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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Eatracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 7, 182 5. [NEW TIMES.] We have received Madras Government Ga zettes, and Letters from that Presidency to the 31st July. By a private letter to the 30th, we learn that the accounts from Rangoon leave little expectation- of any more fighting. The whole population declare their aversion to it ; and the Burmese.: Monarch is absolutely destitute of means for renewing the campaign. The King of Ava, it is said, has offered to treat, and the Go vernor-General would probably accede to almost any terms that could put an end to the heavy ex pence of the war ; but little reliance can be placed on the sincerity of the Barbarian Sove reign, who, according to credible intelligence, is preparing to withdraw with his Court and the White Elephant, to the confines of China, ex pecting support from that quarter, as well as from the Siamese, on whom we cannot place any great reliance, as they have been merely playing their own game in suffering the power of the King of Ava to be reduced, but without the least desire to promote our ascendancy. It was , supposed that if no negociation was opened before the middle of October, Sir Archibald Campbell would then move upon Umrnerapoora, which• he would probably find abandoned by its Sovereign. The operations of the re-organised Burmese Army (if it may be so called) are on a narrow scale., Of the refugees from Arracan, 2,000 men are . assembled at Sambaughawa, but - in great con fusion. The remnant of the late Grand Army of Hanzawuddy is concentrating upon Pang ham Mow, which they are fortifying, as well as some other places of minor note lower down the river. Nothing appears to have been more unexpected by or fatal to the Burmese than: the fall of Prorne. No rallying point was chosen or fixed upon, from the chance of so unlooked for an event. In the early part of May Sir A. Camp bell sent a detachment .to explore the interior of the country. The banks of the Irrawuddy are popoulous and highly cultivated, but the inland parts are very inferior; the villages are small, the cottages wretched, and thinly scattered over the country. - The bulk of the Burman people con sist of vagrant feudal tribes who look only to plun der for riches and rank. Ava does not, like Pegu, contain a race of Carians to cultivate the soil. The Kraynes (aborigines of Arracan) are somewhat analogous ; but they only inhabit the hills ; and upon the whole, Ava is thinly peopled. The' Burmese peasants are very lazy, leaVing all the hard work to the women. It is death to dig for any metal without authority from the King, though many places bore even marks of metallic veins. The detachment first marched towards Talmo or Tongo. At the distance of forty miles, they came to Tagoondine. Where the Burmese had not preceded them, they found the people quietly at work, weaving their .coarse striped stuffs, and apparently con tented. Wherever a Burmese force had been, desolation marked its course. From Tagoondlac across the - Galadyat mountains to Tanao is about 70 miles. The detachment, however, could not proceed so far, but struck off in a North-west direction to Tow-kin-dine, which is about four miles inland from Bollay, on the river Irrawuddy, and a small party proceeded as far as Meaday. At a village, four miles on the Prome side of Meaday, were the remains of an extensive iron foundery, where cannon appehred to have been cast ; and the fact, that the Burmese do make guns is very generally asserted by the best in formed natives of the country. ;- 7 [THE TIMES *J The very curious document - to which we yes terday alluded—namely, the lecture read by the Emperor of Austria to the Hungarian States, is completed in the French Papers. His Imperial Majesty would appear to have been actuated by a strong feeling of indignation,and if we knew as well the temper of the body whom he addressed, we should most likely find, as the saying is, that no love was lost between them. The Emperor proceeded in autumn to the capital of Hungary with great apparent confidence in the affection and obedience of his Hungarian subjects. He as sembled his nobility for the coronation of his consort. The splendid pageant was conducted with great apparent enthusiasm. He con voked, the States for the transaction of business, and made a speech to the Mag nates, which draw tears from the eyes of his family and courtiers. The assembly was deseribed as in a state of ecstacy at the august presence and gracious declarations of the. Monarch. A circumstantial report of these proceedings