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AMERICAN PAPERS. CoLoMnIA.—A letter has been receive I at Phi ladelphia, dated Laguayra, Nov. 26, which says that an Act had been passed at Caraccas, declaring a separation, which was passed Nvith only three dis senting voices, and had been followed by similar Steps in Porto Cabello, Victoria, &c. The follow ing we copy from the Journal of Commerce:— " MARAcAmo, Nov. 28. 1829,---Since I last Wrote you, our political horizon has not by any rueane brightened. People do not seem to think titat the constituent Congress will be productive Or the result desired, and we seriously apprehend that the troubles of Colombia are net yet at an end. various rumours are abroad, runny of them doubtless with slender foundation, toot safficient to show that mischief is brewing, 'Private letters from Caraccas intimated that Pam had declared that he would take no part in promoting► any system, but would leave the poop►e free to make their own decisions, resolved, lilwe'ver, to protect them in the maintenance of their rt;;ltts. Two officers who lc . ely arrived from Porto Cabello by the way of Caraccas, made declaration to-day before the Prefect, that Paee had called a meeting of the notables of the former place, and had submitted to them a letter from General Urdancte, the Secretary of War, containing a project for Crown ing Bolivar, and marrying him to the daughter of the- Duke of Orleans, the crown to be hereditary, but in case of Bolivar's death without issue, to descend to the Duke. After all that Bolivar has said and done, such a proposition appears highly im probable, and may be a mere fiction. But it is also intimated, that in case of Bolivar's assuming su preme power, Veuetuela is resolved upon a separa tion. And ell these circumstances together, as have just observed, indicate latent disturbances. In consequence of the order of Government calling on the citizens freely to express their opinions with re gard to the form of Government best adapted to the condition of the country,• a printed manifesto has made its appearance here, signed by 43 persons, the greater part of whom are officers of the Government, and many more subalterns, almost no more than boys. It contains the following articles " I. That the Government should be established on a poptilar, elective, and representative basis. " 2. That Simon Bolivar be President for life. " 3. That he be clothed with powers necessary to enforce respect to the laws and his own dignity, so that in no case crimes may go unpunished; and that he may have liberty to do what may be neces sary to secure public freedom, tranquillity, and prosperity. " 4. That in case of his death the direction of the Republic fall provisionally upon the Vice-Presi dfnt during the time necessary for the election of a new President, who shall remain in office for the time the nation may hereafter decide. " 5. That the Legislative body be established in such a manner that it may never happen that after the death of the Liberator President for life, any one shall aim at usurping the national rights, and in troducing faction into the Republic. " Whatever may be the form of Government re solved upon, no doubt Bolivar will be placed at the head of it, and most probably for life. If in spite of all his protestations, lie aims at more, then it is to he presumed that Veneluela will separate. " Although Maracaibo was connected with -Vene zuela under the Spanish regime, she is really dis connected, both geographically and politically : she has no commerce with her neighbours on that side, while her very existence depends upon her relations with the south, and her navigable waters are all in that direction. In case of a separation, it is to be presumed that she would unite herself (as her situa tion obviously dictates) with Bogota and the jute. rior towards the south, rather than with the country on the ether side, with which site has scarcely a common- interest: Whatever news may occur, you mny expect to hear from me." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM VENEZUELA, DATED Nov. 28, 1829, RECEIVED AT PHILADELPHIA, VIA ST. THOMAS. " Affairs seem to have undergone a change in Venezuela, arising, as it appears, from an official proposal made by General Urdaneta, the Secretary of War, to General Paez, to forward the corona tio❑ of Bolivar. The public voice is raised against the act in Venezuela—' Death to the tyrant, death to the crown—long live the constitution,' is the common cry through the streets. It seems that this portion of the country will form a separate, inde pendent, and Republican Government. The per sons confined in the dungeons of Puerto Cabello, in consequence . of the Bogota con piracy, have been act at liberty by the garrison, awl the many persons 11 110 were banished from the country for political opinions have been recalled by General Pacz. The odious and inquisitorial police has been abolished, and the liberty of the press has been restored by a public decree of General Pacz. You may, perhaps, recollect to have beard this distinguished officer and true patriot remark often, that he would follow Bolivar as long as he had no idea of erecting a monarchy, but that there should be so crowns in Colombia. The time, it appears, has arrived when he will verify his assertions." Faost MEXICO. —By Campeachy papers, which Avere brought on Friday by the ahip Desdonona, Capt. Naghel, we learn that the troops in garrison in Cam peachy, on the tith of November, delared in favour of a central government : and the state of Yucatan has generally followed the example. The civil au thorities appear to have been overawed by the mili tary, or to have submitted, to prevent bloodshed. Tranquillity is stated to have been undisturbed. The officers at Merida, in accordance \vial the spirit of the Campeachy manifesto, resolved that they would admit no one into the army, nor receive any offievr, from Vera Cruz or elsewhere, who would refuse to unite with them. This movement induced the call of a special meeting of the Congress of the State, at Merida, and their dissolution on the .sth, when they pub lished the following declaration :—" That, convinced of the unhappy effects that would result from an indiscreet though righteous