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eleven, at the Crown Inn, Northwich—M. Marden, Man chester, upholsterer, April 26, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester—J. Whitehead, Denshaw, Saddleworth, York shire, merchant, April Si 4, at ten, at the Star Inn, Man ehester—J. R. Lyon, Cambridge, grocer, April 30, at eleven, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge—G. Burdy, West Derby, Liverpool, glass•manufacturer, April 21, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Leather, Liverpool—J. Wool, Manchester, oil merchant, April 21, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester—C. Harris, Alcester, Warwickshire. saddler, April 23, at ten, at the White Hart Commercial Inn, Evesham, Worcestershire. CERrIFICATES.-APRIL 20. J. Everitt, Doncaster, Yorkshire, painter—H. Robson, George-street, Southwark, hat-rnanufactuter—M. Elgie, Worcester. scrivener—H. Rodd, Regent's Quadrant, Pic cadilly, dealer in curiosities—T. Burton, Hillingdon, Middlesex, brick-maker—M. H. Smith, Little Chester street, Grosvenor-place, stone-mason—T. Wallington and Co., Cateaton-street, wholesale woollen-drapers—H. J. Wilkinson, Leicester, printer—G. Wilkinson, Worn, Shrop shire, schoolmaster—B. Davis, Leominster, Hereford, flax - dresser—J. Bowman, Goltho, Lincolnshire, farmer—T. Packwood, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, innkeeper—W. Riley, Quadrant, Regent-street, painter—J. Barton, Man chester, brush-manufacturer—R. Baden, Burford, Oxford shire, innkeeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Herbert and G. Carey, Nottingham, lace manufac turers—W. and H. R. Gibson, Birmingham, iron dealers —S. Snape and J. Perowne, Ousden, Suffolk, school mistresses—W. Bright and W. H. How, Bromley, Kent, earriers--T. Penny and J. Vale, Ship-yard, Strand, eheesemongers—N. and J. Bushby, Bedford -street, Com mercial-road, tailors—J. A. Goodge and A. G. Harpur, Spur-street, Leicester-square, bootinakers--J. and W. Rayner, Horbury, Yorkshire, cloth merchants—R. Tur ner and J. Letts, jun., Tovil Mill, rent, paper makers—. T. Bridgett and Co., Derby, silk dealers—W. Latham, sen. and Co., Charlotte -terrace, Lambeth, tea dealers— A. Mann and G. Tebbe, Thames Band-place, Westmin• colourmen—W. T. Riff and W. Clark, Newington, Surrey, surgeons--M. Lara and G. Hinds, Ramsgate, brokers—R. Brown and J. APKensie, Lower Tooting, sold merchants--E. Bolton and F. Iles, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, silkmen—C. Roberts and T. Smith, Salford, Lancashire, engravers to calico printers-- D. and A. Stuart, Finch-lane, tailors—T. Knight and W. T. Gooding, Jewin-street, wholesale perfumers—F. Neil and C. Walker, Great Marlborough -street, tailors--M. A. Burrows and E. Harman, Gloucester, milliners-_W. Ingleeant and Co., Sileby, Leicestershire, lace manufac turers—R. Thomas and Co., Walhampton, Devonshire, miners. LI I ERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXIV. " Letters and Journals of Lord Byron," which forms the opening article in the present number, though cleverly and smartly written, is full of strong and bitter acrimony. Mr. Moore is manifestly no favourite with the author, who seems to exult in every opportunity of de preciating his powers of thought and composi tion. Moreover, he attacks the style in which Mr. Moore has penned his biography. This is being " critical overmuch," for the impression left on our mind by a perusal of Lord Byron's Memoirs is, that the style was easy and familiar, free alike from colloquial vulgarisms on the one hand, and redundant imagery on the other. "An cient Bohemian Ballads" is, we presume, from the pen of that versatile linguist and able translator, Dr. Bowring. If so, the article is worthy of him, as well from the spirited manner in which the translations are given, as from the terse and pertinent comments that accompany them. "An Inquiry into the Place and Quality of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Chamber," is an ironical notice of a very dull, and certes, a very foolish work ; one that rivals in these respects Mr. Dillon's memorable Journal of the Lord Mayor's voyage to Oxford, to which it is not inaptly compared. The only de fect we find in the article is, that the style and quality of its irony are too elaborate and heavy. " Crawford's Embassy to the Court of Ava," is a somewhat late account of a book that appeared many months since. It is, however, a sensible and amusing article. " Colman's Random .11e4rds" is a truly pungent and stinging analysi s of a production which, with some merit, has much that is faulty and absurd. " Law of Arrest" is an article that may be read with pleasure and in struction ; it is replete with ingenious practical iqOrmation. ‘, Satan :,a Poem, by Robert Montgomery, Esq., of Lincoln College, Ox ford," is a severe criticism, and a pithy one, on the resent poem of that name. The remaining articles, especially the one on Mr. Godwin's recently published tale of " Cloudesley," are all deserving of perusal. Altogether the number is a very superior one. We subjoin a criticism on Mr. Godwin's powers as a novelist : " ' Clowlesley,' by the Author of Caleb Williams,' is a combination of syllables well adapted to excite expecta tion. The reputation of Mr. Godwin's first able performance has thrown a light upon its successors, which, though it has relieved them from utter darkness, has not done much more. Caleb Williams was a chapter out of the human heart. The author's experience of the world, and his watching of his own emotions, were felicitously combined in a lively and striking frame-work. He wrote down what he had seen and thought. His subsequent works have each been, in different styles, imitations of the first born. He deemed, because he had once been successful in exhibiting the interior workings of the human mechanism, that he was master of it, and could take it to pieces and set it up again. But he has shewn us that he understood his in strument as the itinerant player on the barrel-organ under stands his s be can set it to a certain limited number of tones. Mr. Godwin's organ, by nature, by accident, and by education, which is but a series of accidents, was set to to the tune of Caleb Williams ; and St. Leon, Fleetwood, Mandeville, and Cloudesley, are but very imperfect and