The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-13 00:00:00

CI9MBINATIONS IN FRANCE. (From flie Etoile.)! ROUEN, AUG. 7.—The commune of Houmel, situate in the valley of Desville, has become the theatre of a revolt hitherto without example. For some time past the workmen employed in the nu merous cotton manufactories in this valley demand. ed an increase of wages. They did not hesitate , to employ violence, in order to fix at their own rate the price of every kind of work, and to overthrow entirely the rules established up to the present time in their manufactories. Some master cotton-spinners were weak enough to give way to their menaces. M. Levavasseur, one of Them, believed that it was dangerous to yield to their measures ; and after having satisfied those demands which appeared to him just, he refused to'submit to dictation. It was thus that the revolt declared itself, which had been or ganized for some time past by conspirators who happily have been marked. On Thurs day • last the workshops were deserted at a given . signal. Express orders were given to the workmen who had taken no part in this affair to discontinue their labour, and such was the terror inspired that no one dared to. disobey. A purse had previously been made up in all the manufac tories for those workmen who, in default of work, should be left without resources. On the fol lowing day the workmen formed themselves into parties, mid did not proceed further than to make menacing demonstrations ; but on Saturday, being pay-day, the proprietor of the manufactory whose men were in a state of revolt, having repaired to the usual places for paying his workmen, the coalition assumed a more serious character. A vast number of workmen belonging to the diffe rent manufactories of the valley, - provided with staves and clubs, made an attempt on the life of Levavasseur, who, however, escorted by the gendarmes that accompanied him, returned to his house safe and sound.. The same evening a crowd of seven or eight hundred workmen pro ceeded to the manufactory, and broke all the win dows of the ground floor, and of the-first story, after having broken and thrown down the walls of the enclosure. detachment of the Royal Guard, who were in garrison in Rouen, and who were dispatched to the place, succeeded in stop ping the further excesses of these madmen, who would have" destroyed from top to bottom of the finest establishments of the valley. His Majesty's Procureur, informed of what had taken place, proceeded thither yesterday, accompanied by a Magistrate. After depositions had been received from various persons, it was manifest that scenes of a still more violent description were meditated. The workmen of all the factories in the valley, and even those of Darnetal, Pavelly, and Baren tin, were to assemble at Houlme, and to proceed to the place of 'revolt. Every thing was to be feared from the excesses to which this furious multitude would proceed. Unfortunately, these anticipations were realized ; there was a con course of some thousands of workmen : early in the morning they dispersed themserti* in the neizhhouring woods. from whence. as it seemed. - they intended to direct their attacks. The armed - force remained on the ground to resist the attack with which they factory of M. Levavasseur was menaced ; but a detachment of gendarmes, and two companies of the Royal Guard, were insufficient to repel this mass of rioters.- -By the help of the stones, sticks, and pitchforks, -with which they were armed, they managed to - make head against the soldiers. Some workmen, armed with muskets, and concealed in the woods, even fired upon the military, and a gendarme, who was remarkable by his intrepid exertions to quell the riot, received a ball in the head. His life is • despaired of. Other gendarmes, and some sol ,diers belonging to the guards, were wounded snore or less severely by the stones which fell in showers from all quarters, and by the blows whiCh were aimed at them by sticks. At length the arrival of a new detachment of the Garde Royale put an end to this contest, which might have been more bloody but for the energy dis played by the authorities of Rouen. The gend armerie have just returned into the town, bring ing with them upwards of 40 workmen, taken in the midst of the rioters, with arms in their hands. Justice is upon the track of the culprits, and every thing announces that .a severe example will be given. The greatest praise is due upon this occasion to the conduct of the gendarmerie and Garde Royale, under the orders of. General De lapointe, Colonel the Baron Christophe, and M. . Derouilleret, Lieut.-Colonel of the Garde. Notc.—lt is ascertained that, to-day, other.scenes of devasta tion have occurred in the communes of Pavilly, Barentin, and Desville, by the workmen of the cotton-manufactories. The .Prefect of the Department has proceeded to the valley of Des villa, and has taken such measures as prudence suggested to be necessary under circumstances of so. grave a nature. COLONIAL CURRENCY. (From the'Free Press.) 