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A new Ballet expressly preduced: and Mr. Wilson, the celebrated
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eif Europe, with extraordinary success. has Just arrived. is engaged for
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sr the o'clock.

LONDON. SATURDAY, JULY SO, ISY.';.

The French Papers which arrived last night are filled with
swot:leans as to the success of the Minister's plan for the
cosi vcrs:on of the Rcntes. The opposition journals continue
to mert that it is impossible, while the journals under the
idluence of M. Da VILT.CLE state that great progress has
beer. made. We must wait for the term fixed by the law
for the cot:version, to enable us to decide these disputes as
to matters of fact.

We have no certain news from Greece in these Papers.
Acre:ding to report, the recent losses of the Mahometans
by sat have been greater than we were led to believe. It
said that the C•rtrsic PacHa WAS made prisoner at
Slitekur. Ise.Antis, with his Arabs, was near Calamsta
i a very critical a:tuaticn.
The foLowing are extracts:—

tricm the Etaik, dsted Thutidsy. July 28.1
ZAHTE, JUNE W.
_ _

From the Aug:Lurch Gazette.
Turk. lost at Cape d'Om, besides the Admiral's ship and
other men of war which were burnt, 2G transports taken by the
Oreeks. /rout of these transports were laden with lime, two with
lor.ckr. and senor, one with arils and iron tools, one with planks,
two with provisions' sod 16 with IPO pieces of cannon, shells, and
borrsbs; there were also on board these vessels some European en.
Osiers and artillerymen, who were with these materials to erect a
tonnes before illissolenghi to effect the destruction of that owe.
AR these transports have bean tarried into Napoli di Romania it
yea said that the Capitan Prcha had escaped on hoard a Turkish
brigantine, but that he had been taken by the Greeks at mytelene.
',rebuts Lathe is near Cala:iota in a precarious situation : it is
expected every hoer that news will arrive that be has surrendered.
The Greek army of Salons, after hating repulsed a Turkish corps
before that forms!. marched towards 3lissolunglsi, and compelled
the Turks to raise she siege of that place.
PAM, JULY ?7.
The house of Rothschild has contracted for a loan of six millions
of !betas, at 4 per cent. interest, with the Government of the Grand
Duchy of Hesse.
The Committee an favour of the Greeks decided in its s:tting
yeyesterday, that it would have the " Note of Viscount tie Cliutesti-
iand on Greece" translated into Italian, English, Getman, and
modern Greek.

The Royal Society of tick -ere (f.o Societe Royale .4eoelealiquel,
des &leans), io its sitting of the flit of this month. admitted Mr.
Thomas C impbell, one of the most tlistinguislied literati of Eng-
lultt. among the number of its non-resident members. Mr. Camp-
bell is now at Paris.
The Movitehr of Wed:lmlay. July 27, contains, in the official
psi., a Voyol Ordinance fm the execution of the laws and mei
ranee relative is the prohiliniun to distil brandy and spirits in the
city of Pun.
AK 1. 'The establishments for the rectitication of brandy and
apin thor good c ty of Paris shall io hely ccsse working in o to
meals f,om the day or the publication of the present Ordinance.
Art 2. The bases lilted by our Ordinance of 11th May 1822 for
the grt mini! e• .no of the indemnities, shall be applied to the pro-
ptirron of those establishments.
Factrcit Ftionto—Pasts, JULY 27.. Fire per Cents. 103 f.
LK. ; 3 per Conn. 76f. 10c. ; Back Stock. 2196 f. ; Neapolitan
Renter, 82f. 80c. Exchange on London. one month, 2.f. 5c.;
three months, 24f. 00..—Cares Ahtlientique.

