The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

QN,R 14 , S C _ ALS, AND RAILWAYS. o'X' (Fi'onttlie Register of Arts.) The Ml' mense advantages that result to a Country from having rapid, cheap, and regular modes of conveyance, have been admitted by the most enlightened politicians in all ages. The exchange of manufactured articles for the pro duce of agriculture, at a rate of cost but very little more than their value where they are pro duced, must tend, under a proper system of go vernment, to bring, not only the necessaries of life, but comforts and even superfluities, within the reach of every individual. So sensible were the ancient Romans of the importance of rapid conference, that all the cities of their vast empire were united by roads far su perior to any that have been executed in later • times, and of a much more expensive kind than the best rail roads in this country. The Roman roads were made so firm and solid that they have riot yet entirely yielded to the dilapidations of fifteen centuries. Their total extent, according to Rondelet, was about 48,000 English miles. After the decline of the Roman empire, the construction of good roads were generally ne • glected, and, in times, canals have been employed as the chief artificial means of convey ance, as affording much greater facilities for the transmission of heavy burthens than any other mode especially where great celerity is not re quired. Canals have, however, these disadvan tages ; a competent supply of water is neces sary, which is not always obtained without in curring great expense ; a canal is limited to com paratively small changes of level ; otherwise the delay and expenses of locks become too great. Canals are likewise liable to frequent stoppages from frosts, floods, repairs ; they interefere with the right of streams and drainage, and are gene rally injurious to the property through which they are made. The first cost of canals, as well as the keeping of them in repair, are greater than those of railways; and the former are only pre , ferable to the latter on a level surface, and where a greater speed than three miles per hour is not desirable, as a much greater weight can be moved at that velocity on a canal than on a rail way with a given power. The following Table, which shows the work that may lie performed by the same mechanical power on canals, railways, and turnpike roads, places the subject in a very clear point of view :- Velocity of On a level On a level Turn- Motion in Mies On a Canal. Railway. pike Road. per Hour. . 2 1-third :3 ........ 38,542 14,400 1,800 3 1-third , 28,316 14,400 1,800 4 . 21,680 14,400 1,800 5 6 7 8 9 10 13 5 . 1,900 14,400 1,800 At the several velocities less than five miles per hour, it will be perceived that the effect of the same power is greater upon canals than upon railways ; but at the higher velocities, the effect is greater on a railway than on a canal ; and when the speed reaches to 13 miles per hour, the effect of the power on a canal is about the same as on a turnpike road, the resistances to the mo tion of the load being nearly equal ; but the ef fect of the same power, at the same velocity, upon a railway, is eight times greater than either on canals or t u rnpike-roads ; therefore, the im mense a dvantages of railways, where rapidity of transmission is required, is sufficiently conspi cuous. The lowest velocity stated in the table, T amely, two miles and a half per hour, at that at which a horse can produce the greatest effect in drawing a burthen ; if the velocity be increased beyond three miles per hour, the useful effect is rapidly dirninished ; that is, a horse will move a greater weight through a given space, during a day's labour, by the lower velocities than by the higher. On canals an advantage is found in travelling at about the velocity corresponding to the maximum of useful effect to a day of ten hours long, and they continue their labour with little intermission throughout this long day, ex cept while the boat is passing through the locks. If they attempt to go at a quicker rate, the in crease of resistance becomes very considerable, a s the r esistance to the motion of a body in fluids increases nearly am the square of the ve locity. On the contrary, in rail-roads, the re sistance remains nearly the same at all veloci ties. The effect of a given force on a level rail way, being eight times that on a level turnpike road, one horse will draw upon the former eight times as much weight as on the latter ; but as horses cannot increase their speed materially, without reducing their power of traction-and, as the resistance upon a railway does not in crease, however great the velocity of a bcdy moving thereon, horse power cannot be so ad vantageously employed as the means of propul sion, as steam power, in which the force upon the piston may be rendered newly uniform at all velocities ; indeed it is difficult to assign any limit to the velocity of a steam-carriage properly L7onstructed, and duly supplied with fuel and water, as the heat of the furn ace ma y be aug mented in proportion to the ve locit y of the mo tion. Loconotive steam-carriages have accord ht Into use on most of the prin ingly been b r ought lflt? use on most of tile prin cipal railways in the kingdom. The first railways appear to have been used in the neighbourhood of N e wcastle-upon-Tyne, about 1680. The rails were of wood, resting upon woodesi sleepers ; and in some place near tile Tyne, the same species are still in use. The wooden ones are, however, nearly aban cloned for the iron ones, and, of the latter, there are an immense number of them branching in various directions, from both sides of the Tyn to the various coal works ; and also, several in e clined-planes on which the waggons are moved by stationary engines. The rails employed are all of the kind called edge-rails ; and it appears from experiments, that on the level rails, when they are in good Condition, Jib. willdrawl7olbs. o r one horse will dra w 25,5001 he, I n cluding the weight of the waggon, at the rate of two miles and a half per hour. The same kind of rail ways and waggons are employed in various parts of the kingdom. Etre of town On Saturday night a fire broke out in a pig_ stye in Barraelfrstreet, and the water-engines were on th spat with their usual activity awl speed ; but they cam t.Jo late to save the lives of the inmates, four pigs Navin , b •en literally roasted to death ! The screams of the littl b e sufferers were agonizing in the extreme.