The Sun. — London, England, 1825-01-14 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN• ON TIME. Mit. EDITOR—The close of one year, and the opening of another, naturally inclines the reflect ing mind to fix its attention upon Time, that most invaluable, yet most fleeting, gift of our Creator. Scarcely has the first toll of midnight an nounced to our ears, on the 31st of December, than one-year had terminated, than the next had already commenced. In Time there is no inter. ruption ; it moves on with even steps silently ; yet unerring in its progress ; it steadily pursues its circling course, affording us at once the en joyment of the present, the recollections of the past, and the anticipation of the future. There is something truly awful in this silent progress of time. Dreadful may be the war of the raging elements, theearth may be convulsed and shaken In its very foundations ; Empires may rise and fall, and nations be swept away from the face of the earth, men may pine and die; all, in a word, may change ; but amidst the war of elements, the convulsions of our globe, the revolutions of Empires, Time still moves on with equable steps, comprehending within its fathomless bosom every passing event, but undisturbed by any, and ever regularly holding " the noiseless tenor of its way." _ _ Though so intimately connected with our exist ence, Time is, however, more easily understood that' defined. We are conscious that it exists, since our life forms a portion of it, and since in it all our actions are performed, yet can we form no clear and adequate idea of its nature. Whilst we zrasp the present, the existence of Time seems evident; but no sooner have we lost it, than we are plunged into uncertainty and doubt. So much are we accustomed to identify our own existence with that of Time, that even though we know that whole generations have successively g assed away before we came into the world, yet, the more we reflect upon the subject, the less can we comprehend how it will happen that generations will be born and exist when we our selves are no more. Memory may give us an idea of the past, enjoyment may point out the present, but of the future we can form no clear or distinct idea. By some philosophers of old, the existence of 'rime was altogether denied. Yet, surely, the consciousness of our being, and the succession of •our ideas, are, in themselves, convincing proofs that it exists. It must, however, exist without any absolute dependence upon these, since, if this were not the case, it would follow, that as the ideas of some men flow with more rapidity than those of others, Time would also fly with more swiftness for the one than for the other. To mark the progress of Time, by which all our actions must be regulated, it was, therefore, ne cessary to fix upon some standard, some regular and uniform motion, and as we know of none pos sessing all these properties in a greater degree than the motion of the heavenly bodies, it was natural that the revolutions of the sun and moon should be fixed upon to mark the progress of Time, and divide it into equal portions. Some in genuity, and many accurate observations, were, however, requisite before the motions of the heavenly bodies could be effectually applied to the proper division of Time. The phases of the MOOll were assuredly the most ap parent phenomenon of the heavens. The four changes which it undergoes, must have been soon noticed, and as each of these changes occupies about seven days, and returns at the ex piration of about four times. this number of days, they g ave the idea of dividing Time into weeks of seven days, and into months of four weeks each. The first, because the most obvious, division of Time, must have been, however, that into days, sparked by the apparent daily motion of the sun. His absence or his presence pointed out the divi-, sion into day and night. Whence, amongst some of the nations of antiquity, the days and nights were of unequal lengths at various times of the' , year; the former comprizing the whole time the sun remained above the horizon, and the latter the whole time of his absence. And as the hours were always the same in number, it followed that they also differed in length. This latter mentioned division of Time into hours is attributed by Herodo tus to the ancient Babylonians. They accomplished this by means of a pole or glomon, the shadow of which served to mark the different hours of the day, in the same manner as our sun dials. This method must be very ancient, for men must soon have noticed that the shadow cast by any upright object always moved in a direction opposite to that of the sun. The term hour is first mentioned by Daniel, who flourished about 600 years B. C. Yet the first sun dial upon record is one set up by Ahaz, King of Jude, 727 years before the Christian era. The gnomon was introduced