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riticKs ov FOltglltY
Austrian flimds
svaailisn Bonds 62i at
Ritto Ace. 694
to :Scrip
Ditto Act. 12t r 13eis
Duane. A yrea Bonds ;8
Ditto Acct.
pAiliin Bondi 42 1 GO
Colombian BonBi
Dittn T4.nda I I AU) 65 4
3i
Ditto Acct. 84i .34 4g 5 4j 4
Psenct Lea 5 rrr Ct. 87r.
Exchange 25f. 10c.
Iranch Rentes 3 or Ct. 671.. be:.
exchange M. 10c.
Ouuteroala Bonds

('OI•llSfi OF EXCII
Ainstettlain....—..C. F. 12 4
Ditto at sight 12 I
Dent eniom ....... ....2 U. I 4

Ham1it5;g11..........24 U. 37 0
U. 37 I
1'464,3 days'eight..o —_—•2s 20
Ditto 2. 25 45

liaritainx 95 45
Raclin 7
l'rank. on slain Ex. 51.151
Petersburgh, rble. 3 lia.
Vientan.efiretigefl. 2.31. 9 56
Trieste (luta 9 68
3l'adrid 361
16/
Balboa 36
• Ilarrelona 36/
36}
Gibraltar

AIHII•ANCC CCHPAXIES.
100 10 in
20 2 I diit

MISCIELLANIOUS.
Rock and Patent Salt 10 II 31
and Foreign Paper 5O 11 104 die
etropolitan Alderney Dairy 25 4 per
Provincial Bank of Ireland
Rio de la Plata Agricultural lOO i 4 ilia
II:go Bay l6O

/PRICES OF BRIT ISM STOCKS YESTERDAY.
pir Cent. Red. 113 j tom Ann. 291
Per Cent Com. _ India Stork
Ditto Or Acct. 811 j I fra.Billsl Ad. 1.009/.3 Itlie
10 per Cent. 9lj Ditto, S9O/. $ I die
per Cent. K.l. 91 94 Ditto, Small 3 die per
ewe pet Cent. 192 Lottery Tickets 191

'sltll)CliS YESTE it DAY.
mexican Bonds GI
bid° Asti. 82
Ditto Bonds (1125)
DOW Acct. (931 9y 811 9 81 8
it
Pedo.euitt Bonds 49 50
Ditto Acct. 49
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto Acet.
Prussian Bonds
Ditto Bolds (1322) 971
Russian Bonds 864 t It
Ditto Aect, 584 8
Spanish Cons. 1 r 11 I
Ditto Aeet. 164 t
Ditto 510 164
Ditto Cons. ( 1823) 12
'A NOE .YESTERDAY.

Legb0rn...—..................494
Genoa ..........—.„.—.44i
Malta. 0
,I Naples ...40
I Pa1errn0...........per ea. 1 ..,221
Lisbon 61
Oporto ...31
Rio Janeiro. 49
8ahia......... 51
Buenas Ayres. ...434
Dublin .. ....... OA
Cork • 9i
MULLIQX. FBI' OZ
.I: . 4. (1.
POTtngSJOOrdin coin 0 0 0
Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 10i
New D00b100n5........ 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 114
Silter In bats, stand 0 li 14

PRICIKS'OF 911ARE8 YESTERDA 1 .
1111Nill•
Share. Pnld. Premlum per Share.
AngJa-Slexiran...... 1:100 30 26 25
100 6 litho
Bolivar
CaetelinikEviritoSaniotrazil 100 6 1
Colombian lOO 6 II
Potosi, La PA:, sod Peruvian SO 6 11 2 die
Royal bleb
Road del Monte 4OO 400
United Slexicen
Ditto New
Guardian
Protector Fire

i_7rittint SIrrOO•

DRUR r- LANE THEATRE.
This Evening, SATURDAY. Nor. 26, will be performed the
Comte Opera, called
TIM WAGER; or, Tilt MIDNIGHT HOUR.
The principal Chanel:era by Messrs. Dowton, ;torn. J. Russell,
Marley, I arleure. and Bedford; Mimes Kelly and Culiltt) and. Mrs.
C. loses.
After whist: (RI time at this Theatre) the Farce of
THE 4Lritik•WkLICE.I.
Soinno, Mr. J. Russell: Alibi, Mr. Tayleure.