— Glasgow Cour SUPERABUNDAN T FECUNDITY.NOt long -- since a small farmer , in the neighbourhood of Armagh, hail the pleasure of being introduced to the presence of his wife after she had given birth to twins. Before leaving the apartment he was agreeably surprised by a person in the family informing him that his goat bad just brought forth four beautiful kids, and before the family Lreak fast had been prepared his sow bad farrowed fifteen young pigs. The children, the kids, and the young brood of pigs, continue to thrive, an d to give every reason to hope that they may all arrive at the perfe . etion of their astute. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 90% 1 Old Annuities... ........... ....r 3 per Cent. Cons. .91%N New Ditto 31. i per Cent. 99 Ex. Bills, £l,OO O 2 d. 77 76 pm. thttq Red. 9.9%L9 Ditto lfd. 77 76 pm. 3 per Cent. 1726 • Ditto.. .......... 500 2d. 77 76 pm. t per Cent. Ann '0314%14 Ditto... l:d. 77 '76 pm Ditto, 11+26 Ditto Scrip — Ditto ltd. 77 '76 pm. Bank L. Ann. 19% 12-16 Bank for Acc0unt.......... India Stock - India for Account ........ . %it° Bonds 66 67 pm. Cons. for Account 91%% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK . Austrian Bonds — Neapo litan B ra zilian Bonds 66 % Peruvia n Bonds Buenos Ayres Bond , — Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds 22Y 2 Prussian, Old — Colombian Bonds ... — Ditto, New lO6 Ditto, 1824 2Ol/, 20 Russian . 1 ,4 Danish Greek Bonds — --- 1823 Ditto, 1825 25 Y 6 5 French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — ,---- Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds — '--- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 1825 - Exchange —t. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO 26 25 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 80 %Ditto National lO 14r. 15 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) Z:ISN 15 Alliance Fire and Life Insurance Co. 10 9IA PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 19. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 35% per cent. 98 ,N a tional Ditto Ditto, New -Patriotic Ditto — 4 per Cent lOl% I Hibernian Bank l9},, Gov. I)eb. 316 percent.... 98,E P rov incial Ditto 234 Royal Canal Stock 43 i Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock —llmperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent — i Mining Co, of Ireland l5 Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. . Commercial Buildings — FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON., AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10.-12. 22 5-10. to 12. 20. Two months-12. 17 5-10. to 12. 15. HAMBURG, Nov. 6.-13. 11 3 4.—Tw0 months, 13. 11 1 4. VIENNA, OCT. 28.—Three months, 9. 59. STocictioLm, Our. 30.—Ninety days, 12. BREMEN, Nov. 3.—Two months, 617. BERLIN, Nov. 3.—Three months, 6. 28%. ST. PEIERSBURGH, OCT. 23.—Three months, 10%. MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America O. 0 Hamburg 2 0 Brazil 1 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena (1 OLa Guayra 1 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 Flanders 0 1 Mexico 1 France 0 0 Sweden 1 Guernsey &Jer, , ey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 23 minutes after 3 I Evening ...35 minutes after 4. ,ellll LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1829. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this day, which was attended by all the Ministers except Lord MELVILLE, who is out The following is from the Paris Papers of Wednesday : (From the Messager des Chambres of Wednesday.) (SECOND EDITION.) ORSONVA, OCT. 25. It is reported that a Russian corps of 200 men, which was quietly"cantoned at Vrazza confiding in the treaty, has bee❑ surprised and surrounded by a horde of Turks, probably belonging to the corps of the Pacha of Scutari. The Russians, who were too few in number to make any resistance, proposed to capitulate, which the Turks pre tended to accept, but the Russians had scarcely laid down their arms, when the Turks fell upon them, and mas sacred them to a man. CERES, OCT. 17. For some days past a report, which seems improbable, has been spread here, that by order of the Sultan, Athens has been evacuated by the Turks, and given up to the Greeks. (From the Journal des Debuts of Wednesday.) BELGRADE, OCT. 22. The troops of the Pacha of Scutari, on their march to return to their homes, commit all kinds of excesses, and there ate general complaints of pillaging, burning, and all kinds of violence of which they are accused. It was even reported that Turkish subjects in the environs of Kosten dil have requested General Geismar to protect them against this licentious soldiery. PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 11.-Five per Cents., 108 f. SOc. 90c. 85c. ; Three per Cents., 83f. 75c. 70c. 65c. 70c. ; Bank Stock, 1,915 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 92f. 50c. 45c. 50c. 55c. 50c. 92f. 35c. 45c. ; Sicilian Bonds, 96f. 50 c. ; Rente d'Espagne, '7l 7; Royal Spanish Loan, SO 791 ; Rente Perp. d'Esp., 57 564 56 ; Haytian Loan, 347 f. 50c.—Exchange on London, oue month, 25f. 70c.; three months, 25f. 50c, (From the Allgemeine Zeitung of Nov. 7.) VIENNA, Nov. 2.