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LAST INDIES. • By the arrival of the Buesorah Merchant, from Madras, we hove reesived filetiof East India Papers to the 4th of March. ; h ir siy eontain no news from the army later than or e were in possession of. We make the following r ateraets•:— Madraa Courier Offier, March 3. Maks new in the shape of intelligence his occurred since our last. The weather fondaues tuntessonably hot, Ind the southerly 140,11111 0 0 very *Maori 71: 9 4iaart . of the 18th uh., gives the following as the leamennee• fon Lord Comberrnere's army:— The topecting the destination of our Bhuripnre army, Mow tM malnlee of the fort—the mate of affairs in the.fortress of Abwor...aandl the intention of our Government regarding the latter --haws been as ascertain and contradictory as the most insensate fold ease could possibly desire. We love even seen two letters tress Meal see, dated the same day, and giving accounts of the eteltrOt affairs in many respects diametrically opposite to each sear. These circumstances will account for the contradictory stesiensnts that have appeared in all the papers, and prepare our renders for more of them. We believe, however, that the follow. Sag information may be relied on : Letters from head-quarten, dated the 7th inst.. state that the army, under the pommel command of his Excellency the Coin. vaander.in-Chief, would forthwith proceed against Alwar. It was. Itawevet, expected that as soon as our army sat down before It, it would surrender unconditionally ; in which case the Corn. maeslee-in-Chief would forthwith return to the Presidency by wale, and the Bhurtpore army be broken up—atlie different regiments proceeding immediately to their respective stations. CAILA;TTA, lan. la. In speaking of the infidelity of Rajah Gorok as yet to be shewn. ire have given this Barman Priest more credit than he drive:wed. It is said little ow DO doubt remained of his playing us false ; for in Use shoo of the Ree-Wonghee were found some letters from him, urging the Burmese to a prosecution of the war, enumerating our wens* in Europeans, with whom he cautions them not to come contect, and representing the native troops as Coolies. froru whom they have no:him to tear. He advises them not to attempt say bodes with us, but to keep surrounding, watching. and an noying oar army, by cutting std its supplies ; and, in shoo, points out spine of operations for them to pursue, which displays no small degree of knowledge sod discrimination. B e ing himself a Bursae subject, we may coinplain of the Rajah Gornto's indde. lay to tab; but we cannot very reasonably find f ault with bas p a. trionam. We may learn, however, from his conduct, to be omi nous how far we Mist the professions of any of them who fall into our handa. We remain without any news from the army in Upper India. Altar has out yet submitted; and it is now said. indeed. that our forte is not to be employed against it, but Ppeetlily to go again into cantonments, the object for which it was called into the field having been accomplis h. Independent of the troops with the Rajah of Aiwa, in the Furt, there is in his service, at this mo ment, a body of 30,000 hone. The state of matters at Aiwar is not very well or very generally known. We believe that the Rajah left the Ouddie to a son and nephew jointly ; the son is not a pure Rajpoot, it seems, while the nephew is, and consequently the Jaut supports the latter, who is said to have his cousin in durance vile. 'I he Newaub Amhed thltsh, who resides at Delhi, had been understood to be friendly to the son of the late Rajah, in opposition to the AIWA! Chiefs, who employed a person to assassinate him. The attempt failed, and the assassin, after taking refuge in Alwar, was given up 1.. Sir David Ochterinny by his own employers. and if not still, was some time ago in confinement at Delhi. We have not, how. ever, learned that we are under any obligation, expressed or iin p3ed, to support the one Rajah or the other, or to maintain the • toverament by two Rajahs as very unwisely. aettled by the last Prints. [From the Bombay Courier, Feb. We understand that the onion -loos has been raging in Cutch with unexampled virulence; and that there hail been no less than seven hundred victims mit in one district, in the short period of a month. It is, however, ratifying to learn, that the inquiries which have been made clearly establish the tact, that those who had un dergone vaccination, either entirely escaped the disease, Or had it in NO mild and modified a form, as seldom or never to prove fatal. We trust the natives of that part of the country will now become sensible of the benefit to be derived from vaccination, and that the strong prejudices which have hitherto opposed its general introduc tion will be removed. The cholera had also made its appearance in the force encamped in the neighbourhood of Bhooj .• but, by the last accounts, bad nearly disappeared, though it still continued to prevail in the sur rounding villages - - PRICES OF B&IT1SU Beta Stock $ ;nor Cent. tted. 774 Cent. Coo, 77 T 7 ititO Acct.:.! 34 per Pent. 24 per C rut. Red. 841 4 N-4, 4 per Cent. 1124 $ 4 der Cent. ;Ind) TUCKS YESTERDAY. Lung Anu. Indls Mtock India Bonds 13 16 pm. South Sea Stock nal. 111116 WOK 10 II pm Ditto 5001. 