The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-26 00:00:00

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' for several clays pest. South American securities were a
good deal better. Colombian Bonds Were at 10 , Mexican
Scrip (1823) at jto 14, and Braeilian Scrip 14 9. Greek
Bonds improved, as did the new Scrip, towards die latter
part of the day: the former w tee 'lone at .:04 514, and the
latter dosed at 54 S. The Old Spanish Bonds were very
firm at 234 24, and those of 1 123 were. done. at 181 4.
The Shares, as well as the English and Foreign Mar-
kits, were hotter. The. Pearl al* Coral Fishery at one
time readied 2.i, and lcfr off at 21.. with every probability,
from the appealance of the' Market, of its being much
higher. There was notliMg-duin" in Colombian AgriO!.
tiiral Shares. Those of the new rMexican Company were
at 74. A new Perusian 'Pearling and Mining Company
came out this morning, of which the shares left off at
Ito 3 premium. Pasco Peruvians were from 19 to 204.
Although there was but little doing in the Colotiial
Market, the prices of Sugar are steady. There were 22
hogsheads of very brown Jamaica Sugar sold at 645. In
Cofre there wai nothing doing, but we can confidently
state that the prices of it are firm.

A Supple. lent to the Lo rani Gazelle of Titt•aday last was
pttblialitd yesterday, containing a series of despatches and
inelosums which have been received at the East India-house
from the Governor-General of India. They do not contain
any notice of the mutiny at Barrockpore. They are to the
12th of November, and form a continuation of the official
intellivico relating to the war with the Burmese, publishd
in the I-arrears" Gazelle of the St3d ult. Their contents have
bead partly Anticipated by previous arrivals. We shall,
boiceve_ ,r give an analysis of theta.
The first tnclosure is a despatch from Sir Archibald Campbell,
dated Rangoon, August 11, and contains an account of come dis.
*enhance* in the pt °since of Dalin, **owing to orders having been
receiectl for a general levy of every scan capable of bearing arms."
Th• order had been most strenuously opposed. and even blood had
been shed on the arrival ea person of rank, to enforce obedience to
the measures of Government.
_Colamel.Kay„witii a detachment of
400 men, was sent up the Dale river to attack the cordon, when
two of the erietny's stockade', were canted—the officers, less inctun-
baed than their men, forming One breast deep in mud and water,
and passing scaling ladders limn one to another, to be planted
against the walls of the stockade. Another inc:osure contains Col.
Kelly's account of this g-illant affair.
It appears that, after our troops had retired, the enemy retook
the stockades. and were again driven from them on the 2d of Sep-
tember by a detachment under 31 %Jot P. L. Evans, who succeeded
in capturing 25 boats and canoes from the enemy. In this service
the officers and crew of his Majeaty's ship Larne rendered import-
ant assistance. On the Soh and 6th of September the Burmese made
another and formidable attack on the Dana stockade, when they
were repulsed. by the detachment in the stockade and the naval
force in-the river.
A report from Brigadier-General Fraser, elated Rangoon Camp.
September 27, contains an account of the attack on the Burmese at
Faulting, where several stockade* were carried. Other letters COO.
tain the details of the military operations in Cechar, and the cepa
cure of Tavoy and 31ergui, the most valuable possessions of tits
Burmese, on the Tenasaerim coast. There have already been no-
ticed in our Paper. The report front Lieutenant-Colonel Smith,
conmining an account of the operation* of the 6th and 7th of Oro-
ber, which are given in die Gazette, has already been published
by us.
On the sth of October another attack was made on the enemy on
the Syng river, by a detachment commanded by Major Evans.
where 10 pieces of ordnance and a quantity of ammunition ware
captured. On the nth of that monde the enemy were dislodged from
their position at Keyreloo.
The affair in the (.'heduba Roads, of which the official details see
given in the nozette, had already been noticed. It appears that
Captain Barnes. of the Hastings, in a subsequent reconnoissance,
destroyed some boats, and found that the position the enemy were
reported to occupy ball been abandoned.
Although it will be seen with what obstinacy the enemy contest
with us, yet in every rencuntre our troops had been successful ; and
it would appear, by an extract from the letter from the Governor.
General to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the
East India Company, dated Fort William, N0v.12, that the Bur-
mese are becoming in want of arms:—
N.ln a despatch a the 16th or October, Brigadier-General Sir
Archibald Campbell observes, that if he can trust the information
he receives, the united strength of the Burman empire is now cel-
-1 eting in his front. Part of the army under the Mulls Bundoola
(who cAmtnanded in Arrican) is believed to have been present in the
stockades attacked and carried by Major Evans's detachment ; but
their presence, Sir Archibald Campbell remarks. does not appear,
'however, to have given soy additional confidence to the troops who
have hitherto been opposed to its. The Court nf A va, be adds, has
already made great exertions in supplying their army with such
materials as the country and capital contain, all or great part of
which has been successively captured by the British force under his
command. What further efforts in that respect they may be able
to make he cantor judge ; but, if any inference can be drawn from
the wooden guns, doable and single-beaded wooden shot, lately
found in their an:cloaks, sad tiro stole lamps of rugged inn used
as shot, their arsenal depau-snaent,it awn be concluded, is reduced
to a very low ebb."