—Metalliques, 1021; Bank Shares, an English Vieo-Adniiral is 36,000 franca per annum, Dutch 38,700, French 18,000. An English Rear-Admiral 27,000 francs, Dutch 24,250, French 12,000. An English Post Captain 12,900 francs, Dutch 17,200, Russian 10,920, United States of America 7,120, French 6,000. An English Commander 7,475 francs, Dutch 6,450, Russian 4,740, United States 4,212, French 4,200. " M. Blangin, the Prefect of Police, continues to dis tinguish himself by the zeal and activity of his proceed ings. Some alarming statements having lately appeared in the newspapers of murders and assassinations in private houses as well as in the public streets, he has written let ters to the editors, contradicting these statements, and has at the same time caused a general seizure to be made in the shops of all the gunmakers and dealers in arms in Paris, of such arms as had been prohibited by a Royal Ordonnance of 1820, particularly pistols and poignards, sword-sticks and sword-umbrellas. Some of the dealers, it is said, who had large stocks, have suffered materially on the occasion, as the Ordonnance which had been issued during a period of temporary alarm had never till now been acted upon ; and as they had relied with confidence upon the fact that a great proportion of the articles had been made at Liege, and had in some degree been au thorised by the Gov,rnment, from their having paid a custom-house duty on the transit to Paris. " Another proceeding of the Police is at present the sub ject of general conversation. Mr. Charles Rouy, an ex tesive dealer in bronzes and curiosities in the Gallery Vivienne, was brought before the Correctional Tribunal yesterday, accused of haring exposed to sale on his pre mises two small figures of the Duke of Reichstadt, calcu lated to propagate a spirit of rebellion, and to disturb the public peace. In answer to the interrogatory of the Pre sident of the Court, whether the Commissary of Police had seized some small figures in the defendant's show-rooms representing the Duke of Reichstadt, the 'prisoner ex plained that there was an error in the proces-verbal, as the figures were not seized in the outer but in the inner part of his warehouse, where they were found in the midst of two thousand pieces of bronze. After having been repeatedly robbed, he said, I would not certainly have exposed these small figures on the outside in a gallery through which twenty or thirty thousand persons .pass every day. With the permission of the Court I shall state what passed—The Commissary of Police came into my warehouse and said to use, ' I have the honour to salute you, M. Reuv.' Not knowing the quality of my visiter I answered with a similar salutation, and asked what I could do to serve him. He then said that he had come to seize the bust of the Duke of Reichstadt ! The Duke of Reich stadt!' I answered, I am not aware that I have any such bust.' The Commissary then laid his hand on one of these bronzes, and said, ' Look here.' •' But that,' I answered, is the Duke de Bordeaux!' In fart, I thought it was so ; for I have likenesses for sale of Louis the Eighteenth, Charles. the Tenth, the Duke de Beni, and all the Royal Family ; I said therefore to the Commissary that it was on the Duke de Bourdeaux he had laid his hand. ' That is rather too much,' he answered, ' for the Duke de Bordeaux has no eagle on his armorial bearings, and here is a crowned eagle on the pedestal.' Then it must, I said, be some Imperial Prince, the son perhaps of the Emperor Nicholas, or of the Emperor of Austria, or perhaps it is the Prince Royal of Prussia, or the son of the President of the United States ; for all these Powers bear an eagle on their arms, which besides has nothing se ditious about it, and the crown only indicates that the eagle is the king of birds. After searching every where, the Commissary of Police found a second bust, which he persisted in declaring to be the Duke of Reichstadt. I made him observe that this bust was that of a child four or five years of age, whereas the son of Napoleon is cer tainly eighteen or twenty. The President—Here are the busts—they are two inches in height, and bear on the pedestal a crowned eagle. Defendant—l have al ready observed that the eagle is the king of birds ; it is not a prohibited symbol—for it is to be seen on multitudes of ancient medals. President — How long have you bad these busts ? Defendant— For several years; I bought them with other curiosities. Pre sident—Did not the Commissary tell you that another dealer had been more candid, and had acknowledged that they represented the Duke de Reichstadt ? Defendant — It is possible ; they are so easily intimidated, and many dealers are in such dread of the Commissaries, and still more of the Prefet of Police. The King's Advocate then entered on a learned argument in support of the various points of the case, and particularly on the danger to be apprehended if such articles were thus allowed to be openly exposed to sale ; and after an ingenious defence by the elder Dupin, the accused was condemned to fifteen days' imprisonment, a fine of 100 francs, and the ex penses of the proceedings ; and the obnoxious busts were ordered to be destroyed." The case of SANDERS V. MILLS, in which the Court of Common Pleas the other day re fused a new trial, is another instance of the very unsettled state of our Law of Libel. The al leged unfair report of a trial had been copied from the Observer and Morning Herald into a country newspaper, and it was urged on the application for a new trial that the publication in the Morning Herald ought to have been ad mitted in mitigation of damages. Now, although we well recollect the case of MA LLETT V. HUL TON, in which Lord ELLENBOROUGH ruled, that where a libellous letter refers to a newspaper as containing the slanderous matters imputed to the plaintiff, the defendant might give the newspaper in evidence in mitigation of damages —yet we do not, of course, presume to impugn the apparently inconsistent doctrine now held by the Court of Common Pleas, who moreover laid it down that it is doubtful whether the bad character of a plaintiff is at any