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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile, dated Tuesday, Oct. 25.) MADRID, OCT. 13.—The King's health is per fectly re-established. His Majesty and the Royal Family are at the Escurial. It was on the evening of the 26th of Septem ber that the brilliant expedition sailed from Fer rol, which is to reinforce the garrisons of Porto `Rico and the Havanna!). It is under the orders of Major-General Don Joseph Miranda y Cabe 'Lon, second in command in the island of Cuba : it consists of the following corps--the 3d light regiment of Catalonia, the 3d regiment of Galicia, a brigade of artillery, and three frigates,the Leal tad, Iberia, and Perla. This expedition, nhich is the third sent to the same places since the re-establishment of the legitimate Government, is composed of chosen troops, remarkable for their excellent discipline. They embarked in the highest spirits, amidst reiterated cries of " Long live the ROME, OcT. 12.—The light-house, in which the light is successively shewn and concealed for equal intervals, has been tried with complete success in the port of Auzio. Another has been placed on the Clementine tower, in order to point out to mariners the mouth of the Channel of Frimicino. Three reflectors enlighten the sector comprised between Cape Auzio and Cape Uaaro. The occultation and the bright light may be distinguished by the naked eye from Palo; that is to say, at the distance of fourteen Roman miles. NAPLES, OCT. B.—His Majesty out yester day morning at fix o'clock, to inspect the palaces of Caserta and St. Leucio. lie gave orders for surne repairs and improvements, and retired in the evening to the capital. Baron Rothschild arrived here from Paris the day before yesterday. LEOIIOItN, OCT. 12.—We have news from Alexandria, to the sth of September. A part of the new expedition had already set sail ; the re mainder was to sail on the 6th. The attempt made by the Greeks to burn the shipping in the port of Alexandria had caused the Pacha to hasten the expedition with such ardour, that it has been able to sail a month sooner than it would otherwise have done. We have melancholy accounts of the piracies committed by the Greeks. It is said they have sunk the Austrian ship Severe. CONSTANTS NOPLE, SEPT. 23.--According to re ports in circulation here, the Captain Dacha's : fleet has been dispersed by the Greeks in the Cretan Seas. The accounts from the Morea are rather con tradictory ; it seems certain, however, that Ibra him Pacha is in full retreat to the coast, and that he has desired, in the most pressing terms, that reinforcements be sent him without delay. The Oriental Spectator, which before the opening of the campaign had represented Ibra him Pacha as a' General who endeavoured to subdue the Moreotes by his mildness and huma nity, allows now, in its number of the 14th of September, that Ibrahim has been induced by his policy to destroy all the towns and villages in. the interior of the Peninsulu. In Candia the insurrection is nearly general, and the expedition which the Ilydriots have sent thither proves that no further fears are enter tained for the Morea. (From the -Qmotidienne.) FRANKFORT, OCT. 16. The Duchess' of Leuchtenhurg, widow of Prince Eugene Beau harnois, arrived at Munich on. the 14th. ft is stated from a manuscript journal which the late King of Bavatia kept of private ex pences, that a sum of 80,000 florins (about 800,000 francs) was secretly given to the poor in the month of September, and 12,000 florins from the ht of October to the time of his death. His personal expences during this time were only 400 florins lost at play. The whole Royal family of Saxony has re turned from Pleniiz to Dresden.' On the 17th the marriage of Prince Maximi lian with the Princess of Lucca was publicly an nounced. (Front the CoNrier Francais. ) TRIESTE, OCT. 11.—Letters tro - rn Hydra of 'Sept. 13, though they give a satisfactory account • of the afrAirs of Greece, say, however, that the 'troops of Ibrahim Pacha are still in possession of Tripo but the Greeks, they say, are active in cutting off the communications between that p.hice and the interior, to starve the garrison.— Thus the news of the entire evacuation of the interior of the :Morea by the Egyptian troops seem not to - be confirmed. " PlieVliserver of"larieste Publishes the follow ., ipg article :—" We have at length some private itiformation of the fate of the Austrian brigantine the Priiice of .oliwartzenburg, Capt. Barbarovich, Of which no news had' been heard since it sailed in 1820, from 'Odessa, bound for Nice. A pirate, condemned to death at Malta some time ago; con fessed that he'had captured that vessel and mur -dered the Captain and the whole crew." The last .mail from the Levant brings word' that the Greeks - have seized a French yessel the Cedre, Captain Leonard Paris, which . ailed the '3lst of, August from Sinyrn-a bound to Enos.— (Augsburg Gazette.) . Fits we FUNDS.—PARIS, OCT. 24.—Five per Cents. 85e.-- 7 Tliree . per Cents. 71. 85.—Bank Stock, 2175. Rente. de Naplec(ilertif. Falconet.) W. 95.