The Duke of Orleans and the Duke de Chartres were

introduced to the King at St. James's Palace, on Saturday afternoon, and remained a considerable time with his Majesty. In the evening their Highnesses dined with Prince Leopold, at Marlborough House. On Sunday they dined with the King, in company with the Duke of Cumberland, Baron Below, Prince Estcrhazy, and several other noblemen.

The Duke of Cumberland, the Duchess of Gloucester, and Lord Farnborough visited the King yesterday.

We understand that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is about-to return to England ; and, at the express desire of his Majesty, will be appointed to the situation of Commander-in-Chief—Morning Journe, Saturday.

The Princess Victoria enters her tenth year to-morrow. The Duchess of Kent will entertain all the members of the Royal family on the occasion.

The Duke of Orleans and the Duke de Chartres were introduced to the Prin- cess Augusta on Wednesday. The Royal strangers visited the young Queen of Portugal at Laleham on Tuesday, while on their way to Claremont, the scat of Prince Leopold.

The Marquis of Abercorn (eldest son of the Countess of Aberdeen) is danger- ously ill at Brighton with the measles. A deputation of the manufacturers of cotton goods have had two conferences with the Chancellor of the Exchequer :cud the President of the Board of Trade.

Several noblemen and gentlemen, among whom were the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Worcester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Right Hon. C. W. Wynn, and Sir Christopher Cole, waited on Mr. Secretary Peel on Tuesday, and had an interview with him respecting some proposed alterations in the Welsh Judicial establishment.

The day at present fixed for the prorogation of Parliament is the 16th of June but it may possibly be a few days later. So intense was the curiosity, both in and out of doors, to hear Mr. O'Connell on Monday, that the number of members present at four o'clock exceeded five hundred, and the applications by strangers for admission to the privileged scats under the gallery were numerous beyond all former precedents ; insomuch that the Speaker found himself under the necessity of refusing the great majority of them. Eflbrts were made successively by Mr. Brougham, Lord Morpeth, Colonel Craddock, and, we believe, Mr. Hume, to procure this envied indulgence for some Irish gentlemen much attached to Mr. O'Connell, and deeply interested in the result of the debate; but a negative, courteous but decided, was the invariable reply from the Chair to these reiterated applications.-21/ening Chronicle.

Mr. Lawless, the Irish agitor, entered the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn in the beginning of the last week, with the intention of being called to the English bar.

The Buckinghamshire Brunswick Club, of which the Marquis of Chandos was the head, has been dissolved. It last act was to vote thanks to the Marquis.

The estimate of the expenses of Buckingham Palace amounts, by a Par- liamentary return, to 496,169/. Captain Sir Edward Parry, the Polar navigator, has accepted proposals made to him by the Australian Agricultural Company ; and goes nut in June, as Commis- sioner of that Association, to Port Stephens. about ninety miles northward of Sydney. Capt. Parry receives from the Australian Company 2.0011/. per annum for four years, with a pension of 3001. for life after the expiration of that period of service. Lady Parry will accompany her husband. Captain F. Beaufort is appointed hydrographer to the Admiralty, in the room of Sir W. E. Parry.

Cotner OF COMMON COUNCIL —At a meeting on Thursday, the Lord Mayor stated that he had received an order from the House of Lords requiring that they should be furnished with an entire account of the receipts and expenditure of the Corporation fur the last ten years. He had submitted the order to the Court of Aldermen ; and that body had decided that the order, so far as regarded the private acts of the Corporation, could not he complied with, withent invading the privileges of the Corporation. The Common Council proved equally tenacious of their corporate privileges. They had, it seems, resisted a similar order fruin the House of Commons ten years ago ; and after a short discussion it was determined to resist tho order of the House of Lards. A petition was therefore adopted, setting forth that the order could only be partially complied with; and if their Lordships did not see meet to rescind their order, praying that they would hear counsel against it. It was formally announced that the bill for improving Smithfield Market had been thrown out in the House of Commons. Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. Galloway then advised, that as they had for twenty years been endeavouring to improve that market, and had always been defeated iii the I louse of Co:unions, they should let it stand as it was. "The fact is," observed Mr. Galloway, "there are so many jobbers of all kinds in the House of Commons, that the public interest is sure to be neglected."

KING'S COLLEGE.—A meeting of the subscribers and donors to this institution was held on Saturday, at Freemasons Hall. The Arca:Ie.:hop of Canterbury presided ; and there were also present, the Archbishop of York, ten other pre- lates, and a long list of noblemen and gentlemen. It appears from the report, that the sum necessary for the building, furniture, and purchase of ground for an en- trance by the Strand, is 170,0001., although the Government has given the space to the East of Somerset-house as a site for the College itself. The residence of the students within the College will, it appears, lie impracticable, but they arc to reside in the houses of the tutors. The donations and subscriptions already ad- vertised amount to 127,0001., so that if the whole of the sums promised be paid, still between 40,0001. and 50,0001. more will be necessary for the building and furniture, without allowing anything, for a library and museum. Arrangements have been made for the immediate commencement of the building ; but such parts only will, in the first instance, be finished, as with reference to the funds in hand can with safety be undertaken.

RELIGIOUS LIRE RTY.—A meeting of the Society for the Protection of Religious Lilerty.was held on Saturday at the City of London Tavern, Lord Ebrington in the chair- The room was crowded, but the majority were ladies. The report detailed sundry acts of petty tyranny and vexation, to which various congregations of Dissenters, and individual Dissenters th MI hoot the country had been sub- ected, and described in what manner the Society had assisted the aggrieved parties in obtaining redress. It appeared, however, that the annual contributions to the Society had greatly declined; and its usefulness was likely to be much narrowed. The Society provided 10001. towards defraying the expenses of the United Committee appointed for procuring the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.

BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETV.—A meeting of the Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation was held yesterday morning in the large room of the Freemason's Hall, which was completely tilled by a highly respect- able company of both sexes. Viscount Mandeville was in the chair. TheSociety is in a prosperous condition.

Salton' 1-IOME SOCIETY.—A numerous meeting of the projectors and friend- of this institution was held last week, in Freemamons"Favern ; Lord Mande vine in the chair. It will be recollected that the object of this Society was to erect a building upon the site of the late new Brunswick Theatiss for the purpose of lodging and protecting sailors. The report stated, that the Society com- menced its operations in January 1827, and there had been received into the asylum since that period 2,088 destitute seamen. The average number received almost nightly during the severe months of December and January last, was about 120. It was intended that this asylum should merge into the establishment which was to be formed, for putting an end to the many frauds practised upon sailors by what is called the "crimping system."

