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ALBION FIRE ANI) LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL—ONE MILLION. THE PREMI UNIS of FIRE IN!iURANCES effected with this Company, of the three urtlinat Classes, have, with certain exceptions, Inen reductiii as fol lows • In the First Class to Is. 6d. per Cent. In the. Second Class to is. 6d. per Cent. Jn the Third Class FIRE POLICIES, the Renewals of which become due Christmas, will expire, unless renewed within fifteen days from that period. The Company continues to undertake Insurances on Lives, on liberal Terms. No Charge is made on such Insurances. in the way of Admission Fine, or Entrance Money ; and a huge commission is allowed to Solicitors, and others, by --whom such Insurances are effected. WARNER PHIPPS, Secretary. LOBEeI INSURANCE COMPANY .- m.ffit FIRE, LIVES, alit( ANNUITIES. PALL MALL and CORNIIILL. DIRECTORS. Sir George Atiercromi)ie Joseph Dorin, Esq. Depu 'William Abbott, Esq. Chas. Raymond Barker, Esq. Thomas Barrow, Esq. Jonathan Birch. Esq. Thomas Blair, Esq. Sir C. Cockerel!, Bart. M.P. Thomas Coles, Esq. Boyce Combe, Esq. John Fairlie, Esq. George Fraser, Esq. George Carr tilyn, Esq. Edward Goldsmid, Esq. Capital, One Million Sterling, the whole paid up and in vested, thereby affording to the Proprietors security rigsitist further Calls, and to the Assured an inunediate available .fund for the payment of the most exlensive Losses. This Company have Reduced tl“:,' Premiums on the Three Ordinary Classes - of Fire Insurance, Ca that all Policies of those Classes hitherto charged At es. are reduced to Is. 6d. per cent. per annum. Ss. - to 2s. ss. - to 4s. tid. obinson, Bart. Chairman. :y Chairman. I%aac L. Goldsmill, Esq. Nlattliew Isacke, Esq. John Latham. Esq. M.D. John Neavc, Esq, William Phillimore, Esq. Frederick John I'igou, Esq. John Poyder, Esq. Philip Ripley, Esq. Sir lValter Stirling, Bart. James 'Paddy, E.sq. Edward Vaux, Esq. The Company's Agents are instructed to make the same - Reductions, but Farming Stock, if insured without speci fication, will still be charged es. per cent. If a Sum is spe cified on Stock in each Building, and in each Stack-yard, or with an average clause, it may be reduced to Is. 6d. per cent. All Persons whose Insitrunce with this Company become •due at CHRISTMAS NEXT, are requested to take Notice, that RECEIPTS fur the RENEWAL thereof are now ready fur delivery at the Company's Offices in Pali Mail and Corn Dill, and in the Hands of their respective Agents in the Country. Insurances due at Christmas must be paid on or before the 9111 of January next. JOHN CHARLES DENHAM, Secretary. Loudon, December 20, 1825. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Moniteur of Wednesday, Dec. 28.) The official part contains a ItoYal Ordinance, which prescribes the regulations to be observed for franking letters and parcels by the post, de termining the persons who have the right of send ing or receiving letters or parcels by the post free of postage. The Ordinance occupies the whole sheet of the Moniteur. (From the Etoile, dated Thursday, Dec. 29.) The Christiania Gazette of Dec. 8, contains the official news of a treaty concluded on the 9th of November last, between the King of Sweden and Norway and the King of Great Britain, relative to the slave trade. The King of Sweden engages to cause penal laws to be passed as soon as possible against this traffic._ The vessels which are respected as reciprocally liable to be visited by the ships of war of the contracting parties, and subject to confiscation in case the suspicion should prove to be 'well founded, are designated. Two tribunals shall be esta blished, one in the Swedish island of St. Bartholomew, the other at Sierra Leone, on the coast of Africa, to decide in the actions which shall be brought in consequence of the capture of xhips, and to adjudge the indemnities to be given in case of detensions without due grounds. We read in a journal this morning, that every body draws inferences from the accession of the Emperor Constantine to the throne of Russia. As for us, we have thought it sufficient to call to mind that this Prince has always manifested the most lively horror of revolutionary principles. The following anec dote, the truth of which we can warrant the authenticity, is a 'proof of this:— " A young French officer, taken be the Russians in the fatal expedition to Moscow, had obtained, from the generous commiseration of the Grand Duke Constantine, means to re turn to. France. When that Prince came to Paris in 1814, this young officer waited on his benefactor, and was received in the 'most flattering manner. The fatal 20th of March, 1815, having again brought the Russians into France, the young officer again hastened to pay his respects to the Grand Duke Constantine. But as soon as the Prince perceived him, he cried—' Do not advance ! What have you been doing since I saw you ? 