2 MAY 1829, Page 2

St. James's is glad because our good Monarch has returned

to lilt ancient halls; which none of even the most renowned of his predeces- sors ever trod with more grace and dignity. It is gratifying to us to record, and it must be gratifying to the King to witness the friendly eagerness with which the young and the old—the gay and the grave —the Duke of sixteen quarters and the humble esquire with a shield of the unassuming colour of the mind of Mr. Vice-President Courtenq, press forward to pay to him the homage of their devoted respect. The Levee and the Drawing-room were gay and attractive eeremonin!s. There may be, and there must be, on such occasions, some defect in the details. Even in the presence of George the Fourth, who while he forgets not the gentleman in the king, with equal propriety remembers the king in the gentleman, and than whom none can more effectually rc- press the bold, while none can more condescendingly encourage the timid —even in his presence some one or other,whose zeal is more conspicuous than his wisdom, may casually intrude. We notice, for instance—it must be confessed he is a bold fellow, and for the last three months he has been a very troublesome one—a certain gentleman named Faosre pushing into the very thick of the crowd ; which, on most occasions that we have previously observed, he has sedulously eschewed ; and not only does he appear to have braved the melting influences of the circle, but even ventured to approach the fingers of Majesty, stir- rounded by the elite of the empire. The same personage on Wei- nesday paid his respects to many more than our gallant King; for we believe that there was not a cheek—to say nothing of a hand— of all the groupes that assembled to witness the gay pageant, that Master Frost did not venture to salute. But although " fools will rush in where angels (i.e. young ladies) fear to tread," nothing can be um- " t Mr. John Frost, the Director of the Medico-Botanical Society, to present his last oration before that body, dedicated, by permission, to his Majesty ; upon which ()mama Mr. Frost kissed hands."—Court Circular. gined more imposing, taken as a whole, than a levee such as that of Wednesday, unless it be such a Drawing-room as that of Thursday.

Our columns, though ample, have their limits ; and as other matters, though of lowlier import, press upon our notice, we do but indicate points which we might desire to describe. In doing so, we avail our- selves of the eloquent narrative of the Court Newsman on this stirring subject.

The King came to town on Monday evening about eleven o'clock. He suf- fered no inconvenience from his journey.

His Majesty, surrounded by his Officers of State and his personal friends, ap- peared at the Levee plainly dressed in a blue single-breasted military coat, with scarlet collar and and decorated with some foreign orders, His Majesty was seated in a chair of crimson velvet, his right leg resting upon an ottoman of crimson ; and thus he received the homage of his subjects. The number pre- sent, including the majority of the nobility of highest rank, is computed at thir- teen or fourteen hundred. We subjoin a list of the names of the gentlemen who were presented.

Cooper, Sir A. Fairfax. Air. T.

Campbell, Sir. IV. Garrard, Air. D.

Camping! Ale J. C. Gordon, Captain A.

Clinton, Captain Geary, Lieut.

C mon, Comet R. Goldin:1d, Mr. J. 1.

Cary, Al r Grave. Arr. S.

Canndiell, Mr. 1101t, Es.) F. L. Boyle, Mr.

Bowyer. Lieut. Col. Barge, Mr.

Baynes, Captain ltrarkenbury, Major Bridge, I.ieut. R. U. Ityng. Certain Barclay. Mr. .3. Bonen, Captain C. Bishop, al ijor Birch, Rev. Dr. Brawn, Gen. sir T. Blachford,Emign 0. Bull, 31 r. Booth. Mr. Brook, Colonel Bolden, Lieut. Bacon, Mr. Brodie, Mr. B. C.

Davidson, Captain Hart, Lieut. Doyle, Col. Sir J. II. Ives, Lieut. F. Dundas, }Ir. It. 1 bbetson, M r.

Doran, Majer Johnstone, Sir J. B.

Druentuoid, Colonel ,Tune,, :Major

Dunlop. Lies:1. Gen.

Ihingla,, Lerd Jert1,. Major AA'. D.

Evm C Jackson, Mai. Gen. Sh R. HeillY, Colonel 0.

Johnson, 31r. E.

Jekyll. Lieut. Il, R,,,,,Capialti

Jerniughain. Alr. S„ It. D. A. Keith. Captain strong, Rey. W.

Lae,date, M. Sbe &oat. Adm. Sir R.

Die, 11aj. Gen. Sir H. KtIld,r, Cam. T.

;Mortimer, Mr. E.

31acrlottald, Maj. Gen. Tile., 31r.

Munday, Captain Thornton, Lieut.

Morton. Rev. A.

Norreys, Lord Wil toughie: de Broke, Lord l'endarvis, Air. W., M.P. I'itt, Limn E. W.

e Dr.

Radcliffe, Alr. H. D.

Rivers Lord Riddell. Al r. IA'.

Se e

S -,awry, Sir Swinton, air S.

Tontines.. tieut .1.W.

Toink in., Com. It. F.

Thynne, Lord II.

Vansittart, Lieut.

I'M iers. Viscount Norreys, Lord Wil toughie: de Broke, Lord

We may here notice, that the Duke of Wellington, who was believed to have suffered in health front his late senatorial campaign, appeared in the courtly circle in seeming good health and in high spirits. Mr. O'Connell was among the earliest arrivals ; and appeared dressed in a court suit of black : he having been presented to his Majesty in Dublin. was not introduced upon the present occasion, but merely made his bow ; which was most gracefully and graciously acknow- ledged by the King.

