostility of the Holy Alliance ; but they were all evidently fabri cated to assist the operations of the speculators for the far. It was to have been expected, that in this state of the mar ket the parties who have confederated to depress the Greek Scrip would not omit so favourable an opportunity for their purpose ; and by a succession of rumours, too absurd, one would have thought, to have influenced any reasonable be ing, a sort of panic was at last produced, which led to a sudden fall to a discount of 1f at the close of the day. Greater activity was never used for the attainment of any mischievous object. The first of the ridiculous tales put into circulation was, that the stoppage of the expresses at Boulogne Lad originated in a feeling on the part of the French Government inimical to the Greeks. Whatever there may be dubious in the foreign policy of France, the sincerity of her friendship for Greece is unquestionable ; it is the most clearly defined of all her external dispositions But the great bugbear, whispered by the alarmists with grave faces, as if they wished to conceal it, and artfully brought forward at a late hour, when the preceding ru mours had begun to shake the confidence of the scrip holders, was, that the inhabitants of one of the Greek islands, sighing, we suppose, for the restoration of the se ' curity and happiness they enjoyed under the dominion of the SULT•N, and stung with remorse, we presume, at the guilt of having thrown off his legitimate Mahometan au ' thority, had renounced the cause of independence, and called back their gentle masters to exterminate them and deallate their country like Scio and Ipsars. Nobody could tell exactly which island it was that had manifested this conscientious sense of duty towards the Grand Turk, nor how the intelligence had reached London. We diligently endeavoured to arrive at the source of this pretended in formation, and the result of our inquiry was, that it had proceeded from the hostility of the disappointed persons to whom we alluded the other day. They have thus succeeded in frightening a few weak and timid persons front sup porting the Greeks in their noble struggle for life and liberty, but their success will be transitory. The Greek cause is equally safe from the efforts of open enemies and false friends. The independence of Greece is more cer tain now than the independence of South America was two years ago. The Turks are falling rapidly to decay, and becoming the prey of internal dissensions, while the Greeks are every day improving in their resources and con solidating their strength. We hope, therefore, that the subscriber, to the new Loan will not allow themselves to be cheated out of either their money or their senses, and, in stead of listening to the false stories that may be circulated, consider for a moment what was the relative situation of the belligerents at the close of the late campaign—a situation which certainly cannot be changed to the disadvantage of the Greek, until the next campaign shall have com menced, if, indeed, it should be in the power of the Turks to make another attempt against them. The good effect of the Bill which has for its object to put down the Catholic Association is already manifest. While those Associations existed, the domestic quiet of Ireland re mained in a state of perpetual jeopardy and suspense—the public mind was kept in a constant state of irritation—it was impossible to calculate from one day to another what might be the result of the speeches which were every day circulated in every Irish newspaper, and which were feeding t he spirit of bigotry with fresh fuel, till no one was able to THE foresee where it end. It is clear, mitted to continue, the power of the LOAD LIECTENaNT must soon have become inadequate to its purpose. He could not go halves with this new Catholic authority ; there was no alternative but to suppress it, or submit to it. From that moment the course to be adopted by Ministers became imperative—they did adopt it ; they in terposed for the preservation of Ireland, and in so doing, delivered her from the sad condition to which she was hasten;pg ; and from all the miseries which would have fol lowed. The Catholic Leaders in Ireland were too violent: they manifested too much determination to carry every thing before them; by acting thus, they rolled back the tide of public sympathy that was flowing towards them from this side the Channel ; they did more—they em banned the councils of Government, and made even their best friends in the Cabinet doubt the policy of conceding their claims; it made them resolve—as matter of prudence —to postpone that concession which it would have been unwise to grant under all this menace and manifestation of hostility. They certainly, by the factious language which they held, alienated numbers, who, up to that period, had favoured their cause ; who thought its success was devoutly to be wished, but thought also that it ought discreetly to be won. It was one of the repentant confessions of Davin, that he had " spoken unadvisedly with his lips." The list is very long of those, who, since