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SHIP CANAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. " Hie niger est."—HORACE. t 1 That man is a coal merchant! " Stu—lf there is any one circumstance which • 4.l:bitters the life of the peasant in the West of England, it is the want of feel. The in of those districts in which ' the collieries are situated can scarcely form an idea of the niisery ruperadded to poreety which is universally felt whenever the mee k e d with an unusual severity of season. Indepen dent of this natural evil; the supply of coals in all inland situa torse rests solely with the monopolist, who, •by the power of ....eneive capital, and by possessing likewise the means of ~sort, can regulate the price of this imnortant'articlefxictly ,nay suit his own interest, and irthus enabled to levy eespe- ,ies of tare upon the whole population.. It is, therefore, no ways entewordinaty that the agitation of such a measure as " The !:Testern Ship Canal" should create an alarm in a quarter • where the whole internal trade of Somersenshire has been en grossed-for so many years past; and the opposition which has been attempted tends more than any other fact to establish the utili•.7 of this truly national undertaking. Witriont referring to the towns of Taunton and Bridge water, both of which must experience an incalculable increase of commerce, if we survey that part of the country through which the summit level is proposed to pass, and continue on towards the southward, it will, perhaps, be difficult to find a district in England which more requires the advantages of in-' land communication. The various towns and villages 'in the centre of Sornersetshire are full of labouring poor, unemployed in manufactures, exposed to all the miseries of a rigorous cli mate, without the means of obtaining fuel, and subject to all those disadvantages which must ever result from an overstocked and increasing population. In treeing the river Axe to its con flue:ice with the sea, we find a beautiful valley, on which it may be said, that Providence hes doer every ainc, and man nothing. Blessed wi.h a fertile soil, a delightful climate, and easy com munications with the capital anti the north of Somersetsitire, it may .fairly be asked,. why it should exhibit such universal symptoms of decay and want of improvement? The answer is, I nem the absence of that grand stimulus to commercial enter prize, internal navigation, and from the resident Landowners on both banks having hitherto been satisfied with living in a somi-baronical state, receiving rents from their tenants as they weald homage from their vassals, and withholding those ad vantages u-hich the increased progress of civilization and know ledge has effected in other parts of England. These observations will appear the more forcible from the probability that the port of - Moridurtitn, under the Romans, was 'situated at the mouth of the Axe, and from the vestiges of buildings at this moment allowed to he covered with a mass of shingle. If the public works of that great nation may be al lowed to influence our judgment, we may conclude that, in this instance, they exhibited their usual good sense and know ledge of mechanical' principles. How sadly has their proverb " Naturans segnere," been perverted in the present day !- The natural course of the stream is permitted to lose its original force by its rectangular windings; and the result of all the arti ficial means hitherto employed has only produced a depth of about eight feet, high water spring tides. In place, therefore,. of those advantages which this river possessed thirteen centuries ape), .we now only find an expenditure without return— a liar bon r without water. On the opposite side of this beautiful bay, nature has formed - 3- Cove, cf all others best calculated for the construction of a harbour. Independent, therefore, of those advantageS, so clearly detailed by Captain Nicholls, the employment of a po= aoalation of 1,890 souls, and the introduction of those habits which must arise from a well regulated commerce, and an ex tension of the fisheries, these must be allowed points of so im portaet a consideration, that the formation of a port at Beer is alone more than ten time: equivalent to all the imagined evils complained of by a few interested ope one its, aided and abetted by monopolists of any description. Great and striking as must be the advantages of this truly• national work, it is the more necessary that the public should be, aware of - the obligation due to that highly respected Nohleman whose sanction has been so freely given, and under whose aus pices the Undertaking cantot fail of success. To him no per sonal inducement of the most distant profit can ever be attri- - bitted ; and, by allowing the Company to avail themselves of his private Act for the 11-arbour at Beer, his memory must desetnul. to future ages as a public benefactor of his country_. • Amongst "the sapient ten," whose resolutions have been given • to the world at the last .Chard l‘lecting, it is a matter of great' regret to find the name of a worthy Magistrate to whom the East of Devon owe many obligations. No man, by actual experience better knows