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Mr. Meade we. t. Mist Patou ; %rupiah, Mho Lore. After whleh the Comedy of CHARLES THE SECON D. -...... Charlie the Peon& Mr. C. Keniblei Lord Hoeheeter, Mr. Power: Captain Coup, Mr. Fawcett. Mary. Mlini Heline. re euneluae with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN AND THE M WICK Dual!: Or. HEAD r Y AND THC Brawl E. Harlequin, Mr. Cilari Pantaloon. Mr. Barneo: Clown. Orlowski' Cultunhine, Mho Homer. Tomorrow, The Tempest; and the Pantomime. TO CORRESPOND*NTS. We hive not been inattentive to M. friendly communication agm.d •• it.** re.pecting the usodern tysteiti of Political F a otioruy. lu a t+ ay or two our covrespundeut will bear further how us. The BRITISH rags. commenced publishing yesterday morn ing to lies o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY Pi), INC Last night we received the Etude dated Wednesday, with the other Paris papers of Tuesday. It appears by an a-ticle in the femur that the mutiny at St. Petenburch originated, in some dc,;ree, in political opinions, quite distinct from the mere choice of Princes or questions of hereditary. right. The Etude speaks of " the SANTA ROSA' of the banks of the Neva," and names several of the Russians concerned in the late revolt as the victims of " incendiary writings." The Directing Senate bare decreed tire erection of a colossal statue of the late Emperor, with the inscription "Ruuia to Alexander I." A circular, it is cited, has beer. addressed to all the Russian Ambassadors by the new Monarch, professing his intention to tread in the steps of his predecessor. The French Funds are rather on the advance. (From the Etoslr dated Wednesday. 18th .tanua►r.l Past., .Isx• 17. I N ` (After some reflections on the language held be the miter porn. als respecting the events at St. Petenburgh, the Etdite continues as follows, —) _ _ 11'e invite the tublic to be on its guard spina aQ the false- Laods the journals will not fail to utter respecting the depo s•tioos of the officers arrested at St. Petersburgh. It would es pose itself again to take falsehoods and suppositions the realities. There were evidcr.tly acme persons who were misled on the and ir sy by ►aid that all the soldiers were in this situation. The Em peror has pardoned them all. As for the caters, several or them may undoubtedly have been hurried away by an error which may be justified ; but those who dreamt of theories inapplicahlr to their country, the Santa Rosas of the bauks of the N , ra., would be unpardonable after the sanguinary lemons which Europe hat received. How criminal are those who, secure from all danger. Li-piety sow r a journal ideas which will germinate in some beads thousands of leagues off, and endanger the tranquillity of States. The un fortunate Audoniesky who put an end to his days with a pistol be fore lie wsa taken. Tills unfortunate poet, Bileif Abalemki, and Gleboir himself, are terrible proofs of the danger of these in cendiary writings, which professors of discord every day scattier with profusion. . . . . We then easily understand the motives which dictate the pro h i. bitinna pronounced sonnet these journals one after the other, and ti.ey call for precautions against fire *d violations of liberty. The following are the promotions made by the Emperor on his accession:— Generals Souchostmet, Commander of the Artillery of the Guard. Islenieff, Poefxdt Stairanort, Duchaknit, and Tthitcherin (commanding the Dragoons of the Guards), are appointed AiJew. de-Camp Gei.eral; Count Stephen Aptaxin 31ajor-Oentral. AU the Colonels maimandirri battalioos of the Regiment Priebe*. jinski err appointed Aidef-de.Camp to the Numortn. The Directing Senate to St. Petersburgh decided, in int sitting on the 16th December, that a colossal statue shall be erected so the late Emperor, with this insaiption— . . " RUSSIA TO ALUXANDZI 1." A circular letter is spoken of, addressed to the Russian Ambas sadors, in which the new 31onareb prorksses the plineiples of pewee and concord which were folios td by his brother.--Coat:ir ul tie Lot..•r Moir. Abe of whom we spoke yesterday, Wtil Aid.de-Camp to lieneral Ilistrom, and Oleboffi was employed in the office of the Al in itter cis J.istiee. Accoun . s from St. Berman', say that the monks in the hospital never saw such a quantity of snow. The avalanches are dreadfully frequent, and wherever the guides set out they think they take • last farewell of th...n. However, since the first accident that oc. curved there hare beer. i. more. The guides have been frequently overtaken by the snow, but have always had the good fortune to escape. FRENCH FUNIM—Pan Is, JAN. 17.—Five pile Crrts.9llf. trOc.; Three per Cents. ti7f. ; Stank Stock 2,9.50 f. ; itente de Naples 78f. Sic. t Royal Spanish Loan 41kit. Earhang: on bon. don—One nieslin 2.10 f. Isc. ; three months 24i. 90c —Costs du. Meranue. The first day's proceedings of the Catholic Association with which we have been so long threatened took place on Monday. 