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London, England, 1827-08-25 00:00:00

PORTIiGUESE PAPERS.

LISBON, AUG. I.s.—The following are copies of
documents received from Brazil :

DECREE.

The establishment of the most vigorous and well-
directed economy in all the departments of the
State being a measure of the greatest urgency, I
have thought fit to decree—That henceforth Por-
tugal shall maintain an Ambassador only at the
Court of Brazil ; Envoys Extraordinary and Mini-
sters Plenipotentiary at the Courts of London,
Madrid, and Paris ; Charges d'Affaires at the Courts
of Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Petersburgh, Rome,
Turin, Naples, and in the United States of North
America ; and merely Consular Agents at the Courts
of Stockholm and Copenhagen. The Infanta Dona
Isabel Maria my much beloved and dear sister, Re-
gent of the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve, is held
thus to 'understand, and cause to be executed this
decree.

(Signed by the Royal Sign Manual)
A true copy, FRANCISCO GOMEZ DA SIL VA.
Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 29, 1827.

It being absolutely necessary to fix the number of
the Councillors of State, and to nominate the per-
sons who will have to discharge the duties of so
honourable and important an office, I have thought
fit to decree that there shalt be ten Councillors of
State; and it being made to appear, in my Royal
presence, that there have already been nominated,
by my much-valued and dearest sister the Infanta
Regent of Portugal and Algarve, to that office the
Cardinal Patriarch, the Marquis de Olhao, Pedro de
Breyner, Ignacio da Costa Quintella, and
Carlos Frederico de Caula, I hereby confirm her said
choice; and to complete the number decreed, I do
appoint Councillors of State the Archbishop of El-
vas, the Bishop Elect of Coimbra, Don Francisco
de San Luis, the Councillors Felippe Ferreira de
Araujo e Castro, and Barnardo Jose de Abrantes e
Castro, and the Desembargador Francisco Gravito
de Veiga e Lima. The Infanta Dona Isabel Maria,
my much-loved and dear sister; Regent of the King-
dom of Portugal and Algarve, is held thus to un-
derstand and cause to be executed this decree.
(Signed by the Royal sign manual.)
Allltrue copy, FttANCISCO GOMES DA SILVA.
Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 29th January, 1827.

Considering what my much-esteemed and most
dear sister, the Infanta Dona Isabel Maria, has re-
presented to me, respecting the want of a Secretary
for her Cabinet, and taking into my Royal consi-
deration the confidence which has ever been merited
by the Councillor Bernardo Jose de Abrantes e
Castro, I have thought fit to nominate him Secre-
tary-of the Cabinet. The said Infanta, Regent of
the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve, is held thus
to understand and cause to be executed this decree.
(Signed by the Royal sign manual.)
A true copy, FRANCISCO COMES DA SILVA.
Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 28th January, 1827.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

ZCCLESIASTICAL rxEr EIBIE NTS.

OXFORD, AUG. 2.s.—The Rev. C. Haycock,
M.A. to the Rectory of Withcott, and Perpetual
Curacy of Owston, Leicestershire, vacated by the
death of the Rev. Joseph Cragg; patron, the Rev.
H. Palmer, of Carlton Carlieu.

The Rev. S. Couper, M.A. to the Rectory .of
Wood Walton, Huntingdonshire, void by the death
of the Rev. William Panchen, M.A.; patron, Ad-
miral Sir R. H. Bickerton, Bart.
The Rev. E. J. Bell, to the Vicarage of Wick-
ham Market, Suffolk ; patron, the King. _ _

The Rev. F. D. Perkins, A.M. Chaplain in Or-
dinary to his Majesty, m►d Vicar of Stoke ciun
Soave, Warwickshire, to the Vicarage of Down Ha-
therley, near Gloucester, void by the death of the late
incumbent patron, the King.

The last letters from Northumberland state,
that after two or three rainy days, which had in fact done
no harm, but merely protracted the harvest, the farmers
were again in full activity, reaping the Cerean produce.
In general the crops are good. The weather, which came
in with the new moon, is all that can be wished.
VALUE OF LAND.--The Commissioners for
the enclosure of Charnwood Forest ,put up for sale this
week, at the Lull's Head, Loughborough, the unappro-
priated land. Some portions, that have little to recom-
mend them, except that they form part of the surface of
the globe, sold at the rate of 1001. per acre. This is one
proof, among others, that money is becoming more plenti-
ful, and that the impulse thereby given to commerce is not
likely speedily to be withdrawn.—Nottingham Review.

