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FRENCII PAPERS. cONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 10. Turkish Government Rater•* itself, that the installation of I, • e ky, asCharged'AltUres of Russia, will be aeon tbl- Out of 31. de Riheaupierre. as .imbassador. inn sits in council night and day ; it seems certain, that ending the disas t ers of the four preceding campaigns, in Making preparations for a fi ft h. , ' abject equally of indignation and of disgrace to the s, that Turkey. as we learn, is confirmed in the vain hope ng the Greeks by European agents, who abuse the stupid athe Nlasatilinana. The defeat of Ibrahim Paella is con y the Oriental Sretator, which, however, to save his oinks fit to ascribe his disasters to tempests. AIATMID JAtr. 3 . _ . firmly resolved not to starer in his dominions the cif. of the pontoon* book* which were introduced into them be revolutionary anarchy ; and, at the same time desiring ottstton great losnea to those of his subjects who have ,copignments of the.e prohibited books , has issued a de. '.. ro hting them to . re-export them without delay. tirindeeti of Spain, who during the revolution did not seem 'gl se nsible of whet they owed to their unfortunate Mn in y d to the rank which they themeeire , held in the State, qt i t a distance fr o m Court since the King's deliverance. meaty has pot given permission to the nuke de Fritts to the insignia of which he h*d deprived hint. flovemment has received news from Lima direct, of the september. Perfect tranquillity prevailed at that time, tovisions were abundant. A barrel of flour cost oily n a rt r is at a very g reat distance from Lima, and in a situation he ess &wire no uneasiness. pasts, J•7l. 14. President of the Council has this da y carried to the Chain. P e ers the l'roject of Lae on the Civil List, adcpted by the of Deputies. tier from Naples , o f the 4th of Januar y , informs us that rig expired is the morning , between six and ei g ht o'clock, dden a ttack of apoplexy. The Nuncio, the Ambassador of the Austrian Minister , aml the French Charge d'Affairea, ntro duced, with the whole Council, into the King's apart. His Majesty was lying on his beck, with ltis mouth open, features were not ut ail changed ; only on his lett hand, it was u ncovered, there appeared sonic sputa of extravasated 1 lthe posts, as well as the guard of the Palace, were doubled immure of prudence.. No apprehensiin was for a moment 'tied of the tranquillity of the Capital. accounts hum Sr. Peter.. burgh are to the 25th December. Emperor of Russia. deeply affected by the late events which istinguished in so melancholy a manner the conclusion of this nil not being yet quite easy respecting the health of the Lm. has not perfumed the anniversary a his birth-day to be ised in the usual avautner. In g:lieral there is a grand g.rooro, and iu the evening a brilliant ball, on the 24th. there was absolutely nothing. Diplomatic Body have not been admitted to pay their re. to his Majesty since the lit January. VIII. Since that time has been either ill or travelling. Happily the h 'atilt Jess Elizabeth daily improves. The fever has let: her; gb has much abated, and there is every reason to expect the recovery of this august Princess, whose illness tills with all her subjects, whose respect for her eminent virtues is lees Notwithstanding th.: tee on the Neva, the waters rose on the evening of the 25th, to the height of 4 feet above stud level This phenomenon was the more alarming. as on y there was no wind, aid no calm can be assigned fur the tinny rise. A 'Armed that Die Members of the Chamber of Peers, and r that of the Deputies, to be selected by lot, will accompany the Ito his Coronation at Rheims, there being no means of ac iodating the whole of the two Chambers at that august cere. vessel expected with ammunition and pan of the loan, has at Napoli de Romani& ; it has on board 40 young men of at familiesof England. (From the Courtier Francais of Fri day] :%1 ADIIIII, JAW. 3. remarked within these few days, that prosecutions have In lets active, and arrests less numerous. Military commissions with more lenity and slowness in their judgments. It is, M, the opinion of many persons, that Government has merely prided its usual proceedings, with the hope of encouraging 1 who may be disposed to male proposals for advancing it a These proposals it expect. with great impatience, and in all ibili:y it will have to expect them for a long time. a Minister of the Netherlands has made some claims upon tingeom respecting tlie old Spanish debt, but they hese small ,:e of success., cirpecially as our country objects, the; there has aviolation of the treaties between the two kingdoms, respect. ire heard of the arrest of M. Ouvraril, at the suit of bis U. 6eguln. This has produced aliaely sena.tion amongst bitsats of this capital, who retain impresvons respectu g imolissary by no means favourable. GERMAN PAPERS. gTOCCEOLICIDT.C. ?2. Neal Cowers is expected here; his repurtial he in.ands to set for lighting the city with gas. KostrossEno, lirc. 27. e Assembly of the States opened on the 14th, and closed on the We have had for the last nine weeks very stormy weather. Se lower part of the city has been several times inundated. The rows storms have caused such an accumulation of quicksand e coast, that travelling is dangerous. A merchant, on his Slemel,peefshed on the 22d inst.; his carriage, drawn by tour s, sunk, and was .rcecoverably lost. The carriage, the horses, pat of the effects, have since been found, but the bodies of the !wit and postillion have not yet been discovered. li•stieultoll, Jast.4. Way, at a quarter past three in afternoon, the sky was covered thick clouds, when all at once a violent clap of thunder was l, which was succeeded by a fall of snow ; this soon patina the sky cleared, and the moon shone in all its splendor. At moment (9 rat.) it is a bright starlight evening, and we hope hell sow have some frost. BERLIN, JAN. b. inich is almost wholly evacuated. Oo the ii:tDel:ernber, carriages passed through this city, conveying the students under arrest there to di ff erent fortresses. The choice of the its, bawl generally left to themselves, and they hare been ed to select a residence near their families. The examination canoe Cousin is retarded by his continued indisposition. STOCKHOLM, Dtc. 28. t Sunday, the new Tariff of Customs was read hum the pulpit the churches of the capitaL HASITIVion, Jaw. 7. news has yet been received of the fate of the ship with the ng light at the mouth of the Elbe. Measures are taken to another vessel there, also to replace the red buoy. Cu ',SAYAN, Jaw. 6. !he En lish mails of the 21st and 24th were brought here by a boat this morning, at 10 o'clock. The extra boat, and Elizabeth, which was to bring them to Heligoland, was on the morning of the 4th, to the north of that island. The sin, seeing his ship stranded, and his rudder lost, embarked his men, and one passenger, In the long-boat, and reached land in safety. The ship cannot be got off, but much will saved out or it. .A small chest, for the Duke of Cambridge, is sappubed to have been washed overboard. EXCHANGE. Lucauaan, JAN. 7.