at Rome by Papyrius Cursor 293 years B. C. About 24 Years B. C. Etesibius,of Alexandria invented the Elepsydra, or water clock, so called because it marked the hours by the water which flowed from one vessel into another, acting there fore upon a principal somewhat similar to that of the common hour glass. Clocks were invented either by Boethius in the year 510, or by Pacificus of Verona in the course of the ninth century. That they were known at this period in the East is evident from a striking clock being sent as a present to Char lemagne by the celebrated Caliph of Bagdad, -Ilaroun al Ita.o..id. For the improvement of this useful instrument we are indebted to the la bours of Galileo and Huygens. The earliest watches upon crecord were made by Peter Hela .at Nuremberg,.-in 1490, and, from the place where they first appeared, they were called Nu remberg Eggr, a name derived also from their oval shape. The•irst watch that•marked seconds existed at Vienna in 1500, and we stand indebted to Barlow and to.Quare for the Invention ,of re peaters, •which .were made for the -first time about the year 1676. •The earliest division .of the year was :into Awelrelunar months, because it was soon no ticed that the same season returned when twelve iusfetions had elapsed. Hence the, first year spa► record consisted of only 354 days ; and 4 ' 414 rear is still employed by the Mahommedanse But this year being too short by eleven days, six hours, and forty-nine minutes, the order of the seasons soon became inverted, which led to an -1 other division of the year into 360 days, whence the Zodiac, the 'Ecliptic, and subsequently every circle, of a sphere, were divided into 360 degrees. TLe errors of this new division were soon made apparent, and-by subsequent improve ments of the Egyptians, Romans, and of the Mo derns, the duratio❑ of the year was at length fixed at 365 days six hours, which, though not strictly correct, is yet sufficiently so to answer the ordinary purposes of life. The real length of the year, or the time the Sun employs in pass ing through the whole circle of the Ecliptic, is, according to Laland, 363 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 8 seconds. A. P. GRAND CANAL OF AMSTERDAM. Great Britain may be justly said to have taken the start of every country in Europe, as regards the construction of national works, combining utility with vastness of design. The Plymouth Breakwater, in magnitude of conception, utility, and laborious execution, unquestionably surpass the celebrated Cones of Cherbourg. Our Cale donian canal we have been in the habit of con sidering as unrivalled in extent and dimensions, berg capable of bearing a large frigate from the German Ocean to the western side of Scotland, but the new oanal of Amsterdam, forminga communica tion from the ocean to that great commercial city, exceeds in depth and dimensions any similar work in Great Britain. We have been favoured with copies of the following letters from one of the most eminent mercantile houses in Europe, de scribing the course and extent of this canal, with the estimated rates and charges of navigation, &c. A 44-gun frigate appears to have already made the passage with success—and from this state ment, it also appears there is sufficient capacity for even a ship of SO guns. The projected canal from Ptirtsrnouth is calculated for ships of the line, and if executed, might vie with this canal of Amsterdam, in depth and width, and in length would exceed it in the proportion of 100 to 50 miles.—(Morning Chronicle.) "AMSTERDAM, DEC. 21.—The canal from this city to Nieuw Diep (the harbour of the Texel roads, and a most ex cellent one) was opened last week, and his Majesty's frigate Bellona, of 44 guns, performed the voyage in 4s dark, short, and cleady days, drawn by horses. At the outset she had twelve horses, hut afterwards less. She drew sixteen feet, but was neither-masted nor tackled, as she is to be fitted out at the new arsenal at the Nieuw Diep. During her voyage she met, in the canal, a Dutch Bataviaman, the Christina Bernadina, Captain Zyletraa, coming up to this city. These vessels passed each other without the slightest difficulty. The latter was, on Saturday evening, at Purmevend, a town at three leagues distance from this, where she is still detain e d by cont i nua l storms; she has been: drawn by six horses. This first essay has succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectation, and has proved to demonstration that the said *channel will be of the greatest benefit to our trade anti navigation, as, in the fa vourable season, the largest merchant ships, drawing fifteen or sixteen feet and more water, will be enabled to come into our harbour, at a very small expence without any risk, and in two or three days, without breaking bulk. Even in the worst season the passage will always he