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THE LONDON JOURNALS. • DAILY EXII(IaS from the Morning, Papers, Feb. 17. [rilE TIMES] Letters from Bahia of the I7th of Decerwher, nd from Pernambuco of the 31st, were received yesterday. At Bahia, on the arrival of intelli gence of the events at Rio de Janeiro, a protest N.” 15 prepared and sif,ned by several iudividuals, expressive of their disapprobation of the Empe ror's :_conduct in dissolving the Legislative As sembly. On the 17th, however, a general meet ing of the principal persons in Bahia took place on the invitation of the Crt . nertunent, to consider what steps ought to be taken, hut nothing oc curred eticept the passing a resolution to con sider the protest above mentioned as null and void. Those who had signed it addressed the meeting principally with the view of exculpating themselves for having done so, by alleging that they were not aware, at the time, of the real state of the case. It seems that a strong party exists in Bahia disposed to adhere to the Em peror under any circumstances, so that it was probable the tranquillity of the place would be preserved. Affairs remained nearly in the same state at Pernambuco as mentioned in the last ar rivals. The decree for the expulsion of those Portuguese who had not taken the oath of ad .herence was carrying into effect, and a ship was prepared for their conveyance to Europe. [surrtsu PRESS.] Enfeebled Spain, as a last despairing effort, before her authority over her emancipated co lonies, expires for ever, has put forth, on the sug gestion of the Paris Cabinet, her last manifesto, resigning a monopoly no more within her grasp, and affecting to throw open the vast trade and resources of Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, and Peru, to all Europe, without restriction.-- Can the wretched Ministry, who now hare a Massing hold of the reins of authority within the Pyrenees, imagine that this document can recall South America beneath the despotism of Spain— that these great and rising States will alter a single feature of their independence or policy, on the promulgation of a powerless mandate of this description ? Colombia, in Congress, has lately put forth her commercial tariff. Does. France or Spain suppose that a solitary duty will he changed on the confederacy against Southern America of these Cabinets ? Where is the power of Spain to maintain her supremacy ?—where her arma ments and her navy ? Can a single ship of the line and two , or three frigates, such as the aid of France has enabled her to dispatch from Cadiz the other day, recall the parted conquests of Cortez or Pizarro ? This " Royal Decree," then, is a mere brutum ficlmen. The thunder, if it s!:ould reach across the Atlantic, will sink harm fess around the American States. Their hest protection is their own strength, and the power of great Britain and the United States. They will resist with their united fleets any confede rated attempt against South America ; and Spain of herself can do nothing. Where was the neces sity of this weak decree, to throw open the trade of her omancipated colonies to Europe, who pos sessed it already? The commerce of Great Britain with these rising countries now amounts to several Foillions; her superiority only springs from her greater resources and industry. France is equally free to trade ; so are " Russiahussia ,and Austria." South America will admit the flag of every nation that respects her policy and independence ; she wars with none whose vessels enter her ports under friendly colours : but as to the vast con tinent of South America again returning under the despotism of wretched. Spain, or submitting to the miserable Councils of Castile and the Indies, it is just as likety.as that the powerful union of the United States will rescind their league of strength, and, after the independence of half a century, again fubmit to be assessed and governed by the Legislature of Great Britain. —This Madrid Decree, therefore, is perfectly Qnixotic, and can be attended with no effect whateVer. [Nov TIMES.] An Evening Paper, which favoured us the other day with a little criticism on our style, con tains the following article :- 44 We have been fa voured with the perusal of a private letter from Paris, which reached a most respectable house in the City this morning by express, having left that capital yesterday forenoon. This letter con tains the important intelligence of the French Government having received a Telegraphic Dis patch from Madrid, announcing that Ferdinand had put forth a Decree permitting a free trade between South America and every other Power. Supposing, however, such a Decree to be issued, it would in reality be just so much moonshine !!" —Our worthy Cotemporary will probably in form us in his next what is the precise value of a given quantity of moonshine, and how the importance of a moonshine Decree is to he esti mated. As to the Decree, if any such have issued, we shall be inclined to view it with complacency, as indicating a conciliatory spirit on the part of Spain toward her late colonies.