The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-12 00:00:00

LITERATURE. THE 'FOLLIES OF FASHION, A COMEDY. LoNeox, 183(?. It is astonishing how very few sterling writers of Comedy we possess in our language. In every other department of intellect we have first-rate authors in abundance. In Poetry, Mathematics, Philosophy, Divinity, History, the 1 - :e Arts, &c., we have names that neither ancient nor modern Europe can surpass, scarcely even parallel ; but in Comedy we are un accountably deficient. In this respect alone our national genius is nt a discount. When we have enumerated Shakspeare (and his is the Comedy rather of fancy than of real life), Ben Jonson,—of Beaumont and Fletcher we say nothing, for their humour is not inPligeriens,not a faithful transcript of English life and manners, but a desultory accu mulation of lively poetic sallies,---Farquhar, Congreve, and Sheridan, we have mentioned all who can claim to he remembered by posterity for their superior delineation of the manners of their age and country. Vanburgh and Foot e mi g ht per haps he added to our list; but the former is dry and heavy, though occasionally a forcible writer, and the latter, notwithstanding his unrivalled humour, is a professed caricaturist. In Comedy then, we are, it must be confessed, as far inferior to our mercurial Timis, the French, as we are in every other respect superior. Still, what few specimens we possess in this department of the drama are, of their kind, excellent. The strong, rough, muscular humour of Ben Jonson, whose Voipone and Alchemist abound in thought and learning, as well as vivacity ; the easy, unembarrassed wit of Farquhar; the terse p o i nte d, epigrammatic sallies of Congreve ; and the classic sparkling eloquence of his close imitator, 6heridan,:are such as do honour to England ; though the whole combined will not make up even one Molir're. It is in this admirable though, in point of num bers, limited school that the author of the Comedy before us has studied. His prime favourites seem to be Congreve and Sheridan, from both of whom he has borrowed the idea of two of the most marked incidents in his play. From the Old Bachelor of the former, where liclrtfrcc narrowly escapes the atoral shipwreck of marriage with an intriguing femme de chambrc, Lord Glengall has gleaned the hint of Major O'Simper's nearly consummated nup tials with Jenny the I,:d)'s maid ; and from the famous scandal scene of the latter, Sheridan, he has adapted his conversanou at Lady Mary's, where the parties engaged, apprehensive of the con sequences should they leave any of their set behind, agree to go out together. Besides these palpable imitations, there are numerous felicities of thought and expresi•ion which Will instantly recall the recollection of the two te.cehent comic writers we have mentioned ; but ; as these are comparatively unimportant, we shall forbear more particularly to specify them. The great charm of the " Follies of Fashion" is its ' , effect freedom from the cant of sentiment. There is not one love-sick maiden in the whole play —a reprieve for which we are duly grateful. The languege is throughout chaste and natural, occa sionally even elegant ; and if the piece be deficient in originality, this defect originates not so much in the author himself, as in the cless of society from which he has selected the materials for his satire. Striking character is not to be met with in fashionable He, wbose chief object is to enforce a polished insipi dity ; but in the grade beneath, where passion has freer play, and eccentricity is less heterodox, and more native to the soil. Lnrd Cilengall's wit, though got first-rate, is yet very creditable to hie talents. It consists not so much in thought as in expression, like the verbal felicities of 13rummell, as, for instance, where a lveßlthy Hebrew family are styled " a tribe of luxu riantly gilt Jewesses;" where another usurious Israelite is defined s 5 " a high pressure Jew, of a huadied-per-cent.•premium power," and an unso phisticated country gentleman is described as " growing" in Somersetshire. These are fair samples of the humour of the rest of the drama, which, taken altogether, is a lively, ingenious, and gentlemanlike performance. We should not omit to add, that it is introduced by a prologue, nom the pen of Mr. F. Mills, and an epilogue from that of Lord Alvanley. The epilogue is sprightly aryl ele gant; bnt of the prologue, some lines of tlich we are informed, " distinguished by inverted commas, were omitted," we can only say, that if the whole had been so " distinguished," the public would have gained by the distinction. THE UNITED FAMILY.—Losuos. IS3O. Nothing can be more suitable to the season than this amusing little child's hook, which pourtrnys iu plain and feeling language the characters of a family— their habits, pursuits, amusements, &c.—bound to each other by the strong ties of affection. The va rious little anecdotes, interspersed here and there through the book, are most of them very pertinent and pleasing. 111 F, GIFT OF AN UNCLE. LONDON. 