practicable, but of course with some more detention and trouble. At present one horse pada only is ready, and not even well finished, on one of the banks. Next spring there will be one on both sides; and there will be in attendance two powerful steam boats to tow up vessels, so that every facility will be afforded. You know under what disadvantages we hitherto laboured, by the expence and trouble attending the lighterage from the Nieuw Diep, and the general complaint of the captains to be compelled to abandon their vessels, in order to transact their business here. All 'those obstacles arc now removed, as also the almost unavoidable risk of pilferage, when a cargo is to be transhipped by lighters. The navigation on the canal, which has, at the narrowest place, a width of 120 fe e t, i s li a bl e to no risk whatever ; and it passes through a low. and populous. country, where all sorts of assistance can be procured, if wanted. —There are in it 5 large luck; having the dimensions of. an 80 gun man,of-war. The length of the canal is near 50 Eng limit miles. The tariff of charges net yet positively fixed, but is estimated at 100 f. far a loaded ship of 300 tons." " A atsTEß : iiaai, Jas. 7, 1825.—The tolls on the channel to the Nieliw Diep are not yet positively fixed, but we h a ve f u ll reason to hope that they will not exceed :10f. to 35f. for a vessel of 300. tons ; shortly-a tariff for the hire of horses will be pub lished, and the cosi of one from the Nietiw Diep to this will not exceed 9f. In the good season we think that a vessel of that size will want traly five horses, and easily perform the distance in two days. Foreign vessels will most likely want a pilot, or rather a man accustomed to the navigation in a channel, and ec quainted with the locality. his wages are as yet undetermined. but cannot exceed 10f. to 20f., so that the charges will stand thus: — Surmised amount of tolls -35 f. Five horses, at OE each -45 f. A pilot -15 f. Small charges, fees, &c. sf. About -109 f. " The tolls of the locks are to he taken according to the ton nage of the vessel, without any distinction as to the nature of the cargo, the construction, or the draught of water. Towards the latter end of this summer, a large steam-boat of 60 horse power will be in attendance at the Nieuw Diep, chiefly destined for towing up large vessels from the Texel Roads into that harbour, and likewise for bringing them out into the North Sea. This will afford a great facility to all sorts of vessels, and in some instances this steam-boat 'nay likewise be employed for towing large ships through the channel, but for those of middling size-horses arc evidently cheaper. " It is eccessary that foreign Captains should guard against the interested information and advices they will get at the Helder, respecting the navigation through the channel. It is evident that all the inhabitants of that place will do the utmost to persuade the Captains to stay there with their vessels, and therefore it is essential they should be instructed not to take any determination, nor to engage lighters before having received instructions from their correspondents in this city, as well as not to place too much confidence in the information they will get on their first arrival at the Nieuw Diep." LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF A MINOR SERVING ON A PETIT JURY.—A discovery has lately been made, the effects of which will be to let loose again upon society two noted thieves who were tried and convicted in the High Court of Justi ciary in Scotland in the month of December last, viz.:—Hugh Moses and Alexander Mackay; the former of whom was ordered to be trans ported for fourteen years for theft ; and the latter to be executed for housebreaking. We are credibly informed, that neither of those sen tences can be carried into effect—inasmuch as it has since been discovered tha one of the Jurors who sat on both trials was at the time under the age of twenty•one years. Chows.—The American farmers have the fol lowing refined method of destroying their crows. —Soak a few grains of Indian corn till they be come soft, then with a needle run a long horse hair through each grain, and strew them about your fields ; this will, in a short time, rid you of the crows' melodious notes, together with their depredations. They swallow the grain, but the hair being long, one end remains in the throat and mouth, which causes such a titillation, that they scratch out their own eyes in the exertion to extricate it. Gray Peas, probably, would be round to answer .the same purpose in England. RECOGNITION OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDE. PENDENCE. ( From the Etoik dated Tuesday.) IVe must expect to find certain great writers make a great noise on the determination announced by the British Govern• ment to conclude commercial treaties with the