'fhe session pill be continued during fourteen days, that being the period beyond which, according to law, it cannot be extended. Some difficulty has occurred in giving a name to this assembly. It is styled by the members of it sitnply " a Catholic Association," in &der that it may not be expreroly a revival of the body sup pressed by Act of Parliament. The iltort:i?:g Register of Dublin, the avowed organ of the party, disdains, however, TUURFDAY FVENING. to adopt this subterfuge, and openly calls it " the Catholic This (Inv has Seen looked forward to with great anxiety Association." Some time ago Mr. (Morita pub- at the Stock Exchange, being the settling in Consols of liched his opinion, "as a lawyer," that the old Association one of the I eavlest Accounts known for a long time. Th e might, fluctuation: during the Accontit has been nearly per wi:it certain modifications, be legally revived , prices have been 84 and 19k, and the " not only in name but in reality." From this opi- continuation at one time full 6,1 per cent.—the price for nion he hat, on cool reflection, deemed it expedient Money m: the 14th Dastnber being 73, and for the Ac to withdraw ; but as his object is still the setae, he count NO. hopes to attain it with security by quibbling with It bit' b een a "ter of doubt up to to-day whether it was a Bull or a Bear account. but it was to-day aseer the ind e fin t t e ar ti c le. The proceedings were Lindy mined to he of the latter deacription. re l a tive to the futur e regulation of the businem of the Mao- The price far Motwy being in eighth per cent. higher elation. Mr. O'Conitast., as usual, made half the apeec!!et, , than for the February Account, the Itaisaetions have been THE BRITISH PRESS. . . • almost entirely confined to arranging scantling, and the fluctuation dining the day has not exceeded a quarter per cent. The opening price was B'4, it advanced to 81f, and afterwarobt to 4, at which it closed. After to-day the quo tations will be made ex-dividend of 14 per cent. Fur the next Account they were f ex-div. The day has passed oft much better than could have been expected. Three failures have been announced, but they are not considered of any great importance. ' In consequence of its being so irkportknt a day in the English Market, the business in Foreign Securities was on a very confined scale. The appearance of tlte Market is better. and the prices advanced. Colombian Bonds are 4ii ; 31exican ditto, 6.51; Creek, 144; Russian, tic,:j. In the Share Market no business was reported. There was a report yesterday that alarming intelligence had been received from Batavia; that the Dutch military, joined with all Europeans capable of bearing arms, had been entirely defeated by the natives ; and that, among others, six Plnglldtmen had been killed. The rumour is said to have been brought by a merchant vessel from Sin gapore. There Is eertainly an arrival from that port, but the letters are not yet received, nor is it ascertained when the vessel sailed. the Captain having written a letter ad vising his arrival, though without stating dates. But we are inclined to believe the dates must be old, as the ship has been three weeks in the Channel on account of the easterly winds. Another version of the report was, that there hail been no general action, but that twenty Dutch merchants and seven Englishmen hail been murdered by the natives. who were ravaging and plundering the open towns and villages. _ _ We have received intelligence from Calcutta to the I;th September. Sir Archibald Campbell had returned to Rangoon to inspect the state of the hospitals, and he was reported to have brought the most alarming statements of the sickness at Protne. After receiving the various reports at Rangoon, be proceeded in a steam-boat on his return to Prome on the 25th of July. We are happy to silence the anxiety of the persons in this country connected with India respecting the sickness at Calcutta; the cholera tnotbus appears entirely confined to the natives. One letter states, " there is scarcely one instance of a European being at tacked." The crops of indigo are abundant. Exchange 2s: Id. to Qs. ed. The interest on Government securities at Calcutta 71 to S per cent. A letter from Calcutta states that the Burmese continue to commit the greatest barbarities on all prisoners, after wards throwing their bodies into the river. Nearly all the commercial letters from St. Petersburgh to this country are sent open, a circumstance arising, doubtless, from the vigilance exercised by the Russian Go vernment to prevent any communications being forwarded unfavourable to the wishes or the feelings of the ruling power.—Edinbutyh Obterner. According to an account rendered of the French Sinking Fund up to the Slat ult., it had redeemed between Oct. 1, and Dec. 31, inclusive, 843,934 f. of Roues, at 3 per Cent. which coat 18,970,570 f. Wic., which makes the average price 67f. 44c. This Fund now possesses in 5 per Cents. and 3 per Cents, the sum of 32,205,7i9f. in Rentes, which have cost 645,816,703 f. 214 c. The Constitution of Louisiana makes it the duty of the Governor to visit the different counties in the state at least once in two years, to inform himself of the effectiveness of the militia, and the general condition of the state. The present Governor has been making his official tour. AMERICAN CANALS.