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also been objected to him, that lie had stated that a landowner being kept at the public expense, was still a loser ; but he thought the proposition quite maintainable. A pond might be filled at the expense of another pond, and yet, by the manner in which it was supplied, and drained of its supply, be a loser. That landlords and farmers did lose by the corn laws, and would gain by their repeal, he had no more i'oubt than he had of his own existence. The gain might accrue in a circuitous way, but it would not be the less certain.—(Hear, hear.) If, when a man got six hundred pounds instead of five hundred pounds, he had 1,000/. to pay—which in the latter case he had no'—the getting the 6001. was a source of loss. He felt this in his own case as a landlord, which he was to a small extent—say to the extent of a county qualification ; and none of his children could expect to write pamphlets gratui tously as he did. He could not expect his property to support six children in equal ease and comfort with himself. His father was tenant to Mr. Wil berforce, and got that property, which now made him independent, by trading in that vulgar thing called hemp ; but it would be vain for him to send forth his sons to make their fortunes, or earn their livelihood as his father had done; for the chan nels of industry were choked up by the corn laws, and the first thing he should expect would be to see their names in the Gazette. He repeated that all would be gainers, except that class who had a pa tent for keeping their children out of the public purse —(Cheers)—and in many instances they would gain absolutely in numerical amount of income. He had felt this so much, that when his tenants had pressed him (as all tenants had, he believed, been pressing their landlords) for a reduction of rent, he wrote back word that he would make a reduction, on condition that, within six months from the time of repealing the corn laws, they should either return to the old rents, or surrender their leases. He could not resist the temptation of asking, where would have been the prosperity of Venice, if there had existed a law compelling the Venetians to consume only corn grown on the mud banks of their islands, which would not grow corn enough for the consumption of the half of a London parish ?—(Hear, hear.) The same question might be asked of Holland, which undoubtedly owed its prosperity to freedom of trade in food. One thing at least, he hoped they should hear no more of, viz, the burden of the National Debt as connected with a necessity for robbing the public creditor. If the trade of the country were increased four or five times, what would Le the weight of the National Debt ? It would be felt as nothing. Many wise heads had been puzzled in speculations as to how the Debt might be reduced, but it was clear that the natural model of relieving the people was to increase their means l of paying it. After some further observations on the general benefits of free trade, Colonel Thompson sat down amidst loud cheers. The motion having been seconded, it was carried unanimously. Mr. NICHOLSON, in moving, " That it is desirable the corn laws should be repealed, and that a Cen tral Anti-Corn Law Society should be formed, for the purpose of diffusing information on the subject," said that little was required to convince the great bulk of the people of the absolute necessity of re pealing the corn laws. The difficulty was, in convincing those who imagined they were benefited by the corn laws, that they were really injured by 't—for let them once be convinced of that fact, and he would ans ver for it the law would immediately be abolished. Colonel STANHOPE seconded the resolution, and observed that the author of the Catechism of the corn laws had made it so clear, that the repeal of the corn laws would be beneficial to the land owners, that it was impossible for any reasonable and unprejudiced man to doubt the proposition. Independently of the ultimate pecuniary advantage which the landowners would derive from the abro gation of this law, there was another of much greater importance—he meant security.—(Hear, hear.) Their fortunes, rank, and station in society, were put at hazard by the existence of this obnoxious tax ; so that even if there were to be a greater diminution of rents, for a time, than ought fairly to be anticipated, its removal would be vastly to their advantage. After some discussion, the words " gradually, but totally," were inserted before " repealed." Gar the motion of Mr. FRANKS, seconded by Mr. WILLIAms, the following gentlemen were appointed as a Committee, to initiate the formation of the Society :—Colonel Thompson, Colonel Leicester stanhope, Mr. Rosson, Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Owen, Mr. Fearon, Mr. Pouncy, Mr. J. C. Loudon, Mr. Arthur, Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Franks, Mr. Nicholson, Si; John Scott Lillie, Mr. Williams, arid Mr. Poi lock. A Sub Committee, consisting of Colonel Thomp• soul, Mr. Rosson, and Mr. Franks, was appointed to prepare resolutions to be submitted to a Meet ing to be held at a future day. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 98!4 - 8 Belgian Bonds 96 Ditto Account ..C196 Brazilian Bonds 6B Ditto .1 ccount .6814 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 21% Chilian Bonds . Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 Ditto Aceolint 22 Danish Bon .; "3t4 Ditto Account 73% Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, lc :25 Ditto Accolint — ?ilex i can Bonds, 5 per cent 294 Ditto Account _ o, 6 per cent 3B Ditto Account 381,6 ............. 