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1 7 011EIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. • (From the Gazette de France, Dec.. 20.) TRIESTE, DEC. 10.--. A vessel, which has Waived From the Gulf of Corinth, brings word ttst many of the first families ofilydrahave taken refuge at Poros, to escape the dangers of a'seditinn which has broken out in the former island against Lord Cochrane, who bad asked the Hydriotis for money. Some ships have also. arrived kora Smyrna, which confirm the news that that city was perfectly tranquil, and that business gQt on as in time of peace. The vaptains heard a cannonade in the direction of Scio, and learned that the fort was still - in the /ltras of the Turks.--Augsburgh Gazette. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 6.----Onthe 2d of this month, in the morning, an Egyptian corvette brought its the news of the destruction of the Turkish and Egyptian fleets in the bay of Nayarit]. Since that time the tranquillity of the whole country has re mained the same as if that terrible catastrophe did not interest it. In the afternoon of the 2d, the Echo French corvette brought the confirmation of the event, and orders to the Vestal frigate, stationed in our port, to take on board the Freuchmen and other Europeans who might think it necessary to leave the country. Nobody has taken advantage of this offer. Immediately after two corvettes sailed for Syria and Cyprus, with the same orders, to take on board the Consuls and . sulietts of the European Powers who might desire to emigrute. Mehomet Ali, when he learned tbut the Sultan gave orders for the fleet to put to sea, clearly foresaw what was going to take place. In an interview which he had the day before the receipt of the Trews with M. Mal voire, he told him that it was contrary to his ad.: vice that the Porte had taken this resolution, and that he expected to see his army destroyed, and per haps to learn the death of his son, and of his son-in law, who commanded it. He assured him that, entirely devoted to his master, he would execute ell the orders which be should receive from him, except that of violating the laws of hospitality to wards the Europeans, whose entire tranquillity he would answer for with his head. The fol lowing day he saw only a part of his fears rea lised (Ibrahim was not on board, and the Ad miral, his son-in-law, was not killed); he imme diately sent for his principal officers, communicated the disaster to them ; and added, " t had warned the Sultan and my son of what would happen, and that the English were not Greeks. It is not suf ficient to have men and ships, it is necessary like wise to know b ow to command them and to fight. We are not .yet able to contend with them." At the same time perceiving some Europeans :entering the hall, he called them to him, received them with the same politeness as usual, sent for the commaeder of the Vestal, and loaded him with honours and marks of friendship, in the presence of all the.great men, with a smiling countenance. The object of this conduct, which was perhaps studied, was to divert from the Europeans the anger of the Turks, among whom there might be some fanatics, Who might excite disorder at the first moment. He could not have succeeded better; the opinion of the Vice ; roy has become that of every body. The great Men and the people are only angry with the obstinacy of the Porte, to which they ascribe this misfortune.— Not a word, not a reproach to the Europeans, has proceeded from any mouth. We are, if possible, more quiet than before. May the case be the same in the whole Empire ! The Consuls continue their functions. In a commercial point of view the event opens a more favourable prospect for our affairs. It is not certain that the Pacha gives up the idea of forming another squadron ; but he has declared, that if the war is to continue he will not take any active part in it. He, perhaPs, is"the only person among the Turks who is sensible of the weakness of the Turban against the Europeans. , will be obliged to withdraw • hii • army, which otherwise must perish in .a few months. The operations which the enormous expences of the• war induced him to make with the produce of the country, will . cease with his wants, and it is hoped that the prices will'henceforth feel the effects of his change of policy. (Front the illoniteur of Friday.) ODESSA, DEC. 3.—The communications with Constantinople are now free.. The report of the siege of the fort of Smyrna was a mistake, arising from the attack on Scio. The Ambassadors of the three Powers were still at Constantinople on the 27th November.—Augs burgh Gazette. (Frum the Journal des Debuts of Friday.) AUGSBURGH, DEC. 17.—(8y Express.)—The Universal Gazette of Augsburgh publishes the fol lowing account of the joint Note of th© three Re presentatives of France, England, and Russia, sent to the Reis Effendi on the 10th November, 1827 : " The representatives of the three Allied Courts of France, Great Britain, and Russia, having considered the questions which the Reis Effendi charged their interpreters with addressing to them, have the honour to answer them in the present Note, in the only way compatible with what they believe to be the opinion of our Courts on such a subject. " First question—Will we desist entirely from the Greek question :.__The Representatives would he wanting in their duty and trutty_if in answering this question they did not repeat the declaration already made by them several times; namely, that the firm resolution of their Courts is to main tain the Treaty concluded between them for the pacifica tion of Greece, and to persevere in the execution of the measures which they have in common determined on for that purpose. " Second Question—Will the Ottoman Government be indemnified for the loss of its fleet ?—A demand for in demnity is only admissible so far as it rests on a certain right. But, in the present instance, it is shewn on all hands that the aggression commenced on the part of the squadrons of the Sublime Porte. . . " Third Question.