The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-02 00:00:00

IgritisliLegislatnre has gone to a great extent at different time s , both in England and Ireland, in prohibiting what is lawful in itself, lest it should be used for unlawful purposes, but nev withoutits appearing to the satisfaction of the Legislature that was rendered necessary by the state of the country. It is on this ground of expediency and necessity, on account • the abuses (as stated) of the Press at Calcutta, from the state ; affairs there, and from the exigency of the case, that the Calmat regulation is maintained by its very preamble; by three of ti four reasons of the Court of Directors, upon the appeal ; and h . the whole of the argument of counsel upon the hearing of it. Thusr, the' Sreamble to the Calcutta regulation is-- Wh ereas matters tending to bring the Government of tl country, as .by law established, into hatred and contempt, and t, di s ti m b the peace, harmony, and good order of society, have ; ; late been frequently printed and circulated in newspapers, an,i other papers published in Calcutta; for the prevention whereof, it is deemed expedient to regulate by law, the printing and pub lication within the settlement of Fort William, in Bengal, of newspapers and of all magazines, registers, pamphlets, and other printed books and papers, in any language or character, pub lished periodically, containing or purporting to contain public news, and intelligence or strictures on the acts, measures, and proceedings of Government, or any political e ven t s or transac tions whatsoever." The reasons of the last India Company embrace the same facts -and the consequent expediency and necessity of the regulation. , The- Aril reason commences-- " Because the said rule, ordinanet, and regulation, was made by eotnpetent autbotity, and tr'.s rendered necessary by the abuses lo which the unrestrain . -,a Calcutta. Thr liberty of printing had given rise in ll l '::atnble of the said rule, ordinance, and regula tion, statt'st t'..tat matters tending to bring the Government of Bloica4 as b • 7 - 1 w established, into hatred and contempt, and to tikti` peace, harmony, and good order of society, had re before the making thereof, been printed and circulated in newspapers and other papers published in Calcutta. Again, in the second reason— ." That the restrictions imposed by the rule, ordinance, and re iulation, which is the subject of appeal, were called for by the state of affairs in the settlement of Bengal, and were adapted to he exigency of the case." Again, in the fourth reason— " The reasonableness of ordinances must depend upon the cir cumstances and situation of the country to which they are ap plied." I need not go through the addresses of counsel to show that the whole of their arguments in favour of this regulation are founded upon the fact, as stated in the preamble, of their expe diency and ,necessity from the local circumstances and the exi gency of the state of affairs at Calcutta; and I respectfully pre sume that his Majesty in Council approved of the regulation for the same reasons, no others having been urged, and, in particu lar, upon the ground that the preamble of the regulation reciting such exigency was not traversable or questionable. . But what is the preamble to the regulation which is now pro posed to be registered in the Supreme Court at Bombay ? Is there any recital of matters " tending to bring the Government of this country, at by law established, into hatred and contempt, batting heed printed and circulated in newspapers and other papers putlishett . in Bombay ?" Nothing of the kind; the preamble ineieltrecites, that a certain regulation had been passed in Cal 'mkt for the prevention of the publication of such matters. Is St the fact that such matters have been published in the Bombay papers ?' Can a single passage, or a single word, tending to bring the Government of Bombay into hatred and contempt;'— can a single stricture, or comment, or word, respecting any of the 'measures of Government, be pointed out in a n y Bombay paper .? How, then, without such necessity as is stated in the preamble to Calcutta regulation, can it be expected that, even were the Supreme Court to consent to register it, and an appeal were pre ferred,- it would be confirmed by his Majesty in Council where would be the reasons of the Court of Directors in favour of it? —where would be the arguments of counsel in support of it ? Suppose an Act of Parliament passed to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, on account of treasonable practices in that Coutitty ;" in such case, evidence of such practices would he laid Wore . Committees of the two Houses of Parliament before the Act was passed; and the Act would also recite them, as the Calcutta regulation recites the evils which it was intended to remedy. But would the fact of such Act having been passed for Ireland justify a motion to extend it also to England, without any evidence of any such treasonable practices, nay, when it was well known that there were-no such, or any circumstances to call for it, and with a mere recital of the Habeas Corpus Act having been suspended in frelto; as the present proposed regulation merely recites, that the eat;ne refutation had been passed at Calcutta? J- - 46-1 of opinion that this proposed regulation should not be re gistered. Judgment of Mr. Justice RICE. t have read the case of the press of India before the King in Council - but still I think the clause as to th e c h ange i n th e pro posed rale, is repugnant to the law of England,—and that policy did