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ORANGE LODGES. GENERAL ORDER. Excise Office, London, March 21, 1836. The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having caused a copy of their Lordships' minute of the 18th instant, containing their Lordship? directions in regard to his Majesty's answer to an address of the House of Com mons, respecting the discouragement of Orange Lodges, &c., to be transmitted to this board, and having desired that the necessary orders be forthwith issued for carrying _ the same into effect : Ordered, that copies of the said minute be transmitted to the respective collectors, general surveyors, supervisors and surveyors of excise, and inspectors and officers of the revenue police, for their information and guidance ; and that all persons employed in the chief office or in any way serving under, or belonging to this establishment, be strictly enjoined to conform to the directions contained in it, and to observe that if it shall hereafter become known to the board, that any person in their employment shall, after this warning, either continue or become a member of any Orange Lodge or any political society, excluding persons of different reli gious faith, usinc , signs and symbols, and acting by means of associated branches, such person will be immediately dis missed from the service. By the Board, CHARLES BROWNE. Copy of Treasury Minute of March 18, 1836. My Lords read his Majesty's most gracious answer to an address of the House of Commons. The answer is as follows : " WILLIAM REX—I willingly assent to the prayer 0 . my faithful Commons, that I will be pleased to take such measures as may seem to me advisable for the effectual dis couragement of Orange Lodges, and generally of all poli tical societies excluding persons of a different religious faith, using secret signs and symboli, and acting by means of as sociated branches. " It is my firm intention to discourage all such socie ties in my dominions, and I rely with confidence on the fidelity of my loyal subjects to support me in this deter mination. • " It has become the duty of my Lords to use every proper means to carry into effect his Majesty's most gra cious message. His Majesty has been pleased to express his reliance on the fidelity of his loyal subjects to support him in his deter mination. My Lords entertain no doubt of the result of this ap peal to his Majesty's subjects in general ; but they con sider that it has specially become the duty of all who serve in whatever capacity under the Crown, to act in immediate accordance with his Majesty's most gracious intention. They desire therefore that a communication should be made to Vie respective boards and beads of departments under their control, (transmitting to them a copy of this minute,) that they should be drected, without delay, to make it known to all persons acting in any capacity in their re spective departments. My Lords further desire that they should inform their officers that it is the express directions of this board that every party now a member of an Orange Lodge, or any political society excluding persons of a different religious faith, using secret signs and symbols, and acting by means of associated branches, should immediately withdraw from such society, and that no person in their service shall here after become in any way a member or connected with such a society. And if it shall hereafter become known to this board, that any public servint under their control, shall, after this warning, either continue or become a member of such so ciety, my Lords will feel it their duty, without hesitation, to dismiss him from the service. Infoim them further, that my Lords rely on their carry ing the intentions of his nijesty and the directions of this board zealously and impartially into effect. PRICES OF STOCKS 'l'lllS Bank Stock . 3 per Cent Red. — f .---..- I 3 per Cent. C0n5.91 3 4 M i •Iti per Cent. — I Ditto Red -- New 354 per Cent... 99% 100% 99% New 3 per Cent — Bank LongAnnuitics to expire Jan. 5, 1560 ......— Oct. 10 * 1850 Jan. 5. 1860 I6U Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 Omnium ''' pm . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUND Austrian Bonds ___.. fijitian Bonds Ditto Account. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Kccount Chillian Bonds Ditto Account - Colinnb;an Bonds .......... Ditto Account ... Columbian Bonds, WI 31% Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 125 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, India Stoek eeee • Ditto Bonds 6 8 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities - New Ditto 90% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - Exch. Bills, £1,000... ...... 21 23 pm. Ditto 500 2l 23 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for Account 219 N India Steck for Account 2584 Consols for Acconnt THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds — Ditto Account — 1 Portuguese Bonds -- Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds 7 9 ii 34 Ditto Account 79;006 Ditto, 3 per cent 50% 50 Prussian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 1821 IOS S, Ditto Account — Ditto Mstallic.... ............ Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1534...44% %% 3; 41 Ditto Account 44% 53% 4% French, 5 per cent........... —t. —c. ----- 4 per cent —f. —c. ----- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange f.— e, 'Dutch, 2% per cent 1.6,E, Ditto Account 56 Ditto, 5 per cent 103%% Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bolanns Mining Company British Iron Company Rhymney Iron Mining Company — 6 V2U Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 5 iiig 18 17 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 5 14 13g Birmingham. 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Dtt A rr i re d. Due Arrived. Du , 0 america.......... 1 I France 0 0 Lisbon 1 it lirazd 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico I 0 rartinigena 0 1 Holland I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica .... ..... 0 0 Sweden 0 0 . 0 Leeward islands 0 1 Waterford 0 1 Flanders MOD %%A I ER Al' I.9NDON BRIDGE I'o-NIOIIIIOW. vorning..- .... mintit.a after 8 I Evening 57 miniftra after 8 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be given part of the Oratorio of SOLOMON. Follow:a by a Selection from the Oratorio of JERUSALEM DELIVERED. After which a Selection from the Oratcrio of MOUNT SINAI. Also a Selection from THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. To conclude with A MISCELLANEOUS ACT. Principal Vocal Performers—Messrs. Mahan), Hobbs, Henry Seguin, Hawkins, Master Walker, Mr. H. Phillips, and Mr. M. W Ba're ; Miss ShirrefF, Miss K. Robson, Miss B.rch, Miss Macffarren, an IN:rs. 11. R. llisho;,. Princival Instrumental Performers—Mr. Lindley, Signor Drazonett Mr. Mr Willman, Mr. G. Cooke, and Miss Day. II AMBURGII, Maser,' 18, 1833. HEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS for the GREAT LOTTERIES Published and Drawn by authority. and under guarantee of the Hamburg State, beg to infonn the Public that the SIXTY- EIGHTH LOTTERY of 10,0.