89 COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.l.' 12 41 Ditto, at sight '' 21 Rotterdam . U 12 41 Antwerp 12 51 Hamburg M.B. 13 11 Altona 13 11 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto 0 U 25 75 Bordeaux 0 5 so Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M.:51 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 1. 2M. 9 58 I'rieste do 9 59 Madrid 3614 Cadiz 37U Gilboa lareelona 36 .ieville 36 Gibraltar 47 DEPTH OF RAIN. A rain gauge has for some time past been kept at Bar rowfield Mill, by Mr. James Smith, gardener to James Oswald, Esq., M.P. According to this instrument there 1173 fallen during the last month (December) the extraor dinary quantity of eight inches of rain.— Glasgow Argus. The depth of rain which fell at Inverness in the months of December in each of the five years mentioned below, as noted in the register kept by Mr. Adam, Rector of the Inverness Academy, was as follows ;- 1829. 1630. 1831. 1832. 1833. Inches. Inches. inches. Inches. Inches. .9743 2.4026 1.9927 3.4192 4.8177 Here it may Le observed, that the depth of rain which fell at Inverness in December, 1829, was less than one inch, and also considerably less than that which fell here in the same month in any of the following years. But it will be recollected that the latter end of August, 1829, was remarkable for a❑ excessive storm of wind and rain from the N.N.E., which flooded most of the rivers in this ,iistrict, and caused great lose, p irticularly on the banks of the river Spey. The depth of rain which fell at Inver ness in August, 1829, amounted to about 8:1 inches ; and this, it is apprehended, may sufficiently account for the diminished quantity of rain which fell there in the month cf December following. By inspection of a register, kept for a number of years, it will appear that the great rams are successively shifting to different months of the year, and also that the annual depths of the rain are subjoct to continual change, which, like that of the winds, is pro bably periodical. The quantity of rain on the east is greatly less than on the west coast of Scotland, arising, in all probability, chiefly from the great difference of event in the adjacent oceans, and the ridges of interj icent hills, which generally rob the clouds of their moisture before they reach the eastern coast.—lnverness Courier. BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES 11. Independently of the Windsor Beauties, fourteen in number, which illustrate Mr. Jameson's interesting Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles IL, now completed, and which were copied by order of her Royal Highness the late Princess Charlotte, the Work con tains several portraits not at Windsor, which were added to the collection by her Royal Highness's command. Among them are a❑ original picture of the Duchess of Portsmouth, at Goodwood, sent at the Princess's personal request and application, by order of the Duke of Rich mond ; and Nell Gwynne, from the original, once in the possession of the St. Alban's family, and now belonging to General Grosvenor. By desire of Sir Gerard Noel have also been added—the Countess of Chesterfield, from the picture at Narfurd, in the possession of Mr. Fountaine ; Lady Falmouth ; the lovely and amiable Miss Bagot, from the exquisite picture at Althorp ; the first Duchess of Devonshire, sister of Lady Chesterfield, from the picture at Hardwick, copied by permission of the Duke of Devon shire ; and La Belle Jennings (Duchess of Tyrconnel), from the picture at Althorp, forming the frontispiece to the volume. The Windsor Beauties comprise :—Queen Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles H. ; Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland ; Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond ; Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset ; Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberlard ; Emilie de Nassau, Countess of Ossery ; Elizabeth Hamil ton, Countess de Grammont; Anne Dighy, Countess of Sunderland ; Susan Arrnine, Lady Bellasis ; Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Denham ; Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester ; Anne Hamilton, Countess of Southesk ; Mrs. Middleton ; Mrs. Nutt, and Miss Lawson. 7 - 074 1 e 1414 4 " (7 . A LO ArD ON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1834. All our anticipations respecting Spain are likely to be realized. The Paris papers of Monday, which arrived this morning, state that General SAN MARTIN, the new Captain Ge neral of Valencia, had concurred in the address of General LLANDER to the QUEEN REGENT, and that it was believed in Madrid that most of the Generals in the service of the Government enter tained similar intentions. If this statement be true, the QUEEN must of necessity give way, and a Constitutional system will be established. Whether M. ZEA, the head of the juste milieu system which the French Government, in its ignorance of the state of public feeling in Spain, or its determination to oppose the tide of opinion, appears so anxious to uphold, will re tire from the Ministry, or take part with the Constitutional Generals, remains to be seen. We think lie sN ill take the latter course, for lie has always been the creature of circumstance, sometimes a Ferdinandist, sometimes a Carlist, and more than once a partisan of the Consti- ution. In a country where the natural character and a thousand other circumstances tend to extremes, there can be no prospect of establishing a juste milieu system, at least none for many years to come, and it is little else than madness to at tempt it. In Spain there are, as in all other countries, two classes—the educated and the un educated ; but there is this important distinction as to Spain. In most