resistance, and desirous of preserving the public peace, they declared their body dissolved, protesting to the whole nation, that they acted under compulsion and a wish to prevent greater evils." We understand that this unfortunate and foolish movement is probably to he attributed to the influ ence of the York party in, Yucatan, which, although strong enough to meet with temporary success, is still too feeble to excite any serious apprehensions in the general government, and can hardly fail to be immediately overcome. This is one more example of the ill effects of a military force, so situated as to be influenced by designing men. We are informed that the troops in Campeachy probably did not ex ceed 1,500 men. President Guerrero being still in the exercise of his extraordinary powers,will promptly despatch General Santa Anna against them, and re store order. The revolters proclaim a central go vernment for Mexico ; but their designs probably extend, to a general change in men and measures. From MExtco.—The New Orleans Bee of Dec. 9, under date of Vera Cruz, Nov. 19, gives us an energetic proclamation of General Santa Anna to the inhabitants of that state, on the subject of the recent revolt in Yucatan. . He states, that having received the news of the declaration of the officers and troops of the garrison of Campeachy for a central government ; after re ferring to his late victory over the Spaniards, the charges which have been made against him, &c., he says— " The time has come when you are to witness actions that will prove the injustice of my accu sers; yes, you shall again see me faithful to my oaths. Citizens, our duty, our dearest interest im pel us to the preservation of order. The Supreme Government have been informed of what has oc curred, and they are eMployed in requisite arrange ments. For myself, so long as I retain the com mand of this State, I shall be inexorably just to any one may dare to disturb the peace which you happily enjoy ; and, unchangeable in my princi ples, 1 shall present myself at your head whenever it may be necessary, to defend the laws and public tranquillity. " ANTONIO LOPEZ SANTA-ANNA. " Jalapa, Nov. 16, 1829." Bustamente, General-in , chief of the army of reserve, and second magistrate of the republic, in a proclamation dated at the same- place, on the fol lowing day, addressed to his troops, in which he says that such reforms as the general govetnment are willing to tnake, wculd remove all esils that give any room fOr complaint, and that all the rc :.e!trees of the union will be given to maintain the federal system. The tone of General Bustamente is remarkably moderate and mild, and perfectlytmardy and firm ; and we cannot doubt that the discontented soldiers in Yucatan will be soon brought to their duty, particularly as they appear to be entirely un supported by the people. DON ISIDRO BAItRADAS.-It is stated that General Barradas, who, lately made so miserable a figure in Mexico, has arrived in this city from New Oilcans, to sail for Havre in the packet of the Ist proximo. The lion. Mr. Rush has negotiated a loan in Eu• rope of 100,000 of dollars, for the Corporation of the city of W'athington, to pay their subscription to the stock of Chesapeake and Ohio canal. The in terest is less than 6 per cent. SCOTS APPEAL CASE. lIOUSE OF LORDS. GORDON OR BROWN ' S TRUSTEES AGAINST BROWN. In consequence of several reports of this cause having appeared in various newspapers, and the cause itself not having been yet decided by the Lord Chancellor, it is deemed advisable to publish a short and plain statement of the principal facts and circumstances of the case as stated by Council. The question was one of reduction and count and reckoning, instituted before the Court of Session in 1820 or 1821, by the respondent, Miss Brown, of certain deeds of settlement executed by her father and mother to her prejudice, contrary to certain American decrees of the Federal Court of Virginia in favour of the respondent, in so far es several sums of money bequeathed to her by her brother, William Brown, of Lynchburg, in the State of Virginia, who did in the year 1811 resident in Virginia, which deeds of settlement were executed in favour of John Brown, an illegitimate son of John BrowN, her youngest brother. As the object of the present report cannot be attained in a more satisfactory manner than by submitting to the public the several heads of the cause as pled by Counsel in the House of Lords upon the first and second days of May last, reference to it shall be confined to the statements made in behalf of both parties, which is considered the most proper mode of bringing it before the public, and which is best calculated to cut down excerpts or scrap statements given by the other party. Counsel for the appellants, after recountinga story about the elopement of the respondent with a person of the name of Johnston, a gardener, concluded it with observing, that the matter was long ago settled. They then entered into the question regarding surplus interest being allowed the respondent upon certain sums and expences incurred in same particular steps of the procedure in the Court of Ses sion, besides the expense allowed for auditing accounts. They also adverted to the power of attorney executed by the respondent in favour of the late John Brown, for the purpose of enabling him to recover the funds left to her by her brother Win. Brown, the testator in question, and point ed out that John Brown accepted of the office of attorney, with a view to intercept and retain the remittances for his own behoof. But the principal point contended for by the Counsel for the appellants was, that the fee of the money bequeathed to the respondent vested in Mr. and Mrs. Brown, her parents, from the tenor of the late Wil liam Brown's settlement, according to the law of America, and that they had a right to dispose of it by will to John Brown, agreeable to the opinion of Sir Arthur Pigott, who was consulted regarding the case. Counsel referred to the American judgments given in favour of the respon dent, and stated that they did not deny the existence of such judgments, but disputed their soundness. The Lord Chancellor then observed, that he considered these decreets to be good. The appellants' Counsel also