'HALIFAX, JuLY 19.—The specie that has been sent out for the use of the Colonies is, we understand, the cur rent money of Great Britain, in crowns and half-crowns, shil lings arid sixpences, and not a peculiar coinage on purpose for the Colonies. We regret this had not been' the case, as it would - have been more likely to remain among us. The ster ling money, by a law of the Province, has its value already regulated, and we cannot see how any Order or Proclama tion in Council can supersede a positive legislative enact ment. By law, the crown iy. a legal tender for ss. .6t1., and for la. Id. Tbese divisional parts have been found so inconvenient in trade, that the. sterling money has hitherto passed merely .as currency, and 'we do not see how the retailer is to regulate himself in his common routine business. By the Proclamation 4s. 4d. sterling is ss. currency, or one dollar; a shilling then is Is. 2d. currency, or else the English id. must be of mote value than our four splitfish, Sir I. Coffin's Magdalens, or our eight Nova Scotia thistles. We had better not have in • terfered with the currency at all, or, if any alteration had been Made, to have considered ourselves as an integral part of the Irfothfr Country, and made all our contracts and agreements in sterl6g. This might facilitate commercial negotiation, and do away with the 11 and a fraction per cent., which now enters 'into the calculation between sterling . and currency. Had our . House of Assembly acted with common sense, last Session, and incorporated a Bank, it would have been the interest of that Establishment to have kept always a supply of change commensurate with the wants of the community. —But the 'desire to bolster up the Province paper prevented this, under the sanction and restrainsts of a charter. A private bank, composed of some of our most wealthy men, will soon be established, their paper will get into circulation, and if it can • be redeemed by gold and silver at all times, not only on four slays in the year, and within certain hours, it must have a pre feience in the market, and will tend to depreciate our provincial paper. The late proclamation has also the same tendency. We :nay expect, therefore, soon to know it true value. BRADFORD COMBERS and WEAVERS. The conduct of the workmen at the outset was deserving of the severest reprobation and Ihe firmest re sistance, but we also concur in thinking tfra when they changed their tone, and lowered their pretensions, their em ployers ought also to have made whatever reasonable ad vances towards a reconciliation the nature of the dispute be tween them would allow. The resolution to stop the mills cannot be too strongly censured. By throwing those men idle who had withstood the alternate threats and seductions of the Union, and reducing them in emolument to the level of the refractory, while in other respects they are degraded to the rank of mendicants, upon the charity of their masters, at once destroys independence of feeling on the part of workers, and gives a bounty to combination. We sincerely lament that such a line of conduct should be pursued. On the state of affairs this week at Bradford, we received the following letter late last night from our correspondent : BRADFORD, AUG. 10, 1825. No alteration has taken place in the situation of the masters and men since my last, except that the mills of those masters who continue united have stopped, consonant to the resolution pre viously passed. None of the masters who left the association with Messrs. Garnett have given the wages asked by the men, though it is said that overtures were made last Friday by Mr. Fawcett to his men, to give them employment on the terms they have proposed, on condition that they would withdraw from the Union till they had taken their work out, and that then they may rejoin the Union immediately. This the men refused to do, as they would not violate the pledge they had given, not to leave the Union till the advanced wages were given. The men had a meeting at FaiiWeather,green, on Monday last, as usual, when the following resolutions were passed :- 1. That as it has been ieportetllhatthe Committee are acting , presumptuously, in refusing t. 6 allow any discussion between I the masters of Bradford and their workmen, they not only posi tively affirm that such a report is-absolutely false, but they now declare that they are willing to meet the masters at any time, to discuss the subject of their differences. 2. That the Combers and Weavers are still determined to continue in Union, and that neither party will return to their ' employment at the advanced price, unless the advance shall also be given to the other. 