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To eoweludit with the Farce of
TURN OUT.
Reedy., Mr. Dowton t Somerville, Mr. Horn: Doctor Truckle, Mr.
Wollarest Tome, Mr. ]. Russell; Gregory, Mr. Harley. alarhin.
Ma litany.
On Itooday, due. and De La Perotute.

COVEN'T-GARDEN TifEATRF.
71.14Evening.SATURD tY, Nov.!?, will be performed the Operant
CLARI.
The Duke Vita Mr. Power; Itolemo, Mr. Fawcett: Joeoeo. Mr.
Puruset: Lietonlo, Mr. Keeley; Nintpedo.: Mr. Meadows. Clazi,
Miss Paton; Yespina, Mi.s Love.
Attar whleh I2d 1101 e) a new Plots railed
THE SCAPEI7O AT.
The Characters by /4 . Riau, hard, Cooper, W. Farren. and
Meadows; Mimes Jonas aol A. Jones.
To tronelade with the Comedy of
CMARL.ES THE aiSCOND.
Chariot the Sown& Mr. C. Remble I Lord lt,,cheiter. Mr. Janes;
Captain LoPP. Mr. PsWetti. Mary. /4112 Hellll..
On Monday, Runlet, and Aladdin.

/DELPHI TIIEATRI,', STRAND.
Tkin !Min& SATURDAY, Nev. td. will be presented the Nautieal
Melo-nramatlc norlett* of
Tilt: PILOT:
Or, A TALE or THE SEA.
The pAnclral Characte
errs by Messrs. Terirswry,i llir aon.t, T. P. Cooke, and
J. Hm: and Mrs. Fes

After which the favourite Rtsrletta of
THE )1 MRIED BACHELOR.
Kr Charles Coartall, Mr. Yates: Sharpe, Mr. %conchs Grace, Mt►
To ennead', with the emitted' of
ALL AT COVEN FRY I
Timothy, Mt. Wrench; Lively, Mr. J. Reeve

Thi Purls commenced publishing yeste•.dq MOTO.
lug st five o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY. Novelise& 26, 1225.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived last night, with
the Etoile of the following day. From the latter we sub-
join an article intended to be explanatory of the further
d-cline of the French Funds. An attempt is made to repre-
sent it As the result of a combination of jobbers operating
for afall. We have no doubt, however, that it his arisen
from other and more important cantles, which are at this
moment depressing the price of Stocks in every part of the
world.

By the news from Greece, we learn that RI-Anent°
Paola still continued before Missolonghi, and that Imm-
une was making his devastating excursions into the in-
terior of the Mores.

DinfONTAINEII, the oldest of the dramatic poets of
France, has just died at Paris, aged 92 years.
[From the Doak, dated Thursday, Nov. 24
PARIS, NOV. 23.

The Exchange the day before yesterday announced a rise. The
43p1 from London and Amsterdam also announced a rise In chow
cities, but at the very opening of the Exchange it was pretty
(liberally known that considerable bales were to take place. This,
in fact, happened; between one million and 1,200.000 francs of
rectos were Aired for sale, and found purchasers without pro-
ducing a fall of more than 50 centimes. The opening price was
87f. 110 e. ; the lowest 67f. 40c. ; and towards the close of the
Exchange, 67f, 70e.
Lively curiosi.y was excited amoug the frequenters of the Ex-
change to learn the CAUFf of so eveniive an operation. Some
thought tt was an 11l combined speculation foe a fall, which had
Wed in its object; others thought that an extensive specula-
two in the Three per Cents had, according to the technical phrase
. t>< the Exchange, been executed. To-day it was known at the be-
. slog of the Exchange that the last conjecture was well founded;
the bowie which had sold the Rer.tes was named, and the result has
been a further decline, which has brought them to about 66f. 75e.
liWWfter, it was known that the pa,quet alone was interested in the
idra;?.