not, and does not require it. It is argued, I think, too much as if the Natives had been at all affected by the licentious. hest of the press ; the mischief in Calcutta was wholly, I think, confined to the English, and would, I am persuaded, have re medied itself. Considering, as I do, that the liberties of England are part of the law of the land, and that they depend on the freedom of the Press, Lcannot conceive how a license, which is to stop its mouth and stifle its voice, can be consistent with, and not repugnant to, the laW of England. `though I entertain this opinion, I shall not object to the re gistry, because, as regards the repugnancy, I defer to the apellate authority, as I should on any point of law which they had decided contrary to my judgment ; and with regard to the policy and the expediency, I do not think the Legislature intended to leave them so much to the consideration of the Court as to the Government ; which ought to be the better judge of such subjects, and which must now be presumed to have formed a proper judgment. It is not desirable that the judicial should ever be mixed with the executive, or combined with the legislative ; and Parliament having legislated so much for British India, it is a pity, I think, that a question of such vital importance, with analogy to Eng land, should not have emanated in, and had the sanction of, Par liament. I feel further justified in acquiescing in the registry, (now that t have stated publicly my opinion,) because the decision of the Council must be known to Parliament, and if Parliament should object, it was easy to propose a bill to limit and more accurately desae the local authority ; and when one considers of whom the AVy'Council consists, and who were the advocates of Mr. Buck ingliam,—men all eminent in Parliament as well as the profession —one cannot avoid f ee li ng , th a t u lt er i or measures wou ld h ave been adopted in England, if the opinion which I unhappily entertain, as to the repugnancy and the necessity of this rule, had been cur rent and general._ Judgment of Mr. Justice CHA M BERS In order to explain clearly th e groun d s of my • opinion r o n the p r esent occasion, I think it nec essary t o advert in a cu to the circumstances under which this regulatio n is prese nted atyc, us. In consequence of the recent decision of the Privy Council against Mr. Buckingham's appeal, it has, I believe, been recom mended by the Court of Directors to the local Governments of Bombay and Madras, to propose that the Bengal regulation re garding the Press, should, totidem verbis, be registered, and be come a part of the local law of each of these presidencies; and the Government of Bombay so far acquiesce in the views of the Court of Directors, as to propose it for our registration, according to their recommendation. It appears to have been thought, that the decision in that particular case is tantamount to a legislative declaration, that the same, or similar regulations, are so consonant with the general policy of the Indian Government, that they need but to be proposed in order to be adopted. If, indeed, that de cision bore in any way directly upon the general question of the expediency of such regulations, there is no man in the situation of a . •Tildife; who would not feel great deference for such authority. Bat, artless it could be shown, that such a decision bound us• with the , forefore o f an Act of Parliament, even then, I conceive, a Judge wow: on the present occasion, feel it to be his duty to consider € l4l novo the general principles, and exercise most con scientioaily the discret' ion the Legislature had vested in him. But When groan& may =may be that decision , the rind* npntrwhich y suggested for are called upon, prospectively, to e mauler theexpectncyorwt 1713411 e what ne siv and . e present regulation, I am at a loss to Council, connection there is between the decision of the Privy of the r and the proposal of it for our adoptidn. The decision all the grounds upon Which it wa:7 Council, stripped as it is of presents to my mind merely a confirmation, retrospectiveluynned' presne Government in Bengal, in 'of a solemn act of the Sc... conjunction • with the Supreme COurt, upon a subject -matter exprs s ! • yvvi3in their authority, under circumstances which, if. true, might justify that Act, and of the truth of which circumstances, the competent judges. What bearing :sar what alone were material in fluence can such a decision have on our minds, wh o are are called upon at another place, under totally different circumstances, prospectively, the expediency of introducing th e same to consid er , regulation, sot as a remedy for any existing or imminent evil, but as a general and permanent act of legislation? The preamble, it may be said, •eras not prayed, nor required to be proved, to be true before the • Council; b u t that I conceive could no more be done, than the Court of Kinei Bench could require the proof of any fipecial find- - ing of a Jury on a special case brought before them ; and it does not, therefore, follow, that the preamble is mere waste paper, and unnecessary to form a ground-work for such a restrictive regu lations. All such regulations being confessedly restrictive of natural liberty, to a much greater extent than it has ever been thought necessary to carry matters in our own country, (I mean in the best time, or in the way of permanent enactment,) whatever dis tinctions may be made by the terms contra legem and preter legem, to common understandings they are as much opposed to the ordi nary notions of English law, as light is to darkness; and