countries of Europe the officers of the army, who may be said to belong to the educated class, pay a blind allegiance to the autholAies, whatever may be the principles of the Government under which they serve. In Spain ninety-nine officers out of a hundred, al though members probably of families interested in the maintenance of a despotic system of go vernment, are decided constitutionalists, and in veterate enemies of the priesthood. This is a fact of which no man who has lived in Spain and associated with military officers can be ignorant. How can it be possible, therefore, for a Govern ment, which opposes Carlism only from personal considerations, and on a question of the right of succession, and not from hatred of its principles, to maintain itself. Without the army it is powerless against the Carlists, and the army will only attack that faction as the first step towards the accomplishment of their own object—viz., a Constitution. It would appear that the Carlists, taking ad vantage of the want of good understanding be tween the Government and the army, have increased in numbers and audacity. They are ravaging the country on various points ; and it is stated, in proof of their boldness, that the last courier from Tolosa to Iron, although escorted by 200 men, was repeatedly attacked. The Paris Mioisterial Papers deny that there are any differences in the French Cabinet. 'We do not, however, attach much credit to the denial. The Funds are still heavy ; but the depression appears to have been produced entirely by the deficiency in the French Budget, and the an nouncement of a new loan. The following are the quotations of Monday : FRENCH FUNDS.—Paais, JAN. 13. Five per Cents., 104 f. 65c. 6rc. Three per Cents. 75f. 25c. 15c. Bank Actions, 1,705 f Rente de Naples, 90f. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 91N. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18. Bente d'Espagne Three per Cents., 36%. Royal Spanish Loan,i 79. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 59%. Belgian Loan, 18:31, Five per Cent., 96%. 11a)tian Loan, 275 f. German Papers to the 9th inst. arrived this morning. They contain no news of interest. We have received Brussels papers to the 13th inst. Their contents are not important. The Chamber has agreed to the following sums for the three principal ambassadors : London 80,000 francs per annum, Paris 58,000 francs ditto Berlin 54,000 francs ditto As these include the salaries of the secretaries of legation, the expense of offices and many other charges upon the ambassadors, the remu neration is moderate, although not more so than it ought to be in these times of economy. We would advise our own Ministry to reduce the scale of remuneration of our own ambassadors. It is a mistake to suppose that the greatness of a coun try is inferred from the extravagance of the sala ries paid to its servants, or that able men are not to be had without enormous remuneration. The envoys of the United States of America are paid at a still lower rate than those of an inferior state like Belgium, and yet who dis putes the greatness of America, or will deny that her diplomatists are men of considerable talent ? The great error of this country, not only with the Government, but throughou t society, is estimating a man by the amount of his income. It should be considered, however ; even by those who entertain this absurd doctrine, that out of • England no man derives importance in the estimation of the higher or middle classes from the mere fact of his having money to throw away upon objects of ostentation. The Duke of DEVONSIIIRE was sent to Russia, not because he was thought to be the most skilful man who could have been chosen, but because he was willing to spend more money indepen dently of what he was allowed by Government, than any other person would have expended, yet what great end did the Duke of DEVON SHIRE attain as regarded the honour and interests of the country ? From similar motives the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND was sent to France to attend the coronation of CHARLES the Tenth, yet when the Duke ostentatiously gave to the State-coachmen of the King of FRANCE, who were, according to the old etiquette, sent to con duct him and his suite to Court, ten times more than any former Ambassador had given, what was the effect upon the minds of Frenchmen ? Did they think the Duke a clever man, or entertain a higher respect for the country that sent him than they would otherwise have enter tained ? No they set down the Duke as a simpleton for his profusion, and were half in clined to believe that we intended an insult by such a ridiculous display of ostentation. In a former number, we endeavoured to make foreign exchanges intelligible to our readers. The Mint price is as hale understood, and we shall now show the errors that have pre vailed with respect to it, and their consequences upon the currency. The Mint price of silver was said to be ss. 2d. an ounce, because, from the time of Queen ELI ZABETH down to 1816, we coined one pound of Mint silver into 62 parts or shillings, and ss. 2d. was the twelfth part, or the exchangeable value, of an ounce of silver in our currency. So the sum of 31. 17s. 102 d. was said to be the Mint price of an ounce of gold, the Mint pound of which consists also of twelve ounces, because it required this amount of silver in our currency to purchase an ounce of gold, in the proportion of 15.2096 to 1, which is the Mint proportion between the exchangeable value of gold and the exchangeable value of silver. The sum of ss. 2d. thus represented an ounce of silver, as 3/. 