The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-26 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

" LISBON, APRIL B.—The Princess Regent orders
the Brigadier-General commanding in the province
of Tras-os-Montes, to be informed that his letter,
No. 77, has been laid before her, containing the de-
spatch sent him by General Monet, respecting the
delivery of above 360 horses, which the Portuguese
took with them in their flight to Spain, and the
manner in which the Brigadier-General thinks to
dispose of these horses.

ORDER OF THE DAY.
" OPORTO, APRIL 6.—The causes which gave
rise to the assembly of the corps of the 2d line, which
so greatly assisted those of the first, in the complete
defeat of the enemies of the King and country, ex-
pellirg them from the Portuguese territory, having
ceased, the Lieutenant-General, Governor of this
province, recognising the good services and the ala-
crity with which all the corps of the militia of this
province hastened to arms as soon as they were
called upon, and considering how useful those rural
labours are in which they are going to employ them-
selves, began, as soon as circumstances permitted, to
dismiss the corps, taking care to begin with those
that had been the most employed. [Here follow
some directions for thQ return of the corps to their
homes.]
" His Excellency would not be performing his
duty, if he did not, on this occasion repeat his sa-
tisfaction with
the good services of the Colonel of
the Militia of Oporto, Jose Maria Brandao, com-
manding the contingent of the second line, forming
part of the garrison of this city. Equal praise is
due to all the superior officers, subalterns, and pri-
vates of all the corps of the militia of the district,
who so promptly took arms to defend the Charter
and the legitimacy of Don Pedro IV,
" LISBON, APRIL 9.—The Romney man of war
arrived here on the Bth, in nine deys from Ports-
mouth, having on board 220 men of the 4th and
63d Regiments of Infantry.--Lisbon Gazettes to the
I Ith of April inclusive.
" ELVAS, APRIL s.—By a person worthy of
credit, just arrived from Spain, we learn that there
are at Caceres 3,000 men, both infantry and cavalry
—viz. the Ist and 2d battalions of the Guards; let
battalion of the Provincial Grenadiers; Ist Regiment
of Cavalry, and Cazadores of the Royal Guard.—
They say they are only waiting for five battalions
of infantry, to invade Portugal. The troops are very
well clothed, armed, and disciplined, and are exer-
cised in firing three times a week.
" Generals Sarsfield and Rodil are at valiance ;
the first was at Calcres, three leagues from Talavera
de la Ragusa, carrying on the correspondence him-
self, and living very retired, only showing himself
when absolutely necessary.
" On the 30th of March, orders were received

• This last news is confirmed by a private letter pub-
lished by the Florence Gazette, received this morning,
which announces that the Seraskier had been forced partly
so raise the blockade of Athens, by the necessity which he
was under of fortifying himself in his camp against the
Attacks of the Greeks. The Diario di Roma also an-
nosmees, but in general terms, the arrival of Lord Coch-
rane end the delivereace of Atlnne,—Note of the Etoilt.