was spread over Europe by the hell regulated Journals of Vienna. We expected from this favourable commencement to have every day a bulletin of the increasing loyalty of the Diet, and of the growing confidence of the Em peror. We were therefore surprised to find that silence suddenly took place, and that the Aus trian Observer had no further reports to make. The Emperor remained sullenly in Hungary, and 'hints were given out that he was indis posed. It appears, now, that he really was indisposed, but it was only towards the Diet. The whole secret has now, we think, come out by the publication of this imperial reproof. His Majesty, in his wisdom, proposed one thing for the deliberation of the States, and they them selves proposed another : his Majesty demanded supplies, and they complained of grievances— his Majesty wished support for his troops, and they required security for their constitution. " His Majesty has seen," says the document, 4C by the humble representations of the States of " the kingdom presented to him on the 22d of 46 October, that the States have intrusted to a CC commission the examimition of the Royal pro " positions concerning the labours of the Depu " ties of the kingdom, but that they have in pre " ference occupied themselves with objects which appeared necessary to the consolidation of the " constitutions of the kingdom." After this auspicious commencement, his Majegty does not hesitate to express his high displeasure that the States do not see things exactly in the same light as himself. " Ills Ma jesty is extremely afilicted," says the paper, " that some jurisdictions of the kingdom have " refused not only to contribute to the public " good, which their duty towards their country " and their confidence in their King demanded, " but that they have proceeded to measures con " trail- to the Royal dignity and authority, and " inconsistent with that obedience which subjects owe their Sovereign." Ills Majesty afterwards tells the States that the army must be paid, or that he must employ measures foreign to his pa ternal feelings. Nay, he assures them that he will " never suffer an encroachment to be made on " his Royal rights, and will follow nothing but " the resolutions of his conscience," though he will be disposed o listen to the counsel of others. The Emperor, after several menaces and pro mises, concludes by telling the Diet that his pa ternal intentions directed towards the well-being of the Hungarian nation, cannot be fulfilled, un less the States, laying aside all spirit of faction, pursue the legitimate discussion of the objects proposed for their deliberation. If we have room, we may give a version of this curious State paper to-morrow. In the mean time, we may venture to express a hope that this refractory conduct on the part'of the States may be taken as an indication of the commencement of consti tutional improvement ; and the stoppage of sup plies may lead to Hungary, as they did in Eng land, to the acknowledgment of those popular rights which are infinitely more valuable than any money with which they can be purchased. [MORNING HERALD.] Consols opened yesterday morning at 831, and alimately closed at 84. t to making an improve ment of 4 per cent on Monday night's quotation. There was considerable business done. The rise (which occurred at the latter part of the day) is attributed to the Bears having been caught sell ing rather largely at the lowest points of depres sion, Monday and Saturday, in the expectation of a further decline. Considerable quantities of 3 per Cent. Reduced Stock has been thrown upon the Market within these few days. The lowest price yesterday was 824. The Trans-Atlantic Bonds are getting more and more out of repute for bona fide investment, and it was difficult to turn them into money at the price quoted. As is customary, the nominal prices improved yesterday along with Consols. Colombian 6 per Cents. closed at 63 to 631, and Mexican 65 to 651. — Greek and Spanish remained stationary ; the former from 18 to 19, and the latter at 15, with literally nothing doing in either.— Anglo-Mexican Mining Shares sold at 5, and as they came out 5 premium, they may now be con sidered at par. Iteal del Monte, which were so beautiful in prospective a few months ago, were yesterday a drug at 10 pr. The general pressure for money in the City is as severe as ever.—The Foreign Exchanges had another small advance, and the French are brought nearer to a par with those of Holland and the North of Germany.