often discordant variations of the same air. The staple of each is the writhing' of a being under some complica tion of concealed feelings. Remorse chiefly : Remorse might be written as the title over the whole series of his writings. His long continued and protracted productions may he considered as a sort of practical or mechanical illustration of the ' worm that never dies.' " Mr. Godwin has a fruitful, but not • a vigorous ima gination ; he is copious, nay inexhaustible, but his offspring are feeble and sickly ; he does not tear a passion to tatters, bat he wears it to a shadow. He works his way through a long history of crime and suffering, like a mole in the dark and under-ground, and with a sleekiness of style and an assumed unconsciousness of purpose that bears out the comparison. The smooth, measured, and oily style of this author, which we have described by the term sleekiness, is a curious characteristic in works which dwell upon feel ings of the most restless and agitated kind. The thoughts burn, while the words are of honey. This is a touch of the art that adds considerably to the effect of tke author's composition•, and in none of the former novels is this distinction more marked than in Cloudesley : circumstances and feelings of the most energetic force are detailed with the calm of history. It might be, that a thousand years had passed over the heart of the autobiographer, while me mory had left every minute trait of the events he relates as fresh and bright as the green of a spring churchyard. It is possible that this calm beauty of style which we have always remarked in this writer, may have been lately heightened by his habits of historical composition, to say nothing of the stealthy progress of age, which polishes a man'. style as it does his brow." DIRECTIONS TO CHURCHWARDENS. LONDON, 1830. The laws and duties relative to the office of Churchwardens are most clearly and usefully defined in the present improved edition of a well known and much esteemed treatise. We re commend it as a valuable little work, particularly to legal practitioners, and all those immediately or remotsly connected with parochial affairs. DAY AT °NS O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS BAnk stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent- Cons. 9 2 M's 1! , 4 per Cent. shut Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. Ann. Ditto, 182€ shut Rink 1.. Ann. Ditto :30 years Ditto 50 years! 2IN 1 India Stock shut 1 Ditto Bonds Bl 82 pm. I South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, X 1,006 2d. 77 79 pm. Ditto lid. 77 79 pm. Ditt0.....„.... 2d. '77 79 pm. Ditto lid. 'Ti '79 pm. Ditts Small Ditto lid. 77 78 pm. Bank for Account .......' 219 3 4 India for Account 2-ILIA 5 1 6 Cons. for April 16 9245i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 71% 2 Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds 59% Chilian Bonds 26 ,Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — ; Ditto, New Ditto, 1824 D a nis ,Spanish, :821 14%% Geek Bonds 1823 Ditto, 1825 .39!--i 914 French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — Exchange ...... —I. —f.. Mexican Bonds —'— 3 per cent. — f. —c. Ditto, 1825 31% Exchange —l. --r. PRICES OF SHARKS THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 8014 8 Real dcl Monte Mining Co. £loo 52 United Mex. Min. Co. (its. at 21. pm.) £39% 20 Liverpool and Manchester Railway 90 Australian Co 9N 3S .S, DUBLIN, MARCH 27. ;St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) !Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto 2!i Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings PRICES OF IRISH STOCK Bank Stock 242 Consols, :3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 1)9% Ditto, New 4 per Cent lOl Gov. I)eb. n; per cent - Royal (anal Stock - Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 1 Dublin 0 O Flanders 0 O France 0 O Guernseyec.lersey 0 NGE YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 81 Ditto, at sight 12 l'e Rotterdam 2 U. 12 81 Antwerp 12 81 Hamburg M.B. 14 3 Altona l4 Paris, 8 days' sight 25 80:.3i Ditto 2 U. 26 "5 Bordeaux 26 To Berli 4 —, Frankfort on Blaine, Ex. 91.156 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 5. 2 M. 10 21 Trieste do 10 21 Madrid 1.534 Cadiz 36 Bilboa Barcelona 35% Seville 35% Gibraltar 47% Leghorn 471 Genoa 26 5 Venice 47 Malta 4B Naples . 39% Palermo per es. 118 Lisbon Oporto 43% Rio .Taneiro Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork lji BULLION, PER OZ. X. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 Arrived. Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 1 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford 0 mart WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 23 minutes after 8. J Evening...s4 minutes after 8. . • 1, 1) Ire* , ' fa!lb' ';•:^17'..41,4101irn LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31 , 1830. It would appear by the Paris Papers of Mon clay and Tuesday, received this morning by Ex. press, that VILLELE is likely to join the Mi nistry : The Gazette de France states that it is not true that orders have been given to arrest General Barradas as soon as he shall have arrived in Spain. The same paper says that it is asserted that the Dauphin is to go to Toulon to be present at the embarking of the troops destined to act against Algiers. M. Delavau, well known as the Prefect of Police in Paris under the Villele Administration, is appointed First President of the Royal Court of Orleans. Some expressions of the Gazette de France having been supposed to intimate that that journal would attack the Administration if M. de Villele were not admitted again into the Cabinet, the Gazette, dated Tuesday, declares that it will defend the Royal prerogative against intrigues and factions, without reference to the persons who may be called by the will of the King to develop the system of the 6th of August. " M. de Villele had yesterday (Sunday) the honour of being received by the King. 