The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-03 00:00:00

. . z' „r, iti liTum.—in the Lotter frcni :rfajn- A mclEto, ap peared in TH E S UN of Saturthy, the signat ure should have E. (not (1.) A. ANGELO. -PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS I / o .k Stock ............ 230 30 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cen t . Cons. . 3 41 per ............... 981 i liitto Red 4 per Cent. New 103,1 4 37, itan!c hong Ann—. 22) 7-16 India Stock n.to Bonds ......... 50 52 pfn. South bea St(clc DA V AT ONE (I'cLocii.. Old Annuities 91 , 14 New Ditto Ex. Bißs 10001. 1 sd. ... 25 27 Ditto r.(01/. 1,;c1 25 213 Ditto ',Small l i d. - 9B 29 Ditto Commercial Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Opening PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. _ Austrian Bds 5 ) cent. Neapolitan Scrip I.lrazili:ln Ws', •• ! ..... . c . .... .. .. .. ... -- Peruvian Bonds ir-------..., 1825 ......... Do. Scrip uer.os Ayres MN Portuguese Bonds _ (Mien 8 per c . e . n . l. .:: .. -- Prussian, 5 per cent. ... 10 . 1 . . i , li ds, -11onilan ltds 6 per ct. 85' Ditto New 11 do. liiii . ..... 81 Russian. New. sp. ct. 96 i i 76 4 li • I i l a niso, 5 per cent....... ... Spanish 1821, 5 per cent: ilo • Scrip — 1823 L i r o eelt , lids ....................................... --- French lt , entes, 5 per ct. --f. o. --crip, 1825... "'•i.•••••• 13A dis. Exchange ... —f. —c. Alexican Bds 1.7 41 3 per Do. s • ...... • ..... : . I ..e —f. —c. , ...crip 1825 ...... 43i dis. Lxci,an,, ... 'eaNlitan, 5 per ent. ... -,-• PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Anglo-Chilian Alining Company 28 2r, 27 Bolivar Alinin,g Com any Company •• • 7 i I T ; Castello and EspiritoPSanto Brazil Mining Pasco Peruvian Minin g Company IW Potosi La Paz and Peruvian : mint, ii i pin. Royal Irish Mining Company 3 , 1:',. 4 11 - ' * Association Nev.- United 'Mexican Mining Company 1 i$ Protector Fire Assurance Company I 1 I British Rock and Patent. Salt Company .. 9 rolovick Patent Salt Company London and Boulogne Steam Packet ComPany 4i 4 i• 4l , 33 g tower Rhine Steam Navigation- Company P atent Bricks ......... . Provir , eial B ank of Ireland 44 4 Scarlet Dye Company l'er Sim? e FOLIG7+I M IILS. Gottenburgh 11 an btir 1 A merit. 1 4ee Nard I sltr, 'l3 Alt r ED. 1 1 1 1 I II 111 !I TER. AT LON DON 11 I I)(i T()-3101t110 1 V. ornink 9 ••• Minute s after 5. I I:vt.ning, minutes after 5. THE SUN. QUIS DICERE FALSUJI AUDEAT LONDON. SDAY Ei'E.NING, AUGUST 3, 1825. 1 he Paris Papers of Sunday have arrived, but Contain nothin g which we deem it necessary to eXtract. They aro occupied chiefly with two "blects, viz. the Greeks, and one more home thatelY affecting France, the conversion of the Itents. This latter subject becomes daily mor e inter e st i n ? as the time f or e l ect i on g i ven to the Itent i e 6 -e4ances fOr the sums 41 d be a very :° 1 prop ort i on to the whole. Tee millions . " 1° hundred thousand. francs is the sum total tlertPrls and th e max i mum , o f t h e h opes of th e Mini s ter never exceed e d thi r ty m illi ons , and it Caoriot be expected that this large difference will P . j f : e °ll velled between this and the ex pin - IZ :a t he time for election, viz. the sth instant e ar e t h - • ,--" to believe the French Treasury is 'ln COLluitioo to repay the dissenting Ptentiels -tlreir res.pective debts. The re tat that regarding Ports concerning the Greeks still go on ; the Election of a King for Greece ,s e r e ,.. M ! to gain ground. A letter from the Isle '' f l. 1:1 "o t dated 6th July, says, that Deputies •Nram all the Island s h a v e been convoked to a t , t• ?, , 4) `' to make this election, and that an llnn- tan Prine.e, or perhaps a Greek of noble :('escent, will be chosen. This election is said I .° have been ur ged by the Greek Deputies in full who saj such a King would be power .lll9 protected. We are thus led to imagine that S io n t , g a lail ,d had promised her protection to this new rrergn, a c ircumstance we must greatly doubt. I . I...CANNING'S letter to the Gre e k agent, pub - 1n i slw.d in THE SUN some time back, distinctly tolats eat the feelings of our Government upon a . e li s Paint ; and w e see nothing in the state o •i n ,, a , irs tlow that could offer the least inducement 1 ; "'"aog them. Any protection given to the Greeks f 11 3 : this country would b e an indirect sanction o of ''rer.ch invasion of Spain ; foT . the ruternational law, which cunt' principle omned that in (iastee) would in like manner cowl earn such con liact on the part of England, for it makes the tlifference whethe r the inteKerence is -°" ,)n behail of Liberty or Despotism. However h r r Private feelings might lead us t o pardon a deaneach nttbis be for the sake of Liberty, 'never be permittod to a Goveounente to l i i ; n ge a country into a war with the su re int .n -til„n of supporting freedom, how highly we'll' w . e e . tx4Y•Prize it. Som e far better reason - will 1 . ) 0 I v i l t ee 'ted, for a nation has nothing to' (I . € Nre l'gailtOktism and Knight Errantry.