The Drawing-room was, as we have hinted, even more splendid than the Levee; or than any previous display of birth-day magnificence. The Foreign Ambassa. dors, his Majesty's Ministers, and all the principal officers and attendants upon Court, came in state. The King received the ladies dressed in a field-marshal's uniform. The ladies presented were- Marchioness Wellesley, Lady by The Lady Mayoress, by her mother, Mrs. Frankla,td, by the Hon. Nit: Marchioness of Clanricarde, on her Hon. Mrs. Ferguson, on her mar, -ABI.Voynno, by Lady S. Bayley

Maryborough Mrs. 1 lomfray

marriage, by the March. of Sligo by the Duchess of Wellington Miss S. Curtis, by Lady Curtis Countess of Darlington, by Lady C. - Augusta Graves, by Lady Graves (3) Misses Pennant, by Mrs. Dam.

Powlett - Ails. L. Gower, by Viscountess kips Pennant Countess Brownlow, on her mar, Granville Alias Tollemache, by Lady Fitzroy Countess of !teethe, by the Duchess Aliso A'Lourt, by Lard licytes. C. Lowth, by Mrs. ',meth

by the Dowager I.ady 13rownlow - illiss Illarley,by Lady Blayney -Sjoim:rseourtke, by Smith bury

of Wellington

Countess ofliaddington. on coming - Miss King, by insets. Lorton -.T. Codrington, by her mother, to her title, by Lady AVhamclitle - Mrs. Middleton, on hermarriage, Lady Codringlon

Countess. of Morton, on coating to by Lady Brownlow -A. Manners, by the Dowager her title, by Lady Rose - Olivia de Roos, by Lady Georgis Lady Cawdor - Cecil Wellesley, by the DucheSs Countess Nelson, on her marriage, area F. de Boos by Viscountess Sidmouth - Af. Robinson, by Lady Grantham of Wellington

Lady Curtis, ma ranting to the tide, - Mrs. Hewitt, by Visits. Lorton - Storer, by Lady Montfurd be Ludy Burgoyne -Mrs Ileathcote, on her marriage, S. Storer, by Lady Montfort) - Ellot, on her mar, by the by the Marchioness of Exeter -Macleod, of Alicleod, by her Countess Dowager St. Germans - Aliss Gardiner, by Lady Grans mother

- E. Paget, by Cts. 31 °witcheries our Somerset - G. Langton. by Lady .T. Thynne

- I I. Kerr, by the Cts. of Lothian Aladante de Kantzow, by Countess - S. Doyle, by Lady Doyle

- Rivers. by Airs. Rigby Munster - Curry, by Mt, Louth

- Constable, by Hon. Mrs. Clifford Mrs. O'Brien, by Lath P. Parker - Maynard, by Visits. Maynard 31. lin:Was, by the Duclmss of - Peers, on her marriage, by her - Hanly, by the Cts of Jo sey

mother, Airs. Lowth - Roche, by the Hon. Airs. Burton

- S-Iellkinson,by Cts, of Plymouth - Henry Bent inck, on her marriage, - .r. hlontagu. by Lady Al ontagu - Adam], by the Dowager Countess by Lady .Tetnima Bentinek - E. Hardy, by the Cts. of Jersey of AI onm, chty‘l. tyilambguy -,Cia.gDeobtlyglias,adllyatltiiitorda ironalkteer mar- -11Sosruerttenhain, by Viscountess Tor- - Marshall, by Lady Dundas - Hotham, by Lady F. llothant -- E Beer, by the Cts of Lothian - A. Smith, on her marriage, by -.J. Baltbur, by Mrs. Balfour

- Antrehus,nn coming to her title, the Countess of (lion:twit - A. E. Legit, by Mrs. Legit by the Al archioness Cornwallis - Shipley and Miss Shipley, by - Cox, by Mrs. Cox

- AI. Ileauelerk, by the Duchess of Airs. Beilby Thumpson - L. Gamier, by her mother, the

St. Alban's - Cornwall Legit, by Mrs. Iegh lion. Mrs. 1 :antler

- ahem, on her marriage, by - C. Manners Sutton, by the Bight bilyirsihLe ououn.th

Lady Alontionl Hon. Lady !fanners

- A. Byng, on her marriage, by the - Stallbrd Jeroingbam, on her C- I iiCord

Marchioness of Bath marriage, by Lady Statibrd - Shelley, by Lady Shelley - it I Iowan!, by the Cts of Carlisle - Frederick West, on her marriage, - Baring, by the Cts. of Resebm I', Somerset, by the DoLlIvoi of by the Countess de la Warr - M. Trotter. by Airs. L. Bethune Beaufort -Charles litany Stottor, on lux - A.M. Itoche, by her mother, the - Carteret, by Lady •Tohn Thynne marriage, by Laity Stafford lion. Alm. Berton - ilinaiste, by Lady Taylor - George Row. on her marriage, - E. Courtenay, by Sirs. Clifford - C. Marshall, by Lady Dundas - Garvagh, by the Alarchieness of by lily Rose Clamicarde - Talbot, on her tnarriage,by Lady - Bentinck, by Lady Dawkins by Nely Dundas

- S. Cost, Ity Countess provenly., Montfort]. - arshall.

