The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-31 00:00:00

lit EXICit

(From the aigaila Mexieener August 18.1
The Soaetary of the Treasury, in his late reports to the fee.
gross, says, that 1.256,338 dollars will be suflicient to meet the es.
reuses of the government in the different departments of war, fo.
reign relations, justice, and ecalesiastical affairs, and the trcauurr.
Among the extraordinary expenses are 1711.612 dollars for the de.
fence of carious posts ; 50.000 dollars disposed of by Sr. Mi.
(helm, in lemdon, fur execrative and secret objects; 20,000 dohs,'
remitted to Sr. Obregan. for the purchase of munitions tot the de-
partment of Alvarado; 9.405 dollars to the same, for the purchase
of guns and carriages : 601 .0.10 dollars for fiirtifimtions on the
Isle of Sacriecias ; 1.2,000 dollars stipulated to be paid to the rreoi
e: the ship Asia aid brig Constantine. fur their surrender to the
31exican Government; and 10,000 dollars (beyond the 16,000 of
plvvious esamate) which will be required far the legattoa
Home.
A proposition has been made in the city of Mexico, and very
favourably received, to establish an East India Company, to !rade
from the potts of the l'aciiie. Mexico certainly posse.ses the
advantages of geographical position for such au estabikhment.
lirr arms extend from the central table lands, towards Europe and
Asia.

Events indicate the stability of the federal system. The state of
Yucatan has sent its Deputies to the General Congress. lu can.
stitutinn has been proclaimed
t and sworn to by the Public lune.
'l' tionaries. Jose T. has been elected Governor.
The Constitution o the State of hfeehostatan was sworn to by
dr:Public Authorities on the 20th of July.
In a late statistical cork on Alexia', by Sr. Fernando Na.
it is raid to can•ain a p ..pulation of 8,122.33 souls, and
118,478 'spate leagoes, being 52 inhatitants to each. It corn.
prises 242 particles, 1072 parishes, 133 wissions, • 0 cities, 93 tosos,
4682 peuldas or villages, 206 salver mines, 3749 Iter:endas, 6/ill
ranchos, 1195 es•ancies for grating, 232 c•mvents of Irian, sad
36 of monks, 4229 cleri y, 3112 friars, 20;8 milks.
The whole population Is c. mpossd. e 1,6..1,928 S,aninds,
3,676.281 Indians, 1.338,706 ctf4s.

Ttte CALIPORWIAS.--The arrival of ea Agent a. the ti y of
Mexico, for the London Company, for the ti.hery of pearl in tlw
Gulf of California is announced. The Agvila remarks, Ow tlw
Government should be careful not to permit settle:Len s of g•c..t
newel powers on those thinly Mhabited coasts.
The amount of duties paid to the Custom.houge at Alvarado,
during the month of June was 511,4116 dollars ; of May, :41,4,2
dollars ; and of April, 346,1419 dollars.

LIVERPOOL COMM ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, SATCRDAY, Oct. Z.

