The King's birth-day was ...
The Times, 1824-04-30T00:00:00

The King's birth-day v as yesterdav partially celebrated in the metropolis. The bells in the 'churches rang in the morning and during the day. The standards of England were hoisted osi the clharch-steeples and the public build- ings. At one o'clock the cannons in the Park and at the 'i'ower fired a double royal salute. The entertainments for which invitations had been issued by the Cabiniet MNlinisters, the Great Officers of Slate, and others, took place, with the exception of that of the Earl of Liverpool, which was postponed in consequence of the decease of the Duchess of Devonshire, as well as the absence of the noble Earl from London occasioned by indisposition; and also that of Earl Batliurst, in conseqUellce of the decease of the M larquis of Lothian. The theatres, Vauxhall-gardens, the Ciub- houses, and the houses of his Majesty's tradesmen, erew splendidly illuminated in the evening. The Courier from Rio de Janeiro, the vessel which brought the intelligence of the arrival of a French squadron in that port, hatl on board despatches for Mr. Canninig from Mr. Cbamberlain, the Consul-General. Nothing at- ditional transpired vesterday on the subject. A genitleman has arrived in town who left Tamupico, in Mexico, on the 25th of February. He had travelled to tbat port direct *rom Mexico. after a residence of one du- ratlon In tne capq'a os rY ew '; ,u. Os.S r ,ort tu iieg neral state of this important country is extremely favour- able. The roads were infested with robbers (not quite to so great an extent as in old Spain), but no insurrection existed in any part of the couutry; and, what is of still greater consequence, no partisans of the mother-country felt strong enough to declare themselves. The Executive was in great straits for waant of money, a state of things wlhiclh would soon cease by the arrival of the remit- tanices from the contractors fur the loan negotiated in this country. 'lheir chief error appears to be extreme clemency to the old Spanish resitlents, who were suffered to re- maini in the iace of the public proclamatioas for their ex- pulsion. IVe have been favoured through this medium with a copy of the new Mexican Colnstitution, which we shall publisi entire on a future day. GIBRALTAR, April 8.-The North Pole, Ehlert, from Hieres and off Algiers, arrived here yesterday, sent in by his Majesty's ship Active for a breach of blockade. She was off'Algiers on the 1st instant. The muaster reports that Vice-Admiral Sir H. Neale lanted six days before at Algiers to conter with the Dey. 'The Vice-Coonsu] at Oran was allowed to go about and do business, and had sbipped se- veral cargoes: two have just arrived here, one in a vessel undler English colours. It is reported that Bona has been barnt by tYvo }3nglish frigates. MIARSEILLES, Apuil 20.-His Mlajesty's ship Revenge, Vice-Admiral Sir Harry B. Neale, sailed yesterday for 1Malta. Tbere appears to be no probability of an earty terminiation of the differences with the Regency of Algiers and all the ports of that territory are subjected to a rigorous blocl;ade. Convuys have been granted for the protection of the trade between Leghorn and the 6traits; but there is not the slightest risk of capture, as it is ascer- tained there are no Algerine cruisers at sea." The Admiralty andl Navy Boards have entered into a contract with Sir E. Banks and Alessrs. Jollifle and. Nicholson, by which the latter bind theniselvets, under a penalty cf 200,0001., to comuplete the new Dock-yard at Sheerness in four years, including the houses for the officers and the chapeL They are to be paid for the work done, by the month, but not to receive more than 60,0001. per annum. If work shall be completed wvhich shall amount to more than that sum, the surplus is to be paid by bills bearing in- terest at the rate of 3i per cent.-KentWi Gazette. WVe learn by a letter fromn Newry, that a Ronman Ca- tholic Priest has been thrown into prison in that town, and that the application made by himself and his solicitor for a copy of the do- cument authorizing his incarceration has been refused by the keeper oi the prison-peremp~torily ret'used. We are authorized to state, that even a copy or signt ef the warrant under which this clergyman was arrested was denied to 7he earnest and joint application of him and his solicitor, who were distinctly told by the prison-lieeper that he had orders to refose them what the.y applied for, but that lie " believed the crime of his prisoner was, that he had marned a Ko- man Catholic and a I'rorestant about half a year ago !"-Dublin Morning Post. After Mr. Phillips's lecture on chymistry, at the Lon- don Mechanics' Iastitution, on Medaesday evening, Dr. Birkbeck, the president, announced that Sir Francis Burdett had made this useful establishment a donation ot one hundred guineas. He also announced several donations of books; and that the Royal Society of Arts had presented the instituuon with copies of the whole of their works, consisting of 50 volumes. An eligible spot, in a central situation, for the erection of a suitable building, is the only thing now wanting to complete the objects of the institution. The police regulations at MIadrid, for the celebration of Passion.week. are rather curious. No carriages were to appear, under a penalty of 60 ducats. No persons of what rank soever were to appear in public, giving themselves the disdpline-thatis, scourg- ing themselves oR the naked backs, or with their hands crossed, or in the dress of penitents, on Good Friday, under a penaltv of ten years' imprisonment and ZOO ducats, to rnobles; and of 200 lashes and ten years on board the gaUeys to the comiimonalty. The prohi. bition is a strange one, and it is btill snore extraordinary that so heavy a punislnient should be deenmed necessary to enforce it. Ass inqucst was held at Bilston, on the Odtls instant, be- fore Henry Smith, Esq coroner, upon the body of Thomas Tur. ey. It appieared that 'Yutlev, wlio was a pudler, had been drink. ing at the Bie Coal public-house on the preceding Saturday night, and got up in a state of intoxication to go out at the back door,agaiuist which the landlord cautioned hins, as there was an open well near it. Hie, howvever, did go out, and his wife, who was waiting in thlc house, tbllowed him; almostinstantaneously Turley staggeredand fell backwards into the well, and his yife, who caught hoid of the bottom of biis trousers, was, in endeavouring to save him, pulled in after him, but fbrtunately with ier feet foremost. Tbe well was six yards deep, and two and a half feet of water in it, and they remain- etd in the situation described a quarter of an hour before any person came to their assistance, whets the woman was taken out, and but little hurt, and in abouthalf an hour afterwards the body of Tur. ley was gut out lifeless, his head and shoulders having been under water during the time.- Molverhlampton C'lsroticil. ACCIDENYT.-On Wednesday aftexeioon, about four o'clock, as IVIr. Flatman, landlord of the Lafib and Hare public- house, Kennington-lnne, was on a scaffold in tront of that-house, which is at present undergoing repair, a portion of the front wall gave way, and fell on the rcaff6ldiag, on whish.vwere- dir. Flatman and two workmen, who were buried underncath the bricks and rub- bish. Assistance being speedily rendered, th e sufferers were soon extricated; AIr. Flatman had his knee dislocated, and was otherwise braised, but not dangerously. The two rie wvere conveyed to the ihospital, one with his situi fractured so dreadfuUy, that but little hopes are entertained of his recovery, the other mnar is less injured.