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C 2 Diiiillll2ll Peruvian Bondy Itif Spaniels Runde 104 Ditto Acrt. 114 Ditto Bonds th 19. 3) 71 US ON SATURDAY. ....... 63 SO ells yo . ..... 100 20 i 9 ! ....... lee ni 2,414111 ..... dia ..... 40 24 13141. • --- - - " .100 10 21 A!, . _...1 4 ,;,:.(4..• . Affy „ . k `• - „, , r,., - - . - ......._.., _. ,_ - ---, - ,...,4.,.,...-• • Elie Stittffit WOO. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Tide livealayb MONDAY. October 2, wW be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. ftemee, Mr. Boutlorell Mercurio, Mr. Hooper. Juliet. Mn. W. West. After which. ABON HASSAN. TIM Caliph, Mr. Bedford; Abon Hassan. If,. Nara; Zabouc, Me. Harley. Zellers, Mimi draddon. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. this initial. 1110NUAY,Ociotter 2, will be performed the Timjedy of JULIUS CLVSAN. Julies Caesar, Mr. Egerton; Mare Antony, Mr. C. Kemble , Brutus, Mr. I'owaJ ; Cassius, Mr.Warda ; Cases, Mr. Fawcett. Calpurnia, Mrs. Yining; lumps, Mrs. lauds. After which the Comedy of cermiLzs THE SECOND; or, THE MERRY MONARCH. Cis/ Charlie. the Second, Mr. C. Kemble , Lord Rochester. Mr. Junes ; Captain Cupp, Mr. Favw.mt. Mary, Ills. M. Glover. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. This ireeles, MONDAY. October 2. will be presented the new iluslcal Farce of BEFORE Iittb:AKIAST. - - Tit ammeters by bferT. Mathews, Bartley, W. Bennett, J. Bland, and W. Chapman and Mill. Sudan. After which. JONATHAN IN ENGLAND. loosittaaW.Doublkini:hir:Alothew.. Natriarkepur, Ifs.W.Chopman, Agamemnon. Mr. Slornan. To cunelude with the Romance of PRESUMPTION, or, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Yrankenrteln, Mr. Raker; ( - ), Mr. T. P. Cooke. The BRlTl,BPates c t nmenced publiehias cm Saturday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, ()Lions 2, 1826. We have received the French Morning and Evening Pa pers of Friday and Saturday. The following are extracts : [From the &vile of Saturday.] The news from Constantinople, which we have this momeut re ceived, it up to the 7th of September. The fire lasted thirty-six hours. The losses it has occasioned are immense. The Tschartchis and the Bexagins, as well as all the Khans, are burnt. Such a tire has not bean witnessed at Constantinople since the year 1780. The (.:and Seignor has appropriated as old palace for those women who :•ave lost their asylum, and he has given orders that the mantes (checks on the Exchequer) shall be paid in full. The standard of Mehemet, which it was intended to have re turned to the Mosque sto the 31st of August, just before the lire brake out, was left exposed to the view of the Turks, and it was rot till the 2d of September that it was taken back, and the camp which was stationed in she Court of the Seraglio was raised. There is nothing to show that the lire was the result of a conspiracy ; no arras have taken place. The abolition of the corps of Janissaries seem to some persons a sufficient guarantee against the appearance of - any new disorders. Illicit is said of what happened to the Sultan a short time before the fire. The Sultan Blahmoud, in returning with pomp to Eski Simi in the midst of his chosen guard, remarked an indicid'.u•it in the crowd with a thick black beard, wearing a green turban, and, having say remarkable features, gave orders for him to be arrested. The o4liktar, uncertain as to the person. was going to seize another individual, but his Highness cricd out—" It is not that person, but this," awl be accompanied these words with a very animated ex pression, in recognising a Bektachi, according to some; according to others a man who pronounced some words in a low voice, hut with a•.: expression which betrayed his hatred against the Sultan. It is pretended that the individual who was arrested by order of his Highness is a fool, and that in truth his detention was unjust. Whether his folly be real Or feigned, he certainly merits the ap pellation that has been given to him. The sale of gunpowder is expressly prohibited, and the Sultan is purchasing all the area he Lar. hind. Orders are given to all persons to send their anus to tilos,. who har: been appointed to receive them. We are assured that the real cause of the disgrace and exile of lstambol EtTendissi was that that Magistrate would not renounce a claim of 7,000 a spi c , (r.3i piastres) a day, which he enjoyed, and which was upon the great book of the Janissaries. . _ _ I ntelltgenee has been received at Constantinople that the troops of Fabvier, the band of Vacho, that of the Athenian Captain, 1.