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After which :.th time, a new Grand Romantic Fairy Tale, called OBERON; or, THY. CHARDII.:I) HORN. Forlee—()heron, Miss %/net lit ; Titania, MI-s Macdonald. French—The imprior Chwieinacne, Mr. O. Smith; Sir Nunn of Goyenne, Mr. Ben. nett: Shersuoin, Mr. Browne; gar Anhert, r. T. Blanchard. Arabian-4 Tb, Caliph ..f Hauled, Mr. Pope; the Pane.. Ttabikoc. Mr. Howrit ; sadak, Mr. Pittwithins ; Omlec, Mr. Mercer. The Princes.. Amanda, 311. is Smith son ; Farms, Uri. C. .Nnee. Tunisians—The Sultan of Tunis, Mr. Tuuore ; Kahan, Mr. W. Bennett; Fisherinon, Mr. G. Smith. COVEN'f-GARDEN THEATRE. Tide Evening. W E ItNEnDA V, March '29, the Performance will commence • CONCERT, THE MUSIC FROM IP-1R FitEISCHUTZ, toder the Direction of the Comotrkcr, Carl t'un Weber, %silo will . rresllte on the Singe. Alter which the Comedy of RULE A WIFE ANI) HAVE A WIFE. The Duke, Mr. Cooper; Leon, Mr. Warde ; Michael Perez, Mr. Jonet ; Estlfanla. Minot Chester. To condo& with the new Piece of TII E !CAPE-GOAT. The Characters 'yr Dieser.. Monrhord, W. Farren. C4oper, and Meadows ; 1411. e. Jour-. and A. J 1,1104, The BRITT/Il Passe commenced pubhehtog yeeterdey morning at FIX o'clock•. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAecn 29 1894. The French Papers that arrived last night do not contain information of much importance. with the exception of the debates in the Chamber of Deputies relative to the "Slave Trade. The SpaniA Cabinet still refuses to recal the Constittnienalists, end, if we may believe the accounts from the interior of the devoted country under its rule, 'which the French Papers furnish us :with, at the time they give us the above fact, we must opeet every post will bring us intelligence of a decisive nature from that part of the Peninsula. Indeed, as far as the safety of Venni tet AND and his system is concerned, it matters little whe ther these unfortunate and persecuted emigrants return to their native country or not, for they must have friends enough in Spain to avenge their cause, whose rage will be necessarily increased by this continued rigour on the part of their Government. 11 - e have given such ample extracts from these Papers, with respect to the Slave Trade debate, that it is unnecessary for us to do more than to call the attention of the public to them. They will he read with great interest, as they show that a very strong party in Frame entertain sentiments regarding this traffic strictly in unison with those of the British community. In the course of the discussion several letters were reatl by M. DE Vii st.e, to show that the French had done less, not withstanding all the animadversions that had been cast upon them, to astist the Tuiks in their struggle against the Greeks than any other nation. The following are ex- li`te!c I From the Pikir of Sootily, !March 26.1 PARIS, I, , tlcrt 23. Fy virtue of an ordinance of the 10:11 February , li 2i, signed by Ferdinand I. King of Maple., and confirmed by Francis 11. tit, present King. which authorizes the 'Nobles who possess entailed estates to divide them among their creditors who have legally prov ed themselves such, the Princess Colonna of Sicily has just distri buted among her creditors all her feudal possessions. The-Journal of the Two Sicilics adds, that all the Sicilians were rejoiced at this Royal benefit, which will restore to commerce fertile lands which the ancient feudal system had wiihdrawn from it. Accounts from Madrid say that the Decree for the recall of the Grandees of Spsio, and °dur powerful persons who are in foreign countries, in a state of exile, was going w be signed; but means have been found to cause this measure to be rejected. It is added, that search is making fur a celebrated revolt' monist, formerly a ?!ember of the Cortes, who has got into :11:tilrid. LFrom the Journal des Debuts.] l'Attue,Airti The funeral service for the .I)9ke of Monttat;reney wall take place on Monday, at eleven o'clock, at him parish church, St. Tho• mss d'Aquinas. lfis remains are to be deposited at Piepus, with these of his brother. The French Tribunals have been long occupied wilt the affair of Stackpooie, and the claims of his coheirs on the euccessi.in to the estate of John Stackponle, to which he had been appointed admi nistnitor. The Fourth Chamber of tfte Tribunal of First Instance s...ts occupied yesterday with a demand against one of the members Otis family, Willi tm Stackpoole, by Mr. Driver Cooper, his at terries., who demands a sum of 10,000/. sterling, which W. Stack. psole had engaged to pay in the event of Ida succeeding in the suit. Al. Henniquin, for the plaintiff; maintained that the conditions of the content had been fulfilled, and insisted on the right which he Ittoi to demand payment. The case stands eves for Thursday, the :P . ht March, to hear M. Dupin for the defendant. A terrible catastrophe took place at Morlaap last week. About 400 persons were assembled in a ball above the 31airie, to draw for the army, when a moth-eaten beam suddelily gave way, the floor fell with a tremendous crash, and precipitated the whole of those present, with the exception of about thirty, who were near the chimney or in the recesses at the windows. The tables and planks w ere broken, blood flowed on all sides, and the complaints of the uilfortrinate persons who were wounded were heard amidst a thick aloud of das•. Almost the whole population hastened to assist them. More than 150 persona have been hurt; a young woman Biel the day alter ; and live or six persons are still in the greatest dlogsr. Others will probahly be lamed for life. The Agemcine Zeitainq of the 41st announces the ter mination of the discussions which have arisen on the sub ject of the navigation of the Rhine. It would seem that England concurred in this manure at Laybach. The nay in which the German Junrualist rays it has been de cided deserves some remark, as connettill with circum stances to which we have lately alluded. It is raid to have been in consequence of a memorial issind by Prussia, to obtain the decision of the other powers with respect to the difficulties raised by Holland on this stiljcet. Austria decided against Holland, awl a note to the same effect is said to have been remitted by Rorsia to the Ministers at Frankfort. " tilt:wl.l this be true," Ads the writer, "the dispute respecting the Rhine may he considi red as decided in favour of the free navigation of that ricer (into the sea)." 