The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

DEPARTMENT EoF FINANCE.

Her Highness the Infanta Regent, in the name of the
King, acquaints the Directors of the Bank, in reply to their
representation of this date, that orders have been sent to-
day to the superintendant of the Mint to proceed without
loss of time to convert
,into Portuguese current coin the
50,000 Brazilian patacas, which the Directors have sent him
to-day for that purpose, ordering them to let this business
precede every other, and even to employ the holidays, be-
cause the public advantage requires it. Her Highness,
while she laments the delay which has taken place, trusts
that, by the zeal aid activity of the Superintendant, the
evil will be partly remedied, through the rapidity with
which the operation will be concluded.
Palace of Ajuda, Dec. 24, 1827.
Manoel Antonio de Carvalho to Senhor
Antonio Estevas Costa.

Hamburgh Papers to the 4th instant have
been received this morning. The following is
the only article worth extracting

STOCEIZOLM, DEC. 25.

According to accounts from Constantinople, only one
Swedish ship was lying in that port at the end of Novem-
ber, and this has already arrived at Odessa. It is reported
that our Government intend sending a squadron to the
Levant in the spring ; meantime, it has received from the
three Allied Courts the most friendly assurances that their
fleets will, on all occasions, afford the most effectual protec-
tion to the Swedish and Norwegian commerce.
It is affirmed that a Royal decision has already been
issued, respectint, the disturbances which took place on the
4th of last month in the theatre of Christiania. The citizens
of Christiania have sent an Address to his Majesty on the
subject, in which they express their loyal sentiments, and
their desire to maintain public order and tranquillity.
The King has returned a very gracious answer, and de-
dared that he was-convinced the Citizens of Christiania, in
case tranquillity should be again interrupted, would vi-
gorously oppose all scenes of that description.

13y the arrival of the Evelina from Alex.
andria, at Plymouth, we have this morning re-
ceived advices from that city to the 9th of
November, which communicate an account of
the suicide of HASSAN BEY. His Majesty's ship
Pelams bad sailed from Alexandria on Ist ult.
with a despatch from the British Consul to the
Admiral, announcing the death of Mr. SALT.
This gentleman had been eighteen years in
Egypt, and was on the most friendly footing
with the PACHA. The Egyptian corvette, bringing
the account from IBRAHIM PACHA of the ac-
tionhi
PACHANavarin,ofon
reacrleleading
d Alexandria on the 2d.
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it said, it was no
worse than lie expected ;
and added, " I
told the SULTAN it would only be a sacrifice
of courage." Preparations of a warlike nature
had been making at Alexandria for several days
previous to the receipt of the accounts ; but these
had caused little alarm, as the PACHA
.had
assured the late Consul-General, a few days be-
fore he died, that whatever might be the result,
British merchants and their property should
be safe. No other vessel had arrived

from Navarin up to the Sth Nov., nor was
there any British vessels-, of war there. No
insult had been offered either to the British or
French, nor indeed any notice of the battle.
About fourteen days before the Evelina's
sailing, an Egyptian 20 gun ship, em-
ployed by the PA.CHA as an instruction
ship to practice seamen, was blown up, and
many persons, among whom were two French
instructors, perished.

HASSAN BEY, who had been lately raised to
that rank for his zeal and ability, had fallen un-
der the displeasure of the PACIIA, and upon
being ordered to appear before him, had taken
the desperate resolution of blowing the ship up,
by firing a pistol into the magazine. He had
previously sent all the young cadets on shore,
and some of the men ; he then desired his ser-
vant to save himself by jumping out of the cabin
window, which he did the moment he heard
the report of the pistol. No damage was done
to the shipping though several vessels laid very
close. Two Algerine frigates were narrowly
watched by a large French frigate, and were still
in Alexandria, and in very bad condition ; the
officers and men being without pay or even pro-

visions.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. S.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed
the Numa, Wade, for New South Wales.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind E.—Arrived the
Evelina, Friend, from Alexandria ; Abeona, from
Newfoundland; and London, —, from Demerara.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's brig
Falcon, from Lisbon, in seven days.
BRIGHTLINGSEA, JAN. 8.--The Brothers,
Stewart, from St. Petersburgh to London, has been
got off the sand, and is at anchor off this place.
• FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Six P. at. It has blown the
whole of this day a tremendous gale, S.E. to E.S.E.
and continues.

