The King's attorney at Brussels has for some days been
engaged in the investigation of a rather delicate affair ; it is a kind of swindling which saint Englishmen of distinction have practised ; among them is one J. K. It seems that the son of Mr. W. was taken to a tavern where the jockics generally meet ; that lie was there made drunk, and induced to play, at which he lost 20,000 'francs. This K. is a kind of duellist, well known for his skill in such matters, and is said to have threatened his victim if he did not pay. We are anxious to learn what justice decides in this dirty affair.—Lynx.
The Duke of Saxe Altenburg has actually invented a new tax ! From the lit of January 1838, a tax of five dollars is to be imposed upon every singing-bird kept in a cage. The object is to discourage the cruel practices of the birdcatchers. [Query, arc there a couple of birdcatcbs ers in the Duke's dominions,'
The first great meeting of homoeopathic doctors was held at Frank- fort on the 10th of this month. The number present was about forty, and some of the party had come from Russia to join in the deliberations of their colleagues.
The Nouvelliste Vaudois says that, according to accounts from Arenenberg, the physicians of the Dutchess de Saint Lett (Madame Jerome Bonaparte) have lost all hope of saving her. She has become so feeble that, to take the air, she is obliged to be carried in an arm- chair to a balcony.
Letters from St. Remo of the 4th state, that the cholera was raging with extraordinary intensity in the whole province of Genoa. The evil is so great that the police has forbidden it to be spoken of. This district had been spared during the first invasion of the malady.... Augsburg Gazette.
The greatest uneasiness prevails in Rome as well as in the neighbour- hood, on account of the cholera. Last week the alarm was to great that nearly two hundred carriages quitted Rome in one day; midi with the exception of one or two persons, there was scarcely an English family of distinction that did not take to flight. Albano is quite de- serted; and not without reason, for the inhabitants threatened to esta- blish a cordon against Rome upon the first rumour of the dreaded dis- ease manifesting itself at the latter place. It is not, however, so much the fear of cholera that causes this sauce qui pent, as the dread of the measures that Government may take, or permit to be taken, by the magistrates of every petty village. Indeed, these measures have already commenced to show themselves ; for one cannot proceed, even at pre- sent, from Rome to Frascati or Tivoli, without having a regular cer- tificate de &mita. It is said also that it is the intention of the authorities to isolate and cut off all communication with every house where a case f cholera may be discovered ; in short, to reopt the same vigorous measures as if the plague had broken out amongst us. The cholera loess, however, made such awful ravages at Naples and Palermo, that die Romans must be excused if they feel more than ordinary alarm, and endeavour to avert the evil by every means in this power.—Leiter is the Chronicle.
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