1 - 4 Your Highness, I have just come from Ghent.'—' Well, then, come and give the your hand; I ac- Iniowledge you for a loyal knight, since you maintain your faith to your ligitimate sovereign. " COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. (From Galignani's Messenger.) TO THE EDITOR. Paris, Dec. 24, 1825. " Sir—lt was not till to-day that I received from the hand of a friend, the translation of an article that appeared in your Journal of the 7th of November, in which I am pointed out as having been one of the manufacturers the most opposed to an arrangement of-the new commercial relations that Mr. Huskis son proposed at the time of his recent visit to France. " Not only did I not employ, as the letters from Paris affirm, any means to induce the French Government to reject the ,propositions that may have been made, hut I even had not the slightest communication upon the subject with any of its members. " Neither had 1 the honour of seeing Mr. Huskisson, and upon that occasion I sincerely regretted that custom, in France M opposed to calling on strangers when one has not the advan tage of being known to them. Had it been otherwise, I should have eagerly gone to offer my homage to a Minister of so hoeourable a character ; and if it had been in my power to have removed the difficulties he appears to have met with, I should have aimed to have done so the more willingly, as I am con vinced that the reciprocal interest, established by men equally enlightened and of good faith, might be combined and arranged in a manner advantageous to both countries. if .The opinions that I have expressed in the Chamber of De puties, and particularly that upon the Custom Duties' Law of the Jet of July, 182 - 2, might have rendered more circumspect .the Paris correspondents, who have made assertions diametri eeally opposed to my views of this question. If I do not see much difference between certain statesmen, of the present day and those who made the treaty of 1737, so fatal to our industry, I make a great difference between the English negotiator, who then congratulated himself upon havingobtained for his country a few millions at the expence of France, with the risk of alienat ing our nation, and thereby doing injury to the exi s ti ng politi cal treaty, and the Minister who is sufficiently great, just, and well calculating to know that in treaties we cannot procure for ourselves substantial and lasting advantages without having re gard to those of others. " I entertain so much confidence in, and esteem for the manufacturers and dealers who received me with such marked kindness upon my different visits to England, that I am de sirous they should remain convinced that I have in no wise de -viated from the principles and wishes that I expressed to them of seeing commercial relations more intimate and reciprocally advantageous to both nations established. For this reason you would oblige me by the insertion of this letter in your journal. I have the honour, &c. " TERNAUX." (Signed) WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.-This day week 13 the sth Jantiary, 1826, when the New Act regarding Weights and Measures comes into operation, and yet we do not believe there is a single weight or measure of the legal standard at pre sent in Glasgow, or that the citizens know where to make ap plication to obtain them. There is something extremely wrong and negligent in all this. Standard measures ought to have been received sufficiently early in this place, to have enabled some person legally appointed, to make and to supply•the citi zens, as far as practicable, with weights and measures such as the law requires. The want of these will occasion much incon venience and confusion.—(Glasgow Courier, Dec. 29.) PICTURE AUCTIONS AND PICTURE DEALERS. Eurvean Marazine, N. S.,,fbr January. BY A 'DEALER, Dealt out. "Decipirnur specie recti.—Hon. Don't you know that the maids killed the cock ? No !—why I thought every fool knew that, but it would seem then that there "is one who (1 ,, ,s not. Surely y. 11.1 must have read .tEsop's Fables, and have forgotten that the maids, being ordered by their mistress to rise at the crowing of Chanticleer, put him to death, that they might no more be disturbed in their slum bers. Now, knowing how devoutly attached people are to their darling follies and vices, and picture-fancying ranks high among them, and is not the least expensive, I must, before I begin to crow, and give warning, deprecate any inquiry after me, with the same amiable design as that which filled the teuder bosoms of these gentle virgins. Having stated the conditions, I shall proceed without reserve, as we say, to lay down a dozen cautionary rules, which, as the sales are coining on at this season of the year, will be found very salutary if duly observed by novices, that is to say, young collectors, or would-be connois seurs and amateurs. RULE I.