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PRICES OP RR 1T1612 STOCKS YESTERDAY. 11100 k Stock 331! 324 Nen 4 per Cent. 106 1064 1064 3 ►er Cent. Red. 241 65 1141 India Ronal. 102 101 pm 3 Per eent.. 0.114. lie i 114 liz.Billa,lld. 1.00 1 1/. 62 64 pm Ditto Acct. 941 1 Ditto, 5001. 61 pm 34 per Cent. Ditto, lid. 1,0001. 6066 62 p. 31 pet Cent. Red. 101 i i Ditto. Smell 62115 pm PRICES OF FORSIUN 4astrian Ronds 97 Brazilian Bonds 881 Ditto Acct. 851 Bitsoos Ayres Bonds Ditto Acct. 021 1 Chitinn Bonds 891 Eolombian Bonds et Dim , Bonds (1024) 911 09 90 1 901 Ditto Acct. 92 89 901 90 1 1 901 11 901 Preach Rents. 10Sf. 50c. 103 f. ITtK:KS YEST k:R DAY. Grook Bonds 570 Ditto Acct. 570 Mexican Bouds B 2 t BO 1 800 0 2 10 Ditto Acct. 824 4 80 10 801 1 10 Peruvian Bonds 641 5 44 Ditto Acct. Bii PortuFnese Boodsl2o Prussian Bonds BM DA Ditto Bonds OM) 1114 Russian owe Ai Ditto Aect.Pil i s Spanish Ono. 1220 Ditto Ace.** 2 Mk. X stchaage 2Af. lec. 741 c. Ditto Scrip Ditto Acct. NO 14f pm COURSE OF EXCII, Amsterdam C. F. if 2 Dino, at sight . 11 19 Rotterdam 12 3 Antwerp . • . 12 3 Mainburgh . 37 10 Altana - 37 1 Farts, 3 days'aight 25 15 Ditto . - 23 4: Beitirdeaux . 25 4a Satin - 7 3 Frankfort-on-the-Main 131 Plaetsburgh - interns . . 10 2 Trieste - 10 2 Madrid - 36 Cacti . 35 Sabo& . - 36 Reedelon a 35 Seville 33,1 Gibraltar - - 31 tNOE YESTERDAY. A , Leghorn - - - . 74 Oen.* Venice . - 27 . ....._ _ Malta - - Naples . . 311 i Palermo - 118 Lisbon - 51 Oporto - . ill Rio Janeiro - 48 Bahia - • Dublin - 5899 Cork .. . _ SUWON. C. s. d. Portugal Gold in coin 0 I I Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 I 0 New Dollars 0 4 104 Silrerin bars 0 0 0 PRICES OF SHARES Asevaucii COMPANIES. Share. Plied. 1021. 101. 601. 21. 231. 21. LDAY. AdNance • Palladium Prig per Share. 14 19 21 lj 81 95 88 18}16 17 11 16 17 19 18 29 26 27 25 30 29 23 20 91 33 31 $2 36 12 11 i Protector NIVEL Anglo-lilexican - 1001. la Anglo-Chilian - 51, Arigna Iron and Coal 401. el. Brazilian - 1001. Cl. thiltan . . SI. Colombian 1001. W. flibernian - . 401. 4/ Real del Monts - 4001. 701. _ . Rio de Is Plata - 1001. IL United Mexican - 401. 201. SAC LIGHT AND COLT COMPANIES British . 601. 61. Continental - 1001. 81. Ptovincial Portable - 11. United General - 601. 71. 33 120 84 8 9* 31 13 111 1 3f 2; 3} 3 35 33 14 21 194 20 18 24 2 13 12f 131 13 2 J 24 23 22 23 Yet. Receipt 211 White Receipt 24 pm 24 3 IROX •AILWIT/. Manche,. and Liverpool 1001. 31. London and Birmingham bOL 11. London and Bristol 11. London and Northern 106/. 1/. reiscst.cautotra. . Australian 1001. 1L Bristol Ship Canal - 11. Canada Company 1004 6/. • liktuitable Loan Bank 11. Den. Steam Navigation 1001. U. Investment Dank - bJI. 11. Pearl Fishery - 261. 21. Hibernian Joint Stock Corn. Xetro. Alderney Dairy 1L Oritif Vrefso. TREATRE ROI'AL, DRURY—LANE. This Evening, SATURO Y. Jan. W. will be performed THE F ‘LL OF ALGIERS. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Sank,. Terry, Horn, Harley, Oetrie, Browne, Mercer, and 0. Smith ; Master Edmonds; Mesdames Stephens, Graddon, Nicol, and Carr. • HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKING BIRD, THE SINGING TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS. Harlequin, Mr. Auld; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard; Clow*, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, lllas Barnett. On Monday, King Richard the Third, and the Pantomime. THEATRE. ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Thls Evening, SATURDAY, Jan. St, will be performed DER ERE'S/MUTE: Or, THE BLACK MUNTSMAN OF BOHEMIA. Cletoear, Mr. Baker; Conrad, Mr. Egerton; Caspar. Mr. Bennett, Wilhelm. Mr. Dearman: the Black Huntsman of Bohemia, Mr. Evans. Bertha, Miss Paton; Lena, Miss Live. After which. HARLEQUIN AND THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY Or, MORE OF MORE HALL tiardequin, Mr. Eller Pantalo.,n, Mr. Barnes: Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri maldi. Columbine, Miss Romer. On Monday, Hamlet, and the Pantomime, .4DELPHI THE.4TRE, S'l'R %N D. Vile Evening. SATURDAY. lan. 22. will be presented a new Comic Rorletta, called THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Wrench, J. Reeve, ITilkinson, Power, Lae, Brown, Campbell, Salter, and Elliott; Xis* Roden, Mn.t Daly, Searle. Bryan, ke. Be. After whl:h a new Comic Pantomime, called MOI IIER RED CAP: Or, HARLFQUIN AND THE FAIRIES OF TILE ROSE. Harlequin, Mr. Kirby; Pantaloon, Mr. Flllett ; Clown, Signor Paolo Columbine, Mrs. Searle. The BRITISH Ps Eft commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY. JANC•AT 92, 1825. The Paris papers of Wednesday are not remarkable for the importance of their contents. The principal intel ligence they communicate relates to the Creeks. We have given it in a separate article. It will be observed, that no alarm is felt by the correspondents of the French Journals, as to the safety of Greece, in consequence of the revolt of COLOCOTRONI. The siege of Patras was necessarily suspended, the troops having returned to Tripolitza to sub due the insurgents. in one letter it is reported that, in .order to pat an end to the pernicious dissensions that ex isted among the military Chiefs, a new General Congress was to be convoked for the adjustment of all rights and interests. This, in the actual state of things in Greece, is a politic, and, perhaps, the most effectual mode of oppressing the insubordinate spirit of the Capituni, who seem adverse to the control of all regular government. There can be little doubt that Cozocorao NI and his ad herents will be speedily seduced to subjection. The Pacha of Eorrv, it appears, is expected soon to declare his inten