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PRICES OF.BIUTISH j per Cent. Cony. 771 Vitt, Acct. 771 3 I ?few 4 per Cent. Kt/ j Itoni. 4 t pm PRICEY 01 1 FOREIGN Inrazi:han Kond. rd 7 64 li••nde 50 * 50 C 210•ri1'ian Inm• Donde 1,1'24' 4Yi 50j 4111 Pitt • Acct. 411$ 541* .4pi j * Intne,t. Itond. I rr2s • 2.4 j .4 Paco Acct. 55* 4.; French Renee* 5 per Cent. lit. ei Twthnnee 25f. tek. Pitt , .tort. Trenc!. Bente, 3 per Cent.63r. 75r. •7tt. Lea :Nit. 61k. 55e. ITOCKS YESTERDAT. Ex. Nina 10001. 6 COs Ditto OWL Ditto Small 4 6 pan Lottery Tickets 211. 11.. s FUCKS YESTERDAY. greet Bonds Ditto Bonds 18251 Ditto Aect. 171 17 I Mexican Bonds Ditto Bond• ;WWI% Cif I Ditto Acct. Of a bi Peruvian Bonds 311 Ditto Acct. 32 Portuguese Bonds 74 31 3 Russian Bonds 7213 Ditto Acet. Is Spanish Bonds 10 Of 10 j Ditto Acct. 101 6 Ditto Bonds (10231 7 et; titr 13ritiOh 13refUS_ ENGLIS!! OPERA-110USIL PASSION WEEK. This Evening, TrlsnAT, March 21 ; WEDNESDAY, March 29 ; and 7HISR•P‘I, Ranh iS, being poNitively the LAST NIGHTS until next tbe LFCTU R§ll on ASTRONOMY by Mr. BARTLEY. DVUTII open at Half-peat Six, and begin at Seven. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "110 wo' letter is received ; but, after what we have already said on the c„b en t, he mod not think UV nneourteona in decliaing Its insertion. - - - The Ilerms• hose commenced publishing yesterday mottle, M ha& port Ave o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, Adadien 11. 1816. The following satisfactory statement respecting his MA :CSII . S health was published yesterday : " King's Lodge, March 20, 1826. " The King has had a very good night. Ili! Majesty Is eon. cales4. - ent. '• Ih.YIY iiaLFOll)." HEATH OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL The French Papers received last night announce the above event, intelligence of which reached Paris by a te legraphic desratch. The previous accounts from Lisbon wen such as left little doubt of the approaching catastrophe. The French l'apets also mention the appointment of the Unlit de VI I.ILNIANkY as Director of the Caine d'Amor tissement (Sinking Fund), in the room of Count Mottle sr, who had resigned in consequence, as it is supposed, of tht. particulars disclosed in the discussion on the St. Do mingo indemnity. [From the Etoile dated Sunday. PARIS, MARCH 10. A telegraphic despatch, received yesterday evening, announces the dealt of the King or Portugal. On 4 , h instant his Majesty was attacked with an apoplectic fit, together with epilepsy. On the Sth and 6th his malady in to such a degree as to create the greatest alarm for his life. Amer the crisis of the 6th, his Majesty experienced no new at. tack till the 9th. when his malady returned with augmented v,icnce to which the King yielded, and laid down his life on the 10:h. a: six in the evening. At the departure of the Courier, the Princess Isabella Maria, w:dest daughter of the King. acted as Regent. Lisbon wes quite tranquil. We are enabled to state that the legation of his Majesty, the King of Portugal, has not despatched a Courier to the Infant Don Miguel, who is in Vienna, to announce the illness of the King, his father, as a Journal of this day asserts. It was not by the telegraph. as the Journal des Orbs,* Ram but by a 4 ourier sent to the Portuguese embassy, that the news of the late hinges illness was received. _ _ John VI. King of Portugal, Emperor of Brazil, was born May 13,1747. From 1792 he governed in the character of Regent, in the name of the Queen. his mother, who was affected with mental alonation. Ile succeeded her in 1817. and was crowned at Rio J-ntiro, to which place he had retired on the invasion of Portugal by Buonapatte, who, in the hove of seizing his person, lost no time in prodoiming that the !Loupe of Brogans& had ceased to reign. John VI. while still but Prince of Brasil, married, in 1790. the Infanta Charlotte Joachima, daughter of King Charles IV. of :pail. The Infanta Isabella Maria, who now acts as Regent, is the fmrth daughter 01 Jolla VI. rine was born July 4, inoi. thy. of the parer. asserts, that, by the Treaty of Commerce be tween France nod Brazil, the duties on French merchaninse are re duced 15 use cent. We think this Journal is ill informed on this subject. and t;rct the commerce of France will he placed on the footing of that of the most fait:tared nation, with, probably, the stook exception of ''ortugal. Tie proprietor. of several theatrical journals have just been sum moned before iha Joist- efitotruction. The following are pogi lively mentioned t---1 he F'undesr, the Figaro, the Norst•raith., onl the Cc, 'air. It is &aid they are accused of a tendency to plane. Account' from Cologne say, that the society of speculators in roll at Berlin have formed a fund of three millions and a 1 14 11 o f r• s tionant, for the purpose of a.tlstirg the owners of eras, and k:epicg up the price of that article. ST. PIE7EIISIII' ROTI, FEB. 21. creer to abridge the labour, of the Commission establishad lin.e ILIA. to prepare one commt•n code of lawn for the whole f:a•sc,n Empire, his bfajes'y has ordered that this Commission 10%11 be united to his private cbancc!lrrii•. under the prenidence of O.: Net-rotary of State, Mourarieff, and that it shall make to him, by tl!_e President. monthly or quarterly reports. The name decree lire taken the Presidency of this Commission from Prince La p e„ who lie4d it till aow. Gar marine, which had neatly fallen to decay. la about to ex. vintner a salutary reform, by the recd to office of Vice•Admirsl Z.`=":atrine, known, so much to his glory, by his expeditions in the rrarean, and who has been left so long in a state of io. "!‘' . v. Ilia nomination to the place of Adjutant-General to the E•r-icior, for Maritime Affair', and the establishment of a t 4 ptchil which is to occupy itself with the regeneration of our Na y. hare filled ■ll our mariners with joy, and give a certain 1 , ' , -rre:Gf the accomplishment of our hopes. ne Comniinpicn toe conducting the inquiry relative to the events •t t?ie 21Oh Dicen.lier, is constantly occupied with matters con. • '•d with that affair. Before this object, which is of such irn y -.iere to tie tottery of the elate and keeps all minds in ouppense, • • rnp!-•tely "et at rest, it in not thought that the Coronation of ..