— Exchange on Paris was 25f. 474 to 50c. at three months, and 25f. 174 to 20c. three days' sight. The average advance on Holland and the North of Germany was from 1 to 14 per cent. ; and were there a deficiency of bills on this country on the other side, they would now pay the ex pence of importing gold. [MORNING POST.] Paris Journals - to the sth installl, and the Etoile of Monday, reached us last night by Express. The only subject which engrosses the attention of the French public at present, is the acquittal of the Constitutionnel, which will probably be followed by that of the Courier Francais. In deed this acquittal is the more important as it was not pronounced by a Jury, Juries not being allowed in trials for tendance, but by the Judges themselves. The Etoile of Sunday, we now find, only told us the nature of the decision, but abstained from entering into any par ticulars respecting the manner in which it had been delivered and received, and the grounds on which it was founded. We shall supply the deficiency out of the Journal des Debuts; for the arret of the Court is one which does it the greatest honour, and not only establishes its cha racter for spirit and independence, but strikes a mortal blow at the hopes of the Jesuits, and secures France for ever against all further attempts at their restoration. After having retired for about three quarters of an hour, during which the crowd round the Palace of Justice grew enormous (the interior and all the avenues had long since been filled), the Judges resumed their seats at half-past three o'clock on Saturday. The most profound silence immediately prevailed, and all awaited with something ap proaching to religious awe, the oracle which the Court was about to deliver. [BRITISH PRESS.] Last night we received the Paris Papers of Sunday, with the exception of the Constitutionnel, which some accident, we suppose, has prevented from arriving. This is a disappointment at this moment, as we should have been glad to have seen the first expressions of its feelings after its deli verance by the upright Judges who preside in the Royal Court of Paris. In another column we have given a longer account of the interesting proceedings of the last day of the trial than could yesterday be laid before our readers. The deli very of the judgment of the Court, it will be ob served, was hailed by the crowded auditory with loud and long continued applause. The result of this prosecution is justly regarded by the French public as a signal defeat of the machinations of the ultramontane party against their civil and re. ligious liberties. The attempt, however, was another, and an instructive proof of the un changed spirit of the Romish church, though it has been happily frustrated by the independence of the tribunals of justice. As Mr. O'Connell was lately joining in the outcry of the Jesuits against the Constitutionnel and the other journals of the Liberal Opposition in France, we shall pro bably soon hear his lamentations over the failure of their plan for stifling the newspapers which dared to expose the blasphemous fanaticism of the wandering tribes of Romish missionaries, not in any degree exceeded in coarse and revolting frauds and absurdities even by the wretched dis ciples of Joannah Southcott. In proof of our assertions, we refer to the instances cited by M. Dupin in his eloquent reply in defence of the Constitutionnet. The subscription for the family of General Foy amounted, on Saturday evening, to nearly 248,000 francs. We regret to learn that the Turco-Egyptian Expedition, under the Capital' Pacha, entered the port of Na varino safely on the 14th ultimo. How it was that the Greeks did not encounter this armament at- sea we cannot imagine. The Greek mariners must have known that the safety of their nation, its very existence indeed, depended on the preventing of the Capitan Pacha's fleet from reaching the Morea. We begin now to de spair of the Greek cause. The next intelligence we shall probably have from that unhappy coun try will be the horrible details of the extermina tion and enslavement of its entire population. — Thus will perish, after a gallant but unavailing struggle, nearly a million of Christian people, the last and worthy inheritors of an illustrious name. The land of immortal glory will be degraded to a colonial dependency on the satrap of Egypt, and its soil polluted with a mongrel race of Moors and Negroes. [TILE PUBLIC LEDGER.] If it be true, as has been rumoured, that Count Nesselrode has all at once lost the confidence of his Imperial Master, and the Portfolio of Foreign Affairs, our conjectures assume a cha racter of positive certainty ; and the spring will unfold, as we said before, designs which are now carefully concealed from common ken. In the mean time, the circumstances