The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT •OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The failure of the Mexican Government to provide for its engagements to the public credi tor has produced for some days past an extrerne agitation in the speculative money-market, and a panic and distress among those individuals who had made investments designed to be permanent in that stock, which are certainly much to be lamented. Nothing, however, can be more pre posterous than to insist on any interference of the British Government, with a view to redress the evil. If the holders of IVlexican stock find that they have got hold of a ticklish article they and others after them will have received a wholesome lesson for the future management of their pro perty : if the Mexican Republic, either through improvidence, or neglect, or want of principle, fail to pay their debts, they will lose their credit ; and thus the proper remedy is administered through the natural course of things, without the violent and impolitic intermeddling of a third agent between borrower and lender. There is another Government—namely ) that of Spain— which feels with tolerable soreness the same ope ration of cause and consequence in its actual pecuniary condition. The base roguery of Fer dinand, not merely in withholding the interest of loans, on the proceeds of which he and his family subsisted, and with which he bribed the public servants of his own Government to betray their trusts to the state, but in disavowing the debts themselves, which were contracted on the authority of his name and signature, is obviously a much stronger case than that of either Mexico or Colombia; but even there, a direct interposi tion by the King's Government would be ill advised and inadmissible. If the State were to be called upon for succour whenever an impru dent speculation is disappointed, one of two things must happen. Should the foreign Go vernment (as is most likely) turn a deaf ear to the remonstrances of Ministers, they must give up the point, and bring the country into ridicule ; or persisting in their interference to extremity, it will be, at any time, in the power of a city loan contractor and his customers to involve the king dom in a foreign war.— Times. A case at Bow-street, on Saturday, affords a striking illustration of the difficulty of guarding by any degree of caution against liability to quarrel. Captain Smith and General Barry were passengers in one of the steam-packets from Ire land to this country, and while at dinner, the Captain asked the General to take wine with him, which the other declined, as when at sea wine and spirits made him ill. This was con strued by the other party into an affront, which required an explanation, or the alternative of meeting. So much depends on the manner of doing a thing, that it is very difficult for a person not present at an occurrence like the one in question to say how far the mode of refusal was or was not calculated to hurt the feelings of the other party. Perhaps, if the Captain had been a Commander-in-Chief, it might have oc curred to the General, that it is very common in society for gentlemen, to whom wine is inter dicted, to accept the pledge in water. But, when a man is in momentary expectation of sea sick xtess, if he have it not already, there is an excuse for the want of this presence of mind, especially when there is no particular motive for calling it into exercise ; and when we have only a plank between us and the briny deep, a Hydrophobia is almost as excusable as an Oinophobia. Very few men are over and above polite when attending to the state of their stomachs at sea ; and for our parts we should esteem it no slight achievement if, at such a conjuncture, we steered clear of all positive aggression. When a man has retired within himself, like a snail within his shell, it is exceedingly trying to the temper to be called forth to participate in the courtesies of social life. So much for the incident which might, but for the good sense of General Barry, have led to a loss of human life. To an Englishman it is difficult to imagine how any man should con ceive such an incident, on the most unfavourable supposition, afforded him the slightest ground for personal quarrel. He might feel mor tified, or piqued, but he would never dream that he was called upon to cut down all whose demeanour did not come exactly up to his idea of propriety. He would never think of proceeding to the extremity of taking away the life of another, or risking his own, without a ground of justification, with which he could satisfy his own conscience. The difference between the man of civilized society and the savage is, that the former, from the con stant discipline to which lie has been subjected from infancy, acquires a certain mastery over his impulses, and endeavours to square his actions with the opinions of society. Mr. Harriot, in his amusing " Struggles through Life," ob serves that the savages, with, whom he lived, possessed not the slightest controul over any of their impulses, and that whatever passed through their minds received immediate effect in some act, so that it was- impossible for any man to count one minute on personal safety in their so ciety. M. Von Buch, in his description of the Fair of Christiania, in Norway, notices the con nexion between self-controul and civilization, as displayed in the inhabitants of the different pro vinces of that extensive country.