The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-27 00:00:00

THEATRICAL ANECDOTE.

Mrs. Webb, the predecessor of Mre. Davenport at co-
vent-garden Theatre, was for a long time a favourite actress
at Norwich, when Miss Child; she afterwards married
Mr. Webb. The city of Norwich, like the city of Lon,
den, has its Bridewell precinct, in which several of the
performers lodged, on account of the nearness of the situa-
tion to the theatre. At that time a sprightly actor, of the
name of IYEath, who played a season or two in town, re-
sided on the same floor of the house in which Miss Child
lodged, the doors of their apartments being opposite each
other, At this time a theatrical friend from Bath called
upon that respectable man end actor, Mr. Brunton, senior,
who afterwards, became the lessee and manager of the
theatre, and inquired how Matilda was, meaning Mrs.
Aercay, a great favourite of the company in general,
whose merits as a woman are honourably recorded on her
tombstone in the church-yard of St. Paul's Covent-garden,
to which Mr, B. replied, " For Heaven's sake, my dear
friend, do not ask me.` " Not ask you I I hope nothing
serious, has happened to the amiable creature ?" " Jtidge.
yourself," rejoined Mr. 8., with a sigh, " when I unsure
you that poor 'dear.Matilda is at this moment with Chi/V,
at Death's da op in .Prideloell i" Mr, B, immediately cork
ducted his friet:d to, the precinet, where they :found Mrs,.
Aercay, Miss Child; andirEath, comfortablytaking their
tea together. Mr. and 'Mrs, Webb were, in respect to per-
son, the jolliest couple in the kingdom. soon after. their.
engagement at Covent-garden, the lady was invited to go
down to Southampton to play a few nights, as a star of the
first magnitude! Webb? determining to "do the thing
genteelly, and astonish the path es, resolved that they
stylei: but being en economical man, he
procure‘wviosihtidttrouel in
a person to occupy a seat in their ye-
hidr, and pay a third part of the expence ; for this pur-
pose he caused to be mserted in the newspapers an adver,
tisement, for '• an agreeable companion in a post chaise, to
accompany a lady and g,entleman to Southampton." A
portly Hampshire breeder of pigs, who had fixed his head
quarters at the Hog in the Pound, in Oxford-street, having
finished h4bysineiet in town, thought this would be a com-
fortable Way, of journeying homel_appliekaccording to the
address given lit the advertisement, at Webb's lodgings,
and heaving himself up stairs with some difficulty, was m-
trodui..ad 000 inkir of wen-fed comedians, and the pun-
ahalre.
sustained
by.
! tenances of the trio exprmied min) surprise, and the
stranger exclaimed," What I screw us into a pPitTehaiss !
—worse than three in. a bed in the dog days—a hot bath
would be an ice-house to. it. You might as easily attempt
to parch a picket of horse grenadiers into a sentry box.—
fly :the Loid, we. were to make a grand' set out in a
hived-wheeled waggon,' It would certainly he stopped at
the first weighing machine, foileing•oVerloaded.w After
some conversation,' Webb And his wife were so pleased
nt
n
ItcYboierityleidt:Ybej!bneli.
01,llw ;fnonsviei dineltiti whimsicality
with' the
;hl ;drep:a dealer
ei fine swine,
round
large
gyao
estf
co‘titriei
wlricli perfectlyke sent th em frsuns ,satisfied country
for the loss he had
advertising for an agreeable Companion in a
ai-chaise.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY' EVENING, DEC. Q 7, .1826..

