The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-11-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. I Ft= thr Etuak dated Fridow .1 Cotiri Lea r, Nov. 9. Aft,/ breskihet, which took place at • quarter to eleven, the y o eg homed in the forret. 11,, t a ble •I'lloanrar, both at d i nner and at breakfast, was set ; , a s soh neatly thirty cowrie. Itesitios the perils we mentiimed „, 0 , 4 ,131, who 111111 the honour to be admitted to It, we must add 'the Duke il'Esti.see, afershel. commanding the /epartment „ 1 (lio. ; ?I. Rho de Motions, Ihr.ect of die l'as de Ca/aia the w',-Pr,:tet of St.Quimtin, and that of S-nits; the ]layer of Revivals, and the King's I'll.mm/cm of that env. Ms Majesty dines! at half-past six. During the dinner. the and of th.: Na!iallat Gnarl! CaLelltra, an yesterday, aymphonies end favourite airs. , A crest number of persons were pennitted to thc. tabl e In the banquet-hall. Seidler td. node, nor during his stay at Compiegne, has die K. • been whirr d. Ilia Majesty thought it his duty to relieve the l'refecti and udier fonctionariea from that formality ; but this evening, aft dirmer, his Majesty received • great member of M of the surneviding COHI/ItUaelt. The receiving of them tie. cuee•.l Mae than an hour. The King returned to Paris at nine ohlack. 1't1:71111 it 9111. PARIS. Nov.ll.—Five per Cents. 10If. 50r. ; Ist the emlol the math. lielf. fine. ; Neapolitan (Falconet),l:9l. : .1.r , , Its f : C ditto in sterling. ; BPanish. 171; Royal Spaitish bean, Lti.osirs Aleilamtirar. (Fran the ems/instils/tutor Thured n ay.l Pats, Nov. %Ve have just received by express the following news from Ma ,hid. dated the lil inst. : " 'The charge d'Alliairee of France. and the General in Chief ('ant 'Pigeon, went off 'yesterday to the Escurial, to announce to trapsg the retiohit ion of his Majesty Charles X., to withdraw his o from the Penineula, KATI.% only garrisons in Cubs, Pam. loa. Ate. The Illiarge d'Affaires is also to tell his Majesty, that hit iniaps will in no way interfere with matters beyond the ciscuit act tht fortresses they occupy. o Although this news is (entitye and authentic, and though the iwpie ,taiiis have been already /mule for entirely evacuating Spain st tic cud of the month, I can guasantee to you, that when the ch a ree d'Affaires of France gave an the "_Nth instant (ultimo ?) • note to our Minister of Foreign Affairs, announcing the positive instiartions he had received as to the evacuation of the interior of hewn. our (the Spanish) Government was so frightened, that it inonediately commenced new negociationa, making propositions which have been nem to Paris, and which, notwithstanding the ,w e transmitted to M. Zea. and the journey of the (lettere' and Chugs d'Affaires to the I:senrial, will probably occasion some modification in the tint determination of the Cabinet of the Toil lenee. "The negociation with the bankers of Paris for shun is altogether Woken off, heraise these houses w-eld not take the smallest part on their lien risk. It is lamed that instructions newly given to Pl. Borgne authorise him to make some overtures to other houses no the adnumion of a certain quantity of Amide of the first loans of the Cones, which would he Incised in payment of the loan pro. peel to be contracted; but this is a report which I repeat without gewentreing it. It is stated as positive that M. de Talaru returns to Madrid." GERA! A N PAPERS. From the 1 lanatorgh ('oreeeroo!roe.) Ifaxtrnv. ant; Miff, ()cr. 10. By the express command of his Majesty, there has been pub lidird official information respecting the spirit and the essence of th, lhoschent, heti (the association of the students in the (;errnasi I Mi. err oits), eztrartill from the documentary eritience,and principally wen d e d n . a want ing to all student-. in the l'ntsaian Universities. i n t hi n p n bi na ti o n i t is ngirnieti, that this association was a blind bed of a society, whit h again was dependent on another 'oriel/ in a fertoo etnit:tt e, CO11.1•0•111 of most notielims individuals of different natins—a society which, for ninny years, has had i 1 view the re newal and the gicster diffusion of the Revolution, and employed croy means to elfect it ; a laid, took a decided part in the revolu tion in Naples, anal Spain, an well as in several single inoarrections, and atrenunnaly endeavoured to propagate them ; and has, I'm UMW yeah past, chosen Germany, and particularly the limnan Universities, fur the ineatre of its odious and criminal inauteurrem, and inteolictl, as the documents prove, to commence with blood and a system of terrorism. The there papers is tilled with accounts of the im - Male damages canard by she overflowing oldie rivers. EXCHANGES. AVITERP•3I, Nov. 9.—botidon, 3 . .1 5 ; two months. 39 3. ilAmovuon. Nov. 5 - b0nd0n,.36 ;two Its. 35 114. . - . - ... . , • - v PAT EV411121; 11, I/4.T. 22.-lAnalun, 2 2:01. Sim 1:1101.3t, Mr. 12.--Isoialon,73 days, 12 rii dull= 12 'chin pa I/. I.Ltrrlll, Nov.l --Loudon, three month., G 12i. J'!!! 111111111 ESE (Ca1,m11.4 Gino runcul (a.relle w, dinar y.) tAI t I'TTA, J1*141.7 12. IIItILLIANT AEF.IIR IV ITII A FLEET OF 11110/LSE AV tk 1t0,17',. 11TRA:T I'llOX A I.I77IEIIIIIITII . iIIIAAF 111V).11. JI!.11E 4111. 11.1'. E. VI'ATAI.. - -• • Ye ..ter.lny 7 A. M. the inelilrge of the mocha& at Trk :Vial came MI 1)011111, alter enduring notch h udrhip and peril, In isfunit its Vim the Provincial tnrgts water his command had ion tinieit and given +lit-nisch...it tip to the Rainiest., after refusing to whey his order to lire 'Too the enemy the preceding evening, under which eircuicstatires h.• itninedishl a Inked the pin, nut) destroyed the suntilinition Iwhougiti4 to It, pool wouhl lout thous the rattle with the magazine, hut the Senor , threatened to take hi. life, if he did ma Ile mapsil to us in .iiiiise, with his orderly, hating 'ernthe Iltirtnese, whose force co.:ssts of I^Uberm. 44.0. a large I isaly (4 foot. appinvi bring now cut off, and our stay of no funher utility, *three p.m. writ:lied and rood down the river. At Monde° tuck we fell in with a fleet cf Iturmese war.bnats. Most of them tvt l ing swivels and one hunOreil men each, drawn out in order of lot.; nee came off with an order for n. ininieduittly tu tat envy hand on be. niassacrid. The gun. boat. under 111 r. Ituyce's command returned for UMW!? a AIMS!, Of pipes :11 canister, and bore down upon them, firing as fast as Wit; mad load. :in inuncose nonther of men were killed, and oar the Largest hosts tntally disabled. Nothing could exceed the Liell-srrited conduct of Mr. itorce, the attilkrynten, and 31 ug • . . . 