The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (Prom the Mmager des Cliambres of Sundey.) Teter is no important news from the theatre of eta,. It seems certain that all that has been said of a iccet bettle in the neighbourhood of Yarns is des feu-e a: foundation : the position of the contending a: mies are still the same. Letzere from Bucharest, of the 28th of Decem ber, announce that a thaw had set in three days before, and that the roads continued to grow more and more imnas'able. The last litter , * from Lisbon are of the 6th of January. They confirm what was announced by the telegraphic despatch respecting the improvement of Don :4ieetiel's health. The Courier de Smyrne, according to custom, en deavo-nrs to place the Greek Government in the wnrst light. That journal, in its last number, says, " The Government could find no means of putting a stop to the alarming desertion among the troops of Ypsilanti, which threatened a total dissolution of his corps. but to spree , ' a report that a Turkish army had orders to invade the Peloponnesus. This news has produced a bad effect among the inhabi tants, several of whom have suspended the rebuild ing of their houses, and forming plantations. Cap tain Cr:exi has succeeded Bassano in the command of the Greek flotilla, which has done nothing but capture a Turkish brig anti a gun-boat in the gulf of Prevesa. The corps of General Church, not being able to undertake any offensive operations, con fines itself to useless demonstrations, which can not ,aye the Turks, and are very burdensome to Greece." ODgssA, DEc. 27.—General Diebitsch, the Chief of the Staff, left Jassy on the 25th of December for St. Petersburgh. General Strekaloff, who is ap pointed Governor of Tiflis, arrived at Odessa on the 25th on his way to his post. (From the Gazette de France of Jan. 19.) PARIi, JAN. 18.--The Diario di Ronza announ ces, under the head of Corfu, that the Ottoman Primates of Epirus and Albania having been cenvo ked at Berat and Janina, to receive a communice /ion from the Porte, inviting them to continue the war at their own expence, as the Government was unable to afford them any assistance, resolved not to continue so ruinous a war, but to negociate with the Greek Government. Accounts had been re ceived from Malta, that there were in that port five English ships of the line, and seven English frigates and brigs. Great exertions were making there to repair the fortiErations. The French are also busy in fortifying Patras. (From the Journal des Debuts.) (PRIVATE LETTER.) LISTO.I, JAN. 3.—The greatest activity reigns in the War Department, Orders have been issued to put in motion 4,000 men of the division of Chaves, who are divided among the provinces of Alernejo, Beira, and Tras-os-Montes : 800 men were to repair to Lisbon, about an equal number to Oporto, and the rest were to proceed to those points of the coast which are most easy of access. This measure proves that the Government has more confidence in the troops of the Chaves division than in those of any other divisions of the army ; it has, therefore, produced a bad effect on the regiments in garrison at Lisbon. (EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER.) Consternation reigns in the palace at Queluz, since the great council held there on the 30th of December. The Ministers of War and Foreign Affairs have had conferences with the usurper of se veral hours' duration. The abject of these confe rences is to find means of maintaining for Miguel an army strong enough to keep the inhabitants of Por tugal in awe, without taxing tilem for the payment of it. The result is said to be a decision to dimi nish the number of troops of the line, and substitute for theta new royalist volunteers, under the pretext that the existing army is that which, in 1320, com mitted so many .disorders, and which has figur ed in to many revolutions. Serious misunder standings exige between the volunteers and regulars. The councils of the Ministers are frequent, and it is generally believed tliat they are occasioned by the last despatches receivedfrem London cud the Isle St. 'Michael. The prisoners of state from Madeira are still on board the transports. They thus, at least, escape the cruelty of our prison-gaolers, eel the ...onerous maladies arising from the infected atmosphere of the prisons. Russian officers, and several hundred privates taken prisoners, almost all wounded, have been brought hither in a very deplorable condition, it is said, from Silistria. They are distributed on some islands near the capital, where they are attended by the physician of the Eur,p,ean Legations. The Sultan is said not to have shown himself well disposed to wards them. It was with great difficulty that the Austrian, Dutch, and Danish Ambassadors ob tained from the Reis Effendi permission to send them medical assistance, and to provide for their most urgent wants. The want of ready money is sensibly felt, and the Turkish Ministry is seriously engaged in devising means to put a stop to the increasing embarrass in;..nt. What it means to adopt is not known. Or dinary methods are not applicable in a country which has no regular financial system, and extraor dinary ones are dangerous, as the germ of discon tent exists, and the old esprit du carp: of the Ja nissaries does not cease to manifest itself under the most diverse forms. _ _ VIENNA, JAN. B.