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ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The Braila& TUESDAY, August 22. will be performed the new Grand Serb-Comic Opera of THE ORACLE; or, THE INTERRUPTED SACRIFICE. The principal Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Perkins, J. 0. Atkins, H. Pinltips, Sap* aad Thorne ; Misses Paton, Hamilton, and tiossard. After which the Ittele-Draws of THE BLIND BOY. Edmond, Mho Kelly; Mr. Bennett; Moline, Hr. W. Chapman. E Irina, alias Can, To wonclade with the new Operetta, calle4 LYING MADE EASY. •lite principal Characters by s ileser -- ..BZWiei: floras. and Wrench Iltraes Carr and Dadra. SADLER'S WELLS. NORSE-RACING EVERY EVENING. Tills Evealog, TUESDAY, August 22. a HATCH, RUDE by TWO LADIES. The Stage Performances : A new Comic Naval Dance. called WHAT SHIP ? . To which will be added, ALL A FETCH. after whkb, THE WIDOW AND THE WILL. To conclude with THE BLIND BOY. Wednesday—Jumping in Sacks—What Ship.—All a Fetch—TheWidow arid the Will—and Female Jockey. Thanulay—% Match, rod* by Two Ladies—What Ship '—Clad—All Fetch—and The Widow and the Will. Friday—AS . ll%er Cup to be run for—What Ship o —Clari—All a Fetch— aad The Widow and the Will—and Female Jockey. Saterday—A Match, rode by Two Ladies—The Blind Boy—What !hip —All a Fetch—and 'fhe Widow and the Will. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. L'adet the especial Patrons.* of kM Most Gracious Majesty. ONLY FIVE NIGH 9 MORE. *Ctse Proprietors respectfully 'egotist ti.e Public that the Royal Garden will CLOSE on Friday, the lot of Septe.l'er. To-morrow Evening, WEDNESDA I , wird 23, will be repeated the splendid NAVAL GALA, on the saute .etde of grandeur as at the eelebra• 11.112 of the Birth-day of hla Royal H, dittes• the Duke of Clarence on Monday Evening last, when • tOll tint aucoeotion of Arnosenserta will be given daring the whole of the EVPIIIIIg. t • prards of 13,11101.1 addi• t tor st Lamps, in various Naval Trophies, Emblem,. Or c. The CONCERT will be appropriate, and embrace the talents of Slim Trawls, and Mtn Love; Miss Heinle. Mr. &ahem, Mr. Sinclair, and Sig nor Ile Rego's; Ile Taylor, Mr. Hornmatle, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tlnney, and Master Barter. Leader of the Band, Signor Spagnolettl. Con. o tor. Mr. "The be••tiful Moonlight Scene of the Ruins of an Italian Abbey, pro &seed by the celebrated Mr. Stanfield, of the Theatre Royal, Lhory-taus, 'Nil be again exhibited. Mr. WILSON, on the TIGHT ROPE, will exhibit his surprixing Ern luilons in a complete Change of Perfnmancev, amongst which an entire •,mlty, called "The Carnival of Venice, or a Masquerade on Two Tight Rape.," by Mr. Wilton, 'vitiated by the %%sung American, Introducing Punchinello and Family, with Comic Dancing, Ile. On this Evening, for the sixth time, will be perfnented • new entitled IL CORONAMFNTE DELLA ROZIERE, Compered by Hon.. B L cam ; the Merle by Mr. C. H. Redwell ; the Scenery Ly Mr. Thorne. Principal Dancem:—Madame Pauline Remlsi sot and Monsieur H. Yearly ; 1.1 - coir-vier Colson, Adelaide, and Blanca ; Mesakm Sullivan, and the Two Rldgways, who will Dance an entirely new Uroterque Pao de Deus. _ . . During the Evening. Mr. BLACKIIOI2 exhibit Ids usual Eve n• Low on the SLACK ROPE. A hlllitary Baud will play at Intervals, during the Evening, In the Orchestra. With ■ 'rand DISPLAY of FIRE WORKS, by Southby. In the last Grand Piece the YOUNG ASIKRIrAN will mike his TERRIFIC ASCENT to the Moorish Tower, and Descend amid. 4 Volumes of Fire. Private Boxes to be bad of Mr. Andrews, Waal street. Dean open at Seven o'Clock.—Coneart bestas at Half-past Eight Agualarien es. The BRITISH 0112111 commenced publishing yesterday muratng at five o'clock. LONDON. TUESDAY, Aucwsr 512, 1826. Last night we received in due course the Paris Morning Papers of the 19th, and the Etude of the 211th. Their contents chiefly consist of repetitions of what has already been published relative to Portugal in tliiferent shapes The Neapolitan Government appears to participate in the alarm lately evinced by his Must Catholic MAJESTY, and is disposed to look upon the proceedings at Lisbon in a light which forebodes no future intercourse of amity be tween the two Powers. The Journal IP: Debuts repeats its assertion of a Con gress being about to take place at Johannisberg ; but, from its own showing, we should be little inclined to place any faith in its sources of information on that head. The dif ferences between Russia and Turkey have taken a decided turn ; the affairs of Greece, it is agreed, are to remain untouched ; and the liberal changes in Portugal are of too recent a date to have allowed to the " Holy" Alliance that time which a preliminary understanding between them on the proper mode of proceeding would require. These con siderations are not calculated to give strength to the ex pectations announced by the Journal des Delia:. The following are extracts : Mom the Etuile., dated Sunday, Aug. 21.1 PANTS, AUG. 20. A letter from Alexandria, of June 6, says—The Egyptian squadron commanded by 31ohatren Hey, son.in-law to the Pacha, and Governor of Alexandria, arrived here the day before