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f . PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. —.....-- HOUSE OF LORDS, TrierDAY, Fri. 7. • SILK TRADE. _ Tito Bishop of CHESTER presented a petition from the gilt stse•ers, manufacturers, and dyers, of the town offilacclestield. praying relief.—Laid on the table. PRIVATE BI The Earl of SII A ETES nu R Y moved that this House ahould not reeeive eaty petition for private Rills after Monday. the 13th of March, sor any Report from the Judges on private Bills after the 7s April.—Ordered. BANK CHARTER. Crayfon, from the Treasury. brought up all the earrespon. steam between the First Lord of the Treatinre and Ch■ncelhw of die Ihebequer, and the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Rack of }Copeland. respecting the limitation of the Bank Charter.— Jawed an the table. APPEALS. Ott the motion of the Earl of ITESATTRY the Clerk pro •reded to ballot and call over the names of the Peers, la the order is tibia they ere to attend the hearing of appeals. MR. COWPER. The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose to make his promised motion • respecting Mr. Cowper. His Lordship expressed the great setts- Action which he feh in proposing a motion which was so agreeable to their lordships, and which he had the pleasure of saying was to nest with no opposition. For a period of more than forty years bad Mr. Cowper tilled the office of Clerk to their House, the elver of which he fulfilled with diligence, assiduity. integrity. and ponetuality. It was well known to their Lordships that the situs. lion which Mr. Cow per held was one of great responsibility. The so-stituonn of their Lordships' Rouse, both as a Court of Appeals and for Parliamentary decisions, required attention and regularity en the part of their Lordships' Clerk, and these dutin Mr. 4 owper dischrrged, not only with fidelity but with a careful attention to the dignity of their Lordships, and with so much propriety and urbanity, that his Lordship could say, during twenty years' attendance in the House of Lords, his Lordship never heard of Mt. ('owper having, upon any occasion, uttered a word of. Posive or disagreeable to either of their Lordships, o to any Indi. 'ideal in attendance upon their Lordships. (Neer.) It was known to their Lordships that Mr. Cowper had performed duties which lie • was sot bound by his office to perform and in asking their Lord. ships' permission to resign his situation he made no stipulation, • sod his Lordship understood that Mr. Cowper wart satisfied with she provision to which he was entitled by their Lordships' resolu tion, passed about two years since. He was entitled to 1000!. as a • pension; and he (Lord Liverpool) felt their hardships would not sonsult their own dignity by acting upon the delicacy manifested by Mr. Cowper, whose means might perhaps enable him to retire without making any further claim than that which their Lordships had declared him entitled to. But it was an act of justice, not an se of liberality, which their Lordships had to perform. His Lord ship then moved a Resolution expressit: of their Lordships' just sense of the diligence, ability. and integrity manifested by Henry t'.iwper, Esq. late Clerk-Assistant to their Lordships during forty years ; and also that an humble Address be presented to his Ma 'testy, praying that his Majesty might be pleased to take into his 'Royal consideration the services of H. Cowper, Esq. lord ELLENBOROIJOH suggested sonie verbal alteration, to his Lordship thought the Resolution bad English. (A laugh.) The Earl of LIVERPOOL said the inaccurecy was perfectly conformable to the practices of the House of Loral, as well as to • those of the House of Commons. (A laugh) But his Lordship would willingly make the alteration suggested, which was then wade by his Lordship. and the Resolution agreed to. The House then adjourned to Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TuzsDAT, Fes. 7. Sir W. INGILBY presented the Report of the Committee on the Wilton Navigation Bill. The Honourable Member also presented a petition relative to the Foes Dyke Road, Lincolnshire.—Referred to a Committee. Mr. presented the Report of the Committee on the 'Worthing Road Bills.—Ordered to lie on the table. Genera/ GASTOYNE presented a petition fur a Bill to amend the Deal Forest Railroad between Liverpool and Manchester. The Honourable Member also presented a Report on the Liver. p. ad Improvement Bill.—Ordered to lic on the table. RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. *or E. lIARVLI presented a petttinn trem the tradesmen, deslera. and inhabitants of a baron in Ewa, praying a revision of tfir laws fur the recovery of small debts. STATE OF PRISONS. Mr. DAWSON presented copies of the Re prwt, of the Commit. t:e appointed to inquire into the state of prisons.--Ordereti to be voted. IRELAND. Mr J. NEWPORT movetitl;iicoples of the communications between the Judges in Ireland and the Irish Government be Laid before the House ; and also an account of an Commissions np pointed to inquire into the state of the country since HMI, together with a statement of the measures resulting therefrom.—Agreed to• NEGRO SLAVERY. Sir F. BLAKE presented a petition from Berwick.upon•Twecd, prating for the abolition of negro slavery. The Bun. Bart, in pre. ennting this petition, wished merely to observe that he gave Minis. ten credit fur the best and hurnanest feelings on this question, yet their endeavours could avail but little unless they had the voice of the country along with them. He therefore hoped to see petitions of this nature flowing in from all parts of the empire, in order to attest the general concurrence in the beneficent rims of the Govern. Loot.