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London, England, 1826-08-19 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.

3 per Cent. Red. 791/4 Vs 1/4
3 per Cent. Consols 78% %
Si per Cent. Red. 86% 3/4
New 4 per Cent. 9454 lk.
4 per Cent. 1826. 951/4
Lone Ann. 19,5 16
India Stock 231
India 13onds 25 24
£l,OOO Ezcheq. Bulb 16 18
1:50() ditto 16 18
£lOO and £2OO ditto 17 18

Commercial 13
Cms. tor Account 78% 34 %
FORRIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Colombian Bonds, Mex. Acct. 44 51 41 1 4 1 1
atto Aect. 441 1
De. Bonds, 1524,511 2 11 Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 101 1
ro. Amin* 11 1 Ditto 510,101
Mexican Bonds. S p C. 371 Fr. Rentes, 5 p C 1001
Ditto for Ace. Exchange, 251 00e
Mex. W 311125,6 p. Ct. 441 51 French Itsntss. ap C. 6411.504.
441 1 4j Exchange, 151 50c
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
MARL IPAID.
100 SS 15 171
100 15 31 27/ 17
FRENCH FUNDS, Pools, Axons:
Five per Cents. . . . 1001. 40e.
Three, per Cents. • • 561 15c.
Rented d'Espagne . s . 10.1

Anglo Mexican if pro.
Brazilian

education, are the most important topics to be discusse,/,
and though in the outset they may, through inexpet ience,
handle even these matters roughly, they will lie in the
right path, and acquire fresh vigour as they advance. The
General Congress should be established in the centre cf
the Republic, and would necessarily demand in its
Members greater talents and acquirements than are
needed in the subordinate Legislatures. Their number
, should, however, be the fewest possible, and those well
paid for their labours, and for their banishment from
their families and interests. We confess we cannot see
the difficulty, or the "intispe,liency of this change. It
seems to us that the will of the people (we speak of
them collatively, and not as belonging ro this or :ha;
department) should be the will of those who preside
over them, nor can we admit a pretension on the part
of the latter, apart from the sanction it derives from
the former. In short, we behold a federal form of Go-
vernment matured in Mexico and Ouatamala, and ad-
vancing tp maturity in Buer.os Ayres and Chili, vrhi:.:
in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia alone, do a e b hold
the contrary."

German Papers were morning. They
contain a statement of a singular claim presented to the
German Diet at Frankfort by Count WACKERHAIR ;
from which it appears, that an ancestor of the Court
had become surety for Duke FRANCI3 the Elder of Saxe
Luneburg for 5000 marks, in the year 1565, and which
he now requires to be liquidated toit4 interest by Hano-
ver, Denmark, and England, without delay.
The Munich Gazette contains some further particulars
of the manner in which sentence is to be executed on
the Russian conspirators. The principal of those con-
demned to the mines, on the frontiers of China, will
have to travel about 9000 English miles, on foot,
chained together, whilst those who are condemned to
descend the mines (amongst whom is Prince Tatmerz-
Km), are considered as actually dead, and the futier4l
service is read to them!

Bogota Papers of the 28th of June have arrived, Lot
they do not bring any news. The private letters are of a later date.
Letters have been received by the Leeward 1,1211
Mail, from La Guyara, dated the 4th of July, stating that all was
quiet at Valencia, and that the Government was well organized, at
no apprehensions were entertained of any further commotion,.

We have inserted a sensible Letter, from an old Cor.
respondent, on the existing distress in the Manufacturing Districts.
The Report of a Select rnmittee of the House tr:
Commons appointed last Session to inquire into the expediency of
encouraging Emigration from the United Kingdom, has appeared.
The Chairman-of the Committee was Mr. Witatox-Hoaeon, and
we need say no more to satisfy our Readers that the inquiry was
conducted with that skill and penetration which would be certain
to elicit, from the different witnesses who were examined, a mars
of valuable practical information upon the subject under investiga-
tion. A more valuable Parliamentary document, in a national
point of view, has not been produced for many years. The Report
itself U a lucid digest of the evidence, which occupies upwards of
two hundred closely-printed folio pages. I'u this is added, an Ap-
' pandit, containing a number of highly important and valuable
documents connected with the subject of the inquiry, together willa
a copious Index. We shall endeavour, from time to time, to find
room for it portion at least of this interesting document.

WINDSOR, AUGUST 18.

Yesterday afternoon, his Miaow left the Royal Lodge, in hie
pony phaeton, accompanied by the Dukelot Dosses, and followed
by his attendants, in the double-bodied and a single phaeton, drove
to Virginia Water, where his MAJZSTV, with his attendants, dined
in the Royal Marquee, at five o'clock. Previous to dining, his MA-
scar, with his suite, took an excursion on the Lake, and at eight
o'clock returned to the Royal Lodge, when the Doke of Doom
took kate of his klAiwrit, and left foe his residence in town.

