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0 clock, were still declining ; they then stood as • follows For the end of the month. ' Five per Cent. A 3 f. c. Three per Cent. f. 65 c. " PARIS, DEC. 20. " if any one had been able to predict the success of the Cam 4ign of Ibrahim Pacha, in Morea, he would not attribute it to that Egyptian, nor to the superiority of European tactics, but t ° , one tnan, w h o i s emphatically the soul of the expedition. It is t'encral Boyer de Roberat. Germany has but too many rea '°tlB to recollect this turbulent man and his oppressions. This 1114t1 is perfect in the Napoleon School, and was a Staff Officer or Ruonaparte. " On the first of January the new Spanish Tariff comes into operation. • " Tile Emperor Alexander, at the time of his death, was Ptoiwcling to St. P e t ers b urg h to ce l e b rate Ch r i stmas. C ount .`\ esselrode, the Foreign Minister, had received letters from this atonarch, relating to certain conferences which had taken place "(Itne time since, and at which the English and French Ambas ors assisted. " Dipl omat i c ne " VIER NA, DEC. 10. gociations between our Cabinet and the Ant "laNadors of the Great Powers are going forward, and no doubt that they concern Greece, but it is impossible to say any Lni t tig poAitlve on th a t p o i n t. Sir Hodson Lowe has arrived at Vienna, where he intends to remain some time. I t is known that a very satisfactory change has taken place In the sentiments of the Hungarian Diet, since the return of the Archduke Palatine with the answer of the Emperor. `` Two Austrian vessels hare been plundered by G ree k erttizers ofr C ape Matapan. " MADRID, DEC. 10. " A Co/onel, Adjutant, and Captain of the French garrison at St. Sebastian, have been arrested, but the cause is unknown, and is kept a profound secret. But the arrests were made under tahe.orders of the commander of a subdivision at Bayonne. At 0 di nner given to the Diplomatic Corps on the Gth, the Duke .el Infantado Al exic-an cloth e d i Placed upon hi s ta bl e a plateau representing a n the ancient Indian costume, and Spain u"n his ri g ht h and. After th e I st o f J anuary no b oo k s i n t h e 6patii6h language printed abroad can be imported." namburgh Papers to the 10th of December were received tl►is morning. They contain the 'lthjoitted account of the proceedings of the Em- Perot' ALLXANDEIt, just previously to his death, a►l d a relation of that event, but they are silent 4 8 to the day on which it happened. , DEC . . IP O P4 : ' I Y th BERLIN is mornin g an extraordinary courier arrived at l3 the hts Office with t h e news o f th e unexpected death of his s n ,' i ~,e st Y the Emperor of Russia, on his way back from Tagah e,. „`; 3 B t. Petersbure.h. The dismy and the grief which this Y lamented event has universally excited, is the most eki ng proof o f t h e grea t ness an d importance of the loss not only R uss i a b u t E u rope h a s su s t a ined. More par the - ' al. _accounts are impatiently expected. The restoration and derstli a mtenance of peace in our part of the world was Alexan qn,..3 Work, and as the genius of peace (as an ingenious artist , represented him) he has been extolled by his contem f li n e'', and will be gratefully remembered by posterity-- a4lret Correspondent, Dee- 16-) • HAMBURGII, DEC. 15. in tor cra expresses from Berlin have brought the melancholy kt. igenee of the unexpected death of his Majesty the Ern fr,„Qt nt . Russia. • .According to the letters received by the post berlin, this event was generally known there, and had t s h e 4 d universal grief; and our correspo n d ent writes :—." On ,m e news received from Warsaw of the death of the Emperor at Taganrog, there wail an entire stagnation on At t rlge and the Stock Market. There were numerous sellers Our le quotations, but very little business could be done."— theireaders Will see, in our article from St. Petersburgh, that „, 4 t Public aecounts of his Majesty were still from the Air to which his Majesty had gone from Taganrog, as we "eady Perf e . new and that they speak of his Majesty as being in ctly geo( 3 l health n4c• G.—The above news arrived here at Hamburgbin the by "Ova 14th f rom Berlin, to which place it was brought thel ,eo urier to th e office of Foreign Affairs. The death of 4t. rn etgrsperor took pl a c e on his way back from Taganrog to uu rg•—(Borsen Hall List, Dec. In.) The ST. PETER3BURGII,. DEC. 3. ixol th st. e tcr4bnrgh Journal gives accounts from S'ymphero kh Crimea of 7th Nov. when his Majesty arrived on the pet t ,.. 0 ,1" 4 , l aganrog having come by way of Nogaish and hearing' and Was rec'eived with great joy. On the Gth, after ° ‘eloci'•'` v nle service in the Cathedral, he set out at nine ;out') c l n the m orn i ng in good hea l t h b y t h e new road, on the Wit c h A 1 ),!" of nsea, to the estate - of Count Michael Semeno oronzow, where his Majesty dined and stopped for the (Borsen Hall List, Dec. 15.) Wel ST. PETERSBURGIT, Nov. N. of him ,Id received the following official accounts of the visit b n ,-,,, l uaiesty the Emperor to Neutscherkask, the capital of the toe '"rnsacks. O n the 24th of last month his Majesty arrived (444:11 was received by the Ataman of the Cossacks, Lieut.