—Ordered to lie on the table. CORN LAWS. Mr. BLACKBURN irisentedipOtidon from the landholders and merchants of Great and Little Boltoo, Lancashire, pray i.ig an alteration of the Corn Laws. Mr. W. SMITH presented • petition relative to a navigation Between Norwich and Leicester.—Referred to • Committee. CAPE OF 0001) HOPE. Mr. HUME iroiniiedwltetheribe Report of the Commissioners appointed to examine into the state of our colony at the Cape of Good Hope was not yet ready to be laid before the House. Mr. W.HORTO.N replied that all returns from the Cape would he available by the Honourable Gentleman if • little time were allowed for their production. The Commission sent out was not • miefiried to a single specific point of investigation, but was Instructed to procure the fullest information on every subject connected with the welfare of the colony, mid he could arure the Hon. Gentleman .th.r had made the greatest progress in collecting their miscella nevi% details. Mr. HUME asked the lion. Gentleman if he were willing to Ise before the House the Report of General Turner? If not, he Rare notice that on an early day he would move for the production 4.: all returns and official communications relating to the Cape of •aciti Hope. It was three years since this Commission had been euncinted ; he might therefore reasonably inquire whether the lion. Cr...rule/lan had received any Report, and if he had, whether he was willing to lay it before the House. W. HORTON replied that he was willing undoubtedly, but it was not easy to say how he wee to bring it forward. The Commission was appointed to consider the amelioration of the co lony generally. and existed previous to any imputations on the con duct of the Noble Lord who was its Gover..or. Hut, while the saved of the Commiasianens was of a public and general nature, they were often delayed by the necessity of investigating individual cares. In line. if the Hon. Gendeman would ask any particular question, he would be happy to satisfy him ; but he would take woe to consider before he presented the Reports to the House. MR. KENRICK. Mr. DENISON rose to lweseniiltobumble petition of this geotiernan, and proceeded briefly to state its prayer. The first part merely alluded to what took place last Session with regard to Freida. Ile therefore would not trouble the House aith it. Al terwerds it stated that the petitioner was anxious to be examined at the bar of the House, in order to explain and justify his conduct, and to remove the aspersions east upon it. The petition then pro ceeded to state that the evidence of Lord Middleton, who was Chair tr.an of the Quarter Sessions when the ease of Franks was heard, was of importance to enable the petitioner to plead, and preyed teat the House would send a message to the House of Lords to obtain of them permission to examine Lord Middleton at the Bar to the House, and that it would give him notice that he might hear toe (+urge and answer the same. The Hon. Gentleman then con- clotted by expressing his confidence in the candour of the Hon. and Learned fiendtmau tale. Denman) who brought the charge, and by conviction that ohs evidence of Lord Middleton would com pletely exonerate Mr. Kenrick from any imputation. Mr. ni.:Nli.‘N said be had no objection to examinothe new witnesses; he also would take the opportunity, while addressing the II Nene, to state his wish to postpone the mrareination of this affair to Tuesday next instead of Monday; but he feared bin conduct would be irregular. After some conversation the postponement was agreed to. Mr. DENISON moved that the petition of Mr. Kenrick be printed.—Ordered. DRY ROT IN TIIE NAVY. Mr. ROBERTSON pesented a petition from Jain litierldge, praying the attention of the House to this subject and the lament. aisle condition of the British nave. The Hon. Gentleman remarked that the petitioner had addressed the House frequently on the same subject, and had met with no attention ; this the Hnn. Gentleman regretted, principally Incense he could not help coinciding in the petit/Doer's views, the modern of which were sufflciendy evinced by the alarming destruction of our navy. Sir I iA AC COFFIN said that the man was not to be believed, his theories were ludicrously absurd and his assertions were totally devoid of truth. Ale. HUME begged leave to ask the Hon. Gentleman whether he Lad ever read the petition in question ? It win certainly a harsh ex pression to say that the language of any man is untrue. The lion. Gentleman was willing to admit that Mr. Burrillge exaggerated the destructive effects of dry rot among our chips. Yet one point was unanswerable, viz., that more money kad been voted for the repairs elf ships than would have +milked to purchase our whole navy In the late war. Much of this must have been wasted, and in this he coincided with Mr. Homage, though Ministers were unwilling to admit it. Mr. CHOKER said that if any dispassionate mon were to read ekil petition, he could not for a moment doubt if it were reasonable. If the House were to pay attention to every crude hint or abortive project for the improvement of the navy, it would have enough to do. lis was in the daily habit of receiving enminunieniinna of this kitd, the folly and extravagance of which would surptise the Muse; but to return to the subject, he would simply state, that tote hairy was never in a sounder condition than at present, and be DRURY-LANE THEAT'RE. Toasornow. THURSDAY, Feb. 9, will be performed (9th time) • sew National Ballad Opera, called NALYINA. The peinetpg Character. by limn. wai lack. Sinclair. Horn, Peaford, Harley, had Vitawnliam; Miaow Stephens, Poway, and Kelly. To eottelude with the Minim:ohm" of ••• —•— • Ha itilits 7.1.771 sks Iladeqata, Mr. Howell; Pantalon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. HMI; Columbine. Mies Barnett. COTRIV.I'-uARDEN THEATRE. TheNnWllty, Gentry4and the Public are most respectfully "repainted that the Grand Perfornianciss of Ancient mid Modern Music, In lent, will semmense on Friday Evening Next, and be continued In the above Theatre on the usual Wednesdaye and Fridays, under the Management of Sir G. Smart. On FRIDAY NFIIT, Feb. IU, will be performed Beethoven's cele. bread Sacred Oratorio. Part ISOUN I' OF OLIVE". Between the first and Second Parts a Concerto on the Violin by • Mr. Mori. Part lI.