—As it would be very unwise, as you must allow, to trust to your own judgment, so would it be doubly so to trust to the judgment of anybody else—especially a dealer.* " Ut pictura, poesis," says Horace, and as poetry is like a picture, so vice versa, pictures are like poetry, a lying affair all through This is the ground work, and success in both depends on it. An unequal matter I admit, for the dealer in poetry may be a long time before his profits can compete with the lying of the dealer in pictures. RULE IL—Of course you are not quite so young as to bestow your credulity on the 'l'itians, Guidos, &c. that figure in the catalogue ; but even still less would I have you pay the least re spect to a single word uttered by the auctioneer about original state, private collection, just im ported, to be sold without the smallest reserve, and other phrases of this sort. Ile lies, and he has his reward—the commission ;—if indeed he be not a picture dealer himself, and " the pri vate collection of a gentleman' lately defunct," be not from his own store, and sold by the de ceased in person. RULE 111.—Never buy an old picture in had condition, an undoubted original by one of the firstmasters—a Teniers, for instance, whose age is not two years. - 1 - There is a manufactory both at home and abroad, to prepare such ancient paint ings to gull you. How is a copy of Raffaelle to pass for a Raffaelle, if it be not smoked and (la maged ? and what can be easier ? it is, as Slink speare says, " as easy as lying." RULE IV.--Never buy an 01(1 picture in good condition, or to use their phrase, " as fresh as when it first came from the easel"—for though this be true enough, it having indeed just left the dealer's easel, where what was good, is spoilt by his lining, cleaning, and stippling, and daubing in. After all this quackery, a coat of varnish, like charity, covers a multitude of sins, which you will find out when you get it home perhaps, but certainly, if you should ever deem it neces sary to have it cleaned again—or to sell it. RULE. V.—Be not vexed, repent not, at what you may think the loss of a bargain—a picture, sold for nothing as it were, and which you might have got, had you bid another half-crown—for any odds, it was not sold at all. Nineteen sales out of twenty of " private collections," " collec tions of gentlemen going abroad," &c. are made up from the various dealers' stock, and by them bought in, if they are not sold at their full value, at least. If you are really iii consolable because you have not been taken in, wait a little, and you will see the self-same canvas in a different frame perhaps, at some other auction in a remote part of the town. If a picture sets in clouds in the West, it is sure to rise in all the effulgence of a new coat of varnish in the East. Like snipe shooting, you may have two or three shots at the same bird, within short distances both of space and time. RULE Vl.—An unquestionable sale of pictures collected by some known person of taste, and for years seen in his possession, is tempting ; but be ware. Dealers, like blood hounds, are on the scent, and will have every one of any intrinsic value. Here they bid not against each other, but one or more make the purchases, and they have an after sale amongst themselves, when the surplus over the bidding at the sale is shared amongst those who do not obtain the . picture. Here you may, perhaps, get a good painting, but they will take care you shall pay for it, and gold may be bought too dear. Rura: VII.--Justly fearful of auctions, be equally apprehensive of the dealers' shop—Scylla and Charybdis. If you visit a dealer, it is a mi racle if you escape—all he requires is, that you'll just call and look at his pictures. His paintings, highly varnished, and in gorgeous frames, are doled out one by one from an adjoining chamber, his laboratory or repairing room, and placed in a studied light—he descants on names—points out beauties—asks a sum• which can startle no one, for he promises to return it in six months if you don't like the picture, and, in fine, talks you out of yoursenses:—always generously supposing that you had some when you went ItULE Vlll.