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for the girl than any body was aware of. I called again upon him, and had something to drink. Cross-examined—l had a glans of grog, a pint of ale, and smoLed or pipes ; that is a p re tty goo d evening's allowance for a farmer these times. Mr. Serjeant WILDE rose to address the Jury on the part of the plaintiff. He went through the evi dence with the greatest minuteness, with a view of showing that the testator was in a state of fatuity. The Learned Serjeant continued his speech to a very great length, and the Jury showed evident signs that three days on one cause had fatigued them, for the foreman exhibited his sign of distress by keeping his watch, which was a very large one. in his hand, and frequently holding it up to the Learned Serjeant in a manner plainly to be under stood, even by those who had not studied the lan guage of signs at the Oxford University. The Learned Counsel, however, seemed up to the thing. and took extraordinary pains to keep his eyes fixed on the other part of the jury-box. He then con tended that the will did not agree with the instruc tions, and therefore that this could not be the will of the testator. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET summed up the case to the Jury, with great minuteness, and at three o'clock the Jury returned a verdict for the defendants, thereby establishing that the testator was competent to make a will. The cause commenced about eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, was adjourned at half-past eight that evening till one o'clock on Friday, was ad journed about seven that evening to eight o'clock on Saturday morning, and did not finish till three o'clock on that day. SCOTCH LAW REFORM-JURY TRIAL (From the Scotsman.) Wecannet but approve highly of the principle of lessening the number of Courts which, by splitting jurisdiction into fractions, give rise, as that of the Admiralty and Commissary occasionally did, to nice and expensive questions of competency, and which as well as the Jury Court, require a separate appa ratus of clerks and other functionaries, the expence of which may, by concentration, be saved to the country. But, at the same time, we are fully per suaded, that, notwithstanding the excellent inten tions of Mr. Peel, and the soundness of the prin ciple on which he proceeds, the whole scheme will miscarry, and become the means of more thoroughly outlawing the bulk of the community—that is, putting the price of justice beyond their reach—un less regulations be adopted by which the prelimi nary procedure, and all except the very last step in the preparation of causes, may be carried through by the clerks of Court and attorneys. The lieges are not able to buy law, if it is to be had only by means of a triple set of written pleadings, all got up necessarily by the labour, and saddled with the fees of both agent and Counsel. This costly ma chinery was not indispensable, and in ordinary cases was seldom resorted to, either in the Admiralty or Commissary Courts; and the abolition of them . will be felt by the country if some provision, such as that ►re have alluded to, be not made now in the Court of Session. It is for the honour, and it would ultimately be for the interest of the Bar, that this should be done, since the keeping up of useless technical applications, and the compelling of parties to consult with and obtain the signatures of Coun sel, whether requisite or not, to an extent which should prevent all but the rich and sanguine, or the desperate, from venturing into courts of law, would ultimately punish the Bar, with loss of profit as we as character, and make the Courts themselves bot ridiculous and intolerable. A public constantly growing in intelligence would not submit to such a state of things. The Lord Advocate has not, as far as we have otserved, said one word about the abolition of the fee fund—an incubus which the administration of justice must get rid of in some way or other. Neither is any thing said about the abolition of sasines, and those other expensive and useless forms which, in effect, Mr. Peel pledged himself to do away once and for ever. But these, and many other reforms, must and will follow. We have given the Lord Advocate credit for the principle on which his reforms proceed, and for the liberality of many of 'his sentiments. But the rea sons which he assigns for particular measures appear to be often groundless or incongruous. He is per petually confounding the people with a class or pro fession. That of the law was inimical to the intro duction of Jury-trial. The people, on the other hand, were favourable to Atat measure, and almost every enlightehed Scotsman was its strenuous ad. vocate. Now, however, we are greatly misinformed, if the people have not formed a strong dislike to Jury-trial. The general opinion seems to be that it is in the nature of a very costly game at hazard, and there are few who are not ready to abate much of their fancied rights ratl:er glum encounter the risks of a trial. The ex periment has signally disappointed the expecta tions of the country; and it is of great moment to inquire whether this result has arisen from the unfitness of the people of Scotland to discharge the functions of Jurors—from ;their ignorance, ser vility, and want of judgment—from the forms of procedure, and especially th© mode of taking evi dence, and the privilege of reply given to the pur suer—or from the want of requisite qualifications The loose oratorical habits, want of strictness, labo riousness, or spirit—of and in the profession? We greatly question, also, whether the reduction of the Judge. should not take place in the inner -houses, rather than among the permanent ordinaries. There is an arrear in both departments; but it is, perhaps, snore invincible, and it is unquestionably more inju rious, in the outer-house, or preliminary stages, than the divisions of the court. Besides, if we have arrears of business of a heavy description now, what is to be done when an . expected increase of business shall come to be dealt With by still fewer Judges? There are grounds here for casting some of the labour upon the clerks and attorneys; and if this were to be done, the schooling and example of the jury-elerks, who are to be thrown into the Court of Session, would be worth all the money that has been expended on the Jury Court. The Lord Advocate is inconsistent hi other re spects. The reasons which he assigns for the abo lition of the Admiralty, Commissary, and Jury Court, called still more loudly for the abolition of the Court of Exchequer ; since the business done there is not only trifling in amount, but of a nature which the molt inferior qualifications of a legal kind are able to cope with, We allow, frankly, that the moral qualifications for deciding on questions be twixt the Crown and the people are of a high order —and that these are united with high )e gal talent in the gentleman recently appointed Lord Cbief Ba ron but why might there not be a Lord Ordinary in the Court of Session, brought from England to decide on revenue questions, and why should not his decisions be subjected to the salutary controul _ _ of either Division of the Court ? The idea - of keep ing up the machinery of a separate Court, at a great test, for the honour of Scotland, is utterly ridiculous. HgwitY VIII.