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PRICES OF !BRITISH Am* Stock Ditto Acct. 201 SI pet Cent. Cosa. 78 AfIM Acct. 7A4 78 Pk* 4 per Cent. 95i 98 j India Bond. 2 4 2 ple PRICES UP YOltalliN Awtrion Donde NB Ditto Are. liraellan Honda 101 71 7 1 Wm, Acct. 6i i dWllan Bonds oi I Colombian Bonds Plato Bondi (W2l) We le 601 le 2 2 Ditto Acct. See II eI If 11f 1 2 ia Dantt Honda (NNW See 7 Ditto Acet. MJ f French Ratites i rat 5ue1.961.10c. t7f. Tachstige 25r. SOL micas or se, hoglallextes• ..... Asoo-Chillaa ....... :. Betaims . .. ikalvar ChMan .....1 Oesersl 111dy Assoadsthe Fueo-Penvka Plalptixabus United Hexless ' Ditto ... Welsh Iron and Coal. Al!lane, Britlab and Fardin„, gieneral Stearn Navigation ______ 'thy leritisfi Wm. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Ills Evades, THUSIIDAY, Mare& Sfe, will be performed the sew Operetta Play of BEfdrOWSltif. _ Benyewsky, Mr. Bennett; Kovno, Mr. Horn ; Stepbanoff, Mr. Wal. Baca; Tristram Stark, Mr. Harley. Athanasia, Miss Foote; Phedoto, Mbrittobitt ; Christine, Miss Pony. After which (4th time; anew Grand Romantic Ftiiry Tale, called OBERON ; or, THE CHARMED HORN. Facimi—Oberon, Miss Vincent; 'Mania, Miss Macdonald. French—The Xsperor Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sir Huon of Guyenne, Mr. Ben- Wt, Shera.rain, Mr. Browne; Sir Aubert, Mr. T. Blanchard. Arabiani-- The Caliph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope ; the Prince Rahikou, Mr. Howell; Sadak, Ms. Flriwilllam ; Ovine, Mr. Mercer. The Pi incevs Amanda. Miss Smith. non ; Tatum Mn. C. Jones. Tunisians—The Sultan of Tanis, Mr. Teases i [alarm, Mr. W. Bennett ; Fisherman, Mr. 0. Smith. aurtiusta comuntsis. - MISCILLAIIIIOI7II. LE YESTERDAY. I[B. Share. Paid. , £lOO 46 15 db. 100 S 43 RN 400 60 rar 60 3 7 pm 100 1 33 416 !'f i'dl.4 km) b 3 dia .... 100 10 11 die 400 be di, ..... ....... . . . . 211 20 13} die 7ioo 10 ipm lie I 41 (Us COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This BesehisrTiillß9DAl:March3o, will be performed lie Comedy of THE 0001)-NATURED MAN. Mr. Roseywned, Mr. Wards s Croaker, Mr. W. Ferree • Lofty. Mr. JONA i Sit William lipneywoad, Mr. Bartley; Le..atlne, Ur. Cooper Janis, Mr. Blanchard. Miss Richland, Mrs. Chatter's,; Olivia, Nisi A. Jests ; Mrs. Croaker. Mrs. Glover. After which the Farce of A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Mr Bask Chase, Mr. Fawcett ; Alfred Htgbflyer Mr. Jonas ; IMMorik Mr. Rayner. Maria Darlington, Mad am, !feeds. To conclude with the Ballet of THE DESERTER OP NAPLES. Beaty, Mrs.Vlnlng ; Simpkin, Mr. E. Pardo', Sklnitieh, Moos Vicars. Louisa, Mils J. Stott ; Jenny, Slim Romer. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME TW iteItimg,YRURSDAY, March/10, withanentlrely new Entertainment, is Two Parts, founded on Ills Observations on Cbarsaters, Manners, and Peculiarities, entitled MR. MATHEWS' INVITATIONS. Peat Monopolylogne, to be called THE CITY BARGE Dow spa nt Half past Seven (Instead of Seven, as heretofore) ; the Performance begins at Eight precisely. AtiiiAM i THEATRE. Mr. YATES has the honour to announce, that ow MONDAY NEXT, =ll, hit will rye, for the Stet tia*, an entirely new entertainment, In Patin, consisting of Sketches from Life, Manners, and Peculiari ties, entitled YATES' REMINISCENCES ; OR, ETCHINGS OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. And a Monopolologue, entitled MR. CHAIR-MAN Boxes, 3.. Pit. 2.. Gallery, is. Doors open at Seren, and begin punctually at lief-past Seven. Half-price at Nine. Tb. BIITISI Patna — co mmencedpublishing yesterday morning at five o'clOck. LONDON, THURSDAY, NI ARC li 30, 1846. The discuswion on the law of printogneiture came on in the French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. The fol lowing is the substance of the proposed law :—ln every succession passing in the descending line, anti paying 300 francs of land tax, the disposable share of the property, which may be a half, a third, or a fourth of the whole, according as there are one, two, three, or more children, is to be given to the eldest son, incase the father should not have disposed of it before his decease; and this share is always to be taken from the real property, if it be possible to do so consistently with the interest of the other children. If the deceased divided his property in general terms among his children, the same arrangement is still to take effect. This is the whole of what is material in the change pro posed ; and it does not therefore appear to contain any thing so very objectionable as was anticipated. The ex citement in France, on the occasion, seems rather to have been produced by the principle upon which the measure is founded than upon the nature of the measure itself. It does not assign the whole inheritance to the elder son; but only provides that the moiety of his property, which a man is allowed by the French laws to dispose of by will, shall, in the event of intestacy, be assigned to the elder son, instead of being distributed, as formerly, in equal portions among the children. If the father disposes of part of the property, either to a stranger or to any of his children by name, the will cannot be set aside. It follows that the eldest son can in no case obtain, by the operation of this law, a greater addition to the property which he would otherwise have possessed, than a sixth part of the whole real and personal estate; and that he can never, by this law alone, become possessed of more than two-thirds of the whole property, and this he can only ob tain when he has only one coheir. As far as these regula tions go, they_will have very little effect in supporting the aristocratic families ; and in fact it is difficult to say what effect either Ministers or Opposition can anticipate from such an arrangement. With this law we calculate that an income of 20,0001. —taking the average number of children at three—will be diminished in the hands of the inheritor of the title to an income of 4,552/. in three generations, or about ninety years. The only method, therefore, which seems to remain for the French Nohli s, in order to conti nue the opulence of their families, is to take care never to have more than one heir that can inherit either their title or their property. _ _ The following are extracts from the French papers of Tuesday, none having been published on Monday on ac count of the Fete de Parma. [From tke Etoile, dated Tuesday, 28th March.] 