of the political world are more favourable to their de velopement than is usually imagined. Spain and her ricketty Government cling, with the firm grasp of a drowning person, to the neck of the French Government, and will not let go their hold as long as they have a principle of life. How much France is embarrassed by this adhesion which she can neither get rid of with safety, nor retain without danger, is well known to the crafty Cabi net of St. Petersburgh ; and besides, the spirit now pervading that country, and so incompatible with the ultra views of the retainers of the French Court—is also no secret to the same Cabinet. En the next place, the Court of Vienna has found employment, apparently as painful as it was un expected, in its efforts to put down the spirit of independence, which has manifested itself in the Hungarian Diet. To dissolve the refractory as sembly suddenly, would be a dangerous stretch of power ; whilst the Emperor would lose the sup plies which he expects from his good kingdom of Hungary. In addition to this domestic cause of embarrassment, a very serious inconvenience has arisen, in consequence of the change that has taken place on the Bavarian throne, and which is likely to extinguish the paramount influence which Austria had for some time previously ex ereised on the most important interests of that Kingdom. In Naples affairs have taken a turn, equally unfavourable to the views of the Austrian Cabinet, which perhaps begins to regret the high hand and impetuous tone with which it has hitherto interfered in the concerns of other Powers, and which, it may be truly said, have provoked universal disgust and alien ation. These circumstances do not escape the keen and penetrating glance of the Russian Court ; and we are greatly mistaken if it does not take advantage of them to carry into effect its long-cherished designs on the Ottoman Em pire. Lastly, the no Popery yell, where there is too much disposition in certain persons to raise in this country, would be a powerful auxiliary to his Imperial Majesty of All the Russias if he had it in contemplation to undertake the long pro jected march to Constantinople ; and we would therefore advise those, who are preparing to fling a flaming torch into the bosom of the British Empire, to beware, unless they wish to see the Russian flag floating from the Seven Towers, pre paratory to the attainment of universal domina tion by that designing and ambitious Tower. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Undoubtedly we have reason to pride our selves on living in a land of justice when we see it coolly stated in a prosecution, as nothing ex traordinary, as nothing new or strange, that a rich man having coveted the little estate of three sisters, purchased the portion of one of them in the joint property, and then, by due process of Equity, by filing a bill to compel partition, ruined the other two, and threw them into a gaol Something more was yet to be done—they were to be outlawed, in order that the property might pass to the Crown, whence it might be leased to Dives, who, it is alleged, wanted it as an addi tion to his grounds. To uffect this purpose writs were to be issued to the Sheriff, commanding him to take the two sisters into custody, and returns were to be made to these writsoleclaring - , that they were not to be found in the bailiwick of the Sheriff; all which was done according to order, though both these oppressed women—these victims of Equity, were in the bailiwick at the time,one being actually in the Sheriff's custody in the county pri son, where her good conduct promoted her to the station of matron of the gaol, and the other endea vouring to earn a livelihood by carrying on the business of a small school in the immediate neigh bourhood, and never quitting that school but to visit her sister in the gaol. The property, by virtue of the measures taken by Dives, and the returns of the Sheriff, became vested in the Crown, and was ultimately leased to the rich man, who required it, as it is stated, for his improvements, and obtained them by such righteous means. For the injury they suffered through the false returns, the sisters brought their action against the Sheriff, and recovered damages of eight pounds, and costs of forty shillings ! The law, we must take it for granted, could do no more for them. The law, used for their oppression, had stripped them of 'their little patrimony, and conducted them to a gaol ; but the law for their redress could only award them.the miserable compensation of 8 pounds for the last addition to such a heap of injuries! So terrible is the law when perverted to wrong, and