—Rents d'Espagne 15—Royal Spanish Loan, 51.—Exchange on London, one month s 25. Ili. • • three months, 24. 90.—(Cours Autheniigue.) It is announced in a French Paper, that. M. Galei, merchant of Bordeaux, has been appointed by the Mexican Government to certify, the ori ,glitof such merchandize as' shall be exported froni e that pOrt for Mexico .; and generally- to protect at ,Bordeau the commercial 'interests of, the subjects ,of the New State. M Gitlez, his also ,rec e ived 'the ,necessary authority from the . Fiench Gov.ernment to _enable him to,exercise his 'coaxal:44 . ! . Similar Agents have been ap pointed itt tae-pods of Hayre, Ce(te, And Mar seilles`. . . ,;',; LOSS OF THE COMET STEAM-BOAT. . _ [FURTHER PARTICVLARS.] (From the Glasgow Courier of Tuesday last, received this morning.) This lamentable Catastrophe continues to en gage the sympathy and attention of Glasgow to a degree un precedented. The alarm and anxiety on Saturday were parti cularly great, as it was known that another steam-boat (the Stirling) was to leave Fort-William about the same time, and many were ignorant in which boat their friends might have em barked. The Stirling, however, came in, on Saturday, in safety, and so far relieved the anxiety and fears of many, when. the public feeling and sympathy became exclusively directed to the fate of the unfortunate sufferers who were bn board the Comet. In the confusion_which prevailed on Friday, with regard to the fatal accident, it was extremely difficult to get at the exact particulars. Though related in the most confident manner, the account of two of the bodies east on shore being blacks is, we learn, incorrect. So also there is reason to believe is the account of the loss of the Lady of a Colonel in the army, with seven children. We forbore to mention the name though it was stated to us upon respectable authority. The report must have taken its rise from mistaking aaother female passenger who had several children on board. It would also appear from our subsequent accounts, that Mr. Anderson must have mis taken Mr. Grahame's body for Captain Sutherland's, as the latter has not yet been found. In the hurry of going to press an error escaped us, where we say " Mr. Campbell of Cor pach" it should have been " Mr. Graham of Corpach" as it stood in a preceding part of our article. With these correc tions we proceed to lay before our readers such other particu lars as have come to oar knowledge, of a catastrophe which has covered this part of Scotland with regret and dismay. From the Herald of yesterday, and the Greenock Advertiser of Friday, we have selected some details of interest, and add the names (as far as known) and the number of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers who have been got ashore and recog nised to the latest date (yesterday forenoon) we have been able to obtain any authentic accounts. Of the cause and result of this fatal accident, little remains to be told. One fatal shock laid open the bow of the Comet.— In a few minutes the unfortunate inmates were precipitated into the deep—the Comet instantly filled and disappeared, and the stormy wave rolled over the spot as roughly as before, and as swiftly as if nothing had happened. The number of persons on board has not yet been ascertained, and we believe can only be correctly ascertained when the friends of those who have perished have from every quarter (and these distant) from whence the passengers by the Comet had been collected, have come forward to state the same. The number on board has been variously estimated at from 60 to 100. The number stated in our last is probably not far from the truth. In addition to the names of those lost, we may mention that of a young man named Frazer, belonging to •Fort William, who accompanied his young friend Mr. M'Braine, on a visit to this place,— Amongst the number saved, not mentioned in our last, there are Captain Campbell and Mr. Cameron, of Fort William, and a woman of the name of Munro. When the intelligence reached Edinburgh, it occasioned a senation equally great as in this place. The Lord Advocate promptly set off for Greenock, and in his way took with him J. Colin Dunlop, Esq., Sheriff-Depute of Renfrewshire ; and, upon the examination before them of persons and passengers belonging to the Comet, warrants have been issued for the ap prehension of the master of the Ayr,- and others implicated in this sad affair. The pilot of the Ayr was examined and com mitteti to prison on Sunday. A warrant is issued to apprehend the pilot of the Comet and bring him to examination; and yes terday M'lsnes, the master of this boat, went down to Green. ock, to be examined before the same Authorities. A strict and serious investigation into the matter will no doubt take plaee,—. the public demands it, and will not be satisfied without it; and not only so, but that some proper regulations and strong pte cautions should be adopted, to prevent, as far as human fore sight and human laws can prevent, the recurrence of calamities such as this, which corer districts of country with mourning, burst asunder in numbers the nearest and dearest of tie:, and