The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-03 00:00:00

- - - ~- Si. ANTONY'S DAY. . St. Antony is the patron, of Lisbon, and the 13th of June, the anniversary of his death, is kept there with more punctuality, and more festivity and rejoicing, than any other holyday throughout the year. For weeks previous the children in the streets erect altars to his memory, place a little image of the Saint on .the top, and b e g of, persons passing by, a few reals for Saint Antonio. On the evening of the l 9th an altar is erected for him in the Praga de S. Paolo, with a 'temporary gallery at the one side, which is occupied by a regimental band, who continue playing airs, almost without intermission, for twenty-four hours ; the church hells at a certain hour strike up merry peals ; skyrockets are seen shooting up in all directions, and bonfires innu merable are blazing all over the city. It would, perhaps, be difficult to find another city in the world where, on anyone occasion, such a number of bonfires are burning at once ; and if Saint Antonio had performed no other miracle than this—purifying Lisbon, be would'for that alone deserve immortality. The city has no such pu rification, from one end of the year to the other, not even from thunder-storms or autumnal tor rents, as it has on the night of the 12th June. —Great crowds of people are in the streets till a late hour listening to the music, amusing them selves with fireworks, and speaking of St. Anto nio. St. Antonio is in every one's mouth.— Who is this St. Antonio ?" I said to a man who was extolling the magnificence of the scene.— " Why, don't you know St. Antonio ?" was the reply. " He is the patron of Lisbon—he perform ed many miracles ; he keeps away the plague, and gets husbands to the raparigas (girls.) I hav e been in Samos, Cephalonia, Corfu, and Turkey —the plague is constantly there, but theyhave not St. Antonio." I was about to mention another coantry, where they have neither the plague nor St. Antonio ; but as it could serve no good pur pose to unhinge his faith, even if that had been possible, I made no attempt to undeceive him. The raparigas, I understand, believe firmly in his miraculous power, and put up many a sincere prayer for his friendly intercession. The num bers, certainly, that frequented the churches on the 13th were much greater than usual ; but whether they were invoking St. Antonio or the Virgin none but themselves know. When their prayers are long in being heard, they make no scruple in treating him with great indignity • The common mode of revenge 1; to put a cord round the neck of the image, which is to be had in every toyshop, plunge him into a well, and threaten to drown him outright, if he does not grant their request within a certain period. LISBON, JUNE 16. (Extract from a Private Letter.) The Apostolicals here are in the highest spirits. They have friends behind the scene; Saldanha has been duped, and all is confusion and uncertainty.— have hardly words sufficient to express the utter anarchy which prevails among the Portuguese Mini sters at the present moment. The Count da Lausan was appointed Minister of Finance, as well as interim Minister of Foreign Affairs, without his consent. Finding there was no money in the Treasury, and little acquainted with the politics of Europe, he refused, on the plea of inability and bad health, to take such a load upon him. The Princess Regent, of course, accepted the excuse, signed his demission, and then attempted to throw the burden on the shoulders'et the Marquis Monteiro-Mor; in other words, on the Marquis de Olhao—Master of the Hounds. Being more ac quainted with stags, and boars, and other wild beasts, than finances and foreign affairs. ale was quite con founded at the proposal, and begged to be excused. Offers were then made, according to many accounts, though I have good reason to believe they are not true, to two commoners, Carvalho and Coelho ; and the result is, that Saldanha has been obliged to take the whole burden on his own shoulders. He is at present Minister of War and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Noronha is Minister of Marine, and nominal Minister of Finance. _ 3 .11 is left to Sal- • danha, and the Apostolicals are delighted that lie has so.much on his hands. The following is an account of the plot, which has. terminated in the present confusion, and you may trust to its authenticity : Trigoso, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies, and Barradas, a Desembargador (Judge), are the chief. agents. The Canzarilla, a domestic Privy Council of the Princess Regent, consists chiefly of wem.en.i These two men had frequent opportunities of meeting with them in their official duties as Coun sellors of State, and instilled into their minds the incapacity of the Ministers, and the necessity of a s psedy change. They praised Saldanha for his' patriotic spirit—railed against his colleagues, and', urged him for the gcod of the country, to complain, fn private to the Pr incess Re g ent, and re q uest her, to appn.hit a new Ministry. Saldanha was over=, come by ti;eir complaisance and flattery, and yieldedi to their a. ; the consequence of which was, that as soon the Ex-Ministers heard from Saldanha himself, What had been done in private; they gave in their resignations, and refused to act with a, man who had tzken such an important; step without their privity. The offices of Mi n i s ter of Finance, Foreign Affairs, geclesiastical _ fairs, and the Home Department, were consequently vacant, and no provision had been made for filling them up. This was exactly what the two chief agents wanted, and they left Saldanha to finish the plot. He was not at all prepared for this, and was obliged to fill up the blanks in the best way he could. The Marquis of Palmella was appointed Minister cif F o reign Affairs, and Villa Real, a secret Apostolical who IN:as on the point of leaving Lisbon, as Ambas sador ‘, O the Court of France, was appointed to sue ceed him. ,T.