Late yesterday afternoon,...
The Times, 1824-04-03T00:00:00

Late yesterday afternaoon there wag a demand on the DIxhebange for bils otl MaRdtid; but the object of the parties making rerfittall>c6 to that cqpital did not transpire. It is not urlikely that all appeals to the justice of Fer(linandf having failed in tie affair of the Constitutional bond(s, an attemopt may be. made by. arguments of a more weighty na- ture, to inluce his MXiniaters to eXert tileir- infittence for their recogr-ition. The price of t`hebonds advanced about one per cent. near the close of business, havting left off at 20. No intQliigeice has been rec6ved fromn P'aris tend- ing in any degree to alter their value. Lptters wore receive(d yesterday from Pernambuco, dated the 23d1 of January, but thleir contents are of little im- portance. Some anxiety is manifestad by the merchants at the continued residence there of the Portuguese, wvho had had notice to leave the countty, and for whose convevance to Europe the means had been providled by the AMlininis- trauve Junta, lest by their intrigues some movement migoht he set on foot in favo.r of Portugal; but the danger, from the smallness of their number, appears to be one of a very slight niature. ti'he rise in. the Colombian Bonds, in consequrence of the notice from Mir. Hurtado, has been ahout 15 per cent. T'he last price quoted yesterday was 83A. A list of subscribers for the new loan is forming by Mlessrs. Barclay, Herring, and Powles. Yesterday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, two Tuffians coiled at the house of Mr. James, the naval his- torian, in South Lambeth, and one of them, wlho assumed the namne of Sir Jt,hn Phillimore, instantly commenced a furious attack upon him with a stout stick, whitih he had concealed under his coat, assisted by his friend, the other ruffian, until they hleard MGrs. James, who was just out of a sick bed, direct the servant to go for a constab!e, when they both ran out of the house, pursued by the cry of " stop thief !" till they reacled a coach that was waiting for them in the road. Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at Genoa, dated the 20th of dllarch :-" Captain Langmack, of the Alevran- der, arrived from AMessina, which ne left the 6thi instant, states that there were 13 British vessels laden with fruit there, which intended to proceed to Malta for convoy, to protect them through the straits of Gihraltar. He saw three vessels on shore outside th,e Plearas, near Scylla; they had been stranded daring a severe gale the 4th inst.; one was an English schooner, with lier stils set, (had the as- pearance of the vessel coranauded b1v Captain Brittoei, of Plymoatltw A letter from Measina states, that the Ulysses, Consigliere, (Sar- dhiian), from Alexandria, an Engish vessel from Alexandria, with pigrims, a vessel with oil from Tunis, and an Austrian vessel had been stranded on the coast of Calabria." Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Gib- raltar, dated AMarch 11 :-" Convoys are appointed to protect the trade bote eastwvard and westward. His llajesty's ship Ranger sailed this morning, with eight vessels under her convay, for the eastward; and his Majesty's ship .lacriy, which arrived on the 9th inst., writh four vessels from Mlalta, will sail with the trade bound to the westward, as soon as the wind is fair. There is no news respecting the Algerines, but a report prevails of their hav- ing all returned to port." Extract of a letter fromn the Agents to Lloyd's, at i\Ies- sina, dated Mlarch 6:-" We have had tremendous north-west gales from the night of the, 2d inst. till last night. The shipping in port has not suffered; but there are bad accounts just arrived from Cala- bria, where it is said nine vessels have been driven on shore, or lost, betwzeen P.zzo and Scylla, viz, twro English, one of then from Alexandria; four Sicilians, two Genoese,'and one Russian." The sloop Ruck-ers got on shore in working out of Gran- ville-liarhour, itn Grenada, on the 9th of February, but was got off with loss of rudder, false keel, and other damage, after cutting away her mast, &c. A corre2pondent informs us, that the labcuring men em- ployed about th2e repairs of St. James's palace, receive onlv 5d. a day, while the m<asters receive 5s. 9d, exclusively of the value of the materials.