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PRENC•II PAPERS. 4 Flan the lasik dated Al aids,. 1 ,„ Pain. JA AMwdYtR to the latest letters we have receired ftorn Warsaw, surd which annownce the arrival of the tirand Duke Al ichael, every *leg has been finally settled about the successor of the Emperor /Malinke; and the Wand Duke Nicholas. after a fresh Ten unriation of the Grand Duke Constantine, is stated to be Emperor of All the Mamias. ins Moth gives no news from St. Petershurgh of later date then the nth December, and only a tew particulars already coat. wisastaitsd thyough the Hamburgh Papers.l firms from °dem, of the 20th December, add to the details already known, that Prince Wolkonsky and General Diebetsch wore still at Taganrog, and that the persona present at the death of 4ra Illospetor, besides the Empress, were the two tuenerals above saswtiooed, and General Cremitscheff. Prince Wolkensky, who bad already acquainted the (hand Duke Constantine with the wish at bla august brother to see him. had despatched Couriers, with the news of his Majesty's death, to fit. Petersburgh and Warsaw. - - • - - (Prom the Quntidientse of Sunday, Jan. O.) Amos, the reports in circulation relative to the affairs of Russia, we shall only mention what seems to us the moat probable, and the most conformable to what we already know. It may be considered as certain that the Einperor Alexander. in his tut moments. wrote with his own hand a letter to his brother Constantine, releasing him from the renunciation of the imperial etarone. which he had made on his marriage with the Princess of Loestics. It was the last will of the EmpEror Alexander, and not Cie renunciation of Constantine, with which the Grand Doke Mi slaid was sent to St. Petenburgh ; but while he was on his way to that capital. Nicholas had received the oath of the (hoards, and taken it himself to the Emperor Constantine. Immediately after the arrival of Prince %lichael at St. Peters. bergh, a family council was called to learn the last will of Alex ander, and the instructions sent by his successor. The council met again mat day, anti several Senators and Officers of State were stammoned to attend it. Mater Apatchinin was sent to Warsaw with the result of the deliberation of the family council. We know that lie arrived at Waviaw on the tith or 26th Dec. and that he was very well re- Delved by the new Emperor. These facts once established and well confirmed the only proba ble Colliettale is, that the mission of the Grand fluke Michael to Ott Petersburgh, and the family councils held after his arrival, re :wed to the wire of the new Emperor, and the rank she will hold at fi-ourt, home pence. pretend that she will be first crowned Queen ufF'oiarid, and may perhaps In the sequel share the imperial throne with bar ionsoit. All this, however, needs confirmation, and it is probable that several dap■ will pass before official news of what is taking place at St. Petersburgh can be reeeteei. [From the J.ns' - sal des &bate of Sunday.] PAil I. JAN. 7. The death of the Emperor Alexander is an event of such vast saportance, that every circumstance attending, preceding, or fol. loming It. is received with as much avidity at Pans as at St. Peters lugh. The following details may be relied on On the same day to November that he took an excursion on the water by which he 'taught the cold that was the beginning of his dinette, he went to visit a small tribe, who, by a fabulous or historical tradition, are said to be descended trom the ancient Spartan'. The weather was dreadful; the Emperor went in a small carriage, which was con. ducted by a postilion or coachman, who for the last seven or eight years always accompanied him, and habitually replaced the regular ratilione on the road, particularly if the roads were bad. The carriage was overthrown, and the Emperor ran great danger ad being seriously hurt ; hut he escaped without injury, and went hanself to raise his faithful conductor, who died in his arms. The attendants on horseback rode up immediately, and the Emperor, addresaing those who came up first, said to them, " Gentlemen, this man always precedes me." Fifteen days after that event Alexander expired. It is Certain that he appeared seized with profound melancholy. When the President of the Senate came to offer his homage and that of the Senate to the Grand Duke Nicholas, on the day on whiek the fatal news arrived at St. Petenburgh. that Prince was holding in his hand a paper, with the seal unbroken. He asked the President whether he had thought of opening a similar paper, long before iletiosited in a pace whin he menuoued. The President replied in the negative. lt is," said the Prince, " the duplicate of that which I hold in my band, and this paper contains the abdication of the Grand Duke Constantine, but I desire that no attention he paid to it ; I, on the contrary, desire that myself and the Senate should take the oath of fidelity to the Emperor Constantine." The President of the senate wished the Grand Duke to go him. wit' and express his wishes to the Seeste. The Prince refused ; because." said he, " the Constitution of the Empire forbids the Princes of the imperial Family to enter the Satiate, unless by an extraordinary and special sammons from the li:rnpavel, but bring to me all the members who may happen to be patient. ' His ceders were executed, and when the Senators entered the Prince's apartment he repeated to them what he had said to the Pre. indent--" I wish," said he, " that the renuncation of the Grand little Constantine should be considered null ; 1 wish-1 desire— and if it be necessary I order. that he should be proclaimed." When we compare all that has been said and written by those who at that time were in the best situations for being well informed of Use Wants of the period, it cannot be doubted