-ccha, and some hundreds of Albanians under the orders of Karaiskaki, who assembled at Sslamine, under the latter Chief, landed, to the number of 4,000 men. at Llends en the Itith. and snatched towards Athens. On the 17th they encountered the Turks ; a7:d after a battle which lasted some hours, the Greeks were de /sated, end tied, leaving behind them two cannons and three flags. I: is said that thedthithcllines who s ete in the battle intended to -scar to their own country. • From the of Friday. I StrT. The Princess Regent is still at Cintra. A bulletin of her health published every morning. That of to-day annources that the health of her Royal Highness is so far established as to permit her t: resume transacting business. Iler Royal Highness issued a t::,-re or the 6th of this month, creating a Commiss:on charged to e Aninim the state of the prisons, which are generally infected, dark, and depsiv slut air. The l'ommission will be composed of Si re members at Lisbon, and of rive at Porto. It will report on i.r %Oils, and propose such ameliorations as shall be necessary. The Minister of War has addressed a circular to the Chiefs of V.e army, recommending them carefully to inspect the military hssmtals. The Princos Regea has given orders to all the provincial Go. ,vor. to hasten as much as pos.ible the trials of the individual* have been arrested as having been guilty of rebellion. The police has posted up public naeces, prohibiting all rioting in t' c streets. and especially during the night, under the penalty of berg arrested by the military patrols, and prosecuted according to the laws. The Director Ger e-al of Police has by a circular required the JuJgoi of Fora to r, port to bun 'baker the cad, to the Consti tut:oz halt been Liken in all the places within their circuit. 31.110111 D, St:PT. 18. The Ring and Royal Family will leave St. lidefonsa on the Ess Catholic Majesty has experienced an attack of the gout, in cu r. Se ,* UM= of which the races at Segovia and Chartreuse de rt.la had not been able to take place. A Lieutenant-nautili, who had been arrested at Madrid, sus p cted of bring connected with (laud fehidof the deserters from (111 - renz,r), in consequence of a letter wntten to hint, the terms of 'loch were ambigaoas, has just been set at liberty, he having proved his innocence• (Fr= the J 011117141 des Mbar or Friday. I The names of the new Nuncios to the different Courts are just aeweenced. It is said that the Pope, seeing how reluctant person* are volun tarily to enrol themselves. intends to re-establish the Civil Guard one arrests have lately taken place, but their crimes is not known. 31aunin. SEPT. 18. M. de flonst, it is said, has to-day made strcrul farewell visits. Scone persons say that this diplomati,t, not having succeeded in his special mission, will return to Portugal ; white oth r ts say th a t h e will so to Park to succeed M. de Mello Breyner. who, It is said, would return to Lisbon in the course of next month. _ _ _ Ibe letters we have received from the frontiers of Portugal do not speak of any new desertion ; but it is stated, that the troops which have already deserted :oto that kingdom are expected to make a sudden incursicn into Spat:jab Estremadura, in order to en courage and strengthen the constitutional party in the other pro vinces of the kingdom. This report is. in some degree, confirmed by the circumstance that the Cour !loyal of (aze►ea has requested permission of the Governmem is remove to Talavera, which is not far from Madrid. LE'com the Journal des Debdis of Thursday. i PARty, SEPT. 27. The movement of the great eastern States of Europe become daily moreanimated. Diplomatists do not dare any further to dis simulate the approach of a crisis—a crisis which can easily become universal. The nests from (Mews sod Bucharest do not announce the result of the fire at Constantinople, but it is beyond • doubt that that calamity was the effect of discontent, and that it concealed a proj , et of revolt. We regard the Bastandgi, whom it was wished to enrol by force into the new militia, as the authors of the fire, which broke forth at the very moment a hen the Sultan was about to go solemnly forth at the head of his new soldiers. All tl:e palaces of the great men of the empire have become a prey to the flames. The ancient body of engine-men (pomplers) having experienced similar disgrace with the Janissaries, and being animated by the same spirit of resentment, did not take the least steps to preserve the palaces of their enemies. The populace of Constantinople had so little to lose, that to them a fire is merely a matter of show. But the most important news (if it be confirmed) is, that the new militia itself fought among themselves; that the whole of the interior of the Seraglio wag in dreadful disorder, and that the life of Sultan 31ahniarA was even toenaced. It is certain that much inquietude exist at Vienna, and that the metallivws have experienced a further depression, they having been as low as fib, though they have since got up a little. Some mercan. tile letters speak of the passage of the Pruth, and ether serious mat ters, though there is no assurance of the authenticity of these things. It is not probable that the Russian army would make a move ment before the 7th of October, and then only for the purpose of occupying Wallachia and Moldavia. The correspondents from Vienna, and some Journals of Paris, ought to be less precipitate in the marches they have attributed to the army. All these prema ture reports only serve to lessen public opinion in the estimation of chase who are already too much