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Mexican Ronde 411 Ditto MIS. &2 Ditto Rands ( ins) 021 li 2 1I 21 Ditto Ace!. at'l a J la 22 2 Perovion Rondo Di Portegoeie Rondo 74* !Venial Bonds 101 2 * PRICES OP-114All -s -- -- 1 L '.-0•41: 7- :.' -•.*, ~ • i is.• ..„:4; -. -,,, „,,,,... , . ..o vi._ - ~,1 r.e .. ( : Alt_ .7 . , ' •••: 1 , 4 ... 4,„ .-.. 7. -, z ..: ~ .i . ,.._ ': -* _.: .'l l 4 , . ti. t .:,-,. \!-. •-•,-;;,,,. . .:; WA t A - •:. 4, 4,11 2 s 6, t - . gilt Stitifift freo. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Title tvoulni, MONDAY, October 9, will be performed the Trendy st PIZARRU. Rena, Mr. Willark ; Pizarro, 31r. Reallett ; Alonzo, Mr. Cooper; Cora, Mrs. W. Writ ; /Detre Mrs. Alliibbon. After which a new Mensal R,mance relied THE WHIT], LADY; or, THR SPIRIT OF AVFNEL. The prineipal Characters by Meows. Hora, Archer, Youngs, Marley, O. Sat* sad J. Russell ; Misses Graddon, I. Fetus, A. Tree, and Kelly. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, October 9, will be perf..,rn.ed the Tragedy of JULIVS C.CSAR. Julies Cesar, Mr. Egerton • Mare Antony, Hr. C. lemhle ; Brutus, Mr. Young ; Canton, hir.Warele ; Casco, Mr. Fawcett. Calpurnla, Mrs. Yining; Portia, Mrs. Faucit. After which the Comedy of CHARLES THE. SECOND . or, THE MERRY MONARCH. /Una Charles the Second, Mr. C. Kemble ; Lord Rochester. Mr. Junes; Captain Coop, Mr. Fawcett. Mary. Mist M. Glover. ADELPHI THEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, October 9, will be presented the celebrated Nautical Melo-Dramatic Hurietta, whose most extraordinary attraction continued isoatrated to the clam of last Sewn. called THE PILOT; or, A TALE OF THE. SEA. The Pilot, Mr. Terry; Lieutenant Harngable, Mr. Tates ; Long Tom Coin, Mr. T. P. Cooke, Captain Rourroughcliff, Mr. J. Reeve; Mies Katherine Plowden, Mr.. Ilughe4, from the Theatre Royal. Drury-lane, bit first Appearance at this Theatre; Cecilia, by • Young Lady ,her second Appearance on any Stage:. After the Barlett'. a New Ballet Divertimement, called LA FETE DES NATIONS, Conflating of characteristic National Dances. compered and produced bp Hons. Mullin, late of the King's Theatre, and of the Acad:rnle Royale de Koslow ; and the celebrated Engelllna and Melanie Duval, from the Actor. Theatre. The Entertainments of the Evening to conclude with (for the 2d time; a New Comic /lunette, called OLD LOVE AND YOUNG LOVE. Coma Rosenberg. Mr. Elliott; Baron Rosenberg, Mr. Terry ; Frederick, Mr. Tates; Des Champs, Mr. Wrench; Postilion, Mr. Phillips; Amelia, Miss Soden r Juliette, Mrx. Hughes. POSITIVELY FEET WEDNESDAY WEEK ALL LOTTERIES END IN THIS KINGDOM. SIX OS if3O.OOD, AC169,000, IN ON DAY. The BRITISH Pages commenced publishing on Saturday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, Octona 9, 1846. We have received the French Papers of Friday, and the L:Gile dated Saturday : the following are extracts:— LFrom the Eloik.l The Mcnctcur has published the Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce, concluded and signed at Rio de Janeiro on the tith of January, 1826, between the King and his Majesty the Em j. or of Brazil, with the following formula : We order and command that these presents, invested with the seal of state, and inserted in the bulletin of Laws, be sent to the Courts and Tribunes, and to the Administrative Authorities, in order to be inscribed in their registers ; anl our Keeper of the Seals, the Minister Secretary of State for Justice, is charged with seeing this order carried into execution. Given at our Palace of Saint Cloud, this fourth day of the month of October, in the year of our salvation 1826, and in the third of WIZ reign, By the King, CHARLES. The Minister sod Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, The Baron lie I l AmAs. Th! Keeper of the Seals of France, Slinister and Secretary of State for the Judicial Department, Comrte De FEYRON NETT. ORDONNANCE OF THE KIM). Charles, by the Grace of trod, King ofFrance and Navarre, Swing that a treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce, has been concluded between us and his 3lajesty the Emperor of Brazil, on the oth of January in this present year : Willing to secure in every respect, which him not already been provided for by the general laws of the Kingdom, the accomplish ment of the stipulations agreed to with regard to the Navigation and the Commerce of the Empire of Brazil : On the report of the President of our l'ouncil of Ministers, the Mir.ister Secretary of State for Finances, our ('hief Counsel for Commerce and the Colonies being heard, we have ordained, and do now ordain, as follows : Art. I. After the:publication of the present ordonnance, all Bra zilian vessels coming from any place into the ports of France shall trot be subject to any charges of pilotage, basins, or quarantine, except according to the scale established with respect to French ves sels coorir.g from the same ports. 2. The products of the soil, and of the irdustry of Brazil, brought Into the Forts of France by Brazilian vessels, shall pay only the same duties which are charged upon the sante productions coming trorn the same ports in lynch vessels, provided they bring certifi- Cates of their origin, delivered by the agents of the Custom-houses in tte pacts wherce:the gocds were embarked, and attested by the Consuls or Vice-Consuls of France in it e same pert ; which Sites. cations were to be supplied by the local authority in case a here there is no french Consul at the said port. 3. Until it shall be otherwise order( d, ell ships possessed by the Brazilians. the captains of which are Brazilians, stall he admitted to the bend: of the two preceding articles, to whatever nation the veto may belong. In consequence of this Article, the application of Article 3, of the Act of 21st September, 17;3, which only recognises as national those foreign ships, the of and three-fourths of the crew of winch are of the country whose flag the ships bear, is, so far as re gards the roitlence of the crew, suspended. 