-Je changed the Bishop of Vizen for the Bishop of Algrzres, made the Viscount Santarem, his relative, Minister of the Interior ; and the Count de Lausan, who one rime held some official situa tion in Brazil, Minister of inance. The last I have rtated has refused to act, o s id the Marquis of ''almella must be quite confoundej at this neiv aongement, which makes him Minister of Foreign Affairs without his knowledge, and at the ..zatrle time pieces two new Ambassadors at the two most hi portant Courts of Europe. This is considered quite irregular, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs is al ways allowed the choice of his own agents. I cannot learn whether Villa Real has yet left Lisbon for London; but the general belief is that he sails with this packet. The Liberals are quite confounded by the anarchy and confusion which prevail at the pre sent moment, and firmly believe that all this has been brought about by secret agents of the Apostolicals. If the Marquis of Palmella should refuse to accept the new office, Don Miguel may come as soon as he Sir 34 , 4 Es MACKINTOSH is, we understand, irnme,diately going to press with his History of England, The tirst volume in 4t0., will, it is said, be pinslislied the commencement of the en suing year.- I Jorn zng Paper, A person who lives at Lebanon, i n the su burbs of this town, ivas not a little surprised the other morning, on observing his favourite mouser dragging a large hare into the house. Tb e wounds and blood on grimalkin's head and nose abundantly proved that notwithstanding the na tural timidity of the hare, the contest for vic tory.had been severe, and that, although over come by feline ferocity, puss's capture had not been so sportive as that of the capture of a Inouse.--Fife Herald. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH" PAPERS. (From the lifoniteur of Saturday, June 30.) (NON OFFICIAL PART.) PARIS, JUNE 29.—A report is spread that the news of the capitulation of the Acropolis has arrived. It is said to have taken place on the 2d of this month. The Greeks who composed the garrison have obtained permission to return to their own homes, and the Philhellenes, among whom was Colonel Fabvier, were authorised to go to whatever place they should think fit. MADRID, JUNE 23.—Public attention has been for some days absorbed by the difference that has just arisen between the Spanish Government and the Court of Rome, on the nomination of Bishops for the new States in America. His Catholic Ma jesty, considering this nomination as a breach of the Concordat, and as an infraction of his rights of sovereignty, had caused orders to be given at the frontiers not to receive the new Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Tiberi, who was coming to succeed Car dinal Giustiniani, who left us a month ago. Mon signor Tiber', on arriving at Irun on the 17th, found there a letter from the principal Secretary of State, desiring him not to proceed on his journey, and on the. intimation given him by the Captain General, he has, in fact, returned to France. The Councils of Castile, and of the Indies, which were summoned to give their opinions on this de licate affair, and on a letter which his Holiness has written to the King, to explain his conduct, has terminated its deliberations, the result of which has been transmitted to his Majesty. It seems that the Council of State will also discuss it. No question has arisen for many years that has caused so much agitation and irritation. His Catholic Majesty has just appointed the Duke of San Carlos to be his Ambassador at Paris. M. Toledo, a Spanish diplomatist, who has been de signed for Minister at Stockholm, but who, though absent from the Peninsula, had not yet repaired to his post, having attempted to return to Madrid with out permission, was not allowed to pass Iron, in consequence of instructions sent to the frontiers not to let him enter Spain. (From the Etoile, dated Sunday, July 1.) TOULON, JUNE 23.