Yesterday the Earl of Liv...
The Times, 1824-02-03T00:00:00

Yesterday the Earl of Liverpool gave a grand Parlia- rnentary dinner, at Whitehall, to a number of Noblemen. Among them were the mover anzd seconder of the Address to the King upon the delivery of His MIajesty's Speech at the opening of' the session of Parliament.i Mlr! Secretary CSanning also gave a grand dress party to i the members, of the House of Conmmons, conTsisting of about 35, including the Speaker, and the mover and se- conder of the Address. The substance of the King's Speech i was read by both the Ministers to their noble and distin-! guished guests, j Lctters from Stockholm of the 16th ult. state, that in the night between the 13th and 14th there occurred one of the most dreadful storTns ever remembered in that country. Eight ships wvere driven from their anchorage in the har- bour, and wrecked upon the rocks and shallows. Many houses were injured, and even the steeple on the top of the Exclhange at Stockholm was bent by the violence of the wind. Several persons were blown from the bridges into the river and drowned, and the roads cormnunicating with the citv hadi been renldered impassable by the number of- trees wvhich had fallen. Lstters from Cadiz, dated the 15th ult., were receivecl yesterday, which state that the expedition for South Ame- rica sailed on the morning of that day. It is believed that none but natives of England will in future be employeed in the atdmninistration of t'ie revenues in Ireland.-Duthlin Morning Post. The fuineral of AT. Langles, the great Orientalist, took place at Paris otl Friday last. As he was a member of five, diferent institutions, five dlifferent orations were pro nounced over his graye by deputatipus of these respective! institutions. THE KiNu.-The state of his Majesty's health continues te improve. The answers to the inquiries on Saturday and Sunday were as follow: SATVITnAY, Jan. 31.-_" His AMajesty is considerably better." STYNDAT. Feb. 1.-i His Alajesty continues to get better." Yestetdaty being a holyday, no business was done at the Bank. At the Stock Exchange tie transactions took place as usual. Consols for the Account closed at 90--sellers. FnaEScsi FuXDs, JAN. 31.-Five per Cents. opened at 9f;, losed at 96 25: New Loan, S premnium. Bank Shares, 1655; Neapolitan Stock, SD1; Spanish Bonds, 25i; Exchange on Londori, one monith, 25 4s ; three months, 25 35. FBAHitA, Nov. 27.-Arrived the Vigilante, takeni wvithin 20 leagues of l.isbon, IJY the Brazilian trigzate AVtherhoyv.-Dec. n: Arrived the Pornbinha, Ezen, from Alarnhan,m taken at that pat;i by Lord C'ochrane. Letters 'rotn Rio Janeiro state, tbat the Empleror of I Brazil has conirmned to Lord Cochrane the rank of Marqluis, and has presented him with a valniable estate, as an appendage to his title. It i said, too, that his Lordship las been offered the appoitit- i tment of Governor of Bahia. Letters from Paita, dated April 10, 1823, state that the Persev.eratce schooner, Captain Mtoresby, which lhad been carried DUt of Truxillo by the piratical crew of a Peruvian brig, had been preserved by the exemplary prudence of -he supercargo, ilr. Thios Hlarper, who induced an ltnglish sailor to enter into the plans of I the pirates, and to show them the treasure on board. Their confi- dence havinig heen thus acquired, ble persuaded thetm to water at Guayaqitil, where they were seized, shot, and hung at the yards, by the Autlhorities of the place. A ltter fromn Havre, dated Taesday, says-" WVe have liad Getneral Alina's first Aide-de-Camp (Colonel O'Callaghan) here for some days. He is in treaty for an American vessel to carry the General and his suite to some part of South America. She is to proceed to'Cowes, where the Gcneral purpotes etnbarking. Colonel O'Callaghatn was with the General during the whole of the Spanish struggle." LIVERPOOL., Jati. ?1.-By advices received this morning from Captain Tavlor, of the brig Jane, at Cadiz, it appears the said vessel, and the goods on board, have been seized there, but upon witat grounds we are not informed. MADAbtE FODOR.-The PetershurgA Gazette of the 5ttli ot January announ5es, that the Emperor Alexantler, beinsc tie cirous of establishing an Italian opera in his canital, has offerel Madame Alainvielle-Fodor an engagement of 60,000 roulbles, and five benefit nights.. This celebrated singer is now at Naples, where hier engagement closes on the Istof April. During a short but tremendous thunder-storm on Fri- day week his Majesty's ship Milford, itt Haiatoaze, being the only sh,ip of Z without a conductor. was struck bv lightning, and her mast therebv considerably shivered. The electric flutid madle its way into the hold, and there exploded with a loud crash, but without further injurV to the shitp. Colonel Joh nsoni has putblisbed an address to the free- holders of Linoholshire, with an account of the money received end expended by the committee for conductitig the election of Sir John Tliorold, by which it appears that their whole expenses amounted to only 821. 8s., leaving a balance of 2s. in hand, above the subscrip- tion raised. ,The following ipiece of ju(licial pleasantry of one noble and learned perstnage upon another, recently circulated In the Tlall of the Four Courrs, Dublin:-A Barrister having cited a case "decided" by Lord E-n; the Irish C., Lord 51., drily observed " Yiou will mnuch oblige me, Mtr.