A subscription has been opened for the relief of the sufferers by the late earth- quake in Spain.

The subscription towards the restoration of York Minster amounts to nearly 50,0001.

The merchants of Bradford have resolved, at a public meeting, to petition against the continuance of the East India Company's monopoly. The Merchant Company of Leith have adopted a similar petition.

Suirerao TRADE.—By order of the House of Commons:. a statement has been published of the shipping employed in the trade of the United Kingdom for each year, from 1821 to 1826, both inclusive, distinguishing the trade with every foreign country, and separating the British ships and crews from foreign. The general result as to the increased employment of British shipping and native sea- men, is in the above seven years extremely gratifying. In 1821 we had of Bri- tish merchantmen, cleared inwards—tonnage, 1,599,000 ; men, 97,400. In 1826, while the panic was operating,—tonnage, 1,950,000 ; men, 113,000.— with some countries, as Russia and France, the trade appears generally to have

been declining ; but with Prussia, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey and the East Indies, and the whole of the British colonies, the growth of our commerce has been on the average conspicuously and regularly extending. The tonnage clearing inwards, in the year 1821, from New South Wales, was but 1,399, with 80 men ; but in 1826 it had risen to 7,582 tons, with 964 men.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—The Lord Chancellor on Tuesday gave judgment in a long-litie,ated case, in which Mr. Harris was plaintiff and Mr. Kemble defend- ant. The father of Mr. Harris was the former manager of Covent Garden Theatre, and was succeeded by the present plaintiff, who received a salary of 1,000/. per an num, Messrs. Kemble, Willett, and Forbes, were dissatisfied with his management and took it on themselves ; and a deed was executed conveying the whole (Attie pro- perty (excepting Mr. Coast's share) to a trustee, who let it to Messrs. Kmiec, Willett, and Forbes, at the rent of 12,000/. per annum. This was in the year 1822, and Mr. Robertson was then appointed treasurer. About two years subserrent to this, Mr. Const produced a deed a dated 1812. which gave rise to the pre-one suit, to obtain a specific performance of the deed of 1822. The Master of the Rolls, when the case was before him, had decreed that the agreement should he fulfilled. Looking at the evidence, the Lord Chancellor observed, there had been, to use the mildest terms, gross misrepresentation, on the part of the plaintiff. His Lordship had given the case every consideration ; and his 'opinion was, that the agreement of 1822, to compel the performance of which the bill was filed, could not be ordered by the decree of this Court to be so specifically performed ; his decision was. that the judgment of the Master of the Rolls should be reversed.

KING'S TuEseress—The Vice Chancellor on Wednesday gave judgment in a case in which Mr. Chambers was plaintiff, and Mr. Waters defendant. In 1807, the defendant bought the King's Theatre for 70.1501. and to enable him to defray this sum the plaintiff advanced 33,0001. on security of an assiginneut. Other sums were afterwards advanced upon a warrant of attorney. A quarrel ensued; judgment was entered up ; and the Sheriff took possession of the house. The plaintiff after that consented to performances, and advanced 6,000/. more to enable the defendant to carry than on. The defendant was then obliged to leave de country, and go to Calais. where lie continued to reside; but he came to this country privately, and ratified an agreement which had been previously entered into for the sale of the theatre for 80,000/. to the plaintiff ; and a bill was filed it, Chancery, for a specific performance of that agreement. In defence it had beet, alleged that the transaction was fraudulent, but the Vice Chancellor was of opinion that the defence had failed, he therefore felt it his duty to decree a specific per_ formance. The King's Theatre w ill by this decision come into the possession of Mr. Chambers' s assignees.

SPITALFIELDX WEAVERS.—The continued destruction of silk in the looms, has again engaged the attention of the Worship-street Magistrates; but their endeavours to trace the authors of these outrages have proved as fruitless as heretofore. On Saturday night, and again on Monday night, considerable quantities of silk were destroyed, the property of manufacturers who had for more than a week hoen paying the full price. This had led to the reduction of some of the establish- ments in Bethnal Green ; Mr. Hunt, who has suffered largely in the course of these proceedings, now employs but seventy workmen instead of one hundred and

Since Monday there seems to have been no silk cut ; but the weavers have adopted another system of annoyance, which, in their view, will he equally effi- cacious in deterring the men froth working to unpopular masters : their plan is to seal the looms containing the work of those masters who will not give withitt a yard of the "book prices ;" the men of the different shops to be formed into divisions for sealing each other's work.

A meeting of the weavers was called on Wednesday -afternoon, to adopt rest). lutions to carry this determination into effect. The Magistrates repaired to Hare- fields about six o'clock, and prevented time meeting from taking place. About five thousand men and women had assembled ; but they immediately dispersed— the great proportion of them, marching- off to Temple Mills, in Essex, about four miles from Bethnal Green. There they held their meetins, and came to the resolution to strike. They then returned in a body to Spited-square, gave three groan,: for the manufacturers, and dispersed.

Another attempt was made to hold a meeting on Thursday. At three o'clock some thousands of men and women had assembled ; but the Magistrates again made their appearance, and again the weavers moved off to the nearest point of the county of Essex. Between eight and nine thousand persons assembled in a field some distance beyond the Temple Mills ; and having passed their resolutions, they returned to town in a body, and then separated.

THE MANUFACTURING Disrnicrs.—There has been no new violence.of an open kind in Manchester or the neighbouring towns. The military force is strong, and the inhabitants have confidence that the peace will be kept while that protec- tion remains.

The turn-out cotton-weavers have, however, began to imitate the private out- rages of the Spitalfields weavers, by cutting out work from the hand-looms. On Monday, three hundred hand-loom-weavers in the employment of one manufac- turer struck work, because they were refused the wages they expected. They visited the weavers of the same kind of work in the cellars, and induced many of them to follow their example ; and such as were unwilling had their webs de- stroyed. The military, headed by a peace-officer, scoured the streets of the dis- affected district ; but the offenders had separated before their approach.

The silk-manufacturers are in terror for their property in the hands of the workmen ; and a proclamation has been issued warning the weavers, both of silk and cotton, of the heavy punishment which the law awards against those who de- stroy silk or cotton in the looms. The silk-weavers of Hyde, those of Sudbury, and those of M iddleton have struck work.