17s. 101 d. represented an ounce of gold, in our currency previous to the year 1816. But these Mint prices on this representation have ceased, through an alteration made in our cur rency in that year, since which our Mint pound of silver, still consisting of 12 ounces, has been coined into 66 parts or shillings, of which the Mint retains four for seignorage. We can, there fore, no longer be said to have any Mint price of silver, or any Mint price of gold ; at least, if we can be said to have, the Mint price of silver is now about 6/. per cent. less than ss. 2d., as the Mint price of gold valued in silver is also about 6/. per cent. less than 3/. 17s. 102 d. The Bank, however, under a mistaken im pression that there is still a Mint price of gold, and that that Mint price is 3/. 17s. Mit:. an ounce, gives 3/. 17s. 9d. for every ounce of gold that is brought to it, and it purchases every quantity of gold that is brought to it at this price, under the also erroneous notion that it is desirable to keep the market price of gold up to the Mint price, as was stated by the late Go vernor of the Bank before the Bank Charter Committee. As it gives this price in its own notes, it is plain that it thereby depreciates the notes by the amount of the sum which it gives, and the amount of the sum it ought to give fo r an ounce of gold, according to the present Mint price, as that can he made out by means of the former Mint price ; that is, it depre ciates its notes to the amount of about 61. per cent. upon all the gold it purchases. But it ought to regulate the price it gives for gold by the market price of silver, which for several years back has not exceeded 4s. 11d. an ounce, and has generally been only 4s. 10-id. an ounce ; and an ounce of gold valued in silver at this price would not exceed 3/. 135., so that the Bank over-issues upwards of 6/. per cent. upon the amount of all the gold it purchases. If money were falling in exchangeable value, this amount of over-issue would be of the less im portance, but it operates powerfully when money is rising, as it now is in exchangeable value— but the Bank does not seem to be at all aware ' of the mistake it makes or the mischief it does in this respect. • The Bank has fallen into a similar error with regard to silver. It has received silver coin from shop-keepers who did not keep an account with it, and has given its notes in exchange for such silver coin as at the price of ss. 2d. an ounce, and silver thus came to accumulate so much in its coffers that the Bank had it melted into bars, by which it sustained a loss upon the quantity melted to the extent of 67,5841. (Bank Charter, App. No. 73.) And yet the men who do these things have intrusted to them the regulation of the currency, which is beyond mortal power, for it depends upon circumstances which man can neither prevent nor control. The currency re gulates itself even in spite of the interference of the Legislature, by which it is deranged, and would regulate itself, if it were not interfered with. If it were not deranged by Legislative interference, there never would be more of paper in circulation than there would be of gold if there were no paper, and the paper in circulation would always be of the same exchangeable value with gold ; but having interfered with it, there is more of paper in circulation than there would be of gold if there were no paper,—and the ex changeable value of the currency is lowered in proportion to the over-issue, which last, however, is corrected by notes coming in upon the Bank for gold, and thereby bringing down the amount of paper in circulation and raising its exchange able value to a par with gold. As it is the course of things alone which restores the ex changeable value of the currency to a par with gold, so the course of things alone would pre serve its exchangeable value upon a par with gold if it were not interfered with. But here, as in other cases, man, wise in his own conceit, must needs attempt to set up his law against the law of Omnipotence, although, as often as he does so, he never fails to suffer for it. One of our Contemporaries has stated that troops are abdut to be sent from this country to the assistance of Don PEDRO. The report in the City isth4t Lord GREY opposes, and Lord PAL.. 4, MERSTOI4 advises such a step. We have reason, however, to :believe, that no intention of the kind is entertaiUed , What is certain is, that nothing has taken place in any department to indicate that such an expedition is contemplated. The following appears in an American paper : " DEPARTIItNT OF STATE. " Washington, Dec. 21. " To satisfy inquirls that have been made as to the extent to which Anierican vessels are admitted into British possessions at and beyond the Cape of Good Hope, it is deemed proper to state, that vessels of the United States Ire entitled by the third article of the Treaty of Commerce of 1815, to trade with Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales' Island, hut not with Singapore; and that they are also permitted to trade with the free ports at the settlements of the Cape of Good Hope, which are Cape Town, Simond's Town, and Port Elizabeth, and with any other free ports in the Mauritius, in Ceylon, or in Australia, which may be established by order in Council." London has at length raised its voice in the good cause. Its million and a half of mouths promise to shout out with one accord, " The Corn Laws must be repealed." The mightiest and most enlightened metropolis in the world rises to declare that it will no longer allow its energies to be paralysed by the ignorant selfish ss of the Squirearchy. It will be seen by the •art we have given elsewhere of the proceedings the Crown and Anchor Tavern yesterday .ning, that the very flower of the middle classes have taken up the