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gfratmSKg to "oUJ;J¿1tfØ LONDON, FEB. 19. Reported Insurrection in Lisbon. TUB Hope, Bloomfield, which arrived at Poole on Wednesday from Lisbon, which place she left on the 7th instant, brings the report of an extensive insur- rection having broken out in that city, just as she was getting under weigh. The master reports, that at two o'clock, A. M. on the 8th, when lying at Belem, he was disturbed by a strange noise on shore, and coming on deck, he saw rockets ascending, and other signs of disturbance, and at daylight large bodies of horse and foot marching towards the city; and that the general officer, who boarded him when getting under weigh, told him there was a great disturbance that would not be quelled without much bloodshed, as the people were determined to liberate all the state prisoners." Great agitation is known to have prevailed in the capital for some days, and the movement therefore, if correct, is j in all probability the result of a premeditated plan, j Some of the statements go so far as to assert that Donna Maria has already been proclaimed. The only fear is that this news is too good to be true. A letter from Lisbon states that the policy of the English Government towards Portugal is entirely changed. Energy has taken the place of indifference. The new British Consul has made some very strong remonstrances on the subject of a great number of Englishmen who have been for a long time in the pri- sons of the capital, under imputations of politieal offences; he has also positively protested against the sale of an English ship taken off Terceira. The French Journals of Wednesday give the parti- culars of a commotion which took place on Monday in Paris during the celebration of a Mass for the repose of the soul of the Duke de Berri. Some fanatics in favour of the exiled Royal family, during the ceremony at the church of Srt. (Germain in the Louvre, invested a portrait of the young- Duke de Bordeaux with a crown of fleur-de-lis, which excited the indignation of the populace, who forced their way into the sacred edifice and committed some depredations. They also broke the windows of the Cure's hojise. The Municipal and National Guard were called out, and several of the most violent having been taken into custody, peace was soon restored. On Tuesday morning the crowd again assembled, exclaiming every where "down with the Jesuits and insisting that the jleur-de-lis sur- mounting several ,of the Royal Palaces and other public buildings should be removed. They were, how- ever, quickly dispersed by the National Guards, who blocked up the streets, and, to use the words of the Moniteur, "this last conspiracy of the Holyrood So- vereignty to create civil commotion is a decided and signal failure, and must shew—if anything can shew- the desperate hopelessness of the cause of the Ex- Royal F^Wly'" The city was perfectly quiet in the evening,of Wednesday. The King visited Iseveral parts and was everywhere received with accla- mations of Vive le Roi The Belgian Deputation g t at the Palais Royal, the King sitting on the throne and surrwaded by his family and Ministers and after the declaration of the Congress had been read by the President, offering the throne to the Duke of Nemours, his Majesty formally declined to accept it, that lie might not endanger the peace which he hoped to preserve for the happiness of France and Belgium, and for all the States of Europe to which it was so invaluable and so necessary." The King added, that Belgium owed the speedy acknowledgment of its independeuce to the concert of France with the other <?rteat Powe~~ of Europe; and that it might rely withconMenee on his support to preserve it from every external attack or j from foreign intervention. I The private communications from Paris are likewise of great interest. The Ministry are quite out of favour with the National Guard, and a portion of them have petitioned the Chamber to prefer an accusation against 31.M. Montalivet, Bathe, and Baude. It is supposed that an immediate change must be the result, Soult and Lafitte, it is added, will form part of the new ministry, though the latter is not expected to make a stand long. Lafeyette, it is thought, will take office in the new administration. The war party is evidently gainino- strength, notwithstanding the efforts of the priesgute,abinet.,to convince the public of the advantages of peace. There have not yet arrived any details of the insur- rections in Italy which can be depended on, but it is certain that, after several days fighting, the Grand Duke of Modena left that city and retired to Mantua, giving up the authority to a Council of Regency but the armed peasantry having marched on Modena, the Councilnedand a Provisional Government was formed. The revolution which had also broken out at Bologna, in the dominions of the Pope, had extended throughout the province of Romagna, and a Provisional Govern- ment, composed of the most respectable citizens, was likewise established at the former place. Every thing seemed quiet in Lombardy and Piedmont, although those events had created a strong sensation in Turin. The Jamaica Co.urant of the 4th ult. announces the Death of Simon Bolivar, the distinguished Liberator of jCafatytea. He met