The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The undermentioned Services due ;he 24th ult. will be in
course-of payment, on Wednesday, the 17th inst., viz. :
Retired Pay—Military Pensions for Wounds—Adjutants of
Local Militia—Adjutants and Sergeant-Majors of Militia—Fo-
reign Half Pay, and Foreign Pensions.
Detachments belonging to the 33d, 77th, and 91st Regiments
of Infantry, embarked, on the 29th and 30th ult., at Newry, for
Jamaica.

The 11 th (North Devon)Regiment of Foot, marched into Cork
on the 2d inst., for immediate embarkation for Portugal.

EMBARKATION OP TROOPS AT WARREN POINT FOR JAMAICA.
—On Friday last about 200 recruits from the depot of the 91st
Regiment, embarked on board the Dorothy Forester, Captain
Honey; and about 200 men from the depot of the 77th, on board
the Beaufort, Captain Sainthill ; and on Saturday, about the
same number, from the depot of the 3Sd Regiment, were received
on board the Loyal Briton, Captain Crosby. We have seldom
seen so fine a body of men. The embarkation was under the di-
rection of Lieutenant-Colonel Thorn, Deputy Quarter-Master-
General of the northern district. Captain Ramsay commands the
detachment of the '77th Regiment. The other officers who ac-
company this distinguished corps are—Captains Raines and Pas-
chal ; Lieutenants Persse and Butler ; Ensigns Bevan and Powell ;
Surgeon Munro.—Dublin Evening Post.
Priamsaiorrit,sJA N. 4.—The 10th Hussars, and the remainder
of the 12th Lancers, were hurried on board. the transports yester-
day ; and this morning, with a flowing sheet, the fleet of trans-
ports went out of harbour, direct to sea. Since four o'clock this
afternoon, it has blown very fresh from the northward ; long pre-
vious to this the fleet was out of sight..

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Plymouth Journal.)

' PLY)IO:ITh, JAN. 3.
The Nightingale entter appeared in the dffing on Tuesday, and
sailed again to the eastward.
The Vigilant ketch, Lieutenant Meredith, arrived yesterday from
Lisbon, in ten days. Five hundred marines had been landed at
Fort St. Julian. On Christmas Day she saw a large shipuff
Lisbon, supposed to be the Windsor Castle.

The Alligator, 29, Captain H. ("lads, was paid off yester
'clay, and will he re-commissioned to-day for foreign service.
In Hamoaze—Britannia, Thetis, Alligator, Rifleman, Sate!,
lite, Bramble.

At the Island—Vigilant.
In the Sound—Ringdove and Leveret.

The Mary, merchant *easel, taken up at Lisbon, for the pur-
pose of bringing despatches to England, arrives' at Falmouth on
the night of the 80th ult. in 14 days. The despatches were sent
off immediately to the Foreign Office.
It is generally reported that Sir Sidney Smith, who so nobly
repulsed Buonaparte at St. Jean d'Acre, is likely to succeed Vice=
'Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, at Chatham.
Lieutenant B. M. Festing, of the Brazen, is promoted to the
rank of Commander.

Captain Henry Buiirehier, R.N. 'is appointed to command and
superintend the Quarantine Establishment at Stangate Creek.
Lieutenant James Barber, of Gosport, late of the Ramillies, is
appointed Agent of Transports.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLOYD'S.--(Tius DAY.)

DEAL, JAN. 5..-LWind N.W.—Arrived horn London and
sailed the J. Harris, Tilley, for Jamaica; Hiram, Brown, for
Gibraltar; Patience, Sowel, for St. Abes; Flora, Warrant, for
'Smyrna. The Lowther Castle came down and proceeded for
India in the night.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. N.N.W.—Sailed the Lord
Cochrane transport for Corfo, and the Alexander and John Eris
man transports for Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, J.N. 4 —Wind N.—Sailed the Vibelia, Cor
bett,, for Jamaica.

