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iJrtttsfl. The following diplomatic arrangements appear in Friday night's Gazette :-H. U. Addington, Esq. minister pleni- potentiary at Frankfort, to be his Majesty's envoy extraor- dinarv to the Catholic King: G. W. Chad, Esq. to be mi- nister plenipotentiary to the Diet of Frankfort: W. Turner, Esq. now secretary to the embassy to the Ottoman Porte, to be envoy extraordinary to the Republic of Columbia: G. H. Seymour, Esq. now secretary to the legation at Ber- lin, to be secretary to the embassy to the Ottoman Porte: Lord Albert Conyngham, now secretary to the legation at Florence, to be secretary to the legation at Berlin J. D. Bligh, Esq. lately attached to the embassy at the court of the Tuilleries, to the legation at Florence. THE NEW POST-OFFICE.-It is understood that this ex- tensive establishment will be ready for the transaction of business by the middle of this month. The inland, foreign, two-penny, ship-letter, and West India offices are nearly completed; as also the private residence of Sir F. Freeling. There are about a hundred painters now at work, and about half that number of gas-fitters. The boarding is being re- moved from the front of the building. About half-past one o'clock on Friday, the house at the east corner of Southampton-street and the Strand, which has been for some time propped up, the house which ad- joined it having been removed to make way for the Charing- cross improvements, gave way with a dreadful crash. For- tunately the walls fell in at the Strand side, and within the palings which have been lately erected there. No accident consequently took place, but a considerable part of some valuable furniture which the house contained was smashed to pieces. The premises were in the occupation of Mr. Sparks, linen draper and silk mercer, and it was stated, that upwards of X2000 worth of goods were deposited by Mr. Sparks for safety in the back parlour of the house, all of which, it is feared, are considerably injured, if not totally destroyed. Information of the circumstance having been received at Bow-street, a party of the patrol, under the directions of Salmon, were ordered to the spot to keep off the crowd and prevent accidents. Part of the walls are still standing, although expected to fall every moment.- Mr. Sparks had removed his family on the previous even- ing. It is disgraceful to the parties concerned, that this catastrophe has not been prevented. MR. JUSTICE HULLOCK.—During the whole of Thursday the greatest apprehensions were entertained for his Lord- ship's life, but we yesterday learnt that he was still alive, and though the expectations of his recovery be faint, yet his medical attendants appear not entirely to have relinquished hope. On Thursday evening the concurrent opinion of the physicians was decisive, that his Lordship would be unable to resume his duties on the present circuit; a notification of which was made to Mr. Baron Vaughan, who, we have reason to believe, immediately despatched a messenger to communicate the same to the Chancellor.—Oxford Journal, Aug. 1. INNER TEMPLE REGULATIONS.—Thebenchers have pub- lished the regulations they have adopted relative to the ad- mission of persons to the bar; and which came into opera- tion on the 10th of July. They are in substance—that no person be hereafter admitted a student without a previous examination by one barrister of the society, to be named for that purpose by the masters of the bench, and a certificate, to be signed by the examiner, of the competency of the candidate for admission in classical attainments and the general subjects of a liberal education. There is no order which requires a pecuniary qualification. Information having been received by the civil authorities, that a rencontre was to take place at the fair of O'Brien's Bridge, county of Clare, on Saturday, between two mur- dering factions, Sir Hugh Dillon Massy, Bart. accompanied by nine other magistrates, and Lieut. Bindon and the con- stabulary force, with fifty of the 60th Rifles, under Captain Goldfrap, repaired thither, and by their presence prevented disturbance however, about six o'clock, at the close of the fair, an unoffending young man, about 18 years of age, of the name of John Farrell, a most industrious and peaceable farmer, from Barbane, near Broadford, was knocked down by a blow on the head from a short lead-loaded bludgeon, which the assassin drew from his small-clothes pocket, and whilst his victim was on the, ground, gave him repeated strokes of it across the small of the back. The unfortunate young man had his skull fractured so severely, that he died in the course of the night. After the deed, the assassin very deliberately replaced his weapon, and notwithstanding he was seen to commit the deadly act, and was personally known to several by-standers, he was suffered to walk off without the slightest interruption. Subsequently, however, every exertion was used by the police to apprehend him, but he has as yet eluded detection. It is asserted that this fellow has been employed on similar occasions, and that he was associated that day with a gang who were armed with like weapons (some of which were taken from them by the magistrates), and that other victims were marked out for destruction, which the judicious arrangements adopted by the civil authorities alone prevented from being carried into operation. The deceased never had any quarrel or dispute whatever with his murderer; and it is said the latter did not know upon whom he was to operate, till pointed out by the person who had employed him. This is a shocking proof of the depravity of the lower orders, and we trust the perpetrators will be brought to that punishment which so foul a deed merits.