The Sun. — London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

`LITERARY NOTICE. ' deer follows, and when the hunters arrives near a stone, the foremost drops behind it and prepares his bow, while his com panion continues walking steadily forward. This latter the deer still follows unsuspectingly, and thus passes near the con cealed man, who takes a deliberate aim and kills the animal." " Musk-oxen are killed in the same manner as deer ; and with both it is requisite, on account of their quick scent, to make ad vances against the wind, or, to use a sea phrase, to have them in the wind's eye.' Hares are always killed With arrows, and being quiet animals lire easily caught bitting, by those who know their haunts." , fie PRIVATE JOURNAL of Captain G. F. LYON, of .M. S. HECLA, during the recent VOYAGE of COVERY under Captain - PARRY-Bvo. pp. 468. i s "(Concluded from Tint StIN of Saturday.) " The most i i rtant duties of an Esquimaux were now to .1* performed, an the old man with his adopted sons and visitor "oat down to the discussion of an immense pot ofsmoaking seal's 'Jean. In this I determined on being a partaker, as, in addition to being very hungary I had another inducement, from having a few days before of Toolemak a most important lesson in po - liseness. Ile had slept in my cabin, and had made a point of pbstaking whatever was offered him to eat and drink, however • repugnant it might be to his palate, observing, as each thing was . feesented to him, that it was very good'; but that Kabloona" tale name Europeans are distinguished by) " on entering the bat always turned up their noses, ratted what was presented to them, and always said 'dirty' or bad."ll is was strictly true,and inconsequence 1 determned, for good breeding's sake, todo as my Last did. I accordingly made a plentiful meal out of the common mess, aid did not afterwards refuse even a raw and frozen slice of slr.lroes. This conduct procured me abundance of thanks and eempliments, for they were all aware that raw flesh in particu ear was always rejected by us. 'Toolemak was so pleased at ray complaisance, that he volunteered to call his Torngaa from the 'shades below, and a large party were invited to be present at the mysteries. The incantations being finished, and the asuiience dispersed, we prepared for bed : Toolemak's son and daughter-in-law stripped and turned in on one side, while my worthy Amama and,Ortata did the same on the other. A new aevays skin was spread between the two couples, and on this I took up my quarters. During the stillness of the night I was awarded by hearing loud explosions, which so much resembled dee report of great guns, as to induce me to awaken the sleep- OVA, and ask the cnuse. They accounted for the noise as being eceasioned by he cold bursting the earth. Dad it not been for this explanation, I should have fancied the ships firing signal Tura, as-I could not have supposed that the frost would have ueh power after the earth had been frozen during three months, ana when it slight be imagined to have become cooled as much as was possible. At 3 A.M., on the 14th, we got up and dressed 41irselves ; the first motions of the Esquimaux being to seize a 'ands and a lump of flesh. The frozen walrus was lowered aown, and cut into two portions, the largest of which was kept by Toolemak, while the - other was put to the man who had ieilled and really owned the animal. From having, on other ()c -essions, observed the same distribution of food, I am convinced asst the old man, either from his possession as an A natkoo, or his abilities its a hunter, had invariably a share of whatever provision Has taken from the stores along the beach, as well as from all animals which were killed in the daily excursions. —That he was not selfish in what his authority procur ed him, was always evident from the quantity of feeders by whom his hut was constantly filled; and on this morn lee, in particular, there was not during four hours a vacant place. Amongst other hungry people came old Kettle, who no sooner appeared, than Toolemak addressed him in ajeermg tone, with' leakkalthioos, a thief.' To this rude greeting I was astonished at hearing Kettle answer in a most humorous man ner, by relating the circumstance of his having robbed Pali (Parry), which excited great merriment in all present, and most particularly in the narrator himself. When I prepared to leave the village,and while the people were catching my dogs,Toole mak asked me very seriously if any one had said Pilletay 'to nee, and in- strict Justice I must say, that in this solitary in stance no one begged from me. I suspected that his modera tion proceeded from some warning given by Toolemak,to whom I had frequently excused myself from going to the huts, by complaining of the unceasing and general demand which was made for presents. My principal gratification in this visit con sisted in - having been enabled to pate a night amongst the Es quimaux in the middle of the season of darkness, and to observe the still continued regularity which existed in their dwellings daring so wretched a period." Speaking of the" ocetrnations of the women," Captain Lyon :titers, " the women, besides making the clothes for themselves their husbands, and children, have also to prepare the mate rials. The hunter conceives that he has done his duty in kill ing the animals, whose skins are to be dressed, and therefore does not offer the slightest assistance in preparing them. When serer his boots or