At the Salford Sessions, on Saturday, some the Manchester rioters, who Were proved to have been active in the attacks on bakers' shops, were sentenced to be transported for seven years, and others to be imprisoned for different periods. The Glasgow malecontents have invented a refinement on the Spitalfielfs web- destroying practice. On Saturday and Sunday, some scoundrels, after making a hole with a gitnblet in the frame of the windows, squirted vitriol in the direction of the webs that they wished to injure. About four thousand weavers are idle, who cannot get work at any price; and their number increases.

Colonel Blair, of Blair, is returned for Ayrshire. The election, on Wednesday, was unanimous.

General Sir David Baird, it is reported, will be raised to the peerage. The subscribers in Edinburgh to the monument to the late Duke of York have determined to erect a bronze statue of that Prince, in preference to an architec- tural monument.

Sir James Moncreiff, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Scotch Bench occasioned by the death of Lord Allosvay. Sir James is a Whig, but, as his excellent father was, he has been all his life an honourable and consistent one. He gives up, we believe, the most lucrative prac- tice ever enjoyed by a Scotch barrister: we have heard it estimated at above six thousand pounds a year. The salary of a Scotch Judge is only about two thou- sand pounds a year. Sir James will be a great accession to the First Divi- sion which he joins. He is yet in the prime of life and vigour of intellect. It is rare that the Bench is so recruited, for it is rare that a member of the bar can be induced, even for its high honours, to abandon large emolument., at least until the approach of age unfit him for the more laborious duties of his profession.— Morning Journal. It is understood that Mr. Jeffrey will succeed Sir James Moncreiff as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland met on Thursday. The Reverend Mr. Irving is delivering lectures on the Revelation, at Edin- burgh.

'I he Rev. E. Irving, has placed two very interesting young Greeks, lately sent over to his care by Lady Georgiana Wolff, with the parish schoolmaster at Ro- seneth, to receive a Scotch education, prior to their taking important stations iii the orthodox Greek Church. One of them is of noble parents whose father was beheaded by the Tucks.—Glasgow Herald. ScoTcallimorar.—We mentioned some months since, that an organ had been placed in one of the Relief Churches of Edinburgh, with the full sanction of the preacher. High offence, however, was taken at so gross an innovation on the simplicity of the Relief form of worship, and the organ was denounced, The dispute has agitated the Relief community of Scotland even unto its uttermost parts ; and the matter was formally brought before the Relief Synod, which met at Glasgow last week. That body, composed of ministers and lay-elders, by a large majority, decreed that the organ should forthwith be put out of the chapel; and if the preacher did not see to the immediate execution of this order, his name was to be struck from the roll of the Relief Ministers. As might be expected. the Minister has refused to obey the imperious mandate of the Synod. and is supported by his congregation ; and the harmonious schismatic may add another to the multitude of religious sects in Scotland.

FIRES.—On Sunday afternoon, a fire burst out in Downing and Sons floor- cloth manufactory, at Chelsea. The building covered niece than an acre of ground ; and from the inflammable nature of the materials, the fire, soon after it broke out, sent forth one mass of flame which raged with terrific violence until everything within its range was destroyed. Such was the intensity of the heat, that it was found chest impossible to pass along the road fifty or sixty yards from the fac- tory. The books and papers of the establishment, some pieces of oil-cloth, four horses, and Ale Downing's carriages, were all that was saved from this most de- structive conflagration. The skeleton of the works cost 1'2,000/.; and it is sup_ posed the loss to the firm will not be less than20,000/. No part of the property was insured.

As there were no lights used on the premises, the workmen being employed

only by day-light, there seems a certainty that the conflagration was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Downing's suspicions fixed upon -James Butler,—a man

whom they had taken into their service about six years ago, out of charity, but whose indentures they cancelled nine months since, on account of his bad conduct. This man was apprehended in the evening, and brought to Queen-square Police- office next day. He had frequently been seen about the premises, and on Satur- day night, he was in a public-house opposite. The only evidence against him was that of James Russell, a boy of twelve years old ; who sworethat on looking through the palings which surrounded the buildings, he distinctly saw Butler come front the factory about half-past one o'clock, and run round by the stables, where he stopped : lie saw him afterwards get over the paling, and run off. The prisoner had been kept front the boy's sight ; and having afterwards been placed among the difihrent persons in the office, the boy at once pointed hint out, ex- claiming, "That's the man I saw." On the other hand, the prisoner proved that he was in his father's house at one o'clock on Sunday ; and his brother said that he had dined in his house shortly after one o'clock. He left the house on the alarm of fire being given, assisted to tear the fence down, and helped to save some of the property. There was another examination on Thursday, but no new evi- dence was produced. The boy still expressed his confidence as to the identity of Butler; and the latter was remanded. The prisoner had inlisted since he was discharged from the service of Messrs. Downing:, and was to have embarked for India the day after the fire occurred.

Another sad calamity by fire has occurred. About midnight on Thursday, the house of a furniture-broker, near the Roman Catholic Chapel, London Road, was observed to be in flames ; and such was the rapid progress of the conflagration, that six out of ten inhabitants were burnt to death. Five of the bodies have been duo' out ; but the dangerous state of some of the standing ruins prevents any search for the other victim.

On the night of Saturday an incendiary set fire to the out-premises belonging to Captain Beavan, at Fleet, near Hartford-bridge. In a short time the stables, barns, and out-houses, together with two colts and three cows in calf, were destroyed. Neatly one hundred houses in the city of Savannah were burnt on the 10th of last month. On the same evening an incendiary attempt was made to set fire to the city a second time.

_air. Carlisle the bookseller, who broke his leg by jumping from a window during the late fire at Temple-bar, has undergone amputation ; but his recovery is doubtful.

An accident occurred yesterday on the Thames, which proved fatal to a water- man named Miller. The unfortunate man had been working in a brig off Pelican- stairs, Wapping and got into a wherry alongside to go ashore to dinner; a heavily-laden lighter, drifting with the tide, went so close to the brig, that the wherry and the watermen were jammed in an instant, and the wherry was crushed to pieces ; Miller uttered but one cry and sank ; the body was afterwards found crushed into a shapeless mass.

A woman and a boy have been killed at Twickenham, from being jammed to a wall by a large tree which men were removing. On Monday afternoon, the inhabitants of the streets in the neighbourhood of the Tower and Whitechapel, were thrown into alarm by the fall of three houses in Rosemary-lane. Fortunately no person was hurt by the accident.

ANOTHER. FALL OF Rocs AT NOTTINCHAM.—Two more houses were on Sun- day week buried under fragments of rock which had become detached front the main body. The inhabitants had just sufficient time to escape before their dwell- ings were laid in ruins. The property belongs to Earl Manvers. He had lately raised the rents of the houses ; and the people flatter themselves, says the Man- clwster Advertiser, that the present loss has been " a judgment" on his Lordship for having done so.

