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LONDON.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1W95.
STOCK EXCIIANGF., TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols *opened this morning at /nil,. with little doing.; but
so.,ti after they were done at 87i j for the Account, and 57; for
Money. Tits confusion and alarm which the great failure caused
yesterday afternoon, on 'Change, begins this morning to subside.
It is calculated it will be about a million, and not seven millions, as
a Homing Paper states.
In the Foreign Miirket nothing is doing.

Current Prices: Austrian Bonds 981;, Brazilian Scrip 81 8
di+c. Buenos Ayres Bonds 83 84. Chilian Bonds 681 691, Greek
Bonds 291, :Mexican Bonds 70/ 711, blezican Scrip 81 8 disc.
Old Spanish 171, Guaternela 5 44 discount.

P:. ICE 4)1 sTocKs AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 226 22.5
3 , er Cent. iced. 8678 87 86%
3, . r Cr•nt. ('on.. b7'/2 Y 4 lia
31 per Cent. 941/1 7/8
3f. per Cent. Red. 94%M 1/a
4 per Cent. New 10314 ,Y 8 Vs
Lang Ann. 20 15-16 21 .
New Annuities 87%
ELMO Excheq. Bill. par 1 pr( m.
£5OO Liiiiii par 2 prem.
4:100 and Lt.-00 ditto 24 1 3 prem.
Loos. for Acct. 87qa 1/8 Mt
Foßktr:N FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Au'trlan lids S p Ct. ' 111 ex. Scrip, 1825,
Brazilian ii. 4111-. * DUO ACM 83 3 di,.
In.. fie s ii, ,5 pe. I 825, Neapolitan Bond.,
Ditto Acct. PcriAt. liontls, 6 pt.. 613
Pt:tl.ol Area MAW* I)itisiScrip,l62.s, 6 pC.
I.itto Ate!. I'm tugoese Bond.
Cliii! ii 11. p 'it, 6 p Cf. Pi iiss. lid.. rt p C. 931
Col titan Bils,6pC. Do. Bonds. 113'2:2,
l'itto AeCt. Huss. 8t15,1329,S p C.
Ditto Bonds 1824. Ditto for Ace.
Ditto Aee. 741 a Span. 5 p C. Cons. 171 17
Danish lisinl,, 5
„p Ct. 1011 Ditto Acct. 171
1'... Marts Banco Ditto 510
Ditto Bonds, 16.25, GG3 Spans p. Ct. C. 1823,
Circek Bonds French livines,spC.
1/1).1:W6,1825 5 pet. 291 French Bentes.3p C. 72f.
Ditto Acct. Exchange, 251. 10c.
IV ex. Bonds, 71 701 71 Guatemala Scrip, 5 dia.
Ditto Acct. Ditto Acct. 5 dia.
I /c.80nd5,1825, 6 p Ct. Russian Inscript. 6 p Ct.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
SHA KC. PAIII. roues tilt •lIIA RI.
An;;lta 111exicau 5 pm. 100 30 60 671
Bolivar 50 3 21
CaatelloStEspititoSanto 100 5 10/ 3 A 3
Ilitternian - 50 4 - - 21
Potosi. I.n Paz, & Pertly. 50 5 4; A 3
Real del Monte 400 350 550
United Mexican 40 20
Ditto Nt w 40 10 22
Marine Alliance 100 5 54
Continental Gas 100 8 31
British Iron Company - 100 £5 193 20
British Bock & l'atent Salt 50 .5 10 91
General Dyeing & Printing 3 4/
Imperial Plate Glass 100 2 3

In another column we have given some further de-
taik of that affecting calamity, the loss of the Comet
steArn-packet; a correct list cf the sufferers has not yet
Leen obtained, but we feel great pleasure in stating, that
the Tern of Lord IslAcu NALD, Mr. DOWNIE, of Ap-
and Mr. GRANT, of Laggan, the celebrated novel
A% riter, having perished in the Comet is ut founded, none
cf them being on board at the time.

