The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-06 00:00:00

THE DEAD BROUGHT TO LIFE. (FROM A CORRESPONDNT.) A short time ago a most miserable woman, wh, described herself as a native of the Highlands, i t Scotland, called on a lady who resides in Soled Audley-street, and solicited a little pecuniary sistance in order to enable her to proceed to tht place of her nativity. The relation of her mis• too tunes was narrated with so much apparent sim prei:y and innocence, that the lady to whom she ap ',Fed was the means of procuring her a sum of money to be appropriated towards defraying her expenses to the north. Three weeks elapsed when the same individual called on her former benefactress, and stated that she had been unable to proceed to Srotland as she intended, in consequence of the sudden illness of her husband, Who had expired tha morning. Her story, which was accompanied with even demonstration of the most poignant grief, gained credence. Finding the stratagem succeeded, she solicited her intended victim in the strongest and most touching terms, to accompany her to her abode in St. Giles's. _ _ _ The proposal was of course objected to; the wo man's intreaties became more importunate; the lady at length acceded to the wish of the poor widow, to go and see her husband, who was lying dead at home ; with this the woman went assay, but evidently dissatisfied that my friend did not accompany her at once. On going to her bilging's, which are situated in that den of infamy St. Giles's, she and the gentlemen by whom she was accompanied were introduced into a small r , orn inhabited by three men, and the woman, the o ject of their visit and commiseration. On in q dry where the corpse of her husband lay, they w re conducted into a (lark cellar under ground, where they found an iron bedstead, on which lay the figure of a man enveloped in three or four dirty blankets. At this time the gentleman inti mated to the lady the propriety of leaving the place, hut being desirous of rendering the woman assist ance, provided she deserved it, she requested the gen tleman to uncover the face of the corpse before he left. After a little hesitation he did so, when instead of discovering a palled corpse, a tall power ful man, in the full vigour of health, was present to their view. The woman, on finding that she was detected, assumed the greatest joy, and burst into the most rapturous expression of delight, exclaim ing, " my husband is not dead—the Lord be praised, my husband is not dead !" and imme diately flew out of the house to bring the doctor. You nrry easily imagine that my friends were not long in retreating from a place so replete with danger. From theze circumstances, I have come to the COHCIUSIOII that had the lady gone singly, a• was the express wish of the woman, the result might have pored most tragical.—Morning Paper. BEAU BRUMMELL. In - per on, Mumma was like Wrench the actor; and the feature to which he was principally in debted, was a remarkable saucy chin,—one of those chins which being rather long and prominent, have a peculiar capacity for the expression of imperti nence. His air was distinguished by a grave su perciliousness His dress was, to borrow a cant ph r ase, " personal to himself;" and its envied dis tinction was, that though certain of being remarked for its effect in the ensemble, there was nothing re markable in it, in the vulgar acceptation of that word. It is said that Brummell has educated more tailors than any other man of fashion ever ruined. Stultz was instructed by him in the true style, and raised to fashion. So great was the advantage of Br um melt% recommendation, that some tradespeople are reported to have supplied him for that profit only. Ile was the inventor of the starched neckcloth, — which, after the French revolution, has had the greatest effect on the necks of our eventful age. Of wit Brummell had not a particle—he was in that respect a counterfeit. He had the knack of saying common things in a droll way, by virtue of a steady countenance, and a drawling voice. It may be ge nerally remarked, that nothing indicates confidence more strongly than the habit of slow speech. A ma., who speaks slowly, implies the assurance that people must listen to him, and that every word he jitters is worthy of a distinct attention. Wits of conversation mongers, may talk fast, for the pleasure of delivering their ideas the more quickly, and also for the convenience of slurring the inac curacies of expression, which are most common where the thought or the point is studied ; but fops of high pretensions will always speak slowly. Bashful people run on as fast as they can, on the contrary, literally from fee g ashamed of what they are saying. Brumme was emi nently slow of speech ; and he aided the de liberateness of his method with a slight lisp, which glued his discourse. Though no wit, he had an acute perception of the ridiculous, and a perfect un derstanding of drollery, and command of its machi nery. Or, to convey the idea by one instance, he was in polished societies what Liston is on the vulgar stage,--a droll, not of matter, but of manner,— Whimsically impudent and conceited sayings of Brummeil will be recollected in abundance, but uothing that can he called witty. His extremest impertinences were always delivered with the manner of the highest breeding. As was announced in our elder brother, the Stamford News, last week, the Duke of WELLINGTON was at Apethorpe, on a visit to our neighbour, Lord WEsTmoaLANn. He has since been to Belvoir Castle, to pay his respects to the Duke of RUTLAND, whence he re turns through Stamford this day (Tuesday. the sth) to Apethorpe, where are Lord BELFAST, Sir HENRY FANS, and other gentles of the land, to meet him.