tion of re-establishing the independence of his country. The only question with him for a long while has been, whether the SULTAN was sufficiently weakened by the Greek contest to render his rebellion as yet prudent? All his measures have shown that his object is to aspire to the sovereignty of the ancient kingdom of the Prot Isms. The 1:toile, of Thursday's date, repeats the story that COLOCOTRONI is in league with the Turks. We have already exposed the falsehood of this imputation. Ife is fletious and criminal, but he is no traitor. No supposition can be more absurd or groundless. It is announced in these Papers that M. HYDE DI Nee the French Ambassador at Lisbon, had landed at Brest, on his return to Paris, where he was expected to arrive on Wednesday. It would seem from this cireum atance that Sir IVILLIAM A ' Coe'aT has completely sue c..edesl in overthrowing the French influence in Portugal. The French Court are about to take up their residence • gain at the Royal Palace of Versailles, which, for that purpose, is to be newly furnished in the moot superb style. The liberal Papers augur all kinds of evil from this return to the ante-revolutionary abode of the Monarch. It is re garded l.by the Opposition as a scheme of the Minister to withdraw the Krim from all intercourse with his people, and revive the mysteries and intrigues of the ancien regime. The recognition cf the new American States is still .. discussed with warmth by the French politicians. The Etoile, dated Thursday, contains another long article in reply to the Opposition Journals, which, it says, have written, and will write, much on the conclusion of treaties of OClMlllette by Great Britain with Colombia and Mexico. It has acknowledged, it says, that this recognition was a minus step, and has examined the consequences, conirr.ercial and poli tical, that it was likely to have. It remains to be examined how this new act of the English diplomacy may have really changed the situation of France. First, it says, this act was not unforeseen, and the proceedings in Parliament had prepared Europe for it. France, bound to protect its commerce, concluded a treaty with Ferdinand, opening the ports of the Spanish Colonies to French merchants. The French trade is protected by its men of war, and has been constantly respected In the seas that wash the 1380 leagues of the South American COWL None of the treaties about to be concluded by England can stipulate the exclusion of the French commerce, therefore England can derive no additional ad vantage from them ; and it does not appear that the United States, which recognised the Republic 18 months ago, have derived any greater advantage from so doing than England, which had not inn_ tated them. The Etoile acknowledges that the superior maritime force, skill in manufactures, &c. and wealth, will give it great su. periority, but does not think it will be enhanced by this new act. If the Opposition will find fault, says the writer, let them accuse Spain, which receives the American vessels in its ports, though America has long recognised the independence of the Colonies ; let them accuse Russia, Austria, and Prussia, which remain at peace with Great Britain, but let them not accuse their own country only. They would probably blame in much stronger terms, if the King's Government were to precipitate France into the chances of a war, which would endanger the repose of the world without securing to the King of Spain the possession of his Colonies. FiENCII FUNDS—Pasta, Jarr.l9.—Five per Cents. 109 f. 7fic. ; Baak Stock, I,llBof. ; Neapolitan I pa Cents. Falconet's Certif. 88f.; Renee d'Eapagne, 17f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1813. 68f. , Exchange en London, one mouth, 23f.; thus months, Comrs Asithitaique, Jan. 19. Letters have been received, by the Westmorland, from Calcutta, dated the I9th August. A vessel had arrived there from Rangoon, just before the Westmorland sailed, which brought unfavourable reports of the Burmese war fare. We have seen letters by this conveyance to houses of the first respectability in the City ; but in them, no mention is made of any reverse or misfortune sustained by the British expedition in the Burmese territory. We know also that the best informed houses at Liverpool have received no such intelligence as some of our contemporaries have published as from private letters. - - A very clumsy attempt has been made to cheat tha holders of South American Securities by palming one of the grossest fabrications that can well be imagined, upon the agent of the New England Coffee-house, resident at ' New York. We have given the despatch of this " learned Theban " in another column, and our readers will at' once me, from the internal evidence of the document, that it is not worthy of the slightest regard. It was posted, however, in the public room of the coffee-house, with every circumstance of appropriate dignity, headed—" Late and important from South America." The story itself is too outrageously ridiculous to deserve a serious refutation by a critical exposition of its wild absurdity. Suffice it that BouvAa, who we know on good authority was pursuing l i CANTARAC, in the direction of Cuzco, is by some magic operation brought back to Truxillo, a distance of above six hundred miles, where, with an army diminished by some means in number to 6000 men, he is completely defeated, through the treachery of a battalion of his veterans; and to crown the wonderful narrative, he retreats to Guayaquil: 900 miles further, and the victorious Spaniards invade Colombia ! Never was there so feeble and wretched an imposture; awl yet so morbidly sensitive is the Fo reign Stock