News in Brief
The Times, 1824-01-21T00:00:00

The Earl of Liverpool arrived in tovwn yesterday niorn- ing frotn Brighton. Mr. Secretary Canning transacted -business at the Foe reign:-offlce yesterday. After the breaking up of the Privy Council, which was held on Monday, at Brighton, a messenger was immedli- ately de"patehed to Hertford gaol, with a respite for Hunt for a week. TI'he f'ollowving comnmunication has been received at Lloyd's ._ " Bordeaux, Jan. 13. " Sir,-.Te followving int'ormation has been comntuticated to us from the best authority, and may be relied on as offica;l, viz.: that the Frnchd (overnment have decided upon inde nnifying the mer- chants fot the losses that have been sustained by the capturesof the Spanish privateers durine the late war, not only the amouts in. sared in France, blte also those in England, amounting togetherto eight millions 0f francs, of which five mllions were insured in France, and three in ESngland. "WlVe are, &c. " CUTLxER and WFILSON, Agents to Lloyd's." " To Jobn Bennctt, Esq. Secretary to Lloyd's." t His Majesty's schooner Hornet, (aptain rigly, ar- rived here last night, from the Irish station, for the purpose of rea ceiving reoairs, hbaving experienced some injury duringr the late gales..We are sorry. thatS feas are entcrrained-f&rthasafety nf the Sopplto slosp Of war, belouging to the same stat on, no accounts having been heard of ber there since the-81st of Decetnber.- Grceenack Advdertiser. The observatioins in our paper of yesteiday, relative to the Spitalfields weavers, referred to what is technically termed the narrow or engine branch, by whiich is meant bat-bands, shoe-string,' and that description of inferior riband known by the nauise of gal- oone. -The greater. questions embracng the regulation of labour for the manufacture of garment.silks, known. s ' the Spitalfields Acts, and which occnPiel so closely the attention of the htouse of Lords last year, remnafns precisely in the sase unsettled state it did at the close of thc last session of Parliament. According to a letter Irom Copenhagen on the 3d instant, the Danish marine has now one Admiral, one Vice-Adhniral, seven Rear-Admirals, nine Comnodores, five -Captain-Commodores, 21 Captains, 2a Captani.ieuienants, 41 First Lieutenants. and 33 Second Lieutenants. ROYAL DUBLIN SOCSETY.-Sir Charles Guisecke has 'dosed his trulv interesting lectures on Greenland, which have been a source of real intellectual entertainment and delight to most crowd. ed and fashionable andiencet that attended the Theatre each day of the lecture. The interest they excited was not a little enhanced by the pleasing manner-aud foreign accent bf Sir Charles, who related many of his own adventures winth the strange inbabitants,of this bar- ren comntrv, among wnhon he lived for the space of eighit years.- Irisl Tinies. NEw TtumtPET.-L-Ve had yesterday an opportunity of seeing in the h:ands of the inventor (lr. J. Shaw, of Gfossop, Derby- shire), a chromatic trumpet, on a principle entirely new. it is capa- ble, weiunderstand, of execution nearly equal to a Kent bugle, while its tone is in no respect inf.nrior to that of a conimon trumpet, which properties have never before been united in thesame-instrument. The prihciple oti which it is constructed isapplicablk to everv instru. mcntof the horn kind, and will be peculiarly useful when ajplied to the trombone, since precisely the same effect may be producedby the mere mnotion of a fingef as in the common slide trombone, which requires the hand to be movetd half a yard. IlWe understand that measures are itbout to be taken to procure a patent for the invention. -1foauertecr Guardian. It astrds us real pleasure in being enabled to state, from I the inquiries we have made, that the sufferers by the falling of the hustings at the late conflict upon our race-coarse are going on ss fa- vourablv as cats be expected from the nature .of their injuries, aid tbat, so far fotin several deaths having been the consequence of the unfortunate catastrophe, as hsas been reported, the medical attend- ants nowv entertain the most sangtuine hopes of the ultimate recovery . of their patients, even in the most serious cases. The fractured libns have, wve believe, nearly'all been retluced with susccess, anet it is hoped that in no'iist.nic wvill the painful alternative of amputaion befounelnneessaryq Woiceslerf.erald.