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London, England, 1826-05-23 00:00:00

DRURY:CAI%ikTfiEATRE.

This Evening, TUESDAY, Maiita, will be performed the
Grand Romantic called
ALADDI. .
The principal Characters by liftmen. Sinclair, Morn, Browne, Bedford,
G. Smith, and Webster ; Misses Stephens, Johnston, Cithltt, Perry, and
Meet , and Mrs. Davison.
After which N. Alexandre will perform the Entertainment of
THE ROGUERIES OP NICHOLAS=
OR, VIZ ADVINTURIS OP A ILOQVIST.
To conclude with the Farce of
TWO WIVES.
Plank, Mr. Harter.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
This Evening, TUESDAY, May 23, will be performed the now Play of
WOODSTOCK.
The principal Characters by Messrs. C. Reelable. Warde, W. Ferrer,
Serie. Jones, Cooper, Egerton, Blanchard. Chapman, and Evans ; Master
Isoughunt, Ifra. Chattetley, Illtsses Jones and J. Scott.
After wblrb the Romantic hien,- Mama of
ROBINSON CRUSOE ;
OR, TOR •OLD IBUCC XXXXXX .
IdAluson Crusoe, Mr. Farley; Prldsy, Mr. J. S. Grimaldi. lids, Mrs.

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all In One Day. The Price of Tickets and Shares will rl,e after givNt
matarday.
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The BatTllll Passe commenced publishing yesterday morn-
ing at fire o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, M* 23, 1826.

The inquiry relative to the expenses of the war in Spain
has Wen terminated. The Count of PORTAL'S read the re •
port on the 20th inst. to the Commission, of which he
forms a part. The result is said to be that the Chamber
of Peers must declare itself incompetent, as no Peer is

implicated.
The following are entrects from the Elate of Sunday.
( From die Efoik, dated Sunday. 2lst lilay.l

CONSTAIITIROPLE, APRIL 22.

We expect with impatience the pith May, when the delay
granted by Russia for the answer to he made to its ultimatum ex-
pires. Hitherto the most conflicting reports succeed each other.
The Franks prophecy that all the demands of Russia will be ac-
quiesced in, and even pretend that the Servian Deputies will soon
be allowed to return home with a satisfactory answer to their com-
plaints. The Greeks entertain quite contrary hope:. It is true, how-
ever, that 31r. S. Canning has failed in his efforts in favour of the
Greeks, and that the Reis Effendi has given to M. Minziacky only
a verbal answer, which be wholly v.igue. It is said that M. Min-
ziacky, probably in consequence of tli;s answer, has invited all
Russian merchants in this city to put their affairs in order, and to be
ready to leave the city at the same time with hi:n, in case the ulti•
matum should be finally rejected by the Reis Effendi.

APRIL 21.

The Turkish Ministers hold daily conferences, but there has not
yet been any extraordinary meeting of the Divan, whence It is in-
frared that no decisive resolution has bTen taken with respect to
the Russian nhirnatam. Judging by the verbal declaration of the
Reis Effendi, it is presumed that this written answer will not be de.
livered till a little before the 17th May, when tile delay expires.
An unfortunate circumstance for the Porte is, that it allows hardly
any influence to the English Ambassador, whom it should con.
elder as one of its best friends, and all whose proposals in favour of
the Greeks It has rejected. It is affirmed besides, that the Reis
Effendi has Made many complaints to him on the conduct of the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, during the late
ver.ts at M issolonghi.
Letters from Smyrna, of April 4, say that Sir Hudson Lowe had
left that city, to proceed to India by the Red Sea.
A vessel arrived at Trieste, in 56 days from Alexandria in
Egypt. reports that a division of the Greek fleet of Hydra had
main, in the month of Much, a landing at Beirout In Syria, and
carried off three millions of pitmen. The Greeks intended a simi.
lar attack on Cyprus, but were hindered by contrary winds. The
terror spread by this enterprise had extended to Egypt.

FILLNCH FUN6S.—PART4, .MAY 20.—Five per Cents. 9tH.
V.:. ; Three per Cents. 64f. 10e. ; Bank Stock, 2010 f.; Neapolitan

-p:y.

Renter, 751 30c.; Spanish Rentes, Of.; Spanish Loan, 45f ;
Exchange on London—One Month, 2.5 f. 50c.; Three Months,
251. 30c.—Cain Anthentique.

