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c rat Tessa commence,' o'cioue pbl k. ishing yestettlay saolulag at LONDON, TIIIIRSD►AY, MARCH 2, Ira. The French Papers of Tuesday contain an order of the.: day by the Baron de I)IEBITSCH, relative to the arrest of EnettetsEca Fa ; an order of the day of the Chief of the General Staff of the Emperor NI cit oLAII. transferring. the G re nadiers r f the regiment Tschrigoff into the Imperial G u ards. for haring separated from the other mutineers ; sa t an ukase addressed to the Superintendent of the Palace of Oranienbaum, directing him to consider that palace as the property of the Empress ELIZABETH ; but the most important part of their contents is the report of t h e COMM ssion of Inquiry instituted by the Emperor of RUSSIA after the events of the 26th Decembef. The following are extracts: — From the tloilc dated Tuesday, Feb. 2:1.1 • AT. FF.TERSBUJIOI4, Flll.ll. Baran de Diebitseh. Chief of the Stltf, has just published the foliumng order of the day relative to the arrest of Kuchelheekm FEB. 7. The Cesarowitech and Grand Peke Constantine has just sent to tbe capital the individual named Kurbelbecker, known for his g on e mrei..ieatien n the events of the 14th (Nth) Dec. Ilia I mper i a l Highness has thought fit at the same time to make t h e bintmor acqueented with the laudable zeal and penetration of the subaltern Grigorietr, of the Regiment of Guards of Vol. birds, this tension. Defog sent on biteineee relative to the service to the suburb of Prager at Warsaw, Origo t ie(r met a atmagsr who spoke to him, and who appeared the more enepieinue to him, as hie face put him in mind of Kucheibeeker. a description of where person bed ban given to all the subalterns and privates of his regi. meet. Hs imermlistely took him before his officers, and the iden. tity of the nt , pectrtl person was soon proved. As a recompence for such conduct and sagacity, his Imperial kietty hat ban pleased to promote Grieorieff to the rank of Ernign,plati.tg him in the invalids of the Guard, and to give him besides a nom of 1,1100 rubles. His ,Majesty hart likewise given orders to make his excellent conduct known to the whole army. OH M% Or TUT DAY OF THE EMILE OF VISE GEXI:ItAL ST •TIF OF BIS MAJESTY TILE EMPEROR• ST. PETERSBE ULU. JAN. (probably 0. S.). At the time of the rebellion in the regiment Tutrigoff. the first camp ety of Grenadiers of that regiment, commanded by Captain (now Major) Kosloff, unshaken fn its fidelity to the throne, generated from the mutineers, and having joined its real chief". manual, assisted in quelling the rebellious. To recompense its viaduct on this °emotion. his Majesty the Emperor has mdereu that the whole of this com i tany, both officers and soldiers, shall be transferred to the Regiment of the Guard. In consequence I announce this to the whole army. (Sir et) Baron IHERITSCH. The Gag Ire (y . the Senate publishes the billowing Ckaee, ad dressed by the kmperue to the Superintendent of the Palace of Zarskojta,ro, dated the 9th of this month:— " The Palace of Oranienbauan, with all the 'Magri, farms, and other dependencies , which are the perettnal property of the Em peror Alexander of glorious memory. shall henceforth be the pro- Deny of her Majesty the Empress Elisabeth, our very clear sister in-law. In consequence, we order this Pie.nce and all its dependencies el be withdrawn from the summintendence of the Director of ther Palace of Zarskojexelo, anti 'tetra...4 up to the person appointed by her Majesty to receive them. Till her Majesty shall have made known her pleasure on the aubject, the Superintendent of the Palace of Granienliedin is to keep the buildings, the establith ments, and the how., hold, on the same footing as at prelim', and to pay the whole salaries and wages of the off c re and servants belong. eng tO it. To.morrow being the birth-day of the Grand Duke Michael, the Cart goes out of mcpaning. His Excellenrf the Count de 3lodene has reamed from Paris. List Sunday Count Lebeseltem, the Austrian Ambassador, de- Erered to the Emperor, from his Sovereign, the insignia and the Order of St. Stephen. By an Order of the Day, dated yesterday, Count Wittgenstein. Commsodee.in.Chief of the Second Army, In appointed Ceelonel of the Humes of elarionpol, which are tube henceforth called the iVitteteniein Hussars; and Count (Men Sasken. Commander in-Chiet to the First Anny, to be Colonel of the Ouglitch Regiment • of letantry, which shall henceforth bear the name of Count Sicken. PARIS, FE8.27. The crantnission of inquiry instituted by the Emperor of Russia after the events of 2tith Ihicember, without having yet been able to concluee its labour*, has, however. already discovered el series of facts which indicate% the Origin, the development, and b o le divers tof thtsocawasoaciatiati, thu horrible design, of which, if ercould hive been accomplisLed, would have produced in Russia west crimes and great misfortunes. We will give a succinct and prep nirary vita of these farts. ali taken from the examinations and the confessions of the criminals themselves. _ _ Their intentions were such, that the number of men who would have contented to participate in them and execute them could not but be very limited- For the honour of the Rottman name. and to the joy of all good citizers, this consolatory tact is proved to con vicinin. The circumstance which we are going to relate Frosts, besides tbst e absurdity of the plot equals its wickedness ; and to detamistfine that it could not succeed, it will suffice to remark ' the intsitarentm of all the plans of the conspirators, their beat.