- Charlotte Thynne, by the Mar- - AV. Bishton, by Lady Dolby Courtenay, by the Hon. Mrs. chimes., of Bath - Walter Raleigh Gilbert, by the Clifford - C. Scott. by the Cts. of Clonmell Marchioness of Lothian - Balibur, by Mrs Balfour

- I toils°, by the lint. airs. Burton - Henry Baring, by die Countess of - P.ensfunl, by Lady A. Ltercsford -charlotte al iekl ethwaitc, by Lady 1-ioseleY -Pitt, by M rs. Rigby

Franc,. Both:nit - Ilanhmn, br ViscountessTurnour -C. Starer, by Lady Montford - Katherine 31anners. by theDow- - Dempster, on her marriage, by - Chichester, by the Hum Mrs. afire Lady 1:awdor the Dowager Countess of Abtrum Clifford

- C. Moat:tea, by Cts. of Sandwich- C. Cooper, by 3Irs. Hosofray - .1 III i.t Cam plq•II, by Lady Ellinor - it. Crovnir. oil coining to her - Brackenhury, on her marriage, 21'st',.'.'rq;,ITty'l*toltfe 3l orris. of Lothian till by 1.,e1.- Ft:Inces Hotham by Lady Stottrunt - nrarylirey.-by the lts. ofJersey - Stuart, by the Countess of Sand- -_SE.,,I.iiV)alkulex.,Ityb.)1.aet

- Ii. Grey, by the Cts of Jersey 'rich

(11.1month:by, on her - Fremantle, on her marriage, by 21;',.y1,,inn,,t.,ximp ja,is Gipine

the [Melte.; of Welliugton marriage, by Mrs. Arbuthnot

Be.ttiack, by Lady Haw- -A unmans Foster, by the ]Far. _.-1\!..1;li tegi(glitiyn, by Lady SLtG'nrd

Lioness of Bristol - t•areline I 'buetits, by the Coml.

k- in., Whit ,lied - Forbes, oil her marriage, by the _Isle4:tgrhon, hi„. sotbey,.

Ductless of AVeninmon fess of Leitrim

-Sophia II:1,1itIZA, by the liar--Storer, by Lady Al en tibrd -Chichester, by the lion. Mrs. eithate.... of Lothian. - Cary-, by the lion. Mrs. Clifford 1 Mind - 'hat:ern, oil her marriage, by - George Bankes, by Viscountess 531 fioonutrtz.za,yb,,ltly..3d1)rs. rol,i.ftf,,ogurd

Mrs. Last,Ile, Ireitionger Sidmouth

- I/twat:v. In Lady I Irmtlen -John borrien Magens, on her

- lervey. by the 31archlo. marriage. by Lady I neror

mess of Bristol ,T. L. Prendergast, upon her mar- - - C. Chetwyntl, by tier muther,

- Stalford, on enmIng to the title, riage. by Lady Bowden I ndy Chetwyntl by Airs. Howard - James A. Murray, by Lady Geo. - S. If...ecglutr,,bi.y,AblsrsjIT,fgs Burgoyne Lady Fitzgerald. on her marriage, by Murray ("pie

1.ady Statford Wititernore, by the Countess of- (11.otelso7p,otre:b ythtlicileodsoclmr --ft,rt:instable, by the Hon. Mrs. Clif- Denbigh

- Hall, on her marriage, by the - I.. S. Jerniiigham, by Lady

- svinolighby de Broke. on her Countess of I ladilington Stafford marriage, by Mrs Gamier - Lieut.-Colonel ti. Altudeberry, by - Smythe, by Viscountess Keith - . F. de Roos, on her marriage, the Hon. Lady M. Hesilridge - C. Lloyd, by Mrs. Lloyd

by the Duchess of Leinster --.1,Vat. Smythe, by Visa,. Keith

" The elegance of the equipages, (says a contemporary)'the transcendent splen- dour of the dresses, and the beauty of the ladies, was a spectacle scarcely equalled by the imaginary descriptions of fiction." We give a description of one or two of the dresses, as we can do no more. The Princess Augusta-Over a rich white satin petticoat, a white crape dress,naldagentio., ficently embroidered in gold, and tastefully ornamented at the bottom with points of. gold tissue, over which fell a deep and elegant flounce of blond. The body, made correspond in style with the bottom of the dress, was ornamented with diamonds, and trimmed with blond and gold embroidery. Her Royal Highness's train consisted of a 'superb gold brocaded silk, edged with it chain of gold bullion, and finished round, the waist with a rich gold band. Head-dress, splendid plume of ostrich feathers, intermixed • with gold and diamonds. TO, Princess Esterhazy-A splendid court robe of gold lama, worn over a rich white sat in slip, the body almost covered over with precious stones; the sleeves composed of beautiful blond of the last and newest fashion; the train of rich velvet, of a most vivid. cherry colour, with a rich and massive border of gold lama of bright and frosty gold. Head-dress composed of rich ostrich feathers, and it complete diadem of brilliants, of perfect and unique arrangement ; lappets of blond. Duchess of Itoxburgh-A beautiful dress of marabout gauze, embroidered with silver and blue silk, and elegantly trimmed with silver lama and white satin; - sleeves of Chantilly blond, called seduisantes ; train of blue tissue, brocaded with silver, and trimmed with silver lama. Bead-dress of beautiful ostrich feathers, with a profusion of brilliants ; lappets of blond. This beautiful dress created great notice; her Grace was indeed " observed of the court."

Drtchess of St. Allews-A splendid court dress, composed of rich white satin, with one deep and rich flounce of Chantilly lace blond ; the effect and style of the drapery were very beautiful, being looped up by large single diamonds; sleeves of beautiful blond ; the train of the same beautiful satin, trimmed with rich blond, and also dis- playing innumerable brilliants, which appeared to attach to the blond, forming a border to the train ; the body was Most costly, and of almost "regal note." Head-dress, white the ostrich feathers of rare perfection, which must have cost some labour to o

brilliants of unique and costly description ; blond lappets.

His Majesty has suffered much less inconvenience from his laborious exertions - the last two days than was anticipated, and his health has not been injured byhis visit to his capital.

Many of the beauties who graced the drawing-roam appeared in the King's Theatre in the evening, in their court-dresses ; and we are quite willing to be- lieve that the brilliant appearance was such as no " theatre in Europe ever pre- sented."