—About 3,000 labourers are em ' ployed on the Ohio canals. One of these canals is to be from the junction of the Scioto with the Ohio to the mouth of the Cayahoga river, at Cleaveland on Lake Erie, in length 306 miles. The other, from Cincinnati to Dayton, on the Miami river, GO miles in length. The lead mines of Missouri cover sn area of more than 3,000 squat: miles, and are said to be the most extensive on the globe. The ore is of the richest and purest kiud, and exists in quantities sufficient to supply the whole United States. The number of mines is 165, in which more than 1,100 men are employed, producing annually 3,000.000 pounds of the metal, valued at 140,000 dollars. HEBREW DISPATCH ES.—ln Russia the posts and couriers are at the absolute discretion of the Imperial Government ; 'all persons whatever, whether natives or foreigners, ere forbidden, under severe penalties, to send out of the empire a sealed letter; the couriers of the Am bassadors themselves can be arrested by the administrative authorities. Messrs. Rothschild have found means for their own private correspondence to avoid these formalities. They proceed thus—On business of importance a despatch, written in Hebrew or the Chaldean language, unknown by the greater part of the low Jews. is expedited by their corre spondents according to the localities; if it comes from St. Petersburgh, it is sent to Mitten in Courland ; it is there annexed to some religious liobrew book, and put into the hands of Jew smugglers, quite ignorant of the ancient languages, and, in consequence, not in a state to appreciate the importance of the contents. These indivi duals, accustomed to the evasion, carry it across the Niemen, from whence it gets to Konigsberg or Dantzic.—A similar correspondence might be established from Moscow to Warsaw, and from thence to the Oder ; from whence news is transmitted either by Those, on the frontiers of Poland, or by Dresden, in Saxony. Couriers are afterwards despatched from Konigsberg, Dantzic, Thorn, or Dresden, to the residence of the head of the house of Rothschild.— A ri via Nur. ' Tt erten DCTIES.—We bear it is estimated that Govern ment last year lost, in rhis port done, between ninety and one hundred thousand pounds, by abandoning Mr. Hus kisson's scale of duties for deals. At present, timber in bulk pays 555. per load, but if cut into 3-inch planks, the duty is only about two-thirils—i. e. a person at Memel or Dantzig, who sends a quantity of timber to this country, pays Si'. per load duty, unless he gets it cut into 3-inch planks before he ships it, when he will pay from 255. to 40s. per load, just as the lengths may happen to prove fa vourable for duty. Te remove this anomaly in political economy was Mr. Husktwon's object, it would appear by his proposed duties, and not a desire to give any preference to our own sawyers and proprietors of saw-mills. although, if there he a difference, it should he in their favour, and not against them. We lament his failure, shire it has caused a large amount of revenue to be lost, which, it' it had been at the disposal of Ministers, might have gone towards the reduction of the Assessed Taxes. —Hell Pocket. GHEAT OIL CANco.---The ship Swift, Arthur, has recently landed at this port more than three! thou sand barrels of sp-rmaceti oil, making nearly one hundred thousand gallons. This is undoubtedly the largest cargo of spermaceti oil ever carried into any port in the known world, and is worth about sta,nou dollars. The Swift was absent but little more than twenty-eight months.—Phila• delp4ia Gazette. The Tiger, Kent. has arrived at Cowes from Calcutta, which place she left on the 17th September, and St. Ilelena on the 11th December. The letters and papers brought by this vessel have not yet been delivered. The East India Company's - Aip Bova! George sailed from Saugar on the 28th of August, for Penang and China, and was off the Sand Heads, all well, on the 31st of the same month. The Company's ship Charles Grant arrived at Saugar on the 3d of August. The North Sea has again broken in three places the isthmus which connects the uortl o cxtremity of Jutland with the rest of the Peninsula. Three rapid currents now unite the North Sea with the gulf called Lum Fiord, which empties itself into the Categat. These currents are so strong that they cannot be crossed in boats. Four persons who made the attempt have perished. The sea has laid open the remains of ancient forests. The Sussex County Bank (Tamplin and Co.) have is sued a notice that they will resume their payments on the let of March next. And we are authorised to add, it is more than probable all their engagements will be discharged at a much earlier period.—Thigh en Ge7!,l9e. On the 7th inst. the Tribunal of Correctional Police al Toulouse tined a man, named Jacques Teismlre, 25,000 francs and costs, upon conviction of habitual usury. An alarm was excited in the High-street yesterday,, about three o'clock, by a person hi a strait.twaisteoat, sibo• exhibited a most furious appearance, and made some strong attempts to disengage himself. Being a very tall and powerful man, no one for a time would venture to inttr fere, the contortions of his countenance were also hideous and frightful. He was at length surrounded, and carried to a place of safety.