--Irellic ' t h is r4aY ,ecroclude no steps will be talcum by vi tt , e „ cla htl"3 on the affairs of Greece, ion-le,s the ',lre.satoction of the Divan, until the Greeks .. ene t 'n e selyes aball have asserted their indelh' n " .ti. a nd 414,w themselves able to maintain it. n th' e k,"'"rdity possible to speak with certainty o' t ) at e'of :affairs in Greece, the rumours put_ Ara %It being and all of such a contradictory ter glte Inate r . F. Two Morning Papers of yes.. eve ry are at complete issue, upon almost th e 3c ' Paint- Thus, the former declares that we :?.VelttS of -:the campaign continue (we confess f avo u u td riot 1 , - +alti ow it had began) to assume a more f thin 51.414 44 -rtrance; the latter says the face o 44 in AVetot ern Greece was fully as gloomy m„ 111 . tire Nin rea. The former asserts that se r , u B , le ge of Mis solonghi has been raised in con : ,6!evpce of :Get ieral GoultA's victory at Salona. " 1 tter decl3 res the retaking of Salona to be • ruer e f ah , instal "le. I , Ve might go through many other l's of th sp ace f e 4 same nature, but we have not 'h ow C". more, In the midst of these doubts, 'l' eve r, thus t ouch is certain, viz. that the htive arks ar e uotio that deplorable condition the,' op, e : r ellrese utecl, and appear fully able to tarps Nit the ti recian forces. The Egyptian 4 r ,. w ,as, on its first appearance, ridiculed as *MI and Akiliscinlineti mob, following the standard or Inamtist by compulsion, and de serting him upon the first favourable opportu nity. But events have shewn the contrary, and that the expectations built by the Porte upon this formidable corps, if not entirely fulfilled, have at least not been entirely dashed. The Egyp tian fleet still remains upon the seas in spite of the alleged victories of the Greeks and the endeavours of their. Admirals. At discord with each other, the Greeks seem to be aiding the exertions of the Turks for their final sub jection, and forgetful of the high and im portant duties their country now calls upon them to fulfil, they carry their animosities into the Cabinet, and direct their wisdom not against the enemy, but against the views and de signs of one portion of their own friends. They stop for nothing short of this, and we verily-believe that if the prevailing party could not be sue cessfully resisted in 2ny other manner, the op posite would open the gates of their cities to the enemy, and submit in order to gain a pitiful pur pose,to the dictation of the Turkish Conqueror. Such seems to he the melancholy issue of a struggle, commenced for the most noble ends, but we shall regret it the less, deeming the Greeks, by such proceedings, unworthy the honourable re ward they seek. TUE Lonn CHANCELLOR.—It might be thought Gott the anonymous assassin of character who has so often attacked the LORD CHANCELLOR would have been induced to restrain his venom, as his persevering hostility has only excited the indig nation of all liberal minded men, and indeed the contempt of even his own readers, but " The creature's at his dirty work again," and seems to be' hardened by private malignity against every notion of common decency and shame. Yet he has reason to know, if he knows any thing, that a more learned and conscientious person than the present Chancellor never occu pied his high station, and dispensed justice with more scrupulous vigilance and impartial integrity. !Nt the last attack on the Noble Lord seems to be less directed towards him than, by rendering his Lordship a stalking horse, to aim his malig nant shafts at His MAJESTY. In this, however, he is but content with the established character of the channel through which his malevolence issues, as it has always been distinguished for its revolutionary principles and ridicule of LEGITI MACY, on which most of the European Govern ment's are founded, and depend for security, against those innovations which have shaken the frame of the social edifice and endangered the • very existence of society. MAYENCE, JULY 22.—There is a great demand for oats in the Corn Markets of the Netherlands as well as in England, from which country news has been brought that the Barley crops have totally failed. It is believed there that in con sequence of the great rise in the prices (which are still advancing) that the importation of that kind of grain will soon be permitted in England.. The 15th of August is spoken of as the time when the permission will probably begin. In many parts of Lower Germany the rape seed seems to have failed.