-, by citing Rny case decided by uoy Lord E-n." " One of the fellows," said Sir Astley Cooper in his lec- ture at St Thomras's Hospital on Wetdnesdav last, " wlho are its tte habit of publishing their cures oY hernia, and their methods of pre- venting the future descent of the hertsial sac, called upofi mie, anid asked whether I would like to go and see a patient of his, whom he hiad cured by rubbing the parts with some preparation. ' Mrby, upon my word,' said [, i I feel no inclination to go, for I know you mieht just as well ask nme to go and see you jump to the moon.' Well, Sir,' said he, ' then you will not ace him.' ' No,' said 1. I will not.' Four or five months after, this ntan having quarrelled witlh thejunta with which h e was united, came to me and said, Sir, it Was entirely an imposition. lVhat do you suppose we rubbed our patients with, in order to inipose upon the public ?' I cannot tell,' sald I. i Sir+' replied he, ' it was nothing but he,tge_ bog's fat. It cost us some trouble to catch our hedge-hogs: buit it was the fat of that aninsal with which we pretended to prevent the descent of herntia.' Yous may, suppose, gentlemren. that I felt no re. gret at having refiused to see this man's patient."_The Lancet. MosOT IM PORTANT DiscovEtsy.-The learnedl Presidetit, Sir Hlunmphry Davy, Bart., in a paper on the cause of the corrosion and decav oh copper used for covering the bottoms of slhips, read he- ibre the Royal Society, has pointed out a sinple, effectual, and eco- nomical method of remedying this evil. The canse, he as-ertained, was a weak chvmical action, whicl is constantly exerted between the saline contents of sea.water anit the copper, atid which, what- ever may be the nature of tite copper, sooner or later destroys it, which is thus noticed in tte last tumber of the Philosophical i,,aa. zine: _.'-'The saine general principle of the manner in which chY- mical changes may be exalted, destroyed, or suspended. bv electri- cal powers, which led him to the discovery of the decomposition of the alkalies and the earths likewise aSforded libn this new and more pfactical discovery. -He inds that a very small surface of tin, or other oxidahle metals any where in contact with a lage smurface of copper, ren(lers it sonegastiyely clectrical,that sea water has ino action upon it, and a little mass of tin brought even in communication be a wire with a large plate of copper, enitirely preserves it. By tlre de- sire of the Lords Of the Adn raly lie is now bringing this discuXvery to actual practice onships of war. It is needle,s to point out the u&eg and economicad advantages of a result which muist add so much to the permanency and strengths of our navy and lhipping, and le so beneiicial to our maritine tnd commercial interests." A patent, which haa for its object tie remedying of the same evil, was lately taken out by MIr. Mlashes, of tlae Min ; anid it is a curious enough fact, that the means-e recommends flor improvinig the copper em- ployed in sheathing, is~-alloying it with a verv small portion of tih, or of zinc,or of arsenic,or of antimony. 2r.MmlNibet only specifies the fact, but nothing of the causc. Is the effect in thsl case to be ascribed to the iery cause ascertained by Sir 11umphry ? AI.R PIEBCE, OF BRSTO, _..-lre are requiestedI by Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Illedca.lf, of Chiancery-iane, to contradict a statesnent which has appeared in the newspapets, representing that Mlr. Pierce has sailed from Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, on b.oare the ship uds.ron, for Amrerica ; such a representation beitg altogether erroneous. This report, we find, had its origin in thc circumstance of a person somewhat resembling l lr. l'ierce in personal appearance having xailed last week on beard that ship, and a conjectlure was en. tertained that it might possibly. be lr. Pierce ; but we are assured most positiyely by Aessrs. Clarke and Co. th:at sch vas not the case; that MAr. Pierce did not sail by that vessel ; and that it is cleacly ascertained that the iitdividual who was thus taken for Ai., Pierce, was, in reality, a Ilr. -, ivlio embarked at Cowen undler the assuinel namre of Richardson. Our infonrm:ints have put us in pos- session of this gentleman's real inane; hut from motives of delicacy, and a regard to the feelings of Isis family and friends, we forbear menetioning It. JMessrs. Clarke and ilo. further inforiss us, that up to the preesist time, no ti'ace of t. Pierce hlss been imade out; and that notbing has occurred to alter the opinion formed by his frielid:s, that he has been the victim of a murder. MuRDER-Daniel GTirrshire hac been conimittetl to Berks county gaol, charged with the wilful murder of his infant son, by pouring & quattity of boiling water from the tea-kettle isto the child's throat. On A1onday last, the respectable family residin& at the Parsonage-house, at Rewe, near this city, were tbrown into great alarm by the datring intrusion of soine villain, whose purpose, whatever It were, was fort'rlately frustrated. It appears that the Rev. Mr. Tripp's youngest sons about lo years of age, go011g into his bed-room about seven o'clock in the evening, saw a man, hav- ing a pistol, at thie end of wblch.was a dirk, standing.with his back to tle window, whieb was open; The boy, with more spimit than prudence, imnediately attackced him, by throwing at him a bottle, which he had in his hand; a scuffle then ensued, in which the vil- lain two or three times endeavoured ta stab him, but he dexterously contrived to ward off the blows withl a candlestick he had itt Is hand. The fellow, meeting with so stout a resisiance from so appa- rentdg an unequal opponent, anil by this tinme recollecting his own daner darted out' of the wiiidow bly w-ich it is supposed be ea. tereds, ad fled: till this, Mr. Tripp s son had not bad the presence of mind to make an outcryt; but on the cry of '- murder" all the thsily ran, to lhisn and as soon as the cause was ascertaused, gave the alarm to tie village; is pursuit ini,meelately commenced by a great nmnber of people, bust it was too late; the fellow 'had escaped. Thne yoisxg gentleman providentially received only a very slight wiuel, and a bruise on his left ann,i between he elbow and slsoulsl~eh:r,Textcr Gmszelle.'