- non, the manner in which they themselves often shrunk back from / Omit own projects, and the impossibility under which they found themselves of extending their principles and their intrigue*. The first idea of this conspiracy was conceived by young men of an ardent and wild imagination, who. led away by the pernicious exampies of the retro ution of which Europe has been for thirty yens the theatre, aad seised with the blind desire of overturning every Wing which has signalized by so many disasters the age in which we live, forgot the noble traditions of true patriotism which were preserved ih the bosom of the Russian nation, their most sa cred duties to the Sovereign and the State, the oaths they had taken. their place in society, to indulge in the reverie of an abso lute rehtemation in Russia, and to combine in. the dusk the means to sceomplwlt it. . _ It results from what they have avcalt I. That for this purpose they 131,oured at the end of 1813 and the beginning of 1816 to form a secret association, which was to be ditidtd iao eutnerous branches, the object of whieh was twofold; Its aopirmt object was beneficence, its real object known to a very small noinher of persons initiated in the secret of a political reform to t' e 2. Thai so far back as 1617, the latter, as a fresh proof of the OtOMDlritt which mimated them, deliberated on the manner of attenipt.ng the life of the Emperor Alexander, at the moment when he e. m •ith his august family to visit that capital, which his explvits and h a munificence haul raised from its ruins. Th life , of Cr adored Sovereign appeared to them an invincible obstacle to the executb uof their projects. They intended to draw lots which i of them should be the &twain, when one offered himself %ohm tardy but a hether at the decisive instant the voice of their con. sciences attack them with terror, or whether they thought it ne e:nary to mature their plans of general subversion, they resolved to defer di • parricide. 3. That in 1818. finding their association not sufficiently ex. tended, they again met at Moscow, and gave it a new organization, under the name of the " Society of Friends of the Public (food, or tit' the (keen Book." This society continued to have a twofold object ; but all the member. were not only to participate in acts of cheity, but were bound at the tame time to contribute to the Progress of knowledge end the improvementa of =orate. The political refersettecalned the secret of the chiefs, who endeavoured urepas• the minds of others for It, anti with this view to in crease as much we po a ble the number of the adepts. 4. T.iat in 18tH ft eas dim:ware! by them that these measures had nit yet answtred their expectations; that they then held a third met eg at Moscow, at which deputies from all the section. of this biddy were plesen• hut where their opinions di ff ered, and the lead . ,. hay ng convinced themselves that the majotity disap. protean( their political view., prep ilea, in rode: to get rid of them, to disiso,r the Society, a prop( eal a hieh was sincerely adopted by some, Ind which others p . etet tied to approve. From that time mod of the persons who Mo. get o the Society in question, in feet, ceased to make a pa t of it. 6. That, h , hhe tit:Agree its of this Society, the true con gers.° a, thrttud new o e., where wins were initiated, but with eztren e recitation. and he reciprocate rebid .os of which were care fully evolved in prorburd seater C. That irons that time a principal association was formed, t o.e of the North and the south th t directing Committees of %h.. b sat at Sr. i t etttlibUTh and Tule-sin, on which depended toimt ees whi.ls tack the titl o uat not jnrisdiction beet that lc c sequel a toad toddy was :or net under the name of the 'te Saavonians, with which two members of the As eiatiot of the South were inttinseely oenneete.i. 7. That the chief f those ivse.cstions uniting their enrol, esta te e ed at this same time the.. Id nor effzeting a revolution by means of he army, and that with tit: view they endeavoured to engsg2 t =minders of commde% and of regiments. ti. That in these soli clarions tarots plans of reformstino were pr'pcs:d, accent ng to fee views and personal interests of the mem. b TN ; that smite wanted a government in which the supreme power was to reside in a triumvirate, of which they hoped to mike a part ; that ethers thought of dividing Russia into several independent perernments united by a federal bond, which would have been celled Slates, and of which they hovel to be the heads ; that others again thought of detaahsg several provinces from the Empire, diner to give them complete independence or to cede diem to the neighbouring rowel. b. That it, this confusion of ideas, in this collision of insulated pretensions, equally blind and etiminal, no definitive plan huh been adopted, but that Immo of the principal comminutes revived the bwrible project they had conceived in 1817, to ass :diode ;lie Empeel l . Alexac.chr, of a intiotis mem llfy. 10. That even in 11123 two of the members( of these street ratrauCLtidnns permlsr• , l so carry this dreadful intent into effect ; the. they went for that peeps*^ ltotimuink; where the Fmperor e ll to fobs; but toe non-appearance of their accomplices hindered them from attempting deo crime wlttrh they mertitateth 11. That in 11126 thh same come was again resolved upon ; that a man leaned•with Corner, by the E:i peror sees the person who rtheintney expressed the dedre :u aleetimnate him; that he opposed all delay ; that it was then tenolred thnt the regicides should he seta to l'agartiog. where his imperial 111.1jenty was stsying ; that these regicides were menshers of the society of United Sclavonians ; and that newerthelwas after further deliberations it wee agreed that the Emperor Alexander should not he annannirated till May 1826, when the enn4pirators supposed that he would review the troops at licbt.T•erkoff. 12. That last'y another desperate villain who had arrived at St. Poet...burgh from the extremities of Russia in the autumn of and also hod joined the association of the North, offered his arm to assassinate the Emperor. 