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:!ton, •1 1 0,0;er, iheAi la_ CA: n ;Ile al tl Ist ins; by wa A' JUNES f tot to that country, n.:abl~ l:.x fY: d~ T le ig le cme, arrived previous to the mail, its effect would, no doubt, have been great. It is but just to the respectable indivie.ual to whom it is addressed to say that he cavillers 111.: information of a doubtful character. Leaving the lc:ter to its fate, there is, however, a disposition in the market to support these Bonds, rather, it is to be n ;.pr...hended, from the expectation, that as out of nothing c!!,'1 , 7. can come, so out of something something may con . , ; that something being the anticipatory or other I , of the Mexican Government, out of which the divi d th!: , in Omoht r are to be paid. The only other de- acrip u of Security in which there was any activity iris the Potesi llining Shares, which, in consequence of the vtry favourable accounts related in the letters from ru, atlvauccti horn Inlow to 40s. 61. premium. E' tact f,.orn a letter of the Agent to Lloyd's, at Gibral tar, d: ~siqirg of one frigate, two corvettes* , was seen uff liiiiiurca five tip since, ul it that it is inteutled to cruise in this neighbour- 71r.d !Mown, from Vinare% to Mar ;:), a Colomid.to privaterr, arrived here Tr. Dennis...Smilb, of I;:ltimore, makes the following it-mcnts, in a pap.'t of that city, in reply to some misre ata,ions concerning the mines and agriculture of some of the prineiral mining districts in Mexico, h ((ivana • ivatn) is tliatlat fn m the eapi.al upwards of Itnsirg bccor.ie internotil with the subject, pair•: to cornet the bast information that could be pro. to the must re.pcetable sources, end my opinion is, will het:after bc Worked with grester intelligence, :r, and economy, than they were formerly. I know a• this lime ar exceedingly profisahl to their .hers are about to be put into operation that will be .. ler power and machinery, which curia fail to TC:I. lin:hly productive. Of thii description are the mines of It pee, now owned by a few persons in Baliimore—the rr fo. which was prepared at West Point, under the di. In skilful engineer, and has arrived in Mexico in perfect •—and of their productiveness I entertain the most flatter. I ,,,,itive expectations, in commoi with Irony of our in. rc , Tir:lable countrymen now in Mexico, sith whom, .c, I ci>ited the mines of Pcmasraltepce. uttmt and tauter 1!22, and in the spring; of 1325, I sawn the talk: hinds of 31:xico u;rwards of one thousand W.O attrprised and with the richness of the ;i• abundance of its production. The climate is healthy ..:1 k. and at little exp:nre of labour the nemataries of p-:,:trel. The corn, reteat, and barley crops which I .e nt mitt of Jun: (h: Levrst !ica.on), in the district of ;.'»ut ;dal nun hullo the capital of Mexico, were more • t',an I 1.,•1 roAsible fur site earth to produce rite. 11.sitte% tht.e artizl.es, saga:, coffee, tobacco, and a )1 . :mit% and ve4, table pr•xh::tinna, arc to be found in most t•i tie country. That our trade to Mexico is unprofitable is very rriural. as the atpi•!ies of goods which have tent Enghnd and the United States. , Icceul current ii wand. which would of course •el.+ itnpr liftable, but cannot warrant inference that the GE11.11.1.V I'APERS. Flu , lt trot: Fan,: Nuns or Pnt.aten, Aro.7. I: the Einrror \i: bodes, who left Sr. Peterrburgh on • Ist nionth, was to arrive on the 3 1 1:1‘ at 3loseotv. It is Ill,gtiticss the Crinivitch. and Grand Duke will not b, present tit the c.tronation at 31.o.cow—at Ave not yet heard of aly Preparations for the journey. • , :m.ll presence of the Grand Dutte in the kingdom of to..y im:ecil be considered as the more necessary. because 1:t , 4 is Commander-in-Chief of the Polish anti Litimanian tt.e csiemony of the Coronation at Warsaw will take tidy after that at 3losenw. •tr many nnstithentiecited reports that are in circulation t r-viv.tl t f Out of a c h ange in the ministry Immediately tot rcuro of the Emyeror to St. Petershurgh. Our politt. cot.t. who,: zaTion. it is true, originates with themselves, have a i - ot of the new ministry ready drawn up. in which itnportant de ' ..no-• ots are as-Mined to Lieritetrant4icncral Baron Von Diebitsch ~ e nt I lior Ir Istria. It it al-o said, that the Russian Go will make an Application to tttat of Great Britain, de it .- to give up the Counsellor of State, Turguenceu, 11:10 itt re. I :1- . . ••)11.0;.! lied to England. IVhether this application will be , to is annilier question. tlioutth tht re are some claws of i.::..u. to which tire Lngloth laws afford no protection. FROM TIIE LOVER MUNE, AUG. 13. niat woollen manufactures have not yet recovered the activity •a•,a prevailed in them before the late fatal epoch. The stagna. the demoo.rt for south Anierict, to irhich ourmantifac- rerlims. 'tanned trximuch, Is, perhaps, One of the reasons Inv towns are now unemployed, and especially as the war r•: 64 Ayres and Brazil has rinsed the failure of several non, to the former country. Our leather manufacturers, on t 'racy, are vcry busy in preparing a stock fur the fairs at I ::rt and htime, where they expect the demand to bteauwe the great heat of the summer must hare tan consci option of leather, experience havirg shown that Fri ‘• lit nod knit are as destructive to leather so wet. The • ;r n ;be North, it is hoped, will be the MOT: numerous at t. c r.: Lie.. as very few of them came in the spring, and they b in want ofa fresh supply. It is now positively known ! ac;: Mon of the Rhine by steam-boots, from Cologne to gi on the 3faile, from Mat enee to Frankfort. will not :vivg.—Niirchilmlg Cur re apcvele lt, Aug,. 17. VIENNA, Ara. 11. I+ it July the Archduke Anthony, accompanied by the .e Lewis. laid the first stone of a new building, founded periut 3lajesty in the town of Baden, fur poor persons e cases require the use of the baths. supplemcm to the Predmra (:«zflie gives an official account ••e use of a natfird gas in liglifirg a salt-mine in Hungary. A of air front a part of the mine suddenly took fire. rurcs to be exactly similar to the p,not produced by artificial ....