- 4 ther In waisky, Adjutant-General Tschernitscheu, and the ca ant _ al t,!lierale. The Ataman delivered to his Majesty . an the state of all the corns of Cossacks; after which his the.'7q, with a numerous suite went to hear]divine service in ' Theatheclral, anti then proceeded to the house of the Ataman. La ry t 4 le ti zt day he We audiences to the Ecclesiastical and Lary t:horities, and then viewed all the public establishment!. Ptett eN „,„ a i"tY dined with the Ataman, and honoured with his t r, a,ball given b y that Officer, which his Majesty opened .t staman's Lady. On the 2thtli the Emperor returned l'iv ;at i''' o 4nr og. On hi s tour . through the Crimea his Majesty ar e"il 1 7 ! .1 time sth at .'2;yrrpheroil ol where he was received by the fine count.ornar of Taurida, and ' passed the Pith and 7th at the t heseat of Count ‘Voronzow. General Kologriwow, of "r Y, died at Moscow on the 18th. P ;, ST. PETERSEURGIT, DEC. 3. bit ua r , _cc_ Lowenstein Wertheim arrived here yesterday, as Am offi,ei,lur Extraordinary from the King of Bavaria, with the Rt c , '' notification of the deaths of King Maximilian, and of the ! Ilti e rZ i n_ of King Lewis I. The Ambassador of the Khan of % Jettof a,rrived on the 18th at Moscow, from Orenburg ; the bus mission is said to be of a commercial nature. eonfdaY ye the cold became pretty seyere, the e ieter being at 10 dee. R umur below freezing ; the t nie ar a and all I es t ie canals are full of drift ice, • and the commu 4et-C4t between the several quarters of the city is for the pre- Pended. F.XCHANGES ON LONDON. liA- 1 11 , 11 „ 11 ", DEC. 16.-3.5. 11. • 2 Us., 35. U ,p,-.3'irdtsitußcu.r, DEC. 2.-I ' o. 7- 10 . the.c. 12 . —Three months, 6. 14 1. Dte. 1 3.—Three months, 6. 26. -` NA, DEC. 7.—Th ree mont h s , 9. 45. 13 111 t iVed 'SeLS apers to the 21st December have le 4 t his day. Th e y con t a i n th e news of t 41 4 , 0 11 o f the E mperor A LEXANDER, b ut i t on l y t elli -aLs as a doubtful rumour. Amongst the in tot 7,e, Interior there g i ven i s a speec h o f th e Alinister tl~e after the close of the debate on ( 4 4 „ u dget in the Second Chamber of the Staten tistt:ai• Thi s speech will be read w i t h no small t!, ;!' llkin ent, and s h ews th e ex t re me anxiety of ptila .etherlands Government to maintain the p?.. the t : t y it has so justly acquired. We subjoin tt Teeth a ctsto, referred and a few other ex- 11ia44 Pixcen f) eh ) k ency the Russian Minister II set i S O S ll E t r il S il this Dec. morning sp r 4 c=co u c ,,2 r,br the Hague. Lead 0, 'Poln Amsterdam, of the 18th, say, that the news '''' had : "ay before at 'Change, of the death of the Emp _ , - very unfavourable effect on the price of the Funds. th Aft, , HAGUE, DEC. 17- 4-"ptlie'tlloer debates on the budget were . closcd, o the Minister of '4) .443 rel fl ' i of Justice and the Director . en bjJe tt i on. , auve to the Catholic Worship spoke in an e s ra w l er o to f the tie 1a t h at had been made by different speakers. t4 ti t t . tli e , el ; ,said—l do not rise to renew the debate, ti - if - are say that I am authorised .to annouce %lb: to- ryes ere still any persons who reta o m .. th t e he dec l r e e a e s s t Ak t is k a ,V,',:ting the legality and the propriety r h ill wh ic c i ~ Y . of 14th June last, a document will shortly Op (hi-t.' but i s 110 Ped will quiet their alarms, not only on this ,jous,44l4l3oatioictistoodoen ofothers, and which will afford proof of the 4 4m,-"e 'our august Sovereign to protect the pre a% - of our religious liberties transmitted to us by ou r Tli E FUNDS. Consols—Yesterday closed After the Market 8Q sellers. This morning opened Until the uncertainty that still hangs over the circumstances attendant on the Emperor ALEX- Atinza's death, shall be dissipated by authentic details of that event, the Stock Market will re main, in what is technically termed, afidgettystate. Consols began at 80-i 1, declined to 80,1-, ad vanced to 801 and at one o'clock, were quoted at the opening price, 80H. The transactions of the morning have been neither numerous, nor of heavy amount. Reduced threes have fluctuated from 79-1 to 78824 and the 3 per cents. from 854 to 87— SCSI 1. The Bank of England may, perhaps, be now pronounced to have passed the severe ordeal to which it has been exposed. Gold is certainly returning, particularly from the Bank ers, in a larger proportion than the issues, and the daily supply from the Mint, is quietly depo sited in the coffers. At what period this esta blishment may be subjected to a similar manifes tation of public opinion, it were futile to conjec ture. Experience may perhaps teach the folly, of