The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-07 00:00:00

ALMEIDA. The fortress of Almeida is situated in the dprovince of Beira, on an extensive plain, about a mile from the river Coa. There is no object, such as a house, village, or hatiet, to be found within a mile and a half of the town, not even a tree, to cover the approach of an enemy. About a good league (huma legea boa I means tiredly speaking, any thing a little better than Eve or six English miles) from Almeida, on the road to Ciudad Rodrigo, was the fort called La Conceptiao, but it was totally destroyed during the last war, as was indeed the town of Alm6da; for, at the time I was there, there were not above forty or fifty habitable houses in it. During the time the French were before it, it so happened that about lout hundred artillerymen were in the citadel drawing their rations, when the great magazine exploded ; the citadel in an instant was a heap of ruins, and every man in it was killed. The town shared the same fate ; every person in the houses was unshed under the ruins ; many in the streets shared the same fate, and none were saved except those on duty on the ramparts. How this dreadful accident happened may be sur mised, but cannot easily be ascertained. When I was there in 1812 all was a heap of ruins. After this explosion the French got possession and kept it till they were nearly starved by the blockade of the British. They, however, de stroyed the works and got out, through the British lines, without wakening a single sentry. The British, of course, took possession of the ruins, and a Portuguese garrison was placed in it, After the retreat of the allies from Burgos the army moved into cantonments near Almedia, head-quarters being about four leagues off at Frenada. The garrison then consisted of a dis mounted regiment of Portuguese cavalry, two regiments of militia, and one company of the Royal British Artillery, under the command of Colonel Le Nlesurie, a British officer in the Portuguese service. The works were then not quite repaired, and there was a very great scarcity of cannon and ammunition, as well as forage and provisions. The Governor was most atten tive to the works. The British artillery, such as were out of hospital (for this company formed the battering train at Burgos) were employed teaching the Portuguese to make grape-shot, and other things necessary. (There were only two grape-shot in the garrison when they went there .) Luckily for the garrison, the French did not venture so far, though many was the sleepless nights they caused us. Of course now all the works are repaired, though but a few of the houses have been rebuilt, on account of the number of dead bodies buried in them. Another explosion took place afterward in 1812. A Spaniard had stolen some powder from Ciudad Rodrigo, and deposited it under the counter in a wine-shop. The old woman, ignorant of its being there, was looking for something with a pipe in her moth, when it blew up, and she and eleven persons were killed. One man was drawn out unhurt. Old Father Kelly, an Irish priest, well known to the soldiers, was killed there. The writer of this saw the eleven buried to gether, in one hole, near the citadel. The works of Almeida are nearly a regular octagon ; it is the most regular work in the Peninsula. There are not many Outworks, and none farther than the ravelins, covert way, and glacis. Being situated on a slightly rising ground, on an ex tensive plain, and not commanded within more than cannon shot, if properly defended, it should hold out long. It is about four leagues from the Spanish frontier, and about six from Ciudad Rodrigo. On the road from Oporto the nearest town of any consequence is Pinkel, which is a curious place, situated on a hill, with some works of little consequence. The road from here passes the Coa, a deep and rapid river. The bridge near Almeida is over a deep ravine, with tre mendous rocks on both sides ; the scenery is most wild and romantic. Part of the bridge was destroyed, but rebuilt with wood. Some distance above, there is a deep ford, whence a good road was made by the British, for the battering trains to go to Ciudad Rodrigo. Such are the localities of Almeida and its vici nity.---From a Correspondent of the Caledonian Mercury. firm of the Russian army. The oath which they have to take contains an infinite number of obligations with respect to the use of arms and an engagement to lend their a.sistance in adding to the Russian dominions, arid to the number of his Maje%ty'a subjects, ail these regulations, with the new levy, the ntmber of conscripts amounts to 25,000 men ; thetre Iter part of the Male population, and al most all the young men of education, are lost to their country.. ‘" it is imps.sible (says one letter ) to describe the si tuation of families on the publication of this order ; de spair and shame are on tOery countenance.' All those who were taken is!riAnners during the campaign, and have since lieeu 'Sent to the interior of Russia, were obliged to enter the different corps stationed it Stliai•ia. A letter has reached WaFjaW from a young man of good family, whose pat'Z'als are very rich. He was taken at the h-ginnittg of the war, and is now a common Cossack, 4,100 wersts from Warsaw. The Polish officers who re turned, confiding in the amnesty, are still left unmolested : they receive a moderate pay, and are allowed to enter the the Russian army, a permission of which they do not avail themselves. At the beginning of April, General Rautens trauch istued an invitation to all officers of the en gineers to accept places in the Russian service, holding out to them the most advantageous prospects of rapid pro motion, giving them to kinderstand that they would be employed only in ilirecting the works of the fortress of Modlin and the citadel of Warsaw. Not one answered to fhb invitation. They have all declared that they would not wear any Russian uniform ; but they offered their services in civil employments. The same proposal was made to 26 Polish officers, who returned from Russia, where they were at the be ginning or: the war, and had been detained, so that they could not he implicated in the resolution ; they refused in like manner. So much offence was taken at this in a high quarter, that each of them was called upon to give a declaration in writing of the motives of his refusal."— Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. (To be ci ,ntinued.) DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stoek 5 4 pm. 93% Old Annuities New Ditto ............ 83 3 per Cent. Ann. T 751 - Ex. Bills, ..-Ci,oon l4 15 pm. 14 15 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised ... 13 14 pm. Bank for Accoun. llndia for Account - COOL for Oct. 12 843,E THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian 80nd5.....«........ 10 Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds I Ditto Account 47 , 4 Regency Scrip 4% 5 dis. Ditto Account .........t4 dis. Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822.-- 100 1 4 Russian Bonds, 1822 98% Ditto Account Neva Loan 93 ' Spanish Bonds, 1821 13%73, Ditto Account 113%; Ditto Bonds, 18'23 ... 12X, 13 Ditto Account , French Rentes, sp. a —f Exchange ...... —f —c. :I per cent....... —f —c. 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A limited number of Proofs will be printed, in an extra size, on India Paper;—price 35. 6d.—for which an early application ii indispensable. Office, 19, Catherine -street, Strand. POLAND. AUGSBURG, AU G . 31.—We published some time ago a❑ article from the Brunswick German National Journal on " the present State of Poland." The Volksblatt aus Flamm (popular journal of Plamen) gives the followinz continnation of it t " Another measure against the Polish nation is the system of recruiting. The ukase of the Emperor Nicholas, by which all officers and subalterns of the ancient Polish army are to be incoporated in the Russian army, is know❑ to all Europe. This measure is extended to all those who were taken prisoners during the war, or who re turned from Austria and Prussia, trusting to the amnesty and to the assurance that they should re main unmolested in their own homes'. If the amnesty contains any tranquillizing expressions they refer only to the landowners ; but as in Polard the soldier either has no landed property, or has left it to enter into the service, the number of landowners excepted from the recruiting is scarcely 100 out of 30,000 that composed the army. This enrolment, however, is to be looked upo❑ as a benefit since the soldier, instead of punishment receives the pay of a Russian recruit, with the obligation of guarding the frontier of Siberia, and for ever leaving his native land. The following is the order of Field Marshal Paskewitsch, which be issued for the execution of the Imperial ukase: In conformity with the will of his Imperial Majesty, which was notified to the Prince of Warsaw in the letter of the 26th of February (0. S.) of the present year, and considering that according to Article 20 of the Organic Statute, graciously granted to the kingdom of Poland, the Russian Imperial and Royal Polish troops are hencefor. ward to form one body ; we order— " ' A. All subalterns and privates of the former Polish array and the military who have returned, as well as the civil officers who enlisted in the army of the insurgents, whether they were made officers or not, are to be incor porated in the Russian regiments, and be employed accord ingly as they are qualified in the field or the garrison ; those who were subalterns before the revolution retain their rank in the Russian army; all the others enter as privates. " B. From this conscriptio❑ are excepted only the in• valids, and those who possess lauded property, and are in scribed in the ►ists of the communes as landowners, and if they returned to their agricultural pursuits immediately after the troubles were quelled. " C. The time of military service is 15 years. The subalterns and privates of the former Polish army will have the years which they served before the 29th Nov, ; those who first entered the service during the revolution are to serve fifteen years from the time of their entrance into the Russian service. " D The present levy, which must add at least 20,000 men to his Majesty's troop., must be completed by the s of August this year. (Signed) " ' THE PRINCE OF WARSAW.' "To this decree are annexed directions to the recruiting commissioners, who are to begin their proceedings on the let of May, under the directions of the military governors of the Palatinates. Those commissioners consist of officers of the army in active service (Russians), and of officers in garrison and veterans (Poles.) These officers had to make their preparations in the middle of April. The Polish military intended for service are kept for the present to the depots of the regiments now cintoned in the king dom. During their stay in these depots their conduct is to be strictly watched ; they receive food and clothing like others of the same rank, and from the day of their en trance into the army they are answerable for all their actions to the military tribunals, according to the regula- • Note.—A little further on it is expressly said—" The Polish officers who, confiding in the amnesty, have returned, are left unmolested and receive a moderate pay, &c." Here there is a manliest contradiction, which is not calculated to remove all doubts of the credibility of the other statements in this article. PRICFs OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent Cons. Stli% 3% per Cent. Ditto Red shut STew 3% per Cent. 9 2 % 14 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 1 per Cent. 1946 Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan 5,186 P shut Oct. 10, ;SW 16 15-16 Jan. 5, ;860 l6 13-16 % Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 198+0...........