—SCOtS 17/7.1eJ.. I A'DI A. — "en"— " rsomr. JULY N. " The Headman of the village of Neoun-hunreig reported list evening t h at lie had just arrival from lii. village. and that the day before he quitted it (the 2fthy a boat. with two men, came there, who had been up in the vicinity of Torqz.quoy and Patnagali, for the purpose of vending some onions. chilliies. mitt greens, mot that while there, two boats, with 411 or 1111 men in each, arrived from Ara, and iat the Headmen in these busts wcut to the Wises of the chief of the forces assembled at the above places, and staid with them for some time. _ " Considerable anxiety seemed to exist as to what could lie the cause of this sudden dispatch train Ava. On the return of the headmen of the boats from their interview, a freedom of inter- CIMIge was admitted, and it then appeared that orders had arrived fur the balk of the force assembled at the places named. to proceed with all practicable 'lisp:in:4 to Ana, leaving only a few hundred men, 2.% a serious disturbance had occurred in the capital, but the exact nature of it could not be ascertained. It was., however, ge nerally supposed to have been an insurrection of the shearn and Cassay troops, with a view to their throwing off the yoke of the Burman Government. under which they had so long and cruelly suflered."—Caketia Government Gazege, Sept. O 711 E NETHERLANDS. BRIrIISZT S. JAY. IS• A journal of the Northern Provinces says that Euro—General Trip will set out immediately tor St. Petershurgh. as Envoy Ex traordinary from his Itlajesty, to compliment the Emperor Nicholas I. on his accession to the throne. A Russian cabinet messenger passed through this city last night on his way front London to St. Prtershurgh, with despatches. JAN. 17. . . . . _ . . A letter from Trieste announces that M. Bactiochi, who has been detained in that city to have the fracture of his leg cured, is going to return to Bologna, and has sold to Madame Murat, his sister in-law, his tine estate of Cambo Marro, for 70.000 florins. Ma dame Murat had lcmg wished for this residence, which is one of the most agreeable at Trieste, wh re her sister. ftladame flaccioehi, and two of her children are buried ; she hail hesitated about pur chasing it, because she was uncertaio whether she might reside at Trieste, but she has now received remission to do an. ALuttits, DEc. 2. • Our Regency has fitted out three ships of war, viz, a corvette, a brig. and s schooner, to try to raise the blockade in which our port has been held for two months by some Greek vessels, which nt first were only three in number, but afterwards were Increased to seven, and persisted in cruising in sight of the port. Yesterday our vessels sailed to attack the Greek pirates, but the latter immediately stood off. Then a French bombard, which had delayed its departure for a mot.th, for fear of an unwelcome meeting, sailed directly for Leghorn. BERLIN, JAN. 9. Ills Majesty's son, Prince William. and Major-General Thilt, Are gone to :St. Petershurgli ; they will pass through Warsaw. Act-mints from Taganrog, of the 17th Dee., confirm the progres sive amelioration of the health of the Empresi Elisabeth. Her Ma jesty was beginning to have better nights, and to take a little more nourishment. ARMY OF TEE UNITED STATES. Among the various documents presented to the Congress in America with the Message of the Preeident there is a Report from the Department of War, which deserves some notice. It is very hatisfactoty ; but, as usual with the trans atlantic State papers, of great length. It commences with the returns of the army, in which it is stated desertion has become so serious an evil, and from the nature of tbe coun try so difficult to punish, that the retaining a part of each private's pay is recotutnended. A great attention to artil lery and cavalry exercise is stated to be of the greatest im portance. America is at present destitute of a cavalry force, and these two arms " have the most decisive influ ence on the fate of battles." The American Secretary at War adopts the European maxim in enforcing "tile propriety of adopting a military peace establishment to an eventual state of war. - The do cument then goes into lengthened details respecting the new fortifications, the military academics, and the roads through the United States. The new road from New York to New Orleans is particularly alluded to, and the plan of M'Atlain recommended. One hundred millions of acres have been added to the territory of the United States by the treaties with the following Indian tribes:—the Poncars, Teton, Yancton, Yanctoniea, Angallallas, Sames, Hunk papas of the Sioux, the Cheyennes, the Riearas, Mandans, Minetaree, and Crow nations of Indians, with the 0 ate' and Kangas. The relations of the United States with the Creeks are to be the subject of a separate report. INUNDATIONS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. The news from Catalonia and Roussillon speak of the Crest disasters occasioned in these countries by the over flow of the rivers. The same misfortunes afflict the de partments traversed by the Agont and the Tarn. A part of the department