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i L, II l~ Vitt Sirtoo. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. 'Nils Ennis*, THURafiy, Nov.lo. will hi Ferfol met' the Comely of HE CONFEDERACY. Il i I s r ,Mr. Wllllants; allooeytrao, Mr. Morton: Brass. Mr. Harley t r. reek". Ciartasa. Hrs. Yates; Arai:Ants, Miss I. Paton; Mies KeVy ; Flippant*, Mrs. Davison. After which the blelo•Drama of • THE INNKEEPER'S DAUGHTER. Mary. Miss Kelly. Teenorrow. Faustus. Two Wives. and De La Fermis& COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This Evening, THURSDAY, Nov.lo, will be performed THE BEGGARS OPERA. Captain '.thelscath. Madame Vestries Peashurn, Mr. Blanchard; Lorkit. Mr. Hartley: 11'ch. Mr. Meadows. Mrs. Peaehum, Mrr. Davenport; Lucy, Miss Love; Polly, bliss Paton. After which the r.cee of THE IRISH TUTOR; o►, NEW LIGHTS. Terry O'Rourke. Mr. Connor. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of • JOCKO, THE RRAZILIIT4 MONKEY. In which Mons. Mazurier will make his 10th aprearanee In England. The principal Characters by Messrs. Connor, Meadows, and Keeley; and Misses Gardner and J. Scott. To-morrow, The Honey Moon, and Jocko. MA rmA RICET THEATRE. T h.! Evenllg. TIIORSDRY. Nov.lo, will be performed the Comedy of QUITE CORRECT." The Prleripal Characters by Messrs. Vining. Redmond, and Liston; Mesdames Glover, Egerton. P. G:over, and W. Clifford. After whleh the Comedy of PAUL PM'. ____ T:. e 01.nel;a1Caaraaterm by iesara\i: Fan= and ; Mesdames Illorer, P. Glover. Ilumby. and Waylett. To ermelude with the Comedy of THE WEDDING D AY. S,: Adam Contest. Mr. iCFarrens Lad' Contest, Madame Ventria. to. morrow. Tribulation, PaW Pry. and A Roland for an Oliver. The BRIT line Pals. commenced publishing yegterday morn ing sr five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, Nomura 10, 1125. By the Crisis, which has arched in the Downs from New York, after a passage of only seventeen days, we hive received papers to the Vet ult. The most interesting ar ticle brought by thi; conveyance is the letter of Bouvna, in answer to s communication from General SANTA rum R, . announcing the recognition of the independence of Co lombia by Great Britain. The Liberator's heart was evi dently fillut with intense joy at beholding the consum- mation of the great work to which he has devoted him self,—the establishment of the liberty and independence of his beloved country. The following are the terms in which he expresses his sentiments:— . TO MII rxcet.t.rucsr THE ♦ICE-PDEIID;XT or THE RE PUBLIC OX COLOMBIA. " Sir—T yesterday received, with unsneelable joy, the gloriou communlcatton which your Excellency did me the honour to ad dregs to me. announcing the recooition of Colombia by the mis , . 'trees of nations, Great Britain. 1 coneratulateutyself, coy enur.. try. and your Excellency, at the termination of an enterprise which crowns the people with blessing•, tie: soldiers with laurels, and the government with gloiy, which hw been the architect of this pro digious work. The army in the field, and your Excellency in the a iministration„ are the authors of the existence and of the freedom c:'Coloin!.ia. The former gave life to the soil of their fathers and c` rhea children. and your Excellency gave it liberty by causing thr leys to he respected, is the midst of ►he dash of arms and the clanking of chains. Your Excellency has solved the most difficult problem in polities—whetter a people of stares ten become free ? 'sour Excellency, therefore, is entitled to the gratitude of Cu t linable, and of the heroic race I beg your Excellency to accept of mine, both as a soldier and a citizen. " I request your Excellency to receive the satin:cots of ay dis tinguished considt.ration and respect. " Arequipa, June 3, 1845. BOLIVAR." The Liberator was, at the end of April, in Yea, near Cusco. General St:car.'s head-quarters were at Potosi. The forces of the rnited Liberating Army had been as sernbled at Chuquisaca. in Upper Peru. These Papers ' also contain a letter from this General, announcing what has long been known here, the surrender of Colonel VALUEz, with the last body of *pettish roldiers in the field in America, and stating what has appeared before, that 18,000 Spaniards had been put hors de combat between September, BE 4, and April. 1815. The advices from Lima reach to the moth of June, at which period Callao still de fled its besiegers. A secret expedition was preparing at Carthagena at the elcse cf SepteMiler. ft was to consist of the whole of the Colombian naval force. We think it highly probable that this armament was destined spinet Porto Rico. 'rite domestic news of the United States is that of tran ' gc it prosperity. The Treasury at Washington had ilened a public notice of a loan for ten millions four hundred thousand dollan, at the rate of 4) per cent. per annum, payable in two equal instalments, Ist January, 1829, and • Ist January, 1830. The dispute between the federal Government and that of f;eorgis is likely to be prolonged. The State seems to have espousel the rinse of the Governor, who, contrary to all reasonable expectation, has been re-elected by a large ma jority of his fellow-citiz►ns. The feeling that prevails with regard to this question may be estimated by the following paragraph from the New York Commercial Aleerlicer •• The intonee of the moon seems to have been very extensive Clearitia. Not only the Govornor but two-thirds of the people are mad—siree the latter hive re•elerted the toner, by a vete of