Exchange, that it produced some effect for a time in depressing the South American Stocks. The broker's " eye, in a fine frenzy rolling," saw the abso- lute dominion of the beloved FEADINA ND restored through out the vast continent which once acknowledged his sove reignty, and the fires of the Holy Inquisition spontaneously rekindling, to burn the new Constitutions and their sup porters together. The report, we are told, was first re ceived at Boston, from whence it was transmitted to New York, where the Ambassador of the New England Coffee house, " keeping his eye on the watch," writes rip to the last moment of the packet's departure. When this vessel arrives at Liverpool, by some accident this news, which the Editor of the Boston Sentinel bad alone received, hav ing been deposited in a second bag, is overlooked for two days, and instead of reaching town on Wednesday with the other American intelligence by the same conveyance, is detained till yesterday. Its history is not less extraordinary 1 than its character. Its certain falsehood is established beyond doubt by several facts. The defeat of BoLIVia is represented to have taken place near 'fruxillo on the 17th of September ; and the (forged) letter announcing it is dated Panama, 20th October. Letters were yesterday in town from La Gua3ra, dated the sth of December, from Guayaquil dated 28th of September, and from 'fruxillo dated the Ist of October, in none of which is there the re motest allusion to any such occurrence. The letter from 'fruxillo describes the positions of the armies, which were then, a fortnight after the date of the pre tended battle, near five hundred miles distant. Let ters were also received yesterday, by way of Jamaica, from Bogota to the 9th of November. The Bogota Gazette an nounces that despatches had been received by the Colom bian Government, from the Intendant of Guayaquil, dated the 27th of September, advising, that, in consequence of further successes of General Bouvaa in Peru, he had reached the River Apurimac in pursuit of CANTARAC, who was retreating with all speed on Cuzco. We have no doubt that the next advice, from Peru will bring the details of the news we published in substance on Wed nesday. Mr. Kiwi, it is understood, will appear in public on Monday evening. We certainly consider this step as satnewhat unadvised: it would, we think, have been more prudent to have delayed his appearance till the moral in. dignation, which he has so recently excited, had had time to cool. Some of our contemporaries have endeavoured to excite a strong feeling of resentment against him on this account, and, considering themselves as guardians of the public morals, contend that be ought to be driven from the stage. 'We have expressed our opinion in pretty strong language on the conduct of Mr. KEAN ; but the present is a different question, and presents some points for our con sideration, which, in common candour, and in human charity, we ought to weigh with coolness and temper. It is of great importance that, in all cases of this kind, we shottkl keep our moral views distinct; and, in truth, it requires no slight effort to do this, for they have a natural tendency, in most minds, to run into confusion. It is said that Mr . Kest , / is a public character, and that therefore all that commas him comes properly under the animadversion of the public press. But is there not some fallacy here? Mr. KC•W, it is Mk, is a public character, but he is only so, inasmuch as his protission, of necessity, keeps hint per petually before the public, and in no other sense. The public have no stake nor interest in his character as a private man ; they are concerned with him only as an THE BRITISH PRESS. actor. It would be, no doubt, most desirable that his private character should be respectable and exemplary ; but, if he were so, would the theatrical public endure his defects as an actor in consideration of his moral excellence as a man ? Certainly not. They would say, one and all,' he may be a very worthy member of society of the stage, but we have no interest in him but while he is on the stage; we know him only as King Richard, or in what• I ever other character he undertakes to perform, and it is according as he acquits himself, either well or ill, that we hiss or applaud him. On what ground, then, do the public Journalists assume to summon him to their tribunal? Their affectation of moral susceptibility is quite out of place. If the most upright and conscientious man that ever breathed were to appear for the first time in Macbeth on Monday next, and were to perform it in a manner that evinced his misconception of the character, and his deficiency in theatrical talent, he would be handled unmercifully in their next day's critique, without regard to any other than the theatrical standard of approbation ; his virtues would not be suffered to weigh a feather. Why, then, is the press on a sudden to turn round, and, after throwing moral excellence out of the scale, to contend in an exasperated tone, that an actor, however eminent, ought to ' , be driven from the stage, and left to want bread because he has swerved from that lire of moral rectitude, the most scrupulous adherence to which they hold in so little account? It would be well, we think, that on the appearance of Mr. Kt•x on Monday evening, his reception should be such as to testify the moral disapprobation which his conduct has incurred ; but to carry our resentment much beyond this would be hardly defensible on any principle of equity: For how stands the case? Mr. KLA N has been guilty of a crime ; for this crime the party injured has prosecuted him in a Court of Law, and a Jury, before whom all