THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS.—His Majesty seems willing to regain
some portion of the popularity which the persecution of Potter had lost him. He has dismissed some of his foreign troops, and for- mally contradicted a report that lie had engaged the services of two more Swiss regiments. Potter has at length obtained permission from the Kin.. of Prussia to pass into Switzerland. THE LATE DUKE OF Balacsr.—It was mentioned some time ago, that this Prince had left a large fortune, of which his son would come into possession as of course. It now appears that the greater part of it was willed to a Mademoiselle Werner. It was concealed in various parts of the late Duke's chamber, arid the will indicated the hidden repositories of the royal miser. In one of these, ingeniously concealed by a marble slab an immense quantity of jewels of various kinds were found. iotivan.—A private letter in the Jamaica Courant of the 10th May states, on what it declares to be good authority, that this eminent man has been elected President for life. The letter states that nothing but the interposition of the Foreign Ambassadors prevented Bolivar from quitting Columbia and its ungrateful people for ever. His conduct since his recent elevation is said to have been marked by the most consummate moderation ; he has merely ordered the incendiaries that have been dis- turbing the country so long, to retire into the interior. Bolivar has spent a princely fortune on his country; and his entire means are now said to be limited to 20,000/. in the English funds. He resumed his authority on the 25th April. The French and English Ambassadors are said to have informed Congress, that if Bolivar left the country they would go along with him. BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL.—The Imperial frigate which carries Don Pedro's Ambassador, the Marquis Santo Amaro, charged to terminate definitively and with the concurrence of the Great European powers the differences between him.and his brother, arrived at Brest on the 15th. The Dake of Leuchlenberg came passenger in the frigate.
Muxicsor Boxos.—A plan has been submitted to the Mexican Go- vernment by the bondholders, by which the former will only be called
on for the next five years to pay fete half of the accruing interest. It is proposed to add to the arrears of interest, due next January, one- half of the interest for five years from that time, and to accept of new bonds for the whole amount, namely, 1,847,368/. 15s. ; the interest on these new bonds not to accrue until January, 1836. The Mexican Minister has expressed himself highly gratified by the proposal. Its object is very obvious. If the Mexican Government had had to pay the whole interest, they would have proved as irregular during the next five years as they have done during the last five, and the price of the smithies would have remained where it is ; but if they can contrive to 'pay half interest regularly, svere it lint for one year, the old bonds will get up. the new bonds will keep up, the present holders AO slip mit, and in 1836 the second set of dupes will be left to seek what remedy they may. SONTA0.—This lady has left Warsaw for the castle of Fichhaek, where she is eteeiged to sing at the fetes to be given there during the -visit of the Emperor of Russia and the Royal Family or Prussia. POLICE Or ASIA.—The caravan that left Smyrna for Magnessa on the 19th of May, was robbed, about five or six miles from the former city, by a band of from seventy to eighty men. The plunder is esti- mated at 50,000 piastres. Two Turks, who attempted resistance, were severely wounded. PRINCE Scnwawrzstsoneso.—Letters from Toulon describe this worthy -gentleman as about to sail for Algiers to join the expedition as a volunteer. IlisnooSurerterenoNs.—Mr. Poynder intends to move, at the next quarterly meeting of the East India House, that " the Court, taking into consideration the direct encouragement afforded to idolatry, and also to the licentiousness and bloodshed connected with idolatrous ob. servances, by the collection of tribute from the worshippers and pilgrims at the temples of Juggernaut, Gya, Allahabad, and elsewhere, both fiir the repair of those temples and the maintenance of their priests and at- tendants, recommend to the Honourable Courtof Direetors to take such measures as will have the effect of immediately directing the attention of the Indian Government to this subject, and of eventually removing -such a reproach from a Christian empire." METEOROLOGr.—There is a common belief that a new moon on Saturday always produces wet weather, which is thus done into Suffolk verse:— "A Saturday's moon, and a Sunday's/nil, Never was good, nor never lode."
The adage is likely to gain increased credence by the fact that the new moon fell on the tilludidt., and the full moon on the 6th of June; and during the whole month, usually the driest in the 'ear, there was not a single day without rain. A similar instance occurred last autumn; but -the exceptions to the rule are not noted.—Bury Pod.
THE 'WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT.—The accounts received in .Paris'from the provinces giVe a very melancholy picture of the coming harvest and vintage. The long-continued rains had been exceedingly injurious, and unless dry weather speedily ensued, it was feared that the corn and the grapes would be altogether destroyed. The files given at Paris last week went off very heavily on account of the bad weather. That city is said not to have been so dull as it is at preseot since the year 1815. Most of the English have deserted it. THE WEATHER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.—Letters from Gibraltar, a the 13th April, describe the past winter as one of the most boisterous known for thirty years. We have heard this before, but not what follows. On the day before Good Friday, a shower of frogs fell on the Rock, greatly to the wonderment of -the natives. MAD PIGS.—We regret to say that the disease which was at one time supposed to be confined to the dogs, or at must to the dogs and cats, has lately begun to show itself in other domestic animals. A respectable sow died last Tursday sennight at Sheffield, in a state of confirmed mad- men. A veterinary surgeon who attended her during her illness, spoke distinctly to the disease during its progress, and a post mortem examina- tion confirmed his worst fears. The symptoms were" loss of appetite," " foa fling at the mouth," "a disposition to bite when any thing annoyed "an inclination to talk in a squeaking tone," " an expressive Stare," " a tendency to knock her head against the wall ;" to which last symptom, indeed, her death is supposed to have been owing.