questibn. There are names in the Committee which 'WY ap pointed to initiate the formation of the Central Anti-Corn Law Society, which give every deno= mination of liberal thinkers on the subject of a free trade in corn an assurance that the So ciety will watch over the interests of all. The wealth, influence, and respectability of the London and Westminster Reformers, whose names are at the head of the Report, are indica tions of a determination to carry the object they pursue into effect with a moderation, yet firm ness, in the highest degree gratifying. But what ought to be, and, no doubt, will be, matter of especial rejoicing to the mind, to the intelligence of the country, is to see the author of the celebrated Catechism of the Corn Laws take his proper place as the moving spirit of the feeling which his writings have been so mainly instrumental in raising and enlightening. This alone is a guarantee that whatever caution may guide the acts of the Society, its great object of obtaining the total removal of the tyrannous tax which has so withered our in dustry, will never be lost sight of. There is another name on the Committee which will hardly be of less weight with a portion of the public, indeed will be received with more confi dence by it, we mean the farming classes, than that even of Colonel THOMPSON. That name is the name of nr. LouDoN. If Colonel THOMPSON has acquired fame as the writer better than any acquainted with the meta physical parts of the question of agricultural prosperity, Mr. LOUDON is not less known as a complete master, if we may so speak, of its physics. Any farmer who has had occasion to use either the Encyclopredias of Agriculture or Gardening, will feel compelled to acknowledge that advocacy of a repeal of the Corn Laws, so far from being inconsistent, as the country Journals have been lately contending, with any practical knowledge of agriculture, is consistent with perfect informatio❑ of even its most minute details. Of the principles enunciated in the resolutions passed last night, we have long been the stre nuous supporters, but we must for the present con tent ourselves with referring the reader to them. On the speeches also we must take another opportunity of commenting ; but we cannot help referring to two points which either have been quite overlooked or not had that weight attached to them they deserve. The first is Col. STANHoPE's argument in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws, founded upon the insecurity its continuance entails upon the Aristocracy. Truly has BACON said that the great rebel lions are those of the belly. The evidence given before the house of Commons last Ses sion, sufLiently proves that we annually incur the hazard of such a rebellion. Let the Aristocracy ponder upon the consequences. Let them take the words of Colonel STAN HOPE,-a man who, though one of themselves, is most intimately acquainted with the wishes, wants, and feelings of the middling and lower classes—let them, we say, take his words as a warning. The other point to which we allude is the connexion which Mr. ASIIURST pointed out, as necessary to he formed between a re vision of the poor laws and cheap bread, and free industry. The argument is well worth consideration. A second edition of a little pamphlet, entitled Repeal or No Repeal," is now lying before us. This unanswerable treatise, which Mr. O'CON NELL has evidently read with attention, he has attributed, we understand, to the pen of Mr. DONI.NICK BROWN, and acting on such a sup position, has poured forth on that gentleman such a copious flood—such a deluge, in short— of abuse, as cannot fail to be taken as a com pliment by the respectable individual on whom it is lavished. But the best of the joke is, that Mr. DOMiNICK BROWN, has no more to do with the pamphlet which has thus provoked the Agitator's " splendid bile," than his Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER. It is the composition of Mr. MONTAGUE GORE, and exposes the fallacy of all the Repeal argu ments in such style, that we at once cease to wonder at its having so completely bewildered Mr. O'CoNNELL as to induce him, in the heat of passion, to place the cap on the wrong head. Mr. GORE indulges in no vain, showy theo ries ; he confines himself to a plain, unadorned statement of facts, and this is precisely the sor t of reasoning—this the eloquence, which Mr. O'CONNELL has always found it so difficult to answer. it is one of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's favourite themes of declamation, that the Union has been the means of impo verishing Dublin, and all the other great com mercial towns of Ireland. Mr. GORE meets this assertion by a flat denial, and shows, by a long series of matter-of-fact statements, that, so far from impoverishing the country, the Union has enriched it to an extent which it could newer otherwise have known. Dublin, in particular, he proves, has every reason to be satisfied with the Act of Parliament that_ incorporated the two kingdoms. Now as Mr. GORE'S pamphlet has been be fore the public some weeks, and Mr. O'CoN has made no other reply to it than by abuse, directed (almost as a matter of course) against the wrong person, it is fair to presume that its arguments have proved too much for him —that its formidable array of facts are stumbling.. blocks which he cannot leap over. Else, where fare, is he so reserved—except when abuse is to be poured forth ? Repeal is now his darling pet—his most cherished hobby ; he hugs it to his bosom with as much affectionate solicitude as if it were the Rent ; it is the only prop he has left to lean upon ; why then does he not come for ward to the contest, when Mr. GORE threatens to knock his