„ - Jan. 5. 1870 PRICES or FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds P.elgian Bonds 771 '.5 Ditto Account '7734 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account... ..... .51 ;4 % Buenos Ayres Bonds 2134 Ditto Account. (Milian Bonds .. l6 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds . 10% Ditto Account. Ditto Bonds, 1824 1156 Ditto Account f* Danish Bonds 76 Ditto Account — (reek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, i 825 2.5.N Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, fi per cent 0 7 Ditto Account Neapolitan-- ......... r pt 7'34 •rv.‘ eetatt. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1832. The Marquis of PALMELLA was to have left London this evening, and, in expectation of his doing so, despatches were prepared for him at the Foreign-office, which are said to be of con siderable importance. It appears, however, that in consequence of some new arrangements his departure is again put off. We are glad to hear that a proposal has been made to some of the agents of Don PEDRO, to pro vide the pecuniary means of fitting out the rein forcements for the army, ecc. independently of the loan. The Scrip holders, however, would do well to consider, whether it would not be better for them to come forward with a small advance, although not hound to do so by their agreement, and thus ensure the success of Don PEDRO, and the safety of their Loan, without compelling the Constitutionalists to apply for money elsewhere. If we are correctly informed, the arrangement which has been pro posed by other parties could not be accepted with•. out injury to British interests ; and the question has hitherto, so far at least as the nation are con cerned, been so purely British, that we cannot refrain from expressing a hope that it will be tri umphantly carried through by those who first en abled Don PEDRO to prepare the expedition by which he has been enabled to obtain possession of the second city of the kingdom. The necessity of energy is the more apparent when we consider that, however well dis posed our Cabinet may be to the cause of the legitimate QUEEN, no declaration is likely to be made in her favour which would effectually promote her views. We have heard it stated by persons well acquainted with the subject, and who would not willingly deceive, that less than a hundred thousand pounds would so reinforce the army and navy of Don PEDRO, as to make his prospects secure. It becomes, therefore, a question whether a further advance shall be seasonably made, or those who having advanced 13 per cent. upon the loan shall incur the risk of losing all that they have paid,, It is satisfactory in these truckling times to be able to correct a Misstatement, by which it has been made to appear that the French Govern ment, regardless of honour, and at the express desire of Russia, kidnapped a great number of the Poles Who Were in France, and shipped them off for Algiers. We are a uthorised to state, that beyond the expression of a wish that they would emigrate to Algiers, there to be embodied in a corps, as they were in Egypt under NAPOLEON, nothing was done on the subject, and that it was no sooner known that they were obnoxious to the plan, than the aban donment of it took place. The anxiety of the French Government to contradict this statement is an admission of deference to public opinion very creditable to Louis PHILIPPE ; and we are glad also to see that he has caused an official contradiction to be made, by a morn. ing contemporary, of the report of his having requested the King of BELGIUM to dismiss the Poles who are in his service. We must ob serve, however, that if he would have the world believe in his professions of liberality and inde pendence, he must, considering his responsibility as the President of the Council, take care lest he allows illiberal and unjust things to be at tempted in his name. We have received a letter from Brussels, in which it is stated, on positive grounds, that the report of Prince METTERNICH having been there, is utterly unfounded. CHARLES X. has positively taken his pass port from our Government for his immediate departure, with his family, for the Austrian do minions. Gratz is a place for cheap living, and where the Catholic religion is maintained with the greatest strictness. _ The cup of bitterness for the unhappy Poles does not yet appear to be full, according to the Russian idea of national degradation. To-day we have a further account of the barbarous expe dients resorted to by the tyrant NICHOLAS, to banish the last remains of the Polish army to Siberia, or to incorporate them with the legion s of slavery in Russia. Our only consolation now is, that the day of retribution will be the more terrible and complete when it does come, which we pray may be quickly. " There's a divinity doth hedge a king,'' says SUAKSPEARE, and this same divinity keeps safe and snug within its consecrated pre cincts all the immediate or remote connections of Majesty, shelling a sort of rose-coloured of fulgence over even their darkest errors. Else wherefore are the thousand offences agains t society, of his late Royal Highness the Duke of YORK softened off, or allowed only to be seen through a veil dimly, while his good qualities, which at best glimmer faintly like a small, solitary star, are magnified and multiplied into a perfect constellation ? Why should not the truth be spoken of a prince as well as of a peasant ? Why, if the one offended against the decencies of society, and set common honesty at defiance, should he not be denounced as sternly and as forcibly as the other? It is an absurd, a dangerous law, offensive to every