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London, England, 1826-03-08 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

01d Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills 10001.1 id. I 2 „in.
Ditto:0101. lid. ••• '
Ditto Small I id.
Ditto Advertised
Bank for Acct.
India for Acct.
Cons. tk)r Acct. Nit 7tj

NDS AT ONE O'Cf.OOK.

Neapolitan, 1.824 •
Peruvian Bonds.,
Portuguese Bowls 74.
Prussian, 5 percent. . ,
Ditto New
Russian. Newosp. c.
Spanish 132..5 p. c.
11123

••
French'tented,•fi p. c. 981. —c.
Exchange 251. 50e.
3 p• c.
•---- Exchange -.-1. —c.

PRICES OV SHAKES AT O,IC O'CLOCK.

Per Share.

Anglo-Chilian Mining Company 1
Brazilian Mining Company .. ll
Chilian Mining Company
Real del Alurae Mining Company . 390
New United Mexican Mining Company
Welch Iron and Coal Alining Company

PRICE OF IRISH STOCKi, MARCH. 4.

Mining Company
St. Patrick Insurance-13 dir.
National ditto fl dir.
Hibernian Bank
Fish Shares
Patriotic ditto
Royal Irish Mining
New Brighton
Hibernian Gas Company

flank Stock •135 i 5
Gov. Deb. atii per cent. 88
4 per cent. New do. 944 5 41
Gov. Stink, :u per et 85
Conk)la 3 percent.
loyal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Loan, 4 per cent.
Ditto Ditto, Ii per cent.

FOREIGN MAIM

Guernsey and Jersey
Gottenburgh
ilarnburgh

An nu, ED.

DUE.

HIM( WATER AT LONDON JIMMIE TO.MORROW.
Morning. 42 minutes after 2. j Evening, Is 9 minute* .►fter 2.

'FITE SITN.

SOLES! WITS DICERE ACIDE4T.:I

LON 1)0N,
WEi)NEST)4Y EVENING, AI.IRCIIB, 1826.

A private letter from llamburgh, given in a
Paris Journal of Sunday, notices the presence
of Gustavus, Ex-Monarch of Swanex, at St.
Petersburgh, where, however, he is said to keep
in strict incognito. This is assumed to be in ac-
cordance with the wish of the Emperor NICHOLAS,
to avoid giving offence to King CHARLES JOHN,
by any public countenance of GurrAvus. It has
long been surmised, that the apprehensions of the
Iloly Alliance will never be effectually tranquil.
lized, until the ancient order of legitimacy shall
be restored in Sweden. The personal friendship
known have subsisted between the Emperor
ALEXANDER and King CHARLES JOHN, pre-
eluded all hope of unsettling the existing order
of things in Sweden. CONSTANTINE, on the other
band is equally attached to the Monarch
GUSTAVUS. What may be the feeling of Ni.
CIIOLAS towards the respective dynasties has not
been publicly stated. The position of the
New Family under these circumstances, may,
perhaps, be considered as precarious, without
some external support, to counterpoise the for-
midable power by which it might be assailed.
Is it to England, that CHARLES JOHN will look

for the maintenance of the political system esta
blished at the Congress of Vienna ?

A llamburgh Mail arrived this morning. It
does not bring any political intelligence of interest.
The Russian Government is taking measures for
the introduction of a uniform measure of length
throughout the Empire. At Berlin the journey
of the Duke of WELLINGTON appears to have ex-
cited much speculation in the political circles :

ST. PETERSBURiIn, FEL 18.

The Nobility of Moscow having applied to the Emperor for
permission to offer their congratulation by a special deputation,
his-Majesty replied, that he considered this as a new proof of
the zeal by which that body had always distinguished itself in
its attachment to the Throne. His Majesty intended to go to
Moscow in the spring, and thought the sending a special de:-
putation unnecessary,' but expressed to the body of the nobility
his satisfaction at the great zeal they had displayed.
By an Ukase of the 28th January, the Russian merchants
of all (luilds, without distinction, are permitted to import the
produce of Russia and Bessarabia (wine and brandy excepted),
by the custom-houses on the Dneister. Salt of Bessarabia
may henceforward be imported into the free port of Odessa.
. The Finance Department is at this moment taking the most
utire measures for the introduction of a uniform measure

of length throUghout the empire, as was ordered during the
reign of the late Emperor. For this purpose directions have
been given for making a number of arshiens of iron, which are
to be authorised by a stamp. The Finance Department is to send
such arshiens to the several Governments and Provinces, in suf-
ficient numbers for sale. All this has been done ; but though
the time fixed for the use of the old arshiens has long since ex-
pired, the sale of the new ones advance but slowly, and not
in proportion to the population. The Minister of Finance has,
therefore, issued new
,injunctions on this subject.
For this week past we have had again very cold weather,
Reaumur's thermometer being at 10. to 1!. below Zero, but
without snow.