— All that we want is a free trade; and if both parties agree to give us that, it is a matter of no concern to us at all how they settle their other disputes. The sooner South America is freed from her intestine wars, the more beneficial shall swe'tnd . bee trade, whether her independence be • modified of complete. Di CO RPC1,240 MI ER A LD.] There was 'yesterday a deal of bustle in the Foreign Stock Market, and the improvement in the value of every Foreign Security has been to a moat unprecedented extent. The French Rentes in . London h.avead sauced to a correspond ing price to that annotmzed for them at Paris, he t i f int been done' there yesterday at 992, with the Exchange at 2450. The Premium - bn the Erenth Scrip was its high as 112, and closed at 11. , Russian BMWs have reached 944.-. The Old Bonds of Prussia bare touched 95‘; and the . o'Ww pries brelmen done at 93k. Daniab Bondi h a l t b e en - lrithia a ..balf per cent. of par, whilst thfiScrip'of the fliWlLoan for . Portittit' fiat ad. vanced to 3il premium, on the contracting price. In Spanish Bonds there has been considerable fluctuation. The Bonds of 1821 were done as high as 261, but they afterwards declined to 25, and closed at The Jamaica Mail which ar rived on Sunday night, it was expected would have brought the new Minister from Colombia ; but he has not arrived, nor does the Mail bring any news that could in the least operate on the value of the Colombian Bonds. Amongst the passengers brought by the packet was another of the Colombian Commissioners appointed to inves tigate the claims of the Bondholders here on the Colombian Government; but as yet his arrival has not been officially announced. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We have been looking forward with the greatest anxiety to the Motion of Lord Nugent, which stands for this day. Though the Papers which his Lordship will ask for may not be granted, Ase shall no doubt receive from Mr. Canning an account of the substance of the in structions sent from time to time to Sir William A'Court, and of the communications received from him. We are, it is true, but too well ac quainted with the tendency of the course pur sued by the Representatives of the British Go vernment in Spain, and those who acted under him ; but still it will be edifying in the extreme to hear Mr. Canning declaiming one moment in praise of a well-regulated freedom, compli menting the Democracy of the United States on the excellence of their institutions, and the next extolling the anxiety of Sir Wm. A'Court to restore the captive Monarch of Spain safe and sound to that liberty of which he has made so noble an use. By the bye, if Mr. Can ning revert to the difference between the pre sent and the past relative position of Great Bri tain and the Continent, it would be gratifying where he to remove the uneasiness which his last speech occasioned with respect to a point of some importance. lie told us that the Continent was now shared by predominant Powers, which were beyond the reach of our might ; and that it would be uise in us to move in our own orbit hereafter, without scanning too nicely the at tempts of these Powers at aggrandizement. But if we can no longer reach the predominant Powers, are they in like manner unable to reach us ? Can we hope to move in our own orbit without interruption from them ? We confess we have our doubts on this delicate subject. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 15th instant reached us last night ; but an express, which left Paris at two o'clock on Sunday, had previously arrived with later and more important intelligence than any which they contain. It announces the re ceipt of a telegraphic dispatch from Madrid, by which the French Government were informed that Ferdinand had issued a Decree, permitting a free trade between South America and all other countries. This measure has been consi dered by some as showing a spirit of concession ; by others as a forerunner of the complete ac knowledgment of the independence of the new States. To us it appears the reverse of both. What concession is there in granting to other na tions a free trade which they have enjoyed for the last ten years, and which it is not in the power of Spain to repress ? And what kind of preparation for recognising the