Yesterday we reeved New York Papors to tbst 9,1 inn

They COStain no intelligence of importance. The fol-
lowing are extracts:—

From the Nes York Gazelle at July 1.1
BIAZIL.—The ship Phebe Ann has an at New Bedford'
Iftrala A* Janeiro, bringing advice, to thlt 41st of May. The
Captain states that a Government brit arrived on the INK in six
days from Montevideo, with despatches announcing that a revolt
had broken out in that province. A General who fermsely meted
tinder Aregas was at the head of the Revolutionists, and bad
planted his standard around Montevideo. The Gemini connelNel.,
ing in this City stated he had not 1000 men on whom lefessld
depend. In consequence of the above intelligence, the Rupseor
laid an Embargo at Rio, prohibiting any vessel dcpaning, based
to the South, and was embarking sixteen hundred troops, srlth •
General, to supersede and take the command at Montevideo.
4t Pernambuco, oo the 19th of May, ao Officer named Fulani
who was engaged in the Rebellion, was hung by order of the Em-
peror. It was feared others would meet the same fate.
Last,,.—Our Correspondent bas furnished us with intelligence
from Lima to the last of March, received via Panama. Called
was still in ponession of the Spaniards ; wits blockaded by seven
men of war, and besieged with 4,500 troops under Bolivar in
person.
A letter from a gentleman in Chorillos, to his friend in Wish-
ingtnn, states, that Bolivar has expressed his determination to hang
Reedit and all his band, as soon as the Castles ara taken.
(From the Kerr York Daily Advertise, of June 271
The Legislature of Georgia adjourned on the 11th instant, with-
out fixing any time to meet again. Mr. Lumpkin's Report from
the Select Committee, re-echoing the sentiments of the Governor's
Message, and recommending a division of the Union, ass not
taken up in either House; as many Members are opposed to the
spirit of it, even among the anti-Indian party.
Mr. O'Co NNELL is, at length, beginning to perceive that
to be the leader of a party is not precisely that enviable
post that, in the fondness of anticipation, he had imagined.
lit to be. He seeks to be emancipated, and even hints his '
willingness that through the influence and aid of his
i" friend Cos HETI" his release could be brought about,
" I wish," says he, very pathetically, " he could deprive,
rte of my leadership' among the Catholics; I assure him
. it is a very troublesome commodity." This we can readily
Ibelieve, it is a commodity, however, which, we should
think, would easily find a market. There is seldom
want of bidders at the auction of popularity ; cela we ere
roil pas sourent ; in the cause of any party, or sect, or
faction, of any kind, the difficulty is to get the lead, not
to get rid of it. There never yet was a man loaded with
power and authority, of whatever sort, but he could find
candidates without number willing to take the burden off
his hands. But we suspect that Mr. O'CoNarti.i, in offer-
ing up his prayer to his " friend CODBITT," is not quite
sincere, and that likeithe
.countryman in the fab!e, that in-
voked the aid of DEATH, when he came in good earnest to,
his assistance, he would return his courtesy with Many
thanks, but decline to trouble him.
The Rev. Mr. KINSELLA'S long letter to the DeLlia
. Evening Post seems to have been the first provocation that
has brought Mr. O'CoNNELL to a sense of repentance, and
made him feel uneasy in his seat. lie certainly, and some-
what to our surprise, interlards his remonstrance to his
Reverend assailant with an ample share of adulation.
Courtesy, even in its excess, is an amiable quality ; but it
has its times and occasions. There is a manliness of tone
which unjust accusation justifies ; and in repelling ca-
lumny, the language of compliment is out of place. So ap-
plied, it bears the stamp of insincerity. Mr. (Kos NELL'S
anxiety to display " the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit" is overwrought. Ile would seem to tread &sir shoed
with felt, like Lear's imaginary troops of horse, in the sa-
cred presence of the Rev. Mr. KINSELLA, lest be should
for a moment interrupt the repose of his conscience, or
give the slightest disturbance to his contemplations. Al-
though feeling, avowedly, " all the bitterness of reproach"
which the holy father had cast upon his character—al-

though manifestly indignant that " without any previous
inquiry he should be treated in print as an asserter of false.
hood, and proved historically and chronologically to be a
liar '—enough of all conscience to curdle the milk of

man kindness in the veins even of an Irish saint : and
sitting down to reply, as well he might, "in the spirit of i
humiliated pride and mortified vanity"—yet such is the
enviable ascendancy of his mildness, under all this provo-
cation, that he dreads nothing so much as the appearance'
of having taken offence at it.