his time, have the same imprudence to lament. The Catholics, by courting foreign influence, brought themselves under the suspicion of acting in concert with the avowed enemies of Protestantism in Catholic Europe. It looked too much like a preparative to hostilities. It was natural for their enemies to ask—Why, unless you meant to turn this foreign support to account, were you so active ' in obtaining it? Why did your public orators proclaim so exultingly the progress they were making in distant king doms? The proceeding justified alarm; it was every way pernicious, and the more so, because its object had no de tined nor definable extent. We willingly acquit Mr. O'CONNELL of any deliberate intention to produce disturbance. lie has too great a stake in the tranquillity of Ireland to have any leaning that way—all his best interests lie in a quite opposite direction —but on a subject so full of excitement as Religion, to bring the hot-headed zeal of the whole Catholic population into activity, was to work with very dangerous tools. When the frantic and ignorant passions of the multitude are once let loose, they are not to be again chained down at pleasure. Mr. O'Coxlezzz, popular as be is, would soon find this a task much beyond his management. As the Leader of a cause, this distinguished Advocate has no superior ; he is always rage and circumspect ; he never puts the interest of his client incautiously to the hazard ; but out of his profession, and as the Leader of a party at a provincial meeting, he is another and a different man ; his eloquence is always out of bounds ; he is intemperate, unreflective, indiscreet; he never measures his purposes with his mans; his elo quence, it is true, fuser deserts him, but his prudence almost always ; and, therefore, it is that with the best in tentions he brings discredit upon his cause and upon himself. In the present instance he ought to be grateful to Mr. CANNING and the Ministry, for having taken the materials of disorder out of his creative hands. He will not, we know, subscribe to this; it is quite true never theless. But now that the Associations are put down, the next question is, how are we effectively to tranquillize Ireland ? To this the answer is simple—Search into and remove the causes which disturb it. Without upbraiding those who set themselves to oppose the admission of the Catholics to offices of professional rank or political trust, we would ask them—Do you mean to remain always inexorable ? If you do, can you safely reckon on the forbearance of seven million of Catholics for the same indefinite period ? If the mass of the Irish population have the means of corn fort put within the reach of their labour, they will be con tent. We grant, that from that quarter you have little to apprehend on the score of exclusion from rank and office. Even of the middling classes, the majority in general only wish to live in peace ; and if trade prospers, and taxes are moderate, their minds remain at rest. But wealth, and knowledge, and acquirement, have gradually diffused themselves amongst the Catholic gentry, and you have in that class a body of rank and talent which you cannot much longer persist in excluding from those honours— whether political or professional—to which they naturally aspire, and to which they have an honest and indefeasible claim. You ought long since—if you meant to act as you are now acting—to have removed every inducement which could tempt the Catholic into public and professional sta tion, or have fairly opened to him all the prospects of pre ferment which are the reward of ability and public service. If a Catholic sees those rewards impartially bestowed, he has no ground of complaint if lie should fail in obtaining them. If his title is postponed to those of higher de serving, he feels that the ground of his failure is rational and just. But to have his claims not merely treated with utter disrespect, but to have them totally and for ever excluded, when—but for the disqualifying statutes which bear them out—they would give him a decisive preference, this no Catholic—nor any man made up of the ordi nary materials of which human nature is compounded— can contentedly brook. As to any affected alarm for die safety of the Protestant Church, it is a miserable pretext for depriving the Catholics of those civil rights which have their foundation in justice, not in doc trinal opinions, and which, as such, are the common rights of every British subject. You cannot safely con tinue to withhold these rights, because you cannot preserve to the Protestant Ascendancy the monopoly of power, and place, and patronage. Those who would per sist in doing so, only hope to effect it by a military /area; it were superfluous to advert to this, for it cannot be ; it would leave the Orange party without an advocate—and their cause would be lost. The progress of knowledge is going on to change the face and the fate of nations. The old routine of things is giving way—we cannot go on, as formerly, disdaining the trammels of truth and reason. The principles of justice will force their way, and we have no security but