^,0 Tickets will he drawn on the 23d of June next, and Tickets are now selling at bancomarkilo3, or 81. say Eight Pounds, sterling►. The Prizes are :-1 cf 100,000, 1 of 20,000, 1 of 15,000, 1 of 10,000,1 of 8,000, 1 of 7,000, 1 of 6,000, 1 of 5,000, 10 of 1,000, 35 of 300, 36 of 165. 234 of 150, and 1,995 of 103 bancomarks; which 2,316 Money Prizes are altogether payable without any deduction what ever, and every holder of a Ticket coming up : one of the 2,000 first drawn Blanks will be entitled, after the fourth day of Drawing, to the receipt of two undrawn Tickets gratis, as per Scheme. Owing to the Gratis Tickets, the number of Tickets on Sale is a very limited one, so that of course they will be cleared off very rap►dly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to purchase at the present First Price of 81., are requested to direct by one of the first mails, but only for whole Tickets, to the above , named Contractors, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg, who beg to de cline, as usual, English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket. To those remitting a 10/. note, Heine Brothers will, cn execsting the order, send an order for the balance of 21. by return of post. A full Scheme of every desirable information being al ways sent with the Tickets ; those giving orders will only have to write a line ordering the Ticket or Tickets, adding the money, or an order for the same, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe receipt of the communications. Those honouring Heine Brothers by purchasing, may depend on their strictest secrecy as to their taking a chance or getting a Prize such being the undeviating rule of the old established and most lucky office. The publication of TETE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 minutes past Three o' Clock. - 4 1 Att T- :' ,/--e-cr, `,-tf . iW.: l '. , :k7 - .-.%r:::*•.#4l,fiv'zy ' : "' : A • i . 4.„. :-..?--,--:;:„' •t011_._,_..,,„-dz,-,,,...,Th -4,7:-- ~~ '~ ~' 1~ I~,~' - - 11~~~=Y~o LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 25,,1836. On Lord MELBOURNE proposing last night, in the House of Lords, that the Municipal Act Amendment Bill be passed before the first day of Term, as other wise "it would cause a great deal of public inconve nience, and give rise to much litigation," the Duke of WELLINGTON objected to the proposal on the plea that " many of their Lordships would be, doubtless, anxious to compare the two measures, and if the pre sent Bill were hurried through the House, in the man ner it was proposed, they would not have the opportu nity." This is but a lame apology for embarrassing Government, and affords a fair specimen of the sort of conduct we may. expect from their Lordships, when the Irish Corporation Bill, and other such remedial measures, come before them for discussion. We showed two days ago that the objection taken by the landowners to the commutation of tithes was with out foundation, as far as the high price of agricultural produce during the seven years over which the valua tion extends is concerned, inasmuch as the tithe being convertible into grain, the higher the price of grain, the smaller will be the quantity of it equiva lent to the tithe, and constituting the rent charge on the land. To make the objection tenable, the land owners must change their ground, and shew that the commodities in which tithe is paid have, during the last seven years, borne a greater relative value than those into which they are to be commuted ; for if both have been high or both low, the landowner suffers no wrong ; and if grain has been higher in proportion than articles of tithe, the landowner is a gainer. But the landowners object not only to the mode of commutation, but also to the full amount of the tithe being made the basis of it. It is too much, they say, to take the gross amount of the tithe as the measure of the rent charge. Why is it too much ? Does the tithe owner claim any more than his due—any more than he has hitherto actually received ? Has he ever claimed the full tenth of the produce of the soil, to which he has a more ancient and better title than the landowner has to the land ? Never. But the land may not continue to produce so much as it has done, and the landowner therefore runs a risk of not being remunerated ? Is there any sense in this supposition ? Is it not saying in fact, that with an additional inducement on-the Dart of the cultivator to improve the land by an outlay of capital, it will be less productive than when his industry was clogged by a constantly increasing burden ? Let us, however allow, for argu ment's sake, that the landowner does run some risk— will it not be more than covered by the proposed de duction of from 25 to 40 per cent. from the tithe ? This ought, it, all conscience, to satisfy his cupidity. How unfair, then, is it to talk of the gross amount of the tithe being made the measure of the rent charge ? Then, again, an exception is taken to the Bill for the great injustice done to the diligent and enterprisin: , cultivator, whose land is saddled with a heavy rent charge, while the man who has wrapped up his talent in a napkin—whose field has produced little else than thorns and thistles—escapes with a comparatively light punishment. The idle man will in fact eceive a benefit SPAIN. (From the Supplement of the Madrid Gazette, March 14.) rmv.kt. OFFICE OF THE SINKING FUND. The director of this office, in pursuance of provisions of' the Royal Decree of' February 26th last, and of the Royal order of the 12th inst., has determined that the admission of the notes of the documents of the public debt in the three species, viz. non-consolidated vales, current debt with paper interest, and the debt. without interest, which com prehends all the credits liquidated and acknowledged up to February 20th of the present year, brought forward for the benefit of the consolidation, for which purpose it has estah lis!led the following rules :- 1. From the 15th of March until the 15th of May in clusive of this year, there shall be presented and delivered in the Royal Otlice of the Sinking Fund the notes and numbers of the non-consolidated vales, and of the docu ments of the current debt with paper interest, and debt without interest, of which each individual is possessor, speci fying the partial amount of each species of stock, and the total amount of each note. 2. The notes must be double (according to tl.e practice in the presentation of docurrents) for the payment of the. interest of the debt, and the numbers placed in order pre cisely after the plan laid out by th;s office, of which a copy will be put up at the Exchange, and at the entrance of this establishment. The Director being aware from experience bow necessary it is, for proper speed, that the parties in terested should arrange their notes according to the esta blished model, has resolved that they will not be admitted in any other form, and that those not presented in these terms shall be returned, for which purpose they shall be printed and published. S. The persons interested shall express, in separate notes, 'the species of documents in which they wish to receive the amount consolidated, whether in transferable inscriptions, or in inscriptions to the bearer, conformably with Article 20 of the said Royal Decree. 