The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

Greek Scrip was nominally 12fL discount ; but very re* I
bargains were done in it. Spanish Bondi were at Satur.-
day's quotatierns. South American Securities were held
rather heavily to-day, but the cause is to be found pro-
bably in the paucity of transactions in them. Colombian
Bonds were 33/ 4, and Mexican Scrip 31i discount.
There was nothing reported in the other Foreign Secu-
rities worthy of notice.
In the Share Market the chief alteration was in British
Iron Shares; which were done at the opening of the
market at 1 discount. In a short time they ran down to
21, 3 and 4, and left off at 3, 21 discount. During the
panic there were ready sellers at 4. Anglo Mexican Shares
were rather higher to-day, being done at 70, 75. The
United Mexican Shares got back to T-2, 24. Netherland
Salt Shares were much sought after to-day at 42 51,
making an advance of 3 per cent. in as many days.
The Guatemala Loan was this day contracted for by
Messrs. J. and A. Fowles and Co.

Last night we received the Amsterdam papers of Satur-
day ; their contents are wholly without political interest.
We extract the following paragraphs :
Ilallovra, AUG. 13.
M. Feick., Chief Justice at Stade, is gone tor an indefinite time
to the Central Committee of Inquiry into the revolutionary in.
trigues, sitting at Mayence, of which he was formerly a member.
STOCEHOL3t, AEG. 5.
Hie Majesty is unable to come to town, having a severe pain in
his foot ; and the member* of the Council of State go from ume to
time to Rosenberg. Ilia Illsjesty has commanded the establish-
ment of a technological institution in this city, and assigned, for
the present, 2,000 dollars, to purchase books. medals, Sic. This
event makes the guilds or companies of artisans afraid (and not
without reason) for their monopolies, which have been long so
violently attacked, and apprehensive of the introduction of a more
liberal system.
EXCbANOtS.
lismatiaost, Atte. 16.-45 101 a two months, 35 7f.
ST. PWEERSIICRGII, Atio. 1.—.10 7-16.
1.2195tc, Auc. 12.—Three months, 6 111.
Beams, Aver. I.i.—Thte months, 6 20R.
AMITERI4III, AEG. 19.--16 9; two months, 30 6.
The following was received by a mercantile house in the
City yesterday, dated Gibraltar, August 1.:—" There is
no reason to doubt the accounts front the interior (of
Spain) as to the bad state of the crops. 'l'lle condition of
the people is wretched, and the means of purchase much
reduced."
'A Brazil packet arrived yesterday, bringing letters from
Rio to the 9th June, from Bahia to the 25th June, and
from Pernambuco to the 6th July. They write from the
latter place that the rains are set in ; they were much
wanted for the crops, which are now expected to be good.
They also state that letters have been received from Rio,
which mention that all goods despatched after the lsth
June would be liable to the additional duty, and that a
bond must be entered into for the payment of the nine
per mat. increase, if it should be required.
We learn from the frontier of the eastern Pyrennees,
that about four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2d inst. the
curate of Notre Dame del Mont, near Besalu, his servant,
and the clerk of the parish, were all found dead at the
house belonging to the curacy. The bodies were disco-
vered secreted in the cellar. Nine or ten stabs were found
to have been inflicted on the curate, either with a knife or
dagger ; and the body of his servant presented equal
marks of violence on the neck and breast. 'fire parish
clerk appeared to have been murdered in his own apart-
ment with a bludgeon. The perpetrators of these crimes
(which must have been committed on the night of the
Ist or early in the morning of the 2d instant) plundered
the clergyman's house, and also pillaged part of the con-
vitt' in the church that was contiguous to it.—Courrier
Francais.
FORGERY IN SWF:DEM.—At the end of last month sen-
tence was passed at Odense, on 31 persons accused of
forging bank notes. The most guilty of them, Niels
Nielsen Moller, was sentenced to death and loss of honour;
six others to lose one hand, seven to hard labour for dif-
ferent periods, three acquitted, and fourteen condemned to
fine and imprisonments, and bread and water.
By the carelessness of workmen a terrible fire has broken
out in two forests in Norway ; one of them has now been
burning 16 days. It is hardly possible to form an idea of
several mountains covered with forests all on fire..—Ham-,
burgh Paper.
Letters from Marseilles, of the 14th instant, state the
news of the recognition of the 41tdepandence of Hayti was
received with satisfaction. Ttitin vessels which were load-
ing in that port for Martinique have altered their destina-
tion, and will proceed to Hayti.
The Greek Deputies in London have declared that, by'
despatches received from their Government, they are au-
thorised to declare that Mr. Nicolas Kefalas, by whom the
Address was presented to the Pope, has no public charac-
ter whatsoever ; nor has he been vested with power for
negotiating any transaction on part of the Greek Govern-,
men t.