—lf you happen to have more mo ney than wit—a thing very likely to happen to a dabbler in pictures—this would be a good and speedy way of getting rid of the supertlux ; but as it is a pity to disfigure well painted walls with badly painted pictures, and grievously vexatious * One instance will suffice. I recollect a sale in Pall-Mall, where a gentleman bid for a small painting under the direc tion of a dealer. The dealer stood behind him, as prompter, and the picture was knocked down to the gentleman at twenty guineas. What is there in this ? Nothing certainly, except that it was the dealer's own picture, and not worth forty shil lings, and he himselfthe only bidder by silent nods against the purchaser. I then admired this as a grace almost beyond the art of picture dealing, and was stung with no little envy, but having been varnished in the Insolvent Court, and having taken to an honest calling, I am now inclined to think that my worthy friend, who had hung so many pictures, ought himself to have shared the same fate. t There are two Teniers—old Teniers and young Teniers— the latter is infinitely the best, and here you will not be disap pointed, for you will always find your picture to be of the youngest ! In the cant of police reports, we often read of Duffers, &c., persons who palm off Brummagem watches for town-made gold repeaters, and British lace for Brussels.— Now it would be difficult to distinguish between these two dealers in originals. to vanity to be laughed at for one's pains ; con sider of it before you part with your money, and don't flatter yourself that you have any chance of getting it back at the end of the promised six mouths. Itur.E IX.-I',e not tak°n in by cheap—very cheap. It is known that the import duty on paintings from the continent is between three and four pounds without regard to the size or quality of the picture. Now, these precious originals, " just imported," are frequently knocked down at from ten shillings to forty. Nothing can be cheaper, if any thing were cheap that is worth nothing. RuLE X.—Never phy the fool by giving a commission to a broker, either in pictures or fitr niture, unless you wish to pay double for playing the part by proxy. There are two reasons for this—ist, on the price of the lot depends the amount of the commission, and if there be a lack of bidders, it is not difficult to get an accommo dating brother to run it up •. 2 , 11 y, The article may have been sent in by the broker himself, and then—Lord have mercy upon you RULE XL—Folks are easily bamboozled out of their little wisdom, but it is very difficult to cheat or reason them out of their folly ; there fore I dare say you don't believe a word of all this—d'accord—be it so : I only require one test. Ithke your collectiOn, and then have a sale! As you before indulged in the animum pictura pascit inani," you will then have an opportunity of varying the banquet, by getting rid of your pictura and substituting Crumena. Animumque Crumena pax; it inanL t which you will find a very light supper. RU LE XIL Or a word at parting.—lt is re ported that Diogenes, anxious to possess a paint ing, that is, by a just figure, Lais, the courtesan, demanded the price ; and being told an enorm ous sum, he (and I could wish the young collec tor to keep his answer constantly in mind, when, with the catalogue in his hand," Stupet in titulis et imagini bus," surrounded by the painted har lots of an auction or dealer's room)—he replied, —" No, I will not buy repentance at so dear a rate." *** I am half inclined to give a list, accom panied by a little history of the picture auction rooms of the metropolis from CHRISTI which being the most respectable, is the supreme hum bug, through the convenient candle-light sales in Leicester -street, down, down to those at the Auction mart in Bartholomew-lane, for the re lief of the over-loaded purses of youthful jobbers and stock brokers, as well as all the other ex quisite judges of vertu and taste, which so abound in that enlightened quarter I—but I desist—in one picture you have them all—all copies, better or worse, of a bad original. * Not six months since, such an occurrence took place at a sale of furniture in Alhemarle-street, and was exposed to the whole room by another broker, who had reasons doubtless to suspect, and also to think it hard, that being numbered in the day of battle, he should be overlooked in the division of the spoil. 1 And on an empty purse his mind ha feeds. 4 " A recent transaction will, if brought to issue, tend very much to enlighten the public with regard to one branch of this traffic. In the mean time, it is a secret worth knowing, that the Chief J ueice of the Common Pleas, Dec. 13, in the case of Crowder v.,A ustin, ruled that no bidder at an auction was bound by his bidding, if opposed by any one on the part of the seller, or the seller himself. The conditions of sale state that the highest bidder is to be the buyer, but each bidding must be bona fide, and not for the purpose of covertly raising the price. This construction of law would annul 15-16ths of the biddings at picture auctions. PETRARCH AND LAURA.