18 MAY 1833, Page 10

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Rear-Admiral Gage has left town for Deal, to assume the command of the combined squadron in the Downs, in the room of Vice-Admiral

Sir l'ulteney Malcolm, who proceeds forthwith to assume the command in the Mediterranean.

Mr. Brocklehurst, the Member for Macclesfield, voted in the mino- rity for Sir John Key's motion for the repeal of the House and Window tax.

We never experienced in England, and in the month of May, such hot weedier as the present. On Wednesday afternoon, Fahrenheit's thermometer stood at 93 in the sun and 76 in the shade; and on Thurs- day morning at seven o'clock, it was 73 in the shade. The suddenness with which this high summer heat has succeeded the harshness of wiuutry weather makes its sensible effect the greater.

It is said that British cotton lace to the amount of 1,500,000L was smuggled into France in 1832.