The Paris Papers of Sunday, and the 'Etoile' dated
Monday morning, reached us last night. Their con-
tents are of high interest, as furnishing us with news
from Lisbon to the 13th inst., being three days later
than our direct communications from that city. The
general aspect of this intelligence is gloomy. Rebel-
! lion exists everywhere, and the country is threatened, as
the Bishop' of ALGARVE observed in the Chamber of
Peers, on the 9th, “by open revolt, by foreign war,
and by the connivance of some of the public func-
tionaries with the rebels." At the date of these advices
Oporto, however, had not fallen. On the contrary,
it would seem that the Marquis de CRAVES had aban-
doned his intention of immediately attacking that
place.. According .to private letters, it would appear
that instead of continuing his march to Oporto lie had
Suddenly turned aside; to proceed to Viana, a fortified
city near the SCA, before which he arrived on the 9th
DeceMber, but made no attempt upon it,. the garrison
not having made any demonstration favorable to the
Royalists, who then again took the road to Oporto.
Learning, however, that resistance would be made,
they suddenly turned to the left, crossed the Douro at
another point, and marched on Coimbra, which city
the Marquis was to enter on the 15th or-16th.
From these facts, it would appear that the plan of
the MA RQUIs is rather.to spread.the revolt, than to risk
an attack on any place, which by its vigorous resistance
might give him a check ; but it is • also evident, that
the Constitutional Generals in these districts have no
means to pursue offensive 'operation's' against him :
indeed; the official reports published' in the postscript
of the Etoile, from the Minister at War at Lisbon,
admit that the whole population of Tras:•oa-Montes
were armed as guerillas, which' had impeded the-mo-
tions of General- MBLLo. That Oflieeswand • General
CL AUM NO had taken up a position- on.the Taimegat,
by which the province of Minho was covered—but
the communications from them did not come down to
it later date than the Bth inst.

These accounts from Lisbon place' beyond doubt
the fact of Spanish troops forming part of the rebel
force. General Alieum positively states that "many
Spanish troops accompany the rebels, and that the
Officers:who were made prisoners at Braganca had been
conducted. into Spain by Spanish Lancers, bound two
and two." If this circumstance be4iilly confirmed; the
these events Pr.peara:e.aglivtiatthinSg the
kingdom of pain is at once settled.
• uwhileestion
'
Por-
tugal
from one end to the other, we find the Cham-
ber of Peers 'at Lisbon on the 11th debating "a ques-
,tiOn of Police, and what their own costume shall be I
'No patriot- ardour fireo tba breasts of these noble
Senators, with whom the embroidery on a blue habit
seems to
.possess more interest than the fate of that
Constitution which NA given them the privilegiof dis-
,cussing"questions involving the dearest rights of man..
The intense interest of news from the Peninsula
throws into the back ground intelligence from every
other quarter ; but in faCt these papers contain nothing
important from any'other part of the world. Extracts
at length will be found in a preceding column.

The Aligemeine Zeitung of the 20th inst. has been
received this morniug, ft 00 of poli-
tical interest, but has some observations on the war in
Portual7 and the little variation Produced on the Fo-

reign Funds, by the excitement of political ovonti
compared to the great fluctuations occasioned by the

Austrian invasion of Naples. It also contains some
comments upon the reasonable probability that Eng-
land would prefer peace to war, in 9rdeso reduce her
national debt, and quiet the disturbances IrelsUd
All this may be very true, but England is not the less
prepared to go to war, when either her honour or her
duty demand it, although the payment of her debt
may he prolonged, and the tranquillity of Ireland
hazarded._: England just in her policy, shall keel:::
her majestic' course like one of her own proud ships'.
over the murmering waves, and conscious .of her
might, silence the Voice of sedition in the command-
ing glory of her-triumphant career.

