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London, England, 1829-12-11 00:00:00

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, DEC. 4.-13 12 ; two months, 13 11k.
LEUSIC, Nov. 30.—Three months, 6 18i.
BERLIN, DEC. I.—Three months, 6 29f.
BREMEN, DEC. I.—Two months, 6 22.
VIENNA, Nov. 25.—Three months, 10.

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A gentleman's coachman not long since, as he
washed his master's carriage during divine service on Sun-
day morning, was heard to say that " he hoped his master
and mistress prayed for him, as he had no time to pray for
himself." He brought his lady home from the opera at
one in the morning; then went to fetch his master from
the " Hell," in St. James's-street; and by the time he had
littered and rubbed down his horses, and got to his own
bed, it was four o'clock ; he thought after that he could
not do less than sleep till nine; by h:df-past ten he had
got his breakfast, and at twelve his carriage was ready; at
one he took his dinner; at two he was ordered to be at the
dooc to take his lady and the young ladies to the Park ; at
five he returned, and was ordered out at six to carry the
family to dinner ; after setting them down, he was directed
to come at half-past eleven ; and by two o'clock on Monday
morning the poor man was once more in bed. Now, per-
mit me to ask you, whether this man, or his master, or
any of the family, can, or dare, " profess and call them-
selves Christians ?"—Record.

GLOBE INSURANCE CONIPANY.—A spe-
cial Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company Was held
yesterday, at their office, in Cornhill, to take into consi-
der atom the propriety of reducing the salaries of the Chair-
man and Directors. The subject created a great sensation
among the Shareholders. Mr. COLES was in the Chair.
:Ur. HUNTER, by whom the subject was introduced to the
meeting, disclaimed all motives of personal feeling towards
the Directors. The East India Company's affairs, which
were very extensive, we: e (he observed) conducted by a
smaller Board of Directors than the Globe. He concluded
by moving a Resolution to the effect, that the salary of the
Chairman be reduced from 5001. to 2001. per annum, and
that of the Directors from 1501. to 1001.—The Resolution
was seconded. Several Proprietors opposed the motion
on the ground that it would lessen the confidence of the
public in the Company.--Mr. CHAPMAN observed that
many persons crrald be found to undertake the duty of Di.
rector for 751. a year, but confidence could not he reposed
in them. Under the management of their present Direc-
tors, their capital of one million had increased to one mil-
!ion five hundred thousand pouds. This proved that their
affairs prospered in their hands. It the Meeting agreed
to the motion, it would not only create a prejudice in the
eyes of the public, but would cast a most undeserved re-
flection on the Dirtcto-s.—The question was then put
from the Chair, when there appeared for the motion, 24 ;
against it, 54—majority against the motion, 30,

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER I 1 , 1829.

The French Papers of Wednesday have been
received this morning by Express. The account
by them from New Orleans of the 10th October,
of General BARRADAS having blown his brains
out, does not appear to be correct, as we have
information from the above quarter to the 28th
October, stating that he was still there :
(From the Messager des Charnbres of Wednesday.)
(SECOND EDITION.)

PARIS, DEC. 9.

A letter from New Orleans, dated the 10th of
October, which has arrived this morning by way of
New York, announces that General Barradas blew
out his brains on the second day after his landing in
the United States. It was affirmed at New Or-
leans that another expedition, which had sailed from
Manilla and other ports in the Phillippine Islands,
had landed on the west coast of Mexico, in the
South Sea, and invaded the province of Oajaca.—
This news is confirmed by a Journal of Vera Cruz,
but it is not probable that an expedition from the
Phillippines could be sufficiently numerous or for-
midable to excite much alarm in the Mexican States.
However, we must soon receive information re-
specting these important facts, which we shall im-
mediately lay before our readers.
A ship from Alexandria, in Egypt, which has ar-
rived at Marseilles, has brought the following news,
dated the 20th of October.

" That a great inundation of the Nile had taken
place on the 25th of October; that two villages,
with their inhabitants, had been swept away, that
250,000 ardebs of provisions, and a quantity of in-
digo and cotton had been carried away by the
waters, which would have inundated Alexandria, if
the engineers had not turned them into another
channel. _ _

" That the squadron of the Pacha united with
some ships belonging to the Sultan which were at
Alexandria, was to sail about the 4th of November
for Constantinople, in consequence of orders from
the Sultan."
The illoniteur of to-day contains two Royal Or-
dinances, countersigned by M. Montbel, concerning
bounties for the encouragement of the cod and whale
fisheries. These two documents, each preceded by
a very detailed report, addressed to his Majesty,
promise us that two projects of law for the final re-
gulation of the bounties for the encouragement of
these fisheries shall be prepared to be laid before the
Chambers, in order that the laws on the subject
may be promulgated before the Ist of March, 1832.
The opposition of the Gazette to M. Chabrol,
much more than the reflections of the Constitutionnel
on the loan of 80 millions, has caused a long article
in its defence in the Moniteur of to-day.