inclined to treat it with contempt. Among the various reports which have reached us from Vienna there is but one which deserves serious attention. It is that which announces a family Congress, to be composed of the different branches of the imperial House, including those of Tuscany and Slodena. The ostensible object of this Congress is to regaling' some affairs of succession to the immense private dumb" of the family, and as M. de 3lectern:eh is Chancellor of the family, it is quite natural that he should be present at the Congress. Those who are aware of the wish of the High German Aristocracy of the hereditary estates, to preserve the person and the system of M. de Metternich, at all events, nevertheless suspect a much more im portant object in contemplation ; and that it relates to measures of much more consequence than merely the succession to private pro perty. Another circumstance which may be considered to have Its influence in producing inquietude in the Court of Austria is, that the diet of Hungary persists in its wish to continue its sittings for some time longer, whilst the Court is employing every secret means to induce it to separate, which it could not do without abandoning the very grievous complaints which it has expressed regarding the violation of the Constitution. The Ministerial party in Hungary hte at length observed the possible danger which may one day result from the nearness of a colossal Power, that not long ago, in defending with an apparent generosity the Dissenters of Poland, while op pressed by the Republic of France in violation of treaties, had sue. ceeded in obtaining the sutmiseion of nearly all the territory of Poland. There are also the Dissenters of Hungary ; besides which, the members of the Greek Church are very numerous there, and nearly half the Hungarian nobility belong to these two evangelic communions. Their complaints are become very earnest. They are wrong in all their constitutional rights. 'The Emperor has always answered, that as for himself lie is personally a friend to the liberty of religious worship ; but that he is only a Constitutional 3latiareli in Hungary. Ti•e High Cathi2i:t Clergy of Hungary, a Ito are wholly devoted to the Court, have been advised by M. de :'iletternich to cajole- the Proust:lots, and especially to discontinue die pecuniary- exactions made upon then,. Whilst Austria thus continues, on all sides, to be more or less uneasy. Russia seems to have no more to fear, neither from the Turks or Persians, nor from secret societies. However, the great care that is taken to exclude the Graidl Duke Coidoantine from all participation in the sucers• sion or the Ilegt.ncy, has txposed it to inconvenience of leaving it liable to sus; icions of combinations to oppose the es:ablished order of things, although these suspicions appear to us wholly des titute of foundation. On several occasions we have noticed the effects of pub lic charities, and we seize with pleasure an opportunity of again directing the attention of our readers to this very im portant subject, which has been discussed in a very able manner in the Christian Itcnirnihrancer for October. In fact, we consider the subject as one in which the most vital interest of the country is essentially compromised, and we concur fully and completely in every point advanced by the writer alluded to. There cannot be the slightest doubt of the pernicious tendency of almost all institutions of this na ture in promoting idleness ; and the slicer in question has shown, in the most convincing manner, that their pernicious efficts are not confined to the mere objects of the charity. " The only effect of general charities," says the article in question, " is to enable the labourers in favoured districts to beat down the others to penury and disease without bet tering themselves." The argument by which this is proved may be stated in brief as follows :--A labourer, who is in the habit of applying to charity for defraying expenses which can be foreseen and are provided for by others, would be able to support a family for less than others to whom it is impossible that charity should extend. When wages are in their natural state, (that is, when they are just enough to support a family without charity,) such a la bourer will have every encouragement to marry. This will augment population beyond its due bounds, which in creases competition among labourers, and diminishes the wages of labour below their natural state, reducing them to that state which is barely sufficient to enable a family to be supported with the assistance of charity. In that case all labourers who do not subsist partly on charity will ne cessarily be reduced to a state of distress. Nothing can be snore evident than this; and we have only to add, that even in many cases, such as those of disease and accident, a la bourer might easily make a provision. Even in the hos pitals, it is to be feared that a large proportion of the in mates ought not to be there. We refer our readers, with pleasure, to the article in the Christian Remembrancer. We arc obliged to recur oftener