- Limerick Chronicle. OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL TUNNEL.-On Friday last, the grand railway tunnel, that runs under the town of Liverpool from the back of Edge-hill to Wapping, was opened for the inspection of the public. The company, many of whom reached the ground in carriages, passed through the small tunnel, at the mouth of which was placed a temporary rail and doorway, where the admission-money, a shilling a-head, was received. Although the day-light penetrates this entrance-tunnel, which is 270 yards in length, from end to end, it is but feeble in the middle, and there, for some extent, a row of candles was fixed on each side to relieve the obscurity, and enable the visitants to inspect the workmanship. At two o'clock the worshipful the Mayor, in company with some friends, alighted from his carriage, and proceeded on foot, through the small tunnel. Groups of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen had already ar- rived and, when his Worship and his friends had reached the extensive area into which the two tunnels open, the scene was lively and interesting. The large tunnel, down which the day-light penetrated for several hundred yards, was lighted with gas throughout its whole extent, and the effect was truly grand and beautiful. The lights ran in a straight line along the centre of the roof. Those nearest the spectator appeared bright, and at a considerable distance apart. Further on they approximated, in the downward per- spective, and at length resembled a long continuous line of light, blended in the haze of distance from a light white to a fine red colour, until they became lost in the distant obscu- rity. The Mayor and his friends, including several of the proprietors, took their place in a common railway waggon, fitted with seats for the occasion (the handsome machines intended for passengers not being yet finished,) and, being pushed to the mouth of the great tunnel, set off, down the gently inclined plane, without horse or other drag, at a rapid rate, under the guidance of Mr. Harding and his son, who regulated the speed of the machine by a friction lever. After a ride of about eight or ten minutes, the road, taking a slight turn, brought the company again to day-light at the en- trance of the tunnel near to Wapping. The Mayor and his friends alighted, and took their departure, expressing their admiration, and their best wishes for a work of which Liver- pool may justly be proud. The fall of the tunnel is three- fourths of an inch to the yard; and the distance through, more than one mile and a quarter. The Wandering Boy, winner of the Sweepstakes of 30 sovereigns each, at the York Races, on Friday last, (value £400) although entered in Mr. Gibbeson's name, is the pro- perty of a servant, either valet or under butler, of Lord Carlisle. The horse is now worth about £1500. After the Gold Cup Race at Brighton last week, Lord Mountcharles gold Maresfield to Lord Worcester for £ 500; he was immediately after matched for ;C300 a-side against Mr. Payne's Privateer, who receives a stone for the year, to run two miles at the ensuing Lewes Races. Maresfield has won the Brighton Stakes and Cup two years running. The Marquis of Hertford has hermetically sealed up the doors and windows of his pleasant cottage at the foot of Richmond Bridge, where the late Duke of Queensbury eng joyed "midnight song and revelry, tipsy dance and jollity," for half a century. The good tradespeople of Richmond sigh for the return of the Marquis. The Duke of Portland is about to build a small-class frigate, which he intends to present to the Admiralty; and that a Naval Officer, who recently commanded one of the experimental squadron, is to superintend the construction of the frigate. The Officer in question has already built a sloop ofwar.-Morning Paper. Mr. O'Connell (see our last page) has been again returned Member for Clare. No opposition was offered to his elec- tion. The marriage of Lady Blanche Howard, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, with Mr. William Caven- dish, grandson of Lord and Lady Cavendish, is appointed to take place on Thursday, at Devonshire House. The Duke will give his niece away. After the ceremony the happy couple will proceed to Chiswick for the honey- moon, and thence they go to Chatsworth. The dresses prepared for the bride are of the most costly description. There will be given at Devonshire House, a most sump- tuous entertainment on the 6th inst., in honour of the nup- tials, to which many fashionable personages are invited. Lord William Lennox and his amiable wife have been for some time rusticating at Cromer, where the lady's health and strength has been completely restored. Earl Nelson made a very liberal settlement on his present Countess, to whom he has been married within these few months. The settlement consists of the Earl's house in Port- man-square, and X4000 a-year.—There is a great difference in their ages; the Noble Earl is upwards of seventy years of age, and the Countess only twenty-eight. Her Ladyship is of a highly respectable family, who had been in affluent circumstances, but from reverse of fortune had been re- duced. Her Ladyship's independence only amounted to about X150 a-year. The Earl's proposals were made seve- ral times before they were accepted.