1830. '1 his is a little book professedly for the use of children, and giving short descriptions of some of the peculiarities of the animal and vegetable world. It is drawn up with simplicity and judgment, and the various information it contains is happily enough introduced by a little domestic tale, which gives a sort of dramatic interest to the work. We trust it will become popular with our young friends. SECOND FOOTSTEP TO MRS. TRIMMER'S SACRED HISTORY. We will not go the length of asserting that the author of this little work follows Mrs. Trimmer " passibus aqui: ;" he is, however, a gleaner in the same geld, where she has so diligently reaped, and deserves attention accordingly. Ihe work is ex pressly devoted to children, and places many of the most valuable portions of scripture history before them in an inviting and intelligible manner. THE MERCANTILE TEACHER'S ASSISTANT. Loxpox. 1830. The ri,,ing commercial generation, the future Rothschilds, Baring=, Coutts, &c., of England, will deri►e much benefit from an attentive study of this very useful practical publication. The same praise we may extend to a work entitled " A Trea tise on Practical Arithmetic," in which that science is greatly simplified, and made familiar to the most ordinary understandings. MORE SWANS.—Those majestic , the wild swans, have been this winter exceedingly numerous in the northern esninties, and their presence is slid to be token the coiatirsitnee of y severe season. Three fine speeimenaweere killEd on 'Tuesday last on Chetwynd Lake, pcarfnwP9,4, Shropshire, by a gentleman •isiting in the neigbbcturhood, WINO, we understand, has sent their skins to a friend id Liverpool, to undergo a process that shall render them serviceable. The flock consisted of no less than eleven.—Macolavield Courier. ?SLICES OF STOCKt THI' z,l; stock 0 1714 18 1 . i 'I :,_:r Cent. itcd. 9414y41 I p-_, Cent. C:.nx 4 3,8 7 1 /6 1 , ..; porCent - !3tt-, Re", IOON% t per Cent. Ann. Dito, lni Ditto Scrip - t3Ank J. Attn. ~....719 11-16 N , Itto -.) yrkz, - trdi t stock shut Ditto Borvls 7 t 73 pm. CRICKS OF ;FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian 80nd5:..,...2tVA itilli Neapolitan — Brazi:ian Bends; 7136 Peruvian Bonds Buenas Ayres Bonds Portuguese Boras Clllllan Bonds ... — Prus,ian, Old Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 2IN Bussian — Danish - "il4 Spanish, '521 10:, 1 ,; Greek Bonds — Ditto, 1825 .French Renter, sp. c. --f. —c. Guatnnala Exchange ...... Mexican Bonds — 3 per cent. Ditto, 1525 — Exchange —f. DAY AT O O'CLOCK. South SCA Stork shut Old Annuities New Ditto shut Ex. Bills, .f i s oOrl 2d. 75 SO pm. Ditto lid. i 9 SO pm. Ditto .5O 20. 79 $0 pro. Ditto lid. 79 PO pm. Ditt 4 Small Ditto lid. 19.80 pm. ?Sank f.ir Account India for Account - t Cons. for Jan. 20 • ..; dlit A AA, ...Z ill ,4 t ,F;— ..,,,, _:.IA.,Jk , ---\ •S 4444 k ... :,-- -,, ,51ifi ,, 2i, \ .; -I-- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1830. German Papers have been received, but their contents are unimportant. The King of Win- TEMBURG has instituted a new order of Knighthood in honour of his father, the late KINO. According to an article, dated Nuremburg, private accounts from Berlin atate, that " an extensive financial operation is in contemplation, the object cf which is to pay off that part of the Public Debt which bears a higher interest, especially the Loan negociated in 1822 with RoTuscruLD in London, at 5 per cent. With this view a Loan at 3 per cent., the amount of which is variously stated, is to be opened, connected with prizes, to be deter ruined by lottery. M. SOLO:1101%7 ROTH SCHILD is daily expected from Vienna.— Hence it is connected that the house of ROTH SCHILD will be entrusted with the execution of this measure." Accounts from Vienna, however, say that he is only gone to Troppau to settle some old accounts with an officer of the Prussian Finance Department, and by no means to treat about a new loan. The winter is felt in Germany in all its rigour. The Rhine is alMost wholly frozen over. The following con inunication from our Paris Correspondent, contains an account of a system of education recently adopted in France by M. JACoTOT, something similar to that of the Hamiltonian system in this country. It is par ticularly interesting:— " PARIS, JAN. 5. "- I shall take occasion on some future oppor tunity to enter into an examination of the nature of that superintendence which is maintained by the Government of France over the details of public education, which are entrusted to a Mi nister of State with a seat in the Cabinet. My present purpose is to direct your attention to the fact that, in spite of the fostering care of the Minister and the monopoly enjoyed by the Uni versity of France, a number of valuable im provements have found their way into various branches of education, such as in reading French by the method of LafForienne, in writing by Bernardet, in teaching languages by Jacotot, anti in music by the Meloplastic method. Most of these improvements are undoubtedly well worthy of attention, but it will perhaps be sufficient for the subject of this clay's communication if I en deavour to give you some idea of the system pursued by M. Jacotot in teaching languages, in the course of which he succeeds by his admi rable method in improving, exercising, and strengthening all the powers of the understand ing. Indeed the chief advantage of the method, besides its extreme simplicity, is that it compels the scholar to a constant attention, and con strains him every instant to