ricketty crutch from under him ? Why ? Because he knows that such a contest would end in his certain defeat—because it would be, like Irish reciprocity, " all on one side." It is with satisfaction, unmingled with the slightest alloy of surprize, we learn that the clamour for Repeal is fast dying away in Ireland ; and that the leading agitators, knowing this, have cunningly contrived to mix it up with the tithe question, so that those who publicly meet to discuss the one, should also appear to discuss, and be identified with the other. Such being, we verily believe, the true state of the question in the sister country, the pamphlet before us has appeared just in time to give the humbug its coup de grace. On Sunday last the Portuguese Ambassador, the Chevalier de Lima, Mr. Mendizabal, and other of the principal agents of Donna Maria, visited her Majesty's frigate Don Pedro, of 60 guns, Captain Bertrand, lying at Northfleet. They were received with the usual honours, and after inspecting her fine batteries, and ex pressing their high satisfaction at the steady appearance of the men, left that ship, under a salute of eleven guns, for the City of Edinburgh steamer, having on board 500 or 600 Belgian troops. Tire colours of the regiment were presented by the Ambassador, and received with the most enthusiastic cheers, the band playing the Constitutional Hymn, &c. This vessel left yesterday for Lisbon. Similar to the case of the late Rev. Mr; Parker, of Glin, GO years a curate of the established church, was that of a Mr. Holland, when about, 40 years a curare in Sixmile-bridge, who was presented to the precentorship of Kilf?nora, by the now Bishop of Cashel ; he was bedridden, and a subscription to meet the expenses of induction, viz., in stamps, registers, &c., was entered into by the clergy and gentry of that neighbourhood. The bishop had been many years in the see before he thought of Mr. Holland. The poor gentleman, when told of his appointment to a preferment of 801., exclaimed " They have given me bread when my teeth are all gone." He lived not many months after.—Limerick Chronicle. Yesterday, at 11 A.M., the IVillam and Anne, of Hull, Darnbrook, from Wisbech to London, with wheat, drove from her anchorage in the south roads, and came to the beach. Lieut. Evison, R.N., and the crew of the coast guard stationed at this port, repaired imme• diately to the spot with the life apparatus, and had the good fortune to obtain a communication the first shot, soon after which, a boat manned with Pakefield fishermen, pulled down through the surf from that village, in most gallant style, reflecting the greatest credit upon them, took out the crew, and landed them in safety, snaking use of the line of communication to haul the hart backwards and forwards. The precision with which Lieut. E. firsd the mortar, and the active zeal of himself and crew, are deserv ing of much praise.—Norwich Mercury. THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE GAME LAws.—Last week three respectable farmers of Stokein teignhead, Devon, were fined in the mitigated penalty of 131. 13s. 6d., for hunting with barriers over the lands in their own occupation, not having taken out gam e certificates. SINGULAR DEATH.—Saturday last, one of the prisoners succeeded in snaking his escape from our gaol (Taunton), with his gaol dress and handcuffed. He managed to get over the fields unobserved to Bathpool. Then he was seen and pursued by some men. They were close upon him. He came to the river and dashed into it, hoping, probably, that it was not deep. He immediately sunk. Rising handbolted he could not even struggle for life. The unfortunate man was drowned. He had been committed for uttering false ruin.—Shcrborne Journal. On Thursday week, at about half-past six o'clock, a beautiful meteor was seen at Kedleston, in the North Eastern hemisphere. It bore the resemblance of a pillar of fire, of a very clear red colour, about twenty feet in length by three in diameter ; it remained s tationar y for about three quarters of an hour, and then totally disap peared.—. Nottingham Review. rue A boy, t.A o y a r, d , re bed 13, living des Arts, ha ving ie with n his severely parents corr i ect t the e l d for repeatedly robbing his father's till, said to his sister, " Since they won't let me have money, I will kill myself;" and having procured a pistol, he last week carried his desperate resolution into effect by shooting himself through the heart, in the presence of his grandfather.—French Paper. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTSNIOUTH, JAN. 14.—Wind S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrived the Ocean, Bacon, from Shields, bound to Algiers. FALMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind S. to S. W., strong gales with violent squalls.—Arrived the City of Exeter, Long, from Rio Grande, leaky, and with fore and main-masts sprung. 9th, Sailed his Majesty's ship Rolla, for Oporto and Lisbon ; the Lord Melville packet, for Halifax ; and Lyra packet, for the Brazils, but put back on the 13th. BIDEFORD, JAN. 13. Arrived the Benonez, Le Port, from Cardiff, leaky, bound for Rouen. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Tamesi, Masters, from Tampico ; the Lady Mary Fox, Sowerby, from Demerara; the Vergeman, Harris, from New York ; the Plymouth, Ackerman, the Citizen, Barstow, and the Henry Lee, Prince, from New Orleans; the Jefferson, Newcomb, from Virginia; the Jane, Hunt, from Newfoundland ; the Hellespont, Lang ridge, from Odessa; and the Caroline, Ferraseur, from Mar seilles. The John and Mary, Johnson, bound to Mobile, has put back to L iverpool, leaky. The York, Sprattly, from Singapore and Batavia to London, put into the Alauritius, after being on her beam ends—cargo discharging in a damaged state. The Stenevent, Neale, from Gonaires to Cork, sunk in River Bay, Jamaica, the 10th November. The Prince Rupert, Bell, and Prince of Wales, Hanwell, from London, arrived at Hudson's Bay previous to the Elth October, and were in winter quarters, all well, the former at Churchill, and the latter at Charlton, with their homeward. bound cargoes on board. Foreign Office, Jan. 13, 1834. Gentlemen,—With reference to your letter of the 28th of November last, on the subject of the detention of the British vessel Caroline, by one of the cruisers of the Queen of Por tugal, I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acquaint you that his Lordship has lately received a despatch from Lord William Russell, his Majesty's Minister in Portugal, in which he announces that the vessel in question has been released by order of the Supreme Maritime Tribunal at Lisbon. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient, humble, GEORGE SHEE. To Messrs. Bradford, Clayton, and Co., Chapel-place, Poultry. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON't , O'CLOCK. Rank Bkt:it ... 212 New 5 per Cent. — 3 per Cent. Red. 8934% India Stock 3 per Cm' C0n5.......... ES I ,i 8 Ditto Bonds '23 25 pm. 354 per Cent. — South Sea Stock — Ditto Red £.374 7 61i Old Annuities 87%!it New:336 per Cent. 96% 53 New Ditto - 3 per Cent. Ann. 1716 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - 4 per Cent. 1826 lO3 N Ex. Bills, .t1,060...48 47 49 pm. Rank Long Ann. to expire ' Ditto 500_48 47 49 pm. -. Jan. 5, 1309 17 1-16 17 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1559 16 15-16 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 16 11-16 Ditto Advertised ......... pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — , Bank for Account Aprils, 1880 - I India tor Account ........ Jan. 5, 1870....... THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds '9•/ y Portuguese Bonds 57% Ditto Account 57% Ditto New Bonds Ditto Acconnt... 57!4 7 10.6 [Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds, 18•2' , Russian Bonds, 1822 113z,:, Ditto Account 104% Ditto 111 Spanish Bonds, 1821 nT-i Ditto Acc. 0. - 314 k, Ditto Bonds, 1893 2 0 34% Ditto Account French lientes, sp. c. 1041 50,. Exchange 1-0 per cent. —f. —c. I— - Exchange —f —c. !Dutch, 24 p. c 49M6% I Ditto Account 4l Ditto, 5 p. c 95!,i 5 I Ditto Account 95% French Scrip 4},i pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCF. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £7 Anglo Mex. Mir. Co. Liss. c t 5/. pm ).£lOO 3olanos Mining Company £l5O Brazilian Mining Comp..ny £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. oss. at 5/. pm.) £26 Ditto National... ..... .......... ....... Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Ernica Alinmg Company 3% British Iron Min;na Company £so Columbian Minint Co. rocs at 5!. pin.) 51% English Mining Company I2Y4 General Alining Association 61% 9A% 13% 6 IA 30 12!4 25 4 54 Ilibernian Mining Co. £lo :Mexican Mining Co. £4B Real del Monte Min:ng Co....(unreg.) --- 1 tilted Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company l7 General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 14 1 Y; 11!< 2 .£1 5 6 21% 48 12% 3% 1% 39 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, 'DUBLIN, JAN. 11. Bank Stock Consols, 3 Der cent Gov. Stock, 33 per cent. P 6 National Ditto — Ditto, New I per Cent. Hibernian Bank -- Gov. Deb. 3 1 4 percent.... 88,N Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent. 76 Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. -- Commercial Buildings NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4B Genoa 0 5 65 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples 40% Palermo per oz. 1223! Lisbon Oporto 53 Rio .laneiro Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dunn, 21 days' sight l% Cork BULLION, PER OZ. g. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silverbars. stand.nd 0 4 11•1 k rrived. Due. lArrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica. 0 0 Carthagena 0 0, Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 I France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOZ TO-.IORROW. Morning ...56 minutes after 5.1 Evening...l6 minutes after 6. SITTINGS IN BANCO. The Court was occupied up to the hour of our going to pres • in hearing and disposing of motions for new trials. Nothing of the least public interest transpired. SITTINGS AT NISI PRIUS. Mr. Justice GASELEE took causes in the Committee-room of the House of Commons, No. 11, but those tried up to the time our reporter left were entirely destitute of novelty or interest. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all kinds of grain this week are short, in consequence of the contrary wind. The trade for every:thing remains the same as reported on Monday, with dull sale for all but superfine. In Flour no alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. 