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• ) . drnosins • the trospeet that the most sensible and obvious change has taken ez, a change indeed which has given a new aspect to the whole of the settlement. The houses are naturally divided into the fuse following classes : —No. 1. Substantial houses of brick and steno throughout, with tiled roofs. 2. Substantial houses of wood, with stone foundation and tiled roofs. 3. Wooden houses, with thatched roofs. And 4. Native hots—The first are the pro. witty of the English and Chinese aettlen, the 'nand and third renesally of the Chinese, and the fourth commonly of the Malaya, Childish. bpd Bengshire. In December 1823. the number of each 4 dud was follows--the first class 411, the second class 90, the s►ird class ant ilic fourth claw 350. In December 1821, they had in the first. class 112, the second Ansa 103, the third elide ' the fourth class 975. The whole number of dwelling, lA. *se 686; and iu 1825, 911, an increase of 225 havdes, OM we that ele settlement has been numerically aregdolat6 fry Dearly one-third. But the valuable and substantial part of Os boasts has been nearly trebled, and accordingly the whale rattle's( the buildings, which in 1823 was only 344.105 Spanish dollars, was increased in MU to 500,657 Spanish dollars, or which, buildings of atone and mortar, made 104.157 Spanish dollars. In the estimate now given, r.o Government buildings of trey description are included, nor any buildings beyond the limits cd t►e train, 'comprehending the habitations of a population of 3,795 inhabitants. - , FRENCH PAPERS. From the .toilfrr .-- lated Thursday.) Rio JANEIRO. OCT. 3. l'au will be estonished, no doubt, not to find in the Treaty of August 29 any amide randy., to the succession of Don John VI. I ought to apprize you that there is a secret article, by which his Imperial Majesty renounces for himself and his successors the rights which Ids birth gave him over Portugal. This secret article, which will be made public at the rest opening of the Chambers, is of !ugh importance, inasmuch as it calls to the throne the Infant Doss There has been for some days a movement very decisive in the' Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and M. de ( - arrant° has sealously INcaPied himself in forming a diplomatic corps. Already the most escelie::t Lord Don Francisco de Sousa Coutinlin, Ambassador Hra! traordinvy to the Emperor John VI. bas set off for Lisbon. It Is in COrAPITIPISSiOII to. send thither as Ordinary Ambassador Field .Marshal Philibert Caliteiro Brant, formerly Deputy: others declare that this post wilt be confided to 31. Joao Severi:um 31aciel cis Gusto, who has been successively Governor of Cayenne, President of the Assembly at the time of its dissolution, 51inister of the In. tenor, and who is pow Governor of Bahia. They name as the Ambassador to Paris 3!. the Commander D. J. Ferreira Borges de Baru, formerly Deputy from Brazil to the Cones of Lisbon. The Embassy to London, it is said, will be given to M. le Chevalier Memel de Garueiro„ who has lately rendered the most signal ser vices to ihertuse of Brazil. For Vienna they mention 51. C. A. de Carvalbo de Mello e Mottos, nephew of the Minister for Foreign Mitt's, or M. Ignace Borges, the present Governor of 31aranham: 'f he embitter to St. Petersburgh appears destined to 51. the Com. sunder J. de San Pvdrn e Mello, a young diplomatist, who enjoys great credit at the Court of St. Christophe, and who is now in Ea. rape. Finally, it is proposed to send to Horne M. Antonio Jose de Souza Dias. The Emperor had opened negotiations with the Holy Set long before the irnv al of the Plenipotentiary from his Majesty Don John VI. The following is the autograph letter written by Don Pedro to his Holiness Leo XII I Hem follows Don Pedro's letter to the Pope, which is dazed Feb. 20, 1824. It i,nplores the paternal succour of his Holiness' xr consolidate and secure the welfare of the Brazilian Empire, and advarces a ...aim to the peculiar regard of the Pontiff, on account of the satisfaction he had experienced on hearing of the elevation of his Holiness to the Papal Chair. Don Pedro therefore hopes, that h:s letter will be received, end his Ambusador Haltered to with effect ion. It is added, that our Ambassador at Rome will be instructed to solicit the erection of the Bishopric of Rio into an Archbishopric, and the Confiners hat tor the Abbe Boiret. W. received news from Pernambuco, hom Bahia, and St. Pawl. The bee ban in these provinces on the reception of the gloriosa way which consecrates our independence. in such a roamer that pansanat tranquillity is established in Brasil. There is alrendy a talk of ao beaded voyage which the Emperor ptryas to mats so Burs e. It le known that his Majesty has I.ag` hit • wish to as Perk, which an imperial Dane galls the zaeiral shim civilised would. The Emma will be named &gent durieg Montane. of ha &gust ha bood. his belleeed that the opening of be Chambers will take plan It the fat of Denitoba, the anniversary of the Coronation of their Imperial Melinda. (According le she pawns Constitutice, every Brazilian is an • elector. she.. sad piens excepted. This wood restriction has hese vary windy lowland, hem the republican tendency of our dare, so Menai hoe that of Spanish America, which is wholly aonwddieLl . ' The Coeval se Papaws occupies tbe sundae cf every see, and we iorerosle. irbidt pass for the best informed, such as the Retread Itrosiolefes. and the Dierio fleetineese, ridicule ex. casiv the august noise, which