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LONDON AD.701.111N2D SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday before the RECORDER, Aldermen Mali:, Aiicurs, and CRORDIR. . _ TITHISS,-.TUR REY. DR. OWEN v. THE PARISH OF ST. °LAVE, HAILT-STRIET. • This was an appeal by the Rev. Doctor against two rates for the relief of the poor of the above Parish, made for two several periods, viz.—from Midsummer to Christmas, 1025, and from Christmas, 1825, to Midsummer, 1826. The rats were made on the 17th day of March, 1826. Mr. L_►w appeared for the appellant, and stated to the Court that Mr. Adolphus was with him ; and was anxious that the case might stand over, in order that he might be able to attend. The.REcoamta could have no objection, if all the parties con sented. Mr. BoLLANn could not consent, for he had ample grounds for maintaining the validity of the rate. Dr. Owen said, that if the case was allowed to stand over, in all probability some amicable arrangement might be come to, there appearing to be such a disposition on the part of the pa rishioners. Mr. ANDREWS denied that any thing of the kind had ever be fore that time been intimated, nor any application made. Dr.- Owen stated, that the question was of so much importance, that it required all the learning of Counsel to be brought in order to come to a proper decision. Mr. BOLLAND—The question is not of any such importance ; the fact is, you receive 1,8001. a year for tithes, and are rated at only 1,100/.. The petition to the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman, dated the 13th of June, 1825, was then read, which was in substance, that the appellant, Henry Butt Owen, D.D., was rector of the parish; that he was informed, and believed, that the rates were ;nfcrrmal, inasmuch as they are retrospective and prospective; that they are not impartial rates of assessments, but, on the con trary, are very unequal and oppressive in very many instances. That he is informed, and believes, that certain occupiers of lands and premises, situate in the said parish, are not rated in respect of the same, viz. the Corn Exchange, for profit of land and pre mises, and several occupiers of offices therein enumerated ; that these are " not rated or assessed in respect of their goods, stock in trade, personal effects, and other property, convertible into profit, whereas the petitioner is rated and assessed in respect to his yearly income or value in tithe." The petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved, prays the Court to quash the two rates, or grant such other relief as they may deem meet. - Mr. LA:w was about to call evidence in support of the appal lant'iteasei when Mr. Bottawn and Mr. Minalves took a preliminary objec tion. After a lengthened argument between the Counsel ou both sides, the Ritcoatoxa decided, that the objection raised was good; that where two rates were appealed against, two petitions were necessary, it being required by law ; and it would-be impossible For the Court to distinguish between the two rates es they were set forth in the petition. • By this decision the rates are confirmed, and no further petition can be presented against them, the time limited by law having expired. DEATH OCCASIONED BY WANT. An inquisition was yesterday evening taken at the sign of the Crown and Two Chairmen, Dean-street, Soho-square, on the body of a fine young woman, aged 21 years. Her name was Eli zabeth Collins. Mrs. Turner, landlady of the house No. 10, 3fead's.court, Dean-street, Soho, stated that some time before a young woman, named Scott, who lodged with her, brought home the deceased, but she had never seen her but once. On Monday morning she found the parlour door open, sad on going into the room, she wits induced to enter the bed-room, where, to her surprise, she found thi deceased quite dead on the bed, and nearly every article of her apparel taken away. Scott and a young woman named Chariot+, who lived in the room with her, had absconded, the f,rmer leaT tog unpaid. From the manner in which the witness gave her testimony, the jury were induced to make some very strong remarks against her, and it was resolved to have the two young women produced. Elizabeth Scott. —Now resides in Bear-street, Westminster ; up to Monday last she had lived at No. 10, Mead's Court, Deari street, at which place the deceased was found. Witness had only known her, about a fortnight, when she met her in Regent street; crying bitterly ; she then wished the witness to give her in charge to a watchman, but she declined, and at her most earnest solicitations she took L-- home, and they slept in one bed, with la young woman named Charloo.,- wa 4+. the at_ ceased. she se; 3 id,. had lain in ~,,,atilLe vi ous night, her able to pay her rent. The deceased had .eaten no v - Lnot been three days, and could scarcely stand. In the course of the wit-f. ;be became much better, having taken two ounces of salts It on ce. Mrs. Turner saw the deceased in witness's room, and wish,- ed to have the deceased turned out of the house, saying, " Sup_ pose she (the deceased) should die." To which the deceased r plied, " I'm not in &dying state, and mean to go to the Hospital. ' On Saturday last the deceased appeared quite recovered, and pr posed going out; but on Sunday morning, on awaking, she fonn her quite senseless, in fact she was dying: Witness was so frigh erred that she did not call any person to her assistance. The last words the deceased said, were " lie on the ground if you like.l' This was said in answer to a request, on the part of the wits that the deceased would lie more to the opposite side of the CI Part of the deceased's clothes were taken away by a person r dent it Westminster, bot witness did not know where she reside lite deceased told that person to keep the things, as she did not expect to leave the hospital alive. To some pointed questions pui to the witness, she answered one of the principal as follows--1. " pelisse I now wear the deceased gave me a long whil'r before, as I had pledged my own things for her support." The witness said she had pledged two books and a be4-gpwn belonging to the deceased, whose brother was servant to the Coi.omsl of th First Regiment of Foot Guards, who had been quartered $ Lewisham. Charlotte Hackett, the young woman before alluded to, was 'text called, and fully corroborated the testimony of the witnest Scott. This witness admitted that she and Scott went out o 4 Sunday, and on Monday evening, the day on which the deceased was found, and joined a concert party at the Robin Hood, West. minster. (Here the jurors unanimously joined in an expression of disgust at the unfeeling manner in which the deceased had been treatad,l A Juror—This is really shocking. Several Jurors, join e d b y the ° C,oroner—" I never heard of such a case before. It is evident they have divested this poor creature of every article." COPMNER—ReaIIy, Gentlemen, of all the cases that I have been called on to preside at ; I have never found one to equal this. A Juror—The deceased, it is evident, h as b een str i ppe d o f her clothes. Mr. John Gallagher, of 54, Berwick-street, stated, that he had examined the body minutely. The deceased died from an effusion o f : arum on the brain ; the lungs were diseased, and adhered to the cavity of the chest. The deceased seemed not to have received any nourishment for a length of time. The bowels were com pletely emptied. Coroner—This I think, gentlemen, is all the evidence we have. Juror—Why, really, Sir, I think there can be no doubt on the •.:ace. The poor creature has evidently been neglected. Want had helped to shorten her naisery.--Verdict " Died by the visita tion of God." Yesterday afternoon, soon after two o'clock, as a number of young men were engaged knocking a bung about on the Tower ditch, and collecting in a great body, near the Bastion, facin g th e Mi nor i es , the ice suddenly gave way, and thre e o f t h en ; leer, Suddenly immersed in the water. Every assistance was im niv used to liberate them : two of them were got out by meansTa'lol7 a ladd er pus h e d to t h e s p o t ; the third, after a qua r t er of an hour's exertion, was got out in an exhausted state. MANCHESTER, JAN. 2'2 Beleby, a Young l a d y *—On Saturday last Miss , manner, residing in Salford, 19 years of age, died in a very sudden On the pre c eding evening she was the invited to a party, at of a gentleman residing in Broughton, where there wee dance,a house indisposed, she declined joining, in which, as she felt a little but played on the pianoforte for the dancers. As it was late in g' th up, she slept all night at the houseee:ening when the party broke and rose in the morning, to all appeafrthe gel:Allman who gave it, in Old health. She vies in the act of wasting her hands, when m ahe suddenly exclaim ed to a young lady who Wu in the bed-ro e : with her. " I have got the cramp in one of my hands ;" and afte added, "and in the In a very r f e P w au m sin i n g Lit a n m s o h n e ' er ' t en tirely lost the usell both hands and both ar ,,,, g , Feeling a good <:eal alarmed at the circumstance , she went down stairs , earee ly got to thi bottom, when she began to feel the C and had Sar re 2. ; nation in her feet, and in a very short time lost the uleg:i•-i,4* limbs. This ,torpidity than gradually ext ewied over her whole -er e t rue, and in a few hours put an end to her existence. After death, a ~-...irgie,..11 examination was considered necessary, a T 4 took place y es t el d a e t , whets it was ascertained that her decea se was ~ving to the rupture. - . 2: .4 blood-vessel in the spine, anda come- T ient eff us i on of blood upon igiii .i.nal cord; THE JESUITS. PARIS, JAN. 22.