FRANCE: M. Arault, the tragic writer, has been elected a

member of the French Academy. This popular writer was expelled from this same academy for his political conduct during the Hundred Days, on the second restoration of the Bourbons.

The King of France has conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honour upon Captain Dillon, who discovered the relics of the unfortunate Perouse.

M. Comynet, a first-rate broker on the Paris exchange, has absconded. His defalcations are estimated at five millions of francs : the produce of his credits are expected to reach one million.

The price of the 41b. loaf at Paris has fallen to eighteen sous.

Pons.uom--Letters from Lisbon, dated the 25th January, mention the landing of some Portuguese refugees on the frontiers of Gallicia. They were

immediately met and routed ; and a few, who were not able to escape into Spain or the ship from which they had landed, were taken prisoners and con. veyed to Oporto.

GREECE.—The Smyrna Courier says that the limits of Greece, as fixed by the Allied Powers, include Attica, Livadia, and Eubrea, besides twenty-eight islands, and to be bounded by a line drawn from the Gulf of Arta to the Gulf of Volo. The Gazette de France says it has been determined that Athens shall also be included.

Some skirmishing is yet going on between the Greeks and Turks. The latter seem to be losing ground. Livadia and Salona have been captured by the Greeks.

IriniA.—The over-land advices from Bombay, of the 22d October, mention serious disputes between the King's Judges of that Presidency and the Com- pany's servants, respecting the jurisdiction of the Court. These disputes commenced, we believe, before the death of Sir Edward West.

Berme COLONIES.—Measures have been taken by the Government at home for completing the armament of all the Militia force of the province of New Brunswick, without any charge upon its local funds.

A project is to be attempted of joining the Bay of Fundy with the Gulf of St. Lawrence by a canal. At the beginning of the year, the price of the 61b. loaf at Quebec was 14d• and Hour was 30s. per cwt. Great distress existed among the labouring classes. The winter in Canada has been severe,—the average cold 22 below zero.

THE Comm—The King held a Court on Tuesday afternoon, at his Palace, Windsor, which was attended by the principal officers of state. The Duke of Northumberland was presented by Mr. Secretary Peel, and kissed hands as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Earl of Dalhousie was presented, as Com- mander-in-Chief of the Forces in India. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Secretary Peel officiated as Lord President of the Council, in the absence of Earl Bathurst. The Sheriffs for the different counties in. England and Wales, were pricked for to serve the office during the present year. Lord Willoughby de Eresby was sworn in Lord Lieutenant of the county of Caernarvon. The Recorder made his report ; and the Court broke up about half-past six. Most of the Cabinet Ministers, and the Duke of Northumberland, remained to dine with his Majesty. It is understood that his Majesty will not come to town until the middle of March, unless any thing of importance should occur which may require his presence at St. James's before that period.—Morning Chronicle.

The Duke and Duchess of Clarence came to town on Wednesday morning from their residence in Bushy-park, and proceeded to the residence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, where the Duke sat for his portrait to Sir Thomas. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards went to the residence of the Princess Augusta in the King's Palace, St. James's, and spent the day in receiving and paying visits. In the afternoon they returned to Bushy-park. The Duke of Cumberland left Berlin on the 6th, for London. Earl Bathurst was prevented from attending the King's Court at Windsor on Wednesday by indisposition. His Lordship is now much better.

Prince Lieven had a grand dinner party on Wednesday, at Ashburnham- house, Dover-street; among whom were the Marquis anti Marchioness of Land''

own, the Marquis of Anglesea, the Earl and Countess of Mountcharles, Earl and Countess Gower, Lord Melbourne, Sir George Warrender, and Mr. Wilmot Horton. In the evening the Princess entertained a distinguished party of fashionables.

The Commissioners who retire from the Navy Office, in consequence, it is said, of the reddction of the numbers who now compose that board, are Jo- seph Tucker, Esq., Captain Lewis, and the Hon. Mr. Dundas. The Vic- tualling Board will also be reduced, and the Hon. Mr. Bathurst, it is said, re- tires accordingly.