880 qrs. 1,890 qrs. 9-10 qrg. 1,360 sacks - 600 2,660 - English Irish Foreign THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Bombay Papers, to Sept. 2:2, Montreal to Dec. 21, and Quebec to Dec. 8, have been received at the North and South American Coffeehouse. (From the Bombay Paper of Sept. 18.) It may be interesting to our readers to know that we con tinue to have very heavy rains at Bombay with thunder. The Good Success, from China, the 84th July, arrived on Monday, bringing Canton papers, and letters to the 17th. The following are their chief contents :—All the ships that sailed from Bombay about the end of May and beginning of June, had arrived safe in China. The country around Canton had been completely overflowed by the heavy rains coming down the river. Whole villages had been swept away, and many thousands of inhabitants had perished in the inundations . Business was entirely stopped ; but it was, however, gradually recovering. The price of cotton was high, •nd little doing. The suppression at Macao of the religious paper called the Evangelist, and the properties of a new Chinese paper for the illumination of the Chinese, by the well known M. Gerslaff, has taken place. Several numbers of the new paper have been re ceived. The Montreal papers give accounts of the provincial Parlia ment of tipper Canada, December 3, stating that, by returns laid before the House, there had been received, in sterling money, on account of timber cut on the waste lands of the Crown, the following sums : In 1830 £6,305 1831 8,375 1832 5,507. Nearly 6,0001. was received on account of Crown lands sold, and nearly 2,000/. on account of Crown land leases during the live years ending December, 1832. The Governor has sent down to the house a return of the receipts of the casual and territorial revenue for 1831 and 1832. The amount is 50,0001., not a farthing of which is under the control of the people of the country. The receipts in 1832 amount to 25,0001. On the Ist of January last there was in hand an unapplied balance of 27,000/. from this fund, while the country is borrowing the very same money, and paying eight per cent. for it. The Quebec papers state that it now appears certain that Sir Peregrine Maitland will not resume the Government and Mi litary Command of Nova Scotia. His bad health is the cause of his returning home. By the French mail this morning, accounts from Algiers of the I Ith of December state, that the division of Oran has obtained a signal success over the troops of Abdel Harder, who attacked General Desmichel, with 6,000 cavalry, but was de. feated after ten hours' fighting. TIIE FUNDA. It is stated that a great difference prevails in our Cabinet between Lord Palmerston and Earl Grey on the point of send ing troops to Portugal to assist Don Pedro. Earl Grey is against the expedition. The express from Paris this morning is only important in one respect, if we can credit the accounts from Vourla again stating that the English squadron has taken its departure. By this circumstance it was imagined that the differences with Russia, relative to Turkey, had been settled. The French Funds had receded 4 per Cent. 75f. 15c. this is supposed to be owing to a loan wanted by the Ministry. Consols are rather heavy at present, and opened at the price they left off yesterday, 69; i for the Account. This is settling day in the Foreign Market. All is well as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. We have continually asserted that no war will take place on the continent respecting the affairs of Turkey, and we now announce that letters are in town of the sth instant, from Vienna, which speak in most positive terms that Austria and Russia will consent to the proposals of Great Britain and France. It is confidently stated on 'Change that a Spanish Loan is on the point of being contracted for; the particulars as yet we have not heard. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning 89 V, %, are at present 89 % In the Foreign Market the Chief business doing is in settling their accounts. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account 89 Joseph arwoo ß d o , w o . r str Y ee a t rv p v o o l o i ( ce i : who was yes terday brought G up to office, and who represented himself to be one of the Gentlemen of the Chamber to the Lord Chancellor, was stoker or keeper of fires to his Lordship's Court, and was discharged a few (lays ago for disorderly conduct. A correspondent informs us that a meeting is this day to be held at Oxford, with a view to take into consideration the propriety of promoting the election of Sir Robert Peel to the Chancellorship of that University. By the last regular arrivals from Hamburg, the pi ice of gold is 4321 per mink, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.84 ; and the exchange at Ham burg on L on d on , a t s h or t, being 13.11, it follows that g a o t id agriisveFsnanLoenxdcohrn at t e s o la f or 2 r s ,. 3 be 7 t being gold is 19-32 p er cen t dearer in Hamburg than Lo n d on . price of 31. 17 s . lOid. t h e whi T a l:e a p t rtheemEiunngiii,ohni%gii7il in td i Paris is 9 p er m ill e , a ounce h e fo r e x s t e a h n a d n a g r e d 25.30, it follows that gold is 15.50 per cent, dearer at Paris than in London. B USIN ESS OF THE LAW C OUR TS.-The nu mber of writs i ssu e d fro m the Courts of Law, from the Ist day of Michaelmas Term, 1832, to the let day of Michaelmas Term, 1833, were, in round num bers, Court of King's Bench, 39,000 ; Court of Common Pleas, 7,000 ; Court of Exchequer, 42,000. The prefareuce given by suitors to their Lordships of the Exchequer must be flattering, although it imposes so much additional labour. A bottle, containing a note, thrown overboard by Lieut. Virebbe, of his Majesty's packet Melville, about five months since, 1,200 miles from Guernsey, for the purpose of ascertaining the course of the current, was picked up on the western side of that island about ten days since, having drifted about 8 miles per diem from the spot where it was thrown into the sea.—C a mbrian. We understand that the tin works at Carmar then, which severml years have been shut up, have bee n olien by a company of gentlemen from Liverpool, and will stortly be put in full work. The well known qualities of the M. C. tin, formerly made at the above works, is a guarantee of the safety of the speculation ; indeed it has long been matter of surprise how the works have reniained so long unoccupied.—Cambrian,