—The result of the two days dis cussion in the Chamber of Peers, respecting the policy of encouraging the establishments of the Jesuits, or of ex pelling the Society from France, was given in the journals of Saturday, and is commented upon in those of this morning. Probably, however, the importance of the de cision adopted by the Noble Peers may not be fully known or appreciated in foreign► countries, without some expla nation. Count Montlosier, who last year denounced the Society to the Cour Royale, and called, without success, upon that body to execute the laws of the kingdom against it, did not present his petition to the Chamber of Depu ties, for two reasons ; first, because he knew that a majo rity of that Assembly was in favour of the parties against whom his petition was directed ; and, secondly, because being himself a strong Ultra, and a worshipper of feudal institutions, he has no great respect for suoh constitutional novelties as the pretended representatives of the people. On the other hand, he chose the Chamber of Peers, be cause he was sure he would be more attended to in that Assembly, and because, being judges in the last resort, their aid was naturally to be expected in support of the Magistracy, which, through the Cour Royale, had declared its opinion against the Society in the same decision which pronounced its incompetence to the work of its suppression. As the Peers have no execu tive power, there were only two ways in which the Chamber could dispose of Count de Montlosier's repre sentation, and by either of them they would express an important decision. They could either reject its prayer, or recommend it to the attention of the Executive with all the weight of their high authority. The latter course has been adopted—not to the surprise of the public, who knew the spirit and disposition of the majority of the Upper Chamber, but to the dismay of the fanatic party, and even to the sovereign displeasure of the Court. Cardinal de la Fore opened the debate, and proposed the order of the day on the petition, in a speech which was calculated by the boldness of its language, in support of the Jesuits, to en courage their friends, and to avow to their enemies the extent of their claims. The supporters of the petitioner proposed the recommendation of the petition to the atten tion of the King's Government—s motion which was in substance carried by a majority of 40 in a very full Chamber, 113 having voted against the Ministers. The calculation of the strength of the parties before the decision of the vote only made out a majority of 35 against the Jesuits. It was supposed, therefore, that some conver sions had taken place in the course of the debate. The clerical party appeared in full force_ The bench of bishops was, of course, as well garnished as it could be, and not one of the prelates deserted the standard of Loyola. The Court and the Cabinet sent their full complement. Prince Polignac had returned from the country to attend the de bate; and the Marquis de Riviere, against all etiquette, came to give his vote. When the Marquis was intrusted with the custody of the young Duke of Bordeaux as his governor, it was understood that he was never to leave his pupil for any other political duty. Yet, with all these ex ertions, only 73 peers were found to support the claims of the Jesuits, or even to vote against a proposition intended to bring about their expulsion. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF BATH TO MR. CANNING. Monday the Body Corporate unanimously resolved to present the freedom of the City in a gold box of 50 guineas value, to the Right Honourable George Canning, his Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as a mark of the high sense entertained by the Corporation of his transcendent talents and eminent public services. The bailiffs, Robert Clarke, Esq. and Sir George Gibbes, immediately waited on the Right Honourable Gentleman and communicated the resolution. Shortly after, by his own appointment, Mr. Canning at tended at the Hall, to receive the freedom. He was ac companied by the Earl of Liverpool and the Right Honour able Sturges Bourne. A great number of ladies and gen tlemen had been previously admitted into the banquetting `.lem, to witness the ceremony. P. George, Esq. the EleazerTlLl‘ ..:hising read the resolution, the Mayor, " In the name of the Mayor, Nidsessed Mr. Canning : the honour to present you with the riee t ,„, , - knd Citizens, 1 have which has been unanimously voted M yoi , `f the City of Beth. the high sense entertained by this Corporation of your transcen dent talents and eminent public services. I feel, Sir, peculiar gratification at being the organ of communication with you on the present occasion, and wish that you may long continue - to exert those talents in our country's eause. To which Mr. Canning replied— " Mr. Mayor—l receive with much satisfaction an introduc tion into a society so respectable as that of the gentlemen whom I have the honour to address, and the freedom of a city with which the name of Pitt had for two generations been connected. I receive with cordial tkankfulnes this proof of your estimation of my public services. This adstriction is peculiarly gratifying to me, presented as it is by those who have, from their character and situation, its well as their means of information and channels of ebinunication, an opportunity of forming an unbiac•ed opi nion of the conduct of men in public life. This testimony of your regard is therefore most grateful to my feelings, as it evinces your approbation of my humble services; but whatever value thy, possess, they are derived from those of my noble friend' (loud cheerz;; and I have to thank you, Sir, for the kind and flottering terms with which you have accompanied it." A t the samo Hall, an Address of Condolence to His Ma jesty, ott the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, was unanimously adopted.