4. The long silk cottons produced at Brasil, and which shall be taken directly from this country by a Brazilian or French ship, shall only pay the duty on short silk cottons. 5. The diifermee between the duty on long alk cnttans and short silk cottons shall be reimbursed upon the quantines of Brazilian cotton which have been imported into Frame, according to the con. ditions of the preceding article, since the lith of June, 11126, the day so which the treaty of the Bth of January, of the prei•ent year, was made at Brazil in favour ot• French trade. ri. The President of our Council of Ministers. the Secretary of State of the Financial Department, is charged with the execution of the present ordonnance, which shall be inserted in th, Bulletin of the Laws. Given at our Palace of St. Cloud, the 4th of October, in the year ct grace 18'26, and the 11 of our reign. ( By the King) CHARI.F.9. • The Financial Secretary of State, Jit. ht: VI I. I. E Lr. The French Conrail at St. Ander hsa jte.t addressed the follow. wit letter to the Chamber of Marine at Bi.vonne:— •• Gentlemen.—On the part of tit, maritime trade of Bayonne, I Worm you that a decree of his Most Christian 111;ijerty, brought by a courier Yesterday to the Marine Department of this province, permits to all foreio gags the poser of coasting from one part Spain to another. '• I have the honour, he. GRASLIN, [ From the Journal d•r lill l oB - OX, SEPT. 2. (PRIVATE CORREPEOWDEX('E.) 1 he hsts of she Els%loss of parishes having I•een published, c:ILY persons who were farovrab:e to tl,e and who had a right to vote, observing that their names were not inserted, whilst the names of Individuals who had no tight to vote were, have complained, and orders have consequently been given to have the lists corrected, and the repetition of this irregularity has been threa tened with punishment. The opponents of the Constitution have, in seder to excite die order, sent about the streets blind old men, to &nominee that the journals contain certain intelligence, which, in point of fact, Is no t tr be found In them. The Royal Family have by this means had false reports spread concerning them. The police, however, has pit an end to this I a •d the Princess Regent has given orders that no person shell cry in the streets other than what is true as to the contents or the jour. Flak= sad that the persons thus employed shill be of a responsible desaiptlon. (PRIVATE )lADaID, SUS. 25. DEXCZ.) A French markt arrived on as 21st, bringing an edictal notiti. cation of thewequiseoenee of the leen* Government In the ebeingenwhlch have taken place in Portugal. Although dth fart wad already known, yet it had never before bees ollebilly an nounced. immediately after, M. de Manlier sews this notiti , Wits% a Council of Ministers was issembled. h tat a long time, 04 all the Ministers, except M. Caktinarde, were of opinion that a strioneutrality ought to be maintained, as regarded Portugal. , On the same day the weak of the Council wu submitted to his Majesty. It was expected that his Majesty would sanction the opinion of hie Ministers, but he orderal the subject to be laid before a Council of State, who accordinglj k inet the day begets yesterday, yesterday, and to-day, but have not some to any decision. This circumstance has infused new hopes hue the Apostolic party, but these hopes have been considerably damped' by the arrival of the Russian cattier, which, as Is known, brought the intelligence of the ad hesion of that Power to the new order of things in Portugal. Some diborders took place Pest week at Ildefonso. They were provoked by the body guard, who following the example of the Royalists volunteers, upon several points of the Peninsula, had met at the coffee-bowaes in a riotous manner, and cried " Live the Ring without the Chambers !" " Devil to tie Negroes!" " Down with the Ministry !" In the evening they went in mul titudes to the theatre, where the same tumult and the same cries were repeated. Summary proceedings have been taken in this matter, and:one Colonel and Captain, recognised as the authors and promoters of the tumult, have been condemned to four years' im prisonment in the Fort of Penis de San Pedro. Again, the police have learned that the Royalist Volunteers of Madrid, who were to perform the duties at the palace on the Ist of October next, being the anniversary of his Majesty going out from Calais, had on the same day repeated the same riotous con. duct of the body guard. This circumstance has occasioned mutt embarrassment ; for it is not known in what way to avoid these' disorders, nor on the other hand can the Government venture to refuse these ♦ilunteers an honour, which has been granted to them for the last two years. The Portuguese soldiers who are on the Spanish territories re czive provisions only front the Spanish Government, no money be. ing given to them. This has created great discontent among them. The following is a letter received from Valencia, dated 21st Sep tember :—" The scene which this city has presented since the pro. mulgation of the Portuguese Charter has been calculated to excite feelings of