—" The natives of Oevre Tellemarken," he says, " alone con tinue to wear the broad northern girdle round the waist, and in this girdle they fix a largeknife, like the Italians. Every step and movement of these men is characteristic and definite. They have only one object in view, and nothing which surrounds them can deaden the eagerness with which they pursue ti object. The Boor of Foadloreg and Moss is far from hawing this distinct character. Nearer to the town Ins bu siness is also morevarious, and lie looks around him with attention and caution to discover any little advantages which spay bring him easier and more securely to his end. If Sir Jonah Bar rington were to be taken as an authority, we should suppose that our Irish brethren, notwith standing their alleged Milesian antiquity, h ave yet many of the signs of national juvenility, and among others that insensibility to the value o f life which is characteristic of youth. But they have probably acquired more of the virtues:of age since the time of Sir Jonah, and we trust that the good sense displayed by General Barry, whose name leads to the presumption of an Hibernian origin, will have more admirers among them than the unreflecting impetuosity of Cap tain Smith.—Morning Chronicle. We have lately, on more than one occasion, called th e attention of our readers to the ques tion of F ore i gn L oans ; and though we have not been fortunate enough to lead our contempora ries to the consideration of this important sub ject, we hav e the satisfaction of knowing that w h a t we said has not been thrown away, but that on the contrary it ban excited the attention of the public in no incon siderable degr ee. That the public should be interested t his question _ll ....nrisinz. esneciallv when we enn. skier the ruin which these loans, particularly the South American, have brought down upon thou sands ofindividuals, who have been induced by false and specious representations to advance their hard-earned gains—their little all, to Go vernments who probably care no more for the sufferings of their unfortunate creditors than the gambler or swindler does for khe Man whom he has duped out of his property. Many of these loans Wert, in fact, from the first, nothing more than gambling transactions on the part of the original contractors. Some people appear to have an idea, that when a capitalist contracts with a Government for a foreign loan, that he, the capitalist, advances all the money in the first instance, and afterwards disposes of his securities. The fact is, however, that he does no such thing. The affair, indeed, is generally so managed that, providing the contractor has credit, very little money is necessary on his part. The public arL made to run all the risk, for the contractors can generally so manage as to keep up the price of what they call the scrip till it is all disposed of. Such are some of the domestic evils arising from the system of foreign loans. We have, in a previous article, pointed Out the political ills that may spring from them. So sensible, in deed, was the Government of Holland of the evils of foreign loans, that they have prohibited them in that country, where it is, in fact, at this time illegal to lend money t o a f ore i g n state. In a former article we observed that we were in clined to think that such was the case in Eng land, and we are now enabled to say that our conjecture was correct—or at any rate, that an Act to this effect passed into a law in the begin ning of the reign of George 11. during the Ad ministration of Sir Robert Walpole. This Act. was to prevent any subjects of Great Britain from ' advancing money to Foreign Princes or States, without having obtained a license from his Ma jesty under his Privy Seal, or some great autho rity. According to the Minister, the law was proposed to prevent the Emperor, who wanted to borrow a great sum of the English merchants, from raising and maintaining troops to disturb the tranquillity of Europe. The Bill contained a clause, empowering the King to prohibit, by proclamation, all such loans of money, jewels, or bullion. The Attorney-General was also em powered to compel, by English Bill, in the Court of Exchequer, the effectual discovery, on oath, of any such loans ; and it was enacted, that in default of any answer to such Bill, the Court should decree a limited sum against the person refusing to answer. The Bill was opposed by the Liberals of the day, hut finally passed into a law. In our opinion, the reason alleged for the passing of this Act was a sound one. Cer tainly every Government has, or ought to have, the power to prevent its subjects from lending money to a rival state, that may employ it to the injury of the community from whence it ema nated. 'We are not aware that this Act has been repealed ; and, if not, it is of course as much the law of the land as it was the first day it was passed. Whether, however, this be or be not the case, it is not of the slightest importance to the holders of foreign stock. The loans hitherto raised were raised with the tacit consent of the Government, and it is not, therefore, likely that they would proceed against the parties, much less attempt to prevent them from receiving the interest of their money.—Morning Herald. The Mexican Bonds, as we anticipated, ex perienced a fall on Saturday of 7i, the closing price being 47k. There were sales effected in the course of the day, we have heard, so low as 45 Our opinion of the ultimate payment of these Bonds, however, is not altered. The re sources of Spanish America, with a very few years of undisturbed peace, will be more than sufficient to discharge, without inconvenience, all the engagements into which they have entered.