—Rath Cheonicle, Jan. 9 4. -- The Earl of Liverpool, who was on the left of the Mayor. That delicious shell fish, the escalop,- is now in full season. The fish are very abundant, and are retailed in the street at Is. per dozen. To gourmands we would suggest (as many persons know not how they should be be dressed) that when the fish are well washed, the skirts taken off, and bread nicely crumbled over them, with a morsel of butter, and placed on the lire in their shell, they make a dish fit for llehogabalus. Or a dozen may be stewed together with crumbed bread, and quantum suff. of but ter ; or better still, stew them by themselves, set them to cool, and dish them up, as you would a lobster or crab. In a rump steak pudding they are better than an oyster. But the supreme mode is that of Phillips, the confectioner, to whose recipe we, not being in possession of it ourselves, refer the curious in these matters.—Brighton Paper. The population of the British isles is worthy of a great dominion. It probably amounts to twenty millions ; and that vast number is generally placed under such fortunate cir cumstances of rapid communication and easy concentration, as to be equal to perhaps half as many more in any other kingdom. This facility of intercourse is one of the great elements of civilized strength. The rapid returns of merchandize are not more indi cative of prosnerous trade than the intercourse of human kind is essential to nationak vigour. For whatever purpose united strength can he demanded, it is forwar444 to the spot at once. If Eng land were threatened with invasion, a ii i t;.ared thousand men could be conveyed to the defence of any of her coasts within four and-twenty hours. Some =non yet curious calculations evince the singular facility and frequency of this intercourse. The mail coaches of Engle.-;d run over 12,000 miles in a single night, half the circumference of the globe ! A newspaper published in the morning in London is, by the same night, read a hundred and twenty miles off ! The twopenny post revenue of London is said to equal the whole post-office revenue of France ! The traveller going at night from Londor, sleeps, on the second night, 400 mile: off ! The length of canal navigatkr. in the vicinage of London, is computed to equal the whole canal navigation of France ! But if the moment of =lying at pre-eminent prosperity should always be the destined moment of a nation's descent, England would he, beyond all existing nations, in peril. H er King at this hour commands a population more numerous than that of any other sceptre or. the globe (excepting the probably exagger ated, and the certainly Ineffective multitudes of China). He is Monarch over nearly one hundred 4r_.4 twenty millions of men. With him the old Spanish boast is true—" On his dominions the sun nevi sets." But the most illustrious attribut e o f t hi s un exampled sway ; 4, that its principle is benevolence ! th a t know ledge goes forth with it, iluit tyranny sinks before it, that in its Magnificent progress it abates the calamities of nature, that it plants th e d e sert, that it civilizes the savage, that it strikes off the I.fetters of the slave.—Nontil/Y Review, MATTBRRUIL. The Biography of Living Persons contains the following particulars relative to the individual who made so violent an attack on Prince Talleyrami at St. Denis. Marie Arnaud Guerry de Maubreuil was bora in Brit tany, about „the year 1780. After making many campaigns in the French armies, he went into the service of Jerome Buonaparte, then King of Westphalia. He was in Paris at the period when the Allies entered it in 1814. He traversed the Boulevards, declaiming with extreme violence against the usurper ; some days after wards, he said he was charged with a mission to get back the diamonds of the Crown, which had been carried off by the Buonaparte family. On the route to Fountainbleau he met the Princess of Wurtemburg, the wife of Jerome. He detained her carriages, and seized a number of chests, containing articles of value. The Royal Government or dered them to be restored to this Princess, but a box of great value was not to found. M. de Maubreuil was immediately arrested, and brought before the tribunal of the Seine, which declared itself to be incompetent to take cognizance of the charge. He was set at liberty, but again arrested during the hun dred days, when he published a libellous memoir against the Royal Government. Suddenly the doors of his pri son were thrown open, and he hastened to Brussels, under a false name, but was recognized and arrested as a person suspected of intending to attempt the life of Louis XVIII. He was conducted to Ghent, where he attempted suicide in prison, but was prevented from carrying his design into effect, and carried to Aix-la-Chapelle, to be given up to the Prussians. He escaped on the road, and arrived in Paris at the moment of the second restoration. In June, 1816, he was arrested once