that at the time the Grand Duke Constantine urged his mother and Alexander to consent to his marriage, there were three express desires, that the renunciation of the throne should be the condition, viz that of the Empress .Mother, that of Alexander, and that of Constantine himself. A cireumptar.oe known at Paris within these few days only, partly explains the delay of so many days before the arrival of the definitive news. It is certain that after the snivel from Warsaw at Petersburgh. and the departure from Petersburgh for Iranian, of tie Grand Duke Michael. after the interchange of one or two couriers. the Grand Duke Nicholas and the Empress Mother sett th Warsaw a Russian Nobleman, the Comte de Atapekinin, who was at Paris seven rears hack with the Grand Duke Constantine, sod was honoured with his greatest friendship. This nobleman was charged with new and list persuasions to determine the Grand Puke Constantine. It may be imagined that, as soon as it was a question. not of a simple courier or a despatch. which might be an. awned in a few hours, but of so important a negotiation, confided to such a negotiator. instead of hours we ought to reckon It is impossible for those who believe these authentic de. . dogs. tails not to be struck with the reflection which naturally strikes the mind. The three desires, which occasioned the renunciation six years hack, and evidently renewed less than three years since, were etil in force in December, 111'15. The dying Emperor seems to have persisted in it. There is no reason to believe that her Majesty, the Empress Mother, who is presumed not to have been the person who kinked upon the renunciation as the least necessary. has changed bee opinion. The Grand Duke. Constantine himself persists in remaining faithful to his engagements. How, thin, do we ask ourselves--how, in the midst of such cir cumstances, does it happen that the Grand Duke Nicholas wished for more than the first movement, full of greatness and nobleness, which induced him to order the proclamation of the Grand Duke Constantine ? Why did the Grand Duke Nicholas persist in pressing his brother, after one, and even, as it appears, after two de clarations from Constantine, posterior to his proclamation as Ent peter, confirming his renunciation, which walla thus have become • tree, free, and solemn abdication ? How will nbe attempted to sewer that objection ftgairst the truth of that which precedes? We must, In the find place, suppose an incredible transmission of the virtues of Alexander to his enure family, and acknowledge la the Grand Duke Nicholas something even more magnanimous and heroic than the sentiment which made hint refuse a mown. Tb' persistence in the refusal on both sides can only be explained by die following facts t seems that the marriage of the Grand lhikeeerstantitse wile the roast important of his life. His attachment is of the purest nature, and is as fresh and profound as at the lint. The precarious state of his wife's health seems to increase, and furnish it with sew food. It is, on the other hand, known that the Princess, wife to the Grand Duke Constantine, a 'embus Roman Catholic, hi much beloved by the Poles, her countrymen and brethren in religion, but less so by the Russians sad Greek Christians. It is known that in a conversation, of which Madame de Maintenon, tile !marine of the late King of Nsples, and the recent marriage of his Majesty the King of Prussia, were the subjpets, she openly 'declared that it was all very well, but that site lied no idea of being the consult of a King without Wog a Queen, or of the possibility of herself being so circutn- Masteed. We grant that facts would be more important and more curious than tho whole of thefrabove t but after what has happened, when they abeolately fad, all that contributes to explain the muses and She delays allow be altogether without interest. Commercial letters from Marseilles state that a stop had been pot, by high authority, to the building of several shin of war at that port for the Viceroy of Egypt. to reference to reports lately circulated respecting the appointment, by France, of Consuls to the new American bates* kt tt r from Paris, elated Saturday last, states that It is mot the intention of the French Government in any cue to Dominate natives of France to such appointments, but that as order has transmitted to Admiral Daperre, who commands on the Leeward Islands station, to select, in the prir.cipal viva of South America and of Mexico, from among the respectable merchants residing there, such indi viduals as he r.lay think qualified to fulfil the duty of Con sols, and to etnetide to them the protection of the Freath commercial interests. We understand his Majesty's ship Tweed is fitting out at Portsmouth for the coureyance of the Consul appointed . for St. Domingo. The name 9f a gentleman appointed as Viee-Consul at Port-au-Prince has also been handed to us. There is tnueh interest eteittel by the opening of policies et insurance in the City on two Colomleian frigates bound frniti the United States to Carthsgena, at from 90 to 40 per cent. The alumni to be insured is, we believe. 90,000 f. so escli vessel ; they are entirely new, and, by the latest advises from New York, about to be launched. The con tent is to deliver them at Cartlil,lentr, where they become . she property of the Colombian Government. Their names are, the South American (64), from the Delaware , and th e 3* Plata (44), from New York. THE BRITISH PRESS. rail( :s liv i t i t irisii Bank Stnel 222 2191 War A rct. 1 per I cot. Red. 8l 1 S pN Cult MI/ Ditto ,Nt. B'24 811lrt 82 SA per tint. Yfti 9i per Colt. Red. WI I VC ICES iIF rOItEIGN Staelion Scrip Ditto *cot. lb Ws. Chilian Booth Ditto Acct. GO Dolotribiao Bonds Ditto Bunds (1U21) 8.54 i ! 5 4144 Dittocct. 