A deputation of the tobacco-merchants of Liverpool, headed by Mr. Hes- kisson as one of the members for Liverpool, attended at the Treasury on Monday, and had a long conference with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. KEEPING COUNSEL.—It would seem that the Prime Minister has adopted and acts Rona a system hithertn little practised in the administration of public affairs in England—the system of impenetrable reserve as to intended measures—no communications are .made, even to those who hold the highest and most confidential employments, until the moment for action is. thought to have arrived. It has been the established custom in preparing the speech with which the Session of Parliament opens, deliberately to take into consider.. alien the topics which are to be introduced, and to submit them to the general discussion of the Cabinet, the very composition and mode of expression have usually been subjected to the same ordeal; but in the instance of the speech delivered by the Lords Commissioners on Thursday, this practice has been departed from. It is confidently affirmed, that that Speech is, both in sub- stance and form, the composition of the Duke of Wellington ; and further, that it was not communicated to any Cabinet Minister until the very latest possible moment ; and it is no undeserved eulogium to say, that it is at least the most intelligible King's Speech we have 'been favoured with for many years.—Morning Chronicle. POLITICAL Favouns.—The blue riband given to the Duke of Richmond does not seem to have made his Grace very grateful, or he would have been less precipitate in his opposition : political gratitude is proverbially applied to future favours only. The other, blue riband has been given to Lord Ashburn- ham, a nobleman now living at Florence. and who will probably be greatly surprised with this splendid distinction. The honour, however, is understood to have been conferred on him by his Majesty, in redemption of a promise made many years ago to his Lordship's father by the late King, and now recognized by his present Majesty. Lord Ashburnham is scarcely apolitical person : he spends his leisure in literary pursuits, and is, we believe, at this moment employed about a life of his ancestor, whose character he considers to have been unjustly handled by Clarendon.—Times.

COMMON COUNCIL—This body met on Thursday; and the reports say that a great part of their time " was occupied in a private discussion upon a charge against one of the high officers of the Corporation, and it was deter- mined that an investigation should take place." On the motion of Sir C. . Hunter, one hundred guineas were voted in support of the funds of the Epis- copal floating chapel on the Thames. Mr. Favell's motion on the subject of the punishment of death for forgery was postponed. Mr. Thomas Jarvis was appointed a Governor of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals. INDIA House.—A Court of Directors was held on Wednesday at the East India House, at which, Mr. Joseph Dart, after a service of forty years, was permitted to retire from the office of Secretary on account of ill health. Mr. Peter Auber, was unanimously appointed Secretary, and Mr. Carter, Assistant

Secretary. .

Mr. O'Coerserh.—This gentleman arrived at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, Piccadilly, on Tuesday morning, in a travelling carriage and four; attended by the Rev. M. Doyle, of St. Meehans and St. John's, Dublin, Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, Mr. D. Bellew, and Mr. Murphy. Mr. O'Connell left Dublin in a private manner, eluding, by passing along by-lanes, the thou- sands who had assembled in the neighbourhood • of his residence. It was at first reported that the reception of these gentlemen in the different towns from Holyhead to the metropolis, had been very unfavourable ; and that, be- sides being greeted with insulting cries along the road, they were personally in danger from the mob at Coventry. It turns out that these reports are un- founded; for the Globe states front authority, that Mr. O'Connell's reception ST. CLEMENT DANES.—At a meeting of the rate-payers, on Thursday, it was resolved to raise the salary of Mr. Gurney, the Rector, as chaplain of the workhouse, from 251. to .50/., on condition of his performing divine service in the workhouse on Sunday, as it appears that the paupers will not attend the parish-church unless convoyed to it. REMINGTON AND CO's. BANKRUPTCY.—The Commissioners met on Thursday, to receive proofs of debts. Many ladies were present to prove debts on banking and private accounts. Amens, the debts proved was one by a lady named Mary J. Stephenson, said to be Mr. Stephenson's sister, for 29521. The largest debt proved was one for 40601. KING'S COLLEGE.-4t is at length determined by the Committee of Manage- ment, that the edifice. shall be erected on a piece of ground leading from the eastern portion of the quadrangle of Somerset House to Strand-lane ; and from the bank of the river, south, to the front of the houses in the Strand, facing St. Mary's church. The greater portion of the houses between Strand- lane and 'Somerset House will be removed to afford a principal entrance from

the north. •

RECORDER'S REPORT.—The Recorder made his report on Tuesday to the Xing in Council, of the sixteen prisoners condemned to death at the last Old Bailey sessions. They were all respited except Joseph Burnham, for house- breaking, and Benjamin Barrup, for shooting at the deceased Mary Mortlock. They are to be executed on Tuesday. Among the respited, is Robert Barton, who was convicted on three charges of forgery.