plunge families and friends and relations into the most poignant and irretrievable affliction and distress. The bodies of Captain Sutherland and his young, amiable, but unfortunate wife, had not been found yesterday forenoon. It blew so hard that nothing could be done to recover from their watery bed any more of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers. In all 41 have been brought ashore, and every attention is paid to their lifeless remains. In this work, amongst sorrow and danger, the exertions of Mr. Ranken, our townsman, have been most unceasing, most praiseworthy, and such as entitle him to the thanks of the community at large. It will be seen from our list of names, that besides Mr. Mace Ulster, there is another respectable gentleman belonging to Edinburgh, Mr. Rollo, W.S. found amongst the dead. He has, we regret to learn, left a widow and a young and numerous family to de plore his untimely fate, and the greatest misfortune which c a n betel them. Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, had a narrow escape. She was at Ballahulish, waiting for the boat to come round to Glasgow. She stood on the shore, having taken farewell of her friends; but as the Comet approached she hesitated, the weather ap pearing gloomy, .and reflecting that the Stirling was to pass next day, she resolved to proceed in her, and accordingly the Comet was allowed to pass, and the Stirling passing during the night she missed her intended conveyance. Four Gentlemen (two Martineaus of London and Mr. Glover, &c.) landed from 1 the Comet at Rothsay and thus escaped the danger, though the time taken up in landing them delayed the Comet, and left her to meet the Ayr at the fatal point where she did. A buoy has been fixed over the wreck of the Comet. She lies about 150 to 200 yards from the shore, in about from 20 to 2.5 fathoms water. It is intended to raise her if possible. Till this is done, the extent of the calamity and loss, will not be as. certained, as it is probable a great number .of persons were drdwned in the Cabin and Steerage, and who, in the confusion to get on deck, could not effect their purpose. No time ought to be lost in going about this business. At this season of the year the weather cannot be depended on for a day, and one stormy night may dash her to pieces. - • " I have lived," says an informant, "at Gourock for a con. siderahle number of years, and identify myself with . the people, and am proud to say that to a man they have behaved in the most praise-worthy manner, active and zealous in 'the highest' degree, toiling by day and watching by night." The scene at Gourock on Saturday was distressing beyond measure. Relations were coming from all quarters in search of their friends, many of them uncertain whether they were in the. Comet, or coming by some other opportunity. Others were not kept so long in saspence, but their hopes were at once blasted by the awful spectacle of their lifeless friends• stretched out before them. Two pointer dogs swam ashore.__ They had lost their master. They lay down at the end of a house in Gourock. They refused all food, and could not be made to leave the spot. The following particulars 'ewe insert in the words of a Gentleman who was at the place on Saturday, and who has been kind enough to-lay them before us. " We left the Broomielaw," says he, " at ten A. 11. and reached Gourock at one o'clock. During ,the passage one young man informed me of his errand being to-ascertain the , t'ate of a brother and sister, the former on his way to complete his studies at College. On arriving at .liempoch• Point, , the first object this person recognized was his sister's body.- . She had just been landed by one of the boats and looked a tine young woman. I observed a Bible and some money, &c. taken from her pockets. By the time I reached the scene of mitfor. tune, four bodies had been previously found, by as many boats.' One or two other boats were preparing their tackle, and a steam boat, called the Sovereign, had commenced trawling with a net. During my stay, which did not exceed an hour, the several boats had been successful. I saw nearly a do zen odies brought on shore—pairs of which had been fished up to gether. At one haul of the net, three bodies were raised. One of these was the body of a man who had seemingly stripped for the purpose of swimming. He hung conspicuous (at the dis t tance of 5 or 600 yards) on the side of the vessel, sustained by the bottom of the net.. He appeared froM the shore to be naked, but I think some part of his dress was on. On being landed, the bodies were exposed for recognition. I saw the features of several.. They, in general,' appeared not much dis torted. One young boy, about 12 ori3; looked as if be slept, so placid was his countenance. Some instances were, however, truly terrific. A young woman had been grappled by the throat or face, ,and when borne from the waters' edge,' her face down- wards, with her lengloose hair.dripping with bleod and trailing on the stones, the heart sickened at the spectacle. The . pookets of the.sufferers were examined; if. poisible, to ascertain names. No legal or responsible person seemed, s however;'to conduct.the duty, nor could I discover byewhat.means the several articles torned,out, were preserved. fronr.spoliation. In-some pockets were found trinkets of ,no mean -value, and money to a consie derable amount. ,After thisinvestigation, the bodies were car ried on barrows -to the church, where they remained till re. moved by claimantse, or. to . Greenock. The unfortunate cause of the catastrophe, the.pilot of the Ayr, was in attendance. He appeared to take some interest in the search, but expresied ,much displeasure at theinterference of the trawling boat, which he insisted would only hurry the bodies out to deeper. water. This man bitterly complained of the publicejailgment in attri.