A similar fatal accident occurred about two years
:Igo, in the loss of the Catherine, of lona, which was
run down by the Hercules steam-b -at, en the night of
Saturday, the 10th of August, 1822. A strcng coin-
cidence prevails iu the two cases. In both the calamity
avas occasioned by steam-vessels in the vety outset of
th-ir cateer. The time was nearly the sante: the acci-
&tits occurred almost at the same place, and had
similar causes assigned them. In the case of the Ca-
therine, for ty-two persons perished out of forty-sit; in
the present instance, it is to be feared, however, a much
larger number has been lost.
The frequency of accidents to steam-boats, calls loudly
for s, me legislative interference. Fire and water, the
old proverb says, are " good servants, but bad masters;',
and when they are employed in such important opera.
tions as steam navigation, every care ought to be taken
to keep them in subjection.. Mr. TREUGOLD recommends
that at every port where steam-vessels are employed,
an Inspector should be appointed to see and certify,
previous to their sailing, that they ate complete in
their equipments in every respect. In the present in-
stance the fatal accident might perhaps have occurred
even had the Comet passed an inspection, as it is be-
lieved to have occurred owirg to the want f`f lights on
the deck of the Comet; but there are other accidents of
frequent occurrence, from a bad boiler, or sonic defect
in the steam, or the vessels themselves, which an active
i.lspectnr would prevent, and we trust another Session
of l'Arliament will not pass without steam vessels being
placed under a sort of scientific police.

In another column we have given an account of the
Court alartial held on Captain Horztizu, of the Fury, for the logs
of that vessel in the Northern Expedition. Captain PARRY and the
other Officers, bore testimony to the zeal and exertions displayed by
Captain Horruzu, in the discharge of an arduous duty, on an occa-
sion so critical, and he was most honourably acquitted by the Court.

Rio de J inch o Papers LO the 24th of August have
reached us, but they do nit contain any news.

A letter fro m Bayonne of the 15th October, says-
-4' We expected that this day Re should have teen our
camp struck, but the only change a at has taken place
is, that instead of the tro.,ps being in tents, they are
going to be quarterLd in various buildings round this
town. It appeals that this change was owing to a
telegraphic dispatch received yesterday, and it is gene-
rallyt hought that the troops and the Etat-Major will
pass the winter under our walls."

Hantbutgh Papers to the Ifith inst. and Dutch
Papers to the 22d, resched us this forenoon. Thcy
state that the Diet of the Province of Saxony was
opened at Met seberg on the 2d inst. At the meeting of
the Second Chamber of the states General, at the
Hague, on the 20th inst. M. SANDS:RG, nominated

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'Resident by the KIXG, took the chair, vth:n several
messages from. his MAJESTY were read, among which
were, one relative to the introduction of a new gold
coin of the value of five florins, and one of a revised
project of law, for the Ist and 2d books of the code
of commerce.

_Accounts from .Sr. Peterburgh state, that the new
commercial treaty with Russia and Prussia, has led to
considerable chnges in the Custom houses on the 13a1-
tic, and ,in Lithuania; those at Polangen and Jur burg
are made Custom houses of the first class, and the de-
pots at Kiew and Wilna entirely abolished. On the
Ist of this month a new ship of the line was launched
near the Admiralty dock-yards, at St. Petersburgh. It
is called the Ilango-odd, and carries 84 guns. Ii is the
first ship built in Russia on the plan of S.r R. SEPPLNGS.

