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Til E LONDON JOUILNA LS. DAILY _Extrachfrom the Morning Papers7Jan.29, 1525. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Our Foods left off rather better yesterday than the day before ; and this slight re-action, considering the cause, shews the extreme distrust that prevails in tile market. The news of the appointment of a Prussian Consul to Buenos Ayres, so interesting at this particular juncture, served only to make the balance vibrate, without fixing it towards an improvement of prices; though there was an arrival at the same time from Paris, with the intelligence of a rise in that market on Thursday last. Both these accounts plainly favour the opinion, that the peace of Eu rope is not likely to be disturbed in consequence of the political relations between this country and tome of the New States of America. Prussia at least has announced in this appointment her own - views on the subject ; and Austria has preceded }ter in this course, as may be seen from the inti• macy and cordiality . of her relations with the Brazils. Of these two Powers it may be affirmed Isith confidence, that they will not vindicate the obsolete rights of others, to the detriment of their own interests, and at the risk of a war with Eng land. A stern necessity alone would induce the Prussian Government to encounter the perils of - warfare, after what it has already suffered from hostilities, and of which the wounds are not yet wholly closed. But, to think that. it would pro -yoke the same evils again, merely to gratify the bloated pride of the Spanish Court, is really too ridiculous a notion to stand in need of refutation. 'With respect to the Court of Vienna, it would not, we firmly believe, break with this country, were the latter to propose, as the condition of their further friendship, the formal secession of the former from the Holy Alliance. We also see, to judge from the state of the Rentes, the pacific light in which the French view the impression made on their own Government by the conduct of ours ; and yet our own funds remain heavy, in spite of the tranquillizing signs we have just mentioned. It is therefore pretty clear that the dull state of the market has not arisen altogether in the prospect of our foreign relations ; for it would be difficult to discover a speck, much less a dark cloud, to,threaten their harmony at this moment. Lastly,as to Russia,upon whose s-entiments respect ing the quarrel between Spain and her former Co lonies so much stress is usually laid, we eats only say, that if they were as Quixotic as they are re presented, she must, in this instance, do violence to her feelings ; for, powerful as she is, she would only provoke ridicule, by entering the lists singly against this country. It is not our foreign rela tions that have occasioned the alarm that prevails at present, we know of only one cause in which it can have originated ; and, as this is probably the real one, we should wish to press it on the consideration of his Majesty's Government, before they decide finaliy. The reported augmentation of the army is so contrary to the hopes which the country Lad been led to entertain on the subject of the public expenditure, and it seems to betray so unwarrantable a - distrust in the loyalty of the country, that we are not surprised at the disgust which it has so generally excited. It shews too such a lurking predilection for strong measures, that the sensation which . it has excited is per fee-tly natural ; and, with the wanton expence and unconstitutional tendency of this proposal staring every one in the face, it would be difficult to induce the public to believe that there was any sincerity in the professions of liberality which they have lately heard. We are inclined to think that the proposal has not the approbation of Mi nisters, at least of that part of them whose prin ciples have given so much public satisfaction ; and if our surmise be correct, this would be a new reason for not pressing forward this most unpo pular measure. [THE TIMES.) We have received assurances respecting the India Company, that they have long been mi micking their betters ; and, like the Government, been retaining in their own hand, or more pro bably in those of their clerks and understrappers, the prize-money due to numbers of brave men who have devoted their lives to secure, enrich, and extend the dominions of that same Company. We hope it is not true. It was on a late occasion our painful task to echo the reproaches addressed to us on behalf of thousands and tens of thou sands of suffering fellow-subjects, against cer tain offices in this country, which are in the notorious habit of interposing every obstacle that selfishness and chicanery can contrive, between the distribution of prize-money and its acknow ledged owners. The evil has become intolerable, and must be cured ; if not for the disgrace at tached by it upon the nation, at least for its de structive effects upon the hearts of our ill-used seamen and soldiers, who feel themselves thus basely wronged of their lawful and hard-earned property, while the Govertment and nation, in whose service it was dearly won, have been en joying, without any delay- or qualification, the full benefit of their wounds and their victories. The gross abuses of our Courts of Equity have been declared by Parliament a fit subject for public investigation. A Committee to investi gate has been appointed : we see on it, to be sure, some names among the members, which could have been selected for no human reason but to persuade the nation that there was nothing very serious in the grievance. Lord Eldon, for instance, is at the head of the commission.