0 Net •in the boat wider his coninitind. ::crstleticnig the boata, and tarn on I,IIOTC, who hail kept up a , 1 dew fire during the attack, the vessel made for Shoporee Islands, where a great number of boats and into lay, who upon true I.tOr. ing ha a busk fire drew up their basis and ran into the jungle, but' us before a vast number were kith d ; in tact, they at re literally masa down by our great guns. fly this time the gun-boats came Kt. which rare kit to complete the enniusion, by clearing the di. re anti juiTle, which they did flutist effectually. 'While the brig Inc dim on the stockade. PI I Olt ,C an the opposite shore. on near eit it they girt us three elteets, Of more rropefly speaking three %ay whoops, but our list broadside SUOII silenced them ; the boats likewise gave their tosistance in this grand object. Night coming vti we suteltored a to the southward of the stockade. All the re., ct.der aria and At ir tonriers during the whole of the t•g:e. esp. c , in,: art attack in the dark, but the great loss they sus. hist d thilito: the day i fatty Jett:end Mon. That morning we weighed, and are now on nor way to Chitts- Peg ; not a I i.at to Is , seen in the river. 1 emotive there were trentlar at It RS, men afloat, and twice that number on i 1 r'ft) give mu art idea Of the hiTlc made among them 0, 41 he impossilde, and hail not the night prevented, it revold itt,tch greater. Inning our stay at amber, we aim the vt left in the morning on lire, but as the villages were tonic (me ago, no great damage could have been clone. ccks exhibit a MK( 111011ry groom mum, woolen, and o ~ with Mir; v-two Mug Senors, together with the Slthallilf, and 31m; .leimdats, who have put themselves under our pet. own. I i'nan the Cal..uthz Cererintept Ga,rite of June 11. ] . 41, 1...1nv / I v have hcen rec , ived from tiouhattee of the Val of ahicti it appoint .hat the Burmese. who had taken up a ''' 44 . l l...itteti at Ilauthur, rot he youth hank of the Kullung, "•'an^d 1: on the VIVANT o , f Lieutenant.t !Intent'. Mid reth.Ll I" 16, ih they hail a strong stockade. al k. y ur, st front hallialmr.' I M Lieutenant-C.4am, It lett. 4 J , Ara% oling with a small rood to examine and give on *the dottrero .n of the storkade at !laminar, lie was informed, on L .' urival it, by a villager, that about slaty of the enemy had in 11. 11, in e.msr,itiene.• immediately r-!nrtieil to Captain camp. ? n i t oedema Lieutenant H echarilson to ?trait, s:th th e Ituss.,l 4 tit* r.ivalre and a rottopell of MLutuy, in '4"11,3- biElite them. this lo• tateeded. eem had °My I. '"E ! akw shots from the artu rr •Lalc, n dtd y not take fi' r • - Aran tt..t . tti the rear, right upon the cavalry. who II:A 'wen to int. env them, 11:11 whip killed twenty of r " . • end a l'hokun I ( tnomon:lAA) all real Runtime. 'lke name " f killed is snips:4d to he Tauter. and he is reported to • ~ ot th e sceot.tl coeurond to It..vgly Photon, and to have I 11,1. .: 111 4 . 1111.0:0:PPICIll .4 tt:.• enemy'. ..:tinp." ..: I ,`PY . %IL it: I horterecalt Ice. ;;teen intormat.on that the whole ntt..lt'onto,e t•rce a Houton amounted to t.tio root and ;2040 k ' sr * /1.11,,, t• 1.: ,40 had gort: downl:7.l'nst lek Nittif; 1,5410 • -0 1% - tr.tot. t l to the Polltotiro, front 1at.•...c ti:ov had prottouttly t'taert•tl No It.ttoott ; trttl It.' totta•lt..., shortly to move ttt• to the Po ttivAttl of ( liare.,!. The bvy " 1 : 1 7 t -ht the Itotawat: loot 11,1,1 of lirolgot.o h. out; at ' .•un I. a•'.. Ilr &dd. Ihty had tour : . .irilats and :'“' I ‘t , .' men !Lahti. at11.•t000 ; '11..n the General I6uto -3 hid • putted progress to the and was traitt...g for fur ertkis. Letters oat Itarcelo:iii, November t, state that t •••itrir :Alecl with re.ti;,e,s who toLva alarm at the 0, " . " 1 "ti.' 1 ) of Simla by tie Fr. fob. It wax, by :mot% red l l'at ciani•ly wi:lt the rientaii(l.; of a limit' 41141111 Pt 0414 would he ititrohleed. ' tn.nty parts of Iti?eity ;incl . 4. '". 4 !ilutionali:.:s hare keit iias • I :root pr's.•ra. I mate let;• ra from film , tate, that the late conril.:acy " 33 a i" , re CXUheral:Ct. 141 VlllTellt p. , litieal principle In a Gr ottieers of Poo . regim , nt. The ult. 1 . 41 1.4 du probably on that account siertell !: kw , thi pl ay j og t h e i r tasuborithia fain the noire upeitly. lu c Arse 44 the sticcetlling officers, mostly u.! I.or rnns, Wet: arrested. LITEIIATURE. ratrienstitr's orryttiva, OR FUR ANNUAL ■EKEK ■RAMeEN. A cIIIIITWAA PREALNT •iin NEW Y[AR'I GIFT tun In the approaching period of festivity, when the ties of socia; nine • arc strengthener', a n d when tokens of regard are exchanged, not only in commemoration of Christmas, but of all those sacred remembrances which the return of that season brings with it, it is plmshig to find so elegant a Friendship's (Wring as this, furnished for this put pore, Mill which enabler the giver to present a favourable spsri mtn his taste, as well as an acceptable memento of his esteem. The engravings are remarkably well executed, particularly that of 'the Fortune Teller, of Sir Joshua Rey nolds, in the collection of the l)uke of Dorset. We extract the following Riddles for the amusement of our female readers, who, between this and Christmas, may find in them some exercise for their sagacity Why id a Wain of apples like an army of volunteers ? 2. Why is the root of a tonguelike a dejected man? 3. Vol at me, you drink me; explain if you can : aunietioies a woman, and sometimes a Mall ? 4. Why in an under-done egg like an ea over-dune ? h. Why ate Algiers and Malta as opposite as light and daltnrst ? 6. What three letters spell Archipelago? 7. In what MIS would a man, by choke, take up his abode? 0. Why is the letter 8 like the furnace of a battery ? 