3. That the thanks of the meeting be given to all our friends in every part of the kingdom, for the friendly and liberal man ner in which they have supported us, and that they be requested to continue, to us their assistance, and not to relax their exer tions on account of any report that may be in circulation, as we have pledged ourselves to let all our friends know, by circular letters, when any thing of importance shall have taken place. Since the 31ills have stopped, several of the masters have commenced schools, for instructing the children who have con tinued working during the strike.—( Leeds Intelligencer.) S A I. I E R I. ANTONIO SALIERI, born at Legnano, in the Venetian states, in 1750. At the age of eleven years he began to take lessons on the harpsichord, and his passion for music became so strong, that, at the death of his father, a distill.: guished merchant, whose loss he had to deplore when he was only fifteen years of age, he devoted himself entirely to this art. The protection of Mozenigo, a patrician of Venice, in duced him to settle for a time in that city, where he continued his studies, but afterwards completed them at Naples.- His first master was Giovanni Pescetti, a professor of high repute, and a pupil of Lotti. Death having deprived him of this in structor, he placed himself, for a short time, under the care of Pietro Passirti. At this period the famous .eopold Gassmann arrived at Venice, and the young Salieri, eager to profit by such a circumstance, immediately offered himself, and was accepted as his pupil, both in the art of singing and for the harpsichord. The affection which he conceived for this master determined him, with his patron's consent, to accompany Gass mann to Vienna, in order that he might there continue his studies with him in counterpoint. He arrived at the capital of the Austrian empire in 1766, where he remained the following eight years, and lost no opportunity of benefiting by his mas ter's advice. His gratitude and attachment to Gassmann were rewarded at the decease of the latter, by the appointments of maitre de chapelle to the Imperial Court, and to the theatre. It was then he attracted the notice of the renowned Gluck, who now beginning to feel the infirmities of age, and discerning the great abilities of Salieri, intrusted him with the charge of com posing " Les Danaides," which the former had engaged to pro duce for the Academie Royale de Musique, at Paris. He exe cuted this arduous task according to the plan which this great and experienced musician had sketched out, and under his im mediate superintendence. The .result was so highly satisfac tory to Gluck, as to draw from him a declaration, that no one .""" i.ofnra cn thn,"^"t3/'l3, antarari into the peculiarities of his style, which not even the Germans themselves had been able to imitate. However, it was believed at Paris, that Sa lieri was,only really entitled to the merit of having composed the third act of the opera. Salieri went to Paris in 178-I with his work, which was per formed before the Royal Family frequently, and each time with increased effect. Even the Queen herself deigned to take a part in it. At length it was brought out at the grand theatre of the French capital. The critics discovered in some of its parts, principally in the recitatives, a very peculiar style, and all agreed that it displayed most extraordinary talent. It was not till after the third representation that the Chevalier Gluck, in an address to the Parisian public, announced .Salieri as the sole composer of " Les Danaides." The managers of the opera rewarded him with a present of ten thousand francs, and afterwards gave him an additional three thousand, to de fray the expences of his journey. The Queen also very libe rally rewarded his talents, and he sold his score to an engraver for two thousand francs. Before he quitted Paris, the admi nistration of the theatre engaged him to compose " Las Ho races et les Curiaces." A short time after this he produced, for the theatre at Vienna, the opera of " Axur ltoi d'Ormus, (or Terrare)," for -which the Emperor Joseph 11. made him a present of two hundred ducats, to which he added a pension of 1 three hundred ducats. Shortly after this he married a young lady with a considerable portion. Front that time he contri buted largely to the various theatres of Europe, particularly to that of his own country, for which he wrote many operas, chiefly of the comic kind. The following is a list of his dramatic works :—" Le Donne letterate ;" " L'Amore in nocente," translated into German ; " Don Chisciotte ;" " L'Armida ;" " La Fiera de Venezia," translated into French ; " La Secchi3. rapita ;" " II Barone di Rocca An. :tics ;" " La Locandiera ;" " Trionfo della Gloria e della Virtu ;" "La Sconflitta di Borea ;" "La Calamia de Cori;" " Del Vitas Daliso ;" "La Finta Scema."