FRANKFORT, DEC. 15.
According to private accounts from Vienna, it is be-
lieved here that in the approaching settlement for the half
year the extra dividend for the Bank will amount to rtl
florins, and, besides this, 6 florins per share will be laid bl.
for the Revenue funds. In the course of this week very
little has been done in Foreign Bills.
Our wool trade has lately been rather more brisk. Se'
veral parcels are said to have been sold for exportation to
France ,and the Netherlands; but, with respect to the
prices, the settlements are too uncertain to found any ge
neral conclusion from them.
A singular circumstance occurred here lately. A Jai
who had embraced Christianity was interred in the Jewish
burying-ground. It appeared, several days after his burial,
from an exarriination of his papers, that he had been hap-.
tiled at-Turin Several yeabefore, hut had concealed his
conversion, and, even in his last illness, had been contented
with the attendance of his former brethren, so alit theb,
not suspecting his apostacy from their religion, treated
him after his death as one of their community. •
Though the events that ate passing in Portugal seem te..4
afford a favourable opportunity for stock-jobbing, it cannot
emfaoiumlstp:llrbadevtheombesuflercuhveetdduia,mtitionhansisht tehde
weixtilciitlalbtihlietsys
Years ago. Let us recollect the Austriin campaign ng's.inel
ofefwouryeEarxse,hiaflrt:
able annoyances than the accursed intervention of Great .
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Britain in the present internal dissentious in Portugal,
which it cannot be denied that the flames of war WY,
be kindled in the Peninsula, not to speak of the farther
consequences to the political world in general, which pisi
be the result. On the other hand, it must be remembers
that of all the countries of Europe, Great Britain, Per
haps, more than any other, needs the preservation of rsse!
as well to heal the wounds which it has sustained in iro
finances by more than 20 years' war, as to gain tits t
conjure the storms of internal discord, especially in Ire
whence we may infer that there is little reason 10 sPP
hend that it will take any steps that can endanger the ll;
neral tranquillity. Similar motives appear to gehlewty 0 •
political conduct of France, and as the. able state'lmen
ntly
now direct the affairs of the principal state have frequesiiiir.
succeeded in effecting an amicable solution of equallit-h- se
cult problems, it may, perhaps, be presumed tilt ~;:do
speculators who now display the greatest uneal'''
not very seriously entertain the opinion which is -the
parent besis'of their operations.
•

Two ships have arbut the intelligence
rived at Liverpool from Ca 14016
than the middle of they
his
July. W. regret to learn by. t
hoport unity, . however, that Earl A:unit/11T had 100
The, intelligence from Are,
bring is not of later deo
eldest Son, who died at Barrackpore, after a few
days illness, on the,2d of August, in the 24th year of
hie age.
that the evacuation of tho Burincso ,Lerritory by the
British .t:iny will be followed with scenes of exaction
and cruelty on the part of the King of AAA, against
interests during the occupation of
leads to ilia expectation
those who have in any way been favourable to British
tories. Fines bad been already inflicted on irony vase
part of his tero,-

and female at Prome•

• -_—.,--_______________
Accounts from Batavia to t vhfth September
been. received, the substance ofich will be found in
ry
another column.
The situation of the Dutch in this settlement see°
every day to become more critical; the troopi arc gig'
hausted, and reduced by sickness to such an
that much of the milita extent,
service has fallen on the mer-
chants of Batavia ; and the loss of the Colony mtist
be inevitable without the speedy- arrival of flirther re-
inforcementa:.-: The Governor appears to have let
loose from captivity the old Sultan.of JBOlO9, with tin'
view of gaining the alliance of his Soo, who coo-
Mand6d , oni of the most formidable bodies
troops, of native
but this measure had not succeeded.
Differences in the Council also existed, and
it i 6
said that two of its members had been ordered home.