Fatscotrn, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailerl the Simpson,
Black, for Gibraltart

LIVERPOOL, JA)i.-4.---Arrived the Orortsmbo, from New York;
the Robin Hood, Woodbury, from Savannah; the Sedulous,
Goldsbury, from New York.; the Colonist, M'Master., from St.
Andrews, and the Francis Pearce, from Virginia:
GRAVESEND, JAW. s.—Arrived the Arnlaby, Overton, from
Oporto ; the Hope, Madge,. from Fereira ; the Martha, Robin--
ion, from Honduras; the William, Murdoch, from Teneriffe;
and Sylph, Underhall, from Newfoundland. Sailed the Cale-
donia, Crighton, for Vigo; the Caesar, for Calcutta; and
the Caledonia, for La Guayra.
•

Yesterday despatches for St. Helena, Bombay, and China, by
rthe ship .Adas,Captain John Hype, were closed at the East In-
dia House, and delivered to the purger of that ship.
PORTSMOUTH, JAIL 4.—Sailed the St. Laurence, Charlotte
.
Maria, Barrack, Monarch, Emperor Alexander, IVanderer,
Harriet, Ocean, Crown, Champion, and transport,
with troops, for Lisbon,—Wind N.W. Cambridge

As the state of the 'cotton trade acquires great interest
at the present moment, we annex a comparative return of
its results for the concluding three months of 1825 and
1826 :

EXPORTED —FRONt THE PORT% or toNowt, LIVERPOOL, Allto HULL.
In IS week., from the 11th of In 13 weeks, from the 10th of
October, 1825, to the 3d of October, 1826, to the 2d of
January, 1826 : January, 1827 :-
1
Calicoes, plain yds. 30,608,931 Calicoes, plain yds. 27,556,839
Ditto, printed do. 28,225,591 Ditto, printed do. 20,596,377
Cotton Twist... lb. 11,341,488 Cotton Twist... lb. 11,978,201
—Times.

We are sincerely happy to hear that it is in the con-
teinplation of the Admiralty to extend the late considerate and
gracious boon, granted to the old Subalterns of the line; by his
3lajesty, at the particular recommendation of his late Royal
highness the Commander-in-Chief, to the old First Lieutenants
of the Royal Marines. We trust the indulgence will not stop
here; but he extended to that undeservedly disappointed class of
Officers, the old Second Lieutenants of that distinguished Corps,
as some recompence for serving, their Country from fifteen to eigh-
teen years in the same subordinate rank—a period of time unpre.
cedented in the annals of the British Military Service.—Morn-
ing chronicle.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6,

DEATH

OP
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK

The sufferings .of his. Royal Highness the Duke
of 'lonic are over ! Death has kindly stepped
in and relieved his Royal HiomNEss from the agonies
of that lingering malady which afflicted his frame,
but could not.
.subdue his spirit. Last night,
lat twenty minutes -past nine o'clock, the measure
of his time was full, and he breathed his last,
surrounded by those who had ministered so long 11
tO'llis- iffiiction, and witnessed the magnanimous pa-
tieuce
with which he endured the slow but certain
progress of a disease which he knew to be 'mortal.—
Death is at all times an awful visitant, but when
lendsit occursiii
additional
the chamber of Royalty, the contrast
solemnityomtiie toco nttleiempsicaetnioen.
ofT hNeV Ohr ledalr t
is sadly recalled fiy
grandeur, to the terrors of mortal dissolution., The
decease of his Royal HIGHNESS but too forcibly
illustrates the uncertainty of that promised boon which
busy hope is constantly presenting to the imagination
—that undefined enjoyment which cheers our youth,
but is not destined to solace our years. His Royal
HIGHNESS had some chance of one day filling the
Throne of his father—but that prospect is now blighted
by mortality, and he descends to the tomb of his Ances-
. tors. Although the public mind must have been some
' time prepared for this melancholy event, yet the pain-1
fulness of suspense is now embittered by tI4
certainty of unmingled regret and universal sympathy,
for the loss of a Prince, who was not more
endeared by his kindly virtues in private life than
adored for the uniform integrity and manly demeanour
of his pUblic career. The merits of his character
;-,, have 'been too, well appreciated by the nation to re-
i quire But though our;
the .eutogium of panegyric. .