10 II pm Ditto Small 10 11 pm Lottery 'rickety 24f. 7e. PRICES OF FOREIGN Dew thin Bonds S 4 D.oeno• Ayres Bondi 52 nolombiss Bonds 26j Unto Account 26 Data Bond. ('1t12.0 282 9 Ditto Acct. ?J 7i Si ;I 8 Asadah /funds .1820 154 IRV, Aect. 53} Freneb Rotten, 3 per Cent. 65f. 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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 11, MI6. following are a few extract, from the French Papers last received. [Front L'Etuik, dated Sunday, July 9.1 Conrr„ Jrxr. 13. Letters from Cerigo, of lath !Ilay, state that the Spezziota are evacuating their island. to concentrate their means of defence at Ilydra, and that the son of !Melillo has taken refuge at Cerigo. It is said that eleven members pf the Greek government, including daurocordato. are in prison. Accounts from Prevesa of June Ist inform us, that the vanguard of Use ttssraskier has been beaten at Attica, and that an officer of Lis army has art wad at Prevega, and announces that the General is falling back upon AI issolonghi and Lepanto. Immediately after the arrival of a courier, despatched from Paris to General Ponsoiby, the Cord High Commissioner, pro ternpore, his Pace Henry despatched the Naiad frigate, Captain Spencer, to Trieste, baring on board Cul. Bathurst, sent on a ogliiol3 to Vienna. This morning the Marquis Paulucci arrived here from Trieste, on board a ship of the line of 74 guns. The Duke of Richelieu and his travelling companions en still here. PARTS, JULY 8. The Augsburg Gazelle says, " A letter from Trieste, of June 21, says that news has been received there, by a private letter from Malta of the 7th of the same month, of the arrival in that island of a vessel laden with warlike stores, sent from England by Lord Cochrane, whose speedy arrival it is said to have announced , " The Comerier Francais goes farther ; it announces thearrival of Lord Cochrane at Malta, with a squadron composed of seventeen vessels, five of which are steam boats. We believe we may deny the truth of such a piece of news ; every body knows the Proclamation of the King of England, which enforces the provisions of the laws against the conveyance of am munition for the service of the Belligerent Powers, towards whom Great Britain has promised to observe neutrality. How can the Courrirr Francais suppose that the vessels of Lord Cochrane could enter so freely an English port? During the whole of the last Session the Opposition Journals reproached the French Ministry with having observed a strict neutrality in the affairs of Greece. Now their tactics are changed— they announce that all the French vessels fit for sea, and all those that were on the coast of Spain, have sailed fur the levant, for the purpose of seconding the Commissioners, who are going to cause the Duke of Nemours to be crowned King of Greece. One would say that those Journals take pleasure in laughing at their readers. / ' • The accouths from Italy say, that while the weather here in so hot and dry, the temperature of Naples; is at 14 deg. of Reauniur, and the atmosphere rainy, as in November. The rains had so senile - CI the rivers, that a man of the environs of Naples was drowned on the 19th, in attempting to cross one. Several persons have been killed by lightning in the province of Capitanstai On the 14th, several shocks ofan earthquake welt felt, stdifferent times in the day, in Calabria Ultra Seconds- A . shock was also felt at Milan on the 24th, at twenty-five minutappast one. FrEwctr Fu x ns.—Pa a is, .1 tr LY 11.—Five per Cents. opened at 9nt. 75c.. closed at 98f. 83c.; Three per Cents. 65f. 90c. ; Bank Mock 2.012 f. 50c.; Rentes de Napier/ 72f. 90e. ; Royal Spanish Loan 441E—Exchanze on London. one month, 2 5 f. 55c. ; three months,2sf. 15c.—C'ours Arithorliync. The calamities into which this country has repeatedly fallen in consequence of over-production, have been owing to causes which lie much deeper than any of those partial circumstances to which they have generally been ascribed. Nothing can be more evident than the fact that all commo dities derive their real value from their capability of mi nistering to the necessities of man; and although there are some commodities of little use, which derive an artificial value from their rarity, while there are others of indis pensable use, which are of no value, on account of their abundance ; yet necessaries must be considered as the only true measures of value, because things possessing only artificial value can never acquire any importance, but as a means of procuring necessaries in exchange for them, or as luxuries, after men arc in full possession of all necessa ries ; so that the abundance of necessaries, in fact, causes and increases the value of all other commodities. As this view is new, it may require some farther explanation. Water is the most necessary and the most abundant pro duct of nature; but it is of no exchangeable value, at least in this country. If water, however, were scarce, gold would be of less value ; because a large quantity of it would be given for an indispensable necessary, and con sequently the person possessing a certain quantity of the precious metal would be incapable of procuring so large a quantity of other commodities. The