Tuesday evening Mr. Walte...
The Times, 1824-02-28T00:00:00

Tuesday evtening Mr. lWralters, the Kina's Messenger, left town witlh despatchles for the Riglit Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, our AimbassadorstSt. Petersburgh. Mr. Bailey, the King's messenger, left Downing-streot, the same evening, with despatchas for our Ambassa(lor at Vienna. A new Iisurance Company is about to be formed, at the head of which will be one of the first capitalists in the city. It will be one of the a(lvantages of this institution, that, through the inflnence and connexions of the hoiuse in ques^ tion with the continent, anil the general peace likely to pre- vail, it wvill be enable(d to extendl its operations gradually over the whole of Europe. 'rhe details of the plan, which onJly transpired a few days ago, have not yet been arranged. Thc gentleman wvho orieinated it has received tenders of capital to an alrnost unlimited amount. A letter front Paris of C ednesday states, that despatehes had been received by the French Ministry from XI. Hyde de Neuvilie, the ambas-ador to Lishon, (lated the 6th inst., and announcing that he had obtained the consent of the Portuguese GovernIent for the re-exportation of French merchandllise seized since 1819, the sale of wvhiclh had been ordered some montlhs previous, a-d the application ot the amount to the service of the Treasury. M. Hyde de Neniville had also procured the release of the Freticl brig Les Jurmeauxc, acting as a sort of packet-boat betwLeen Lis- bon and Havre, an(t whichi had, on some pretext or other, been detained. These circumstaniees arc related, not so muchl on account of th,ir intrinsic iiiport:sice, as the proofs they afford of tIleatteintion of the French Govern- ment tolthe interests of commerce, in which they discover a degree of acuteness and vigilance well wvorthy of imitation. By an American vessel bound from Buenos Ayres to Btemen, and which has touched at Falmouth, lttters have been received froin Buenos Ayres to the 9th of December. The provinre was then in a state of mnuh- agitation on1 account of the expected approach of a hostile force of In- lians from the interior. 'iTrade was nearly at a stand, and the Govermiient six per cent. stock had fallen to 40. It ap- pears that thr arrival of the period of Rivadavia's retire- ment from office is likely to renew the unfortunate dissen- sions, whlich have been siispended througlh the vigour and prudence of his admihistration ever since his accession to power. 'I'bey certainly could not occur at aiiy moment more dangerous to the progress of independence in Lhat country. lMiASQUERADE Ar TIlE OPFIRA.-QO Thurs(lay night, what is called in the bills a grand um1,querTode, was given at the King's Theatre, and was kept tip witlh considerable gaiety and good humour till a latc bour yesterday inorning. The theatre was well fitted up for the occasion, and the compancy, if not select, was numerous enouglh to reccompense the managers for their expeuse and tronble. Itis almostneedless tostate,thatsome of the maskers cn- deavoured to be as happv and as droll as they could, without creating sympathy,or exciting i merrimcnt in others,and that nsanv complaine<l of a general dulness anfi wvant of interest, to which thefi own rigidi- ty or apathy contributed. The characters, it must be allowed, Avere tew anti commnon-place, conceivel with little spirit, and supported with no talent. Indeed, the masks of characier for the mnst part like Pope's women, had " no characters at all." Persans appearea dressed like Irish labourers, Spaniishi Dons, Scotch Highlanders. Quakers, Titrlks, market-wromen, fruit-women, lawyers, divines,and a grcat variety of other repTesentatives of professions, sects. and na- tions, but the representation extended no farther thani the mere ex- ternal habiliments. The whole was an affair of the tailor, the mask-maker, and dressmakes. The exercises adid amnuse,ients in whbich te mnost active of thpse pcrthrmitersindulget wcrS ji)nlcipally of 'a oechanical nature, or little raisedl above it, consisthig of hoop- thrivimig, dancing causeless giggling, unceremonious jostlIig, and otlier practical joies. In short, the mass of' jeople apockred luore like a magazine of costhlles, in confuision, imovmg to tbhe ounds of mili-. tary instruments, amid a stunninlg coqinpottlqd of discotdant noises, ;than anw assemublage of persons prepared t give dramuatic eftct. to partsvwhlclh theylssllmuned Ittis%utjtuetidc to add, thatevery thingmwhich depended on the mnapagergkthe service of the theatre, the arraencmrenti fort the suppcr-dediveud asid ob'.incd gc4eral ap- psrobation. W5 ewerepheased td'se& the erowd'wbich attehded thi2 latter part of 'tle ehittrtamnnment4 as wecrecleon the. inireGling^simn- lsrra:tble to' pay for a-goed wa sulr,a a suwgroof of thse inereasing bomiforts of.ah~pepple thla, all the 'ietuis of e tax_iathtirer laid on thol ableo . the lftts oB f C6i~bistnsy ifb ' Cancel of' he lSxehequer.. hnclcote