—On London 36 2 ; two months 36 11. ILMITLCDAM, J•N• 11.—On London 39 8; two montlui 39 6. Such is the deman:k for iron, that it is expected another wance will immediately take place. It is probable also, an the same cause, coal will again advance, though the at is already charged lgs. to 19s. at the pits.—N urcester No discharge of labourers will now take place from this k-yard ; Commissioner Shield having un Monday last ed the men, that in eonsaquence of their late good aviour, the Admiralty has countermanded the order for it disinission.—Plymouth Journal. The weather for this week past has been remarkably Lid fee the season, and the barometer higher on Monday au we ever saw it before; the following were its heights: OnFlitlay morning 30 50 evening 30 MI Saturday - - - 30 73 . 30 83 Sumul - --39 89 -30 90. Monday . . 30 39 . .30 84 Tuesday ... 30 . . 30 77 Wednesday - - - - 30 b° Thursday - 39 5.1 - - • Highest am known hem—Chester Chronit.te. R4NIA AAAAA FACT.—A few days ago, a peasant, ali.ing a hedge between Mans fi eld and Plea:ley, tound a tr.st with four young ones. This is a striking 1J(/ of the extreme mildness of the season. A sew vegetable, called the Asparagus Potato, has lately lees introduce' • it comes to table early in the Spring. Fist.ollTl;rraday evening a fire broke out in the fac ssey in Oak-street, Manchester, belonging to Mr. Duck. It . orginated in a room occupied by Mr. Garsitle, and as it was 1.-s: observed in a large parcel of waste which l a y on the floor, there i. sorue ptobability that this waste bad taken fire spontaneously. When it wi.s first discovered, the hands, lib° were all at work, entleivonred to extinguish it, but *ithout effect; and they were compelled to leave the ' 30 ' 1, . Fortunately, however, the floors were covered with sheet iron, and there was a powerful forcing pump on the ?remises, by which the doors of the cliff:rent rooms were quickly flooded with water, and a material ett•ok was liven to the progress of the flames. In a short time a , camber of fire engines arrived, and the fire was then got under, without having est^nded beyond tit:: room in which i t usiginated. Considerable mischief was, however, done to the machinery in that room, by the fire, and not a little by the wAter used to extinguish it ; but we believe both the 44 : 1 !"g and machinery were insured. .~... LI7ER4TURE. NEW SYSTEM OF " SHOWINO UP" BY AMER TISE3I ENT. Pi f ff, in Sheridan's admirable farce of the Critie, treats hi■ subject scientifically, and devrlopea the mysteries of his art with the most amusing unreserve. It' exaggerated praise is pardonable, it is because, at least, the fault is on the right side. It remained frk the malignitz of the pre sent day to apply the principle in the opposite direction, and to introduce, among the various torts of //het, the co/in cise libel, and the libel °Moue, or Sy implication. We deem it essential to the interests nfjustice, as well as to the cause of literature, to crush this base and dishonourable practice in the outset, by exposing it publicly to the indig nation and contempt which it deserves. We know not, even by name, who are the persons con cerned as the conductors of the London Mazer:2 . 4e : we are of course exempt from all influence of pertonal par tiality in calling the public attention to the following advertisement, which appears in the LITE a•sy G•ZP:TT t and Journal of Relies Leiters, .4rfs, Sciences, 4e. of Satur day se'nnight:— " Tim LONDON SIAGAZINE. " Speedily wiU be published, an Exposure of the Hoax just practised on the Subscribers to the London Magazine; by which, under the plea of a very considerable is crease in %Ise, en additional Charge of Is. per Number has been made; whereas, by a corn pension and caku ation of the new mode of printing with the old. it will be demonstrated that a number of the New Series, at Ss. Gd. contains /ear reeding titan one of the old at h. fed. • The law nenishes the man who, at this season of good cheer. takes money for the carriage of a basket of rubbish, with the tail of a cock pheasant and the foot of a hare peeping out. to give the world usuranee of game and will visit with pains and penalties the trader who sells his goods under names which do not belong to them—clicppel hay for tea, and grcund bears fur coffee. But the correction of literary quattery, such as we have above noted, can only be effected by the immedime desertion and exposure of the IToas (we love to use soft weals) an olllce which shall be our pe- ' culler care:—Londou Ma.cosine, Ness Series, Jan. lit. " Printed by (*fwd.:Us:ire, for the benefit of Me Subscribers, and sold by M. Ceintibell, Library, 51, Rathbine-place." The extract from the last number of the London Maga zine, appended to this most s xtraordir.ary advertisement, is taken from the article in that Magazine which contains some remarks on " MADAM CAMP•N Jopernul ;" we shall extract these retinal-its at full length, not on account merely of the wit and talent which they display, but as affhrding a clue to the above advertisement, which, as a new invented wade q' libelling, we do not hesitate to denounce as at once the most insidious and the most despicable that ever yet was introduced into the republic of letters. " It would be well tier the reading public, were the sale of books under false pretences, punishable like other misdemeanours of the I same stamp. Here is a thitk octavo volume, containing 388 pages. published by .Mr. Colbtini, under the taking title of Journal de Madame Canman, but the deception cannot, and does not lie deeper than a Intro( paper; for. on cutting open the first page of the work, the