Last night, about half-pa...
The Times, 1824-04-06T00:00:00

Last night, about half-past 10 o'cloek, his Majesty, es- corted by a party of Light-horse, arrived at his Palace in Pal__mIal, from Windsor Castle. Yest6rday afternoon, at three o'clock, -a Cabinet Counfil was held at the Foreign-office, D.wning-street, which sat in. deliberation till lhalf-past four o'clock. The Earl of Liverpool came to town yesterday, from Combe-wood. Yesterday the Lqrd Afay&irntrtainedithe Lord Maypr I1df DTlIn, irr EaYard Stanley,.-and. the Deputation frod 'theCorporaition of Dablin, at present in London, and a aumerous party, atdivner at the Mansion-house. This day at three o'clock the time for receiving asserits to the reduction of the four per cents. will expire. The amount for which assent has been declared, up to the rlose of the office yesterday, is above 59,000,0001. In several cases where death has taken place among executors, and other impediments ha-fe occurred, a farther extension to the 29th inst. has been announced. Perhaps some. indtIl- gence may likewise be granted on the score of inadvertency, as the nature of the act has been far from generally under- stood. It having been early ascertained yesterday, from the number of assents already tenderetd, that the residue would not. be so great in amount as to create anv difficulty on the part of Governwent in paying off the whole, a no- tice was affixed on the ExchaHge, signed by Lord Liver- pool and the Chancellorof the Exchequer, announcin)g that the whole will be paid off on the 5th of October. An extraordinary scarcity of moniey has attended the li- quidation of the account for time bargains in the Paris market, which takes place at the end of every month. The continuation on stock for the end of April has varied from lf. 7sc. to 2E. 30c, making at the rate of from 20 to 25 per cent. per ann. This has been produced in a grcat measure by thevery large speculations entered into for arise in thefunds. By the Chertub, arrived at Liverpool, letters were receivedl yesterday from Buenos Ayres of the 10th January, and from Santiago de Chile of the 10th of December. Accounts had_ been received at. the latter place of the accession of Canta- rac, the Spanish General, to the cause of independence iit Peru, and that he had united himself with the torces under Riva Aguerro: but as this intrlli,prn,' w- .-1--A - -,... Lima, trom whRnce there have been advices equally late which are silent on tite subject, it is not entitled lo implicit credit. A report had reach. d Buenos Ayres that the con- tingent of troops sent by Chile in aitd or the independent cause in Peru, werg on their seturn to Valparaiso. Of the movements of Bolivar, subsequently to his arrangement with Riva Aguerro, nothing is known. J,ECTURES ON POLITICAL Ecoyotvo.-About two or three years ago, a club was formed in Lonidon for discussing questions of political economy, and promoting the study of economical science. The late Mr. bavid Ricardo was one- of its foundlers, and continued till his death ohe of its brightest ornaments. On the occurrence of that-event, his friends, desirous of showing their *espect for his character and attainiments, formed a subscription to erect a momir. ment to his memory. The sum collected was about 1,2001.; and after tliscussing various plans for accomplishing the object for which it was raised, it occurred that the best monument wh.ch could be erected to Ricardo was the establishment of a lectureship under his name, on the science which he had (lone so much to advance, and whic& formed the bond of union between him and the club. In consequence of this arrangement, a course of lectures was. commenced yesterday, in the Geological Rooms, Bedford. street, by Mr. Macculloch, a gentleman from Scotland, who, was one of the late Al r.Ricardo's intimate friends, and who is' well known for several able publications on subjec!s of political economy. It must have been gratifying to the lecturer to find, on his first appearance, the subject of his course so popular in the metropolis, and his audlience so, numerous and respectable. We observed in the roon- Mu. J. Smith, AL. P.; Sir J. Macintosh. MNI. P.; Sir Henry Parnell, M. P.; Captain Mlaberly, M. P.; besides several other members of Parliament, merchants, barristers, ancd literary characters. WVe cannot spare room for giving an analysis of Mr. Macculloch's inttoductory lecture, which was characteriz ^d throughoutby great knowledge of the sub. ject and acute reasoning, expressed in manly and petspii cuous language. The individuals who are to compose the Court of C(han. cery Cormission of Inquiry are said to be as follows:-The Lord Chancellor Eldon, Lord Redesdale, Lord Colchester, Lord Gifford, Rir ;, T.Ah T_ T--: 1 ----n-dal,- ... ""'I~ " .