4. Notes containing the number of the documents of the three specified stocks, mixed up together, or those men tioning various species of the consolidated debt, will not be received, as they must be presented totally separate. 5. Neither will the numbers of documents belonging to distinct persons be admitted mixed up into one note ; they Must be made up separately as belonging to each person or corporation, even if the amount to be consolidated is united in one note, in virtue of different powers. 6. The notes shall he presented, signed by the parties in terested, or by persons legUly representing them, which must be done by a special power, authorizing them compe tently, if they have not already authorized the officers of the Royal sinking fund. 7. After the 15th of May, the period fixed for the pre sentation of thg aforesaid notes, non. • will be admitted ; this being in accordance with Article 9 of the said Royal Decree. - Madrid, March 13, 183 G. The Rev. Gerald Wellesley has been presented to the Rectory of Strathfieldsaye by the Duke of Wellington, vacant by the cession of John Bastard, the last incumbent. PRIVY COUNCIL.—TIIE PIX JURY.—A very numerous meeting of the Privy Council was held yesterday at the office of the Controller-General of the Exchequer, White hall-yard, for the purpose of swearing in a Jury of Goldsmiths, denominated the Pis Jury, to examine the state of the gold and silver coinage of the realm. Amongst the Privy Coun cillors present were Lord Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Howick, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Newport, the Right Hon. C. Fer gnsson, &c. Twenty-four gentlemen, members of the Gold smiths' Company, were empanelled. Mr. Brook, of Cheap. side, was appointed Foreman. The Jury having been sworn to assay the gold and silver coinage, and report to his Majesty, the Lord Chancellor made them the usual address. The Foreman of the Jury suggested that the trial of the coins should be made at Goldsmiths' Hall. Their Lordships saw no objection to that proposal, which was accordingly agreed to. One of the officers of the Mint stated that formerly the Master of the Mint used to sit at the board, although he was then on his trial. The Jury were then directed to proceed with their duties, and report the result to the Lord Chancellor, to be laid before his Majesty. THE STANMORE TREASURE-TROVE.—An in vestigation was held before Mr. Stirling the Coroner, at the Abercorn Arms Tavern in Stanmore, on Wednesday last, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances connected with the finding of a considerable quantity of foreign coin, as described in the newspapers some months ago. This inquiry was held on the authority of a prescript from the Treasury in pursuance of an ancient law, which devotes all treasure, for which no owner can be found, to the King, in part of his Royal revenue. Mr. Maule attended on the part of the Treasury, and Mr. Robson on the part of the Duke of Buck ingham, who is Lord of the Manor, and after a long investi gation, in which nothing beyond that which has already been laid before the public, the Jury returned a verdict of treasure trove upon so much of the money only as was found on the Monday; and consequently, that which was found on the previous Saturday was abandoned' to the finders. It is said, we kn ow no t h ow truly, that in the whole, nearly 4,000/. has been dug up. which this BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The swamp m pile was so judiciously built has for several weeks been ancle deep with wet, clayey mud, with here and there interspersed puddles nearly a foot deep. To those whose daily occupations compel them to go through theark on foot, wading throu g h the miry pool that h as overflown the public paths, the incon venience must have been rather severely felt. Much of this public nuisance is occasioned by an attempt—now, it is be lieved, at an end—to drain the marsh in this Palaee stands—an instructive monument of a King's whim, of a Government's subservient sycophancy, and of the ease with which the People, even in those recent days, suffered them selves to be plundered, and their hard earnings forced from them by the unprincipled and profligate Ministers of a sen sualized and spendthrift Prince. At the Middlesex Adjourned Session, yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Adams was elected Chairman, in the room of Mr. Retch. The numbers were—for Mr. Sergeant Andrews, 38 ; for Mr. Sergeant Adams, 53. Majority for Mr. Ser geant Adams, 15. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, 'MARCH 25, 1836 at the expense of his more industrious neighbbur. Thus virtue will be punished and vice rewarded, and what a shocking thing that is in a moral point of view True, it is proposed to estimate the quantum of tithe according to what the land may have produced hitherto, without reference to the character of the cultivator; and it is unfortunate that Lord JOHN RUSSELL should have overlooked so obvious and practical an element in the calculation. The evil however is not without a remedy. All that is necessary to restore the equili brium, is for the Commissioners to value the field of ciple laid down by Mr..HUME, in the commence ment of his speech, we entirely concur. But the country is not ripe for the adoption of a property tax, which, of course, must include a tax upon income, and upon all funded property. We confess that such a tat is liable to many serious objections—of which the greatest is its inquisitorial nature. As to what is urged about its driving capitalists out of the country, the objection is equally applicable to excessive taxation in whatever shape it appears. Whether the excessive tax be laid upon the machine, or upon the food of the opera tive by whom it is set in motion, the effect will be pre cisely the same—namely, to drive both to where such excessive taxes do not exist. In the meanwhile, the people generally have no grounds for real complaint against the Government. What the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER can do to ameliorate distress is done freely, and with a liberality hitherto unknown to the mercantile classes of this country. For what re mains to be done a reasonable time must be given. This is admitted even by the Hon. Member for Middle sex, who