The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-04 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DrturtY-LeNe.—The Opera of The Siege of
Belgrade, last night, introduced Mr. SINCLAIR for
the first time at this Theatre in the part of The
Seraskier. It was not to be doubted that a vocal
performer of his eminence would do justice to
the airs, but it may be justly observed that he
has not overlooked acting, in characters in which
his musical powers are chiefly demanded. Ile
was well received, and much applauded through.
out. Miss STEPHENS, deservedly a favourite with
the public, on account of the propriety of her
conduct, as well as for her high musical talents,
gave spirit to the part of and sung with her
usual sweetness. The rest of the characters ha►e
so often been performed by nearly the same ac-
tors as not to require any comment. It is suffi-
cient, therefore, to say that those characters were
in general well essigned,and that the Opera alto.
gether went off to the satisfaction of a very nu•
merous audience.

COVENT-GA RDlClV.—Thelively Comedy, or p.

tiler expanded Farce, of A Bold Slrokefot a Witt,
gave Mr. C. KEMBLE an opportunity of addinr‘to

is comic laurelshy his first nppParance last night

in the part of Colonel Feignwell. It would be
difficult to say in w hich of the various assumptions
of the character he appeared to most advantage.
But the versatility of the character was so well
*hewn in the Colonel, the affected Beau, the
Traveller, the Dutchman, the Quaker, and more
particularly the old Steward, ns to excite a be.
lief that, though he never before performed the
part in London, it was familiar to him in provin-
cial exertions. The rest of the characters were
well distributed and well supported, as we Lardly
need add, when we state that Miss CIIESTEtt was
Ann Lovely, and lovely indeed she appeared in
the simple garb of the Rim's, fully illustrating
the words of the Poet, viz. 46 Loveliness needs
not the foreign aid of ornament, &c.;" that
FAWCETT Was Obadiah Prim, BLANCHARD Mode:

love, and FARREN Perrircinkle. The Comedy is
so broad, and the fable so improbable, that it
may be questioned whether it would be success.
ful if first produded in the present age of fasti-
dious refinement; but as it has, in some degree,
the stamp of antiquity, and affords good scope

for variety of acting, it is likely to stand itt
ground with the DRAMA itself in this Country
The House was full and the applause abundant.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabi-
net Council was held at the Foreign-office, in
Downing-street, which sat in close deliberation
till a quarter before five o'clock. There were
present the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Peel, Mr.
Cunning, Lord Bexley, Ste. The Lord Chancel-
lor was prevented from attending by indisposition,
having been confined to his house for several
days past. The Earl. of Liverpool and Mr. Se-
cretary Canning rode to London on horseback
from the Noble Earl's seat at. Coombe Wood,
Surrey, yesterday morning, and arrived in town
about two o'clock to attend the Council at three.
At the breaking up of the Cabinet Council, the
Earl of Liverpool left town on his return to
Coombe Wood. Mr. Secretary Peel arrived in
town on Monday night from Brighton to attend
the Cabinet Council yesterday.
Last night Lieutenant LAING, of his, Majesty's
76th Regiment, arrived at the Foreign Office,
Downing-street, bearing dispatches for Mr. CAN..
linkto, from Mr. WARD at Mexico, to the 14th
of October. These dispatches were forwarded
to the British Consulate at New York, on the
7th ult. by his Majesty's sloop of war Pylades,
Captain which left Vera Cruz on the 23d
of October, at which time the Castle of San
Juan de Ulloa still held out.

