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THE GRI.:EKS. SMYRNA, DEC. I. We learn that the Greek Government has invited the Primates d Hydra and Sperzia to send le the Stores the greater part of the troops that they have taken into their pay, to defend themselves ageing the expected attacks of the Turks. A part of the troops has .already been landed at Napoli di Romania, and they are to be sod to Corinth. . It seems that the Greek Government fears the jes'ouay which bas ong attlani.tOd between the Rtamelint" and the Moreotes, and that it peens to keep them at a distance from each other. No fears are now entertained at Ilydra of any attack, since It is there that the Capitan Pacha had sailed to Missolonght. tw ir e l ver, nomeana of defence are neglected. and a garr'son of Wan troop. will always be kept there, but reduced to the ordinary number. • The reports heard at Constantinople of the existence of a Turkish piety at Napoli di Romania, which was said to have obtained the, .ponderante, and to be inclined to capitullte with Ibrahim Pacha see wholly unfounded, and considered as mere inventions. No se. 'counts direct from Greece mike any mention of them. Ibrahim Pacha, since the landing of the Egyptians at Navarino. has been engaged In reorganising his army, and dividing it into se. vend corps. It is generally affirmed that one of these corps is on its march to the Gulf of Corinth. It is supporta that according to the plan of the campaisn that has been agreed upon. it is to tom the Albanian corps stationed at Salona, ultimately to support. if it Should he necessary, the operation. of It nlschiti Packs. It la not hH known in what direction Ihrehim will employ the other corps of is amy. The damp and rainy weather which has prevailed for some time in the Stores is a great hindrance to the operations of the Egyptian commander.—FronVwf Parer:. Dee. 20, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By an arrival from the Cape of Good Hope, we have re ceived a file of the South African Commercial Advertiser to the 22d October. In one of the papers we observe a memorial of old date, which had been presented to the Go •crnor for transmission to Ministers, praying that the free dom of the press may be extended to the ('ape of Good Hope. The alteration in the currency, anti di-, reduction of the duty on European wines, without a proportionate extension of the measure to Cape wince, appear to have ex cited much sensation. A great portion of the colonists have stiffereil materially from drought and the excursions of the ('afros and Bush inen. The latter evil seems to have become a terrible scourge upon the peaceable settlers. The Enterprize re mained at the Cape at the date of these advices, and Capt. Johnstone bad issued cards for the inspection of her machi nery. Lord Charles Somerset and a large party went on bond, and partook of a splendid collation. She watt to sail on the 22d for India, after taking on board two chal 'drons of coals. We subjoin a few extracts : [From the South Aft ban Contwreial Aieerfigrr of Oct. 191 . Extract of a letter from Ilavian's Ricer (District of Somerset), Sept. 22:—" A severe drought prevails in this part of the colony at present . We have scarcely had a shower of rain for Mx or seven months, and little or no snow on the mountains during, the winter. 'The consequence is that the country it entirely parched, and most of the streams and fountains are either dried um or so weak, that yhey cannot be used for irrigation. The gartlens and corn fields of many of the settlem and others on this fiver are already in a great -measure ruined for the season : unless we have rain in a fortnight we shall not have a vegetable nor a blade of corn at this place._ Nevertheless, we have not yet suffered ao much as some other parts of this district, and of Graaf-Reynet. Our cattle and sheep are still in tolerable condition here upon the old grass. hut in the Camtleboo and other Karroo soils, the sheep are beginning to perish in num bers, of the scab and louse sickness—the consequence of extreme leanness. Swarms of locusts are also beginning to re-appear in this vicinity, and along the Snectiwberg, and in several places have Otlready devoured the young crops. The country to the westward, however, between this and the new raffre Frontier is still covered with grass, and the Kounap River, and its tributary streams, are running full and strong. This Is owing to the fountains of these streams generally flowing E. m mountains and kloofs covered with thick woods, which both attrAct the light clouds, and longer preserve the moisture. This line country is now in the act of beingdivided among the frontier Boors, and is already covered with their flocks and herds. We have been exceedingly plagued by Bushmen in this quarter of late; they had taken possession or the ceded territory. and as sociated themselves with Schelm Carlin and a number of runa way convicts from the Colony, and for a eniv:itlerahle time have much disturbed this field tornetre, by carrying off or killing tattle and horses, and sometimes murdering the herdsmen. They carried ofra boy of la years of age from the place next this, about a month ago, and kept him two days, and severely woundcd an old Rasta-d llocentot with poisoned across. Within these few weeks, however, they were surrounded in their haunts by a Commando of the Cape Corps and Burghers. and the principal riegleader shot, The others refused to surrender, and made their escape in the thicket. What rtniera them more desperate and mischievous is, that they consist, for the greatee pert. not