has frequently expressed himself satisfied with the zeal manifested by the present Administration. We are for no precipitate measures, in whatever concerns the financial relations of the country. Here every step should be carefully considered, and gradually and dis trustingly taken. the sluggard according to what it ought to have pro duced, instead of what it has produced ; and then we presume the landowner, the industrious husbandman, and the moralist, will be satisfied. To meet the moralists however on their own ground—for there is nothing like answering a fool according to his folly— we may observe that the result which they predict — namely, that the indolent and careless cultivator will be benefitted by his vices—cannot take place unless he leave off his evil habits and become an industrious man—and is not this a consummation devoutly to be wished ? Those who are fonder of aggravating than .0 smoothing difficulties, allege that the owner of grass land will have a great advantage over the ,owner of arable land. The former finding his land burdened with a very light rent charge, will immediately bring it into cultivation, and thus drive the owner of the arable land, which is more heavily burdened, out of the field. Now if this be a solid objection, it applies equally to every system of commutation that can be devised but one—the system by which the tithe shall be equalized. If the landlords prefer this plan, let them have it. But it is only by putting an extreme case that this ob jection appears even colourable. For one landowner, whose prcperty consists wholly of arable or wholly of grass land, there are hundreds who possess lands of both kinds. What is lost on the one hand, therefore, is gained on the other. And as to lands being thrown out Of cultivation—what probability is there of this ? Are we to presume that as the population increases, a less quantity of food will be required ? The proba bility surely is, that when tithes are commuted, the cultivation of land will be greatly extended, as well as a productive stimulus applied to that which is now cultivated—the benefit of which extension and im provement goes unimpaired and entire, either to the landowner, or to his representative the tenant. The landowners are moving heaven and earth to have the tithe fixed at a certain proportion of the rent. This, we trust, will never be listened to. There is not only no necessary connection between rent and tithe, but they arc total!) , distinct in their nature. What tithe is we know—what rent is nobody can te:l. If we are to believe the political economists, rent is what remains for the landlord after all expenses of cultivation are paid, and the tenant's profit deducted. Tithe, on the contrary is a fixed proportion of the produce, payable whether anything remains either fur tenant or landlord. To settle the tithe, therefore, at a certain proportion of the rent would be equally arbi trary and unjust. The tithe owner has been warned of the insecurity_ of his property. We would beg the landowner like wise to beware. He ought to bear in mind, that if the right to tithes has been swept away in other coun tries, the right to land went with it, and that he cannot shake the tithe owner's title without invalidating his The tithe in this country is now appropriated to a particular purpose—the maintenance of the Clergy of the Established Church. The Clergy, however, are not the proprietors of the tithe, but the trustees who have the management and use of it for the time being. It is the property of the State, and as such it is the interest of the public to see that it is not en croached upon by those to whom the public owe no very great obligations. It is in this view that we re gard the question, and great as the benefit would be, in many respects, resulting from a settlement of it, we would much rather see things remain as they are, than rat greater sacrifices should be made to the landlords. Our anticipations respecting the debate in the Chamber of Deputies, on the question of the Five per Cents., have been realised. Ministers have again triumphed by an overwhelming majority. The re newal of the debate on Tuesday called up several Mem hers of the Cabinet, as well as some of the first orators ow•n. Mr. G. R. ROBINSON moved, in the House of Commons last night, his annual string of resolutions for a revision of our whole system of taxation. It speaks but indifferently for his sincerity, that after going so far, he declined dividing the House upon the question. We do not mean to have it inferred that we are advocates for one half of the nostrums which the Hon. Gentleman proposed as remedies for our national distress ; but we do think it hard that the time of the House should be wasted in harangues, for no earthly purpose but that of exciting popular expectations , or effecting the redemption of hustings' pledges — thus fulfilled in the letter, but violated in the spirit. Of the Hon. Member for Worcester we do not wish to speak harshly ; but his recent incon sistencies have brought us to distrust his liberal professions. When we see public men veering about with the breath of faction—when we see the ultra liberals of yesterday assume the character of the ultra- Conservatives of to-day—when we see the supporters of a former Government with their fingers upon their lips, doubtful only as to the degree of worship to be paid to the rising sun—it is natural that we should receive with qualifications their cuckoo professions of independence—freedom from the influence of party — overwhelming sense of public duty—and all the other mock heroics which drop so trippingly off the tongue of a veteran Member of the Legislature. As to the debate itself it would hardly be worth notice, were it not for the castigation which Mr. HUME inflicted upon the Hon. Mover of these resolutions. " The Hon. Member for Worcester," observed Mr. HurlE, in a speech characterised by much ability and sterling good sense, " professed himself anxious to accomplish the same object that he (Mr. H.) did— namely, to remove those burdens which pressed most severely upon the poorer classes of the community ; and yet, though one of the most oppressive taxes levied on the poor was the tax imposed on bread by the Corn Laws, the Hon. Member had never alluded to those laws from the commencement of his speech to its close. Could the Hon. Member suppose that a general revi sion of our system of taxation could take place without an inquiry being made into the propriety and expediency of repealing the Corn Laws ? The Hon. Member had also said, The poor are unfortunately dealt with by many of our fiscal regulations.' He (Mr. H.) admitted that such was the case ; but was it possible that any man, who called upon the House to revise its system of taxa tion for the benefit of the poor, could overlook the effects of the Corn Laws upon their comforts ? Again, he hoped that the Hon. Member for Worcester