NVe are sorry to see, by last night's Gazette,
that there are threa..more bankers declared
bankrupts.
As Mr. SERRES, the husband of the Panvcass
of .CUMBERLAND, recently departed from this
life, and consequently released her Royal High.
ness froM all ties unworthy of her descent, she
has now an. opportunity of forming an alliance
with a branchof the late Royal House of Poland,
or that of the Brunswick Line, and of assuming a
rank in society more. suitable to her relation to
those august Families.
LATE FATAL DUEL..-7—The following is a more
detailed account of this unfortunate transaction than has yet
appeared •.—Some serious dispute having arisen respecting the
partnership concerns in Athlone, between Mr. Wm. Boswell
and the Messrs. Whyte, his partners, the former Gentleman
and Mr. I,V hyte met to decide the quarrel on the Longford nide
of the hedge of 'l!' an B. attended by Mr. Eneas
grath, and Mr. .by A Mr. IL At the :second exchange of
shots, Mr. W. was killed on the Westmeath Journal.)
In order to introduce the new prints donna,
Mademoiselle BONINI, to the public, the Ma..
nager of the Oprra has given to that lady the
part of Pahnitle in the Craciato. PACCIN
Opera of La Schiova in Bagdad is in preparation
ror the debut of Madame CARADORI.

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN
SUBSCRIPTION ROOM, JAW. 4.
New York Papers to the Bth December, z;n,l
Montreal of the 30th November, have been
received.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind S.S.E., fresh breeze.—Ar.
rived the packet ship Silas Richards, Holdridge, from New
York. Passed Holyhead the Ist instant, at noon, for this port,
Manchester, Lee, hence at New York an sth December. 'Vcs,
sat entered out for North and South America, in the port of
Liverpool :-Oanada, Rogers, for New York, wind bound ;
Orozimbo, Thompson, ditto, sail 6th instant;. Alanhatts.n,
Marshall, ditto, 11th instant; James Cropper, Marshall, ditto,
lfith instant; Finchett, Williams, ditto, uncertain ; Monte.
zuma, West, jun., Philadelphia, sail Bth instant ;
Watson, ditto, uncertain; Neptune, Leach, Boston, sail 14,01
instant; Milo, Woodberry, ditto, 14th instant; Henry flay,
Parker, Baltimore, 18th instant; Belvidere, Alorbury, ditto,
20 th inst. ; Amethyst, liurrey, Boston, 20th inst.; Robert,NV eke,
ditto, and Flora brig, Blair, Charleston, uncertain ,Oglethorpe,
Teubner,
•
Teubner, Savannah, sail 7th Mat. ; Liverpool Packet, Adams,
Virginia, Laurel brig, Hough, New Orleans, and Harmony,
Herring, ditto, uncertain; George, Wright, Maranhain, very
uncertain ; Cognac packet, Bleastlale, Pernambuco, 10th inst.;
Phoebe, Crawford, and Mice, —, for Bahia, list vessels,
but uncertain ; Aquatic, Paulson, for ditto, uncertain ; Cor.
sair, Robinson, and Jessie, late }Whirs, for Buenos Ayres,
ditto; Cornelius, Authur, ditto, first vessel ; Stag, Lashley,
ditto, Anne, ltoe, ditto, and Marquis Wellington, Jones, for
Monte Video, &c. uncertain ; Rebecca, Herbert, ditto, to sail
sth inst.; Highlander, Stott, Lima, Smith, Luna, Williamson,
and Mary Canning, for Rio Janeiro, very uncertain ; Jane;
IValsh, Oscar, Ware, and Alert, Richards, for Valparaiso,
encertain Three Suns, Wilson, La (Brim, to sail Bth inst.;
Enterprize, Barringham, ditto, succeed Three Sons ; 'I hales
tree, Stewart, ditto, uncertain.

Drar., 3.—The Damask, Captain Aleon, from ilam.
burgh for Havannah, passed through the Downs this afternoon,
all well ; the Mafia, of Bath (United States), remains ; the
Georgiana, for Madras and Calcutta, pat back to Margate,
with loss of main-topsail and yard; the Admiral Cockburn,
from Batavia for Rotterdam, remains.