—The character given of this Monarch in the new Romance of " Darnley," which at present deservedly occupies so large a share of public fa vour, is chequered with all the nice alternations of light and shade, and toschetl with all the force belonging to a master. Through much frankness and buoyancy of spi rits, we cannot but discern, Ryen in his youth, strong indications of the future tyrant, Jo FRANCIS I. we have an admirable contrast to the other portrait. We behold a being at once brave, generous, and magnaniaaojis—a Prince uniting the most ennobling with the most fascinating qua ➢ities. The historical details of the period of which the author has availed himself, are moreover drawn from sources never before accessible to the public. Mr. M. FITZGERALD slicer...Kis Sir G. Him, as Vice Treasurer of Ireland. The Right lion, Gentle man, of course, vacates his seat for the county of Kerry. There never has been an opposition to the Knight in the native country, and his friends will once more have the satisfaction of witnessing the unanimous choice of the county of Kerry, in the return of a gentleman who haus ° many public and private virtuea to recommend him.— .Thailin Evening Post. GERMAN PAPERS. BUCHAREST, MARCH 15.—Though the arrogance of .he Turks towards persons of a different religion has nearly disappeared in all the Turkish provinces, in conse quence of late events, the emigrations from Bulgaria into the principalities, and still more into Bessarabia, become more and more frequent. According to accounts worthy af credit, the number of the Bulgarians alone who have emigrated amounts to 100,000 souls. The motive of this emigration does not seem to be accurately known, but cer tainly the fear that a change may take place after the re firemen'. of the Russian army is not without influence. General Risscliff, the President, proceeds with his usual activity in the organization of the Principalities, and it will not be till it is completed that the election of the Hospodars will take place; this will, probably, not be in less than six or eight months.—Nurernburg Correspondent, April 3. ANCONA, MARCH 24.—Letters from the lonian Island. say that Count Capo D'lstria had communicated to the Legis lative Body the London Protocol, declaring Pr ince Leopold Sovereign of Greece, and that he at the same time said that he considered this choice as the most likely in every respect to promote the welfare of Greece, and that he him self, if the new Sovereign should wish it, would continue to devote his services to his country. The letters do not say bow the communication was received ; but to judge from former accounts the new Sovereign will meet with a most welcome reception, if he is provided with sufficient funds to gain the chiefs of the several parties, and then to keep them united by the pursuit of a consistent line of policy for the general good. Count Capo D'lstria is said to have now hut little influence in Greece, so that his offer to serve the new Sovereign would not be of much use to the latter. The Turkish troops in Negropont are to be immediately embarked for Candia. It is understood that Candia is to have also an Egyptian garrison. The English squadron at Malta is to be reinforced by several men of war, pro bably on account of the expedition to Algiers. Several Commissioners are at this moment buying up all kinds of provisions (as it is supposed) for English account. DARMSTADT, APRIL 6.—His Royal Highness the Grand Duke died to-day at one o'clock in the afternoon, to the great affliction of his faithful subjects. ST. PETERSBURCH, MARCH 24.—The Emperor arrived at Moscow on the 19th inst. Prince Albert of Prussia was there a little earlier. In the course of 1829, foreign merchandise to the value of two millions was forwarded from Odessa to Georgia. The chief articles were cloths and hosiery, silks, cotton manufactures, sugar, and spirituous liquors. The population of Odessa within the bounds of the free port is 41,552 souls; the villages beyond those hounds, hut which are dependent on the town, contain 10,466 inhabitants. ANcoNA, MARCH 17.—One of our principal merchants has received the intelligence that Prince Leopold will come to this port to embark for Greece. A Russian, an English, and a French man of war, and the Greek frigate Hellas, will be ready to receive him, and escort him to his new State. BRUSSELS, APRIL 8.-A letter from de Potter to M. Van de Weyer, with a preface by the latter, has been pub lished. This letter is published to refute the false reports industriously circulated, which stated that M. de Potter had, in his letters, spoken in a very disadvantageous manner of his friends (particularly M. Trilemans), who are implicated in the same accusation as himself. VIENNA, MARCH 1 30.—Metalliques, 103 i ; Four per Cents., 99i; Bank Shares, 1,389 i. - z MARCH 31.—Aletalliques, 104; Four per Cents., 99; Bank Shares, 1,382. MASTER WELLESLEY.—It has been deter mined, by the consent of the guardians of this young gen tleman, that he shall remain during the Easter holidays with his father. At the expiration of the holidays he is to return to Eton with Mr. COURTENA Y, his education going on in the meantime under his father's roof. A Noble Earl, distinguished in the ranks of Opposition, and one of the most able and eloquent Mem bers of the House of Peers, is reported to have had a serious difference upon some leading points of national policy with a Noble Marquis, which has led to remaiuing at his residence in the country. The celebrated composer and pianiste, HUM MEL, is daily expected to arrive here from Paris, where his splendid talents have been justly admired and appreciated. It is said that he is engaged to perform twice at the Phil harmonic Concerts, and that he will make his first appear ance there the week after Easter.