independence of emancipated colonies is that which consists in a distinct re-assertion of sovereignty over them ? For what is the meani ng -- of this Decree ? That Ferdinand is sole mast e r of the Colonies, and that retaining all his rights over them, he chooses to depart from the policy by which his ancestors ruled thern,in order,not to increase their prosperity and secure their welfare, but to make other Powers less anxious about the recognition of their independence. This measure is one of eva sion, and worthy of the Jesuits by whom Ferdinand is surrounded. They imagined that in the great question between Europe and America all the States of the former were solely guided by motives of interest, and that if they were allowed the be nefits of trade, they would stand neutral, or perhaps assist in the re-conquest of the New World. But they have been mistaken in their cal culations ; and the paltry offer of a bribe which they cannot even five, will not, we are con vinced, induce any Government to aid them in an enterprise, the success of which, were it pos sible, would be a general calamity. That it will have no effect on that country which alone could turn the scale in their favour it not a matter of surmise, but of certainty. It is again our painful duty to record an addi tional commission of crime since our last. Can his Majesty's Ministers—we mean his Cabinet Ministers, receive any thing like correct informa tion from this country ? Within two days, the Provincial intelligence received, brings accounts of five men actually murdered, four desperately wounded, and four houses burned ; and yet the same packet that conveys this sheet, containing the particulars of these ferocious proceedings, will no doubt bear a Government dispatch, describing the improved and tranquil state of the country. Something must be done.—(Dublin Correspon... dent, Feb. 14.) A letter dated Hamburgh, 31st January, says, " As an extraordinary phenomenon of the present winter (which for mildness exceeds any thing ever recollected) it is deserving of notice, that, at a country house, five English miles distant, •the proprietor perceived hundreds of cock-chaffers flying about in the garden, (an insect that seldom makes its appearance be fore the month of May !)—ln order to convince those who might otherwise have been incredulous, he brought several of them to Ilamburgh." Some bodies having been stolen from the church " yard of a remote parish in Northumberland, the owner of the estate, to prevent such depredations in future, hasdirected the graves to be made rather shorter than the coffin, and to be excavated at the bottom, so as to admit the head Under solid ground. It is then impossible to raise it by the feet, and the ghound must be cut away above the head— a work of more time than could always be com manded forthe operation. In addition, a mix ture of percussion powder and gunpowder, placed .on - a wire in -the inside of the coffin, to explode on its being OpiMed, - has been resorted to. 'Phis 'will retain; s explosive• power fur a month, in which,time Rip corpse, will generally be unfit fur (AO?* journ4l.),'' THE HOLY ALLIANCE AND SWITZERLAND. ARA U, FEB. I.—lt is impossible that persons, who have paid any attention to the controul exercised for 'some years past by the Holy Alliance over the Governments of Switzerland, should net hare asked themselves what are the causes of that conduct. If there did not exist in Switzerland any Journal capable of exercising the least influence in neighbouring States—if there did not exist any writer occupying himself on the affairs of other countries, why has the Holy Alliance order ed the liberty of the press to be sacrificed in all the cantons where it was established ? If the men who sought an assylum in the Helvetic territory had no connexion with each other—if they were for the most part men living in obscurity, and inca_ pable of bringing about any political results, either in Switzer land or elsewhere—in fine, if they carried on no dangerous cor respondence with their countrymen—if they formed no plots, why have they been proscribed ? Is it credible that Kings and Emperors, each of whom have 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 of sub jects, should league together to persecute some obscure indi viduals, whose names, perhaps, never reached their ears ? Is it not more natural to suppose that these men were forming in trigues in the country which afforded them an asylum, and that they were preparin g in sevetnew revolutions ? Certainly the latter is the most simple hypothesis, and therefore we find it adopted by men who will not take the trouble of reflection, or who se cretly approve of the Holy Alliance