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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1836.

We have great pleasure in presenting our readers
with the first fruit of the Corporation Reform
Dill in the spirited and patriotic borough of New-
castle-upon-Tyne. It is an Address to his MA-
JESTY, thanking him for granting 'a Bill destined
to work most beneficially for his subjects at large, an:l
for the Corporations themselves in particular. The
freemen of Newcastle assure his MAJESTY of
their firm and entire confidence in his li-
beral and enlightened Ministry. We have no
doubt that the other Corporations will be prompt in
imitating this FIRST act of the enlightened and grate-
ful people of Newcastle. It is worthy of all praise.

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,

We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Councillors of the borough of the town and
county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, assembled in council
under the authority of the Act for the regulation of Mu-
nicipal Corporations, beg leave most respectfully to ap-
proach your Majesty, and as the first act of our corporate
existence humbly to assure your Majesty of our faithful
and sincere attachment to your Majesty's Royal person and
family, and to the constitutional form of government, con-
sisting of King, Lords, and Commons, under which we have
the happiness to live.
We beg also to tender to your Majesty the expression of
our firm and entire confidence in the liberal and enlightened
Ministers whom your Majesty has chosen to be your con-
stitutional advisers, and who have proved themselves, by
their acts, to be justly entitled to the gratitude of their
Country.
We presume most humbly to assure your Majesty, that
in the direction and management of the affairs of this opu-
lent and extensive borough, now for the first time placed
under the control of a freely-elected Council, it is our sin-
cere wish and intention to execute the duties which have
been confided to us in such manner as will most effectively
conduce to the prosperity and general welfare of all classes
of its inhabitants.

In conclusion, we invoke upon your Majesty's head every
blessing that Providence can bestow—long life, health, and
that happiness which only belongs to Kings reigning in the
hearts of a free and united people.

The usual Quarterly account of the Revenue was
published in last night's Gazette, and will be found in
another part of The Sun. It is, as was expected,
highly favourable. The increase on the quarter just
ended is 172,9671. The branches in which the
increase has taken: place, are the Customs, the

Stamps, and the Post-office ; and the 'inference
which will be drawn from the improvement in
these departments of the revenue is, that there is
increasing activity in the commerce of the country.
It may be said that, if there is an increase in the Cus-
toms, there is a falling off in the Excise. That is true
—but this falling off is accounted for by the tea du-
ties having been transferred from the latter department
to the former. After making due allowance for
this transfer, there still remains a considerable sur-
plus as a clear addition to the revenue derived exela-
sively from the Customs—namely, 44,9161. on the year,
and 78,2571. on the quarter. The quarter's increase
in the Stamps is 64,0851., and in the Post-office
22,0001. Notwithstanding the total abolition of the
house' tax, and the reduction of the duty on
_glass,
the decrease on the entire year, as compared with the
year ending sth Jan., 1835, is only 613,6691.
Upon the whole, the financial affairs of the nation
are in a condition that cannot fail to give great satis-
faction to those who are willing to be satisfied. Some
there are, no doubt, who would have been better
pleased had the country been in a less prosperous
condition.

National distress, and a declining Revenue, would
have afforded them an excellent handle for pro-
moting their factious and selfish views. A Morn-
ing Contemporary, distinguished by its hostility to
the Ministry, is constrained to confess " that the
financial pillars of the country have nothing to
shake their solidity, except the unprincipled and
reckless designs of. the O'Connell-Melbourne Mi-
nistry shall, by creating general alarm, sap the founda-
tion of all property, and consequently of all revenue."
Now, may not this consecutive reasoner be asked how it
comes to pass that the compact which he has been la-
bouring per fas et nefas for. the last twelve months
to prove, has been entered into between Lord MEL-
BOURNE and Mr. O'CONNELL, for-the overthrow of
Church and State, has not already shaken the " finan-
cial pillars" of our commercial prosperity ?

