29 MAY 1830, Page 7

FACING THE ENEMY.—An anecdote is current, that the King, still

alive, occasionally, to what used to interest him before his illness, in- quired what portrait was placed opposite to his own, at the exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence's paintings, now open. The courtiers were cons pelled to inform their master that his Satanic was vis-d-eis to his Britannia Majesty. The King happily relieved them from their embarrassment, by remarking, that" they ought to have made the Duke of Wellington face the Enemy." PLAN OF THE Mawsrmartonsa.—The celebrated amateur architect% Lord Burlington, to whose taste London is indebted for some fine private Inansions, sent the Corporation an originaldeign by Palladio. "Who is this Palladio? Is he a freeman add. 6: civic cognoscento. He was answered in the negative. A discussion arose, lasted for some time, was then abruptly terminated. by somebody's saying • kalladio was a Papist ;" and the result was the building of the present Mansionhouse by the city architect.--Cabinet Cyclopedia. SIR ROBERT FEEL'S WILL.-The late Sir Robert Peel is said to have died worth 2,500,000/. The will was proved on Friday last week in Doctors' Commons, and sworn to exceed 1,000,0004 which bears highest probate duty (15,000/.)

• Awricirartosh-Some of the worthies of Birmingham have been already busied in striking medals to commemorate his Majesty's antici- pated demise ; and so confidently did these prophets of evil calculate on that event, that the medals actually bear the date " May " upon them !

STEAM CARRIAGES.-One of this most ingenious of contrivances was exhibited on Tuesday on the New Road. Nothing could exceed the smoothness, security, and ease, with which its motions were accompanied. There were five ladies and a gentleman as passengers, and two others as -guide and foreman. Almost no smoke was perceptible, and the horses on the road seemed not in the slightest degree alarmed when the carriage passed them. THE FRENCH EXPEDITION.-The plan of attack on Algiers has been communicated, we are told by the French papers, to all the officers,

in lithograph. It is added that the communications are strictly confiden- tial. The idea of strictly confidential lithographs, is not French, surely but Irish.

TEST or Porsox.-The French have taken six hundred dogs with them to test the salubrity of the wells in the vicinity of Algiers. What a capital opportunity this plan presents for getting rid of those vermin that at present annoy the hearts and heels of the Cockneys !

SONTAG.-The States Gazette, published at Berlin, repels with becom /rig indignation the grievous charge against the Prussians of having hissed

the vocal idol of the Continent. Sontag, it is said, goes from Berlin to Warsaw ; then to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, and lastly to England. She then retires from the stage altogether. Credat Judens ! The King of Prussia is said to be interceding with the family of Count

Rossi, her husband, to receive her as a relation. Happy cares of Royalty ! NEW MUSICAL GENHIS.-Michel Boai, a German, promises to visit this country early next month, to delight the British public by his un- rivalled musical performances. By forcibly and rapidly striking his chin, he produces the most varied tones, executing in that manner difficult pieces of music. The fame of this extraordinary musical genius is

already established at Berlin, Leipsic, St. Petersburg, and other foreign capitals ; and our new wonder bids fair to deprive Sontag, the adored of the Germans, of c half of her worshippers.