in an up right and prompt attention to them. Our domestic and foreign politics bear the impress of those liberal opinions and principles which are fast gaining ground. Mr. CAN NING has avowed them boldly and manfully ; his public acts have put them on record, and have proclaimed them in kingdoms where their patronage is most needed, and their influence will be most felt. Mr. Roarrisorc, Mr. 11 use issora, and others of most lead and influence, are daily consigning to oblivion those mistaken principles of trade and commerce which guided the councils and go verned the measures of former Ministers, and their enlight ened example will make its way to neighbouring nations. Why, in the midst of all this, do we suffer our conduct towards Ireland to dishonour the British Constitution, and bring disgrace on the British name ? We trust a short time will take away this reproach from our national cha racter. At present it is a mournful theme; and it is always with pain we recur to it. PRESS. it would lead, or in what its excesses would I ar, that had this state of things been per- $1 ~ l r.i. Yom. • E FRENCII PAPERS. [From the Bto - 777:17rd Ifiaturday,l PARIS, Allastcm 4. By an order of his Majesty the King of Spain to the Board of Customs of Alicant, dated the 24th of January, the Decree of the 4th of July, 1824, is revoked. This Decree, which, under the specious pretext of striking at and putting down smuggling, unfortunately injured commerce and na vigation in general, had led to many remonstrances from several foteigr Consuls, and especially the }Tench Consul. The new De cree of his Majesty has accordingly been received in that city with general satisfaction. The Preebirg Gazette says, " It was announced too noon that tranquillity was entirely restored in Servia. Prince Molosch, by -abusing his first successes over the insurgents, a great number a who. he has eattsvi to be beheaded, has only added fuel to the bane ; on all sides the people fly to arms. The weak Turkish iprrlsor.s are insufficient to repress the insurrrction ; they arc woes Mitt with fatigue, by being made to march continually from OIMP Tee to another " A journal says, "our correspondent at Augsburg informs us, that h has received information from Trieste, that Sir Frederick Adam, Governor of the lonian Islands, after having received despatches from London, was gone from Corfu to Cerigo. It was generally believed that he would there have an interview with some of the most influential members of the Greek Government." The Coarrier Francais, in its Number of the 2d of March, has given some very incorrect statements respecting the situation of the men of colour from Martinique now in Senegal. We can assure out readers that none of these persons have bean subjected to confinement, that on the contrary all exercise their pro fession' at liberty; that the Government of Senegal has been formally authorised to afford assistance to those who may need it, only re quiring in return, after the first month, work of some kind for the benefit of the King's service; and that lastly, the letters from that Government do not mention that we have to deplore the death of so much as one of the men of, colour in question. Ye have letters from Lisbon of 19th ult., which mention that Marquis Palmella and Count de Sukserra were to set out imtne dtately for their destination. [From the Constitutiownei of Fridiy.l 0DE511•., Fell. 8. Letters from Constantinople, dated the lst inst. announce that Omer Vrione has at last thrown aside the mask., and that he hrs entered into negotiations with Alaurocardato, by which Prevess is again in the hands of the Greeks. This circumstance is at this moment the more important, as it constrains, at the outset, the Porte to engage a rebel Turk, who has energy and ample means of resistance. It was in vain that the Porte endeavoured, under different pretexts, very honourable to him, to draw him from the country; the Pacha, In fear of Some trap, repelled all the propo sitions which were made him. BRAZILIAN PAPERS. [From the Diario Flumfantre.l RIO DE .411E1110, Dec. 31. The court martial appointed to try Capain Lieutenant John Pascoe Grenfell, of the Imperial Navy, has unanimously acquitted him, on the ground that the crime is not proved in such a manlier as to lead to any punishment ; for by the instructions which the ac cused produced, it was evident that his conduct was in all respects directed and regulated by the literal observance of the orders he bad received. .... JANUARY 3. Numerous complaints having been made to his Majesty the Emperor, of the great interruption of public tranquillity by the many robberies, and even murders, that have been lately committed, in spite of the existing regulations by which the laws have smite voured to check these disorders; and his Majesty having taken into consideration this important subject, involving the security and tranquillity which the citizens of Brazil have a right to expect under the eyes of the laws; his Majesty has been pleased to increase the police guards, and has ordered the following regulations to be enforced on the responsibility