The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-20 00:00:00

NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTION.

NEWCASTLE•VPON4YNE, FEB. 18.--Nothing
can exceed the buoyancy of spirit of the Hon.
Mr. LIDDELL and his numerous friends now that
the day of election isso near-.ras will be seen
by the firm and confident tone of his last Address
to the Freehqclere, publiihed in the Newcastle
Papers yeller ay morning (for whi4) see another
column of THE SUN of this day).
In addition to this, it may be noticed, that
upon 'Change this day the all-engrossing theme
was the NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY ELECTION;
and, as generally, was the favourite Candidate
named in the person of the lion. Mr. Lwow,.
After what has already appeared in. Tux SIMI
it would be an absolute waste of words to, add
more than that every messenger, whether from
the East, West, or North, is a corroborant to the
just expectations of the Honourable Heir of
Ravensworth : at the same time, perhaps, my
Lord LIVERPOOL'S motto may not be inaptly
quoted—

" Palma non sine Pulvere."
A Northern Journal, received by the post this
morning, says—Mr. LIDDELL'S cause is progress-
ing most favourably. In point of fact, if ever
it were permitted to anticipate success from indt.
cations a priori, most assuredly the Hon. Mr.
LIDDELL may justly anticipate the proud honour
of being speedily seated in the most distinguish-
ed Assembly in the World (the British House
of Parliament !) as Representative of th© great
and opulent County of Northumberland.

ENGLISH AND BRAZIL TREATY.

The Dolls of Wednesday contains the follow-
ing article
PARIS,'FF:II. 14.
It is known that Mr. Canning declared to the English Par-
liament, that the treaty with Brazil had not, been ratified by
the English Government and that it would not be, without
receiving important modifications. The following lithe letter
addressed by that Minister upon the subject, to the Consuls or
his Britannic Majesty residing abroad : • "
" LONDON, .1 AN.
Sir.—A Brasilian Gazelle has recently been received in .
England, containing the alledged copies of two treaties recently
concluded and signed by Sir Charles Stuart, at Rio Janeiro, .
with the government of Brazil ; one, a treaty of commerce,
other a treaty for the final abolition of the slave trade, induct
ing immediate regulations with the Brazilian Government
upon subujbeicitc.
These r documents are sufficiently
those sent to England by Sir Charles Stuart,of
the ratification of the Emperor of Brazil ; but this premature
publication of them renders it necessary to snake known, the
these treaties have been concluded and signed without any
special orders —that they have not been ratified b3r his
prof
Majesty, and that they will not receive the ratification of el'
Majesty in their present form.
" It is the second time that treaties, ratified by the Govern'
meat of Brazil, have been published at Rio Janeiro before,
they were ratified by both the contracting parties. The fitsf
publication (that of the treaty with Portugal, on the 21Ith
August, 1825) having taken place with the avowed sanction of
the Brazilian Government, it was natural to.conclude that tom`
same Government had authorized this second in.egulariti*
authenticatedex c t copies b y
However, it is proper to add, that I have received from the Da*
ron de Itabayana, the Brazilian Minister at this Court, the
most positive assurances that his Government has not autho-
risedin any way this second publication ; and that he regreits,
as much as we can do, the inconvenience which such a Weer'
ing must necessarily occasion.
" Meanwhile, the object of Ibis dispatch is simply to de§ire
that you will declare in the most public manner, that the lting'
our master, has been advised not to ratify these treaties in their
present form, and without very important alterations. ~
" I remain, &c. GEORGE CANNINGe

ARIGNA IRON AND COAL COMPANY'

