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London, England, 1826-08-29 00:00:00

The NritifSit WO,

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
Thiel Evening, TUESDAY. August 29, will he performea the new
Orand Serlo•Comle Opera of
THE ORACLE; or, THE INTERRUPTED SACRIFICE.
The p; loci* Characters by Messrs. J. !Rand, Perkins, J. 0. Atkins. 11.
Samo, and Thorne; Misses Paton, Hamilton, sod Goward.
After which the Melo-Ursa of
THE BLIND BOY.
L.l.c.)rhl, Hilt Kelly; Oherto, Mr. Bartley ; Kai Mr. Bennett; Moliro,
alr.W. Chapman. Elting', Miss Carr.

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ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
Under the especial Patronage of his Most Gracious Majesty.
The Proprietors of the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, respectfully announce
the LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON, TO-MORROW
EVENING, WEDNF:SDAY, August 30, when they will present the
Public with a splendid UNION GALA, combining all the Attractions of
the Season, vit. those of
His Majesty's Birth Night I Coronation Gals
Duke of York's Night Waterloo Fete, and the
low
it
Duke of Claretwe's Juvenile Fete.
The Gardens will be Ruminated with upwards of 12.,n0
extra Lamp•, in Device* of all these fe-,tive uccwsions, fitntl-
ing a blicze of light and apt. unequalled in any country.
The CONCERT will gr. talents of Miss Travis, Miss Heime,
mid Miss Love ; Mr. Braman, Mr. Sinclair, and Signor de Bean's , Mr.
Taylor, Mr. Horncastts, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tinney. and Master Berl:cr.
Leader of the Band, Signor Spagnolettl; Conductor, Mr. Bishop.
The beautiful Moonlight Scene of
THE RUINS OP AN ITALIAN ABBEY,
Produced by Mr. Stanfield, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, wtl be
again exhibited.
Mr. WILSON on the TIGHT ROPE.
An entire Novelty, called THE CARNIVAL OP VENICE, or a
Masquerade on Two Tight Ropes, by Mr. Wilson, assisted by Mr. Disci:-
snore, the Young American, introducing Polichinello and Family, with
Comic Dau-ing, Ac.
The new Ballet,
IL CORONAMENTE DELLA ROZIERE,
In which the two Ridgway& will dance an entirely new Orotesque Put de
Deux.
Mr. BLACKMORE will exhibit his usual Evolutions on the SLACK
ROPE.
A Military Band will play at intervals, during the Evening, in the
O►cheriu.
To conclude with a DISPLAY of FIRE-WORKS, of surpassing mag-
nificence.
In the last rand Piece the celebrated YOUNG AMERICAN, Mr.
BLACK3IORE, will make hit TERRIFIC ASCENT to the 'loutish
Tower, and Descend amidst Volume. of Fire.
Dutra open at Seven o'Cluck.—Concert begins at Ilsif-pal Eight
Admission 4s.

The BatrisH Plus commenced publishing yesterday
morning at tire o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 49, 1846.

We have received the French papers of Saturday, and
the Doll( dated Sunday. The follouing are extracts:—
I From the Etuil,, dated Sunday, Aug. 27.1
PAIIIB, Avo. 26.

The Right Honourable George Canning, :tlinister of Foreign
Affltirs, is shortly expected at Paris. We advise the Opposition
Journals, to which a war or a Congress is Indispensably necessary,
not to lose so fair an opportunity of announcing to their readers a

Congress at Paris.
Letters trona Madrid of tho .Ist say that the King of Spain has
accepted the resignation of the Duke del Infantado, tendered him
on the 18th. The department of Foreign Affairs is confided, thi
-.,stf.;ns, to M. Salmon. Lord Spencer, and Count Rezende,
nister Plenipotentiary front Brazil to the Court of Austria, arrived
at Frankfort on the 20th.

ST. PETERSTIVAGH, AUG. 8.
The Army of the Don has presented to the Emperor, through its
Heitman, the following letter, dated 18th May :

a .
•• Beloved Monarch—Thy sacred present, the sword of Alexan.
der 1., our adored father, and thy gracious fetter, full of unexampled
goodness, have been received by the Army of the Don with the
respect due to them. The joy of the warriors of the Don on this
occasion is not to be described. Amidst the sentiments which ani-
mate us, we can only exclaim," The Emperor is great, and his
greatness has no bounds !" The children of the Don, brought up
n love and fidelity to the Throne, know how to appreciate thy
gracious presents, though their language is too feeble to express
what they feel. Thou makest us drink at the source of thy
;pot goodness: we shall transmit the remembrance of it from
generation to generation, and ,in our most remote posterity
the hearts of thy children will be transported with joy at the
view of the inestimable present with which thou host ho-
n.;ureAl the Army of the Don. This sacred sword gives to
the warriors of the Don fresh vigour against the enemies of thy
tin one. The news of the favour thou hest conferred on us has
bc:u srread in the remotest countries, and strangers came to us to
cc: the property of one great monarch and the present of another.
Our ancient warriors, who have grown grey in battle, witnessing
tt, y kindness to the Army of the Don, bless, with profound
tion, Divine Providence, which has given us its anointed after his
own heart. Our voices address to the King of kings this prayer :
•• • Lord, protect the Prince ; treat ,him according to thy heart,
arid fulfil hi designs ; continue to shed thy grace upon us; we
will proclaiffi thy glory to our posterity.'
• "'

'• It is with these sentiments that the Army of the Don throw■
itself at thy feet, in the person of its Chief, who esteems it as the
highest happiness to be, Site, your Majesty's mast humble and
most faithful Lieut-Oeneral ILowatsay,

liettman of-tile-Arm-14;f the Dun,

[From the Jostrrial des Debuts of Aug. 28.]