—ln Holstein, from which large quantities of this grain are usually exported to Holland, this year receives supplies from the Weiser. The prices of oil have likewise risen a little in the Netherlands and this market. Raw sugars too have risen in Holland, and the demand for coffee has become more brisk. The Duke WELLINGTON has left England on his ordinary tour of inspection of the fortresses in the Netherlands, on which, in pursuance of the treaties with that country, a part of the in demnity paid by France is to be expended un der the supervision of his Grace. He is accom panied by Colonel JONES, of the Engineers, who has the charge of detailed inspection.—(Morning Paper.) The Abbe de ST. FARE, a natural son of the too-celebrated PHILIP EnaLITE, died on Sunday seinnight. Ile was one of the innumerable exam ples among the French of the inconveniences to which they will submit, under the most painful circumstances of infirmity or old age, rather than not enter into society. Totally deprived of the use of his limbs, and with all the distressing ap pearance of bulk of a man in the dropsy, he was to be seen, until within a few months, wheeling himself about in a Merlin's chair, in the salons of the fashionable company of Paris, apparently enjoying himself in conversation or his rubber of whist, as if he were in perfect health. In no other respect was he at all remarkable. The village of Start, which is visited by every body who go the Waters of Spa, has been destroy ed by fire. In the night of the 24th July, a wheel wright, in fitting the iron tire of a wheel to a cart, caused the sparks to fly upon the roofs . of the neighbouring houses, which' are composed of straw ; they immediately caught tire in several places. The destroying element extended itself with dreadful rapidity through the village. The next morning the fire was still burning, and we are assured that out of .5t3 houses which coin posed the village, 47 have been destroyed. The Church, the Parsonage, and the house of the Mayor, alone escaped the disaster. The damage is estimated at 100,000 florins.--(Eloile, Sunday, July 31.) WOMBWELL, the Proprietor of the Lions which he exposed to the attack of the Dogs, finding that such a general abhorrence has arisen against him, in a letter to a public Journal, declares that 1" another exhibition of such a scene shall never be encouraged or engaged in" by him. ThiS is. a prudent submission to public judgment and the ,common feelings of humanity, but it is no apology for. the cruelty attending the first disgusting contest. RECORDER'S REponr.---Yesterday the RECO It- D C-'t of London made a report to the King in Council of the prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate, all of whom were c ony icted at the last Old Bailey sessions—namely, Thomas Brigin, aged 34, John Williams, 10, George Bruton, 25, Win. Harding, 22, James Davis, 22, and Wm. Naylor, 20, for steal ing in a dwelling-house to the value of 40s. and upwards ; Thos. Hill, 17, for burglary; George Waters, 27, Wm. Field, 13, Thomas Godwin, 11, James Norris, 11, and Mary Ann Cook, 20, for housebreaking ; Jane Davis, 23, Catherine Ferris, 20, and James Gravenor, 15, for high-way robbery; Jeremiah Riley, 40, for returning from transportation ;. John Battle, alias Nathaniel Hartley, 40, and James Smith, 40, for horse-steal ingwasgraciously ; Charlotte Prove s, 23, a nd Ch a rlott e Williams, 21 , for g ealing from the p @in e u rs r on g ; w hi h s en ßo H y i a s l 3 pleased to rVspite prisoners! THE KING'S COURT. Yesterday, at half.past one o'clock, his Majesty arrived at his Palace in Pall Mall, in an open carriage, from his Royal Lodge in Windsor Park.—Soon after, the King held. a Court, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Chancellcir of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chancellor of the Duchy • of Lancaster, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Bishop of St. David's, Earl Cathcart (Gold Stick in waiting), the Mas ter of the Horse, the Rev. Dr. Sumner, the Recorder of Lon don, the Treasurer of the Household. Lord Burrhersh, &c. The Rev. Dr. Jenkinson, Bishop of St. David's, did homage before his Majesty, upon his appointment to - that see. 11r. Secretary Peel, and the Rev. Mr. Sumner, as Clerk of the Closet, attended the ceremony.—The King then held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Greville attended as Clerk, when the further prorogation of Parliament was taken into consideration, and a further prorogation was agreed to, from the 25th instant to the Ist day of next November.—At the conclusion of tha Privy Council the Recorder of London was admitted into the presence of the King in Council, and made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at the last Sessions for the County of Middlesex, at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey; when the King was graciously pleased to reprieve them all during his Majesty's pleasure.