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PRICES OF FOREION annsilian Bonds 62 r: Ayres Bonds VI Bonds ill 1 WI Orrionibian Bonds Ditto Bonds (1824) es e 74 9 I 7 Dit i to Acct. 68 4 7i 114 ile 74 ilik Donn Bonds imso 80416 (len) 964 Ditto Acts- Sal leonch Rats, i per G. 661 f. {Be. Etelunge 25f. We. .Fioncii Bente, 3 per Et. 60C be& Nacho rip Uf. 2Se. Week Rands Ditte Builds (1621) 18 16 STOCKS YESTERDAY. Ouadalajsra Bonds 66 Ilitricar, Bonds 64 Ditto Bonds (1290 MI GO 14 160 601 Ditto Acct. bil4 60 2 1 601 604 1 4 591 60 694 60 Nesgm Intr. Bonds (1826) 73 Peruvian Bonds 40 14 Ditto Acct. 42 Pi•;.l;,;6onds 904 Ditto Bonds (1822) 91 904 Russian Bonds (1891) 78 , 1 9i I SO 79i 8,. Ditto Acct. 781 80 nil I Spanish Coact! 131 Ditto Mot, 13 Ditto Cons. ( 1823) 9* PRICES OF SHARES YIATIADAI . MIN U. NM Paid. rromitim per note. A nil o Net itan 4• o 6lo.Chlllan AoGsar Colombian ln 5 6 Ilatyitp IN 5 S2i dis . P4442-Pouvian 'Potosi, La Pas, and Paruvian 50 5 24 dis Tialputshes 4OO 20 45 SIOW Illexkan na New 4O 10 4 3 WIVE/114CE COMPANIES. Ann, British and Foreign lOO 10 14 Protector Fire sitsett.t.airtous• BMA Rock aad Patent Salt 10 6 1 1 • • !Orb, & Colonial Silk NI 2 14 dis SNOW e VA 3 a Yip By — 161) MEXICAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN—The Ninth Quitterly Payment of the Interest on Mexican Five per cent. Stock, due on the Ist of JANUARY next, will be paid at the Counting house of Alessi's. B. A. Ooldeehniidt and Co. on dot and the anteceding days, and the holders are requested to leave the Dividend Warrants at their office, between the hours of 10 and 2, with lots thereof. numerically arranged, at least one day previous to payment, in order that they may be examined. :MEXICAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN.—Notice is hereby Oren that, in consequence of stipulations in the CONTRACT crtcluded between Don Francisco de Borja Mi. gent, Agent to the Mexican Government, and Messrs. B. A. Goldsehmidt and Co., CERTIFICATES of the above LOAN, to the amount 0f . 110.5001, over and above the ordinary Sinking Fund stipulated for in the general BOND, have been purchased with .the NINTH INSTALMENT of the sum directed to be set apart from the proceeds of the last LOAN negotiated for account of the 'Mexican Government, for the purchase of CERTIFI CATES for the first LOAN; and that such CERTIFICATES IFf fa CANCELLED the 41st Instant, and deposited in the Bank of England by Vineente Rocafuerte, Esq. Charge d'Affaires from the United States of Mexico to Great Bntaln, jointly with B. A. Goldschmldt and Co. ; and in the presence of Mr. Joho Newton, Neter, Public. Mexican live per Cent. Bonds Cancelled 21st Dec. 1825 : Letter A. No. 54t4-6232. Two of 1001. each Letter B. No. I No. - - - 8474 8478 8478 8477 8478 8479 No. 8550 8551 8552 8553 8544 8655 8558 2298 2299 2291 2292 45 . 19 4590 4691 4692 4593 4594 4595 4596 24i7 2486 25,2 2764 2777 2144 6165 6157 5165 ~~ SO2 C 2 I eras of 1301. of 1001. Cite Nritiolt WOO. DRURY-LANE THE.4I'RE. This Evening. THURSDAY, Dee. IS, will be performed the Medial Drama of GUY wometimo. Henry Bertram. Mr. Ho; n; ftmnlnle sampoon, Mr. Llst•m . Dandle Ernmont. Mr. I erten!". Lees. 'tartrate. IflaeGraddon; Jolt. Wad. miring, Mho !0107: Meg Merrtiler. M rs.W.Yr est. After which the Divertleement of THE CAMP. ►rincipal Dancers. Mr. and Mrs. Noble, Qr. To conclude with the Fares of DEAF AS A Po% T. Tristrem Sappy. Mr. Liston; Sa:ly Magee, Mrs. Order. To-morrow. She Stoops to Conquer; dad Killing no Murder. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Tl.l, Lreolog. r 11 uRitIA N', Dee 114. will be performed the Comedy of TIM ROM) TO _ Mr. I)oraton. 'I-. W. 1. wren I Harry Darneon. Mr. Cooper; Gold- L oeh, Jones. Tlu Widow Marren, Mrs. Glover; Sophia, Mir Uowird. Atter vrilleh the Operatic Piece of 'TWA!' I. Tie principal Chareeners ►y Messrs. Ourneet, Keeley. EV11125. and Darnel: 111.1 ion's, Madame Veatch , . and Mrs. Davenport. Tomorrow, The bchool Air Scandal: and Giovanni In London. The Barr leg Paces commenced publishing yesterday morn ing at firs o'cLck. LONDON, THURSDAY,:pIeIMIItIi 251, The French Papers %filch arrived last night throw no light on the mysterious circumstances attending the sudden death of the Emperor ALIX•NDCB. It is presumed that les decease resulted from the erysipelas in his leg; but this 11 a mere conjecture. CONIT;NiiaI, it is stated, was • proclaimed Emperor at Warsaw immediately on the ar nval of the intelligence. We observe that there is no Amount of the Grand Duke Nz CHOLA/. it is a singular :act tbst Count Li avow, the Russian Ambassador, has yet received no official information of the demise of his Sove 'reiir. 