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THE ADMINISTRATION; STATE OF PARTIES. (From the Caledonian Mercury.) What is the real political character of the pre= sent Administration ? This is a question which is is ta'sy to put, but exceedingly difficult to an kWin.. It is not Whig, although it has received, or rather admitted, a small infusion of Whi,egery ; it is not Tory, for, by the very fact of emanci pating the Catholics, it has denuded itself of all that is great, glorious, and peculiar in Toryism ; it is not liberal in any just sense of the term, for were it to become so it would be equally hateful to the King, and to those in whom his Majesty is most inclined to repose his confidence ; nor can it with propriety be accounted of an oppo aite character, considering the glorious achieve ment it has performed, and the support upon Naltieh it has been, in a great measure, com pelled to rely. In short, it is a political non descript ; an entity sui ;crier is, a thing of shreds and patches (wills et alter assuitur pannus), a sofdiers jacket bedizened with rags of the most contrarious hues, stitched on ap parently at random, without the least regerd either to assimulation, comfort, or utility ; or, to *urn up the whole in one word, it is the Duke 01 Wellington's Administration. Any thing u perfectly anomalous, and so utterly dissimilar to all that had been previously known, never, perhaps, existed in this country ; and but for the bold and vigorous stitches of the great re gimental tailor who patched—we cannot say assorted—the different incongruous paint to gether, they must long ere this have been se perated from the garment to which they were so incuriously and grotesquely attached. The difficulties with which the present Mini stry have at present to contend all arise from nine and the same cause : they have alienated one great party in the State, without securing the confidence of any other as a counterbalance or compensation. By emancipating the Catho lics they outraged every prejudice, and trampled Upon every principle which the high church and high Tory party had most fondly and devotedly cherished ; while, by immediately courting, coax ing,and attempting to conciliate this exasperated Faction, they raised the suspicions of the old and tried friends of toleration, by whose firm and cordial co-operation the Relief Bill had been in A. great measure carried. They made the Kin.- their enemy, and forgot or neglected to make the people their friends. To Catholic grali:ode and support they had indeed established a solid claim ; and, in the sanative effects of the great measure by which upwards of eight millions of our fellow-subjects had been restored to the exercise of their just rights as citizens, they had reason to calculate upon a large reversion of cre dit and popularity. But, as if possessed by the demon of infatuation, and determined that the work of their own hands should not prosper, they had the folly or rather the madness to concert a proscriptive exception against the man who had been mainly instrumental in bringing about the emancipation of his co-reli gionists, and to force him back to his old element of agitation, at the very moment when political ran cour and animosity was beginning to give place to mutual' forbearance and the oblivion of all past offences. Hence their whole career has been a course of shifts and expedients to meet the exigencies of the hour, without any other rule of action than that of constantly attempting to trim between opposite parties and antagonist principles. The consequence is, that, with the single exception of the Relief Bill, they have not dared to adventure upon any measure of the least consequence, or to risk an exhibition of their own weakness and of the strength of their opponents. Self-preservation appears to have been their only care, the sole object to which all their efforts were directed. Navigating the ves sel of that state amidst shoals, reefs, breakers, and quicksands, the condition of those on board was wholly overlooked in the prevailing anxiety to guard against the perils of shipwreck; and it is exclusively owing to the skilful pilotage of the sagacious and clear-sighted man at the helm that they have not ere this been foundered or cast away. But there are dangers against which even his energy and force of mind, great as they unquestionably are, may be insufficient to guard. A crisis is, we fear, gradually approaching ; and, unless some propitious accident of fortune, or NOM bold stroke of genius, interpose to avert the threatened evil, the days of the present Ministry are numbered. We have been led to make these remarks chiefly in consequence of information of rather an alarming nature which we have received from a quarter entitled to the utmost credit in regard to all that is passing in the political world. To whatever cause it may be ascribed it is no longer doubtful that a certain degree of coldness at present exists between a Great Personage and the illustrious man at the head of the Adminis tration ; and, were we to judge of the feelings of the former from some little circumstances that have transpired, our conclusion would be, that he heartily repents giving his assent to the Ca tholic Relief Bill, and only waits for an oppor tunity to signalize his displeasure