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Bennett. Peaky, and J. Russells Mrs. Yates, MIN I. Paton. and Mrs. C. Jones. To eettelude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN, J4CX OF ALI. rRADZS. War/polo, Mr. Huvrell ; Pantaloon. Mr. T. Blanchard; Claws, Mr. I'. Brown .Colausibine, Mine Barnett. o-mo rrow, The Itypocrttet and the Pantomime. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Tale Evening. TUESDAY. Jan. LARI. IO, will be performed the Opera of C The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. Power; ROllllllO. Mr. Fawcett: foam. Mr. Puri - met: (Sermon, Mr. Keeley; Nimpedo. Mr. Meadows. Clad, Miss Paton; Vespins. Ulm Love. After which the now Plass of THE SCAPE-GOAT. The Characters by Meagre. Blanchard, Cooper. W. Farrell, and Mea dows; Misses Jones and A. Jones. To conclude with the Pastomim• of MARLEQUIN AND THE MAGICK Roll; Dr, BEAD ry AND THE BEAST. ilerteaula, Mr. Grimaldi; Col LW; Pant alumbi oon ne, Miss RO Mr. Dameslllllr. ; ChM,. Mr. J. S. To-morrow. The Duenna; and the Paneenthae. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We wish the circumstances attending the publication of the lut communication of " A Practitioner" bad not occurred. The errors. however, are not very material, and on reconsideration our Correspondent will perhaps agree with us that it is hardly wont while to correct them by a formal notice. The Editor knew r.dthing of the alterations till the letter wu published. • 7lt• •EPHITIO H Pass, commenced publishing yesterday son in` sr five o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANVAILY 10. I$U. Last night we received the Paris Papers of Saturday, including, as usual, the Etude dated the following day. ,The only news they bring from Russia is, that the Senator -*appointed by the Grand Duke NICHOLAS to communicate ;to the Emperor CONSTANTINE " the result of the de 'liberations of the Council at St. Petersburgh' had arrived at Warsaw. This announcement is of a very singular and mysterious character. If the Emperor CONSTANTINE was w succeed his brother, as by hereditary right, how is it we find him thus in treaty with the Grand Duke Ntertotas and the Council at St. Petersburah ? What deliberations could they have had, with the result of which it was ne cessary to acquaint him by a special envoy ? I t would seem as if an attempt was making to impose terms or conditions on the new Emperor before he is allowed to assume the reins of government. This may account for his otherwise extra _ ordinary delay at Warsaw. We look with much anxiety for the next intelligence from Russia. There are some ob stacles in the way of Co NBTANTINL'S accession. Know grog his unpopularity with the Muscovite nobles, perhaps be dreads his father's fate, and is himself negotiating for the Cwwn of Poland in exchange for the vast dominions of the Cans. . . The politicians of the French capital are busy with spe culations as to the meeting of the Chambers at the end of this month. The Miniidry are threatened with a more powerful opposition than they have yet had to contend with. The failure of U. DE VILLELL's plan for the con version of tho Rentes, and the financial panic which fol loVred, and which in France the Opposition ascribe entirely to his operations, will probably embarrass him ; but he has iio adversaries who could supply his laborious habits of business and knowledge of official details. lie is there fore safe, in spite of the clamours raised against him. In malty respects, too, be Ins latterly conciliated public opiuton. The liberal course of foreign policy he appears disposed to adopt towards the new States of America has secured him the friendship of the leading persons in the commercial world. He consequently feels himself in a oosarditiou to set at defiance the factious outcries and in trigues of the Royalists who have arrayed themselves agautst him, and who, while they are the only party that could eject him from office, have not sufficient influence, either at Court or elsewhere, to accomplish that object. The subscription for General For's family amounted, co Friday evening, to upwards of 695,000 francs, about ef,Boo/. sterling. The department of the Upper Rhine has alone subscribed 6'2,683 francs. The French Funds continue to advance rapidly. [From the Etoik dated Sunday, Jan. 8 The Senator Apatehinin, chosen by the Grand Duke Nicholas to allny to the Emperor Constantine the result of the deliberations of the Council at St. Peteraburgh, has arrived at Warsaw. The Message of the President of the United States is extremely hag, and we have given above all that can interest European readers. It seems pat the United States do not abandon their vein/stow to be indemnified by the present Governments of Essope. The Prince Royal of Wirtemburg, aged three years, has bees dangerously ill, but in now recovering. The French frigate the Thetis, of 44 guns and 300 men, and the Eti perance corvette, of 20 guns and 150 men, arrive. at Sydney, Nre South Wales, on the 30th of June last. They sailed from France on a voyage of discovery. At, Evening Journal Eta , ES that his Majesty's ship L'Alcyone, commanded by M. Leine, had been totally lost on its way to Toelon. We are able to say that a telegraphic despatch from that part s dated January 2, announces the arrival of that vessel in the Reads. The shock of an earthquake which was felt at Strasburg on the lid Decemb2r, at five in the morning, was also felt at the same erottent at oflenburg, for two seconds. three leagues from that place, at Kuck, on the Kiwis, the oscillations seemed to be re- ne the that peated during two minutes. The motion was from S.E. to N.W. ; the air perfectly calm. Fa CNclt Fvxus.