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almost entirely confined to arranging scantling, and the
fluctuation dining the day has not exceeded a quarter per
cent. The opening price was B'4, it advanced to 81f, and
afterwarobt to 4, at which it closed. After to-day the quo-
tations will be made ex-dividend of 14 per cent. Fur the
next Account they were f ex-div.
The day has passed oft much better than could have
been expected. Three failures have been announced, but
they are not considered of any great importance.
' In consequence of its being so irkportknt a day in the
English Market, the business in Foreign Securities was on
a very confined scale. The appearance of tlte Market is
better. and the prices advanced. Colombian Bonds are
4ii ; 31exican ditto, 6.51; Creek, 144; Russian, tic,:j.
In the Share Market no business was reported.

There was a report yesterday that alarming intelligence
had been received from Batavia; that the Dutch military,
joined with all Europeans capable of bearing arms, had
been entirely defeated by the natives ; and that, among
others, six Plnglldtmen had been killed. The rumour is
said to have been brought by a merchant vessel from Sin-
gapore. There Is eertainly an arrival from that port, but
the letters are not yet received, nor is it ascertained when
the vessel sailed. the Captain having written a letter ad-
vising his arrival, though without stating dates. But we are
inclined to believe the dates must be old, as the ship has
been three weeks in the Channel on account of the easterly
winds. Another version of the report was, that there hail
been no general action, but that twenty Dutch merchants
and seven Englishmen hail been murdered by the natives.
who were ravaging and plundering the open towns and
villages. _ _

We have received intelligence from Calcutta to the I;th
September. Sir Archibald Campbell had returned to
Rangoon to inspect the state of the hospitals, and he was
reported to have brought the most alarming statements of
the sickness at Protne. After receiving the various reports
at Rangoon, be proceeded in a steam-boat on his return to
Prome on the 25th of July. We are happy to silence the
anxiety of the persons in this country connected with India
respecting the sickness at Calcutta; the cholera tnotbus
appears entirely confined to the natives. One letter states,
" there is scarcely one instance of a European being at-
tacked." The crops of indigo are abundant. Exchange
2s: Id. to Qs. ed. The interest on Government securities
at Calcutta 71 to S per cent.
A letter from Calcutta states that the Burmese continue
to commit the greatest barbarities on all prisoners, after-
wards throwing their bodies into the river.
Nearly all the commercial letters from St. Petersburgh
to this country are sent open, a circumstance arising,
doubtless, from the vigilance exercised by the Russian Go-
vernment to prevent any communications being forwarded
unfavourable to the wishes or the feelings of the ruling
power.—Edinbutyh Obterner.
According to an account rendered of the French Sinking
Fund up to the Slat ult., it had redeemed between Oct. 1,
and Dec. 31, inclusive, 843,934 f. of Roues, at 3 per Cent.
which coat 18,970,570 f. Wic., which makes the average
price 67f. 44c. This Fund now possesses in 5 per Cents.
and 3 per Cents, the sum of 32,205,7i9f. in Rentes, which
have cost 645,816,703 f. 214 c.