neces sity alone, and that of a very obvious and permanent kind, can justify, in my judgment, their registration. In all such cases of imperfect definition of legal rights, it is impossible not to see that the situation of the different places may require different legislative enactments, and what may be necessary at one place, may be perfectly superfluous at another. In the same way, even in the same place, it may he premature to introduce strong mea sures at one time, which, at a riper period of society, may he deemed highly beneficial. There is no subject, indeed, the con shleration,of which is acknowledged to require a sounder discretion with reference to local circumstances, or in which local circum stances have so direct an operation, in determining the legality or illegality of particular measures. In every separate jurisdiction, therefore, it must be purely of discretion, how far and when it is expedient to introduce restrictive regulations of this nature. Without, therefore, considering very minutely the particular tendency of the regulation proposed, although I have no hesitation iu saying, that if registered, its general tendency w ou ld , i n my opi nion, be most pr e j u di c i a l to the independenc e and good spirit of the community ; with respect to the necessity of introducing any such regulation at all at the present moment, I conce i ve t h ere can not. be two opinions. In a time of perfect tranquillity—with a small community of Europeans, and a Native population submis sive even to servility—the only effect would be imposing new shackles to restrain no evil, and, by leading to by-paths of favour and influence, to create perhaps a greater practical evil than any it can ever obviate. Indeed, nothing can exhibit in a stronger light the difference of circumstances in which this presidency is placed, than the total omission of the preamble of the Bengal re gulation in that now presented to the Court for registration : a preamble, the conviction of the truth of which would alone induce me to countenance any suds measure. Nothing more is neces sary to show how perfectly inapplicable the state of things here is to such restrictive measures than the perusal of that preamble; not one word of which has, or is likely to have, I trust, for a long period of time, any force as applied to this presidency. The • disposition and character of the people is not the greatest differ ence of circumstances to be attended to ; the weighty and import ant difference between the situation of the two places consists in the enactment at this presidency of an intermediate set of regu lations, in conformity with the well-known Act of the 37th Geo. 111., which were registered in the course of the last year, by which, in my humble judgment, every rational object of Go vernment is attained, consistently with perfect liberty, both social and particular. When it shall he shown by experience, that this Court, administering a law which has been found com pletely effectual in England to restrain licentiousness, and during a period of thirty years, has operated on society with the most beneficial effect, and has found no revilers even amongst those whom it has brought to justice, shall he found not sufficient to ensure peace and order in society, and stability to the Govern ment, it will be then time enough to listen to the suggestions which I consider so objectionable in principle as this regulation. It seems to have been argued that the only question for the Judges to consider is, whether the regulations proposed are, or are not, repugnant to the existing mode of governing British India? It is true, that in this mode of arguing, scarcely any regulations would be inconsistent with law, which fell short of unlimited and arbitrary power. But upon the principle which I have before stated, nomely, that legality or illegality, as applied to such a sub ject, depends entirely upon the apparent necessity of the case, I conceive that the full legislative discretion which the Parliament of Great Britain exercise in all cases affecting the liberty of the subject, is intended to be delegated to the Judges of this Court, in conjunction with the Government, in registering and making local regulations, restrictive of the usual and ordinary rights of indivi duals. In the exercise of such a discretion, lam of opinion, that ten thousand deviations from the law of England, in particular cases, would form no argument for adding one snore to the cata logue, nor would the circumstance of so many previous anomalies snake one fresh one consistent with it. Another argument which has been used had some influence with me. The effect of the actual state of things has been forcibly re presented with regard to British subjects residing in India with or without license; the principles of Government of the British and Native population without the limits of the seat of Government are also stated ; and then it is asked, whether the small portion of the Native population residing in Calcutta, or the other Presiden cies, were intended to be governed in a different manner? To which I answer, that by the establishment of the Supreme Courts at the Presidencies, I conceive that it was the intention of the Legislature that both British and Native inhabitants, within the ordinary limits of the Presidencies of the jurisdiction of these Courts, should enjoy the full benefit of English law, and consequently should he governed in a different manner from those in the pro vinces. It may he said, that the power of sending British sub jects home extends to those residing in the presidencies as