The King entertained a party at dinner yesterday. Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador, was absent from the Levee and Drawing-room on account of severe indisposition, from which his life was at one time considered in danger, though the malady has now taken a more favourable turn.

It has been remarked as one of the signs of the liberality of the age, that the Duke of Norfolk, a Catholic, presented to the King, at the levee, Mr. Monte. fore, a Jew. Another Jew, Mr. J. Lyon Coldsmid, was presented by the Mar- quis of Lansdowne.-Morning Herald New Kmoters -At the Levee on Wednesday, the King conferred the honour of knighthood on Captains Franklin and Parry ; on Mr. Cosway, late Secretary to Admiral Collingwood ; on Mr. Seymour, one of.the Judges of the Supreme Court ' of Bombay ; on Mr. CampbelL chief Justice of Upper Canada; and on Mr. W. • A .Scarlat, Chief Justice of Jamaica. The Duchess of Gloucester completed her fifty-third year on Saturday; of t I which occasion she received the congratulations of her Royal relatives. The Duke of Cambridge returned to Hanover on the 16th, from Homburg ; where he had attended the funeral of the Landgrave, his brother-in-law. POLITICAL SCANDAL—We may be tempted some day to give an account of the se- et movements of two or three agents in the late desperate endeavour made by an Ilustrious Person to overthrow the present Administration. One of the most active the party was a celebrated diplomatic lady, whose vanity had been piqued by he gallant Duke at the head of the Cabinet having, in his late conversations with er, displayed more courtesy than confidence, and greater anxiety to discuss gene- al than political topics. This, perhaps, was more than could be borne by a per- onage who has for many years taken so decided a tone in the diplomatic world, nd who has manifested her political enthusiasm in an unequivocal manner, by 'ving to the great promoter of the Holy Alliance a most positive pledge of her tachment to his principles. This surely was such a voucher for the sincerity of her friendship, that it seems hard the Duke could not give confidence to one so disposed to be confiding.—Tinges, Saturday.•

The young Queen of Portugal came to town on Saturday ; to visit the Marquis and Marchioness of Palmella, previous to their departure for Paris. The Mar- qUis, his lady, and seven children, sailed on Sunday for Calais.

The Marquis Barbacena has received imperative orders to return to Brazil with e young Queen ; who, indeed, afterthe, determination of our Government not to interfere between the two countries of Brazil and Portugal in any hostile way, could not very well remain longer here Morning Chronicle. • The election of Lady Londonderry, the new Almack Patroness, caused nearly as much discussion and opposition in the fashionable as the Catholic Bill did in the political world.—Eveniug Paper.

The Master of the Rolls underwent a severe surgical operation on Saturday ; from the effects of which he is recovering.

' Rai/Isms OF PUBLIC OFFICES.—The Government is now acting upon the pledge of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ' that it was intended to institute a particular inqUiry into the state of each and every public department." Local commissions have been formed, with instructions to extend their duties to the most rigid examination of the mode in which the business is transacted, the competency of the persons em- ployed, &c. with a view to an alteration in the system if practicable, so as to admit of a reduction in their numbers, which it is expected will be effected to a very considerable extent, between this and the meeting of the next session of Parlia- ment. Already at the Navy-office in Somerset House, has inquiry produced a very considerable reduction ; as, in addition to two Commissioners, it has been found practicable to dispense with the services of twelve clerks, who are to retire upon a superannuation allowance atcording. to their length of service.—Daily Paper.

The sum of 89,4701. has been voted by Parliament for the payment of Con- suls-General and Consuls, and for the pensions of those retired, fur the present year. A petition was presented to the House of Lords last night, from Mr. Cohbett, praying their Lordships to abolish the Protestant Church in Ireland as by law established Mr. John Bayley, eldest son of Mr. Justice Bayley, has been appointed Clerk of Assize on the Northern Circuit, in the room of Mr. Fletcher Riggc. Mr. Jus- tice Bayley has perseveringly gone the Northern Circuit for many years, with a view to this valuable appointment, it being in the gift of the senior Judge who has last travelled the circuit.— Times.

The King's birth-day was celebrated with enthusiasm in Manchester and Bolton. There were those who anticipated a different result, because they are pleased to consider his Ministers unpopular. In Dublin there was scarcely a sign of rejoicing. All the bells were mute, except in one parish.

MENDICITY SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting was held on Monday, in the Freemasons' Tavern ; Lord Radstock in the chair. The report stated, that the cases registered last year were 1284. In 653 cases, where want of employment was said to be the cause of appeals to public compassion, 367 were ascertained to be gross impostors; and 253, after being employed to grind corn, were ena- bled to support themselves. The number of non-registered cases was 5,297, of which 1,537 were Irish. Mr. Wilmot Hortun promised to bring the object of the institution before Parliament.

LONDON HospITAL—The friends of this institution dined together in the City of London Tavern on Wednesday ; the Duke of Gloucester in the chair. The number of patients admitted last year was 7820. The number admitted since the foundation of the Hospital, is 623,433. The Duke of Gloucester, in addition to his former donations, gave 501. to the charity.

ZOOLOGICAL SocisTv—It appeared from the report, read at the annual meet- ing on Wednesday, that the receipts of the last year amounted to 12,3584, and the expenses to about 10,0444 The number of visitors to the gardens, in the past year, was upwards of 112,000. As the soil of the Regent's Park is unfit fur the health of the more delicate beasts and birds, the Society has purchased thirty- three acres of ground at Kingston, "to allow the various animals belonging to the Society a place in which they might breed in quiet, and that opportunities might be offered of rearing and domesticating, if possible, foreign beasts and birds for the purposes of the table. Measures had also been taken at Kingston to make experiments in the breeding of fists."