'The .iVational of the 29th, has the following It is now considered certain that M. de Villele will quit Paris fur Toulouse to-day. The public opinion differs as to the particular causes that have prevented the negocia tions for his coming into the Ministry bring brought to a successful termination. Sufficient general causes may, however, be fourid in the opposite characters of M. de Villele and the Prince de Polignac. Some say that M. de Villele, without disputing with the Prince the Presidency of the Council, insisted on having as it were two portfolios in his hands— namely, that of the Interior for himself, and that of the Finances for M. de Montbel. Other persons declare that he declined entering the Ministry upon any terms, as he felt it impossible to meet a Chamber which had stigmatized his system with the epithet deplorable. This difficulty might be got rid off by a dissolution, but the embarrassment of a new election was to be got over— a task he would rot undertake—leaving it to those who were mad enough to make the attempt. A new Chamber being formed, lie would have no objection to become the leader of it, if the office were intrusted to him. This view of the subject is one not unlikely to have been taken by a ma❑ of judgment, Upon one point all persons are agreed, —namely, in stating that the ex-Minister has entirely disapproved of all that has been done since the Bth of August. M. de Peyronnet then remains the only man of capacity to be looked to by the Ministry as a rein forcement. We shall see if lie will be as difficult to ob tain as M. de Villele has been. He also may stipulate for terms not easily granted, as the present Government will not be inclined to purchase his services at so high a price as they have offered to M. de Villele, while M. de Pey ronnet will probably estimate them at still more. From all this, it is to be expected that the present Ministry will remain in the same majestic immovability from the 19th of March till the Ist of September, as they have done from the Bth of August to the 2d of March.' " The Journal des Debuts says—' The topic of general conversation for some days has been a letter, said to have been addressed to the King by about 20 Deputies of the droite, in which, after assuring his Majesty of their im movable resolution to vote in favour of a Ministry ho noured with his Royal confidence, they state that still they feel it a duty imperative upon them to declare that the present Cabinet does not appear to them, under actual circumstances, to be composed of men of sufficient abili- "As late as Saturday, says the Courrier Frangais, ' M. de Villele was expected to leave Paris immediately for Toulouse; but yesterday morning all the preparations for departure were countermanded, and the ex-Minister has made appointments for interviews at Paris, with several persons, for a distant day. We moreover learn that M. Dudon is on the point of proceeding to England.' " The Drapeau Blanc says----.' We have partaken with our readers the fears excited by the expectation of M. de Villele again taking part in political affairs ; and we now participate in their joy at his departure, without having had a portfolio entrusted to him. This steady resolution of the King will at once crush the new germs of discord.' "It was last night currently reported that M. Bacot de Romans, Director-General of the Indirect Taxes, has been superseded by M. de Curs) , ; and that M. de Benne vine, formerly private Secretary of M. de Villele, will succeed M. de Curzy in the Prefectnre of the Gironde. It is also said that M. de Beaumont, Prefect of Doubs, has been dismissed, and M. de Wathert appointed in his stead. —Journal des Deb u ts. " The Constitutionnel says—' The list of dismissals is said to have been definitively resolved en in the Coun cil yesterday. Four Prefects are already mentioned as about to be dismissed; others are still under discus sion ; but numerous changes from one Prefecture to another, may be expected. Two Directors-General were menaced, but only one, it is said, will be discharged ; the other will merely make an exchange. The Jesuits wish decidedly that M. de Vaulchier should be again placed at the head of the Post-office, M. de Villeneuve is not of the extreme droite, and the party think proper to act with kindness towards him, by appointing him to the Customs. Two Councillors of State are likewise on the list of dismissals. Thus there will only be six or eight places vacant—a very small number for the many candi dates who are in expectation.' " We copy the following from the Quotidienne The report that the Swiss regiment Bleuler has re fused to march against Algiers is false. On the con trary, all the Swiss regiments in the French service have ex- Swiss n express e d a strong d es i re to f orm a part o f the ; but a s , accor di ng to the cap i tu l at i on, the troops compliance with the treaties and notwithstanding the declaration of the Canton of Berne that it consents to remove that difficulty, have thought proper not to employ any of the Swiss till the article of the capitulation shall have been modified or can celled.' "We extract the following, dated Constantinople, February 26, from the Augsburg Gazette The pay ment of the second instalment of the indemnity to Rus sian merchants has been made by the Porte, which, it is said, has obtained a deduction of several hundred thousand piastres. This indulgence is partly ascribed to the efforts of Halil Pacha, Turkish Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, and partly to the punctuality with which the Sultan fulfils all his engagements. It is said that preparations are observable in the Rus sian army for withdrawing behind the Balkan ; a good understanding between the Russian and Turkish Authorities prevails, and the Russian Ambassadors are treated with the greatest respect at Constantinople.-- The services of the Reis Effendi, notwithstanding the great pressure of business at this moment, have been dispensed with on account of the ill state of his health. Count Orloff frequently transacts business at the Palace, while M. de Ribeaupierre, with his colleagues, the French and English Ambassadors, are engaged in settling the affairs of Greece. A courier was lately despatched to Egina. The accounts from the provinces are satisfactory. The intercourse between Con stantinople and Alexandria is active, and Mehemed Ali has very much gained in favour with the Sultan. It is r positively known that he takes no share in the expedition against Algiers, which is in some respects dissgreeable to the Porte : in the mean time, he continues to organize his army, and to place his navy on a respectab'e footing.' " FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MARCH 29.