— Immediately after the performance of this piece be went to Italy, where he composed, the following pieces;—" Europa reconosCiuta," Milan; "La Scuola de Gelosi ;" "La Par- - tenza Inaspettata ;" " II Talismano," translated into German "La Dama Pastorella." He then returned to Vienna, and composed "Le Itamoneur ;" " La belle Menteuse;" "-La Semeramide," for the Court of Monaco ; " Les Danaides," for Paris; " Le Grotta di Trofonio," translated into German " Tarare," an Opera, written by :Beaumarchais. The Poet dedicated his Drama to this musician, in a short, elegant letter,- whence we extract the two following paragraphs : "To you I dedicate my work, cause it has become yours. I only gave it birth; you have trained it up to theatrical-, dignity. " You have assisted me, my dear friend, in giving the French such an idea of Grecian spectacle as I have always conceived. - If our work has been successful, 1 owe it almost entirely to you. And though your modesty prompts you to say that you are my musician, I honour myself in being your poet, your servant, and friend." This piece was afterwards brought out at Vienna, under the title of" Axur, Roi d'Ormus." " Les Boraces, ,et lesCuri aces," for Paris; " L'Av a ro . e it Prodigo ;" and" La Ciffra." Besides these, he has produced a multitude of detached airs, &c., both-serious and comic. Amongst his sacred works there is but one oratorio, " La Passione." ' Be howeve r wrote seve ral small pi eces i n the church style. - Be composed many sym phonies and serenades for the orchestra, also some.concertos for the piano -forte and other instruments; but he did not set any great value on these, as he had no -strong motive for exerting his talent, except in dramatic .or vocal music. " Salieri," says the Count Orloff, " united the melody of Italy with the harmony of his adopted country, and made a most happy use of both one and the other ; exhibiting to the heirs of his learnin g and his style, a w i se moderation, which confers honour on that, and imparts to this all its charm." * * * As the Opera of TERRARE is announced for representa tion at the ENGLISH OPERA liousE, and, we understand, is to be brought forward with the whole vocal and theatrical strength of the Company, and with a splendour of costume and scenery hardly ever equalled on the London Stage, our readers, we trust, will be gratified with the foregoing account of its cele brated Composer. POYAIS.—Si r GREGOR AFGREGOR, it appears, yet contrives to. draw some revenue from his caziqueship of Poyais. He has lately made a grant of 256 square leagues to a company at Paris, who intend, it is said , to found a Fren ch colony there, under the denomination of Neustria. The first expedition of these new adventurers will sail from Havre on the sth September. The colonists will keep the French laws and language, and be subject only to ta.ir own authorities. We understand that a sum of 18,0001. has been offered by an extensive clothier in England, for premises near this city, to erect a manufactdry.— (Limerick Chronicle.) CORONERS' INQUESTS. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the White Hart Inn, Weston Hill, Norwood, before Mr. CAICTEIC, of Kingston, and a Jury, on the body of Hannah Gillet, which was found dead is the fields near there, on the morning of Wednesday last. The situation and the circumstances of the death, so far as they were known, gave the affair a character of a disagreeable mystery. A ditch runs across the bottom of the grounds, which is connected with another running trans versely from the side of the hill. There is a pond elvated a foot or two above the ditches, in the corner of the field, which is never more than twelve or thirteen inches deep, nor wider than between five and six feet either way. In this pond, partially immersed, was the body found; the posture supine, the head reclining on a heap of stones, but with few or no traces of violence or confusion, either in the person or apparel. Anne Saunders was called in.—She was a fellow-servant of the deceased, and serves as cook in the family of Mr. P. Wynn, of Dulwich. The deceased came last Monday week or there abouts, as under nurse-maid. Did not know any thing of her before. She left the house last Tuesday evening at half-past eight o'clock. She took her bonnet and shawl, and said she would be out but a few minutes. She never re turned. She was ill, and complained of her mouth having a particular bad taste. She complained the day after she came. Witness asked how she felt herself; she said that she was affected all over. She could not explain or describe what was the matter ; she thought it was a cold. She seemed to have lost all her strength. She did not appear to be in the family way. Sho was always serious, and said she was afraid she should not be able to keep her place, because her health was so bad. _ Racnel Cutit is nurse to the children of Mrs. Wynn ; saw the deceased first on the 2d of August; they entered the service of the family on the same day; they sleptin the same room ; the deceased complained from the first of having a cold; she had a cough, and said she had a pain in her back and in her legs.