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Naples ..... ......... ••• .• 3d Palermo . . Lisbon Oporto Rio Jumbo .......... • Bahia.. . ••• .• •••• 44 Buenos Arm ~„ ... •42 Cork lIIILLIOW, Ph OS. it S. d hasp! Geld. in cola . 0 0 0 Yenta Gold, In bars. . 3 17 6 New Doubloons ...... 0 4) New Dollars Sliver. In bars. standard 0 0 0 tES YESTERDAY. its. Share. Paid. OHM 70 4S dts 4'9 173 4S pm 100 •11 Ist ros . 100 S. 24 dis ISO S 11M IS ei dls 10* 5 3; Ws Mks 00 4 0 0 20 pm 00 Wpm 00 ISO /t) pm N 2 12i dl. COl2 _ _ Sn 23 101 di. Elie Brats Sit heoo. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Tbii Evening, SATURDAY, October will be performed the Opera of THE [UM'S BRIDGE. Cjul4 Benno, Mr. Brabant; Marconi, Mr. Harley; Petro Mr. I. , Florian. Mr. Uiobllel . Rodalrlud, MI,. Graddou ; Claudine, 'Mi., A. Tree; Laurette, Idles Kelly. After which the new Medea! Romance of THE WHITE LADY; or, THE MPIRIT OP AVENEL. The principal Character, 11. Mean . Horn. Archer. Young*, fleecy, 0. a.n! I. Russel Misses Graddon, I. Paton, A. Tree, and Nicol. .".„...,..g--T,EV-,„4,- .-----,-,:.•,, - • --- -'''-- . • -,..' aitz tk --.-..viii,i, • ~ .. 2 ......, j --... . _ COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. TO: Evening, SATCRD AY. October 21. will be performed (Ist time) a new Otters, called PEVEHIL OP THE PEAK. Ttie principal CharaTtersl4slr4l;re7iJle, Fitlinrrie, Power, Fawcett. trarde, Meadows. Maton, EV3132, Blanchard. Crompton, 'Finney. J end Henry 1 3f h•iter Barker Mn. Fauelt„ Mrs. Stuman, lame. Pr 4%1)1. glover, Mn. Gibbs. and ilia Henry. After which the new Comedy, called THE GREEN ROOM. pnaelprd Characters Vi 51e;;;;:ii.:1arrent C. Ramble, Jonas, Power, 'IA Bartley; 31ass M. Glover, and Mrs. Gibbs. TO CORTIFSPONDE3iTS. Yia apprehend there wa; SOW; mistake fn ease of" Philomason." Mere advertisements are r.ot within the eognizaam of an Editor, ti..:ess under peculisr circumstances. The BRITISH PRRS3 commenced publishing yesterday moming at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTODEft 21, 1526. NS e have received the French Papers of iVednesday, and Etude dated Thursday. They contain nothing inte restir.g. F aeacu FL !I ns.—Ftve per Cents, 103 f. 90c.; Three per Cents, COe.; Reines de Naples, 74f. 26e. The Leeds Intelligeneer says—" We have the authority c one of the most respectable cloth merchants and menu- L.:lnters in this town, for stating, that now, and indeed t•' • ce the adoption of the reciprocity system, most of the tpuers fur woollens, from the Continent, are accompanied 1 stipulations that they shall be shipped in foreign vessels, cn account of the lower rates of freightage. Articles brought here fro i m the Continent, for the same reason, are preferred in foreign bottoms." This is one of those pars g,apes which are inserted by the advocates of restriction, w:thout any very definite view of the object which they I,:einse to themselves from their insertion. The conclusion v.: izh any rational man would draw from such a paragraph acid be, that foreigners have formed very confused and runeous ideas of t h e change which hes been made in our (srmercial polity, that they have been induced by it to speculate beyond what is proper in their circumstances, and that there is consequently a very great probability of a :.needy revulsion in those countries which have been mis led by fallacious ideas of that sort. It' foreign merchants lisse made such stipulations with their correspondents in Logland, in consequence of the reciprocity system, the foreign merchants who made these stipulations must have been extremely ignorant of the former state of our com rrercial regulations, if they supposed that there was any restrietion laid on the exportation of woollens to the Conti nent in foreign vessels, before the late reciprocity system took place. All the arguments of the advocates of restric tion resemble this. They all resolve themselves into cases which took - place just u much under the old a: the new system. But we are not satisfied with merely showing that the argument does not hold good against the reciprocity system. We take the fact which has been so kindly furnished to us, and we draw from it this logical conclusion, that foreign merchants have entertained false ideas with respect to the change in our system—that the speculations which they have founded upon that false assumption cannot possibly be productive of permanent advstltage, and therefore that the increase of trade in these countries cannot be considered as any thing but an ebullition similar to that of 18V4-3 in this country. Without imitating COBBLTT in claiming for ourselves the gift of prophecy, we may be allowed to claim some merit to ourselves on the score of consistency with regard to the affairs of South America. A contemporary yester day informed us, that even a few mouths ago the recent events in South America could not have been anticipated, and were not so much as dreamt of. Now, so far back as April last, we used language on this subject which we should not now hesitate to repeat. We stated it as our opinion, that a Congress could not decide the innumerable points which must eventually come into discussion in South America; that it would not be able to reconcile, or even to discover, all the conflicting interests, which had not then had an oppOrtinity of developing themselves, on account of the feriptiA.,ll common danger. " Sooner or later,' we added, •foste shall see America act the old drama, which has so sitars bred exhibited in Europe, and the crusaders, who nqw unite under the cottmon banner of liberty, will ere long divide, and draw the sword in quarrels of a more partial nature." Whether this has not been justified