The departure of the King for Compiegne took
place yesterday morning. The list of the persons
that accompany his Majesty on this journey does not
seem indifferent. Some admissions and some
rx-
elusions are more or less directly connected with the
ideas of the immediate dissolution of the Ministry,
and the necessity of forming a new one. During
this journey there will be fewer people about the
King—his ear will be more accessible ; and, in
the little Court of Compiegne, the true friends of
the Monarch will doubtless be the majority.
One of the persons who was the most seriously
consulted before his Majesty's departure for Con-
piegne, respecting the present crisis, and the indis-
pensible necessity of recomposing the Cabinet, was
Count Roy. M. de Chabrol was afterwards com-
missioned to draw up various lists, according to the
proposals of the noble peer. This accounts for the
attacks of the Journal of M. Polignac against the
present Minister of Finance. It is affirmed that the
name of M. de Belleyme is on all these lists.
(From the Gazette de France.)
PARIS, DEC. 8.

We can affirm, that there is no foundation for the
reports which have been spread for these two days
past respecting a change in the Ministry, and con-
sequently that none of the negotiations with which
the Journals have been filled merits the smallest at-
tention.

PARIS STocx ExcltaNcx, Disc. 9.—Fire per Cents.
Io9f. 15c. 20c. 25c. 30c. 25c. ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. 1051. 50e. ; Three per Cents. 84f. 35c. 45f. 40c.
45c. 40c. 841. 45c. 5111 c. ; Bsnk stock, 1,9151. ; Ttentee
de Naples, 92f. 90c. 60c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 7i; Royal
Spanish Loan, ; Rente Perp. d'Espagne, 60ii
60 ; Haytian Loan, 4101. Exchange on London—One
month, 25f. 65e. ; three Months, 25f. 50e.
(From the .Allgenzeine Zeitung of Dee. 5.)
VIINNA, Nor. 30.—Metalliques, 1021 ; Four per
Cents. 911; Bank Shares, 12351.

The following are extracts from Dutch and
German Papers received this morning:—

FROM THE FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, NOV. 20.

It is worthy of remark, that in the interior of the
Russian empire the peace does not excite soy great
enthusiasm, since the conditions of the treaty of
Adrianople have become known. Even the caution
with which officers coming from the army express
themselves respecting the result of the glorious war,
gives some reason to conjecture that they endeavour
to conceal a certain dissatisfaction. On one point,
however, they are ►luite explicit, ascribing every ob-
stacle that hindered the communication of their vic-
tory to the influence of foreigners, which they had
no reason to fear; they even insinuate that foreigners
have endeavoured to counteract the interest of Rus-
sia even in the Cabinet itself.

If this indication of dissatisfaction may be chiefly
ascribed to the circumstances, that after the excite-
ment and animation of war, the sudden tiresome

stagnation awakens the passion of an ambition that
is not yet satiated, it is not to be denied that the
difficulties . which appear to oppose the fulfil-
ment of the conditions of the treaty in some
degree justify the apprehension that Russia has,
without sufficient security for the future, been
too hasty in sheaving itself generous to an impla-
cable enemy, and thereby left him time to insure for
a future occasion that foreign aid which in the pre-
sent would have come too late. Thence a certain
discontent and regret that the opportunity was not
taken full advantage of, may be accounted for,
and perhaps even excused ; but it may be expected
from the wisdom of the Cabinets, that they will
prosecute with judgment and energy the real inte-
rests of Europe.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 6.

Accounts have been received from Batavia to the
30th July. They bring a report of Lieut.-Colonel
Le Bron de Vexela, Commander of the troops in
Pajang, respecting an expedition undertaken by
him in pursuit of the rebels, who assembled in force
in the southern mountains. This expedition was
successful, the Lieut.-Colonel having made himself
master of a strong dessa of the enemy's, called
Giger, situated on an almost inaccessible rock, after
having made six attempts to carry it by storm. On
this occasion the notorious Jomogolo, and a priest,
With a number of the insurgents were killed. Three
cannons, with a quantity of arms and ammunition
were taken. The Commander was of opinion that
this victory would entirely restore tranquillity to this
part of the country.
AMSTERDAM, DEC B.—Exchange on London.-
12f. 22 5-10ths; two months, 12f. 17 5-10ths.
ST. PETERSBURGH, NOV. 24.
The Journals now notice the Emperor's illness
in the following terms :
His Majesty the Emperor having been indisposed
for several days with a fever caused by a cold, we
are happy to say that his Majesty is now infinitely
better, and that the disorder, which takes its regular
course, does not give the smallest ground for unea-

einess.
They add the bulletin of 23d November.