—The schooner La Torche, which sailed the 6th inst., two days before the di vision, under Commodore Collet, arrived at Algiers on the 11th. The Captain immediately went or shore, and delivered the despatches of which he was the bearer, to M. Duval, our Consul-General. The latter under the pretext of returning Capt. Faure's visit, went on board the schooner, and thus escaped from the bad treatment which he endured. The Dey, who, it is affirmed, did not imagine that M. Duval had found means to transmit his complaints to his Majesty, was perfectly at his ease, indulging the pleasure of revenge, and left M. Duval at liberty to go on board La Torche ; but when he found that he did not return, and that the schooner had anchored beyond the reach of the batteries, he re pented of his confidence, and foamed with rage; when a few days afterwards, Captain Collett came and placed his squadron off the port, so that nothing could go out. M. Duval, who went on board the Commodore's vessel, is said to have left at Algiers his two daughters and his son-in-law. It is supposed they have placed themselves under the protection of the Agent of some other European Power. It is added, that the Dey replied with some degree of arrogance to the first communication made to him by M. Col lett, and that he even expressed his regret at not having detained the Clansul as a hostage. It is for tunate and honourab* OH the French Marine that this expedition was prepared with such celerity, and its object so carefully concealed that the Dey could not be informed of the intentions of our Government, and that not a single Corsair had left the port to escape the French squadron. The Torche left Algiers again on the 16th, and arrived here this evening with the good news, which was immediately sent by express to Paris. To-day, the Heck corvette, Captain Goordoo, arrived here from Alexandria, which it loft- tit... TSth. It has on board M. Droutti, the French Consul-General. The last accounts from Smyrna of the 18th of May, say that M. Schmolt, our Consul-General, is dangerously ill.—Gazette de Lyon. The latest accounts from Greece, received by way of Italy, confirm the news of the Austrian Ob server of the arrival of. Lord Cochrane and Captain Hastings, with the steam-boat, on the west coast of the Morea. The reports circulated at London seem therefore to be unfounded. (From the Constitutionnel. ) PARIS, JUNE 29.—A letter from Marseilles, dated June 23, explains, in the following orders, the prin cipal grievances of which the Dey of Algiers com plains, and which arc the cause of our present differences : Ist. The affairs of M. Nathon Bacry, and the seven millions of francs paid by France in 1820, of which the Regency and its subjects have, as yet, received nothing, &c. 2d. The fortifications raising by the French at Caale. Caale is a port which has belonged for many years to France by treaty, and lies near Bona,between Algiers and Tunis. It is well situated for the coral fishery. 3d. The demand for tribute, which the Powers protected by France do not pay. 4th. The proud and haughty tone affected by M. Deval in his communications with the Regency, respecting the affairs of France and the Roman States. The insult offered bo the Consul consisted in the Dey, at the end of a discussion, throwing his fan in his face, and ordering him to withdraw from his pre sence. There are no Algerine corsairs at sea, but two armed vessels went out a few days back with hadjis (pilgrims for Mecca) to Alexandria. The Admiral de Riguy, who is at Alexandria, has been made acquainted with the blockade of Algiers, an d requested to take those two vessels. The schooner La To7Lhe has been sent to Bona to direct the French agents, merchants, and coral fishers to quit the country under the dominion of Algiers. The fitting out several bomb-ships in the part of Toulon Foes on with vigour. It is the g enera l o pinion that rance will not obtain satisfaction without coming to blows. The fate of the rulers of the country is hard; the Dey would not dare, perhaps, to propose to grant satisfaction. So that every thing looks as if a bom bardment were inevitable. Twelve French vessels departed from our port yesterday, under the escort of the brig Le Cuirassier, which lc to convoy them through the Straits, and not leave them till they have reached Cape SparteL" Another letter from Marseilles says : " ilepstilities with Algiers have commenced. The Algerines made the first attack by cannonading La Torche, which fortunately received timely succour from the division from Toulon." RICHARD SHELL, ESQ.—We have learned, with regret, that our able and eminently talented countryman, Mr. Shiel, met with an accident on Thursday, while riding from Booterstown. It occurred in consequence of his horse falling under him, by which the smaller part of his leg was broken. We understand that the fracture is but slight, and trust that this distinguished gen tle-man will shortly recover the effects of his ac cident.—Dublin Morning Post. The workmen employed in digging a founda tion at Mr : Pedder's new buildings, in the North suburbs, discovered (about four feet from the surface) two bodies, apparently those of a man and woman, but much decayed—they appeared to. have been placed there in their clothes, some vestiges of which remained, and as the place is remote from any burial ground, the circumstance excited considerable curiosity. — Tipperary Dee Press. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1827. The Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Etoile dated Sunday morning, reached us last night. The Etoile contains nothing of importance. Its intelligence from Algiers is nearly the same as that which we published on Saturday f ro m the L%loniteur, but the Constitutionnd contains a statement of the grievances of which the DEY of ALGIERS complained before he offered the insult to the French Consul-General which has led to hostilities. Bomb vessels are fitting out at Toulon with all expedition, and the bombard ment of Algieis is said to be inevitable if the DEY does not make immediate reparation for the indignity offered to the Grande Nation. The Moniteur mentions a report current in Paris that the Acropolis surrendered on the 2d of. June. It is added that the Greeks were to return to their own homes, and that Col. FA B V lER and the Philhellenes were to be permitted to go to whatever place they thought fit. The accounts from Madrid to the 23d of June, inform us of a dispute between the Spanish Government and his Holiness the Pori, on the nomination of Bishops by the latter to the new States of South America. His Catholic MA JESTY considered this act of the POPE as a breach of the Concordat, and as an infraction of his Rights of Sovereignty in Countries over which he no longer possesses a shadow of authority, and has sent instructions to the frontier not to admit into the Spanish territories the Papal Nuncio who was on his journey to Madrid. The Council of Castile and the Indies, and the Council of State, are to discuss this delicate affair. We cannot omit noticing a remarkable evi dence of the new regulations respecting the Cen sorship of the Press, furnished by the Journal des Debats. Two of its columns are left en tirely blank. This may have been the space occupied by some article which had been struck out as objectionable by the Censors, and which time did not enable the Editor to replace ; or it may have been intentionally left blank, for the purpose of more powerfully reminding its readers of the existence of regulations which prevented the insertion of articles, containing the unre strained s entiments of the conductors of the Journal. Extracts of the Papers will be found in another column• FRENCII FUNDS, JUNE C e nts, 102 f. 50c. ; Three per Cents, 71f. 3 4 0 57. ; F Ne 'e ap p ol e i l t . an, 76f 95c. Spanish Loan (1823), 594 f. Exchange on London, one month, Paper, 25f. Sse. ; Money, 25f. 30c..--Th r e e months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 17ic. As much is still said and insinuated in para graphs of the John Bull Paper, as to the man ner in which the memorandum made by Lord LIVERPOOL, on the application of the pre sent Lord LONDONOERRY for a pension, got into the newspapers, it • may be as well once for all, to state, which we have autho rity to do,—that tile memorandum did n ot reach any newspapers either by the agency, or with the permission, or with the knowledge, of any of those persons to whom the writers of the paragraphs above mentioned r e f er ._ It must probably h ave been mentio ne d ill conversation by some p e rson who ac c id enta ll y saw it, and must thus, lik e other th ings which are talked of, have found its way into the Newspapers. All the pri va t e accoun ts received yest er day from Lisbon continue to describe the state of political affairs as being unsettled, and uncertain as to their result. By one party SALDAismA is said to have triumphed, and by the other to have been duped. The latter party, the Apostolicals, are in high spirits, probably from foreseeing in the acts of those who now hold power, either the insecurity of their Government or the probability of their involving Portugal in a war with Spain. We have collected in another part of our paper several extracts from the private correspondence from Lisbon published by our cotemporaries. We have also received private communications from thence, which fully bear out the view ge nerally taken of the insecurity of the present order of things in Portugal. Our correspondent states distinctly, that the views of the new party to constitutionalize Spain will inevitably draw on a war between the two Kingdoms ; and he concludes that when they have plunged their country into that state they will apply for more assistance from this country. He states like wise that the recent change of Ministry in Lis bon was brought about without the knowledge of their protecting ally ; it was purposely kept secret till after the sailing of the packet on Sun day, when it made its appearance in a Supple ment to the Gazette of Saturday. On the Thursday preceding, Vice Admiral Lord AMELIUS BEAUCLERK gave a Diplo matic Dinner to Sir WILLIAM A'COURT, Sir WILLIAM CLINTON, and the Portuguese Mi nisters of Foreign Affairs, War, and Marine, and other high Functionaries. All the Ministers appeared to understand each other perfectly, but at that very moment the Ministers of War and Marine had each the dismissal of the other in his pocket. They contrived, however, to keep the intended removal of Ministers nearly a secret, and it was not actually known till promulgated, as above stated, by the Supplement to the Gazette, published after the sailing of the Packet. Even our Ambassador had no idea of the change. The late Minister for Foreign Affairs, FRANCISCO D'ALMEIDA, is said to be a very quick, clever, young man, and mo derate in his principles.. He would have pre ferred, however, seeing Don MIGUEL on the Constitutional Throne to having the country remain at the beck of the EMPEROR of the Brazils. The Minister of Finance was a clever man, and possessed of some property. — The Bishop of Vizeu is said to have been an Apostolic ; the Bishop of Algarves, who comes in, is a decided Liberal. Our Corres pondent adds, that the PRINCESS REGENT is quite recovered, but is still feeble. The country remained tranquil, and harmony had been preserved