so insufficient when the instrument of ' redress. We earuestly beseech our readers to turn their attention to this case, reported in our Paper of yesterday (see Common Pleas, Anna and Charlotte Jenkins v. - Bidduiph, Esq.) The statement, as it concerns Dives, is ex-parte, it is to be observed, but we cannot be lieve it possible that such a statement can have been lightly hazarded by an Advocate. If there are grounds for it, the public indignation should be directed against the law which, in the hands of the rich, may be rendered so cruel an instru ment of oppression, and its generosity should re pair the private injury which has been so un worthily, so mercilessly inflicted, in this instance. GENERAL FOY. FUNERAL ORATION for the late General FOY, by BENJAMIN CONSTANT, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, &c. &c. &c. PARIS, DEC. 2. __ MY, FRIENDS,—The great assemblage of citizens of all ages, ranks, and opinions—the profound sorrow manifest in their countenance—the tears ready to gush form their eyes—so much of generous and lively recollection as fills anti afflicts the minds of you all, admonish me that words are almost super fluous on this sad and solemn occasion. You will pardon, however, I trust, a colleague of the illustrious citizen whom we deplore—one who has been a witness of his incessant efforts to defend the liberties of the nation—and the ardent admirer of his brilliant and manly eloquence, if he detains you yet awhile on the brink of the grave, which is about to close prematurely and swallow up so much courage, talent, and virtue. I shall not attempt to retrace his, course of military achievements ; en grossed among the annals of the glory of France, they are id entified with every epoch when the soil trodden by Frenchmen has been rescued from a foreign yoke ; it will be saying enough on this head to remind you, that his illustrious career commenc ed at Genappe and terminated at Waterloo ! I shall only observe, that as the ardent defender of the independence of his country, and impassioned friend of its liberty, he always discri minated between that liberty and the excesses which sometimes profane it ; that lie was no less intrepid before the Proconsul's axe than he was at the mouth of the enemy's cannon ; and that whilst Lafayette in the prison of Olmutz, endured the slow and lengthened pangs of the most agonised sufferings, Foy, in the dungeons of Valenciennes or Arras, awaited the more prompt execution of the scaffold, destined him by the Decemviri. So true is it, that tyranny, under whatever name she deports her self, always chooses her victims from among those who are the ornaments of human nature. It is to the legislative labours of the deceased that 1 shall at present call your attention. What man among us did not figure to his mind his entry into that elective- Chamber, which has been destined by the Char ter to receive..only such men as were invested with the free suffrage of their constituents, and which ought to contain the elite of the population in integrity and intelligence, and thus become the bulwark of the liberties of France ! We beheld him take his seat among us, already covered with glorious wounds, yet still in the vigour of life, bear. ing on his brow that noble assurance which justified his numerous exploits. We, however, expected only a celebrated General; but after the first flow of his eloquence we recognised in him the most eminent of our orators. Sometimes abound ing in facts and the result of indefatigable investigation, he pur. sued his adversaries to the very bosom of power, with pressing and irresistible arguments; again his thundering voice from the summit of the tribune diffused a blight over and blasted the rank weeds of despotism and corruption. The sound of that voice conciliated the auditors to a participation of his pure and noble sentiment—we became better men in proportion as we at tended to his words, and our bosoms for a long time oppressed began to respire more freely. No Deputy better understood, or better explained all the details of the Administration, at the same time that no man developed more at large those Consti tutional maxims on which repose the entire principle of our Go vernment, and the political guarantees of France. When he examined party questions, lie might be considered as a Minister who had grown old in the career of accurately cal culating the result of facts—and possessing, by long routine of business all the dates of a fluctuating and complex system. When he grappled with the more comprehensive questions of the representative system, we fancied we listened to one of those orators enlightened by