COWES, Jam. 3.—Wind h., strong gales.—Arrived the In-
dus Moriarty, armed brig, Tadary, 124 days out, all well,
spoken on the 7th Sept. in lat. 9. 5.' lon. 91. 30. W. ; the
Genoese ship True Friends, from Cadiz for Batavia, on the
20th Oct. in lat. 33. 19., lon. 15. 30. ,• ship Vonmlus, front
Batavia, for New York, on the 20th Nov. itt let. 5. 42., Ion;
18. 30. ; a Danish brig, from Hamborgh on the 16;11 Dec. lat.
30i., lon. 31. W. ' • Brig Gibralter, packet, from Barbadoes for
Oibralter, in lat. 411. 20., lon. 10. ; the brig Bessoy, from Lou.
don for Alicant, in lat. 49., lon. 7.; ship Sovereign, of Whitley;
Louis de la Paix, Capt. Aubree, from Rochelle to Abbeville.
NEW YORE, Dim. 7.—Arrived the ship Russell, Packard,
from New Orleans; sailed lld November, in let. 24, long.' 32 ;
saw ship America, of Portsmouth, standing west, Nev. 20, lat.
28, long. 80, at midnight, it being very dark, with a good
breeze and heavy sea ; heard a bell, and immediately discovered
a ship on the opposite tack, and while endeavouring to wear
clear off, her larboard and our starboard came i,rl contact, car-
eying away our bobstays, bowsprit, shrouds, the *hole head,
and knocking in our starboard, cathead, and anchor on the
forecastle. The strange ship dropped astern, with the loss of het
bowsprit, and herhull apparently much injured. One of her crew
jumped on board the Russell,she proved to be the Zephyr, Smith,
from Honduras, of and for London, in company with the Rosaline, •
of and for ditto ; they both immediately hove to, and we did
the same as soon us we got sail of the ship, but saw no more of
them. Nov. 20, at 9 a.m. fell in with the ship Ceres, of Ports•
mouth, N. H. Rodman, master, from Havannah for Salem, in
A very leaky condition, both pumps going, and the water gain-
ing fast upon them, and by their request took oft all the crew.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. •
The Indus, Moriarty, from Sumatra, has arrived at Colin ;
she wiled from Padang the 3d September, and from St. kle.
lena the kb Nov.

Ships spoken with.—Thn Friends, from Cadiz to Batavia, on
the 7th Sept., in lat. 9. S., long. 94. 30. E. ; the Romulus, from
Batavia to New 'York, on the 20th Oct., in lat. 33. S., long.
15. 30. E.

(FROM LLOYD'S.]
DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind E.S.E.—Peared through from the
'liver the Nassau, Tremayne, and Prince of Saxe Coburg,
Tremayne, for St. Michael's; Britannia,, Orfeur, for Bilboa;
Caledonia, Nlrrighton, for Malaga; and the Perseverance, Sims,
from Yarmouth for St. Michael's. The Admiral Cockburn,
from Batavia, ter Rotterdam, and Palafax, for Lisbon, remain.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind E. hard wind.—Arrived
the Canadian, from Quebec, blowing so hard could
not learn the Masters name; Alliance, Striven, from My»
mouth'' and the Hope transport,. from Cowes. Sailed ths
Clydesdale, Rose, for Madras and Bengal; Ida, Pasamore, for
Ja naica ; Arno, Young, for Leghorn ; and Caroline, .---.......,
for the Braila; and the whole of the outward bound, except
th.. Helms, , for Hydra.
FALBIOLTTII, JAN. S. strong breezes.—No Sr.
rivals.

COIV E s, .lax. 8.--Arrived the Indus, Moriarty, from Pedant,
for orders ; sailed the Ist of September.

Arrived in Torbay the Itingdove, Duplale, from Now.
foundland.

Arrived at Dartmouth the Hope. Williams, from New-
foundland,

Arrived off Holyhead the Silas Richard*,
New York, in 24 days.
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from

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The Thetford, Rieltarby, from Hull to Rotterdam, was
stranded on Waleherin the 24th ult. ; crew saved.

The Mercuritti, Gulbrandser, lion; St. Übe; WWI abandoned
by the crew the 4th ult., off Jutland.
The 'l'}y►mes. Millie, from Riga to London, was wrecked la
Gothland about the Mb ult.; Most or the cargo damaged.

