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London, England, 1825-11-04 00:00:00

'I 1-11.; EVENING It.

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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 13:'.i.
KINO WllliLit.All 111. LAPiDen—ITOLITIAY AT TIM PA,IK.
E STOCK XCHANGC, TW PINK O'CLoCK.

• it is a Holiday at the Batik, but the Stock Exchange and
foreign Market ate open. Ciiiihok ippeueil at tin tor the Account,
and are now 1i74 t. with little doing.
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Clore-to Prices • Nese Spanish Is, Old Spanish 174 4, R114.1i311
911.'92, Mexican 684. Austrian 954 ez div. (7olond.i.i New 724,
Brazil Fcrip 9 84 disc. ".%lezican Sclip 9/ 4 disc. Gteek Bonds 24!,
Guatemala 51 5 discount.
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
/4,istrisn RN 5 p Cr. 'Airs. Scrip, 18%5. 91 din.
Nrarilian I 4 •tu ~ Ditto Acct. 9) a dis.
Srtir.s!)C.lnt!.s. M.:avail:sn Bona.,
1/itto Acct. 81 4 dia. Peruv. 6 pr.
Tnerma Ayre. 14.11 Is DittoScrip,lB2s,4 pC.
11-1•Ilian Raul., p Piotiigtiew
thin, tor Arc. 84
Ilion Are,. PruNs. 11,1%. 6p C.
Bonds 1 R 2.4. 791 5 1)o. Bonds. 181[2,
.1e... 721 7el 5 nus‘. ikiNtsus,s p 92
Dtnish 110.,,1,, 5 p et. I Span. 5 p C. rims. 174 17
l'u. 11:.rks Banco I Ditto Acct. 174
Ditto Portla,l6:ls, 651 Ditto .510 174
ltios.l4 I Span.s p.t 't. C. 182 S,

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IN, MINI Sq.; 5 pCt. 24b I French Hewes, 5pC.
Ditto Acct. French Ilentrs,:Sp C.
).rx. Bwl+, 67i I gxchnilge,
Pitt. t t. 63V 1 Guatemala Scrip.
l'ii.llniul4.i T 11,6 p rt. 1 Ditto Acct. 5 di,.
Him Acct. I Iluiaian Inscript. 6 p Ct.
IiPITISiI AND FOREIGN sit tiu.:s, TWO O'CLOCK

!•:IA!: R. PAID.
linen INlrcir::n 5 pm. 100 50 56
An,•l.. tih al 100 S 31
ra..tel to & E.ririto Santo 100 5 61
Undel .I:exicall 40 20
!into N. w 40 10 21
Alliance ItritiNll & For. 100 10 151 14
1 risi.li Iron Con,pais7 - 100 £5 17;
i'titiiii Rock & l'at..ot S dr 10 6 10
PritiTh. Irish, and Colonial
Silk Company . . 50 2 11 321 2
Cereral Ste •rn Navittation 100 .5 5
Tkletropol,tan Alderney Dairy 25 4 • 4
Patent Tricky 50 2 11

Some interesting intelligence has been received from
Prome, to as late a period as the 9th May, horn which
it appears, that the resistance of the enemy has been,
from first to last, most obstinate and resolute ; that not
a sin& overture for peace liai been made by the Bur-
mese, until the army had take n Doaabew, and advanced
upon "'tome, and then truly, as is reasonably conj e-
turrd, with a view to delay the General. by negociation,
until a sufficient force could have been collected to
oppo e him ; and that the sole cause to which we are
indebted for the possession of Donsbew without a san-
gninary streggle, was the death of the renowned
leader, IluaDooLart, by a chance shot, which dis-
heartened the garrison, most prolva.'ily because no other
qualified person was at hand to take the command.
It also appears that the Burmese country abounds in
the resources of war to a turptising degree, and that
the Aill of the enemy in his own peculiar mode of for-
tification is very consider able. The British troops, how.
ever, had secured most admit able positions for quarters
during the then approaching rainy season, and were
preparing the it huts for the four sub,equent months, dur-
ing wliich they must necessarily remain inactive. As this
interval w.aild allow the enemy, who is better inured to
the climate, sufficient time to collect his remaining re-
sources for another campaign, we have all along enter-
tained great doubts whether the war could have been
concluded in the last season. Neither are those doubts
weakenei by the intelligence yesterday communicated
in a private letter from Calcutta, dated 7th June, which
stales that peace had been concluded, subject to confir-
mation by the Governor-General in Council; as a cor-
reboration of which a Morning Paper relies on the fact
of the return of the flotilla and transports from Rangoon.
—The last circumstance is easily accounted for by
ere monsoon anti rainy season rendering the co-ope.
rati,at of naval means unnecessary and impracti-
cable during the inactivity of the ttoops. Bctwten
the 9th of May, the date of the letter from Prome,
and the Ist of June, there was scarcely time to
tiegociate a peace there, and transmit the conditions
to Calcutta. If this were possible, the fact would
have been instantly announced with the usual solemni-
ties of Gazettes and rejoicings. But the impr bahility
of such an event, however desirable, we regret to say
is greatest from the certainty that the Burmese, having
vigorously held out until the inactivity of our army
Was secured by the rains, would riaturai:y avail them-
s 'hes ~f this chance in their favour, which by pos-
sibility might ozcasion sickness or scarcity of sup.
plies in the quarters of our brave troops, and thus
protract the war at least until the oper•iag of the
sea on (or operations in September. Yielding to
mine of our cotemporaries in ardent wishes for a
secure and honourable peace with an enemy who
las proved himself so formidable in war, arid so
imp) rcably hostile to our influence in the E Ist, we
set deem it our duty to guard cur Rea.iers against
future disappointment, by cautiouiy admit.ing state-
ments mare in accordance with our desires than with
sober reasoning.

And our dtcided opinion is still unshaken, that the
war cannot be.terminated on the Eastern Frontier but
by the eutiae subjectiAs of the Kingdom of Av... S atm
equivocal movements ate mentioned to have taken
place on the part
.of the King of SIAM. IF their be
any foundation for these lepoits, it is probably to be
traced to the endeavours of the lilts mese to st engtl en
themselves by alliances with the neighbouring Kswets.
These, however, in re.pect to the Siamese, will be reit-
thred i;atot y, as they are assailable from die sea coast.

New South Wales Pape' s to the. 25th M 4y were this
morning teceive,l at t' e North arid South American
Cotf-r-house. Tile intelii:4etice that the variations in
the cu'rency would be soon prevented by the issue of.,
nesting coinage, ikon great plea,ute. The weathet had