value, there fore, of a certain quantity of gold would be diminished by the sum necessarily expended on an article which now costs nothing,. The same is the case when necessaries of any sort increase in price. The abundance of necessaries must therefore be considered as essential to national wealth. Now it appears to us, that the distresses which have over taken this country diave at isen from an undue share of labour bestowed upon comparative superfluities,under the common idea that if a certain quantity of gold were given for that labour, the workmen engaged in manufacturing these luxu ries must necessarily be beneficially employed. In conse quence of this circumstance, too great a portion of our population has been thrown into the manufactory ; while the Corn Laws, by indulging the supineness of the farmer, have prevented agriculture from making any progress to be compared with that of our manufactures. It is obvious, therefore, that the produce of the manufactures being in creased, while that of agriculture has remained almost stationary, the former species of produce must necessa rily have suffered a depreciation as compared with the latter. It appears clear, for these reasons, that the only relief to be expected in our present circumstances, is by an importation of foreign grain in the mean time, and by the gradual employment of a greater proportion of the skill, capital, and industry, of the country,in increasing the agri cultural part of our national wealth. These subjects from their very nature are obscure, and can only be tho roughly understood by their practical applications. We yesterday suggested one such application of the principle here laid down, and we could suggest several others ; but the necessary imperfection of projects formed without pre vious experiments, and the little attention generally paid to anything in the shape of a scheme, prevent us from enter ing into any details of this nature. We content ourselves at present with re-stating our principle, in hopes that it may meet some eye capable of appreciating its conse quences, and able perhaps to put it partially to the test of experience. We assert, then, that the principal cause of the distress in this country is the comparative backward ness of our agriculture as compared with our manufactures. Among a number of Parliamentary Papers issued yes terday, we observe the East India Annual Accounts for the years ending on the 30th April, 1822, 1823, 18g4, with the estimate for 1523. The net surplus on these years was as follows: 1812 . . . . X 1,946,719 1826 - - 2,1142,2.48 1824 . - . . 86.974 In the year 1823 it was estimated that there would be a net charge of 749,891/.—lt is not at all difficult to account for the extraordinary expenses of the last two , years, as they have obviously arisen from the war at Bhurt pore and in Ava ; but we cannot avoid taking notice of the concurrert effect of this expenditure in producing the late commercial crisis here. The money expended in these wars was necessarily withdrawn from the commercial capital employed in the Indian trade ; and it is notorious that the bank at Calcutta was obliged last year to discon tinue its discounts for private accommodation, in conse quence of the amount expended in discounting Government paper. It is obvious, therefore, that the remittances to this country must have been very considerably diminished ; and the importanceof the Indian trade renders it easy to perceive how great the effect of such an absorption of capital must have been upon our affairs at home. Nothing, in short, but the imperative necessity which is proved to have existed for undertaking these wars could have justified Government in hazsrding consegnences so much to be deprecated. The necessity of the war is proved in the most convincing man ner by another document relative to the island of' Shapooree, the bone of contention between us and the Monarch of Ava. This document is of too great length for our columns. I The island itself is of no importance ; but it became so fkom the necessity in which we were placed of resisting a settled plan which the Burmese had formed against our Indian possessions It is usual for some reasoners to calculate the value of the territory which is in dispute, and to estimate the danger of take aggression by that measure ; but it is obvious that the principle is the same, whether displayed in a trifling case or he an important one; and those who reason on this ground show themselves as little acquainted with human nature, as they are with the principles of national law and government. Were we to argue on this principle continually, we might submit to be stript piecemeal, and every new encroachment might be thought too trifling to warrant resistance. A Government submitting to such petty encroachments could scarcely expect to maintain that respect at the Bur mese Court, which would be necessary to enable it to protect the commercial interests of its subjects. Lord AMHERST gives the following additional account of the sacrifices to which we must have submitted, if we had refused to engage in the Burmese war:— In the tint place, we must have relinquished our claims to tha forest land at the back of Ramon and Ourgunnea, which the Com pany's elephant