—Mr. Secretary. Peel officiated for the Lord President of the Council, in the absence of the Earl of liar rowby from London.—His Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Peel, and the Lord Chancellor of lreland.—The Marquis of Londonderry was the Lord in waiting, and Sir Hilgrove Turner was the Groom in waiting.—The Court broke up soon after four o'clock, after which the King left town on his return to his Royal Lodge. DEPARTURES FROM TOWN, &c. The Doke and Duchess of Bedford and family, left Woburn Abbey yesterday, for their scat in Scotland ; Lord and Lady Frederick lteatinck left town yesterday, for the Earl of Lons dale's seat, Lowther, Westmorland ; the Earl and Countess of Hardwick, from Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, for the Earl of Caledon's seat, Bounds, Tunbridge ; the Earl of Guildford left town yesterday for his seat, Wrexham Abbey, Norfolk ; the lion. R. H. Fitzgibbon left town yesterday, for East bourne ; the Dowager Countess of Clare left town yesterday, for Ireland; John Ferguson, Esq. left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for Scotland; Ralph Hoare, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place, for his seat, for Bath ; Lady Mary Ann Gage, from Mivart's lintel, Lower Brook street, for Suffiilk ; C. K. Tynte, Esq. from ditto, for Norfolk ; Lady and Miss Trollope, from Cumberland-place, for Rams gate ; Lady Mary Lindsay Craufurd and suite, from Scotland, to the Baths at Luc , ...a; the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, and the Ladies Graham, for Buchanan, in Scotland ; Earl and Countess of Orford, for Wollerton Park, in Nottinghamshire ; Admiral Martin, for Kaponry Hall, near Burton, in West morland; Mr. Storey, for Locklington •' Mr. Halliday, for Cowes, in the Isle of Wight ; Mr. Chas. Hamilton, for Rams gate; Earl Talbot, on a tour; Captain and Mrs. Anne ley, for Ramsgate ; Lord Arthur Hill, for Ireland ; Major and Mrs. Harvey, for Ramsgate; Air. and Airs. Anstruther, for Black heath ; Countess of Chichester and Lady Maly Pelham, for Stammer, near Lewes. in Sussex ; Mrs. and Miss Davenport, on a tour ; Sir Godfrey Webster, for Hastings ; Duke of Grafton, and the Ladies Fitzroy, far Thetford, in Norfolk ; Sir David and Lady Ogilby and family, from their house, I , Charles.street, Manchester-square, for Margate. :7 *ti, ' (••••st) \ eitActsk., , . ) (.-.,.,,•-4 6;4 ,, 4 9 ' - * .l. .1) k''' •, ,) 00' .-- .- 4 ' - • ' • rt••• • - i ‘,.. .L..- `9 6 :' ,, •••.- i , •,,,..-- - , : g?? , 1P'.,,), - - , , : r -., • - -,- ~-4P' ~i ee y, ftt 4,0 < 1 0 ' ,i... • -A - - ';'. ARRIVALS IN TOWN. The Duke of St. Alhan's arrived yesterday at his house in St. James's-square, from attending the funeral of the late Duke, his father, which took place on Saturday last, in the family vault, in Lincolnshire; Mr. and Mrs. Scott and family, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Brighton ; Sir WM. Parker, Bart. •at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place, from Bel fordHall, Sufiblk ; T. Cooke, Esq. and son, at Jordan's Ilo tell, St. James's-street, from 'Worthing ; Sir Richard and Lady Sutton, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook -street, from Norfolk; Hon. George and Lady Vernon, at -ditto, from Derbyshire. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Sir Thomas Farquhar gave a grand. entertainment yesterday, at his villa, Roehampton. The Earl ot' Rosslyn entertained a distinguished party to dinner yesterday, at his house in St. James'h-square. Sir S. B. %lorland, Bart. had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Pall Mall. • FEMALE FASUIONS FOR AUGUST. (From the Lady's Magazine, No. 31—New Series. ) illottxfNG PROMENADE DRESS.— Pei isse-negligi e of cam - brie, pointed a l'Espagnole, with embroidered muslin, edged round with lace : every point of this trimming is finished by a small button, which seems to confine it to the pelisse, and these points are carried down each side of the pelisse (which fastens to front) and round the border. The sleeves are full, and fas ten down the front of the arms with points, the same as those which close the pelisse. A Castilian ornament of long points, standing upwards in the old English style, forms the cuffs at the wrists. A double fichu-crape, pointed, embroidered, and trimmed with lace, falls over the bust and shoulders. Cottage hat of white Bros de Naples, worn over a lace cornette, slightly ornamented with pink sarsnet, and a very full bouquet of pionies in front. Chinese parasol of grass-green edged with weitc. BALL DRESS.