The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

LO.VDONMO,, CITY, THURSDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The English Funds have been dull all the forenoon; coli.4016 for Account S71 J. In Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and other English Securities (here is no alteration. In the Foreign Market there is llo alteration worth notice.

PRICES OF SHARES^t,IVRSL)AY Per Share, j per sll(ire Anglo Mexican 13.J, Oel Monte 28* 29 United ditto 1^^ J Brazilian 64 Colombian I Bolanog .V/'iio 145

MERTHYR 1YDVIL, SATURDAY, .Ma.' 11, 1833. This week's history of parliamentary proceed- ings presents us with few features of marked in terest. The Earl of ABERDEEN, on Friday week, moved for and obtained the production of certain papers and correspondence relative to the conquest and continued occupation of Algiers by the French, after the repeated engagements both of the go- vernments of CHARLES the Tenth and of Louis PuiLifPE to evacuate that territory after the ohjectsof the expedition were accomplished and the insult offered to the French flag avenged. What possible excuse France may proffer fur this breach of her faith, we shall be curijus to learn from the papers about to be laid u pon the table of the Peers but certainly we should be essentially wanting to our own dignity to admit of any evasions on a question of very considerable interest to the trading community at large. For it must be borne in mind, that previous to that invasion we carried on a beneficial commerce with the Algerines, and were in the enjoyment of various privileges and immunities, which gave every promise of facili- tating and greatly extending our traffic in the interior of the country all of which it were idle to expect to retain, if Algiers be allowed to con- tinue a dependency of France, to the prejudice' of our mercantile and manufacturing industry. And truly our trade is neither so extensive and nourishing, nor our hard-working artisans so well paid and easy in circumstances, that we can afford to lose any, even the least, portion of our foreign commerce. Besides, the French made a booty so splendid on tl.e capture of the city of Algiers, as ought to satisfy avarice the most craving; for in golp, silver, and jewel. alone, exclusive of stores, shipping, and other pro. perly of that state, they found and carried off from the public treasury no less an amount than to the value of four millions of pounds sterling. The Irish Church Temporalities Bill was read a second time on Monday, after a fruit less opposition by Mr. SHAW, Sir ROBERT PEEL, and other members. We have hereto- fore taken occasion to express our opinion upon this measure, the principle of which, so much more odious than the details, involves so materially the security of all property, both public and private, that we trust the day is far distant when those who have introduced and are by large majorities supporting it may have to fear.in the usual progress of the career of injustice, tijt: same measure dealt out to them which they are now unreflectingly meting out to others. To a wholesome corrective of the abuses of the Irish Church, which may be chiefly traced to the state of society and religion in that island, we, for our part, should have made no objection. But the present measure is far two violent to meet the real merits of ihe case. On the same evening a message from his MAJESTY was delivered to the Commons, proposing a com- mittee, to whom should be referred the examination of the state of the Woods, Forests and other Royal domains of the Crown, with a view to render then as available as possible to the national exigen- cies-a proceeding which we do not hesitate to cha- racterize as truly wise, beneficent, and paternal on the part of our Gracious SOVEREIGN, and which must tend greatly to endear him to the hearts of all his subjects.

FRENCH FUNDS, MAY 7. Five per Cents 102f 60c Bank Stock 1770f -c Four per Cents 93f —c Hente de Naples 92f 25c Three per Cents 77f 50c llente tie I'Etat Romaiu 88f National Loan 1021'65c llente d'Espagne — Exchange on London—One Mouth, Paper, 25f 75c Money, 2df 75c Three Months, Paper, 25|'65c Money, — f —c.—Cours Authenligue.

THE WHIGS AND NO DISTRFss.-At one large corn market last week ihe stocks of 11 farmers were sold by auction at less than half their proper valite.- Boston Herald. The Duke of Buccleuch visited Langholm Lodge on Saturday last, and devoted that day and Mon- day to the transaction of necessary busienss, with Major Riddell, his grace's chamberlain, and Mr. Harley, the newly appointed factor for the districts of Eikdale, Ewesdale, and Liddesdale, and with other local agents. His grace attended divine service, on Sunday, in the pa- rish church as usual, and left the lodge by four o'clock on Tuesday morning, in order to attend a county meet- ing in Edinburgh the same d,iy.-Cai,lise Patriot. Sidi Hambden, the rich Moor of Algiers, who in his character of depositary of a part of the trea- sure of the ex-Dey, has been exposed to vaii >us ex- actions, has arrived in Paris in order to lay complaints before the Government against some of those who have been so imprudently invented with authority on the coast of Africa. He is also the bearer of the grievances of his fellow -citizens.- (Court ier Francais.) GIGANTIC LEEK.—We have been favoured with the sight of a leek reared in the garden of one of the villas at Blackburn, and now raised to be transplanted for seed. the dimensions of which how the perfection to which this plant may be brought by proper culture Circumference of stalk loi inches height of greatest blade 34 inches breadth of ditto 8 inches weight 4 hs. The curious may be gratified by a sight of this gigantic plant at the shop of Mr. Alexander, High treet.- Ayr Advertiser. The quantity of butter at Shepton Alailet market on Friday last, was so great that the best that could be made was sold at 6d. per lb., 17 ounces to the lb. CARPET TRAI)E.-Witliin the last fortnight, the following carpet manufacturers in Yorkshire have ad- vanced the wages of their workmen a halfpenny per yard, on super and common Scotch fabrics, v,z-, JVlr. Jam9S5 Horsfall, Mr. M. Swallow, Mr. J. Swallow, Mr. U illtam Illitigwor-li, Mr. B. Graves, Mr. George Bond, and Mr. Thomas Armitage and Sans, of lieckmondwike Mr. Samuel Cook, of Mill Bridge, Mr. James Fr,.nce, of Dewsbury, and Mr. James Mown, of Leeds. The dil- ferent carpet manufacturers of Scotland have a so given the r workmen an advance..Leeds Intelligencer. NEW MINERAL.—A new mineral has re- cently been discovered in the island of Corsica. It contains particles of gold-, and some vases that have been made of i', from the bnlhancy of their polish and the beauty of ih«ir colours, resemble enamel,-FreRc I Papçr.

