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IMPrERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMON'i.—MAncti 14. • -- PONTEFRACT- ELECTION. DUGDALE brought up the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the merits of the petition, ityrnplaining of an undue Return for the Borough of Pontefract. 'The Committee reported that the sitting. Members were duly lilicted, and that the petition was not frivolous or vexatious. SUDBURY ELECTION. .d MILTON brought up a similar Report from L Mn the Sudbury Committee, declaring Bethel Waldron, Es q . duly elected, and that the petition of Ogleby, Etq. was not frivolous or vexatious. TOWN OF RAMSGATE. Sir E. KN.ATCHBULL obtained leave to bring in a Bill to separate the town of Ramsgate from the parish of St. Lawrence, in the county of Kent, and to make the said town a separate and distinct parish. MACHINERY. Mr. LAWLEY presented a petition from the . Operative Sawyers of Birmingham, against the Tax on Machinery. DISTRESS IN DROGHEDA. Mr. VAN HaNIRIGH presented a petition, ; 1 40Ea by a numerous and respectable portion of the inhabi tants of the town of Drogheda, complaining of the poverty, dis , _tress, and utter state of. destitution of the poor of that town, and praying that tile — House might direct that the Irish Executive elarraid afford, them relief, by procuring some permanent employ . for them. mint DISTRESS IN HULL—SHIP-BUILDING. . a . Mr. SYKES presented a petition from the town cf Hull. complaining of distress, and praying for relief. - a- Mr. WARBURTON said, that the cause of the i"'''great filling off of ship-building in the British ports was the de swiss of the duty on Canada timber, which B are great en ' eouragement to 'hip-building in Canada. Ship-building in Lon don was from 90/. to 5251. a ton ; in the Northern ports, 14/. a • • ton ; and in Canada it was but 71. Last year thirty ships were built in Canada, and brou g ht here for sale, which cast a damp _ upon ship-building at home. Mr: HUME said, that a paper was just put into his hand, which contained a statement which he believed to be cot -ma: „ N et, namely, that the interests of British shipping were greatly ; a a i ls asifecteiLby the difference of expense on lading and fitting out in British and F o reign ports in the article of food. In British parts, biscuits could not he purchased for lees than twenty shillings ; 4 4 :4 ,a.cwt., whereas they mi g ht be purchased for half that sum iu forei g n ports—(Hear, hear.)—He regretted that the measures which the House was now about to adopt did not promise any en - tiafactora and extensive relief to British sailors in the cheap pnr. claw of food. Lord MILTON thought that the distress of which . the -shipping interest complained, was only part of that general distress which was felt by all classes of the community, and which resulted from the metallic currency. He seas a friend to metallic currency himself, but did not think that the time for introducin g • . • it waa judiciorsly selected. Mr. BARING agreed with the Hon. Member for Bridport (Mr. Warburton), as to the importance of the subject, but he trusted that no discussion in that House would have the - effect of brin g ing the Ri g ht Hon. President of the Board of • Trade down to that House before his health was perfectly restored. Mr. SYKES, in reply to the observation respecting the prosperity of the Canada Ship-buildin g , declared, that he knew, from the hest authority, that the chip-builders of Canada were as much distressed, if not more, than the ship-builders of England. The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. f. Mr. LITTLETON begged the House to recol lect, that although it had been stated, that the trade of ship building was more flourishing in England in the year 1825 than it had been for a long time before or since, yet, in that year so injurious were the combinations among the workmen, that Go vernment were actually obliged to issue an order, permitting the repair of British ships in foreign ports. It was very obvious that the consequence of that employment of foreigners must have g iven a strong stimulus to that ship-building abroad, a u nd distreec at home, of which the petitioners complained. The petition was then ordered to he printed. IMPROVEMENT OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. The MASTER of the ROLLS brought up a Bill for the Improvement of the Administration of Justice in the Lligh - • • Ofttrt of Chancery. • ''' • Mr. ABERCROMBY complained, that the Right Hon. Gentleman did not allow those connected with the Court of • '. Chancery a sufficient time to consider the effect of the Provisions • , of the Bill. The MASTER of the ROLLS said, he had men -, - eioned Monday ; but, if that day was found to be inconvenient, he had-no wish to presa the second reading upon the House. SUGAR DUTIES. . W. WHITMORE gave notice of his inten -2.-:..tionao move, on the 3d day of May, for a Committee to inquire ;uto the: effect of .the Sugar Duties. . • CORN LAWS. Sir. -171. KNATCHBULL presented petitions from ever, and-several other places in Kent, praying for Protection to 'the Agricultural interest. Mr. M . . FITZGERALD presented a similar peti - - tinn fairn Coventry. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. - 7 7 - - MrI T A4 M. FITZGERALD presented several peti -- tions from the Catholic Inhabitants of the County Kerry, praying ;4 . $ be relieved from their Civil and Political Disabilities. • . - The same Hon. MEMBER presented a petition from Tra!ee, complaining of the Method of Branding Butter Casks, and other Methads of Regulating the Butter Trade in Ireland. After a -few words from Sir N. COLTEIURST, -ail Mr. J. GRATTAN, the petition was ordered to be printed. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. Mr. :HUME gave notice of his intention to move, on Tuesday, the 20th inst., for an Account of the Number of Cor poral Punishments in the Army, during the last year. TRADE-WITH THE UNITED. STATES. . The same Hon.,-MEMBER gave notice of his in . - tention to move, on the same day, fur an Account of the Num ber of 'Vessels trading between the United States and the West India Islands. .:'. t., THE FLEET PRISON. Mr. HU:ME, in presenting a petition from the In- ,olvent Debtors confined in the Fleet Prison, observed, that u!- 'tough the state of the prison had b een mentioned to the Chief t•.. Justice,t. the Common Pleas , no a n swer had y et been received. Justice " 4 .8 Prison was disgraceful to the Government, and The state of t,. be a reproach to the City of London, for, he could not be said to s'troul over the Fleet. He hoped the understood, it had no co. Secretary of State would dires!t his attention to the subject; but if he found that the matter svas not taken up as it ought to be, he would certainly fee l it his duty t',2 move for a Committee of the House, in - order to hear evidence reepOckni; the present condition of the Pri.on ,md ire inmates. A MEMBER obseryed, that the state of the Prisons in the Metropolis was truly disgraceful. It was a singular thing, that the j,:ols under the very eye of the Government were at least a century behind the other .Prisons of Ensland. After a few words from Mr, BERNAL, Mr. Alderman WOOD observed, that much of the evil complained of arose from the crowded state of the Prison there were at present above 500 persons in the Fleet. A Surgeon had been, however, appointed by the Government within the last few days, to attend the prisoners regularly when illness re quired his services. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. HUME, in justice to the Secretary for the 7-Tome department, felt bound to declare that a surgeon had been appointed the moment the state of the prison was made known to him. MACHINERY. Colonel DAVIES presented a petition from the Sawyers cf Worcester, praying for a tax upon machinery• FOOT-PATHS. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from a person named White, praying that the foot-paths in the vicinity of the metropolis may be preserved. NAVIGATION LAWS. Lord W. Bgl•TlNUipresented a petition from the shipowners of King's Lynn, praying an alteration in the Na. vigation Laws FLANAGAN'S PETITION. Lord MILTON, in presenting a petition .",-oni Mr. Flanagan, relative to the borough of Athlone, expressed hip regret that the individual so named had thought fit to entrust him with the petition, and hoped most earn..ltly that it Ovoid be the last time. The petition was couched in ouch grange riymarole kind of language, that he could not attempt to describe it ; but he had read it, and finding that it did not contain any offensive or disrespectful language to the House, he felt it his duty, as the individual had placed it in his hands, to move that it be brought up. The SPEAKER inquired if it was an election petition 9 Lord MILTON said it was an election petition and it was not an election petition ; but he did not believe it could he considered as a petition against the return of the Member for the borough of Athlone. The petition was then read ; but, in consequence of some in formality, stated by the Speaker, it was withdrawn. Mr. MACQUEEN presented petitions from Northallerton and Richmond, against any alteration in the Corn Laws.—Ordered to he printed. Lord PALI‘IERSTON presented a petition from the University of Cambridge, against parts of the Cambridge Gaol Bill, as tending to destroy the beauty of some of the walks and buildings of that town. The Petition was then referred to the Committee on the Bill. Mr. HUME moved, that there be laid before the Howe, a copy of the Bye-Laws or Rules for the admission of Proctors to the Ecclesiastical Court of Doctors' Commons ; stating the datee of those Bye-Laws or Rules, and by what au thority they were issued. The Honourable Member stated, that the present system in that Court was one of monopoly and exaction. No young man could be articled to one of the Proc tors without the payment of a fee of a thousand guineas, besides the usual duty of a hundred and twenty pounds to the King. Dr. PHILLIMORE had no objection to the Mo tion; but regretted that the Hon. Member had not deferred his observations, which were very inaccurate, until after the produc tion of the document. _ Mr. HUME denied that his obiervationi were in any respect inaccurate. After a few words from Dr. PHILLINIORE and Mr. Alder man WAITIIMAN, the Motion was agreed to. Mr. HUME moved that there be laid before the House a return of the number of licenses granted by the Com missioners of hackney coaches, in the Cities of London and West minster, to the owners of hackney coache., chariots, and cabrio lets ; the numbers to each owner, the dates, &c. He observed that great partiality and hardship existed in the granting of the licenses. While many individuals applied in vain for a single license. there were others who obtained eighteen or twenty.