by t he result, as far us it has gone, we leave our raiders to judge. Wes did not, however, conclude the article which contained these remarks, without mentioning it as our opinion, that these oxasional tempests would produce no permanently injurious effect upon the state of the Transatlantic States, and we are now not less anxious than we then were to impress this on the minds of our readers. As to the financial affairs of Colombia, we all know that the United States Stocks, after the war of their independence, were certainly not less hopeless investments to appearance than the Co lombian are at present. This is an argument, how ever, which will not do for the Stock Exchange. The frequenters of that Mart do not extend their views to the period when these Stocks will probably be tripled in value, nor do they even consider in their bargains that a very few years must produce something like regularity in the payment of the dividends. All they consider is by what means they may contrive to raise or depress the Market for the moment. If to take advantage of a momentary folly were the sole duty of a Statesman, the stockjobber would be the most consummate politician. Some of oar contemporaries have lately been made the tools of these speculators, who, under the mask of early intelligence, contrive to publish garbled facts or direct misrepresenta tions. We have not, perhaps, ourselves been able suffi ciently to guard against such projects on all occasions; but thin, at least, we can say—we have never trusted to stockjobbers for our intelligence, and we have never had any regard to the interests of any particular portion of that ' clans in what we communicate to the public. CITY, FAMT EVIMING. The British Stock Market opened this morning under rather heavy auspices, from the sales made at a late bout yesterday, and it was some time before there was any thing like business doing. The first transactions, however, were done for an advance, and they gained 811 to 4; having re mained some time at this quotation, they suddenly went to 811, from that to 1, and it wu said that they gained fl 2; but that appears doubtful, the closing price being 811 for money, and 811 / for the Account. There were various reports in circulation u the cause for this, arising out of the arrival of an express from Paris, the 3 per Cents. of that capital having reached 67f. 75c. It was confidently asserted that the conference at Akermann had terminated favourably, and consequently that the probability of a war between Russia and the Porte was at an end. There was also another announcement of more immediate import to this country, which was, that Mr. Comma had suc ceeded in negotiating a treaty of commerce between France and England, upon terms of mutual reciprocity. It is im possible to suppose but that this subject is one on which Mr. CANNING has bestowed his serious attention. The unfortunate opportunity that was lost by a Noble Marquis, now no more, in the year 1614, has been often referred to, and remains on history as a serious charge against that splendid diplomatist. Lost in the vortex of military do minion. he overlooked that which, as representing a com mercial nation, ought to have been his first care; and it would appear—if the report is correct—that his talented sue cessor is about to redeem the character of the Cabinet in this respect (as he has done on other occasions) from the charge of supineness to which it was subjected, as regards the best interests of the Empire. It is indeed a long time since any such treaty was concluded between these two contracting parties, and the subject is well worthy the liberal policy of Mr. CANNING'S administration. The demand for Exchequer Bills and India Bonds increases ; they have to-day been bought at a higher price than has been the case for some time past—the former at 21, 23, and the lat ter at 33, 35, pm. The Foreign Market is generally a shade better. Mexican Bonds are from 641 to 63, with a very steady Market. Colombian lionds,which closed yesterday at 361 to37,have advanced during the day full two per cent. ; at the close of the Market, however, they were something lower, at 381. The recantation of Dr. Fol. ey, as regards the state ment put forth as his, cannot, however, be considered to have had this effect, as it did not appear till after the close of the Market. The worthy Doctor denies that he ever re presented that be came to negotiate a new Loan (though it was positively stated, in the article given as under his au thority, that he came vested with full powers to do so), and negatives the proposition that he was employed by the Colombian Government, although the article in question stated that he was so employed, and that in consequence of representations made by M. Ilearano himself. He also denies that he ever said Colombia had not the means of paying the interest on her debt ; and states that he is going back to use whatever influence he may possess, in order to impress upon the Colombians the importance of transmitting to England the sum necessary to pay the dividend, and to keep faith with their creditors; so that Dr. FOLEY is re turning to Colombia for the purpose of recommending that, which he said, or somebody said for him, was impossible to be done. There are several other points alluded to in his observations; but as they refer to a letter which, appeared in the British P►ess of this day, they will be found in another place. Dr. FOLEY, like an honourable man (whatever may be thought of his discretion), has denied the main points of the statement put forth es his, and therefore severity of remark is disarmed, as regards the Doctor. What be will say to his friends who concocted the statement for him it is difficult to imagine. There is, however, little doubt but that the colouring given has pro duced the desired result, via.