— Some Chancery lawyers, and officers of Chan cery, are likewise ordained to detect and re form the ver y practices in w hi c h they themselvss have grown old and affluent. Such a commis sion may not be a proof that P ar li ament means honestly to root out the corruptions of that one large class of the national tribunals to which the inquiry has been directed ; hut, beyond a doubt, it does demonstrate the broad and glaring magnitude of the fact, which those mo s t in terested in concealing were wholly unable to disguise, defend, or palliate. We wish to see a commission—but a more effective commission— .eatablished for an inquiry into our Prize Courts, atiidloe the protection of our poor British sailors from the wrongs of which it is their universal feeling that those Courts have been, if not the pri mary causes, at least the active and cruel instru ments. We would not. have Lord Stowell, able as he is, nor any practising Doctors of the civil law, nor adroit Proctors not yet retired from busi ness, to manage by themselves the proposed re formation of the Prize Courts ; they may one and all be clever and upright, and in their private captLities liberal men ; but the very idea of such persons appointed to such an office, would de prive the measure of every thing like public con fidence or satisfaction. So, in the same way, as many unfortunate persons have long been mur muring at the inhuman delays experienced by them i❑ the recovery of their prize claims from the India Company, the matter there, too, ought to be put in some course of redress. Ever since the year 1818, the Deccan prize -money, as we are• told, has been safely lodged in the coffers of the Honourable Company. 11Thy has it never yet been distributed ? Who has had the handling of it ? Who has been fat tening on it ? Of course not the Honourable Company, or its officers. The order for lodging the proceeds in the Treasury was dated by the Governor-General, April 8, 1818. The 4th and reserve divisions of the army were the parties en titled to it : their right has never been disputed ; the individuals are sufficiently identified ; they are many of them distressed ; the representatives of many who have sunk under disappointed hope are at this moment utterly destitute ; many are pining in prison. Have the Directors eyes and ears —have they hearts, that they permit, nay, them selves prolong, such misery ? Do they know that suicide has been the effect of disappointment springing from this terrible delay of justice ? Feel ing and humanity out of the question, do the Di rectors not know that the native army are affect ed with deep dissatisfaction from this very cause And at what a period did the Sepoys declare their anger ?—At the moment of embarkation for the campaign against the Burmans. We would ad vise the Honourable Company to look—if not with gratitude for services performed, at least with foresight for interests to be preserved—at this important subject, and do speedy justice to their friends, that they may he able to exact it from their enemies. Principal and interest on Money so long outstanding ought to be paid at once. [NEW TIMES.I The French Papers are full of remarks upon the Polley of England, the true explanation of which, however, they are unable to give, from that sort of mental obliquity w hich is common to them all. French Politicians, generally speak ing, despise a straight forward course ; and as they judge of others by themselves, they cannot be brought to believe, what is the simple truth, that England has followed for the last three-and thirty years one uniform system of Policy.— CircumStances have varied, and, therefore, a variation was necessary in our measures, in order to preserve a unity of principle.— While Buonaparte was threatening to annihilate the balance of power, it became wise in us to connect ourselves closely with the Continental Sovereigns : when the Continental Sovereigns united for the maintenance of a principle to which we could not consistently subscribe, our union with them naturally became less intimate. Hence arises the common belief, that jealousies and even animosities prevail between his Majes ty's Government and certain Foreign Courts, which are even described as meditating a coali tion against England. All this is greatly ex aggerated : and a French Opposition Paper makes one reflection which is perfectly conclu sive on this point. Coalitions can only be held together for any length of time by money: there must be a subsidiary power to bring the poorer States into the field. The wealth of Britain ena. bled her to sustain that part (luring the late wars ; but if a Continental Confederacy against her could be supposed practicable i►► other respects, where is the money to come from ? " France alone," says the French