Awarding to letters from Corfu of 31st Oct. the Ottoman fleet
had not yet appeared on the coasts of the Mores. The Serultier.
Red.chid Paths, had retired to the distance of three harmer from
Missolonen ; but the siege was not raised. It a said that one of
the last wiliest:or the Greeks a peat many men, and th.tt they los
among others the Piedntootese Col. Costa.
Ibrahim Pasha continuer to make excursions, in th. Mores, and
had lately ad•:arced towards C'orinth. After an amen he marched
sows•ds Mrs.

FRONTIZIRI OF ITALY, Nov. 6.
Thep* is still s Turkish stradran In the putt of Avlona, whe..b
dare raw put to sea for fest of being attacked by the Greeks.
itedsthid Pache•s army is still in Etoha, and its retreat, so often
announced by the Greeks, has not taken place, but it is weakened
by the desertion of several Albanian corps which have returned to
• Pair homes, by diseases, by perpetual engsgeinents, &c. But

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place should be delayed, that he will t. 'te up his winter quarters in
that province.

Fntxcn FUNDB.—Pants, Nov. 23—Five per Cents. 97f
70c. ; Three per Cents. 67f. 20c. Rank Stock, 2120 f. Rente
de Naples, Certif. Falconnet, E3f. 110 e. Rente d'F,spagne,
Royal Spanish Loan, 49j1. Exchange on London—One Month,
94f. 95c.; Three slonths, 24t. 76c—Corrs Aathentirpre.

Last night we received the Brussels Papers of Wednes-
day. It appears from them that reports are current in
Germany that the Spanish Clergy are everywhere trying
to raise money. Secret proposals are said to have been
made to the monied men of Frankfort, offering engage-
ments by which they bind themselves to obtain within a
certain time the ratification of the Spanish Government.—
These Papers also state that the Russian Government
has re solved to follow the liberal principles of commercial
policy recommended to its adoption by the authority and
example of Great Britain. The attention of the Russian
Government has hitherto been exclusively directed to the
promotion of its internal commerce; and a Ukase was very
lately issued for the purpose of diminishing the taxes paid
by retailers and artisans.
We extract the following paragraph :

linussecs, Nov. 22.

The day before yesterday, during mass, at 7 in the morning, in
the church of St. Baron, at Ghent, a noise, the cause of which is
unknown, was suddenly heard, and the congregation being alarmed.
rushed to the doors, which were soon blocked up, and several
persons were trodden under foot. In the midst of the confusion
some thieves were very active io stealing the silk shawls, hats, &c.
of the fugitives.

A letter has been received frcm Alexandria, announcing
the departure of the Turco-Egyptian expedition, under the
command of the CAPITAN PAcIHA. The following extract
states the military and naval strength of this powerful
armament:—

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 18.

Yesterday morning the Capitan Pacha took his departure, and to-
day the whole of the transports are out. The expedition, as far as
we can team, consists of 14 frigates, 14 corvettes, 42 brigs, 10 tire-
ships, 20 armed Turkish transports, and 211 European transports,
with the " London Engineer" steam vessel (another built here
sprung a-leak in sailing out of the harbour). Four whole regi.
menta, or 8000 soldiers of disciplined infantry, and about 1000
Turkish cavalry are embarked on board these vesvls. The ex-
pense of the whole expedition, in arrears of pay to the Turkish
fleet, provisions and repairs, supplies of money and provisions to
the Morea,and presents (the Capitan Pacha receives 100,000 piastres)
will, it is estimated, cost our Pacha 50,000,000 piastres, or the value
of 100,000 bales of cotton.