—Paats, Jaw. 7.—Fire per Cr ts. 9r.r. 80c. Three per Cents. 681. 3k.; Bank Stock 20771. rifle. ; Rente do Naples 781. dOc.; ftente d'Espagno, 10ii ; Royal Spanish Loan 49if.. Exchange on London, one month, 251. 15c. ; three months !4f. 90c.—Court The silk manufacturing districts, we lament to find, are suffering under the pressure of increasing distress, to which there seems no prospect of alleviation. If this is the natural and necessary operation of the system of open trade, so far as it applies to this valuable class of manufac turers, their situation is peculiarly unfortunate. What equivalent of advantage it will bring to the general com merce of the country remains to be seen. We are cer tainly not very sanguine on this head. When we call to mind that the duty upon raw yields an annual revenue of eight hundred thousand munds, and that she working up of this raw material gives employment to as much labour as receives for its earnings not less, on an average estimate, than mu* MILLIONS ANNO•LLY, we cannot help feeling anxious for the preservation of a manufac ture, the loss of which will leave so appalling a vacuum. With the fullest reliance on the principles upon which Ministers have resolved on the removal of the prohibition, and with the firmest confidence in the rectitude of their views, we still cannot divest ourselves of serious appre hension. We read in the distress which this law has pro duced already a lessen of caution against perseverance. We have not of late been sailing in smooth water. We are in a state that should lead those who have the guid ance of public affairs rather to court safety than to coun tenance experiment. Convinced, as we are, that the law for the admission of foreign wrought silks would not have been enacted but from a conviction, which, if well grounded, would authorise it ; yet looking to the fearful stagnation of the British silk trade, and to the hundreds of weavers that week after week are thrown out of bread—and suing no quarter from which any remedy is likely to be brought to all this mass of suffering, we cannot overcome the impression that this measure will ultimately prove fatal to those interests it was intended to promote. We think it unlikely that the question of the abolition of the Corn Laws will be brought under discussion in the approaching Session. It embraces considerations of such great magnitude, and involves interests so extensive, that to agitate it, on the eve of a dissolution of Parliament can hardly be deemed prudent. It is of great importance on a subject upon which public opinion is so much divided, that all classes should be brought to examine it coolly; that we should consider it, not in the spirit of contention— not as a struggle of conflicting interests- —but as a measure of policy, affecting the whole kingdom in its consequences, and on which therefore every man, as he values his own welfare and the well-being of his country, should reason without prejudice, that he may bring himself to a correct and con scientious conclusion. We say this the more earnestly, because we observe a desperate party repeating incessantly the phrase put into their mouths by the Times journal, sending an outcry through the land against " the tax on bread," and thus endeavouring to inflame the working classes against the agriculturists and farmers, who are in sidiously represented as their natural enemies—as the description of persons to whom all their privations may be traced—whose prosperity is enjoyed at their expense—who thrive only on high prices extorted from their labour, and who must be brought low before the great body of operatives can have the necessaries of life put fairly within their reach. " The land-owners," they are told," have opened the campaign—they have met in several places—have agreed to resolutions, and have recommended all concerned to be active in petitioning Parliament to continue the unjust TAX on every man's loaf of bread; and this ought to furnish another reason for active exertions among Me people, and more especially among the working people, whose voice, when generally expressed on reasonable grounds, will not, they may be assured, be neglected. It has been the custom among the working people to rely on others and to neglect themselves; the consequence has been what it must inevitably have been, namely, that much has from time to time been done against them, and very little, for Mem." What can exasperate the lower classes against the land owners more bitterly than thus to hold them up as taxing the loaf of bread, upon which so much of their bard-earnings are expended, and a sufficiency of which many, with large families, are with their utmost labour ill able to obtain? This language is full of danger, and it is meant to be so. It is the language of a Action in this country which, have all along looked to the working classes as to a great body through which they could alone carry their purposes. They know that if they can succeed in beating down the land-owners, the ARISTOCRACY must fall, and that with it will go the whole frame and body of the Con stitution actual and virtual. Can any one have failed to remark how artfully this Jacobin faction praise the Ministers, and press them to persevere in ob taining " cheap bread," and putting down "the mo nopoly in corn ?" What is their design ? Their design is no other than this—to delude the multitude into a belief that they have In