would admit that the cheapness and convenience of their tene ments was of some importance to the poor. If so, how was it that the Hon. Member was so sturdy an advocate for keeping up the highest duties on the cheapest and best timber, in order to force an inferior and dearer timber into the British Market ? If the better timber were introduced at the lower duties, the poor might enjoy houses not only of greater comfort, but of longer durability. Was the Hon. Member, who forgot the operation of the Corn Laws and the tim ber duties on the comforts of the poor, a fitting per sonage to taunt others wit h ado p tin g w rong prin ciples of taxation ? Let the Hon. Member look to his own conduct about gloves, and silks, and ship ping, and he would see a picture of absurdity which he would defy any Honourable Member in that House to match." In the soundness of the general prin.. ------°.' of Great Britain. The King of PRUSSIA has not only THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) complied with this request, but has ordered that the officers d es ti ne d to go to Constantinople shall be the Our arrivals this morning C i are T V t h E e L F T7 r e E n c h°, fromCL°la,ng? Dutch mails. We have likewise ship letters rC e most distinguished in the Prussian service. He further Demerara, Pernambuco, Sierra Leone, and Calcutta, of the and orders them to be provided with outfit, travelling ex- 28th Oct. and 13th Nov. ; Bombay, of the 24th Oct. ; penses, besides honours reserved for them on their re- New South Wales of the 24th Nov. The Mobile Price Current of the 14th of Feb. says turn to Prussia. " COTTON.—We noticed in our last report quite an ay . This fact is certainly very important, and is another proved demand for this article ; it has been well su instance of the machinations of Russia. Perhaps the during the present week, and fully 10,000 balesnehhaaii. history of this letter may be a fabrication ; but if the changed hands at an advance on all qualitiesn f cll. reduced, details be correct as given above, we may regard the and n e r d 0 cent. svin p , e rtolb. the late ee heavyo k on ra i s n a s l e f i a s c n to P r w s mare unable tad whole trans a ction as one of those numerous intrigues o bt a i n samples of that now coming to hand. Iteeetuck brought about by Russia to cripple the energies of this week, 11,204 bales, exported, 3,683, leaving the s Great Britain. In fact the SULTAN was compelled to on B h a n l d e t a t l e l risncl received dl l s f 3 rO B m s7 H b o a l l l es n . d this morning, we l earn write this letter, which may pave the way for the'utter that the misunderstanding which has existed for so many write overthrow of the Ott o m an Empire. Russia has already years between this country and Holland, on the su bje . e t in u n . all but succeeded in estranging the allegiance of the tfihneallt settled, the Island manner favourableJava,i s t i c ? ti a. , train e tra di trading into , SULTAN'S troops on the frontier, and nothing now re- rest o y f this cOunt a ry ; and likewise that the Dutch Tr' d i l e pportevde tra mains but to tamper with, and corrupt the imperial Company is likely to give up its monopoly in the coffee guards—under the pretence of perfecting them in the of mb at island. Accounts er have Exchangebeen L en f d r e o e m 4Csanitoond',, osfixthne:nBthtlis tactics of European warfare. The application for November. Prussian officers is all humbug. The officers whom s i g ht. Th e l a t e conflagration has been the cause of . t e ll: the King of PRUSSIA will send, will be either Rus - rise o f a ll descri p tions of woollen g oods. In cotton s ,i u ll sians, or men employed by the Russian Cabinet. In has been a general improvement in the prices. Teas sorts are advancing. the mean time what has Lord PONSONBY been doing ? How did it happen that his concurrence in this new scheme was not solicited? Will he tamely submit to have British officers branded as traitors by the Monarch, at whose Court he represents the MAJESTY of Great Britain ? We put these questions seriously, and we call upon the country to reflect upon them. We are told by the Government that the PORTE is not a free agent. We admit the.fact ; but where then is our fleet ? What have we been doing for the last five years ? We call upon Lord PA LNIERSTON to answer this plain straight forward question :—ls the PORTE to remain for ever the vassal of the Autocrat ? BRUSSELS, MARCH 22.—The average prices of wheat and Rye for the three weeks of March (14-19) were, Wheat, 13f. 75c ; Rye, Bf. 58c. per Hectolitre, and the import duties, 75f. and 43f. respectively per 1,000 Kilogrammes. The lowest price of wheat was at Arlow, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, viz., 11 f. 61c., and the highest at Antwerp, viz., 15f. 21c. VIENNA, MARCEL 15.—Five per Cents., 101 17-32 ; Four ier Cents., 991 ; Three per Cents., 75 31-32; Bank Shares ,362.—Allgenteine Zeitung, March 20. A VOICE FROM TOPHET. SATAN loquitur. Come hither, Sir Bob, come,hither, You've done all the mischief you can, And no longer have power to wither The noblest hopes of man; The world improves, in spite Of your zeal to work it woe, So bid it a long good night, And, prythee, come down below Come hither, great Duke, you too Can further my ends no more, Cheer bigotry's drooping crew, Or deluge the world with gore ; Long time for place and pelf, To assist me Sou were not slow, But now you are laid on the shelf, So, prythee, come down below 1 Come hither, thou proudest-boast Of my vassal Mammon's throne, Once I thought you quite a host, With your speeches so like my own ; But still, tho' you croak away, Full of zeal, too well I know, None, Phillpotts, heed what you say, So, prythee, come down below 1 Come hither, my best ally, My Lyndhurst, near and dear, Your influence, too,.gone by, You'll be far more useful here ; Tho' still for many an hour You'd serve me well, yet, , oh I Your will exceeds your power, So, prythee, come down below ! Come, Tories, great and small, Come hither, my lieges brave, Fitter agents than one—than all— I ne'er had, nor can hope to have ; You've served me so well, 'twould be hard Did I now indifference show ; So come, and receive the reward Of your services, down below DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE (THI DAY.) THE FUNS. • s t,f Consols opened this morning a t the leaving ofdprie e yesterday-911 for Money, and 911 for the Accourld.3 with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 21 23 ; In Bonds, 5 7. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds, whit an appeared very heavy during the whole of yesterday, d closed at 441 hive rather improved this morning, fer ° may be quoted at 44- 1 45 ; Passive, 141 ; De 211 ; Portuguese, 79i 80 ; Three per Cents. 