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FRENCH PAPERS. !-From the Etoik,dated_Thursday, Aug. 18.) BARCEI:ONA, AUG. 6. A duel of a new kind took place a few days ago between a Lieutenant of one of the regiments of the French garrison and aM.de V . The parties fought with muskets, at the distance of 100 paces. The result was fatal to M. de V-. This unfortunate young man, belonging to a dis tinguished family, was shot through both thighs ; he died last night in consequence of his wounds. This event, which has caused some sensation, has been followed by the formal refusal by the Clergy of burial to the body, and the no less astonishing refusal of the Chaplains of the regi ment to .follow the coffin to the grave. Orders had been given in the morning by the Colonel, who is Commandant of the fortress, for the burial of Mr. V. It was to take place at six o'clock in the afternoon. Two Officers per grade of each regiment, and all the Officers of Mr. V.'s own regiment s had repaired to the church at the ap pointed hour, and two hours after they were still there, without any ecclesiastic haviag made his appearance to attend the burial of the corpse. The Spaniards, who invest death with all the pomp of religion, had remarked with astonishment that 'the almoners of the regiments had not at tended the funerals of four French Officers who had died within these five mouths. The corpse waves not carried to the church yard ; orders from the Bishop had been given in consequence. M. de V. has been interred in a bastion, rendering him the military honours due to his rank. The French Officers, who know that obedi ence to order and discipline is their first duty, 'have proved on this occasion how well they know how to respect opinions. PARIS, A UG. 17. We learn that M. Bellard, Attorney-General, delivered yesterday morning to M. Seguier, First President, a requisition directed against the Cou rier Francais and the Constitutionnel for the ten dency of those journals—un requisitoire de ten dance. (From the Constitutionnel of Wednexday.) We have been assured for some days past that M. Bellard has presented a requisition enlendance against several independent journals, including the Constitutionnel and the Courier. We are persuaded that this news will not give our readers more uneasiness than it does ourselves. They may be certain that it will not in any Way lessen our zeal for the Constitutional Monarchy, for the maintenance of public credit against the manceu vres of jobbers, and the defence of the liberties or the Gallican Church, against the attacks of the Jesuits and Ultramontains. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Auo. 17.—Five per Cents. 102 f. 20c. ; Three per Cents. 72. 5 Bank Stock, 2,185. Relate de Naples (Certif. Falconet), 88. 40.; Rente t'Espagne, 17i. Royal Spanish Loan, 51g.—Exchange on London, one =oath, 25. ; three months, 24. 85.—(Coure Authentique.) ADDRESS , Of THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH OF GREECE. (Abridged from the Journal de Debuts.) 10 RIB HOLINESS LEO XII. POPE, VISIBLE HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. In the name of the Provisional Government, and of all the learned Ecclesiastics of Greece, delivered from the yoke of the infamous Mussulman. " MOST llrmr FATHER—The insurrection of Greece, *gsluat the most terrible enemy of the worship of the true Ood, has not originated in the dangerous principles which mo dem sectarians, by means of secret associations, have circulated in Europe, and whose fatal consequences in that quarter of the globe have been but too manifest. Those demagogic principles were about to shake the equilibrium existing between the dif -ferent Powers, to disturb public and private tranquillity, to cast from their thrones those legitimate Monarchs which the Supreme Being has appointed to govern nations, and finally to overthrow those institutions and those ancient laws, which, placing men under the guardian sceptre of justice, secures every individual his rights. " But devastated Greece, a prey for centuries to the most cruel oppression—Greece, crushed beneath the yoke of Maho -metan usurpation, had hopes that the powerful arm of the Christian Princes would snatch her from her state of slavery, if not from motives of humanity, at least from respect for that holy religion which God, made Man, sealed with his blood, to which so many illustrious preachers have rendered testimony, when in torments they earned the crown of martyrdom, and _upon which the Sovereigns of Christendom found the existence and preservation of their crowns. " From the year 1770 to 1807, Greece expected her freedom to come from Russia ; and in that expectation she made sacri fit:es of all kinds to that power. Deceived, however, in her hopes, she turned her eyes towards France ; but in 1812 that new illusion vanished, and she fixed her hopes on England.