of Aude is also said to have suffered much from the overflow of a little river, called Argent Double, the bed of which is dry for the greater part of the year. The correspondence from from Bordeaux has not reached Toulouse for eight days past, and expresses sent to Langou have declared that it was impossible to proceed further. The great road of Lower Languedoc has been greatly damaged by the inundations, and several less important roads have been rendered impassable. The Garonne, increased with the red waters of the Tarn and by the avalanches which fall into it with astonishing rapidity from the summits of the Pyrenees, again overflowed its banks on the 6th of this month, and soon rose to a prodi gious elevation ; in less than four and twenty hours the plains of Agen and Saint Cyr were totally submerged, and offered the spectacle of a vast sea. The inhabitants of the villages, surprised by the waters in the night, saved them selves with great difficulty ; but all has not escaped the ravages of the inundation, for the immense bed of the Garonne was covered with ruin ; stacks of hay and straw were seen floating down with animals on them, who had fled thither for safety. It is said that houses built in difEnaritt places along the batik of the stream have been washed away by the violence of the cur rent. At Agen, the Fairbourgs St. Louis and St. An toine have been partly innutidated ; in the Rue des (Uni fiers the water rose to the first floors of the houses. It was impossible to describe the consternation of the poor in habitants of that quarter, who saw the rapid increase of the water. In these sorrowful circumstances the Mayor of Agen has fulfilled the duties of a benevolent and ctmra geous magistrate: in a light boat be successively went into all the thieatental quarters, and every where took the measures necessary to insure help to the unfortunate inhabitants. On the rith at about four in the evening the Garonne began to diminish, at first slowly, but in a short time tolerably quick, and it has at present returned to its bed. 'fhe whole of the damages which this inunda tion has caused are not yet known ; but they must have been considerable, and it will no doubt be long before they are repaired, if the benevolent hard of our Princei is not stretched to help the victims of this reourge.—Cunstitti tivand. THE C(►7'TO.V 7'RADE. PrTTIISTIPROft (SOUTH CARCITANA), Drc,G. COTTON.—According to a statement which we have seen, and the accuracy of which may be fully relied upon, the quantity of the new crop of cotton shipped from the port of Petersburg!), between the Ist Oct. and Ist Dec., was something upwards of 8009 bales, to which add 2000 in store, will make the amount of 10,000 received in the space of two months. Estimating each bale at sod's. and that is about a fair average, it will appear that our dealers have already invested about half a million of dollars in cotton only, 'the present season. To all who are interested in the prosperity of Petersburgh these facts are important, and require neither illustration nor comment. The article still continues to be brought freely to mar ket, and to maintain its price. Yesterday sales were made at 14 a 144 cents.—Charleston Courier, Der. 14. LIVERPOOL COT'TON :GREET, WEDNLSDAV, JAN. IS. —Business remains very dull, indeed, and prices may be quoted id. to id. lower. New Boweda are at sd. Dite•ore Fist: AT BRUSSEL:I.—On Monday morning at three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the house of Pieire Hooninekx, in the Faubourg de Namur Cbaussee d'lxelles. The maid-servant leaped out of the window into the street, and received an injury. The master and mistress, and two children and a workman, also escaped by the window and over the roofs. We regret to state that an English lady, 70 years of age, and her grand datqhter, aged s years, who lodged in the house, perished in the flames, as well as a child of the proprietor, a year The Wiles of the English lady and her gran daughter have since been found. I • Effspatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office gnito.Paris. • • THE KINGDOM OF 11..I.VoyER. The All*emeine Zr•it h in of the 12th inst. cont a i n , th . following gratifying description of the growing pro am . ity of our Hanoverian dominions:— iiANOVFII,.DtC. 30 At length the winter is comet till tens Jays ago we had suc h m ' id alumna! weather that violets were in bloesorn in the garden., and daisies in the meadows. In the valleys on the other *Meer the w e , gee the cattle have remained in the fields. Barley is here moat un price to rye, and has on the whole risen ; other species of continue invariably at a low price. The farmers Indeed suffer hr this, yet in the villages and fields we sue no signs sod omy. b ut of improvement. The taitintry towns present a still more pleasi ng lure, where, fmni the combined effects of cheap provisions. and az active intercourse with the sea. which is near at band and free. o n " tort, neatness. and even elegance in furniture and dress are i r . creasing. Ilene, at Believer, we fend all this on a much largo. scale. A great msny new buildings are erected of stone, in the most elegant style ; George-street would be a n ornament to say metropolis. The luxury of dress, perhaps, approaches moo ne v i, that of a great capital without the wealth to support it. Ills Rini' Highness the I)uke of Cambridge sets no example of such est ra „, gance, but of beneficence ; his greatest expense is set ample weekly support of the poor. This is said by every body. 