The Constitution of Louisiana makes it the duty of the
Governor to visit the different counties in the state at least
once in two years, to inform himself of the effectiveness
of the militia, and the general condition of the state.
The present Governor has been making his official tour.
AMERICAN CANALS.—About 3,000 labourers are em-
' ployed on the Ohio canals. One of these canals is to be
from the junction of the Scioto with the Ohio to the
mouth of the Cayahoga river, at Cleaveland on Lake Erie,
in length 306 miles. The other, from Cincinnati to Dayton,
on the Miami river, GO miles in length.
The lead mines of Missouri cover sn area of more than
3,000 squat: miles, and are said to be the most extensive
on the globe. The ore is of the richest and purest kiud,
and exists in quantities sufficient to supply the whole
United States. The number of mines is 165, in which
more than 1,100 men are employed, producing annually
3,000.000 pounds of the metal, valued at 140,000 dollars.
HEBREW DISPATCH ES.—ln Russia the posts and
couriers are at the absolute discretion of the Imperial
Government ; 'all persons whatever, whether natives or
foreigners, ere forbidden, under severe penalties, to send
out of the empire a sealed letter; the couriers of the Am-
bassadors themselves can be arrested by the administrative
authorities. Messrs. Rothschild have found means for
their own private correspondence to avoid these formalities.
They proceed thus—On business of importance a despatch,
written in Hebrew or the Chaldean language, unknown by
the greater part of the low Jews. is expedited by their corre-
spondents according to the localities; if it comes from
St. Petersburgh, it is sent to Mitten in Courland ; it
is there annexed to some religious liobrew book, and put
into the hands of Jew smugglers, quite ignorant of the
ancient languages, and, in consequence, not in a state to
appreciate the importance of the contents. These indivi-
duals, accustomed to the evasion, carry it across the Niemen,
from whence it gets to Konigsberg or Dantzic.—A similar
correspondence might be established from Moscow to
Warsaw, and from thence to the Oder ; from whence news
is transmitted either by Those, on the frontiers of Poland,
or by Dresden, in Saxony. Couriers are afterwards
despatched from Konigsberg, Dantzic, Thorn, or Dresden,
to the residence of the head of the house of Rothschild.—
A ri via Nur.
' Tt erten DCTIES.—We bear it is estimated that Govern-
ment last year lost, in rhis port done, between ninety and
one hundred thousand pounds, by abandoning Mr. Hus-
kisson's scale of duties for deals. At present, timber in
bulk pays 555. per load, but if cut into 3-inch planks, the
duty is only about two-thirils—i. e. a person at Memel or
Dantzig, who sends a quantity of timber to this country,
pays Si'. per load duty, unless he gets it cut into 3-inch
planks before he ships it, when he will pay from 255. to
40s. per load, just as the lengths may happen to prove fa-
vourable for duty. Te remove this anomaly in political
economy was Mr. Husktwon's object, it would appear by
his proposed duties, and not a desire to give any preference
to our own sawyers and proprietors of saw-mills. although,
if there he a difference, it should he in their favour, and
not against them. We lament his failure, shire it has
caused a large amount of revenue to be lost, which, it' it
had been at the disposal of Ministers, might have gone
towards the reduction of the Assessed Taxes. —Hell
Pocket.

GHEAT OIL CANco.---The ship Swift, Arthur, has
recently landed at this port more than three! thou-
sand barrels of sp-rmaceti oil, making nearly one hundred
thousand gallons. This is undoubtedly the largest cargo
of spermaceti oil ever carried into any port in the known
world, and is worth about sta,nou dollars. The Swift was
absent but little more than twenty-eight months.—Phila•
delp4ia Gazette.
The Tiger, Kent. has arrived at Cowes from Calcutta,
which place she left on the 17th September, and St.
Ilelena on the 11th December. The letters and papers
brought by this vessel have not yet been delivered.

The East India Company's- Aip Bova! George sailed
from Saugar on the 28th of August, for Penang and China,
and was off the Sand Heads, all well, on the 31st of the
same month. The Company's ship Charles Grant arrived
at Saugar on the 3d of August.
The North Sea has again broken in three places the
isthmus which connects the uortlo cxtremity of Jutland
with the rest of the Peninsula. Three rapid currents now
unite the North Sea with the gulf called Lum Fiord, which
empties itself into the Categat. These currents are so
strong that they cannot be crossed in boats. Four persons
who made the attempt have perished. The sea has laid
open the remains of ancient forests.
The Sussex County Bank (Tamplin and Co.) have is-
sued a notice that they will resume their payments on the
let of March next. And we are authorised to add, it is
more than probable all their engagements will be discharged
at a much earlier period.—Thigh en Ge7!,l9e.
On the 7th inst. the Tribunal of Correctional Police al
Toulouse tined a man, named Jacques Teismlre, 25,000
francs and costs, upon conviction of habitual usury.
An alarm was excited in the High-street yesterday,,
about three o'clock, by a person hi a strait.twaisteoat, sibo•
exhibited a most furious appearance, and made some strong
attempts to disengage himself. Being a very tall and
powerful man, no one for a time would venture to inttr-
fere, the contortions of his countenance were also hideous
and frightful. He was at length surrounded, and carried
to a place of safety.—SCOtS 17/7.1eJ..