We have received the following this morning
from our Paris Correspondent:—

" PARIS, DEC. 9.

" Since my letter of yesterday was despatched,
I do not find that any thing to be relied on ha-
transpired on the subject of further changes in
the French Ministry, although it does not seem
to be seriously doubted in any quarter that some
early and important change is in contemplation.
Rumours indeed are rife ; but when traced to
their source, they are generally found to originate
in something analagous to the Duke of Wel-
lington's late visit to Woburn or the shooting
party at Stowe, such as that Count Roy and se-
veral deputies of the right centre were yesterday
present at a diplomatic dinner given by the Prince
de Polignac, and that Messrs. Courvoisier and
de Ctlabrel were not present at the dinner,
but just showed themselves at the soiree, and
immediately disappeared. The A/knife:lr of this
morning, however, contains a long and laboured
article in defence of the new financial measure
of M. de Chabrol, in answer to *he somewhat
severe strictures of the Gazette, and the belief
is certainly gaining ground that before the King
set out on the visit which he is now making to
Compiegne, he authorised M. de Chabrol to re-
construct the Cabinet on the principle of a co-
alition. The more, however, that I reflect on
this subject, the more am I convinced that a
coalition Ministry, in which either of the two
extremes was to form a part, if in combination
with those more than a single shade removed
from their own sentiments, would prove so hete-
rogeneous in its composition as to make it ut-
terly inefficient as an organ of government.
" I turn with pleasure from that fear of
change,' which is perhaps equally distracting to
monarchs and their ministers, to open again the
instructive volumes lately published by the Pre-
fect of the department of the Seine, on certain
statistical subjects connected with Paris and its
immediate neighbourhood. I shall for the present
apply myself to the report prepared by a Com-
mission of Inquiry, which had been appointed
by the Minister of the Interior, on the 7th of
July, 1828, to examine into the causes which
had produced the stagnation and discredit which
had become notorious in those speculations,
having for their object the opening of new streets,
the construction of new quarters, and, in ge-
neral, the details of building operations in Paris.
This report appears to have been prepared by
M. Daubanton, one of the Inspectors-General
of the streets and sewers of Paris, who has cer-
tainly collected a number of curious statistical
facts, and has raised upon them a variety of inge-
nious conjectures and hypotheses.

" The symptoms of the building mania in Paris
are said to have been perceptible so long ago as the
year 1817. The years 1825 and 1826, the famous
prosperity years as they were named in England, in
compliment no doubt to the then Chancellor of the
Exchequer, were in Paris also the period of the
paroxysm. In 182?, the frenzy ceased by mere ex-
haustion of strength; and weakness and debility
have since succeeded to the extreme heat of the
fever under the consequences of which it appears that
the patient is still labouring. During the years
1825 and 1826, the number of masons and other
labourers engaged in building operations, who come
annually from the provinces to Paris during the
building season, had encreased from 30,000
the number in 1817 to 45,000 the numbers
in 1825 and 1826. In spite of this great increase
in the number of labourers, the supply does not
appear to have been equal to the demand, as
during the same period the wages of such labourers
had risen thirty per cent. or in the proportion of
ten to thirteen ; the increase in the price of build-
ing materials, according to the same mode of cal-
culation was from twenty to twenty-five per cent.,
while the rise in the price of building-ground was
beyond all bounds.
" It appears from the Report, that during the ten
years and a half, from the end of 1817 till after the
first six months of 1828, there was an increase of
1979, in the number of the houses in Paris. During
the same period, in consequence of the increased
value of building-ground, a great number of old
houses had been raised or renewed, and the addi-
tional accommodation produced by the operations is
stated to have been equivalent to 692 new houses.
The total increase is, therefore, estimated at 2,671
Hew houses, and it is on this number that M. Dau-
banton has founded his calculations.
The mean dimensions of the houses in Paris
are stated to be 14 yards in front, 12 in depth, and
18 in height ; leaving, after the necessary deductions
for the thickness of the walls, and for staircases,
&c., about 2,400 cubic yards of habitable space.—
For the medium or average size of a house, these
dimensions would be much too great for London ;
but they are easily accounted for from the manner
of living in Paris, where, with very few exceptions,
a considerable number of families live under the
same roof. This, indeed, is taken for granted in
these calculations; for, in order to arrive at the nu►n-
ber of individuals who would be accommodated by