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I

praise may well be spared as tributary to his memory,
yet the expression of our esteem may be alloWed as

illustrative of our afflicted feelings. Upon an occa-
sion of this kind, we do not envy the hearts of those
who can find patience in seeking out, and pleasure in ex-
ulting.over, the too frequent failings of our nature, nor
can we admire the ingenuity of that • pen, affecting
sorrow, but dipped in gall, which can turn sen-
--
tences not less despicable for their literary merit than
contemptible for the malignity of their spirit. Far
can we tolerate that neglect of decency—that scandalous
exultation of factious demagogues--who, not more
lost to shame than dead to the common feelings of
humanity, could utter sentiments of joy over the bed
of sickness—who could betray the deadly venom of
their 'hearts over the illustrious sufferer, and point in
no decent language to the dissolution of a Fellow-
Christian, because conscientiously opposed to
them in certain matters of religion. The object
of their reproach is now beyond the reach of
malice—but theirs is not the proud conscious-
ness of noble animosity, generous forbearance, or
manly pride—they cannot review their conduct with-
out a tear, if they have any shame left ; but their con-
trition will awaken no gentle sympathy, nor their re-
morse forgiveness. Who, on this' melancholy occa-
sion will meet their countenance but with scorn, and
hear their sorrow but with indignation., Let them go
—the uncharitable Journalist to muse over the indeli-
ble columns of his own shame, and the orator: to hear
the loathing echoes of his own reproach. The memory
of the Duke of YORK is embalmed in the hearts of
those whose gratitude is full, while their recollection
yet teems with the urbanity of the Prince, and the
generous sensibility of the soldier. Long, very long,
after the best friend of the Army is laid in the dust—
will the tear of regret bedew the cheek of the veteran
in distant climes—and the mournful honours paid to
his memory wherever the banner of England waves, will
not be more general than sincere—the grief not
more deep than lasting. The Army may get another
Commander-in-Chief, but not another Duke of
YORK

THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1827.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 6, 1827.

" T
evening, at twenty minutes past Nine &Clock,
departedhsithis life, after a painful and protracted illness, his
Royal Highness FREDERICK Duke of YORK and ALBANY,
his MAJESTYS next Brother, to the great grief of his
MAJEsTy. and of all the Royal Family,"

wasT hweorDseu-i:e 0 f Illieirnledootno,
Throughout Thursday night his Royal Highness en-
joyed"
thwathwheni
Yhe Physicians pronounced state
became
yesterday to the numerous e
tvtheehari eltd aert
survive the day.
swhito. rosyealanHdigNhvnorseses
!could
tcosicililTivloedhnnn oognoat,lrc:epin:sc:o.tese,kiiiabgyngie:di
(amed that he
e
WELLINGTON, Earl BATHURST, and Mr.
inquiries
the KING,
which were made, were simply,
as
t, wereth e f
fßsea a dormey
Secretary PEEL, called frequently
Ambassador,
the day; and
Two messengers were despatched attnbdasi
Prince ESTERIIAZY. the Austrian
different
tnrl ,git,ai thetomnhddeegse iinu ,
SPEAKER of the House of Common
the day, to
nu-
merous inquirers at Rutland House.
His Royal Highness the Duke SUSSEX arrived at
Rutland House as early as nine of
o'clock yesterday morning,
and the Duke of CLARENC
E at twelve o'clock. They
were with the Duke till
.within an hour of his death. The
Duke of CLARENCE then
the
nc
do
suor
remained in I
rsePoark.
Lie anti-room
; the Duke of Sussax
his Royal Brother was no
more. When informed by theP
Physicians that his brother
was in the agonies of death, he was deeply affected.
Sir HENRY HALFORD was to have presided at a meet-
- ing of the College of Physicians
yesterday afternoon, but
niem he dispatched Dr. ITAEL to the College, to an-
nounce the impossibility his attendance. Mr. MAC-
GREGOR also- communicatedof
to his patients that he could
not possibly attend to
His Royal Highness, them during the day.
who had only been able occasion-
ally tp recognize his
attendants,
,became totally insensible.
about one o'clock.
mortification
reached
ck. The m • •
on had then nearly
ched the vital
organs.
In the course of the afternoon, his
Royal Highness
once or twice so far recovered
Inl as to appear sensible of ex-
ternal objects, but he '
mediately relapsed into his former
state of stupor.
At four o'clock, Mr. WHITE, the King's Messenger:
was dispatched to Windsor with an account of the Royal
Duke's condition.

His Royal Highness continued in the same state during
the evening with scarcely any change. The narcotics ad'
ministered produced occasional repose, but soon after nine
o'clock the approach of death became manifest.