Every one must remember the decided, impassioned
manner in which, during the progress of the Reform
Bill, the .Times, day after day, made a point of
speaking of the Whig Ministry. No term of praise,
was then too extravagant to be applied to them. They
were lauded en masse ; they. were lauded individually ;
nothing they said or did, but, in our Contemporary's
opinion, it . was " wisest, virtuousest, discreetest,
best." Their disinterestedness was particularly corn-
mended. Nothing like it had been known with-
in " the memory of the oldest inhabitant" of the
empire. It was more remarkable than the most
"remarkable strawberry" that ever furnished a para-_
graph for a provincial newspaper. Such was the enthu-
siastic way in which, at the period referred to, the
Tines was in the constant habit of speaking of the
Whig party. What is the language it now holds
towards that same party ? Here it is ; and we will
venture to say that language characterized by a spirit
of more shameless and unadulterated apostacy, is not to
be met with in the annals of political turpitude. " The
Whig partisan Ministers," observes our Contemporary,
"who put themselves forward as authors both of the
political Reform and the corporate, were littre. in-
fluenced by the tendency of either, to eiTect any par-
ticle of benefit for the nation, but looked to one, exclu-
iyeohjet--7,viz., the worl;ing some -grand ctrmge in
liiei-eAhtlVelliiLie- of their- own £actioni, and that of their
opponents. For this one, this base and grovelling
end, was an anxiety for Reform, political and mu-
nicipal-, assumed by the Whig faction on coming into
' office." What have the Whigs done to deServe all this
prodigious heaping up of coals of fire on their heads?
Have they shrunk in 1835, from the principles Which
they upheld in 1830 ? Have they falsified any one of
the great public pledges they made on taking office ?:
Have they loaded us with taxation, where they pro•
-
mised Retrenchincnt ? Have they plunged us into
War, where they promised Peace ? Have they kept up
' old abuses, where they promised Reform ? Not so.
They have strictly kept faith with us in all the great
leading features of their policy ; and if they have not
been quite so successful on some few minor points, it
is becatre they have been beset with difficulties, to
which no other Administration was ever exposed to a
like extent. Why then, since the Whigs are the
same now as they were when they first took office,
is the language of our Contemporary- so changed
towards them ? Because they have preserved their
consistency, and he has abandoned his. Because
they have stood firm to their creed, and he has
apostatized. This, and no other, is the true se-
cret of his present outrageous hostility to the Whig
Cabinet. Mixed hate and remorse are the engines with
which he works ; and these lash him into a state of all
but madness. To wreak his spite on Ministers, he cares,
not what injuries he inflicts on himself. He is like some
huge stranded s hale, whose every struggle only recoils
on himself, and embeds him still deeper among the
sands and breakers. Few now care what the Times
says on any subject. Even the Conservatives think no
more of his praise, than the Liberals of his blame. He
is impotent alike for 'good or evil. Such is the fet
that, sooner or later, never fails to attend those who
sacrifice character to interest.
" Raro antecedcntem scelestum
Deseruit pede peena claudo."

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Monday, but their contents are without interest.
Enough has been already said of the New Year's-day
addresses ; enough of the American Indemnity ques-
tion, until it shall again have been submitted to the
Chambers ; enough of the French victories in Africa ;
enough of the terrors inspired by the fleets of the
mighty Monarch of Sardinia ; and more than enough
of the scamperings of the Carlists from one Biscayan
village to another. We are quite tired of regicidal
plots, and Fieschi conspiracies ; wearied of Doctri-
naire intrigues and National Guard loyalty ; and po-
sitively disgusted with repetitions of the farcical per-
formances, entitled—Judicial Sittings of the Chambcr
of Peers. The country stands stock-still, indulging
in idle gossip, or planning projects worthy of the genius
of Harlequin. In the meantime the most important
interests of France—those which naturally arise out
of the political movements of Russia—are entirely
forgotten; Franee and England appear in a state of
stupor whenever this question is mooted. Is this the
result of incapacity, ignorance, or base terror ? We
trust we may ask, without offence—Has the CITIZEN
KING. commanded his Minister for Foreign Affairs to
instruct the French Ambassador, now on his way to the
Imperial Court, to demand an authentication, or a dis-
avowal, of the speech made by the CZAR to the
Municipality of Warsaw ? His Most Christian
MAJESTY cannot be at a loss to know that the Treaty
of Vienna gives him the right to ask such questions,
and to insist upon direct and unequivocal answers to
them. England has also the same right. Has Lord
DURHAM been authorised to exercise it on the part,
, and in the name, of his Britannic MAJESTY ? If he
has not, why is the country insulted with the idle
mockery of guaranteeing the observance of treaties
which Ministers are prepared to see violated with im-
punity ? But although we are not aware that Lord
DURHAM has received any instructions from his Go-
vernment respecting the EMPEROR'S speech at War-
saw, we trust that he will, in the exercise of the dis-
cretional authority with which he has been vested, in-