—The following note► was written by PETR A RCICS own hand in the margin of a maenscript Virgil which belonged to him, and is now deposited in the Amhrosian Li brary at Milan :—" Laura, who has been render ed famous by her virtues, and who has been the subject of my verse for many years, appeared to my eyes for the first time, on the 6th of April, 1327, in the church of St. Clair, at Avignon. I n the same church, on the same day, at the same hour, hi 1345, that luminary, that sun, retired_ from the world. I was at Verona, and knew not the misfortune that had befallen me ; but the 19th of the following falOtitil, I received at letter from my friend Lewis, which acquainted me w ith the fatal news. On the very day of her death, her body, so beautiful,- so pure, was deposited after vespers, in the church of the Curdeliers. I doubt not, but her soul, to speak in the words of Seneca, returned to Heaven, from which it had descended. That I may never lose the remem brance of a loss so afflicting, I have written these particulars in a hook which I am continually rcading ; thus have I prepared myself a pleasure mingled with grief." A IllOng the Polish prisoners of war who were in Russia in 1661, was a distinguished Nobleman with whom nobody was allowed to speak without witnesses. This man became ill, and applied for a physician, which the Czar granted. The physician prescribed " Creator Tarteri." The doctor had scarcaly got home, when he was ar rested and carried before the Minister, who, as soon as he entered, addressed him very angrily, calling him a traitor, threatening the severest punishments, exclaiming. 4 4 You dog, what have you been talking to the Pole about the Crim Tartars?" The doctor, who stood motionless with astonishment, now comprehended the mis understanding, arising from the report made by some listeners to the Minister, and explained it by showing the prescription which he had writ ten for the patient, and was immediately re leased. PENURY.—Mr. TAYLOR, the Stock jobber, who died worth 100,0001, was so penurious that he scarcely allowed himself the common neces saries of life. A few days before his death he sent for the Officers of his parish, who found him on a wretched bed, in a garret, dining on a thin rasher of bacon and a potatoe, of which he asked them to partake. One of them having accepted, the old man desired his servant to broil another, but hearing his larder was quite empty, scolded her for not having it well supplied with a quarter oj'a pound, to cut out in rashers whenever it was wanted for company. lie then informed the Overseers of the poor he had left by his will 1,000/. for the relief, and eagerly enquired if they would allow Ilia) discountforprompt payment. This being assented to, lie seemed highly pleased, and immediately gave a check on his Banker for 9501. and soon after died. • FAILURE IN DUBLIN'. DUBLIN, DEC. 26—We have at length begun to feel the consequences of the embarrassments of London One of the most eminet merchants in Dublin has failed; the name of the individual is Henry Higginbotham. This gentle man formed one of the very few general merchants that Dublin can boast of. His trade was very extensive, particularly in the article of teas. Ile was always considered a man of the most solid credit ; his failure, therefore, has caused a very great sensation ; indeed, I might say that it has caused a panic...— Mr. Higginbotham speculated largely in the funds. His loss, which ought to be settled for on the next accounting day. cal culating at the present state of the funds, will not fall short of 100,000/. The certainty of this dreadful loss upon Stock Exchange speculations alone, has had so great an effect upon the mind of this unfortunate gentleman, as to have re duced him to despair. Although not pressed by any imme diate or pressing difficulties, he closad his doors, and took to his bed. His connections were extensive, and of the first class in our commercial society. He made known to some of his nearest friends the state of his affairs ; and it is certain that they offered him a loan of so large a sum as 300,0001., if he could undertake to assure them that that sum would be sufficient to meet every contingency, and to bring his house over all diffi culties. Mr. Higginbotham; upon looking more narrowly into the state of his affairs, declined accepting the money. The failure of his house, to whose stability every man in trade look ed up with most unbounded confidence, heightened as it was by the very high character for personal honour and integrity of the head of it, has caused absolute consternation. Alen are now prepared for extensive misfortunes : more than one man of eminence and credit has been named this day on 'Change as likely to follow Mr. Higginbotham. It would, however, be extremely wrong to name any of these individuals. It is certain that some individuals will lose by his failure ton very consider