— The occupation 'of the lonian Islands by the English, autho riled at that time the expectation of Greece; for a moment she imagined she was about to take her rank among nations ; but English policy was net then known to the Hellenists, and the cession of Parga to the Tyrant of Epirus, the cruel Ali Pacha, taught them that henceforth they must depend upon themselves for their liberty." [The Address then tietails the sufferings and degradations to which the Greeks were subject, under the execrable ty ranny of the Turks. Having justified the insurrection it pro ceeds.] " Greece, however, surmounting every. obstacle, has become at'this day, at the price of her blood, free from the Muszul man tyranny throughout the greater part of her territory. No hope now remains to the followers of Mahomet of again pro. fatting the threshold of the disciples of the Gospel, •' Greece is free! The whole nation is armed, and watches her security, she is certain of conquest because she is resolved to die buried beneath her own ruins, rather than again bend her neck to the yoke. She at present feels the imperious neces sity of union and consolidation, under the paternal sceptre of a Christian, apostolic, and orthodox Monarch, in ordento form under him an independent kingdom, and to become by his position a stronger barrier than the Ottoman empire for the neighbouring powers. " This kingdoni once established, Greece will be ready to adopt all the laws which would be judged useful. and advan tageous either for the interests of her regeneration, or for that of European policy. She'demands a Christian Monarch, and Royal blood, as that alone will re-establish public and private tranquillity, destroy civil discord, stifle all private pretensions to power; that alone will guarantee our holy religion, will fasten the holy bands with the Holy Roman Pontiff, whom we acknow ledge is the centre of unity, as the Chief Shepherd of the Uni versal Church, of Jesus Christ, both East and West, without, however, any alteration or change of the sacred rites, discipline, customs, and institutions of the Greek Church; the whole un. der the belief, and in manner entirely conformable to what was decided in the Holy Council of Florence. Such is, Most Holy Father, the desire of the Provisional Government of the Metro politans, of the Archbishops, Bishops, and of all the Elders of Greece. August mysteries ! sublime and wonderful decrees of ' the wisdom of a God who watches over the nations of Christians redeemed by the precious blood of his only Son ! The Meek Lamb, the most worthy Patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory, expired upon the scat - 1;11d by the sanguinary order of the Sultan. a declared enemy of the Christian name. It was thus perished his illustrious predecessor the learned Patriarch Cyrilhis, after having been torn from his native place, Adrianople. The fate of the greater part of the Synod has been similar to that of its venerable Chief. Their forsaken bodies were delivered to the .Jews, who, in hatred of-Christianity, after having dragged them through the streets, venting imprecations upon them, and treating them with all manner of outrage, threw them into the sea. The body of the Patriarch was saved from the waves, and secretly picked up by a Christian, who transported it to Odessa, where it was buried with all the honours befitting his rank and virtues. The other victims were not so fortunate, except the venerable octogenarian Denys, metropolitan of Ephesus, who, alter having been dragged through the dirt by the ,Jews, was at last sold to the Greeks for its weight in gold, and buried in the church of the most Holy Virgin in Pera. The Greek Church was then reduced to widowhood, with out a synod or a head. The Sultan created new Patriarchs and new Bishops, to occupy the empty places of those holy men slain by his exterminating sword. But in free Greece, amid the tumult of arms, the Provisional Government has occupied itself with assembling the ecclesiastical hierarchy in Synod ; with declaring the new Patriarch and Bishops illegitimate in truders, and with anathematizing with all the rigour of the canons, all who should acknowledge or communicate with ;Item, so that they were only obeyed among that portion of the Greeks who yet groan 'under the tyranny of the Turks. In this state -of widowhood Greece returns to the Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ and Supreme Chief of the Church; site prays hint unite all the faithful shepherds with the children of the Greek Church, of whatever rank, dignity, or condition they may be, and treat them as his own children, according to the promise of divine wisdom. (Et fiettinum ovite, et anus pastor.