when they dare not support its principles openly. The Holy Alliance acts in a manner so uniform and so con stant, as to give ground for believing that all the members who compose it are animated with the same spirit, and tend to th e same end. This manner ofjudging—just in one point of view —would be incorrect in another. There exists in each of the members of the Holy Alliance, a common will, which tends to maintain despotism wherever it is found, and to give it a defi nitive establishment where it has only an incomplete existence. But besides this general tendency, there is in every government a particular inclination which leans to its personal aggrandize ment, or to the satisfaction of its hatred or individual prejudices. It is from the combination of these two causes that have sprung all the events of which I have spoken to you in a preceding let ter, and those of which I have yet to speak. Switzerland has not always been what it is now. The Ger man Cantons were long part of the Austrian dominions : the Cantons where the French language is spoken formerly belong ed to Savoy or to France. In conquering its independence, Switzerland did not pass under the yoke of a new master. Now it is a fact known in European diplomacy, that the pretensions of the house of Austria never die. It is enough that this Power has once had possession of a territory, and has recorded this possession in its archives, to entitle it to claim eternal pro prietorship, and to urge it to take all occasions to recover what it had lost. The rivalship which existed between this family and the house of Bourbon served as a guarantee to Switzerland, so long as the old diplomacy of Europe prevailed ; but this fa mily rivalship having been weakened by the principles of the Holy Alliance, each power endeavours to turn to advantage this suspension of royal hatreds and antipathies. Austria, in the mean time desires to create an occasion for exercising her preten sions to the greatest portion of Switzerland. On her side, Savoy has not forgotten that she was once mistress of Geneva, and the Canton of the Pays de Vaud. It is known that she has already announced her pretensions to the city and the territory of the first of these cantons. She founded these pretensions partly upon her former possession, and partly on the necessity of op posing a strong barrier to the aggrandizement of France on the side of Savoy. To this motive of ambition are added the hatred which a Government always preserves towards a popu lation which has shaken off its allegiance, and the antipathy of a Catholic and bigotted Court towards a republic which was the cradle of the Reformation, together with all the prejudices of an ignorant Government against an enlightened people. This hatred of the Sardinian Government against Geneva is such, that the laws of the country, and privileges Savoy to persons of all other i t ev whiche even chews ace i tsel f granted by nations are specially refused to the inhabitants of Geneva. any French part l roi y eel r v n::::n t t erritory, appears to form no pretensions to but its prejudices and the of e G different catastrophes which it has undergone, make it regard with a sort of terror the existence of a people who have not a master. The vicinity of Austria and Savoy may excite its fears for the invasion of a part of its territory—a misfortune, how ever, which it does not seem much to dread ; but the spectacle of a people who can live without commotion, without taxes, and without an expensive Court, inspires it with a most serious alarm. The men, therefore, of whom this Government is com posed, do not conceal their fears with respect to Switzerland.— One of them, who has always enjoyed the favour of the 310- narch—who has just been raised to the dignity of a peer—and who appears never to have been foreign to the secrets of the Court, has not hesitated to publish in a Ministerial Journal, 4; that the Governments of the Swiss Cantons are only great municipalities, which exist by the tolerance of the Holy Alliance, and that the legitimate power over this country belongs to the Monarchs of the neighbouring States." This kind of mani festo against the independence of Switzerland inspired at first all the citizens who have any foresight of the future with a terror which is not yet extinguished. But of all the motive , ' which have brought about the perse cutions that have recently taken place in the Helvetic territory, the principal, doubtless, is the wish cherished by each member of the Holy Alliance to extinguish within his own dominions every idea of liberty, and every feeling of independence. Who ever with any degree of attention observes the events which are occurring