Dr. Chalmers preached on Sunday last at the National Scotch

Church in aid of the funds of the congregation. The admission was .principally by tickets : the church was thronged, as in the days of the Irving mania; and hundreds went away unable to procure admission. The collection amounted to 270/.

The grand gala for the benefit of the distressed Poles was held on

Monday at Vauxhall. - Ten thousand persons visited the Gardens in the course of the evening, and upwards if two thousand pounds were -received. Pasta, De Meric, Taglioni, Paaanini, and De Begnis offered their gratuitous services to perform at the theatre ; but the noise and ;interruption caused by a few disorderlies was so greet, that this part of Abe entertainment was entirely spoiled. A certain eloquent fanatic, whose enthusiasm and bewildered zeal have recently occasioned so much controversy, prayed three or four 'hours the other day over the dead body of his child, in the hope that its life might be restored.—Globe. An old gentleman, who had been receiving a considerable dividend at -the Bank on Wednesday, and who had taken some pains to stow away 'his roll of notes carefully before he quitted the counter, as be was leav

ing the office door found his pocket was empty. He raised an alarm -of thieves, while he dived into all his other pockets, but with no suc- cess. The Police-officers who were on the spot, were satisfied no

thieves had been in the room; and while a messenger was despatched to the Cashier's office to give notice of the numbers of the notes, they

proceeded with his permission to examine his clothes, when to his :great joy, they discovered the precious roll, which he bad stuffed in be- tween his waistband and his shirt, instead of into his pocket.

A forgery was discovered on Wednesday at the Bank, upon a lady claiming a dividend. When she was told there was no such account,

-she produced the usual transfer-receipt given to buyers of Stock and -signed by the sellers. It turned out, however, that no such sale had oc- curred, and that the broker (who has disappeared) had pocketed her money, and filled up a transfer receipt with a fictitious seller.

A great number of counterfeit Bank of England notes have recently been detected. They appear to have been first put in circulation at the gambling-houses. Mr. Williams, a solicitor, of Monmouth, lately received a parcel from his agent in London, by the Gloucester mail, enclosing documents con-

nected with a chancery proceeding, unaccompanied by any letter. The parcel had been opened in the coach-office in London, and when deli- vered at Mr. Williams's, house, one end was completely open, so that the contents might have easily dropped or been taken out.

A valuable parcel by the steam-boat from Amsterdam, containing bonds and inscriptions of foreign stock, and addressed to a mercantile

house in the City, was opened on Monday at the Customhouse, and delivered to the owner with all the seals broken' and exposed conse- quently to depredation by any hand through which it might previously pass, without any means of fixing with certainty on the depredator.— Times. •

Messrs. Charles Ogleby and Co., spermaceti refiners, Vauxhall, received information on Saturday last, that their town traveller, Henry Austin, had absconded from their service with 400/. belonging to them.

William Barker, the witness against Mr. Bankes, is regularly entered in the Shipbrokers' List, as a passenger by the Amity, which sailed for New York three weeks ago. The Reverend Robert Taylor was liberated on Wednesday morning i from his long imprisonment, on entering into his own sureties n 5001. ; Government having remitted the fine of 2001. Some weeks ago, a young woman, named Catherine Murphy, was committed to prison, charged with stealing a pocket-book, containing bank-bills to the amount of 1,4001., from a gentleman named Ker,

- -- who was residing at the Old Hummums. On Monday, however, a Pcliceman was met in James Street, Covent Garden, by a woman whom he did not recognize, Nvlio put an unsealed packet into his hands, and desired him to inspect the contents. While he was doing so she ran away ; the packet contained all that Mr. Ker had lost ; and on Monday the Policeman gave it to the Bow Street Magistrates.

On Friday week, a child, two years old, while playing in Mr. Lord's soap-manufactory, in Tunbridge Street, New Road, fell through an open trap-door into a vat of boiling tallow, and was burnt to death. i The mother was also severely burnt n taking the Child out of the vat.

Mr. Gibson, the proprietor of tht City of LondonCoffeehouse, was driving in his chaise down the City Road on Tuesday night, when his horse took fright at some flags and music, and became umnanageable. He threw Mr. Gibson out of the chaise, knocked down a woman, who died immediately, and broke both the legs of a boy, whom with two others he had also knocked down.

On Saturday evening, about half-past ten, as 11Ir. Andrews, accom- panied by another gentleman and two ladies, was returning home by water, the boat suddenly swamped when opposite Chelsea College, and the whole party fell into the river. Mr. Andrews and- the two ladies were drowned : but their companion was rescued by a waternian who was passing at the time of the accident.

Edward Thompson, a man in the employ of Mr. Fortescue, of Praed Steet, Paddington, was killed on Tuesday, in a fight at Whet- stone with the conducter of an omnibus. They fought for a stake of five pounds.

On Tuesday evening, the wife of a soldier belonging to the last battalion of Scots Fusileers in the Tower, threw herself from the seven-gun battery facing the wharf, into the ditch, a height of twenty feet. A- corporal named Herrueks, immediately plunged from the drawbridge into the water, and with much difficulty succeeded in laying hold of the woman, and conveying her to the bank.

An inquest was held last Saturday, on the body of Edward Broom, a lad of sixteen, who hung himself in his master's stable on the previ- ous Wednesday. It appeared from the evidence, that his "head was badly formed," and that he was liable to fits. A verdict of Temporary Derangement was returned.