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of
ifyunrpbetootlittrtei objects of the Apostolic
this circumstance,We observe..
fro"'t I
of the comequencei of so doing.
the formation of the' Corps of Observation on the
o_.,
eurred, lead us to suspect that the idea whiciill'gasulties‘ '
iiingtallieeios pecuniary unx- ~
?f Spain has been very. erroneous. We do .not pero.7:
ii.i the immediate administration of the kineinar, 1.'0'..
s of an urgent distress for money. '1 he 0. tb e
reisettAbii
holds his Court with almost ancient splendour, 10"
symptoms Of being destitute of f 1
any o t ie esseiltials of
soldiers. -
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EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED AIADRID, DEC' 1,51;
of" The greatest confusion prevails here in the diit"oer,
reviewed and paraded without eq,
public business. Nothing is seen but contradictory,
eio
ders. Our King is struggling between the dread l'° 'I .
of the European nations, and the hopes the Aposter
licals hold out to him, if he remains faithful to lei
interests. Ever since the night of the 13th I°“t!ts
when a kind of
preme Apostolic Junta remain assembled in the Contv°4
that, their sittings
of St. Francis the Great. The leaders have declare
`l
permanentalarm showed
a,o
termission, until the Peninsula, that is in their view 4 tj'
subject, Spain and Portugal,'
shall be free from ".6
scourge that threatens it. The most active
'carol:
cations exist between the Supremo Junta ond,' t,''.
Provinces, in such a manner that on the French COIN
d'Affaires having resolved to _send off a . courier Wit 1
important dispatches for his Court, the packages weill
detained a number of hours at the post-office whence At`':
itself,
tvi ut th :11611 11::
poet horses ate supplied, vklen a complaint was ghee
to the Minister. of State in the most bitter terms. '-
Secretary informed the King, and in order to satisfy h.
French Charge, orders were given CO supply his coat°
with horses from the Royal Guard. Our. Ministry is ill 0
most divided state, and I. serdhiand is always ofthe opinion
of the last Minister who transacts business with 11ii°'
This creature, who dreads Mr. Lamb and his Oovernmellga

literally trornblet at the Apostolicals, *boire.ravirig in
every direction, and uttering blasphemies against Charles X.
as well as against the weakness of our own Monarch. The
weakness of our Ministers and the terror of the King is
such, that to-night a Committee from the Supreme Apos-
tolic Junta is to enter the Palace, to have a conference
with our rulers, on the means to be adopted in the present
state of things. If the Ministers cannot calm and reduce
the tone of these rebels,foi- they can be called by no other
name, it is thought that the Government will adopt the
measure proposed by Mr. 7.alazar, the Minister of the
Navy, and President of the Cabinet, which is, that the In-
fante Don Carlos shall appear, before the Junta with a pri-
vate letter from the King, pointing out to it the evils into
which the nation is about to be plunged, if the French
troops abandon Spain. So great is . the conflict of pas-
sions and opinions here—so active the Foreign Ministers
—so many and various threats—so subtle the intrigues—
and so much is at stake, that we are literally treading
on a volcano, at every instant ready to burst forth.
The reward this nation is about to receive for all its suffer-
ings and sacrifices, is a civil war, infinitely more horrid than
ever before desolated our land. This is the benefit we
are to reap for all we did in the common cause of Europe,
to 'humble the pride and diminish the power of 'Napoleon.
What all are anxious to know, is, what the British Go-
vernment will do when this civil war breaks out--a scourge
which we certainly owe to the coming of French bayonets
among us. In this we-are all interested. Will the British
Cabinet remain neutral as it did when the French crossed
.
the Pyrenees ?
" In order, however, that you may judge of what is
pasting here, I inforni you that the departure of the 5,000
raen,•belonging to the Royal Guard, and who are to leave
the capital and form part of the Corps of Observation (like
a second Cordon Sanitaire) on the frontiers of Portugal,
has been a measure proposed by the Apostolic Junta. In
this measure they have a double object; first, to favour the
views of the Portuguese Royalists, by inspiring them with
the same confidence as the French Cordon Sanitaire did
with regard to our Royalists, previous to the coining of the
Duke d'Afigouleme; and secondly,to get rid, in the capital,
of the presence of a dangerous body of troops, in case the
King should be headstrong, too much biassed by a certain
Foreign Minister, or in short, to make things more com-
fortable, in ease it should be necessary to place Charles V.
011 the throne. At all events, we are on the eve Of import-
ant events." •

'lt is stated in the French Papers, on the authority
of letters from Vienna, that peace has been concluded
between Russia and Persia, through the medium of
Great Britain.