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCJI kNOE, JAN. 4.

The arrivals of most kinds of ,Grain arc moderate, but of
Oats they are large. Wheat of prima %Lathy is enquired
after, being very scarce, other qualities meet scarcely any
demand. -Barley, Beans, and Pease are unalteredfrom Mon-
day. Oats meet a very heavy trade, anti hardly maintain
.111onday's teams. Flour unaltered.

Artniviati•-•.English Wheat, 1,250; Bailey, MO; Oats,
6,200 ; Irish Wheat, 10; Oats, 8,070; Foreign Wheat, 840;
Foreign Barley, 8,880 ; English Flour, 6,700 'maks.

The Duke de NITERNOVI, who had been Am.
bassador from France to England, used to say,
thnt the English, from a foolish affectation of
magnanimity in war, acquire, in point of fact,
humility from triumphs ; so that the more air.
tories they gain, the fewer concessions they le-
quire. And he tat‘d to add, " dole though they
may beat us (the French) in war, they will never
bent us out of our ability to conquer them its
treaties."

Guay's-INN was originally so incommodiow,
that, according to the old record:, " die an, ieuts
of this house were necessitated to lodge double;"
for, at a pension held there on the Igth of July, in.
the 21st year of Henry VIII., John Hules, then
one of the Barons of the Exchequer, produced a
letter directed to him, (rm. Sir Thomas Neville,
which was to reqnest him to acquaint the Society,
that he would accept of Mr. Attorney-General to
be his bed-fellow in his chamber in the inn, and
that entry might be made thereof in the book of
their rules.

KNOULrs, in w Turkish History, relates an
extraordinary instance Of capricious tyranny. It
is, that a German prisoner, of a gigantic figure
and heroic courage, was exposed, by command of
the Sultan, with his hands and feet securely fe*
tered, and destroyed inch-meal by n dwarf, who
reached little higher than his knees.

A SUVOLIOt SHOT DT inz COAST 131,40CMADU,
—An affair of a serious nature occurred on
Thursday night. Several smugglers, endravour•
iug to run some tubs of spirits, were intercepted
by a party of the coast blockade, under the
command of Lieutenant Westbrook, near Dynt.
church; but some resistance to the aeizure being
made, it became necessary for the blockade
party to use their fire-arms, by a dischar4 of
which a person named Charles !tee's, of 'lly ha,
was killed, having at the time four tubs in his
possession.--(Cingue Ports Herald.)

I'll E LONDON JOU RN A LS.

DAILY
Bairacis fi•em the Morning Papers, Jan. 4,1826.

[MORNING CRIIONICIIti.]
The panic the:Money Market having in a con-
siderable degree subsided, particularly in the me.
trdpolis, we wish to guard the unthinking against
ocortrading, as the Bank must, of course, draw
in the extensive and well-timed issues they made
of paper, in older to avert the dreadful conse-
quences of the alarm that had laid hold of most
parts of the kingdom ; and, therefore, when the
(lank shall begin again to restrict its issues, do
not let it be said against that body, that it is on
Olt account illiberal. ft must so act in order to
ttigolate the Exchanges, and dispose of the many
Exchequer Bills it purchased in the market,When
they were at such a large discount a few days ago.
We have been astonished that any Ministcrshould
suffer above thirty millions of such bills to be in the
market during a peace, particularly when they
might have been all funded at DU/. and upwards,
and now at least from twenty to thirty millions
of Stock must be created when Parliament meets,
to render this market at all safe. We would
ask, if they should come in for revenue, how are
ibe dividends to be paid ? By no other way, that
we know of, than by borrowing of the Bunk.
The Bank may at such a moment not be in a
situation (looking at the Eitchanges) to afford
such a loan, it being perhaps at some moments
even now inexpedient for the Bank to advance
that portion to pay the dividends, which per.
baps for this quarter will require at least a loan of
six millions from that body. We would also ask
how the public would feel towards a Minister who
should, from such an immense load of unfunded
debt, be unable to resist any attack from an ed-
cersary ? We would ask—suppose Constantine
should move the immense army ha has towards
Turkey, would it be necessary for us to arm ?
-Could that go on without at least twenty mil-
lions of loan ? in what state would public credit
17e At what price would we food or borrow
with such He overwhelming load of bills as up-
wards of 30 millions already in the market,
(many more of which are in the hands of the
Bank at -present than ought to be, or would have
been, bad notO the Bank increased the circulating
medium by their purchase). ft should be also
recollected that 30 millions•of Bills, when there
is no Bank Restriction, is more unsafe than sixty
millions during a Restriction. We therefore trust.
the Government will immediately fund £2O mil-
lions of these dangerous Bills, in order to have a
resource in case of need, by issuing new Bills
for any extraordinary occurrence that may arise,'
and we know not that some act of the new Erri•
peror Constantine may not at this moment have
been done to place us in a difficult situation. But
We ought at all times to he ready.