-Conrt Journal. Sir F. Burdett, notwithstanding his large rental, and the number of splendid mansions placed upon his different estates in various parts of England, has not at present a single country house in his own possession. The villa now occupied by Lady liurdctt "dud family, at TvuioUoi-iha""j i = only hired for a limited period. We are happy in being led to understand that symptoms appear of an adjustment between the turn-out spinners and their employers. One master (Mr. Thackery) sent for his men yesterday, and agreed to give the prices for which they have been so long contending.-Manchester Advertiser. On Friday afternoon the bonassus belonging to the Zoo- logical Society expired, after some illness. Its height was upwards of six feet. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCESTER, AUG. 3.—Mr. Baron Vaughan entered this city on Saturday evening, and opened the commission. Yesterday the learned Judge attended divine service in the Cathedral, and this morning went into the Nisi Prius court at nine o'clock. After disposing of a few causes of no public interest, his Lordship adjourned into the crown court, where, after a full grand jury had been sworn, his Lordship proceeded to deliver his charge Gentlemen of the grand jury—In consequence of the much- lamented and unexpected death of the amiable and able col- league with whom I had the honour to be associated in the exe- cution of his Majesty's commission, which I alone am now called on to discharge, it falls most unhappily to my lot to have the honour of addressing and assisting you in the administration of the criminal justice of this county and it is exceedingly gratify- ing to observe so full an attendance of the great body of the county, this hall being full nearly to overflowing, as it evinces an ardent attachment to the constitution and government under which we have the happiness to live, and a steady desire and deter- mination religiously to uphold them. Without making the judg- ment seat the organ of idle panegyric, I hope it may be permitted to me to express, i n the sincerity of my heart, the regret which all classes of his Majesty's community must feel, in common with myself, on the loss of the intelligent public functionary of whose valuable services you are this day deprived. I had the happiness of know- ing him very long and intimately, and of sitting by his side on the judgment seat; and I hope also that I knew how to appre- ciate his worth. As a Judge he was, in every sense of the word, a loyal, a right, and a good one a man of the most vigorous understanding, of the most quick perceptions, of the most sound, accurate, and discriminating judgment; a man whose industry was indefatigable, and perfectly acquainted with those depths and shoals of the law which renders the investigation of it so in- tricate and difficult. Gentlemen, as a private man, he was every thing that could be wished he was generous, humane, and charitable, and of the most stubborn and inflexible integrity. His memory will be long held I am sure in the highest veneration by those who were in the slightest degree acquainted with his merits, and know how to appreciate them." His Lordship then congratulated the grand jury of the city, that though their popu- lation was not much less than 20,000, there was only one prisoner for trial, and his offence of a very trivial nature. After the delivery of this address, his Lordship returned into the Nisi Prius court, and Mr. Serjeant Peake took the Crown side, but no case of the slightest interest has occurred in either court. NEW SYSTEM OF POLICE.—The Police Commissioners are making great exertions for the purpose carrying speedily into effect the measures introduced by the Home Secretary, and adopted by the Parliament. Several patrols and in- spectors have lately been appointed. It appears that the" patrol will be attired in uniform—of what kind we are not yet able to say. The inspectors' dress consists of a green coat with a velvet collar and other decorations, tight pan- taloons and hessian boots, with a new description of cap. The insignia of office consists of a most elegant silver staff, about a foot in length, and magnificently chased, with some weapon of defence. We suppose that the inferior men will appear in a similar though less expensive dress. FEMALE SUPERIORITY.—A boat race took place on Lough Rie, in the county of Westmeath, a few days ago. The Dart, Major Temple's boat, was rowed by women, and the Harriet, Mr. Hogan's, of Auburn, boat, rowed by men, for twenty guineas. The female rowers won; and, after landing, hoisted the Major across two oars, and danced a jig, in despite of all the Major's remonstrances. A young man named Hanmore, while fishing in Chertsey mead, was struck dead by lightning on Friday se'nnight, having imprudently taken shelter under a tree to avoid the storm. Trees being conductors of electric fluid, they should always be avoided as decidedly dangerous. EXTRAORDINARY HOAX.