Certain Shareholders and Directors in this
Company, who consider themselves aggrieved by the pill,,ee;:,
logs of the majority of the Directors and Shareholders of re;
same Company, met on Saturday at the King's Head, In
Poultry, to receive the Report of a Committee appointed at at
former meeting, fur the purpose of managing their affairs, ,antt
making inquiries as to the course which it would be eXPed'en
to adopt, in their present situation.
At one o'clock Mr. linonpure (the Chairman of Coninli•ttees
in the House of Commons and one of the Directors of the C°lll'
pany) was called to the Chair. die
secretary, Chairman having stated the abject of the meeting'
secretary, 11r. Comerford, read the following report:-- bare-
" Report of the Committee appointed by certain of the seina,
holders in the Aripa Iron and Coal Company. At a Inee'
held on the 6th of January., 1026, and who were directed to are
pare and present a requisition, to call a meeting there#a of
holders, and take their opinion as to the removal froiu .'office offa
certain directors, and an auditor of the said Company' of die
insert or not, as they might think
proper, the name
Chairman of the Board'of Directors in such requisition. Pitt
tented Your Committee beg leave to state, that they hare Peel
tented to the Directors a requisition, demanding that s "ethe
general meeting should be called for the Bth of March. foroee
purpose of taking the opinion of the shareholders, ea I,°,7ineise
ing from their offices, as Directors and Auditor, Josef"'
Henry Clarke, Timothy Francis Power, Aubone Altliam
tees, John Dunston, Esquires, Directors, and John 'MA"
Esq., Auditor. it
" The Secretary to the Company has informed your le-
e,
tee, that the Directors will, in compliance with the requisit
call a special general meeting for the Bth of Mardi. .
ea-
" The name of the Chairman is not inserted in the retl'in„,
tion, because a letter from him to his agent has been tteae-et
mitted to your Committee, in which he states, that at th,..,e,-„ire
meeting of the Directors he should resign his situation as ti"""
man of the Board of Directors.
" The proceedings in equity are going on, but no Sower
has yet been given to the bills filed by the shareholders. der
" The Directors have fixed the first General Meeting elle ti
the Act of Parliament, for the 23d day of February, a,t, col
General Meeting the accounts of the receipt and experitutu'-ey
the Company will be presented ; and your Committee ear rieli or
request, that every proprietor will attend, either person:ill/
vete
by proxy, to receive and examine such accounts, and to
,h,
that they be referred to a Committee for inspection, if an the
jectionable items should appear in them, particularly Ile,.
Company are debited with more than 10,0001. for the purea,~
of the works, &c. from Mr. Flattery.
44 Your immittee further beg leave to lay before the share'
holders a copy of a resolution passed by them unamenousTh
and of which resolution a copy was presented to Mr. Brerelii
and Mr. Bent. Your Committee hope that the sharehoider,
will approve of this resolution, which they considered as an
of justice due to these . gentlemen, from whom they hear-
ceived great assistance in the prosecution of their inquiriest
and of whose honour and integrity they are fully satisfied.
" "
John Roberßrown " t !lichens "Charlesalh Ricardo
Herley.
" James Wilkinson "T. H. parker
Copy of the Resolu;:onVrineterlrireadnitoPtinnthe 4;1Bepo. Cr; :Cia—mr.
" Resolved—That from the documents submitted to us bl 4,
Brogden and Mr. Bent, relative to the nuMber of shares in
terest which they held in the Arigna Company at its forms tie,
it is the unanimous opinion of the Committee that these Gen of
men had good and just grounds for believing that the Viliriee
1,0471. paid overt° then by Mr. Henry Clarke, could only sand
from the sale of a portion of the shares allotted to them'
that such was their belief is confirmed by Mr. Bent having Plop
chased, immediately after the 1,047/. was paid to him, Ply
chased,
at 141. 10e. premium per share, for which he Tod
1.450/. to replace th ,ee which bad been sold for 1,0471'; is
that they were kept, by certain of the Directorsio
utter ignorance of the 'fact that the sum ed 15'eey
had been abstracted from the funds of the Comp-n 0
and it further appears to this Committee, that es A°t) ed.
Mr. Brogden and Mr. Bent discovered this disrsee
ing, they not only endeavoured to investigate it at the Beo_ruee,
fol pry of
Directors, but did immediately give information thereof in b 1
taro of the Proprietors, with whom they have ever singe „ by
riably co-operated, in order to ;to justice to the earore"'oll,
subsequent
out the whole of these proceeding, acted with the s ,„a to
ed upon to declare, that Messrs. Brogden and Bent have thtriTteet
Proceedings ; and they likewise feel themselvd
honour and integrity ; and that the Company is indeb7-00,
them for their services, and for continuing in the Ore belle
from which they would have retired, had the not been , tee
cited to remain in it, in order to protect the interest. of
Proprietors."
cttioA
After a good deal of discussion, the Report and ito°l
were adopted.