—Five per Cents., 106 t: 40c. 35c. 40c. 45c. ; Three per Cents., S3l. 65c. 60e. 55c. 60c. 55c. 60c 55c. 60c. ; Bank Stock, 1,905 f. 1,910 f.; Rentes deNaples, 921. 70c. 110 c. 75c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 13; Royal Spanish Loan, lON f. 4a ; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 76f. %i %; Haytian Loan, 540f.—Exchange on London—One month, paper,:2sf. 65c. ; money, 2M. 65c. ; three months paper, 25f. 50c.; money, 25t 50c. —fours Authentique. The following are extracts from Germa Papers received this morning DUCHY OF NASSAU, The Government has given notice that it will pas off its bonds, bearing interest at 4 per cent., and, in order to effect this, has negociated with the house of Rothschild, at 31 per cent. The bonds, which will be shortly issued, are already purchased at 981 on delivery. The debt of the Principality of Hohenaoltern Hechengin has lately been ►nodified in a s►milar manner, through the intervention of the same banking-house. ANCONA, MARCH 9. According to a letter from Poros, of the 6th of Feb., the affairs of Greece are at present in a better situation. The opposition party is gradually becoming more friendly to the Government, and the President, who enjoys very good health, is incessantly engaged in the organization of the internal affairs, in order to accelerate the civilization of the country. The Universal Gazette of Greece publishes the Chi liarchy, and the organization of five regiments according to the new system. These troops took the oath on the 16th Nov., and received their colours on the same day. The Government has appointed a special Commission to direct the reform of the Chili a r c hi es o f E as t ern Greece. Regulations respecting the teachers and pupils in the military schools of the Greek State, have been published at Napoli di Romania. There has been published at Egina a prospectus for a monument, to be erected ire memory of the brave de fenders of Missolonglii. Ali Greek architects and statua ries are invited to send in, during the present year, a plan for the monument, with an estimate of the expence, and of the time necessary for the completion of it. The author of the best plan will receive a gold medal. NITREMBURG, MARCH 21. A detachment of bombadiers, with rockets, &c., has been sent from Vienna to the frontiers of Cevatia, where it will be joined by other troops, and, with the consent of the Turks, destroy the banditti, who are becoming more and more numerous on that frontier, and whom it is equally the interest of both Governments to extirpate. DARMSTADT, MARCH 22. According to yesterday's bulletin, his Royal Highness the Grand Duke had paused a restless night ; the catarrhal affection, however, had not become worse, nor had his head suffered. He is very weak, as is natural from the duration of the disorder, which does not present any new symptoms. TISTA, run. 25. It seems that it is in our city that the tragic history of Gaspar Hauser Rusem, by the name of the Nuremburg foundling, is to be cleared up. A person who is governess in a family here bas been pointed out as suspected, to the Magistrates of our city, by those of Nuremburg. The examination which she has undergone has so greatly alarmed her that she has lost her senses, and is now in one of our hospitals. The main principle contended for by Mr. THOMSON, in his very able speech on taxation, and also advocated by Sir HENRY PARNELL, in his valuable Treatise on Financial Reform, is that which was laid down years ago by ADAM SMlTH,—that every tax ought to be so con trived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public trea sury of the State. Where either the expensive ness of the collection, the obstruction to indus try, or the vexation of revenue interference, out weighs the value of the amount levied by means of a given tax, it is a sound maxim in finance that such a tax ought forthwith to be repealed. The charge of collecting the total of our re venue is 6/. 7s. 3d. per cent., being an expens e of between five and six millions a year, and it is plain that the disregard of the principle alluded to has been the means of swelling this charge very considerably. The charge of collecting the Customs is higher than that of any other branch of the revenue, because the import du- es are levied on an infinite number of ar- tides, in a variety of different ways, which articles are nevertheless so unproductive alto gether, that of the 193 millions at which the gross annual receipt of the Customs is estimated, more than 133 millions arise from the five heads of sugar, spirits, tobacco, wine, and timber ; and that besides these, there are only thirteen articles which yield more than 100,0001. upon each, viz.: coffee, currants, raisins, raw and manufactured silk, butter,:corn, hemp, seeds, tal low, 'cotton and sheep's wool, and'coals. These eighteen articles yield nearly 17i millions, and . . it is therefore obvious that the collection of the remaining two millions gives employment to a host of officers, who are required to levy the duties on every other article imported, at the heavy expence, and to the great vexation, of the public. In the Excise this fault occurs in a less degree, in the duties on bricks, hops, candles, sweets, vinegar, and other things, which return but a trifling sum compared to the annoy ance of the presence of the excisemen. In the stamps there are also many instances, such as the advertisement duty, to which we lately alluded ; and the whole of the assessed taxes set ADAM SMITHS principle at utter defiance. With reference, however, to the Customs, there are in that revenue a species of duties' called ad valorem, attaching not to the great branches, but to trifling articles, which are be come so great a nuisance, that we cannot help noticing the numerous complaints we have heard s on the subject. The officers are empowered to detain any goods which shall appear to them to be undervalued, giving the importers the declared value with 10 per cent. thereon. Now the greater part of the goods subject to ad valorem duty aro of an ornamental, or fancy kind, such as porcelain, toys, jewellery, &c., of which the im porter has seldom any other means of judging of the value, than from the sum