51.; Columbian, 332 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per , 4 Ce" l ' d 561 ; Five per Cents., 1031 Colt% The express from Paris brings the prices, Five per 107 95 ; Three per Cents., 81 40 ; Active, 46 1. Ne new from the armies in the North of Spain. HALF-PAST 000,c From the Calcutta Papers received this mo rning, hear that much confusion and inconvenience prevails % g . Bazaar, on account of the subsisting i gnorance regar n t_ the real value of the new rupee ; the coin is cons tantly ry" fused by the small dealers. MOFUSSIL, NEEMUCH.—By the latest accounts frofl'oo, this station, sickness continued as prevalent as it was e a, precedented ; the mort a lity p ro duced by it was not c oafin to the Sepoys, but had extended to the officers. re' MOOLTAN.—If the news from this province c an , lied upon now, Nighal Singh is endeavouring to exte n " t ed Sitch conquest beyond the Indus, and has alreacl_e, upon Shillarpoor as his first conquest. The Scindians atibe however, active in opposing him, and - have seized ni, eo craft on the river within their neighbourhood. F 1 h 1 ; thousand horsemen have also been posted on the right "- to oppose their passage. a t; Consols may be quoted at present 911 for Ae,l`,,,as, Money, 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 21 23 ; India 0°- 6 8 ; Bank Stock, 219 ; India, 2554. tbe In the Foreign Mark e t, the chief speculation dur in g ve a morning has been in Spanish Active Bonds, which liana been continually fluctuating from 444 45 down to 44 t is up again to 441 1. This depressed state of the Marke l, a not attributable to any unfavourable accounts havi n g." e e d received from the Peninsula, but to a reported defielemay in the amount to pay the approaching dividend due i n , cur next, which at present we do not give credit to, a "" "cu pose it is a Stock Jobbing invention of the Carli st sPe lators. Passive, 14 ; Differed, 201 ; Portuguese, 79 ; oreo per Cents., 50 ; Columbian, 31i ; Dutch, 56k. THREE 0' Ciu Consols for the Account, 9] 4. FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES' BRITISH FUNDS. Omni , n) ........................... India Stock ........................ on. Ditto fronds ....... ..... South Sea Stocl: ................. Ditto Old Annuities ........... Ditto New Annuities ............ ea, Rills, la r , • Ditto Ditto Et 7 : 2 lei rc r3 Fo , :unr n ts l N : ug s lpsu t o sfeo c s.re k Ann Bonds, India Stock for Act. ...... "'. 9 1 "A' cent. Nb Ditto, New Ditto. ............... Prussian. 5 per cen .. ............. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. ••• Ditto, Metallic ..................... Spanish, 5 per cen t ................ ' : I)itto. Consolida ted ............... ; French, 5 per cent ........ Exc h a nge ................. _t F re nch, 3 per cent ........... 5 per cent......... • Dutch, Ditto, RES. '2, per cent. ....... ..... Bank Stock per Cent !tett 3 per Cent Cori. 91% `1!, per Cent. per Cent. Red 100.74 New IT I per Cent. 100 I per Cent. Asented Dissented Lang Annuities to expire Jan IF i 0 Oct 1950 Jan. ICA — 164 FOItEIG Austllan, 5 T.,r cent 8e ,. 51,,n, 5 p-2r cent 10 3 14 Bonds Bunno- Ayre,, 6 per c - ut Chili4n. 6 per cent Colombian, 6 Fir cen• Ditto, 1E!71 1L 'list), 3 per cant - Great. Done% 1V5,5 par mat. Mexie, -, t, 5 per can. Ditto, 6 par cent., 1025 Patuvan, 1825, 6 per lent. 304 The Committee met this morning at the usual hour. Counsel on behalf of the sitting Members consented to have the votes of several persons who were in arrear for the Pipe water Tax struck off the poll. The scrutiny into the disputed votes was then proceeded with, and had not concluded when our reporter left. SH A Aylesbury Railway Company Calcutta and Saugur Railway .................................. Cheltenham and Great Western Railway .................. Eastern Counties Railway ....................................... Glasgow, Falkirk, and Edinburgh RailwaY... ......... Great Northern ltailway ........................................ JO% Hull and Selby Railway London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's) London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's) London and Southampton Railway -‘7,7* London and C.oydon Railway Lyndon Grand Junction Railway ........................... 5 Manehester South Union Railway Northern and Eastem Railway North Midland Railwuy 8 lOC IC South Eastern Railway No other vp-iations in the Prices of Shares since our u List. About half-past eleven o'clock last night an a lal o rg ing fire, which for a short time threatened entire destuct3oo to the surrounding neighbourhood, broke out in the %or.„„ 8► of Mr. Wheeler, japanner and chair manufacturer, f-ire Newton-street, Holborn. Upon its first breaking out t u li of raged most furiously. After entirely destroying thew""retbe Mr. Wheeler's workshops the flames communicatet° d'e, cowsheds and stables of Mr. Dorset, which were partialliio stroyed. A carpenter's shop at the back of Mr• Whe„ertia also caught fire, but was extinguished without doing an.',, o st terial damage. The preservation of the neighbourhood from be attributed to the very prompt arrival of the crigi n .. n e % te 9 the Holborn station, which were upon the spot a few '''i - u tile a sh ft e c d r , t l li v e hi fi c r h e w b e ro ro k e e sal o El u yg t o ... Lo T uTt h r e sua r e e re Vi . -ere a number of cow s ' l2 a 131 ANNE Ro bills have the Grand Jury against Anne Rooney, for pborejeunrY,lA°itliris:fet:l; ing that she saw Sly, Wynne,and Styles, at the mot' murder Lew. John Walsh, she being at the time of the alleged 01— ineustody, in Naas gaol. ----..+•'---- MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—We have authority to state that the promoters of this most important Railway, are fully prepared to go into Com mittee on the Bill immediately after the Easter recess, and confidently anticipate a successful issue of their application. This is the best answer to the thousand and one rumours that are propagated about the aban donment of the Bill, the postponement to another session, &c. &c. The lucrative Colonelcy of the 7th Dragoon Guards has become ♦acant by the demise of Lieut.- General Sir R. Bolton, G. C. H. The Gallant General had been Colonel of the corps since Dec. 24, 1822. Lord Francis Egerton has announced his intention of subscribing 1001. per annum to the Manchester Church Building Society, and Lady F. Egerton has announced a sub sceiption of 501. Mr. Valentine Blake, of Tower-hill, a Catholic gentleman of high respectability and independent principles, and who proposed Sir William Brabazon, Bart., at the late election for Mayo, intends offering himself for the same county in the event of a vacancy. MR. O'CONNELL.