put his faculties in action, to obtain a result which it is the master's business only to verify ; thus strengthening at once the memory and the judgment in a sort of intellectual gimnasium. " In teaching children their mother tongue M. Jacotot takes Telemaque for his text book. He makes the scholar commit one or two pages of it to memory, anti so proceeds till he is master of the first six books. But as the lesson of to day might make him forget that of yesterday, he is made to repeat every day all that precedes his daily lesson. This exercise is indispensable, and is not suspended until the first six books are completed ; the daily repetition is then limited to the third part of what the scholar has acquired, so that the six books are then only re peated twice a week. " From the commencement the scholar is in terrogated at each repetition on the orthography of the words in his lesson ; if he makes a mistake the book is presented to him, and he is made to compare the spelling of the printed word with that which he had lihnself given. " He is also taught to understand the mean ing of words and their classes or families; Ca lypso, Ulysses, grotto, and island are shown to be the signs of persons or of things. Some words are shown to be the signs of actions or of facts, while others express a succession of facts, an as semblage of circumstances, a picture ; as adven tures, miy'ortunes, exactness, politeness, ten:- pest, &c. " When it is ascertained that the scholar understands what he has committed to memory, such questions are addressed to him as—For what was it that Calypso could not be consoled ? To which he would probably answer—The de parture of Ulysses. Q. Why.—A. Because she had an affection for him. Q. Why did she no longer sing ?—A. Because she was sad. Q. Was it cold in the island of Calypso ?—A. No, there was there an eternal spring. If the scholar cannot answer the questions readily he is re quired to recal the expressions in which he has found 89mething analogous to the question ; and if he cannot appreciate the connection, he is put in the way of finding it by noi enquiries, which facilitate the answer without ever directly point ing it out. One of the means best calculated to form the judgment of the scholar consists in his being required to justify and defend every opinion he utters. " Let it be supposed that the scholar is now well acquainted with the first six books of Tele machus, and understands the meaning of all the words individually. Hitherto the intellect has ;Icted only a secondary part, and the scholar knows only what he has seen, and understands no more than he has been taught. He must now discover what he did not know before, by seeking for it in what he does know, proceeding from the known to the unknown, and verifying the one by the other. He is made to form nar ratives of his own on the model of those in his text book, borrowing the words, the expressions, and the facts from what he has already been taught. He is next exercised in the art of generali zation. He is asked, for instance, what is the state of a person who seeks solitude ? If the answer be : He is sad,—he is is required to jus tify it, schen he will, perhaps, reply, that after the departure of Ulysses, Calypso sought soli tude. That Telemachus, a captive, and op pressed by grief, abandoned himself to solitude ; and that Idomeneus, when unhappy, sought also solitude, and that all these facts made him think that the desire of solitude was a proof of sadness. By thus taking facts for starting points, it is obvious that just conclusions are more easily obtained ; and in framing his an swer the scholar is obliged to consult the reflection which the facts have suggested to him. " The next process is that of analysis, which is a frequent subject of exercise. The scholar is sometimes required to analyze a short pas sage, sometimes one of the six books, and at length the whole work. In general he is not to be stopped as long as he has any thing to say, there is to be no interpretation of his words and no hesitation allowed in the delivery. The ob ject of this exercise is to make use of what has been already confided to the memory of the scholar, by compelling him constantly to seek for new combinations. By the help of analysis the scholar has discovered the temperature of the island of Calypso, the re-percussion of the air in the grotto, the perception in the mind o Calypso, who perceives two men, &c. He is thus enabled to extract the essence of every idea expressed in what lie reads. " When the memory and the judgment have been gradually strengthened by these and similar exercises, the scholar is required to make imita tions of what he has been studying. At first a subject is given to the scholar, but afterwards he is allowed to choose one for himself. After relating facts the scholar is exercised in drawing portraits, similar, for instance, to that of Narbal in the third book, or that of Protesilaus in the 13th or 14th books. He is then desired to give a portrait of the Marechal de Turenne, on the model of that of Ulysses, adapting the vari ous circumstances relative to Ulysses which are found in the text book. In every stage of the process the scholar is to be interrogated as to his motives for employing such an image, such an idea, or such an