DANCERS OF THE COAL TRADE.—The loss of life in coal-pits is dreadful. From a statement in the Tyne Mercury, it appears that between October 1805 and

November 1828 no fewer than six hundred and seventy-four men lost their lives in thirty-one pits around Newcastle, by explosions of foul air in the mines. It i

has also been averred, that the ordinary and unavoidable casualties in collieries occasion more calamities than even the explosions of inflammable air.

A boy was killed at a colliery near Newcastle last week, by an explosion of fire damp. Corporal Wells, of the Queen's Bays, died last week at Caller, of the glanders, communicated to him through a scratch on his linger, from a diseased horse. One of the coaches which run between Dublin and Kingstown was overturned ou Saturday, near Temple-hill. 'The passengers, twenty in number, were dashed about the road. Mr. Blake of Waterford was killed, and twelve others were se- verely hurt. The island of Bourbon was visited by a dreadful hurricane on the 9th of Feb- ruary. About forty sail of European vessels, all French, except the Emilia, an English brig, were driven to sea, besides about twenty vessels belonging to the island. On the 17th, only fifteen of them had arrived, most of them greatly da- maged. Much damage has been done to the houses and plantations on the island.

STasre-Durins.—Mr. Jens Woolff, merchant, was on Thursday summoned to Union-Hall on an information charging him with evading, the stamp-duty, by giving a receipt for 1001. to the Reverend Air. Borradaile, vicar of Wandsworth, on a is. (id. stamp. Tile penalty attached to the offence under the 35th Geo. M., is 50/. which maeistrates are empowered to mitigate one-half. The legal stamp for a re- ceipt fur the above amount is 28. lid. The money was paid by Mr. Borradaile for a half year's rent due by him to Air. Woolff for a cottage on Wandsworth Common; and the receipt in question was given for 991. 19s. I Id. The defence was, the difficulty of procuring a half-crown stamp at Bellew' ; and it was stated that Mr. Borradaile made no objection to the stamp at the time. The Magistrates agreed

with the Officer of stamps, that the reduction of the 100/. to within a ld. of that sum was clearly proved : they did not, however. view the case as aggravated, and therefore reduced the penalty to 25/. There was another information against Mr. Woollf for having, given the Reverend Mr. Borradaile an acknow- ledgment for 3/. en plain paper ; and for this he was fined in the mitigated penalty of 51. It appeared that these proceedings on the part of the Reverend gentleman had their rise in a bad feeling which existed between the parties. Mr. Woolff is about to bring an action for dilapidations against hint, and he adopted this mode of revenge.

SLAVE TRAPE.—Five miserable-looking, Spaniards were examined on Thurs- day, at the Thames Police-office, as the crew of a slave-ship captured on the coast of Africa. The circumstances under which they were captured are of

some intere.t. On the 11th of April, the ship Seppings, Captain Loader, from the Isle of France, was hailed from a schooner by a person who spoke tolerably good Enolish, and who said, " We are tlis:ressed, the master is dead, and unless you assist us we shall be sill-veil." The schooner was laden with slaves, and they all wanted the common necessaries of life. The schooner passed under the lee-quarters of the Seppings ; and the captain saw several Africans stark naked

at the pumps, and also the heads of a number of others below the hatchway, calling out for mercy and relief. Ile learned that she then had on board one

hundred and forty-nine slaves, men, women, and children, all huddled together, and the only provisions was about one thousand yams, which would not have been sufficient fur many (lays. The master and a great many slaves had died, and the crew had determined on nicking for the land on the African coast ; but the mate or the men did not know where they were, or even their reckoning, and were steering perfectly by chance. Captain Loader put his chief mate and some men on board her, with plenty of provisions, and despatched her with the slaves and men of the crew to Barbadoes, which might he about ten days' sail from whence- he fell in with her. The captain had died three days before ; and

the day previous to his death, he had come to time resolution to throw all

the slaves overboard; and the mate had determined to carry his intention into effect on the day they fell in with the Seppings, if no relief had reached them. Nineteen of the slaves died in the course of these three days. The blacks were chained by the legs. The ,governor of Cuba was chief owner of the vessel, and had shipped. six hundred dollars to pay for the slaves.

The prisoners, who were in rags, and covered with vermin, were remanded for a week ; and in the mean time, notice is to be given to the Spanish consul. The punishment of being on board a vessel employed in the slave-trade is two years' imprisonment.

EXPORTATION OF Matmxew.—John Dodd, master of a coasting sloop, has been convicted at the Thames Police-office, upon a Customhouse information charging hint with having on board his vessel certain machinery used in the woollen, cotton, and silk manufactures of this kingdom, designing to export them to Holland. Penalty 50/.

WesamrNsTrat Statey.—Thomas Hurley was on Tuesday discharged from Queen-square Police-oil:cc ; it being found impossible to implicate him either in setting tire to the Abbey or in stealing lead front it.

ROISEEIHES.—Elizabeth Al'Gee has been committed from IJarlborough-street office, for robbing her brother, a public-house-keeper, of 1301. She went to his house to solicit pecuniary assistance ; and finding 'din confined to a sick bed, and his wife attending the customers, the prisoner availed herself of the opportunity to carry off the whole money he possessed.

assauurs.—Mr. Macdonald, surgeon, Lodge-road, Regent's-park, was, on Monday, charged at Marlborough-street office with shooting at Mr. Pardi, as mentioned bust week. It appeared from his examination that the defendant was labour:ng under a delusion; and he was ordered to be detained till his friends were apprized of his situation.

James White has been fined in 10s. and cost., at Queen-square office, for an assault on Mr. Augustus O'Neill, M.P. Mr. O'Neill had interposed to prevent the prisoner from treating a cow with cruelty, when he turned upon him, and struck him several blows, accompanying the personal violence with abusive words.

Colonel Knighton has been bound over at Bow-street, to keep the peace to- wards Martin Bean, the waiter of his lodging-house. Bean had been desired by the Colonel to deliver some asparagus to the landlady, as a present from him ; but the waiter had neglected to do this in a proper way, and the Colonel assaulted him.

William Ponsonby was on Tuesday committed from Marlborough-street on a charge of cutting and maiming. The prisoner having been drunk and riotous in a public-house in Albemarle-street, was ejected ; when he watched his opportu. nay, entered the house, and cut the landlord severely in the forehead.