—a day's operation on the Market. It wu impossible to suppose M. MUSTANG could have acted in the manner which Dr. Focey's origi nal article imputed to him, and the result proves that his conduct is beyond suspicion. In consequence of a formal, and very proper, appliemism having been made by Messrs. HERRING, GSAIIAN, and Pow Les, the contractors for th e : Colombian Loan of 1822, to Huararo, on the subject of the dividend due in November, that gentleman hu written them an official answer, in which he states that the money has not yet arrived from Colombia. but that, from the communications he has received from his Government, he expects it will shortly. The arrival of the Jamaica packet will doubtless bring further intelligence ; but in the mean time it must be observed, that M. lltrar•no stands completely exonerated. Ile has every reason to: suppose, from the despatches he has received, that money will come; and in effecting the insurance he only toot that necessary measure of precaution, which, in point of fact, it would have been criminal in him to have neglected. Chilian are at 39, 40, and it is rather strange that some question is not raised upon the subject of these Dividends. The amount is not of magnitude, and it is possible, per haps, that they may come. There are some considerable insurances of specie by his Majesty's brig Dove, packet, or by ships from Buena Ayres, but whether remittances from Chili are among them does not appear. Greek and Spanish are at last quotations. In Shares there is more doing; Anglo-Mexicans are better, at 471 to 45 discount ; while Del Monies have ad vanced to 40, SO, premium. Brazilians are from IS to 14 premium. The Corn Market has been dull today, but prices are firm ; there was la plentiful supply of new Oats, which realized as much at, old. The sales in the Colonial Market have been tolerably brisk, but at infe►ior prices as regards Sugar, it having been impossible to mak" a large sale but at a reduction. Rum is the only &Mole which looks well in the Market. THE BRITISH PRESS. ~Bf. MOVEMENTS. The Marquis of Exeter has arrived at his seat, Burleigh, from a tour. Lord Stowell apilvai yesterday at his house in Graßon-street, Bond-street, from his test in Bucks. Lord Lynedoch yesterday left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Brighton. Major Webb strived yesterday at Limer's Hotel, from his seat, Milford House, Surrey. Mrs. Dbrrien and C. Dorrien, Esq. arrived yesterday at Jordan's Hotel, SC• JinneerFitreet, from their seat in Sussex. Mrs. Coutts arrived in town on Thursday, from Brighton. - Mr. and Lady Caroline Capel Yesterday left their brother's, the Duke of St. Albans, in St. James's-square. for Norfolk. Mr. and Mm. Cummings arrived yesterday at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Drook.atreet, from tlrir seat in Herm. Captain Hawkins left ditto for Brighton. Mr. and Mrs:Thomas Sheppard has left Hatchett's Hotel, Do ver -street, Piccadilly, for Paris. Miss Hesketh left town yesterday for her seat, Hill House, near Windsor. Arrivals at Fentcm's New Hotel, St. James's-street :—The Hon. Captain Blaney from Brighton ; Captain Devvreux, from a tour. Major George Johnson has left ditto for Ireland. Arrivals at Mivart's Hotel, Gower Brnok.street:—The Hon. Mrs. and Miss Childers and family, from Henley-on. Thames; the Rev. Eardley Childers. Arrivals at Thomia's Hotel, Berkeley-square :—General and Mrs. Sablotoull; from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham, from their seat In Norfolk; Lard hluneaster and the Hon. Captain H. Ramsay, from Germany ; the Hon. G. Pere, from North. 'lepton. Arrivals at tlw Royal Hotel :—Mr. and Mrs. Champion, from Blackwater ; D. Johnson, Esq., from Herefordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Gott, Brim Dover; Wm. Stewart, Esq., from Scotland. De partures from ditto:—Captain Burton, R.N., on a tour; Major Williams, to Brighton; Sir Alexander, Lady, and Miss Laurent, for Scotland. Arrivals at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street and Miss Blackall. from Ireland ; Mrs. Litde and Little, Esq., from a tour ; Dr. and Mrs. Yates, and Yates, Esq., from Brighton. Departures from ditto :—Lieut...Col. Lewis, for St. Pierre; Tendall, Esq., on a tour; Grove, Esq. Rifle Brigade. Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets:—Watson Taylor, Esq. 51. P., from his seat, near Devizes; Captain Harrison, from a tour; Bacon, Esq., from a tour. Departures from ditto : —Sir G. and Lady ►'a;, for Kent; the Rev. Mr. Smyth, Mrs. Smyth, and family, for ditto ; E. lope', Esq., for Brighton ; J. Blackburn, jun. Esq., on a tour. CASE OF BUCKINGHAM watts BANKES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. 81*—The great length of the Trial in the action brought by me against Mr. Bankes, given in your journal of this day, is sufficient 1 to account for the imperfection of the report, as it must have been 1 impossible for any one Paper to contain the half of what really I transpired in Court. This defect will soon be supplied by a com plete publication of the whole in • connected form ; but as some days must elapse before this can be effected, I beg the favour of your permitting me to correct one erroneous impression, which, without explanation, in likely to be made by a porti o n of the report already before the world. In this it is stated that certain old French Prints were sent by me to England, with directions to Mr. Murray to make such alter ations in them as should prevent their being discovered, and to 'rive 1 them to the world, attached to the " Travels in Palestine, ' as 1 Original Drawings, made by myself! If this charge were founded in truth, my triumph would have been much less complete than it fortunately now is. But, although Mr. Murray (as will be shown hereafter) resorted to the most mean and disreputable breach of trust, in giving up to others what he knew to be my property— placing it in the hands of Mr. Bankes' solicitors, In order to assist them in making out this charge, and withholding all knowledge of the fact from me—notwithstanding his affecting before the world to be " extremely sorry for having been made the Instrument of unmerited calumny on a respectable individual," voluntarily paying damages and costs, as well as making an ample apology for his conduct—though Mr. Murray could thus play the accomplished hypocrite so perfectly, expressing, in public, the deepest contrition for his misdeeds, and assisting others, in private, to perpetuate still greater injuries on the man he was so " sorry" to have wronged ; yet it availed these conspirators nothing at the trial, sod will avail them still less, if possible, with the world. In that very manuscript of the" Travels in Palestine," which Mr. Murray held in his hand *hen in the witness box, and identified as that sent to him with the prints in question, is the following paragraph, explanatory of their introduction into the work : " The drawings contained in the Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie. by Vasa*, amount* three large folio volumes. The publication of these being discontinued before the letter-press intended to accom pany the engravings was printed, they are now incomplete, and, as far as I can learn, are likely to remain so. There are some few among these which are so accurate, as well as beautiful, that I hare been induced to adore such of them as give views of places and mo. foments actually visited and described in the course of these travels. As these are almost in Use nature of original drawings, inasmuch as they never have been, nor are ever likely to be, placed in the bands of the public, as engravings usually are, with the descriptions and explanation necessary to the understanding them, I am sure the lovers of the arts will be obliged to me for bringing into more ge neral view pieces of so much beauty and merit; and those who de sire graphic illustrations of their reading will find in them the most faithful and spirited delineations of the scenes which they profess to represent." This paragraph still stands in the early part of the manu. script, which was In Mr. Murray's own hands, and is sufficient to d sprova entirely the charge of my attempting to pass off these French prints as original drawings of my own. But it is said there were directions, in notes, on the prints themselves, to take oat a group of figures here, and put in a gr sup there—to alter this man's sand and that man's sword. True, bul not a line was read to show that a single stone or tree of the original picture was to be altered. The memoranda related wholly to figures, and every one who knows any thing of drawing, knows that all figures, whether a man or animals, are put into views after the landscape or architectural parts Of the picture are corn pieta Mountains and Tahiti, temples and bridges, pillars and pe disunite, may remain for centuries the same; but mules and meets, sheep and goats, mss,' and horses, do not continue for ever fixed to the spot. These aro, almost always mere embellishments, put is for effect ; and all that is required of them is, that they should be in keeping with the . scene, the age, and the country. Cuss's figur es , many of which are out of keeping, as well as inaccurate in comume, were no ,doubt put into his pictures in France, chassis his Views were takn in Syria: and no Traveller perhaps that ever lived finished Res drawings entirely on the spot. But even if every figure ha,l been omitted, or those introduce/ been ever so different from di:e originals, this could not affect the fidelity of an architectural draa Ins, or a landscape view —sepposing every other part of the picture to remain the same, and not %stone era shrub was directed to be altered. These few Views weenie:mealy said, however, in the Book iNelf, to be drawn by Cum, and selected from a great variety in his" " Voyage Pinto. tissue de leSyrie," from which they were taken to be engraved for the Trave ls to Palestine: but this being expressed at the foot of each separate plate, as was the case in the pencil memoranda read in Court, no person could mistake them to be put forth as . DRAWN by me, anymore than they could imagine that I pretended also to have engraved them. But the most remarkable part of the whole affair is this: th a t neither these Engiavings of Cases, nor the two Drawings from Myers, equally acknowledged, have ever been trade use of at all ! The " Quarterly 4tsview," in its article on the Travels. when they Hut appeared, no known to have been written by Mr William o rrpoc t u Bank's. log with his own venom the spleen of Mr. (riff ,_ an the private information confidentially in. trusted to i f r. , fray himself, accused me of plagiarism in putting forth D'Aaville's Map as my own, when, unluckily for the ispumtion of the Critic, on referring to the printed Book, the Moped' thlaSieltgraphers (originally duds when Mr. in s, Murray was l epublish it, to be given as D'Anvillet foe the ambit* in , addition to a later Map for the rub. Bern divide.. M country) was not to be found at all, the new Publisbeess Lamm* and Co., having taken it upon them to omit it as neessimary ea expensive. And now Mr. Bankes's counsel and selieltese, drawl's their information from the same pure source bring forth *series