silt upon receiving Count NESSELRODE'S official ex-
planation of that afrair ; order that the Poles may
learn that England does not recognise Russia's pre-
tened right of conquest: We repeat that we have
the greatest confidence in the enlightened zeal, firm-
ness, and integrity of the Earl of DURHAM ; and we
are much mistaken if he do not insist upon the co-
operation of the French Ambassador as soon as he
shall have presented his credentials at the Imperial
Court, whither he is now hastening from Berlin.
We are pleased to learn that friendly relations are
on the eve of being permanently established between'
the Courts of France and Holland. Baron MoRTIER
has been appointed French Minister at the Hague ;
and immediately after his arrival, General DF. FAGEL
will p roce vl in the same capacity from the Dutch na-
tion to Paris. This amicable adjustment of the dif-
ferences between the two Courts has taken place with-
out any reference whatever to the Belgian question of
separation. As the KING of HOLLAND'S titles have
not been curtailed by the secession of Belgium, the
most difficult of all diplomatic questions—those of eti-
quette--were not a hindrance to the reciprocation o
official courtesies.

The Polish refugees, resident in Paris, have pre-
sented a petition to the Chambers, in which they im-
plore France to restore the nationality of their native
country. The petition has been laid upon the tables
of both Chambers, and the prayer of it has already
excited a good deal of interest. We shall to-morrow
devote an article to this subject.

The gaiety of Paris at this season of the year is
proverbial. The Pre3s teems with accounts of balls,
fetes, and the entertainments and diversions of the
Carnival.

PARIS, JANUARY 4.

The Jorunals of Barcelona of the 27th December, an-
nounce that 3,000 men, part of the troops of Andalusia,
commanded by the General Epinosa, had arrived at Cata-
lonia. The English ship, the Rodney, 92 guns, had ar-
rived in the port of Barcelona. It brought 15,000 mus-
kets, and 26 tons of cartridges, sent by the English Gc-
vernmont to arm the Spanish patriots. Another English
ship with a similar cargo is expected. The Mole was
crowded with people, and great joy was everywhere mani-
fested at this proof of the attachment of England to the
Quadruple Alliance.
A letter from Madrid says, it was reported that the
Queen Regent would shortly undertake a journey to the
revolted provinces, for the purpose of reviewing the army,
and encouraging it by her presence. This prolongation of
the war, and the timidity of the operations, are subjects
which greatly engage people's minds.—Sentinelle.
Letters from Santander inform us that 8,500 men of the
new levy had arrived there.
A person at St. Sebastian writes that that city was per-
fectly tranquil on the 28th. Nothing new had occurred
there. It was announced that a battalion of Scotch, 800
strong, would shortly arrive there.
Th news of the capture of Abdal Kader, given this
morning by the Journal des Debuts, after the Semaphore
of Marseilles, was only a report on Change. We have no
news of the expedition since its arrival at Mostaganem.
The very weak state of Prince Talleyrand's health would
not allow him to go and offer his compliments to the King
on the new year, but it is believed that the King went yes-
terday to see the veteran diplomatist.—lllessager, Jan. 4.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARts, JANUARY 4.
Five per Cents..lt6f.,Onc. 75c. Sl)c.
Four per Cents., Mt 75e.
Three per Cents. SIC 25c. 20e;
Bank- A ctions,.
!kr.te de ::epics, IP3f. 40c. Cc.
R6Tnan Five per Cents., 102.
Sp:lOA Actives, 51 50%
Spanish Diffe:es,
Passives, 11
iientePerpet.d7Evagne, Five per Cent., 31
Royal SpAnish Loan: 39!4: •
Belgian Loan; rive per Centil. 102 1013 .
Fortugueie Loan, Three per Cents, 51;y 55 5.174.
11.3-tkm Io h, 4:&..415f. •
EXCH A NG E ON' GrION9
One month. I,3per, ; ;money, 2M 5`2 4c.
p.ver, :23f. 37;,,c.; money, —E —c.

--pourg uthClitique.
• „,.,-;
BounsF, o CLocx..--Tne Rentes continue to rise
The settling of the account seems to be the only reason fo.
this, as no report is in cii culation. One of the first specula-
tors in the funds is declared a defaulter. He is an immense
bear in the French and Spanish securities.
P. S. A courier from Madrid of the 28th has arrived with
ftvourable news, but which has not influenced the Spanish
stocks.