9. Why are all the letters of the alphabet but the three first like exiles? IH. Why is intending to pay a debt the same thing u paying it? 11. Why is a man about to put his father in a sack like a tea yeller journeying to an Eastern city ? you rather a lion eat you or a tiger? IJ. What littlle children always have; what married women never hiv:t; what Paul had behind. and Luke before ; end Cap tain Luttrell both behind and before? HAYMARKET THEATRE. Tenzing Made Easy, a comedy with very few claim. to popularity, wits performed at the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday night, and was followd by the favourite Opera of Lone in a Vilive. It is difficult to satisfy with medio crity, those who have witnessed perfection ; and the corps d 'opera of the " little theatre" is not sufficiently powerful to prevent our remembering with regret that we hare seen better actors awl acting elsewhere. Mr. Melrose sustained the part of Yuweg Meadows. Ile sang with very good effect, but Ms conception of the character was by no means accurate, and he was manifestly de ficient in that easy and graceful deportment which he who represents the gentleman must, at least, assume. Mita George appeared as Bosetta. We do not ate that she has added to her reputation by her performance of the part. Iler voice is sweet, but this is not the only advantage necessary to constitute a good actress. She had none of that vivacity which is so essential to the character, and her gait, action, and manner altogether, were more those of the real lady's maid than of the disguised lady. Mr. Iluckel, as Ifaistlawa, was very re srctable, considering that all his songs were those whirls Brah.tut and Incledon had so often sung before him. He looked, however, very unlike the " jolly huntsman who's:el trodden the heather for thirty years, and we involuntarily applied to him the words wbieli firsar applied to the thin eassiss—" would he were fatter." The acting of llowto& in Justice Woodcock, is tot, well known and Appreciated to need any comment ; but we have always thought that he makes the character broader and less delicate than it should be, soil sloes not deserve a compliment for AO frequently "speaking more than is set down for him," for the sole ourianse of raising a laugh, when a laugh is no very de sirable reward. Lucinda was done' by Mrs. Carrick, and Mrs. Garrick is too fat, and too near forty, to satisfy US with tier representation of a young maiden in her first lose. M iss Kelly was Madgc—hcr acting is always ex cellent, and lits.t overstrains& There is a peculiar fasci nation about her, which never fails of its eflbct, and whale r she :Teaks or does nut creak, she equally rivets the attention of the audience. We ,an never even con ceive that she might base acted better, or that she has left undone what she might have done. Mr. II cat played the part of it.sigv with much truth and spirit; and Mr. y filingtr , as trows, WAS as excellent as the part. permitted hies to be. He has always been a favoreite with us. and we only regret that be is nut °llea enabled to prove of what weal he is made. The house was well ' tilled, notwithstanding that it has to compete with its for m:46lde sisals of Ibury-lane and Coma- ,nrilen. The rforitia !Ice of to-night will be the last of the season. We believe it has been prospsrous, and we know that its pros perity has nut been unmerited. Mil. IVINTLERor. No petition in behalf of Mr. Fauntleroy has yet been presented at the llome Departinent. During the preceding week a meeting of the Counsel of Mr. Fauntleroy was held, and a lung consultation took place upon the subject of applying for a Writ of Error, so as to bring the points which they have to urge against Mr. Fauntleroy's being convicted of an oflimoe, rendering him liabh• to capital punishment, before the Court of King's Bench. It is necessary, in case of conviction for a felony, to have the consent of the Attorney-General before a Writ of Error can be brought, and, in this case, the Attorney- Cameral was of Counsel for the prosecution. Messrs. Alley, Broderick, and Phillips, are very strongly of opinion, that these are valid legal objections against the conviction as fur a capital offence, though they arc of opinion that helms been legally convicted of a transportable eillnice.—Another consultation of Counsel is appointed fur au early day neat week. The Louden Petitions, on behalf of Mr. Faunticroy, have already n (lived the signatures of many thousand re spectable individuals, and in proportion as the places where they has become more generally known, the number of signatures have increaaed. Vie are informed that petitions for Mr. Faunticroy are also in a conrse of signature at several provincial towns. On Monday last a notification was sent to the Reeorder, that his Majesty would be ready, in the course of the week, to receive the report of all the capital convicts under sentence in Newgate. 1 . he Recorder, however, it appears, from the nutnlrsr and length of the cases at the last ties thins, was unable to prepare the report so early ac cordiogly wrote to the Secretary for the Home Pepar'- ment, stating that he could nut be nady in hss than ten (lays with the cases which occurred in October, although he could, at any time his Majesty pleased, attend with the report of thy previous Sessions. Rut it is determined, it seelllS, to hare Loth SMA010; reported together ; and, there fore, directly the Recorder is prepared, which will doubtless be in a few days, the report of all the persons under sen tence, including, of course, Mr. Fauntleroy, will be made to the King in Council.—Sunday Hail Mr. rauuderoy been a ganNer or spendthrift—bad he wasted thousands on prolligacy—had he run his wild career in the continent—bail lie been, in short, what the base aml malignant Times newspaper fah•ely seill he was, no tear of pity would have been dud for his fate, and his death-struggle would have been regarded as the just atom - metit for his vice and prollii,:tcy : but if, an he able `es (and, indeed, the events Of each succeeding day seem to juvtify his allegations,) he has been the active partner of a declining house, eriminating himself to rescue others from p. id'tion, and appropriating tome of the fruits his guilt to ',l;s individual - e:lrsoual grafi:kat:Ai, we do say we think the nature of his clime considerably changed—so consider ably changed as to justify a commutation of the 11:0: p;lialty he has inc u rred—we know that within these icte ycar, , , tile capital runiAsinent, when prisoners haVi . Othrichli if uttering, and tot of forging, has hen rent muted; so far any legal or constitutiooal objection may in. met: and we repeat our opinion, Ilia( if tl:e facts Eta:LA ;It Mr. FalltitlerOy a ILL . :I - WC he aol!stmit t, d, 1 1 , i s n ,t al together unworthy of that mercy which (it we know the heart of hint, who is the fountain of all grace,) it wig he the halnitess of the Monarch to be permitted to shew.