—Dress of yellow striped gauze over white satin, with a very broad full border, bonillorre, of gauze, con fined by wreaths of full-blown roses ; the centre rose much larger than the others : the wreaths are placed rather in a zig zag direction. Corsage of yellow satin, with a bouffont dra pery of gauze across the bust. Sleeves very short and full, and adorned next the shoulder with a bouquet of roses. no hair arranged in full clusters of curls, interspersed with bouquets of roses and silver wheat-ears. Necklace, formed of three rows of fine pearls. Pear-pearl ear-pendants, gold bracelets, fastened with a clasp composed of a large topaz, set round with pearls. BRIGHTON, A uo. 2.—Yesterday, about 5 o'clock, I met the Duke of York riding in a gig with one of his jockeys; his Royal Highness stopped some time to converse with a gentle man, and appeared in excellent spirits. During the races here, the Duke of York rode about the course on his gray cob. One day, his person being unknown to a man employed to clear the course, the latter ordered his Royal Highness vary uncere moniously to make way ; the Duke smiled anti good-na turedly complied with the mandate. A most ridiculous story has appeared in a Brighton Paper, and has been copied into most of the London Journals, relative to the Duke of York having been present at the funeral of a person belonging to a sect called Bryanites, and joining lin a hymn that was sung on the occasion. The simple fact is, that the Duke happened to ride by the spot at the mu ment, and being attracted by the novelty of the way in which the funeral was performed, made several inquiries ; but as to singing any hymn, the idea is too absurd to be for a moment entertained. His Royal Highness rides or walks out very early every morning, generally by half-past nine o'clock. The Duke of Richmond went yesterday morning to his seat at Goodwood, but in the evening rejoined his family, who are staying at one of the hotels here. RAMSGATE, Auer. I.—This pre-eminent town is honoured by the presence (at Bear's Albion Hotel). of their Serene High ness's the Duke of Brunswick, and the Prince Walinbourg of Brunswick, With their suites; their Highness's are accompa nied by Colonel D'Este, tit?) , arrived here on Friday evening last m four carriages. The Hon. Alias Seymour will, this morning, be led to the Hymeal altar by Colonel Dawson. The ceremony will be per formed at St. George's Church. This young Lady is the niece of the Marchioness of Hertford, so long the protegee: of Mrs. Fitzherbert.—(Morning Post. A CounT of ALDERMAN was held yesterday,l at Guildhall, for the general dispatch of public business. The Chamberlain delivered in his statement of the produce of the Orphans' Fund Duties for the last quarter, which being read, the Court ordered him to take measures agreeably to the pro visions of the Act of Parliament for the discharge of the sum of 10,3001. of the remaining debt, and to give notices to the parties interested.—Several persons were sworn, and others allowed to be admitted brokers—Licences were granted to coal-undertakers.--A petition of some fishermen, to be allowed to catch white bait, and another petition of fishermen against such licence being granted, were referred to a Committee for consideration. Several bills and accounts were ordered for payment. St. James's Park has been laid wit!‘ gravel, but from the want of rolling to make it bind (which was for merly done), it is a quagmire in the rain, and in dry weather, only differs in feeling from a sea beach by the quality of mak . ing a dtist and dirt, P 0 E T It Y. PRAISE OF A LADY'S GREY HAIR. Tho' age has chang'd thee—late so fair, I love thee ne'er the worse ' • For when he took thy golden hair, He fill'd with gold thy purse. ANECDOTES. A WHITE Bucx.—King Edward the Fourth, whilst hunt ing in Arrow Park, belonging to Thomas Burdett, Esq. among other game killed A WHITE BUCK, which Burdett highly va lued ; whereupon Burdett wished the horns in the belly of him who desired the King to kill it. For which, his words being interpreted .as though he wished them in the King's belly, he was condemned, and beheaded at Tyburn.—(Speed.) THE 111IT.I.Elt AND HIS MAN.—In Cornwall dwelt a Miller, who had been a busy do;T in the Rebellion, and. know. ing his danger, ordered his Man to assume his (the master's name), if any one inquired for him. Sir Anthony Kingston, the Provost Marshal, having soon after come to the Mill, lie in. quired for the Master of it, when the Man, in his name, pre sented himself, and he was forthwith commanded to the gal.. fazes. The servant, Men, seeing the danger of death, declared he was not the Master, but the Man ! " Well," said the Knight, " thou canst never do thy Master better service than to be hanged for him ;" and thereupon he was executed without further ceremony.—(Speed.) HER on's CRUELTY.—When Herod had put to death many of his children, the EstrEnon hearing of it, said, " lie had " rather be lierod's 1101, , than his child, for he killed his Chil " dren, and spared his Pigs ! !"