SILKAVEAVERS:—A meeting of the inhabitants of Spitalfields and Bethnal- green was held on Monday, to raise a subscription to enable the weavers to apply for a protecting law. Many affecting details of their distress were given. It was said that nearly half the looms were unemployed; and many of them were compelled to work at prices so low that, with sixteen or eighteen hours' labour per day, they could scarcely provide bread for their families. The Morning Journal, premising that the King has not yet subscribed to the starving weavers of Spitalfields, advises the sufferers, if his Majesty should come to town, to present themselves before him and "exhibit to the kindest heart in his wide dominions the miserable plight to which his industrious and loyal subjects arc reduced."

Aorraerwes.—The Times rejoices to state that the "enlightened and illus- trious University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, rejected an anti-Catholic pe-

tition, for which signatures and supporters had been hunted out with incre- dible activity." The petition was proposed in the Non-Regent-House by the Vice-Chancellor ; and their appeared—"placent, 43; non-placent, 52; majority, 9." There was a Protestant meeting at Bristol, on Thursday, at which, say the Anti-Catholic accounts, there were about twenty thousand present ; and "though it rained nearly all the time the meeting lasted, no one flinched from his post." A petition against concession "was carried by a majority of one hundred to one." Other accounts say the meeting was a scene of intem- perate clamour and disturbance from its beginning to its close. About six thousand persons met at Leicester on Wednesday week, and re. solved that certain abuses in the state should be amended s one of their resole_ ions claimed for Roman Catholics the rights of citizenship.

The Buckinghamshire Brunswick Club are to present the Marquis of Chandos with his own picture.

was throughout " friendly, and in some instances enthusiastic. In many Places the leading Protestant Dissenters waited upon him to express their thanks for his exertions in the cause of civil and religious liberty ; and, with the exception of Coventry, where four or five persons cried No Popery t' and Down with O'Connell !' the populace appeared gratified with his visit, and there was no dissent from the expression of welcome with which he wass favoured."

In the mean time, nothing has transpired to show what course he may deem it advisable to pursue under the altered circumstances in which he is placed. Previous to his leaving Ireland, Mr. O'Connell published an address to the members of both Houses of Parliament, on his right to take his seat for the county of Clare. It is an elaborate examination and analysis of all the laws which have been passed regulating the forms to be observed by persons before they can take their seats in the House of Commons ; and he thinks he has incontestibly shewu that there is no law to bar his right to sit and vote without taking any oaths inconsistent with the Catholic religion. He has no ob- jection to the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, which he has frequently taken, and is ready to do on every justifiable occasion. The great force of his legal argument is directed to show that he can sit, speak, and vote in the House, without taking the oath of supremacy—which oath, he says truly, is rejected by Dissenters and Presbyterians as well as by Catholics—or making the i solemn declaration against transubstantiation in the House itself. Mr. O'Connell enumerates the acts of Parliament which imposed or modified oaths ; and he thinks that his right to sit and vote in Parliament is established by this short summary—" First, that there is nothing in the common law to

take away or infringe on that right. Second, that the statutes of 5th Eliza- beth and 7th James, which required oaths of allegiancd and supremacy to be taken in the Lord Steward's office, are in that respect repealed by the statute 1st William and Mary. Third, that penalties and disabilities created by thestatutes 30th Charles II., and 1st William and Mary, were applicable to the English Parliament only. Fourth, that the penalties and disabilities in these statutes were expressly applied, and continued to be applicable to the British Parliatnent, by the 22nd article of the Union with Scotland. Fifth, that none of the penalties or disabilities in these statutes were applied to, or continued for, the United Kingdom Parliament, by the fourth article of the Irish Union. Sixth, that neither the time nor manner of taking the oaths in the English statutes is enacted by the Irish Union statutes, or is now any portion of the law of the United Kingdom Parliament. Seventh, that the statute of the 41st of George III., cap. 52. does not and cannot apply to the oaths and declarations, because (amongst many other reasons), if it did so apply, it would now be utterly impos- sible for any Irish member to avoid being disabled to sit and vote. I conclude this abstract with repeating this one indisputable maxim of constitutional law.— that to create penalties or disabilities there must be a positive and express law. They cannot be created by conjecture, guess, or implication."

