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'4 ri 11 l' Ii PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS ON SATURDAY. *Mk Flock India Bond, 27 pm S pie Cent. Cons. 785 795 79 Ea. Billy 111 , . 17 Itt am Strpo Acct 79 Ditto l7 IM pin IF•w 4 per Cent. 945 5 5 Ditto Small IS 211 pm India Stock 2)6 Lottery Tickets 241. 7a. COCKS ON SATURDAY. Greet Bonds Ditto Bantle .'114261 115 ktezican Bowl* 43 Ditto Bonds 'IR2S i 2 Ditto Acct. 52 15 21' I i 6 2 1 Prtn=slsn Bonds 941 5 Rtr.slan Bond. .'!25 2 Ditto Acct. 911 SpanlA Ronda 91 PRICKS OF FORZAGN S Millen Bond+ 37 Ditto Acct. 37 Colombian Bonds Ditto Bowl. '1 , 12.1) Ditto Met. n3l 6 4 Doul.h Bond. (IWO Ditto !tett. 57 4 hint h Re- le. 3 per Cent. 66C. Lk. Intobanoe 251'.010e. PItiCES OP SHARES ON SATURDAY. mists. Sbxre. Vold. 111‘n Potorl. La Pal. and Peruvian Asancintinn •• •• L. O i 3/ 114 V:Uted Mexican .......... •• •• •• 40 22i 16 dia •NACRANCR COMPANY. 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We have teceiveel the French Pape►s of Friday, and the Etude of the following ley. The Etoile of Saturday does not guarantee the truth of the facts in the Truth-Teller, but says they seemed very probable from the spirit which animates the Protestants in Ireland. The corvette lieu reuse Union has arrived et Havre from Port-au-Prince. The French Consul-General had paid a visit at the palace of the Governor, and it was believed that the difficultis about the commercial treaty with France had been got over. This 'consequence was drawn from the expected departure of the French ships Deux Freres, Emilienne, and General Foy, which were to follow the Heureuse Union in a week. The Ganges, with the British Ambassador fur Rio Janeiro on board, has entered the port of Lisbon, and is expected to continue there a week. The Portuguese in Madrid have been invited to take the oath to the charter a: the house cf their Ambassador there. Pon Mrottet„ it is slid, knows nothing of the late events in Pot tugal, and has not received the k ttcrs published in the Gar.tte, as from his Sister. It is said at least to be certain that he has not taken the oath to the Constitutional Charter. The Ix rs:era of PORTUGAL has given directions for the prosecu tion of the persons concerned in the late conspiracy; and the Intendant-Goitre' of the Police, Don Ronntoce de BA VMS, has scut circulars on the sul•ject to all the Corre gidors of the kingdom. [From the Etoile of Saturday.l atroutaaroxs OF TILE REGENCY 00 PORTUGAL RELATIVE TO THE PRLbs. 1. As for works on dogmatical doc•rines, or the discipline of the Catholic Apostolic Roman Church, it is necessary to be provided with a license from the Supreme Court, which must be represented with the manuscript. 2. No work shall be permitted to be printed which could in any way CUM. offence to the inviolability of the ptrson of the King, or of that of her Royal Ilighness the Infanta Regent. S. No work shall be permitted to be printed *Welt should provoke or excite to disobedience against the laws or against the authori ties, political or civil. ♦. The examination of every article of political, civil, penal, or e,:onomical legislation, shall be permitted. 4. The examination of the acts of public functionaries is also per mitted, as well as every accusation of crimes committed by them in their public duties. C. It forbidden to pint accusations, i.oputations, or aspersions rolative to the Five! c life of caimns, even when they are public functionaries. 7. No work shall be allowed to be printed which should tend to destroy our friendly relations with foreign nations, obether by failing in the respect due to the persons of Soyercigns, or by offend tog against the inviolability of their Agents residing at this Court. E. No work shall be permitted to be printed contrary to morality or decency. 9. In no case will the impression of any work be:permitted unlets Signed by the Author or Editor. irroin the Journal des De'kt BARCELONA, Attn. Mk ' The Journal of Valencia, which we have just received, publishes the following official letter, which the Capt.-Gencral of Esteems dues has just addressed to his Excellency D. Joseph O'Donnel, Captain-Gcneral cf the provinces of Valencia and Murcia : "Excoti.twor,—As in all times fruitful in extraordinary events, turbulent spirits profit by circumstances to spread alarm ing rumours, by disfiguring facts, and by imagining fictitious cala mities, I thought it woold be for the interest of the bent service of tne King our master to communicate to your Excellency what is passing in the province uneer n y command, in consequence of the disorders in Portugnl, which arc already but too generally known, although malignity has tlferol rite reality. The new Constitti clonal Charter of Por.ugal hes been sworn, to the great discontent of the majoity of the raid nation ; and in a great number of cities and towns disorders have arisen. Not being able to fall in with the new ideas, and considering illegitimate all changes introduced i•.to governments, a general, the lith regiment of infantry, the 2d of cavalry, the militia of Villa Vidalia, s great number of soldier of the artillery, and of several other corps t and lastly, several per sons who enjoy an el:vated rank