MrsrrsrEntat. PENSIONS.—The three pensioners under Lord Castle s reagh's Cabinet Superannuation Act, are Lords Sidmouth and Bexley,

and Mr. fluskisson. They have three thousand a year eachThe 'family of Mr. Canning have the same sum. Mr. Lushington, the Governor of Bombay, has fifteen hundred a year, and Messrs. Hamilton

and Hobhouse have one thousand each ; the first as ex Secretary of the Treasury, the Others as ex Under Secretaries of State. Mr. Ward, who -still holds office, draws only five hundred pounds, the half of his pension as Clerk of the Ordnance.

COURTS or Law.—Every one knows, by report at least, that the Courts of Law at Westminster are the most vilely-constructed hovels

that ever a nation was taxed to pay, not at all excepting Mr. Nash's

brick palace with the marble gate ; that they afford no accommodation for the judges, the juries, the barristers, the attorneys, the witnesses, and least of all, for the public. All this is notorious ; and like many other English abuses, we should say, it is borne solely because of its notoriety, for nothing so soon leads to the amendment dr alteration of what is in convenient as its capability of partial defence. The attorneys a short time ago memorialized the Treasury on the subject; they called for accommodation, and they offered to pay for it. The attorneys pay some two hundred thousand a-year to the Treasury, and the accommodation they demanded would cost by estimate thirteen thousand altogether. The Treasury refused to accede to the demand in the memorial, because of the expense ! Why don't the attorneys meet and strike ? A VETERAN FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE.—There is a Customhouseofficer living in the kingdom of Poland, who has completed his 112th year. He has been eighty-seven years in active employment in the service, and discharges his functions at this very moment to the full satisfaction of his superiors.—Prussian State Gazette. [This old fellow ought to be served as he has so long served his functions—discharged.]

HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.—A few days since, a woman, aged 108 years, residing in the neighbourhood of the Brown Moor' was seen en

gaged in driving home peats in a wheelbarrow from an adjacent moss,

without either shoes or stockings on her feet. So much for the salubrity of the climate of Elginshire, and the hardihood of its inhabitants !

Elgin Courier. [Was hardihood the cause that led the lady in question to dispense with shoes and stockings, or was it that which makes the men in the same district dispense with indispensables—because they have none to wear ?]

tiGASPARD HausEn.—A dumb (not deaf) boy, bearing this name, was some time ago found at the gates of Nuremberg. The affair seems to have made a great deal of noise among the imaginative Germans ; and nothing will serve the boy's protectors, but that be is of high, even princely rank. The last German journals contain a long story about a parson named Winter and a woman named WIWI' or Bonvall, who are suspected to know something of the boy's birth and his exposure. Unfortunately Bonvall has seen fit to be seized with insanity, and the

benefit of her testimony is thus lost for the time being. She is a domestic In a family at Pesth ; and from the boy's appearing much excited on hearing an Hungarian converse in his native language, it is conjectured that Hauser must be originally from Hungaria. We have no doubt that 'Lim is a brother of Miss Caraboo.

MEAD atave.—The following strange story appears in a letter from Oporto, quoted by a Morning Paper. "The execution of a culprit on ...Friday (13th May) was attended with strange circumstances. After

his execution, as the Brotherhood of Mercy were carrying his body to be interred, he gave signs of life in the coffin, spoke, and asked for Some water. He was taken to the hospital, when, as the Brotherhood were about to administer some remedies to restore him, an officer came from the Chief of the Alcada to forbid the administering of relief, and from half-past twelve to four o'clock he was struggling with death. I have been told that his life could have been saved, as his tongue alone was ins jured, being slightly swelled."

STEasr-BoATs.---In 1814, the United Kingdom boasted 11 steamboats, averaging 50 tons each, and manned by 65 men. In 1829, the port of London alone had 167, averaging 100 tons each ; and the whole number in England amounted to 342 ; the tonnage to 31,108 ; and the crews to 2,745.

The number of steam-boats in France is thirty-five. The first boat possessed by the French (in 1819) was an old vessel named the Rob Roy, that used to ply in the Firth of Forth. It has been rebaptized the " Henri Quatre," and is employed at present as Mail-boat between Ca.