IVe have received Ilatnbingh Papers to the Clst May.
They contain an account of the baptism of the young Duke
of StANIN, who takes the name of Louis Et;ots►•

We have hitherto abstaincel from making any comments
on the General Election, which must now so soon take
place, be:ause the spirit which will animate the people of
England in choosing their Representatives, appears to us
already to have been so completely manifested, that the
slightest attempt to direct it on our part seemed unne-
cessary. They have seen Ministers pursue steadily the
interests or their country, through " evil report and good
report." In relation to their foreign policy, they have
seen them pursue a line of conduct at first unpopular, and
have afterwards found reason to congratulate themselves
on the little attention paid to clamours which might have
plunged Great Britain in a long, arduous, end expensive
war ; they have seen them at other times, when convinced
of the inexpediency of their measures. recede from those
measnees in obedience to the public voice ; in short, they
have seen the present Government ever anxious to second
the a ishes of the nation, when coolly end decidedly pro-
nounced, and at all times desirous of identifying themselves
with the country at large. They have known no honour but
the approbation of their compatriots, and no interest but in
the welfare of England. It is unnecessary to allude to par-
ticular instances, for many must be fresh in the recollection
of every one, and the result of the General Election will
prove to the world the popularity of the British Ministry.
We have adverted to the subject at present, merely for
the purpose of remarking upon the noble confidence which
Ministers have evinced in the good sense and honourable
feeling of their countrymen. Men less persuaded of the
uprightness of their own intentions, or less convinced of
the sound principles of Englishmen, would have hesitated
on the eve of so critical an event, before they attempted to
carry such meastres as the late commercial regulations,
and the introduction of bonded corn ; which, it must be
al'osveti, are by no means acceptable to a large aud influen-
tial portion of our population, however much they may
permanently tend to the advancement of the beat interests
of the Empire.

CITY, 3IONDAY EVENING.

The reports, both foreign and domestic, were of • favourable
nature this morning, and consequently the Funds improved ; but
the chief business in those of this country was in preparing for the
settlement to-morrow. Consols opened at 77i, and advanced with
soots rapidity to 782 I, though the im.jority of jobbers and brokers
are supposed to be speculating for a fall. Scrip, (font # dis., has
advanced to to g prem. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds are
again lower. is. to 9s. prem. In other Engl;sll Securities there Is
little variation, except a progressive rise in consequence of the ad-
vance in Consols.

The Foreign Market was generally higher to-day. Colombian
Bonds, 42i to 42} ; Mexican, G 2. to 63; Russian, 7.ij t Greek,
15} t.
By the Mary merchant vessel, arrived at Plymouth from Lima,
we have papers and letters to the 26th January. The former
merely contain the particulars of the capitulation of Callao; the
latter are of some interest as to the commercial advantages likely to
result from a free intercourse with Peru. The expenses of convey.
Mg goods from Iluarho (the port to which the English trade chiefly
was directed during the occupation of Callao by Rodil) to the
Lima market, exceeded all the cost of transmitting goods from Eng-
land to the coast of Peru. The mercbsots, in consequence, an.
ticipate great advantages from the direct traffic with this country.
It would appear that Bodil held out the castle of Callao to the last
extremity. Santa Rosa was stormed, and the guns spiked, on the
11th January. Rodil had anticipated such an event, and laid attain
to blow up the Patriot forces, which happily was discovered in
time to prevent the catastrophe. The disease in the garrison of
Callao was an great, that immediately after its surrender an
order was published to prevent cil persons from appronching it.
Bolivat was expected at Lima towards the beginning of February,
to open the Congress.
Accounts have been received from Buenos Ayres tO the 231 Feb.,
I and from Monte Video to the 3d of March. They confirm the re-
' port of another action between the Brazil fleet and the Patriots, off
the fort of Colonist, about adsy'a sail from slome Video, but the
result had not transpired at the latter place. The accounts front
Buenos Ayres state, that the Six per Cent. Stock of the Loan ne-
entiated in London was selling at 50 to 55, and trade was very dull.
Great energy had been displayed by the National Bank; the in.
tercet, from 9 per cent. per annum, had been reduced to 6 per cent.
per annum; and the Bank discounted freely at the reduction.
Shares cf one thousand dollars each sold at a premium of 24
per cent.