in society, quitted Portugal to seek refuge here in the generous protection of the Spanish flog. Air have received the most favourable reception. Hospitality was granted to them, and the assistance usual among friendly nations, and the people testified to them in an unequivocal manner the es teem which they had for men who had given an example of such conduct. The province under my command 'regime', and has always preserved, the moo perfect tranquillity, and neither myself no: any of my subaltern officers have been obliged to have reeiue.e to any measure of rigour; for the public spirit demonstrates clearly enough that in Spain no other government is de. sired but that which our legitimate Sovereign, Ferdinand VII., has given us. Our relations with Portugal have suTered ro ahem. ton. They continue as Weer, of all which I inform your Excel ferny, for those objects which you may think pr spar." We have received the Frankfort Papers to the 31 lest. The following are extracts:— TRIESTE. The Osserzotore gives the following accounts, on the authority ors respectable traveller, who arrived at Trieste on the 21st August, and who was at Napoli di Romania on the 21st July, and at Syra un the 31st " In Napoli there were 10,000 soldiers ; Colocotroni, their Coo.. mender, insisted on matching eu• to attack Ibr►him ruche, who was about four leagues from the town, but the troops refused, and would only fight behind the walls. Innumerablefugitives from the interior of the Mores we:e encamped about the town in arczehed barracks. The fortress was simply provided with provisions and ammunition. On the 23.1 of July, the traveller met rear Napoli di Malvasia a brig whirls had sailed from London forty-four days before, and had on board military stores from Napoli di Romania. On the 24th he saw at Tino the Austrian squadron, under the Marquis Paulucci, at anchor and soon afwwards appeared the tereek fleet, unties Sactitotio, consisting of twenty-seven sail, in. eluding five fire.ships; it cast anchor near the Austrian ships. Oa the 26th both squadrons put to sea, the Austrian for Hydra, the reeks for Samos. He saw the Capitan Paella's fleet at anchors partly off Capo Titian°, opposite Scio, partly near Scala Nuova. A division of it had gone to Suda, to join the Egyptian squadron The Ottoman fleet consisted of 45 men of war, amongst which wer e 3 of the line; two cut.down ships, twelve frigates; the rest corvettes rid brigs. Among them was a large corvette entirely maimed with Franks, on booed of which none but the Reis and sternal in command were Turks. The crew declared that on account of the cruel death of thirty European seamen, who were taken two years ago by the (flecks on board a frigate, they were resolved to take exemplary vengeance on them." Letters from Syra, of an earlier date, mention that the Turkish division of twenty-two sail, bound for Suds, passed the island on the Bth of July. It was supposed that it would then go to 3lodon to join the Egyptian fleet, and then attack Hydra, while the Capi tan Pacha attached Samos. Letters from Syra of 7th August affirm that the Capitan Pacha had been defeated in a third attack on Samos, and had retreated to A ship which has arrived here In forty-four days from Alex andria, brings word that a new expedition was fitting out there, consisting of about twenty men of war, with troops and milit;ay stares on Losrd. All the most recent private letters from Corfu are entirely s il e n t with respect to Lord Cis-twine. iVe arc consequently without any information resyeding his expedition, *bid, two newspapers have so long announced. VIENNA, AUG. 29.—Metalliques 914; Bank Shares 1073. Aligenteine Zritinsg. Sept. 3. Nuansrauno, Av 0.21. His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and the Prince of Leinengen, arrived here on the 211th, on their return from Swirserisnd, and set out the next day far Coburg. The affairs of the succession to the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Gotha will therefore be soon brought to a conclusion. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 2. The Duke de San Carlos, Ambassador Extraordinary from Spain to the Ci:urt of Rtmia, and the English navigator, Captain Parry, arrived hcrc yesterday. HALLE. Arc. 29. The bad conduct of the students of this University during the last half-year has induced Counsellor Von Witzleben, the Royal Commissioner, to publish a notice, renewing a previous ordinance sanctioned by the King, which directs that any student, whose conduct is b ul, shall, after having been punished for it, or before, if necessary. be erased front the lists, and immediately sent away; that a list of all •uell students as have distinguished themselves by their had conduct shall be delivered to M. Von IVitzleben every six months; it shall be communicated by him to the Consistories, Provincial Colleges, dtc. with orders not to admit to the public examinations, or to any employment, such students. They shall, in like manner, be excluded from all employmet t in the depart. ments of Justic.: and Finance.—Fra . 