yesterday, in eleven days, from Motion. Some vessels remained to convoy some ships from Suds to the slorea, and . afterwards to come here to juin the rest of the squadron, which will put to sea again as soon as it is revictualled, and has undergone the necessary repairs. Tic .I,nrrn4l do .s Debuts has learned from the newspapers that M. de 'Parise:heti; M. de Caraman, and M. de Bernstorfi, are going t o Johannisberg immediately. it sees a Congress at that place ; but mere have been :20 similar diplomatic meetings at Paris, Vienna, Petersborgh, &c. and the Jourhal.des Debuts did not persist in I taking its leaders see new Congresses of Paris, Vienna, Ike. 1 he following article, which we borrow from a PIIISeI4II Gazette, seems to us to deserve the most serious attention Many minis. tees of the reformed religion, depending, no doubt, on die spirit of i:.quiry which the Reformation proclaimed, bad allowed themselves to make arbitrary changes; in the Liturgy. The Prussian Ministry, wLieh,doubtless, does not consider anarchy in religious opinini.s as an advantage, has just addressed a circular letter to the consis:o. ries and provincial governments, in which no precaution is for gotten to effect the uniformity prescribed since the publicaiLo of tee new rituaL All ministers who are placed in parishes where the new ritual has been accepted shall not henceforth permit them :elves to charge any thing in the Liturgy. Clergymen who shall tie appu;n:ed to parishes, where arbitrary changes in the Liturgy have become habitual, shall engage to introduce the ritual into 'hem. It shall be the same with those who obtain promotion : in , sae they shovld refuse to contribute to the introduction of the ritual, they shall be obliged to remain in their old situation. The .t„eeptance of the thud is not only a conditio:: of every nomination, oat the caotlidates (young divines) must have previously declared 'o favour of the measure adopted by authority ; and, if they have ..af doubts ur empties, ltiust have applied lb: instruction to a ma kilo, of the eonsistory. In short, all the ministers in general le invited to hinder the introduction of any innovation."—This wish wee esmessed by Blelancthon at die very beginning of the Re formation. A report is spread at Ancona, " that Lord Cochrane has com pletely succeeded in his first attack on the Egyptian fleet at Na sarmo." Further news was expected with impatience.—Augsburgis Gazette. We give no credit to this news, or the statement of an English journal, that Lord Cochrane's steam boats are delayed by some de fect in the machinery. Vrout the Etoik, dated Sunday.l The following are the grounds upon which the Cour Royale has formed its opinion in the affair of M. Montlosier " The Court, after having heard the observations of several gen tlemen relative to the facts contained in a publication entitled lk nsuariulkno, &e. signed by the Count Montlosier, and addressed to all the members of the Court; after having also heard his Majesty's Procureur General upon his demand that the Court should declare that there was no ground for deliberation ; " Considering the Decrees of the Parliament of Paris on the 9th of 'May, 1760, the similar Decrees of other Parliamenta of the kingdom, the Edict of bonis XV. in November, 1764, that of Louis XVI. in the month of May, 1777, the law of the 18th of August, 1792, and the Decree of the third of Messidov, in the year 12; " ecnsidering that It results from the said Decrees and Edicts, that the Legislation opposes formally the re-establishment of the society called the Society of Jesus,' under whatever denomina tion it may present itself; that these Edicts and Decrees are found ed on the acknowledged incompatibility between the principles pro faned by the said society and the independence of all governments —principles still more incompatible with the Constitutional Char ter, which is now the public right of the French people ; " But considering that '• results from this same legislation that it belongs only to the High Police of the kingdom to suppress and dissolve congregations, associations, or other establishments of this nature, which are or may be formed in contempt of the decisions, edicts, laws, and decrees, above mentioned ; " And as far as relates to other facts contained in the publication of the said Count Montlosier ; " Considering that whatever may be their gravity, they do not constitute up to the present moment any crime, misdemeanour, or contravention, the prosecution of which belongs to this Court ; " The Court therefore declares itself incompetent." The Cour Royale held, with closed doors, its general assembly of Chambers ; the Third Civil Chamber, the Court of Assizes, and the Chamber of Appeals of Correctional Police, having terminated or suspended their sittings at II o'clock, all the magistrates now in Paris, to the number of .14, met in the hall of audience of the First Chamber, under the Presidency of M. Seguier ; M. Jacquinot Pampelune. Procurerr-General, was present at this meeting, which lasted from 11 o'clock till .1. There were no sittings in the first civil chamber, and all the causes were postponed for a week. It is as. vetted that seven counsellors