13. That when a short and cruel malady. fulfilling the inscru table decrees of Pmvidenee, deprived Ruasia of a sovereign and a father, the commirators conceived new plans of subversion • that the persona designated as the first victim, were all the memher, of the Imperial family ; that they were all to be sacrificed at the same time ; and that insurreetiona should break out at once at St. Peters ' burgh. at Moscow, anti in several can:onments of the army. The men, unworthy of the mime of Russians, who meditated these de bsigns, strangely deceived themselves both with respect to the extent I of their means, which were null, and to Hie possibility of the revolt i which they thought they had prepared. Their attempt at St. I Petersburgh on the 2Gth December, and that of Alouravieff A postol, i near Kieft', have proved that they could not rely on insistence front I stir class of the nation, for the few soldiers, and even some of the I officers who followed them, were only deceived, and thought they were combating for their oaths ; they have proved that such plots, even if the combination had been less absOrd, could not attain their object in Russia. We repeat it, the number of tonapirators, and especially that of , the great criminals, is not considerable. All the secret 'ovulations ohith they had established are knowh ; all the projects which their infatuation, or their villany, funned or revealed ; all the means they were to employ to execute are disenvered, and thus, as we have already had occasion to state, important distinctions appear, a, it were of themselves, among the accused whom the commission of inquiry hce to examine. Some were the founders and chiefs of the secret societies ; others, their accomplices, were initiated into their frightful mysteries ; others were to be the instruments of in etruetions with winch they were, in Goa, unacquainted. Lastly. there are some who, like the misled soldiers, did not think they took term against order and their legitimate Sovereign. These differences could not but prolong the - labour,' of the Comattissims of Intinher. Though the chief criminals are already convicted, the exelEplary punishment due to regicides, to pro. motersOf troubles, or to men taken with arms in their hands, has necessarily been deferred, that the Commission might confront them with their acebonpliees, that it might, by means of the whole of the examination+, and the proofs resulting from them, be able to de termine the different degrees of punishment; above all not to exag mate them, and to arrive at conclusions, the justice of which should be incon estible. _ _ For the rest, the conclusion of its labours is not far off; and we hasten to add that it has onlers to point out to the Emperor, with. out delay, all the individuals arrested, from a fortuitous concur. term of circumstances, on suspicions which have proved unfounded, end that his Imperial Majesty immediately has them set at liber , y. A report from General Vermaloff, dated Tscherolenaia, 9th January, announces, that immediately aftc the receipt of the ma nifesto issued on the accession of his Imperial Majesty. the General and all the troops with him had taken the oath of allegiance to the Emperor Nicholas. The necessary measures had been taken at the same time that all the rest of the corps, as well an the civil authorities, placed under the orders of General VeruialoW, should also take the oath. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Fes. 27.—Five per Cents. 98f. 94k. Three per Cents. lilt. 38c. hank Stock. 2,009 f. Rentes de Naples 72f. Rente d'Espagne B}. Royal Spanish Loan 454. Hayden Loan 72.9 f. Exchange on London—One :11outh, 251.55 c. ; Thugs ditto, 251. 25c.—Courr Asithenlique. It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report of last night, that Mr. BROUGHAM withdrew his motion relative to the bettering the condition of the slaves in his Majesty's Colonies, in consequence of Mr. CANNING'S luminous statement regarding the coler.ial policy of the Government. The Speech of the Foreign Secretary will be read with great interest, not only by persons more immediately con nected with the question, but by the public generally. The Times, in its leading artiee of yesterday, added one more to the many coarse and vulgar rhapsodies which it is in the daily habit of pouring forth Against the Govern ment ; but the revengeful spirit of this stock jobbing Jour nal has been so long seen through, and is so well known in every commercial circle, that its malignity, wicked and desperate as it is, fails to produce the effect intended by it. Its language has about it all the excitements to rebellion, but its mischievous tendency is so manifest as to defeat itself, by cartlaug with it the appearance of trfsehery if it has the effect of encouraging the spirit of insurrection among the many, it has a tendency to alarm their fears, by the very undisguised terms in which it draws them on to disturbance and revolt. Nothing, in a season of public distress, is so well calculated to incense the lower classes against their Government, as holding - up the Ministers of that Government as wilfully adding to their misery, by making the necessaries of life dearer than they otherwise would be, and thus putting them purposely beyond their reach ; thus holding them up as not merely regarding their ! sufferings without sympathy, but designedly aggravating them, and treating the consequences with contempt. IVhat Jacobin Lecturer ever addressed the people in language better contrived to goad and irritate them than the follow ing " It should seem to be the most singular object that a Christian Legislature, or the Ministers of a Christian King, ever had in view, to raise the price of Me commodi ties of human life upon the sill: frets or the Government— upon those by whom the commodities are to be tin:anted.' Yet SUCH IS THE I , ROJASSED OBJECT of the MINISTERS and LEGISLATURE of this. (Thy; and the account which our journal presents in another part, of the negotiations with the Bank, and of the secret conferences of the Bank Direc tors with each other, proves the difficulty with which Me anti-social Act is to he accomplixhrd. Would it not be as natural arrl more effectual to extract Me teeth of