they compere to the sower ni ely • Ina word. bei rumored that they will have scandal at Panama; 'tad though our Eiovemment does not appear much called upon to tut* itself up in,the business, I shall nevertheless be ready to give you an aeosuat of the wordaand deeds of the discuss*, dlallldloll, and defibmathig Sigh pavan. VIENN NOT. IL Foe the bet time since bio return from Freeburg A , his lihisorf tlie Asperse pats:slay honoured the Theatre of the Imperial Pain's with his paawsco. The enthusiasm with which oar 80. vereign was esoelya by an humenis crowd was extreme; it was renewed at mach MARIS of the song, " Slay God preserve the Ens. perm Francis, " aeons which the public began to sing as ems as the Hamner appeared. His Majesty remained till the end of the piece, and when he retired, the same sentiments of love, verve. ratios, sad attachment were repeated. PARIS, Nov. 30. According to letters from Munich. Prince Charles. brother of Loris 1, will be raised to the dignity of Generalissimo of the Ensmiall army, reduced to the federal contingent, which is front fittest to s a teen thousand moo. The system stied upon in Prussia with respect to the recruiting, and the Landwehr, is to be intro. ducerd iota Bavaria. Issues from Dresden mention, that the Greek Prince Banta• booms is in that city, under the special protection of King Freda. sick Ammons, and with the permission of die Emperor of Russia, bat he has been forbidden to pass the frontiers of Saxony, or to in. t- vier with the affairs of Greece. However , the son of the Prince rouble, as the Hotel dm Cadets Nobles, In Dresden, an education suited to his future prospects. (NOM tne Arsenal de Paris of Wednesday. , VIENNA, NOV. 19. (PRIVATE LETTER.) The Emperor, since his return from Presiburg,t9Plim I'M se dulously to elate affairs. Great activity prevail, in the Office of Foreign Affairs, winch despatches numerous couriers to Paris, Pe. tersburgh, Berlin. sod Madrid. The diplomatic correspondence with London has been extremely active for some time past, whence it is presumed that the negotiations respecting Greece continue. It is observed that Sir „Henry Nf chalky. the British Ambassador, fatly stands despatches to Corfu anti the Mediterranean. He keeps tip • very active corn spoodence with Sir Frederick Adam, Lord IlteCommissioner cf ti • lonian Islands. extraordinary mignon of Mr. Stratford Canning to Constan tine/de has attracted the 'tut ndon of our Cabinet. Which, it is of. grated, has received • comnienication from . the English Gore-m -atelot relative to the ptiteip tl ob;eet of th's mission". 31. Tattisehedr, the RllOllllll Ambessarsor Exti:aorAnary, now sends his despetehe% dined, to the Empeser, Ale:coder, instead of sending them to St. Peterseurgb s copies only of those despatches were sent, some days afterwards, to Count Nesserode, the Miniver for Fortign Affairs. A visit of the Emperoe of Russia to the bank of the Proth is spoken of, but nothing r yet officiallvicnown of his visit to Beals. taiga. It io known that be score for *General fiabanoo; command. log the army in that province, who was received, as it appears with marks of great favour. Nobody is surprised at this, for the estomend in Bessarabia, under present circumstances, is considered ass post of great importance, on account of the proximity of the Moldavian frontier. On the departure of the last courier from Jassy and Buehmest, the order of the Sultan for the evacuation of Moldavia and Wal lachia by the Ottoman troops, had not yet been cornett into effect. It :v probable that the foreign jlintiktura at Constantinople, will be obliged to eaneffitt fresh notes on the subject to the Reit Effendi, or that tile Russian army an the Pruth will make a threatening de atioastration to fora the Divan to perform its promises. MEXICO. Advices were yesterday received from Alvarado to the Silt of Ocober. The following is a summary of the intel ligence contained in the papers and letters:— it &area's that there is to the Mexican tentitory a very active lowly of natives of the island of Cuba, who have met in Alvarado, who arc rs Aing trent for the liberation of their native island from the Spanish authority. They are publishing addresses at Abra. rata to persuade the Spaniards inhabiting Cuba to join with the Craolos to effecting a revolution. which will be for the advantage of both parties. It is not improbable this society will pave the Iry for, and ce-oparste with, the expedition preparing in Car. Olsten*. Nothing but a proanpt recognition of the independence ef die new State* will delay (perhaps that will not prevesit) Cuba from belt g added to the number of them. The number of German immigrants (as the Americans call them) Awns to be considerable. A prospectus, in the Geniaan language, la• appeared of a quarterly work, to be called Die Tektorie. It vital be published at Alvarado and professes to be political, mercer'. t le, and liter. iv. and calculated for the cultivated chows. Quar terly iewm(s of the proceedings of die Ales-ices Cieigrcgs, with atatutical and ethnological information as to the itountrj, are pro. liaised. If this promise he performed with the characteristic labo riaosonua and accuracy of German compilers, it will supply intelli. pow much wanted is Europe. Extra:ts of letiaca from a usercantile house in Alvarado and Mexico:— A LVAILADO, SFPT.S, Teade has still continuedverydoll, but seems now inclined ?Whet M poise. Th.• ezehange is ad. to hid. purr dollar. There are Ms Ws ►rigs of wa► and 'am Waste enabling by the taste, es shown, gunboats. A int is expected Imin t6►llwssnnsh, with prapislons: a,.