between the British and Portu guese. Lord A. BEAUCLERCK had shifted his flag to the Albion, and his former flag-ship, the Spartiate, and the Genoa, were cruizing off the bar. It is with much regret that we perceive some of our Contemporaries writing in favour of Eng land's greatest curse—we mean her system of Poor Laws. We have frequently expressed our opinions on the subject, and shall not now enter on it at any length ; but we would intreat the advocates of the system to consider, that it is opposed to IT _ le principles on winurt crrir was originally constituted, and that they are vainly endeavouring to substitute a weak human invention for that universal and pervading prin ciple of self-interest which Heaven has given as the main-spring of our. actions. The savage who roams the desert trusts to no other savage for his means of subsistence. If he cannot find and cannot kill game, he knows he must perish, and therefore his utmost ingenuity and vigour are exerted ; but, when he makes a compact with the other rangers of the forest to live in villages and to protect each other, far from ex tending their former notions (if that were possi ble) of a community of goods, their first act is to enforce a regard for private property, and to subdivide lands and pastures which before were common, and in that state could not support one-fiftieth _part of the population which can live comfortably on them when cultivated under the assurance, that others shall not share the fruits of the labour bestowed op their tillage. It is easy to satisfy him that he must contribute his share, either in person or in money, to the de fence of the community, and to the construction of roads and bridges, but in that he sees no vio lation of private property, which he does if called on to contribute to the support of the infirm, the unfortunate, or the lazy. Those labouring under bodily infirmities constitute so small a portion of any community, and sympathy is so strong a principle (though often tinctured with the selfish dislike to witness pain), that in all ages these legitimate objects of compassion have safely trusted to the charity of others, and our newly reclaimed savage would easily and cheerfully assist them. But tell him that one-third of the village will not labour, or cannot find work to do, and that he must give half his crop for their sup port,—is it not certain that his exertions will slacken, and that he will cultivate his land in a very inferior style to what he did when assured of enjoying the whole produce, e xcept such as he voluntarily parted with ? But this is an exact parallel to the Poor Laws of England. In some counties, lands are scarcely worth the having, and such would inevitably have been the case throughout the country, if the monstrous evils arising from them had not some years ago opened men's eyes to the radical error of the system, which violates private pi o perty, and goes to establish a communion of goods, such as we see among the Tribes of American Indians, with its consequent admirable system of agriculture. The evil has risen to a monstrous pitch in England, and must be slowly and cautiously undone ; but for Heaven's sake let us not crown all the evils which the guardianship of England has brought on unhappy Ireland, by adding to them her system of Poor Laws, which, if equality - between the two coantries be desired, is much more likely to bring it about by sinking England than by raising Ireland in the scale of nations. An express has just arrived from Paris, bring ing the French Funds, after 'Change hours, as follows :—Three per Cents. 71f. 75c., and 72f. fir the end of the month. We received this morning the Allgemeine Zeifung of the 26th ult. It contains part of the report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the late proceeding's of the Secret Societies in Poland, with the names of some leading members, upon whom sentence is ordered to be passed. The sentences, however, are not mentioned, and, as the report is incomplete, we defer any observa tions we may make till the remainder arrive : WARSAW, JUNX 8. The Journals of this city, contain a decree of the 19th of April, this year, by which the tribunal of the Diet is directed to pass sentence on the following persons prose cuted before it, viz. :—Severin, Kozycauowsky, Kam slaus, Count Solbyk, Franz, Majewtyke, the Eccleastus Denebek, Kanislaus Zablocki, Adalbert Gozmala, Andreas Plichta, and Romano Count Zanluski, and others who may be added to them during the judicial proceedings. As Count Zamowski, the President of the Senate, was also President of the Commission of Enquiry, it is ordered that on this account, and the better to insure impartiality in the decisions, his place as President of the Tribunal shall be taken by the Senator and Woywode, Count Bielenski ; and if he should be hindered, by the Senator and Woyvoode, Count Krasanski. The Counsellor of State Anton Von Wyezerhowski, is to act as prosecutor ; and the Judge of Appeal, Clanieres Rennowsky, as Secretary to the Supreme Tribunal. The Tribunal accordingly met oa the 15th instant, on which occasion the Minister of State, Count Soboleweki said--Senators ! You have just heard the reasons which have induced His Majesty, though with feelings of regret, to take measures which his august duties commanded. His Majesty, in his