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Kimble; lago, Mr. Ward*. Daimons. Nisi A. Jones; Mullis. Wry. nitwit. To conclude with the Pantomime or MiILEQUIN AND THE MAGIC& ROSE; Or, r V AND THE BEAK!. .Hariequin. Mr. T.Uer. Pantaloon. Nr. Barnes; Clown. Yr. J. S. ' Orsti,3l , ll; Columbine, Reiner. Trzierrusr, The Duenca; and the Pantomime. Tue BP IT LIN ran s s commenced pablishisgon Saturday mom:11g as five o'clock. LONDON. NIONDAY, J.►vu*w 23, 1826. • The French Papers which arrived last night bring further intelligence from Russia. The accession of the Emperor Ntcnotas has been confirmed by the peaceful and unanimous adhesion of the civil and military autho rities of Moscow. Previously to the ceremony of swear ir.g sllegiance to the new Sovereign, the ARCHBISHOP Publicly read the will of the late EMPEROR in the Ca thedral. From this procedure, as well as from a letter written by the Grand Duke CONSTANTIN r, on the loth , of December, to the Minister of Justice, disclaiming the imperial; title, by which during the interregnum, we sup • pose, he had been addressed in an official report by that 11:inister, it appears that the abdication of the CE tsaitowyrscit was certainly not voluntary, though his sacred regard to the oath he 'had taken forbad him for an instant to think of violating it. He states this ex 'pressly in his epistle to the Minister of Justice. .He submits himself "to the will manifested by his late Imperial Majesty:: On the 31st of December a proclamation was issued respecting the mutiny of the 46th. This do cuasent divides the guilty into two classes—those who were misled by theirimistaken fidelity to CONSTANTIN E a7.d those who availed themselves of the oath to the Cc s.teowtrscu only as a pretext for treason. The designs of the latter, we are told, had been " long matured in darkness." Their object was "to cast down the throne and the laws, to overturn the empire, and to produce lu:tray." We shall wait to see how these allegations are supported by subsequent evidence. At present we confess we are somewhat incredulous. if they had revolutionary tlesigns in such a country as Russia, they rather deserve the seclusion of a lunatic asylum than the punishment of high t - eason. No project could be more outrageously absurd, nor would any set of men have been less disposed to carry it into execution than the instruments with which they had commenced the undertaking. His Imperial Ma jesty forgives the misled, but declares his determination to le.flict the utmost rigour on the guilty. Ile will destroy the evil spirit ".to the very roots." Instead of this de nunciation, how much better would a general act of grace hare become the accession of the new Monarch, excepting from its operation only those who were actually concerned in the death of General Munn snowirsca and the other officers who perished in the mutiny. (From the Et,i!e dated Saturday. Jan. 21.1 Pants. JAN. 20. An extraordinary courier, who left St. Petersburgh the 4th of January, brings the following news : •• ay she ,race of God, we, Nicholas 1., Emperor and Autocrat of all &r Hussain, &e. &e. &c. " To all our faithful subjects, greeting : •• The , lep:orable event which uoublett the day of the 2.4:11 of' December, the day on whit& our manifesto announced to our wolde chit we had j ust ascended the throne, is known in sll its d-tails by the account which we have caused to be published of it. " At the moment alien the first bodies of the State, all the civil and military functionaries. the people, the troops, were unanimously t eking to the oath of obedience and hdel•ty.anel, assembled in ths Temples of the hoed. ware mroktug the divine blessing on our reign, a handful of fatuous persons opposing this national act dared to brave the law's authority , military discipline, end persuasion. To disperse this troop of rebels it was necessary to employ foice. hock is slow words, is the whole of this event. Little important itself, it is but too much so from its origin and its consequences. Hut, whatever grief they may cause us, we find in then, the impe. no:rattle asps sat Providence, who punishes evil, and from that cell itself causes good to proceed. On the mere sight of the first results of the inquiry into the triubtes of. the 26. it, in the assert:l)l%re which produced them, two .losses of men are realised. The first were only misled t they ware ignoesiit of the plot: the others, real conspirators, served as Whet did thae misled men intend ?—TO preserve the faith of theiroaths. Leery artifice had been employed to make them be lieve that they were defending the throne; and, under the empire of this idea. they were unable to listen to any other persuasion. " Whatdid tbe conspirators intend ?—The sacred words of fidelity, oath, legitimate order, even the name of the Cesarowitach and the gland Duke Constantine were foe them only a pretext for treason. They visited 1.0/ profit by the moment to accomplish their criminal designs ; (tri n es Ina contrived, long meditated. long matured in darkness. aid th, iLystery of which the Government had pene trated only in part. They intended to mot down the throne and the Imes. to `venues the empire, to produce anarchy. •` Whitt. were their means ?