able amount. Mr. Higginbotham was agent to the Belfast Commercial Bank. When he saw that he was likely to be. ob liged to shut his doors, he wrote down to that establishment, ac quainting them of the state of his afiairs. It was deemed pru. dent to be prepared for any run that might be made on the bank in consequence of the failure of its Dublin agent, and with that view one of the secretaries hurried up to town on Christmas-eve. He purchased gold to a very great amount, which was sent down by the mail in large parcels. Up to the present unfor tunate crisis, Mr. Higginbotham was considered a very pros perous man in trade. In the year immediately preceding the present, he was the head of a company formed under the Ano nymous Partnership Act. They put in a capital of 12,0001. each, and on the Ist of January last they divided the profits of the house, which were very considerable; so very considerable, indeed, that Mr. Higginbotham, it is said, did not consider it prudent to continue the partnership ; but determined to carry on the business an his own account, joined merely by one emi nent individual whose name I forbear to mention, who put in a capital of 40,0001., every shilling of which, it is said, he will lose. Exclusive of his other concerns, Mr. Higgin botham was connected with an extensive distillery. The utmost anxiety has been felt in Dublin throughout the whole of the day. The news of the failure came down as sud denly as a clap of thunder. No one was prepared for it.-- -It is not yet known what effect the intelligence has produced in Belfast. The Commercial Bank has wisely prepared itself for the worst. Mr. Higginbotham served his time in the house of Messrs. Shaw and Turbot, which is one of the very first in Dublin. He married a lady of very large fortune in ready money, every shilling of which, it is said, he received. He has lived for many years in one of our principal squares, in a style of elegance, which was not, however, considered too great for his station as a commercial man. Ilis loas is regretted very generally, not only by persons in trade, but by those who knew and regarded him in private life, as a kind, amiable, and worthy man.—(mor„i„g Paper.) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 30.--The names of those Candidates who, at the close of the Public Examinations in Michaelmas Term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the Three Classes of Literce Husnaniores and Discipliner lifathentatzcce et Phy sicx respectively, according to the alphabetical arrangement in each class prescribed by the statute, stand as follow: In the First Class of Liters Humaniores.—Hansard Dodgson, Christ Church ; Robert Evans, Jesus; Geo. Morris, Corpus Christi ; lion. J. C. Talbot, (711. Ch. ; 'l'. Vores,Wadham. In the Second Class of Literce Hurnaniores.—Caspar W. Charles Baker, Balliol ; Henry Bosanquet, Balliol ; William J. Copleston, Corpus Christi ; Caledon George Du Pre, St. Mary Hall; Joseph S. R. Evans, Queen's; Richard N. Gres ley, Christ Church ; John Hambleton, St. Edmund Hall ; John Hippisley, Oriel ; William Lambert, Corpus Christi ; Arthur Lewis, Trinity ; Jacob Ley, Christ Church ; Arthur :Mister, Bailin] ; William L. Neville, Queen's; William Palmer, St. Mary Hall; Thomas Sale, Magdalen; Edward B. St. John, St. Alban Hall. In the Sccond Class of Discip. Mathenzat. et Phys.—John Hippislev, Oriel ; Elisha G. Hood, Wadham ; James Ley, Christ C•iarch ; Thomas Votes, Wadham. In the Third Class of Lit. Ilain.—Henry Burt, Worcester ; Francis Drake, Worcester; Henry Freeman, Wadham ; fly. 1,. Gahell, Christ Church ; William Hazell, Christ Church ; Elisha G. Hood, Wadham ; William Hughes, Oriel ; James Hughes, Jesus ; Baldwin F. Leighton, Christ Church; John S. Martin, Oriel; John Parry, Brasenose ; John Perry, Bal. liol ; George A. Smyth, S. Edmund Hall ; John H. Walsh, Balliol; George Wylie, Queen's. PUBLIC EXAMINERS. In Lit. Hum.—W. Mills, P. NlTynter. Chas. T. Longley, Chas. Girdlestone, Arthur Johnson, Richard Wm. Jeff. In Discip. Mathemat.—S. P. Rigaud, W. L. Cooke, Wm. Kay. The number of Candidates who form the Fourth Class, but whose names are not published, amounts to 86. ECCLESIASTICAL. PRETEIIMENTS•—The Rev. George Taunton, B.D. and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Stratford St. Antony, Wiltshire ; patrons, the President and Fellows of C.C.C.—A. Dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Reverend C. B. Rawbone, B. C.L. Vicar of Coughton, Warwickshire, to hold with it the Vicarage of Buckland, in the county of Berks, to which- he has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, on. his own petition.