The Coldstream, Stephens, arrived off the Wight,
from Bengal, sailed 10th July, from Madras 3d
September, and St. Helena 28th November. On
the 4th November, in lat. 34. N. long. 22. E. passed
a ship standing to the northward, No. 7,495, by
Marryat's Code (Cassandra). On the Bth ult., in
lat. 4. N. long. 22. communicated, by signal, with
the Harriet, from the Mauritius and Ascension.—
On the 21st ult., in lat. 38. long 36. passed a large
four-masted ship, standing to the eastward—too
dark to communicate.

The Larch, Collingwood, from Newfoundland, put
in, brought up too near on the Trefuses side of
the harbour, and at four p. m. drifted towards the
rocks, when a signal of distress was hoisted. A
six oared gig, followed by another with a pilot, put
off, and with difficulty got on board. At dusk she
appeared beating hard. The American brig Aurora,
has drifted considerably, but have heard of no other
casualty.
P.S. The Larch is in shore.

PENZANCE, JAN. 7, 2 P.M.—lt began to blow
hard at midnight, and before day-break increased to
a severe gale.
CuxuAvEN, JArr..s.—lt freezes very hard, with
every appearance of continuing.

The Evelina, Friend, arrived at Plymouth from
Alexandria, sailed 7th Nov., and from Malta 2d ult.,
on the 16th ult. in at. 37. long. 1. spoke the Can-
ton packet, from Trieste to Sumatra; on the 24th,
off the Rock of Gibraltar, spoke the Lady Amherst,
from Messina to Liverpool, and the same afternoon
saw a fleet of forty sail homeward-bound ; on the
28th, in lat. 38. long. 12. spoke the Industry,
Vaughan, from Newcastle to Newfoundland, very
leaky, and in great distress, bearing away for Lisbon,
supplied her with water, bread, and pork, she had
thrown part of her cargo overboard.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TwEarß o'CLecx.

There appears a complete dearth of news this
morning, having received no intelligence from the
Continent; in the mean time the British Funds, being
left to themselves, shew a decided disposition to im-
prove, and the Consol market, although no very ex-
tensive business or rise has taken place, is extremely
stiff and looks well, in which the payment of the divi-
dends to the public, commencing to-day, will have
some effect, but not so great as is generally sup-
posed, the Christmas half year's dividends being
devoted to payments rather than re-investment.
Consols opened at 821, ex dividend, for money,
and 841 for Account, since which they have
risen to 821 for the former, and 8411, and the
same price for the February account. The Com-
missioners paid 841; India Bonds are 84 86, and
Exchequer Bills 57 8 pm.
The Foreign Funds have little novelty to-day, and
the market continues steady with respect to prices,
but without any business of the least importance ;
Russian Bonds are 90. 11; Greek, 171 ;Mexican,
461, and Colombian, 261 7; Buenos Ayrian Bonds
have not varied, 43 5. The Share market is, if
any thing, a little stiffer, but with little improvement
in prices.

Three per Cent. Consols, 82k, ex. div. ; Ditto for the
Account, 814 4; Three per Cent. Reduced, 83/
Three and a-half per Cent. Reduced, 90} 1 ; Four per
Cent. 1004 1 ; India Bonds, 84 6 ; Exchequer Bills, 57
58 pm.
FORElGN.—Brazilian, 60; Buenos Ayres, 43 5 ;
Chilian, 24 6 ; Colombian, 26i- 7 ; Danish, 591 I ;
Greek,
17 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent. 35 7 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent.
46-1 ; Peruvian, 25 6 ; Portifgaese, 71 2 ; Russian,
90t 14; Spanish, 101 11.
MINXS.—AngIo Mexican, GO 57/ die. ; Brazilian, 67
69 pm.; Colombian, 20 1 per share ; Real del Monte, 40
19 die. ; General Mining Association, 91
50 pm.; Tlalpuxahua, 100 die. ; Mexican, 20
10 pm.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols remain at 84,3- I for account, but the
market is not quite so good as in the early
Part of
the day, there is scarcely a bargain doing.