—Aesasainadon. Their first victim was the mill sty tiovcrnor Count Miloradowitsch, lie whom in the g 3 id of b0 t6 4 6 . r . die chances of war had shared in fifty battles, has fallen under the I.lnd of an assassin. This murder is not the only one. Count Stotler, Commander of the regiment of _grenadiers of the body guard, killed ; Mayor-fiereral Seltenschin, i'rierleriche and others severely wounded, have , •caled with their blew/ their lidel,ty to honour and to duty. " Hurried tiUlt tumult, the soldiers of the companies that were ledwead did i net participate in these crimes either in act or intention. A r' as tnqpity has given me tine proof of this, and I consider It sa a nig% act uf justice, as well as icy first conselation, to declare th-in innocent. • Hit the acme Justice forbids us to spare the guilty. All those 4+461.5t whom proceedings are instituted. and who shall he con vi-veil. will uudcrgo a punishment proportioned to their crimes. '• From the weestirea already taken, the proceedings and the penyhment will embrace in its whole extent in all its ramifications on evil. the germ of which is of the growth of years. and I am con. they will destroy it to the very 1011 S they will purge of this ot.tr contagion the sacred soil of Meseta ; they will cause to die. appear that odious mixture of melantiply truth, and graMitous suspicions which is repugnant to noble minds; the, will draw for ever a decisive and ineffaceable line of demarcation, between love of country an I revolotionary passions, between the desire of im provement and the rage of convulsior.s; they will show to the world that the Russian nation, always faithful to its sovereign and to the laws, repels the secret efforts of anarchy as it has repelled the open attacks of its declared enemies ; they will show how people may tree themselves from such a scourge, they will prove that it Is not every where indestruc:lble. .• We have the hope and the right to expect these salutary re sults from the attachment which all dames of our subjects slto• to us znd to our throne. Even at the time of the event of the 9ti h, we found with joy and with gratitude in the inhabitants of the ca. pita! 114 much affection as seal ; in the troops the most impatient desire to chastise the revolt at the first signal of the Monarch ; to their officers the most sincere devotedness, inspired by a profound feeling of love to us, and by true honour. " Among them was distinguished Count Miloradowitesh, an in trepid soldier, an able Captain, an officer constantly loved, terrible in war, gentle in peace, in his administration full of justice, zealous in fulfilling the orders of his Sovereign, a devoted son of the Church anti of the country; he has fallen under the blow of a cow. ardly and perfidious hand, far from the fields of battle, but he has fallen faithful to his duty, and his memory is imperishable in the annals of Russia. Leven at St. Petersburgh, the 31st December, in the year of tiracv 1821, and the first of oar reign. (Signed) " NICHOLAS." The city of Moscow has taken the oath of allegiance to his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas with the greatest enthusiasm. On Friday the 30th. at tea in the morning, Prince Gallitzin, Military Governor of Moscow, commanding the five corps of the army, General Count TC,toy, all the Members of the Senate, all the Civil and Military Authorities, the superior clergy, the Nobility, the Merchants, assembled i n th e C at h e d ra l o f the Assumption. The original of the last will of the Emperor Alexander was deposited there. His eminence the Archbishop of Moscow opened this docament, and read it publicly, as well a the manifesto of the Emperor Nichol a s. Immediately all the functionaries abovementioned, and the whole assembly took the oath to the new Sovereign. A re Deem celebrated his accession to the throne, In the course of the day the same oath was taken by all the troops, and by the whole capital. It has expressed the most unanimous attachment to our august Sovereign. By an Order of the Day of the 19th (77th) his Majesty has ap- pointed hi. Imperial Highness, his heir, Commander of the Regi ment of 14uards of Grenadiers of Pawlowsk. The obsequies of Count 3111oradowitsch took _place on the 3d, with all the Whitey honours due to his rank. The funeral mass was chanted in the cathedral of our Lady of Casten. Hie .Majesty the Emperor and the Grand Duke Michael were present. The mortal terrains of Count Miloradowitach are deposited in the monastry of St. Alexander Newsky. I'then follow several Ceders of the Day conferring appointroents and rewards on the effects employed in suppressing the mutiny, and a douccur of one rouble, a glass of brandy, and a pound of fish per man to the subalterns and soldiers.) We have received from Warsaw the following piece, which we hasten to publish : " Address of his Imperial Highness the Cesarowitsch and Grand Duke Constantine Paulowitsch to the ltnister of Justice, Ge neral of Infantry, Prince Lohanow Roetowsky. " The Counsellor of the College of the Section of the Procu. rators-General of the Directing Senate, has remitted to me a de. spatch from your Highness, with the address To his Imperial Majesty, Constantine Pawlowitsch,' a very submissive report of the Minister of Justice. " As I do not think myself entitled to accept It, because accord ing to this direction it is not sent to me, I send it back to your Highness by the same officer. fly my letter of the 3d (15th) Dec. to his Excellency the President of the Senate the Privy Councillor of the first clue, Prince laspouchin, your Highness must have been exactly informed of the reasons which do not permit me to accept the Imperial dignity. I have in consequence only to to you in a few words, that according to the oath taken by all the subjects on the secession of hi s Majesty the Emperor Alex ander, of glorious memory, in which, among other things, it is ex pressly said that every subject is faithfully to serve and obey not only his Majesty the Emperor Alexander Pawtowilsch, but also the successor to the throne of his Imperial Majesty who should be desig nated ; and as it appears front the documents opened in the Colin cil of State, which are entirely conformable to those deposited with the diredting Senate, that by the supreme will of his late Majesty the (Irand Duke Nicholas has been designated es successor to the throne, the directing Senate, as conservator of the will of his late Majesty the Emperor Alexander Paulowitsch, of glorious mentor 7, ought to have carried it, and will carry it into execution. " W bile acknowledging with gratitude the attachment which the Directing Senate has shewn to my person, I request your Highness to express to that noble body all my gratitude, adding that the more deeply I feel the value of this attachment, the more I ant penetrated with the duty of conforming inalterably to the will manifested by his late late Imperial Majesty." [The original of this letter is signed by his Imperial Highness Constantine Cesarowitsch.) " Warsaw, Bth (21filo Dec 1825." Fitt /CCM Ft; !tbs.