5 41 Ditaish Bonds 62 a 1 Ditto A oct. Mexießn Bowl* Ditto Bonds ( 1C25) G 9 tie MOCKS VESTNI(I).4 y. • Pftw 4 per Cert. NNIO 98i Long Ann. 201 6.16 South Sca Old Annuities 611 6:i, M 11.1,00 1 11. 8 2 4 pm Dim. 11101.8 4pm Dino, Small 67 pm Lottery Ticbte 191. 184. sTUCK. ViidiT Ell DA 1 . 11 , •1ican 14'nds (1W2.%) Acct. 70 Peruvian I rinds i 8 i a i t 43 8 at 8 4 ' Ditto Acct. 441 Portuguese hoods 73 Prussian funds Ditto Bonds (1M) In 1 Russian Bonds 04 3 1 2 4 lj 1 I Ditto Acet.l3 2 4 3 Spanish Bonds 13 Id 131 Ditto Acct. 144 13 Ditto Bonds (1313) IQ 1.11 PRICES OF SHARES VESTERDA 1 . al l X Es. Shore. Pam. rremlnas per Siam An to Chilian Bolanna 4OO 21 40 LS Ovalllian Haytien Hibernian 6O 4 3 di* Ds►eo.Pernvran Potosi LI Paz A. Peruvian Au SO 9 ;dig United 31 axles° Ditto New 4O 10 910 9 ASSURANCS CCSIPANIES. klitanee British and Foreign._ 1410 10 11 OAB MOUT AND COKE COMPANIIS. United General 6O 13 et 641 die 34111CCI.I.ANEOI'll• British Iron lOO 26 71 5 dis British Rock and Patent Salt 10 0 1 l'Anada lOO 10 1 111 1G French Brandy Distillery Co be 9 051 General Steam Navigation lOO 6 Mexican Vigo Bay — tilt 313ritisit DRURY- LA NE 7111...,47:11P. This loaning. R O pera SIVA Y. Jan of ni 12, will be perfored the ROB ROY MACORKOOR. Rob fl Mr. V. snack : Francis Osbaldistune. Mr. Metals; Bann* N1e..1 Jar. le, Mr. Liston. Mum Veroun, Midll basphana i Melon hiaegregor. airs. 6111111. ' • - - To conclude with the Pantomime of HA 11LI , 141JIN, JACK OF ALI. tit ADES. Ilar:oviln. Mr. !lowed; Puntaloon, Mr. T. Hienchard; Clowe, T. Brown; Columbine, Miss Harnett. To-morrow, Der Ireleehutt ; The Camp; and the Pantomime. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRR. Tiela levelling. THURSDAY. Jan. IL will be performed the Comedy of A 1101.1) STiliiie - E . FMR A Colonel Pennine, Mr. C. Kenibte; Perrawinkle, Mr. W. Fames; Obadiah Prim, MI. Fail reit: Freeman. Mr. Cooper; Pure, Mr. Meadows. Ann Lovely, ellee Chester. To conclude with the Pantomime et HARLEQUIN AND THE MAUICK ROSS; Or, HEW I V AND THE DEAS r. FlArtequln. Dir. Eller; Pantaltom, Idr. Barnes; Clown, Kr. J. I. tlrimaldl; Columbine, Was Homer. To-morrow, The Tempest ; and the Pautomlme. The BRITISH Pates commenced publishing petty:l4l mom ing st five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUAAT 14, 11120. Last night at a late hour we received the Etoile dated Tuesday, with the other Paris Papers of Monday. They state that on the 2ith ult. the Grand Duke Steno Las read in the Senate his brother's formal renunciation of the Crown, and declared his own acceptance of it. This is all the information we yet possess of the mode in which the succession has passed away from the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE. From the Paris Papers of Sunday, which arrived in the course of yesterday, we have in another column made some interesting extracts relative to this subject. The Quotidienne alleges that the Emperor ALEXANDER, during his last momenta, wrote to CONSTAN. TINL for thepurpose of releasing him from the act of renun ciation he hail executed on his marriage to the Princess Loswicz. Thia story, however, appears to us wholly in credible. A fuller and apparently more authentic account of the recent transactions connected with the succession to the Russian throne is furnished by the Journal dm abaft. That article seems worthy of attention. The French Funds continue to rise. The assurance of peace, resulting from the accession of the E►nperor NICHOLAS, will probably induce a further advance in the public securities of Europe. [Fram the Etoik of Tuesday.l worn ?" Letters from Carlsruhe announce that on 25th the Grand Duke Nicholas read in the Senate the formal renunciation of the crown by his brother, and declared that he accepted the throne. He was immediately proclaimed Emperor of Russia. Letters from Marseilles of the 3d announce that the Marshal Duke of Albufera died on that day, between four and five in the afternoon, of the long and painful disorder with which he has been afflicted nearly two years. lu the few moments during the last four days in which he was sensible, he made his will in full posses sion of his faculties ; and on the 2d, again recovering his faculties, after nine in the evening, confessed, anti received extreme unction ; the remaider of the night he was calm and composed. After seven in the morning he did not again become sensible. The Duehess of Albufera, who is deeply affected, will set out fur Paris, with her children, in two or three days. FRENCH Ft:sm.—Pam, J AN. 9.—Five per f'arts. 911 f. 85e. ; Three pa Cents. 113 f. 60c. ; Rank Stock sf. ; Rtnte de Naples 78f. 40c.; Royal Spanish Loan 49if.; Hayden Loan 8001. Exchange on London, one month, 25f. lk.; three months 24f. 90c. —Cosr: A tilltaitioNe. The mystery in which the affairs of Russia are involved becomes every day deeper and more impenetrable. It is beyond doubt that the Grand Duke NICHOLAS has been proclaimed Emperor in consequence of the formal renuncia tion of CONSTANTINE ; but we know not how this change has been effected. The known character of CONSTANTINE prevents us from believing for a moment that the act was on his part purely voluntary. Some powerful influence has been exerted over him which he had not fortitude to resist, and it was well perhaps for the peace of Europe that he yielded. But it appears from the news received yester day that it is not yet quite certain who will reign over the Russian empire. The accounts to which we refer state that, on the proclamation of the Emperor NICHOLAS, the regiment of CONSTANTINE stationed at St. retershurgh openly declared their determination not to conform ' to any political arrangement to the prejudice of the oath they had taken to the Emperor CONST•NTIN v.. and that when they were required to take the oath of allegiance to NICHOLAS they mutinied. The necessity of suppressing