EMORNINGi r,IIALD.]
The pnlin of credulity is universally conceded
to Nudes and devotees. There appears to be
another class, or another passion which may fairly
contest it —via. that gambling cupidity which the
existing systems of finance enable,and even incite
to speculate on public events. The death of the
Emperor of Russia was an event which, as a mat-
ter of course, great advantage would be taken.—
It is impossible to consider without astonishment
the clumsy uses in the way of fiction that have
been made of it, and the credulity of those
who seem to have been influenced. The
announcement of yesterday, for instance, was
that the Grand Duke, or rather Emperor
Constance of Russie, had abdicated the throne
in favour of 'his younger brother, the son.
in.law of the pacific King of Prussia. What
must have been the effrontery of those who
fabricated this startling absurdity !—what the
credulity of those who could give ear to it, with-
out authority, and even without motive assigned,
or explanation given! Yet is it said to have had
its effect. Another manceuvre tried at Paris was
thia:—A letter professing to be addressed by 111.
de Metternich, the Austrian Minister, to a per-
son of note at Paris, was handed about confiden-
tialiy, but with the writer's permission, in certain
favoured circles. This letter set forth that the
Emperor Constantine, immediately en hearing
of the death of Ids brother, wrote a letter to
Prince Metternich, assuring the latter that his
f‘reign policy would be an exact conlinuando of
that of his deceased brother—and this letter,
though irreconcileable with dates and distances,
also had its effects. A third revelation has been
sent abroad of an opposite tendency, partaking
Somewhat of the proper element of credulity—
the supernatural. The mother of the Emperor
Constantine 10 said to have prophecied, having
had a vision in her dreams—or having dreamed
she had a vision, during her pregnancy of this
Prince---thatshe then bore the future Monarch
of Constantinople—from which it follows, of
course, that there will be a war in tho East—that
the Greeks will be delivered, and that the Turks
will be driven out of Europe.

LT111,: TIMER.]
The French Papersof Sunday still continue to
dispute about the cause of Alexander's death and
the name of his successor. Not less than a dozen
mt4edies have been at different times adduced to
nccount for the toss of the Emperor, and the In.
conk statement of the Petersburgh Gazette has
not set the question at rest. Some Say that he
died of a cold, some of the yellow fever or the
Crimea, and some of pleasure excursion on the
Sea of Asoph. The only fact which we have as
yet learnt with certainty is, that he is dead, and
that his " last disease," like that of Madame
Blake, must have been " mortal."--The Jour-
nal des Dards, which on Saturday announced
the accession of Nicholas L, instead of Con.
',tontine to the want Throne N fu ats IA its
original statement. It pro.
Sunday publication its
duces however, no authority for its own asser-
tion,
and attempts no answer to n counter.state.
Went in a Ministerial Journal. One thing is not
a. Mile Cl.lriouS iii the conduct of Constantine, and
may have given occasion to all the conjectures
respecting his final intentions. The intelligence
of his brother's death must have reached him on