'the nature of die dispute seems therefore to have been, whether the navigation was to be confined to internal trade cn b,.. or whether it was to be extended to maritime corn tnvrce. The paragraph lately inserted in the papers, about the delivering up of Luxembourg, shows that there are several points in which the views of the Belgian Govern ment are nut in accordance with those of the Allied Sovereigns. CIRFALONIA, PER. 18. The tiovernment at Napoll di Aousnla is engaged 'in mtasures tv ovternble at Megan the Dtplitie. si. % t Primates of the provinces. to confer with theta on the proration' which liar.: b-ct, rt..1 1 .t., sod which arc oa the point of being made, dire:ly or indirectly, from the Porte. 141AVY.Nt E, RlAncu 14. After , he execution of the arta of tl,r Nal sod Yisnas, •c i•r as they relate to the nariglitun of ti.: [:Lune, had given rfse for ten years to so much fruitless discussion, this affair, which is of such vast importance to all the countries on the banks of the Rhine, seems at leu)rth to approach to a decision. In con sequence of a memorial on the subject, issued by Prussia, relative to the difficulties raised by Holland, in which the powers who are parties to the Vienna Congress are called upon to decide on the meaning of the article which stipulates the free navigation of the Rhine, the Austrian Government a said to have declared Otto in all the negociations respecting the navigation, as well at Paris as at Vienna, the most perfect freedom of navigation was taken for granted, and that by the benefit promised by the congress was un. deestood Orr free and unimpeded mirk-alio,: into flu s e a, ~ui from Mural into M • Rhine, fur the general interest of trade and the ad vantage of all nations. A similar declaration was made by Eng. land sonic years ago, st the Congress at Laybach. litdependently of the iovs of justice, and the conscientiousness with which the il lustrious house of Austria has at all times fulfilled its engagements, it is to be considered that the Austrian States are not directly ante. rested in the free navigation of the Rhine. The wisdom which ap. pears in all the Retool the Allied Alonarchs might well authorise us to accuse of presumption those who would impute to them the petty intention of converting the most navigable river of our conti. nest into a canal for inland lode, did not experience show that even the simplest truths arc disregarded when private interest is con cerned. The inhabitants of the banks of the Rhine, and its tribu. Lay streams, full of confidence in the magnanimous sentiments of the great powers, have never doubted the ultimate execution of the treaties. When the promised benefit shall be realised, and the Rhine freed from the shackles which paralyse the industry of the inhabitants of the banks, and undermine their prosperity, the au thors a the new mkt of things will reap the blessings of millions of industrious workmen, and the well understood interests of the Governments of the States on the banks will increase in the same proportion as the general prosperity of the people. • I'. S. We learn that a not.i front Russia, M the same tenour as that of Austria, has been deliveied to the Ministers at Frankfort Should this be true, the dispute respecting the Rhine may be con. !tittered as decided in favour of the tree navigation of the Rhine into the sea. A letter has just been published, addressed to the Bight honourable W c Liam Vr NA lII.E s, Esq., Lord Mayor of London, by " Captain NieoLo CHIEFALA, Greek, of Zante." It occurred to us, on perusing it, that the writer could be no other than the adventurer of that name, who had busied himself so arr4oorrry with the affairs of his countrymen, in other kingdoms, as to have been dismissed from the dominions of Itnssta—to have had his presence very promptly dispensed with front Rom r —and who, in fact, was obliged to " keep moving" with more celerity than was either creditable or convenient to him, through all the difilrent states to which hr had appointed himself Solicitor—for we know not by what other title toulesignate him—in the cause of the Greeks. IVe should have thrown his contemotible pamphlet on one side as not worth a moment ' s attention, but to our great aurplise we find the Times had, last week, very gravely called the public attention to it, in an article headed " The GREEK DE PUTIES;" and had not only made it the medium of a most illiberal and base attack on the high and unblemished character of these individuals, but hail dwelt on its con tents as furnishing a serious charge of injustice against the Greek Government. These accusations having been copied into the Evening Papers, and having consequently spread far and wide, it becomes important to examine what degree of credit is due to this Epistle of Captain NICOL() CHI E. FA! A, that he may not be permitted, by means of the public press of this country, to kindle a hostile feeling towards the Greeks, and to withdraw frotn them that sympathy which they have so gloriously earned, and