—(FritetLs Temporum, part 1,,f. 7.) CoirtemExer..—ln PRIOR'S Dedication of his Poems to the Earl of DORSET he says, speaking of his Lordship's father, " Every one of his Pieces is an ingot of gold, intrinsi cally and solidly valuable ; such as wrought or beaten thinner ! would shine through a whole Book of any other author." In POPE'S Essay on Criticism, written when he was but eighteen years of age, there is the following passage : " The sterling bullion of one English line " Drawn in French wires, would through whole pages shine." It is difficult to ascertain which Poet borrowed from the other, hut it is evident that the idea it the same, and it is strange that the parallel has never been noticed. EXTRACTS/rola DR. BUSBY'S ANECDOTES of MUSIC and MUSICIANS. A FACT LITTLE KNOWN.—It is known to very few of the innumerable admirers of HANDEL'S Messiah, that the final air, " If God is for us, who shall be against us?" which now very property is always sung by a tenor voice, was de signed by the composer to be performed by a soprano. This fact is rendered manifest by a manuscript score of the Ora torio, made while the composer was in Ireland, by SMITH, his amanuensis, fbr the use of Mr. EDMUND BRODERIP, of Wells. ECCENTRIC CONCERT.—In the reign of CHARLES IX. of France, music was much p a tronized; and MERSENNUS gives a curiou' description of a viol, sufficiently spacious to contain young pages, who sung treble to the airs, while he who played the bass part on the viol, sung the tenor, in order to form a complete concert in three parts. HANDEL AND THE SERPENT.—The first time the ser pent was used in a concert, at which HANDEL was in the habit of presiding, he wax so disgusted at the powerful coarse ness of its tones, that he called out in a rage, Vat de diffil lfre dot ?" On being informed that it was an instrument called a serpent, " 0," he replied, " de serpent !--aye—but it be not de serpent vat seduced 8.7 e !" ARNE's Comus AND CERVETTO.—In the year 1738, AnNE's Concur introduced to the English stage a light, airy, and original species of melody, which, supported by the style of that Master's subsequent dramatic pieces, and numerous detached songs, gave a new turn to the national taste ; while the arrival of the celebrated CERVETTO brought the generous and manly tones of the violincello into high favour, raised it to the rank of a solo instrument, and unfolded to English ears poweq it had not been suspected to possess. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIDGDWATER RACES—(CONCLUDED.) The Members' Plate of 501., all ages; three years old, 6st. 121 b.; four years old, Bst. ; five years old, Bst 91b, ; six years old, 9st. ; and aged, '.lst. 21b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. ; winners extra. Heats twice round and a Sir T. Lethbridge's b. h. Franconi, 4 yrs old - 1 1 Mr. Jeffery's Miss Foote - - - - 2 2 Col. Tynte's c. f. by Carlton, 3 yrs old - - 3dr The Town Plate of 501. (handicap) for beaten horses. Mr. Smith's b. g. Viscount, 5 yrs old, Bst. 51b. - 1 I Sir T. Lethbridge's Frarconi, 3 yrs old, fit. 71b. 2 2 Col. Tynte's ch. f. by Carbon, 3 yrs old, 7st. 21b. - • 3 3 A beautiful race each heat. ASHTED PARK RACES. At the Ashted Park Races, on Monday, two serious accidents happened. Norval, the jockey, mounted the hunter Sullivan, but the horse refused the start, turned restive, reared, and fell over, and the jockey was so much injured, that he (lied in the evening. Cramp, another jockey, was thrown in the race, on Ranter, and had his collar-bone broken. Eleven started for the Hunters' Stakes, which was won at three heats, by Mr. C. tidney's Music. The all-aged Stakes of 501. was won by Mr. Robinson's ch. c. by Smolensko, beating four others. Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each was won by Mr. Bouverie's Pilot, beating three others. COWES, AUG. 1. We are now all bustle and gaiety, and never was there wit nessed more rank, beauty, and fashion, at this favourite place of resort, than at the present time indeed, there is amusement in abundance prepared for our visitors. The following is a part of the bill of fare:— ISLE OF WIGHT - REGATTA,—The Pilots Review and Rowing Matches will take place on Thursday next, com mencin,, at 11 o'clock, a. m.—The Sailing Match on Friday starting from Cowes Roadstead at noon. Vessels which have won first prizes in preceding years may enter for this Match ; also vessels registered at any British port, tonnage not to ex ceed 34; but there will be no restriction as to the number of men, sails, spars, or - ballast.—The prizes to the winning ves sels will be 30 sovereigns, 20 sovereigns, 12 sovereigns, 8 sove reigns.—To the losing vessels two sovereigns each.—To the winning row-boats seven sovereigns, five sovereigns, two sove reigns. To the losing boats one sovereign each. ROYAL YACHT CLun.