•••• It has been received into a pip e a nd carr i e d through the 1.::: • , which has been lighted by it Int- four moths, and as the of t!.e gas is inconsi.lcrable and uniform, it may pcilisPv tn Lurn a long tine. FREINIVALEE. IN POMERANIA. ArG. g. (?..r 1!.!le town of 110) inhabitants has lately been the theatre of Olul crime, and caused, it is said, by a most deplorable and delusioo, of which so much st II prevails among the people, of all the care taken to diffuse the blessings of education. tlie of June a alioemiker, named Ooittlieb Ladwingf life lion the fields, found his four children murdered. The des! ref re boys seven years and live and a half years old ; the three and a half ram the other not six months beLer irinfediately gave information to tife Alagistrates; %ere tii1;:o to discover the privet:lvor, and, if possible, to Lc ei.:lde.m, but, unhappily, they were quite dead. As the r wet not to be found, suspicion fell on her, and, after sonic . ..!le was discovered the next day in • corn-field. She soon ss^d the deed, and declared that she had killed the children hammer, between the hours of nine and twelve in the fore -113.!! . !‘lie Allows no symptoms of insanity. She espressos regret '', es!, but says, that in spite of het struggles, she was coin i.:l'. ! ..• as if some one had forced her to it. She afterwards said, e her pregnancy she had committed several petty thefts, she had heard that all the wickedness done by • pregnant r "•*of was Inherited by the children, and as her children must have become thieves when they grew tip, it was better for be put out of this world.—Frakkjin-t Papers, August Ili P.e Ayacucho hay arrived from the Pacific, baying , - z*-1,1 from Lima on the 19th of May. Adviccrreceiveti this vessel state that the Peruvian Congress had com if.enc.,(l its sittings. Bolivar was in Lima at the time of 11.•• Avaettcho's departure, but nothing important hail oc (',; ed. Trade was in a very stagnant state. His Majesty's Manche sailed for England, from Lima, about 7th of Fi;es of Lima papers have been received at the Stud' American Coffee-house, to the 13th May, e, from which it appears that Bolivar had called the 11 together, for the purpose of forming a Congress to r• .1:1%• the form of Govermnent of the Republic. On ineding, some of the Doputies refused to take the . the form directed by the Liberator, whilst others, • • .a nattibcr, addressed him, requesting he would conti -1•.!: t's hold the powers of Government, with which he had t invested, for another year. Bolivar bad acceded to g, observing, that the welfare of all the South r.c.At States was connected so closely, that he would `.. the period they requested, for the purpose of fixing 1. 07 m of Government on 3 firm basis ; although he ex- I' 'PI his desire and anxiety to return to his native Colombia. His wishes on this subject will be a ft:creased when he hears of the evonts which have • ;Face in Valencia, and the 3,fection of General Pacz. CONGRESS OF PANAMA. The Providence Journal of Monday contain, a well written article from Chili, on the subject of the Panama Congress, and gives the views taken in thrt quarter in re gard to it. It appears that as late as the '2oth May the Republic of Chili hail not appointed delegates to represent it in the Congress, and !bat wlvices had been received that the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata were strongly opposed to the Congress. A variety of causes are assigned fur the reluctance of these States to accede to the invita tion given to them to unite in the measure. Some of them appear to exist in fears entertained that the States under the influence of Bolivar, namely, Colombia, Guatitnala, Peru, and Bolivia, would attain an ascendancy in the mea sures of the Congress, which would be injurious to the prosperity and independence of the minority of the States, and that European views would be preferred to an Ame rican policy. It is stated that suspicions were enter tained of Bolivar's views in originating the measure, and feats that his unbounded popularity would enable him to effect any object he might entertain ; and it was added, that many had not forgotten his recommendation of an !—reditary Senate in Colombia, and that if the Congress at Panama should not become like that of Vienna or Verona, the result of its measures might be a consolidation of the Sates, the establishment of a Federative nation, and the curtailment of State rights. They were waiting anxiously for information of the course adopted by the United States on the subject, and little doubts existed of their foil ming the example of the elder Sister of the American Republics. The above information was no: expected. If it be cor rect, the excellence of the course taken by the United States will be more apparent. The presence of their Mi nisters in the Nall of Congress, even if merely " lookers on," will not he without its beneficial influence in checking foreign or ambitious views, should they appear, on one side, and removing groundless suspicions and undue jealousies of State rights, on the other. They will carry with them the lessons of experience, and affird the Congress sufficient proofs that a bold and successful experiment has been mad; in the establishment of a great, free, and well-balanced Government, in spite of the predictions of flemago,:ues and time-serving politicians ; and that the exercise of the same wisdom anti forecast will be as successful in the South as it has been in the North. AJ OR LA ING-A ERICA. Despatchea have been received at the Colonial Office, I dab d Nth June, from Mr. Warrington, British Consul at Tripoli. These despatches, we are delighted to state, an nounce the arrival