—A Seleet ion fioni Panders admired Serenata, Af IS AND GAI,AIIiA. Part lIL—A GRAND MISCELLANFOUS ACT. In whlvb several tivkauste bongs, die. sill be lutrodurred. ILI could show, if called upon, that all the allegations contained in this petition were insane and unworthy. EXCHEQUER BILLS. Mr. MABERLY moved for a return of the amount of Each!. quer Bills paid in annuities for naval and military pensions within the last three year', and also of the amount, of annuities transferred by the Bank within the same period. Ile hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite world endeavour to liquidate this floating debt ; if this annuity were sold It would add a hundred millions to our national debt. la ease, then, of any expensive war, or national misfortune, what must be the condition of the country encumbered with this dead weight REGIMENT OF HORSE GUARDS. Mr. HUME, in rising, pursuant to notice, to comment on the expenses of one regiment of the Horse Guards, would commence his statement by observing that he had since found that the same complaint was applicable to other regiments. lie wished in the first plate to state his reasons for the terms of his motion. Ile did nut know why any distinction should exist between the Horse Guards and other regiments with regard to accounts. The, accounts of the rest of the army were well kept, but those of the Horse Guards were involved in mystery, while the expense of these corps was enormous. When the annual expense of the Home Guards Was 102,399/., or about 74/. per man, the charges for the foot regiments amounted to little more then half that charge per man. With this great difference in the expen diture of these troops, it was very improvident that the accounts of the Horse Guards should be subject to no control or supervision, since the absence of it was likely to awaken a suspicion that the money was improperly applied. This inconvenience, which was re flected on the army, he hoped the House would take care to prevent. There were also other irregularities that had taken place in regard to officers being placed on full pay as supernumeraries. and receiviog promotion while on the supernumerary list. During the war it was impossible to come at the numbers reduced to half-pay ; but now it clearly appeared that the Guard had not suffered the same re duction as other regiments. It was to be presumed that the vacant commissions would hare been filled tip from the officers on the half-pay. but, in point of fart, those officers had not been hr.:tight on, while individuals, altogether new to the army, had been intro duced at a great es:pense to the country. It appeared that in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards two troops were added is 1812; they were reduced in 11314, but the officers of those troops were al lowed to remain on full pay, and no reason had been grated for that circumstance. Ile ( Mr. Hume) contended that the House ought to be in possession of information as to the supernumeraries, as well as of those who had beer. introduced as new men; and thereforeit was that he hod extended his motion to include the Foot Guards. The first instance he should mention was that of Lieutenant Knox, of the 3d regiment, who had died ; a gentleman of the name of Bagot had been appointed to his vacancy, without purchase, instead of an officer from the supernumerary list, as ought to have been the case, and at a tinie when there were at least one thousand officers on half. pay, anxious for service. Gentlemen opposite might consider that seven or ten shillings a day in such cases was %natter of no cense. quence ; but when so many thousands of the people were without bread to eat it behoved the House to look to the expenditure. In the 2d battalion, a Mr. A. W. Tureens, and in the 3d regiment Mr. C. B. Berkeley had been appointed in a sundae manner. As to the accounts of cheae regiments, he I Mr. Hume) considered that they should be subjected; to the inspection of the Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston). When the returns were before the House he had no doubt but the facts would appear as he (Mr. Hume) hail stated them ; he. therefore, would not say more on the present occasion, but move for a return of the number of officers retained supernu. meraries on full pay on the strength of the regiments of Royal Horse and Foot Guards, belonging to any neop or companies that have been reduced since 1814, stating how many of each rank now re main on full pay and unemployed ; also, for an account of the amount of pay and allowances that have been issued to the super. numeral" , officers in each regiment of Horse and Foot Guards in each year since the troops and companies were reduced, and stating the expense incurred by such supernumerary officers, more than would have been incurred if they had been put upon half.pay, as the officers belonging to the other corps were, also for • return of the number of vacancies that hare token place in the Horse and Foot Guards by dealt or promotion, since 1814, stating how many of those vacancies kind been filled up by the supernumerary officers, or from the half-pay. or by purchase or otherwise. Lord I'ALMERSTON said that he did not rise to object to the production of the papers, but to remark that the more convenient and usual way was for Hon. Members to confine the motion some what to the shape of the notice ; in the instance, however, before the House certainly the motion was of a much more extensive nature. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume) had complained that the Horse and Foot Guards were upon a different footing to other parts of the army, and they certainly were so, rightly or wrongly, it was not for him (Lord Palmerston) to say. As to the accounts, though they were not rendered in the same shape as those of other regiments, still those corps did transmit to him (Lord Palmerston) such returns as satisfied him and those occupied in their Investiga tion, that the money received on account of them was properly accouoted for, and the officers and men received their pay precisely in the same manner as the army generally. In regard to the dif ference of pay, it went in aid of recruiting and other special ex penses, while those of the army generally on the same head were matter of a specific vote. In 1814 two troops of the Blues were reduced, and the officers were placed on full pay as vacancies happened. 'Fite papers would prove that no commission had been disposed of in that regiment as described by the Honour. able Gentleman except in one instance, and that institute he (Lord Palmerason) would state to the House. The Horse (tootle Blue were considered to have highly distinguished themselves in the battle of Waterloo, anti on that occasion a Major of the regiment was killed. In consequence of the meet. torious conduct of the regiment, it was determined to fill up the vacant Majority. The senior Captain became Major, and each of the subalterns took their step, and there remained a Cornetcy to fill up; and certainly, in that instance, a person not already in the army was appointed, that person being no other than the brother of the officer who had no gloriously fallen in the defence of his country. (Hear, hear.) In respect to the names of the gentle. men of the Foot Guards meo:ioned by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume), they had been Pages of Honor to the King; and it had always been the ease that gentlemen filling those situations were entitled, on their retiring, to an Ensigney in the Foot, or Coe. nem' , in the Horn. Guards. He t Lord Palmecston) would not trouble the House further, but would leave the papers to speak for themselves. The motion was then agreed to. COMMITTEE OP SUPPLY. On the motion•of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the House roolved itself into a Committee of Supply. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then pro forma moved a resolution for grauting a supply to his Majesty; which being agreed to, the House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Adjuutned, at a quarter-past fire, to to-morrow. NOTICE OF MOTION. 31r. Martin (of Galway)—Bill to amend the Irish Election Laws PRICES OF BRITISH Rank Ntork 2111 3 per Cent. Red. 814 80 3 per rent C0n5.,744 vitro Aut. ni l /i I a 3) per Cent. Bilf New 4 per Cast. WI / I 3Loag. / per A C nnent 101 Red. 88) / STOCKS YESTERDAY. llndia Stock 232 k 2911 India Bonds South Sea Stock K.. Stllsl,Outti. 3 pm. pas Ditto, 5001. 1 dis. par 2 dis. Ditto Small par 1 di.. Ipm Lottery Tickets 111.1. llis. PRICKS I/F VOREIUN DnaWan 80n45115 Ditto Ant. Si; 4 Ditto B. nth 0820 58 71 8 7411 Ultto Acct. iBI 71 9t 7i French Recites S per CI. 210.50e. 1 otlf. Exchange 25f. 20e. 30e. French Rentes 3 pte Ct. •7G Ezclaange 2:4*. 20c. !}reek Rondo (1M) 16 1 Ditto Acct. 151 XTOCKS VESTER DA V. 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Yob... will be perfumed the Opens Of AR rAJLER tits. The principal Characters by Messrs. Phillips sad Brabam ; Misses LW/04nd Patun. After which the new Moire of wort .H ; or. Tilt Mitt. Of LitlY. The Characters by Messrs. Etertun, Cooper, and ConaCils mums LOAM sad °award, and Mrs. Glover. To which will be added. ANIMAL MAUNKTISM. TIISATRR ROTAL, ENGLISH OPER/ HOME, STRAND. opposite eisterloo Bridges On FRAY NeXT. Ti rob. LECTURE ON ACTRO YO ID MY. AND lt PIUZNONZNA 01 THE HICAVENE AND Or 'nit EARTH, Tette deUvered b 7 Mc BANTLtY on the wruNNSDAYS sal 111 U. DAYS durtag Lent. Deese et sinnts.—eonoluiles et Ton. Elte Liritta WOO. The Datitax Pates seuumsseed publishiug yesterday mars Lag at a quarter past Iva cealcrek. LONDON, IVEDNESD T, F B, 11110. The French Papers which arrived last night are of no political importance. The !:'toile denies the truth of the reported illness of the Emperor of Ausrat•. The advice. from Constantinople are dated the 7th ult. The accession of the Emperor Nicitotas was known in that capital, but nothing is stated as to the effect the intel ligence hail produced. A letter in the Constitutionne/, from Poland, commu nicates some singular statements respecting the late con spiracy in Russia. The object of the plotters is said to have been merely to put an end to the pacific system of the late Emperor, in eider that they might obtain military honours and promotion. They all belonged to the army, and were native Russians. The disguised assassins by whom General MII.OIADOVITCX fell during the commo tion at St. Petersburgh were, it is asserted, officers in dis guise. The judicial progess, whenever it may be pub lished, will be full of interest:— (From the BMW dated Monday, Feb. 6.1 Rants, FEN. 5. No letters from Vienna speak of the pretended journey of the Emperor of Austria to Italy for the recovery of his health, with which the Courrter Francais entertained us. Here then is one cause of uneasiness less, which these sit.cere friends of public order lose. Several journals state that Count Ouillem!not returns to Paris