—The annual dinner of the Royal Yacht Chit; will be held at the hotel, East Cowes, on Thurs day next,—the Marquis of Anglesey in the Chair. On Monday, the Bth instant, at 10 o'clock, A. 31.1 there will be a general meeting at the above Hotel, for the electioir of Members, and other business. The Race Ball will he held at the Hotel, at East Cowes, on Friday next, the Atli instant. The death of the Earl of Craven has cast a general gloom amongst the numerous friends of that late much-respected Nobleman. His Lordship was one of the principal patrons of yacht sailing, and owner of the tine ship Louisa. CRICKET. An interesting game of Cricket was played on Thursday last at Chelmsford, between eleven Gentlemen of that place and eleven of Danbury, and decided as follows : DANBUItY. CHELMSFORD. First Innings - - 51 I First Innings Second Ditto - - 59 I Second ditto - 44 - - 65 110 Danbury winning with five wickets to go down. PIGEON FLYING. ExPEDIT lON EXTRAORDINARY.—various feats have, within the last few years, been performed by pigeons, an& among the latest was that of one of the Flemish breed turned loose after the fight for the championship at Warwick, by Ilarry England, of .e Green Man Inn, Kent-road, which per formed the ninety-two miles in three hours and thiry-tive minutes. This was exceeded on Monday ; a Mr. Attwood having made a bet of 100 sovereigns, first, that he would let six pigeons loose on the high ground near Crostwick (be tween Norwich and North Walsham) 114 miles, and that one should arrive at his loft in the Sanctuary, St. George's-fields, within 4 hours and a half; and the bird was at the end of his flight in 12 minutes within the given time. The other part of the match was 501. that the second bird would not be at home in five hours and a half; and alike sum that the third bird would not be at home in 7 hours. The second bird reached his destination within five hours ; but the other was not heard of during the day. This beats the Antwerp flying hollow. On Sunday morning, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the house of Mr. Turner, a dissenting clergyman, in the Albany-road, Camberwell, was broken into during the absence of that gentleman and his family at the Al bany. Chapel, and robbed of M. in sovereigns, besides a quan tity of plate. Information of the same was given at Union hall, together with the description of three men who are sus pected, and who were observed lurking about the neighbour hood previous to tile robbery. SUN-OFFICE, HALF-r tST Two. We received at a late hour the Etoile of yes terday. The following are its chief contents:— The Augsburg Gazette contains the following news from Trieste, dated July 18 and 19 : Let ters from Corfu of the 10th of July announce, that IBRAHAM PACHA has taken Trippolitza, after an obstinate resistance, on the part of the father of CotocoTnoNt. Several actions had previously 'taken place, but always to the disadvantage of the Greeks. It appears that their forces were paralized, but that, finding it impossible to save that place, they set fire to it themselves, having also destroyed all the villages on the road. The reports of the intended mediation of the European Powers be tween the Greeks and the Porte gain ground, though with little promise of success. French Hewes, Five per Cents, at the end of the month, 2 o'clock, 102 f. 65c.--3 o'clock, 1021. 75c.—Three per Cents. 75f. 70. ODYSSEUS. (Flom the Austi•iun Observer, July 22.) VIENNA, JULY 22. In our Paper of 9th June, we gave from the Athenian an account of the taking of Odysseus. We have now received the following particulars from a traveller who left Athens at the end of May. In the neighbourhood of Salona, Odysseus was abandoned by almost all his followers. They went over to the 'Greeks, who were op posed to him, under the command of Goura. Just about this time he was informed by a Turk, with whom he was on a confidential footing, that it was intended to arrest him by virtue of an order that had come from Constantinople, and to bring them dead or alive to Negro pont. This plan was to be executed that night. Odysseus quickly took his resolu tion ; concerted with his few followers a pretended flight ; pursued them with loud cries, and in this manner happily escaped before the Turks well knew what was the matter. Ile hoped to be well treated by his country men, as they happened to be some of those who had for med y been under his command. Goura had him put in chains, and led him past the cavern where the family of Odysseus and his brother-in-law still reside. An attempt was made to induce them to give up this retreat, but it failed. Hereupon Odysseus was sent to Megara, where the people were going to stone him to death, and he was saved only by his guards covering him with their cloaks. From Megara he was brought to Salamis, and on