by the brigade at Caceres, to give no discharges to
soldiers who ought to receive them.
" On the 31st, it was said that Sarsfield and
Rodil had been summoned to Madrid, the division
exercising under the command of General San Juan,
but without power to do any thing with it.
" Two adjutants of the Royalists presented them-
selves at Caceres by superior authority, to be classed
and placed in the army.
" The Royalists of the infantry and cavalry of the
district of Placentia were commanded by Colonel
Morales; and those in Caceres, by the Marquis del
Reino.
" Lastly (to-day, the 4th,) it was reported at
Badajoz, that at 10 o'clock in the morning, a
postilion had brought word that the battalion which
was at Xeres de los Caballeros had marched in the
direction of Barrancas.
" APRIL 6.—The Conde de Casa Flores, Ambas-
sador from Spain to Portugal, arrived here to-day,
and set out immediately for Badajoz."-0 Portu-
guez, April 10.
REPORTED DECREES OF THE EMPEROR.
" LISBON, APRIL 14.—Since writing the note
respecting General Rego's appointment, which you
will find under a different date, the reports to which
I alluded last week, respecting the more important
decisions of his Majesty with regard to the Regency,
brought by Dr. Abrantes, have gained strong con-
firmation, and, though not officially promulgated,
are now doubted by nobody.
" The Impartial, an Oporto paper, contains an
a-count of these decrees as from London, though it
rsally received the intelligence from Lisbon. By
one of them, his Majesty declares his al,sication of
the crown of Portugal incomplete, because the con-
ditions on which it was to proceed have not been
fulfilled. These conditions cannot be fulfilled till
Don Miguel comes to Rio Janeiro, and completes,
in person, the ceremony of his marriage with his
Majesty's daughter. Till then, Don Pedro holds
the reins of Government in the kingdom which he
inherits from his ancestors, and re-appoints his sister
as Regent during the minority of his daughter. In
a Proclamation on the subject, he is said strongly to
denounce the crimes of the rebels, and to order the
Chambers to be convoked in an extraordinary ses-
sion, to finish their constitutional labours. He has not
only appointed Rego to the command of a province,
but has nominated four Councillors of State (of
whom Dr. Abrantes is one), to counterbalance the
influence of the Apostolical Members of that body.
The other names of these Councillors are the Arch-
bishop of Elves, Silvester Pinheiro, and Philippe
Ferreira. Having a regard to the present state of
the kingdom, he is resolved not to divest himself of
the power of consulting its interests till his daughter
attains 18 years of age.
" LISBON, APRIL 15.—Yesterday General Clin-
ton, who has been in Lisbon since Tuesday, dined
with Count illa Flor.
" A courier arrived on Friday from Madrid, with
despatches to the 9th, for Government. The Por-
tuguese Government had demanded a categorical
answer why such a large body of troops was assem-
bling at Elvas, and on the Portuguese frontier. The
Spanish Cabinet, in reply, stated that its conduct
was dictated by the large force of Portuguese and
English troops assembled and assembling towards
Estremadura.
" Dr. Abrantes is on board the packet for Eng-
land. He is said to be appointed councillor to the
Embassy. Every thing here is suspected to be
tainted with intrigue, and the Doctor's nomination
has furnished room for abundance of surmises.
" The Princess Regent has interested herself
very much for the unfortunate English soldier under
sentence of death, at Villa Franca, for striking his
officer. She requests that, if possible, the punish-
ment may be commuted into banishment or im-
prisonment. The result of her interference is
not yet known. Probably a severe example is
necessary."
" LISBON, APRIL 15—Twelve o'clock.—There
can be no doubt that the reports about Don Pedro's
decrees, in the Oporto paper of the 7th, 10th, and
11th, Came from a friend of Dr. Abrantes, who sails
to England with the packet which carries this letter,
as Secretary of Legation to the Portuguese Em-
bassy in London. The Doctor, perhaps, assisted in
advising those decrees, as well as became their
bearer. As he himself was appointed a Councillor
of State by the Emperor, and presented a commis-
sion, which was refused by the Regency of Lisbon,
there cam be little doubt that the three others whose
names I have mentioned were appointed in a similar
manner, and that their commissions are equally sus-
pended till farther orders. The Emperor of Brazil
is either King of Portugal or he is not. If he is
still King of Portugal, the act of separation is a
nullity—if he is not, he has no right to appoint
governors of provinces or councillors of State, inde-
pendent of the Regency, which administers the af-
fairs of the kingdom till it is abolished. Suppose
General Rego, with the Emperor's commission in
his pocket, should go and join Silveira, the Govern-
ment of Lisbon might become guilty of treason to-
wards Don Pedro (if he is King), by attempting to
oppose his march upon Lisbon. Dr. Abrantes has
taken his departure from Lisbon very reluctantly.
He is not only appointed to the new post at London
by the Emperor's, but by the Regency's Ministers.
He has thus two authorities in his pocket at the
same time. By one, he is an unacknowledged Mi-
nister of State; by the other, he is a kind of exiled
Secretary of Legation.
" The turn that affairs have taken with Spain is
extremely curious. Ferdinand always hitherto gave
out, that he was assembling a force on the frontiers
to prevent the disorders or to disarm the troops of
Chaves. Portugal was not satisfied with this ex-
planation, after these troops had been all disarmed,
and demanded in a more peremptory tone either
their dispersion or more satisfactory reasons for their
stay. On this Ferdinand turns round, and forgetting
his former pretence, retaliates on England and Por-
tugal, by saying, that the menacing attitude of the
allied force rendered defensive measures on his part
absolutely necessary, or at least perfectly justifiable.
Are all three now satisfied ? Nous rerrc s.
" Sir W. Clinton was called here to a Cabinet
Council, which sat till 12 o'clock on the night of his
arrival. All the embassies are full of talk and con-
jecture on the subject of this council."
GENERAL REGO —THE GOVERNMENT LOAN.
LISBON, APRIL 14.—The appointment of General
ltego to the Government of the province of Entre
Douro e _Minh°, which I mentioned in a letter by
the last packet, is now generally known in Lisbon,
and has excited a great deal of surprise. Every body
sees in it a proof of the ambition of Don Pedro to
continue not only the constitutional legislator for
Portugal, but to retain the power of its Executive in
his own hands. He has thus rendered the nomina-
tion of a Regency little better than a farce—thrown
discredit on the Government of his sister—and
hazarded the opposition or dispensed with the re-
sponsibility of his sister's Ministers. If his com-
mission in favour of Rego were to be received and
acted upon, we should witness the strange anomaly
of a minor Queen of Portugal—of an acting Regent
of Portugal, and of an absent Emperor of Portu-
gal—we should see one Government of Portu-
gal residing at Lisbon, and another at Rio Janeiro
—and should he uncertain whether orders from the
European or the trans-Atlantic authority deserved
the preference. The act of separation of the two
Crowns would thus become a dead letter, and the
Charter, resting only for its stability on the same
good faith which gives force to that solemn deed,
might be cancelled or suspended at pleasure.
The Ministry of Lisbon have done right in re-
fusing to confirm the appointment or to acknowledge
the commission of Rego. They owe responsibility
for their conduct to the Princess Regent, and to the
two Chambers, not to Don Pedro, or his Council of
State. Besides objections to the appointment on
the score of right, they can advance others of a grave
kind, on the score of policy or expediency. General
Rego is a good officer, and possesses some property
in the province of which he has been appointed Go-
vernor ; but he has too long resided in Rio to be
agreeable to one party in Portugal, while his equi-

