The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-30 00:00:00

SECOND MEETINGS.

Carmichael, J. Birmingham, dealer - 10
Death, J. Woodstock street, Oxford-street, tailor .- 12
Douglas. R. W. G. IVoodcote, Sussex, coach proprietor 11
Field, J. Lambeth-road, St. George's.fields, victualler . 10
Ore. 11. late of Bath, stationer - - 10
Hickman, F.. Lombard-street, bill-broker It
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Jackson, J. jun. Ilkeston, Derbyshire, rope-maker
Kelly, J. St. James's-street, milliner
Knight. A. Maldon, and South-Minster, Esser, tailor
Menzies, J. Charles-street, Manchester-square, tailor
Milne. J. Huddersfield, dealer

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Niehol;;. J. and J. beiihcchead. Surrey, common-brewers - 12
Ochsenbein, H. Regent-street. silk-mercer - - LI
OliVant. J. and Cooper, W. Queen-street, Cheapside, ware-
housemen - . 12
Osbaldeston, E. Hertford, grocer - - 12
Priddy. T. Uxbridge, victualler - - 12
Shaw, D. Gower-street and Herne-hill, Dulwich, coal-merchant li
Todd, C. Upper Lisson-street, Lisson-grove, coal-mesenant 12
Towne, W. And Jeapes, W. Clay-street, Peckham, buddy's 11
Webb, W. Salisbury-street, Strand, wine-merchant - 11

FIRST MEETINGS.
camplin,R. Goldsmith-street, silk-manufacturer ' . 11
Discee, T. Newman-street, picture-dealer - - 1.1
Harding, S. Orford-street, jeweller - 10 -
- Paoli, W. Curtain-road, deer - - 12
Piper, T. and Deirdney, G. Dorking, Surrey, bankers - 12
- Richardson, J. Reigate, grocer - 10
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Sharp. J. B. Eschange-buildings, Sweeting's-alley, broker 1
Tuurnier, J. N Haymarket, euffee-house-keeper - 12 ,

DIVIDENDS.
Aubert, N. I). Lloyd's Coffee-house. insurance-broker - 12
Croaker, C. Upper Farm, Crayford, Kent, Earner . 12
Davies, S., (neat Surrey-street, druggist - 11

Farlaitl, S. Shoreditch-, haberdaaht7r- - 11. -
Hatfield, H. Abingdon row, Oossrell-street-road. merchant 11
Middleton, M. Maiden-lane. Battle-briege, blue-nranufactura 1l
R.naldwn, J. J. Broad-street-place. merchant 11.
Williams -
M. Old Bailey, eating-house.keeper - A 4

Deemucrive FlRE.—Between the hour Pisf nine and
ten o'clock on Wednesday night a fire broke out in the house of
Messrs. Course and Co., oil and colour merchants. No. 46. pr
John street, corner of Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. The
flames first showed themselves in the basement story, at the rear of
the shop, and communicating to a quantity of hemp and othercorn.
bustible matter, any effort to stay their progress was wholly useless,
and such was the rapidity of the conflagration that the family. who
VIM in the upper part of the house, had barely time to escape with
their lives before the whole building was involved in one mass of
glowing and brilliant tire. The first, fleeces', and third floors had
caught in less than ten minutes, and though eight or ten engines,
well supplied with water, were then in full play, the roof itself soon
after tumbled in, and the flames, which before found vent ooly
through the windows., shot upwards to an immense height. shed-
ding a bright red glare on the horizon to a vast extent. Coasidec-
able fears being entertained of its communicating to the warehoust
at the back. in Great Sutton-street. which contained a large stoc:k
of oils, tallow, pitch. turpentine, and rosin, the firemen directed
their attention to that point, whilst several of the it.bahitants assist-
ed Mr. Cowie' people in the removal of the stores; fortunately
the warehouse was parted from the dwelling-house by a yard- or .t
would have been extremely difficult to hare got at it, not only on
account of the volumes of suffocating smoke poured out from every
opening. but from the heat, which was so intense as to scorch the
doors of the opposite houses ; however, although the greater part
of the property was gor, out at very coneidertible risk, the flacon
ultimately did not extend beyond the place in which they origi• .
ated ; but notwithstanding the most active exertion* were madc,
the dwaliing-house was, in kse than laity minutes, reduced to
shell.