*) " The example of the Greek Church, when wedded to the Roman Pontiff, will soon be followed by that of her daughters, the Churches of Bulgaria, Servia, Moldavia, and even Russia, and it will then be that the prophecy of the gospel . will be ac complished : " Ut filios dei qui crust dispersi congregaret in unum." Providence, most Holy Father, seems to open this means to you, to rccal to your holy authority all the dispersed sheep ; if your Holiness hesitated a moment in acceding to the wishes and desires of the Greek*, you would render yourself a sinner against him who instituted your authority, viz., Christ our 1 - :;vine Lord ; and then at your last hour, when all the faults of your life will be dawn together to be presented to your dying eyes, with what fear would not your soul be assaulted when the voice of the Holy Ghost would resound in yourears the words for merly inspired by him in the Prophet Ezekiel :—" Et dispersx sunt oves mew, eo quod non esset pastor, neque enim quasi verunt pastores mei gregem meum ; sed pascebant pastores se metipsos, et greges meos non pascebant." [The address then endeavours to shew that to accomplish this object it is not necessary that the Pope should subject himself to any expence or sacrifice. All that is required is, that he should, as the Vicar of Jesus Christ, intercede with the Princes of Europe in favour of the Greeks. The examples of his pre decessors who have done so, are pointed out for his imitation.— The address concludes in these words] : " The mission with which the undersigned have been charged by his countrymen, is a proof of the confidence which he has deserved from them for the services he has rendered his country. Recourse has not been had to the ordinary means of conveying dispatches, because it was wished that no doubt might exist of the result of your Holiness's answer to this supplication. The Greeks found their hopes of its meeting a favourable reception from the obligation imposed on your Holiness as father of the faithful, to aid them when they implore your protection ; upon the justice of their cause; upon the state of affairs which render their triumph so probable, and lastly, upon the good faith and sincerity with which they humbly lay this supplication at your Holiness's feet. If their hope is disappointed, they will not at least have to bear to the grave, in a time of misfortune, the re gret of not having attempted all means to free themselves ; and perhaps their ruin would excite remorse, although, alas ! too late, in the breasts of those who might so easily have saved them. " The undersigned would produce other reasons to urge in person to your Holiness, would you grant him an audience. " Deign, your Holiness, to receive tile humble homage of the undersigned ; permit him to kiss your sacred feet ; and of begging, prostrate before the _Throne of the Prince of the Apostles, your most holy and apostolic benediction upon him. and all Greece. (Signed) "The Special CommiSsioner of Greece, " Capt. NICOLAS KIEFALA, a Greek. " Rome, 24-12 May, 1825." • And one sheepfold and one shepherd shall there.he. t That he might assemble together the sous of God who were dispersed. And my sheep are dispersed because the shepherd was not, nor have my shepherds sought my flock; but the shepherds have fed themselves, and my flocks have they not fed. HOUSE OF LORDS. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. An account, for the Session 1825, of the number of Appeals and Writs of Error heard in former Sessions, and remaining undecided, standing on the Cause List as appointed and not appointed for hearing, and of Writs of Error not pro ceeded with ; shewing also the number withdrawn, dismissed, heard, decided, remaining for judgment, remaining for hearing, &c. in the Session 1825 ;* and distinguishing the numbers of Scotch, English, Irish, and Welch—ordered by the House of Lords to be printed, 6th July, 1825. APPEALS. tr t t a* Heard in Sessions prior to Session 1824, but remaining undecided at the com mencement of Session 1825 - 4 2 1 0 7 Deduct from the above (decided in Ses sion 1825) - - - - 1 2 1 0 4 Remaining undecided of Sessions prior to Session 1824 - 3 0 0 0 3 Remainint , on the List of Session 1824. Appointed for rn hearing - 98 6 26 1 131 Not appointed - 15 2 1 0 18 Presented in Session 1825 113 8 27 1 149 - 31 14 11 0 5( Total on the List 144 22 t 33 1 205 Whereof withdrawn, &c. - . - 12 1 1 0 14 Dismissed fbr want of prosecution - 2 0 0 0 2 Struck out on Report from Appeal Corn mittee ----3 0 0 0 3 Decided _ - - _ 60 11 9 0 GO Remaining for judgment - - 6 0 2 1 9 Remaining for hearing 83 12 12 1 108 - 61 10 26 0 97 - Total 144 22 38 1 205 WRITS OF ERROR. Heard in Sessions prior to Session 1824, but remaining undecided at the com mencement of Session 1825 - 0 2 0 0 2 Deduct horn above (decided in Session 1825) - - .