— Champion. A Paris paper, the Drapeau Blanc, gives notice of an association of a new kind, for the purpose of en abling persons of all ranks to enjoy the pleastn es of the lsa e. A park of great extent is, it is said, taken on lease At no great distance from Paris ; its extent is above 6,000 Acres, partly arable, partly forest ground. The plan is, to open is to subscribers during six months—viz. from Ist September to Ist March—an ample stock of game being se,:tired in preserves. Part of the shares are, it is said, already bought up, and the purchase of the remainder is recommended to all amateurs of sporting, as bringing within the reach of almost every class an amusement hitherto confined to men of fortune. nit EC II I N.-A melancholy accident occurred last week at Shanford. While a man was employed in serewing 6ff some part of one of the locks of a double barrelled gun, the screw-driver unfortunately slippped, down upon the steel, by which means the charge in one of the barrels was ignited, and the shot went off, blowing to pieces both locks and britches. Some of the fragments entered the helly of a child who was standing beside, which huseratrd dreadfully. The child, though still alive, is io the utmost danger.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. SKATING.—Our attention was on Sunday week directed to a somewhat novel exhibition in this country. We have often seen boys skating on Sunday, but it was only this winter that we observed persons, dressed as gentlemen, openly carrying skates through the streets, and proceeding to Duddingston and Lochend.— Edinburgh Evening Courant. On Sunday morning the body of a woman was washed ashore at Clachnaharry. On examination it was alleged to be that of CATIIEILINE FRASER, change keeper at ilunchrew; and her relatives having been sent for, identified the corpse. The body having been. placed on a bier, a party of the Clachnarry fishermen hoisted it on their shoulders, and proceeded to Buncrew. On arriv ing there, they were utterly amazed and confounded at finding the supposed deceased dressed out in her Sunday clothes, ready to receive them; So soon as their sur prise subsided an explanation rook place, when the poor woman stated that she never had the'slightest intention of drowning herself, and added.--" It must be the body of some neighbour, for it cannot be mine." The corpse was then cart led back to Cladurabarry, and a very few hours after ascertained to be that of ANN DOWNIE, residing in Glebe -street, who had disappeared on Saturday evening. Whether the unfortunate woman committed suicide, or was accidentally drowned, is uncertain. —L4verrtess Jour. riCICKS QV STOCKS 'II4IS OAT ♦T ONE O'CLOCk. (Llls Stock _217 'South Sea Stock 1 per Cent. Red. t per Cent. Cons. o3 ,s New Ditto shut 14 per Cent - —F. Bills, £l,ooo 2d. 78 77 pro )itt, Red. — Ditto lid. '7B pm. t per Cert. Ann. htto, !Rai Ditto Scrip ....... 'Sink 1.. Ann. Ditto 30 years Indi . stock shut India for Account Ditto itonds — pm. ('ons. for Jan. 20 951 4 h PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds - 0 1 4 4i Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds 21N 'Portuguese Bonds ... ....... .. :hilian Minds Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1894 23 ` 2l /‘ Danish • _77 Ditto, New Russian Spanish. 11121 10%1A-14 Greek Bonds 271 189.:3 ')itto, 1825 ....... ............ 30X French Rentes, bp.c. —f —c. Guatimala — Exchange —l. . ......... Mexican Bonds — —3 per cent. ')itto. 1825 25 5% 6 Exchange PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian Imp. Ai in. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Ditto National lO r'olumbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £3714 Real del Monte Mining Co. ......... PRICES OF IRISH STOI Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, 34 per cent 99% Ditto, New t per Cent IOIM Gov. Deb. 3 percent — Royal Canal Stock ----• Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast ()thee Deb. 4p. HA. Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 1 Carthagena 0 1 Dublin .......... O Flanders 0 O France 0 O Guernsey&Jersey U Per Share. 8% 9 88 89 25 24 11% 73% ;LS, DUBLIN, JAN. 2. - , St. Patrick I nsur. (per ah.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto 9 43,', Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Bank — Provincial Ditto — Royal Irish Mine — Imperial Mine — ' Mining Co. of Ireland 4% Commercial Buildings — NCE YIKSTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCIL Airo:tertlam C.F 12 71 Ditto, at sight 12 54 /tot tertlam Antwerp 12 74 Hamburg M.B. 14 0 Altona l4 Paris, 3 clays' sight 25 80 Ditto 2 U. 26 5 13ordnaux 26 10 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, 17. x. M. 154 Petersburgli, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. 19 16 Trieste do 10 16 Madrid 35% Cadiz .. 