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In the state of entire ignorance in which we are with regard to what has taken place in Russia, it is quite prema, ture to speculate on the probable conserplences of the ac cession of CONSTANTINE. He is known to be a great favourite with the military, and is himself an excellent soldier. His habits have been disciplined by actual service. In a despotic empire like that of Russia the only great changes are those which occur in the person of its ruler. His character may therefore be said to control the destiny of his people. Corral-arm NEisof an irregular and im petuous disposition, -without any fixed principles moral or religious. What course of policy he may be inclined to pur sue, or what influence his policy--whatever it may be—may exercise over the general politics of Europe, time alone can develope. He is friendly to the Greeks, and it is by no means improbable that he may be disposed to signalise the commencement of his reign by crossing the Pruth with the fine army now collected on its banks. The Teaks have furnished him with as good a pretext for war as he can desire, by their refusal to evacuate the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. No measure would render him more popular with his subjects, whose feelings in fa vour of the Greeks were painfully repressed by ALE XAN DL R. The very name that Co NSTA N TINE bears was given to him by his grandmother, the Empress CAT II ARIN with reference to her project of re-astablishing in his per son, at Constantinople, the Empire of the West. In his youth a medal was struck, inscribed to " Constantine, Kirg of the Greeks." He has always cherished the hope of accomplishing this design, and now that he is suddenly invested with power to gratify his ambition, he will hardly be induced, from any purely political considerations, to forego the dearest object of his desires. He is too untamed to be yoked to the car of the holy Alliance. He is far better skilled in the use of the sword than in the study of the law of nations, and will naturaily be inclined to settle any difference with regard to the latter by an appeal to the former. The French Funds were considerably depressed on Monday, in consequence of the apprehensions arising from the acciwrion of the Emperor CONSTANTINS. We sub join the quotations of that day : ' Far xcm Ft: wns.—PAars, DEC. 19.—Five per Cei ts. 94f. 30e. ; Thee per Cents. 60f. Sac. ; Bank Stock 2050 f ; Roves de Naples Certif. Falconnet 74f. bc. ; Royal Spanish Loan, ♦tt4f. ; Ex change on London—Ones Month. 2.5 f. 4 25c..—Coars Asitlantique. The Madrid Gazette of the Sth inst. contains a long ar ticle, purporting to consist of news from different parts of America. This intelligence is of precisely the same cha racter that we used to receive through that most veracious of all official Journals, during the late campaign in Peru. BOLIVAR is represented as a furious and sanguinary tyrant, oppressing and plundering the people, who arc universally, we are told, " strongly in favour of the King of SPAIN." Or.wwria, it is affirmed, maintains his ground in Upper Peru, and holds his head-quarters at La Pax, where Bo stvatt is afraid of attacking him, knowing he woUltl not be successful, and finally the Gazetteer asserts that the Mexican federation is dissolving, and the states declaring them selves independent of each other. Why falsehoods of this gross and palpable description should:hepublishrd, it seems difficult to guess. In every p►rte( Eurepe to which intelli gence arrives direct from Seeth America, the attempted fraud will be instantly detected, and• even in the Peninsula credit can only be gained for a few weeks at the expense of losing it for ever afterwards. Though there ettia,aplil fiery cently some 'doubt with regard to the filirer.Gerteral OLA N LTA there can be none now. The declaration of in dependence by the States of Upper Peru proves, shat the royalist force in that quarter, under °LANE /A, MINI by some means have been completely annihilated. The leading article in the Times of yesterday, on the subject of the BAS PC, is written exactly in the style of one who is at a loss what to say, and yet feels that he must say something. Its laboured attempts to depreciate the charac ter of the Bank Directors having totally failed of their iffeet, and the pecuniary difficulties which had for a while suspended public credit becoming every day lighter, the public are now told, by way of accounting for th isfa vourable change—not that it arises—as the truth is—from the rapid restoration of public confidence, but that " those difficulties are the less oppressive, because they are langer borne with out any diminution of the strength of those who hear Mew, and much more adroitness in shifting the burden from this weak part and that galled teat to a new position."— Nothing is so difficult to deal with in the way of reasoning as sheer nonsense. It is a new doctrine of political philo sophy which teaches us, that " difficulties are the Less oppressive the longer they are borne with." It must no doubt he pleasing to invalids to learn that they gather strength the longer their weakness continues, and that they may recover the soundness of their "galled seat" by shift ing it to a " new position ;" but he that can discover what this metaphor from Apothecaries' Hall has to do with the Bank of England, has a fair claim to the praise of sagacity. The Mint yesterday delivered seven hundred thousand sovereigns to the Bank of England. It has not less than ten presses at work in augmenting the supply of specie. This well-apring of abundance places the Times journalist in a sad dilemma. Having been the first that spread a report throughout the kingdom that the Bank was involved in embarrassments—and having generated every where a dread that it was about to " stop