of eusravings,w hich Murray treacherously place: 1 in their heads to use against the man he had already injured, and whose y alone they were: while they raise together • yell Kat thueftetecting the fancied fraud of 'mein forth old WISP as sew drawings, when, in truth, they have never bees et all i (for these also, which Murray had himselfcon seen Ottpnblish without scruple, were omitted by Messrs. Long man, as *ell as D'Anville's map, chiefly to avoid expense ;) while this sone Mr. Murray suppresses the Information, equally well known to him, tha even if they h a d bens us e d, • frank t and un disguised ecknowti merit of what they really were was contained in the paragraph ai g eady quoted, as it still stands in the original manuscript, which he confessed to have had for many months is his possession, but which paragraph, since the plates referred t• in it were omitted to be used, was, IN • mutter of course, omitted In the printed work elle., I shall say no more—this one act of baseness and treachery is salami to mark the charscien of the conspirators who could resort to it for chair defence, and to make tl:e public pause on any other portion of their misrepresentati ,, us which May ap pear, by the imperfection of the published reports of the case, to have been inadequately refuted in Court. Many more, however, will be shown in the f u ll R e port of the Trial now peeper. in g for te press: and the exposure this will give to the reputation of those implicated, will, no doubt, be as agreeable to them as the payment of the dinners and costs (in the whole, not much short Of LINO. which will be drawn ham their reluctant purses as so much blood from the heart I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, J. 6. Bucuitsmor. Orove.End-Reed, St. John's Wood, Oct. 20; 10116. • DR. FOLEY AND TIIE COLOMBIAN DIVIDENDS. [From the Courier.) Some misconception having prevailed, both as to the character in which Dr. Foley has come to this country from Colombia, and as to the object of his coming, we are authorised by that Gentle man to supply the following explaations : Ile came here, " not as a public functionary. Ile never pro posed to any one that a Goan should now be raised for the service of Colombia; but being in this country, he wished to procure as much information as possible with respect to the views of British capitalists, previously to his return to Bogota, whither he proceeds, to use whatever influence he may possess, in order to impress upon the Colombians the importance of transmitting to England the sum necessary to pay the Dividend, and to keep faith with their creditors." _ _ To the questions, not very pertinent ones, addressed to him by a correspondent in the 21'ew rimer of this morning, he re plies, " that when he arrived in the capital of Colombia, he met with a reception greatly surpassing his most sanguine expectations ; and when he quitted Bogota, he was on the brat possible terms with the Executive." To an article which appears in another Morning Paper in which reference is made to a supposed dispute between Dr. Foley and General Holiest, the former would reply, " that if that were true which has been reported by the stock.johbers, the mention made of it was a very stock-jobbing explanation." It has been stated by the Tinter that the name of Dr. Foley has now become public property. This the Doctor cannot admit. " Had he announced himself as a public functionary from Colombia, or given any statement relative to its affairs through the medium of the public press, or if he had °trued to negotiate a loan for that Republic, then he would not deny that his name might be claimed as public property ; but such is not the case." Dr. Foley assures us " he has never stated that Colombia hat not the means of paying the interest on her debt; and he is surprised that the Times, in the same article, should describe him to have used such language, end yet speak of him as having come here to negotiate a new loan. For such inconsistency be is at *loss how to account." He did not " expect, nor did the Colombian Government expect, that, under existing circumstances, a loan could be raised for the service of that country in England. He however wished to ascer tain if a fist-rate capitalist would take the affairs of Colombia in hand, with a view of extricating her from the embarrassments which now encompass her." The arrival of a aum of money at Carthagena " was certainly announced by Dr. Foley ; but what the object of the Colombian Government might be in detaining it, when there, he has never stated, nor has he taken upon himself to say whether or not its ar rival here was now to be expeced. He has abs'aincd from giving an opinion on this, and other points, and has never declared him self to be more intimately acquainted with the secrets of the Co lombian Government than any other person." Thus for Dr. Foley. Now one word for OUtACIVCS. The writer of the letter in the New Times says, "it is known, and cannot be contradicted by us, that we had the statement in sufficient time for insertion on Wednesday." We presume he meant to say Tuesday; for on Wednesday It did appear. Our answer is—the statement is false. With respect to the article itself, we shall only a4d, we ssr.sfied ourselves by proper inquiries before we inserted it. Since writing the above, we have received the following com munication : COLOMBIAN LOAN OF 1022. The Contractors' of thl4 Loan, having applied to his Excellency the Hon. Al. J. Hurtado, on the subject of the Half-yearly Divi dend due on the lit November next, have received from his Excel lency the following answer, which they publish for the information of the bond-holders. Freeman's-court, Oct. 19, 1826. (Cory.) 33, Portland-place, London, Oct. 18. Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th October inst. respecting dui payment of the dividends on the bonds of the loan of 18.2. In answer to it I have to inform you that the money for this payment has not yet arrived front Colombia ; but, from the com munications received from my Government, I confidently expect that the money will be forwarded, and will arrive in this country shortly. 1 remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) 111ANCEL JOSE HURTADO. To Messrs. C. Herring, %S'm. Graham, and J. I). Pavan. CONFLICT AT THE BIBLE MEETING AT BALLINASLOE. MEETING OF THE CATHOLICS. (FROM A CORIIESPONDENT.) Bailloaake, Monday Morning, Eleven o'clock. The most intense anxiety pervades this town as the hour fixed for holding the Catholic Mceting approaches. Mr. Eneas M'Donnell and his brother are just come into town, and numbers of the neighbouring Catholic Gentry and Clergy have arrived. The chair is to be taken at one o'clock. All seem animated by one determination, to seek, by firm and constitutional appeal to the Government of the country, a redress for the unheard-of outrage lately perpetrated in this town, and of which the par ticulars are already before the public. Should this ap peal prove unsuccessful, the Catholics of Connaught are determined to try what a petition to the House of Commons will do for them. 1 have just been to see the Court-house, where the late atrocious affair occurred. The approach to it is by a narrow door, barely sufficient to admit one individual. The stairs are exceedingly dark and narrow, and almost as perpendicular as a ladder. The police above stairs cut, hacked, and drove the people towards this passage, while below were stationed fifteen or sixteen policemen, headed by a Magistrate, and who received the people on landing at the point of the bayonet ! It is next to a miracle that several lives were not lost on this occasion, and the gratifying fact can only be accounted for by the peaceable and orderly conduct of the people under circumstances of the most unprovoked outrage, which, had it taken place in England, would have driven even the most phlegmatic John Bull to desperation and re sistance. A strong array of the police, or "Peelers," (a felicitous application of the name of the first founder of a police establishment) has arrived in town this morning from dif ferent parts of the country, but they are much mistaken if they fancy any work will be fu r ni s h e d t o t h em h ere to-thy. . . A paper is just distributing through the town, purport ing to be a disavowal on the part of the " undersigned Catholics" (it bears but one signature, and that of a de pendent of the Trench family) of ?laving taken part in the " disgraceful proceedings against Lord IJunlo and his friends, on Thursday last. Archdeacon Trench's clerk is endeavouring, without effect, to procure signatures to this document. Three O'Clack.—The meeting is now going on. I never witnessed any thing like the:excitation of the people, but they are pefectly peaceable. The following correspond ence between the Catholic Archbishop, Doctor Kelly, and the Bishop of Norwich, has just been read. Would to God all churchmen were like these illustrious prelates, and how few of these heart-rending conflicts would be! " Tuam, Oct. 2, 1826. "My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose the copy of a resolu. lion adopted at a Meeting of the Catholic inhabitants of this town and Uhloo, held on Thursday, the 28:h of last m on th, for t h e pur pose gr , :it ioning the Legislature for Catholic Emancipation. My of respect and gratitude t o wards y our L or d s hi p me = as . Weedy with those of the Meeting, tha t I am anx i ous to obi/ then desire, as expressed in the resolution, with as little de lay as possible; and trust I shall he justified in the anticipation that jour Laxislaip will be pleased to accept this delegation of our ileaste melt and unreserved confidence. him the honour to remain. with the most profound respect, " Tour Lordship's most ooedietat and devoted humble servant, " 0. C. KELLY. H. To tbe Lord Bishop of Norwich, Norwich." REPLY. " My dear Lord—The Catholic inhsbitants of Tuain, and the lisle*, do me but justice in thinking that there is not a is indi vidual In the United Kingdom more cordially attached to the great oasis efelvil and religious liberty than myself, or who contemplates with Mare surprise and sorrow the impolicy, the injustice, and the want of Christian charity, by which so ma n y l o y a l su bj ects an d conscientious chri s ti ans are deprived of those civil privileges to which they have, in my opinion, an unquestionable right, for no other reason, which I am able to find out, than their steady attach malt to the religion of their ancestors. " Old as I am, I will gladly present to the House of Lords the petition mentioned by your Orace • and 1 shall be happy to h av e an opportunity o f bearing nay h umble testimony in favour of the most injured people upon the lace of the earth. " Believe me, Sir, with great t rut h, Your affectionate Brother, " Norwich, Oct. 9,1825. " them Noawlce. " To the Most Rm. Dr. Kelly', Lord Archbishop of Tuam, Irekad." I assure you I do am exaggerate when I tell you, that shouts for Sitilrei minutes rent the air when these letters were read, and, albeit ensued to the melting mood, this in stance of fraternal ilk** between prelates of different Christian creeds litadttlie keite Via& down the akeelts of many a hardy menl Oft ho kind to the Irish, do them common justice—do them even what Mr. Leslie Foster 's evidence recommends, and you may command their very lives. It is Insporibio fa ate to give you any further ac count of this meeting. I leave this to-morrow, for Gal way, where there is to be another Bibl e M eet i ng . There will be opposition given to it without doubt. God grant no harm may arise out of these exasperating conflicts. -I IMPROFEMENTS IN SOMERS'-TOWN A.Vb CAMDEN-TOWN. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the above town@ eta h e ld yesterday evening at the Commissioners' Room for Paring, du. is Phoenix -street, for the purpose of adopting a petition to he per. serted to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, and to receive the Rep ort of the Committee appointed for the furtherance of the dean-ic e object of effecting a communication between Cannlen•Toan and Somers'-Town, by Seymour-street. Mr. SEWELL in the Chair. The Cnatitaraw called upon Mr. Pitt, a member of the cp tt . mittee, to reed the R e po r t. Mr. CITABLES PITT. of the Adelphi, then read the Re , from which it appe are d th a t a pl an ha d b een d rawn up by Mr. p l ot tington, for a junction of the towns in question, by means of aeon, tinuation of Seymour-street, through a field a the Duke of B e d. ford's, now in the occupation of Mr. Rhodes. Mr. Portington had also drawn up a petition to his Grace, which he had taken the tro t s. ble to act numerously signed; and at a public meeting admit. tee had been appointed to car,y the petition into e ff ect, II worthy of consideration. Th e Committee approved of Mt Poningtoes exertions, and resolved that some monies which be had received by way of subscription, to the amount of 261., should be appr o . printed in part to his remuneration. Subsequen t l y Mr. Porting. ton refused to leave his plans with the Commutes, lon which they rescinded the Resolution, allowing him the 261., aced excluded him from their Board. Upon the Resolution that the Report of the Committee be se. ceived, Mr. EMXOTT rose and charged Mr. Pitt 'Win design top use Mr. Portington, and make • job for himself. Mr. PITT indignantly retorted, and re-echoed oil the allegations in the Report, as to the impropriety of Mr. Pottington's coodne t towards the Committ e e. Mr. EMMOTT Charged Mr. Pitt with the infection of eluting of ' the heading of Mr. Portington's Petition, and attaching ea the names signed to it another Petition of his own inenufaetuse; end that he had caused a Resolution to that effect to is carried *tough the Committee, which Resolution they subsequently reededed. This would have been a gross fraud upon the Inteeribees to the Petition. A stormy discussion then ensued, and Mr. Pitt entered into a long defence of the Committee, during which he was more than once admonished by the Chairman to confine himself to fact.. Mr. Pon TINGTON sa;il that Mr. Pitt had Welted him to leafs his plans with the Committee, and that he should be paid his bill of MI.; but he thought he saw a cloven foot in the proposition, and refused to do so. He would not part with the Petition to which so many respectable names were signed, lest any alt erat i on s h ould he made in it. If the proposed alteration had taken place, he consi dered that it would be a forgery on the subscribers, and he could consequently place no faith to persons capable of mtertaining such a proposition. ;('beers.) A GENTLEMAN said that it appeared to him quite evident that Mr. Portingion had been molt scandalously treated in the business, and he s'iould therefore propose that the Petiiion be rejected. Mr. PITT denied the charge of ever having the intention of cut ting off the heading of the Petition. Mr. WADDE N lIA m said that Mr. Pitt had expreared such an in. tention to him, in consequence of which he had spoken to his actor. ncy, who advised Mos to retire from the Committee, if an act so disgraceful was attempted to be carried Into execution. His actor. ney advised him not to be drawn intoa job by Mr. Pitt. 3lr. 311TCHELMORE, one Of the Committee, stated that me. Pitt had expressed such an intention to him also. After a most tumultuous discussion. the It eport of the Committee was rejected by a very large majority of the Meeting. The peti ion to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, to which Mr. Portingion had obtained the signatures, was then read. It pur ported to be from the builders, traders, and ioiiseholders, in the neighbourhood of Seymour-street, who had invested capital in that part of the town, under the impression that it was the intention of his Grace to open a communication between Camden and Somers' Towns. Th , se mivepremmtatfons were not attributable to the agents of his Grace; but yet they hoped that he would be pleased to take into consideration the ruin which awaited them) should he withhold his acquiesc.mce to the plm In question. The peti ion, after some discussion, was adhpted almost unani mously ; and a deputation was appointed to present it to his Grace, together with the plans by which it was proposed to effect the com munication through Seyniour.street, in a line with the two churches. A reeohoion was I kewise agreed to for &subscription to Mr. Portingcon, whose exertions were deemed deserving of the highest praise. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the Meeting dissolved. CORNWALL AND DEVONSHIRE MINING CO4l/P.IN Y. A Meeting of persons holding shares in this Company was liehl yesterday, pursuant to advertisement. At one o'clock, the hour appointed for boding the Meeting, something less than a dozen shareholders being present, Mr. IVOOLLEY proposed that Mr. W. Clark should take the Chair. Mr. CLARK then stated that the Meeting had been called in con. sequence of a circular letter, sent round by the Directors of the Devon and Cornwall Mining Company to the shareholders of that Company, insisting upon the payment of a further advance of Sl. on each share. The letter was signed by Messrs. Fisher and Rhodes, the Solicitors of the Directors, and was as follows : " Davies-street, Grosvenor-iwiare, Oct. 13, IV O. " Sir,—We are desired by the Board of Directors or the Corn. wall and Devonshire Mining Company, held this day, to apply to you for the payment of the sum of U. per share on your shares in that Company, mode on the 14th of September; an 4 we beg to inform you, that unless the amount is immediately paid, we have instructions to adopt legal measures to enforce the paymint--a step which it would be equally unpleasant to us as to yourself to he obliged to adopt. IVe hope, however, that your attention to this will render any farther proceedings unnecessary." Signed, Now he had hoped that from what h a d o ccurre d (at several meet ings convened by the Board of Directors, and the developement which had taken place of the fraudulent manner in which this Corn. pany had been concocted, that the Directors, or at least the honourable part of them, instead of threatening the Shareholders with legal proceedings, and endeavouring to extort more money from them, would have united with the Shareholders, and endea voured to bring the parties in this gross fraud to condign punish ment. Here they were, however, flying in the face of their own conviction, for convinced they had been that the CODCOC6OO of thill Company was a shameful fraud, and yet they now attempted to impose upon the Shareholders by threatening to enforce their call for the payment of another instalment. The true history Odle circular was, that some of the Directors had borrowed a sum of 10,000/. from two bankers, on behalf of the Company, and bad made themselves personally responsible for the re-payment of that sum. In the present state of the Company, these Mon= were at a loss to know from what fund they should derive mar, for the payment of their engagement, and in this Mime they thought or making an experiment, and etuka ta the money out of the pockets of the Shareholders. The however, weft perfectly secure. There was no maxim in law clearer than that any undertaking founded in fraud was null and void. It was only necessary to prove that this Company had been founded in fraud, and it ceased legally to exist; it ceased to be a Company. The Directors bad no right to call for a further in stalment, as they were now doing, and it was eel, foe the Share. holders to resist this glaring injustice, to deemed the of their former instalments, and to bring ea 0110diWI those who were concerned in the fraud. It mums shat tithe deed of set•lement there was a clause empowering the Disown to enforce the payment of any call upon the tihemlidders shish lig might deem it reasonable to make; bat he nateleinleed Hee ige Ir strument was grossly deficient, for that them wee m enema by which the Shareholders agreed to be beinualbiLdisktimes witty this ground, if there wu D•other, o t oko plegiann um, everpeemnsel *so enforcing the call. Rut if this wen get , ibeel nes another palpable objection. This wm net s eseponetlem b imiebeee. fore all the Directors must aagg beim •Of peannedieup nein be taken against a single titsee-was ems dimeedeat Director, there could be as legal greasodiag. Well, time was the Hon. Mr. Powlett, the Member fos Dade* ow Talbot, the Member for Dublin ; they had **ft ills Well pes. testing against any legal pr oceedier he* She shoe holders, and expessing their glebe which Ind _been pursued. T ttt:Mid it would be the tlJegree of fear. As to disgraceful transaction odekuseird, try nogewel kneern, it min got up by Mr. Wilk,, and lbe .elaid emir of Mille MS I Mr. Teague, from whom Wilks wined ens unison for en es enages sum. Be (Mr. Clark) had a espy of the original egemeneas be. tween Wilke and Teague, In Odd* Wins millieNdef ID pay Teague the sum of 79,3001. fee lime enhselt hi hi oast se hss (Wilke) being able to establish • Joint-mock Company s hes he purchase was not to take place if Wilke had NOW in the Company. As was wall known, a prospectus was ies .BlB = the Company established, and then the original agreement um is. celled, and a new agreement weed ; o w, similar in every ether respect to the first, eel emittiag the cooditimal Mare, which rendered the puschsee apes the asieblishmeet el the Joint-Stock Company. A number of poems iheabsesse Di. re,:tors, whom he called Mr. Wilks's party, he Abe are woes were to be found as Directors in every Compote, in eddek he had been concerned. This party, corseting of M PO" limy" Mr. Barrett, Mr. Aston, Mr. Kershaw, and others, tem at t h e Albion Tavern, and agreed that 79,30e1. should be paid to Teague for seven mines, a part of which sum was te be paid down, and the rest by instalments, and that Wilke should mil them wan India to the Company for 121,0004, thereby poke the muse b e . tween 79.5001. and 121,0001. into his owe pasha. , Tide k was that constituted the fraud ; and, to lbw sso t h e m h o law action was, those very gentlemen mho the siesilmg pen ciliated in the villany, and remised • share MOM pease, -moat lag to 9011. each. They had it Om /Ir. Aston's maw* that is pederast had pesdilpated in lime fraudulent galas. Thin was Whim seem** dim that the isle scheme wee a tad einepi racy to &bend the public' and due being de ems, it we sly for more !Pow agie, sad emit firrellemft (site nrnr° Meg, eat MN It sae time s sebeerip tion should num im libilislieeneown Olt each share, to Meaty the of any which it might hr edeko4•4lk4llbn emewara fsmhlo thereat ; if that was susesselel, Memel; mimes mre ?odd be re turned; and it the Cows decided wait libeeeboldem, the la ff • ' .4 d I .1 . • c . 4 II • f _