it has cost him to import them. It constantly happens, therefore, that the officers who are not subject to any risk of loss, seize upon speculation, for being under valued, goods imported with the utmost good faith towards the revenue, which are afterwards sold, and, in general, produce less than the im porter's valuation, to the loss of the revenue, as appears by reference to a Parliamentary Return, printed in June last. Injustice is, in these cases, done the importers, and we mention them as instances of the vexatious tendency of a system of petty taxation. We entirely concur in the observations frequently made by the Morning Herald upon this ad valorem system, and hope the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER will in due time see the necessity of reforming it, with many other abuses in the manner of levying the public impositions. The number of Revenue Officers is assuredly far greater than, under a better system of finance, it would be necessary for us to be afflicted with. There are, moreover, some offices with dispro portionately high salaries ; yet, knowing as we do, the efficiency of the working part of the public servants, and the really laborious lives of those employed in the Revenue departments, we cannot in fairness join in the cry which has been raised in some quarters for an indiscriminate reduction of salaries. As to the plan of super annuation deductions, which was last year re jected by the House, at the instance, we believe of Mr. CHARLES GRANT, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has already announced that it is now intended only to apply to future ap pointments, as is perfectly fair; but the CHAN CELLOR well knows that the reductions expected from him are of a very different kind from those which diminish the hardly-earned wages of a few Excisemen or Clerks in office. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL O' CL CK. By an extraordinary conveyance we have received the following information from Vienna of the 25th March " The funds are rising here, owing to a fear that the five per cents. will shortly be paid off: the 2i per cents. are as high as 66k, the four per cents. are for money 991 for time 99k. The Court Jovernal gives the offi cial account of 74 persons losing their lives by the sudden and unprecedented overflow of the Danube in the suburbs of Vienna. Baron Solomon de Rothschild has behaved with great humanity to the unfortunate sufferers, and has distributed considerable sums of money for their sub sistence. Discounts are two per cent. THE FUNDS. By the Express from Paris this morning, it appears that there are both hopes and fears of Villele's corning into the Ministry. Some of the French Papers assert that he is only good for causing dissentions among the Royalists, and to break their alliance. According to other statements they are already quarrelling; but they are not against Villele's coming into office, provided Polignac plays the first fiddle. Consols, which left off yesterday at 92i for the Ac count, opened at the same price, and 92/ for Money. The market has a better appearance than yesterday, owing it is said, to the public coming to purchase, as tvel as the improvement both in town and in the country 431 business. In the Foreign Market litt ENGLISH le or nothing doing as yet. FUNDS. 3f per C,ent. New 4 per Cent., 1021 I 4 per Cent. 1826, India Bonds, 81 82 Exchequer Bills. 77 79 FUNDS. Greek, 384 Mexican, 31+ Peruvian, 20 Portuguese, 59 Prussian, Russian, 1104 Spanish, 14 TWO O'CLOCK. The Funds are in a complete state of stagnation, and great dulness prevails in the City ; Consols were in the early part of the day at 92i, and have since been done at 92:1 ; this is the extreme fluctuation during the whole of the morning : at present th e y are 92ii f or the ac count, and 92}a for money. We have no ship letters, nor any other arrivals, which causes a great dearth of in formation. Bank Stock, India Stock, S per Cent. Cons. 92 Do. for Account, 92 Ditto Reduced, FOREIG Brazilian, 71i 2 --- Buenos Ayres, 32 34 Chilian, Colombian, 2011/ Danish, 75i 6 French, 5 per Cent. 106 7 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 83i 4i In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds have been the only speculation, and they have receded about one per cent. owing to the information from Vienna, that the Greek Government would not consent to pay the old loans. 7 HREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 92,i f. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 92;1 Danish 76 Do. for Ac, 92 Greek, 1825 38i Brazilian Bonds 71 it Mexican, 1825 31i Buenos Ayres Peruvian Chilian Do. 26 Russian 1101 Columbian, 1824, Spanish 144 Though those of most of his family are, it is remarkable that the name of Mr. ALEXANDER BARING IS seldom seen in any of the lists of Members voting against Ministers. —Morning Herald. LORD AND LADY BYRON.--111C Nay Monthly Magazine for April will contain, we are in formed, an Article written by Mr. CAMPBELL, relative to Mr. Moones recent publication, (as regards the manner in which Lady BYRON and her family hale been spoken of in that work), and calculated to throw new light on that interesting and delicate subject. We understand that Mr. MURRAY is to be lessee of the Theatre on the expiry of the present lease to Mrs. H. SIDDONS.-Edinburgh Evening Courant. . . A Comtnision pro lunatico znquzi endo ass sembled on Monday, for the purpose of trying the state of mind of RICHARD Muss, Esq. of Manchester -street. Several witnesses deposed to Mr. Mults's present insanity and the previous apparent soundness of his mind, and the Jury returned a verdict of Lunacy from the 28th of Oct. 1828, without lucid intervals. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. - -Yesterday a Commission of Lunacy was executed at the Queen's Head Coffee-house, Holborn, to inquire into the state of mind of a gentleman named RICHARD Hucx. Mr. Hucx for merly held a living in Norfolk. As far back as 1807 he became insane, and was placed under the care of Mr. WARBURTON, where he now remains. He was perfectly quiet and harmless when left alone, but became very irri table when spoken to. He laboured under some delusions ; at one time fancying that he was King of France ; and on another occasion he said that one night he was transplanted from his bed to Westminster Abbey, and brought back again in the morning. Mr. TENNANT, the solicitor, said that Mr. 11 (ices income was not very large; but the Com mission was issued in order that a proper person might be o a -p p i nted to collect some tithes, as the parties by whom they were due had objected to pay them until a proper person had been appointed to receive them. The Jury found that Mr. Hucx bad been insane since the 12th Nov. 1807. REMOVAL EXTRAORDINARY.