the wants and necessities of the lower classes ; no man is more aware of the evils occasioned by their want of em- ploymente That he should . coalesce with coal jobbers, lime bizeni . rs, and internsted attornies, against the public good- . that he should oppose. himself to the general voice expressed fry every town in his vicinity—that he should not have tact ennttgh to see . be has united with a beaten party—these are cir ca:l:stances not at all consistent'with the usual tenor of his con- To classical scholars, classical allusions are always ac teptable, and it is a satisfaction to know that, like the superan- 1 eloated Prium in Virgil's Oncid. Tt•lurn imfidle sine ictu. Oon,;ecit. in odrer words, as translated for the benefit of Country en tlern en, " Every e f fort to oppnee the Canal ha: been intfectual." I-low far the sapient ten are entitled to tho character of wis- 1 -dom. tbcir own report, as analized in your last Journal, fully CY.O mph fies One inconsistency is, however, so glaring, that 2..10 ough it has been frequently alluded to, it seems to demand universal publicity and explanation :—lf the Canal is to prove "w id and visionary" in its expected revenue, it is to be pre stimt d it will not be used; and if it is not used, how can-the nurse yof seamen be impeded ? The absurdity of two such oppoAte assertions must be self-evident. It requires, however, no great prophetic powers to be enabled to predict, that, on the eoutrary, the Canal will prove a new opening for the most ex • tended commerce, and that himdreds of sailors, who are now mere navi . gaters of the Bristol Channel and the coasts of Wales, will find an employment never before laid _ open to tli-_m, by an additional outlet leading to the coasts of France, the Netherlands, and even to the Baltic. In order to enlighten the framer of this sapient Report, I I shall terminate as I began, with a quotation from Horace— () te, .#*" 4 ** cerebra. " Oh ! there has been mach throwing about of brains." HA MLET, Act 3, Sec. C. I have the honour, Mr. Editor, to sign mysc.df. NALITICUS. Taunton, 28th March, 1825. Duti.PitsvittiTED.—Satiirday mornin,g;,betwoon five and Aix o'clock, as a party of the road patrol were coming oir fluty at their station near Clapham - Common, they observed tour ceriages draw up, froal which several gentlemen descended, and immediately walked to a retired part of the common. The petrol, suspecting that thcy_were about to proceed to hostilities, directly followed them, and on coming up, one of the gentle- Men appeared to be measuring the ground, whilst another was engaged in loading a case of pistols. The conductor of the patrol on perceivin! , these insignia of warfare, jumped over the. wall which divided him from the combatants, and, in the King's name, charged them to desist. One of the principals (as he proved to be; questioned the officer's authority, when thedatter produced his staff, and giving a pre.concerted signal, the remain der of the patrol jump e.l in, and the four persons actually con cerned, namely, the principals and seconds, were taken into custody, and were subsaqa;ently bound over to keep the peace, -before George Harrison, Esq. a Magistrate of the County. The •rinzipala were, T. Fetherstone, Esq. and Capt . La wre nce , R.N. The former seconded by Mr. T. Irvine, the latter by • Major Jones, of the East India Company's service.—(Morning • Part!. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE• - Yesterday morning, about half past six o'clock, a waterman named Peek, of Waterloo-'bridge, bed his,attention attracted by a young wo man, who, after walking backwards and forwards on the bridge 'in a very melancholy mood, rat - Int:l the balustrades, and precipitated herself into the water. He instantly - made an alarm, and with another waterrnan named Fitzgerald, pro ended to her assistance in their boats. They commenced drag ging for the bode, and in about tan minutes succeeded . in getting her oat of the water, in a .tote of insensibility, but 1),:; , proper remedies being resorted to she was soon recovered, wheat she cried very Match and said, that she had been driven to the . rash attempt upon match, life through extreme distreas, and Shu would rather die that' live, as life had heeome a burden td•lier.: She stated, that sl:e'liaed in Druryaane, where she had a thflii which she was una'ole to support. The waterinanwPWK, 'hamanely accompanied her -home, and delivered her' to her, , another, a poor aged woman, who was excessively overcome; by , grief when informed of her daughter's rash determinatio4.anti• she was left tinder her care in a weak condition. y• A. circular has been received at, the different . Police Offices of the. Metropolis, from the Secretary of the Home Department, orde:irg a return of the number aof persons aim- , initted as vagrants for the last 12 months from their respective establishments.; ankalso a specification.of the different crimes, the perpetration of which has made them amenable to the pe nalties of the Vagrant Att. • .Nire understand these returns have -been ordered preparatory to some contemplated alteration in the ~present Act. BARBADOES PAP ER:q. We have received Barbadoes Papers to the 18th of