which they never can deserve to lose. " Every man," says the Times, " who respects the rights of humanity and the claims of freedom, must be a friend of the Greek cause; but the Greeks themselves scent determined that we shall nut be able to admire their manner of supporting it. The blunders which the Government has committed at home—the quarrels among their military chief's, when the enemy was not only at the gates hut in the fortress—and the corruption and weakness of their foreign agents—are all so many drawbacks on our disposition to admire and to assist a people struggling against the most hateful oppres sion which ever degraded or disgraced our nature. Unhappily, it I. not the impatient foreigner who, ardently desiring Greek lade. penitence, and disappointt. at the slow advances made towards its establishment, mikes this complaint, but Greeks themselves, in their mutual attacks and recrimination. A Greek, called Mit;ol.o CntErana, has just published in London, in the shape of a letter to the Lord Mayor, more serious accusations against his country men than have ever appeared in the Auttehin f/bserz , cr. lie charges the Government with rapacity, venality, and corruption. He announces his despair of their cause, unless the Governments of Europe step in between them and the MusSUlMall shim:Le; and he crowns ail by a narrative of as act of oppression, injustice, and ingratitude towards himself, which, if it did not produce, could not fail to aggravate, his other complaints. According to this state ment, Captain file oLo CIIIEFALA has been so ardent a friend of Greek liberty, that he has traversed half the world to procure it funds and friends. In l/V3, he left Tripolizra and proceeded to Calcutta, in the East Indies, where he obtained subscriptions to the amount of 2L.Oral rupees. This soon was placed at the dis posal of the Greek Government in Landon, with an understanding or stipulation that the expenses of Captain CIIIEF.LLA'S journey (amounting to 3600 should be paid out of it before its appropria non. It was, however, withdrawn without this eeduction, and the Captain has been left to starvation, or to the success of a petition to that very Government which he now dennuncea. The Greek Deputies who here manage the loan which has been raised on the credulity of John Phil], and which has rather injured than assisted the cause of Greek freedom, refuse to pay his claims, and base only afforded him a pittance to enable him to return home. We know nothing about the facts of the case, and cannot decide on such an cr parte statement; but if they are es the author of the letter represents them, the conduct of the Greek Government and their London Deputies cannot be too strongly reprobated." But when the Time:Journalist thus sent forth these ma lignant aspersions on the authority of the statements made by this NICOLO CIIIEFALA, had he taken any previous pains to ascertain whether a single word of them was true? Did he at all inquire whether the letter writer was a man of character and veracity, or whether he was not an Flamm. a gagner sa tie or tout, who had been vomited out of his own country, and had got no fixed settlement in any other? Ilad he ever even read the letter itself to which he attaches so much weight? No, he lead done no such thing; for if he hail, the character of the writer betrays itself so plainly in every page, that he could not have mistaken it. The substance of the aifair, as de velaped in the pamphlet itself, is this :—N tcot.o Co t Mara% found that the brave struggle of the Greeks for the esta blislneent of th it political iatlepentlence had attracted a strong interest throughout Europe, and he seems to have thought that this prevailing sympathy might be turned to good eccount. Ile immediately feigned a most ardent and patriotic zeal for the regeneration of his country, and for the fate and fortunes of those patriots who hut devoted themselves to its cause. Being himself a Greek was greatly in his favour, and enabled him to set forward with effect in the great work of soiled/so' cootrittations ; ant! wont ingly, it seems, without consoltino, any of the public authorities, or communing with any individual in the Government, this Alf-appointed apostle set out on his charitable mission. His pamphlet details more than enough to bring his good offices into suspicion ; but upon these particulars our limited space will not permit us to enter. We take it up at the point where it arrives at the subject matter. •• nut enough without further explanation. I come immediately to ;he circnrnstsne.•s whi .h Ginnie! Inc to claim public attention. ,• Leaving Grand Cairo by the lied Sea, I at length arrived at Bengal, enthely et my can cost, having undertaken the serge purely from patriotic motives, borne up and emulated with the hopes then Onssessed, of ultimately seeing Greece emancipated from Ottoman slavery. I set on foot a subscription, defraying the incl. dental expenses incurred during int collection from my own pocket. After considerable toil and difficulty, I had the happiness to succeed in my object, and the at:•aunt thus realised waist my request paid into the hands of Measrs. Alexander and Mo. of Calcutta, who gave use a biter of credit for the sum total. rupees, en their correspondents, Messrs. Fletcher, Alexander, and Co. of London, payable i 3 the ord.