'Elie 'dormice, of his children iv carried on under his own eye with very strict at. tension to the choice of the persons about them, and without me injudicious restrictions of expense. The Duke is universally hi. t b r ° tl v' t - I d ie a oTh i er " h t a een nd te' l . t 1 1:i 1 V h er e ntri C s i si ni t rt en e co sta u h r l f:g s es h e m x p e p n t r i r, t hl xi i i ! l w e s r n i. :17 m e: l :z i n c :lX . monument for the victory of 'Waterloo is now in hand. In the country the people are busy with the election foe the new Assembly of the States, which is to meet on the - 4 :;(1 of next month. The King, on dissolving the late Amembly, tion to the Members for their . patriotic exertions in promotin g hi s designs for the good of his subjects f . and, especially. in impr ov i ng the mode of distributing the b ur den s which the old4fratlons and tie wants of the kingdom render necessary. in insuring the gradual re. duction of the public debt, in encouraging the sciences and public instruction, in ovulating the agriculture and commerce, and in "'Bevis/Mg the distress which has visited a great part of his be loved subjects, in consequence of the dreadful inundations. Big Majesty is convinced that the next Diet will duly exert itselt in pros noting the permanent welfare of all the inhabitants of the kingdom. The new Diet will have a greet deal of very important hullers% to perform, even without including the regulations for mor:gare, which, from the distress of the landowners, has it. peculiar diffis rulties, for the nsoment. The long discussions on the new general land.tax, and the question relative to the former exemptions from land -tax, await their fins/ decision. Besides this, a new criminal code is expected, the plan of which bas been printed at kinstiripeo, with remarks by Counsellor Batter. Penal legislation unfortunately cannot cure the mote frequent transgression in this country, namely, drunkenness ; for Mid new penelties will not be more severe thin the old ones : but the evil Is so great, that it scents to require the employment of all practicable remedies, and deserves to become a subject of special consideration. There are entire villages which ruin themselves by thinking and feqsting. There is •plenty of ntoney•in circulation, and gold hoe untxnert. edly fallen in price, though it is so scarce in England.- But as so many English houses hare become insolvent, the liamburgh bankers will take care how they remit gold to England, without having security in their hands. and Mr. SIIEIL delivered one of such a length that tlk Dublin Papers prudently postponed the publication of three-fourths of it till the day followintv, when they can print it correctly from the Learned Gentleman's own manuscript. Among the other varieties of the day was the " under growl" of •• JAI A LAW LLSs." Mr. Bunt. in vain raved about the " fiendlike spirit" which is at work among the Catholics. LAwt.t.sv persisted in his intention of bringing the conduct of Mt. O'Cotcww. again and again before the Association, until he succeeded in bring ing " Mr. 0 . C0NN1.1.! back to himself. " it is easy to perceive, from the display of Monday, that this Catholic Association, composed as it is of such discordant parts, will, like all the other efforts of the Catholics themselves, only have the abet of removing all chance of success further than ever from their reach. We continue our remarks from the Brifidi Press of yesterday upon Mr. CousLTT'c Register of the regent week, containing his lecture on the sulject of paper ,•etereNea. " says Mr. COBBETT, " is the Sitinderii, or ineasureof mine ; it is the thing by which we tell what degree of valre• there is in any thing. Of course this standard, this measure of value ought always to remain the same." He then affects to ridicule the idea that this standard must be subject to variation. " This," he says, " would be a pretty standard of value !" But Mr. Coe. lIETT shows himself to be very superficially acquainted e'ther with the subject of trolley or paper currency- Money is in fact only the instrument which men have fixed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another, and it consequently becomes the measure not of Cie intrinsic but of die ex:ha/wee/de value of all commodi ties, and for all she purposes of trade the phrase is there fore sufficiently understood when money h said to be the stip.dard of value. But Mr. Conger r ignorautly con founds the one with the other, and hence exclaim against money being a standard of vdlise, because it is liable to vary. " he says, " would be a pretty standard of value ! Yet this sort of standard must exist in every country that is afflicted with the curse of paper-money' But Mr. Culierl T must have his full share of that stupi dity which he charges upon every one else, if he does not know that money would be precisely the same, as