111alin ID, Maas ti 16. Their Royal Highnesses the Infant Don Carlos and his Consort arrived at Madrid yesterday evening. The King arrived this after. neon et four o'clock. His Majesty has promoted Major• General Linen, Gasmen of Madrid, to the rank of Lieut.-General. A change in the Ministry daily becomes more probable. as the Duke de l'lnfantado is resolved to retire. General Eguia, Captain. General of Galicia, nephew of the Captain-tieneral of the same name, is spoken of as Minister of War, and M. Erro, Army In. tendant, as Minister of Finance, but only ud interim. M. Cabo wird e to give up his place to M. Levant), his predecessor. A Decree, which will appear immediately, for it has been sent to the 31Mister of Finance, ordains in substance, that all those per. sons who have purchased national estates shim 11120, shall lose not only those estates but the money which they have paid for them. Our Gazette announces that the tariff of duties having been ap. proved by his Majesty, will be carried into execution from the Ist May next. The same paper gives news from Lisbon, with which we were already acquainted—Memorial Burdrlnit. LUCERNE, MARCH 17. It is with profound emotion that the Members of the Great Council of Lucerne, on the point of closing their winter Session on the 10th March, learnt by a message from the daily Council the result of the investigation, ordered in November last, into the cur lust of tw3 Members of our Government. Since the return of Messrs. Pfyffer and Correggioni every body gives his opinion of this scandalous affair. All those whom the event has more or less implicated for opinions previously expressed, rest on the circum stance that, among the recantations of the banditti, that of the famous Clara Wendel still leaves some doubt. In fact this woman, while recalling her preceding declarations in everything concerning the Magistrates accused, still persists in asserting the reality of the assassination. This last refuge of perfidy mry engage the Com. mittee of Inquiry some moments longer. but all the perplexity of the erroneous prepossessions is necessary to attach the slightest importance to it. PARIS, Mimic's. 27. Letters from Vienna, of the 18th, say that the convalescence of the Emperor was proceeding in the most desirable manner. His Majesty took no more medicines, and his appetite was good. The theatres were opened the day before, and Te Dtant had been per formed in the Church of St. Stephen, in the presence of the Court, the public authorities, and foreign Ambassadors and Ministers. In the theatres, the audience sung in chorus the hymn, " God preserve the Emperor Francis." The .4 , istarvir, in a recent number, says t-- " We have certain information, that several officers and subal terns of the battalion of the train of artillery in garrison at Tou louse, have received orders to proceed to Marseilles, to embark fur an unknown destination." The &I to 11$1 Midi contradicts this imputation as follows : " We know not what may have given rise to such an assertion ; on the contrary, we affirm, that the officers and subalterns of the train of artillery in garrison at Toulouse, who, in consequence of the annual changes which take place in that corps, have received a new destination, have orders to repair to the new garrisons as. signed them, and which we have already made known, and that none of them are going to 111arseillet, where no part of this corps is garrisoned. Thus this mysterious embarkation is a pure fiction, and an additional proof of the calumnious readiness with which certain juumals repeat that the troops the, combat the Greeks are recruited in France. This unknown destination is no more true than it is that the artillery employed in besieging Missolonglii was sent from our arsenals." No French papers published on Monday. FRENCH FCRINS, PARIS, MARCH '27.—Five per Cents. 95f. ; Three per Cents. Bank Stock, 20110 f. Rentea de Naples, 72f. 40c. Rentes de Espagne, Of. Royal Spanish Loan, 4111. Haytian Loan. 750 f. Exchange on London (Money)_ One month, 70c.; Three ditto 2.3 f. 43c.—Cours utlientique, Mardi 27. By an extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated De cember 13, IS2S, in a Philadelphia Paper of the 17th of February, it would appear that the Emperor of BRAZIL intends, on his pert, to act purely on the defensive in the contest with Buenos Ayres, or at least to confine himself to predatory operations; but, by letters from Buenos Ayres of the 3d of January, it seems he has declared all the ports of that Republic in a state of blockade. " We are in agonies of suspenve between peace and war with the Brazils--opinions vary every hour, and although the Emperor of Brazil is making great warlike demonstrations, yet he seems to intimate an intention only to defend his Rio Grande frontier, while the sante pretence of merely defensive war is put forward by this Government." BUENOS AVRES, DEc. 23. The enemy on the frontier is preparing to make an inroad on the plain- for the purpose, which has already been sufficiently indicated, of seizing all the cattle and horses which may be met with, and carrying them off to the Rio Grande. On the 15th, 497 of the enemy appeared in Choy, and directed their course towards the anterior. We have no doubt that the national troops will soon fall in with them, and that they will quickly teach the despots how they ought to conduct themselves towards men who are animated by the flame of liberty. The following proclamation has been printed in this city:— " Don Juan Antonio Lavelle* Brigadier-Governor and Captain- General of the Oriental