INDIA.

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Extract from a letter from Lieut.-Colonel Innen, C.B. commanding
the Sy!het Frontier, to Lieut.-Colonel Nicol, Adjutant-General
of the Army, dated on the River near Pancbguon, October 30,
1824:
" I have the honour to report. for the information of his Excel-
Leavy the Commander-in-Chief', tbat I proceeded up the Beak river
an the morning of the 26th, towards the posts lately occupied by
the Burmese force at Tiloayn and Daodpstlee. The first-named
place is occupied by • detachment of the fdd rrgimern under Cap-
tain Lister and I bare iasTuered that officer to have the outward
defences destroyed. the palisades on the summit renewed, and the
hill itself rendered tenable by a small body of men. The stockades
the heighte to the south of Tiloayn have been directed to be de-
stroyed also.
The Burmese position at Deoilpatlee consisted of 7 stockades
of a most formidable nature. From their extent and the number
of huts, I should not imagine the strergth of the enemy to have
been lees than 10,000 men. The whole of the stockades, with
the exception of a principal one erected round a Pucka-house, I
have directed to be destroyed. In it I hove posted Rajah (Thum-
b:see Sing with his levy, he having returned with a great proportion
of his men, not being able to tome up with any part of the enemy's
rear -guard.
Cached' may row be esteemed entirely vacated by the enemy,
fovea far to the eastward as Banskaidy they are said to have passed
six days ago in full retreat for Alunnipoor."

THE EXIIIIHrION OF THR SOCIETY OF
IIIIITI•SH ARTISTS.

We were present r•est&ay at the private view of this Second
Exhibition of tht SoAety of British Anists, which. in all that cin
excite a warm and genuine admiration, greatly surpasses the first,
excellent as it was. The most prominent improvement that stack
us, taking the whole performances collectively, was in the chaste.
ness of tone and colouring, which has 'toper: e led that forted
brilliancy of tint that has so long prevailed in the British School,
and upon which we have sn frequently had occasion to remark.
We hail this improvement in its Professors as of infinite import,
ante to the advancement of the art, and as justifying the most
sanguine expectations than can be formed of its tilting to the high
level of the Ancient Blasters. The present Exhibition abounds
with too many pictures of superior excellence to permit us, con-
fined as we are to-day for spare, to dwell apon as they deserve ;
We shall, therefore, defer a more detailed saute of them till our
next.

The Princess Augusta honoured the Oratorio at Drury-
' lane Theatre with her presence patents, evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Canning and family were at the English
Opera House on Thursday to ace Mr-Metbews' Eatertaintrient.
A letter from Demerara, dated sth February, received
at Liverpool, says—" The weather still continues itstremely and
alarmingly dry, and the sugar crop for the present your must fall
oft very much ; we have strong winds without the least dew at
night ; this estate has suffered very much, and in the event
of a continuance foe some weeks longer the calamity will be
very great from want of fresh water. Billan is now wading up
the river 50 miles for water for the supply of the negroes ; and
on the East Coast of Berbice, some estates have lost NO bend of
cattle from wart of water, and on others the cattle hare entirely dis-
appeared, having gone into the interior."
In consequence of the above information some of the
leading houses in Liverpool have withdrawn their produce out of
the market. _ . _

Jamaica Journals to the 9th tilt. rearhell us last night.
A great %misting has been produced in the Island by the failure of
Mr. 3luirhead. the Receiver.fleneral of the Island. His deNcien-
cies amount to 80,0019/. His affairs were snbmitted to the crouton
at a public meeting on oth Feb. It would appear there has been the
greatest negligence in looking into the public 'Weirs of the island, as
no inspection whatever by the l'onunisaioners of Pit bile Accon it tit had
taken place. By these documents it is attenuated that the drEci-
encies in the Receievcr General's accounts are no novelty, as the
predecessor of Mr. Muirhestl died in debt to the island to the
amount of $lO.OllOl. !! The loss dtiedy falls upon the holden of
checks—an anomalous paper currency, which the Iteceivegre Ge-
neral have been in the habit of issuing, not really on the Malt of
the public treasury, but on their own personal credit a Wen of
presumed respectability. The Attorney of Mr. Al MAIM an-
nounced his relignatinn in consequence of "his private difficulties.
arising from improvident loans and undertaking executorships."
W. J. Stevenson has been sworn into office as the successor of
Muirhead. The Helicon, Captain Furber, from Honduras,
arrived at Jamaica on the 6th ult. and brought intelligence that the
Spaniards, who lately escaped from Truxillo, it would appear,
ware disattetied towards the present state of things, and with a
Priest at their bead, had lung been intriguing with the Havanna,
for the purpose of again hoisting the Spanish 114. short, the
repeated attempts of this nature, throughout Guatimala, had
induced that Government to expel all the European Spaniards.
PHRltti OLOGY.—We are again, though very reluctantly,
obliged to postpone our report of Dr. dpurtheina's Firth Lecture till
Monday.