— There was a wine merchant who had eighteen or twenty of those licensee, and who made each of the drivers who obtained them from him give him one pound four shillings a day. The expence of the Hacki,ey Coach Office was 10,0001. a year, and that to col lect a revenue of only 69,0001. By a Committee which eat in 1797, at the head of which was Lord Colchester, the abolition of this office, and the transfer of the business to the Stamp Office, had been recommended. As to any complaints of the conduct of the drivers, they could he more advantageously and promptly be heard by the Police Magistrates. Mr. MABFRLY expressed his persulsion, that a great saving might he effected by the abolition of the Hackney Coach Office. The motion was then agreed to. ARMY RETURNS. On the Motion of Mr. HUME, the following Re, turns were ordered to he laid before the }hug,, viz. :—A it_turn of the Ntunber of Officers who wore in the Army on the first of January, 1816, distinguishing their rank, and those on half-pay from those on service. A Return of the Officers on half-pay, who had made application for employment since January, 1820, and of the number who had been brought from the half-pay into service in the same period. A Return of the number of Officers on half pay from disbanded foreign corps, on the Ist of January, 18V ; with the Amount of their Half-pay and Pensions. BOROUGH OF ATHLONE. _ _ On the Motion of Mr. 11..A.NDeCCK, the pe tition of certain Inhabitants of the Borough of Athlone, complain ing of the Forgery of their Signatures to a former petition, was ordered to be referred to a Select Committee. The names of the proposed Committee having been mentioned by the Honourable Mover, Mr. HUME thought that the Committee consisted too exclusively of Irish Members—gentlernen who were, pro bably, not on the best terms with Aft. Flanagan. Mr. H.A_NDCOCK observed, that four or five English Members were on the Committee. He proposed the ad dition of Mr. Hume. Mr. Hume was accordingly added to the Committee. Adjourned at Half-past Stx o'clock. MODES OF VISITING AT LISBON. It is not good taste at Lisbon to pay visits in the morning— that is to say, a London morning, between. breakfast and dinner. The lady of the house is most probably not at home, or if you should, by the blunder of the domestic, surprise her, I will not answer for the cordiality of thy reception. Pray think of this w h e n you come to Lisbon, and learn to conform to the custom of the country. Every Portuguese lives domestic in the morn ing, and dines at three o'clock--the house is not to be approached till evening. At seven you pay your visits of ceremony. It is said that the porter who attends on these occasions, by ringing a bell a certain number of peals, gives notice of the rank of the person who ap proaches, and that the master or mistress are thus prepared to pay the essential forms. I know not if such be the fact, but I know that the visitors will have to make their way through a stable yard, and 0 , ..er a defiled entrance in the palaces of the nobility, and through dirt and darkness in the dwellings of the gentry. When at last you have found out the state-room, the cordiality with which you are received reconciles you to the previous an noyance—the master of the Louse tells you over and over again how delighted be is to see you ;. and the lady thanks you for your I friendly recollection of her. The daughters steal long.glances at the stranger; but unless young folks are of the party, I have ob served that they take no part in the conversation. Should another pretty maid be among the visitors, then run their tongues in soft syllables of admiration, respect, and attention, which I defy the quickest-witted miss at a Croydon boarding-school to follow. The men of the middling order frequently clasp each other round the waist, or slap the back with exclamatory " ass!" and cries of "My dear friend !" The young ladies bestow kisses on the cheek, and if there be no rivalry in the case, may even on the lips of there acquaintance. As to the old women, I fancy they hate each other at Lisbon as cordially as they do all over the world. . I had the opportunity of visiting this week in two houces .one of the highest rank, the other of the order of Russell-square and Baker-street. In the former we found the mother of the Noble and hie Countess, with a family of charming grown up daughters and three or four children, three boys and one little girl. The old lady sat on a south of open matting, with her son and daughter in law beside her, engaged at cards. The young ladies were on chairs on each side, spectators of the game. Round the grand mamma Was thrown the never-failing capote. The Countess wore an English cap, and her daughters with their beautiful black hair - dressed in the last French fashion. They seemed to he a most united family. The courtesy with which they received a friend, and the gracefulness with which they viewed Isis putting the stranger at ease, gave me a high opinion of the good breeding of the Portuguese nobility. Present an untitled - stranger to an English Duke's domestic circle, I questibn if a simple ‘. pray take a chair, Sir," would not be the extent of its politeness. At the house of the merchant we found the entire family men, women, and children, wrapped up in cloaks. One partyxlayed at whist, and another at the antiquated game of orabre. the young ladies appeared amiable and sprightly. One of them did the honours of a tea-table in the English fashion; and the others talked of the English army, and the number of officers expected on the follow ing ball ti ht. These Lancers have played the deuce with the hearts of the Lisbon lasses. If the matter goes on much further, it must be