Lisbon Gazettes, from the 2d to the 9th instant,
reached us this foicnoon. The following is the only
article worth quoting:—

LISBON,• OCTOBER 2.
In another part of our Paper is the Decree appointing the Au-
ditor-General of the Navy to be Judge in the cause of the capture
of the Elisa schooner, detained at Santo Antao, one of the Cape
deVerd Islands, which arrived in this port on the 23d of last momb,
having, besides the crew put on board her in those islands, '2l
prisoners, part of whom belonged to the crew of the Spanish
schooner Atrerida, which bad sailed from the Ilavannah, to cart y
on the slave trade on the coast of Africa. This latter schooner
being at anchor in the river Tritone, the Captain and some others
being on shore, the remainder seized the ship, and putting to sea,
turned pirates, plundering the ships they met, v ithuu: distinction,
Proceeding then to the riser Nilo, on the west coast of Africa
where the schooner Elisa was at anchor, they made themselves
masters of it ; and it being a better sailer than their own ship,
they removed to it, leaving the other to the Captain and part of
, the crew of the Elisa. Atter this, they proceeded to cruise among
the Cape de Verd Islands, and plundered several vessels, till they
anchored in the port of Tarrafal, in the island of Santo Antao
having there landed some of the persons whom the pirates had com-
pelled to accompany them. The Governor of tie island being in.
formed by these persons of the aboverneutioned particulars, he took
the most judicious means to apprehend them.—He then caused the
preliminary investigations to be made before the tritiunals of the
islands, which have been sent hither, with the other documents,
containing together the circumstances related, and will serve as the
basis of the proceedings now to be institutes:.

It appears, by accounts from Madrid, that the Spa-
nish Clover nment consoles it,elf for the defection of the
ships Asia and Constance, which surrendered to Mexico,
by attributing it to treachery. It is said, that MA RV..
NEZ, the second in command, and who was a man
known for his attachment to the Cortes, but whom
FertntNAND nevertheless pardoned, and continued in
the command of his vess..l, mutinied 'against his Corn-
man:ling Officer, GURMCETA, made him a prisoner,
for c, d him to undergo a mock trial, and then murdered
him ! We do not believe one word of this statement.

The Anniversary (lit October) of the freedom of
King FERDINAND, and the Royal Family, liberated Iron)
the hands of the Constitutionalists in Cadiz, is nowre-
gularly kept in Spain, with tl e liberal solemnities of a
dress-levee, I e Deana in the Churches, salutes, reviews,
and illuminationsin the evening. The 'last Anniversary
at the Palace of S in Lorenzo and in Madrid, is repre-
sented as having been very brilliant, and the felicitations
of the Foreign Ambassadors at Court, on this memo
table occasion, were extremely pointed and flattering.
In the meantime the decrees of FERDINAND issued at
the time of BESSIERES. revolt, are not suffered to re-
main a dead letter, but have been extended to the Gue-
rillas of Valentia, under the orders of EL GATO. But
even these decrees, which order the rebels to be executed
immediately on their being taken, appear too slow, and
a price has been set on their heads. The Valencia
Journal of the 24th of September, says, "every inhabitant
is at liberty to kill them wherever he may meet them,
witheut incur ring any punishment." Such a license to
commit murder we scarcely ever heard of, aril as the
Courier Francais well observes, " there is only another
step to advance, and that is to train dogs, as the :old
Spaniards did in tie New World, to go men-bunting."
The question of a new Spanish Loan. it appears, is not yet
entirely set at rest. The .Afemorial Bordelais announces that
M. Tasstm bad just passed through Bordeaux, on his way to Paris,
with the documents relating to the Loan he was said to be nego-
tiating with the Spanish. Government. It is added, as if to throw
utter ridicule upon the other part of the paragraph, that the French.
Bankers had offered to raise two hundred and fifty millions of
francs, but that the King of Sears Would consent only to accept
of ::00,000,000. The Courier Francais intimates that the state-
ments that have appeared rviiecting this pretended negociation
have been fabricated fur stock-jobbing purposes, by some,holders
of GUIIIINAIei bonds, who begin to be apprehensive that their
security is not absolutely the bust that might be had in the world,
and are therefore anxious to pass it off, at as little loss as possible,
to other hands.