well as to others ; hut it must be remarked, that this power, as it has been exercised over the press, has probably never been in the con templation of the Legislature at all. It is a consequence of the discretionary power vested in the Government for general pur poses, and the particular acts of the Government regarding the press have been confirmed by the courts of law; because it would he difficult for any mind to form a distinction between this and other cases in which individuals became obnoxious to the Go vernment. But whether this or any other Government, under existing circumstances, would deem it expedient to frame any re gulation relating to British subjects, restrictive of the press, (nakedly considered,) is another question, and which is deserving very serious comideration. Both in Bengal and elsewhere, it has been thrown out, that nothing short of the present proposed rept lation would he effectual to restrain even British subjects from writing inflammatory publications. Because, if the editor and the proprietors were all Asiatics, and could be indemnified from the consequences of prosecution, British subjects might, under their names, write and publish things offensive to the ruling powe!.. Whenever the period shall come when such a state of things is possible, and when all legal modes of repressing the evil shall have been tried, and tried in vain, it will be time enough to attach some weight to any argument which may be derived from such a source. Till that time arrives, I am of opinion that the proposed regula tion is not expedient, and I decline giving my voice in favour of its being registered. Judgment of the Court—Regulation disallowed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-JAN. 29 The betting yesterday placed Olivera as decided first favourite, 6to 5 being laid, in hundreds, several times over. We do not think, however, that the list will continue long in its present state. The Derby betting was not very brisk ; but we should notice, that Defence promises to rise in the odds. Nothing of any consequence was done on the Oaks, but Maria got up half a point. The late Duke of York's racers will be sold here on Monday next, in 33 lots. DERBY. 8 to 1 apt Glenartney. Si to 1 agst Tatler* 14 to 1 agst Espagnolle 18 to 1 agst Defence 23 to 1 agst Mameluke 24 to 1 apt Catherine 30 to 1 art Augusta 33 to 1 agst Turcoman* 33 to 1 agst Dahlia* 30 to 1 agst Cressida* 40 to 1 agst Gamelius 20 to 1 nist Spondee . . 20 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie 22 to 1 agst Trumpeter 23 to 1 agst Gustavus° 5 to I agst Maria 11 to 1 agst Totteridge 13 to 1 apt Brown Duchess 15 to 1 apt Translation 15 to 1 agst Souvenir 20 to I agst Calypso 20 to I agst Lunacy 33 to I agst Scornful* 50 to 1 agst Seamew ST. 14 to 1 agst Olivera 15 to 1 agst Reviewer 18 to 1 agst Sancho 18 to 1 agst Popsy 22 to 1 agst Matilda 6 to 5 on Oliver; Those marked tin .EGER. 23 to 1 agst Moonshine 25 to 1 agst Niralis 30 to 1 agst Jupiter 40 to 1 agst Beggar Boy. L agBt Reviewer*. is (.) were taken. A PAINTED SUPPER.-The author of 44 High Life below Stairs" was Mr. James Townley, a clergyman. I knew his son, a celebrated miniature painter, and an acquaintance of my brother's. When this piece was played in Dublin, Knipe, remarkable for saying smart things, and who also liked " the joys of the table," feasted by anticipation on the good roast fowl, and bottle of wine, at the supper in the last scene; but the property man who provided it was of the saving cast ; Knipe stuck his fink into the fowl to dissect it with carving skill—it was a piece of painted timber ? He filled his glass, as he thought, with wine, it was mere coloured element ! " Hah !" said he, " instead of our bottle and our bird, here is a fine subject for a landscape painter, wood end water."... 0' Keeffi:s Life. HAYTI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, 38, CORNHILL, LONDON, FEB. 1, 18=27. I rely on your justice and candour to give early publicity to the following statement, for which I make myself responsible. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, RICHARD HENDERSON, Merchant, of Port-au-Prince in the Island of Hayti There has recently appeared in the London, and in many of the Provincial Newspapers, an article pretending to be a proclamation, issued by the Government of Hayti, in the month of April, 1826, on the subject of agricultural labour ; and which has been ex tensively' circulated, it would seem, by the Agent of the Island of Jamaica, at the desire of his constituents, in order to prove that the system of labour established in Hayti is a system, not of free and voluntarily exertion, but of severe and rigid exaction. This pretended proclamation I have no hesitation in denouncing, as a deliberate forgery, got up for a malignant purpose : that of degrading in public estimation a whole people. That such a fabrication should have emanated from Jamaica, is not surprising; but I am astonished that a man so respectable and intelligent as the Agent of Jamaica should have become the dupe, for a single moment, of so gross an imposture, or should have given it the sanction of his high authority. The mere cursory pe rusal might have satisfied him of its fraudulent character, and might at least have excited a suspicion that it was got up, just im pression the meeting of Parliament, i n th e h o p e o f p r oducing an unfavourable to the cause of Negro freedom. I myself quitted Hayti only in the month of October last, after having been a constant resident (except for about two or three months), for the five previous years, at Port-au-Prince, the seat of the Government. I resided there at the time assigned to this Proclamation ; and, being no inattentive observer of public events, I take upon me to assert that no such Proclamation was ever issued there. Indeed, as I have already affirmed, the forgery is manifest on the face of the pretended document. It is not -only without the usual adjuncts of such instruments in Hayti, but it contains internal and most decisive evidence of its falsehood. A more clumsy attempt at imposture can hardly he imagined. The author of it I have no doubt had before him some Proclamation which may have appeared in St: Domingo about the close of the revolutionary agitations in 1798, and which he has taken for his model, without knowing how to adapt it to the present period.