at least twenty to one." The Richmond Enquirer contains • rather rinTilar article, which we subjoin, explanatory of some of the causes of quarrel between the PustituNso and Commodore PORTE:I. It appears that a prodigious conflagration was raginv in the forests of Maine : NEW YORK, ()CT. 19. The Ba•srla&k Gazelle mentions the arrival of Captain Loring, who reports that when off Portland he saw the reflection of a large fire upon the sky, in a direction between Kenchick and Penobscot Rivers, extending, as Le estimated, at about 23 miles; and adds, the vapours rendered the navigation more difficult than the thickest I for:. The ednor adds, there can be no doubt that ■ tremendous lee • has been raging in the forests of Maine. We aeon expect to hest , that an immense amount of property has been destroyed. The fins has also extmded over a large proportion of the county of !4orr.erset. ~. ' .Gene) Lafayette, who seem) never tired of doing good, de termined to interpose his good offiess between Commotion Porter and the Presidents( the United States. He accordingly appealed to the President, at whose house he was staying. it was on his last visit to Waillingten, and a few days before he embarked far Lis wive country. He appealed to the President by the meet urgent motives, requesting him to suspend Commodore Porter's sentence, to nature l imn to his rani-, sod enforced his application by the re mark, that he should consider the measure ass favour done to him self by the United States. The President yielded, and it was ar ranged that when Commodore Porter should wait on General Lsisyette so take leave of him, the President should meet him, present his his sword, mod restore him to tht service of his country. Ufsfdrtanately, at ibis alsis,'Comniodore Porter ree:ived an invi tation to a public dinner. by dome gentlemen of the district, who se card drew Awn the Ceornodere those expressions of dissatisfaction with the Navy Deportation, winch the world Las already seen in print. Mr. Adams sew this letter, showed it to General Lafayette, and said him how, lodge such eircamststres, be could,gratit the boon which he had reonsated It When, therefore. Commodore Porter waited upon Genital Lafayette, instead of meeting him as he intended, the President turned as de. and addressed himself to another of the gentlemen preemie. Lurk is the weticli we hare heard of this transactitio.—Rieltorroad Awfuherl PRICr..4 CURRENT AT NEW 701iK. Col-row—The market continues iractilc—about 150 bale r of ~M crop Upton& have been dispeted of game our last repo ts at al small parade of the new are of hanalsoute quality, they nanofacturc, at 111 cents. Ad iber, received by the packet the preview, fried in that 1:1,1 to 16 cents in small lots. Several ‘rep Wee arrived tbk week. which art have, mostly been take,' for home nun • vices from Liverpool to Ict Septeml skip C,aneda, state a tleclibe horn • ~+ - A . , market, at jd. to Id. per lb. The stock here is reduced very low. Import since our last From South Carolina . . 139 bales Total import sine* lst inst. . 184 Export from Ist to 12th inst . 1246 New Orleans, lb 17 a 20, Upland 13 a IG, Alabama 13 a 16, Tennessee 13 a 16. 1 gow.—We have no alteration to notice; there is a fair demand for the interior, and:Pales of Swedes, in lots of the usual assortment, are made at our quotations. English also commands our notice. No arrivals of Russia. Pig, English per ton 70. American 10 a 60, Bar do. 90 a 100, flimia old Sable 195. new do. 102 50. Swedes 100 a 102 50,.Eng. lish assorted 105 a 110, Sheet cwt. 7 50 a 9, Hoop American 6 a 6 73, English 9 a 950. STOCKS. United States Sizes 1813, 1001 offered, looi asked; 1314, 102 i offered, sales. United Sates Four and a Half, 1823, 100 offered, loot asked. United States Threes, 85 bifered. 8414 asked. • United States Bank, 116 j offered, 117 asked. EXCHANGE. Bill!. on London at r.O days 93 a 10 pm.—Franee 5 121—Amster. dam 411—Boston aigla pu—Philadelphia do. par . a } dis.—Balti more do } a do.—Richmond do 1a 1} do.—North Carolina do 44 a 4/ dn.—Charleston do. 2} a 24 do.—Savannah do. S a 34 do.— NewOrltsna 2 a 25 do.—American sold 4 a 53 pm.—Engtiah do. 4 a 34 pm.—Sovereisna and heavy guineas lI a 9 do.— Spanish lan 1/ a 2—Doubloops I i MI a 15 07. By the Abberton, arrived from Bombay at Deal, with ten passengers and fifty invalids of the 47th Regiment, letters have been received from that Presidency to the 15th of July, and from St. Helena to the 44th of September. They notice the railing of the Ogle Castle, and state that only two passengers were on board of that vessel, viz. Lieutenant SI T M. NOTON and Lieutenant Wm. How Ann. A notification to this effect was posted yestenlay at Lloyd's, but we have much pleasure in adding, that we have since learned that Lieutenant Howaan had fortunately relin quished his passage, in consequence of his not being able to leave India when the Ogle Castle sailed. The state ment that six females were seen to be washed from the poop, must, therelbre, be without foundation. The political intelligence, though it does not communi cate the occurrence of any material event of military im portance, is of the most satisfactory nature. Our hopes of the entire any speedy subjugation of the Burmese Govern ment are strengthened. Nothing, apparently, could pre vent the advance of Sir ARCHIBA LD CAN esett to Ava. Letters from Prome, dated the 9th and 10th of May, state that perfrct tranquillity existed in that part of the country. The Burmese reinforcements that were