hunters had frequented for years, as a part of the British territory ; otherwise the opposition made by the Burmese, and the repeated seizure and imprisonment of the servants belong ing to one of our public establishments, must necessarily have in. duced frequent angry and irritating remonstrances on our part, quite Incompatible with the permanent maintenance of friendly relations. Secondly, We must have tamely abandoned our right to an .island which, however inconsiderable in size and actually unpro. du tire, had nevertheless been often the subject of nodal in the public proceedings, and stood recorded as a portion of the British unitary. -e Thirdly, We must have patiently endured the insult and wrong offered to us in the attack and slaugliter of a patty of the Company's troops. stationed on Shapooree, no less to preserve that which we considered and had declared to be our undoubted right, than to protect our peaceable subjects, in the vicinity, from murder and piunder. Fourthly, We must have witnetiiied, in passive silence, the pas sage of the Burmese across the natural mountain barrier , which so distinctly separates the two empires, and their intrusion into the plains of Bengal ; their subjugation of Cuellar --11 country, in its population, language, instil Lions, and geographical position, es sentially a part of Bengal, and the legitimate Rajah of which then actually resided under our protection ; and also the establishment of their authority in Jyntia, another petty clrefahip, which had long been intimately connected with, and was essentially a depen dent of. the British Government. Finally, we must have tolerated, without the slightest resistance, their occupation of a position which placed the richest part of the district of Sylhet, and the sudder station itself, completely at their mercy, in the then stale of our military force, which gave them the command of the Soorma, as well as of the Barhampooter rivers; and which, whatever number of troops we might have collected for our defence, would infallibly have led to heavy loss of revenue, the serious interruption of cultivation, and the permanent flight of many of our Ryon from their homes, through the dread universally inspired by the proximity of that sanguinary, barbarous, and un pitying race. In explaining the motives which led him to de cide on the expedition to Rangoon, Lord AMHERST affirms that the invasion of Chittegong was a pre viously concerted plan, and that the object of the attack on Rangoon was to recall the troops destined to act on the Cachar side. We cannot but approve of this scheme, as an instance of a skilful and bold ma noeuvre, which proved eminently successful by causing the Buudoolah immediately to halt, and finally to retteat to Ara. We can scarcely anticipate any criticism on this proceeding from those who lauded BONAPARTE'S tactics so highly in the campaign of Paris, and indeed in all his campaigns. It must be confessed that Sir A. CAMPBELL has here profited by the example of our old enemy. The whole plan of the campaign affords a most decisive proof of the advantage of combining land and sea warfare. It enabled us in this case to change a defensive war into an offensive, and to remove the theatre of war to a more favourable situation. We are happy to observe, from the statement respecting the climate of Rangoon, that it is " really not peculiarly unhealthy during the rainy season." The sickness which prevailed in the army from July to Nov. 1824, was the consequence of an epidemic fever, of a casual, not of a local nature, and precisely the same fever has since raged in Upper India. In addition to these documents nn East India Afars, we have received the annual account to the Ist May, 1826, of the receipts and payments of the East India Company in Great Britain, and the estimate for 1827. The balance for last year in favour of the Company is 779,195/., and the estimated balance in May, 1827, is 482,8621. , CITI, MONDAY El/TWIN°. There has been comparatively but little business done to-day. Consols, after a dull heavy market, closed at 7/34 to 781 for the next Accaunt, and for August at to 78::. The South American Stocks continue in the same depressed state, Colombian being at 26, and Mexican at 424. It is not at all confirmed that the object of Mr. Manning, in visiting his native country, is to negotiate a Mexican loan; on the contrary, it is said to be wholly of a private nature. The letters from the distressed manufacturing districts, of this morning, contain a most deplorable recital of the increasing hardships to which they are exposed. Every day adds to the number of workmen discharged by their masters, in consequence of the want of means for retaining them in their employ, and of the entire stoppage of the works and closure of the doors of many extensive and highly respectable manufactories. The fears apprehended by the authorities, in consequence of these large accessions to the numbers of those already re duced to almost absolute want, has, it is supposed, been the consequence of further applications to his Majesty's Government for protection; as we are informed that the Guards have received a countermand of the order which had been issued for their removal from that neighbourhood, and our Portsmouth