taken up as a breach of our promised neutrality. For merly the red a.a was woman's protection—now-a -days, it is a signal of assault. From the anxiety expressed by these young ladies, I fancy they have not yet found out the danger. In Lisbon all families of distinction have one or two nights in a week set apart for receiving their friends. Once presented you have no occasion thereafter fur particular invitations. The gentle man and lady of the house tell you they will be happy to see you their nights. When it is agreeable you go--it is, at least, necessary to du 6r4 qeeasionally, as an acknowledgment of their politeness. At eight o'clock, even in the gayest house : you find all the company assembled. There is no announcement of your name by the domestic. The master of the house contrives to be en trance of the recepti on room , t o rece i ve gen tlemen, and the mistress lmi:ress to do he honours by the ladies. The entertainments generally c ommence with music—l ta ii an i s , o f coarse , preferred --.Flossini's compositions above all others. The native airy are, unfortunately, to =pie to be often introduced. I . Then a stranger !-• hears the touching Modinha, a Po r t uguese b a ll a d, lie deplores the perversion of fashion which reje c t s it f or more com plicated modulation. It is languishing and plaintive, tender and impas sioned. Win the heart . of a Portugues e girl as you may—the guitar and a Modiniia will tef!!. , ..re it. If the party be more dis tinguished than usual, a professor of music is , :ailed in to superin tend the concert---but generally speaking, one young lady accom panics oit the piano, while her friends sing duets or trios in th most delightful, and often scientific manner. Can you believe it —there is no printed music in Lisbon—not even the all-sublime Constitutional Hymn. If you want music, you employ penmen to copy, or to note it down. Printed foreign music can, however, be bought, either Paris or Loudon editions. I understand there are two native composers of admitted talent, Bontempo and Juan Evangeliste.. The former has distinguished himself by some clever Operas—the other is more admired as a performer than as a com poer. Passing from the music -room, you are introduced into a general conversation-room , -where old ladies tower in plumes and turbans, and young ladies do sentiment with their lovers. Here refresh ments are first handed round, consisting of glasses of cold spring water, orgeat, lemonade, sweatmeats and biseuite; and here in the imitation of the - English, is th e l a st scandal t a lked over, and scores of fresh reputations murdered. Neither disposed for old women, cold water, or scandal—you find your way back to the music-room, from whence the singers have been ejected to make way for the dancing band and the dancers. The quadrille may be more crowded than you are accustomed to. my sweet young lady—perhaps we have twenty-four or thirty-two in a set. Though you move with elegance, and glide with Parisian neat ness, I fear you must admit the Portuguese ladies dance better than the generality of our country-women, even though they have the barbarity to admit thirty in a quadrille. I could- not avoid smiling at the sudden change which a little quickness of the time effected in the manner of all the Portuguese young ladies in one quadrille. At first, by way of affecting the English fashion, they moved with noiseless step—but as the time quickened, their spirits rose, their eyes began to flash, the feet, freed from restraint, ga;ly bore them in the mazes of the figure—l dare not say more. I own it was too much for my philosophy; A little beyond the music saloon were two rooms for cards, in one of which sober and sedate players were at short points, at crowns, half pound', or pounds, the point ; in the other, a round table was filled by amateurs, at rondo, the game which turns the heads, and turns out the pockets of all the fidalgos and hopeful sons of quality. Every body game 4 at Lisbon". The - Master pas sion is that of cards. It would be waste of time to count you the number of families ruined by its desolating influence. Rondo is the game of the supreme bon ten. It is simplicity itself. In England it is called lanskinet—in Ireland little innocent Jemmy. The dealer shows a card for himself, and another for the company, you play any sum you like upon either—the card first turned of similar value to either. determines which aide has wen. In Eng land the dealer draws the cash if both cards come up the same— for instance, two queens—hut here thatbonus is not permitted. The sum of money won and lost at rondo every night is incredible. In a small way I have seen it played for pieces of two sovereigns value, and frequently a hundred of these pieces depend on the card.