- bating blarne to his boat. He declared that the Comet had no light, and was not perceived till in actual contact with the Ayr. By Mr. R.'s watch, the hour of the morning was a few minutes from two. At thatperiod the 'noon was set. It would be diffi cult to describe the feelings excited by the vicinity to the scene, and the entire recetusess of the calamity. To know that the eye rested on a given spot of not many yards circumference, within the boundaries of which were extended the pale and shrivelled corpses ofso many persons, unscathed by disease and wnpolluted by corrultion, and farther to think of the uncalrned distraction of perhap a thousand relatives, over whose threshold the rumour had pasted, but who as yet remained unconfirmed in their uncertainty.,was to experience a state of mind at once harrowing and deeply sympathetic. I left the scene with much unwillingness, as I litve no doubt many interesting occurrences were afterwards witnessed by the spectators." The Master and thee connected with the Ayr, have pub lished an explanation a defence of their conduct on this melan choly occasion. We issert it, but must state that we consider it a very lame one inded. With regard to the cause of the accident, it appears that both parties were greatly to blame ; the Comet, we must aknowledge, the most. It is the subse quent proceedings of he Ayr to which blame, and serious blame, seems to attach. We are far from wishing to judge of any one in such a moment with harshness or severity; but the most ordinary presenceof mind would have suggested to any one, in the situation ofthe Master of the Ayr, that if the Ayr was in a sinking state, the proper course to take was, to have got out her boats to save her own crew and passengers, and also all he could of these to whom he had left no succour, but such as he could afford; and, moreover, then have run his ves sel into Gourock, or asbre at that place, instead ofrunning off to Greenock, near three mks' distant, without once endeavouring to raise the alarm, or let tle inhabitants of Gourock know what had taken place. This eerainly was the course to pursue, and this certainly was the coure wseaman would have adopted, and which, in fact, two seanen belonging to the Harmony, passen. gers on board the Ay; attempted to do, by getting out her boat to relieve the crew and the p assengers of the Comet; and who, in doing this sen s hl e and judicious act, had nearly lost their own lives, by the nasfer of the Ayr putting the steam upon the vessel, and digging the boat under water ! We do not, and canset "tor a moment suppose, that any one connected with the I yr, did this from a cold blooded disregard of the lives of heir fellow-creatures, in such an ap palling and heart-rendirg, scene as presented itself to their view, but the defence pit forth raises our regret, and lays before us the cause of etch catastrophes as that which we are called upon to contemplate—the want of proper seamanship and ignorance of nautica affairs, on bbard of the steam-boats, on this occasion. So gnat was the latter, that the helms of both vessels were put he wrong way ! and thus the catas trophe was hurried on !Isiah might have been avoided. Had proper and experienced ,eamen been on board, this would not have taken place, and fad such been on board either of the boats, and more especialy of the Ayr, then, when the fatal stroke took effect, they vould have known what to do—what to do to relieve the greatet sufferer—what was the state of their own vessel—the danger she was in—the power of affording relief to the other, and lave been able to conceive And to direct her crew and passenger, that their nearest port for safety was Gourock, and moreover, that their "duty commanded them to stay by the wrack of the Comet till every living be ing was saved. That the Ayr was enabled to sail the same evening from Greenock, on her voyage to Ayr, is a sure proof that she hail suffered no great damage, and, which had there been any experienced stamen on board, would have been from the first moment ascertained and known, and acted upon ac cordingly. The deplorable catastrophe which took place off Gourock last Friday morning, will, we hope, be a lesson to all connected with or interested in steam-boats to have experienced mariners on board of them, hod - on account of the lives of their fellow, creatures and their own