the 2,671 new . houses, M. Daubanton refers to
Tredgold's work on the economy of buildings,
in which it is stated that seventeen cubic yards
of space are necessary to the accommodation of
a prisoner, from which it is inferred that some-
times that amount, or 68 cubic yards, are
required for an individual in a state of liberty.
According to the calculation, 2,671 houses would
lodge 94,270 individuals, at the rate of 35 to each
house ; but as the author admits that the theory he
has raised on the ascertained number of new houses
is contradicted by various facts, he allows that 40
individuals may be accommodated in each house,
which makes the new buildings applicable to the
wants of 106,840 inhabitants. I am persuaded,
however, that 40 individuals or eight families, is too
small a number for the average of each house in
Paris, and this is proved by the fact of the increase in
the population of the French capital during the period
in question.
" It may in fact be very desirable, that every in-
dividual
in a crowded capital should enjoy sixty•
eight cubic yards of free space, which is scarcely
more than the cubic contents of a chamber twelve
feet square, but the fact is undeniable, that in Paris
as in other great towns, the large numerical ma-
jority are forced to content themselves with flinch
more limited accommodation ; whole families being
crowded together in narrow and low-roofed abodes,
affording less free space than oven the moderate al-
lowance which is given by Tredgold to the inhabi-
tants of a prison. Assuming however, that the
facts founded on are correct, and that Paris has in-
creased its population to the extent of 340,000
souls in the last twenty-five years, it follows that
the inhabitants in general are not so well lodged as
they formerly were, since it is ascertained, and in--
deed is obvious to every observer, that the number
of houses at present to let in Paris is excessive,
whereas, according to M. Daubanton's theory, the
demand for new houseS should have all along ex-
ceeded the supply, and there should at this mo-
ment be a positive want of 3,243 houses, with a
corresponding unaccommodated population.
"'While on the subject of building, I may mention
it as an extraordinary circumstance that machinery,
which is so much more generally employed in other
arts in England than in France, should in Paris be
more extensively applied to the purposes of the ma-
son and the builder than even in those towns of
Great Britain where free-stone is the chief material
employed. The saw in cutting, and the screw in rais-
ing are much more generally used, and indeed the
whole of the tools and implements employed by this
class of labourers infer a much higher degree of in-
genuity in their application. This seems to be a
subject well worthy of the attention of the Lecturers
in the numerous Mechanics' Institutions in England.
In this country, I assure you, there is no want of that
kind of stimulus arising from international emula-
tion, to induce the people of France to borrow all
they can from their neighbours. At the lectures on
practical chemistry in the Conservatoire des Arts et
Metieres, which are with great liberality thrown
open to the public, and which I occasionally
attend, I often hear the strongest appeals
made to the necessity which exists that
in all the useful arts France should not allow
itself to fall below the level of England. The late
experiments at Liverpool in the speed of locomotive
carriages on railways, are evidently regarded with
great apprehension ; and when a learned professor,
of considerable power as an orator, alluded to the
advantages which Great Britain would possess by
means of her steam•vessels in the event of another
war, it is not easy to convey to you the strong sen-
sation which was perceptible throughout an audience
consisting of all classes of society." '

Despatches were received last night at the
Foreign Office from St. Petersburgh, dated the
25th of November. At that time the Emperor
NICHOLAS was considered in a convalescent
state, and free from danger.

The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived in
Town last night from the seat of the Duke of
BUCKINGHAM, at Stowe.

Lord ABERDEEN yesterday paid a visit to
his MAJESTY at Windsor Castle.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

They write from the borders of the Danube, of
the 26th of November, that a report prevailed of
an exchange of territory between two great Powers,
Russia and Austria.

A serious accident was nearly taking place OR
board the Conquerant, at Smyrna, owing to a fire
having been discovered on board, which was- soon
extinguished. All the gunpowder was thrown Into
the sea.

Letters from Gibraltar, of the sth of November,
say, that not only the lines of St. Roch are going
to be re-established, but the fortifications of Tarifa
are to be repaired, and the Green Island and Alge-
siras ; also the batteries all along the coast of Cadiz.