purchaser discovers that it is no! a journal of Madame Otman, or a Journal of any body else, and that if by any violence to language it can be styled a Journal at all, it should be called 51r. Colburn's Journal. for he has made it one—it Is the work of his hands. He has said to the printer, let it be a Journal, and it is one—in Me title page. But what says the purchaser, who fancied It. had bought something more solid than the faithless promise of a title page ? Thus a worthy gentleman in the country who expects a pace' of books from his bookseller its town, receives a brown pa per parcel, bearing all the outward and visible signs of quartos and octavos ; and having cheerfully paid the carriage for the saint, an ticipatiag a feast of reason, ha opens with an eager hand the en velope, and diseuvers a curious selection of brick-bats—some ele gant extracts front his own wall ! And the case of this deluded gentleman seems to us scarcely more pitiable titan that of the too confiding individual who has purchased the Journal of Madame Campan, tinder the erroneous impression that it is, what it purports to be, a Journal of Madame Camper) ; and who finds, on closer inspection, a mere heap of rubbish, about as much like a Journal of Madame Campan a. a brick-bat is like a book . • together with a stale treatise, which is on every stall in Paris, and which is u fa miliar to every Frrnch reader RS the tare of the horse-pond was to por Mrs. Hanlcaatle, on whom the ungracious Tony played a boonseller's trick, by deluding the good lady into a belief that she was forty miles off, when she was in the well-known foully slough at ',crown door. " The following is an exact copy of this curious title-page : " Journal A need at ique de Al adame Cam pan ; ou, Conversations Recueillies dare see Entretiers. Par 111. Maigne. Suivi d'Extraits dam Coriapoodaace, see Persees sur l'Education, &c. &c. " ` Paris, et Londres rhea Colburo, New Burlington-street, 1825.'" " Now, as to the first and prominent part of the title, it is purely iinaginative, there bring no journal in the book of any description ; and if the conversations gleaned by 51. Maigne, in his intercourse with 31adasu Campan, eon, by any secret of quackery. be converted int a Jounfet of tttatlaily; Isytbe very same meow Corn% Med. win's conversations of Lord Byron, with the account of his last hours, borrowed from the Westminster Ilea mess, may be metamor phosed by a touch of Mt. Colburn's magical printing rod into it Journal of Lord Byron, and possibly at this very moment the press of Burlington-street way be teeming with a treasure of this novel kind. " We shall now bestow a few words on the nature of the work before us. which has been thus passed into circulation. The first part of the volume, which isheaded Journal Anecilotique,' contains only 114 pages (less than one-third of the book,) abounding with tedious relations bearing strong resemblance to Mathews' Scotch lady's story about nothing, insipid sayings retailed wirh the air of bon mots, and slip-slop common places. It appears, that from April 1819, when Madame Campan settled at :Mantes, 31. Maigne inflicted his tediousness on the poor lady twice a-day, till the hour arrived when death released her from all worldly troubles. When recording these diurnal visitations, he bears testimony to the lady's power of pleasing, and enforces his commendation with this very prquente anecdote—* Madame la 3larechale de 'Seurat' disait de Madame Campan Personne n'a jantair micas test le temp 98. e cettel4mme-le.' —Prodigious ! " The following long story which Madame Campan is surposed to tell, is a faconrobk specimen of the contents of the Journal Anec dotique, as a minute particle of pleasantry lies like a *aliment at the bottom of the vapid drench of slip-slop. " ' A Vispoque oil Alesmer hank on si grand bruit 5. Paris avec son magnimsnie et sex briquets, M. Campan, mon man, Mat de. venu, cornme presque toot ce qui passait pour avoir bon ton, son partisan : se faire ruagnetiser emit uns mode ; je cods ore eetait plus qu'une mode, eiltait use rege. On ne parfait dent - ks salons que de la brillante dicouverte, on ne devalt plus mourk, les cites etaient montke, 'lmagination frappee, it ne eagisssit plus que d'engourdir Is raison : Meaner, avec son langnsge singulter, avert produit sat effet. Le plus difticile pour terminer cot aka% de folie itait de faire at-litter par la tour le secret ;le proprietaire portait fort haut sea pre:conk.' ; cependant on offrait deja cinquatite nu llu kus. Par on Ward bten extraordinaire, je me movers un beau jour au milieu des baguets et des somnambules l'enthousissme des r.ornbreux spectateurs eutit a grand que Is plupart evident la vue egaree et la figure crispie ; un stranger aurait cru etre au mi lieu dos liabitans de Charenton. Etunnee, surprise, de your tent de monde presque en delire, je me livrai y mes refiexions en me re tirant. 11on marl omit malade d'une Minion de poitrine, it se fit transporter dans la maison de Mesmer. lintallee dans rapparte ment que M. Campan y °await, je .lemandai ass thaumaturge quel traitement it se proposal' d'employer. II me repondit d'un nes grand sang-froid qtr it fallait, pour etre certain crone guitison prompte et sore, mane dans be lit du malade, du er;te gauche. une jeune femme brine, une pestle noire, oar Bien une bouteille vide .— ' Monsieur , si le ch oir eat indifferent,' dui dis-je, • servez.vous de la bouteille vide.' ( I'. 4, b.) " We give another anecdote, however, which is a fairer specimen of the general style and materials of the book Dans one conversation particuliire avec Napoleon, sur blissement d'Ecoueu, Madame Campus demands des pompiers: ' Vane surveillance dolt suture,' repondit Napoleon.--' Oui, sire, dans les cu ordinalrest mail puis-je empecher le feu du eiel • C'est juste;' et Trois pulpier) furent aussit6t accordis. II sen. tait vivemtntla venue, ii softball de la lui dkouvir. It daft 'italswi de we point favoir apercite. La j u stice commandait mime I am amour prupre.' (P. 20.) prevailed on Napoleon to " It does not appear whether Madame take precautions also against the sky's falling on the Establishment at Ecouen. 