7 .:M I Pay rr, Sept, 3. We received last night United States Papers to the 17th ult., from which we have made some extracts : It was said and believed, not long or, that England was nee tiatirg wait l.ra 1 at 41 Buenos Ayres in order to settle their dif lerence■. by making Monte-video a free part under her guArdian. ship. The rest.lt .I:Leht seriously affect the trade of the United States with great cnuatries bordering on the river Plata. H A V ANNA. We have been favoured with a letter from another Havanna frtend, dated the 20th of July, at which period the Havanna was very healthy. The Spanish squadron, consisting of the Guerrere 00, Corn. Lab/m(le ; Iberia SO; Lealtad fie; Pala 44; Sabina 44; Ar,thusa 40; with several smaller v Reels of war, were lying in the llarinnah. A King's messenger had arrived from Madrid, via Bordeaux, with despatches; their contents had not transpired, but it is supposed he is the foremnncr of an expedition with more troops. The island was perfectly quiet, and markets were improving.— Buitirmore Gazelle. The brig Day. from Marseilles. arrived yesterday, was boarded on the 28. h of June, in lat. 35. 51. long. fl., by the Colombian armed brig El Veneedor, from the coast of Africa, where she had captured three Guincamen, viz.—the brig La Teresa, of nine guns and 45 men, and the schooners La Pru. yba and La Hortensia. The El V".mvedor, in company with the Colombian armed schooner %acirths, also the Governor of Cape Mcsurado, had met with con sitleraLL. resistarce from the Spaniards anti French at Trade Town, Africa. Thy had armed the natives for the purpose of preventing the Colombiaes taking off the Spanish property deposited in the store., and to prevent the Governor from receiving the negroes that had been L.:ten fmm the commercial settlement end sold as einem' The Colombian (loverr.mrnt eoldiers were obliged so born the town, as the houses were a cover for the enemy's fire. The Ya. cintha last two officers on the enlist, by fever. Mr. Edward Pampa'. leon and Shelmu-ti ire. The El Vencedor lost twa at the Canaries, by duelling. W. W. Kerrison and Joseph S. Aimed& ; these ex cepted, she has lost none of her complement. The El Vencedor intends crossing oil the coast of Eurol.e, having a complement of VS men. RICIIM OND. VIRWSTA, Arc. hi. EARTHQUAICFS.—We Undersia , tl that two shocks of earth- I gook:: have teen felt in this city. The first on 'Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, was noticed by several persons without any corn. munication with each other: the other yesterd , y, about twelve o'clock. The last has not perhaps been as generally totired, from the circumstance of persons being more actively employed, and not so Kslentary and still in the day-time as they are early in the night. ST. Do mtatoo.—Cept. Burdick, of the schooner Harmony, ar rived at Norfolk from Port-au-Prince. states' that a French frigate sailed from that port on the 9 h of July for France, having on board, as 'Rai reported, three millions of dollars, being a part of the second instalment from the Hayden Government to Fratte, fir the acknowledgment of her independence. The sale for American produce at the porta in St. Domingo was bad, and the exports of the island were high. Capt. Sharp, at Philadelphia, from Laguira, reports, that on the 27th ult. in lat. 23. 16. long. 68. 50. he saw ten sail of men-of-war sanding to the torthward—two sixty-fours, six fripates, and two hem. brigs, under easy soil. They showed French colours. NEW OILLEANS.—Wc received yesterday, per ship Frances, our back tiles of New Orleans papers. On the liith * of July. a mantlial went on hoard of the ship Jsne, which was on the point of sailing from New Orleans for Liverpool, to serve a civil pro:•eess upon a passenger. The Marshal neglected to show his authority, and was put ashore by the mate. An armed force was then obtained. between which and the ship's crew a fracas ensued, and on the arrival of the mayor, the mate and crew were token into custody. Three of the crew and the mate were bound overt the latter, giving bail, sailed in the vessel ; but the pear sailors procuring wow, would be compelled to remain in gaol until November next. M0131.E, JCT. , : M. HEALTH Orrrc te, Nouns:, JULY 17. —Hot one ca‘e of ma lignant fever has occurred since the last report of the Board of Health. On Tuesday lagt we announced the appearance of two enstm of yellow fever. The Weird of Ilealth met xl,ortly tifttrwarok, and in the course of the tuorning issued the following notice in the form of hand bills:_ CITY or MOBILE, JULY 1, The Board of flealth having been called urn n to visit two cases of fever, in St. 311(.1 el-street, report them to be of a highly ma lignant character, ■nd are of opinion that the dise :se. row in its Incipient state, bids fair, from the concurrence of various nooses, to increase to an clarming degree, unless the citirms generally, and without drily. remove to the country. The Board flatter them selves that this admonition will not be disregarded, as it is the only precautionary measure by which cur city may escape a repetition of the scenes of the past Puinmer. By order of the Board of If ealth, E. lti:EnEn, Clerk. One of these ewes resulted fatally, and the other, we under. 