a stand ard cf value, in every country, whether paper-money existed or nut. lle is even so very ill-informed upon the subject as not to be aware of the distinction between the value and the r;ee of a commodity, and when the latter culler rises or falls he imagines the standard value of mo ney is clitrilKed. i'Ve would advise him to study these mssters a little more accurately before he proceeds further to enlighten the Mechanics, or his Lectures will be iery unprofitable. As a proof that all the concerns of commerce might be conducted without any other circulating medium than gold, he asks, " How is it that all nations went on, for so many ages, without ever having thought of such a thing as Jasper money? " Why, tile an swer is this—in the infancy of every State commercial csvdit is unknown, and until governments are settled upon such a basis as affords protection to private propetty and security to public faith, paper credit, which expresses that confidence, must of course be equally unknown ; verbal engrigemerits there may be, and verbal contracts, but no thing beyond ; it is not until, in the progress of commerce, these verbal contracts and engagements come to be verified and confiiined by written securities, and that the growth of mercantile confidence makes those securities easily trans ferable, that they become current in the commercial world; it is easily seen, therefore, from the origin of paper money, why it*Wa3 not introduced " fur 30 many ages;" because many ages must necessarily. elapse before society would be in a condition to benefit by it. We have replied to this question merely to show hew much Mr. Cotorerr relies upon the ignorance of his ' readers, and how much he depends for the reception of his doctrines upon their being either too indolent or too ill-in structed to refute them. following up his interrogations, which always serve with hint as a substitute for argument, he asks— " How comes it that paper-money is not wanted in France now? I believe, that there is DO doubt that the trade and commerce of France have g-ottly increased within the last ten years. New and extensive vaanufac kwiea have started up, and of various sort, too; great im provements have been made in the affairs of the land. Yet France wants no paper-money. The bushel of wheat is at much about the same price, effects of seasons excepted, that it was ten years ago. It would, on account of the in crease in the dealings, be rather lower than it was ten pars ago; but Fratize has now mote than a due proportion of the gold and silver of the world, because, we having a paper money, a large part of our share of the gold and silver goes to France. flowerer, we all know Mat France lies no paper-atone !, ; and if that great kingdom, which, mind, has fleets, immense armies, many sea-ports, great trade and commerce, and a debt besides. She has all these, and yet she wants no rillonous paper-money." We have here an admirable sample of that latitude of assertion in which Mr. COOSET r indulges—and very al lowably—from the consciousness that he has no credit at stake for veracity, and that his disregard of truth is so no torious that the detected violation of it- never lessens his reputation. " Ire all know: . he says, " that FRA Nes has so piper mow y." What! is Mr. CORBETT 601 so ignorant as not to know that France has paper-money, and that it is em ployed in the pecuniary conc;rns of commerce in the same manner as in England ? he actually so uninformed as not to know that the Bask-notes of France are as current in Paris as the Bank of England notes are in Lot don? fin he never seen a mi.le Atm.: bill? And is he yet to learn that a Bill of Exchange, and a billet payable au Porteur, form the pryer-mm.3/ of that country, and cir culates as readily and in the same manner as bills of ex• change and promissory notes do in Ais? After this specimen it is but fair to require that Mr. COSILTT 0101141 give his readers something better to pin their faith upon for the future than /.is sleeve, for be has actually worn it threadbare in the service of error and de ception. He has promised in his mitt Its. inter to enlighten the pulplic still Anther as to the Lecessity of extirpating our " accursed paper-money." We shall take care to attend him in the progress of his Iterealean labours. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of St. A lbans, Lady Charlotte Beatielerk; and lira, Collets, left town yetterday for Brighton. Lonl Braybrooke arrived yesterday at his house 1k New Burling. ton-street, from hi, seat, Audley End. Evsex. The Earl and Countess of Brlstnl and the Ladies Harvey ham left town for their seat, Putnt y-heat h. Lord Frederick Bennclerk has lett town for Ids seat in Herts. Miss Burtnn arrived yesterday at Skull's Hotel, Lower Brook. xtreet. from Oxford. Sir (leorge and Lady Nugent left Could's Hotel, Jertnyn.street, yesterday, for their seat to Bucks. 