The Congress of Johannisherg, which has been so foolishly
contradicted on the faith of the Austria's Observer, has commenced
its sittings. Its first ostensible object is the arrangement of the
d:iferetives relative to the navigation of the Rhine. The following
.s a list of the Ministers already arrived :—Count Bernsdorff,
Prussian Ministcr of Foreign Affairs ; Prince Ilatzfeld, Prussian
Ambassador at Vienna; Count de Caraman, French Ambassador
at Vienna; Baron TatiacliclF, Russian Ambassador at Vienna;
Baron Berstett, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Baden ; Baron
Munch-Bellingliausen, Austrian Minister, President of the Ger-
manic Diet; M. de Lerchenfeld, Minister of Bavaria; Baron
..:,'Otterstedt, Prussian Envoy to the Swiss Confederation ; and
several other State Ministers of the surrounding countries, such as
Nassau, Darmstadt, &c.
S,r Charles Stuart appears to be also expected, but very likely
not upon business relative to the Rhine. Until this moment, the
t.,.ite of the Prince Metternich is only composed of the Antic
Counsellor, Count de Mercy, the Baron de Port, Counsellor to the
sltancery of State, the Baron Sieber, and the Chevalier Nieuvalds,
Secretaries to the Chancery of State. But if the affairs of Portugal
come to be discesscd, the, Gentses and the Schlegels would hasten

tv the spot.
The Duke of Wellington arrival on the 21st at Brussels, from
.1.1,31 and.
Th. Monier, British Consul-ilderal at Paris, and Commissary
7.:Litive to the liquidation of British claims, left this capital yester-

jay for London, whither he is, it is said, going for the purpose of
Lunniting Mr. Cunning on certain points on which he Is at variance
aids the Punch Commissaries, and which, It is supposed, will be
t,rminated through diplomatic negotiations between the two (lo-
%,soments. Mr. Morley is to return to Paris with Mr. Canning,
wlw is short!y expected here ; apartments hare already been pre-
pared fin him at the hotel of the British Ambassador.
Two Captains of merchant vessels, who hate strived at Mar-
pliles, Lee made the following declarations : —Captain Lars

Swedmon, commanding the Swedish brig Charlotte, which left'
Alexandria, in Egypt, on the 7:h of June, declared that he fell
in, on the 10th of August, with a division of live golettas; that he
observed on board the vessel where he wasordered tog o and show his
papers that the crew wore the Turkish dress. They asked him if
he had not semi some Roman, Spanish, or other vessels? and after
these questions, which he answered satisfactorily, they sent him
away.—Captain B. A. Reboyee, of' the brig Clew. coming from
Constantinople, declared that the squadron of the Capitan Pacha
had quitted the Dardanelles or. the 13th of July ; and that on the
1:1111 of August, being at about twenty leagues south of the Byer-
can 1,131141., he. fell in with four armed Algerine vessels ; that the
Conlusntler sent for him on board, examined his papers, and told
him he (the A Igerine) was cruising after Greek vessels.
I.tsaore, AtO. 14.

The Spanish Government has returned a satisfactory envier. and
such as ought to have been expected, to the note which had been
addressed to it on the subject of our rebel armies. The Spanish
Cabinet has, it is stated, availed itself of the opportunity to express
to our Government its serious apprehensions relative to movements
which it seems to dread in no small degree, similar to those that
have given occasion to our complaints. The uneasiness evinced by
the Spanish Government has no foundation. The important pee-
parations relative to the election of the representatives of the nation
are carried on with great activity. All classes of citizens appear to
take the most patriotic interest in them. The different Ministers are
busy in preparing the memoirs which are to he submitted to the ap-
proaching assembling of the Cortes, relative to the different
branches of their administration.
The Memorial-Dol delais gives the following intelligence from
Gibraltar, under the Zid August :
The General commanding at that place received orders from the
English Government to hold ready for embarkation a part of the
troops which had been assembled there as a carps de reserve, and
that on the 2d August the Colossus had arrived and took on board
fifteen hundred men of the guards, with whom .she made sail for
Fit E NCII FUNDS.—Pasts. Aum 26.-5 per Cents. 100 f. 71k.;
3 per Cents. fitif. 20c.; Bank Stock, 2012 f. MI C.; Rentes de
Naples, 72f. 75c ; Royal Spanish Loan, 4T.. Exchange on
London, one month, 251. 65c.—Courr salienNyite.