—At Greenwich Petty Sessions on Tuesday, an inquiry took place, the details of which are of the most singular nature. Joseph Thornton, son of a tradesman of Greenwich, was charged with fraudulently detaining a miniature and other articles, the property of Joseph Dale. The complainant, a very respectable youth, made the following statement, which had led to the present proceedings:—He said that about twelve months since he received a letter, written in an ele- gant female hand, signed E. B., professing the most ardent sentiments of attachment towards him. The letter desired that an answer, with the same initials, might be left at the Greenwich post-office til! called for. He mentioned the circumstance to the defendant, who exclaimed, God bless me I know the family well; I am going- to tea with them —I'll manage it, my boy." He confided in defendant, who from time to time handed him letters from the young lady, all expressive of the most ardent and devoted attachment towards him, but regretting the utter impracticability of her meeting him. He was fully possessed of the truth of these letters, and the defendant repeatedly took him to Dart- mouth-terrace, Lewisham-hill, and poipted out the house where the young lady lived, directing him to walk backwards and forwards whilst he went in, in order that she might be- hold his person. He often sought an interview with her, but such was the strict surveillance of her parents, that he never succeeded. Months passed away in this manner, during which the defendant gave him nearly one hundred letters. Of course, in return for this kindness, he was obliged to treat the defendant, and supplied him with clothes, &,c. About April last the defendant said the young lady was anxious to receive his portrait, and handed him one which he said was hers, elegantly executed, in a morocco frame. The complainant had then "somewhat sickened of making love by deputy to a girl whom he had never seen/but this revived his hopes; and he was soon afterwards shocked at learning from the defendant that the young lady was so distracted at his seeming neglect, that she had swallowed laudanum, having first confided to the care of his friend the subjoined documents. The first was written on black- bordered paper, with a black seal, and addressed, Mr. J. Thornton, Greenwich.It was as follows :— • ■ APril 2> 1829. My dear 1 riend—To your care I commit what I wish to be done as regards the property I am possessed of, which, I hope, you will see executed as follows :—I, to Joseph Dale, of the pa- rish of Greenwich, in the county of Kent, bequeath all my pre- mises and cash, amounting to £ 4000, at present in the Bank of England and to his brother, James Dale, £400, which he can receive when he pleases, at Barclay's banking-house, in Lom- bard-street. The rest of my property, with the exception of what is mentioned in the inclosed, I leave to my mother-in-law, Mrs. Patrick Elliott. This I do solemnly conjure you to see done, as you value your future happiness. Witness my hand, signed and sealed, EMMA ELIZABETH BAINES. The enclosure was to the following effect:- I, to Joseph Thornton, bequeath, on the death of my aunt, Mary Baines, the whole of my property in Kensing, in the county of Kent.-Dated 2d April, 1829. E. E. BAiNES. Hearing that the young lady's attempt at suicide had proved abortive, and anxious to soothe the agitation her love for him had enkindled, the complainant stated he had his likeness miniatured" in Cheapside for five guineas. This he delivered to the defendant, in exchange for 0 that of the fair invisible, and in a few days he received a letter, written in an elegant hand. It ran thus:- My dear and beloved Boy,-How can I sufficiently express my gratitude to you for your kind present? Oh, my dear Joe, you cannot imagine what my emotions were on beholding your much- loved miniature. Ten thousand kisses were imprinted on it ere I retired for the night. It is a very striking likeness, but the ori- ginal, to my thinking, is better looking. He should have given you rather more of the smile, or else my dearest love was in one of his ill humours, and would not look pleasing; but, joking aside, I really thmk he has done you justice. It is, it is, like my own dear boy. E. E. BAINES. Thornton, it appeared, carried on the delusion for some time longer, by means of letters, appearing, as usual, to be the medium of communication between the parties. At length, Dale, tired of courting by proxy, especially a lady he had never seen, told his friend he was determined to have an interview, or break of the acquaintance. Upon this, Thornton took him to Asttey's theatre, and pointed out a female in the boxes, enjoining him at the same time not to speak to her, lest her friends should observe him. The lady seemed angry at complainant losing at her, which Thornton attributed to the presence of her family. The affair u.cu went on again, and Thornton soon gave him a sort of trans- fer of X4000 bank stock, which i Mr. Hilton, a barrister in the Temple, was instructed to sfe executed. Dale inquired after the barrister, but he coull neither find him nor any one who knew any thing of Hiss Baines or her property. He returned to Greenwich verymuch disappointed, and again saw the defendant, who then told him a long story about the young lady wishing him to accept a gold watch and seals, a check for X:)O, and another miniature of herself, set in brilliants, which, he said, vere to be given to him on last Sunday. He told the defeidant, by the advice of his friends, that he was determined to seek the young lady per- sonally, and was eventually pomised an interview on Sun- day. That day came but i only brought another letter. They dined at a publjc-hous*, and after dinner he was read- ing the epistle, when the detndant jumped out of the win- dow^ and ran off. He ovrtook him and demanded the lady's