of real wild lloshmens but of runaways and maletactors from the colony, who will rather risk their lives than be retaken. This ton, is even when successful Dan a miserable and melancholy sort of warfare to be engaged in. I cannot help thinking that some mode might be devised for re claiming or conciliating even the wets: of these poor wretches, by lenient measures; if this could be effected, it would nat only be infinitely better for therm but for the unfortunate colonists, whose lives end property are continually enosed to their cupidity or yen xenon." Extract of a letter, dated Graham's Town, ()ember 11. JIM:— `• Last Thursday, the 6th instant, the tallies a:tacked three herds men I had with my sheep and antic, killed one of them, wounded another. and bound the third to a tree. They then carried off 40 he►d of my cattle, part of which have been retaken by the pa stoles as they were entering ('atilt land ; two nights afterward, the Gallen attacked a wagon that was coining from the Caffiefair, and wounded a settler that was driving it : and I understood that assagais were thrown at the postman, on his way from Fnrt Will 'hire to Graham's Town. On Saturday, the 11th, the Cagle, were all night about my house, with the intention, I suppose of taking tie rattle from the kraal ; and it was not till nearly four o'clock in the evening that I got quit of them, by firing shot at them. The attack on my people took plate at two o'clock in the afternoon, ahem four miles from Graham's Town." A PROOF THAT CAPE WINE BRINE% HIGH PareEs.—Es. trac! of a letter from London, addressed to merchants at the Cape, hearing date 18th July, 181.5. " We have received the wire which you have sent us per Cornwallis, for account of Mr. A. P. filch- Tier, at the Past), and we have sold some of it as high as 301. per per pipe of 110 gallons." STEAM NAVIG:fTION TO INDIA. (From the Cape Tines Gazette, Oct. 211 Yesterday morning soon after eleven o'clock his Excellency the • Governor, Lady Charles, and Miss Somerset. attended by a large party of ladies, and many of the principal civil and military autho rities of Cape Torn, visited the steam packet Enterprise in Table Bay. Shortly after the arrival of his Excellency, Captain Johnson caused the cable to be slipped, and manteavered about the Bay, displaying to the company in a most masterly and interesting man ner the peculiar powers of the steam engine, in propelling the yes. eel against wind, current, and a heavy sea. At half-past one the party sat down to an elegant tiffin, consist ing of every delicacy that ennld be procured ; after which his Es. ceilency, In 'speech complimenting Captain Johnson very highly, proposed that gentleman's health, which 'was drank with three t wes three. Captain Johnson returned thanks, end expressed the extreme pleasure he felt at having been honoured with the company of Lord C. Somerset and his family, and by the other distinguished persons pros-nt. To his Lordship he felt particularly grateful for the marked facilities that had been rendered to hint in the prosecution of his arduous undertaking, lvttli prior a”tt subsequent to his ar rival at the Cape of Good Hope ; he Auld enumerate many obli. gstions which he owed to the government of this colony since his kojoom here ; they would h • i. n i t cherishes! in grateful reenem branee by him. Captain J. then cohclutled by propo.ing the health co his Excellency Lord C. Somerset. His Excellency, returning thanks, observed, that whenever the Enterprise should touch at that place, (:aptnin J. had only to com mand every facility that was is his power to give, in forwarding the object of his voyage. His Excellency. a.•tir passing, a high enromliim upon the courage of Mrs. Johnson in being the lint to embark on a voyage of such an extent in a stetern.ve•sel, proposed her health. Several other ' toasty were drank, and after cruising about the bay for some time, Ithe ifiustrioiis viritera quitted the vessel, expressing the gratifies- it , o , they her! experienced, amidst repeated cheers. Captain Johnson having made public that the vessel and machi nery would he shown on Wednesday. no lam than 4,000 of the most respectable inhabitants of Cape Town availed themselves of the opportunity of inspecting her. Should the unti._xtaking ultimately be taken into effect of eats. bushing steam vessels to sail monthly from Calcutta to England, we understand it will be proposed to establi-h depots of coals at the Azores, Madeira, Santa Cruz, St. Jags, Bt. Thomas, Benguela, and St. Helena. To the eastward of the Cape of Goad Hope, at Cape St. Mary, (Madagascar) Johanna, Port Louis, the Maldivies, Pointe de Guile; and Cape Nicobar, in order that the vessels may be enabled to receive fuel at whichever station circumstances may render most eligible. The average quantity of coals cor.sumed on beard the Enterprise in 24 hours, is about *even chrildrons—(a chatdron- weighs 28 cwt.) The two engines of GO horse power each; by which the vessel is propelled, are supplied with steam be a boiler in which the. water is heated by seven furnaces. The wheels, of 15 feet diameter each, revolve, in moderate weather, 25 times io a minute. The ship hew enharked about 280 chat. drone of coals at this place, end draws 14 feet seven inches water; on her arrival in Table Bay she drew only 124 feet water. The Enterprise was expected to tail on the 21st. It appears that there is no truth in the report circulated by the Amsterdam Courant respecting the destruction of Palermo by an earthquake. Letters from that city, dated the 14th ultimo, and from all the principal Italian ports to the 20th and 25th of December, ar entirely silent on the object of any new convulsion of nature in Sicily. 