An express arrived yester...
The Times, 1824-04-09T00:00:00

An express arrid yesterday trom Paris, bringxg intl ligence ot a fall of about one per cent. in the Freii4 hFuuids the rentes. having left off on Tuesday laot at Ioi. 4.s Spanish stock was extremely heavy, having beei quoted-at 19, with much difficulty iu findin psrat at prir it was said that 11I. Guebhard, the contractor fo eiyaf Loan, had left Paris for Madrid, carrying. with him billr, to the amount of 300,0001. sterling, arising from th*e sam of the Royal Bonds which he hid been enabled to-efbet in the Paris market. It is also said that he proceeds. to Ivrairid with authority from an erminent houLse in Paris to enter into a contract for a niew loan, in which no otice is- to he taken of the Constitutional Bonds. A report, we know not how true, is verv generally QuW. rent, that a dissolution of Parliament will take place;a4 the, end of the present session. The petition to Parliament by the Directors of the Al,'- lianice Assurance Company, for a clarter of incorporation, with the privilege of eflecting maritime insurances of esfflact , -will be presented this evenilo-. Extract of aletter-dated Trieste, AMarchi8 :-Ameeting has beer held by the Grdels at Mfissolonghi, -in order to (ciscuss the offensive anid tlefensive measures for the ensu. ing campaign. Prince Mavrocordato presided in this im. portant meeting. It appears to be resolved to send thea whole force to ThessaW. The province is to be eentered on thrce sides: one corps seemns to be destined to occupy Agra.: pha on the west; a second io occupy Volos on theesst;:: while the main Greek- army will advance to Neopatra. and: the Thermopylae. The first two corps, in those naturalIy strongpositions, may oblige the Turk-s to diride tlieit forces.-Dlutch paper. During the present- month, steam-packet& will begig to plybetwxreen Naples, Palermo,- aud Marseilles. That in- tended for MIarseiles will perform-the voyage in five days-; the other will perform its voyage to Palermo in 2- hours. Prince Butera is at the head of ttis undertaking. The family of the ex-Fwperor Iturbide set out from Leghorn on-the 29thof March for England. The Minis- ter of France havig-- refused to give him passports to travel through that lkipgtinin they have been obliged to takle an- other route'- A strang,e miijgte-has found its way inlto an able, and, vith this exceptibn,accuratearticle ii the JouraalJesDea&ts, on the-subjectof the Englishoriminalcode. Asantillustration! of lheb superiorityof the-manners Qfthe English peole oYer theircriminal laws, iany of which, thevrriterjustly observes, are the relies ef barbarous ages, le refers to the execution.-of Thistlewood, -wherehle pretends that the executioner, whert proceeding to cut the body into quarters in pursuance ofthe sentance, was scared awvay by the tsumultuary - menaces of tfie people. True it is, that the utmost horror was express. ed by the peaple whenithe heads of the executed were se- vered from their truinks; but no attempt was made to quar - tcr them, because that barbarous portioii of the ancient sen. teuce in high treason has been long ibolished. WVe agce with the French writer, that our criminal: code, in various braniches, smacks strongly of a barbarous and savage age; but wve are not willing -to see it charged -with atrocities that- no longer belong to it. Ga RAL rAn lMarch 18.-I have to ac4uaint you oftbe rirval of his Majesty's ship Phaeton- yesterday from Algiers. By- her clearn, that Admiral SiriHarryNeale wastberc in ithc ReenTge, with 5 frigites, a sloop, inil a-brig, and were blockidfg,tbe Rort. The Algedne Government had refused totreatwiththeAarniral. There wcrc two Algerine; f6iites and- sonie eorvettesoin rt:which had been out cruisiing, anad'ittereported- to' have przsonerson board. Ouarsquadrdn caDtured iyessel withXAlgerinc propertlyonibbard, nd sent her ts 321ta. The Datch squadron was supposd t be at Mahon. It does not appear tlat aty Britiah vessels hare 1een taken. !rT6day.hcre hlave beentvo arrivals from Oran, one aiesselbelong. ing to this port which had been under sequestrazion by thc Alge- rines ;-bur it seems that the British liceXConsul, beiug arrested, -sent an express to Algiers to theAnearican Consul, for.whoni le was also acting es a deputy, who imiuiwediately demandtd his releasc, whicv-was 'acceded to by the Dey, -andpermnission sent 'to him to quit the place if he liked, atd remove his property; under this'litter description the English _Vesiel -w&a given sip. The Vice-Consul writes, that there ba been a rising of the hatives in Oraziagaistthe Turks in the beginningofthis month; but it was quelled, and ihe ringleaderput to death. - . I lle followtng extract of. a private letter, dated somie, M1aTch 20,'contains somne fairther particulars rispecting then melan- ,cholydeathof Miss Batkurst:-" The body of.Bis4 Dathurs4 -Lord Ayliner's niece, has dotyet beenifound. The cause of thisla.- iientableaccident I wlicd his deprived ourgay cir:ls of:onc o ite. most iccomplisbea andl,rii2ant ornaments was as follows:,4'The road on the banks of the Tibei beyonsd taiSfonut tolc was-so riar.. row and bad t.hat the party,.hho were ont borsecback,-' were obliged to ieurin. cord A'ylnien took' hold of i\liss Batliurst'i bridle'to &%. sist lieria tunninjg retd; but at ihat~ sonient tbhchorsc back an4 fel into theriverwith.'the unfortunateyounglatly. Betdes.L&Jrd- Aylner, a younKEnglis main-md 'a senat the FnOh Auilbsse sador, leaped into the waer. * Diver boats, and every-l4id of,ig. cour, wvere inmmediatey cemnloycd, but it w as too late. In ,his-place the Tiber-isiwinding and it; Waters rapid. This young l*4y;vbe> was a niece of Lord Blfftursti was 17Tyears ot ag^ and was-the charni of allher friends, by her beautv and cultivatcd mind..- A fatality. seems tobheattachede tthlis fatily. MIr. Bathbust,her father, wbo: was Ambassador to the Court of -P.usia some year ago -suddenly disappeifred ihist traversing 'aforet on-luIs way .o lamiburAb, without his bady.being ever:foun4-,or any certain iforwauCitq: eb- iaini relativeso his datli....Evcnhigi pajtcr. .-'