on account of the formation of the Chamber of Peers into a Court of Peers on the 16th of February. It is easy to judge that Coun' Ouilleminot cannot yet have learned the decision of the !toys Tribunal, and that all that the journals say on this subject is with out foundation. Count Apponey, Austrian Ambassador to the Court of France, has arrived to-day at Paris. Prince Narischkin, nigh Chamberlain of the Emperor of Russia, died the day before yesterday of dropsy. News hos been brought by the Hasidim snail from Constantinople, which generally leaves that city three days later than the Austrian courier, and which has brought letters of the 7th of January, that on the 3d of the month a fire broke out in the suburb of Galata, which is partly inhabited by Christians. This fire is ascribed to the Janissaries, and 1,000 shops and 1,500 houses wen reduced to ashes. Some letters estimate the loss to the Christians at fifteen millions of piastres. The news of the renunciation of Constantino, and of the acceuion of the Emperor Nicholas to the throne, had been received at Cue. stantinople, by way of Odessa, but it is not said *bat effect it bad produced. A letter from Port-au-Prince, of 12th December, brought by the Albinos, of Bordeaux, which has arrived at Havre, announces, that when that vessel sailed there were twelve French merchantmen in that port, whence there was such an abundance of goods, that cer tain articles were sold cheaper than in France. Every thing was tranquil in the island, and the arrangement &included with France appeared to give general satisfaction. [From the Cuartiludionua of Sunday.] A COSSUR . O, JAN. M. A letter from Poland affirms that the Emperor Alexander in his late tour in the South had discovered in the second army traces of the conspiracy which broke out 26th Dec. at St. Petersburgh, that he wrote about it to Count Arakicheielf, enjoining strict secrecy till hiseeturn, when it would be time to take decisive measures. It is probable that the secret was communicated to the new Government after Alexander's death, but that the young Emperor could not fathom the depth of the evil, or foresee its so speedy explosion. The principal motive of the conspiracy was ambition. The young officers of the Southern army, who had been with the Army of Occupation in France, all wished for war to obtain pro motion and honours. A Colonel of a very great family had with this view composed, printed, and distributed, a Catechism for the use of the soldiers. All had been long pre pared. The conspirators had in the ranks none but Russians, not a single foreigner. This is proved by the papers found at Prince Trubetakois, and by his own declamation in an in vestigation of tour hours in the Emperor's Cabinet. All the assassins were officers in disguise. As far as may be con jectured from the cries about a Constitution it is pos sible that these wretches wished to build their power on the ruins of the throne. It is notorious that by assembling in the square of the Senate House they intended to force the senators to adhere to their plan of a constitution (whatever it was) which they had really drawn up. It Is to be observed that the conspira tors were all military, and that among those arrested in the night of the 26th there was only one Counsellor of State. We have received the New York Papers to the 17th ult. The recent proceedings in Congress were thus abridged in the Daily Advertiser :—" In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Va r ileaEN reported a Bill further to amend the judicial system of the United States, which was ordered for a second reading. Mr. Lt.ovo, from the Com mittee on Commerce, to whom was referred that part of the President's Message which relates to the expediency of an entire removal of the discriminating duties on tonnage,antl of impost, on the entry of foreign vessels and merchandise into the United States, made a report on the subject, which was read twice, and made the order of the day for Monday next. The principal subject in the House of Representatives was the bill to amend the judicial system of the United States. After debate, the committee rose, reported progress, and had leave to sit again. No business of importance was transacted in either House on Tuesday. The committee of the House of Representatives, to whom was referred the memorials of the surviving officers of the revolutionary army, have made a report in which they recommend "that Congress should proceed upon the equitable circumstances °Nile case, and pay such a specific sum rateably among the officers, according to their rank and the resolves of Congress, as may appear reasonable and just." The differences between the General Government and the State of Georgia had not been adjusted. It was ex pected at Washington that a special message would be transmitted to Congress on the subject. Governor Taw; r was lying dangerously ill at Milledgeville, in Georgia. The Senate of the United States had not decided as to the confirmation of the ministers nominated to attend the Assembly of Panama. Some idle an 4 mischievous wag had been prophesying the destruction of New York, on a certain day, by an earthquake, and a large portion of the good people of that city had been frightened out of their wits at the impend ing catastrophe. ' By this time, we suppose, they all deep in peace. We subjoin the only intelligence we find in these papers from Nlexico:— (From the Wew York Daily Advertiser of Jan. 111.1 A story has been circulated for two or three days past, that some person has predicted the destruction of this city by an earthquake, in the course of a abort time—the precise day we do not recollect. We thought this too ridiculous and absurd to produce any effect even upon the weakest