dress becomes wet, the wife scrapes the wdter from them, Tubs and supple, the leather, and dries them over the lamp. Should the boots, shoes, or gloves of parchment seal skin become stiff by being laid aside, they are then chewed un til soft by the women and girls. In preparing skins, great part of the fat and oil is first sucked from them, they are then re peatedly scraped and rubbed between the hands ; and in sunimeri are stretched by pegs on the ground : in winter they are laid over a hoop, and exposed to the heat of the lamps. When deer skins are prepared so as to resemble shamoy leather, the only preparation, after the usual scraping and drying, is bychewing, rubbing between the hands, and ultimately scrubbing with sand and urine : while damp, a second scraping is given, and on drying, the skin assumes a beautiful appearance." " Dogs—these useful creatures being indispensible attendants or the Esquimaux, drawing home whatever captures are made, as well as frequently carrying their masters to the chase, I know of no more proper place to introduce them, than as part of the buntinxphit.bliAlurnynt. Having myself possessed, dur ing our second winter, a team of eleven very fine animals, 1 was enabled to become better acquainted with their good qualities than could possibly have been the case by the casual visits of }seluimaux to the ships. " The form of the Esquiniaux dog is very similar to that of -our shepherd's dogs in England, but he is more muscular and broad-chested, owing to the constant and severe work to which be is brought up. His ears are pointed, and the aspect of the assesis somewhat sava ge . I n size, a fine dog is about the height of the Newf oun dl an d breed, but broad like a mastiff in every part, except the nose. The hair of the coat is in sum mer, as well as in winter, very long, but during the cold season, a soft downy under covering is found, which does not appear in warm weather. Young dogs are put into harness as soon as they can walk, and being tied up, soon acquire a habit of pull ing in their attempts to regain their liberty, or to roam in quest of their mothers. When about two months old, they are put into the sledge with the grown dogs, and sometimes eight or tea little ones are und er th e c h arge of some steady old animal, where with fregnesit, and sometimes cruel beatings, they soon receive a cothpetent education. Every dog is distinguished by a particular name, and the angry repetition of it has an effect as instantaneous as an application of the whip, which instru ment is of air immense length, having a lash of from eighteen to twenty-four fact, while the handle is of one foot only. With this, by throwing it on one side or the other of the leader, and repeating certain words, the animals are guided or stopped. lA:fia-aya, a-ya, whooa, to the right. A-wha, a.wha, a-wheat, lo the left.• A-look, turn, and wooa, stop. When the sledge is stopped they are all taught to lie down, by throwing the whip:gently over their backs, anti they will remain in this position even for hours, until their master returns to them. "Such of the natives as have not a sufficient number of dogs to draw a sledge are followed to the Maook-pox by all which belong to them. A walrus is frequently drawn along three or four of them, and seals are sometimes carried borne in the same manner, though I have, in some instances, seen a dog bring home the greater part of a seal in panniets placed across his back. This mode of conveyance is often used in the summer, and the dogs also carry skins or furniture overe hell to the sledges, when their masters are going on any ex pedition. It might he supposed that in so cold a climate these animals had peculiar periods of gestation, like the wild crea tures ; but, on the contrary, they bear young at every season of the year, and seldom exceed five at a litter. In Decernber, with the thermometer at 40 degrees below zero, the females were WI several instances, in he a t. C o ld h as very little effect on these animals, for although the dogs at the huts slept within the snow passages, mine, at the ships had no shelter, but lay alongside, with the therm ometer at 42 and 44, and with as little concern as if the weather had been raild. 66 I found by several experiment s t h at t h ree of my dogs could draw me on a sledge weighing 1 001bs , the rate of one mile in six minutes ; as .a proof of . dy e strength of a well grown dog, my leader drew 196 lb s. singly, and' to the same distance in eight minutes. Whoever has had the patience to rea d this account will laugh at my-introducing my team so fre quently in a professed account o f E squimaux dogs generally; but I can only . offer, as my excuse, the merits of my poor ani mate, with which have, with one or t wo persons besides my soh', on the sledge, returned home from the Fur y, distance of nearly a mile, in pitchy dar k ne ss, and amidst clouds of We late' y noticed a g reat discrepancy Y servantsbetween snow-drift, entirely under the call of tho se trust 'who, with their noses down -to • the snow, h a v e gallaPPed on the births and the burials in the kingdom of Denmark last year. It is remarkable that a similar exces, in avour of the board entirely directed by their sense of sm elling. Ilea 'rave births, should shrew itself in the Dukedom of Courland for erred, or been at all restive ' r ave 1823 ; the number of children born being 14,620, and the :nor no human means brought us on board until the return of clear weat ie tuary list exhibiting only 9,877 deaths. At anoth er . In a note Captain Lyon adds to this accou nt—" . The D • time seven of my dogs r a n a m il e i n 4 minutes 0 9 seconds, b ell cury says-"U r theatre was drawing .a heavy s l e d ge f u ll o f men . I s t o pped to time therm; 'in for the s ea son on Thursday, when Mr . KEAN appeared but h a d I r idd en , t h ey would have gone equally fast. In in toe arduous character of King Richard the Third. He fact, I afterwards found that 10 do gs took 5 minutes to go .performed Othello on Friday, and Sir Giles Overreach on Satur 'over the same space. Afterwards, in carrying stores to t day 1 - . 