on the continent of Europe, will be convinced that in the greater number of States there no longer exists any kind of guarantee for those who dare to express opinions contrary to the official opinions of the Government under which they live. It is not merely by legal prosecutions and judicial judgments, by sentences of death, or by confiscations, that the means of reaching them are found. They are also attacked indirectly in their children, who are deprived of education ; in their relations, who are dismissed from any offices they may happen to fill ; in their fortunes, if they have any property to lose. But such persecutions would be insufficient , if there existed in the centre of Europe a territory in which an independent man, unjustly persecuted, could find an asylum for himself and his family. The object of the Holy Alliance is to prove to all the world that there is no sanctuary on this earth for any one who dares to think and to say that absolute power is not the first of blessings. What matters it, according to this system, whether the men who are persecuted in a foreign territory are innocent or guilty —whether they do or do not exercise an influence over their coternporaries—whether they be young or old, healthy or infirm ? The persecutions which they experience have for their sole object to prevent the mischief which it is supposed they might cause. The intention is to terrify all men on the continent who possess any feeling of independence. The choice of the victims may therefore be made at hazard, or abandoned to the passions and caprice of inferior agents. Ac cordingly, were it worth the while to explore the particular motives for placing On the list of proscription the greater num ber of the men who had been banished from Switzerland, it would be founcrthat almost in every case, those motives have no connection whatever with the policy of the Governments composing the noly Alliance. In one canton, for example, , the father of a numerous family will be proscribed, because, though born a Catholic, he allows his children to be brought up in the Religion of his Protestant wife, which the priest is sure to regard as sinful. In another, aged men :re proscribed solely because among their friends are men whom the agents oldie Holy Alliance dislike, but against whom they have no mean% of instituting any personal persecution. While the Holy Alliance thus seeks to intimidate its own subjects by persecuting them on a foreign territory, some of 'she members of that Alliance satisfy their individual pasaions •'thy humiliating the Governments of Switzerland, and partici'. Nllarly by endeavouring to reader them contemptible in. the -eyes of their own subjects. Among all the transactions which have for several years occurred in this country, none are more noto rious than the existence of diplomatic notes addressed to the Cantons, to procure the expulsion of certain foreigners. Seve ral of these foreigners were particulary connected with the mem bers of the Governments under which they lived, and some had even been invited by those Governments to Switzerland. When those menacing notes were carried into execution, and the foreigners had removed, the agents of the Holy Alliance threw all the odium of the measures on the Governments of the Can tons. They denied in public notes what they had demanded in secret ones, convinced that amongall the Governments of the Cantons not one would have the courage to publish the latter notes in justification. The ultimate object of all those manoeuvres is easily divined. If this scheme of degrading the Swiss Governments in the opinion of the people should be successful—if they should be rendered objects of distrust and hatred—if, on the other hand, the suppression of the liberty of the press should prevent the formation of any kind of public spirit—finally, if the citizens could be deprived of every means of knowing the real situation of affairs—then would the country be com pletely prepared for an invasion or a partition as soon as it should appear that such an aggression might be attempted without danger. Before the success of the Holy Alliance in Spain, its Mini sters acted in a manner somewhat clandestinely in Switzerland. They merely insinuated their orders in the form of advice, and never reduced them to writing. If written notes were required from them, they said they had not yet received orders to pre sent them. If their advice was not followed, they indulged in menaces, which were also unwritten. Now they act more openly. Their orders and their menaces are communicated in writing, and they prohibit the Governments to whom their notes are addressed from publishing them. The greater part of the