The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-04-09 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, APRIL 7.

The arrivals have been very numerous since our last,
and include many families of distinction. The inns are'
overflowing with company.
The Couut and Countess St. Antonio have arrived at their
house on the King's Road.
Lord and Lady Gwydyr have arrived, and occupy No. 58,
Regency-square.
mong our arrivals are Lord and Lady Ellenborough.
Mr. Croker, M.P. of the Admiralty, is among our ar-
rivals. Mr. C. visited the Hyperion frigate at Newhaven
on Monday last, and was accompanied by Mr. Barrow, of
the Admiralty, Lady Gould, &c. The distinguished party
were entertained with a sumptuous collation in the cabin
of the frigate.
Among our arrivals are—Lord Glcngall, Mr. Hobliouse,
M.P., Mr. Douglas Kinnaird, Captain Hornhy, Lord and
Lady Berwick, Mr. and Mrs. Locke, Mrs. Hare Nayler,
&c. Sec.
We are glad to perceive the increase of private parties,
and the revival of gaiety in the town during the Easter
holidays.

According to letters from St. Petersburgh, of the sth of
March, the conferences on the affairs of Greece have at
length began between Count Nesselrode, Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, and the Ambassadors from the Courts of
Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. They had had three meetings
and it wail observed that Mr. Stratford Canning, who came
to St. Petersburgh merely on a special mission, was not pre-
sent at them. It was said that, having executed his mis-
sion, he would shortly leave St. Petersburgh, and return to
England.—AUgenteine Zeitung.
Extract of a letter received this morning from Ham-
burgh, dated the Ist instant:—" We have just received an
account of the great alterations proposed by Mr. Iluskisson
in the foreign trade of England; it has produced a great
sensation here, and will promote trade, but we suspect the
great benefit of these alterations will return to the country
which carries them into effect."
The Chamber of Deputies has passed a law for the pre-
servation of trees on the public roads.
The laws against fraudulent bankruptcies are rigidly
enforced in the Netherlands. At Bruges, a few days ago,
a hatter, named Chevalier, was sentenced to five years'
imprisonment, for having, about three weeks before he
became a bankrupt, purchased goods, being well aware at
the time that it would not be in his power to pay for them.
The Sandwich packet arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon,
left in the Tagus his Majesty's ships Ocean, Superb, Wel-
lesley, Active, Tribune, Thetis, Bramble cutter, and
Magnet brig.
Yesterday the despatches for Madras and Bengal by the
ship Minerva, Capt. Prabyn' were closed at the East India
House, and delivered to the Purser of that ship.
Ve learn that a Company is in progress to run carriages
and vehicles of every description by, steam in Ireland.—
Cork Adverliver.
Our mercantile restless will be glad to learn that St.
George's Dock is to be opened for the admission of ves-
sels on the tat of May.—Gore's Liverpool Paper.
A petition is in the course of signature in Liverpool
against the removal of the public inspection of butter in
Ireland.
A small piece of ground, used as a twine walk, near the
Church-walk, Ulverstone, which was not long ago sold for
2.51. was last week put up to public auction, and fetched
the enormous sum of 6931.