The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

FRENCH MINISTRY. (From the Constitutionnel.) All we can at present say is, that the new Ministry does not appear to us to be composed of elements sufficiently coherent to ensure a long existence. We fear that the cement is bad, and that the whole will not hold well together. That is, perhaps, a calculation of M. de Villele's ; but, if so, it is false. Let the new Ministry stand or fall, the political part of M. de Villele is finished, The reappearance of that individual in power would lead to great catastrophes ; but such a misfortune will not happen. The mark of public reprobation is set upon his forehead in characters of fire ; brought before the tribunal of his coun try, he has been tried, condemned, and branded. Other reasons lead us to believe that the new Ministry will, with difficulty, support itself, at least in all its branches. It is of no use to take the Ministers one by one, weigh and measure their capacities,. since we find no one of them, whatever other merits he may have, capable of putting himself at the head of affairs, of serving as a guide in a Constitutional system, and ruling all by his character and talents. The authority of virtue, talent, and character, is requisite in the Representative Government upon which we are about to enter. It is that which governs in the Tribune and the Council ; it is from that that a Chatham rises in the midst of storms ; that he casts far from him importunate ambition ; that the waves of faction break at his feet ; that he influences all by his eloquence and the ascen dancy of his patriotism ; and it is by that he raises the prosperity of his country. We have sought for such a man in the new Council, and we have not found him. To conclude, let Ministers: ha re-assured, it is by their acts that they will be judged. We are not the organs of an unjust and blind opposition, but of an enlightened and wise opposition. Let them repair the ills their predecessors have done tts ; let them he faithful to their works ; let them have courage enough to be - Frenchmen and citi 2ens, and they need not fear public opinion. (From the Journal des Debuts.) We believe the Ministry resolved to proceed in the paths of a constitutional and improving - system. But let them take care, for opinion does not understand the singular distinction be tween useful maxims, and the honourable men T.vho have become illustrious in professing them, and have been their faithful guardians ; the country will require more, and power will find a thousand unknown obstacles in its path. It is not enough to take from an auxiliary army its bayonets and flags ; flags do 11,,t alone to victory. No doubt we think too well of the chiefs of the different parties of our assemblies, to believe that they look .to any thing else than acts ; they will not think of men. But will not the Ministry itself be hurt with the presence, and, so to speak, even with the generous assistance, of so much noble talent arid high renown ? , Will it not be likely to suspect a secret enmity, even when they•may come nobly forward to combat with it in the same cause ? In polities we are always ready to say, " Qui non est mectun est contra me." The deceased Ministry was in hostility with all the intelligence of the country ; it was from that that 'they died. The present will risk being suspected by the same intelligence. Would it then be stranger than the late one ? The first inconvenienee of this situation would be to trouble the Councils of Ministers by this Senti ment of a; false situation, and to lead them insen sibly astray, by an insefiSible. inclination from the paths in which they - piopose to seek the easy secret of ensuring the happiness. of the people and the g l or y of the throne. To wish to be sage, and the wise, exposes its to meet with error. M. de Viltele came to the head of affairs. undeter mined to destroy the liberty of the press ; hut he exasperated public opinion ; the journals said it, and he declared that the Monarchy was lost if the Censorship was not established. In. th . e Government that We have, power is a redoubt, upon which victorious opinion takes up its position and spreads its flag. Then, who ever wishes to adopt them, offers hiinself, and brings, as a reinforcement, its adhesion and num bers. If the new Administration ;has no flag, who will offer himself? If it has one, where will it be displayed ? 'Whatever happens, the present deserves to fix attention : it will hereafter excite public joy.— There is great news spread through Europe : it is that France is n ot a docile flock, which suffers itself to be driven by the staff of every shepherd— it is that our institutions have, 'after a desperate struggled triumphed--,-that we will preserve our Charter-as our frontiers—that bad Ministers at last fall, when we legally desire their fall—that perverse Ministers are reduced to Hy to avoid chastisement—that the most disastrous political systems flourish and pass away with either, by their triumph or their defeat shaking the throne of our Kings; and that henceforth we, the faith ful defenders of the Monarchy, can say at last that the revolution has terminated. We may also—we who have called upon France to pre serve its devotion to an ancient and revered race, and to place he.r confidence ik her laws—we may 430 now say, that we have not been deceived. A new order of things is about to commence, for all the 411 d systems are worg out. In