At twenty minutes past nine his Royal Highness, whose
respiration had scarcely been perceptible for some time,
breathed his last without a struggle.
The instant .his Royal Highness's death was announced,
a Messenger was dispatched to the Castle at Wiadsor, to.
announce the melanchOly intelligence to his MAJESTY.
After the embarrassment necessarily created by this
event had in some degree subsided, messengers were dis-
patched to the other Members of the Royal Family, to the
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S Office, to the LORD CRANCELLOS'
to Mr. Secretary PEEL, &C.
The body of his Royal Highness was laid out, and pro'
per persons stationed in the apartment, until the Lord
Chamberlain sent a Deputy to take possession of it.
His Royal Highness the Duke Of SUSSEX, after the legit
spark of life had tied, left the chamber, and proceeded,
his carriage, to his mansion, at Kensington.
The medical attendants left the corpse soon afterwards'
in the custody of Mr. MASBY, of the'Lord Chamberlain's
Office. Mr. BAILEY, of Mount-street, the undertaker to
the Royal Family, was sent for, and the body was left ill
Persons belonging to the Royal Duke's late establish'
thent were appointed to sit up during the night with the
During the whole of his protracted illness, his RoY'
thator gentleman's possession.
pse.
Highness bore his sufferings with the most manly fortitude'
He attended even to business when labouring under grit
pain, with an equanimity which has seldom been equalled'
He yielded only to his disease when his powers raja
sunk under its influence.

His. Royal Highness FREDERICK, DUKE of YORK, second A
of our late King, George 111., was born August 16, 1763, and
elected Bishop of Osnaburg Feb. 27, 1764. Ori the 27th of I`i,r
vember, 1784, he was created Duke of York and Albany,
Great Britain, and Earl of Ulster, in Ireland. The earlier yes°
of his life, up to the period of 1791, were spent (if we except
duel with Colonel Lennox, which took place in 1789), in cone(
rative tranquillity, not to say privacy; but towards the close °
September, 1793, he was called into active public service, bY
appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the armies destined for ja:edi

Low Countries. It is not our intention, in this brief chronicle o
hia Royal Highness, to enter into minute, detaiLs respecting his
campaign in Holland against the French RepUblican armies :
enough to say that, with some few exceptions, they were disastrous.
For years subsequent, though he still retained the highest military
command that the British Government can bestow, he vet conti-
nued, with the native modesty of his nature, in a state of almost
absolute retirement, until the year 1808, when public attention
Was again turned towards him, in consequence of a motion sub-
witted by one Wardle (a creature now forgotten) to the House of
Commons, for an inquiry into his conduct as Commander- in-
Chief. It was stated, among other charges, that his Royal High-
ness had delegated official powers to a Mrs. Clarke, through whose
agency promotions were made or retarded. The investigation of
these charges lasted for some months, when it was finally de-
cided, by a majority of 82, that " there were no grounds for
charging his Royal Highness with personal corruption or conniv-
ance at such practices disclosed in the testimony heard at thebar."
Towards the close of 1820 his Royal Highness had the misfortunel
to lose his Duchess, who expired at Oatlands, , in the 54th year ofl
her age, from which period, up to the present fatal moment, little
remains to he told, except anecdotes of his unwearied private ge-
nerosity, which, however creditable and numerous in themselves,
do not yet fall within the pale of public biography. We may,
however, assert, without fear of contradiction (for, however par-
ties may differ on other points of his Royal Highness's character,
in this at least they will be unanimous), that his private acts of
charity were so unbounded, as to merit the charge of profusion :
his manner, too, either in sating or doing a kind thing, was so
dignified, yet so affable—so condescending, yet so loftily consi-
derate—that the value of the action was lost in the superior satis-
faction imparted by the mode of bestowing it. Count Segur has
somewhere observed of Napoleon, that if he made a present, he
took care to let it he felt that he was makitig it, and that the
other individual was receiving it. No such humiliation was ever
yet experienced by the objects of his Royal Highness's bounty ;
indeed, the princely grandeur of his mind always made the per-
son obliged feel as if he were the person obliging—a peculiar trait
of character which, as Swift shrewdly observes, evinces a lofty
nature in the donor. In his military capacity of Commander-in-
Chief his Royal highness will never be forgotten ; when the
petty squabble 4 of party have subsided,. when the prejudices of
circumstance and sitw.tion have gone by, when all that belongs of
personal hostility to the individual is subdued, and his actions
alone as a public character are challenged—then it will be tri-
umphantly recollected that the Duke of York was the first who,
despising the shackles of conflicting interests with which, from his
situation, he was necessarily surrounded—entered as one man into
the personal feelings of another, and, made every Officer his friend,
his devoted, lasting, and enthusiastic admirer. The staple of his
mind seems to have been shrewd, discriminating sense. Reared
under the vigilant superintendence of a strong-minded, but severely
judging parent, he had imbibed imperceptibly, as it were, his,
strongest and severest notions'; and we all know how principlee)l
thus early instilled, retain unimpaired all their energies to the last.
" Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem
" Testa diet."