payment"—it proceeded next to hint pretty broadly that it would speedily be reduced to the necessity of applying for an authority to suspend cash payments. " But as fur relief from the King's Government"—said this sage journal, with an air of autho rity that would lead us to suppose the Privy Council were actually sitting in Printing-Horse-square—" As for any relief from the Kiso's Government, we can tell the spe culating people, and their great foster-mother, in Thread needle -street, that they will meet with none —no, not a particle--of the species of relief which they look for." After having circulated its malicious insinuations so effec tively as to cause the utmost agitation and alarm—aster embittering, to the utmost of its means, the pressure of commercial distress, and hearing the curse of indignation loud against it in all quarters, the incendiary comes coolly forward from behind the scenes, and with an affected sim plicity asks—"lVla is it that accuses the Times of having propagated unjustifiable fears for public credit ?" Now that all alarm has subsided, and this journalist finds all his malignity neutralised, he takes new ground ; or, to use his own elegant metaphor, " he shifts his galled seat to a new position," and represents the Bank of England and ?,im self as joint-proprietors of a common stock of wisdom, the Company, however, acting—as no doubt was proper— with due deference to him, as supreme adviser. The lan guage of the Times on Monday was— " We really do not know under what state or condition of public credit we this day address the conntry. Dark rumowa and Udine swpictons have certainly been in cir culation, that the Bank of England would suspend its cash payments, ender a Council Order of course; and if such should prove to be the case, the portentous measure may, perhaps, be announced or made known in the city about the time that the reader takes into his hand to peruse these our statements on Me subject." But the fact having been thus assumed for the purpose of exciting all that dismay to which it might he supposed to lead, and the affluent and .rapid supply of specie having proved this malignant rumour of the suspension of cash payments to be totally unfounded, the limes turns short round, as if it were Chief Counsellor of the Corporation, and exclaims " The course which we argued that the 8.3 x 1 ought not to take, it has not taken—it has not called for a legal authorization of the suspension of cash pay ments; and, therefore, so far the BAN K and we are agreed." Prodigious ! But what may we be permitted to ask is here meant by the Bank not having " called for a legal authorization of the inspensism of cash payments?" ff this information is at all intelligible, the public must infer from it that the Bank has suspended it■ payments in specie, but has " not called for a legal author;zatiun" of the measure ! Such confused jargon as Ibis is not pardonable. A journal should at least enable its readers to understand what it says, although, when understood, it may be worth nothing. CITY, WEDIJESD•T EVEXTNO. One of those re-actions took place on the Stock Ex changes this morning, against which we have felt it our duty sines the decline of the panic constantly to warn the public, because we were confident that repeated fluctuations must follow the transactions of last week. The distress in the country, resulting from the agitated state of public credit in the metropolis, could not pass over like a sum mer's cloud, and we have lost no opportunity in impressing this truth upon our readers, so as to guard, as far as we could, against even the possibility of misapprehension. Of this we are certain, that die depression in the latter part of the day was merely dte consequence of the causes to which we have above referred, and not originating in any new circumstances connected with the state of public cre dit, either in London or the country. Indeed we are in clined to believe that the price of stock:: will even be lower in January than at present. Many concomitant circum stances will lead to that decline, which may be considered as the effect of recent events; but this does not in the slightest degree alter or affect our general position, that the panic is completely over, notwithstanding the malignant but abortive endeavours of the alarmist press to keep it alive. This was a holyday at the Bank, but bargains were done in Reduced Annuities for to-morrow at 79i 81. Consols fluctuated between fifil and 8011, and considerable busi ness was doing in them. The decline of securities in the middle of the day was accounted for in various ways by different persons, according to their various interestP, but we are satisfied ourselves that it was produced by opera tions connected with the late alarm, and we anticipate si milar depressions and fluctuations for a length of time. The Exchequer Bill market was much relieved to-day, and Bills rose to 28s. 20s. dis. A great deal of business was transacted in the foreign market during the morning, and the securities in it were generally lower, particularly those connected with South America. Colombian Bonds were 514; Mexican 6 per Cents 60 ; Greek Bonds 16 13 ; Spanish ditto 13 to 4 ; Danish ditto 58, and Russian Bonds 80 791. We are sorry to find that the banking-house of Ca renagli and Co. of Bath, a branch of which was established at Bristol, has been, in consequence of a severe run upon it, compelled to suspend its payments. This circumstance probably, with reports of a similar nature respecting other establishments, bad a alight tendency to depress the Funds. CONSULTATIONS OF XIS MAJESTYS MINISTERS. The members of hi' Majesty's Government continue very active and indefatigable in their attention to the pre sent extraordinary state of the country, particularly those at the head of the financial department, and at the head of what is called the Home or Internal Departmet.t. The whole of the Cabinet Ministers are now in Landon or its environs, with the exception of the Earl of Westmore laiul and Earl Bathurst. 