more, being accused of having plotted to carry off the Princes in the environs of St. Cloud. In August, 1817, he was brought before the Correctional Police for the seizure of the diamonds of the Princess of Wurtemberg. That tribunal declared itself incompetent. M. de Maubreuil was then sent back to the Royal Court. He pleaded there his own cause, but like a man of unsound mind; and, at the same time, he addressed a note to all the Ambassadors, insulting their respective sovereigns. The Court of Cassation sent him back to the Royal Court at Rouen, and afterwards before that of Douay. At the moment when the sentence was to be pronounced, he escaped-from prison for the fourth time. He went to Belgium, and thence to England. The Court of Douay condemned him for contumacy, to five years' imprison ment, and a fine of 500 francs. Prince Talleyrand is nearly recovered. He has been thrice bled, but has not been confined to his bed a single hour longer than the ordinary habits of his life rendered necessary. More than a hundred carriages have appeared at his door in the course of the morning. It would appear, that Maubreuil printed a memorial shout six weeks ago, respecting his transactions with the Provisional Government in 1814, and the persecutions to which he says he has been subjected in consequence of undertaking their guilty commission. This memorial was suppressed, but not prosecuted, the police wishing rather to avoid the publication of the scandal than to punish the calumnies of the libellist. He was, however, told that he must leave Paris as a condition of his impunity, and he received his passports for any other part of France. His appearance at St. Denis on Saturday was therefore a sur prise to those who knew his late history, and has, it is said, compromised a little the vigilance or honesty of the Director of Police. M. VILLEMAIN. The Sorbonne was attended with a great crowd this morning, to hear the first lecture of M. Villemain after his late disgrace. An audience of not less than 1,500 persons was admitted to hear the eloquent professor. The applause with which he was received prevented him for some minutes from proceeding with his course. He at last ob tained silence by conjuring the students to respect the dig nity of letters. During the whole of his lecture he stu diously avoided any expression which might be twisted into an allusion to recent events. Though a principal part of his lecture related to the historian, Rollin, and the state of the University in his time, he never once directed the attention of his audience to its present condition, or_tv the suspension of its professors from their pure twice re the conclusion of his lecture, thPy - tits earnest entreaties that tney s'nowu cease. The students waited for him in the court of the Sorbonne for some time after ; but as he did not appear, they dispersed, praising rather the pru dence than the courage of their professor. I heard one of them saying, with apparent discontent, " Voila tin pro feneur eloquent, rail a n'est pas l'etojfe pour faire an tribun." (Our professor is an eloquent rhetorician, but he is not the stuff to make a tribune of the people.) NOUVELLE DE CASTI. The above work, a volume of which caused such horror in Mr. Wellesley, and which is just about to undergo a fate which its author, we dare say, never dreamed of, namely, to be submitted, not to the castigation of a critic, but of a Master in Chancery, has been so much talked of for some days past, that a short account seems not uncalled for. The edition which now lies before us, and which we have looked at only in our capacity of collectors-general of intelligence, consists of three pretty thick duo'ecimo volumes, awl contains, in all, forty-eight stories, written in (Mara rima. They are, for the most part, at least such as we have prevailed on ourselves to clip into, composed in beautiful Italian, and are very lengthy and very dull withal. We have not stumbled on any passages so alarming as to justify us in joining in the strong condemnation of Mr. Wellesley ; but what we have met are, in all conscience, bad enough. Most scholars have read Boccaccio, and when they have conceived the worst of his tales turned into eight and eight rhimes, they will have no indifferent conception of the best of Giambattista. The parts which may be termed blasphemous are those in which he at tacks, with obscene ridicule, the mummeries of Roman Catholicism, and especially the mummeries of the monks, which have, at all times, furnished ample food for the satirist. None lashe7 these holy drones of cells more ! roughly than Boccaccio; and Casti does not spare them. So much for the Nouvelle, which are really and truly as we have described them, very dull trash, which, setting aside their immorality, no person of taste would be at the trouble of perusing. Their author, Giambattista Casti, was born at Montefiasconi, a small village in the Papal States, in 1720, and died in 1804, in his eighty-fourth year. His biographers say that he gave early proof of great abilities, and he certainly was no mean scholar, since he was, when a very young man, chosen to be teacher of the Greek