11 1 /411!Cti ui 11RITISS Sank Stork 217 2I 2174 3 part ent lied. 112 111 IAI 131 i 1 per rent Cons. Ditto Acct. 321 044 34 per Cent. ittl 34 per la. Red. 104 90 irKS VESTEI4DA Y. Long Ann. 30 A India Bonds 13 10 14 pm I•:a. Bills 1.000!. 5 3 pm Ditto. 5011!. 3 5 pm Ditto, Small 35 pm Lottery 'rickets IW. 19s. PRICK:, M.' VOREIDN Brazilian Bonds 69 70 Ditto Scrip Ditto Aert, 14 13 141 tlis Buenos Ayres Bonds 76 l'Aslombiso Bonds Ditto 11 mds (1824)651 61 5 41 5 4 Ditto Ae l et. l 66j 8; 6 7 51 6 41 5 4f Dan l ish floods 42 31 Ditto Acct. 62 31 French Rents. 6 per Ct. 96t. 40e. W. 25e. I&chanis 2111'. 10e. 20e. 16e. French Revues 3 per Ct. 65f. 7k. 66f. 23c. Exchange 2:11'. 10e. 20e. 10c. s rot K s YESTEID/A . Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1825)15 ex div Mexican Bond. 631 3 ex div Ditto Bonds (1825) 69 / V 1 8 9 81 ex dlv Ditto Acct. 691 9 70 f.B 9 01 91 81 4ex div Neapolitan Bonds (1024) Peruvian Bonds 42 Portuguese Bonds 784 5 Prussian Bonds 9 1 1 I 2 Russian Bonds 811 Ditto Acct. Spanish Bonds 12 Ditto Acct. 121 13 12/ Ditto Bonds (1823)8 8 Ditto Acct. 7/ COURSE OF EXCHANGE VESTERDA 1 . Amsterdam C. F. 12 8 'Leghorn 48i Mtn at sight 12 4 , Genoa 44 Rottenlain Antwerp 12 9 I Malta U aftmburgh ni U. 37 8 Naples 39} Alltona.... .......... 21 U. 37 9 Palermo per oz. 120 earls, 3 days'vight "5 40 ;Lisbon b 4 Dit,o "U. 23 65 .Oporto liorde3o x 0 i 63 ' Rio.laneiro 47 Berlin 7 0 ; Bahia 30 Frank.on 31a i n Ex. 31.155 : Buenos Ayres 4311 . ... .................-... .............. Petershorgh, role. 3 Us. Vi Dublin Vienna,ellective 0. 2M. 10 20 (Cork Vaette ditto 10 20 I suLt.low,ria OZ. 'V • brid 16 I £. 8. 6. Clidiz 16 I Portngalflohlin coin 0 0 0 Bilbos 36 Foreign Bold in bars 3 17 6 nareclonw 35 New Doubloons ..... ... 3 14 S Seville 35i New Dollars 0 4 10i Cnbr3ltor 31 i Silver in bars, stand. 0 5 0e PRICES OF SllAltliti vEsTEitiml. NINES. Share. raid. Premium perchure. Anglo-Met lean £lOO 35 13 171 13 20 15 Anglo Chilian A rigna Iron aid Coal 3O 12 4 dis Brazilian Bolivar Castello& EspiritoSanto Brasil 100 6 liolornbian lOO 5 10 11 91 Whim and Peruvian lOO 6 2 die General Mining Association aytien lOO 5 2i 'I di* Pasco-Peruvian Potosi IA Paz & Peruvian Ace 5O 5 l+ 1 01 t dis Real del Monte 4OO 400 170 100 _ _ _ _ Rio de la Plata lOO tt llj2l 2 3 2 Tlalpuitshua 4OO 341 Ln Waited Mexican Ditto New 4O 10 13 it 14 12 Welch Iron and Coal 25 20 54 54 6 ASSURANCE. COMPANIES. Palladium 619 2 die IRON RAILWAYS. 3lanchester and Liverpool lOO 6 32 artsce.r.t.aNsotTs• British Iron lOO 25 74 7 6 dis British Rock and Patent Salt 10 6 British, Irish. N. Colonial Silk 50 2 1 0 dis Great Westminster Dairy Ms 0 lidls Mexican Metropolitan Alderney Dairy 25 4 die Provincial Bank of Ireland lOO 10 21 die Rio de la Plata Agricultural lO O 5 4 die Britioli WOO. KING'S THEATRE. Mr. rnrits most reipeetfully hers to Inform the Nobility, dub serawre to the opera. and the Polak., that Oita Theatre W ILI. OPEN on S %TURD.% V NEX I', Jan. 7. IMO, when will be performed Mayer beerie celebrated Opera Seria of IL CHOCIATO IN XGITTO, . - Principal Character —Signor Ve ßutt, Signor t'urinni, Signor Porto, Signor Deelile, Mademoiselle Bonin' (her first appearance In tills country , . Madame Cornega (her first appearance at this Theatredand Madams Castelll. After which will be performed an entire new Ballet, composed by Mr. D'Egrille. called JUSI'IME ; ou. f.A CRUCHF. CASSEIC. Moshe composed by Mr. flochsa. Principal Characters—Mmisletir Coulon, Monsieur Theodore (his first appenratice In this country), Monsieur L. Blond, Monsieur Buis (reran], Nimioleur Dubois: Mademo,selle [lnward. Mademoiselle Fleu rot. Mademoiselle Pauline (their first appearance In this country) s Madenowielle. Rosalie. (Met, GenevaUX, nelltre, La Vaaseur, and Capers (their first appearance in this country). DRURY-LANE THEATR R Thle Keening, IVEDNESHAV, Jan. 4, will be performed the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Doctor Cantwell, Mr.l)./14 toll ; Maw-worm, Mr. Luton; Colonel Lambert, Mr. Walled'. Charlotte, Mrs. Davison. After which the Pantomime of MARLEQUIN, JtCH OF ALL ritAnEsi.. Marietaaln, Mr. Howell; Pantal,x,n, Mr. T. Illanehard; Clown, Mr. T. Drown. Columbine, Mies Harnett. Tomorrow, Rob Huy, and the Pantomime. • - - . • COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Thla Evening, WEDS F:SI)AY, Jan 4, will be performed the Comedy ~f TUE S(711001, Foil SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle. Mr. M. Fart en; Sir Oliver Surface. Mr. Fawcett Sir neulamin Itaekbite. Mr. Junes; J,,,,epn surface, me, Cuuprr Charles Surface, Mr. C. Kemblel Crabtree, Mr. Blanchard; Mosee Mr. Farley. Lady Teazle, Miss Chester; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Gibbs. After which the Pantomime of AAR LEQUIN AND 'TIE MAGICK ROSE; or, BEAU I V AND THE BEAST. 