EXECUTIONS.—Shaw, Hawkins, and Carr, were executed on Tuesday morning, in front of Newgate. Hawkins was unprepared for such an issue, having entertained sanguine hopes that his sentence would be commuted ; Carr, unable to support himself, though in Oat prime of life, was led to the scaffold between two yeomen. Shaw behaved with a decent firmness. Iris wife, and James Burnham, were tried in January for the same crime for which he now suffered; Burnham was hanged, and the woman transported for life.

MURDER.—The inquest touching the murder of Sarah Waite, at Kensington, was resumed on Monday. Mr. Reynolds produced a knife and a purse which he had found near each other, and not far from the spot where the murdered body was found. There were stains on the knife, which the surgeon said had been • caused by blood ; and the knife corresponded with the wound on the left breast of the deceased. There was na evidence to trace the knife to the possession of Thomas Birmingham, the person detained on suspicion. Susan Bennett, a girl about sixteen years of age, swore that Birmingham slept with her at the Barracks from half-past eleven till six o'clock on the morning of the murder ; aid that he did not leave his room the echoic night. On the other hand, William Lee, a mason confined in the New Prison, out a charge of felony, gave a circumstantial detail of a conversatien with Ilinn inaham. in the prison, in which he admitted that he had murdered the girl ; but that nobody " could find out what it was done with." The girl Bennett, he said, he met " on the outside of the Barrack-wall, and took her home that no suspicion might attach to him ; and he kept her all night that she might he seen going out in the morning." He had also observed the prisoner troubled in his sleep : on Sunday morning he started and exclaimed " By ;Jesus Mary l I've done it : where am I ?" When the details of the murder were read from a newspaper, lie changed colour, trembled, and was so much agi- tated as to attract the attention of a stranger. Lee's story was partly corroborated by Arundel, another prisoner confined on suspicion of felony. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Thomas Birmingham." He 'vas then committed to Ne‘vgate fur trial.

FATAL Qr.:cm:El:I' OF VON BUTCHELL.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, to inquire into the death of air. William Archer, silk-manufacturer, lately residing in Banner-square. It appeared that the deceased laboured under an internal complaint ; that he unhappily placed himself under the care of a quack-doctor calling himself Edwin Martin Von Mitchell; that the doctor discovered that the deceased was afflicted with " a stricture in the rectum;" and that lie introduced au instrument into the bmlv of the deceased to the depth of eight inches, by which the rectum was wounded; and the patient, after a week's suffering, expired. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the quack Butchell; and he was apprehended and committed to Newgate for trial.

Zezia Westcomb, and her paramour Richard Quantance, are in custody at Whipton on a charge of poisoning her husband. The husband died suddenly; poison was found its his stomach ; and Quantance was proved, on the inquest, to have purchased sixpence worth of arsenic at Exeter.

ROBIlentes.---On Monday afternoon, a gentleman holding high rank in the army, alighted from his horse (a valuable bay gelding, for which he gave eighty guineas) at Vslitehall, where he had business ' • and gave it in charge to a Man who, on seeing him alight, stepped forward, and begged leave to earn a few pence by holding the horse. Ile was not absent many minutes, but on his return, found his property and the cusbolier both gone ; and was informed by persons passing, that the mail he had intrusted rode off with the horse in lees than a minute after he left hint.

On Thursday evening, two valuable watches, and some gold. seals and keys, were stolen from the bed-room of the Ham aln Poneonby, at the house of the Earl of Beshorough.

Matthew Bennett, one of the clerks in the West of England Bank at Exeter, has been examined and detained on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of that establishment. It seems the robbery could not have been effected without a previous knowledge of the premises.

Haynes, the keeper of Oxford workhouse, has absconded with 501. of the parish money, and leaving a tradesman minus 55/. One of the nurses has also ab- sconded, with a great quantity of wearing apparel.

John Parker, a convict, aged fourteen years, died at Rochester, on Sunday., from the effects of lime. which he had taken for time purpose of causing death, as he said he was weary of his life, fur all the boys were against him.

CRIMES IN Fectece..—An elderly gentleman had enterad a second time into the state of matrimony, and while his wife, who was seriously indisposed, was about to take a medical draught, he embraced her in the most affectionate manner. The wife, whose suspicions had perhaps been awakened by the over-acting, observed him, while stooping to kiss her hand. throw a sort of white powder into the cup. She delayed taking, the draught on some pretext or other, and gave information to her physician. It appears (rein the investigation. that last niontic he had in- sured twenty thousand francs on the life of his wife. The body of his former wife, who died of a colwk rlc miserere, has been disinterred, and traces of poison have, it is said, been discovered. Arson, to defraud the insurance-offices, is, God knows, common enough in this country ; and poison has been had recourse to in cases of love and jealousy ; but poison as a means of getting rid of a wife, and defrauding an insurance-office at the same time, is, we believe, unknown among us.—Morn- ing Chronicle. A short time ago, at St. Etienne-en-Forez, a man named Girard, sexton of one of the churches of that town, stabbed his wife, his father-in-law, his mother-in- law, and afterwards committed suicide. The wounds of the women are not dan- gerous, but the man lies in a hopeless state.—Galisanani's Messenger.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—A French paper contains an outrageously romantic story of two lovers, whose passion for each other was so en governable, that they re- solved on a common suicide, that they might be united in death, though circum- stances forbade their union in life. The young gentleman was twenty-two, and the mistress of his heart only seventeen. It happened unfortunately that the former was married before he came within the attractions of the latter. They were both of respectable connexions. They left Paris on the 28th ult. for the forest of Montmorency, to take their last farewell of each other in its picturesque retreats. After having wandered in the wood for the day. they took a simple and frugal repast at the restaurateur's of the village; and while the house resounded with the music of a wedding which was celebrated below, they each perpetrated self-murder by firing pistols at their hearts. The noise of the merry-making pre-

vented the report of the pistols from being heard, and their fate was not known till next morning, when they were both found steeped in blood. The young man