— Passing from this room you penetrate to the utmost limits of the house, to the last room of the suite, where a scene of profligacy is exhibited more disgraceful than anything, however vile, that one has hitherto witnessed in Portugal. There the master of the house holds, in concert with a gentleman of equal rank, who takes the labour of dealing the cards, a faro bank. I saw, at the house of one of high command in the army, a person covered with orders acting as the dealer of one of theta: movable hells. I was toll he supported an expensive establishment, by going round from house to house, providing the money for the bank, allowing a per cent age to the giver of the entertainment. Moreover, I was told that a faro hank was exhibited at every party at Lisbon, and so invete rate is the passion of the people for play, that if you had the finest house, and disposed to assemble the most brilliant society, you could not bring twenty people together, unless there was a gaming table of this deseription for their recreation. Some of the houses of the Nobility or wealthy merchants are magnificently furnished ; many of them have a poverty of attire which an Etsgliah tradesman would be ashamed of. The first order paint the ceilings with love scenes of the ancient mytho logy, an 4 hang the sides of the principal chatnber with flowered silk, which gives an elegance and lightness superior to any other decoration. One large glass, in a mahogany frame, with gilt mouldings, is placed at the top of the ream ; but several well regulated establishments are without a glass or mirror. Fre quently an English carpet is laid down during winter ; but more generally the floor is covered with a soft rush matting, which is very pleasant to the foot. At tide top of the room a couch, or long cane seat, is placed, with a rug on the ground, for the mis trees of the mansion ; six chairs are put at each side, making with the couch three parts of a small square. Visitors approach the lady of the . house by the open space opposite to her couch, and then occupy the chairs in the order that they find them. By this means you have the conversation concentrated, and a poor devil of a stranger is not left, as in England, on the extreme flank of a circle to draw up the lips and look pretty, or to startle at the sound of hie own voice going the round to the lady of the house, who lounges quite at ease on a pillowed sofa, holding a conversa tion only with the person chancing to he nearest to her. Indeed, the Lis ; oon people have excellent principles of social inter course ; perhaps by-and-bye we shall have reason to admire the whole structure. They have rejected the cruel long English dinner-table, where a large party of guests are set opposite to each, as in a country dance, and obliged to drop off in double files for conversation, and they have substituted a round or a•square table, where the whole party are brought into contact, and are com pelled to make common cause of entertainment. They have also rejected the heavy joints, the carving on the table, the splashing of the gravy, and the steams of a large dinner, all set down toge ther. The soup is assisted by the master of the table, to which, if you desire, the servant adds powdered Parmesan cheese. The servants then carve the different dishes, and hand them round to the company, each selecting that part which he likes best ; and in the interval of the courses the butler fills your glass with wine of the country, Claret, Port, or Madeira. A great deal of wine is drunk at dinner, as there is no custom of after libations as in England. You take at least a pint, fre quently a bottle, from the so u p to t h e last of the d essert. Th e entire occupies about two hours ; coffee is then introduced, and you are at liberty to use your own engagementa for the evening, NATIONAL VACCINE BOARD. ANNUAL REPORT.- To the Hight lion. Robert Peel, Secretary of State fur the Home Department. • continue to use all possible diligence in extending the knowledge of the best process for effectual vaccination, and to supply the means, as well as to suggest the mode, of accom plishing this object. Front the• quantity of vaccine lymph distributed since our last report, and from the accounts of our correspondents, we are led to presume that this practice is becoming daily more general ; and this inference is still further confirmed by the fact, that within the last twelve months only 503 deaths have occurred from small-pox within the the Bills of Mortality ; whereas, in the preceding year, 1,299 persons are. - recorded as having fallen victims to that loathsome disease. The whole •of this difference • ought not, perhaps, in candour, to be attri buted to the influence of vaccination ; for the small-pox, tdistemper malignant o c during the year -1825, assumed A cha racter _and. there were more instances lecua of li .tt curring twice in the same individual than had ' ever been re ported to us before. But when we reflect that, before the in troduction of vaccination, the average number of deaths from Small-pox, within the Bills of Mortality, was annually about 4,000, no stronger arguments can reasonably be demanded in favour of the value of this important discovery. Nor can any more striking proof be given of the paternal care of Government to protect the people at home and abroad from this destructive dis ease, than the establishment and maintenance of this Boarth—Wc have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servants, HENRY HALFORD, President of the ; • - Royal College of Physician& -14 . W. LAMBE, Z Censors of the Royal Col •• J. COPE, S lege of Physicians. ritvlsz JOHN ABERNETHY, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. ASTLEY COOPER, Vice-President of • the Royal College of Surgeons. CLEM. HUE, M.D., Registrar. National Vaccine Establishment, Feb. 17. JURIDICAL SOCIETY.—The Anniv ersar y Dinner of the J ur idi cal S oc i e t y t oo k place on Saturday i n the British Hotel, Edinburgh,—James Moncreiff, Esq., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, in the Chair ; John Cunninghame, Esq. Advocate, and Richard M'Kenzie, Esq. W. S. Croupiers.. The dinner was served up in the manner for which the British Hotel is so justly celebrated ; and the wines, Cockburn's best, gave universal satis faction. The band of the 25th Regiment Was present, and played some fine airs in the course of the evening. KEAN' AND TILE I N DIANS.