It is to this characteristic trait that we must trace his Royal
Highness's aversion to the Catholic claims. As a brother—'
a' a friend—as a son—it is not for us to vindicate his Royal
Highness's claims to admiration • they speak audibly and sincerely
'n the affectionate recollections of all thus connected with
hie :may, however, from our knowledge as.publie journalists, as-
,crt, that throughout the English army his death has left a void
which may, perhaps, never be tiled up ; and many a poor pen-
gioner, as he contemplates with gratitude his present happy con-
dition, will feel that gratitude dashed with a tear, when he reflects
that his princely benefactor is no more.

We'have the satisfaction of laying before our Readers
the official statement of the amount of the Public
111 evenue of gre4 Britain for,tho years and (parte!s
respectively, ended the sth of this month. •
The general result of these accounts is, that on the
quarter ended yesterday, there is an increase of
142,996 L, as compared with the amount. of the cor-
responding quarter of last year, and on the year
ended sth instant, a decrease of 1,923,1481., as Coin-•-
Pared with. the amount of the Revenue of Great Bri-
tain for the year ended sth January, 1826.
The increase on both the quarter and year arises on
two heads only, viz :—the Customs and Miscellaneous
--while there is a decrease on each of the other bran-
ches of the Revenue. The increase .in the quarter
has not been to the amount we had estimated, in con-
sequence of the Excise not having proved so productive
4S had been supposed. In other respects our caleula-,
tidn is borne out by the official Accounts, and al-
though the decrease of Revenue in the year, has been
more considerable than the CIiANCELLOR of the Ex-
eh EquEn. had estimated, still; considering the peCuliar
eircumstances under which the manufaqures and trade
of the country have been placed during the last year,
we see no cause of despondency.
The increase under the head of Customs, in the last
Quarter, although ' it may in a considerable degree
arise from the importation of Foreign Corn, - must be
"sewed as an indication of the improving state of our
trade ; and the diminished amount of the de.
crease under the other heads of Revenue, as com-
pared with the decrease of the three preceding quar-
ters) shows, that even. in those branches, which.
a'e, most affected by the. distress which has
ellated throughout the country, a visible improve-
rti
ent is taking place,. We trust, therefore, that-
gradual improvement of the Revenue from this time;
shay,
,lbe calculated upon, and that the great resources
of.
Particularsuffering causes, at he moment,
present are not likelj.,
to •be permanently
impaired.
ABSTRACT of the .,
,„G MU
io the ,ET Paonuct of the REYENUE of T Barrizs,
thew 1"U and QUARTERS ended ~sth January, 1826 and 13•27,
o-_______l2_____3 0-He Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

Years ended January 5.
.--.......--........__....r.—„
Increase. Decrease.
1826 18t7
Cti.,t .
-----
3
Ex,.ums ............ ..... 15,194,254 15,766,762 79'508 i j 75,347
-
. w ..................... 19,524,1121 17,749,274.
720,219
1.`0,1114 . .................... 6,997,V-1 6,277,014 -
-21,000
et ffice ............... 1,517,000 1,496,0°° -
Taxes
N...
•• 4,990,138 4,702,742 - 287,396
,iscellanenus ............ 350,574 658,630 308'30
5
-------

1.9,573,820 1 46,650,672 I 880,814 I 2,803,V62
Deduct Increase 880,814

• Decrease on the Year
Quarters ended Jan. 5.
18"---"."7-6 '---ir"---'27 Increase. .Decrease.
Custotos .................. 3,702 943 4,03 a Vie ' 330,635' -n.
3tamßxci" .............. ' ... "" 4,4'70 4, 469'17 - 4'"J''
, • ............. • .... 1,636,240 1,502:021 - 1%4,229
Pftt Unice
382,000 379,000 - 3,000
Taxes
,02,544 i 9ow 070 - 71"tS
Miscellaneous 112,81 -'13;:499 24,913
_______
,2,361.069 -72 ,-.,---"-T,---.—. 355,553 ''12,3:,7
Deduct Decrase 0- 089
-
912,557
''' ................
Increase on the Quarter
......... 1 142,996
--=:;
We ear..:.-1 i., ------- "-.