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1827.

`We are unable to give any farther information
regarding the Ministerial Arrangements.
The negociation with Lord LANSDOWN still
continuos.

Mr. W. LAMB is spoken of as new Secretary
to tlic Lord Licuten.nt of Ireland.

Lord Viscount DUDLEY has at length come
forward as a public character, and has quitted
the "otium cum dignitate," which seems to re-
semble other sweets, in having the property of
cloying after long enjoyment. His Lordship's
great wealth afforded him not only the usual luxu-
ries of life, but the far greater one—that of doing
good. In society, his conversational talents insured
unusual success, and on great occasions he has
come forward in either House of Parliament as a
brilliant and eloquent speaker. In short, his
happiness appeared complete to those who, la-
bouring for the means of maintaining a respect-
able position in society, can only faintly
hope for the applause of Senates. But the
active mind of man is formed for pursuit, and
not for enjoyment, and Lord DUDLEY is not
the first who has willingly resigned the splen-
did life of a British Nobleman for the
bustle of place, accompanied as it is with
the possession of power—a tempered desire for
which cannot be blamed, when it is intended to
employ it for the benefit of mankind. We
make no doubt that Lord DUDLEY will prove
himself an able and useful servant of the State,
and will find his parks more tranquil, the walks
more shady, and the trees more beautiful, when
contrasted with the close atmosphere and brick-
wall vistas of Downing-street.

There has not been a more popular appoint-
ment for some years than that of Mr. SCARLETT
to the important post of Attorney General. His
great legal attainments, and his extraordinary
powers of addressing a Jury, have long placed
him beyond most other men as an Advocate ;
and the whole profession have pointed him out
as a future Lord Chief Justice of the King's
Bench., The fortunate concurrence of present
circumstances has rendered such an event pro-
bable by placing him at once on the high road to
the most exalted legal stations, and we have no
doubt that in the office of Attorney General Mr.
SCARLETT will realize all those high expecta-
tions which his talents and his character as a
sound and good lawyer, have excited.
The conduct of Sir N. C. TYNDAL, on this
occasion, is above all praise. With an honour-
able and liberal feeling he conceded the claim,
which his filling the office of Solicitor-General
gave him, to the higher post of Attorney-Ge-
neral, thus admitting the superior acquirements
of his friend, and setting an example of the most
praiseworthy forbearance. This is alike honour-
able to both these Learned Persons, and affords
a sure pledge of their cordial co-operation with
each other in their arduous offices, and with the
Government who so justly appreciate the value
of their services in each station.

We received lard night the Paris Papers of
Monday, with the Etoile, dated Tuesday morn-
ing, extracts from which will be found in another
column.

