demand made upon it for 400,000/. on behalf of Messrs.

Cockerell, Trail,

and Co. The merchants of Calcutta, it is added, offered to subscribe one million for the purpose of supporting the credit of Messrs. Palmersi but

even that encfrmous sum was not deemed sufficient. The stoppage has been attended with disastrous effects on other establishments ; and a panic at pre- sent prevails in India, not dissimilar to that which prevailed in England in

1825. Much sympathy is felt and expressed in favour of the bankrupts, as is always the case where the bankruptcy is sufficiently extensive. It is no wonder that mankind have in various quarters of the world been worship- pers of the Devil ; for in all countries the reverence felt for the perpetrator of an injury seems to be in the direct ratio of the injury effected. AN OLD SERVANT.—A mare died last week in Aberdeenshire, in the forty-third year of her age ! THE ALGERINE EXPEDITION.—It appears that the resistance which awaits the invaders in the rigour of the climate and the sterility of the soil has been extremely overrated. The high chain of mountains, which sepa- rates the Algerine territory from the desert, not only protects it against the parching winds of the south, but, by arresting the clouds driven by the north wind, renders rain during one half of the year very frequent. The fertility of the soil, which was NO proverbial in the time of the Romans as to procure for it the title of the Third Granary of Rome, still supplies all the necessaries of life in abundance, notwithstanding the slight care bestowed on its culture.

THE KING Awn QUEEN or NAPLES.—These sovereigns arrived at Bayonne on the 27th ult. The King, though only fifty, is said to have a very feeble, aged appearance. MAnazAscait.—The latest accounts from this island (14th January) mention an attack of the Ovas (the natives round Tamatave and the other French posts) on a small French force, and their defeat. They add, that there were appearances of the war becoming general. The French had withdrawn to the Isle of Bourbon the troops that had been occasionally em- ployed in Madagascar ; and, it was supposed, would find themselves in a critical position in consequence.

SEDITION IN THE NETHERLANDS.—The trial of Monsieur de Potter and his associates for sedition, which was looked to with such anxiety at Brussels, closed on the 30th of April, after having occupied the Court for fifteen days. M. de Potter has been condemned to banishment for eight years, two of his associates for seven, one for five, and three have been ac- quitted. Samrsro ON LAND.—In some experiments at Charleston, in the United States, it has been found, that a car on a railway will lie, as it is technically termed, within four points of the wind,—that is, if the wind be N.W. or N.E. the car may be propelled by such a wind in a due northerly direction, and at a rate varying from twelve to twenty-five miles per hour. RAILWAY.—The new railway from Canterbury to Whitstable was opened OIL Monday. The length is seven miles. The first four miles are of the nature of an inclined plane, down which the waggons proceed at the rate of twenty-five miles an Iwur • along the remaining three they are propelled by a steam-engine. The whole length is travelled in about twenty minutes, and passengers are carried from the one town to the other for ninepence. Inisu Pros.—Ireland is known to produce pigs as well as paupers ; and this season, it appears, the exports of the more valuable commodity bid fair to equal the other. The County Chronicle says—" The immense number of 14,500 pigs, from Ireland, have this season passed through the turnpike at Beckhampton, on their road to London ! " THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.—It is said that this young gentleman, who is at present at Paris, is about to be deprived of his dominions by the Elec- tor of Ilesse and the French Ministry; but the mode has not been yet de, termined. The process of simple ejectment will probably be preferred. A LAST SHIFT.—The patriots of Portugal have taken to singing Miguel down. The burden of their song is—" He promised, he swore, and he failed." The burden would be equally applicable to the singers. INCREASE.—All innkeeper, residing within a hundred miles of the Bull's Head, Congleton, has been married eighteen years and four months, and had nineteen children; a brother of his nineteen years, and has had nine- teen children : their sister has been married twenty years' and has had twenty children. The father and mother of the above had twenty-three children in twenty-one years and a half.—Macclesfield Courier. TnE SCHOOLMASTER ABRoan.—The Spanish Government has esta- blished at Seville a school for the study of bull-fighting—Tauromachy. A pupil of the celebrated Pepe Yllo is professor. PRAYERS FOR THE ICING.—A correspondent, who signs himself "A Hebrew," requests us to contradict the statement which we copied from the daily papers, that the Jews last week for the first time offered up a prayer in their Synagogues for his Majesty's health. Such, our correspondent states, has been the Jewish custom all along. The prayer alluded to was a peculiar one appropriate to the occasion.

An eminent confectioner, of Berkeley Square, is sa41 to possess property to the amount of twenty-five thousand pounds a year, the result of his atterings for the palates of the great.