had fallen at a little distance from his mistress, and had dragged himself along the floor to lay hold of her hand in dying. They were buried without any funeral service, and in unconsecrated ground.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.—On Sunday the Duke of Norfolk gave a splendid entertain- ment to the Duke of Sussex and a large party. On Monday, the Marchioness of Lon- donderry entertained a large party of the !taut ton. Sir George Warrender, Bart. had a musical party. The Countess of Jersey had a grand assenitay, .chichi was very numer- ously and fashionably attended. The Duke of Beaufort, Lord Carrington, and the Earl of Mansfield gave grand dinner parties. On Tuesday Mrs. Beilby Thompson gave a grand ball and supper, which was attended by a numerous and distinguished assemblage f the haul eon. Mrs. Thomas Chaplin gave a splendid rout, which was numerously and fashionably attended. Dinner parties were given by Lord Dynevor, Admiral Fellowes and Montague Burgoyne, Esq. On Wednesday, the Duchess of Kent gave a grand din: ner to the Princess Augusta, Prince Leopold, and a select party. The Hon. Mr. Mos_ grave had a grand dinner party. The Hon. Mrs. Buxton gave a grand ball and supper. Dr. Phillhnore entertained a large party at dinner. Lord Grantham entertained a dis- tinguished party at dinner. A ball and supper by the Baroness de Rothschild, to upwards of four hundred of the nobility and gentry. Almack's was attended again by upwards of eve hundred persons. On Thursday, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave a grand dinner to the Duke of eumberland, Prince Leopold, and a select party. The Duke of Beaufort entertained a distinguished party at dinner. The Earl of Mansfield had a din- ner party. The Hon. Mr. 'Musgrave had another grand dinner party. The Countess of Listowel entertained a large party in the evening. On Thursday, Sir Richard Borough entertained the Duke of Cumberland and a select party to dinner. On Friday the Duke of Devonshire had a grand assembly. Lady Rowley entertained a large party in the evening. Prince Lieven gave a grand entertainment. Lord Yarborough entertained a distinguished party at dinner. The Marquis of Bath had a grand dinner party.

MORAL EFFECT OF AN ICE AT THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S—When one sips a glass of lemonade at a Paris ball, it is impossible to repress the idea that it is the produce of a tax ; but when one takes an ice at such a party as the Duke of Devonshire's, it cannot be regarded in any other light than as an homage ren- dered to the public, of a portion of that hereditary fortune which it protects with its aegis ; which would be an object of odium in parsimonious hands, but which is the means of gaining respect and popularity when properly employed...,

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Some idea may be formed of the extent of the Duke of Wellington's property in Hants, when it is stated that its circuit will be at least thirty miles, and that an approach or avenue to the house may be formed upwards of eight miles in length Express.

Within a few days the Earl of \Vinchilsea has addressed a letter to the Secre-

tary of the British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Refor. nation, requesting that he may no longer be considered one of itsVice-Presidents ; assigning as a reason for this step, that after the violation of the laws of God and man, of which he felt he had been guilty in a recent affair, his name was unfit to appear at the head of a religious institution.—Mitnehester. Advertiser. Tom Belcher, the celebrated pugilist, had a set-to with the Duke of Chartres on Monday morning., at Falkes's HOW.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A CLAUDE.—A chimney-board was this week pur- chased of a timber and partition broker, which upon inspection proved to be landscape, although artfully painted over in imitation of mahogany. It has evi. dently been hid by this stratagem a great length of time ; but what the object was, is puzzling to conjecture, unless it was done abroad in order to save the duty The picture has been seen by two or three eminent connoisseur;, and has been pronounced to be a genuine picture by Claude. It was bought in the first in- stance of the broker for three sovereigns; • and is now in the possession of a Mr. Charles Young, who has already been bid as many hundreds.—From a Corre- spondent. ThuNTERs' Peey.—A play is announced at Covent Garden for next Wednesday, in aid of that meritorious charity, the Printers' Pension Society. The entertain- ments are as well calculated to amuse, as the occasion is to gratify the better feel- inge of an audience; and a crowd is expected in the combined cause of letters and benevolence. Something is whispered about Keeley's delivering an address in the character of a Printer's Devil; which we are sure he would perform to the life, as this (in his line) most original and inimitable actor was bred to the busi- ness before his vocation to the stage.—Literary Gazette. A watchman is now stationed in the interior of Westminster Abbey; and as a further security against damage front fire and thieves, several watch-dogs are to be stationed in different parts of the building. A Mr. Michael Scales, butcher, Whitechapel, applied to the Lord Mdvor on Wednesday, to present a petition from the butchers and salesmen of Leatienhall Market, praying for an improvement in the bill for regulating the schools of ana- tomy. In place of beginning with the poor, the petitioners propose that the bodies of the Bishops and other church dignitaries, of the Judges, of Admirals and Gene- rals, Colonels and Captains "whose duty, and ambition, and profit, it is to serve their country in life," should be given by law to the anatomists for the advance- ment of science. The petitioners also propose that the remains of such great per- sonages as undergo dissection should be buried with " extraordinary honours,- in order thus to do away with the prejudices which the lower classes entertain towards the provisions of the bill before Parliament. The petitioners propose to be,itt with the Bishops, as well on account of the unblemished state of their earthly remains, from the purity of their lives, as of time great patronage which examples of this sort would give to aristocratic dissection. The Lord Mayor declined to present the petition.

The Victory, steam-vessel, under the management of Captain Ross, for pro- secuting discoveries in the Arctic regions, has left Licnehouse, and is receiving a few stores at Woolwich, from whence the vessel starts in a day or two.

Mr. John Pytches, formerly member of Parliament for Sudbury, died on Thurs. day in the King's Bench prison.

The Rev. J. Hawker has given publicity to a letter declaring his intention to

secede front the Established Church, though not front its doctrines, in conse- quence of the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, but still offering to officiate at the New Chapel, Devonport, if the proprietors would consent to its not being dedicated.—Taunton Journal.

The Rey. Mr. Wild, of Newark, who was struck blind by lightning while celebrating the church service, is recovering his sight. He preached blind to his flock.

An elopement of a most distressing nature has recently taken place in the family of a respectable Baronet in the Weet of England. This calamity is con- siderably aggravated by the fact of the escape having been contrived by a near relative.—Morning Paper.

Mr. Green made his hundred-and-fifteenth aerial ascent from Cambridge on Tuesday last. The Manchester theatre is closed, in consequence of the riots in that town and its vicinity. The gallery folks at Manchester have a singular mode of expressing their disapprobation: they never hiss, but whistle when they disapprove of a per- former or performance. It is also very common for three or four persons to be provided with a book of the performance; and when, as it sometimes happens, the play acted is not the same edition that these censors may be in possession of, they roar out to the actor or actress not to skip, but to deliver the passages as they stand in the book. On one occasion the other evening, the book, and a tin

lantern, were stretched from the gallery at the end of a long pole, that the per- former might see the error which she had just committed in the part of Jessica.— The Harlequin. The Liverpool Mercury contains an advertisement a :reseed "to my dearly

beloved brethren the rich at alanchester," in which . writer advises them to

"abstain from costly meats and drinks," and distrilee mi o saving as "God's help " to the poor workmen and their families. To his -dearly beloved brethren the working classes" he sends the advice—"Go to worb, at the wages your cut-

ployers are willing to give you. • Whenever hungry, eat nothing but bread. or food equally cheap ; when dry, drink water only ; and although you will not then be able to live at so little cost as the man who fasted forty days and forty nights, yet von may, with God's help,' manage : but, rather than commit any further actsof violence, I recommend you all to come to one decided resolution,—and that is, to starve and die." Last week, in removing an old thatched hovel, near Little Marlow, a number of old guineas were found. A will has since been discovered on the premises, which directed where to find other treasures, and in consequence upwards of one thousand guineas have been discovered.