present, which the dcendant, dropping on his knees, produced, in the shape of a pin-cushion, an old snuff-box, and two metal seals. Ths so astonished me," said Dale, that J knocked him dowr, and demanded the property." The defendant then said, "Don't hurt me, and I'll confess it is all an hoax; there is 10 such lady. I cannot tell how I came to do it, or carry it 0\1, but it is all a hoax from be- ginning to end." "I was so astonished," continued Dale, that I thought it was a dream. I then sent for Allen, and gave him in charge of a c(nstable." Dale related this extraordimry statement with great com- posure and good humour, fretuently joining in the merri- ment it had excited and often declared he could not think how he could be such a dupe. The Chairman asked the (efendant how he dared so wantonly to sport with the feelngs of any man? Defendant-" I am sorry fo it, sir. I cannot tell myself how I could have done it. It B very wrong, I know. I will return the miniature and male a public apology to Dale and his family, whose feelings' have so much hurt." The miniature was here returned. The Chairman severely rejrimanded Thornton for his ungenerous conduct. He saidjokes were common amongst young men, but they were geterally harmless, without the intention to hurt the feelings oieach other. It was fortunate for him that he had not received any money for his pre- tended agency, which would lave rendered him liable to prosecution. The will was veiv near a forgery, and he was very lucky in escaping being ient to Maidstone for trial. As it was, he must be discharged. Subsequent inquiries have proved Thornton to be the sole contriver and manager oj the hoax, which he appears to have carried on merely to live at Dale's expence; his dissipated habits having estranged him from his own re- latives, he was left without the means of support. SmpWRECK.—CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, MAY 8.—An over- land dispatch to government arrived yesterday from the frontiers, communicating the total loss of the French ship the Eole, from Calcutta and Bourbon to Bourdeaux, at the mouth of the river Gianga, about thirty miles west of the Bashee, in Caffraria. There were twenty men on board the ship, including passengers, twelve of whom were drowned, the other eight are saved. A considerable number of Caf- frees were soon collected, and were about to put the eight unfortunate persons to death, when Mr. Thackwray, a mis- sionary, who was travelling in that country, providentially arrived at the Caffree kraal, and prevailed on the savages to spare their lives. He has conducted them safely into this colony, and they are expected to reach Graham s Town on the 1st instant. The ship is a perfect wreck, and nothing whatever saved. INDIA.—Lord William Bentinck has published a notice, inviting communications from all classes, whether Europeans or natives, tending to promote any branch of national indus- try, to improve the commercial intercourse by land and water, to amend any defects in the existing establishments, to encourage the diffusion of education and useful know- ledge, and to advance the general prosperity and happiness of the British empire in India. The indigo planters are particularly mentioned, as having peculiar opportunities o forming opinions upon many of the subjects enumerated. The line of policy marked out for the present governor- general appears to be directly opposed to that followed by his predecessors. The Opossum Packet, from the Islands, has arrived with a mail. She sailed from St. Thomas's the 4th of July. l'ie Roman Catholic Bishop of Olympus arrived at Trinidad on the 20th of June. The accounts from Guadaloupe state, that a schooner had anchored off the island, with four men on board, and a number of dead bodies on the deck. She was taken possession of by the proper authorities, and was, no doubt, a piratical vessel, as there were no papers to be found on board. All the particulars that could be gathered from the surviving crew were, that they had been on a long cruise off Cuba, and had made no captures for so long a time that their comrades had perished of starvation, and they themselves were only kept alive by subsisting upon the bodies of those who died from day to day. Several articles of merchandize and a considerable amount in specie were found secreted in the vessel, which had been landed and the men imprisoned. Portsmouth, AUG. 1.—The following is an extract, which will be read with interest, of a letter received from his Ma- jesty's ship Blonde, which conveyed our Ambassador to Constantinople, dated from that capital, June 21 The Blonde is now moored in the port of Constantinople, right before the Seraglio, or the Palace of the Grand Seigneur, from which we are distant about three hundred yards in a northerly direction. The preparations we were making for the reception of the British Ambassador being completed, his Excellency the Right lion. Robert Gordon and suite (twenty-two in number), in which are comprehended the Earl of Yaimouth, Viscount Dunlo, and the Hon. Mr. Grosvenor, came on board the Blonde at Tenedos, on the forenoon of Tuesday 1 ist, when we weighed and made all sail for the Hellespont, or western entrance of the Dardanelles, having the Rifleman sloop of war and Hind in com- pany. The Frence frigate Armide, with the Ambassador of that nation, Count Guilleminot, on board, made sail at the same time. On passing the first castle, or strong battery, which stands on