- 0 1 0 0 1 Remaining undecided of Sessions prior to Session 1824 - 0 1 0 0 1 Remaining on the list of Session 1824. Appointed for hearing 4 3 2 -0 9 Not appointed 0 2 1 0 3 4 5 3 0 12 Presented in Session 1825 - - 0 19 0 0 19 Total on the list - 4 24 3 0 31 Whereof withdrawn, &c. - - 0 2 0 0 2 Non-prossed - - - - 0 11 0 0 11 Decided - - - - 0 5 1 0 6 Remaining for judgment - - 2 1 0 0 3 2 19 1 0* 22 -25 2 0 9 Remaining for hearing Total - - 4 24 3 0 31 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Auc. 19. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.. The Rev. R. B. Paul, M.A. Fellow of Exeter College, has been presented, by the Rector and Fellows of that Society, to the Vicarage of Long Wittcnham, Berks. On the 12th inst. the Rev. James Hook, LLD. was insti tuted to the Deanery founded.in the Cathedral Church of Wor cester, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Jenkinson to the See of St. David's; and on the evening of the same day the Very Rev. Gentleman was, installed with the accustomed formalities. The Rev. 'Wm. James, M.A. has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Rectory of East Lana brook, void by the cession of the Rev. Chas. T. Simmons, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Wells. The Archbishop of York has been pleased to institute the Rev. Anthony Ward, of Methley-park, to the vicarage of East rington, in the East Riding of the county of York—patron, the King. .The Lord Bishop of Exeter has collated the Rev. James D. Coleridge, 1414. IL, to the prebendal stall in the cathedral church, void by the death of the Rev. James Carrington, the late pos sessor. His Lordship also instituted the Rev. Wm. Marsh, A. 8., to the vicarage of Gwenap, Cornwall, on the presentation the venera)le the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, void by the cession of the Rev. W. Martin. ELECTION FOR TOWN-CLERK OF OXFORD. On Thursday last came on the election for Town-Clerk o this City, in the room of the late Sir W. E. TAUNTON, when Mr. ROBERSON was proposed by Mr. C. ADAms, as a proper person to fill that important office, which was seconded by Mr. GII.ES. Mr. Roil EnsoN came forward to address the freemen. He said he stood before them under very peculiar circumstances; and when he looked round his heart overflowed with gratitude at the kindness displayed towardS him. He did not intend in the first instance to have offered himself to their notice, from a full conviction of his inability to meet the expence • but the overwhelming applic a tions for him t o d o so , backed Cy the kindest offers of support and assistance, determined him. He now stepped forward that the freemen might have an opportu nity of supporting their rights, and of electing the man of their choice. The means resorted to by the friends of his opponent, he said, had been many and various • but nothingcould di ver t t h e tide of public feeling from him. 111 r. Roberson denied the asser tion made in a handbill signed "Fellow Citizen," that " he had applied to the Duke of Marlbiirough for hiS support an in fluence against Mr. Taunton in this election ; " and read a letter from his Grace, declaring that such accusation was false. Ile concluded by assuring the freemen that if they placed him in the honourable - situation of their Town Clerk, he would to the best of his abilities, discharge the duties thereof with an honest bnpartiality towards every one. He would not take up more of their time, but, relying upon their voluntary assurances of support, he felt confident that in their hands his cause would be supported with firmness.—(Applause.) T. ROBINSON, Esq.. then nominated Mr. Taunton, as a fit person to succeed his father in the situation of Town Clerk, and Mr. Hickman seconded the nomination. Mr. TAUNTON then addressed the Meeting. He began by calling the attention of the freemen to the peculiar circum stances under which he offered himself to their notice, and to the claim he must make to their indulgence. Upon an occasion that called into review the long course of his official conduct, it became him to propitiate the indulgence of his fellow citizens for any errors and infirmities that might have marked the per formance of his duties; to bespeak their favourable considera tion of his humble pretensions to the honourable office he as pired to ; and to urge those pretensions with a power and a spirit commensurate with the importance of the object, and the deep interest he felt in its attainment. On the other hand, the recent loss he had sustained in • the death of a beloved and re vered father, and the wounded and broken spirit under which 'he was suffering, unfitted him for the stormy conflict in which he was involved, and disabled him from putting forth whatever humble powers he might possess, and the