- ~urtenayl Mar. Tinda, Air. Littlede, Alr Cox, and Alr. Robert Smith. L.tters from Mi.solongbi state that the advanced guard, of the Greek army for the attack of Lecanto had marched, and had been immediately followed by the divitsion of Lord Byron, with that nobleman at their aead. The plans of AIr. Parry, the engineer, for carrying Lepahto by storm, bad been approved, and little doubt was entertained of their complete success. ' he artilsery corps of Colonel Stanhope will take the lead in this enterprise- It was stated at Alis- solonghi that Lord Strangfiord had nearly broken terms with the Sultan, on account of the insolent reproaches of the Grand Vizier, for the loan raised in England for the service of the Greeks.-Gtoae and Traveller. TRADE NITH RUSSIA.-A Hamburgh paper of the 51st ult. contains the follo-wing Imperial Ukase, dated Feb. 28- " Every captain of a vessel arriving in Russia must produce two bills of lading; in which, as well as in the invoice, must be stated the name of the consigners of the goods, whence they come, whi. tber they are going, the na ncs of the consignee, of the ship, the captain, the quantity, quality, and value of the goods. The captaiin must make a declaration in duplicate respVcting these hills of lad.- ing. The captain who cannot produce two bills of ladixg is liable to pay two roubles in silver. The time even for compliance with these regulations is at all the land custom-houses three months, and the sea-ports four mouths, and for goods frown extra-Euwepean ports till the lst of January next year. Captains, &c., are not bound to show daPlicates of their papers at the custom-houses of SL Peters- burgh, Riga, at Cronstadt, and the Bolderaa, where there are per. sons appointed to copv the ships' papers." Tle King ofs the Netherlands, considering that the cowm. merce, manufactures, and agriculture of his kingdom, have not yet at. tained the degree of presperity of which they are susceptible, has de. cided, by a resolution of 29th March, that lists sbal be opened in the Chambers of Commerce and ManufactLres at Amsterdain, Antwerp, Bruges Brussels, Dort, Ghent, Leyden, Mliddleburg, Ostend, and Rotierdarn, where persons may subscribe their names for the purpose of forming a fund for a society destined to encourage the above branches. T he fund shall be twelve milIions of florins, and may be raised to 24 millions ; the interest shall be 4i per cent. The King will take for his own account the shares which shall not have been taken on the last day of Junc next, to cormplete the sum of 12 millions.Brussels paner. On the division on Tlbursday last, MIr. Walter Wilk-ins wvas, by accident, shut into the house, and was prevented from voting in the minority againsttthe AHen Bill, as he had intended Colonel Craddock's name was omitted in the minority, on the second readingof the Alien Bill. PORTS;.OUTH, April S.-rhe Phm:nix convict shi which put in here, with foul winds, sailee this morniW for Van Die man's Land. She has 202 convicts on board, with r. ConnoDiy late surgeon of the Dublin Il ilitia. C THE 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS.-_re find y a letter written by Brevet-Major Power, late of this regiment, to the editor of the Wfaterford Chronzick, that the 10th Hissars is not the only corps likely to engage public attention. From the circumnstances ir, detail in that letter, and accempanied as they are with tAe official correspoudence, we cannot doubt their accuracy. The, cme of ir. Power and his six brother officers is a hard one. The corps, it ap- pears, wns stationed in various cantonments; but preparatory to ant inspection by the Commander of the Forces, the detachinent were called in, and the corps then together were inspected and mancea_ vred by Sir Colquhoun Grant for three days in succession. Lord Combermere appeared on the ground only one hour of one of the days. The diaerent manceuvres were not gone through, in the opi- nion of Sir Colquhoun, with a elerity to plrease hin, and berenort- e accordmIly. The result was, an official communication