Our British Plantation Sugar market may be considered at a
stand, for there has not been any demand, even from the grocers,
and only a few small orders for Ireland ; the prices are therefore
nominal. Nothing done in Foreign Sugar, nor in East India, tor
in Molasses. In Coffee about 203 casks have been sold, but at
prices rather lower. Nothing done in Foreign Coffee. In Rum the
demand is very limited, but the prices steady. In Cocoa o: /Jing,r
nothiug done In Pimento about 70 bags have been disposed of at
101 d a 10.1c1, and about 450 bags Black Pepper at Gdd per lb. Ashes
are steady, the sales are 300 brim. Montreal Put at 23:- 64 a 394, PO
brls. Pearl at 31s a 325, and a few barrels ofStates Pcsail at 324. in
Dyewoods the sales are 41) tons Catnpesehy Logwood at f 154 a
81 8s ; 100 tons Jamaica at 81 15s a 71; 10 tons Spanish Mastic
at 71; and 10 tons of middling solid Nicaragua Wood at 241. la
Tar 400 barrels Stockholm at lOs 3d pci brl. 6,0a6 barrels Tull-en-
Coe at ils Gd a 10s 64 per cwt. In Rice a few casks of fair ordinary
Carolina at Ills ; and 100 bags East India at 22a per cwt. In
H ides the sales are 6,000 Buenos Ayres ox and cow at 101i1 a 1214 ;
3,500 East India at 41d ; 120 Jamaica at 81d; GOO North Ameri.
can salted at 50 per lb., and 3,500 horse at da 33 ass 34 each. In
Indigo 143 chests East India; and 199 serons Caracca, and 59 se-
ems Guatemala were offered at public sale, of which only 29 chests
of the former were sold at 9s 7d a 12s 10d per lb.; 65 mons Ca.
races at 9s Ida 10s lid, and all the Guatemala at 5s Gd for very
inferior to lOs 8d for fair quality. The sale did not go riff aon
spirit, and the prices were about is below the East India
sale just concluded In London. Nothing done in Cochineal. Some
Safflower was offered by auction, but nothing done. In Sumach
about 800 bags Verona, at 9s 3d a 1013 d. In Galls about 4 braes
East India, at GI ss, in bond. In Saltpetre 600 bags, at rds 94 a
275. Valonia is dull; 110 tons Zante, of good quality, sold
at 191; 70 tons middling Turkey, at 211 lOs ; and 15 tots prime
Turkey, at 22/ 10s a 231. Olive Oil dull, and little doing. Is
Brimstone and Cream of Tartar nothing doing of moment, but
prices arc steady. In Madder Roots there has ben some inquiry,
but little done. Lemon Juice has been sold at 3d per degree. A
little more business doing in Tobacco, but the smile only purchase
for their present wants. Horsehair is rather lower. Tallow is
dull. The early part of the week our Cotton market was brisk, aml
prices of all descriptions got up 4d per lb, but the heavy failure
in London threw a damp on the market, and the business has since
been morelimited. About 1,500 bags Upland and Orleans have been
taken for export, and 4,500 Anirrican, and 1,530 Brazils on spe-
culation. There are 1,500 bales of Surat; declared for sale by Auc-
tion on Friday next. The sales of this week are 290 bales St..l
Islands nt 184 a 2s 2d ; 50 stained ditto at 100 a 15d; g 740 Up-
lands at ad a lld ; 4,050 Alabama and Mobile a 74 a 101 d ;
New Orleans at a 121 d ; 2.550 Pernams a 120 a f3J ; (31
Bahia at 114.1 a 1280
Id 1169 31aranhams, a Ilia a 121 d ; 564 Be-
mcrara and Berbice a 1014 a 120 ; 20 Barbadoes qt lod ; 13.1 co---
mon West India at 9kdr a lid; 30 Bahama • 11J; It* er-
thagena 81 ; 960 F,gyptiana at 144 a 12tl ; 081 Surat at NI a
anti GO Bengal at 6P. a 41., making a total of about 19,870 bag'.

IMPORTED INTO LITZ/FOOL FROM 220 TO`2BTH
INCLUSIVE.
288 bbds I Tobacco - 9/10 bins
. 28 tra 6.723 dry
brls [Wes .{l,oso saltul
24 tra , 4..0 bales of her‘e
6 pops Ilonehlir 11 bales
410 tons Cotton, W.I. - . 163 trai
- 3.726 cuks - American - 3
- 721 brls Brazils -
- 1,1016 brls
66 tons

Snot, 13. P.

Coffee
Molasses .
',op wood .
Tallow -
Flour .
Turpentine
OA Hark -

t~,4i ~:

In the following Trawls r—One
peachy, one from Virginia, on,
Quebec, one fmm Illsranham,
Video, six from St. Petersburg
Dantsig, one from Croastadt, and

;from 1.:W.1,10Am One Won e'3"
ie from IVilminenn, tso fro.
one from Bahia., one from Itlo:!
Th, one from Odessa, one Ire;
one from Amsterdam.