with prompt severity any disposition to revolt, under cir cumstances of so.peculiar a nature, rendered it imperative to resort to immediate coercion. The other troops who in the capital remained faithful to the new Emperor were marched against the refractory regiment, acd it was not till much blood bad been shed that the mutineers were re duced to subordination. Afterwards, it is stated, several of the ringleaders were tried by Courts-martial and put to death. This is the substance of the intelligence received yesterday from St. Petersburgh, and we have reason to believe that it is correct in all the material facts. If it is so, what a view does it open of the present condition and future prospects of the Russian Empire ! The revolt, of CONSTANTINE'S regiment was evidently an attempt to seize the Government for him ; an attempt which would not have been niab, unless the ringleaders had thought that success would be acceptable to the hull vidualfor whom it was to be achieved. We would plat: tenfold as much reliance on the opinion thus manifested of CONSTANTINE'S disposition, as ou the information we could gather from the public acts, which he might by intrigue and artifee be itiduceel to perform. In this state of things many questions naturally suggest themselves. What part will the army in Poland take when they learn the military execution done upon their comrades? If CONSTANTINE'S popularity with the sol di:4.y was sufficient to excite a mutiny at St. Peters burgh, what effect will it not produce ou the spot where he is present in person ? La it be recollected too that his position is entirely changed. Ile must feel that he cannot now exist in safety as the su'ijeot of his jealous and ' irritated brother, and he will know that the feeling of the military is decidedly in his favour. As in the dajs of the Roman empire, when the military in every province assumed the right of electing the Emperor, we shall probably hear by the next arrival that the army in Poland has saluted CONSTANTINE with the imperial dignity. The army of the Truth will be the arbiters of this dispute, and it is not difficult to foresee that they will r ive their suffrages to the Emperor who accords most in habit and sentiment with themselves. A Morning Paper, remarkable for its puerile and proving articks, asks the following questions, by way of proving that there ought to be no such establishments permitted as Country Banks:— " Does not accommodation on the part of the country bankets often cause the farmer to trust millers and bakers with wheat when they ought not to part with their wheat but for money ? Also the shopkeeper, while his credit with the banker remains good, is it not an inducement for him to sell his goods on credit, instead of selling them for money ? And, in both instances, is this not a false sys tem? And is not such a system detrimental to the com- munity, by enabling the latter to eat and to wear things on credit, which ought to be paid for beibrc they arc eaten and There is so much of glaring absurdity involved in these questions, that merely to quote them makes all reply su perfluous. When an acute reasoner has recourse to fallacy, it is worth while to detect it; but when, as in the instance before us, a writer displays such sheer ignorance of his subject, lie may be very safely left without an answer. " It is a question," he proceeds to say, " whether discount ing by country bankers, or even by the BANE of ENG LA ND, be productive of harm or good." Where, may we be per mitted to ask, was this ever a question, and when ? A merchant has an opportunity, by means of discounting a Bill of Exchange which has some months to run, of con verting it into money, at any period within that time that the convenience of his business may n quire. Whether this is an accommodation or not in a commercial country, or, whether it dors good or harm, is a question that nothing but the simplicity of a Loo-Choo Islander could justify. But this profound political economist proceeds to demon strate it to be productive of evil, and he does this so con clusively, and with such classic eloquence, that we ought not in justice to withold it from the reader. " In the country it often effects great harm, by enabling a farmer to keep back his sturwhen he ought to sell it, and it makes him lazy in Me production of more; and among shopkeepers, we believe, a great deal of ruin is ef fected, inasmuch as it enables them to lay in greater stocks of goods than their trade requires; and then, in order to effect sales, they trust people vrho afterwards either run away out from the country, or who take the advantage of the Insolvent Debtors' Act—resetve as much as they could —go to another part of the country—play over the same pine again, and again get whitewashed. Also in the case of - - ie BAxe or ENGLAND, we have known, numbers of instances where discounting hu been the cause for over trading both at home and abroad, and ruin in the long-run." After this convincing illustration of the evils of discount- ing, it is reasonable to hope that all that source of accom modation in the commercial world will be in future neither required nor granted, and that the Bank of England will never again be the means of debtors running away out of the country, and going to another part of it. We cannot too soon get rid of a system that draws such consequences PARIS, .7 AN. 9. r after it. On the subject of public credit, the opinions of this sage Journalist are equally original, and his remarks equally pregnant with wisdom. " There is a great outcry made respecting the keeping up the credit of the country; but our opinion is, that there is too much credit, and so much credit is productive of bad results. It would be a good thing if there were less credit ; it would be beneficial if neither MEAT, URINE, GOP CLOTH ING could