'f be Earl of Liverpool and the Chanceller of the Exche quer wire very closely engaged on Tuesday, except during the short time they were in attendance upon the King at hie Court ; they both left the Palace at the close of the Privy Council, as soon as the Proclamation was agreed upon for the assembling of Parliament for the despatch of busi ness, not waiting to hear the Recorder of London's Report, as is customary. The Noble Earl afterwards received the Governor and some of the Directors of the Bank of Eng land, and other gentlemen, at his house in Whitehall, where they continued in deliberation till past ten o'clock. The Chancellor of the Exchequer assisted at the delibera tion from five till half-past six o'clock. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town yes terday morning, from Charlton, having left London late the preceding evening. 'fhe Right Honourable Gentle man resumed the communications and deliberations with the Earl of Liverpool during yesterday, as well as with most of the other Cabinet Ministers. In the course of the day there were frequent commu nications by letters between the Earl of Liverpool and the Governor of the Bank. At a quarter before four o'clock the Earl of Liver pool left his house in Whitehall, in his travelling chariot, for his seat at Coombe Wood. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Rothschild proceeded to the Earl of Liverpool's house in Whitehall, for the pur -1 pose of obtaining an interview with the Noble Earl, but he arrived at his Lordship's house a few minutes after the Noble Earl had left town ; Mr. Rothschild then waited upon the Right Honourable C. Arbuthnot, and afterwards proceeded to the Treasury, where he remained near an hour, transacting business. Mr. Secretary Peel transacted business at a late hour last evening at the Home Office. Tuesday evening Mr. Secretary Peel dined with the Duke of Wellington and a select party. The Duke of Devonslatidined with Mr. Wilmot Hor ton on Monday evening. . Tuesday evening the Portuguese Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign Office for a coneiderahle time. The Govtrnor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors of the I Bank, have been indefatigable in their attendance. They have for many days past arrived at the Bank (some of them) as early as nine in the morning, and some have re mainad u late as nine at night. They continue to give every facility to money negotiations. Transfers of three and three and a half per cent. stock were made yesterday, although a holytlay at the Bank. GOLD COI N.—The present anxiety for the obtaining of gold would appear strange to some of our remote ancestors: for when Henry 1 11 first issued gold coins the people re fused to give them currency. A precept was therefore di rected to the Mayor and Sheriffs to enforce their circulation ; but the citizens making a representation against this kind of money, a proclamation was published by the King, de claring that they were only to be taken at the option of the receiver, and that holders of them should r, give the full value from the TreasuryZeleducting the charges of coinage. There is one cause-not commonly adverted to that is now actively at work to 'procuring the transmission of bullion to this country t '': The very high rate of interest obtainable here, and the great prospective advantages from the emplovrocut of ready money, induce those great capitalists who have property at their disposal in foreign countries, to cause it to be conveyed hither in the speedicat manner, the inducement being not the state of the ex change merely, but the advantages in the employment of money here. A letter from Philadelphia states, that a merchant there who owned six ships in the Canton trade had just failed. FASIIIONANLE INTELLIGENCE. The l'ilarquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond -street, yeatertlay,for their new residence in St. James's square. . . . Sir George Robinson, Bart. left town yesterday, for North an!ptoo... - _ . Lord Muncaater left town yesterdsy, for Mellon Mowbray. The Earl and Countess of Bradford have left Wiston.hall for their scat, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. The Hon. Agar and Lady Ellis have left Roehampton for the Earl of Essex's sea, Cashiobory Park. Herts. Departures from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook•street :_Lord Lilford, for his seat iu Northamptonshire; and J. Montague, Esq. for Scotland. Wm. &ornatell, Esq. has left the