'tend, is likely to vet-over. Since that time but one case hire oc. curred. that of Alm. Wilson, who war taken Birk nn 'Wednesday, removed into the country, and died on Sunday night. During the week a great number of families prudently left town, and the per. manent ptpuia:ion (those who sleep in the city) is t , (realy reduced. The alarm produced by the early appearance of the first caner has in some measure subsided, and, as so few new open have occurred, there seems to he more confidence that our city may yet escape the prevalence of malignant fever. flow far it is prurient to rely upon the pr;setit absence of the disease is not for us to predict; our only aim is to give a fair statement of facer. Nothing is farther from intentimi than to create unnecessary alarm, to the prejudice of the city; nor are se disposed to cot:call the truth when danger exists, and attempt to deceive strangers. We did not mal:e a single comment upon the order issued for levying duties on American vessels trading to the West Indies. This order has been hailed by the ad vocates of restriction as the harbinger of a change of sys tem. We do not think sn ; and we have reason to think that more thin one lesson will be read to these sticklers for antiquity by the operation of that necessary measure. We are not surprised to find that the Jamaica Col mists do not relish the proceeding, though their good sense must soon show them its necessity. The only miracle was that they submitted so long as they slid to our restrictions. We leave it to the planters of Jamaica to answer the sneers of the writer in Blackwood on that part of Mr. flussisson's admirable speech, in which he traced, from historical facts, the separation of our North American Colonies in a great measure to the vexatious system by which their trade was THE BRITISH PRESS. carried too far. If it depended upon writers like those to wli'm we have alluded, we should soon see Jamaica and our West India Colonies part and parcel of the United States. The following letter may give some idea of their feelings on the subject : Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated 10th July, 1826: " We continue to have a good trade with America, as you will see by the Jamaica Papers. But this trade is likely to be interrupted for some time by a Treasury order to the Collector to receive all duties upon foreign produce. The Receiver-General is bound to collect the same under the Island Acts, and we are theretine at this moment paying both. Unless this Treasury order be counter manded, great vexation may seise to trade, if the circumstance does not cause some angry discussion when the Assembly meet, and pre vent the House from doing what otherwise they are disposed to do." We are not aware of any adequate cause which can ac count for the exclusive predilection manifested By some of the provincial Journals for the joint-stock system of banking on the Scotch principle. This conduct seems ex tremely inconsistent, particularly in Papers which have always been in the habit of declaiming against a certain in fluence, supposed to prevail to an alarming extent in this country. The Scotch system of banking possesses great stability, and many advantages; but all its advantages arise from the securities affinded by the circumstance of the partners being men of landed property ; and we should not have expected to find a system of this kind advocated by those very Journals which are in the habit of loading this very important inn rest with the most unmerited obloquy. Those very Jaurna's setich declaim against the alleged tax on the poor, levied by the operation of the Corn Laws, are out rageous for the establishment of joint-stock banking com panies at Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, &c. Happily, by the law which will soon came into operation, neither country bankers nor the Bank of England will have long to supply so large a portion of our currency. If it be allowed (and it can not be denied) that there is a certain quantity of currency required for conducting the business of the country, and that this quantity is nearly constant in ordinary circum stances, it will not be difficult to prove, that any body of men entering into the room which the failure of so many country bankers has left vacant, must obtain a clear sum equal to the amount of notes introduced into circula tion ; and that sum must continue in their possession till some ether species of currency drive their paper out of circulation. We are not disposed to attach much import ance to the abolition of one-pound notes, farther than as a means of preventing forgery, and of giving additional cre dit to the paper of the Bank of England. apprehend that the paper which will be thrown nut of circulation in consequence of the recall of the small notes will not be supplanted in all cases by gold. It is certain that the two principal channels through which small notes are thrown into circulation (by advances on securities and discount ing bills) must still continue open after the small notes cease to circulate. The demand for advances and dis counts must continue. Credit is like any other commodity —if it cannot be legally sold, it will be disposed of clandestinely. If no regular arrangement be made for supplying the demands of the public, souse substi tute will be found which will answer the