time receivable in evidence in mitigation of damages. Common sense still tells us that if civil ac tions for libels are allowed, for the purpose of awarding compensation to the libelled in pro. portion to the injury inflicted on them, every circumstance ought to be received in evidence that might assist the Jury in measuring the amount of that injury. Can it be contended, that if an offensive paragraph is copied into every London Newspaper, damages ought to follow every Journal in which it is inserted, without regard to the matter having been taken from another publication ? A country Journal copies into its pages the news that has first cir culated in London, and if that news should turn out to be a libel (for a Jury can pronounce any thing to be so), can the degree of guilt of the retailer be properly visited, without reference to the degree of credence which was naturally to be supposed to be attached to the news in question ? We do not say that the repeti tion of slander is harmless, but if we hear a piece of intelligence unfavourable to an indivi dual, upon what we consider good authority, it is impossible to contend the moral offence of propagating it is equal to that of spreading a defamatory story of our own invention. The refusal to hear evidence of the general bad character of the person libelled, is an ano maly of a piece with the rejection of the truth as a defence in criminal cases. Is it not a moral justification for relating a tale imputing a theft to an individual, if that individual has already been four times convicted of stealing ? We have the quo aninto of an offender often talked of in our Courts, but we, see the utmost pains taken to l ions of infantry, eight squadrons of cavalry, 500 Cos sacks, and SO pieces of cannon, under General Geismar, to proceed from Rachova to Vratza. On the 14th Sep tember this vanguard occupied Vratza, and the other troops appointed by Gen. Kisseleff to act on the right bank of the Danube passed that river on the 16th, and on thel9th left Rachova, to march to Vratza, and having performed this march with great rapidity, General Kisseleff 's corps ad vanced beyond the last named town, and had already reached the foot of the Balkan, and had occupied the defiles near the village of Nevosteli, where they received in that posi tion the news of the conclusion of peace. The main body then returned to Vratza, leaving the vanguard near the village of Reberkowa, and its advanced post at Nevosteli." Up to the 25th of October, 1,479 ships arrived in the harbour of Cronstadt, sailed 1,307. The St. Petersburgh Journals announce numerous pro motions. Two English travellers, Lord Craven and Lord Villiers, were presented to the Emperor on the 25th. The Hamburg Reporter of the 6th Novem ber, has only been received this morning. The following is the state of the Corn Market : HAMBURG, NOV. 6. BORSEN-HALLE, 4 o'cLocx.—Wheat—On comparing our quotations of to-day, with those of last week, a small improvement will be seen to have taken place in the better qualities, the arrivals of which were inconsiderable, and readily bought for exportation. In inferior qualities little or nothing doing. Of Barley there is still a considerable stock in the market, the owners of which are holding out for the old prices, but without being able to obtain them. Some small parcels of winter barley that came in during the week were chiefly bought by our own consumers. Oats of first-rate quality are in demand, but not easily to be had. Malt is heavy ; Rapeseed maintains its price, but with little doing. During the last eight days of October, 59 cargoes of corn passed through the Sound. Of these 19 were bound for British, 21 for Dutch, two for French, 14 for Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian :ports, and three destination un known Weight. Rix dollars. Dantzic Wheat 122 to 126 118 to 130 Pomeranian 124 to 128 108 to 118 Anhalt, white llB to 124 118 to 126 -- red 122 to 128 118 to 126 Danish 123, 105 to 110 Petersburgh and Riga 120 to Dantzic Rye llB to 122 62 to 68 Upland 116 to 123 66 to 10 blagdeburgh Barley Anhalt 9B to 104 55 to 58 .. 66 tr 74 4O to 45 _ _ Mecklenburgh Oats .o Pomeranian Malt — to 50 to 54 Pease, Upland, yellow Holstein Rapeseed Funds rather lower to-day, but some business was done at the quotations below. The new Austrian 4 per cent. Metalliques have been done at 92k. Bills on London are in demand. End of Novemb e r. Last Tuesday. To-day. Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent 7 2 1,E 72 Anglo-Russian Loan lO3 Hamburg -Russian Loan 9B Polish Bonds ll I. Austrian Bank Shares 1246 1243 Austrian Metalliques. _102% lO3 A Correspondent at Portsmouth says, ac counts from the Mediterranean state that the English fleet there will return to England early in December, and that the Russian squadron will winter either at Portsmouth or Plymouth. In the present state of affairs in the East, we think both statements highly improbable. In fact we do not believe them. The following is from our Paris Corre- St. Petersburgh Journals of the 28th October have been received this morning. It would appear by the " News from the Army," that the late reports of the movements by the Turkish Pachas in the Western Provinces had some foundation in fact : but now all appears to be quiet. The rumour of 200 Russians being sacrificed by the Turks is disbelieved : NEWS FROM THE ARMY. ST. PSTERSBURCH, OCT. 26. The latest accounts from the Army of Operation, dated September 21 (October 6,) are to the following effect:— " Our troops continue to enjoy the most perfect tran quillity in the same position in Romelia, with the excep tion of some changes of little importance, which have ap peared necessary to be better able to observe the Albanian troops, which before the conclusion of the peace had ad vanced from Withlin to Sophia. Their commander, Mus tapha Pacha, of Scutari, who during the whole war had not taken the smallest part in the hostilities