expression, in preference to every other. He will thus be taught not only synonyms of words and expressions, but coin cidences in thoughts and ideas. " From this exercise, M. Jacotot passes to trans lation or transposition. When the scholar per fectly understands this kind of labour, he must himself seek for subjects of translation or trans position, in the exercise of which► the scholar finds the means of forming one thought upon another. He is afterwards taught to enlarge and develope a thought. Thus Mentor said to Telemachus, Never speak from vanity.' In developing this thought, the scholar is made to seek throughout the passage for those expres sions in which the inconveniencies of vanity and indiscretion are depicted, in order to justify the advice given by the sage to the son of Ulysses. " Having arrived at this point, M. Jacotot causes the scholar to make what he calls the verification of grammar. This exercise consists in making the scholar render an account of his previous labour, and may be begun as soon as a moderate portion of the text is perfectly under stood. Nothing is more easy or simple than this operation. It consists merely in applying a principle to known facts, or in placing certain words in great categories. Thus grammar teaches the scholar that a noun serves to point out a person or a thing. Accustomed as he has been to reflection, he sees immediately that the words island, grotto, Ulysses, and Calypso, are nouns; to him it is a mere recollection, and not a new study. The teaching of foreign languages is pur sued on a similar system, and is attended with equal facilities. In Latin, for instance, the Epitome Historix Sacrce is the text-book em ployed, accompanied by a translation. When he has committed one chapter to memory, it is ascertained whether he understands it, by pro posing a Latin sentence to him at random, and then a member of that sentence, of which .he must immediately give a translation in French The scholar observes, perhaps, that the word day is expressed in Latin sometimes by dies and sometimes by diem. He already understands the meaning of the root di, and he discovers the value of the terminations e, ern, es, which will be sufficient for his direction in future. Per haps the words creavit and vocal* are presented to his memory by the side of each other, and he soon discovers the value of the two letters av as being the sign of the past. In the same way, cogo, coactus, duco, duxzt, may occur together in his memory, and teach him the manner in which g is changed into c, and c into x. It is then ascertained whether he understands the whole words of his lesson. He finds that the word garden is sometimes represented in Latin by horto, and sometimes by horizon. He is asked if the two words are employed in the same circumstances, on which he finds that the former is preceded by in, and the latter by irrigabat, and he is probably able to explain that irrzgabat is the sign of a fact, and hortunz of a thing. " I am not much acquainted with the system adopted in England for the purpose of teaching languages by the late Mr. Hamilton, but as he dispensed, like M—Jacotot, with the use of grammars and preliminary rules, allowing the scholar, in the natural order of things, to deduce the rule from practice and actual observation, it is not unlikely that there may be a considerable analogy between the two systems ; and if there be, the success of the system of M. Jacotot in France seems to authorize me to call on some correspondent of The Sun, acquainted with Mr. Hamilton's system, to say in what respects it is similar to, or different from, that of the French professor." Strongly as President JACKSON'S speech is characterised throughout by good sense and good feeling,—and agreeably to its tenor has surprised those who anticipated from the General a less Statesman-like production—there is one part of it so utterly at variance with the princi ples now recognized in this country as sound, that it ought not to pass without observation, especially as British interests are so importantly involved in it. We mean the necessity alleged by the President of keeping up the protecting duties on foreign manufactures, for the sake of encouraging the infant fabrics of the country, which, it is assumed, will still be required after the extinguishment of the debt shall have ren dered them superfluous as revenue, and hence the President foresees the very novel difficulty of deciding how- the surplus income of the nation may best be applied. The SADLERS of the United States having had sufficient influence in Congress to set up the prohibitive Tariff now in operation, the people are taxed to secure them the benefit of inferior cottons, woollens, hardware, &c. at enormously high prices. Persons who have not the means or ability of making these articles within any re semblance of the excellent fabrics of Great Britain, are encouraged to throw their capital into the manufacturing line, by being secured a monopoly of the home-market ; and though this monopoly is practically defeated to a great extent by the smuggler, yet a large portion of labour and capital is thus withdrawn from employments to which it might have been applied infinitely more productively. Every dollar that is paid to these dunghill manufacturers beyond the price for which