Yesterday afternoon, at a...
The Times, 1824-07-10T00:00:00

Yesterday afternoon, at a few minutes before six o'clock, the King arrived at his Palace in Pall-mall, in his travelling cwarriage and foulr, from Windsor. TheCaraccas papers contain the prniet of a National Bank, to he estabhshed in that city, with a capital of two millions of dollars. The successful precedent of the Buenos Ayres Bank will doubtless lead to similar establishments throughout all the other sections of South Americea. Count Munster, the Hanoverian Minister to this country, is said to have quitted England to inake the necessary arrangemnents fer the equipment of the troops that are to proceed to Portugal. Letters from Naples announce that, in consequence of the departure of IJ r. M'Donald, the English Consul, from Algiers, who also acted in that capacity for the King of the Two Sicihes, a new Consul had been appointed for the later Power, and had ac- cordingly proceeded to Algiers, and had been received with great distinction by the Dey. A general muster of the Honourable Artillery Company will take vlace in their ground, on Monday the 19th inst., at half past two o clockt to commemorate the coronation of their Illustrious Captain-General, his Most Giacious Majesty. The regiment will afterwards dine together at t,he aroury-house. Should His Royal Highness the Duke of Susse'x, the Colonel, be sufficiently recovered, he intendsg to take the command, and honour the corps with his coma. pany at dinner. Sir George Wood, who lately retiretd from the office of one of the Barons of the Exchequer, died at his house in Bedford. square, on Thursday night. Mlr. Scarlett is indisposed with a cold. The comnmittee in this city, appointed to procure sub- scriptions for the relief of the sufferers at the Cape of lood Hope have remitted 2081. 14s. 10(1. to the committee in London, formet tbr the same purpose.-Glasgow Free Press. The opera in preparation at the English Opera-house, is the celebrated J"reysclatr of Weber. It is said that Braham and Miss Stephens will play in it. The story is of the true German cast. T1 Ho ReV. C. C. CoLToN.-[From a New York paperof June 10. 1-Considerable doubts are entertained as to the statements which nave appeared in our newspapers, about the Rev. IMIr. Colton, author of Laconr, having been in this country, and the dashing ap- pear4nce he is said to have made in several places which he visited. The NVevrport Mercarp mentions the receipt of a letter from a gen- tleman in Charlestonx dated the 21th ult., in which the writer says that MXr. Colton left Charleson a few days previous for London, in consequence of letters from his attornies, stating that there were ample funds to satisfy all demands against him, and have a hand- some reversion. His livinlg at Kew still remains open, and the Bishop has not taken any steps to deprive him of it. MUSICAL INVENTION.-A musical instrument, calledl the '- Crescendo AEolian," has been invented by a Mlr. Christian Oobrecht, an artist of Baltimore, and a native of Alaryland. It is described to be X keyed histrument, similar to the cottage-piano in appearance, and has a couple of organ stops connected witlh it, which the performer can use at his discretion. The sound, which is pro. ducd b ai acingon metallic pipes, Is similar to that of the ABo0ian . e principal advantage which the instrument posseises is that of enabling the performer to increase and diminish the tone at pleasure. 'he following is from the Eloile, where it appears as a leading article :_- The English papers announce, with great eulo- giums, the establishment of a steam-boaw, called the Canila, which Is to perform the passage from Sotithampton to Havre in nearlv half the time of any other boat ot the kind h but what is Fnore asto- nishing than the celerity of thie Camilla, is the description of tlie voyage, given by several Englishmen who profited by thisopportu- nity to travel a few leagues from their islamd. These travelWers de- scribe the coast of France, by the town of Havre, as if they had discovered sonie new land at the Pole. The banks of Normandy enchanted them by their rich verdure which forms such a contrast with the sterility of the white cliffs of England. The abundance, and, above all, tie cheapness of peasi saiad, dlerries, strawberries, wine, and brandy, threaw them into an ecstacy. They found that the height of the houses 6f Havre, and the mode of theirconistruction, gave to this town a great resemblance to Edinburgh; in shott, these honest children of Albion retuirne( to their country full oftadmira- tion of France, and convinced, by their own experience, that the cnedblity of the English is sadly abused, when they-are toldthat tIre French live on frogs and soutpe maiere." T'here is quite a rage for Sir Walter Scott's novels in G;ermany, and every one of them is thricc translated, and twice re- printed in the oriinal in that country. But productive as is the great Scotch novelist, he is still unequal to the voracious appetite of the good German S. W6te learn from a bookseller, lately a eturned from the c ntinent5 that at the Leipsic fair nothing was talked of but Sir lVwalterScotts last no)vel,tvhi'h every petron said was by far the beat lie had vet wriren: 'rite bodksellei said thai was odd, as S onan's zell (lRedgarenitt had not yet appeared) was generally thought by no means nhe of his best. " Oh, we do not mean St. Ruasn's Ivfl, but the last one, Wallad Moor, which is by far the best. St. Roaoxn's Well was thouglit very little of." " Wallad Moor IYtilad Moor?" said the honest bookseller, " there was no novel Of ttiat name when I left EnSland, andl I have been only seven days on the road. I must inquire fartlher about this." On going to the publisher to have the business cleared up, the lalter said it was in vain to hold out; so, shrugging up his shoulders, he observed, " We wanted a Scotch novel for the fair. and as notlhinF was fornh- coming, an honest man hiere produced onie at the very nick of time; he has been Well paid, and the public, all the way from the RhUine to St. Petrshurgh, are hiw ecstacy. When the next real Scetch novel comes, it will not be one whit the less read because of Wallad Moor." From a report on the state of the elm-trees in St. James's and Hyde Parks, drawn up at the request of Lord Sydney, the ranger, it appears that the elm-trees are rapidly being destroyed by a species o f beetle, and that unless some decisive measures are resortett to to put a stop to the progressof the contagion, all thetrees of that species may be expected to disappear. With respect to the cure, the author ofthereport,]r i .llaclearv describes it asverydifficult. When the insects attack'the branches, they ought to be lopped off and burned; but when the trunks are infected, the application of a mixture of tar and train-oil is often fbund efficacious. A similar disease is at present devastating the arsenals in France. QUICK TRAVELLNG.-We have now lying before us an old newspaper, the Lonzdon Courant, of the date of February, 1746, in which Alesrs. Hartcup and Stradwick advertise that their stage- coaches "leave the Spread yatle Gracechurch-street, every morn- ing at seven 'clock, and reaclh 7Ochester in one day-Canterbury in two days-ahd Dover and Deal in two days and a half." Every one knows that we now travel to London and back, and have time to transact business, in one day, from this city. The paper, toa, is full of the unhappy business of the rebellion of 1746, which was not effectually quelled at the date of this paper. The f'ollowing paragraph appears under the head of Edinbuigh :_." Several more prisoners are brought to town. On Fridayfour countrymen came in with r,o le-ss than eleien- Highlaliders." What will some of the greatScotch w riters ray to this? According to their account of that reriod, a !core.of Highlanders used 'o be sufficient to rout a battalion of in- raeatry; and the- very tone of^ "Hey, Johnny Cope, are ye waken vet?" as cd to disperse a brigade ofA cavalry !-Kent Herirtd. ta.