be had, except the money were given previously. It would put a stop to the improvidence of individuals." To put a step to the improvidence of individuals, is, no doubt, a most desirable result; but we fear that a very long period must elapse before any such effect can be produced even by this most admirable mode. In the mean time we fear that if the working classes, who receive their wages weekly, .811:.11 have neither meat, drink, nor clothing, till they have preciously mid fir it, they may chance to be starved while the improvidence of individuals is undergoing all this remedial discipline. We therefore feel inclined to advocate the usual system of indulgence, and to let humanity go en in her old-fashioned course. But this writer is not only a great political economist, as we have seen, but a reformer of our legislation. It seems he has oflen expressed a ti-ish with regard to the law of arrest, which by some unaccountable fatality or other none of our great Lawyers or Statesmen have hitherto shown any inclination to act upon. The public cannot but be surprised at their indocility in this respect, when they consider the wisdom as well as the practica bility of the suggestion. It is a sample of the curious in its way, and we shall therefore contribute to give it publicity. • " We have Olen expressed a wish that the law of arrest ' were dune away trills ; for that law induces much of the credit that we see bakers, butchers, and others, give peo ple. And merely on the strength that if they fail to pay them at a certain period, they can bring them to book. The butchers, bakers, and so forth, would scarcely trust at all if it were not for this false security. If this law were done away with, the state of fictitious living to which we have alluded would also be done away with, and people would be compelled to live more within bounds. There would be then more of industry and less of extravagance. This law of arrest does no good to any but the lawyers and sheriffs' officers ; and to knock up much of' the horrid trade of the latter would do good. We admit that the law of arrest has almost virtually been done away with by means of its now being in the power of any man to commit an act of bankruptcy, and go into the Gazette, or go to prison for three months, and in either ease get released from his cre ditors. • We would wish that Mr. Past., or M. liens, would bring forward the subject in the ensuing Session ; and if they did nothing else in the matter, we would recommend them to bring in a Bill to Air fee—that no man should be Amsted but by the eIIiDITOS s If OW trete the law, many a Walser would pause before he tote frOm a wife and half-a-dozen children the husband on whose exertions the wife and children depended. Now a butcher will give orders to en attorney, with all the cold-bloodedness in the u 41(1, to arrest Mr. So-and-So, whom he has foolishly trusted. The attorney gives the suit to a sheriff's officer, who tears a man from his wife and children, while they arc crying and clingiug round him. In nine cases out of ten, the butcher who had brought his victim to this pass by impro vidently letting him get into his debt, would go away without doing his office, if he himself were obliged to serve the process." Equally wise and considerate would it be to bring in a Bill to prohibit any man from eating mutton that did not kill the sheep, fur the chance is, that the ewes and wethers, instead of having their throats cut, would bleat and frisk in the pasture to the end of their days. Equally judicious and humane would it be to bring in a Bill to prevent any man from prosecuting a felon to conviction unless he were obliged to hang him after the sentence. There is, indeed, no end of the extent to which this principle pf utility might be carried. It might possibly puzzle a creditor sometimes, when obliged to serve the process himse,T, to contrive — when he had many debtors against whom he had occasion to proceed—to apprehend one upon a bill of Middlesex, in London, and another upon a Mild in Liverpool, to say nothing of executing his /Ails in York, and his plur ies in Berwick-upon-Tweed. But enough—the scheme is so so. pient, that we refrain from throwing any further sugges tions in the teeth of it. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The vicinity of the Stock Exchanges was more than usually prolific in reports this morning, making all due al lowance for the near approach of the settling day, at which period great activity is always manifested by the news mongers. The most prominent of these reports was, that the guards of CONSTANTINE, at St. Petersburg'', had refused to take the oath of allegiance to his brother NICHOLAS, and that in const-quence of that refusal a conflict had taken place between these guards and the other troops, in which two General officers were killed. According to another rumour, M. DE Lets was sent out of 'the Cabinet of the Tuileries, and even the Ministers of GEOP.'3E IV. were dismissed by some of these veracious seers of future events. The rumour of the resignation of the King of SwEnt x, which we noticed yesterday, was again revived, and in short, every idle report that could be brought to bear, even for a few minutes, on public credulity, was eagerly impressed into the s:rv:ee of the speculators for the fall. We are disposed, however, rather to attribute the continuation of the depression of yes terday to a heavy account than to any other circumstance, or rather to the apprehension of it ; for although the scar city of Money Stock tends to show that such will not really be the case at the settlement, yet the diminution of purchases by the Commissioners has lcd extensively to that opinion. Consols opened at 821 being a decline of I per cent. upon the quotation of yesterday at one period of the day ; but they soon fell to 8441, and afterwards to 82, sellers. From that price they returned to ff. They closed finally at 82, sellea, for the account next Thursday, and at 81f, sellers, for the account in February. As a proof of the scarcity of Stock, the money price is a shade higher than that for time, and the bargains for the February account were done at only I higher than fur this settlement. Reduced Stock was 814, and 34 per Cents. 