Yesterday afternoon, at t...
The Times, 1824-07-23T00:00:00

Yesterdav afternoon, at two n'clock, a Cabinet Counicil was held ac the Foreig-n-office, Downing-street, which did not break up till half-pas- four. There were present the Lordl Clhancellor, t}lC Duke of Wellington, the Earls cf Liverpool, Harrowby,-Westmorlard, and( Bathurst; Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Caniiing, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, V7iscounts Melville and Sidmouth, Mr. WVynn, Mr. Huskisson, &c. MIr. Bailey, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Secre- tary of State's Office Ior Foreign Affairs, Downing-street, yesterday moriing, with despatches for Mr. Canning from Sir Charles Bagor, our Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, c!ated up to the 7th instant. Mr. Secretary Canning gave a grand dinner at Glocester_ lodge yesterdlay, to dsrince Leopold, and a numerous party of persons ot distinction, &c. It appears that the sittings of the Portuguese and Brazi- lianl C'ommission for adjusting the differences between the two countries are held in Downing-street. Great interest seems to be taken in the proceedings by the Austrian Secre- tary of Embassy, and also by Prince Esterliazy himself, since his return from Vienna. This circumstance, togetlher with the juxta-position of the meetings to the ministerial offices, has led to the belief that the discussions are con- dlucted1 under Austrian anid Englislh influence, and has ex- cited very stronig hopes that they will terminate favourably. The success of this negotiation 's said to be a point whiSch MNlr. Canning has very much at heart. We have received a Greek 7Telegraph of the 9th of June. This paper contains part of the funeral oratien pronounced over the body of Lordl yvron ; letters from the lBon. Leicester Stauhope to the Government; and the following paragraplh in the column devoted to recent news :-" The accounts from all parts of the Morea arc of tile most consolatory description. All the dissensions seem ending in concord, and in a general re.organization." The accounts, con- tainedin the French journals. and copied into sole of our own papers, of a portion of the Greek loan hlaving beein paid over t& the Government, are false-not one farthing had been paid; but instruc. tions front rngland were hourly expected, and as the payment or non-payment of the money vas to depend upon the securities offered, and the nature of the ratification, tlherc can be no reason now to anticipate a further delay. We have heard that a noble lord,and other gentlemen of rank, whlose names we are not permitted to men. tion, wvill shortly proceed to Greece to supply the pla,, of the lamented Byron.-Globe and Travclkr. Mlr. Morier proceeds next weck as British Charge d'Af- faires to the M-Iexican Republic, on board lhis Alajesty's ship the Diamond, the Hon. Capt. Napier. The minister takes his tamily and the whole of his establishmnent with him to the western con- tinent. It is said that trr. Hurtado, the Colombian Envoy, has received a very friendly invitation from the French Government to make a visit to Paris, as soon as his convenience will permit, for the purpose of entering into communications with the view of esta- blishing friendly relations between the two dovernients. 'l'he first canto of Childe Harold, published bv Murray, at his shop in Fleet-street, was a gratuitous presentation by Lord Byron to his friend Dlr. Dallas, the brotherof the Judge. 11'e have understood Murray gave Mr. Dallas 5001. for the first edition. The late Mr. Dimsdale's (the banker) Greek, Rtoman, English, and Foreign coins and mcdals, in gold, silver, andI copper, are now selling by Sotheby at most extraordinary and unheard.of prices. A Queen Anne's five guinea piece produced 341. A five pound piece of Charles the First, 401.10s. An Oxford crown picce, with a portrait of Charles the First an horseback, and a view of the city of Oxford under the horse, 691. A twenty shilling piece of Charles the First, 141. Queen Elizabeth's ryal in gold, 17 grains 211. 10s. Queen Ilary's ryal in gold, 631. Edward tie Sixth's pound sovereign, 141. A TuBR BULL.-The Mayor of an English city has put forth an advertisement previous to the races, " that no gentleman will be allowed to ride on the course eCxcept tle heorses that are to run." ''he iron trade has recently assumed an uncommon brisk-. ness, in consequence of which the manufacturers inWales and York. shire have advanced the price one pound per ton. This difference produces to the house of a worthy city Alderman aa additional 18,0001. a year profit at least.-Evening paper. A family, near Hales-Owen have experienced, in a Tery calamitous manner, the effects -of hydrophiobia. Some time since the dog vwent mad, and bit one of the children and a mule; this ani- inal also becatne mad, and being accustomed to draw in a team, one -day, it a paroxysm of ithe disease, bit one of the horses. A boy be- longing to the family, attenliting to restrain the mule was caught by the finger, nor could it be taken from its mouth till the assistance of spme person had been procured, and who only disengaged it from the violence of the mule by destroying the animiial oi tite spot. -The horse has sinee died quite mad, aitd four membirs of the family, bit- ten either by the dog or the mulle, have bcen sent to the General liospital, Birmingliami.-He,eford Joarnal. STAGE-CO.Scssxs.-Johnson, the informer,hasbeets inak- ing a profitable tour along the Southampton road. It appears that many of the coaclmien aloilg that line liave for some time past been in the habit of taking oecasionally more passengers than the Act of Parliament allows. Several offenders of this kind were brought be- fore n benich of Magistrates at Chertsea on Monday week, at which time Sir flenry Hotliam, one of the Lords of the Admiraltv, pre. side(d as Chainaian. The first case entered into was agaiinst John Yalde,m, the driver cf a Soutllampton coach, who was proved to have passed through, Frimley with no less than 18 persons on the roof. Sir H. Hotliain, in pronouncing his jadgmuent, observed on the grossnessof the case, and declaredhisintention ofprotectingtlle public fromtheaccidents whilelisucli a eoursC of oflfncemustgive rise to,by inflicting in every instanice the tull penalty of 101. for every passenger above the mdlowtd nuiiber, being in this case six convictiois of IOL each. The driver of the Southampton Union coach was convicted in oite penalty of 101., and the diiver of the Oel Salisbury, and seve- ral otlher coachmen, in whose cases some taytigatory circunstances appeared, were fined earls in the sum of 51. Av fewz days ago a middle-aged gentleman, brother to a noble Lord, and whe lbas been for some time in confinement in the King's- Bench prison, was detected in an assault of an abominable hature upon a young man recently arrived from Cornwall, under such circumstances as could leave no doubt of his disgusting inten- tions. The fact was no sopner known than the prisonerg became very properly indignant, and they would have executed summary ven. geance on the offender, b which he would in all probability have forfeited hiis life, but for the intervention of tbe turnkey, whlo, with the greatest exertion, succeeded in rescuing him from hIis impending dtatlger, and lodged him in the strong room, as the ouly place ot safety, where he stillremains. Onthe circumstance being Liown, inquiries were imade, and (aa must be moat gratifying to the noble relatives of the accused) tCe result was, that he has for some time past laboured under toneporary delirium; so much so, as (previous to this transaction) to excite the surprise and fears of his brother pri- soners; and amongst various acts of derangement, it has been as. certained, that shortly previous to the conamission of this offeace, he was placing chairs in vArious parts of liis room so as, in his distorted imagination to form a court ef justice, composed of judge, counsel, wntm.ss, ana prisoner; which he alternately addressed with fren- zied eloquence, and as nmuch ardour as if they. were antually living beings. It is anderstood, froin the vaiious facts elicited, that the unfortunate gentlemnan willnot be furtherprosecuted; butthathis relatives intend snaking arrangernents for Isis future safe custody in some asylum, where any repetition of so calamitoas and disgmceful an outrage will be prevented,