The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

MURDER OF Till? FRANKS FAMILY.

The following particular: of what occurred at the close
of the trial of Bourke and Kecife at the late Cork Assizes,
for the above murder, are extracted from the Cork Southo
Reporter of Saturday last
While the Jury were in consultation Keeff did not la !ray
the least symptom of apprehension. He maintained the cane
composure he had evinced during the entire day, and elsnom the
same position—his head leaning on his arms, which rested on an
iron brace that projected beyond the dock. The other prisoner,
Rourke, seemed greatly agitated.
When the Jury came out an intense interest was perceptilde in
the countenance probably of every one in Court but Keeftios
merely stood up, and when the Foreman pronounced a vercher of
Not Guilty for both prisoners. be very respectfully made sit it,
clination of his head in acknowlekment. A bus of approbation
ran through the Court, and Keeffe, still retaining his position,
begged leave to address a few words to bin Lordship, to
.which re.
quest the Learned Judge very graciously assented. keefle theft
spoke in the following words:—
"My Lotto—ln the presence of the King of Kings, the Lord
of Lords., and the Judge of Judges, I acknowledge that I sat as
Innocent of the charge made upon me this day as the child unborn.
As well might they have arraigned your Lordship. or the Bishop
of Cork, at this bar, as me; and I declare, In the presence of God,
that I would search out, and punish the perpetrators of that horrid
murder, as soon as any gentleman in the country !"
Baron PENNEFATIIEII—WeII, I apt glad, indeed, that you
say so. Discharge those men.
Keene then bowed moat respectfully to the- Court, and to the
galleries ; many gentlemen in different parts of the Court retutned
his aalutation.
. On the verdict being pronounced, the hums outside of the
friends of the late prisoners were tremendous ; the Police endea.
voured to keep off the crowd but all in vain ; the iieountry-prople
broke through the guard, and embraced the prisoner:: in he west
affecting manner. While this was occurring in one his of the
Court-yard, in another direction same of the female iotta were
in hysterics. Keelfe was followed down the Parade by. • greet
crowd, cheering hint as he went along, until at length. he was
obliged to trop, into an apothecary'. shop on the Parade; for
medical assistance. lie called at this office at on early hour
yesterday morning, and procured two copies of the repurt of ho
own trial.

We understand his friends have since carried him 110111(
triumph.

DEgERTION Of SCAMEN.—A conviction took pIaCC ti:
the Mansion-house, 111111, on Wednesday, under the new
Act for the regulation of apprentices in British Y. s . 's.
The following is the clause :
" And whereas the laws now in force for the prevention ef ne
desertion of persona composing the crews of merchant ships rt 10.
reign parts have been found ineffectual for that object, and (Jr.
titer provision is therefore neceissry ; be it enacted, that from Ell
after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-four. if any person belonging teethe crew of any registered
ship us vessel shall desert front the said ship or vessel dining sl:e ab.
sence of such ship or veroel from this kingdom, contrary to the ar.
tides of agreement entered ir.to with the master, or other person
having chanyte or command of such ship or vessel, every such
person an deserting shall net only forfeit whatever warzav be
due to him for bis sarvice•co hoard ofrhe ship or vessel wilietl
he may have so deserted, bst 'hail ateforfeit whatever es shill
be due or have been agreed to have been paid to hits b orfrom
the owner or owners, or master or ether person having cl ago
or commar,d of any ship or masa in the *erne whereof such net.
son may. Mare engaged on the voyage back to throotunr "
Beaton tic:clic 1 •

0

I

(1826)
By!? Acct.

AO)
611 S di'
=Lod& 1
&eh
Dias llosisP114)
Ditto Aces. ail
Danish Roods
ow° saip (1823) 4i Ms
lireek J
Ditto Scrip (1132:0 12/ j dis
Pitts Acct. 121 dis
GradslajArs Com. floods 0213;

Zite I!ritifSit

h 1
O
Mexican Bonds

Ditto Aut. 741
Ditto Scrip (185 Q 4 die
Ditto Acct. 4; 4 1 dis
Peruvian timid, 731 3
Ditto Acct. ;3
Prussian
Ditto Benda (18n) 1201
Russian Roods (1833) 971 1
Ditto Acct. 971
Spanish Cons. 171