7 yet Mr. Kean's " Professional Secretary" informed the - 11; t 1 rY, I mile distant, - 0 dogs drew 1,611 lbs. in the space of t c , that on Friday he, the said " Professional Secretary," y his, Me K Kean `s d esire, wrote a letter to Mr. Bunn, stating 9 minutest My sledge was on wooden runners, neither shod that "incipientadvieableto symptoms" of indisposition rendered it un have been added for every tiag:" CA advertise Mr Kean for Monday in Richard. It seems a singular coincidence that woos ( ) 1 tad . be CAUTIO N .--On Friday mot - nits.. at 10 o'clock, stop sic) used by the Esquimaux, being nearly the same sound express- the son of Mr. Seeoe :weer, of the Opera Colonnade, being ea in the same sense by the carmen in this country. wet, took off his coat, containing. 203. to ns. in silver, keys, In noticing hunting -by the Esquimattx, Ca . L ptam yon 3 se's knife, .&c., rnd laid it on a table in the middle of the shop, "• when two tnen hunt in company, they eometimes purposdy svhile lie was putting on annther, when one of the numerous shrew themselves to the deer, atitlewhen his Attention is fully en- plunderers, who are always on the watch, carried it off' in an gaged,. walk slowly.sway from him, one before the other. The instant. Captain Lyon obtained a great natural curiosity, and which even by the Esquimaux was so considered. it Was no other than the head of a young Walrus, " having three tusks instead of the usual number, two. On the left side were two nearly of au equal length, one being one inch and a half, anti the other two inches and a half in length ; that on the opposite side was two inches long. The site of these tusks did away with the idea of one of them being a milk tooth, although on the double side there was still but one socket for both." Captain Lyon, accompanied by Geo. Dunn, visited some na tives about twenty miles to the northward of those at Igloolik, which consisted of 28 persons ; one of them had recently fallen sick, and the author says, " I thought I could not do better for the poor fellow than to bleed hiM, and accordingly with my knife I took from him about 24 ounces of blood, for which piece of doctoring I received abundant thanks, with half an offer of some liver as a fee." Speaking of the family in whose hut Captain Lyon was lodged, he says, "The family consisted of the man, his wife, and three children, two of whom were half grown ; yet this party were living on a seat, whose breadth was six feet, and its depth five. To this space I was admitted, and Dunn had exclusive possession of the floor of the same extent, but certainly the cleanest and best part of the dwelling. As this was the only hut which was not lined with seal skins, the water dropped on us from every part of the roof ; but, to make up for want of other comforts, our hosts paid us the greatest and sincerest attention I ever received from Esquimaux, and by their cheerfulness shewed how happy they were in hav ing their hut preferred to others. During the time we remained with them they never once begged, and would have crammed us with food, had we been inclined to receive it. A lump was given up to me that I might cook what I pleased, and aftermy own manner, and we passed a most merry evening. My chief occupation was nursing a dirty little baby, with no other clothes on than the skin of a fox as a jacket ; and I quite won the heart of the mama, wko was an Annatkoka, by singing to her infant, Bye baby bunting,' and other nursery songs. The first ditty gave great satisfaction, when 1 managed so to tran slate it, as to describe the child's father going hunting for the individual fox, of whose skin its jacket was made. I never slept so warmly, or in so small and dirty a space as on this night. A young seal was my pillow, and the burning l am p was within six inches ymynose. ' We must now finally take leave of this amusing and in structive work, the perusal of which has afibrded us much gratification; and we strongly recommend those who w i s h to participate in similar feelings. To Captain Parry's Nar rative of the voyage it forms a kind of supplement, as many circumstances are detailed most minutely which could not be introduced into that work; and without being mentioned, a chasm would appear that has been supplied by the present pub lication. DEATH OF LIEUT.-COL. WESTERN. Mr. BATTIER has arldrpssed the following letter to the Editor of a Sunday Paper:— " Saturday Night, Eleven o'Clock, May 15, 1824. " Sra---I have only this evening seen in The Morning Chronicle of this day a letter with annexed documents, pur porting to be a statement of the particulars of a recent corre spondence between Sir H. Hardinge and Lieut.