principle of good sense and justice, that shields the errors of the Prince, only to fall with heavier hand on those of the plebeian. Yet it was under the sanction of this law that the Duke of YORK was enabled to laugh to scorn all those ties of ordinary pro priety which bind, or should bind, man and man together. He did not make it himself, he took it only as he found it, and beneath its shelter played the profligate with impunity. But one portion of society at least—that we mean which comes under the melancholy denomina tion of "Creditors of his Royal Highness"— are now beginning to perceive the full ab surdity of the law which they assisted to mature ; they are now fast awakening to the truth, that a man may be of Royal extraction without possessing one spark of the mezzs di vinior ; and that they have been guilty of a species of treachery to the general interests of the community, in having so long encouraged, or made light of, those princely peccadilloes which it was their bounden duty to denounce. Had the creditors of his Royal Highness judged that illustrious individual by the same standard by which they judge the rest of their fellow-citizens, they would not have been in their present deplorable predicament. But be cause he was a Prince, they thought he must be a paragon ; because he gave his word, they thought it must be binding as an oath ; because • he was a creditor, they thought he must be an honest one. It was a sad blunder, but they will never make it again, we suspect—at least not where Royalty is concerned. Yet with the sole exception—a pretty large one, by the bye—of those who are personal suf ferers by him, the character of the Duke of YORK stands as high as ever with society. The mean, crouching, undiscriminating idolatry which, because he was a Prince, permitted him when alive to be vicious with impunity, still so f tens off his errors and hallows his name now that the grave has closed over him, and he has paid the only debt (of nature) which, we believe, he ever paid. Think of a grand public statue being at this very moment in the course of erection to his memory, as though he had been one of the greatest benefactors of his country ! And this even while his oldest, most extensive, and mu nificent creditors remain unpaid ! What a mockery of justice is here ! What a flagrant affront to every principle of common sense and common honesty ! Be just before you are generous, says reason. Be generous before you are just, says society in this individual instance. If ,the s ubscribers to the statue of the Duke of YORK really desire to do credit to his me mory, let them first pay their patron's debts. It will then he time enough to think of his pillar. Possibly this absurdity may be projected in corn- 'j3 metnoration of his military achievements. Alas who does not remember his campaigns in Hol land, where the very genius of blunder seemed to inspire his every movement ? Possibly, it May be projected in , honour of the unsullied purity of his domestic life. Alas ! who forgets Mrs. CLARKE, and the damning charges then publicly sworn to, and proved in evidence ? View it in whatever light we may, still we can not but think the erection of a statue to his Royal Highness the most absurd, offensive pro position we ever heard. It is unjust to his cre ditors—an affront to society—a satire upon all the statuary honours that have ever been heaped upon true nobility and greatness. Shall the man who in history will figure as a pigmy, beside a CANNING or a GREY, o'ertop them in sculp tured grandeur in our public streets ? If so, what truly great man is there who will not feel himself degraded by the erection of such a doubtful honour to his memory ? But if, not withstanding, this fat, easy Duke must still have a statue, at least let the words of truth be in scribed on the pedestal. Let not the present and the future be insulted by the unblushing promulgation of a lie. Let it be recorded on the statue, that it presents the effigy of one who as a Prince was a bigot—as a warrior, a hum bug and a laughing-stock—as a man, an epitome of weakness and prodigality. An error appears to have crept into the re port of the speech of Mr. WAKEFIELD, at the National Political Union a few days since, where that gentleman is made to state that in the speech delivered by Mr. SPALDING, at Hertford, for the representation of which bo rough he is a candidate, " Mr. SPALDING stated that he knew the sentiments of the LORD CHANCELLOR had changed in reference to the Ballot, and that the change had been produced in consequence of conversations with Mr. JE REMY BENTHAM." The fact, we understand, to be, that Mr. SPALDING, in his address at Hertford, never alluded to the name of the LORD CHANCELLOR in connection with the Ballot in any way; and, indeed, that gentleman is altogether ignorant of the CHANCELLOR'S opinions on that question. We have reason to believe that the Reporter was led into the error by the circumstance of MT. WAKEFIELD having stated that he, Mr. WAKEFIELD, thought the CHANCELLOR'S opinions had changed with reference to the FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Rev. G. 0. Miller and Mrs. Miller, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; P. Godsal, Esq., at ditto ; Hon. B. Noel, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, on Wednesday evening, on a visit to Earl Cowper, at his seat, Pansanger, Herts ; Viscount Melbourne, for ditto; Viscount Goderich, on Wednesday, for Wrest, Bedfordshire, from whence his Lord ship proceeds to his seat at Nocton, in Lincolnshire; Viscount Sidmouth and the Hon. Misses Addington, from Bath, for Upottery, near Honiton, Devonshire, where the Noble Viscount is entertaining a select party ; the Count Survilliers and suite, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish square, for his mansion at Park.crescent ; Captain