• "UMW OF InARIIII YNIPTIVAV.
mins.
Share. MIL Pronto:ls per Phut.
imille-Matlran.—.... ell* 211 871 86
Anglo.Chilian £lOO i 21
C..'atillok Sepirito Santo Brasil 100 I 71 871 8 ii ii
l'tiloniblan lllO . 1 16 18 17
k sowall and Devonshire
Prisitable 23 2 11 01 111
fienerid Mining Association lOO 6 6i
kilaitien IVO 6 per 1
Page ti. La Pas, and Peruvian 60 6 61 b 1 1 1
4yal Irish - .25 1 9.16 1
Weiab Iron and Coal ~ 23 10 2 1 dis
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Alliance liritiab and leireiga lOO 10 41;
GAP LIGIIe AND C• 111 COMPANIES.
- Continental lOO 8 4 di*
stiscat i.axtous.
fldtish Iron Company l4O 20 3 161 dls
• Devon Ilaytor Graalte ... 60 2 1
4itneral Steam Navigation lOO 5 21 2j i
kap:trial Plate awl. lOO 2 8411 41
leowd.Gold and Pam Refining 250 3 1 4
Lover fee Ilium Nay lOO 1 4
New Exerlisup 6O 3 I 1
Pearl y (XeuoN)
Pearl and Coral Fishery 4O 4 1
PsrliVIAO
Provincial Buslit'lidwail 166 ~ IS • le i
West India Congany ll6 6 111 1461

irtoo.

HAIMARKET TIIEATRE.
This Evening. THURSDAY, Ararat be performed
ROSES AND THORNS;
Or, TWO HOUSES UNDER ONE ROOT.
Plate:pal Characters—Meyer& Liston, W. Darren, Vining. and Har-
ley. Mesdames T. HUI. Gibbs, and Mier P. Glower.
After whbah,
THE WEDDING DAY.
ler Adam Contest, Mr. W. Farm ; Lady Contest. Madame Yeatzls.
To emelt/de with
QUITE CORRECT."
The Principal Characters by Menu. Vining, Raymond. and Liston;
Mesdamse Waver, Dathion, P. Glover, and H. Clifford.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
Tins Ifvestkig. TKURIO AV, August 23. will be performed (fur the
10th time in this country). a Orand Opera. caned
TAIHIARC. TH2 TARTAR CHILI.
The Principal Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips. J. O. Atkins. Per-
kins, Brehm. Denman, Thorne, and J. Bland; Mires Paton, Gow-
an', Ago and Miss Hamilton.
After which,
retimairriorri or, THE FATE OF FRI
4 4. Kr. T. P. Cooke.

~rsFn.

Syra, which stews, that according to the report of several ships,
Ibrahim Paths had burnt Corinth, and that Colocotroni had after-
wards entered into negotiations with him. The Captain of an Aus-
trian vessel, coming from Calamata, reports, that the Greek Ad-
miral Tombasi abandoned with his squadron the station off Miss°.
longhi as soon as he saw the Ottoman fleet.
Letters from Venice say, that General Goura has gained another
victory over the Pacha of Negropont, who, after suffering great loss,
was obliged to return to Eubea, and evacuate all the districts of
Eastern Greece, which he had for a time occupied-
On the I lilt of July, at ten at night, a fire broke out In the
Palace of the Pacha of Salonichi, and in a very short time all
the apartments, the harem, the stables, and the immense buildings
containing the residences of the Kiaja Bey, and of above two
thousand persons attached to the Royal Household, were destroyed.
Above thirty other houses shared the same fate, and the ruins co-
ver a apace of above a quarter of a league in extent.
The engine and firemen of the Consulate, after trying in vile to
save the Palace of the Pacha, turned their attention to that of the
Aga of the Janissaries, which they preserved from destruction.
The Turks accuse the Albanians in the suite of OMIT Vrioni,
and the Albanians accuse the Janissaries. The Pacha was on
horseback all the time of the fire.