—PARIS, JAN. 20.—Five per ('ans. 98t. 70c.; Three per Cents. h7f. 50e. ; Neapoplitan Rents, 78r. :loc. ; Rcnto d' Espagne 41f.; Haytian, 804). Exchange on London —Tine month 23f. 15c. ; three mouths24f. 90c.—Cosa A st/us. tape. The Austrian Observer of the 11th inst. was received last night. It furnishes us with a highly important docu ment—the Manifesto issued by the Emperor NICHOLAS on the day of his accession. Ills Im rr mat. MAJESTY an nounces his resolution to adhere entirely and faithfully to the policy and engagements of his august predecessor, and in return IM expresses his hope that the other Powers will continue with him " those relations of intimate friendship and mutual confidence which have given to Europe ten years of rtpose." All doubts are thus happily at an end with regard to the pacific disposition of the new EMPEROR. Cor dially do we again congratulate our countrymen on this additional guarantee to the maintenance of the tranquillity of the world. RUSSIA. On the 211th December, being the day of the accession at his Majes..y the Emperor Nicholas 1., Count Nesseirode, Secretary of State for Foreizn Affairs, addressed to the Representatives of Fo reign Powers at the Russian Court a note, in which this event is officially notified to them, and the 31anifesto of the new Sovereign commuricalcd to them. This uote then proceeds thus:— `• Called to the inheritance of the dominions of the Emperor Alexander, the Emperor Nicholas inherits also the principles which directed the policy of his august predecessor, and his Imperial Ma. jesty has therefore given orders to his Ambassadors, Ministers, and Agents at Foreign Courts, to declare to them, that earnestly striving to follow the footsteps of tne Sovereign whose loss he deploreds, lie will profess the same fidelity to the engagements contracted by Russia, the same respect for all rights consecrated by existing treaties, the sante attachment to the maxims which insure the general pence, and of the bonds that exist between the Powers. " On the other hand, the Emperor confidently hopes from them the sameldisposition to maintain their relations of intimate friend ship and inntual coufidence, which, having been established and maintaired 11: . ..dcr the I:tupetor Alexander, have given to Europe ten years of repose." . rxsa, JaN.lO.-31etailiques 91.15-16. ; Bank Stock 1155. IVe have received papers from New York to the 2,1 inst. and from B•zstou to the 90th ult. The proceedings in Con greets were reported •to the 27th ult. inclusive. Nothing of importance had, up to that period, taken place. The House of Representatives was still occupied with motions for referring particular parts of the President's Message to the consideration of Select Committees. The only offi cial communications from the Executive , since the opening of the St ssions were made on the 27th, in obedience to previous resolutions of that branch of the Legislature. The National Intelligencer, in reference to the latter of these communications, has the following remarks:— It was a novel incident in the proceedings of the House of Repre sentatives yesterday, that the galleries should be cleared and the doors dosed to receive a confidential communication from the Pre sident. It is many years since a similar incident occurred In that body. It'e rejoice that the fact was, in this case, portentous of so innocent a conclusion as the published message discloses. Our readers will find in the extracts subjoined that the seal of confidence was only imposed pro forma. It is announced in the Washington Papers that the PuESIDENT has nominated to the Senate as " Commissioners on the part of the United States to the Assembly of American Nations at Panama," RICHARD C. ANDERSON, of Ken tucky, the Minister of the United States to the Republic of Colombia, and Jowl Salo satyr, of Philadelphia. WI Lusa. B. ROC/MI . IER, of New York, is nominated Secretary to the Commission. The disagreement between the General Government and the State of I:eorgia seems likely to be adju sted amicably. A member of the legislature of Georgia has introduced a set of resolutions approving the caurse pursued by the General Government. These, perhaps, will not be passed, TIIE BRITISH PRESS. • I but they willin ill probabillt/ lead to some measures of concession by the party which is equally wrong and weak. The news from South Afetrica is not so recent as we al , ready possess. The most interesting paragraph is tLat de scriptive of the provisiiins of the treaty between Great Britain and Brazil. A forged proclamation had been cir culated in New York, purporting to have been issued by Bourne, on invading Brazil. Its authenticity was promptly denied by the Colombian Consul in that city. [From the Xere York Gazette of Dee. 31.1 PROCEEDINttti IN CONGRE>S. Roost: or ItErwEsisrra-rtvEs, Dec. 27. The Speaker communicated to the House a message from the President of the United States, this day received by the hands of Mr. John Adams, jun. enclosing a report from the Department of State on the subject of correspondence with Great Britain relating to the ShVe trade, which was ordered to b, printed. On opening another message received from