with all who were any way accessary to the success of that great measure. What other inference can be drawn from his conduct to the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Jerningham at the Levee, when he passed by these noble persons without deigning to vouchsafe a single word to either ; or from the indecorous expression which escaped him when the hated name of Daniel O'Connell was announced by the Lord is waiting ; or, generally, from the aversion he manifests to all those who were in any degree instrumental in furthering and promoting the cause of emancipation ? Besides, there is a serpent at the Royal ear, which, taking advantage of the predisposition alluded to, is con stantly occwpied in infusing into it new venom, and, above all, in exciting, in the Royal mind, suspicions of a kind not even to be breathed respecting the motives and intentions of the cele brated man at the head of the Government. In plain terms—for there is no use in mincing matters—the Duke of Cumberland has declared that he will not leave England until he has effected the dismissal of the Duke of Welling ton ; and, were it possible to construct a Cabinet which would endure for a single month out of the rump of ultra-toryism, we have little doubt but he would carry his point. By pandering to the fears, the prejudices, and the infirmities of his Royal brother, this illustrious Don Whiskerandos has contrived to gain an ascendancy over his superior mind, and to thwart, vex, obstruct, and annoy the Government in a great variety of ways. To the Duke of Wellington personally he carries himself respectfully ; and he would be a bolder man than ever stood in the Duke of Cumber land's shoes who would venture to act otherwise ; but when his Grace's back is turned, to use an expressive Scotticism, this Royal personage con stantly talks at him, andlabours covertly to show distrust and suspicion of his character and mo tives. What may come of all this we know not. It is as clear as noon-day, however, that there is some paralyzing influence behind the scenes, which, if the Government do not destroy, will crc long destroy the Government. Meanwhile, it is understood that advances were made, on the part of the ministry, to the leading Members or the Ultra Tory party, and that these gentlemen expressed their readiness to join the Duke's Administration provided Peel was sacrificed to their resentment. View ing him as an apostate and traitorto their cause, and ascribing their defeat mainly to his desertion of them at a critical moment, they declared that their support was only to be secured by the dis missal of this recreant, on whose unhappy head the vials of their wrath are constantly poured out witkout measure. To such a stipulation, however, no honourable mind could for an in stant listen ; and it is said that the appointments of Lord Rosslyn as Privy Seal, and Sir James Scarlett as Attorney-General, were made after the breaking off of this negotiation, and in order to punish the Ultra Tories for their un reasonable obstinacy in regard to the Horn Secretary. A dissolution is also talked of, and has been strongly recommended by some, as calculated to strengthen the hands of Ministers, both directly and indirectly ; directly, by adding to the numbers of those they can reckon upon out and out; and indirectly, by disorganising and breaking up, for a time at least, those little subordinate parties in the House, who, by trim ming their sails dexterously to the wind, and acting according to circumstances, contrive to render themselves important and formidable. But, in the present temper of the country, the expediency of having recourse to so strong a remedy is more than doubtful, especially as it would be tantamount to a public declaration of the weakness of the Administration ; and hence we are rather inclined to think that the Duke will attempt to go on some time longer with the present House of Commons, anomalous and di vided as it is, in the hope the Ultra Tories will at length come round, and that, as the memory of Catholic emancipation fades, their remem brance of the loaves and fishes will revive, and bring with it a sweet oblivion of all past offences. A Tory out of office is like a fish out of water : he cannot exist long in so rare and exhausting an atmosphere as that which surrounds the Op- position Benches. Sooner or later, therefore, he must yield to the combined force of instinct and habit, and once more return to the ele ment where alone he lives, and moves, and has his being. Our wonder is that the Duke of Wellington would submit for a single day to the vexations and embarrassments with which he has been so artfully surrounded. He has acquired glory enough to satisfy even the most craving ambi tion ; and he is far above that vulgar infirmity of vulgar minds which induces them to cling with a desperate tenacity to the possession of power. Pride may, indeed, have some share in deter mining his conduct—the pride natural to a man who was never conquered, and which impels him never to submit or yield. But the greatest men that ever lived have been forced to bend to the force of circumstances ; nor is it possible even for the force of circumstances to controul the passions or direct the interested and selfish views of mankind always into a safe and proper chan nel. If his Grace, however, is to continue at the helm, we trust that he will look a little more to the course he is to steer, and a little less to the paltry intrigues and devices of those who seek to dispossess him from his post. The good will and favour of the country at large ought to be the main object and study of his ambition. With this at his back he may defy the devil and Cumberland ; without it, with all his laurels and all his _glory, he is at the mercy of the first fa vourite demirep, who may choose to dislike the colour of his beard or the curl of his whiskers. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messager des Chainbres of Saturday.) PARIS, JULY 10.—Letters from Bucharest, of the 1::th of June, announce that, according to positive information, the works of the besiegers before Silis. tria are so far advanced that they approach the ram parts of the citadel, and that but little resistance is expected from the garrison, which consists of 8,000 men. It is asserted that the besieged suffer very much from want of provisions, the place being so closely invested since the late successes of the Rus sians, that nothing can get into it. The extraordinary rise of the waters of the Danube is said likewise to have done great damage to the city. General Kassinofsky has just sent a summons to surrender, and it is thought that it cannot hold out above a fortnight. By the reduction of Silistria which has hitherto checked the Russian line of ope rations both on thellAk and in the rear, the progress of the Russians against Shumla would be much faci litated, and the speedy fall of Ghuergevo would be inevitable. General Geismar, at the head of 12,000 men, is preparing to make an incursion on the bank of the Danube. (From the Co;zstitutionnel of Saturday.) CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-FRIDAV. The Order of the Day was the continuance of the discussion relative to the Erentual Credit. M. BIGNON, after some observations on the affair of Algiers, voted against the ministerial project ; but as a great portion of the expenccs were nearly con sumed, to which it whs impossible to have recourse, he should join in the vote of the Commission, in cluding, in the Eventualities, the speedy sending cf political agents to the New States of Spanish Ame rica, and the accidental sacrifices which the cause of humanity might require in Portugal. M. THOMAS remarked at some length on the folly of the contest with Algiers, and the immense expence and commercial distress which were its con- sequences. The MINISTER of FOREIGN AFFAIRS defended the conduct of Government with respect to the war of Algiers, and represented it as a contest which in terested the just pride of France. M. THOMAS thought that the Chamber ought to have authentic information, and not be satisfied with the verbal information given by the Ministry. He would willingly give his vote in favour of the mea sure, if the honour of France were interested ; but before voting the money of the people, it was ne cessary to know for what purpose it was to be applied. General LA MARQUE proposed a reduction of 11,301,310 francs, and M. de LEMAILONS of 7,551,310 francs. Gen. LAMARQUE, in speaking of the naval ex penditure, observed, that it was not against Prussia nor Austria that armaments made by France would be destined. It was England,--England alone that every year rendered an expenditure of 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 necessary. The amount since the restoration was nearly one milliard, and yet recollec tions of the past, embittered with resentment the uncertainty of the present, and anxiety respecting the future induce you to vote immense sums, which, applied to roads, canals, manufactures, and agricul ture, would give a tenfold increase of wealth and pro•perity to France. Were war to break out be tween England and France,—a fatal event, the sup position of which the wishes and the interests of two great nations doubtless reject,—we shall have only two ways of reaching the giant, of the ocea n, who ' with his thousand arms surrounds and grasps the globe. First, to attack at all points the commerce which reeds bim,—that commerce, without which he cannot live; and with large frigates, with light squa drons appearing suddenly in every sea, return upon him, with good faith, after a declaration of war, the evils which have frequently been inflicted on us in the midst of peace by enemies acting like pirates, who arc now punished, but who would doubtless, with out a blush, be imitated in future. If the attack directed against commerce should not be sufficient, the enemy must then be grappled with hand to hand, and for this steam will afford the means. Steam seems destined, as was well said by the re porter to establish equality on the sects, as gun powder has on land. It will render useless naval tactics, of which Tourville was the inventor, but which has proved more advantageous to our neigh bours than to us. It will set aside the advantages of a windward position, of breaking the line, or doubling a line, and of all those complicated evo lutions, which, at Saintes, Aboukir, and Tra falgar, secured to our rivals triumphs which our mariners might otherwise have wrested from them. Naval battles will, perhaps, be• come what they were in the time of the Romans — contests in which intrepidity, address, physical force, and numbers, will give the victory. Ah ! had not he who, from the heights of Boulogne so long threatened England, rejected the offers made to him for four years by the American Fulton, it would not have been as a captive that he would have visited the banks of the Thames. The forts and all the works which terror raised on the other side of the Channel would no more have impeded the march of the army of Austerlitz, than the fencibles or the yeomanry. Other destinies would then have been reserved for the world, and had Providence, which has willed that France should be free, brought back amongst us the ancient race of our kings, they would not have returned with a foreign chief, who, strippiug our Museums, violating capitulations, trampling on national pride, proved to us, as Closterseven proved to our fathers, that the traditions of punic faith had survived Carthage. I cannot, then, approve the reduction of two millions from the sum for steam-boats, nor two millions from the item of maritime operations, certain of which are destined to protect on the banks of the Tagus the martyrs of liberty and legitimacy. I object also tothe opposition made by the Committee to au expence necessary to give a preponderance, which, according to the report, we can only acquire at the expence of our best interests. We never will have a continental war but such as will be ex cited and paid for by England. It is then on Eng land that we should endeavour to make the ex ils of war revert. The General then adverted to the affairs of Greece, and concluded by admonishing the Ministers to beware of any attempts against the Charter. Coups d'etat on the part of the Govern ment had been spoken of, but it ought to be recol lected that the people had also their coups d'etat. He would vote for a reduction of 150,0t)0 francs on the /filmy Estimates, would allow the sum required for the navy, and would refuse to appropriate to foreign relations 5,000,000, the application of which was not explained. M. LEI'ELLETIER D'AULNAY explained the grounds on which the Committee had proposed its reduction, and expressed an opinion that the reduction pro posed by General Lamarque could not be agreed to. M. DE CACX opposed Gcn. Lamarque's amend ment. M. HYDE DE NEuviLLE—We have but nine steam-vessels; England has 338. We want steam vessels, and for their construction I demand 2,000,000 f. General SEBASTIAN! said that the Committee per sisted in the reduction which it had proposed. General LAMARQUE then withdrew his amend ment, in . favour of that proposed by the Committee. M. DE CAMBON opposed the amendment. The Chamber then proceeded to the ballot. There were 311 white balls to 265 black, leaving a majority of 46 in-favour of the project." FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, JULY 11.—Five per Cents., 109 f, 55c. 60c. 50c. 55c. ; Three per Cents., SOL 85c. 75c. ; Bank Stock, 1,8401. ; Naples Stock, 861. 20e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 73 ' f. ; Spanish Rentes Perpetuelles, 484 E ; llaytian Loan, - 450 f. Exchange on London, one month, 251.50 c. ; three months, 25f. 35c.. Lours Au thcntique. HAMBURG PAPERS. (From the Hamburg Reporter of July 7.) The Prussian State Gazette of yesterday contains le following : RUSSIAN BULLETIN. General Count Paskevitsch, of Erivan, gives the following account of an affair which took place on the 13th of May, near the village of Tsurtskab, be tween the detachment of Major-General Burzoff, and the numerous militia of Achmet Khan : Major-General Prince Bebutoff, having ascer tained that the enemy intended to attack the for tress of Achalzich, with a considerable force which the Khan had assembled in the Sandshak of Patshof, resolved on sending Major-General Burzoff against him, in order, if possible, to disperse his troops, and thereby delay the enterprise against Achalzich. General Burzoff immediately set off in search of the enemy, at the head of ten companies of infantry, five light field-pieces, and 200 Cossacks; on the way he learned that Achmet Khan, in expectation of reinforcements, had thrown himself into t lie Christian villages of the Sandshak of Ardaghan, in search of plunder. This induced the General to direct his march towards the village of Tsurtskab, through which it was necessary that the Turks should return, and where, on his arrival there on the following morn ing, he found the whole of the enemy's forces united. Notwithstanding the great superiority oft he force op posed to him, and the advantageous position occupied by that force, the General deemed it more advisable to venture an attack than to retreat upon Achalzich ; he accordingly advanced, and drove the enemy, at the point of the bayonet, from one height to another, close up to the village itself, which being defended by a wooden fortification, our party were obliged to make a halt at a distance of about 100 fathoms from the same. Hereupon Achmet Khan attacked us with the whole of his forces, consisting of about 5,000 infantry, without reckoning cavalry ; but was soon repulsed, and forced, after suffering considerable loss, to seek shelter again behind his works. The following day, without awaiting a second attack, the Khan had fled in the utmost confusion. Taking advantage of this victory, General Burzoff set fire to those villages, the inhabitants of which had shown themselves hostile, and laid waste the whole neighbourhood, from which the enemy had pre viously drawn the resources necessary to enable him to make incursions into the Sandshaks occupied by our troops. HAMBURG, JULY 10.