—Athencrunr. Sir J. MALCOLM will resign the government of Bombay on the Ist of January next; by which time the Earl of CLARE, who starts over land for that Presidency in August, it is expected will have arrived there. The tocsin of discord is sounded, and a call is made on Papists to attend the several Vestries on Easter Monday (at which, by the way, they cannot vote) to drown by clamour, or, if necessary, put down by brute force, the opinions and votes of the Protestant parishioners.—Dublin Evening Mail. The Committees of Vauxhall, Waterloo, and Southwark bridges have determined on giving the New Police free passage through their respective toll-bars. THE IRON' TRADE.—We lately mentioned that the iron trade had begun to show symptoms of im provement. We are happy now to state that the demand for iron is extremely brisk. Some masters, we believe, have as many orders as they can execute for months, and might have as many more if they would accept therm— Carlisle Journal. We arc informed, from undoubted authority, that the Proprietors of the different Coal-Works in the Vale of Neath, in this county, have determined on making a Railway from the upper point of the vale to the western side of Neath harbour ; and that it is the intention of the projectors to call in aid the powerful agency of steam, whereby they will be enabled to convey the resources of that rich mineral district, for exportation, at' one half penny per ton per mile, being one penny per ton lower than is now paid to the Neath Canal Company.— Cambrian. STATE OF THE MANUFACTURES.—We have taken some pains to ascertain the state of trade in London, as far as regards the manufactures of the North, and we find from the concurrent report of that very im portant body, the " warehousemen," as they are called, that the opting trade is in a flourishing and healthy state ; that the business in the woollen, the linen, the cotton and the silk lines, is doing to profit and to a great amount ; and that the country shopkeepers buy with spirit and pay with great regularity, a large proportion of them making their payments in money and availing themselves of the discount for prompt payments. Profits, it is showed on all hands, are low, but there are profits, and the risk of bad debts is greatly reduced. As we have already stated, the raw materials generally of wool, cotton, flax, and silk, have all advanced within the last two or two or three months, and the prices remain steady, with an inclination upwards,—Leeds Mercury. At Kilkenny assizes a female was sentenced to execution for the murder of her aunt, near Conlcullen. She was hanged on Thursday, and privately confessed her guilt. The name of the unfortunate culprit was MARY KEALY, a married woman and the mother of eight children. A man named BEDFORD has been committed to Worcester gaol on a charge of stealing a 1001. note out of a letter. The prisoner was employed by Mrs. ST. JOHN, the post-mistress of Worcester, to clean shoes, &c. and one morning, at the latter end of January, he went into the office and took away a letter containing the note in qutstion. After a lapse of several weeks the note was presented for payment at the Bank of England, and stopped ; the person who presented it, on being questioned as to the manner in which he came possessed of it, said he had it from Bedford, at Worcester ; the prisoner has confessed stealing it. LDZUT. LAMBRECIIT.—On Friday night , about half-past ten o'clock, Lieut. LAMERECHT, late of the Ceylon Regiment, who was recently tried and acquitted at the Kingston Assizes, for having killed Mr. OLIVER CLAYTON in a duel, at Battersea-fields, went to the Police Station of letter M Division, in the Southwark •bridge road, and, addressing the Inspector, described that he was completely destitute, having neither house nor home of any kind, and without the means of even procuring the com mon necess ides of life. He stated that, since his acquittal, all his former friends had turned their backs upon him, and that, for the want of means, he had been compellel to wander about the town day and night, not knowing whither to go or what to do; he then implored the In spects): to permit him to lie down and rest himself, ad ding, that he wg.4 so exhausted from fatigue and want, that even the accommodation he sought would be an indul gence for which he should be most grateful. The unfor tunate gentleman was an object of great enmniiseration ; his dress bespoke the poverty with which he contended ; and not having been shaved for several days, his whole ap pearance was wretched in the, extreme. The Inspector al lowed Mr. LAMBRECHT to remain in the station until he htid mated himself, and then furnished him with the means of procuring a bed. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1830. Despatches were received at the Foreign-office this morning from Mr. MATTHEWS, the British Minister at Lisbon ; from Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY, at Paris; and Sir CHALES BAGOT, at Brussels. The French Papers of Thursday and Friday, with the Gazette de France dated Saturday, have been received. Their contents possess no authentic news of anv political importance. The Gazette places among Lies of the Day certain reports of the other Journals—one of which is that the Chamber will not be dissolved, though, according to the Constitutionnel, the Ordinance for its dissolution is signed. But the most important matter which the Gazette places among the list of inventions is the following, respecting the late war in the East —a subject on which the Constitzdionnel may be allowed to possess some knowledge. It is is : (From the Constitutionnel.) Before the Russians prepared to pass the Balkan, nego ciations had been opened between the Cabinets of France and Russia—they were suspended during the winter in 1828. When the Russians had once passed the Balkan, England took the alarm ; whilst the former, foreseeing the possibility of a rupture with Great Britain, and even look ing upon it as imminent, renewed their proposals of alli ance to the French Cabinet. Ist. The Russian Cabinet required of France to observe an exact neutrality till the moment when Great Britain should be forced to declare against Russia. 2d. In the latter case the Russian Cabinet proposed a defensive and offensive alliance between the two contracting Pawers ; Prussia and the Netherlands were also to form a part•of the coalition. 