(1 if we urn succeed in euttbspoll their supplies, we may hop within three months to see the business of this place tronelbrieil to Vero Cruz. We expect likewise a brig and 174 ANOLO MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.— The Directors of the Association for assistirg in Wmking the Mines in Mexico, and other Potts of Spanish America, having, under the powers vested in them by the Deed, made a CALL of FIVE POUNDS on each of the Shares of the Association, form ing the Eighth Instalment, the Proprietors are requested to pay the same on the amount of their respective Shares, to Messrs. Bar clay. Tetuan, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, on or before the 9th day of January next. JOSEPH LOWE, Secretary. 7, St. Helen's-place, Dec. 3, 1823. PORTUGUESE LOAN of 11,500,000.—The Fourth Half Yearly Redemption having, according to the terms of the General Bond signed by his Most Faithful Majesty, become due on the 30th ultimo, Notice is hereby gi►en, that yesterday his Ex cellency Don Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Alar9uls of Palmella, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Most Faithful Majesty to the Court of (heat Britain, &e. &c. &c.. jointly with 31ciatra. B. A. GoWachmidt and Co., and Messrs. F. T. and A. T. Sam. payc, Agents of the Portuguese Government, and in the pre sence of Mr. John Newton, Notary Public. cancelled and de posited in the Bank of England ninety-three Special Bonds, amounting to 23,000/. The numbers of which are as follows, viz.:— PORTUGUESE CERTIFICATES. Letter A. No. 2283 2343 2316 2147 2348 2349 2431 2492 2500 2503 2508 2509 2514 2.124 25241 2532 2644 2642 2347 2836 2239 2840 2841 2N2 2964 2984 3154 3379 3380 3339 =2O 2509 3513 3558 3560 3521 3522 3563' 3603 3211 3613 3231 3232 303 3634 3835 3636 3637 3649 3650 Letter 11. N 0.161 MI 382 463 464 469 470 470 691 691 797 875 878 677 931$ 1219 1250 1251 12.52 1153 1234 1256 1321 1329 1330 1380 Letter C. No. 45 222 396 537 538 674 717 _ Letter D. No. 40 41 144 205 343 346 348 350 Letter A-50 of £lOO Letter 11-26 of £250 . Letter C-7 of .£3llO Letter D-10 of £l,OOO 337 342 • £5.000 11; - £lO,OOO Altogether, '.gi Special Bonds, amounting to .C2.5,01/0 lEtr ?driftOlt ror). • gunned ship from England, torten's nation. lilichelena, it appear.. hoe arrived at Vera Cruz. The Netbevlatuls envoys, Colonel de Qtkartel, arrived hers a short time since, and proceeds to ltleiico. A /.S'ARADO, OCT. 2. The fever still rages with unabated violence. and of one ship front England, the whole crew, with the exception of the cabin boy, have fallen its victims. They say the Minister of Finance le shortly expected at Vera Crur, to bombard the castle with golden balls ; dectsiv.: arr.thgements, however, seen, in agitation to edict a negotiation. The provisions are reported to be very bad there, and no prospect of sepplies. MEXICO, SEPT. 24. Business Is still very languid, which, however, may be indebted in some maasuze to the fever, which makes terrible ravage+. A Lazaretto has been established here, and front 200 to 2:10souls perish daily. A subscription has been opened to support this es tablishment, to which all foreigners as well es natives are entreated to contribute. PRICES OF BRITISH Bask Stock 218 217 per Cent. Red. Ka 83 per Cent. Cont. shut Dlrto Acct. 84 831 844 1 85 04 4 it N per t'ent. 91i 31 per Cent. Red. 904 911 1 [TUCKS YESTERDAY. New 4 per Cent. shut Long Ann. 20 1-16 20 South Sea New Annuities 834 Lx. Bills lid. l.tiont. 7 11 9pm Ditto, 30111. 7 10 Bpm Ditto, Srosli 7 10 pm Lottery Tickets 191. 19s. OF PORSION Austrian Bonds Ditto Acct. 93 Brazilian Bonds 70 Ditto Scrip Ditto Amt. 11l dis Colombian Bonds Ditto Bonds (1824) a 31 5 41 6 A Ditto 4 Ac l ct. 641 3/ 51 4} 51 61 Danis • ti B o nd s 11 12 Ditto Bonds (1625)60 2 11 Wrench Rents, 5 per Ct. 25(.25c. s'Jc. 4:change 25f. 10c. Wrench Rents' S per Ct. 66f. Ga. 30c. ' Exchange 25f. 10c Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1825) 16 PP COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam C. F. 12 6 Ditto at Wight.............. 12 S Rotterdam ....... ....2 U. 12 7 Antwerp 12 7 Hstnboegh 21 U. 37 2 A harm 21 U. 37 3 Fails, 3 days'aight 9 5 25 Ditto 2 U. 25 30 Bordeaux 01 5 0 Berlin 7 0 Ftank. on Main Ex. 51.151 Fetersburgh, rble. 3 Us. 0; Vienna,effective fl. 2 31. 10 6 Trieste ditto 10 6 Madrid 364 Cadiz 361 Wlbna ..... 341 Barcelona. .—. 16 Seville • Gibraltar 31 STOCKS. YESTEIWAI . Guatemala Bonds Ditto Strip 10 dis Ditto Acct. II dis Mexican Bonds 60 I Ditto Bonds (1820 64 61 71 8 71 Ditto .Acct. 631 61 1 71 61 71 71 I ri Neapolitan Bonus (11124) Peruvian Bonds al 74 7 8 60 1)it10 Aect. 4114 Portuguese Bonds RI et dir Prussian !lords 94 6 51 Ditto Bonds (18221 954 Riissian Bond* (1822) 89 Ditto Acct. 89 SpanistiCons. 1144 , 1 1 1 - Ditto Ark. 114 itto 610 13 Ditto Con ( 11123) INGE Vg,STERDAV. -- - - - --- - Leghorn 494 Genoa 44; Venice....... • --... 1.17 Malta h..... ....... ... 0 Naples ......- ....... 40i Palermo par 94. in Lisbon.. ....... - ...... -.SI Oporto 51; Itio Janeiro...-. a Bahia. bl Buenos Ayres. 