The corn-merchants antidote that the ports will I.•
opened for the importation of foreign barky next men:h.
at the duty of five shillings per quarter. The aggregate
average which regulates the impartation was struck at
40s. I Id. per quartet.
A cormorant was shot at Compstall-bridge on TtllftLlF
last, which measured between the two extremities of II:e
wings five feet, and front the point of the bill to the de of
the tail three feet one inch. It weighed six pounds ttfur
ounces. This bird is rarely suet with so far in the Interior
of the island.—Mcnchcrter Guardian.

I

3.01-6 gr LONDON F4SIIIOI►S FOIL
he New Monthly Work, called rtel rordif of
'!1;X:‘1 front
tFa s.',;on sad Conliatidel
vat though ever varying and ewer new.-Tet Wires much to
iik:f7",,;,l---r'showa by her fair votaries In the differenthatielea of thc
sich she plates before tben : if taste does not striml her
mdt,'`ft•baluty often blindly giving way to what is hnly novel, is
at of what touches on the ridiculoui, end dress
iolue"2— diaguise hotted of an ornament. The adopting a
awl bic°Te
suiti • •
rg colours however, ofyears
late been the
iiture ot
,rely der tf
frau, teal e ?once Clat wc have witneased in the
the British fair : never helesit, the assortment asso-
thecistotM became n +cud, among fa.hioni.t., produc.
clad eif•et ; and the lively and variegated appear-
ing care scenes of public amusement, and to the
sit a reel: give w
• ides, line reconciled us to what we once thought
fashi'vlltre;rtey's f ;gem is al.o now no longer obscured ; the
tiouJr. 'of n ell made female receives 7-idiional attracthan
e intent •
"De ,se dirk corset; the b/wase hi exploded, and the sleeves, en
anr-sie 17a:hi:air in-riog oray to those that better set off well
The petticoats, though modest in length, afford us a
ramie • .
;totaled of a we.l turned ancle, d those which are less short are
otaled to the splendid satoon, silence soil and dale are banished,
ed,ore oily troth a mode as very long ...tresses can insure the fair
men imbibing some particle' of dust : in drawlng.rooms
wester
t•rit
, y tin ism who still clicrish their ling dresses preserve the
"
5j!,;... heir elegant attire.
61.toef e the' made our general renarka, we shall now proceed to
g description of wane different arrieles of the toilet, which
tire e:ce just con:rdeted fo: same very distinguished individuale.
party dress, of bright geranium gauze, over white
terns a very elegant costume; the cnniage is male di la Cir-
caiorpe. the drapery folds over thE built trimmed with a beautiful
wbe, blond ; the border of the skirt is ornamented with one very
full puckering of ranee, coaled by fit!-tag Straps of satin,
the art; ;plow as the dress, and the straps edged on one side,
osly, inth blond. A sash of g:ranium sstin Tr:Aland incirelea the
• mem whenee, etracend two broad, long ends, of gauze,
trjorned rotted with Maui, the cede are ronniled, and they fall
sa rye ;iglu side, rather backward : the blond all roomd is headed
Wealth' doloiltof gersolmn colour ; the ends of the sash, from
dittdit. wiggled tv a small bow of gauze. A half dress robe
far mgdosig gogully" dinner parties. is another charming ens.
tAs ; it ie liquorice. the cokur walnut-tree-brown : it is trim.
teed with two brawl Seances. pinked in the style of the 17th ten.
t oar onle v the edges, but in rows of smell secret-holes above
tau acehrpa The heat of this dress is in the Bavarian ityle, with
strops dress: in the err t'e 111 each strap is a wrought Alb button,
with tassels reel) termination. The dress is made particularly
prr, WI towel le Slew: the sleeves ere long, not very wide. end
are ermanental at die cod' pa:t with bias straps, buttons and tag.
se s to errespond with those on the Mblier pert, in front of the
slim An Kenn% drut of celestial blee Ranee tins also b:en rum.
pitied ise 8144 or rink: it has three Bounces Sealloped at the
edge: the belt was merle in tire Vivenweion style: the sleeves
acre Ire;, of ,hate tulle, Ixautifully figured, and sunnoonted by I
Spanarb miseasemns, of the same colour and material as the dress.