— And we nave the stronger assurance that the Bonds will be fully and honourably discharged, as the interests, not less than the honesty of those States, are implicated in their liquidation. But we do not hope that the ultimate payment, to which we look confidently forward, will he an event of speedy occurrence. We have not for gotten the analagous case of the Colombian Bonds. There also accidental causes interposed to prevent the payment of the dividends—causes which were to disappear like the early cloud and the morning dew before the sun of Colombia's prosperity ? How have the anticipations of the Colombian Government and the hopes of their creditors been answered ? Yet, from the cir cumstance of the Councils of that State being guided by the enlightened, comprehensive, and energetic mind of Simon Bolivar, the premises held out in that case offered a much fairer and speedier prospect of accomplishment than any which can be held out by the Government of Mexico. It has been justly observed, that in the case of man and man it requires an infinite effort to come to the resolution of stopping pay ment ; but, that sacrifice to necessity once made, the most delicately sensitive mind will go through the remainder of the process of bankruptcy very coolly; and even where assets are forthcoming a debtor will seldom waste his strength in en deavouring to discharge obligations which he has once been prevailed on by accidental causes to violate. With States as with individuals ce nest que le premier pas quicoute. Appeals to the honour of an individual may be answered, and so may appeals to the honour of communi ties, but no wise man would be inclined to re pose much trust in either. We stated our opi nion on Saturday, that if Mr. Rocafuerte or Messrs. Baring, were aware of the fact adver tised by the former on that day, one minute be fore it was made public, the bondholders were most equitably entitled to the advantage of that single minute. An evening contemporary observes on this, that Regociations might be going on up to the moment beyond which the announcement could not be delayed.— We admit that such might have been the case, and if it were so M. Rocafuerte could not be blamed for waiting, so long as there ap peared any reasonable prospect of a favourable issue ; but, except in the charitable supposition of our respectable contemporary, we have not seen it alleged that any such negociations took place. We allow the position of M. Roca fuerte to have been a painful one ; but we look on the loss of fortune, and of the comforts and conveniences of life, by a number of individuals, as still more deserving of compassion than the wounded sensibilities of the most delicate mind in Christendom. Neither do we mean to insi nuate that Messrs. Baring were, ,pr are, legally or equitably responsible for the suspension of payments by the' Mexican Government ; but it cannot be denied that many persons were in ' duced to purchase Mexican Bonds, on the belief that had there been the slightest doubt of their goodness, so respectable a house would not haVe mixed or connected itself in the remotest way with them. One thing we must not pass over—we mean the report, that for a considerable time nast there hart hen nartien nn the Stnric Exchange who had speculated as if they pos sessed the information which was not commu nicated to the public at large until Satuiday morning. That report may arise more from suspicions than from facts. We trust that it will be proved to have no foundation in truth, and we mention it in order that while its.existence cannot be denied its incorrectness may be esta blished.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—On Saturday, Captain Archileald Smith, of the 59th Regiment, was brought before Tiros. HALLS, Esy., by Lincoln, one of the conductors, on a peace-warrant, charged by Gen. Barry with having used certain expressions, with the intent to provoke the General to fight a duel. The General stated, that be and Captain Smith, whom he had known slightly before, were fellow-passengers a few days since in one of the steam-packets from Ireland to this country, and while at dinner the Captain asked him to take wine with him. This the witness declined to do, stating that he was but an indifferent sailor, and when at sea he was compelled to avoid wine and spirits al• together, as it made him ill. The Captain fancied that an intentional affront was conveyed by the refusal of the General to take wine, and he retired from the table, and took an opportunity of speaking to him upon the subject, and required an explanation. Gen. Barry said he had not offered any offence, and therefore had nothing to explain ; he had at the same time stated that he could not drink wine, as it was likely to make him unwell. The C a ptain was not satisfied, and said, that unless Gen. Barry offered a more ample explanation, lie must send a friend to him, and "they must meet." After their arrival in London, the Captain repeated this declaration, and General Barry applied at this Office for a warrant. Captain,Smith, when asked what answer lie had to make to the charge, said, he conceived that the General intended to offer him an affront, and he felt himself hound to resent it. He, however, merely said that they must meet ;he had sent no challenge to the General. Mr. HALLS—No, Sir ; but I know psi fectly well what the words " we must meet" mean, when used by oue gen tleman to another. 1 put it to you, as a man of honour— whether by the expression " we must meet," you did not mean that the General must fight you ? Captain Smith, after hesitating for some time, said, that certainly that was the usual interpretation. Mr. HALLS said he really thought Captain Smith had misconceived the General altogether, and it would indeed be great folly for two gentlemen to risk their lives in an affair so trivial. General Barry—l declare, upon my honour, that I had never any intention to insult Captain Smith; I had had the honour of diciing at the same mess table with the Cap tain, at the time when he was quartered near me in Ireland ; I have sat next to him at table—have drank wine with him, and received very gentlemanly attention from him ; and is it likely that I should, without any provocation, offer an affront to a man from whom I had experienced so much ci vility ? Mr. fla lAA—Surely, Captain Smith, this is a satis factory explanation; what a fidly it is, that