observed, that a re-hearing of these decreets was at present going on in America; and they contended that the appellants had a right to the fee from certain acts of Loma gation on the put suer, said to have arisen front facility and imposition. On the other side it was pled by the Counsel for the re spondent, that the fee of the money in question (being all personal property) vested in her alone from the settle ment itself of the testator, and by virtue of a decree of the Federal Court in Virginia in the year 1816, which judgment was confirmed by that Court in the year 1819, and that these decreets were never reversed, and not even an offer to prove that a re-hearing had been attempted-- that even by the law of England the respondent had the only legal claim to the funds, they being expressly con veyed to her, and that these American decreets were given full effect to by the unanimous decisions of both Divisions qr the court of Session, and that in conformity with the opinion of Mr. Cho : imam Johnston, an eminent lawyer of America, residing in the state of Virginia, which opinion, moreover, was also obtained by John Brown himsgf— that still more the decreets of the Second Division of the Court cf Session had not been appealed from, and that the final decree of that Division, which is dated 27th May, 1825, was issued in a regular action of reduction of the deeds of old Mr. and Mrs. Brown in favour of John Brown, by which decreets these deeds were both set aside. An extract of these decreets was produced in the Court of Appeal, referred to specially by Counsel, entertained and taken up by the Lord Chancellor. The respondent's Counsel farther con tended, that the trustees of John Brown had no title or claim upon the fee of the funds bequeathed to her by her brother, even in consequence of the reduction of these deeds, and stated, in support of this position, that the de erects appealed from were only pronounced in an action of count and reckoning before the First Division of the Court of Session, tt hich was never conjoined with. the action of 7 eduction ;—that no homologation ever existed under the present appeal, the only sums received by her being paid by virtue of two interim decreets, one for 3001. and another for 4001., as a provision for her temporary maintenance ; and that if any homologation had ever taken place, it was applicable alone to another part of the property bequeathed to her by her said brother William, consisting of funds that were situated in England, with regard to which the respondent entered into an ante-dated deed of agreement under certain restric tions in favour of John Brown. But that this money was actually paid by the appellants themselves, and dis charged by the respondent. After a separate action had been raised, and decreet obtained by the Lord Ordinary in the respondent's favour, her Counsel argued, that see ing the trustees had actually paid this sum, the natural question was, why not pay the other 7 And that nothing better could elicit the nature of the cause than the de creet of the Second Division themselves, with the notes of the Judges in the respondent's appendix to her appeal case, 13th and 14 1 / 1 pages, and referred to in the body of the appeal, marginal note, page 7th, a copy of which is sub joined to this report. It was also stated by Counsel that John Brown was bound to account to the respondent for whatever sums were recovered by him under the power of attorney exe cuted by her in his favour, in place of applying them to his own vse, and was hound to ray legal interest thereon ; and that if he considered he had any claim against the respondent, his only remedy was to have instituted a re gular action. It was further stated, that from a deed of settlement made by John Brown, in the event of the death of an only child, nearly the whole of his property, both heritable and moveable, was left to the appellants The Lord Chancellor said he observed that: Counsel con tended that the accounts were most extravagantly charged, and that the appellants had no right to any sur plus sum. No decision having been pronounced, the cause rests over fur such by that Right Honourable House. Counsel for the appellants—Messrs. Bickersteath and Maitland. For the respondent—Dr. Lushington and Mr. Adam. Interlocutors pronounced by Lord Eldin, Ordinary, and the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Ses sion, in the Process of Reductions, &c. at the instance of Miss Mary Brown, sometitne of Netherwood, now near Dumfries, against John Brown, of Netherwood, and, since his decease, transferred against Robert Gor don, Esq. of Larglanglce, and others, Trustees of the said deceased John Brown. " Edinburgh, 4th March, IS2I. " Having considered this representation, answers there to, and whole process, recals the interlocutor complained of, in so far as concerns the interest of the reprcsenter, Miss Brown : Finds, that it is unnecessary, and would he useless to prepare a rase for the opinion of English Counsel, as to the effect of the will of the deceased William Bro;t•n of Virginia, and recals the remit to George Joseph Bell, Esq , advocate, to prepare, on account of the representer, such a case. Finds, that if the opinion of any foreign lawyer were necessary or useful, the opinion of an American lawyer, as being best acquainted with the American law, ought to be taken ; and the Lord Ordinary sees no reason whatever to presume that the English lawyers arc professionally ac quainted with the laws of America. On the contrary, the Lord Ordinary has very strong reasons to believe that the American law has, since the establishment of American in dependence, been mixed and involved with so many new rules and institutions, that it may now be considered as a system totally different from that of the English law : Finds that, from the nature of William Brown's settlement, which is very simple and clear, the construction put upon it by the respondents is apparently false, absurd, and incredible; and finds, that it has been asserted by the represeuter, that the settlement was regu'arly brought before an American court of law, which gave judgment in the representer's fa vour : And finds, that no sufficient answer bas been mad to that assertion ; therefore, in the