the traditional legislation of Parliaments of one hundred and forty years experience, though in, more rapid and attractive language, casting aside all species of so phism, unmasking equivoque, and shattering as a thunderbolt the ingeniously connected mechanism of subtilty. But let me here declare, as well for the purpose of defining the great grati tude we owe him, as for the information of those who may one day enjoy the glorious mission to follow after his example, that this universal knowledge—this aptitude on all subjects—that brilliancy of light which he displayed on every question, were not merely the effect of the endowments bestowed on him by bountiful nature. They were the result of persevering study. In the plenitude of his superiority, he never confided to his genius to insure that success, which might be the triumph of principle as much as of individual merit. His conscientious zeal prompted him to study indefatigably all those sub jects on which lie communicated such clear informations from the tribune. Whilst his days were consecrated to the defence, even on occasions the most unexpected, of the rights of every class of persons, the just complahats of all who were oppressed, from the veteran soldier, who claimed his pay, to the official functionary unfairly stripped of the high investiture of office—his nights were spent in reading and investigating the analysis of budgets, sometimes so confused ; of accounts often mysterious; of military legislation still incomplete; and, in a word, of that labyrinth of laws, which in their contra dictions and obscurity, are no less an arsenal than a bul wark. Such toilsome nights abridged the period of his valuable existence. The great injustice, of which he would compel a reparation—the long explanations which he has demanded, and which, though sterile for the moment, will not fail to be fertile ! for the future, cost him all that lucubration and vigilance, which was traceable in his countenance, anti exhausted his con stitution. Honour he unto his memory ! for during 20 years, he ceased not to shed his precious blood for his country ; and half as many more of a lamentably shortened life has he con secrated to her liberty. And yet to what nobler purposes could he have devoted it ? Had he followed in the general track, he might perchance have enjoyed for some years longer power, wealth, and distinction, but soon or late he must have descend ed into the tomb. Could his death have been what it this day is—a nation's mourning ? Would his name be universally re spected, while tears stream from every eye ? He has chosen the better part of man's transitory course. He is gone, accom panied by regret, respect, and glory. His example will be of service to that France which he so dearly loved—that grateful country, which now encompasses his coffin with its sincere affliction. The rising generation will not be insensible to the instructions of a virtuous genius, which has become the victim of virtue's self. As for his colleagues, whose small number sees itself daily diminished —we, who lose by a fatality un foreseen the leader whom we respected, and the friend of whom we were proud—we bind ourselves at his tomb, near which, perhaps, our own will at no distant period be opened, by an obligation to devote to our country the remainder of our days— to be honest, independent, and" intrepid as lie was, and if we equal not his talents, to equal at least his courage. FORTUNE-TELLING.—A young woman residing in Claypath, in this city, having a strong desire to know her future destiny, applied on Saturday evening last to an old hag, a stranger here, to have her fortune told. The antiquated prognosticatress, like the spider which watches the entangle ment of the fly in the toils she has herself prepared, was quite ready to seize her victim, though she proceeded rather more cautiously with her work. She at first strove to increase the credulity of the poor simple girl by the most artful means, and having thus obtained full power over her, she next attempted, and successfully too, to relieve her of a part of her money.— Without a one pound note, she said, she would not be able to accomplish her design, adding, " what lam now going to do is the most important point in the business"—as no doubt it was. The note was immediately placed in her hands, and she pre tended to tie it up in a handkerchief, which was rolled up into a ball, and, after at suitable exhortation, was delivered to her, together with a strict injunction that it should not be opened out until Sunday evening. Before the appointed time, how ever, the girl became impatient, both as regarded the note and the knowledge , of her future destiny, and with one rude effort she tore open the handkerchief—when, alas ! instead of the one pound note, she found only a piece of blank paper, which, from its size and smell, it was evident had been the envelope of half an ounce of that vile herb, y'clept tobacco. Her fortune was plainly told—she had become, the dupe of a base swind ler, who had taken good care to get out of the way before the discovery was made. Exertions have been made to ascertain the retreat of the fugitive, but hitherto without effect.