The Plover packet, arrive...
The Times, 1824-12-27T00:00:00

The Pkwer packet, arrived from Buenos Ayres, sailed on the 20th of October, and brings advices from Valparaiso of the 13th September. 'riTe EI fisher packet arrived at Buenos Ayres the 21st of October, from Falmouth, and was to sail the 2d of November on her return. By the Lord Melville packet, letters fromr. Rio de Ja- neiro to the 3d of November were received on Saturday. They -contain no political intelligence. It had been deter- mined by the Government to draw on England monthly to the amount of 50,0001., on account of the- loan contraeted here, until the whole sum due to the Government from the contractors was received. The bank of Rio, however, through wlhom the transaction was to be effrected, could niot succeed ind crawing bills to-the required amount iU1 tinme for the present packet. There woultl, thereFore, -remain 100,0001. in bills, to be drawn on the sailing of the next. The attempt had had the eftect of raising the s=bhange from 47 to 48. It would appear, from a letter writteli by a respectable merchant at Rio, that the Brazilian naval ser- vice does not offer much attraction to Englislh officers. In answer to an application from a friend to be admtitted to serve his Imperial Majesty, he says, " Certainly, the situa- tion of a foreian officer in the navy is not at all enviable; and, from the intrigues which have for some time been going forward against the English officers already employed, I have little doubt but in a short time their situations will become so unpleasant that the greater number of them will give up the service." Suirs' CoPPER.-We would call attention to the fol- lowing paragraph, which, if correct, establishes a fact which we asserted, and- Sir HI Davy (tenie.l, some few weeks ago :-" Saturday afternoon arrived His Mlajesty's ship Samarang, 28, Captain David Dunn, from Halifax, after a tempestuous passage of nineteen days. We un- derstand the returni of the Samarang to England, after being so feNv months on the North American station, I is occasioned by a discovery of the complete failure of d Sir Humphry Davy's experiments to preserve ships' copper from decay. The Sarnarang was fitted out at this port, under that eminent chymist's direction; with the zinc preserves attached to. the she,athing- metal, by means of which, producing galvanic action,} it was expected the copper wou.ild be preserved from corrosion; hut it is proved, that though the oxidation of the metal is prevented hy the defensive action of the iron, the animDal- ubel wvhich this oxidation used to diestroy, now prey in such security upon the vessel, that the bottom of the Sanearan;g is covered with worms, barnacles, atnd sea.-weed%, to a de- gree wbich prevents ber being steered with niecessary safe- ty. She is, therefore, returnedl to England to be docked and re-coppered.-Hamnpshire Telegraph. The law of nationis has becn againi violated by anothor member of the Holy Alliance. 8enor Philip Ugoni, a na- tive of Brescia, had been supposed by Austria to be im- plicated in thc proceedings ot the sect of Carbonari. He was put to the ban by that jealous and dtespotic Power.. He, eseaped to EtRgland, wlhere he was safe from Austian gaolers or executioners, but where he enjoyed only the sad privi- lege of being allowed to starve in security. He again re- moved to thle continent, and, wit'nout changtigng his nane, or afrectiaig concealment, took up his temporary residence at Hamburgh. 'Ihere the blood-hounds of the Austrian police scented his tract, an(d fixed their fangs on Ihis person. He was throwin into prison in that free and independent eity, by the agents of a foreign power, and itt vain addressed reinonstrances to the Senate, demanding his liberation, or a ssecifieation of the charges on whichi he was con- fille . He coul(1-obtitin neither hearing nor- redress, and, was about to be transferred to Vienna, when on the 13th i inst. he again made his escape. The Austrian Government, as a last resource, have ordered the hue and cry to be raised-I against him, and published an advertisement in which his' person is described,- like that of a colnmon malefaetor arnenable to Austriain laws. Yet wve are told that Hamburgh is an intlependent stote, and that the Holy Alliatnce is in- stituted to protect international rights ! Sir R. R. Vyvyan. is att present te only candidate for the representation ot Cornwall, the frieds of MIr. Pendarves having an- nounced their intention not to proposchim4-i1 the geeial election.- P.vmotls Journa. . I The-statement-containea in - a paragraph wvhich was in- serted in sone of the nioming papers of Priday, that the Atarqais of Staffrd had purchased sinares tti some ot the projected railvzays, is entirely without foundationi his lordship biug a subscriber to gone of thno untdert31hings,