Yesterday Mr. Secretary C...
The Times, 1824-08-10T00:00:00

Yesterday Mr. Secretary Canninlg transacted business at the Foreign-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Ro. binson arrived in town yesterday- morning. The Earl of 'Westnsorlan(I trainsacted business at the Treasury vestcrday. The Earl and Countess of Livcrpool have gone to South- ampton, anld froms thence they are to cross the sea to the Isle of WVight, and continue ou their trip for a visit a week previous to their arrival at WValmer Castle. The plate chests were removed yesterday morning from Liverpool- house to the banker's of thii Minister. By letters received. yestertlay morning from Plymouth, it appears that the Diamornd fri-ate had put into that port to await the arrival of Mr. ?Iorier, the British Cominis- sioner for Mexico. '1 he order for prohibiting pcrsons carryingg parcels througlh the Parks has, we presume, been withdraln, as yesterday several persons carrying parcels were observed going through it unmolested. WVe are glad to announce the removal of this childish regulation. WVe hear with pleasure that Mr. Moore intends to write the life of his illustrious friend, Lord Byron. The woild expects such a work from his hands. In addition to the valuable documents which, we understand, he has still in his possession, the friendslhip and Congeniality ot pursuits which existed between him and the noble poet point him out as the person eminently qualifled to und(ertake such * tasl. The appoinitment of addlitional coal-meters, it appears, has proved a very beneficial measure. At a mneeting of owvners of coal craft recently held for that purpose, thanks have been voted to those members of the Common Coun- cil who advocated it, and it is said to be the opinion of the more intelligent memnbers of that trade, that the price of coals, had it not been adopted, would have beens considera- bly higher than at present. The impo tation fbr the montl of July was 164,764 chaldrons, being the largest quantity ever imported in one month. WVe announced a few days ago, that the Soutlt African Advertiser, published at the Cape1of Good Hope, had been sup- pressed by Lord Charles Sornerset. By an arrival thiit morning trom the Cape, we have letters of the 26th oi IMay, which state that Imediately after the suppression of the patter, Mr. Greig, the pub- lisher, sent oft an expre.s to the three Br;tish Commissioners ap- pointed to report on the condition of the colony, and who were then in the interior. It appears that the communication hati produced a favourable result, for at the date of these letters thepresses hatt been restored, and the paper was again published.-Globe and Traveller. A private letter from Frankfort states, that the Emperor of Austria had commuted the penalty of death, proneunced last year by the Supreme Tribunal 'f Verona against certain individuals for high-treason, to twenty years' solitary imprisonment in the fortress of Spitzberg. Letters from Maranham of the 25th of June give a sad picture of the state of affaIirs in that part of the Braz'ls: one of them says-" I amn sorry I cannot give you any better account than the last. Our relations with the tnterior are all at a stands The boats which leave this place are invariably plundered by a band of 400 sol. diers, who, having putt ctown the General at Arms, have established themselves on the banks ofthe river, and subsist upon plunder. Nc L;t..-- AO vA+.- t e *=9 -5 tVuf W Carnot's system, to which wcvleded a few days since, was tried at Voolwich Warren on Thursday and Friday last, and the fallacy of ttbe principle compietely developed. l'ie supposed improvement consisted of a wall erected longitudinally along the centre of thc fossc, in which, from the superior elevation of the counterscarp in- terposed between it and the besieging force, it was conceived to be out of the power of artillery to effect a practicable breacht, or, in fact, to hit it at all, while, being loop-holed and lined svithin with inlfantry, an insurmountable obstacle wtLS opposed to escalade. A wall upon this plan, 18 f'cot in length, 20 in heiglht seven feet ttick at botom, and six at top, had beeti prepared fbr tire purpose, upon wlich, on this occasion, three batteries, mounted with 14 pieces of ordnance, of different calibre, opened, two at the distance of 400, thie thlird at 600 yards. Such was the accuraey and skill wit) whichi the shot and shiells were directed, that the supposed impenetrable defence was literally knocked to pieces, the curtaini being utterly demolished in a comparatively slhort space ot' time by the ricochet method oh' firing. T1he Duke of WVellingtoni, who was expected to be present, as Alaster-General of the Ordnance, vasprevented by circumstances ftrom attending to witniess the cffect; but Sir H . Hardinge, Colonels IPaisley, Ford, &c., and a lotig list of distinguished officers of En- gineers and Artillery, were on the ground, and expressed themselves hlighly satisfied with the result of the expe rinient._Globe and Tra- veller. The naval command at Leith has been done away with the vessels oniployed on the station are, for the future, to be under the orders of the Comnimander-in-cliief at Chathani.