The minds of some men are so elevated above
the common understanding of their fellow-creatures, that
they are by many charged with enthusiasm, and even with
madness. When George 11. was once expressing his ad•.
miration of Wolfe, some one observed that the General was
mad. Oh ! he is mad, is he?" said the King with
great quickness, " then I wish he would bite some other
of my Generals."—Literary Chronicle.
A NOVEL CAGE.--While the minister of
Loughbro' was publishing the banns of marriage on Sunday
last, a man, said to be a disappointed lover of one of the
parties, stepped forward, and trembling said, " I forbid
those banns, in this church and all others." He was then
desired to wait upon the minister after service, but before
the service was ended he quitted the place, without first
giving his name, place of abode, Etc.—Notting/tam Rev.
'The (Ace of Searcher, which is continued
to the present day, was at the period of the Plague a
very important one ; and a noted body-searcher, whose
name was Snacks, finding his business increase so fast that
he could not compass it, offered to any person who should
join him in his hazardous practice half the profits ; thus
those who joined him were said to go with Snacks. Hence
going snuck:, or dividing the spoil.— Wadd's Memoirs.
THE PINK OF POLITENESS.—The Duke
of Ormond and a certain German baron were both con-
sidered models of pride and politeness. When the Duke
perceived that he was dying, he desired that he might be
seated in his elbow chair, and then, turning to the Baron
with great courteousness, he requested that he would ex-
cuse any unseemly contortions of feature, as his physicians
assured him that he must soon struggle with the last pangs.
" My dear Lord Duke," replied the Baron, with equal po-
liteness, " I beg you will be on no ceremony on my ac-
count!"—Wadi's Memoirs.

SALDANHA.—GeneraI Saldanha, of whom
the public has heard so much of late, is allied to some of
the noblest families in Portugal. He is a man of about 40
years of age, of a soldier-like appearance, of elegant man-
ners, and with a handsome countenance, rather expressive
of good nature than capacity. Fie has filled military ap-
pointments both in Brazil and Portugal, and has always
contrived to reconcile the attachment of his inferiors to the
due and faithful discharge of his duty to his Sovereign.
He speaks
English with great fluency, and writes it with
considerable correctness. He is married to an English
lady, by whom he has two children, to whom and to her he
is devotedly attached. By those who know him best, be
is regarded as amiable a man in private life, as he has
shown himself respectable and incorruptible in public con-
duct.

" The late Mr. Ford, surgeon in Golden
Square, was requested to attend a patient in Piccadilly,
who was very seriously bruised and disfigured, I found,'
said Mr. Ford, that my patient was a Dutch emigrant,
formerly a deputy to the states-general ; that he has long
had an odd custom (a sort of insanity) of going once a week
to the Haymarket, and standing at the corner of the court,
near Farmer's the eoachmaker's, that leads into Jermyn-
street : there he stops till four men have passed him into
the court, and the fourth man he follows till he has housed
him. One day, the fourth man happened to be a person
living in Wapping; the Dutchman dodged him as far as
Hungerford-market, and then the wapping man, finding
himself dodged, attacked the Dutchman, who got beat by
the mob, and this occasioned his application to me.—
Wad's Memoirs...

riticis OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock •
3 per Cent. 9i 36
...
3 per Cont. Cons. , 86%
per Cent.
itto Red 9/ 374 4%
4 pef Cara. Now lOO%
Ditto, 1826 ... 102%
Bank L. 15-16
India Stock 0, • a
Ditto Bonds; 9O 13,3 pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds, 5 percent.
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds.
Chirfian Bonds, 6 per et —
Colombian Bonds
Ditto, 1824 3O
Danish, 3 per cent.' .621%
Greek Bonds
I:pitto, 1826
Cluatunala
Mexicali Bonds
Do, 1896 06%

COURSE OF 'RCM
Amsterdam C.F. 12 3
Ditto, at sight ll /9
Rotterdam 2U. 12 3
Antwerp l2 3
Hamburgh 21 U. 313 10
Attona 2% U. 36 11
Parts, 3 days' sight
Ditto 9 U. 25 65
Bordeaux 25 65
Berlin —
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.152
Petersburgh, rble.., 3 Us. 10 0
Vienna, effective H. 2M. 10 8
Trieste do.
Madrid 35
Cadiz 35 1
Gilboa 35%
Barcelona 34
Seville 34%
Gibraltar 45

DAT AT 014 S O'CLOCK.'
Paid. Per Share-
£2o4o 8 36 38% 33
8 11
Leroy 5 £2 4s. 86• ss. 64.
10 X3.f3 1
400 380
2 £l3

STOCKS, AUG. St
St. Patrick Insur: (per sh.) --
Royal Irish Ditto
National Ditto
Patriotic Ditto
Hibernian Bank
Provincial Ditto
Royal Irish Mine
Imperial Mine
Mining Co. of Ireland
Commercial Buildings

MA
Arrived. Due.
O America 0
O Brazil 0
O Buenos Ayres
1 Dublin
O Flanders
0 France
O Gottenburgb 0
O Guernsey& Jersey 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning...l2 minutes after 4.1 Evening ....30 minutes after 4.