-Colonel Wes tern, relative to a subject on which I felt it necessary to require an explanation from the Marquis of Londonderry. The mud, den death of my gallant friend yesterday has placed me in circumstances of the most unparalleled embarrassment, for which I trust to the sympathy of every brave and liberal mind. The specious representations of Sir H. Harding.: contains mat ter which, though totally at variance with the true character of the transaction, and de&ient in most important circumstances, I cannot, on the spar qf the moment, as hearing the authentica tion of Lieut.-Colonel Western's signature, deny or refute. But I have no doubt of being enabled to prove that my friend's signature was obtained to a document which he had not tho roughly examined, relying on Sir H. Hardinge being incapable of recording the particulars partially or untruly. While I en deavour to rectify the impression intended to be conveyed by the late statement, I entreat my friends, particularly my mili tary friends, to suspend their judgment. - " WM. BATTIER. " Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square." LORD BYRON. One production of his Lordship will be looked for with more anxiety than any of his former publications : we allude to his life, written by himself, which he gave to his friend Mr. Tiroauss MooRE, and which has been some time in this country. If report is to be credited, Lord BY xox has in this work examined himself with an unsparing severity of which few men are capable. The following particulars will fill up all that is known of the death of this Nobleman : • On the 9th of April, Lord Byron, who had been living very low, exposed' himself in a violent rain • the consequence of which was a severe cold, and he was immediately confined to his bed. The low state to which he had been reduced by his abstinence, and probably by some of the remaining effects of his previous ' illness, made him unwilling —at any rate he refused to sub. init—to be bled. It is to he lamented that no one was rear his Lordship who had sufficient influence over his mind, or who was himself sufficiently aware of the necessity of the case, to induce him to submit to that remedy, which, in all human probability, would have saved a life so valuable to Greece. The inflammatory action, unchecked, terminated fatally on the I9th of April. There are no letters of his Lordship's of a date subsequent to the commencement of his Pim. The friends who were near him at the time of his decease, in addition to Prince Mavrocorduto, were Mr. Parry, who had organized the artil lery and engineer corps for the Greeks at Missolonghi, Mr. Bourke, and Count Gamba. The letters from the last named gentleman first communicated the intelligence to Lord Sidney Osborne, who forwarded it with the kindest attention to the friends of Lord Byron in England, and proceeded from Corfu to Zante, to make whateNer arrangements might be necessary respecting his remains. Lord Byron liaCiTi;t7c - ceecled, his friends are informed, in stir ring up among the people. of the part of Greece in which lie had resided, an almost inconceivable enthusiasm. His exer tions were incessant in their cause, and thegratitude of the peo ple was proportioned to them. His influence was notlessened by being employed often to procure humane, even kind treat ment towards the Turkish captives. On the day of Lord Byron's death, and when he appeared in imminent danger, the Prince illavrocordato wrote to his Lordship's friend and com panion, Count Gamba, requesting that a Committee might be immediately appointed to take the necessary measures for the security of his property; in consequence of which, four Gen tlemen have been nominated to act until other arrangements can be made. One of the letters from Corfu, received on Saturday, and dated April 23, states that Lord Byron died possessed of consi derable property in Greece, having for some time resolved to pass his life there, and received Considerable sums from England for the purpose of investment. The Hon. Leicester Stanhope had 'signified his intention of quitting Greece for family affairs in this country, but he had received a pressing invitation from Prince Mavrocordato to remain; and Major Ilastings, a gentleman who has been for some time there, has also had inducements offered to him to remain firm to the cause which he has so mainly assisted. We understand that Colocotroni, one of the bravest Greek Generals, but who had thrown great impediments in the way of Greek independence, by his jealousy of Ypsilanti and Mavrocordato, had endeavoured for some time to prevent the employment of foreign auxiliaries. This man, however, being abandoned by his troops, and wandering, it is said, among the mountains, has no longer any influence, , nd our countrymen in Greece are likely to feel the effect of his di"- grace very beneficially for their interests. VIE LATE HEAVY FALLS OF RAtN. The heavy and continued fall of rain—unpre cedented, we believe, at such a season, at least during Many years, has laid several parts of the suburbs of the Metropolis under water, and turned roads and meadows into lakes. The neighbourhood of Brixton, in particular, from the foot of the hill to Kennington, has exhibited a spectacle of which none but a few of the. very oldest inhabitants can recols lect any parallel instance. The little rivulet, the Efrra, which washes the eastern side of the road, and a large portion of which hat lately been shored over in the pro gress of Lord Holland's improvetnents—a rivulet; which was heretofore, in the summer months, a scanty brawling rill, and more recently had assumed the appearance of little better than an ordinary ditch, has