Sary, Mrs. Sary, and family, from ditto, for ditto; W. P. Morewood, Esq., Mrs. P. More wood, and family, from ditto, for Ladbroke, Warwickshire. Lord FRANCIS RUSSELL, a son of the Duke of BEDFORD, has come home in the Stag, 46, Capt. Sir THOMAS TROWBRIDGE, on hoard of whose ship his Lord ship is serving as a Lieutenant. The Bavarian Government, which was for merly one of the most liberal in Germany, seems now to be foremost in the prosecutions of the press. A Mr. VoLxitAarr, a printer of Augsburg, the publisher of an opposition journal, called the Times (Die Zeit), was ar rested on the 26th of August, on his return from the na tional fete at Wittelsbach, the police having previously, during his absence, seized his papers. He was conducted to the fortress Frohnveste, and next day escorted to Mu nich; It is said that he is compromised by the prosecu tion instituted against PISTOR and Gaossx. AWFUL FATALITY.-131 , the sudden death of the father, mother, and son, the chief members of a respectable family in Bedfordshire, no less than three wills were executed in respect of the same property, before any probate arrived to act upon, a case perhaps without paral lel,— Cambridge Chronicle. Accounts from Naples, of the 16th ult., state that the streams of lava from Vesuvius destroyed the paths by which the summit of the mountain was attainable, and that it has therefore been necessary to commence the for mation of new ones for those who desire to obtain a near inspection of the interesting phenomena daily occurring. ALARMING FlRE.—Last night about 11 o'clock a fire was discovered in an apartment in the upper part of the premises of Messrs. Summtas and SMITH, Sheffield warehousemen, on the south side of St. Paul's Church-yard. An alarm was instantly raised, and the pa rish and other engines soon arrivzd, when, by the active exertions of the firemen, the flames were quickly subdued and confined to the warehouse where they first broke forth. The damage done is trifling, but had the fire not been so timely discovered, and been allowed to continue a few minutes longer, the whole of the extensive premises and valuable stock in trade would have been destroyed. WAGES.—In 1352 (25th EDWARD III.) the wages paid to hay-makers was Id. a-day ; a mower of meadows 3d. a-day, or sd. an acre ; reapers of corn in the first week of August 2d., in the second, 3d. per day, aed so on till the end of August, without meat, drink, or other allowance, finding their own tools. For threshing a quarter of wheat or rye 20. ; a quarter of barley, beaus, peas, and oats, lid. A master carpenter 3d. per day, other carpenters 2d. A master mason 41 per day, other masons 3d., and their servants I id. per day. Tilers 3d. and their " knaves" Id. Thatchers 3d. a-day, and their knaves lid. Plasterers, and other workers of mud walls, and their knaves, in like manner, without meat or drink, and this from Easter to Michaelmas; and from that time less, according to the direction of the Justices.—Mirror. THE REMARKABLE STORY OE NIRS. GODFREY. —The story of Mrs. GODFREY has been fre quently repeated in the following manner : This Lady had been a long time ill, in consequence of the recent death of her brother the Duke ; but one Sunday, fancying herself better than she had been for some time, and able to go to chapttl, as she was dressing for that purpose, she suddenly fell down, to all appearance dead. The screams of her women and a female friend brought Colonel GOD FREY into the room, who, having probably seen instances of persons remaining in a state of insensibility for a consi derable time, and afterwards recovering, directed that his Lady should be immediately put to bed, and that two persons should constantly continue with her until indubi table symptoms appeared of her decease. The conse quences proved with bow much judgment the Colonel had acted. Notwithstanding the opinion of the physicians, who all declared that the breath of life was irrecoverably departed, and in opposition to the solicitations of his friends to have the body interred, he continued resolute in his determination to the contrary till the Sunday following, when, exactly at the same hour on which the change had happened, signs appeared of r e t urn i ng sens ibili ty. S o punc tual was nature in her operations upon this singular oc casion, that Mrs. GODFREY awoke from her trance just as the chapel bell was once more ringing, which so per fectly eradicated from her memory every trace of her in sensibility, that she blamed her attendants for not awak ening her in time to go to church, as she had proposed to do. Colonel G., whose terwerness to his lady was unre witted, taking advantage of this incident, prudently gave orders that she should by no means be made acquainted with what had happened, lest it should make a melancholy impression on her mind ; and it is supposed that to the dty of her death she reina:ned ignorant of the trant:aetion.— The Doctor. : MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) Ann Barker was indicted for, at various times, having paswed counterfeit coin. Thomas Gt iffitliS deposed 'that he was a shopriaan with Powell and Co. of Oxford Street, on the 29th of June, when the prisoner came in for a yard of calico, for which she tendered a bad shilling. He kept the money and de sired her to go and get a good one. As soon as she left the shop, a policeman came in and asked whether she had not been attempting to put off bid coin. He went after her, but at that time did not get her. Mrs. Hewlit, a widow, keeps a tobacconist's shop. On the 9th of July the prisoner came into her shop for a quarter of an ounce of tobacco, for which she gave half a-crown, and received the change. In half an hour she again came back with another half-crown, for which she wanted change. The witness said she bad nothing but copper, which the prisoner said would do, and took. Next day Mrs. Hewlit had to pay some money, and then found that both half-crowns were bad. She could not be mistaken as to the two she received from the prisoner, for she had no other half crowns in her possession. A policeman produced the money, which Mr. Field, the Inspector of the Mint, proved were counterfeit. The Jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty, when the CHAIRMAN said he was very sorry that her former punishments had had so little effect upon her. This was no A the fourth time he bad had to pass sentence upon her for the same species of offence. It was his duty now to order her to be imprisoned for two years, and kept to hard labour. There were ten other prisoners to be tried for the same offence, which were expected to occupy nearly all day. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Edward Spring, and two sisters named Ferguson, low prostitutes, were brought up, charged under the following circumstances Mr. Thomas, the superintendant, stated that last night he received information that two well-known thieves were endeavouring to procure change of a 50/. Bank of Eng land note. He made inquiries relative to it, and ascertained that the male prisoner, who was iu company with the two girls in a low brothel, in Phoenix-alley, bad sent the note to get cashed by one of the girls, who had given it to Bill Hatton, a notorious thief, who had disappeared with it. He questioned the male prisoner (who wore a handsome suit of livery) upon the subject, and he said that he was groom to Mr. Lubbock, the banker, No. 21, St. James's-place. He admitted giving the note to one of the females to get cashed, and said " that he had received it from his master that morning-201. for salary, and 301. for clothes." He (Mr. Thomas) not feeling satisfied with the story took the three prisonera into custody, and this morn ing he communicated the circumstance to Mr. Lubbock, when it turned out that the male prisoner, who bad been in his employ for about 12 months, had stolen the note from his writing desk, which he had placed there amongst other monies; and if the prisoners were remanded for a short time, he should be able to bring sufficient proof to substantiate the charge. The prisoners were remanded accordingly. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) ROM LOLYD'S PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. :-Liiiind E.—Sailed his 111•jes ty's ship Blossom, for the Eastward. FALMOUTH, SEPT. s.—Wind E.S.E. light.—Arrived the Eclipse packet from the Leeward Islands, sailed from St. Thomas the 4th ult. Off port, the Englishman, from Leghorn. NEWPORT, SEPT. s.—Arrived the John from Onega. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 5.--Arrived the Fair Isle, from Quebec. _ _ GREENOCK, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Cambridge from St. Andrew's, New Brunswic ; Rapid, Mathias, from Cadiz; and, Jenny, Patten, from Archangel. NEWRY, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Albion, Leith, from St. Petersburgh. DUBLIN, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Scarborough Castle, and Betsey, Roper, from Quebec. HULL, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Cambrian and Hero from Greenland ; John, Dickinson; Sedgfield, from Archangel; Houghton, Hunter, and Mary, Eastance, from St. Peters burgh; Enterprise, Hoylin, and Good Intent, Thompson, from Wyburg ; Lively, Coates, from Riga; and Duchess of Beaufort, from New York. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 6.—Arrived the Lovely Ann from Metnel. Off port, the Lavinia, Betts, from St. Peters burgh ; and Trieene, Wardell, from Wyburg. ABERDEEN, SErr. 4.—Arrived the Oek, Linklator, from Riga. DUNDEE, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Bolivar, M‘Donald, and David, Gilbert, from St. Petersburgh ; Helen, Caith ness, and Ythan, Law, from Riga ; Noah, Nicoll, from Archangel ; and Industry, Jeffery, from Gottenberg. SHIELDS, SErr. s.—Arrived the Earl Grey, from Quebec; and Progress, Anderson, from Richebueto. PLYMOUTH, Sam s.—Wind E. S.E.—Sailed his Alajesty's ships Nimrod and Prince of Wales, for the Westward. The James, of New York, was fallen in with, aban doned, on the 28th ult., about forty miles south of the Lizard. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL YE 0' CL 0 CK. The only arrival this mot ning is a Leeward Island mail, which sailed from St. Thomas's on the 4th of August ; the private letters by the above conveyance do not contain any news from that quarter of consequence. By the French mail this day the Journal du Havre says that a ship has arrived at Brest in forty-one days trona Mexico, with the information that General Teranha committed suicide on the 12th of July at San Louis. It is also stated that Gen. Caderen has blown out his brains at Puebla, and Bustamente, with Tassin, have hen sent to prison in Nlexico. Also orders were given to send a deputation to the United States, to President Pedraza, to return to Mexico. Accounts from Frankfort say that Austria and Prussia demands of the Diet of Germany 40,000,000 of florins to defray their expenses for their armaments in putting down the revolutionary spirit in Germany, and it is thought the German Princes will he furred to comply with this request. THE FUNDS. Our arrivals this morning are again of a very scanty description. With the exception of the e4afette from Paris, there is not an arrival worth noticing. It appears the flames of civil war are again kindling in La Vendee, of which no doubt the French Government have timely information, and measures will he taken to prevent their spreading. The French Funds ere rather higher. The public attention this morning is drawn to the vo luminous report of the Bank Committee, and the various evidences given on this national subject ; amongst which is generally noticed