— On Tuesday evening last she took her bonnet and shawl ; wit ness inquired whither she was going ; she said, " I'm going off for a few minutes." She left the house, and never returned. Witness never saw her with any followers, male or female ; she appeared dull, and not ready for conversation, but not at all disturbed in her intellect. James Dowset, a field-labourer, lives a Croydon-forest ; discovered the body on Wednesday morning about ten o'clock. Witness was mowing in the adjoining field, and went down to get some water from a running ditch. The field belongs to Mr. Tommons (one of the Jury). Perceiving the body on the side of the pond, he started back, and ran up the field for assistance. Two men came back with him. They took up the body, which was lifeless. Her stomach was not quite cold, but witness thought that might be owing to the warmth of the sun shining on her. Her head had been under water, but it was quite up out •of the water—there was water enough to cover her ; but she had struggled out of it—her legs were still under water. All that part of her .which was out of the water was covered with mud. She was lying on her bsck—her clothes were smoothed round her—her bonnet was tiel under her chin, and seemed to be in its proper place—her shawl was off, and in the pond near to her feet. She lay so thatlher lower ear touched the water. The clay of the pond had caked on her face--her hands were laid composedly' by her sides in the water--from her shoulders downwards she was laid in - or under the water. There were no marks of struggling about the place. The combs of her hair were neither of them broken. On one hand there was a black plate or two of no significance. There was no trace of blood or violence about her. Her bonnet was bent in. Mr. D. Jones, surgeon, of Dulwich, examined the body on Wednesday morning last, on the removal of it to the White Hart. Fount externally some slight bruises, none of which would cause death. This morning he opened the body with two other medical gentlemen, and found nothing internally that could be supposed to cause death. Does not mean to deny that she mignt have been suffocated in the pond. The loins were distended, with an appearance something like that of a person killed by suffocation. Believes that deceased came by her death by soffocation. The Jury retired to view the body, and the place where it was found; and on their return, pronounced a verdict, " Found suffocated, but by what means no evidence has appeared." The place was quite away from any road. The deceased was labouring under violent obstruction of the bowels, and the system generally, according to the evidence of her brothers, which left one safe conjecture concerning her death, according to the opinions of the medical men—that she might have strayed thither during temporary insanity, induced by obstruction and co nstipation, and the irritation consequent thereupon. One of her brothers happened to be among the spectators who were casually gathered round 11“. Whir. Hart on the arrival or tb. body, and went up to view it, quite unconscious beforehand that he was to behold the corpse of his sister. EREAT Ull.—ln the article respecting the late Serjeant LENS, in yesterday's SUN, instead of Wranger read Wrangler. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 891 90 89i Ex. Bills 10001. lid. 22 20 22 3i per Cent. Ditto 5001. 1.41 23 22 24 Ditto Red. , 98i i Ditto Small lid. 25 27 4 per Cent. New ... lo3i 1 Ditto Commercial Bank Long Ann. 22 5-16 1 Bank for Act. India Stock Ditto Bonds 46 pm. Cons. for Opening 891 90 89& South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bds, 5 per cent. 911i4 Neapolitan Scrip Brazilian Bds 1825 4a dis. I Do. Scrip - Buenos Ayres Bds Gillian ' Bds, 6 per cent. ... I Prussian, 5 per cent. Colombian Bds, 6 per ct.... Ditto New Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. Do. Scrip Greek Bds Do. Scrip, 1825 l4a dis. Exchange ... —f. —c. 11l exican Bds 74 3 per cent. .. 741. —c. Do. Scrip 1825 ... 3ii dis. Exchange ... 25f. 10c. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. 