11larleqsle, Dlr. Clown, Kr. J. I. tirtinaldi ; columbine, Miss Rumen Tomorrow. Rule a 111[e and liars n \Vire. and the Pantomime. A DELPHI THEATRP, STRAND. Thts Evening, W EDNES!) %V, Jun. 4. will be presented the Nautical Ilurletta of TOE 1'11.0T; Or, A . .r.11,1: OP THE SE 1. The principal Characters by Meters. Terry, Yates, T. P. Cooke, and J. Reeve; and Mrs-Fans/111am. After which the Barletta '•f STITES!, : or, Attisr, 71 , YOIII.IKE IT. The principal Character, I.i MV111.1;. Yates. J. Reeve, and T. P. coolie; nad Mrs. titan illiatn. To conclude with the Comte Pantomime of Till" TMI110: GoI.DEN LAMPS Or HUD 1.91:IN AND TIM WIZSIID DW %RP Hartequln. Mr. W. Kirby: rantalr•on, Mr. Elliott; Cluun, Signor Paulo; Columbine, Miss Plueott. Tie DRITIIII4 Pause commenced publishing yesterday mow ing at fire o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, J•MUAIY 4. MC The Paris Papers of Sunday, which arrived last night, do not attempt in the slightest degree to clear up the mystery attending the succession to the Russian throne. The advice, from Vienna allude in vague terms to re ports, " doubtless much exaggerated," which were eir eulatieg in that capital, but which the writers " refrain from repeating." Letters from Warsaw state, that the Emperor ALEXANDF.R died in full possession of all his faculties in the arms of his consort. Ilia will, it is stated, was sent to the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, who transmitted it to the Empress Mother. A con temporary treats the story of CONSTANTINE ' S abdi cation as " obviously a most absurd report ;" and as a decisive proof of its falsehood, refers to the official intelligence that " CONSTANTINE had been proclaimed Emperor of all the Russian; and that the oaths of fidelity anti allegiance to him bad been taken by all the members of the Imperial Family, by the great Officers of State, and by the Chiefs of the Army then in the capital." " These," says our contemporary, " are the facts of the case." True, but they arc not all the facts. Even the Ettille, which discredits the accession of /silent) Las, admits that there had been a renunciation of the throne by CoNtrraNTINE in favour of the former. The words are:— " The letters of the 10th are numerous In the praises which they bestow on the Grand Duke Nicholas, who caused his brother to he proclaimed Emperor, tiotwithstandintr the renithriation which the latter is said to have written. He replied to those who reminded hint of it, ' if you believe that it has given me any authority what. ever, it Is in the name of that authority that I require you to take the oath of fidelity to my brother.' " Our contemporary asks whether CONSTANTINE, if he had resolved to abdicate the crown, would not have " re paired to St. Petersburgh, and there, in the full assembly of the Imperial Family, the Senate, the Nobles, and other public functionaries, transfer, with their assent, and in their presence, the Crown he now wears to the head of his younger brother? Kings do not descend from their THE BRITISH PRESS. thrones with as little Ceremony as shopkeepers remove from one dwelling to another." We really see no reason to have expected all the ceremony, without which our contem porary seems to consider essential the act of abdication. IVe know not what motives may have induced CONSTAN TINE to pursue the path he has chosen, nor what conditions he annexed to his renunciation. Be they what they might, however, it appears to us that if his mind was quite decided on the course he has taken, he could not have done better than to remain at Warsaw and avoid all the risks he might have incurred by a journey to the Russian capital. The Journal des Debats continues to speak in the most positive language as to the abdication of CONSTANTINE. " The Grand Duke NICHOLAS, now Emperor," rays this Journal, " had upbly proclaimed the accession of his brother to the throne, and had him self taken the oath of fidelity to him." Some of the French Papers suppose that Cossrswri NE has re served to himself the crown of Poland, and they proceed forthwith to speculate on this hypothesis. 11 bat difficulty will there be in fixing the boundaries of this kingdom ? How will the petty republic of Cracow be able to maintain its existence by the side of Poland regenerated and independent? What effect will this sepa ration have on the politics of Russia? These are the questions which already occupy the attention of the Pa risian circles. Before we go into them, it may be as well to ascertain the fact whether, indeed, Poland is likely again to become an independent State. We shall not be long in our present uncertainty. From the Journal de Paris of Sunday.) VIENNA, DEC. 20. (FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) Letters have been received front Constantinople. The most in teresting news they contain is that pretty warm disputes have lately taken place between the Reis Effendi and the British Charge d'Affaires, relative to the affairs of the Peloponnesus. On the other hand, the Porte has received information that the Capitan Pacha , as soon as he learnt that the Greek fleet under Maulis had appeared near Illissolongiti, hastened to leave the coast, to avoid the battle which seemed to be imminent. This news has greatly displeased the Sultan, and it was generally be lieved that the Capitan Paella would be disgraced. Great activity prevails in the Office fur Foreign Affitirs. The diplomatic correspondence wilt London, Berlin, and Warsaw is very frequent, if we may judge by the numerous Cabinet messengers despatched to those capitals. There is a report here of the speedy arrival at Warsaw of a per son of distinction, said to have been invited by the new Emperor of Russia. This, however, is but a report, which, like many others, has been in circulation at Vienna for some days past, and which arc doubtless much exaggerated, for which reason we refrain from repeating them. (From the Jossual des Dcbats.) ODESSA. Drc. 12. The evening before yesterday our Governor announced the death of the Emperor. It made an impression the more profound as the public did not even know that he was M. Vtetrwa, DF.C. 17. The news of the death of the 7.mperor Alexander has deeply af fected our beloved Monarch. When Prince