[From the Courier de Dar R61n.1

The approulling dissolution of the Commission of 3fayence has
excited some sensation in Germany. Public opinion has entirely
changed upon this subject, and the German Princes have perceived
that the fanatics alone have sought to inspire them with imaginary
fears respecting the pretended plots of the demagogues, who ex-
isted only in the heads of those who had an interest in making
them believed to be real.

The Prussian Government has equally recovered from its fears,
and has acknowledged that it could do without so much severity,
and that it had even gone too far. 'With regard to the liberty of
the press, it is now known that Prince liletternich has not
succeeded in his proceedings with the Governments of the second
order; but he has succeeded in recommending a strict execution
of the system adopted by the Diet at Frankfort, and the Censors
have received orders not to suffer any articles to pass that can create
the least difference with other Governments.

Fitzlicit Fuxns.—Pants, Auo. 22.—Five per Cents. 102.
50:. ; Three per Cents. 72f. 90c.; Rents de Naples, Certif. Fal.
connet, M. 70c.; Rents d'Espagne, 1711. Exchange on London,
One Month, 251. ; Three ditto 241. 85c.—Coup A uthe nape.

By the letter we have, in another column, extracted
from the Constitutionne/, it will be seen that Spain conti-
nues in the same lawless and distracted condition. The
Monkish or Apostolic Party, as they style themselves,
actively carry on their intrigues for the dethronement of
King FEaassAND; and when their more daring instru-
ments have recourse to open rebellion, as in the case of the
Trappist, they are almost ready to deliver him by main
force from the hands of justice. It appears that when this
man passed through Saragossa, the royalist volunteers
and the snob strongly manifested their disposition to set
him again at liberty, but the military escort by which he
was surrounded was too powerful for the intended rescue.
The turbulent gang ultimately took their revenge on the
Constitutionalists, whose houses they plundered. In con-
sequence of these excesses, it was judged necessary to send
for a detachment of French troops from Pampeluna. It is
clear, that unless the French Government will withdraw
its forces wholly from the Peninsula, and leave the parties
there to settle their fate among themselves, the necessity
for this sort of interference will never cease. The KIN°
has confirmed the judgment of death passed upon the
brave Etnpecinado, whose services during the war with
BONAPARTE have not availed to save him from the venge-
ance of his enemies. The only favour he has obtained is,
that his limbs shall not be separated after his death. This
is the extent of the mercy shown to him by men, who but
for such exploits as he performed would never have had
the power of inflicting their malignant punishment upon
him.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

This was a Ilolytlay at the Bank, and up to half-past
twelve o'clock not a single bargain was done in Consols•
After that time there was some degree of bustle in the
market, but it arose entirely out of business connected
with Friday's settlement. The price continued the same
all day, 89M.

The common result of limited business—considerable
languor, was apparent in the Foreign market, as the f 01..,
lowing quotations will testify :-0111 Spanish Bonds were
24a, and the New 1714. Greek Scrip was reported at'
12ii discount. Colombian Bonds at 831/, and Mexican
Scrip at 4 discount. Brazilian Scrip was a good deal
affected by the late news respecting the unsettled state of
that empire ; it declined to .514 discount. Some bargains
were done in the new Guatemala Loan, at to I discount.'
This is a six per cent. Loan ; the amount is 1.428,571/. Bs.
It bears interest from the Ist instant; the price is 73
per cent. and the payments arc to be made as below
stated:—

1825. August 27 - - . 10 per cent.
October 13 - -10
November 10 - . 5
1828. January 12. - - . - 10
February 9 (with interest from the)
Ist February, at the rate of 5 per 5
cent. per annum) .
March 9
April 13
May 11
July 13.
August 10 -

J
8

Total .

73 per cent.

In the Share Market the business was not' extensive,
and prices consequently were not on the advance. Anglo-
Mexican Shares were 10,73, and those of the United Mexi-
can Company 21 to 3. The new Potosi Company's
Shares have gone back to 511. In other Shares there was
scarcely a variation.
In Mincing-lane the sales of Coffee went off heavily, at
rather declining prices. Purchasers of Sugar appeared
indifferent, and that depressed the market a shade.
Although the new %Vhcat that was brought into Mark-
lane this morning was remarkably fine, millers would not
buy at last week's prices.