interests. Fresh water crews and masters are sufficiently dangerous in boats that ply merely between Glas-, , gow and Greenock, but none should be suffered to pass that port, more especially those win run long voyages, anti which are out during the night, on any slason,but more especially at this stormy season of the year,who are not manned with experienced masters and seamen, when, in case of accident and danger, that coolness, and presence of mind, sc characteristic of the true British sea-. man, would dictate to and enable them to pursue those mea sures, the most judicious, to avert accidents, or, where these are unavoidable, to render them as light as p oss ibl e , a n d not in the moment f danger and alarm to give way to despondency and terror, and be guided by ignorance, as seems to be-the case on the present melancholy occasion. To guard to the utmost against every danger which may lie in the way, no master of a steam vessel ought on any account to leave the deck, more especially by night, without appointing a trusty man to look-out, and another to be ready in case of any ap pearance of danger to stop the engine at a moment's notice, if re quired. When any accident ensued, the vessel which had not taken off her steam, and which had taken the wrong side, ought to pay all damages. Every steam vessel going towards the land, into any biy, harbour, or creek, or up any river, ought to keep to wards the larboard side ; and all steam vessels corning from the land, from any harbour, creek and bay, or going down any river to the sea, ought to !ceep to the starboard—or always to the right hand, and every vessel comin? into port or up any river, should have lights up—distinguishzng and conspicuousas are used by men of war for night signals, hung out forwards. By these simple regulations being enforced and attended to, many lives may be saved and much damage prevented. Also it would be proper in dark nights and in narrow channels to ring a bell or blow a horn - at near intervals. While on this subject also, we would suggest, and before any fatal accident compells us to call public attention to it, that all steam boats should have buckets on board to enable them to extinguish any fire which may break out, and the machinery may be so con structed, that the engines in case of necessity could be made to pour in water into any part of the vessel which may be on fire. Why should any precaution be wanting which could-calve life, and add to the security of property ? Friday, 21st October. SAVED. Captain M'lnnes Peter MI Bride, pilot, John Gillies, fireman, JohnM‘Lellan, steward, James Nichol, seaman, Peter Sutherland, carpenter, John Cameron, Fort-William, C. A. Anderson, Appin, Mrs. Miller, • Rachel M‘Kellar, 1.• Passengers. Jean Munro, Esc= M'Donald, from Fort-Augustus, All of the Comet. CAST ASHORE, 21st. :11rs. Wright, ,Hannah Both servants of . Sir Jos. Radcliff'. .Sarah Rik/ey, ,Two other women not known, Mr. Graham, Corpach, .John Bell, Dumbarton, James O'rierson, Ist steward of the Comet, Angus Cameron, Mrs. Miller's child, Another child, not known. FOUND ON 22D. Wm. Allen, Camis Eskan, James Miller, Leith, • John Reid, Edinburgh, A girl about 17, not known, Dun. MacKenzie, a Highland trader, An old man from Crinan name unknown, A woman unknown, supioSed to be the mother of four children, who were on board, John Dingwall, George Murray, a Highland trader, James Manderson, engineer of the Comet, A young woman, named Rose, A - sailor belonging to Limekilns or Kincardine, Ronald ArKenzie, piper to Sir Jos. Radcliff, A young Gentleman, linen marked CBS—surgical instruments found on him, Angus A. Kennedy, a young Gentleman on his way to College, A young man about 15 or l 6, Anthony Gallagher, an Irish pedlar, Euphan Nivea, servant to Mrs. Wright. • FOUND ON 23D. • John M‘Lachlan, seaman on board the Comet, ;Mrs. Wiucup, housekeeper to Sir J. Radcliff, A man; with brown coat, yellow buttons, and black trowsers, Donald•M‘l3rayne, John Gemmill, man-servant to Sir J. Radcliff, A man in blue trowsers, like a seaman, Mary Meek, servant to Sir J. Radcliff, Donald Campbell, merchant, Glasgow, H. 3...R0110, W. S. Edinburgh, . John Heron; one of the Comet's stewards, D6nald Cameron, do. • Alexandei .'Kenzie, _ do. RECAPITULATION. • Number saved, Cast ashore, 21st, Found, -22 d, , • , • Found, 28d, 12 11 la 12 Accounted for, 53 (Prom the Greenock Advertiser of Friday•) - A passenger on board the Ayr relates, that he was one of four cabid passengers who were all below when the accident' happened - . flaying lain down on a sofa undressed, he heard a noise - forward, which alarmed him, and before he had time to disentangle himself from the clothes he had thrown over him, the vessels. struck with a tremendous cra'h. On reaching the deck, he saw the Comet drifting from them and wheeling round; there was light enough from the moon to enable him to distinguish the hills on either side, and the various objects around. On board the Ayr the utmost con fusion prevailed. The Comet was in sight for about three minutes, when a most appalling shriek arose from the pas sengers on board of her, all