The accounts from Trieste yesterday 'reach down to the
6th inst. They afford no intelligence respecting the war
in the Mores.

A ship which sailed from Corfu the 21st of July has
brought letters from that place, which repeat the reports
already circulated, of a speedy termination of this year's
campaign in the Morea. Ibrahim Paella, whose bold ex-
pedition to the Morea has raised so many illusions in the
heads of the European friends of the Turks, is reported—
after having had several engagements with Colocotroni,
which were all to his advantage, to have been taken
prisoner, with part of his army, and the great plan of the
Porte to be thus frustrated at one blow. An English
cutter, which came direct from Napoli di Romania, arrived
at Corfu the 20th of July, and is aaid to have brought this
important news.—Angemeine Zeitung, Aug. 15.
The arrest of some persons at Leipsie has attracted great
attention. These individuals, whom the police has thought
it necessary to arrest, were practisers of magnetism : they
will be prosecuted in the criminal court. The proceedings
have already commenced. Very serious crimes are spoken
of as having been committed.—Frankfurt Papers, Aug. 14.
The recent excessive heat at Rome has caused many
disorders, which were augmented by continued pestilen-
tial south winds.

Letters, dated the 15th June, have been received from
Cape Coast. The soldiers were beginning to feel the effects
of the clhnate. Lieut.-Col. Purdon, of the Royal African
Colonial Corps, bad experienced an attack of fever, but
was recovering ; we are sorry however to add, that Captain
de Barrallier died, after a few days' illness. No mention is
matted the Aahantees.

A new theatre is about to be erected in the city of:
Mexico, to he situated on Santa Clara-street, not far from
the centre of the city.
The Board of Health of Philadelphia, during the late!
hot weather, recommended all mechanics and labourers,:
whose business exposes them to the action of the sun, " to
abstain from work from eleven o'clock. the forenoon to
four o'clock in the afternoon." •
It appears by a New Orleans paper, of the 29th June,
that Governor of Georgia has sent another intemperate,
message to the State Legislature, upon the subject of the
Creek Indians.

'ln the Cincinnatus, which arrived at New York on
Friday, frotn London, came out passengers T. Iturbide,
J. Iturbide, Iturbide, A. Iturbide, and I. Iturbide,
being the family of the late Emperor of Mexico. The
widow of the Emperor has, within the last week or two,
arrived at New York, and taken a residence there.—
American Beacon.

Ears:nil-ton ro AFRICA.•—•The sailing of the Brazen,
VI, Captain 'George Willem, with Captains Clapperton and
Pearce, R.N. 011 their journey of discovery into the inte-
rior of Africa, is delayed until about thuraNy next. The
native of Saudou, who had engaged himself as a guide to'
the lamented Belzoni, has been put on board the Brazen,
with the same object. We understand the Brazen will
convey several fresh instructions to the new Commander-
in-Chief
on the coast. An alteration is to be made in the'
management of the manumitted slaves. they have hi- ,
therto been paid for their labour by the day, by which
mode an idle fellow has received as touch as an industrious
man, even though the latter ima also been a better artisan.
They are in future to be paid siceardisg to the quantity of '
work done or labour performed, and they are to.be paiil
specie, and.tret by cheek, as at peseta, on a store, where,
instead of cash, they are obliged to take goods, frequently
not of the sort they require, and always at a dearer rate
than they could obtain it elsewhere.
The drapers of Winchester, with the exception of one
individual, have agreed, through the solicitation of their
assistants, to close their shops at a certain hour in the even-
ing of the winter and summer seasons.