—Will satisfaction he made to the Sublime Poi 'a 7—For the last three years, in all the sepa rative or collective remonstrances for the purpose of suiting their disinterested propositions to the Sublime Porte, the Cabinets have sufficiently shown how far they were from intending to fail in the respect it can justly claim. " Their amicable conduct, their forbearance, and the open declaration which the Representatives have made of the measures which have been pointed out by the High Powers and their Admirals, do Lot leave any cause to doubt the reception which they would give to the demand con tained in the third question of the Reis Effendi. " After thus answering the quesl - on of his Excellency, the Representatives, anxious at the same time to spare no pains to prove to the Sublime Porte the disinterested views of the Powers, and to remove every interpretation which could, after all, have only the most fatal results, have the borour to point out to the Reis Effendi some reflections which they hope may still not be useless to the cause of peace. " The three Cabinets having formed a treaty, the sole object of which is the pacifios4o n of Greece, they have requested the Sublime Porte tow their mediation, and to consent to an armistice. " In mentiouing some of the bases of an agreement be tween it and the Greek people subjected to the horrors of unexampled devastation, they have stipulated nothing con trary to its true interests ; they have only determined the principles of a pacification which, far from tending to dis member the empire, would restore to it the advantages of which it is at present deprived, and would add to it the necessary pledge of its duration. " In leaving to a future negotiation between the con tending parties the care of regulating some other poiats— no doubt important events--they have recognised in the Sublime Porte the right of discussing them, and the power of deciding definitively on this negotiation. " Such are still their sentiments. 'f he continuanee of th e stay of the Representatives at Constantinople, even since the refusal of the Sublime Porte and the representa tions of his Excellency the, Reis Effendi, have rendered it necessary that they should announce and explain to him the measures, the execution of which by the Admirals is, no doubt, with so many other proofs, a striking manifesta tion of the sentiments with which the Powers remain ' . '°:in!lited: For th e sa k e of p e a c e they united to re-establish the i nterest of th e P or t e i n Gr e ece on immutable bases, a nd toisPhreZulfilavneat f at Const an tinople; such is the object of their a Tre a ty w h ic h th e y a re resolved to maintai n and f. 4 , The event of Ilavarin may, at the first moment, when the Il ew , sarriv d ea d .:4,'At Porte, have excited doubts as to the p acific and deplorable views of the Powers. The cause of this of the p Ad a now better • known, and the anxiety Admirals en *i day after the affair—an d 1)1 oftn,tal do euu , anxiety VIM - • " 4, Which have reacivi the Representatives, loiter permit- any interpretations contrary to the assurances which they have just repeated. " Yet the attitude which the Porte has just assumed, and the continuation of which would be incompatible with the maintenance of a good understanding between it and the Allied Courts, has only been calculated to inspire the Re presentatives with the most painful uncertainty, as to the motive of its present intentions. Consequently, always guided by the desire of peace, as far as depends on them— the administration of peace being confided to them—but also convinced of the firm determination of the Courts to re-establish tranquillity in Greece on the sole basis on which it can be assured, they invite his Excellency the Reis Effendi to declare to them, without further delay; what'are the intentions of the Sublime Porte; 'Whether it is disposed immediately to revoke measures contrary tO existing Treaties ; and whether, still further to prove its pacific views, it adheres to the former propositions of the undersigned. (Signed) " Count GUILLEAIINOT. " STRATFORD CANNING. " De RIREAUPIERRE." (From the Courrier Francais.) VIENNA, DEC. 11.—The Austrian Observer pub lishes letters from Smyrna, of the 14411 and 19th of November, according to which every thing was quiet there but'trade was in a deplorable state. The correspondent of the Observer complains bitterly of Colonel Fabvier's attack on' Scio. He says it was on October 28th that the landing took place, in spite of the resistance of some Turkish troops, which had been sent by the Pacha under the orders of Sekir-Emini. On the following day the town of Scio was carried by the Greeks, who forced the enemy to take refugein the citadel. The pillage of the town began immediately, and was continued, ac cording to the correspondent, up to the 301 h. At . two o'clock in the afternoon Lord Cochrane appeared in the Hellas, accompanied by the corvette taken some time before from the Turks. He ap proached the castle, which fired at the frigate, but the latter only fired two guns in return, and then anchored in the roads. 'His Lordship then hoisted an English ensign at the main, a French one at the mizen, and a Russian one at the fore. At the peak, after a short time, the Greek flag was hoisted over the Turkish flag, and a salute of 21 guns was fired, but for what purpose the correspondent does not say. On the 31st October the inhabitants of Scio first learned that Col. Fabvier commanded the 2,000 Greeks, including 700 tacticos (regular troops), who had taken possession of the town. The Aus trian Vice-Consul, whose house was threatened, de manded a guard, but received no answer. The pit laFre continued, and the Castle kept continually firing. On the Ist of November the Vice-Consul repeated his demand, but the Greeks entered his house and pillaged it. He could not find a'person among the Sciotes who would inform the Greeks that in 1822, at the time of the massacre, his house had been the refuge for many hundreds of