--Mr. F. Meyer has lust finished a whole length portrait of Mr. Kean, in the dress presented to, and worn by him, en occasion of his being chosen a Chief awl Prince of the Huron Tribe of Indian►, by the name of Alanienouidet. The picture has been painted by desire of the patentee, committee, and performers of the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, in commemoration of the return of that distinguished actor to his native country, and with the intention of presenting at one view a faithful portrait of Mr. Kean, and a conect delinea tion of the costum e of that warlike tribe, who unanimouly elected him a Chieftain and a Brother, at Q4ebec ; in October last, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1827. The French Papers of :Monday, and the Etoile dated Tuesday morning, reached town by Express this morning at an early hour. The Morning Papers of Monday contain no news. The Qzeotidienne asserts that the intelligence received at Madrid from G-allicia is favourable to the Portuguese Royalists ; and the Constitutionnel says that the preparations for war are continued in Spain with much activity. This appears to he certainly the case, for the Etoile, in an article dated Madrid, March 1, states that a Decree of the 12th February gives a new proof of the zeal of the Spanish Government in hastening the organi2ation of the Royalist volunteers, ordering the Intendants of Provinces, on pain of being suspended from their offices, to hasten the levy of the taxes imposed by the Decree of the 24th August for the equipment of those troops. We subjoin two other paragraphs from the Etoile (but which originate with the Augsburg Ga zette), and the price of the Stocks in Paris on Monday : . . (From the Etoile dated Tuesday, March 13.) . 6 CONSTANTINOPLE, rEft. 7.—ln the note delivered by M. Minziacky to the Reis Effendi, the following phrase, which is con sidered as authentic, is particularly spoken of :---‘ The Porte itself must desire an intervention. If the Greeks are conquerors it be comes necessary, and in the contrary case the Porte would deceive itself if it believed that the Emperor Nicholas would see with in difference the extermination of a people professing the awe religion as hiniself2—Augsburg Gazette. " I.etters from St. Petersburgh say, that differences have arisen between Generals Yermaloff and Paskewitsch, relative to the em ployment of the Russian troops in Georgia under their command. General Diebitsch,, Aid-de-camp to the Emperor, is gone for the purpose of reconciling them."—Augsburg Gazette. FRENCH FuNos, PARIS, Mancrt 12.—Five per Cents., Jouis. du 22d Mars, 981. 80c. 98f. '7sc. 70c. 75c. 80c. 'Mc. ; Three per Cents. 69f. 25c. 20c. 25c. ; Bank Stock, 1,990 E ; Rentee de Naples, 75f. 40c. 3.5 c. 40c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 1 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 52i i.--Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money 25f. 85c. ; three months, paper 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 20c.— Coors Authentique. The next accounts from Portugal are looked for' with eagerness and with .some: degree of anxiety. The miserable state of the Army of the North, as described by its own General, must prevent its undertaking an y very i ely co againstnjunc ionte vigorous %oz hear erat of ion no suchw levies a: country , ,hch are likelyasTrans :‘s 7 and to join this Army and render it 'inert efficient, Th e question, therefore, constan tl y asked, and wh ich can answer, is—will the British troops act n toiloitst Rebelwitli pthreo,ince ? Portuguese forces, offensively The next advices will probably solve this queStion, and upon it, we conceive, much will depend. If the British troops do not thus co operate n attes will h n the o t be Portuguese, r put t the rebellion in Tras-05..,,1-Cleoswe-:i. ..,, I- Cl e o s w e- :i. General CLAUDINO, e o r u g who seems to know the state of affairs throughout the kingdom, better than almost any other person, and who speaks his sentiments in the Chamber of Deputies with the frankness of the soldier, and with the warmth and energy of the Patriot, founded his argument for taking the most vigorous measures for the termination of the civil war, and the punishment of traitors, o n th e d e claration that the condition of things in Tras-os-71Iontes was daily becoming worse, and that all the acts of the Rebels in that province showed that they had no fear of the result of their re bellion. The Marquis de CHAVES, whose influence, from the large possessions of his family in that province, is P..kRLIA.MENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. Sir John Newport—To bring under view of the House the state of the law for rebuilding and repairing Churches in Ireland. ©. Lord Viscount Althorp—Select Committee to consider the mode of taking Polls at County Elections. 3. Mr. Sykes—Select Committee to take Into consideration the Petition of certain Freemen of the Borough of Leicester, complaining of the conduct of the Corporation of that town at and previous to the late General Election. 4. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—To inquire into the conduct of the Marquis of Clanrickarde at the last Election for the County of Galway. 5. Mr. George Dawson—To present Petition from Mr. West. relating to the Petitions in defence of the Return of Mr. Ablett for the Borough of Denbigh. 