against us, and who after his arrival at Sophia had not made the 'lightest movement until the month of August, thought proper, about the middle of September, so bring his troops nearer to the points occupied by to, in order to have greater facilities for their subsistence; and in consequence he caused his vanguard, under the command of Emin Pacha, to march to Philippopoli, while Keusse Mehemet Pacha, who was encamped at Huskoi, between Philippo poli and Adrianople, seemed disposed to pass through the town of Demotico, occupied by our troops, in order to proceed to the village of Ouzum Kupri, which had been assigned to him for his winter-quarters, but which was within our line (Rayen). Perceiving by these movements that the Turkish Commanders were ignorant of their obligations towards our troops since the conclusion of peace, and desirous to prevent any misun derstanding which might interrupt the harmony that pre vailed between us, the General-in-Chief immediately ac quainted the Paella of Scutari, as well as the other Pachas, that not only they could not penetrate with their troops into the circle of our positions, but that by the treaty they were bound to remain in those which they occupied at the receipt of the news of the conclusion of peace, conse quently that all the movements of the Turkish troops must he immediately suspended, otherwise he (the Commander in-Chief) would be obliged to take measures to oppose it. " As an additional precaution, Lieutenant-General Ru diger advanced at the same time with his corps from Adria nople to the village of Mustapha Paella (Djesair) and occu pied the right bank of the Maritza, while the brigade of Hu tans, under the command of Major-lien. Scheremetieff was sent from Irepolis to Demotico. On the 26th September the Commander-in -Chief vent to the Turkish Generals a sum mons to suspend - all their movements, and on the 2fith he received an answer, stating that, according to his desire, the Pacha of Scutari had stopped the march of his troops, alleging, as an excuse, the difficulty of procuring provi sious where they remained 29t a long time at the satne spot. The next day (the 29th) the Turkish Plenipoten tiaries announced that they had received from Constanti nople the ratification of the peace. On the Ist October General Rudigtr with Lis corps returned to Adrianople, and on the 2d a great part of the troops that had been sent to Demotico also rammed, leaving only a small gar rison in that place. " As soon as information was received of the move ments of the Pacha, orders were sent at the beginning of August to General Kisseleff to leave the number of troops indispensable for the defence of Wallachia, and the fortress of Silistria, to pass the Danube with the remainder of his corps, to advance against Mustapha Paella, to disperse his forces, and hinder them undertaking any thing, Being informed of the march of the Albanians from Widdin to guard of four hatta- Sophia, General Kisseleff raised his van spondent: -- " PARIS, NOV. 11. " It id stated in private letters from Constantinople, that notwithstanding the apparent tranquillity which is still maintained, great numbers of families residing in the Frank and Greek quarters, are preparing to leave the capital, from the apprehension that in order to enable the Govern ment to pay the first instalments of the indemnity to Rus sia, it will be necessary to stop the pay of the troops, which, in the present state of their feelings, will probably be attended with some dreadful convulsion. The imme diate destination of these emigrants is said to be Odessa or Bucharest ; but it is believed that many of them will fix themselves permanently in Bulgaria and Romelia, and in general in those provinces which are to be occupied by the Russians. S o ill-disposed is the public mind towards the Sultan, that it is confidently affirmed that any bold and enterprising chief who should venture to raise the standard of rebellion, might easily make his authority be acknow ledged, and thus produce the dismemberment of Turkey without the interference of any Christian Power. "It is asserted in these letters, that the three Powers who signed the protocol of the 6th of July, 1827, are not agreed as to the extent to be given to the new Greek State, or upon the form of Government to be adopted. England, it is said, is to insist on the removal of Count Capo d'lstria from the bead of the Government, and is supposed to be desirous that Greece should form a federative State, from an idea that it would thus be easier for her to establish a preponderating influence -in the affairs of the Republic. In the mean time a number of articles have appeared in the Paris newspapers, which ap pear to me to contain internal evidence of having emanated from the Bureau of the President himself, in which it is announced that Count Capo d'lstria has gone to Constan tinople, with the consent of the French and English Am bassadors ; that the affairs of Greece are under active dis cussion at Pera ; and that the idea of erecting the new State into a Kingdom or Monarchy has been finally aban doned. " An account is given in a letter from Orsova of the 25th of October, of a Russian detachment of 300 men having been destroyed by a body of Turkish troops, be longing to the army of the Pacha of Scutari, ire un en campment at Vrazza, where the Russians had been sta tioned in reliance of the peace concluded by the recent treaty. Seeing themselves attacked by a superior force the Russians proposed to capitulate, but scat cely bad they laid down their arms when they were massacred by the Turks to the last man. " Great apprehension is expressed in letters from Smyrna lest the superior activity of the Greeks should enable them to engage in the trade which has now been opened to all the world, on such tams as to defy all con competition. Six years of piracy, it is said, have been sufficient to form a great number of mariners ; and the produce of so