horror and pity. Until that period, there were con stantly a great number of persons restrained of liberty on account of political opinions; but since the publication of the Charter the most honourable men in the city have been imprisoned, and they are daily sent to a kind of Bagne (a Turkish slave prison), and which has hitherto been destined for malefactors only. The usual means by which the city and the roads have hitherto been cleansed have been suppressed, and men of respectability, whom General O'Donnell had decreed to the punishment of the galleys, are employed in this kind of work, after which they ore taken back to the Bagne, amidst the insults of the populace, and very often after having been beaten with cudgels. Some of them have pre. ferred selling their property at every sacrifice, and have by that means obtained their liberty. Others would have done it, bu t their property was not !sufficient to satisfy the cupidity and ava rice of their •onnentors, and they have in consequence been obliged to suffer all kinds of cuttage, violence, and ill-treatment." Aurrata, SEPT. 27. (EXTRACT PROW A PRIVATE LETTER.) It is auetted. that Don Miguel has been invited, by a note from his sister. the Infante Regent., to give in a formal declaration, in three days, relative to his taking the oath to the Constitutional Charter granted to Portugal by his brother Don red, o. It is added, that Don Aliguel sent his answer to Lisbon on the 17th of September, in which, without formally protesting against the Constitution, he declares that he has addressed himself to his brother, the Emperor of Brasil, respecting his own rights to the Regency during the absence or minority of the Mo. notch, and that he expected an answer. The Prince con. eludes his lettrr by declaring that he will regulate his conduct by tha counsel of his illustrious pratector, the Emperor of Angola, who had not vet returned to Vienna. The Portuguese Minister at Vienna. Baron de Villa Sem, sent this answer to Lisbon by a courier who set off from hence on the 17th instant. FRENCH FVNDS.--3 per Cent.. 9or. N e . ; 3 per fence. ggr. 25c. ; Bank Actions, 2040 f. Neapolitan Renter, 73f. 30c. ; Spanish ditto, 10. A paragraph in the Belfast Chronicle informs us that Lord PALM ChSTOIK has employed a great number of the peasantry on his Irish estates in bringing into cultivation a large tract of uncultivated bog and morass near Mulls more, where his Lordship has joined the Board of Fisheries in building a pier to afford a protection to the vessels in Donegal Bay. It is also his Lordship's intention, we are informed, to have a railway to Belleek, so as to connect Enniskillen with the Atlantic. These designs, we will venture to say, with all due respect to his Lordship, are more likely to prove beneficial to the country than those mining associations to which he bad before directed his attention. It is singular that landholders do not perceive the practicability of augmenting the value of their estates by increasing the facilities of communication. There are spots in Great Britain, not twenty miles distant from each other, between which there is not less than 30 per cent• difference in the price of transportable commodities; and while our merchants trade for trifling profits with foreign countries, many hundreds of miles distant, it is an un doubted fact that a greater profit might almost alirays be obtained by restoring the balance of prices between places at short distances along our own soasta, and still more in the interior of the country. In connexion with this we insert to-day an account of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, to which we would particularly call the attention of our readers. Unfortunately, most of the useful projects of the late period of commercial excitement have been swept away along with those which were absurd and ridiculous. The railway to which we now allude was completed by indivi duals belonging to the Society of Friends—a set of men not apt to be roused by the mere appearance of advantage, nor liable to be depressed by imaginary obstacles. It is to be regretted that our mercantile speculators did not more generally possess their persevering character. We sincerely lament the discontinuance of the schemes for the construe tion of railways in particular ; but we doubt not that the example of such men as Lord PALM FASTON will recall the attention of the public to this important subject. The landed proprietors who wish to leave an improved estate to their families ought to seize the opportunity of the present distress, for the construction of useful works, and the amelioration of their lands, by every means in their power. The moneyed men, whose capital is superabun dant, might profitably invest • portion of it in this way always with due caution in not overdoing this branch, as well as otl:ers, by employing capital in a manner which will not be productive of revenue. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The British Stock Market has displayed an invincible determination to keep its price to-day, Consols having opened at 80L, and closing at 80!, I, for the Account, which terminates on Thursday next, and for November at 8016. During the day, in consequence of some powerful opera limo on thorrter the Bears, bargains were done as low is 79 1; this impression, however, was but momentary, _ _ for, finding then was no chance of keeping them down, they abandoned the field to their more successful opponents. The state of the Revenue has again been matter of grave promulgation, at a default of irrecoverable amount. The authority upon which this statement was made was alto ' griller supposititious, and was received, as it deserved, with contempt. It is quite ridiculous to see the profound knowledge which some pretend to have on this subject— surpassing, indeed,_ that of the official authorities whose duty it is to prepare the accounts in question. An advance has taken plane in India Stock, which has reached 2t13, but Bonds and Exchequer Bills are at last quotations. The never-ending question of Mexican remittances has again been brought in aid of speculation in these Bonds, which have varied about one and a quarter per cent. They, however, recovered the quotation of 6', with a very steady appearance. A stronger excitation in respect of Colombian Bonds has taken place to-day than for some time past, bargains having been done from 3Si to 36. The anticipation of yesterday, that, in spite of the warlike ap pearances in Venezuela, an accommodation would take place, is likely to be realized ; the accounts by the Lee ward Island mail stating a report that Peet had relin quished his l*rpose, and that, consequently, peace wa► restored throughout the Colombian Republic. Credit. however, was not given to the full extent of this declara tion, as it was said the news from La Guayra was not sufficiently decisive. One thing, however, is certain, that BOLIVAR and PA ez are in communication, for despatches had been forwarded from Bogota at a very late date. In consequence of the declaration of the principal towns of Venezuela against the proceedings of I's Ez, some con siderable desertions are said to have taken place in his army, which is rather a fatal symptom under the circumstances in which he is placed. At the close of the Market, however, the doubts thrown around the probability of an amicable adjustment had sent the Bonds down to 344. The Share Market is in more activity than has been the case lately, Real del Monte, Tlalpuxahua, and Bolanos, showing an advance of from five to ten pounds per share. The Stockbroker who took upon himself the alteration of Mr. IVETSNHALCB list of prices has published a letter in explanation of the reasons which induced him so to act. Re states in substance, that, after the close of the Market on Tuesday, a person came to hint with a certain quantity of French Rentes, fur which he wanted an imme diate purchaser, and that he took them on his own respon sibility at a price which he admits was below that of the Market, but denying is tufo that the respectable gentleman for whom he does business on commission had any thing whatever to do with the transaction in question, or was at all aware of its having taken place. As the matter is be fore the Committee of the Stock Exchange, doubtless they will do that which is most fitting to maintain the character of the body. Whether any effect was intended to be pro duced in Paris by the alteration, they must be the most competent judges of; at any rate, the circumstance of alter ing the list cannot be too highly condemned. It never can be admitted for a moment that any individual shall, after purchasing stock at his own valuation and in secret, send that forth to the world as the price which regulated the market at its close. A more barefaced irregularity, to use I the mildest expression of which the transaction is suscep- I tible, was never practised by a person claiming the stamp of respectability. WINDSOR, OCT. 8. . During the week, his Majesty has taken his usual rides in the Great Park, &c. _ Divine Service was performed at the Royal Lodge this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta and Duchess of Gloucester, (who is at present on a visit at Frogmore Palace) attended by their Ladies in waiting, heard Divine Service in the Parish Church. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gosset. On Friday, the Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester visited his Majesty. On Wednesday, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla rence arrived at the Royal Lodge, and after a visit of some hours to the King, returned to Bushy. The marquees which were erected on the banks of Vir ginia Water during the summer were removed on Tues day, and conveyed in two artillery waggons to the Tower of London. The Duke of York took an airing on Saturday afternoon in his carriage, for about two hours. His Royal Highness was visited by his Royal Brother, the Duke of Clarence. The Duke of York transacted official business with differ ent military gentlemen on Saturday morning. Sir Henry Halford, Macmichael, Mr. Macgregor, and Mr. Simp son, visi'A the Royal Duke yesterday. The Duke of Clarence returned to his residence at Bushy on Thursday, from a visit to the King, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor I'ark. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence left their residenc e at Bushy about eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, £s their carriage and four, and paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent, at her apartments in the King's l'alace at Kensing ton, where the Duchess of Clarence alighted, on a visit to her Royal relative. His Royal Highness proceeded to his temporary residence in Charles -street, Berkeley-square. The Roysl Duke transacted business, after his arrival in town, at the office of his Majesty's Board of Works, under whose superintendence the new building erecting for his Royal Highness's residence, in the King's Palace, St. James's, is carried on. The Duke and Duchess of Cla rence dined with the Duchess of Kent in the afternoon, and returned to Bushy in the evening. Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord high Commissioner of the lonian Islands, returned to town on Thursday night from Cirencester, where Sir Frederick had been on a visit to Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonist Attirs, previous to Sir Frederick's return to the lonian Isles. 'TIE MANCHESTER BRANCH ESTADLISHMENTOF TILE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Gozeite of Saturday says that, in noticing the subject, we have "omitted to mention that, contrary to the practice of all other bankers to pay their notes in every place in which they have an establish ment, the branch hank will not give gold in exchange for Bank of England notes." This sentence is not very clearly expressed. We presume, however, that what our contemporary means to say is, that the bank here will not, as a matter of course, pay in gold the notes of the parent establishment. We take it for granted that the fact is as he states, and we should think nobody has ever supposed that it would he otherwise. It certainly could never answer as a srculation for the Bank of Eng land to establish branches, particularly in such a district as this, if it vas liable to he called upon, at any or all of them, to pay in gold, without warning, the largest amount of notes which could possibly be scraped to gether and presented. We wonder, however, where the " most accurate editor" of the Gaz , .tte learned that it was " the practice of all other bankers to pay their notes in every place in which they have an establishment." The fact is directly the reverse. So far from its being as he states, bankers cannot be compelled to pay their notes, even al the places Where they are issued, if they choose to make them payable elsewhere, far less at every place where they have branches. The bill introduced by the Marquis of Lansdown, during the last Session of Parliament, to pro vide for making country notes payable at the places where they are issued, was withdrawn. Payment of the notes of branches of the Bank of England may, however, be de manded at the parent establishment, though the former are, as we think, very properly exempted from the obliga tion Of providing for the latter.—Manchester Mercury. THE BRITISH PRESS. THEATRES. DRURY-LANE. On Saturday evening Colman's comedy of the Heir at Law was performed here, on which occasion there were several novelties, which we shall notice in the order in which they present themselves to public attention. The comedy itself certainly cannot be considered in that light, and yet it has the great merit, with materials of no very superior superstructure, either in plot or character, to be received with undiminished applause after a lapse of nearly thirty years ; indeed there are few stock plays in great er favour with te public. The bred-in-the-bone vulgarities of the warming-pan Peer, and the scholastic pedantry of the Doctor, are subjects of irresistible mirth ; while the ebullitions of the warm-hearted but irascible peasant, and the soul-touching simplicity of his amiable sister, are never-fading specimens of character, which, though not ! often met with in real life, still tell well among the general caricatures of dramatic representation. The characters of 'Dick Dowlas and Kenrieic rely more upon the manner than the matter, and the contrast they presented to each I other in this respect, on Saturday, was never more contipi -I.cuous; the former seldom having been better played, and the latter certainly never worse ; but we are anticipating. In the character of &kid( homespun, a Mr. Edwin, from the Nottingham Theatre, made his first appearance before a London audience, and we have seldom seen a cue of more decided success. In face he reminded us very much of Russel—not J., but he of lisping memory—while in style he is more original than any countryman of leis grade we have of late seen. The chasm that occurred jtt this company when poor Knight was taken away, not only from this stage, but from that of the world, is likely to be ad vantageously filled by Mr. Edwin, who appears to have every requisite to make a worthy successor to that epitome of drollery; and we hope he will, in becoming his theatrical heir, succeed to a proportion of that private respect which the lamented individual in question so justly enjoyed. Mr. Edwin is said to be a relative to the great predecessor of Fawcett, who starred a short but brilliant career in the galaxy of theatrical talent of that period. Mr. Hooper, at a very short notice, in consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Browne, took the character of Dick Darks, and has ! thus given us an additional proof of the decided acquisition he is to this company. There is certainly not a great deal to study in the character; but when we are assured that he never played it before, and was wholly unacquainted, when ' called upon, with the text, we do offer this gentleman his fair rimed of praise for the highly correct manner in which he went through the part. His representation of the ori ginal Disk, the one-third lawyer, one-third gentleman, and the remaining part of chandler origin, was very good, from not being over-done; and the assumption of " Ho nourable" before his " sponsorial and patronymic appella tion" was neither more nor less than just so much of the coxcomb as any MU might be supposed to put on with a suit of " Stultz s particular." In the dancing scene with Panglosr he displayed considerable spirit ; and in the more impassioned ones with eice/y, particularly in that of the declaration of his