Government an effective ally in this con flict, and under cover of this delusion they strike at the heart of Government itself. When we find the leaders in the combination system flocking on a sudden to the standard of those who oppose the land-owners, or, as they contempt uously term them, " the Acre-men," this is of itself enough to put the most unreflective on their guard. In wishing to open the trade in corn, Ministers, such of them at least as are the advocates of the measure, have no other anxiety than to give to this country all the advantages which na ture holds out to her commerce—they have given to this subject an ardent and unremitting attention. Whether they are right in the views which they have taken of this system of policy, as applied to the produce of land, is a point on which there is scope for opinion ; but whether right or wrong their object is praiseworthy—their aim is an enlightened one; and their language upon it is moderate, measured, and direct. But this Jacobin party, while they affect to echo their sentiments, revolutionize their language by exciting the working classes to clamour tumultuously against what they seditiously call " the tax on bread." Their great hope is to cut off from Ministers all prospect of retreat, and that while assailed on the one side by the resistance of the landholders, they may be goaded forward on the other by the factious outcry of the operatives. We with to draw the attention of the country to the mischievous energy of this faction of the CON.srTs and the llAancasTt.as, and by e timely warning to winger act ' prod' . . THE BRITISH PRESS. which the whole appearance of the Stock Exchange was of a more cheerful ascription. The reports that were circu lated were all of a favourable nature. It is imposible to imagine in this respect a more complete change than we have lately had in the City. In the first place, it was con fidently asserted, on the authority of letters from Hain burgh of the 4th inst., that NICHOLAS had been pro claimed Emperor of Russia, CONSTATINE retaining the Sovereignty of Poland : this had the erect of advancing Russian Stock r..ti per cent: but made no impression on the Consols Market. The importation of half a million of so vereigns at Dover, and the rapidly improving quotations of the French Funds, were, however, circumstances which exercised a material influence otter the price of the British Stocks. Consols for account opened at 821. They rose in a very short time to 83k, and finally left off steady at the opening price. Exchequer Bills were Ds. los. premium, and India Bonds kSs. 26.. The dividend on Consols was this day in course of pay ment to the public. Money on the Stock Exchange is ex ceedingly abundant, and out of the house first-rate bills can be easily discounted. In the Foreign Market there was great firmness, with rather advancing 'vices. o.dombiati Bonds closed at 88} ; Mexican 6 per Cent. 70} ; Brazilian Scrip ISe discount. There was some business doing in Spanish Bonds ; they rose 1 per cent. Some reports were in circulation, to which we can at prevent merely allude thus generally. In the Share Market every thing remains at nearly the same price as on Saturday. It was reported in the City yetterday, that intelligence had been received from Berlin via Hamburgh, stating that the Grand Duke Constantine had' resigned the throne of Russia in favour of his brother Nicholas, and that the latter had been proclaimed at St. Petetsburgli. The same account adds, that Constantine is to he King of Poland. The Funds are said to have risen at Berlin in consequence of this intelligence. 'We give the report without attaching any importance to it. It appears by the Frankfort Papers, received yesterday, that the Russian Diplomatic Agents resident in Germany, are calling on all Russian subjects to swear fidelity to the Emperor Constantine. It appears by the Dutch papers received yesterday, that the statement of the Prince of Orange having set out for St. Petersburg!) was premature. Ile left the Hague but to go to Brussels, from which place he had returned on the 4th. _ _ _ Letters have been received from Amsterdam, dated Gth ins:. They state that the convulsion in the money market had subsided, trade had resumed its usual channels, and the value of money had fallen to the old standard of three and four per cent. per annum. During the alarm only two failures of any consequence took place in Holland. The Nuremberg Correspondent, of the Ist instant, states the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar to be serioualy in- • disposed. Their Majesties the Kings of Bavaria and Wirtem burg have granted to the family of the late celebrated Jcan Paul Frederick Richter, the same privilege, for the impres sion of the complete cellection of his works, as all the Powers of Germany have lately given to the great poet Goethe. The letters by the Turkey Mail are from Smyrna to the Ilth ult. • they do not allude to the report that the Greeks had opened negotiations for the surrender of their inde pendence to the Turkish Government. Extract from a commercial letter, dated Hambnrgh, Dec. 27.