their commodities might be obtained from Europe, is consequently as dead a loss to the United States as if it had been thrown into the Atlantic Ocean. The American LAUDERDALES and SAD LERS say—" true it is that the protection of our " manufactures is costly at present, but we shall " be well recompensed when we become a great " manufacturing nation, able to supply not only " ourselves but foreigners. This is an object " only to be attained by prohibiting the fabrics " of strangers, as Great Britain has done for a 4 , long series of years, and as France and other " European States are doing at this moment." The answer to which reasoning is—that it is gross fallacy to believe that manufactures are the sole means of making a nation rich and power ful. Because the wealth of Great Britain hap pens to consist principally in her spinning jennies and forges, it is presumed that other nations have only to imitate her in this respect — no matter what their natural or circumstantial capabilities for setting up spinning jennies and forges may be—and they will soon become as groat and as powerful—a speculation which re minds us of the fable of the ass in the lion's skin. The truth however is, that the quickest way to enrich a nation is exactly the same as is pursued by every sensible individual who wishes to make his fortune, viz.:—to apply such labour and capital as he can command to those pursuits that will yield him the greatest profit. If there be any one maxim particularly obvious to common sense, it is this one ; and its influence, as applied to America, is that agriculture being a more productive employment in itself than ma nufactures, it is mere folly to attempt to enter into the less, rather than the more, profitable occupation. Experience shews us that a flourish ing agriculture has far more influence on the prosperity of manufactures than the growth of manufactures on that of agriculture. The manufactures of France from 1640 to 1750 were forced to an extraordinary degree by Louis XIV. and his successors, but her agri culture during that period and ever since, has been in the most wretched state. At this mo ment the manufacturing districts both of Eng land and France are the worst cultivated ; the fabrics of Picardy and Normandy serve actually to check agricultural improvements ; and the husbandry of Lancashire does not admit of com parison with that of Norfolk or Kent. The North of Italy gives an example of the wealth and happiness arising from high cultivation of the soil, without any manufactures being in existence. ARTHUR YOUNG'S " Travels in France and Lombardy " are full of information, tending to show that agriculture alone is equal to the establishment of great national wealth and felicity. The Americans appear to disbelieve this; and yet, if it be true in any country in the world, the United States do seem to be that very country. Manufactures would have come to theta in the natural course of things, without any such scheme of forcing them as the Tariff has put in practice. General JACKSON may be a wise Statesman, but in our judgment Mr. HtiSKISSON is a much wiser ; and time will show whether the system of meddling with in dustry, or of leaving it alone, answers the best. In the meantime we recommend General JACK SON to consider the following piece of advice to Governments, proceeding neither from Mr. HUSKISSON, nor from any of the "new fangled theorists " of the present day, but from a thoroughly " practical man " of the good old time of 1788—ARTH Lilt YOUNG. " First," says that experienced and clear headed person, " secure prosperity to agriculture by equal taxa " tion, and absolute liberty of cultivation and " sale. Secondly, do no more to encourage " manufactures and commerce than by letting " them alone—a policy exclusive of every idea of monopoly." The Government of the United States is not the only one to which this lesson is useful. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock, this afternoon, at the Foreign Office. The Council was attended by nearly all the Ministers. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF KING'S BENCH. ASSAULT---THEWETH V. HAMBIOXD. This was an action fur assault and battery, to which the defendant pleaded first nut guilty, and afterwards that ho was hiolself first assaulted by the plaintiff. Mr. WILLIAMS stated that the plaintiff with s ome of his family went in June last into Essex, to visit and dine with a relation. As they were returning in a double car riage drawn by two spirited horses, one of the females aeream , _ol out as they were passing a calf-waggon belonging to the defendant, and told plaintiff that a man had fillen from the waggon, and woe in danger of being run over. The plaintiff jumped down from the carriage, and catching hold of the man's collar pulled him front the wheel. Another nu.n then looked out of the waggon rubbing his eyes, and appearing drunk, in which situation plaintiff also thought the man whom he hail pulled out, and who had been driving the waggon. The plaintiff told him that they had better put thenvelves under the pro tection of the patrol, as they did not seem capable of driv ing themselves. The driver then immediately began a violent assault upon the plaintiff, and Was assisted by the defendant, till the plaintiff received a great number of