same pur pose. What prevents the Bankers, for instance, from issuing common mercantile bills payable on a given day, in the understanding that they shall be payable on de mand ? Even if no expedient of that sort were devised, it is probable that the result of the return to a currency of gold exclusively would caule a great augmentation in the quantity of private paper now in circulation, inasmuch as the farroer or merchant, who was formerly supplied at the Bank, would either issue bills in his own name, 6: would procure for valuable consideration the acceptances of per sons possessing more general credit than himself. A certain portion of the medium by which purchases are made must, for this reason, be paper; and it may be de monstrated that there is a natural demand for pipe r in every mercantile coup try,distinct and separate from the demand for circulating medium in general—a demand which arises from the nature of paper as being adapted for certain purposes which gold cannot answer—a demand which will, we believe, render it impossible to substitute gold in all cases for it. If the circulation of a provincial town be taken at 500,000/. and bills were drawn on that town to the amount of 100,0001. it is clear that the circulation, without some more speedily expansive medium than gold, must suffer a temporary diminution to meet these demands, and that diminution -would be equally felt though an equal amount were payable the very same day in London, because the gold could not in either case be transported immediately to its destination. We therefore think decidedly that there ought to be some stable basis for the management of the paper transactions of the country. The landed securities of the Scotch Bank Proprietors certainly arc unexceptionable; but it is impos sible, in such a country as England, to give to such estab lishments that uniformity of operation, that combination of system, which is absolutely necessary, in order to keep the extent of issues in the precise proportion of the de mand. It was maintained, by the Scotch Bankers exa mined in the Committee on the Banking System, that the Scotch method of comparing the issues of different banks could not be applied to England, oil account of the greater extent and wealth of the country. In short, we cannot conceive any possible arrangement which would so per tUctly unite security with due combination and control, as 1 a system whi:ll should embrace all England by its ramifi cations, which would rest its credit on that of the State, and would be liable to the control of the great Council of the Nation, in whose hands alone, in connexion with the Executive, the charge of regulating the currency and ma nufacturing money can with safety be deposited. The larger notes will in future supply a greater rortion of the circulation of the country, in consequence of those parti cular circumstances which render paper in some cases pre ferable to gold ; and the regulation of the circulation of these larger notes should, in our opinion, be placed in hands directly under the control of the Legislature. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The deserted state of the Stock Exchange fur the last fcw days forms a peculiar contrast to the general boisterous scene which, during all other periods of the year, pervades this notorious Babel. The "hum of either army" has ceased to astound the astonished interloper, and for once at least there is something like an appearance of order in this mart of millions. The consequence of this annual cessation, this "pause of hostility without peace," amongst the Bulls and Bears, gives a consequent uninteresting cha racter to the Stock Market. Consols opened this morning at 79, were done during the day at from 791 to 1, and at length closed at 794, the scale of business done being cer tainly the minimum on the average of that of the last six days. Even imagination was allowed a holiday, and re ports were as scarce as Shares at a premium. The general accounts from the manufacturing districts are of a character to produce a favourable effect on all species of marketable Securities. Employment is gradually displaying itself, and that circumstance is the best guarantee for its continuance. _ _ _ - - regulated. We sincerely wish that the lesson may not be I ln the Foreign Market, Mexican Bonds, which closed yesterday at 51e, have, during the day, varied neatly two per oent., having been done as low as 51, and as high es 521 sellers at the close of the market : however, they could not be quoted at more than 521. The subject of the divi dends payable in October is the eternal theme, upon which the changes arc rung, from day to day, as regards these Securities. 