6 Mr. Aldernvin Waltliman—Receipt and Expenditure of the Society for the Refuge of the Destitute. ORDERS OF TILE DAY FOR THIS DIY. I. East Lone Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at three. 2. Bills of Exchange Bill—Second reading. 3. Corn Trade Acts—Committee thereupon. 4. Ounce Tbread Bill—Second reading. 3. Public Works (Ireland) Bill—Sccond reading. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Tuesday, March 20. 1. Mr. Hume—Number of Corporal Punishments In 44e army In yeah Regiment during the last two years. 2. Mr. - Hume—Number of Ships trading between the British West In dies and the United States for the last eleven year:. Wednesday, March 21. Lord Viscount Lowther—That the new Litt of Committees 'en Privet: Bills be printed. Thursday, May 3. Mt. Wolryche Whitmore—Trade with India. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Bed 3 per Cent. Cone. ...„ ...... .81%ii 3 1 4 i per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent New 96% 7 6N 7 Ditto, 19.c.0 ...... Bank Long Ann. - India Stock •••••••••• Ditto Bonds 36 pm. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sc. Stock.— ........ Old Annuities New Ditto 'Ex. Hills, £l,OOO 2d.......34 85 pm. Ditto WO 2d. S 4 Wpm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Acct. 61%%% PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bondi, 5 per cent. — Brazilian 80nd..65K Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct.... Colombian Bonds Ditto, 19'24 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, ............... Guatunaia Mexican Bonda 57 [)o. 152:, e9VOi% PRICES OF SHAR Braziliar‘ Mining Company ...... Pasco Peruvian Mining Company Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Aiso United Mexican Mining Compan; Australian Company PRICE OF IRISH S 7 Rank Stock - Consols, 3 per rent 8 1 ,4 Gov. Stock, 3 1 ,', per cu I. ... 87% Ai Ditto, New 4 per Cent. q6 4 2;, Gov. Deb. 3ji per rent Royal Canal Stock 24 Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. - Ballast Office Deli. 4 per cent. - rNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds .— Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 par cent. W. ' ,4l.i Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. r. Spanish, 1521 l2 12 ri ---- 1523 — French Rentea, sp. c ...... —t —r. Exchange —f. —r. 3 per cent —f. —e. -- Exchange —l. —c.l AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. £2O 20 XllO 16 4 t 1516 'OCKS, MARCH IR. St. Patrick Incur. (per share.,. Royal Irish Ditto — National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Bank IBS Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine — Mining Co. of Ireland — Commercial Buildings — IL S. Arrived. Due. O America U O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadee 0 I Dublin O Flanders 0 1 France Oottenburgh 4 Arrived. Due, O Guerngey&Jersey O Hanaburgh 3 O Holland 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islandt 0 O Lisbon 0 O Malta 0 O Waterford 1110E1 WATER AT LONI)ON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 'Morning 0 minutes after 4. Evening ....... 19 minutes after 4. Jbie , ..--,4 4443- y unbounded, had decreed a general levy, under penalty of death to those who might evade it ; and the proximity of Gallicia, the militia and authorities of which have manifested such a decided feeling in favour of the Royalists, emboldened the conduct of the. latter by affording them security in almost any event which might take place. If, on the other hand, the British troops should act offensively, we have not the smallest doubt that the Rebels will be driven out of Portugal in a very few days—but then it will remain to be seen whether the spirit which is secretly at work over the whole King dom will not be immediately roused, and our troops be obliged to fall back for the purpose of preventing or suppressing rebellion in the Capital and other Pro vinces ; and it will remain also to be seen, whether any acts of positive hostility on our part will not be the signal for Spain to declarejm behalf of a cause which. she has so long secretly supported. These are serious considerations, but they are such as must- pccur to every man .. who thinks upon the subject ; and if it should be asked, what, under such circumstances,..should be done, our answer is distinct—We must either draw our present Arrny from Portugal, or.increase its force. Its presence has not produced the enthusiasm in behalf of the Constitutional Government which it - was supposed would be manifested by. the nation ge nerally, when-they possessed the security afforded by a British Army of 5,000 men ; and that Army is not of sufficient, force to act with vigour and complete suc cess, 9ffertsively against -the Rebels, or ,defensively against Spain, if she should suddenly throw. off the mask. . We received this morning the Allgemeine Zeitung of the Sth inst., but part of its contents respecting Constantinople, and the differences between Generate , ERMALOFF and PASKEWITSCII 7 have been antici pated by the Freneh Papers. It will he seen that the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE has arrived at St. Pe tersbiirgh from Warsaw, on the 15th'ult., and that he was received with very marked distinction : ST. FETERSBURGIII, FES. kl In the night of the 15th of this month, his Imperial Ilig:iness the Grand Duke Constantine arrived from Warsaw at his coun try seat Strelna, 18 werets (12 miles) from the capital, and re mained there till the folk-wing evening, when he rejoiced the Impe rial family and the inhabitants of the capital by his long