mind.' But it would seem that we were mistaken. It to Said that many indiv!duals have been frightened almost out of their wits, and are preparing to remove themselves and their effects not of the reach of the expected mischief. It is perhaps impossible to Invent anything of the mavellous, however stupid and improbable, that will not gain credit with a certain por tion if the human race. It is much to be regretted that any per. son or persons can find amusement in propagating such roily and falsehood, for the mere purpose of alarming the fears or the weak, the timid, and the auperatitieuir. They ought to know that there is neither wit nor wisdom in such a hoax—that they are producing much uneasiness among& class of people who are incapable of rea soning on such • subject ; and that their conduct meets with the contempt of all sensible people. A letter from a Senator or the United States. received in Balti more, says, " The British Minister has been spoken to on the sub ject of the stop intended to be put to our intercourse with the North American Colonies, by the Comptroller General or the Custom', at Halifax. lie approves of it, and has written to the Governor, requesting hint to obtain a suspension until the opinion of the British Government can be ascertained." MEXICO. Extract of a letter to a respectable house in tins city, dated Alvarado. Dec. 10, llaff : " Foreign vessels are allowed to take freight from this to Vera Crux, and are making a very handsome business of it—for Instance, the Cato Is chartered for 1,000 dollars the trip; vessels of 60 to 80 tons. MO to COO dollars; and those of 140 to 209 tons, 1,600 to 1,600 dollars. " The government allows all goods that were landed here pre vious to the 14th inst. to he removed free of internal duty, say lie per cent. and those goods that arrived or are landed alter the 14th, are subject to this charge. Vera Cruz influence is bent upon fixing trade there, and many think that this port will be closed entirely to foreign vessels, and that too very shortly. Even now merchants buy but very little, and brokers say nothing more can be done here, all must go to Vera Crux. They will not even take samples, or make an effort to effect sales. " Arrivals from Europe are very frequent at this port and Vera Cruz, and as far as we can learn very few sales are male at the litter place (and bore nothing to speak ofd, Co that unless a demand soon takes place, prices must go still lower, and even now they are in general ruinous to the importer." Mr. Hums last night brought forward his; motion re specting the Horse Guards. His principal complaint was that the Guards are on a different footing from the regi ments of the line, and that new officers have been appointed instead of the vacancies being filled from the supernume rary list. Lord PA LSI ERS TON very satisfactorily . ex plained the circumstances under which the appointments had taken place. The only instance in which a new officer has been appointed in the Blues was that of the brother of the Major who was killed at Waterloo. The appointments in the Foot Guards have consisted merely of Paged of Honour, who aro entitled on retiring to a com mission in the household troops. As to the difference be tween the constitution of the army generally and the guards, it has always existed, and so long as the distinc tion continues, must remain. The papers moved for by Mr. Hums were ordered with the full consent of the Se cretary at War, who observed that he could with con fidence " leave them to speak for themselves." On all that relates to the depresaed state of commercial ' credit, and to the difficulties which have embarrassed the mercantile world, CPDBET9' . II Register and the Times have consented to become the echoes of each other. With a politic forgetfulness of their former mutual abuse they have agreed to make common cause, and to carry on their views in concert. Mr. Coast rr, with hie usual sagacity, in his comments on the King's Speechdiscovers the cause of all the mischief at a single glance—the Govsaxuewr. He does not Wirer a single syllable in the way of proof; but having recourse to his usual tactics, he takes it as a fact too clear to be disputed. "Il it notorious to the world," says he, " that their measures produced the masses of paper money, the foreign loans, the dealings in cotton, all those things which have finally bursted as so many bubbles." His coadjutor of the Times, in its leading article of yesterday, after repeating what they have both said in substance fifty times before, winds up in exactly the same strain :— ° While GovannioEnihas been pitinde,ing US on the one hand for the support of a peace establishment more than sufficient to carry on s war, we, on the other, have been converting our fictitious credit into paper, and lavishing the flimsy currency upon schemes of wild speculation, by which we were to be suddenly and wonderously enriched in substance. The bubbles have burst, and we are distressed." The great purpose for which this sort of language is perpe tually chimed on the public car is no other than this—to de stroy the common bond of union between the people and the Government, by tracing every evil which may fall upon the one to the perverse prodigality of the other. Neither the Times nor Wu. COHBETT have ever developed, or attempted to develope, the real causes of that distress which they take such incessant pains to aggravate. This is a task to which they both have shown themselves utterly incompetent. They cant and chatter about " bubbles of speculation," and." fictitious credit," and "fraudulent paper curreney;' and these phrases, interwoven with a proportionate share of abuse against bankers and the bread tax, is the substance of all their dissertations, from the first to the last. That the pressure of commercial embarrassment has been as great as perhaps this country ever witnessed, there is no doubt. But never has the enterprising spirit of British merchants been more ignorantly misrepresented, or their character as a body more unfairly traduced than by the li bellous Register and the Stockjobbing Journal, by which they have been so warmly and scandalously attacked. Much the greater part of the prevailing distr.