A singular instance of the means which some thrifty tradesmen take to " make the best of a had job," occurred in this town last week. An undertaker, in Sal- ford, was employed to make a coffin for a deceased customer : but, unfortunately, on the arrival of the "wooden surtout" at the habitation of the dead, it was found that the artist had mistaken the longitudinal measure of his man, and the article was consequently returned upon his hands. The question then was, how to '1st rid of the misfit ; when the undertaker, being an ingenious fellow, hit upon the luckyexpedient of " putting it up for a raffle," at a neighbouring public- bou:e. The scheme succeeded ; and the present fortunate possessor, in order to employ his bargain until he shall require it for a graver purpose, has inserted in it a number of shelves, and placed it in his sitting room as a corner-cupboard !— Manchester .4drerliser. On Friday a communication was made from the telegraph station at this port to the station at Holyhead, and an answer returned to Liverpool, in the incredibly short space of fifty-three seconds.—Liverpool

A fisherman on the Derwent, near Bubuith Bridge, recently drew to shore upwards of five cwt. of fish, chiefly eel; and pikes, at One draught.

A lioax.—A respectable baker and cornfactor near Frome, who lately adver- tised for a wife, was hoaxed by some wags at Salisbury. who answered the letter, and made an appointment with the would-be inamorato in that city, and dressed up a post-boy in female attire to give him the meeting, which went off with a due portion of tenderness, and the adieu was uttered in the expectation of a future meeting at the altar of Hymen. The swain, on returning to the inn, however, being informed how he had been hoaxed, set off full speed on his return, greeted by the hearty laughs of the by-standera.—Both Chronicle. The Rev. Mr. Irving's millennium is near at hand. Men and—what is still more pleasing and wonderful—women too,are beginning to see and acknowledge the error of their ways when their trespasses are committed against Government. No later than last week, two women. notorious smugglers, called at the house of an excise- man in Torres—confessed their illicit practices—and requested from him " a line" to the authorities in this place, to procure for them admission into our ge!. Their wish was granted ; they duly reached the gaol door of Elgiu—knocked—and were promptly :Omitted ! This is no joke.—E/gin Courier.

The murderer Corder's skin has been tanned ; and a gentleman in the Suffolk General Hospital intends to have the trial and memoirs of the ruffian bound with it.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.—Mr. Gifford, one of the senior messengers of the House of Commons, had the order of the House to Mr. O'Connell, to attend at

the bar yesterday. to serve on the Hon. Member for Clare. Mr. O'C. lodges at the house of a Mr. Sandon. in Bury-street, St. James's. The messenger had directions to be very particular and circumspect in his conduct. lie was at the Hon. Member's lodgings by half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning. The dia. logne that ensued may be the shortest way of narrating the partieulars.—The door was opened by a female servant. Mr. Gifford--" Is Sir. O'Connell at home?" Servant—" Mr. O'Connell! No, Sir ; he is out." Mr. G.—" Out ! What, out already ?" Servant—" Yes, Sir ; Mr. O'Connell's out." Mr. G.— " Why. surely that can't be ? Surely Mr. O'C. is not out so soon as this ?" Ser- vant—" Oh yes, he is." Mr. G.—" What ! does he usually go out so soon as this ?" Servant—" Mr. O'Connell is out." Mr. G.—" Oh, he can't be out. Had you not better inquire of your master? Where is your master? Where is

Mr. Sandon Servant—" Mr. Sandon is out, Sir ?" Mr. G.—" What ? is he out too ? That's very strange. Why, you're early risers here.!" While this colloquy was proceeding in the passage of the house in which Mr. O'Connell lodges. Sits. Sandon came down stairs with seine clothes across her arm. Sir. G. proceeded towards her, and spoke as Hite had not had conversation with any one else. He observed—" Oh! can 1 :.-eo Mr. O'Connell ?" Sirs. Sandon —" He is not yet up, Sir." Mr. G.—" But can I see him ? or will you send to hint to say I have an order from the House of Commons for him ?" A man-ser- %ant soon afterwards came down stairs; he proved to he Mr. O'Connell's servant. Mr. G. (addressing him)—" Can I see Mr. O'Connell ?" Man-Servant- "Mr. O'Connell, Sir ! He is not up." Mr. G.—" But I have an order for him from the House of Commons." Man-Servant—" He is not up, and 1 cannot disturb him." Mr. G.—"Then will you take this order, and sign for me an acknowledgment that you have received such order for Mr. O'Connell? But you had better first consult with Mr. O'Connell." The man- servant eventually went to Mr. O'Connell, who, on being informed about the visitor• and the nature of his visit, desired him to be introduced. Mr. Githml, instead of discovering Mr. O'Connell in bed, found him up, dressed and booted, as if ready to go out, but busily engaged in reading the newspapers. He ex- pressed his regret that Sir. Gifford had had any trouble ; that he had not been immediately introduced, and stated that he should attend to the order, but asked whether it would he requisite for hint to be in attendance so early as three o'clock ? Mr. Gifford replied that it would not be requisite for hint to attend pre- viously to the Speaker taking the chair if he were there by the time mat the Speaker took the chair, that, he considered, would be sufficient.—Morning Herald, Wednesday,. .The St. James's Chronicle says that O'Connell is sure of a seat in Parliament, "tour seats having already been bought from the Rent."

Mr. Cornelius. Macloughlin, who is in Paris, Wei sent a subscription of 5001. to the O'Connell fund.

At the Loughrea Quarter Sessions, which began on Monday week, no fewer than one thousand and thirty processes were entered. A criminal condemned at the late Conine' Assizes was to be executed at one o'clock. His brother requested of the Sheriff that he might .suffer at twelve. as he had himself a long way to go home "after it was all over, and it would be a :very great convanience ."'