" Let me not," says he,'' be mistaken ; let me not be supposel to
utter reproaches ; but I have a right, in the bitterness of sorrow, to
complain, that at such a period as the present those who, no mater
from wise motives, seek to destroy that unsttimity, to which mainly
our chance of success depends, should be able to wield the came, and
use the labours of so'truly excellent a person as the Rev. Mr.
Kinsella against me, and against those who, with me, are strug.
filing to keep our forces together for the day of constitutional battle
against the common enemy."

It is delightful to see how manageable the passions even
of an Irish leader arc vpon paper. How admirable could
a crowded assembly awaken Mr. O'CONNELL to the same
acme of tligii:ty, and induce in him the same moderation !
What an exemplary triumph would this Christian spirit
display in the Catholic Association, and what a lecture
would it read to Mr. SIIFIL and the rest of the Irish
orators who arc at present striving to be foremost in thence
for Popularity ! The loss of that influence which belongs
to the Rev. Mr. Kisscl.LA, of Carlow College, would not
I doubt be at this juncture severely felt ; it is an influence
I which no Catholic leader can well afford to lose, and this
may well account for any sacrifice of resentment made to
`retain it. If, however, Mr. O'CONNELL is truly, and,
fram his heart, tired of the intrigues and inconsistencies
of faction, and if lie is honestly disposed to retire from
them, the means of his so doing are not far to seek. We
would hint to him, however, tat if, like the lion, he has
get entangled, Mr. COEBETT is not the animal to whom
be can safely apply to gnaw the net. Ile is ill provided,
indeed, if he has not infinitely better resources in his own
good sense than are to be found in his gratitude, let the
service he owes be what it may. He would only do, more
speedily, under his tuition, what—unless be conducts his
leadership very differently—lie is in a fair way to do with-
out, sad that is—to lose one party witi..out gaining the
ether.

CITY, FRIDAY EVESITIO.

Although the inhabitants of London are at present charged with
upwards of 2cli. a pound for household bread of the best quality,
still the Cornfaciors in 31ark.lane hind it impossible to effect sales
of w heat to ary extent, even at a considerable deduction from its
nothiral quotations. The principal millers are generally holders
of the Foreign wheat which was admitted for home consumption
by the Act of the Legislature, which received the Royal assent on
the 22d ult. acid they cannot &Word the best samples of free Dantxic
wheat, after payment of the duty of 10s. per quarter, and the
heavy expenses which have attended it during the three years in
which it has been bonded under his .Majesty's lock, when con-
verted into flour, much under this prier. Thuil the agricultural in.
r rest sutras by laws intended fur its protection; for until the con-
s town; dispose of the free Foreign wheat at something like a
saving rice, their purchases of British wheat will continue to be
trivial. This is, however, not the only injury wide' the people of
the United Kingdem, in conjunction with thelanded interest, suffer
from these antinatioral restrictions on the free importation of
Cie necessaries of life. Twenty years ago the test samples of
Essex wheat always commanded a higher price in Mark.lane than
,1 the bra Polish samples. A great proportion, however.'of Essex kat
resent worked out, in consequence of the great inducement which
high prices held out to the farmers to overwork the land during the,
time they have possessed a monopoly of the supply of grain ; and
Es ex wheat is now not only not ready so valuable as Polish, but'
generally is even inferior to the growth of Suffolk. The tended in_
terest has been for a few years gaining nn additional income at the
expense of their own estates, and the consomption of groin has at
the same time been limited by its excessive value. It may he said.
however, that Lincolnshire and Voikshire lave teen improved in a
ratio equal to the decline in the value of the soil of what lately were
the agriathural counties of England. In as far as the p.a.:onion