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PRICES OT FORIMIN
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Blue Saip 1$ it die
=pee Beads 74 3
Deeds
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TOMO YESTERD
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South Sea Old Mastitis 99f
gxl ebeq. Bills 1,0001. t Ca I pas
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Ditto, Small! Open
Lottery Tickets I9L bk.

TOMES VEST ERDA Y.
Dino Am. 174
111exiam Bonds
Ditto BoadsS)llQ 44ti 4
Dino Ages. 4 41 64
Peruvian 41 2
==.B.&rods 76
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Ramis Bolds if flyf St
Ditto Acet.7l4 f
Spanish Coot. IS 2.1
Ditto Acct. 121 • ,
Ditto in 124

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:MEXICAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN—The Ninth
"AIM Quarterly Payment of dm Interest on Mexican The per
mut. &set, doe on the Ist of JANUARY next. will be at
she Counting-home of Maws. B. A. Goldschmidt and on
that and the sameedlag days, and the holders are requested to leave
She Dividend Warrants at their ogee, between the home ale and
2, with lusts thereof. numeriadly arranged. at least one day previous
so Pilluect, in order that they may be examined.

'MEXICAN SIX PER CENT. LOAN.—The Fourth
Quarterly Dividend. doe on the let Day of JANUARY
asst. win be paid an tbe snemedag days between the ha us of Ten
and Two o'Clock, at the Counting. bease of Messrs. Barclay, Her-
rin, Richardson and Co., No. 11, New Brosd.atreet-mews. The
.Dividand Warrants. with lists thereof, numerically arranged, must
be left for examination one day previous to payment.

gilt Nrittolt Strews.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
This Evening, FRIDAYC. Dee 30, will be performed the
omed
EXCHANGE No ROBBERY.
$t Chrbtopber Cranbury. Mr. Williams Sam Swipes. Mr. Liston;
• Lady Cranbury, Mn. Davison; Mrs. Swipes, Mrs. urtarf Lapelle,
Mrs. C. Jones.
After which the Faroe of
DEA.' AS A POST.
Tristram Sappy, Mr. Liston a Sally bogs, Mrs. Orier.
After wbieb the Pantomime of
HARLEQUIN, JACK OF ALI. FRAMES.
Markiptist, Mr. Howell s Pantaloon. Mr. T. Bliuurhard Clews, Mr.
T. Brown. Columbine, Miss Barnett.
To-morrow, Der Freischuts, and the Pantomime.

COrENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
This avenbug, FRIDAY, De
.BI 30.
TH hill be performed the Comedy of
THE DAY.
Can
Mr. W. Farren Jack Junk, Mr. raweett Emma.
Jibs A. JOll4lll Mn. Moral, Mn.s DaTIIIIpOn.

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After which the Operatic Piece of
TWAS I.
Tb. principal Characters by Weems. Dutupet. Keeley. Evans, and
harem; Mee Jones. by <toward, and Mrs. Damn Pore.
After wised' tb new Pantomime eausd
MARLEQUIN AND THE MAOICK Rung;
or, 11112 AU r Y AND THE sc•AST.
Warlettnn. Mr. Ltlar • Pa
conenlbleee
Romer. ntaloon. Mr. Sarum; Clown, Mr. J. R.
$ Las
ToolerroW, The Way to Keep His. and the Pantomime.

ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND.
MU Iveslag, FRIDAY, Dee.3o, will be presented the Nuttteal
Melo-Orantatle Ihnietta of
THE PILOT*
Or, A TALE OP THE SEA.
The priaMpal Characters by Messrs. Terry, Yates. T. P. Cooke. slut
J. Reeve t and Mrs. Pitivrilllans.

After which • new Barletta, called
CHRISTMAS BOXES.
Ties Chars:Aare by Morn. Terry, tar.F. Vat.., wad Meredith; MIN
Ilaigu, and Mr
1'• eanelude THREE n splend{d mime, ealkd
THE GOLDEN LAMPS!
Or, HARLkQUIN AND THIL WIZARD DWARF.
Medlogyaka. Mr. W.
P.OlOl taloon. Columbine, Miss MrPloeott. . Elliott; Clown, Signor

The Bairns Pans commenced pu
ck.blishing murder usesslng
as five o'el.

LONDON, FRIDAY, Dgcsima SO, 1811.