the facts were put in evidence, have subjected him by their verdict to the full penalty, which, after weighing the whole facts of the case, they conscientiously judged it to deserve. What rule of justice, then, we would ask, warrants our bringing him again into judgment before a tribunal to which he is not amenable, and to visit him with a second sentence, in volving in it an iufinitely more rigorous and afflicti‘e punish- ment ? Why our contemporaries should so ostentatiously profess,—as several of them have done,—to be steeled with such rigid virtue as not to endure any other course than this, is more than we can account for. Why they should strive to excite the public feelings to this pitch of vindictiveness, in order that Mr. KEax may meet it in the full rage of its fury, is not intelligible on any maxims of religious reason, or any rules of distributive justice. Let us suppose for a moment—for the purpose of showing to what an extent this principle would lead—that, instead of Mr. KEAN, any distinguished Gentleman of the Bar had been guilty of the same offence, and had been in like manner punished in da mages by the verdict of a Jury, would the Judges be war ranted, when he next appeared before them, in refusing to hear him plead ? would they be justified, in the vengeance which their pretended reverence for virtue might kindle, to drive him from the Court, to destroy him in his profession, and to deprive that profession and the public of the aid of talents which they must in vain search for elsewhere ? and this on the ground that he was a public character, and therefore out of the reach of pity or of pardon ! All the better feelings of our nature must be dulled, and all our fair sense of justice extinguished, before we could be brought for a moment to approve of such a proceeding. It is a very unsafe school of morals in which such a lesson is taught. Such sentiments have never yet characterised the people of England, and we trust they never will. The absurd report of Bolivar s defeat had, in some mea sure, the effect yesterday that it was probably intended to produce. Securities of every description were for a abort time depressed. Consuls opened for money at 941, looking Up, and even at one time reaching 4, until the report respecting the Colombian Chief came into the market, when they instantly declined to 9s. Time bargains expe rienced a similar depression with the transactions for money ; !hey commenced at 943, and left off at 4. The market at the clove, both for money and time, was dull. The foreign market was exceedingly heavy throughout the day, and was considered a falling one when it closed; Mexican Bonds left off ash:de better than they were in the middle of the day, viz. 81 1 ; they began at 82 and went down to 80 ; they afterwards, for a very short time, rose to 82 again, and ultimately, left off at 811. Colombian commenced at 911; they afterwards fell to 904, and left off at 89. French Rentes were quoted at 103 to 1031. Greek Bonds have suffered no depression. We have seen letters from Lima, dated the 7th Nov., which state, in addition to the fact already known, that the Spaniards evacuated that place on the 16th August—that the Chilian Directors had given orders for their squadron to be placed at the disposal of Bolivar, and for the army to be ready to assist him at all points. The following is an extract from a New York Paper, of the 24t11 ult.:— NEW YORK. DEC. 23. We have been favoured with the CulLr;bioni),Ffthe'24.b Nov. printed at COMICCIII4, containing the following extract of a letter from Bogota, dated Oct. 7. front a distinguished citizen in the Adminis tration You will have hear:l that Cantarac was defeated by the President Liberator, at the Pampas de los Keyes. By the late news we are informed of the capture of two vessels of war, anti a transport, with a great quantity of munitions of war. off Callao, by our fleet; the capture of the ship Asis, by the Chilian fleet ; the abandonment of Callao, and even of Lima, by the Spnnish troops, in consequence of the victory at Los Reyes ; the panic of the enemy's infantry, and their dispersion through the country of Arequipa, Jauja, and Cuzco, and their almost total annihilation. The troops flew in every direction, nor could their officers rally them spin." Letters from Leipsic of a recent date mention, that in consequence of the s;!veral regulations set on foot by the Russian Government to enforce the tariff of custom duties, all trade between that city and Russia and Poland, had been nearly destroyed. It was generally thought some re monstrance would be made to the Emperor Alexander, as the measure was not more injurious to the people of Leipsie than to his own subjects. Letters from Havannah, dated the 17th ult. were re ceived yesterday, but contain no political intelligence. In consequence of an order from the Governor, all the sub ordinate civil officers in every department of the Adminis tration had been suddenly changed without any cause as signed—a measure which appears to confirm what has been before stated, that great suspicions are entertained by the Spanish Government of the fidelity of its own servants, as well as of the attachment of many cf the principal per sons in the colony. It is evident that the tenure by which Spain holds the valuable island of Cuba is of the most pre atrious nature. By the Westmoreland, arrived at Liverpool, letters have been received from Calcutta, dated the 9th of August, which state, that an epidemic fever had been very preva lent among the European inhabitants of that city, hardly any of whom hall been exempt from its effects ; to such an height had it gained ascendancy, that, for the five last days in July, all the public offices were closed, and business in consequence at a complete stand ; but it had happily sub sided, without any serious consequences. Gore's Liverpool Paper of Thursday says—" The Flora, Captain Farrant, arrived off this port on Snnday, after an uncommonly quick passage of sixty-two days frotn Buenos Ayres, exclusive of the days of sailing and arrival. The Kingfisher Post-office packet sailed seven days before the Flora, and arrived at Falmouth on Friday only. This fact does not say much for the quick sailing of those vessels ; but they have frequently, of late, been outstripped by our traders' A Joint Stock Company is being formed, for the pur pose of establishing two steam vessels between Bristol and Waterford. The shares, 9,00/. each, alloted to Waterfor?, have ilz.aly all been subscribed for. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Lothian has left town for Scotland. Lord Sussex Lennox left town yesterday for his brother's, the Duke of Richmond's seat, Goodwood, Sussex. The Hon. Frederick Lamb left town yesterday for lard Cowper * seat, Pansanger, Herts. Earl Talbot has arrived at his seat in Staffordshire, from a tour. Lord George Lennox left town yesterday, for his seat in Sussex. Captain Talbot left town yesterday for Belvoir Castle. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hopper left Blake's Hotel, Jermyn street, yesterday. Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlington.street :—Lord Walls. court, from Hampton Court ; Thomas Wallace, Esq. from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Alerrioc, from Barnstaple. Departures from ditto: Sir Henry Webb, Barf. for surrey ; Mr. and Mrs. Williams, on a tour; Jaines Green, Esq. for Herts. Earl Shannon, Lord Boyle, and the Hon. Mr. Boyle, arrived yesterday at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat in Norfolk. Departures from Read's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Reeve, for their seat in Notts ; William Sullivan, Erg. on a tour; Captain Mills, R.N. fur Portsmouth; Jsmes Peel, Es q• for Brighton. The Honourable Mrs. Childers has left town for her seat, Long Dittor.. The Hon. Robert. Smith, M.P. has arrived at his seat in Bucks, from a tour. Lord Dynevor has left Barrington Park, Oxfordshire, for hi seat, in South Wales. • Lord Cradle y has left town for his scat in Kent. Arrivals ot Bott'a Hotel, Dover-street :-31r. and Mn. Yates, from Tunbridge ; Admiral and Mrs. Ballard from Bath ; Mr, anti Mrs. Walker, and family, from Maidstone. Departures:— Earl Sigmore ; Sir Robert O'Callaghan ; add J. T. Mott, Esq. for Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, for Dover. The Duke of Clarence visited the King yesterday. The Duke of Clarence catne to town yesterday morning, from his rtsidence at Bushy. His Royal Highness re turned to Bushy in the afternoon. _ _ Yesterday the Right Honourable Sir Charles Long had an audience of the King. Yesterday afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer left his resitlence in DOwning•street, for Beckenham. Yesterday Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town from Gloucester Lodge, and transacted business at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor has invited his Ma jesty's Ministers, Great Officers of State, and a distin guished party of the Nobility, to' dinner at the Mansion house, on Friday next. Lord Burghersh has concluded his concerts at Florence for the season. The Noble I t ord, however, continues to give splendid balls, to whichltrost of the respectable fo reigners in Tuscany are invited. Lord Burghersh is par ticularly attentive to the English. Lord Braybrook, we are concerned to state, is seriously indisposed, at his seat, Billingbear, Berks. Bsl!sstLs, JAN. 17.—Lord Erskine, Ambassador from England to the Court of Wirtemberg, arrived here on the 15th instant, and set out this morning for Stutganlt. A Russian Cabinet Messenger passed throtteh this city this morning ; he came from St. Petersburg!' with despatches for the Russian Ambassador at the Court of the Nether lands, and having delivered them, continued his journey to London without stopping. The Hon. Hutchings G. Burton, a Representative in Congress, is elected Governor of North Carolina. Do v as, JAN. 20.—Arrived his Majesty's packet Spitfire with General Doyle and passengers, from Calais. In con srquence of the late boisterous weather no packet has been able to reach Ostend. Sir Robert Wilson and suite have been detained there some days, from the want of a vessel capacious enough to take his carriage. Sailed his Majes ty's packet Fury, with the mail and passengers, for Calais, 'mono whom were the Countess of Aberdeen, and Lady Harriet and Sir Charles Gordon. A smack (name un known) sunk, in the gale on Tuesday, oft' Dtin,geness, and all hands perished. The Success of Plymouth, also went down ; crew saved. The following arc amongst the last arrivals and departures from Wright's Hottl : Arrivals.—Marquis and Marchioness of Worcaiter. Lord Ers kine (of Mar), Hon. Mr. Erskine, Lord Bingham Dr. and Mrs. Scudaniore. and Colonel Yrizarri. Departures—His Excellency Lord Erskine, to Stutgardt ; Duke and Duellists of Somerset. cral Ladies Seymour ; Captain and Mrs. Ilesse. Hon. Mrs. Caulfield and daughters, Lord Headley. sod the lion. Mrs. Wynn and datteltier. The Catch Club met for the first time this season, at the Thatched Howe Tavern, on Wednesday evening, Sir Wm. de Crespigny, Bart. M.P. in the Chair. Sir G. Clerk, Bart. M.l'. and R. Heber. Esq. M.P. were the Vice-Presidents ; when Sir Andrew Barnard was elected a Member of the Club. Messrs. Bellamy, Ilorale7, Leete, Evans, Elliott, Sale, Clark, Dig-num, and Tenn!, amused the company, who were very numerous, with some excellent catches and glees, and the harmony of the meeting was kept up with great spirit until st late hour. The bail for the benefit of the National School in Stam ford, on Thursday night, the 131 h instant, under the patrorage of the Marchioness of Exeter, was remarkably well attended. both as to the number and the respectability of the company. The sum collected (including 10/. given by the Marquis of Exeter) amounted to 99/. 