Province, to the inhabitants thereof:— " When I landed on the shores of my native country from the ominous yoke of the despot of Brazil, I relied solely on the noble enthusiasm which inflamed your breasts against the unjust usurper. Without preparation, without resources, and confiding entirely in your energy and valour, I found myself victorious on the 24th of September. and the 12th of October. in the Rincon de las Gallinas, and ruchilla del Sarandi. What glory did you not acquire on those brilliant days ! The liberty of the Oriental province was sealed with the blood of some of her valiant sons ; and alarm and terror was diffused through the whole territory of Brazil. Never. theless, the cruel Pedro 1., who again wishes to see the blood of his subjects flow, has determined to invade this province, to lay waste our plains, and exterminate their inhabitants. " People of the Eastern Province ! The moment has arrived when your duty requires you to take up arms. Think on the un happy fate that awaits you if you yield to disgraceful apathy. Just vengeance once more inspires you with patriotic enthusiasm. We are forced to engage in war, and we must make our enemies feel its fatal consequences. The tyrant dreads the resistance of free men, and be assured that his cowardly slaves will not easily forget the charge of Sarandi. If our resolution be unanimous, we shall speedily conclude the campaign, in which I will, as I have always done, accompany you, ar.d joyfully become your chief and corn. panion. " LAVA LLEJ A. " !lead-quarters, on march, Dec. 19, 1825." By letters from Monte Video we learn that the Emperor of Brazil has declared war against the Republic of the United Pro vinces. This declaration was brought by the Brazilian frigate Paula, which arrived at the above-mentioned port on the 17th mat. after a passage of eight days. On the 20th the fr;gate is to set sail with the other vessels of the enemy's squadron. to blockade Buenos- Ayres. Viscount de la Laguna has received orders to march to Rio Grande to conduct the war. It is momentarily expected that hostilities will actively com mence on both sides. The National Government has prepared all its meana of defence, and every thing seems to promise that the period has now arrived when the cause of liberty and justice will secure an everlasting triumph throughout the whole American Continent. BUENOS A YRES, JAN. 3. Every preparation is snaking for vigorous war against the Bra. Lilian Emperor. On his pars he has declared all the ports of Buenos Ayres under blockade. Extract of a letter from Port-au-Prince, dated January 26, 1826: The Senate and Lower House (the Legislature) are now in Session. The former are no doubt deliberating on the treaty ne gotiated by the Deputies sent to France for that purpose. I have been favoured with a sight of it. The items of most interest to the Americans trailing to this islatid are the following :—The flag to cover the property and to entitle it to half duty on both import and export produce of this island to be admitted into France at an in. termediate duty between their own colonial and foreign duty, by which coffee will pay about two sous less duty than any other foreign, and cotton, logwood, dm in the sante ratio. Sugar is ex cepted, but there is none made here. Should the Senate confirm it as it stands, it will interfere with the carrying hominy's, but I do not know any other advantage that they will gain at our expense. We shall have to remit to France, and draw for the proceethk." Advice' from St. Domingo city, to the I Ith ult., inform us that an order of the Government went into operation on the Ist of the month, fm prohibiting foreign vessels front trading and taking in their cargoes as heretofore.—Pftiladelphia Freeman's Journal. A printed copy of the Bill, as amended by the Com mittee, for improving the administration of Criminal Jus tice in England, is now before the public. Its leading ob jects are, to define the circumstances under which persons may be admitted to bail in cases of felony, and to make better provision for taking Examinations, Informations, Bailments, and Recognizances, and returning the same to the proper Tribunals. hitherto, prisoners committed on a charge of . felony were not admitted to bail, an•l so strictly has the rale of law in this respect been construed, that a prisoner, committed for knowingly receiving a part of the cargo of a ship in the river Thames, was held not to be entitled to be bailed, the offence being deemed a felony, though not expressed to be so in the Statute 2 George HI. C. 2s. The Court of King's lime]) has always had a dis cretionary power to bail in all cases whatever, the Court taking such sureties for the accused to appear and take his t►ial as they in their discretion shall see fit, according to the circumstances of the case. The inth snd 17th clauses of the Act provide, that in all indictments for offences committed oMproperty pro vided at the expense of the county, to be used in any gaol or house of correction, such property may be laid to belong to the county—that property ordered for the use of the poor of any parish, to be used Li any work-house, may be averred to belong to the overseers; and that materials for repairing highways, may be laid to be the property of the surveyors of Lighways. Theme who are not accus tomed to the strictness required in framing imlicirazt..., would imagine that nothing were more easy than to state to whom any property stolen belonged ; whereas, there is no point of greater difficulty, in many casts, titan to de- • • THE BRITISH PRESS. scribe with legal certainty this apparently simple fact. We may take the following case as an example: At the Old Bailey Sessions, 1785, William 'Taylor was indicted for stealing one plate-glass from a coach-door, value fif teen shillings, and one hammer-cloth, value two shillings, the property of John Whitworth. The prosecutor, John Whitworth, was a coach-master, and had let a pair of horses on a job to the lady to whom the coach, from