writer, " could enjoy the honour of furnishing subsidies ;" but that is one of the last honours which she would be in clined to attain. The necessary conclusion to be drawn from all these circumstances is, that what ever tone certain Foreign Cabinets may adopt in their negotiations, there is not the slightest► dan ger of a disturbance of the general peace. [MORNING POST.] We received last night, by Express, French Papers to the 27th inst., and the Etoile of Thursday. The latter contains no report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies on the preceding day, from which it may be inferred that the discussion respecting the indemnity peti tions did not take the interesting and important turn which had been anticipated. There are in all these Papers abundant confirmations, not only. of the defeat of the Egyptian fleet in November, but of a final disaster which overtook it on the 3d of December. This is aonounced in letters from Trieste, Leghorn, and iVlissolunghi, all of which agree in stating that after their first victory the Greeks blockaded Ibrahim Pacha and the vessels which he had collected in the bay of Macri on the Asiatic coast. Perceiving that he found himself straightened in his position, and seemed inclined to leave it, they withdrew to a distance, in order to entice him into the open sea. This manoeuvre is said tc; have been attended with complete suc cess. Ibrahim endeavoured to profit by their supposed departure, not to repair to the Morea, as the Smyrna and Constantinople accounts pre tended that he would do, but to effect his escape back to Egypt. He was however intercepted in his flight by the skilful and gallant Miaulis, who threw Iris whole fleet into confusion, and captured more than one half of the transports by which it was attended. Out of these, twelve large vessels carrying 3,000 black troops, disciplined in the European fashion, and 400 Arab horses, had already arrived at Napoli di Romania. They were found to contain also such stores of coffee and rice, that the price of the former had fallen down to fifty paras (eight-pence halfpenny) for 44 ounces, and that of rice to five paras, or seven cents. Besides the capture of these vessels, 15 Egyptian ships of war of diffe rent sizes, and a large frigate, had been burnt, and the rest of the defeated enemy had been pur sued as far as the entrance of Alexandria. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Wednesday bring no in telligence of moment. The news relating to Greece we have given separately, and our readers will see with pleasure that the dissentions amongst the Greeks have been by no means so formidable as they have been represented. The siege of Patras has not been interrupted, and the Government, feeling itself strong in the affections of the people, threatens the revolters with condign punishment. Meanwhile the Greek navy continues to gather fresh laurels. — The Eyptian fleet was drawn by a stratagem from the .Bay of Macri, where it had taken shel ter, and beaten at sea by the gallant Miaulis, who pursued it within view of Alexandria. The loss of the Mahometans is stated to have been consider able : 19, large transports had arrived at Napoli, having on board 3,000 black soldie rs, disci plined in time European style, and 400 Arabian horses. From Spain the intelligence is rather sa tisfactory. The Etoile affirms that Ferdinand is become a miracle of moderation and benevo lence. All his efforts are directed ,to the 6 ' grand object of the general welfare." The fact is, that his Catholic Majesty can no longer pro ceed without some revenue, and, prepara tory to the re-establishment of his credit with the view to negociate a loan, he is obliged to adopt some sound and rational principle of Government : but, while he remains the absolute Sovereign, what security can his cre ditore have against his relapse into tyrannical violence and wilful dishonesty ? The French journalists are engrossed with the discussio❑ of the questions of indemnity to the sufferers by the Revolution. In every quarter new claimants arise. " If. France were put up for sale," says ae Journal des Debuts, " it is doubtful whethet' the bankers of Europe would purchase her, on condition of paying all the indemnities already al leged to be due on account of the spoliation and injustice of the Revolution. Every body pretends to have some claim on poor France, and should we go on long as at present, it will be neces sary to have some regulation established as to the rights of those creditors, who all struggle earnestly for the privilege of misfortune. We are sorry that the petitions for indemnity, which arrive daily from all parts of the country, are not accompanied with a statement of the sums re quired to satisfy the petitioners. This simple addition would have taught our successors how much a Revolution costs. The genius of M. de Villele will chew them how• this is all to be paid." The Abbe de Pradt has boldly denied that the emigrants have any right what ever to indemnity. " They are deprived of all right by their own acts, public and private ; by their proclamations, which are so many monu ments of their intention to restore to full vigour the ancient system in ail its parts, and their own privileges." M. Lally Tollendal began his cele brated defence of the emigrants with these words : The Republic has triumphed." It is now the turn of the emigrants to boast that they have triumphed. France has indemnified the foreigners wh o subdued her—she is now about to indemnify the emigrants. Marshal Suchet, it is stated, lies dangerously ill. He was one of the most fa vourite and ferocious soldiers of Buonaparte, and has never enjoyed the countenance of the reign ir►g family. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The arrival of an express from Paris, bringing, it is said, the price of the Rentes on Wednesday at 103 f. 50c., had the effect of improving the English Funds yesterday in a slight degree ; Consols for the Account were 934. In the Fo reign Market every thing was steady. The no tification of the appointment of a Consul at Buenos Ayres by the Prussian Government, has probably served to check the decline of the South American Securities, as it is thought that this is a step towards a more liberal policy as to the New States on the part of the Allied Powers. Colom bian Bonds were yesterday at 90, and Mexican at 804-. There was not much doing in Shares. A few Rail-road Shares have been brought into the Market, and the f-eling seemed to be rather in favour of them. The Manchester and Liver pool Shares were sold at 42. The Irish Provin cial Bank Shares were firm at 24 to 3 premium. Prospectuses of many new schemes are out. We notice one for a British Fish Company, and an other for a Flour Company. A new Chilian Mu Ling Company is also formed. [MORNING HERALD.] A project is said to be on foot for establishing a new University, somewhere near York, and that Earl Fitzw•illiam has consented to contribute a large sum towards it. The crowded state of both Oxford and Cambridge would seem well to justify such a measure, which, if it be ac complished upon a wise and permanent found ation, may be productive of much good, espe cially in keeping at home a number of our gentlemen, who are now sent to foreign semi naries for their education. The spread of know ledge is at this time immense ; and the spring which intellect is every day making among almost all ranks of mankind, is such as was not even contemplated by those who lived only twenty years ago. This knowledge, however general, is unfortunately much of it superficial ; and we are entitled to look to the Universities as the great depots of solid and useful attain ments. That they have at all times sent forth into the world its brightest ornaments cannot be denied. It is to be lamented, however, that these schools of learning have not always been patterns of wisdom and of virtue ; and that the system of ethics has not been always such in practice as to insure to the world all the benefit which science ought to confer upon con duct. Those who have witnessed the loose habits, not only permitted, but almost sanctioned at our Universities, as well as their effect upon that class of graduates who are destined for the highest earthly pursuit, will understand what we mean. But still with these and other imperfections (most of which, we should imagine, might easily be remedied), we look upon these places of education with a hallowed reverence, and would say of each of them, esto perpetua! Should a new institution of the kind .be established, the first object should be to copy • what is good, and to avoid what is de fective in our present Colleges. Besides the laxity of manners, arising principally out of the scale of expence in which young men are permitted to indulge, it is impossible, we think, not perceive that the main objects of education are by far too confined for the present state of science. Classical and mathematical attainments are both, we admit, of paramount importance, but to hold them out as the only and exclusive sources of academic distinction to our patrician youth, at a time when those of a lower grade are imbibing more general attainments, is a manifest error, which ought to be avoided in any new establishment ; and, indeed, will ere long, if we mistake not, be remedied at Oxford and Cambridge themselves . That knowledge is • power every one must admit ; and to make that power conducive to the best interests and general purposes of society should be the main object of those who have its formation and direction. SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. Thursday evening an Inquest was holden at the Three Cups public-house, Oxford-road, on view of the body of Christina Marie Briscolie, aged 19 years, who put a period to her existence by poison, on Tuesday last.