Greeks, who hatr . been defended by the present Vice-Consul at the risk of his life, and by sacrificing a large quantity of pro perty. When the pillage was over, a guard ar rived, and the Greek Primates declared that they were sorry for what had happened, but that in war such disorders could not be avoided. Col. Fabvier, in the meantime, was threatening the house of the English Consul, from which some musket shots had been fired at the troops ; and at the same time he ad dressed a letter to the French Consul at Selo, threatening to attack the English Consul's house, if he did not receive satisfaction in the course of the day for the shots from that house. On. the 2d November the Greeks erected a battery against the Castle, and the two ships left. After the Greeks had prepared their batteries, they continued their attacks on the Castle, and up to the 11th have made about_l2o prisoners. They begin to .be discouraged, and appear not likely to carry the Castle by force. The same letter adds, that Admiral . de Rigny disapproves of the attack on Scio, and has sent the Ponione, Captain' Reverseaui to induce Col-Fabvier to leave the island. Affairs remained in the same state up to the 16th. The Magicienne left Alexandria on October 22, and at that time the events of Navarin were not known there. (Rona the Journal des Debats of Wednesday.) BUCHAREST, Nov. IB.—Our situation, which probably approaches, is not agreeable. There is here a stagnation . in commerce, while it in some' measure flourishes in Jassy, which is considered as almost subject t , ) Russia. If war breaks out, the Russian troops w►ll find no obstacle till they reach the Danube. The Porte abandons the Principalities, and will not tight but on the right bank of the Danube. These dispositions are fortunate for us— they remove the theatre of war from our country ; ' but, on the other hand, they carry with them this inconvenience, that all who are under the influenceof the Porte, hasten to take advantage of the present moment to annoy us. The presence, of a foreign army is never useful ; but in connecting ourselves even with the interests of Russia we have but a dreary prospect. The Russian army is brave and numerous ; but the Porte possesses also no con temptible means of defence. The marching of an army of 100,000 men will not suffice to conquer it: Privations of all sorts await the invaders ; and the mountains and defiles, which commence at the dis tance of ten miles from the other side of the Danube, offer formidable advantages to the Ottoman armies. The sea shore is bordered with inaccessible rocks, and opposes the greatest obstacles to operations, and to the maintenance of a great army. Forty thousand men will suffice to restrain the Russians, and the Porte has already that number in Bulgaria. 'twill have 200,000 men there in the spring, and the war will occasion the Porte little expellee. It has a reserve of sixteen thousand regular infantry, six thousand regular cavalry, and a park of two hundred pieces of artillery at Constantinople. Two divisions of infantry of 1,000 each, 1,000 horses, and 50 pieces of cannon each, are at Adrianople. A divi sion of regular infantry, and some thousands of irre gular cavalry, are cantoned at Tartakan, between Si listria and Rutschuc•k. It is necessary to add, the levet:: en masse, which is not altogether despicable among the Turks. In tine, the fall of their empire is not so easy nor so near as some affect to believe. As to the Principalities, we are here the depot of the magazines of the Russians. FRENCH FuNns.—Pants, DEC. I9.—Five per Cents. 10If. 80c. ; Three per Cents. 67f. 95c. 68f. 10c.--- Ba►►k Actions, 1985 f. AMERICAN PAPERS. " THE CANADAS.—The Papers from the Province of Upper Canada have lately given us to understand that the British Government has resolved upon cer tain measures petitioned for by the Opposition in that province, the anticipated operation of which has already allayed the discontents which have ex isted there for a few years past. But the indications are less favourable in the Lower Province ; and it will be seen by what follows, that the popular branch of the new Provincial Legislature, just as sembled, will be still further from harmonising with the Governor-in-Chief and his Council than the for mer one. Indeed the House of Assembly has placed itself so directly in opposition to the Governor-in- Chief, and by such an overwhelming majority, that we do not see how it can well retrace its steps. And the Governor-in-Chief having taken an equally de cided course, it is not to be supposed for a mo ment that lie will yield. Such is not the practice of the representatives of the British Crown. The re sult will probably be an immediate dissolution of the Parliament, and the ordering of a new election. " These difficulties, we believe, like those which produced the American Revolution, had their origin in questions of taxation and supplies. And upon no other subjects are English colonies so sensitive." (From the Quebec Official Gazette.) GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. OPENING OF THE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT. THURSDAY, Nov. 22.