'f he report of Messrs. BA nesco having under taken to pay them, should the dollars not arrive oppor tunely for the purpose, is again revived ; and though at present the report does not seem to Ix: sanctioned by au thority, still, as tit re is little doubt but that the money is at Vera Cruz, it has at ►east the stamp of probability, which is more than can be said for the ono-twentieth part of the reports generally in circulation. The sp: et ing the Chihli!) dividends appears in some measure to have subsided, inasmuch as they have recovered within one per cent. to their usual price, being now 37. The Bonds of Colombia and Oreece are . fittered at 321 and 12&; and even the wisest among the wise men of the East are not prepared to say when they will he set free. The letters from tkr. French capital this morning give very unsatisfac tory accounts of the state of Spain ; and the consequence has been that the Bonds have declined to 24. The Nerthern Securities show little variation. There have been some preliases made in Danish Stock, which has • advanced to 574 ; while Russian is a shade lower, at 82. The French Funds, by the last accounts, remaintd unal tered. WINDSOR, SUNDAY, SEPT. to. This morning her Royal Highness the Princess Au gusta, attended by her Lady in iVaiting, heard divine 'Pr vice performed in the parish church. where the Rev. J. Gosset, the Rector, delivered an excellent discourse from the fifth chapter awl fourth verse of Beet siastes. The 63d Regiment marched from their barracks this morning to the cavalry barracks, where divine service was performed to both regiments in the riding-school. COWES RF:GATTA. RESULT OF THE MATCH. The vessels were so near each other at the time of the accident which happened to she.'Harriet, that if the race had ended there, it would hive been a drawn match ; both vessels still keeping on under a three-reef mainsail, fourth jib, and reef foresail, the Harriet being some distance astern (although not so far as may be expected with the loss of her boom), on arriving offCowes came into the har bour ; the Arrow kept on to the westward, and arrived at the goal of decision at half-past six o'clock, a distance of 50 miles, thereby winning the match ; but, owing to the accident before mentioned, the superiority of these two yachts, sailing was undecided. The Earl of B..lfretr having paid the stake forfeited, immediately sent a written chal lenge to Mr. Weld to sail again for 1501. any day and course the Margois of Anglesey, or any other perron agreed upon by the parties, may assign, giving the Harriet a suffi cient time to repair her damages. Mr. Weld has accepted the challenge, but the day is not fixed. Both these yachts are entered for the Gold Cup given by the inhabitants of Cowes, to be sailed for by yachts of the Royal Yacht Club only, on the 21st inst., so that they Will come twice more in competition with each other. - The health of the Duke of York, we are happy to state, continues gradually improving. His Royal Highness was visited on Saturday by Sir Henry 'Telford, Dr. Macmi child, Mr. Macgrigur, Sergeant-Surgeon to the King, and Mr. Simpson, Surgeon to the Royal Duke. His Royal Highness transacted business on Saturday with Sir Har bert Taylor, Sir Henry Torrens, Sir Willoughby Gordon, and Colonel Stephenson, Surveyor-General of his Ma. jetty's Board of Works. . The Royal Duke also re ceived visits from the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Rut land, &c. The Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York yester day. The usual medical attendants also visited the Royal Duke yesterday. Mr. Wynn left town on Saturday on a shooting ex cursion. Lord Howanl de Walden, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, entertained a s lect party to dinner yester day, at his residence in South Audley-street. Mr. and Mrs. S. cretary Canning, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, &c. were of the (linter party given on Friday by his Lordship. Ma. Roenscitif.D'S ROUT.—Thursday was the day an pointed for the introduction of the intended bride and bridegroom to the numerous friends of their parents, prior to the performance of the marriage ceremony, which is to take place this day. The apartments were laid out in the most tasteful style, and the supper consisted of every deli cacy in season. The dancing was kept up till about two o'clock on Friday morning. when the party sepal-et , d. Among those present were Prince Eutethazy and his S.CIC.• tary, Prince Polignac, the Barons Rothschild, the Stusnish Ambassador, Lady Harvey, Baron Despergken and daugh ter, Colonel French, Dr. flume and family, Sir Chaelu s Flower, Bart., and daughter, Isaac, Benjamin, and So lomon Cohen, brothers of Mrs. R.uhachild, Messrs. Baw den, Buller, and A. Campbell amid daughter. NA POLE ON . S .Life.—We learn with satisfaction that our volumes of Sir Waiter Scott's Life of 11 . utule(in are already nearly printed:. what will not industry and talent united accompiish ? The work is to consist of six volumes; the first two are, we understand, preliminary; the last four devoted to the life; and the public will re joice to hear that the good health and steady habits of application of the author give . full and acreeahle promise of the completion of this labour in good nine. William Turner, Esq. of Shrigley Park, Cheshinslligh Sheriff for that county, -and father of Miss Ellen Turner (whose name has lately been so frequently before the pub lic, as connected with the Vial of the ‘Vakefields), has be come the purchaser of the tine estate of Cholmondeston, in that county, for about 50,C01/. liov COZ:RESPONDENC E.