much robbery, joined to theTesources fur nished by France and other Powers, has enabled the Greeks to equip six hundred vessels, which have only been wait ing for the first signal of peace to go to encumber all the ports of Turkey, and, availing themselves of the protection of Russia, to take advantage of the free nanigation of the Black Sea. The geographical position of Greece, the sterility of its islands, us well as of a great part of its con tinental territory, and above all the decided aversion of its inhabitants to a laborious or sedentary life, will, it is ap • prehended, excite and enable them to carry on the trade between Europe and Turkey on terms which cannot be maintained by European speculators. " An extraordinary statement appeals in a letter from Lisbon of the 24th ult. Serious suspicions, it is said, bang over the Palace of Queluz. During the last few days the two Princesses, sisters of Don Miguel, have been dan gerously indisposed. D onna Isabella Maria was seized with violent convulsions, and one side of her body be came totally paralyzed , in whi c h state she still re mains. Donna Maria d'Assumpcao endures the most e xcruciating torture ; her skin has become black and yellow, and little hope is entertained of her reco ve sub- ry. The Lisbon Gaze tte is, however, q uite silent on the ject, and Don Miguel himself manifests the greatest indif ference for the situ ation of his sisters, g oing out to hunt a s usual while they are at the p oint of death ; and even the prayers, whi ch it is customar y to offer in the churches and convents when any member of the Royal family is 11, had not been orde red. It is said that Don Miguel regarids his sisters with an evil e y e, because he considers them as a rallying point f or the p artizans of Donna Maria da Gloria. " A new measu re has j ust been announced by the organs of the French Ministry, the object of which is evidently in tended to conciliate the good will of the army. At the end of the year an Ordormance is to be issued, placing on the retraite, or half-pay, all Lieutenant-Generals of 68 years years of age, Marechalls de Camp of 60, Colonels of 55, and inferior officers of 50 ; the declared object being to make way for numerous promotions on the let of January next. , 4 I have just seen a statement from Brest o f the presea nt con dition of the F rench nav y , which contains a compar tive view of the p a y of Naval Officers in the English, French, Dutch, and other services, a few extrac ts from which may no t be uninteresting. It is stated that the PaY al prevent the real intention of committing an act from being discovered. Character is always allowed to weigh in the scale of a prisoner him self, but without any principle is considered as nothing in the very circumstances where stress ought to be especially laid upon it. Truly there is an urgent necessity for so amending our rules of political evidence, that they may be made subservient to the end they now so often frustrate, viz. the ascertainment of the truth. The glaring inconsistency of administering justice upon those indicted for libel, by refusing to hear the truth in their defence, is a perversion of law as monstrous as ever was effected before the Turkish Cadis. To justify it, because in the jargon of our Criminal Law a libel is a breach of the peace, is a defence that is scouted even in the profession ; nor do we believe that a hundred voices could be mustered throughout the country to maintain either its justice or ex pediency. Why then does it continue a stain on British jurisprudence? THE -FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, Twxtrie o'Cr.ocr. Consols, which left off yesterday at 911 for Money, and 911 for the Account, opened this morning at 91i1, after which they were done for Money at 91i, at present they are 911 I, and for Money 911, next time 924, with no business of importance. Private letters by the Dutch steamer bring all the Dutch Funds higher, and the Exchange nearly the same as the previous accounts. In the Foreign Market little doing, except in Mexican Bonds, which are lower, owing to the unfavourable ac counts received yesterday. ENGLISH FUNDS. Bank Stock, 213 214 34 per Cent. 98} 9 India Stock, 224 225 New 4 per Cent., 103 3 per Cent. Cons. 911 4 4 per Cent. 1826 105 Do., for Account, 911 4 India Bonds, 66 67 Ditto Reduced, 905 91 Exchequer Bills, 76 77 FUNDS. Greek, 25 A Mexican, 21:i 1 Peruvian, 14 Portuguese, 46 - Prussian, Russian, 106 Spanish, 9,1 TWO O'CLOCK. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the Lords of the Privy Council. was,Al36l this morning. Those present were Earl Bathurst, Wynford, Sir John Becket, and the Right Hon. M r. craft. Their Lordships were engaged the whole moroom in hearing motions of no public interest. FOREIGN Brazilian, 661 Buenos Ayres, 24 26 Chilian, 22 23 Colombian, 19.1 201 Danish, 73 French, 5 per Cent. 108-i 9 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 83i 844 Consols have continued the whole morning at 914 4 for Money, and 914 h for the Account ; for next Account 921 an the Foreign Market little is doing, but Brazil stock has rather improved. THREE O' CL OCK Consols for Account, 91i i. Mr. BL AIR, one of the Commissioners of In q uiry at the Mauritius, arrived in town yesterday from the Mauritius. Mr. BLAIa attended at the Colonial office, and was occupied for a considerable time on officio. business. The price of the quartern loaf fell yesterday one penny. The highest price is now 10d. —Edin. OW. An Omnibus, which will carry about thirty persons, is in preparation, to ply between Canterbury and Whitstable, on the rail-w ay.