reduction ; reduces, de. cerns, and declares, at the instance of the representer, in terms of the reductive conclusions of the original libel : finds the respondents lisble to tie representer in all the expences hitherto incurred in this Court; and remits to the auditor to tax, and to report on the account thereof, when lodged. And in respect of the minute, craving that the cause be remitted to Lord Alloway, and the answers thereto, which have been laid before the Lord Ordinary after he had advised the cause, appoints the cause to be en rolled. (Signed) " JOHN CLERK." " Gth March, 1524. " Having heard the Counsel for the parties, refuses the desire of this minute. (Signed) " J. CLERK." " Edinburgh, Nov. 16, 1821. " Having considered this representation, answers, writ ings produced, and whole process, alters the words 'false, absurd, and incredible,' contained in the interlocutor com plained of, and substitutes, in their place, the word ' ill founded ;' and, with this alteration, adheres to the said in terlocutor : refuses the desire of the representer, and pro hibits further representations against the interlocutor._ Two words interlined before signing. _ (Signed) v "J. CLERK." " Edinburgh, May 27, 1325. " The Lords having advised this petition, with answers thereto, adhere to the interlocutors complained of, and refuse the desire of this petition ; find the petitioners liable in expences incurred since the 4th of March, 1921 ; and remit to the auditor to report on the account thereof ; • as well as of the expenees up to that date, firrru,Tly found due. (Signed) "D. BOYLE, I. P.D. Notes taken in the Second Division of the Court of Ses sion, on Friday, 27th May, 1925, at advising Petition for John Brown's Tiustees, with Answers for Miss Mary Brown. LORD JUSTICE CLERK _Anything more to say on this case ? Air. CHRISTISON—I have only to mention that the Trustees never sent out instructions to America. Loan JUSTICE Cairn—llad there been no proceedings in America, the proper course would have been to ascer tain what the law of the country was r and as this was the place where the deed was executed, it should be regu lated by the law of that country and of that place. All that is said here is that the matter was to be brought under review of that Court ; and this gentleman (John Brown) went out to America, in order, I presume, to give in a reclaiming petition or get a re-hearing; but whether it has been given in, or whether be has been heard, I cannot soy. At any rate, as the Courts there had decided in Miss Brown's favour, and the Trustees had produced no evi dence of a reversal of that decision, I have no difficulty in adhering to the interlocutory of the Lord Ordinary. Lord RoanyrsoN—The question here depends open the interposition which you think proper to put upon 'William Brown's deeds. I agree with my Lord Eldin and my Lord Alloway ; and the pursuer, and, indeed, all parties agree that the fee of this is vested simply and absolutely in Mary Brown herself; and the deed under reduction is apparently isposingof that fee ; anti that is what was represented in Amewiea. I area with Lord Eldin, that no satisfac. 1 tory answer is made to Miss Brown's assertion, that the settlement was regularly brought before an American Court of Law, which decided in her favour. As to the opinion of English Counsel—this gentleman (Sir A. Pigott), no doubt stands very high in his profession as an English lawyer but I do not conceive that the opinion of any English lawyer whatever can regulate the law of America; and I think his Lordship did right in recalling that part of Lord Kin nedder's interlocutor that ordered a case to he preparedand made up for the opinion of English Counsel. There is an argument which is dwelt upon a good deal, which is, that at all events, this lady is barred personali exceptions, from insisting in her action. I confess I was somewhat surprised to find a pica of this kind maintained by the representative of John Brown ; for his knowledge of his relative was, that she was given to no common propen sities and babils of intemperance; and it certainly, if true, affords sufficient evidence of the facility of this lady; and yet the representatives of this Mr. John Brown con tend that she is debarred personali exceptione, front in sisting in this action, in consequence of having granted this deed, when, at the same time, they bring forward evi dence of the facilities by which she might have been in duced to grant any deed. Ley! PITMILLY—I am entirely of the same opinion; and I need not take up your time its going over what has already been stated, as the ground upon which I have formed that opinion. I think the decree is quite decisive. Lord ALLowar —I take the same view of this case with the rest of your Lordships, and shall only express my opinion upon another branch of it. I agree with your Lordships that this case was decided in the most formal and regular manner in 1816. The American Court pro ceeded on bill and answers (which, until very lately, your Lordships know, were the very terms formerly used in this Court, being syronymous with petition and answers), and Counsel were also beard for both parties. Now, the decree of this foreign Court is completely established in this way. The jiidgntent was pronounced in 1816 ; and they any they were to bring the sentence again under the review of the American Court; but they never attempted it. There is a letter so late as in March last year, which mentions that they have never attempted to get it altered and I must say, it is quite a singular coincidence in the case, to found on a deed granted by this woman, whereby she gives up no less a stun than 1,653/. for an annuity of 501 per annum, and to ray that is sufficient to bar this action. If there was no other ground to show her fa cility than this, this of itself is quite sufficient, viz. the acceptance of an annuity of 501. a year for this sum ; which annuity, in the circumstances, is not worth two years' purchase. As an annuity, therefore, it is impossible to state that it is not a most at, ociotts and inju rious transaction to this poor woman ; and after stating and alluding to the state of facility which this lady was under, which is done in the narrative of the bond, to raise a plea of hotnologation on that deed, shows no small hardihood in the trustees. But your Lordships will pay no regard to it. No doubt, when 1 was in the Outer House, I was quite clear with regard to the ground of proceeding, that, an Lord Ordinary, I had no power to reduce that deed without a formal process of reduction ; and, accordingly, I resisted that part of the case, till a formal reduction should be brought. But, upon the whole, my Lord, I never saw a more hopeless case than this, and, from the way in which it was connected with the former proceed- ings, a more atrocious. Lord ROBERTSON-And, my Lord, the bond also de clared that the annuity should be forfeited if she did not remain at Netberwood. Lord ALLowar —lt was not to be supposed that slie would reside long there. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). VIOE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. Nothing of any public importance took place in this Court up to the period when we went to press. The Court of Common Pleas was equally barren of interest. ---- Arrired. Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayree O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 1 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Mexico O France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 NIGII WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 2 minutes after 7. Evening... 32 minutes after 7. -43 , Nitak • • • •ofi.r ,11:.• vs . COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE sat a short time this morn ing, for the purpose of taking justifications of bail, and boning motions of course. His Lordship rose before eleven o'clock. It being the anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles, no other business was transacted in Westminster Hal. CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS. — Now that the sea son of annual festivity is about to terminate, and the re spective Boarding Schools be reinstated by the busy throng of youthful aspirants, the personal attractions of whom be come naturally an abject with friends and relatives of great solicitude, ROWLAND'S Kalydor, for preserving the Skin, and improving the Complexion, and Macassar Oil, for accelerating the Growth and beautifying the Hair, are generally considered indispensable in the requisite accompa niments of the decorative repository. The august patronage conceded by all the Sovereigns of Europe to the creative and renovating Specifics, and confirmation, by experience, of their infallible efficacy, have characterised them with pi,rfection, and given them a celebrity unparalleled. Let rrchasers, however, guard 1 , gainq deleterious imitations, each Genuine Bottle has the Signature, in fled Ink, "A. RewLasn and Son, No. 20, Hatton-garden," and ,re to be bad of respectable venders only. ;ant. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1830. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign office this afternoon. The Council was attended by all the Ministers in town. Dutch and German Papers have been received is morning, but their contents are unirnpor- The Hamburg Reporter and other Papers of the 22(1 instant have been received. The follow ing substance of Ole decree for making Venice a free port is the only thing worth extracting, together with the Borsen-hallo UNICE, JAN. 6. The decree for the freedom of our port, which we have so long and so anxiously expected, was at length published here on the 24th ult. It ordains, that the exemption from customs of the whole city, and several of the neighbouring islands, shall commence on the Ist February next, that all articles may be imported and exported free of duty, with the exception of a few, which are to pay what is called the consumption duty, among which are oil, stock-fish, &c. Respecting this latter regulation, our Chamber of Commerce has already made proposals to the Government to change the consumption duty, the levying of which renders the examination of the ships necessary, into an annual excise, to be paid by the merchants, as has already been done at Trieste. The favourable situation of Venice, and the ge neral peace, encourage a hope that trade will become flou rishing. Two ships have already arrived at Liverpool, and four others are expected. A great quantity of goods, destined for our port, is now at Trieste. A commercial era commenced at the new year. We understand that the city is to pay to the Imperial Treasury, as an inelam nity for the suppressed duties, a gross suns of 1,300,000 florins per annum. Several German houses, which have factories at Genoa, Palermo, &C., intend to give them up, and have a principal establishment here. HAMBURG, JAN. 22. BORSEN-HALLIC, FOUR o'CLocr.—Our Corn Market still extremely dull, owing to the continued interruptions of our navigation Of Wheat, a few parcels, received by land carriage, have been sold for the consumption of the place, at the prices marked below. At an auction of Upland Wheat, held a few days ago, none of our biddings came up to the in ices del - lorded by the holders, so that no sale took place. Rye, Barley, and oats, are all of heavy sale, although the supplies are trifling. Weight. Rix dollars. Dantzic Wheat —to to Pomeranian 124 to 129 lO3 to 106 Anhalt, white llB to 124 115 to 123 red 122 to 128 112 to 116 Danish 120 to 129 76 to 85 Dantzic Rye llB to 122 62 to 66 Upland 116 to 123 62 to 66 Magdeburgh Barley 'lB to 101 46 to 52 A 'mit N to 104...... 48 to 53 Mecklenburgli Oats 66 to 57 4O to 43 Pomeranian Malt to Our stock market has of late been remarkably brisk. The approaching liquidation bas . had an unfavourable effect. Extensive engagements have been catered into for the 23d inst., on which day the primes and stellagen must be declared. Lower prices from Berlin and Vienna have influenced our market to-day ; towards the close, however, things looked more favourably. Discount, 2 per cent. nut of January. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. A ng lo-Russian Loan 166% H am b u r g -Russian Loan 104% Polish Bonds l2l Austrian Bank Shares 1288 Austrian Metalliques IRS New Austrian 4 per Cents. Anglo Neapolitan Falconete We have received the following from our Paris Correspondent : " PARIS, JAN. 26. cc The canal from St. Etienne, to which I al luded in some of my former letters, like many other undertakings of a similar nature in this country, is likely to meet with a variety of ob stacles to its further progress. The inhabitants and the municipal authorities of the town of ltive-de-Gier oppose its prolongation to the Loire for a variety of reasons ; such as that the manufactures and machinery established on the Gier, which, during the great heats of summer, have already suffered greatly from drought, would be totally deprived of water, and compelled to suspend their labours during several months of the year ; the probable extinction of several species of industry, such as those of the dyer, the tanner, the cornaniller, &c. &c. most of which the proprietors would be obliged to aban don, from the want of a sufficient supply of water ; and the dtu,ger alleged to be imminent, if not inevitable, to which the extensive coal mines of the neighbourhood would be exposed by inundation. I repeat these objections, which, it appears, are to be attended with success in peding the progfess of a work of great public utility, indispensible, in fact, to the adequate supply of the capital with this necessary article of fuel, unless the more promising speculation of the great maritime canal from Rouen should in a few years bring a regular fleet of Newcastle colliers to the French capital, for the purpose of showing the inaptitude which is so remarkable in the French character for any great social un dertaking which requires the reconciliation of adverse interests, and the union of men of all classes in its accomplishment. In England, such objections would readily be answered before a committee of the House of Commons, a spe cies of tribunal which of late years has been greatly calumniated, but which, under the salu tary controul of the House itself, I hold to be an admirable piece of legislative mechanism ; and I think they would be successfully answered thus. A compensation reservoir of moderate dimensions would more than indemnify the river machinery for any loss of water by the canal, by equalizing their supplies throughout the year; such trades as use only without consuming the water, and do not require the advantage of a waterfall, could be as well supplied from the canal as from the river, by which neither party would suffer inconvenience ; and as to the danger of inundation, it is obviously quite chimerical, as in England we have not merely canals over mines of all descriptions, but mines under rivers, and under the sea itself, where life and property have been sunk for ages, without even the apprehen sion of danger. It will, in fact, be long indeed before the mercurial inhabitants of France can enter into successful competition with the per severing and determined industry of Englishmen. A gentleman of my acquaintance, a native of France, who has long been engaged both prac tically and scientifically in useful undertakings of great extent and importance, has found it for his own interest, and I believe has been actuated by the desire of promoting the interests of his country, to pay periodical visits to various parts of the three kingdoms, but particularly to Lan cashire and Lanarkshire, to Cornwall and the principality, for the purpose of learning whatever was new or important in the details of our great staple manufactures, our mining operations, and our public works. With very few exceptions, my friend speaks with enthusiasm of the readi ness and liberality with which he was everywhere received, and even caressed by those who were at the same time conferring on him the most sub stantial obligations. But what is more to my present purpose, and what he speaks of with even more delight than all the practical informa tion he derived from his extensive journies, was the uniform steadiness and assiduity of the work men, in strictly applying themselves to their appointed task throughout the ten hours of labour comprised in a day's work ; and from an intimate knowledge of what a man may thus ac complish, he affirms, and I fully believe his asser tion, that labour, that is real and efficient labour, is at this moment incomparably cheaper in England than in France. He has applied to this subject the sure test of close and personal observation, and as national prejudices were all against the conclusion at which he has arrived, his evidence is so much the more worthy of credit and at tention. He has counted the bricks which were laid by an English bricklayer in a given time ; he has measured the work of masons, sawyers, and carpenters, and artizans of all descriptions; and, on comparing the results, he has thus ob tained with his or n previous experience, he de liberately asserts that he would rather give an English or a Scotch mechanic ss. a day—for Ireland, he admits, is a nation apart—than 20d. to one of his own countrymen. The reason he assians for it is, that unless you condemn a Frenchman to work in absolute solitude, you cannot hinder him by any human consideration from engaging in conversation with his com rades, and constantly losing those precious mo ments which he perpetually forgets are not his own property but those of his emp loyer. " The uncertainty that still seems to hang over Prince LEoroLD's acceptance of the kingdom that has for some time past been assigned to him by the public, would seem to intimate that there is some other obstacle to the measure, beyond the Prince's own hesitation. Whether the re sult will depend on the contents of despatches, said to be expected from St. Petersburgh, we are not able to pronounce with any degree of confi dence ; but it seems more than probable that the relative situation of the new King of GREECE to Count CAPO D'ISTRIA is at present the chief point unsettled. That Russia is desirous of stipulating for the permanent continuance of that Minister in the Greek Council can scarcely be doubtful ; and, if such continuance has been made the condition of Russia's waiving the pro hibition contained in the fourth clause of the Protocol, signed at London on the 22d March last, it is clear that Prince LEOPOLD must either comply with it, or abandon the idea of having his brows encircled with a crown. The words of the Protocol arc—" the Government is to ap " proach as nearly as possible to a monarchical " form, and to be hereditary in the family of a " Christian Prince, to be chosen for the first " time by the three Powers, in concert with the " PORTE. He is not to be a member of the "families reigning in the States which are " parties to the Treaty of July 6." This con tract cannot, of course, be set aside, but by con sent of the three contracting parties. LIMERICK ELECTION. —There was great confusion at the dose of the proceedings on Tuesday, and it was impossible, we believe, accurately to ascertain the state of the pull. The Papers give 21 to DAwsON and 12 to O'GRADY, hut we have letters which give 23 to O'GRADY and only 19 to DAIVEON.