—Letter from Nuhanianna, Queen of the S indwich Isla:ids, to Captain Kotzebne, during his last voyage round the world :—" I love you with all my heart, and more titan myself, and therefore cannot express in words the pleasure 1 feel in a tine you again. You will fluid every thing altered : when 'Emu mash was alive, the country flourished ; but with his death these blossoms fade], and every thing in the Islands fell into the greatest disorder. The young King is now in Lon. don ; Karemaku and Kahumantia arc at present n.iistnt ; and the chief who supplies his place has too little influence with the people to receive you in a becoming manner: he cannot send you as much tarro, nor as many yaw and pigs, as you will want. I ant heartily sorry that my large pos sessions in the Island Mowee are at so great a dis:anc' from here across the sea ; if they were nearer, you sheuld daily be surrounded with swine. When Karemaku aunt Kahn manna return, they will supply you with every thing. The King's brother will also come with them; but be is still a' boy, without any experience, and not able to distinguish right from wrong. I beg you to embrace your Emperor for me, and to tell him wit h what pleasure I would do it my self ; but, alas ! a whole sea lies between us. Do not fur get cordially to recommend me to your countrymen. As I am a Christian, hke yourself, you will forgive my bad writing. Hunger obliges ma to conclude my letter ; and I wish that you may also eat your swine's head with a good appetite. With Royal constancy, ever yours, No lIIAP4 NN it."---Littrary Gazette. CURIOUS CASE Or DEFAMATION.—On Saturday,Bridget Moynahan, a dairy-woman, summoned a man before the Petit Sessions, at Limerick, for circulating a false and malicious report that the complainant dropped her pocket on Thornond-bridge, in which the accused alleged be haul found " a dead man's hand, folded in baize. The ac , cused, in his defence, admitted the truth of the charge, but said it was done in a joke, and not intended to be carried frirther. It appeared that the report was given out with a view to injure the complainant in her business, and, in consequence, they reproOated in the strongest language the vile conduct of the other party, who was sentenced to stand exposed in the pillory. The complainant was ad vised to bring an action for slander and defamation against him, which she declined, solely on the ground of his not being a person of any property. Vulgar rumour has it that this cold relic of mortality, acting as a charm, has the effect of increasing the milk and butter of the dairy woman ha whose possession it may be, while, in an equal degree, it diminishes the stock of her neighbour.—Glargow I Courier. FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. Naas, ser e a . The statesmen of France have been for e.oine time in a state of complete repose, the politicians of Paris slumber, and the gent!enien of the bat have in vain made an attempt to assume their functions. The theatres alone are partially essmpted from the influence of the prevailin g atsp ,, r . during the last month no less than fat( eti new piece , have been produced upon the stage —one tragedy, t " comedies, three comic operas, a pantomime, anti vaudevilles. Of all these pieces only two were decidedly unsuccessful. Of those which have more recently made their appear ance, the Duel, a comedy in one act, was that w hi c h excited the greatest expectation, probably from the circumstanced, its being produced at the Theatre Francais, in which the criticism of the green-room is the most severely fastitlioes: If a total absence of hisses, continual applauses during t h e performance, and frequent calls for the author aft er th e fall of the curtain, were certain sigma of success, Af li on Halevy could have nothing further to wish; hi, 'l i mo was so far complete: but if; on the oth er h and, Fren ch corn , dy requires a plot well conceived, action man age d l with skill, interesting situations, and mark e d characters —if It requires a natural dialogue, regulated by good taste—l am disposed to believe that the new pi ece cannot have a long career. Who would expect to find duelin g , s b ar , barons custom, which causes such (herniatio n i n t h e wpm of families, and against which philo so ph y and the laws made so many unsuccesttful efibrts—wh s , ! say, would ex pect to find duelling treated as a guiltless freak on the French stage, which has been always consid ere d and We gizel as a school of tnorals ? Unhappily the 'objectionable sentences of this comedy are not put into the mouth of a wild youngster; the advocate of duelling is the fathw of a family, an old General, who has served his country in thirty campaigns, and who inculcates his deleterious maxims without encountering any antagonist who might support against him the dictates of reason and Christianity. This is the radical defect of the piece, of which I will gine a brief outline:—The Baroness Hortensia, widowed by her husband's taste for duels, consents, at the age of so, to wed r cousin, Gustave de Fortis, after having relieved him from the great embarrassments brought upon him by his indiscretions. Gustave is but 20 y: sea of age. The Har9nrss is sensible of the disparity which exists between them ; and, besides, she has some suettician that her cousin is attached to