The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-02-23 00:00:00

Leave was given, in the course of the evening, to bring
in several bills for the improvement of Ireland; one re-
lating to the levy of church rates, another for the amend-
pent of the law of landlord and tenant, and the third to
regulate the effice of Justice of the Peace.

The LORD CHAN cELLos.'s proposed Bill, for the regu-
lation Of JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES, appears to proceed
with the same tortoise-step which characterises the pro-
gress of his Lordship's mind in all its other deliberations.
Whatever decree was intended to have been eventually
pronounced against them, judgment has been so long res.
pited, that we begin to doubt if it will be pronounced.
Some, indeed, begin to fear that the delay is only to be
ascribed to his Lordship's not tying able to make up his
mind as to all the enactments that it may be advisable to
introduce into it—others are alarmed lest the Joint-Stock
Company Bill should be as long as a Bill in Chancery—
some are most anxious to learn whether it is intended that
the three-fi)urtlis, or whatever other proportion of their ca-
pital is to be paid up, is to be put out at interest for their
benefit, or to whose bentfit it is to be applied: their minds
are the more disquieted en this head, because it appears
that by the 12th Geo. 11. c. 24, part of the SUITORS'
casts is to be placed out at interest, fbr defraying the charge
of the ACCOUNTANT-GENIRAL's office; and by the
23d Geo. 11. c. 23, part of the interest of the said su:tars'
cash is to be applied for making good deficiencies to Me
CLUE or THE HANAPEI, and for augmenting Me income
of the MASTER or THE ROLLS. By 1 Geo. 111. C. 1, the
King is empowered to grant out of the said fund a sum
not exceeding FITE THOUSAND POUNDS Fer annum TO THE
CHANCELLOR. By 5 Geo. 111. C. 29, eighty thousand
pounds of the sr IT oas' cuts was placed out at interest,
and two hundred pounds per annum paid thercout half-
yearly to each of the *LIMN MASTERS or THE COURT.
By 9 Geo. 111. C. 19, TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS MOSE
of the suitors money was placed out at interest; out of which
4401. per annum is paid in salaries, TiZ.-2501. to the Ac-
countant-General, so!. to his first clerk, 40!. to his second
clerk, and 1201. to his jburth clerk, in lieu of unites. By
'l4 G. 111. c. 49, rare THOUSAND POUNDS more was is like
manner placed out; and out of the interest thereof, and the
surplus interest under former Acts, the Cwatecsu.oa is, by
his own order, to direct the REBUILDING or THE Six
CLERKS' OF plus, and apply TEN THOUSAND pounds (and
by 40 Geo. 111. a. 33, three thousand pounds more) for
building the REGISIER'S and AecootemarGstessa.t.'s
Orrsess, to be vested in the Accountant-General and his
successors.

Now, however well understood all this disposition and
management of the interest of the sulloate case stay be by
those who move about the chancery, those who move
about the 'CHANGE are appalled by the very scuod of it. A
variety of interrogatories rush into their minds instinctively,
at the thought of what is to become of the interest of that
vast partitm of their capital, which the Lord Chancellor is
about to require to be paid up and inverted, but ',Lich
te•Y NlVltil 85 WANTSD, for the purpose of carrying on
the concern for which its reservation was originally intended.
Is it to follow the fate of the suitors' cash, or what is to be-
come of it? On this matter the money market is all in
the dark ! The speculators in that market are not
among the students who seek to thrive by jurisprudence,"
and they await in terrific suspense the forthcoming of his
Lordship's Bill ; they feel that they are likely to have
a great interest at stake, and before
--•"rhey boy obedisites to his just decre:s.
They'd first treesOf his book offtes."
The faces of theawsharebOjers are increasing in longitude,
every day ; but we trust t r, should there Le no miscar-
riage, Ins Lordship's period of gestation will now be short,
and that before the end of this witk the JotteleST ci
Cortramiss will be debtor w Bits deiiee-r4