been swollen by the land floods, of• which it is the natural channel, into a' fear ful and roar ing torrent, whose bank s , tho ug h of the height of seven or eight feet, and leaving a space between them of ten or twelve, have been broken and overflowed, while the waters, spreading themselves over the road, poured downwards in all the semblance of a broad and turbid river, that even the foot paths, in several places, were more than knee deep, and the stages and carriages which were compelled to pass along were flooded above the axletree. We speak of the state of the inun dation as we saw it, at about seven o'clock in the evening of Saturday, when the waters were still rising. We understand, I and the evidences are still sufficiently apparent, that before Midnight they had risen considerably more than a foot higher. —The depredations that have been committed on fences, gardens, and habitations (anti these, if report be true, are not the worst part of the calamity), by the descent of these torrents, may readily be believed. No less than seven bridges, some of them of substantial brick, and one even of considerable breadth, over which there was a good public road, have been swept down or broken in, and, indeed, it can only have been by the timely falling in of those on the higher part of the torrent, and which by forming dams above, turned so con siderable a portion of water into the wider road, that any of the communication between the villas and cottages in this neighbourhood and the road escaped from one common wreck. But for such partial - averting of the stream, not Only these, but the whole extent of the archway in front of the ra .pidly-rising village of Holland Town, must inevitably have been blown up. Trees have been torn from the banks and hurled into the channels; the planks and timbers of the bridges were swept away. The fragments of thick walls, with which the embankments in several places were defended, now obstruct the stream they were meant to confine ; the hanks upon each side have been broken, and portions of gardens. shrubberies, and plantations hurried with the torrent into the Thames. The inhabitants of the villas and cottages, whose ornamental grounds have been thus invaded, were to be seen on Sunday morning, standing on the broken verge of their yet remaining territory, with dismal and impatient faces, waiting the arrival of planks and timbers to afford them the temporary means of communi cation with the road. While some who had been kept up all night in watchful apprehension of similar insulation, were in dulging in a sort of mournful satisfaction, that though part of their trim gardens had, " like the baseless fabric of a vision," disappeared, their means of communication with their friends had not entirely been destroyed. The basement stories of many of the comparatively fortunate houses have been filled with water; and some families on the western side of the road have been washed out of their ground floors. But some of the new cross streets between the Brixton and Clapham roads ex hibit a still more melancholy picture. Gardens have been com pletely inundated, and that to a considerable depth ; and hot beds, plants, and glass-frames, have floated like the wrecks of Noah's flood; while rows of houses, whose foundations have been absurdly laid in beds of clay and sloping hollows. have been flooded, not only above the tops of the garden pales, but some of th e m alm o st t o th e ce ili ngs o f their I;round floors. Pumps and buckets are still busy in empty ing the basement stories of the new houses on both aides of the main road ; while, on the cross roads already al luded to, rafts have been employed for the escape of the in habitanta. The tops of walls and palings, and piles of bricks, in sonic of the hollows marked out for fresh erections, are still to be seen on the surfaces of lakes which still remain, and must for weeks remain, covering the sites of projected streets. The extent of personal accidents which may have occurred is probably not yet ascertained. But one gentleman, it is known, who had been obliged to wade across the flooded road, plunged by mistake into the deeper waters on the other side, and with difficulty escaped drown ing. The like accident happened to a groom, who, by a plunge of his horse, was thrown into the current. One of the stage coaches broke down while struggling against the stream ; the coachman was thrown between the horses, and a boy who was sitting by his side was plunged over head and ears in the water ; while a carman, who had been obliged to get upon the shafts, was washed from his seat, and the wheel pass ing over his body, had both his legs fractured in a dreadful manner. It is even reported that a lady and gentleman, who were driving in a gig towards Kennington, lost their lives; that the horse taking fright and stumbling, they were thrown into the channel, and swept away by the force of the torrent, and that the l a dy was ta k en out' lifeless so far down as the floodgates at Vauxhall, while the body of the gentleman had not yet been found. But from the inquiries we have made in several quarters, we have reason to hope that this report is not well fountkcl. But the injury to property has certainly been considerable, and the hazard to the future health of the inha. bitants, and destruction of the comfort as well as the danger to the stability of the inundated habitations, all of them recently ereczecl, may easily be conceived. (ANOTHER. ACCOITXT.)