Me inha bitants, that they may masticate less, or to ruin the physi cal constitutions of their bodies, that they may have less need of all the commodities demanded in a civilized state of so ciety, than to STINT THE SUIPPLT, IthilSE ABUNDANCE exists, by sexing high andAtitious prices," Can any man who values the peace of the country, and who feels towards it those attachments which the blestings he has enjoyed under its Government has begotten, and which a long familiarity has conaolidated—can any such man read this shameless attack without a feeling of disgust? The distress of the manufacturing community is undoubt- edly rest ; but as far as Ministers could relieve it they have done their duty as became them. The Times, her» the very first appearance of those commercial embarrass ments which have since spread so widely, has employed its columns in crying down public credit—in defaming bankers of every class—in striving to bring the financial solvency of Government itself into suspicion—and in resorting to every variety of exaggeration, and every merle of in vective by which the calamities of the crisis could be in- I creased. It is well known in the City to what an extent it succeeded—how it rejoiced at every new distress, and blazoned forth every fresh failure—how it has gone on' appealing at every turn to the distempered feelings of the ' ignorant, and working on the worst passions of the wrens ployed ms:ratives. From the first hour of that panic which occasimbil so much pt h:ic distress, up to this moment of the ardent exertions of the Bank and of Government to re lieve it, its continued aim has barn to infuse a new source of bitterness on every occasion that offered, and to misreprp sent all the m, asures of Ministers as injurious to the couh try and disgraceful to the state. But this jacobin spirit will recoil upon itself ; it has no moral corrective in the feelings or the character of be agents ; its antidote is in the sterling integrity of the Government and the allegiance of the people. It is with deep regret that we advert to the extracts from private letters received from Macclesfield yesterday, which will be found in another column. It appears that the tranquillity of that part of the country is seriously in terrupted. We sincerely sympathize with the numerous matiu:act ttrers who have been, in consequence of the recent stagnation of trade, thrown out o; work ; but at the same time they must be reminded that the course the Chesshire Wt :Ann/ arc pursuing can only aggravate their distress. A wanton destruction of property di ',gives the benevolent THE BRITISH PRESS. of the means and the inclination of assisting their indigent neighlmurs; and we can assure them that the menaces of amoh, under any circumstances, cannot lead to concession or an amelioration of the condition of those who are now unfortunately so severely suffering. A call for a charitable purpose is never made in vain to the affluent in this country, and the cawduct of the Macclesfield operatives will alone check active benevolence in their behalf. It is not more the duty than it la the anxious wish of his Majesty's Ministers to alleviate the present distress. From the first moment that it commenced they havo been constantly engaged in acquiring information connected with the embarrassments of the country; and the promptitude with which they have brought measures before Parliament upon this important subject, is the best guarantee that every class cf the commercial community can have of the future efforts of Ministers, as far as they can apply, being directed towatds an alleviation of its difficulties. We have given some extracts in another part of our paper from a very sensible pamphlet on the condition of Ireland. It is a curious fact, not generally known, that in the reign of Janis THE FIItST (1607), the greater part of six counties in the province of Ulster became vested in the Crown, by an Act of attainder of SHANE O'Neti, and other persons of distinction who had rebelled against the State; and soon afterwards a project was suggested to tl e KING for establishing a Protestant colony on the forfeited estates, which was considered in Council, approved, and published. In the year.loo9, hit Majesty coneciring the c'ty of London to be the body beat able to undertake so important a work, made propositions for that purpose, which were considered at a con4ence held on the 30th of July, between the Earl of SauseunY, Lord High Treasurer, and the Loan MaYorej with some of the lead ing citizens: and after some further negotiation, articles of agreement were at length entered into, on the 24th January, 1610, between the Lords of the Council, on be half of the Kina, and the Committees appointed by Act of Common Council on behalf of the Naxos and Com monalty of the City of London, concerning a plantation in part of the province of Ulster. In pursuance of this agreement, the Corporation of London, with the assistance of the twelvelnincipal Companiekcommenced the fulfil ment of the conditions on their part ; and having made great progress, the KING, in the year 1013, granted a charter, by which a certain number of citizens of London (all members of the Common Council, as their successors are at this day), were put in possession of the forfeited estates, and were ordained and constituted one body, cor porate and politic, who should be called by the name of " the Society of the Governor and Assistants of Lentlea,, of the new Plantation in Ulster" (now commonly called the Irish Society.) Soon after obtaining the charter all ' the lands granted by it were divided, by persons appointed for that service, into 13 parts; of which one, consisting of the city of Londonderry, the town of Coleraine, &c. was retained by the Governor and Assistants ; and one of the other twelve was assigned to each of the twelve com panies who had assisted the Corporation in the under , taking. The authority for this proceeding was a license granted by the KING for that purpose. In the reign