the announcement of his fate with cattBthMS and resignation, and the last act of his life was to dictate and sign a patriotic address to the rirJumfoan nation. He died poor, after having sacri- ficed nine-tenths of a splendid fortune to the service of his country. The news had produced a melancholy sensation in Carthagena, where Bolivar was perhaps more generally popular than in the other parts of Co-i lombia. The military commander of the place had issued a proclamation to announce it, in which he makes a warm eulogium on the character of his la- mented friend, and declares his loss to be, under ex- astHMf circumstances, the heaviest that could befal Colombia. The diamond crosses, and other magnifi- cent decorations which had been presented to the hero, by the 4iflfere«t Stages, and towns in Peru and Bolivia, 311e, by the Liberator's order, to be restored to the donors as memorials of his affection. The last words of Bolivar's will contain instructions to his executors to thank Lieut-General Sir Robert Wilson for the good conduct of his son, Colonel Belford Wilson, who had so faithfully accompanied liim in the capacity of his Aide-de-camp to the last hour of existence.— Colonel Wilson, in consequence of the fatigue and C anxiety ft#used. by his close attendance upon his friend and patron Bolivar, has been attacked with such severe illness that his life is despaired of. S$d*vey papers to the 9th of October inclusive have been received. The paper of September 28 announces that war had _conimepeed iq Van Diemen's -Land be- tween the Blacks and Whites. Col. Arthur had issued an order, calling upon the people to co-operate with jthe goyertwnent in a simultaneous eifort to rescue the colony at once fram those barbarians. The island was divided into seven military districts, the whole com- bined force under the direction of Major Douglas, of $h«-63d ferment, who is stationed at O illands, as the pofit^entr^l poiflt .of pommunicatiop. -T-he-cottenation,of, the King and Queen is for the pre- sent deferred. His Majesty has expressed a wish that, when it does take place, no unnecessary expense to the .state shall be lavished upon the pageant. We are assured (says the Times) that LoM Gren- ville ha^ resigned his sinecure worth 40001. aryear, as Auditor of the Exchequer: whether the office cqnti- iiues we are not aware; it is .well known to beone of the usej^ss ones. A Meeting of the Clergy of Cheshire, was held at Knutsford last week, when petitions to the King and the House of Lords, founded on a series of resolutions, were agreed to. The petitions set forth that some modifications or omissions in the Liturgy, adapted to the change of times and circumstances, would render the whole service, and par- ticularly some of its impressive and scriptural doctrines, more influential, and increase the attachment of the public to the national church; that though there must be a gradation of incomes in the church, the petitioners cannot but regret that a church so admirably adapted to promote pure and vital christianity should harbour within herself a principle liable to much abuse, and affording her adversaries a basis for evil report; that though tithes are the unquestionable right of the church, sanctioned by prescription, authorized by kings, and confirmed by parliament, the system is too fre- quently destructive of harmony between the clergy and their parishioners, and the petitioners would readily agree to an equivalent in lieu of that mode of payment. Letters frpm, Calais state that on the 30th ult. three vessels arrived in that port, having stands of 9,000, 10.000, and 111,985, musquets on board, all of English manufacture. Sixteen columns of the supplement to the Dublin Evening Post are filled with the names of the most noble and respectable persons in the country, signing a declaration that they consider any repeal of the Union with England would be productive of the most injurious consequences to Ireland. A correspondent of the Times "asserts that Mr. O'Connell addressed a letter to the King, imploring his Majerty to interpose in his behalf to stay the law proceedings against him, apprising the King at the same time that the people of Ireland were ripe for rebellion, and that 200,000 men were ready to march to his (Mr. O'ConnelFs) rescue! A numerous an4 respectable meeting of merchants and ship-owners was held on Friday at the City of London Tavern, Mr. Aid. Thompson in the chair, to discuss the propriety of petitioning against the pro- C, 1!71 posed increase of duty on Canada timber.—Several Gentlemen addressed the Meeting, all shewing the iur justice of the proposition and several resolutions de- claratory of the sense of the assembled body on the subject were unanimously passed. At a meeting of the Directors of the County Fire Office, Thursday, it was stated that the loss the Com- pany had sustained by the fires in the last year, was nearly 30,0001., chiefly arising by the destruction of s farming and other property by incendiaries.