'The next part of the work contains 90 pages of letters from Madame C11111p613 to her son, of which we cannot give any very particular account, SS the period of our publication is fast approach ing, and as cannot afford to court sleep in our hours of business. The alleles appear to be a sort of antithesis to strong coffee. " We now come to the • Pensees sur L'Education, which fills the remainder or the volume, and which might be b•sught, we are assured, at a stall in Paris for half a franc--and this is the Journal of Madame Campan, published by Mr. Colburn ! • The law punishes the man, who, at this season of good cheer, takes money for the carriage of a basket of rubbish, with the tail of a cock pheasant and the foot of a hare peeping out, to give the world assurance of game • and will visit with pains and ()endues the trader who sells his goods under names which do not belong to Sheen.—chopped hay for tea, and ground boos for coffee. But the correction of literary quackery. such as we have above noted, an only be effected by the Inoue Hate detection and exposure of the hoax (we love to use son wools), an office which shall be our pecu. bar care.'' The latter paragraph, it will be seen, is quoted as a motto to the advertisement, and thus its malicious and re vengeful spirit is made to betray the quarter from whence it originates ;-3fadawie C,'ampan's Menwirs, and the Literary Gazette, both belong to the same proprietor. Every threatened exposure contains in itself a charge of fraud, and is calculated seriously to affect the character of the party implicated in it . To announce by public adver tisement to the subscribers to any work, that a hoax is fraudulently practised upon them, is a mode of attack on the ehrt-acter of a public work, and on the integrity of its publishers, that cannot be too publicly or too pointedly exposed. It is impossible mot to perceive that this most ...b. - inNorii THE BRITISH PRESS. dangerous precedent of libelling , by advertisement may be carried into every track that is carried on in London ; and every manufacturer, when a rival article comes into the market, may announce in ail the Newspapers, that " Speedily will be published, an zx ro ti RE of the H Az just practised on the patrons of this new manufncture, by which, under the pretext of a very/ considerable improve ment in gunliln, as additional charge of one shilling{ per yard is mule, &c." And while he is thus publicly circu lating this malignant attack throughout the kingdom, he fixes all the opprobium by insinuation, while lie keeps the menaced exposure repeated day after day, and when the libel has done its work, the publication either serer appears, or if it does appear, is so frivolous, as manifestly to have had no other purpose than that which it was advertised to effect. We feel it a duty we owe to the cause of literature and the claims of justice, thus publicly to notice this new sys tem of warflre this timely exposure may prevent its furnishing a precedent. THE LATE KING OF NAPLES. Feulimind the First, who has lately died, was the son of Charles the Third, King of Spain. He was horn at Naples the 12th January 1751, and ascended the throne of the two Sicilies at the age of eight, when his father was called in 1759 to the Spanish throne. Upon the 7th April 1768, he married Amelia Carolina of Austria ; this alliance was attended with many Misfortunes : the influence of the Minister Ac:on, and of Lady Hamilton, was the source of violent dissensions. whickw, re followed by acts of vengeance equally violent. The King, a party to the coalition formed agait►at France, was obliged to leave his kingdom in Sept. 1798. Ile returned in January 1800, after Nelson had taken Naples, and made way fur his restoration. Having again engaged in 180 S in a new treaty against France, he was once more driven from hit dominlons,indermspellesl to retire to Sicily. Joseph Bonaparte and Murat successively occupied his throne until ISIS, upon which he was re placed after the expulsion of the latter. The Revolution of July 1820 compelled him to leave his kingdom a third time ; he was recalled after hav ing accepted the CottStitution and sworn to main tain it. With the consent of the Legislative Body he join ed the Allied Sovereigns at Laybach, and did not return to Naples until March 1821. when the Austrians had made the conquest of the kingdom. Since that period the King, having in his dominions an Austrian army of occupa tion, reigned until the 3d of this month, when he died sud denly.He had a numerous family,connected with many of the Sovereigns of Europe. He left as successor his eldest son Francis-Canvier Joseph, Duke of Calabria, born the 19th August, 177 t. This Prince having lost his wife, Marie- Clementine, Arch-Duchess of Austria, he married upon the 6th October, 1602, the Infanta Marie Isabelle, sister of the King of Spain. By the first marriage he had but one child, the Duchess of Berry ; by the second ten, four Princes and :ix Princesses ; the eldest, Frederic Charles, Duke de Noto, now Hereditary Prince of the two Sicilies, was born upon the l2t h January, 1810. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Sailiege from Bengul.—T he Sir Godfrey Webster, R.!- noldson, for London, the sth August ; the Greenock, Rich mond, lbr London, the 7th August; and the Medway, Wight, for London, the 13th August. The York, Talbert, sailed for Saugar, Madras, and Londoh, the Rd August. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JAN. 14. SHIPS ENTERED INWARD3.—Ocean, Bryant, from Naples; Lively, Finch. from Harlingen ; Prosperous Longhorn, from Hastings; Alliance, ltlaytom, from Jef fr y ; Yselstroom, De Weerd, from Zwolle ; Rotterdam, Laming, from Rotterdam; Hector, Burnett, from °pegs ; Briton, Richards, from Water ford. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—EcIipse. Clark, for Valparaiso; Etna Su tin, for M. delta, Madras, and Calcutta ; Brunton', Wilson, !Or Rio Janeiro. CLEARED OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GRAVEST MD.—En:MISR, Paterson, for St. Helena, India, and Cities. New ENGLAND Correa-WOUST, Jaw. 16. Extract of • letter received here this morning:—•• The ship Blucher, Potter, from Liverpool for Savannah (sailed Nov. 20), sprung a leak on the 17th December, in lat. al, ion. 43 W., and was abandoned on the 20th, tedwn-00 i kw. 41 W. im sinking state. The 'captain, passengers, and eew (23 persons in number), were in the boats sin days and nights when they were picked up on the 26th Dec. in Ist. 30, and night, 33 'W. by the schooner Henry and Isabella, Nook Bayles muter , from Demerara.. of and for liuernsey, where they arrived, all safe, on the 14th inst. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. PLYMOUTH. JAY. 13.--Saihsl the Kitty. —, and Louisa, —, for St. Michael's. The William and Jane, ior New lark, has commenced re-loading her cargo. 1 PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—:hired the Comet. M'Pherson, from , London for Madeira. Sailed his Majesty" ship Phaeton. on a , cruise; hwiftsure, 'filly, tOr ilavannah ; anti Jane, Riddle, for Madeira. DEAL, JAN. 14.—Passed through from the River the Rosalind, Antrim, for Vera Cruz, and Marquis of Anglesey, Reed, for Cork 1 and Jamaica. II alf.past four, p.m. a large ship is now canting in from the westward, supposed to be the lion. Company's ship ilythe, putting bark. ()newest ND. JAN. 14.—Arrived the Rotterdam, Laming. from Rotterdam ; Wilhelmina Laurentia, Swart, from Antwerp; Jonge Sophia, Hughes, from ditto; Voltigeur, Snowden, from ditto; and the Belle Alliance, %Viltner, from Brussels. Sailed the Darius, Clark, for Malta; Spee dy,i lleppenstall, for Dime; Margery, Roxbonsugh, from Baltic ; Equity, Storr, for Trieste; Lion, Slaman, fin. New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 13.—The following is an extract of a letter from Macao, dated 24:11 of November :—" Two sailors arrived here. who state that they belonged to the brig Hers, of London, Robin son, bound to Rio, which vessel foundered on the Wh instant, half way between hence anti Bahia." Arrived the Manning. Stewart, front Monte Video, and the Basins, Liehgrave, from Alexandria. Met-rave, Jay. 12.—The Snow Drop, Maffiot, front hence to Swansea, struck on the Ship Hock. near Donaghadee, yesterday morning, but got off the following tide, with very trifling damage, and proend.Bl. LIMERICK, JAN. 12.--The Adeona, Whitehead, of Dumfries. bound to Liverpool, in proceeding down the river yesterday, struck on the Hogshead Rocks, fell over when the tide left, and filled when it returned. Storrs and materials saved ;it is fared the vessel and greater part of the cargo will be last. STORNAWAY, J AN. 6—The Robert and Janet, M'Kenzie, from Arisaig to Liverpool, put in here this day to refit, having received damage by the Spring, Murray, running foul of her. By her arrival we have accounts of several 'twill vessels having re ceived damag. - : about the sounds; among them is the Harmony, from London to Witlewall, stranded at Olsnelg, having slipped both cables. The isab:lla, Lees, put into Crinan with damage, having been driven from Sligo Bay with several other vessels. , A great many logs of pine timber are coming on shore, along the a west ride of Lewis; also some pieces of nit, which cannot be identified. The Bonnet, Pusset , from Liv ery Ito Nerve, wintered here. She rode out the heavy gale of thelist ult. in safety, with all the other vessels in our harbour. DEMERARA. Nov. 20.—The British Tar, Denson. from St. John's, New Brunswick, which entered on the 18th instant, tell to leeward, and grounded on a hank to the leeward of Essequibo, but was got off without any matetial injury, except the loss of an anchor and long boat. The Rival. Allen. from Dorchester, N. S. to Newcastle, put into Halifax sth ult in distress. The Pilot. Dasenhill. from Demerara, has arrived at Scilly. CowEs, J.ax. 14.—The brig Humber. Johnston. went ont of dock, and commenced re-shipping her cargo. The Thane of Fife has completed her lading, and is ready for sea. The Mangrove Bay. and the Livant, of Kinsale. were loading at Alexandria (E). on the sth November, tin. Liverpool. The Deveron, Wilson, from Londen and Dahia to Van Diemen' Land, were spoken with 25th August. IRELAND. LlNEllicw, Jaw. 12. Monday a Special Sessions, under the Insurrection Act, was held at Six-Mile-Bridge, before Mr. Illackburne, and a full gench of Magistrates. Stephen Harty, a private of the 2ith Poet, was put to the bar. charged with having, on the 29th Dec:miser last, tendered at O'Brien's Bridge, county Clare, an unlawful oath or engagement to one William George, importing to bind him to be of a certain confederacy to be formed to injure the persons or the King's sub ' jests, and to disturb the public peace, as follows That every detachment of soldiers that came to O'Brien's Bridge, and every Protestant and Orangemen, were to be put to death; " And with tendering an oath of like import to William Berke and James Ryan. This case excited the greatest interest, and the trial was extended. tea late hour. The witnesses fir the prosecution prevaricated so I much. that that testimony was deemed unworthy of credit, sad' the prisoner was found—N.4 Guilty. The Learned Judge, in addressing the prisoaer, said. that it had been the unanimous decision of 43 agistretes, who investigated the charges preferred against him, that he should be acquitted. A large mejority of the satire Magistrates had decided that the evidence was wbeity uawortby credit. LIPERI'OOI,. r RID AY EVENING. Wind S. &S.S.W.-11igh Wain 16in. past 7. Arrived the Montrose, Dawson, from Demerara ; Alice, Richards, from Jamaica—sailed Dec. 7 ; Hamilton, Williams, from St. Petersburg!' ; Ann, Dawson, from Bristol ; Havanna Picket, from HaVannah ; Canada, Pots, from Bristol ; Martha, Iligton, from ditto; Margaret, Hemming, from Droglie4a ; Mary and Susan, Ilindley, from Teignmouth ; Rose, Howes, from Yarmouth ; Emma, Cooper, from Ipswich ; Hero, from Dartmouth ; Sham rock, Roberts, from Dublin ; Agenoria, Simpson, from ditto; Economy, Grayson, from ditto; Susan, Welch, from ditto ; Alexander, Baldwin, from Philadelphia : St. George, Ileamy, from Drogheda; Lune, Dagnal, from Dublin ; Argo, Drown, from Cuba and Bristol ; Mathew, Steel, from Sligo ; Bridget, Ker, from Dublin ; Mersey. Williams, from ditto; Reliance, frOm Paraibo; Richard Pope, from Waterford; Sicillian, from London; Nichol son, from Dublin ; Aurora, from I'aragona. The packet would sail from Kingston in about five or six days after the Alice. The Tickler and the Allerton, for Liverpool, would sail in about a week after the Alice. SATURDAT,JAY.M Wind S.