new Republics of South America. The Journal des Debats, which makes every thing the ground for an attack, says this morning—" The consequences of this measure are most serious : and it is at this critical moment, when Ministers have just proposed an indemnity in all respects so sacred in its character—it is at this moment that they think of the conversion of rentes, in order to create new means," &c. What connexion is there between our projets of laws and the English commercial treaties with the Spanish insurgents ? Let the Journal des Debits recollect the treaties of commerce with the Spanish Cortes. What has become of the guarantee for them ? It is, however, an essential point, which claims the attention of all reflecting minds, that the measure in question does not alter the principle of right, and can exercise but a very limited influence on the fact. " The interests of our manufacturers and merchants," say the English journalists, " demand that we should recognize the Republics of Mexico and Colombia." The answer to this argument will be found even in the Manifestos published by the Court of London, when the colonies of North America began in 1775 to rebel against the mother country. We there read in every page, that the Sovereign of Great Britain was not less the King of Pensylvania and Virginia than of the provinces of York and Northumberland. They seek to support this decision on the speech to Parlia ment, and on diplomatic papers laid on the tables of the two houses. But in every thing that has been said or written, we constantly find this admission—that, while opposing herself to foreign interference in the affairs of Spanish America, the Cabi net of it. James's never pretends to contest the full and entire right which the King of Spain has to employ all means, even force, to reduce to obedience the revolted colonies. The right of ligitimate sovereignty over these countries of the New World is, then, formally recognized as inherent in the Crown of Spain. To give effect to it, she has had recourse t o conciliatory negociations, and, finally, to arms. This great struggle is far from being terminated. Who, then, would in vest all at once a foreign authority with supremacy so absolute, that a simple declaration of her part should be sufficient to an nihilate all the rights of Spain ! If such confusion be established in the political principle which govern civilized nations, where would the calculations of ambition and mercantile cupidity stop ? Europe would see that disasterous period revive, when a decree, dictated by the ever-increasing thirst of aggrandisement, announced that such a Sovereign House had ceased to reign. To-day, for instance, the English would release the American subjects of Spain from their oath of fidelity ; to-morrow, Spain might proclaim the independence of the Asiatic subjects of England ! But such declarations are nothing, so long as they are not supported by fleets and armies. And can it be supposed that the royal troops of Spain, who still possess the most beautiful portion of Peru and Chili, will suddenly retire, struck with terror, because some English consuls have arrived on the ter ritory of the scarcely-formed republics of Mexico and Colom bia ? Certainly not. When the sword is drawn, force no longer regards any thing but force; and England has never dreamed of employing it to solve this question, the decision of which cannot be more fatal to any other Power on the globe than to herself. (Prom the Etoile, dated Wednesday.) The Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debats (for we are destined to find them always together) attempt to draw an argu ment against the' presentation of the la* projects before the Chambers, from the measure which the British Cabinet has just adopted in negociating treaties with Mexico and Colombia, as if the King's Government had been taken unawares by this determination. We do not pretend that this fact is not important; we lOok upon it even as serious ; but it is incorrect to represent that it was unexpected, and that the French Ministry must have been surprised by it because it was not foreseen. To refer to the declarations of Great Britain will be a suffi cient reply on this point. In the speech of the King of England on the opening of the Session, his Britannic Majesty made known his sentiments to Spain and the other Powers; and it is only necessary to consult the diplomatic documents to be con vinced that communications in the same spirit were made by the English Cabinet previous to the month of March, 11323; that is to say, before the speech of the King of France, at the opening of the Chambers, laid it down for the first time as a principle .that an indemnity should be granted to the emigrants. It cannot, therefore, be said that the intentions of England were unknown to the French Cabinet when the measure of