I A'DI A.

—"en"—
" rsomr. JULY N.
" The Headman of the village of Neoun-hunreig reported list
evening that lie had just arrival from lii. village. and that the day
before he quitted it (the 2fthy a boat. with two men, came there,
who had been up in the vicinity of Torqz.quoy and Patnagali, for
the purpose of vending some onions. chilliies. mitt greens, mot that
while there, two boats, with 411 or 1111 men in each, arrived from
Ara, and iat the Headmen in these busts wcut to the Wises of
the chief of the forces assembled at the above places, and staid
with them for some time. _

" Considerable anxiety seemed to exist as to what could lie the
cause of this sudden dispatch train Ava. On the return of the
headmen of the boats from their interview, a freedom of inter-
CIMIge was admitted, and it then appeared that orders had arrived
fur the balk of the force assembled at the places named. to proceed
with all practicable 'lisp:in:4 to Ana, leaving only a few hundred
men, 2.% a serious disturbance had occurred in the capital, but the
exact nature of it could not be ascertained. It was., however, ge-
nerally supposed to have been an insurrection of the shearn and
Cassay troops, with a view to their throwing off the yoke of the
Burman Government. under which they had so long and cruelly
suflered."—Caketia Government Gazege, Sept. O

711 E NETHERLANDS.

BRIrIISZT S. JAY. IS•

A journal of the Northern Provinces says that Euro—General
Trip will set out immediately tor St. Petershurgh. as Envoy Ex-
traordinary from his Itlajesty, to compliment the Emperor Nicholas
I. on his accession to the throne.
A Russian cabinet messenger passed through this city last night
on his way front London to St. Prtershurgh, with despatches.
JAN. 17.
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A letter from Trieste announces that M. Bactiochi, who has been
detained in that city to have the fracture of his leg cured, is going
to return to Bologna, and has sold to Madame Murat, his sister-
in-law, his tine estate of Cambo Marro, for 70.000 florins. Ma-
dame Murat had lcmg wished for this residence, which is one of the
most agreeable at Trieste, wh re her sister. ftladame flaccioehi,
and two of her children are buried ; she hail hesitated about pur-
chasing it, because she was uncertaio whether she might reside at
Trieste, but she has now received remission to do an.
ALuttits, DEc. 2.
• Our Regency has fitted out three ships of war, viz, a corvette, a
brig. and s schooner, to try to raise the blockade in which our port
has been held for two months by some Greek vessels, which nt first
were only three in number, but afterwards were Increased to seven,
and persisted in cruising in sight of the port. Yesterday our vessels
sailed to attack the Greek pirates, but the latter immediately stood
off. Then a French bombard, which had delayed its departure for
a mot.th, for fear of an unwelcome meeting, sailed directly for
Leghorn.
BERLIN, JAN. 9.
Ills Majesty's son, Prince William. and Major-General Thilt,
Are gone to :St. Petershurgli ; they will pass through Warsaw.

Act-mints from Taganrog, of the 17th Dee., confirm the progres-
sive amelioration of the health of the Empresi Elisabeth. Her Ma-
jesty was beginning to have better nights, and to take a little more
nourishment.

ARMY OF TEE UNITED STATES.

Among the various documents presented to the Congress
in America with the Message of the Preeident there is a
Report from the Department of War, which deserves some
notice. It is very hatisfactoty ; but, as usual with the trans-
atlantic State papers, of great length. It commences with
the returns of the army, in which it is stated desertion has
become so serious an evil, and from the nature of tbe coun-
try so difficult to punish, that the retaining a part of each
private's pay is recotutnended. A great attention to artil-
lery and cavalry exercise is stated to be of the greatest im-
portance. America is at present destitute of a cavalry
force, and these two arms " have the most decisive influ-
ence on the fate of battles."