Metternich informed him of it he was sensibly affected, and exclaimed, " I have lost my best friend." The whole Imperial family, aid the Queen of Bavaria, with the Princesses her daughters, are immersed in grief. FRANKFORT, DEC. 27. Letters from Warns contain the following particulars respecting the death of the Emperor of Russia:— " That Prince gave his final directions in the presence of Gene. rale Dieidtsch and tVollonski, and died in the possession of all hi■ fatuities In the arms of his consort. " It is said that his last will las been sent sealed to the Grand Duke Constantine at Warsaw, tho sent It by his brother Michael to the Empress Mother." We have received from New York papers to the 9th The pressure of financial d:stress appears to have passed away in the United States. The news of Mr. Saucer. WILLIAMC'S failure had just arrived. The National Ad vocate says, iu allusion to it-- .• We learn, upon inquiry, that no serious injury will result from the failure of Samuel Williams in this City—it falls heavy towards the eastward, but we are not, as it is confidently said, much im plicated." The state of the currency has naturally engaged public attention. The paper circulation of the United States was excessive, and in many instances notes were issued by per sons of no respectability, in order that they might be passed off in a remote part of the country. For the purpose of putting an end to this evil, the citizens of Philadelphia had met and passed resolutions against the circulation of "foreign notes of a small denomination." The PRESIDENT'S Message was hourly expected to ar rive at New York. There was to be a contest for the Speaker's Chair, vacant by Mr. CLAY'S resignation. The candidates are named TAYLOR and Mq. AN E. The former was supported by the Administration, but was not there fore expected to be successful. The following are extracts :-- [From the Ne:c York National Advocate] NEW YORK, DEC. rt. By the arrival of the British sloop of war Pleiades, from Vera Cruz, in 41 days' passage, we hear that the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa still held out; and by the Fabius, arrived yesterday morning from liavannah, that the frigate 1:sail& and one transport had re turned there, being defeated an their attempt to supply the castle. GOLD MINI:S.—The last !Valerie Carolinian informs us, that another gold mine has been discovered three miles above the nar rows of the Yadkin river, which is represented to be very rich. A company has been formed in the counties of Rowan, Montgomery, Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, and elsewhere, for the purpose of work!ng these mines systematically; for which purpose they have procured a practical miner from humpe, a Ale. Rothe, who, from an examination of the country, entertains an opinion, that this sec tion of North Carolina is the most extensive deposit of gold hitherto discovered in the world. BUENOS AYRES. By the William Tell, In 67 days from Buenos Ayres, we have received files of papers to the 24th of September. The folios/10g . 6w, which was presented by the Executive on the Ist of July, passed the noose of Representatives of Buenos Ayres about the middle of September. " Only article—The right which man has to worship God ac cording to his conscience, is inviolable in the territory of this pro vince.' This privilege, which is secured to the natives of Great Britain by treaty, is now general, and of course a free toleration of religion is graillol. The English residents had procured a suitable room in a build ing erected by the Jesuits, and occupiol by them long since as a place of worship, and the Protestant Divine service is to be per formed in it for the first time on Sunday, the 25th (the day the William Tell sailed), by the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, agent of tine British and Foreign Bible Society. _ . _ A number of emigrants (1,000 or 1,290), all of them farmer, mechanics, and miners, had arrived in different vessels from Eng land and Scotland. Most of the miners had . proceeded to their re spective destinations ; but great dissatisfaction prevailed among the farmers and mechanics, and it was probable that the plan of forming a distinct settlement in a distant part of the province, after making the attempt, would at least in the case above referred to, be abandoned. Monte Video is still occupied by the Brazilians, although the Campaneros (Patriots) hare complete possession of the country. The Brazilians. having the entire controul at sea, can at all times supply the city, whilst its walls prevent the approach of the enemy by land ; but the moment an army enters the interior, it is inces santly harassed. and the patriots are almost invariably successful in their skirmishes, so as to compel them to return. No one can conjecture the issue of this partisan warfare, nor how long it may continue. Some hopes are entertained that Sir Charles Stuart will intercede with the Emperor, and endeavour to compromise matters. The apprehensions at Buenos Apes of a war with Brazil have in a great measure ceased ; it seems to be the policy and intention of the (lorcrnment to assure a strict neutrality. An animated discussion took place in the Junta (House of Representatives) on the evening of the 24th inst. on a motion to re peal the Law, prohibiting the importation of foreign flour, the opponents strongly urging , the protection of the agricultural, interest of the country. It is however generally believed that it would be repealed ; but at the same time it is also expected that a heavy duty will be laid on flour, equal