454 Dublin VA Corl VI - -•- - - - - --- - - BULLION, PER OZ. P. d. Portugal Cold in coil% 0 0 0 Foreign (;old in bars 3 17 11 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 0 0 Silva in bars, stand U I PRICES OF SHARES YESTERHAI. NINE/. _ _ Share. Paid. Premium per Share. A Nen-Me:lean MOO 34 71i 20 17 Angus Iron and Coal BO 12 21 dis Chilian and Peruvian lOO 0 2 dis Pasco-Peruvian Potosi. l.a Paz, and Peruvian 50 5 21 3 dia United Mexican Ditto New 4O 10 9} AMIURANCIL COMPAXILS. Protector Firs 34111CMLLANEOUS. Australian lOO 3 101 British Iron British Rock and Patent Salt 10 6 3 General Steam Navigation lOO 5 3 db Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio de la Plata Agricultural lOO $ 43t Ms DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This Evening, MTV nAv..nee. 3. iclll , he . perfor . thed the Corned, of THE SCHOOL FOR_Sj.CIcIHAL. Sir Peter Tenet. Mr. Williams; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Browne ; Joseph Surface. Mr. Archer; Chiseles Surtime. Mr. wailaek ; Crabtree. Mr. Cattle; Mores, Mr. Knight. Lady Teazle. Miss Kelly; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Davison. _ _ After which the Farce of THE M.SC. rRE BRIDEGROOM Or.A GHOST IN sPITE or HIMSELF. Mr. Him/damn, Mr. Browne t Hickory, Mr..l. Russell. On Monday, Brutus, and Amoroso. COVENT-GARDEN THEATEE. TLis Evening, SATU it DA V, Dee 3. w I:I be performed (Ist time) a new Operatleylece, called TW AS J. The principal Cbaracters by ileaini:Duruset. Xavier, Fran e s and 9tI11•8 Idles Jones, Madame ‘estrie, :snd Mr:s. fturenpert. After which (7th threl a now Pleas galled THE swAi.F._uoAr. The Characters by Mews. Rlanebard, Cooper, W. Farren, and Meadows; Mlizes Jones and A. Jones. To conclude with the Melo-Oramati: Fntertall.ment ut ALADDIN; Or, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. Aladdin, Mrs. VI g. In Act 11. Monsieur Ma:crier will dance a Pas Chinch. On Monday, Artaxerxes. The nnITIIIX Pains commenced puLlishing yesterday mora inic at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEceidnen 3, 1525. We have received the I'aris morning papers of IVedaes day, and the Etoile dated Thursday. From the latter we have extracted an article proftssing to come from Rio de Janeiro. The writer evidently knows little of the subjects on which he undertakes to speak very positively. We give no faith to the story he tells concerning the secret article by which it is pretended that the Emperor of Itn z: t. has renounced his succession to the Portuguese C7OIVII in favour of Don Mien et.. After what has passed in Lisbon since the rc:urn of Jo n x VI, to Europe, we hold this statement to be utterly ineredibk. It appears by the Journal de Paris, that the diplomatic intercourse between the great powers is at this moment very active. It is understood that these negociations re 'late to the affairs of Greece. The mission of Mr STRAT• FORD CANNiwn has aroused the attention and jealousy of the Austrian and Russian Courts, and we may reasonably hope that his presence in the East will not long be unat tended with results favourable to the best interests of THE BRITISH PRESS humanity. The Turkish Government is still endeavouring to avoid the evacuation of the Principalities, and probably will not ktep its faith until compelled by the menaces of Russia, or the interference of the Foreign:Ambassadors at Constantinople. Thtre has been, it will be perceived by out quotations be low, a rapid advance in the French funds. The improve thent is the Five per Cents on Wednesday was Sf. SOc-; and in the Three per Cents if. .Sc.fi Faxxcit FUNDS.—PAtts, Nov. 30.—Fire per Cents. Et Three per Cents. opened at 62f. 50c.; closed at 62f. 90c. ; Bank Stock 20101. ; Rente 4e Naples, Certif. Falconnet, 771. 60c.; Royal Spanish Loan 1623. elf.; Rente d'Espagne 111. Exchang e on London—one month, 24t. 93e. ; three months, 24f. 7k.— Coors A uthg Wipe. Last night we received the Amsterdam Papers of Wednesday. The following are extracts:— __ __ Bzni.tx, Nov. 22. In order to remedy the decline of the trade with China, the Russian 11!inciter cf Finance has presented licenses to several merchants, to procure from the manufactories in the Netherlands such goods, especially woollens, as have hitherto been French, and almost exclusively In Prussia, for the commerce with China. Large purchases fur Russian account bare accordingly been made this autumn. BATAVIA, JULY 26. striuminixinT ihtl/TTE. We have received news these two days past by native boats, that the expedition against Soups, in 3facoasar,has returned, after mak ing itself master of that place, Waite happy to communicate to our readers the particulars bf &a event; which, in the present state of 'Sirs In Celebes, is of great importance, by the insertion of the reports of :tlajor General Van Geen, Commander of the troops. General Van Geen, in a letter of the 9th July, announces his in. tention of sending back part of his force to Java as soon al possible, and to embark himself for Belittle, with his Highness the Paournbahan, of Sainanap, of whose support on this campaign the General speaks in the highest terns. The Netherland troops did not lose a single man on this occasion, but the enemy had a great many killed. *General Van Geen's report Is of extreme length. The whole of the Estraordinary Gazette octopi's nearly four pages of the Am. tterdam Cut root. These are the latest accounts from Batavia direct that have been received at Arbsterdam. The Batavian journals to the middle of August are expected every moment. The late extraordinary depression of the Money Market— the rapid decline in the value of Shares, in almost every public Company, which, till lately, had been sought for with avidity—the extensive shock given to commercial con fidence by some recent failures in quarters utterly un expected—the almost unprecedented scarcity of money, aggravated by the prodigious difficulty of obtaining dis counts either from the