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of a larger qualetlty of grain and of bona truly consatutA h.
provemattf -go doubt the valie of she meths= COSlniell has been
empii\
enhanced, but then they require a high virile= cf manuring with
rape-cake and grinded bones, and the value of the imp.
can only be maintained by high prices of grain. If Lineobilliki
and Yorkshire now produce more corn than they rod is
do, this is at the expense of the breed of cattle and let
In proportion as the growth of grain has increased, the pis
dualists of feeding has declined; and here again the value of
agricultural property has been injured by the Corn Laws. Wiwi
does it happen that a good horse st present costs more than during
the wildest period of the late destructive war ? Why does it
happen that year-old cattle sell at six to 'even guineas each ? but
because the temptation to grow corn, which the monopoly created,
Induced the farmers to throw grass fields into corn fields, and to
neglect a most important department of agricultural property. The
interest of the landed proprietors requires that some modification
should be made in the Corn Laws during the next Session of Par- 1
nascent, and the just rights of commerce also demand a revision of
them. In the old age of s Parliament, however. no real improve.
ment can be expected; for such Is the prejudice, or rather ignorance
of the free and independent constituents of County Members, that
any of them who ventured to vote for a repeal, or for • modification
of the Corn Laws, would assuredly not be re-elected when his Ma-
jnty sent them back for the approbation of those whose feelings ,
they were sent into the Parliament to represent. A dissolution of
the present House of Commons is rendered almost necessary, for a 1
business so important as the Corn Laws are cannot be properly
discussed in the last Session of a Parliament. It will require the
vigour of • new one to do ample justice to this now almost only
question necessary to the rapid improvement which is now spread.
ing its beneficent influences over nearly the whole of the civilised
world ; and this probably is the only reason which induces many to
look for a dissolution of the Parliament in October or November
next. With real freedom to trade, nations may look forward to
I great prosperity, and none more so than the United Kingdom
where industry is true value, sod. where capital and manu-
facturing machinery give the inhabitants great aslvantages,
Under such a system the grate" Abs quantity of manufactured
of produce, or of specie, which England can spare to sopply
wants of other nations, the greater must be her internal pro.
vpseity, and no private interest should any longer be permitted to
stand in the way of general improvement. Agriculture will gain
even more by free trade than any other interest. for it will be ren.
dcred more valuable as property increases. Trade will increase
capital, and the more money abounds, the higher must be the value
of landed property. In proportion as the abundance or money re-
duces the annual interest to be received from it the more value will
be attached to every description of tangible property. The price of
corn also cannot decline below the expense necessary to produce it
in the United Kingdom, fur the experience of more than half •
centary teaches that it cannot be grown in any part of the Continent
at prices so much below those of England as to admit any great
profit on its importation, after paying the expenses attending its
transport.

The Hamburgh mail of last evening sailed yesterday
morning from the Thames, in the Hylton Joint steam
ship. This is a great improvement, as the passage will be
made in about .50 hours, and the expense to the Post-
office mus: be much less than by employing one of the
Hfirwich sailing packets.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied. by the Princess
Feodor, attended by Capt. Conrov, left her Royal High-
ness's residence in the King's Pa.ace, Kensington, ahout
one o'clock, to meet her beloved mother, and to acco:npany
her to Claremont.