evidently crowding to the side nearest the Ayr, and with outstretched arms imploring help ; not a cry reached his ears after the vessel went down, and in a few moments the river was as unruffled as ever ! All on board the Ayr were in the utmost consternation, and it is much to be feared in down-right stupefaction, with the excep tion of two seamen belonging to the Harmony, who, after en deavouring in vain to rally the men belonging to the vessel, lowered the boat at the stern, for the purpose of rendering whatever assistance was in their power ; but at the moment when she reached the water with one of the men in her, and before the tackles were yet unloosed, the steam was unfortu nately set on, and boat and man dragged under the water; he saved himself, however, by clinging to the ropes, and providentially for all on board, reached the deck, when he and his companion had enough to do to keep the vessel from going down ; she was evidently in a sinking state. At the time of the accident the Ayr had a light at the bow, as well as a man oil the look-out. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. " Greenock, 7 o'Clock, Saturday Night. " I have just returned from witnessing a most distressing and heart-rending sight :—ln the course 4f the afternoon 16 unhappy sufferers had been brought to shore, and were placed in the church, in order to be recognised by their anxious and distracted relations. A mother discovered her son ; and two young lads found each a brother amongst the melancholy wrecks of humanity. I will not attempt to describe the emotions of grief which they exhibited on meeting with those who parted so shortly from them in the fulness.of life, and with the prospect of living many days. An awful cloud overcast every prospect; and well might one of the survivors say, "that the shriek • which arose when the vessel was sinking in the waters was still ringing in his ears." Many on shore heard it; and it is only to be lamented that some boats were not earlier on the spot to render assistance, and save if possible such a waste of human life. Yesterday morning brought on shore 11 dead bodies, and the 19 of to-day make the whole 30. I, with many others, examined the countenances of almost all of them, and could hardly convince myself that death had stretched his sceptre over them. There was a mild sweetness peculiar to sleep on every face; and a little infant about two years old, lay amongst the dead as if its mother was lulling it asleep. This unfortunate innocent attracted universal sympathy. " There were two young ladies, at a little distance, on whose cheek one would think the rose of health had not be gun to fade ; there was a slight tinge of red on their lip, but alas ! they were cold as sepulchral marble; and the only indications of death which struck one at- first sight, was the loose and careless state of their head-dress, as if flying back with the wind. But why should I proceed further in this mournful catalogue, for all sexes and ages were there, from the infant to the grey-headed; and in this awful catastrophe death made no respect of persons, the rich and the poor met to gether. ".Every attention has been paid to the dead in 'getting coffins speedily provided for them, and it is expected that the whole will be, brought up this night to an aisle in the West Church of Greenock,' to •be buried, or to remain for a short time till they are claimed by relations. The.portmanteau of 111 x.. Rollo, W.S., Edinburgh, has been -found, and it is thought he is among the number that is brought on shore to-day. It is impossible toleavothis subject without noticing the praise-worthy. attention of out excellent Sheriff, Mr. Marshall, and Quintin:' I:eitch, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace; who have been on the spot late and early, and have arrangelielPery , thing under their own inspection.— An inventory of all the property found has been made out, and until such property is claimed, it has been lodged in the cellars belonging to the town." • -.The following statement is from the proprietors of the Ayr : '" The Ayr left Greenock about one o'clock in the morn ing, carrying a light a-head, which the regulations of the river dernand..„ Al]: -hand§- were on deck ; two or three of whOM were looking out at the bow. The master had been on the' paddle-box fiequently, calling to the men to look out well, until they concluded themselves abreast of Gou rock (fiv it was now dark, the moon setting at 40 minutes pait'l2) when he went aft to adjUst the binnacle-light. Re turning to resume his station on the paddle-box, and before he had reached the rail on the. quarter-deck, a cry of "boat ahead," and "starboard your helm," was heard from. the men stationed at the bow. The vessel immediately an swered the helm (now starboard) but the Comet's helm ap peared- to be to port, and the vessels in consequence came in contact. When the Ayr got away from the Comet, the master of the former ordered the small boat to be lower ed down in order to render the Comet assistance. In the hurry, however, the boat filled with water, and about this time the Comet