—Metalliques, 96 ; Bank Skirt*, 1,109. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONII o'CLoCX. Bank Stof.k 211% IN :South Sea Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. B7 6% 7 Old Annuitioe — 3 per Cent. Cons 86! ,. ,% 1 jNew Ditto — 34j per Cent. O6 :Ex. Bills, 1:1,00019d. 67 03 prn. Ditto Red. 96 5% j Ditto i!,00 9d. 67 68 pm. -I per Cent. lolyi 'Ditto Small Ditto, 11 , 26 Bank L. Ann. 19 15-16 £0 19% Bank for Account — India Steck 2a) !India for Account — Ditto Benda ...... ...... —, 67 pm. ,Cons. for Acct t'34 PRICES 07 T0RE , ...:, 4 /TUNES THIS DAT AT ONE LCCI.OOE. Austrian Bend:; .... !Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds Buenws Ayres Bond,. —lPortuguese Bonds Chilian Bonus — Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds ........ ..... Ditto, New — Ditto, 1924 Danish Greek Bonds Ditto, 18/5 — French Renter, sp. c. —f. —'c. Guatirnals. — Exchange —t. —r... Mexida:i Bonds -- 3 per cent....... -r. -c. Ditto, 18,25 — Eichange —f. --c. GERMAN PAPERS. C O NSTA.V:.'INOPLE,DEC.I B .—We have news from Stryrea, stating that an European man-of-war had dete'ned a Greek ship, the papers of which are said, to have been regular, but whica chased fo reij off the Dardanelles, and in spite of the rernouetrences of the Captain has taken it to Smyrna. The ;eek Captain continued his complaints there, and .he affair is reported to the Minister of the Ne therlands in this city, in consequence of which it excite, some attention. By the death of Husney Bey, who was so high in the Sultan's favour, the pacific party think they have been rid of one of their chief opponents; but it is not likely that a change will rake place in the Sultan's way of thinking. All the appointmeete since the deposition of the late Grant Vizier have a warlike tendency, and leave but little hope that the Porte will consent to concessions or negociatioee for peace which do not seem honourable for the Divan. Meantime the discontented party do not fail to spread all kinds of unfavourable reports re specting the state of affairs. Thus they gave out that Hussein Pacha had vanished, but better in formed persons know that he had marched to Sills tria. Others, equally unfavourable, succeeded each other. It seems certain, however, that the Grand Vizier is prevented by the severity of the winter from undertaking any operation, and that the typhus has also broken out in his camp, and carries off nu merous victims. It is also observed that Asiatic troops pass the capital by circuitous routes, and le tunn to the coast of Asia. These circumstances had probably some influence on the more energetic war like prepaiatione ordered by the late &m an. The negociations respecting Greece are still the object of diplomacy in that city, and elmoet all the communications to the Porte refer to them. Little as the latter is disposed to ascent to the views of the Powers, it has adopted a eyeneee. which, without making concessions, promises to maintain amicable relations with all, so long as they do not of them selves break with it, and, like Russia, declare war. Europe has had opportnnitiee So be convinced of this. The French expedition to the Mores has produced no more change in the senti ments of the Porte than the bettle of „Nava rin and the departure of the Ambassadors did before; and notwithstanding these events, it considers Count Guilleminot and Mr. Stratford Canning as Ambassadors accredited to it.— The prudent conduct of the latter, and the con tinued endeavours of the English and French Ad mirals in the Archipelago to convince the Porte how much these Governments des:re to avoid a formal breach with it, have contributed to confirm this system, and may perhaps in the end overcome all difficulties, and lead to an arrangement of affairs. The arrival of Admiral de Rigny at Smyrna, who is ~.id to have gone thither at the request of Baron Von Zuylen, it at this moment important, and the confidence with which he is honoured by his Government, and which he was justified by his prudent conduct in the most trying circumstances, as well es the esteem he has acquired its the e:titnation of the Porte, make hint peculiarly qualified to act with effect on this occasion. It is probable, too, that the Russian blockade of the Dardanelles may have induced the French Admiral to appear in those seas to protect the interests of his nation. The negociatiotte with Mr. (Miley, the American Cori 1, proceed favourably, and a com mercial treaty, advantageous to bath parties, will soon be concluded. The acha of Egypt, of whose judgmestt a high opinion is entertained here, is said to have advised the Porte to grant ell possible faci li to the American co mmerce. We have no recent news IEOIII the 41Diy. &we 1/ <S ) *Anto • LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1899. The most important information in the French Papers is the following document, which has been extracted from the Augsburg Gazette. But the Messager des Chambre; doubts its officia lity—and this doubt receives some importance from the Augsburg Paper, which dates the de claration of M. DE JAUBERT under the head of DECLAR kTION CARRIED TO CONSTAI4TINOPLB BY W. JA BERT. " The declaration of the 11th of August