—Highwater al m. past 7. Arrived the Golden Fleece,.from Bahia—sailed, Dec. 29 ; Aid, from St. John's, N. 8.; Francis Ernest, from Smyrna and London • Shark, from Gibraltar ; John Craig, from London ; Lark, from Messina; Washington, from Lisbon— in 12days ; Sir Walter Scott, from New Brunswick ; Grace, from Duntlalk ; Ann, from Antwerp ; Peace, from Dart mouth; Kate, from Ipswich; Assistance, from Tralee ; Union, from Wexford ; Elizabeth, from Drogheda; May flower, from Teintnouth ; Preston, from Dublin ; Activite, from Havre; Mary, from Wexfiwd ; Levant Star, from Palermo • Norval, from Newtoundland—in 17 day; Mary, from Le ghorn ; Amelia, from Messina. Private signals flying at a quarter past four—two ships and three brigs off. By the Golden Fleece, from Bahia, we are sorry to learn that that ill-fated city is yet in the hands of the troops who murdered their Governor. The troops from Rio de Janeiro were gone to the interior. All business com pletely at a stand. LIVERPOOL PRICES PRICES CURRENT, SATURDAY, JAY. 13. f. . s. d. Sugar—Dabs and Low Brown to Dry Brown 51 a 56 0 Middling . . . 58 a 62 0 Good and tine - . GI a 73 0 Ilavannah, white . . 30 a 38 0 Yellow - . 24 a 27 0 Brown . - 21 a 23 0 Brasil, white . . - 26 a 34 0 Yellow . - - 22 a 21 0 Brown - - - 19 a 21 0 East India, brown . . 55 a 60 U Yellow - . 62 • 67 0 White - - 6$ a 72 0 31olasseri . - 25 a 28 0 Coffee—Dutch, Demerara, &c. ordinary, and goad and tine ordinary - - 51 a 67 0 Middling and good and fine middling 70 i 114 0 Fine . - 88 a 92 • 1 Jamaica, ordinary and good and fine ordinary - 50 a 65 • Middling and good and fine middling - - 68 a 92 0 Fine . - - 92 a 96 0 St. Domingo - - . 55 a 31 0 Ilavannah and Brazil . . 53 a 60 0 Triage . . - 25 a5B 0 . Caeca— z 4 . . 40 a 42 0 Trinidad - - - 75 • 8.5 0 lam—Jamaica, 16 0. P. . - 1 a 1 9 Leewards . . 1 • 1 8 . Plootto . . 0 i a oOi Logwood—anotica - - . 145 a 155 0 J t. Domingo . . 156 a 160 • Campeachy . . 180 • 165 0 lactic -Jamaica l6O a 180 0 - Cuba - . 210 a 230 0 Brasil - . 100 • 180 0 Ashes—Pot - . . 39 a 39 6 Pearl - - 39 a 0 0 Biee--American . - 15 • 11 0 East India - . 15 • 17 0 - . 0 i • 0114 - - 0 4 a 1 al ..0 • 2 9 I at a 0 91 - 0 9 a 0 91 - - (hlears Sea Wands West India Carthagena Vettlerniet ' Pernambuco Aluminium Bahia • •NI tti 1 Of • 1 • 10 • 1 u Ili a ! 0.1 . .• BengEgypal:ian - - Surat Tallow—Yellow Candle Turpentine Palm Oil II) a a 0 a 0a 0 7 0 7 a 0 911 43 0 a 44 0 7 6 a 11 9 630 0 *WO 0 Considerable sales in Plantation Sugar ; shout 1,1110 hhds. sold at prices rather higher. In Foreign Sugar only about 20 chests middling white Bahia at Sit. In-plantation Coffee is confined to the grocers. Foreign Coffee more in demand, and 1,100 bags ordi. nary Brun sold at 555. a 551. fit. ; Molasses dull. Hum a good demand : about 600 puncheons sold to speculators principally. at former prices. Cotton, early in the week, was dull ; but the de. mend increasing, about 1,200 a 1,500 bags hare been taken Go spe culation ; the sales of the seek are 8,000 packAgek Ashes are dull and rather declining. Tlrs demard for Dyewoods very limited. Palm Oil, in consequence of the rise in Tallow, has been animated, and large sales made,' about 550 tuns, at prices gradually improv ing ; from 251. Mil. 27/. and report says 281. has been g;ven. About 2,000 barrels Turpentine sold to the trade at steady prices. Imported into Liverpool from 13th to 14th January ioclusive: Sugar - - 650 Casks ('oflese . - - - 21 Tierces Molasses - - . 30 Puncheons Rum . - - . 148 Puncheons Do. . - 38 Ilhds. hoLmood - - - 42 Tons Cow and ox Hides - . 1.698 Horse Elides . . . 7,559 Bull Ditto - - - 69 Brimstone - 19 Tons 5 Bak. bladder NEW JOINT-STOCK COMPANY. The numerous Inconveniences resulting from the inattention of servants are so generally acknowledged, that it will rot be necessary foe one moment to detain the public with any observations upon a subject so self-evident—to remedy as much as possible the inevita ble delays resulting from the absence or laziness of the domestic, of the rich, as well as to obviate altogether the necessity of employing any servants at all, by single gentlemen of small fortune, a Joint Stock Company has been constituted, called TILE IMPERIAL CLOTHES-BRUSIONO COMPANY. CAPITAL-5.000,0001. in 60,00t1 Shares of 1001. each. The Company have established spacious Blunt' xo-itorsts on Banstead Downs, a sitUation extremely well calculated for the purpose, bath by the purity and excellence of the air, and i's con venient proximity to the metropolis, the distance being only seven teen miles, where gentlemen's coats, waistcoats, pantaloons, and boots will to ie;„tularly brushed and cleaned every day, by means of a steam engine of forty•horse power—deemed adequate by sere. ral of the Rest machinists in the kingdom to the easy performance of the required duty. Travelling waggons and four will call every morning at half past three o'clock, during the winter, and at two during the sum. mer, at the houses of those persona who are inclined to support the establishment, to take their coats, and breeches, and boots, to Ban stead Downs, to be brushed and beaten, and cleaned, and will re turn by nine o'clock of the same day. The blacking used will be of the best quality, and the boots will not be in the sli gliest injured by the process. All gentlemen sending their coats, or waisteoate, or pantaloons to be brushed, are required to have their names (or initials, if they prefer ii) legibly stamped upon the articles, in letters of at least three inches in length ; and if any gentleman subscriber has two coats at any one time, it • ill be necessary to distinguish the num bets in a book which the registrar will forward to the subset iber. and in which it will be requisite to keep a regular check and ae. count of coats and minor articles forwarded for the purpose of clean ing, to be marked off twice In every day. The projector of this excellent Undertaking . relies for patronage upon the success with which his other enterprises have been crown ed, and from his known experience in leather he can confidently as sure the subscribers, that article, of that fabric will be particularly attended to—with respect to brushes, it is his pride to say, that he has already secured a large stock in the county of Surrey and as the extraordinary convenience which the establishment will aflind to gentlemen with great minds and small means, is so extremely clear, he trusts that the present scheme will meet with equal pa tronage to that which has already crowned The Horse Boma and Steam Laundry. Rooms for tea, co ffee , and lemonade, and other refreshment wilt he opened at the Patent Breabitry. •• soon ws the hunting sumo Is over; and the projector begs the attention of ladies and gentlemen given to ruralizing, to the picturesque situation of the buildings, which his resident agents will have the greatest pleasure in showing. Female* always in attendance to wait upon ladies. N.B.