--A certain shop in West-street, Oldham, was lately deserted by the shopkeeper, which rather alarmed the proprietor of the house ; but as several large sacks, apparently full, stood as usual in their respective places, his alarm in some degree subsided. Some days, however, elapsed, and the keeper of the shop (which had been left unlocked) not re-appearing, the landlord entered, and ventured to open the sacks, which he supposed contained meal, flour, &c., when, to his sur prise, they were found charged only with saw-dust, ashes, small coal, &c.- 2 /lancheater Mercury. LIVERPOOL, iVIA ncri 29.—We are sorry to say that a fire broke out a little before eight o'clock this evening in a warehouse in Concert -street, which was used as a kiln for drying cotton. Although several fire engines were speedily on the spot, yet nearly the whole of the pre mises were consumed. SHIPPING INIELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, MARCH 30.—Wind N.E.—Arrived from Lon don and sailed, the Susan, Penton, for Barbadoes ; Asia, Ward, and Onondaga, Bain!, for Quebec ; Paul Pry, Cooper, for Syra; and Columbia, Delano, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.—Light airs and variable.— Sailed the Eclipse, Davis, f'Jr the Cape of Good Hope. Prxmourtr, MARCH 29.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Susan, Nicholson, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, Maacts 29.—Wind E. to S E.—Off Port, the Britannia, Wetherall, from Lisbon. Sailed his Majesty's steamer Echo, for Plymouth. Off Port, the Nanine, Soustenet, from Port-au-Princo ; and Ulysses, Bulby, from Cadiz. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 29 —Arrived the brig Musick, Cockerel!, from Philadelphia ; Marcus, Drew, and the Hope, —, from New York. The Isabella, from New Orleans to Europe, ran on shore on Alligator Reef about the 15th ult. but got off by the assistance of the wreckers, and was on her way to Key West —part of the cotton saved. A ship, supposed to be British, was seen on shore on Alligator Reef the 18th ult., with several wreckers alongside. The Cosmopolite sailed yesterday for London, but put back leaky, having been on shore. HOLYHEAD, MARCH 29.—The Barmouth, Griffith, from Barmouth to Liverpool, ran on shore on the east side of the bay last night, but floated with the tide and proceeded. The Fife packet, Mitchell, struck on a rock under Fort Castle, near Dunbar, the 26th inst., bilged and sunk— the crew with difficulty saved : the rigging and cargo ex pected to be saved. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of all kinds of Grain this week are mo derate, and of Flour there is a good quantity. The Wheat trade is heavy to-day, and Monday's rates can hardly be supported, except for the best parcels. Barley also meets a dull sale at last quotations. Beans and Pease continue rather scarce, and firmly maintain Monday's terms. Oats of good quality obtain last quotations, other sorts are rather cheaper. The Flour trade has become very dull. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I our. English 3,350 qrs. 6,100 qrs. 5,050 qrs. 6,6G0 sacks. Irish - 550 Foreign - brls. HAY MA RKETS.—(A t per Load of 36 Trusses.) SMITHFI ELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay -£2 5 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 g 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0 Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 10... Generally Oat Straw £2 4to£2 8 1 Wheat Straw 2 9 210 A moderate supply, and a very dull trade; prices as last quoted. COURT CIRCULAR. The Princess AUGUSTA honoured the performance of the Philharmonic Society at the Opera-house, on Monday evening, with her presence. The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER honoured the performance of Mons. POTIER, Le Afaladie Imaginaire and Henry IV. en Famille, at the Haymarket Theatre, on Monday eveninE, with their presence. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office, 'with the Earl of ABERDEEN. A deputation from Bristol, headed by Mi. HART DAVIS, one of the Members of their City, and accompanied by Sir J. H. Dormr, Bart., the Deputy Chairman of the Commissioners of Excise, attended at the Treasury, and had an audience with the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHE QUER. A deputation of gentlemen interested in the Fisheries of t Ireland, headed by Lord Lxvisox GOVVER, a 1 Secretary o State for Ireland, had a long interview with Mr. HERRIES, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Earl of ABERDEEN and Mr. llmmiEs had an in terview with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. BREWERS AND VICTUALLERS. An Account of the Nuffiber of Brewers, Retail Brewers, Licensed Victuallers, Intermediate Brewers, and Li censed Victuallers who brew their own Beer, in Eng land and Wales and Scotland, from Jan. 5, 1829, to Jan. 5, 1830. jEngland and Scotland. Wales. . Total. 1,694 1,295 66,155 22 23,572 Brewers Retail Brewers Victuallers Intermedia , e Brewers Victuallers who brew their own Beer 1,526 168 1,269 26 50,142 17,713 22 ...... 23,304 268 J. EN.TBANK, General Accountant Excise (Alice, London, March 20, 1830. LIVERPOOL PACKETS. Return of the number of Passengers to and from Ireland, by the Liverpool Government Packets, in the year 1810, and in each year to 1829 ; distinguishing the Deck and Cabin Passengers, so far as the same can be made out. 1826. 1827. 1828. 