the lives of valuable men should be sported with upon such very slight grounds ! lam very glad to find that the practice of duelling has declined greatly of late in the army, as well as amongst the community at large, and I do hope I shall live to see the time when it will be abolished altogether. General Barry—Before I took the present step, I con sulted a friend, whose advice exactly accorded with my own opinion on the subject. We do not live exclusively for ourselves—we have families and friends, and may be able to make ourselves useful to society. I have a family dependent upon me, and I thought it a duty I owed to them and to society generally, to take the course which I have adopted. I have spent nearly half a century in his Majesty's service—in fact, I have been in the army since I was thirteen years of age, and I am net at all apprehen sive that any other motive than that which I have men tioned will be ascribed to me. Mr. HALLS—I am extremely glad to hear such senti ments come from the mouth of an old General Officer. The high spirit of honour and courage for which British Officers have ever been so much distinguished will, in my opinion, be always kept alive without resorting to the silly practice of going out to fight upon every trivial misunderstanding. The lives of men valuable in every point of view to their country, should not be put in jeopardy unless under very serious provocation indeed. I hope, Captain Smith, you are satisfied with wissa_use bee., said ; otherwise I must call upon you to find bail to keep the peace. General Barry said lie should be sorry to have Captain Smith called upon to give sureties, as he knew that his friends lived at a great distance from London, and he'might be subjected to the inconvenience of being placed ender tem porary confinement. Mr. HALLS.--That is really very kind of you, General ; and lam sure Captain Smith must he satisfied, and will pledge his honour that this matter should go no further. After some conversation, Captain Smith pledged his honour that he would take no further notice of the affair; but there was so much of seeming reluctance in his manner, that Mr. Halls said that, although he could not doubt the pledge which Captain Smith had made, he did not feel himself justified in discharging the warrant alto gether. He should suspend it ; and if any thing further took place, the General could complain, and the warrant would again be put in execution. The parties then left the office, the General in the most good-humoured manner expressing an opinion, that Capt. Smith would not give occasion for any further proceedings. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--An interesting-look ing female, fashionably attired, named Heater Murrell, was brought from St. James's watch-house, charged with pur loining sundry articles of wearing apparel, belonging to a man named Hammond, a groom in the employ of Lord Fitzroy Somerset. The watchman deposed to seeing the prisoner between two and three o'clock in the morning, passing along with a large bundle. Being unable to give a reasonable ac count of the contents, he took her to the watch•-house, where she offered to give the constable a sovereign to let her go. It was shortly afterwards ascertained that the clothes belonged to Hammond. The prisoner stated that Hammond gave her the things to paw n . They were not altogether worth 11. Hammond asserted to the contrary, that the coat alone cost him 41. 10s. The prisoner in tears atryerted the clothes had been in trusted to her to pledge. The MAGISTRATE said that a Jury must take that into their consideration ; and committed her to Newgatc for trial. The prisoner, who is a very pretty woman, was re cently " under the protection," as it is falsely termed, of a " gentleman," who after living with her a short time, left her with an annuity of 501. a-year. This is about the sixth case of similar robberies which have been investigated at this Office within the last few weeks. . . Joshua Cross and George Collins were charged with stealing a quantity of lead and six bars of solder, weighing eighty-two pounds, whilst employed at the new Bucking ham Palace, which lead and solder were the property of his Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests. They were committed to Newgate, and the parties bound over to prosecute. etne time since Captains Royo andLAl‘GomißEes,TwHh-oS,TiRt E ma E T y . be-- O recollected, Saturdays, made an application to the Magistrates of this office under circumstances of peculiar distress, occasioned by the Baron de Thierry's having obtained from them, under pretence of settling them as colonists in New Zealand, all the money they had in the world, waited on M. Wyatt, Esq., and the Rev. Mr. Mathias, to return their thanks for their humane interference in their behalf, and the kindness with which they entertained their application, which, through the publicity it bad obtained by the medium or the press, had been the instrument of rescuing them from absolute starvation, and placing them for the present in a state of comparative comfort. Not being sufficiently acquainted with the English language to give an adequate expression to their feelings, Captain Royo handed in a letter. Mr. WYATT hoped that the sums they had received were equivalent to the loss which they had sustained through the representations of the Baron de Thierry. Captain Royo replied that they were ; they had received over 23/., the sum which the Baron bad obtained from them, and the only thing that they had now to regret was, that owing to their being duped by him, they had been de prived of any permanent relief from the British Govern ment. After again expressing their thanks, they left the office. UNION-HALL—John Gillim, the driver of one of the vans which ply at the Elephant and Castle, and against the drivers of which description of vehicles the public are so continually complaining, was summoned to this office and punished in a way which it is expected will operate as a warning to the rest of his brother whips. Mr. Joseph Townley stated that a few days ago, while waiting at the Elephant and Castle with theAntention of re turning home to Peckham-rye by the stage, the defendant came up aryl urged him to proceed in his van there.