that of the great city capitalist, who was well sifted both on foreign exchanges and the various branches of commerce, and we find that the city capitalist, to our astonishment, did not secrete any thing from them, both relating to commerce and the pri vate acts of a great merchant. Now we will turn to another subject relating to the Stock Exchange. Petitions by some of the members have been sent to the committee of the Stock Exchange, praying that the house might be thrown open for mer chants and traders to be subscribers to the house, giving a certain security at the same time. Counter petitions have also been sent to the committee, of greater strenzth than the former, not to admit merchants and traders at present. Consols opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 841 for the Account, since which they have been done at 841. In the Foreign market nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. We are in a state of great inactivity in the City, both in respect to commerce and operations in the funds, to the present hour, but we again hear as positive, for the hun dredth time, that the Belgian affairs are now on the eve of settlement. Consols reached i n th e cJurse of the morn in g 84 for the Account ; at present they may be quo ted at St t with little or nothing doing. In the Foreign Market Brazil Sto ck has improved about per cent. ; Portuguese Scrip , 5 to 41 discount. ThREE CL OCM Consols 84i- i for Account. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols ..••••••• 844 1 Danish —_ Dittofor Account 844 1,- Greek, 1825 —_ Brazilian Bonds -- Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres... Peruvian 211 Milan Ditto.... -- Russian Columbian 1524 Spanimh The Paris papers contain the following brief n otice of a personage formerly of some note in the world : Ahdarile. CHISTOPEE, ex-Empress of Haiti, is at Geneva with her daughter. Madame's domestic establishment, although by nu means extensive, is not without its Royal state ; and Mademoiselle has had many suitors, whom she has rejected with disdain, preferring the condition of single blessedness as a Princess, to an alliance which would confer fortune without rank and dignity. Mademoiselle is jet black, highly accomplished, and very amiable. \ OPENING OP THE WIGAN AND NEWTON RAILWAY. ,0"ItOt .OUR. pIi!NT CORRESPONDENT.) On Monday last, the atioie Railway was opened without any other ceremony of festivity than that of the Directors, and the professional persons em ployed on the work, partaking of a sumptuous din ner, at llawson's Royal Hotel. The length of the Railway is seven miles in a nearly straight line, during which distance no per ceptible change from a level occurs to the casual observer. The country through which the line passes has been well sel, cted,beth by obviating abrupt curves and expensive cuttings and embankments. The construction of this Railway is on a better principle than that of the Literrool aml Manchester, so far as regards the improvements in the shOe and in• creased weight of the rails on which the carriages run, and the greater stability given to those tails by heavier stones, blocks, and chairs. The line passes through a country intersected by roads, rivers, ca nals, &c., yet in one instance only does it cross any road on the level. Inconvenience and danger have been avoided by bridges, by which the Railway crosses either over or under any thoroughfare: These bridges are built with great taste, and some of them afford fine specimens of the extreme " skew," in crossing in g very oblique line. Two iron bridges, which cross the Leeds and Liverpool and Manchester canals, are fine specimens of the perfection to which this art has been brought. The average time required to perform the distance of seven miles, with four carriages and 23 -passen gers, is 15 minutes, and this by a locomotive of the oldest construction. The Act was obtained in the spring of 1830 on the plans and estimates of Charles Vignoles, Esq., civil engineer, who has superintended its construe.. lion, as also that of the Saint Helens and Runcorn Gap Ittil way, and its extensive wet docks, now constructing upon the banks of the Mersey, near Runcorn. SECON EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, SErr. 5. The King has bean pleased to appoint Benjamin Collins Brodie, Esq., Serjeant-Surgeon to his Majesty, in the room of Sir Eve rani Home, Bart. deceased. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, SEPT. 5. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Frederick Adair Hoe, Esq. Chief Magistrate of Bow street. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 7. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hou. John Duncan Bligh (now Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at the Hague) to be Secretary tO his Majesty's Embassy at St. Peter f• burgh. FOREIGN-OFFICE, &n'. 7. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. ham Hase, as Vice-Consul at Plymouth for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 7. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet A. B. E. Holds worth, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chawner, promoted , Sept. 7. 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. G. H. Lockwood i° be Captain, by purcase, vice Baker, who retires; Cornet Nv..e. Downes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lock w o o d, Sept- 7 ,; Cornet and Adjutant F. Jackson to have the rank of Lieutenant ' Sept. 8. 17th Light Dragoons- -E. Croker, Gent., to be Cornet, by ptir' chase, Sept. 7. 7th Regiment of Foot—Major F. Farquharson to be Lieut , Colonel, by purchase, vice Elphinstone, who retires ; Captain J. Hutchinson to be Major, by purchase, vice Farquharson' Lieut. H. B. Hall to be Captain, bs purchase, vice Hutchinson; Lieut. C. S. Bunyon, from the 90th Foot, to be Lieutenan t ' vice Hall, Sept. 7. 