last, which was delivered to the Reis Effendi by his Ex cellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands, in the name of France, Great Britain, and Russia, has male known to the Porte the motives and the ob ject of the expedition to the Morea. The imme diate result which the three Powers proposed to effect by that expedition have fortunately been attained. The departure of Ibraliam, and the eva cuation of the fortresses by the Turkish and Egyp tian troops have put an end to the effusion of human blood in the Morea, and extended tran quillity to that country ; but the work of the Powers would be incomplete, if, by the depar ture of their troops, the inhabitants of the Mores were 'exposed to new invasions. The Powers, therefore, owe it to their own dignity to prevent it. It is with this view that, at the moment when the allied forces are disposed to retire from the Morea, after having accomplished their pacific mission, th. three Courts declare to the Sublime Porte that, till a definitive arrangement, made in common with them, has regulated the lot of the provinces which the alliance has caused to be occupied by their troops, they place Me Morea and the isles of Me Cyclades under their provisional guarantee, and that in virtue of this declaration they will view, as an aggreazion against themselves, the entrance of any military foree into that country. " In bringing to the knowledge of the Sublime Porte this resolution, the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia, are pleased in acknowledging the wisdom with which the Porte has avoided a prolongation of the calamities of war in the Morea. They hope that, guided by the same spirit, it will be animated with a desire to terminate those ques tions which fur eight years have held Europe in a state of anxiety and agitation ; and that it will enter with tha three Courts on an amicable nego tion to regulate the lot, and thus secure the defini tive pacification of Greece. " London, Nev. 16. (Signed) " ABERDEEN. POLIGNAC. LIEVEN." It would be idle to make any observations upon the above document till we learn whether it is official or not• The Port Letter from Falmouth, received this morning, mentions the arrival of his Majes ty's brig .P/tcmper, Lietitenalt MgDLLY, frpra Sierra Leone in 54 days, having on board 40 prisoners, taken out of a schooner under Buenos Ayrean colours, by one of his MAJESTY'S cruizers, for acts of piracy committed on that coast. The contents of the German Papers are ono day for peace, and the next day the very re verse. The accounts are altogether so contra dictory as to defy people to know what they would be at. An article from Vienna of tha Bth inst. says:— " We know, from a good source, that the corps of General GEISMAR, which is before Widdin, has been considerably augmented, and that the Russians intend, at the opening of the next campaign, to pass the fortresses of the Danube and the defiles of Shumla, and to penetrate Turkey by Servia. This new plan is attributed to General DIEBITSCH, This plan occasions great uneasiness to Prince METTERNICH, because he knows that Servia and Bosnia are not well disposed towards the PORTE, and that tH inhabitants might easily profit by this circumstance to throw off the heavy yoke which has so long weighed them down, and perhaps follow the example of the Greeks. He knows that such a propinquity would have an effect on Hungary and Transylrapia ANCONA, DEC. 9,13. We are daily more and more convinced that an arrangement between the Cabinets of London and Paris and the Porte is preparing, and that the affairs of Greece will be shortly settled. It is affirmed that every facility is afforded to the Porte to enable it to come to a decision, and that a way will be opened for negociationa, and the return of Messrs. Stratford Canning and Guilleminot to Constantinople.— Couriers hastening from London and Paris to Poro3 are said to have conveyed most important instruc tions to the Ambassadors. The Admirals toe, and the Lord I-ligh Commissioner at Corfu, are said to hare received new orders, accompanied with the strictest injunctions to avoid every thing that might afford the Porte grounds for complaint. It is even affirmed in letters from Corfu, that Sir Pulte ney Malcolm has been blamed by the English Go vernment for the indifference with which he tolerates the new piracies of the Greeks, as well as for his conduct on other occasions. General Maison has stopped the works which had been commenced for the defence of the Peninsula, and seems to have left the completion of them to the Greek Government. The French soldiers, who, on their arrival, were en thusiastic in favour of the Greek cause, ara reported to be now much less so, and long for orders to return home. It is even said that General Maison has ex pressed such a wish in one of his despatches, but this does not seem to be suitable to the General's character. Frequent remittances arrive for the Rus sian fleet is the Mediterranean, and the large amount of the sums chews how great the expences are which Russia is put to by the war with the Porte. FRONTIERS OP SRRVIA, DIX. 28. There is a great deal of ice in the Danube, by which the navigation is wholly interrupted. The conveyance of provisions to the Turkish fortresses is thereby rendered impossible, for