90. Exchequer Bills and In dia Bonds were nearly at the seine price as on the pre ceding day. _ . The principal business in the Foreign Market was in Russian Stock, which declined in the course of the morning from 85 to 82. The other Securities in this market varied in a very trifling degree from yesterday. Colombian Bonds 63 641; Mexican 6 per Cents. 680 70 ; and Spanish Bonds, which were a few days since 11, are now 131 14. But little business was doing in Shares. Money was so plentiful that it could be procured on the Stock Exchanges at 2 per cent. In the Colonial Market there was not much variation in the prices of Sugar and Coffee, although the demand was not quite so active as it was last week ; but from the quo tation continuing firm we should attribute the trifling de ' crease in the demand to mere casual causes; for had it been otherwise the price would necessarily have failed. Rum continues to be much sought after. By reason of the supplies of Grain being scanty this morning the prices rather advanced. Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, Dec. 29 :—" Our Government feels deeply the loss it has suffered by the death of the Emperor Alexander, whom it justly regarded as its most firm supporter. The Court is in a state of con sternation, and the uncertainty which exists as to the per son of Alexander's successor greatly increases the diffi culty anti embarrassment of our position. The Cabinet has but little confidence in the knowledge and ability of M. Paez de la Cardena, our Ambassador at St. Peters- burgh. It is feared that he has neither address nor pru- dence sufficient to conduct himself with propriety as to the two Princes who appear to have.pretensions to the throne. In this perplexity, it has been resolved to have recourse to the services of M. Zea Bermudez, who knows the country, and has given proofs of his !talent in diplomacy. A cou rier has therefore been despatched after him, with orders that he should proceed to Russia with all possible speed, instead of going to Saxony. Much reliance is placed upon his ability to create afresh in the North that friendship for the Spanish Government which there is reason to appre hend may be otherwise extinguished by the events that will take place there. Another courier Was been despatched to M. de la Cadena, to surrender his functions to M. de Bermudez immediately on his arrival." The last letters received from the Havannah, from the most respectable sources, mention that the inhabitants of that port were hourly expecting to be blockaded by the Mexicans. A private letter from Lis:ton announces the death of the Patriarch, and states that a friar had been named by the King in his stead, to the very great annoyance of the secu lar clergy, particularly of that part in wore immediate con tact with the See of Rome. We understand that a new Association has been formed for working mines in Colombia, under an exclusive grant from the Supreme Government, embracing the whole of the province of Carthagena, known as one of the richest mineral districts of that Repubiic. Mr. Colbeek,. an eminent surgeon at Hertford, was dreadfully bruised on Sunday, the Ist inst. by one of the coaches running against his gig, which was clashed to pieces, and Mr. Corbeck and his servant thrown out. — Essex Herald. ANTIQUITIE3.—A Roman nrn, hi a high state of pre servation, was lately found in a stone coffin near the an-' dent Roman military road that runs through the county of Northumberland, about 10 or 12 wiles to the southward of Berwick. SIWALLOW•STRENT CRAPICL.—A meeting took place on Tuesday night, of a considerable number of members andl seetliolders, who are dissatisfied with the proceedings in calling a Minister to the above Chapel, when it was unani mously resolved to lay their grievances before the Scottish Presbytery in London. Reasons of protest against the call were drawn up for signature by the members, and a petitiou was framed for the seatbolders, who claim equally with members the right of voting in the election f the Minister. • MIRA M ICIII. The particulars of the awful confluipation, accompanied ji preserving quitted that by a most tremendous hurricane, which lately visited this place, and completely devastated so great an e s te rat of the neighbouring country, must be fresh iii the recollecti on of our readers. We have, however, great ple asure in stat.eg that, by the latest accounts received from that qu arter, the unfortunate stsffelers haul in a great measu re recovered from the effecu of this awful calamity, through the liberal subscriptions set on foot by the neighbouring provinces,and the kind assistance of other philanthropic i n di v id uals. Hi s intj e sty'a ship Oreste s , Capiai n Li tc hfi e l d, which ltihri.edilltreueprel property of tc t l h ic e d u t t o so N r l t i u ra n i a n t i e ch i i niit tioabassist uitte port on the 20th November ; previous to her sailing the following flattering adelrtsa was presented to Captain Litch. field, on the 'tart of the principal merchants, and others, which, in justice to that officer and the other officers of ti Orestes, we have great pleasure in inserting. .• TO CAPTAIN LITCHFIELD, OF BIS AIAJES'IY'Ii %HIP OlirllTts. Sir,—NVitli the most livtly reuse of gratitude we, the tomer. signed persons, on bah& of ourselves and the fehabitants of 31ira. 'litchi, beg permission, prior to your departure from this place, re. spectfully to express our sincere thanks for the philart!