The old banking-heuve of Sikes, Snalth, and Co., of the
Poultry, have paid a dividend of fir. tkl. per pound, and ss. more
is Immediately anticipated. It will be remembered that this is
one of the firma which fell during the panic in December last, and
has been frequently spoken of by some as likely never to make any
dividend ; by others as not likely to pay more than half-a-crown in
the pound.

Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated Feb. 9:—
" Business here is literally so dull, that one-half of the
young men in commercial houses have nothing whatever to
do, and if the blockade lasts, many will be out of etnploy-
ment, as no doubt those houses who have large establish-
ments of young men will now endeavour to get rid of some
of the most idle. The militia are likewise exercising every
afternoon, and during their exercise, from four to half-
past raven, all the shops and stores are closed, and obliged
to be shut by order of the police. The poor Portuguese
have received their marching orders in four days from the
3 tat ult. ; to-morrow completes the time. Those that have
not left the coast of the river twenty leagues, and still re-
main in town, will be taken care of by Government, and
put somewhere where their liberty will be endangered."
The Spaniards, it appears, have been in great alarm re-
specting the threatened descent of the Colombian and
Mexican squadrons on Cubs. Letters from St. Jago de
Cuba, received yesterday, dated 18:11 March, suit that there
had been reinforcements of military sent to that quarter ;
but the inhabitants were afraid of the constqucnces, be-
lieving that they would join the Patriots it' a landing
was effnted.

Halifax Papers to the 18th of April arrived yesterday.
The C.ilonial Legislatures at Quebec and at Halifax have
been closed.—Bermuda Papers to the Ilth March say, that
the late discord at Bermuda has been allayed since the
arrival of Governor Turner. Ile arrived on the 14th Feb.
and was received with the greatest demonstrations of joy.
CAN A RlS.—Amon,,,, the other misfortunes of the Greeks,
it is asserted that Canaria perished at Nlissolonglii. He
had been successful in his attack with his firevhip ; but a
ball is said to have caused his vessel to blow up, and he
perished in the waves.
We lament to state that racial intelligence was received
yesterday from Sierra Leone of the death of Capt. Pearsc
and Dr. Morrison, who accompanied Capt. Clapperton to
the coast of Africa, fur the purpose of proceeding into the
interior of that continent.

CATHOLICS IN Am ERIC A.—We published, a short time
since, an extract of a letter from America, detailing the
proceedings of the Catholics in that country in favour of
Emancipation of the Catholics in Ireland. Since then we
have seen a pamphlet, lately published in Dablin, contain-
ing the following passage respecting the co-operation of
" friendly Americans," in the cause of their brethren in
Great Britain; which tends at least to prove that a similar
report, circulated in the month of January last, was not
en:irely without faurnlation :—" The attention of Ame-
rica has been as strongly directed to Ireland as that of
France; arid it is known that an invasion of Ireland, in
the event of another war, is a favourite speculation in that
country, and one which the Government of the States, if
so inclined, will not be able to resist. The Irish exiles
have formed a powerful interest in America, and tlid.tr
great activity and talents have given a Lie and direction to
the public mind of that country."

THE BRITISH PRESS.

PAMTIES.
The Duke of Leeds entertained Lord and Lady James Townehend, Sir
Geo. Montgomery, H. fludion, Esq. M.P., and a distinguished party, at
.
Yeiirerday. at his haute In Bruton-stieet, ilerkeley•ttplare.
Lord Colchester entertained • large party at dinner yesterday, at his
house In Spring-gardens.
Lord Bexley bud a dinner party yerlerday, at his house In Great George..
street, Westminster.
'lle Dowager Cuu tiles' of St. Germain's entertained a dirtingoldied party
at dinner yesterday, at her house In Cavendish-street.
The followlnit divtinguishert personage. had dinner patties ye:rods, :
The Dowager Marohinuees of bellshurv, Lord Sberborue, Mori. Mr. Lu-
pe', John M'eyland, F.sq. and the Nev..l. Peel.
Mrs. Gurney gave • grand boil and nipper, on Friday evening, at her
house in St. Jetnes's-square—tbe suite of drawing-rooms were mipt
brilliantly illuminated. Dancing commenced about I I o'clock, In the
principal and adjoining drawing-rooms : there were present nearly 3lin of
the beat ton, among whom were--Prineesses GortchacriCe and elm idle. the
tracheae of Montrose and the Ladles Graham, Dowager Ductless of Me..-
.heeler, Count and Countess Ladolf, the Martini. and Mei chioness of
Fluidly, the Earl of Albemarle, the Dowager Countess of Albemarle,
the Muddiness and the Ladles CJTVIaIIi4, Lord and Lady Selsey, Lord
W. Montagu, Lord and Lady Kirkwall, Lord Mandeville, Lcdy Bray-
brooke, Lady and Miss King, turd Arbuthnot, Lady Winnington, Lady
Maria West, Lady Bolton and Miss Irby, Lord Arthur Hill, the Earl and
Countess of Galloway, Sir Jac rh and Lady /matey, Dowager Lady Astley,
Ludy and Miss Poulin/ton, Lady G. Kepprl, the Earl of Aberdeen,
Dowager Lady Sitwell, Colonel and Lady Elisabeth Steel, Sir J. Orde, Sir
Chute. Gordon, SO T. Wilmington, &c. &e.