more especially so, as the place where he stood, and those to whom he was addressing himself, were calculated to recall most powerfully the memory of his father before him, and the remembrance of that example he had ever set him of attaclunent to the City of Oxford, of fidelity to its privileges and its concerns, anti of interest in its prosperity and welfare. Unequal as he was to the occasion, he would trespass but shortly on the attention of his fellow-citizens. The first paint to which Mr. Taunton then adverted was his well known connexion with the Marlborough interest, which he ju s . tifie&upon the honourat •.! and estimable principle of gratitude ; pointing out that if Mr. Robertson had been under the sam e obligations to that Noble family, he would have espoused the same interest, or subjected himself to the just reproach of base ingratitude,—that the pursuits of professional men necessarily threw them into the stream of their friends and connexions ; and that it was the accidental circumstance of the side on which they lay that determined the course they took upon parliamentary contests. That Mr.Taunton, though he could not forget acts of kindness nor turn his back upon his best friends, held the spirit Of independence in no less esteem than iris opponent, and assured the freemen, that the triumphant assertion of their independence could never upon any occasion be to him matter of mortification and regret. That, on the contrary, he looked ppon the enjoy ment and the free and tspfettered exercise of popular rights in this country to be the mainspring and vivifying principle of all the noble qualities that distinguish the national character of Englishmen ; and expressed his firm persuasion that their pre servation in indissolubly linked with the vigilant and jealous maintenance of the rights of the, people. But whilst he paid this heartfelt tribute to the u ns p ea k a bl e value of these rights, he avowed himself the decided and uncompromis ing enemy of violence and outrage; not only front his love of peace and good order, but for the sake also of those popular rights which could only be endangered by being abused and made subservient to criminal pur poses;—that the sure way to throw an odium upon these rights and bring them into . jeopardy, was to make them the pretext, and offer them as a justification for acts of public mitrage. reminded the freemen that the same claim of right that could justify the laying waste a garlen and destroying a pigstye, must he equally available to warrant more extensive acts of de solation ; and upon a late occasion to which these remarks bore a close application, he claimed the merit of having rescued the rights of his fellow citizens front the degradation and disgrace of being associated with such a transaction. With this frank explanation. of his conduct and principles, Mr. Taunton com mitted himself to the judgment of the freemen, trusting strongly to his claims to their confidence and support. The poll soon commenced in the Town Hall, and was car ried on with great spirit the whole day ; at the close the num bers were— For Mr. Roberson - Mr. Taunton - - 220 - - 203 Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the polling re-commenced, and nothing could exceed the activity displayed by the friends of both parties throughout the day. In the evening the num bers stood thus : For Mr. Roberson - - 608 Mr. Taunton - - 473 Majority for Mr. Roberson —.135 SEA PONDS.—A. writer in the Quarterly Jour nal ofScience suggests a plan for constructing SEA-PONDS, for the purpose of preserving and breeding a sufficient stock of va. rious species of fish for the public markets. It has been found that .tea--fish will live and thrive in, and also breed in ponds or in closed waters ; and with regard to many it also appears that it is indifferent whether the water be salt or fresh, or brackish, ;Jr alter nately.fresh and salt. This plan would bring the fish within our own power, to be taken alive when wanted, and from being better ted, in greater perfection, and more uniformly good. There are three or four sea-ponds 'in Scotland, where fish are thus kept —one in Orkney, one in the Firth of Forth, and one in Galloway. This has recently been put to the test in Guernsey by Mr. Arnold : in a pond of about four acres only, many species of sea-fish arc now thriving; all those which have had sufficient time have propagated; and all have improved in quality, and many in a remarkable manner. BA DK.--The bark of the chesuut-tree contains twice as much tanning matter as oak bark, and nearly twice as much colouring matter as log-wood. Leather prepared with it is more firm and solid, and yet more supple. In the Northern Counties the bark of larch is in general use for tanning. flow TO STRETCH SHOES.