of CHARLES 1. the citizens having offended the KING, the charter was in the most arbitrary manner annulled and cancelled by the Court of Chancery ; but it was re stored by CHARLES 11. ; and it is by this renewed charter, and renewed grants from the Irish Society, that the twelve Companies now hold. ‘V i f OEOO CITY. Evreisto : The announcement of the CHANCELLOR ot the Exekt- QUER last night, in the House of Commons, respecting ad vances by the Bank on commercial property was freely canvassed in the City this morning. Speculators do not consider it a panacea: indeed they carp at it as a half measure, and even in that imperfect state they say it has not come in time. However, its being found fault with by persons who are under pecuniary embarrassments, for not doing enough for them, is no proof of its unsoundness or i t inefficacy. Consols at the commencement of the market fell 1 per cent., opening at 771 a, and immediately retro grading to 761. In the middle of the day they fluctuated between 3. I, and closed at 76 aI. It Was confidently re ported that there would be a funding of Exchequer Bills to a very large amount, and the presence of the Gentleman from the Bank who notifies that circumstance was expected all the morning. Exchequer Bills were Is. prem. to par; Bank Stock '-iOl 202; India Stock 416 227, and the bonds 3s. Ss. dts. There was considerable activity in the nreign Market, owing to the sudden rise of Transatlantic Securities, Co lombian Bonds at one period being reported at SO, and Mexican Six per Cents. at 63. However, these Stocks af terwards found their level, and settled down, the former to 48 ta, and the latter to 61;:. The cause assigned for the improvement in Colombian Bonds was that an arrange ment for the payment of the dividends hail been made, and the advance of Mexican Bonds WAS in cooscquence of the prosperous state of the finances of tharGovernitient. The Mprincipal busiqess in South Am rim Securities was in exican and Colombian Bonds, b it the other Securities of the New Stet stparticipated in the increase& value of those we have quoted. Greek Bonds were l 7 18 • Spanish ditto, 94;, and Danish ditto, .511; Russian Bends were 77 5/ ex. div. The City was tolerably free from reports this morning. The following we understand are the arrangements of the Bank respecting the three millions granted for commer cial relief. So small a sum as .5001. may be applied for, and will, if the security he approved of, be granted ; and in place of one-half of the value of the goods being ad vanced, as in the year 1793, two-thirds will he given, The goods taken as a security will preijeusly be valued by two sworn brokers, in the same manner ',during the dis tribution cf the relief formerly granted to the merchants by Exchequer Bills. ~ The Brokers will sign a certificate as to the valhe and description of the goods. The whole will be under the management of Cotninissioners, one of whom was formerly employed in carrying into execution a similar measure. Bills will be drawn at three mouths' date, and renewed if necessary. If a further renewal, after six months, is required, there will be ten per cent. deducted from the amount granted by the Rank, to secure that establishment apinst any loss from the decline in prices, or a falling off in the value of the good by being kept in the warehouse. The owner of the gone -may in the mean time have such command as to eifeet.'sales, through his agent and broker, whenever he thinks proper. The accounts from Calcutta that reached town yesterday are to the 7th of October. Colonel Tidy and Lieutenant Smith returned to Rangoon on the 211 of September, after.; concluding the armistice with the Burmese. It was to continue till the 16th of October, and on the 2d Sir Ar chibahl Campbell was to meet the Envoys of Ave, when' every thing was expected to be finally and amicably ar ranged. The advices from Batavia that arrived yesterday are to the 20th October. There have been several skirmishes between the Dutch troops and the natives, generally in favour of the former. In one of the principal engage ments, 500 Dutch trains defeated an army of SAtoonative4, and such was the panic among the latter, that a great number were killed doling thp retreat into the interior. The natives since this action had not appeared in any force, and the island was becoming more tranquil. The Bataviati GovCrnment does not apse it in good credit in the island. The bills on the Dutch Government were ilrawn at the rate of 4s. per dollar; the bills on England at 3s. 6il. per dollar. Great excesses appear to be committed by the pirates. The Dtveli resident at Satubon (Borneo) had been taken, and, accor din g to report, put to (lest!). The English ship Eltie.ittb, had nso been :aken by these savages. PASIIIONABLE INtELLIGENCE. • - The ArchblOqp of York entetlalned, ye.terelay, the Director' of the Antlent Dlv..ic and a large party tit dinner, at hi. hotete in'Grotereuor square,. I he Marquis of Cholmondeley entertained a distingniahed party at din ner on Ttleaday, at itia house In Piccadilly. 'rite Earl and Countess it( Catsillix entea leaner" a distinguished party of the haut ton yestetday, at their villa, at. Margaret's, al iddiesex. Lady Gloydyr hat I.'ned cards of invitation fur a party on the Slit inet. at her house in Lord Bexley had a dinner party onTuesday at his house in Great George street, Wettmi _ . . Lord Eilot entertained a dlatingultbed -arty at dinner yesterday, at hia house In Dover-street. _ _ Baron Fag,' entertained a party of friends at dinner on Tuesday, at his house in New-street, Sin ing.gurdens. Dowager Iwdy Neave had • select tarty on Tuesday evening, at her house in Alhernarle--treet. Slr emote Trotter, that. had • grand patty at dinner yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Arthur Stanhope, Esq. had a dinner party on Thelday, it his house in Tliney-street. K. Douglas, Eon. had a (linnet' party yesterday, at the Admiralty. The Bart and Countess of.Kfngston and family arrived