to, and designed to operate as a prohibition, during the productions of ordinary crops. The wheat fields throughout the Province are said to promise an abundant harvest; those in the vicinity of the city are very tioutish. ing, and more extensive than in any former year. Some of our contemporaries have beeu constantly prone to indulge in melancholy forebodings with respect to the issue of the Burmese war, and we observe that the con tents of some letters received by the last arrivals from Cal- cutta have induced them to renew that tone of complaint which the brilliant achievements of Sir ARCHIBALD CAMP BELL had well nigh suppressed. It will be interesting, therefore, to the public if we ley before them a correct view of the military position which the gallant General and the troops under his command occupied at the date of the latest advises from the army. The following statement, our readers may be assured, rests upon the best authority. In the first place it should be observed that success has invariably crowned every operation of Sir Aat ulna rn CAM rnLt.r.. He has defeated and dispersed all the force that has been brought into the field against him. Half the enemy's territory is conquered, and in our military occupation, and the remainder must share the same fate in the ensuing campaign, unless in the mean time his Golden-footed Majesty should humbly sue for peace. Nearly MO pieces of artillery has been taken by Sir An c T.l) CA DI re E r.I. alone, including some of small calibre. All the artifices of the enemy to misrepresent the character of the British nation and the object of the war have failed. The natives who fled at the advance of our troops are now , returning to live under the protection of our just and bene ficent rule. The whole of the villages on the banks of the Irrawaddy wera burned and deserted ; but already tiny are to a great extent rebuilt and inhabited. Prome and its vicinity, we understand, were, at the beginning of June, when the last despatches were sent from head-quarters, almost as fully thronged with population as they had ever I been in the most peaceful times, and Rangoon was in the same state. In the cauntry between Prome and Rangoon, half the people had in like manlier returned home, and resumed their occupations. These are triumphs greater and more valuable than the brightest that can be won by the sword. It is the victory of justice over oppression. From Pep, the unfortunate natives had appealed to Sir Aecnia,Al.nCsatenet.t. for military defence against the marauding incursions of the Burmese, as the were desirous of commencing the cultivation of their ground; and 200 men hail accordingly been sent front Rangoon in boats provi&d by the Peguese. The kingdom of Pegu was completely delivered from the Burmese yoke. The enemy had not 100 soldiers in the whole of the l'eguese territory. The great advantage gained by Sir A. Castel:tem., by fixing his head-quarters at Prome, consists in the circumstance that he thereby deptives the Burmese Government of the supplies of grain, for which they usually depended on the lower provinces of the empire, and throws them entirely on the resources of Ava. The general opinion was that the army would move early in October, and, subduing all future resistance, as their heroic commander has overcome all former dif ficulties, would reach Ummerapoora, the enemy's capital, before the beginning of the present year. The Times of yesterday has an article on the state of the Money-market that is worthy of observation. What stud,- jobbing purpose it may be intended to answer we cannot say, but that it cannot be writtenwithout some ultetior ob ject is certain. " The difficulties in the Money-market"— we are told—" are not at an end, neither perhaps ought they to he. They will probably affect our trade and com merce during the ensuing Session of Parliament."—lf we had not this proof of it before our eyes, we should not have believed it possible that a public journalist, witness ing—as lie must have done—the mass of misery and ruin produced by the recent convulsion of public. credit, would dare to utter in the face of his countrymen, a sentiment like this ! One could scarcely conceive that such malignity and rancour could exist in the human heart, as could betray a wish that the misery entailed on the commercial world should be emtended yet more widely, and that the stall rings eccesioned throughout the whole circle of pri vate life should be still further prolonged. NVl:at ! has not, then, this agitation and alarm in the public mind, which the Timee contributed so much to excite—has it not yet produced consequences sufficiently fatal? Must they carry still further ruin into " our trade and commerce during the next Session of Parliament," before the jacohin emissaries of revolt and revolution can work out their designs? " The great body of the people," says this journalist, " have been but little elect' by the late per plexities ; and with respect to those who have deposits in their bankers hands—more especially in those of the pro vincial hankers— our fear is that the storm has neither been long enough nor violent enough to shake and expose the rotten parts." What further length of calamity, may we ask, and what further violence would the Titres and its partisans call for? Is the banking system in this country to be utterly annihilated? Are bank-notes to be voted waste paper, and the money-market to be brought regu larly and systematically under the dominion of WiLtrate CC/131161z and Da NIELII A inn AsT LE,and the stock-jobbing legislators of Printing House-square? When