of our intrepid countryman Major Laing at the great centre of African internal commerce, the long-sought city of Timhuctoo. The date of his ar rival is not stated, but front the time he left Twat it was probable it took place about the beginning of February. The next caravan which arrives at Tripoli from Timbuctoo will bring us further accounts front our enterprising tra veller regarding his future movements. If lie proceeded down the river Niger as expeditiously as he could, we may soon expect to hear of his errival in England. The reports of the dispersion of the caravan with which he was travel ling, after it hail left Twat, and which had reached this country through a respectable channel, are thus, we re joke to say, falsified. Inured to the .Vrican climate, and arriving at Timbtictoo early in the dry season, we con sider every danger to Major Laing as over. The navigable current of the Niger will rapidly bear hint we think to the Atlantic, through countries and powers deeply impressed with the majesty and fame of Great Britain. Two British travellers are at present in the heart of Northern Africa, to which they have advanced from opposite points. Thus, sirable and important objects are n nplished, when these are left to men of jeldgment land knowledge ; and much as we differ from Mr. II crow about the course and ter mination of the Niger, still it is but justice to state, that it is to him, and the alacrity with which his %lewd are seconded by the Colonial Office, that the c enstry is indebted for these expeditions, and whatever imp2rraut geographical discoveries may be made in them. Had these matters continued to be left in the hands of the African Institution, they would have drivelled for a century about Sierra Le one, and never have ascertained even the source of the Ni ger, though that settlement, now settlevl nearly forty years, is as near the source of that river as York is to London ! No later advices have been received from Clapperton than those which announcexl his arrival at Sackatoo ; but by the arrival of the Despatch matt of war from the coast of Africa (the Bight of Benin) some previous despatches from !hat traveller have been received, which are of con siderable importance, as disehrsing his route and progress to Sackatoo. On the 7th of March he was at Katangba, the capital of Yarba or Yarriba, a country bordeiing on Nyfil., from whence he was pripati , :x to set out for Kiama, and from thence to IVauwa and Youri (distant four Jays' journey from Wauwa), thus passing the places where our unfortunate countryman Park was lost. Ka tangha is stated to be thirty miles east of the Niger. Im portant information he must, of course, have obtained there, but still more important information he of course obtained, and has, no doubt, generally transmitted to this country, in his advance to Katangha, and in his further advance northwards, because in that route and in the latter space he must have crossed the Niger and passed Syffe, at that point where some will have it that the Niger turns east to the Nile of Egypt; and others that it empties itself into an inland lake. There he must have received positive information whether the mighty Niger runs eastward, or continues its course, as we believe it does, southward through that line of country yet unexplored, through which twenty mighty rivers, which enter the sea in the Delta of Benin, descend to the ocean. These points, we have no doubt, are in a great measure determined by the advices received from Clapperton; and probably the next Quarterly Review may !avow ns with a peep behind the curtain, which we wait with undiminished confidence to perceive drawn up. -- • - NEW FORK, JeLl• 22. The transactions in Cotton since our at have been a little more extensive, but at a reduction of about half a cent from previous rates. Flour continues extremely dull, and we reduce our quo tations 12,44 cants per barrel. Exported this week, 16,897 barrels Wheat Flour. GRAIN.—The market has deeined, and we reduce our quotations. Two or three parcels of new Wheat have been received from North Carolina, of handsome quality, and realiz.Al 1 dollar 2 cents a 1 dollar 3 cents per bushel. The condition of trade continues to he the sole and the overwhelming object of public notice. Sorry we are, how ever, that there is little, if indeed any thing, in the state of the workmen or of production to warrant very much of flattering anticipation. There are undoubtedly very nume rous discrepancies in the accounts which we receive :—but, unhappily, these discrepancies themselves must furnish the most conclusive proofs of a general uncertainty and de pression. As time passes, it is true, the distress must be drawing nearer to its close; but x 'tether it is not still to be marked by deeper misery or more flagrant outrage, no one, we are afraid, can at all pretend to dctermine.—Edia buret Observer. The mills in the power-loom trade in this neighbour hood have, with an exception or two, resumed longer time, not so much from any improvement. which has taken place in the demand for goods, as from the impression that the prices of yarn cannot possibly he 'owe!. The yarn for a piece of 11" 4-4 calico, weighing 41b. 40z., can be pur chased at about .ss. 3il. The goods are selling at 7s. and 7s. Gil., according to quality. The remuneration for weav ing is too low ; but if the works are managed economically, the manufacture may be accounted safe, at a time when a revival of trade is confidently looked forward to.—Ghtsgony Chronicle. . . . An affecting story is told in the iifoniteur of a young slave of the name of Zelie, who was born at Martinique, and was brought from Guadeloupe to Paris by her mis tress, a lady of the name of Mademoiselle Dcsnoyers. The poor creature, who has been in Paris three years, heard a conversation between her mistress and a relative alxnat sending her back to Guadeloupe, where she was again to be sold. She therefore took to flight, and committed her self to the protection of an old colonist, whom she recog nised in Paris. Her mistress claimed her; but the case being hned in the Justice of Peace Conti of the second arrondissement, the claim of her mistress was misted, and a guardian appointed to the infant. THE BRITISH PRESS. .. r. I F .