It has been observed, that people are commonly
blind to the well being of others, in proportion as
self-interest engrosses their consideration. On this
principle, the welfare of their neighbours is only
desirable, so far as it conduces to the prosperity of their
well-wishers, which beautifully illustrates the truth of
the adage, "that charity begins at home." Acting on
this view of the question, improvement in any one
branch of society, must not be permitted, unless all
other branches share alike. The same narrow policy
must extend to the mental as well as bodily exertion of
mankind, for the votaries of dulness would not stiffer
the 'existence, or .at least the exercise of genius
in more gifted minds—and. thus the world would'
be wedded .. to ignorance, as the . greater part
being dull, it would of course command the smaller,
and thus perpetuate its dark dominion over the
uncultivated regions of the earth. But luckily for
the world, anti the high destiny of man, genius is to
dulness what virtue is to vice, and must always ^predo-
kainate, blessing. the world with the bright career of
improvement. But sell-interest .blinds men to' the
evidence of their own senses, or perverts their judg-
Meld so much as to render them incapable of distin-
guishing between right and wrong, between individual.
gain and public benefit. People too much engrossed
with their own views, fancy that the world was made for
them, and would legislate accordingly if they had the
power. 'As an instance of this • short-sighted policy,
we point out an attempt made the.'other day by the
pressmen of London to abolish machinery in the
printing of books. and newspapers, , that . they
might enjoy themonopoly themselves. Really
this illiberality comes. with.a bad, grace from men .who
ought to know.better. ' . They seek' to perpetuate a
monopoly in their own hands, at the expense of those
wbo employ them, , and whoSe interest it is to get the
Work performed as Obeiply :as,posSible. Printing by
Machinery is not only :_much cheaper, but infinitely
(picker and better, without subjecting the employers to
tile petty caprices and frivolons pretensions of men who
never fail to rate their own importance in proportion to
the necessities of the moment. But it would be idle to
argue with men whose reason so mainly depends upon
their interest. They have had their day of undisputed
Monopoly, and must now yield to the liberal spirit of
the age, and the. improvement consequent upon the
application of machinery.

Mr. PEEL has'atinoUnced his intention of bringing
Under the notice of Parliament our present system of
Metropolitan Police, withv the view of introducing ,1
aatne-amendments, and of rendering it a more effectual
lioiietiOn' to the persona and." property' of those who
illtabit London and 'its immediate vicinity. That 1,
something of the kind is necessary few will doubt, for
,spite • of every effort, -bands of organized thieves in-
kat the streets, and perpetrate their robberies in the
open face of day, under eircuinstinces of violence and
itLitteit numbers as to give hut too good cause for
Serious alarm. Whether theie bands exist through
the feebleness or the .negligence of the police-officers
it is, hardly worth while to inquire, for the effect in
either case remains the same,. and in either case it is
alike disgraceful to the law and to the Persons more
immediately entrusted with the suppression of such ir-
regularities. The public, however, has little reason to
be satisfied with the Bench of Magistrates at any
mile of the public offices. In each of these the law
11 executed in a manner not the best calculated:to raise
our respect either for the learning or. even the worldly
wisdom of the Magistrates, and it not unfrequently hap-
pens, that through an overweening opinion of their
own importance, they are betrayed into acts of great
harshness, and sometimes even of the grossest oppres-
sion. As to their knowledge of the law, it is ex-
tremely limited, and when they do volunteer advice to
the complainants before them, it seldom, very seldom
happens that they are right ; an observation, which,
strange to stay, applies :with equal force to those
Who were once members of the legal , profession
as to those who' were not: -The acts of the officers:of
t:elice, are not so much before the public as those of
their superiors ; it is therefore difficult to exhibit
against them any specific acts of negligence or weak-
But one or the other of these must exist, or
"ow otherwise do we account for the houses for recep-
ton of, whose locality stolen goods, is
notorious; the
large gangs of well known thieves who are permitted to
Prom undisturbed through the crowded streets of the