Governments which compose the Holy Alliance have had, or still have, in Switzerland, special agents, who are directed to act according to the particular views of those Governments. The French Government has, for a long time, maintained a Count de B--t and a Marquis de Ch-- in Switzerland. The business of these agents is to instigate the Italian exiles to undertake any hazardous enterprise, and to promise them the support of some of the principal members of the French Chamber of Deputies. The men to whom these propositions were to be addressed, were far from wishing to en gage in plots against any Government ; but had they even che rished the designs imputed to them, the mission of the Marquis and the Count would have been equally unsuc cessful, for the character of those spies was well known in Switzerland before their arrival. The Sardinian Go vernment has for its agent a man who was once a captain of cavalry, who put off the cuirass to put on the cas sock, and who has added to the boldness of his late profes sion all the cunning and intriguing spirit of the present. The character of a Catholic priest enables this agent to exercise a powerful influence over the population. Austria is served by a M. de H.— who was born a Protestant, but who, though long incorporated with the Jesuits, was allowed to preserve ex ternally the appearance of his former religion. He did not publicly embrace the Catholic religion until he was unmasked by a Professor of Law in the Grand Council of Berne, of which he was a member. The Prussian agent is F. B , who was for 25 years the agent of the Bourbons. His intrigues have so completely covered him with disgrace, that when the Prus sian Government wished to give him a public mission in Swit zerland, the Cantons remonstrated against receiving him. Russia has employed some of her Colonels ; but the men who come from that country are so completely objects of distrust, that their missions are not of long continuance. Such are some of the least obscure of the subaltern agents of I the Holy Alliance, who have been employed in the preparation of proscription lists—lists which the Ministers have adopted without giving themselves any farther trouble, except that of adding any new names which happened to be particularly odi ous to some of them. ST. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, Feb. 14. 0. Hay 31 10s Od to 51 lOs Od Clortr, 411630 d to 6101 01 1 New Hay 01 os Od to 01 Os od Straw 21 2s Od to 21 lOs 04 SMITHFIELD. Old Hay 4l lOs Od to 51 5s Od--Arerage, 51 As 04 . , Straw Clover 5l los Od to 61 6s Oa--Average, 61 os W 11 IT EC H APE 1.. Hay 4l 101 od to 51 lOs Od-Average, 51 Os 04. Now ditto Ol O s Od to 0 1 Os Od----Average , 01 os Oa Straw Clover 5l Os Od to 6! Ws 011--Ayerage. 51 185 04 I'liloE 01 HOPS, per C‘“., Feb. 16. Gnowru, 18/3 Kent Pockets 81 10s to 101 Os to 121 Os East Kent, Canterbury 171 —I to —los Sussex Pockets 810 s to 91 9s to 101 5s Essex. Pockets 81 Os to 101 Os to 111 11s Farnlnun, tine, 161 Os to 211 Os—Second, 111 Os to 161 Kent Ba,gs, 81 Os to 91 9s to 101 Sussex 13 4Ss , 71 Ms to 81 8s to 91 Os Essex Bags, 71 los to 91 Os to 101 Os LAW INTELLIGENCE. ' COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEn. 14. Mr. C. LEA V. TELFER. This was an action of trover to recover the value of some small articles of silver plate, the property of the plaintiff; which the defenda nt had unlawfully converted to his own use. Put ',Lira, in opening the plaintiff's case, described his client as a surgeon in the naval service on half-pay, and nrebster. I n 1821, Mr. Lea too k a passage on the defendant a s t he Captain of a West India ship, called the board Captain Godfrey Telfer's vessel for the Cape of Good Hope, and sent on board the silver articles in dispute; but afterwards changed mind, and declined to proceed. He now de manded plate; but w as sur p r ised by a refusal of the de fendanttohbidiss eliver it, unless satisfied a ridiculous claim for the living by catching rats o n t h e p a ssage. To prove the plain t iff' s case , his cousin Mr. Lodge was boardcalled, ad lodgingwnhoswor swore that he h a d seen the plate at a dinner party of two cats, which had well earned their given by Mr. Lea on b oard the vesse l , an d had known it for several years as hi s property. M r . B row n, the plaintiff's attorney, proved a demand of the silver articles, and a re fusal to deliver them, unless 4/. was paid for the maintenance of the cats. Mr. SCAIILETT, for the defendant, after stating that he be lieved the action was brought without the plaintiff's knowledge, and that Captain Telfer had really acted a kind part to him, relied on two grounds of defence--first, the anticipated lien for