3d. Russia was to be left at liberty to prosecute the war in the east, and even to take Constantinople, if cir cumstances should require it; she was to have banished 1114hmoud to Asia, and totally overthrown his empire in Europe. 4th. The Greek State was to be definitively establish ed : subsidies were to be paid to it at certain fixed epochs; its limits were to extend beyond the line so often pro raised, from the gulf of Arta to that of Volo. Count Capo d'lstria was to remain at the bead of the new state. sth. As a compensation for her affiance, for the aggran dizement of Russia in the east, and in order to indemnify her for her sacrifices in the contest against England, it was stipulated that France should recover the possession of the Belgian provinces; Breda was to be once more the frontier of Holland ; the English were to be expelled from the continent; Hanover, which was to be seized by the allied troops, would have been given up to the Netherlands, to compensate for the loss of. Belgium. Particular in demnities would have been given by Russia to Prussia, who was to surrender to France Sarre-Louis, and a part of the territory bordering on the Rhine. Gth. The important island of Candia was to becoeaethe property of France. 7th. The two Powers engaged to fulfil the conditions of is treaty by all the means in their power. Now, though the march of events has settled these speculations for the present, yet we are led to believe that they were seriously contemplated at one time. This we know, that France will never be at rest till Belgium is once more incor porated with the empire—and that Russia looks at no distant period to the possession of Con stantinople, is as clear as that her ambition knows no bounds but those of moderation and justice ! The following are extracts from these Papers. FERDINAND of Spain seems to have a touch of the uxorious since his late bridal. SALIC LAW REPEALED IN SPAIN. An event, which may be attended with the most serious consequences, has just taken place at Madrid. The King of Spain has formally abolished the salic law, and admitted females to the succession of the Crown. It is well known that the Spanish Legislature had often varied on that pint, and that notwithstanding the ancient principles and customs of the country, the French maxim had at last prevailed. But it is now once more revoked. The Queen's pregnancy has undoubtedly been the‘cause of re curring to the old law. The King is desirous of securing the crown to his children, whatever may be their sex. The decree has been solemnly proclaimed in the streets of Madrid. It is impossible that the party which adhered to Don Carlos—viz. the clergy,—should not be greatly irri tated by this measure. Spain did not certainly want this new source of dissension, and perhaps of civil war. —Temps. ST. PETERSBURGIt , MA aces IS.-- I - LEI-Pada, and every thing which bears any connexion with his mission, continue to be the subject of general conversation. At present the proposals of the Turkish Ambassador for terri torial concessions have become a theme of ardent discussion in our political drawing-rooms. Those who pretend to be the best informed, assert that these proposals have lately given rise to the most serious negotiations between our court and the other great cabinets. The Porte (at least if one may judge from appearances) seems very desirous of fulfilling with loyalty and celerity the pecuniary engagements which she has contracted by the treaty of Adrianople; but as she finds it impossible to pay the whole amount of the sums stipulat e d in the above treaty, she has repeatedly offered in compensation to give up a certain portion of territory to Russia. Previous to the acceptation of these offers, they have become a subject of negotiation between the great Cabinets; and it is said that the Austrian Government has declared that on certain conditions it would not oppose su c h au arrangement. England, on the contrary, i s said to have loudly protes'el against these measures, declaring, a t th e same t i me, that she was ready to pay to Russia, as a l oan ma d e to Turkey, any sums stipulated in the treaty of Adrianople, provided the island of Candia and some oth er smaller ones of the Archipelago were delivered to her as a guarantee for the payment of the loan by the Porte. This offer has been unanimously rejected by all the p owers interested in the negotiation, and flalil•Pacha has finally declared that he aid not think his Sublime Master would ever accept such conditions. The Turkish diplomate is not less ardent in his solicita tions than fertile in resources; for he always manages to bring forward some new propositions, which are sometimes singularly curious. He forwards immediately to Constan tinople every answer that he receives, so that he generally sends off no less than two or three couriers during the course of the week. But he is far from receiving as many from the Turkish capital ; and it may be inferred from thence, that his instructions are varied to the utmost degree, and destined to meet all incidents imaginable; but that, at the bottom, they tend to one main object, which is to obtain the entire remittance of the war coati i butions, or to delay, as much as possible, by some new proposal, the fulfilment of the articles stipulated in the treaty. But, whatever may be the regard and consideration which is shown here to Halil Pacha, we are all convinced that none of his projects will succeed, and that perhaps even sooner than he expects General Diebitsch may receive orders to decide the question. It is not certainly uninten tionally that since his residence at St. Petersburg!), very considerable transports of ammunition have passed before his eyes, on the road to our army in Turkey. It is also said, that as this diplomate was one day expressing his sin cere affliction and his astonishment at the little confidence which appeared to be placed in the protestations of the Porte, a personage of high rank answered him that Turkey justified such mistrust by her present armaments. Halil Paella replied with great presence of mind, that the sole motive and object of these armaments was to repress the spirit of rebellion which had just arisen in several pro vinces of Turkey, and especially Asia Minor. He added, that thisvery spirit had been provoked by the onerous con ditions imposed on the Porte by the treaty of Adrianople. After all, the Mahometans, as well as those who com pose his suite, seem to find themselves very well off here, and even better than at Constantinople. Indeed, he has on several occurrences expressed the wish of being named by the Sultan, his permanent Ambassador near the Court of Russia. ALtacri 20.