LONDON COAL MARKET, May 6. Prices of Coal per ton &t the close of business. Adair's, 15s 61; Chester Main, 133; Felling Main, 14* 3d; Hebburn, 15s; Holywell, 15s 6d Orde's Red- heugh, 13s 6J Shipcote, 14s; Tanfield, 16s 9d Town- ley, H. 6d West Hartley, 15s 6d Wylam. 16s 3d Bell's Primrose, 14s 6d Lambtou's Primrose, 16s; Blytb, 12s; Thorpe's Gawber Hall, 13s.—Wall's End Brown's, 14»; Callertnn, 13* Gosforth, 16s to 16s 3d; Hildi, 148 61; KillinRwori'1» J5sti Newmarch, 15?; Northumberland, 14s 6d Kiddell s, 16s; YVoodsidft, 15; Hetton, 16s 9d; Lyons, 15s 6d Lamhton's, 17s 6d Russell's Hetton, 16s 9d Stewart's, 16s 9d Adelaide, 15s; Tees, 16, (hI Henderson, 14s —Ships. 27. Co AT. MARKET, May "rice of Coal per tan at the close of business-Beaumont, 14s Gd—Charstte 13s 9d —Felling Main, 14s—Holy well, los Gd—Orde's Red- heugh, 13s 6d—Tanfield, 17s 6d—West Hartley, 15s— Lambton's Primrose, 14s Gd-Cowpen, 158-Howard's Netherion Main, 16s 6d—W nil s End Bewicke and Co. 15s 9d—Brown's, 13s Gd-Hilda, 14s-Nolthum- berland 141-Perkins, 14s-"Riddell s, 15 Gd-Hetton, 16s 6d—Lyons, ISs—Lambton, 17s-Stewart'M, 169 3d Stockton, 14s—South Durham, I ts-Tees, 16s to 16s 6d 1 Gosforth, 158 pd,_Sbips arrived, 36,