-_, l <fi '—',.- ..„ _,..,----:,- 5r,),., • _i.'''''... ,::•,-4.'-)&8' - .;„ ,„.,-, 4' i l l : . 7 . E f ,TA 16 ' -, f.1 7 : 4 „ ----... ‘ ....... : -...,4 iti; 7:"'" 4M---!.b'e4).--15.*3- 4ata ezin,,,,- ...... PA RTY. Arthur Stanhope Evq., ent:rt a distinguished party to din ner yesterday, at his viila at Broruptun. MOVEAI EN TS. The Countess of Abovne has arrived at her seat, Sevenoaks, Kent, from Tunbridge Wells. Lord Althorp has arrived at his seat, Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire, from a tour. Lady Elisabeth and Hiss Palk have left town for their seat, Rectory Rouse, Enfield. Sir George and Lady Pocock have left town far Leamington, Warwickshire. LadiMaiv 7 Stanley has left her seat in Cheshire, fur Penlop, Holyhead, North Wale*. The Hon. Thomas Grenville has left Stackpole Curt, South Ws;es, on a visit to Sir Wstkin and Lady Harriet Wm. Wynn, at their seat. AVynnstav, Denbighshire. The lion. Mr. Davison arrived yesterday at the St. George's Hotel, Jennyn-street, front Ireland. Captain and Mrs. Copeland have left Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook -street, for Cheltenham. U. l'rice, Esq., arrived yesterday at the i‘'aterliso Hotel, Jet. myn-vttret, from a tour. Departunis from Gould's Hotel, Jermen-streer r—General Ann. strong. for Paris ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Vashon and family; and Aliss Mayhew, on a tour. Arrival* at the Royal Hotel. St. James's-street :—A. French, Esq., M.P., frutu Irelsoul; F. French, Esq., from ditto; and Wt.rdssrorth, Esq., font a tour. CHELTENHAM, AI/ t/ LT T 23. The Band of the Old Well had their annual henefit,which was very numerously attended, there being between 700 and 800 of the visitors present, among whom were some of the principal Nubility and Gentry who are now among us. The entertainments rat the Montpellier and Slinhorne Spas were very kindly suspended for the evening. Some private entertainments were also deem up. The Walks and Pump Raw were brilliantly illuminated. A brilliant crown way displayed at the top of the building tmdar which King George the Third drank the water. Numbers of the elm-trees in the principal walk were de corated with variegated lamps in various devices. In front of the orchestra in the Pump-roam was G. R. in variegated lamps. The entertainment of the evening consist^d principally of a concert of vocal and instruniental music. In the former several songs anti gles3 w,rc given by Messrs. llowitt, Greening, and Thomas, professional gentlemen from Gloucester. Among the instrumental mnsle pa-formed was the " Death of %Veber," and the music in Afachefh. A quadrille band, consisting of a harp, clarinnet, &c. struck up in the Pomp-room, and played several quadrilles, but none of the ladies and gentlemen present were tempted to join in the merry dance. The ball given on Monday evening at the Assembly rooms was more numerously attended than any this season, with the exception of that given in the Race week. The water-drinkers at the different Spas have increased very much within these few days. There was a numerous assemblage yesterday morning at the Montpellier Spa. Mr. Dawson : U:hler Smretary of State for the Home Department, and Mr: Wilmot Hrtm, Under Secretary cf State for Colonial Affaira, arrived in town yesterday from the seat of the Earl of Cassiliii, at St. Margart•Cs. Despatches were received yeterday at '.he Foreign Office from Lord Granville, our Arilrrmider at 11,iris. Mr. Hunter, jun. the Kioff's eetele,:er, was sent off' on IVednearlay evening, front ihe Foreige Office, with de spatches to the Continent. BANK or Eszca.Aso.—lt appears that the arrangements for the establishment of a bratieh of the Benk of England at Manchester are so far matured, that a building is taken in King-street, in that town, for the purpose. We have not the means of entering into the nal merits of the case. or of knowing how far the comme rce of Manchester will be benetitted by the operations of the new establishment. It has, however, been stated, by persons intimately con nected with the trade of that town, that such an institution is likely to be attended with the most beneficial conse quences. The people of Manchester are, undoubtedly, the best judges of their own wants, and we hope that their most sanguine expectations, with regard to its utility, will be realized. It has also been rumoured, for the second time, that a similar eetab:isinent is contemplated in this town.— Liverpool Courier. Tlis ItOTTISCIIILDS.—PArtm, Are.lS.—.llloUt eighteen months ago Baron James lloth , child married his own niece, the daughter of his brother, Salo non Rothschild; the lat ter generally resides at Vienna, but at present is in Patis. All the brothers will set out in a few days for London. These opulent bankers appear den mined to manage mat ters in such a way that their immense riches shall not go out of the family. Another marriage between the children of two of the brothers will be celebrated in the course of a fortnight in London. The future bridegroom is the young Baron A. S. Rothschild, the son of Salomon Rothschild; the bride is the eldest daughter of NMI. Rothschild, of London. The lady is nineteen years of age, extremely beautiful, and highly accomplished; she speaks French, German, and Italian, with the fluency of a native. After the nuptial ceremony is performed, the young couple will proceed to Paris, whore a magnificent hotel in the Rue d'Artois is already prepared for their reception. Several splendid fetes are to be given by the family on the happy occasion. Mr. Rothschild still continues to interest himself in favour of the unfortunate faedly of Reyrnond, the clerk who robbed him of 60,000/., and who was sentenced at the last Assizes to eight years' confinement, and to he put in the pillory. The great influence Mr. Rothschild possesses with the Ministers will enable him, most probably, to ob tain a commutation of the punishment. Bills to the amount of 8001. were found in Raymond's desk after he absconded; they have been given up to his wife, and she will be able to recover the amount. HUMBUG see THE Res% ALEXANDER FLETCHER.