— Ahos It wits rep ort,il oil Saturday, on tlw authority of hitters from Svaiti, that the Asia had arrived with her convoy at Callao. with a great number of troops, pr. a cil•ally French s•elutite.re. Accounts from Sayriticios of the llth of Al rug. sate, that a Sieatiish frigate. two large corvettes, and five meriiliantmen, with troupe, supposed alitott :m or coo in. it. bad arrived to 'clause the garrisca of the l'asilt of St. These arc soppos.usl to Ir the ships said to have Latin seen by tLe L'.iptain of the IValtner Castle. THE' BRITISH PRESS. MESSRS. MARSH AND CO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sia,—ln your Paper of Saturday , you have inserted an account of the iwoceedines at a meeting held at the Free mason's Tavern, of the creditors of :ileum. Marsh, Straeey, and Co., and it appears that some of the credifors of that house hare a suspicion that .the Assignees . appointed under the commission of bankruptcy issued aga inst these parties, may he influenced in the exercise of their trust, by the con nection and intimacy subsisting between them and the bankrupts. It is under these circumstances an act of justice to the respectable g entlemen who hare consented to be Assignees, to put the public in possession of two cases recently discovered of gross delinquency on the part of the partners, and of the conduct uursued by the Assignees on that occasion, which wil' show at once the painful and dif ficult task imposed upon them, as well as their determina tion to execute it with firmness and impartiality. To explain these two cases fully, it will be necessary to carry the history • little back. Mr. Fauntleroy was ar rested on the morning of Friday the 10th of September, and the banking-house continued open the remainder of that day and on the Saturday following, when it finally closed. In the course of these two days considerable sums were paid into the house to the credit of different customers, but much larger sums were drawn out by others of the customers, who had received, through different channels, intimation that something extraordinary bad happened. Some of the customers in the first predicament, suspect ing on the Monday that a stoppage of payment so it/me diatelif following tMr deposits on the Saturday preceding, mast have been contemplated at the time these deposits were received, applied to the portsers for an explanation. The answer given by these gentlemen was, the they had clnsiefered the sets of Mr. Fauntleroy as the acts of the individual, not likely in any way to shake the credit or stability of the house—that they had considered themselves fully competent to meet all outstanding demands upon them, and therefore fully justified in accepti ugsuch deposits as were offered in the way of business ; and that it was not till late on the Sunday evening that they had determined, " in justice to their friends," nut to °Nu the house on Monday morning. This explanation was so far satisfac tory, that it procured for the partners a civil reception from the creditors at the first meeting. Confidence, however, in this statement was afterwards shaken, by the appeal of Mr. Fauntleroy on the day of his trial and a principal creditor made a formal application to the Assignees for " a list of the sums paid and received by the house in Berner's-street, on the loth and 11th of September." This list was immediately despatched to the creditor de manding it, and it contained, amongst others, a sum of 5000/. paid to Min Marsh, on lrr own draft, on the 1 lth, haring a memorandum appended to it, signed by the three Assignees, to the effect, that a letter was laid before them from Miss Marsh, dated theBMnf Seplembrr„triring notice Mat she tcould require this mon on the 11th. This item, sweetened as it was by the memorandum, did not act as an anodyne on this persevering creditor; and he soon learnt that another sum, nearly to u large an amount (hat omitted altogether is the list), had been drawn out a few ',dilutes leen , the former, by Mr. Straery, on account of his fither. Ile again waited on the Assignees, and having submitted his question, was informed by them, that they had discovered, only the night before, that Mr. Stracey had, on the evening of the 11 th of Sept. withdrawn a sum of 4,1111 I os. ; and that he had since withheld from them all know ledge of this transaction—that they lead been deceived also by Mr. Marsh, in as much as they had ascertained that the letter purporting to hare been written on the Bth of Sep t ember, was not written till the evening of the 11th, after his daughter had actually withdrawn her money—that they Lad done all that, as Assignees, they could do, having already instructed their Solicitor to require the parties to whom these monies had been paid to refund, en the ground that they had been drawn out either by the partners thettiselv(s, or at the instigation of the partnets, in eonteniplation of All immediate bankruptcy. These transactions, (lark as they arc, do not end here. Mr. Stracey, on being examined by the Assignees on thin wet ter, declared that he felt it his duty to protect his father by drawing out this sum, for the purpose of replacing stock to that amount, improperly draws out ly Mr. Favntleroy (an admission, by the way, that Mr. Stracey was not wholly ignorant of Mr. Fauntleroy's improprieties.) But, units's pily for Mr. Stracey, there is at the Bank of England a transfer-book ; and still more unhappily for bins, it appears on de- face of that book that the stock thus alleged to have b..en improperly sold out by .lr. Fauntleroy was so sold by Mr. Strarev So candid and determined wu the conduct of the Assig nees on this occasion, that the creditors may be persuaded that their interests could not be placed in more just and im partial hands. But in reference to the partners and to the fate of the unhappy man now under sentence of death, these transactions give rise to very uneasy reflections. Here are the dupes. here are the vicnins, of a man, whom at six-and-twenty years of age they placed, without capital or credit to recommend him, nt the head of their impo verished and tottering concern ! These the men, who, having lived for fifteen years in utter ignorance of the busi ness by which they rot their bread, become suddenly en lightened; and during' an apprenticeship of only six-and thirty hours, lay a plan worthy of the most practised veterans in the mysteries of money-dealing, to protect them selves and families from impending ruin, by a fraudulent perversion of funds, received but a few :lours before from some of the best and oldest customers. STATE OP IRELAND. ( From the Irish flitseener.l Vi - e hare great pleasure in noticing the continued tranquillity of the country, which. as we get further into