of the competent authorities. (Here follow the regulations, in eleven articles.) All persons whatever, when they meet any patrol, officer, or soldier, of the police, must obey, if summoned in his Majesty's name, to stop, in order to be questioned, searched, or presented to any authority. After ten in the evening in summer, and nine in winter, no person is exempt from being searched by the patrols of the police, and even before those hours, if there is reason for suspicion, in order to discover if they have prohibited arms or in. struments for house-breaking. The patrols are to be strictly enjoined not to abuse this measure, nor to employ it in the case of persons who are publicly known and of good character. Slaves may be searched at any hour of the day or night. After the ringing of the bells (at the above-mentioned hours), every person found in a tavern, shop, or gaming -house, shall pay 4,000 rcia for the first time ; for the second, double ; and so on, progressively, if • freeman ; and if a slave, shall be flogged. The owner of the house shall pay 9,500 rcis the first time; double the second ; and treble the third ; and shall besides lose his license. The same penalty to be inflicted on those tavern keepers. &c. who shall allow in their taverns, by night or by day, aaseniblages of persons without buying. A tavern or vends, in which it is proved that slaves have sold articles that they have stolen, shall be liable to a fine of 10,000 rein, and its license irre. vocably taken away. The market in English Securities was light on Saturday. Consols for Money were at 93i$, and for the Account they were done at 931 i. The foreign market was depressed. Mexican Scrip was at 4, and Brazilian fluctuating between 91 and 4, sad but little doing in either. Colombian Bonds had declined to 92 ; Greek Scrip was, by a series of skilful artifices, depressed at the close of the day to 1/ discount. All the morning there was a continual circulation of rumours against the Greeks, and the depression we have stated was finally produced by a very confident, but, as we ascertained, wholly groundless assertion, that one of the Greek Islands had gone over to the Turks. The prosperity of the Greek cause will support it against all those malignant attempts to injure it, and we have no doubt whatever that this loan will be permanently beneficial to the subscribers. The spiteful opposition to it can only prevail for a short time. The shares generally varied a good deal : Pasco Peruvian were between 91 and 341. The new Mexican Company was at 111 101, and die Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road as high as 56. The Irish Companies, and all Asso ciations connected with iron, looked well. The Shares of a new Company, under the title of the Atlantic and Pacific Association, came out at 1 premium. They afterwards de clined to 1, hut they were well thought of, and the reason of their not coming out higher was understood to be, that they were not so soon expected in the market, which was consequently taken somewhat by surprise. The speculators in Mincing-lane were so busy settling their differences, that no bargains were made there on Saturday. We are requested to state that the wine-merchants in the city intend to lower French wines 13s. per dozen, and other wines 10s. We are assured that the persons who are en deavouring to keep up the price, are not regular wine merchants, but speculators, who are buying up the wines in bond for the purpose. All appearances tend to confirm the opinion that there has been a commotion at the Havannah. Houses of great caution and respectability are buying up sugars, and there fore it is conjectured that they are acting upon private intelligence. There are letters in town from the Isle of France, to the 20th November. They bring no news. The Lord Ilungerford, from Calcutta, has arrive& but almost all her letters and papers are left at Portsmouth. The letters that have arrived are chiefly duplicates. Those that are not so are purely commercial. The report of the indigo crop was favourable. The letters are dated from Madras, 14th October: Bengal, 14th September; and Mauritius, 23d November. This vessel is not above ten days later than the last arrival. A commercial treaty between Colombia and the United States has been ratified. A panenger in the Aspasia, from Carthagena, states that Mr. Anderson, the brother of the American Consul, sailed from Carthagena with the treaty on the same day he left that port. A memorial from the West India merchants and planters will be presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer this day, praying that the duties on ruin may be placed on the relative scale of duties with British spirits as it stood during previous years; that is, in place of the present reduction to Ss. per gallon, the duty should be lowered to Ss. or Ss. Gd. per gallon. A deputation of merchants connected with the Cape of Good Hope, waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday. The present duty on Cape wine is 2s. 6d. or 2s. 7d. per gallon, and the merchants pray for a reduction, on the scale of that of the other duties. The deputation was favourably received, and informed that the represen tation would be immediately taken into the serious con sideration of Government. THE LATE INIINDATIONS.