PRECAUTIONS sir Gnseatrast.-It appears by letters from Gibraltar of the
23rd ult. that the weather has set in very warm. The Governor, General Don, is taking measures to prevent the recurrence of the dreadful malady which raged in the garrison last season. A proclamation was issued on the 211th of June, dividing the town into districts, with the names of inspectors of districts, medical officers, and police.ollicers, attached to each district. The civil hospital, in making their annual report to the Governors, mention the deaths by fever last year in that hos- pital as one in three. CONTINENTAL. NAVIGATfON.-It seems that the plan for uniting the Rhine and the Danube will he now carried into effect by a Paris company, which is said to have obtained from the Governments concerned, upon certain conditions, a privi- lege of ninety-nine years for the accomplishment and use of the new channel of communication. The following seem to be the outlines of the project-to make the Danube navigable from Ulm to TnIlingen, and so into the Grand Duchy of Baden ; to make a canal through the Black Forest in Baden, through the country about Ullingen,St. George Homburg, and Hausach, in the valley of the Kinziug; and lastly to make the Kiuzing, which falls into the Rhine, near Kehl, nevi- gable.-Letter from Stuttgard, July 5. CoAL MINES IN SPAIN.-The company of the Guadalquiver having endeavoured to ascertain that the coal mines of the Asturias could .supply them with twenty thousand tons per annum, the intendant of that principality replied, that it would not only contract to furnish them with the required quantity at the rate of 14.9. per ton, inclusive of the expense of shipment, but that the stores of this article which nature hail provided were so considerable, and the facility of extracting it so great, that the Asturias were capable of providing coals for the entire con- sumption of Europe during an unlimited terns of years. He adds, that the whole soil is one immense mass of carbonaceous matter.
Amemoitersofe.-A proclamation by the Governor of St. Lucia relieves the black population of free condition there from all the restraints which had re- mained front former times. As their past good conduct is the cause of the favour, the favour, we have no doubt, will be productive of future good conduct.- Times.
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