--" The distressing accounts from England respect ing the failure and stoppages of banking-houses, together with some extensive failures on the Continent, have created general alarm here ; and many of our export houses are consequently anxious to ascertain the extent and result of these misfortunes before they enter into further transac tions ; business doll descriptions is therefore very dull, and few purchases are trade : Hitherto so stoppages have taken place in this city.; manly houses, however, find it difficult to negotiate their drafts on England, particularly their long indirect bills on the country, though they are made payable in London. In point of fact, since the fall of the Exchange on the 21st inst. (which was eleven grotes Flemish, or nearly three per cent.), the buyers of London paper will take nothing but first-rate two months, or quite short bills direct on London. Money is scarce, and dis count at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum. A good deal of barley has lately been bought for the British market. At present there are not more than from 700 to 800 lasts here. In the spring considerable briskness is looked forward to in this article, as well as in oats. Freights are rather lower— for barley to London, Hull, Newcastle, or Leith, 6s. per quarter, and ten percent. primage are paying." Girton Gazettes, from the 20th to the 26th December in clusive, reached us yesterday. 'I hey contain no Portuguese news, except some ordinances relative to the army, and an Alvara giving a new organisation to the means for pay ing the public debt; the measures prescribed by the or dinances of 25th August, and 29th of June, 1821, not having produced the desired effect, and it being of the highest importance to preserve the public credit, to main tain the principles of justice, and the honour of his Ma jesty, that obligations contracted under his imperial and royal name should be duly fulfilled. We have seen letters from Gibraltar dated the 19th ultimo, that reflect the highest credit on the character of Sir John Phillimore, of the Thetis frigate, and the Eng lish Governor, General Don, for their conduct in giving relief to the sufferers from the late hurricane, but which will probably bring down upon England the wrath of Fer dinand. It would appear the Spat.ish Authorities refused ell assistance to the shipwrecked mariners, and would op pose the English from the garrison proceetjing to their re lief; the English commandants simultaneously ordered a force to proceed by land, and the crew of the Thetis to proceed in boats, to give assistance in preserving the lives and property of the individuals; of course this spirited conduct met with no opposition, but we understand the pro ceedings have given the highest offence to the Spanish au thorities. and that the conduct of the English has been strongly represented to the Spanish Court, in a despatch sent off express. From the Agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar, dated Dec. 19 : " In consequence of the opposition made by the Spanish Authorities to any assistance from hence going to vessels driven on shore on the beach in the late gales, for the pur pose of getting them off, Sir John Phillimore, of his Ma jesty s ship Thetis, on Saturday evening last sent his boats armed, and they succeeded in getting off the Providence, of Malta, after discharging her cargo, and are now working at the Lovely Cruiser. A strong detachment from the garrison, under the command of a Field-Officer, was sent out to co-operate, and remained but all night. The out posts still continue reinforced. It is said Sir John intends to get off a Portuguese schooner and some other vessels. that are stranded. The Spaniards, upon seeing an armed force, made no further opposition." We are happy to state, that before the Palmira left Calcutta, authentic accounts had been received from Saugar Island, that Captain Burrows, Captain Finn cane, Captain M•Carthy, and Lieutenant Brownrigg, and every officer and man, except the Purser of his Ma jesty's ship Alligator, and one Sepoy, passengers by the Lotus, from Rangoon, had been saved. After the boats left the vessel with the Second Mate, anti twenty others, (whose conduct appears to have been very reprehensible) the survivors constructed a raft, which enabled t' em to reach the shore. A sample of very fine cotton, grown in our settlement in New Holland, in the parallel of 32 degrees south lati tude, has been received in Glasgow. It is, in quality, be twixt the Sea Island and the Upland, rather inclining to former, very clean, and well adapted for several kinds • manufactures. It is worth, at the present market per pound. The quantity is about albs. It is to be put into the hands of a spinner, to spin :hest possible number for which it may be found We anticipate, in the course of time, a large cotton from that quarter of our empire.—Cilas- .F6.—A m STEEDAIK, JAN. 6.—On London, months, 40. iN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 27.—M etalliques, Stock, 1,163 4-5. et the effects which their despnate activity iA caleulattd to I tt r. toriner, oour;n z ir p u l reduce. We are in a conjuncture that requires ill the r . ratchfulness of Ministers over the movements of their immediately ew allies. They are auxiliaries . whose co-operation, in it II the high he way in which they manage to give it, is the wont evil adapted. \V supply of co hat could have befallen the country. g, gum; Courier. ECCIIANG MY, Mownh Evrlstwo. 