on the road from Ava had retraced their steps with the utmost precipitation, not was it known that any force of the enemy was between Prome and the capital. The inhabitants of Prom were returning from the jungles in vast numbers Some loss had been sustained ou the ricer (Surrawaddy)* by the oversetting and immediate sinking, in a heavy squall, of two of the gun flotilla, the SJphia and Swift, the former laden with native provisions, and the latter with ordnance and stores. Hopes were entertained that some of the latter would be recovered. The crews were all saved, with the exception of one soldier of the 89th Regiment, and a fol lower. A Proclamation was issued at Batavia by the Netherlands Govermnent on the Y t st July, declaring the ports of Anjcer and Rion, in the Straits of Sunda, free to all nations, allowing them to bond and warehouse all description of goods, not less in amount than 1,000 guilders, on payment of one per cent. ThefollowistF are extracts from the Calcutta Papers: - A molt tremendous hurricane has been experienced at Chitta gong. The damage done to the houses and bungalows is very ex tensive. Scarcely a native house was lett standing. Four brigs in the tiVniweredisttasted and driven on shore, and most of the small craft sunk. The rain fell in torrents and has inundated the coun try, 'destroying many head of cattle, and, it is feared, done Meal. Culable mischief to the growing trope. On the shonl off the mouth of the river, is distinguished the hull of what pas been a tine enact —the turrets have been cut sway, and she hes on her side. The oldest inhabitants of Chittagong recollect nothing equal to this gale in fury. John Bull, June 8. We hate been favoured with the following additional particulars respectiN the fall of Donabew : " On the morning of the 2d of April, shortly after clay-light, an extreme silence was observed throughout the whole of the stockade, and a little before sun-nse two Burmese were observed running to. wards the breaching battery, which had opened the evening before, who reported the place to have been deserted by the enemy, leas. ing the whole of their artillery, a number of jinjals, ste. in the place. The whole of the guns were left loaded, and the general appearance of the stockade Indicated a hasty and confused deeer non of the position. Pegu horses and other cattle being left run ning loose about the interior. Several wounded men were found within the stockade, and it was deemed expedient to have them conveyed into camp. " The cause of the evacuation of the place appears to have been the death of the !%leengee 3laha Bundoulult, which was occasioned by the ex plosion of a shell under his cot, which had been placed upon the N. W. angle of the stockade, under a matted canopy, for the purpose of enabling him to view the operations of the Britialt force. the event* is stated to have occurred between eight and nine o'clock in the morning of the lot, that he was immediately carried to his house, and expired about two o'clock p.m. on the same day, with. out uttering a syllable, and that during the early part of the even ing the corpse was taken outside of the stockade, and consumed by hire. " The circumstance of the whole of the M aha Bundoolah's per. %oral props rty. war drums. musical instruments, end hat of state, liattng been found in his dwelling.house, together with articles of Erglisk military accoutrement's, collected and deposited themes trophies, goesstrongly to establish the above statement, especially as the customs of the Burmese in relation to the appropriation of the erects of any individual of high rank, by one serving seder him, subjects the person so acting to death."—Government Ga zette', June 9. The Duke of HAMILTON, with a liberality worthy of a British Nobleman, has forwarded his valuable library of scarce books to Ashton, a seat belonging to him about two miles from Lancaster, with a permission, conveyed with great delicacy, to Dr. LINO MID, who resides in that neigh bourhood, to avail himielf of its contents in any manner that might assist his researches in the progress of the great historical work in which he is engaged. No one has yet been at this seat of the Noble Duke since the death of his father. Among other articles, a small manuscript volume has been found, containing the letters written by CHAULES 11. to Ai; Onsets, aboUt the time of his flight to the Scots, the contents of which fully confirm the assertion of Dr. LING MID, that the Royal fugitive was not enticed by the Scotch to the camp by promises which they refused to ful fil. It must be gratifying to our northern countrymen to find themselves thus clearly exculpated from the charge of perfidy with which they have been so long branded in his tory ; and this, too, by the impartial researches of an his torian of whom the Edinburgh Review, with a malignity made ludicrous by its excess, affirms that " he seldom names the Scotch without some disparaging expression, or some insinuation to their prejudice." The conduct of the Duke of HAMILTON on the present occasion evinces a ge nuine love of literature and science, the example of which will not fail to be estimated as it deserves. CITY, IVEDNESDAY EVETZINCI. In the absence of all real business in the Funds this morn ing, in consequence of the customary civic pageant in honour of the new Lord Mayor, an absurd rumour was set afloat, that a Russian army had crossed the Pruth. This report, however, though it could be traced to nothing like ri spectable authority, had an effect upon the 1005 , 3 bargains that were concluded by the few speculators assembled upon the /loyal Exchange; and Consols were reported fur the November Account at 87k, buyers, which, our readers will rectAlcet, was rather worse than the closing price of yester day. ItuFsia Bonds alio declined frem Wel to 91!. We arc sorry to state the failure of the first !loess con nected with the Cape of Good Hope trade, and we a-c much afraid the effects of the mewing taktn with regard to the wine duties, and the chlnges in the currency in that colony, -sill hul to further couvulaiona. • • THE • BRITISH PRESS. LITERATURE. FORGET ME NOT.