February, from which we make the fol rowing extracts:,-- ( From the Barbadoes Globe, Feb. 17. ) Yesterday morning arrived his Majesty's ship Egeria, 20 days from Plymouth, last from Madeira, having on board two Commissioners and two King's Messengers, destined for South America. The mail boat Mary, which arrived yesterday, passed Guad aloupe on the 10th'inst. and Martinique on the 12th inst. Saw lying at the former place a 33 gun frigate; at St. Piere, a 62 gun ship, and a 22 gun corvette; at Fort Royal, 1 line of battle ship, I vessel of 64 guns, 2 small frigates, and 2 brigs. ( From Me Barbadian, Feb. 15.) An ordination was held on Sunday last by the Lord Bishop of Barbadocs, at the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. Michael. When Mr: Mark Thomas, lately from England, was ordained Deacon, and the Rev. Bryan Morse (son of the late Enoch Morse, - Esq. of this island), lately arrived from Demerara, was Ordained to the priesthood. An excellent and well-adapted ordination sermon, describing the origin and progress of the Christian Church, and.the several offices of the Ministry, and exhorting the Ministers and people to a due performance of their respective duties was preazhed by Archdeacon Parry. The very numerous congregation assembled on the occasion were ;;ratified bY witnessing an assembly perfeOtly novel in this part of the -world, and of a highly interesting and impressive cha racter. • _ _ The Lord Bishop of this diocese has been I)leascd to appoint John Chase Eversley, Esq. tp the office of Episcopal Begistiar. Sir Henry= Warde has irft the Island of ,Barbadoes on a tour ofinspeetion of the garrisons in the Leeward Islands. J. B. Skeet, Esq. is sworn into the administrationof government. The execution of D'Egville, convicted of the murder of his wife;took place yesterday in the jail-yard. lie expressed great contrition for the sins of his past life, but persisted o the last moment in declaring his innocence of the crime for which he was about to suffer. The Rev. William Marshall Hart, Rector of the parish of St. Lucy, and the Rev. J. B. Pindar, A.M., are appointed Domestic Chaplains to the Lord Bishop of this diocese. • r From the Barbadian of Feb. 4.) The Clergy of this island waited upon the Lord Bishop on - Wednesday last at his residence (Gibraltar), when Mr. Granett, the Senior Rector, read an address, congratulating his Lord 'ship on his appointment to the See of Barbadoes, and his ar rival amongst us. To their address his Lordship replied in an extemporaneous effusion, with considerable feeling, and in so gracious a manner as to afford the highest gratification to the Reverend Gentlemen. His Majesty's yacht Herald, Captain Lecke, sailed yester day,morning for Jamaica, with the Lord Bishop of that Dio cese and suite, and would, we understand, touch at Martinique. THE ARMY. In conforrnit7 with the recent Order from the War Office the undermentioned Depots, now at Albany Barracks, are directed to proceed to Portsmouth for garrison duty r—of the 18th, 28th, 32d, 51st, 85th, and 90th Regiments.—The follow ing Depots are ordered to Gosport :—of the 36. h, 80dr, and 95th Regiments. The corps to which these depots belong are sta tioned in the Mediterranean. _ . _ The 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons will embark the 14th instant, at Bitldeford, for Waterford. - • The 10th Royal Regiment has received orders to march from Bailinrobe to Waterford, and embark on board the ves sels that conveyed there the 14th Light Dragoons from Bidde ford. . _ _ The Ist Regiment of Dragoons is ordered to march from Piershin Barracks to Portpatrick, for the purpose of embark ing, about the sth instant. for Ireland. The sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards has received orders to embark at Dundalk fo► Scotland. From last Saturday's London Garotte.) IV - err -Office, Apr:l 8. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Paymaster J. Wardell, from half-pay 24th Light Dragoms.pto be Paymaster, vice Tal ion. deceased. 27t4 , ,Pegiment of Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. Hare, to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Henry, who retires. .11xxrracnED.—Major W. P. De Bathe, from the 05th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by purchase, vice Lieutenant-Colonel G. Henderson. who retires; Lieutenant Lord G. A. Hill, from the Royal Horse Guards, to be Captain of n Company, by purchase, vice Captain G. Coles, who retires. llns PITAL STAFF.—Hospital-A s sistant H. G. Parker), M.D. to be Assistant. Surgeon to the Forces, vice Doherty, ceased ; Paterson, Gent. to be Hospital-Assistant, vice Parkcn. ME MORA follow,ing appointments, as stated in the Gazette of the 25th January, last, have not taken place:- 40th Foot, Ensign R. Gardiner, from the 37th Foot.to be Lieu tenant, without purchase ; 37th Foot,.CornetlGrant, from half pay lath Light Dragoons. to be Ensign, vice Gardiner, pro moted in the 48th Foot. The. Army rank of Captain R. Hart, of the 6th Foot, has been antedated to March I, 1015, that be ing the date of his original nomination to a Company by the Commander of the Forces in India, but he is not to be allowed to receive any back-pay. Office of Ordnance, April 9, 1825. Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet Major T. Cunningham., to he Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Henderson, who retires; Se cond Captain and Brevet Major A. Thompson, to be Captain, vice Cunningham; First Lieutenant W. M. Gossett, to be Se cond Captain, vice Thompon ; Second Lieutenant H. Tucker to be First Lieutenant, vice Cosset. _ _ CoMmissions signed by Lords Lieutenants. Dorsetshire Militia—C. A. Emery to be Lieutenant, vice Cook, promoted. 23th or gtirEngshire Militia—J. Skelton, Gent. to be Lieu tenant, vice Robertson, deceased. WorCestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—the lion. A. Southwell, to be Lieutenant. ROYAL NAVY, &r. Porta SHOTITII, ArnlL 9.—The following is an extract of a letter teem Malta, dated March 7, (via Marceilies) :—" The Alacrity sails immediately for Smyrna ; the Hind, for Corfu; and the Medina, with provisions for Santa. Maura. Major Lsing is arrived for a passage to Tripoli. Sir Thomas Reed, • for his Consulate at Tunis, is daily expected." The Ferret, 'lO, Capt. Hobson, will go out of Harbour on Monday, and sad shortly afterward for the Jamaica station. About sixty sail% of valuable shipping which had been de tained here nearly a month by prevailing easterly winds, pro ended this morning for the River, with a slight air from the NorthAvestward.The Morgiana and Dauntless sloops of war, lately purchased out of the Nary, are among them. They are to he repaired and fitted for the Colombian service. The Aurora, of 46 guns, Captain John Maxwell, was last week fitted with a main-mast on Sir Robert Seppings' plan.— This mast is composed of a number of pieces ten inches square, and from thirty-five to forty feet in length four of them making up the breath of each spindle, and three the .fore and after fishes : these pieces are kept from working by circular coaks at their abuttaen:s, and in their edges,. and are firmly combined by hoops, which are made to screw up as the mast shrinks, and to take off, for shifting any of the parts that may be injured, or become defective. • The form of tots mast is such, that either end can be placed uppermost, in the event of any disaster, and it presents great advantage, from being readily taken to pieces and conveyed, - without inconvenience, to any distant part.— The expence is-said not to he more than two-thirds of the etan mon mast. The Gangea, Naiad, and Spartiate have been sup plied with them, a nd t h e y have been found to stand extremely well. DEVONPORT, Arrtra 7.—Came in the Carnelion, 10; Cap tain Lambert, from the experimental squadron, which she left on the 30th ult. off Cape Clear. Previous to her departure, the. ships had sailed together only four days, when, from the com e parative calm state of the weather, no decisive result could be ascertained ; it rather appeared that the Orestes did not main tain.her former superiority, and the Champion had not gained: that advantage which it was expected her alterations would. give her. The Phaeton had carried away her iron bowsprit,, and sprung her foremast. The Parulora, had no chance with either of the ne Ro s e, and Carnelian, w sloops of war. The Mar tin, 20, Captain Russell, is ordered to be fitted for foreign ser vice. In liareoaze-.Britannia, Genoa. 'Windsor Castle, Mar tin, Vigilant, - and Nimble. :and Vandeleirr, revenue cutters. Between Island and :Hain7-Camelicn. ,Cap!Aiu.ll...Rowley is appointed to command the Semiramis, the fitig-ship of Rear-Admiral Plampin, at COrk.=-Lieuteriant Samuel Mottley is appointed to conimandthe Camelion revenue cutter, on the Portsmouth station ; and Lieut. Sam. Meredith, the Vigilant cutter, on the Plymouth s tation.—Captain BoWyer . is removed from Fowey, to be Iricpecting Commander at Ex indath',- vice Captain 13aunagardt ; Captain Galweyia<tosucceed . Captain Bowyer at Fowey. Captain F. A. Frankland is ap pointed to the command of the Devonvort District, vice Pen.. gelley, whose time of service has expired. The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday furnish the following articles of intellig - once. The Commission of the Chamber of -Peers, appointed. to examine the Law of Indemnity, has made its report. Some changes of little importance are proposed, which, however, will render it ne cessary to send the project back to the Chamber of DepUties. (From tier Quoti;:icraer of Prilay.)' PARIS, APRIL 7. For some days past several German Journals'have spoken of a Quadruple Alliance, or Alliance of Central Europe, projected between France, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, the object of which is stated to be, to watch over the preservation of 'tran quillity in Europe, and to guarantee to each Power the integrity of its possessions. England, We see, would not form part of the Alliance, whence it might be inferred Ow. its - policy is not in harmony .with that of the great Continental Powers, France could only be a gainer by such a confederation ; be cause, by her taking under her protection the Powers of the middling order, the commercial - system of England, which tends to impose its manufactures upon all nations, would at length meet with obstacles favourable to