this new career, there is one first good, wl4.eli we shall en joy 4.eitletiut drlarvit will be the change 0f the form of polemics. The Ministry has not yet any defenders. It has assuredly, few enemies. The struggle may begin ; for, on either side, guarded, moderate, and urbane language will be employed. to o ppose wh a t one d es pised, To have obstinately was a trial in which, in spite of one-self, the calm ' of common struggles was lost. The period of this trial is passed.for ever. LIVERPOOL = ! JAN' 7--There has been a very animated demand for cotton to-day, and the s a l e s amount to about 4,000 bap, 2,000 of which, princip a lly. Alabarnas, have been taken by speculators at bid. to sid. Per lb., and very full prices have been n ht a i n ,d in the sales of the day. About eleven o'clock on the night o f Toe day " last, a decent-looking elderly man, dressed in a drab great ,coat, entered the shop of a milk-seller in Henry-street , whose wife was sitting alone, and asked it her husband %vas in. She said he was not, and asked if she could do any thing for him. He replied that Ile must see her husband, and wpuld wait for him,. He had tut been there former,above two minutes, whe n another man, dt.essed la's the "nu in, when the man R'ho had first entered said, 4, We don't believe you; piir husband is up stairs." lie then took up a candle, and wot up stairs. The woman then a ttempted to follow him ; byt the other, drawing a pistol from his pocket , threatened her With lostant death if she made any disturbance. He alien" forced her back on her chair, and took from her poakat about 21. 10s. She re mained there for some time, afraid to make a noise, while the man up stairs peeked up most of the ,igearing apparel in the house, and.took from a drawer about 4/. .ts soon as be came dour* si.ltrs the two threw her on the floor, tied her hand and fD(4 to the table . legs, which they turned over upon her, and in - that state left her, where she was shortly afterwards found by a girl who came to the house, almost in a state of exhaustion.--Manchester Guardian. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France, dated Sunday. Jan. '7.) PARIS, JAN. 6.—Their Excellencies the Chan cellor, the Ministers, the Grand Dignitaries, the Papal Nuncio, the Marshals, the Ministers of State, the Peers, the Ambassador of Naples, the Councillors of State, the Prefects of the Seine and Police, and a zreat number of Generals, had the honour to pay their respects to the King. Yesterday his Majesty received the new Ministers. Count Peyronnet came at half-past ten o'clock to deliver the seals ,into the King'S hands. CONSTANTINOPIX, DEC. 1 l.—M. de Ribeaupierre, whose embarkation on the Bth we have announced, has not vet been able to sail, on account of the con trary winds. The Ambassadors of France and Eng land appear to have passed the Dardanelles without obstacle, since no report to the contrary has yet been recei vest. ANOTHER LETTER OF THE 11TH. M. de Ribeaupierre, who had embarked on the Bth at Bujukdere, is still at that place, to which he has returned to wait for a favourable wind. The friends of the Greeks who are here, now affirm, though with very little probability, that after the de cided rupture of the megociations, Capo d'lstria will have a corps of European troops at his disposal, completely to deliver Greece. ANOTHER OP THE 11TH. Before the Ambassadors embarked, the Sultan caused a great Council to be convoked, at which about three hundred Ulemas attended, and laid before them, for consideration, the demand of pass ports made by the three Ambassadors, and the whole course of the late negociations. The moderation of the Porte before and after the battle of Nayarit) was represented as a great concession, and the question was then put, whether the Sultan ought to consent to greater humiliations ? The Ulemas, who, till that day, had recommended a conciliatory policy, answered unanimously, that the Divan had already gone too far. It was after this result was known that the Ambassadors resolved to depart without passports. The Porte, however, does not appear to consider itself in an actual state of war, but its armaments indicate an energetic plan of defence in case of a new attack by the Allies. If the Rus sians should pass the Pruth, the Sultan would go to A d rianople. ugsburgh Gazette. BUCHAREST, DEC. 18.—M. de Ribeaupierre was ;till at Bujukdere, detained by contrary winds. The Austrian Observer contains the following : " Accounts from Constantinople of the 11th of December, which we receive by express, inform us that Count Guilleminot and Mr. Stratford Canning embarked on the Bth; M. de Riheaupierre was still at Btijnkdere, where the vessels destined to receive him were anchored before his hotel, ready to sail for Odessa with the first fair wind. The most complete tranquillity still prevailed in the capital. The pre parations for defence were carried on by the Porte with the greatest activity. We wait for the arrival of the next ordinary mail, to give our readers cir cumstantial details of these events." (From the Journal des Debats of Sunday.) PARts, JAN. 6.