—The dinner to Mr. O'Connell, we understand, is appointed to take place on Thursday, the 7th of April next. It is likely to be well attended, not only by citizens, but by gentlemen from various parts of the county. —Yolk Courant. (ADVERTISSMENT•) SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS 0 „0 01 ; An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of th en ' and of various size s , m ay be se le c t e d from, for the abov,rvirste n e T. Cox SA TORT ' S , W or king Silversmith, Goldsmith , 4 th• maker, 47, Cornhill, London. _ r iot " N.B. A pamphlet, containing a detailed listof Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, Ize. may be had It is reported, in letters dated Munich, March 14, that his Majesty the King of Bavaria will pass the Easter week at Rome, and not return to the former city till the end of April. The same correspondence mentions the following cu rious instance of mania :—" During the trial of Fieschi and his accomplices, a young man here became insane. He fancied and is still persuaded, that the infernal machine was made by him, and not by Fieschi, who is wholly innocent. lie lately threw himself from a window on the second story into the street ; we are assured, however, that he received no injury, but got up and quietly went into the house." BIRTH S. lad y fJ• ij. On the 22d inst., at Spondon, near Derby, the ° w Story, Esq., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., Mrs. Edward Oxenford, of Mecklenbur;: square of a son. f ft' On the 22d inst., at Tooting-grove, Surrey, tile lady ° Thomas, Esq., of a still-born daughter. 1 the WV On the 23d inst., at Grove-end-place, St. John's- w°° ( ''' 1 of John Kruger, Esq., of a daughter. f Colo ° On the 23d inst., at Rugby, in Warwickshire, the lady 0 'or W• Hardy, of a daughter. .t P. On the 24th inst., at Peckham, Surrey, the wife of iko' His Majesty the King of Holland has been pleased to approve a plan for giving assistance to young Israelites who desire to be educated as teachers of religion, preachers, and the like. The following is the substance of these regu lations :—The person desiring to enjoy the assistance from the Treasury must be of the age of 13 to 23 years, of good moral character, acquainted with the elements of the Dutch language, able to acad and write it, have a knowledge of arithmetic, of the elements of geography and history, also of proficiency in the Hebrew language, and in the knowledge of the Bible. Letters from the Tyrol speak of numerous accidents caused by avalanches. Two young girls were lately caught in a storm of snow, but only one was saved. On the 18th ult. an avalanche rolled over the village of Sonceda, and destroyed a house of two storeys, containing eight persons, six of whom only were saved. A child in the cradle was found dead, as well as a woman, whose body was found under a stone of enor mous weight. At the moment of the accident two men were sweeping the snow off the roof of the house, and were thrown off to a distance of 90 feet, without bein g injured. The menagerie in the Garden of Plants, of Paris, has just been enriched by a collection of animals, among which is a full-grown ourang-outaug, the only one of the species in France. The face of this animal exceeds in ugliness anything met with in the monkey tribe. The mendicity depot at Madrid, which had 6,000 inmates in 1834, has at this moment only 726—namely, 250 men, 169 women, 240 boys, and 112 give. LITTLEHAMPTON.—A bottle was washed ashore near this place a few days since, containing a written paper, signifying to have been thrown into the sea from a French ship off the Cape de Verde Islands, near six years ago. In its long passage to this coast, it is supposed to have been set by the tide in the direction of the trade winds, over to the West India Islands, into the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, passing through the Strait and Gulf of Florida, and across the Atlantic ocean into the English channel, where it has pro bably been drifting, by the e bbing and flowing of the tide, du ring a consid e rable portion of the time. The following is the information, translated into English, which it contained : " Alfred, Captain Bonnefin, of Havre, bound from Manilla to Havre : 11th June, 1830 ; off the Cape de Verde I s l a nd s . All on board well."—Brighton Gazette of Tuesday. Weston, of a son. - - - __...----- I j A o li hn ß ,s l , l H :D am . On the 22d inst., at Stil.-Rev. p" the 1 3 00' White, John Brittain, Esq., eldest son of the late Capta i n 5; 5(1.' Royal Marines, to Louisa, third daughter of Robert Wilkin C. of Chalcots, Hampstead. On the 22d inst., at Kempse , Worcestershire, CaptaSs"4ll° Rochfort Scott, H.P. Royal Staff Corps, to Ellen Sopha,,,:sht pstead, ter of the late Rev. Henry So th Rector Off Wiltshire. I g a v e f e' On the 2d of December, at St. Petersburgh, Natha,.. s n i . e _ of ...- jun., Esq.; to Frances Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. . 1 -''''' co rett-street, Brunswick-square. rf1 ) 0 01 st On the 24th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, the i lev. oaeg e England, M.A., Curate of the parish, to Caroline .Ane 7 ' u ouse, of Castle ‘-'" s e l ' daughter of R. Muggeridge, Esq., of Walworth. unge s st On the 24th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Jam Ye y ounge of W. Hore, Esq., ur. of Seafield, county Wexford, to E daughter of the late W. Cardale, Esq., of Bedford-roilY, 1% D lED. - Fuller, aged h a e ge t2 ( 2 l d s i y n e s a t. 7 Aanirds.4 A. months. iliphaii, e Il e ''' . On the 23d inst., in Eaton-place, Rose, eldest son of th ,C. f W . M'Phail, No. 14, Regent street. e v o 2, Ikliddied On the 24th inst., Peter Taylor Walker, Escl., '''''''.. , I , the sex-place, Lis. , .on-grove, aged - 65. vt;labeL"' On the 23d inst., at Wilmington, Kent, Anne wife of of William Tasker, Esq., of Hawley, near Dartford. _ Pb On , On the 23d inst., at 13, Nelbecx-street,James a ged 86 ' 13ouwens, Esq. Sussex, On the 20th inst., at An mering Parsonage, ar i s b. i . e t the Rev. William Kinleside, g for 61 years Rector of the parish r e. ' On the 24th ins,~ in F' it zroy.square, 7 of R. Faulder, Esq relict of h is On the 21st inst., at Mortlake, aged 77, Ann, i t cellency the late Baron Best, of the-Hanoverian EnabasaPf No. On the 24th inst. William Watkins, Esq., surgeon' ° f Finsbury -square, aged 38. aged 77, mother o dcst daub hte On the 21st inst., at Boulogne-sur-mer, Diary, el ss , of J. Sawers, Esq., aged 17. a ged 60, g r. On the 24th inst., at Knight's Hill, Norwood, 504 muel Pegg, of 01(1 Barge-house Wharf, Blackfriars. m an toat On the 23d inst., at Shacklewell, aged 83, John •, . 