4-; tw o 4o The Money Market was to-day in a 'mild great ac- AUSTRIAN ni ivity. We do not recollect a day fat a Jong spite past on PO} ; Bank " • PASIIION4B1.1: INTELLIGENCE. The Puke of Norfolk left town on Sunday, for his scat, Porn ham, Suffolk. DepariureN from Thomm's llnttl. Berkeley-square :—The Doke of Bottler%h. for Lord Alnntagoe's sear, bong Barton, Bucks; Lord Mount siandturti and Captain Ittonsden, on a tour. :qt. and Led y Caroline Capel arrived yesterday afternoon at their brother's, the Duke of bt. Alban's, in St. James's-square, from Paris. _ _ The Larl of Surrey and Lord Wm. Bentinck left town yester • day, for the Duke of Norfolk's seat, Fornham, Sulthlk. Lord and Lady Anson left town yesterday, for their seat, Ather ston Hall, Warwickshire._ _ _ _ Sir Charles lbbetson, Bart. left town yesterday, for his seat, Denton Hall, Yorkshire. Lord kluncaster left town yesterday, for his seat, Melton Blow. bray. The lion. Agar and Lady Georgina Ellis have arrived at Roehampton, from the Earl of Jersey's seat, Middleteo.park, Oxford‘lore. - _ . Earl Be.sborough has arrived at Roehampton, from Earl Spencer's seat. Althorp, Northamptonshire. The Hcn. George Anson arrived in town yesterday, from Ather ston Hall, Warwickshire. C. P. Thompson, Esq. left town yesterday for Dover. The Hon. Thomas Grenville has arrived in town, from Earl Spencer's seat, Althorp, Northampton. Thomas Page, Esq. arrived yesterday at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat, Cobham. Departures:—The Hon. Captain Poulett, on a tour; Captain Latham for Bath. The Earl of Clue arrived yesterday at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street, from Ireland. The Prince de Polignse entertained the Marquis and Marchio ness of Hastings and family and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his residence in Portland-place. Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart. entertained the Duke of St. Albans, bad yCharlotte Beauclerc, Mrs.COUtts, and a select party of friends, at dinner on Slimily, at his house in Piccadilly. Arrival at. thee,, Royal Hotel, St. James's-street:—The Hon. F. Flumes, from Aylesbury. Departures:—U. Mostyn, Esq. for Osford ; W. Berirsford, Esq. on a tour. Arrivals at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and family, from Yorkshire ; J. Crampton, Esq. from Pans. Departure : —St. George Caulfield, Esq. for Paris. THE XING. WINDSOR, JAN. 8. His Majesty has since Wednesday last been obliged to forego hir favourite exercise, in consequence of the un favourable state of the weather, which has been excessively cold and damp. Ills Majesty continues to enjoy excellent health, and hat during the last three days been most closely engaged with public business. Yesterday forenoon Count Munster arrived at the Royal Lodge, and had an audience of his Majesty in the after noon. . At half-past one o'clock Mr. Secretary Canning arrived, and had a long audience of his Majesty, when Count Munster and Mr. Canning severally took leave of his Ma jesty, and after partaking of some refreshment left the Royal Lodge ; his Excellency Count Munster for his resi dence in town, and Mr. Canning on a visit to the Earl of Liverpool, at his seat, Coombe Wood. In the afternoon, at the usual hour of *even o'clock, his Majesty honoured his distinguished attendants with his company to dinner. This forenoon his Majesty, with the whole of his house hold attendants, heard divine service at the New Chapel Royal. The Rev. Dr. Sumner officiated. This forenoon her Royal Highness Princess Augusta, with her household attendants, heard divine service, at her residence, Frogmore Lodge. The Rev. J. Gosset, Chaplain to her Royal Highness, officiated. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. An anonymous " gentleman" last night made his debts in the character of Macbeth on these boards. His figure is good, his attitudes and gesture chute and ap propriate, and evidently the result of much study. Though too tame in his general delineation of the ambi• tious Thane, yet in the scene between Macbeth and his wife, where the death of the king is resolved on, there was some good acting. Miss Lacy, who made her first ap pearance in the character of I sad!, Macbeth, acquitted herself very respectably. If she did not " harrow up the soul" of her audience in the sleep-walking scene, u Mrs. Siddona was wont to do, she at least looked a most interest ing somnambulist. The debutant made but a very indifferent figure in the dagger scene, and in the last scene he completely tailed. On the whole this gentleman would, we have no doubt, excite a great sensation in a fashionable drawing room, spouting to some dozens of approving exquisites ; but we much fear that the same meed•of praise will be denied him when sought for on a more extended scale, nor can we borrow the preplictic spirit of " the Tragic Muse" to pronounce }inn an " improvable actor." What he was last night we think he will continue to be without much altera tion . If therefore fickle fashion shculd " mark him for her own," the public must take li 7 m for better for worse. We ought in justice to say, that the audience betrayed no symptoms of impatience, and that the banquet scene was greeted with much applause. Indeed we thought he made a kind of " hit" when, pursuing the ghost of Banquo off the stage, he says, " Being gone, I am a man again !" and where he finds himself deceived by the predictions of the " IVeird Sisters," his performance was not without merit. At an early hour yesterday morning the Duke of York arrived in town from a visit of condolence to the Duke of antland, at Belvoir Castle, where he has been for the last fortnight In the course of yesterday his Royal High ness transacted military business at his house in South Audley•street, with Sir Herbert Taylor, &c. Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday morn ing at the Foreign Office, to transact official business. On Saturday morning Mr. Secretary Peel left town for Brighton. The Marquis of Camden arrived in London yesterday, from his seat in Kent. Tue Doca or BUcKINGJtAM.