---M. de Villele entered a public life unresolved to destroy the Liberty of the Press ; but he exasperated public opinion, the Journals told him so; and he declared that the Monarchy was lost without the Censorship. In our Government the sovereign power is a redoubt on which victori ous public opinion takes up its position, and spreads its colours. Then whoever wishes to adopt them, presents himself, and gives as a reinforcement his adherence and concurrence. If the new Adminis tration has no banner, who will present himself ? kf it has one, where will it be ? We will not speak of the Chamber of Peers. There all Ministerial combinations find good-will; because, placed before the Throne, they only place themselves in the breach when great dangers to the Throne present themselves. But the Cabinet should cast its eyes on the Chamber of Deputies ; there the destiny of the new Ministry will be determined. Are the three Members who have been borrowed thence to take a ,:eat in the Council-fitted for that task ? Are they be yond comparison, its most important Statesmen— its most admired Orators—those, in fact, whose assistance will be moreover an ornament, and whose aid will be an increase of strength ? There lies the .whole question. (From the Courier Francai.s.) PARIS, JAN. 6.—According to the Royal Ordi nance, there is no longer a President of the Council. N. de Chabrol has only been chlirged with the office of countersigning his connection with the late Mi nistry. His want of speaking talents, and the timid manner in which he governed the Colonies and direct ed the Navy, with the subaltern part he played, make us believe that he will not have much influence in the new Ministry. There will, however, necessarily be a directing Minister, though it will only be ty his works that he will be known. The subaltern places in the Ministry are still to be filled. As long as . France sees Franchet and Delavau preserve their employments, it will still believe itself under that system' which makes religion a means of espionage and persecution. They are proper persons for Fer dinand's Government, and are the curse of a Con stitutional Government. The Jesuits—masters of the police and of letters, tolerated officially by the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and favourably regarded by MM. Chabrol and Martignac, who have hitherto agreed very well with them—the Jesuits will have lost nothing of their power to work mischief. M. de Villele, in retreating, has left them the means of triumphing. The newMinisters,to whom the old have been sa crificed by beisig so much decried that they were no longer of any use, will soon be harassed and paralysed by an influence which has only retreated a moment to act with greater effect. They may serve to avert the storm; but when the danger is past they will be dismissed, having only served as a stepping-stone to a Jesuit Ministry. This faction has renounced none of its hopes nor its projects; the net it had thrown around France is not destroyed. The present Ministry cannot be masters of the Administration, as long as the Police and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the Pont-office, are in the hands of the Jesuits. If they agree to this division of power, they will be sus pected of folly or connivance, and lose all popularity. France awaits something better. It knows all sorts of reform cannot be made in a day; but there are some which cannot be deferred, without losing all hope of melioration, The repugnance of M. de Villele to allow himself to be made a Peer is conceivable ; he has never been a favourite with the Peers, who regard him as one of the worst statesmen whom fortune ever elevated to power. He enters too, with MM, de Corbiere and de Peyronnet, and their like, made Peers by the Congregation, which the new Ministry have always promised to destroy. The new batch of Peers will he an obstacle to the Ministry, while they were cre ated as assistants. It is not possible to treat the Peers of M. de Villele as he thought himself stab°, rised to treat the Peers of Louis the Eighteenth. It would he 3 delusion not to suppose that the inunda tion of Peers, the invincible champions of Jesuitism, will not alter our Constitutional Aristocracy ; and why not have recourse to the laws to prevent so serious a mischief ? Why expose ourselves to the chance of seeing another 100 Peers created to ba lance the influence of the 76 lately created ? The half of them, it is said, cannot make a majorat, which is an essential condition of the Peerage. It is an imposture of their parent to represent them as the great owners of landed property ! Several of them will be soon obliged to ask for their pension of 10,000f.,which are allowed to support the dignityof a Peer ? Is this a means of adding to the splendour of the country, and of receiving votes in a Chamber, the utiLty of which depends on its moral character? (F rom the Quolidienne.) PARTICULARS OF THE FALL OF M. VILLELE'S MINISTRY. THURSDAY A JAN. 3.—A few minutes before Mass the interior of the Palace was observed to manifest that vague sort of uneasiness which always precedes PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank stock por Cent. Red. 83% 3 ,4 3 per Cent. Cons. 83213 ex div. 3!,4 per Cent 9C - Vi ex div. Ditto Red q 0 %,4 4 per Cent. New...o9; 3 ;y 3 'ex div. Ditto, 18'26 Bank L. Ann. ...... l9 1-16 India Stock Ditto Bondi B7 BSpm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, .5 percent. Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Chili :n Bonds, f; per ct. Colonibiaii Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, t 825 l'7l,i Guatiniala — Alexican Bonds. 3114 Do. 1825 411% PRICES OF IRISH STne: Bank Stock 9 4434 Consols, 3 percent. Gov. Stock, 3y, per cent 9O Ditto, New 4 per Cent. - Goy. Deb. 3!4 per cent. Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Otfiee Deb. 4 p. ct -- ' COURSE OF ILMCIII Amsterdam C.F. 12 3 Ditto, at sight l2 0 Rotterdam 2U. 12 3 Antwerp l2 3 Hamburgh 2 , ,e 2 U. 3t 6 Altona 2% U. 36 7 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 60! Bordeaux 2.1 70 Berlin* — Frankfort on .Maine, Ex.M.1501 Petersburgh, rble... 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective & 2M. 10 3 Trieste do. Madrid 15 Cadiz 3 5 14 Bilboa 35% Barcelona 14 Seville 34Y, Gibraltar 46 _ 17- 1 ":11 Y. 7-44: ,9 jc great events. The expressions of resignation, change, and dismissal, were heard among all those persons attached to his Majesty's person and the Palace. After Mass, Count de Chabrol, preceded by a volu minous portfolio, carried, according to custom, by the Superintenclant of the Palace, arrived; and after a considerable lapse of time Baron de Danias made his appearance also; then Messrs. Villele and Pey ronnet, and, finally, M. de Clermont Tonnere. M. de Hermopolis had entered the Privy Chamber through the Salle des Marechaux. The Council, at which the Dauphin was present, sat the usual time—about two hours. M. de Hermopolis departed alone through the same apartments by which he had entered; the other Ministers went out together. It was observed that their Excellencies did not observe the " honours of the Court," as usual, at the doors—that is, the President of the Council passed on at the same time with the Keeper of the Seals, after his colleague, the Minister of War, deeply affected. As to M. de Damas, he still retained his dignified deportment ; while Villele and Peyronnet appeared to be in earnest conversation. _ _ Count de Chabrol remained with his Majesty and the rumour spread at once that they were en gaged in forming a new Cabinet. M. Chabrol de parted about four o'clock. His Majesty's dining hour was delayed in consequence of the interest which his attendants seemed to take in the news which was spreading about the Ministry. At eight o'clock in the evening, M. Chabrol again made his appearance, remained a few minutes with the King, and, then departed hastily. Afterwards, Villele presented himself without his portfolio, and, after stopping scarcely six minutes with his Majesty, retired. M. Chabrol returned about nine o'clock, and departed after the order. It was then publicly known that the Ministry was dissolved, and that several individuals, who had been asked to take office, had refused to accept it. M. Chabrol came again about eleven, and did not leave till after midnight, after seeing his Majesty and several august personages. FRIDAY, JAN. 4.—M. Chabrol waited on the King at eight o'clock, left him at nine, and returned at ten. His visits were repeated in the course of the day, and, in the evening, the Ordonnance was signed appointing the new Ministry. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock 90!4Fi, ex div. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .£l,OOO 2d. 57 60 pm. Ditto 5OO 2d. 58 60 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial. pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for A c.. 84%!4 'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1821 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New — Russian, New — Spanish, 1821 lOTi, 1823 — French Rentos, sp. c. —1 —c. Exchange...... —f —c. 3 per cent —f —c. Exchange.— —t. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. rer 8 hare. Brazilian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 92 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 25 22 22Y, Mexican Mining Co. 23 8 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 35 11% 15 14 :S.-DUBLIN, JAN. 5, St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto' Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto — Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Co. of Ireland Commercial Buillirtgs tGES ON LONDON. I.—Two months, 35. BY i . change is now quoted in Marks Schillings Flemish, as formerly, Banc o. —Two Months, 13 Marks, FOREIGN EXCHA HAMBURCH DEC. 29.-35. V HamannGu,Jam. 4.—The Ex( and Schillings Banco, instead of viz.:-13 Marks, 7' Schillings I 6,i Sch. Banco. LP.IPSIC, DEC. 31.—Two months, 6. mi. VIENNA, DEC. ;24.—Two months, 9. 45. MA Arrived. Due. O America 0 U Brazil 0 • Buenos Ayres O Dublin O Flanders 0 U France O Gottenburgh 0 O Guernsey& Jersey 0 . s ^r2 4 f , 4,10.• *M. LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1828. No express had reached town from Paris with the Papers of Monday when our Paper went to press. From this we may infer that no important intelligence had reached Paris in the course of Monday, nor any material fluctuation in the price of the Itentes. We received last night the Paris Papers of Sunday, and the Gazette de France dated Mon day morning. The latter contains, from the Augsburgh Gazette, intelligence from Con stantinople to the 11th ult. at which time M. RIBEAUPIERRE, who had embarked before the British and French Ambassadors, remained at Bujukdere, to which place he had returned, in consequence of strong contrary winds. It was supposed that the other Ambassadors had passed the Dal danelles in safety, as no report to the contrary had reached Constantinople, and the wind which was foul for M. RIBEAUPIERRE continued fair for them. It is said that the final decision of the PoRTE wa.s sanctioned by the unanimous opi n i on of a Great Council, at which 300 Ulemas attended, who had before recommended a Co nc iliatory policy--but, on this occasion, answered that the Pon'rJ had already gone too far. Th e SILL TAN continued his active exertions t o b e pre pared for any attack which might be made by the Allies, and would immediately proceed t o Adrianople if the Russians should cross the Pruth. The Paris Papers are chiefly filled w i t h dis cussions relative to the new Ministry. A gene ral feeling of triumph at the overthrow of VIL L ELE's Government pervades France, but the j ou rnals :►ll seem to question the stability of th e new Ministry. The accounts from Spain furnish p r oof of fl 3. V3tErrilfilDAlr. Leghorn 48 Genoa 25 50 Venice 46 Malta Naples Palermo per oz. 118 Lisben 46 Oporto 46 .. Rio Janeiro ' 93 Bahia 77 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork IY, BULLION, PAR 02. X. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons 4 11 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver. bars, standard 0 0 0 Arrived. Due. I Hamburgh 0 O Holland 0 O Jamaica O Leeward islands 0 I Lisbon 0 O Malta O Mexico 0 0 Waterford 0 fresh instances of rebellion and outrage in Cata lonia and Estramadura. Extracts of these Papers are given in another column. We have received this forenoon the Austrian Observer of the 28th ult. It contains an ex tract of an interesting letter from Alexandria, giving the substance of the report made by Mo- HAREM BZY, who commanded the Egyptian, fleet at Nayarit], to the PACHA of Egypt, 9f the events which led to the destruction of his fleet. The PACHA has again assured the re spective Consuls of the Allied Powers of his amicable intentions, and his desire to maintain friendly relations with them. The following are extracts : VIENNA, DEC. 27. The Gazette of Genoa, of the 19th, contains the fol lowing extract of a letter from Alexandria, of the sth of December. " I fancy that the many reports that have been spread since the event at Navarin, have made you rather uneasy on my account ; but I am glad to inform you, that we en joy the usual tranquillity, which has not been for a moment interrupted ; and I can now add, that the Viceroy has on this occasion assured the Consuls of the Allied Powers of his amicable sentiments, and of his sincere desire to main• tain the good understanding which prevails in his inter course with these Courts. " Regular troops had, a few (lays before, occupied the posts in the principal quarters of the city, which contri butes very much to increase the confidence of the Europeans who, relying on the protection of the Viceroy, do not feel the smallest apprehension. " It would be useless to send you the accounts which the Admirals of the Allies have sent hither, as you cer tainly have been made acquainted with them through other means. " The report which the Viceroy has received differs from them in affirming that the English were the aggressors. Whereas those accounts lay the blame upon the Turks. Moharem Bey, Com►pander of the Egyptian fleet, says in his report, that on Admiral Codrington's application to him to enter the port of Navarin with the Allied Squa drons, he observed, that he could not answer for perfect tranquillity, and still less for the safety of individuals if they should go on shore, and that he therefore wished they would not enter ; but that, however, if they absolutely in sisted upon it, no opposition would be made to them. Hereupon, on the following day, first two English ships of the line, and then the whole fleet, entered. One of the English frigates cast anchor near an Egyptian fire ship and soon after signified to it, that it must remove from its posi tion and cast anchor to leeward. The Captain replied, that he could obey no orders but those of his Commander, to whom he would apply by signals for instructions; this was done, and the answer was, that he should remain at his post. When it was found that the fire-ship did not move, some boats were detached from the frigate, and as it seems, also from the English Admiral's ship, to drive the fire-ship, by force, to another place.-- This produced a dispute; some musket shot were fired from the nearest English frigate upon the fire-ship. Moharem Bey nevertheless, ordered his Drago man to go on board the English Admiral's ship, and at the same time gave directions to have every thing ready for battle. The Dragoman had not yet reached the English Admiral's ship, when probably, as a sign of disapprobation of what had happened, a cannon ball was directed towards the English frigate, which had first fired. But as the Egyptian Commander was in the same line, the shot grazed him, and at the same time, the Dragoman, who had arrived alongside the English Admiral's ship, was kept off, as it said, by musket shot. The Turks considered this as a sign of hostilities, and en a new signal from the Egyptian Commander, they com menced a fire upon the Allies. The result you of couse know. Of the Egyptian fleet, only one vessel remained to bring the melancholy news to the Viceroy. It was neces sary to send messengers by land to carry it to Constan tinople. This is a short sketch of the contents of the Egyptian Admiral's report. All this has, however, not caused the slightest disorder here." VIENNA, DEC. 27. Metalliques, 9S ; Bank Shares, 1023 3.sths. Lisbon Gazettes to the 29th December inclu sive have been received this morning by express. The following are extracts : OFFICIAL. DEPARTMENT of the AFFAIRS of the KINGDOM. ListoN, DEC. 28. On the 2(1 January next, conformably to the Constitu tional Charter, the Royal