—0 n the 20th instant, pur suant to Proclamation, his Excellency the Governor in -Chief, with customary state, proceeded to the Legislative Council Chamber, and was there re ceived with the honours usual on this occiif iop, HZ order to open the first Session of the thirteenth prO vincial Parliament of Lower Canada. Several cir cumstances having lately occurred to add consider ►bly to the interest generally felt on this occasion, ,ve shall endeavour .to give our readers as succinct an account of the proceedings as we could readily obtain. The House of Assembly having chosen Mr. Papineau their Speaker, and the Governor-in- Chief having disapproved of their choice, the Speaker of the Legislative Council delivered the following address, desiring the Assembly to retire to their usual place of sitting, and choose their Speaker : " Mr. Papineau, and Gentlemen of the Assem bly--I am commanded by his Excellency the Go vernor-in-Chief to inform you, 'that his Excellency Both not approve the choice which the Assembly have made of a Speaker; and, in his Majesty's name, his Excellency doth accordingly now disallow and discharge the said choice. " And it is his Excellency's pleasure, that you, Gentlemen of the Assembly, do forthwith again re pair to the place where the sittings of the Assembly are usually held, and there. make choice of another person to be your Speaker—and that you present the person who shall be chosen to his Excellency, in this House, on Friday next, at two o'clock, for his approbation. " And I am further directed by his Excellency to inform you, that as soon as a Speaker of the House of Assembly has been chosen, with the approbation of the Crown, his Excellency will lay before the Pro vincial Parliament certain communications upon the present state of this Province, which, by his Ma jesty's express command, he has been directed to make known to them." On the return of the House of Assembly to their own Chamber, Mr. Papineau, the late Speaker, was nominated by Mr. Bourdages; and Mr. Vallieres, who had also previously been. Speaker, was put in nomination by Mr. Solicitor-General. It would ap pear that the friends of Mr. Papineau intended that the election should be carried unanimously and by acclamation in his favour; and, notwithstanding the nomination of Mr. Vallieres, seemed to look down on any division in the body.—A division, however, was called for; and the two persons named having previously retired, 39 were for-Mr. Papineau, and five for Mr. Vallieres. Those for the latter were as follow :—Messrs. Ogden, Stuart, Young, Boisson nault, and Christie. We understand an - this occasion there was no de bate; and neither Mr. Vallieres nor his friends had the least expectation that he would be chosen. That gentleman, we are informed, was himself decidedly averse from being put in nomination; but-having, heretofore, filled the Chair, he was thought by those Members who voted for him a fair andidate for that honour. Yesterday, (Wednesday), Nov. 21st, his Excel lency having again proceeded to the Legislative Council Chamber, and being seated on the throne, the Assembly was sent for by means of the Gen tleman Usher of the Black Rod ; and having taken their place below the Bar, the Speaker elect ad dressed his Excellency in the usual words, acquaint ing the Governor-in-Chief that the choice of the Assembly had fallen on tim, and pleading his own unworthiness in the terms which prescription has established. Shortly after the return of the Members to the usual place of sitting, the doors were thrown open, and the public were allowed to witness the discussion. This was said to be unusual ; but after some observa tions on either side, it was said that there could be DO impropriety in admittieg the public, and the doors were accordingly by universal consent thrown open. Mr. Blanchet maintained " the House was now competent to proceed to the despatch of business— that it had its Speaker—that the concurrence of the person administering the Government was un necessary. They were competent in all intents and purposes. Common sense said so. They were so, until the contrary could be proved. What was to prevent it ? it was good sense—good sense said so." Mr. Bourdages expressed his opinion . that the House was competent ,to proceed to the dis patch of public business, as it had elected its Speaker, and that the disallowance of the Executive was of no consequence.—Mr. Papineau, in the meantime, placed himself in the Chair.—Mr. Neilson and Mr. Bour dages said, the mace ought to be laid on the table.— The Solicitor-General and Mr. Stuart said, that to 4 4 s elsie smelt essotb.er .Spealse e was elected, would be highly improper.—Mr. Cuvillier rose to offer certain Resolutions to the • Speaker, the main purport of which was, that the Assembly might, and of right could, and " ought to elect their own Speakee,„ dependently of, and without reference to, the perton administering the Government of the Province." To this it was objected, that Mr. Papineau, not being Speaker, could not receive any such motion; and that the sole matter that could at the present stage be mooted, was the election of a Speaker, and that this motion could only be removed by the Clerk of the Assembly.—Mr. Quesnel was of opinion, that Mr. Papineau, being Speaker elect of yesterday, was not less so to-day, and therefore, that the mace ought to be laid upon the table. To this it was observed, that the mace yesterday,after the election,lay upon the table under the presumption that the choice of the As sembly would be confirmed; but this presumption being now removed, it could.not lie there until a new choice had taken place. Mr. Cuvillier said that he knew of no instance in the '" Colonies of the re fusal of a Speaker on the part of a person adminis tering the Government; that there were instances of it in England, long ago, in the time of Charles 11. and before, but none since the Revolution.— That history reprobated this act of the King, and that it was held in detestation by all Englishmen, and only recorded in history as a thing hateful to them." Mr. Stuart called upon Mr. Cuvillier to put his finger upon that portion of history which so spoke of it. Mr. Cuvillier said it was so. Mr. Stuart was of a different conviction.—After a desul tory debate and conversation of this kind, Mr. Papineau observed from • the Speaker's chair, that he had for the present only as sumed it to report to the Assembly his Address to his Excellency, the Governor in Chief, when he (Mr. P.) had, with the Assembly, gone up to the Legislative Council, as the Speaker elect, and his Excellency's Answer. This he now accordingly did. After this, Mr. P. sat for some time in the Chair, listening to the debates relative to the pro posed resolutions of Mr. Cuvillier, and the proposi tion that the mace should be placed on the table.