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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1829.

In another column will be found a Russian
Bulletin, descriptive of an action fought between
General ROTH and the GRAND ViziEn, near
Pravadi, in which the Turks are said to have
lost 2,000 men, and the Russians 1,000. The
battle lasted all day, when the Turks retired into
the valley of Nevtsha.

Mr. Secretary PEEL had a long interview
with the Duke of WELLINGTON this morning
in Downing-street ; shortly after which his Grace
left town for Hatfield. The Duchess, accompa-
nied by her son, the Marquis of Doußo, and
two Ladies, also left Downing-street at two
o'clock, in a carriage and four, for the same place.

There are no arrivals at any of the Govern-
ment Offices this morning.

The British Catholic Association has dissolved
itself—thanks to Mr. O'CONNELL, through
whose intrepid and persevering exertions its
further continuance was rendered superfluous—
and its dissolution was characterized by a display
of petty feelings on the part of certain Mem-
bers, which is any thing but creditable either to
their common sense or their notions of gratitude.
Mr. O'CONNELL, as the whole world knows,
has been the main instrument in achieving the
emancipation of the Catholics. He it was who
originated the famous Irish Association—who
kept up the spirit of his countrymen when they
were most inclined to despond, and restrained
them within due limits when they evinced
symptoms of dangerous effervescence—and yet
this individual, to whom the Catholics owe
their more than mere existence—their re-
ligious, moral, and intellectual freedom—
when a resolution of thanks was proposed to him
yesterday, found certain parties holding his own
faith, indiscreet and ill-advised, not to say un-
generous enough to carp at and cripple the good
feeling that dictated the resolution. We are no
very great admirers of Mr. O'CONNELL—We dis-
like his ultra notions of reform—we dislike his le-
velling tenets, and more than all we dislike his very
impolitic precipitancy in judging of men and mea-
sures, and jumping at once to a conclusion on
all great questions ; yet we cannot but feel that to
him it is owing that my Lord STOURTON can
now lift his head erect, and be something a little
beyond a cypher in the State ; that to his per-
severance his Grace of NORFOLK owes the
privilege of being able to hold forth among his
brother Peers, on the wool question--that to
him in short, the Catholics owe one thing and
every thing. Were these marked benefits for-
gotten, when at the solemn dissolution of
the Catholic Association, my LORD STOUR-
TON remonstrated against a vote of thanks to
Mr. O'CONNELL ? For the honor of human
nature we should hope riot, though facts tell a
different tale.

Singapore Papers to the 18th January, and
Madras Papers to the 15th February, have been
received this morning at the North and South
American Coffee-house, from which we make
the following extracts :
(From the Singapore Chronicleof the 18th of January.)
By the news from Batavia, we learn that the celebrated
priest Nai Madjo in the Javanese insurrection, had been
taken with 500 of his followers by the Dutch, who pre-
dict from this event, a speedy termination of the war.
At the time the Mercury left Java he was confined in
prison at Batavia, and well treated.

(From the Madras Gazette, Feb. 14.)

Accounts have reached the Presidency of the arrival in
Calcutta of the ship Lord Amherst, and consequently of
Lieutenant-Colonel Conway, the Commissioner on behalf
of the army under the Madras Government, for settling
the equalization and retrenchment ordered by the Com-
pany Directors. In a few days we calculate on the arrival
of Mr. Russell, the other Commissioner from the civil
branch of the service, who has proceeded by land. The
same piper announces the arrival of the ship Fairlie,
having on board Colonel Torrens, Adjutant-General of the
King's troops in India.

The threatening appearance of the weather, we are
happy to say, is soixiewbat subsided, and several ships have
put to sea.