-1n consequence of the late heavy falls of rain, the a ncient watercourse, named Turnmill-brook, communicating with the Thames fr om the vicinity of Highgate and Hampstead, in that part between St. Pancras and the House of Correction, overflowed the bank s , i nu ndated the ga rd e n s and did considerable injury to the inhabitants and their dwellings. The Bagnigge Wells 'tavern, being immediately contiguous to and inconvenience to suchadegree, a degree, the brook, experienced injury that on Saturday afternoon all was bustle and confusion to pump and clear the water from the premises. About 9 o'clock, a report reached that place, that one man by accident, ;Aid another in endeavouring to rescue him, had been washed from the open part of the gardens in the Bagnigge Wells road down to the inclosed part at the back of I'carl Crescent. Every endeavour was made by -the inhabitants of the Tavern to impede their further progress and render assistance ; and in a short time they succeeded in rescuing one person almost exhausted, who had grappled the stem of an alder tree. The most prompt means were used for relieving him of his clothes; external and internal comforts were administered, and the best bed prepared. The person thus saved from a watery grave, was soon recognised to be Mr. King, of Drury-lane Theatre, who had mistaken an opening in the railing, and was instantly precipitated into the rapid current of the brook which flowed, but had not been fol. lowed by any other person. In the space of an hour and a half he was so far recovered as to be " himself again,"—convinced his friends they might " throw physic to the dogs," and walked home in company with his " far better half," who had been summoned by the call-boy to the aquatic spectacle. WATER TELESCOPE.—We have been favoured with an account of a new optical instrument of very consider able ingenuity, invented by a Mr. W. Leslie, of Lansinburgh, United States, for seeing through water, and thus exploring the bottom of rivers, &c. It consists of a tube that may be varied in length as occasion shall require, about an inch broad at the top, where the --eye is' applied, and regu larly enlarging to the bottom; which bears a proportion to the other end, about 10 to lin diameter. Each end is glazed. The great reason why one cannot look through water to the bottom, is 'be reflection and refraction of Vie rays of light upon arriving at the surface. This glass overemnes that difficulty, by extending the eye, as it were, into the denser medium, and making use of the light which is in the water, where the rays pursue right lines, as well as in the rarer medium of the arr. For use in the night, it is fitted with lamps suspended near the bottom in a short cylinder, which goes on over the top of the tube, and descend s till the bottom of the cylinder is as low as the bottom of the tube, and there it is secured. In the space between the cylinder and tube, lamps are suspended; the mouths of the cylinder, as well as the tube being glazed. —To let off the smoke of the lamps, and supply them with air, two small pipes, the first from the top, and the second from the bottom of the cylinder, lead up the side of the tube. The lamps throw a strong light around, and the bottom of the river is easily examined. The advantages of such an instrument will readily occur. Among other interesting ones, the ipeedy recovery of drowned boeies is one, and it would doubtless be the means of saving many lives. Lost property too may be found, and the impediments to e,xcavation discovered and their removal facilitated.—(Mechanic's Magazine.) INCREASED SALE or SATIN SIIOES.--A. Corre spondent informs us, that the sale of Ladies' white satin shoes has been greatly increased of late in this city from the follow ing cause. It would appear the steam-boats claim the liberty of putting their ashes and cinders ashore on the quays at diffe rent ports, where they remain, in consequence of which every lady passenger who lands, has to wade through a heap of dirty, dusty ashes and cinders. Being so beneficial to the shoe trade, our Correspondent adds, that it is believed a petition will be got up to the House of Commons against preventing the practice, should such be attempted.--(Glasgow Courier.) IMPORTANT FROM LISBON. ATTEMPT TO DETHRONE THE KING OF PORTUGAL. Advices have this morning been received from Lisbon. Every thing there was in great confusion n consequence of an attempt being made by the QUEEN'S party to dethrone the KING, and which was only frustrated by the fidelity of the officers of the army who adhered to the KING. Count PALMELLA had been thrown into prison, and the QUEEN and Prince MICHAEL had been removed to a distance of ten miles from Lisbon. CITY, ONE ()Timm MOST IMPORTANT. The fate of South American independence, or at least the great and important question as to the final decision to be taken by Great Britain on the subject of recognizing the new Trans-At lantic States, is at length brought to a crisis. Ad vices have this morning been received from Paris by Express, with the intelligence that Lord EL LIOTT passed through that capital on Friday from Madrid, with dispatches for the Foreign Office, Downing.street. His Lordship left Madrid on the 6th inst., and his dispatches contain the ulti mate decision of the Spanish Government respect ing the revolted provinces. That decision is, the positive and irrevocable decision of King FERDI NAND not to recognise the independence of any one of the new States, and