— He then rose to say, that having made his report of the occurrences of to-day from the seat in which he had been placed yesterday by a majority of the As sembly, he thought it his duty now to leave it, and fall into the ranks with other members, there to re sume his right of expressing his opinion on the mat ter as he might be advised—that he did not, there fore, think it proper that the mace should for the present be placed on the table. Mr. Papineau upon, this left the Speaker's chair, and retired, we believe, from the room in which the Assembly sits, as we did not afterwards observe him there. The Resolutions of Mr. Cuvillier were then of fered to the Clerk of the Assembly, and the debates continued. The Solicitor General observed, from the journals of the Assembly of Nova Scotia, that in 1806 a case had occurred there, and that a Speaker had been refused by the Lieutenant-Governor of that Province, and that another was elected instead. — Mr. Vallicres declared that it was important to as certain the King's prerogative in the matter, and that he would rather forfeit his life than interfere • with it. That it was also equally important to ascer tain their own privileges, and that he Would also then as soon lose his life as forego them—that he be lieved the Assembly had the sole and exclusive right of naming its own Speaker, and that the person administering the Government could not annul their choice—that if he could do it for once, that he could do it in rotation for the whole fifty Members, of which the House is c omposed.— An Administration desirous of preventing the Pro iastesshtinyt- the necessary that the ceremony of asking publicbusiness vin th il e giche Co ts dfr s oo, e im r t n i o dn t i • st 's hp confirmation of their'choice of the Speaker elect was mere form, - and no more;- and that es x prof that it WM 60, he *Quid merely re mind the House, that etiquettg required that the Speaker should crave freedom of debate; could any, onc, however, imagine for a moment, that if the King were to refuse this rational request, that the Commons were, on this account, the less entitled to that freedom ? Mr. Vigar " was of opinion that the person administering the Government, could not, by his disallowance of their choice of a Speaker, annul that choice. That it was mere form—that be thought time House competent to proceed to the despatch of business,. without the concurrence by the administrator of the Government in the choice which the House had made." lie appeared to us to speak with great vehemence, and shook his finger, as if threatening some one. Mr. Nelson said, the " House was competent, and business must now go on until a prorogation should take place." After much debate of this kind, the Members,with out coming to a close on the proposed Resolutions, on the - motion of Mr. Labrie, adjourned until to-day, at ten in the forenoon. The above sketch of a debate, which will hereafter be considered of no little importance and novelty, is from recollection; arid, therefore, may not be exactly correct as to the order of the successive ►peakers. For the substance we may safely pledge OW selves. This day at ten o'clock, A .M. the House met, and the debate on Mr. Cuvilliers's Resolution was con tinued. On the question being called for, the Members were—for Mr. Papineau 40 ; against 4. Messrs. A. Stuart, Young, Christie, and Ogden, formed the minority, The House having thus persisted in its former choice, the. presence of the Speaker was required; and he was conducted to the chair. • • Mr. Ogden objected, and the Speaker said, that since the House had persiSted in its choice, he should not hesitate to take the chair. The fotir Members above named then left the House. Mr. Vallieres read the draft of an Address, to in form his Excellency that the House persists in its former choice. This Address is to be presented to morrow at one o'clock. Mr. Vallieres, we understand, went up with the messengers to the Chateau this day, to ask at what time it would please his Excellency to receive the Address of the House.' The answer may be antici pated—that no Message or Address could be re ceived or communicated to the Members until a Speaker had been appointed with the approbation of the Crown. The Assembly are adjourned until to-morrow. The following is a copy of Mr. Cavillier's resolu tions, who has the merit of this violation of the Pre rogative and the Constitution : " Resolved, I. That it is necessary for the dis charge of the duties imposed upon this House, viz. to give its advice to his Majesty in the enactment of laws for the peace, welfare, and good government of the Province, conformably to the Act of the British Parliament, under which it is constituted and as sembled--that its Speaker . be a person of its free choice, independently of the will and pleasure of the person entrusted by his Majesty with the adminis tration of the local Government for the time being . " 2. That Louis Joseph Papineau, Esq., one of the Members of this House, who has served as, Speaker in six successive Parliaments, has been duly chosen by this House to be its Speaker in the pre sent Parliament. " 3. That . the Act of the British Parliament, under which this House is constituted and assembled, doer, not require the approval of such person so chosen as Speaker, by the person - administering the government of this Province in the name of his Majesty., "1. That the presenting of the person so elected as Speaker to the King's Representative for approval is founded on usage only, and that such approval is, and Math always been, a matter of course. " 5. That this House cloth persist in its choice, and that the said Louis Joseph Papineau, Esq., ought to lie and is the Speaker." NEW YORK.—CoTToN.—The business in this article, since our last publication, has been on a limited scale; prices generally have ruled rather loWer than those then announced. Old crop Uplands to 91 and 10 cts. for export, chiefly 8,1 to 9i cts. on tiipe. New crop Uplands 10 to 10i and 11 cts., mostly taken for home use at 10 and cts. on credit. Uplands (01d)...1b. Si alO N. Orleans prime Do. (new)... 