the deep snow hin ders supply by land. Some embarrassment is felt at Belgrade respecting the immediate execution of the orders received from Constantinople, for the supply of the troops and the formation of magazines in those fortresses. The contractors, in particular, appear to have forgotten one stipulation in the con trecs, eioption from responzibiflty, if they were hindered by had weather from fulfilling their engagements. This imprudence may cost them dear, for the Turk adheres strictly to the letter and admits of no excuse. Since the last mail, and the arrival of a courier at the lazaretto, we have no news from Constantinople, nor have we any thing worth notice from other parts. The report of an attack made by the Turks on Bazardjik, which I mentioned in a former communication as needing confirmation, seems to be wholly unfounded. The contagion in Wallachia is said to have greatly abated in consequence of the very severe cold that has set in. VIENNA, JAN. 9.—Metalliques, 196 i ; Bank Shares, 1,1121. The Port Letter, from Lynn this morning notices the arrival of the Maria, Capt. PAUL, from Kell. What renders this worth notice is the fact, that this vessel has been nearly two years on her voyage, laden with wheat, having put into Jutland and Mandahl, wl - ►re she had received damage, repaired, and sold part of her cargo. This must have been a very profitable voyage both for owners and cargo. We have received, this morning, the limn lurgh Reporter, of the 13th inst., and other Papers of the same date. Their tone is par ticularly warlike. The Russians are indefatigable to repair the losses of the last campaign for 000 pieces of cannon, and 150,000 irregular Cos sacks, and other troops are on their way to the Danube : IiAIIBURGII, JAN. 9. In consequence of the slight frost and snow which we have had for some time past there is a good deal of floating ice, particularly lower down the river, in consequence of which several ships both going down and coming up' have been obliged to lie to. The passage to and from Hamburgh is still open. PROM TIIE VISTULA, DEC. 26. The commercial letters :received from St. Peters burgh give no hope whatever that the war with the Porte will be terminated during the winter by diplo matic negociations, bi:t speak only of the incredible activity which is employed to open the campaign with an army twice as numerous as before. Re cruits are pouring in from all parts of the immense empire ; 900 cannon have been rent from the arsenal at Moscow to the Danube, and the cavalry depots are all emptied to supply without delay the loss of horses. One hundred and fifty thousand irregular Cossacks and other troops are on their march to the Danube. The Emperor, it is said, will command the army in person, and go to join it in the month of March. General Diebitsch remains at the head of the staff, and Count Wittgenstein will command the van of the Emperor's army. Ge nerals Roth, Geismar, and Rudiger, w►ll have se parate corps, to act on the Banks of the main army, and the Duke of Wurternburg :will command the reserve. An unauthenticated report says that the Polish army is to be increased by 10,000 men, but in no ease to be employed against the Tu r ks. It seems, however, that a division of it is to be in gar rison at St. Petersburgh, during the war with the Turks. There are many reports about notes said to have been presented by the great Powers, and even of an ultimatum delivered by the English Ambassa dor Extraordinary. We nun, however, afiSrm, on good authority, that all these reports are wholly unfounded.. The most perfect understanding pre vails between the Allied Cabinets, sad will not be interrupted. P.ORSEN HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK. Funds arc firm with little business doing. Anglo-Danizti Lean, 3 per cent Anglo- Russian Loan Ilanburgb-Russitn Loan •• E 411,4 Anglo-Pr:nil 'an..., Lean of ISIS ...... -..... ..... 4-1194 Austrian Hull( 51:ares llll Auittian Iletalliques 93% lixelianAe upon Londcn, at two roontll9 IB 64 ut 7 h A letter from Vienna says, that Prince Leven, the Russian Ambassador, at London, had declined ratifyirg the Protocol, fixing the new boundaries of Greece, until he should have received further in structions from his Court. Gibraltar Chroniclei, of the lst inst., have been received, which fully confirm the favour able intelligence of the di2appearance of contagi ous fever. Business wag reviving, and every thing betokened a continuance of health. Charleston Papers have been received to the 19th ult. at th 3 North and South American Coffee-house, but their contents are uninterest ing ; the only article worth extracting is the following:— " STATE OF COLUMBIA, DRc. 12.