Sitting for the opening of the General Cortes, is to take place in the hall of the Palace of Ajtula, at noon. DEPARTMENT EoF FINANCE. Her Highness the Infanta Regent, in the name of the King, acquaints the Directors of the Bank, in reply to their representation of this date, that orders have been sent to day to the superintendant of the Mint to proceed without loss of time to convert ,into Portuguese current coin the 50,000 Brazilian patacas, which the Directors have sent him to-day for that purpose, ordering them to let this business precede every other, and even to employ the holidays, be cause the public advantage requires it. Her Highness, while she laments the delay which has taken place, trusts that, by the zeal aid activity of the Superintendant, the evil will be partly remedied, through the rapidity with which the operation will be concluded. Palace of Ajuda, Dec. 24, 1827. Manoel Antonio de Carvalho to Senhor Antonio Estevas Costa. Hamburgh Papers to the 4th instant have been received this morning. The following is the only article worth extracting STOCEIZOLM, DEC. 25. According to accounts from Constantinople, only one Swedish ship was lying in that port at the end of Novem ber, and this has already arrived at Odessa. It is reported that our Government intend sending a squadron to the Levant in the spring ; meantime, it has received from the three Allied Courts the most friendly assurances that their fleets will, on all occasions, afford the most effectual protec tion to the Swedish and Norwegian commerce. It is affirmed that a Royal decision has already been issued, respectint , the disturbances which took place on the 4th of last month in the theatre of Christiania. The citizens of Christiania have sent an Address to his Majesty on the subject, in which they express their loyal sentiments, and their desire to maintain public order and tranquillity. The King has returned a very gracious answer, and de dared that he was - convinced the Citizens of Christiania, in case tranquillity should be again interrupted, would vi gorously oppose all scenes of that description. 13y the arrival of the Evelina from Alex. andria, at Plymouth, we have this morning re ceived advices from that city to the 9th of November, which communicate an account of the suicide of HASSAN BEY. His Majesty's ship Pelams bad sailed from Alexandria on Ist ult. with a despatch from the British Consul to the Admiral, announcing the death of Mr. SALT. This gentleman had been eighteen years in Egypt, and was on the most friendly footing with the PACHA. The Egyptian corvette, bringing the account from IBRAHIM PACHA of the ac tionhi PACHANa varin,ofon reacrleleading d Al exa ndria on the 2d. T it said, it was no worse than lie expe c t e d ; and added, " I told the SULTAN it would only be a sacrifice of courage." Preparations of a warlike nature had been making at Alexandria for several days previous to the receipt of the accounts ; but these had caused little alarm, as the PACHA .had assured the l a t e C ons ul-General, a few d a y s be fore he died, that whatever might be the result, British merchants and their property should be safe. No other vessel had arrived from Navarin up to the Sth Nov., nor was there any British vessels- , of war there. No insult had been offered either to the British or French, nor indeed any notice of the battle. About fourteen days before the Evelina's sailing, an Egyptian 20 gun ship, em ployed by the PA.CHA as an instruction ship to practice seamen, was blown up, and many persons, among whom were two French instructors, perished. HASSAN BEY, who had been lately raised to that rank for his zeal and ability, had fallen un der the displeasure of the PACIIA, and upon being ordered to appear before him, had taken the desperate resolution of blowing the ship up, by firing a pistol into the magazine. He had previously sent all the young cadets on shore, and some of the men ; he then desired his ser vant to save himself by jumping out of the cabin window, which he did the moment he heard the report of the pistol. No damage was done to the shipping though several vessels laid very close. Two Algerine frigates were narrowly watched by a large French frigate, and were still in Alexandria, and in very bad condition ; the officers and men being without pay or even pro- visions. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. S.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed the Numa, Wade, for New South Wales. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind E.—Arrived the Evelina, Friend, from Alexandria ; Abeona, from Newfoundland; and London, —, from Demerara. FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's brig Falcon, from Lisbon, in seven days. BRIGHTLINGSEA, JAN. 8.--The Brothers, Stewart, from St. Petersburgh to London, has been got off the sand, and is at anchor off this place. • FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Six P. at. It has blown the whole of this day a tremendous gale, S.E. to E.S.E. and continues. The Coldstream, Stephens, arrived off the Wight, from Bengal, sailed 10th July, from Madras 3d September, and St. Helena 28th November. On the 4th November, in lat. 34. N. long. 22. E. passed a ship standing to the northward, No. 7,495, by Marryat's Code (Cassandra). On the Bth ult., in lat. 4. N. long. 22. communicated, by signal, with the Harriet, from the Mauritius and Ascension. — On the 21st ult., in lat. 38. long 36. passed a large four-masted ship, standing to the eastward—too dark to communicate. The Larch, Collingwood, from Newfoundland, put in, brought up too near on the Trefuses side of the harbour, and at four p. m. drifted towards the rocks, when a signal of distress was hoisted. A six oared gig, followed by another with a pilot, put off, and with difficulty got on board. At dusk she appeared beating hard. The American brig Aurora, has drifted considerably, but have heard of no other casualty. P.S. The Larch is in shore. PENZANCE, JAN. 7, 2 P.M.