again forcing money on the pub lic. At Manchester and other places the Bankers have already followed the example of the Bank its advancing the rate of interest to five per cent. A more decisive proof of the real cause of the disastrous state in which tile Country has been involved, could not be he given. If it be asked, what reason existed for the reduction of interest from 5 to 4 per cent., which does not now exist—the ques tion could be answered, only by referring to that impolitic determination, to make money cheap, in which the Minister and the Bank so heartily co-operated. A notification has, at last, been issued byMessrs.WEwrwoßTm and Co. announcing the impossibility of resuming business. We never for a moment viewed it as being within poss . - bility—and the reaction in those places where the notes of this Bank were received in pay ment since the stoppage, will suffer a most se- 8011 vere reaction. The stoppage of another Bank in a more Northern County, is confidently stated. At Brighton, there has been a strong► excitement of the public mind against paper, which, however, does not appear to have been productive of any fatal consequences. The general tendency of the market appears to be that of a still further decline in Consols. Bank Stock has advanced to 210 1 . India Bonds are at 15 discount : Exchequer Bills, £lOOO-30 85 25 dis. X5OO-15 20 dis. .1:100-5 10 dis. Over due-5 to 12 dis. FOREIGN. In Foreign Securities there is no material al teration. SHARES. The Share Market is quite inert. Holders begin to talk of prices, to which at present,a deaf ear is turned. A Caraccas Gazette (the El Colombiano) of the nth November was receivrd this morning at the North and South American Coffee-house. The following is the only intelligence of the slightest interest : " By the post from Bogota, which arrived on Friday, the 7th instant, being five days later than the time'appointed. We have received Papers from that capital to the 10th September. They contain, however, nothing of interest. Papers from Car thagena by this conveyance, announce the retirement of Ge neral Mariano Montilla from the Intendary of that department, and the permanent appointment thereto of D. Jose Maria del Real. In tracing the progress of the post between Bogota and this city, since the establishment of the new regulation in August last, we find that a delay of eight days beyond the time allowed by Government has invariably occurred in the department of Tru xillo." MEETIN•S OF THE CABINET.—The Members of his MAJESTY'S Government continue indefatigable in their attentions to the present state of the country. All the Cabinet Ministers are now in London or its environs, with the exception of the Earl of Westmorland and Earl Bathurst. The Earl of Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were engaged on Tuesday, except during the short time they were in at tendance upon the King at his Court. They both left the Palace at the close of the Privy Council, as soon as the Proclamation was agreed upon for the assembling of Parlia ment for the dispatch of business, not waiting to hear the Recorder of London's Report, as is customary. The Noble Earl afterwards received the Governor and some of the Di rectors of the Bank of England, and other Gentlemen, at his house at Whitehall, where they continued in deliberation till past 10 o'clock. The Chancellor of the Exchequer assisted at the deliberation from 5 o'clock till half-past 6 o'clock. The Earl of Liverpool slept in London for the first time for up wards of a fortnight past. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town yesterday morning, from Charlton, having left London late the preceding even i ng . Th e Honourable Gentleman resumed the communications and deliberations 'with the Earl of Liverpool during yesterday, as well as with most of the other Cabinet Ministers. In the course of the day there were frequent communications by letter between the Earl of Liverpool and the Governor of the Bank. The important business of the day with the Earl of Liverpool con cluded between three and four o'clock, with a consultation with the Earl of Harrowby, the Duke of Wellington, and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, with his Lordship. At a quarter to four o'clock, the Earl of Liverpool left his house in Whitehall in his travelling chariot, for his seat at Cornbe Wood, near Kingston, Surrey. A MERCHANT, not long ago, discharged his porter on account of his being deficient in Orthography. The man, it seems, wanted a favour, and addressed his master " Horned Sir," instead of " Honoured Sir." Report states it to have been a palpable hit. FASHION A BLE INTELLIGENCE: TII r. KING Wimnson, OCT. 21.