-- Witness at length made an agreement to give him 2s. which is half as much aeain as if be went by the coach. —When the defendant, however, arrived opposite Dr. Collier's chapel, he suddenly pulled up, swearing he should not drive another inch unless he was paid 3s. for the journey.' Witness remonstrated on such a gross attempt at imposition, but the defendant remained inflexible, de claring that he would not stir. Mr. Townly insisted on being driven home, and at length, after an interruption of nearly half an hour, the defendant drove on, and upon setting down the complainant, still demanded 3s. which were tendered to him, and he took them. The complain ant, resolved on punishing such an act of imposition, looked for the number of the vehicle, but could not find any. When brought before the Magistrate, to use an ex pression very much in vogue amongst the van-drivers, the defendant was "down upon his luck" (penitent), and, not withstanding the ingenuity of a learned counsel in his behalf, he was fined 51. and costs. A punster hearing that a new office was wreated, under the name of the Vice-Chancellor, said, " What ! have we not already a sufficiency of VICES in the government ?"—New London Literary Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FERE.—On Saturday morn ing between one and two o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the house of Mr. Jesse Bas sage, tea-dealer, High-street, Bow, nearly op posite the Church. It continued to rage-with considerable fury, and ultimately destroyed the whole of the stock and furniture, and reduced the house to ruins. The adjoining houses were greatly damaged, and were only saved from total destruction by the arrival of the London engines. The inmates escaped by the windows. The whole of the property destroyed is insured in the. Royal Exchange. CROSSING THE LINE.—The crew of a ship, whilst they were crossing the Equator, planted the carpenter's mate (a green-horn) on the jib boom end, with a great hatchet in his fist, in order to cut the line and let the vessel pass. — The Lieutenant of the watch was let into the joke, and every now and then he sung out from the quarter-deck, " Jib-boom there." " Sir," from Chips. " Are you ready to cut away ?" " All ready, Sir." " See you do it cleverly then, boy." " Aye, aye, Sir." After some time, " Can you see it yet ?" "In half a minute, Sir." And thus was the unfortunate carpenter's mate kept astride the boom for half the day. On the same solemn occasion, Nep tune and his crew being a long time in coining aft, the Captain inquired what they were about ? " Shaving the figure-head, Sir, and making the ship free." And so the fact was ; they lathered and shaved the old champion's chin in due form as the vessel had not before crossed the Equator. THE RULING PASSION:—On Saturday evening last, Wood, the active constable of Rugeley, observed three youths in the streets of that town, of very suspicious manners and ap pearance, on their way, it is supposed, to this city, to do a little business during the races. On searching them, he found a brace and centre bits, and other burglarious instruments in their pos session ; and on enquiry being made,it was dis covered that two of them had, the night before, broken out of Newcastle prison, to which they had been committed for a robbery. The other had also been in prison on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery at Trentham Inn. One of them had, besides, been flogged through Newcastle, a short time since. One of these juvenile burglars, the eldest of the three being only 18 years of age, and the youngest 12 or 13, was on Saturday evening put in the crib, a place of confinement in the town-hall ; but hav ing broken out of Newcastle prison the previous night, it was not likely he would quietly remain Sao accordingly set to work to make his escape, which he effected by forming a hole through a wall that separates the crib from the staircase leading to the assembly aoom, which he soon graced with his presence, and where, luckily for the safety of his neck, the windows being about 14 or 15 feet from the ground, he found a ladder, that enabled him to descend into the street. The other two, being more securely confined, did not participate in their companion's good fortune, and remained in custody till the constable from Newcastle arrived, and conveyed one of them to his old quarters.— Lic4ficld Mercury. A YOUNGER SISTER.—My youthful sister —Kate—the beauty of our family—the pet — though at years of womanhood, the plaything of the whole house—full of youth, and joy, and brightness—who that has once seen her does not bless the faculty of memory, were it only for the power it gives him of recalling the lovely vision that has flitted before him. That bright hazel eye, shining in a light of its own, the ema nation of a mind full of the wildest imagination, the keenest perception of the ludicrous ;—that perfect mouth, constantly breaking into dimples, or curling with the prettiest scorn ;--that clear, animated complexion, varying incessantly through all shades allied to rose-colour, from the faintest tint of flush-colour, to the deepest carnation ;. that arching neck, which seems made expressly to toss gracefully the haughty little head ;—how appropriate are all these to that anomalous crea ture, a coquette by birth !