—We observed a para. graph in the Morning. Chronicle, and which was inadver tently copied into our paper last week, asserting, that his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chanties had re quired that all his rents should be paid in cash or Bank of England notes. Nlre are assured that the following facts may be relied on : that when the run was expected on the Winchester banks, his Grace sent from Avington, his seat where he is now residing, near this city, to his bankers here, offering them the assistance of a loan of 10001. or 2000/. if it should be wanted by them and he added his name to the resolutions of the inhabitants of the city, expressing their confidence in the stability of the banks of Winchester, and their readiness to receive their notes in payment.—Southampton Herald. Mr. Braliam is engaged at Covent Garden Theatre, and is expected to make his first appearance in Der freisehulz. Mr. Einstein continues to improve in health ; all his spirits and vivacity have returned ; and there is a chance that he will again exercise his admirable talents on the boards of his own theatre during the present season. Mathews made his appearance at the Glasgow theatre on Tuesday evening. The house was crowded to an overflow in every corner. Great numbers went away disappointed at not being able to get in. The audience was highly de lighted with the performance of the evening, and with the usual display of the unrivalled powers of the actor. Bishop, the composer, is still employed on the music of Aladdin, which is in preparation as an Opera at Drury lane Theatre, on a scale of great magnificence. Miss Stephens is to perform the character of Aladdin. Bishop is said to have been eminently successful in composing some exquisitely beautiful melodies for Miss Stephens. The new scenery and dresses are reported to be superb. Sir T. Sykes has given notice to hia tenants, that in con sideration of the failure of the local banks, he will not re quire his Michaelmas rents until the beginning of February next.—Durban! Advertiser. THE HALNABY ESTATE.—Lady Dorothy Milbank was the favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, but got into disgrace on the afl'iir of the murder of David Rizzio, in which her husband was concerned. She soon afterwards fled, and sold ginger-bread upon the bridge of Berwick-upon-Tweed; by which, and the additional bounty of her customers, she actually saved 800/. with which she purchased the Halnaby estate, in this county, now in the Milbank family ; and with the proceeds of the rent (for she lived very sparingly, dying at the Age of KO she purchased the estates in Durham and Northumberland, the rental of which, a few years ago, was twelve thousand pounds per annum.—Leeds Inert ligencer. THE LATE EMPEROR ALEXAND (From the .Youthatnrion Herald.l The following copy of a letter, received a few from Sr. Petersburgh by a gentleman in this neighbourhood, may be relied on as giving a correct account of the illness and death :A the Tate Alexander: it also shows how much his Imperial was beloved, and how his loss is deplored, as own subjects as by our countrymen who are residents empire, on whom he has always conferred the kindness and favours:— " St. Petersburgh, Dec. '2 (old styli Sts,—This empire has just been most unexpected, into the deepest sorrow. It has pleased the Supreme I events to take the great and good Emperor Alexander His Imperial Majesty died at Taganrog, in the got Ekaterinoslar, 1.200 aerate distance from hence, on ii. of the 111th November (2d Dec.) whither he went in Septenu accompany the Empress Elizabeth, who was ordered to climate by her physicians, to pass the winter month.. jeaty had, it seems, made an excursion into the Crit several cities there, and was obliged to travel great way on horseback, as the roads are mostly impassable when he was attacked by the fever of the country, Crimean ague. This he concealed; and on bis way 35 vents in the heat of the midday sun, which the int, those parts most carefully avoid. He arrived ■t Taganrog 13th, totally exhausted, but attributed hie illness merely to '• On the 15th his disorder exhibited the most &len& toms, but he constantly refused all medical assistance, knew it would be useless. At length he became deli?i which state he only recovered to receive the last succou , gion, and take a solemn and affectionate farewell of hint. His hand clasping that of his afflicted wife, he spirit to Him that gave It. apparently without any sufft effect this most melancholy event has produced on all Is really not to be described. His remains will not rest till February, and will be accompanied by the Empress In the mesa time the Emperor Constantine I. has been' with all the usual forms." ANECDOTE OF THE PRESENT EN, OF RUSSIA. As a part of information, derived from respectable thority, we are inclined to add a striking anecdote. trative of the ingenuity, decision, and prompt' present Emperor, while Grantl. Duke, and Warsaw. There came to that city about two young gentleman on business, and who took pp with a ridi and respectable Jew there, well esteemed in the mercantile world. Having leave Warsaw for two months the young man left of the Jew a box of money, declining at the to receive, though offered, any written acknol of the deposit—such confidence had the young landlord and friend. Upon returning: bower , found that neither he nor his wife welcomed hi' his residence in the family was altogether so on as to determine him to propose an immedil The proposal was made, and readily accepted. the