—M. de Morenas has been sent to Georgia to make an attempt to introduce into the provinces situated on the other side of the Caucasus, different plants belonging to the hot climates, or to improve those which grow there already. He has likewise been charged with examining the silk looms established by M. de Castella, in order to reap all possible advantages from them. The Russian Government, according to the advice given by Mr. Gamba, Consul-General of France at Teflis, has bought in France, Spain, and Boukharia, a certain number of skins to put wine in, and has sent them to the above mentioned provinces to engage the inhabitants to cultivate vines ; coopers have also been engaged for three years to introduce their trade into the country, which is now almost entirely unknown. By these measures, the Govern ment hope to produce excellent wine, which will enable Russia to do without the wines of France, and those of other countries.—Le Temps. The Gazette de France has the following :—The Liberal Journals are using their utmost exertions to induce a belief that the Chamber will not be dissolved. This im posture is easily seen through. It is their wish to lessen in the public mind the impression made by the insolence of the address, by appearing to question the effect it has produced in that of the King. They particularly aim to throw doubts upon the noble firmness of the Sovereign. But it is in vain. The dissolution of the Chamber was pronounced when the King delivered his reply. France will soon have an opportunity of knowing whether the men who have refused to concur with the Crown, and have wished to make it subject to their votes, are still worthy of being invested with an authority instituted by the author of the Charter, the brother of the august Prince whose pre rogative they have attempted to usurp. For the first time since the Restoration, the merits of the Ministry will be out of the question at the elections, as they have been in the late proceedings in the Chamber. They were not brought into consideration in the Chamber, because the only reproach brought against Ministers was their nomi nation—the work of the King alone. They will not be weighed by the Electoral Colleges ; because France will not have to pronounce upon the System of a Ministry, but upon an insult offered to the King, and on the attempts at usurpation made by a faction. Thus, we shall find at the elections, as we have seen in the Chamber, and discover in the journals, Royalists on one side, and Revolutionists on the other; but in no place have we seen, or shall we see ; Ministerialists." FRZNCII FUNDIL—Pane, APRIL 9.—Flye per Cents., 108 f. 15e. Four per Cents., 101 f. 10c. 25c.; Three per Cents., 24f. 10c. ; Bank Stock, 1,915 f. 1,912 f. s'sve. Rentes de Naples, 93f. 25e. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 14‘ M 14 13% 14 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 90; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 78% % ; Haytian Loan, 535 f. 530f—Exchange on London—One month, paper, M. Ms. ; three months, paper, 25f. I.oc.—Cours Authentique. We received this morning the Hamburg Re porter—German and Prussian Papers of the 6th inst. The inundations of the Oder have subsided, but the damage done is very great.— These Papers contain nothing of any particular moment for observation, as the following extracts will show : FROM THE MAINE, MARCH 24. We hear of a great plan of economy, which is said to have been proposed to the King of Bavaria, and will pro bably receive his Majesty's approbation. According to this plan, which is said to have originated with the King himself, the garrisons in all the fortified towns of Bavaria are to be reduced to one half of their present strength ; all the men above the number to receive furloughs for a whole year. Of course, the Dien so sent to their homes will not receive either pay or rations; but, according to the new plan, every man is to pay to the King one and a half kruger per day, and, on the other hand, be allowed to take his whole uniform home with him. On the 21st inst., M. I. R. Wyss, Professor of Phila• soppy, and esteemed throughout Switzerland as an excel lent writer, died at Berne. KIEL, MAUCH 28. We have had some disturbances here, caused by the rigorous execution of the police Legulations against the nocturnal excesses committed by the students in the streets. Their resistance made the interference of the military ne cessary. Several arrests have taken place, and one student is said to be dangerously wounded through an unfortunate fall, in which he struck his head against a stone. We hope that proper measures will be taken to prevent similar riots in the Easter week. SMYRNA, MARCH 5. A beautiful Austrian merchantman, the Prince Metter nich, has been driven in a violent storm on the coast of Phoecea, and is a complete wreck : the crew were saved, but no part of the cargo. The loss is very great, as the ship had on board goods for the Austrian squadron in the Levant to the value of 80,000 florins, besides merchandise to the amount of 150,000 florins, of all which not more than half was insured. BERLIN, APRIL 3. It is said that a young Silesian Prince is on the point of leaving the Catholic Church to embrace the Protestant religion. Such cases are very frequent in Silesia, and they are seldom spoken of unless the parties are of some con sequence. - A military and historical work on the campaigns of 1813, 1814, and 1815, by Lieutenant-General Van Grottman, is expected to be shortly published. It is looked fur with much curiosity. HAMBURG, APRIL 6. BORSE N HALLE, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCE.--A good deal of business has been done in funds since Friday, particularly in Anglo-Danish, in Austrian Bank Shares, and in Polish Bonds. To-day our place was somewhat less animated, still there were buyers at the prices marked below. In Greek and Portuguese nothing thing. Discount 4 per cent. Anglo-Danish Loan 3 p er C en t End of April. 74% Anglo-Russian Loan 109% Hamburg-Russian Loan 104% Polish Bonds New Prussian 4 p er C ents. 81 339%% Austrian Bank Sha res 1412 Austrian Metalliques lO3 New Austrian 4 per Cents. Anglo Neapolitan Falconets BRUSSELS, APRIL 7. It appears that our captains of ships at Antwerp com plain very much of the delay which they experience, after having discharged their cargoes, in procuring ballast, so that ships are often obliged to wait at least ten days for it. It is hoped, however, that when the contract expires this year, the Magistrates will insert conditions in the new contract, by which this evil will be remedied. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9. Yesterday arrived here Count Rossi, Sardinian Charge d'Affaires at the Court of the Netherlands; Count liar degg, Chamberlain of the Emperor of Austria; and M. Fraissinet, Consul-General of the Netherlands at Algiers. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 24. As soon as the navigation of the Baltic is open, a steam boat will he employed to ply regularly between Riga and Lubeck. M. Hermann Schrotle, the proprietor, thinks it may make 18 voyages in the course of the season. It will take letters, parcels, goods, and passengers, and will also be allowed on its passage to or from Riga, to touch at Liebau, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. rl.ok ' , lock 217 163 South Sea Stock I per Cent. Red, 92% 3 1 ,6 Old Annuities ................•. t per Cent. Cons, 93% New Ditto tq per Cent. Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 2d. 80 81 pm. NCO Red. 100 ( Ditto lid. 80 81 pm. 1 per Cent. Ann....... 102% 4 % D i tto 500 2d. 80 81 pm )itto, 1626 104% 5 Ditto lid. 80 81 pm 3 ink L. Ann. )itto 30 years )itto 50 years India Stock lndia for Account Ditto Bonds B2 83 pm. Cons. for April 16 ...... 93% %34 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. kustrian Bonds trazilian Bonds 72 43i Peruvian Bonds — Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds 27 Prussian, Old — Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New lO3 Ditto, 1824 22% Russian — Danish - -5 4 1,i% Spanish, 1821 ......... 17% 1814 18 Greek Bonds :)itto, 1825 46 % 44 7 :6 : 9 i t __ ___.....------- French Exchange ncth3eas Exchange.,,,,, g 5 ;..... ..0 .. . l : —. . l if . f . 2 %____ . 2 4 " . Guatimala Nlex i ca n Bonds 29 3 per cent....,,. —f. —c. Ditto, 1925 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO l 8 Brazilian Mining Company 5 1134 12 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O _ Ditto National lO 21% 22 21,4 Ditto St. John Del Rey United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) X 3o g 21 Alliance Fire and Life Insurance Co. 10 10 TORKIGN RXCHANCES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL 6.-13. 14.—Two months, 13. 123 q. BERLIN, APRIL 3.—Three months. 7. 05i. ST. PETERSBURG% MARCH 26.—Three months, 10 13-32. BREMEN, APRIL 2.—Two months, 619. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9.-12. 30. Two months-12. 22%. MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayree 0 0 Jamaica ............... 1 9 Carthagena 0 U Leeward islands ... 0 2 Dublin 0 1 Lisbon ................. . 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Mexico ................ 1 1 France o 0 Sweden ................ 0 1 Guernsey &Jersey 0 2 Waterford ............ 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning .„ 0 minutes after 5. J Eyening...l7 minutes after 5. .• *A a • _ 2014111 \, and land Or talce in palsengera ; but it must not land or take on board goods at Eiebau.% BERLIN, APRIL 5. The latest accounts respecting the state of the Oder and other rivers, announce that the waters had subsided, and the danger was in general past; , but the damage done is very great, and it will not be possible to know or to esti mate the amount till the waters have wholly subsided. VIENNA, APRIL I.—Metalliques, 101; Four per Cents., 98i ; Bank Shares, 1,387. The St. Petersburgh Journal of the 27th of March states, that the Countess DIEBITSCH SABALKANSKY, wife of his Excellency the Field Marshal, and Lady of Honour to her Majesty the EMPRESS, died at St. Petersburgh on the 26th. It must be peculiarly melancholy for the General to lose the partner of his for tunes at a period so recent after having attained the grand object of his ambition. The Emperor of RUSSIA arrived at the capital, from Moscow, in the afternoon of the 27th. It would appear by the German Papers, re ceived yesterday, that Prince LEOPOLD will em bark for Greece, from Ancona, on board the Greek frigate, Hellas. An English, French, and Russian man-of-war are to accompany the Prince to his new dominions. Lisbon Gazettes have been received to the 3d of April inclusive, but they contain no intel ligence of any importance, and are chiefly filled with extracts from French Papers, and notice of the debates in the British Parliament. 1 1 Letters have been received in the city from Terceira, which announce that the Marquis of PALMELLA and his suite had arrived at that Island, and that they had formed a Regency in favour of Donna MARIA. The inhabitants continued full of zeal for the cause, and the troops were healthy. Letters from Cadiz, to-day, dated the 23d ult. state that trade was reviving there, and that there was considerable want of cotton goods. At Gibraltar, on the contrary, nothing whatever was doing, and the free port of Cadiz, it seems, had utterly drawn away all the commerce of the place. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL YR O'CLOCK Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house: PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Tbe following are the ar rivals :—His Majesty's ship Briton, Captain Gordon, from Belize 26th December, Vera Cruz 19th January, Tam pico 15th February, Havannah 2d ult., having 800,000 dollars and a small quantity of cochineal on board. Sailed his Majesty's ship North Star, with Sir Robert Ker Porter, his Majesty's Consul-General for Caraccas. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10.