The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

eitatatiOrks tilinsrir. • •
MGM,pith the
haeoWteethe"the elselg7.Hilke Aixt
Isiuimioi.., the Illootittg of Porlionsalt,
from test emmistahte owthwity. Part of the ar-
hingenients alloded to we have already noticed.
but we again laser' them front a belief of their au.
theoticity t
Mr. Peel to be Secretary of State, eke Lord
Sidenouth, who retires from office, remising his seat
for the preseut in the Cabinet.
Mr. Williams Wynn to be Preeideet of the
Board of Control, with a seat is the Cabinet.
Mr. Fremantle to he one of the Lords of the
Treasury, said Mr. Henry Wyou to till a high
diplomatic mission on the continent. •
The Marquis of Rockingham to be advanced to
the dignity of Duke:
Our readers already know that the Marquis
Wellesley is appointed Lord Lieutenant of 1re14114 I,
sod Mr. Goulburu Chief Secretary; to which we
have to add that Mr. Pluukett is to be his Majesty'.
A ttorney-Geberal in that country.•
Thus the Administration acquires the accession of
the strength of all the friends, as well as the talents
of the Grenville family. Remembering, a. we do,
the various occasions upon which the members of
that family have refused office when offered .to them
at die price of sacrificing their pablic principles,
it is fair to conclude that their present accept-
ant., has been accompanied by a distinct stipulation,
that those principles shalt be maintained, supported,
and acted upon in their fullest estesit. iu such a
manner as the best interest of the country may
point out and demand.—(oYindser xpress. I -•-' c.
_ .

The Right Hop. Wts. aTusside isouaws has re-
signed the duties of Chairmanning* Hoots County
Sessions. He will be succeeded ',Sir June Hcxav
NEWBOLT, late Chief Justice at Madras, maw re- '
siding at Portawood.
We understand the passports made out for
France in the present year do not amount to one- ,
half of those granted last year. The fear that the
Spanish fever might cross the Pyrenees has pre-
vented the usual flow of vsletudiuoriaus from visit-
ing the south of France.
The report that the Russian Tariff is of so imfs-
voerable • tendency towards this country, hascaused
some consternation among the Russian Houses in
the City. The additions' duties imposed are said
to be equal to a total plobibitioa, particularly those
on sugars.
A letter from Boston, dated November 19, says
It is stated on good authority, that the revenue
of the United States, accruing in New York, Phi-.
ladelpisis, and Boston, for the three first quarters
of Mgt, has eareeded very considerably that of the 1
correspondisig quarters of the last year; arid that
the President of the United States, iu his Message
. to Congress, will be "hie to announce that the re-
venue of the year will considerably exceed the esti-
sestet of the Secretary of the Treasury."
On Monday evening • public meeting wail held
at the Uoion.room. Richmond-hill, Leeds, for the
purpose of " taking into consideration the propriety
sendisig•congratulatory address to Sir C. WOIAZ-
LET, and of adopting such measures as might be
thought necessary to promote the Great Nonheni
Union of Radice) Reform;"' Mr. WASS; in she- I
Chair. Oa au eddies. being moved by Mr. MA-
sow, sod seconded by Mr. Mite'', • very stormy
discoesion emoted. It was objected to by Mr. J.
BRATIRAW, "on the ground that it was too ful-
some." He recommended the meeting to wont the
address in the language of truth instead of adula-
tion, which he contended would be more pleasing
to the party for whom it was intended. and snore
consistent with their " own dignify." He con-
cluded with moving a counter.addrets, which. after
a long and warm debate, was carried by a very
small majority.
A cask of gold, in American, British, and Por.
tuguese coin, worth upwards of eleven thousand
pound., was saved from the wreck of the American
brig Elhateth, end placed in the custody of the
Rector of Wallasey, by whom it has been given op
to the agent of • respectable house iu London, the
owners thereof.

DEPLORABLI STATIC or Till farmer.
who occupies about $OO acres of amble land, ten
miles from Devises, iwonght' his Gist laid of wheat
of the present year's growth to our market on
Thursday last, which he considered as • fair sam-
ple of his whole crop. It was disposed of with dilfi.
culty at 15s. per sack ! The same personnel, offered
only 15s. per head fur his sale ewes at Marlbo-
rough fair !—(Devizes Gazette.)
A foolish story has gone the circuit of almost all
the provincial and many of the London Paper.,
that mutton was lately sold in Wellington market
at three half-pence a pound ! That the markets
are distressingly low for those who supply them is
too true, but it is very blameable and usischtevous
to aggravate an evil by statements of the above
description, when, as in the present instance, they
■re entirely false.—(Touirton Cowrie..)
Saturday fresh herrings sold Id. per dozen, or
6d. per 100; and on Tuesday • man who had
brought some roosting pigs twenty-eight miles to
Dorchester market, mold three of them, weighing
together 50Ib. for Its. not 3d. per lb.— (florehester
✓owr•al.)
Se►eral hundred persons were collected together
last Monday to witness u pugili.tic contest that
took place near half-tray between Corerne and
Bathenslon, between two young turn, one from
each place ; when after ■ long contest, it was dif-
ficult to decide who was victor; both suffered
much. hut the amateurs say that the pleasure of
the battle was totally lost by the disgusting circ•m-
stance of the fathers of the combatants acting as
seconds.

On Thursday night lost the burial ground of
the town of Uxbridge wee disturbed by nocturnal
depredators, and the bodies of a woman named
Lawn, and twin children, named TODD, taken
from their graves.
Ou Friday last some swallows were seen at SA-
M!. This remarkable feet as not only an evidence
of the mildness of the season, but may tend to un-
settle the long disputed question of the migration
of these birds.
The typhus fever has been very fatal in some
parts of Dorsetshire. In the small village of He►c
Regis a young woman, named SUITS. about ten
days ago buried her mother, mid on Monday last
her husband died of that dreadful disease.