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ENGLISH OPERA 110 USE.
flue Erman. MONDAY, September Id, will be presented the new
Staab:al Farce of
lIEFOIIE- BREAKFAST. .
i'he Characters by Mean. Mathews, Bartley, W. Sennett, I. lilsadowt
W. Chapman , And Mies Soden.
After which the IMAM Farce of
ECARDING-HOUSE ; or, FIVE NOVAS AT BRIGHTON.
Peter Fldget, Mr. Alathewr.
To conclude wlth the ConAr Opera of
PREF AND EASY.
Sir John Freeman, Mr. Wrench i Gertrude., MG. Kelly.

Tbt Catititt Paine commenced publishing on tatutdap
morning at twe o'clock.

LONDON. MONDAY, SEPTEUSER IS. 1526.

We have receive& the French Papers of Friday, and the
Ftoile of Saturday. By an article in the latter (taken from
the rtilversal Gazette) it is stated that Samos had surren-
dered to the Capitan Pacha, but no authority is given for
t4;l statement. The praeedings of the English Own-
mittee, it will be seen by the (Attracts we give below, are
1130 the subject of observation. Portugal, by all accounts,
is in a state of tranquillity. The Spanish Government
have instructed their Ambassador at Lisbon to intercede
er. behalf of the persons who deserted the Portuguese
ire, and sought refuge in Spain; hut nothing definitive
tint known regarding the fate of these people. The
• :!eaties between the two governments stipulate for an ex-
:..ange of deserters without any conditions ; this interfer-
ence, therefore, on the part of Spain, sufficiently indicates
t:te feelings of that government as it respects the recent
castors in Portugal. Perfoct tranquiility reigns through-
nut the Portuguese provinces, without even excepting
fras-os-Montes, against which had been dirt eted the united
• efforts of all the intrigues of the Spanish and Portuguese
' Apestoliques. The following are extracts:
iFrout the JNlreat der Debats.l
31ADRIDi SEPT. 5.

General Rodil, late Commmdant of Callao, lass arrived at
,Ccrogne. The Gazette, in announcing his arrival, makes,
Cle rame of the King, the moat magnificent praises of
lis loyalty, and of his noble dints to save the place in-
trusted to his command. In his paternal gratitude, the King has
. published in the Guzrtte (after repeating the draw of the 17th Dec.,
• *Licit raised the General to the rank of Field Marshal), that by
~ret':er decree, dated the 3d instant, the King had inve,ted him
%;:h :he Royal American Order of the Grand Cross of Isabella the
i7olie.

FRAM KFO,LT, SEPT. 10.
Prince Meternicb is gone to Darmstadt. From thence be will go
to*Carbitube, then upon the borders of the lake of Constance, and
retarn to Vienna by Saltzburgh. It is remarkable that 31. de
Met wraith has not even this year made hi. tour through the two
Corstituiaral Kirgloms of Wurtembeigh and ltavtais. Although
tie Grand Duchy of 13ai en it tiro Constitution l, yet it bee 31. de
Berste't ft r 31initter, lilt, is no lriznd to the Ilepresentalte Sys-
tea, aril M. de 31ettnrich, therefore, honours him by his partieu-
:n. estce.n.

[Flom the Uni;•ersal Go-,ett.)
The expedition of the friends of the Cheeks, commanded by
f olor.el liaybaud, arrived at %ante on the of August, and kit
I.lllt place the next day.
The news from Smyrna, dated the nth cf August, state that they
have learnt, by an extraordinary communication. that Samos had
•Itintardy submitted to the Carit:m Paella, to whom six Primates
and a Bishop were sent as hostages.
Lord Cochrane was at .Messina, where he expected the steam-
NtISTI6, which had not arrived so won as he thought they would.
the English Committee had wri:ten to him that they were going to
yarehase a steam.vetwl, the Valentine, which is at London. It
Bill cost, when completely equipped, 400,1100 francs. The Com.
•ittee cf Paris and M. Eynard will give MOO francs, and Major

:ccl r:ne 1541,000 fr.ines. The teasel will in reiply to •ail in five
'ays. It is expected that amount! vessel will be despatched in a short
mne after.

Colonel Stanhope, to whom the Duke Da!berg deputed the power
acting on hie behalf, has written to the French Committee, that
•t they will appoint a French officer, he shall have the command of
.he second vessel.

it is really painful to sec how much the very best of
causes arc continually at the mercy of men who, whatever
tray be their motives, are in their actions most mis-
Idevous. That faults May have crept into the manage-
13ent cf the large funds intrusted by the Christian public
•n the bands of the Foreign and British Bible Society is,

. ,:um the very ntture of things, not only possible, but even
' •.robable, and that fur reasons which we sated on Friday ;
ut no one will sly that the course pursgttl by the
Zicious zeal of a Rev. Mr. ELI 1%1 aon Saturday, at the
Freemasons Tavern, is that which the best friends of the
ociety, and the most strenuous opponents of every
• 'ruse of a public trust, would adopt or sanction.—
Ire good sense, indeed, of the persons present, soon dis-
. o:vered th,,, injudicious meddling of the Rev. Gentleman,

:1 gave him the only reception which his conduct desert-
J. IVe are friends to publicity, and should therefore be
;.,:ad to have the affairs of this Institution fully laid before
i:te public; but, knowing as we do the many honourable
t.ten connected with it, we should be the last to counte•
—ince such a mode of proceeding, to arrive at the desired
lOrmation, as was impotently attempted by the Rev.
elsb Parson.