A HINT TO THE LADIES.—Good nature
will always supply the absence of beauty ; but beauty can-
not long supply the absence of good nature.—Steele.
COLLESsIE.—On Thursday the 28th ult., an A French Paper received this morning states,
old bee hive threw off a fine
.top-swarm at Weddersbie in that among his other refurms the SULTAN has
the parish of Collessie ; another at Munkston, belonging
to Mr. MUCKERSIE there, hived on Tuesday the
26th. turned his attention to the dresses of the ladies,
These are the first we have heard of this season, and cer- and has thereby obtained an important victory
tainly must be allowed to be early, more especially con-
sidering the backwardoese of the spring..... Fife Herald. over the prejudices of the Mussulmans. The

ladies of the Imperial Harem, and the wives of
the Ministers, have already set the example, to
the great astonishment of the people, who
could scarce believe their eyes on seeing the
ladies appear in public in gloves and French
corsets. This is very amusing. We do not see
how far it will be conducive to the great objects
of the war, for the SULTAN to divert his atten-
tion from the organization of fresh troops to the
millinery of the ladies.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JUNE S.—Wind N.W. to N.E.—Arrived
the Atalanta, Gudhoff, from Genoa. Arrived from
London, the Marquis of Wellington, Chapman, for
India ; Kingston, for Quebec; and Charles, Milne,
for Torbay.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE B.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the
Good Intent, Wright, for Dantzic.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind S.—Arrived from
London, the Alfred, for Madras ; and Flora, Christie,
for Fayal.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind variable.—Arrived
off Port, the Earl of Balcarras, Broughton, from
China.

CORK, JUNE 6.—Arrived the William Wilber-
force, White, from St. Domingo; and John Padder,
Lamb, from Barbadoes.
BRISTOL, JUNE B.—Arrived the William Miles,
Escott, from Jamaica.
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, JUNE 4.—The Henrietta,
Moore, from Liverpool to Douglas, arrived here
29th ult., the cargo is on fire, the wood part of the
puncheons and casks of oakum destroyed.
YARMOUTH, JUNE B.—The Economy, Tindall,
of Whitby, has been assisted in here by a boat from
Lowestoffe, with loss of mainmast and rudder, hav-
ing run foul of the Commerce in Lowestoffe Roads.
SHEERNESS, JUNE B.—The Oriana, Moody, from
London to Newcastle, has put in with stern and
starboard quarters damaged, having been run foul
of by the Emeline of Poole.
PENZANCE, JUNE 7.—The Diaper, Shephard,
from Havre to Liverpool, has had her leak stopped
without unloading, and she will proceed forthwith.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's,
at Constantinople, dated May 11 :—" The Porte
continues to decline giving &mans for the Black
Sea, and some arrangements have been made
between the masters of vessels and shippers of goods
for that destination, by which, by the payment of a
per tentage per day, the goods are to remain on
hoard for 30 or 40 days, by which time it is con-
cluded something decisive on the question may be
known."

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Smyrna, dated May 4:—" The Vestal, from Lon-
don, and the Wanderer, from Newport; arrived here,
were on shore near Tegia, at the entrance of our
Gulf, but we do not know of any damage."
Arrived at St. Helena, the Castle Huntley,
General Harris, and Thomas Coutts, from China;
Wellington, Evans, and Moira, Thornhill, from
Madras; Bride, from the Cape of Good Hope.
Arrived at the Cape, the Lord Hungerford,
Heathorn, from Bengal ; Geo. Horne, Still, and
Leda, Robb, from the Mauritius.
The Columbine, Tint, from London to New
South Wales, was wrecked the 31st of March near
St. Helena Bay, Cape of Good Hope ; crew and
passengers saved, and the cargo expected to be saved,
but much damaged.
The St. Vincent, Law, from the Clyde, was on
shore seventy miles to leeward of Demerara, the
25th of April.
The Thetis, Covordale, from the Clyde to Pictou,
was totally lost at Cape Breton previous to the 9th
ult.; crew and passengers saved.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK.