Mr. O'Connell is aware of the responsibility he incurs if he take his scat under an erroneous opinion of right. " I forfeit 500/. per day; I become an outlaw, incapable of holding any office of power or trust—of suing at law or in equity—of accepting any legacy or gift—of being executor or administra. tor, or of being guardian even to my own children." He suggests, that if his right be denied, an action should be brought against him for .the 5001.; and thus the opinion of the Court of King's Bench, and the House of Lords, if ne- cessary, would be obtained on the meaning of the Irish Union Act. On the other hand, Mr. Sugden, the Chancery lawyer, has written a pam- phlet to prove that the obnoxious oaths must be taken before a Catholic can sit in Parliament, and this position he maintains upon the authority of an act of the Irish Parliament itself. The 30th Car. It. imposed the oaths, and the time and manner of taking them upon members of the English Parliament ; and Mr. Sugden pointedly derlies that this act was repealed by the 1st Wil- liam and Mary. The 3d William and Mary is an act of the English Parliament legislating for Ireland; which enacts that members of the Irish Parliament must take the declaration against transubstantiation, and the other alleged errors of the Romish Church, and the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration.

Thisact was confirmed by acts of the Irish Parliament, 21st and '22nd Geo. III. ; and these acts, it is contended, were clear and binding laws down to the time

of the Union, since no Roman Catholic had sat in the Irish Parliament from the time the law of William and Mary was passed. The act of the Irish Par- liament, 33rd George III., confers several privileges upon Catholics pf which they were deprived on account of their religion ; but it contains an explicit exception of their right to sit in Parliament, or hold certain other offices, unless they comply with the prescribed forms. The exclusive nature of the laws against the Catholics does not rest upon these acts alone. The 41st

George HI., which was passed after the Union, expressly declares, that all persons " disabled from, or incapable of being elected, or sittineb and voting in the House of Commons of any Parliament of Deland, should be disabled from, and be incapable of being elected, or sitting and voting in the House of Commons of any Parliament of the United Kingdom, as k,nights, citizens, or

burgesses, for any county, city, borough, town, or place, in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland." This act, dierefore, puts the Members for Great Britain and Ireland upon a perfect equality ; and moreover, at the first meeting of the Imperial Parliament, all the members took the oaths and sub- scribed he declarations. As to the nature of the penalties, Mr. Sugden and Mr. O'Connell are agreed.

THE MORNING JOURNAL AND THE PORTUGUESE.--Mr. Brougham moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the defendants, the proprietor, printer, and publisher of The Morning Journal, for a libel on Count Itabayana, the ambassador from the Emperor of Brazil, to the Court of London. The libel was contained in some comments'by the Journal on the arrival of one of the ships with Portuguese refugees at Havre. The Journal said that the vessel had cleared at the Custom-house " under a solemn assurance" from the Count that she was bound for the Brazils ; and as the vessel was found at Havre, without any good reason, in the editor's opinion, he indulged in these reflections :—" It is long since we endeavoured to open the eyes of Lord Aberdeen to the perfidy and treachery of the Por- tuguese Liberals, and now his Lordship has a damning proof of the truth of our imputation. It is true that Itabayana is about to leave this country, but we are sure his Excellency will deeply regret that he had not dune so be- fore this transaction came to light. At the Foreign Office he can never exhibit himself again ; and when he departs, he will leave a name behind him avhich would make even a black equerry of his adopted country blush, and which will probably be brought to the recollection of his Imperial Master when the honour of Brazilian Envoys shall form the subject of British diplomacy." The Count denied that he had interfered in any way whatever with the refugees,

who were under the control of the Minister for Portugal.—Rule granted.

LIBEL AGAINST THE BRISTOL MAGISTRATES.—The defendant, Ackland, ap- peared in the-Court of King's Bench on Wednesday, to receive judgment for a series of libels on the Magistrates of Bristol. The Court animadverted with much severity upon the nature of the libels, and upon the disingenuous manner in which some of the defendant's affidavits had been got up. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be confined for two months in Gloucester gaol.