on Tuesday at their house, Whitehall-place, from Ireland. The Earl and Countess of itoseberry have arrived In town, from their scat in Scotland. _ _ _ Countess de Grey left town yesterday, for her test, Put nry.henth. Lord and Lady Teynham have arrived In town from Ihighton. Lord and Lady Alden and family arrived on Tuesday at their house In St.Jtmes's-plare, from thelraeat In Surrey. Lord Arthur 11111 has arrived in flown, from a tour. Lord Newhoruugh and the lion. Mr. Wynn arrived yesterday at the St. James's Jernirn-street, from Paris. Watiod Taylor, Esq. has left ditto, for his seat in Milts. Count and Countess de. Sella have arrived In town, from Ireland. Dowaf cr Lady Anson has arrived at her house in Curzuu-street, from Stafford .hire. • Sir Cbartes SaittoP, Bait. ►eft town yeriterday, f r his seat In Berke. Ste Alexander 'lope, Ba• t. is arrived In town from Bagshot. Sir Atexunder - Pata, Bart. arrived on 1 u..sday at .1, rdaii . 4 Hotel; St. James's-aired from his seat, Benne House, Devonshire. Thv Hon. George Anon hs's arrived in town, from a tour. C. Traci, lily. has left town, for his scat, Toddington, Oloncester •hire. • _ . _ _ . C. • F. Stuart, Esq. Js arrived in town from Scotland. Geo. Morgan, F.sq. M.F. arrived on 'Tuesday at CorDst•n's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from his seat in IlatdA. General Ord•wielved yesterday at Gordon's Hotel, Albermwile•seteet, from hts rent to Hants. • Leslie Foster, Esq. H.P. left Gould's Hotel, Jerrrirt•street, yesterday, for I,e;and. Arrivsto at Millet's lintel, Jermyn-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Blake, &urn Dtintin • Colonel Dalnmple, from a tow ; G. Lucy, Esq. N.P. De;aitures front the London Hotel, Albemarle-street T. T. Drake, Em. M.P. for Ids seat In Oxfordshire; J. G. B. Estcourt, Fad. M.P. for Ire% Ito. Ararat' at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square :—Sir Itivriaad HID, Bart. Com Shresiibuty ; Hon. Thomas Coventry, from his seat in Kent; Henry Drummostl, Esq. Departure Campbell, Esq. for bt. seat, Dtb- den-o: I , Hants. &rivals at tire Bath Hotel, Arlington-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Page, from their seal° Hens ; Major Mrs. and Miss Northerton, from Wales. Mr. and Mrs: JCSIOp have left ditto, for the continent. Arriests st'Yeriton's New Holel, St. James's-street :—Lotrt and Lady Glammar, from Se.diand r Lord Kinnuird, from Brighton; Caionel and Lady Augusta Fittelarenee, from 1111,11 y Park ,• J. B. Garland, Esq. from his 'eta In Dometsblie. departure.:—Mr. sod Mrs. Pigut, for their seat to ; W. H. Pigot, Eq. fur Madras; and Robert Vi'ynne, Esq. fur If, ...eat In Berka. Arri at BIM'S Hotel. Dover-street :—The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Free land; MIAs Brooks ) Miss fituntles ' • Earl of (Amore; Mr. and Mrs. Bristow ; Captain ClOlllll, n.pt. ; and Mr. and Mrs. Elliot. 1/epartures: —Mr. mai lira. Williams and family, far Ewe:; Mrs. Ley and family; Clmusin Pabowan ; and Earl Whital. Agytyals at the Royal Hotel. St. James's-street:—T. Klonairti, Esq. for.u.lkotland ; S. Newton, Esq f.oni Wales • J. J. Guest, Esq. from WaLift; W. Burrell, Esq. ; that Horf../. Sterna, from Scotland ; Sir IL Fang. Departures:—Sir R. LevingT; fur Ireland; C. Spurrier; Esq.; R. awta, EA. fur Bath; Captain Johnson, for Uxbridge; the Rev. J. Brooms, fur Liverpool. FE4II.4LE FASHIONS FUR MARCH. (From La Belle A vsemblic.l ()PEVA COSTEME.—Over a white satin petticoat is worn sl troupe robe of tulle ; the petticoat trimmed round the border with , •a tulle flounce. doubled in bias, and set on fluted plaits : this flounce is summunted by a ronleau of white satin, and an ornament composed of tulle, entwintd with narrow satin rouleaux ; the orna. I meat hollow, and arranged en tirebouchon. The tnnique robe is trimmed round with three .nafrOw separate rouleaux of satin, and is girt sound the waist with a rich silk cord, with superb tassels depending front the ends, which fall over the front of the skirt till they nearly touch the flounce. Over this elegant dress is worn a Pyrenean cloak of lavender-blue satin, trimmed with swan's-down, and finished at the throat by a broad collerette of the same fur ; a large cape falls over the shoulders, trimmed round with swan's down ; and at the arm-holes of the cloak are mancheron sleeves, to be taken on and off at pleasure. The hair is arranged in large curls, with a plume of white ostrich feathers. A necklace of pearls, composed of several rows, is the only ornament worn with this dress. HOME COSTUME.—A dress of fawn-coloured grog de Naples, with six narrow full flounces at the border : three of these flounces are reversed ; the other three fall over each other in the usual style, and the six are rep: -ated by a full rouieau. The body of this dress te made quite plain and hies; the sleeves rather loose s but pot tile'sno...ty wide, and the fulness is confined from the wrest to the middle of the atm below the elbow, leaving the puckerings distinct between, which produce a pleasing effect. A belt of the same ma. terial as the dress confines the waist, with a small rosette behind. A double vsndyke pelerine of Urling's lace covers the neck, anti shields a part of the bast. The hair is arranged ais Milanese, with white satin bows of riband. There is a peculiar charm of elegance and neatness in this domestic costume. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Viscount Melville, at his residence at the Admiralty. A board of the Lords of the Treasury was held on Tuer day et the Treasury Chambers. Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave a sumptuous dinner to the commercial deputations from Lancashire and Glasgow There wtre present Lord Stanley, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the Dean of Guild, the Aldermen Shaw and Tho npson, the Hon. Wm. Fraser, Archibald Campbell, 1 Esq., M.P. &c. If the preset el of royalty, if the assembly of the nol3le and distint.o shed, if the concentration of great professional talent can site zest to entertainment, the Covent-garden Theat - ical F.,nd Festival to-morrow promises to eclipse all mere ding ine tings. His Royal Highness - the Duke of Y we h..va great authority for stating, will most posi t.vely presiee. His Royal Highness of Sussex has also graciouly promised his attendance, NORTiIumBENTANn COUNTY ELECTION.