—lt began to blow hard at midnight, and before day-break increased to a severe gale. CuxuAvEN, JArr..s.—lt freezes very hard, with every appearance of continuing. The Evelina, Friend, arrived at Plymouth from Alexandria, sailed 7th Nov., and from Malta 2d ult., on the 16th ult. in at. 37. long. 1. spoke the Can ton packet, from Trieste to Sumatra; on the 24th, off the Rock of Gibraltar, spoke the Lady Amherst, from Messina to Liverpool, and the same afternoon saw a fleet of forty sail homeward-bound ; on the 28th, in lat. 38. long. 12. spoke the Industry, Vaughan, from Newcastle to Newfoundland, very leaky, and in great distress, bearing away for Lisbon, supplied her with water, bread, and pork, she had thrown part of her cargo overboard. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TwEarß o'CLecx. There appears a complete dearth of news this morning, having received no intelligence from the Continent; in the mean time the British Funds, being left to themselves, shew a decided disposition to im prove, and the Consol market, although no very ex tensive business or rise has taken place, is extremely stiff and looks well, in which the payment of the divi dends to the public, commencing to-day, will have some effect, but not so great as is generally sup posed, the Christmas half year's dividends being devoted to payments rather than re-investment. Consols opened at 821, ex dividend, for money, and 841 for Account, since which they have risen to 821 for the former, and 8411, and the same price for the February account. The Com missioners paid 841; India Bonds are 84 86, and Exchequer Bills 57 8 pm. The Foreign Funds have little novelty to-day, and the market continues steady with respect to prices, but without any business of the least importance ; Russian Bonds are 90. 11 ; Greek, 171 ;Mexican, 461, and Colombian, 261 7; Buenos Ayrian Bonds have not varied, 43 5. The Share market is, if any thing, a little stiffer, but with little improvement in prices. Three per Cent. Consols, 82k, ex. div. ; Ditto for the Account, 814 4; Three per Cent. Reduced, 83/ Three and a-half per Cent. Reduced, 90} 1 ; Four per Cent. 1004 1 ; India Bonds, 84 6 ; Exchequer Bills, 57 58 pm. FORElGN.—Brazilian, 60; Buenos Ayres, 43 5 ; Chilian, 24 6 ; Colombian, 26i- 7 ; Danish, 591 I ; Greek, 17 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent. 35 7 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent. 46- 1 ; Peruvian, 25 6 ; P or t i f gaese , 71 2 ; Russian, 90t 14; Spanish, 101 11. MINXS.—AngIo Mexican, GO 57/ die. ; Brazilian, 67 69 pm.; Colombian, 20 1 per share ; Real del Monte, 40 19 die. ; General Mi n i ng A ssoc i a tion, 91 50 pm.; Tlalpu xa h ua, 10 0 di e . ; Mexican, 20 10 pm. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols remain at 84,3- I for account, b ut t h e market is not quite so good as in the early Part of the day, th ere i s scarcely a bargain doing. THREE O'CLO CK Consols have aga in taken a turn for a rise, and are now 841 for the 22d inst. Exche q uer B ills have touched GO premium. N oth i ng new from France has arrive d t hi s day , Q UAR TER PAST THREE. Consols for Account, 8411 The public should be on their guard against counterfeit sovereigns and half-sovereigns , many of both descriptions being in circulation. It is strongly suspected that there are persons in this neighbourhood whose object is directed to this species of fraud.—Exeter Alfred. MR. HAYDON'S PICTURE OP TIM MOM ELECTION. We this morning visited Mr. Haydon's much talked of Sketch from the . Interior of the kilts Bench Prison during the Mock Election—with which the town Newspapers were rife some months since—and however we may differ from the artist's admirers on the comparative degree of its .merits--- there can be no question that it is a work of high ability. But it is decidedly not comic, as some critics have described it. It is, in fact, of an impressive, stern, and even tragic cast, as any one must perceive, who will take the trouble to scrutinize the objects with which the fore-ground is occupied. The most prominent among these is an officer, (with a fine dramatic head and figure), who is seated at a deal table, sipping wine, with a rough black-bearded sort of fellow--the very soul of , whim and jollity. The officer, himself, is manifestly misanthropist, of the bitterest and most determined class. He has been a debauchee in earlier days; as may be gleaned from the broken packs of cards lying near him, but all pleasure seems now dead within him, and his strong-marked featui ea are lit up instead with a cold scornful malignity. The appearance of a pretty girl close at his elbow, whose face is full of sensibility, lends a very drama tic contrast to this group. On the other side, still in the fore-ground, appears a respectable family, consisting of a father, mother, and two children: the touching aspect of the father—his faded dress, his forlorn figure, and affectionate appeal to his wife