- r of'lla' Greek Governsettal, which I partieu. larly wished shrub, be so expressed. The curious on this subject may see the whole of this transaction, with a detailed list of the names of the subscribers, on reference to the Cakutta journals of 1823 wad 1824. " Bang r irillifnit spinney, Mr. Alexander paid my putage to Europe, to Mr. F erguson , ownrr o f t h e s hi p Maitland, Captain O'Brien, tiroonnting to 251X1 rupees 7 he likewise had the kindneas to lend me It l oo rupees, on my own seedit, to procure whatever necessaries I noels require during the voyage." his confused himself a little here. Had Mews. E a SDE a awl Co., as here stated, girca itim a letter of THE 13RITISH PitESS. credit for the 23,383 rupees, on their correspondents in London, what was to hinder his receiving the amount on his arrival? The fact then is, this sum was made payable to the order of the Greek Gorernment, and be says he " particularly wished it should be so expressed." The Times, wholly misapprehending the affair, says, " this sum was placed at the disposal of the Greek Government in London ?" Who ever yet heard of the GREEK GOVEK); st ex rin London ? This is a ludicrous blunder, but it is a very important one; for it alters the whols state of the case. It is manifest to every one who pays the least attention to this letter-writer's statement, that his abuse of the Greek Deputies for not discharging his bill of expenses is most unwarranted, upon his own showing. It is easy to collect, from the facts stated by himself, that they were willing and prepared to discharge his claim ; but just at they were about to do so; they find that the money remitted is not made payable to them, but to Me Greek Government ; and that they consequently are not empowered to pay it with out authority to that effect. Let us turn to his own ac count of it : " On my arrival in London, the Creek deputies were 'err eager to receive the amount of the subecriptiun, and nff•rcd to al"vw me ti3B3 rupees to rover my expenses ; but being git•me to understand they could not indemnity me, and ristersed nut the power of re ceiving the money with security to myselt, I declined having any thing to do with them ; neither would Mr. Fletcher surrender the money. without a siveil:e order to that eject front the Govern:nod, as clearly expressed in the letter of credit brought by me from Cal cutta. Mr. Fletcher having kindly furnished me with every necessary se knowledgment and document, L remitted them, together with a quantity of letters, to the Greek Governnumt, through the banking house of Mr. Lougham, giving in , my own private letters a succinct account of all my operations in India ; and requesting the autho rities, whew they shostd be pleased to issue the order pc receiving the money, they would vouchsafe to set apart the sum of 3751. ster ling, bring the amou n t dim to Inc. " In expectation of their acquiescing with my wishes, I left a receipt for the money with Mr. Fletcher, who obligingly promised to keep that b a l a n ce at m y disposal ; these arrangements taken, I Set nut' for Italy." Now nothing, we think, can be more clear than that NICOI.O CHIEFALA has no ground of charge against the Greek Deputies; and with respect to Mr. FLETCHER, to whom the money had been remitted, he meets from him with every facility that he could possibly receive or require. The Times is pleased to say, that the money was re mitted from Calcutta," with an uniler.danding• or stipulation that the expenses of captain CHI EF Ai.o's journey, amount ing fo 3.10/., should be paid out of it before its appropria tion." But this is utterly untrue; it is pure invention on the part of the Journalist. There never was a sentence of any such stipulation. Even CIIIEFALA himself has not the assurance to assert that there was any such understand ing. The fact is, that, for ought that appears to the con• trary, the sum in question would have been contributed by the ardent and active friends of the Greeks at Calcutta, and would have been remitted to Messrs. ALEXANDER and Co., and by them forwarded to their correspondents in London, and placed at the disposal of the Greek Govern ment, just in the same manner, although Capt. new.° CHIEFA LA had never set his foot in Calcutta. The whole secret of the transactions, which any person, we think, of common sagacity may discover from attending carefully to this adventurer's nwn statement, is this :—He went out to Calcutta, as he had been before to other places, represent ing himself as an authorized agent to tke Greek Govern ment, and under this character he applied to obtain contri butions of money and supplies of every other kind, which, so deputed, the warm Mil generous feelings which pre veiled in favour of his conflicting countrymen would enable him to procure. We think it more than probable that his exertions in this way interfered not a little with the regular and organized channels of application, and that his activity, however profitable to,himsey, were quite the reverse of profitable to the common cause, in behalf of which he was so industrious a volunteer. The following sentence on this head is worthy of note: —" The Deputies at last officially declared that I was never authorized to (fficiate in or meddle with the of of Greece." And. this most important fact he js constrained to admit, but he follows it up with this equi vocal question. "In the critical state of the country, let me ask every impartial person whether a commission or au thority to further its deliverance was needful?" To this we ahswer, in plain terms, that it HUM When to further any great public purpose it becomes necessary to appeal to the beneficence of the great body of the people, and more particularly if that appeal is made to the people of distant kingdoms, it is essential that none but the regularly ap pointed agent, to whom the great concerns connected with that great purpose are confided by the Government, should interfere. Great frauds, we all know, may be contrived, and extensive impositions practised by persons not so dele gated, and who, under the name, and with the assumed sanction of the Government, as in the case of