-Dublin Morning Register. MELomsTs' CLUB.—Yesterday the Mem bers of this d e lightful club dined together for the first time this season. The repast was sumptuous, the company select and numerous, and the evening spent in the greatest harmony. Several admirable songs were sung by profes sional gentleman in attendance. A woodman in the vicinity of Stuttgard, whilst felling wood in a forest, had the misfortune to have his arm caught in a cleft, whilst splitting a tree. He found nimself out of the reach of all assistance, and being unable to disestangle himself, whilst he was exposed to twelve degrees of cold, he formed the horrid resolution of hewing off his own arm with his axe, and by this means saved his life. —Journal du Commerce. No Arab born in either of the sacred cities of Mecca or Medina will act as a menial servaLt, unless curnpellel by actual want of food. THE FUNDS.-(TII1S DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Extract of a letter front Liverpool, dated Jan. 28, posted at the North and South American Coffee-house :--- Arrived the John Woodall, Captain Ramsey, from Mau ritius, sailed the 20th Oct. He had conversation with the Master of the Saint Leonard, from the Swan River, who did not communicate to him any thing like the re ports which hive recently aNieverl in the newspapers, re specting the failure of that settlement. There were about 40 sail of vessels at the Mauritius, and all likely to obtain cargoes. Freights to Europe were varying from 41. 10s. to 41. PAY AT ONE O'C!,ocK. I,RICES OF STOCKS Tit ts Bin!: • - itoch 219;4 19 3 pc: Cent. Tied. 31,:r Cont. Cons. `3*; pi r Cc o t ....... ......... .., • --- Dim; 7.0. 100 99% * rcr Cent. Ann. P”,iici hitt,,, ;!:26 Rank L. Ann. l9 11-16 Ditto 30 sears - Ditto 50 years - India Stock Ditto Bonds '72 '73 Pct__ Sotitb Sea Stock ........ Auntlitie3.. New Ditto Ex. Bills,-£I,PX 15 71 pm. Ditto lid. '75 '7' pm. Ditto 500 2d. 75 71 pm. Ditto ..... lid. 75 71 pm. Ditts‘a small —7 B Ditto lid. '76 pm. Lank for Acc0unt.......... for Account ......... ,Cons. for Feb. 25 ............ 93 TA miers OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds ............... —lPeruvian Bonds Buenos Ares Bonds ...... ... —lFortuguese Bonds — Gillian Bonds ... ............... Prussian, Old Colon*ian Bonds — !Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 .........22;;, 3 2% 3 Bus , 'ian Danish f: reek Bonds 35 1 7, :823 ........... ........ 8 1 ,4 Ditto, 189 f, 3514 614 French Rentcs, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatiniala — Exchange...... —l. —:-. Mexican Bonds — -- 3 per cent, —t. —r. Ditto, 1825 25!6 Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Ang!,, MeX. min. co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) X1f,,1 !:9 Brazilian Mining Company 5 7 :4 Braznian Imo. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £:3O - Ditto National lO 27 Real clot Monte Mining Co. £ l ,oo 59 58 TRICSS OF mist' STOCKS, PUDIAN, JAN 27, Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Sleek, 334 per cent. 9SK, National Ditto 2C, Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 1 0154 , 1 Hibernian Bank ......... ...... Gov. Itch. 31.6 percent.... Pl 4 Provincial Ditto Royal t...nal Stock — Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Sleek ---!lmperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent — . Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Oltice Deb. 4p. c. • Commercial Buildings — COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at sight 12 6 1 Rotterdam 2 U 12 8 Antwerp 12 8 • ilamburg M. 11.14 2 Altona l4 2+ Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Ditto 2U. 26 5 Bordetaux 26 10 Berlin .NGE YYSTERDAT. Prink fortc:iila ne, Ex. M. 154 Peteriburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Verna, elfective tl. 2 M. 10 16 Tric‘tte do 10 17 Madrid 3 5 ,,4 Cad'. 1.5.% 35 , ,4 linrctlnna tievifle Gibraltar 47% ....... __. 'Leghorn 4 ki Genoa oc i 5 Venice 47 Malta 4ti% Nlftples Palenno per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 43% Itio Janeiro Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, '2l days' sight l% Cork 134 BULLION, PE OP.. X. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New i.Loubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Sliver, bar., standard 0 0 0 FOREIGN Y:XCIIANGES ON LONDON. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 26.-12. 23. to 12. 22 , A. Two mouths—Not noted. IlAmnufio, JAN. 22.-13. I , Pi.—Two months, 13. 12%. IInE.mENT, JAN. 19.—Two months, 620 621. VIENNA, JAN. 12.—Three months, 10. 2. FRANKFORT, JAN. 22.—Two months, 150 ?8. THE FUNDS. The re-appearance of bad weather has prevented any arrivals of euus t ,juence. No foreign mails have come to hand, and the ship-letters arc few in number. The Gmsol Market looked heavy towards the close of itusine3s yesterday afternoon, and left off in the house at 94 for the Account; but 1111(n - wards Consols were done in the Stock EKchange-court at 92ij, and opened this morning at 92-'4 93 ; but little business is going forward as vet. The Royal Exchange will not he opened till twelve o'clock, owing to its being the anniversary of King Charles's Martyrdom. In the Foreign Market prices nominal. ENGLISH FUNDS. Rank Stock, 219 20 31- per Cent. India Stock, 2373 3 New 4 per Cent., 1011 I S per Cent Guns. per Cent. 1826 me, Do., for Account, 92-h 3 India Bonds, 73 Ditto Reduced, 9311- Exchequer Bills. 74 75 TWO 0' CL 0 CK. Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 921,- for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers, with little or nothing doing. The Bank being closed, no money transactions are going forward. There is the same stagnation in the Foreign Market, and most of the prices of Foreign Securities aro nominal, as iser yesterday. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 94. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 924 I Danish 75 De. for Ac. 924 3 I Greek, 1825 36f Brazilian Bonds 71f Mexican, 1825 251 Buenos Ayres 311 !Peruvian 19 Chilian Do. 27 I Russian 110 Columbian, 1824, 23 Spanish 114 LITERATURE. VALPY'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Vot. LONDON', 18SO. If this volume possessed no further recom mendations, the two beautifully executed en gravings of Sallust and Demosthenes would be quite sufficient to ensure it a considerable sale. But it has superior claims to public favour. It has Doctor It °se's translation of that eloquent and forcible composition, the " &Mum Catilina rium" of Sallust :—an historian whose wo rks, even in the comparatively humble disguise of a n English dress, teem with materials for reflection and amusement. The volume, we should add, is neatly printed, on excellent paper, in a port able shape, and at an accessible price. LARDNER'S CA BINET:CYCLOPiEDIA.—DOMES TIC ECONOMY, Vol,. I.—LoNnox. 1830.: This is truly a treatise on Domestic Eco' nomy. Almost every thing that appertains di' reedy or indirectly to a household establish ment—the arts of brewing, of distilling, of wine-making, of baking, together with marl more arts of the same useful practical character, are here brought together, abridged, simpli. ficd, and rendered intelligible, as the Eton Latin Grammar says with far less justi ce --..“ to the meanest capacity," in the small compass of one portable and elegantly embellished duode cimo. It is to Mr. Michael Donovan, Pro fessor of Chemistry to the Company of Apothe.. caries, that we arc Indebted for this able treatise. In searching for extracts, we can find few more entertaining and curious than the following stronglY attested instances of human combustion produced on the part of the victim by a destructive tend ency to spirituous liquors. The subject how ever is not new to us, as we remember to have seen it ingeniously advanced in Mr. M'Nish s well-known Essay on the evils and phcenomena of Drunkenness. Mary Clues, aged fifty, was much addicted to intoxica don. Her propensity to this was such, that for about year scarcely a day passed in which she did - not kink at least half a pint of rum, or aniseed water. Het' health gradually declined ; she was attacked with jaun dice, and was confined to her bed. She still continued her old habit of drinking. One morning she fell on the floor ; and her weakneas having prevented her getting up, she remained so till some one entered and put her to bed. The following night she wished to be left alone. A woman, on quitting her, had put coal on the fire, and placed a light on a chair at the head of the bed. At live in the morning a smoke was seen issuing through the window ; and the door being broken open, same flames which were in the room 'were soon extinguished. Between the bed and the chimney were found the re main: of the unfortunate Clues. One leg and a thigh were still entire; but there remained nothing of the skin, the muscles, or the viscera. The hones of the cranium, the breast, the spine, and the upper extremities, were entirely calcined. The furniture had sustained little iriiury. The side of the bed next the chimney had suffered mo s t the wood of it was slightly burnt; but the feathers, clothes, and covering were safe. Nothing except the body ex hibited aoy strong traces of fire. Grace Pitt, aged about 60, had a habit of coming down from her bid-room, half-dressed, to smoke a pipe, One night she came down as usual. Her daughter, who slept with her, did net perceive she was absent till next morning, when she went down to the kitchen, found her mother stretched out on the right ride, with her head near the grate, having the appearance of a log of wood consumed by fire, without an apparent flame. The foetid odour and smoke, which exhaled from the body almost suffocated some of the neighbours who hastened to the girl's assistance. The trunk was in some mea sure incinerated, and resembled a heap of coals covered with white ashes. The head, the arms, the legs , and the thighs, had also participated in the burning..-' This woman had drank a large quantity of spirituous liquor. There was no fire in the grate, and the can dle had burned entirely out in the candlestick, which was close to her. Besides, there were found near the consumed body the clothes of a child, and a paper screen, which bad eustaioed no injury, The dress of this woman consisted of a cotton gown. CONSTANTINOPLE, 1828.—Loxporr, 1829. We merely allude to these entertaining vo lumes, which have now been, comparatively speaking, a long time before the world, in order to observe that the second edition, which is in two volumes octavo, and to which is attached an appendix, containing observations and remarks, up to the autumn of 182 9, has been materially improved. A work of this nature is at the present momen t an almost indispensible addition to a gentleman's library ; more especially as the author has taken little for gi anted, or on hearsay, but drawn all his materials from his own personal sources of information. His opportunities of seeing and commenting on all that was worthy in Constanti nople were abundant, and he has availed himself of them accordingly. The plates, particularly the one of the view on the Bosphorus, arc beautiful. klippil DEAL, . two saloon battles unk Poltzsm uer wood, fium the C Salacia, H LivER N from Sava delphi a an( Smyrn a . Virginia ; CREE K , hienin a • 1 , rAI.2IOL the woo,n. venu, Si 8%.a. Rive IPLy mo horn at liallyslia O n the stet Th e Pal Th e F i i The Jul Channel, The Wi With on th There 1 , Morning' s good, but ttbles wer night, 44 d dry F Potatoes (C. i?-, al bages (I Pitt° Savo:. .torse izad' 0 •.. celery ... I nip. j; Coleworis Leeks .. Carrotso .. Smaf Szvl HA enarise hea New plead Us eful Old Lipt a , tlover fix Oat Straw. A mode Cearee hen 'New Mead Paella Old Flee Uelal CICITT fia 04 Straw' Surpil Viscou the Duk( W I 4 1 4 tti e Perus. ‘'Y Mr. ti46mllt of h e '') 44 to 41'44 in t2 4 , tr) ,ea th e 01* 4 In ° et k i lat aocel YOtkliv,