lais and Dover. Five of the French boats are not yet launched—they are intended for the service of the expedition to Africa. The Russians have two steam-boats. There are six on the Rhine. One plies between Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Carthagena : it formerly belonged to Sir J. M. Doyle. There are two at Calcutta—the Enterprise and a countrybuilt vessel. In 1812 the Americans had 170, mostly small ; in 1829 the number was 320, nearly all of them large vessels. NEWSPAPERS IN PARIS AND IN LONDON.—The total number per

diem of the daily journals printed in Paris exceeds 60,000. The number per diem of all the journals printed in the same city during the month of April amounted to 91,982! The Opposition daily prints circulate 32,929; of which number the Constitutionnel alone sells 16,666; the copies of Royalist journals amount to 27,866. The daily press of London consists of twelve journals, six morning and six evening, which circulate altogether about 25,000. Paris has a population of 700,000; London, of 1,500,000. If the demand for newspapers in the one town were as great as in the other (and if the tax were a penny instead of a groat, there can belittle doubt that it would be greater), the sale per diem of the London daily journals would not be short of 125,000; to say nothing of the hundreds of daily papers that would start up in every respectable town in England, which at present are compelled to depend for their earliest intelligence on a journal printed at one, two, or three hundred miles distance.

THE SEA SenrExr.—This ill-shaped fish has made his appearance

in the neighbourhood of St. Augustin, where he was seen by a Captain Hanford on the 2nd of April. The Captain says—" When we first saw him, he was at the distance of one hundred and fifty yards with his head continually out of the water ; his jaws were extended. sufficient to receive a rice tierce of the largest size ; he steered for the vessel with rapidity, showing many fins resembling the sword of a sword-fish, from four to six feet in length. iire could plainly discern four rows of teeth on each jaw ; his length from twenty to twenty-five feet. He then stood off to the north, making a leap forward to catch a porpoise, clearing himself from the water five or six feet, which gave us a fair opportu.. nity to view his elegant form. His head appeared to be as large as a sugar hogshead, resembling that of an alligator, with his upper jawbone back." Of this elegant gentleman, with a head like an alligator and as big as a sugar hogshead, the captain very considerately adds—" Should any persons in an open boat fall in with this hungry-looking fellow, I should advise them to leave-his company as soon as possible."

ANT MADNESS;--A worthy correspondent of the Morning Herald seriously recommends the scattering about the streets of poisoned sausages, in order to get rid of the dogs that interrupt the peace of the natives so grievously. DISCOVERY IN NATURAL HISTORY; SNARES ARE NOT EELS.—A youth

named Taylor, who had gone to a pond for the purpose of angling, observed one of these reptiles on the bank basking in the sun ; upon his making towards it, the affrighted creature, seeing no other means of escape, instantly darted into the water and disappeared. The curiosity of the youth was excited, and he watched to see the snake come up ; when, on the other side of the pond, he saw a small bubble which attracted his attention, and on going to the spot, to his utmost surprise, he beheld the reptile in an erect position, with its head close to the sueface, and quite motionless. On drawing it out with a stick, it proved to be three feet long, and was quite dead !—Correspondent of the Morning Herald. JOB'S Daus arEas.—There are now living in th4county of Kent three sisters, who were named after Job's three daughters, Jemima, Kezia, and Kerenhappuch, the eldest of whom is 84, the next 83, and the youngest 81.—Maidstone Journal. [Are these veteran spinsters as fair as their namesakes of Uz ?]

Ster TEES.—Two addresses, one from the natives, another from the European residents in Calcutta, have been presented to Lord William Bentinck on the abolition of Suttees. As usual, there is a plentiful ex.

change of laudation between the parties ; and for what For an act of common humanity, which every intelligent and respectable man in England has demanded, in the name of law, morality, and religion, for the last forty years ! If so great be the praise for their abolition, what execration ought to be poured on those who so long suffered them ? Had India been under any sway but that of a commercial company, the revolting atrocities whose termination is but just provided for, would long before this have been a matter of doubtful history. Slave Maim—The Sparrowhawk captured a Spanish schooner lately, in the neighbourhood of Cuba, with 108 slaves on board, the remains of 168 with which she had left the African coast, the rest having died on the passage. EAST INDIA COMPANY SMUGGLERS.—One of the most curious fea tures in the present disputes between the Company's factory and the Chinese is a demi-official proclamation in favour of smuggling, put forth by the former. They have taken possession of a rocky islet called the Brother and there, and at two stations on the mainland, they have declared their intention of trading with any parties that may be inclined to trade with them. So much for longs and Co-hongs !

WRIT DE HOMINE HEPLEGIANDO.-4 case Of some interest Was tried in the Jamaica courts lately, with a view to establish the freedom of a Mulatto child. The mother had been willed to the daughter of her mistress, oacondition, that if she .behaved properly for live years, she would be manumitted. She did behave well, and was manumitted accordingly; but she had had a child during the five years, and on her receiving freedom, the child was claimed by a person named Nesbitt, as heir at law of the emancipte's deceased mistress. The Jury, under the direction of the Judge, found for the irnancipee.