Much as we condemn the resolutions adopted by the Reformed House of Commons in many instances, there is none on which their collective wisdom ap- pears to us so deplorably to have failed as on the motion of Mr. M. ATTWOOD for an inquiry into the causes of the distress of the people. It is as noto- rious as anything can be, that, with vast natural resources for the enjoyment of temporal felicity, withresources from art and acquired intelligence such as have never been equalled, the people of England as a body are at this moment vainly striving to roll water up an acclivity, and expending a vast treasure of industry, and talent, and skill, in acquiring as their reward less than suffices for their physical subsistence. We are fully aware of the influence of taxation in producing this result: and therefore we say, it is the more the bounden duty of those who legislate for the people, of those who really (not virtually) represent them, to give their atten- tion to the causes of this appalling evll. We are fully aware of the influence of taxation in producing this result: and we say, that besides the trifling sur- plus which the revenue this year presents, a sum something below one million might he spared by the most Hume-ish system of paring and retrench- ing in the public expenditure. We thus might, with extreme economy, meet our expenses with a revenue of two millions and a half less than that of last year; and we assert, what we conceive that we have in former numbers demonstrated, that if taxes to the amount of six millions were repealed, the circulation among the people of the money thus conceded to them would give a revenue of the difference (viz, three millions and a half), and thus the demand on the public purse would be provided for. If tile six millions repealed were taken off from the agricultural burden, they would be repealed in the most useful manner because they would, as far as the relief went, assist us to compete with foreigners in coin, and at once relieve agriculture, reduce the price of bread, increase the comforts of the manufacturing classes, and extend the foreign demand for our ma- nufactured productions. A repeal, which we affirm to be practicable, of taxes to this amount, if made in this form, would have those happy results, to a certain limit not further; but unfortunately, in all matters of taxes, popular prejudices step in and will have their weight and it is probable that the best that the sincere friends of the people can attempt is to petition that a repeal to this extent be made, di- rectly relieving the agricultural and manufacturing classes in equal portions. And it would be found that even after this were done,the people of England remained burdened with taxes three or four times exceeding what was borne by any other country. Now it cannot have escaped the attention of any observing man, that about ten years ago the aggre- gate taxation of the country was about twice as great as at present, and that the distresses of the people have, under a progressive decrease of taxation, gone on progressively increasing. The inference from this is, that the distress arises, not from a diminution of taxes, which is absurd but partly from the pressure of taxes,and still more from some latent and undefined cause, of much greater pressure than even theheaviest taxes that have ever been known in the country. When we consider that for nearly five centuries the policy of the legislature of this country has been to place all things connected with trade, or the means of subsistence, upon such a footing as to afford the greatest possible subsistence to the English people and that under this system, or rather principle, the prosperity of the English people grew to its zenith, in which, with twice our present weight of taxes, all the industrious classes had abundance: when we consider further that within a few years that principle has been changed for other theories, and that from that moment, though our taxes have been continually diminish- ing, our burdens have been most incomprehensively increasing: it must he admitted that experience has shown that the old system has worked well, and that the new one has failed. Now it is the predominant evil under which the English people labour, that the legislature of the present day are too enlightened to be guided by ex- perience; and they reject what has been tried and found to be good, for something not tried which they theoretically think to be better. This some- thing, which in the present case they have applied to the people of England, is a system of novel speculation, which is called the science of political economy, and which inculcates as a fundamental principle, the imporlance of attainingevery desirable object with the smallest expenditure of labour. Labour and the produce of labour are convertible terms; and as money is the representative of the produce of labour, these philosophers arrive at the conclusion, that it is a fundamental principle to obtain all desirable things for the smallest possible amount of money. In doing this, they evidently compel the British labourer, who can arrive at the completion of his labouronly through along line of taxes, to sell his production at the same price as the foreigner, who pays possibly not one-tenth of these taxes; and, where the latter receives, say, twenty shillings, all as the reward of his labour, the former receives that sum less perhaps six or seven shillings paid as tax. This alone is sufficient evil; but when we add to it that the foreign rival, conscious of his vantage ground in this respect, lowers his price, say one shilling, by which he loses one- twentieth part of his recompense, to get the whole trade; and that the Englishman must lower his price still more, and lose thereby about one-tenth part of his reward, to recover the trade; that the foreigner then carries the operation still further, and the Englishman must go below him again, still losing at every step a much larger proportion of his whole reward thauJus foreign rival loses, we can form some very faint idea of the misery which this system of "obtaining every desirable object with the smallest possible expenditure of labour" is working upon every man, woman and child of the labouring popu- lation of England. We have as yet viewed the subject in only one very narrow channel, of the numberless ones into which it branches. The subsistence of the whole labouring community depends upon their employ- ment (little do they get otlierivise) and their employ- ment depends upon the demand, foreign and do- mestic, for the productions of their industry. Of the foreign demand we shall speak hereafter: but it is necessary here to remark that the great bulk of the demand at lonle springs, or ought to spring, much more from the consumption of the la- bouring classes themselves than from that of the classes above them. For the expenditure of the classes above them goes once into the general stream of wages, where it supports once a set of labourers but these men spend it in a week, then it supports another set, who spend it in a week, and itupports a third set, then a fourth &c., and so on ad infinitum. And in the depreciation, which the new system works, of the labour of the first set, we have an ab- straction from the demand which the just remune- ration of those men ought to form for the produc- tions of all the others successively, which is alone sufficient to produce a mass of pauperism and misery appalling even to think of. But then, it is legiti- mately produced, and in accordance with the ap- proved formula for obtaining every desirable ob- ject with the smallest possible expenditure of labour." We have not space in the present number to dis- play all the beauties of this new science: we shall recur to it hereafter, we hope not uselessly.