—Last evening, about eight o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived at the Royal Lal,ge, in Windsor Great Park, in his travelling carriage and 'four, front Carlton Palace. "The King travelled to and from London, attended by his out riders, without any military escort, and was accompanied by the Lord Steward. His Majesty's pony phaetons were ordered to be in readiness for himself and suite this afternoon at two o'clock, and the weather being so ,remarkably mild his Ma jesty is expected to take a long airing. On Friday evening his Majesty will entertain a party of distinguished Noblemen at the Royal Lodge to dinner. DEPARTURES FROM TOWN, &c. The Earl and Countess of Bradford, from Wiston Hall, for Castle Bromwich ; Lord Muncaster, for Melton llowhray the Hon. Agar Ellis, from Roehampton, for Cashiobury Park ; Sir Charles and Lady Long., for Asbrage, Hems • Sir Felix Agar, Bart. for Layenham H a ll, Suffolk; Colonel and Mrs. Acton, for Bath ; Sir John Tylden, Bart. for Sittingbourne ; Mr. Pi-cm, for Dartford. From Scaife's Hotel, Lower Brook street—Lord and Lady Aylmer ; Lady M. Hussey ; Algernon Greville., Esq. ' • Lord and Lady Il unt i ng fi e ld. F r om Kirk ham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street —Lord Lilford, for Northamp tonshire; J. Montague, Esq. for Scotland. From Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street—Lord Sondes, for Kent. From tha St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street—Wm. Brummell, Esq. for Colchester. From the British Hotel, Jermyn-street—Wil liam Stanley, Esq. fur Melton .lowbray. ARRIVALS IN TOWN. Sir T. Sheik, Bart. from Brighton ; Mr. Tierney, M.P. from a tour; Sir William Hope, Bart.; Mrs. and Miss Mans field. At Scaife's Hotel—Sir John Malcolm, Bart. and Mr. Malcolm. At the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street—Captain Watson, from Brighton. Tuesday evening Mr. Secretary Peel dined with the Duke of 'Wellington and a select party. The Duke of Devonshire dined with Mr. W. Horton on Monday evening. The - Earl of Liverpool slept in London on Tuesday night for the first time for upwards of a fortnight past. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde left the Claren don Hotel, Bond-street, yesterday, for their new residence in it. James's-square. THE LATE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. (From the Etoile.) Some Journals, in announcing the death of the Emperor Alexander, style him the descendant of Peter the Greet, which is incorrect. Peter the First was of the line of Romanotir, who ascended the throne of Russia in 1613, under the title of the Czar, Michel Fedorowitz. The Empress Elizabeth, daugter of Peter the Great, having died without children in 1762, the Crown devolved upon Prince Peter of Holstein Gottorp, the son of anothe daughter of Peter tie Great. Ile took the name of Peter th Second : the Emperor Paul the First being his son, and th . Emperor Alexander his grandson. The family of llolstein.Gottorp, which reigns in Russia, is a branch of the old family of Oldenburg, which reigns in Denmark, and reigned in Sweden also until the sovereignty of Bernadotte. The Emperor Alexander has not left any children by the PrincessiElizabeth of Baden ; he has left three brothers, ,first, the Grand Duke Constantine, now 46 years of age, who married in 1796, a Princess of Saxe Coburg, sister of Prince Leopold, son in-law of the King of England, but this marriage being an nulled by the Emperor Alexander he married Mademoislie Jeanette Grudzinski, now Princess of Lowiez. 2dly. The Grand Duke Nicholas, 29 years of age, who married the Princess Alex andra, daughter of the King of Prussia, by whom he has several children. 3dly. The Grand Duke Michael, 27 years of nge, who married the Princess Charlotte of Wurtemberg. It is un derstood that the terms of the marriage of the Grand Duke Constantine with the Princess of Lowiez, are the same as those entered into upon the marriage of the King of Prussia with the Princess of Lignite. She is not to participate in the titles or the honours of the Sovereignty. The children are not to inherit any right. to the Crown. THE THEATRES. DaurtY-LAN.—The return of Mr. LISTON to this Theatre last night, as might he expected, naturally attracted a very crowded house. As soon as this popular actor appeared he was greeted with great applause, and the audience seemed disposed to display a more than usual testimony of welcome on account of his recent and alarming inne3s. lie fully requited them by Hs admirable performance of Matzzeorm, in the Comedy of The libpocrite, and his denunciation from his pulpit-skreen, as usual, was encored. DowToN was not less zealous to give a complete finish to the performance of Cantwell, and artful hypocrisy was perhaps never adopted with subtle success in real life. The only change in the performance was the transfer of the part of Charlotte to Airs. DAvlsoN, who supported it with gaiety, humour, and effect. The Farce of Love, Law, and Physic, again presented LtsToN to the audience in Lubin Log, and again grati fied them with the persuasion that he is rein stated in health. COVENT-GARDEN —The Opera of The Duenna, a drama that has never been succeeded by any thing that will bear a comparison with the va riety of its characters, the spirit of its dialogue, the humour of its situation, and its poetical me rits, was represented last night before a nu merous audience.