letter states that the .13d Regiment has received a route for those districts. We are informed that letters from Bengal, by the Bussorah Merchant, which has passed up Channel, statc that the British army in the Burmese territory was suffering much from sickness when she left the coast. Letters have been received from St. Petershurgh this morning, detailing the particulars of ..the dreadful confla gration Which took place at Cronstadt on the 23d of June. We are happy, however, to find, that by the timely as sistance of Captain Horton, and the Officers and men of his Majesty's ship Glouce.ter, which was lying there, after landing the Duke of Devonshire, the whole of the merchant and other vessels lying in the port were towed out of their perilous situation, without the loss of a single ship. An extract from the letter of the Agent for Lloyd's at Cronstadt will be read with interest. CRONSTADT, JDNE 11 (2:1), 102fi. It grieves me to acquaint you of one of tke most destructive fires I have ever witnessed, and through which our ships, and the lighters alongside of them, with goods on board, were exposed to the greatest danger. On the 9th (21st) inst., between four and five o'clock, a fire was discovered on the deal wharfs (bordering on the harbour), amongst a large parcel of chips, and which had accumulated for a consider. able time; and as no fire or smoking is allowed on or near the spot, no opinion can to funned as to how it firolt, out. The only con clusion that can be come to is, that self-ignition had taken place in consequence of there being tarred and painted chips amidst the general heap. All the warehouses, which were built of wood, together with the goods, deals, lathwood, masts, spars, &c. deposited on the whtrf, tell a sacrifice to the flames, and not a vestige of property remains. The amount of the loss cannot as yet be ascertained, and I am unwilling to hazard a guess, which may be erroneous. The wind blew from the Northward, directly over that part of the harbour where the sh ps were, and threatened them with destruction. At this juncture,a message was sent on board his Majesty's ship Glou cester, to give assistance, and which was allindeit in the handsomest manner by J. S. Horton, Esq. the commander, who immediately brought his boats, officers, steain-vessels,and men, to our aid in the moment of peril. He then stationed himself' at the mole-head, took command of the merchant vessels, and made such clever and excellent arrangements, that the ships of all nations, anti the lighters attached to them, were lowered and warped out with the greatest rapidity, and by eleven at night the lest craft of any de scription was oot of danger. As soon as the ships were clear of the harbour's mouth, they were taken up by the steam vessels, the boats of the Gloucester, and by a number of Russian gun-hoots which came from some distinct i on(' in the handsomest manner gave every amisteoce in their power. Towards the close of night it actually rained fire into the mole, and many brands fell upon and flew over it, towards Cronstadt. You wilt thence conclude how valuable was the assistance of Capt. Horton, his officers, at d men, to the trade in general, and the deep and lasting obligations they have conferred on the mercan tile and shipping interests. As to my owes tuitions, and those of my people, I shall not in. trude upon you ; but I must request to give publicity to the circum stances have detailed, as an act of justice to those who granted their assistance. A King's Messenger arrived at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs on Sunday night, with despatches from the Right Honourable Stratford Canning, our Aro baseador at Constantinople. His Majesty's brig Swinger arrived at Portsmouth on the Sth inst., bringing despatches for the Colonial Depart ment, and for the Admiralty, from Commodore Bullen, commanding his Majesty's ships on the coast of Africa, clown to the 29th May; and having on board Mr. IVel lington, one of the Commissioners of Inquiry at Sierra Leone, whose health had been in such an alarming state as to render necessary his immediate removal from that noxious climate, which the Commodore humanely ReCOlll. plashed by sending home the Swinger with him. We are happy to learn that Mr. Wellington has reached England, and that his health is improving. The squadron had been tolerably healthy, but numerous deaths had taken place among the military, as well as civilians, at Sierra Leone, the Gambia, and on the Gold Coast. We subjoin an in teresting private letter, which we have received from a Gentleman at Sierra Leone, dated the 29th May : " I am awry 'to inform you that this miserable place has takelli PO serious a hold of Mr. Wellington, one of the Cotranissionters off Inquiry, that a Medical Board sat on his health this day ; and ' unless he be removed instantly, certain death must be the conse quence. The Commodore, therefore, with the humanity which distinguished him, has, I understand, ordered the Swinger home with him, sod we shall be gratified to learn that lie reaches Old Rngbini. " The infamy of the proceedings of this diabolical Colony beg gars description. Not content with the mad and unprovoked at tack male on the Sherborough people, you will hardly believe