only voted for the Court declaring it self competent, and 17 voted against all discussion on the subject. demanding that the Court should confine itself purely and simply to a declaration of incompetency. We are assured that among the members who spoke against the denunciation of M. de Motitlosier was one who communicated to the Court the following document, as containing the only engage ments contracted by each member in entering the congregations t of Jesuits), and particularly into the congregations of Paris (Sodalitas Parisiensis). Before the Revolution a similar communication made to a Judi cial Court, relative to the Congregations or Socialites, in honour of the Holy Virgin, would have been useless. Every body then knew, the object of these pious meeting., known under the name of Sods tiles (Sodalitates). They existed everywhere, and in all classes of society. They had been formaily approved of by the Holy See, and the Bishops saw them spread in their dioceses with lime satisfaction. •` In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Holy Mary, Mother of God, anti Virgin, preserved from the first mo ment from the stain of original sin, I choose you from this instant for my Queen, my Patroness and Protectress near God, and my glorious 3lother ; I this day take the fixed and firm resolution ne. ter to abandon your religion, and the interests of your glory dueling all my life ; and specially never to speak or act against you, or to pt emit those who depend upon me to attack by their discourse or actions the honour and homage which are due to you upon so many grounds ; deign, then, I entreat you, August Mother of Heaven and Earth, to admit me to-day arid for ever to your holy service. Grant to me your powerful protection near God at all moment,, and for all the actions of my life ! and, above all, divine Mother of my Saviour, not to abandon ote at the hour of my death." [From the Constitutiound of Aug. 19.1 EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED NAPLES, ACCUsT Our official Gazette of the 26th and 27th of July last publishes new Decrees for the strict observance of the Royal Edict, signed by his Majesty at I'ortici, the 24th of May last, the object of which is, the prosecution of crimes against the safety of the State ; or, to speak more exactly, the pursuits directed against the partisans 0 the Constitutictal Regime, victims, since 1021, of the most cruel reaction. The Gazette of the 27th July publishes a Royal Decree; by which Don Felix Todaro is appointed President of the Prevotat Court of Palermo, capital of Sicily. Another similar Court has been established in that city. It may be remembered, that, ac cording to the fifth Article of the Royal Edict of 24th May, there it to be besides, in every province of Naples and Sicily, a military commission, also charged with the prosecution of crimes against the safety of the State ; and that, conformably to the twelfth, thir- teenth. and fourteenth Articles of the same edict, " all the deci sions of the prevotal courts and military commissions shall be with out appeal, and will not be liable to any recourse en caseation The sentences of the military commissions shall be put into toque. d tate execution. The mode of proceeding shall be a summary one, and regard shall only be had to the truth of facts, conformably to the rules by which they are to be guided. The intelligence relative to the regeneration of Portugal has given occasion to new orders for the institution of Special Com nthsiubs, invested with extraordinary powers, and which recall to mind the most disastrous times of the French revolution. It is afflicting for tut to see imprudent Ministers, who owe their places to foreign influence, make a return, by measures of tenor in 1826, to the honourable confidence placed in the Royal promises of 1814, confirmed in December, 1820, by the Sovereigns assembled at the Congress of Laybach, and to the impulses of public joy which were manifested at the beginning of the new reign. LISBON, Arc. 7. (EXTRACT Or A PRIVATE LETTER.) The very reprehensible conduct held in the different polities/ crises, and especially of late, by the militia of the police (the gen. darmerie). has determined the Government to confide to the troops of the line the service belonging to them at the theatres, &c. This carpi of militia Is to be disbanded, and the Intendant of Police is to be replaced, owing to his having caused to be arrested in the first days, at the Theatre, the Captain of a frigate, for having shouted " Live the Constitution !" Sir Charles Stuart is still here, but on the eve of departure for London, where he hat to give an account to his Government of the happy issue of his missions to Rio Janeiro and here. His Excel lency Las been present wilt Sir A'Court and others at tll the files given here. On the 12th inst. a sixty gun frigate was launched at Mu built for the Puha of Egypt. '1 be public authorities did Ant attend this ceremony, but merely sent a detachment of the 63d regiment of the line, and a few gendarmes, to maintain order. linen g , nee has been received at Barcelona that some Algerine ships of war hail captured a small Spanish vessel, which had