- - --The fOliOw it - 1g mode of stretching shoes and boots is used in the back settlements of America. Fill the shoe or boot with corn, securing it well by tying it in tight so that it cannot force its way out. Then im merse it for several hours in water, till the grains are sufficiently swelled, which will gradually and equably distend the leather. Then take the shoe or boot out of the water and rub it well with nests' foot oil, which must be suffered to dry in before the corn is taken out. St nGrAty.—Wherk the 'surgeons of Tripoli take off a limb, they dip the stump into a bowl of hot pitch, which settles the bleeding without the trouble of tying up the arteries. COMBINATION. COMBINATION c& RIOT of WORKMEN in FRANCE. The proceedings of the workmen in the valley of Deville, near Rouen, have lately assumed so serious a complexion, that the Constitutionnel of Wednesday deems it proper to publish the fol lowing details, which were not generally known : " On Saturday, the 6th instant, there was a general strike (revolle) ariiong the workmen em ployed in the manufactory of Baron Levavasseur, situated at Houlme, in the valley of.Deviile. This strike seems to have been occasioned by the re solution of M. Levavasseur to reduce their wages. The fall in the price of cottons had already in duced some manufacturers in the valley to adopt the same course, but others had not yet taken the subject into consideration. The workmen of M. Levavasseur did not submit without. mur murs to the reduction. They were compelled, however, and from that moment the strike appears to have been meditated. " M. Levavasseur, in order to prevent the mischiefs which might have had even a more me lancholy result than what actually took place, yielded to the representations made to him, and restored the old rate of wages. He wished only to except from this conciliatory measure, five or six of the leaders of the mutiny. This exception produced all the evil consequences which have occurred. The leaders who were thus excluded fro►n the manufactory of M. Levavasseur gained over to their side a considerable portion of their fellow workmen. On the following day, Mon day, the riot was dangerous. The workmen broke the windows of the manufactory ; they burst open the doors of entrance form the main road, and overcoming force with force, they at last went the length of firing several shots, one of which struck a gendarme, who has since died of the wound. This deplorable result rendered it necessary for the Authorities to re double their activity and their precautions. A great many arrests have taken place. About an hundred workmen have been conveyed to the prison of Rouen. Informations are laid against them every hour, and fresh arrests continue to be made. The Royal Guard is, as it were, encamp ed in the valley, for the maintenance of the pub lic peace. The soldiers are universally Praised for their prudence and reserve. " At this moment (Saturday evening), all ap pears quiet, but every body is afraid of the two coming holidays of Sunday and Monday. All the necessary measures for the public safety have been taken. The public-houses are ordered to close at seven o'clock in the evening, and the most respectable and influential manufacturers of the valley have been called upon by the local authorities to give their assistance. We hope, therefore, that the apparent tranquillity which prevails from Malaunay to the gates of Rouen, will resume its usual permanence. One circum stance only creates some uneasiness among the frieilds of public order. It is, that among these workmen there is a considerable number of dis charged convicts (forcats liberes) to whom the manufacturers gave employment and bread for the sake of humanity. It would not be just to attribute all the troubles and excesses to these unfortunate men, but it is their fate not to be wholly free from suspicion. This result, perhaps, may be ascribed to our system of prison discipline. Our gaols, houses of corrections and penitentiaries, are so con structed, that even an innocent man is rendered a criminal, if he ence becomes an inmate of them. At present, all is tranquil in the valley of Deville. Fortunately, the gendarmes are every where, and more fortunately still, the royal guard occupies every post. It is believed, that the man who killed the gendarme, has been arrested. He is named Coguart, but several shots were fired. " Sunday Morning—A. fire has been burning for these two hours, at a vitriol manufactory, at Maromme. (This is an ordinary occurrence.)" SUMMARY, 1825. Total Appeals for hearing - - - - 205 Total Writs of Error - - - - 31 236 - - - *l3O Disposed of as above Remdining for hearing Alemorandum_Tlie number of days on which the House sat upon Appeals and Writs of Error (including those occupied in the consickration of causes), from the first day