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IJoøtørript. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2.9. DON PEDRO'S ExpEDtTtON.—OfRcial dispatches have been received in town from the Government at Oporto, dated the 10th of August, at night, which are of a very en- couraging nature. It appears that after the arrival of the new General, Gaspar Teixeira, at the Miguilite head-quar- ters, a council was held with General Santa Martha and the other officers, at which it was agreed not to make an attack upon Oporto, but to take up a position on the other side of the Vouga, which they were going to cross.-Official intel- ligence had been received at Oporto of the existence of a strong party of guerillas, in the interest of the Queen. They had attacked and dispersed a detachment of 500 Miguelite militia, who were conveying a convoy of arms and ammuni- tion to the head-quarters, which they had captured.—It is I also stated authentically, that the two provinces of Alentejo and Aigarves were in a state of agitation approaching to a general convulsion, and it was hourly expected they would declare against the Usurper, in favour of the young Queen, -The army of Don Pedro were in the highest spirits, and confident of final success. We hear that a ship mounting G4 guns had been pur- chased in France for Don Pedro also that his recruiting in I ranee is going on with great energy. It is expected that in a short time from 800 to 1000 cavalry will proceed to Oporto, among which are a number of Poles. The Marquess of Palmella will return to Oporto to- morrow, well satisfied with the assurances of goodwill that he has received from the British Government.-Sun. The Paris papers of Sunday have been received. The principal article of foreign news brought by these journals consists of a resolution of the Helvetian Federal Diet, agreed to on the 16th instant, declaratory of the pleasure with which that body had received the official communication by which the Austrian Government announced that the military preparations made by the latter Power in the neighbourhood cf the Swiss frontier had for their object the maintenance, and not the overthrow, of the independence of Switzerland. The German Papers, received this morning, present so frightful a picture of the heart-rending distress of the re- maining inhabitants of Poland, that we almost hesitate to give credence to them Up to the 5th of May, four convoys of children had been clandestinely sent out of Warsaw alone. On the 17th of May, the fifth convoy, consisting of more than twenty waggons full of Polish children, from the ages of six to seventeen years, was sent away, not in secret but quite openly. The scene was heart-rending. The escort," says these papers, often leaves behind the children who are too exhausted to proceed, and sets by them bread for three days, as the convoy cannot be detained. Persons returning from Siberia have seen on the road numbers of little human corpses crouched together near the bread which the poor things were unable to eat." What a spectacle For the honour of the British Government, we hope they will compel the Czar, even at the hazard of a war, to account for these re- volting atrocities. A letter from New York, dated July 24th, says—"You will be rendering a service to poor emigrants about to come out here by stating in some of the public papers that it is entirely hopeless. New York is deserted, the cholera rages, and all business at a stand. The workmen who came out by us are many about to return others are glad to get work at any price and of any kind indeed it is a hopeless specuiation for any tradesman or workman to think of this country at this moment." PRICE OF STOCKS iThurs. Fri. Sat. Moti.lTnes.' Wed. Bank Stock j JS7 £ I 188$1904 192 191J 8 per Cent Red 84$j 8-J# 842! S4.J$4|J 3 per Cent Consols 83j 83| 83§ 83j 83 £ 3$ Old per Cent — K — — — — aj per Cents Rod 9*2 §; 92 J 92* 92$92}?- Nf«r 3 £ per Cent 91^ g" 9t| 9l| 91g 01- £ § Bank Long Ann 16J "< 16J 1GJ — India Bonds 4 pv. 4pr. —pr. 5pr. 5 pr. Exchequer Hills 12 pr. 12 pr. 14 pr. 13pr. 12 pr. Consols for Account ..$3f S3f 83| 84

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