SLENDER WAISTS.—The Scotsman of Wedneadav last has devoted four columna to an essay " on the Compression of the Waist in Females by the use of Corsets ;" with two drawings—one exhibiting, the waist of the Medician Venus, who did not near stays, the other the waist of a modern belle, after a long course of corset training. " A single glance," says the author. " will show better than many pages of argument what havoc tight lacing must produce in the delicate and compli- cated mechanism lodged within the chest." Another effect of tight corsets, he further observes, " is that those who have been long so closely laced, become at last unable to hold themselves erect, or move with comfort without them, but as is very justly said, fall together, in consequence of the natural form and position of the ribs being altered. The muscles of the back are weakened and crippled, and cannot maintain themselves in their natural position for any length of time. The spine, too, no longer accustomed to bear the destined weight of the body, bends and sinks down. Where tight lacing is practised, young Women from fif- teen to twenty years of age are found so dependent upon their corsets, that they faint whenever they lay them aside, anal, therefore, are obliged to have themselves laced before going to sleep. For as soon as the thorax and abdomen are relaxed, by being deprived of their usual support, the blood rushing downwards, in consequence of the diminished its stance to its motion. empties time vessels of the head, and thus occasions fainting."— " From 1760 to about 1770, it was the fashion in Berlin, and other parts of Ger- mane, and also in Hoban(' a few years ago, to apply corsets to children. This practice fell into disuse in consequence of its being observed that children who did not wear corsets grew up straight, while those who were treated with this extraordinary care got by it a high shoulder or a hunch. Many families might be named, in which parental fetidness selected the handsomest of several boys to put in corsets, and the result was, that these alone were hunched. The deformity was attributed at first to the improper mode of applying the corsets, till it was discovered that no child thus invested grew up straight, not to mention the risk of consumption and rupture which was likewise incurred by using them. I (says Soeminering) for my part. affirm, that I do not know any woman who, by tight

lacing (that is, by artificial means), has obtained fine figure,' in whom I could not, by accurate examination, point out either a high shoulder, oblique com- pressed ribs, a lateral incurvation of the spine in the form of an italic S., or some other distortion. I have had opportunities of verifying thin opinion among ladies of high condition, who, as models of film form, were brought forward for the purpose of putting me to silence."—" One is astonished," says Soetemering, "at the number of diseases which corsets occasion. Those I have subjoined rest on the authority of the most eminent physicians. Tight lacing produces in the heal.—Headache, giddiness. tendency to fainting, pain in the eyea, pain and ringing in the ears, and bleeding at the nose. In the thorax—Besides the displacement of the bones, and the injury done to the breast, tight lacing produces shortness of breath, spitting of blood, consumption, derangement of the circulation, palpitation of the heart, and water in the chest. In the abdomen—Loss of appetite, squeamishness, eructations, vomiting of blood, depraved digestion, flatulence, diarrhea, colic pains, induration of the liver, dropsy, and rupture. It is also followed by melancholy, hysteria, and many diseases peculiar to the female constitution, which it is not necessary to enume- rate in detail." '' It may- not be amiss to Worm the ladies, that, according to our medical instructor, time red pointed nose which glows, rather inauspiciously, on some female faces, is in many cases the consequence of tight lacing."

According to the French papers, the Duke of Orleans, to qualify himself for travelling, had gone through a couNe of the natural sciences, including physiology and anatomy : he had even dissected at the Royal Hospital of Invalids, and walked the hospitals. A disrespectful allusion to Don Miguel of Portugal made a great stir in a re- cent discussion in the French Chamber of Deputies. =M. Labbey de Pompieres, after alluding to a ininiher of abuses in the finances, said •• It is. observable among the different expenses, that if the conveyance of a lion from Africa to Paris cost seven thousand franca, we paid the double of that stint in 18'16, to hasten the ar- rival in Portugal of a much more dangerous biped monster." Some of the papers print " tiger" instead of "biped." A general reform is soon to take place in the post-office service at Paris, which is intended more particularly to accelerate the communicatioe between France, England, and the American Continent.

Nearly 300,000/. is annually paid to the French Government by the farmers of gamine-houses.

Some .1-'rench agriculturists have turned their attention to the cultivation of Indian corn ; in the praises of which they are more enthusiastic than Mr. Cobbett himself.

The King of Spain, it is said, is about to revise the criminal code of his country. The Queen of Spain is seriously ill. Don .1liguel, according to the Lisbon letters, has become conspicuous as a devotee : he goes to confession every Sunday, and receives the sacrament.

The crown which the Emperor Nicholas will wear at his coronation as King of Poland cost nearly 300,000/. A story is told in one of the French papers, of the old Polish Wildcats being still in existence, having. on the partition of the king- dom, been carried away, and hid by two monks, who swore never to reveal the secret till their country should recover its ancient splendour and independence.

A curious instance of harmony between persons of different religious creeds was lately witnessed in the neighbourhood of Strasburg. On Sunday the 26th ult, the Protestant pastor of the village of Enshiem received a letter from the Catholic priest of the village of Holtzheim, informing, him that the Bishop was going on the following Friday to hold a confirmation at Geipolsheim, and inquiring if he and the mayor of the village would feel any repiagnauce to the passage of the procession through Eioldent. The Protestant pastor replied, that su far from objecting to such a visit, both he and his flock would be disposed to sinew their fellow-subjects of another faith all we-Wile respect. The procession was accord- ingly weleerned with the ringing of hell: by the Protestants of E nshehn ; their pastor. in his canonicals, reeekieg it at the boundary of the commune.

The Rotnan Catholic clergy and part of the inhabitants of the island of Syra have addressed a memorial to the Pope, requesting that they may remain under the dominion of the Turks ; because, if they should be united with the free state of Greece, they would have to expect nothing but misery and persecution, front the hatred which the Greeks bear to them on account of the difference of their erects.

The prospect of the Brazilian mines improves. The average produce of seven- teen days was not less than 2-11bs. of gold, and on the 21st February not less than 81 lbs . were rah-ed.

The New York papers complain that piracies are of every-day occurrence off the West India Islands: in some instances they rival in atrocity the old Bucca- neers.

The Hoakune, or President of Literati in the Province of Kiangsi, having sold degrees clandestinely, a secret report was sent to the Emperor, and he ordered

two commissioners, to proceed forthwith and search Fokshin the President's house. They bound a hoard, amounting to four hundred thousand taels—a sum which a doctor of letters could not have acquired by any fair means. Ashamed, disgraced, and beggared, poor Fokshin went and hanged himself—Chinese Paper.

A Burmese Chief defined an "upright man" to be "exactly the same thing a witless man or a simpleton."