—As the coats and breeches cannot all be brushed before ten o'clock in the morning, it is requested that ladies wishing to view this establishment will delay their visits until after that hour. Applications for shares may be made to any of the Bankers or Merchants who speculate in such secruiLiers.—Ja'in Bali. DREADFUI, ACCIDENT AT MIDDLETON COLLIERY, NEAR LEEDS. Leeds Intelligeneer Office, Thursday, Three o'llock. One et the most tremendous explosions treik place at dlidifietort Collier', near ibis town, the property of C. J. Brandliag, Leg. M.P. shout seven o'clock hat evening, that has ever been known to occur in this neighbourhood. The report was se leud as that of a cannon, and produced such an (fleet upon the various parts of the pit, seerningl'y to one of the persons who has employed in it at the time, as thoiigh the whole were falling in with a dreedful crash. Of coarse, as die whole of the men who were employed in the im mediate vicinity where it happened have fallen ,a prey to its vio lence, exert the rev who were taken to our loreatary shout two o'clock this morning (and they were in such a state as not to-give any preeise account of the einummanee), it cannot be ascertained with certainty how it was occasioned ; hut we have collected the following particelers from the spot, Which develop the only rstinsl means that can be imagined as the csadteed he occurrence. It is customary, after examinee a part of the pit, ;bout 15 yards in length, to prop the roof by supporters till they perform the like eephation on a 'Mast quantity of coal adjoining; thee to remove the props from the first allotment, searrieg only that pert of. the pit nearest the piss* where labourers are employed. In the apace left by the excavation the foul air collects, and it is supposed that this old strata had fallen in, and driven the combustible element with bush force to wards the spot where the men were employed, as to cause it to take fire and expinilh. Hail this event tahen plate when the LIMPS. sary precaution of having the safety guards upon the lamps was in operation, it would have produced no such effect ; but it was entirely owing to the imprudent conduct of some of the usfote tunate individuals themselves, in keeping their lamps exposed to the air, which was known to he the nee yestenlats. The truth of this remark is confirmed by the fin, that the lenspe have niece been used in the pit with wire guards, and are Intend perfeetly . secure. It is said dim there were two shock*, and that more•imury was sustained by•what is •called the bletk damp, or %fur damp, then was received from the one which nbeeediately preceded it. The men by the fcriner were burnt, and be the latter suffocated. The pit is one of those which is entered what est-ailed a slay-hole, anti proceeds im.der a hill on • lees! with the surface of the ground at its e• trance for nearly a mile, where there is a perpendicular descent of 75 yard., it the bottom of which the pit branches Off in different directions. In one of these Drench reeds the accident happened, and some of the man were fohnd laid in grempe of five or six, one upon another, and in other Oboes more, at about forty pods from lie pit bottom, or the place where they would have. to ascend to make their escape ; sonic were 2W and others 300 yards from this point. There were ten men in more distant parts of the pit, who, though they felt the dints of the shock, received co further injury than tbat of being knocked down by the violence of the &plosion. The number of men who were killed on the occasion is twenty:retie, end we have endea voured to collect their names and ages with as much precision as the present confused state cf things would permit. The following are their names, and what other circumstances re could learn re specting their families : • • John Proctor (aged Oh. wife and three children • JammWood d 3), his wife was brought to bed yesterday a Benjamin Wood / jun. (13) ; Benjamin Wood, sen. (45), father of the twd limner wife and three children ; Joshua Lieensedge (43), wife, and ten ni children ; Samuel Rasden (12); Kro lira Ramien ( 14) tJohn Rameden (20) ; William Redd (18) ; William Wood (365, wife and child : Joseph Dixon (1 ) ); Sanderson Ilandford—this young man wou'd have completed his lilth, year to-morrow ; Samuel 'Croriutck (Id); Benjamin Broadhead (40), wife, and one child ; George Wright (27), wife, and three children t Luke Nottnington (17), wife, and two children ; James Ihury (18) ; Richard toner (si—this poor little fellow was taken out alive in a mangled state, and expired at three o'clock this morning; James Heald (14) ; George Ambler (8) ; Peter Hansel (33) and wife ; James roster (8)1 Jumpli Ilaigh (40), Wife, and child ; and John Ratteden (20), are yet in the pit, and supposed to be dead. George Ambler Oh, both hie thighs broke • John I.iversedee (20), ninth burnt Samuel Hewitt (15), skull frectured hod George Hewitt (22). much bruised ; were taken to the infirmary about two o'clock thes morning, and there are some hopes entertained of their recovery. The distress that prevails throughout the nethbeurhood Cannot be cOnceived. In some families two, and in others three, have fallen in the general wreck ; and while the friends of the deemed were tutting at the pit's mouth with breathless anxiety, to know' the fate of their relatives, the heart-rending cries of tidows and fatherless children presented such eseene is beggars all description ; sorrow appears depicted in every countenance, and the whole neighbourhood seems to join in the common grief. The friends of Haigh and Rameden, who are yet in the pit, are labouring under the most polgnent feelings of despain sometimes but slightly relieved by a faintly glimmering ray of hope that their destiny may possibly not be eternally fixed. The utniost exertions were used. to rescue them ; and Mr. Tllenkinsop. Mr. Nicholson, and a number of others connected with the colliery, were incessantly employed till five o'clock this morning, whet' the fire reached such a pitch is to render it unsafe to meted any limber. Since then the pit has been, in a greet degree, in a burn. in g state, end they ere endeavouring to put a stop to its progress. which may be efftested in a day or two, or may continue a mucts. longer t ime. It is almost impossible to describe the appearance of the nnfore tunate stliteren ; several of them have broken limbs ; such is were most affected by the first blast, have all the skin burnt off their faces. and the bodies of others are perfealyfilatk. One young man appears to have been fighting spinet, the flames upon his body, ae, at the time he was found, his hand was full of flesh. &Toff. foe etiterthe the narretlout of this mehmeholy event, 1,11 venture to suggest the propriety of some of our more opulent fel low townsmen immediateli o seling on foot a subscription for the seller of the bereaved wl we and fatherless children ; of whom there are ten of the fortrini apd twenty-five of the latter. (From the Irulvicld Journal.) At Middleton Colliery, the property of J. C. Brandling, Esq. about 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening, one of the most shocking accidents' occurred which it has ever fallen to our lot to record.