indemnity was brought forward. Besides, the speeches of the Earl of Liverpool and Mr. Canning were still more decided in favour of the acknowledgment of independence than the mea sure which the British Cabinet has just adopted. We ask the journalists who reproach our Ministry for hav ing, under those circumstances, introduced the law of indem nity into the Chambers, whether they do not think that the accomplishment of this great measure is not much better cal culated to consolidate order, and to strengthen confidence, than an indemnity announced in prospective? We ask, in fine, this very cavilling opposition, and even in terms which have twice proceeded from the throne, whether France will not, when she has dosed the last wounds of the Revolution, be more at liberty to direct her views abroad ? Will not the world be then more certain of finding in every combination of the poli tical system the influence of this great and powerful monarchy, which has paid so dearly for the right of warning all other states of the globe against violent innovations ? Certainly, and we have no hesitation in repeating it, Eng land, by lending, if not her hand, at least her name, to acce lerate the total separation between the Old and the New World, has taken a very grave step, and one, all the consequences of which she has probably calculated ; the same as every. Cabinet in Europe, being; duly apprised of h er i n t en ti ons , h as a l so cal culated them beforehand. But these consequences have a future, not an immediate re ference ; and we are bound to say, no power is so much in terested as England herself, in preserving, untouched, the principle of legitimacy—witness Ir e l a nd, India, and the West Indies. What England has done, therefore, is, as we have already said, either a commercial or a political act. In a commercial point of view, the treaties with the new Republics add nothing to what she already possessed—namely, the greater part of the, commerce of those countries. We may easily suppose that she will not pretend to stipulate for exclusive privileges beyond those of other nations; for, notwithstanding what the Ari :torque says, the French Ministry would never give its sanc tion to so base an abandonment of its interests and its honour ! Considered in a political point of view, England may be re garded as having committed a dangerous act, by the example which is thus given to her own Colonies—an act, too, which cannot be really beneficial to the .Republicans of Colombia but in proportion as it may be followed by an efficacious interven tion, and we perceive that the English Courier strongly dis claims all intention of this kind. What, then, is to be concluded from the conduct of England? That the enormous interests of private individuals have impe riously demanded these treaties. English commerce has al ready embarked from four to five hundred millions in loans to those countries. To that must be added the working of the mines of Mexico, of Colombia, of La Plata, the pearl fishery of La Plata ; and we behold a mass of British interests, too im portant in every point of view to remain without that protection which will necessarily grow out of the relations now about to be established. Has not England, then, committed a fault by thus placing private interests above public ones I We think so, and the future will teach England so. With respect to the reproaches addressed to the French Ca binet, why are they not equally cast on the Cabinets of Austria, of Russia, and of Prussia, whose principles, as well as ours, are at variance with what England has done ? If we ask all the daily publicists, those hook politicians,what they would have France do, they would be much puzzled to answer. For more than a year the United States have recog nized the independence of the new Republics, and yet their vessels are received in Spanish ports. Do they wish that Spain and the other Continental Powers had declared war against the United States ? Let them say so, or cease their de clamations We repeat it, France, Europe, have not been taken by sur prise. And while Frenchmen, too forgetful of the glory of their name, delight to represent France as a stranger to the councils which regulate the destiny of nations, there is not a country on the face of the globe where the Monarchy of Louis XIV. has not regained that eminent rank from which the revolutionists Alone were able to degrade it. SLAVE TRADE. We feel much pleasure in the insertion of the following authentic document, which is highly in teresting to the friends of humanity; and we cannot but warmly approve of the principles which dictated a remunstance so just upon the alterations made by the American. Government in a treaty that seemed to be‘mutually agreed upon by that Government and the British Cabi net. The subjoined letter is characterized by frankness, and a