A WONDERFUL EGG.—Mrs. Fieldrew. fishmonger of Bideford, on Wednesday last observed a very large duck's 'egg, which she broke, and found the yolk and white perfect, but containing another egg. Prompted by a desire to view the internals of this unexpectedly mysteriously internal second egg, she broke that also, and, lo ! it contained two other eggs. What it portends we know not.—P/yrnoutla Gazette. [Nor do we know ; can any of our readers assist us ?] THE AUGSBURG CONFESSION.—His Prussian Majesty has issued a cabinet order, commanding the third secular celebration of the year in which this celebrated document was presented, to take place on the 25th instant, in all the churches, with the same ceremonies as in 1730.

Pim° PENANG.—An address was presented to Sir John Claridge, on the 29th September last, on his retirement from the Recordership of this island, which is worthy of pieservation, from the singularity of its style as well as a monument of the beneficent effects of British law wisely and considerately administered. The following are the principal clauses of this curious document. "Prostrate, we consider that you, illustrious Sir, sustain an office for the well-being of the people, and the Genii of the land—that you have power of life and death, and your benevolence reforms and instructs the people in a greater degree than the ancient Ruler Le-kwa, who, from kindness of heart, used merely a rush whip to chastise the people, that he might induce them to feel ashamed of doing wrong. Your strict purity and integrity also exceed the ancient Heang.chung-whan, who when he watered his horse, threw money to pay for it into the river Wei. Three years have elapsed since you arrived at your office ; during which time, in reference to those above, you have obeyed the laws of the country, and towards those below you have conformed to the feelings of human nature. You have decided in judgment like a divine person ; you have loved the people as little children. Songs of praise have arisen on every highway. Merchants and traders have pursued their avocations in peace and tranquillity. Truly it has been a great blessing to our island, and at the same time an extreme display of kindness. Of late, as your carriage was visiting every town, and all expressed their desire that their turn to be visited should arrive, suddenly a Royal mandate is heard calling you to return to your country ; and we, looking round, find no means of detaining you. Although we intensely desire to cling to v chariot, and have hearts to lie down among the wheels, we feel really ashamed that our strength is inadequate to draw in the earth, and pull back the heavens : we can only look forward dud upward with vain desire, as those who look to the clouds in time of drought."

PinAcv.—From a letter dated St. Sago, Cape •Verd Islands, February 27th, there is every reason to believe that the brig which committed the acts of piracy cue board of the American ship Candace is one that put in to St. Jago in the course of last autumn, and sailed thence on the 9th November (the Candace was attacked on the 13th) for the coast of Africa. The name of the brig is the Manzaneres ; and the captain is one Manuel Alcantara, a person well known at St. Jago. He described his vessel as a Spanish slaver. It has been ascertained that Alcantara seized her in her passage from the Havannah, having killed the captain, supercargo, and finally the boatswain who, on the vessel's reaching the island of St. Vincent's (Cape de Verl Islands), had expressed a wish to go ashore.

The town of Grendringen was on the 18th ult. partly consumed by fire ; above fifty houses, the Reformed church, and all the archives became a prey to the flames. None of the inhabitants perished ; but the loss of an immense quantity of cattle is regretted.

COLONIAL LEGIBLATORS.—Three negroes at Barbadoes were lately convicted of "imagining the death of their master." The Government pardoned them, because of the vagueness of the offence. The Assembly have passed resolutions condemning this act of grace.

Swirzen.LAND.—The Swiss Cantons, according to the last census, contain a population of very nearly 2,000,000. The federal military

contingent consists of 33,758 men, with a reserve of double that amount ; and the armed landwehr consist of 140,000; forming a total of 207,518 men, exclusive of the federal staff. The Swiss troops in the service of foreign Powers, but subject to be recalled should their country he engaged in war, amount to 18,136 men.

GOVERNMENT OF UPPER CANADA.--" The British Government never did a wiser thing than in sending out Sir John Colborne to this

country as Governor ; had they searched their dominions, high and low,

they could not have found a fitter person. Reis just the man we want ; he identifies himself with no party, sees with his own eyes, hears with his own ears, and thinks and acts for himself, and that with promptness and decision ; and is fitted alike to maintain the due prerogative of the Crown, and to secure the people in the enjoyment of their just rights and privileges."—Letter from a Settler, Morning Herald.

CANDIDATE FOR GREECE.—It is said, in the French papers, that the Prince of Wirtemberg intends to start for Greece. They do not give the state of the bettings. We would incline to back the field against the favourite.

THE JESUITS.—A Madrid correspondent of the Message,des Cham&es, in announcing a decree of Ferdinand for the suppression of the Jesuits, asks if Spain is to precede France in civilization. We don't think the suppression of the Jesuits a very dangerous symptom.