the President, the Speaker announced the same to boot a confidential natnre. The galleties were cleared and the doors closed, and so remained for some time. When they were opened again, it was ascertained that the injunction of secrecy in regard to its proceedings had been so far removed as to allow the publication of the messai;e of the Pre sident, which was as follows : Washington. Dec. 27, 1 1125. To the House of Representatives of the United Suites. In compliance with a resolution of the !louse of Representatives, of the Nth inst., I now transmit a copy of the Message of Presi. dent Jefferson to both Houses of Congress, of 18th January 1803, recommending an exploring expedition across this continent. It will be perceived, on the perusal of this Message, that it was con. Wound; for which reason, the copy of it is now communicated in the same manner; leaving to the judgment of the House to deter. mine whether any adequate reason yet remains for withholding it from'publication. I possess no other document or infortmaion io relation to the same subject, which I consider as coming within the scope of the resolution of the House. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. The letter of Mr. Jefferson, referred to in the message. is yet concealed under the veil of confidence, which may or may not be removed by a subsequent vote of the House. Before r.rangers were again admitted, the House adjourned. [From the New York Daily Adrerlier of Dec. Sl.l TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND BRAZIL. A paper forwarded us by our correspondent at Rio Janeiro pub. fishes, though not officially, this Treaty, which is said to have been signed at Rio on the l llth of October last. The sing of England acknowledges the independence of Brazil, and the imperial dignity in the person of the Emperor Don Pedro 1, ' and his legitimate heirs and successors. The Treaty promises per. petual peace and amity, and provides for the appointment or Con sots; grants the most perfect liberty of conscience to subjects of each State, and all privileges granted to those of the must fi. soured nations; prohibits the reception into either country of deserters or traitors from the other; grants reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation between the subjects of both, either in Brazilial or British vessels, in all ports, cities, and territories of each, except those which are positively prohibited to any foreign nktion—.and to establish stores, &e. &c. The treaty requires that each British and Brazilian vessel shall hare the Captain and three. fourths of the crew natives of their respective countries; and for bids commerce only in ankles the property of enemies, contraband or reamed by the Crown of Brazil. Provision is matte for the establishment of packets between the two countries, for warehous. ing goods not auntitted, fur the equal allowance of established bounties and drawbacks to ships of both nations, and for a free sale of English goods to customers of all descriptions in Brazil. with out regard to particular companies. esrept in cases where all corn. merce is placed under the same restrictions. A document professing to be a Proclamation of Bolivar to the Brazilians, on entering their country front Upper Peru, has been recently received from Pernambuco, and published in several pa pers. la addition to some circumstances relating to dates, &c. which appeared to render Its genuineness questionable, it was un equivocally denied in the Evening Papers yesterday by the Colon. bin Consul, Mr. Medina. [From the New York Gazytte of Dec. 291 The ship of the line now building at the Navy Yard, Philadel phia, is to be called the Pennsylvania ; and the frigate which is finished, but not yet launched, is to be called the Raritan. The Act of Congress directs the ships of the line to be named after the States, and the frigates after the Rivers. [From the National luttllieencer of Dec. 21.1 FIRE AT THE CAPITOI..—AbOIIt twelve o'clock on Thursday night, Vincent, the sergeant of the guard on duty at the capitol, being apprised of an unusual light in the apa r tm ent o f the Library of Congress, shunted the libranan, who instantly came to the spot, and, on opening the doors, perceived a part of the gallery (of wood) which runs round the apartment, to be on tire. Ile immediately removed the books in the alcove adjoining; and the alarm being spread, the citizens promptly assembled. An engine and hove were brought, and by the very active exertions of the firemen, ni t ' e d by a number of members of congress, who vied with one another in their exertions to save the Library, the flames were extinguished in less than an hour. Very few of the books, and those of little value, are con sumed. Some others, of course, are injured by the wet. and by a hasty removal, but the Ins& is trifling to what might have been expected. The ceiling of the saloon is partly destroyed, and one of the alcoves of this beatriful apartment. It is believed that the fire originated front a candle left in the gallery by a gentleman who was reading there till a late hour, and which, being up stairs, was not noticed when the library wa s closed. The unusual light was perceiv.d by Air. Everett, of the HOLM! of Repress entative% who was returning to his lodgings front an evening party, and who indicated it to the guard. We had understood, for some time previous to its appear ance, that the number just published of the Edinburgh Reeieuw would contain an article on the .Silk Trade. From the talent which has, from time to time, distinguished that periodical work, we had promised ourselves that it would have thrown a considerable portion of new light on this most important subject. (laving been ourselves hitherto unable to approve the legislative measure which has pro duced such afflictive results