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(.2uArtTER TO Four..—Fire per Cents.' 1091. 10e. ; Three
per Cents., 811. 60c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb..
bards, —;' Differes, 191; New Loan, —; Actives, 50i;
Passives, 16i; Ducats, 98 70; -Romans, 102; Peciros, —.;
Beig,ians, 101:8-t; Dutch, —l. —c. ; Haytians, 4151. .-6. ;
—; Brabant Bank, —; 13lgi.zu Bank, 13i- ; Con-
tiOtlation, ; New Differes, 261-; Fire per Cent. Pet pe-
tuelles,

Th man Papers received this - morning bring
advices from Rome to the 18th ult. The Pope had
postponed till the -Spring, the usual ceremony of pro-
moting the favoured Cardinals, and of investing
Archiepiscopal Dignitaries with the purple. The
Court of Rome will henceforth raise to the dignity of
Cardinal a much greater number of foreign eccle-
siastics than it has hitherto been in the habit of doing.
There weir few strangers at Rome at the close of last
year ; and the Government of Naples had given orders
to prevent travellers from being admitted into that
country. Several distinguished French and English
travellers were refused passports to pass the Neapolitan
boundary. No cause has been assigned for this inhos-
pitable regulation which., is strictly enforced by the
Police.

The King of BAVARIA arrived in Greece on the
7th ult., after a pleasant voyage of one hundred hours
duration.

M. DE BARANTE, the French Ambassador to the
Court of St. Petersburg, was still at Berlin on the
26th ult., delayed, it was supposed, in consequence of
the arielcs published in the Journal des Debats.
Truly this is highly creditable to France ! What
Will the CZAR not admit him, unless France flings
herself on her knees before the Imperial throne, and
striking her breast, cry out, in the hearing of
Europe—Peccavi Well, well ; after all, the CZAR
only treats France according to her deserts. Would
to Heaven he would serve England in the same way I
He dared to tear the treaty of Vienna to tatters, and
now he very properly spurns the cravens who permit-
ted such an insult to be offered to them.

VIENNA, DEC, 26.-5 per Cents., 101 11-16 ; 4 per Ceuta.,
9 95-16 ; Bank Shares, (former price) ; Exchange on London,
151 i ; 2 months, 1501.—. Frankfort Paper, Dec. 31.

One of the principal contrivances by which the He-
reditary Obstructives hoped to neutralise the popular
tendency of the Municipal Reform Bill was the division
of Towns into Wards. The scheme was not a bad
one, and it has failed only because the inhabitants of
the Warded towns have made exertions which could
scarcely have been calculated upon to shake off the
yoke which has so long galled their necks. It has
been, indeed, the means of admitting here and there a
Tory into the Town Council, but we look upon that
as a circumstance of little or no importance. Perhaps
it may be better on the whole that it is so ; for other-
wise we doubt whether, at the end of three years, such
an animal as a Tory would be found. At the end of
that period these preserved specimens will be worth
more than their weight in gold as objects of vertu, to
be placed in the cabinets of the curious.

Another of the expedients resorted to by the Tory
Lords, for perpetuating the influence of their party in
the boroughs, was to transfer the appointment of the
local magistratesfrom the Town-Councils to the Crown.
They knew well the beneficial effects to be derived from
a Tory magistracy. They had experienced the powerful
influence of a frowning brow and a pliant conscience
on the Bench, and they were not without some faint
expectation that when the period arrived at which this
appointment would devolve upon the Crown, the artful
proposer of these obnoxious and anti-popular amend-
ments, the unscrupulous LYNDHURST, might not be
far from the Royal ear. The party have struggled
hard to realize this hope ; but they have failed in this
too—so signally, indeed, that it would puzzle all the
Tory mathematicians in the kingdom to calculate the ,

'period at which Toryism has even the most distant
chance of bein!-, in the ascendant.
It will not be forgotten, that at the time the Lords
committed this mutilation on the Bill, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL declared that he would defeat their object, by
appointing as Justices such persons as should be re-
commended to him by the Councils, by which means
the liberal. intention 'of his MAJESTY'S Ministers
would be practically carried into effect. There can be
no doubt that the -Noble Secretary of State will fulfil
his promise. But we must impress on the Town
'Councils the important nature of the duty they have
to perform, in selecting the persons who are to be in-
vested with the magisterial office. The more generous
and confiding Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S declaration
was, the more incumbent is it on those in whom his
confidence is reposed, to be cautious in the exercise
of the privilege with which they are entrusted: We
need hardly remind them that integrity and intelli-
gence—an upright heart, and a well-informed mind—
are essential requisites in the man to-whom is confided
the important, and often difficult office, of administer-
ing justice between man and man.