wished for arrival. His Imperial Highness alighted at the marble palace, which belongs to him. On Sunday the 18th, the military autho rities of the city, the Generals, and Officers of the Imperial Guards, had the honour to be presented to the Grand Duke. It seems certain that some difference of opinion has arisen betweev General Yermoloff and General Paskewitsch, who command the corps employed in the present campaign against Persia. They do not agree, as it appears, about the employment of the troop , under their command, and th e op era ti ons to be undertaken againot the enemy. The mission of General Baron Von Diebitsch, Chief of the General Staff of his Imperial Majesty, who set out last week for Georgia, with instructions from. the Em peror, is for the purpose of reconciling their differences, and of taking measures on the spot for the .vigorous prosecution of the war. In eonseinente of an Imperial Ukase, Counsellor Masojcdow, Chief Secretary of the Directing Senate, is ordered tobe prosecuted on a complaint preferred against him, and to be suspended from his office till he shall have fully justified himself. In the same manner Messrs. Techasownickaio and Weidel, Principal Secretaries of the Directing Senate, and M. I'olewajew, Secretary, w er e se verely reprimanded, on the '7th instant, in a full meeting of the Senate, for flagrant neglect of duty. Three civil taws in the Government of Tamboeo, who ware found guilty by a Criminal Court for having made use of offensive ex pressions against religion, in petitions which they drew up for some private individuals, are excused by his Majesty from tilt punishment adjudged by the Court ; but " they are to be die missed from the service, and never again to hold any office, thesis names and their crime to be published throughout the whole em pire ; they are to remain during their life under the superintend ance of the local authorities, and must bind themselves nevel again to undertake any private affairs of the same kind." Reports have been circulated of the probability of a renewal of the war with the Burmese, but we under stand that the advices from India do not sanction any such apprehensions. The Burmese had not completed the payment of the second instalment, pretending, it i% said, that they had paid the stipulated sum according to their calculation. Mr. CRAWFORD, however, had reached Prome, on his way to Ava, and it was hoped that he would be able to bring the Monarch to is settlement. In the mean time the British troop: kept possession of Rangoon. Mauritius Gazettes to the 17th December, have been received at the North and South American Coffee House. They contain an ordinance of his EXCELLENCY, the Governor in Council, dated Port Louis, December 13, 1526, prolonging the period fixed by the proclamation of the 11th October last, for the examination , inspection, and verification of all personal and plantation Slaves in that Island, in conformity with the order of his MAJESTY irz Council, under date of the 30th January, 1826. Th e pre amble states, having taken into consideration a letter o f the 6th December, addressed to the Chief Secretary of Govern ment by the Registrar of Slaves, which represents the impossi bility, from various causes, of completing the Returns withia the period (16th December) fixed by the Ist and 3d Article of the Proclamation of the llth October, he is pleased, in virtue of the power conferred on him, to prolong the delay for the completing of the said Returns until the 16th January, 1827. A second Or dinance is also promulgated, which establishes a fixed penal claim for the weight of the chains, fetters, or iron rings, which the Inba• bitants are, under the existing Laws, authorised to put on Slaves ; and also for the preventing any punishment upon a slave in case; of complaint against the master, who shall have been returned to the latter upon condition that such slave shall be treated with out resentment ; and every person found offending is to he con demned in a penalty not exceeding the sum of 201., and not less than 101. for using fetters or chains of a greater weight than therein fixed ; a penalty of 201., and not less than 5/, for the fiat offence, is fixed upon any proprietor, overseer, or holder of claret', who may be convicted of having punished a slave who may have been returned by the judges upon condition to treat the slave without resentment; and for a second offence a further penalty of 40/. and not less than 201. is awarded, independent of any other proceedings which may arise by reason of the excess of punishment. A file of Papers from Valparaiso (Chile) has been received tc the end of October, but they possess no political interest. By s return of the trade of that port, for the nine months ending Sep. telpher, 1826, it appear, that 55 English vessels were entere•' during that period ; the number of American vessels entered tvai neatly equal, being 45 ; but of French ships the number vial only 15. It is said that the country branches of the Bank of England an beginning to make profitable returns t o the parent establishment and that the Directors consequently meditate an extens i on o f th tern to Norwich, Bristol, and other places. Measures ar taking in Huddersfield, and different towns in Yorkshire, on th part of private individuals, to cheek the progress of a plan toidinl to throw within the power of the bank of England what the: consider too great a controul over the circulation of the countr, by the establishment of a Joint Stock Banking Company on al F I