The Austrian Observer to the Bth of February,
.received this day, contains some important infor-
mation from Greece, and which seems calm.
Inted to change the relations hitherto existing
between the Porte and other European na-
tions, as far as Greece is concerned. Further
successes on the part of I/MAUD! PACJIA, and the
momentarily expected fall of Missolonghi, are
the facts now communicated, and if this latter
expectation should prove to be well founded,
it will he seen that the chief object of the mis-
i°4 of the Duke of WELLINGTON is well nigh
settled before he has reached the Russian capital.
in the state of uncertainty in which we at pre-
sent are on these points, it would be premature
to enter into speculations as to the probable policy
of Russia, Austria, and England, in the event of
the Turkish arms triumphing over Greece. We

must wait the arrival of the expected news, and
perhaps with it may come, something which may
tend to elucidate the views entertained by these
Governments on this momentous question, when
so entirely altered in its aspect and bearings.
The following are extracts :

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 10*.
On the 26th December the Porte was inforined"by several
Tartars, dispatched by the Captain Pacha from the camp before
Missolonslit, of great advantages, both by sea and land, gained
over the insurgents near Salons.
A division of the Egyptian fleet, in which Ibrahim, Paella
himself had embarked with a small corps of regular troops,
sailed under the command of Moharreon .Bey from Patras to
the Gulf of Lepanto, and had taken or destroyed in the Bay of
Salons 27 Greek mistics, and several small armed vessels and
transports. Ibrahim Pacha landed his troops, attacked the
Greeks (supposed to be under the command of Goura) at Scala di
Salona, who, after a sanguinary combat, were obliged to fall back
towards Athens. The object of the expedition, on which large
quantities of provisions were captured, having been accotn.
plashed, Ibrahim returned to Patras.

The capture of 6(10,000 piastres, destined for Missolonghi,
which sum was taken by a detachment of the troops of
Redschid Paella, who had notice of its being on the way,
will have great influence on the fate of Missolonghi, which
since the beginning of December has been blockaded by sea
by the Capitan Pacha, 'on the north-west side by Re&chid,
and on the east by a corps landed by Ibrahim, and the Porte
confidently expects its surrender. The report of the taking of
the fort of Walsiladi is not confirmed.

In other parts of the theatte of war nothing important has
lately happened. The Ipsariots and Spezziots are still at va-
riance with the Bydriots, and the latter had almost entirely re-
nounced their obedience to the Government at Napoli.
Great exertions are making in the Arsenal to fit out a new
squadron of four 2-deckers, three frigates, and ten corvettes,
and brigs. Ibrahim Paella of Braila is daily expected here to
take the command of the troops to be embarked in this squadron.
Coartf, .J,u. A.
On the oth .of this month . the Imperial Consulate here
received, by means of the Austrian brig
,Veloce, in ten
days from Smyrna, the first news of the melancholy
death of the Emperor Alexander, the Captain immediately
communicated the news to General Adams, who was not he.
fore acquainted with it. The public first learned it on the flth
from a Naples journal.
[The Austrian Observer adds a note, again attacking the
French .Journals for their forged letters from !ante. It attri-
butes the letters in the Journal des Debra: to M. Ponqueville,
and declares, that notice is to be found in the authentic ac-
counts of the unsuccessful attacks on Missolonghi on the 27th
December, as stated in an article from Zante, 2d January, in
the Journal des Debais, or of a preceding account of an expe-
dition of Ibrahim to Corinth.l—( Austrian Observer, Feb. O.)
The heavy fall of snow, and the overflowing of several
rivers have retarded for a few days the post from Constan-
tinople.