45., which considerably exceeds the receipts of any former year. Amongst the company were— The Mavis and Marchioress of Exeter, Lord and lady Ben tinek, the Earl of Westmorland, General Sir Henry Cane and family, Lady G. Fane, Mr. Fane, Rev. E. Fane, Her. Mr. Pegus and the Countess of Lindsay, Hon. and Her. G. Gordon, Sir John and Lady Trolinpe, Sir Gerani and Lady Noel, Mr. Heathmle, Gen. and .Mrs. Reynardson, Dr. 111114, Col. Pierrepunt, Colonel Lluellen, Col. Denshire and three sons, Col. Gardiner, Major and Rer. Thomas Hurst, Capt. Percy, M.P., and a great number of fashionable& Miss Wilson is now at Florence, ainl report says lias greatly improved in voice and style. An apprehension, we learn, is entertained in the best-in formed quarters, that the Dutch have been before hand with us in occupying the part of New Holland :maim. to the Indian Islands, which we hail it in our view to colo nize for commercial purposes. We have to announce another deportation of a journalist from India, in the prison of Mr. Fair, the Editor of the Bombay Gazette. This gentleman was shipped on board the London, Captain Sotheby, rig Calcutta, for Englande by order of Government, at the instance of the Supreme Court, for having, as is alleged, given an inaccurate report of its proceedings. We shall lay before our readers the particulars of this extraordinary case to-morrow, till when we shall abstain from all comment on it.—ilforaing Paper. LONDON MECHANIC/I' INITITUTION.—The following Li a copy of Sir Francis Burdett's letter, which was read at the Mechanics lecture room on Wednesday : DEAR Sta—On my return home from a hunting excursion , I found your last, giving me all the information respecting the Mechanics' Institution necessary. and all the advice in your power; for both, my thanks. As, however, it amounts to little, I must take my own way. Time Institution I consider as holding out the prospect of the greatest benefit to the people—the s irking peopie—of any that has been hit upon up to this time. I have it, therefore, much at Leatt— put me down for a thousand pounds. In haste, yours, very sineerriv, F. BCRDETT. - - - - Mr. Place, Charing-Crass, London. We understand that it is intended to convert Hunger ford into the new fish-market, which is to be for the west end of the town what Billingsgate is for the cast. The .whole will be arranged in a style of superior elegance and accommodation. There will be a suitable opening from Tork-buildings. _ _ Stxcurssn'itnnanav Ix A FRENCH CIICRCH.-On Sun day last the service was disturbed at the church of St. Itoch, by a scene which must not be passed over in silence, at a moment when the project of a law is presented riepeming transgressions committed in churches. A young miin, of elegant appearance followed two females upon their entry into the church, without, however, addressing them; whilst they were at prayer before the altar of the Virgin, the young man dropped his glove, and pretending to pick it up, he raised a purse that one of the !alike placed upon a chair, and retired with the greatest coolness. In the first moment of astonishment, and out of rcsiret to the place where she was, the person robbed confined herself to some complaints uttered in a low tone of voice. Those near her perceived the circumstance, and in a moment the church resounded with the cries of " Bobber." Some of the police an ived, and upon the information given them they hastened, not after the robber, but after the bcadles, who were on the other side of the body of the church. Ile must be a very awkward thief that did not escape in this period of time ; and he who had boldly stolen the purse was not slow in availing himself of it ; however, the officers returned, and compelled the ladies who were there for the purpose of hearing mass, to repair to the Commis sary, and sign a iron's kerixil of the .circurnatanc.)-- °our kr Fr skim's. ) 1 , . - , - ; "44.-dirukaaw:s.m. PARIS. [FROM OUR COSRESPDXDEXT.I PARIS, JAR. 18, As I suggested to yot: some weeks ago, it has actually happened ; the Minister has taken care so to arrange matters, that the investigation of the affair of PA rAvoistr, which has excited so much interest, should take pla ce j ut at the moment of the discussion of the Indemnity to th e Emigrants, and the reduction of the Renters: the public attention will thus, as he anticipates, be drawn off fr om the proceedings of the Chambers, by the intense curiosity which ex!sts with respect to the trial of this atroci ous assassin. It appears that the Cottrt of Instruction have not been able perfectly to unveil the mystery of this harrid affair. PAFAVOINE has endeavoured to make himself p an for a madman. He declared to the Judge of Instructi on , that, in killing the two children of GLRBAUD, he thou g h t be had killed the Duke of BOURDE U x and Mademoiselle de Benny. He said that he had written to she Duches s of A Nuoucemi, requesting a private audience, in whi c h he promised to make some important revelations. But thi s request was not complied with ; and he has since said that the Duchess was perfectly right, because in that interview he should have found means to have strangled or stabb e d her with a poignard. Be his madness pretended or real, the conduct of this man remains inexplicable. An occurrence here (Puy haute Loire) has excited much talk, both on account of its importance and the rack of the parties. M. —, a young man, 23 years of ag e , and married, had formed a connection with the wife of M. D---, who, suspecting it, pretended to go on a journey, returned, and found the gallant in bed with hi s w if e . Il e threatened to shoot M.l) if he did not jump out of the window, which he did, and thereby broke several of his bones in such a manner that his life is despaired of. The wife found time to escape, and took refuge with ha mother.