French commerce. (From the Juurnal des D4ats of Friday.) Murricll, APRIL 2. The fears which had been'entertaincd respecting the publicity of the debates of our Chamber of Depu ties are happily dispelled . The regulations which have been discussed and adopted in a secret sitting, do rot ftrtpose any new restrictions, eitlwr on the liberty or the publicity of the debates of the Chamber; they are; on the whole; on 1112 medel of the French Chambers. Whin five Members require that the Chamber shall form itself into a COMmittee, this requisitiOn is debated and decided in the public sitting. Tha Ministers have a right to decree a secret Committee, to make communications which they think ought not to be mule in public. The spectators admitted to the gal lery have to provide themselves with tickets of admission. ( Prom the Etaile, dated Saturday.) PARIS, APRIL G. • some Journals annotince a movement of P,ussian troops in Bessarabia, of reviews to be made by the Emperor, of the de parture of couriers, &c. &c. All these reports are wholly des titute of foundation, as well - as the departure of the Count ds 'rclstoy from Paris, who is still here, and who, notwithstand ing the obstinate assurances of the Journal des Debuts, is not a Russian General Officer, but only a Captain. FRENCII FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 6.—Five per Cents. opened at 1921.30 c. ; closed at 1021. 23c.; Bank Stock, 2,0601.; P.ente d'Espagne 16if. ; Rente de Naples, (Certif. Falcone* 90f. 20c.; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 59if• txchange on London.—One month, 25f.; three months, 241. 85c.—(Cours Aulltentique.) Madrid Ga , .cti,-.1 t o the 30th u ltimo arrived last night. Th e y con t a in a letter from the late Viceroy of P er u, dated Cusco, the 18th Octo b"r; in which be details the preparations he was Brussels Papers of Saturday reached us this morning. It is said in an article from Frankfort, that-the journey of the King of PaussiA to Italy is occasioned by ill health, and that her Royal Highness, the Consort of the CROWN PItINCE, was to return to Munich to the King of BAi.t ttx,t,,her father. From Vienna we learn, that the Ministers of Rus sia, France, .and Prussia, at the A ustriin Court, have received invitations to go to Milan about the time that the Emperor of Austria will arrive in that city. Similar invitations, it seems, have not been extended to the Ministers of the minor Con tinental Powers, who, it is understood, will re turn to their respctive Courts, where they are to. remain all the time that the Emperor is in Upper Italy. The Course of Exchange at Vienna hnd been falling for some days, owing to unsatisfac tory news received by the Austrian Government from Constantinople, where every thing seems to tend to complete anarchy. - The projected commercial Alliance between some Sta tes of Sou thernGermant, on the principles of reciprocity and freedom of trade, will, it is hoped, be soon brought to a conclusion. Confer ences on this important object have been held at Nlayence, between the Ministers of Baden, Nassau, and Hesse. What a contrast to this li beral policy does the conduct of the French Go. vernment afford, as will be seen by the follow ing article 1— GHENT, APIUL 7. While the English Government is departing from the system of commercial prohibition and intolerance lvhich it has hitherto followed, and when all other Governments are applauding its liberal the s, an d will probably lose no time in followin g it s example, French Ministry alone perseveringly continues in e its system of commercial duties the same retrograde course as in all itssoiher conceptions. It is well known that M. de Vil lele has succeeded' in Requiring in the Chamber of Deputies such a prepon :rating influence, that the Committees appointed to examine the projects of law are no more than the servile echos of the Ministry. It is to this very evident tendency of the Members of that Chamber that we must ascribe the spirit which is manifested in the report of its Committee on the new la* proposed for the duties of Custonis. We observe that certain concessions are made to the Government of the Netherlands only with respeCt to linens, &e. in order to obtain the revocation of the measures of remise' taken by our Sovereign ; but it 113 also evident that these concessions are so illusory, that it is highly probable our Ministry will not be caught by them, especially as the interest of our linen manufacturers does not oblige it to desist from requiring what is just, since England has opened its numerous markets to the important branch of our national industry. It is evid ent th a t tha present con d uct o f Franc e , with respect to fo re i gn manufactures, tends to not hi. :l l es s th an to insulate itself co mp l etely, tion in which Nap o l eon designed to place Eng l on d by his con tinental system. and to place it really in the situa- Au article from Vienna,' which we extraCtfrem the Brussels received th . ..s morning, and subjoin, would seem to indioate an intention ou the part of the Austrian Government to reduce the interest of its public debt: . • * v MAncn It appears that several Governments: of GerMany,following the example of Denmark