honourable inten tions, there wds a display of feeling highly creditable to his talents, and which drew forth testimonies of marked approbation from the audience. Before this gentleman made his appearance, we predicated that if indeed he were a gentleman, which we supposed to be his cut, he would form no little addition to the present company. Such has proved to be the cage; and, with due attention to hie businese, Mr. Hooper is tolerably certain of becoming the Jones of this house. On the present occasion be managed his voice much better than we have hitherto heard him do ; and his knowledge of the business of the stage, and of by play, was particularly conspicuous. Mr. Hooper's motto must be tof f jeers pert; and he may be assured that he will lose nothing in public estimation by now and then accepting a part, under the pressure of circum stances, which may not fall exactly in his lin e . Th ere has been of late a somewhat fastidiousness in this par ticular, which would have been more honoured in the breach than the observance. It is the actor makes the character of importance, not the character the actor — and in the present instance it will have the desirable effect of enabling Mr. H. to divest himself of that fashionable nom-ea/once, which, however desirable in the representation of some characters, can in others be dispensed with to ad vantage. Mr. Burke, Mr. Burke, you are no Edmund of that name! From the Dublin theatre too ! Well, be it so; you are certainly none the better for that ; and though you are no doubt a very good man, you are the very worst Irishman that ever crossed St. George's Channel.— Dowton, in Lord Duberly, was, indeed, the Gosport ci-decant chandler, and his representation of the cha racter stands second alone to that of Dick Sac!!. Lordship's habit of swearing certainly loses nothing in his bands. We are not squeamish about an oath or two, but the thing may be over-done. Harley's Pang/its, is not -the happiest effort of his genius: it is highly respectable, but his buoyant spirits barely enable I him to cinfine himself within the necessary bounds of re straint for the representation of this pedantic scholiast. Mr. Mercer would have made a very good appendage to an establishment carrying on under the appellation of the name he bears, whether of silk or woollen ; hut from his Henry Moreland the 'loner we are delivered the better. Mr. Powell is an old and respected actor, and from Sled first, who has little to do, little is to be expected. The grand effort, however, was that of Miss Kelly, who made her first appearance for the season in ( icely homespun, and the charm she threw around the character was supe rior to that of any former effort. The scene with Dick, wbere she upbraids him for his unworthy proposal to her brother, and her reception of his repentance, was the seine of perfection. There arc many Cic, to Momeepaes, but only one Miss Kelly. Miss I. Paton gave as much interest to the part of Caroline Dormer perhaps as it is susceptible of; but we could wish that she would occasionally set h.q. eves upon things above rather than upon things on earth : she has too constant a habit of keeping her eyes upon the floor, as if looking for a dropped bracelet or some other strayed ornament. Lady Doherty lost none of her /on in the hinds of Mrs. Har lowe ; and upon the whole, with the exceptions we have mentioned, in our judgment the play was extremely well performed. The Epilogue was very well delivered ; and Mr. Wallack announced the repetition of the Play for next week, which was received with great applause. The Dutch Fair followed, losing none of its attraction by repetition ; and the performances concluded with the Den! to Pay. . Dow tots was the veriest Johann that ever wielded an awl or a strap, and Mrs. Davison's Nell was indeed a cluser. The house was very respectably attended. A DELPHI THEATRE. On Saturday night this favourite little Theatre com menced its career for the ensuing winter season. The ap pearance.of the interior of the house is unchanged, except that the painting has been cleaned, and the decorations re newed, so that no perceptible alteration presents itself to the eye. The company consists of all our old favourites (except Wilkinson, whose absence we know not how to account for, and whose place cannot he easily supplied) ; and in addition to them they have got Mrs. Hughes, from Drury-lane Theatre, and a Corps de Ballet, unrivalled in minor theatres. Indeed it is scarcely prop rto call this a minor theatre. i t should not be classed amongst the minors ; it is unique in itself. Although comparativ-ly small, it differs as much from the minor theatres in all its arrangements as they do from the larger houses. The Met was the principal attraction of the evening, in which Mr. J. Reeve made himself, as usual, " pretty par ticularly. .considerably—agreeible" to the audience; and Lo ne T orn Cqin (Mr. T. P. Cooke) wasgrcettd on his ap pearance with the most astounding plaudits from all parts of the house. It is unnecessary to say any thing of the other performers in this piece, as the public have had ample time to judge of their respective merits. But we cannot in jus tice omit to mention that Mrs. Hughes, as Catharine Ploirtlen, was exceedingly sincessful, and deservedly ap plauded. The part of Cecilia was represetted by a young lady, it being her first appearance upon any stage. As might have been expected, she laboured under considerable difficulty at first, but as that wore off she appeared to pos sess many of the requisites for a good actrins, together