- Majesty can take place at 31oncow. 'file body of the &ceased Emperor arrived on the 12th March Z FItENIAT Ft*ND.I.—PARIR, MARCH In.—Five per Cents. W. •`):•: nree tents. r..lts. 95c.; Four and a Half rn. Cents. :. Se ; Bata flock, 2.001.11: Neapolitan Renter, 721 . . 300. h Low , . 4.8;1. Hay tien ditto. 740. Egelisnge on London i• e mama', 23r. eoc. ; Tares months, Yst. 25c.--Ceurs The pment impact or affairs in Europe opens a wide field for meditation. The events of every day furnish a new trubj , ..ct of prophecy, while it adds one page more to the history of the sports of Patinae and the vicissitudes or Greatness. While the Greek struggles were exciting the hopes and. sympathies of all the friends of freedom iu Europe, and while they were pausing in doubt whether that classical laud was to be rescued from the sacrilegious gripe of the turbaned Ottoman, or whether the Grand Turk, being legitimate, it was to yield to the pretensions of the Triple Alliance—all their sanguine anticipations were on a sudden disconcerted by the announcement of the death of ALEXANDRA ! No circumstance could have tak.n the political world more by surprise—no news from St. Petcraburgh could have been more unlooked for, or have thrown the Cabinets of Paris and Vienna into ;Teeter perturbation. What turn this event will give to the affairs of Greece, was a question a thousand times uketl, and—had it been possible—would have been an swered with • thousand different answers ; fortunately, t..e option lay between two opinions, for either the Emperor NICHOLAS will pursue the same course of policy ES his predecessor, and keep aloof from the contest; or he will incline to the disposition of the majority of his peo ple. and give his voice for the regeneration of Greece. It't.re he cordially so disposed, lie might regenerate it almost without en effort ; but that he will take even a single step towards bringing about this great end, we are very little disposed to believe. How, indeed, can we expect soy thing like zeal in such a cause, from any one of the Continental Sovereigns? The utmost that can be reckoned upon on the part of Russia is, that she should decline all interference. Iler policy, no doubt, would be to suffer the exterminating warfare between the Greeks and their oppressors to go on unchecked—to look on while they were wasting their resources and wearing down their strength—anti to keep herself in a con dition to pro& by that period of their mutual help lessness, which should enable her to interpose her good qficce with effect. But Ur. CANNING, in the in terra!, is well aware of the policy dictated by the interests of England. Ile is too shrewd a statesman not to have been long since alive to the restless ambition of Russia, to her projects in Turkey, and to the disposi tion she has publicly manifested to extend her southern frontier. "Cet empire Raise," says Vo LTA las in a letter to le C,ompte D'ARGENT•T , written in the year 1762 deviesdra Parbitre du Nord: Je roes es ATERTIS Mes sieurs les Francais." Russia is at this moment too much occupied with her own internal dissensions to have leisure for arbitrating between her neighbours; but if, when she has settled her own differences, she shall find Turkey sufficiently exhausted, her march lies wide and open to Constantinople; and she may there put an end to hostilities in a manner that may well put other nations besides Messieurs his Fiuncuis on the alert. The possibility of her fleets riding triumphantly in the Mediterranean can be no very consoling speculation to any of the European Powers. The mission of the Duke of WELLINGTON to St. Petersburgh at the present crisis, we feel assured, has been dictated by the soundest political wisdom; we hasard nothing in affirming that its object is essentially connected not merely with the interests of Great Britain but with the tranquillity of Europe. Its influence on the Greek cause must be considerable. The Sovereign of Ausrau♦ is sufficiently jealous of his great Northern Rival to listen to the prudent counsels of the British Cabinet; and though he may not be brought openly to countenance the claims of Grecian independence, from the dread of disturbing the spirit of passive obedience in his own dominions, he may yet be made to look a little more steadily than he has hitherto done to his own security, and to co-operate in that system of enlightened policy, which would prevent the subjugation of the Greeks from augmenting the already dangerous pretensions of his Imperial Brother. CITY, 111oxnAir EVENING. Business was transacted to-day to a very limited extent in the Stock Market 3, and Consols continued for the greater part of the morning at 771, alternately buyers and sellers. At the close of the Market, however, the Funds gave way, and the last bargains were done at Exchequer Bills were is. 4a. pr. ; and India Bonds 4s. 3s. pr. The intelligence received this morning from Portugal had a serious effect upon the Bonds of that country, which fell from 75 to 73/. This was the principal variation in the Foreign Market to-day, and indeed the above quotation was merely nominal, as speculators were not inclined to do business in them. The following prices were reported in other Securities :—Colombian Bonds 491; Mexican Six per Cents. 65?; Brazilian Bonds 56 to 57 ; Milian Ditto 30; Danish 55 ; Russian 78f ; Greek 174 ; and Spanish lot In Shares the chief interest was in Tlalpuxahua Shares, which, from Friday's price of 201. premium, have fallen to par, on account of a report of a firm who are large holders being in difficulties. HAMBURGH PAPERS. The Hamburgh Correspondenten to the 16th inat. arrived yesterday. An article dated St. Petershurgh, March 4, announces the arrival of the Duke of Wellington in that city on the preceding (lay. His Grace had immediately an audience of the Emperor and Empress, to whom be delivered the " Condolence and Felicitations" of the King of England. No allusion is made to the political objects of his Grace's mission. Under date of Brussels, March 15, it is stated 'that an English messenger had passed through that city from St. Petersburgh, on his way to London, who report( d that the Russian capital enjoyed, at the time of his leav big it, a state of great tranquillity, but-sisau frequent mews were taking place, not only in St. l'etersburgh, but