— The whole style and structure of it is of that date, and not of 1826. " Drivers and field negroes" may have been terms in use in that island in 1798. They are certainly not in use now. I never heard, during my residence there, any such terms applied to any Haytians, and I challenge any one to show that they have been used in any authentic public document for many years. Even in the pretended extracts from the Code Rural, such terms as " Driver and field negro" are not to be found : they do not once occur in it. Since the year 1803, the year when the independence of this island was declared, the name given to it in all public acts has been Hayti, and not St. Domingo. In this spurious instrument the island is called St. Domingo, and not Hayti. Those who circulate it, as genuine, are bound to show a single proclamation, issued since 1803, which gives to this island the name of Saint Domingo. Again, it is well known that Sunday was abolished, at one time, in France (her Colonies following the example) and Decades of ten days were substituted for weeks of seven. Accordingly, in this false and fabricated dacument, we find the stupid and ignorant framer of it retaining the obsolete term Decades (see Article X.) which I have no doubt he found in his model of 1798. Even in the spurious Code . Rural, which is annexed to the proclamation, we find Sunday again restored to its honours, the use of the term Decade having ceased with the French Directory in 1800. These proofs of forgery are, I apprehend, quite conclusive; but they are not all which I have to offer. The fabricated code Rural pretends to-have passed the Cham ber of Commons of Hayti on the 21st of April, 1826, and the Senate on the 4th of May, 1826 ; and to hare baen signed, at Port au Prince, by the President on the 6th of May, 1826. I was then in Port-au-Prince, where I can positively aver, that no such law was either passed or promulgated. As a further confirmation of this faco have now before me (and they may be seen by the Agent of Jamaica, or any other respectable gentleman) the Gazettes of the Haytian Government, (a publication which issues weekly) of the 16th, 23d, and 30th, of April, and 7th of May, with those which follow to the Ist of October. In these Gazettes are to be found various proclamations of the Government, indeed all its public acts ; but I need not say that they contain no such proclamation as that transmitted from Jamaica, from which, indeed, they differ SA completely, in their whole style and spirit, as to disprove at once the genuineness of this pretended Act. I have likewise before me copies, at full length, of the legisla tive acts, passed by the constituted authorities of Hayti, from the beginning of 1826, to the time of my quitting the Island, in cluding, among other things, an entire civil code. It is impossible to peruse these authentic documents without meeting, in every page, conclusive evidence of the utter falsehood of the alleged proclamation, and of the very remarkable advance which Hayti has made in wealth, intelligence, civilization, secu rity, and genuine freedom. I should have made this exposure some days ago, could I have had earlier access to the various documents to which I have ad verted. [ORIGINAL.] TWM JOHN CATTI'S CAVE : A TUUNDER-STORM. N.B.—This is the name of a and romantic pass in South Wales, where Twm John Catti (a complete Rob Roy in his way) lived for some years, to the infinite terror of the neighbourhood. Sundry veracious legends assert that he still haunts his old place of residence, and cer tainly, if ever spot afforded comfortable and characteristic quarters for a therm), this savage, dark, and secluded glen is the place. Tis eve, when thought is spun in magic loom ; Stranger, approach with awe ; this glowing hour Sunned by romance bids drooping fancy bloom, And memories faded spring again to flower : Here dwelt a forest outlaw in his power Of wood and rock and mountain pathway rude ; Here from the brow of yon deserted tower, ' In pride of soul the savage scene he viewed ; Here lived and died, the prince of Alpine solitude. His spirit walks each valley and each glen, e n Si ei g ir h si s te Ll h i i b r a o' e t the wood rolled. A,t- ll msdi theyacnedl shudder 'm iminglesd atw wondering b it i h et t a h lee: galem e H Still, when the westering sun looks cold and p ale, His name—his fate—rise like an awful tow'r i n On memory's waste, still in yon dim-seen vale His bugle echoes, and each haunted flow'r Starts into fairy form ; 'tis eve's enchanted hour, That hour when thought—but, hark ! upon the wind Rides the tremendous demon of the storm, Whirlwinds in murky grandeur crowd behind, And heaven peals out the trumpet of alarm : From yon prophetic cloud, with lightening warm The wind-god hoarsely laughs, at that wild cry Pale shrinking twilight hides her vestal form, He comes ! he comes in thunder riding by— Hear ye his chariot wheels sweep echoing thro' the sky ? 