—The Austrian Observer of the 3d instant contains the following : " Letters from Bucharest of the 15th of June contain the following news from the camp before Silistria, which are stated to have been received from an official source :--` 'I he siege is proceeding in a satisfactory manner. The batteries of the third Parallel were mounted yesterday, and have so com pletely disabled the artillery of the opposite bastions, that the enemy now replies only with musketry to our fire. The outworks are already destroyed. Last night six double saps were drawn from the third parallel to the glacis, where, in a few days, a battery of sixteen pieces of heavy calibre will be erected, and thereby soon bring the siege to a conclusion. to have aban dDoeaseedr t e a r h s h r o e p p e r s e resent t a p t h e a ( b i i d t a e n f e t a s e the artillery on the ramparts being no farther serviceable, and the want of provisions having already reached the utmost point of endurance." BUCIIAREST, JUNE 17.—Since the various en gagements in which the sallies of the garrison of Silistria were repulsed, and the views of the Turks to retake Eizeboli, as well as to cut off the commu nication between the corps besieging ilistria and the magazines at Varna disappointed, we look for the speedy surrender of Silistria. Count Diebitsch, after having so vigorously repulsed the attack of the Grand Vizier, and partly dispersed his army of 35,000 men, intends, as is affirmed here, to prose , cute his victory, leaving a corps before Silistria, and to endeavour to turn Shumla. The Russian army, , yet made, and they have therefore to laindlt the whose communication with Varna is insured by the useless waste of treasure — the sacrifice of human late victory, is abundantly supplied with provi s i on s , from that place. If it should be confirmed that ' life—and what is to them worse than all, the General Diebitsch means to make his way over the morti - Balkan, by turning Shumla, arid General Geismar non-accomplishment of their object , with should, at the same time, lead a division against fled ambition, and a certain loss of military character : Sophia, this combined manceuvre might h a ve a de cisive influence in the sequ e l o f the c a mp a i gn . ODESSA, JUNE 17.—The Courier de Suzyrne , and LETTERS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, many French Journals, after it , has erroneously stated the .JuNti 29.—Private letters from Constantinople to the 18th of this month have been received at Bel grade,Ocording to which the Ambassadors of Eng-error, naval fi n i . r e c e hire,in th f e rom Black offiSceiaa lastotrii sources, theil. fiTdi.: whole l : iyi correctngo list of l o ii Is t r d the fleet in the Black Sea, at the beginning of land and France had already arrived there. The the year i—two of 110, one of 84, one of 60, six of 74, events at Shumla were, however, known to the full three of 60, one sent as an hospital ship, making fourteen extent at Belgrade; b u t th e y d o no t cau se such a of the line; four frigates of 44 g uns, one of 36and degree of desp on d ency as m i g h t b e su pp ose d. The R Turks show o n thi s occas i on t h e equan imity which takenaphael,o3 guns ugt.rs, and four small vessels of 10 guns; by the, five brigs, two brigantines, two .c Turks), one sloop of 2i (this s the 8, one copre o r n t e e r.s of three is peculiar t o th em i n a d vers i t y. The Turkish h o thesels altogether carrying 1 , 496 guns. There are lg vessels Authorities, to o , en d eavour t o d e t ra ct as much as with this fleet four bomb vessels, three yachts , two steam possible from th e successes o f th e Russians. The boats, and sixteen transports; we do not know the num contrary, however, will probably be most clearly ber of guns which they carry. shown by the approaching events, such as the speedy fall of Silistria, and the defensive attitude of the Grand Vizier. FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, JUNE 29.—The re port which we stated on the 14th, of the appear ance of a malignant fever in the harbour of Odessa, symptoms of which are said to have been no ticed on the 29th ult., seems, unhappily, to be confirmed by letters from Odessa, of the 25th instant, which (written it is true on the first alarm) speak of symptoms of dig Oriental plague. On the 22d the Government had ordered all the effects in the harbour to be burnt, and a ship to be destroyed. The Lazaretto is cleared, and a separate place allotted for the sick. All communi cations between the harbour, which is closed, and the town, have ceased. It is said that for some days the number of persons who died in the harbour was from 10 to 15 daily. All ships from the ports of Bulgaria are put under the most rigorous qua rantine. BERLIN, JULY - 1 I.—We understand that the Empress of Russia leaves us on the 15th, to return to St. Petersburg!), where she expects to arrive on the 3d of August. Count Nesselrode is gone from Warsaw to Tulczyn. It is said the Emperor has given some ground to hope he will open the Polish Diet in person in October. -- - _ STOCKHOLM, JULY 3.