THREE O'CLOCK
Consols have again taken a turn for a rise, and
are now 841 for the 22d inst. Exchequer Bills
have touched GO premium. Nothing new from
France has arrived this day,
Q UAR TER PAST
THREE.
Consols for Account, 8411

The public should be on their guard against
counterfeit sovereigns and half-sovereigns, many of both
descriptions being in circulation. It is strongly suspected
that there are persons in this neighbourhood whose object
is directed to this species of fraud.—Exeter Alfred.

MR. HAYDON'S PICTURE OP TIM MOM

ELECTION.

We this morning visited Mr. Haydon's much
talked of Sketch from the. Interior of the kilts
Bench Prison during the Mock Election—with
which the town Newspapers were rife some months
since—and however we may differ from the artist's
admirers on the comparative degree of its .merits---
there can be no question that it is a work of high
ability. But it is decidedly not comic, as some
critics have described it. It is, in fact, of an
impressive, stern, and even tragic cast, as any
one must perceive, who will take the trouble to
scrutinize the objects with which the fore-ground is
occupied. The most prominent among these is an
officer, (with a fine dramatic head and figure), who
is seated at a deal table, sipping wine, with a rough
black-bearded sort of fellow--the very soul of, whim
and jollity. The officer, himself, is manifestly
misanthropist, of the bitterest and most determined
class. He has been a debauchee in earlier days; as
may be gleaned from the broken packs of cards
lying near him, but all pleasure seems now
dead within him, and his strong-marked featui ea
are lit up instead with a cold scornful malignity.
The appearance of a pretty girl close at his elbow,
whose face is full of sensibility, lends a very drama-
tic contrast to this group. On the other side, still
in the fore-ground, appears a respectable family,
consisting of a father, mother, and two children:
the touching aspect of the father—his faded
dress, his forlorn figure, and affectionate appeal to
his wife who stands beside him, are well imagined.
The colouring, however of this group is somewhat
feeble and slovenly. With respect to the vaunted
comedy of Mr. Haydon's picture, it is confined
exclusively to the back-ground—and wants clur
racter, richness and variety. We see a poll'
clerk with a grin upon his countenance;. a High
Sheriff, the humour of whose conception is con'
fined to his robes; a constable with a staff in his
hand; a drunken debtor, who is overlooking the
election from a pump up which he had contrived to
clamber, but nothing beyond this, from which we
may gain an insight into their characteror occupation,
The only two incidents in the piece are episodical'
and consist, as we observed just now, of the groups
of the misanthropist, and his fair attendant, and the
father of his care-worn family. Mr. Haydon's genie'
is lofty
and imaginative—his favourite countenance
are never to be mistaken—and seem desperate])
out of character among the vulgar common-place al7
surdities of a King's Bench. Election. His colour
tug, however, is throughout appropriate—and is de
cidedly the first of his paintings devoid of conceit 01
exaggeration.

Lord Chief Justice BEST, we are happy t°
hear, is so far recovered that he is expected to resume
seat in the Common Pleas at the commencement of tbi
adjourned Sittings.—Morning Paper.

ARMY PAY-OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—Thy
following services, due on the 24th ult. will be in a mill
of payment on Thursday the 17th instant :—Retired full
pay military pensions to wounded officers—pay of Actiu
tants of Local Militia—allowance to Adjutants and Ser
jeant-majors of Militia....foreign half-pay and foreign pen
sions.

A Committee was sitting at Guildhall, wit'
the Judges of the Sheriffs' Courts in London, almost tis
whole of yesterday ; and it appears an investigation on tb
subject of the practice in those Courts is going on, frtg
which very beneficial results may be expected. The
tensive usefulness of which these Courts are cap Ole, is
present very little understood by the citizens and the pubil
at large.

At the Great Court of Wardmote, held I,
Guildhall, before the LORD MAYOR, on Monday last,
Petition was presented from Mr. SHOOBRIDGE, against II':
election of Messrs. BRIDGE and Plooraa, as Comm',
Counclimen for the Ward of Bread-street, and anotb
for the Ward of Crikdegate,Withia. a,:'
the
Mr. FIELD, against the election of Mr. lizorkno4e.
which was adjourned to the Court of Aldermen on Tuestil'
next. the consideration •

Miss PATON'S benefit on Friday last, at Pi!,
mouth, produced the largest receipts ever known in
Theatre, the orchestra having been laid into boxes for
occasion ; the amount was 15$/. 19s. At the request
the principal inhabitants of Devonport, 'she was to gio
Concert in the Town-hall there the following everthag,
then proceed to Exeter.