sailed from Illation for Valencia, with a cargo of sundries, besides 1,800 dollars in specie. Fort,er ii.telligesce, received from the Spanish Consul at Algiers, errs that the Regency of that place was preparing an expedition of tire or 'lli Vekitl•, which were to cruise spinet tzpanith commerce. Front the Journal des &hats of Aug. 19.1 We hate rep. an My stated that the object of Prince Metternich'. journey to -token i•bt rg Was that of holding a Congress at that 1.14(k. Wr Wt re treated as ithionaries, and poinpowdy contra diet, d. Tt i., however, what they write flour Er-widen, under date of the I ttl. July. " The Baron de Tattisciteit; Russian Envoy Extraordinary and THE BRITISH PRESS. klinister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Austria, arrived yester. day at Frankfort. His Excellency proceeds to Johannisberg. Where are also expected the klarquis de Carman, Count Bans dorff, and several other distinguished personages." Here then we have a new Continental Congres. The Duke of San Carl os . so " unaccountably" forced to quit St. Peters burgh, will a l so arr i ve t h ere i n good time. A Turkish Plenipo. tentiary will be wanting, it is true; but the Sublime Porte msy rest assured that there will be more thou one diplomatic personrge at Johannisberg, who will feel proud to defend its interests. Is it the object of this assembly to discuss the question relative to the rebels of Greece, the Constitutionalists of Portugal, of some new conspiracy of Students ? FiExcn FOens.—Psats, AVOUST 19.—Five per Cents. Dinned at 100 f. 40c.; closed at 100 f. 50e.; Three per Cents. 661. 20c.; Bank Stock, 2,010 f. Rentes de Naples, 721. 7.1 c. Renter d'Espagne, 9f. Royal Spanish Loan, 41. Ilsytian Loan, ii7sf. Exchange on London, one month, 251. 65c.--Coars Ant/Kis:4"c. We have received Haniburgb Papers to the 19th inst., from which we give the following extracts AUG. lb. The Chapter of the Order was held on the 12th, at Herrenbausen, the Duke of Cambridge presiding as Wand Master. All the Mem bers of the Order afterwards dined together. _ . Hanoverian ships are henceforth to pay in the ports of the Ne therlands the same tonnage, pilotage, and light-house dues, as ships of the Netherlands. _ _ Several streets in this city were lighted, on the evening elite 12th, with gas, and the result gave general sattsfaction. Jcvra, Aua. IS. The very great hest that h.. r.. ~.c p.cirstlctl has pro. duced the autumnal fever in this city and neighbourhood. In the city several hundred persons are ill. In the country there ars places where hardly any of the inhabitants are free. The disorder, however, is not contagious, and the number of deaths is few in pro portion to that of the patients. Infirm old people and little chil dren are the principal victims. FROM THURINGIA, Avo.9. It is stated in the public Journals that the partition of the Prin cipalities of Gotha and Altenburg was agreed upon in the first week of this month, in the following manner : 1. Meiningen is to have the Principalities of Hildburghausen and Saalfeld, together with Camburg (in the Principality of Alten burg). 2. Coburg, retaining that principality, is to have Gotha; and, 3. The line of Hildburghausen ceding that Principality to have Altenburg, with the exception of Camburg. The Principality of Hildburghausen would go to ruin if losing the advatitages of being the capital, and having no manufactures or trade, it had not the expectation, as it is r ported, that several superior boards would be transferred from Meiningen to Hildburghausen, to indemnify it for its losses. As Hildburghausen will now be the centre of the territory of Meiningen, this change seems to be called for as neces sary for the more convenient transaction of public business. In this point of view, and as Hildburghausen is a well-built city, and m ire agreeably situated than 31einiogen, the removal of the seat of lit.verninent thither might seem advisable ; but for the present, at le on, Meiningen will remain the residence of the Court and the Government. Comburg, which is quite remote and detached from all parts of the territory of 31einingen, may, perhaps, be exchanged with Saxe Weimar for limenau, which is, in like manner, detached Rom the tertiory of Saxe Weimar ana Eissenach. COPENHAGEN, AUG. 15. The great heat o' this summer has caused a great mortality in this city. At Aarhuus not a buhliel of rye is now to be had, and it is there. fore wished that the Government magazines at Aalborg, Ribbe, &c. may be opened. The long-continued heat and drought have caused a turf-moor near Elsinore to taYe fire, which the inhabitants are endeavouring to atop by digging trenches. STOCKHOLM, AUG. 11. Henceforward there is to be no Swedish and Norwegian Con. sulate at Malta; but that island shall be in the district 'Atha Con sul at Gibraltar. Large quantities of contraband goods have lately been seized at 31alutoe and Ifel,ingtorg. A second attempt to sell by auction the frigates Oradd and Se gerfall has failed, like the lint, for want of purchasers. EXCHANOES ON LONllov. 11Amatuton, AUGUST 18.--37 4 ; two mouths, 37 1. PETER SR URGII, AUGUST 4.-9 7.32. BERLIN, AUGUST 15.—Three months, 7.3 k. CHRISTIANIA, AUGUST 6.