—The apprehensions of a bad harvest are partly allayed, a.; the accounts from the northern provinces, and from Servia, are on the whole favourable. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS flank stock 9 11 3 4 123 3 per Cent. Red. .....5":043.4%% 3 per Cent. Cons. b7N% '4, 334 per Cent Ditt .) !ted. 9 S M '4 4 per Cent. lO-.1 Ditto, 1826 lO3 Ditto Scrip — Bank L. Ann. I9 15-16 India Strck 22 5 1A Ditto Bonds .........59 57 59 Fn. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sca Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 89 % Ex. Bills,1:1,0i3O 2d. 7%75 pm. IDitto 500 2d. 73 75 pm. Ditto Small 2A. 75 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 89% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O . CLOCE. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds Vi% 1 ,4 Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bond , — Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds ... — Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, MI l7!i Russian — Danish ti.S; Spanish, 1321 9% Greek Bonds 183 — Ditto, 1825 -French Rentes, sp. c. 10f. 25c. Guatima l a - Exchange 2sf. 55c. Mexican Bonds —l— 3 per cent. —t. —c. Ditto, 1825 rtuczs OP SHARKS THIS DAT AT ONZ O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 54 pm.) £2O G 4 GS Guardian Assurance Co lO 23 Australian Co. FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGII, JULY 10.-13. 1g34.. , —Tw0 months, 13. P. 13F:Imix, JULY 7.—:Three months, 6. 23 Liarste, JULY o. —Three months, 6. 144. Juor 9.—Three months, 9. M. BRESIZN, JULY 7.—Two months, 601. STOCKHOLM, JULY 3.—Seventy.teve days, 11. 32. Gir WATER AT LONDON BRIM' TO-MORROW. Mcrning ...51 minutes :Mt r 0. I Evening ...22 minutes after 1 TIIEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISII OPERA-lIOUSE, STRAND. THIS EVENING (10th time) the Romantic Drama called THE SISTER OF CHARITY. Col. Saxe, Mr. Faker; Capt. Wiemar, Mr. J. Vining; Paulo, Mr. Keeley; Andrea, Mr. 0. Smith; Joseph, Mr. Perkins. St. Ursula, Miss Kelly; Nannetta, Miss H. Cawse. After which, the New Comic Operetta entitled THE MIDDLE TEMPLE; OR, ' 4 WHICH IS MY SON ?" Brirfless, Mr. Wrench ; Brutus Hairbrain, Mr. Keeley. Julia Miss H. Cawse; Penelope, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the Operatic Romance of PRESUMPTION. Frankenstein, Mr. Baker; Fritz, Mr. Keeley; ), Mr. 0. Smith. Elizabeth, Miss Cawse ; Safie, Mrs. Keeley. To-morrow (first time in this country), The Robber's Bride, with He Lies like Truth ; Thursday, an Opera, with Master's Rival; Friday, The Sister of Charity, with Rosina, and The Rendezvous. THE COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK. The Proprietors of this Magnificent Exhibition invite the atten tion of the Public to the NEW ARRANGEMENT OF ADMISSION. To view the stupendous Panorama of London from the a. d. principal Galleries, the orginal Ball, removed from St Paul's Cathedral, the Prospect from the summit of the Building, and the Saloon for the Reception of Works of Art 3 0 To view the Panorama only 2 0 To view the Conversatories, Fountain, and Swiss Cottage 2 0 Children half-price.—Open from Ten till Seven. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The request of our friend VERA', at Cardiff, shall be at, • We have late advices from Havannah this morning, which state that no new act of piracy had been committed on that coast since the pre ceding accounts. The American ships of war were keeping an active look out, and were cruizing in all directions, and giving convoy to the mer chantmen whenever any danger was apprehended. It is not generally known that the Russian General Count DIEBITSCII is under fifty years of age, a German by birth, a soldier of fortune, and son-in-law of the famous BARCLAY DE TOLLY. We have received Demerara Papers this morning to the 25th May. The Act for the establishment of a Savings' Bank for the Slaves of the United Colony of Demerara and Esse quibo, having received his MAJESTY'S assent, would be put in force immediately. A Proclamation of Sir BENJAMIN DURBAN appears in the Paper of the 20th, for the better regulation of the rebuilding of the New Town, which was destroyed by the dreadful fire there, and offering the advantage to such houses as were built entirely of stone, of being only liable to pay town taxes for a period of ten years, on the one half of the amount of the assessed value of such buildings. No cooperages nor grog shops were to be allowed in this district. Advices from Paris affirm that the Directors of the Bank of France had postponed the dis cussion of the expediency or inexpediency of re ducing the rate of interest, which had been fixed for Saturday last, to an indefinite period. Extracts from French, Hamburg, and German Papers will be found in another column. The speech of General LAMARQUE, touching th e power of the English navy, and the future victories of that of France, as well as the de struction of English commerce by the means of steam boats, is well worthy the serious attention of Englishmen. The General says, and per haps truly, that steam seems destined to restore the equality y'the seas, as gunpowder has done on land. It will certainly affect a great revolu tion—but England is there before hand with