wisdom, has found them in unison with the rights given to us, the object of which is to preserve the principles of social order, and the tranquillity of the nations, which the will of Providence has placed under his sceptre. " The Ordinance on the organization of the Tribunal of the Diet does not strictly bind you to the regulations of criminal proceedings, when it is requisite to judge of the proofs of the existence or non-existence of guilt. It leaves the examination of them to your own consciences, and thereby gives you an indispensable proof of his 7tlajesty's confidence in your loyalty to the throne, your love to the country, and your impartiality; qualities in which, as members of the first body of the State, you are and ought to be a pattern to others." Report of the Commission of Inquiry addressed to the Grand Duke Constantine Cesarowitach, Commander-in- Chief of the Polish army. "At the end of the year 1814, there existed a secret Society, under the name of Genuine Poles. Its object was to diffuse a national spirit ; every, member bound himself to engage other members, and to observe secrecy. As an external mark of recognition, they wore rings with the national colours, and a cer tain number of points indicative of the number of the fundamental laws of the Society, and with the cypher of the name of the society. The society, which never had more than twelve members, did not succeed and was dis solved in about a year without leaving any trace of its ex istence, but an awakened spirit of intrigue. Shortly after som e minds were again inflamed by an incidental expression of the late General of Cavalry, Dabrowsky, regretting that the brave Polish nation had derived so little advantage to itself from its great sacrifices, that the existence of the di vided nation seemed less secured, and that it were to be wished that the spirit of the Poles could be excited and confidence in their own strength inspired ; in order, without regard to the difference of the Governments to which they were now subject, to concentrate their whole efforts in fa vour of the present Sovereign in the Kingdom of Poland, 6 and as circumstances should offer to preserve their iude- people might choose." These expressions did not fail to make a considerable impression, and were communicated at different times to Prince Antony Jablonowaki, and also to Lieutenant-Cols. Krzyzanowski and Pradzynski, and to several other per sons, but they did not lead to the formation of any particu lar society for the prosecution of the object though the ideas hereby excited, may have taken root, and led the way to the subsequent Secret Societies in Poland. In 1821, notwithstanding the closing of the Freemasons' Lodges, a suspicion arose of secret societies, and the inves tigation which was ordered to be made, clearly proved the existence of such a one under the name of " National Freemasonry," the form of which resembled that of the Freemasons' Lodges. Major Lukazinski, of the 4th Regi ment of Infantry, who had already conceived plans for a more extensive secret society, took the opportunity of the establishment of this National Freemasonry, and accepted the dignity of Grand Master. Without ex cluding other persons, he chiefly sought to engage Civil and Military Officers ; and the following was stated to be the object of the Society —reciprocally to assist each other in all the events of life, to labour for tame main tenance of the national character, and to preserve the re membrance of the glorious deeds of the. Polish nation. For this reason they assumed for their motto . the illustrious names Boleslaus, Chrobry, l3atory, Zamoyski, Ponia towski, &c. The Society had soon a considerable number of members ; but as it was without unity of sentiment and action, and as Major Lukazinski had excited mistrust, by want of sincerity, and discontent by his arbitrary proceedings, the members gradUally separated from it. Lukazinski, therefore, could not find in the Society itself an instrument for the attain ment of objects different from those alleged ; and it was ac cordingly declared dissolved at the beginning of 1820. This date may be considered as the end of the National Free masonry among the military. The Chapters of the Society, however, or rather the Se cret Committee, unknown to the members of it, still existed in full activity ; and, having thrown off the mask of Free masonry, pursued the real objects of the founder. A new society was accordingly formed in 1821. M. Von Szezaniecki, formerly a Polish officer, having settled after he quitted the service in the Grand Duchy of Posen, introduced there the national freemasonry into which he had been initiated at Warsaw, and this society, after being dissolved in the kingdom of Poland, continued to exist in Posen till the year 1820. At the end of June that year Lieutenant-Colonel Pradzyuski was present d be told at a meeting, in which General Urninski was received. Szezaniecki sji thisnufter in timtot city, and was ou w well to do the same in Poland, to which he is said to have replied that this could not be done, inasmuch as by the in • fluence of Pradzynski the object and denomination o f th e tth i e ec s k o i ci g e o ty in fva s dissolved society were changed, and it was now called by the name of the Scythebearers. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 207% 1 3 per Cent. Red. 83 Vi% 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 314 per Cent. Ditto Red. 92%4 2 4 per Cent. New Ditto, 1826 Bank Long Ann 19 13-16 % India Stock — Ditto Bonds — Pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. Brazilian Bonds 5 9 % Buenos Ayres Bonds. Bonds, 6 per ct. - -Colombian Bonds - 0 734 Ditto, 18•21 Danish, 3 per cent. ....6:0A% (reek Bonds Ditto, 18'26 1534 149% 1534 Guatimala ....................... r•lexican Bonds 1)o. 18'25 68143 PRICES OF SILIRES General Mining Association Real del Monte Mining Co. Canada Company PRICES OF IRISH Bank Stock 240% ('onsols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 9074 34 1)i tto, New - 4 per Cent. 99 N% Nov. Deb. 3% per cent - !loyal Canal Stock ... - Grand Canal Stock --- City Deb. 4 per cent --.. Ballast Office I)eb. 4 p. ct --- DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 251.55 56 put. Ditto 5OO '2d. 55 56 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Bank for Account India for Account 253y, Cons. for Account S6l THIS DAT AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian onds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 Po' cent. 9El,', Ditto, New 97 ~.1 Russian, New 93 1 3 4 Spanish, 1821 lO% 11 - 1823 ,4 French Rentes, sp. C. —f —c. Exchange —f. —c. 3 per cent 7lt 75c. Exchange 2sf. 50c. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 51.4 400 340 550 10 7 1 {N , ;TOCICS, JUNE 29, St. Patrick Insur. (per sti.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings FOREIGN ZECHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGH, JITNIZ 29.-36. B.—Two months, 36. 5. LEIPSIC, JUNE 25.—Three months, 6. 15N. BERLIN, J(iNE 26.—Three months, 6. 27M. CHRISTIANIA, Jona 20.—Three months, 6. 16. B, rocxmous, Juxe 22.-75 Days, 11 5. MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 1 Hamburg!) 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Holland 1 0 Buenos Ayres 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 I France 0 Gottenburgh 1 0 Mexico 0 0 Guernsey& Jersey. 1 1 Waterford 0 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...11 minutes after 9. 'Evening ...49 minutes after 9. "Kalb k 1,40 11110 c k,..-.0 4 ;. .; 4 (TO BE CONTINUED.) COPENHAGEN, JUNE 23. The Marquis of Hertford having remained here a fe•.v days, returned on board the English frigate, :which !on Monday was towed to the Baltic by:the steam-boat that ac companied it. The new steam-boat, .Darla arrived here on Thursday, in five days from London. VIENNA, JUNE 21. The Austrian Observer contains extracts from the Greek Universal Gazette, but all of old date, being o nly the official notice of the appointments of Count Capo d'lstria, Lord Cochrane, and Ceneral Church, the decree respecting the third loan, Lord Cochrane 's proclamation to the Samians, &c. VIENNA, JUNE 21.—Metalliques, 90!; Bank Shares, 1,089. The Francis freeling packet has arrived with a Mediterranean mail. She sailed from Corfu on the 15th of May, from Malta on the 28th May, and from Gibraltar on the 10th of June. e have not yet heard of any ►sews brought by her. SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE. — The seeds of foreign grapes have been discovered to be an excellent substitute for coffee. When pressed, they first produce a quantity of oil ; and after wards, when boiled, furnish a liquid very similar to that produced from coffee. Theyractice has become very general throughout tiermany.— Mechanics Magazine. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Clock. Consols have shewn a firm and rather improving ap pearance this morning, they opened at 861 shortly after were buyers at that price, and have since been done re peatedly at 86i, as the nearest price; they are now quoted at 86M again. India Bonds, SG 8 ; and Excheque r Bills, 54 6 pm. The Foreign Securities have been rather flat all the morning, Colombian 6 per Cent. Bonds being 30i- ; Mexican, 69k 1 ex. div. ; Greek fell, late in the afternoon of yesterday, to 14, but closed at 15 ; this is caused by no notice having been taken in his Majesty's Speech of the measures said to be in embryo by the European Powers, for the putting an end to the war between them and the Turks, aided also by the report of the Acropolis having at length been obliged to capitulate ; the present state of the Bonds are 144 151 ; Spanish keep drooping, being 101 11. The Share Market warrants no fresh quotations, and to this hour no business has been noted. Foaciorr.—Brazilian, 594 60 ; Buenos Ayres, 61 2 ; Cbilien, 26 8; Colombian, 1824, 304 ; Danish, 62/ ; Greek, 14.1 151; Mexican 5 per Cent., 554 64; Ditto 6 per Cent., 684 ex. div. ; Peruvian, 2445 i ; Russian, 92i 3 ; Spanish, lot 11. Mxxxs.—Anglo Mexican, 45 40 die.; Brazilian, 1 die. liar; Colombian, 10 12 per Share; Real del Monte, 65 58 die. ; Tlalpuxahukl, 65 55 die. ; United Mexican, 124 174 die. Two o' ClocA. Consols have advanced to 864 4; the Commissioners were supplied in Reduced at 854. THREE O'CLOCK Consols have been buyers at 86k, are now sellers. FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols Danish Bonds 621 Do. for Ac. 861 a Greek Do. 182.5, 15 Brazilian Bonds 591 Mexican Do. 1825 681 Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 921 Columbian, 1824, 31 Spanish Do. 101 THE THAMES TUNNEL.