the wine .1, seems to he settling into more profound peace; and, we have no doubt, that the berthroming year of will lind us in a state of perfect re pose. This is to he attributed, in a great measure, to the bright ening prospects of the country—the increased demand for agric ',l - produce, and the conserent increase of prices. The pros perity of En gland is he gloving at length to act upon us in this way, and a portion of It r capital to Brow in upon us. flee in numerable artisan...and numulacturers are in full employment, ant ' there is, eonsesuently, n realer consumption of corn, and other ne cessaries of lite, the produce of our Island. This has done more to quiet our people, than the Insurrection Act or the Gibbet. We would prefer a rood trice of corn and butter, to the whole Cen. stahulary of Inland. But thisadrarce of price is not the only symptom of oar kept'''. ing condition. The country is settling down at length into a rte.. order of things. The tide of es:infusion and disorder which rolled in upon us nt the pence. has nearly passed over us. Its struggles and its miseries are almost at an end. The ruined are at rest ; and others arc about to take their places, who are opening every day new channels of enterprise and industry. The most obvious im provement throughout the country is the increase of communica lion. All the great roads in the 2e4outh of IreLstul are covered with vehicles of various el.scriptions, plying in every direction; in this immediate neighbourhood there arc no'ny. tl'e may mention the new mail coach, which started a few weeks since on the line be. !wren Limerick and Teske. opening to the latter town a direct cmuniuriestion to linblin, which e. ill be found to be oldie grenteat importance to its rising trade. This coach traverses fur several miles a new and beautiful road, running along the bank of the Shannon. from Fovne's to Torbert, and sflonling line views of Ars limbic river. thi the other side e f Limerick. the novigat:on of ohs Shannon to Dublin, is al•eut to I.e rendered available to the tried awl commode:aims of the Pity, by the establishment of a Itealll owed 111111:1 its WVACT , .. without which the rikwige through the g Pew es it loan :rod uncertain. tilt ...onkel suggest the necessity of a mail east+ establishment be.,waten Limerick MIMI Galway; tlierf is no count! i:.re of any kind present runnivg direct Guth this to the lane.t,:u u. _ , 3 no country in rernpe where capital may be en , ' oyed with ;nee . end snrety titan in Ireland at the pre rot moinent. We ...re in Niar: of e - ,cry thine. Ire have not the capital io set up the estalili.sitio.nita we are in riga of, but we have the means of renittnerat.:in those who 1“10.1.4 it : and ar are happy to °Werra ti: et our lillo,ll noightoitirs are beginning to led thin; they are learning to disregard the ti.rhulent reeentricilies of Captain Kock, and to luoier..lv to the sitiinasitial ?milli. that sre within their Our 4/;u1 Compiiiiies. our Pipe- Water Companies, and others of this kind, are tiligtitit : our steam vessel' at !robins and Turk are noglish ; and evert individual merchants are tregiiiiiirg to venture into our n arket, and give a new ithpulsr to Irish i~a.le. Within a few months a tieir trede has sprung sip in Tralee. But ter. instead of hein.• sent t.. (*.wk. is bought im the spat, and ex- This has foth,wed by a brisk trail: in isits and other Illon:y in Isrge sums has found its way the wee hitiguishin i ; and negtvied little town or and the Kerry fivls the invigorstieg infusion through all its veil,. We do not despair of sternn Kenmare soon reaping the advautars of its liar position for the p;:teha.se and export of butter. The linen fru': of Dingle is reviving. The projected Packet Ilarbonr at X'ideiitis will crown all these undertakings, and give to the %1 est rear rf fraud all t h e ;; .cat wiltantwow which nwiunilly be kn;; to it. N ' identia is the meat ,rests, ia point of I:urnpe , and it in mistimed to canncc: it, as nmuts seams to lime ziata,&l s with the Low, Coast of America by Steam Packets, which from this flue huberer to Cape Canso would make the ?wage in about twelve days. The Packet Harbour on the Amenean Coast would eommunicate by subsidiary Packets with the whole line in the North and South, and from Valenti* there would be similar oranmuniciatiatis to all parts of the three Kingdoms. We do neat pretend to go into the details of this plan, which we consider the moat interesting and im. portent that has been devised for ages. Nothing is wanting to carry it into effect, hit to obtain a eliarter upon fair principles, which will of courser he granted : fpr we cannot suppose that flortmment will not eagerly second the efforts which individuals are making to pacify and improve the Country. THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION. From the lin 77liire Telegraph.] On Wednesday morning his Majesty's discovery ship the Griper. Csptain George F. Lyon, mint unexpectedly arrived at this pon, and ran into the harbo ur , di rec t f rom flris*s Strata, with the signal of distress flying. having lust all her anchors and cables in fruitless endeavours to get iota Repulse Bay, whither sloe was under orders to poems!, for the purpose of co-operating with Cap tain Parry in search of a north-west passage. The circumstances which have led to the failure of this branch of the north-west expedition are attributable to stormy and severe weather, whirl) prevailed in a more intense degree than the oldest northern navigator remembers, and to the extraordinary bad quali ties of the ship for the purposes required. It appears that the Griper left Stroennesa on the let July, and male Cape Chudieigh (on the Isebrador coast) on the 2d of August, having fallen in with icebergs three days previously, and from which time she was beset with drift ice. In this passage she, was found to make so little progress, that the Snap (her provision 'ten der? was frequently obliged to take her in tow. From Cape Chudleigh the Griper wan obliged to stretch to the northward, to Resolution Island, as the fide iceprevented progreo• up Hudson's Strait: they were, however, enabled to make slow advances to the westward, close to the Savage Islands, until they made Salisbury or Nottingham Island, but which place could not be ascertained, from the impossibility of making observations of the Upper Savage 'elands. Some canoes of natives tame off to them, who appeared to be of the some description of Esquiroaux with which out navigators were before