and Latin languages in his native town. His style is debased by imitations of the Seicentisti, of whom he was an ardent admirer, and it rather contrasts with than resembles the delightful simplicity of Fontaine, whose "Ms e,g Ws. he is said to have made his model; ---,---- inventors minor.' It i s not in all cases just to conclude of the man from his writings, and one of the ancients has set out by laying down as a rule, that though modesty is most becoming in a poet, it is not necessary to a poem ; yet it would require rather a stretch of charity to s uppose any thing like moral purity belonging to the author of the liTouvelle. Casti, in deed, does not seek to excuse himself by the same plea as Catullus ; he gives warning to his readers, as Boccaccio had done before him, that his lays are not intended for the rigidly virtuous — to non patio alle niatrone, Non parlo alle ritrose verginelle, None alle veceliie austere bacehettene; Parlo a giovane.' Few, however, will concede, that the youths whom he ad dressed came Linder the description of those-- ' Che accoppian levirtu colla ragione.' Or that the pleasures which he - describes deserved to he termed, inweenti piaceri.' PORITON INTILLTNENCE. PORTUGAL. " Ltskolr, JAN. I.—Two regiments of the English Guards have landed on the quays of Belem. " JAN. 3.—The 10th English regiment of foot, and some Lan cers have lauded. All these corps were received with the greatest enthusiasm and satisfaction by all the inhabitants of this capital. " We learn from private letters that the rebels were at Gouvea. The Coude de Villa Flor was at Cea, and General Claudino and Colonel Pinto in Tornaes : the loyal troops were engaged with the rebels. " HEAD -QUARTERS, OPORTO, DEC. 30.—Colonel Pinto, Go vernor of Coimbra, writes, on the 29th, from that city, that the Conde de Villa Flor, by a despatch of the 27th, dated Fulha Doza, informs him that he intended to proceed by forced marches to the bridge of Murcella, having learnt that the Marquis de Chaves had passed the Mondego, and was marching to the same point; the Count, therefore, ordered him to proceed also with his forces to the same bridge at Murcella, which he expected to occupy on the 31st. Colonel Vasconcellos writes from Amaraute on the 29th, that being informed that some guerillas advanced to our lines and forced in the out-posts, he had ordered some troops that morning to disperse them, which they had done, taking pri loners ten guerillas with arms in their hands. " It appears from the above official communications that a decisive action must soon take place between our troop. and the rebels, since the divisions of the Count de Villa Flor and of Generals Claudino and Azeredo joining, the rebels must either fight or fly precipitately, losing their baggage, and abandoning the Portuguese territory. " 601MBRA, Dac. 25.—This evening despatches were re ceived from General Claudine, saying, that the rebels were retreat ing by the road of Trancoso, where he thought to arrive before them. " Count Villa Flor writes to the same effect, and that his ad raneed guard was already engaged with them. It may, there fore, be expected that there will be a general action at the passage of the Cea. " JAN. 4.—A report has been current in the beat informed circles, that !Lord W. C. Beresford takes the command of the Portuguese army. If this means a command in chief, independ ent of the Ministry, as was formerly the case, we cannot suppose that the Ministers of the King would advise such a step. It would be a manifest violation of tbe charter, this being a public office, for which only Portuguese citizens were qualified, and General Beresford is a foreigner. " The public, however, are perhaps mistaken, and it may be only intended to give the illustrious General the command of operations ( O Commando de Operacoee) ; but even in this there are constitutional difficulties which we do not pretend to solve. " We do not know whether it is absolutely uecessary . to place a foreigner at the head of the Portuguese army • but if it b e , it seems more natural, conciliatory, and politic, that General Clin ton, who commands the stiperior English forces, should take, as long as the necessity continues, the command of the Portuguese, who, by their reduced numbers, could make but a small addition to the English force. However this be, and whatever may be the intention of the Government, it seems to us that there is no foundation for the general anxiety which this report has caused, since we cannot believe that the Government will take a resolu tion manifestly contrary to the spirit of the letter of the Charter, by which the Constitution of the State would be essentially affected. " OPORTO, JAR. 3.