3SN Bilboa Barcelona 35% Seville 15% Gdiraltar 47;4 Leghorn 47,4 Ge r r . roa 26 5 Venice 47 ,Malta 4 8 ,4 Naples Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 43 Rio .laneiro Bahia 2654 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 'll days' sight 154 Cork l3,;i 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 6 O Holland I Jamaica 0 O Lceward Islands O Lisbon O Mexico O Sweden I Waterford z e4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1830. THE REVENUE. The Quarter's Revenue for the year ending 1829 was made up last night, and exhibits a deficiency of 332,7861.—making the decrease on the whole year of 1,165,4491. This deficiency is not more than was expected under all the circumstances of the country. The Customs show an improvement of 62,6541.; on every other item there is a decrease. In the Excise there is a deficiency of 154,3061; on Stamps 60,057/. ; Post Office 20,000/. ; Taxes 9,320/. ; Miscel laneous 151,7571. But though the decrease in this year is more than a million, as compared with 1828, the Revenue is half a million greater than in the year 1827, so that . the falling off is not so great by half a million, taking both years into account, The greatest deficiency on the last year is in the Excise, being nearly one million, and as that is the surest test of public comfort generally, the defalcation is the more to be regretted. With respect to what an Evening Paper (the Standard) stated about the certificates of the Attornies being anticipated, we are assured that there is not one word of truth in it. If any exertions have been made to swell the amount of the present Quarter, it is no more than what is done at the end of every Quarter, and under every Administration, whether Whig, Tory, or Liberal. It is natural for all men to put the best face they can upon their transactions, and Minis ters have the same right. On the whole, we are decidedly of opinion that if a reduction were made in certain articles, which are now taxed beyond all reason, the people would be relieved, and the Revenue materially benefitted. Let the Assessed Taxes —the Malt and Beer Duties—the very impolitic and oppressive tax on Stamps be modified, and the Government will soon have reason to congratulate the country on returning prosperity. Excessive taxation always defeats its purpose—and no country has had more experience of this truth than England. German Papers have been received this morn ing to the 30th December. They contain no actual news, but give some further particulars of the partial evacuation of' Adrianople by the Russians : PERA, NOV. 27. Yesterday we received positive information of the departure of the Russian head-quarters kom Adria nople. Count Diebitsch has transferred them to Bourgas, and intends to remain there till the fine season. Some persons, however, say he will imme diately embark for Odessa, and then proceed to St. Petersburg!). On the departure of the Russian troops from Adrianople, many of the Christian fa-- milks. accompanied them, intending to settle in Russia. In general a fear of reaction has seized the whole population of Rumelia, and _it is strange to see the inhabitants, in general the most peaceable subjects in the world, make preparations which indi cate a desperate resistance in case the Turkish Governors on their return should bring their usual spirit of persecution and oppression. Every one looks out his concealed weapons, and distributes them among those dependent on him. Old men, women, and children arm themselves with sword s and daggers. The men able to bear arms have wholly given themselves up to the direction of that secret society, of which I have before spoken. The Ottoman Authorities are much e mbarrassed by this dangerous spirit, and for this reason the Pacha of Scutari, who is famous for his severity, has received positive orders to return to Albania, and Alisch Pacha, with the regular troops, to occupy Adrianople, positive injunctions being given him to enforce the strictest discipline, and to avoid exciting discontent by arbitrary measures. It is with reason supposed, that Count Diebitsch has in duced the Porte to take these steps, for he assured the principal inhabitants of Adrianople, that the Pacha of Scutari would not occupy their city,. and they would have no persecution to fear if they ob served their duty as subjects, and obedience to the Sultan their Sovereign. The excesses, which are otherwise not uncommon on the departure of a vic torious army, were checked by a proclamation issued in the name of the Commander-in-Chief, in which every one who should disturb the public tranquillity was threatened with death. This had the desired effect, not the slightest disorder having occurred when the troops marched out. The number of Russian troops left at Adrianople for the protection of the sick, is stated at 6,000 men. The accounts from Asia Minor, respecting the disposition of the inhabitants, are still unfavourable, though insurrec tion is quelled. The Sultan hopes however to re store tranquility to those provinces, by reinstating Kutsclitik Mehmed Aga Kara Osman in his pos sessions. He is already gone to Magnesia. VIENNA, Dac. 24.---111etalliques, 1021; Four per Cents. 