•ori e aid humane exertions of yourself and officers to suoist the sufferers by the late diStatritl fire in this part of the province. The zeal and promptitude with which you rroceeded to Mira. michi with relief for the aufferers, the judicattis and inipar ant assistance you have afforded in the distribution I tl.at rPhef (a n d that too when a in state of health that would ly:idly ji,: , ti(Y your leaving year couch), and the warm interest ycu have taken in the cause throughout, *manifest a degree of magnarin :y an d lance of mind that call forth our highest admirattua and praise, and will long make the name of Litchfield, and the officers of the Orestes, be remembered by the inhabitants of Illiramichi with gra. titude and esteem. Acccpt this mark of respect as a small testimony of o ur hi g h regard, and may the supreme Director of the I:niverse spetZly re. store you to health, watch over and I rotect you through lOt ; and that our most gracious SurcrAgn may bestow upon you the jaw and merited reward of an active, humane, and deserving officer, is the ardent wish of our hearts, Permit us also to beg that you will expresv to Rear-Admiral Lake our warmest acknowlegments for hip benevnle. , t and aympa.. thetic conduct on the occasion, and with every 1,10 for the sue=s of the Orestes. We have the honour to br, Sir, )liramichi, Nov. 111,1825. With the grelteNt respect, Your obetnent Servants, (Signed by all the principal merchants residing both at Chatham and Sewc.n.tle.) TliE DECCAN PRIZE MONEY. On Tuesday the Lords of the Treasury assembled, for the second time this week, at the Treasury Chambers, upon the important and extensive Deccan Prize-money claims, when Dr. Jenner and Mr. Harrison closed their case fur those of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Ilislop and others. Their Lordships then adjourned, to meet agaiu yesterday morning. The Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer arrived in town early yesterday morning to attend the adjourned meeting, which took place at twelve o'clock. In addition to the Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the. Exchequer, there were present the Hon. Berkeley Paget, Lord Granville Somerset, and Lord Bexley. Their Lordships were attended by their Secretaries, Mr. Luahington, M.P. and Mr. Mercies, M.P. and also by the Solicitor-General. Dr. Lush ington and Mr. Adam were heard for the Mar. quis of Hastings, which hearing occupied till four o'clock. They argued forcibly against Sir Thomas Hislop's claim, on the ground that at the time the battle took place, Sir Thomas Hislop and his army were at Madras. Sir William Kcir Grant, Sir John Doyle, and several other General Officers, were admitted to hear the discussion. Their Lordships adjourned at four o'clock. ---------- FASHIONABLE INT, LLIGENCE. The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester arrived yesterday at their house in Park-place, from their seat, near Staines. The Dowager hlarchioness of Salisbury arrived yesterday at hat house in Arlington-street, fron Lord Deere's seat in Hefts. The Countess of Mansfield lett town yesterday for her seat at Richmond. The Rev. Mr. Hawtrey left Gordons Hotel, Albemarlesserset, yesterday, for Eton. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street t --Capssfa Hyde Parker, from his seat in Hants; Arthur Vansittart, Esq. from his seat in 'leeks : Messrs. Keniston, from a tour. T. W. Beaumont, Eig. M.P. left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond• street, yesterday, for Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Chalm'er have left Miller's Hotel, for their teat in Notts. - - Count Woronsow has left town for the Earl of Pembroke's seat, Wilton House, Wilts. Lord Churchill left town yesterday for his seat in Oxfordshire. The Hon. Robert Smith, M.P. has left town for his seat, Hay hurst, Bucks. Mrs. Coutts entertained the Duke of St. Albans, the Ladies Charlotte and Marie Beauclerk, Mr. and Lady Caroline Capel, and a distinguished party, at dinner yesterday, at her house is Stratton-street, Piccadilly. The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a large party of distinguished visiters during the holydays, at their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. Arrivals at Baths Hotel, Arlington-street :—Mr. and Mn. Curteis, from the Continent; Sir Morris Ximenes, from a tour; Mr.. Alrs., and Miss Watts, from their seat in Hertfordshire. Arrivefiat the Royal Hoiel, St. Janies's.street:—H. batubton, Esq., from a tour ; Sir J. Trollope, from Stamford • H. L. Rad► clifie, Esq., and C. D. Radcliffe, E.g., from Hffthen, Oxford shire; and Colonel Robbins, from Leamington. Departures:— Mrs. Rickets, for Combe; and G. Mostyn, for Oxford. We regret to learn that the Lord Chancellor still suffers under his indisposition. His Lordship will, however, if possible, resume his sittings in the Court of Chancery ou Monday next. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town soon after five o'clock yesterday evening, for lkckenlism. On Tuesday night Mr. Raisner left the Foreign Office with despatches for Lord Clanwilliam, the British Ambas sador at Berlin. _ ..... ‘Ve are much concerned to state that Sir William Curtis is seriously indisposed, at his marine villa near Benne te. Our eminent townsman, the Lord Bishop of Chester, has been on a visit here these few slays past. On Sunday the Right Rev. Prelate delivered an eloquent and impressive discourse, at our churches, on the necessity of all members of the church, clergy, and laity, maintaining a strict con formity in their practices to their religious professions— the true and only means of preventing the spread of seces sion from our revered establishment, inasmuch as thus it would be made evident that dissent was needless, the Church embracing in her doctrines and discipline themes , tial requisites of salvation. Both morning and afternoon the churches were crowded ; and as a mark of the universal esteem in which the principles and talents of this great divine are held by all classes, we may state that the doors of our most extensive Dissenting Chapel were purposely unopened, in order to afFord to its minister and congregation an opportunity of hearing the Bishop's sermon.