—Miss PATON sun; and acted admirably in Clara, and Madame VESTRIS, in Carlos, gave as strong an interest to the character as it admitted, and introduced a new Song, en titled " Happy Land Spain," a composition of Mr. \VEST, of the Haymarket Theatre, which was much applauded. He 'seems to be rising fast in the musical world. The rest of the cha racters have been so often performed by the same performers as not to call for particular notice. A good house. The papers from Port-au-Prince to the 9th of October mention the death of Mademoiselle CELIE PETioN, daughter of the late President of Hayti, in the 20th year of her age. Her loss has caused much sorrow to the inhabitants of Hayti, and would be severely felt by the poor, to whom she de voted the greater part of her income. GoLTV.—`!'he issue of half sovereigns this week at the Bank of England has been enormous, many thousands have got into circulation, and if not withdrawn, will become a very convenient species of change. CITY EXTRAORDINARIES.—Yesterday two large turtles, weighing above 400 lbs. each, were offered for sale at the different emporiums for Gourmonds in the City, but, owing to the ab sence of a certain Civic Knight, no sale could be effected ! Fl R E.-At a quarter before three this morning a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Glz3rl, , linen_ draper, Wardour.street, Soho. The flames soon spread to the houses of Mr. MITCHELL, carpenter, and Mr. WINTER, broker, and also to the house of Mr. EVANS, lathe and tool maker. The whole of these houses are entirely consumed.-- The walls fell down about nine o'clock, with a terrible crash; but we are happy to state that no lives were lost. WENTWORTH'S BANK. (From the Leeds Inde pendent.) The suspence of the Public, and particularly the holders of notes, as to the fate of this esta blishment, will now, in a great degree, be dissi pated. The following melancholy intelligence, which reached us last evening, - and which had been published as a Circular by the Firm, at York, will be read with much concern " :Messrs. Wentworth and Co. haring, for several days, de " voted themselves to the examination of their affairs, and " having in vain used every possiblo, .exertion to procure in " the present state of the Money Market, a sufficiency to " meet the immediate calls upon their Firms, are under the " painful necessity of stating to the Public, their conviction " of THE IMPOSSIBILITY TO CARRY ON THEIR RESPEC " TITS ESTABLISIIMENTS.--11eSSIS. Wentworth and Co., " trusting to the Candour and Liberality of the Public, under these most distressing circumstances, confidently hope that " their determination will prove the most beneficial measure " to the General Interest of their Creditors." This publication we fear will spread consternation throtrgh out the county. The suspension of its payments by the Bank in the first instance occasioned much individual loss ; the holders of its notes were anxious to rid themselves of a useless commodity, and in the moment of panic made great sacrifices on the amount of their various sums. But subseuent events had somewhat restored that confidence in the solfFncy of the house which had previously existed ; and in Leeds and other places, on Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, the Wakefield notes were received by many persons en the sale of goods at nearly their nominal value. The traffic in this paper which a few days before had been extensively going on had greatly abated ; and as far as we have heard purchases could only be made at about ills. or lUs. foreach IL note. To persons, there fore, who have been speculating largely, by buying up these notes, the above intelligence will be far from agreeable. We still h*, that when the whole affairs of Messrs. Wentworth and Co.'s large establklmnent shall have been fully investigat ed, the immediate less of that part of the public who possess their paper will not be extreme. The whole country, however, must severely feel the effects arising out of the failure of Went worth's house, since it must occasion a fearful void in the quantity of that currency by which the tnoney-transactions of this district has usually been conducted. BRADFORD. Durina• the whole of Saturday and Monday, and even to a certain degree up to this hour, the aspect of this town has been quite unusual,—nothing else than the melancholy news of Satur day morning and the consequent embarrassments were either spoken of or thought of. In the early part of Saturday, and in the first paroxysm of alarm, notes were disposed of at a considerable reduction from their nominal value,—as low in this town, as 15a. and in Leeds and Huddersfield, somewhat lower„—towards the afternoon of Saturday, several shopkeepers and trades. people, probably for the most part, those who owed money to Messrs. Wentworth, exhibited papers in their windowS, purport ing that the notes of that company would be taken for goods ; one firm received as much as 2,0001., and so great was the press upon those who made this offer, that their doors were besieged, and they were obliged to admit only one person at a time, and as it was better to get the full price of a note in groceries, dra pery, &c. than sell it at an under value, this, and the hand bill put forth by Messrs. Wentworth and Co., naturally' had the effect of putting a stop to the sale of Notes.