The French papers received this week have been very barren of domestic intelligence. The birthday of the King of la grande nation was celebrated on Wednesday week with very equivocal demonstrations of loyally on the part of Louis Philippe's loving subjects. The only incident worth noticing in the proceedings of the Chambers has been the presenta- tion in the Deputies by the Minister ot Finances of the project of the government respectlllg the Sinking Fund, the particulars of which we have borrowed from the Private Correspondence of the London Guardian. We have accounts from Madrid to the 25th ult Perfect tranquillity reigns in Spain: but it is re- ported that Don Carlos has lately addressed to the King, from Lisbon, a formal protest against the abo- lition of the Salic law to the prejudice of his claims. If this document should be published at the meeting of the Cortes, it may lead to important and serious consequences. Some interesting letters from Lisbon relative to the state of affairs in Portugal will be found in another column. From Oporto the dates are to the 1st instant. The accounts are nut very flattering to the cause of Don Pedro. Admiral Sartorius and his fleet, acting upon the old adage of Point d'argent, point de Suisse, refuse to fight, as they have not yet received their pay. Mutiny and in- subordination likewise reign among the officers and soldiers; several intrigues have b, eii dis- covered to displace Marshal Solignac, the French General,and the parties havebeen disgraced and im- prisoned, In sbQrt, the whole intelligence received j by this last mail teems with melancholy and deplora- bledetails of the results arising from introducingan- archy and civil war into the bosom of a peaceful country. From Belgium an instructive lesson may also be derived of the danger of rashly destroying" existing institutions. The agitation and ferment of the country is excessive, and on all sides we learn that precautions are taken to prevent a popular emeute. Some curious reports are in circulation of serious misunderstandings that exist between King Leopold and his Royal (Jonsort. In respect to the settlement of the long pending dispute between this country and Holland, we regret that we are unable to communicate anything satisfactory. I t i affirmed that measures of coercion are to be tried with the King of Holland, and the ministerial organs have already commenced to divide the spoil to be derived from these warlike demonstrations Java, a Dutch settlement, having been assigned as the portion of England, and France we suppose is to have Belgium. In the meanwhile the commercial interests of London have interfered, and a petition is in progress, pray- ing the Parliament to remove the embargo. It has already received the signature of the leading and most influential merchants, brokers, and shipowners. The most important intelligence has arrived from Constantinople. OtFicial accounts have been received by the French government from the Turkish capital of the 16th of April, announcing the conclusion of a pacific arrangement through the in- tervention of M. de Varennes, the Chief Secretary of the French Embassy in that capital. The details of the negotiations will be found in another column. The Germans papers mention that severe measures are in progress to repress the turbulent spirit of faction in the various states; In Frankfort the re- gulations of the commander of the Austrian and Prussian forces have excited some sensation among the citizens. Barbados papers to the 23d of March have been received. They afford afflicting accounts of the state of the neighbouring islands, hut they are mere repetitions of that which has been published during the last three months. The Governor of St. Chris- topher's had left the island, having been superseded. The earthquakes still continued, and to an alarming extent. We have received Halifax papers to the 17th ult. A law had been introduced into the House of Assembly to compel the payment of all bank notes in gold and silver, to which the Council have re- fused their consent, and have published their reasons for dissent in an official document, stating that they agree with the House of Assembly on gene- ral principles; but the legislature of the province having long sanctioned treasury notes not conver- tible into coin, it would be impolitic and unjust to enforce the payment of bankers' notes in coin. Such a measure would create great confusion in the circulating medium of the province. » The intelligence from the Mauritius is to the 8th February, it is of the most melancholy and alarm- ing nature. The new Governor, General. Nicolay, had published several official documents: the first an order of council, dated London, 6th November, denouncing the Mauritius as in a state bordering on rebellion. General Nicolay has the most extensive powers ever intrusted to the gover nor of a colony, the King's proclamation, which is an echo of the order in council, both were published at Port Louis on the 4th and 5th of February, with General Nicholay's proclamations of the same tenour; the latter is dated Miuritius, 4th of February; it states his determination to maintain the King's au- thority and the laws, and further, that after having obtained due obedience to them, he will, as formerly, consult the wishes uf tile colonists and attend to their interests. The Governor has dismissed from the council 6f the island, Mr. A. D. Epinay, Colonel Draper, and Mr. Justice Vineux, with the declaration of their being rendered, for the future, unworthy to serve his Majesty in any ca- pacity whatever. The accounts from Calcutta of the 8th of Jan, announced the failure of the eminent house of Macintosh and Co. for nearly three millions ster- ling the firm in London, Rickards, Macintosh, and Co oa receiving the intelligence, immediately sent notice to the Bank ofEngland, and to their bankers, that they had for the present suspended their pay- ments. There was no immediate cause for this act; it appears to have arisen out of an highly ho- nourable feeling, that as the failure in Calcutta was so unexpected they could not calculate to what ex- tent -they were involved, or what sums they might be ultimately liable for, and therefore as a measure of precaution they would suspend all their payments, and wait the result they were certainly one of the mosteminent East India houses of the cityof London.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. c May 6—In a convocation holden this day,1 totKlna^-erat'ons 'n 8latutes wcre unanimously agreed y which the Latin sermon Iiitlierto pieached by all j n"dates for the degree of Bachelor in Divinity will, the future, be dispensed witii. liE PETITION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ,1 ,p AGAINST THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. 0 Honourable the Commons of the united king- dom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Chancellor, Masters, and ( Scholars of the University of Oxford, Showeib, That your petiiioners have learned that a bill has tM^ 'niro<^uced into your Honourable House, enti- t, A Bill to alter and amend the Laws relating to e Temporalities of the Church in Ireland.' 'I Your petitioners have ever regarded ecclesiastical P°9ses8iona as entitled, in common with h 11 oilier pro- fi *° l'le Protec''on °f the state, aad to the security of *«i i V^ 'nv'°lable laws. W ith deep concern, therefore, they observe, in the Plesserll instance, a departure from this sound and im- portant principle. They also see abundant cause for alarm in the de- •"« of the proposi>i\ ^ments. The taxation of eccle. la>tieal property will unfairly transfer a burden from the "uiniunhy in general, to the members of a particular and will impoverish a meritorious body ot men 'ose means are in many cases inadequate to the urgent on their beneficence. They are of opinion that the suppression of sees, and Parochial cures, will necessarily invade the rights, and e^c'enc'r l'le ^roiesta"t establishment in That the sale of perpetuities in tfhureh lands will convert a real estate into a revenue precarious and unsub- stantial and may eventually lead to an entire alienation of funds set apart by the piety of our ancestors for the diffusion of religious knowledge through the ministration 01 the clergy. Finally, your petitioners beg leave to represent to your honourable house their deliberate and firm conviction 'hL-1680 n™6'"18"1,88, 'f carried into effect, will inevitably •hake ihe stability of all property whatsoever, and render its tenure insecure. "Most anxiouslyalld earnestly, therefore, do they pray that the proposed bill may not pass into a law. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. Given at our House of Convocation, under our Com- mon Seal, this 30th day of April, in the year of our k°rd 1833/'