the support of the cats, which the plaintiff had imported, and by which, perhaps, he hoped, like the famous Whittington, to make a fortune ; and, second, that Mr. Lea had been dis charged under the Insolvent Act, so that all his property vested in the assignee, who had not authorized this action. To prove the first ground of defence, Mr. Daffy, the mate of the ship, was called, who proved that the cats and a dog were kept for 5 months ; but admitted that the dog was dead, and the cats ran away. In support of the second ground of defence, it was proved that in 1820 the plaintiff was discharged under the Insolvent Act, and on that occasion assigned his property to a Mr. Davis for distribution among, his creditors. The plate did not appear in his schedule. The LoltD CHIEF JUSTICE intimated that this last evidence was decisive of the cause. Mr. Pitir.uPS submitted, that though Mr. Lea might have no property in the plate as against his assignees, he had such a property as against a mere s t ranger as wou ld enable him to support an action. Had the property been stolen from his possession, it might have been laid as his in an indictment for larceny. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that was a very different case; here the action was founded on title. Mr. PHILLIPS argued that the case did not differ from that of the finder of a jewel, who might maintain in trover against a wrong doer. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE thought it did differ, inas much as there the real owner was unknown, and the finder would he the real owner if no other appeared ; but here the plaintiff himself was a wrong doer. Mr. Pilit.r.rps then suggested that the property might have been acquired since the insolvency; in which case it would not vest in the assignee till he claimed it. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE replied, that that could not be, as the witness Lodge had stated, that in 1821 he had known the plate several years. Mr. PHILLIPS requested that the witness might be asked to explain, as possibly he spoke not in reference to 1821, but to the present period. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE refused to allow the witness an opportunity of amending his evidence, which before was sufficiently explicit, now that lie knew the effect of his answer. Mr. PHILLIP% then urged that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict for one spoon, as being a necessary of life, and which, therefore, he was entitled to retain. The LORD CHIEF Juvric E said he would not hold a silver spoon necessary to an insolvent debtor; the plaintiff must be nonsuited.--The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. Commercial Letters 1)v the last mail from St. Petersburgh say, that some new Imposts are spoken of as be ing likely to take place. Cold has set in : Reaumur's thermo meter is at 15 degrees. The balance sheet of the Accountant- General of the Customs gives the whole amount of the Exports last year at - - Roubles 104,070,328 24 Cop. And the Imports - - at 105,909,720 6 Titus chewing that the Merchandize imported into the Rus sian Capital exceeds that exported by Roubles 1,099,193 82 Cop. COAL MARKET, Feb. 16. nips at Market. Ships nod. Price. Si Newcastle 401 /lithilerland __.sr~..~ =--- LORD ERSUINE'S STATUE.—WC are alad to learn that this subscription proceeds prosperously, and has re ceived a handsome addition by the liberal subscription of our friends in Scotland ; and, we trust, will be equally evinced by the aid of our Irish neighbours. Mr. ELLIOTT, 111 t. Missionary, arrived at Ports mouth on Thursday, in the Oscar, from Demerara: but we are requested to state that his return to England is not compul sory, but perfectly voluntary ; his stay here is merely tempor ary ; he has left his family in the Colony. The memoirs of the celebrated General CA a proT, who died last year at Magdeburg, will shortly appear in borttlon, as they are somewhat too free spoken to be printed in vrance.—t coracle of Brussels. ) Ve regret to have to announce the failure of the louse of LtiooLru VON WIII.IPFEN, at Ilamburgh, on the 3d instant, for about 400,000 IMarks Bauco, 3D,000i. Yt cilia& It is understood that the object of the int etirit to take place at the City of London Tavern or l Friday next; is to propose a Petition to Parlie ment for the appointment of public Commissioner! to effect general improvements in the metropol o and adjacent counties, upon a similar plan to thst by which the city of Dublin has been improved• A Gentleman of the neighbourhood of Ports' mouth, who has two sons at school at Caen 111 Normandy, has recently been advised, that, II a Government order, all children, without re fer" once to nation or religious opinions, educated at the French schools, must attend the celebration of Mass ; in other words, be initiated into the principles and practices of the Catholic c reed- We promulgate this for the information of Pa" rents who have children in France under the card of French tutors.