acquainted. They were dis missed with liberal presents, and Appeared Much gratified. From Salisbury Island, the Griper proceeded to the south point of Southampton Island. in which they *ere essieted by a *tong current setting down Foes Channel • but on their rounding Southampton Island, this current, wlfich then came down Sir Thanes Itowe's Welcome (up which they wished to proceed) was directly against them, and nearly caused their shipwreck. Southampton Island was found to be laid down with tolerable accuracy. Off the south-west end of the island the Griper was obliged to anchor, in consequence of suddenly shoal ing her water in • gale of wind she parted onellilltilOY, but braight up again with three anchors a-head, in quarter less four fathom water : when the tide fell, the sea was so heavy that the ruddee continually struck the ground. and was lifted almost out of the gudgeons : this was on the Ist of September. (hi the wea ther moderating, the Griper proceeded up the Welcome, but a northerly gale of wind springing up, the ship was driven into Hudeon's Bay. However, by perseverance, and taking advantage I of every favourable breete of wind, she reached Cape Fullerton. the larboard entrence of Wager River. and within about sixty miles of the spot (Repulse Bay) rbere she pea intended to winter. The coast on the American main land was found so rocky and extremely', dangerous, Cat she was obliged to stretch oft for Southampton Island, whence she endeavoured to make for Repulse Bay, but I was driven by the tide directly to the southward and westward, I against what was supposed to be Wager River. Here strong breezes and a heavy snow storm set in, which made it nece , sary that the ship should be brought tot id) three anchors a.head and made snug. The sea rose rapidly and hmkeover the ship with tremendous force, forming thick coats of ice in an instant, as as to connect the shrouds together half way up the rigging. The snow also tell so fiat that the men hail much difficulty in keeping the docks clear. The ship all this time pitch so dreadfully, that the cables mine over the bumpkins, one of which was thereby broken. Ihring the night a large stream of ice wax perceived coining down upon the ship, but, most happily, it parted before It reached her, and some' small portions of it only struck against the bows, which did no damage. The wind continued to increase, as well as the snow; at five o'clock in the miming the starboard cable parted, and, on the ship swinging to the other three anchors. she was struck by a sea and parted tint them nil ! Her situation at this time was the most perilous that can be imaginal, every individual monies. tardy expecting that she would drive on shore. Means of penet ration, however, were tot neglected ; the trysails wet— rot on her, though it was so dark that no object could be discerned, an,' they did not know an much as which way the ships head lay, from the compasses having ceased to act, the ship being. as it is supposed, directly over, or near the Nagnetic Pole. Whilst presuming, in this distressing dilemma, that the wind had shifted off the land, as the water deepened, a sight of the sun, and subsequently of the tither celestial bodies was obtained (of which they had had no slew for some days), and the ship was fnund to have been drifted out of the Welcome, alter haring attained lat. 65. ME There was at this moment no anchor left in the ship. Notenhstinding it was determined, if possib!e, to winter nbmit Chesterfield Inlet, or even to the so ithward of that spot. The perm. • - eing effort% of all on on board were accordingly directed to gain the American shore, but finding that the ship got into the shallows of Hudson's Bay, they were nluctentiy compelled to edge away fur Salisbury Island, still hoping that a few fine and favourable days would re store them their lost round. The bail weather, however, still con tinued, and there was much difficulty in wr.tering the ship at these places, from a strcani of ice. A number of natives came olr to thene in canoes, and tr.dli;kol their clothes for iron and spears. At length, the hopeless continuance of bad weather, I the weft:ltei: re:,dition of the ship Croat her incroacities), the others oral 172 W havi.ig suffered m o re than on any previous voyage, the advanced stage of the season, with nu racrool other enneonlitant miseries, contpellza ('entail Lyon to ran seri that the ship should he got out or ludson's `'traits (an extent of eight hundred miles of dangerous navigation) ; which place they . had scarcely cleared, when It g:de drove them rip Davis' Straits, IM) milts to the sotiffiward of Resolution Island. Provi dentially, a clemge of what enabled them soon after to petered on a southern passage homeward, and the Griper arrived it in six weeks, in the shoe we have described. Though little has been effected towards solving the geographical problem of a north-west passage, by this voyage, yet some meet interesting elucidations of the deviation of the compass have been brought to light. The compasses began to waver and contradict each other when abreast of the Savage Islands ; and, as the ship Wt to the westward, the compasses got unsteady and useless. hilst the ship was in Sir Thomas Rowe'. Wtlerame, they fre quently would not traverse at all, bet stood in 'bitterer position the card was placed. Should a passage be discovered by I apt. Parry, through the Prince Regent's Inlet, it is considered more than pro.. liable, from the irregular movements of the ice, that it may never be entered again. The Griper spoke several whalers, all of which had been unsne cessful in the fishery ; no ship had more than two fish, and fumy none whatever. From the Captain of the Phenix whaler, Captain Lyon heard that Capt. Parry's exrdition had been seen in the middle of August, in Ist. 71, beset with ice. On the whole the season has been more boisterous, end, consequently, the sea less clear, than it has been known for thirty years. It was very ques tionable if Capt. Parry would be able to reach Lancaster's Sound. Had the Griper erected a wintering either in Repnlse Ray or IVa. ger River, or Chesterfield Inlet, Capt. Lyon, with a strung parte, would have made a !and journey to Pram Turn-again, near the ( topper-Mine River, a dittenee of nearly 71* miles, fur which ex pedition they wise full•srquipped.. Capt. Parry, if he succeed in luessing Lances:es Sound, asel getting to the southward, down Prince Regent's Inlet (by whiea t. 1400 was next 'via to com municate with