—Yes, I am convinced Kate brought her coquetry into the world with her. She has a good stock of affections too; but then they are lavished on parents and other natural claimants, and all the warmth of her heart is expended in this direction. She once had a three months' preference for a youth, whose kindred spirit made his , dark eyes actually dance in the splendour of their own sunshine. Cir cumstances separated them ; and a n'ionth after wards, Kate was moving through the usual pirouette of existence as lightly as ever. • She re members him occasionally still, with a sigh so blended with a laugh, you can scarcely under stand whether she is melancholy or jesting. She scorns all thought of loving—that is, of being in love—with a most Beatrice-like dis dain ;—but she means to marry for all that, she says. A thorough-paced woman of the world, matrimonially bent, could not sport a happier latitude of indifference to youth or age than my lovely or inexperienced sister. The medium through which she views the attractions of her various admirers, is their rent roll; not that she is insensible to a difference in personal appear ance, or in pleasing manners, but she has a keener perception of the distinction between three ciphers and four, in the annual amount of a man's receipts, inasmuch as she comprehends that this must materially affect the modicum ap propriated to his wife's expenditure. Doubtless Kate will marry advantageously, and I am not sure whether her chance of happiness, com fort, is not greater than if some of her sensibili ties were keener. Once united for l his ife felicity toaman of sufficient weight to allow her to respect him, she has too much sense even to m ar or her own by unbecoming levity, or the indul gence of her s arcas ti c humours. If she is some what irascible, she is extremely placable ; if s h e is quick at repartee, she is at the same time abundant in the tact which feels, in a moment, the point beyond which she must not venture. Altogether, a man may marry Kate, without ren dering his discretion questionable. That is to say, if he have tolerable temper and kindness. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 15.-The arrivals of Cotton this week have been very large, amounting to 45,989 bags. The demand in consequence was limited from the trade in the early part of the week; but some large parcels of American Cotton were sold to spe culators at a shade below our last quotations : dur ing the last two days there has been a more active inquiry, and the market has closed steadily at our last quotations. The sales (of which 5,000 bags American have been taken taken on speculation, and 500 Brazil for export) amount to 12,880 bags, con sisting of 7,240 Bowed 61d. to 71d., chiefly at Sid. to 6d. for middling to middling fair; 1,490 Orleans at 6d. to 81d. chiefly at 60. to 6id. for middling fair to fair ; 920 Alabama and Mobile at sd. to 6-ad. ; 320 Sea Island at 10 id, to 15d.; 50 Stained ditto at 50. to 91d.; 930 Pernambuco at 80. to 9d. • 880 Maranham at 80. to 84d., 40 at Bid. to Bd.; 520 Bahia at 70 to 80.; 150 Para at 70. to 70.; 150 Egyptian 70. to 81d. ; 30 De merara at 70.; 100 Surat at 41d. to 50.; 100 Bengal at 4id. to 44d. About 700 bags Sea Island are declared for auction on Friday next. There continues to be a steady demand for To bacco. The arrivals of Turpentine have been large this week, amounting to upwards of 9,800 barrels; the market has consequently been dull, and prices are fully 6d. per cwt. lower; the only sales are 500 barrels at 7s. 6d. for hard, and 11s. 6d. for good quality : 5,500 barrels are announced for public sale in the course of next week. The great scarcity of American Tar almost suspends business in this de scription : a parcel of 600 barrels is just arrived. There have been no sales reported in Baltic Tar. A few casks of American Bees' Wax have been sold at 10/. 2s. 6d. per cwt. Imported into Liverpool, from the Bth to the 14th September, 1827 :-By 1 vessel from Calcutta, 1 Jamaica, 1 Barbadoes, 2 Antigua, 1 St. Vin cent, 1 Grenada, 3 Demerara, 1 Berbice, 12 New York, 2 Philadelphia, 1 Baltimore, 3 Virginia, 1 Santa Martha, 3 Charleston, 3 Savannah, 23 New Orleans, 1 Para, 1 Pernambuco, 1 Bahia, 1 Aracati, 5 St. Petersburgh, 4 Dantzie, 1 Stral sund, 1 Seville, 1 Bilboa, 3 Africa, 3 Sicily, 1 Malaga, 2 Smyrna, 1 Trieste, 1 Sierra Leone, and Marseilles. East India Sugars, 326 bags; Brazil ditto, 76 casks; Antigua ditto, 756 hhds. 64 tees.; Barbadoes ditto, 456 hhds. 25 tees. 16 brls.; Berbice ditto, 82 hhds. 11 tees.; St. Vincent, 196 hhds.; Grenada, 369 hhds. 9 tees. 25 brls.; Demerara, 1,295 hhds. 31 tees. 41 brls.; total, 3,154 hhds. 140 tees. 82 brls. Molasses, 630 casks; Rum, 624 punchs. 105 hhds.; Coffee, 617 tees. 243 brls. and bags.; West India Cotton, 1,858 bales ; New Orleans and Mobile ditto, 23,896 bales ; Rest United States ditto, 13,710 bales ; Brazil ditto, 6,525 bales ; total, 49,989 bales ; Cocoa, 1,200 bags; Tobacco, 1,899 hhds.; East India Rice, 4,600 bags; American Flour, 1,934 brls. ; Baltic ditto, 100 brls.; total, 2,034 brls. ; Baltic Wheat, 700 qrs. ; Palm Oil, 1,480 casks ; Olive Oil, 287 ditto ; German Ashes, 220 Ms. ; Tallow, 2,547 casks ; Shumac, 1,023 bags ; Valonia, 240 tons ; Brimstone, 353 tons ; Madder, 183 casks ; Madder Roots, 161 bales ; Bark, 8 casks; Turpentine, 9,803 brls.; Yellow Berries, 93 sacks ; Logwood, 39 tons ; Fustic, 121 tons; Nicaragua Wood, 285 tons; Camwood, 19 tons; Indigo, 49 chests; Cochineal, 70 serons; Currants, 63 butts ; Spanish Wool, 218 bales ; West India Hides, 1,098; Cow and Ox ditto, 4,883 ; total, 5,981. We have had more inquiry for British Plantation Sugar, and 1,100 hhds. sold at Is. per cwt. higher on the brown and middling kinds, 500 bags of white Bengal Sugar have likewise been disposed of at steady prices.--The Boilers have taken 400 puncheons of Molasses this week, in Berbice and Trinidad, at 28s. a 28s. 6d. and St. Vincent at 325. per cwt.