which the property was stolen, belonged. The coach, at the time the door-glass and hammer-cloth were taken away from it by the prisoner, stood in Whitworth's yard, in a coach-house belonging to him, and he said that it was entirely under his care, and that he considered him self answerable to the lady for everything belonging to it. It was objected that the property stolen ought to have been laid as the property tf the lady, and not of the coach master. Mr. RECORDER consulted EYRE, Chief Baron, and ASHURST end HEATH, Justices; and they were clearly of opinion that it was well laid ; and the case of Robert -NI IA .4...474 was remembered, who, at the Old Bailey Sessions, in June, 1713, had been convicted before Mr. Justice ASTON, of stealing a chariot-glass from a lady's chariot, which had been put up at a coach-yard at Chelsea, while the owner of it was at Raneksh, and the property was laid to be in Me master or the yard where the chariot had been put up. It is manifest that in oases of this kind the averment of law is apparently contrary to the fact. The gradual amendment of the Criminal Code will, we hope, in time permit the introduction of that more extended principle of construction, of which the present Act has set the example. " Those," said DEMOSTHENES, "who are wise, regard the laws as the morals of the State, and therefore earnestly en deavour to make them as perfect as possible." By the at tention which Mr. PEEL has paid to the subject of our criminal jurisprudence, he has rendered a service to the country which couples his name with those of its greatest betibfactors; for, of all refonns, the reform of the laws is the most important, and the industry directed to that ob ject cannot fail to obtain the most lasting popularity. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. This was the first day of business after the holidays, and speculators seemed at a loss to know how to act at the first opening of the market. This circumstance, together with various reports from Russia, caused a wide price to be made. Consols for Account opened at 71i to 781, but, as few purchases were reported, the market became steady at 781, and was afterwards dull, alternately buyers and sellers at that price. The bargains, however, were inconsiderable, except in parcels of Money Stock, of which about 19,000/. was thrown upon the market; but it was taken im mediately, without occasioning any decline in the prices, being scarce, and much wanted by the jobbers. In the other descriptions of English Stock there is little variation. Exchequer Bills were 3s. to Ss. premium. India Bonds were is. 4s. 2s. premium. There was a decided improvement in the Foreign Mar ket. South American Stocks were all rather higher; but the Mexican appeared the greatest favourite : from Satur day's price, 66, the market advanced to 681; Colombian Bonds, from .50, have advanced to 52; Chilian .50 ; Por tuguese 72; Russian 78i ; Greek 18. There were no arrivals of foreign mails, and only two entries on Lloyd's books. It is stated in letters from Lisbon via Bayonne, that se veral arrests had taken place in that city. Letters from Paris state that the King has invited M. de Chateaubriand and other members of the opposition to travel for the benefit of their health. This gracious invi tation has been delivered, and there the matter rests for the present. . . Ii is a remarkable circumstance that, notwithstanding the depressed and ruinous prices of every article of foreign and colonial produce and of manufactures, and the con vulsed state of the currency, that the corn-market conti nues so firm. The petition against West Indian slavery from Dundee, meast :es sisty-three feet in length, and the signatures are five columns deep. STATE OF Titanz.---Although the accounts from all parts of the country give token of returning prosperity and confidence, we are sorry to say that, from some cause or other, we are unable to report any sensible improve ment in the trade of this place. On Saturday evening a meeting of the calico weavers of this town was held at the Britannia Inn, when It was agreed that a statement of the number of persons out of employment in this and the neighbouring townships should be published. Accordingly several individuals were appointed to collect the necessary information, and they have already been through the fol following townships :—Blackburn, Wilton, Ramsgreave, Richton, Mellor, Lower Darwen, and part of Osweldtwisle, which contain altogether about 32,009 inhabitant. The fol lowing is the result of their inquiries :—Employed, 2,807; half-employed, 1,467 ; unemployed, 6,412, exclusive of many hundreds of persons belonging to other trades. Tins statement requires no comment, it will sufficiently show the distress that must prevail.—Bleekhurn Mall. A meeting of the Subscribers to Lloyd's took place yesterday at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of receiving the half-yearly report, the statement of the finances of the establishment, and to elect a member of the committee in the place of the late Mr. Inner. The chair was taken by Mr. Sanderson, who stated that their worthy Chairman, Mr. Shaw, being prevented by pressing business from attend ing, the lot fell to him, as Senior Member of the Com mittee, and requested that their indulgence might be ex tended to him in this his new situation. The Chairman then called the attention of the meeting to an important measure about to be submitted to Ministers; the entire re peal of the duty on policies of marine insurances, which would receive assistance from petitions to the same effect from all the principal ports of the kingdom. 'I he state ments of :he finances of the establishment were then given in detail. Notwithstanding the pressure of the times, the income of 1825 exceeded the expenditure. The meeting then adjourned, with a request from the Chairman that the subscribers should immediately proceed in the ballot for the election of Mr. Leathley, as a member of the Committee, in the place of his late respected partner, Mr. Innes. CALEDONIAN CANAL.