St. George's Hotel, Albe marle-street, for his seat, near Colchester. Sir Charles and Lady Long have left town fur the Countess of Bridgewater's seat, A abridge, Herts. Lord Sondes has left Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle.street, for his seat in Kent. Captain Matson arrived yesterday at the Waterloo Hotel, Jer myn.street, from Brighton. Lord Althorp has left the 31arquis of Tairistock'a seat, in Bed fordshire, for :\ orthamotonahire. Departures from the British Hotel :—Mr. and Mrs. Painter, fur Bath; Captain Stuart, for Brighton; William Stanley, Esq. for Melton Mow/bray. The Earl of Mexborough has arrived at his seat, Metchley Park, Yorkshire, from a tour. FRENCH PAPERS. [From the Erode of Tuesday] Pants, DEC. 19. The courier who left Taganrog to announce the death of the Emperor Alexander returned directly to Warsaw, and the French Consul sent off immediately a courier to Berlin, where N. Billecocq ' was despatched by the French Minister. The Emperor Constan tine left Wank* on the title. lle was to be proclaimed on the 15th at St. Petershorgh, and on the 16th all the civil and military au thorities were to attend him. We shall, therefore, have by the 30 . h at Paris news of all that may have passed in St. Petersburgh on the accession of the Emperor. The Court of Prussia had been apprired of the illness of the Emperor Alexander. The doubts raked in sorer of the Journals as to the succession to the empire have no foundation. 'rite order of succession was regu -1 lated by the Emperor Paul. It is known that many years ago the Emperor had a fall from a carriage, in consequence of which an erysipelas was produced in his leg. As he did not care to avail himself of the precautions commonly used in such casea, the erysipelas showed itself many times, and eery recently endangered his life at St. Petersburgh., i where, it will be remembered, he remained for two months without going out. This august Prince was aware of the danger he was in, and his death has been worthy aids life. 1 The Emperor Alexander had just purchased estates near Tegan -1 mg. He intended building a counery house there, and to go to it every summer. '1 he Empress, who hod accompanied him on this journey, which was undertaken fur the benefit of her health, is plunged in the deepest affliction. It is feared that she cannot survive the shock. Taganrog is 500 leagues from St. Petersburgh, on the Black Sea, and on the frontiers of Turkey and Persia. A ball was to have been given at the house of Count Porten di forgo, on the anniversary or the birth of the Emperor Alexander, t.hich Is the `2ll inst. It had brew postponed, on account of the Christmas festivities, to the 26th, and already he in humour of whom the tete was to be given is no more. 51. Adolphe Billecocq, Secretary to the French Legation in Prus sia, arrived yesterday morning in Paris, having come from Berlin as a courier extraordinary. It is said that the Grand Duke Michael made the journey from St. Petersburgh to Warsaw with the greatest expedition (in live clays), and that he alighted at the house of the Grand Duke Con stantine. At Warsaw it was said that these two Princes were to have had a conference with the Etnperor Alexander before his de parture for St. Petersburgh, and that fur this purpose they were going to the head-quarters in Volhynia. [From the Qnotidienne of Monday.] The letters from Germany give some details of the presumed cau*es of the death of the Emperor • for some months the Empemr had been afflicted with a humour which settled in the legs. The cold suddenly catmd this humour to fly upwards, and then the dis ease became tnnt The Grand Duke Constantine, who was at Warsaw, has been proclaimed Emperor or AU the Russia*. He immediately set out with all speed for St. Petersburgh. [From the Journal de Paris of Blonday.l • PARTS, DEC. 18. Our correspondent at Frankfort-on.the.Odcr informs us that the passage of couriers and expresses has all at once become very frequent. Three Russian Cabinet messengers passed on the 9th of December front St. Petcrsburgh, and were going to Warsaw and Berlin. One of them said that couriers had been sent to the Rus sian unties of the South and the West, and to that in Bessarabia. THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FAMILY. The late Emperor of Russia has left three brothers and two sisters. he names of his brother ; are Constantine, Nicholas, and Michael ; his sisters, Mary, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar; and Anne, Princess of Orange. Con stantine, the present Emperor, was born in 1779. Ile served under Suwarrow in the campaign of 1799 against France, and meant to have joined the Austrian army under the Archduke Charles in 1800, but the defeat of the Russians in Switzerland occasioned his return to St. Petersburgh. In 1802 he paid a visit to Vienna, where the Emperor of Austria gave him the honorary command of a hussar regiment. In 1805 he took the command of a Russian corps destined to act against France, and took part, at the head of his regiment of Guards, in the unfortunate battle of Austerlitz. lie fol lowed his brother, the late Emperor, in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814, and entered with him the city of Paris, but did not accompany