bruises, a cut on the finger, and was unable to follow his business for a week afterwards. The plaintiff's party then went to a publics house nimted the Cauliflower, when the plaintiff bathed his wounds with brandy, and gave the de fendant and his cart into the custody of a patrol. The Learned Counsel then called several witnesses of their party and others, who deposed to the above facts. Mr. BROUGHAM (with whom Was Mr. BRODERICK), for the defence, contended that it was the plaintiff and his party who were drunk, while the defendant and his carter were quite sober, and called two females, who were riding in the defendant's waggon, to prove that the driver stopped his horses, and got down to get his whip, which he had dropped. That the plaintiff's party stopped and began to strike the carter. Mr. Hammond, they said, got out to protect his man, and was also severely assaulted. This account was confirmed by the carter. The landlord of the Cauliflower swore, that when the plaintiff's party came to his house, the ladies in the car riage were served by him with two glasses of brandy such. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant, after this silly case had occupied the whole of the morning. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAT.) CITY, TWEL YE 0' CL 0 CK. Owing to the north-easterly winds we are deprived this morning of any fresh arriva's; the two French Mails are due, brit six Hamburg Mails have come to hand, which are of an old date. We have only one arrival of ship let ters from Bahia. The Consul Market, which left off yesterday heavy at 95k, opened rather stiff this morning at 951 4, and at present Console may be quoted 954 for the Account, and 95i for February Account. Up to the present hour we have neither political nor local information : all reports of yesterday appear to have vanished. In the Foreign Mat ket no speculations of any conse quence are going forward; prices as yesterday. ENGLISH FUNDS. Bank Stock, 217 1 S 31 per Cent. 100-3-1 India Stock, New 4 per Cent., 101 i C C 93 3 4• • Ce' 1926 Io3i 6 3 per Cent. uns. . _ per , Do., for Account, 95-4,-, - I India Bonds, 73 74, Ditto Reduced, 914 Exchequer Bills, 75 76 TWO O'CLOCK. We remain without information still, owing to the non arrival of the French mails. Consols had reached ii/52. 1 for the account, but at pre sent they are 95i Although a great deal of stock has been delivered this morning, money is very plentiful in the house at 21 per rent. Accounts from Missouri, American State, say, that the emigrations of the present year exceed any thing ever known befure in that quarter. Travellers say that the roads are filled with moving masses, and the two great routs ere by Louisville and Vincennes. Accounts from St. Andrew, New Brunswick, of the 211 November, state, that accounts were received of the shipwreck of the IVilliant, Captain Mason, from the above port to Bermuda. Among the passengers were Sir gel grove Turner, Governor of Bermuda and family, all of whom were saved, together with their baggage. In the Foreign Market Greek maintains its price; in other foreign securities nothing doing. TIMBER O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 95/ 1. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 93i 4 Danish 754 Do. for Ac. 95 f Greek, 1825 34f Brazilian Bonds 71/ Mexican, 1825 27 Buenos Ayres Peruvian 19 Chilian Do. Russian 110 Columbian, 1824, 244 Spanish 10a The Earl of ltossLYN, Lord ELLENIIO. Ronan, and Sir GEORCIL MURRAY, transacted 1/118frie$6 yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. A bank in the North stopped payment on Saturday. This is, however, not a very large confirm. Its connections lay chiefly among the iron trade, by which the house has sustained, it is said, considerable losses. The hank to which we refer is that carried on at Stafford, under the firm of BIRCH, YATES, and Co. Some ac counts, which are best entitled to attention, state the imine &ate cause of the suspension of payments to be the death of one of the partners, whose affairs, on looking into them, spi earing to be much involved, it was thought right by the surviving partners to adopt the course which has been taken.— Tunes. On Thursday last, a gentleman of the house hold of the DAUPHINESS sent a footmsa to get four bank notes, Of 1,000 francs., changed for gold. In the Rue de Richelieu the servant Wilt met by a stranger, who offered to change the notes, and promised him a gratuity of 20 francs. The man consented, gave him the four notes, and received two rouleavx which were supposed to contain 4,000 francs. The stranger then expressed doubts as to the notes being good, and begged the other to wait till he s,hould go to a money-changer's in the Palais Royal to ascertain that fact. After waiting half an hour, the foot man opened the two rouhavx, and found, to his astonish ment, that they consisted of nothing but pieces of wax candle, with a double Napoleon stuck at each end.