tOia_ jorPower and sLx of his brottier officers, to sell or retire on haf-pay; the vacancies not to be fihledin the usual succession by the remaning officers. M r. Power states, that a corps, divided as it has been could not be expected to enter at once into the spirit and practice of the evolutions lately laid down by the Commander-inChief, and that until then captains of troops or lieutenants bad never bean called on to perform these duties; that the weather was wet, and that the corps was fatigued by long parading, wheni Lord Combermere came on the ground. His representations were, however, not attended to. He demanaed an inquiry into his conduct as an officer antl a gentle- man, but no inquiry could he obtain; he and his brother officers were obliged to retire; and, as he says, under circumstances thaL place the commission of every officer in the service in no desirable state of security.-Dzublie; Afornii Poat. Mr. Battier bas written to the same paper, to state that he Is not, as alleged, the son of a merchant, but of a field-officer. UNH APPY OCCURRENCE.-For some time past the fa- uily of a respectable inn-kceper in this city has experienced m-ch anxiety in consequence of the sudden-elopement of one of its female relatives to Gretna, with a stranger, 'ho styled himself Charles Sa- muel Cave, Esq., of Thocney.abbey, Cambridgeshire, and who hadfore at the inn previous to the unfortl. --0 -- --., . , L ilu young iany is a minor, and whea of age wiU be possessed of abouxt 8001.; the husband is about forty, and while a sojeurr.cr in Carlisle, was much in the habit of talking concernng his domnestic afiairs never omitting to introduce the sub. ject of his largepossessions. havingin this mianner zrepared .tbe way for future operations, he indmated his intention ol purchasinm a mansion, laying out mnoney on mretge, &c., and even consultea a reispectable solicitor as to the most elgible propertvin which to in veat his superfluous capital. At length, Coldalea1 'at iNewtown, niet his approval, and a treaty was immediately opened for thc or chase; the premises, indeed, were rather diminutivefor his estabih. ment, not afiording more stabling than for "t a couple ef hunters," yet he did sot think it prudent to let them nrip through hls fingers for che trifling sum of " seucvntteet huDndred guineas '" 04theeven- ing before the marriage, he gallantly escorted his intended bride to the circus, and thence they proceeded in a postehaise to Gretna, fronz which they retumed on the day following to the lady's fiiends at tle inn. AMany efforts were theni tried to discover bis-connexions; but lie versevered in refusing to give a reference~,.or any further accouil t of himself than that lie was ftom "1 Thorney.Abbey, Cambridge. shire ;" and tbough strong suspicions unfavourable to his character had been excited, yet such was his self crminand and effiontery, that he succeeded in continuing the fraud by engaging a house, ot which he was to have a seven years' lease, purchasing expenYive furniture, &c.; and that nothing might be wAntivg to complete she equipage of a country gendeman, an eleganrfbunter wis bought with the necessary appendages of saddle, bridle, whip, iane spurs. Fortunately, however, none ofthe abovesirticlesbad beern de- liveLed, so that when the bubble bursts every-tling id thecway of pur- chase remained in statue gqW. Bati the time had;no arrivtd wen f the schemes of Charles Sanuel Cave, Eswere tovAiitih into thii air The gentlemzan (of whom Xamnme had-- previoiily .'bori'owed a3Q.) having written to Mr. Peckover banker, of 1Visblib, to' whonr Cave had referred hir for. his c'iaracter, in axiswer- was -eceived- from that gentleman, in which it- waa'statedthat he knew no suchl person; but lie understood that a xmna oF thesante name, a cooper bypiofession, had quitted the neighbourhood,:leaving his wife an'df family chargeable to the'parish ! Tle delusion was aow dissipated ' and 'heSquire It'om ." Thorney; Abbey" cominitted to goali' fodr obtainingroney under.false pzetences, wheiehe.-stillxem&iyis-untl urtherinform?tZoneap,esStn,gnia,t e kbini d -b r Ii s eJo iirn a W, rhi:rtdgz.-1 t 'theextirats froua the Lisbonpapers'fii- serted-yestrda, a ty'ogha ical error inverted the sense of a pas- sage. For " his Faithful Aajesty will nzow recognize any loan: con - tracted by the Government de fuejo of Rio de Janeiro)" it stould havebeen If will eCrW ren ors-` P.