The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

MARKETS.

[From the New London Price Current.)
Tet:snav, Drc. 27.
COTTON.—The Cotton market remains in a state of inactivity,
the tranuctiocs last week belts* nakkoa to positive wants fol. ex-
port and consumption; the prices remain nominally the same.
though, in some instances rather lower rates have been submitted
to. The sales are about 700 bags, viz.:—°So Pernams 1214 to
Ind.; 240 Surata fiAti. to 6d. ; 100 Bengali 61d. to all in
bond; and, viuty paid, 70 Demerara and Berbice 100. tor money,
SUDAR.—The demnnd for Illuscovades last week was limited
to small parcels for the immediate consumption of the trade; there
was no alteration in the prices, as the West India merchants hold
the reduced stock in this market with some firmness, having sold
the greater proportion of the supply previously at the high prices.
The delivery from the warehouses last week is about 900 casks less
than last yea:. There are no Itluseovades on show this torenoon,
on account of the holydays. The Refined market remained at no-
minal quotations all last week ; one or two parcels were reported to
be cold lower for money ; Lumps at Ws. but the nearest market
price is still 81s. ; some parcelsof crushed were taken for the Medi-
terranean. Blolasses were 30s. a 393. 6d. There will be no busi.
ness doing this week, on account of the holydays. In Foreign or
East India Sugars there were no purchases.

COFFEE.—There wctc no ^ublic isles of Coffee last week ;
parcel of 504 bags, fair quality St. Domingo, was sold by private
contract at 535. There were no pubic sales of Coffee this forenoon ;
there has been more inquiry by private contract; sales of good or-
dinary Brazil at 514. and offers mad., for St. Domingo at Ms. 6d.
At a late hour to-day, 600 bags St. Domingo sold 64a. a 355. and a
rand of fine ordinary Brazil Us.
RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—There are no sales of
Rum of Brandy of any extent to report ; no parcels press on the
market. Small purchases of pale Geneva on the quay reported at
Is. 9d.

SILK.--Silks are very heavy and lower.
110 PS.—The holders do not Feu asks in the present htnguid
state of the rua:ket ; there is no business to report.

A TREMENDOUS COMET.

We are informed that previous to the Espiegle'a leaving
the Western Hemisphere [this ship arrived last week from
the Mauritius], there was visible, among the Constella-
tions towards the South Pole, one of the largest Comets
that has been seen from the earth for a very considerable
period, perhaps since the one of 1682 or 1759 (if, as is
supposed, they are the same), it being considerably larger
than the one that appeared in 1811. It first became visible
the 'Latter part of September, or beginning of October,
when it was about the brightness of the Pleiades, at an
elevation of 16 or 16 degrees, and without any considera-
ble tail; its increasing brightness, and the increasing length
of the tail, together with its retrograde motion among the
stars, soon made it appear that it Vas rapidly approaching
the earth; and about the middle of October, at the close
of twilight, in the absence of the moon, it was the most
conspicuous celestial object above the horizon. On the 15th
October, early in the morning, Mr. R. A. Newman, master
of his Majesty's ship Eipiegle, observed its distance from
two of the most considerable stars in its vicinity, asfollows:—
At Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, October 14th, at 15h.
30m. observed distance of the comet and the star Formal-
haut, 23.17.40 comet L'. of star: and the star Archenar,
23.50.40 comet N. of star. At this time the tail extended
about seven degrees from the nucleus. Again, on the
12th November, at seven r.x. in lat. 0.32. N. and long.
19.32. W. the distance from the ster Fomalhaut was
29.00 comet W. and from the star Archenar, 43.37.
comet N. of star. At this time the tail extended fifteen de-
grees from the nucleus, anti the nucleus itielf was
very visible to the naked eye, its apparent diameter lxing
much larger than that of Jupiter. 'rite tail had a small
curvature, and, as usual, terminated in faint hairy lays;
it seemed to be receding now from the earth. These obser-
vations are not corrected for the efiect of refraction ; this
effbct will be trifling, as the three objects had a consider-
able elevation at the time of the observation. The Astro-
nomer Royal at the Cape W.' Good Hope was sedulously
employed observing for data to determine the elements of
its orbit ; from whose accuracy astronomers may hope for
every desiderata.—lfurtpshire Telegraph.

FA TAT. DCEL.— A meeting, we are informed, took place
near Athlone, between a Mr. t..;•.--y and a Capt. W---c—te,
on Monday Ilst, when the latter was shot dead upon the
zrit.—Gahrgy Alvertiter.

N OA A•
* •

The following eireurnstanms rfspecting,:lie tr;;;Ical end
of Targhini and Montattari are from 'a private 1. :ter herr
Rome. Targhini had the audacity'CO iti.errnpt the htlis-
:der front reading' his sentence of death, saying had
these sort of things at his fingers' duds. /lon:anal i, on his
ride -began to sing, and told him be gave himself needless
trouble. These two criminal'
shavitig been conducted to
the chapel ardent!. thriv days Lefore their execution,
Targhini vented himself in horrid imprecations Di:,,,n
his.confessor, whom ha reproached with baying deceived
him into a confession of his crimes under a promise of
mrAlon. " I declare to you, besides," added he, " that
I have told you only a pack of lies. I-le-theu addressed
himself to the other ecOles'.astics, who had come to offer
him the comforts of religion, and told them they were ail
children of the devil. In fact, his conduct was so out-
rageous, that he was obliged to be conducted to his
.dungeon. Montanari was more calm, but he would pay
no attention to the exhortations of the holy fathers, and
burst into•repeated shouts of laughter at thenvioul exhor-
tations.

Executions generally take place here after sunset, but the,
Government, in order to make a more public example of
these hardened criminals, caused them to be executed at
one o'clock in the afternoon, on the Grande Place de Giulia,
from whence they could be observed by an Immense multi-
tude, as this spot is overlooked by Mount Pincio. The
two prisoners did nothing but laugh and sing 'while
on the road to the place of execution, and saluted the
ladies who were asserabltd at the windows on the road
' through which ' Otey were to pass. Thrghini was first
led to the scaffold, and when cn the point Of being exe-
cuted, exclaimed, " I dle innocent, but L die a Carbo-
nari." The drums began' beating, and interrupted the
rest being beanl. Montanari beheld the execution of his
companion with a smiling countenance, and whilst the
executioner was cutting his hair, and the attendant priests
offered•him in vain the comforts of religion. he declared,
" Sir, let me alone, you only annoy me." Having placer .
his head under the fatal knife, and the priest desiring froze
him one act of religion, he exclaimed, Executioner, cut
the cord, I am weary of so much prating." An universai
stupor prevailed over the by-standets, and the priest availed
himself of the occasion to harangue them, and incited them
to meditate on the unhappy end of of the two esintinaln