—Louisa Morcani, of No. 7, Drew's-place, stated that the deceased was . niece to her husband, Carlo Morcani, a manufacturer of artifi cial flowers. The deceased was much noticed by the various persons for whom Morcani did business, and finally was offered an eligible situation in a very eminent florist's house in New Bond-street, which she accepted, and where she had the misfor tune to attract the regards of a gentleman ranking high in life, who ultimately effected her ruin, and took her with him into the country, where she remained until the birth of an infant, which dying soon after, the deceased was abandoned by her seducer, and in the month of last October she returned to London, her spirits quite broken. During this interval, she had occasionally assisted witness in the management of the business, Morcani being in Italy ; but her constant wish was to return home to her native country. On this subject she had repeatedly written to the person by whom she was seduced, entreating such percuniary assistance as would enable her to quit England, but only in two instances were her letters an swered ; the one was a little before Christmas, conveying a direct refusal ; and the latter was about ten or twelve days ago, when deceased received a letter from him, enclosing a 101. note, with a few words of unkind import; one expression was to this effect:—" You say that the death of your child has tend ed to impair your health, and to incapacitate you from pur suing. your business as hitherto. This is of a piece with the artifice of your sex. Who ever dreamt of meeting with s uc h sublime feelings in the bosom of an Italian flower-girl ? I only regret that you did not accompany your heart (which I never believed to be mine), and then I should have been freed from both incumbrances at once. The enclosed will be the last assistance you can expect from me, and is more than I have any right to give you." Witness stated, that since the receipt of this letter deceased wept both by night and day. and talked in so wild a manner, that she began to apprehend her reason was fled. On Sunday she appeared more composed than usual, and intimated a wish to attend the service of the Mass at the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel. Witness could not accompany her, bUt she went with a young Italian girl, who knew her when she lived at the house in 131:rd-street ; from that time until Tuesday morning she was quite calm, though melancholy. On Tuesday she went out under a pretext of visiting an acquaintance in Manchester-street, and did not re turn until near seven o'clock in the evening, and when ques tioned as to the cause of her staying so long, she replied, " I hare settled every thing this day, but it has cost me many tears." Witness thought that she alluded to her departure for Italy, and observed--- - -'Christina, you must not think of going; there is no occasion for it, particularly as Morcani is away." Deceased said, " Yes, yes, but I must. Oh, God forgive him that forces me to such an act !" She then said that she had some matters to arrange, and went up stairs to her room ; in some short time witness followed her, and found her sitting at table ; witness pressed her to come down, but she declined, and begged them not to disturb her. Wit ness did not see her until the servant girl informed her that Ma demoiselle was in a fainting fit ; and upon going up to the room, she found her lying on the floor to all appearance dead. Witness used various means to restore her, but without effect, and she went fOr a surgeon, who declared that it was all over, the deceased having swallowed poison. Mr. Dubois, surgeon, was called to assist the deceased on Tuesday evening, but perceived his assistance was likely to prove ineffectual, as all pulsation had ceased for some time. He adopted the ordi nary modes of treatment, such as administering emetics, &c., but without effect. The stomach pump was introduced, and a great quantity of Clack matter extracted ; yet every attempt to restore animation proved abortive. The contents of the sto mach proved to be laudanum, in a quantity of greater magni tude than he had ever witnessed In any similar case. Verdict— " That deceased committed suicide by poison, whilst in a state of temporary derangement." An ELOPEMENT took place from Sloane-square On Wed nesday morning. The parties are a Mr. a gay young clerk of five and twenty, and a Miss F-, who resided in the next house to the young swain, aged twenty, and as it is reported will become possessed of an independency when of age, in addition to personal charms. The parties were traced to Sun-street, Brampton, where a hackney-coach sat them down at a pastry cook's, and it was ascertained they had taken a post-chaise to Hounslow, and thence to Wind sor, where they hired a single horse chaise, and were overtaken refreshing themselves at an inn at Egham by the lady's brother, and she reluctantly returned to Charlon's at Hounslow, the George Inn, the same evening, with her brother. MELANCHOLY AND DISTRESSING SUICIDE.-Mr. David Palmer, parochial clerk of the parish of St. Nlary-le- Strand, an office which he filled for upwards of thirty years, a considerable portion of which he acted also as the parochial schoolmaster, was found yesterday morning, about a quarter past eight, suspended by a neck-kerchief, behind the door of the front room on the second floor, quite dead, and a Coroner's Jury was of course summoned, to inquire how and by what means the deceased came by his death. They accordingly met at four o'clock, at the sign of the Wellington, Drury-lane, be fore T. H GG S, Esq., Coroner, when, after examining evi dence, four of the Jurymen sworn expressed themselves not satisfied that the deceased came by his death in a state of in sanity. There were, however, thirteen and the Foreman, who were of opinion that the deceased committed the act in a fit of Insanity, and a verdict to that effect was recorded. Hogan) Altmont.