THAMES TUNNEL.—A meeting of the shareholders was held on Tuesday, Mr. William Smith in the chair, to consider a proposition for completing the work by contract. The proposition was not very favourably received, and it came to nothing.

EAST INDIA TRADE.—Meetings have been held in Manchester, Leeds, and Glasgow, and petitions adopted against the longer continuance of the East India Company's monopoly. In Glasgow a permanent association has been formed " for the protection and furtherance of the general interests of the trade with the East Indies."

DISTRESS.—It has been estimated that upwards of two thousand persons in Colne have only about 2-.}d. a day each to live upon, including parish relief. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham is to take place on the 8th of May, " for the purpose of considering the distressed state of the country, and the propriety of petitioning Parliament to adopt such measures as may lie neces- sary for its relief."

The distressed silk-weavers of Macclesfield have shown a disposition to riot. The windows of Mr. Brocklehurst's factory at Hurdsfield were demolished on Monday night. One or two dwelling-houses are said to have been attacked. Mr. Brocklehurst has incurred the displeasure of the workmen by proposing to reduce their wages still further : all the weavers have in consequence struck work.

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the woollen-weavers of Rochdale were also in a state of riot. A good deal of mischief was done to one manu- factory; and the property of such of the weavers as were supposed to be work- ng under the regular prices, suffered severely at the hands of the misguided work- men.

At the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions, on Monday last, the present distress- ing state and threatening aspect of affairs in the great mining and manufacturing districts of this county formed an important subject for consideration in the Ma- gistrates' room; one of the most active of whom declared his utter inability to cope with a fifth part of the Justice business of his district, in which there is no resi- dent Magistrate but himself disconnected with iron-works. The want of an ade- quate currency is dreadfully felt ; and so great a portion of the present distressed state of trade is imputed to it, that public meetings will probably be called to represent the state of the country, and the local want of magistrates.

In Stockport, a dispute has existed for the last four months between the mas- ters and the weavers,—who refuse to work themselves, and will not allow stran- gers to enjoy the privilege they reject. A considerable number of weavers came to Stockport last week from Lancashire ; but the windows of their dwellings were broken, and themselves hooted in the streets.

CORN Laws.--Tile artisans and mechanics of Leicester have petitioned Par- liament for the total abolition of the corn-laws.

A number of respectable millers, mealmen, and manufacturers of flour, are about to petition against the importation of foreign flour for home consumption either in England, Ireland, Scotland, or the British Isles.

The inhabitants of Stone, in Staffordshire, have formed a society for the abo lition of the corn laws.

CONTINENTAL INtINDATIoss.—The month of April seems to have been un- usually stormy on the Continent, as well as at home ; and the spring floods have proved greatly destructive, both to life and property. In Poland, the Bug and the Narew have laid waste their shore ; and the overflowing of the Pregel, the Vistula, and the Nogarth, have been attended with serious ills. The inundations in the north of Germany are thus mentioned in letters which we have received from a friend at Konigsberg, dated the llth and 14th April.

" We are threatened with an inundation. The lower town is so far under water that people receive their provisions from boats through the first floor windows. The bridges in the neighbourhood have been carried away : there is every reason to suppose the roads near the Vistula will be impassable. There are shocking accounts from the surrounding country.. a 4' Two hundred drowned bodies have been picked up near Graiidenz ; which sup- poses a much greater number of victims. It is feared that the mischief is not yet over ; for, although the waters are subsiding, there is still an immense quantity of snow unmelted ; and the rivers are as much frozen as ever ; and when the debacle takes place, the drift ice from Poland may do more harm than has yet occurred. In the Tauschenzhen there are twelve feet of water, and six or seven in all the lower parts of the town. We are living, if such an existence can be called so, in the upper town. The invariable consequence of such a state in this country is a contagious fever, such as they had in Hol- land two years ago, when the sun comes out."

At Santarem, in Portugal, the plains are covered with water ; and at Oporto the weather is described as having been the most " wretched" ever known.

EFFECTS OF THE STonsts.—We need not inform our readers in these parts that the weather has been bleak, cold and stormy, to an unusual degree. It blew a hurricane on Monday and Tuesday, to the sad wreck of many chimney-tops. A chimney in Goswell-street fell through the roof, and buried a mother and her sleeping child in the ruins : both, however, were extricated—the mother a good deal cut and bruised, the child uninjured. An unfinished chapel in Sloane-street, Chelsea, received considerable damage ; eight carved stone spires, which sur- mounted the pinnacles, having been blown down and broken. Several vessels in the Thames were drifted from their moorings ; and great was the commotion among the small craft. A coal-heaver was blown from a barge between Arundel and Surrey Stairs ; but he, and two men who were upset in a wherry, were saved by timely assistance.

Snow fell on Wednesday.

The almost incessant rains and high winds have done much mischief in the country. In the neighbourhood of Lewes, large tracts of land have been laid under water; • and many of the farmers are supposed to have sustained heavy loss. About Henfield, there has been more water than for many years past. The storms on Saturday was the cause of several accidents in Bath. In the neigh- bourhood of Cheltenham, on Tuesday, many trees were blown down, and several houses unroofed in the surrounding villages. At Taunton, many thousands of acres in the low grounds were inundated ; and some trees had been prostrated by the wind. During the flood at North Curry, a boy six years of age was borne away by the force of the current, and drowned in the view of several persons who were unable to save him. The inhabitants of Laugport suffered from the rapid swell of their river by the violent rains ; and in some instances the water was four feet deep in the houses.