—The Report of the Committee of the whole House, recommending the impeachment of Chancellor Thompson, was this day agreed to in the House ; Ayes, 94, Noes, 22; and the Committee appointed to conduct the impeach ment are—Messrs. Legere, Pressly, Bull, Holmes, and Nixon. Mr. Bull moved to be excused, but the House refused; the eause for this proceeding is not stated." We have received Newfoundland Papers, of the 23d ult. inclusive. They contain the par ticulars of a dreadful fire at Port de Grain, Con ception Bay, on the 16th, which commenced in the house of a Mr. J. JAcoßs. The premises were destroyed, and the unfortunate inmates, consisting of Mrs. JAcoßs, her three children, and two servants, fell a sacrifice to the devouring clement. Mr. JAcoßs was absent, at St. John's. We wish that Mr. PERL, while he is busily engaged in pruning the redundancies, rectifying the blunders, and making sense of the absurdi ties of our Criminal Code, would direct his attention to the wretched farco—the relic of a barbarous age, and therefore a disgrace to a civilised one—of drawing prisoners eouvicted of coining, on a hurdle, to the place of execution. The worse than folly of such a custom, was this morning practically exemplified. A poor creature who had taken his last farewell of life, and was awaiting with a sort of desperate anxiety the awful moment of death, who had bidden adieu to his friends and relativ4s, and was silently breathing his last invocation to his MAKER—a poor criminal thus happily abstracted, was called back, as it were, to life, and, consequently, to wretchedness, by the ridiculous delay attendant on his being placed on a hurdle ; which had, ,some how or other, been forgotten. Of course, such a farce could not fail to divert thought from its proper channel, and disturb the equanimity of a mind which had been previously resigned to the worst. We hope for the honour of common sense, if not of humanity, that it will never be repeated. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, T►►azrN o'CLocr. The Brokers and Jobbers are all extremely busy in the Settlement, this being Account day at the Stock Exchange ; and, from the appearances, the dealers have all been what is termed caught Bears. Consols opened both for money and February Ac count at 87i have been buyers at 87i !, but are at present at the first price ; the contango has all gone off, and the Funds are the same for money as time. With the exception of one defaulter of no import.. ance, every thing seems to be going on smoothly in the Settlement; the Commissioners paid 86/ for Consols. India Bonds are 67 9, and Exchequer Bills 66 7 pm. In the Foreign Funds there is literally no business, and not a bargain has yet been marked ; the follow ing are the nominal prices. In Shares the prices are the same as for the last few days, with no busi ness Three per Cent. Consols, 874 Ditto, for February, 87i ; India Bonds, 67 68 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 66 67 pal. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols are now quoted without the dividend and are 861} both money and February, and the 3f per Cent. Reduced 96, Four per Cents. (1826) 10.514. Scarcely any brisittess. The accounts from Vienna, of the 12th instant, represent the news as pacific, and the Metalliques have ris©n to 961 71. It is understood that the purport of the visit of the French Ambassador to Paris is to take his seat in the House of Peera on its opening. TERRE 0' CL 0 Cif. Consols fc•r money S6i, and for February Ac count 86i buyers. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 86i I Danish 63 Do. for Ac. 86i Greek, 1825 15} Beazilian Bonds 63 Mexican, 182.5 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 16i Chilian Do. 23 Russian 96 Columbian, 1824 221 Spanish 94 MR. ABERNETHY'Ii STATE OF HEALTH) .._.Yesterday afternoon, from two till four o'clock) no ox pectstion whatever was entertained that Mr. Abernethy could have seen the close of the day. He however rallied in the evening, and the answer given to inquiries at his door, at twelve o'clock this morning, was, that he had passed a good might, and felt considerably recovered. HIS C , :trilt3 of a severe aathratticalattodc. SUIPPIN6 INTELLIOtNOE-(T HIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN.2O.--Wind N.W.—Arrived horn London, the Forester, for Tobago. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E. —Sailed his Majesty's ship Onyx, for Gibraltar. FALMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind the London packet, from Philadelphia; Hunterliffe, Stafford, from Honduras ; and hie Majesty's brig Plumper, from Sierra Leone, iu fifty days, having 40 - pirates on board, taken out of a schooner by one of his Majesty's cruizers for committing acts of piracy. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Arrived the Swallow, Grills, from Brazil ; Dart, Silly, from St. Michael's; and John Kelson, Roberts, from Newfoundland. PLYmoe'rx, JAN. 19.--Arrived the Harriet, Ford, from the South Seas; Pearl, Michtl, from the River Plate; and Eliza, Edwards, from St. Michael's. The Duke of Bedford, from Bombay, has arrived off Weymouth. he Mary, Harrison, from Keil to London, was driven on shore, near Copenhagen, previous to the 6th inst., but is expected to be got off. LAW INTILLLIGENCI?..