—An aggravated case of murder occurred in this county (Washington), on Saturday last, on Indian Creek, about 20 miles south of this place.-- The name of the man killed was Higgins, that of the mur derer David Greer, who, for perhaps the last 20 years, has lived secluded from society, near the to') of the Bald Mountain, 31 or 32 miles south of this place. Higgins, at the time of the murder, was under arrest, attended by W. S. Erwin, con stable, and a Mr. Cooper, who were conducting him to a Justice of the Peace, for trial. The cause of the quarrel was some trivial matter, the particulars of which it is unnecessary to relate.— Greer had shot from a place of concealment, near the road, at Higgins, and missed his aim ; after which he got a head of the party unperceived, and waited in a waste house on the road until they came up, when he shot Higgins dead on the spot. Upon seeing his prisoner fall, he immediately burst open the door of the house, where Greer had con cealed himself, and attempted to arrest him. A v i o l en t scuffle ensued, the hermit's great strength rendering him a fearful enemy. Besides his rifle, he had armed him self with an axe; and, after fighting some time with the former, which, from the lowness of the joists, could not be used to advantage, he then strove to get hold of his weapon. In this attempt Erwin, with a small cudgel, twice knocked him on his knees ; yet, still apprehensive that his purpose might not be effected, he directed Cooper to shoot him. Cooper fired, and wounded him in the hand, when he submitted, and was secured. Notwithstanding the hurry and confusion of a scene so appalling, Erwin's resolution and self-command ap pear not to have for a moment forsaken him. O n th e nex t d a y the murderer was safely lodged in the gaol at Jonesboroagh, there to await his trial. It has been thought for many years past, that he was the subject of a slight mental derangement.— (American Paper.) The falling in of the new CustotJlouse is re ported to have arisen from the arches on which the groins rested having been built of a soft porous stone, instead of granite. EAU BRINK DRAINAGE. An Adjourned Meeting of the Eau Brink Com• missioners of Drainage was held on Wednesday at the Red Lion, Cambridge, for the purpose of receiving the Report of a Com mittee appointed to confer with the Commissioners of Naviga tion, the Proprietors of Marshland, &c. respecting a Bill to be presented to Parliament for widening the Eau Brink Cut.. The Rev. ALGERNON PEYTON was called to the Chair, and after the proceedings of the last Meeting had been read, ap pointing the committee, &c. Lord W. BE:vriNcic, as Chair man of the Committee Meeting, stated what took place on that occasion. The Committee had resolved that they thought it adviseable to widen the cut, if the funds of the Commissioners be sufficient ; that Lynn harbour had received considerable injury, and that the South Level had not derived any ad vantage from the cut. The Committee did not recommend the removal of Denver Sluice at present, but they thought it was a subject requiring serious consideration, and that it was desirable to have the opinions of Messrs. Telford and Rennie as to the effect of the measure, and the estimated expence of improving Denver Sluice, if it was not ex p e di ent to remove i t . Lord W. BENTTNCK consequently moved that directions be given to the engineers to inspect Denver Sluice, and make their report. Mr. WELLS opposed the motion on the ground that Denver Sluice was the property of the Bedford Level Corporation, and that the Commissioners of Drainage had no power to send ary one to make surveys without permission, and after some fur ther conversation Lord W. Bentinck withdrew his motion, re gretting that such a feeling of hostility should have manifested itself. Mr. PRYME said, his reason for opposing the resolution wag not from an opinion that the sui•ject ought not to be taken into consideration afterwards, but he considered that, as the widen ing of the Hundred Feet river was in progress, and as the widening of the new cut appeared to be agreed on, it was de sirable to wait the effect of those measures before they tried others. The resolution of the committee meeting being again ready Mr. WELLS said, that if the Drainage Commissioners were called upon to do every work, and nothing was conceded to them, he for one would rather lose the last acre of land he had than comply. Such a bill as it was proposed by the'Commis , . smilers of Navigatio n t o i n t ro d uce i nto P ar li ament, he thought could never be passed. For whatever might be said of the House of Commons, he could never believe they would pass such a bill without the concurrence of the taxed landed pro prietors. But to show that the Commissioners were not insen sible to the wants of the people of Lynn, and the proprietors of Marshland, and were not actuated by any feelings of hosti lity, he would propose as a resolution, that if adequate secu rity were given to the Commissioners of Drainage against other claims, they would have no objection to widen the cut. Sir HENRY BUNBURY objected to such a resolution, on the ground that the measure