due regard to the dignified character of the British Empire. MR. GEORGE CANNING TO MR. RUSH. Forzify:,n Office, Aug. 27, 182.1. Sin—ln pursuance of what I stated to you in our late con ference, I have now the honour to address you on the subject of the qualified ratification, on the part of your Government, of the treaty for the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade, which was conclude:l and signed in the month of March last, by you and his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries. His Majesty's Government have given the most anxious and deliberate consideration to this subject, and if the result of that consideration has been to decide that they cannot advise his Majesty to accept the American ratification (norwithstanding the arguments alleged by you, in the name of your Govern ment, in favour of such acceptance), I entreat you to believe it is not from any diminished sense of the importance of the mat ter to which that treaty relates. Nor do they at all under-rate the desire which, as you have assured me, and as they really believe, was felt by the Presi dent of the United States, to adopt the provisions of the treaty, such as it was transmitted to America. But the result is not the less inconvenient. A treaty, of which the basis was laid in propositions framed by the American Government, was considered here as so little likely to be made a subject of renewed discussion in America, that not a moment was lost in ratifying it, on the part of his Majesty; and his Majesty's ratification was ready to be ex changed against that of the United States when the treaty came back not as it had been sent to America, but with material variations—variations not confined to those stipulations, or parts of stipulations, which had been engrafted upon the original project, but extending to that part of the original project itself which had passed unchanged through the negociation. The knowledge that the Constitution of the United States renders all their diplomatic compacts liable to this sort of revi sion, undoubtedly precludes the possibility of taking exceptions at any particular instance in which that revision is exercised ; but the repetition of such instances does not serve to reconcile to the practice the feelings of the other contracting party, whose solemn ratification is thus rendered of no avail, and whose concessions in negociation having been made (as all suds con cessions must be understood to be made) conditionally, are thus accepted as positive and absolute, while what may have been the stipulated price of those concessions is withdrawn. In the instance before us, the question is not merely of form. A substantial change is made in the treaty ; and, as I have said, on a point originally proposed by yourself, Sir, as the American Plenipotentiary, and understood to be proposed by the special direction of your Government. The right of visiting vessels suspected of slave-trading, when extended alike to the West Indies and to the Coast of America, implied an equality of vigilance, and did not necessarily imply the existence of grounds of suspicion on either side. The removal of this right, as to the Coast of America, and its continuance to the West Indies, cannot but appear to imply the existence, on one side, and not on the other, of a just ground either of suspicion of misconduct or for apprehension of an abuse of authority. To such an equality, leading to such an inference, his Ma jesty's Government can never advise his Majesty to consent. It would have been rejected, if proposed in the course of nego ciation. It can still less be admitted as a new demand, after the conclusion of the treaty. With the exception of this proposed omission, there is nothing in the alterations made by the Senate of the United States, in the treaty (better satisfied as his Majesty's Government un doubtedly would have been if they had not been made), which his Majesty's Government would not rather agree to adopt, than suffer the hopes of good, to which this arrangement had given rise, to be disappointed. Upon this omission, they trust the Senate of the United States will, on another consideration of the subject, see that it is not equitable to insist. A full power will therefore be sent to Mr. Addington, his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Washington, to conclude and sign, with any Plenipotentiary to be appointed by the Ameri can Government, a treaty, verbatim the same as the returned treaty would be, with all the alterations introduced into it by the Senate, excepting only the proposed omission of the words " and America" in t`--e first article; which treaty, if trans mitted to England, with the ratification of the Government of the United States, his Majesty will be ready to ratify. But I am to apprise you, Sir, that his Majesty will not be advised to appoint Plenipotentiaries to conclude and sign the like treaty here, to be, as before, ratified by his Majesty, and to be again subjected, after ratification by his Majesty, to altera tions by the Senate of the United States. I am confident that you will see, in this distinction, nothing more than a reasonable safeguard for his Majesty's dignity, and a just desire to ascertain, before his Majesty again ratifies a diplomatic instrument, to what conditions that ratification is affixed. I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, GEORGE CANNING. To Richard Rush, Esq., &c. ITALIAN AND SPANISH REFUGEES.