the Greeks, may put the humanity of thousands under contribution, and consign the proceeds to their own pockets. In the in stance before us, the good people of Calcutta, it seems, bad the precaution to transmit their donations direct to the house of Messrs. ALEXANDER amid Co., to be by them transmitted to London. They very prudently did not suffer a single rupee to get between time fingers of Captain Nteor.o Come aLA, and then, truly, because this said NicoLo had been, Rs he states himself, begging contribu tions " from door to door," and getting only now and then an old hat or an old coat to supply his own necessities, he on a sudden takes credit to himself for having raiser' the 25,383 rupe.!s—not one of which he had ever seen—makes a demand of :;501. op•on the Provisional Government of Greece, which had never, in any manner, trusted or em ployed hint ; and in a printed letter, addressed most impu dently to the Lord Mayor of London, loads them and the whole Greek nation with the most libellous abuse, because they refuse to he made the dupes of his trickery, and de cline to recognize his claim. If we are not mistaken, this said Cut cr A LA was formerly captain of a merchant vessel, but we have authentic parti culars of him within our reach, and we shall not fail to lay them shortly before the public. CITY, TUESDAY EvExtwo. Jobbers and sprculators congregated upon the Royal Exchange to-day, as they did yesterday ; and the transac tions were equally limited and uninteresting. Consols were reported at 79 to L. There were a few bargains in Russian Stock at 78 The Emperor of Austria's physicians lave pronounced him convalescent. Mr. John Lowe, formerly a repntable merchant, has left London for Bogota on official business. As he is the personal friend of Revenge, the Colombian minister, con fident hopes are entertained that he will succeed in ob taining for the British merchants greater privileges in Colombia than they note enjoy.—Glasgow Free l'ress. We have reason to believe, that the statement in the Saturday's Advertiser, that not any application had been made to the Commissioners, appointed by the Bank of England in this: town to grant loans on merchandise, is not correct, We understand that motley is now very pin drill in the hands of our backers.-I.irerpoal Major D.mham's and Captain Clapperton's Travels in Africa will positively be published on Saturday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Norfolk entertained a dietingulshed party at dinner yester day, at Ida houee In St. Jame.'.-.qua/e. - . !lir Charles Long, Bart. entertal . ned a large party of distinction at din ner yesterday, at his seat, Bromley hill, Rent. The Dowager Viscountesa Hampden has Issued Cl/Pis of invitation for an assembly on the 7th of April, at her house in Oreen.atreet, Grosvenor square. The Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester and fondly have arrived In town, from their scat, Amport-house Andover. The Marquis and Marehkuiess of Salisbury,i and the Dowager Mar chioness of Salisbury, left town yesterday, fur Madrid. Me Earl and Countess Cowper have left town for Brighton, for the holidays. The Karl of Beshorough left town yesterday, for his seat, Roehampton. Mr. and Mrs. Peptoe have arrived at their house in Upper Grosvenor. street, from Warn irk._ _ _ John Ilia&borne, Eq. M.P. has arrived at his house In Park-street, We•tminster, from his meat, Hale, near Warrington, Lancashire. Sir William Fraser, Hatt. has arrived at Hteveu'a Hotel, Bund.street, from Doraetstilre. Arrivals at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street :—Captain Knollys, from a GAIT Robert Wynne, Esq. from bin seat in Berks. Departure : Robert Vansittart, Esq. for his seat In Berk 4. Arrivals at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Lady Acton and family, from Devon.hlre ; the Misses bogie, from Cheltenham. Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle...lmeg —Sir William Humboldt, for Lord Hancliffe's seat, Banaing Park, .Leicestemttire ; Contain Lyon, for Itrlghtun ; Wm. Norris, Esq. for Bath. Departures from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets :—'fhe Marquis of Ormond.. for Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. AV/it:ask, for Scotland; J. Parker, Esq. for litightun. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. St st—l have, with your permission, a few observations to add to those which I sent too yesterday, in order for you ottdire ailerons pedre 4 in the La Plata controversy. I said that the Occidentaliat General. Alvear, presided at the taking of Monte Video from the Spaniards, which was elected by the Orientalists of Artigas. I wish you to understand that the very same course is pursued now. When FrUCtUOIIO Ribera's plan was ripe, a General de la Velleja was sent over from Buenos Ayres to assume the nominal command. He is a native of La Danda Oriental, but a regular officer in the service of the Rio Plata confederacy. All the military operations are conducted (and with much activity) by Ribero., who alone made this revolt, and who alone can akher prolong or terminate it. I question if La Valleja has a,word to say in the management, and whether the Llaneros would march under his orders. This is dune in order to make it look like a bona tide republican war, when in truth it is only Artigas redivivus, in the person of his oasecond in command. . . ...... I pointed out esterday the error which arose from people's mis taking the new fur the old limits of Rio Grande, and hence How tile stories of disturbances at Rio Janeiro, &c. However, the new Empire does not rest on solid foundations, its constitution being of that sort now so justly decried in Europe—not democratical enough to satisfy the French-Revolution ' , arty, nor yet giving power enough to the Monarch to support himself against them by lawful means: so that, from its very composition, 'Richt a code must come to art end, one way or the other . But Brazil has one safeguard and pledge against revolution; that is, The Blacks— a word as formidable to the republican as to the archbishop, or more so. Providence, in its fair distribution of worldly ills, having sent them monks, has excused them saints. But even so, the danger is great enough to paralyze and divide the ef forts of disaffection. _ _ In the present contest Bolivar will not interfere for some time, for he hu Paraguay between him and the scene of action, which he must conquer first. And I think he will not at ill; for he would pro. yoke the hostility of several European Powers, if not of the whole Alliance, without having that claim upon British interposition which he had in the war of Independence. It therefore stands thus : if Ribero, when joined by General Rodriguez, can stnke a great blow. destroy Laguna's army, and raise the blacks, good night to Don Pedro and to nine-tenths of the free men now living in Bra zil ; but if the war be protracted, the blockade will produce ruin and disturbance in Buenos Ayres. I will trouble you no further on this subject. Yours, &c. X. MR. GREEN'S BALLOON. Yesterday Mr. Green, according to public announce ment, made his 48th aerial ascent, from the gardens of the Eagle Tavern, City-road. The balloon was suspended in the gardens at an early hour, the promised hour of ascent being three o'clock ; and considering the unfavourable ante of the atmosphere for this species of amusement, the com pany was as numerous as could reasonably be expected. A band was stationed on the ground, and occasionally Iplayed several popular tunes ; but an unusual degree of anguor seemed to pervade the meeting until the actual time of the ascent drew near. This was not until almost five o'clock, when the preparations having been completed, Mr. Green and his brother entered the car, and shortly afterwards, the balloon being released, bounded, not into thin air, but into a thick and hazy atmosphere, and was in a few minutes out of sight. The balloon used on this oc casion first ascended from these gardens last Easter ; and since that time it is said Mr. Green has made 13 ascents, with it. The gas was supplied by the Independent Gas Com pany. The balloon rose rapidly and steadily, and it was conjectured that the aeronauts would land in Essex. The City-road and the streets in the neighbourhood of the tavern were thronged by an immense multitude. At ten o'clock last night the Messrs. Green returned to town. It appears they effected a landing without any diffi culty at Raynham, near Barking. Their return to the Eagle Tavern was greeted with loud applause. It is said they suffered considerably from cold in the course of their voyage. DUKE or YORK'S Levee.—Yesterday afternoon, a half-past four o'clock, the Duke of York, as Commander in-Chief, held a Levee at his Office, in the Horse Guards, which was but thinly attend.d, and only occupied his Royal Highness about half an hour. Among the General Officers present were General Gascoyne, Li. utenant-Gen. Lord Howard of Effingham, Major-General Shaw, Major- General Manby, Sir Henry Wilson, and about eighteen other Officers. Yesterday morning Mr. Secretary Canning left his resi dence, in Downing-street, for Bath, for about ten days. Mr. Under Secretary Planta left town last evening, for Hastings, for a short time. Miss Stephens is engaged at the Bristol Theatre for five nights. Monday night she was to play Adinc, in the drama of Faustus. Tue CHURCII.—The Ecclesiastical Promotions conse quent on the demise of the Bishop of Durham, independent of that of Dr. Van MiWert to that See, are Dr. Sumner, one of the King's Chaplains to the Bishopric of Llandaff, and Mr. Bayley, the highly respected V icar of Margate, and late Chaplain to the House of Commons, to the stall in Canterbury Cathedral, void by the elevation of Dr. Sum ner to the Kpiscoyal Bench. The New Catliolic Association met on Saturday, at their Rooms, at Burgh Quay, Mr. J. Redmond, in the chair. The proceedings of the last meeting being read, Mr. Con way observed, in reference to the circular.and formulary ordered by the Association, that he trusted, before they should meet again, a copy would be in the hand of every Cath.,lic clergyman in the kingdom ; and, before a tnonth should elapse, he had no doubt that these formularies would be returned filled, and in such a shape that the Association would be able speedily to lay before the Irish public a faithful report of the state of education in Ireland. Ile then argued at some length in reference to the speech of Mr. Frankland Lewis, and concluded by giving notice of a motion on the subject next Saturday. After a few words from Mr. Reynolds, the meeting adjourned.—Dublin Evening Post. A rli . o'rt time ago, we have been informed, a clerk •in a banking-house, in Birmingham, absconded with a large sum of money, the property of his employers. He was, we underlain], traced to this town ; and it was ascertained that he had taken his departure for the United Slates, in one of the vessels that sailed in the course of the preceding fortnight. His employers immediately determined to pur sue the fugitive to the States, and on Friday one of the partners in the banking-house proceeded in the packet ship Corinthian, for New York.-I.irer pool Paper. The Jewish Festival of the Passover usually occurs within a few days of our Easter, the periods of the return of both tieing regulated by the same natural events. An exception to this rule, however, occurs evety fourth year, at which time, in order to accommodate their Calendar to the actual period in which the sun performs its annual revolution, the Jews introduce an intercalary month, called the Vi Adaz, or Adar Sogi; the effe..t of which is to throw hack the feast of the Passover one month.