4;ITY, SATraTAY EVEITING.
Like COllllOl Market has shown some th.gtve of animation
ilthough the improvement has keen limited to J per
it. ; but the prices have beon higher than during auy

-
lief part of the *eel:, Consols for Account advancing from
the dosing quotation of yesterday, t4179'.;. The impres-
. -:‘ rather gains ground that the abundance of unem.

.)yed capital (which will be augmented by the payment of
, • Quarterly Dividends oh Reduced and other Securities
:he beginning of next month, amounting to nearly six

!lions) will, in spite of any speculations in timebar-
Mc, force up the quotations lor :1 per cmt. higher. In
afternoon, particularly towards four o'clock, business
:aine much more languid, and the last price of Consols
Account was 791/.

The little attention which is paid to the coalition of the

.roue during the present quarter is also looked upon as
''ter a favourable omen, and, according to the reports in
*illation to-day, the deEciency, as yet, does not exceed
what it amounted to in the previous quarter.
falling off is said to be chiefly in the Customs.
f he Foreign Market, particularly that part of it adapted
the speculations in the Republican Securities, has ex-
-I,:ted nearly the same scene of bustle and confusiui u it

did yesterday. Although every thing was k nown yester-
day to enhance the value of the Stock, and a retrograde
movement appeared probable after so rapid and extensive
an advance on the Bonds, they have to-day attained quo-
tations more than 3 per cent. above what they were sold at
yesterday, opening at GU and rising to 65. At this point
the Market experienced some change, Mexican Steck re-
ceding to 631 ; at four o'clock, after a great deal of conten-
tion, it left off at 611.
The flourishing condition of Mexican Bonds has in-
duced the belief that some change will be made in tire ar-
'rangement of Colombian and other Republican Securities,
on which the Dividends have not been regularly paid.
This opinion has received some countenance from an emi-
nent loan-contractor, who has, however, little or no con-
nexion with South American Stock, being already the agent
of many of the Continental Powers; and, thus situated, it
would be inconsistent in him, as well as Impolitic, to be
engaged with any free Governments. Under such an im-
pression, the Colombian Boas have advanced considerably,
•and nearly in the sante proportion as Mexican, as far as
'regards th&transsctions of to-day. Yesterday afternoon
Colombian left off at 35, and have to-day advanced to 38.
No particular house Has been 'tamed as being likely to
become the future agents of the last-mentioned Stock, nor
is any ding further known than what we have just stated.
'the Closing quotation of Colombian was 38, thete having
been only a very slight re-action downwards on the rise.
The reports respecting the payment of the Dividends on
Chilian, fixed for the 3Jth inst...continue favourable, and
they have been 'sold to-day at 49 for money, and 44 for the
Account. As the Mexican Stock Las now been placed on
so good a footing, it will, for the future, be subject to less
thectuation ; and speculation is more likely to revert to
Chilian and other Bonds.

There have been some purchasers in Russian Bonds u
high as 831, for the next settling day. Danish and Prus-
sian are likewise nominally about f per cent. higher. One
failure was announced to-day at the Foreign Stuck Market,
in consequence of the rapid advance in Mexican Stock, of
which the defaulter, whose name is Smith, had been
what is technically tethicti a Bear. His differences are not
extensive.