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Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an .In quest was held before TII 03IAS STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, at the Delaware Arms, Oxford- Street, on the body of Samuel Whitehead, who was suffbcated in a cesspool. It appeared that within a few days past the Delaware Arms public-house has been undergoing a repair, and the house sewer or cesspool was opened, but the opening was covered over with boards. On Thursday forenoon, between 11 and 12 o'clock, the deceased, who was the waterman at the coach stand, and much respected for his demeanor, went down into the cellar, and had some jesting and play with a dustman named Dean; he was stand ing upon some boards,which shook violently. D 6.11 called out to the deceased to take care, and had scarcely uttered the words of caution, before the unfortunate man cried out and disappeared. An alarm wavinstantly given, and several persons assembled in the cellar with lights, and an aperture (before undiscovered) ap peared, through which the deceased had sunk into the cesspool. His groans and cries for assistance were distinctly heard. A blanket was procured and lowered down, but it could not be reached by him. Several persons said nothing could save him, unless a person would descend through the aperture, but of those persons, none were found hardy enough to venture down ; until at length; Robert Sharpness, a soldier of the 2d Battalion of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, attracted by the confusion, went into the cellar, and in a manly manner rebuking those who stood looking on while the man Wag dying, caused a ladder to be lowered into the cellar, and having a rope tied round his body, descended into the cesspool, and found the unfortu nate man standing upright, but covered with the soil; he was moaning. The soldier endeavoured to remove him, but could not ; and at length fastened a rope around him and had him pulled up, but quite insensible. The soldier himself nearly lost his life , by this humane and gallant act, as on being drawn-up he could not speak, and sustained a temporary loss of sight, from the sulphureous and foetid effluvia arising from confined air ; but by the care and attention of Mr. Roche,--the landlord of the Delaware Arms, he was soon re stored—not so with the deceased, although promptly attended by Dr. Mulligan, -of Portman-street. Nothing could save him, the deleterious air or gas he had inhaled could not be expelled,. although , every effort was made to inflate the lungs. The Jury observed it was a roost olistressing case, and a ver dict of " Accidental Death" was returned. The Jury expressed an unanimous hope that the Coroner would make an application to the Humane Society in behalf of Sharpness, the soldier, who had upon this occasion, by the act of daring and di st i ngu i s h e d h uman ity which he had accom plished, entitled himself to reward. The Coroner said he believed the rewards of that Society only extended to rescuing persons from drowning ; but, neverthe less, he would certainly do all in his power to assist the sol dier's application. ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF MAILY-LE-BONE.—The mo dHearnynstnpaneiaed of Mary-le-bone is a perversion ;it was originally written Mary-le-b our ne, or Diary on the brook, from the cir cumstance of its being built on a brook, which still runs from across the New-road, through Allsop's-building, although it is now of course arched over. A bourne is a brook, and it is a very common termination of the names of English streets and towns. Holborn was originally called Oldbourne, from its standing on a brook. We have also Eastbourne, Sit tingbourne, &c. MAnNEss.—Tuesday afternoon, a man named Pampillon, shoemaker in Chatham-gardens, Plummer-street, City-road, was suddenly seized with a fit of madness ; be sal lied forth,. armed with a knife in each hand, exclaiming, that he would " kill his mistress" (the wife of Mr. Nelson, a shoe maker, his employer), pursuing and threatening several of his neighbours. ' Being at length much irritated at something said by one of those persons, an Irishman, lie dropped the knives and made a rush at the man, when several men, profiting b y the opportunity thus afforded, seized him, and with much dif ficulty conveyed him into a house, where he was effectually secured without having actually injured any person. although he made several attempts with the knives. In the' evening he was. taken by two keepers to a lunatic asylum, at Hoxton, Where he has since remained without any abatement of his dreadfal malady. It appears that the unfortunate man, who is only twenty-three years of age, and has several ,children , was much in the habit of bathing uring the hot weather, and it is supposed that his having done . so while in a state of per spiration, has affected the brain, and occasioned his present dis tressing situation; -The recent hot weather has been very fatal in Exeter, from a disease of the cholera morbus kind. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM -4UDE.IT LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1825. The arrival of the .gloile, dated Friday, by Express last night, enables us to publish the sub joined extracts, containing the official announce ment that the French Government had recognised the independance of Hayti, and that the same had been accepted by the Black Republic. The price paid to France for this act of justice and necessity, is one hundred and fifty millions of francs, or about six millions of pounds ster ling. We presume the rest of t. I.e outiona of Europe will follow the example thus set by France, and the Haytians may henceforward rank as an independent people. The plan of M. de VILIALE for the conversion of the rentes has been more successful than was at first imagined, but nevertheless reports of his resignation are abroad. On what foundation‘ they rest it might be difficult to say, but it is more than probable the wish was father to the thought ; for there appears to us nothing in the political state of France that could lead us to imagine a change in the adminis tration was contemplated.' However, a list of the persons proposed to constitute the new Ministry is in circulation, but which, in our opinion, proves rather too much, and throws dis credit upon the whole report. It is hardly pos sible in so short a time a change so exten sive as that proposed could have arrived at such a consistency. If M. de VILLELE'S financial plan has not been so fully successful as was expected, still it has been equally far from a total failure, and we may readily give the Minister credit for the possession of other means, which will lead him nearly to the same end. It is also to be ob served, that although the plan was unjust and unpopular, so far as the rentiers were concerned, it was replete with advantages to the country at large, by relieving it of a heavy annual burden, and thus affords an opportunity to M. de VILLELE to regain his popularity by proposing a reduction of the taxes in the next Session of the Chambers. The fall in the 3 per cents. cannot afford any ground to expect such a change, for it was evidently the result of a conspiracy on the market, and cannot operate for any great length of time. " CALAIS, AUG. 11, 10 o'clock, p. m. A 4 The following has been received here : LO TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH, " From Paris, dated Aug. 11. " An arrangement has been concluded with St. Domingo, which will pay an indemnity of one hundred and fifty millions to the ancient French proprietors. " The French flag, and the merchandise which shall be im ported under that flag, shall pay only half the duties on receipt of this dispatch. The French vessels which shall sail for St. Domingo must be sent under the white flag." (From L'Etoile, dated Friday, Aug. 12.) " PARIS, AUG. 11. " TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH, " Dated Brest, August 10, half-past five p• m., received at PariS, AugUst 11,.at 10 a.m. " The Commandant of the Marine at Brest to his Excellency the Minister of the Marine. " La Barnaise schooner has just arrived in this port, after a voyage of 32 days. 1 send to your Excellency by express the packets of M. de Mackau. He desires me to transmit to P er Excellency what follows The intentions of his gal eell have been entirely accomplished, and the ordinance of ~, King has been accepted at St. Domingo with respect and g ry titude. (A true copy) " CHOPPEARD, the Count de KERESHER T ' ''' " We shall give to-morrow the Ordinance of the King, m en ' tioned in the telegraphic dispatch. " N.B. This dispatch has been sent by the Minister of ri• nance to the Commissary of the Exchange, to he immediate/1 made public, and fixed up in the Hall of the Exchange . " Papas, AUG. 11, 5 T• 2l. " I hasten to send you, by express, the news of the ree ° g riP tion of the independence of St. Domingo. I cannot e xact ! : state the terms of the ordinance of the King, but it is cer tej that it contains in substance the concession to the people 01. Domingo of their liberty and their independence, and that tli conditions annexed to this concession by the French Govere' ment have been accepted. 1) 0 " The Funds, except the Three per Cents. have var ied little, but the Three per Cents. recover with difficulty. A t P re : sent, notwithstanding the telegraphic dispatch, they we re $ 71. 70., and now they are at 72. 60., the last price." " The Moniteur of this morning (Aug. 11) contains the f °l ' lowing article : "Yesterday there was a considerable fall in the 3 per Ce n 4 tl ; No event, no political apprehension can have caused it : We i not even see a financial cause. Those who, on the sth of di ce 44 month, converted their 5 per Cents. at 102. 50., cannot be ford now to sell their 3 per Cents. at 72. On the other hand , thou who have had converted at the last liquidation renter whi te they possess only by means of reports, can neither be fou nd sell them since the price of the reports is not such as to e a id the continuation of the operation onerous. Besides, it 1 not be till the epoch of the liquidation, which is yet remote, t''r the latter could be under the necessity of sustaining a 1°59 4 great as that to which they would seem voluntarily to cond e re, themselves now. The sellers without motive will, therefett, soon have disposed of (ecoule) the renter, which they P art / . 