PftEDICTION OF THE OVERTHROW OF TURKEY. Count Raczynski, in his recent travels through *u*key, has given the memorable prophecy of the °°wnfall of the Ottoman government by a fair- j^ired people, arriving from across the sea," as 'e*ists on the lid of an ancient porphery sarcophagus; f"U length. A similar prophecy, referring to the Rus- JIrtns> is current among the Turks themselves and the ,ree^ historian, Kodinus, who wrote about the middle of e fifteenth century, dwells, in his book on the origin of °n»tantinople, on an equestrian statue of Joshua or ,e"er°ph»n, which stood in one of the squarts of capital, and, on its marble pedestal, con- fined an inscription foretelling the ultimate conquest 9j the city by the conquering hards of the Muscovite. he remarkable inscription, alluded to in the firllt in- existed, it is confidently reported, on the lid of -onstantine the Great's sarcophagus in the Church of the S'-to ^Pos,Ies at Constantinople he died in the year .Vi and the inscription was inlaid upon the lid, in ab- Greek characters. The Byzantine historians lit The Oracle of Constantineit was deciphered ^*eor8e Scholarios, or Geffnaidos as lie is also called, "ho was chief justice to John III, the last but one cf the toperors of Constantinople. It runs as follows .— j In the first year of an Indiction, (l)the empire of J^el 12), called Moameth,will be overthrown byihe race the Palseologi, (3) the city of the Seven Hills (4) will e captured by them, and they will rule there, exercise jP^inion over many nations, and lay the islands unto the ■Uxine waste. They will devastate the lands bordering the Danube. (5) In the eighth year ot an Indiciion, iey will conquer the Peloponnesus. (6) In the ninth J'M of an Indiction, they will carry war into northern ie1'-0ns" tenth year of an Indiction, they will "°jugate the Dalmatians. (8> Some time after this, "ey will again wage fit-rce war against the Dalmatians, vl i° P#rt destroy them. (9) And the nations of the .e' collected in great numbers will (10) join in hosti- "les bv land and sea, and again vex Ismael. His will bear sway for a very short time there- ter. And then the light-haired nation, (11) uniting with first possessors, (12) will entirely overthrow Ismael, '"u possess themselves of the seven hilled city and all its le»itory. And hereupon they will kindle a civil war,(13) which HI rage to the fifth hour, and a voice wi'l cry three se- *rM times, Stand, stand Be ye afraid ? Haste ye ^.l"er'ght hand (14) ye shall find a man oflotly j ln^» and wonderful,and strong. Him ye shall choose j^' your ruler, for he is my friend, (15) therefore, ye accept him for lord over you,and fulfil my will.' y 8 inscription is to be met with in Cigala's Nova 0 ?r,ar- Historiar. Synopsis," Venice, 1634 and in | contemporary and subsequent works. A computation of time recurring every fifteen I ttar.. This was the case with the storming of Constan. lIople by the Turks in 1453. Illi I'tnael, the first born of Abraham, is accounted first ancestor of the Turks and Arabians. uj' } Michuel Paleeologas, who united the Latin Em- | ^CI ^ONS,ANT'"°P'E W' T^IE ^REE' £ ONE AT I ^on8tdn*i'noP^ei Rome, lies on seven hills. I ) Bulgaria, Servia, and Hungary. j Pel date corresponds with 1460, in which year the | j j °Ponnesus was subjugated a second time by Mahomet I ^'s was 'he year 14G1, when the sccond Greek Plrc pf Trebisond was overthrown, and the Turk like- (* br°ke into Wallachia. »ia Vear when Mahomet conquered Bos- 1 tj. 1 and nearly tffected the subjugation cf Albania, which /o *"orit,ed part of Dalmatia. I tela A ^'ter Iskanderbeg's death in 14G7, Mahomet ,j^uP°n the whole of Dalmatia. I cQtn ^'uss'ai France, Austria, and England, have all I Cej1,n'?Ule^» both singly and jointly, during the last two ) Urk. es, to the weakening and dismemberment of the 2i.J) The H light-haired people" are, with the By- (Wrile*s, the northern nations of Europe. *0) There are descendants of the Grtek Byzantians Greeks of the present day. The treaty of thrlanople (1828) was at least equivalent to the over- °f Turkey, though Constantinople was not entered. regeneration of Greece in our times has ^lehtmet All's revolt into a wide-spreading «ir(i4) Ab Cons tan tine's sarcophagus was placed in a ^r0m WeSt t0 eas^ an "^dividual standing on its t0jj hand will have on that aide Greece, Southern Ana- the Greek Archipelago, and Egypt; #11 of ?otte MC B0W a 8enera' 'ocus insurrection against the it (15) The government of the present Autocrat of la hag given abundant proof of mind, and prowess. tlie by the success with which it has conducted Cai. amPa'gns against Persia, Turkey, the nations of the *Uc«sus,and Poland.

SUICIDE.—A decently dressed f at":i Y ^malfc, accompanied by a little girl, her niece, and 'hat she belonged to S:irling, entered a house in %nd aven on Friday, requesting lodgings for the night, ) in inteildin, as she mentioned, to take the Stirling bost »itti(le horning. In the course of the evening, while I holj with the family at table, she suddenly laid ivitf, a 'ttr8e carving knife, and drew it across her throat |t|je force, iliat the head was nearly severed from No cause could be assigned for the commis- l -five*- shocking and lamentable act Edinburgh Po*t. rl>l Tribunal or Correctional Police at ? ^ft'Tados, was a few days ajjo occupied wi h 'flora affords another most deplorable instance of Fh*le. I and superstition. A young girl named Marie ^oli* "v'ng with her family in the Commune of La 'ernjj' "ecame subject to a nervous complaint, which *tt in her believing that she was possessed with spirit. Her relatives and friends, from her the1,1 Co,,vul8ions and acts of delirium, became also \*°»ei8an,e opinion, aud had recourse to prayer* and *jC|oi8,n# for her relief. After a time her sister, named j.re' caught the contagion, and became persuaded Mill C(^ e.v" spirit h.>d passed into her. Marie, however, N»elfntinue«l ',er extravagancies. One day she threw '»r0l,le'"lo a copper and desired her mother, sister, n ]I and a servant girl to press 'her down, in order "'e deiNou that torsnented her anil not only did 'he jj ea* erentures comply, but her sister insisted, that !>* JV^'onld undergo the same operalwn. The Dei i| .Cr'es 's process produced called in several of >l.o a|| | ■> and amongst tliem some NtHionnl Cinar i Cl,,1,e so infatuated by the scene, that they 'Ctoir \'8 Perf°rmance till one of the wretched sufferers n!'ler gi P •exP're<> and it was almost a miracle that tlie rv.d. Upon t'icse facts becoming known t° ur'0r,l'es» tlie surviving family and the servant girl six ^8ecuted, and on being tried, were all condemned f1ch pm" imprisonment and a fine of 50 francs.—