10 all (new) lb. 13 a 13 . New Orleans (old) 10 al2 Tennessee 9a 10 Alabama P r fii& L 017' 'F•TOCK.A. —Nov. 30. offd. asked, United States Sixes, 1813 - 1814 lO3l 103 1815 lO3l 104) Fives, 1832 108) 1835 lO9 109; United States 4i 1831 lO2 - Threes Bl 87i Canal Fives, 1837 lOB 109 102 1231 Corporation Sixes United States Bank • DOVER, DEC. 23.—Arrived this morning early the Royal George steam-packet, Captain HA YWARD, from Calais, hired exclusively for the conveyance of a Mes senger from Constantinople, who is reported to he the bearer of important despatches from Mr. STRATFORD CANNING ; tie Messenger proceeded immei:iately for Lon don. The wind changed this morning to the North, and the outward-bound ships, so long detained in the Downs and at Ramsgate, have been passing to the westward durbig the whole day. Don MIGUEL arrived at Paris on Wednesday. On the following day, at 11 o'clock, he waited upon the Kix° and Royal Family at the Tui'levies. His visit lasted till one o'clock. He afterwards dined with the Royal Family, and in the evening attended a play in the theatre of the Court: His Royal Highness is said to have been well received by the Court of France. He is lodged at the Palace of the Elysee Bourbon. Accordhig to letters from Northumberland, received this morning, the 'weather is that quarter has for the last two or three weeks been remarkably boisterous, accoMpanied with heavy rains. In the neighbourhood of Kelso, there Wit: an awful thunder storm on Saturday, the 18th inst. a somewhat unusual phenomenon at this season of the year. Except exciting alarm, no injury was done. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday last the Balloon Birmingham coach, on its way from that town to London, when near a village called Shenley, in Staffordshire, four miles from Stony Stratford, on a very level road, and travelling at a moderate quick rate, sud denly upset, and precipitated the guard, coachman, and outside passengers to a considerable distance, with the ex ception of one gentle:nan, who, unfortunately for him, was not thrown far from the vehicle, but was entangled with it, a part of which fell upon his body, which crushed hini so shockingly that he was taken up in a dreadful state, quite insensible, and conveyed to the Inn at Shenley, where surgical assistance was promptly procured, but the surgeon gave little hopes of his recovery, and he now lies there in a very precarious state. The other passengers and guard escaped with little injury, but the coachman was severely hurt. It is said that the overthrow was occa sioned by the coach being so heavily laden with Christmas parcels, which swayed it over, and that no blame can be attached to the driver. It is not yet ascertained who the unfortunate sufferer is who lies at Shenley. The 'each, after being raised,' proceeded to town, but arrived two hours after its usual time. HORRIBLE MURDER.--The neighbourhood of Brisley, in Norfolk, was, on Monday last, thrown into a state of consternation by a report .of the body of a boy, named WILLIAM MOORE, about thirteen years of age, having been shockingly mangled, and under circumstances which immediately led to the conclusion that a murder of the most dreadful description had been committed. The most active steps were immediately taken to discover the perpetrator of the inhuman act. On Tuesday and Wed nesday last an Inquest was held at the Bell Inn, Nisley, by F. T. Quattus, Gentleman, Coroner for the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster, on the body, when, after an examination of the witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict of .. Wilful Murder against JoHN KENNEY ;" who was forth with towarrant) that gaolto Nboyr and wa,(yuesndteerrdtalym conveyed to wich C a stle ; it k ted eeper of Swaffham Bridewell....—/Vorfolle Chronicle. ,Z,l -c;Zt - *Ai LONDON. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1827• A messenger arrived, last night, at the Foreign Office, Downing. street, with despatches from Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, dated Constantinople, 28th November, at which time the SULTAN had not relaxed in his disposition. The Ambas= sailors were, therefore, preparing to depart in a few days, unless affairs took aSavourable turn. We have received, since our last, the Paiis Papers:of Thursday and Friday, and the Gazettes de France dated Saturday and yesterday. They contain a variety of intelligence of high interest from Constantinople, via Odessa and Bucharest, which had reached Paris through the medium of the German Papers ; and although it does not positively decide the grand question on which the anxiety of the whole of Europe is now placed, it leaves even less hope than before, that the PORTE will be induced to accede to the terms proposed by the Allies. We must refer our readers to the copious extracts which we have given in other columns for all the details which the French Papers give, and the copy of a note sent by the Allied Ambas sadors to the REIS EFFENDI, in reply to the questions which he had put to :-- Ist. Whether the Greek cause would be entirely dropped. 2d. Whether an indemnity would be given for the Fleet destroyed at Navarin. 