11. Elliot, Esq. arrived yesterday at his house in Hertford. street, from his seat, Hurst Lodge. Berks. Baring Wall, Esq. arrived Yesterday at the St. James's note'. .Yermyn.street, front the Earl of Darlington's seat, Cobham Hal;. Kent. • Henry Scott, Esq. and on anived yesterday at Miller's Hotel. Jermin-street. from Paris. James Daly, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Daly and family left ditto for Cheltenham. Captain and Mrs. Hughes have left the Bath Hotel for their sea in Essex. The Earl and Countess of Coventry have arrived in town from their seat, Crome, IVoreestershire. On IVednestlay evening Mr. Secretary Peel left town on a visit to the Earl of Vernlani, at his scat at Vernlam, near St. Alban's, to join a shouting party for a few days. The Lord Chief Justice, we regret to state, was yester day absent from the Court of King's Bench through serious indisposition. CHELTENII AM, JAN. 19.—Lord Dunalley and his bride arc expected daily at his Lordship's residence in this place, from Dublin. Lord and Lally Ebrington have lett us. They will be much regretted by the pour of Cheltenham. to whom they distributed considerable sums in charitable donations during their star here. The fancy ball at Alstone Lawn has been succeeded by a second, which was given by the lion. Mrs. Frankland, and by a third, which was kept up last night to a late hour at Mr. Hamil ton's. Many of the characters were very good, and all three went off with much spirit. We never recollect so much gayety, and at the same time such social feelings as pervade the society this winter, the town being very full. The improvements at the Montpelier Spas are upon a very extended scale. They are proceeding very rapidly, and - are expected to be completed by the latter end of May. l'he forthcoming opera at Drury-lane theatre is an ex periment of the power of attraction from ancient and well known melodies. The scene being in Scotland, the music is chiefly selected from the most favourite compositions of that country, enriched with some charming Irish airs. The New York theatre is appropiatetl twice a week to the opera corps, on Tuesday and Saturday evening ; and the prices for these nights only are for the boxes two dol lars, for the pit one dollar. Mr. Hayne has retired to the Continent. The establish ment in York-terrace is but eleven months old. The plate is very superb, and among the articles classed under this head is a presentation gold snuff-box with a portrait of Bonaparte, which is understood to have been a gift from him to Marshal Ncy. A morning paper of yesterday says that the decision of the Treasury on the Deccan prize-money. which has not yet been made public, is against the exclusive claim of the Deccan army. The Catholic Papers of Dublin, in reply to the publica tion of the statement respecting the attempts made by a priest to seduce the wife of one of his flock, announced dist a case of trim. Con. was forthcoming, in which one of the Senior Fellows of Trinity College would figure as defend ant. In the Morning Regiater of Tuesday the follow ing notice appeared with relation to this malicious im putation : " Ari.rorn CAsr. or Cutar. CON.—In a recent number of our Paper a statement was inserted reflecting upon a highly respect. able body, the senior Fellows of Trinity College. I% e me. upon inquiry, satisfied that the imputation which it conveyed was alto gether groundless." HOURID OCCURRENCF.—On Friday last a gentleman sent for a surgeon to see bis servant woman, who was very unwell. Ou the surgeon's arrival the servant was found lying in her room, in a corner, quite dead and bent together . On the surgeon examining the Lolly, he had some reason to think she had been delivered of a child, and on examin ing her box, under her clothes, a child newly horn was found, yet warm, but with the evident marks of strangu lation on the throat, Thus the wretched woman had per formed die office of accouclteur and murderer, ut least every appearance would indicate that conclusion.—Lie, rpe Courier. _ . During the last week a police watchman, stationed at the Prince's Deck, observing, about midnight, sonic suspiciogc characters lurking about the shipping, concealed hims,ll until the parties thought the coast was clear ; and altar some time had elapsed, he observed five men, each carr y a sack, making their way acroas the quay from an American ship. Upon giving the alarm, the whole of diem threw down their hurthens, and ran off, when each sack was found to be full of leaf tobacco, which, doubtless, had been plundered.—Liverpuol Cooricr. Early on Sunday morning, a gentleman in [lope-street was alarmed by an unusual noise proceeding front the hen roost, in the yard. He immediately took a light, and, on arriving at the roost, he saw a fine fox, squatted down in one of the nests, looking him steadily in the face, with all the ha) nilesamess peculiar to his specier. Reynartl had not, however, been an idle spectator of his feathered companions, notwithstanding his present quiet and innocent demeanour, having previously wounded several of the fowls, as a pre paratory step to their being carried away. The good host ran back to the house for a poker, or 'turtle weapon which he might deem sufficient to indict summary ttunlihment on the delinquent. Before his return, however, neytard had taken that, and thereby saved himself from the, fatal cK. sequences in which his temerity had well nigh involved pool Courier. ''~ I i . 4 ti ° ti • - ti Fe 0 Ir Ile