A letter from Paris states that an eminent capitalist has offered
to raise a loan for the King of STAIN, to the amount of twenty
millions sterling, on condition that sixteen millions of it should go
to the French Government, on account of the debt due from
Spain. Nothing was said of the loans of the Cortes, but the pro-
posal was instantly rejected, owing to the largeness of the amount
required for France.

We still cont:oue to receive news from Greece
through various channels. The Augsburg Ga:etur contradicts the
report of IsaAiliss PACHA'S death, but confirms that of Husain);
like. The *French Papers contain letters from Zmte and Corfu
to the end of September, which confirm the favourable intelligence
lately arrived from Greece. It appears now certain that Isamtne
PACHA had retreated front Tripulizza with the bulk of his army,
to Navarino or Modoti.

The presence of the Greek fleet under Mimi!" on the coast of
Wc‘trrn Greece, is said to have cut off the Lupplics which liens.
Pacts* was in the habit of receiving front Patras and Le-
panto, and to have rendered his position in front of 3lissoloughi
altno,t untenable.

An article front Marseilles, in the Ilamburgh Paper, states that
the French General L►vaox, in the service of the PACHA of Egypt,
had arrived with the ratification of the contract by which a cer-
tain house at Marseilles had agreed to furnish the Pacua with two
frigates of 60 guns each.

Lord STRANGFoRD sailed on Sunday, in the GLASS-
Gow frigate, for St. Petersburgh.
Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, Ambassador horn his
MAJVITY to the Ottoman l'orte, arrived at Calais, on Friday, on
his way to Constantinople.
Doi Hight flonnur.tb!e Lord ELLENIVROMII and
family arrived at Pnrtpatrick on Friday last, and embarked the neat
morning on board his Majesty's steam packet the ARROW, Captain
PAsco, fur Dotiaghadee.
Sit JAM k 3 MACKINT, SH, accompanied by his daugh-
ter, paid Keswick a visit last week. Wednesday they spent the
eveSirning with Mr. SOUTHIIf.
JANIES KEENEY r, Private Secretary to the Duke
of CAMBRIDGE, left town yesterday morning, with dispatches for
his Royal Highness, at Hanover.'
JoIIN WORTLEY, E son of J. S. WORTLEY, Esq.'
51. P. for Yorkshire, is shortly espected to lead to the hymeneal altat
Lady GAGAGIANA RYDEN, daughter of the Earl of Haaiioway.
Baron GRAHAM at rivud at P.ittsm,.uth yesterday
Pe:might, and left on Monday morning for Hastings.
Mra CoTTIS and the:Duke of St. ALBANS arrived at
F.dinburih on Tuesday. They visited the Castle, when they invited
the Officers of the 17th Regiment to a splendid ddrune a la four-
chute, of which General Sir R. W. O'CALLAGHAN, old Provost
Hoiozasor, and other distinguished individuals, also partook.

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THE
WiNnson, OCT. 2.4.-11iS MAJESTY visited the Castle
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness the Dt•lce of CUMBERLAND, where he Arrived in his
pony phaeton abnut four o'clock. His MAJESTY en-
tered the Castle from the Little l'Ark through the New
Gateway, and drove into the quadrangle, where he i.i-
spected the advanceme• is made throughout the whole
of the improvements in the North-east and Slitth fronts.
His MAJESTY and the R )yal Duke left the Cattle at a
quarter be ore five, and returned to the Royal Lodge.
Last evening his MAJESTY ente:taincd the Duke of
CUMBERLAND, the Duke of WELLINGT3N, and the
Duke of DORSET, with the Eat' and Countess of HArt-
COURT, at dinner.
This morning his Grace the Duke of WICLIINGTON took leave of
his MAJIMT, and depar:ed from the Royal Lodge.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Aunurra and the Duchess
of Gi.occesvea are expected to dine with his IlLtxxsTY this evening.