The American Secretary at War adopts the European
maxim in enforcing "tile propriety of adopting a military
peace establishment to an eventual state of war.- The do-
cument then goes into lengthened details respecting the
new fortifications, the military academics, and the roads
through the United States. The new road from New York
to New Orleans is particularly alluded to, and the plan of
M'Atlain recommended. One hundred millions of acres
have been added to the territory of the United States by
the treaties with the following Indian tribes:—the Poncars,
Teton, Yancton, Yanctoniea, Angallallas, Sames, Hunk-
papas of the Sioux, the Cheyennes, the Riearas, Mandans,
Minetaree, and Crow nations of Indians, with the 0 ate'
and Kangas. The relations of the United States with the
Creeks are to be the subject of a separate report.

INUNDATIONS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.

The news from Catalonia and Roussillon speak of the
Crest disasters occasioned in these countries by the over-
flow of the rivers. The same misfortunes afflict the de-
partments traversed by the Agont and the Tarn. A part
of the department of Aude is also said to have suffered
much from the overflow of a little river, called Argent
Double, the bed of which is dry for the greater part of the
year. The correspondence from from Bordeaux has not
reached Toulouse for eight days past, and expresses
sent to Langou have declared that it was impossible to
proceed further. The great road of Lower Languedoc has
been greatly damaged by the inundations, and several
less important roads have been rendered impassable. The
Garonne, increased with the red waters of the Tarn and by
the avalanches which fall into it with astonishing rapidity
from the summits of the Pyrenees, again overflowed its
banks on the 6th of this month, and soon rose to a prodi-
gious elevation ; in less than four and twenty hours the
plains of Agen and Saint Cyr were totally submerged, and
offered the spectacle of a vast sea. The inhabitants of the
villages, surprised by the waters in the night, saved them-
selves with great difficulty ; but all has not escaped the
ravages of the inundation, for the immense bed of the
Garonne was covered with ruin ; stacks of hay and
straw were seen floating down with animals on them,
who had fled thither for safety. It is said that houses
built in difEnaritt places along the batik of the stream
have been washed away by the violence of the cur-
rent. At Agen, the Fairbourgs St. Louis and St. An-
toine have been partly innutidated ; in the Rue des (Uni-
fiers the water rose to the first floors of the houses. It
was impossible to describe the consternation of the poor in-
habitants of that quarter, who saw the rapid increase of the
water. In these sorrowful circumstances the Mayor of
Agen has fulfilled the duties of a benevolent and ctmra-
geous magistrate: in a light boat be successively went
into all the thieatental quarters, and every where took the
measures necessary to insure help to the unfortunate
inhabitants. On the rith at about four in the evening
the Garonne began to diminish, at first slowly, but in a
short time tolerably quick, and it has at present returned
to its bed. 'fhe whole of the damages which this inunda-
tion has caused are not yet known ; but they must have been
considerable, and it will no doubt be long before they are
repaired, if the benevolent hard of our Princei is not
stretched to help the victims of this reourge.—Cunstitti-
tivand.

THE C(►7'TO.V 7'RADE.

PrTTIISTIPROft (SOUTH CARCITANA), Drc,G.

COTTON.—According to a statement which we have
seen, and the accuracy of which may be fully relied upon,
the quantity of the new crop of cotton shipped from the
port of Petersburg!), between the Ist Oct. and Ist Dec.,
was something upwards of 8009 bales, to which add 2000
in store, will make the amount of 10,000 received in the
space of two months. Estimating each bale at sod's. and that
is about a fair average, it will appear that our dealers have
already invested about half a million of dollars in cotton
only, 'the present season. To all who are interested in the
prosperity of Petersburgh these facts are important, and
require neither illustration nor comment.
The article still continues to be brought freely to mar-
ket, and to maintain its price. Yesterday sales were made
at 14 a 144 cents.—Charleston Courier, Der. 14.