— Public notice has been given, that the Caledonian Canal will be closed for some weeks from the 12th of April next. We regret this the more, considering that the intercourse by means of this great na tional work (now 15 feet deep from sea to sea) is assuming a character of extensive utility; vessels trading to or from London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Newcastle, Leith, Aber deen, and Glasgow, Derry, Belfast, Carnarvon, Waterford, and Cork, having passed through this Canal in the single month of January and first week of February last. We shall announce with great pleasure the re-opening of the passage as soon as the accomplishment of the repair of the Mucomer Lock can be anticipated with sufficient certainty to justify us in so doing.—lnueerress Courier. THE GEORGE IVi STEAM-VS SSl:.—This tried and,. efficient vessel will resume her place on the Cork and Bristol station on Tuesday, 11th April next, under the command of her old favourite, Captain Brown. The George IV. may safely refer to her past performances for what she is likely to effect in future. A better sea-vessel has never crossed the Channel, and she has accomplished many very adverse circumstances of wind and weather. We understand she has undergone u complete refit, and is much improved. The following instance of great dexterity, or of equally great success, will, we think, r e nd er th e f ame o f t h e achiever immortal in the annals of 1826:—A young girl in this neighbourhood lately killed six wood pigeons at one shot, and occasionally amuses herself by popping down twos and threes at a lime !—Jfuntruse Review. ITOC ES YESTERDAY. Witt Stock Ditto Acct. Me Ex. Rills 10001. S 6 pis Ditto $OOl. Ditto Small. 6 4 pea Lottery Tickets 212. I I s. STOCKS YESTERDAY. Perna, Bente, 3 Cent. 63f. 7k. Exchange 25f.6tic Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1826 19 Ditto Acct. In Is 17! 18 Mexican Bonds Ditto Bonds (Id26' 67 #8,6 8 4 8 Ditto Acct. 67# 76#9 76 8 8 # 1 3 8 6 8 IPera 7 rlau Bonds 306 811 296 31 296 Ditto Acct. De Portuguese Bonds 72 Ij 2 Russian Bonds 786 J 6 Ditto Aect. 761 I GERMAN PAPERS. MARCH The fall of the house of Albrecht, In Zeit; which employed shove 800 workmen, is a severe blow to the credit of our Saxon manufacturers. Albrecht, of all our manufacturers, supplied our fairs with the finest manufactures of cotton and Merino wool. His insolvency greatly Injured several Lelpsic houses which are still standing, as well as that of Reichenhach. It is reported that he has stopped payment solely because, in the late crisis, he could not find means to pay the weekly wages of his workmen till the end of the fair. This house liar assuredly not been jobbing in the funds, or been guilty of any extravagance ; but the decline in the price of the cotton anti wool which had been purchased at high rates, and the probability of low prices of goods at the next fair, seem to have induced the head of that house to contra his tempo rary embarrassment, though the work in hand and the Gutstanding debts are said to he very considerable. It is also said, that mea sures have been adopted by the city and the Government, that the business may he continued without Interruption. Still it is evident, that if the Government does not effectually support the bankers, or grant considerable loans dimity to the manufacturers, the present blow will for ever paralyze all the Saxon manufactories, and be followed by universal distress and poverty in the manufacturing districts. FRANKFORT, MARCH 21. EXTRACT FROM THE SIXTH SITTING OF THE GERMAN MET, HELD MARCH 9. The 31inister President reminds the Assembly, that in the sit ting of the 7th of February, 182'2, he communicated the Act regu lating the navigation of the Elbe, concluded at Dresden the 23d of June, 1821, and which was carried into effect the Ist of 31arch, 1822. In the 30th article of the treaty it was stipulated, that from time to time Commissioners from the Slates on the banks of the Elbe should meet, for the purpose of seeing that the Act was strictly observed, of remedying complaints, and of deliberating on such measures and regulations as, from the most recent experience, tnight be calculated to give increased facilities to the commerce and naviFation of the Elbe. 1% ith this view, the first meeting of the Commissioners took place at Ilamburgh in 1824, and agreed on some supplementary regulations, which were signed by all the Plenipotentiaries the 18th September 1824. Phis convention having obtained the ratification of all the States concerned, and these ratifications having been exchanged and de. posited In the archives common to all the States on the banks, in the Privy Imperial Aulic Chancery ; and the convention itself hav ing been carried into effect on the whole course of the Elbe, the Austrian Legation has been commanded to acquaint the Diet with this convention. The Assembly ordered the convention to be deposited in the ar chives of the Confederation. AI7GIITSURG, MARCH Messrs. Schumann Brothers, booksellers at Zwickau, have ad. vcrtised in the iiihremeine Zeitung, and other papers, that the first volume of the Life of Napoleon, by Sir Walter Scott, has been lately published in London, that it will consist of five large vo lumes Bvo. and he all published by the end of August ; that a Dr. Barmann is making a translation, which they will publish in seven pocket volumes (with copper-plates), the first two to be delivered to the subscribers in June, and the whole before the end of the year. They will also print an edition in English, and the price is to be about fifteen pence a volume. TILE DUKE DE MONTMORENCY. The above distinguished Statesman was first brought into notice in this country by his appointments of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Ambassador of France to the Congress of Verona. His former appointment he resigned in consequence of 31. De Villele'Ropposi don to the Spanish war. The early hist. ry of the Duke