PORTUGAL. LISBON, AIHIIL IS. It would appear that Lord Grey has made a solemn vow to complete the ruin of this unhappy country, raiher than acknowledge a fact which is as clear as the light of day, namely, the unanimity of the Portuguese nation in favour of Don Miguel. How can we otherwise assign a cause for that blind infatuated policy which he has adopted with regard to Portugal ? Lord Grey attempts to palliate his injustice by asserting that Donna Maria is the legiti- mate sovereign but where shall we find a test to prove the truth in this matter ? Is it to be found in the vague assertions of Lord Grey, or in the legal and political his- tory of Portugal ? And if a competent judge he required to decide the law, shall we find one in the person of Lord Grey, or in the united voices of the Portuguese nation ? Reaily it is melancholy to behold such an enlight- ened man as the present Premier of England bid in this instance, adieu to common sense and to tne principles of his past life. Lord Grey asks fcr legitimacy. The Portuguese people tell Jiim that the principles of legi- timacy are concentratt d in Don Miguel; they tell hun that Don Pedro, as Emperor of the Brazils, was, by the lawsof Portugal and by his own voluntary consent, exclud- ed from the throne of his ancestors, and that he could not transmit to his daughter what he no longer possessed. They'tell him that the la»v of Portugal expressly de- clares" that the crown shall never descend to a foreign Prince nor to his children, although they may be the nearest relations of the last King in possession of the throne; that if the King be called to the succession of a greater empire, he shall reside in Portugal; and if he has two or more sons, the eldest shall reign in the foreign kingdom, and the second in Portugal; and that the latter alone shall be recognized there as Prmce and legitimate successor" (Cortes of Lisbon, 1641.) Surely Lord Grey ought to know that it is to the observance of this prin. ciple that the present illustrious hou,e of Braganza owes its accession to the throne. On that memorable cccasion, Catherine was preferred to her elder sister, merely because the latter, by her marriage with a foreign Prince, had herself assumed a foreign character. But then, observe the glaring barefaced inconsistency of these men who ad- vocate with such enthusiasm the claims of Donna Ma- ria. The King of the French is acknowledged by all liurope. and left in quiet possession of his crown, because his accession is supposed to be the effect of the people's will, although no inconsiderable part of that nation di-.dain to consider him as their sovereign. Prince Leopold owes his crown solely to the choice of his subjects. The Portuguese have unanimously proclaimed Don Miguel as their sove- reign, and the history of the last five years, and especially of the last nine months, has convinced the most incre- dulous of the existence of this unanimity; and yet the champions of the people's rights refuse to sanction the exercise of them in this instance, because Don Miguel, in compliance with the wish of his subjects, has declared his resolution to maintain the ancient insiitutions of the coun- try. But, forsooth, the powers of Europe had acknow- ledged Donna Nli:ria Ay, and they acknowledged also Charles X, and they acknowledged the Duke of Bruns- wirk, and they had acknowledged the King of Holland as sovereign of Belgium- But were these acts irre- vocable ? LISBON, APRIL 20. The existence of the Cholera in this capital, which is no longer doubtful, had at first created much alarm but this alarm has much subsidea of la!e, as this disease, so dreadful in some parts, has assumed here a more lenient charrcter. C There is nothing new from Opotto. It would, however, appear that the land occupied by the besieged I" not a land overflowing in mil" and honey., A fact, lately come to my knowledge, proves 4his beyond a doubt. A short time ago a great number ot children, some assert about GOO, were driven out of the town in the most destitute condition, and lett '<> the mercy of the besiegers. These innocent victims of civil war wtre treated with humanity, and Don Miguel was apprized ot the circumstance. This Prince, with a gooll feeling which reflects the highest honour on his character, gave immediate orders til ,t all their wants should be satisfied, and had them sent to Coinibra. He wrote, at the same time, to the rector of the Jesuit's Collfege m that town, a letter full of humanity and good sense, confiding to that zealous and indefatigable Order the care of these help:ess beings. His orders were promptly and ef- fclually obeyed. All parties unite in awarding to the Jesuits that praise which their excellent conduct de- serves. Since their arrival in this country, they have scrupulously abstained, not only from the least interfer- ence in politics, but eve-, from every thing which may bear the denomination of worldly affairs. Their life is wholly devoted to the arduous task of preaching the Gos- pet in a foreign language, of affording assistance to the prisoners and the sick, and to the education of youth; the college under their direction at Coimbra, is the only one in Portugal where, at this moment, a regular edu- cation can be acquired. The contrast of this conduct with the furious accusations of their Portuguese enemies, made such an impression on my mind, that I have seri- ously examined the subject, and shall communicate to you, at a future period, the results of my reflections. The Infant Don Sebastian is expected shortly to return to Madrid. The indisposition of the young Princess, his Consort is the cause of this sudden departure, though some attribute it to a wish on his part not to be present here at a moment when the proceedings in Spain may draw forth from Don Carlos a solemn protestation.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE TREATY BETWEEN MEHEMETAU AND THE PORTE. The Nouvelliste contains the following intelligence Government has received intelligence from Constanti- nople up to April 16. On the 30th March M. de Varen- nes, first secretary to the King's embassy in that capital, left for Ibrahim Pacha's camp with the Atnrdji Effndi of the Porte. He was bearer of a hatti-scheriff, by which the Grand Seignior granted to the Pacha of Egypt the investiture of tour Syrian Pachalics, viz. St. Jean d'Arce, Damascus, Aleppo, Tripoli, and their dependencies. M. de Varennes was instructed to obtain from Ibrahim that tie would desist from any other pretension. The negoti- ation lasted ftiur hours, Ibrahim has renounced his claims on Diarbekir, and on the districts of Allaya and Lefikelli, but has reserved the question relative to the districts of Adana and Orfa, which is to be discussed at Alexandria. In the meanwhile, at the demand of M. de Varennes, he has consented to evacuate Asia Minor. This retro- grade movement was to commence on the 10ih of April. The Tcrregratt, or annual list of pro/notions or confir- mations granted to the governors of the Ottoman empire, was solemnly published at Constantinople on the Kith of April. This act confers on M ehemet Ali, besides the pachalics with which he has long been invemed, all Syria. The district of Adana remains in r< serve. A second division of the Russian squadron, with 5,000 men on board, arrived at the entrance of the Bosphorus, but it appeal certain that the Porte had demanded that the march of the Moldavian corps d'armee be suspended. Intelligence from Bucharest, dated April 11, states that merely a division and a half of that corps, ivhich is supposed to amount to 12,000 men, had at that time entered the principalities. The French vessels from Brest, Toulon, and the mouth of the Tagus were to join the navil station com- manded by Admiral Hugon, off Smyrna, between the 20th and 30th April. Baron Boislecomte, charged by government with a mbsion for Mehemet Ali. left Toulon on the 15ih April, and probably reached Alexandria at the end of the month.