tioirt.eoirired dress of crape, with three rows of trimming
rated the harder, toffrffentioX foliage, Is a handsome dents for a
diaper rally ii is made particulerty high, and the body is fluted
somas the Mat; it has long. end wide sleeves, but not en 'ital. A
kAu of Jot:vac game, of novel invention. is • graceful an.
!mane ander a low dress : a failing collar of p.iinta richly
mowed mural with blond. imparts an elegant finish to the bunt
sod bark ; cacti pert to unlicil, as it, cenitneneenient, by a ring-
*raga loyal white gotta.
ns soft and silver-Rite truant of the Japanese pas* rendes it
retel is rived among the most fashionable: a home cornette of
the &Wetted. trimmed with blond, has excited much admiration;
it,or,.law on the forrhead, and is conspicuously wide at the
a email sprig of sweet pees is placed on eaell temple,
„,kroits the berate ; and bows of a most richly brocaded ribbui:d,
.' re. are feirly tottered over the cowl and hesd.p:ece t the
marts, •n ch hest loose. are of the same ribbani. Another home
comers u d bowriful blend; and is worn very much ever she
hog silt a shah& i on the lett, which is arranged In clustered
earia, me plead throe full blown roses; and these seem to be the
eemmosagewangf • wreath, which avocets to be continued across
dated; k him a very beautiful end truly novel effect. Dress
b.., van I.k:dy to be the most prevailing evening eoilfinsre for
warned lobes: they are generally of shoe crape or 'differed net,
and we ornam, !lied eights with marabouts, or ostrich feathers,
raying in various dieretions: the other ornaments consist of scrolls
sf geweiZied with a binding of satin in bias, of • French white.
the 'One dress lists th re is a broad Used of beautiful pattern,
13 lieg erre 'he crown. Pink crape dress hors, with ostrich feathers
of therms ciilear, are much admired. Toques en
.squellintea, the
ribs famed of s bite ratio, pestle, and • sli::ht promo of coloured
nes, term a superb bend-dress' tor hall dress parties. On the
regtolit it • divided tulip ; the petal leaves of white satin, edged
Pahl wtils pads; and areas It are two glaurina phis, the heads
Isamplafbmgraise Mores ; this toque is finished by a line plume of
Otte hit eierich feathers. The turban toque of geranium gauze is
ytt more spleud:d: next the hair is a bandeau of w'ar'e satin, em-
bellished with pra-is and tiismotida. A long white feather, cn
vault p`curcuar. diem.,, rather backward, over the left shoulder.
This tuitao aitcoini the hair behind, hem' made open. anti the
front only ourrincil by crow bars at the back of the head, coin.
toad pods, dowered dose together, and studded, at interests,
sat: didound.. set in wrought guld.
f schemire shawls of s bight yellow, approaching to the orange,
• it a broad border of sanegated flowers, and a eery deep Irinne,
ems (snarl', envelope over a gh ess. Pellises of violet tu-
ber. yore, and other i.. ark, but pleasing.colaurs. are made plain,
eild are we:l gaited to the promenade: it is anticipated that sods
Ohms will be trimmed with for as the season farther declines • the
payer-Tr. len the dark colones, and the jetty lynx on those
thew lia'tt. A pelerine„ able qui.e plain, of black G mos vet-
td,kir bees seen on the shoulders of • very fashionable lady,
sew a Egli intros, foe the morning promenade. lnJia rose, the
brieesst rt all red roles, is the fusuurue colour foe carriage pe-
BM, the material, crew de Naples.
Thaw la Noshing wiry new, at present, In the article of hats or
bone"; except one oh the former of moderate dimensions and a
lesa,dal %lupe. of plan • hit: good de Naple. Over the crown,
teneiss leg ea it approaches to the brim, to the distance of about
tell- ekes, is en email:ant of the same material as the het, rn fe re
• il; the horows are 6:led in by bow. of ribband for walking
tesvne. rod by towers, far the carriage. rack bonnets, but in •
nra spine: rembcr. ornamented with coloured ribbaede, and
telSt looking dawers. hate already made their appearance.
Tito mist admired colours are bright geranium, ashlar-tree.
trio, met. celestial-blue, Indian-rose, and violet.