— This worthy itinerant St. Preux, who, we thought, had drowned himself in the Serpentine, or some other ditch near London, his name having apparently passed from the minds of men like vapour 'feorn a mirror, has again, it seems, honoured this city with a visitation. On Sunday evening, he got on the top of a table on the Calton Hill, not, we believe, from the effects of • inebriety (though peo ple are seldom sober when they stand on tables), and harangued an immense mob of the idle and the curious. He was to have preached and prayed in the morning on Leith Links, but we suppose the wetness of the day cooled his piety. The evening, however, was fine, and Alex ander Fletcher, me a hill that commands one of the finest prospects in the world, under the immediate eye of Heaven, in the visible presence of many of the sublimest works of the mighty Architect, lifted up his voice, and turned un his eyes, and opened the Holy Scriptures, just as if he lied never been in Glasgow in the whole course of his life, and if such a being as Miss Pick had never ex isted. Next Sunday we are again to have him on the Calton Hill, and the Collection is " to be given for the relief of the distressed operatives."—" Fudge !" said my uncle Toby. We make it a rule, upon these occasions, always to empty our pockets before going out, lest they should be picked in the crowd ; and we advise our readers to follow our example.—EdinbuTh Observer. DISTRESS.—In consequence of the extreme distress of the poor of the parish of Knees's, county Tipperary, the Parish Priest (Rev. Mr. Hally), and his brother, Mr. Je remiah Bally, have commenced soliciting subscriptions towards the relief of those objects of charity and compassion who reside in their neighbourhood. A number of gentle men in Clonmel subscribed liberally--and we have no doubt that their laudable example will be generally fol lowed by those whom Providence has blessed with afflu ence and comfort. There never was, perhaps, a time when the exercise of benevolence was more required than the present season of distress and want. The regulating Com mittee established in the parish of Powers own, fot the purpose of soliciting subscriptions to relieve the wants of the indigent poor in that district, feel truly grateful to Messrs. IVro. Rialli John B. Clibborn, William M. Fitz gerald, Thomas Hughes, &c. &c. for their very seasonable donations. The exertions raking in that (leerier to avert the horrors of want and famine cannot be too highly com mentltel.—Cloeetel Advertiser. LORD COCHRANE'S STEAM-VESSELS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PREM. Sts,—The positive manner in which you have taken upon youtself to answer the query proposal in my letter of Tuesday, relative to the steam-vessils building for Greece, leaves me no room to doubt the authenticity of the report to which I alluded, and I can only now express my surprise that any man professing to be a friend to the Grad: cause should have confided to an Agent of the Paella of Egypt the ecnstruction of machinery which was to he imployed against him. You have, however, added a fact, not called for by my query, which renders the afi'sir, with reference to its presialt state, still more extraordinary. You state that the engineer employed to make the machi nery contracted to complete the whole by December last. If this be so, how is the great delay which has since inter vened to be accounted for? The British public are inte rested in obtaining a satisfactory reply to this question ; and as you have answered the fortmr, you will probably be in possession of information to satisfy my present in quiry. Every day's intelligence confirms the opinion that the steam-vessels would be of the highest possible import ance to the Greeks. I have myself seen a letter to-day from Ccrfu, of so recent a date as the 2 . 1 instant, in which mention is made of the consequence attached to the steam vessels by every class of pawns in Grecce.—Yours, tkc. A. G. TO THE EDITOR Ol' THE BRITISH PRESS. Me. EDITOR,--I must confess I owe some apology to you for again intruding upon your kindness, in an affair which I hoped had long since been set at rest; nor would.l have again introduced the subject, did I not know the readiness with which you at all times devote Our columns to the service of the public. Twoor three different tunes I have, through the medium of your excellent Journal, ',Taught forward the subject of the Peruvian Loans, but in no instance has anything satisfactory been elicited. Al though you professed your readiness to insert any expla nation that the Contractor, Mr. Kinder, might have to offer relative to the nor-paymer.t of the dividends, yet it appears that he has not deigned to notice the complaints of the suffering creditors of that Government. Ile indeed published last April something of the sort, hut merely de claring his conviction of toe good faith of that Govern ment, a n d his hoper that they would fulfil their engage ments. Nuw he it remembered that in that declaration he told the public that "man//t4 before" he had apprized the Peruvian Government of the necessity of their making remittances to meet the accruing dividends on their stock; and yet, although abundance of time has elapsed for an answer, none has been, nor probably will be, received ; and the wretched creditors of dist