-About 250 tierces of Coffee have been sold; the ordinary and low middling kinds went at a decline of nearly 2s. per cwt. whilst the finer sorts remain stationary.-No fades in Cocoa, Ginger, or Pimento.-The demand for Montreal Ashes has been less animated yet the market is fully sup ported ; 300 barrels of Pot sold at 275. a 28s. 6d. for old, and at 295. for new ; 170 barrels of old Pearl at 28s. 6cl. a 295. 6d. ; 400 brls. of old Boston Pot Ashes sold at 285., with a few new at 295. 6d., and 50 brls. of ditto Pearl Ashes at 295. per cwt.-80 tons of Campeachy Logwood sold at 81. a 81. 55.; 50 tons of Cuba Fustic at 11/. 15s. a 131 : .; 10 tons of Jamaica at 9/. 155.; 30 tons' of solid Nicaragua wood at 141. 10s.; and 10 tons of Camwood at 14/. per ton.-The sales of Hides have consisted of 1,100 of Dry Russian at 81d., SOO Kips at 9d., 1,300 African at sid. a 6id., 350 Lima at 4d. a 7id., and 225 wet salted Barbadoes at 7d. per lb.-The advance on Rice has been Is. per cwt. 240 tierces sold at 17s. a 20s. per cwt.-200 bags of Saltpetre sold at 255. 6d. a 275. per cwt. for ordinary to middling.-Shumac steady, Sicily from the ship at 10s. 6d., and Verona at 7s. 6d. per cwt. with 400 bags sold.-500 barrels of Turpentine disposed of at 7s. 6d. for hard, and I Is. a I Is. 6d. per cwt. for soft.-No sales i►► Tar. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. Per Quarter. Carlisle Hexkam Morpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester s. to 57 6t 58 70 46 60 s. to s. 38 30 35 6. tO R. 22 34 22 34 22 36 S. to s. 52 56 50 Y 2 4t 52 50 65 60 s.d. E d. 68 76 73 79 89 96 60 96 94 96 68 7:3 74 80 31 44 25 s. d. s. d. 40 46 44 58 00 00 70 72 00 00 40 46 40 4 6 25 35 60 66 Per Bitsl , ?l. Carmarthen Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton -- Stafford Swansea Warwick —.-- s. d. s. d. 23 00 42 53 39 46 40 46 56 60 00 29 40 53 s. d. s. ci. 00 00 75 8 0 90 96 90 100 00 108 00 00 76 80 Per Noll. Barnardeastle ....... Darlington ---, Durham*. Wolsingliam .... il• The size of 14 0 le 6' 130 166' 11 0 15 0 120 130, the meaBuri A 6 90 00 00 106 00 ,00 00 varies thr 60 SO-0 116 60 6 A 10 0 186 70 9010 0 126 ?0 100 00 00 oughout the country. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Sept. 14. A full supply of Oats, which met a dull sale ; prices down. About 50 quarters of Barley in market, and 42 sold, prices also on the decline. Only 2 quarters of Beans and 9of Pease were offered. The quantity of Wheat, both Old and New, was considerable ; sales at first languid, but towards the close some keenness was manifested among the buyers. The new - average is up, the old and general down. OLD. Barley. Oats. —s Od 34s tld —s Od Sas Od —s Od 31s Od NEW, Wheat. First 72s Od Second 64a Od Third Pease. 48a Od 453 Od —s Od Beans. 49s ed —s Od —s Od Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 6Cs Od 33s Od 28, Od Second Third There were 463 qrs. of Wheat in market,! OLD. 5 5 70 ..at 72 s. Od• 2 9 8 ...at Ms. pd. 0 84 0 0 Grey o.—. Unsold 37. Av Kew. 3 ...at s7s. Od 2 "age, 31. is. ad. 2.l2ths p( 6 ...at 6 65. Od 5 4 7 . ........... 60 0 23 47 ........... . 58 0 61 Unsold Average 21.15s --..... Pease. Beans. —s Od —s Od —s Od —a Od —s Od —s Od 6 whereof were sold 30 ...nt Mt, 62 0 7 • ..;75 0 quarter. 18 ...at s9s. Od 13 5 8 7 46 0 Od. 11 CORI , Wheat a MARKE this day's .—Sept. market 'a3 large, Barley. Oats. 34s Od 28s Od 50s Od Od 117 s Od Els Od Pease. SOs Od 45s Od 40s Od Beams. bOs fki 45a (k 1 40s Od CORNWALL MARKETS. DALIKEI The quantity ni prices as under : Wheat. First Ms Od Second Third TRURO.—Wheat (average) 2ls. 118.—Oats, Ps.6(l. Hatirroir—Wheat , 21s. Id.—Barley, 11s. 4d. 21s. to 21s.—Barley, 10s. to 12s.—Oats, 88 8 T. ' ots u . 4"Li—Wheat' L Bo A n u (average) 245. Od.—Barley, 14a.—Oats , Os. Od. m rsrirsr W ort h — ea W t heat (average) 14s.6d.—Barley, Bs. Od.—Oats, pd.—Beef, 6 d. — Mutton,' sd. LiaKßAßD —W heat. 203.3 d. to 244.—BarIey, 13s.6d.—Oats, 10s. to 118. Od. Sr. COLUMB—Wheat, 228. to 266.—Barley, —s. to 12s.—Beef, and Mutton, 6d. to 601.—Veal and Lamb, Od . 4 t 235. to .27 1 .—Barley, Ifs. to 16s.—Oats, lls. to —s. Od.—Be e f Butter, Ild. per lb. and Mutton, 4(1. to 6d.—Pork, 4d. to bd.— QuantityMlNlNG 1 NTELLIGNCE. Tons. Cwt. nf f',-, -- —PPer Ore sold at Redrutkliat Thursday 2,931 0 Average Product 6yi 0 Quantity of fine Copper 902 12 Amount of Sale. 11.6441.25. 6d.—.Averaan Standard. 1161. I* Od. CLUB-HOUSES IN ST. JAMES'S STREET• We had lately an opportunity of inspect ing the new Club-houses in St. James's-street, namely, Crockford's and Arthur's, both of which are in a state or considerable forwardness. The exterior of Crockford's is an imposing structure ; and if the details be not all we could wish, the general effect is broad and simple.— The substituting a massive balustrade parapet to the area wall, for the usual iron palisades, must be regarded as a great improvement in street ar chitecture. It is, however, but just to say, that Mr. Soane set the example at Whitehall. Much as we approve of the tout ensemble, we cannot help thinking, that as the building is surmount ed by a balustrade, the interstices of the parapet at the base would have formed a variety if filled with boldly wrought iron-work ; and that any thing would have been better than the apertures which disfigure the ground story—such windows have not even the plea of " ancient usage" to sanction their introduction. With these ex ceptions, we consider the front to be of superior order. The interior is said to be the production of two architects, the brothers Benjamin and Philip Wyatt, we could almost venture, in passing through the rooms, to apportion to each his due meed of praise or reprehension. The entrance-hall, at the end of which stands a staircase of ordinary dimensions, but of very i extra-ordinary parts, s cased with black and white Scagliola. Turning to the right, you enter the Coffee-room, finished in a