— During Saturday there was but a partial run upon the Bank of Messrs. C. ii. and A. Barris and Co., on Monday it somewhat encreased, as by that time the. intelligence had reached the country towns, and the failure of Messrs. Dobson and Co.'s Bank of Huddersfield, had also contributed to en. crease the panic ; on the forenoon of Monday, a placard was put out by the principal inhabitants of the town and neighbour hood, not only declaring their readiness to accept of the notes of Messrs. Harris and Co., but offering their united guarantee for the stability of the firm.—(Bradford Courier.) NEW SOUTH WALES. (From the Sydney Gazette of Thursday, July 7.) ' Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Alarket : Wheat, 12s. Iflitl. per bushel ; maize, 4s. 9d. per ditto; barley, ss. per ditto; potatoes, ss. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 44d. per ids. ; eggs, Is. 9d. per dozen ; fowls, 3s. per couple ; cheese, Is. 3d. per I. That these Coleniss have crcited alpowerful interest at home, and are increasingly attractive to the multitudes who wish to emigrate, is sufficiently manifest from a variety of facts continually coming to our knowledge. As one among these numerous evidences, we cite the following remarkable circumstance :—While the Elizabeth lay in the London Docks, advertised for New South %Vales and Van Diemen's Land, Mr. Brooks, the owner, received no less than 1500 letters from persons desirous of emigrating, proposing an infinity of questions as to the state of the Colonies, and the best means of emigrating to them. The enormous expence to which the postage of these epistles amounted, and the vast sacrifice of time which the mere perusal of their prolix interrogatories necessarily occasioned, may well be supposed to have put the patience of the worthy gentleman to a rigid test. (Extract of a Letter from Sydney to Canton.) " All mercantile information will be communicated to you more ably by , with the exception of one favourite article, the exchange on which is the converse of that on trea sury bills, the latter bearing on an average a premium of 15 per cent. against currency, whereas the currency lasses stand 15 to 25 per cent. higher in rstimation that the sterling adven tures from England. This I much pleasure in commu nicating, knowing you to be a connoisseur in the commodity, as well as an amateur." ( From the Official Hobart Toros Gazette.) A new establishment has lately been formed at Koss-bridge, for the training and employment of boys. Some weeks since the Lieutenant-Governor, on a visit to the Penitentiary, found that a great number of boys, who had arrived by the last transport-ship, were left on the hands of the Su perintendant. To prevent the evil consequences which were likely to arise from their remaining in a comparative idle state in Hobart Town, his Honour devised the plan of forming a kind of agricultural school in the interior, where they would be less liable to contamination, and would be bene ficially employed. It is intended, we believe, to enclose and cultivate 50 acres; and to instruct and inure them to the ope rations of farming that they may become eligible servants to be assigned to settlers. We understand the new establishment at Maria Island is likely to answer every expectation that was originally enter tained of it. As a secondary place of punishment, for minor offences, it must be attended with very beneficial consequences. (From the Australian.) _ _ _ One hundred and seventy-five thousand acres of land on this side the mountains are to be measured forthwith, and ap propriated as a Glebe to the Australian Church. This quan tity is independent of the immense grant, for the like use, over the mountains. Five hundred thousand acres also, at Van Diemen's Land, are destined to become the property of the Church. These are no despicable endowments, and are likely to have no despicable influence on the fate of the two Colonies. Until the Church be put in possession of this land, by acimea surement, &c. the business of the settler must stand still. Ile can obtain no order for land, can see no prospect of applying his time or his industry to any profit. It is making him at all events pay in advance, by his temporal losses here, for his spiritual comfort hereafter. One-third