—The Count de Villa Flor was on the night of the 27th at Oliveira de Hospital, and his advanced guard at Galizes. On the 29th, at eleven o'clock, they marched against the rebels, who had passed the night about a league distant. t• Our troops went to pass the night at Torrozello, and marched to the heights of Pinhancos, where Magessi, Telles Jordao, and Silveira, were said to be. " The rebels are supposed to be flying to the Serra, in the di. rection of Covilhan. " Silveira had his head-quarters on the 30th at Passos, and the Count de Villa Flor at Cea. On the 31st the latter set out at six in the morning, and the rebels were retiring, occupying the country from Pinhancos to Gouvea. The troops of Claudino and Azeredo were at Carregal on the night of the 29th. " The Count de Villa Flor sent a flag of truce to the rebels, summoning them to surrender end lay down their arms, but they did not agree to this. " The position in which they ars is very remarkable. The Count de Villa Flor on one side, Claudino and Aseredo on the other, and the Serra de Estrella, now covered with snow, on another. " There is a letter from Coja which says, that the rebels are entirely surrounded in Passos by the troops of Villa Flor and Clau dino, and on the other side by the Serra de Estrella. Forty baggage-waggons are already taken. " A mail has arrived from Francoso and Pinhel, and it ap pears that part of the letters from that city are dated the 90th, o, . - ta which is a certain proof that that pa" ready cleared." . a letter of a deputy fa .t i ggiiel has sent to his broth er D on P e d ro " Thejilts:l invitation, the oath take n a t L a S erena , an d th e " We extract thel (Isier papers sent to him by the rebels in Spain, galling him to the absolute Sovereignty of Portugal, with a solemn protest, wholly disapproving of such an attempt as his best and moat faithful subject, which was officially transmitted to the Govern ment, and by Austria to its Ambassador here.' " ho, L a i ti i i li th ta L n eonf i rm an dpoeßo L net eg riespm i ed o fpo n orrrci o ot f ah 3 naaant ,O d O eorhe O meinisd ns es e per n edts , ecni t agr o eles a e t t.i_s e: seiorvo a ni f eest r po ee oot: o ontir r ,gt ps hatwe . " Sir Robert Wilson is going to organize and command a Government had Bth of January inclusive. Waa-Orricr, lAseo:s7, JLN. 7.—The Count de Villa Flor writes from Gouvea on the 2d, that the rebels bad precipitately retreated from the left to th e r i g ht b an k o f th e Mondego by the bridge of Cab ra . H e cause d th e I n :'gee of CatPra and Palhes to be reconnoitred by the 4th and 13th Infantry, t'he 3d and 9th Chasseure, and the 11th Cavalry. There was a goo d deal of skirmishing on the bridge of Cabra, which our troops passed under a constant fire of the rebels of the 4th and 7th Chasseurs and 40 horsemen, who defended the bridge aria adjoining posi tions. The rebels had three killed and eight prisoners, all of the 4th Chasseurs; at the same time, some men of tie 3d Regiment of Infantry abandoned them, and came over to our troops. A n Ensign of our troops was severely wounded ; also one private,— l‘iajcr Schewalbach, commander of the 3d Chasseure, was the first that passed the bridge, crying ' Long live Don Pedro IV.' All the troops behaved bravely. The Count hau given orders to explore the march of the rebels, which appeared to be in the direction of Trancozo. " The General of the Lower I3eira writes from Caria, on the 2d, that the Marquis and Marchionee de ( 'haves and Telles Jordao had arrived at Guarda the day before, and that he (the General) was advancing to Belmonte. " The Chief of the Ist Depar-,went, PINTO." —Lisbon Gazette, Jan. 8. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE> LLOYD'S.. (Tres DAv.) DEAL, ./AN. 23.--Ye arrivals. The Dutch brig of war Zwaluw rernaiu9. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind F..---Artived, his Majesty's cutter Cameleon, Mottley, from a cruise. Sailed, his Majesty's cutter Ilighflyer, on a cruise. The George the Fourth steamer is preparing for sea. FALMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrived, the Sandwich packet, Schuyler, from Lisbon in 13 days. Sailed, the Eclipse packet, Lieut. Griffins, for Brazils and Buenos Ayres. The Venus, of Dartmouth, Poland, from Ancona, has commenced discharging her cargo, under distress sufferance. PENZANCE, JAN. 23.—The French brig Stanislaus, (noticed yesterday) has been surveyed, and her larboard topside is stove i n , and part of the cargo must come out; the French brig Courier, is not so much damaged as to detain her. J. 24.—The Vixen packet is just arrived with the mail from Saunmore, fell in with off the Sinai's, the packet ship James Cropper, from New York for Liverpool, having on board Mr. 'Waring, King's Messenger, with despatches for Go vernment, which are landed at this port, and will proceed by the mail this evening. Coax, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Louisa and Lord Suffield trans ports from Portsmouth, hound to the West Indies. MILFOI2D, JAN. 526.—The Vixen packet has just arrived; fell in with, off the Smalls, the packet-ship James Cropper, from New York to Liverpool, having on board Mr. Waring (King's Messenger), with despatches, which are landed at this port, and will proceed by the mail this morning. The letters will be up to morrow. The James Cropper sailed on the Ist inst., at the same time as the Columbus packet ship, which arrived at Plymouth on the 20th inst., and consequently littl e f res h i n t e lli gence ma y b e expected by this arrival. On Monday a man named Richardson, a journey man tinman, went into the Royal Oak Inn, in this town, and ordered a pint of beer, shortly after drinking which, he fell down and immediately expired. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday, and a verdict returned, "Died by the visitation of God." Last week, a poor woman at Gretton, near Winchcomb, in the act of making a purse for her son, fell back in her chair, and suddenly expired,—. 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Morning lO minutes after 2. j Evening ....... 37 minutes after 2. • ANMIL' UT/ ( t ar LONDON, FRIDAY BVENING, JANUARY 26, 1927.1 At a late hour this forenoon an Express has been received from Paris, by which a letter has reached town containing the following intelligence " Rams, JAN'. 24.—The Moniteur contains a telegraphic dis patch which arrived here yesterday evening, giving news fro' Madrid of 20th January, according to which the Portuguese I* - surgents have been defeated and compelled to retreat." (From the Moniteur of Wednesday, Jan. 24.) An account from Madrid, dated Jan. 20, says—," The Ports guess Refugees who had lately abandoned the road of Coimbra, 0 4 had passed the Mondego, drawing nearer to the frontiers of Spain, were beaten on the 9th at Coruches Dabeira, where they suffered ; considerable loss. Accounts from the frontiers say, that great numbers of them have already been driven back (refoule) into ths Spanish territory." CALAIS, JAN. 25.—The roads are so blocked up with anovt that every sort of conveyance is greatly delayed. Faaxcn FUNDS.—PARIS, SAN. 24.—Five per Cents., 9!f 40c. 50c. 40c. 50c. '7sc. ; Three per C en t, 67f. ss o „ 255. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 1,995 f. ; Renki de Naples, 7Sf. 40c. 45c• 40e. 4,5 c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 50. Exchange on London, 0 10 mon th, paper, 25E 45e., money, 25E 405.: three months , paper, 25E 30e. ; money, 26f. 25e. We received last night Lisbon Papers and Gaeta& to the Bth inst. They contain accounts of the suc cessful operations of the Forces under Count VILLA &on against the Rebels to the 2d inst., at which time his head quarters were at Gouvea, the Rebels having P .I__ Mvutictiu, by the bridge of Cabra. It would appear that the Rebel force under the Marquis of CHAVES had passed to the left bank of the Mondego about the 23d or 25th ult. but were subsequently placed in a critical situation 1)1 the junction of the Constitutional forces under CollUt VILLA FLOR, and Generals CLayorNo and Azr REDO, which obliged them to retreat. Count VILLA FLOR followed them, and about the Slst ult. or Ist inst. some skirmishing took place on the bridge of Cabra, which the Constitution a l troops passed, under a constant fire from the Rebels, who had three killed and eight wounded. Some men of the Sd Infantry abandoned the Rebels and joined the Constitutional forces. The rebels continued to retreat in the direc tion of Trancosa. The Marquis and Marchioness de CHAVES, and TELLES JORDAO had arrived et Guarda on the Ist, and the General of the Lower Beira was advancing to I>elmonte. Upon the whole, the cause of the Rebels ;nay be considered as having sustained a considerable check, but still it does not appear that any serious disaster had befallen their troops. They had merely been obliged to retreat front a dangerous situation, in which they found them- selves placed in consequence of their hasty advance into the country on the left bank of the Mondego. The country on the right bank of the Mondego, a nd from thence to the Douro, would appear to be still open to them. If, howevr, they should be compelled to retreat into Spain, the question regarding the conduct of FERDINAND will be at once brought to issue. The appointment of Lord BERE3FORD to the com mand of the Portuguese Army seems to have givev great disgust. It is said to be contrary to the charter to appoint a foreigner to that post, but at the same ime a wish is expressed in the Papers that Lieut.- General Sir W. H. CLINTON Should be placed in it, which shows that the objections against Lord BERis- FORD are of a personal .initure. His Lordship, it is said, is very unpopular with the meat mass of the people in Portugal. Extracts from these Papers will be found iu auo. ther colurn. 'We received this morning the Piedniontese Gazette of the 16th instant ; but its contents possess little inte rest. The following are extracts : GPNOA, JAN. IS. We have received interesting commercial information front the Dardanelles, which proves the good understanding that continues to subsist with the Porte. These accounts are dated Dec. 21, as which day his Majesty's Vice-Consul had arrived in the Darda nelles, accompanied by 32 vessels, under the Sardinian flag, re turning from the Black Sea. This numerous convoy was on the point of sailing under the protection of the Baroune des Genet's brigantine, commanded by Capt. Profuno. Immediately on his arrival, the Vice-Consul paid a visit to his Excellency the Pacha, commandinc , the forts; after which the Royal Sardinian Consular flag was hoisted, and saluted by all the foreign Consuls, with the flags of their respective nations. At