with a pleasing, though by no means a powerful voice. The ballet was chiefly remarkable for the variety which fldu n r c e e. d, a characterized it, and for the number of children who too, for the amus e m e nt of the au dience. Thei successfullyentert a inments of the evening concluded with a new comic burletta, iu one act, called o.'d Love and' Young Love, which was full of incident and business. The dialogue was not destitute of humour, so that in the h ands of Wrench, Yates, Terry, Miss Boden, and Mrs. Hughes, it could h ar dly f a il o f success. The plot is wild enough, and differs little from the lighter productions of our French neighbour s , and, as is u sua lly t h e e ase, t h e piece concluded by the tot a l defeat of Old Loll', who is driven from th e field by his younger competitor. The house was crowd e d, and every thi ng p rom i ses as mac h pleasure to the p u bli c u profit to the proprietors fbr their spirited exertions. ro THE EDITOR OP THE alaTl4B# id before the public 29, embnet iner. ftra,—Your insertion of Mr. Peter Jeffery's letter, on the subject of a new street from the New London Bridge to Princes -street, in which be claims an origisair y , di in e l e 7 s 9 r 6 7 a tia nd from st a t e, tahn"intsehertipolanninwathseljlEclipse of Naver o b n 22, 1824, signed " A Citizen," by Dr. Price, of Cann on . street (who was known to be the author) projecting tine street, which was before Pebtuary 9, 1896, the date of Mr. Jeffery's claim. Notices of a Bill to come before Parliament were given in September, 1825, for streets, arcades, or colonnad ed from b)thbury to London-wall, by me, the person who projected the one in Piccadilly and Holborn, and notice s ■re also given for the next Parliament. The idea of a colonnade in Mr. Jeffery's line is out of the question, as double the line of houses to be taken down lets for a greater rent than a colonnade will let for. Dr. Price's plan only extended to Lombard -street, the houses in Cornhill, including the Globe, &c. and those in Princes-street to be taken down by Mr. Jeffery's plan will cost more than Dr. Price's street, and can be of po poi . aible advantage, or even return one penny, as pollu te will be left to rebuild on. lam yours, fac. FRANCIS FORTIAP EDINNUROR COUNTY M EETING. - The Michaelmas Head Court of Freeholders, Commishiters of Supply, and Justices of the Peace, for the County of Ldiaburgh, was held in the County Hall. on Tuesday. Sir GEORGE CLERK, 31. P. in the Chair. Mr. G. CRAIG moved, that a committee be appointed to watch over any alterations that may he proposed on the present Gate of the corn laws, in the eneuilig Session of Parliament, and to Kinn. In moving the appoint ment o f t h e C omm i ttee, Mr. Craig remsik e d, that the intermit of the community were inseparable, and it was worse than idle to talk of the interests of the commercial part of the country being %generate and distinct from the agriculturaL It was for the general interests of the counuy at Inge, am individual aivanugr, that hen oved the appointment of the awnmittee. Sir U. CLE ate thought that premature discussion, on a question of so great moment as the Corn Laws, ought to be deprecated, as the matter would soon come before Parliament. He, however, had ao objection for the appointment of a Committee to watch the measure referred to ; but he was of opinion they !should keep their proceedings separate from any other body. The Lomb REGISTER hoped that the meeting, proposed by his friend Sir John Sinclair to meet some time this month, on the Corn Laws, would not be countenanced by the gentlemen of t his county, as it would be premature to dill/MIN and judge on these Laws before they had nrdergone a patient investigation by Parlia ment, which would be the case soon after Christman. After a short discussion, the motion was agreed to, and, as we understand, the following gentlemen were appointed to form said 4 ommittee, viz =S r Jon Hope, sir John Dalrymple, Mr. Ward. law Ramsay, Mr. Aitchison, Mr. Dundee of Ammon, and Mr. (Donn Craig. Mr. Liston has concluded his engagement with Mr. De Camp, the Chester manager. lie has played there to over flawing houses, although the prices of admission were con siderably advanced. On Saturday he played Paul Pry, with the Liverpool company, at Manchester, and on Mon day he performs at Liverpool, where he is engaged for five nights, on very high terms. The proprietors of the Liver pool theatre have granted a new lease to Mr. Lewis, who, it is said, is making ample arrangements for novelty and ►ariety. OVERLAND ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We have just read a letter from 1)r. Richardson to Dr. Graham, Profeseer cf Botany, accompanying 27 packages of seeds, many of them new species, and several packages suspected to belong to new genera. We have much pleasure in publishing the following extract:—Ellin. Courant. Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, Nov. 1825. We had a quick passage from Liverpool to New York, and from thence we have journeyed with little Teat and much expedition to this quarter: Captain Franklin reached the Arctic Sea curtly six months from the day he sailed from England, mad I hare been. nearly within sight of the Copper 3'ountaing, a distxnee which we attained in the last journey oily in th e third summer. Having been so fortunate as to eißct so much in nee season, and with our sea stores unimpaired, our prospects are flattering, oral we hope, in the course of next summer, to make the world melt tainted a ith a larger portion of the northern shores of this confines it than they at present know. We have travelled, however, too q uickly for the purposes of natural history, and since w e h ave ente re d t h e line ,f country we formerly travelled through I have not ad, led more than fifty species of plants to my list. Drummond (late o f Forfar), who is in a more fertile country, will, I hope, produce a t retry complete Fin, aof that quarter. He is most zealous, and for two summers will direct his attention solely to that end. Although this season has been retnarkably fine, and the fall unusually I ate, vegetation ceased with us in the end of August, and we h Ire still eight months of winter to come. In the remaining two months of the year all our collections must be made. Extract of a letter from Captain —, of the schooner Anna, to his sister in Aberdeen, dated Bata via, May 24, 1826: " I arrived here on the 20th from Singapore, safe and nearly saund ; and must give you some account from my wn hand of one of the most treacherous and horrid scenes that I eve, witnessed. I trust Providence, which protected me, will steer me clear of such a sight again. At Singapore I agreed to take to Batavia seven Malay Ifsjis. or Priests; I had also three Euro Kean passenger.. The former behaved very quietly until the night of the 2d May (the third from Singapore). %Fe were then 25 t ides off the cot end of Singapore, standing in for the land, with a light breeze, all hands asleep but myself, the man at the helm, an , I one looking out fbrward. At half-past nine p.m. while standing dose by the man at the helm, I observed two of the Malays running aft towards me, furiously uttering something in Javanese; ins antly suspecting their intention, I went forward to meet them. 'he chief made a blow or thrust at me with a krease, which I rt ceived on my left wrist, and knocked him down with my right hand.: the second one stabbed me in the left hip. In endeavouring n r reach the cabin, I fell, when a scuffle :nsued, in which I received F /vend tots on my left arm and hand ; but got clear of them both, at id got down to the cabin, followed by them. I instantly armed mys ill with a cutlass; a bloody scene now took place, too horrible to de' tribe; wounds on both aides were received. One of the Europe& 1 passengers soon came to my assistance; the mate and another of them alao got into the cabin, the former wounded in the bead and t sack. In snort, in three or four minutes all five of us were wounded. more or Tess, but in possession of the cabin and arm., and their CI ief a corpse beside ur. They now commenced throwin down iron bolts, handspikes, and every thing they co u ld ge t bol t, of, which broke our lamp in pieces, and left us in the dark. The crew to dt to the rigging ; three of then, were stabbed. We were some ti me in getting our pistols loaded in the confusion ; but, to cut this horrid story short, four of them were killed. and the other three wee e driven overboard wounded, after having had possession of the pot Is two hours and a half. At the end of this, I 'rot completely don eop from the loss of blood. M y boy succeeded in atoming the bl ending; but I was rather in a low elate for some days. Thank Coc d. my wounds are now nearly all well ; my left hand may come rou rol, but it is doubt ful. as the sinews are nearly all cut. Aberdeen Journe. Bony-STEA LING EXTRAORDINARY, —'rile inhabitants of Featherstone -street, City-road, were thrown i rite a state of con sternation a few da)s since, by the discovery that a corpse had been stolen from a dwelling-house in their neighbour! tool. The follow ing were the circumstances attending this eat raor.linary transac tion :—An elderly female named Weeks, who occupied an upper apartment in a lodging-house in Featherston,-court, had l&tely . been attacked by som e di stemper , w hi c h b a ffl e d t h e utmost skill o f her medical attendant, and she died. A stron ; desire was roam fested by some members of the faculty to (met) and examine the body of the deceased, whose relatives, hoireve !, refused their con sent to such a proceeding. An old woman, a 'super of St. Luke's parish, lodged in the same room with the deceased, and the only other lodger in the house at that time was a young woman who cc copied a room underneath that in which the corpse was laid out previously to interment. On Wednesday evening, between seem and eight, a respectable-looking man called and inquired for some person who had formerly been a lodger in the house, and in tweet to make amends for the trouble lie had occasioned, lie invited the old lady and the young one to a neighbouring ptiblic-house, to take a comfortable drop. By the interesting conversations of the stranger and his (clam's. and the introduction of drop after drop of gin, she was beguiled of a considerable portion of her time, but she at length returned home, and then, to her utter dismay, discovered that the fascinating stranger, taking advantage of her absence, had con , trived to carry off the body of her deceased friend, unobserved by any human being, leaving the empty coffin anti the shroud in the room. The afFair soon became genera ll y k nown , an d ex c ited a great sensation among the neighbours, sonic of whom have determined on subscribing to offer a reward for the discovery of the barefaced esurrection is ;a. EXTRACT FROM THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.-- " Proclamation, by authority, has been made throughout England, and is now making through Ireland, that the Lottery to be drawn on Wednesday, the 18th inst., is the last that will be drawn in the United Kingdom."