young man asked for his money, the feigning indignation, replied that be had gi) him when he left them to go to course, was with real indignation denied as He had however no pro6f; and seemingly many to whom he made his conscientious rather believing that the unknown strang,er, the respectable and well-known Jew, was falsehood. - At last, by the help of a friend honesty without disguise had obtained, his cal the ears of the brand Duke Constantine, who it sent for both parties to be brought before him. still denied the theft ; and the young man still his former declaration. The Duke, however, mined upon justice, and ordered the Jew to sit write instantly what he should dictate to him. I ordered tei write to his wife—" Ycu know w' —lt box of money, bring it instantly to safety depends upon it." Against this the . vourexl to remonstrate, pleading his innocence ignorance of his wife. But remonstrance wr writing was finished, a messenger forthwith and soon thereafter the trembling wife appeared with a servant and the box of money. The now a second time confronted. It was only for " an instant seen the darkly closing clouds be. in less than half an hour the young man had and the Jew was executed.—C4argout Chronicle, J. G. Lambton, Esq. M.P. passed througi Thursday, on his way to the south. We that the Hon. Member is about to proceed to _ account of ill health, his medical advisers deeming of climate necessary.—Darkant Paper. The House of Commons is now under the . sary for the ensuing session. The gallery and hers' seats have been covered with new mat Speaker's chair, which has so long stood the the house, is to have a new covering. The will be brushed up and aired preparatory to the Parliament. We understand that it is the intention of members of the Corporation of London to propose a museum or depository for such antiquities remains as may be found in the city added t which the corporation are now forming. M: antiquities, Roman pavements, urns, &c. have in the course of excavations for the city woe or destroyed. The new library will be perk perfect of any relating to the city and its hist Lions are made for it under the superintendent Taylor and several other well-informed members mittee. They have fine graphic illustrations London, arranged under the heads of the set-. _ which they relate. A few days since a complete the Gazette was purchased by Mr. Southgate library, at the sum of two hundred and fifty poi is considered cheap at that price. This, we believe, only perfect set belonging to any public body. Thi the London Institution is defective, we understand. several volumes. That at the Treasury is deficient Gazettes for 170. There is a set at Peel's which is valued at several hundred pounds, ficient in the numbers for 1760. The set, or the set, in the British Museum is deficient of Gazelles, and all those relating to the rebellion wanting. The Corporation of London are in a very with respect to the Courts of Justice at Guildl inconveniences which we alluded to before the opened are severely complained of. The the Court of Common Pleas suffers particu. not only on account of the reverberation of his own and oilier voices, but he is frequer censure the construction of the doors, which tunately disposed as to blow upon him with lence. His Lordship has been seen, upon f a door, almost to shrink within himself. 1.. last term he called the door-keeper, and ordered . pain of a 10!. penalty, not to allow any pergoi) not a barrister to pass through the door dim wind whistles and blows upon his Lordship able a manner. Some of thosc who have been remedy for the echo, are of opinion that the - be answered by lowering the roof; others be more advisable to have a false roof. It seem to be generally considered, that the very large the roofs must be shut up by a screen, and • must be bung round with cloth, to wine) adhere. The fact is, that very few of the present day have any notion of the doctrine in which their inimitable master, Sir Christ was as well skilled as in the other great the art. There is scarcely a new edifice nitude in which there is not a defect or of ventilation. Some of the wiseacres some time ago, thanght proper to remove the churches built by Sir Christopher Wren ginal position ; but after turning them one another, they found that the spots from presumed to shove them, were the very beet voice, and they accordingly resigned their jt of the architect of St. Pauls. It was a custom among the Romans, every advise those Om had been unsuccessful to visit Fortune, in hope of a change; and those who had to do as they pleased. In giving the same advice .. let It be remembered it Is for the last time, as Lotteries arc _ to die by Act of Parliament, and *litre will then be no loan ratanitieS to gain a Twenty Thousand fora few, pounds, Twelve Hundred and Fifty Pounds for a few Shillings, as in the present Scheme, containing Six Prizes of Timmy Thoassed present Scheme, centailiing six Prizes of T!snty Thoassed I'otuitls &c. &c. all to be decided iu Doe Day. dallied*. )Tdilmill:rYliierdseicirll7. to iitnperoe liitviaoenicitMgl that bai Majesty hisi na itl 4. . flnsifile7eWraccitnnh'teelar"htd: as t alipv : (aleE t nct'i tc h iMlT O weEi tr clibes . t: e olisßiv , ef :till:tut:l:i the ) i fli T h w i l l ern i: g p.,, P lin ril i E e tia nees 4tes te .ed ioef t : eatf;oultnetoritneeltstr;:'iatfgearnoci.hraargbitloyo)diliglioreituntihitthninaiiiial:er: esitlilisinilalekaaoagenawfio:necofetmfthfh. intro the morning nidad, and which seem: September to ' and Wittily resisted ih a. His