the European side of the Straits, a few heavy guns were fired at us, or rather a little a-head of the ship. We were rather close to the battery, indeed so much so, as to distinctly perceive, by our glasses, that the tremendously heavy guns in the ground tier were loaded with ponderous balls of marble, some of which appeared to be equal, in circumference, to the drum head of our capstan. On seeing a boat shove off from the battery with a Turkish officer on board, we shortened sail, and received a message from the Governor of the castle to the effect that he could not allow us to pass without an order from his superior, the Pacha of the Darda- nelles for that were he to do so, he would {Jse his head. To this our Noble Ambassador replied by stating, that the Embassy should proceed forthwith and that if the Governor fired another shot at the Blonde he would most assuredly lose his head. The Turkish boat then pulled off for the shore with that bold reply; so we made sail and passed without further molestation. About nine, p.m. the wind becoming too light to enable us to stem the current, which runs here at the rate of about four miles an hour, we were obliged to come to an anchor. At midnight a deputa- tion of Turks came on board, with an apology from the Pacha of the Dardanelles, for the uncourtly and unjustifiable act of firing at a British ship of war, with the British Ambassador on board and stated that the Pacha had directed the Governor to be thrown into prison, and that he should be subjected to the immediate punishment of banishment. This apology was, I understand, considered satisfactory, and fully proportioned to the hasty act of which the Governor had been guilty. Next day the wind fresh- ening, about nine, p.m. we weighed and made sail, and soon passed the remarkably strong castles which are built near the ruins of Abydos, on the Asiatic side, and Sestos, on the Eu- ropean. Immediately after passing those castles, the Turkish Government steam-boat came alongside, having on board Captain Hanchetts. This gentleman stated that the Pacha of the Darda- nelles had sent his son on board the steamer, for the purpose of paying his (the Pacha's) respects to the long-expected British Ambassador. As the wind was fair, and as we were desirous of. making the most of it, so as to get over the narrows before night, the formality of the young Pacha's visit on the Blonde was dis- pensed with, and a mere interchange of compliments substituted in its stead. After this the castle near Abvdos fired a salute in honour of the British Ambassador, and on the Armide's passing, it paid a similar compliment to the Ambassador from the Court of France. Mr. Gordon immediately after interceded for the de- posed Governor (who had fired at the Blonde), and through his influence he was released from prison, and restored to the full plenitude of power. As the Turks had been some days anxiously looking out for the British Ambassador, they sent a steam boat to our assistance, which towed us to our present moorings. The Turk* havf rofpjvpd with everv demonstration of friendship 1 1 and respect. Several oibcers of the Sultan's body guard have been on board, some of whom have dined with us and have drank wine with as much taste as if they had been commanded to do so by the Prophet. The Turkish squadron in the Black Sea consists of four line of battle ships, five frigates, and a few sloops of war. A few days since, on the clearing up of a fog, a Russian frigate found herself surrounded by the above squadron, and, to the everlasting infamy and disgrace of her commander, surrendered without ever firing a gun, or making any resis'ance whatever. The crew of that frigate are now prisoners of war at Constanti- nople, where they are treated with great lenity, the officers being allowed the benefit of a parole. The captured frigate is now manned with Mussulmen, and added to the number of the Turk- ish squadron. Since the period of the disgraceful event, a Rus- sian brig of war found herself under similar circumstances, that is, situated as the frigate was on the clearing up of the fog but to the immortal renown and credit of her commander, he opened a well-directed broadside on the nearest of the Turkish line of battle ships, shot away her main topmast, and thus succeeded in effecting his escape. Report says that the Captain of the frigate will be hanged in the event of his ever returning to Russia. The Turks have a three-decker of 140 guns, and a frigate of 64 guns, ready for launching at this port. It is expected that the launch will take place in the course of a few days, at which the Sultan and his principal officers are expected to be present. This Mo- narch is the most indefatigable in the world he is on horseback every morning at the break of day, and at their stated periods in caok riav sll„Rr[ntends the drilling, training, and organizing the recruits and levies tor ms army of 200,000 men. The organization of the new levies is earned on by the French officers who have joined the Mussulmen, for the express purpose of training them to the European art of war, so as to enable them to make a stand against the alarming advances of Russia.