-Caledqo,ja7l Afercerlf. In a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at the Miauritius, stating the loss of His Mlajesty's ship Deltght, is mentioned the names of the crew who were on shore at the time, and providentially saved, and for the satisfaction of their families we hero insert them, viz, WVilliam Alurray, midshipman; William Adamson, assistant- spirgeon; John Pope; John Jennings, and John Henderson, sea- mzen; Austin Brown and John Firkir,s, marines. Mrs. Rothschild, accompanied by her children, has ar- rived at Stamford-hill from the Continent. Mr. Rothschild proceed- ed as tar as Dover to meet them. A brewer at Paris has lately prodicced a species of porter, the cuccllence of which is highlly vaunted in one of the French *our- nals. The notice of it is headed "Another conquest over 'a land !" and it is confidently predicted th.at this new invention wtll soon supersede all other malt beverage throughout Europe ' WINDERMERE 1tEGATTA.-On 'rliursday week, the charming exhibition of the Queen of the Lakes, decorated with the pomp and pagenotry of its living ornaments, was unveiled to a host of enrapturedi spectators. The beautifal situation of Low Wood Inn was the appointed station. The whole of the proceedings of the day were under the direction of Professor Wilson of Edinburgh. The granteur of the mountain scenery, the splendour of the flazs waving in the breeze, the firing of casion, the melody of music, and the blaze of beauty and fashion, all conspired to render the Regatta most enchanting to the senses. The grand aquatic procession of the barges, and numerous row-boats of the lake was the most beauti- fsit sight ever witnesteft on Windermere. The other amusements ot running, leaping, and wrestling, were admirably conducted. The voung Duke of Buccleuch was of Colonel Bolton's party in this ex- hibition, as wasalso Mr. Vifordsworth, th( Poet.-Carlitle Journal. On Suniday last died in this town, Alexander Living- ston, a native of Haddington, in Scotland, aged 98 years. In the early part of his life he served twenty-seven vears in the Scotch Greys, and was with that regiment at the mernorable battle of iilin- den, in 1709, where lie had two horses-sliot under him, autdhis right and left-hanid men were both killed. Atthe battle of Lefette, where the regiment sufflered greatly, he was severely wounded, and has been for nearly 50 years a pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. He had a very retentive memory, which he retained, withi his other faculties, almost unimpaired, until a very short tine before his death, and used to relate with groat enthusiasm, the events of his lifc, and tle achievements of' the distinguished corps to which lie belonged, and of whicl he was, ro doubt, the oldest member living; having been in a manner born in the regiment, in which his father also was a soldier.-Afanchester GuIardian. I1ONOstA CONCANNoNx.-The Clarc journat gives the following particulars of the execution of this criminal :-This wretch- ed woman, the perpetrator of a horrid murder, suffered the extreme punishment of the law, on Saturday, in front of the new gaol. Front the time of her sentence being passed, until the instant she was precipitated from the tatal drop, the Rev. Dean O'Shaughnessy had been unremitting in his endeavours to briisg her nuint to a state of peace; and, a short time betbre she was remoeed fron Iher cell, had succeeded so far as to induce her to conduct herself in some- what of a becoming manner, and, we believe, to join hhn in prayer. Tntil then, her behaviour was outrageons in ttic eatremc, bias- heming and screamning incessandy. The motneiitary calmness she =ssumed was, however, thrown aside, atid her screams and resist. ance renewed with redoubled violence, when the summons arrived to conduct her to her last earthly scene. 'The most dreadful im- precations, the most heartsrending apathy, were theonly responses she mnade to the affecting appeals of the attending clergyman. No persuasion, no esitreatries, avgiled to bring tier to a proper gense of her situation; atid force was at length reuctantly resorted to, to fulfil the sentence she so justly mernted, She was placed (after having severely bitten the executioner) with the rope round her neck, ying on the platforxm; but she exerted all her strength, and rolled heiself back into the doors in the struggle, her cap had tallen off, and her hair hung loose and disordered. The Rev. M1lr. O'Shangnessy then addressed her, but without-effect. She wss again horced out, and while sitting on the drop, was onice more e;x hroted and imolored to sue fbr mercy to her Saviour; but she still refused, to liaen. The drop fell;r butone of her legs, which reated on the framae, remained for a moments supiporting her, until remnoved by the executioner; and even in that r,wtol suspernsion between time and eternity, shle continued to invoke the most horrid curses on all concerned itn causing her contviction and execution. She struggled' f'or a considerable time.