—At the close of the poll on Monday evening, at five o'clock, the numbers were—For Mr. Bell, 1039. ; for Mr. Liddell, 1031: majo rity in favour of Mr. Bell, I. Yefterday a ballot was taken at the East India House for the election of a Director in the room of Wm. Taylor Money, Esq. who bad disqualified. At six o'clock the gla*s^s were closed and delivered to the Scrutineers, who reported the election to have fallen on Sir Robert Town send FarqUhar, Bart. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, wren Captain Gilson Reeve Fox, of the ship Mar quis Camden, took leave of the Court previous to depart ing for St. Helena, Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and China. Captain Henry Hostner was sworn into the com mand of the ship Prince Regent, consigned to Madras and Bengal. . The following is an extract from the Feloireur du Rhone (Lyon's journal) of 25th inst. :—" Our silk manufactures Here are in the same dreadful state of stagnation as those of England. Our silk weavers are unemployed, and will soon be destitute of the means of support. The English ladies, to relieve their unfortunate countrymen, have come to the resolution, in many large towns, of all wearing silk ; dresses. May this patriotic example be imitated in • France.." STATE OF TEADE.—Though we cannot say that any decided improvmcnt has yet taken place in trade, there does seem to he a pretty general idea that the worst is past. The 3d and 4th of March are looked to with considerable anxiety; but if they ram well, it seems to be thought that confidence will speedily revive. In London, we understand, bills were discounted touch more lively on Saturday than on any former day last week ; and here we are told that the quantity of orders for yarn is increasing from first-rate houses. There have too, within these few days, been a large number of country buyers of goods in town; and though they have purchased sparingly, they have been of service in the market. Some failures have taken place since our last, but none of a very serious character: one foreign .house suspended its payments in consequence of MeWs. Goldschmides stoppage, and several country spinners have also stopped, but their amounts, we believe, arc not very heavy.—Menelieeter Mcr uvy. The general distress in this neighbonrhood still continues without any , prospect of abatement. Work is getting more scarce, and the number of the unemployed is daily in creasing. Next week is expected to bring a fearful acces sion of suffering in the stoppage of several more public works. The condition of the poor is becoming more la mentable, as their usual sources of credit are dried up. Formerly they could have received coals and clothes on credit by paying at the rate of a shilling a week for the value of a pound. These payments, from the failure of employment, are mostly suspended ; and many of them are in arrears from which they cannot extricate taemselves. Numerous dealers that depended on the prosperity of the working CloNgeS for a demand for their goods have sadly diminished rims. The city and suburbs arc swarming with beggars.—Ghtsg ,, u , Chrolide._ E. 71^ Na 31Accir.EsrtEr.r1, TtrEShAir A movement bag, at last, been wade Soon after the arrival of the Lorid oh numbers of workmen and boys *an streets, but all was .}tier %II Art" half an hour after that time, tit le: aembled in the Market-plate, mod had increased to 5,00 n or 0,090. Mt were uttered by them, accompanies. watch-word .waa " who-up, who-hip, The first symptom of viodetue•waa lb through the window of a respectat Market-place ; several some gas lamps were broken, guisbed. The mob appeared to which paraded the public aye, Parsonage-green, nearly a mile state that a great proportion of very young men. • . . About half-past eight the temper of the mob grew worse, and other gas-lights were attacfked and the lamps broken. A baker's shop in Mill-street also came in for a share of popular fury ; but on this . occasion :Se rioters were completely at fault, having no itesticulai object on which to wreak their vengeance, for all classes of tile inba ! bitants have most liberally subscribed for their re%f. The state of things becoming worse, the Mayor awl hislniather Magistrates met, and proceeded to swear iri a great number of special constables ; the horse patrol was also muitered, and soon after nine o'clock these united forces proceeded to disperse the mob. Their measures were very properly prompt, and they were decisive. The discontented flew in. every direction throwing at the constables and at the windows, in their retreat; but.it affords sonte.gratilicatiors to 4tate that rta material injury was sustained by any one. In the mean time, an express was sent off, about ten' o'clock, to Manchester, for military aid, and before seven. o'clock this morning two troops of the 6th nragoons tend the town. These, it is to be hoped, will loiftifficient . to maintain tranquillity. The spirit of the people, how-* ever, is become very morose, anti the local situation of the town is such that, with the exception of two or three of the principal streets, there is no chance of cavali'y acting to . advantage in the quelling of popular tumult. ibis is one of our principal market days, and it is said was Axed upon for the grand movement, on acconnt of the great in flux of provision dealers. Hitherto alllis quiet; although' some thousands of the operatives are parading about the streets in " sullen Majesty." If any thing furtber occur* you shall hear from me by the next post. The Londott mail Is close at hand, so that I must close abruptly. FS. One of the Aldermen of the borough w:."I robbed last night on his