—( Dur ham Advertiser.) nINGULAIt FERIOCITY OF A FERRET. --A man of the name of Iles, a bargeman, finding himself much in commoded by the repeated mischief dope in his barge by rats, procured a ferret to destroy them : the ferret remain ing away a considerable time, he thought he was devouring some rats that it.had killed, and he went to sleep, but was awakened early next morning by the ferret, who was com mencing a regular attack upon him. The animal had seized him near. his eyebrow, and the, man, after endeavouring in vain to shake him off, severed the body from the head with a knife, the latter still sticking so fast as to be with difficulty re moved.--(Bath Journal.) COURT OF ALIERIVIEN• is Yesterday the Lon') MAYort proceeded state from the Mansion-house to Guildhall, to hold his first Court of Aldermen. Hi s Lordship, upon taking hi s se at, shortly addressed the Court. Th e thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to the lat e L or d Mayon—U pon motions na Counsel, precepts were orde re d to b e i ssue d for summoning , sit ed empannelling Juries to assess t h e va l ue o f p r emises recl u r f ect to be purchased for th e new L on d on B r id ge and the -` the Market improvements. A petition seas Clockmakers' Company, praying for an increase in the nun' her of their Livery, which was referred to, a Committee. Petitions from the Coal Meters Men and the' Coal 'WhiPP er c s i for an increase of wages in consequence of the high price provisions and porter, were presented, and referred to a Cn" . n j mittee for investightion—Several persons were sworn, others allowed to be admitted Brokers.—The Gaol Comin:l'le presented a Report with the Annual Return of the state o f ,t several Gaols and Prisons of the City for the year endin_gdi., Michaelmas last, which they had prepared pursuant to thc an d rections of the Act of Parliament, which was approved, D „. ordered to be transmitted to the Secretary of State.—Th e e l quest of Bishopsgate Ward attended with a Prescntrne,by, sundry persons carrying on trade not being free of t he , di which was referred to the Chamberlain to gip,' the reg ni"" ures rections.— The Committee appointed to consider of the ille a l, te r. to be adopted, in regard to opening the communication be re ., the Thames and Medway, by Yantlet Creek, delivered i n rou rt port of their proceedings, which were approved.—The 'three agreed to a Report from a Committee, for appointi n gord additional Constables for the parish of St. Bride's, in the Is throughout the City on St. Thomas's Day of Farringdon Without.—Tif f Wars e precepts loft triL, ne xt, for the election_ di, presentedl from of Common Councilmen, and oncr Ward Officers, vie r ' no rt rected to be issued.—The Chamberlain delivered in re P ort of his proceedings before the Commissioners for investigaeol, Public Charities, which was ordered to be entered.. -6e accounts were ordered for payment. i tcgt PunosornlcaL QuEsTioNs.—M. de la Pr' ; t Far's . in one of the last sittings of the Academy of Sciences a- r d de' proposed the following four questions for examination a t : ve cision, by a commis s i o n o f that phil oso phi ca l body. ,„,, Is p ' esj irt actual intensity of the t erres t r i a l magne ti sm . N; proportion of the two gases which constitute our atoos of the 3d, The exact pressure o f th e a t mosp h ere a t the surta c ,,siff e rent sea: and, 4th, The h ea t o f t h e terrestr i a l g lobe at a xes• depths, following latitudes and other apprciable (10 1 toes' The ingenious acad em i c i an a ll owe d , t h at two or more 0 b e rs, points had been a l rea dy exam i ne d b y t h e grea t e st phibm°Pacti and had been considered as sufficiently settled for most rcluote cal purposes ; but he th oug ht t h at results sufficiently ac afte r A to be appealed to by p os t er i ty oug h t to b e es t a blished , ore still more rigorou s i nqu i r y. U n l ess a more decided a tie s. generally admitted statement of the facts involved in thesc o eg f as' tions could be made, future ages would want the men or, certaining or measuring the changes which may take P t the surface of our globe. A commission was accordhig . 