to this important branch of our domestic commerce, we began to hope that we had not properly directed our inquiries, and that we should be made to see distinctly that there were certain causes in operation that we hail not taken into our account, which would show us that our apprehensions were chimerical. But no sooner had we gone through the few pages that are devoted to the examination of the subject, than all our expectations were at an end. We did not find in it II review of any publication respecting the Silk Trade, but a misplaced mass of crude and ill-considered remarks, thrown together in the form of an original dissertation. It pro fesses to develops "the progress and in-event state of the Silk Manufacture," and of that state it says not a word. The article thus commences:— " Foreign silk goals are at present, and have been for more than a century, prohibited from being imported into Great Britain. But according to the provisions of an Act, passed during the Session of IS2I, foreign silk goods are to be freely admitted after July next, on payment of an ad valnrcm duty of 30 per cent. It was natural, consider ing the present magnitude and importance of the silk ma nufacture, that so fundamental a change in the circnm stances under which it has been long conducted, should excite the earnest attention, not only of the persons whose interests are more immediately involved, but in a consider able degree also of the public : And as very different opi nions have been advanced at the public meetings that have been held on the subject, with respect to the policy and probable operation of the new Act, we believe we shall not be doing an unacceptable service, if we avail ourselves of this opportunity to make a few observations on the subject. When once we have ascertained the effect of the restrictions under which the trade has hitherto la boured, we shall be the better able to form a correct esti mate of the consequences that may be expected to follow from their abolition, and the introduction of a system of free competition in their stead." What does the Reviewer mean by " being the better able to form a correct estimate of the consequences Mat may be expected to follow" from the admission of foreign silk goods? Why, the consequence—and of a most direful description they are—have already fu in:red—they are be fore our eyes. To speak of the result as if it hung in con• jecture, is wilfully to mislead the public as to a situation of things upon which it most behoves it to be well-informed. The silk trade is stagnant. The weavers are thrown by thousands out of bread, and unless Ministers can be en treated " to step between them and the brandisli'd bolt," the utter extinction of that branch of industry by which they have hitherto subsisted must inevitably follow. B.thnal•green and Spitalfields at this moment present a spectacle of wr - tchedness so appalling, that those who would fain relieve it. shriek from its contemplation. this Rerierner go to the spot—let him form his "com et estimate" from the heart-breaking scene of misery that every house in that populous district will present to him. Let him count the number of pawnbrokers' shops full of the implements of trade that have been pledged to raise money for the next day's meal—let him count, as he goes along, the number of looms that lie piled together in the shops of the 10 , mi-brokers—let him call to mind that the instrument of Ais trade is the last article that a workman parts with ; and let him reflect on what must have been the pressure of that distress which forced such numbers to make this /as sacrifice. Let him behold all this with his own eves, and be will no longer talk of the consequences that "may he exlK•cted to follow" from the operation of the law to commence on the sth July. If the very prospect of it has wrought (.11 this misery, what further, in the name of neaten, would he wait for ? "It was not to be expected,'‘ says the Reviewer, " considering the peculiar circumstances under which the silk manufacture had previously been carried on, that so great a change should be very cordially ap proved by many of those engaged in the trade ; and the fears that were at first expressul by several, of our incapacity to withstand the competition of the French under the new system, have latterly become more universal ; and meetings have in consequence been held in London, and memorials presented to Ministers, in order, as we un derstand, to induce them to postpone Me period for Me repeal of Me prohibition. But while we hope and believe that Ministers will make no concession uhatever on this point, we are, at the same time, ready to admit, there are others connected with the subject that undoubtedly have a strong claim on their Immediate attention." And what are these "others ?" Why, forsooth, " the du ties un organzine, dye stuffs, and soap." This, in his esti mate of the matter, is the source and the summing up of all the grievance !In London, in Coventry,—iii Mac- Derby,—in every town and village in the kingdom, in which British silk is manufactured—the trade is at a stand—the discarded workmen know not where to look for food. And this cold-hearted b. eonontist proposes, by way of remedy—a repeal of the duties on hari Ha, tallow, and dye stuff.; ! All that would be "immediately lost to the revenue" by this measure, he tells us, " would not exceed 236,0001." A most humane legislator this, and a most admirable financier ! A law is passed which brings ruin on a trade that employed annually twelve millions of capital— that turns /bur hun.frzd thouvind wa-haten adrift,—that takes from the revenue the amount of eight hun dred thousand a year paid on the raw material,—and creates all accumulation of n:isery, discontent, and des peration that—coupled with the necessity of the times— threatens to