WINDSOR, March 29.-The we...
The Times, 1824-03-30T00:00:00

Wi flNDsoi, M farch 9.-The weather being fine this af- ternoon, His Majesty, accompalnied by the greater part of his visiters, took all airing in his carriage, sooni after twvo o'clock,to theRnyal Lodge, and various otherparts of IVind- sor Great Park, aadl afterwartls returned to the Castle to dinner. This morning, soon after breakfast, his Grace the Duke of W1'ellinigtoni and Mr. Secretary Cannilfg left the Roval Castle for London. We are sorry to say the Duke of Glocester was indis- posed on Suntay ; so much so, as to oblige his R,'yal Higlhness to keep the house. His Royal Highness wvas bet- ter yesterday. The Earl of Liverpool has been confined by indisposition for several days past. A mecting took place yesterday of the Directors and MAIanagers of the Alliance Assurance C(ompany, when a re- port vas laid before them by kr. Irving, the Presidenit, of the present state and future objects of this concern. A petition was prepared, antd is to be immediately presented to Parliamnent, for allowing this establishmenit to undei take maritime insurances. It wvas determined at this meeting, that for the first two years of the existerice of this company no mooney shall be expended in building a house for the purpose of transacting its business. The insurances aIreadlv effected were stated by Mr. Irving to be to an im- mense amount. We understand that up to Saturday last the amount for which the holders of old 4 per cent. stock have signified lheir assent to its conversion into 37.1 per cent. stock, does not exceecd 15,000,0001. It is supposed, however, that numerous powers oe attorniey for conveying the assent of holders of stock in diff.erent parts of the country are in the hands of agents in town, but that they have instructions to delay that assent until the last day allowed by th2e notice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dr. Morrison, so well known for his proficiency in the Chinese language, has arrivedl in England fromn Canton. l4e is absent on leave from the factory of merchants at that place, where lie fills the office of translator. His Chinese Rictionary is said to be nearly ready for the press. The Lord Mayor has appointed a special Court of Com. m-on Couucil for to.morrow, for the pulpose of taking into consider. ation the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the Alien Act under any niodification. GIBRALTAR, Mfarch 6.-A Spanish squadroni, of two or three corvettes and one brig, sailed yesterday afternoon from (Cadiz, on a cruise against independert privareers. A frigate, apparently Frencih, is cruising in the Straits. An English frigate and a bri- of var were seen cruising off Cape de Gatt two days since. The pirate prows which attacked were seven in number, and had each nearly 100 men on board, arm- ed with guns and swive!s, with which they kept up an action of three hours with the brig, whose ammunition being expended, she was carried by boarding. The Gorernmuent have despatched cruisers in search of them, but with slender hopes of recapturing the brig. BATAVIA, NOV. 10.-The pirates have lately been active on this coast, having attacked several of the colonial vessels procced- ing to antI from the eastern ports, and succeeded in capturing the brig (Genemtl dC Rock, bound to Sourabaya. According to the opinion of persons largey engaged in the silk.tradg, the miiount of tlrawback,to be alo6wed on silk thathas paid the duty will be betweph 30(,000r. and 400,0001. EAST I ND;S.-(From the Bombay Cunrier of Oct.11.) -The Recorder on Tuesday last gavV the decision ofthe Court on a memorial, which, it appears, had becn presented to. him some time ago, signed by all the gentlemen of the bar uowv In Bombay. In: this memorial, as far as we could co'dect frtl the estrscts read in! court, they complain of the practice wvhich at presen.t obtains in the! small cause and petition courts, by whlichl their tntetests are deeply affected, inasmuch as attornie.s are there allowed to plead as harris-! ters, and added, that tme constitution of these courts is rot only objectionable, but unwarrantetl by the charter upon which the .e- corder s Court was first established. His 1ordship;eN' laineti certain errors into which the gentlemen of the bar had fallen respecting these courts,animadverted severely on certain passagesin the memo- i rial, declared it to be a production of a highly libellous nature, alit1 caleulatet only to bring the authority of the C-o vnto disrespect. After hearing an explanation fronm each of the fememen who had signed the mcmorial, he Iassed the sentence af the tours to the fol- lowing effct:-" The Court, alter duly considering the memorial, i have unanimously determiied, that al the genternin rho have: signed it shall be suspended, or rendered ineapabte of practising as barristers in this court for tihe space of six moniths,-A1 that during that tine the attorneys be p-rumitted to practiseA barristers in the court." On Friday last the utmost consternation prevailed at Dartmouth and its vicinity, in consequence of the Ba k of the firnml of Hine and Holdsworth, of that place, stopping payment. Wl e un- derstand that a great number of their notes are in circulation, and wlhat still adds to the distress, from the implicit confidence thait was placed in their credit by the inhabitants of that town and the neigh. bouritig counitry, sums to a very great amount, the property of va- rious individuals, had been placed in their handus on interest notes. On the follewing morning the Brixham Bank also stopped payr ment, it being connected v,ith the Dartmouth firm. The feeling of distress witnessed at the latter place, when it was discovered, was beyond description: such reliance had been placed in the Bank. timat persons who hald been enabled to save any money had preferred their notes to any other, so that there was scarcely one family in the tow.n bat what Possesmed their notes either to a greater. or less amount. Considerable sums belonging to the inhabitdnts had also been lodged with them on interest notes. We have been informed by a person who was in Brixhaln a day or two afterwards, that re- ports relative to several other banks were in circulation, so that the tinabitants were going from shop to shop, purchasing trifling ar- tidel with a view to get their country notes changed, tillat lastthe sliopreepers bad no silver left; but such reports were ofriunatehy withoat foundation. On Saturday inorning last, band-bill, signed by many of the most raspectable gentlemen anid tradesmeq sf Dart- mouth, were posted routid the tow.n, to the follo*ing effect:-" lre, the undcrsigned bein6 perfectly satisded with the responmibijity of ithe Dartnouth bank, Mlessrs. Harris and Co., do hereby engage to take their notes in payment to any anmount; and we recommend all others to do the samne:" so that public confidence with respect to*the firm was fully cstablished.-D,svonshire PmveelwZder.