in .01 the principal cities in the empire. . . Prince Wrede, the Bavarian Envoy, had his autlience of leave of the Emperor Nicholas, on the Ist inst. ; and the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand d'Este left St. P eters burgh on the same day that the Duke of Wellington reached it. Preparations were making to celebrate die ob sequies of the late Emperor with appropriate soletnnity and magnificence. The King of Bavaria has just sup pressed the Capuchins at Bamberg, where those Monks in habited a magnificent Convent, and has founded a Uni versity in that city instead. We subjoin an extract:- ST. PETERSBURGII, MARCI 1 4. The monal remains of the late Emperor, after their stria al at Zarskojeselo. will lie in state for several days in the richly roe. ['emoted church of the Palace. The reception will be very brill cant. Prince Alexis Kurakin, President of the :Mourning Comm, ttee. will receive the funeral procession at the frontiers of the territo.7 of the city, where he will place the crown upon the coffin. A very numerous procession of civil and military officers, and persons belonging to the Court, follow the funeral through the town of Zarskojeselo to the church. When it arrives there the Aides.deXamp of the late Emperor will carry the coffin i nto the church, and place it on the raised stage, or catafalque. Then the funeral service begins with salutes o f ar til le ry and tolling of bells. Every body except the clergy will then leave the church ; and the Emperor and Empress, and all the members of the Imper tal Family, will enter and attend a second funeral service. So to og a.. the body remains at Zarskojcselo, seven Officers of State, of the lint tour classes, four Chamberlains, Aides-de-Camp, dc c. are to watch day and night. The public will be admitted in to the church at certain hours. The Empress Mother alone will determine how tong the body of the Ealperor shall remain .st arskojeselo. Commercial letters from St. Petersburgh of the 3d ins . t. mention that the failure of Messrs. B. A. Goldschmidt an• 3 Co. bad produced the greatest consternation. The exchang with England fell from 93 to 9, and only one house won'. I negotiate bills on London. The letters from Hamburg] t areof the 14th instant; commercial affairs were improv.. ing. and there was a further small advance in the rate ot' exchange. The letters from Holland are of Friday ; but the exchange was a shade lower. A merchant vessel, in 15 days from Gibraltar, brings accounts that the garrison was in great confusion, on ac count of the want of a circulating medium, the late sup plies of new coin sent from England having disappeared, on account of the rate of exchanges; a large proportion of the silver, we find, has lately been returned to this country. Letters from Sierra Leone, dated 19th of January, state that the colony was very unhealthy. Accounts from Bahia, of the 23d January, report the ar rival of the December packet from England on the 22d. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE &IMAM—By the Supple ment to the Calcutta Gazette of Slit October, it appears that the negotiations with the Burmese have not yet been productive of any decisive result ; though the conduct of their Commissioners gives reason to expect that the de mands of the British will meet with very little opposition on the part of the government of Ava, to whom they have been referred. The interview took place on the 30th Oct. at Nesnbenziek, in a lotoo, or hall of audience, at an equal distance between the British and Burmese lines. The Burmese were highly delighted with the behaviour of the British Commissioners, and expressed a hope that two such great and rivili=ed notions would henceforth live in amity. LIrEIIPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAHN/AV.—Notwith standing the assurance of the Cierier that the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill passed through a Committee of the House of Commons some days since, that necessary step towards the accomplishment of this beneficial and im portant measure did not take place until Saturday last. Our evening contemporary was equally unfortunate in his assertion relative to the expense incurred in forwarding this great work. It has not coat hilf the money he has stated. Sacral of the leading tradesmen in Romney are issuing hand-hills, containing a long list of country bankers, whose notes they intend to take in the common course of business —a Fpi r ted example worthy of imitation, and, if generally followed by other towns, will considerably tend to restore confidence, the want of which is at present very materially felt by the trading classes; many of whom, it is to be la mented, are acting on the advice of William Cobbett, caul other unprincipled but interested dcmagogues.—Southomp tun Herald. THE BRITISH MESS. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Dowager Marehionesa of Salisbury's last conerressione (oa Sunday /analog) till after Easter, was attended by a numetounparty of the heat ton, among whom were—Prioces Pollgnse, Ertethai , and Gortchtdroff ; Dermal of the Foreign Ambassadors and their ladles, the Duchy. of Nu lorrnt and the ladies !Seymour, the Marquis arid Migrations** Palatal's, the Martinis's. Graham and of Lothian, the Matqadmand , Marettioness of eallabury, Emily Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marla Westmore. land and Lady G. Pane, Count and Countess Lathe, )sass Otto, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville. Lord and Lady Herghersk Lord and Lady Tullamore, Lord Harvey, the Earl and Countess of !Defter, Lord and the Ladies Molyneux; the Countess of Emmy the COIIIIIIO of Clare, Countess of Glenpti, Lady Hampden, Lady Farquhar, etr Gorrand Lady ()motley, Sir Wm Burroughs, Madame Valcke, Mies Teesdale, the Vice- Chancellor, Mr. Mrs. and kiss Calvert, Mr. and Mr.. Fremande, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, Mr. King, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hoare, Mr. Taylor, Mr., M. A. Taylor, Mrs. Fos Lane, Captain Cochrane, Mr. Drummond, etc. The Marquis of hanadown entertained a dlednguisited party at dinner on Saturday, at Lanadown House, Berkeley-smt:a, among whom were— Lord sod Lady Barghersh, Lady Duff Gordon, Sir James and Lady Gra ham, Mr. and Lady Harriet Daring, Mr. and Mrs. Hope, he. The Countess of Arran's last card party, on Saturday, 51l after Rester, was attended by Lord St. Helen's, Lady Deering, Lady les/skim Williams, Sty William, Lady, and Miss Hamilton, Sir Gore Oestalay. Mr. Mrs. and Mlle Winktield Stratford, Mrs. and Miss Fitzhugh, Mr, Taylor, Mr. G. Brui t Mr. Palmer, Mr. Giles, litc. Itc! . _ _ Lily Harriet W. Wien l:. issaed cards of WOWING he two roots, the and 10th of April, at her house le St. Jamea's squire. The HOD. Agar MBA eatertained the 11 'rota i and Iftirekbaners of Low down aid a &tlngalshed party at dinner yertordiy, at his home In Sprlositardens. The Adhering distinguished personages had diorite ponies :—Satorday, Lord Gifford, NT. Secretary Peel, and R. H. Coss, ifog.