disappeared. Every exertion was made by th. master to bring the Ayr round to the place where he presumed the Comet was, but it was some time before tha ves sel answered the helm, and when at length she did so, no trace could be found of the Comet. At this time the passengers of the Ayr (who before the crash had been below) apprehensive of their own danger, for she was then leaking much, grew cla mproui that the master should run the vessel ashore, and im plored him, with hands around him, or rather upon him, to do so, and to save their lives. He, therefore, seeing all attempts td rescue any of the Comet's people ineffectual, put about and returned to Greenock. The Comet had no light, nor did Capt. 31`Clelland hear any voice from her until the vessels met." Alond _ - Tuesday, Nov. 1 b ay A7SONIC:O ' NOTICES FOR IVEI2‘ --j id : y, _ ' A, Wedne Oct. 31, ENGLAN D . LoITDo. No. 458. CousrnY. Nos. 227, 246, 360, 591, M. ~,,,, 287, 3/5 , LoNnox. Ng.9.9,. ib-_, l, 130 COUNTRY. Nos. 2t, oi„ 127 , -_ 1 Thursday, 167, 170, 180, 184, 196, 204, 240, 385, 387, 47 6, 507, 512, 532, 544, 551, 557, 639, 640. 2. Lownox• Nos. 35, 75, 220. Grand Chapter. COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124, 139, 146, 207, 229, 339, 46 5, 487, 491, 505, 513, 5! 26, 713, 725. 529, 581, 585, 656, 11, -3, Lownox. Nos. 61, 277, 325, 409. _ CouteritY. Nos. 48, 113, 171, 16'4 234, 416, 451, 453, 45, y - 469, 555, 561, Frida 599, 6 27 ' • ' -4, LONDON. No. 210. COUNTRY. Nos. 13, 29, 30, 55, 58, 470, 538. . -5, LoNDorr. No. 173. COUNTRY Saturday, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 2251 4i 3 per Cent. Red al 7 3 per Cent. Cons. B7lf 3i per Cent. Ditto Red 94a4 4 per Cent. New lo3thf Bank Long Ann. 20 15-16 21 India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bds,s per cent Brazilian Bds 1825 Scrip Buenos Ayres lids B:4 Chilian, Yids ' 6 per cent.... Colombian lids, 6 per ct. 75i Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. Do. 3 Tier cent. Greek lids 29 Do. Scrip 1825 Guatimala 11 ex i can Bds Do. do. 6 per cent. • fl t Y t T ONE o'ci,ocK• Old Annuities ............... ENxe.l3Dinisttioo.oo.7. . •.... .......... Ditto ... 5001. lAd par 2 pm' Ditto Small Icl - . ...... 2 4 p 4 ,11. Ditto Advertised ............ Bank for Acct......... India for Acct. ............... Cons. for Acct. ............ ol; NOS AT ONE O'CLOON• Mexican Scrip ............... Neapolitan, S per cent. ••• Neapolitan do. 1824...•••••• Peruvian Bonds ............ Do. Scrip .................. Portuguese Bonds ......... Prusmian, 5 per cent. ...... Ditto New ..................... itu,sian, New, 5 per ct....,9;-$ Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. 1704 1 1823 .................. French R e ntes, 5 p. c. 99f•f lb" - E xc h an ge ... 2 5 f . 3 per cent. • 20c.' - -- Exchange ... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK• Per Aa r i fe Anglo-Mexican Mining Company .......... .......... 4 Anglo-Chilian Mining Company ......................... 1 , 1 " Bolanos Mining Company HaytianCastello a ivi l n n i tE in si c iri o t m o p S a a n nt y .o Brazil ➢lining Company $# $ Pasco Peruvian Mining Company ....................... .. Royal Waldeck Mining Company ............ 0 .1 2 2j. New United Mexican Mining Company ............ ei 7i Welch Iron and Coal Mining Company ............ Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Company .- ...... 5 A Ditto, Marine Department ......... .................. 3i Birmingham and Liverpool Railway .................. ig 19i British Iron Company British Rock and Patent Salt Company ............... t;. • Canada Company ........................................... Provincial Bank of Ireland ............................ • ••• FOLtEIGN MAILS. ARlit VED• PLIII• Harnburgh . Morning, lf"4l i " A 4 4 1E- - 0 1 • Franca - - .. 1 0 2. 1 Evening, : fter S• minutesltATl a V e N r DON BlilD(E0Vir.3101111011C THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAA LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, I°' Our extracts from the French Papers of Mon day received last night will be fou nd of a ore interesting nature than usual. The Journal t ies Dobals has a long private letter from Madrid' stating several reports as to negociations g°ill forward between the Spanish Governm(-4 an" the revolted Colonies of South America,hf the independence of the •latter is to be recogise". upon certain terms by the Mother Country."-- It is here said, that the Mexican Republic had offered, as the price o f its indePend# ence, half the debt of Spain — a sum of th ree athil it hundred millions of fra ncs—and to Spanish vessels to the M exican ports at duty of half that charged o n other foreign s hiP ':, Another report, however , states that the 3 15 millions of francs, and the commercial privilege/ t all that has been tendered, but adds, that the F °r of St. Juan d'Ulloa a nd its dependencies viol in remain a Spanish poss ession. The exorbitance of these offers would be almost sufficient to di°- cr edit the rumour, althoug h otherwise the recog" es I)/ ninon of the independen ce of her s h e Colo m ay Spain, however weak ened and exhausted SOill be, is an object of no small interest to the American Republics. 