—R. Arkermann, Love and friendship have, for time immemorial, had their Christmas oFria, , , , s, and the votaries of both are highly indebted to Mr. Ackermann for the acceptable pre sents which he has enabled them to bring to their shrine. He has here produced •another of those iokvns which form the circulating, medium in which, at the approaching season of festivity, the bonds and obligations of the hetirt are either paid off or renewed. The engravings arc beautifully exe cuted, and,the original contributions are of a very superior class. We extract the following as a specimen : THE IS'IrAND OF ATLANTIS. BY TUC RSV. O. CIioLIC. Oh. thou Atlantic, dnk and deep, Thou wilderness of waves, Where all the tribes oft arth might sleep In their uncrowded graves ! The sunbeams on thy bosom wake, Vet never light thy gloom ; The tempests boat, yet never shake Thy dupths, thou mighty tomb ! Thou thing of mystery, stern and decor, Thy secrets who bath told The %%urine and his sword are there. The merchant and his gold. There lie their myriads in thy pall, • Secure from steel and storm And he, the feaster on them all, The cankerworm. Yet on this wave the mountain's brow Once glowed in morning beam ; And. like an arrow from the bow, Out sprang the stream ; And on its bank Ili dive grove, And the peaclea miry, And the damask r —the nightbird's love— Perfumed the sky: Where art thou, proud Atlantis, now Where are thy bright ncd brave ? Priest. people. warriors' liring dose ? Look on that wave ! Crime deepened on the recreant land, Long guilty, long forgiven; There power upreared the bloody hand— There ycofrd at Merlyn. The word sent,forth—the word of woe— The judgment-thunders pealed: The fiery earthquake blared below ; • Its doom was sealctl. Now on Ito halls of ivory Lie giant weed and ocean slime, Burying from man's and angel's eye The land of came. FASUIONAHLE INTELLrGENCE. Earl Talbot left town yesterday for Mr. Coke'a sat, in Norfolk. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are expected in town this day, from Brighton. The Countess of Sandwich has arrived at her house in Dover street, from her seat, Hineltinbroke, Huntingdon. The Dowager Countess of 31stistield has arrived at her seat, Richmond. from a tour. Lord siUt lady Granthani atecxpeeted to leave town on Tuesday nest, for the Continent. Count and Countess Lieven have arrived in town from Brighton. The Count entertained a select party at dinner yesterday, at Ashburnham House, Dover-street. . Al. A. Taylor, Esq. M.N. has arrived at his seat, Cantley Yorkshire, from a tour. IV. Daw‘on, Esq. left tomayesterday, for his seat, St.. Leonard's bill. near Windsor. Arthur Stanhope. Esq. entertained the Dowager Bfarchioness of falisbury and s select party at dinner; on Timidly, at hie house, to Tilney-street. Departures from 31i1ler's Hotel, Jermys-street -- _Captain and Mrs. Preston, for Bath ; J. Tyndall; Es q . fbr Oxf or d. Departures Irons the Pulteney Hotel, Albemsrle.atreet r— illsior and 31ra. Stephenson, for Britltton ; Wm. I.'sborne, Esq. fur Paris. Arrivals at Long's Ileac). ilond.otreet:—W. F. Riley. Esq. from Jr. sent, near iVirrelsor; the lion. Rev. Willlstn Thelluson, from Norfolk; (;eorge Folkston, Esq. from a tour; Capt. Cop land, trom Ipswich ;U. Parrett, Esq. from a tour. Departures:— The Rev. S. Ball and Chutes Ball, Esq. for East Grinstead ; J. 11, nest, I;sq. and Charles Rest, EN. for Romantic; Mr. and Mn. Homily, for their seat, in Nottlnetmithlte. SPORTING INTJeL f,IG ENCR. eiIEVELEY, TtESDAY, Nov. 8. The racing season having terminated, the diversions of shooting, hunting, and coursing, are now approaching their zenith. and in no part of they country ate they pursued with greater avidity titan at Cheveley, the hospitable seat of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, where the abundance of game, and numerous local advantages, hold out inducements not to be surpassed by any private domain in the kingdom. k or the last two or three weeks his Grace, agreeable to his annual custom during the Newmarket October Meetings, has had a select party, composed of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, ttarpnis Graham, lion. Colonel Anson, Colonel Anson. C. C. Smith, Esq. which on Sunday I.u't was increased by the arrival of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold. Yesterday was appointed for a grand Loftin., and at eleven o'clock the lloynl and Nettle Party took the tied, shooting first in the neighbouring coppices to the Park, and then in the terns and small coppices within the walls. In shooting, great attention was paid to the wish of the Noble Duke, to confine the sport at much as possible to cocks; so that when a pheasant got up, if it was a cock he was immediately brought down, hut if the keepers called " a him, " not n feather was disturbed. The shooting throughout was very fine, his Royal Highness Prince Leopold being decidedly thernost successful, his Royal Highness the Duke of York the next ; the Hon. Colonel Anson was very little behind, and Mr. Smith dropped his birds in good style. At half-past even the party sat clown to a most sumptuous din. ncr, the table being spread with every delicacy, and ornamented with the difil.rcnt gold cups won by the Noble Duke's horses. • The return of the shooting was as follows :—Hares, 130 ; phea sants, 113 ; rabbits, GC ; anal partridge*. 