The news from the East appears to be more
favourable to the cause of Greece, notwithstand-
ing the unwillingness manifested by the PORTZ,
to allow of any intervention on the part of other
countries in her behalf. A Note of the Doile

confirms the intelligence received through dif-
ferent channels, of the SERASKIER having been
obliged partly to raise the blockade of Athens,
in consequence of the necessity of fortifying
himself against the attacks of the Greeks.—
Lord COCHRANE'S arrival has taken place at a
moment when renewed hope seems to have in-
spired the nation, and the impulse which will be
given to the national feeling by his enthusiastic
exertions in its cause will, we are convinced, lead
.to the most important results, as regards the in-
dependence of Greece.
The intelligence from Portugal, in the French
Papers, is not so recent as that which we have
received direct from Lisbon, and does not amount
to much. Doubt and distrust of the intentions
from Spain still exist, and the re-advance of the
Spanish army towards the Portuguese Frontier
had not tended to lessen these feelings, but no
act of hostility had been committed. The cause
of the advance is ascribed to the proximity of
the English army to the Frontiers of Spain.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 23.—Rentes 5 per
Cents. 101 f. 100 f. 85c. ; 4 per Cents. 71f. 10c. 15c. ;
Bank Actions, 2,037 f. 50c. _ _

FOREIGN FUNDS.—Renter Nap. Cert. Falc. 781. Isc.
25c. ; Obl. Nap. Em. Roth. 7. s. 25f. 50c. ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 551. 56k. s'7i. ; Haytian Loan, 6701.

His MAJESTY'S Packet, Magnet, has arrived
with a Lisbon mail. By this conveyance we
have received Lisbon Gazettes and private letters
to the 15th inclusive. Their contents are interest-
ing, and not unimportant. Every thing is quiet
in Lisbon, where Lieut.-General Sir Wm. H.
CLINTON had been for a few days. The re-
advance of the Spanish army to the frontiers of
the Kingdom had given rise to fresh uneasiness,
and the Portuguese Government had demanded
a categorical explanation of the cause of this
movement. A Courier, with the reply of the
Cabinet of Madrid, arrived on the 13th. The
Spanish Government stated that its conduct was
occasioned by the assembling of the large force
of English and Portuguese troops towards
Estremadura.

The Emperor DON PEDRO appears to have
wisely determined to resume to a certain extent
the Government of Portugal, and to enforce
obedience to his commands. He very justly
declares his abdication of the Crown of Portugal
to be incomplete, as the conditions on which it
proceeded have not been fulfilled. He has issued
a proclamation, denouncing the crimes of the
Rebels, and ordering the Chambers to be convoked
in an Extraordinary Session to finish their Con-
stitutional labours. We must refer our readers
for further particulars to the extracts from the
Gazette and private communications, which will
be found in another column.

It appears by an account printed by order of
the House of Commons, which we have inserted
in another part of our paper, that the total amount
of advances made by the Bank of England to
Government, on Exchequer Bills and all other
securities was, on the 26th August, 1826,
18,961,895/. ; -on the 26th February, 1827,
19,668,9611.; of this sum, 8,707,615/. has
been advanced towards the purchase of the An-
nuity of 585,7401. for 44 years, called the
" Dead weight." All payments by the Bank
for the purchase of that annuity terminate next
year, and consequently, that source of Income, as
it has been erroneously reckoned, will be cut off.
The magnitude and increasing amount of the
Bank advances to Government are not calculated
to excite the most agreeable feelings in the mind
of any one who attends to the financial affairs of
the country ; but we have no doubt that the sub-
ject of Finance will be entered upon by the new
Administration in a serious and business-like
manner, with a determination to place it upon a
more intelligible and rational system than it is at
present conducted on, and to substitute some
sound plan for the expedients which have been
so long and extensively resorted to. The policy
of Mr. CANNING has always been to do things
fffectually ; and we may safely conclude that he
will carry this feeling into the financial concerns
of the Empire when that branch of the public
service comes under his immediate direction.

The following are extracts, from German
Papers, received this morning, to 20th inst. :
BERLIN, APRIL 17.
According to the lista of the population of the Provinces
of Stettin, for the year 1826 :
The number of Births was
Deaths
Excess of Births 6,676
Population 389,412
In the Province of Dusseldorff, in 1826 :
The number of Births was 24,039
Death.
Excess of Births 7,349

The population of the Province of Dusseldorf amounted,
on the let of January, 1827, to 664,649 souls. On an
average, 6,897 to a German square mile:—
Of Catholics 405,860
Protestants 252,069
Minonites
Jews
Sectarian

664,649
The population of this Province has increased in 1826
by 11,774 souls.
On the 12th of this month the Dowager Princess of
Anhault Zerbst (a Princess of Bernburg) died at Koswig
in the 83d year of her age.

.7RAWXFoRT, AritlL_2o.

A new tariff of import duties has been published at
Darmstadt. By imposing double duties on foreign woollen
manufactures, it is proposed to afford the internal manu-
facturers of that little State powerful protection against
foreign competition.
DitZSDIX, ♦TAIL

The day before yesterday a terrible fire broke out in one
of the suburbs of Bautzen, the capital of Upper Lusatia,
which consumed between 75 and 80 houses, the unfortu-
nate occupiers of which could not save any part of their
property.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 22.