This is again a close holiday in the City, and the spe-
culators are assembled on 'Change, but there is no busi-
ness doing as yet. Consuls may be quoted the same as
yesterday, 88/1 a for the Account.
Accounts from Havre, received by the Journal du Com-
merce this morning, bring intelligence from Buenos Ayres,
of March 22. No new event had taken place, but tran-
quillity was far from being restored. The Deputies were
to assemble on the Ist May. Several foreigners have
demanded permission to contribute to the defence of the
country, and the Government of Buenos Ayres have de-
creed that a battalion of volunteers should be formed,
under the title of Foreign Commercial Battalion, to be
commanded by M. Lanes. They are waiting with anxiety
news from S iota Fe ; troops had marched there on the
11th of March, to put down Lopez.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The assemblage on the Royal Exchange of Jobbers and
Brokers is more numerous than yesterday, but in regard
to business little or nothing is doing. Consols are not quite
so good as in the early part of the day, anti at present may
be quoted 8S I sellers.
The late affair between the Russians and Turks is the
general topic of conversation, and it is believed that the
Russians had the worst of it.

In the Foreign Securities a few bargains have been done.
Portuguese, 43i sellers; Brazil, 561; Danish, 66 1;
Russian, 97.
HALF-PAST TWO.

The Turkey mail has arrived; it brings no later dates
than previously received. Consols continue at the same
price, 88k, sellers, for account.—NQ business doing.
THREE O' CL 0 CK.
Consols for Account, 88k.

BIRTII.—On the 2d inst. at Altyre, Lady
GORDON CLAIMING, of a son.

We were yesterday admitted to a private view
of the British Institution, but from press of matter are
compelled to defer our remarks till to-morrow.

It would appear from a Parliamentary State-
ment, that the number of persons entitled to dividends in
the United Kingdom is only 275,000.

Haymaking has commenced at Sherburne.
The crops are light.—Hants Advertiser.

It will give some idea of the extent of trade
now carrying on between this and the sister country in the
single article of potatoes, when we state that upwards of
20 vessels, potatoe-laden, arrived last week in the port of
Liverpool. Of these about three-fourths had been shipped
from Strangford, Killough, Newcastle, Carlingford, and
Newry. The price of potatoes has risen, of course, in
this town and neighbourhood. The top price on Thurs-
day, our principal market-day, was 2, 241. per cwt. of
11.21 b. We understand that as high as 2s. 6d. was ob-
tained for a few good lots; but on Saturday, so great was
the quantity brought in front the surrounding country, that
a fall of 4d. to 541. took place, and a greater reduction is
expected.—Newry Telrg raph.

The contractors of the Nairn Baths having
given orders for the repair of the fountain and basin which
contains the water to supply the baths, in absence of the
tide, the workmen, when in the act of removing the
covering, were greatly surprised at the sudden convulsion
of the water in the fountain immediately below. On ex-
amination it was found that a seal, in conflict with a large
salmon, was the cause. It was conjectured that the fish
must have been carried there by the seal ; but as there
were also 17 salmon trout and nine salmon, weighing
from 61b. to 15-A-16. each, found alive in it, together with
an immense number of skeleton, the probability is that
they must have entered by the conductor pipe.—Edin-
burgh Observer.

The trade of Perth is excessively dull ; in fact
it is reduced to almost nothing. Her once flourishing ma-
nufactures are no more, and the thousands of happy faces
which we used to look upon with delight have vanished,
and left in their place the sallow care-worn countenance
and lack-lustre eye of meagre poverty. Of all the branches
of trade, that of the weaving is decidedly the most miserable.
Employment in that department is difficult to be obtained ;
and even those who are so fortunate as to obtain it must
work perhaps 16 hours a day, to realize, after deducting
contingent expences, the pittance of 6s. or 7s. a week.
Whether this sum will make the " twa ends meet," or how
far it will go in a family of six or eight,we leave our readers
to judge. That such is the fact, is incontestible.'--Strath-
more Journal.