7 :—total 318. In our account of the shooting in Moedav's Paper, we omitted to mention that the Duke of. Rutland and Colonel Anson detached themselves horn the party la the links, and bagged 34 brace of par tridges. Though the shooting was very quick, and the spectators nume rous, the only accident that took place befel the Duke's baker, a ..nut having passed through his upper lip, and struck his teeth, but not suil.ciently hard to prevent the man of dough carrying otfitis quantsm stakit of the good things of the hall. Sir Francis Burton, the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada, sailed from Quebec for England on the 6th Oct. on hoard the Herald yacht. On the 7th of June, Sir Ralph Palmer took the usual oaths and his scat, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicat ure, at Madras. Mr. Boehm, besides being engaged by Mr. Ebers to com pose the music for the ballets at the King's Theatre, is also appointed director of the musical department of that establishment for the ensuing season. Madame Mara, the once celebrated vocalist in this coun try, and who has for some time resided at Revel, in Russia, has announced her intendoe, through the medium of the Ilamburgh papers, of publishing her own memoirs, which will include the whole of her long public career. One in ducement to do this, she says, is to correct the many in accurate statements made respecting her. Mr. P. Moore, in consequence of some remarks made on the D'r:ctors of Joint-stock Companies, has addressed a letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper, in which he denies that lie has jobbed in shares, or sold a single share, and declares the concerns to which he has given his name are. in his sincere opinion, equal in probity and solidity to the Bank of England. TIIE DORNI ANT PEERAGE or PETERTIOROUGIL-It ap pears that Mr. Mordaunt, of the South Hans, will meet with strong opposition in his claim to this peerage, another claimant having made his appearance in the person of a Mr. Mordaunt, a citizen of London, belonging to the Neellkinakers' Company, who claims by descent from Lord John Mordaunt, Viscount Avalon, of the county of Somerset, the father of the third Earl of Peterbcrrouglt. Of this gentleman's history we know nothing, except his being clerk to a bookseller in Paternoster-row, London; but if the report be true that his claim has received the sanction cf high legal authority, our friend in the South llama must prepare himself to meet with very " pointed" opposition.—PlyntoulliChreitick. A young traveller of Valenciennes was lately a witness to the following circumstance:—As an old woman war leading an ass, laden with sacks of dead leaves, down the Vrrte, at Brussels, one of them fell down, and the poor old creature was in vain endeavouring to replace it, when a man dressed in a blue frock coat, who bad perceivtd her from a bench where he wax sitting, came to her asaia ance. The old woman, quite overpowered, knew not how to thank him, but in the midst of her confusion he slipptd a piece of gold into her hand and disappeared. This man was the King of the Netherlands !--Journal Jet Coninterce. sov nr AMERICA. (From the New York Tapers. The Lima papers recei v ed at N Balt gl.l imore, by the George Gardiner, furnish no sews. Den Manuel Vidautre and Don Jose M. de Pando, Representatives from the Republic of Peru to the General Congress at Panama, sailed from Chorillos on the 6th of June for their degination in the brig Cairene°. By a decree of the 31st May, it is ordered that liquors not distilled (such as beer and cider) which may be imported into the Republic front foreign places, shall pay a duty of forty-eight per cent. COLOMBIA. The editor of the Baltimore Federal Gazette has received inte resting letters front Carthagena, of the 22d and fad of September, and Bogota papers to the Bth of the month. Ills Lxcellency Dr. Gaol, Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, we are informed, was to set out from Bogota, on the 10th instant, for Carthsgena, on his way to the Congress representing all the • New States to assertible next month at Panama. Matters of great " pith and moment" are expected to transpire. A circular from General Bolivar, upon the subject of this Congress, has also been received, from which it appears that it is intended, uhinsately, as a counterpoise to the Holy Alliance. An alteration In the intendency of the Department at carthagena has been made.