The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-18 00:00:00

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CITY, 1110NDAY Evtwiso.
The transactions in Consols were very unimportant this
morning, and indeed the holydsy to-morrow, which is a
close one, both in the Foreign and the English Markets (it
being St. Luke), appeared practically anticipated to-day,
for there was but little inclination to do business. Consola
were all day 881 fur the November Account, alternately
buyers and sellers. Exchequer Bills were premium. .
The Foreign Market: was likewise languid both in busi-
ness and prices. Old Spanish I.lcids maintained them-
selves with more elasticity than any other Security ; the
rest being more or less drpressed. Colombian Bonds were
741 3, Mexican Scrip 91 9 discount, and Guatemala ditto
S} 4Z discount; Greeklionds were 281, Danish 64, and
Brazilian Scrip 8/ El discount.
The Share Market, as well as the others, was without
activity: There was some business done in Bolivar Shares
at 20; in those of the Castello Company at 4 31, in the
General Mining Association at 1/, in Pasco-Peruvian
Shares at 3, and in the Potosi Shares at I discount to I pre-
mium. Money is become quite easy.
The arrivals in Mark-lane were good, but there was no
variation in tb price of Grain.

Advice! from Madrid, dated the 3d October, state that
the King has signed the new Decree for the introduction
of British (coals.
We are informed that the two vessels detained in the
Downs with military stepplies for the Greeks, will be re-
stored to their owners ; hut on the condition that they shall
not proceed on their intended voyage.
Letters are in town from Odessa to the 2341 September,
but they contain tio political intelligence.
In corm-gnome of rpresentations made in Lima, it is
-understood that the decree made on the 17th of April, re-
lative to the confiscation of Spanish property, will not be
is force until eight mouths after its date.
A rigorous law was in the midst of the greatest
effervescence of cur civil's:ties, forbidding the relations
of emigrants to send assistance to those members of their
families who might be abroad. To this was soon added
the tyrannical mason of making Frenchmen, in their own
country, responsible for the letters which were addressed
to them •by their relations abroad. Circumstances are
now taking place in Spain, under legitimate authority, at-
tended with greater cruelty than those of France, in those
times of anarchy. This may be proved by the following
article, which we extrazt from a royalist paper of Bor-
deaux :—" Several arrests have taken place at Corogne ;
three women have been shut up in infected dungems, for
having received letters from their husbands, who are
emigrants at Gibraltar, and who sent them notice that they
were soon about to rejoin them."—Courrier Francais.
A letter received from Banos Ayres yesterday states,
that the last Spanish vessel at. war in the Pacific has been
given up by the officers and new to the Chitin authorities
at Valparaiso.
Letters received by a mist respectable house, dated
Ancona, the 28th September; state, that 'dykes have been
received there from Corfu, i 4 the 17th of September, also
the Greek Chronicle, from Missolonghi, of the 4th of Sep-
tember, by which it appears that the Greeks made a sally
which spread great confusion among the enemy, and in
this engagement the Turks lost 700 men. One of their
batteries was also entirely destroyed. The Greeks had 20
killed and 40 wounded. The letters from Missolonghi
also state, that Ibrahim Pacha has again lost, in different
engagements, 800 Arabs, and that lie himself had aban-
doned his troops at 'Crinoline, and had taken refuge at
Neocastro. Misaolonghi his again been supplied with
provisions, &c. Fresh victories have been obtained, it is
added, by the Greeks in the Island of Candle, which will
be an obstacle to the Paella of Egypt's sending his newly-
threatened expedition. The above is said to be confirmed
by letters from Leghorn of the 3d October, mentioning, in
addition, that Admiral Miaulis, with 32 vessels, was
cruising between the coasts of Albania and those of the
Mores, waiting to intercept the Egyptian fleet.
The Brussels Papers of Saturday state, that the editor
and printer of the Courier de la Ftdosdre had been heard at
Ghent, for insults and ealumnies on the high public i
offices, and sentenced to be imprisoned, the former for tt
year and a day, and the latter for two months, and both to
payment of the costs.
Philadelphia papers to the 20th ult, have been received.
Callao still held oat on the 18th June, and though consi-
derably annoyed by the Independents, was not expected
very soon to surrender. Some complaints are made of the
vexatious customs regulations of Peru, and of the delay in-
terposed to the decision of a question raised as to the cha-
racter of an American ship seized for carrying Spanish pro-
perty. A curious decision of a Jury in Upper Canada is
mentioned, in a case of murder. Four Jurymen differing
from the remainder of the Jurors, it was agreed to decide
by ,allot what their verdict should be. The accused was
convicted, but execution has been respited, in consequence
of this fact having transpired:
A test of' the extent of internal trade in the United
States is furnished by the produce of auction sales. This,
in the single city of New York, amounted, in the months
of April, May, and June, to the immense sum of 6,960,000
dollars.
Extract of a letter from Havant:tab, Aug. 31 :—" The
city is much agitated to-day in consequence of an execu-
tion that is to take place to-Morrow of a notorious villain
and assassin, who counts no less than nine cold-blooded
morders with his own hands, besides a number of rob-
beries and stabs. Astonishing as it may seem, this monster
has so many friends, that 'after having been three times
condemned, lie has found means to appeal, and lately did
so, as a soldier, to a Court-martial, who have now ordered
him to be hung and quartered. Much fear is entertained
of a commotion, and all his relations are held in custody
until he is no more. The execution of nine negroes con-
cerned in the late insurrection, is to take place this day at
Matanzas—they consist of one of the ring-leaders from
each of the seven plantations, and two from the city.
Another plan of an insurrection of more consequence has
lately been discovered, and sixteen blacks, several of them
French and English, have been convicted, and have con-
fessed that their object was to destroy all the whites they
-td. and to promote a general insurrection."—Nato York