had, however. rendered him a personage of high interest and celebrity in France. He is frequently spoken of as the premier Baron Clurrlien, but that distinction properly belonged to his cousin, the Duke De Montmorency, the head of that v.ry ancient and illustrious family, who derived their name from the estate of Montmorency, rear Paris, the first that is known to have borne the title of a Barony in France. Mathieu is an early Christian name in that family, having been borne, in the twelfth century, by Montmorency, the Grand Constable of France, who married a daughter of Henry 1. of England. From that time to the present the illontmorencys have filled some of the highest stations in the French •sionarchy, and their name is attached to so many and such glorious recollections, that it carries with it a sort of magic charm to the ears of French men. These circumstances gave a wonderful eclat to the conduct of the Vicomte Mathieu de Montmorency, in the beginning of the Revolution ; for, being a young man, fired with the grand ideas of liberty then prevalent, he was the first to deposit on the table of the Constituent Assembly his titles of Nobility, as a sacrifice to the new and fascinating doctrine f equality. No one, from that hour to this, ever doubted theperfect purity of his motives—but, alas 1 he was soon undeceived as to the tendency of his actions. He found that they had aided the triumph of a ferocious and sanguinary faction—that they had helped to overturn a throne which he respected, and altars which he adored ; that they had clothed his country in mourning, and deluged it with blood; and that, after all, the very name which he bore was a ceirne, and the faith that he professed was an object of hatred and persecution. He became a voluntary exile, and in Switzerland found a shelter, by the kindness of Madame de Steel. Tormented, however, with that home sickness, which is so natural to all who love their coun try, he returned to France in 1793, only to be thrown into prison, from which, however, he was, after some time, released. The scenes which he had thus witnessed were of a nature to make him seek consolation in the sentiments of religion ; and he may, per haps, be pardoned, if he even carried those sentiments to an ex cess. For many years he devoted himself to nothing but works of charity, but even these could not exempt him from the lynx-eyed suspicions of tyranny. fie was banished by Iluonaparte in 1811. anti though he obtained his recal, was always kept under the sur. veillance of the Police. At length the happy era of 13114 arrived. and the Vicomte de Montniorency was the first to hasten to Nancy, to join Monsieur, now Charles X. whom he accompanied to Paris as his Aid.de-Camp, and r ece i ve d a distinction still more flatter. ing, the appointment of Chevalier D'Honneur to the illustrious daughter of Louis XVI. In pursuance of this duty he attended the Princess to Bordeaux. and after seeing her sate to London, joined Louis XVIII. at Ghent. By the battle of Waterloo, he was once more restored to his country ; and we can, of our own knowledge, testify the deep sense which he entertained of the ser vices of England to the common cause of Europe, and his earnest desire to cultivate sentiments of mutual esteem between two na tions, made, as he said, to appreciate each other's good qualities. If lie afterwards appeared at Verona, in something like opposition to the views of England with regard to the Spanish war, it was not from any diminution of respect for the English character; but from views perfectly compatible (as he thought) with the interests of both nations. His conduct, however, on that occasion, was uni versally admitted to be frank and honourable, and Louis XVIII., though he found himself obliged to accept M. de Montmorency's resignation, testified his opinion of his services by raising hint to a Dukedom. The Duke Mathieu remained ever afterwards out of office, but enjoyed thc unbounded personal confidence of the Royal Family, by whom the extreme fervour of his religious sentiments was not regarded as any defect in his character ; on the contrary, it seems to have determined the choice of him to superintend the studies of the young Duke de Bordeaux; at least, it is certain, that the party of the Clergy hailed that choice with great delight. The Duke too was recently chosen a Member of the French Academy; but even at the reading of his inaugural speech, he appeared to be suffering under a serious illness, which rapidly grew worse, so that, about a fortnight ago, he was considered to be in imminent danger. lle seemed shortly afterwards to recover a little, but it was a mere lightning before death. Thinking himself better, he went out to several churches to offer up thanksgivings to the Au thor of all Goodness. At length he came to the church of St. Tho mas Aquinas; but he had scarce knelt down when he was struck with a sudden and fatal shock, and fell dead on the pavement. PARIS, Mallen 23.—N. Forbin Janson, one of the most hot-headed of the missionary chiefs, has just given a striking example of the extreme audacity with which those self-constituted orders are but too well inclined to act. After several days preach. ing at Pont a Motown, in the department of La illeurthe, M. Forbin Janson announced to the Uayor that he intended to plant an enormous wooden crucifix in the public place, ax a ntemorial of the mission. To this the Mayor objected that the place, made use of as a market place. was already too circumscribed ; and that, besides, it was not a fitting spot for a crucifix, where it would be surrounded with cattle, filth, dee. M. Forbin Janson then named another place, but the Mayor said that the crucifix could not be planted there, as the ground belonged to the commune, and had been marked out for another purpose. " 011 !" replied the mis. sionary, " I will show you that the thing is possible, for I shall cause the crucifix to be planted there to-morrow." " I hope," answered the Mayor. " that you will not give so dangerous an example of insubordination to the public authorities." M. Forbin Janson kept his sand, and caused the crucifix to be erected next morning —he presiding at the ceremony. A proces verbal of this strange proceeding, signed by the Mayor and his coadjutors, was sent to the Milliliter of the Interior. It is reported to-day that the Attorney-Oeneral has received orders to prosecute M. Forbin Jan. son for rebellion against the public authorities. A similar scene to the foregoing recently took place between the Prefect of the Seine and (Name and a band of missionaries. Time Prefect has conic to Paris and laid the details before the Minister of the Interior. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday night last a respectable female, named Piet', the wife of one of the millers at the steam oil mill, in Brownlow-street, Liverpool, lost her life by falling into the reservoir for cooling the water, in the yard of the premises. Ilse husband usually left hit. work at nine c'elock. A little before that hour, she called in with another young woman to accompany him home, and while in the yard it is supposed she leaned against a tub, on the margin of the reservoir, which tolled over, and she fell in. The female. whose arm she had just quitted for a moment, gave the alarm, and her husband ran instantly to the spot. and plunged in to save her, at the imminent risk of his own life ; for the water, seven or eight feet in depth, and mixed with slime, was in a scalding state, and the steam ariatng from It rendered it impossible to discover the unfortunate woman, whose sufferings, as she was not afterwards heard, were probably of short duration. The afflicted man was, in a short time, and with great exertion, hoisted out. when he was in an exhausted and sinking state ; and he was with difficulty prevailed upon to relinquish a second attempt by the peopl e who had now collected on the spot. The water was then let off as much as possible, and one of the engineers, with the aid of a ladder, brought up the body, af,er it had been three quarters of an hour immerged. It was instantly conveyed to the Infirmary, where every exertion was made to re. store animation, but without avail. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis anti archioness Cam arrived in town i sste , * from their seat, the Wi M lderness, Cent. den . _ Lady Caroline Stanhope had left town on a visit to the Marquis sag Marchioness of 'favistock, at their seat, Oakley, Bedfordshire. The Earl of Falmouth has left town, for his seat, Woolhunpton, gs,k s. L Cosgr or dove Lynedoc y, h has left Warren's Hotel, R egen t- s t reet, for his Aq seat, Prior Bucks. Henry Seymour, Esq. left town yesterday, for his seat In Bedfordrhire. Ralph Hoare, Erg arrived yesterday, at Fenton's New Hotel, sr. James's-street, from Bath. Captain Knollys has left ditto, for Windsor, The Rev. Mr. Hume and the Rev. Mr. Duke arrived yesterday, at kill. let's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from a tour. Arrivals at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street :—Uvedale Price, K s from Pbrtamouth ; Crawford Antrobus, Esq. from Naples. Arrivals at Mtvart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:"—John Walker, Mrs. Walker, and family, from Leamington, Warwickshire ; the R e y . D r , and Mrs. Buller, from Harlow. Sir Clifford and Lady Constable las i ; left ditto, for their seat In Staffordshire. Lady Hales has %Privet, at her house to Charles-street, Berkeley-squue. from her seat, Brymore, Nomersetsbire. The Hon. Captain and Lady Cast have arrived In town, from a tour. Lord and Lady Hondas mid family have arrived at their house in Hen. ford-street, Mayfair, from their seat In Yorkshire. Sir George and Lady Pocock and family have arrived at their home In Charles-street, Berkeley-square. Colonel and Mrs. Hughes have arrived at their house In South Andlty. street, from the seat of Owen Williams, Esq. M.P. In Wales. Departures Prom the British Hotel:—Captain Milman sad lAllliar n Watson, Esq. for Brighton ; .1. Hicks, Esq. for Cambridge. Arrivals at Batt's Family Hotel, Hover-street Peel, Esq. and t k. WIWI from South Peel ; 0. Peel, Esq.; H. Wood, Esq. i M r . an d Mrs. Stockton,ampton. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sin—ln reading the account of the Calculating Boy In yo or paper of Saturday, I was much surprised at your staring th e n m. tiplying 991. 196. I by 991. 19s. 1 I id.to be so difficult a gu ts . tion to solve; as I find it is to be worked in a few min utes, to the greatest exactness, by the simple rules of arithmetic ; and I s h all here take leave to observe that the boy is in error, the product being 9,9991. 15s. 10d. and I-960th part of a farthing. I can scarcely believe my method of working the question to be new, as, from il l simplicity, It could not have escaped the vigilance of so many Ole mathematicians. Should it appear to be new to lon, J shall be happy to explain the particulars. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, 11'.M. 33, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, March 211, 18S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. ___........_ 8111,-1 hope you will pardon the liberty I take in troubling you, but trust the subject will, in some measure, plead an excuse for my doing so. • I believe it is not known generally that the Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors expires with the present Session of Parliament ; while, through the distress of the times, our prisons are now crowded with debtors almost to suf focation, a great many of whom must remain in prison un. til the next Session, unless Parliament take it into their consideration, and extend thetprewent Act. I feel sensible, if you throw out a hint in your Journal, the measure will be adopted by Parliament, and you will have the blessings of hundreds of your fellow -creatures. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. Camberwell, March 29, 1826._ _ •• • Our Correspondent could not have been aware th a t a Bill i s now before Parliament, the object of which is to make the Law permanent. That word is used in the preamble ; the previous Bills were for a limited period ; but now it is '" to make a perrna. nent provision for the relief of insolvent debtors in England, and to consolidate and amend the laws relating thereto." Amongst other things, this Bill provides that the tiling of a petition praying for relief, shall be an act of bankruptcy ; and that persons who have already taken the benefit of Insolvent Acts, and uncertificated bankrupts, are not entitled to relief under this Act, within five years after discharge, or bankruptcy, except in certain eases; also, that " persona wilfully otnitting any thing in schedule, are guilty of misdemeanour, and liable to three years' imprisonment."_ Ed. B. P. Mr. Rogers imagines that Mr. Hume will shortly make a speech against the extravagance of sun-shine ;—he has already made several objections to the Northern Light,. A few years ago a country gentleman wrote a letter tot lady of rank in town, and sent it through the General Peat with the following address : " To The 25:h of March. Foley-place. London." The postman duly delivered the letter at the house of Lady Day, for whom it was intender]. Ussrot. MEMENTO.—Jenkin Daniel, who was Mayor of Truro, in Cornwall, in 1615, erected a atone in the market-place of that borough, with this inscription:— ` T. B. JERKIN DANIEL, Mayor, " Who seek to find eternal treasure, " Must use no guile in weight or measure-1615." THREE Giurs.—Alexander Daniel, a member of the same family, died in 1668, and on his tomb, in the church yard of Maddern, is this incripiion : " BELO TA me birth, BRITAIN me breeding gave, " CORNWALL a wife, ten children, and a grate." It would be difficult to decide to which of the three places be was most indebted. We understand that a vacant piece of ground, on the south side of Jarratt-street, has been purchased for the erection of a new Roman Catholic Chapel at Hull.—York Courant. The Commissioners for examining into the state of the public charities of the country are at present sitting at the Strafford's Arms Inn, Wakefield, to investigate the sinus don and management of the charitable institutions of that town and neighbourhood.—Fork Courant. FOUNDATION STONE FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF YORK CASTLE.—We, some time ago, noticed the intended enlargement of our county prison. It is now our duty again to allude to the subject. On Thursday last the first stone was laid by the Hon. M. Langley, of Wykeham Ab bey, High Sheriff of the county, attended by the Magis.. trates of the three Ridings, and the Corporation of the City of York. For many years our prison has been considered one of the most insecure in England, and very ill adapted to afford that degree of classification, so imperiously neces sary in buildings of this nature. It is remarkable that it was four times presented by the Grand Juries, between the years 1776 and 1818, a period of 42 years, or once every eleven years. It has each dine been amended and enlarged at a considerable expense; but in September 1823, it had again been under presentment upwards of five years. It was accordingly resolved, that this great prison of the county should, at length, be placed upon a proper footing of classification, arrangement, and ins:ruction ; and plans were proposed and selected for that purpose. The building committee have been indefatigable in their exertions to procure a fit and proper site upon which the intended buildings should be placed ; and after a long and mature deliberation, the garden in which Clifford's Tower stands was purchased, as we have before stated, of Mr. Writ together with that adjoining the Foss Navigation, belong ing to Mrs. Grace Thompson. Upon this site the archi tect (Mr. P. F. Robinson, of London), was intrusted to adopt his plan, taking care to preserve the ancient Tower, so interesting to antiquaries, and particularly to those who value the high antiquity of our city.— York Courant. Thursday evening a numerous and respectable meeting was held in the Exchange Sale Rooms, Bernard-street, Leith, for the purpose of forming a Mechanics' Institution there. On the motion of Mr. Thomas Weir, Baillie Bar die was called to the chair. Mr. Hardie opened the meet ing by a short speech, explanatory of the object for which it had been called. After which, resolutions, ten in num ber, were put by different gentlemen, and unanimously carried. The thanks of the meeting were then voted to th e Magistrates of Leith f or t h e i r lib era l d onat i on o f ten et neas to the institution-4o Mr. Allardice, who was to print 1000 copies of the prospectus, &c. gratis—to Dr. Kelly— to Mr.Hedderwick (a mechanic). and to the Chairman, for his able conduct in the chair. The speeches delivered by the several gentlemen who moved and seconded the differ ent resolutions, were excellent and to the point. Two young mechanics, named Innes and Hedderwick, delivered speeches which would have done credit to persons In a more exalted sphere of life, and w hi c h were rece ived with rapturous applause. Subscription papers were opened in the room, and in the course of ten minutes upwards of 50 1 . were subscribed. Th e annua l su b scr i pt i on o f a mechanic is to be 125., and the donation of a guinea entitles any person to attendance on the lectures, but no part in the manage ment. Apprentices under 14 years are to be admitted tif half price. The management of the institution is to be in the hands of the mechanics, but, at the same time, the no mination of extraordinary directors is to he by the members who subscrib e , w hi c h , i t i s thought, will make the public take a more a c ti ve i nterest i n Cut welfare of :Le ...a::!•• ;01:. —Caledonian 111 err; y. The Welsh hills were covered with snow to a great depth on Friday morning, which had fallen during the preceding night. In the North and in Yorkshire, there was also n considerable fall the same night.