CO FEN TRY. On Monday evening last, a public meeting was held in the laige, yard of the Red Lion Inn, Coventry, for the purpose of taking into consideration the conduct of the Reformed House, and of his Majesty's Ministers, in re- iusing to grant the people relief from their burdens. Mr. John Robinson was called to the chair at five o'clock when the meeting was addressed hy Messrs. Fletcher, T. Perkins, J. Perkins, Taunton, Peters, &e. The follow- ing resolutions were carried unanimously, together with a pithy address to the King, calling on him to dismiss the Whigs:- Resolved, 1, That this meeting considers that the con- duct of the present administration, during the whole of this session of Parliament, has been such as to destroy the confidence and overth ow the hopes of the people; first, by their acts of despotism towards Ireland and, secondly, by continuing to impose on the country the burdens levied by a gelf-c°n^elinne^ Parliament; thus, by a most consummate chicanery, mocking the people with the shadow of reform, and withholding the substance. 2, That we address his Majesty, calling on him to dismiss from his councils his present servants, who have so grievously disappointed the people by their conduct and we respectfully call upon his Majesty to choose such men as shall, from principle, speedily adopt measuieg to relieve us from our burdens.

A magnificent u.ideftaking'is 'n contemplation by the French Government-the formation of a grand line.df iron railways from Paris to Rouen. Havre, Lyons, and Mar- seilles. The government have, with this intent, already demanded a vote of twenty thousand pounds for the pre. liminary surveys. This is part of a vote or lour millions sterling just taken for the completion of public edifices and monuments, canals and military roads in La Vendee. Amongst the former are the finishing of the Triumphal Arch de l'Etcile 88 0001.; thel Church of the Magda- len 112,0001. the Pantheon 60,0001- the Museum of Natural History 96,0001. new buildings for the Grande Bibliothique" 240,0001-; Royal School of the Fit.e Arts 76,0001. Cathedral of St. Denis 60,0001.; and Deaf and Dumb Asylum 8,0001.