3d. Whether satisfaction would be made to the Porte. The replies of the Ambassadors to these questions were consistent with the principles upon which they had previously acted—but firm and resolute. This note was dated so long back as the 10th ult., and nothing parti cular seems to have occurred till the 24th, when the Allied Ambassadors, wearied by the continued procrastination of the Po RTE, demanded the joint conference with the REIS EFFENDI, the r esult of which was com municated to our Government by Mr. STRAT FORD CANNING'S despatches, which were re ceived a week ago, dated in the evening of the day on which it took place. It is now stated in an article from Bucharest, dated the Ist inst., on the authority of accounts from Constantinople to the afternoon of the 25th, that Count GUIL LEMINOT spoke for the three Ministers, and used every effort to show to the REIS EFFENDI that it was the true interest of the PORTE to comply with the propositions of the Powers, or else to declare openly and seriously if it would accept or reject the mediation. The REIS ET FENDI, on his part, appeared to avoid every thing which would decide the question, and en tered into a long dissertation upon the right of interference in the affairs of Greece, and upon the demands of the PORTE relative to the affair of Navarin. The discussion became animated and was so much prolonged as to weary the pa tience of the Ambassadors, one of whom ex claimed, " You wish for war—You shall have war." The conference terminated without any precise result. The French Ambassador retain ed the hope that the PORTE would ultimately yield, but the Ambassadors of Great Britain and Russia entertained a different opinioll at eleven at night, however, it is ai that the PORTE sent for the Dragomo of the three Powers to make proposals them, of the nature of which, or upon what the, were founded, was unknown at the departure the courier ; but it was equally unknown whet her they were in consequence of the conference °I the day, or of the joint note which the Ainbo,' sadors, on their return from the Palace, hay' signed at the house of Mr. CANNING, at Sit o'clock the same evening. By this note, it is said, that the PORT gas again invited, Ist, to acknowledge a gene r3l tir ; mistice in Greece ; 2d, to make sonic tivirh concessions with the Greeks in accorder ° e '413 the treaty of the 6th July. A period of th le r there was fixed on for the determination 0 ' to points. If, after that time, no answer was g ilen the Ambassadors, or if they should only giT e u p evasive one, their intention was to quit the ca r This is exactly the point up to which the in' e l ligence which our Government received last "et extended, and no farther. We have, thereW whic h ti e stilt to wait for the final decision on great question rests. The measures t ake r by the Ambassadors, after this conference, sl that they considered matters as hopeless. A his STRATFORD CANNING had recomnie n-ea t 1% countrymen at Constantinople to the rove aod Lion of the Minister of the Netherlan ds ' the Ambassadors of France and Russia ha d fidcd the subjects of those countries to th e c ite of the Spanish Minister. and Consul ° f t d Netherlands. A courier had also been desp atched ° to the French and itussian Admirals at SO The brought to that r ° n 6 which gtin is n all u es wi ( l ) l approveov\ of. Forbearanc e o patience have been exhausted, and the first P r ei l ciple of the Treaty of the 6th of July, oalnelY, termination of bloodshed in Greece, calls l eoi °r i termination of conferences which have air occupied so much time, during whi ch the 'IO d happy inhabitants of Greece have been stilliectii 81 to the merciless treatment of the Turkish e, Egyptian armies. Greece calls aloud for 01110 diate interference, and the Allied Powers 11:ut, carry into effect their plighted declarations, °us ever the consequences may be. We have no room for observations on o tif events at Scio, for which we must refer to extracts. The French Funds havaidiecliec4l having been as low as 67f. 55c. on SattirdoP . , j b° a note which accompanied the express stlite4l et a at three quarters p a st three they were at 67f. _ , to We received last night New York P o r i. '" Wa- j , the 2d inst. Congress was to assemble 0 e c a tb si ington on the 3d inst., and it was eq- -te I , the Session would be More than usually twil l ed, as many impo4ant.subjeCts are to be broP%. under its consideration. We are sorry. to learn by these Papers ths t e . disputes between the Government of the nadas and the Colonial Legislature are still g° itS on, and arc likely to lead to still mor e ser) : consequences: His Excellency the Gover°°l in-Chief did rot approve of the Speaker 511°s e to by the House of Assembly, and desired thP% 6 select another person for that office; but to House persisted in its choice of Mr.rt till ' i r tv it o; and re-elected that Gentleman by a M a j cl.- Ha te 40 to 4. The particulars of this un tbrtti d i s , matter, which will probably lead to a nothe r solution of the Canadian Parliament, are 0 1 in another column. Brussels Papers of the 22d inst. have been re ceivcd this morning, but they contai n notll of importance. An article from the Austria!: Observer gives a deplorable account of the e ? " <, cesses committed at Scio by the Greek f°r ce 'i from which it would appear that the flags :h s a : t — t - h e voluminous to / l egal e u h i a s : s dt ql u pt I l i r ot s si i ti e s yt io wt ei h itn i b c sthoeugsteivtesranfletCyounlsltdileartetshdeiidr p n r o o t t et, protect on. those v,T e f s : ti ti , j c o ar il r nV y e i e n xi g et: O a n nc against an Englishman, whO is ar restedg Brussels, and accused of numerous and extensive aerj swindling by means of forged letters of credit and bil.; a ex ti c o h n an is g s e t , il lareexpneecaterldywcoi tnhelruedgeaili,d son of Charles Deane, aged 30, a gentleman bore 0" Os :s"nl differentkKeevhiueanddolgdon the' h dividnal, who now takeashvuethibbeeeannndacnoolemf s o m f airt A athed ni w y u a nii s di ll ciain e r au ttc si ii ; frauds in th is i C n arl e t i ha a t n o d f th c e o p lo r n is e o l n A er . had . ph:I:dr!: fees' , * p rl t a i t an it le o s t . terdain, that of litsr and in other the t f i hsh M e n r :a c j n iaoi at cities 7 speC The Austrian Observer says that the Orielli a ' a fte r , tator, which r e - a ppeared on the 17th of November, d a d the expiration o f the time for which it had.been 6°5 1 8 t, by order of the French Ambassador at Constantivq,"l:efe gins with a declaration of the Editors, Messrs. . 