him to London. Ile went afterwards to the Congress of Vienna. Nicholas married, in 1817, the Princess Charlotte IVilhelmina of l'russia, by whom he has a son and two daughters. Constantine has had no issue by either marriage. We have received Caraooas Papers to the 9d of Novern. ber, but they contain no new information of any import ance. The Custom-house returns of the port of Laguira are regularly printed in the Culonthiano. The receipts for the month of August, of duties on imports, amounted to 24,788 dollars. New South Wales Papers to the 10th of August were received yesterday. They mention the arrival of the French discovery ships at the Cove of Sydney, when they saluted the fort with the usual quantity of guns, and the compliment was duly returned. It is stated that the pro posed measure of removing the Government House from Hobart Town to Brighton, had been finally adopted, and had given general satisfaction. A mtlancholy accident has plunged in grief the town of Nienbourg, in the Duchy of Anhalt. On the 6th inst. the people had formed a design of celebrating the arrival of the Grand Duke, and for that purpose got upon a chain bridge, which has for some months been open to the public. It appeared that one of the chains had got out of order, which, diminishing the strength of the supports, sunk half the bridge, with all the persons on it, to the number of between 6 and 700, 30 of whom have not been found.— Elate. We do not recollect during the most interesting periods of the late war, or during the late Queen's trial, to have seen such an anxiety for the arrival of the papers as was evinced several evenings last week on 'Change. On Tussday even ing in particuiar, when the mail, partly owing to the der. siry of the fog near London, and partly to the circumstance of its having been overturned near Rellburn, was an hour and a half after its time, the exchange room was nearly, if not quite, .as crowded as it is wont to be during the most bustling period of the market, and so thickly were the tables surrounded, that the porter found it quite impossible to place the papers on them, but was obliged to throw them over the heads of the congregated multitude, to be scram bled tor.—Nsischesler Mercury. WkSTIIINSTEIt NATIONAL SCHOOL.—On Monday, a half-yearly public examination of the children, instructed at the Westminster National Free School took place; the Dean of Westminster in the Chair, supported by the Rev. W. F. Bentinck, the Ministers of the parish, and a highly respectable company. It is impossible to speak in too high terms of the proficiency of the children generally, !Mt particularly the boys, whose answers to the questions put to them by the Dean far exceeded what could have been expected from children of such tender age. The greatest praise is due to the master and mistress of the school • to the former the Dean f e lt hi mse lf ca ll e d upon publicly to express his approbation of the manner in which the boys had conducted themselves. Two young ladies, sisters of the late Miss M. Tree (now Mrs. Bradshaw) are at present exciting peculiar interest and attention in very opposite departments of the drama at the Bath Theatre. We understand that the Sunday Paper at which the ('eerier so mysteriously hints, as being the object of Mr. Rothschild's prosecution fur libel, is the English Gentleman. NATIONAL PA LACE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Ste,—(laving this day seen, fur the first time, a patiliiitt writ ten by a Member of Parliament, and dedicated to his containing a plan for a National Palace, and feeling, as I do, th probability that it will engage a considerable portion of public al tension, I lose not a moment in offering a few remarks upon a su b ject on which I have bestowed a good deal of attention, and * hi t , I consider as one of great natior,al interest. In many of the opinions expressed by the Member of p ar p irra I entirely concur. I agree with hint in thinking that Buni t o, House is a position most unfit for a royal residence; I b e lt" with him, that public opinion would bail a project of a great n tional palace with acclamation ; and I think that, by judicious m nagemcnt of the great resources of the Crown, ample means thigh be provided foe the speedy acccomplishment of this object, But in some other points I must venture to differ from t h Member of Parliament. I would not alienate or destroy the w r spectable and ancient establishments which hare for In many y ea belonged to the Crown, and should be very much grieved t o , Hampton Court converted into a place of education fur 31r flume's operatives, nor would I advise buildings to be nate, round the border of the parks. As to the time malmsey i t , the accomplishment of such a work, 1 cannot agree wil t tii Member cf Parliament that ten or fifteen years would be requite If a grand general plan, well digested and well considered, w e , mice determined on, I can't help thinking that as much of i (suppose one quarter) as is necessary for the bldg's irninediat accommodation, might be completed in lets time than is now pt, posed for the finishing of what are called the repairs of Buckin ham House; and if any man will look at the progress made • York House, I think he will be of opinion that eighteen momb or two years would be quite sufficient for the completion diem portion of a grand palace as may be necessary for his Majesty' immediate accommodation. I must confess I think that such a p i t, c as the Member of Parliament proposes would be straggling and un connected, and that his garden would be defective both in sp.