THE LATEST LONDON INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Guardian of yesterday, Friday.) LUCERNE.-ST. GALL. Some serious disturbances took place on the 19th of April in the Rheintal. Some officers of that district assembled at Bernich to hold a court martial, when a crowd of tumultuous persons surrounded it, and pre- veiited its proceedings. The Court was consequently adjourned. Endeavours were made to arrest the ring- leaders, but these were baffled by the crowd. The Government, informed of this disorder, charged the Prefect of the Rheintal to direct an inquiry against the persons implicated. Warrants for arrests were consequently issued but the people took from the gendarmes the individuals they had arrested. The Government,on the 23d of April,decided on call- ing out a sufficient number of troops, and on sending them, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Kalin, along with some pieces of artillery, in order t ) effect the arrest of the chiefs, at the same time addressing a proclamation to the citizens of the Canton, to inform them of the motives for the above measures, and con- voked, according to the constitution, the Grand Coun- cil for the 26th of the month. A few hours afterwads it was ascertained that all the attempts made to insure the execution of the orders of the Government had failed. The petty- council found itself in consequence obliged to acce- lerate the measures decreed. Orders have been given to advance troops on the chef-lieu. They were to arrive at St. Gall audits vicinity on the 25th and 26th.- Geneva Journal. DENMARK. (From the Hamburgh Correspondent.) COPENHAGEN, APIlIL 27. On the 24tli of this month, the King addressed the following rescript to the Chancery :—" As it is pos- sible that in consequence of the numerous emigrations of the Polish refugeas, that several of them may in- tend to fix Iheir residence in our States, we announce to our Chancery that those refugees are to he repelled, unless they be provided with passports signed by the Russian Embassies." According to our Legislation, every person that has been condemned for an offence of the press is sub- jected to censorship for his writings. This censorship is everywhere exercised by the police, and at Copen- hagen by the oldest assessor of the tribunal of Police. A circular from superior authority has jut enjoined that assessors for the future do erase not only the pas. silges of the papers which are offensive for the State, hiit also those which defame individuals. Although all litilif;tlion of the liberty of the press must produce a disagreeable impression, it is nevertheless eel taiu that the censorship once admitted, cannot be better iii)- plied than in preventing defamation it was also im. Pioper that pamphlets should be in circulation authorized by government. As the censorship is merely applicable lo the small number of persons who have been condemned for press oftences, and as on the other hand, the authority will do its duty conscien- tiously, the new measure adopted cannot present any danger.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Second Edition of the London Guardian of Thursday.) The Austrian Observer of the 27th ult. confirms the intelligence given yesterday from the Augsburg Gazette respecting the affairs cf Turkey, and adds :I Accord ing to accounts of the lCJi just received from Constanti- nople, M. de Varennes ariived unexpectedly in that capital from Kutahia, on the evening of the 14th. No- thing positive had transpired on the news of which he was the bearer, except that Ibrahim Pacha held commenced his retrograde march, so that hopes were entertained that the whole of Anatolia would soon be evacuated by the Egyptians. In the list of the investitures of Governor- ships of tho empire lately published, in which Mehemet Ali is indicated as being in possession of the Viceroyalty of Egypt, together with all Syria, Damascus, Aleppo, and Candia, Ibrahim Pacha is stated to be invested with the Governorship of Abyssinia, the Sandshakat of Dschidda, and the office of Scheich-al- Harem of Mecca. Hence it is inferred that the Porte considers the nego- tiations with the Viceroy of Egypt as terminated." Yesterday M. Humann presented the project of the government respecting the Sinking Fund. From the 1st lor July next, the total amount of the Sinking Fund shall be so divided as to be specifically appropriated to each stock, in proportion to the amount ot such stock the portion allotted to such stock as may be at any time above par, to form a reserved fund invested in Exchequer Bill*, at 3 per cent, interest, such bills to be realised and applied in redeeming such stock us soon as its price redescends to par. The total sum deducted for the Sinking Fund will be 23,600,000 fr. of rentes, as was originally intended. No purchases will be made in the other rentes as long as th-y are above par; now as the fives, fours, four-and a-half, are nearly always above par, and as it is now possible that the 3 per cents, should even reach par, which for that stock is 1100f., the pur- chases of the sinking fund will take place in that stock alone. The unapplied portions of the sinking fund will be employed in bons royaux (similar to our exchequer bills), and by rendering them scarce in the market, must naturally raise the price ot the other public securities.

WES TMINS TERELEC TIOnZ-C Thursday.) This being the day appointed by the High Bailiff for taking the votes of the electors of Westminster, at an early hour the front of the hustings in Covent garden was crowded to excess. The polling was languid for the first two hours, but as ihe day advanced it became more brisk. The votes given for Colonel Evans at Covent garden booth were as 6 to I above his competitors. The statements issued bv the different Committees differ materially from each other. At eleven o'clock the irross numbers were for Evans t>. 382 Hobhouse 243 Eicott 102 TWO O'CLOCK. Evans 769 Hobhouse 613 Escott 413 CLOSE OF TIJE: POLL-FOIJR O'CLOCK. Evans 1026 Hobhouse 779 Eicott 471

AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE AND LONDON MARKETS. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, May 7—The arri- vals since Friday are again very small, but the specula- tive feeling which prevailed having subsided, and the mil- lers and dealers, of whom we had a limited attendance only at maiket today, being unwilling to meet the advance in wheat and oats, the trade for both these articles was rather languid, and prices barely equal to those obtained at the close of the week. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, May 7-—We have no new feature to notice in our cotton market this week. rhe sales of the two days are not more than 2500 bags, without change in prices.

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MAV 8. There was a fair arrival of wheat and flour today, but very little of any tiling else. No alteration can he noted in prices everything remaining very dull, and few sales taking place. MONDAY'S PRICKS. Wheat, EaSex U«id 4'2s a 48s Wliite 32s a Fine 52« a 56s Boilers 35a a 3tts Old -9 a —s Bean*, Smatt. 33 a 369 White &°" a 553 Ticks. 2/s a 29i o Fine a 53s Old a 3(i< Superfine 58s a GOs l}ats» Feed 15s a 17* New —s a —s }'"|e. i8s a 20s Rye 308 a 36<i £ oland a 19< Barley, 22s a 33» Fine 20j a 2)s Malt 1 60s a £ ?tat°e 23s a 24s Pine 55il a a 25s Peas, Hog 3(u a 8s a8 tkl Maple 3,8 a Pollard, Que IGh a tys IMPORTATIONS, Wheat. Barley* Malt. Oats. Beans. Poas. Flour. English.. 6972 43*5 ^592 585 M50 Scotch 9 3D Irish. 775 If"95, Foreign.. — — — Foreign..