—Lord Cochrane has done nothing lately but 'tis said that he is seriously contemplating the entire destruction of the Turkish force in the Black Sea, Mouth of the Bosphorus. As his Lordship is a most talented man, and well adapted for the most hazardous enterprise, it is not likely that he will remain much longer inactive. The Snipe cutter (tender to his Majesty's ship ictory, flag-ship), yesterday brought into this port a smuggling galley, fifty feet long, with 76 tubs of spirits and eleven men, all Englishmen, which he captured between Dover and Boulogne. DESPERATE ACTION BETWEEN H.M. SCHOONER PICKLE. AND A SLAVE SCHOONER.-On the 3d June a desperate action was fought between H. M. schooner Pickle, Lieut. M'Hendy, commander, and a slave Schooner called the Mulatto. The slaver had 345 slaves on board, mounting two 18 and two 12-pounders, with sixty-five men, and was captured after an action of one hour and twenty minutes. The slaver fought very desperately, and did not strike until every sail was cut to pieces and the main-mast shot away. The slaver lost ten men killed and thirteen wounded. The Pickle had two killed and eight wounded. The Pickle and her prize were at the Havannah on the 2d inst.-Fatmollth Packet.

FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 31. INSOLVENTS. t John Henry Avery, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, printer. Samuel Forfeit Gray, New Bond-street, chemist. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Andrew White and William Metcalf, Lamb's Conduit-street, linen drapers. BANKRUPTS. Robt. Barthrop, Stanford-place, East-street, Kent-road, com- mercial agent. rn. Martin William Becher, Burwood-mews, I lchbourn-street, horse dealer. Charles Cleaver, Walthamstow, Essex, lime burner. Thomas Hind, Queen-street, victualler. William Jeffs, Isabella-place, Kennington, brewer.. Stephen Liversidge, Masbrough, Rotherham, Yorkshire, iron f° Wdliam Spencer, Swanage, Dorsetshire, cattle dealer. William Willie, Taunton, Somersetshire, victualler.

JFOMCJN* The letters from the Continent are full of peaceful antici- pations. Accounts from W arsaw state that a courier had arrived in that city, with intelligence of a dragoman having been sent by the Turkish government to open a negociation with General Diebitsch. Sanguine hopes are entertained at Berlin of a favourable result from Baron Muffling's mis- sion to Constantinople. The re-establishment of peace be- tween Russia and Turkey is the earnest wish of Prussia. GREECE.—Count Capo d'Istria is making great changes in the administration of the internal affairs of Greece. The National Bank has paid off 35,000 piastres of the public debt, but the financial prospects of the country are not very brilliant. The town of Thebes, in Negropont, has surren- dered to the Greeks, and the Turkish garrison is to be con- veyed to Smyrna. FRANCE.—The French government, it appears, are de- termined to carry into effect the reduction of the Five per Cents; a measure that has been in contemplation for the last four years. Every thing seems at this moment to favour the project, money is abundant, not only in France, but in almost every state on the Continent. The very idea that this matter is in serious contemplation; gives strength to the hopes of a general peace, because it is believed that such an operation would not be attempted if there was even a distant danger of France being involved in a war. PORTUGAL.—A number of prisoners have just been sent from Lisbon to Oporto, to take their trial for offences against Don Miguel's government.—There has been an insurrec- tionary movement among the military at St. Michael's but the object is not clearly explained. SPAIN.—The French Consul at Barcelona has transmit- ted the following to the Chamber of Commerce at Marseil- les, 14th July :—"The Captain General of the Kingdom of Valencia, has ordered to be put into commission by his Majesty's order a number of large cruize"s to guard the coast against smuggling. Several of those ships will cruize off Cape Cren, and stop all vessels coming from the ports of France and Italy, and they are to be sent to Valencia, where they will be searched; the cruizers have already stopped several Spanish vessels which came from the port of Mar- seilles. According to accounts received at Paris, the Count Espagne has condemned to death 27 of the nobles of Bar- celona, and a great number of other respectable persons are to be transported." BRAZIL.—A mail from Rio Janeiro has brought some in- teresting information; the most important of which is the appointment of a commission of four members, two English- men and two natives, to adiust the claims of the English merchants for losses sustained during the blocade of the river Plate by the Brazilian force. These papers give the addresses of the two chambers to the Emperor on the open- ing of the session. The senate thanks his Majesty for not r.sking the tranquillity of the empire in the question respect- ing the Portuguese succession. The deputies, after express- ing their satisfaction in nearly similar terms, speak of Don Pedro maintaining the rights of the reigning Queen of Portugal without hazarding the fate of Brazil." This ex- pression would lead to an inference that some arrangement was going on among the European powers for the settle- of the dispute between the Emperor and his brother. PARIS, JULY, 1.