The English fleet arrived in the Bay of Naples on
the '2Stil of May. The Princess Challotte, of 1.20 gulls, with Admiral Stopford's flag flying. east anchor there at about ten o'clock in the morning, and fired a salute. The object of the visit was not known ; but the Admiral had his whole family on board, and the report was, that the squadron wits likely to remain for some time in the Bay.—Courier.
For several years Plinee Tailleyrand was a debtor to the house of 'Airline for a stun to which the interest was regulatly added, and an ac- count of the balance sent to the Prince at the end of each year ; but he paid no attention to the hint. This last year, being reminded of his debt in the usual manner, the Prince thought fit to place his account on a different footing. Calling, therefore, on M. Laffitte, he entered into a long conversation on various topics; but never made the least allusion to money-matters till the moment of his departure, when he took a large packet of bank-notes from his pocket, and, placing them in the hands of the banker, said," Permit me with these to open an account current with your house." The Prince being gone, the notes were counted; and when placed against the long-standing balance, the sum remaining for the Prince to draw upon was found to be-0. It seemed that the Prince could not possibly bring himself to use the words" I am come to pay my debt."
The Dutchess D'Abrantes died last week in Paris, and was buried on Saturday. Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, and almost every cele- brated man of letters in Paris, attended her funeral. She had been living for some time in a poor lodging-house at Chaillot.
The price of bread in London is 78 per cent. higher than in Paris.
The celebrated Dr. Antomarchi, so well known to the world as the physician who followed Napoleon to St Helena, and remained with him while be lived, died on the 3d of April, at St. Jago de Cuba. Dr. Antomarchi arrived about three years since at New Orleans, from France, and was received with distinguished attention. He afterwards travelled through Mexico; and on his return to the United States, he stopped at St. Jago de Cuba, to visit some relatives, where he was seized with the yellow fever, and in a very short time fell a victim to that disease.—New York Gazette.
According to what we hear from Milan, the preparations for the coronation there indicate that the solemnity will be attended with a magnificence never before displayed. In every part of the town, houses are being pulled down, and new ones erected ; all the public buildings are being repaired, and several streets widened ; the triumphal arch and the cathedral will at last be finished. Mercadante is to compose two new masses. From Vienna alone orders have been received for the hiring of 250 apartments ; and all the small towns in the environs will be filled with the attendants of the Court and foreign visiters.—Post.
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