—The Reverend William Dalby, M. A. of Exeter College, and Senior Proctor of this Uni versity, has been presented, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Vicarage of Warminster, Wilts. The Rev. William l3urkett, M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, in this Univer sity, to a Chaplaincy on the establishment of the East India Company in Bengal. The Rev. Wm. Sweete, M.A. has been presented by T. F. Best, Esq. (the patron) to the valuable Vicarage of Lenham, in Kent, void by the death of the Rev. B. E. Bridges. The following4entlemen were ordained by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, at Buckden, on Sunday the 18th inst. :— Deacons.—Samuel Best, Fellow of King's College, Cam bridge; Christopher Geo. Richmond, B.A. Caius College, Cambridge; Charles Lyne, St. .John's College, Cambridge; William Falcon. B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge ; Robert Wade Gery, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Stephen Davies, LL. B.Queen'spollege, Cant bridge. _ _ „ PrttEsTs.—Thomas Nayler, B.A. St..lohn's College, Cam bridge; Abraham Vouldon, B.A. St. John's College, Cam bridge ; George Nicholas Dealtry, M.A. Catherine Ilall, Cam bridge; James Moffat Ilarington, B.A. Exeter College, Ox ford; Matthew Robinson, B.A. Caius College, Cambridge; Charles Tomblin, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Ed ward Walter, B.A. Christ College, Cambridge ; William Williamson, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge; Richard Thomas W. Taylor, B.A. Wadham College, Oxford ; Charles Lee, Literate. Sir JAMES MELVIL relates n striking instance of Queen ELIZABETH'S fondness for the favourite Leicester. " She told me," says Melvil, " that she esteemed Robert Dudley as her brother and friend, and that she would herself marry him, did she ever mind to take a husband, but being determined to end her life in virginity, she wished that the Queen of Scots might marry him, as meetest of all other, whom she could find in her heart to declare her second person. Be ing assured that he was so loving and trusty, he would never permit any such thing to be attempted as an usurpation before her death, and that the Queen, my mistress, might have a higher esteern for him, I was requested to stay till I should see him made Earl of Leicester, which was done at Westminster with great solemnity, the Queen herself helping to put on his ceremonial dress, he sitting upon his knees before her with great gravity. But she could not refrain from putting her hand in his neck, smilingly tickling him, the French Ambassador and I standing by. Then she turned, asking me, how I liked him. I answered, that as he was a worthy servant, so he was happy who had a princess who could discern and reward good ser vice. Yet,' says she, ' you like better of yonder long lad,' pointing towards my Lord Darnley, who, as nearest prince of the blood, bore the sword of honour on that day before her. My answer was, that no woman of spirit would make choice of such a man, who more resembled a woman than a man, for he was handsome, beardless, and lady-faced." And yet this was the man, whose marriage with the Queen of Scots, Melvil was at that moment craftily negociating. Captain ROCK has lately decreed that con-acre potatoe ground shall not be let next year at a higher rate than 51. per acre. Notice to this effect has lately been served on several farmers in the parish of Drumrany. 4111 E-PA YMENT of the DANISH Five Pe Cent. LOAN, for .£3,000,000.-111essrs. B. A. 0 - L v , . n , SCHMIDT and CO. hereby give Notice, That on '111I°*; every succeeding Day, between the hours of 'ten and Tf, o'Clock, they will PAY OFF a t P ar , w ith the HA D ; YEARLY DIVIDEND due this Day, those BONDS of , t h above LOAN, which are in Pounds Sterling, so that Holders of the same will be erslitled to payment in the Man following : that is to say— The Holder of a Bond Letter A £lOO, w ill r eceive .£1 0 ! . I° 4 B 250, ditto 2 h' 1 0 I C 500, ditto 5 1 : 0 D 1000, ditto 1 0 ' ,44 ' lSlewssiirls. at ß the m B. A.Gsoaldsechtniimide PAY o t andCo.ray the l s ogiv n e o N N ogez i tt ai al y above LOAN, which are in Marks Banco; and that , as price of Standard Silver was yesterday 60. Pence per 0 1 2 the Holders of such Bond s w ill b e ent i t l e d to receive, and be paid as follows, viz.— For each Bond Letter E Bc. 1400 makin ,, with the Dividend Bc. 1435 £lO5 18. For each Pond Letter' , Bc. 2800 making with — 0 the Dividend Bc. 2870 - - VI l'' a It is requisite that the Bonds, with Lists thereof, pin y cally arranged, and in whi c h th e Names and Addresses 0.. g, Perties claiming are stated, be left One Day previous to ment, in order that they may he prop:fly examined. Fo. 5, Great St. Helen's Passage, Bishopsgate street, 31st December, 1825. —.04 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bunk Stock DA Y AT ONE 0 OM Annuities . "''' New Ditto . ''''• .......... Ex. Bills 1 0001.10. 2ThP fp , Ditto 500/. 