of widening the cut would not tend to benefit the South Level. He regretted that no disposi tion to conciliation had been shown towards the South Level, and said he had marked in the proceedings of the Board of the Corporation of Bedford Level, a decided partiality in favour of the Middle against the South Level. The Rev. G. L. JENYNS defended the proceedings of the Board, and said, that body had always attended to the genera) interest of the country, without showing any preference to one part or another. There had been great exertions made by the proprietors of land in the Middle Level, which had induced the Board to support them, and they should always be ready to give the same support to the South Level, if the proprietors of those lands were will to co-operate with them. Mr. HOSEASON also opposed Mr. \Veils's motion, and ob.- served that the South Level would not be benefitted by it.--' After several Commissioners had spoken on the subject, Mr- Wells moved, in conformity with the resolution of the Com mittee, that if the Commissioners of Navigation and the pro prietors of Marshland would consent to abandon their man damus, and all claims on the Commissioners of Drainage, they would continue their attentions for the security of the harbour of Lynn, and would agree to widen the cut.—Mr. Pryme moved an amendment on this resolution, which was negatived, and mr. Wells's motion passed.—Several of the Commissioners of Navigation who had opposed the motion then withdrew. Mr. WE LLs said, that from the withdrawing of the Naviga tion Commissioners, they might now consider every mode of conciliation at an end, and the meeting must then consider what measures should be taken to oppose the bill intended to be brought into Parliament for the removal of Denver Sluice, &c. Lord W. BENT INCIE, as a matter of courtesy, told the meet-- ing that it was proposed to read the bill the first time in Fe bruary, that it would then be printed and circulated, and read a second time after Easter. On his part, as the person who would bring the bill into the House, he would take care that nothing should be wanting to enable them to meet the question fairly, and he assured the meeting no unfair advantages should be taken. A Committee was nominated for taking measures to oppose the bill, after which a considerable discussion took place as to whether the Commissioners could legally appropriate their funds for such an object. It was, however, resolved that the sum of 2001. should be granted, in the first instance, for the pur pose of opposing the bill. The question of allowing compensation to the Waterbeach Level, for injuries sustained by erecting sluices at Upware and Clayhithe, was then considered, and the sum of 4501. was granted for that purpose, on condition that the Commissioners of Waterbeach Level should give a release of all further claims. --The meeting then dissolved. (Cambridge Chronicle, Jan. 23.) COAL MARKET, J. 20. Ships at Market. Ships sold l9i Newcastle - - 4i 9 Sunderland - - '2 Price. 31s Od to 39s Ott 40s 3d to —s Od- COURSE OF EXCHANGE, January 28. Arnstettlaw 1 12 2 C. F. Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 3 Antwerp l2 3 Hamburg!' 37 0 e 4 Us- Altona .. Paris,3 Day's sight ' 2.s 15 0 LTs. Ditto !loin - deans, ditto Perlin 7 . 5 Frankfort on the Main . .... 151 Ex. Mone.4 Petetsburgh . 9 Vienna lO 2 Trieste lO 2 Madrid Cadiz [Whoa 3si Effective Barcelona 95 Seville Gibraltat '3l Leghorn Gel..•ft ..........44a-Venice, ital. Lie 27 Nlalta Palermo Lisbon Oporto ItioJaneiro Bahia . 50f, Dublin .... 9/ Cork 9/ pm Cent. BULLION. Portugal 64,111,i n Coin. Foreign Gold, in ►cars. New Doubloons . New Dollars... Silver Standard in Bari. 1") 0 0 per Ox. : 17 P 3 17 0 4 104 0 0 0 BIRTHS. - - - On the 27th inst. at the Hermitage, Stamford-hill, the l a dy of Samuel Philip Rickman, Esq., of a son. On the 27th instant, the lady of Alexander Doble, Esq,., of a son. MARRIED. On the 27th instant, the Rev. William Hutton 'Wilkinson, 8.A., of St. John's College ; Cambridge, and of Nether Hall, Suffolk, to Eliza Caroline, daughter of O. B. Tyndale, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-lields. DIED. On the 2llth instant, in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, Jane, the infant daughter of Charles Putt, Esq. On Thursday lait, at Tottenham, Clara Ann, the infant daughter of Mr. Charles L. Curtoys. On the 27th instant. at Palmer's-green, Edmonton, Mrs. Penelope Spencely, at the advanced age of 92 On Sunday last, Ilarriet, the wife of J. J. Wilkinson, Esq., Seymour-place, Euston-square, and of the Temple. On the 17th instant, at Islington, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. George Blogg, of Aldersgate-street, aged 61. On the 18th instant. at No. 6, Duke-street, Portland-place, Mr. James Thompson, surveyor, in his 54th year. On Thursday, the 27th instant, at Spring Bank, Worcester shire, Lady Mostyn, wife of Sir Edward Mostyn, of Talacre, Bart. On the 23d instant, in her 73d year, at Llwynduris, in the county of Cardigan, Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. Thomas Griffith, 111. A., late of the same place. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the SOX• OFFICE, No. 112, "itrand, by J B. CARSTAIRS. i 'i~ J