Letters from Madrid to the 28th of December have
been received. The following extract from the Sup-
plement to the Official Bulletin of Cuenca appeared in
the Gazette of the 26th :
" Provincial Deputation of Cuenca—.From dispatches
this moment received, it is known that the gallant General
Espinosa, with his division, beat the factious of Cabrera and
Quilez the day before:yesterday, in the environs of Ademuz,
killing 1,500 men, and putting s the remainder in the most
complete dispersion that has hitherto taken place ; the re-
sult being, these remnants are wandering in groups under
the full operation of fear among the mountains which are
contiguous to Maya.
Thii.decisive blow, addeir fo that niven to them by the
patriot Palarea, at Molina, on the 15th, has destroyed this
horde of assassins, who; "after having ravaged Lower Aragon,'
threatened the inhabitants' of this beautiful province with
pillage and incendiarism.
" The Deputation are filled with pleasure at this inte-
resting news, and hasten to communicate it to their fellow-
citizens.—Viva la aerial?"' Viva- Isabel IL' Long live the
gallant defenders of
,their country
" In accordance with the Deputation,
(Signed)
GERONIMO -Mt RTINEZ FALERO, Sec.
" Cuenca, Dcc. 21, 1835."

The Christmas festivities commenced in the Spanish
capital with bull-fights, at which the QUEEN presided.
The people were in high spirits, and in the best possi-
ble humour with the Government. - Great numbers o
the rebels had laid down their arms, to whom the
QUEEN, by the advice of the Premier, extended the
Royal clemency.

SHIPPING.--(1 HIS. DAY.)

i}I(F,It0111 .I.LOYD' S. )

DEAL, JAN. 5.:-.;AlVind W.N. W.—Arrived the Samson,
Chadwick, from New York;. .Funchal, , from Quebec;
Friends of Liberty, from Terceira ; and Sarah Maria,
Jutt, from Oporto. Arrived from the River and sailed, the
Admiral Moorson, Moorsaa, for Demerara; Monkey, Cargill,
for St. Michael's ; Lady Clinton, ri.gdall, for Leghorn ;
William Foster, Kendall, for St. Thintas's ; Choctaw, Fisher,
for New York ; Williams, Williams, for Cork; and Dec,
Morgan, for Liverpool. •
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind W., fine.—Sailed the Flirt,
Sergeant, for Sptander.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrived the
John, from London; and• Maria, Cumming, from Fayal.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind W., fresh breezes, but cloudy.
MAROATE, JAN. s.—Arrived off port, the New Holland,
Trail, from Leghorn.; and Jolly, Orfeur, from Limerick.
DovEn, JAN. b.—Arrived off port, the .Maiden, Harding,
from Virginia ; and Gratitude, Todd, from New York.
POOLE, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Fame, Wills, from Newfound-
land ; and the JaMCS, Call, from Cadiz.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Lady of the Lake, Banks,
from Lisbon; Swift, Hooper, from St. Übc's ; and the Tho-
mas Tucker, M.Mulft, from Quebec and,Barbadoes.

WATERFORD, JA N. 3.—Arrived the Commodore, .Cousens;
Confidence, Angel; Flora, Pavcy ; Liberator, Angle; and
the Reinniella, Murphy, from London,,,o . • 1,, - .
CORK, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Ptotcatitcr .iTtrom St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Experiment„,qh'itdwick„frpta -St.
Edward's 'lsland; Hibbert, Binuey, fro,l-1404$ and the
Rosabel, Deer, from Newfoundland.

The Latona, Murray, from Stettin, -has arrived at Mardah,
leaky, and must discharge, bound to 1it414.