and of 130 den, arc going to adopt measures to efFect.a reduction in the...interest of their 'public debt. Those creditors who will not tconsent to accept a rate of interest, to he determined upon, will be immediately paid off, by means of loans negociated fOr that purpose. New York Papers to the sth March, and ,GPs' ton to the 6th, arrived this morning. Accounts' from Mexico, contained in the former Journal, state, that on the 23d January the MeXican Con gress passed a Decree, imposing an additional duty of 3 per cent. on foreign merchandize sent into the interior, to enable the States individuallY to defray the expences of their respective Go vernments, and pay their quota of direct con tributions to the General Government. [Frona the Jamaira Cape House.] Extract of a Letter fro: n Jamaica, dated Feb. 21, los :--- " A vessel arrived at Jamaica from Carthagena, which sailed nine days after the packet. ?he latter is supposed to have 11 0 10 ; 0001. on board; and it is feared she has been taken by pirate , as 24 bodies have been washed on shore at Cura2oa without their heads." Mr. M EATER, a King's MessengPr, w' ( 115- patched from the Foreign Office, Dow :jog' street, on Friday night, to Brussels. Advices have been received from Barbadoes t? the 24th of February. Mr. D'Envir.t.E I) 3u been executed, pursuant to his sentence, for th' murder of his wife. Captain FRANKLIN,.Dr. RICHARDSON, and the other persons composing the Arctic overland es' pedition, arrived at New-Yorkon the 16th of March, in the packet-ship Colombia, LEE, after a passage of 28 days from Liverpool. . The Tragedy of Orestes, forthcornina at Ci" Tent-Garden Theatre. is, we understand, onlY retarded to give time for the grandeur of sccnerf by which it is to be attended. Miss COOKE, who has appeared at Margat e with great success, is to perform a few nights al Bath, and from all we have heard of her is toon to make her way to the Metropolitan boart ls * Her forte is the higher tragedy. The Haymarket Theatre haS announced sn'c it a combination of comic talents for the approael''' ing season, as to excite reasonable alarm in th e Patentee Managers. Mr. K EAN played Richard 111. Hamlet, Brutu s ' Othello, and Giles Overreach,*at Portsmouth Theatre last wee..; Thud was a most evident falling off' in his attraction to °b ut ' patronage for the Theatre. The house was very thinly s it e, • ported, excepting on the last night, when it was more res P ee ably than fully attended.—( Hampshire Telegraph.) LISTON has been performing at the TheatfT, Royal in Edinburgh (where he was engaged twelve nights) w'„` s unexampled success. From thence this son of Momus r etur to the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, and will remain tiler during the whole season. , 1. IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDE P ARR .—In addition to toe terations and, improvements which have been lately nVtl ie r Hyde Park, we learn that some important ones are in 1 .„ 1 :de, contemplation. It is intended, wa hear, to throw a Pr,'; over the Serpentine River, in the immediate vicinity of - 3 -'„ , j e sington-gardens, by which the public will have the advan`? r ve of being able at once to go across the Park, instead of be l 5 obliged to follow the banks of the as at present itto reressary to do, and the carriages will be able to mak e dB whole circuit. It is said, that an application has been m o re. to Messrs. 0. and J. Rennie, the Engineers, to furnish (1 0 9 for the Bridge, and the execution of the workl will be entru st to their skilful direction. BurrEtt TRADE.—A Waterford Paper sayV o , A proposal, we understand, is now under the coneitt e o st tion of Ministers, involving consequences of the 1. 10 , 0 t importance to the Butter Trade of Ireland. It is said , . t ,;04 the Government of the Netherlands has signified its read t 'fo-• to remove all restrictions on the importation of British menu is , tared goods intothe territoriesand colonial possessions of thate. try on condition that the ditty on Dutch butter and cheese l' e p ported into England be withdrawn. It is calculated, we un' t e.e' stand, that, in the event of this proposal being acceded to,, exportation of British manufactures to B a tavia a nd the to, Indian possessions of the Netherlands, will amount in v' f i,", et , several millions annually. _ H o w e v er e n cou r ag i ng this vi- b pi the question may be to the En g li s h m a n u f ac tu r er, it ca n affet'" yea slender consolation to the Irish agriculturist, whose butter , e ll s. at present,notwithsta,nding the high protecting duties now e e rc vti ing, maintai n s b u t a difficult competition in the Engl:sh roa r the with the produce of Holland. We trust, however, Llo t „..eef rage for " free trade" and " liberal principles" in cnro' l ;'tlY% may not he carried so f a r a s to induc e a c o mpli a nce wi t ' o ldr rumoured proposal ; a measure which, we fear, it adonteell w , e 0 save Sir H. Parnell much anxiety and trouble, by 1001'3,16 butter trade in Ireland to legislate upon. - r.l G.L.GOIV, APR.IL 7. -- Yesterday, I , '.