WINDSOR (Monday), April 1...
The Times, 1824-04-20T00:00:00

WI"Dsoyt (Monday), April 19--The weather being re- markably fine this morning, the IKing rode out in his phaeton to the Royal Ledge, andl other parts in Winslsor Great Park. Prince Polignac (the French Ambassador) arrived at the Castle this day, on a visit to his Majesty. Accounts were received yesterday in town, from Bath, stating that the Earl of Liverpool had derived much benefit in his health from drinking the waters. Yesterday his Majesty's bounty, called the Gate Alns, was distributed to a number of poor men and women at the Almonry-office, in Scotland-yard, by Mr. Hanby, the Secretary to the Lord High Almoner. Yesterday beina Easter-Mlonday, the boys of Christ's Hospital went to the Royal Exchange, where they waited for a considerable time till the Lord Mayor and Corpora- tion were ready to join themn, when they returned in long procession to Christ Church. wvhere the annual Spital ser- mon was preached by the Bishop of Exeter. DESTRaUCTION OF A PAINTINhG iV RuBENs.-(From the Etoile of Saturday.)-A very extraordinary event Is this day the subject of general conversation ; all the details have not yet reached us in such a manner that we can give them positively; but the fact is too real, and the followving particulars may be relied on1. Sonme days ago WI. de Fsrbin, the Director of the Mu- seum, received an anonymous letter from an indivi- dual, wtho said that the Government lhaving caused hin to sustain a loss of 20,000 francs, lie would destroy, one after the other, all the pictures in the Museum, if the sum in question was not brought to him at an appointed place. .X1. Franchet, of the police, also received a similar letter ; but, thinking it the act of some madman, no importance was attached to it: but the day before yesterday, a perzon employed at the MIuseuin ran to the Director of the Po- lice, andt informed him that one of the finest of Rubens's pictures had been torn to pieces. The author of this act has not been discovered. 'fhe doors of the Museum were instantly closed, and iwc understand that a similar precau- tion has been adopted at the Luxembourg. Lord Byron's efforts in behalf of the Greek cause form, it is said, an important part of the last communications from the British Ambassador at Constantinople. The saaes of the Divan, it appears, have been utterly unable to compre- Ihend that an Englishman, bearing a title, cnuld possibly be so little under the control of his own Government as to engage, without its consent, in active warfare against an ally; and they have therefore demanded, through Lerd Strangford, an explanation of the cause why his Lordship's conduct has been permitted to pass wvithout notice. We understand that Lord Strangford is likely to experience as much diffictltv on this point as he did in bis efforts for bringing about a reconciliation with Russia! Gibraltar papers to the 30th of March were received yesterday. A letter from Tangiers, dlated Miarch 21, states that Ben Y'Show, the chief of the province of Garb, has had an engagement with one of the marauding tribes of his district, in which lie has lost 30 men. Muley Sheid has given up the siege of Mequinez, and gone to Tafilet, baving, it is said, secure(d in thbeAtlas mountains a safe place of retreat; while the Governor of the Black Hon- claya, at Mlequinez, has sent to the Emperor a considerable remittance from the treasury at that place. One of the Ber- ribber tribes have also submitted to the Emperor, sending their wonmen as hostages to Fez. Yesterday was a holyday at the Bank, but business was trausacted as usual in the Stock Exchange at a trifling de- pression on the prices of Saturday. CODnols for the account left offtat 96 'rlhis day the Stock Exchange as well as the Bank will be closed. COLOMBBIAN LOAN.-The notices to the subscribers to this loan were sent yesterday, and bargains were effected in the scrip, wvhich wvill be delivered on Wednesday on the payment of the deposit. It bore at one time a premium of 5 per cent., and closed at 4. premium. A general bond of the Colombian Governiment under this contract, pledging the revenues of the state generally, and that of tobacco specifically, will be deposited in the Bauk of England, to- gether with the powers of' the Comnmissioners and the de- cree of Congress. The redemption of the loan is proposed to be effected in 30 years, and a sinking-fund of 47,5001. per annum is to be employed in purchasing bonds in the London market. The price at which the contractors have issued the stock is 881 per cent., the stock bearing an in- terest of 6 per cent., and the instalments are payable as u,nd,lr - LAmvertisement.J-AuSTRIAN LoAN NEGOTIATED BY Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD IN LONDON.-The half-yearlydi- vidend on the said loan, falling due on Saturday, the 1st of May, will be ptaid on tbat and every succeeding day (Sun- days excepted), between the hours D' 10 andc 2. It is re- questedl that the dividend w-arrants wxvith a list thereof in numerical order, may be left, if possible, on the 24thinst., for tho purpose of being examiued.-New-couwt, April 1,1824.