The Journal de la Belgique has a short extract from a
letter from Paris of the 13th, which says, that the nego-
ciations of Messrs. Estefani and Co., for contracting of a
Spanish loan, having failed, they intend to renew their
endeavours at Amsterdam.

VIENNA, APRIL 13.

The Constitutionnel of the 4th of this month, contains,
in a pretended private letter from Augsburg, of the 29th
of March, a series of the most ridiculous fables from
Vienna, and concludes with the following piece of intelli-
gence from Prague That for some weeks past, such a
spirit of insubordination and dissatisfaction had manifested
itself in .he Italian regiment, in garrison in that city, that
it was difficult to keep it in check."
We declare this whole article, to be the most scandalous
tissue of Hee, that was ever forged in the manufactory of
the Constitutionnel.

Aletalliques, 90 ; Bank Shares, 1078.
OENZTA, APKIL 4.
Before Lord Cochrane left this city for Marseilles,
thence to proceed on his expedition to Greece, he required

the snm of 600,000 francs, which his friend M. Eynard
obtained for him by his, credit, &c. As M. Eynard had
not received up to yesterday evening any account of the
brig taken by Lord Cochrane (see. the Constitutionnel),
the statement is not believed here.

M. Eynard received a few days age, a long report from
Dr. Gosse, of Geneva, respecting the recent occurrences in
Greece. It is very melancholy for the Greeks, and speaks
in pai ticular of the despondency and dissensions of the
Greeks, of their hatred of foreigners, of the admirable man-
ner in which the Turkish artillery is served, of the failure of
the attempt to raise the siege of Athens, of the almost total
destruction of the Parthenon by the Turkish artillery •, of
the superiority of the Turkish cavalry, before against which
the Greeks will not combat any more. To this report :re
annexed letters from Major Von Heidegger, confirniivq; it.
Dr. Gosse went with a supply of provisions to Greece, for
the purpose of forming a magazine, and establishing a mi-
litary hospital, and to convert bones into jelly by a chmni-
cal process, according to the method of M. Gimbernat.—
At Napoli di Romania lie had very great difficulty in hin-
dering the Greeks from seizing on his supply of provisions
intended for Hydra. He confirms, however, the advantage
gained by Karaiskaki, which however did not effect the
raising of the siege of Athens.
"' Almost all the celebrated remains of Athens, the Par-
thenon, the Temple of Theseus, the Erectheum, are now
levelled with the ground.

At a public dinner given the other day at
Ipswich, Sir THOMAS Goocn made a very cock
and a bull sort of speech, which embarrassed the
worthy member himself not a little, and puzzled
the natives still more. For twenty years Sir
THONIA s was identified with triumphant prin-
ciples ; but now that there is some chance of the
tide of battle running counter to these principles,
he was really at a loss to recognise them ; and,
with singular modesty, doubted what his future
conduct might be. Much, however, would
depend upon the measures of Mr. CANNING,
who will no doubt consult the Baronet before
undertaking any business of importance ; because
Sir THOMAS, having been so long at sea, upon
the Corn and other questions, is an excellent
fellow at trimming the sails. But if we
were to judge of the bird from the tenor of
its song, we would say that Sir THOMAS
was one of very doubtful character. That he is
not a cuckoo, we have his own authority for
stating, and yet that he belongs to the cuckoo
tribe there can be little question, for he owns,
with commendable pride, that he is VAIN, and
the cuckoo is the vainest bird of any, for it is so
enamoured of its own sweet note that it eternally
sings the same song. Now, Sir THOMAS has sung
the same song for the last twenty years, and takes
farewell of his political principle for the best of
all reasons, that he does not well know to what
party he belongs ! Poor man, he is really to be
pitied—twenty years a party man and not know
his colours ! What a promising General he
would make who has been so hopeful a soldier.
He is for a good John Bull stand up fight,
because a good deal is to be gained after the
battle is over—and as either party is indifferent to
him, he can join that which divides the spoils.

Jamaica Papery of the 22d February have been receive('
at the North and South American Coffee-house ; their
contents do not furnish any intelligence of the least im-
portance in a political point of view. They express them-
selves much disappointed and surprised, that since the arri-
val of the packet the Authorities of the Island had neglected
to pay any public mark of respect to the memory of the
late Duke of "York ; and that, if ever there was an occa-
sion when a British soldier would feel a pride in being
called upon to pay a tribute to the memory of the late Com-
mander-in-Chief, it was the present. Why the Autho-
rities of Jamaica have omitted this we leave them to
explain ; but of this we are quite satisfied, that we ex-
press the general feeling of the inhabitants, when we say
that this marked neglect of his Royal Highness's memory
merits universal reprobation.