of the land granted to the church may be sold, and another third mortgaged for the improvement of the remaining third and for other purposes. The Archdeacon's salary is a mere trifle, only two thousand a year, with liberty to appoint a Curate, and return to England in the enjoyment of the full salary, rninu.r the Curate's stipend, some eighty pounds a year, we suppose. The number of absentees, and the highway robberies which have been perpetrated or attempted of late, have become truly appalling, and demand a ♦igorous exertion on the part of the executive to repress them. Yesterday afternoon, soon after three o'clock, Mr. ROTHSCHILD left the City in a great bustle, and proceeded to the Earl of LIVERPOOL'S house in Whitehall, for the purpose of obtaining an interview with the Noble Earl, but arrived at his Lordship's house a few minutes after the No ble Earl had left town. Mr. ROTHSCHIL D then waited upon the Right Hon. C. AnutruNoT, and afterwards proceeded to the Treasury, where he remained nearly an hour, transacting business. Mr. Secretary PEEL transacted business at a late hour last evening at the.liome Office. Tuesday evening the Portuguese Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign Office for a coinAderable time. FATAL ACCIDENT. FRANKFORT, DEC. 13.—0 n the 6th of this month a fatal accident took place at Nienburg, in the Duchy of Anholt. The citizens had re solved, on a visit of the Duke and Duchess, to illuminate the new suspension bridge. At eight o'clock, with a numerous band of music, they went to.the bridge with torches : half the bridge sunk into ,the river (the Saale), and at. half-past eight o'clock, with all the people on it, and was carried down the stream. The Duke immediately ;vent to the spot to direct the means of saving those persons who were on- the bridge at . the mercy of the waves. Of 6or 700 persons who were in this alarming situation, about 30.. hale not been found.—The Borsenhall List has the following account : • " BERLIN, DEC. 12.—Laters froth Kalbe on the Sattle say, that of the persons who perished - by the breaking of the bridge of Nienburg, 86 dead bodies bad been taken out or the river up to the 7th in the evening ; seven had died of the in juries they had received, and the number of wounded was 41. A dreadful loss for a place containing only 200 houses." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. [FROM LLOYD'S.] DEAL, DEC. 21.—Wind S. far E.—Arrived the Sit F. N. Burton, White, from Quebec, and gone to Ramsgate harbour with loss of anchor. Sailed the David, Owen, for Antwerp, with several of the outward bound. Remain in the Downs. all well, the Waterloo.. Wilkinson ; Waterloo, beveque, Friends Ranger, Richard an d J o h n, P rov id ence, L a d y R awence, an d Ro_yal Charlott e . PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Arrived Majesty's ship Clio, from the Eastward. Sailed hii Majesty's ship Dotterel, for Halifax • his Majesty's ship Harlequin, - for Jamaica. His Majesty's s hip Mastiff. for the Mediterraness, went out of harbour, and remain at Sithead. Sailed the Elisa, —, for Messina, and the Equity, Storr, for London. . PLYMOuTn, DEC. 20.—Wind S.S. E.—lt blew a tremendous gale the whole of last night, and still continues squally ; the shitoping ride all well. lAL MOUTH, DEC. 20. —N o arrivals or sailings.—lt blew a gale last night from S.S.E., at day light more moderate. The Wanderer of Plymouth, from St. John's, N. 8., drove, and grounded on the Northern Bank. The City of Genoa, of Greenock, from St. Domingo, and Motly, f rom H am burgh,also drove, the latter struck the ground ; they have both slipped from their anchors, and run up the River on the mud. The Dove Packet, lying on the outer bank, parted from the Government moorings, and brought up again by her own anchors. Put back the Eclipse Packet, for America. Arrived off Dover the Arab, -, from Philadelphia. Arrived in the Downs the Montmorency, Wood, for Quebec. The Faith, Kirkup, from Gottenburg to Exeter, has put into Harwich leaky, with loss of anchor and cable, having been on shore. The Pacific, -, from Archangel, was fallen in with on Monday off Scarborough, with loss of rudder, haying struck on the Cross Sand. The Eendra cht, Wimmeris, from Saloe to ledon, waein the Rocks at Penzance on Monday night during a violent gEt - - at S.S.E. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain Thomas William Barrow was sworn into the command of the ship George the Fourth, consigned to Bengal and China.—The East India Company's ship Farqu harson was all well at Bombay the 13th August, and was ex. petted to sail for China on the following day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION HALL.—(Tiris DAY.) BUZIGLATIS.