MOVEMENTS.
The Duke of Hamilton anlved In town yesterday, from Paris.
The Duke of Rutland :las left Bedroll' Castle, for glautonnuod House,
Derinshire.
The Dowager Duchess of Rutland hat left Beivoir Ca..tle, for Melton
Montle?.
Lord Brodenell left tewn yr.terdAy. for Deese Park, Northamptonshire.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland left town yesterday, for his seat, St.
Cattiat Me, Edinburgh.
The Hight lion. Sturges Bourne arrived in town yesterday, from West•
brook, liras.
sir A. Fitzgerald, Ilsrt. has arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle.
street, Pram the Continent.
Mr. and Mrs. ‘Villiam Beaumont left town yesterday. for their seat,
near Colchester.

Henry Porcher, Eq. M.P. left town yrderday, for Cheltenham.
C. /Wanton, Esq. has arrived at Hampton, from his seat lu Hants.
Captain Crippe left town yesterday, for hi+ seat in Oloucestersblre.
Captain Clarence Dalrrnple has arrived at Miller's Hotel, .Icrmyn-
street, from a tour.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stawner arrived yesterday at the Pulteney Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from their seat in Cambridge-hire.
Arrivals at Penton's New lintel, St. James's-street:—Henry Green,
Esq. from his seat In Leice.tershire; Harnand, Esq. from Bath.
Departure R. Watt, Esq. fur his seat In Surrey.
Arrivals at Ocuil,l's hotel, Jerrnmstreet :—Colonel and Mrs. °minim
and family, from Cheltenham; Mrs. irelabeche, from Petworth, Snow..
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel. Burlington and Cork streets : Lord
■nd Lady Initially, from Cheltenham ; J. quick, Esq. from Oxford;
Captain Edward, from ditto. Departures :—•Mr. and Miss Wright, on a
tour; Captain Oakes, R.N. fur Oxford.
Arrivals at the Brunswick Hotel (late Blake'*), Jermyn.street:—Lord
and Lady Kenmore, from the Continent ; the Earl of Eigln, from Scot-
land ; Sir James and Lady Oswald and Miss Or weld, from Scotland ; and
M'y combe. from Oxfordshire. Departures :—The Earl Chum-1111am,
Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Owen Wynne, Esq., Rev. R. Wynne, Mrs. Scott
Wareing, Ml.. E• 1111.4 Honourable Mr. and Mrs. %Vedette; Mn. and the
Misses Brummels.

THE ALBUM.

SCRAPS, ORIGINAL AND SELECT.

SINGULAR Spictne.—ln the yeat 1600, on the itith of
April, one William Dorrington threw himself from the top
of St. Sepulchre's Church, having previously left on the
roof a paper, of which the following is a copy :
" Let no other man be troubled fur that-which is my own act.
John Bunckley and his fellows, by perjury and other bad mea'rs,
have brought me to this end, Ood torgive it them, and I do. And,
0 Lord! forgive me this cruel act upon my own body, which I
utterly detest, and most humbly pray him to cast it behind him ;
and that of his most exceeding and infinite mercy he will forgive it
me, with all my other sins. But surely, after they had tht.s slan-
dered me, every clay that I lived was to me a hundred deaths,
which caused me rather to choose to die with infamy, than to live
in infamy and torment."
At the bottom of the paper was written—
. ......