The new market-place at Exmouth, built
the expence of the Right Hon. Lord RoLix, was open,.
for the first time on Saturday se'nnight.—Ereter Alfa

The Accession of his most gracious Majes,
to the Throne, on the 29th inst., will, it is understood,
celebrated in this city by a ball at Cozsanois's Public RS
—.Exeter Alfred.
Sir T. LAWRENCE, we hear, is occupied ,
a picture of Lady Lrxnstunsr, which will add great
when it appears in the ensuing exhibition, to the pro
high reputation of this distinguished artist.
The provincial papers are full of distressi,
accounts of the late floods. At Salisbury, the pavenY
of the Cathedral was under water, so as to put a goof
Divine Service.

The brig Favorite, of Teignmouth, has
lost five hundred miles from Newfoundland. The
saved by a Dutch vessel, landed at Teignmouth last weri
Exeter Alfred.

The Portuguese ships of war, Tiger
Pearla, are now lying in Torbay, wind•bound.
have been refitted at Portsmouth, and are on their Oil
Plymouth, to await the arrival of Don lkitsuEL, to tale
Royal Highness to Lisbon.—Exeter Alfred.
The magnificent room at the British Muse
is now ready for the receptiifit of the KIN G's Libf,
which will be removed to it from Kensington as soon

weather permits.
Th o recent floods and high tides have wasl
away upwards of fifty feet of the wall of the NO-
BucklNGKAirt's marine villa, at Ryde.
The following is the copy of a sign in N°:
Wales, above a cobbler's stall, in the village of Heulto/
pryee Dyas, coblar, daler in bacon, shag and pies
bacon and gingerbread ; egs laid every morning 14
and very good paradis ; in the summer gentleman ladY'
have good tae and crumpets, and strawberry, With a'`.
milk, because I can't get no cream. N. B. Shoe
boots mended very well."

There is at present in Dalhousie garden,
gooseberry bush, growing in the open air, which is
covered with blossoms, and on which there are a nun''
pfat-rtinoifhe machinery, and in cons 4
tion with his now widowed wife, he was caught biill in this neighbourhood, wag!.
of berries as large as imperial pease.--Edinbury Evei
Courant.
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spur-wheel, and in au instant his body was laceraud i
frightful manner. Medical aid was in rain sought d
from the impression that there might still be some faiii
mains of vitality. He has left a disconsolate widow
four infant children, the eldest of whom i, scarcelf
years old, and the youngest only three months. fi
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COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
The Court was engaged during the morning in a
die, the details of which are of no public interest.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
MIS-DESCRIPTION OF RESIDENCE.
George Worrier was brought up on his petition
"lbe discharged. •
11fr. HEATH, for the opposing creditor,.enquired
whether the Insolvent had not contracted a debt
residing in Winchester.
The Insolvent stated that he had been staying at
laihester for six weeks ; that he went down
tfiece for the purpose of inspecting_weights and mea-
sures, and that the debt Iva+ for board and lodging.
Air. HEATH insisted that the Insolvent was bound
.t,„.° advertise himself as of Winchester as well as of
Kennington Cross, where lie stated his usual resi-
enee was.
Mr. CooKE, for the insolvent, submitted that his
stay at Winchester was merely for the purpose of
discharging the duties of his situation, which was
connected with the office of inspector of weights
and measures.

Mr. Commissioner LAW.—He went to Win--
Ilester in pursuit of the only employment he then
Had.

Mr. COOKE said that the insolvent, whilst at Win-
diester, still continued to retain his house at Ken-
411ton-cross, to which place he, of course, intended
to return as soon as business admitted of it.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Suppose a gentle-
'flan has a house in London, at which his family con-
stantly resides, and that the duties of any particular
°Pee which he may hold, require him to spend
.tree months of every year in a different part of
the country, would it not be necessary that he
aould also, advertize himself as of the latter place,
1n order that his creditors, residing there, may be
;" a condition to know that the insolvent was the
Indilidaal indebted to them ? We are of opinion
that
ti e insolvent ought to have advertised himself
" pt 'Winchester.
Ite insolvent was accordingly ordered to re-
advertise.