—Gaze the de Lyon. Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Harwid, dated January 20:—" The Leicester packet left Cuxhav e n on the 13th ins:ant, and reports that the light vessel at the mouth of the Elbe was expected to be replaced on the fol lowing day. The red buoyi snot laid down at present, in consequence of thick weather." We yesterday mentioned that a company was likely to be formed fur the establishment of spinning mills. A capital of three millions sterling is about to be raised forthe establish ment of cotton manufactories in Ireland. Several others undertakings of a similar nature are likely to be soon et on foot; and we may therefore hope to see British capinl extensively directed to the improvement of the state of the sister kingdom. Steam-boats and railways may, perhap, effect a revolution more beneficial to that country than any political laws which could be enacted. There is at pre sent a greater demand for cotton goods, than all the Eng lish and Scotch manufactories together, with all their ad vantages of machinery, experience, and capital, can supply; and it is not without reason conjectured, that the recogni. Lion of the South American Republics will lead to a still farther extension of this trade. We perceive that in Ire , land, as well as in England, joint stock companies are spreading in every direction. There are the Hibernian Banking Company, the Hibernian Gas Company, and various others. The Bank of Ireland have reduced their discounts from five to four per cent. on English bills, and will give bills on London, payable at the Bank of England at 21 days instead of 30. All these measures are indisput ably favourable to the development of industry; and we may reasonably hope that with industry will come its na• tural concomitants, order and tranquillity. At a Meeting of respectable Inhabitants of the parish of St. Michael, in this ('sty, held in their Vestry-room, on Thursday, the 13th inst.—• It was unanimously resolved, That this Meeting. desirous do. pressing their admiration of the public and private virtues of their noble visitor, the Right lion. the Earl of Liverpool, should avail themselves of this opportunity of congratulating his Lordship or. the improvement and restoration of his health, produced by the a lutary and beneficial effects of the Bath waters; and of convey ing to him their very sincere and anxious hope that it may long continue, and enable him to fulfil, as he has Millen° done, stint such honour to him.elf, and satisfaction and bench: to his country, the very arduous and important duties of his high station. (Signed. on behalf of the Meet i..g)„ GEO. VI ISO ROVE (Churchwarden% ebairmsn. - A deputation was appointed to wait tti on Ilia Lor, Ishir, who, with Mr. Browne, the banker, as their Chairman, presented the Ailtiress, prefaced by the fol:owing observa tions from Mr. Btownc:— M Y LORD—I have the honour to rrment t:te unanimous vote of congratulation on the restoration of your Lot el•ltip's health, which was yesterday pass- d at a nie tins; of the rest ectable inhabitants of St. /11 ic'tael ; at which meeting their thanks and gratitude were expressed with enthusiasm for the eminent services rendered to the country by your Lordship. In conveying this manifestation of their feelings, I should be wanting in respect if I omitted to assure your Lordship, that none felt a more sincere or anlent hope, that the mtoration and convalescence of your Lordship might prove per. manent and of very long duration, than myself. Ilia Lordship, in reply, expressed himself sensible of the honour done him by the very kind address of the parishioners of St. Michael; and added, that he had certainly derived much benefit from the we of the Bath waters on this as on a former visit—that he should, to the end of his life, feel yleasure in the prosperity of the city of Bath, and ever entertain a . grateful rerllertion of the very great resret paid him by the pa rishioners of St. Alichael.—liaM I:azate. NEWS OF LITEN•TIIIIII AND FASHION.—No. 33 of this Journal, price Bd. unstamperl, or Is. stamped, for trans mission into the country, published this day. by E. D. Pouchee, No. 7, Brydgcs-street, Coymt-garden, contain', among many others, the following articles, viz.—Address to be spoken by Mr. Elliston on the occasion of Mr. Kean's re-appearance at Drury-lane.-2. Elgin Marbles ; No. i. Hercules.-3. Philosophy of Crim. Evil-ma of Modern Criticism.-5. Crim. ('on. Joint Stock Company. —6. The Raphael Tapestry.-7. Character of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. 8. Catholic Rent. 9. The Open Ilouse.-10. The British Institution.-1 I. Literary Chit-Chat..-12. Periodicals : The New Monthly Maga zine.-13. Legal Blessings.-14. South America,. States. —l3. Po?try.-16. Phrenology.—O. Astronomical Phe nomena for the ensuing week.-18. An " At Home," a " Soirée," and a " Conversazione, - -the second in French, and the third in Italian, as well as in Englisli.-19. Re views of New Books, &c. &c. &c. _ _ ExiaLyon GaNTLEMAN.