'Tis well, the hour accords with the rude scene, The thunder's voice should be sole music here-- No West wind's female song should intervene To hush the soul appalled by withering fear, But cloud and storm for aye should hover near, And daemons in sepulchral garb bedight Should quit for tkis their sombre hemisphere, While o'er each rock on wing of gloom and blight The phantom robber broods—an animated night. A SMALL POET. MEETING OF THE CORONERS OF ENGLAND AND WALEs.—A General Meeting of the Coroners of England and Wales, was held yesterday at the Exchequer Coffee house, Palace yard, for the purpose of preparing a Petition to Parliament, to amend some of the provisions of the old Statute respecting the mode of electing Coroners, the duties imposed upon, and the amount of fees, or salaries paid to these officers. Reporters were excluded, but we were informed, that a petition to Parliament, praying the payment of larger fees on Inquests was adopted, with out, of course, any discussion. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The Annual Meeting of the Governors, &c. of this Charity, was held yesterday, at the house of the Institution, in Stamford -street, to transact the usual business of the Society. The Report of tl e Sub-Committee for the past year was then read and approved of. The information which it contained was most satisfactory. It ar pears, that during the last five years, since the enlargement of the schools, the average number of children educated and clothed, wale 360, and that there are at present in the schools upwards of 100 children of both Flexes. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (From the Etoile, dated Wednesday, Jan. 31.) ," LIES OF THE DAY. " PARIS, JAN. 30.—The Cannier Francais.—A change in the Ministry was necessary; the seals are intended for M. Portalis; the war department for General d'Ambru gear ; that of ecclesiastical affitirs for the Bishop of Bor deaux; that of the interior for M. de Martignac; M. de Villele reserving to himself the office of President of the Council. " The Quotidienne.—The Marquis de Chaves brings forward as the first condition of any arrangement, that the Queen-Mother shall be declared Regent. " The Constitutionnel announces, we know not on what authority, that the Count d'Offalia is to take the place of M. de Calomarde in the Spanish Ministry. The latest accounts from Madrid are of the 22d, at which time this change had not taken place. (From the Pidote.) " PARIS, JAN. 29.—Letters from Corfu speak of the arrival of a Tartar sent from Constantinople to Ibrahim Pacha, with formal orders to furnish a detachment from the officers of his army to be placed in new troops or-. ganized at Constantinople. These letters add, that this order leaves Ibrahim only the alternative of disobeying either the Sultan or his father, he having previously re ceived orders from the latter to bring buck all this army to Egypt, in ease the Porte should consent to make en ar rangement with the Greeks. " A journal communicates that M. de Villa Campa, a Spanish Royalist, and Captain in the army of his So vereign, has been obliged, by superior order, to quit Paris. (From the Journal des Debuts of Tuesday.) MADRID, JAN. 18.—Some symptoms of' effervescence have begun to appear here since the departure of the Swiss, by pasquinades, which the police are obliged to remove every morning from the corners of the streets. However, if we are to believe public rumour, the Swiss will soon be followed by the garrisons of Cadiz and Barcelona. I do not know what confidence ought to attach to these reports, but I can guarantee to you the general inspection of the militia. Orders have been despatched to the regiments of Bujalenee, of Cordon, and of d'Ecipa, to march to Xeres de la Frontera, which is only seven leagues from Cadiz. Is this to leave the French garrison ? Is it to watch it P This is what I cannot explain to you, but the fact which I relate is true. Upon the other side, a levy of 30,000 men is definitively decreed ; and as to the equipment of the Royalist Volunteers, it is carried on here with surpris ing activity, money for this kind of outfit being extremely abundant. A letter from Salamanca, which I have now before me, states as follows :—Our late guests have already returned to the Spanish territory, after having been beaten by the troops of the Regency. This has caused, for some days, so great a change in people's minds, that much mis chief is apprehended if any depot of Portuguese refugees is to be established here. The Marquis of Chaves has re treated upon Puebla de Lanabria, in Galicia; and General Silveira being repeatedly beaten and wounded in the leg, was obliged to throw himself into the fortress of Almeida, so that before a few days the expedition of the infantists will have breathed its last. (From the Quolidienne.) PARIS, JAN. 30.