Op
THE FUNDS-(THIS PAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK
Our arrivals this morning- are—one French mail, and ship
letivers frow New York, Charleston, and Sautandor.
Prince Edward Island Papers to the 2I of Deccinber; are
received at the North and` Sauth AmeriCan Coffee-house'.
These Papers say :—" \Ve ha'Ve the melancholy duty to att
flounce the demise of his Excellency Sir A. William Young,
Lieutenant-Governor of this Island, an event which • had long
been exPected,and which toak place this evening exactly 'at
eight o'clock."
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THIS F UNDS.
Towards the close of the market yesterday, Consols took a
sudden start, and improved aboui.i- per Cent., leaving off very
buoyant at 93i to 4 for the Account. This morning they
opened at 924 93, at about which price they arc at present.
Exchequer Bills, 16 18; India Bonds, 34; Bank Stock,
214 215.
The improvement in the British Market gave a lift to the
Foreign Securities, which also closed at higher prices.
Money can be obtained at present at easy rates of discounts,
which greatly assists the Foreign Market. Spanish Active
Bonds closed at 511. have receded to 50 : Portuguese
851- ; Colombian, 34 ; Mexican, 38} 39 : Dutch, 2} per
Cents., 55- 55{f.
The Quarter's Revenue has made its appearance this morn-
ning; it has produced an increase of 172,967/. On the whole
of the year there is a deficiency of 613,6691. It is looked
upon in the city to be very satisfactory, and will have the
tendency, with the payment of the dividends in a few days,
to create a further advance in the British funds.
There is also an appearance that the Commissioners for the
West India Slave Claims will soon purchase to a large amount.
The express from Paris is of some in,portance this morning,
bringing Madrid accounts to the 29th, with the official infor-
mation that General Espinosa has caused 3,000 Carlists to lay
down their arms and surrender, at discretion. There does not
appear to be any accounts of consequence from the army in
the North of Spain, with the exception that 4,500 of the
Queen's troops have entered Bilboa.
The French prices have improved, and would have rose
higher, had it not been for a failure, who was an immense Bear
in the French and Spanish Securities.
The New York Papers of the 10th ult. have not yet been
received.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We have been favoured with the perusal of letters from
Santander,per James TVatt, which left as recent as the 2d inst,
The account in a Morning journal of the taking of San Se-
bastian by the Carlists proves entirely unfounded, as no new
attack had taken place there by the enemy. General Alava
had arrived at Santandar from Madrid, on his way to Paris
and London.
We have also seen letters from Madrid of the 29th ult.,
and we can state, from high authority, that the news is con-
firmed of three thousand Carlists having gone over to the
Queen's army.
Letters received from Vienna, of the 25th ult., state that
two of the most active agents of Don Carlos were at Vienna,
soliciting the Minister for aid ; and it was positively stated
that they had the sanction of the Emperor of Russia, from
whom it is certain the Carlists have received money. The
Emperor of Austria appears to waver in his determination to
grant the Carlists assistance, owing to Count Metternich not
being disposed at present to listen to the Carlist propositions.
It is certain that these agents received money and other sup-
plies from Prague, the residence of Charles X.
American Papers, of the 10th of December, are re-
ceived this afternoon.
MORE BUTCHERY IN THE BSAZILS._MARANHAM, Nov. 14.
_By the arrival of the Fair American yesterday we have
letters, and, if true, distressing news from Para and Cumana.
Captain Willis, after laying at Para some days, obtained per-
mission to go to Cumana, but on the day he was to sail the
Malta came down to the blockade of Para, under Commodore
Taylor, Para being in possession of the Indians. The Malta
sailed again. A report came to the blockading squadron post
as he was leaving, that an English brig, called the Creole, had
been taken at the Pinto Ground by the Indians, and all hands
murdered, except one man. She had on board between four
and five thousand stand of arms, and 450 barrels of gunpowder.
Afterwards they scuttled the vessel.
Consols may be quoted at present 9211 for the Account, with
little doing ; Exchequer Bills 18 20 ; India Bonds 6 ; Bank
Stock 214 21i.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 501 51 ; Portuguese
851 ; Three per Cents. 5.5 f ; Colombian 33:1 34 ; Mexican
381 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. 554.
THREE O' CL O CK.
Consols for the Account, 92k.

We are authorised to state that the Duchess of St.
Alban's Ball for this evening is unavoidably postponed.
Madame de Bourrienne says that Bonaparte, who
had thoughts of taking a house opposite her once, No. 19,
Rue de Marais, for himself, his uncle Fesch (since Cardi-
nal), and a gentleman named Patrauld, formerly one of the
Masters of the Military School, one day said to her,
" With that house over there, my friends in it, and a ca-
briolet, I shall be the happiest fellow in the world." ' This
was in 1795.