LANCASTER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17:
•
FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.-RECEIVED
MORNING

The approaching trial of Mr. Wiliam Wakefield has
kept public curiosity still alive, and although many
persons of distinction, upon ascertaining that Mr. E. G.
Wakefield's trial is traversed, have left this place,
yet there is a great and unusual presence of strangers
to watch the proceedings of the Crown Court daily, in
order not to lose the interesting trial, which is daily
and hourly expected ; but we have no idea as to when
it will come on, although it is believed Mr. Justice
Park will take it on Saturday. The result of the motion
of Mr. Scarlett, on Wednesday, was anticipated, as
from the nature of the affidavits they were considered
so very inefficient as to form no ground of postpone-
ment whatever. The promulgation that the affidavit of
Mr. Grimsditch, charging that most incontestably Mr.
E. G. Wakefield was the author of a late notable de-
fence published so very generally, and which contained
matter sufficient to distress and annoy Mr. Turner's
family. The Messrs. Wakefield, it is said, should not
complain of the remarks of the public Press upon them.
selves personally, when they have, by publications such
as those alluded to, endeavoured to excite (but ineffec-
tually) strong.feeling in the public mind in their favour.
The discussion of the arguments of the motion on
Wednesday excited much interest, inasmuch as the
Attorney General distinctly expressed his inten-
tion, upon another occasion, of alluding to the slan-
derous insinuations held out against the prosecutor and
his family, and also of exposing the sources from which
they emanated.
The great care with which the prosecution has been
got up, and the fact of the Attorney General, Mr.Wil-
hams, and Mr. Sergeant Cross, having passed some
nights in the perusal and correction of the indictment
before the Grand Jury, have left the possibility of any
error or misstatement of the charge out of the question.
The indictment is of an amazing length, and contains
a number of counts, varying the charge of misdemeanor;
each count recites and is founded upon the other, Until
it forms that which becomes conclusive.

Mr. Turner and his family are still it their residence
upon the Castle Hill, and merely take airings in close
carriages. Miss Turner has a group of young Ladies in
attendance upon her, and within the last few days ap-
pears to be somewhat affected in health and spirits,
probably owing to the uneasiness produced by this
riffiir, and the ordeal she will have to go through in
attending the gaze of a crowded Court, while making
disclosures of solnuch delicacy. The whole case must
be laid open on the trial of William Wakefield, as if
his brother, Edward Gibbon, were upon his trial, the
facts being so closely involved with each other.
Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield has, since his en-
largement from prison, been continually about the
town, walking with his father and Dr. Davis.
The witnesses for the prosecution are in number
about forty, and are disposed of at private lodgings
throughout the town.
The witnesses for the defence are also similarly ac-
commodated ; they are of a various description ; but
the one of them who excites most curiosity comes from
:ipringfild, near Gretna, and is called the Bishop of that
Di.,cese, from his being that individual whofor the last
50 years offickteli as the huh-ping Clergyman. His
name is Edward Laing, and he says be was in the busi-
nessof a blacksmith, at Chorley, in this county, 60 years
since (he being now 84 years of age), but left it to take
upon himself the duties of the situations he now fills ; he
is an eccentric and roguish looking little man, of a very
inquisitive disposition, and garrulous tongue, and, for
Ins age, there is no man in England can drink more at
a sitting, Isis favourite drink being brandy; upon the
whole, he seems that kind of person who never had any
definitive rule of reason. His dress is a black coat,
plush waistcoat and breeches, and top boots, a clerical
ha:, and a tremendous large walking cane. He corn.
plains much of a son in-law of his, who gets most of his
business, having established himself in thesame trade at.
Gretna. He has often been soundly horsewhipped by
the pursuers of fugitives, and is generally active in his
retreat after performing the ceremony.
To-morrow the trial of the wretched brothers the
ANCeands comes on, for the murder at Winton. They
are prosecuted by the Township. Mr. Serjeant Cross
and Mr. Courtney are for the prosecution; and Mr.
D. F. Jones for the defence. The two unhappy tom
are daily to be seen from the summit of the ancient
tower opposite the Castle, sitting in the corner of the
prison yard, reading the Bible. They have since their
confinement occupied the same position, and have con-
ducted themselves like men ig whose Clays are-numbered
in the land." The trial will occupy theyhole day. •

We have received the Etoile, dates Thursday, the
only Paper published, in consequence of Tuesday being
the festival of the Assumption. Its contents *re too
unimportant for transcript.
Great quantities of corn have been cut in the neigh-
bourhood of Newcastle. The wheat fully realises the favourable
r-ports which were current respecting it, but oats and barley are
inmost universally a falling crop.
The present harvest moon is the first which for many
years will have witnessed the completion of the season from which
n takes its name.

The Gloucester and Berkeley Canal is in such a state
a forwardness, that it will be opened in September, so that vessels
may then enter at Sharpness Point from the British Channel, and
proceed up to the wharfs at Gloucester.
As one of the Brighton coaches was changing horses,
yesterday at Streatham, the leaders turned round, which gave the
coach such a jerk, that a Gentleman on the hoe was thrown to the
ground, and broke his kg and sprained his wrist; and a Gentleman
on the roof was precipitated to the ground, and fell with great vio-
lence on his chest. The name of one Gentleman was Mr. Loan, a
Solicitor in London, and the other a blr. Jotas, of the Stuck
Exchange.
Goudtnan's-fields is the principal abode of gun-
makers, whose mode of trying their pieces is extremely annoying
both to the inhabitants and passengers. Last week a Gentleman
passing during one •f these eaplosiosa, was thrown from his horse,
and had his collar-bone dislocated.

CIItAIkIiEPAMIL—At a parish not one hundred miles
(min Brighton, a bill was lately sent in by a tradesman to one of
the public bodies 14 the said parish, of which the following is a
literal copy: iie a. d.
Mewling the wheel-barrow • • . 0 $ 0
New ode to the barrow • • , 0 3 6
New staves, new splicing the horns and ley, putting on
iron-work, and painting the barrow . . 0 4 6
Two new eross•legs, and new boarding the borrow all over 0 6 6
New•main side to the barrow • . . 0 3 6
Net, wheel to the &Oro", •. . 0 6 0
lf) puttirg in all the iron work to the barrow, new nails,
ci painting the iron work to the barrow . 0 2 6
C'9'-'OG'llO. two spikes to shafts, two clips to kgs, and fifty
nail, to the barrow •
0 3 10
• .•
•
11w E(op !ire to the wheels of the barrow • 0 6 0

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