94k; Bank Shares, 1,260. ODESSA, DEC. 11. Jussuf pacha, of Varna, is still here. He hie, visited the Turkish Ambassador, Halil P►.cha who is here, on quarantine, and had a long confe_ rence with him. It seems to be in consequence ( f this conference that the son of Jussuf Paella, who is a Bimbaschi in the service of the Sultan, has em barked in one of the Turkish frigates that brought the Turkish legation, and has sailed in it tolhe Bosphorus. Our Governor-General, Count Wo ronzow, immediately on the arrival of the Ambas sadors, sent to St. Petersburgh for instructions re specting the mode of their journey to that capital, but he has not yet received them. The cold, which hiss set in this year six weeks earlier than usual, has so tilled the road with ice that the navigation is wholly suspended till milder weather. It is not the least sin of the Mad Doctors that they have brought discredit on a profession which, when its offices are discharged with pu rity and humanity, is perhaps the best and the most ennobling of all human occupations. We know few characters more worthy of high re spect, and more useful, than that of the Physi cian, who has formed to himself a high idea of the nature and duties of his profession, and has the constancy and daring to adhere to the exalted standard he has chosen. But we hardly know whether the craven who, amidst so many calls upon his honour, his pity, and his good taste, can decline from that standard, is more worthy of our pity or our indignation. These obser vations are suggested to us by the letter of Dr. KNIGHT, inserted in our Paper of yesterday, who very naturally feels indignant at being classed with the Mad Doctors—the creatures " past praying for"—who can condescend to the cruel and disgusting practices of "Jigging madmen." We can, however, assure that learned Doctor, that it is far from our intention to in clude him, and persons who, like him, are aware of the sacred trust reposed in them, in our stric tures, too justly general. The public will, no doubt, make great and honourable distinctions. The evidence before the two Houses of Parlia ment, taken at three distinct periods, will sufficiently attest our justice, and even our lenity. Let our readers look into that evidence and see whether the brutal indifference, cold cal culation, and horrible cruelty of the Mad Doctors be exceeded by the wildness or ferocity of their victims. " There be some here with more than madness foul ; " Some who do still goad on the o'er labour'd mind, " And dim the little light that's left bellied " With needless torture, as their tyrant will " Is wound up to the lust of cluing ill." But to leave generalities, and descend to facts, let us ask Dr. KNIGHT if he ever heard of a WHITE HOUSE at Bethnal-green ? Let us ask him also whether a Physician, attending such an establishment, he not entitled to the name of " Mad Doctor ?" and whether the term ought to he softened in its application to a Doctor NN ho admitted that he had there visited five hundred patients twice a week only ;—that his visit was one of an hour, or an hour and a half's duration, that is one minute for five patients ; that he considered his visit duly paid when he walked round the house and saw all the sitting rooms, omitting generally the sleeping rooms, and always the infirmary ; that in these walks he has occasionally pointed out a patient to the Apothecary, and desired such and such a treatment to be adopted (after, we must suppose, one-fifth of a minute's consideration) ; that he knew and authorised the violent, the epileptic, and paralytic patients, likewise the wet patients, z. e. those who were, or were said to be, insen sible to the calls of nature, to be chained down to their cribs in their own filth from Saturday night to Monday morning, in order, as he says, to give them one day's rest in the week ; or, as the Gentlemen of the Committee of the House of Commons evidently supposed, that the keepers might have a holiday ! ! ! These things, and even worse, have been committed, as it were but yesterday,—in London, the centre of civilization,—in England, where we profess to believe the doctrines of Christianity, and where we have been told, from high authority, the Christian religion forms part of the law of the land,—the perpetrators yet unpunished, and th e system, and the White House, permitted to remain. blow that may bring the queition to issue, and at all events remains firm to the determination expressed in his name by the Marquis de BAR BACENA, previous to sailing from Portsmouth —" never to come to terms with the Usurper." It has been generalfy understood that our Government has been for some time waiting au thentic intelligence of the course intended to be adopted by Don PEDRO, and that the lattel had deferred the communication of such intelli gence until the arrival of his daughter with the Marquis de BARBACENA, through whom so many negotiations have lately been carried on in Europe. Before the meeting of Parliament, therefore, there can be little doubt that Lord ABERDEEN will be prepared to state distinctly the line of policy to be adopted by Great Britain ; and the whole suhject will probably be discussed, if not earlier, on Mr. DAVENPORT'S motion, notice of which was given last Session, " for inquiry into the conduct of his Majesty's Government respecting Portuguese affairs." The principle of non-interference with the internal concerns of Foreign States