—Hitherto the powers of Intendent and Military Commander in Chief of the Department were centred in the same person, but they have been lately disunited, thus separating the military front the 'civil authority, which is more in the spirit of the free institutions which now govern the country. Dr. Jose delßeal Is Intendent, and General blontilla commander of the forces. The writer speaks of some secret and highly important expedition about to be undertaken by the Colombian navy, the ships of which had already begun to collect in that harbour. The Ceres and Uric., under the command of General Clementi. an old naval officer of the Republic, arrived in the offing on the 23d. Five more were expected to appear in the course of that day or the next, to be fol lowed by others. "In short," says the writer, " this is one part of the naval movement for which we have been prepared here more than a month, and about which it is now unnecessary to be silent. A large force will soon be assembled. So much as this cannot now be concealed from the enemy, but more than this need not be said at present." The steam.hoat, Rays the writer, has not succeeded in ascending the Magdalena. Seven weeks have elapsed since she started, and by the last account she was left a considerable way short of hoe des tination, and unable to proceed. It is likely to turn nut an unpro fitable speculation. The river does not appear to be fitted for, nor to afford facilities for steam navigation. The Colombiano announces that Joseph Lancaster had received a second letter front General Bolivar, enclosing bills of exchange for 20,000 dollars, and letters of advice for the Peruvian agents in London. An attempt had been made in the city of Caraccas, by Col. De Lima. to assassinate Sr. Outman, the editor of the Argos. Relay in wait for his victim, and under the corer of the night, wounded Min three dines in the back with a sabre. The prepetrator was in confinement, eirititing hit trial. It is reported in Paris, that the Kin g of France is on the point of marrying a Princess of Saxony, the widow of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The bad health of the young Duc de Bordeaux giving little hope of the perpetuation of the Bourbon dynasty, is said to have induced Charles X, to take the resolution of giving a Queen to France. His Ma jesty is supposed to have alluded to this circumstance in his answer to the congratulations on his Saint day on Thurs.- day last, when he said, " I must not only occupy myself with the present happiness of my people, but prepare their future felicity." The Archbishop of Cologne, in a pastoral letter, recom mends the clergy of his diocese, on account of a reprimand of the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, not to correspond through an illicit channel with the Court of Rome or its agents. The Archbishop solicits the King's pardon for the violation of this prohibition for the time past; but in future his Majesty will exercise the utmost severity towards those who are disobedient.—Courier du Bat Rhin. FIIENC/L PENAL COLONY.-It would appear from the Sidney papers that it is the intention of the French Go vernment to establish a settlement similar to the British one in New 4loßand, for the purpose of penal colonisation. It I is said that a French squadron is at present in the Eastern Seas in pursuance of this object, and it is supposed that some part of Madagascar will be the site selected for the settlement. It is also believed that the reason for lately establishing an infant colony on the North coast of New Holland was to counteract the designs of the Frenclt, whose views were directed to that quarter.—Bombay Paper. The question concerning the suppression of the Company of the Philippine Isles occupies, it is said, the cabinet of Madrid. 'I he commerce with these islands, according to report, will be thrown open to all nations, under certain restrictions, in favour of the commerce of Spain.—krench Paper. Accounts from the city of Mexico have reached as down to early in September. Allman was about retiring from the Ministry: oar account states his resignation had ac tually been sent to the President. We are sorry to state an additional duty on English goods was in agitation, in place of the anticipated reduction of the present high rates. —Globe. The letters received from New York yesterday state, in an inflated style, that "the greatest undertaking in the world" will be celebrated on the 26tli of Oetoberr-the completion of the great Erie Canal, the junction of the waters of the American lakes with • the Atlantic Ocean. The canal in question, if not the first in the world in magnitude of labour, is, however, certainly among the first in point of probable utility. . Great difficulty has been experienced in the navigation of the St. Lawrence for some days, in consequence of the dense fog. On one occasion the steam ferry-boat was 20 hours in going from Montreal to Laprairie, a distance of .only nine miles. . The boat had on board about 100 pas sengers, who were without food the whole time. The fog is said to be owing to extensive fires which are raging in the interior. The fire had destroyed a vast quantity of standing timber, and some thousand cords of cut wood.— Quebec paper. TEA BALE IN CANADA.-011 Saturday week the East India Company's second sale of Teas took place, when 1061 packages of tea, of various descriptions, were offered for sale. Notwithstanding the quantity was little more titan one half of what was exposed at the last sale, the purcha sers were cautious, and the bidding in general proceeded heavily, especially for . the superior sorts, and a very large proportion (733 packages) remained unsold.