[racial ova cobaxsecentser.]
Potts. Faa. IL
On Thursday the Royal Court held a General Assembly
of the Chambors, with closed doors, to hear a suit °flirt!
ATTCHINET•GLNI.k•L, relating to M. OUTR•10, and sl:f-
ferent military functionaries, indicated in the Re:%ort Maier
to the Kixo by the Minister of War. After an hour's da
liberation, the Court determined to take cognizsncc of )he
affair. M. Ou yeasts) underwent a lung co cain:Wombs the
prison of St. Pelagi••. It is said he has written t very M..
terestiag memoir iu hisdefence.
The Report of the Commission appointed to ex:miite the
accounts of thearaty its flpaiu, has been distiibuted to the
Peers, as well is to the ltfembers of the Chetnbcr of D.:-
puties. This.ltsport, with the several documents attached
to it, fills five quarto folumes. This voluminous Relkrl
must uudergo a detailed examination, before it can be disa
cussed in the Chambers ; the principal questim.3 it in-
volves are—the nature of' the intes ventien of the President
of the Council (111.13 k Vi e) in the affair of Oe r A Eij
the motives of the President for exercising this itstao
vention, of which no Minister of War would take utoo
himself the responitihility—and what the consequences
have been of this pommel intervention ?
It is reported that an order Ito been issued fur thew•
rest of M. Jolt/ruts, Commissary-General frefendgat
3fifitaire), and • that the Receiver-General of Finance Tot
••• • •
the Department of La Meurthe has been arrested, in elms
sequence of his being implicated in the affairsofOu% eaten.
contracts for the army in Spsin , also that M. !lAA!.
late Military Inspector-General, and at present afedjutar- t
of the Royal Palace qt Fontainbleau, was arrested car Wed,
weaday. A great number of other public functionaries
and military officers will be fenlnd intolved in this atNts
elous system of peiblic plunder.
• I mentioned to you in a former letter, that the Dar:l4ll4
Lad positively declared that he would show no favout to
any officer, however high its rank, who, on examining Hilo
this affair, should be discovered to have *bowl his cfm-
fidenee by conniving at a system of peculation in farnjth-
ing the supplies for the army of Spain. It is wart hill
Royal Highness is extremely indicant at the conduct h'
some of the members of his military staff in the Peninsula.
The Bishop of H xamororts was hat present at the dis-
cussion of the Sacrilege Law project on Thursday, ben
confined to his main by illness. The deep murmur of put-
lie dissatisfaction, combined with his ewn perplexity, it the
supposed cause of his indisposition.
The trial of Parepoiee, for the murder of the two chit-
dren at Vincennes, is announced for the 24th of this month.
The greatest secrecy has hitherto been pretrved on thi
mysterious affair. There are two other chargee brought
against this notorious assassin, for stabbing the kee'pei of
the prison, and a youth who was his fellow-prisoner.
Letters from Semlin state that sericus claturbancet hal/
arisen in Seria.
A letter from Augsburg, of the 12th instant, states, the:
wifliffi the last few days there have been diplomatic mete:-
ings at the house of Prince METTERNICH, which are be-
lieved to relate to the policy recently pursued by Englat
with regard to the Republics of South America. At e
breaking up of one of these assemblies, the Minister Sielt
off couriers to Paris. Berlin, and St. Petersburgh. The
British Ambassador has not been present at any of' thrill
meetings. It is said that Prince MITTRRNICH will riot
leave Vienna till he departs for Italy. The sentiments ut
Russia on this subject, it is said, ate perfectly pacifiz. •
The part taken by Great Britain with regard to the rat
cognition of the Spanish Colonies, is matter of serious and
sore deliberation. It is reprobated by the legitimate; as o.;"
very dangerous example, and as being both au unsafe aid
unsuitable policy, as connected with the present state of
Europe. The more rational and reflective majority, how-
ever, hold a quite different language. They commerd ttiy
conduct of the English Government, as worthy of Ps
ratter, and are loud in praise of Mr. Caterxivo. They
I add, that if the public mind in France was in a soiled.
and healthy state, M. DE Vittet g would be fore:el tes
follow his example; but that, at present, en vertu de us
pleine puissance, he takes his own course.
Great interest is taken here in the affairs of Greete; dist
delightful country, once the favourite abode of freedeab.
i 3 13,w regarded as having again become the seat of liberty
and civilization. The Grand Turk sr serail bientiit trotvi
rFdeit d pea de chose.