—S, the Dowager ildweltionaas of itallsbury, Mr. Seeretary,Peel, Lord and the Non. Ihr.lilanaini.—Yesterday, Lord Dudley and Lord Utley. The Earl and Countess Spencer left town yesterdayptor their seat, Al. thorpe, Northam toashire, fur the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Merton, Lord and the Ladles . 11 .. 104 left town yesterday, for their seat, Stoke Farm, Bost: t o )ththi ey o. The Earl and Countess of Bristol, gad the Ladieo arrived yes terday at their house in St. James's-square, from The Earl and Countess of Darlington and family have sMtsd at their seat. Newton House, Yorkshire, from Roby Caine, Dukes. The Earl of Arran left town yesterday, twills seat. ATM L0*11.111111111.11. The Earl of Brecknoek left town yesterday, for Rath. Lord Althorpe left town yesterday, for hia eau, Inseam HA York shire. Lord Arden Ite town yesterday, for SI: W. asetbOles, DM. NY, Runde', Hipte.far the boiyday , . . • . . -- i.ord and Lady Helmick and fluallyveeloed TAMA* adialate hoe* 111 Bryanmen-Nams, from their sew alaialsithaan MA fear lairerralserr. Sir George Wombwell, Rat. arrived la taws yesterday, trot I* mat In Yorkshire. T. G. Eastnor, Esq. M.P. bus left town, for flostliss. Mrs. Mitrisham left town yesterday, for her sac Easley Homy oar Maidstone. _ . Uenne and family left yesterday, Jordan's Rotel, It. laifteell street, for their vent In Kent. Areivals at the Bran.wlrk Hotel, Jennyn-street :-110. sad Mrs. Prelims ' roe, and Mr. Edward Protheroe. from Herts. Departure. Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Mrs. and bliss Campbell, for Windsor. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. JarnmPlustalsat:—Colmsel Vwlt tart, from his seat la Berk.; Ward, E•q tram Durham. De. mixtures :—John Wharton, Esq. M.P. fmrhla sear. Skelton Castle, York shire ; B. L. Leger, Esq. M.P. for Pool. THE KING'!i HEALTH. Sir Henry Ha!ford, after making his report of the state of the Kings health to several of the Cabinet Ministers in London on Sunday afternoon, left town, on his ream to the King's Lodge, Windsor Park, where Sir Henry had the satisfaction to find his Majesty in an improved state of health, and yesterday morning issued a bulletin to that effect, with which Mr. Gray, the King 'S messenger, was despatched about a quarter before eleven o'clock. The bulletin issued on Sunday morning Hot being very flattering, the inquirers at the, King's palace were early in their attendance. Fortunately the arrival of the billetin was two hours sooner titan it had previously been, and its contents enlivened every countenance; and the gratifying intelligence of the King being convalescent soon spread through the metropolis. Sir Henry Halfortl left the King about eleven o'clock, and proceeded post to London. He called at Gloucester House to report to the Duke and Duchess the state of his Majesty. Sir Henry also called on the Duchess of Wel lington, to make a similar report to her Grace. Sir Henry then proceeded the Royal College of Physicians, to pre side at a meeting of the members of the College for exami nations, &c. at the conclusion of which, he left town for Windsor, to attend his Majesty during the night. - - -------- THE SILK TRADE. Although nothing of a positive character has °tutored to convince us that we were wrong in any of the positions which we advanced relative to the arrangements of Govern ment for admitting French silks upon payment of a duty of SO per cent., yet with time independence and impartiality which will, we trust, ever mark oar conduct as Journalists, we feel h our duty to lay before - Cur e . the tylllQwinf extract of a letter which we have received Nom Lyons. It is as a piece of information more cheering in its nature than any that we have had from the same quarter, and truly happy shall we be if its effects prove beneficial among our own Inamaacturers. It may certainly tend to discou rage gloom, and to excite competition, by showir.g that the French manufacturers have already overstocked them selves, and that they will now probably refrain from ma nufkcturing in pure speculation, and uselessly glutting their own and foreign markets. EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM LTPWIR " The en weavers of this place are becoming very uneasy at the removal of some of the best hands among the foremen, to haglead, where they have been engaged to supetintend Frenettloerne, expect ed from this country (France). It is generally understood that not less than twenty looms, on the most approved principle, have left Lyons alone within the last two months, and several are making upon the plan adopted by an inhabitant of this city about five months ago. Some of the manufacturers have taken alarm at this. and have petitioned the Government to take eatraciedneary means to stop this exportation ; but it has been observed, and pedlar* truly, that a few having already been sect away, the Enidisli will be able to make as many for themselves as they like. Ws are beginning to feel distress here; many of the agents who were sent to England to take orders fot silk goods having returned with one-tenth .pan of the orders which they expected to obtain, and for which their em. ployers had provided, so that not only will there be no new orders to execute, but the stock on hdnd will not go MI very madly. Fortu nately provisions, and particularly bread. are very cheap here, an, the regulations of the police for keeping a full suppl 7 are so good that with little work the weavets may keep ftonestirving."