—The Hyson brought !is. Id. and ss. 241., the setting up price being ss. The young Ilyson and the Hyson skin were in no de mand, and did not sell, and a part only of the Twankay met a sale at Id. advance on the upset price of Ss. Id. SuchCongous as were sold brought 24.11 d. being Id. in ad vance on the Company's limit,and the Souchong rose toSsatl. The lower Rohm limited at Is. 6d., alone found a brisk sale, and brought as high a price as Is. 11d. The object of the Company will be equally answered by the result of this sale, in keeping the prices below those of the Ame rican importations, and it Mows that so long as the East India Company will continue to feed this market with regular supply, equal to the consumption of the provinces, the Americans must be deprived of the lucrative trade they have hitherto driven in supplying us with this essen tial article, now almost a necessary of life; nor is it likely to afford a field that will induce speculators to purchase largely, in the hope that an increase of price may remu nerate them for the capital employed. Such an advance can hardly occur unless some accident befals the ships in their long voyage between China and this port.—Quebec Mercury. THE Jews.—lt will have been observed (says a Brus sels Journal) in an uticle from a Berlin Paper, relative to the census of the Jewish population, which we inverted, that it is there said that in the Netherlands as well as in France, the tnembera of the Jewish community are ex cluded from all public offices. This assertion is not only contrary to fact, but it is in direct opposition to the funda mental laws of the kingdom, which admit all Belgians to the discharge of public functions, whatever may be their creed. The Netherlands may reckon among the members of this community names whirl► are honourably known in jurisprudence, literature, finance, and political economy; and also others not less commendable in the different branches of the administration. The English brig Marianne, belonging to the 7,lauritlus, had been two days in the port of Barbara, on the North ('oast of Africa, when the Captain and his brother, the Chief Mate, were seized by the natives while on shore, and placed in confinement. Afterwards forty or fifty natives went on board, took the crew by surprise, killed two, and wounded two others, when the rest jumped overboard and escaped to the dows anchored near them. The Captain and the Chief Mate were afterwards rescued by the crews of the native dows trading to the port, and were carried to Mocha, from. which place they were conveyed to Madras, where they arived on the '.2d of June, in the American brig Aim, Captain Millet. The Marianne was completely s tripped and plundered. YELLOW FEVER. DEATHS OF CA.PT. RUSSELL AND MANY OF TnE OFFICERS AND CREW OF H. M. 8. SCYLLA. [From the New York Commercial Advel User, Oct. 17.1 A distressing account is given of the ravages of the y(1. low fever on board of his Britannic Majesty's ship of In t Scylla, anchored in the haLbour of Cartbagena. But though the deaths are truly lamentable, they are in moot considerably below the numbers recovered.—The accost stands thus:— " Captain Russell, First Lieutenant Elkins, Sur eon , Quin and Brown, Doctor M ' Cann , t wo midshipmen (Mil ner, and another whose .name is forgotten), the Captain's Clerk, Barnes, and 15 men, dead. •" Captain Bombard (of the Life Guards, and Aid-de camp to General Sir John Kean), Acting Lieutenant Dixon, the gunner, the boatswain, and upwards of fifty men, convalescent." Captain Russell was unremitting in his attention to th e sick, and would not leave the ship. IVhen the bla c k vomit came on, he rose, and with great firmness wrote a letter to his wife, and died in two hours afterw ar d" Doctor Ill'Canti was an Irish gentleman, recently inn- 4 in the Venezuela from New York, intending to join Lk ; Colombian service. The New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser of %I S e p, tember last, acknowledges the fact of 4t deaths ha% ing curretl by yellow fever. Another paper, of the same date, states the number nz to have exceeded fifty or sixty. FIRE 1N NEW BRUNSWICK. FURTHER. PARTICULARS. hunnzawrom, OCT. 12. EXTRACT OT A LETTER. The mail of last week canted for me a large packet di rected to your care, but since that time we have hod s tnoet alarming fire here, and as there is a chance of your seeing an account of it in some paper, you may imagine that we are all swallowed up ; I subjoin the particulars of this most lamentable conflagration. On Friday u °rui ng last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, the house of the Hon. T. Baillie (Surveyor-General), about a mi e fro a thegown, was reported to be in the most imminent dan er from the trees round it having taken fire; the rni.itary, and most of the male inhabitants (with the engines) .w -mediately rushed to the spot; they had scarcely been Lb. sent ten minutes, when the cry of " Fire! fire! the town is in flames!" smote Upon our can, and it was found that the stable of Mr. King, at the north-west end of the town, was on fire; the wind blew a ple from that quarter; we had not had say rain for a month ; the thermometer was at 86 in the shade; and in a few minutes the fianrs were spread in every direction, threatening destruction to the whole place; and when the soldiers, &e. &c. returned, the heat and smoke were so intense i that they could not approach it, and were compelled to let it burn to a certain point, which, had it passed, nothing could have saved every house, barracks, &c. Fortunately they so t . ceetled, and stayed the devouring element where um wished, after it had destroyed ninety-eight buildings, ti e fuel-yard belonging to the barracks, horses, pigs, and edi t ,. Not one of the buildings was insured, and the less faro upon men who were just beginning to reap the advents & of their industry, or on those who have