—The present being the year in which this rectification of their Calendar takes place, the Passover does not commence till the 29t1 of next month. iVe judge an author by his worst works while living, and by his best when dead. The same may be said of things; and there are but few persons who will not re gret when Lotteries have passed away; for, after all that can be argued agait st them, there is no other mode by which any one may grin, in a few (lays, 20.000 guineas for the risk of a mete trifle ; and yet, by Act of Parlia ment, this door of Ilope is now to be closed for. ever, as tit. present Lottery. to he drawn Wednesday, 3d of Msy. is the last but one that can take place in this kingdom. PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN IRELAND, lot:l;di. l37. h o t t a: 2o . at. yßar Brl. olefyl.6 at. !"------.........10 /403daeta,f,.14 -. . a. d. a. d. a. d. a. d ' a. d. . d Cork ... . . 24 9 a 28 6 13 0 a 17 0 I 9 b a ii . i Limerick 26 2 31 9 12 8 13 1 : 9 Ii 9 4 Waterford 26 0 20 6 13 0 I S 0 I 1 0 II Gal way...... Clonmel . 30 9 33 4 16 6 17 4 1 2 6 12 10 Trak, 2 94 26 814 8 0 0 8 2 9 4 Carlow 26 0 29 0 14 0 16 0 10 0 II r Flour per Cwt. ._______ a. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. a. . Cork . . ..... . M . d. .... 18 8• 20 0i 10 0a 17 0 9 Limerick • IN Si 00115 8 0 0' 12 00s 1' o Waterford . Galway lB 0 19 01 IS 0 16 0 12 0 13 „ Clunmel ..... ?rale* Carlow Beef. Mutton. Veal. Pork. ---- ---- Per lb. Perth. Per lb, Per Cm. d. d. d. d. d. d. a. d. .. d. Cork 0• 0 0• 0 0• 0 2:, f I , 0 0 Limerick 5 6 6 7 0 0 21 3 30 , Waterford Galway 5 6 6 6} 6 7 26 0 :xi 9 Clonmel 4 64 5 7 6 8 87 0 38 6 Tralee Carlow ...... ___ y 4 _____ Rater. Ist. 2d. :34. 4th. ,tll. ri. ..d. d. e. d. o 72 it to U o 4 0 Cork 60 0 60 0 :m 0 40 Limerick Waterford 4 ) Galway.. ....... t 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clonmel 0 0 0 41 Carlo. 0 0 Tralee .. ;a 0 70 0 62 0 56 0 0 • 77 067 11 0I 0 0 0 0 FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. In the French Chamber of Deputies, 31. GAUTIER, nn the 25th of .]larch, presented two petitions from the most respectabl e merchants, both of Havre and Paris, against the Slave True. These petitioners stated that the laws against this trade were qtete inefficient, that it went on increasing in a manner at once disgrace. tut to the character and inconsistent with the safety of the French (lag; and that all the legislative enactments on the subject had only tended to increase the cruel and odious nature of those, trans. actions. Where the trade was permitted, the number of SIM I ass determined by law in proportion to the burden of the vessel. At present three or four hundred arc crowded in a space which would then have been thought barely sufficient fur a fourth of that number. The petitioners concluded, by giving a strong pietur; of th e mis e ries of the negroes, and asserted that 3 or teen were thrown every year into the sea, to avoid the punishment awarded by the law. 31. Gautier hoped these facts were exaggerated; but the trade undoubtedly existed, notwithstanding all the exertions of Ministers to carry the laws into execution. The most vigarous orders had been issued on this subject, and the supeeted vessels were subjected to the strictest surveillance. Cruisers had been stationed near the Antilles and Cuba for this purpose. Every means were employed to prevent the manufacture of chains and other instruments used in the trade. All these preventive meavares were intrusted to special commissions ; but he asserted that laws of greater severity were necessary. M.SEBASTIANC spoke to the same effect. Last year thirty ves. eels had sailed front Nantes for this unlawful traffic. The 311114. tern were guilty at least of tolerating these murderous recruiters on the coast of Guinea, In the first war the slave population would be ready to rise against the French West. India Colonists, and to assist the enterprises of the English in these possessions. He was not surprised, however, at the conduct of Ministers; wherever slavery cajoled there the French Ministers were always at hand to support it. They had not bean content with encouraging the black slave trade, but had associated with that crime another, which had been justly called " the white slave trade." This was the same 31i. nister who had furnished officers to Ibrahim Pacha. It was under his eyes that easels had been constructed at Marseilles for the Satrap of Egypt. It was under his eyes that the cannon were founded which then battered alissolonglii. If humanity did not teach him better, policy ought to do so; but his policy was es fake as his sentiments were unnatural. The continual murmurs which he heard from the Illembers round him, far from afflicting him, only gave him pleasure. They pr ove d th at these gentlemen partici. peed in his sentiments on the subject. M. de Vitant• observed that Ministers had prosecuted thole who had engaged in this traffic at Names or in the Colonies, and the Cour de Carmelo* sas now engaged its a trial oa the subject. He argued that she present laws were sufficiently severe, and that a capital punishment would only tend to make the mews of the vessels less scrupulous about throwing their victims into the sea. He would next proceed to another question—that about white slaves. The official communications of the Commander of the French squadron in the Levant, would prove the assertiors on this head to be unfounded, The Minister produced a despatch dated the sth November, 1825. It stated that in