they have fully matured and accomplished their purposes, they will no doubt, he satisfied— an:l we shall then probably be told— and not till then—that our difficulties " ought to be at an end." CITY, Tt7tST/A7 EVENING. The condition of the Money Market was, throughout the flay, by no means of an unfavourable description, though the price of British Stock rather declined towara the close of business. Consols opened at 82j. The trans actions were comparatively few in number, and of incon siderable amount. The consequence was, that the quotation soon fell to f ; it then advanced to 1, anti, after a little fluctuation, was finally fixed at g. The Securities which are purchasable for money were all higher; Reduced was 81!, and Three and a Half per Cent. gnj. Exchequer Bills bore 31. to Ss. premium, and India Bonds 1 4. In the Foreign market there was a good deal of fluctu ation in the South American Stocks, vrminating in a material decline from the advance of yesterday. Colombian Bonds opened at 651, they closed at 65; ; at one time they were doing for the Account at 67. Mexican Six per Cents. ox.div., left off at 681. Brazilian Scrip 11.1 dis. Spanish and Greek Bonds remain at the same prices. Russian Bonds declined per cent. while I'russian rose to precisely the same extent. The Share Market. was unusually active, but there was no permanent implovement in value. The closing prices were as follow :—Anglo-Mexican 15 pr. ; New United lst ; Real del Monte ISO ; Brazilian 5' • Colombian 91; Pa sco - Peruvian 4, and Castello 1. The British Iron Company's Shares rose to 5 dis. A report was current all the morning that a commercial treaty with France was nearly concluded ; but we could not ascertain the source from whence it hail proceeded. We need not say how grateful the confirmation of this news would be to the mercantile world gcnerdly. On the 17th December a Proclamation was made at Munster, by which the Grand President of that province convoke, for the first time at Munster, the provincial States of Prussian Westphalia, and orders that the elec tions shall be begun without delay. The Grand President, M. de Vinke, who enjoys universal esteem and confidence, is appointed u the King's Commissioner in that Assembly. The Gazette of Lyons announces that lately a part of the Catholic inhabitants of the commune of Marcy, in the arrondissement of Vogneray, the department of the Rhone, embraced Protestantism. TILE IMPERIAL FAMILY OP RUSSIA. It is remarkable that there arc at pr sent three Em. presses in Russia, the Empress Mother, widow of Paul the First, Princess of Wirtemburg, y( ars of age, hut in the enjoyment of excilent health ; the Empress Dowager, widow of Alexander the First, Princess of Baden, :Pi years of age, but in a doubtful state of health ; and the reigniu.. Empress, wife of Nicholas the First, daughter of the K ir of Prussia, 27 years of age. net:rand Duchess Anne, sister of Alexander, is, u well known, a Princess Royal of the Low Countries, and her eldest sister, Marie-Paulowna, is the (hand Duchess of Saxe-IV.•:rnar. Queen Frederica of Sw«lin is sister to the Emprits Dowager, and the reigning Grand Duchess of Baden is the eldest daughter of Queen Fwd.-rim. All these prin. cesses arc of German extraction ; all were horn Protestan ts except the two Grand Duchesses Anne and Marie-Pau. lowna, born in the Greek religion ; all have reci irul an education which places them above the frivolity too gene. ra l i n ('nitric, and the Empress Mother is above all a woman of the highest capacity.—.l,,aroml firs Dchals. FRENCH Ell ItiSSY TO PEJiSLt. The Viscount Desbassyus de Richemont reached Tenris in the month of May, and was there received with distinc tion by the flvreditary Prince of Persia. On the 2 , 1 of JIM!: lag lie sat out for Teheran, where he arriv«l on the 17th. On this route the land gradually rises till th e traveller reaches the mountains of Tcharaf anti Caflanguer, the summits of which are covered with perpetual sli6w. The part passud over by the French Ambassador and lgs suite was seven hundrtil toises from the level of the s.a. On arriving at Teheran, M. 1).• Richemont was received is apartments prepared for him at the house of Aboul Hassan Khan, lately Ant haFsador in England and Franey, and now Minister for Foreign Affairs. A few days afterwards lie had a formal and solemn audience of the Shah himself, to which he was introduced with much pomp and ceremony, hearing with him a letter from Charles X. to Futteh Ali Shah. The Shah received him sitting on a throne covered with jewels. The hall of andience was extremely magnificent. Near the Shah stood the grandees of his Court gorgeously attired, one bearin7 the Royal diadem, another the sei mitar, a third th, :•hiehl, and a fourth the sceptre ; (hi the shield was an emerald of extraordinary dimensions, and on the Shah's bracelets were two of the largest dia monds known. rutteh Ali Shah is 66 years of age, and re markable fur a long bum', which is the admiration of his subjects, covering his face almost to the eyes, and flowing down to his girdle. The audience lasted a quarter of an hour, and the Ambassador was reconducted home with the same pomp with which he had been introduced. The Shah conferred on M. de Rich, mont the Order of the Lion and of the Sun of the second class. The (lay after this ceremony the Ambassador was attacked with a serious illness ; but a subsiquent letter, of the 34 of August, states that he had recovered suf. ficiently to begin his journey from Teheran for !qualm, whence he meant to procetd to the Persian Gulf and Bombay. bespatches were received yeattrlay at the Colonial Office from General Lord C. 11. Somerset, at the Cape of Good Hope ; and from Lieutenant-General Sir G. L. Cole, G.C.8., at the Mauritius. • The Palinira, Lamb, is arrived in Margate Roads, from Calcutta, having sailed as late as the 1 tth of August, awl from St. Helena the 16th of Novembet. Sir James Britt bane, in the Boadicea frigate, had arrived there with a large freight of specie from 31adras. The Tamar frigate was in dock ; her crew were very sickly, and the First Lieutenant and several men had died. The Ilcugal Merchant sailed from Arracan on the 11th of July, in company with the Broughatn ; about ten a.ni. saw her bear up for the river again. She has about -too sick on board for Calcutta. 