10 4,0, late of the Excise-office, Broad-street , Quee n's..bui fo r On the 23d inst., Miss Rebecca Ashton, Brompton. On the 19th inst., at Windsor, aged 63, merly of the Ordnance Department, Dublin. f 14°. YOUNG' of MVRDO London : printed and Published by (i, i n the N o , 112, Straii 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, of Middlesex. John Belson, f'q . ' of the Opposition. M. LAFITTE spoke in strong an pointed language of the great extravagance of the Go. vernment since the Revolution of 1830. The taxes o the country had been expended in the most frivolous manner ; and, in fact, more money had been appropri ated uselessly to the service of the Court and the Mem bers of the Cabinet than would, if rightly employed, have served to preserve the nationality of Poland ; delivered Italy from the domination of Austria; recovered to France her ancient territory on the Rhine ; and have compelled the removal of all doubts as to the Treaty of Vienna. This led to some recrimination on both sides, when M. THIERS rose, and assured the Chamber that, as a member of the Government, and responsible for the maintenance of public credit, he felt it his duty to pledge himself, that the Government would propose no plan of reduction which would deprive the holders of the Rentes of more than one-tenth of their present come. This announcement was received with cheers, and after a few words from M. LAFITTE in corrobo- ration of his former statement, the President read the following resolution : The Chamber, founding its decision on the motives ex pressed in the report of its Committee, and on the explanations given by his Majesty's Ministers, adjourns the discussion of the proposition provisionally admitted in the sitting of the 6th of February, 1836, and having for its cbjcct the exercise by the State of the right belonging to it—that of reimbursing to its creditors the nominal capital of the Stock created for their benefit." This resolution was carried by an immense major and thus the present Cabinet has obtained—what the late President of the Council vainly sought—delay. In the early part of the sitting of Wednesday several projects of law were read, but all relating to the inte rior Government of France. The Moniteur du Commerce states that the Go vernment of th'e United States is in treaty with the Emperor of Monocco, for some point on the African coast, on which to form a harbour, and to erect a fortress for the protection of American vessels in the event of a war between the Republic and any of the Ma ritime Powers of Europe. The spot sought for is the bay of Angera, within a few miles of Ceuta, so situated as to enable a garrison stationed there to neutralize the advantages which we derive from Gibraltar. The French Journal states that this project has been ap proved of by the Emperor of RUSSIA, with whom the Government of the United States has been in secret negociation for a considerable time back. This intelligence was communicated to us several months ago ; but we then thought it nothing more than one of the many rumours sct afloat for the furtherance of pri vate views, and therefore we took no notice of it. But now that we are assured of its accuracy, we cannot refer to it without calling the attention of the Govern ment to its importance. The Moorish Sovereign has not yet conceded to the terms proposed by the United States ; but Russia will soon make him pliant enough, unless we put an end to the whole affair by declaring boldly that no such establishment shall exist, no matter by whom undertaken. From the whole drift of this underhand transaction, it is manifest that Rus sia is actuated by a desire to crush the maritime power of England. The accounts from the North of Spain are unim portant. By a Royal decree the QUEEN REGENT exempts the produce of the manufactories in Catalo nia from exportation and other duties. The bellige rents are precisely in the same state now as they were some weeks since. PARIS, MARCII 23.-The King has received a letter from his Majesty the King of Denmark, notifying the recal of M. Juel, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary. Yesterday forenoon, Count Appony, the Austrian Ambas sador, had a pretty long conference with M. Thiers, at the Hotel of the Department of Foreign Affairs. It was affirmed that the object of this Conference was to obtain explanations respecting extraordinary armaments, which have been carrying on for a month in the whole Austrian Empire.-Bon Sens. A Journal affirms, that the opinion of the bureaux of the Chamber is, that the present session will be closed, at the latest, in the first fortnight of May. It was yesterday reported on Change, says a journal, that the Treasury had already paid the instalments of the indem nity to the United States, which are already due. A petition is in contemplation on Change, addressed to the Chamber of Deputies, by the holders of shares of the loan of thirty millions, negociated at Paris in 1825, by the Re public of Hayti, and the proceeds of which served to pay the first fifth-part of that indemnity which that Republic bound itself to pay to the old planters of St. Domingo. This will be the sixth petition on the same subject presented to the Chamber of Deputies since the Revolution of July. General Cordova (a professed gambler) lost on the 3d of March, at the Spanish game called El Monte, 100,000 francs to General Evans.-Messager, March 23. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARI9, MARCH 23. Five per Cents., 10Sf. 107 f. 95c. 90c. 95c. Four and a Half nor Cents. 102 f. 75c. Three per Cents. 81f. 30c. 35c. 40c. Bank Actions, 2,212 f. 50c. 2,215 f. Rente de Naples, 101 f. 90c. 85c. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 104 11.13 h 104. Spanish Actives, 46%. Spanish Differes, 21 1 ,4. Spanish Passives, 15 1 4c. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 105. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 79N. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 51 51%. Haytian Loan, 317 f. 50c. EXCIUNG2 ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, 251 45c. Three mouths, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 30c. -fours Authentique. BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.-The Rentcs have again im proved to-day, owing to the majority in favour of Ministers yesterday. The first Cours quotation was 81f. 35c., and the price got up to 81f. 45c. sellers. The Actives have fallen on the depression which occurred in England. The first price was 461, and since then it has declined to 46fr. QUAkTER TO FOUR. Five per Cents., 107 f. 90c. ; Three per Cents 81 f 40c. • Five per Cents. -; Three Sp anish, -; per Cents. Spanish, -; Cortes, -; Coup Gueb ons, hards, -; Differes, 10; New Loan, -; Actives, 46i.; Passives, 15i t ; Ducats, 101 95 ; Romans,iayltn O ia 4 ; s, P 3 e 9 d 7 ro f. s,' s 7V . ;; Belgians, 105 ; Dutch, -f. -c. ; i Miguels, -; Brabant lank, 15k; Belgian Bank, -; Con tinuation, -c. ; New Differes, 21 i; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, -; Royal Loan, -. Advices from Berlin to the 16th inst., announce that the Sultan MAIIMOUD has addressed an auto graph letter to the King of PRUSSIA, praying that fifteen able officers may be sent him for the purpose of forming the staff of the army of the Sublime Porte. In this communication his Highness complains of the. intrigues carried on by the English and French officers, and intimates that his application might have been made to the CZAR, but for his apprehension of the displeasure ,y