—The Sub- Committee for the Relief of the Spanish and Italian Refugees held a Meeting on Wednesday, in the Irish Chamber at Guild hall, for the purpose of investigating the particular situation of each of the Italian emigrants. At eleven o'clock, Mr. Alder man WOOD took the Chair, there being then present a great number of Italians. Many of these expressed their readiness to re turn to those parts of the Continent where they could remain un molested ; and it was consequently resolved by the Sub-Cont mittee, that 101. should be advanced to all those who would produce their passports to the Secretary, with the full under standing, at the same time, that they renounced in consequence all further claim upon the funds now supplied by the public.-- Numerous applications have also been made to the Committee for teachers of the Spanish and Italian languages ; and many of the Refugees being well qualified to undertake such situations, as well as to give lessons in music and drawing, which they would be willing to do on very moderate terms, the Committee re solved, that the sum of 5/. should be given to all those who might obtain situations of that kind in this country, with a simi lar understanding as to their renouncing further claims. The Committee use the utmost precaution to prevent the too rapid diminution of the fund at their disposal. A Meeting will be theld to-morrow (Saturday) to consider the particular cases of the Spanish Refugees. USEFUL INVENTION.-MUCK curiosity was ex cited about nine o'clock yesterday evening in the Strand by the appearance of a Gentleman on horseback, from whose feet streams of light issued forth, and showed the pavement for several yards before and round the head of his horse as clearly as in day-time. He stopped at our Office, and we found on examination that the light proceeded from a set of lamps of his invention, one of which, was fixed under each stirrup, and hav ing three sides darkened, emitted in front a blaze which was prevented by the rider's feet from rising to dazzle his eyes, and fell on the foreground with such power as to make every hol low or impediment visible and render it as safe to ride in the darkest night as in the brightest noon. The lamps are supplied with common oil and so ingeniously arranged that the light is not affected in the least by the motion of the horse. The Gentleman, who left his name, Mr. PEAT, of No. 167, Piccadilly, had just ridden from Romford, in Essex, to town, and his lamps were in as good order and shone as brilliantly as when he set out. This is a most useful invention, which can not fail to save many limbs and lives if adopted by all who have occasion to ride at night. Without the least impediment to the action of the horse, or any incumbrance or trouble to the rider, it supplies both with a constant and sufficient quantity of light to prevent all accidents which proceed from an imperfect view of the state of the roads.—( Morning Post.) CHILD MURDER.--A young man, named John Power, residing on Hennessy's-road, opposite the Penitentiary, was taken into custody on Wednesday last, under the follow. ing circumstances :—On the preceding Friday, a young wo man, named Mary Gram, of Kilbarry, left at Power's house, in his absence, a child of about three weeks' old, the fruit of their illicit mmection. In three or four days afterwards, prompted by maternal affection, she called to inquire after the infant, but could get no tidings of it, except that it had not been seen since a short time after she had left it. On her application to the Mayor, on Wednesday, Power was called on to account for the child, and refusing on several examinations to do so, or rather giving evasive and unsatisfactory answers, he had been kept in custody. On Friday, however, he acknowledged to the constable who has charge of the Tower, that he made away with the child • but though dilligent search had been made for the body, both in Bilbarry grave yard (where he first said it had been deposited) and in John's Pill (into which he subsequently stated he had thrown it), no trace of it has as yet been discovered. In this mysterious state the affair remains.