-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. BEDDALL V. PACill. Mr. BARBER opened the pleadings in this ease yesterday. The plaintiff was the brother of a Mr. James Lambert Beddall, who occupied a farm neur Braintree. This gentleman wns of dissipated habits, and unable to manage his farm himself, and there fore the defendant (Mr. Page) was appointed his bailiff. At the death of Mr. J. L. Beddall, the plaintiff became entitled to his property. On coming into possession, he thought he ought to hare got more, and being dissatisfied with the defendant's conduct, filed a bill against him for an account. The answer having been put in in consequence of a pend ing indictment for perjury against Mr. Page, and on which he was afterwards acquitted, the decree was taken pro confers°. Aggrieved by that decree, which, in point offset, went further than the bill had prayed, he filed the present petition to have that decree set aside. Mr. Norne and Mr. Barker appeared for the ap pellant, and Messrs. Sugden, Pepys, and Patterson, for Mr. Beddall. Mr. HORNE addressed the Court at cont:derable length. Mr. BARBER followed on the same side, and was speaking when we left. COURT OP KING'S BENCH. NAUTINI3.IO V. SMITU. Mr. GURNEY stated, that this was an action on a promissory note. The plaintiff was a partner in a banking house at St. Albans, and the defendant an opulent farmer in the same county. The action was brought to recover 8471. 14s. being the amount of three instalments, which remained unpaid from a prosnissory note for 1,9001. accepted jointly by de fendant and George Edwards, his son-in-law, in August, 1827. It was to be paid by instalments, and some of them were paid, but upon the plaintiff's clerk applying for those in arrear some demur was made to paying by Mr. Smith. Several respectable witnesses were then called, and proved to their belief that the signature was in the hand-writing of the defendant, who attempted to prove by cross-examination that being 70 years of age, he had been imposed on, and induced to sign on the supposition that he was signing a notice to quit, for one of his tenants. Sir .J. SC./31121r for the defence contended, that the signature was not the defendant's, and called ae veral witnesses to that effect. He also insinuated, that George Edwards had written the note over the blank signature of his father-in-law, which lie had fraudulently obtained. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 8471. 14s. PRICES OF SHARES TH. Braziltan Imp. MITI. Co. CiSi. at 51. Ditto National Hibernian Mining Co. Protector insurance Comp. COURSE OF ESCHA A anstrardam C.F 12 1 Ditto, at sight 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp l2 11 Hambu }I.B 13 12 Altona ,13 12} Paris, 3 Liss.' s4l.t .ais SS Ditto .2 C. 25 60 Bordaaux 25 65 Beelia _ _ Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 PeterOburgh, rule, 1 Us. 10 0 ienna, eft:Jive 11. 2M. 10 9 Tfi€Ste do 10 Madrid 37Y, Cadiz 374 374 Barce:dua Seville Gibraltar 413 PARZION EICISANCIES OW LO) DOW. Tiswrystemt, JAN. 19.-13. 7N.—Two mouths, IS. C. Bitrwer. JIM. 10.—Thr*e months. 6. 2U. cßsurrl4,l B A, JAM a—Three months, 6. 18. Arrived. Due. Arrived. One. 0 America 0 2 Hamburgh 1 0 Brasil 0 Buriloa Ayres 1 Dubl.n 0 0 Flanders 1 I France 0 0 Gotteithtirgh 1 Guernsey&Jersey 0 0 Jamaica 0 Leewaid IslancL; U Lisbon 1 0 Malta 0 Mexico 1 Waterford HMI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDCE TO—MORROW. Morning ...357 minutes after 9 Evening....s9 minutea after 3. COLOSSEUM. riIICKETS for PARTIES, or SINGLE I. TICKETS, at Five Shillings each for Admission to the COLOSSEUM, prior to its 6nal completion, to view the Interior of the Building—the Rooms pieparing fur Annual Subscribers—and the Conservatories, may be Lad at the North Lodge of the Colos.teuna ; at Sams' Library, St. Jamee'-street; Ehers', New Bond-street ; Andrews's, New Bond-street ; Moon, Beve, anti Graves, No. 6, ; Ackerman's, Regent-street and Strand ; Taylor's Architectural Library, Holborn ; Carpenter's Library, Holborn; Harris's Juvenile Library, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Pbeney, Bookseller, 17, Fleet-street; Hi chardsmes, Royal Exchange; and the Miners - A Library, Leadenhall-etreet. The Building will continue OPEN DAILY, from Ten to Four, during the next week. DAT AT ONI ectocr. Pail. pm.) £2O ..... 5 XV NOE TESTERDAT. Leghorn 4B 'Genoa 35 45 Venice Malta Naples irslermo per or. 120 ishon Oporto 43i4 27}4 34 Buenos Avita 'Dublin, 21 days' sight 174 Cork BULLIO7I, PEE C. X. t. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 10i New I_:oubloons l 16 0 ew Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 Per Share es 14 4 4;1 3 0 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. When the first ease was called on this morning, it being a Special Jury, only six: Special Jurymen were in attendance, and the Chief Justice fined Pe v eral of those who were absent in the sum of 10/. each. One of the summoning officere being also absent, he wus tined 40s. LANE v. WICKET AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to re cover upwards of 4001., for his services as clerk to the Imperial Distillery Company, of which the de fendants were shareholders. There was very considerable difficulty in proving the defendants to be partners in the company, owing to the want of a stamp upon some letters which were offered as evidence of a contract, and which were therefore obliged to be withdrawn. The CHIEF JUiTICIi said he wished the stamp laws were altogether repealed, for his experience of thez clearly proved that they were productive of much mischief and of the grossest injustice. The plaintiff was the Secretary of the Company, which is now no longer in existence, and was em ployed by the Directors at a salary of 5001. per an num. He filially succeeded in making out a prima facie cases that the defendants were partners. ' Mr. Sergeant 'FADDY for the defendants contend ed that the Company was actually got up by the plaintiff himself, for the purpose of delusion, and that the defendants not having executed the deed were not liable, inasmuch as by the re . clitions of the Company at its formation, no one could continue a member, unless within thirty days he executed the deed. By not doing so, he forfeited his right to all shares of profit, and therefore the defendants ought not to be held liable, being precisely in this predica ment. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 3751. NIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY. THE CAMI3RIAN. The KING'S ADVOCATE applied for Head Money for the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Cam brian. In the year 1825 the ship was stationed on the African Coast for the purpose of suppressing piracy. About that time she fell in with a Greek privateer, carrying 60 men, with which she had an engagement, and captured ; 14 of the pirates were killed, 19 of them made prisoners, and the rest, it was supposed, were drowned, the vessel haying been set on fire. The COURT decreed head-money for 60 men. Yesterday the despatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the pursers of the fol lowing ships, via. :--Farquhar, Captain John Cruick shanks ; Inv/is, Captain Joseph Dudcuan, for Bengal and China. WEST LONDON GAS COMPANY.—Yester day a meeting of the proprietors and holders of scrip in this Company, took place at the George and Vulture, Corn hill (Mr. Roberts in the chair), at which resolutions wet, euterod into, vesting the nomination of Directors, fa-A fixing the amount of salaries, in the Proprietors alone, and autho rising the Coulpsny to lend money on its own shares, at five per cent. till the 29th February. BODY STEALING.—On Sunday evening two dead bodies were stolen from the dead-honse - of St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, which contained six dead bodies at the time. The robbery is said to hare been committed by persons who are termed " Resurrectionists," who contrived to break open the deed-house and carry away the bodies nnperc-eired by the beadles and watchmen. A great deal of suspicion has arisen that the robbery could not bare been effected without the ail of some persons connected with the establishment. One of the dead bodies was that of a child who had been butut to death. A Coroner's Jury assembled last night to inquire into the cause of its death, when it was ascertained that, in consequence of the absence of the corpse they could not proceed with the in vestigation. The friends of the deceased were deeply atlicted on being informed that the body of the child had been stolen. The Coroner and Jury were of opinion that a serious inquiry into this outrage ought to take place, that a recurrence of the like might be presented. OLD BATLEY.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The Court did not eit till past ten o'clock t. 144 morning on account of the execution. Charles Smith. was indicted for stealing a watt value 31., the property of John Leaman. Guilty. The prisoner, on hearing the verdict pronounced, burst into tears, and declared the witnesses e pilog him had sworn falsely. The RticoßDErt said, on account of the great tress it appeared the prisoner Alia in at the tine of the robbery, the Court would only sentence him to be imprisoned for three tvonths. Edward Billeit, aged 14, Thomas Cooper, age 4 16, and Henry Biggs, aged 17, three young rostilq , were indicted for stealing 36 yards of carpet, ;due 251., the property of Richard Fawcett and Co. Vordict—Guilty. The Officer stated, that all the prisoners Ke rn notorious bud characters, and well known to -tle Police. The RECORDUR immediately ordered them up for judgment, and sentenced them to be transported fat seven years. Orlando Douglas Talver, aged IS, was indicted for embezzling several sums of money, the property of his master, Mr. John Hood, baker.—Guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy by the Jury, io which the prosecutor joined. The RSCORDICR, in passing sentence, said, that owing to the contrition the prisoner lad shown, a nd the recommendation of the prosecutor to mercy, the Court would only order him to be imprisoned three months, and kept to hard labour. If it had not bsea for the considerations mentioned, ho would nutshell hare been sent out of the country. Jo4n Jones was indicted for stealing a pared from the coach yard of Gerard's Hall, containing a quantity of writing paper, value 44 Lis., the property of Mrs. Gibbons.—Guilty. The prisoner pleaded hard for mercy on aeocntei of his wife and four small children. He was sen tenced to be transported for seven years. This being the last case for trial, the Court ad* journed. NEW COURT. Catheritie Williams and Elizabeth &Viva; two girls of the town, were indicted for stealing. a suit of clothes, the property of George Easton.