BERLIY, FEB. 25.

Now that the Duke of Wellington has left us, our political
circles are busily discussing the object of his mission. Some
affirm they have frequently heard a declaration that the policy
of his Government is directed to the preservation of peace, and
those who take an interest in the utli►irs of the unfortunate
Greeks flatter themselves with hopes that he will make propo-
sals at St. Petersburgh for putting an end to their calamities
The Journal called Veue:' Gazette: has published by corn-
mend a poem to compliment the Duke of Wellington on the
day of his arrival here, and afterwards an English translation
of it.

Mr. one of the greatest and richest Bankers in this
city, has terminated his life in a violent manner.

• COPENILAGEN, FEU. 25.
The Jubilee of the introduction of Christianity into Dentnark.
will be celebrated on Whitsunday.

The news of the failure of the house of Goldschmidt, in
in London, has caused no little consternation on our Exchange.
—(Hambigtgh Correspondent, Nardi I.)

" The principles upon which the Court- of Chancery was
established were so sound and so admirable, that he would defy
the ingenuity of man or the collective wisdom of any body of
men, to devise a system more beneficial to the community."—
(Speech etite-ATTottwltY ORWERAL in the Hojite of Com.
moues, Tuesday, fllw•eh 7, 11126.) •

We beg to assure our Readers, that the above
really is the quotation it professes to be, and
was published in most of the Morning Papers as,
the language used by the ATTOILNEY•GENLRAL,
when speaking of the Court of Chancery. The
ignorance thus displayed of the principles of the
Court of Chancery by the first Law Officer of the
Crown, however surprising, is nevertheless ex.
cusable, when we reflect the Learned Gentleman
is a common law lawyer, and has little or no-
thing do with those Courts of our Lord the
KING, miscalled Courts of Equity.--That
the principles of the Court of Chancery are
not sound is a self-evident truth, plainly de.
monstrated by the fact, that a commission is
at this moment sitting, authorised to inquire into
its practice, and suggest a remedy for some of
its most crying enormities, with a view to render
it more efficient as a Court ofJustice. The ATTOII.
NICY.G I:I,IERAL, when lauding this Court, seems
to have forgotten the origin of the office of
the ACCOUNTANT-GEN !MAL. He seems to
havit forgotten that it arose entirely from
the frauds practised by certain Masters in Chan.
eery, some 70 or 80 years ago, and to make up
the defalcations of whom to the suitor's addi.
tional stamps, were imposed upon proceedings
in that sound and admirable Court.—
.
Yet all these facts the public records
establish, the very Acts of Parliament themselves
will evidence them, and a very small acquaint.
anco with the Statute Book might have put the
learned Attorney in possession of them. Public
outcries are not excited without some ground,
anti we think the ATTOUNEY.G KRAL might
have heard of that which has been raised against
this odious Court, and if so, might, without in•
jury to his own self-love, have doubted the
soundness of any opinion of his own which went
in opposition to the voice of the public.
The truth is, that the equity system of this coml.
try is radically bad. It does not contain in itself
a single seed that could bring forth good fruit,
or a wholesome foundation upon which to erect
From the very commence.
amesnotli do
of
fatbhreic.
suit to the decree, through all
its collateral ramifications of references to Mas-
ters, of Appeals to the Chancellor, and Appeals
to the House of Lords, the benefit of the
community is never considered. It is all
deceit, all fraud, all expence, and ruin to
those unhappy men, whose ill-fated stars have
driven them to this Court, either as suitors or
defendants; for, iu either character, it is alike
destructive.