the Bth or 4th ult. at Warsaw, and on the 23d
we still find him in that city. Two or three days
might reasonably have been allowed him for the
indulgence of his private sorrow at such a do-
mestic calamity, and for making the necassary
arrangements for leaving the Government of Po-
land in safe hands ; but at such a season it is
difficult to suppose that •any ordinary cir-
cumstances would have kept him for twelve
or thirteen days from the capital of his
empire, with so many examples in the
history of his family, of mutinous guards
and sudden revolutions. After all, this apparent
irresolution and inaction may be only the ex-
pression of a confident reliance upon his brother's
fidelity and a real security in the strength of his
title. It is agreed on all hands that Nicholas
had proclaimed Constantine's accession, as soon
us intelligence of Alexander's death had arrived ;
so that if the latter is not now Emperor of all the
Russias, he must have peaceably abdicated his
throne in compliance with the wishes of his
family, or by a voluntary surrender of his acknow.
!edged rights. Neither of these suppositions is
very probable. The paper which originally an.
nounced the succession of Nicholas I. mentions
that Russia will now have three Empresses--two
dowagers, and the• consort of the reigning
Monarch. It is lucky that there are no Cathe-
vines among them.

['rtu PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Ibrahim Pacha, who gives no quarter, now has
transferred the-,scene of his operations from the
southern and eastern parts of the Morea to the
west, and he was already_ master of the whole of
the coast .from Coron to Patras. These tragic
scenes had begun to inspire the people of Zante,
in addition • to their other feelings, with some
alarms respecting their future supplies, particu-
larly of cattle, which they were in the habit of
receiving from the opposite coast ; and the
traffic of the Zantiots, as well as their feelings,
was sure to suffer from the „horrors perpetrat-
ed on the opposite Continent. However, one
gleam of hope shot across the lowering horizon
of the Greeks—Missolonghi still maintained its
heroic defence ; but the siege, as we had been
led to hope, was not raised, was considerably
relaxed. It remains now to be seen, what effect
the retreat of the Greek fleet, and the threatened
co-operation of Ibrahim Pacha with the be-
siegers, will, have on- the spirits of its brave de-
fenders; but whatever their fate may be, yet it
mast be allowed that they have nobly done their
.duty.

[MORNING eon.]
There is some inteltigeuce respecting Greece
in the French Papers, and though it does' not re-
late to battles or victories, it is not without inte-
rest or importance. Letters had been received
at Vienna from Constantinople, which stated that
" pretty warm disputes had lately taken place
between the Reis Effendi and the British Charge
d'Affaires relatively to the events in the Morea."
We rejoice to find that we have a man in the
Turkish Capital of sufficient spirit and de-
cision of character not to suffer himself to
be cajoled or overawed by the Ministers
of the Porte into a real, or even an ap-
parent acquiescence in the sanguinary and deso.
lating views of that Power. And we feel confi-
dent that when the new British Ambassador shall
have added a similar manifestation of firmness,
the Divan and even the Sultan himself will cease
to look upon the extirpation of a whole Christian
people, as within the range of practicability. It
appears by the same letters that the Captain
Pucha no sooner heard of the approach of the
Greek fleet under Admiral Miaulis, than he
fled from before Missolonghi in order to avoid
the battle which seemed imminent. It is not
likely, therefore, that should Redschid Pacha be
able to resume the siege of that heroic city by
land, its defenders should be exposed to the addi
tional danger of being turned and attacked by
sea. The army of Ibrahim Paella had made no
fresh movement, notwithstanding the powerful re-
inforcements which it had received. Indeed, it
was became a question whether the arrival of
those reinforcements at that particular season
would not do more good to the Greeks than harm,
as the Nubians and Egyptians, of whom they were
composed, were rendered almost useless by the
cold, and could not advance through the
snows of Arcadia without being exposed to
almost certain destruction. General Boyer, who
is the real Commander of Ibrublm's army, is said
to have quitted the French uniform which he
disgraced, for the Mameluck costume which is
more consistent with his apostucy. Another
French General in the service of the Pacha of
Egypt is said to have purchased eighteen pieces
of cannon (12-pounders) in France for the use of I
his Master, the value of which was to be paid in
cotton.