'file Republic of C°l°/ot 1" bia has been e xcluded from these discussons/ n having offered to advance a sum of m oney• These Papers also con tain two letters, one fro the Court of Rom e to the Archbishop o f MAL 9l° ' dandttitsee u o t s h s i e o r li t s h e ra the es t a blishment of the ne w College at Louve raised C d il i b n i S ; 0: ' N S r e e t p h l e y r; a rile; r b i ri g t t bri c e and the suppression o f the provincial esnfolli.s...,i" mee ts, whose place it wa s intended to suer ie i bo r a r n i d i e hii's°bPrEe in hi s lte ends the t A o r o , anti e%. ' land, for their cond uct in this matter, K should, horts them to be pass ive in case thelox in spite of the remonstrances. of the H ol y Father,teitiecr, acotimlomlicprieshodchobrlr, proceed iu the execution of his orders. -- 4210 "'" The i lll geme ine Zeitung to the 90th october came to hand this day . The follorti4 estractg DISTRESSING CASE. Wonsnir-sTREET.---Yeaterday morning, An thony Compere, an interesting-looking youth, whose tattered I garments and woeful countenance clearly indicated that he was labouring under considerable distress of mind, and had re cently been the victim of serious want, was brought before Mr. - BENKETT, the sitting,MaOstrate, charged by the night con stable ofKingslanttitith being found loitering about the neigh bourhood of the Cock and Castle, Kingsland-road, in an ap parently distressed state of mind, and without being enabled to -give.a proper account of himself. The youth, on being placed at the bar, burst into a torrent of tears; and in a manner bespeaking at once that the tale he told proceeded from an ingenuous mind, stated that he was the un happy- offspring•-of a father who had a second time entered the bonds of wedlock, and as is. too often the case in - alliances of this -nature, had become the unmerited victim, not of the step mother merely, but to the paternal relation to whom lie owed his birth. To such an extent indeed had their unkindness and persecution recently gone that he preferred even the torments of death itself to the insu fferable continuance of such a life as that which he had been compelled, from- his religious awe of self-destruction, so distressingly to prolong. He had made many efforts, indeed all those which ingenuity or perseverance could devise, to obtain such a livelihood as to enable him to quit that roof, and forego that protection, which, as a child, an affec tionate. and obedient child, he had aright to expect from those who were destined to guide his future pursuits in life. The ill-success of his efforts was attended with an increased severity on the part of those from whom, as he had already stated, he might have expected better treatment, and unable longer to bear their persecution he.quitted home with Providence only as his hope and guide. Still -unsuccessful, famine and disease overtook him,- and in this wretched plight was found by the constable who had now brought him before his Worsnip, a situation which the natural consequences of his forlorn condi tion, and not crime, had placed him in. The tale was told with such clearness and such an appear ance of truth, as to excite from all those who heard it the deepest feelings of sympathy for the wretched situation of the unhappy youth ; in which feeling the Bench itself seemed greatly to participate. Mr. BENNETT, the Sitting Magistrate, who treated the case with great feeling, asked Compere in what manner he had been employed. • ' • He stated that be had hitherto been in the employ of Mr. Jackson, a. stationer in the Strand ; but from his weak state of health, he was unable to perform the duties allotted to him. lie would, however, accept any situation rather than again obtrude himself on the bounty of those who had thus ill-treated him. Mr. BEN NETT having ascertained that his age was 15, and that in point of stature and every other consideration lie was a fit object for recommendation to the Marine Society, asked him if he would like to go to sea. • The boy, with great eagerness, embraced the opportunity thus humanely suggested to him by th e wor thy Magistrate, and said he would gladly accept any employment, however menial. The Magistrate immediately gave directions for the neces sary communications to be made to the leading officers of the Marine Society, and in the mean time - thought it prudent to adopt means for acquainting the parent with the destination of his child. --- To this, however, the youth objected, observing, that front the recent treatment he had received from his father, he was Per suaded that his future fate must be a matter of perfect indifference to him. . It appeared, on a question from the Magistrate, that the boy had been for some time without food. Air. Bennett humanely ordered some to - be immediately procured for him, and request ed the paiisb officers ofShoreditch to take care of him until he should have 'carried into effect his arrangements' with the Ma rine Society, which was accordingly promised. The father was etateti to be living in Fetter-lane, Holborn..