way home, of hia watch and cash.'; he war not injured in person. tIIETHER PARTICtLARS. Tuesday morning, half-plat eleven." This town was in a very riotous slSte last n.ght—every body was much alarmed—mobs composed of some hundred persons were parading the town, and broke a number et windows, and completely destroyed the frames. They broke into several bakers' sl opa and cook shops, taking away whatever they ccald lay their hands on. tt seems they were most indiscriminate in their fury, as many of the houses attacked were throe! inhabited by persons unonnected with the silk trade, awl who had sub scribed large sums for their relief: This is mark, t-day, but sold) is the alarm, no commodities were exposed for sale. The town is like a fair; but I am happy to say, among the majority a feeling of disapprobation exists against such proceedings. The 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons are here. The shops were closed at an early your las: niglit. Some persona who had agreed to give sums weekly have expressed their tle:ermination to stop. Thus they will injure themselves materially if they persist in their unlawful conduct. The principal scenes of riot were Mill- , street and Market-street. TO THE EDITOR OF THE bar /1W PRESS• S► ft,-Yi it, ‘e Chancery," inquifes . why the vacancy in the office of Mastership, occatiened by Master Courtenay having ac cepted a situation it the House of Lords, has not yet beer. rupplied? I answer him thus:—Several heavy matters in that Nlaster's office will require his attendance there for a month, or probably two; the business or the Court, therefore, its that respect is not delayed, and your Correspondent (aod others) consequently not aggrieved. Further, it would be no advantage to announce any gentleman *shaving been appointed in his stead, until he would be enabled imme.4 tliately to take the place of his predecessor. I am, Sir, yours very obediently, March 1. - A LOVER OF PAIR PLAY. DESTRUCTION OF MR ELRFHANT AT EXETER CHANGE: _ _ _ This animal, which had been exhibited setetal Jests at Mr. Cross's Menagerie, and which it will be recollected some time since figured tn the hoards of Covent-garden Theatre, during the last f rtnight displayed symptons of unusual insubordination, much more violent thin was customary at this period of the year, which is considered the rutting season. In consequence, some potent medi cines were adminiatert d to hint, which failed of their ' general effect; and he gradually became more untraceable, till yesterday about four o'clock, when he broke out in a paroxysm of rage, and tore down part 9f his den. The keepers having lost their influence with him, it was thought advisable to have him instantly destroyed ; to which Mr. Cross immediately contented, as he would on no consideration have the lives of his attendants placed in jeopardy. Instantly some moskets were procured from Mr. Clarke, of Exeter Change, and Mr. ravers. and several shots were placed in the elephant without any effect. A messenger was then despatched to So merset-house for some guards, who were on duty. On their arrival the firing continued till past six, dur ing which time upwards of 100 shots had been fired, and one of his eyes shot out. When the animal was somewhat exhausted, an individual with great promptitude procured a sword, which he fixed to a musket, and fearlessly plunged it to the hilt in its chest. This circumstance. added to a well-placed shot under the ear frotn Mr. Her. ring, who had been indefatigable in his endeavours, caused the elephant to fall on his haunches, and shortly after to expire. It is supposed that the animal was worth 1000/. as he was extremely docile and intelligent. On Friday se'nnight, as air. AVonibwell was passing through Aylsham on the way to Lynn Mart, he stopped to exhibit for a few hours, and was very fully attended. Just before feeding time, a young man by the name of Rix, at the Dog Inn, happening to go too near the den itt which the lion Wallace was confined, had his arm very touch lacerated by his claws, and which was soon sewed up by an eminent surgeon, who was upon the spot at the time. A gentleman had his coat very much turn a few minutes before by the same lion. On Saturday afternoon a pedestrian, named Macmillan. completed the arduous task of walking 10.1 miles in 24 haurs, which he did 20 minutes within the time. He commenced his labours on Friday, at half-past four, atA finished at to minutes ptst four on Saturday. The silon of ground selected for the purpose was en the foot pave meta between Hope-park Chapel and he gate of Newin;-. ton House. Macmillan had the disadvantage to contend with of one of the stormiest nights experienced this seasi,o, being pelted with rain, wind, and hail, nearly half of th e time. Notwithstanding, he walked the last mite in Lit minutes, and appeared then to be quite fresh.—( a fedonity; Afercury. The ticket No. 254.1 drawn a prize of 20,000 yesterday, (St. David's day,) was sold to a club of twenty Welsh Men, by their countryman, Eyton, No. 2, Combat. 111811 AND T:IE TIA'ENTY TIIOI . 3AND3 !—Two of the 20,0001. prizes drawn yesterday, cis.: No. 7110, class A, 20,0001., and No. 10,0001., etas.; 11. YO,OOO/. were shared and sold by Dish, who also shared and sold five of the minor capitals drawn yesterday. ANTONISIIING SUCCkSA AT HAZARD'S P—Three out of the six twenty thousands drawn yesterday were shared and sold at Hazard and Co.'s offices, Royal Exchange. ..ti. Coral'', and 3'2t, Oxford-street—Nos. SU Li, (clays it ;) 7310 (class B. ;) 1000 i (chat A.) --==- 4- rAtrrilt af/tfACCLESFIE e eti wade by the ppetat . • idoii mil yestetdiy, grq.o began to coup:vile in Mt ter Si:? o'elock.: lb lava jlOOO people. lid by half-past seven The iti . lat diacordait mind bpat- Walla, and ' rapidly repeated.., was the growing of a dont: pectable desman in t • were theS thrown abou n, and etli hts extiOt. a be fornietYip. two partial, canes from Jordan-gate to ; but it is truly juatice to ' the eroctil woe boys and 'a