France, having already 338 steam vessels, while France has only nine. - The Minister of Marine is empowered to apply two millions of francs for the construction of steam vessels. In another column will be found an article from the Caledonian Mercury, which is well worthy of attention. The writer—whose re marks by the way seem to carry an air of autho rity about them—states, " the Duke of CUM BERLAND has declared that he will not leave England until he has effected the dismissal of the Duke of WELLINGTON." That the Orange Duke has really made this declaration, we have no more doubt, than that it will be attended with utter disappointment. What else could keep him in a country where he is so universally un popular, and where it is quite sufficient for him to decide one way, to induce Englishmen to de cide the other ? Had his Royal Highness never meddled with the Catholic Emancipation Bill, we are convinced, notwithstanding what we have heard of his prodigious influence, that it would riot have been carried so triumphantly as it has been. But it was his unpopular interference with a great national question, fully as much as the justice of the question itself, that decided the day against him. The public felt convinced that whatever side his Royal Highness should take, it could not fail to be a dangerous and unna tural one. tended to. Eanarrusr.—ln our Foreign Leading Article of yesterday, the word Russian Officer was inserted by mistake three or four times for Prussian. c'tv '-,N*llll* LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 14, 1829. RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE BLACK SEA. A Berlin Paper of the 4th instant, gives the following, under•date of Odessa, 17th June, as the number of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea—amounting to 14 ships of the line, several frigates, and sloops of war, and carrying 1,496 guns. With such a fleet, we think, the Rus sians ought to be ashamed of themselves for not accomplished a vast deal mo re ,—i n d ee d, having they have done nothing worthy of notice, unless it be the surrender of a frigate, without even firing a shot for the honour of Russia! In the hands of an active Power, what might not such a fleet achieve ? The army of PASKEWITSCH might have been transported from the confines of Persia, and landed at or in the vicinity of Scutari, while the armies of the Danube might have rushed on towards Constantinople. But these ar e things apparently beyond th e compre hension —or the possibility of the Russian Commanders, who carry on a petty war of d eta il infinitely more destructive to their forces than a bold plan of campaign, the character of which would at least save their military genius from reproach, if its result might not altogether prove so successful and glorious as they would have good reason to expect. They would have the satisfaction to think that they had made a proper demonstra tion of their power, and that, next to v i c tory, is all that a General has a right to be proud of. But this demonstration She Russians have not With regard to our cotemporary's remark, ~ ii is understood that advances were made, on the part of the Ministry, to the leading members of the Ultra Tory party, and these gentlemen ex pressed their readiness to join the Duke's Ad ministration, provided PEEL were sacrificed to their resentment," we think it far from impro bable, that if such advances were really made on the part of the Duke, such would be the stipula tion of the Ultra Tories. Mr. PEEL, we know, is a marked man among them. He has lost his caste, and is looked on as a Paria by the fraternity. But inasmuch as he has suf fered in their estimation, he has gained in that of the community. If, like the serpent, he has cast his skin, it has only been to put on the new one of promise, and renewed vitality. Besides, let it never be forgotten—let it be ire- corded on his cenotaph, and inscribed in the annals of the Constitution—that to his timely conversion, the success of the Catholic Question was mainly owing. He it was whose conduct decided that of the country (for he is and always has been an eminently popular Home Minister) which felt that while his temperate judgment had an influence in the Senate, its constitutional privileges could not fail to be en sured. And is this a man to be sacrificed with impunity ? Is this a man to be put down at the command of an ELDON, who throughout his long political life has never even by chance stumbled upon an enlightened public act ; of a NEWCASTLE, who, if he knows his right hand from his left, it is quite as much as he does know ; of a FALMOUTH, innocent of sense; or of a WINCIIILSEA, now addicted, fortunately for his country, to solitude and me ditation ? But granting even that Mr. PEEL de served the honours of political martyrdom, is the Duke of WELLINGTON the man to sacrifice him ? Can the hero of Waterloo—the illustrious victor of the most illustrious man that ever lived —afford to do a mean action ?' Never, never ! The recollection of his past eories would rise up like spectres against him, and madden him in the bare attempt. In answer to those—and we are aware that they arc a numerous class—who have been tempted to question the reasons for Mr. PEEL'S conversion, we would say, once for all—look not mt too curiously or fastidiously into the motives of int human actions. It is unwise to do so, and ar- ha gues but a school-boy acquaintance with the world. it( An under-current of self runs through the noblest ev deeds—prompts to the most elevated enterprises. 