IMPORTANT.—BIG BROWN AND PHIL. SAMPSON FOR 4001.—This fight will come off on Tuesday next, the 11th inst. Sampson is said to be much heavier than at his last appearance in the ring. Dutch Sam and Harry Holt are to second him. Brown will be most probably attended by his friend the Ex-chanspion, Tom Spring. The scene of action will be known in due time at the sporting houses.—Morning Herald. It SCENE IN LEICESTERSHIRE.—This morning I walked out to Hail- 'stone, nearly three miles on the Lutterworth road, and got my breakfast ithere. You have nothing to do hut to walk through these villages, to see (the cause of the increase of the jails. Standing on the hill at Knighton, you ee the three ancient and lofty and beautiful spires rising up at Leicester; ou see the river winding down through a broad bed of the most beautiful meadows that man ever set his eyes on ; you see the bright verdure covering all the land, even to the tops of the hills, with here and there a little wood, as if made by God to give variety to the beauty of the scene, for the river brings the coal in abundance, for fuel, and the earth gives the brick and the tile in abundance. But go down into the villages ; invited by the spires, rising up amongst the trees in the dells, at scarcely ever more than a mile or two apart ; invited by these spires go down into these villages, view the large, and once the most beautiful, Churches ; see the parson's house, large, and in the midst of pleasure-gardens; and then look at the miserable sheds in which the labourers reside Look at these hovels, made of mud tuid straw;

bits of glass, or of old off-cast windows, without frames orhinges frequently, hut merely stuck in the mud wall. Enter them, and look at the bits of chairs or stools ; the wretched boards tacked together, to serve for a table ; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags on the backs of the wretched inhabitants;

and then wonder, if you can, that the jails and dungeons and tread-mills in- crease, and that a standing. army and barracks are become the favourite establishments of England !—Cobbelfs Register.

A MISFORTUNE FOR THE VInGix.—The Madrid Gazette announces that Ferdinand has been seized with gout in his right hand. It is hardly expected that be will be able to hold the needle for a month to come !

RECIPE.—The following is the genuine production of a practitimier of medicine in the county of Lancaster :—" You may heate and drink what hever you choose, But you must come hover before you cams be effectuall Cured ."—Stockport Paper. RABBIT-SKIN GLOVES.—A tanner residing near Paris has discovered a method of tanning hare and rabbit-skins so as to render the leather superior to calf or kid for shoes, gloves, &c. The new process effects a considerable saving to the consumer. NOVELTIES.--At this circuit we remarked the rare coincidence of a new judge, a new advocate depute, new clerks, a new macer, and new wigs ! The latter are made of grey horse hair, and excellent as an evasion of the hair-powder tax and preservative of coat-collars.—Perth Courier. THE POPE.—His Holiness is said to be dying. During the Easter so- lemnities, he was unable to discharge his important functions, and he has since been compelled to leave the Vatican for his retreat on the Quirinal Hill.

The Magistrates of Devonshire have adopted so rigid a system of economy, that they have reduced the county expenditure from 20,000/. per annum to .16,0001.

USE or THE CORN-LAWS.—We would ask the landed interest, or the " TOP BooTs," as they are called, for what purpose are they allowed the monopoly of supplying the nation with corn ? Is it not that they may get higher rents to employ artisans and skilful workmen, and buy those things which the manufacturers prepare ? Obtuse as they often show themselves to the true interests of the empire, we cannot believe they are actually so stupid as to suppose that John Bull submits to pay that enormous income- tax to them, viz., the price between what corn could be imported for, and the price at which it is sold in the markets here, for nothing. We call it an " income-tax" because it is so - and it is an " income-tax" which the ope- ratives and artisans, and fundtolders and annuitants, EXCLUSIVELY pay. The enormity is such that if the parties enumerated were not sensible per- sons, and knew that tle tax returns to themselves in the shape of employ- ment, it would never be endured. Every old woman able to swing a stone round her head in the foot of a stocking, would marshal herself to try the thickness of the skulls of certain persons that we could name, who conceive they have any other right to rents or monopolies of any sort or kind than what belongs to the trusts and reciprocities of social life and political expe- diency. " THE TOP BOOTS" are paid a premium in the shape of a high price on corn, not because they are proprietors of the land, but because it is well known they are so brainless that they cannot keep a shilling when they get it, but must lay it out in purchasing articles the dealing in which consti- tutes so much of the trade of the country.—Fraser's Magazine.

A PEACEFUL CONVERSION.—A letter from Bucharest, of 20th March,. mentions that the materials of the dismantled fortresses of Ibrail, Tournoul, and Ghiurgevo, are to be employed in the building of Greek churches for the use of these towns.

PICTUEES.—The sale of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of prints and pictures, by Mr. Cluistie, at his rooms in King Street, commences on Monday, and continues every day during the week ; the paintings to be sold on Saturday. On that day also, Mr. Phillips sells by auction, at his rooms, a fine collection of pictures by the Old Masters, the property of an eminent modern artist. The Drawings made by the late President are to be sold by Mr. Christie in the following week. We shall endeavour to find room for a notice of them.

ON WRIGHT, THE LESSEE, in posse, AND DUNN, THE TREASURER, in ease, OF DRURY LANE THEATRE.

If Charley Wright takes Drury Lane, And Billy Dunn should leave it quite, A little time will make it plain,

That Wright is done, and Dunn is right.