—Matt ckeeld HeralJ. On Saturday, the Duke of York, attended by Mr. Wyatt, the architect, inspected the whole of the extensive building erecting for the future residence of his Royal Hig:iness ; the roof of which is nearly on. Yesterday, Sir Herbert Taylor transacted military bu siness with the Duke of York, at his house in South Aud lcy-street. On Saturday the Duke of Gloucester visited the several exhibitions now open at the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, and expressed himself highly gratified at the sight of the varied interesting objects which that place of fashionable resort now presents to the notice of the public. Sunday afternoon Mr. Hut•, the King's Messenger, left town with despatches from Mr. Secretary Canning to the King. The satne Messenger returned yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Walters, the King's Messen ger, left town with despatches from Mr. Secrei.ary Canning to the King. The Portuguese Ambassador and the Neapolitan Mi nister, yesterday, had interviews with My. Secretary Can ning, at the Foreign Office. Despatches were receiver! yesterday, at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs, from Florence, and also from Lord Granville, our Ambassador at Paris. On Saturday last was married, at All Soul's Church, Marylebone, by the Rev. William Way, Rector of Den ham, Sir .MontagueCholmeley, Bart. M.P. of Easton Hall, Lincolnshire, to Catherine, fourth slaughter of Benjamin Way, Esq. of Denham-place, Bucks. The venerable Lord Viscount Netterville departed this life on Wednesday. at his residence near this cify (Dublin). He was the sixth Viscount of his race, and having been born in 1744, was of course flg years of age. Infirmity had long excluded his Lordship from society, but no indi vidual took a greater interest in the transactions of his country, or especially in those - which related to the affairs of his suffering brethren of the Catholic persuasion. His acts of charity were numerous and most munificent, al though they were of the silent and unostentatious kind. The late Viscount never married, and we believe the ancient title of Netterville is now extinct. —DeG/in Murnioir Post. Trade during the week has not improved. There is general stagnation in business ; and money appears to be fully as scarce as ever. Temptations to manufacture are not wanting, as the price of cotton yarn and the rate of weaving continue lower than they ever were on any former occasion. The severe stagnation of trade oecasioned by the re-action of the small note cutrency is now become very obvious among the carriers. Many who drove two carts, and formerly were certain of being fully loaded, no. go and depart without a load sufficient for one. On the whole. the internal carriage is reduced to about a half since the commencement of the present dulness.--Ghlgote C4rom. FRENCH FINANCE. The Cosmopolite system of the great capitalists (as it has been called), and the general intercourse of commerce, render the money market and financial trantactions of foreign countries a Matter of the greatest importance in considering those of any par. tieular nation ; and in this point of tiew we consider the observa tions which were incidentally made on some financial transactions in France, in the course the 'discussion which arose in the Chamber of Deputies. on the St. Domingo indemnity, a sub. jeet of very considerable interest in this country at the present period. The principal points of thaportance alluded to on that occasion were :-,The commercial crisis in this !country as affecting France; the animadversions made ujion the great capitshsta ; the quern of 'Exchequer bills (bons rtlyanx), and other depsrt. meets of French finance; and, lastly, the proceedings of the syn. dleat of the receivers 'general, who form a commentsl body, em ploying government funds, for which they pay 34 per cont. in loans to individuals, of speculating in th e stocks , as they think proper. We shall ay befort our readers a summary of the re marks on each of these heads, after giving a short detail of the nature of the affair which was the more immediate point in debate. The amount of the indemnity whist; the Government of Hayti agreed to pay to the Wormer colonists of tilt island w a s 6.800,01101. sterling; and it wan to be paid in annual sues of 1,200,00 W., which were to be received by the French Government, and appropriated to the discharge of its own claims and thole of the colonists. The first payment was to take place on the 3lst December, 1836. To effect this payment, commirisionerllwere empowered by the . Govern. meet of tlayti to negotiate a loan in France for 1,200,0001. to be re. mild in 25 years, and to bear an interest of six per cept. but they found it impossible to raise the required amount on theite terms, being obliged to sell the securities at 80 per cent., which produced only about 1080.000/. This sum the contractors engaged to pay in February, 1828, but the payment never actually took place. The masse a'amorgsstmeat, which should have received the money, Is bound bylaw to trey an interest of 3 per cent. on all sums deposited there. As the direytors of the caisee had been bLaned on a former occasion for purchasing stock in order to turn money lying in their hands to account, and as the treasury did not want the money for imminent expenses, they would have been obliged to pay interest on this NMI while lying idle in their coffers, if they coned not have fooodsome method of placing the sum at interest. For this pm ;ease an engagement was entered into, by which the persons who had dientracted to pay the money for the Government of Hari agreed toreceive ir Rohs wee loan to them For one year, At 34 per afft, on condition that they should bind themselves to produce the requisite funds in ten days after it should fie found necessary to give them notice to that effect. The result of the transaction was, therefore, to make the contractors for the Hayti loan. who were the syndicator the receivers-general, Rothschild and other capitalists. asefitorit to the Government of Hayti for 960,008/. at 7. per cent., sad debtors to that of France for a like sum at 3i per cent. was naturally asked by the (*position on this occasion, what right is Finance Minister, or a director of the caissrefaaturtissenteq could have to confer such favours, producing a clear annual revenue of 38,0001. a. ear