-(THIS DAY.) A Court of Directors of this Company was held in Walbrook, at which Mr. Brunel laid a statement of the present appearance of the work before the Directors. The water in the interior is in the course of being pumped out, and there is every indication that the means adopted to stop the apertures will be permanent in prevent ing any further irruption of water. Yesterday was a busy day at Rotherhithe, and the large tarpaulin which has been preparing for some days past was carried in procession to the river by the men. It over lays in the middle of the stream, and after the sides have been loaded with a chain, will be sunk to the bed of the river. Upon further inspection of the Tunnel, it has been found that not the least injury has been done. It will be some days before the whole of the water can be drawn out. AmAsis.—Amasis, a man of humble origin, was the favourite, and afterwards the successor of Apries, King of Egypt. Finding himself somewhat despised by the people on account of his mean extraction, he hit upon this method of curing their folly ; he caused a golden bason, in which he used to wash his feet, to be con verted into the statue of a god, and had it set up in a conspicuous part of the capital. The superstitious multitude flocked to worship it Amasis now told them that the object of their veneration had once been nothing but a v ile utensil; « and (said he), it is the same with me : I was formerly a humble individual-1 ant now your king. Take care, therefore, to respect me according to the station I now bold."--' London Weekly Review. The third volume of The Monthly Maga' zine has just been completed, and will have been used, _ its pr. g rcria * with much satisf ac tion Ey the greater part of our readers. The object of the Editor and Proprietors of this periodic) has been to render it a work no less of liumone and amusement than of science aria instruction and in this effort the occasional notices which have appeared from time to time of it, in out, own journal as well as in n umerous ot h ers , w ill afford sufficient proof that they have succeeded' Among the political and scientific essays which have appeared in the last volume, the papeC entitled The New Ministry, contained in the last number; a paper on the subject of TM Water Companies, in the number for Ma)' , forming a complete analysis of the merits of that question, on which the inhabitants of London are now divided ; two papers upon the very min' portant topic, The State of the Public Charities throughout the country ; and Movements is Portugal (an article published on the first ar' rangement and sailing of the late expedition, but in which the whole course of events which have, since arisen will be found to b e p re di c t e d), are all papers containing matter entitled to considerable attention. The lighter pages will be found to contain several admirable sketches by H az litt; some, we believe, by Croly ; others by Miss Mitford, and Dr. 'VI - again ; with poetry from the elegant pens of Mrs. Hemans, the late Williao Hayley, by Mr. H. Neele, Mr. T. K. Hervey" &e., &c. The Letters from London, ad Notes on the Month, are olios of great variety and general entertainment ; embracing ane l analyzing the merits of all the current topics , political, literary, and humorous, of the dal' The first number cf the 4th volume, just pub' lished, appears, in spirit and intelligence, to be fully equal to those which have preceded h.- 1 John Bull. The following version of an old story appear' , in the travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen.— , There is another story of an Adventure happening to 0 poor Highlander, from not being well acquaint' ed with the English language. He came u p tt London and was greatly distressed for want of victuals. One day in the bazaar, seeing a p e r' son with a friendly expression of counten a nce , he stated to him his lamentable case. Th e ma t asked him why he did not go to the shop of penny-cook, where it is usual for poor pe o pl e to get food ? It is here necessary to state, that is these shops poor people giving a couple of pice , a portion of meat, a nd half s. The Highland er for' penny-cook, from his j g riO# op he asked where the penny' barley ; this kind of sh penny-cut,ggraai saneeistt:ceitcaiaeegnl seer go p eoodi i fn e tfhtg e abi e el eepf uleoei rrfalanguage,bread, thought it was penny-ea cut shop w as !—A ma n (whom be add re ssed) thought th a t he wanted to get either his hair cut or to be shaved, and pointed out a barber's shop' The Highlander g oing to th e s h o p knocked at the door, and was admitted by the barber, who seated him on a chair. The tonsor then filled an e7-er with hot water, put a lump of soap in it, and making a lather, pl ace d it o n th e t a bl e be' fore Highland er , an d went up stairs f or his razors r a nd other sh av ing apparatus. The High' Lander, taking the soap-suds water for broth , a thetaking b ega n to drink it, and swallowed three mouth' fuls ; and mistaking the lump of soap for a po-i tatoe, and being exceedingly hungry, he ch e wed( and ate it. Upon the barber's coming d o wn , stairs and seeing what had happened, he was pe' trifled with astonishment. The Highlande r taking two pice from his pocket, laid them on ,, the table, saying, I much obliged to you ; the broth was very good, but the potatoe was nos sufficiently boiled, " p. 104-5, •