LIVERPOOL COT'TON :GREET, WEDNLSDAV, JAN. IS.
—Business remains very dull, indeed, and prices may be
quoted id. to id. lower. New Boweda are at sd.
Dite•ore Fist: AT BRUSSEL:I.—On Monday morning
at three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the house of
Pieire Hooninekx, in the Faubourg de Namur Cbaussee
d'lxelles. The maid-servant leaped out of the window
into the street, and received an injury. The master and
mistress, and two children and a workman, also escaped
by the window and over the roofs. We regret to state
that an English lady, 70 years of age, and her grand-
datqhter, aged s years, who lodged in the house, perished
in the flames, as well as a child of the proprietor, a year
The Wiles of the English lady and her gran-
daughter have since been found.
I • Effspatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office
gnito.Paris.
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THE KINGDOM OF 11..I.VoyER.

The All*emeine Zr•ithin of the 12th inst. contain, th.
following gratifying description of the growing proam.ity
of our Hanoverian dominions:—

iiANOVFII,.DtC. 30
At length the winter is comet till tens Jays ago we had such m'id
alumna! weather that violets were in bloesorn in the garden.,
and
daisies in the meadows. In the valleys on the other *Meer the we,
gee the cattle have remained in the fields. Barley is here moat un
price to rye, and has on the whole risen ; other species of
continue invariably at a low price. The farmers Indeed suffer hr
this, yet in the villages and fields we sue no signs sodomy. but
of
improvement. The taitintry towns present a still more pleasing
lure, where, fmni the combined effects of cheap provisions. and az
active intercourse with the sea. which is near at band and free. on"
tort, neatness. and even elegance in furniture and dress are ir.
creasing. Ilene, at Believer, we fend all this on a much largo.
scale. A great msny new buildings are erected of stone, in the
most elegant style ; George-street would be an ornament to say
metropolis. The luxury of dress, perhaps, approaches moo nevi,
that of a great capital without the wealth to support it. Ills Rini'
Highness the I)uke of Cambridge sets no example of such estra„,
gance, but of beneficence ; his greatest expense is set ample weekly
support of the poor. This is said by every body. 'Elie 'dormice,
of his children iv carried on under his own eye with very strict at.
tension to the choice of the persons about them, and without me
injudicious restrictions of expense. The Duke is universally hi.
tbr°tlv't-Idie aoThier"htaeenndte'l. t
11:i1VherentriCsisinitrtenecostauhrlf:gseshemxpepntrir,thlxiii!lwesrni. :17
me:l:zinc:lX.
monument for the victory of 'Waterloo is now in hand.
In the country the people are busy with the election foe the new
Assembly of the States, which is to meet on the -4:;(1 of next month.
The King, on dissolving the late Amembly,
tion to the Members for their. patriotic exertions in promoting his
designs for the good of his subjects f. and, especially. in improving
the mode of distributing the burdens which the old4fratlons and tie
wants of the kingdom render necessary. in insuring the gradual re.
duction of the public debt, in encouraging the sciences and public
instruction, in ovulating the agriculture and commerce, and
in "'Bevis/Mg the distress which has visited a great part of his be-
loved subjects, in consequence of the dreadful inundations. Big
Majesty is convinced that the next Diet will duly exert itselt in pros
noting the permanent welfare of all the inhabitants of the kingdom.
The new Diet will have a greet deal of very important hullers% to
perform, even without including the regulations for mor:gare,
which, from the distress of the landowners, has it. peculiar diffis
rulties, for the nsoment. The long discussions on the new general
land.tax, and the question relative to the former exemptions from
land-tax, await their fins/ decision. Besides this, a new criminal
code is expected, the plan of which bas been printed at kinstiripeo,
with remarks by Counsellor Batter. Penal legislation unfortunately
cannot cure the mote frequent transgression in this country, namely,
drunkenness ; for Mid new penelties will not be more severe thin
the old ones : but the evil Is so great, that it scents to require the
employment of all practicable remedies, and deserves to become a
subject of special consideration. There are entire villages which
ruin themselves by thinking and feqsting.
There is •plenty of ntoney•in circulation, and gold hoe untxnert.
edly fallen in price, though it is so scarce in England.- But as so
many English houses hare become insolvent, the liamburgh
bankers will take care how they remit gold to England, without
having security in their hands.