to the parties, and that at a c r i s i s lik e t h e p re . sent. and to t hese very persons who were at the moment exporting bullion from France in waggon loads, to favour the speculators on the banks of the Thames ? It war in reply to this asseveration th at I'illele made those allusions to the crisis in England which we have classed as the first point of importance in this discussion. fle or. served tbat the gold was exported in consequence of sales of French stock ate low rate ; that.the same gold now sent abroad had come into Frame in 1834 in consequence of purchasing of French si. e': at a very high rate ; that the object orate exports was to meet the de mands for specie occasioned by the commercial crisis in England ; that this crisis was trot felt in France, and the gold was there unne cessary, their credit being still in a prosperous condition. He asserted also that the French three per cents. .were six or eight per cent. higher in proportion than those of England—meaning, pro bably. that they were six or eight per cent. higher than they would have been if they had suffered an equal diminution with the Eng lish. They were then 854, while the English were at 78 The eqpiniou of the French Minister appears then clearly to he, that the causes operating on England are not such as will extend to France. At least he does not imagine that they have as yet extended to that country. . . . _ The exporting of French gold was not the only article of accusa tion against the capitalists. The 3linister was reminded of the transaction last year, by which Rothschild was enabled to sell 32,0001. at 102, 103, and 104 per cent. to the Caisse d'Amortiste nsent. All these transactions, as well as the present loan, it was added, had taken place privately, and without the least public intimation of any intention to effect the sales and loans in que.tion. IThence came that strange fatality, it was asked, which placed fortune, in prosperous as in adverse circumstances, equally at the dispositien of this lucky foreigner ? Was this a time, when the public credit bad suffered so much from the unfortunate scheme. of the Minister, to lend French treasures to these cosmopulists who had been perhaps the cause of all these calamities ? The folly of the French Ministers was said to be still more en. hanced by' the fact, that at the very motnent of this loan they were themselves borrowing at four per cent. front the Bank a sum of 1,800,000/. by bons.myaux (Exchequer bills) to pay the half year's interest on their national debt. The objections and explana tions on this subject furnish some views of importance on the ma uagement of the French finances. The object of Government, It was answered, in making this issue of bons roysux to the Bank, was to avoid keeping sums without interest in their coffer& as would necessarily be the case if they had to collect these 1.600.0001. ersiemeergieest time. Pt*. avrettiplerrent wade with the Bank saved three months' Interest. At the present moment, however, Go vernment owes nothing to the Bank. Exchequer bills to the amount of about 800,000/. are in the market, but they are only such as have been issued to the Caisse d'Amor. theement in return for sums of money advanced to the Tre sury fruits ca.rrent expenses ; and it has been thought proper to keep a small number of them continually in the market, that the !labile may not be alarmed at any unusual issue, which a sudden emer. gency, like the war in Spain, might render expedient. The 964,0001. in question could not be received from the Canoe d'Antor. tissement by the Treasury : because that arrangement would have confounded the interests of the two departments, which ought to be kept entirely distinct. To this it was answered, that these in. tweets had already been confounded in many instances, as in the case of the advance of bons roysux, already alluded to, and in the payment of about 500,0001. of bona roysux before they became due, to facilitate the purchase of Rothschild's rentes last year. It was only necessary to keep an account current between the two de. parunents, as in the case of loans from the hani, the in:erests of which were never supposed to be confounds.' with those of the Treasury. The lowness of the rate of interest at which the loan was granted to the capitalists, was said by Minister. to be owing to the condition whlcn exposed them to be called upon to reimburse the money on ten day'snotice. If the money had been actually paid, they added, so much currency would have been removed from cis. saltation to be deposited in the Caine d'Amortissement ; but it would rot have been very difficult for the contractors to liquidate the Hayden debt, as that stock," which was negociated at 80, rose nest day to 114. M. Villele took occasion also to observe, that the best proof of the good managementof the French financiers was con. tained in the fact, that 125.000,000 francs of debt only paid an in. tereat of 4,000,000 francs. These arguments were treated by the Opposition as mere subterfuges. The principal speaker against Ministers being Casimir Perrier, a Bank Director. The capital. ists would not have been able, he said, to transfer much of their Hayden stock at 84. The true object of the French Ministers was to support the unlucky 3 per cents„,which were in a very sickly bor.dition, and a plan had now been adopted of causing the rentes to be merely deposited, indtead of purchasing them, as had been tbetnerly done, in • manner which had exacted great opposi.l Lion in the Chamber. The creation of the Syndicat in July last had for its object to remove the objections to the employment of Government funds in such purchases, on account of the risks thus incurred. It enables Government, without any risk, to derive a certain interest from sums of money which would otherwise bave remained on its hands unemployed. The Syndicat performs certain duties to the State, and has the disposal of certain sums, at a low rate of inte:est, for the private purposes of its individual members. Its operations are perhaps the most important part of French finances, as they regard foreign countries. They exhibit an instance of interference in mo ney transactions by persons who may have the command of re sources to which no private capitalist ever cart pretend, and from the part which it has taken in the loan to Hayti, we may conjec ture the possible extent to which it may interpose in such tram.. actions. Why may it not give loans to Spain, to answer new de mands of the French Government, in the same way as it hat dons in the ease of the loan to II ayti ? _ _ _ We were furnished about twelve months ago, by a correspondent, with an account of an experiment tried by a tratlesnian's son in Alloa of immuring a toad in a stnall fltrWer-pot, sunk deep in a garden, to ascertain the fact of that animal living without food. At that time he had been a prisoner for two years, and was again shut up in his dreary abode. A few days ago the light of day was allowed to illumine his darksome cell, when the contented inmate hopped out with as much careless indifference as if lie only had retreated there for an evening's repose. The prisoner was remanded for further trial.