Bank or frpin monied capitalists— the great pressure of embarrassments in the mercantile world, combined with the extreme difficulty of obtaining relief through the ordinary channels of accommodation— all this presents a state of things which could not fail to excite that very general panic which has been seen to prevail. It is clear that all this convulsion and derangement could not take place without adequate causes, and the daily press could not be better employed than in truly tracing out those causes, and thus snaking the severe experience of the present hour furnish a lesson of valuable caution for the future. But far from being made the great engine of public information, the conductors of more than one daily journal, instead of surveying the crisis of affairs with large and prospective views—instead of staying the public fears and steadying the public feeling—have done just the reverse. They have been employed in magnifying the danger, and, without at all attempting to develope its origin, have studied to aggravate its effects. It is quite clear that the value of paper money depends entirely on the degree of con deuce reposed in the parties issuing it. When that con fi dence Is broken in upon—it matters not by what circumstances—the value of such paper must be depreciated. That this faith has been thus shaken is most certain, ind from this has arisen the accumulation of difficulties which st present weigh so heavily on the commercial world. It affects more or less all the transactions of our mercantile intercourse, foreign and domestic. In a word, it has led to the present crick. With reference to this crisis, the leading article of the rime: of Tuesday last, delivers itself thus:— " Our readers will observe by an interesting article from the city, that credit is undergoing a severe trial both in town end country. We know how to feel for individual distresses, but the main good of the nation requires that the crperiroent should be allowed to work. Let it work, then, we repeat—let the fermenta tion exhaust itself--the dregs will subside—the froth will evaporate but the body of the liquor will conic forth clear and mellow, and fitted for endurance." What can be more confused, vague, and unintelligible than this? What is it but a metaphor without consist ency, and a mass of words without meaning? " The main good of the nation," we are told, " requires that the ex. periment should be allowed to work." What experiment? Who is making it, and cpon whom, or what is i t made ? What are we to understand by an experiment, the fermentation of which—if it is suffered to work—will exhaust itself, its dregs subside, and its froth evaporate? It is slaver jargon to tell us that " the body of the liquor will come forth clear and mellow, and littedjOr endurance I" Comparisons, if happily applied, are always valuable as illustrations; but when a public Journal affects to be teach ing some great truths with regard to the present condition of public affairs under incongruous and absurd similes, which have no relation whatever to the aubject, it pays Nut a sorry compliment to its readers, since it takes their ig norance for granted. Unquestionably the pernicious excess to which specula tion has bet is carried has occasioned a degree of pecuniary distress in the commercial world, which cannct but bring much useful instruction along with it. On the subject, more particularly, 'of paper credit it is full of important admonition; but to draw the proper conclusions froin i t the mind of the instructor shotild be previously well read in the principles of political science; because if the con clusions drawn from it are false, they must, if widely spread, become, from the consequences involved in them, extremely injurious. On this ground it may be worth while to examine the validity of the doctrines which the Times puts into circulation on this subject:— Property whether real or personal, cannot be depreciated by any change in that which is not property, but the assumption and imitation of it. Credit gained by pretence, and given by credulity, and wasted on the projects of cupidity mingled with in discretion—that port of credit which is now in its last agonies —can in no manner affect by its dissolution any proxrty but that of the individual who has atiminittercd to its extravagancies by the loan of his private resources." Now no specific proposition can be more untrue, than that property cannot be depreciated by any change in that which is not property ; or, in other word, that because credit is not property, property therefore cannot be af£•eted by any variations credit may undergo, and that that sort of credit which is here said to be in its last agonies, " can in no manner affect, Jy i.'s dissolution, any property ha that or the inilicidual who has administered to :It caravel. gancies by the loan of his private, resources."