metropolis, and of a multitude of other offenders, with
all of whom the Police officers are intimately acquainted?
These are some of the evils that cry aloud for remedy,
and we hope that Mr. PEEL will be able to discover
how to stimulate the faculties of the Police Magistrates,
to quicken the eyesight and excite the exertions of
their officers. If this is done, the citizens of London
may repose in tolerable security ; but as things now
are, "at midnight not a nose from Tower-hill to
Piccadilly, snores," unless at the hazard of its owners
throat or property.
Whilst, however, we recommend to the earnest at-
tention of the Home Secretary these evils of the pre-
sent system of Police, we hope (but in truth there is
no necessity to doubt it) that he will remember that
Englishmen would rather lose their property and lives
than their liberty, and that they hold their constitu-
tional }privileges in too high estimation to compromise
them for the sake of punishing some dozen or more of
confirmed rascals who picked their pockets or robbed
their houses. We trust we shall hear nothing of the
passport or of the Paris system, with which, how-
ever, some people are wonderfully in love. Addi-
tional security would be bought at too high It price if
obtained by the sacrifice of the right of free and unre-
strained locomotion. 'lt was once strongly recom-
mended to the Government to compel hotel, tavern,
and lodging-house keepers, to make daily returns of
the number, description, and names of the persons
resorting to their houses—another imitation of the
French system. At that time it was rejected, and
we trust, that if again suggested, it will be again.re-
fused. Such a provision is, if possible, more ob-
noxious than the former, and far more vexatious, ha-
rassing, and degrading to the people amongst whom
it is in force. When the details of this measure shall
appear before the country, we will offer a few, more
remarks upon it.

We copy the following paragraphs from the Morn-
ing Chronicle

The Sir Edward Ilankes steam• boat, most anxiously looked
for from Lisbon, has not yet arrived ; but she may be expected in
the course of to-morrow or Thursday, having taken out the mail
from England a fortnight since. The intelligence through this
channel will, in all probability, reach to about the middle of last
week. Government will, no doubt, obtain important despatches
from our Ambassador at Lisbon.

It is understood in the City, that Government has sent out
orders to Portugal, for the return of a considerable number of the
marines which went out on board the different British ships of
war now stationed in the Tagus ; but that they are not to sail
until the arrival there of the British troops.
Strong hopes are indulged by a great number of Officers belong-
ing to different Regiments at present on half-pay, that they will
soon be called into active service ; and many of them, who for some
time past have resided at a distance from the Metropolis, arc re-
pairing in great numbers either to London or its immediate vicinity.
Such is the anxiety of Government to hasten the sailing of
transports for Portugal, that several steam-boats were actively
engaged during the whole of Sunday in towing them down the
River.

The number of expresses running between London and Paris
has been so much increased since the opposition given to the Con-
stitutional system in Portugal, that the great speculators do not
pOssess so many advantages over their opponents ss formerly.—
On the invasion of Spain by the French army under the Duke
d!Angouleme, the French Government discountenanced the send-
ing off expresses to London from Paris, as tending to agitate the
public mind ; but, according to the private letters received from
the latter, no impediment to the intercourse' between the two
nations by means of these extra channels is now, given.
The panic in the Hans Towns, produced by the bold policy of
England with respect to the Peninsula, had much subsided. As
in London, very high prices had been demanded for a variety of
articles of trade in the first instance, and until it was ascertained
'that France was not dissatisfied. The Foreign Securities, which
had been so much depreseed; had very- nearly recovered; Northern
securities were selling at least b per cent. on the lowest quota-
tions. Money was more abundant, and the current rate of inte-
rest did not exceed 4 per cent. _

A letter from Leith mentions, that the Caledonia of that port
sailed from Riga more than ten weeks since, and not having been
heard of was supposed to be lost. A report has just reached us of
her Laving foundered, but that the crew have arrived at
ifamburgh..

His MAJEsves Ministers are still without any di-
rect comnlunication from Portugal.
It is with •great concern we learn, that the
state of health of his Royal Highness the Duke
df YoRK has become less favourable within the last
few days.

THE FUNDS.