We are glad to find the attention of the Magistrates has
been again drawn to those annual nuisances in the neighbour-
hood of the metropolis, the Fairsof CA KSE ales and P6C [-
HA m. The reader will perceive by the important investi-
gation which the subject has undergone—the full particulars
of which will be found in another part of our paper—that no
right to hold them could be established. As it is likely,
however, that the question of right will be by a Quo War-
rant° before the Court of King's Bench, we abstain from
offering any remarks upon this head.
Fairs, when originally instituted, were of incalculable
utility in bringing those commodities into every village
and market-tawn, and to every one's door, which
could rot otherwise have been obtained without travel-
hog to a distance, at an expense greater than the
value of the articles to be purchased. The value of
this accommodation has long since ceased, except at a con-
siderable distance from market towns. In the vicinity of
London, fairs have been for the last half century the annual
resort of the dissolute and idle from all quarters, and have
served little other purpose than to furnish an annual harvest
to cheats and pickpockets.
The term Fair, in its primitive signification, is very
different from that kind of market, the advantage of which
we have just described. The fairs, feria., were kept on
festival days, dies soneti, and had no relation to the sale of
merchandise. They ought not, therefore, to he confounded
with the Nundiiuror markets which in Rome were kept every
sixth day, and to which the people resorted for the purpose
of buying and selling. The difference between a market,
merealus, and a
.fair, is likewise observable from the in-
tervals at which they are kept : the former is usually kept
once or twice a week, the latter annually, or at moat twice
in a year.

CITY, PRIMA! EVEWINO.

The jobbers did not take rest as usual to-day, after the
heavy settlement, but continued their operations rather
with increased energy. Those who are operating for the
rise succeeded in bolstering Consols for a short time in the
early part of the morning, and Account bargains were done
at 85 to but that quotation soon ceased, in conse-
quence of the heavy sales that were attempted, and 84.11
was the concluding price, and the market at the latter part
of the day showed no symptoms of elasticity ; indeed, if
the reported misunderstanding between the Ministers and
the Bank be correct, that alone is sufficient to account for
the weight of the market. The failure of a peat mercan-
tile establishment in the Spanish trade,altbough it probably
did not materially effect the market, had a necessary ten-
dency to spread alarm, and weaken confidence. Exchequer
Bills were Is. to 4s. dis.

The business in Foreign Securities was not so heavy is
it has been on some of the former days of the week ;
prices, for the most part, gave way ; Colombian Bonds
were 631 41 ; Mexican 6 per cent. ditto, 67/ 8 ; Brazilian
Scrip, 13 123 dis. ; Spanish Bonds, 1312; Greek ditto,
2111; and Danish ditto, 62/.
In Shares nothing was doing.
The Colonial Market was without interest, and prices
by no means recovered.
The supply of Grain in Mark-lane was plentiful, and
quotations weady ; the price of Barley not declining in
consequence of the opening of the ports.

A letter from Naples of the Bth of November 'states,
that " there is a report that the free port of Meel,na will
be supers«led and changed to a scala franka, wb'.ch allows
only of the re-exportation of goods without paying the
duty ; but exporters must say to what port they have sent
their merchandise, and must produce under this privilege
the document of importation to the Cour'L in question'. It
is fully believed that this arrangernetit will take place."
Another letter of the same date, and from the same place,
says—" The steam-boat between Naples and Sicily has
discontinued her voyages, and probably will be sent back
to England. They talk of an augmentation of duty on
cloth, as well as a tax on merchants in general, and on
flour, in order to make up for the deficiency in the budget
and to avoid new taxes."

The following incredible story is told in a letter from
Madras. quoted in a provincial paper :—" You have doubt-
less red, both in the English papers and Asiatic Journal,
of the Burman war; by the last accounts their famous
General. Maha Bundoola, was killed by a shell on the tak-
ing of Donahue ; he is supposed to he Major Carroll, who
was dismissed from his Majt sty's service ahem a year and s
half ago for giving in false returns; it is generally reported
that he is the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Hastings,
through whose ihttrest he was promoted from a private..
It was thought at one time he had embarked for Eoglatil,
but it is now very well ascertained that ho did not ; he
has certainly revenged himself upon theintlign Govern-
ment, for through his means the Emperor of Ara declared
defy- he expense of which has cost the Cam-
%of motley."

Radsettid declares his titro resolution not to withdraw his army, war, to defray the e
from Etolia till Ilkiolu ighi is taken ; and it die surrender of eit immense sums