The Earl of Liverpool, th...
The Times, 1824-01-31T00:00:00

The Earl of Liverpool, the Lord4 President, the Lord Privy Seal, Mlr. Canning, and MIr. Robinson, leave town this day to attend His Alajesty at Brighton, and to hold a Council there preparatory to the opening of Parliament. It is believed that the King will not be sufficiently recovered to open the session in lperson. This day the King will hold a Privy Council at his Pa- lace'at Brighton, to prick the Sheriffs for the present year. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the fifth Cabinet Council this week was held at the Foreign-Office, wlich was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers except the Duke of Welling- ton. The Council sat in deliber ation till about half-past four o'clock. In addit!on to the French and Russian Ambassadors who were at the grand party given by the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer on Thursday evening, were the Earl and Counltess of Liverpool, lir., Mcrs., and Miss Cannin, AIr WVilmot, and Mir. Huskisson, Lordl Howard dle iValden, Mr. G. Villiers, 'Mr. Planta, &c. On Thursday the Goldsmiths' Companv gave a granl entertainment at their spacious Hall, in honour of the Kinges acce;sion to the throne. Yesterday being the anuiversary of the death of Charles I., was kept as a close holvday at the Bank and public offices. The Stck Exchange was open as usual for the transaction of bargains in the funds, the few days pre- ceding the dffivery ot the royal speech being too critical anrl full of interest to allow the absence of thebrolcers. In Consols for the account, some very large operations were effected. 'l'he price openedl at 91, advancet to 91 g; a de- cline then took place to 908, from whicl the market after- wards recovered, and the same stock lef off at 91. In the foreign Stock Exchange business was also transacted as usual, but without any variation of consequence in the prices. The Scrip of the new French loan has reached a premnium of 74, anid the Austrian loan steadily maintains a premium of .5 per cant. The Scrip of a new MNexican loan was yesterday sold at 42 premium. In the securities paid up in f-ull, the business transacted was not extensive. On Mlonday a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Friends anm Admirers of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox assembled in the Waterloo Tavern, Edinburgh, to celebrate the an- niversary of that eminent patriot and statesman. The population ot the Prussian Monllarchy continues to ncrease. By the cen.sus of ]822, it waa 11,494,173 souls. In 1819 it -,vas but 10,799,954. Thus, in three years, the increase has been It may be remarked, as an instance of the successful enterprise of the Whale-fishing Assocations of DLndee, that the quantity of wakleins imp)orted last season amounted to upwards of 126 tons-one-fifth of the quantity breught to Britain from the Arc- tic seas. The number of vessels engaged in the fishing was ten; and the number of tons hrouht by each ranges from 7 to I6.- Deendee e av7e,. An unlucky disappointmrent oceurred at Tideswell, in this county, on lMonday last, t) a party of friends and relations who, with all due respect, had been invited to participate in those enjoy. ments generally attendant on the union of a loving and deserving couple at the altar of Hymen. The party, wvhich consisted of about 30, wa-ted ashort time the appearasice of the lovely bride, for the purpose of escorting her and the happyiman to church, and her non. appearancg naturally induced a belef that the delay was only occa- sioned by her anxiety to tender herself on this occasion as bewitch- ing as possible by some extra trouble at the toilet; but alasi how vain the hope, hov great the disappointmuent! for instea of an in- troaucton to the blushing bride in aLl her gay attire and innocent loveliness, judge, reader, the surprise of the goodly ^ompanv on being presented with a thumping boy, the fruits of their niomentary stay, whidh she had been safely delivered o-f.- Clester Guardian. A late traveller thisough Carniola gives us the following account of the punishment of some persons who had resisted the payment of a tax --I' They stood upoh a scaftold ereeted before the Town-haUl (it Laybacli), a line of soldiers was drawls round it, to prevent their being rescued. A lawyer stood at the middle window, and declared aloud the crime for which they werethus ex- posed, first in Genrnan, then in the dialect of the country. lie then declared the law, and afterwards the sentence; the 'latter of which was, that according to the extent of each man's crime, he should be confined for a. certain period and publicly whipped." A womaxn of the Potteries, sending for some snnff; a few days ago, in the afternoon, was asked by her lisbandl d what she had done with thehalf ounce she had-bought that morning?"-' Half ounce," she replied, " what is that for a womanglidsig ick S" On Tueslay evening a young man undertook for a triflinitwager to find osut, blndfolded, theWell of Spa, from the Old' Town B rewery,a distance ofnearly a mile and ahalf, and.including a considoablepartofOldand New Aberdeen. He wasaUowedtwo hours and fifteen minutes. After" ploddino his weary way" through oat of the streets of' Aberdeen, and whenhe vas about to tuoiw up is undartaktng, he wras set right by the church-bell nstriking ten o'clock.; and arrived at the Well two or three minutes 7withip his time. Here it may be remarked, that the petsonal danger incurred was not at aUl warranted by the success of this foolish undertaling. -aberdeenz Clirotscle. HAT ToS-GAtDEsN.-Yesterday MIr. Burrowes, breaver, of Back. hill, Hatton-garden, applied to the Magistrate for his advice under the following circumstances :-He stated that he discovered that an interesting-looking youn woman, about 20 years of age, had slept for the last tlfree nigits In the yard of the brewery ; and (ucli was she state of exbaustion in which she was found, that if he had not given her some food and brought her into his house, sbe must have expired, Thegirl: tated that her father atdconlexions wereof-the highest respectab'iity in W1orcestershire ; but that, owing to the ex- tremeseverity of her stepmother, she was obliged to fly to London and take aservant's place.. Her naturally delicate constitution, and her not being habituated to labour, rendered her unfit for servitude - and, after pawning allher clothes to support berself during'the last three weeks and pay her lodgings, she was at last turned into the streets! To save herself f:om itfamy, she took shelterini those pre- mises, in the hopo o'fdying there. The Mragistrate extjreased his commiseration for her situation, a nd daspstchiedan oflicer with her to tb ehendiciqy Sodety, requeSt. log that they would attend to her siteatibn, conceiving her case to be troll' deservnDg their consiuderaution.