—The Etoilc of this evening expresses tself to this effect in a postscript:— " We stop the press to announce the receipt of a letter from Madrid, which informs us that Chaves and Braganza are occupied by the troops of the Regency." We must remark that according to the news which we have just read, and which is merely a repetition of what the Monitcur of January 24 contains, the Count Villa Flor, after the engagement of the 9th, promised to give the details of the action the next day. However, the news of the 14th makes no mention of the details promised by the General, though it gave an account of the operations which took place three days after the first affair. Thus news had reached Lisbon that Villa Flor was at Pinhel on the 12th, but there were no details of the victory said to be obtained on the 9th. It must be admitted that this omission is suspicious. (From the Constitutionnel.) PARIS, JAN. Calomarde, the titular Minister of Grace and Justice, and in reality the secret agent of the Apostolic party, has been dismissed by the King of Spain, conformably to the request of France and England. M. Heredia, Count D'Offalia, is named Minister in his place. This change shows that Ferdinand has disengaged himself, for some time, from the domination of the Apos tolic party ; but M. Heredia, by his talents and personal importance, is not sufficiently influential to be able to make up a party, or have one adopted. " MADRID, JAN. 18.—This capital is pretty tranquil since the departure of the Swiss, though every morning some pasquinade is removed from the corners of the streets. The following was pulled down last night : " '—El Rei dormiando—La Rcina velando—Los Rea lista; matando—La Constituciou andaizdo.' [The King is sleeping—the Queen is waking--the Royalists are mas sacreing—the Constitution is getting on.] " At Betanzas, a town of Galicia, two gibbets were found set up in the public square on the m orning of the 31st. The one was inscribed—' By the Apostolicals;' the other ' for the Apostolicals.' " On the 15th and 16th very serious troubles broke out between the two parties, at Alcala de Henares, a town about five leagues from this city. On the latter day the consequencesth the unexpected might 7 h ) el a v od e fi sbtaueredbneetdsaec;rhi for, as detachment of troops it w n r o o t te b e too e f n yt for obue lines by which order was temporarily re-established. It iwnilmhylrTalsvte,vtehre' consequence of the departure of the Swiss will be the arrival of the Liberals, who were quiet while the Swiss were in Madrid, but who are far from being nu merically so weak as some persons affect to believe. " The Constitutional band, formed in the mountains of Ronda, has sent some detachments into the interior. One of the cavalry entered Estremera, in the province of La Mancha, whence after obtaining provisions and forage, he proceeded to Madrid. This is said to be stated in the re port of the Alcalde of Estremera. Weare assured that our Ambassador at Paris is about to be changed. MADRID, JAM. 18.—( Private Correspondence.)--The Marquess de Chaves, beaten and pursued into Tras-os- Montes, has been forced to leave that province, and retire by Chaves on our frontiers of Galicia. On retiring into Spain, he wrote to the Commander of Monterey (a place near the frontier of Galicia), to know whether he and his soldiers would be received on Spanish territory. On re ceiving an answer in the affirmative, he proceeded into Spain. On the night of the 16th, an Extraordinary Cou rier arrived, bringing despatches from M. Navaro Eguia, for the Government. His Excellency there announces, that since the defeat of the Marquess do Chaves, the number of Royalist Portuguese who fled into Galicia was considerable; and he requires exact instructions from the Government as to the conduct he is to pursue towards the anti-constitutional Portuguese; he observes, that the circumstances increase in difficulty, and that there are Por tuguese of all ranks among the fugitives. Silveira has been no more fortunate than Chaves ; he has been beaten twice consecutively by the Constitutionals, and severely wounded in one leg ; this misfortune has obliged him to retire towards our frontier, on the side of Ciudad Rodrigo ; he is only two leagues distant from it on the side of Almeida ; this last place is still occu pied by the Anti-constitutionalists. Lamego, Guarda, on the south of the mountains of Estrella, and Viseu, have been abandoned by the rebels. Pinhel was where Sil veira was put to flight. These events have encouraged our Liberals, for they do not conceal that the triumph of the Constitution in Portugal will have considerable influ ence in our country on the system which govern us.— The sth regiment of Light Infantry, the Lancers of the Guard, and the Flying Artillery, who were on the point of proceeding to Estremadura,• have just received counter orders. • There only -remain here about 40 Swiss in the hospital, who are absolutely incapable of proceeding on their journey. It appears that the Count d'Offalia goes no more to London. It is pretended that the King has MA Due. 1 Arrived. 0 America 0 Brazil 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 Donaghadee 0 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 1 trance 0 Gottenburgli Arrived. Due. 1 Guernsey& Jersey 0• O I lam burgh O Holland O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Malta 0 1 Waterford 0 lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 36 minutes after O. I Evening ..,.... 