who stands beside him, are well imagined. The colouring, however of this group is somewhat feeble and slovenly. With respect to the vaunted comedy of Mr. Haydon's picture, it is confined exclusively to the back-ground—and wants clur racter, richness and variety. We see a poll' clerk with a grin upon his countenance; . a High Sheriff, the humour of whose conception is con' fined to his robes; a constable with a staff in his hand; a drunken debtor, who is overlooking the election from a pump up which he had contrived to clamber, but nothing beyond this, from which we may gain an insight into their characteror occupation , The only two incidents in the piece are episodical' and consist, as we observed just now, of the groups of the misanthropist, and his fair attendant, and the father of his care-worn family. Mr. Haydon's geni e ' is lofty and imaginative—his favourite countenance are never to be mistaken—and seem desperate]) out of character among the vulgar common-place al7 surdities of a King's Bench. Election. His colour tug, however, is throughout appropriate—and is de cidedly the first of his paintings devoid of conceit 01 exaggeration. Lord Chief Justice BEST, we are happy t° hear, is so far recovered that he is expected to resume seat in the Common Pleas at the commencement o f tbi adjourned Sittings.—Morning Paper. ARMY PAY-OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—Th y following services, due on the 24th ult. will be in a mil l of payment on Thursday the 17th instant :—Retired full pay military pensions to wounded of f icers—pay of Acti u tants of Local Militia—allowance to Adjutants and Ser jeant-majors of Militia....foreign half-pay and foreign pen sions. A Committee was sitting at Guildhall, wit' the Judges of the Sheriffs' Courts in London, almost ti s whole of yesterday ; and it appears an investigation on tb subject of the practice in those Courts is going on, frtg which very beneficial results may be expected. The tensive usefulness of which these Courts are cap Ole, is present very little understood by the citizens and the pubi l at large. At the Great Court of Wardmote , held I, Guildhall, before the LORD MAYOR, on Monday last, Petition was presented from Mr. SHOOBRIDGE, against I I' : election of Messrs. BRIDGE and Plooraa, as Comm', Counclimen for the Ward of Bread-street, and anotb for the Ward of Crikdegate,Withia. a,:' the Mr. F IELD , aga i nst t h e elect i on o f M r. lizorkno4e. which was adjourned to the Court of Aldermen on Tuestil' next. the consideration • Miss PATON'S benefit on Friday last, at Pi!, mouth, produced the largest receipts ever known in Theatre, the orchestra having been laid into boxes for occasion ; the amount was 15$/. 19s. At the requ est the principal inhabitants of Devonport, 'she was to gio Concert in the Town-hall there the following everthag, then proceed to Exeter. The new market-place at Exmouth, built the expence of the Right Hon. Lord RoLix, was open,. for the first time on Saturday se'nnight.—Ereter Alfa The Accession of his most gracious M a jes, to the Throne, on the 29th inst., will, it is understood, celebrated in this city by a ball at Cozsanois's Public RS —.Exeter Alfred. Sir T. LAWRENCE, we hear, is occupied , a picture of Lady Lrxnstunsr, which will a dd g reat when it appears in the ensuing exhibition, t o t h e pr o high reputation of this distinguished artist. The provincial papers are full of distressi, accounts of the late floods. At Salisbury, the pavenY of the Cathedral was under water, so as to put a g oof Divine Service. The brig Favorite, of Teignmouth, has lost five hundred miles from Newfoundland. The save d by a Dutch vessel, landed at Teignmouth last weri Exeter Alfred. The Portuguese ships of war, Tiger Pearla, are now lying in Torbay, wind•bound. have been refitted at Portsmouth, and are on their Oil Plymouth, to await the arrival of Don lkitsuEL, to tale Royal Highness to Lisbon.—Exeter Alfred. The magnificent room at the British M u se is now ready for the receptiifit of the KIN G's Libf, which will be removed to it from Kensington as soon weather permits. Th o recent floods and high tides have wasl away upwards of fifty feet of the wall of the NO - BucklNGKAirt's marine villa, at Ryde. The following is the copy of a sign in N°: Wales, above a cobbler's stall, in the village of Heulto / p r yee Dyas, coblar, daler in bacon, shag and pies bacon and gingerbread ; egs laid every morning 14 and very good paradis ; in the summer gentleman ladY' have good tae and crumpets, and strawberry, With a '`. milk, because I can't get no cream. N. B. Shoe boots mended very well." There is at presen t in Dalhousie gar d e n , gooseberry b us h, grow ing in the open air, whi c h is covered with bl ossom s, and on which there a re a nun' ' p f a t- rt in o i fhe machin ery , and in cons 4 tion with hi s now widowed wife, he w as caught biill in this n e i g hb ourhood, wag!. of b err i es as large as imperial pease.--Edinbury Evei Courant. L ETHAM , DECEMBER 29 .—0 n Friday Y gaged as a the g ed a m b out l l er s o f / n . le)a spur-wheel, and in au instant his body w as laceraud i frightful manner. Medical aid was in rain sought d f rom the impression that there might still be some faiii mains of vitality. He has left a disconsolate widow f o ur infant children, the eldest of whom i, scarcelf years old, and the youngest only three months. fi burgh Evening Courant. 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