1829. Cabin Passengers 1,871 12,806 14,724 14,605 Deck Passengers 1,640 853 Nil. Nil. Total 3,511 18,659 14,724 14,605 N.B. Government Packets were not placed on the Liverpool station until August 1826. F. FREELING, Secretary. General Post Office, March 25, 1830. THE LATE STEEPLE CHASE. The match, of which we gave only the result yesterday, proved highly attractive, the attendance being exceedingly numerous and fashionable. At the same time that it was any thing but satisfactory to the spectators, it was entirely conclusive of the merits of the horse; for nothing could have been more complete than the defeat sustained by Messrs. Wombwell and Angerstein. The gretind was kept a secret till the morning of the race, when it was declared to be from a grass-field of Mr. Wood's, at Green• street, to a windmill on Basker-heath, near the 13th mile stone on the Edgeware road, the distance nearly 5 miles, the ground grassy, but heavy, and the fencing tolerably stiff, without being extraordinary. The betting was 6 to 4 against Wonder ; 2 to 1 against Mr. Womb well's Rockingham ; and 3 to 1 against Tatler. Cap tain M'Doual went off with Wonder at a smart pace, leading about 200 yards; Mr. A. Berkely, on Rockingham, and Mr. Codrington, on Tatler, followed in the same track, and seemed inclined to keep so through out. It appeared to us that the gallant Captain's route threatened to be more out of the direct line than was warranted by the articles, but he saved himself just in time. Probably Wonder was frightened out of his course by a red flag which suddenly presented itself in a tree, right in the line for the windmill, and which, of course, got there by accident. It would be absurd to attempt any further description, for Wonder had it all his own way, performed his leaps in a particular neat and work manlike manner, and won in a common canter. His last leap was near the finish, over a smartish fence, and was effected without a blunder. Captain M'Douall's riding was admirable; nothing could be more cool or sports. manlike ; at the same time it was not wanting in courage. Of the riding of the other gentlemen we really are incompetent to express an opinion, for, looking at the leading horse, we never saw any thing of them after the opening. Colonel Standen (the umpire) and Lord Clan ricarde kept lip well with the winner, and would have perhaps puzzled him if they had been in the match—they rode with singlar intrepidity. Wonder is a particularly clever little horse, and would put some of the Melton nags upon their mettle. Tatler is the same horse that was so great a favourite for the Derby two or three years ago, and was prevented starting by breaking down on his way to Epsom; be went about two miles of the ground, broke down, and fell in the middle of a field near the Reservoirs, neither him nor Rockingham going to the Windmill—the latter certainly had the best of Tatler. The stake was 100 guineas each, and the weight 12st ; the distance was performed by Captain M'Douall in about 17 minutes. Prince Esterhaey was among the spectators, and appeared gratified with the scene. The postage of letters, we find, have been lowered one penny each, from Bristol to Kingsbridgc, Modbury, Dartmouth, Launceston, and several other places in the west; the inhabitants of which town are indebted to Mr. CARVER, of Bristol, for the alteration.--Exeter Alfred. At Okehampton Fair, on Monday last, there was a fine display of cattle, which obtained a ready sale at from 75. 6d. to Ba. 6d. per scum—Exeter Alfred. KINGSTON ASSIZES,--In the course of yes terday afternoon, the Grand Jury found true bills against RICHARD WILLIAM LAMERECHT, FREDERICK COX, and --. RINGLET, (now at large), for the wilful murder of Or.lvEa CLAYTON, at Battersea. The bill preferred against DUDLEY BYRNE was ignored. POLICE INTELLICENCE. . BO W-STREET. I Yesterday a gentleman applied to Mr. MxxsuuLt.;:4!! solicit his i n t er f erence to put a stop to a very dangeo nuisance, which had existed for some time past is the f neighbourhood of Primrose-hill, which consisted in th!o' daily assembl age o f p art i es o f p i geon-shooters, who carried o:i their sports with so little regard to the safety of other persons, that the complainant had been wounded with small shot while standing at his own door, and another re' spectable individual had actually been deprived of an eStl in the same manner. Mr. MiNsnot.t said one of the parties actually aggrieved must come forward and lodge an information on oath before any process could be issued. The applicant said this should be done, and withdrtsf• MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Ellen Roberts, a young woman of respectable appear ance, was yesterday placed at the bar, before J. E. Corialae Esq. under the following singular circumstances. Anne Elliot, an interesting little girl, about twelve years of age, stated that she went yesterday morning to St. Martin's workhouse, and on her return from thence, the prisoner accosted her at the corner of Hemming's-row, St. Martin's-lane, with two children in her arms, and asked her to hold one child for her while she went into some shop. This the little girl consented to do, and upon seeinf the prisoner again, five minutes afterwards, she was about to return the child, when the prisoner denied having aol knowledge of either the infant or her, and refused to halt any thing to say to her. A crowd immediately assembled) and the prisoner was brought to this office. Mr. 63NA NT inquired what she had to say? The yowl% woman, who supported an infant in her arms, declared most solemnly that she knew nothing whatever of either the little girl or the babe ; and the first she beard of it was from the girl, who ran up to her and said, "Agee yors going to take your child b ac k ?" _ _ Mr. CON ANT ordered the girl to look again at the pri soner. This she accordingly did, and still persisted that the prisoner was the woman who had given her the child. Mr. CO:4IA yr said that the parties must go to Bow-street. They accordingly retired for that purpose, but had not been more than ten minutes absent, when the policeman rushed into the room, and exclaimed, " They have found it out--the child is owned." The parties then explained. They had scarcely left the office, ere the mother of the in.! f►nt who had lost her child (and who was running about the streets almost frantic) came up to them, and seising the child, owned it. The parties were so satisfied that sht was the mother, that it had been given up. The young woman, Roberts, who had been charged, complained to the Magistrate of the great cruelty and the inconvenienceshe had undergone in being taken into custody. Mr. CONA NT Said lie regretted it es much as she did borscht . ; but it was not in his power to