There was but little variation in the money markets yes-
terday. Consols for Money were done at 9te 94, and the
Account price was 941 all day. New Greek Scrip wse
better—it reached I. Brazilian Scrip, 1925, was very
stettly at 4!. New Mexican was Si to I. Colombian wet.
90i to 91. Greek Bonds were 376 to .513. Old Spanish
Bonds were 23k and New ditto 191. There has been a
great deal said respecting the New Spanish Loan ; and
notwithstanding the positive contradiction that has been
given to the statements we have made as to the fact of the
pending negociation,we can as pceitiNelv re-affirm all that
we have published on that subject. Whether the negoeia-
tions will, after all, be finally successful, and when the
loan will make its appearance on the Stock Exchange, tee
cannot say. As we before observed, there are many otu•
stacks to be removed, and much time must be consunsot
in the negociatiou ; but we do not speak unadvisedly whet
we azain say, that the basis is laid, and the conditions
settled. A Morning Paper, which affects to speak oracle-
larly on these matters, asserts that M. Gorbea will " lose
I his labour,- and denies that any capitalist " has lent it
I favourable ear to his propositions." Nor, if they bad Well
such as the Ti Les represents, ought they to have been
tolerat:d for a moment ; but they are of a very different
I character. The Mines yesterday generally were steady.
The Pasco Peruvian was not so Eocd as cn Monday ;
left off et 44.

' The mania for speculation appears not to be confined to
the Foreign Stock Exchange. On Monday, in the Colas
nial Market, there was a :nest extraordinary run upon all
the light spices—nutmegs, pepper, dome, &c. rose efts
per cent., and most of the brokers employed in that line oil
' business were occupied nearly all Maiday night in making
up and entering the numerous transactions of the day. Sa
deeply were the merchants themselves engaged in busintts
on the Royal Exchange, that they paid to attention to tbil
signal for departure at half-past (our, and at a quarter bet
fore five between two and three hundred of them were
actually locked up, and kept prisoners until half-past five,
when, by prayers and entreaties, they Were liberated, and
permitted to depart—Eveniag Paper.
Pasts SHIP Cavan.—A company has been; formed,
under the immediate auspices of Charles!(., to cut a venal
from Dieppe to Paris ; and it is stated that this Company
has already received the sanction of a Royal Ordinance.
which will apped in a few day, in the Monsttur: This
Company, it is said, besides offering all sorts of pecuniary
guarantees calculated to ensure the prompt ezettution or
such a project, seems to present political advantages whici
cannct fail to be appreciated. At the head O. tbelid •S
subscribers, the names of the Prince de Polignec and M.
Latitte appear, two persons who may be said to repireant
the aristocracii a of nobility and wealth, between latish
great political interests have been balanced in Frante, tins.
the restoration of Royalty.
In the House of Lord, on Monday night the mod
marked contradiction was given to a statement that had ob-
tained currency—that the ships of the rtiytl naty are it
en unsound condition. We belie*. this donna) neve.e
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do:ks, and the ventilation did protectios of vessels Oa
ordinary are much better a:landed co than at • any former
Anions the iniarY Papsr4 &Aimed yassisdigo
, is a list -bl the Petitions for private Bills pees:sated deriswg
the present Seasiou. Tut, acomint jib nasibse to 3117. 8f
which 48 are faT tail-ways; loner new took ; 41 fob pi
co:oPsniei, Si fat lariat 4omrar....ts , *414
sioapaoist.