—We would ask whether the credit of a .great American Agent which had enabled him recently to speculate to an excess, which ended in his failure—whether this credit did not affect by its dissolution the property of thousand', who bad never ministered to its resources? It was, in truth, a credit so high' and so undoubted, that its dissolution entailed ruin upon the holders of bills drawn upon it, and involved numbers who, except as the holders of those bills, were no otherwise connected with it. It is a doctrine which ought not to go forth to the world, that those to whom credit is given upon the faith of their probity or of their prudepce, cannot by the failure of their speculations depreciate the property of others, which that credit has enabled them to embark ; aud that their abuse of the confidence reposed in their integrity will not affect any property other than that of the individual whose credulity they have im posed upon. The Times thus proceeds:— " The crisis which has caused an much consternation in the city, therefore, is the natural result of eager and accumulated speculation, carried, Arose; thefacility with which every adventurer was ae constsodatri by capitalists at a loss to find vent for their money, to the memo and mo►t frightful excess. Severe though it be at this instant, if the crash had been postponed, it would only have fallen with aggravated pressure, and covered a wider field. Speculations attempted with borrowed or with inadequate means, and founded on over.sanguine estimates of futurity, have failed to afford the pro. fits expected from them, and have therefore not enabled the under. takers to repay the capital which they had borrowed. It is the common reaction of over-trading—it is not a disease, but the na!u. sal core for a disease; and though far from palatable, it is a nues rant care, and, for tl e time, a complete one." We have here a string of assertions, but no reasoning; and these assertions are, moreover, so indiscriminate in their application, as to be worth nothing. Is it meant to be animist] that the high and flourishing state of mercan tile confidence, which is the very soul and source of all credit, is to be deprecated as affording too great finalities to speculative enterprise, and too strong an encouragement to commercial adventure? To insist upon this would be preposterous; and yet the above language leads to this inference, or it leads to none. It is in the very essence of all . great undertakings to be attempted with borrowed means. The New Rives-14c immense canals which in tersect the country in every direction—how would these,' and other rublic works of equal magnitude and utility, have been constructed, without borrowed capital, and with out that credit upon the faith of. which that capital was lent ? That over-trading is a peat evil no one will dis pute, and that its effects are in every way destructive no rational man will deny: but we may lament this very sin cerely without denouncing as mischievous that flourishing state of credit which is the natural consequence of accumu lated capital. That such credit may often be improvidently given, and such capital injudiciously employed, every one knows ; but that the former is deservedly trusted, and the latter skilfully applied in a thousand instances to one of an opposite kind, is a fact which admits of unequivocal proof. In all the new relations which are opening to Great Bri tain, and in the extensive improvements which are pre seining themselves daily to the spirit of enterprise, a wider range than ever is offered to commercial adventurers; credit will continue to be given, but late events will make the capitalist look more carefully to his reimbursement; and this is the lesson of instruction to be drawn from them. As the profit on all advances is in proportion to the risk, the lender must unavoidably be exposed to 100, and must occasiorally incur it. In a wealthy kingdom like this the competition to capitalists in the money-market must necessarily give great facilities to credit; withAtt it capital could not be diffused; it would lie wholly unpro ductive, and all the benefit; would be lost to the country , 1 which arise from its extensive distribution and active em- Voitnent. We shall take an early opportunity of adverting, in con tinuation, to the remarks which, in conic:ion with this subject, the Times prooeeds to make uposKthe paper cur rency, and the conduct of the Bank. It may be shown without difficulty, that neither the one nor the other has had any share in produdng the particular distress to which we refer. CITY, FRIDAY EVENIXO. The improvement to-day in the Consols market Las been very great. CoMidetice seems to be fast returning, and there is every prospect of a rapid and steady advance. Consols for the Accaunt opened at 84 833. As soon as the expresses lird arrived from Paris with the quotations of the French funds, Consols for the Account rose from 944 to 85, and finally closed at 847. The prices of all other seem ities were also materially higher. • A similar impulsc operated in the Fereign market. Colom'lian Bonds, which opened at 64, advanced to 63„ and Mexican 6 per Cent. from 651 to 67i. No attention was paid to shares. The private letters from Paris intimate that no less scarcity of money exists there than in London. On Tues day last, the continuation from one month to another, on Neapolitan Stock, was I f. 75e., or at the rate of mere than 20 per cent. per annum. Advices from Stockholm, dated 11th November, state that expectations were entertained that English capitalists would subscribe to the new Joint Stock Company for work ing the coal mines in Scania to the amount of six or per haps eight hundred thousand rix dollars, so that the whole fund will-amount to 800,000 or 1,000,000 rix dollars. The conditions proposed by the English are said to have been acceded to, with some unimportant exceptions, by the Swedish shareholders, but the English have stipulated for a certain time before they give their ratification. We have received a file of the Soutli Akicon Commercial Advertiser, to the beginning of October. It will be re membired that this is the Cape of Gocd Hope paper which was suppressed by the Governor, and which has been since re-established under the protection of the home govern ment. The re-establishment of this paper has proved a great triumph to the friends of independence in the colony, and according to private accounts, the sensation caused by it exceeds any thing ever witnessed at the Cape. The paper itself alludes to this in a leading article: " It is new in the history of the colonies, to sec the streets adjoining a printing-oftce almost blocked up by crowds of the most respectable people, eagerly waiting for the issuing of a newspaper.".Seolsrnan. Naw T.lnlFr roa THE NETHERLANDS.