But if this declaration is made by the AT,.
TORT/EY-GENERA L, who doubtless huts seen
this long wished for report of the Chancery
Commissioners, we greatly fear that, after all, it
will prove an abortion. The good to be ex-
pected from it must necessarily be of a very
questionable nature, if the principles upon which
justice has been hitherto administered in that
Court are to be supported. The public has le e
how badly these principles have worked in the
delays and expenceS incident to a suit in Chan-
cery, in the utter ruin that follows by a suit in
Equity, to the individuals concerned, and to the
property Involved. The public must know alt this,
and will therefore receive with doubt the
above quoted declaration, and know what
remedy to expect at the hands of the Chan-
cery Commissioners. An, inquiry of the nature

submitted to these Gentlemen, undertaken
with the feelings and views with which the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL seems to have been ani-
mated, must necessarily 'Prove abortive ; for to
enter upon it with a notion of the soundness of
the principles of the institution to be inquired
into, shuts the mind against conviction, and
closes every, avenue by which the slightest im-
pression' of an opposite nature can be made.
We have then still longer to endure ; but we
console ourselves under the idea that the thing
cannot last very long, and that, however the public
outcries may be stifled for the present by the"sop"
thus thrown to them to pacify importunities, in
a little while they will break out again with re-
novated and irresistible strength.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY ELECTION.
TWELFTH' ru.tlt's POLL, 151AnCif 13.
For Matthew Bell, Esq. - 1,1113
The Ilon. Henry T. Liddell. - 1,148