Letters from Constantinople of the 26th March, con-
tinue to give further accounts of the depredations com-
mitted on Britisli commerce by the Greek pirates ; parti-
cularly in the Straits of Salota. The Camelia, Captain
Phillips. from London, has shared the fate of many others,
and had been robbed of from twenty to thirty-one packages
of fine goods, off Zea, on the 16th ult.
The frequent occurrences of such events seems to require
some better arrangement than has hitherto apparently been
made for the protection of trade, and, we trust some re-
gulations will be made to induce the Naval force at Malta
to join convoy, and not allow the continuance of com-
plaint, that while six sail of vessels of war are lying in
harbour, no protection can be procured for the merchant
ships bound to Smyrna from them, after waiting fourteen
days' application, and obliged to proceed on their voyage
eventually without any.

By accounts received at Paris from Caraccas of the 26th
February, which is posterior to the dates received in Lon-
don, the official accounts of the resolution of the Lit. sra-
tor, Bolivar, to resign his Presidency, and to live as a
simple citizen, is dated Head-quarters, Caraccas, Feb. 8.
It is also said that the Vice-President of Colombia has re-
signed, and that the affairs of that country being in a very
bad state, the produce of the poll-tax, which was to be
kept sacred, to be sent to England to pay their dividends,
has been used to defray the emergencies of the State; and,
according to report, there is not a single dollar in their
treasury.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Ttcalvo 0' Crook.

Consols opened at 834 4, appearing very steady, and in
consequence of money Stock being somewhat more scarce
to-day they appear to be a little on the advance, and may
be quoted at 831; the delay which has taken place in the
formation of the new Cabinet operates much against any
important transactions. India Bonds have receded to 67 8,
and Exchequer Bills to 42 4 pm. In the Foreign Funds
little has been doing; Mexican Bonds are 701 4. The
letters by his Majesty's ship Tweed not having beenlanded
has caused considerable expression of surprise as well as
disappointment to the Merchants in the City, after the
suspense in which they have been so long kept ; some mis-
management or neglect must have taken place, for even from
infected ports the letters are delivered, after being fumigated,
the day they are received ; the bag is to be landed this
morning, and to-morrow's post will doubtless bring her
despatches. Colombian Bonds have fallen nearly 2 per
Cent., arising from a report from Jamaica of the resigna-
tion of General Santander at Bogota, as Vice President of
that Republic, and they are now 354. In Shares the dis-
count on Brazilian Mines has increased to 34 24 ; United
Mexican are looking better, the last accounts being ex-
tremely favourable, particularly from the Mine of El Rios ;
every other speculation remains in the same dormant state,
Three per Cent. Consols, 83i • Ditto for acsount,
834 ; Three and a-half per Cent. Reduced, 881;
Four per
Cent., 99 ; India Bonds, 67 8 pm. ; Exchequer Bills,
42 4 pm.

FOREIGN FuNns.—Brazilian, 63-}; Buenos Ayres,
‘
58 9 ; Chilian, 85i 6 ; Colombian, 1824, 86 4- ; Danish,
6111 j; Greek, 16f ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 58 9 ;
Ditto 6 per Cent., 70 a ; Peruvian, 33 4 ; Portuguese,
78f it ; Russian, 89a 73- ; Spanish, 121 -a.

Mixxs.—Anglo Mexican, 40 374 dia. ; Brazilian, 34 24
die. ; Colombian, 13 15 per Share; Real del Monte, SO
90 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 20 25 pm. ; United Mexican, 12
11 dis. ; Bolanos, 80 50 dig.

Two o' Clock.
Consols have been 83 the price, but are at the present
hour 83k is again rumoured in the City, that the
Marquis of Lansdown will form a part of the new Mi-
nistry.—There is no alteration of moment either in Mexi-
can or Colombian Bonds, the former have been at 70, are
now 70k
THREE O' CL CK.
Consols, 83+ ; Colombian Bonds, 341 5 ;
Mexican Bonds, 70+, heavy.

FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 83/ Danish Bonds
Do. for Ac. 831 G
Brazilian Bonds 633
Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do.
mreexeilccaDn 0p.01.821852,
516693
Chilian Do. Russian Do. 903
Columbian, 1824, 343 , Spanish Do. 12t

SHIPPING INTELLIGtNCE-(THISDAY4

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Remain, front 1.0.-
don, the Bolton, Clarkson, for Bombay; the Huskilson,:
Maitland, for Jamaica ; Doncaster, Marshall, and Aid, -
Palmer, for Miramichi ; Malta, Brews, for the Canaries ;
Choice, Wheatley, for St. Domingo ; Euphemia, Norte,.
for Montreal ; Cyrus, Young, for Nantes ; and Lady of the
Lake, Nicholas, for Bengal. Arrived, the Solanics,
Pal-
mer, from Memel; President Matson, Tremagne, from St.
Michael's; Courier, Gwathin, from Oporto ; Bulton, Co-
naopolita, and Genoa, from the Mediterranean.
PORTSMOUTH, Aran 25.—Arrived, the Arab trans-
port, Lowe, from Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived, the.
Gerstof, Davidson, from Tarragona; Lavinia, Bezant, Iron' •
Alexandra;:; and the Magnet packet, Porteous, from
Lisbon.

GRAVESEND, APRIL 25.—Arri',ed, the Young Norval,
Watterson, from Lisbon.

HULL, APRIL 25.—A for-'gn bark is upon the Sketter
Sand, but is likely to lay pretty well. The Stephen
Knight, Motton, from Poole, has arrived leaky. The Eme-
rald, Tonge, bound to Hamburgh, put back last evening,,
with loss of an anchor and chain; was supplied, and pro-
ceeded.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23.—The Cumberland, bound to
Waterford, which was on shore on the Magazine Bank►
was got off last night, by the assistance of a steam-boat.

DINNER TO VISCOUNT MELVILLE, BY
THE THATCHED HOUSE NAVAL CLUB.

At a Meeting of the Naval Club, at the Thatched House
on the 15th inst., a resolution was unanimously agreed to,
on the motion of Commissioner the Hon. Courtney
Boyle, to invite Viscount Melville to dine with the
club previously to his Lordship's quitting the office
of First Lord of the Admiralty; and another motion
made by Commissioner Boyle, was also unanimously
adopted, that the Club should request his Royal Highness
the Duke of Clarence, to honour them with his presence
at dinner, soon after he enters upon the office of Lord High
Admiral.

In pursuance of the first resolution, a deputation of the
Club, Consisting of Vice-Admirals Sir T. Williams, and Sir
Byam Martin, and Rear Admiral Lord Colville, waited
on Lord Melville, who accepted the invitation, and fixed
yesterday as the day on which he would dine with the
Club. Accordingly his Lordship honoured the Club
with his presence yesterday, when a moat sumptu-
ous and splendid entertainment was prepared, 101
above fifty of the most distinguished Flag-Officers and
Captains of the Navy, met his Lordship. Vice-Admiral
Sir Byam Martin was in the Chair, and after the health
of the King, and the Royal Family, bad been drunk►
Sir Byam, in a short, but remarkably neat speech,
in which he extolled the Naval administration of Lord
Melville, proposed the health of his Lordship.
This toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm ; and
his Lordship, in returning thanks, expressed his regret et
parting from so many distinguished Naval Officers, whoa
he called his friends.

This led Sir Br AM MARTIN to propose Lord Melville
as an honorary member of the Club for life.

This proposition was unanimously agreed to, and Te-
ceived by his Lordship with great apparent feeling for such
a mark of esteem from Officers of whose merits
he entertained so high and just an opinion. In express-
ing his acknowledgments, his Lordship availed himself of
the opportunity to compliment the Chairman on the able
and zealous support which he had received from him se
Comptroller of the Navy. Several other toasts were
subsequently drunk, particularly the Duke of curdle('
and the Navy, the present Members of the Board
of Admiralty, Lord Melville (a second time) as an Hoon"
rary Member of the Club, Lady Melville, Sir R. Kat!'
Sir Francis Hartwell, and Sir Andrew Hammond, the
Father of the Club, who was absent. Sir George Cock"
burn, Sir Joseph Yorke, Sir Francis Hartwell, and several
other officers, spoke, and the day passed off with the utmost
conviviality and cordiality.
It must have been particularly gratifying to Lord Mel'
%ilk,' to receive such genuine proofs of the esteem szia
respect which his conduct, during the time his Lord-.
ship has presided over the Naval Officers of the country,
had excited amongst the Officers of that service. None
of his Lordship's predecessors ever filled the :high sta-
tion of First Lord of the Admiralty for so long a period,
and none ever quitted office, carrying with him so large s
share of the regard of the Navy, as his Lordship enjoys.
Amongst the distinguished individuals were—Sir J.
Whitshed, Sir R. Keats, Sir R. Stopford, Sir C. Hs'
milton, H. Curzon, Sir H. Neale, Sir J. Yorke, Sir P.
Durham, Sir B. Hallowell, Sir J. B. Martin, F. &Abe'
ron, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir G. Moore, Peter Hance!'
Sir P. Malcolm,' Sir J. Gore, Sir H. Hotham, SIC
H. Blackwood, Lord Torrington, Sir J. Beresford, Sir
C. Rowley, Sir C. Doyle, Robert Lambert, Lord Colville,
H. Wintrop, J. Maitland, Sir C. Paget, J. Dundalk
James Bowen, Sir F. Hartwell, W. Browell, C. Boyle,
J. C. White, E. Brace, J. M. Lewis, Sir W. Hoste,
Elliott, If. Duncan, A. D. Cochrane,- H. J. Percy, Lord
Radstock, W. M. Montagu, D. Daudet, Henry Hoye,
Hon. F. B. Pellew, W. H. Shirreff, Hon. W. Gordon,
William Waldegrave, A. Clifford.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