—Stirling Journal. Ouraistesset Woon.—ln this age of invention, one of tie most singular is that of condensed wood, for whish a fentleMan has recently obtained a patent. His ides is to pass . the planks, which are to be cut with parallel surfaces, through several pairs of rollers, and the distance between each pair progressively timinishiug, so that the sap or other moisture will be forced out of the pores of the wood at the ends and sides of the plank, which will be gradually com pressed, and rendered more solid without disturbing the ~grain, thus producing an improvement in the quality of the word, where durability and hardness are objects Iv be obtained. 111•rertsrtrion, MARCH 17.—The topic of conversa tion which engrosses the general attention here is, the elopement of a young lady, the daughter of the High Me riff of the county. She is heiress to a large fortune, to the extent, it is said, of more than 30,000/. per annum ; and it appears she was at a boarding school near Liverpool. Her (now) husband wrote a letter to the governess, re questing her to send the young lady home in consequence of the illness of her mother, and by this stratagem she was absent a day or two before suspicion arose. It is said that they are new in Paris. The bridegroom was a widower, and nearly 40 years of age. The bride is about fifteen. COURT o CHANCERY. LAW NOTICES. ...... _ . filtroaa ?RR I.LOII TWIG OAT, AT Tim. Shepherd v. Holliday, per. prr order Morass V. Montgomery Wellesley t. Duke of Beauf ur t, pe- Morse v. Lord Ormond.. appeaPsell tin° n part beard beat: Cause Petition,. Inn Roans Charity, to bespoke to. r Ashby de la Zonch School Garrick v. Lord Camden, 2 petition, 1 Rowe, v. Strathmore part heard Knowles v. 011ple Powell v. Sikes, appeal petition Deacon v. Deacon Tomas v. Wilkins Donviale v. Livia IA re Manchester Market Act Webb v. Tmrd Shaftesbury Shelford v. Sbeford fhnith v. Young GtAlan v. Trienby Newbee v. Briggs After which Lunatic Petitions VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CO lANCILLOR THIS DA V. tl,ai v. Machado, far jut Bankrupt Petition,. Thornthwaltev.Thorn• thwsite Humphreys v. Hum phrey* Bygrave v. Peatt and former petition, Henson v. Benson Bedlam v. Radium Turberville v. Turber vlUe Thorn's v. Thome. itowden v. Peacock Hipper v. flipper Harvey v. Harvey Day v. Gay Wrtde v. Wide a• viCi-cl Mendl7.4 Ee parte Lt.ter, per oruer Wet v. Honten ItAsten v. same 1114 ton v. same Brent v. Sims Mitchell v. Wilton, 2 petitions Vert v. Blanton Luger v: Moore Alderson v. Iz , ,d 'candlelit t. Barlow Blackburn v. Black burn Wialesttorth V. Win glesworth 6? If A 1./P-P.U? Tlllf. Weller v. Weiler Jones v. Heargeen Lar)Eln v. Aradsbirr :I‘rberif "lucerne:4er V. Bea. meter etairltnn v. Cher on Clark v. Marts Cooper v. Coll Las Drown v. Itridavr Nukell v. Neville Wvo v. West Green V. Green 4/nnv v. Browne Lewl.. v. Prince LAW INTPLLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS• COL RT, MARCH 20. ATTACHIIIENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE. William Thirkeil, who was before the Court several weeks bid, was brought up for re-hearing, he having been remanded to protium, Mr. Larkins, of Rochester. tie sauctioneer, Who sold his edict shortly before he went to prison. It appeared Its evidence that the lasolveot 14 carried oaboliadita, at Chitham, In partnership with a person named Pope, an/ had made over some property to Ws brother, of which he had gives ad unsatisfactory account. %Tinian. Field, clerk en Mr. LarkinS, of Rochester, produced an account of the proceeds arising from tee sale of the maolvent's et*: fects : they produced.l46/. 16s. 6d. of wliich 161. ISt.. 60. remained in his hands, the residue having been paid partly to the insolvent and hie partner, and partly for rent, taxes.. &c. The balance waif retained by Mr. Larkins on en order rzeeived from the ins ilvent'S partner, who commanded him not to pay 'Tinto C. art. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said, that unless the money was paid in. thoinsolrent could not be discharged; there appeared le have beery a collusion between the parties, in which the attetloneei seemed to have Mined. The Court would like to be informed whether Mr. Larkins had been served with a rtMocrma ? The insolrent's attorney said that he served him personally, and tendered him a guinea for his expenses. but he refused to take it, observing that he could deduct from lie assets remaining in b/w hands. Mr. Comm!ssinner [Jannis said that the Court adjourned the crse ezpre.sly for the purpose of producing Mr. Lserins ; heshould therefore be called upon hi, subprena. and then en attachment should issue against him for contempt or r ottrt. The witness Field said that Mr. LarEns was obliged to attend at the Assizes, but he did not know at what Commission bhp pre.. sence was necessarv. Mr. Commissioner Haunts said that the ernlanatiOn by no means removed the contempt ; the attachment sboald therefore is sue, and the insolvent be remanded until the l)th of April, whoa be would he brought up to receive the judgment of the Court. I. Mr. Coo said that, if Mr. Larkins paid the money in forth: with, he would ant proceed against him on the attachment. The Cot , r.T hinted that the case rested with itself. A PITIABLE CASE. —Henry Hart wen conveyed Into Court upon a ruattrass, supported by three or four men. in order to seek his discharge, which two crtalitors, named Hobson and