- 4 and privacy. '1 he situation he has suggested is that pan of Hyd Park between Stanhope-street and Grosvenor-gate. The palace and garden are to be about the s ize of Grolrenor square t the south front to range with Stanhope-street, sod to ex tend towards Oroavenor-gate; three sides to be enclosed by bel,' ings 60 feet high, and the fourth by a range of stables and along Park-lane, only 10 feet high ; and the is whole, wits to he raised upon a rustic basement of 20 feet, me' . of 76 feet. '1 he terrace to be ascended by • of which is to lead from Stanhope -street to the sus., trance front. The west front is to contain the grand state rooms, and that to the north is intendell tate apartments. I think 1 have quoted quite my conclusion that such a mass of building in tit not be tolerated. From page 51 to $8 give the inent's ideas upon this subject more at large. Now I do think that the occupation of thi would be repugnant to public feeling, as well private prcperty ; and even if no obstacles of t still I venture to assert that it would be dif*icul less desirable. It is not my intention to offer the plan of the Member of Parliament; but. to suggest another, which, like his, springs from professional individual, as far, at least, as situat' idea, for in all matters requiring judgment and of the following outline has hod the discretion t of as able architects as are to be found in the encouraged by public feeling and public opint, may hereafter be laid before the people of Engl with confidence, that there would be but few di _ . to the propriety and the necessity of providing a London worthy the Sovereign of this great country. I rejoice that the M. P.'s pamphlet has directed its non towards this important question, and I should find other suggestions ;springing from other quarters. It canvassed in this manner that the subject will be better ut. and I feel a strong conviction that the more it is distussed t, decided will be the impression in its favour. till the tecum weight of public opinion shall compel his Majesty to abandon. system of economy which has no doubt been adopted by him ft a gracious and benevolent desire to avoid laying burdens upon h. people for objects apparently connected with his personal meet and personal gratihcation. His Majesty's taste would Batumi!) lead him to adopt designs splendid and magnificent; red I 3T4 dently hope, that the small and single voice of the M.P. may to echo from every part of the empire, till it swells into an unirma cry which his Majesty will find it impossible to resist. I understand Buckingham House is actually about to be rebuilt with alterations, which may, perhaps, make it a residence fit for a great Nobleman, but it never can be a palace suited for a Sore reign of the British empire. The work alnaay done cap t..: amount to many hundreds of pounds • but if the amount we•• thousands, I confess I am of opinion that it is better to pay ti. trifling forfeit in the first instance, than to persevere in' • a situation so full of every sort of objection. It was public papers that three situations had been stiggesu jetty's town residence—Carlton House, St. James' borough House), and Buckingham House; and well and wisely given the preference to the lett its inconveniences., is much the least objectionain Is connected with a spacious garden on one side, the two parks on two ether aides. But alas ! wh, side present ?—a public-house, and a range of within thirty feet of some important apartments a great mound of earth constructed to shut out , dently calculated to re, der the situation more unwholesome; quite close, we find a steam engine brewery, always smoking—nuisances that cannot at a great expense ; and close under his Majesty the main sewer of that part of the metropolis short distance, and occasiot.ally emitting the most . this sewer cannot be removed, and cannot be closed, be blown up by the influx of water at The basement story of Buckingham House it, similar occasional influx of water, which must oink with many inconveniences, and is an evil incura! Inherent in the situation. The fog of the wbolt part of the town inclines towards that quarter, is vapour arising from the canal in front and the the proposed palace ; and, upon the opinion of tare to pronounce the situation p .sinvely un. much inferior to a position in Hyde Park as an street would be lesi cheerful and healthy than venor-street or Park-lane. With such an seen' •ionable circumstances. how comes it dist Bucki fixed upon by his Majesty ? The obvious and only question is, that his Majesty was influenced by a reit:Liam upon the nation for more than was absolutely necessary fut kit comfortable accommodation; and he was probably led to suppew that the repair of the Queen's house would give him this meow dation in less time and for much less money than it would cost to build a xew palace in a new position. Now, without preterdirg either to architectural skill or to a spirit