—The sixth number of this new Weekly Journal will be published to-morrow. The Trial of Cox r. Kean will be contained in a Supplement, which will be delivered to those who ptirzliase the regular paper, gratis. Office of the " English Gentleman." No. 7. Brydecs•street, Covent-garden ; where also " The Newt of Literature and Fashion is to be had.—Publishcr, E. D. Ponclffic. A strange circumstance occurred on the night and morn ing of the 16th and lath inst. A party of military, with their officers, stationed at the guard-Louse on the Boule vard Bonnes /Convenes, had arrested a party of pickpockeii and women of the town, but, neglecting their duty, were prcvailtd upon to take some wine. The thievts soon doubled their portion, and plied the glass so ably, that they a ion found an occasion to escape. 'the soldiers, upon re eavering, ran furiously upon the Boulevards in search o: their prey, with drawn swords and fixed bayonets, and after a deal of resistance, in which they wounded several persons, they were secured and put into a hackney-coact, to br cooveyed to prison, in which the military who arrested the aggressors were assisted by the escort of the King. who happened to be passing in the morning on his way to Vin cennes, on a shooting party, when the affray took place. On Friday sennight a boat, containing the dead bah of a man, was drifted on shore at Brought} Ferry. It was soon discovered that the unffirtunate solikrer was a sea man, a young man of the name of Ray, belonging to Dandee. This melancholy event seems to have originated in drink ; he, with a companion, had gone down the rive: in a boat along with a yeas:l which sailed on Thumb) They were both intoxicated, and on their return the latter. on coming on shore, had left his unfortunate companion in the boat, which hail tlrifted away, at the mercy of win! and tide, the poor man being unable to contend wiet his fate, and led to the above catastrophe.---Fdisburgli Ma , • A gentleman or Everton starttd, on Sunday morning, at seven o'clock, for a wager, to walk to Wigan and back to Liverpool in ten hours. Though the roads were much against iiim, and his stoppages on the road took up one hour and half, he arrived ten minutes within his time. being a distance of 44 miles in etght hews and a half.— Lireepol Advrliser of Theradsy. i_. ra,~ [Fro, The Official part seated his credential t a u Court of France si u res--ist, the An, Eighteenth, and 4, and Minister Plet" After mass the F , respects to the KIN The negociations affairs of Germany, D ewed. I t seems l a g respecting the pest in a few day , who has been at Ile will treat direct! Diet. who is here. We have receive first audience of tl Russ 4 and the Por the Cabinet of St. future negociations to rake energetic m though their success cult to execute then disobedience of the Provinces. Several arrests hal the Roman States sons, distinguished t seems that it is th rigorous measures. were arrested un Chi The Gazette 'bus, Government of Mex description of books. exposed to the sar tiontsta ; but it hoi struggle, for the for side, and a few mon' worth more than a c It is rental ked th 3 forgetfulness of the plate amongt all Sul this result by their c The l'onstitiitiona may leave their I,oit, i ns insult. 'We Sre which were taken fr (Fecal the There has been rep &mess the sale of t the emigrants. The diet the fundanacnt. Oven to the public u {indemnity, in favor during the storms of necessary by the (mit property with an I m of the author, by hi love of justice has n finish tl.e reading of we assay, that i:s tit Paris. Slice we are de Chateaubriand wt cuss:. general quest (thee and talent. At a meeting of days, a remarkable pot Russian persot WWII at Petersburgh Ids than was imagin count given by the doubt it," replied th Finance !—does not •, Count," replied II also Ouseons ro Rust There are different tugs!. We hear of country. There has We know fur certain •ill repair speedily n DUTCH The Council of Si Joseph Schmidt, of wecki._ M. Peataloni. by longation c.f the time granted nut of panic Institution at Yverde him a remarkable re; H. Pestslead in his ,rely to quit the Can ended to go to Paris The Courr;er dt I •icle which shows ho This article sitya._. climbing abdication Print, OMIT." e need not say 11 earth, happy to se , i the a rtinuation nt it doubtless have 'Tray Crown Prince, it hi revolution as that J Janmarif 19. Yestertlits and th those parts of the cit ton. M tie itibesu item his estate,. Among the sums are 10,000 ruble% fro T e navigation at I.a.t month. The contract with ton.paoy is to have 'salty-ow years, a ripenses of the un ;„un le sterling. 'ft a sinter is now tithe it interruption Our private accou abolitim of the Cor . ~,,,' ,a i i tt it z:n i ulg r rteim c :elo n topr er Nf ao ,v 3r teht i t t .cr ao ,,oll ti . dear for bread as th tree. At Englancl's ogialtd, that th coda if they eatmot riot tort to the E. torn Dal trill be at The new tarifl; c duties oa several i. rice, and cotton cut that it promises u ri4 HAIIIIPRGA, JA ST. PET EMiLIVII A FREN C:t lllit Ora liTiSlat tie person who dt tsfy his other cr uent, and be won coarse of five yeal at those he had it k.,tvr to remain it aith an unimpair , ..tion, his otti ee i me rigours of Lillie in front c ..e made all his h convenient ch houdoir, anti he t Ile asked for it ; two prisoners wht would they they, in all proha months, and het they were worth in for large son :,000 crowns. I. Pocket b oo k t h e r tite room. The Proper officer, at sho would Oct p; Fretrai.t. A Dublin paps land have now it not fewer t h an se Manes of Lord At rand likewise, th Le.") . expect to L "N under the qualified, by jud sormant wealth t Put." ld elks. ,