assist her. The young woman then withdrew. DREADFUL FIRE. On Monday evening, about a quarter past nine o'clock' a dreadful fire broke out at the house of Mr. Thome Reading, Oriental paper-manufacturer, No. 10, Prospect .. . row, Brampton-road. The flames spread so rapidly tba Mr. Reading's three children were suffocated by the smoke ' before they could be extricated. The fire originated in the workroom en the first floor. Mr. Reading, it appeami had left some composition, used in his business, boiling ea' the fire while he went out to purchase some varnish, and, during his absence, it is supposed the composition boiled over, and set fire to the room. The flames burst forth trial incredible violence, and, there being a number of lodgers in the house, the confusion which took place can not be described. The three poor children were sleeping in an adjoining apartment, and Mrs. Reading rushed through the flames several times, in hopes of saving them, but in vain, until her clothes were nearly burned to pieces, and she was forced to rush out of the room enveloped irs flames, and throw herself down in the middle of the road, when, by the assistance of some neighbours, several coats and blankets were thrown over her, and the flames were extinguished. She was then taken to a neighbour's house, and attended by a medical gentleman. Had the confusion , not been so great there was plenty of time to have saves the unfortunate children; but, owing to a female lodgers. who had rescued her own children, and assured every per— son assembled that there were no more children in the' house, those endeavours were not used to rescue them unfit it was too late, and the poor children were taken out sr the first floor window very little burned, but oompletel/ suffocated to death. The bodies were removed to the house of Mr. Pullen opposite. Several engines soon arrived ea the spot, but it was nearly an hour before water could be procured, and the fl.mes eommunicated to the adjoinirag house, .kept by Mr. Humble, a milkman and it was with some di ffi culty the inmate s escaped. Both houses were burnt to the ground. The names of the children who have perished are Charles Reading, aged seven years Thomas, aged five years; and Elizabeth, aged three years. The houses belong to Mr. Adam 'Hill, landlord of the Angel, in the Broadway, Westminster, and are insured in the Guardian Fire Insurance Office. None of the tenants are, however, insured, and they must have lost every thing that they possessed in the world. Mrs. Reading, who is six months gene with child, was conveyed to her brother-in-law's, Mr. Adam Hill, who, has a house at Brompton, and was attended by Messrs. Hetson, Liddle, Ire, and Chinner, surgeons, in the neigh bourhood. Yesterday it was currently reported she was (lead, but we are happy to say such is not the case ; she was still alive yesterday evening, but very little hopes were entertained of her recovering, the agitation and shock having brought on a premature labour. Crowds of persons assembled round the building yes terdiy, anxious to view the bodies of the poor children, and it was with some difficulty the mob could be kept off. A Coroner'sinquest will sit on the bodies to-morrow evening. We understand that GEORGE FREDERICK PITT, Esq., ha• made a munificent donation to the town of his library, consisting of nearly 1,500 volumes, corn prising many rare and valuable works. The Mayor and corporation are appointed the trustees, and they are now engaged in making arrangements to receive the whale at the Audit House, where they will be accessible under such regulations as will be considered the most expedient. We have no doubt they will discharge the trust in a liberal and satisfactory manner. — Southampton and Isle of Wight illercury. LAUNCH OF A STEAM -VESSEL.—On Sa turday noon was launched, in beautiful style, from Messrs. FISHERS' yard, an elegant steam-packet, with all her ma chinery on board, intended for the Woodside Mail Ferry. We have seldom seen a finer mould, nor a vessel that sat better in the water. She measures 100 tons burthen, and carries an engine of 30-horse power, made by the Ilzara - s, of Ilawarden, whose engines have been famous. Alto gether she is a model, and adorns the character of even the FISHERS, who have long been known as first-rate ship carpenters. Master WILLIAMS, the proprietor's eldest son, christened her the King Fisher ; and we heartily wish the spirited owner every success in this addition tio his steatn-packets. Upwards of 200 persona received re freshments on board, and several ladies remained on deck during the launch.—Liverpool Albion. BIRTHS. On the 25th inst. at Aberdeen, the lady of Captain Priestley, of the 25th Regt. of a son. On the 28th inst. in Chesterfield-street, the lady of C. R. Pemberton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 29th inst. the wife of S. Goldsmid, Esq. of Upper Stamford-street, of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th inst. at Barnes, Crofton Croker, Esq., to Marianne, only (laughter of F. Nicholson, Esq. of Char lotte-street, Portland-place. DIED. On the 29th inst. in Montague-place, Russell-square, W. H. Crowder, Esq., aged 79. On the 30th inst. at Herne-hill, C. Terry, Esq., late of Bedford-square, aged 73. On the 29th inst. in Powis-place, Great Ormond-street, Lsetitia, wife of John Donne, Esq., and only child of John Edwards, Esq., of Hampton-hall, Shropshire, in her 25th year. On the 23d inst. at Deighton-cottage, near York, R. ile Esq , third son of the Ker. G. Fletcher, of tchr' Beckenham, e Kent. On the 26th inst. suddenly, at Woodstock, Mr. Alex. Russell, late of Bridgewater square, Barbican, in the 57th year of his age. On the 30th inst. aged 77, the widow of the late Mr. A. Benham, of Walworth. On the 29th inst. Mr. J. Barbet, of Queen-street, Finsbury, aged 65. On the 27th inst. Mrs. Wm. How, of the Grecian ceffee-house, Strand, aged b 3 ; and on the following day Mr. Wm. How, husband to the above, having only sur vived his wife a few hours, aged 61. On the 30th inst. in Brighton-place, New Kent-road, of a consumption, aged 28, Jane, the wife of Mr. Wm. Bulman ; two infant children are left to deplore the loss of an affectionate mother. PRINTED AXD PUXLISHXD sr MURDO YOUNG, AT TllB BUN OFFICE, 112, STA/till*, LONDON. ( TO I Pan; Yea Vot neal