—The import this week of Cotton is 2,319 bags, and the sales are again very exten sive, reaching 18,260 bags at a further advance of id. per lb. The import since the Ist January into Liverpool has been 190,000 bags, against 201 000 in the same period in 1829. The sales 245,000 bags against 161,000, giving a surplus of sale this year of 84,000 bags, and a diminution since the Ist of January of 55,000 bags, being almost unprecedented. The sales during 14 weeks of the present year have averaged 17,580 bags per week. In Sugar about 480 hhds. have been sold this week, at a slight decline in Brown and middling qualities. In Foreign nothing has been done; but of East I n di a 140 bags have been t a k en a t 68 5 ., and 650 bags the price of 1 which is not returned. Extract of a letter from Marseilles, dated April 4 " Our population augments daily; a number of troops already crowd the streets, as well as officers, belonging to the Etat-Major, whose regiments are on the march ; also a great number of Marine officers. Three or four hundred ships which have been chartered are now formed in two lines on each side the harbour, and the bakers are busy in preparing biscuits for the expedition. A report prevailed that an English corvette had appeared off Algiers, and sent a message to the Dey, offering him to embark on board with his treasures, but this is not believed here. The Mayor of Toulon has received orders to prepare quarters for 22,000 men for the 13th instant, and the embaikati(,n is expected to take place on the Ist of May." Accounts from Lisbon state that a new description of an auto-da-fe is preparing there ; twelve persons at once have been condemned, and their bodies to he burnt. It is also stated that more executions are to take place. At Oporto the Project of the Amnesty has been rejected, and the Ministry are much discontented with France and England, on receiving their last despatches that they could do nothing before they received further advices from Don Pedro. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at - the same price they left off on Saturday-9311 for the Account, and went up to 941, and are at present 93k, buyers. The express from Paris brings an account of the march ing of the Egyptian troops against Tripoli and Tunis. In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds have improved per cent. There appears to be great animation in the Foreign Funds this morning ; Greek Bonds have got up 2 per cent., Spanish 1 Brazil also improved ; this is owing to their coming higher from Holland and Paris. ENGLISH FUNDS. 3/ per Ct. 1001 1 New 4 per Cent., 1021 4 per Ct. 1826, 105 India Bonds, 82 83 Exchequer Bills, 80 81 I FUNDS. Greek, 4t Mexican, 33 Peruvian, 214- 2 Portuguese, 613- 62i Prussian, Russian, 1101 11-i Spanish, 18i TWO O'CLOCK. Accounts are in town of the safe landing of the Mar quis Palmella and the Regency at Terceira. Accounts from Coestantinople of the 10th March state, that a scarcity of provisions prevails in the capital, which occasioned some disturbances amongst the lower class of people. They write from Paris that Contre-Admiral Rommel, who is to command a division of the French expedition has arrived at Toulon, from Navarin, in the Trident. The three Admirals are now assembled. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 93H for the Account, got up to 93j, and for the next time 94 : this improvement is attributed to its being a Bear Account. In the Foreign Market most of the Stocks have im proved ; Brazil got up 3 per cent., since which a re action has taken place, and at present they are not so good. 7 HREE 0' CLOCK. Bank Stock, 216 17 India Stock, S per Cent. Cons. 93 Do. for Account, 93i Ditto Reduced, 93i FOREIG. Brazilian, 73i Buenos Ayres, 33 35 Chilian, Colombian, 22 Danish, 75 French, 5 per Cent. 106 7 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 831 Consols 931 j. MPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE. This morning a public meeting was convened at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the means of obtaining a permanent remedy for the dis tress of the working c!assee, and for the moral evils under which all parties suffer ; and also for the disunion which has for years prevailed amongst all religious sects; with a view to establish a perpetually encreasing prosperity, and to destroy for ever the germ of future religious animosity. The meeting was called by Mr. Owen, and twelve o'clock was announced as the hour at which the proceed ings of the day were to be entered upon, but at that time few persona had arrived. There are in Hungary 7,000,000 sheep, of which 3,000,000 belong to Prince ESTERHAZY.-Lite rary Gazette. An advance in the wages of power-loom weavers, to the amount of Id. per cut, was made last week by one of the principal manufacturers in this town, war ranted by the improvement in the prices of goods, and the increasing demand for the manufactured articles...-Stock port Advertiser. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCI...(THIS FROM LLOYD'S. Dear., APRIL 10. —Wind W.S.W.—Arrived f ill London the Albion, Pollard, for Miramichi ; king Raynor, f or Q ue b ec ; Sarah, Rome, for St. Job Thomas, Hoddar, for Quebec ' • Ann, Boyle, for Helena; E xmout h, G re i g, and Endeavour, Collinsp . : Quebec; J us ti na , R eay, f or Halifax; Frances, fin for Quebec ; Quebec packet, Atkinson, London, ral l7 George Canning, M'Leller, Liddel, Thompsoi', Cicero, Robertson, for Quebec ; Crown; Barker, I,r ratnichi ; and James, Walton, for ditto. APRIL 11.-Wind W.S.W.—Arrived frons London United Kingdom and Elizabeth, for Jamaica; and P gulus, for Antigua. The outward-bound remain. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10 and 11.—Wind his Majesty's ship Briton, from Honduras, sailed Dee. ll from Vera Cruz Jan. 19, from Tampico Feb. 15, $l . , from Hav a n na h th e 2d u l t . ; h as 800,000 dollars an d small quantity of coc hi nea l on b oar d . S a il ed his Msjsitl ship North Star, for the West Indies. FALMAUTII, APRIL 9 and 10.—Wind S. to S. vv.': Arrived the Magnet packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 4 ` inst. Sailed the Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon Briseis packet, for Brazil ; and Echo steamer, with ma' for the Mediterranean. Sailed on the 10th, the Reinde f packet, for J ama i ca an d C art h agena ; and Barraco u , l do, for Halifax and Bermuda. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wir1 W.5.W..--Arrived Jack-o'-Lantern, from Terceira ; and Polsuro, Ara from Alicant. The Boreas, Walker, from London to Hamburg, 11° ou shore on the Whittaker Sand yesterday. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN-EXCHANGE. T, e unlies of all kinds of Corn last week were moil rate, and of Flour the report was middling. This mor ing the samples of most kinds of Grain fresh up are n numerous. There , has been a thin attendance of buy" to-day, and the best parcels of Wheat maintain last q cations ; other sorts are rather lower. Barley is aiso d , in disposal, but malting parcels support former price° . Beans and Pease are scarce, and 'rather dearer. Oetl though scarce, find buyers rather slowly at the terno ° this day se'nnight. The Flour trade continues 0 0. 1 airely dull. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) ..... -s. -a. Beans, Small new) -5.( ' 4 '. ----White (old).. -a. -s. --....Red (1829) ... 48s. Tick (uew).... 30s ',„,.,: Fine.. 565. 635. .- (old) .... 355. ~,,0 " 655. '72s. -- Harrow ( new) 335. ,'",... 