" 0 summa Deitas,
.quae.etelis et superis presides, mei* medere
miseris, ut spretis infer's, linter superis, nth done veniam."
" Trusting in the only passion and merits of Jesus Christ, and
confessing my exceeding great sins, 1 say, 3laster, have mercy
on me ! "

Thia paper was folded up in the form of a letter, and
indorsed—

" Oh, let me live., and I will call upon thy name ! "
Loan Cu ESTERFIELD.—A zealous Protestant, thinking
to pay his court to the Earl of Chesterfield, when Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, came to inform him that one of his
coachmen was a Roman Catholic, and went privately to
mass. " Does he indeed !" said his Lordship, Well, I
will take care he shall never carry me there."

THE VILLAGE COQUETTE'S EPITAPn.
The partner of partners, the belle of a ball,
And caring for none, though I smiled urn all,
I flirted, a season, with all that I saw,
The parson, the merchant, the limb of the law ;
The Squire, and the Captain. were fish in my net,
Which gained me the name of the Village Coquette.
Years gather'd, and robbed me of swain after swain;
Time snaps, ltnit by link, the most obdurate chain.
The parson adored a rich widow at Kew,
The merchant ran off with the niece of a Jew,
The lawyer eloped, being rather in debt,
And the squire stoic away from the Village Coquette;
The captain, false pirate! fur life tn'k in tow
A ishartii ger's daughter at Stratford.le Bow.
When to ! pert and priggish, all congees anti shrugs,
A pproadi'd to adore me—a dealer in drugs!
I sicken'd-1 paid Nature's debt,
And died, sad and single, a Village Vorpielte.

The Duke of York transacted military business with the
King yesterday.
The Princess Augusta paid a visit yesterday to the
Duke of York, at his residence in South Audley-street.
Yesterday the Duchess of Kent and the I'rincess Feodore
visited. the Princess Augusta.
Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner yesterday to a
numerous party, to meet the Duchess of Kent and the
Duke of Sussex.

The Earl of Clanwilliam, Minister at Berlin, transacted
business on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Canning, at his
Office, in Downing-street.
Yesterday the Earl of Clanwilliam had an audience
of his Majesty, on his arrival in England, from his embassy
at Berlin.

Yesterday Lord Charles Somerset transacted business at
the Secretary of State's Office for Colonial Affairs.
Prince l'olignac, the French Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.
Yesterday, being Trinity Monday, the Corporation of
Trinity House held their anniversary meeting, and pro-
ceeded in barges to their Hall, at Deptford, when the
Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool was unanimously
re-elected Master for the ensuing year; and after attending
divine service at the church of St. Nicholas, where an
excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Christopher
Benson, M.A. they returned to dinner at the City of
London Tavern. Among the company present were several
of the Nobility, Admirals, and persons of distinction.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEM ENTS.—The rage for build-
ing seems at this period to be at its very zenith. Go to
what quarter we will, houses, and shells of houses, carcases
of all shapes, and skeletons of all sizes, meet our view ;
circumstances indicative of the increasing prosperity and
population of this gigantic metropolis. Lord Grosvenor is
extending his already wealthy rent-roll, by covering a large
area of land between Pimlico and the south of the Knights-
bridge-road, with a splendid square, intersected by several
streets ; in a few years this plan will be accomplished,
when it will, it is said, form another parish, by name
Relgravc. Hamlet, also, the wealthy jeweller, and Cap-
tain Jones, have purchased the tract of land at :Milbank
contiguous to the Penitentiary, on which site it is their
intention to erect at least three hundred houses of a supe-
rior description. It is pretty generally known that a Noble
Marquis is building a splendid residence in the neighbour-
hood of the Regent's Park, on the plan of an Italian villa ;
and reports states that a small theatre is to form etre of the
many elegant embellishments to the new edifice. From some
broad hints, dropped a few evenings since, at the M—s
of S---'s conversazione, it is now pretty generally under-
stood, that a phry-house of a different description is on the
eve of being added to this magnificent structure. This is
far from improbable, it being an indisputable fact that
his Lordship has ever shewn a peculiar knack of uniting
profit widryleasure.
The Monkland and Kirlintilloch railway has been
opened. On Wednesday one horse dragged 16 tons of coal
from Cargell colliery, Mr. Colt's, to Kirkinrilloch. The
work was accomplished in two hours with ease, although
the gross weight transported was not kss than 36 tons, and
the distance seven miles. The coals were sold at Kirkin-
tilloch at 7s. 6d. a ton.—Scotsmait.

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