Paper.
ST lAN NAVIGATION or THE MISIISSITEL—FEOTII
tabular statement in the Louisville Advertiser, we perceive
that, between January Ist, and December 30th, 1823,
forty-two steam-boats, carrying 7,860 tons, made ninety-
three trips to that place, making a total of tonnage amount-
ing to 19,453 tons. During the yeer 1824, the number of
beets was thlrty-aix, of trips one hundred and twenty,
amount of tonnage of the boats' 6,393 tons, and of the ag-
gtegete tonnage 20,651 tome. S.O that, although the unto-
ber of boaf a had diminished., in thit year, there was a con-
siderable increase in the amount of tonnage. During the
resent year, from January Ist to August 15th (little more
than seven months), the return atilt more decidedly shows
the increase of commercial intercourse, as we And the
number of boats to be forty-two, of trips 140 ; the amount
of the tonnage of the boats 7,484 tons; and the aggregate
tonnage of all the trips 21,102 tons. The total amount of
produce shipped at Louisville, for New (Means, &c. in
steam-bouts, during the present year, is estimated at 27 or
eB,OOO tons. 'Boats descending from the Falls, above
which there are about twelve boats plying, measuring toge-
ther from IA to 1,800 tons, are always heavily laden, many
of them carrying a number of tons inure than their mea-
surement.

The extensive iron works of Carron are very brisk at
present in rhaking shot, and shells, field-pieces, carronatles,
Congreve howitzers, Sitgar pans for the West Indies, &a.
'they have tortw at work font- blast furnaces, eight sir fur-
nacei, and four cupolas, and these consume shout 800 tons
of coal, and melt abut 660 tons of metal in the week. A
fifth blast furnace, on a more extensive scale, will soon be
set on. To facilitate the Chipping of goods for the Loudon
market, a large lock is nearly finished, which will keep an
abundant supply of water at all times. At this time last
year, the Company were glad to dispose of pig-iron ; but
from their increased business, they now not only sell none,
but are taking from 20 to 30 tons a day from their old
stock. A great number of carts of stones are already laid
down, and other preparations are going forward, for mak-
ing a considerable addition to the works iu the ensuing
spring.—CistarneChroakk.

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THE B.IROV OF RENFREW.

The following is a copy of a letter from the Agent to
Lloyd's at Deal, dated Oct. 16, on board the steam-ship
James Walt, proceeding for Harwich :
" Sin—For general information, I beg to state the following
particulars of the ship Baron Renfrew, from Quebec, unfortu-
nately getting on ►hore on the Longsand, and of the measures
adopting for her preservation. On the morning of the 13th instant
I left the Dowlrs in the steam-ship Tourist, in company with the
James Watt, and boarded the Baron Renfrew, near Mid-Channel,
oft' Fulkstone ; one of the Cinque l'ort Pilots, named Underdown,
being on board from the Pilot cutter, and another, named Brett,
having come off from Dover, offered to take charge as second pilot.
Both pilots, on being consulted as to the ship's course for the
i Thames. were decidedly of opinion the South Channel could no•
be attempted, but that the course round the Knock and Longsand
and up the Swim was the proper course, from the great quantity of j
water the ship drew ; and, on being questioned as to their know-
ledge and competency, they both declared trey were well-acquainted
therewith, being experienced in taking men-of-war and other large
ships up and down the Swim,
" They were consequently put in charge, and we proceedid
round the South Foreland and through the Downs, with the wind
from the S.W., towed by the two steam ships, making the Beacon
Buoy of the Kentish Knock before dark, and afterwards the Gal-
loper Light ; at abeut half-put seven P.M. we made the Sunk
Light, with a light breeze still from the S.W., steering a N. and
by E. course; about 9 p.m. the water shoaled to nine fathoms—
the flood-tide running with great violence, which, it appeared, the
pilots in charge did not allow for, although it was remarked to
them the ship was evidently drifting toward the Sand. The best
bower was then let go, when site swung round and grounded by
the stern; every possible exertion was then used by the steam-ships
and the crew on board the ship in carrying out other anchors, and
adopting every practicable measure to get her into deep water, but
without avail. Similar exertions to get her afloat have been used
since; and this day, being very tine, one of her bower anchors is
carrying out, to keep her front forcing higher on the Sand. Se-
veral gentlemen connected whit the ship are proceeding with me
to Harwich and the neighbouring ports to pro:ure vessels to lighten
the ship. She is now quite upright, the Sunk Light bearing
N.W. about five miles. Should the weather continue moderate,
great hopes are entertained she may float next spring tides. The
City of Edinburgh steam-ship remains to afford assistance, and to
take advantage of any favourable circumstance which may arise.
The wind is westerly at present, and the weather tine.
(Signed) " EDWARD SPENCER CERLINO.
•t To John Bennett, Esq., Lloyd's."