the llth May . to Athens. In time streets of that city a woman struck him in the face with stones, and the populace were incensed against him, reproaching him with his arbitrary execu tions, and especially with that of a Papa whom he had ordered to he walled up. The Go vernment had given orders to send the prisoner to Napoli ; but the Captains of Goura refused, answering that Odysseus was safer at Athens than at Napoli. lie was shewn to me. Ile is confined in the Acropolis, in a square tower op posite the Propylaea and the rampart which he had built during the time he was Governor, and there is an inscription on a stone, commending " this work, completed .in common by Odysseus and Goura, the Generals of Greece." MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, AUG. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Ida, and Eliza, —, from Jamaica ; Nestor, Lewis, and Queen, ' William, Gomm, from Trinidad; Ibis, Smith, from Oporo. Arrived from the River and remain the Medway transport, with convicts for New South \Vales ; and the Maria, Hibbing, for Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Romney, from Plymouth ; Maria transport, from Deptford; Jane, Elliot, from London; Medway, —, from Riga. Sailed the Royal Mail, —, for London ; and Russian frigate Kruitzer, for Petersburgh. PLYMOUTH, ' AUG. I.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Salus, Nesbit, from Cadiz. Off the port the George, Hodgson, from Be. tice. FALMOUTH, AUG. L—Wind variable, light airs.—Sailed his Majesty's cutter Vigilant, with a mail for Lisbon . ; and Fortitude, Dupin, for London. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 1.--Wind N.--Arrived the Robert M'W'illiam, Wilcoxon, front New Orleans, sailed from Balize 4th June; Louisiana, Waterman, from New York, sailed lst July; Colossus, Marshall, from New York and Havre ; James. Parker, from Smyrna; Margaret, Williams, from Charente; Maria, Dadt, front Dantzic ; and Britannia, Grayson, from Berbice. COWES, Auo. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Alarmion, Williamson, from Bahia in 65 days from Hamburg!). ENTERPRISE INDIA ST EAM,PACRF.T.-ThiS yes sel is still at Northfleet, and probably some days may daps , ' prior to her sailing, from the circumstance of the working part of her crew having been suddenly discharged, and fresh hands being to be provided. The cause of this delay, it is stated, re flects high credit on the Commander, Captain Johnson, who, on receiving a refusal from the men to execute what they con ceived unusual and extra duty, and being aware how material at starting in a voyage of this magnitude is the slightest dere liction of duty and infringement of strict discipline, took the immediate determination of a general dismissal. The terms offered to the men during the voyage are 31. per month. On viewing this vessel, the supposed difficulties of the great under taking vanish, from the able preparations and skilful precau tions. The statement that the route would be via Ancona, Corfu, and Malta, anti pass by a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, to be cut for the express purpose, is totally void of foundation, as is that the voyage would be performed in 35 days. The cabins, which are separate, are handsome and re plete with conveniences, the stores abundant, and the ma chinery adequate to the undertaking with, three able engineers and six assistants, technically called stokers, who, like the crew, will relieve each other in the regular watches. There are at present fourteen passengers, with the expectation of more, and the stock of coals 320 chaldrons, which it is calculated will he sufficient to last to the Cape of Good Hope, where there is a further supply. The Enterprise, after clearing out at the North fleet buoy, will proceed to Falmouth, prohab:y touch at Tene rife, and, after the shortest possible stay at the Cape, make di rectly for Bengal, and complete, it is presumed, the. er.tire voy age within eleven weeks. CORN EXCHANGE, Auc;. 3. There are very short supplies of all sorts of Grain this week. The prices of Wheat are fully equal to Monday's quotations, with little doing in the trade; Barle remains in a stagnant state, and prices nominal • Beans and Peas fully support Mon day's terms ; Oats find buyers at much the same prices as last quoted. A nRIVALS.—English Wheat, 3,420 —Barley, 420—Oats, I,6oo—lrish Oats, 890 quarters—Flour, 1,800 sacks. Marshal MACDONALD, Duke of 'farentum, ar rived on the 27th ult. at Dieppe from his tour through England, having embarked at Brighton. At a meeting of iron-masters in this city on Monday last, the price of iron was reduced 2/. per ton.—(Gloucester Journal.) RIOT AT PADDINGTON.- - Henry Morris, one of the unfortunate men concerned in the-above dreadful riot, died this morning of the,iajuries he received on the occasion.