The gales have also caused much injury to the shipping on the coast. Three vessels were last week driven ashore near Eastbourne. The Fame, from Barba. does to Liverpool, and the Harlequin, from Palermo to Liverpool, were on Tues- day lost at Holyhead; but the crews in both cases were saved. A Dutch galliot was lost at the same place. Two vessels belouging to Newcastle and Sunderland were lost on the sands near Yarmouth : the crew saved. Some of the shipping at Ramsgate and Margate have sustained damage.

A sloop was wrecked within one hundred yawls of the beach at:Summercoats ; and four men, a woman, and two children were drowned.

FIRE IN WESTMINSTER Anasv.—An alarm was raised about ten o'clock on Monday night, by the discovery that the north transept of this structure was on fire. The flames were first seen by Blackburn, a watchman, bursting front a re- tired part of the building called the Nunnery, little known to strangers, and chiefly used as a lumber-room. Some gentlemen in the neighbourhood were immediately assembled ; an entrance was obtained ; and the ten o'clock bell having been rung, a crowd soon assembled. A party of the police was brought from Bow-street, and some soldiers from the Horse-Guards. In the mean time, every effort was used to overcome the threatened danger ; but there was a diffi- culty in reaching the part where the fire prevailed, till Mr. Carter, clerk to the works, succeeded in opening the door leading to the vaultiugs of the edifice. Some gentlemen ascended the stairs nearest to the fire ; and it was then ascer- tained that a canvass screen, formed out of a cast-off scene which had been used at the Westminster plays, had caught fire, fallen, communicated to the floor, and that the flames were fast ascending to the roof of the building. The engines which had arrived could not be brought to act with effect. The danger was great; but Sir George Rose, Mr. Phillips, and several other gentlemen, exerted themselves to the utmost, and happily succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Every one was necessarily anxious to trace this alarming matter. Mr. Peel, Sir Richard Birnie, and the Magistrates at Queen-square Police-office, next morning visited the building. A strict inquiry into the cause of the fire was set on foot,

and continued for several days, but it remains doubtful whether the fire is to be ascribed to an incendiary or to a thief : the latter seems the most probable. Some lead was found near Poet's Corner, and another quantity rolled up ready to be carried off. According to Blackburn the watchman, as he was ascending the stairs just above the fire, he heard a voice exclaim—" It is not here, sir—you need not come up ;" and he retreated without ascertaining who spoke to him. This is supposed to have been the thief (or incendiary). Even the means by Which the thief obtained entrance remains questionable ; but it is supposed he got in at a door at Poet's Corner, the lock of which seems to have been picked ; and the prints of footsteps are said to have been " legibly traced, in a passage leading to Poetts Corner, which had been recently made, and the soles of the shoes seem to have been full of hob-nails from the marks." Having got in, the way through Henry the Seventh's Chapel, from the decayed state of the doors, is believed to have been no difficult task, since the locks could be (as they seem to have been,) easily picked. According to the Times, forty shillings will repair all the damage,—though, but for the timely discovery of the fire, the interior of the venerable fane might have been destroyed. Since the fire, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster have received several anonymous letters, some prophesy- ing that the Cathedral would be burnt, and warning them to have a proper watch to prevent such a calamity taking place! A plan is ordered to be laid before the Dean and Chapter of the different windings, staircases, avenues, galleries, and approaches about'. the Abbey, and every officer is to have a particular set of keys. The dignitaries of the Abbey are said to have sent the anonymous letters to Mr. Peel, who has submitted them to the King.

Ft Res.—The Albemarle public-house, Piccadilly, was on Sunday burnt to the ground : not an article was saved. The landlord and his wife escaped with dif- ficulty. A lodger threw himself from his bed-room window to the street: one of his arms and two of his ribs were broken.

A more disastrous conflagration occurred on Tuesday afternoon, in the sugar- house of Messrs. Beetling and Co. Shorter-street, Cable-street. Fourteen fire- engines besides those of the parish were brought to bear on the flames, yet in four hours the walls fell in : a good deal of property was saved, but still the loss is estimated at 15,0001.

A number of poor families in Wells were on Tuesday rendered destitute by a fire which broke out in the western suburbs of that city. A sugar-house at Leith was burnt last week : the damage is nearly 10,0001. Fourteen families have been unhoused by a fire in a range of colliers' houses at Govan-hill, near Glasgow. In one of them, a watch was completely melted. A shock of earthquake was felt at Manila on the 9th of December. The churches and dwelling-houses suffered.

Ten persons have been drowned within these few days, by accident, on the Thames.

In the afternoon of Good Friday, a most tremendous storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied with heavy rain, passed down Newark, Nottinghamshire. The peals of thunder were very loud and long, and the glare of the lightning was an fully grand. To the assembled congregation at the church, it had the ap- pearance of the time when the Redeemer of mankind suffered on the cross- " when the vail of the temple was rent in twain." Just as the Rev. W. T. Wild, the curate of the parish, was finishing reading the second lesson, a flash of light- ning darted through the church, and deprived him of sight.—BirminghamJournal. On Thursday, a fine boy, about sixteen years of age, lost his life at the head of St. Leonard's-land. Along with a number of his juvenile companions, he had obtained a small cannon, which they were firing in honour of his Majesty's birth-. day, and while lie was in ,the act of driving home the charge against a wall, the powder was ignited by. the sparkling match he held in his hand, and in its re- bound the cannon laid open a portion of the abdomen. His companions fled, and his father was among the first who arrived at the spot ; and seeing his only child writhing in the agonies of death, he exclaimed " Oh ! what's this ?" To which the boy faintly replied, " Oh, father, I am awfu, awfu' sair!" and immediately afterwards expired.— Scotsman.