—Guilty, sentenced to seven years' transportation. John Smith and :fames Hibbert were found guilty on two indictments, charging them with robbery► and sentenced to seven years' transportation for each offence ; the second term of seven yam to cow mence at the expiration of the first. At two o'clock the Recorder took his seat in the Nevi Court, and immediately proceeded to pass sentence upoo the prisoners convicted during the Session. Sentence of Death was passed upon the following :—... Benjamin Barrup, for maliciously shooting at Marl Mortlock ; John Cannon, Benjamin Holland, Henry Ri chardson, Joseph Donovan, Thomas Mulgrave, H e nri Wood, John Woodison, Jennings, Geo. Gives, J o lla James, Robert Barton (for forgery), Geo. Robinson, Joseph Bolland, Esther Shaw, and Fred. Burn. Transported for Life—E. Russell, William Parsons, and Benjamin Holland. Transported for Fourteen Years.--Thomas Wood, Elio* Rivers, William Yardley, Chas. Trew, John Puddy, Mary Steptoe otherwise Belford, Joseph Adams, Wm. Deadroset Thomas Williams, and Elizabeth sugden. Eighty were ordered to be transported for seven y e ars; one to be imprisoned twelve months; nine for six months; one for fire months ; six for four months ; fifteen for three months ; eight for two months ; four for six weeks ; thir teen for one month ; fourteen from seven lu fourteen days ; and on three judgment was respites!. The Sessions then adjourned to Thursday the 19th of February. TILE MAR KITE.—(THIS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of all kinds of Grain have fallen uff derably, and as the weather continues frosty, so as to im pede the navigation of cur canals and smaller rivers, attore is, therefore, very little demand Isere for Wheat to-day, nsM prices leuanin as reported on Monday. In other ki n ds of Grain there is not murk demand, but rather more moue/ is asked fur Beane and Oats. A batter trade is expected for Flour tbau Las lately been experienced. ♦uItIVALS. Whist. Barley. $4O qrs. &Wilts. Forsiva I ri IL Oats. I Mut, 61.1 qrs. 60 width *0.... 0... 1, WI THE DEVONSHIRE MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Newspaper which surrenders itself to fac tious purposes, and which is willing and has au or portunity to falsify events immediately after their occurrence, way succeed in obtaining credence for a considerable time to its mis-statements. Thus it ap pears to have happened with regard to the Devon shire County Meeting, held last Friday. An Anti-Catholic Exeter Journal, called True man's Journal, came out on the very evening of the Meeting, and stated that the numbers were about fifteen to one in favour of the Anti-Catholic petition, and this early mis-statement has, it is to be supposed, obtained some degree of credence. Is surely was one of the most impudent attempts eves: made to mislead and deceive the public- Of the nobility, gentry, and landed interest, about three-fourths were in faro= of the Catholics ; of the crowd (as the persons below the hustings were terr►aed by the Anti-Catholic seconder), sorarzthing about two, and less than three to one, were against the Catholics. January 9.0. AN EYE WITNESS. LETTER OP HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THe DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. (From the DN/din Warder•.) TO THE RIONT NON. THE EARL 01' ENNISKILLEN, Dipurf OHAND MASTEN OF THE ROYAL OLANGH INSTITUTION. OF laItLAND. Iltrlin, November 1, 1828. MY DRAB. LCULD,-tiaving had the gratification of sc eepting the office of Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institution of Great Britain, as successor to my much lamented brotLer, the Duke of York, and having'presided at its anniversary in the month of Jame last, it cannot but afford me great gratification to accept the proposal made to me, through yon, to fill a similar office in Ireland, whero that loyal society originsted for the defence of the constitu tion in a time of peril, and where, still more even than in Great Britain, every energy is needed to defend the sacred cause of Protestantism. Ary attachment to that cause, which I imbibed from the instructions and example cf my late revered father, George 111., has been increased and strengthened by experience and reflection ; convinced a I am that the British constitution, the most invaluable that ever existed, from its religious and free character, cannot continue, should Protestant ascen dancy be destroyed. I shall ever be found to abide by thew principles which guided the conduct of my honoured father and sovereign, and of my beloved brother, the present King, and the late Dnke of York; and which I cannot but con sider to be those for the defance of whisks the House of Brunswick was called to the Throne_ I rejoice that the time is arrived when the laws no longer forbid the revival of the laws in Ireland, and that I Lave the pleasure of confiding its intereobs to you, my dear Lori, as Deputy-Grand-Master. 13eliere me, my dear Lor3, yours, very sincerely, ERNEET. The Society of Arts held a meeting on Tues day, the l3th, to consider the propriety of diseontinuilK the annual distribution of the rewards in the King's Theatre. Our attention has lately been directed to a medicinal preparation, by Mr. Leonard Towne, cliyalist, late of Newark; which, judging from the numerous and highly respectable testitnouiuls by which it is supported, must prove highly efficacious, and afford an almost certain cure iu cases of that dehtruative malady, the rot in sheep. To Irish graziers, in particular, whose flocks have suffered from the unusual humidity of the season, we may venture to recommend it, in the firm ccavietion of its preduciag good effects. I