—Three months, 6 Sp. DoUs. 20 VIENNA, AUGUST 9.—Two months, 10 11.—Ilaniburgh Pa• per:, Avg. 19. According to late private accounts received in town from Napoli di Romania, preparations were carried on with ex traordinary vigour to make a bold and effective attack against the common enemy, so much weakened by late efforts as to be reduced to a state of inaction. They were partly directed by Mr. GORDON, of Cairness, the same who was the first among the foreigners of any note that took an active and disinterested part in the affairs of Greece, and who, by his example, stimulated others. Mr. GORDON was living on his estate in Scotland when the first intelligence of the Greek insurrection reached him. Inspired with a noble enthusiasm, he hesitated not to leave a splendid mansion, and to sever himself from all those comforts and luxuries with which an ample fortune, inherited from his fathers, had surrounded him from his childhood, for the purpose of embarking in a hazardous undertaking in the cause of humanity, the dangers and hardships of which were well known to him, and duly appreciated. He hastened to offer to the Greeks the aid of his military talents and of his pecuniary resources, and to expose his own life in the attempt of consolidating the national inde pendence which that long-oppressed people seemed at last resolved to conquer. This Gentleman was by no means a stranger to the country. lie had, some years before, made a sufficiently long residence among the Greeks and the Turks to become intimately acquainted with their respec tive national characters, and to acquire a perfect knowledge of their different languages. Joining to profound literary acquirements, and to a sound judgment relative to mcn and things in general, a naturally unbiassed and im partial mind, his resolution gave sanction to our own earliest impressions relative to the true merits of the cause he had undertaken to serve, and to remove all possibility of even a subsequent doubt as to the justice of it. The motives since attributed to Mr. Goanox's sudden retreat from Greece were the mere invention of certain writers, who, in this country of freedom, advocated principles which it was the fashion with them, till the cicse of 1822, to apply indiscriminately to any movements that bore the semblance of resistance against the tyranny of absolute power, even • when wielded by barbarians whose condition differed little from that of savages. But they were publicly and tri umphantly refuted by Mr. Goanox himself, in a speech which he made at a Meeting Itehl at Aberdeen, in July, 18'23, for the purpose of raising a subscription in aid of the Greeks. Mr. GORDON'S state of health long after interfered with his wish of returning to Greece; and it was but at the beginning of the present year that he found himself so restored as to be able to listen to the proposals made to him by the Greek Deputies in London, the object of which was, that he should again lend the credit of his name and presence to their country's exertions. If he had been influenced by any unfavourable considerations of the past—if the actual affairs of Greece had appeared to him in so hopeless a condition as they have since been re presented by other less experienced observers—it is not likely be would have listened again to the calls of that country; but he resolved once more to expose 116 life in its service, and to employ his best exertions for its welfare ; '1 and this resolution has again strengthened our hopes of ultimate success. When, in February last, lie treated in London about the preliminaries of his return to Greece, it was understood that a corps of twelve thousand regularly disciplined troops should be placed under his command, and that of Colonel FAVIER; but this plan was found impracticable on his arrival at Napoli di Romania, owing to the great expense its execution required, and the want of means, resulting from the disposal of the money pro ceeding from the two English loans, which, unfortunately, had already been otherwise applied. Two thousand men alone have been regularly trained by Col. FAvi ex, under whose command they are to remain ; and Mr. Gosnost was chiefly occupied in raising a corps of six thousand militia, to serve under him in his capacity of a Greek General, a rank which he ottained during his last etay in Greece. The two European Chiefs were to act together, in concert with the Greek Commanders, but not under their orders. Mrs. Gott DON has accompanied her husband as far as Zante, where she remains an unwilling and fear ful spectatreas of the dangers into which his love of glory has once more embarked him, and from which it does not appear that he will retire before the issue of the struggle. Meanwhile the anxiety and best wishes of a numerous circle of friends incessantly attend him : and the admira tion of the whole civilized world, joined to the gratitude of a people whose welfare he is promoting with so much zeal and disinterestedness, await him as the reward of his efforts in the sacred cause of humanity. A letter "On the Means of giving Public Relief to the Distressed Manufacturers with Safety, and the Grounds on which the Measure is justified