D Wine, the niece of her first h as . band. She imparts her fears and uncertainties to the old General, her brother-in-law, and the father of DeleAine; and the old General, in order to ascertain positively the sentiments of Gusfitve, can discover no better means than to provoke him to fielit a duel. Gustave accepts the challenge. "Then lie cannot love my daughter," con cludes the General. Hut Hortensia is not to he convinced by this sort of rea s oning. Anxious to arrive at the truth, she engsges De/phine to detain her cousin, val o easily for gets, in the company of his charmer, the appointed hour of rendezvous with the General. The doubts of Hortensia new change into certainty : hut, to complete her conviction, Gust..ve, who tlesins to imbibe the lave ftr duelling, fights with an officer, who pretends to the band of Del. phine, and by whom he had been purposely elbowed in a drawing-room. Hoe/rash at last, in a very well-written scene, extorts from Gustave the avowal of his love for Delp/tine. She releases him from all his obligations ta her ; and, as it may be easily divined, the ref inn of Gus tave, and his union with Dilihine. immediately takes place. —This analysis of ti e Duel will suffice to show that it is a trifle quite out of place at the Theatre Francais. The Odton has, at the same time, produced a comedy in three acts---the School Pr Widows. This drama is the first at tempt of M. Gustave Fdbien Pillet. The success of the piece did not appear doubtful for a moment; but, at the same time, the young author ought not to be led away by the intoxication of a complete triumph. His style it _ . _ sufficiently correct, but too often without strength or colouring. Many scenes move heavily along. The idea of the piece, though strictly moral, is not at all new ; and the, feebleness of the original plan is scarcely disguised by the numerous plagiaristtts to which M. Pil!et has bad recoune A rich widow marries s young profligate, Belval, whose extravagance and misconduct soon oblige• her to repent the unwary step she has made. Ste is at length driven to seek a a, partition, when the ruin of Belval's vicious companion, and his own contrition, lead to a reconciliation. Bach is rite plot. This comedy, in short, is very weak in its firs t rudiments, but so [sell finished, that, considering it is s first essay, it may justly excite great hopes from M. Pillet'A future efforts.—The last, and most amusing,. of the dra !static productions of the month of August, was a vatle ville brought cut at the " Varietes," anti entitled Les Petitt s Biographies in 32°. This little piece is the legiti mate growth of the times, nourished by that calumniate spirit which vitiates the atmosphere of modern society. Those pocket biographies of living characters, after having been cited before the Pol:ce—after having undergone the well-merited severities of justice—have been brought, by the dramatist, before the tribunal of the public. Their cause, pleaded with skill by actors of no common merit,has appeared in a more advantageous light to the Judges of the Parterre than to those of the Courts above, and the pit ce has had a complete and deserved success. Hortensia, daughter of 111. Lefrane, a merchant of irreproachable character, is promised in marriage to Clairrille, a young advocate of distinguished ability. The first preparations are already complete, anti the two lovers are waiting with impatience the happy moment which is to unite their dt 6- tinics, when M. Lefranc happens to read the Pocket Bic graphy of the Bar. He there finds that his daughter's intended, in spite of his merit, and the brilliant hope■ which he had excited in his professional career, is abandoned to a most destructive passion : he finds, in short, that he is a gamester, anti that he has just experienced some considerable losses. Left anc believes that what he sees in print must be the exact truth ; and, as lie cannot endure the idea of admit ting into his family one who is capable of plunging it into poverty and dishonour, he determine to break off the match, but is prevented by the interposition of Defornirs the physician anti friend of the family. The Doctor has less faith in those little pamphlets, in which starveing writers, protected by their obscurity, vend scandal and infamy ; and he obtains of his friend the pause of a favr hours, for the sake of investigating the truth. Chirac, in the mean time, has read the Biographies of Merchants , and of the City Ladies, and, indignant at the manner ill which he finds M. and Madame Lefrane are treated in thole , publications, he gladly unites his efforts to those of De/ortne to discover the authors. Their exertions are not in vain; ' they soon return, loaded with letters of retractation and acknowledgments of error. At the same time, Th-lorme calls his friends together, and, in order to impress upon them the contempt in which such works are to be held, be obliges each person to read his own biography, so that they may judge how far all have been calumniated. Leframe reads the article dedicated to him in the Biography of Merchants, and his wife Bella herself among the Ladies of the City, ';~i ;I ho ll d'; rean leo! 'doll hum the the your the cetti WrA flu" bad