In the article from the Jtmenal des Debats, which we
have inserted in our extracts from the French Papers, de-
tails are given respecting the assembly of different diplo-
matic characters at. Johannisberg, which must be the moat
barefaced forgery ever made if there is no truth in the
account given in that Journal. A contradiction has been
given in a Brussels Paper to the account which we gave
yesterday from the Etoile ; but it is le-stated to-day in an
extract from another French Paper. The extract to which
we allude is, at all events, by far the most important part
of our foreign intelligence.

We have received Dutch and Ifamburgh Papers to the
27th August. The Ilamhurgh Papers of the 26th conuia
an edict of the Emperor NICHOLAS on the wool trade.

NIMEGUEN, AUGUST fl.

We (i. c. the editors of the Nintog urn Courant) return thanks
to the friend who has communicated the following extract of a pri. I
vste letter from Groningen, of the 18th of August:—
" The number of deaths in this town from Thursday, the 3d, to
Thursday, the 10th, was 106—an extraordinary number, nearly six
times as many as usual. In the last week, to yesterday evening,
the 17th, at eleven o'clock P. at. the number was 82, which, how-
ever, is still a great diminution. The number of the sick has been
registered it was estimated at 6or 7,000, but proves to be only
4,570: a very great number, it Is true, but less than reported. It
is to be hoped that cooler weather will reduce the number of both
the sick and the deaths, but At present the weather remains the
same, and we therefore cannot hope for any speedy improvemert."
HAGUE, AUG. 21.

Prince Frederick is gone to the Loo, to be present at the festb
vities on the King's birth-day, on the 24th. His highness is ex-
pected here on the 25th, and it is said that in the beginning of
September he will accompany his consort to Berlin.
AMSTERDAM, Avo. 24.

his Majesty has to-day completed his 54th year. This happy
day has been observed here, and in all parts of the kingdom, with
every mark of loyal affection to our beloved Sovereign and his
royal house.
Exc HANCE ox Loxnox.—Aug. 25, 40. 8. ; two months, 40.6.
—Mite. Papers, Ans. 26.
ST. PETERSWITROIt, AVG. 12.

On the fith of this month their Imperial Majesties visited the
Archiepiscopal Palace at Moscow, to which they went in procession
from the Palace of Petrowski.

The troops have already left the amp at Krasnojeselo, and re-
turned to the cantonments.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 15.

Our prospect of the harvest being now satisfactory, his Majesty
has ordered the sale of corn in the Crown Magazines to cease. Se-
veral vessels last week brought here a large quantity of foreign rye,
wheat, and oats, for account of the Government, which is for the
supply of the garrison.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 18.

A Russian squadron of five ships of the line and eight frigates
has lately passed the Sound, and it is said that this large force is
bound to the Greek Archipelago. We continue to receive from se-
veral providers distressing accounts of fires in the woods.

BERLIN, AUG. 23.
Count BernstorlT, Minister of State, has arrived here from Ems.
The Duke de San Carlos passed through Berlin on his return
from St. Peteraburgh.

HANOVER, Atm. 23.
His Excellency Count 31uuster, af:er staying here KWIC days,
left us the day before yesterday, to return to England.

The collection or the laws contains a Royal Ordinance, dated
Carlton Route, 31st July, relative to the religious education of
children of mixed marriages. The father alone has the unlimited
right to determine in what religion the legitimate children of both
sexes shall be educated : no person shall have a right to interfere
in any way, and every agreement by which the husband and father
shall renounce this, Ilia right, whether before or after marriage,
shall be null and void. _

Vii' NA, AVG. 111.

Ills 3lAjesty the Emperor has issued an ordinance, in confor.
mity with the Austrian laws already in force, to hinder the trade
with slaves from being carded on by Austrian subjects in Austrian
ships.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
114mounote, AUG. 25.—One month, 37. 4.; two months, 37.
Sr. PETS:SUL:UGH, AUG. 11.-9. 5-16.

The Charleston Courier to the 3d August was received
yesterday at the North and South American Coffee-house.
The editor had received regular files of Ilavannah Papers to
the 21st July, but found nothing of consequence in the in-
telligence which they contained. The Spanish fleet under
Commodore La BOI:DE still remained at the Ilavannab.

We insert this morning an advertisement, calling upon
Greek Bond-holders to meet at the City of London
Tavern, on Monday next, to institute inquiries into the
appropriation of the Loans that have been contracted for
in this country, and into the circumstancea that have led
to the protracted sufferings of the Greek people, and the
injury of their cause, by the delay that has arisen in the
appropriation of the funds immediately applicable to their
defence. Without attributing blame to any individual, we
arc exceedingly glad that this Meeting is called; because it
is quite clear that criminality attaches somewhere, and all
we want is a thorough investigation of a subject
which is not only interesting to the holders of Greek
Stock, but to the British community at large.—
The cause of Greece is too sacred to be trifled with,
and the interests of that cause are too closely inter-
woven with the best feelings of Englishmen not to render
every circumstance that has tended to prevent or delay its
success a matter of painful anxiety in this country. Inves-
tigation would alleviate that anxiety, and, even if that were
all the advantage to be derived, it would be desirable to
give publicity to the proceedings regarding the Greek Loan