The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-21 00:00:00

HAMBURGH PAPERS.

The Hamburgh Correspondenten to the 16th inat. arrived
yesterday.
An article dated St. Petershurgh, March 4, announces
the arrival of the Duke of Wellington in that city on the
preceding (lay. His Grace had immediately an audience
of the Emperor and Empress, to whom be delivered the
" Condolence and Felicitations" of the King of England.
No allusion is made to the political objects of his Grace's
mission.

Under date of Brussels, March 15, it is stated 'that an
English messenger had passed through that city from St.
Petersburgh, on his way to London, who report( d that
the Russian capital enjoyed, at the time of his leav big it,
a state of great tranquillity, but-sisau frequent mews were
taking place, not only in St. l'etersburgh, but in .01 the
principal cities in the empire.

. .
Prince Wrede, the Bavarian Envoy, had his autlience
of leave of the Emperor Nicholas, on the Ist inst. ; and
the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand d'Este left St. P eters-
burgh on the same day that the Duke of Wellington
reached it. Preparations were making to celebrate die ob-
sequies of the late Emperor with appropriate soletnnity
and magnificence. The King of Bavaria has just sup-
pressed the Capuchins at Bamberg, where those Monks in-
habited a magnificent Convent, and has founded a Uni-
versity in that city instead. We subjoin an extract:-

ST. PETERSBURGII, MARCI 1 4.
The monal remains of the late Emperor, after their stria al at
Zarskojeselo. will lie in state for several days in the richly roe.
['emoted church of the Palace. The reception will be very brill cant.
Prince Alexis Kurakin, President of the :Mourning Comm, ttee.
will receive the funeral procession at the frontiers of the territo.7 of
the city, where he will place the crown upon the coffin.
A very numerous procession of civil and military officers, and
persons belonging to the Court, follow the funeral through the
town of Zarskojeselo to the church. When it arrives there the
Aides.deXamp of the late Emperor will carry the coffin i nto
the church, and place it on the raised stage, or catafalque.
Then the funeral service begins with salutes of artillery and tolling
of bells.

Every body except the clergy will then leave the church ; and
the Emperor and Empress, and all the members of the Imper tal
Family, will enter and attend a second funeral service. So to og
a.. the body remains at Zarskojcselo, seven Officers of State, of
the lint tour classes, four Chamberlains, Aides-de-Camp, dc c.
are to watch day and night. The public will be admitted in to
the church at certain hours. The Empress Mother alone will
determine how tong the body of the Ealperor shall remain .st
arskojeselo.

Commercial letters from St. Petersburgh of the 3d ins. t.
mention that the failure of Messrs. B. A. Goldschmidt an• 3
Co. bad produced the greatest consternation. The exchang
with England fell from 93 to 9, and only one house won'. I
negotiate bills on London. The letters from Hamburg] t
areof the 14th instant; commercial affairs were improv..
ing. and there was a further small advance in the rate ot'
exchange. The letters from Holland are of Friday ; but
the exchange was a shade lower.

A merchant vessel, in 15 days from Gibraltar, brings
accounts that the garrison was in great confusion, on ac-
count of the want of a circulating medium, the late sup-
plies of new coin sent from England having disappeared,
on account of the rate of exchanges; a large proportion of
the silver, we find, has lately been returned to this country.
Letters from Sierra Leone, dated 19th of January, state
that the colony was very unhealthy.
Accounts from Bahia, of the 23d January, report the ar-
rival of the December packet from England on the 22d.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE &IMAM—By the Supple-
ment to the Calcutta Gazette of Slit October, it appears
that the negotiations with the Burmese have not yet been
productive of any decisive result ; though the conduct of
their Commissioners gives reason to expect that the de-
mands of the British will meet with very little opposition
on the part of the government of Ava, to whom they have
been referred. The interview took place on the 30th Oct.
at Nesnbenziek, in a lotoo, or hall of audience, at an equal
distance between the British and Burmese lines. The
Burmese were highly delighted with the behaviour of the
British Commissioners, and expressed a hope that two such
great and rivili=ed notions would henceforth live in amity.
LIrEIIPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAHN/AV.—Notwith-
standing the assurance of the Cierier that the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway Bill passed through a Committee
of the House of Commons some days since, that necessary
step towards the accomplishment of this beneficial and im-
portant measure did not take place until Saturday last.
Our evening contemporary was equally unfortunate in his
assertion relative to the expense incurred in forwarding this
great work. It has not coat hilf the money he has stated.
Sacral of the leading tradesmen in Romney are issuing
hand-hills, containing a long list of country bankers, whose
notes they intend to take in the common course of business
—a Fpi r ted example worthy of imitation, and, if generally
followed by other towns, will considerably tend to restore
confidence, the want of which is at present very materially
felt by the trading classes; many of whom, it is to be la-
mented, are acting on the advice of William Cobbett, caul
other unprincipled but interested dcmagogues.—Southomp
tun Herald.