1 ( 11 " Try Mr. PEEL then as you would try the 19 senators and patriots of old ; measure his motives t e ll by the same comprehensive standard ; but subject him not to an ordeal, which even BnuTus th ex himself—the most disinterested patriot on record to to —could not hope to p ass unscathed. th The Portsmouth Letters of yesterday state, fo that some . hopes were entertained that a very vc - large portion, if not th e w h o l e , o f t h e cargo o f the h fo i Cant Brea Castle would be got out of the wreck. th _ _ The Agricultural Letters from Dunkirk this morning state, that the Wheat Market was very fri heavy. By a Royal Decree, the Duty on Wheat °! ti and Rye was lowered to 25c. per hecto, without s e any exception of colours or country, until the price Isas down to 22f. The general accounts 8 from France to-day represent the crops as being tt Ipon the whole in a favourable state. tr The Quebec Paper of the 13th June gives a favourable Agricultural Report, stating that the past month has been one of considerable interest and exertions with the farmers, and that labour was only twice suspended by wet weather, on the 10th and 16th ; the seed has been committed to a dry bed. Of wheat the breadth sown is very far short of the usual quality ; the same may be said of barley, pease, and rye ; oats have heels sown to a most astonishing extent, 80 and 100 minots are quite common, and in some eases 130 to 140. The crop of wheat, rye, and pease, having almost entirely failed in this quarter last year is the cause of so much of this kind of grain being laid down. The farmers being unwilling to submit to the high price demanded for seed of these kinds, grain of every description looks well, and in a forward state. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TwxLrz o'CLocr. Consols opened this morning at the same pried they left off at yesterday, 89k 4 for the account , with very little business doing. The report of a Russian General having arrive! with despatches to the Russian Amba; . sador London, and nothing having as yet transpired, ha g / put our City speculators on the alert. Philadelphia Papers to the 21st June, and Be more to the 20th June, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The Journal du Commerce states the arrival or the ship Desdemona from Campeachy, which ship fell in with a boat from Vera Cruz ' by which sh e learned that i n f ormat i on h a d reac h e d Vera Cruz from Mexico, that an Ordinance had been passed by th e Congress of Mexico suspending the operation of the law for the expulsion of the Spaniards, and pet' mitting those in the country still to remain there' From 30,000 to 40,000 dollars had been received at Vera Cruz to pay the troops. The band of robbers between Vera Cruz ad (l , Mexico had greatly increased ; several persons b a d lately been robbed and some killed. Commodore Porter was soon expected to retort' to his native country from Mexico, and it is said that the President would confer on him the p os t of Minister to Mexico. smorni a n s g rbeycenthtley ieMei c! it is stated,y the F Oporto brings accounts that they are going to ha n g French atraveller Papers who has effigy in that town all persons who have b ee t Be thatnh proscribed and are absent; this is to take place of the doors of their houses. The inhabitants e 6 Oporto are resolved to shut up their warehou se and houses on this awful day. In the Foreign market nothing doing as yeti TWO O'CLOCi f : pi , a Ba t i:d: p nit r f e otu s ri e si prese nt ni t , el b t e ftiin quoted e. Since the early part of the morning a, slight 1. provement bits taken place in Consols, - and they 11 7 t 1 has taken place, although it is generally belie/to No B9 i speculation for the of ac Core q t e ae e c j e that negot iations are on the tapia between the P er Foreign market all the Northern St eelk ij, are getting up; Exchequer Bills, 73 .5; B ri r ti o, 571 i; Danish, 68f ; Mexican, 20i 21; R uss 99 ; Portuguese, 421; Spanish 9i. THREE 0' CL co.. Consols for account, 891 I. FOUR O'CLOCK.--CLOSING Pith' - Consols closed at 891 I. , Dr aal The Earl of ABERDEEN left town Ye 5 P - 1 ,06 morning for the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, te n — d e r F th r e id tt a n y clen j t u f l a y m an audience of the KING, for the purpose (it W al ti ° stood) of laying before his MaJrsirr some ;ITV ! ' " despatches which have been received from abroad. .lO vault O I : l if Salop, the remains of Lady COCKBURN, whose deg o rt• her . ° ,0 lately announced. They were followed by btoken husband, and deeply afflicted sons and relativel;l,o l il O y t o h f , c tv iu e d r d e e, interred a wrociv i a ll t i ovf e; well as the principal teumtry on the Orleton Ea tate i er iviog most excellent Lady was of the noblest origing flo p, her d e s cen t t h roug h t h e anc i ent an d no ble house i ß ;ji v e 0 of Bromley, C HANDOS , G REY , &c., from the 077 /A d e dir PLANTAGENET, but her m a ny and rare virtues au._ , gt cn nity ev en t o h er bi rt h. " tier body is buried ILL '— but her name liveth for evermore."