it, that tney sent some troops a shot time since to burn a miserable native village. In the first attack by the General, lie himself, his Brigade-Major, with several men, were killed—or died or lever; and the Leven, who had as rashly gone to assist, lost three mid shipmen and seamen ; amongst the former, the eldest son of the Commodore, a very fine promising youth. In the last attack none we e killed, but a fine young man, of the liberated African depart ment, was with some others badly wounded. " Twenty-three or four of the soldiers who lately reached this hotbed of disease in the Romney, are already dead, besides two or three women. This too before the rains, which are only now about to commence. _ _ The Commodore keeps the squadron very much at sea, and I understand that It is very healthy ; but on shore here, the ("amble, and Gold Coast, the deaths are sadly frequent. As long as this hole is governed by a military man, who has troops at his nud, the Colony will he in a constant state of warfare. Send out a Civil Governor—keep your faith with the natives—treat them with kind ness, and settle any difference by • palaver, as they call it; — do this, and all will go on well. But the native nations will not be driven by fusty of arms." The Calcutta Government Gazette, of the 13th February, announces that despatches bad been received from Captain Burney, our Envoy to Siam, announcing his arrival at Bankoken, the 4th December, and the gracious and friendly reception which he received. The best results may be ex pected from this embassy. Despatches have been received at - Calcutta from Captain Burney, Envoy at Siam, announcing his arrival at Bin kok on the 4th of December. He had his first audience of the King of Siam on the 16th Dec. and experienced a gracious and friendly reception. On the 12th Feb. the Enterprise steam-packet left Cal cutta for Itanogon, having on board Mr. Crawford, who goes as third Member of the existing Commission, and Joint Civil Commissioner. If the war continues, he is to take charge of the Delta of Pegu, with the districts of Bassein and Manahan. Letters from Bhurtpore mention a large quantity of treasure as having been found—not less than 90 lacs of rupees. The same letters speak of an enormous piece of ordnance (102-pounder) which has be( n captured, as about to be sent to England, to be presented to his Majesty. Herbert, the deserter, at Bhurtpore, has been hanged, pursuant to the sentence of the Court-martial, on the morning of the 30th January. We understand that the small-pox has been raging in Cuth with unexampled virulence, and that there had been no less than 700 victims to it in one disttict in the short period of a month. The cholera had also m.,de its appearance in the force encamped in the neighbourhood of lihooj; hut by the last accounts had nearly disappeared, though it still continued " to prevail in the surrounding villages." A rivate letter from Utrecht, dated the 30th June, states that a great number of persons have lately been itr plicated, in consequence of the imperfect manner in which the Flanders fortifications have been reconstructed. The affair has been prosecuted with great severity before a Council of War at Utrecht. Gen. Hennequin has cut his throat in prison, and the Commandant of Ostend has blown his brains out in consequence. The letter adds that a Lieutenant-General, seventy years of age, of great merit, and lately sent on an important mission to the Dutch Colcnics, has been implicated in this disgraceful affair, in which the King is extremely anxious to punish the delinquents, both on account of his hatred of all mal versation, and because an offer of the English to send English engineers to assist in their construction had been rejected. The King, therefore, considers himself respon sible to England for their insufficiency. It is said that the improvement in steam navigation in troduced by Mr. Perkins has attracted the serious attention of the Ministers, and that the Comet steam-vessel has been placed at his disposal for the purpose of the experiment. Mr. Perkins's plan consists in giving to steam-engines the same propelling power by a comparatively small portion of fuel, so small indeed, that steam navigation to the remotest part of the world would become practicable, and vessels of war might he fitted up with steam-engines without incon venience. Should the experiments made by order of Go vernment succeed, we may expect to see the whole system of naval warfare materially altered. Sere or 'FRADE.—Every thing is most gloomy. De pression, we trusted, had arrived at its lowest point, but we found yesterday that it was not so. For manufactured goods there is little (if any) demand. Cotton is a com plete drug in Glasgow. In Liverpool, our Correspondent says, in a letter dated the 3d instant—The arrivals at the close of last week and yesterday have quite staggered the buyers, slid though the opinion was, "Amongst the genera lity of the trade, that prices could not advance, it is now materially changed, and they say a decline is inevitable, and, as such, will buy nothing. In colonial produce the Glasgow tretle is not so bad. Our sugar. market has as twined rather X quiet appearance—partly waiting for the sugar contained in the vessels (five or six) just arrived, and partly owing to the trade being tolerably well supplied for the present; the market is very firm, although the sales since our last publication have been trifling.