— From the excessive alano and consternation *itch this onforturate event naturally excited, it becomes almost inienssible to give an ex set account or the origin of the fatal explosion ; but, from the best information we could procure noon the spot; it seems almost cer tain that the imprudence of one of the misers, who, with the rest, was just leaving off his work, has brought this destruction and misery upon himself end his unfiertunate fellow-workmen. 'With that carelessness so common amongst those familiarised with danger, he took off the top of his safhty-lamp, and an almost instant explo sion was the consequence. which killed no lees than twenty-three of the poor workmen at the spot. Hendee these, four others re= eeired very severe injury, and were taken as soon as pcssible to Leeds Infirmary, where some hopes are entertained of their ree corny. The bodies of all those who hare been killed have been found except two ; some of them are in a shockingly mangled stem, ; others appear to have perished more by suffocation than freers the Injury sustained, as their bodies ethibit no marks of violence. Search was continued through the night, far the two remaining bo ttles, but witheut eff•ct ; and the fallowing mowing it was toned impossible to continue the search any longer. as the burning of the coal, which had been ignited by the esplotedn. had begun to gain such a head. that it became necessery to choke up every avenue to the outward air, in order to smother out the fire. The name* of the suffers are; Peter Hammes, John Broadhead,. William Wood, James Wood. John Proctor, Joshua Liverside, Richard Foster, Benjamin Wood, George Wright, Luke Norman ton, James Drury, William Heald, John Ramsden. *en. Joseph Dixon. lialita Hamden, James Heald, Benjamin Wood, John Ambler. Samuel Cromack, James Foster, Sanderson Hasdforth, John Ramvden, jun. and Joseph Haigh. The two last are the men *Kim bodies have not been found. The ten first-mentioned and Jesepli Haigh have all belt widows. sad families to deplore their loss. It is impossible to convey aim adequate idea of the distress that bas thus been unfortunate'', caused by the momentary imprudence of, we understand, one man. Front the Leeds Mercury of Saturday./ This melancholy catastrophe ought to impress on the minds or all colliers the necessity of Keeping their safely-haloes shut, at all times, and withoUt a moment's intermission. It is very possible, ray probable, that many of the sufferers on this occasion had been eyeful and vigilant for year', yet a single innunce of cereleenisee has rendered all their previous vigilance uttayaiting. It is possible that a safety-lamp might often be opened in a mine. without any explosion occurring; but as the es pimiento, whets they do enur e ere eo tremendously fatal, and as there is no mean! of discovering , the presence of the inflammable gas when the lamps are open) till it is actually lighted, every man employed in a pit should remitter even a moment's removal of the wire.gaute as an act that may plunge himself and all his companions into eternity. If men cats be Instructed by experience, this awful calamity will surely be effee•ual for that purpose. Since writing the above, we have heard that Mr. Illenkineep iM determined to adopt an excellent regunition, which has been en. forced in some of the pits in Northumberland, to prevent a tepee. Lion of these cmoalties„ without tearing any thing to the vigilance of workmen. He has det mined to alBx locks to the safety.lamps, so that the men cannot open than if they should be inclined. This is such a simple, sure. and important precaution, that we hope it will be adopted in all the pits throughout the kingdom'. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held bylslr. Robert Rest, on Richard Foster, one of the enfferers by the explonon, who died on 'Thursday morning, at Hunslet, which is within this borough. The witnesses examined were persons find were in the pit vehin Whir explosion took place; they described it as being sodden and alto gether unexpected ; a report like that of a cannon occurrul, and every one then attempted to snake his sway to the pit shaft, in which the witnesses examined on the inquest succeeded, after penire over tame of their less fortunate fellow.workmen, wtro, by the violence of the shock, were dashed to the ground. The Muieserb stated, that the occurrence took place about a quarter before seven o'clock, and that the persons in the pit expected to have finiehel their labours for the night between ten and eleven ; that all the persons had Davy's Patent Safety Lamps, which they cos cTire to be fully adequate to protect the colliers against the tire dun p. that they had always been enjoined by the stewards never to tilt the guards from these lamps. The caase of the ex plosiun was one known, but no doubt it was to be attributed to the inflammable gas curving in contact with the flame in one or more of Ms lamps > which had been Incautiously exposed by taking off the top. Undete these circumstances the Jury found s verdict of--•• Accidental Death, in consequence of the explosion of the tiro-damp by means unknown." Coax Lsvra.—A report has been widely spread, and from high authority, that the Government has it in cow. temptation entirely to withdraw the pr...ent Corn Laws. and that the measure will be brought forward early in this nett Session. It has created a great sensation in the City and in the Corn Market.—Erwin; Paver. _t : . -,i,_- kikv- ..y