Should our 3 per Cents. r...
Should our 3 per7Cents. rise above par, of wbhich there appears to be the greatest probabilitv, the purchases of stock by the Coinmissi uer of the Sinking Fund must ine cessarily cease, as the act, we believe, expresisl directsthem to be made only of stock at or under par. The -onlv em- ployment for that fund will then be the redemption oPf Ex- chequer Bills, unless stock of a lower denorninatiop thean at present exists shall be createdl. Letters from Lyons of the 24 mention that the fatWily of General lturbide had arrived in that city. They had -been refused a passport to proceed through France from the French Minister at Florence, but succeeded in obtaining one from the Minister residing at Turin. They are daily expected in England. General Iturbide has taken a hkuse in Bath, arid, we understand, meditates a permanent resi- dence in this country. According' to advises from Constantinople of the 6ti ult., -received yesterday through Paris, it would appear that in- telligence had been received there of the. iurrelnder of the Fortress of Pstras to the Greeks. Thi; eveint. is said-to have greatly increased the consternation *which.before existed in the Tuckish capital on account of the progress of. the Greek arms. The Grand Vizier was seriously indipo;ed, and received daily visits from the Sultan, who was -extremely anxious for his recovery. Advices were received yesterday from Pernatinbuco of the 24th of February, and from Bahia of the. -14h. They supply no initelligence of the least importance. General Fihsberto Brant was waiting at Bahia, from whence he-was to take his passage fcr England in a few days in anl Einglish ship of wvar, for the purpose of negotiating the loan for the Government of Brazil. Another Commissioner, who shares with General Brant the autlority for that purpose, has already arrived in this country. The East India Company's ship Inglis arrivea of Fdal_ mouth on the 6th instant: she left China on the&l4th of December, and St. Hlelena on the 20th of February. Oni Monday and Thursday last, upwoards of 1,000 of the boys of the Royal iMilitary Asylum at Chelsea, went in. military order, preceded by their band, -to the Panorama of Waterloo at Spring.gardens, under the patronage ot his Royal Highness the Duke A country paper says-" The fairest rose-budl in the Vale of Belvoir is to be transplanted to Claremont, if- Royal petmission be granted." On Thutrsday a numerous and respectable meeting of the Pawnbrokers of the metropolis took place at the Horns Tavern, Doctors'-commons, for the purpose of adopting measures to revent the establishment ot theprojected " Philanthroplc Loan Bank. " Se- veral appropriate resolutions were adopted and a strong disposition was manifested to oppose the plan with al their power. EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS.-On WVedtiesday a private view was afrorded of an exhibition which is now. oien tb the public, in Soho-square. it consists of a collectiop of' draWings both by ancient and modern artists, and far excels in quality, an, we thinksin number, the former exhibition of the same kind at tbis place. Sir Thomas Lawrence bax enriched the co'lection With two of his best drawinigs; one of them the portrait of a yoanghidy of rank, distinguishedI by all his usual elegance, of.mannrer,J aceul- nessof expression, and delicacy of execation; thexitber, an.idmi- rable study of Lwo children's heads, full of theI&an')nated and in- genuous impression ef childhood. W e know otfiiiartist, andent or modern, whohas succeeded like Sir Thomas In ncein catching those transient elegancies of expression, if we mny' urse the, tern, which sobotenengageourattention amidst the va*ied graceoffemi- nine aRd infantile beauty. Weobserved alsosome'veiygooddrawings by Turner; among his best are The Mewstmc at the e trafrce of pjy,muzti Soutnd, and-SrnuuersoffFolkestone. In ibislattcr pictrie the transparency and -buoyant motion of the water are- cpresented with an astonishing degree of fidelity. There ate some admirably spirited anideffective-drawings by Mr. AMonro, theyoung.artist whose premature loss xas some years aUo sommuch leplored. A 'Viea front Findeliff1i1-aIoamouthshire, by 'Penry Williams, is an aIdirably faithftl representation of nature. We noticed also some cleyerillus- trations of the Scottish.novels by Leslie, and a rariety of meitbrious drawings by Jackson,- Sto-hard, Girtin, Edridge, Dcitint &c. Among the drawings by the old masters, -we observed a very Wpirited study of,a fi-ure in thesoicture of the Raisiing or thc crots, lead a drawing of- tfie s artyrdorn of. -St.. ndrcw, by Rubens. There is alsoastudy from the Tont6s of the. lfedici, by the -great 31icharl Angelo; it'is evidertly executed-with the greatest fAidlity, tbongh it presents the-ufntost'vigour of style and contour. Yesterday the long-agitated question between the Lin- rwan Socictyof London and the Asiatic Soeiety Zf GreitBrtiaun was heard before thelav-officefs of the Crown.The Asiatic Society, which has been established under-the auspices of the -ztiredc-Eist -indians, applied to the Crowh' some time ago fo.r a charter of in6coration, their object being " the investigation- and. enroura ementj f arts, sciences, and literature, in relation.to ia' TheI.mnran oiicety, which has loing applied itself' to-elticldate thematural hittory of the East, objectedtotheindefinite-privilege of s6iene here claimed; andurged, tbat if'anv society of aa. exclusive kind! was to 'exist, they werre e:rtiled to the privilege, as they had a)ready exlel for txventy years, 'and had laid out largg sums of. moncy -to protnotn t'seobject. They sid-also, that tnme deiamrid for publicatipns of h s nat.sre is too limited to admit of rival publis!:ers. The Miatic, on the othefliand, say that the' monopoly claimed by thie 'Liimi'.n 1i nnisoufld t principle, and injuiiousin practice; andthat tlough n'sxral history -is - not amlongthe direct objects of thle Sotiets, they ou'ghtnot io b~e precludled -ftom il, -inasmuchls-U if may incide~ntahIy illuntratetbose objects for the pSomotioni of Fehicb they are associmted. Mfr. xljcienio WAs counsel- fol'tbseLiinnreSnan,SltlINr. Grant for the Asiatic-i ThJe4lecisioilwaIleer1'Ctl'Apl'lB 3, 4~-