1 " fi i,ei,' and Vigoureux, in which they say that they wil l z;11 UP their object to publish the truth, without distirietilo. parties or passions; that they are folly sensible of tbe d d, c p u ro lt c i c el ed of wi t t h h e t t i a le sk gr w e h at i t c s h t e th a e u y tio h n av i o n n .e n x tl a e m r i t n ak in e g u, i 4 n e te i ; which pass before their eyes, in order to 'enliglitea P , p i opinion and not to influence it. ' 54 Speaking of the fi rst proceedings of the Greeks si ifill they say, " Letters from Scio of the 11th inform as, i i ii the chief occupation of the Greeks since their landh i ,l3o consisted in plundering and laying waste'the country;, 41 respected neither the persons nor the houses ,„°' 1 1 Consider Agents, to whom the flags of the Octito which they represent no longer afford prod against violence. The dwelling of the French PS 0, M. Fleurat, has been invaded and ransactente houses of the Austrian and English Agents 110, 0 t ,. , plundered from top to bottom, and one of the sere, ' O 4 the latter killed by his side. The Neapolit an Ag7;stir. old man, nearly eighty years of age, was treats" o ttr worse ; he was so severely beaten, that fears are,',. e , taiued for his life. All the property of the Cii" . ii s without exception, was given up to plunder. ' . A ,j, aex t, a rr m e great e number o In the year 1822, when 30,000 Turks froM the i - ille coast invaded the unfortunate island of S c i o , tilt," hoisted upon the houses of the Consular Agents Weii to e cient to defend them against every attack. These it, ° ,,g o afforded a safe as g y iv l e u i m th to e " which were respected by a crowd thirsting for rP O "./ tONow 2000 Greeks, under the command of an. P'i e ' General, have for these flags, which lad saved many thensinds' ° „e countrymen, and even ventured to lay viole n t . hantissepte ash o il f ia G e ree ful k :l 4 l . i the Agents of those my p ower ,. which,hoe loi gether for the liberty. Two 'Nand, which a their conntryrr Hie R oyal armed here yi probably make with consta to receire • RI that city. " ch:the debate, inb* r of di. , Th e f o l io P apers of ti The Salta' 4-.:ll`cated. from !,nzie a tnilita': imp o , ed u 3 I)°n — Ch -° J° O O, and t thel s : v :e or n S a c i w h i. i n s A i ' it of Justice, A conntrieg, in confirenceB : will be coranti bod, 4 f the , as.. 'This hung the mule r ,, ci rubl e k , } eats ', It i, ina Th e font n . - ` lO d e ji Brazili an Ai we are told firth t guns Pott 4r the last .„ - whuout 1 , rYates private( ,i , r n , e ' of the 1. 4 a"''l 4(111 brig„ 'l4 MA ‘. the • roads diem Gi 6r aha been receive in g. His : riv e d • ill and Pro„t W e rece, fron h e xtract D " fr o ., Zonth t 7 l / flea % 11 " t at He ea fug ti rtip "Rured E ' thaac at gYpt ; '44a44euti T The r 4 nople cm ! 8 3.4: Canning COliso PRICES or STOCKS 'mils Rank Stock ••..... 205.74 'I per Cent. Red. • 8 3% % tier Cent. Cons. .... , shut •IY . per Cent. ' 90% Ditto Red •P0%%14 1 per Cent. New — shut Ditto, 1923 Bank 1...1 Ann. l9 1-16 India Stock shut Ditto Bonds B7 Eh pin. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, b pet - cent 9l Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds, II pet ct. Colombian Bonds" 23% Ditta, 1824 , Danish, 3 per colt Greek Bonds Ditto, :825 Guatemala Maxicare Bonds Do. 1t325 47 5•? DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, Xl,BOO pd. 57 55 pm, Ditto ...... 500 2d. 57 55 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial —pm. Bank for Account India for Account .... . 2lB 4 Cons. for A c. 'Ms DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, VMS Peruvian Bonds 2W ? 5 Portuguese Bonds 71% Prussian, 5 per cent. ..... — Ditto, New Russian, New 51 1 34 1 7/ON Swinish, 1821 JON ii French Rentas, sp. c. —f. —c. Exchange -f. -c. 3 pt-i cent —t. Exchange —t. —c. Per Share. 273 97 96 95 20% '2O 4:75 17 16 3.?4 4 17% !KS.--DUBLIN, DEC. 21. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irl:h Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings N FUNDS. , 90 I.lo.—Rank Shares, 1O&) , 90—Bank Shares, 100”, I, 90`1.16.—Bank Shares, 106?. Arrived. Due. O Hambnrgh O Holland 1 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward lelandb O Lis!eon O Malta 0 O Mexico 0 2 Waterford 0 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iis. at 51. Nu.) £B5 Brazilian Mining Co. (14s. at U. pm.) 20 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at U. pm.) 20 Real del Monte Mining Co. United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 35 General Steam Navigation Co l3 Hibernian Joint Stock Banking Co 25 PRICKS OF IRISH woe Bank Stock 244M Consols, 3 per cent. Goy. Stock, *i per cent.... 89% Ditto, New 4 per Cent. Goy. Deb. 3i,4; per cent. Royal Canal ritock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent --- Ballast Office I)cb. 4 i. ct. AUSTRIA 2 VIrSNA, DEC. la—Metalliques, 11.—Metalliques, 12.—Metalliques, MA: Arrived. Duo. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 2 Dublin O Flanders 1 1 France O Gltteriburgh 2 O Guernsey & Jersey 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORILOW. Morning... 9 minutes after 7.1 Eyening....36 minutes after 7. VINTRI WARD. Resolved Unanimously, Dec. 24, ltit7. THAT the thanks of this Wardmote be given to the Right Honourable MATTHIAS PRIME LUCAS, Lord Mayor of the City of London, for the im partiality with which he has presided at the Election of Ward Officers en the continued vacancy of an Alderman of this Ward, and they cannot omit the gratification of noticing his long-tried and faithful services, encouraging every object which could promote the interest and welfare of his fellow Citizens. His amiable and upright conduct in social life, thereby justifying their choice in selecting him to fill the high and, important office of Chief Magistrate of this great and opulent City. Carried unanimously, That the Thanks of this Ward- Jnote be given to Thomas Whitby, Thomas Conway, John Combs, Thomas Crook, Charles Ingall, Chapman Mar shall, Henry John Elmea, Thomas Marsden, and George Marten, the late Common Councilmen of this Ward, for their faithful services during the past year. THOS. BURDON, Ward Clerk, pro. tem. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We thank a Correspondent for his friendly Letter, inclosing two Extracts. His observations are too just