TRADING IN MARRIAGE.—Some days ago, at Worship-street Office, Hannah Moiling and Mary Watts, her daughter, were charged with having assaulted Mrs. Fisher. The amount of the complaint seemed to be—that Watts had met Mrs. Fisher in the street, and accused her of having starved or poisoned an old man, who had died in her house. Morling—" Yes. You had all the old man's money." Mrs. Fisher—" I had not. There was only 951., and that he gave to my husband's grandfather. He gave me his watch about a month before he died, and that was all I had." Morling—" Well, I never threatened you." Mr. Broughton---" What relation are you to the old man ?" Morling—" I was some years ago his wife ; but married again with his consent." Mr. Broughton—" Did your husband give you leave to marry again ?" Morling—" We parted, having had some words, and he gave me away in Shoreditch Church to another man." Mr. Broughton —" Your own husband gave you away to another man ?" Morling—" Yes, that's it your worship, and I was again lawfully married—(Laughter)---I say lawfully married, your worship, and I can prove it." Mr. Broughton—." I think he gave you away because you talked so much. I can't stop your tongue, and I sin sure Ile could not." Morling—" Why, my husband married three wives in the same way. He was lawfully married to them all, your worship." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Broughton—" Three lawful wives ! Well, you are the greatest lawyer I ever heard of. Were all three wives living at one time ?" Morling—" Yes, sir; but he had lawfully parted with one before he married another." Mr. Broughton- " Lawfully parted ! In what way do you mean?" Morling—" Why, my his- hand put me up to auction at Smithfield market. He led me there in a halter, and fastened me up to the rails for sale, as a cow in calf? Mr. Broughton- " Why did he put you up as a cow in calf?" Morling—" Because I was in the family way, your worship." Mr. Broughton—" You may think yourself well off that you have not been sent to Botany Bay." The prisoners were both ordered to find bail.

ASSAULT.—Mr. Smith, with whose name, in connexion with some Old Bailey trials for perjury and other crimes, the public are more than sufficiently acquainted, has been held to bail for assaulting a hackney-coachman, whose fare he withheld Two young women also complained of some gross behaviour on the part of this person, for which, however, the Magistrate could afford them no redress. CRUELTY.—John Shrieve and his wife have been fully committed, on a charge of extreme cruelty to a daughter of Shrieve's, by a former wife. This girl is about eleven years old : she was found fastened by the wrists and ankles to a ring in the wall of the house ; her emaciated body covered with bruises, rags, and filth. She was entitled to some money when she came of age, but it fell to the father in the event of her dying.

Cnito-STEALING.—Mary Jones is committed for trial for stealing a female child three years of age, daughter of Mr. Goddard, a tradesman in Coventry- street, Haymarket,

Roaexar.—William Young. the approver on the trial of Kite, King, and Wheatley, who were executed for the robbery at Teddington Lock-house, was on ' Monday fully committed for trial from the office in Bow-street, charged with the robbery of a gentleman's house on Ham Common, previous to the Teddington burglary. &maxim—Edward Mertelly has been examined at Bow-street on a charge of uttering a forged check for 200/. at the Banking-house of Coutts and Co. The check was drawn on Hamlet the jeweller.

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.—Some statements have appeared in the papers con- cerning a fracas at Westminster School, in which a town boy, the son of a re- spectable tradesman, has been seriously injured by two of the King's scholars. The unfortunate youth's skull was fractured by a stone thrown at him, and his life is considered hopeless. INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS—A fellow was apprehended at Truro, on Saturday, vending placards at one penny each, urging the people to resist the law passed in favour of the Catholics. otherwise " the blood of Protestants would be shed in torrents" in a few months. This zealous anti-Catholic said that he had been em- ployed by a person named Catnach, in Montnouth-court, Seven Dials, London. The Magistrate was at first inclined to , send the prisoner to Bridewell, but the milder course of destroying his placards, and setting him about his business, was adopted. SUICIDES.—Several self-murders have occurred during the week. Two of the suicides were elderly men, who had been reduced from competency to adversity. A young man shot himself through the head, because, as lie said in a valedictory letter, he had, from his " dear Harriet," received only " unkindness for his kindness, and frowns for his smiles." 'The driver of a Bath coach threw himself from the balustrade of Blackfriars Bridge on Monday; but he was saved by some watermen.

RoenEnzes.—The Catholic Chapel in London Road was on Sunday night robbed of various articles of plate used in the service of the church. A gentleman was robbed of a valuable watch on Wednesday night, by three scoundrels who hustled him on pretence of clearing his way.

Rior AT EALINA.—This affair, which we slightly noticed last week, turns out to be much more serious in its results than was then known. Three men were

shot dead by the fire of the police ; the arm of a boy was broken by a ball; ano-

ther person was shot in the neck ; and several were more or less wounded. The police appear to have interfered with the people without necessity; and when the

attention of the mob was attracted to them, after the first fatal shot was fired, the police continued to discharge their muskets among the people, none of whom. were within a stone's throw of the barracks.

Within two days last week, six inquests were held at Mallow, in Cork, on the bodies of men who had been murdered.

A father, mother, two daughters, and a son, have been committed to Limerick gaol, charged with the murder of two men.

FAA RIONABLE PARTIES.—On Monday, the Princess Augusta entertained the Duke of Cumberland and a select party to dinner. The Duke of Devonshire had a din- ner party. Lady William Freemantle gave an assembly, which was attended by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and a numerous party of the hezut ton, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. M.P. gave a grand dinner party. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained a distinguished party at dinner. On Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex had a grand dinner party. The Earl of Chesterfield gave a dinner party. Mrs. W. Carnac had an assembly.. On Thursday, dinners were given by several of the Cabinet Ministers and great Officers of State. The Duke of Wellington entertained a numerous party of members of the House of Peers; Mr. Secretary Peel, the Judges ; the Earl of Aberdeen, the Foreiga Ambassadors and Ministers ; Sir George Murray, the Commander of the Forces ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Mint, the Secretary of State for Ireland, Ix.; the Lord Chamberlain, the gentlemen of his department; the Lord Steward, the members of the Board of Green Cloth, &c. ; the Groom of the Stole, the Lords and.. Grooms of the Bedchamber attending his Majesty ; the Duke of Leeds, as Master of the Horse, entertained his Majesty's Equerries and Aids.de-Camp.