—Glaa grew Free Picas. IRON TRADE. — At the Shropshire and Staffordshire iron-inesters' quarter days, last week, the nominal prices were the same as the previous quarter. The demand, how ever, was very limited, and the apprehension of a still further reduction appeared to restrain the usual contracts and purchases of the trade at their quarterly meetings. Many furnaces have been blown out in %Vales and England during the last quarter, and both the make and sale of manufactured iron has been considerably lessened. A re duction of fifty per cent. has taken place on the average prices of the present, comp.-ed with last year ; and the price of coal has correspondingly declined. The trade, however, on the whole, has certainly maintained itself, and met the difficulties and distresses of the last two quarters much better than was anticipated, and, compared with the present situation of many of the staple manufactures of the country, is comparatively well off. Wages have not been reduced so much as was expected, and, perhaps, re quired by the state of the trade, but instead of further re duction, all the large establishments have reduced the number employed, and limited the time of work. The state of the hardware and metal trades of Birmingham and the surrounding counties is, we regret to say, much de pressed the last few weeks, without any immediate pros pect of amendment. Mr. John Champion, innkeeper, Padstow, hail a field of barley cut within the last few days. The grain was quite ripe and of exec lent quility. 1 • THE BRITISH PRESS. et • Te rt i .4s lll °N447-, e PARTIES. Lord Carrington entertained a distinguisbed party at dinner J et , terday, at his house, Whitehall. Lord Owydyr had a grand dinner party yesterdty, at his hu ll , In Piccadilly. In the evening her Ladgship ha d an debut assembly. 4 • Lady Mary Petre had a dinner party yesterday, at bet house Grosvenor.aquare. MOVEMENTS. Dill and Countess Gower left town yesterday for Paris. Lord Stowell left town yeherdsy for his mat in Berks. Lord Crewe arrived in town yesterday frail Itamsgate. Captain A'Court left town yesterday for his seat near &liste n' , General Onl has arrived at his seat in Rants, from Northam. berland. Sir J. P. and Miss Milbank have arrisied at lioltnes's Hotel, Parliament-street, from Southampton. Samuel Peploe, Esq. left town yesterday for his seat in Bee. fordshire. W. T. Brande, Esq. left town yesterday Air Brighton. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. Jannea'a4treet t—A.Y, Nunes, Esq. from his seat in Hants ; and J. Lane, E.g. here Norfolk. The Bishop of Durham and family left, yesterday, their home in Hanover.square, for the Castle, Durhain. Lady Caroline Dundee and family l e ft tow n y ester d ay f or their seat, Aleyrick Lodge, Berks. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left town on San. day, foe their seat, Hatfield. Colonel W. Hughes, 31. P., Mrt. Hughes and family, left town yesterday, for their seat, Kinmel Park, St. Asa h. Lord Davldge and Lady Ooold have left Warne's Hotel, Cern. duit.street, 'for their seat in Hens. The Earl and Countess of Darnley and family have left town tot their scat, Cobham Hall, Kent. Departures from Kirkham , • Hotel, Lower [;rook-street:—M r , and 11Irs. Lloyd, for Ramsgate; J. Sitwell, Esq. for Paris; mid Captain Bayley, for Brighton. Departures from the British Hotel :..-Captain and Mrs. Wilson for Cheltenham ; J. Parkinson, Esq. for Dublin ; and William' Ogilvie. Esq. for Oxford. The Earl of Cornwallis has left town for his seat in Kent. Samuel Smith, Eq. M.P. and family have left town for that seat, Wood-hall Park, Herta. Departures from Mivari's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—lrord and Lady Kirkwall, for Taplow Court, Hocks ; M. Alfred (Men de Voissin. for Paris; Atwood, Em. for Kent; Sir Edward Mostyn, for Talscree, Flinishire; Mrs. Robinson. for Horn; Mr. and Mrs. Feray and family, for Paris; (1. W. Edgell, for Staines; A. Fenwick, Esq. and Mrs. Fenwick and family, for Durham. WINDSOR, Jut.r 10. The King continues to take his usual drive, almost daily, to Virginia Water. His Majesty and suite take al excursion on the Lake, and afterwards dine in the marquee erected on its margin for the accommxlation of the King. His Majesty paid a visit to the Castle on Thursday, to in. spect the progress of the works. The Royal Horse Guards, preceded by their ham!, 4 marched from the cavalry barracks yesterday morning to the square in the barracks; of the Foot Guards, where di vine service was performed to both regiments. The bands of the Royal Horse Guards and of the GM regiment attended and played on the terrace, in the aft. l . noon, to a numerous company of visitors from all quarters. The King will hold a Privy Council on Wednesday, at the Castle. ISLE OF WIGHT, Juts 9. This favourite place of fashionable resort has become much crowded since the rising of Parliament and the Ter mination of the elections throughout the country. A few weeks ago a number of houses were " to let," but now there is scarcely one unoccupied. The annual regatta