him), he will spot a limit expedition il"possihle, in the same direction, as f.. Repulse Bay, in the hope of tom. rounicatinF with the liriper. The Helper communicated with ths Esquimau% natives of the Upper Savage Islands, and of Salisbury and Nottingham Islands, allot' whom hoe, frequently seen Europeans. They were lea an. rage in their habits and manners than their more northern brethren, but they &hewed a strong thievish eisposition : they endeavoured to steal the oars and iron work front the boats. The Griper also communicated with the natives of various pans of Southampton larnta, who had never even a ship before. They, however, ex resit'', very little surprise; they evinced more gentleness in their manners than o u r other of the Esquimau% tribes, and were much better looking and cleaner in their persons; the women were rather tartly. All these people reside in the Walrus-hide huts, which are desailied in ('apt. Lyon's last voyar. The (riper ordered to be paid eft, and sold t e at of the Nary. A vessel Letter aiapteil to the peculiariti.si of the service, will ito doubt be prorii'ed ha Carlisle Lyon lied his meritorious officers and crew, on the opening of the m,r‘oi, lir a fertile! investigation. Captain Franklin, we tuoisistand, is to leave Englaad, on hie land expedition, in February next. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Ifs I , IC A T., rtIAY 31.—n cleared.—Thel;anges,Turker. 650 tons, cleared loth May, for the Mauritius and Bom bay; John Hunter, Russell, '214 tons. on the 11th May, fur South America ; Caroline brig, 1 ' , ale, 116 tons, on the Y.Sth May, for Rangoon ; Swallow, Black, tero tons, on the •lltlt May, for Penang. Singapore. and China; Olive Branch, Anth rson, on the 31st May. fn.: the Cape. Arrivals ul Ben!,-el.—The Gedrivy Wester, Reyna:d oom from Madras, on the Ist J ore ; York, Talbert. front London. on the nth ,tune; Driver, front London, en the .sth June ; Sir 1 1 .A1.1 S':. 'Tweet, from London, on the I Ith .hate; Pelle Ati.!tir , .. Itn!i'e, front London, on the 11th Jute • I . le:ta. frc•n Landon. with 1...F7, of anchors and cables Mi . the hand Heads ; 'l•i:nmaa Couto% Christie, from Lonthea, and the Balearraa, Catncton, from London. on the 6th Ju n front Th.q.;-.7/.—The John Hunter, Russell• for South America, on the vlst Mav ; Sophia, Chew, Ovilia, Scilkm, and the Torcli. Mitehtll, for Chittagong. MI the 29th ditty; Olive Branch, Henderson, for Mauritius and the ('ape, on the 3d A•ittrcfbcr,W att. Henry, Mei-- riton, and I., , ,i»ontlino and the Planet, But - rid:T. for Chit tagong, on the flth June ;•• Bengal Me:chant, t4arrick. nix Chittagong, on the ,s ;It June; Nereitlr, 11.attivr, for i'ho ilul s, on the Bth ; antl the City of E2 . .aburg,h, Wise un.o, fo• Rnge•ct, on the 10t1. Sane. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Between the hours of three and four o'clock yet:inky morning the inhabitants of Fleet-street were a.mseti front their beds by a cry of " Fire," which had just iturst with tremendous fury in the house, No. ST. oo.unied by - Mr. Bond, linen-draper, situated almost midway f•etwilt Bride-passage and Bride-lane. The bell of S. Bride's Church tolling, the watchmen's creaking, and the crier O s the hy-standers, soon spread the alarm far and wien. The shop-door was fast; that in the rear was rico stretgly se cured ; and the flames had already shown tktmselves au the first floor; but not a soul in the house awined to Le sensible of the calamity, and the most tirr*W h e ao"relien sions were for some minutes entertained that tii whaU family were consigned to inevitable destruction. 1 he freest door was burst open by repeated assaults, and die interior of the Shop presented exactly the appearance of a spseione furnace in full glow. By this time the flames had a.cendetl even to the third fluor, and it was alto discovettA that the house on the left, No. 86, jointly occupied by Mr. Hill, chemist and druggist, and the Sunday .ainail(rr newspaper office, was also on fire. St. Bride's and St. Danetanly parish engines were speedily on the spot; but (Old we repeat it with regret and reprobation) there being a !ham,- ful delay in procuring anything like an adequate surply of water, the devouring element had obtained an uneoutrol able ascendancy in the bombes BG-7, and was rapidly ex tending, by the influence of a strops S.W. wind, to the houses on the right, one of which. No. 88, occupied by Messrs. Pittman and Asbfleld, oil and pickle merchants, soon after caught the contagion, and though every reort wog made to get away the oils and other inflammable matter, yet a great quantity of those dreadful stimulants were ne cessarily abandoned, from the volumes of smoke which rolled into the premises, and the intense glow from the adjacent pile, now blaring in awful magnit-Cnce. At about a quartet' after four, there were twenty-three engines collected, and ' an immetUe body of firemen; the various plugs were opened from Fetter-lane, downward*, on each side the way, bet fresh difficulty occurred in the procuring sufficient mould to collect the water, so that the tucker* obtained even less than the sewers ; however, the sudden fall of the helloes, 86, 87, which tumbled with a tremendous crash into the street, furnished abundant material for remedying diet de fect, and the engines being now got into efficient play, shot up an immense body of water in almost every direction. Messrs. 11111 and Bond's premises having come down, created an opening which served to increase the fury of the flames in the adjoining concern, and a fourth house, N 0.89, occupied by Mr. Marriott, furnishing ironmonger, was also devoted to the common and rapidly spreading ruin. The contention of the two elements was then tiolent, and the result extremely doubtful. No. 83, on the left was or: fire in the rear. occupied by Mr. Mattress, hair-dresser and perfumer, whilst that of Mr. Carlirle, corner of Bride ' passage, seemed also in danger, and had not the wind bloat in the contrary direction, not Ling could have saved thetri from total destruction, and, even as it is, Mr. Mattrearo may be added to the number, so that five hotiv.s in frcnt. together with a vast quantity of valuable property in mer chandize and furniture are entirely consumed. The rear ci four extends to the passage by Bride's Church, and that of the fifth was occupied, we believe, by Mr. Mcrcicr, printer e the British Traveller newspaper, who is of course a r,-...nsi derable sufFeret. On the right, the progress of the flame= was