22d Foot—Lieut. J. Anthony, from the half pay of the inth Foot, to be Lieutenant, repaying the difference received, vice I`. Carey, who exchanges, Sept. 7. 27th Foot—Ensign H. Butler to be Lieutenant, without POf" chase, vice Nelson, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet G. M'Call, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Butler, Sept. vI: c" , 28th Foot—W. Everard, Gent., to be E ns i gn , by p uc h as e, Napier, a pointed to the 52d Regiment, Sept. 7. 37th Foot—Captain J. Burrell, from the half-pay, to be CAP' tabs vice A. C. Skynner, who exchanges, receiving the differenc e ' Sept. 7. 50th Foot—Ensign and Adjutant W. White to have the rant of Lieutenant, Sept. 7. 52d Foot, Ensign G. T. C Napier, from the 28th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Kempt, promoted, Sept. 7. 59th Foot, Lieutenant R. B. Yates, to be Captain,by purchase' vice Jones, who retires ; Ensign H. H. Graham to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Yates ; E. H. Poyntz, Gent. to be Ensign' by purchase. vice Graham, Sept. 7. 65th Foot, Captain G. Smyth, from the half-pay, to be Captal' is vice Farquharson, promoted, Sept. 7. 90th Foot, Ensign G. D. herßoe to be Lieutenant,by purchal' vice Bunyon, appointed to 7th Foot; J. H. janoghure Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bowyer, Sept. 7. 91st Foot, Captain G. F. Greaves, from the half-pay, to b e Captain vice F. A. Gould, who exchanges, Sept. 7. UNATTACHED. Lieut. E. H. Chawner, from the 4th Dragoon Guards, to V , Captain, by purchase; Ensign T. N. Kemp, from the 52d FlO t to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Sept. 7. STAFF. of J. Macdonald, Esq., to be Paymaster of the depots of Regitne n d of Cavalry and Infantry on the East India Establishment, an, (l .t i M . Detachments of Cavalry and Infantry Regiments on the B' s Establishment, May I. MEMORANDA. Lieut. B. C. A. Gugy, halt*-pay Canadian Fencibles, has bee n allowed to retire from the service by the sale of an Unattac Commission, Sept. 7. .1' The arpointment of Assistant-Surgeon C. Foote, from hal. - P of the 2(ith Fo o t, t o b e A ss i s t an t-S urgeon t o th e F orces , as stat o in the Gazette of the :20th July last, has not taken place. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JANE COLLINS, I'ulborough, Sussex, draper. BANKRUPTS. AT; WILLIAM DAVID BRAD WELL, Gower-street, boar- , house-keeper, to surrender Sept. 21, at two, and October 19, t, eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ford, Great Queen-st r tig. Lincoln's-inn-fields • Turquand, Tokenhouse-yard, official t r ,t. JAMES HUDSON, Gale, Lancashire, calico-printer, e, 20, 21, and Oct. 19, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. ) "y;e• Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Walker and Je Manchester. square, GEORGE builder,Sept. 12, HENRY I'R t ten, and Oct. Court of Bankruptcy. Howell, Hatton-garden ; Gibso n, singhall-street, of& ass. Oct' 1 ' JOHN MATHER, Hindley, Lancashire, innkeeper, „ at the Eagle and Child Inn, Wigan, and 19, at the But'lei Preston, at twelve. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, 'r e "' Hopwood, Wigan. she o f' O E c a t. st l - 1) s , Fast-street, twelve,lan ch3etsftetL.," JOHN SPENCER and WILLIAM SPENCER, New field, Northumberland, tile-manufacturers, Sept. 28, and Oc at eleven, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. p ro aptl' back and Farn, Gray's-inn-square; Brown, Newcastle- u v T yne. „, GEORGE SCHONSWAR, Kingston-upon-Hull, merch . : o l o. Oct. 2, and 19, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, King, s ,.` o ,t, Rosser and Son, Gray's-inn-place, London; t WILLIAM ALEXANDER BROWN, JOHN T 0 ,% END BAILEY, JAMES SMITH, THOMAS PIERCr; HENRY GRUEBER, Liverpool, oil manufacturers, Oct. r iper. 19, at eleven, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. 143 ,13 0 Liverpool; Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Chance r y' London, OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.) sIX O' CL 0 CK' 1 9 ' William Kennedy, aged 19, and NVilba!n Brown, ~ were indicted for the wilful murder of 0 Tnis is the case of th e g entleman who tear mu r `Thel on the river Thames o n the 17th o f J u l y l as t. _ A o il w e re both found G uilt y , and ordered t o be execut-08 Monday next , a nd their bodies to be i nterred w ithin prison. A paragraph having appe are d i n the n e b e papers that the Lord Ch ancellor would • ag e ngaged during the recess i n prepar i ng J° ,re meats which he had promised to give, we per au thorised to st a t e that no judgments 1 0 ). 3 ; 1 of re main . to be given e x ce pt th e decist° t oo one of the p o i nts i n one cause, and 03%4 orders whi c h rema i ned to he ma d e at the °after of the C ourt , an d one in a matter heard awe the Cou r t rose, were all ma d e w i t hi n a after the rising.—Tinics. We und e r s t an d t h at t h e i r M AJE STIE S 0 ,0 arrive h ere at t h e usual per i o d , an d cont i nue to re_ 4 ooo / Bright on during the whole of the winter s ea Brighton Gazette. 031' The visit of the Duke of SussEx to - 0 0' well, in thi s ne i g hb our h oo d, is postponed until ne at 6 1,0 1 user. The happy reconciliation with the KING, 39 7,,,1e0 f MORLEY having left Saltram on account of t he are the reasons of his Royal Highness remaining In Taunton Courier. fJ A General Meeting of the Subsc ribers Lloyd's is also fixed for the 12th inst. . b vd We subjoin the following notice, whlci, gdi posted at Lloyd's this day :—" A salvage of SS/. '%.1,1' has been declared this day on the Thetis frig ate, °nu Of 15/. is expected." 01 FRENCH COMMERCE.—The receiptJ Custom-house of Havre, during August, am oun ts 2,425,793 r. 38c. This sum, t , ,king AS an av 6 2%.., the year, will make the gross receipts 27,000,000; amount much greater than for several years past. ,