is a most excellent maxim ; and happy would it have been for Great Britain if she had observed it in times past, instead of squandering away her resources for the maintenamee of ancient Governments, which their subjects had endeavoured to throw off. Mr. Fox and his friends asserted the duty of non interference unsuccessfully for years and years ; it was, however, set at nought by the zeal of the Tories for the French war ; the national honour was said to be concerned in the constancy of the support of Great Britain to the legitimate rights of the Bourbons ; the war was persisted in ; the Usurper was finally subdued ; and at the end of twenty-five years John Bull rested from his labours to enjoy his triumph, overwhelmed with glory, and with eight hundred millions of debt. In the fifteenth year of our repose we are again appealed to, to assist the cause of legi timacy against usurpation, and non-interference is again asserted as the answer we should give to such appeal ; is maintained the most stre nuously by the ve i ry party who up to this time have been loudly arguing its violation. This, however, is not surprising, because in the case of Portugal, the cause of legitimacy is associated with that of constitutional government ; whilst usurpation identifies itself with that spirit of oppression and intolerance, which desires to govern nations, not for their own benefit, but for that of their rulers, and is felt in common by all tyrants, bigots, and aristocrats in all parts of the world. Though we think the maxim of non-inter ference comes with a very bad grace out of the mouths of the Tories and professed Pittites, we should certainly not recommend its violation in favour of Portugal, without better reasons being given for it than we have yet heard. It is, however, much to be regret ted that such opir.ions should prevail, as are common on the Continent, regarding the relapse of Great Britain into that mean and miserable subserviency to the Holy Alliance policy, from which Mr. CANNING so happily released her. It is most unfortunate that we should have in terfered once, virtually for the protection of the Portuguese Constitution ; that the Regent and defender of that Constitution should have been chosen with our sanction ; that he should have been bound by promises made in England to our SOVEREIGN and his Ministers, to observe the existing institutions—should have gone to Lisbon escorted by British ships, and been re ceived on his landing by British troops—and, finally, that he should have sworn before the British Ambassador fidelity to his legitimate Sovereign, and to the Constitution. It is to be lamented, we say, that all these circumstances should have excited an impression that Great Britain has faithlessly and ungenerously with drawn her protection from Portugal, at the very time when it was the most needed. The affair of Terceira has never yet been ex plained ; nor can it, we fear, be elucidated very satisfactorily. The sense of Parliament has, however, been too decidedly expressed upon it, to admit the possibility of the repetition of such an occurrence. The insular part of the Portu guese monarchy belongs de facto, as well as de jure, to Donna MARIA ; and the inhabitants of the Azores never having per mitted Don MIGUEL to establish his autho- rity among them, no countenance can, un der any pretence, be given to ally attempt of Don MIGUEL to prevent communication with these Islands in the name of their lawful Sove reign. If effectual succour be speedily sent to Terceira, as is reported, there is little doubt that Don MIGUEL will soon cease to have adherents in tfie Islands, and that the whole of them will, with little difficulty, be made perfectly inde pendent of his power. If this should be effected, the influence upon Portugal will naturally be great and important ; for it will add both strength and spirits to those numerous and respectable The reception o f t h e y ou ng Queen of Pon- I classes in that unhappy country, who, by force 'FUGAL by her father with all the honours I a lone, have b e come the subjects of the Usurper. usually paid t o crowne d heads, assigning her If Don PEDRO'S efforts be not directly seconded a separate establishment, and causing her to by Great Britain, they should at least not be hold a C our t t o rece i ve t h e Ministers of Foreign refused the sanction of British approbation ; and Powers, coupled with the alleged equipment of it is to be hoped that, when Parliament meets, a squadron to carry succours to Terceira, are something may fall from our Ministry, that may indications of the a ff a i rs o f Portugal being likely at all events dicountenance the notion, that Don soon to occupy again some share of attention. MIGUEL has succeeded in insinuating himself The EMPEROR appears inclined to strike some .nto its good graces. Such rumours, we are sure, are utterly false and calumnious ; but it is high time for them to be authoritatively extin guished. We received by Express late this afternoon she Paris Papers of Monday, but they contain :10 news of interest, further than what we have received by the German Papers. There was an extraordinary movement on 'Change in the Funds, owing, it was said, to a Company, which was against the New Loan, hav ing thrown a great quantity of Stock on the Market, which produced a fall in the Rentes. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK A Jamaica mail has arrived, brought by the Swallow packet, sailed on the 17th of November. From the Jamaica Papers, received at the North and South American Coffee-house, of the 16th of November :—lt is stated, that about half-past eight o'clock last evening, a large ball of fire passed over this city; its progress was from north to south, and had the appearance of a large shell, with a fuze omitting flame, some feet in length ; it burst over the harbour. We have received Nassau Papers, and we regret to state that the troops are rather unhealthy, and that Mr. Gordon, of the 2d West India Regiment, had fallen. Sir Charles Smith, the new Governor of the Bahamas, had not arrived, but was hourly expected. (From the Jamaica Royal Gazelle of the 14th Nov.) The following bulletin extraordinary was pub lished at Carthagena : The Departmental Government has the satisfac tion to announce to the public, that they have just received official accounts of the pacification of the province of Antioquira, and the death of the traitor Gen. Marie Cordova. One battle, on the 17th inst., by the Government troops, commanded by General O'Leary, at Santriario, was sufficient to re-establish order. In this act of folly died Cordova, with 200 of his men. Official information has also been re ceived that the Plenipotentiaries had signed a treaty of peace with the Republic of Peru, to the satisfaction of both Governments. It was currently reported at Carthagena, when the packet sailed, that Mr. Henderson, the British Consul-General at Bogota, as well as the French, American, and Mexican Consuls, had been ordered to quit Colombia, in consequence, it is said, of hav ing given some countenance to the rebellion of Ge neral Cordova against the authority of Bolivar. The Earl of Belmore's speech at the opening of the Legislative Assembly, on the 3d November, has given the most heartfelt satisfaction, and the decla ration made by our Governor, " that I come amongst you free of all prejudice," deserves to be inscribed over the Hall of the Executive. His Excellency also touches gently on that string of discord—slave law alterations. LIVERPOOL, JAN 4.—The sales this week in British Plantation Sugar amounted only to 400 hhds., but the prices keep steady ; besides which 330 bags of fine white Bengal have been taken at 725. 9d. per cwt. Coffee remains steady. The sales of Cotton this week amounted to 15,300 bags, of Which 4,000 have been taken on specula tion. Prices have improved fully id. per lb. In digo continues in limited request. TILE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 9.51 for the Account, opened this morning at the same price, and as yet little speculation is going forward. The departure of the great City Speculator for Paris will rather tend to damp the market, and prevent operations of great magnitude, until his arrival at Paris. Consols at present may be quoted 9.5 i to In the Foreign Minket little doing as yet. We are informed that the Brazilian Minister yesterday afternoon contradicted the report current for these several days past, of the new Brazilian Loan. What we stated yesterday, that the Revenue for this Quarter would not be so unfavourable as was at first anticipated, has proved correct. The Funds continue steady, without experiencing a depression in consequence of that circumstance. ENGLISE Bank Stock, 216 17 India Stock, FUNDS. 31 per Cent. 100} New 4 per Cent., shut 4 per Cent. 1326 104 India Bonds, 72 73 Exchequer Bills, '77 '7B 3 per Cent. Cons. shut Do., for Account, 95 I Ditto Reduced, 944 t FUNDS. Greek, 304 Sli Mexican, 254 26 Peruviau, 174 181 Portuguese, 591 60 Prussian, -- Russian, 109 3- Spanish, 102. TWO O'CLOCK. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCR.4THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. s.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Williaal Fairlie, for the East Indies. Arrived the nritish Sovereign, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Arrived the lieward, Goss, from Leghorn. FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Martha, Drys losche, from Trieste; Rhodo, Aberdeen, from Leghorn ; and Admiral Wyndham, Ityt, from Seville. WATERFORD, JAN. 2.—The Mary and Margaret , Baye, bound to Milford, in getting under weigh yes' terday morning, grounded on a bank near the Perch , where she now lies. DovEtt, JAN. .s.—The Therese, Hartley, from London to Barbadoes, was lost near Gravelines the st inst. ; crew saved. The Favourite, Brown, from Liverpool to MW ranham, was spoken with the 25th ult., in lat. 48, long. 10. His Majesty's ship Juno, from,lndia, has arrived off Scilly. THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. There are very small fresh arrivals of all sorts of Cora this week. The Wheat trade remains very dull at Moo' day's terms, except for superfine samples, which sell Iva' dily. Bailey is unaltered. Beans cannot be sold without submitting to less prices. Pease of both kinds are unsl' tered. There is a fair demand to-day for Oats of good quality at last quotations. English ARRIVALS. Whel I Barley. I Oats. I Flour. 25W. 2,650 qrs. 1,800 qrs. 4,200 sac Of 1,260 Iriaa Foreign brls. HAY M A RKETS.