—Bery Gazette. On Friday se'nnight a meeting of the members of the Established Churc:t, clerical and laical, was held at the Town Hall, Eye, for the purpose of establishing a District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Know ledge. The Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Bayning was in the Chair. In an eloquent address to the meeting his Lorduhip disclaimed, on the part of the promoters of the intended Branch Society and himself, all feelings of hos tility to the Bible Societ), and stated, that though in hie opinion the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge had an exclusive claim to the support of all the members of the Established Church, yet conscious that the Bible So"- ciety was upheld by many pious and able men, he sin cerely wished their benevolent exertions might be suc cessful. • Cardinal Richelieu one day asked his confessor, M. Mulot, bow many masses were required to get a soul out of purgatory? 'the confessor answered that he did not know, and that the church had nor determined the num ber. " I can tell you, said the Cardinal ; " about. as many masses would he necessary as one should want of shovelfuls of snow to light a stove." A CONFESSIONAL ANSCDOTE:AF WEr-•••••••••31, a Dromara tailor, too prone to frequent public-houses, was about to disburden his conscience of' some miner sins by confession to his pariah priCst, seithont - hinting in the slightest degree at his habit of druatnnese. Tkpriest, however, began to lecture him on the tender point ; • 1 Re- Beet," added he, "that when you,enter ~of thaw wicked houses, your guardian angel stands Mil& weephst for the crimes you are perpetrating."—" - father, 'Arthur, " if be had a shilling inlets pod* be isould n e e la d i so well as myself."—Bellist Nero Letters • '7OVE NT-GA tight Sheridan's c imam and Mr trance on this is in person b 4 iroportioned, I enough for a less in nn ordtt 11 not appear to these advantage hardness of mti of body, which If these faults, day to compl lation is sink tscrvable even Bating somt and Gives pre The first song for fat ehootl f attility, anti lo' Sure such a pt tee of the arch dly encored. appy in the d, it, which dit ith much of oice, ss an osed e n .cp f a l aar o ct CC mcnt of t t ayßsurueiclsaToa:lgnilicirts•PPrilvialaliasesrtaadse:i,l and 1%; To n - f e ed r a se n, o t tfc oa f to‘ rs r )h i fff t a a i el f r i t .i exta nt ti t r a l t a ' n e i n t r l n Lo is ❑tgittg in the cl thou dreary pi ncce!lence. ;tic encore than if the fair voc tddeti new verdt e falling of the Opera was attn ly to the great THE P. .hlom remembe fashinnahlt s al yesterday pact ti of course a pri $ of the steel-s 1 .ceptions, scare y in St. James £ the ardour for to the art. who amused srnents and fret few took pas to Buckinghai tion to be strut ins except at tin lowed off some •emarkable was Tv of gentlemei ig the absence o Frenchman, feet diameter, sftd evolutions It and he after end to end agt verge. and who $ it first seemed ttltt.r gained tha on the ice wl rly said that got one leg ii some difficulty time had come chance, hut wt ter was again o more money on " &c. But he for, starting .istanced his an acclamations of particular spot, sl men helongin Indance with re was no occasion for opf colours sported by fillyde Park the appet WEBER'S NiNV 0 • iit: }Le opera of Fart ore a most brilliat t Berlin, and, in fa( great composer himv orchestra the whole :loudest plaudits. % *ing played, fregt ;hook the very walls lreceived in the m inusic is every way c Wet the composer W 2 Most flattering mu which, to our knot took place before in Won of the opera he when a thundering before was remcml Weber sets out elm London, with a vier Oberon, which has 1 prietors of Covent-g Mr. O'Kr EF C..— , entertainment from hear with regret tit; of sight, he has hal • And enjoyed a pen o:Covent-garden The: )wstrictions of the 1 • igoied, however, th that any of the ITI to old be intended unable a stipend, Wessful pieces from that theatre, beside ruled there. W( question was gra end -- cen==ttn Lost nigh t this the rat APPean r. Bland i bly well In IpfePSire I nd sweenu stion does Landing th catdonal nd want 0 'Went of tope one ( is articul °"' th in ail his prow reeable, 'silence. La heart ft • Itavretetiof,, f a t n teat share t was loud ind so ha encore land, wi 'Pod deal eases mon whole we ocalist, at reratic de 'rile Tel Pearman ett and unning I he best fa udicrousl: • ho looke ove's Lo rt is imi 'aton's s;1 "Adieu ti former e) enthusiast.Peat and At leasti 'pet i tion, t hotneha, the apparentl; We gel ce WWI 0' •, ciente iu miters, • chieverr aw teac : b o h Tl ce p iya i l l: m o e o e i di f t xt Y s yclt ef r i i: .lisped earest t narcatio s• of to pa • hen oho oat rel y apart tanding young 1 twelve fi graceful portion, from en the verE ner at , be ratln to get o be faith ately enced ec by this t .1 the cl 4 the oche turgid m oil !" them ; f I die • :Ob. act me p oevtral Iln atter tre, and, as we u -tan be little doubt too liberal to annul 'humorous writer, Anus ; and that the be sanctioned by Lordship's approbl Mr. Itiaterhoust 1 ' ne, London, ha. ng half the pe , him for having enteen inches I inch. ' l tte . T u ti gi g a 1 m P fo r r ß e l A tl i . nd drunk and t. On being efal state, al f ei'sa b t y i o th n e i n tl had an comp fusion abe su king more tlu the Magist by Magistrat , amended he &imperial Noggi ~, 1~~ `