Majority for Mr. Bell 35

A 'Board of the Lords of the Treasury was
held yesterday at the Treasury Chambers.
The Colette of last night presents a compara-
tively pleasing complexion. It contains only
twenty•tive Bankrupts, not more than five of
whom reside in the metropolis and its vicinity.
Rims, M Aeon 4,--.-The Roland arrived at
Havre, sailed from Rio Janeiro the i6th of De-
comber,
and brings advice that 40 vessels of war
were employed by
the Brazilian Government in
tlue blockade of the River Plate ; and that a
frigate has been sent to to the coast of Patagonia,
with orders to destroy. the establishments there
belonging to the republicans.
We are, happy to acquaint, our,.. numerous
r!oders, that the Canterbury Union Bank, Iliessrs. itai.coun
and Co., recommenced businvitson Saturday last. Their London
C.qret.p Nylons are :Messrs, GROTE, POESCOTT,. anti Co. of
Threattneedle.street.—Uientish Gazette.)
ABOLITION OF Tun SL4TE TILIOVOII MOB
thy a Meeting of the Freeholders of, the, County
of Surrey took place at, the Spread Eagle, at
Epsom, for the purpose of adopting Resolutions
and voting Petitions to both Houses of Parlia•
meat. on the subject of the amelioration of the
present condition of the- Slaves in the Colonies,
land the final abolition of: the Stave 'Trade.--
llrxulr Esq., the High Sheriff' of the
County,-iiv'the Chair.—Several of the.Magis-
trateS4thst. Coonty.were present, amongst them
were the ,two.Nls•mbers. Mr. henry Hunt, who
is also •irf.reeitoltler of the County, was also in
the room.
r'
General 'FgROUSiON is not singular in his dis-
-1114 of thelnitevation of mustachios in the service',
ko9wilog that a mon will fight quite as well with,
out as with them. Some years ago, at Exeter,
when General Sitncoe commanded in that dis-
trict, there was a militia regiment whose grenadier
company had motachios. After the parade, the
General called the Colonel of the regiment, anti
asked " If they had the Duke of York's
order for :making beasts of themselves ?" 'l'o
which he replied, " No." " said the
old General, " let every otte of them be clean
saved before they quit the parade."
Lady C4I wrEnEt, wife of the Lor&Lieutenant
of Iceland,, mire. exclaimed, " Really the air or
this couottl iI Vvry„;sattibripos,"-,--" For God's
sake," replied, Shift}. your .Ladyship must not.
'say't4'`in England, 'Orittnit Governmeht' will cer:.
l'!
!atm!. •borriiter observed to a learn-
, 4.ed iliather is Court theedier day, that the wearing of whiskers
wail onprofesslonsl. Hight," replied his friend, " 4 lawyer
cannot be too ttirefiked."—(Sparting Magazine.)
G Explosion took place yeSterday
morning in the shop of Mr. CorrEumbs pawn-
broker, Suffolk-street, Borough, in consequence
of a flaw in one of the service pipes. The front
windows were shivered to atoms, but no personal
injury was sustained, although Several persons
were close, to the spot at the tithe. If, When the
smell of the gas is-strong, the Company's ser
Pants were' infornied of it, many serious acci-
dents might be prevented.
MeLANcuor...Y Acctotsvr.—We are sorry to
have occasion to state that three farmers and cattle dealers, of
gratt enterprise and respectability, perished In the gloom and
flood of Wednesday night. Throughout the whole day there was
heavy and incessantrain,and at night it continued unabated,whilst
the darkness of the night rendered travellitigexcessively perilous-
During the day, stormy and wet as it was, a ploughing match pre-
viously appointed, took place at Dithluff, mid amongst the other
respectable farmers present were, Mr. DaVld Dick in Brair, his
two sons, Mr. Andrew Dirk in Drumillan, and Mr. 1). Dick,
jun., and Mr. Jas. 31‘Craektn, cattle-dealer and farmer in Al-
dons. After the competition, as is customary, the company re-
ceived a refreshment, and thtir departure was naturally delayed
by the badness of the night, as well as the hospitality of the en-
tertainer. Before midnight, however, they departed, and
the four
gentlemen Just named, their road lying in the same direction,
went oft' together on horseback. Dahlufr lies between Crosshill
and Mayboll, and, before joining the public road, a burn which
joins the water of (Amin, near Baird's MAL most be crossed.
This burn was prodigiously swollen by the rains, anti when in
this state it can be crossed only by a temporary tridge without
ledges. The travellers, dark and dangerons as it was, at-
tempted to cross it, but alas ! the attonpt was foal to no less
than three of them. Mr. .114Cracken with his horse took the
bridge first, but he scarcely had entered on it when both fell
over. Mr. Andrew Dick.
mounted, and observing this, instantly ths-
roshin, into the born, strived to save his
no, as well as the man he wool(' thus have saved, was carried
companion, but the bold and generous Obit was in vain.—
Clown by the great impetuosity of the flood, and drowned. It
is not yet known whether the younger brother, David, follow-
ed Isis example, or attetu,tcti, Mr.M• (rackets, to pass the
bridge, but he tCK> pertihcd., This catastrophe. passed before
the eyes of the father, in so far as the darkness ot the night hid
it not from him,
but be had only the double affliction of wit-
nesting it without being able to render any effeetnat assistance.
the body of Mr. M‘Cracken has been found, hut those of the
two Mr. Dicks were not discovered when our informant left the
fatal spot. The horse of Mr. IVlTracken was found in the
burn dead, and his neck broken.—Glyn ever.)
Nlisa A i.r.wooo, of Barnes, met with an acci.
dent rather alarming than solooss opposite the
horse-guards' barracks in the Park, yesterday.
Iler horse fell, and her face was much disfigured
by the loss of one of her teeth.
Mr. T. Kur.to, proprietor of one of the lime
kilns, at the llythe, in Colchester, about two
months since lost his eldest son, Timothy,
after a short affliction ; on Sunday se'tmight,
his second son, Jolin, departed this life;
and
on the following day, his only daugh,
ter, Mary, paid the debt of nature : thus was a
venerable parent deprived of his only
children, who had all obtained the age of mato•
within the -Space three
city, of nine weeks,

THE FUNDS.

Consols—Closed yesterday - - 781.
After the Close - -781 i
This morning opened - 78.4+

In the afternoon of yesterday, Consols took
a start, and closed al 784. This morning the
market opened 78,H, and very soon advanced to
78. At this price, the parties whose accounts
shereedpryit, began to realize, w hich brought back
Consols to 7741, the quotation at twelve o'clock.
Bargains were afterwards effected at 77.

The Commissioners were served with Consols
at 88i, and the sale was scarcely concluded,,
when the price fell to 7771 for Account. The
transactions have been extensive.
Bank Stock (for account) - . • 204.

India Bonds . . . 2 dis. par.
3 per Cent. Consols (Money) - 77;.
Ditto (Account) - -77 n.
3i per Cent. Reduced . . .tii.
New 4 per Cent. . . . 95}.
Exchequer Bills, £1000)
.000 1 2 pm.
1:10)

FOREIGN.

Very few transactions in the market, and but
little variation from the prices of yesterday.
Colombian, 1824,471 ; Mexican 6 per cent. 62,i
Chilian, 47T ; Danish, 5'2; Greek, 18f; Spanish,
104 ; Russian Bondi 75f.