by Precedent," addressed by Sir J. SlNCt..sta to the several Committees appointed for the relief of the distressed manufacturers, was pub- fished in the I%Wilsbetrgli Observer of Friday, and has been sent to us to be inserted in our columns. We do so with great pleasure, and we confess it is in a high degree flatter ing to us to find our views on this subject coincide so ex actly with those of a man so distinguished as Sir JOH N for his practical knowledge of the subject on which he treats. It is not the province of a newspaper to enter into agricul tural details; and in advocating, as we have always done, the occupation of the poor in the cultivation of the soil, we have only asserted, in general terms, that additional labour would increase the produce of the land of this country. Sir Jou S SINCLAIR is the fittest man in Europe to deve lop that idea, and to show in detail how that labour should be applied, in order to accomplish the de sired object. It was but yesterday that we expressed opinions exactly similar to those of Sir Joni SIN CLAIR respecting the cultivation of waste lands, and the farther improvement of grounds already in some degree productive; but the Right Hon. Baronet ones farther, pointing out the manner in which this ma% l.e done. " In stead of throwing land not distinguished I its fertility out of cultivation (he observes), the wis 1 policy would now be to employ our unoccupied fellow-stv•:, ets, not only in rendering barren lands productive, but in augmenting the produce of our cultivated soils, by trenching." Al though, from the omission of all reference to the Corn Laws, we are inclined to think that we are not of the same opinion with the Right Hon. Baronet on that subject, we do not despair of soon seeing him convinced that the great est !stimulus which could possibly be given to agriculture would be the abolition of all restriction on the importation of foreign corn. it, the mean time, we are content to agree with him as far as he has yet gone on the subject, though we should feel inclined to modify a little his proposal respecting a Treasury grant. We shall hail the opening of the new Parliament as an auspicious event, if it were only to hear the development of the plan which Sir Jon X SINCLAIR has promised to bring for ward. We observe that a Scotch print, published in Edin burgh, whose authority is by no means despicable, treats the proposals of Sir J. SINCLAIR about waste lands as absurd. The writer who makes the remark cannot possi bly have read the article, or he would not attack the Baro net on such grounds. The cultivation of wastelands forms but an inferior part of his plan, which embraces agricul ture in general. Surely, the authority of the Right Hon. Baronet is the best possible to prove the practicability of schemes of this sort. It is unfortunate that people cannot be convinced, till they see with their eyes and hear with their cars of the advantages to be derived from any mea sure to which they have not been accustomed. We re member a very witty remark made by the Professor of a Scotch College, in his lectures concerning the steam engine, and its proposed application to the purposes of navi gation:—" Such machines might be made," he observed ; " but the use of them remained to be found out ; for who would travel in a machine capable of blowing him to atoms ?" Nothing is less difficult than to assume an air of wisdom, in declaring an untried scheme impracticable or ab surd. It is easy to see objections, but the man of real ability does not pronounce them insurmountable: lie grapples with them ; and though he may not himself overcome them, if he has any modesty, he does not suppose that no one can do that for which he Las found himself inadequate. The implied language of the sneerer at new proposals is this—" I can see no method of accomplishing this object, therefore it cannot be accomplished." CITY, MONDAY EVENING. It is impossible to conceive a more uninteresting day, as regards money transactions, than this has been. Con sols closed as they opened, at ?SI 3, not having varied niOre than 4 during the day, in any shape ; indeed business appearei by common consent to be suspended for one day at least. The letters from Ireland, both public and private, afford a very lamentable picture of the potato crops, in conse quence of the lone; drought ; while the flax is almost an nihilated by the same caitse. It will give satisfaction, how ever, to state, that the general condition of Ireland, as it exists at this moment, forms matter of deep interest with his Majesty's Government, and the country may be satisfied - everything that human means can accomplish will be done by them to alleviate the condition of those upon whom the calamities in question will place so heavy a weight of misery. In the Foreign Mallet, the only transactions of any moment have been in Mexican and Colombian, which both show superior quotations to those of Saturday : Colom bian have reached ; this rise is attributed to •hc tranquillity that prevailed when the last ac counts left the Caraccas, which represented that PA Ez had not proceeded in further movements, and that Bo- LIVAR was shortly expected in