arrested in a great measure by the immense party wall which ran between Mr. Phene'r, the confectioner, No. 9C, and Mr. Marriott's: to this point the firemen chiefly di rected their attention, and hut for their unceasinm exer tions together with the circumstance already alluded (the thickness of the wall), there is no doubt whatever tlrat the whole range would have suffered the same fate. One circumstance however is peculiarly consolitary, tht no personal injury was sustained by any of the itnnatt Mr. Bond's family, for the safety of whom fears were en tertained, escaped over the gutters, and got through Mattress's window, in ahnow a state of nudity. such c - ` the goods as were grit out of the different premises Ive:.; deposited in the church, where they are still sufnerd ;-, remain. Insurances were effected on all but Mr. house, so that he and Mr. Mercier, both worthy and ::- apectable men, have been the principal sufferers by tb.s extensive calamity. Various rumours are OM in regard to the origin of tl unfortunate event ; but that which seemed to posses - most c;aim to credit was, that one of Mr. Bond's servan:. neglected turning off the gas, and on the introduction of I lighted candle intc the apartment, ignition ensued, and before may alarm cauld be given, the who!: place was in Baines. TUATFIEII PAITICULAIS. The above fire was .aid to have been occasioned by the inuentiont &ripping e a spark from a candle, in the closing of Mr. hind'. shop, behind the counter, which communicating with she gas. which, it is thought, we. not properly turned or. and thus caused a destruction of property to nearly the amount, of 100,0001. The family of Mr. Bond were out of town, and only two persen. slept in the home, who escaped when it was almost entire.: enveloped in flames; they got out of the up-stairs %intuit' . over the roofs of the other houses: one of them, • leave::: suffered dreadfully from alarm. Thr tiunilies of Mr. Matter.. and Mr. icshfield did not experience any injury. Mr. Hill, Oil chyorist, wen ales from home; part of his slam was rirtitionet. and apprattriated as an ollise for the purpose of publishing rite Sunday aloof/or newspaper. Mr. Mattress vu unable to save cr. thing. It was thought at one period that the church would bare fallen a sacrifice to the devouring element. The Rector and Chne:t— warden, Meters. Masan and /41.Dowe1l, were present during t.e. whole of the time, and humanely soothed and promp.4 rendes.: , sesisesnee to the sufferers. A gme of wind blew tremendously front S.S. W. slightly veering towards the latter quarter, at five ricks.,, when all apprehensions for the Church hr.d subsided. The earltil were so fanned and aided by the wind, that had nor e-ery been made, the destruct:on would certainly not have hem cpri'llia..l to the houses destroyed. The immense party walls of Mr. '.'hen. • house were mainly instrumental in saving his fireman,. Tits house, or Messrs. Pitman And Ashlit :dl, Dr. trill and al.. Matiress, caught fire nearly at the same time, and bum: Jos s wards, so that the families had plenty of time to escape, save part of their fur:little. The family of Mr. Smith cousivuni at nine persons, himelf, wife, mother, and six children; he ts.i scarcely time to save the hitter, who slept in the attic, and was obliged to rush through the dairies with two of them; he place.: then in the Court, and ran hack to save his mother, and on LS return missed his Youngest child. a girl about four years of :T.:. who he was informed I:ad run back into the house. The ages: erv.:. father fled again into the house, which was cti•ircle in Ratner, xi o. found the poor child trying in the corner of the kitchen. A. Le ascended the creekhng stairs with his daughter, pert of the niti;•: fell, and he was ntarly suffocated in making his tray net ; rt. however, succeeded; and during the whole of yesterday wn.e tat . newel, front the effects of the exertion. lle, we are sorer to tsi . is not insured, and his loss is very great indeed. The oat:: so' • freers are partially insured in the I land-in./land, West of Ere - land, Atlas, and Sun Companies. The walls of mine of tt houses acre standing yesterday, but in a threatening and clanntrtc.. position. In the course of the dcy part of the ruins of Mr. Bond v house fell into the street, hut no accident occurred. The following are tbe narnei of the persona nhn are aufforrs-- Mr. Bond, Mr. Hill. Mr. Marriott. Mr. Mercier, Moms. Pure•., and AsWield, Mr. Smith, Mr. Brady, raid several other persons whourre lodgera. . . . _ . There were"upwants of twenty engines in attendance. ea tt.e greatest credit is due , o the firemen for their spirited exertions. A lady was taken from en attic window of one of the houses the rear, and, in a few momenta af:er, the roof fell in with a tie mentions crash. She was taken into the church, where she a.. 1 promptly attended by Att. Burt, the surgeon. of Dorset-meet. we are happy to state, soon reeerered hum the (tight she had - perieneed, which it was at tint thought %mild hare proved httv. The cnctusion in Bride-court was dreadful. as it was innit.t u. from the glare, that half Fleet-street c;111 on fire. at.d ranaons ws•e seen running about in their night-clothes in the prcatest and depositing their little pm; arty in the church. A ClifiV.l. c• - - ennistunec in the course of the confusion took place: some at Cs:- !ilea family tank refuge in the rhurcti, and placed ;Ulu there far et - entity a glanuty of his iseistical pubic lions; the Age t 1 litaiu , z was are a them. Tli;, circumstance drew some rernaiks. tram 4 leading geatterhal in the parish who happened to be preen A•zOTHFR It is not a little ITMatiable that. the Fame hour. and in the lieinity of the above, another conflAtzration took place, which for lOW time WIT. 3 Toy alario;lig ainiret. This latter one 'occurred in the batik jai: of Elm atal (u.'s fur warehouri, No. 1.5. Gostri:- , tratr•e• The isiamditte attendance of two engine', wittch were consitirretl auivriluous at the fire tbot mien( in The strcrt, suer... Aid in au;:preaWng the flames, r. however befi. - e a coluliderable quits:tits , of r.ilualne furs IrWe This is the amend tire that has takes th i.Malern wienti a 'cu.:o r.hort ACCII,X7':: AT PActoirs.-11".: regret to-•:'e, teat George Avres. a you, 5 Man 10 , 9 ;s:v;•rely bx al it( :he tiows at Mr. ti:ruris rwtozy, died on t itutilay last, making tuned' ii pers.na who have ,at their lire.• In conacqwmace of this torlanehte3 sweurrener.—.llai; 4.; iitardia 1. :.:~ i I U v i ~_ } ,~