Star.
London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

HAYTIAN LOAN.

PARIS, NOIMIES i.

As was said yesterday, Messrs. Lafitte and his Com.
pang went, at two o'clock, to the Commissioners of
Hayti, to make publicly their offer, together with the
other Companies. 'The latter not having presented
themselves, and having s-.nt word by the broker, ss lio
was stmt to inform them that they should not come
again, it was not till after four o'clock that the nego-
ciations for the settlemer t were announced.
At five o'clock the Company of Lafitte bad exceeded
by above three per cent. the offer which had been made
on the public biddings, and nothing having been set-
tled, the contracting parties separated without any en-
gagement on either side.
In the evening the negotiations were resumed by M.
Ternaux's broker (Agent de C!,ange), who had been
present at the public biddings.
A new Company, which had not taken part in the
public bidding:, came forward to compete with the
Company Lafitie; but some modifications in the nature
of the obligati,ms having been proposed by it, and
adopteJ by the Commissioners, it consented tl pay 800
francs for each annuity of 1000 francs; that is to say,
above five per cent. more than the tender of the two
Companies, Delessett and Andre Cottion, and the affair
was finally concluded at one o'clock, icier midnight, by
Mr. Maurency, exchange broker.
The contracting Company is compo.ed of Messrs.
J. Lafitte and Co. the Syndicate of the Receiver-Gene-
ral, Messrs. Rothschild, brothers ; Paravey and Co
Ardouin, Hubbard, and Co. J. Halle:man, Diane, Co-
lin, and Co. and some French houses which ate not
named in the contract.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, Nov. 5.
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Benjamin George Valois' who was also known by the
names of Mr. George, and Mr. M'Nelly, and was sus-
pected of having carried on the various callings of a
shoemaker, dealer in diamonis, doctor, and wine-mer-
chant, was indicted for assaulting a Mrs. Bright, in the
open street, near Charing-cross.
A common assault of a very slight nature was very
clearly proved against the defendant, but in the course
of the examination it came out that the disputes between
these parties had arisen in consequence of a niece of
the prosecutrix having been seduced at the early age of
fourteen, by the husband of Mrs. Bright, according to
the statement of Valois, who admitted that he took the
young girl away from her friends shortly before her
confinement, as, to use his own expression, " The general
protector of all females in distress ;" and that he passed
her as his wife in several lodgings he took fir her, to
prevent her falling into the hands of her relations.—
This accusation was denied by Mrs. Bright, who in her
turn charged the defendant with having been the author
of ell her niece's misfortunes; and, as a reason for
doubting his credibility, she stated that he had been
once tried at the Old Bailey, and was now under a pro-
secuti,in for perjury.
The defendant's behaviour in Court was singularly inconsistent
and violent ; he described himself as a grossly injured man, and the
victim of persecution. He was found Gallo.
Edward Bright, the husband of the prosecutrix in the
above case, was also tried for an assault committed on
Valois, on a subsequent day to the transaction already
alluded to, but arising from the same circumstances,
aggravated by a belief that Valois had improperly pos-
sessed himself of, and made away with nearly the whole
of the girl's clothing.
lie was found Guilty, and the defendants were tined Is. each,
and b,und over to keep the peace towards each other.
Robert Ainsworth was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, for an assault on Cooper, the officer,
whilst taking him into custody for steaiing du,t, the
property of the Contractors. The prisoner speechified
the Court in real Tothil-tields patois.

Salted provisions will he prohibited from being im-
ported into Canada from the United States after sth January next.
It frequently happens that sixty score of codfish are
brought to Gravesend from the shores of Scotland alive, in one
fishing smack, for the supply of the London market.
Yesterday morning, as one of Harris's Breutford and
Isleworth stages was coming through the town of Ken-
sington towards London, the front axlettee of the coach
oke, by which it was overturned, and the whole of
the outside passengers were, in -consequence, precipi•
wed to the ground. The proprietor and shiver, Mr.
fla'ris, was thrown with great violence against the
curb-stone, and was taken to a neighbouring surgeon's,
guile insensible.
FIRE AT MESSRS. HURST AND ROBINSON'S, BOW( -
SELLERS,PALL-XIALL.—TDese magnificent and extensive
'itemises, which open both into Pall-mall and Waterloo-
place, were, on Saturday noon, about one o'clock, dis•
! covered to be on fire. It appears to have origin ited
itotn an imme..se stove or apparatus erected on the
basement of the bui:ding for the purpose i.reserving
that part of the premises which is used As warehouse
for books, from damp, ti) : upper part of
the house by flees, which communicate warm it into
iditierent rooms. The volumes' f smoke rising through
the crevices of the floor and the apel hues of the flues
insetted ately communicated the danger, st hich
promptly and fortunately attested by the clerks and
assi-tans of the eatablishment, by tearing up the footing
and extingu;shing the fiie with water. The room in
which She fire occurred had only a few days before been
completed in the d •corati in, and was hung with many
valuable paintings, among which was a Guido, estimated
at 900 guineas. Tnese, with the entire stock of the
splendid work entitled Music Francais, recently pur-
chased in Path by Messrs Hurst and Robinson, which
was also deposited in this loom, escaped all injury.
Had the fire continued unobserved ten minutes longer,
the property of this room, worth between 20,0001. and
30,0001. must have been destroyed.
Last week, as aGentleman was walking from Bideford
to Torrington, a stout ill looking fellow came out of a
filth, and demanded to know where he came from,
and where he was going, ani what made him walk
when he appeared to be able to pay for a horse, gig, or
post-chaise? The Gentleman replied, that he did it by
choice: the fellow then said, " You appear fatigued,
Sit ; you shall lay hold of my arm." At that moment
another fellow came over the hedge, just behind them,
and joined them; the Gentleman conceiving that they
meant to rob or ill treat him, or perhaps both, had the
presence of mind to say, " Here comes the stage-
coach," and instantly sprang from them ; the fellows
immediately made off across the fields ; the Gentleman
then bawled•out as loud is be could, " Stop thief I'.
though no one was near to him to render any assist-
ance, nor was the coach approaching ; bat it had the
desired effect, the fellows were so alarmed, that they
doubled their pace, and he saw them no more.