Government, in whose good faith he professed such reliance, are doomed to see themselves deprived of their next dividend also, due on the 15th of October next, or little less than too months. Ilia Majesty's ship Briton has just arrived from Lima, hut brings no remittances from the Govern ment ; and 1 do think that the public (at least that por tion of them who are interested) are bound to convene and expross in a public meeting their sense of the conduct of this most worthless and perfidious State. Even the Co.. lowbian Government, who assisted them so greatly to achieve their emancipation from the Spanish yoke, and v..ithout whose aid they could never have eff•cteal it, have themselves suffered severely for their generosity, and been prevented in consequence from meeting those engagements, ethic:l'ol-y c: mainly have shown every disposition to re 'pert. shill have been successful in opening the eyes of the public to this shameful breach of faith, and thereby prevent their sustaining further losses, I shall con sider myself peculiarly fortunate ; and in the hopes that you will insert the forcging observations at your earliest convenknce, I remain, your obedient bumble servant. London, Aug. LU2I. INCA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. COVENTRY, Atill. 20, 182 C. Sir,—you have on several occasions made sonic very just remarks on the trade of this city, and have more than once pointed out the fallacy of supposing that manufacturers are wiser and possess greater foresight of what tends to de prets, or enhance the particular branch of trade in which their capital is embarked, than men whose knowledge is derived from close observation, abstruce reasoning, and re search. The very occurrence of periodical distress among the manufacturers is pr ima Jiteie evidence of their want of a perfect knowledge of the principles on which alone a sound and permanent state of trade can be established ; for if they rightly understood those principles, can it be sup posed that they would he so indiff.rent to their own interests as not to regulate their conduct by them, and thereby avert the disastrous consequences which result from their being wholly disregarded ? We all remember the outcry that was raised by the silk manufacturers when the law for permit ting the importation of foreign wrought silks, at a protect ing duty, was introduced by Mr. Huskisaou. Nothing but ruin was foreboded by them, and they even went so far as to charge Ministers with arrogance, in presuming to un derstand the principles that regulated the silk trade better than they who were engaged in it. A similar mode of reasoning is now used by the cotton manufacturers of Man chester. They affect to treat with scorn the notion enter tained by his Majesty s Ministers that the chief cause of the existing distresses was a spirit of over-trading; and yet there is hardly a sensible man in the kingdom besides who does not consider that as having been a most power fully operating circumstance in the creation of those ap palling scenes of misery that have been witnessed lately in the manufacturing districts. On the alarm taken by the masters of this city, their first act was to reduce the wages of the weavers, and presently to discharge great numbers of them. It was impossible, they said, to compete with the French either in the fineness of the fabric or the cheap ness of it; and speeches of an unreadable length were made by their Representatives Mr. Ellice and Mr. Moore, in Parliament, to enforce these desponding truths. But the law widen was to annihilate the trade of Coventry has come into operation; and what is the consequence? Why, all hands are fully employed at good wages, the poor rates are daily decreasing, and are now 3001. per month less than they were for a long period previous to the much dreaded 6th of July. It seems, however, impossible to those who, for a long series of years, have enjoyed a thriv ing monopoly, to reconcile themselves to a liberal system, even though its operation do not affect their interests; and having been confuted in their prognostications with regard to French silks generally, they now say, that whatever may he the case with the plain articles, it will he impracticable for them to produce fancy articles' equal to our neighbours. But even this allegation is untenable ; for, by the admission of some of the best judges, there are at this moment, in one or two of the ware houses in this city, pieces of silk of the most beautiful pat terns, and of the most exquisite manufacture. I have my self seen some of them, and am decidedly of opinion that the elegant and chaste taste of my fair countrywomen —guided, as it always is, by their good sense—will in cline them to give the preference to an English fabric, re commended by the qualities I have described, over that of any foreign production whatsoever. Then there in a third subject of complaint, as to the merits of which I confess myself incompetent to decide; though, judging of the na ture of the other two, I am certainly not much disposed to give any great weight to it. The silk-masters say, that it is not so much the competition with the French that they dread, as that which they shall have to sustain in the in creased imports of silks from China and India, which the operation of the new law will greatly facilitate. Should the apprehensions on this score be well founded, the come quenee will certainly be to reduce the price of India manufacture, and thus increase the competition against our own productions; but so long as machinery and freedom of the press are excluded from the empire of British India, and the climate and national manners of the people remain the same as the y are at p resent, 1 shall be antler no alarm as to the consequences that may happen to our manufacturers from the increased importation of India and Chinese silks by virtue of Mr Husisaon's Bill. AN OBSRVER. LIVErrOOT., AVG:2ST ¶-3 — ' We had a steady de. mantl for cotton during the week, and priceti improving ; about 7 a 9000 bags sold. NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, AND ESSEX RAIL•ROAY CVIIPA N k . A Meeting of the Shareholders in this p-ojected Assviatlon was yesterday held at Bason'a Coffee-house, Curnhill, to take into consideration the state of the Company. Shortly after one o'clock. on the motion of Mr. DELEVAII, Wat. CLARE. Esq. was culled to the Chair, and proceeded to ade dress the l'lleeting. Ile had lately had reason to addeoss Meetings convened almost under similar eircumstanees ; bet there was this difference between the projected underial.ing which the Meeting was interested In, an a l some others; that it was one s bleb, had it bren carried into effect, would have been productive of consider. able benefit to all concerned. That these advantages did no: re sult to the Proprietors was owit g to the misconduct of the persons to whom the application of the Ccmpsny's funds had been in trusted. The undertaking was suggested early In the year 1024. It was calculated thut the scheme might be carried into effect with a capitol of one ninon sterling, which sum it was deter mined should be raised by 10.000 shafts of 100/. each. Advertise toms to that effect were inserted in the newipavrs, but only 3,3411 shares were subscribed fee, on which the Subacrihers paid a deposit of I!. each share. is must appear to every mon that this very limited capital of 3,:". OW. ass quite inadequate to carry on a work for which it had then declared a million would be required ; and therefore in the very outset the projectors were to blame for persevering in an undertaking, which by no possibility could be carried into effect : every shilling laid out by them subitnuently must be considered as done for the purposes of private gain, or be deemed at least a wasteful expenditure. The original projector of the Company wen a Mr. Goddard, who laid it before Mr. John Wi ks, jun.; which latter gentleman thereupon undertook to carry it into effect; and upon the trifling deposit of 3,3461. incurred all the heavy expense of a survey, which would have astesided the carrying of the plan into execuzion. Among the Directors he ad. muted that there were to be tound tome very respeetable names, but there were a few of a very different description. By these per sons measures were taken to obtain information respire ing the prospects of success that would attend the work; and they almost immediately ascertained that eVery proprietor of land tlactigli which the projected road was to run wits deterrn:ned to oppose it. Here was a second and a stiffici.nt ground for abandoning the undertaking; for it must have struck the Directors, that even with a competent capital, it would be in vain to apply for the sanction of Parliament, while the proprietors of land, so likely to be affected by it, had set their faces against the projected rail-road. (liar.) After a year and a half had elapsed fro it the pert el at which the scheme had been first suggested, it was found to le impracticable. In the interim all the usual officers, with liberal salaries, had been appointed, amongst whom there was a Secretary at 4001. per annum, an Engineer at 4001. per annum, and an afire was taken at a rent of 1501. per annum, &c.; the whole being placed under the management of Mr. Wilke. At the period just referred to, the Secretary, Mr. Shentick, by order of the Directors, circu. hated among the Shareholders a paper showing the state of the Com pany's funds ; from which it appeared, that of the sum of 3,34t;1. paid into the hands of the bankers by the SubAcri;ters, only 1110/. retrained; minis at the same time it was made to appear that large sums still remained due to the Surveyor, Engineer, and Solicitors. That stwethent was drawn up by Mr. Wiika, he be lieved. 31r. SRELDTITCIC—Tt was. The Ctsma 31 nar—lie should now, with leave of the Meeting, read front that extraordinary document some of the items, arel•thets proceed to show their inzorreetness, indeed fallacy. (Applause.) After giving credit lot the 3,311 d. he found that Mr. W ilks further said there aas a stint of 1011. nee to the Company, being the value of the furniture of the Offi:e. On the opposite side he found a sum of LOW/. paid to Me. Palmer. the Surveyor paid to Newton and Co. for advertisements 4921.155. to., rent NW., salaries 5881.75. 6d., tradesmen's bills and other charges amounting to gm. Ids. 2d., which. with the balance in liana of 1301. amounted to the whole snm subscribed ; besides which, it would appear from the state. meat, that Wilk. had paid to the Surveyor 5731- nicking in the whole 1,5731. paid to that gentlemen. while in fact Mr. Palmer had only hems pa d 75u/. In like manner Messrs. Newton and Co. had only received 2001. of the &mann' of their bill 4921. 15s. lid. In Mr. %Vilks's acomnt there was a charge of 7711. Cs. 81. for the Solicitor's bill, of the items of which he (the Chairman) and the Meeting knew nothing. So astonished had the Directors been by it, when furnished, that they returned It to Mr. %Vas, who had not since presented it. He (the Chairman) understood that it con. mined such charges at these;--five guineas a day paid a clerk for bolding letters—five guineas a day f aurae. ing inquiries. (Loud laughter.) One further choirs at dace required observation. It had been originally determined that the Chairman and Deputy Chair man should be paid two guineas a day, and the Directors a guinea a day each, for their attendance. To tha honour of the Directors it should be mentioned, that when it win ascertained that the scheme must be abandoned, they refunded the money they had received (hear. hear), but which was immediately taken possession of by Mr. Wilke. (A laugh.) The Chairman cencluded by tenant severe observations upon Mr. Wilks's conduct, and entreated the Sharehsaltlers not to submit to the lass of the money they had sub scribed. _ _ PALMER, the engineer, said, that having seen in the newt:- papers the advertisement by which the present Meeting had been convened, he had felt it his duty to - attend, in order to give any in formation that might be required of him. It was very true, as stated by the Chairman, that he had re. caved in cash 7402. only, but he had in addition received the acceptance of Sir. Was and his late partner, Mr. Verbeke, fur 250/., making together 1,0001. This sum barely covered his costs out of pocket ; the sum of 573/. referred to, he was entitled to charge in addition, for his trouble; but finding that the concern had not been prosperous, he did not mean to press for the amount, and the Meeting would perceive it had not been charged as paid by Mr. Wilka, but only as liable to be paid. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN here referred to an opinion given by Mr. Verbeke, early in the business, that the undertaking must fail. and reiterated his former observation, that it was the duty of the Directors and others concerned to have stopped at that point. A SHAREHOLDER—What number of Shares were the Directors required to hold ? CliAtitataN—Ten shares. All the Directors except one (Lord Teynhatit) complied with that regulation, and paid their deposits. The Chairman here, in order to show to the Meeting, as be said. what the character of Mr. 'Wilk' had been, previously to his coo n& in with shares and speculations, read the following advert' it nunt, which had been. originally published in 1822, and which was yesterday republished in Vic Morning Neta/d :— `• Mr. Jchn Wilka, jun. having received into partnership a soli. citor of the first respectability, has a vacancy in his ctlice for art Articled Clerk, who may board and lode in his family, and receive the benefit of moral and religious superintendence. Premium 350/. Apply to John ‘Vilks, jun. Solicitor, 36, New Broad-street."— (Roars of laughter followed the reading of this document.). Mr. SHELI7RICK, the late Secreim; to the Corripany,'here en tered into a long reply to some observations made respecting him by Mr. Wilks, at another meeting. Mr. Wines charged him with be. ing at one time so attached to him, and so zealous in his defence, that he had gone to the Royal Exchange, and with his own hand burned two copies of The Morning Herald, which he, Mr. Shel. drick, conceived contained libels upon him ( Wilk.).—( Loud laugh. ter )—Now the fad was, that his (Sheliirick's) indignation had been roused, not by an attack upon Mr. Wilke, but by a paragraph containing an insinuation against the credit of a most respectable banking firm, Sir Peter Pole and Co. and he did, as 'Wilke had said, actually with his own hand bum the newspaper in question.—(A laugh.)—But Mr. Wilks might depend upon it that before ha (Sheldrick) had done with him, he would make the vet, hair upon his head iiitake.—( Roars of laughter.) A SHAREHOLDER—Me much ovnty is there now at the Banker's to the credit of the Company ? 111 r. SHELDRICK—Not a farthing. The CHAInMAX here repeated his former observations, contend. ing that the Directors were not so much to blame as Mr. Wilks. A SHAREHOLDER—Why do you not proceed against them ? The ettarkatax—l am but a small proprietor; I have no time to devote to this affair ; but it is competent to the Shareholders to appoint a Committee to prosecute the claims for the recovery of the deposits. A Ge. unman here defended the conduct of Mr. Verbeke in the transaction alluded to. The opinion given by him of the undertak. ing in a letter to Mr. Wilk. was, that it (the scheme) was ail nonserse. lie also referre d to the !acts ' that although Palm Wilks had not paid Mr:Pal and Messrs. Newton and Co. the full amount of their accounts, he had rendered himself re sponsible fur t'lem. After further lung and desultory conversation, a Committee o seveu was appointed to consider the afiiirs of the Company, and to report thereon to the Shareholders. Thanks were then v.ited to the Chairman, and the Meeting sepa. rued. ROCK LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. A General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Rack Life Aesur. ance Company was held on Wednesday, at the London Coffee-house Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Duet. tars as to the state or the Company's ;:ff-irs. JAMES BROGEEX, Esq. ALP. took the Chair, at about tweltie o'clock; and having stated the object of the Meeting, moved the reading of the Report. The Report was then read, but was extremely short; and the only part of its contents deserving notice wan, that the suns of 1167,4La1. was now at the disposal of the Proprieiaty, 1 - eing the profits of the Company since the last bonus was declared. The Directors recommended to the Court of Proprietors that this sum should he divided among the Proprietery at large, in the shape of a bonus. The Directors were extremely happy in having such a flat tering statement to lay hefore the Proprietors. A Pnope mr on said he was surprised that so little informs. tints should have bzen supplied in the Report as to the state of the Company's atiiirs. After some discussion, a Resolution war SIOVIIKI— That the Meeting be adjourned, in order to afford the Directors an opportunity of drawing up a balance sheet, to be submitted to the Proprietary at another Meeting." This motion was negatived ; and subsequently Resolutions were passed, foe the purpose of carryiug into effect the recommendation of the Directors. Another Sleeting will be held this day, in order to adopt Resole• Cons fur paying the Proprietors the boars. The carriage of S:r B. Copthorpe wu robbed, o:t Tat-t -chy evening, coming to town, when a parcel was cut from the back of it, the footman being behind, No traces been had of the robbery, although 1001. reward his by It Of*red fur the apprehension of the thieves. .1 4, '• f A t .