0 0 at so great a loss, and the stock will then resume the which the state of the finances, and the solidity of the cred it France, assign it." Ce ti ' FRENCH FUNDS.—.-PARIS, AUGUST 11.—Five per ctoc , 102. 25. ; 3 per Cents. 72. 60. ; closed 71. 65. ; Ban k ,' '-%s' 21. 80. ; Neapolitan Rentes, 88. 60. ; Spanish Ditto, 1/,' 6 5,/ change on London, one month, 25. ; three months, 24 ' (Cour: Authentique, published at three o'clock.) The following extract from the Austria n OP $ server, of August 1, which arrived this day, a short summary of the transactions of the Tu ri ‘ l Ol e Fleet since it left the Dardanelles, LIP `" 9.oth June last. This statement appears t o 5 , a fair and Unbiassed recital of these transac tW o , and in a great measure agrees with the 00' 151 1 r :, Constantinople, inserted in the Etoile of TI). day last. Thus far, then, it appears entit led respect and credit, and we have therefore lished it, but of course cannot warrant its ° the ticity. h b i4 The extract from the Etoile, ,oat also subjoined, gives a very opposite apt i:ill of the state of affairs in the Mores. It 0' be observed that b.ili accounts are °C pt same date, whence it would appear, th at on ? the other must be incorrect. It is scar celi l i f ft sible to reconcile the successes of Ho s ' l° c ol , with the disasters and capture of InnAnis before Napoli di Romania. (From the Austrian Observer of the Ist Atigi llf a) , VIENNA , •A s , n. ; 0 0 0 ' (Extract of a Letter from Canea, in the Isle of Candia, O ° V, 1 (4 " I left Smyrna on the 3d of this month, and :bete visited some islands in the Archipalago landed at SY rn e s trir I heard a vast variety of news in circulation of the salr e tion as those which are continually brought to niatict4.ol its e lonian Islands. The credulity and confidence of this r ti o; who are within an inch of destruction, exceeds all ire s g iPli . 80 they dream of nothing but victories. sere 1J " The Turkish and Egyptian fleets united at Serda " good as destroyed ; the fate of the Captain Pachaw3:,4l, " unknown since the affair of the Ist and 2d June; " was surrounded in the mountains re , an d i ne vitably °- 71 1/ ' ' " Goura was at Salona ; the Albanians defeated he° " solonghi, and compelled to retreat," &c. C st/ e " On the 14th at noon, I was about 20 sea mile s berP-e leo whence I went on the 15th to Serda, which is (5111 :ap tedl and a half distant from it. The harbour of Serda is the finest and most secure in the Archipelago. Tia 00 .4 tr e " On the 16th I waited upon the Capitan Pach a, sam Bey, the Commander of the Arnauts. Fro m the. siiioo nications of both, and those of several officers in th e , ir e " A k , received the following certain and accurate account of l' as ol that had occurred since the Capitan Pacha left the Par tj , e 01"; These accounts agree with the statements respecting jiffelle tions of the Turkish fleet, already published from is o of sources, subsequently to the first exaggerated O en° 0. 11 0 1 naval action off Capo d'Oro. Th e following is the.silhhille 0: 1 ,0 them :—The Captain Pacha left the Dardanelles on 0 May, with 67 sail, of which 21 were transports. 0 0 0 , division of Sachburg, o f 37 sa il, k e p t c lose to it , sn' t . part of the Turki s h fl eet b e i ng separate d from the re :, bo rti / favourable winds, was a tt ac k e d b y the Greeks, 1/I%.ftitel) large frigate, cont a i n i ng the treasure an d 5 °Or°, Another corvette, the best sailer 45 the fl eet 'd on Syria, and was burnt by the crew, P art d , Six tranl e a el' were massacred by the inhabitants. ' taken, and all the rest of the Turkish fle et f t i e3e ssO: t° on sth June, without obstacle, and found the re —t t l i . o o P ec eo t' t ° who had returned from the Morea with the EgYP' fetch a new division o f 5,000 Alb an i a ns, and l o y ff e 5';0 4 Navarin. The u ni te d G ree k squadrons apPeare' 1,0001;i0 the 11th and 12th. O n t h e 14 t h an d 15th the Greeisitir the Ottoman fl ee t, but were met by H u ssaul 13e3r pni l 119 of any conse quence too k place. But the Greeks tlJ i they should prevent the enemy from putting t °se ro a. bar° ll , "Meantime the Turks were very active in e ri . t hre e 1, horses and men. Hussain. Bey, who has be e : D O /J / 14 passed from Candia to the Mona without sou'le to 0' ibsuatn desirous internal o of i appearance nformatio o n f , a of co ro m u m o o l n: n r ei.rr e s l : l : o. o:t t o :b0;: c e l „ , tional abilities and of undaunted courage. nif oet 4 0" one of the smallest barks, which on the 14th e tt " - 00 1 " 0 " ships from the Greek fleet, and destroyed their' s 001, 1 Pacha, whatever, may be thought of his t alents a o cli 11 10 0 of a large fleet, is a sensible well informed t°5%11, tri p ,h by those under him, because he uses they' t Of r conversation with him he spoke with gnat °Pc'