—A Brussels paper states that the project of law concerning some changes in the tariff of customs has, among other regulations, that no vessels shall be considered as ships of the Netherland.s but such as are provided with sea passes, delivered accord ing to the law of 14th March, 1819. The followin im port duties are proposed to be levied from Ist Jan. 1826 : " On Rye, it: hOe.; Wheat, I If. Cotton, not span. for 100:ba.. 130 c. ; Coffer, per do. 12f.; Seed Oil, per bsrrel, If. BOc. ; Rape Seed and Turnip Seed, per last, i. e. on importation, 2f. ; exportation, Lf. ; transit, 4f. _ "` Changes are also proposed upon the duties on the following articles:—Beer. hides, copper. linens, madder, pepper, cattle, Rugßr, tobacco. fish, and linseed." Letters from . Bahia received yesterday state the arrival of the August packet from England on the 3d of October. The Exchange, which had at one time reached 66. was quoted at .13 and 54. In most of the so:thern provinces of the Russian empire the harvest has been extremely abundant this year, and corn is in consequence very cheap. dreadful storm of wind and hail did immense damage in Courland on the 16th.Amzus:. The Jesuits of Rome have just celebrated, in a nintt pompons manner, the late beatification of a member ..f their Order. There were three solemn misses and as many vespers, accompanied by two large orchestras. The façade of their church wu profusely illuminated on three successive evenings, and a large baud of music placed in the area before the edifice, to amuse or edify the po pulace, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Hamlet has ever been a puzzle to the pl a y ers and t:,e philosophers. The latter, item " Wilhelm Meister..ar. prentiee" to " William Farren, c ome di an, " have gone to loggerheads, and spilt much ink on the subject, without elucidatin , it; and the former are generally as wide of th l mark. Kemble (John) played the character like a scholar, and Young continues to represent it like a schoolmaster. Such are the effects of systems and Itateliness upon- t h e best performers. For our part, we had rather r eel Hamlet than see it represer,ted, inadequate as every such representation must be, and incapable of conveying a ju st notion of tkis most wonderful effort of the most wonderful genius the world ever saw. Mr. Serle cannot expect to ac. complish what greater men have failed to perform: In shall not condemn him for not executing an impossibility. Our readers are already aware of our estimate of this gentleman's powers, physical and intellectual; and at s e see no reason to modify or retract, we shall not repeat it, The "reading" of the character , was the same as on the former night, but the execution (as was to be expected) better. Of both the most favourable thing we can say i s , that if unmarked by fervid genius, the were gen era ll y correct—that is, so far as they w e nt. The imitation s el John Kettible were not so apparent as on Monday night; and the tremulousness of tone which we then observed uu was of less frequent occurrence. If. Hamlet is fitter for the closet than the stage, °Melia is doubly out of place in the latter situation. Iler wo es are'of a nature too fine and delicate to be exposed to the common gaze; and the exquisite feelings by means of which she adorns her grief and turns her very sorrow s " to favour and to prettiness; are not the fit nratetiel for stage exhibition: She is too hallowed 'a creature to dwelt any u licre save in our " heart of hearts." The attemp t to personify her is about as hopeless as to represent thought through the medium of colour, or to convey a notion of space lay musical sounds. A fattish young lady, dread ever so prettily in straw and artificial flowers, is not n. actly the nymph " remembered in our orisons." By thus remarks we intend nothing offensive to Miss Hammerder, who did nearly all that any actress could do for poe t Oplaelea, and quite sufficient for her own reputation. Thy songs of the part were very sweetly teen, and the acting (as far as acting in such a ease can go) not amiss. But tee repeat, Opholia has nothing to.do with the stage—there The is is much out of plane, se a death's-head at an Alder. man's table. Mr. Chapman is the most benevolent of ent-throsts, and too pitiful by the whole length of his chin for a tempo. 