Yesterday morning, about ...
The Times, 1824-12-25T00:00:00

Yesterday morning, about 12 o'clock, the Duke of York arrived at his residence, Stable-yard, St. James's, from the seat of the Marquis of Hertford, at Sudbourn, Suffolk. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence left Bushy yester- day, and came to the King's Palace, Kensington, where the RoyalDuchess alighted at the apartments of the Duchess of Kent. The Duke of Clarence proceeded to London. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Bushy in the afternoon. Mr. Secretary Canning wvas much better yesterday. Dr. HoUand attended the Right Hon. Gentleman at the Foreign Office yesterday. Twelve mails were tlue yestcrday from the Continent, viz.From France, 2; Flanders, I ; Holland, 1 ; Ham- burgh, 4; Gottenburgh, . The Earl Wellington has arrived off Dover from Lima in 110 days, having left Callao on the 2d of September. She brings despatches from Mr. Roweroft to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Before she left the Bav of Callao, advices had been received, that after the skirmishes between the outposts, Bolivar at length brought the Spanislh General Cantarac. to a general battle the latter end of August, near a place called Iscuchaca, and completely de- feated hiim, killing 6,000 of his best troops. There no longer existedl any doubt of the secession of the Spanish General Olaneta from the Royal cause: he was situated in the province of Potosi. Late advices from Arequipa state, an action was fought between him and Valdes, who was left by Cantarac as a check upon him. Olaneta was de- feated, though he had taken prisoner the Spanish General Caratela. It was the general opinion there must soon be an end to the war, or, in fact, that it was finished. The Asia and corvette had not arrived at Lima on the 2d of September, and it was stated they were lyinig at Chiloe still, with sick crevs. The G'aceta de Colombia of the 10th of October an- nGunces, that on the 3d of thatmonth there had been con- clu(led in Bogota a general treaty of peace, friendship, na - vigation, and commerce, betweeni the Republic of Colom - bia and the Unitedl States. The Commnissioners were Doni Pedro Gual, Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the part of Colombia, and Mr. Anderson, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States, on thc part of that Government. HAMBURGI1, Dec. 7.-rFrom the Ailgemeine Zeitung.] -A M. N., of Brescia, who was sentenced to death in his absence, for his participation in the intrigues of the Cabor- nari in Austrian Italy-(he had fled to England)-has been -so inconsfderate as to come here, and not even to change his name, which, as was easily to be foreseen, led to his dis- covery, and to his arrest, at the instanice of thle Austrian Minister. It is probable that he will be delivered up, and sent away in a few days. It is expecte(d that very early in February a session will be held in the 01(1 Bailey, for the trial of persons charged with offences committed on the high seas wvithin the juRs- dliction of the Admiyalty of Great Britain. It is understood, thiat in future' the public will not be allowed admission to the chapel of Newgate for the purpose of hearing what is termed the "condemned sermon," usually preached on the Sundlays preceding an execution. It is said that the Court of Aldlermen have thought proper to come to this determination, with the view of sparing the wretched persons wlho may he doomed to die the additional aggrava- tion of their sufferings in being made a spectacle of in a place which it is thought should be resorted to from motives more sacred than those of curiosity. Other reasoiis have also been assignedl for the propriety of excluding strangers on the occasions referred to. A clever little book has just been published, called Tket M?fodern Athens-thc name by whichl some absurd coxcombs of the North designate the Scotch metropolis, to the great disgust of their more sensible countrymen. The object of the book is to exposc a harmless antd very amusing pro- pensity of our wortlhy brethren of Scotland, to value every thing Scotch above every other earthly thing of the same kind. To use a familiar expression with the Scotch, " all their geese are swans." Thus Ediinburgh, though not much larger or better blilt than one of the suburbs of Londoni, is calledl " a city of palaces:" Burns cclipses Shakspeare ; and Locke andl Bacon are no mere to be talked of, since Atlam Smith anid Dogald Stuart lhave been laLunched into the world. It is evident that such a foible is no more to be combated by argument, than the delusion of a hypochondriac: ridlicule is the only mode of assailing or curing so delirious a blunder. The author, therefore, of the volume in qxuestion hlas treated his subject in the proper way; and will not offend one Scotchman of the least sense or reason. By the way, we more tlhan suspect he is a Scotchinan himself. Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lordl Mayor order- dered the prisoners in Newgate, Ludgate, White-crosa-street prison, and the Compter, each lo receive one nound of meat, ose pint of porter, and hialf a threepenny loaf ?or their Christmas-day's dinner, in addition to the increased allowance of bread, meat, and coals, given by thec city of' London. Oun rl'tsday night, andt on the morning of yesterday, we wtere r isited by another tremendo: gale, which blew with great fury frorn W. S. lW; but we are happy to say that no damage was done to the shipping in the harbour. Ten vessels were riding at anchor in the Soand, and a number at the mouth of Catwater, during the gale.-Pl nzoth Journal, Dec. 23. The small island of Heligoland, at the mouth of the Elbe, bas been visited lately with a very mDlignant disease_a di- arrhoa which has proved tatal toa greatnmanypersons. Forone period, says a letter dated the 24th nIt., the mnortality was froin 16 tO 18 weekly, out of a population of' a few hundreds ! Dr. Liel- mann, of Hamborgh, however, las sutcceeded in putting a stop to its dreadful ravages. At the above date the iialignity of the dis- ease was grcatly abated, and those who had been afflicted were all in a state of convalescence. One of those rare birds, the silk-tail chatterer (anmpelis garrulitc), was caught a few days ago in the neiglhbourhood of Btel- ville. This is one of the most beautiful of our occasional visitantS from thc arctic circle, and has been secn in Britain only at long in. tervals. The present one corresponded very exactly with Bewick's description, and had on each wing six of those fiat vermiIlion-con loured horny appendages, which form so peculiar a clharacteristic of the bird; when caught it appeared much exhaustetl, and onl being put into a dark cage ate a few of the haws of thte evergrecn thorn, re- jecting the reeds, but died in the course of the night.-FerY Heraid. A most (lisgaceful occutrretce took place at Arandel on Tuestlay. A man took his wife a mile out of the town, and then conducted her back with a halter round her neck, be having been told that he niust put the rpe on at that distance, or the sale would not be legal; he brought her into the market, both ap. pearing on very good terms, and put her up at 31., wvhen a sailor bid 21., antl thie bargain being aon struck, he paid the money and conductetl heraway. Why did not the Mlagistrate interfere? We yestertlay gave an accourtt of thic robbery of the Stirling mlail, and stated that one of the robbers had been appreher4d. ed. The amount of the notes stolen is said to have been 13,0001., of which 2,4001. were of the Bank of Scotland. The robbery was effccted in the ilwlowing manner. A man took his seatat Stirling as an ontasidepassenger. The niail was follored closely from Stirling bv a Fig, in whicl there were two inen. When the mail arrived at Kirk.iston, the guard stopped to take out thecustomary bags toleave tlerc. The gig also stopped, and the two men in it stepped into the house. The guard find unfortunately left the mail-box open, r.where the parcels were depositedl. The outside passenger easily ac- complished his object in abstracting the whtole, and left the cnach, not intending, as he said, to proceed any farther in the Edinburgh rosdl. Tnue coach dhrove off, conceivinn all was right. The wrig, with the two men, was observed to take the Queasferry Toad. The parcelswerenot missed till the mnil reachec Edinburg . On the Queensfcrrv road thie two men in the gig had been joitmed by their accomplice, the outside passenger. In their progress, the gig broke down,-or, what is more probable, was broken hy thenm, to appear as an excase for leaving it on the road, where it has been fouxnd ; and the three men took a post-chaise for Edinburglh. They discharged the chaise when they caine near the city, and gave the post-boy who (rove them 31.-Eveningp ser. Erratunz.-It the fourth paragraph of thie Mexican Manifesto, published in our paper of yesterday, for "e on a less cruel, fatal, or disastrous fall," read " in a less cruel, fatal, or disastrous 1 frrm." One or two othet literal inaccuracies may be torrected by tile reader,