e received, by express, this morning, the Paris Papers
of Wednesday, and the Etoile dated Thursday morning.
The Constitutionnel contains an article dated Madrid,!
bec. 2S, which states that all the efforts of France and'
England for the maintenance of peace, by prevailing on,
the Spanish Government to recognise the, Constitutional
Government of Portugal, and to make compensation for
the injuries sustained by the invasion, have hitherto been
exerted to no purpose, and th4t far from obtaining their
tilt;
towards
the two Cabinets see two divisions
thedrontiers of Portugal. The article goes on to
RCEZTAwz.?At

tsar, that this determination, which up to that date was
(problematical,, has now ceased to be so. The forces
[amount to 7000 men.

The Etoile, after giving from the Quotidienne the ac-
rcount contained in, that Paper of the answer which FER-1
DINAND' is said to have made to the demands of Great
;Britain and France, asks how that Journal can pretend to,
'give, as it were, word for word, a secret communication
observing, that it is either an abuse of confidence, or little
faith can be attached to the truth of its expressions. This'
does not amount to a denial on the part of the Etoile of
the correctness of the information; but, in fact, adds to the'
probability of its authenticity.
,
If FERDINAND has replied in the terms attributed
him, he has thrown down the gauntlet before Great Bri-
tain, and the honour of this country will require that very
different language should be wrung from the Government
of Spain. We shall then see with what sincerity France
has, united with us in endeavouring to induce FERDINAND
to follow the dictates of common sense on this occasion.

Extracts from these Papers will be found in another

!column.

We have just received, by express, the Paris Papers
,dif Thursday, and the Etoile dated Friday. The fol-
jowing are extracts :

(From the Quotidienne of Thursday.)
PAexs, JAN. 3.—We have giien in the Quotidienne the dig-
nited and temperate answer made by Ferdinand to the Ultimatum
of the British Cabinet. We have every reason to believe that
the official copy of it has been received by the French Ministry.
(The Quotidienne then enters into a discussion to show that
the English Cabinet has mistaken the character of _Ferdinand;
and in answer to the observation of the Etoile, it says it did not
pretend to give the text of the answer of the Cabinet of'Madrid,'
but that it is certain of having given the sense of it.)
The Etoile, dated Friday, after a series of observations on tbe
articles of the Quota/ileum, cowhides thus :
If the answer which the Quotidienne attributes to the
Cabinet of Madrid it true, let Spain make war: It will
make war alone—for France neither can nor will give it
any assistance to support this
,nnjust war. In this
case the Spanish -Cabinet wduld give an idea of its
sentiments, which we will abstain from characterising.
—lf the answer is fictions, .the Quotidienne itself gives
a just idea of the peispicsicity and sagacity of its political
views; God preserve us from being ever governed in the spirit
of the Quotidienne. Let these who would know in what con-
dition we shall soon be, see the condition of those whom it directs.
It is announced that the
,Spaniards who have taken part in the
intrigue which we have pointed out, relative to the affairs of Por-
tugal, have just received orders to quit Paris and the other towns
in France in which they were settled.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Pasts, JAN. 4.—Five per Cents. 99f.
20c. ; 99f. 40c..; Three per Cents. 67f. 75c. ; 41 per Cent.
90f. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 2,018 f. 75c. ; Naples Rentes, 73f. 75c. ;
Spanish ditto, 124; Ditto Loan, 48. Exchange on London—
One Month, 25f. 33c. ; Three Months, 25f. 20c.

THE FUNDS.

CITY, (This DAY), Twelve o' Clock.

The transactions in the British Funds this morning have been
but few, and the opening price of Console was 80f I, nominally
they were afterwards thine at 80-1 looking heavy, but have
since been at 80i, buyers, and are now sellers at this price. There
appears a heavy gloom in the City, at the intelligence which has
been more generally spread by the -Morning Papers, of the much
lamented decease of his RoyaL Highness the Duke of York ; and
although this is an event which has been expected daily, still the
occurrence has made a strong impression of feeling and regret on
the Citizens, with whom he was decidedly popular. India Bonds
maintain their price of yesterday, being 46 8 ; and Exchequer
Bills continue at 278 pm. Scarcely any movement has taken place
in the Foreign Funds, and it may almost be stated thatno business
was done up to the above time; the quotations are, for Mexican.
Bonds, 644 5 ; Colombian, 33i 4. ; in Spanish some few bar-
gains have been made, and they may he quoted at Ist Nothing
new crew stated in Shares, which remain quite stagnant.- - -
Three per Cent. Consols for account, 801 15j ; Jndia Bonds,
46 8 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 27 8 pm.