Ala. imea. visited : t i i,r r inn a o r uy t s,ofi o n f irfrer t o h ltsr e i. ' ,, nature;gsWe s te ii ui o inb f d°l a'ati possessions h e u soil, gh I for whee l , . , vantages granted to I r, called the anc In n y yl it .T ab bNc togo l f t k a sn onti t r g s W o j ' cu v : hie t:e C i t t e l he i pr oduce, v v e rt t i l lw ) i ieiet p hh r F e i tp. . many rming symp. these laws is to get evil ; co the nn w no ho n le f o e i l ' in tl: in po sc w r e e l if all around i The document occur resigned his official Co/oniai Gaze! fesing. The its details: — I ranks hers A: each dna city FOR THE RELIGIOUS iss Elizabeth, *Ansi Y : 5 GOLOWII in proclaimed p l e:a:1:a ll u- Awn TOE TRL IMPB This law was enacted 1 toyurnhisedzassseelemientblyy, thheled6,a, . Charles Wilday, and \V. • It is to is:: pia in force on ~. in the Repel Gazette of rt • It is neceoiary that forty religious instruction of i Ines, of tbo V merits and Essequibo residing St yvara.ago a Section 1 enacts that appointed protector of slit annum—one half•to be pa c i p anooe(ki wily t :ten ec io fowled; asredrc:' Change. zaillon meat a bi ; e n ug w ea e Jew , ~ . d tl i i ti e 9 e n o . lonittl chest. The second to the sera eft in chary,. ' . as to the regulation of C; same time •-; b.c., and provide that the : iof castes or slaves. g man in his .. & Itefery to the stoner la and IC. No slave 51111 yet', he soon : listurdv and cut -rise on iirn, and that ' 11. he market held of icomfortable past MT LT. . • p u l i n: . i ... Declare, h l in f e i n t ti lie e n it e. a the il .1 illegal n u t 1 1 1. But when stimulus to labour. given it to exceed 25 Whoa, mid noi This, of after the offence, hi rises is not true. I . skier._ y , ..4 .0 E,t or near ti , r ROT af tea list of punishments the a complaint Av. &c. Staves may be r, and nay in writing to. and obtair as guilty of 13 to 18. That a Put ...every estate, and by 0 9 d whom his above three stripes must case reached Protease of Slaves, and immediately seated. Hare tallow len 1. The Jew . Wand 20 If the own ill abode by they ate to apply to 1 ,r, was deter-. ; .. ,date to the dergyni , 19 - . Every female Slam sit down and shall, six weeks siker ti n. He was or his attorney, 12 g where I put er•Tysaccortlir.g child. Sections 22 to 38 inch ) me, as my the morning till six in t' t Jew endeao provide for the caref..l t pace and the care shall be taken of vas vain, the aided, and that no slay h despatched, out an inquest. That i red in haste, shall be mad in families children, shall be allow e parties were and be protected in it. r a moment— is to be osid.ont of the rtween,"—for ' his freed nn if he is like ad his money, The punishments for ii cle. pnsonment. - DOTER, JAN. N. — ;it this city on regret to hear from hence to Calai: [ to France on between the two el :eming change - by the way of Bout . rived this afternoff repair net•es. money on account c red the Mein- ' mediately . irwarded netting. The . belonging to those e ornament of • logne, shipping a trt whole house ''''' ,his Majesty's packet the opening of :'vessel from Bunk); ~ were the Hon. St of some liberal Lady Caroline Cam ropose to have .. men were launching i or interesting .• vessel in the routs, to the library violence as to upset r Many been valuable dug u , Nl e by which one of tin ; v ath o noa r cet k pys s . 0, the fahcome most doril:losert. . thighs s t b b r e o i k w e e n e , n a the ud r and large family, w port, Early this t sera of the tom- French steam-pae k I Ornissing, and, up . 1 12 of Pennant's , heard of Min ; ant everat wards to -blown overboard in complete set of the harbour withou agate for this I Owing to the late ty pounds, and vessels have been al believe, is the 'from Ireland. The ody. That at mills due in Londo inderstand, in and four from Dan deficient in the there are five peke ; Coflee-houso, mails on board. ls, yet it is de- • i COMBINATION.- ir rather part of now beginning to of about 3,000 !term out-weavers a lion of 1745 are cottage, and borrow is, reeds, gears, &c great difficulty continued ten week luildhall. The who ought to have the Counts were ' about, plotting Mitt thief Justice of „ refused to work, th alar annoyance, - 'property returned of the sound of neither work n o t ently obliged to :the great majority ch are so unfor- • as considered no :h peculiar vie- the opening of their own property ' . and Sons sent Mei In the course of ' Dent and Senior w lered him, upon :rung, anti the who] person who was ' a a 1 v e a prepared fo .ough which the t ree may almost sr p in so intoler- compelled to retreat een proposing a .The following de: e purpose would *gain, accompanier think it would !eon. The same d seems, however, uletermined courag large lanterns on !.ten was furious d that the walls • . ten succeeded in di the voice may - I t erty. One outra architects of the nd lodged in the I rine of acoustics, •: louse of Correcti tristophir Wren. ,'. 111 these miFguic] :at principles of . o . 4e tt, ce of any meg - I Tit% Feu L OF Icf this kind, ' liar has felt afl gyres in the City, his tower at Ft 'e the pelpite in - icted the eve: in from their ori-' ty and gent! se way, and then 1 which they had ,and who had . his conviction et adapted to the judgment to that l Moved the I able, from it th iron rods, w very new year, to bleness, whici visit the Temple el isd been successful, n the public vice this new year, stone on the o Aitteries are doomed ' • raised was vi hen be no more or. appsehension t • a few, pounds, or . Shillings, as in the [HI b Twenty Throned . Pawed r, )at of Moth.