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The prisoner was first brought to the office on Wednes-
day evening, by a constable to whom he had been given
in charge by a young man, who stated himself to be shop'
man to Mr. Cording, a goldsmith, and who said, that
about a month since, the prisoner called at his master °
shop to purchase a gold watch-key, which he fitted to
•
very elegant engine-turned gold v.itch. The next day!
printed hand bill was left in the shop, stating that a Wat"'
exactly corresponding with the one exhibited by the priso-
ner, had been stolen by a young man from Messrs. Dabsoo
and Glover, watchmakers. By the advice of Mr. Cording
he determined on securing the prisoner, should he again
see him ; and having accidentally observed bim that ere°'
ing, gave him in custody.
On the prisoner being searched, many valuable article.
were produced from his pockets.
The prisoner, who had been very impatient to be beard'
solemnly denied having ever entered Mr. Cording's °W.
He said he was a medical student, walking St. George'.
Hospital, and was residing with his uncle, in Dean-stree4
Fetter Lane, who had been sent for, and who would prove
his having given 201. for the watch. The whole of the,
appendages had been given to him by his father, a media;
gentleman, in Wales. In his anxiety, the prisoner dropped
one of his gloves ; it was picked up by an officer, an
found to contain some hard substance, which, on inspectioo:
was discovered to he four gold rings, tied together, an:
wrapped in tissue paper and wool, as if just taken from th
maker.
At this moment the prisoner's relative arrived, and coo'
firmed the account he had previously given of his connexion'
and profession, adding, that he had actually passed examine
tion, and had an appointment for the East Indies. 119,
however, knew nothing of the watch or its appendages.
Mr. Sergeant SaLLoN said, the case was an extraorP
nary one, and must be investigated fully. He then or,
dered the prisoner to be remanded, and Messrs. 'lob°
and Glover to be apprised of the circumstance.
Waddington, a most active and lately appointed dfi
th°
eef
of this establishment, informed the Magistrate, that --1
prisoner exactly answered the description of an individusti
who about a week ago, entered a house in PentonsilleP
an
under pretence of writing a note to a gentleman, '157..,/
Willan, residing there, broke open a desk, and stole th's)
sovereigns. The parties should be sent to before the DI
examination.
At one o'clock the prisoner was placed at the
son,T hsotamtend,tiiat
and the room was crowded with silversmiths and jewallei;„
who had been repeatedly robbed of articles of jewellarY '
persons under pretence of purchasing.
ot of
Marchll .1 e s Messrs. . a Glover
young
mana d pc
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to their shop, and was shown a variety of watches,
and seals; after examining which, he said he would :Ss
over to the India House, and fetch his father to make
choice for him. Witness saw him enter the India 11°°10-i
but he did not return, and on examining the tray. to
Barnes,o tahhe"2m7athn
watches, he missed a gold horizontal engine-turned wate_e
with a gold face, and valued at 25 guineas. The prisoO..ll
was the individual who so came to the shop, and the wn,
now shown him is the same stolen on the day before str:o
It was numbered 1878. Although every inquiry bad Deio
made, and hand bills circulated, no intelligence of
watch or prisoner had been obtained till now. aie
Mr. Glover, who was in the shop, also identified
prisoner. One of the seals attached to the watch,:_s
rioe
identified by Mr. Jones, of Cheapside, as hayed
stolen from his shop in a somewhat similar way, an
of the keys was sworn to by Mr. Cording, of Holborn; oie
Mr. Glover's case was immediately taken again! tbs'
,
prisoner, and he was, remanded, as it is expected
owners will be found for the whole of the trinkets In
possession. .