CITY, (Tsui linv), Twelve o'

The Consul Market opened this morning heavy, being 79i. ;
and immediately afterwards went down to 79,4 ; they have since
rallied again, and have advanced to 79i 80 ; in the early part of
the morning there Wes a good sprinkling of business transacted,'
and an earnest desire evinced by the Brokers to make sales which
has, however, subsided; India Bonds, 65 8 ; and Exchequer
Bills, 17 18 pm. The Foreign Funds continue without life, and
no important business in them; Mexican Bonds, 64 ; Colom-
hien, 6St ; Danish Bonds are a shade Tower, being 67k;
Spanish, 12i IS ; and Portuguese, 69 70. The intelligence re-
ceived, through the medium of the Paris Papers, from Portugal,
exhibit symptoms of want of method in their movements as well
as weakness of the rebels ; if the information communicated to the
government at Lisbon from General Mello be true there can
be no longer a doubt of Spanish, troops being in company
with the rebeli.' In the City it is hourly expected that we shall
have accounts from thence by a steamer, and the utmost anxiety
is felt to ascertain the actual state of affairs. Shares are almost
dead, they have no sales, nor scarcely any enquiries about them.
Three per Cent. Consols for account, 79j 90 ; India Bonds,
S5:8: pm ;. Exchaqswe Bills, -17, 18 pm. •
Folmar; Fume.---Brazilian, 60; Buenos Ayres, 60; Chilian,
$6 8 ; Colombian, 1824, sq 41; Mexican, 6 per Cent., 63 4 ;
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 64 I.; Danish, 57i 9 ; Peruvian, 30 2;
Portuguese, 69 70 ; Greek, l 7 qt ; Russian, SS 4-11 Spanish,
14 13.
Mufits.—Anglo Mexican, SO 27i die. ; United Mexican, 8 7
die. ; Tlalpuxahua, 45 55 pm. ; Brazilian, 4 6 pm. ; Bolivar,
2f.prn. ; Colombian,. 14 16 pm. ; General Mining Association,
I 2i per Share.

Two o' Clock.

Within the last hour Consols have risen to 80f the price,'and
had the appearance of a strong market ; they have, however, again
gone back, and are quoted now at 804, sellers, and within this
minute buyers.
Reports are in circulation of favourable news by express from
Paris, and the market remains in rather an agitated state.
Ferdinand is said to be on his knees, and will concede to any
thing we demand. This is one version of the story.
continue much The Foreign Funds have had no material alteration, and prices
as Orley were in the early part in the morning ;
the same observation applies to all kind of apeeulatione in Shares.
T IMRE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols for Account, 801 i•
FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES.

Consols
Do. for Ac. 801,
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres D.
Milian Do.
Columbian, 1824,

Danish Bonds 571
Greek Do. 1825 17-i
Mexican Do. 1825, 641
Peruvian Do. --
Russian Do.
Spanish Do. 13

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--OR Sunday afternoon,
a Gentleman named Perry, a hop,merchant,
residing in Tapley-
street, in the Borough, a member of the Society of Friends, was
`thrown from his horse in the Strand, and dislocated his neck. No
hopes are entertained of 'his recovery.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLOYD'S.—(Trns DAY.)

MAL, DEC. 26.—Wind N.E.—During the first part of this
day there was a light variable wind, and thick weather and rain.
The two transports, letters D. and W., came down from the River
yestercley afternoon, and sailed this morning. The transport R.
passed to Westward this morning. His Majesty's ship Bittern,
and the homeward-bound, remain.
Poenut:writ, Dec. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived from London,
the Seppiugs, Loader, for the hie of Frauce ; and the Evelina
transport, for Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 26.—Wind E.N.E.---Sailed, the Sandwich
packet, for Lisbon ; and Hope packet, for Buenos Ayres.
GRAVESEND, Dec. 26.—Arrived, the Ricardo, Heullem, from
St. Petersburgh ; Isabella, Wildgoose, from Demerara ; Regalia,
Irwin, from Quebec; Gambia, Grove, from Sierra Leone; Erin,
Mallard, from Rio Janeiro; Kent, Lockhart, from Mirarnichi ;
Florenza, Marsden, from New York ; Ottawa, Douglas, from
Quebec ; Syrene, from Seville ; and Delmarnock, for New York.
Sailed, the Charles, Smith, for Barcelona ; and Montrose,
Hardy, for Demerara.