'fhe Queen was royally looked by Mrs. Finch, hut that was all. Old Farley plays " young thrick" alum et janntily uhe did twenty years ago —so well, indeed, that an ancient man in the nit mistook him for Ellistou. have no quarrel with Mr. Connor's Nordin but its length of stride, nor with the Lorries of Cooper except on the score of occasionally a little superfluous strength of loop. We recommend the latter gentleman to forget to rant, sal if possible learn to fence. In this enumeration a•e hrl almost forgotten Fawcett's gravedigger, though we take it was the best acted character of the evening. PASIIIONABLE I NTELLIGBNCII. The Duke of St. Allan's, lady Charlotte Be.auderit, and Ma Coutts, arrived in town on Thursday evening, from Scotland. Lord and Lady Catrington and family are expected in toes the day from Brighton. Countess Stanhope In expected in town this day from Brighten. Lady Elizabeth Smart has arrived at the Earl of ilardwakir. in St. James's-square, from Wimpcie, Cambridgeshire. Walter Burrell, req. M .P. and Mrs. Burrell, h ave arr i ve d at Brighton, from their seat, Knipp Castle, Sussex. Earl Spencer has left Althorp, Northamptonshire, for lard Bs. got's, Bhthfleld, Staffordshire. Ills Excellency Don Manuel &mama. Envoy from the now. ment of Buenos Ayres, has arrived at Warren's lintel, Berg. street. General Garth has arrived at Bath, from his seat in Dorsetshin. Sir Frederick and Lady Baker and family arrived in torn yn. terday, from Hastings. Sussex. Lady Keith left Thonias's Hotel, Berkeley-square, yesterstry, for Kent. The Hon. Charlet Cavendish b is arrived in town from the Duke of Devonshire's, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and Lady Catherine Cavendish has arrived from Lady Aboy ne's. in Kent. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Ilrook.strex :—Lord Lii. ford, from Pariq ; Major Weyland and Lady Johnson, from Ox fordshire ; Robin Powell, Esq. from Paris. Departures from ditto :—Dr. Jenks. for Paris ; Stopford, Esq. for Cambridge; the Rev. Mr. Pbwis, for Oxford. Lord Roden arrived yestetday at the Burlington Hotel. OM Bur. lington-strect, from Lincolnshire. General and Mrs. Grant btu left ditto, for. their seat. Woodridge, Suffolk. Departures front the British Hotel :—George Illtakham, Err. for Kent; William Bi.ugley, Lby. for Illighton; H *Mr for Bath. The Duke of York received a letter on Wetirry morning from the iliscensolate Doke of Rutland, notic) the decease of his Ix lurid Di:chefs. with which the Rlys Duke was extremely efrected. His Royal Ilighturs tr.h more intimately acquainted with the noble Duke a:Ai Duchess than any other noble farni'N. Yesterday morning Sir Herbert Taylor, Military S:m tary to the Duke of York, transacted military busincsiv.;!: his Royal highness, at his house in Sauth Autllerstrec, and afterwards went to the Commander-in-Chief a Oak.: in the Horse Guards, and held a public day for miliLry OfikiTS. Yesterday aficrnoon, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Coursi was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing-strect, 111(11 monses for which were issu, d on Thursday night. Council continued in deliberation till a quarter past dr,f The members present were—the Earl of Liertpa. , !, ;1. Earl of Harrowby, the Duke of Wellington, the Cliale:;2; of the Exchequer, Mr. S,:erctary Peel, Mr. Secretary &c. - _ . . Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clock, the I. of his :Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council r,5.41 bled at the ( ouneil Office, Whiteliall-place, to lira f 6 appeals referred to their Lordships. The Mai-quirt of Ilastimzs and the Earl of t:!.!:!' . transacted tiut.incss yesterday at the Secretary of t•:;:,: Office fur the Colonial Department. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his Its: in Downing-street, from hia residence at B ekenher' , , Kent, yesterday. In the afternoon, soon after four &Jai. the Right Honourable Gentleman returned to 1.1ce1:c.! ,7 The Archbishop of Canterbury is slightly indisp; ,3 his Palace in Lambeth. Yesterday morning Sir Humphrey Davy transactei t.t.! tress with Mr. Secretary Pcel, at the Home Office. We honeitt to team that the Duke of Bedford :!, riously indisposed at Paris ; his illness began, were. stand, with a sore threat. II is Grace is aetornine ,l the French metropolis by his Duchess, and has el• ever, attention that his situation demands. Yesterday a deputation from the principal rcelit•t spirits waited upon the Chancellor of the Exeltra,at . :. house in Downing-street, and had an inter% ice for 3 siderable time. DEATH Or JACOB MOCATTA, ITS.. —:- An held on Thursday, at the sign of the Pied 11:•r,... well -street, before J. W. Unwin, Esq. t*.ironcr f , ; county of Middlesex, in consequence of the sue'.-'• -- of Jacob Mocatta, Esq. of Finsbury-square, it hi - 1, investigation of the circumstances, and ft 0:11 11:e produced, the Jury immediately came to the that it was occasioned by ft spasmodic OZ .-tier: Ot ;11 • to which the deceased hail been subject, slit! Yet ,- • '- verdict of ," Died by the visitation of God." About five tinitel: on Tuesday evenini - Power, Esq., of Cashel, was sitting at tab:: : • cloth had bi en removed slier dinner—wheu came in, and presented two guns at him, • stantly to deliver no the arms ;chid' Lc had in tie or that they would have his life. Fortunati lv bad the gun out at the time. On his informiu they seated thamselees, and remained for al'cut wahinst the return of the scrv,int. They tut:: r. The fellows fellows were in no way elisguistd. A cctueN T.—Yes:el day of:clown, about two Islington coach was overturned at the lane, in Fleet-strt et, by a coal-wagon runnimt •••i There was only one passenger, a very .- who was, of cuur:e, much Maimed, but man nor she %sip much hurt. Several fine strawberries were gather. 1 eu in a garden at Poole. sa i ß u y rd a a n y explosion last, tiirt of three men lire-damp were iu atr burned. t t l r . l i to : t c in great danger.—Leeds ah!lii;e7:cer t . . t, • r 4. FJ 104 via Of* Ig* It I 1 bow Bpd been 1 ssuou tissue ray IN preser ..I their , taw 0 Eolith rum, Rayni ewe, snake nosh lipnr woqi live l / 2 his t a in on