on the contrary 1114 resolution to adopt measures for their recovery• Very unexpectedly, it is now very much rea r ' ed by the best informed persons in Paris, th° t the Project of Law for the Reduction of the Rentes will not b e c ar ri e d i n th e Chamber o f Peers. This would indeed be a Misfortune far the civilized world, in a s muc h as th e re jection °i, the Ministerial Project will greatly diminish the existing motives for the maintenance of Pence' It was asserted at Paris that three FrePc 4 Bankers have contracted for a loan of a hundred millions of francs to the Government of FEaP i ‘ NAND VII.; and that the Constitutional BOnds are not included in the terms of the agreement' An authentic private letter from Madrid, lo w " ever, of the 6th inst. is silent as to this allege d transaction, though its writer possesses the bes t means of information. The purport of Lord ELLIOTT'S dispatches 0 16 not known on the Paris Exchange when the ex press came away. Similar dispatches had bee" received I,py the French Government. FRENCH FUNDS ON SATURDAY. Rentes, 1041. 95e. to 105 f. DITTO ON SATURDAY. New 3 per Cents, 82, to 82i. Five per Cents. (Money) 1041. 60e. End of Month, 1051. Spanish, 18i. Haf-past One.—Consols opened this morning at Otni for Account, and 96 money. They are now Ka for the Account, with little doing. FOREIGN MARK ET.—A good deal doing• South American Stock falling in value. Alexicaa has declined above one per cent. Ar.alEas.—Accounts, we see, have reached town, importing that all matters have been set.. tied between the Algerines and the British Goy verament, and our Dover letter, received thfs morning, which we subjoin, informs us that Lieutenant MARTIN, R. N., landed last night with dispatches from Algiers, and, of courser brought them immediately to town. It is some' what surprising that official intelligence has not appeared on a subject of such importance, as oa the Bth instant we stated that letters of the lath of April, at Cagliara, in Sardinia, were received on the 7th inst. from Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, i° which the worthy Baronet stated 46 that matters have been peaceably adjusted with the Alge' tines, and that, therefore, he should remain soma time in the Mediterranean." DOVER, Sunday Evening, May 16. Lieut. MARTIN, R. N. has just landed dispatches from Algiers. lie came via Marseille and KroistuLthis.after_nnnu in n. F.--oh galley. ITURI3IIM-The following particulars respect ing ITuaßinz, the Ex-Emperor of Mexico, mar be confidently trusted. He left Taunton, not for Bath, as stated, but for Southampton, and after remaining there a day or two left, that place on Tuesday last, with a large suite, in the Cowes Packet-boat, and from thence went directly on board a fast-sailing vessel at . Cowes, which immediately sailed. He took a large quantity of stores and arms, be sides a considerable amount of dollars aud bills. His house at Bath had been given up more than three weeks before. It is impossibly to ascertain the immediate object of this sudden departure, but it is conceived to be with the fall sanction of the Spanish Government at home.--- He is an intelligent, high-spirited character, and is very affable and conciliatory in his manners. 'We have received some more of Friday's Par►s ' Papers, and the Mode of Saturday, from which we subjoin extracts : ODESSA, APRIL 20.—A vessel has just entered our port, which has come from Constantinople ia three days. The news which it brings is not very interesting. A report was current in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, that Colocotroni, who for these three years past has kept up the flames of discord among the Greeks, has at length perished by their hands. This circumstance would be fortunate for the insurgents, Colo cotroni being formally accused of having an understanding with Foreign Powers. The Greeks in Odessa do not consider the news of his death as certain.—(Augsburg Gazette.) MADRID, MAY s.—The Act of Regulation of the Royalist militia has been abolished by a Decree, dated 4th of this month. , Several cities in the kingdom had sent addresses to the King to obtain this decision. The city of Cordova particuL-ly-distin guished itself by the energy of its language. By a Decree of his Majesty, the Police of the Biscayau Pro vinces will be confided to Provincial Deputations, and not to Councils of War. The Oriontal Spectator ceased to appear on the 77th of March. The following is the last news it gives us :—" We have just learned that the English Pllilhellenes have positively lent to the Greeks 30 millions of piastres to ensure the success of their cause. They have already sent them N cannon, St.c..-7 They have likewise proposed to the Greek Government to build a steam-boat calculated to throw bombs, and to take the . fire-ships in tow in a time of calm. It will carry 41wenty-sixes pounders." The ex-constitutionalist Dronet did not die at St. Minehoud, as some Journals have stated, but at Macon, where he had lived for 8 years under an assumed name. PARIS, MAY 13.