Myers,As. peared to oppose. Mr. Commissioner Halms said, that a ecrtifiente had been handed to him, signed by the surgeon of the Cog's Deneh peiow. which act forth that the unhappy man before the Comer:a likely; in human probability, to live many hours. He (the Conitaissi-ner) therefiwe wished to know whether, under these alt: cumstances, the persons who had entered their notice of onside!' meant to attempt to go into the merits of the ease. Mr. llob3on said certainly not. The unfortunate man was then called upon to mark his schedule, as he was unable to write ; and after he had recited the oath wit(' great difficulty, the Commissioner pronounced him to be dis. charged, and ordered the necessary docufnents in be made out Im mediately. sn that the dying man might be delivered over to hit friends, without the necessity of going back its the prison, acceding to the usual practice. Samnel Williams. a tailor, lately residing in Chadwell-stmer. Spahrlds, was opposed by Mr..Hgatn, nu behalf of Mend Smith and Pyrke, linen.draperoo k was hily pinned dist, ler his site purehased 231. worth of good's (a valuable muff and tippet among the relit), which were immediately sold at about half price s and part of the proceeds takes to prison. After corritnenting upon his dishonest conduct, the Learned Commissioner (Harter.) aen , oored the insolvent to be imprisoned for eigld calendar months within the for fraudulently con. erecting a debt which hr oau no probable means of discharging. James Ita:shaw was brought up to receive the judgment of tke Court, after further evidence had been adduced. The insolvent was a surgeon In St. Paul's Church-yard, whin he furnished an establishment. partly from the warehouse of Mr. Holmer, an ironmonger in the borough. one of His opposing trAttors. whi h property he so.m after disposed of to a parser named Noakes, forgetthig to discharge his previous obligations. The COURT said that the Ifith section of the Act, which was framed to give the Courts discretionary dower, was a fit clause to. be exercised on the present occasion. The judgment of the Court was, that the insolvent be remanded for six months, and to be con• fined within the walls of the prison. ASSI2E INTF: LLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, MARCH 18. wALKYR v. CLIFF. This was an action to recover the sum of 211. brought by rut attor ney, for the amount of his fees sod disbursements, and was the last trial at these Assize..—Vtrdict fot the plaintiff: 11r. Justice Bayley /eft for York this morning at seven o'clock, and 'Mr. Baron Bullock left this afternoon. Simpson, Martin, and Smith afe left for execution. Evans and his witnesses left hete this day. decorated with blue ebbands, for Manchester. His acquittal is the subject of &Inver.. sedan every where. The condemned sermon for Diggles will be preached to. morrow. POLICE. 31.1 NS lON-HOUSE. Yesterday James Gray, who stated him+elf id be the clerk to William Grey, a solicitor, residirni in Broad.street, was charged with having assasilted a female of respectable appearance, named Ann Sloss. There were two examinations of this case, in which the corn. plainant, who is a young woman, or about 20 years of age, IF stated, that she had empl o yed th e d e f en tas her solicitor, to bring an action against a surgeon n a med O r r i s , wh o had induced het to live with him upon a promise marriage, and, after many irre trievable sacrifices on her part, bed married another. She gave the defendant her letters, and understood from him that there was a good case upon which to proceed ; but he had Since given ur the letters to the attorney of her seducer, and induced her to sign a paper, the effect of which she declared she did not understand at the time she signed it. lie afterwards gave ber 2 1 01. which he said was all the compensation she was to expect. The Lonn MAYOR, when the case was first heard, asked for the production of these ferrets. His Lordship states!, that sic of them manifested considerable affection, but did not make out any pro.. mite of marriage. Tne complainant said, there were eight letters delivered to the defendant, and that two of the most important must have been withheld or de/Toyed. She admitted that no promise, in eepre ug terms, was made in either of the letters ; the Interftlett to marry voa implied. The complainant further deposed, that on 'Saturday wer.lt, when she went to the defendant's office, respecting the business, there being no one besides herself there, lie cominitteeftke assault complained of, which she resisted. The Defendant—l am as innocent as a baby, my Lord. She is a common prostitute. The Lo nn MAYOR said, he saw no ground for such an accuse. lion, either in the letters of the young man, against whom the de. fendant had been instructed to preceed, or in her present conduct. A female of respectable appearance, who stated that she was a married woman, here said that the complainant's seducer had brought her to the witness's house as his wife, and that her genera! conduct confirmed his representation. Witness was present when what teat coiled " the release" w:l3 given, and was convinced that the eomplainant was not aware of i;a effects. It was, she re. presented, obtained by viciter.ee, which amounted to an antamt. The defendant declared that the charge wag as false as t u .— ~ he had got the complainant 20/. fur what did not deserve twenty pence. ' The Loan MAron— Why I And he acknowledges that he owes her 40/. The LORD 51aeon ordered the defendant to find bail to meter for the assault. Tice defendant then put in bail, saying he was determined not to submit to such a charge. OUILDHAIJ. Edward Chandler, a young n nan d resse d i n a smock frock was brought up yesterday, on suspicion of being concerned in nu. memos robberies. committed within the last throe weeks, In the vicinity of Ivingtme, Bucks. 31r. John Cuinberland, clerk in the establishment of the Counters of Bridgwater, at Ashridre, statcd the case against the prisoner. Witness lodged at Little Oadtiesdco. Betts, in the cottage of a Air. Cox,, which was entered on Friday night by thieve*, who carried of a silver watch. some silvor spoons, and money. It wall sub... quently tits:slivered the: a meaner had he.,, at the public house rt the Tillage that night, who, the next Cliumins., Vat to London by I