The King of Prussia, who is now at Spa, will, on the
11th and 12th of next month, at Cobientz, review the Bth
corps of the Prussian army.
The Government paper of Hesse-Darmstadt of the
11th of this month contains the following publication :
" Henceforth the Reformed Church and the Catholic
Church shall be treated in equal manner with the Lutheran
Church in all the forms which they shall follow, by the
common law ; and, from henceforth, in all mixed mar-
riages, the children, without distinction of sex, shall follow
the religion of their father, unless in the marriage contract
it has been otherwise stipulated in an agreement relative to
the religious education of the children. This law is not to
have a retrospective effect."
The statue of the Empress Catharine 11, executed by
the Swedish sculptor, Professor Goethe, at Stockholm, is
finished, and will be removed next month to Pctershurgh.
It is of white marble, and of the natural size. The Empress
is represented sitting on a seat of an ancient form, hold-
ing in one hand the manuscript of the Russian code which
sh had ordered to be compiled ; with the other hand,
which is suppor:ed by a globe, t.lie holds oat an olive-
branch.

By the Frankfort Papers, which arrived yesterday, it
appears that, in the 18th Sitting of the Swiss Diet, held
on the 4th of the present mouth, the preaiditn, Canton Is
commissioned to renew its efforts to obtain from France
the restitution of Dappenthal, which has not yet taken
place, though it Was decided in the Congress at Vienna
that itshonld be given up.
The Nuremburg Correxpmdent contains a lung letter
from the Rhone, in which it is stated, that since the arri-
sal of the nets:Captain-General in Catalonia, the situa-
tion of that part of Spain has been much ameliorated, and
that the Ultras are discomfited. In Arragon, however, they
are said to be in full form, and to have even preclaimed
Charles V, openly.

STATE OF SPAIX
[From the Coestitatiormel of Monday.l
MADRID, Auo. 11.
(PIII,I7•TE CORRESPONDENCX.)
The Royalist Volunteers of Saragossa have just given a
new proof of their insubordination, and of the little respect
which they entertain for the orders of the King when they
are opposed to those of the party by which they are di-
rected. The following is an account of what has re-
cently occurred :
The Government, not wishing that the Trappist should
remain in Navarre, even in custody, gave orders for his
being conducted under a strong escort to a Convent in
Lower Arragon, which made it necessary that he should
pass through Saragossa.
The inhabitants of that city being apprised of the day
on which the Holy Man would pass through it, the
Royalist Volunteers assembled early in the morning for
the purpose of meeting his Reverence, who appeared at the
gates of the city surrounded by a numerous escort, who
were themselves encompassed by an immense crowd of
volunteers and people of the lowest class. The mob thus
collected rent the air with the most seditious cries, ending
them all with that of Liberty to the Trappist! and accom-
panying them with various menaces aiainst the escort, but
which were not followed up by any acts of violence, be-
cause at that time such was not their object; besides the
escort was very strong, and bore a formidable appearance.
The Trappist thus passed through Saragossa without the'
least measure having been taken by General Satnper, who
is a great partisan of the Apostolic Body, to quell the
tumult. When the Trappist was gone out of Saragossa,
the volunteers and the people who accompanied them re-
turned into the city, and dispersed themselves about the
streets, behaving with extreme violence towards the Con-
stitutionalists (which seemed to be the real object of their
assembling together), several of whose houses they plun-
dered. Such was thifstitte of things at themoment when the
courier who conveyed the news to the Government left the
city. General Sampet has been deprived of his situation,
and it is affirmed that a strong detachment of French troops
has marched from Pampeluna for the purpose of re-
establishing order at Saragossa.
It appaars that the forced levy which has for some time
past been actively carried on in Galicia, in order to in-
crease the nutnber of men whom the government wish to
send compulsively to Havannah, has ended in producing
great discontent in that province, towards which place Go-
vernment has ordered several corps of the provincial mi-
litia to proceed.
The King has just confirmed the judgment of the Corre-
gidor of Iloa, who condemned General Empecinado to suf-
fer death. The Corregidor, who is an old enemy of the
General, directed that the latter should also he quartered,
but the King has not confirmed that part of the judgment.
General Empecinado is to be executed at Valladolid. The
permanent Military Commission of Madrid was dissolved
the day before yesterday.