Lad night we received the Paris Papers of Tuesday, in-
eluding, as usual, the Etoile dated the day following. They
furnish us with no political intelligence of importance.
The Emperor CON ST• To TIN E, it is believed, will be
crowned at Moscow, after the mourning. This is the only
piece of
.information we have from Russia.
•We have, in another column, extracted an interesting
papa* respecting the siege of ➢lissolonghi. Nothing can
excel the heroic devotion of the Greeks in defence of that
city. Lord COCHRANE, it is stated, was remaining at
Brussels. There is, we suspect, some mistake in this an-
nouncement.
The Efoile gives a melancholy account of the storm in
the bay of Cadiz, of which our readers will find another
description in our raper of to-day.
The subscription for Gen. Fov's family amounted, in
Monday, to nearly 568,000 franc", almost t 023,0001. ster-
ling.leveral candidates have offered themselves for the seat
in the Chamber of Deputies vacant by the General's decease-
Among them are M. Duet'', the eloquent advocate
wlo so successfully defended the Constilutionnel, M.
LAVITTR, the liberal haulm, and General SEBASTIAN!.
On the part of the Itbyaliste M. de MAr.c /IA NOT has been
proposed, and at O:IrCY Candidate is expected to be 1101111 i.
want on the Ministerial interest. The arrondissement
of Vervins is likely, therefore, to be contested with extra.
ordinary violence.
The French Funds are improving.
- (From the Detas dc.cd Wednesday Dee. 28.)
Came, Dxc. 10.

It is eel only in the North that the fury of the elements has been
Mt. Since the 6th of this month we have had a tempest such u
ban not occurred within the memory of man. In the night of the
Irth the rain fail in torrents ; the day of the 6:11 was not quite so
dark u the night which preceded it ; the whole horizon was loaded
with heavy, dark clouds, and the rain continued. At nine in the
weeping a rapid fall of the barometer announced a hurricane, and
in a few minutes a north-west wind arose so violent that the win-
dows of the houses were driven in, the doors wrencted from their
binges, the chimneys thrown down, the celebrated tower blown
down, the trees torn up by the roots, and even the most solid sub-
stances became the sport of the denims. The houses damaged
wzretinnumerable, and the losses immense, but it is principally in
the bay thet the devastation has taken plater, especially from the
mouth of the San Pedro k the Trocadero. There the following
vessels were violently driven on shore:—The Buenos Amigos of
the house of Picardo ; the American frigate Tea Plant ; the Spa-

They are to remain foe fire years under the surveillance of the
High Pollee.

It Is thought that the Emperor Constantine will be crowned at
Moscow after the mourning.
Lord Cochrane is at present at Brussels.
We learn from Constantinople, by a letter of the 27th Nov. that
Count Guilletninot, the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte,
has just lost in the most deplorable manner his only remaining son.
Young Eugene Guillemlnot was shooting in the environs of Con-
stantinople he let his fowling-piece drop, which went of and
shattered his arm; the surgeons of the embassy extracted 80 shot;
but tetanus ensued; it was hoped to remove it by the amputation
of the arm, bat the most alarming symptoms returned, and the
unfortunate young man died at the end of 24 days, after the most
drailful sufferings. He bore them with the greatest courage, only
exclaiming, " Had I but fallen under the Bre of the enemy, and
in the sight of the Prince." He bad distinguished himself on
nvent! occasions In the last war in Spain.
FIZSCZ Dam. 27.—Five per Cert.. 96f.;
Three per Cents. 64f. 70c. ; Rents de Naples, Certif. Falconet,
78f. Bk.; Royal Spanish Loan 49; Haytien ditto Box Exchange
on London, one moods, 28f. 10c.; three mouths 24f. 78e.—Cours
glathentique.