Dons.—The number of dogs (exclusive of packs) on which duty is paid, is 353,085. Mercy on us ! at the rate of fifty bites a-piece, which an active dog might manage in a couple of hours, we should all go mad together ! There are above 30,000 dogs within the bills of mortality that pay tax, to say nothing of those that do not. Hoax Msettsuosnas..—One of those modest gentlemen who advertise for wives, with no other requisites than youth, beauty, and a handsome fortune, received lately an answer to his advertisement, from a lady who described herself as twenty-two years of age, with black eyes and hair, a tuneful voice, 600/. in the funds, and 400/. in expectation—in short, pos- sessed of all that the gentleman, whose wishes were bounded by 1000/. bad required. After some short correspondence, a meeting was arranged to take place between the brothers of the lady and the advertiser, at a :coffeehouse in Clerkenwell Green. Thither the expectant swain pro- ceeded, full of hope and love by anticipation of black eyes and a thousand pounds. NiThen, oh most horrible ! on a signal from the two brothers, a wrinkled hag from the purlieus of Saffron Hill advanced to receive her expectant bridegroom ! More than thirty persons of the lady's train followed, to witness, amidst shouts of laughter, her earnest endeavours to impress a chaste kiss on the cheek of the horror-struck hero. He got :away at length, followed by a host of laughers ; and will no doubt be cautious henceforth how Ise trusts to representations of black eyes and fortunes in the funds.
A NICE COUPLE.—At Newark on the 16th, Mary Bingham having :claimed against her husband's parish, he was summoned to answer the -complaint of the overseers. Mary Bingham stated she was lawfully married last Martinmas, and that a few weeks after her husband left her. Dr. Staunton—" Well, what have you to say to this ?" John—" She wanted sueto set her at liberty," Mary—" Oh, fie, John ! how can'st thee say so?" • John—" Why, thou know'st thou did'st, and to goo with another." Dr. Staunton—". You are bound to prevent her becoming chargeable." John—" 1 should not like to live wi' her." John's father They booth agreed to part and to goo to service, and when they weer a little older, then to come again.' Dr. Staunton—" How old are they ?" Father—" They bee about seventeen !" • NEW Gasztwo-HousE.—A new gaming-house, which. deserves, in every sense of the word, the denomination of a Hell, has this season been established in St. James's Square, about midway between the residences of the Bishops of Loudon and Winchester, both of whose magnificent residences overlook this nnsanctified abode of Satan and his imps. Indeed it was the Bishop of London's recently-published letter upon the defilements of the Sabbath which first drew general attention to this unhallowed spot. Last season the same parties held their orgies in Bennett Street., The peculiar characteristic of this den of infamy is, that it is ri sorted to by young men, who are there pigeoned by a few of their elders. Last week the tables in this respect were turned. A young Barooet, it is said, was in one night a winner of nearly 7,0001, —a pour set-off, it is true, against his previous losses at this and other s .... liar places ; while a hoary gamester, on the same night, retired fro= the same scene, the prey of sudden apoplexy, from which there is no chance of his recovery.—Morning Herald. O'CONNELL AND THE PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS.--" I Sup-. pose you must have perceived that the London newspapers are not suffi- ciently interested in the subjects I bring forward to give them in an" detail. I despise the men who act thus, but I suffer by it in public esti- mation."—O'Connell's Letter to Mr. Haughton, of Carlow. [We sus- pect that Mr. O'Connell .would suffer more in public estimation, were- his speeches, on subjects in which the public are not interested, given in. any detail.] SIR FRANCIS AND " HIS MAN."—The present Members for West- minster, it is said, console themselves with the hope that they will again. be allowed to walk quietly over the course : but we shall see.—(illorning Herald.) BEES.—On Saturday last a swarm of bees belonging to Mr. Barnes, millwright, of Gazeley, alighted upon the head, neck, and arms of a woman named Smith ; and after some fruitless attempts to brush them off, she remained still (being an old bee-woman), and the bees were hived without stinging her.—Bury Post. A Fleas a or Forxr.—Two gentlemen (Irish, of course) fought a duel on Saturday, the week before last, near the town of Limerick Their' pistols happily were not so well primed as their passions, and so no mis- chief happened. The Limerick paper says, " Neither of them changed a- muscle on the ground." We have heard of many changes in these cases, but the change of a muscle is something new. Goon NEWS IN BAD WEATIIER.-31r. Reeve, a farmer, at Starston,. near Harleston, received, on Monday sennight, by a special messenger, the joyfitl news of being heir to a real estate of the value of 20,000/. and upwards, and a share of personal property to a considerable amount.— Norwich. Post.
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