takes place on the 10th and 11th August, when an overflow of fashionables is expectul ; amongst others— The Prince and Princess Esterlisry, Mr. Canning, Mr. Put, and 3lr. Baring. The following Noblel , en and Gentkinen hart already arrived :—The Marquis or Aner•ea, Lord Yarboroegl, Lord Willoughby de Broke, Sir C. Paget • Earl. of Il e h este , an d Galloway; Lords Ellenborough. Listowel, nod Beerhaven ; Sirs Hussey Vivian and Godfrey 11'ebster ; the lion. Captain Currie, Captains Murray, Lee, &e. Fish is in great abundance on the island, and all other provisions at moderate prices. The account of the state of the Duke of York yester day was very flattering—" His Royal Highness is mending fast." The Royal Duke was so much better, we are happy to say, as to he able to ride out on horseback in the morn ing, from Mr. Greenwood's villa, towards Hampstead Sir Henry Ilalford, after attending his Royal patient, called on the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, to report the state of their Royal relative. The Princess Augusta and the Princess Sophia visited the Royal Duke yesterday. His Royal Highness transacted military business with Sir Herbert Taylor. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at his residence at White hall yesterday morning. Yesterday 'h.. Neapolitan Minister transacted business at the Foreign Office. . . . . . . Yesterday morning, anon after eight o'clock, the remains of the late Miss Dee, who was attendant end lady in waiting on the Princess Sophia Matilda between forty and fifty years, were removed from the Princess's house in Cirrz9n street, May-fair, for interment in a family vault at Barnes, Surrey. The procession moved in the following order: — Two metes. on horseback, A I .rg r plume of k feathers, The h arse and tour. Two mown ng coaches and four. In the first was Mrs. '1 &On% a niece of ihe deceased. In the secon.! was Lieutenant-Colonel niggles, first Equerry to the Duke of Gloucester ; Mr. ('u-rey, Snretry to bis Royal Highness ; a d Mr. May. The Princess Sophia Matil 'a's carriage, and six bays, The Duke of Gloucester's carriage and six bays. Carriage of Mrs. Taylor, a relative of th deceased, in which were three of the temeae doliestics of the deceased, The carriage of Mrs. George Banks, a niece of the deceased, who joined the solemn procession at Barnes ; as did Mr. George Banks and Mrs. Holbrook, also a relation. The Royal carriages proceeded the whole way. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-Mr. fish has declined be coming the Lessee of this Theatre, in consequence of the most extraordinary binding claims which the lease con tains; not a stick or a pin can be taken away, though the Lessee may expend 50,000/. on the premises. Accounts from Colombia state that the Government had passed a law, funding all Government Papers, and fix ing the interest to be paid from July next. Upon the receipt of the news of the insurrectionary movements at La Guayra, an embargo was laid. The town gates were closed, and great apprehensions were entertained for the safety of persons and property. The Intendant of La Guayra, it is stated, was the hearer of despatches from General Paez to Bolivar. Affairs remain in an apparently tranquil state. The French Admiral De Rigny, commanding in the Levant, has written to his government to contradict the statements which have been made of French interference on behalf of the Turks. He denies that French officers and cannon were used for the reduction of Missolonghi. The European officers in that service were, he says, Nea politans and Piedinontese. About a fortnight since, a whale went down the Channel, and approached Lyme Cobb, in company with seven por poises. On Wednesday one carne within a hundred yards of the pier-head, and after blowing two or three times, went off again; on tile letter occasion no other large fish were seen. IhDIIOCIANIC ACID.—A horse, to whom seven drops of hydrocianic acid were lately given for the purpose of de' stroying him, and who appeared in fact on the verge of death, was, to the great astonishment of the spectators, suddenly recalled to life by the administration of a drachm of subcarbonate of ammonia.—Literary Gazelle. Yesterday an inquest was taken before E. Addams, Esq. the Coroner for the county of Surrey, o n the body of James Topliff, a miller at Wandsworth, aged 74, and a prisoner for debt in the Nlarshalsea prison, who died . of an apoplectic fit. The Jury consisted of five inhabt hints of the Borough and seven prisoners within the walls. The unfortunate man was to have appeared before the In• solvettt Court on Wednesday next, to seek the benefit of the Act, and was opposed by some flinty-hearted creditor, which appeared to have taken serious effect on the poor old man's mind, and was, it is said, the means of hasten: . ini; his death.---Verdict, " Died by the visitationof God.. 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 r I t . , - S. It IC 4 r• Ilt I. I. 1 se • tl ntl in ie, f et T- PY n. nt .ta iy. t :e- -at 41 ns s ng "ty • a es, tl a the 0 ere M rho a a the >ll- - 0 lad ix- v the is n tl es tes a 14 for La tl vn tly he he 41 lee ers hi. as a es- lel, or- rils es, 'I ish i of it de- a !of h •T J the 1 7e, lied bi- lls. • In- the tor, ioor :en-