• , has been occasioned by the return of Bills from South America, and the disappointment,—for a time at least,—of those pro spects which the recognition of the independence of the New World, and the establishment of those important commer cial relations which arose out of that event, had fairly war ranted. Goods bought in the nearer markets of Europe, on short credit, and shipped to so distant a market,—al though the returns may be in the end extremely profitable, —must occasion considerable inconvenience in the long in terval of perhaps two years, which must elapse before the proceeds can be received, and capital be replaced. If the foreign market is overstocked, and these investments lie in the warehouse, the length of credit on what is sold, and the loss on what is not, both combine to increase the loss to the merchant, and to multiply, of course, tile perplexities of mercantile credit, and the stagnation of trade in our home manufactures. It must necessarily take some time before these distant speculations can be wound up. But in the speculations themselves there was nothing fraudulent— nothing in the nature of a bubble—nothing that can justi fiably incur imputation or reproach. They were entered upon in the honest spirit of enterprise, and bade fair to be both gainful to the adventurers and advantageous to the nation. If too great a portion of capital has been directod in the same channel, or employed in the same species of investment, that evil will work out its own remedy. To a certain extent it is, in its nature, temporary; commerce will gradually revive,. and the brightness of her best day will be again restored. • Our calamity in the interval may have been severe, but no part of it will justify the charge against the British Merchants,—which the enemies of the country basely endeavour to fix upon them—of being the unprin cipled agents of their own ruin. No merchants on earth manage their capital with greater thrift than our own, or conduct commerce on principles more conducive to their fair profit and the prosperity of the nation. CITY, TUESIVAY EVtlllllO. There was a variety of reports abroad this morning, which caused considerable agitation on the Stock Exchange• One of a mist mischievous tendency w as p ut f orth as to ",1 the failure of a hiAlily respectable stockbroker's firm, which excited considerable sensation, until it was prove,' that this, like its conti-npuraries, was a gross fabrication 1 • Owing, to the scarcity of mon e y, S toc k b ecame excee.lh gly plentiful, which circumstanc e , i n con j unct i on with the various rumours that were industriously circulated, operated in lowering the funds, or rather, we should say, in iumiii:g '1 them depressed. Money was scarce on the Stock Ex changes, as well as with she public, which may be plainly inferred from the wide difference there was between tl.e price of Consols for the Account and for Money. This Stock opened at 79$ / for Money, went up toll, and closed at Is. Account bargains were done in the early part of the day at 791 1, they afterwards reached $ i, and the concluding quotation was 4, buyers. Exchequer Bills Wets 2s. and Is. is. to par. Bank Stock still continues liesey, , No buoyancy whatever wee appar e nt in it t o -d ay , 8 , I . t h e comparatively low price of 211/ will plainly show. The ' business iti the British Funds to-day was principally in Money transactions. India Stock was 931. The Foreign Market was under depression, and the un founded report of the failure to which we have before el. • lusted, affected this Market more than the English lit e. South American Securities were held heavily, as indeed, was every other foreign security. Colombian Bootle were 574 1, and Mexican 6 per cents. 651 1 i $ ; Brazilian Bends were .53 57 ; Danish ditto .58 ; Greek ditto 1.54, and Spanish ditto, 114, 12. There was not much doing in Russian Bonds, but they were reported at 834 4. The depression in the Share Market is much greater than during the worst period of the panic. The oaly Mining Companies that were to-day at a premium w ig the Brazilian and the United Mexican. Thee former was 14, the latter declined from 3 to 1, and was once at par. The old Real del Monte Shares were selling at 20 discount, and the new went off heavily at par; on the latter there is as yet only SOL paid. Anglo-Mexican fluctuated between 5 arid 71 discount; Anglo-Chilian was 2,1, dis.; Darien, 3 ; and Potosi, 34 ills. The Welch hurt and Coal Asso ciation was drooping, and fell to 74 discount. The Liver pool and Manchester Railway was quoted at 17, 18, Is premium. British Rock Salt Shares were firm at 14 pre- ' mium. The British Iron Company 114 to 11 discount. ~ Some sales of Sugar took plaza this morning • but the i prices were certainly not better than last week. There vies i. no public sale •of Coffee announced for to-day. The de mand for Rum has become very limited. There seems to be but one feelini; throughout the City, I% and it is that of deep regret, at the imspension of payments A of the highly respectable house of Butler, Brothers, as no gentlemc't in the mercantile world were snore esteemed thou the partners of this old established firm. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Fon:fp-office in Downing -street. agreeable to summons, which was attended by the Earl of Harrowby, the Eatl of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmorlard, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,. Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Mr. linskisson, Vie- . count Melville, Lord Bexley, and Mr. Wynn. The Council sat in close deliberation till past four o'clock. Yesterday the Portuguese Ambassador transacted busi ness at the 'Foreign Office. Mr. Hunter, sen. the King's Messenger, was sent off a few days ago to our Ambassador at Paris. It was yesterday confidently reported in the City that an extensive mercantile house has received assistance from the ' Bank of England to the amount of three hundred thousand pounds. It is stated in letters from Sweden, that the Treaty of Commerce concluded between Russia and Sweden in 1817, which, according to Article 16, would have ceased on the Ist of January, 1826, remains in full force, by the mutual consent of his Imperial Majesty and of the limg of Swe den and Norway. Letters received from Pernambuco yesterday announce the arrival of Sir Charles Stuart at that port, in the Dia mond frigate. A letter from Rome, dated Jan. 8, states that his Holi ness is still in such a precarious state of health. that he ; cannot leave his apartments, but the activity of his mind is still the same. The Munich papers state. that Field• Marshal _Prince Wrede has received the commimion to go to St.Petersburgh. to congratulate the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne. PlRACY.—Extract of a letter dated Rio Janeiro, Nov. • 28:—" The Newcastle, Sims, arrived here from England, • was plundered by a pirate in lat. 6, 35, N. long. 21, of a chain cable, anchor, spare cordage, and canvass, with sundry minor articles, and the Captain's watch." Accounts from Madrid of the 21th of January state that the King was to preside in person the next day at the Council of State, as the notes delivered by the Foreign Powers, relative to South America, caused him to be present at the important discussion on that subject. A great change has taken place in the Council since the surrender of St. Juan d'Ulloa, and some of the members are for acknowledging the independence of South America. It appears that the augmentation of the price of bread and meat in that capital has caused discontent among the popu lace : the I'olice have been on the alert for several days, there being great fears that commotions will take place. Accounts from Havannah to the Ist of January show that the Colombian expedition known to be in preparation at Carthagena had excited some apprehensions there. The Governor had at his disposal too large a land force to fear any attack, should it really take place; but the consequences of a blockade were regarded with alarm, and the slave po pulation were known to be favourable to any change of masters by which their condition was likely to be improved. The following article, relating to the military force of Brunswick, is extracted from the German Papers received terasyWverdtray.ps bare a l a t t l e a l t y ed u n l d i e r r u g n o s n w e i c a k g , re j a a t n c . h 2 a s ng : e in t O he u ir r external appearance. '1 he gloomy black uniforms . have ' disappeared. The corps of the brave Frederick took ample vengeance in Spain and at Waterloo. The dark spirit is banished, and life and prosperity have returned with the peace, which was so impatiently longed for. Only one battalion, under the command of the brave Major Normans, retains, in eternam memoriam, the black uniform, with the silver emblems of death on their shakos, which obtained the corps, in Spain and Sicily, the name of Regiment() della Morte. All the other troops, via, the battalion of the Guards, the first and second regiments, wear now, with some slight variations, the Prussian uni form ; only the Guards have the immense fur caps of the Hungarian grenadiers, and our artillery the helmets of the Bavarian infantry, which are both eoldierlike and hand some. But above all, the newly-raised Hussars of the Guard are distinguished, who, in splendor and ele gance, may be compared with any corps of the kind in Europe.' POPULARITY or O'CONNELL.—As impartial journalists we cannot refrain from infurming our readers that Mr. O'Connell has retrograded seriously in popular feme. In flood his arrogant and offensive vituperation cannot exalt him in the opinion even of " the people." He affects to despise the press, and yet his frequent sallies against news paper attacks afford a convicting proof that lie is penetrable to assaults. Mr. O'Connell has at length even exasperated the Register ! According to the reports of that raper, Mr. Shell is ascendant as an orator. At the late 'diction, the latter gentleman's exaltation, in the opinion e the high.r order of the Catholics, was emphatically established. At Tuesday'e meeting, when Mr. O'Connell rose, the clamoure for " Shell, Sheil, ' must have astounded " the man of the people." The Irish Catholics regard consistency of charae ter. What will the heroes of Iveragh gay when they res.! the Reg-ister, and observe the words "this fantastic ()Tow nell is a strange man!" Mr. O'Connell has been hide , .1 with insufferable vanity by popular applause—"arbitee, popularis atom." lie should know that in a teriperat. cause, union is strength.—tennis Paper. RUSSIAN LOAN NEGOTIATED BY MR. N. M. ltoTng cum) rx LONDON.—The half-yearly dividend on the above Loan, which becomes due on the let of March next, will be paid by Mr. N. M. Rothschild on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of ten and two, at his counting-house, No. '2, New -court. The dividend war rants, with a list thereof in numerical order, must be left one (day previous to payment, for the purpose of being examined. f