1 4 4 pointed to make experiments to ascertain the a bove- 11 '11 1 0 4f points, and :11M de la Place, Poisson, Gay-Lussac, and were nominated members. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Dec. 6. A tilstel dam ig 61. Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam Antwerp Haniburgli Altonit 12 1.2 7 12 7 ;1 Cs. 37 3 - 4 5 US. Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto 30 25 55 0 1i 13ontdeaux, ditto Berlin Frank fort on the Main ... Pete' sburgli Vienn•i Trieste Madrid Q 5 55 7 0 . . ISS . 91 10 6 10 6 • c • Enec. , ° —ffective Cadiz Effec Bilboa 26 Barcelona Seville - Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa 44k ---Venice, Bal. Lip. 27 Malta Lisbon Per Lisbon Palermo , Oporto Elio Janeiro Bahia . 50 Buenos Ayres Dublin .... 9h Coll - 9i pet Cent. 1 .0 n per (11, 0 Portugal Gold, i n Coin 3 17 1 4 Foreign Gold, in Bars New Doubloons 0 0 , s 0 New Dollars 0 0 Silver Standard in Bars, BULLION. Yesterday, at Dulwich, the BIRTHS Lady of the Rev. HenlY 'rh°l7'r son, of a daughter. f S tir, On Saturday, the 3d hist,. Mrs. Samuel Deacon, ° ner-street, Snowhill, of a daughter. o f fr etle' r i c O k n ll S o l l i b n r d e a o y k , e , the E s 4 q t . h , 1 i n ,. s A t.., s a . at o East s Sheen, the lady i lVir s3 . On Saturday, the 3d inst., at Stoke Newington, Leak; of a son. _...*9 the '' MED. On the 9th of September last off Carthag na, S°' l ltil ls rica, of the yellow fever, Lieutenant JohnelVillisll;!his sgc' (first), of his Majesty's ship Scylla, in the 29th year ° ~, eldest son of John Elkins, - .E;., of Newman-street. ,;.sol',.;' infant oozintdth:::2, daughter tie u ir : s t. to. , : a t jat l o ' iK e i itezt(av4n_rcceoentifteatfeli:ni,allc t., s Caroline.q.,Asurarge'4:6, Of: East India Company's Bombay establishment. Sophia Nisbet, wife of David Nisbet, aged 70. ts h,t0 1111 0 ? On Monday evening last, at her residence, genforiverlf Anne, relict of the late John Daniel Hose, ESq" . ' , , a t" Ludgate-hill, merchant. a t i n boar er ' ts , Last week at West ITickliain . , James Hawes , e ars hot'„i, the advanced age of 105 years. He was for many Y,l,is la c " KiOngri,st.lll,earistttlio', Chelsea,ilst.,tbeal,wreidfetioaf 'Thomas Ware, man to the late Lord lie Despencer, and retained all ties, except hearing, to the last. ---- -----4 Do E. AJ AS ut T ndeit2 l t3 N o: D ait : j l nae l u l : l n9 R_ it, ' ,, l t l h S ei , 3 idi A , in t , t / 11 1. 11. : t ios i If: Lieut. AGES, II : IAI re. Nor D a: : u 0 ic r ' master of the u th tt e a 4 , 5 j t u h ne Native , mlrnsi.annit.ry.3,leofearss, on • es, o f a son. —lnc ), ) the La y of Captain ; Ar y of a son. ouse leY , r. At ditto, July 1, the Lady of Lieut. .1. W. j; daugS e hic Professor in the College of Fort William, 0 1 ' lc of t l At Entally, July Mrs. (Iri ,of a son-„ n a lin At Nagpore, June 22 tl.:0 . At Muttra, June 19, the Lady Lieut. H . I-' 10th Native Cavalry, of a son. Y son' geg i " At Calcutta, July 3, Mra J. Cunningham, of a 3a f Cfr La dy ment of Bombay Light 'Cavalry of a son . the At Modendary Factory, Jessore,, June 20, Charles Onion, Es indigo planter,•of son. Esq., '0 13r O il'i MARRIAGES . At Calcutta, June 25, Mr. J. Bidgnall, to 3 11 - o f Co Ham, only daughter of the late Thoinas Ilani, 1-:sq' . a C• Bazar. . of t he v ol) ° At ditto, July 2, Charles Richard /larwell, 1 7, 5 ( 1,,, tx 1 1 Civil Service, to Ellen,daughter of the ~ second Fulcher, Esq. Lady of Lieut. Stack, Esq e'o,ll...irs-rer,viel g I , ' 1 le,eo; b i 01 31C 19--e ' DIED. At Pondicherry, July 7, A. Dulaurens, ES+ 3 t hir ti 0, Council of that settlement. At Spur Tank, Madras (her father's resider) daughter of George Lys, Esq •,-1 9 1 Yea h ,f, n i.t. 113 0 .., a . „,,,t - I At Calcutta, June . 30, the Lady of Lieut. 4- ' - 0 4 Bengal Artillery, aged 21 years and 7 months., 1 year Cel, , ,T i oong,ol3 , At ditto, June 29, Julia Best Goodhall, age" months. 6 01(' the Printed and Published for the PitoPt-la:Tons, lls : 1 1, * - OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, 'by J. 1 '.G.4 MARRIED. i . t isis te t r ' On Monday, the .sth inst., at St. Margaret's, 11 " e- ,,, 11 t e "' Hannibal Sandys jun., of Great Queen:street, Wes'i-sreste° Esq., to Cecilia, ' fourth daaghter of William Speer, of og' in the coanty of Surrey, Esq. 1 On 'Tuesday, the 22d ult., at Kensington, Mr. G. Stlichaei. Mr. ' , monger, of Hull, to Emilia, eldest daughter of Stoltwasser, of Brompton, Middlesex. e V ° At Epsom, Captain William John Williams, late of % yi p regiment, to Louisa, only daughter of the late job° Esq., of Gibraltar. __...*•