—(A t per Load of 3Li Trussed.) SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland WelLWFla - F £2 0 to £2 13 New Meadow Hay 1 IS 2 114 Useful Old Ditto 3 3 3 1 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 13 4 1 , 2 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 10... Generally Oat Straw £1 10 to .£1 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 16 2 ( Supply limited, trade very dull, and prices stationary. No. I. of the Foreign Literary Gazette, pub. Fished this d ay, January 6th, contains, among other, a Notice with copious Extracts, of RENE CAILLIE, the French' man's Journey to Tiinbuctoo, (unpublished) ; Reviews of VON HAMMER'S: lust Vol. of the History of the Ottocnall, Empire, with remarkable Illustrations; of the Almanach des Dames, and a Translation of one of the prettiest French, Poems, by L. E. L. ; of the Court and the City (age of Louis XIV. XV., &c.), with a page or two of piquant and amusing Anecdotes ; and of other recent Works.- Among its Miscellaneous Papers are a complete Account 0 1 the Double Child at Paris, with a Wood Engraving to of , plain it ; and a very original and interesting History of GASPARONI, the famous Italian Bandit, derived from al!' theistic and prohibited Sources. Many Articles of Conti nental Science, Arts, Literature, and EntertainmeUt, will also be found in this Journal. Published, every Wedneir day, by W. A. SCRIPPS, 7, Wellington-street, Strandt, and South Moulton•strect ; to whose care, or to that 0' DULAU and Co., Soho-square, it is requested that all communications may be addressed, post-paid, to the Editor/. DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW.—A man W I3O had a quarrel on last Christmas Eve, wick some comps' Ilion], was bitten in the thumb by one of them. The consequence of the bite was a locked jaw, of which the poor man died on Saturday. He refused to tell who wig the person who inflicted the bite on him.—Dublin Mors' ing .Register. The monthly average price of wheat in F ran ce has been declared on the Slat of December last to be 21f. bC' At the same period last year it was 22f. 95c. The de cline, therefore, is of nearly 2 francs the hectolitre. A° compared with the average of the preceding month, the decline is of 91 centimes. A burglary was attempted on Monday niglif last, at the Custom-house at Newry. They forced op' the Long-room door, and made their way to the Collector" office, the desks of which they opened ; they also beolio open all the other doors and desks, but we are happy t ° say that, with the exception of a few shillings only, thef, were completely disappointed in their expectations booty. The metal safe, in which a considerabl e sum 41 0 deposited, escaped their notice.—Dublin Evening post. _ A gentleman well known in the literary world has lately been accused of some extraordinary acts of (I , ' linquency by several great printsellers. They waited upo o him with an officer, and desired to inspect his portfolio , ' Ile wished them to call in two hours, when every thing should be arranged for them. They would admit of 0 0 delay ; a search took place, missing property was found , and the detected culprit owned he had been betrayed into error by his " unfortunate enthusiasm for the art !"—.Sue day Paper. REMARKABLE FACT.— A curious cirocuir stance occurred, within the last few .days, on board one 01 the City of Dublin Company's steam-packets. In acre' vice between the boiler and the machinery the body of O dead cat was discovered. On examining the remains ° E : puss, it was found that its ears and part of its head hao been eaten away by the rats, in porsuit of which poor pusoi must have been engsged, when its bead got inextricabli jammed in the hole.— Liverpool Albion. During the last week near. 400 more families/ containing more than a thousand souls, have been v i s ited and relieved, making an appalling aggregate already 01 upwards of 4,000 persons, whose daily income is some' what short of one penny.—Leeds Patriot. REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.—Mr. Wg' Homants of Spaldington Lanes, Dear Howden, has, in bie possession a goose, which has, within the last twellr e months, laid the extraordinary number of seventy egg* : twenty-six at the usual time of laying, from which 0 6 produced, and brought up, seventeen fine goslings. She began laying again about the end of harvest, and has con' tinued to Lay an egg every other day since. She appear° to be in excellent condition.—_ York Courant. MURDER OF A WIFE BY A HUSBAND."'" An atrocious and inhuman murder was committed about te n days since, near Perase Lodge, in the county of Galway, O ° a strange female ; her head was literally broken to piece by the perpetrator of the crime, who turns out to be 0 0 husband of the deceased. The monster is by trade a pea' bar, and a native of LiMerick. He is fully committed i ° the county gaol to abide his trial. —Dub. Morn. .Register, A NEW INVENTION.