Files of the Diario Fluminense to the 24th De-
cember reached town this morning. Their contents,
as usual, are perfectly without interest, except in-
deed a little bit of gasconading on the part of
Ithe Brazilian troops, about to march against the
forces of the La Plata provinces. We are
the more surprised at this, as on the eve of a war
we may naturally expect a little more news than
usual from the capital of one of the belligerents.
We subjoin a few extracts :

• • Ero DE JANEIDO, DEC. 10.
The ceremony of the baptism of the infant Prince was per-
formed with great pomp. His Imperial Highness received the
name of Don Pedro de Alcantaro, Joao, Carlos, Leopoldo, Sal.
vador, Bibiano. Francisco, Havier de Paula, Leocadio, Miguel,
Gabriel, Rafael Gonzaga.
DEC. 10.—The Diario of this date contains the Decree of
the Emperor, declaring war against the Government of the
Provinces of Rio de la Plata dated 10th Dec.
DEC. 20.—Contains the declaration of the blockade of the
Ports of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata.
DEC. 21.—The Diario contains an extremely long history
of the proceedings of the Court of Brazil, with respect to the
United Provines of Rio de la Plata, and of the reasons which
obliged it to declare war against that Government. It is dated
Dec. 10.

The same paper contains a new official article, which says--
" Letters have been received here from Rio Grande, written
by respectable persons, which, referring to accounts from h.
gocrao, of Nov. 29, say, that the brave Lieut.. Col. Bento
Gonzalves having assembled in the Pass° de Cabocla his
forces, amounting to 000 men, attacked Fructuora fibers, In
his camp, where he bad 2;000 men ; and after an obstinate en.
gagement, Riber4 was defeated with the loss of 600 prisoners
and :317 killed, 2,700, and two pieces of cannon taken ; our
loss was 97 of our brave soldiers who justly deserve that name ;
for Bento Gonzalves having observed, that the attempt was
arduous, as the enemy had 2,000 men, and he only 800. his
troops answered, each of us has to kill three,' and we shall have
still some men over. The valour of the inhabitants of Rio do
Grande is well known, and the Spaniards have often ex.
perienced it, if they have thought that the revolutionary spirit
had infected their loyal hearts, experience will skew them
their mistake. The same spirit and valour that animated the
troops of Gonzalves inspires all honourable Brazilians, the
friends of their Monarch and their country, they know the jus.
tice of the cause which they defend, and do not fear Spanish
bravados."—(Diario Fluntincse, to 24th Dec. inclusive. )

The following are extracts from the Brussels
Oracle received this day :

.Brurssxr.s, FEB. 15
It is thought that the Session of the States General will be
closed between the 10th and 115th of next month.
It is affirmed that Lord Cochrane, who is still in this city,
will not set out for Greece till the Greek Committees, in Europe
can give him three frigates.
A. British Cabinet Messenger passed through this city last
night, on his way from Vienna to London.
FEL 17.—Mr. Clews, a British Cabinet Messenger, passed
through yesterday evening, going from London to Constanti-
nople, with dispatches for Mr. Stratford Canning.—(artitoth
Oracle, Feb. 18.)

A Dutch Mail last night brought advices from
Petersburgh to the 2d inst. The Archduke Fer.
dinand of Este had arrived to congratulate the
Emperor Nicholas on his accession, in the name
of the Emperor of Austria. The Duke of 'Wel-
lington passed through Frankfort on the 13th.--
The Polish Lieutenant-General Knicaschewitz
was arrested at Dresden on the sth, at the in-
stance of the Russian Ambassador, as supposed,
on suspicion of having been concerned in the in.
surrection of Volhynia. On the 13th, at Dussol-
dorf, the Princess Frederic of Prussia was deli-
vered of a son.

On Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Ca-
binet Council was held at the Forekn office
agreeably to summons, which was attendend by the
Earls of Harrow by, Westmorland, Liverpool,
and Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Visr,,unt Melville, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Mr.
Huskisson, Mr. Wynn, and Lord Bexley,The
Council sat for full three hours in close delibe-
ration. •

Yestertiay afternoon the Earl of LIVERPOOL,
the Canceller of the Exchequer, Mr. Huskisson,
and Mr. Secretary Peel had a long consultation
with Mr. Secretary Canning, which lasted be-
tween two and three hours.
Mr. LA.TC/IFORD, the King's Messenger, was
sent uff on Friday night with Dispatches for St.
Petersburgh.
On Friday night, Mr. DYKES the King's Mes-
senger, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office
for Foreign Affairs, with dispatches from the
Right lion. FREDERICK LAMB.
It is said that Mr. WM. STACPOOLE, one of the
principal claimants in the affair of Count STAG•
POOLE, was arrested yesterday for a considera-
ble sum of money, and was lodged in the prison
of St. Pelagie.—(Piletc, Feb. 13.)