Nothing is yet known, nor can be for several days with
certainty, as to the course of policy which the new Emperor
of Russia will adopt. His temper is impetuous and war-
like, and therefore it is by many apprehended, that his re-
gard for the political policy of his late brother would by
so means be a sufficient Inducement to him to refrain from
breaking the peace of Europe in pursuit of the magnificent
design which has been the favourite dream of his ambition
since his very childhood. We are fully aware that theposition
in which CONSTANTINE will feel himself placed on ascend-
ing the throne must materially affect his former views.
What, as Grand Duke, he fancied easy of accomplishment
and proper to be attempted, he may, as Emperor, find to
be surrounded with more serious difficulties than he could
previously suspect, and unworthy of the risk and suffering
be must incur in so perilous an enterprise. We ad-
mit, therefore, that the mere character of CONS,TA NTINE
will not enable us to predict any change in the foreign
policy of Russia. But when we consider the arbitrary
nature of the Government, and the entire abeence of all
those checks which, in a more civilized and enlightened
nation, would, under a monarchy equally absolute, con-
trol and regulate the conduct of the Sovereign, and when
we bear in mind that the prejudices of his subjects in ge-
neral, and of the army in particular,- are enthusiastically
enlisted in support of the project for his aggrandisement,
we confess we do not feel at ease respecting the events that
may shortly occur in the East. CONSTANTINE probably
cares little about the state of public opinion beyond the
boundaries of his own dominions, and with his subjects
universally, and the soldiery at his back, he has nothing
to fear from any quarter. An Evening Paper remarks,
that " the statesmen of Russia would ill-deserve to be so
called if they could recognise so frivolous a pretext for
committing their country to a portentous struggle as the
name of their Sovereign." In such a country as Russia
there are few " statesmen" who would dare even to
hint resistance to the wishes of the reigning Prince.
Nor are the sinister auguries founded on his name so slight
and ridiculous as this Journal seems to consider. The case
of the Emperor CONSTANTINE is in that respect peculiar:
there is nothing similar to it in history. With him, and
with a superstitious people like the Russians, his name will
do much. We cannot therefore disguise from our readers
that we view the accession of the new Emperor with deep
anxiety. We earnestly hope that the existing relations
between the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh and those of the
other powers of Europe, may not in the slightest degree be
disturbed; but our duty requires that we should unhesi-
tatingly express our apprehensions that there is great
danger, lest the present ruler of that vast and unwieldy
empire should prove to be almost as difficult and imtrac-
ticable to be treated with as his extravagant and unfortunate
father.

CITY, THURSDAY EvzWINO.

The Consols Market was this morning inundated with
rumours of wars, and all imaginable evils that could, in
the judgment of their inventors, tend to depress the price of
Stocks. The accession of the Emperor CONSTANTINE
was the event on which naturally most of these reports
rested for any appearance of solid foundation. At first it
was roundly asserted, as a fact of undisputable truth, that
an armament was fitting out for the Mediterranean, with
the view of defeating the designs of the new Russian
Eatreaon upon Constantinople. As this story died away,
a rumour was started of an embargo at St. Petersburg!).
This, indeed, was correct, in point of fact, though the em-
bargo owed its origin to none of those political causes from
which, according to the report, it had proceeded. We
learntd, on inquiry, that the last advices from that city
brought the news of the ccmmeacement of a severe
frost on the evening of the 6th instant. This embargo,
the work of nature, was represented on the S:ock Ex-
change to-day as the immediate and certain fore-
runner of hostilities. .%'e understand that the frcst will
be productive of but little mercantile inconvenience, as
the vessels had previously departed from the higher ports
in the Baltic. A third report was, that there was a
great defalcation in the quarter's revenue. This, we believe,
deserves just as much attention as the other two, and no
more. There is, however, the strongest array of specula-
tors for the fall now in the market that we ever remember
to have observed. Nearly all the members of the Stock
Exchange pull together in this design. The ccuntcracting
party is comparatively weak and powerless. Considerable
investments are making by the public, or the balanee would
be wholly upset, and we should witness a gnat and sudden
decline in the market value of the British funds. The
opening price of Consols was 82. There were afterwards
sellers at bl!, and in spite of the operations of the Bears,
finally Consols rose again to fit.

This was the first Money Market since the holythys,
but the business was not altogether to so great an enttnt as
might have been anticipated. Exchequer Bills are 3 dis.
to par; Reduced 811 ; 34 per Cents. 89: ; Bank Stock
213.

To-morrow is the settling day in the Foreign Market,
therefore making up accounts is the principal employment
of the brokers. The prices of the Securities have not
varied materially. Colombian Bonds are 611; Mexican
631 ; Brazil Scrip 16 discount ; Guatemala IS discount;
Spanish Bonds 121 ; Greek Bonds 17.
In Shares there was not much variation, hut the tendency
was decidedly to an advance. Anglo-Mexican Shafts were
74, and the New United rose to 9. There were bargains
in the Real del Monte Association at 175.

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