—III the province of Over yssel, 250 persons lost their lives in the late floods, and 14,000 oxen were drowned. Four thousand persons are in need of immediate assistance ; and, on a surface of 90,000 acres of land which were overflowed, 1,300 houses have fallen in ; and the manufactories and dock-yards at Blocksyl and Zwartsluis have been greatly injured. The country lens it were covered with household furniture, of every description. A petition is in course of signature at Manchester, pray ing for a revision of the Corn Laws. A requisition to the Mayor of Liverpool has been signed for a meeting to petition for the repeal of the ►Window Tax. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGRATE. HOUSE OF COMMONS THIS DAY. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. Stuart Worley,—To limit the tune of referring to any Committee Petitions relating to Standing Orders. Mr. Kennedy.--Select Committee on the Salmon Fishery., Mr. Doulburn,--Bill to amend the Prison Aet of Ireland. _ _ Mr. Goulburn,—Bill to ascertain the Boundaries of Parisboa and Town-lands in Ireland. Mr. Henries,—To move Civil Contingencies, Army Em, et naries, and Commissariat. (In Committee of Supply.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer,—Annual Duties. (In Com mittee of Ways and Means.) ORDERS OF THE DAY. Game Laws Milt—Second Heading. Supply ;—Report. Supply ;—Committee. Weights and Measures Bill :—Third Reading. Ways and Means i—Committee. Assessed Tines Bill ;—Further Consideration of Report. t Fishery Act ;—Committee thereupon. Judicial Inquiry (Ireland) Bill;—Second Reading. County Treasurers (Ireland) Bill ;—Second Reading. THE MINORITY WHO HAVE VOTED AGAIN!4T THE. CATHOLIC ossocroviod BILL IN SOME Or ITS /TAGIL --.......-- Abercromby, Hon. J.Fitzgerald, Rt.Hn.ll.o'Brien, Sir E. Althorn, Vise. Fergusson, Sir R. C. Palmer, Charles Anson, Sir G. Fitzroy, Lord John Palmer, C. F. Anson, Hon. 0. Fitzroy, Lord C. Pares, Thomas Barham, J. F. Folkestone, Vise. Pelham, J. C. Baring, A. Frankton& Robert Phillips, G. sen. Baring, H. French, Arthur Phillips, G. H. jun. Baring. Sir T. Gasket!. B. Power, R. Barnard, Vise. Glenorchy, Vise. Powlett, Hon. W. Barrett, S. M. Graham, Sandford Price, Robert Beaumont, T. W. Grattan, J. Ponsonby, lion. F. F. Becher, W. W. Guise, Sir W. Poynter, V. S. Bennet, Hon. H. 0. Gurney, R. H. Parnell. Sir H. Benyon, B. Gurney, Hudson Pym, Francis Bernal, Ralph Gordon, Robert Ramsden, J. C. Birch, J. Haldimand, W. Rice, T. S. Brougham. H. liamilton, Lord A. Robins, A. W. Burdett, Sir F. Heron, Sir IL Robarts, O. Brown, D. Hill, Lord A. Robinson, Sit G. Bury, Vise. ilobhouse, J. C. Rowley, Sir W. Benett, John ilony wood, W. P. Rumbold, C. Bontinek, Lord W. Hornby, E. Robertson, A. Byng, G. Hume, Joseph Scotian, J. Bective, Earl of Hurst, R. Scott, J. Calcraft, J. Hutchinson, Hn.C.H.Sciton, Earl of Cfticraft. J. H. Howard. 11. Smith, John Calvert, Charles James, Wm. Smith, G. Carew, R. Johnstone, W. A. Smith, W. Carter, John Knight, R. Stanley, Lord Caulfield, Hon. H. Kingsborough. Lord Stuart, Lord P.J. Cavendish, C. C. Lamb, Hon. a. Sykes, D. Cavendish, H. Lambton, J. 0. Somerville; Sir Al. Cavendish, Lord 0. Leyeester, R. Talbot, R. W. Chaloner, R. Lufthington, S. Taylor, AL A. Clifton, Visc. Leader, W. Tierney, Rt. Hon. O. Coffin, Sir I. Moberly, John Wall, C. B. Cbke, T. W. Moberly, W. L. Worre, J. A. Colborne, N. R. Macdonald, James Webbe, Edward Creerry, Thomas Mackintosh. Sir J. Wharton, John Crompton, S. Marjoribanks, S. Whitbread, S. C. Cradoek, Sheldon Martin, J. Whitbread, W. H. Crespigny, Sir W. Delltartin, R. White, Samuel Colleen, J. C. Maxwell. John White, Colonel Davies, I. H. Milton, Vise. Wilkins, Walter Denison, W. J. Monk, J. B. Williams, John Denman, Thomas Moore, Petit Wilson, Sir Robert Duncannon, Vise. Mahon, Hos. S. Winnington. Sir T. Dundas, lion. T. Newport,Rt.lin.SirJ.lVood, Matthew Ebrington Vise. Normanby, Vise. ‘Vyvill, Al. Ellice Edward Nugent, Lord NVrottesley, Sir J. Ellis, 0. A. Ord, W. Evans, William Osborne, Lord F. FASHIO-VABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Lansdown gave a grand dinner on Saturday to the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, the Bishop of Norwich, Earl Eitryrilliam, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery. the Earl and Countess of Darnley, dc. at Lanadown House, Berkeley-squire. Lord King gave an elegant entertainment on Saturday at hit house in Dover-street, to a distinguished party. among whom were —the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Grosvenor, Earl of Essex, Lord Clif ton, Lord Suffield, Lord and Lady Duncannon, Sir P. Burdett, Bart. Mr. and Mrs. Aherer omby , Mr. Phillips, &c. • . • The Duke of Norfolk had a grand dinner party yesterday at his house in St. James's-square. The Countess of Arran entertained an elegant circle of fashion. tables on Saturday evening at her house in Dover-street. Lord Wm. Lennox has arrived in town front Sussex. Lord Charles Manners has arrived in lowa from his brother' the Duke of Rutland's, Be'volt Castle. Earl Gower has arrived in town from his father's, the Marquis of Stafford's seat, in Surrey. The Earl of Essex has arrived in town from his seat, Cashiobury Park, Hens. Mr. and Miss Burroughs have arrived at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook -street, from their scat, Officy, Hants. Departures from ditto :—Lord Thomas Cecil, to his brother's, the Marquis of Exeter's, lltirleigh, Lincolnshire ; Mr. and Lady Sarah Bailey on a tour ; Colonel Rewston, to Lancashire; Peter Lateuche, Esq. to Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Prune on a tour ; Wm Pigou, Esq. for the Continent. Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Turton, for their seat in Kent ; Captain Gardiner, R.N. for Plymouth. F. Walford, Esq. has left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat, near Shrewsbury. Departures (tom the British Hotel :--Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, for Bath; J. Mansfield. Esq. for Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire; T. Lumley, Esq. for Norfolk. Sir Gilbert Heatheote. Bart. has arrived in town from his seat, Normanton Park, Lincolnshire. Arrivals at Bart's Hotel. Dover-street of Lismore, from Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Jukes and family, front York. Departures from ditto:—Captain M. M. Johnson and family, to Bath; Mr. John Hyde and family, to Clifton; Col. Worsley, to Leamington ; Mr. and Mrs. Smyth and Miss Smyth, to Brighton. GRAND CHRISTENING—Saturday being the day appointed for the christening of Mr. Secretary Peel's infant son, and the expected honour of the Duke of York standing sponsor upon the occasion, every preparation was made on a very splendid and magnificent scale. The court-yard or grounds in the trait of the new mansion in Privy•gardens were brilliantly illuminated, the lower part of the mansion was lighted with gas, the principal apartments with Gre cian lamps and wax, and the whole had a most splendid appear ance: the house altogether is considered the moat complete, well. fitted up, decorated, and furnished, of any modern house in Lott. don. The upper servants were dressed suitably for the occasion : the livery servants appeared in splendid new liveries. The com pany invited began to arrive at half-past six o'clock ; at seven o'clock the Duke of York arrived: his Royal Highness was re. ceived by Mr. Peel, and conducted to the splendid drawing-mom. A temporary altar was erected, and the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, the tutor of the Right lion. Secretary when at Oxford, immediately corn mencee the ceremony of the christening ; the infant was named Frederick, after the Duke of York. The other sponsors were the Earl of Vt'hitworth and Viscountess Melville. Immediately after the ceremony the company retired to the dining room, the dinner having been previously served up. A most splendid banquet pre sented itself, which consisted of every delicacy. Among the corm parry were—The Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Duchess of Dorset, Viscount Melville, the Ladies Lennox, Lady Floyd (the mother of Mrs. Peel), Mr. Williams, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. John Peel, and their ladies, &c. WINDSOR, SUNDAY, MARCH 6.—Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, accomranied by her lady in waiting, attended the parish church, when an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gossett, Rector of the parish, from the Ist chapter of Timothy and 15th verse, " This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." This being the first Sunday in the month, the Mayor and Corporation went to church in their robes, in procession from the Town Hall. The improvements at the Castle are proceeding with great expedition, there being upwards of SOO men constantly at work. Yesterday Divine Service was performed to the King's household, at his Palace in Pall-mall, by the Rev. Dr. Blom berg. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at half past two o'clock at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Liverpool, Westmor land, Harrowby, and Bathurst; Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, &c. The Cabinet Ministers did not break up till half-past five o'clock. Mr. Secretary Canning is fast recovering from his late attack of the gout. He was t,isted on Saturday by Dr . Holland and Mr. Shuter. &dunlay the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Robinson had a numerous dinner party. The Lords of his Msjesty's Most Honourable Privy Council assembled at the new Council Office, Whitehall place, on Saturday morning, at half-post ten o'clock, for the purpose of hearing and determining French Appeals. There were present the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Gifford, Lord Stowell, Lord Colchester, and Sir John Nichol!. Their Lordships were occupied till four o'clock. A Dublin Paper states, that Nlr. Plunkett has procured the appointintnt of Mr. Woulfe to the oNce of Crown C ousel on tits' Munster Circuit. s N