—Chelmsford Chronicle. A cruelty van—that is a large vehicle in the shape of a boat, drawn by one horse, now plies between Greenwich, Deptford, and London. An omnibus of a very superior description commenced running to Greenwich yesterday, from the Royal Exchange: A person named Ls PLASTRIER, a Frenchman, is the proprietor, and rides behind in a splen•• did green costume. In the memory of the oldest man living there has not been so bad a turnip year as the present ; yet we have seen some Swedes, grown at Horringer, upon the land of ARTHUR BROOMS, Esq., of an unprecedented size, weighing, with the top, full sixteen pounds each. Five of these turnips will nearly fill a bushel measure ; six will more than fill a bushel.—Bury Herald. A BONE FOR JOHN BULL.—Report from a high quarter in this neighbourhod says that the Emperor of RUSSIA has been graciously pleased to offer the Com mand in Chief of all the Russian Navy to our gallant countryman Vice-Admiral Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON. What will JOHNNY say to this?—Plymouth Journal. We believe Sir A. B. KING has been invited to resign the Patentee Stationership. He is offered com pensation in money paid in band, or a pension for life.— It is said he has intimated his wish to receive an equivalent of the former description.—Dublin Register. A SAINTED MEDICINE. —At a shop in Poole, amongst the other patent medicines sold, Dr. So- LANDER'S Sanative English Tea may be procured. A gentleman one morning recently sent his servant for a packet of this, and on arriving at the shop, the girl asked with the greatest naiveté for a packet of " the sanctified tau ."—Dorset County Chronicle. LAUDABLE EXAMPLE.—We are informed by Mr. R. CHAFFEY, of Thornconibe, that he has just re ceived an order from E. B. PORTMAN, Esq., one of the members for this county, for 550 yards of woollen goods, which are intended for charitable purposes, and are to be made entirely from materials of British growth. This is an example, which, if more generally followed, would tend to create a greater consumption of British wool, and thus, in some measure, give a stimulus to one branch of our agri cultural interesta.—Dorset County Chronicle. This week the new road from Listowel to Newmarket, of twenty-five miles long, made at the sole expense of the Government, will be c ompleted.—Dublin Morning Register. A mare, the property of Mr. OSGODBY, of Walcasi, near Sleaford, was foiled dead in a dyke on Frilay morning last, with her eyes picked out and hanging from their sockets, and her tongue cut out. The inhuman wretch who perpetrated the deed is not at present dis covered.—Lincoln Mercury. On Monday night, at ten o'clock, a remark able phenomenon was seen at Boreham for the space of above half an hour. Small meteors, like streaks of white light, were observed in the sky to the east, and exactly at the time the clock struck ten a beautiful meteor, or ball of fire, the colou r of which was dee p red, descended in the south-east, snaking a hissing noise at the same time, and leaving behind it a train of sparks several degrees long. —Chelmsford Chronicle. One of the innumerable instances of sound sense, combined with extreme vulgarity, related of a ce lebrated surgical character, is as follows :—A very delicate looking young lady, about 18 years of age, with a waist of about ten inches in circumference, applied a short time since to Mr. ABERNETHY for advice. She described a difficulty of respiration, loss of appetite, weak digestion, &c. Mr. ABERNETHY listened to ber with souse degree of patience. When it was finished, he thundered out, " Go, Miss, into the next room—unlace your stays, and walk a dozen tunes up and down the apartment." The young lady, terrified at his look, did as she was bidden, and went into the ad joining room, loosened one or two ligatures of her stays, and walked up and down the required number of times. On reappearing before the sage, he asked her " how she felt?" to which she faintly replied, "a little better."— " Only a little better : return, Miss, to your room, unlace the remainder of your stays, and walk 14 times up and down, and then come back to me." The young lady implicitly obeyed the mandate, and on the question being again put to her, " how she felt?" she answered, " Much relieved." "No wonder you should feel relieved," re joined Mr. A., " for know, Miss, in that diminutive space you confined six and thirty yards of gut, therefore, how could you feel well?".— York Chronicle. . . LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY': COURT OF CHANCERY. IN REBRIGNELL, A LUNATIC. In this matter the LORD CHANC ELLOR some tiroeg.° pronounced his judgment, by whic h be dismissed *de w '. tion, and ordered a medical gentl eman (Dr. Roudoo3, have his costs aid by the p e titioners. The obj ect of .„ petition was to p reflect on the character of that gentleine7, but which the Court thought he had fully answeted . do, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL to-day applied on davit, made by his attorney, to have the matter ref into the paper for further consideration, on the gro u li p s having been taken by surprise, and having known 0°7 1 1,4 of the intention on the part of the Court to dispose I' d ,. s question, until he had actually read the judgmeut newspaper. I To° The LORD CHANCELLOR refused t o comp ly i der had been regularly in the pap er ; it had been eslle",ider several times, and no one appeared to enter into it. these circumstances, having read the affidavits, the had disposed of it ; and if the parties were desired t° tate what had been done, they wo uld have to take th° gular course of proceeding. NEW ARRAIIGEIIINTS. rest The VICE-CHANCELLOR having often e xperience ,. I ie difficulty in getting through the business before blot consequence of the absence of Counsel, in the course': bit week particularly, his H onour struck out every case. tit papers, when Counsel did not appear to support t 7; to the moment they were called on, refusing aftersralea allow them to be restored on applications having bo o, made to him to such effect. The result of this lise,,ge it is said (together with the observance of the maw:, tion of somewhat a similar s p irit of action in other tliere tens) that an arrangement to the following effect lid, br come to by the several Learned G entlemen mentionero low, with respect to their future attendance in the vs branches of the Court of Chancery. • The Soucrroa-Gxerrnar. and Mr. Hoolee,,. l 7, g iso no more briefs in motions in the Vice, nor infita°'ur either in his or in the Lord Chancellor's Court. 