The Dowager Duchess of Coburg was expected to arrive
at Claremont yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her son
Prince Leopold.
Sir Henry Seaton, Prince Leopold's Equerry, left Lon-
don last Tuesday to proceed to Calais, to attend the Dow-
ager Duchess to England, and to Claremont, the country
residence of her beloved son.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Canning, as
his Majesty's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, held
a levee for the Fort ign Ambassadors and Ministers at the
Foreign Office in Downing-street; among their Excellen-
cies present were—Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Am-
bassador; the Prussian, the Swedish, the Netherlands,
the Spanish, the Danish, the Sardinian, the Neapolitan,
&c. Mr. Canning gave pt irate interviews to each of their
Excellencies.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town yester-
day morning from his house at Beckenham, in Kent, and
after transacting business at the Treasury returned in the'
evening.
Mr. Huskisson transacted business with Mr. Canning!
yesterday at the Foreign Office.
On '1 Intraday Mr. Huskisson had a numerous grand
dinner party at his house in Somerset-place ; among the
company were—their Excellencies the Prussian, the Rus-
sian, the Neapolitan, and the Spanish Ambassadors and
Ministers, and .a numerous asaemblage, of other distin-
guished personages.
We have the pleasure to announce that Sir 'William
Curtis returned to Ramsgate on Tuesday last, from his
Baltic expedition, and arrived in London on Thursday
night, by the steam packet, in high health and spirits.
MAIMIAGE tx Ilion Lirt:.—By special license, at
Abbeyliex Church, in the Queen's County, on Tuesday,
tae 2talt of July, by the Rev. John Stokes, A.M , Vicar
of Cobham, in the county of Kent, Lord Clifton, eldest
son of the Earl of Darnley, to Emma Jane, third daughter
of Sir Henry Parnell, Dart., and niece of the Earl of Port-
arlington. Among the company present on this interesting
occasion were—die Earl and Countess of Darnley, Viscount
and Viscountess de Vesei, Lady Elizabeth Bligh, Sir H.
Parnell, Bart., the Hon. and Rev. lVim Wingfield, Hon.
and Rev. Arthur Ve!,ey, Mrs. Nresey, Hon. Charles Vesey,
and the Rev. Mr. Newcombe. On leaving the church, the
party proceeded to Abheyliex House, the seat of Viscount
de iresci, and partook of an elegant deimar, immediately
after which the happy cauple set off for Clifton Lodge, in
the county of Meath.
Dua b.—A duel, which it is feared will prove fatal in its
consequences, was fought on Thursday morning, on Craw-
! ley common, between a eentltantai of the name of Elphin-
stone and a Mr. Barnard. The meeting was occasioned by
a dispute about a lady. The first fite had no effect, but
in the second Mr. Elphinatone was wounded on the side
of the right breast, and the ball was not extracted, although
attended by Mr. Banks, a professional gentleman. The
parties are distantly related.

Mr. Birkbeek, the author of a book of travels in the
United States, and known as an emigrant to Illinois, was
lately drowned on his way home from Mr. Owen's settle-
ment at Harmony. The Backwoodsmen, it is said, had
given him the name of " Emperor of the Prairies," in
consequence of his buying 16,000 acres of public land at
one purchase.—.4merican Paper.
TUE LIVINGSTON CODE.—The Code of Civil Law, pre-
pared for the State of Louisiana, by Mr. Edward Livingston,
having beenplacetlin the hands of all the Magistratta and
other Officers of jtfic State, was publicly and formally
I promulgated at New Orb nits on the 20th May, to go into
effect in one month from that date, and accordingly it be-
came the law of the State on Monday last, the 20th instant.
j Louisiana thus erjJys the honour of having made the first
effective movement in the work of Jct.-Jai r:forni, and was
fortunate in possessing a citizen so well qualified to fulfil
I the important design which the Legislature of the State
had the wisdom to adopt and peisevere in.
Itsvrsur A aI:A NC.F.MENTS.—I t bas been determined
by the Board of Commissioners. that the present Collectors
of Excise of' Cork, Waterford, Limerick; Derry, and Bel-
fast, shall retire on compensation annuities for past services,
and are to be severally succeeded by Messrs. Ward, Smyth,
Bridgewater, Plant, and Thompson, English gentlemen at
prca6tet acting as Inspectois-General. All the other Collec-
tions, it is expected, will be disposed of in a similar man-
lier, in the course of a few days.—Dublin ELT:ling
011.:ANIC Rtmaiets.—Our attention was called yester-
day evening, by a distinguished fellow-townsman, to a
piece of sand-stone from Bratnley-fall, now lying at the
Central Market. It has been brought there for building
purposts, but is certainly well worthy the attention of the
Geologist and the Naturalist. The block is in length about
sic feet, of nearly a rotund form, resembling what it plainly
was originally, the trunk of a tree, exhibiting onjthe stir.
face a strongly defined corticular texture, and at the thicker
end, a bifurcation, evidently referable to the junction, or
rather •separation, of two large Literal roots. From any
prenure to which it has been subjected, a transvars: sec-
tion would appear eliptical, but if spherical, the diameter
above the radix ntight be about 14 inches. Tbe gereal
appearance indicate it as the petrifaction of a tree of the
class of palms. Upon the whole, we recommend this
,sprcinien of former organization to the notice of the curi-
ous and scientific. It is the most perfect one of the kind
yet &cost:red in this district.—Leeds Intelfze-ccr.