'Troops at Arracan are very sickly : hospitals full ; number of deaths daily. The Gazette of Venice givcs a most distressing account of the immense damage done by the overflowing of the l'o, and other rivers, which rose higher than even in 1823. Mettnrie OF M. Ii.II.I.ER.—A letter from Switzerland, in the Frankfort papers, states that the judicial documents, the Visurn and Repertuns, on the body of the late Avoycr Keller, have really been found in the archives of Lucerne, so that they had not been abstracted, as was reported. FOREIGN EICIIANGEN.—Letters from St. Peteraburgh of the 13th December, (N.S.) state that the Exchange was declining ;it was then 10,t, to 10. Letters from Riga cf 15th December (N.S.) quote the Exchange at 10 3-16:14, with but few bills on London offered. Letters have been received from the city of Mexico, dated on the Stll of October, and from Alvarado, dated on the 17th of the same month. The communications from Mexico, by this conveyance, are of considerable import ance, and must, in no small degree, increase the expecta tions previously entertained, that by the speedy surrender of the castles of St. Juan d'Ulloa the freedom of the Mexi can Republic will be completed. The letter from Alvarado states, that at the time when it was written, the Spanish Governor of St. Juan d'Ulloa was actually on board the British packet oft' Vera Cruz, discussing, with Mexican accredited Ministers,the terms on which the castle should be given Up to the Republican forces ; and strong hopes were entertained that the negociation would end favourably to the cause of the independence of the Mexican States. The terms demanded by the Spanish Governor were, 100,ouu/. for his country, and 600 dollars to each of the garrison. The premium is small, when compared with the value of the prize, for it can speedily he replaced by the increased quantity of foreign goods, which must then be imported, after payment of the legal duties—a state of things which cannot exist so long as smugglers are protected by a Spa:Mh force at St. Juan trUlloa. Trade in Mexico had for many months been unusually languid; for heavy duties on European manufactures injured the consumption of their, land nothing legally imported could be sold without a heavy loss. Smugglers, on the contrary, continued to reap im mense advantages from the restrictions placed on the trans actions of fair dealers; because, by the evasion of the high imposts of Government, they were enabled to under sell all who paid. the legal duties. The Mexican Govern ment is, however, young in legislation, and we doubt nor it will soon reform its commercial system. lklunnea or COLON!' I. SII3 ItP.—The Kentucky Re porter says—" The individual suspected of pctpetrating this horrid deed has been apprehended, and is now con fined in gaol at Frankfort. llis name is Jeroboam Beau champ, a nephew or relative of the late senator from Wash ington county of the same name. He studied law with Col. Sharp at Bowling Green some years ago, and now resides in Simpson county. He was taken at his own house on the day of his arrival there, by the persons sent in pursuit of bun from Frankfort. The circumstane(s which led to his apprehension have no connexion what ever with party feeling, as some were willing to believe. Ast ERMAN Sweaters.—As an instance of the liberty and prosperity of this country, it is stated in the Pottstown (Pennsylvania) paper, that a sweep-master and his bey, both blacks, arrived in that village from Philadelphia in a gig, and, after having swept all the chimneys requiring such ceremony, they took their carriage and returned to the city.--Vete Tort. Advocate. Mr. Wm. Nicol, manufacturer in Forfar, was, in lels, under the necessity of compounding with his ercelimis. They were then so well convinced of his honesty, that they unanimously agreed to discharge him. Since that time', by adhering to his industrious habits, and being more for tunate than formerly, he has been enabled to retrieve his affairs. The other week he called a meeting of his credi ditors, and paid them in full. Such instant 's of honesty seldom occur, and it is barely an act of justice to this de serving individual to make the circumstance known. It is at the express desire of his creditors that this communi cation is made.—Stirling Journal. We learn with dismay to what fearful extent the crime of poaching prevails in this neighbourhood. Latterly the estites of Sir J. T. Stanley, Bart., at Alderly, and of Davies Davenport, Esq., at Capesthorne, have been in fested by hordes of men, sometimes to the number of twenty in a gang, who pursue this debased and debts:ng system of plunder with daring effrontery, setting at de fiance the keepers who are appointed to watch the grounds. Strong measures, we understand, have been adopted to check these lawless depredators.—M ace/e! field Herald. l