As Lord Eldon was leaving the Lords, after the passing of the Catholic bill, he said to a member of the other House, with a significant look, " Well, I suppose you think this will do for your Irish friends?" " Why," replied Mr. "I hope it will ; and why not ? it has done for you !"—Globc.

The admission of the Duke of Norfolk, 8cc., into the House of Peers on Tues day, is thus recorded on their Lordships' journals :—" The Duke of Norfolk, the Lord Clifford, and the Lord Dormer, took the oath appointed by the act of the : resent session to he taken by peers professing the Roman Catholic religion."

CariroLic M.P.'s.—Thc Manchester Advertiser has provided seats in Parte' vent for some of the leading Catholics in the midland counties. Mr. Trafford is

o divide the representation of Preston. The Catholic interest in Wigan is to divide that borough with the Earl of Balcarras. Half the county of Stafford is iespoke for the Honourable Mr. Jerningham ; and the Honourable Mr. Petre is o sit either for Yorkshire or Pontefract.

The Hon. D. Cathcart, Lord Alloway, one of the Scotch Judges, died on londay. The Earl of Bridgewater, by his will, has left his manuscripts to the British :luseum, and the interest of 7,0001. to the librarians who are appointed to take are of them. He has also left 50001. to augment the collection of manuscripts f that institution.

One of the 50/. gold medals which the King has placed at the disposal of the loyal Society of Literature, has been conferred on Mr. Roscoe, the venerable his- orian of Leo the Tenth and Lorenzo de Medicis.

Mr. B. COOPER AND THE LANCET.—A number of the pupils of Guy's Hospital n Monday presented Mr. Bransby Cooper with a silver vase, "to testify," as the ascription says, " their ardent participation of his triumph over a daring and falicious libel."

Mrs. KERN.—The tragedian has been confined in the Royal 'Rotel, Kingston, by paralytic attack in the lower extremities. His life is not supposed to be in im. fediate danger but it is feared that he can never again appear on the stage. PnonrcE OF TAXES.—The tax, last year, on bricks and tiles, amounted to £0,0001.; on hides and skins, to 380,000/.; on soap, to 1,200,0001.; on starch, h 80,0001.; on British spirits, to four millions ; on tea, to three millions ; on. ladles, to half a million ; on beer, malt, and hops, to about seven millions.

There is a duty chargeable on the importation of eats ;—if from any British pos.. sesion in America, 3d. each; from other places, 6d. each. According to the Morning Herald, there arc 649 persons confined in Millbank Pnitentiary, who cost the country annually nearly 71/. The sending a convict tc Van Dieman's Land costs 80/., while merchant vessels take out passengers at 30/. each.

Martin, the incendiary, has been brought from York to the Criminal Lunatic asylum, St. George's Fields. MEASLES.—The measles have been felt with peculiar severity among the caildren in Brighton for some weeks past. In the burial-ground of Hanover

chapel alone, thirty-two children were interred in less than a fortnight, all of them victims to that distressing malady. Ten were buried in the church-yard on Sunday, and nine the same day in Hanover chapel burial-ground. One poor woman lost four children in one week. The prevalence of the malady is now nearly at an end in the town.—Brighton Gazette.

We observe by the Irish papers, that measles have been also of late very prevalent in that country. They have " spread like a plague all over the country, and there is scarcely a house in which there is not one death."

To show how industry is crippled and overlaid in all its operations in Ireland, we need only mention that Sir Arthur Chichester, of Belfast, makes 10441. 3s. lid. a year by butter-tasting.—Dublin Morning Register.

Mr. Otway Cave, M.P. has subscribed 1001. to the national tribute to Mr. O'Connell.

The constabulary force of Ireland is now 5754 men, including 222 chief con- stables; annual cost 235,224/.

At an Aldermanie feast in Dublin last week, the loyalty of the Brunswickers, on the health of the King being proposed, was manifested by " the most boisterous hooting and disapprobation ;" whereas " the Duke of Cumberland," and " the Glorious Memory and Protestant Ascendancy," were drunk with loud acclama- tions; and an unfortunate Alderman who refused to join in the latter toast, was heady thrown nut of the window.

Luke Shea, Esq., of Britlieldstown (a Roman Catholic gentleman), has been unaniniously selected one of the churchwardens for the parish of Lacton, Cork, for the ensuing year.—,Southern Reporter.

EMI CI RAT iu N .—The Rev. Richard la arte, appointed to a living in Canada, with forty-four respectable farmers, chiefly from the comity of Tipperary, left Lime- rick in the trig Thetis, ou Wednesday fur Quebec.—Dublin Evening Post.

Seven vessels with emigrants sailed from Waterford and Rosa, for Quebec, in one day. Four vessels with three hundred emigrants from Belfast, and two brigs with two hundred and fifty from Newry, sailed last week for Quebec.

The brig Corsair, Capt. Hamilton, sailed from Landash, in Arran, fur the b a of Chaleur, on the 711 of April, with seventy- si a emigrants front that island. y is understood that the Duke of Hamilton made a donative of 5/. to each family to assist in paying their passage. The Duke has obtained for each family that may emigrate from Arran this year or the next, a grant of one hundred acres, free of all encumbrance.—Greenock Advertiser.