An English.Zournal says that Mr. T, Moore, who had the
inconceivable weakness of burning the Memoirs which
Lord Byron had intrusted to him for publi-2xtion, is now
disposed to publish the life of that illustrious poet, to be
placed at the head of s new and splendid edition of his
works, which► is preparing by Murray, the bookseller. We
hope that in this work Mr. Moore will in some degree make
reparation for his wrongs towards the public, and that he
will indemnify it for so severe a loss. We trust also that
he will even have the courage to call to his aid his recol-
lections of the reading of the Memoir of Lord Byron, and
that he will even brave the anger and prudery of Lady:
Byron, her sister, end of all the family. In short, we
trust that the author of the Corshir, Childs Harold, and of
Don Juan, will inspire him better than the memory of
Sheridan.—_i French Paper.
MESSRS. WE N TWORTH AND CO.'s BANE ITUrTCY:•-•
We have the satisfaction of informing our readers that tbe
Birthwaite estate, including the mittaals,' eke. late the
property of Mr. Rishworth, has been sold to Colonel and'
Mrs. Beaumont for 50,000/. Possession, however, is not
to be given till next February, and of course die
will not be paid till that titno. This sale will not,
therefore, increase the amount of the fleet dividend, but
will form the basis of the second payment to the creditors,
which it is probable will be made early in the spring of
next fear.—Wake/dal Journal.
The bank of Messrs. Dobson and. Son, Huddersfield,
commenced the payment of their first divivend, of five
shillings in the pound, on Thursday last..,
Passeo s ELECTlON.—Aprivate meettog of electors who
are dissatisfied with the late return of members to serve in
Parliament fur this borough took place at the Shelley's
Arms, on Wednesday evening last, to-tortilla, win un-,
derstand, what steps they should take in order to nullify
the election, and procure a fresh display of that wanton pro-
tfigacy of principle, false swearing, drunkenness, and riot-
ing, which the most virtuous anal moral people in Europe.
arc accustomed to regard 'with unconcern, if not with fa-
vour, upon occasions when they ate called upon to appoint
suitahle•persons to make laws for them. Not being in
favour ourselves with persons who support • these abutes,
and having no desire for frequent elections, upon the pre-
sent system of conducting them, we were not admitted to
the deliberations of our discontented fellow-townsmen, on
this occasion ; we cannot, therefore, report at large what
occurred at the meeting, nor have we learnt precisely what
resolutions were agreed upon.—Preston Chronicle.
INTERESTING RELIC.—G. W. Counsel, Esq. of this
city, has in his possession a valuable sapphire ring, which
was the property of King Charles the 1 irst, and was given
by that Monarch, just before his execution, to Juxon,
Bishop of London, who attended him op the see/Vold. The
Bishop married a lady of the tultne of Hillier, in whose
family it has been carefully preserved ever since as a most
precious relic. Mrs. Bubb, whose maiden name was Hil-
lier, gave it toiler niece, Mrs. Bayly, the wife of the Rev.
Francis Turner Ilayly, rector of the parish of St. John the
Baptist, who presented it to Mr. Counsel as a mark of her
friendship anal esteem. Charles the First married Hen-
rietta, sister to Louis the Thitteenth, King of France, to
whom the rir.g originally belonged. The Fletirs-de-his
with which it is ornamented fully corroborate the fore-
going facts.
USEFUL INVENTION —An instrument is about to be en-
graved, recently invented by the teacher of the High School
of Limekilns, which will be of very great practical utility
in tnathematies, but particularly in navigation. It is called
the " Nautical Pnamctron," or seaman's portable correct
calculator. It is a most ingenious yet simple anti accurate
instrument, anal does great honour to the inventor. By one
operation it shows both the difference of latitude and de-
parture—and with more correctness and in one-tenth of
the time than can be done by any instrument or table yet
published. It is sa constructed that every distance, dif-
ference of latitude and departure, is ascertained from one-
*hundredth part of a mile to one thousand miles, ad infini.
tune. It has been submitted to the trial and examination
of several experienced seamen, besides mathematicians, who
are all of opinion that it cannot fail in being highly ser-
viceable in facilitating that difficult and important part of
navigation.
Cos:wear. Harris: Ess.—A Brussels Paper contains, in
a satirical article on the state of morals in Belgium, the
following table :—The Editor gravely assures his readers
that it is the result of authentic researches, and that they
may rely upot► its fidelity :
Wives who have abandoned thetr husbands to follow lovers 3,021
Husbands who have fled to avoid their wives - - 4,102
Voluntary separations - 2,033
Couples living at war with each other under the same roof 5,142
Couples who ha.e each other cordially, but who think it ne-
cessary to keep op a certain reputation before the world 6,412
°anions living together with therms, marked indifference to
the habits and pursuits of each other 7 ? • - 4,012

who are ieportei happy by the world, but who really

arena su

- 1,210

Persons who are happy in comparison with others who are
more wretched . 1,022
Really foitoful and happy couples - - 3
MEETING FOR THE Reuse or THE JOURNEYMEN
PRINTERS OUT Or Hu rimy Ix LONDON.—On Monday
evening last, a numerous Meeting was held of the Jour-
neymed Printers; and Apprentices of these towns fur
the above purpose, at Russell's Commercial Inn, Stone
house—Mr. E. Nettkton in the Chair. A aeries of re-
solutions were entered into, and a considerable sum was
subscribed ; a deputation was also chosen from those pre-
sent, who were to call on the trade generally, for their con-
tributions ;*the amount, when;all the subscriptions have been
obtained, will he forwarded to London.—Plymentit Paper.
PRINTING I,EON ZINC.--At the book-store of Leath,
at Darmstadt, has appeared the first great work whose
prints are taken front plates of zinc ; it is a collection of
architectural monuments, which will consist of twenty
nutpliers. The drawing,* are made upon zinc as upon
stone, and the expense of engraving is thus avoided. The
Etlitor is, inconsequence, able to sell each number, contain-
ing 12 folio plates, at five franca; upon common paper.
On Wcrlntsday afternoon, Mr. Pocock, the Master of
Cathedral-house Academy, Gloucester, exhibited his very
'
curious vehicle, drawn by kites, on the Cheltenham-road..
It wits occupied by two gentlemen and a child, •and Ira-
veiled with extreme celerity.