—Last Friday MOrni between four and five o'clock, as we were quitting ou t office, having got the Paper to press, we observed OOP persons in the street, who had been protracting their Christmas-eve potations to that hour of the night. The i were attentively observing the gas-illuminated windows °, our press-room, which, it may be proper to observe, extol over Mr. BERESFORD'S premises. The only object sal' they could see was the lever-bar, and the balance weigh t attached to it, which rose and fell about every 2 second.' " There it goes again," said one, as the pull of the press-W C raised the lever, and immediately let it fall again. We wer e curious to know what they woul4 make of the machine, ( which so small a part could be seen ; at length, recollecting, our neighbour's extensive business, and the extra deme o for clothing at this season of the year, -the, former speat! l ; said, " I know what it is, JACK ;"--" Why what?" Ow the other. " Why," said he, staggering off up Chandler''' lane, ~" it's Christmas time, and BERESFORD'S ma/dog breeches by steam I"—Nottingham Review. CHRIST CHURCH.—In the Course of JO week, several curious relics havi been discovered in time foundation of this church, in the courseof the improve' ment making in St. Andrew-gate corner, in this city. T 1 coffins of lime-stone, one of them formed to the shape ° the head and shoulders of the corpse, and both made with a hole in the bottom, through which moisture might escape, two ancient toznb•stones with curiou s obliterated inscriptions, and on one the fi g ures of ° male and female in the attitude of prayer, and also square stone hollowed into the form of a large mortar , or vessel for the purpose of beating or crushing, hal e , been turned up. These remains are evidently of a fe ' anterior date to the present edifice, ancient 'as is its sr pearance, and indicate the existence, in the neighbour' hood, of some religious building whose ruins have bee' made available in the erection of the structure now u nder' going alteration. An inspection of Christ Church ale; gives us reason to suppose, that this is not the first tiro; it has been reduced in size. The two arches which apPe s , on the exterior facing the Old Haymarket, betoken its e!, tension in that direction, and if the funds could be cur tained, it might have been interesting to the antiquari; and to all who feel desirous of ascertaining the an cieu t state of our city, to have had the original foundation " the edifice traced by the excavators.— York Courant. FOREIG Brazilian, '7oi Buenos Ayres, 28 30 Chilian, 26k 271 Colombian, 234 21. Danish, 75 French, Ji per Cent. 107 Ditto, 8 per Cent. 83 ( From the Jamaica Papers.) Extract of a letter from Bogota, of the 7th of October : " It appears that a letter from Gen. Cordova to Mr. Henderson, wai intercepted by the Authorities, which letter contained a recommendation to the latter to remove his family to a place of security to avoid the consequences of a general rising and mas. sacre, which was intended to take place on 25th Sept. This letter, written under the Influence of a pe culiar interest, which Cordova took for the wet. fare of the Consul's family, has given rise to Mr. Henderson's being desired to absent himself from the capital, and he has in consequence taken up his residence at Torayma, twenty leagues distant. Mr. Leidesdoff has been ordered to quit Colombia, and left Bogota on the morning of the 7th inst. Extract of a private letter from Carthagena, dated Nov. 4 : The rebellion at Antioquira is now entirely at an end, which we received yesterday officially, that General Cordova and all his satellites were destroyed on the 17th ult., after an action of two hours; the General was killed. General O'Leary is the con queror, and he entered the town of Rio Negro, and writes that tranquillity was perfectly restored. Ge neral Bolivar has left Guayaquil for the capital. Consols have continued steady daring the morn ing, at 951 to 1 for the Account, with some busi ness doing, but not to any great extent. In the Foreign Market speculators are more active, particularly in Colombian Stock, which fell this morning 2 per cent. in consequence of a report that Bolivar has been much indisposed, but by the last accounts he was recovering ; also the report of the British, French, and Mexican Consuls, being obliged to leave Bogota, sus pected of being implicated in the late affair of Cordova. The arrival of the Jamaica mail does not bring any accounts from Colombia of the expected shipments of tobacco to pay the dividends, but on inquiry we find that the tobacco is to be shipped from the Caraccas—consequently no advice as yet could be received on the subject by the Colombian mail. .... THREE O'CLOCIC Consols for Account, 9.5 i I, We think it necessary in justice to a gentle man of respectability, whose name has been introduced into a report of certain proceedings before Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER, at Guildhall, yesterday, to state that the report itself is in many particulars incorrect, and that the statement of the woman alluded to, that she had lived with the gentleman in question for many years, and had had several children by him, is wholly untrue. The report appears in our Paper of to-day. • The manufacturing operatives of Preston and Wigan are at present suffering severe distress. Com mittees have been established for the distribution of soup. —Liverpool Albion. On Saturday last a fine swan and a carrier pigeon, belonging to JAMES CROSS, Esq. of Mort Field, were found frozen to death in a ditch, a short distance front the house. The swan was in its usual sitting pos ture.—Bolton Chronicle. 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