paralyze, more or less, the whole manufacturing industry of the country; and this sage adviser proposes, by way of setting all to rights, to throw away 226,000/. more rf the revenue, by reducing the price of tallow, and diminishing the prime cost of pot and pearl ash ! ! • There is a sacred relation in every country between its Rulers and the population committed to their care; and there can be no sound policy in any measure, be it what it 1 may, that begets alienation on either side. With regard to the Silk Trade, it is of no service to indulge ourselves in fulminations against monopoly, or to heap our praises on the principles of free trade. We must come at once, and specifically, to the grievance. With the high price of labour here, compared with its lute price on the Conti nent, can the British silk-manufacturer enter into com petition with the foreigner, or can he not? That he cannot is clear, because it is proposed to protect him by a duty of thirty per cent. on foreign wrought silk. Supposing this protection not to be frustrated by the sniug;der—but which it most assuredly will be—against what is our home manufacture to be protected ? You answer, against competition. But if you are desirous to guard him against competition, uhy expose him to it ? Why remove that prohibition which was his security, and force him to encounter a rivalry which may, and, to all appearance inevitably will, lead to his ruin ? Is be availing himself of the benefits you proffer him ? No, on the contrary, he is flying from protection, while the fo reigner —the Frenchman—is alive, and full of glee ;be is watching the arrival of the moment when he shall pounce upon the market, and his only cause of astonishment is, how he ever came to be admitted to it. France on her side offers no reciprocity. She will owe all the obligation you please for your liberality, and she will not fail to profit by it to die full extent of her means, lawful and unlawful. But ask her to open her heart, or her purse, in return— ask her to relax the strictness of her prohibitory system, and you have a flat refusal, given, however, with the most em phatic shrug, and pronounced with the best possible grace. We lament that Ministers—who are greatly and moat deservedly popular—should resolve to adhere to a measure fraught already with consequences so tremendous, and which threaten consequences more tremendous still. All the sufferings which fall upon the thousands, and tens of thousands, that this measure will cast upon the world will be attributed by them to the Government. This is a state of feeling above all things to be deprecated. • It is dan gerous to all public order, and cuts deeply at the root of those principles which should bind all ranks of people to their rulers. iVe hear it said by some, that the experiment as regards the Silk Trade may, at least, be tried ; and that if it fails, we may then return again to the prohibitory law. There is no consolation in this sort of languaee ; it is full of de lusion, and those who adopt it arc, we are afraid, very ill acquainted with the. state of things to which they apply it. The time will very soon be past within which it will be possible for Ministers to retrace their steps, or to recover the ground they will have lost. They may persist, and their march onward may not be difficult ; hut that their counter-march, should it become necessary, will be possiMe is more that human foresight can predict, or human w i s d oi n can promise. CITY, SATVADAV Evextsa. There has been some improvement iu the 11:itish Funds to-day, which was the more unexpected from the unfa vourable opinion entertained for the last few days as to their future condition, and it was for this reason that, on Thursday last, the price of Consuls for Money was one eighth per cent. higher than that for February; under those circumstances it was presumed, almost us a matter of course, notwithstanding the recent depression, that the commencement of the February Account would be very similar to the last. Consols for Account left off yesterday at 80, opened this morning at 79; HO, when Money Stock became so much in demand that 3 per cent. Consols for immediate transfer, as well as for Account, advanced to Sul, and by two o'clock touched NOS, but left off a shade lower. There having been so few failures during the last Account, credit has suffered very little injury, and the jobbers and dealers have recommenced their operations as briskly as ever. An unpleasant circumstance occurred yesterday afternoon, which, although attended with no ill consequences, still shows the necessity of extreme caution in the adjusting of ac counts on the part of bankers. The checks of a highly re. spectable member of the Stock Exchang e x, e honoured in consequence of Ii hanker having wrong account a large stim which lie had Ic' el which, until the blunder was csirreeted, paced very awkward predicament. The mistake w as too to affect his credit in the slightest degree , . There continues to be a great deal of spernic New 1 per Cents., which no doubt will ten.ain feverish state until the uncertainty respecting a shall leave been removed. Yesterday afternoon 4 per Cents. touched 96Z, but soon after the eo ment of business this morning fell to 961, bei ng fraction of the lowest quotation during the week, about one-half per tent. in the course of the lice transactions in this stock appear to be very , nected with those of the 3 per Cent. Annuities. The gloom which has prevailed at the Foreig n Market for some days past has been dispersed 08 , noon, and the prices of the Republican Secari Improved nearly 1 per cent., which is the efflet money having become more abundant. Mexican which opened in the morning at 6.4, have been afternoon as high as 61, but closed about 4 t lower; the improvement in Colombian New Bonds, for money and acoount, has been from .171 to 591 closed at 39i. In Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Bonds scarcely a bargain has been made, hut be quoted nominally about 1 per cent. above the the morning. An Express reached town this afternoon from St. burgh, bringing, we understand, accounts from that tal to the 7th inst. up to which date affairs remained very tranquil state, the military having shown 'Rion to oppose the authority of the new Etm least that portion of the army in the immediate vi St. Petersburgh. This news operated favourably c mian Stock, which advanced from 83/ to 84, and steady at the latter quotation. In Danish Bonds improvement occurred. Austrian and Prussian Bonds nominally a shade higher. Ter" 'mot ~; I coati prohik et Hal e( Inseparable *MN ,c I ifthness At to St cessitia to the throne.