than we should other wise do to the subject of manufacturing distress, in conse quence of observing the arguments, which we have already frequently refuted, restated again and again in the provin cial Journals, and sometimes inconsistently brought for ward by London prints which in general advocate principles of an entirely different tendency. This conti nual repetition of the same thing, without paying any attention to the arguments on the opposite side of the question, may answer the purposes of parties, but is little calculated to promote the cause of truth. It is stated, as a convincing argument of the insufficiency of the mere:fact of over-production to account for our dis tress, that France and America now manufacture annually Stio,ooo bales of cotton more than they did ten years ago. lt is said that on this account we have irretrievably lost the manufacturing monopoly which we formerly enjoyed: but we would ask these gentlen;en when we enjoyed this manufacturing and commercial monopoly? Only during the war. Those persons who, at the termination of the European contest, took such pleasure in predicting the destruction of our manufactures as soon as foreign ships should be enabled, by the cessation of hostilities, to navi gate the seas on equal terms with our own, cannot now surely turn round and tell us that our monopoly only ceased two years ago. We have not yet forgot how these journalists themselves told us, at the end of the war, that THE BRITISH PRESS. this very monopoly, which they now regret, had proved our ruin, by inducing foreigners to manufacture for them selves, in consequence of the difficulty of receiving foreign supplies. Notwithstanding these gloomy forebodings they now admit that our .manufacturing industry bore up against foreign competition for ten years ; and assert that we have lost our advantages now in consequence of taxes and expenses, which are much less at present, in propar lion to foreign countries, than they were ten years ago. Unfortunately for the argument of a Olasgow Paper, con cerning the extension of manufactures in the United States and France, these two countries were precisely those in which we could never have been said to have possessed any monopoly. France opposed the introduction of our manufactures not only at home, but in foreign coun tries ; and the United States were, during the whole war, almost at full liberty to supply foreign countries, and to he themselves supplied with foreign manufactures. Admitting that France and America send to other countries part of the manufactures which we formerly supplied, it remains to be shown what superior advantages they possess over us in foreign markets, when we know that their ma nufacturers of cottons, in particular, could not, on the basis of free trade, compete with us for an instant in their own markets. As to our monopoly, we have indeed lost it. Asia, Africa, and America, are not now exclusively ours; but we have received a part of the trade of Europe, which balances what we have lost in the less important quarters of the world. Our partial monopoly is not therefore to he regretted ; and, if it were, it would scarce be worth the price of another war to recover ; for nothing less can restore it. If our provisions were as cheap as water or air, and our taxes entirely removed—if our labourers could live on nothing, and supply their goods for one hundreth part of foreign pricer —we isouldnot prevent for,ign governments from laying restrictions on our trade. It is impossible for the wisdom of man to devise any method of removing such restrictions in foreign countries but by showing the ex ample in this ; and it must not be supposed that treaties end agreements are the only methods of removing foreign restrictions. The Opposition Papers, at a time when war rendered it impolitic to agitate such questions, laid it down as a maxim that smuggling could only be effectually pre vented by the repeal of all enormous duties. IVe agree with them in their principle, and we apply it to foreign countries, where it:will undoubtedly be found, sooner or later, that the enterprise of our merchants is not to be damped by restrictive regulations. We certainly consider the trade of smuggling enttons into France as equally legitimate with the trade which was formerly carried on with Spanish America. The doctrine of reciprocity has been proclaimed by England, and on that principle her merchants will feel themselves authorized in taking their measures accordingly. If a French farmer has cottons offered to him, which would t.ell in France for half-a-crown, in exchange for a bottle of wine, which he can hardly dispose of fur three-pence, it will not be found difficult to meet with purchasers for our cotton goods in France ; and both pirties will have profit enough to cover the premium of insurance on their.risk, even if it sheuld a nount to cent. per cent. There can be no doubt that the distress of the country will cure itself. It is a necessary ingredient in the remedy which has been applied to the state of the nation. Our present misfortunes will replace us in a natural state, by turning the attention of manufacturers to the means of preventing similar calamities, as well as by stopping short the career of production at present. But this is by no means an argument that means should not be employed for alleviating that distress on the present and on ail fu ture occasions. Of all the methods proposed for this pur pose, the moat weak and inefficient is that of a Treasury grant. So far from concurring in the opinion of those who advocate this, we feel very much inclined to find fault with the application of most of the subscriptions ; and we really can see no permanent preventive to the recurrence of such events but in a consolidation and new-modelling of our poor-laws and charitable foundations. The revision of the corn-laws, and the reduction of taxation, if practicable, would not entirely prevent revolutions in the state of trade. There must be a fluctuation in all human affairs. It is impossible, without endowing our merchants with omni science, to keep the quantity of goods manufactured in ex act proportion to the demand. We must therefore provide for occasional derangements in our system ; and in doing so it might be well to pay a due attention to the landed interest by revising the poor and corn laws at the same time. In the management of the late subscriptions, in that of pub lic charities in general, and in the whole system of the poor.. laws, there is one radical defect :—the persons relieved are either not employed in labour at all, or they are em ployed in such labour as does not augment the means of subsistence either by agricultural improvements increasing the means of subsistence, by public works calculated to produce a revenue capable of supporting economically those employed on them, or by the production of commodities exchangeable for provisions with foreign countries, without coming into competition with our own manufacturers. I t is proper and necessary that a pauper should be reduced to live on the lowest scale consistent with his health. It was calculated lately that a weaver in the west of Scotland had to support his family (a wife and four children) on six shillings a week, their subsistence being a scanty pittance of oatmeal, potatoes, and herring. On two of these commo dities we must recollect that there were a variety of charges besides those of the price of labour, all which charges enter into the price of each. There are the landlord's rent, the farmer's profit, the millers profit, and the retailer's profits while the agricultural labourer is himself paid higher than the weaver. There are also similar charges on tiro herring. If these thirerent charges could by any means be rernovcd, we do not calculate too high, surely, in saying that six shillings would purehaie as much as ten at present, which would enable the workman to live almost comfortably. Now if, instead of workhouses, &c., a portion of land were set apart in each pariah for the poor to cultivate, it is ob vious that all such charges as we have particularized would be prevented, and the only difficulty would be to manage matters so that the strictest economy rni : ,ht be observed in the management. This we think might be done by intro ducing a more public method of managing pariah business. Let the parishes in England and the proprietors in Scotland and Ireland furnish land, tools, and provisions, for the first year, and I think there is little doubt of its saving them all trouble in future. Those inferior lands, which they talk of leaving uncultivated if the corn-laws were repealed, might still support our poor. A Glasgow Paper affirms— and we believe it to be true, that " at half the expense which will attend their conveyance to Ca nada or Africa, this nation might plant a million of people on the west coast and islands of Scotland, situate between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape IVrath—plant them in independence—and not only so, but in a situation which will, in the moat prompt manner, enable them to add greatly to the wealth of the State, instead of being, as they arc at present, a drawback upon it. In the districts," con tinues the Journalist, " we have mentioned, there are tens of thousands of acres of land which may be rendered produc tive by cultivation, and Ln imlllellSC field for employment in fisheries, and for many nun as labourers, providing an im pulse was only given, and capital bestowed to begin the work. In' these places an industrious population settled would not only produce abundance for themselves, but sustenance for others—increase the value of all adjacent pro perties—and consume more of our manufactures than France, or Saudi America, or the United States, ever will consume. Only open roads and communications, and give t he poor, or, as it is politely called, our • surplus popula tion,' the money to get cottages, land, fish-nets, boats, and agricultural tools, and the work is done. We have adduced only one quarter of the kingdom where such improvements could be made. But how many more are to he found be tween the Land's End and the Pentland Frith, and be tween Cape Clcar and the Giant's Causeway? Innumer able ! And had that British capital which has been swamped in South American loans, mines, and schemes, been laid out in places at home, we would a: this day hare had no over-production' in our manufactures—no distress amongst our people." In this we heartily concur, notwithstanding the non restrictive principles of the Paper f.om which we extract ; and we must add that there are incontrovertible proofs that the most barren rock or the dreariest marsh may-be rendered capable of supporting human life by the application of in dustry. We need only refer to Malta and Holland. Though neither raises food for itself, both find commodities sufficient for procuring subsistence. We have no doubt of the practicability of employing the poor successfully in this way, and hope that this subject will in due time be taken into consideration by the Legislature and his Majesty's Go vernment. CITY, SATEGIDAV EVENING. From the circumstance of yesterday having been a holy day, the portion of business done to-day has been upon rather a largn scale than is usual on a Saturday. Consols, which opened at SOl, rose during the morning to 801 for the Account ; at the close of the Market, however, they did not do more than realize their opening quotation of 801. In consequence of opening the new Account for November, there have been some increased speculations for carrying over ; and as it does not appear that the continuation ex ceeds 1 per cent., it leaves the interest at about '2, while for a shorter period it can scarcely be said to reach that (potation. A striking contrast is thus afforded between the value of money at this and the same period of last year. The time is now fast approaching when the real state of t he revenue for the last quarter will no longer be matter of speculation ; indeed it may at this moment be confidently as serted that the whole defalcation, as between this and the same quarter of 1525, will not be more than 400,000/., thus fully justifying the anticipation expressed by the CHAN CF:I.I.OR of the EXCIIEQUER in his financial statement, in the last Session of Parliament, as to the probable falling off in particular duties from the alteration in our commer cial policy, and other circumstances. The report of a par tial change in the Administration has been again band A about to-day, but without any particular allusion as to the individuality of persons who are about to seek the °Hum rum Atreitate. Whatever change may be imagined by the wise men of the east as likely to occur, it is clear that their prognostications were wholly abortive in producing any effect upon the Funds. Exchequer Bills are heavy at from 13s. to lis. premium, while Indian Bonds have ad vanced to 325. The disparity between these Securities is supposed to proceed from one of two causes—either the ex pectation of a large issue of Exchequer Bills at a very early period, or thst his Majesty's Government will, at an early thy, funds large amount its stock of 34 or 4 per cent. In dia Stock is on the advance, having been done as high as 210 for the opening. The non-payment of the Chilian Dividend has produced a retrograde movement in all descriptions of Transatlantic Securities, excepting, indeed, those which ought in com mon justice to be met affected—viz. Chilies] Bonds them selves, which have brought a higher price to-day than yes terday, thus proving the truth of the adage, " that when things are at the worst they must mend." Some persons are disposed to believe that the nec, ssary remit tanccs.will arrive by the packet, agreeable to the expecta tion of M. DE I:GANA. It will be fortunate if this antici pation is realized. Sales were effected to-day at 364, which is only II per cent. lower than their general quotation of 39. Mexican Bonds, on which the Dividends are to be paid on Monday, have receded to 611, having varied full .2 per cent. during the day. Previous to its being known that Messrs. BAsiNG had accepted the Agency of this Republic, great reliance was placed on the money lying at Vera Cruz, and upon the Hussar, about which ship so much was said, being ordered to bring it home. But now, when all these! mum are certain, at least as far as trans actions that arc not completed can be considered so, the Bonds in question are depreciated in the Market by an accident like that which has befallen the Chilian. The fact is, that the moment the house of BARI t:G and Co. became the Agents, it was quite clear the arrival of money in this country was no longer a necessary preliminary for the payment of the Mexican Dividend, the constant and easy se mis between the Americas appearing likely to supersede it. Colombian Bonds have felt the chilling effect of the want of punctuality in those who live " beyond the Andes," having been sold at 341. Greek are a shade better at 14, and t?panish stationary at 10 ; there is, how ever, nothing like activity as regards them, and iu Shares there is nothing doing. Mr. Canning will return to Lon,lon in the early part of the next menth. On Saturday next Mr. Brown, the Mi 'lister of the United States to France, will give a grand ' diplomatic dinner, at which Mr. Canning will be present.— ' French Puptr. The Duke of Buccleuch was expected to arrive at Dal keith Palace on IVednestlay night. His Grace has re cently returned from the Continent, which, it is not un likely, he may soon again visit, for the purpose of spend-' ing there the ensuing winter. Ills Grace, we understand, enters on his 21st year on the 25th of November next. Two Couriers have been despatched to St. Pctersburgli, the one the day before yesterday, by Count Pozzo di Borgo, and the other yesterday, by our Minister for Foreign Al fairs.—French Paper td* Saturday . . L , Aters arc in town from Bogota, of the 14th of July, stating, that in consequence of the earthquake, the Priests had persuaded the people to massacre all the heretics, as it was owing to their presence that they were thus visited. The English became alarmed, and, to the number of 400, armed themselves for defence, when the Governor gave them permission to retire into the fort. The people, per ceiving this resistance on the part of the English, de sisted. Since this event, moat of the English have left the place. LIVERPOOL BRANCII BANG. —From the best informa tion we can obtain, there is reason to believe that the much-talked-of Branch Bank will not be established here until the experiment of the success of the Manchester Branch has been ascertained.—Lieerpool Mercury. The first pile of the coffer dam, for the Junction Dock at this place, was driven on Tuesday last, amid a great concourse of spectator.—Hall Advertiser., WINDSOR. OrTon ER 1. During the put week the King has frequently taken airings in his phaeton to Virrinia Water, &c. fler Royal Highness the Prihersis Augusta. attended by her lady in waiting, hearth diving service in the parish church, which was performed by the WY. Mr. Meley, who preached from the I;eneral Epistle frf.lani, s, eh. i. err. 26. This merning the Royal llorse I; , aartl4 marched from the Cavalry Barracks to the Foot Barracks, where divine Pervicc was performed in the Barrack-squar e by the Chap lain to the Regiment. The works at the Castle arc now proceeding with great rapidity. CIIELTENHAM,SE T. 29. A solemn gloom was thrown over the amusements of this fashionable place yesterday afternoon, by the decease of the Rev. Charles .hrvis, the Rector of the parish, which took ;lace between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. J. had been our Rector about twenty years, and was universally esteemed. _ Mr. Thompson. of the Montpellier Spa, postponed the promenade and hall in consequence, which was to hare commenced at eight o'clock in the evening at his Spa, and caused the following notice to be printed, and sent round to the difl•rent hotels, inns, bosnling-houses, lodging. houses, &c., and also distributed in all pans of the town. " Cheltenham. " In consequence of the lamented death of the Rev. Charles Jervis, 51r. l'iaroin Thompson begs to inform the residents an d sinkers of Clieltenh.im iti4 the ball intended to be given at the 51ont1ellier Rotund., ,his eveningdis postponed. " bunchy, Sept. t.. 3." Notwithstanding this, numbers of carriages, full of com. pany, came at the accustomtil hour, not having heard of its pottponenoent, owing to the extensive size of the town. The account of the health of the Duke of York, on Sa. turday and yesterday, was very gratifying. His Royal lliglin:.ss's health is in a more favourable state at present than at any period since his indisposition. The Duke of Sussex paid a visit to his Royal Brodur yesterday, at the residence of the Duke of Ruuand, in Ar. lington-street. The Duke of York took an airing yester. day for about two hours. Sir Henry Ilalford, Dr. Mac. Michael, Mr. Macgrigor, and Mr. Simpson, paid visits to the Royal Duke yesterday. His Royal Highness was en. gaged on Saturday morning transacting business with his Military Secretary and other official gentlemen, after which his Royal Highness took his daily airing. Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. left town on Saturday for Cirencester, on a visit to Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. On Friday evening Sir Frederick Paget, Aid-de-Camp to Sir F. Adam, left town with despatches for the lonian On Saturday the Fellows of the Roval College of Phy sicians dined together at their new College in Pall-mall East. Sir Henry Halford, the President, was in the Chair. Mr. Eyl, I'age to the Duke of Cambridge for upwards of twenty years, died at Hanover, a short time ago, at an ar!vaticiA age. A very c7alsoling circumstan' e to the friends of religion took place on the 'etth September, at St. Chamont (Loire) in the large and fine church of Notre-Dame; two young English persons, brother and sister, the one aged 20 and the other tsi, publicly abjured, in the pre-ence of a great crowd of people, the errors of the sect called Anabaptists, in which they had the misfortune to be educat e d. They were bapt . zAl with all the pomp which the Church pre- scribes for the baptism of adults, and at a mass of an acti, n of thanks, which was celebrated, they joined with a piety that edified and drew tears from all those who assisted on the solemn occasiol. The inhahitan•s of Trowbridge are about to apply to the London Committee for further assistance Four thousand persons are now dependent on the pari-h in that town ; and unless something eff.•ctual and speedy is done, no one can foresee the Ti sub. The market-place on Wednesday (being the day for paving the paupers) exhi bited groups of men, who used to support their families ;n comfort, ready and eager to labour, but . thcre was no one to hire them.—Bash Hcrald. PC BLIC DISTRESS ix KISS.% EE.—Pursuant to a public notice, issued ry It'. Newman, Esq. Sovereign of Kinsale, a meeting was held in that town yesterday, to consider the state of the 1 res•nt distress, and devise the bast mins of relieving it. Front what we could gather, the sense of the meeting scone d to h. , that the distress required tore than temporary relit f, and many benevolent gentlemen exprassed their willingness to tax themselves in an annual sum for the support of the destitute and unemployed poor. 'flue meeting was adjourned. We wait the result of that ad journment ere we publish these proceedings.—Cork Swah e-ru Rep Her. A small sloop was brought in here on Tuesday last, which had been seized by the preventive boat, at (Ape. She was apparently laden with faggots, and the Master said was bound to Weymouth, but suspicion being excited, she was searched, and under the faggots was found a quantity of the newly-invented machinery far making lace, which she was in the act of conveying to France. The vessel and machinery vv, re of course stopped, and will be condemotd. —Son!bwnp!oa A large boat built at Arthurstown, IVexford, has lately plied cu the river with wheels worked by two men at a windlass She malo s very great way, and, has some adsa•t tages over both steam and row-vessels.—Laneast. r rup,r. On Tuesday, part of a human skeleton, including die head, an arm, and sonic ribs, was found, in an erect pos ture, by William Barker, a well-sinker, when digging mar Nee bac':-door of Mr. Carrett, farmer, of Martieet. at a depth of about i les.t. The teeth were retrurkably per fect. No other parts of the body were discovered. Front the appearances of the surrounding earth, it is co. jecturel to have been in that situation uuwards of a century. Rost s Y.—A meeting which was announced to take place at our Town-hall, on Thursday next, to petition against any alteration in the Corn Laws, was postponed sine die, un Tuesday, by hand bills. It is generally supposed that the fate of the meeting at Andover prevented this meeting. EXPLOSION OF A PRIVATE STlLL.—Saturday morning, shout nine o'clock, the neighbourhood of Shoreditch and Curtain-raid were thrown into great consternation sad slim by a violent report, which proceeded from a sma:l house nearly at the corner of the Shoreditch end et Leonard-street. Upon inquiry, it turned out that the noise alluded to proceeded from the explosion of a pri vate still, and in a few minutes after the explosion the lower part of the premixes were discovered to lie on fire. The inmates of the house lost no time in making their escape; two children were lowered down, and then the wife and husband immediately jumped out. All of them reached the street without any injury, the neighbours a , - slating with the greatest promptitude and a::xiety, and of fering them an asylum in their own houses. They, however, took' advantage of the confusion; and knowing the consequences of their detention, made an immediate re treat, leaving all their goods and chattels to the mercy of the Excise officers, who soon after arrived, and adopted the usual plan of .ieizure. he fire was soon extinguished by the aid of several engines, which arrived on the spot. Upon examining the premises, the re nains of a still vete found in a concealed part of the ground-floor, at the back of the house. It was completely blown to pieces, and some portions of the frame and brick-work of the window near which it was placed were thrown to a distance of '23 fret, into a neighbouring garden. There was not a single pane of glass in the whole house (a six-roomed house, with windows on the staircase) left whole. It was difficult to ascertain what liquid had been distilled, but, from the smell, it had every appearance of gin ; awl it is supposed that it boiled over, and thus took light. The name of the people is Asher, and they have been remarkable for their secrecy and privacy during the time they have resided in the house, a period of about two months. Some of the neighbours did not even know their names. The confu sion which the shock created was in some cases somewhat laughable. One of the adjoining houses is a baker's, the proprietor of which, who was himself forced against the wall, was for some time in doubt which lie should be most frightened at, the violence of the noise, or the dancing of his well-arranged loaves; and it being Saturday, he hail an additional quantity, which boldly quitted their stations on the shelves, and heaped themselves in glorious Wl' fusion on the Boor. ,th