525. 625. 655. '728. Brank 22s 2 4 ' 765. 808. - Oats, Feed -4....0. 50s. 925. New lBs . 2!' 30s. 345. -- Poland .-s ---' 225. 265. New 205. 215 ' 28s. 30s. - P o t a t oe -s. ....S. 325. 4. 365.5 -_ Scotch New 259. 2 :: 58 28s. 3°.. 58s. 625. - Irish l4s. 189' 30s. 325. Flour Town (per sack) 60s 69 „: 345. 38s. - Seconds 50s. '''';,. 321. 365. --- North Country 48s. 1,. _... 38s. 435. Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST Wgg...-* White Fine. Super Foreign rfipe.. :1829). !rfine:: , free Rye Barley --:. Fine - Superfine Malt - Fine Pease, Grey - Maple -- Boilers 5 r .. 5' p if --- 1 so -, From Whence. :4 F N g r. w . • r r `: 4 .......° - - - Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Q rs . Qrs. Qrs. BClt6. Aldbormigl• lO5 716 - - 27 40 11, Boston - - 2096 - - __ ' Bridlington - - - 2:0 - - W I Colchester 242 810 480 - 41 0 Harwich - --, 25 . .1 Leigh 5Ol 20 - 60 126 10 7 75 ~ .1 11Ialdon 555 363 130 - 314 -- Gainsborough l5O - - _ _ __ Glimsby l4O 80 - 190 - - 5q Hull 470 - - 490 - - - 7 '4 Ipswich-- - 135 27 h' s Kent 655 895 200 50 347 129 i u Lynn SO 1328 - - - -.- Newport - - . - -. 1 2 Po Jle Southwold - - - - ;5 - 0 Stockton - -„- 6 - -- Wisboach 240 - - - - -- ..- 18 0 W oodbridge - 480 -- - - 10 ~15 , Yar mouth - 1112 1501 - - -- J . A berdeen 4O - - 100 -- -- Banff - - - 1652 - - 1 5 .. Berwick - 80 - 132 - - 4 0 Dundee 2OO 48 - - -- - ' • Inverness 4O - - 249 - - Leith -- 110 - - - - 4911 6213 4171 5235 990 216 4 963 1 II I 9 11. Dublin -- 950 - - ,/, Limerick - - - - Newry - - - 2 580 - - - Waterford i' sl - -- - .. FOREIGN. Bremen 7BO - - -. Charente - .- ".. -- Guernsey lOO - -- -- 10- - - _ .... Hamburg ... - - - - .... .... Leghorn 3OlO -- -.-. ..... _ .... Rotterdam 7O - -.. _ ..... Spain 3455 - - -.-. .- --• Coastways 266 - -- -.. _ .... Total 13212 6213 4171 f 8765 1000 Yl6 5S 13212 QUAN' AGORZGATE Rye, o —Tares, 5 16213 ITITY ( inseed, stard, :: 1 --- 4171 1 F8765 I )F OTHIR 111 1970—Rapesee 1000 'DS 01 Yl6 1 PULSI .Brank, SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's market exhibited a limited supply through" out, but the weather being unfavourable for slaughtering , the carcass markets largely supplied, and the trade is them very dull, Beef, Mutton, and Pork, met with very , heavy sale, at about Thursday's prices ; Lamb and Veal at a depression of from 4d. to 6d. per stone. The shortness of the supply is ascribable to the trade being ge° nerally dull on holiday Mondays. PRICES PER STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d• Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime small ditto 5 6 7 0 Prime large Oxen... 3 4 3 8 Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c..... 3 8 4 0 Prime small ditto„, 5 6 510 Inferior Sheep 2 4 210 Large Hogs 3 0 3 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Small Porkers 4 0 4 Coarse-woolleddttto3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 361. each , SouthdownWethers 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs 14s to 18. s. each, SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. Pigs. I 2,419 17,220 92 I 210 About 110 of the beasts came up the different North }toads; about 40 from the western and midland districts ; about 1800 froul Norfolk, Sufiblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 120 (root Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes , &c., in the neighbourhood of London. --' NEWOATE AND LEADENit ALL MARKETS At per stone, by the Carcass. a. d. toe. 11. I s. d. toe. ti. Reef 2 2 3 6 Veal Mutton.... 2 6 3 8 Pork Lamb ...---.......... 50. 6d. to 6a. 6d. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-UPON.TYNE MARKET.—ApriI JO. We had a large supply of Wheat from the farmers to day, for which there was a fair demand, and the whole was at length cleared off at a decline of 2s. per quarter.--• Little doing in granaried samples. The Oat trade coo" tinues steady—the demand fully eqnal to the supply.— Nearly all the Barley fit for malting has been cleared 01 1 the market, and another cargo or two of fine quality would go off readily. Rye, Beans, and Pease, as our last. Floor ready sale. Wheat New. 041 . , Northumberland 'As. 665. -5. --s. Norfolk and Sutfblk 58s. 663, -g. .....9. Berwick and Scotch 565. 58s. —B —s. Dantzig ..13. —4. —s. -.4. Rye, Norfolk and Suflolg 32s. 361. ....„ —3. —B. Foreign ..8 .-11.. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...32s. 3es Grinding and Feeding 255. 2Ss. —s. —s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —s ...... 525. 585. Beans, Small — B . —B. Tick .335. 31s. Pease, White —a. —a Gray .: , 6s. 38s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... .. 275. 28c —8 —a. ----- Feed 20s '2sc —s. —s. Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) —s —c 465. 4Rs. BIRMINGHAM MARKET.—ApriI 8. We have had a fair supply of Grain at to-day's market; the best samples fully maintained the prices of this day se'nnight, and other sorts were difficult to quit. Wheat, per 621 b. '7 9 4 Barley, per Imperial quarter 32 0 49 0 M.lt 52 0 62 0 Pease 38 0 44 0 Beans, per bag of 10 score gross Oats, per 391 b 3 0 4 Fine Flour, per sack o f 2801 b. 51 0 55 0 Seconds ................................................ --- CORNWALL. MARKETS. Touno.-Wheat (average) 253.6(1-Barley, 13a. 6d.-Oats t l Is. ST. AusvoLL-Wheat, 23 5. to 2 56.--Barley, 12s. to 145.- pats, 9s. to 10s. Od. BonsitN-Wheat (average) 255. Odßarloy, 12s. 6d.-Oats, 125 . LAUNCESTON-Wheat (aver age ) 245. od.-Barley, Bs. 01.-Beef, s}d.-Mutton, sd. PENZANCE--Wheat, 245. to 265.-Barley, -s. to 155.-Oats , 83. to Ws. 6d.-Beef arid Mutton, 4d. to 5d.-Pork, 31d. to Od-- Butter, 10d. per lb. LISKEARD-Wheat, 21s. Od. to 243. 9 d.-8ar1ey,123.-.oats, 108. to 10s. 6d. ST. Comm-Wheat, 235. to 245.-Barley, 13 s . t o 1 55.-Bee f, and Mutton, sd. to 6d.-Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d. 12,3.0,1-Oats, That rising actor, Mr. CHAPMAN, has, we perceive by the bills, his benefit to-morrow evening at the Tottenham -street Theatre. An excellent bill of fare is provided for the occasion, and among other attractions a Miss HOLBROOICE, a young vocalist who has already ra ised considerable expectations, is announced to make her first appearance as Rosetta, in a musical entertainment founded on the Opera of Love in a Village. ini T} ral at' • Ch pre , Lig Lee day ceec and 3dl field plat! ham Ano of tl barr, ter fit Non this beini day the e - their unue come coric Goo( Brigl ford succe R. 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