Venezuela. Mexican also reached 4t, sellers, at the close of the market. It appears a natural consequence for these Securities of Colombia and Mexico to follow the movements of each other, which a t least demonstrates that there is a strong affinity between them. Spanish Bonds show a slight disposition for a fall, hey having been done to-day at 0i to 10. The letters from Spain insinuate the possibility of a war be tween that muntry and Portugal, inasmuch as it is said that the Spatlish (; 0 ., vernment has requested to know from the FurLign An6at, sadors what line of conduct their various Courts inttnil to pursue, in the event of a rupture of the nature alluded to, These letters also further state the cautious movement of troops towards the frontiers, and that some regim ent , , of considerable numerical strength, which had been ordered to be disbanded, had been countermanded on their march to their destination, and it was understootl that an intirou Lion had been given that their services would be required, The large and increasing sales of Indigo, within the last month, indicated an increased demand for woollen manu. factures; and the letters from Bradford, received to _d ay, announce the gradual improvement of trade in that neigh• bourhood, and state that during the last week it hos betil very brisk. In Mark-lane the beet Wheats found a ready market thie morning, at about 3s. per quarter advance, and Barley, Peace, and Beans, in the same proportion, while Oatt realize about 2s. more than the last ,itnitaton. _.-,.•., _,„,, • -- 0,,,,, I • ,-.,..p„,„•-... z ..: - • - v..-- - ~..k ty. -- -1401, 6 4 1 t i fi A r k ri*:. -- vi"* . k,. - ...,,r , ---4• 7 2 . . - . 2. , e- ... , ,„„ . _.4.4,.-. _ ...:•-.-=.. ... ,-.- . ~.. ---:_ A -- - --qt- - -'- --*T--- gm UM(Oft 13n00. ICE 07 BRITISH lei Stock Ws /I per Gilt Red. :71 I per Cout. Coua. leyi NNW Acct. 7 4 . * So lac Cent. Reg. 804 MN 4 per Cent. PRICFS OF FOOKION bessittan Bono. 61) lisLessbise Bond Oft Ponds (1624 . 326 2 OM° Acct. 324 1212 d •reok Bonds INlSoliunds ICS) 13 Mookeit Bond. Dttto Non& (IRO 44, bi J 3 Ditto Acct. 441161i** 411 i 414 Persylsn Fonds 24 PRICES Ur SRARF.S YESTERDAY. MIMIC Share. ►etd. A46lllMean . ..... ............... .............. 100 li 12 pia finlivar . ...... esseralfiling io;;oed611;ii Towel. La Pat. aud Pomba Yam Neal &I Mosta..." ...... • . •••• . Ditto New.. . ......... . ♦ ?pm lOU • per dation BO L Sis die 400 44 1 0 78 dis 400 :MO 75 die felted ►leaiceo 1111M111,141111011f. Gummi Swam Navy'lke •••• •• •• ••• 'l'4,4C/ES YESTERDAY. Long Ann. 19:i 16 1 El. I 111.11t1.u1. 17 14 pa Itfilo SD/I. 17 IS pus Ditto strait Is pm Luttety Tickets 244. Te. STOCKS YVotTF.RDA Y. French Renick. 5 per ecta. 100 f. ibf. Ext.tutagc 24f. GOt . Portugue,c Bonds 72 Vino Acct. 721 Russian Bonds Ditto Aeet. Spanish ItonAlc 10i 3 Of Mitt) Acct. Itla Ditto 510. 10i FROM OUR PAMIR CORRESPDXDENT. P 411114, Ave. is, There is very little business doing here. Ilankrupteise are frequent, and a check is felt in every branch of trad e; the greatest losses, however, are in the hook trade • and books, it must be remember4id, are the staple manufacture of Paris. The printing establishments here are the first iu the world, and employ workmen from every country is Europe ; it is not surprising, therefore, that the ohmic total suspension of orders from the London houses, which has already existed for several months, should exsite the liveliest apprehensions in the minds of those who have large capitals embarked in this branch of business. Such a state of things would elsewhere excite the greatest alarm ; hitt, happily, Paris, notwithstanding its numerous mans• factories of books, is not really a commercial city; its con. merce in every other branch is destined, for the most part, merely to the support of its inhabitants ; and as to the revenue by which these are ultimately supported, we may trace it to a great body of idle proprietaries, alio scarcely ever quit the capital and ice amusements, to lace the variety of a rural life ; hence it is that in Parisian sa. ciety nothing is more de 771(111mi* ton than to talk amide, except theoretically ; and, as to printers and publisher!, they are considered beneath the notice of any, except the Police. It then becomes the duty of the journalist, who aspires to something better than to circulate through the dirty fingers of the cunaile, to consult the temper of the times, and to take but slight notice of things, at once SO vile and melancholy. as the misfortunes of trade. Thus it is that the Paris journals are quite silent on this subject. In the drama and theatrical critiques they find a subject more consenta•teous to the taste and disposition of then readers; and, certainly, it must be confessed, they find also a very fertile topic. It is quite extraordinary what a multitude of dramatic pieces are launched forth in Parts in the course of a year, and what a considerable peanut/ea of them obtain a more than moderate success. The French, indeed, do not require so much action and intrigue, nor such vigorous delineation of character in the drama, as we do, but they are not on that account less hard to be pleased; on the contrary, they are an