FOREIGN Pt;Nns.—Brazilian, 60 2; Buenos Ayres, 60 2 ;
Chilian, 37 9 ; Danish, 584 94 ; Colombian, 1824, 33i 44 ;
Mexican, 5 per Cent., 53 4 ; Ditto; 6 per Cent., 641 5;
Peruvian; 31 3 ; Portuguese, 741 51; Greek; 15 1; Russian,
851 6 ; Spanish, 13+ 1.
Mtwas..L—Anglo Mexican, 25 21 411. ; United Mexican, 87
die. ; Tlalpuzahua, 50 60 pna. ; Brazilian, 2 4 pm. ; Bolivar,
21 3i pm.; Colombian, 17 per Share.; Potosi, 64 6 per Share.

Two o' aoch.

Consols have been •in a feverish state, and have fallen to 80 sellers.
and are now buyers. This fall has been caused by the contents
of the French Papers, which represent the Bing of Spain to have
positively refused to acquiesce in the terms which were submitted
to him by the British Government ; for this we have been for,
some time fully prepared by the hereditar;• folly of this bigotted
Monarch end his priesthood.

The Foreign funds continue in the same languid state, and the
moat attention is paid to the state of the English funds. Prices
of all Foreign StOcks continue the same.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols for Account, 80-1
FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING 'PRICE.
Consols j Danish Bonds .58.1-

Do. for Ac. 801
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Do.

Greek Do. 1825 154
Mexican Do. 1825, 643
Peruvian Do.

Chilian
Do. ,
IColumbian, 1824, :14+,

Russian Do. 854
Spanish Do. 144

it is supposed that the Mail Coach direct from Edinburgh has,l
been impeded by snow, as it had not reached the General Post-
Office at one o'clock this afternoon. •
e bankers of Manchester have commenced dis-,
couTntinh g at 4 per cent., so that there is now no advantage in'
doing business with the Branch Bank.
A report reached Cloninel yesterday by the Li-
merick Coach (which we hope will prove to be unfounded), that
two men (brothers), whose names we have not heard, were at-
tacked by
fa banditti near Caller: on Thursday night, and savagely
murdered ! Waterford Chronicle.

REFORMATION IN CONNAUGHT.—We under-
nd that a number of Roman Catholics conformed in Ballivasloe,
on Christmas Day, and received the Lord's Supper in the Parish
Church. There are a number in Galway ready to do the same, if
protection could be afforded to their persons and property.— Gal-
way Independent.
LITERAL INTERPRETATION.--A voting Cam-
bridge student by no means a Solomon, being told in the Senate
House that previous to matriculation he must subscribe to the
Thirty nine Articles ; replied with vexation, 1‘ I have already
subscribed five shillings to about half a dozen poor people ; how-
ever, as I would not wish to look mean, here's threepence for the
other thirty-nine." This is actually a fact.
TlME.—Time is the most undefinable, yet para-
doxical of all things ; the past is gone, the future is not come,
and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define
it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and
the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Like
space, it is incomprehensible, because it has no limit, and it would
be still more so, if it had. -It is more in its source than the
Nile, and in its termination than the Niger, and advances like the
slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. It gives wings
of lightning to pleasure, but feet of lead to pain, and lends expect-
ation a curb, but enjoyment a spur. It robs beauty of her charms,
to bestow them on her picturerand builds a monument to merit, but
denies it a house ; it is the transient and deceitful flatterer of false-
hood, but the tried and final friend of truth. Time is the most subtle,
yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take no-
thing is permitted to take all ; nor can it be satisfied, until it has
stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies,
yet overcomes all things by flight, and although it is the present
ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Time, the cradle of
hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools,
hut the salutary counsellor of the wise, bringing all they dread to
the one, and all they desire to the other; but like Cassandra, it'
• warns us with a voice that even the sagest discredit too long, and
the silliest believe too Lite. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity"
with it, and repentance behind it ; he that has made it his friend,
will have little to fear from his.enemies, but he that has made
' it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.—LacoN.