21nmr- § pga' Ditto Small ..... s • Ditto Advertised .......... Bank for Acct. ....... ; ..... India for Acct. ... 54 Cons. for Acct. 3 per Cent. Red. ... 81i ai 4 3 per Cent. Cons. — 3A per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. New Bank Lg.:lnn.l9 15-16 20 1-Hi India stock Ditto Bonds ...... ... 8 6 p►n. South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN F Anst.-ian lids, 5 per cent.— --- Brazilian Bds 1825 --Scrip Buenos Ayres lids Chinni), Bds, 6 per cent — Colombian lids 6l Do. do. 1824 ... 61e 2 Danish, 6 per cent. Do. 1825 i;reek lids Do. 1825 NDS AT ONE O'CO CI. . , Mexican Scrip ................ Neapolitan, 5 per ce o ' Neapolitan do. 18.24'"• 41 Peruvian Bonds •• .......... Do. Scrip ............. o*. . Portuguese Bonds ....... Prussian, 5 per cent. .•• ...191 Ditto New ............. •••":191 Russian, New,. 5 per c t- ' Ifi Spanish 1821, 5 per et. '" 1823 ............. French Rentes,sp.c.9t7 100' Exchange ••• 3 percent. ••• - Exchange ••• Guatimala l5 Ilexic•an Do. 1825 66 i 6 bib PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOC.-it. ( A Fer igj Anglo-Mexican Mining Company Anglo-Chilian Mining Company Brazilian Mining Coispany Colombian Mining Company Chilian and Peruvian Mining Company $ 10, Hibernian Mining Company l'otosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association 'lli 0, Royal Irish Mining Company United Mexican Mining Company Ditto New Protector Fire Assurance Company United General Gas Company Mexican Company ............ ..................... , 0 r I i l '....114 • 1 ...................... 11 ..................... a ................................ FOIIEIGN MAILS. .AnnlvE l ). Guernsey and Jersey Ilatriburglt - Holland - Flanders - Malta America - ° ,lO I11(411 WATER AT LONDON 1111I1)(il T 0 31orning, 31 minutes after 6.1 Evening, 55 werrmaweesemrusrtanrrsnrsraoa...y.......w...rewsvnar - w.'...' ''. -r Tl-11 1147, SI IN • SOLEN QUIS DICERE FALSUM 111)% LONDON, 51 , SATURDAY E TrEArl NG, DECEMBE_A>. _ . obe' The Dutch Papers to the oSth DeCe- 4 f r bringrived this morning. Th e y acct iet- St. Petersburg and Batavia. The fi rst 1. 11 4 more than a repetition of what has P revi° l !" peared on the subject of the (lonis e ANDER, but is rather fuller in its de tailg. j) , second refers entirely to the war i" the o , / East Indies, but has nothing new. The f° ST. PETERSIII/09 Our capital is plunged since yesterday in the c m pe' ll i t don. Several days past indeed, Couriers had breegrac the illness of our beloved Monarch, but nobotif Jr blow Providence had reserved for us, for veil fe,logrd her Majesty the Empress Dowager was alreadfitlo', rations to hasten to the sick bed of her august s° b but too soon received the news of his death, here, and fills her maternal heart with grie f ' Leo% t . ' ° l Monarch, who has been taken from us in Ids 48 %; of the midst of a mild, just, and wise 3 Goire lllca : s t t ' a quarter of a century replete with the west ;clisfs;o events, was ill about fourteen days, and the i ns :, as of his illness, the yellow fever of the Cr itri le li( called, is said to have been a cold caught sl3th,csel cursion. Her Majesty, the Empress Elizabe—fibi watched over her august consort in a mall ner Aee llf excellent heart, and closed his eyes ; she is -; f r , Heaven grant that the shock may not injure Trf is already so delicate. She is expected here sh° ll4 :itsl ii of the late Emperor will also soon arrive. Th e Ci' ''si l / 1 , late, and despondency and sorrow are every wi lere e f oos l all or Majesty the Emperor; Constantine, is said to ill- ;tlie t Ai Warsaw for Taganrog. It is difficult to sal /41 000 0 8 Y true ; but we must know in a few days' a s ele f# C. see his Imperial Majesty. prittll4' are extracts : It is thought here that the news of the dea th h ot °l :d of Russia must have reached Paris abou t the j4 f . ro il I' d the Empress Elizabeth sent an express direct; cifTcid to her august mother at Baden, whence the di gl)-I p li t). ? been b speedily transmitted to Paris by the te legrs of V , Count Von Spaire French, Secrets?"' eolvd ha u s rg a . rrived here from St. Petersburgh, and the . 1. fr.,' Messenger Teisset. Russian couriers fool St 'sfe i" have passed through on their way to Don cl°l 3, er P Hague, and Dresden. • g b The Court and the Army went into rio ur A n° for g i, four weeks. The Royal Theatres were el°':. o cle L ib by his Majesty's command, viz. the 18th, 19t h, - 97 00 6°' okti ~r tbe d 00 The first subscription :made at Batavia, ' 40,'" V i the inundation in the Netherlands, arnoulltea t°,lo(i,°,ll° and the Committee in Java, which receive t he . ," °' ,', tributions, does its utmost to promote the IP' ,;. )1 0 /4 1 1 4 ? tav T iu h 50VA OA' A. 3 151. 00 i v ( , respecting rite Courant contains ils:ge but t he 1 scription.