common-place manner. Opposite to this room, and on the south side of the hall, is the Library, fitted up in a very classical style, with Sienna columns and anti; of the lonic order, taken from the temple of Minerva Polias : this room has two fire-places with black and gold marble chimney pieces, and occupies two-fifths of the whole length of the building. Here we should say a pure taste had been exercised throughout, but for the circular flowers in the there, we suppose, to receive chandeliers, which seem to have strayed from Baker-street, or some other street in Marylebone. Behind the Library is the Dining-room—a common sort of apart ment, corresponding with the Coffee-room. . We now come to the principal stairs, winding . round three sides of the area—the walls panelled with Scagliola of various colours and tints. The mouldings forming the panels are, to our unini tiated eye, infinitely too large, and produce an appearance of clumsiness ill-agreeing with the exuberantly decorated ceiling and lantern-light. The landing is sustained by Corinthian columns, over which—on a balustrade with Scagliola pe destals and balusters, and a marble capping, or hand-rail—is placed another tier of Corinthian columns, supporting a grotesque cornice, ela borately enriched and gilt. Above this cornice is the eliptical, coved lantern-light, glazed with painted glass of very miserable execution. The railing on the steps is formed of brass foliage, of exquisite design and workmanship. These splen did stairs conduct you to the Drawing-room, or evening suite, consisting of four chambers ; the first, an Ante-room (over the Coffee-room) , opening to a saloon, embellished to a d e gree, almost beyond description ; thence, t o a sm all curiously formed Cabinet, or Boudoir, which o in p g e_n r again m .) t A o u th e Sup per-room these ese rooms are (over pai le l t e h d e n D i n- the fanciful, gorgeous, and frequently absurd styles which prevailed in France during the reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV. The ceilings are divided into so many oddly fashioned panels and sinkings, and so richly g ilt, that it is next to impossible to convey by writing an idea of their forms or magnificence. In splendour and variety, the walls are not inferior to the ceilings; the whole surface being resolved into curiously shaped panels, to be filled e ither with looking-glass, silk, or gold enrichments. A Billiard-room, on the upper floor, we believe, completes the number of apartments within this singular building. Looking at the character and variety of the ornaments, we should come to the conclusion, that every one of the French palaces had been resorted to for the decorations displayed in this house. On the whole, we think it a work of considerable merit, and certainly a great novelty in London. How far such meretricious env bellishments will suit the English taste, is not for us to determine : and after all, though. it comes to be considered under our scientific head, of Architecture, as one of the Improvements of London, its use is too notorious to merit any strict remarks as a creditable work of art, espe cially in the interior arrangements. With regard to Arthur' s, we should say, that for the purposes of a Club-house, there is in all probability sufficient accommodation ; but that the architecture is not of an order to bring it within the pale of criticism.—Literary Gazelle. Oats. BIRTHS. On the 15th instant, in Bolton-street, the lady of Charles King, Esq. of a daughter. On the 15th instant, in New Nodelk-street, the lady of Sir Charles Smith, Bart. of a son and heir. On the 6th instant, at Ddern House, Radnorshire, the lady of Thomas Prickard, Esq. of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 15th instant, at Islington, Mr. James Goodbody► to Hester, the only daughter of Richard Martin, Esq., of Lambeth. On the 15th instant, at Chelsea, Mr. John Bruce, of Francis-street, Golden-square, solicitor, to Sophia Frances, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Osmond, of Piccadilly. On the 15th instant, by the Rev. Henry Parr Belot/ rector of Guildford, John 11. Taylor, Esq., M.D., of Guildford, to Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Henri Kepple, Esq., of the 7th Hussars. On the 13th instant, at Shepton Mallet, by the Rev. F• Wilson, Philip Schalch, Esq. R.A., to Mary, youngest daughter of Wm. Purlewent, Esq. of the same place. On the 13th instant, at Lambeth Church, Mr. Josepb Radford, of Piccadilly, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late E. Scarborough, Kent-road, Esq. DIED._ On the 10th instant, Thomas Chaldicott, Esq., late of His Majesty's Customs, and formerly of the city of Chi' chester, Sussex. On the Bth instant, at Jarnac, in France, Caroline, eldes t daughter of John Hodgson, Esq., of Frognal Hains;ead, the 15th year of her age. On the 11th instant, at Leamington, Mrs. France, COS' yers, aged 66, widow of the late Rev. Edward Conyelli vicar of Epping, and of Walthamstow, in the county ° Essex. On the 50th of May, on board the ship Cumberland' on his passage from India, after an illness of a few hoe . ' Lieut.-Colonel D. Newall, of the Madras Army. On the 12th instant, Mary, the wife of Robert Menzie s Esq., surgeon, of Upper Stamford-street. On the 12th instant, at East Farleigh, Kent, Mr. Jol' French in the 24th year of his age. On the 14th instant, Stephen Hough, of Tavistock• stree" Bedford-square, aged 86. On the 16th instant, Mary Rachel Vade, widow of D'A Rev. Ashton Vade, and dau g ht e r o f the Hon. Ric h Walpole, deceased. On the 13th inst., at Ryegate, Caroline, eldest dangle ' of John Charrington, Esq., of Hackney. ty PRIISTL.D and PUEI ISHED by M. YOUNG, a. SUN-Otrior, Ng. 112. Strand. Beans, Bos fiinki seven, Car and R cinai Le Car and V P l '.;oy, ftichn g_taster. 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