of Session 1825, to the 6th day of July 1825, inclusive, is 89. * The aggregate of the above two numbers marked thus*. BRADFORD COMBERS AND WEAVERS. As the VVoster Spinners and Manufacturers of Bradford gave notice on Saturday Of a meeting on Monday last, " to take into consideration the propriety of the masters proposing to their re spective workmen a personal discussion of the differences between them," we are unwilling to offer any remarks which might tend to thwart even the slender hopes of a reconciliation sug gested by this announcement. We must say, however, that in the viue:ication which th ema nufacturers have published of themselves, in reply to Mr. FAWCETT'S letter, they have avowed prin. ciples it would have been more creditable to them never to have entertained. As no proof of Mr. FAWCETT'S having violated the spirit of -the rule, " to buy tops only from one another," by his purchasing tops made at 150 miles distant, they broadly state that their object and Intel'. tion in resorting to that regulation was to pre vent their workmen from getting employment else where, and thus ensure a triumph over the Union. Whether the extent to which combination has reached may have provoked or rendered neces sary such a resolution, we shall not decide ; but it certainly strikes us as fully as culpable for employers, who refuse to give .the wages demanded of them, to prevent workmen froth obtaining employment in other places, as for a Union, or the members of a. Union, to pre vent persons who are not of that Association from selling their labour for whatever price they please. Wit'a respect to the refusal of the mas ters to submit the disputes with the men to the arbitration of the Leeds' Merchants, who offered to mediate betwegn them, we can easily under stand, that besides the reasoifs alleged by the spinners and manufactu rer s f o r declining - to accept of the mediation, they • naturally felt re luctant that their workmen should look up to third and indifferent parties as the friends who had at length effected an arrangement and re stord them to employment. Of the comparative advantageA,of hand and power Weaving, as set forth by the masters, we cannot, for the life of perceive what it has to do with the question now at issue. If power weaving,be so much more preferable and cheap as is described, in Heaven's name let those who choose resort to it'; but while they employ men instead of steam-engines to weave, they must deal with the former indepen dently of ail considerations of the latter. Late last night, and after the foregoing wss put r type, we rec e i ve d th e f o ll ow i ng l etter from °°r correspondent at Bradford : be• " BRADFORD, AUG. 17.—Matters, as to the difference tween the masters and workmen here, are apparently dra w a i r ,J to a close. The men have professed a willingness to meet hare: discuss their differences with the masters ; but the until Monday last, resolutely refused to attempt any cl e r al , noise. On Monday, however, a resolution was passed hy t , that each master might endeavour to settle his dispute 'w;ti l ha a own men ; and, accordingly, they have, most, if not ail , o y communications with their men, but without coming Wi n der settlement. The men refuse to return to their work u f ro of the prices demanded, on the ground that it is evident, 0 j• the conduct of Messrs. Garnett, who have been g iving tile d t o vanced wages for a fortnight, and Mr. Firth, who agre e ,,, o give them on Monday morning last, that the required aciv" the can be afforded. It is now generally expected that a , ' 0 1 masters will yield this long contested point, and in resentrey, at the conduct of the manufacturers of Halifax, Ke i ri o d Bingley, and other neighbouring places, who have held a d , from the battle, and continued to employ the Union ther e w ill ing the strike here, will also offer such other wages as to produce a strike in those place, and placesithe masters in w ill dilemma, either to give higher wages than the trade there , P afford, and so to nienufacture at a loss, or otherwise to gor the - manufacturing.-11r. Fawcett has gotten between two fires: 41 latter ha masters on one hand, and the men on the other. TheY e " by charge him with d up li c i ty.. Hi s answer to the charges niaubeeti the former is before the public, anti in reply to what hag t he published by the men, as to his offering work to the men n. 1 . . 001 Union, on condition of their withdrawing; for a short tirnef o . the Union, a declaration has been signed Haley, M r ' the cett's forernan, who went to the Committee of the Union ica• Roe Buck, in the name of Mr. Fawcett ; that his comihtnia tion with the Committee was an act of his own, and end t he unknown to and unauthorised by Mr. Fawcett. This, an trea t. fact that Harley had been discharged by Mr. Fawcett, for ee , ing with the Uni on i n hi s name, w i ll b e estimate d by sPboti tators of the passing events in different lights. The men D ot their usual meeting at. Fairweather-green on Monday lay s ' . 