—An inhabitant of this city, who had groat confidence in the Spanish loan, and who purchased in the loan of 1821, to the amount of forty thousand francs, has written a letter to the Minister of Finance of his Vhristian Majesty, which as con txtract A l 'eAtrwat Price o tiitors the per rand w hies form er houa e . konlui HAS 10 501 b ) teas ot Vrciler %Peet, vhich At , kvi gt ," •tettix the g a Itastt AI ficit ii 4,, Pttr Vis .. Thil % 11 e vx om A, tth to 4.leit u l'erni fro m at St. P A ' lo ‘e( ti,, ,rFsi 443z1d 4/4,/, !eat irno to t , " Pe i Pa rt Th e abl e Pei 14,4 ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS BILL. A highly respected Correspondent 'requests us to insert the following Parliamentary Notices of the St. KATHARINE'S DOCKS BILL in the House of Commons !MUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 19. Mr. GRENFEI4I. presented a Petition from several Ship owners in the City of London, praying for leave to bring in a Bill for Building a New Dock in St. Katharine'a.—Referred to a Committee. FEBRUARY 25. Mr. GRENPELL brought up the Report on the petition of the Merchants of London, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to construct certain docks, &c. in the parish of St. Katherine. As the Report of the Committee stated that the Standing Or ders had not been complied with, it would be necessary for him to move, that, in this case, they be dispensed with, and that the Notices, which are usually given to the parties interested be fore the opening of Parliament, be allowed to be given at the next Easter Sessions.--Carried. MARcit 22. Mr. GRENVELL obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the construction of '%Vet Docks in the parish of St. Botolph, Aid gate ; and afterwards brought in the Bill, whieh was read a Erg time. MAacnc 30. Mr. Alderman THOIVI NON presented a Petition, signed by 200 Merchants, Ship-owners, and others, connected with the trade of London, in favour of th e St. Katherine's Docks. Mr. GRENFELL said, that the commercial interest severely felt the want of a New Dock Company. Aram 2. Mr. GRENFELI, in moving the second reading of the Bill for the building of a New Dock at St. Katherine's, contended for the necessity of the measur e u p on t h e increase d trade and navigation of the river, which required other provisions to be made for the accommodation of goods and ships. He could show by a paper in his hand that such increase had taken place. Since the year 1798, the exports and imports of the country had increased from thirty millions to no less an amount than fifty six millions. The increase had been gradual and progressive, and was therefore likely to continue. The consequence was, that a much greater proportion of shipping was required to be provided for in the River Thames, than when the other Dock Establishments had been erected. It should also be remem bered that the Act introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman, who was then President of the Board of Trade, and now Mu ter of the Mint, alloWed two hundred articles to be warehoused, which never were so before. Another reason why he desired to see this measure carried was, that by extending the competi tion, they should g i ve the public the means of obtaining acconi. modation at a more advantageous rate. It was very natural far such a measure to be opposed by those who possessed a mono poly, which it would be calculated to destroy ; but for that very reason he thought it deserved the attention and support of the House. He concluded by moving the second reading of the 13111._Carried. Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds 755. 765. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £lOOO 2B 46 Ditto 5OO Ditto Small 39 47 Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Acct. N DS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto New Russian, New, siper cent Ki Spanish 1821,5 per ct. 21:q 1 1823, ditto • Alliance Shares Palladium Equitable Loan Irish Ditto Manchester Ditto French Itentes 181 - Scrip STOCKS, MAY I I. Grand Canal Loan, 6 p.ct. 634 —Ditto 4 per cent.... Ditto Stock Royal Canal Stock Wide-street Cert. 6 per et. Do. Deb. with Goy. Sec.... Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. Do. 6 per cent. Ballast Office Govt. gee. 4 per cent. idon, May 10, 8. .1 BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 42 minutett after b. APRIL 15. Mr. GRENFELL moved the addition of certain Members to the Committee on the St. Katherine's Dock Bill. The lion. Member took occasion to observe, that many misrepresentations had gone forward as to the number of inhabitants likely to be affected by this Bill ; 10,000 were mentioned, but in fact there were but 4,000 in the parish. The number of houses too were mentioned at 1,400, but there were not more than 800. This was an exaggeration caused by rival Dock Companies. The other objection, as to the want of notices, was of no weight, as the houses in question would be rendered mote valuable by the alteration proposed.—The motion was agreed to. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. 1ied......... 954# 3 per Cent. Cons.... 9641 98 31 per Cent (Old 4 per Cent. Assented 101aa New 108,1 10/i Bank Long Ann. 22i 15-16ths Imp. 3 per Cents. India Stock PRICF.S OF FOREIGN Ft Austrianßds, 5 per cent. Kai Chilian lids, 6 per cent 8l Colombian ids, 6perct. 86i 54 Scrip Danish, s . per cent. Greek Scrip Mexican Scrip...B 7,31 pm. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. Peruvian Scrip dis. Portuguese Bonds Scrip PRICE OF IRISH }Sank Steck Gov. Deb. 34 per cent 2i stock, 34 per ct 24 Goy. Deb. 4 per cent. — Gov. Deb. 5 per cent. - ---Stock, 4 per cent. New 7B Treasury Bills, 5 per cent City Debentures, 5 per ct Lying in Hospital 4 per ct Exchange on Loi 111011 NVATER AT LON DOD Morning, 21 minutex after 5. 1 E S N. SOW! LUIS DICLI!Z FALSUM AUDZAT LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1824.