—Paris Paper. On the invasion of France by the allied troops, a party of Cossacks entered a little village, called Cugnv, near Berville, where they pursued their usual course of spoliation and plunder. They reached a rural habitation, and having broken down the fence which enclosed the ground they marched towards the house. At the door they were met by an old man, who endeavoured to point out to them the injustice and cruelty of their unsoldier-like conduct. Put the lawless horde, brandishing their spears over his Lead, declared their determination to pillage the cottage. " Soldiers," said the old man, uncovering his bosom, which was scarred by wounds, "you must respect the dwelling of a soldier, or dishonour yourselves by a crime." " Who are you ?" said the leader of the Cossacks, " who know our language, and dare presume to address us thus ?" "I am Koscrums !" On hearing that name, which is synonymous with glory and virtue, the savage soldiers threw themselves at the hero's feet, and implored his pardon.... Court Journal. SIIIPPINQ INTELLIGENCE,.-•(THJS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. I I.—lt has blown strong nearly through out the day from the N. N. W. ; ships and vessels ride safely. Several vessels remain. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. IL—Arrived the Ceerops, Pen dragen, from Trieste. PL r louTlf, JAN. I o.—Wind N. E. —Arrived the New Biddeford, Matthiewson, from St. John's, N.B. ; the Dolphin, Wakeliam, from F:gueira ; off Port, the Minerva, Lo Laclicur, from St. Michael's. The Thetis, frotn Waterford, arrived at Margate with loss of anchors and cables, after be;rnt on shore. The Dauntless, Duncan, from Londonderry, arrived at Ramsgate, towed in dismasted, and with loss of anchors and cables. MILFORD, JAN. 10. —Arr:ved the Nimrod, from Buenos Ayres. CLYDE, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Camillus, Nicer, New York ; the Jane, Cocks, from Alexandria. The William and Mary, of Shields, was driven on shore at Blakeney on Sunday night, end it was feared w0u1.4 he wrecked. The following veFsels put into Yarmouth on Sunday ( last with loss of anchor and cables : the Liberty, of Sunder land ; the Isabella, Hall of Lime Kilns, with windlass broken ; the Atlantic, Graham, cod Perigan, Harris, of Lynn; the Success, M‘Pherson, of Shields, windlass damaged and stove; the Peter and Jane, of Shields, with Windlass broken ; the Henrietta, Moffatt, of Sunderland, with damage. LIMERICK, Jag. 9.—The Ann, of Scarborough, Fowler, from Quebec, is under seizure by the Coast Guard at Valencia on suspicion of having had e►nuggled tobacco. TAE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY MA ItKETS.—( At per Load of WS Truces.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay T .C 2 2 to 12 la New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 9 Fine Upland Meanow and 12:ye-grass Hay 3 15 4 lb Clover Hay 2 10 5 S Oat Straw .£1 IS to £2 0 I Wheat Straw... 2 0 2 5 Supply good, and trade very dull at Saturday's plicea. SMITHFIELD. _ Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay . —..CE (1 to .C 2 13 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful 014 Ditto 3 3 3 10 !`'inc Upland Meadow and Rye-grams Hay ... 3lb 41 0 Clover Hay (extra 1ine)....£5 s...Gmerally .... 3 • 4 15 Oat Straw ...... LI 10 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw 1 16 3 0 St,; ply limited, trade dull, and prices stationary. CITY MARKETS.-(TWO O'CLOCK.) The quarterly sale of Serers, by order of the Lords Comtnissioners of the Treasury, on account of the Ceylon Government, took place yesterday afternoon. The sale consisted of 1,000 bales and 71 chests of Cinnamon, an d 67 hales 154 chests saved out of the wreck of the Ales ander, stranded some time since off Gravesend , 250 bale, first pile, sold from Bs. 6:1. to 9e. Sd per lb. ; 350 ditto, treond pile, from 6s. 3d. to 74. 11d. ; and 409 halos third pile, from 4s. to ss. Sd. per lb. ; 71 chests of broken realized from Ss. 61 to 7s. peril). The damaged, viz., 67 bales snd 154 chests., per Alexander, went off from 6;1. to la. Bd. per lb. 'l'he sale went off briskly, and the first quality' realized 9d. to Is. ; the seconds 4d. to 6d., and the third 21. to 4d. per lb. higher quotations than at the last sale. Of Cassia Lignea 52 chests sold from 625. to 68s. per co t. ; and 108 chests of Pearl Sago from 28s. 6d. to 29r. 61 Subsequently sales of Pepper, &e. took place. and Spices of all sorts were firm. The sale was well at tended, and is usually looked forward to with interest among the trade, as it fixes more accurately the value of the Spices. Sun.t n.—The deliveries of Sugar last week from the West India Docks, were 2,946 Ws., and 153 tees for home consumption, and 37 hhd.. for export. The stock yesterday was 31,876 !disk and 2,075 tees. The market for Sugar continues to exhibit a healthy appearance ; good Jamaica, St. Kitts, and St. Vincent Sugars are from 625. to 665. ; fine from 665. to 68s. ; middling from 555• to 625. ; and ordinary from 48s. to 51,.. per ewt. East India Sugars are steady, and the demand for refined good' continue at the former quotations. In COFTEE the marks of improvement exhibited in other articles of produce are not so apparent, and the public sales this week are more numerous than of late, buyers Pr° awaiting the result before they purchase. Ruiz.—The deliveries of Ram for home consumptio o last week, from da., West India Docks, were pretty larger viz.-524 puns. and 22 hhds. for home use, and 88 pr 29 hhds. for exportation. The stock is now about 21,9 78 puns. and 1608 hhds. The market continues, good . SALTPRTRIC is firm at 255. per cwt. A sale is an nounced for this afternoon. En Hors and SEEn's there is not much business doing. BALTIC Prtooncr..