— ' 1'~'(I, (From the Nee The ship Romulus, intelligence that accou 'ember, that on the 2tl mark, about seventeen of the natives collect of Sistnarang called the young men, mostl lOU seamen and a few the enemy they fonnd sand men, under si European Commando were in motion to rect number, inexperience , charge unequal numis contusion, and two w surgents, who, in rout spears, when the caval rounded, they endeav the road between the tuuate, as several of the soft and broken sternly speared by the former situation, ant ;ached Semarang. I whom were respectabi houses at Batavia. 'I troops throughout the citizens of Batavia wt gular guards, as c3mrr It seems that the ret men, and were princip insurgents attacked Al • Dutch troops are the local Governors, Dutch Government. keeping the revolution The Brussels psi thority of letters fr small number of m city, the Austrian ordinary assembly, sulAiects of the high The Corfu Gazetl *eluded between the Rome, by which 'Holy See a proof hia navy for the p regencies of Barba journals stated that siervice. The Cori treaty contains somi In a letter, dates] we learn that out ol San Juan d'Ulloa, dreadful wai the st for two months pn their maintenance.- A letter received zilian Consul had and had left that p ration of the war ii Of consumption, ha akin higher. • Cbtnmereral lettt the 52.2 d of Noveml interest there is on which have been gt sequence of the tre participated in by tl We are happy t ports from Artacan, believe that a decill ter, in the health o last weekly report, cess of 1 i 7 (hitcher bee admitted ; and `nine in btlievint Would be progressi • The subscriptior ' ire at Miratnichi 1 the Atlantic. UNITF.D STATY 1823, there have I Tbe profits in thi 44,476 dollars ; tell year eliding Ist .11 are between 15,0( operations. '-'-.'""---.---=',.• Grn4 - 'turned] ~_ , peeler! t, 4111 in , . According to priv " biro i l amber, the Empty. t 4O Obt' Ribessepierre to annot Maryut,. w as nontinat then is sector from Russia to ' n in a re The . negotiations b t new 14 representation.' to hi n the N, in the 34th and 35th s Cornm ebo, condos:on of die las . hecond Chamber to th n g linlo t , k, bu t t the Archduke Pabst afte Second Chamber on Chambers afterwards mut nighnems. 'comfort i mates also sent a dip re ign stack , eosiolinienia of the t this sin, . his been 40 Vienna, - day the Milt Sitting c titers h a ; chicl y e disci:salons were coati an Bo ndi, The Convereadontt I add thh .• , tiers by the editor, tee§ the succession to the t mils, Lai bee of tbat paper. wbi . the castle of the prohit ) 59, F R , ' • " With respect to t slid Cho . . paper for the year 182 they et, ~.dar from which it we Ire price - 4 . ' . person for the use of a ties was insetted in LI St. Perch, ' . ! ..r. Gait Capo d'istrit that cap,. e ...tar the purpose of art lined il l' -- a • • with.kicotnal la Hai no dints . .chapol.,in memory of ‘ ' last tsibuje to a Prino lOperor, a • - Mid the honour of bei vicinity of ' x . homage and gir Atitudt use d i or :e O ▪ g t enn le f t idsec i tn n shrl i:li t itet .. i . ''... . •lat ir tg ar lia4l : b.l ai rt e ital L 'l' L mth : e at ar b re l ' : ` . The Stile Gaze! te I " We are now en qt irks hat I iaiant ttylie,i : . tamoi s r) wi t he th: n: n er: r i ttip;;l he i rro c tehe la rnt e eyr w ven .ai e rboantrit e t : : : : : ft :i;f re.t t h a h ; this mon. • danger . by his intrpidi oom by t i h n e at M ed od s es ra ty es sr ib it er h o w performtht w .l ililsin• - ** His in/portal Ifie ... , Ltuhtioni 'Worm, to Mir not ben Alexander. and to con_ ki onward, 8 ' no : f e q ai S c oil : l o ot lfdß o tn o olety a t: 1: :: "" t e t oe t i I t r fk o h n totnh e " . e-81( residence ..' /NSI// se of Kent (From the New , ensington. The ship Romulus, r residence intelligence that accou tember, that on the ZI Tnoon the mark, about seventeen ither wit!: of the natives collect mt. Tht of Semarang called a 1 on then the young men, mosti CENsus or Rn ing is an abstract vity, made out 6'ol Council, by the bite males is 2 les 994, coloure U . , / Adrertirr. ... fc ' SLAVE TRAP!, *rived at Charley "eh is the avidity Illid so extravagaM scenting it, ti tied by their c Ve regret to ne e taken place i always brill 1 olmulent man eatitile properi debts in this stable relatir ereantile Gee e understand ea of the emu going forwar ns away the A .d isgusting II ~ . A WINDSOR, SU NILY, Ja.x. ft. The King attended divine service ft the private attached to the Royal Lodge, this morning ; the was performed by the Rey. Dr. Sumner. His ' household also attended. The Princess Augusta attended divine service this . ing at her residence at Frogmore, which was perforrA by the Rev. T. Gossett, her Royal Ilighneab's chaplain. The severity of the frost at the early part of t greatly impeded the progress of the different woe! Castle, but fresh hands have been taken to forty, fast u possible, this great undertaking. In consequence of the severe frust there has any hunting this week. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence left their residence at Bushy on Wednesday, and visited the Duchess of Kent at her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington. His Royal highness proceeded to his temporary residents in Charles - street, Berkeley-s qu a re . I n t h e a f ternoon the Royal Duke returned to Kensington, and, together with his Duchess, dined with the Duchess of Kent. Tb: Duke and Duchess of Clarence afterwards left on thei:. return to Bushy. Mr. Secretary Canning arrived at his residence in Down• ing-street yesterday afternoon, from Coombe Wood, where the Right Honourable Gentleman had been staying on visit to the Earl of Liverpool. Mr. Secretary Peel arrived in town on Saturday from the seat of Earl Verulam, at Verulam, near St. Albans. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, after transacting business at the Treasury on Saturday, left town in th , ; afternoon for Beekerrham. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office from Paris. learn from an authentic source, that the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, whom some journals, and ours among the number, stated to be ill, is in perfect health.— Brussels Paper. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings and famile will leave England in a few days, the question of the Dee:- can prize-money being decided in favour of the Noble Marquis. The Herald, Captain Lecke. is quite ready at Portsmouth for their reception.—lfempshire Ttiegrapli. Colonel Dasbwood, Consul-General at Vera Cruz, i; arrived at the George Inn, to take his passage in the Tweed, Captain Frederick Minn.' Charles 11Plienzie, Esq. Consul-General in Hayti (St. Domingo), is expected to arrive in a few days.—Portsmouth Paper Sate rday. On Wednesday last, the Earl of Clare, of Mountshannon. near Limerick, led to the hymeneal altar, the beautiful and amiable Miss Burrell, daughter of Lord and Lady Gwydyr. Cal-nom: Assoctartow.--We understand that a meet ing of the Law ( lfficers of the Crown was held, preparatory to the reorganization of the O'd Catholic Association, for the purpose of considering whether any legal measures should be resorted to, to enforce the provisions of the late Act of Parliament. Events prove the (loci ion come to. In deed none other could, under the circumstances, have been expected.— Dublin Evenin g Muil. Nothing was done in the Irish Catholic Association on Wednesday beyond agreeing to the draught o f a p et iti on . Mr. O'Connell was absent through illness. In our paper of the 7th instant we stated that a notice bad been given to the tenants of our late County Member, Mr. Wilberforce, that, at the en su i ng rent d a y, no mone y Would be receiv e d in payment of his rents except coin of the realm or Bank of England notes ; in other words, that no provincial notes whatever would be taken. This para graph, further inquiry has proved to us, was cornet, but we are informed, from an authority on which we can rely, that Mr. Wilberforce himself did not give any such order. We are glad to find the practice we deprecated condemned by this disavowal, and we hope that it will not in future be repeated either by landlords or their azents.—Leeds Ar PI , (wry. The Government House of Pottstnouth Garrison, on the Grand Parade, is taking down, it being intended to build on the site two spacious houses, suitable for the constant residence of both the Governor and Lieut.- Governor, and for the occasional Royal visits to the port. The present residence of the Lieut.-Governor, in St. Thomas-street, will be converted into a Military Hospi tal. The new residences will be commenced in the spring. The convicts are, in the mean time, to be employed in the demolition of the old Government House, and clear ing the ground. This building is the most ancient within the walls of the garrison. It appears to have originally been part of a Hospital, called the " Hospital of St. Ni cholas," or Donuts Del, and was founded for twelve old men, by Peter de Rupibus, in the year mos. At the dissolution of religious monastic houses by Henry VIII. it was converted into a dw e lling-hou se f or th e residence of the Governor of the town, since which period great alter ations and modern improvements have been made in it. Near this building is the equally ancient Chapel belonging to it, which has been many years assigned to the use of the officers and soldiers of the garrison. This building, as far as is yet known, is not to be taken down.—/famp shire l'elegraph. _ _ . Humor BLAIZE.—The festival of Bishop Maize was celebrated at Keighley seven years ago, with a joyousness and splendour only inferior to the saute exhibition at Brad ford on the 3d of February last year ; but it appears this* the good Bishop, to whom is ascribed the invention of combing, must not have the customary honours paid hint this year, for instead of making arrangements for the pro cession, and providing good cheer for strangers, some of the manufacturers have quite enough to do to provide for returned kills, to find employment for their work-people. and to administer to the wants of those they have been obliged to turn off. But amidst this gloom and privation there are those msho look forward to brighter days and to returning prosperity; and it is to be hopes), that in the approaching spring their anticipations will be fully realized. ( ISLE or WlaliT GIIOM—The terrific figure, 11•11k11 had been so conapicuoua within the last week, has at length taken himself off. Ile was detected at Albany Barracks on Friday morning last, about five o'clock, in an attempt to intimidate the centinel, but this brave son of Mars, with two others who were near him, sprang on and took him, but the matter was afterwards compromised by the fellow's paying three sovereigns to procure his liberation.--Hamp shire Telegraph.