of prophecy, I will verun to foretell that both these expectations will be disappointed. So. thing is so tedious and so expensive as repairing an old house. wit I may fairly add, so unsatisfactory, for you are confuted to situationt however unfavourable, and cramped and embarrassed in your pki in order to make are of what had much better have been pulled down altogether. Speaking from experience of what has passed under my own eye, and from observations of the rapid zit:n.ll , l4 York House, I have no hesitation in asserting, that if theme , quantity of apartments which it is now proposed to erect at Buck. Ingham House had been begun, de nova, in a ..ew situation, they wculd liars been finished many months before the projected altos tion can be completed, and with this advantage. that the sante ar comniodation would kern a part of a great national work to be coo pleted now or hereafter according to circumstances. 1 confess I should much like to be employed to present a perks signed by a million of his Majesty's subjects, entreating him to yield to the wishes of his people, and praying hint. instead of making a cheap and comnicstious, residence, to build a poi National Palace, and to put forth all that grandeur and mad• nificence of taste which he is known to possess in so citincri a degree. 1 need, therefore, hardly repeat, that I entirely agree with the M.P. in his idea of the necessity of a great National Palace: as 1 differ widely from him both as to plan and site, I an, pm , cularly anxious to draw the public attention to the peculiar nice. tags of the site I am about to propose. Of tke plan of tl.e paira propnaed to occupy that site I shall say but little, slid in tiit mostgeneral terms. A mere outline will suffice to wined I!' e plan with the position, and up on th e rece p t i on these hints onl meet with from the public, it will depend whether the writer Li venture to add another syllable upon the subject. The palace should occupy a s quare o f 600 f e et, which, &Old of by the skill of the arc hi tects , wou ld b e am ply su fficient to unit all the splendour and m agn ifi cence w hi c h oug h t to distinruish palace of a great Monarch, with the comfort and convenience private gentleman's residence ; there should be two courts std Iva gardeos, a court of entrance, a nd a cour t o f offices-a god" the palace and a private gard e n f or hi s .11.1sjinity. There is ar. of Kensington gard e n ver y little frequented, which lies the Powder Magazine near Mr. Rennie 's new bridge ea l' e gate near Bayswater-wall ; thi s sp ace i s b ou nd e d by the sunk ter f.: on the rant, and by th a t p a rt o f t h e S er p en tine River t e garden on the west; on th e sout h b y t h e broad Green-wa lk, ar ! i on the north by the Uxbridge-road; close to the magraine the WI fence wall of the garden assumes the form of two bsstiona. suit a curtain between them; each of the bastions in 200 feet dintreter , and the curtain alone in in lengtb 600 feet ; the whole spare bet 4 about 1000 feet. Of this space the proposed palace would oretiP! SOO feet ; and its cast front line would stand on or a few fret it: c-- 'ranee of the present stink fence. The palace garden would occupy the apace between the ar'': front of the building itself and the Serpentine River within 12 . garden, while the King's private garcl,r, would contain part !" cartain, the whole of th e south bastion, the ground on sincn tic magazine now stands, and as much the beautifal and 1' turesque sloping ground from thence to the edge of the Serprili! River as may be deemed expedient. This garden may be to ipe to contain several scree, and without the slightest injury public, the ground in question being at present entirely urosed„,. The new road now runs along the north aide of the Serpentiner''' Yen ; that road must be removed, and I should propene bell! 8$ tor The f.c be 0 -) LOM 1 chic nal KM OA Poo ten the ten me ate Owe of stables anti elit hole, with it. tense making a total hug r inclined planes, on e Routh or greater en grand suite of pebli • for the King's p e l ite enough to justif such a position reel e Illembee of Paths his part of the Par 1 as most injurious t this nature existed ult to select a posiur r any critienm up, with great humiliti um an unlearned, un ration and the genet to employ the talent s. I c g; dunen t , ngl: t a°n h e Ptc: f t: e naimr : e i nn t ; i dt he processi o n eula p o l"t b d tßir° l tne b i l b 4r a l : mei n e e" lt i: y t si lances. It is by her be better understeoc le distussed the tror , till the acrumulat uesty to abandon th adopted by him fe ing burdens_upoe hi teem in buildusgi It Wu stated in t 6 ggested for his Me antes's (with 31E nd his Majesty h' iter, which, with stile of the three ; de, and bounded it what don the four of mean buildin: of the palace itssi she mews, but eel e dark, damp, an engine, and a ere• trot be removed 1 jesty's windows TUT Dill, open within pet offensive sfßavi. Diked, being liable high spnng nes must be subjtct beiously be sued, urable, bemuse it ! bole of the norther . independent of th pond it. the nor t if the faculty, I arc s wholesome. and is n house jn Flusder one in Upper Ova simulation of ohjec kingham flonse wit only answer to such y a reluctance to call I