—Tallow continues heavy, a nd is now not higher than 355. per cwt. The delivery last week was 2,391 casks, and the Stock is 41,000 casks.---' The information of its being the intention to reduce the charges at St. Petersburgh has caused much satisfaction. The accounts from the. Russian capital, to the 28th ult., state that the supply of Tallow, for the next year, will probably exceed 170,000 casks. The Exchange on Lou , don was firm. In OILS there is good business doing, at the prices last quoted. SCOTCH BANKS. The Bank of Scotland—the first one established in this country —was constituted by Act of Parliament is JtilY o 1695. Like the Bank of England, established in 1694 , it was projected by a Mr. William Paterson, then Membet of Parliament for the county of Dumfries. Its capital at first was 100,0001. This sum has been twice enlarged since ; and the amount at present is 1,500,000/. The number of its partners is 648, and of its branches in dif ferent parts of the country, 17. The Royal Bank of Scotland was established in May, 1727, by a Royal Charter. Its capital at its constitution was 111,000/.; by successive enlargements it sloe reached 1,500,0001. which is its present funds. The number of its partners is 485. It has only one branch. The Commercial Banking Company of Scotland syse established in December, 1810. Its capital is 3,000,000/. Its partners amount to 505, and its branches to 31. The National Bank of Scotland was established only ti few years since—in 1825. We are not certain of the eV act amount of its capital; but the number of its partnere is no less than 1235—that of its branches 18. The above are the leading Banks of Scotland and are S ll , situated in Edinburgh. The number of our Precincts' Banks is 21, and the average number of their partners tra be about 150.—Elpin Courier. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Devonshi;e,On Saturday, at Devonshire Hotli e ' from Brighton; Lord Seaford, at his house in Audley-squa re ' from his seat, Seaford, Sussex; Lord and Lady Fitzroy Some t , set, in the Stable-yard, St. James's, from the Duke of Bedford; seat, l A'oburn Abbey; Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, 4 Brighton, from the Duke of Portland's seat, Welbeck. Notts 5 Lord Downes, ALP. at his house in ran-mall, from Ireland; Major and Mrs. Long, in Mount-street, Berkeley-square, froni Dublin ; Sir Charles and Lady Tyler and family, at the Burling ton Hotel, from a tour; Colonel and Mrs. Robbins, at renton'O Hotel, St. James's-street, from Dorsetshire ; Lord Forester, st ditto, from Grantham; Colonel Sumner, at ditto, from his sest in Surrey; Captain Sivewright, at ditto, from a tour; Louth, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; Captain and Mrs.. Sanders, In Grosvenor-street, from Paris. DEPARTURES. rd Earl Radnor, from Grosvenor-street, for his seat, Lone° Castle, Wilts ; Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. from Park-street, for h. ,4 ; seat, near Dorking, Surrey ; James Du Pre, Esq. from his hot , '" in Portland-place, for his seat, Wilton l'ark, Bucks; R h ! Smith, Esq. and John A. Smith, Esq. from Grosvenor-00W'; for Dale Park, Sussex ; Captain and Lady Agnes Byng, from Byng, Esq. M.P.'s seat, Wrotham Park, Middlesex , , Twickenham ; Mr. and Mrs. Pearce, from the Pulteney Hote l ' Albemarle-street, for their seat in Leicestershire; Henri Roberts, rag. from ditto, for Oxford; Earl Onslow, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for his seat in Sorrel Captain Nixon, from Regent-street, for Brighton ; Mr. and MO' Ripley, from the British Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, for Bath ; Spence, Esq. from ditto, for Cambridge. --- Prince LEOPOLD left his residence at Clare' mont yesterday morning, on a visit to the Countess 0 1 1 RRIDC/LWATER, at her seat at AE/Widge, near Helot Hempsted, Ilerte. The Austrian Ambassador and the Prussian Minister had interviews with the Earl of AzzRDEEN y ear tcrday at the Foreign-office. Mr. T. P. COURTENAY, the Vice-Presideo t of the Board of Trade, arrived in town on Saturday even ing from Paris. The Hog Gentleman attend ed yesterday morning at the office of the Board of Trade. Viscount MULVILLE, Mr. Secretary PEEL' and the Earl of ABERDEEN had interviews with the 11) 01 " e Of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. Despatches from Nova Scotia were receive/ yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Austrian Ambassador had a conference yesterday nith the Russian Ambaendor, at AN1,1)(1'11 10' house. TO 'I SIR,---HliV your Paper of introductory E rni.ssion, proc treat of the p anxioug, accol " consider cn: posed emendt rej ec ti ng thos ject, but with I have befo have a lively The obviating engnged a laq rag e laboro," motto for hi his general pr Increase the r Before," Whe to introduce, C. 19. v. 4. beautiful and it ordained to sentence in al calculated to and command the Place wh( can there be farther than a more and gre, lately neees& To omit thl posed by Mr. grity, and defy vices are int( every day in I neral use, and Traty be presui frequently ; ai from our auth slant repetitic this suitable F to the discret Would soon c churches. 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