0 0 01 Mr. PREYS leaves the Rolls and Exchequer, to himself exclusively to the Lord and Vice-Ch. Courts. and Vice-Chancellor's fie° acitio.:lnxcelieloaveessctioieurttl!s to practice -in OW f ' s° Mr. BIcEERSTETH withdraws from the Lord +lO - to attend at the Rolls. O bi Mr. Pestarwrog c on fi nes himself to the Ro l le, ° A O' has got rid of the business lie is already engaged it the other Courts. Mr. TINNET goes no more into the Exchequer . it Although this state of things has been com e Exchequer s presumed that none of the se g entlemen will _eboil. their practice on appeal ca s e s before the Privy C O' NEW JUDGES. It is confidently stated among the Law Offietv there is to be, very soon, two more common la° T o " making in the whole 14), and at least one C° l° .,l °3 for the disposal of matters in Bankruptcy lipPOi".". INCONVENIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE COUS-1:11 The SOLICITOR - GENERAL was under the oee ess :oo l relinquishing his task of reading an affidavit , i r t quence of the great di ffi culty lie experienced if:ereic want of sufficient light. He observed, that b e , t • p i should be under the necessity hereafter of alW i r l e i d. ' malty to have the construction of the Court alte. f The Loan CHANCELLOR said, it seemed 31 Ott e requisite that the windows at all events should be VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. DE DERRINGER V. HAMMEL. The Court was occupied the who;e of the roo:0, his case. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. BOWEN V. FOX. 1 9° , Mr. Serjeaat MEREWEATHER stated, that 0 0 ,0 1 ; action by the plaintiff, the master and princip*l a vessel, against the defendants, who are ship Ise,gio te mouth, for not re-delivering the certificate of t (the Gratitude) the ship in question. The o° o o l at the last Assizes for Cornwall, before Mr. iu roughs, and a verdict found for the defendants. w' The Coy RT after hearing a stateme nt of the case, from the Learned Counsel, refused the rule' ROLLS COURT. • ie , to The MASTER of the ROLLS took consent but nothing of any public importance occupy the Court. --- EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. The Judges of the Court of C o mmon -MO v t , Barons of the Exchequer sat in this Court to -da y , arguments in writs of error. EDWARDS V. HENRY. This was an an action originally brought ore , penalty under the statute of '7 and 8 of Geo Second, which enacts " that if any churchwardep se er, or other person, having the charge o f the fuses to shew the rate bo ok when applied to, enamor" by a parishioner so to do , h e shall be liable to 5 21 1 201. for every such offence." In the present rJ fendant was an assistant overseer, and it HP N t h, ' fused to sheet the plaintiff a rate book. ge .e n tiff) in consequence commenced an all lid him, and obtained a verdict for the amount of "" g e et o The defendant carried the case into the Kings ' J O the Learned Judges of that Court refused to ter i verdict. He then brought it into the Excl eg oi ee' ber on a Writ of Error, which this morning argument. t cos Mr. CAMPBELL addressed their LordshiP s h l - cli able length in support of the verdict, after If"" d The LORD CHIEF Jusucts of the Co , n r°° 'i nounced judgment, by affirming the decisioo Denco. s . COURT OF COMMON Pl Oritiort The Court sat for a short time, this ° ~ justifications of bail and motio ns of eo'ifri:eue,"' their Lord.hips joined the Ba rons of theme -f O- E:chequer Chamber, to hear argutnePts. writs of error. ilea vita , An Indictment was yesterday Pr'''oo - the Grand Jury, at the instance of the P.,- 40- missioners in Lunacy, and a true bill 0070 its MAS SHAIMES, of 13rompton, for takiagolif yl ij sea under his cure without the requisitoiloo• tificate of insanity, contrary to the Act bl O. 7 41. This is the first public prosecutio o d ll sioners under this Act of Parliament.--'; I,etbeL being so in the present instance, how a °e- 2 , err, with respect to a medical man coniroitti4; sane without first taking the trouble to i f ~e : tea. Is the evil to society greater in the case (11. fo nd that of the thief? The common adage one is as bad as the other. a A gentleman going into a boolje iler few days since , an d askin g for " Cootabli ot l e wa s very deliberately offere d a co py of th to the New Police." A Quaker apothecary meeting vri, mu., thus accosted him :—" Friend Fatll,l dining with thee to-day." " I shall be gr i bot answered the Doctor ; "but pray, fr,4 some joke?" "No juke, indeed, ' tei ol 7 l eery, " but a very serious matter. 1111-,,e(lii, friend EPHRAIM these three (lays, and etw - i t v dicine. I cannot, at this rate, live ill 10 1 1 01 must live in thine !" The Doctor took 7 ie ei scribed handsomely for the benefit of his i r and his friend the apothecary. g 30 1 1 A WARY POACHER.--011 —tiblert three men were upon the watch for e ac ,rO,l near Writtle, they discovered several an which was a hare, very recently caughtloeil dead. The men waited some time, in e ;j o et appearance of the person who set the ellOlOO success ; at length one of them sugge6',,fia•oc might be within hearing, and if the 10";che would scream and attract attentiea• 0001, ceeded, for in a few minutes a Mao ti QeV rushing through the bushe s. The, --e , (I o neglected to secrete themsel ves, and lko-fore', dle with the hare ; one of the men ther e f 0 0 1, the head, and took it to Mr. Pos.Taat ° I , 6 their employer. Moss, knowing th e se o f 1 5 him, and willing to make 4 , vitt o , kd? attempted to throw them into the pit for h;ro, by offering to lay an inforulasio for killing the hare ; but we belie° --Chelmsford Chronicle.