Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-04-27

/. HENRY HERBERT soUTHEy.
AT Halifax and Leeds trade was gen
Ieraiiy improving At the latter town
wool had advanced, and it was hoped
wollen goods would reach something
like their fair value.
From letter, which we publish be-
ow, it appears that there has been con
siderable fall in the prices of tobacco.
To shew the fall prices had sustained,
the Brighton paper states, that, linseed
oil which was sold about five months
ago at 90 pounds, per ton, price then
considered extraordinary low, was sold
last week at 10 pounds per ton, being a
reduction ofone third. Cargoes of Goals
which were never less in Shoreham har-
Dor at any period last year than AS. per
chaIdron, are now offered to be deliver
ed in Brighton, free Of expense, at H.,
.iss 9d.'
The York Gazette report that a lads
gust recovered from an illness of a few
weeks, has presented h.rphysician with
check on her banker for 5000 dollars
here was plan on foot for esta
Fishing telegraphic communication
between Liverpool and Manchester.
whereby the merchants in one town
may convey Information to the manu-
factnrers of the other, in the space Of
81. minutes.
DEATH OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL
The Paris Etoile ofthe i9thiof March
received in London b, express. announ-
ces the death of the King of Portugal,
intelligence of which reached Paris by
telegraphic dispatch. The following are
extracts:
.'On the 4th instant, his majesty was
attacked with an appopiectic fit, toge-
ther with epilepsy. On the 3th and 9th
his malady increased to such a degree
as to create the greatest alarm for his
Ms.
after the crisis of the 9Th, his males
Eyiex perienced no new attack till the i9th,
when his malady returned with augmen.
ted violence, to which the king yielded,
and laid down his life on the 10th, at six
in the evening
AT the departure of the courier, the
Princess Isabella Maria, eldest daughter
Of the king, acted as Regent.
T4isbon was quite tranquil.
"We are enabled to state, that the le-
CATION of his majesty, the king of Portu
gal, has not despatched courier to the
Iafant don Migual, who is at Vienna,
10 announce the illness ofthe king, bis
father, as journal of this day asserts. l.
SIT was no1by the telegraph, as the
Journal des Debats says, but by cou-
rier sent to the Portuguese embassy,
hat the news of the late kings illness
was received.
"Jchn vi. king of Portugal, Emperor
IF Brazil, was born May 18th, 1867
From 1892 he governed in tie charac-
er of regent, in the name Of the Queen,
MS mother. who was affected with men
.as alienation. He succeeded her in
1917, and was crowned at Rio de janet
70, to which place he had retired on the
invitation Of Portugal By Bonaporte,
who, in the hope of Selling his person,
lost no time in proclaiming. that the
Lhouse of Braganza had ceased to reign.
John vi. while yet but Prince of Brazil,
in 1890, the Infanta Charlotte
Joachima, daughter of King Charles Nv.
of SPAIN
"rhe Infanta Isabella Maria, who now
acts as Regent, is the fourth. daughter of
John vi. She was born July 4, 1901.
Zone Of the papers asserts, that, by
the treaty of commerce between France
and Brazil, the duties on French Mer-
chandize are reduced IS per cent. We
think this journal is i'll informed on this
subject, & that the commerce of France
will be put on footing of that of the
most favored nation, with, probably, the
sIng.e exception of Portugal.n
RUssiA-St. Petersburg Journals
to the 2sth Of February. contains not a
word OF political intelligence. The
Emperor continues to bestow favors on
those who exerted Themselves on the oe-
casion of the late commotion.
An article datedSt. PETERSBURG. March
d. 4 announces the arrival Of the Dnke of
W sllington in that CITY on the preced;no
day His Grace had Immediately AN .r7
dieI bee ofthe Empero, and Empress. to
wh ON he delivered the coincidence and
feI i:itations" of the King of England
n q sllusioa is made TO the political Oh
j set of bis grace's mission.