„ e r. BROUGHAM, Esq. M.P. was installed Rector of this Tejr"'",te sity. Immediately after his installation, Mr. Brougha r d i p e e:; livered a very animated and eloquent address to the SO with a splendour seldom equalled, and which was reec h o with repeated and unbounded approbation. Mr. Bro tt g' t iag read his address. He stated, that considering the inter es ,ere office he now held, he could not trust himself to an extern si t effusion. After some excellent instructions to the Stuuli, to the best means of rising to distinction in the RePr n . , ' Letters, he proceeded to illustrate two general propositl °- ,;(1 , First, What constituted the principles of true eloquence ;..,,pee secondly, the important and varied uses to which such elog.'oct t might be turned in the different relations of life. Both' ° l d Ito' points he illustrated from the richest stores of Grecian an ro ff, o man learning. He concluded by showing the great ado,. to society and to individuals at large of throwing wide th'„';o' tals of useful knowledge'to the mass of, our labouring 11 1 : j ''' 0 0 4 , tion, fully assured that instructing the lower classes won 1' be ound to be the surest basis of individual and natio na tn! piness.—ln the afternoon, as usual on similar occasiol t iote' Principal and Professors gave an elegant dinner inlNg hall of the College.—( Glasgow Courier.) `o aJa Mr. LAWLESS, of whom the public hive 00' so much within the last five or six weeks, is the nephen °6 , ll Lawless, who died at Tours about six months back, an d jitw; distinguished officer under the, reign of Napoleon. lest . ; 'has three brothers in the service of their couritryLorP Major in the East India service;,another a Captain in th service, and a third a Lieutenant in the British Navy p i tv v A female of reectable appearance' ise lo cr the Mansion-house on Saturday, to make affid av it of t istence of a little terrier which is her only support. A lf i r 9t ll 7, chell, an eminent merchant of the city of London.), w ,„, e s eq; some few years ago, was the master of the dog, anu f ,; o lo o ,, t tremely attached to it. Upon finding that his last - iestl'i; were near, he made his will, and did not forget at thatio when the hand of death was upbn him, to provide for A „t o leop 4i , ful companion of his silent hours. He had a &nude oft; who was attached, to the animal, and to render th at n 50P t o ment more close, h e b equ e a th e d to the poor wom a ,"," g ht year during th e lif e o f th e d og . Th e f e male br ° l . - I , t elle' s ,ll dog into the presence of his Lordship, spoke of its ou , as reaching to the instinct of humanity, and betrayed ee hun' e anxiety, about its welfare as if it was actually of tt"',„D.l t, species, and connected to her by filial bonds. She, to "„,j Lord Mayor that she wanted the affidavits to exlit t r e 'S master's executors, in order to entitle her to recove r , i,er 0 11 the dog's annual allowance, which must cease With -seare7u. life. The Lord Mayor, perceiving that the dog t he able to move about, so highly had it beeu fed, ad,r g v eer „if formant to take care not to kill it with kindness. i• " man said, she did all she could to make it comfortable; owe on account of her respect for her late master, and k e .,, pendence upon the dog's life, but because of the ina n i n ,o Iv) Ole qualities it ssessed, and its superior sac!eit' iofoal'rim with other a po nimals.—The Lord Mayor.gwisheYd e ' her dog, and that it might see a long succession of u ee dec.:P" gistptea in that room, wad every one wiser than his r TO-MORROW. ALL FOUR PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND,-.ALL THE THIRTY OTHER CAPI TALS,-ALL TfIE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS WILL BE DECIDED TO-MORROW. PRICE OF STOCK 3 ruts Baak Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3.per Cent. Cons. 931 I.i per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. ( Dissd 1 New ... 108.14 ... 7-16 Hank lo, v. 31 per,o gcet India Stock Ditto Bond:, South Sea Stock PRICPS OP rountoN A ustrian Ws; 5 per et. Brazilian 1.;(1s Scrip i 825 • 2'l pm. Buenos A yres Ilds Colombian tiperct. Do. do. 1824 1 Danish, 5 per cent Mit Do. Scrip Greek Ilds Do. Scrip, 1825... 4/ 5 dis. 11exican 11ds Do. Scrip 1825 DA Y XT ONE O'CLOCK. 01d Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001.2 d. — Ditto 14d. G7 6 3 Ditto si);l. i3t1..:.... --- Ditto -14 d. 67 63 Ditto Small ',M. —, 'Ditto Dd. 67 63 ~ i Ditto Commercial ... . Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Acct. , . 93. ii ti {)S, AT ONE O'CLOCK. i:hilian, l3ls, t;perct Peruvian Bonds 874. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... Neapolitan Scrip 'Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per ct. Ditto New. Russian, New, 5 per ct. 95 Spanish lii2l, 5 per ct.... 23Ai 1.823 - French Exchange Scrip PRICES OF !cII..ILIES AT ONE o'cioc:t• .. . Per Eh arc. Anglo-Milian Mining Company Milian and Peruvian Company. Pasco Peruvian Minirig Company Peruvian Mining Company ... 64 a, United Mexican Mining Company - •46 Continental (Jam Company . Atlantic and Pacific Australian Company Canada Company . 311 39 38 Canal Gas Engine Company .. . 2i 3 ' Columbian Colonial Company . 17 !-Iquitabl2 Loan Bank Company ' ' ... ...., 1; Cienaral Steam Navigation Company Hibernian Joint Stock Company Mexican Company . Metropolitan Fisli Company .. 