—The Semaphore of Marseilles has the following paragraph:— We have news from Algiers of the 8th of July. Unhappily, there is no doubt respecting the fate of our unfoitunate country- men who fell into the hands of the Bedouins during the last en- gagement, which took place upon the coast. All of them to the number of 24 have been massacred without pity their heads have been brought to Algiers, and carried through the city. After this they were given up to an English physician, who obtained as a favour permission to bury them. One young officer alone has been saved by the assistance of a woman of the country. The Kaduagi took him under his protection, and the Dev had given a reward of 200 piastres to the person who brought him alive. The Gazette des Tribunuux contains the sentence of the Tribunal of Commerce at Paris, which declares Count de Montholon in a state of bankruptcy. We find in the dis- cussions which preceded the sentence, that the Count has just taken flight. The President Berte was much affected in delivering his sentence. BERLIN, JULY 25.-Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Prince George of Cumberland left this city yesterday for London. HAMBURGH, JULY 28.—The St. Petersburgh papers of the 10th (22d) instant, received this morning, contain par- ticulars of the journey of the Emperor from Tulezin to Bo- bruisk. His Majesty arrived at the latter place on the IT instant, and is probably by this time in St. Petersburgh. At Bobruisk his Majesty inspected the camp of Turkish prisoners. There were in all about 2000; and to 21 offi- cers, and 300 privates, his Majesty was pleased to grant their liberty, in consideration of their advanced age. In the same papers we find further details of the capture of Silistria. On the 18th (30th) of June, at half-past two, A.M., a mine was sprung, the effect of which was to open a practicable breach in the very heart of the fortress; and two other mines were ready to be sprung. Hereupon the garrison seems to have been struck with utter dismay, and at ten o'clock the same morning it was intimated to General Krassowsky, that the commandant of the fortress was de- sirous to capitulate. A capitulation was agreed upon the same evening, and on the following morning the Russian troops entered the fortress through the breach. The Rus- sians have taken 9000 prisoners, including upwards of 1000 wounded, and 238 pieces of artillery, independently of 31 on board the flotilla, and 38 standards. The following are the principal features of the capitulation: 1. The garrison to be prisoners of war, and to deliver up the whole of their arms, baggage, artillery, and flotilla; but to retain their private property. pi ace, *a n tf to'repaif w iililYtfe\V1 ?ifi 3 T& .^Uow ed to leave the but without taking their arms with them. 3. Those who choose to repair to Russia or Silistria to receive assistance. The blockade, or rather bombardment of Algiers, seems to engage the attention of the French Cabinet, and the sooner the subject is brought to a conclusion the better, for by the end of August the autumnal equinox will drive the French squadron off the coast, or render their situation extremely critical. We only wonder how the French Go- vernment, with a fine fleet, and a numerous army at its disposal, should have so long delayed bringing the Dey of Algiers to his senses. The French possess peculiar facilities for the enterprise—Toulon being nearly opposite Algiers, and every thing in their favour for a descent on the coast, or a naval bombardment, or both conjointly. Their long hesitation implies either pusillanimity or want of energy. Private accounts from Paris state that, notwithstanding the confident reports of a change in the French ministry, none will take place. Prince Polignac returns to London immediately. THE JESUITS.—The high dignity of General of the So- ciety of Jesus has just been conferred upon John Roothan, a native of Amsterdam. The General, who is about .forty- four years of age, entered the Society at an early period in Russia. He is represented as peculiarly qualified by his virtues, talents, and acquirements, to fill the important station to which he has been called. As a linguist, he ranks among the first in Europe.—Dublin Morning Register. BUENOS AYRES, MAY 16.—Military preparations are still going on in this city with increased activity, troops have embarked, and we believe artillery, to form, it is said, an expedition against Santa Fe. The Monteneros hover about in the neighbourhood of the city, and daily skirmishes take place. It is rumoured that another action between the armies of General Lavelle and Governor Lopez may be soon expected. The head quarters of the latter were at Lujan. In the midst of all these warlike scenes there are some who hold out the idea that an arrangement may soon take place. We learn from good authority that General Riviera has resolved to send a force of 500 men to Buenos Ayres, wim are to embark from some part of the Uraguay; and we are J positively informed that Government are preparing a re- spectable force, to be under the command of Admiral Bru., to proceed against Santa Fe. Private letters are in town from Buenos Ayres of the 31s £ ,«r= of May, fourteen days later than the papers, which bring very unfavourable information from that quarter, stating that all the shops at Buenos Ayres were shut up, the inha- bitants under arms, and that the Government had issued j orders that no payments should take place. A battl2 I was expected every moment, and great fear was entertained f should the opposing army be victorious, that the town would be plundered by the Monteneros Indians. WARSAW, JULY 21.-The harvest commenced last week in the vicinhy of this city. The crops are so fine in all parts of the kingdom, that a very abundant harvest may be expected. Some persons, however, think that the wheat I harvest only will be good. ) I