0 minutea after 7. y Zoe e, vinit LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1827. We .have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday, and he Etoile dated 'Wednesday morning. The suspicions which we expressed yesterday, of the good faith of FERDINAND, in acting upon the principles laid down in the article which we published from the Madrid Gazette, seem already to be justi fied. The accounts in the Paris Papers from Madrid, which come down to the 22d ult. do not contain any intelligence demonstrative of a change of policy in the Cabinet of FERDINAND, but, on the other hand, every thing indicates the hastening of the movement of different corps towards the frontiers of Portugal. The letters also mention the return of the Portuguese rebels to the territory of Spain, but say nothing of the Government having given any directions for their being immediately driven back into Portugal, or dis armed and sent into the interior of the country. Th e Quotidienne affects to question the defeat of the Royalists, and asserts that negociations have com menced with the Marquis de CHAVES, the first con dition of which is that the Queen Dowager be de clared REGENT. This is, of course, contradicted by the Eloilc, which likewise classes under " Lies of the Day," an assertion, that M. CALOMARDE has been dismissed, and is to be succeeded in the Spanish Mi nistry by Count D'OFFALIA. According to the Journal des Debats some symp toms of effervescence have appeared since the depar ture of the Swiss Guards from Madrid ; but they have not extended beyond the sticking up of a few pasquinades, which the police every morning remove. The Courier Francais contains assertions of par tial changes in the French Ministry, but these state ments are also contradicted in the Etoile. These Papers contain also intelligence from Con stantinople to the 27th December; HADI and Inn-a im! EFFENDI, the two Commissioners at the Con ferences at Akerraann, had returned to the capital, and had been received with kindness and distinction by the PORTE, who invested them with Pelisses of of Honour. The SULTAN continued his re-or ganization of the Army with vigour and success. Remits daily arrived. from the provinces. The census of the male population had been completed ; and it appeared to be intended that no person should be tolerated in the capital who could not give a satisfactory account of his means of subsistence. If this latter regulation were acted upon in London, we suspect, it would make a very considerable reduction of its population ! The French Funds maintained their price on Tues day, having closed the 5 per Cents. at 1.60 f. 35c. and the 3 per Cents. at 68f. 55c. Extracts from the Papers will be found in another column. We received last night New York Papers of the 10th ult., being one day later than those before received, together with some intermediate papers, but we find in them little worth extracting. A letter had been sent by Mr. CALHOUN, the Vice President of the United States, to the House of Representatives, claiming an investigation of his official conduct in the War-department, in c onsequence of a charge officially nominated him as one of the Council of Ministers. Two days ago this Council held a Meeting, at which the two Infant Brothers of the King assisted, who, for that pur pose, have proceeded from Madrid to the Royal residence of the Prado. The Infant Princess of Beira, as well as her son, the Infant Don Sebastian, have not been able• as yet to proceed to the Prado. The Infant has got the measles. Letters from Seville inform us, that according to the orders of the Government, a park of artillery, of 2.5 pieces, for the army, was preparing ; the Government has also sent all money necessary for the carriages, &c. The last letters from Galicia speak of a placard being affixed to the most public places of the city of Betanzas, in which two gibbets were represented; below one of which was written, " For the Priests and the Monks r and the other, " For the Royalists." It appears that some disturbances have taken place at Alcala ; we are informed that all the houses of the negroes have been examined to find arms, and that ell meetings of three persons were forbidden after eight o'clock at night. Faxxcii FuNns.—Paats, JAN. 30.—Five per Cents., 100 f. 35c. ; Three per Cents. 60f. 55c. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f.; Neapolitan 751. 40c. ; Spanish Loan, (1823), 521 f. PRICES OF STOCKS Till Rank Stock 9'03 I 3 per Cent. Rod SON 3 per Cen'. Cons. SO !.‘ 80 3Y _per Cent. Ditto'Rest 87% 4 per Cent. New 115% Ditto, 1896 13fistk Long Ann. India Stock Ditto Ponds 18:50 pm. DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCI4. Sotitta Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 2cl. 28 30 29 Nil. Ditto 5OO 2d. 28 30 29 ply , - Ditto Small Ditto Commercial put•. Bank for Account India ft:r Account Cons. for Acet. 80 79:c BNi. 50, PRICES OF FOREIGN FL Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonc's — Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chi Han Bonds, 6 per et. 36 Colombian Bond. 32 I)itto, 1824 ..„"..34% 5 43i 5N% 6 Danish, 3 per'ient.... -. Greek Bonds Ditto, :84 I 6 IA IA Guatemala .......... Mexican Bonds, ******************** Di. 1325 ... .°5 •6 ° Ws% 6 s',i NDS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Neapolitan. 18'11 Peruvian Bonds — Portugues !Bonds nrussian, 3 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. B 7N '`4 Spanish, 1821 1823 French Rentas, b p. C. Innt Exchange... et. —3 per ...... —t: —Exchange —4. —c. PRICES OF SNARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Potosi La Par and Peruvian Assoc. Tlaiptixahua Mining Company ISO 21.5 220 United Mexican Mining Company SO VI; Protector Fire Insurance Company 2 £1 3 6 PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stud: 2323 Console, 3 per cent 79 Goy. Stock, 3 1 ,4 per cent. Ditto, New SS 4 91 'X ; 4 per Cent. Goy. Deb. 34 per cent Royal Canal Stook Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. - Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. -- STOCKS, JAN. 30. St. Patrick Insur. (per share) Royal IriAh Ditto lO National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Rank — Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine — Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Irel an d -I; Commercial Buildings — ILS.