—(Hampshire Telegraph.) BIRTHS. At Aberdeen, on the 12th inst., the Lady of Capt. .Arr°,' ( ; R. N., commanding the Coast Guard in that district, daughter. On the 15th inst., at Kensington, the Lady of Harri' °4l. Gordon Codd, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On Saturday, Feb. 14, at St. Pancras New Church, George Valiance, of Brighton, solicitor, to Maria, young' daughter of the ate Thomas Elam, Esq. On Monday, the 16th, at Wilmington, Kent, John 10 11 ., Hulme, of the Middle Temple, Esq., to Eliza, eldest daught e n 'j and Wm. Pair Isaacson, of Newmarket, Esq., to Sarah, aq9 . " • daughter of Joseph Chitty, Esq., Barrister-at-law. DIED. On the 20th ult., at St. Petersburgh, the Privy Counse• Prince John Dolgorucki, a great patron to the Arta f bc Science;—a considerable adept. too, it may be added, Science of the age. On Sunday morning, the 15th inst., at Sleaford, Li p colnshire, in the fifth year of his age, Benjamin Cheales. ,0 1 1:( e On Saturday, the 14th inst., at Gloucester, Caroline, the of Alexander Maitland, Esq. Yesterday afternoon, in Abingdon-street, Westminster, aft a lingering illness, Matilda, wife of Edward George WOW . ' ly, Esq.,'Clerk of the Journals of the House'of Lords. , On the 15th inst., Charles Eustace, third son, fColonei ' tace, Grenadier Guards. printed and Published for the PROPRIBTOR, !he pritcx, 112, Strand, by J. B. cAitiTAIA6.; LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The mice of the 41b. Loaf is stated at l ld. by the full-prke a bakers. There are others of the trade who sell from a half penny to three halfpence below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Foreie Wheat - .--- Barley Malt - Oats - Rye 7O --. Beans Peas - Tares - 75 Rapeseed 223 --' Mustard seeds 634 --- ....... Flour - Brank Linseed — 560 SEEDS, Feb. 16. New En;. R. Clover, 51: 76s 92s—fine, 104 s Old Ditto 37s iss 78s—fine, 97s —s —8 New Foreign ditto,..69s 76s 94s—fine, 107 s Old ditto ditto,..36s 48s 645; fine, 91s New ‘Vllite ditto 63s SOs 85s—fine, 95s Trefoil .. per cwt.. lOs 22s2is—fine 23s Os per cwt. Ribgrass ... 4ss 584 —s—fine, 66e Carraway Seeds . 46s ass 50s—fine, 53s Coriander do 8s 9s II I—fine, 1,3 v Tares per bushel 9s Od to lOs 6d Os St.Foin 39s to 41s—fine 45s per qt. Rye-Grass... Vs to 39s—fine, 43s —s —; per cif' Canary per yr 4ss 47s—fine, 49s percir.• White Mustard Seed 71 lOs to 12s Brown ditto lOs 14s 16s od Winter Tares us 10s Od I Is 6ti per qr. Rape Seed New Turnip Seeds I Is to 16s Od pr. bush. Linseed s4s 56s—fine, 58s per qr. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Feb. 16. By the Carcase. Beef ...... .. is 4d to 3s 441 ( Veal 3 s 4d to Es a Mutton ..... ts 8d t o 3 s 8 d 1 Pork 2s ad to 53 OA Lamb, Os Od to Os Od. R acv IDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary .... 2, 4 d to qs 64 3s Oil to 36 2e. Marhet Calf ~ each.. a s 04 Middlings 2s Bti to 2s 10(1 bind's.... Os Od to Os 04 SHEEP Polled Downs SKINS. Shearlings I I.amhs Os 00 to 050. PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, SO to 56ibs each per lb Ditto, sn to Wilbs each Dressing Hides 2241 add t 0 0 0 Ll i 18d to 19P, Coach Hides 20d to 21i. Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ibs for cutting 17d to 180 Ditto .... 45 to 50Ibs 19d to Ila Calf Skins..s6 to 401hs 18d to Vi d : Ditto 50 to 701bs 24d t o 27(' Ditto . 70 to 80ibs 22d to 94d Antall Seals (Greenland) Large ditto Ifiti to II"; Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides PI twEs 01: TALLow, M)Al', &c. per 11416.—Feb. 16' own 'l' allow 39: Od —s od Yellow . S os l' 7° 4 'ellow Russia 361 Od —s Od l Mottled 7 9° White ditto .. a3s 6.l—s od Curd S A O Soap ditto.... 32 6 6d —s od Gr aves 169 uf, Melting Stuff 29s Od —s od Go o d Dregs 6sv" Ditto Rough.. 163 Oil —s Od PRICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLOW CHANDUCIes HAG 4* Price of Candles, per dozen, Ss 6d —Moulds, 105 od. 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. . ~. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per St o ne of slb.—Feb. 16• . I'rice of Tallow 153 stated by th e Tallow Melt ers ), 2s ta. COUNTRY MARKET. GITILDForto Wheat pet I. 13; 10s to 191 Os Old IVlleat —los to —s Oats, per yr ... 11 4 s to 1112 s Old ditto I I 0 , to 01 0, rzKET, Feb. 14. Barley, 11 its to 11 1 Ileans, per qr. 910 s to 91 0 - Pease, per qr. 11 16s to 91 11 1 Rye, per qr 41 Os to 21 4,