—-It was added, that the loss by other Insurance Offices was very great, amounting in the whole to very nearly half a million sterling! The carpet trade at Kidderminster participates in the briskness and impulse which appear from the accoiintt to pervade the manufacturing business of the kingdom almost generally at the present period. Mr. Hunt was taken ill in the House of Commons ,ou Wednesday night, and was advised to have recourse, by his medical attendants, to a warm bath; but he was not enabled to attend the house on Thursday night. Mr. Hunt is a man of early hours, and the late sittings of the Commons do not agree with gentlemen of his habits. About half-pa$t two o'clock on Thursday the London Grand Jury came into the Sessions/Hall with a consi- derable number of bills, which they had, in the course of the morning, found; amongst which was one against Mr, William Cobbett, arising, as we understood, out of: the publication of some of his late addresses to the agri- cultural population, published in his Weekly-Register, A Bench warrant, signed by Mr. Baron Bailey and Mr. Justice Bosanquet, was immediately issued for his ap- prehension. Where parishioners, as it often occurs, object to the v ilidity of a particular rate, with a view to try the qu stioa by action, they may inspect the parish books has, without paying cost or fees: this important right has been fully recognised by all the Judges. The building yard of Messrs. Wallis, near the East India Docks, was crowded on Tuesday with persons to witness the launch of a steam vessel of con- p siderable size, said to be the largest ever built in London, ordered by the emperor of Russia, and to be used, when completed, in the packet transit between i St. Petersburg and Lubeck. The length of the vessel on deck js 175 feet; breadth 32 feet;tonnage 755 tons and she is to be wprketl by two engines of 70 horse i power each. The Edinburgh Papers inform us, that a band of bank-robbers have recently taken up their abode in that city, for purposes easily imagined. Edinburgh, however, is not the only place in Scotland thus ho- noured at the present moment. We have to state, as a positive fact, that not many days ago a similar band, gallantly mounted and attired, left this city direct for Dundee, where they just now are, keeping a sharp look out. Such intimation, however, had been sent before them to the bankers there, as will, we trust, enable them to be "too old" for their visitors.—Glasgow Free Press. The manufacture of beet-root sugar in France has advanced so far that it presents itself with all the in- tricacy and imposing developement of old establish- ments, carried on with considerable coital and expen- sive machinery. At Coulogne, near Calais, thereis a beautiful steam-engine working the rasping machine, and a well-connected system of boilers and condensing and evaporating vessels, all heated by steam.-—Quar- terly Journal of Agriculture, No. 12. During the loading of the Brailsford, which recently arrived at Plymouth, a native of was employed to load timber, and when in the act of at- 7 taching a rope round a log of wood, wasseized by the arm by a shark; he with great difficulty extricated it, but stripped off its flesh. The poor fellow immediately stood upon the log of wood and exclaimed "here, massa, see what he do." Through loss of blood, the unfortunate man died the same night. EXPENSIVE LAW PROCEEDINGS.,—A case arising out of the transactions of the British Iron Company, came be- fore the Courtor Exchequer last week, the briefs to Counsel which consisted of about seventeen reams of paper; the state-; ment of the bill, the answers, and pleadings, occupied about 13.0001. folios; and eighty-eight large skins of parchment were filled with the plaintiff's interrogatories. The exa-i mination of witnesses cost 1,5001. aside, and 2,0001. was ex- pended in procuring office copies of the evidence. The suit which has caused this enormous expense, was instituted by three gentlemen, named Small, Shears, and Taylor, to set aside a contract which they entered into in 1825, to purchase some mines in Staffordshire of Mr. Attwood for 550,0001. which they allege was not worth more, than- 160,0001. The cause came before the Court with a view of procuring fur- ther evidence, so that there is no prospect of the suit bepg brought to a conclusion. WOOL A.NDTIU>S'rllFJlTRApE,The price of wools continue to advance, a further rise of 10s. per pack having taken place this week. Many inaccuraces have recently been written and printed on this subject, the true state of which so far as we can ascertain, is this: -The stocks of wool in the hands of the English growers have for some time been diminishing, from the consumption being greater than the supply. The prevalence of rot in sheep at the end of summer, and the losses and difficulties of the growers in consequence, forces the fleeces on hand into the market, and the apprehension of a scarcity induced the dealers iu spe- culate. Thus prices were raised, especially of the lower descriptions. This has been attended with serious ^effects, as the advance in the manufactured article only bears a proportion of about one-half to that of the raw material. The consequence is, that a temporary check has been feive.n to the markets, purchasers not being disposed to give sucli a price as will remunerate the manufacturer. This \is ob servable at Halifax on Saturday, and at Bradford on Thurs- day. The dealers seem to anticipate that the price of wool, win be still higher.—Halifax Express.

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