The King, on Monday, was so completely recovered from his

late attack of gout, as to be enabled to take an airing in Windsor Park. His 1114jesty also took an airing on Tuesday ; but caught cold, and has since been confined,

It has been found necessary to pull down a great portion of the orna- mental part of the central entrance to the new Palace, because sufficient room had not been left in the entablature to admit some figures with which it was to be ornamented. In order to prevent the prying eye of John hull froni seeing the demolition which is going forward, an immense tarpaulin has been suspended over the whole centre of the works, so that the building appears to be in a sort of mourning. The number of workmen employed amount to nearly three hundred, but with the utmost activity being used, it is said that the buildings cannot be completed for upwards of two years.— Morning Journal.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt made their first purchases for the present quarter on Tuesday. The amount invested, and to be laid out on each transfer-day duringthe present quarter, was14,1881. Is. which in the quarter ending the 5th January 1829, will amount to rather mere than 581,000/. The purchases are on the reduced scale of investing. 3,000,000/. only per annum, in aid of the sinking-fund, according to the act passed in the last session of Parliament.

In consequence of the death of Sir George Grey, the following appoint- ments have taken place :—Commissioner Ross, now at Malta, to be Com- missioner of the Dock-yard at Portsmouth; Sir Michael Seymour, Captain of the Royal George yacht, at Portsmouth to be Commissioner of the Dock- yard at Malta ; Sir William Hoete to be Captain of the Royal George yacht; and Sir Christopher Cole, to be Captain of the Royal Sovereign yacht at Deptford, in the room of Sir William Hoste.

COMMON COUNCIL.—There was a meetinec' of the Common Council on Thursday. Mr. Richardson adverted to what he considered a breach of pri- vilege, by the Lord Mayor's chaplain : the Corporation had agreed to pay the expense of printing a sermon which he had preached ; but, not content with that, the reverend gentleman had tacked a large appendix to it, con- taining a gross libel on the London University. This question was deemed irrelevant at the present meeting, and Mr. Richardson was obliged to give it up. Mr. Peacock, in compliance with the request of a number of friends of religious liberty, withdrew, for the present, his motion relative to persecu- tions for religious opinions. The meeting then proceeded to take into con- sideration the report of the Committee on the sale of the office of Secondary. Mr. Pearson was heard at great length, in support of his petition against the sale of this office ; and he laid open a mass of iniquitous extortions which had been practised upon the miserable and unfortunate, by those who had at tunes held the office. The further consideration of the subject was, how- ever, adjourned.

There was a meeting of the Livery of London on Wednesday, at which Mr. Copeland was again unanimously elected one of the Sheriffs of London for the year. This gentleman is now convalescent ; and it is expected will soon be able to take upon him the duties of office.

COURT OF Kixe's-Beeent—The Adjourned Sittings in London after Tri- nity Term commenced on Thursday, before Lord Tenterden. There are between five and six hundred cases entered for trial, a great many of which are important Special Jury cases.

Lord Harris, the conqueror of the Mysore and Seringapatain, unable, from age, to attend the Kent meeting next week, has riven his brother free- holders the benefit of his advice and opinion hi a letter—after the fashion of Lord Kenyon and the Duke of Newcastle, and to the same effect.

The clergy of the Deanery of Sutton, in the diocese of Canterbury, have come forth with a declaration of their sentiments on the present crisis. They reprobate the attainment of political power by the Roman Catholics as the greatest of all possible evils to religion; and they entreat their fellow-subjects of the laity, to endeavour, by every means, to maintain the principles of the Reformation in all their vigour, and thereby uphold the great cause of reli- gious truth. They seem to think that the cause of the Catholics is advanced chiefly by infidels, sceptics, and latitudinarians, who, from whatever motives they act, have the same end in view—the overthrow of the Established Church.

The Kentish papers are full of intimations of the preparations making by the Brunswickers and anti-Brunswickers, for the approaching county meeting at Penenden-heath, on the 24th: The Maidstone Journal announces that. there are already inlisteil under the banners of the Kent Brunswick Club above eight hundred members, the greater part of whom are yeomanry, and of the class of farmers. There are among the Presidents five resident peers of the county ; among the Vice-Presidents, one nobleman, four honourahles, nine baronets, and two knights, all residents in Kent; in the Committee of Mennen-tent, forty-one of the most influential gentlemen of the county. It is further stated, that a strong opposition will be male at the county meetine Despatches were received on Monday, announcing the death of her Majesty Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal of England, and Dowager Queen of Wirtemberg, on the 6th instant. Her disorder was water on the chest. For some time previous to her death, she had been in a very weak state ; and latterly the difficulty she found in breathing, added to her other complaints, excited great apprehensions of a fatal issue. The Frankfort Journal says, that her Majesty's death "plunges the Royal Family, and the whole kingdom, in the most profound mourning. Her virtues had acquired her the love and veneration of all Wirtembergers." She was the eldest daughter of King George the Third, and was born on the 29th of September, 1766. She married on the 18th of May 1797, Frederick, late King of Wirtemberg ; who died on the 30th of October 1816, leaving no issue.

A supplement to Tuesday's Gazette announces that the Court goes into mourning on this occasion, on the 19th. "The ladies to wear black bombe- sines, plain muslin or long lawn linen, crape hoods, shamoy shoes and gloves, and crape fans : undress, dark Norwich crape. The gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on the slees es and pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and weepers, shamoy shoes and gloves, crape hatbands, and black swords and buckles : undress, dark grey frocks." The officers of the Army and Navy are not required to wear any other mourning, in uniform, than a black crape round the left arm.

The mourning is to be general. The Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, has given notice, by his Majesty's command, "that upon the present melan- choly occasion of the death of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager of Wirtemberg, his Majesty's sister, it is expected that all persons do put them- selves into deep mourning ;" to begin on Sunday the 19th.

The Times says that the Duke of Wellitsgtonseldom goes to Windsor; and then only when he is obliged to go.

Mr. Huskisson is on his return to England, from a Continental tour, with improved health.

end tUa.Drunswtekers and onti,Bruaswieltera are now orgatdziaa partiea at I Cartha&e, Mr, irby's,Tosol and Mr, Moyaell's Serf; *011 eadly by two lentith$ Canterbury and Rochester, to proceed in large bodies to Maidstone, with purple and green flags, which are to be the symbols of the conflicting parties.

It appears that a report prevailed that Sir Thomas Lethbridge had changed his mind on the Catholic question. The baronet, at the Bath corporation dinner, took the opportunity to contradict the report. The Portuguese merchants, and others .connected with Portugal, met in the City of London Tavern, on Thursday, to come to an understanding re- garding the address, the copy of the constitution, and the sceptre which it is meant to present to their young Queen. An address was unanimously adopted ; the choice of the Committee appointed at the previous meeting, to fix the manner in which the presents are to be finished, was approved ; and a Committee appointed to arrange the manner in which they are to be pre- sented..

The birth-day of Don Pedro, on Sunday last, was celebrated at Plymouth with some pomp, by the refugee Portuguese. In the moreing, they heard mass performed in the Portuguese language, and by Portuguese priests. On Monday evening a general illumination of the houses occupied by the Por- tuguese took place.

FRAUDS IN TIIE COAL Teeme.—Some time since, a Committee was a-'- pointed by the magistrates of Surrey, under the provisions of the act of Par- liament, which enabled them to appoint coal-meters to be paid by the county, to inquire into certain alleged frauds by coal-merchants and coal-meters. This Committee made their report on Tuesday, to a:bench of Magistrates at Kingston ; and it developes an organized system of fraud, by some merchants acting in collusion with the meters. To receive evidence, the Committee gave the meters appointed under the act leave to receive bribes from the mer- chants, but not to pocket them. These men were afterwards examined be- fore the Committee, and their evidence was reduced to writing. In the slang of the craft, one species of fraud was called" working the oracle,"—which means the removing of coals from a loaded waggon to the storehouse. A coal- barge, it is known, is divided into compartments : these compartments are called " roonis,"—each of which is calculated to contain five chaldrons of coals. In the coal trade, "skimming a room," or taking a certain portion of coals—sometimes five sacks—from each room, and then selling the quantity left for full five chaldrons, is another common mode of defrauding the buyer. When a coal-meter allowed a room to be "skimmed," he received a bribe of 2s. 6d.; and on one occasion a meter received a fee of 12s. Gil. for allowing five rooms to be " skimmed." Ninety-one and a half chaldrons of coals were once purchased for exportation, and the draw-back upon them paid at the Custom- house, when in point of fact only eighty-four chaldrons were delivered—the purchaser being defrauded out of a whole " room," or five chaldrons, arid four- teen sacks. It appears too, that coals are frequently measured and loaded in the morniugs and evenings in the absence of the meters. On these occasions the merchant, or his clerk, without hesitation makes out the ticket, and signs the meter's name to it. Nor is it an uncommon thing to send out coals marked " Wallsend," which, besides being deficient in measure, are of an in- ferior quality. For a fraud of this kind a meter received a bribe of from 2s. 6d. to 5s. The meter had also a weekly allowance of a few shillings for what was called "general services." Such are some of the frauds set forth in the report. It is to be printed for the use of the Magistrates ; and the Committee are to consider what remedy can be applied to a system of deception so g neral and well arranged. The "respectable" coal-merchants are indignant at the disclosures made by the meters. One company have petitioned the Ma.- g-istrates for a copy of the report, in. order to be able to vindicate their cha- racter and punish their calumniators ; but the Magistrates have refused them. The petition is to be taken into consideration on the 3rd of November, when they will have an opportunity of defending themselves.

NEWMARKET RACES.—The Newmarket second October meeting began on Monday, and brought a great number of noblemen and gentlemen to the ground. Several matches were declared off. The first race for one-third of a subscription of 25 sovereigns, was gained by the Duke of Grafton's Turquoise, beating Colonel Wilson's Spotless, by two lengths. The Garden stakes of 100 sovereigns each, gained by Mr. Pettit's Rough Robin, beating Lord Verulam's Brocard bill. head. The betting on this race was very heavy • Tuesday.—The first race, for 50/. was gained by Lord Exeter's Sultan, beating Mr. Batson's Harriet, and Lord Egreniont's Brother to Lapdog : won by half a length. Handicap of 10 sovereigns each, gained by Mr. Payne's Belzoni, beating Lord Anson's filly, and Mr. Pettit's Proteus : won by hiir a length. The Clearwell stakes of 30 sovereigns each, gained by Lord Exeter's Greenmantle, beating the Duke of Grafton's Lyric, and Mr. Hunter's Pea-blossom : won by a length. One third of a subscription of 25 sovereigms each, gained by Lord Jersey's Glenartney, beating Lord Egre- mont's Gaberlunzie: won by a neck.

Wednesday.—First class of the Oatlands, of thirty sovereigns each—Mr. Stonehewer's Flush beat Lord Southampton's Lepanto, Lord Egrernont's Stumps, and Lord Cavendish's Amphion. Handicap of ten sovereigns—Mr. Payne's Shakspeare beat Mr. Walker's Helenus, the Duke of Portland's Freak colt, and Mr. July's Solder'. Sweepstakes of ten sovereigns each— Duke of Richmond's Logic beat Mr. