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LAW ASSOCIATION, for the Benefit of Widows ant. Families at Professional Men in the Metropolis std Vicinity. The Annual General Court will be held at the New Futnival's Inn Hall. on THURSDAY NEXT, to receive a Report of the Board of Directors; also to elect eight new Directors, and on other spacial Business. The Chair to be taken at Twn o'Clock precively. CHARLES !HURRAY, Secretary. AFRICAN INSTITUTION, e.tabliahed for the purpose of PROMOTINO t he CIVILIZATION of AFRICA, for the SUPPRESSION of the SL AVE-TRADE, &c. His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER, E.G., Patron and President, in the Chair. The TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY MEETING of this INSTITUTION will be held at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on FRIDAY. the 19+h inst., at Twelve o'Clock, to receive the Report of the Board of Direc tory, to elect Directors for the ensuing year, and for other business. By order of the Board, WILLIAM E3IPSON. See. A.I. The Chair will be taken at Half-past Twelve o'Clock precisely. Tickets for the admission of Ladies and Gentlemen may be had on application at the Office of the Institution, in Fludyer-street. LONIX)N UNITED MINE COMPANY.—Notice is hereby given, that at the Annual Oestwal Meeting of the Proprietor', held this day by adjournment, from the 26th April instant, It was resolved. that the Directors do forthwith make a FINAL CALL of FIVE POUNDS PER SHARE on all Pro prietoo (who have not paid up their Shares in full), to be paid to the Bankers of the Company. Messrs. Spooner. Attwonds, and Co. No. 2/, Oraeecburch-street, on or before the 27th of May next, end the Shares of all such Proprietors not complying therewith. will he forfeited, pursuant to the Deed of Regulations and to such Resolutions. A copy of the Resolutions of the Annual General :dotting lies at the Office of the Company for the inspection of the Proprietors. By order of the Committee of Directors, No. 9, Tukenhouse.yard, RICHARD WACE, Secretary. Anvil 28, 1826. N.B. Proprietors are requested to present their last receipts at the Bankers on payment of their money. —7 BLECTION OF MR. ALDERMAN THOAIPSON . THE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELECTION of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON beg leave to inform the LIVERY of LONDON, that the following District Committees have been formed, which will meet every Monday and Thursday Evenings, at Seven o'clock precisely, at the places named, until the commencement of the Election ; after which every day during the Election (Sundays excepted), at Ten o'clock' of the Morning ; and the Livery are respectfully solicited to communicate with the Chairman of the district within which they reside. DISTRICT COMMITTERS. titeyhound, Oreenwicb—Chairman, F. Hammond, Esq. Phenix Tavern, RatcliffTroo—Chairman, C. Richardson, Esq. Crown and Magpie, Aldgate—Chairman, H. Popkin, Eaq. Three Tuns, Jewry.street—Chairman, S. S. Hall, Esq. Pewter Platter, White Liou.street, Norton Falgate— J. Merman. Esq. Langboutue Coffee-house,Fcrteluirch- Esq_. Ship Tavern, Water lane, Esq. Hour Glass, Upper R.Elliott. ISO, P. Skipper, J. E. Saunders, •- • • Es New Shades, White Hart-court, Gracechurch-street—Chairman, J. G. Wrench, Esq. White Hart, Bishopsgste-street—Chairman , F. Blakesley, Esq. king's Head, Poultry—Chairman, Rd. Brook, Esq. Blossom. Inn, Lawrence lane—Chairman, T. Gates, Esq. George Inn, Aldemianbury—Chairman, F. G. Banner, Esq. Rem Inn. Smithfleld—Chairman T. Hodgkineon, Esq. Crown, Cleikenwell Green—Chairman, F. B. Adams, Esq. Rinks Read, Islington—Chairman. R. Oldcrshaw, Esq. Cottage. Smithage—Chairman, T. Curti'. E s q. Three Tune, Borough—Chairman. J. Riley, Esq. Leaping Bar, Blsekfriars-road —Chairman, S. Sawyer, Esq. York Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars—Chairmen, J. Hartley, L Edon Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill—Chairman, Ed. Tewart, Esq. Sussex lintel. Bouverie-street—Chairman, H. Butterworth, Esq. Saloplan Coffeehouse, Charing.eross—Chairman, H. Winchester, E. Freen .q unions• Tavern, Great ion, Esq. White Hart. High Holborn—Chalriran, AI. Robinson, Esq. Bedford C.offee.house, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury—Chair man, P. Hardwick, Esq. Alderman Thompson having commenced a personal canvass. de sire, to state, that should he be so unfortunate as to omit calling spots any of the Livery, he hopes they will attribute it to the rest cause, namely, the incorrectness of the lists of the residence of the Livery, and not to any mark of disrespect. The Central Committee sits daily front Ten until Five o'clock. JOHN HALL, Chairman. Coln' Committee Room, London Tavern, May {,1626. tirman, F. Bounfil- ST. PATRICK'S CHARITY SCHOOLS, AND ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPIIA NS. The ANNUAL DINNER to Aid of this Charity will take place at the Freemason's Tavern, on THURSDAY NEXT, the 14th instant. His Royal Highness the Duce of SUSSEX, in the Chair. VICE-PRESIDENTS. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Hon. Edward Petre E.M. Hon. Christopher Hely Hutekla.. VA Earl of Surrey son, M.P. Lord Stourmn Sir Edward Mount, Bart. Lord Arundel Gen. Sir John D3yle, Bart. Lord Stafford G.C.B. Lord Cliffind IJ. M. Massey Dawson, Esq. Lord Nugent, M.P. M.P. Bon. Mr. CiifOrd VICE-PIESIDENTS or rim CS Andrew Lou STEW RARITY.—The Res'. Dv. Collins, tighnan, The Rev. Thomas Weld Charles Innis, Esq. The Rev. William Wilds James Keane, Esq. The Rev. John Jones G. B. Kelly, Esq. The Rev. William Morris William Leacher, Esq. The Rev. William Corr Eneas 3l•Donnell, Esq. The Rev. P. J. Tyrrell Arthur O'Leary, Esq. Edward Blount, Esq. Michael Josh. Quin, Est, Andrew Bellow. Esq. Henry Edward Roberts. Laq. Henry George Cary, Es 9. Henry Robinson. jun. Esq. Emanuel Dias Santos, Esq. C. P. Sulivan, Esq. Benjamin George Hodges, Esq. Peter Turnerelli, Esq. Marcus Lewis Hill, Esq. William Witham, Esq. Dinner Tickets may be had from the Stewards; the Secretary; Messrs. Keating and Brown, Printers, 38, Duke-street, Gros e/roe-square, and 63, Paternoster-row; and at the Bar of the Tavern ; and it is requested that Tickets, not intended to be used, be returned to the Secretary on or before Monday, the Bth of May, as Dinner will be ordered accoviling to the Tickets not returned. Gallery Tickets for the Ladies can be had of the Vice-Presidents and Stewards, and Ladies' Tickets tor the benches in the Hall, of the Vice-Presidents only. JAMES O'LEARY. Secretary, No, I, Thorney-street, Bloomsbury. DISTRESS in SPITALFIELDS.—At a MEETING I , of the COMMITTEE, held to the 'Vestry-room, Spite'. fields, May it, 18 . 26, Rev. RICHARD HARVEY in the Chair : The Committee regret to state, that in consequence of the nearly exhausted state of their Funds, they are compelled to confine themselves to relieving those only who are entirely without work, and even those on a reduced scale, giving to a man and his wife but 3s. • week, and to single persona 3s. The utter insufficiency of this relief is too evident to require proof, anti even this must very soon be discontinued. As the distress for want of employment continues undiminished, Me Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolence of those who have In their power the means of mitigating the distresses of so large and deserving • body of their fellow-creatures, as are the Silk Weevers of Spitalflelds, and trust that the foregoing statement will produce such an addition to their funds as may prevent the sudden drying up of those sources to which so many thousand poor parsons have to look for the means of existence. Amount before advertised - £17,356 Ids. lid. By the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. J. W. - 6 0 By Sir Claude Scott and Co. Mrs. Wallis - 2 2 Benjamin Sayer. Esq. 2 2 By Messrs. Snow and Co. surge Esq. 5 5 Mrs. Ann Msniott 2!. 12 , 1 &LI By Messrs. Hammersley & Co. Mrs. Flowers 5 5 D. G. N. and A. R. 2 2 J. G. Lamaister, Esq. 2 2 By Messrs. Gosling & Sharpe. J. H. Plumer, Esq. - 10 10 Mrs. Warren Hastings, Daylasford House 5 0 By Messrs. Drummond & Co. Mrs. Stewart Erskine - 5 5 L. G. - 10 10 By Mons. Coutts and Co. Miss Debary - 1 1 Miss Salome Mllhitelock, 2d donation 5 0 By Messrs. Homes. R. S. A. 3 0 Subscriptions are received by Mayor; W. Hale, Esq. Wood-si by all the Bankers. The Committee continue to all tallields. £ s• Mrs. Dealtry, per Child and Co. 10 0 The Dowager 31archioness of Donegan . 5 5 The Dowager Lady Gran- I than . 3 0 The lion. Mrs. Curzon 2 0 Henr Hussey, Esq.. 1 1 The li on, Thos. Wmdsor 5 5 The lion. Mrs. Windsor 5 5 By Messrs. Barnett and Co. S. D. !mums's, Eaq. 5 0 By Messrs. &templet and Co. 11. E. . . 1 0 By Messrs. Yens, Ward & Co. Mrs. Sarah Tesmalser - 3 0 , Messrs. James Morrison I and Co. - 50 0 By Messrs. Smith, Payne & Co. rF. E. jun. . 5 5 iJ. T. - . 2 0 Miss Amelia Smith - 1 0 By Messrs. Barnard and C.!. Miss Ann Alagrath - I 0 Messrs. Paterson and Charles 5 5 the Right Honourable the 1404 net, Spitalfields, Treasurer ; and t daily in the Vestry Room. Spi- J. D. KINCAID. See.• CHEAP DAYS—TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, during May.—Ladies will find astonishing bargains at DISON and CO.'s, they being determined to sell the remainder of their last year's STOCK at HALF PRICE. having manufse. tared an immense assortment of novelties for the present Season. Ladies' early visits are requested, as they will find numetaus useful aid ornamental articles in Lice. No. 237, Regentatrect, exactly opposite the Argyll ROOM -. 1 PRICES OP BRITISH Sink Stock 209 199 3 per Cent. Red. 774 1177 S per Cent. Coos. 78 77 Pitts Acct. 784 78 4 771 I 31 per Cent. Eon &I ef per Cent. Bed. MI New I per Cent. 914 'OCRS ON SATURDAY. Long Ann. IS M f India Stork '229 Indio Bonds 9 IQ pm Ex. Mils WOOL 9 10 pm Ditto WOL Y lo pm Ditto Small 9 1 l pm Lottery Tickets PRICES OF FOREIGN Chinas Bonds 41 Co!oral:don Bonds Ditto Bond, (0124) Miele Ditto Acct. 418 f Preach Routes& per Cont. NI. eit. 96(.50c. Elichaiiitc 25(.60c. Vireck floods Ditto Bond+ tIR2S) 15 14 f Ditto Aect. 15i PRICES OP MARI all Brunton .......... fluitish iron ...... Clolomblan Parco-Peruvlan nalpuzahun ............ ......•.. United Mexican... Welch Iron and Cad nadvannan Protector Pin ...........; MUFFS ON SATURDAY. ?demean Bonds SS} Ditto Bonds (1826; 623 3 If 2 Ditto Acct. 62i 1 t If 2 Pscusian Bonds 20 291 &) Russian Bonds 7H 6 Sf Ditto Acct. 76 Spanish Bonds 73 1 I Ditto 610, 8 Ditto Hondo (1822) Ditto Acct. RS ON SATURDAY. An. Share. Paid. . ...... 100 le 05 cats •••• 100 30 235 dls ..... 100 n dig .......... 100 13 15! dis ..... 400 80 25 pre 40 20 25 dis 25 ill 14 dls ColOPLlrlits. ...... . 20 2 1 dis Vie StittOtt reoo. . —. 0 .-- KING'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING will be performed Zlnprelfre Opera Ws. in Two Act., entitled Rol The principal Characters by Madame Pasta, *dame Caypiort, Madame De Angell, Signor Ueda, Signor Porto. After the Opera the new Mythological Ballet of LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS. ee• No Order will be admitted. and the Free List is suspended. A new Ballet is in rehearsal, as well as Meyer's Opera of Medea, mad that . . by Rosilnl, *stilled L'Atureliano In'Pa!wire. DRURY-LkgETHEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, May 8, will be performed the Tragedy of VIROINIUS. Virginias, Mr. Macready; Siccing Dentate+, Mr. Bennett; WIWI, Mr. Wallach. Virginia, Miss Foote. After which the Romantic Opera of DER"FREISCHUTZ._ _ _ . Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke ;Caspar, Mr. Horn ; Bernhard, Mr. Bedford Kilian, Mr "Itswilliam i Zamiel, Mr. 0. Smith. Linda, Miss Graddon Rose, MI Po 'ey. COVENT- G ARDEN THEATRE. ma Evening, MONDAY, May 6, will be performed the Grand Romantic end Fairy Opera of OBERON; or, THE ELF-ICING'S OATH. The principal Characters by Messrs. Braham, Cooper, Duruset, C. Bland, J. Isaacs, and Balser; htlnivs Paton, M. Camas; Madame Yes trio, Mrs. Vining, end Mrs. Davenport. To conclude with the Melo dramatic Romaace, called ALADDIN. Aladdin, Mm. Vining. COVENT.GARDEN THEATRE. WHITSUN-EVE. GRAND PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC, On SATURDAY NEXT, May IS, Under the Management of Sir George Smart. PART I.—A Selection from Der Freischuts, under the direction of the Composer, Carl Maria Yoe Weber. PART 11.—A Selection from Handers Serenata, Acts and Galatea. PART 111.—A Grand Miscellaneous Act. Principal Vocal Performers.—Meesrs, Brabant, Horncutle, and Tinney ; Masters Barker and Longhorn I Misses H. Csu.e, Farrar, Piton, and Stephens ; and Madame Winds. ENGCIBII . 6PERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME Thin Evening, MONDAY, May 8, with an entirely new Entertainment, in Two Patty, founded on his Observations on Characters, Manner', and Peculiarities, entitled Mit. M tTIIEWS' INVITATIONS. PAlitT 111.—A Monopolylogoe, to be called THE CITY BARGE Streit Characters by Mr. Mathews. Doors open at Half-pa.t Seven Instead of Seven, as heretofore), the Performance begins at Eight precisely. The BRITISH PRESSCOnliTenceditibiishing on Saturday morn- ing at six o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, MAT 8, 1828. The French Papers contain news approaching to some degree of certainty respecting the nature of the ufamutum which Russia has sent to the Porte. The particulars ap pear to correspond with those which we have recently laid before the public. The liberation of the Servian Deputies is insisted upon, and the French Journalists point out Servia and Bosnia as an equivalent likely to be given up to Austria, to obtain her concurrence in the proposed mea sures of Russia. The accounts from ,Greece continue to state circum stances similar to those which we have formerly given ; and the confirmation of them comes from so many quarters, that there must be some degree of authenticity in the in formation which they convey. The Freneh Papers contain also a letter to the Prince of ArHALT COETIIEM, from the King of PRUSSIA, on the subject of his conversion to the Catholic creed, in which his Majesty blames the Prince's conduct with a good deal of asperity. A Bull has been received at Munich against freema sons. The Court of Bavaria has thought it necessary to fortify the line of the Danube from Ratisbon to Dona wert, and it has done so without consulting Austria. An attempt has been made to, establish a species of Jesuits in Bavaria, under the title of Redetnptorists; but the King of BAVARIA opposed them, in consequence of a report of their being secret agents of Austria. In Spain, CArArt. has been acquitted by s single voice. RECACIIO has discovered in the Convent of the Capuchins de la Paciencia, in Madrid, a press in full operation, with a great number of copies of pretended addresses of Gen. MINA, ready to be circulated in the provinces. (From the Et(fife. dated Saturday 1 Letters from Constantinople, of the 9th April, received by ex press, contain the following intelligence : '• 31. de 3linziacky, as I have before written to you, has delivered to the Reis Effendi a categorical declaration of his Court, and since then all the Franks in Pent are in expectation of great news. It is already known, from good authority, that the Russian Cabinet insists on the stutu quo of 1820, in the two principalities of 3101- davit' and Wallachia. It further demands that the Turkish Go vernment shall send Commissioners to a place of its own choosing, to treat with Russian Commissioners—that the Session Deputies shall be immediately act at liberty, and their legitimate demands complied ith. • kik weeks time, from the dtty the note was presented (6th April), are given to the Turkish Government:to return an answer; and if it is not satisfactory, 141. dc Minziacky is to leave Constantinople with all his suite, and go to Bessarabia. When M. de Alinziacky presented this important note to the Reis Effendi, that Minister replied that It was so serious a matter that it would be absolutely necessary to lay it before the Divan for its decision. We therefore expect an extraordinary convocation of the Divan, to which all Ulemas and chiefs of corporations will be summoned. An soon as the presentation of the Russian note wu known to the Diplomatic Body at Peru, by whom it was entirely unlooked fur, they made &joint application to the Reis LlLndi, for the pur pose of inducing the Porte to comply with all the demands of Russia, since peace or war depends on it. It seems almost impossible that the Porte should give 1 nega. tive answer; and yet this Is what is feared by pereons who are particularly acquainted with the situation of the Sultan, who is under the influence of the military Chiefs, and is bound by other cansiderationa. since the arrival of this Russian courier much less is said of the affairs of the Mores. The Ministers of Austria, France; and Eng. land, hare despatched extraordinary couriers to their Govern ments. The Constitationarl of io.day affords a new proof of the igno. rance of journals lit on subjects on which they speak in the most positive manner. The changes which the journal supposes to have been required by the President foyer are pure inventions, and prove that it confounds the ordinance of the 17th April, and the commercial convention which was to follow it. Several journals have repeated, for some days past, that the num. her of officers who resign their commisssions increases considerably. • All that the Joerual des Debate adds to•day to this news is idehtly of its own invention.—Note of the Editor of the EWile. The Constilutionnet makes them 3,000. We believe we may affirm not only that this is false, but that since 18111 the number of re signations has been constantly on the decrease, and that last year it was the smallest. (From the Journal de Parie.l FRANKFORT ON TRE'ODER, APRIL 21. , (PRIVATE LETTER..I The latest letters from St. Petersburgh mention the preparations which are already begun for the approaching coronation of the Em. peror Nicholas. It is reported that the Emperor of Persia, like the great Eutopean powers, will send one of the chief officers of his Court, u Ambassador Extraordinary to Moscow, at the time of the coronation. ..... There was no report whatever of a change in the Russian Minis try, so that we may consider the accounts given by some German papers as premß:llTe. FRENCH Fuses.—Pnars, MAY s.—Fire per Cents, 96f. 50c. ' • Three per Cents . IHf. 50c. ; Bank Stork , 2025 f. ; Rent es de ,Naples, 7:w. tic.; Haytian Loan; 755 f. Exchange on London—One Month, 23f. t;t)c.; Three Months, 251. 40e.— Cour s Authchlipc. We received last night Flanders and Hamburgh and German Papers, from which the following are ex tracts : BRUSSELS, MAY 3. We are happy to say, on the authority of a private letter from the Hague, that the health of his Majesty still continues to im prove. MAT b. Hie Majesty's health is so much recovered, that there is reason to hope that he will soon have entirely got over the effects of hie accident. We learn fmm Utrecht that Gen. flennequin, after having been Interrogated ,n the important proceeding respecting the works on the new fortifications, has been put under confinement. The other persons, towards whom the same measure has been adopted, for the same reason, are Lieutenant-Col. Lobry, Capt. Van Asperity, and Lieut. Themmen. A letter from Lille, of May 3, says—" Marshal Soult, Duke Of Dalmatia, has arrived at Daual. from Germany. We hear that he will stay a few days in that town, where his son, the Marquis of Dalmatia, is on the Staff: Last Sunday the first procession of the Jubilee took place at Douai. We hear that they were favoured by very fine weather. Like the Crum of Cessation, and the Royal Court of Paris, the Royal Court of Douai took no part in the pro cession ; only two public functionaries, in costume, were at this ce remony, the Military Commandant and the Adjunct of the Mayor. There were no men, but a great many women, and pupils of the College and of divers schools. At Lille there were processions on the same day in three parishes, which did not much excite the zeal of the faithful."—Bruzre/s Papers, May 6. ST. PETERSIW . ROII, APRIL 19. Out of respect to the wishes and plans of the late Emperor, hls brother, his 31 sjesty has given orders that the Palace on the estate of Urjande, on the south coast of theCrimea,which he bought a few weeks before his death, shall be built in strict conformity with the plan which Alexander himself had laid down. Count NVoronzow, Governor of New Russia, will arrive here before the Coronation, and not go abroad till autumn. On the 14th thy Emperor and the Grand Duke Michael inspected the marine corps. The Council of the Empire has recognised and confirmed the ancient dignity of Princes enjoyed by the Georgian families, Beglabegow and Parchan Mouraw. According to a decision of the Minister of Finance, all articles of Russian produce or manufacture, when sent from Odessa to the in terior of the empire, must pay the same duty as foreign goods. To promote the trade of Revel, all goods may be achniued for six months into the l;ttstom•house, the importation of which is al lowed at Riga, only the importation of cloths, half cloths, and ker. seymeres, which by particular ukase is allowed at Russia, remains prohibited at Revel. The landowners in South Russia have now a prospect of a good market for their corn at Malta, where about 300,000 chetwerts are annually consumed, the greater part of which is from Odessa and Taganrog. The first foreign merchantmen arrived at Riga on the 31st March. HANOVER, APRIL 29. The General Assembly of the Estates of the kinkdom was opened on the 2fith. Count Munster is expected In a few days in London. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 2d. Prince Pignatelli Ruffo, the Sicilian Minister, was presented to his Majesty on the 23d. The new Tariff, confirmed by his Majesty on the 16th of March, is now in the press, and will take effect from the 13t of June. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBIIIGIT, PErEnsBuRRN, APRIL 7.32. LEIPSIO, APRIL 28.—Three Al ontbn, 6 19.. BERLIN, APRIL 29.—Three Months, 7 I,i.—Hamburgh Pa. per:, May 2 TRIESTE, APRIL 22. We have no new and direct account of the state of strength before Missolonghi ; but letters of the 14th, just received from Ancona, say, that the strain-boat from Corfu has brought accounts to the oth ; according to them, Missolonghl still defended itself bravely. Miaulis had come from Hydra with GO sail, and with supplies of all kinds, and had already captured twelve Egyptian transports. It was even reported at Corfu that Vassiladi was retaken ; but this seems premature. It is again affirmed that Ibrahim was wounded in the last attack, and that (louras had attacked the rear of the corps of the besieging army, under Pliaua Pacha.— Allgenichse Zeitung, April 30. At a late hour last night we received journals from va rious parts of the United States up to the 12th ult. The subject of the Panama mission still occupies the democratic portion of the North American Legislature, and seems no t very likely to be soon brought to a conclusion, still less to an amicable one. The following is an extract from the proceedings of the House of Representatives on this subject. The resolution reported by the Committee of Foreign Affairs is as follows : Ite*olvcd—That, in the opinion of the House, it is expedient to appropriate the funds necessary to enable the President of the United Ststes to send Ministers to the Congress of Panama. To which Mr. M`Lane moved the following amendment, to be adZed to the resolution : " It being understood as the opinion of thin House, that, as it has always been the settled policy of this (imminent, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political con nexion as pouible, to preserve prate, commerce, and friendship with all nations, and to form entangling alliances with none; the Ministers who may be sent shall attend at the said Congress in a diplomatic character merely ; and shall not be authorised to dia. cuss, consider, or consult upon any proposition of alliance, offen sive or defensive, between this country and any of the Spanish. American Governments, or any stipulation, compact, or declara tion, binding the United States in any way, or to any extent, to resist interference from abroad with the domestic concerns of the aforesaid Governments; or any measure which shall commit the present or future neutral rights or duties of these United States, either as may regard European nations, or between the several States of Mexico and South America." After a little conversation between Messrs. Crownin, Shield, Webster, Forsyth, and M•Lane, in which Mr. Forsyth expressed his wish to offer an amendment to be printed at the same time, but which was overruled until the subject should be before the House, the Committee rose, and the amendment offered by Mr. I‘l 4 l.ane was ordered to be printed : as also was the following amendment, offered by Mr. Forsyth:— Strike out all after the word " Resolved," sad insert— " That, in the opinion of this House, it is expedient to make an appropriation to enable the President to send Ministers to be pre sent at, but not ro become members of, the Congress of the Ame rican States at Panama ; it being distinctly understood that the said Ministers are to be authorised merely to express to that Con gress the deep interest of this country in the security and pros perity of the other American States; to explain, if requested, the principles which govern the United States in their political and commercial intercourse with all foreign nations ; to receive and to remit to their own Government sny proposition thst the whole or any one of the Powers represented in the Congress may think pro per to oflct, for the consideration of the Government of the United States." ['From the New York Daily Advertiser of Tuesday, April 11.1 The subject of the Panama mission is fairly agoing in the House of Representatives of the United States, and we understand the probability is that it will be settled in the course of the present month. How long the far-tamed Southern Congress are expected to hold their Session, we do not know. It would seem that the Members of ours are resolved to hold out in the discussion of the merits of the project, until the season shall have passed by, and the sitting of the other is closed. A vast many difficulties are stetted, a multitude of objections advanced, and a great variety of motions and amendments are made and offered, as if the case were one of prime importance and indescribable magnitude. We verily believe it might have been safely adjusted and disposed of, two or three months ago, without danger or difficulty, and in quite as good a manner as it will be after spending half a long Session in debating subjects which have very little to do with the measure. This Session seems to differ from those which have lately preceded it. Commonly some one great topic has been brought out, which ' furnished an opportunity tor the speaking members to display their I oratorical and reasoning faculties, for the benefit both of the houses and their constituents; and when that was disposed af, the actual business of the (lovernment has been taken up and despatched. This year there seems to be no end to great subjects ; and. of course, no enJ to debating. Every member has as many opportunities to distinguish himself in debate, and provide matter for the entertain• ment of his friends at home, as heart can wish. We are glad to perceive, by the proceedings of the Common Council la evening, that the monument erected to the memory of the lamented Lawrence, and which has been suffered to crumble to pieceq, is to be rebuilt in a substantial manlier, at the expense of the city. Our intelligence from (ha districts so recently disturbed, is particularly satisfactory. All bad feeling seems rapidly subsiding before the powerful display of generosity and fellow-feeling, which is every where evinced towards the wants of our distressed brethren. Notwithstanding the heavy pressure and emhsrrassment which the manufacturing districts may be constrained, for a time, to contend with, still, when we call to mind the solid, extensive, and durable ground-work, on which the commerce of the British empire rests, we not only enter tain no fear for the revival of its prosperity, but we feel assured that it is destined to arrive at far greater heights than it has ever yet attained. We ask, in the language of an animated public writer, " For whose opulence and en joyment are the ends of the earth labouring at this hour? For whom does the Polish peasant run his plough through the ground ? For whom does the American, with half a world be tween him and us, hunt down his cattle, or plant his cotton ? For whom does the Chinese gather in his teas, or the Bra zilian his gold and precious stones? ENGLAND is before the eyes of theta all. To whose market does every mer chant of the remotest corners of the world look? To which Cabinet does every Power, from America to India, turn with interest surpassing all others? Whose public feeling does every people struggling to raise itself in the rank of nations supplicate? The answer is suggested a` .ta THE BRITISH PRESS. inimum at once." • - With regard to the distress arising from the want of de mand for our manufactures, it is unquestionably very great ; but perplexing as it is for the present, it affords no ground fur despondency as to the future. It is a distress arising, not out of scarcity, but superabundance. To the individual holders of goods, whose warehouses are filled with articles for which there is no present demand, we grant that the effect is the same, for the time, whether they have nothing to sell, or can sell nothing; but it is obvious to reflection that, to the community at large, the difference is very great. If, for example, the stagnation in our cotton or woollen trade arose from a failure in the pro duce of the raw material, whether of wool or cotton, it would present a very different aspect tha- when proceeding, as it does, from overstocked storehouses of both articles, the purchasers 6f Which wait only for the fall of the speculation prices; which fall must eventually insure both demand and supply, and thus revive the ma nufacturing industry which the locked-up capital bad sus pended. lire have taken occasion more than once to point out the operation of those causes to which the present de pressed state of our internal trade may be distinctly traced. The foreign , demand for our manufactures must revive be fore the home demand can regain its former activity and extent. This result, however, must, from its very na ture, be gradual. We have a strong spirit of rivalry to cope with on the Continent, and we have their cheapness of labour to counteract ; but the wealth, enterprise, and perseverance of our manufacturing capitalists, and the su perior skill, talent, and energy of our workmen, while they throw open the ports of every nation of the world to British intercourse, will enable us eventually to triumph over all foreign rivalry, and, under the direction of those wise and salutary principles which our late experience will have taught us to value, leave us nothing to fear as to the final issue of the difficulties in which, by a too sanguine spirit of adventure, our commerce has, for a long time, become involved. • Monthly Review for April. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. In the early part of the day there was every appearance of a steady improvement in Consols, which advanced from 773 to 79k. The speeulators for a fall, however, could not allow this amend. ment to proceed, and they put forth a report that a naval armament was ordered to be fitted out at Portsmouth. This rumour had the effect of depressing English Securities, and Consols left off at 771 1. The story of the advance of the Russians to the Turkish frontiers was repeated, which, no doubt, assisted in producing de pression. Large Exchequer Bills were 9i. 10s. pm. ; and small ones 9s. to Ils. Bank Stock remained at yesterday's quotation, as did India Stock and Bonds. The Foreign Market continued in nearly the same state as on Friday. Russian Bonds were a shade better, viz. 76 ; and SouthlAmerican Stocks, which have been im proving. all the week, maintained themselves tolerably well at the close of the market ; but If any alteration is to be noticed, we should say they rather drooped from Friday's prices ; but the de cline wayso trifling,as to be undeserving of .totice. Greek Bonds were 15t 1 ; and Spanish ditto B. Some bargains were also done in the Newßot.ds at 5. The only arrivals to-day were from Germany and the United States ; but the communications were not of public interest. FROM THE COURT ATIVSMAN. On Saturday the Duke of York transacted military busi ness with the King. The Duke of York was busily engaged on Saturday with Sir Herbert Taylor, his Military Secretary, at his Royal Highness's residence in South Authey-street. On Saturday the Princess Augusta had a select party to dinner, at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. Yesterday the Princess Augusta attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. The Princess Augusta visited the King yesterday. Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner, on Saturday, to a numerous party, at his Royal Highness's house in Pall mall. Among the company w. re, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Wynn, the Earl of Shaftesbery, Lord Ashley, Earl Spencer, Earl of Aboyne, Earl Bristol, Viscount Melville, Viscount Althorp, Lord Clifton, Mr. Lushington, Mr. Scarlett, and Sir Henry Torrens. Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera-House with his presence on Saturday evening. Prince Leopold attended divine service yesterday morn ing at. St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-street. Yesterday divine service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, at the King's Palace, Pall-mall. The Earl of Liverpool held a consultation yesterday afternoon with Mr. Secretary Canning, at his Office in Downing-street. Viscount Melville transacted business on Saturday at the Secretary of State's Office for the Colonial Department. On Saturday the Swedish Minister transacted business at the Foreign Office. ' Saturday afternoon Mr. Havilarid, the King's Mes senger, arrived at the Foreign Office, in Downing-street, with despatches from the Hon. Frederick Lamb, the British Minister at Madrid. On Saturday morning, at half-past ten o'clock, the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council as sembled at the Privy Council Office in Whitehall-place. The Lords present were, the Lord President of the Council, Lord Bexley, Lord Stowell, Lord Colchester, and the Master of the Rolla. Their Lordships were principally occupied in hearing the further appeals of the Duke of Luxembourg and the Duke de Valois. Mr. Boyd's appeal was strongly urged by Mr. Fonblanque and Mr. Carr. The King's Advocate and Mr. Tyntlal were heard in sup port of the decision of the Commissioners. An application was made to their Lordships to re-hear the appeal of the Baron Bourgh, the Baron not being satisfied with their former decision ; but the principal ground of dissatisfac tion was, that Mr. Brougham, whom he had retained to support Ids appeal, was, at the time his appeal was ap pointed to be heard before their Lordships, on the Northern Circuit. Their Lordships refused the application. TASHIONARLE ARRANGEMENTS TUB: THE wierr. Tetra Eva se we.—The Duke of Northumberland's /fraud sheets Find pm, nd the loichrts's evening party, Northumberiard House ; the Martino! nets of Camden's drat grand assembly, Aril °stun—of ret ; the C. antes. o f Jetsey'd party, Berkeley-square; Lady Neave's rout,' Old Borllngtm, stet et ; Lord Itedesdale and the Hon. Mid. 311 ford's ball, Hatley.sevedi 31r, Chaplin's party, Weibetk-street. To-Moanow.—The CoUnteas of Arran's csrd party, Dover.ate, e t ; ty Thomas Chaplin's second assembly, Grafton-street) Long's senably, Richmond-ten ace. Wiut4l/10Ar.—Thr. Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury's im. mbly. Arlington-street; the Archbishop of York's antient music dinner, 6,0„, velor-square; Alenack's grand ball. Tnuasns v.—The Marchioness of Lanadiwn's grand rout, Berk e l ey , square; the Conotns of Arran's assembly, Dover-street ; Sir Win. Abdy. s music patty, Ma-street ; Lord and Lady Ducie's party, Dover -street. YelDer.—Lady Campbell's rout, Baker-street; the Hon. Mrs. H o pe. assembly, Manslield- , treet. _ SATURI/All.—The Countess of Arran's card party, Dover-street ; st i Wm. Atxly's music party, !1111-street. Su VOA Y.—The Couutess St. Antonio's concert of sacred music, Ea. nover-square. PARTIES. The Duke of Athol' entertained a distinguished party at dinner yester day, at his house In Great George.street. The Earl and Countess Gower entertained the Marquis and ?if arcbi cn ,, of Langdown and a large party at dinner yesterday, at their boast is Hamilton-place. Lord Colchester had a rand dinner party yesterday, at Ws house l a !Spring-gardens. The Hight Honourable William Finsklsson had a large party at din.", yesterday, at hls house In Somerset-place. Mrs. Gurney ha+ is•ned cards of invitation for an assembly on Frid ay, the 19th Instant, at her house i n St. Jamees-square. Mrs. Baring's rout, Intended for Thursday next, we have authority% state, Is postponed mall the 19th Inst. The following distinguished personages ha I dinner parties yesterday,. The Honourable CI arles Wynn, Whitehall-place ; Mrs. Couttg, Picts dilly; Colonel Cuff, M.P., Whitehall-place; Lord Berwick, Br/mutton square; the Earl of Shaftesbury,Grosvenor-square. ------- - 1110VEMEN'r9. The Marquis of 'Mehl:mid and Lord Georse Bentinek left town yeetn. ay. for Newmarket. The Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux left w as esterrlay, for their seat, Stoke Farm, near Windmr. Lord t . .:itarles Fitzroy Somerset left town yesterday, (or Newmarket. The Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Ayre have arrived at the St. Geuree's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their neat In Hint, Departures._ William and Lady Cooper and family, and Mrs. bannas, for Sfaoor House, Teddington. Sir William and Lady Jane Houston have left town, for their test, Avisford, Smo.ez. Mr. and Mrs. Childers have left the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-strett, on a tour. _ Arrivals at Miller's Rotel, Jermyn•street —The Rev. Mr. Tyre, from a tour; James Mo,ton, Esq. from a tour. Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street .—The Counteta of Etiangham, for her seat, Lindhurst ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bomar, f..t their seat In Kent; Morland, Raci. on a tour. — ArnimThe at Long's Hotel, Bond-street :—Count Wertenhsureh and Baron Winner). from Germany. Departores•—Major 'llturhend, fur the Continent; Capt. Griffiths, for Manchester; W. nippington, E3q. an a tour. Arrivals at the Brunswick Hotel, late Blake's, Jermyn.soreetl—M. and Miss Whitby and Captain Symons, from Hants; Edward %Mat, Esq. from Hants. Departures :—Mn. and the Misses Lister, for Boric! Palk, Lincolnshire. Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets -- Colonel Bromley, from tVorcestershire ; Mr. and Mrs. Davies, end Mrs Crummer, from Herefordshire. Departures:-31r. and Mrs. Hunter, f. ; Dunbar, N.B. ; —!tunings, Esq. for ditto ; Rey. Sergisuo, for Susses; Strgison, Jun. Esq. for ditto. Departures from the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—J. Kinnear, leq, for Armley House, Leeds; Sir W. Scott, for Scotland. LITERATURE. THE MARTYR, A DRAMA, BY JOANNA BAILLIE. There is a taste springing up of late, which seems to promise a more,intim tte association between elegant liters. cure and Christian knowledge than has hitherto chem . terized the more serious portion of the public—a large portion, we are willing to believe, whatever bigots or sceptics may say to the contrary. That such a union is desirable, no person can doubt who wishes to see religion disengaged km vulgar cant, and who is solicitous, at the same time, and by the same means, to purify the springs of literature until they reflect the image of virtue with all the brighten; of the original.— Mr. Milman's dramatic poems up, n scriptural subjects have gone a great way towards procluci ig, or at least ma• nifesting, this effect. Their reception has been flattering, their circulation has been extensive, and the name they have acquired for their author is one of those encouraging circumstances which authors know well how to appreciate. To the example gf Minim is now to be added that of Joanna Baillie, a lady who is in need of no formal intros duction to the reader, having by her p'ays on the Passion, and other well-known works, advanced her pretensions many years ago to the acquaintance of every enlightened mind. It may not be uninteresting, however, to say a word or two respecting the terms on which Miss Baillie seems to stabd with her immediate judges (the public), in regard to her reception ass writer. %Pith criticism (that is, with for. mal written criticism) she can have no dispute. Its notices have not only been kindly, but promptly administered; a felicity not often accorded to genius. With her theatrical tribunal the case was different: blunt and democraticin their temperament, though often capricious in their taste, they pronounced upon the dramatic character of her plsysa sentence against which she will naturally appeal to any one who will accept the jurisdiction. The fact, however, sem; to be, that the system-building, attempted on so. novel a plan as that of limiting each play to the developn ent of a single passion, though like enough to attract curiosity in the first instance, was too much at variance with 11 e free action of the drama, and the complicated movements of the human heart, to be attended with complete success. Poetry might break through the impediment, and it did so; but pate awn, and variety, and character, were discountenancal by the very first condition on which it was proposed to unite their suffrages. We cannot help thinking, therefore, that the fine descriptions and lofty sentiments, and pcetic visions, of this accomplished writer, are much better qualified to sus tain a dramatic poem than a play, in the strict sense of the word ; and that even those which she has written, if not with a view to the stage, with a closer adaptation than the rest, will corroborate the opinion we have only echoed from the authority of more than one audience. But it is time that we should apply what we have been saying to her last production, The Martyr,--s subject worthy in every respect to exercise the powers of Miss Baillie, and adapted in its nature to the peculiar bent and tendency of those powers. In the first place, it is quite evident that the character of a Christian martyr was nects• sarily more simple than that of any other sufferer to he found in the annals of affliction. Animated by a sin_]: sentiment, which, if it did not absorb every other in itself, subdued their force and corrected their wanderings, and assimilated their complexion to its own, it approached nearer to those isolated views of passion and emotion, which, from early habit, this writer bad been accustomed to prefer. In the next place, there was, if we mistake not, in the calm sublimity of the subject, another point of attraction to the sympathies of such a mind. The tone of moral reflection apparent in all the former productions of the sante pen, and the loftiness and grandeur to which it was sometimes raised by the in fluence of smaller excitements, could scarcely fail to be displayed in a manner still more striking and energetic, when, under the auspices of virtue, it proceeded to the august ceremony of presenting martyrdom with its crown. Those who judge of a literary work as they would of a piece of broad-cloth, by its length, will be discouraged when they arc told that The Martyr consists of only seventy-six pages. Those again who judge of a dramatic,. work by the number of acts into which it is divided, will be shocked, when they hear that The Martyr, instead of five, is limited to three. For such disappointments as these we can offi:r no consolation, except what the objectors can collect from the following statement:—An illustrious band of critics (peace be with their manes !) resolved, once upon a time, that no poem should be cansidered an Epic, however heroical the subject or poetical the verse, which did not consist of twenty-four books; and such was the force of authority, or the efficacy of dimension, that man kind took almost a century, to consider before they could make up their minds to burst out laughing at the none sense. But there is a better class of judges than either of those we have mentioned, who will also have to quarrel with the execution of this work. They are the lovers of action, of passion, of character. For them, too, The Marlyn can have no charms, unless it be that poetry, in however ab stracted a shape, must find eome estimation in every breast which is capable of harbouring a taste for any intellectual enjoyment. As for the plot, or story, we will not do the drama 60 much injustice as to divulge it in the two or three lines within which it may be comprised. Suffice it to say, that the only interest it possesses must be divided between the f ---, .._r" . • "iv: - te ,-- --.. -- --._ -- • • - "''''.. Cf.: -.-- " - —.'"•sizi* .51116 IV-1 411.• - .......- 4f.5,,,,,,11 4., v ~,iv, = - . -kr el, - .z . 410te r . • ,:_ -IW 1 • - =I