—( Waterford Mail.) Isl tr ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION. THE DIRECTORS of the" ASSOCIA for ASSISTING in WORKING the MINES of CO, and other PARTS of SPANISH AMERICA," made a CALL of FIVE POUNDS on each of the SHARt : of the Association, under the Powers vested in them by V' A DEED, the Proprittors hre requested to pay the same on tr h amount of their respective Shares to Messrs. 8.-IRCLA' "I'RITTON, BEVAN, and Co. on of beforee ‘ tbe 16th do'. February next. JOSEPH LO E ; SecretarP 147, Leadenball-street, Jan. 12, 1825. PdtICE OF STOCKS FOP; It.olk Stock . 9 294 per Cent. Red: 94A$ 3 per Cent. Cons. 93i 3 A per Cent lOl Ditto Red lOll 101 4 per Cent. { Dissd New ...1058 106 Bank liongAnn.22 15-16th 23 hop. 3 per Cents. India Stock Ditto Bond. lo2s. South Sea Stock — PRICES' OF FOREIGN Ft. Austrian Bds, 5 per et Brazilian Scrip lB lri.f pr..l lt uenos A yres Bds 94 Bds, fi per et. ... 87A Gilonibian Bds.6 per et. .. Do. do. 1024 9O Danish, 5 per cent. Greek Bds 55 Mexican Bds 794 801 97i 80 Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK., Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001. 2d. Ditto 14d....63 62 Ditto 5001.2 d. _.... 62 ' Ditto 1 , d. —.63 62 t -2 Ditto Small 2d. Ditto I Ad. .63 62 Ditto Advertised Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Account (451; NDS, AT ONE o'Ci)Cg., Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds Scrip Prussian, 5 per ct. ...... Ditto New Russian, New, 5 per et.!it,;: Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. ' 11123', ditto French Rentes ---- Exchange Scrip Scrip PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Company ...." 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Deb. 5 per cent. _Stock, 4 per cent. 6l Pipe Water fhb. 5 per ct. :/, Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. -..- Do. City Debentures, 5 per et. Ballast Offi ce G ov t. See- i Lying in Hospital 4 per et. 4 per cent. ......,. .... ..• FOREIGN MAILS. ARitIvED. Guernsey and Jersey otten burgh 11 am bu rgh Holland . France Flanders . America DL'E• 0 HIGH WATER AT Los nox BRIDGE TO-Aloltllo l Morning, 2 minutes after 11. I Evening, minutes after', THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICEIIE FALSUM AUOLAT LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 14, 159.6. , An Express arrived this morning from bringing the price of the Rentes on WednescPi 10%f. 85c. The following Extracts contain the ofl l l articles of political intelligence furnished by t ill Paris Papers received since our last publicati on It would seem that the long promised evacuat► °; of the Principalities by the Turks has at leyg t taken place, and that the Russian Ministed, Constantinople has in consequence presented bi• credentials, and assumed his official character' [From the Etoile, dated Wednesday.] CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. I', The Internuncio received yesterday an estafette from A t , davia, announcing the evacuation of that province by the O tt. man troops. PARIS, JAN. 11 ' 1; The evacuation of the Principalities having been notifie d the Ambassadors of all the European Powers, M. Minziae l the Russian Minister, presented to the Reis Effendi his crea er, tials on the 11th December. The Pacha of Joannina has sent to the Porte ten head s Greeks taken near Prevesa It is said that the Servians a re e l/ ; deavouring to exclude all Mussel.nant from th e ir province, s ll e for that purpose are buying all landed property belonging the Turks. ( From the Journal des Debuts of Tuesday.) PARIS, J. JO The ministerial writers confirm, by their invectives ° 6 abuse, what we have already advanced relative to the wan t foresight in M. de Villele, with regard to the affairs of s°tit America. The temper of these gentlemen abundantly proves that , President of the Council had foreseen nothing, had adoptc jli system, and had taken no part in foreign affairs. What e% may be said, the situation is one of difficulty : the Minister to choose between the politics of the continer.t and the c oliti of England. Spain increases the difficulty ; for if she be angry at 1: part which the Cabinet of St. James's has taken, what g 5P' are we to play in the peninsula! Portugal at the same time escapes from us ; for the depar t of our Ambassador giVes up, without a struggle, the Coat t Lisbon entirely to,the English influence. In addition to all this, we are framing injuthus financial rct gulations ; we are disturbing people's minds and fortunes ; of are handing over three or four millions to the benevolenc e Messrs. Rothschild and Co. ; we are mortgaging the sialt i fund for five years, to a particular service ; and thus the O f ofgeniur will be accomplished. MADRID, DEC. 3 ° l The Charge d'Affaires of France, who has been doing au his powei to prevent the re-establishment of the inquisit i : e . ; has at length succ ee d e d. I t i s b ut fair to add that A l. contributed materially to this happy result. The