[IIR ITISII PR BM]
Some of our contemporaries have been con-
stantly prone to indulge in melancholy forebod-
logs with respect to the issue of the Burmese war,
and we observe that the contents of some letters
received by the last arrivals from Calcutta have
Induced them to renew that tone of complaint
which the brilliant achievements of Sir Archibald
Campbell had well nigh suppressed. It will be
interesting, therefore, to the public if we lay
before them a correct view of the military position
which the gallant General and the troops under
his command occupied at the date of the latest
ntleices from the ►rmy. The following statement,
our readers may be assured, rests upon the best
authority. In the first place it should be ob-
served that success lies invariably crowned every
operation of Sir Archibald Campbell. He has
defeated and dispersed all the force that has
been brought into the field against hint. Half the
enemy's territory is conquered, nod in our mili-
tary occupation, and the remainder must share
the same fate in the ensuing campaign, unless in
the mean time his Golden-footed Majesty should
humbly sue for peace. Nearly 1,400 pieces of
artillery have been taken by Sir Archibald
Campbell alone, including some of small
calibre. All the artifices of the enemy to
misrepresent the character of the British nation
and the object of the war have failed. The natives

who.fled at the adianoe of our troops are now
returning to live under the protection of our just
and beneficent rule. The whole of the villages
on the banks of the Irrawaddy were burned and
deserted ; but already they are to a great extent
rebuilt and inhabited. Prorne and its vicinity,
we understand, were, at the beginning of June,
when the last dispatches were sent from head-
quarters, almost as fully thronged with popula.
tion as they had ever been in the most peaceful
times, and Rangoon was in the same state.—
In the country between Prorne and Rangoon,
half the people had in like manner returned
home, and resumed their occupations. These
are triumphs greater and more valuable
than the brightest that can be won by the
sword. It is the victory of justice over op.
pression. From Pegu, the unfortunate natives
had appealed to Sir Archibald Campbell for mi.
Mary defence against the marauding incursions
of the Burmese, as they were desirous of com-
mencing the cultivation of their ground; and
WO men had accordingly been sent frosnißangoon
in boats provided by the Peguese. The king.
dour of Pegu was completely delivered from
the Burmese yoke. The enemy had not one
hondred soldiers in the whole of the Peguesp
territory. The great advantage gained by Sir A.
Campbell, by fixing his head.quarters at Prorne,
consists in the circumstance that he thereby de-
prives the Burmese Government of the supplies
of grain, for which they usually depended on the
lower provinces of the empire, and them entirely
on the resources of Ava. The general opinion
was that the army would move early in October,
and, subduing all future resistance, as their heroic
commander has overcome all former difficulties,
would reach Ummerapoora, the enemy's capital,
before the beginning of the present year.

[NT., Timm]
The South African Commercial Advertiser- to
the 22d of October, together with letters to the
same date, have been received from the Cape of
Good Hope. Great complaint is made of the
drought prevailing in the Colony. The Bush-
men, and runaway malefactors, are another
source of great uneasiness to the peaceable Co.
lonists. This is an evil to which all new
Colonies in large continental countries must
for a while be subject, but the progress of civili-
zation will rapidly diminish tl►e danger. Inte.
rested parties find cause of complaint in the OSsi.
milation of the currency, and the reduction of
the duties on wine, both measures of obvious
public utility. So difficult is it to make private
convenience square with public good t The En.
terprise steam vessel remained at the Cape at the
date of these advices, and Captain Johnstone had
issued cards for the inspeetion of her machinery.
Lord Charles Somerset and a large party went on
hotted, and partook of a splendid collation. She
was to sail on the 22d for India, after taking on
board 280 yhaldrona of coal.