Ctsintow Covey m r.-:A dress of siolet.colouird gros de
Nayles. or saline trimmer) round the border with three rows of
scrolls of the same. edict] with • bite blood ; these scrolls
-^ masa. so as to forma sort of realop ornament. with rosettes
of tint ribtand, the odour er the dress. The bot!y en gerbe, and
• ;tarcally low, with a narrow paladin's collar-cape falling
nrci, clinsl with blond. Sleeves loose at the upper part of the
tr.% bat net en uigot, and nearly Suing the narrow part of the
arm. Dori the elhow to the wrist, where the eat' turns up, end Is
t lttti 1r...1,M0:A or Crling's lace ; a standing up ornament, called
Psyche% sing., sormounts crab sleeve, as a manehnon. A bon.
set nr Wider golo Nap!-a., or satin with a full quilling of blond
a' Ow/dr the reOctl violet colour, and ornamented with large,
dlettle damask roses. A tschemere scarf @bawl ; a white pound,
▪ h a
bvery broad, and superb variegated border, Is thrown one
tbe dra

WINDSOR, floss&r, OCT. !O.

This morning his Majcst77ld anise beard tlivine service
id the private chapel at the Royal Lotlge. The s:rvic.: nes
pertuirmil by the Rev. Dr. Sumner.
On rrittay her Royal Highness the Priireffs Augusta
of attonbutts loft Fionnore, on a visit to the Duchess ot
;1(011Ctif T, at It t;shct Park.
Five hundred men still cont!nuc constantly employed in
the Improvements at the Castle.
To-morrow Nair 67)4 royal hurt will take place; the
will be turned Wet Balt-hill.

Tt.e 'duke of Clarencerurrictl to his residence at Busby
,o Friday afternoon.
The Duke of Cumberland left town on Saturday, on a
Watt to the !ht.: and Duchess of Clarence, at Bushy.
Yesterday the Pripet ss Sophia visited the Duke of Cura-
' Aland.

►tr. Secretary Peel was expectctl to arrive in town last

The Marquis de Palm-Ila, the Portuguese Ambassador,
•,,aisaeted business on & t rday, at the Secretary of S:ate's
.ire for Foreign Affairs, in Downing-street.
israsfors DtctrrtoN.—lt appears, from 'Crewman's
1„.•ler paper, that false statements of the death of Lord
- 1 UR' Rolla have been forwarded at different times to

.9-Lott: newspapers. The Exeter Journalist says, " The
tithe of dose paragraphs is perfectly well known in this
•" late, therefore here they fall harmless, whilst the writer
• held in contempt by all persons and parties—but to the
Llaires and friends of those noble persons residing at a
it must inevitably cause great pain and anxiety
fare the truth con be ascertained ; we are happy to say
lull both those persons are in good health, and within
se few days have doac en act of beneficence, which, if
,"r • allowei to relate, would. if possible, raise them
!).:,11,r in the
immintation."
i a iv ?RR rile/711 to BTA Wt.—Keyes reception at
11'4 likely so be very acceptable to him. The
• rel .4.brrfign• 'mains the fell-" ing paragraph,
••• err to his astiral in elm States:—
I 111 teeny wand dim Soso. dm was. is obeli• in wish
""i NH*, Mit OM M is imippowd. of ?velvets !Jilt
www swim is say. flows we said
"b. Nitiosi shin. MME lra mat
11604 of so sass& dawn to owe
at 4.1 Soh swwwwwismie Swim the am= pip
41" r, heena b*lrd p•Orseime la
Nowaa et ohs my A
sass Mali. alp
movilisehb MAI%
" •14 Pe bawl num WJEIT
.4 *NW Me Groupies an lbe
eh et le law ••.

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