quick to perceive any deficien eies of wit, vivacity, and elegance, that a negligent writer has no chance of success among them ; we must therefore suppose that their superior productiveness in this depart. ment of literature proceeds from the genius of the mine, and, perhaps, also, from the greater degree of encourage ment bestowed on it amongst a play-going people. What ever may be the cause, the patronage bestowed on this city by the Comic Muse is an incontestable fact. Within the last month, a new comedy, Ariotage, has been brotkcbr out at the Theatre Francais, with complete success; the Odeon, in the same time, has producea a comic opera and a tragedy ; and the Feydeau a musical piece—all equally successful. As to the minor theatres, two Vaudevilles per week is their average produce. Yet, notwithstanding the prolific genius of the Parisian play-writers, and their faci lity in manufacturing couplets, a sort of gloom has for sotne time been spread here over the dramatic world. This was perhaps principally owing to the illness of Talma, the absence of the principal actresses, who were making their ' accustomed professional tours, and more recently to the de parture of Madlle. Sontag. The return, however, of Madlle. Mars, and the appearance of Mad. Pasta, has somewhat cheered our drooping spirits. Respecting the latter,who made her entre in Oldie, somesniall critics ventured to pronounce that her taste, as well as her voice, were injured by het residence in England ; but an overpowering majority have the candour to declare that, while her voice and style of singing remain as pure as ever, she has acquired, from her visit to the native land of Shakspeare, ad ditional pathos and tragic energy. Madame Pasta hn brought with her the Opera Seria, which is not exactly suited to the taste of a Parisian audience ; and it is evident, that whatever admiration her talents tray command, she will never excite an enthusiasm like that produced by the young and beauteous Sontag ; indeed,this lady seems to have • possessed the true powers of enchantment ; but as she is . now gone, and her fascination begin to die away, the cri , tics (who never sacrifice truth to gallantry) begins to nisi ' nuate that she stands much in need of instruction, that ' her taste is immature and style florid. The critics are un doubtedly in the right ; but, whatever they may determine now, respecting her merit as a vocalist, the extraordinary impression she made here will not be easily effaced, particularly as a romantic story begins to circu late, which throws no inconsiderable interest over her cha racter, and which, at the same time that it cutsoff all hopes • of her re-appearance on the Parisian boards, explains the singular circamstances which led her to this capital. Rote sini is enthroned Director of the Italian Opera, and con trives to enjoy here, as completely as lie did in London, the sublime pleasure, "di fare niente," of doing nothing. To the charge of indolence he replies by an appeal to the 30 operas lie has already composed ; but the administration of the theatre has been so negligent, and the company so weak, that there are but few operas which oan be brought out here. BIRISSFT.S, Aeo. Is.—The enthusiasm for the Greek cause, "aids some of the inhabitants here had embraced with much ardour, has entirely subsided. It seems, that since the departure of Lord Cochrane for the Archipelago, they think they have done enough, and that Lord Coch rane may do the rest. There arc no more subscriptions, concerts, or balls, in favcur of the Greeks. Notwith standing this apparent apathy, the news which the cuarie , nave on the I‘2tla instant, from a Morning Paper, concern. ing the detention of the steam-boats fitted out in aid of the Greeks, produced a great st nsation here, as it was looked upon as a had omen of the manner in which the squadron of Lord Cochrane will be treated by the English ships of war in the Levant. We are to have here a new political Journal, the title of which will be Le Publiciste. It is ta be conducted by Frenchmen, one of whom is, as it is sair!, an ex-writer in the Courrier Francais at Paris; so that it is easy to anticipate what will be the tone of this new Paper. The accounts of the harvest are in general fa vourable; the corn that has been gathered is of a scia.tior quality. _ _ EDI NDURG H Rev I E W.—Wit h reference to a paragraph which has recently been copied into several Papers from the Leeds Intelligence', we are authorized to state, that there is no foundation whatever for the report of there being any change intended in the Editorship of the journal above named —The questions which arose between the Editor and Messrs. Longman and Co. upon the failure of the Edinburgh publisher, have been for some time settled, to the perfect satisfaction cf both parties. There has been no recent falling oft' in the circulation of the wotk, the extent of the present impression being double what the Intelligeneer has represented. The general accuracy of his information on the subject may be guessed at from bis having announced, among the contents of the new number, a paper which is neither contained iu it, nor indeed wo ever in contemplation.