0 no resolutions were passed. Their funds increase wit h . a t duration of the cont est , anti were never in so good a , state the present. They rece i ve d nearly 200/. this morning , b er .) notes, and sovereigns, from different quarters."—(Lecac PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Rusk Stock 3' per Cent. Bed 9oi 3 per Cent. Cons.... 894 i 90 3} per Cent. Ditto Bed. 9q f 4 per cent. New 103.1 A Bank Long Ann. 224 5-16th; India Stock DAY AT ONE o'cLtiC s :o! Old Annuities ............••• New Ditto ............... ... 21 Ex. Bills 1000/. I :id. ••• ;,`1 `2 3 , Ditto POI. lid ...... 71'0 4 Ditto timall 14d........... Ditto C0mmercia1........... Bank for Act. ............... _ India for A cct. .............. Cons. for Opening ,•• 139 g Ditto Bonds South :jea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCI'.., Austrian Bds, 5 per cent - Neapolitan Scrip ........ Brazilian Bds 1825 ... dis. Do. Scrip .................... • Buenos Ayres Bds Portuguese Bds, 6 per cent — Colombian Bds, 6 per c t. 854 Ditto New ..................... Do. do. 1824 B4 1. Russian, New, 5 per "On l per _>on ..•.. . Prussian, .... Danish, 5 per cent. Do. Scrip = Greek Bds Do. Scrip, 1825 ... Exchange ••• • Mexican Bds Do. Scrip 1825 Neapolitan, 5 per cent. 3 Ex p c er ha c n e g n e t. :: PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 07CLOCIil• ore , per S 0 Anglo-Mexican Mining Company ..................... 11 Anglo-Chilian Mining Company , .........••••' ii ii Castello and Espirito Santo Brazil Mining Company , N 34 4 a 41 Equitable Mining Co m p an y Hibernian Mining Company ..................... ......... 17' Pasco Peruvian Minin g Company ....................... . ii 4 . Potosi La Paz and Peru v i an Mi n i ng A ssoc i at i on . ..... ' 9 New United Mexican Mini ng Company ............... 1 j Welch Iron and Co a l Ali n i ng C ompany ............. ..;; 1.1, British Rock and P a t en t S a lt C ompany Canada Company ................ ....... 74 General Steam Navigation Company .................. l i 0 ~ 7i al - Imperial Plate Gl ass C ompany London Carpet Company ...................................... '• 9) London Gold and Silver Refining Company ............ 0 Lower Rhine St ea m N av i gat i on C ompany ... ........... Mexican Company .............................................. II . Netherland P a t e nt S a lt C om p any -- ...... Provincial Bank of Ireland 11 (i i E it. AT LOND()N BRIDGE it 110 11orning, 19 minutes alter 7. 1 Evening, 52 minutes THE SUIN- SQL EM QUIS DICERE FALSUM 41110 LOND , nn SATURDAY EVENING, O AU N GUST ;0, e have just received th e Dade of P es t by express. It does not contain a word °f tical information. Private letters state 016 " Roues, after Change, w ere done at 7 2 . 5 " for Ou Tuesllay his Excellency the Min ister ia' Foreiin A ff a i r s v isit e d th e D u ke of ‘"I'1)1' TON. ~ The InAcateur of Bordeaux says, til 'at ilite s ii i i : Bence has been brought by a fishing si°' 6l'l s ia days from C orunna , th a t th e p re ss Conlin'le for the . province of Gallicia to obtain sni diers aie sf the llavannah expedition. All unmarried . - f 0 0 . between 18 and 40 years of age, are tak e° t al' their famili e s an d b us i ness , an d forceab l f P u t to board a ship, or i n h ouses o f confil iell'e t .. ri 3 d l i;' await the transp or t s d a ily ex pected frog.' Ll. O Other expeditions, it is said, will follow ° is ' as to carry 20,000 men. e A W ell A new loan has j u st b e en conclude d - d t he I ,:i. F :th N , D a s t . " — th the Government of Hesse Darmstadt 'Wool house of ROTHSCHILD, of Frankfort; the 11° . 05 ,' capital will be six millions and a half °f flur i l .r the loc. ; r ' ° cep d• Three P e , w ore --.02.---_ A i n The f: d o c (ln x oe t extracts a mc c ao t n s n w tia3 i ia i n li e l ar li sn ) R re e e o o t , e c s l , oc f k o: Irnoze.z.lo2f. column. ~„ Do t' The F are almost Wa.' er e . French Papers ten. The- Address of the Provisional 6°lr 'o f „ ja pe , ment and Church of Greece to the ** - 11 ' y 0; notice, is, however, a document `g°rttbere however, be ibige e arrived i found e eot In 1 1 1 ii i a s 0:0 te iii ei t ; fore Ice, and a • full translation of it h as C ar condemned. Leen given. This paper begi ns 4 1)/ t hos e . otrfssting the' Revolution of Greece it dr ,io 11 . and Italy, and endeavouring the jj oll the between them,' w th h e i m cl: ' n b e y ar : : :il:ll:l :o l : 9:: distinctionri" 7 end i F e. ol:fjEic, amongstFa t 1 might b e induced to app rove he 1 ' 33 pression by which the -Greeks 'fete It then recites the tYra"";: j c iii , eo I°.