1= s Provincial Bank of Ireland Patent vricks Rio de la Plata Agricultural C u►zipary PRICE OP 1111411 !lank Stock °64 (or. Deb. per cent. Consolf. 3 per cent. 92i Gov. Stock, 3, 1 1 per et. 4 per cent. New do. ss Royal Canal Stock 25 Grand Canal Stoe!- Ditto Loan, 4 per dent. Ditto Ditto, 6 per cent. Pipe Water Deb. 6 per ct — Tocxs, AP:11 L 7. Royal Irii,ll ►liming Na - tional I r.sarance - Ditto I nsurance mares — Patriotic ditto Irish Alining Company — Provincial Stock St. Patrick Insurance... 6 dis. Ilibernian Gas Company Hibernian Joint Stock Ballast Office Govt. Sec.... VOZLION M WA. A 1111 Tyro. I)ur. Tarnburgh - (4ottenburgli Holland - Frnnce Flanders - Brazil 121ier193 Ayres Jamaica America ti NVA'rElt Ai' LONDON BRIDGE To-mon:l(m% llorning, 30 minutes after 9. I Evening, 4';'4; minutes after 9. '1 1 1114,' SUN. SOLEM QUIS fIICT:IIi.FALSUM AUT.E.II:? LONDON. iIIONDJI T EVENING, APRIL 1 I, 1825. making for the Campaign agai►cst Bow-An, and expresses the most sanguine hopes of victory,— hopes that in two short months were crushed by the battle of Ayacucho, terminating in the de feat and surrender of himself and his whole The following is the letter above re- army. ferr.d to : AIADRID, MAncit 23. A letter from his Excellency the Conde de los Andes, Viceroy of Peru, to his EXcellency the Principal Secretary of State, dated Cuscs, October 18, W 24, says—" The resolution of the King, our master, confirming all the favours granted during 'the constitutional reginle for these countries, unless the persons who have received such favours have rendered themselves un. worthy of them by their conduct, is quite conformable to his Majesty's goodness, and to his . paternal regard for his loyal Peruvian subjects. Appreciating, on the one hand, so bene ficial and useful a resolution, and, on the other, considering the distinctions and honours which his Majesty has deigned to bestow on me, without any merit of mine, since the perform ance of my duty cannot be considered as such, I cannot but entreat your Excellency to express to bis Majesty my profound gratitude, as well as the lively impression and satisfaction which have been excited in the lnyal and brave soldiers of This army by his Majesty's appreciation of the firmness and inimitable perseverance with which they have defended, at every risk, the Irdnour of their standards. The necessary attention to the affair , : of the army will not allow me at present to transmit to. your Excellency, as his Ma jesty desires, a list of the persons whom, by virtue of his Royal permission, I-have confirmed in the several classes of knight hood; but, as soon as the campaign is finished, and the neces, sary duties of the Service allow, I will send your Excellency the list. IlisMajesty may be assured that T shall act with zeal and circumspection in conferring such favours, and above all, endeavour to answer his Majesty'S confidence, whom I again beg your Excellency to assure of my gratitude for his gracious attention to my service and attachi'nent to his Royal person ; and that I will, if possible, redouble my efferts." Ills Excellency, in his dispatch, gives an account of the pre parations he was making for the campaign, which he proposed to command in person, against the rebel Bclivar. The valour and the noble enthusiasm which animated the troops tbr the just cause which they defended, inspired the loyal and valiant Gene ral with entire and well-founded confidence in the issue of his well-combined operations: accordingly, he expresses his hopes of being able soon to defea', wit% the aid of the God of Ames, the soldiers whii, under the standard of rebellion, are led on to ,crime by the revolutionary disturbers of the tranquillity and de= stroyers of the prosperity of South America, over whom he hopes now to triumph as he triumphed in the glorious campaign of 1823 over the insurgent chief Santa - Cruz. The Govern ment also knows that the Viceroy -and. C-eneral Valdez had joined General Canterac, between Andabpaila and Abancay, 40 leagues North of Cuzco; that the King's army consisted of 14.000 veteran troops, well disciplined and eager to meet the enemy of their legitimate Sovereign ; and that it has several re giments of exellent cavalry, of which the revolutionists are destitute. The accounts are con6rrned by a letter dated the I4th of Jan. this year, written by Conde de Villahermosa who resides at Rio Janeiro, to an American in this city. It is also known by letters worthy of credit, that the Captain of the English frigate - IT:raver Tree ( Waverley t), which sailed from Quilca the 10th of November, affirmed that two days before he sailed he was told by the officers of an English man of war which .had arrived. there, that the Prucba frigate, commanded •by the adventurer Guise, had been completely beaten by the Asia, and had escap ed only by its Kuperior sailing, and by favour of the night.— The letters add, that there had been received at Rio de Janeiro a letter of the 12th November from Quilca, written - by a French captain, in which he of that a report was there current that (eneral 'Valdez had defeated the var.-guard of the rebel army, cummanded by . General Sucre.