mostly begun bit. sinew. I was visiting at the barracks, and it is not pos. aible to describe the appalling scene; the streets resounded with the cries of women, who, almost distracted, were run ning with their children out of the flames, and imploring bep to save their property : this, alas ! they sought in vain, for all the men were gone to Mr. Baillie's, and ere they came, all was consumed, and the poor creatures cast upon the world without any thing but the clothes they had on ; had it been in the spring of the year, it would have seemed better, for now they will have the miseries of winter added to their other misforttlnes. When night came on, the horror of the scene is not to be told : all around us the woods were in flames, and the sky was a vault of fire ; and had we been driven from our house, as we at one time feared, there did not appear any place of refuge for us but in the river ; and even there, so inteute was the heat, boatloads of things were burned. How the fire originated is not known. It is the custom here to clear the land by burning the woods ; and it frequently hap. pens that they lay waste many miles, which has been the case in many parts of this province this season. All round Fredericton these fires are now raging, and, it is said, that from them the one I have now described came. They say, no other process of clearing wood would answer here, to remove the vegetable DMA which for centuries has arn mulated beneath the trees, and which, when burned, ism excellent manure. A subscription has been opened. Sr H. Danglan has given two hundred pounds.from the King's casual revenue, and twenty pounds from himself; the other people have given something, and I hope the Eng lish will assist their unfortunate fellow-creatures. All our houses are wood, and hail the fire happened in the night, not a house would have teen saved, and many lives, in ad probability, would have been sacrificed." DREADFUL FIRE AT MIRAMICIII.—A numerous and respectable meeting was held yesterday in the Sabscripties room of the North and South American Coffee-house, con sisting of merchants and other gentlemen interested iu the Colony of New Brunswick, to consider the expediency of a public subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the late dreadful conflagrations at Fredericton and Miramichi. A conversation took place, in which it was suggested, that although the Subscription-room was sufficiently spacious to contain a considerable number of persons, it would be more consistent with the convenience of a public meeting. that it should be held in a room unencumbered by the seats. and other accommodations in a place designed for busim:i4. Finally, it was decided, that a meeting should be held at the London Tavern to-morrow, at one o clock. John Bain bridge, gs q . Agent for the Colony of New Brunswick, will take the chair, and we confidently cherish a hope, that ti:: attendance will be as numerous as the afflicting disaster which calls for relief may he thought to require. Corr Ea.—This mineral is found (a Missouri paper says) in such abundant" and purity, from the falls of St. An thony to Lake Superior, that the Indians make hatchets and ornaments of it without any other instrument than the hammer. The mines still remain in the pow anion of the Indians. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday as Mrs. Lac. of Fort-house, in Fort -crescent, with another lady, in small pony gig, were proceeding to Chapel-hill, ou the Ramsgate-road, on arriving at the Vicarage-cross, about mid-way from the town, the horse fell, which pitchel them out of the chaise. Mrs. Lens had her forehead dreadfully lacerated, which, had it not been for her home% no doubt but instant death would have been the corF,- guenee ; the other lady escaped with but little ie.4 12 7' Fortunately, it being about noon, some labourers going their work were passing by at the time. who ren d ered eraY assistance in their power. and, on gt , !tivg the ladies her!. which they did with difficulty, every medical aid uaa:r - inediately procured ; but co topes are at present ear.: • tained of Mrs. Lens's recovery, her forehead being ex pletely cut open.—Kentish Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF lIYDROFHORIA.-011 'fa'? day morning a most afflictive event occurred at about eight miles from this town. Mr. Richard rose from his bed in pursuit of a cat, as be said. to ei her. lie went to his barn, and removed part of the tiee!- ing, but did not find her. In the yard he met Vs whbm he threw on the ground, and with an aYA• star , !l her head from her body. About eight years ago • it is said, was affected with hy3rophobia, in conre,!ntro• of receiving on his hands the saliva of a rahid sy&e• 371 t . was for several months after in a d e lirious stete. Fl-ce • . time he has been, until within a few days, in good lic!: 1, For about a week before the fatal transaction he vas melancholy state of mind, which was imputed to the ration of religious feelings. After having killed Mrs. N, he stated to his neighbours that the cat of which he wa , pursuit was bewitched, and that the witches ha,l h.:: 1 . 1: and gone into his wife—that he hid r o intention her when he left the house—expressi-d bis willingt e'% be taken into custody, and was accordingly cofficir;••• •, , York gaol. Mr. and Mrs. N e al had been ma rri,r. seven years, were each about thirty-seven yeara of 3 2 ' were the parents of four children, were posscsaA competency, and had lived in tinirgetr , red barn ee!.