LADY Gaestrv.—An action was brought in the Sheriff's Court by the mo- ther of Joseph Smith, to recover 491. 12s. 5d. due to him for wages, while coachman to her Ladyship. There was no defence ; and a verdict was given fir the amount. The daily papers say that her Ladyship is now under the surveillance of the Marshal of the King's Bench, and keeping up a large establishment in the state house. So strong is her penchant for litigation, that she has now above thirty actions pendinep against her. Within the past week, two actions have been decided against her in this Court: one by Mr. Alexander, a wine-merchant, for 1201. for wine; and another by. Mr. Sat- chel!, for 2491. for table ale.

BURNING OF YORK Moss-mt.—Jonathan Martin, the suspected incendiary of York Minster, was apprehended on Friday, near Hexham, in Northumber- land, with some of the Minster property in his possession. rsle was brought into York about three o'clock on Monday morning; and the examintion commenced soon after in the Hall of Pleas, Minster Yard. After the deposi- tions of the witnesses had been taken, he made the following voluntary con- fession, in the most cool and collected manner possible set fire to the Minster in consequence of two remarkable dreams. I dreamt that one stood by me with a how and a sheaf of arrows, and he shot one through the Min- ster door. I said I wanted to try to shoot, and he presented me the bow. 1 took an arrow from the sheaf and shot, but the arrow hit the flags. and I lost it. I also dreamt that a large thick cloud came down over the Minster, and extended to my lodgings. From these things I thought that I was to set fire to the Minster. I took them things away with= for tear somebody e'se should be blamed. I cut off the fringe and the tassels from the pulpit and Bishop's Throne, or what you call it, for I do not know their name, as a wit- ness against me, to show that I had done it by myself." Martin was then committed to prison to await his trial at the next assizes. He partook of re. freshments, and soon was fast asleep.

In the House of Correction at Hexham, Matthew Wilson, a local preacher among the Methodists, had an interview with Martin, and received an ex- planation of his motives, which correspond with the above confession. Martin was of opinion that the " clergy of the Establishment were blind guides," and leading the higher ranks of society astray ; and as to the Minster, he believed that its destruction " was for the glory of God, the good of the people of England generally, and for the good of the inhabitants of York in particular, as, when the Cathedral was destroyed, they would be compelled to disperse themselves in other places of worship, where they would

hear the gospel preached. When in the Minster preparing for the deed, he was quite happy: sometimes " he prayed, and sometimes he praised God because he had strengthened him to do so good a work." To Mr. Wilson he repeated his dream, and the impression it left upon his mind, that the Almighty had called upon him to burn the Minster. In order to gain his wife's consent, " he took the ring from her finger while she slept, and though she manifested much concern at the loss of the ring, he allowed her to vent Tier feelings in unavailing regrets, until he thought her sufficiently moulded to his purpose. He then exacted a vow from her that she would keep his secret, and. he would restore her ring. This being agreed to, he told her his inten- tion, on which she wept, and seemed greatly disturbed, and they went to Leeds. He still being determined on his object, left his wife there, and re- turned to York, and entered the Minster on the 1st of February, concealing himself behind a tombstone until the people left, when he went into the belfry and struck a light, having for that purpose a razor with a white haft, the back of which he used instead of a steel, a flint, tinder, matches, and penny candle cut in two, but as that soon burnt out, he got one of the wax candles belong- ing to the Minster." Martin first prepared the means of his own escape, to which the bell-rope was made auxiliary, and then began his work of destruc- tion, by cutting away the velvet and gold fringe ornaments from the pulpit. His olject in taking these was, that they might be evidence that he alone did the deed ; and he also carried away a small Bible, that it might be a comfort to hint in the imprisonment which be anticipated. He "piled the cushions and prayerbooks in two heaps on each side near the carved work, set them on fire by introducing matches to each. Afraid now of being enveloped in the smoke, he fixed his ladder, and let it down on the outside, having pre- viously broken the window with the pincers be Left behind bins, and descend- ed by it from the Minster, a little after three o'clock on the morning of the 2d, previous to which he surveyed the piles he had raised, and saw that one of them in particular was burning very briskly." He then set out on his tra- vels through the country, which are particularly detailed to the time of his apprehension.

From another statement, it appears that Martin had encountered many ad- ventures as a seaman in the British Navy ; and that he has long been a victim to a species of religious madness. He calls himself the brother of Mr. Martin the eminent painter ; but we have no means of ascertaining the truth of this. Mr. Chantrell, the architect, who has examined the building, estimates the necessary repairs of the Minster at 60,0001. or 70,000/. ;—certainly not be- yond 100,0001. The Dean and Chapter are said to possess about 20,0004 per annum, for the uses of the Cathedral.