—On Sunday morning last, about three o'clock, the house of Mr. Anderson, 2, Durham-place, near the Three Stags, Lambeth, was broken open, and various silver and other articles carried off Keyse and Shergold, two officers of that district have succeeded in apprehending the parties, so close were the officers upon their heels that in a house near the SeVett Dials they found a Crucible in which it is supposed they melted the property. They had left a turnscrew, chisel, and part of a dark lanthorn behind. At one o'clock on Tuesday morning the above active officers gained admission to a house in Hooper_ street, Westminster-road, from which one of the prisoners, Edmonds, escaped by jumping sixteen feet into a ditch. The flight of the prisoner was nearly intercepted by Shergold, who fired at him, the shot going _close to his head. In the house was found the dark lantern, which corresponded with the part left on Mr. Anderson's premises, a crow-bar, 16 inches long, centre-bit, phosphorus box, and a handkerchief which was taken from Mr. Chambers, son to the Magistrate, some months ago, at Drury-lane Theatre. The prisoner Edmonds was taken yesterday in Tothill-street, and Smith in Mead-row, Westminster-road. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. EFFECTS or 111AGINATION.—A young lady, named Miss Harriet Frances Freeman, alias Mrs. Wise, charged Thomas Robert Morky, Sophia Ekins, and //arritt Plait, with insult ing and throwing water over her on Monday last. It appeared on the examination of several witnesses that Miss Freeman, alias Mrs. Wise, having made copious libations to the jolly tiod, had stood in the midst of a pouring rain, which, with the assistance of a neighbouring water-spout, in a short space of time, corn. ..pletely drenched her. The war of elements a pp eare d to the nymph as a multitude of voices, and her imagination was so worked upon by Hodges's electrifying fill proof; that the posi. tive evidence produced tailed in shaking her belief that the three defendants had grossly maltreated her.—D!,icharged. Tif. BRITISH MUSETJII.-1 his splendid mono.. ment of national munificence has lately been the subject of a series of attacks ; no less unjust in themselves, than unca:led for on the part of the public, who have benefitted so materkly from its establishment. That the British Museum has not effected all that improvement in the arts and manufacture of tireat Britain which the late sovereign of France accomplished, by uniting in the metropolis of that country the plunderdT continental Europe, must, however, be admitted. It is true; we have not to beast the possession of- the Lancoon. nor the • Apollo, those crowning ornaments of the Musee Napoleon. Put then we have obtained, by honest purchase, the labours of a Prasiteles and a Phidias; while the liberality of a Townley and a Hope, have formed a splendid series of s;)ecirners of an cient art. A national gallery of painting is also arranging which will in dine vie with that collected by the sacrilegious spoiler of nearly all the ecclesiastical edifices of Italy. Our more immediate motive for noticing the metropolitan museums briefly to call our readers' attention to the facilities which exist for admission to its capacious depositories in art, science, and literature. All—(It is a comprehensive word—and the shore places in France cannot premise more)—all who apply at its massive portal are admitted on each Monday, Wednesday, arid Friday, throughout the year;* and th , s, we think, as s►' sufficient answer to those who complain of a want cf fad.; lities for admission to the general collections. It may here be proper to state, that we have been releatedly importuned . to furnish graphio illustrations of the more important rarities contained within its walls; and our present number contains a very accurate representation of the Skeleton Fossil Rem .Ins brought from Guadaloupe. The piece of rock in wfich it is imbedded was sent by Admiral Cochrane to borti Melville, and afterwr.ris by him deposited in the British 11usetui4.— (From the Scientific Gazette.) should except those seasons at which the public offices are usually closed; and, even at these periods of apparent re laxation, there is much of active employment going on within the walls of Montague House. hitTORTANT DISCOVERY—Mt. Frederick A Mayo, of Richmond, in company with a person lately from the mine; in Saxony, after exploring the greater portion of the western part of Virginia, for minerals, has recently succeeded in discovelinF a copper and tin mine, each of a considerable extent, and, as it respects quality, ss good as any in Europe—one in Wythe and the other in Grayson ccuuty.— (American Paps,.) SIR JAM EX BOND, who had accumulated a large fortune in the East Indies, expended 20,00 W. in.build ings, for which he vu not able to procure inhabitants. A deep old lawyer, from whom he had purchased the ground, ob served, that he was a Bond without Judgment. - On Tuesday night the Union Dover Coach ) , when between Dartford and Welling, was` - robbed of four bags and three baskets. The pefion . who committed the robbery is known to the Officers, who are on the alert.