a Turkish fleet of 134 sail, whichfarriv d off Cape Matassand on the 3d Novennine, there were three of the transports Tuscan, eight Austrian, accent English, three Sardinian, live Spanish, and one American, and not a single French vessel. On the last visit of the Commander at Napoli, the Greeks begged him to assist in the liberation of some women and children taken by the troops of Ibrahim. The corvette La Diane was at Modem, and Ibrahim caused all the female slaves he could find to be sent on board. The Journal de Hydra, accenting to the same Commander, in a letter dated the September 23, under I know not what influence, never ceases to calumniate all the pro. ceedings of the French, and it did not fail to mention than a French brig of war had fired upon the licra of Cantiris. Canaria had signed a pater formally contr• liming this assertion, which was transmitted to France. They were sometimes obliged to fire upon Greek vessels ; bet it was incredible that they should tire upon Canaris a man seem they all respected and admired, and w h os e son h a d been lately car. tied into France in a King's ship. to he educated there. On the 20th December 1825, the same officer wrote that the French Tenses had served as an asylum for 7(100 Greeks during these trountri. and that they came on board every day in this way with their wives and children—an assistance winjea was at least as gnod as any sun. scriptions could be. The vessels of the King of' France had rever carried money or troops for the Turks in the 3lorea, and every flag but the French had been seen in their expeditions. (Bravo.) M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT observed , that the punishment awarded by the law against those who engaged in this trade was only the confiscation of the Incase], and the incapacitation of the Captain ; anti then: were a thousand ways of evading them. The success of one 'in esti makes up for the loss of many. and the ('ap. tarn can take a fresh command in the name of aaother perama 'lnt punishment of death was by no means too great fur such a crime.- 11e repeated what had been said about the lireek cause. Ministers had confessed that men were redruited openly in France for me Paella of Egypt. lie could mention where and villa— , Name them.) He would name Al. de Livron as one she recruited for the Pacha of Egypt, and the Ministry, he said, continued the officers thus enlisted to their former rank.. He wished to believe that Mere were no French vessels in the Turkish fleets, but were there no French officers? He concluded by entreating those who were so anxious for the interests of religion, to preserve at least a neutrality in this ease. M. Dunom asserted that England was as actively engaged ih this trade as any other nation whatever. Forty-two condeturarions had taken place in France last year, for dealing in slaves. and net one in England. Vet an English journal had said, that 62.t1e0 slaves had been imported into the Isle of France alone by the Eng lish since 1812, by passing these negroes for old slates. Erg land had another method of conducting this trade by means J 1 special treaties concluded with the Chiefs of the island ..t 31adr . gasear. The real question in this case was, that humiliatirg for the French flag—whether it should submit to be Reatetet: by da English ships of war. He concluded by moving the order a the li. SEBASTIAWI observed, that no answer had been given (a what he had Mid about building vessels for the Prcl:a at Mar seilles, nor to his remarks about the officers who had chsciptied the armies of the Paeha, and conducted them in the relnponne:us. M. Villele had spoken of Halpin and Rigny as the two naval com manders in the Levant, but there was an intermediate COIT)1111111d 111 the course of which the treasure of the Pacha of Egypt had been conveyed from Alexandria to Navarino. It was said th.tt the right of search was the true. question in this ease ; but French vessels were now actuslly searched for slaves, and they were searched pm' duly because this trade existed. _ Al. de VILIELE again replied. The intertnediate commander alluded to had been recalled, in consequence of his departing man the syctem of a strict neutrality. As to the resat ly built at Mar seilles, he had said that there were things which his nfTii isi situa tion rendered it impossible for him to explain to the Gintiber; but since it was insisted upon, ha world state that vessels bad been built for others besides the Pacha ni Egypt, among others. 1411. the Gest of Algiers, with whom the French Government wished w be on amicable terms. The Pacha had been permitted to build a frigate and a ccreette at Marseilles, but he had not been permitted to arm them there; and in that he had been treated less favourably than the Deja Algiers. It was said that men and stores had been sent to the Pacha from France; but why should it be tboufht necessary to depart teem the neutrrl system in this case, when it wss contested that the Greeks received similar assistance. Government had perhaps carried its impartiality too far; for the piracy of the Greeks was notorious, and particularly against French vessels. The Order of the Day was then carried. A discussion afterwards arose upon another petition. about re conciling the civil and eccletiastiest laws on the subject of marrittr; and it was maintained by the Opposition that the designs of Mi nisters in this teepee, as in the cm of the law of primogeniture had been adopted for the purpose of overturning all the ',with% re:atioris or society. Several of the principal dealers in corn at Leighton Bursard have resolved, that in future they mill use the Imptrial bushel only, and buy and sell by the quarters instead of the local measure of five bushels.