The clergy connected with the Cathedral have begun a subscription to re- store it to its pristine grandeur. The Archbishop of York has given 2000/., and the Communion plate ; the Dean 3001.; and the four residentiaries 250/. each.

SHIewatexs.—On the afternoon of the 7th, his Majesty's schooner Nightin- gale, commanded by Lieutenant George Wood, on her passage from Plymouth to Portsmouth, struck on the Shingles. Assistance was soon rendered from Enid; and as the wind was light, and the sea smooth, every hope was entertained of the unfortunate vessel getting off by the rising tide. The sea, however, rose very rapidly; the vessel was thrown on her beam-ends ; and, as it was quite dark, all on board were in great danger. By much exertion, boats from the shore were enabled to save thirty-four persons. The commander's wife perished on board. The heavy sea which filled the vessel washed the surgeon, who had Mrs.-Wood round the waist, from one side of the vessel to the other, and down the hatchway, where she perished. The surgeon with the greatest difficulty saved himself. A poor insane passenger; Lieutenant Cole, of the Royal Navy, was also drowned on board. Several of the officers and seamen, including the commander, were very much wounded.

The schooner, New Venus, from Liverpool. to London, laden with salt, was run down off Portland, on Tuesday morning, at four o'clock, by the Com- pany's ship Duke of York, outward-bound. Three of the crew were drowned, and the remaining two landed at Weymouth, from apilet-boat, and proceeded for London.

FIRE AT GREENIVICH.—At an early hour on Tuesday morning, the house of Mr. Pratt, grocer, was diseoiered to be in flames ; and before any effectual

stop could be put to the progress of the fire, four other houses were entirely consumed. The Mitre Tavern is among the houses destroyed—the violence of the flames, from a large stock of spirits, prevented all approach to it. The damage is estimated at a large sum. About seven o'clock on Thursday evening, the premises of Mr. Russell, tallow-melter, in Compton-street, Soho, were discovered to be on fire ; and though the firemen opposed themselves for two hours to the fury of the flames, the house, stock, and furniture, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at beyond 3,000/. Some farming premises, near Stratford, Were burnt on Thursday night. The fire is attributed to incendiaries.

An elderly female, named Brend, who resided in Chichester-rents, Chan- cery-lane, having fancied.that her death Would take place in a very short time, waited upon Mr. Russell, the undertaker, in Fetter-lane, last week, and or- dered a coffin, cap, shroud, &c., and which were accordingly sent to her resi- dence on Saturday last, and placed at the foot of her bed. On Wednesday morning she was found in her bed dead. The body of an aged man, apparently a person from the country, of the yeoman class, was picked up at Waterloo Bridge on Tuesday morning, in a shocking state of decomposition. The dress was black or dark-coloured, with top-boots. Some silver and two Barcelona handkerchiefs, marked with the initials J. M., were found in his pockets. He his supposed to have been the unfortunate person who, mistaking his way in one of the late foggy nights, descended the steps at Southwark Bridge, and walking into the water when the tide run strong, was carried away before assistance could be rendered.

A melancholy occurrence took place near Bansha on Tuesday night :—A respectable farmer named Fent, with a family of seven persons, retired to rest; not having risen at the usual hour on the morning following, suspicion was excited among their neighbours, and inquiry took place, when it was discovered that three of the inmates, namely, Fant's daughter, aged eight years, -his brother, aged sixty, and a servant woman, aged thirty, had died during the night ! In the -course of Wednesday Fant himself expired. His son, a young lad, a servant boy, and a servant girl, the remaining inmates, are beyond all hope of recovery. The cause of the death of so many human beings is ascribed to suffocation, Fant having a short time before injudiciously erected a small lime kiln in his kitchen for the two-fold purpose of burning lime, and as a fire to answer for domestic purposes, the sulphureous effluvia proceeding from which was unfortunately inhaled by the hapless family.— Clenntel Advertiser.

Mrs. Blomfield, the wife of C. Blomfield, Esq., and mother to the Lord Bishop of London, had the misfortune last Saturday to fall in the breakfast- room, and break her arm.—Siefolk Herald.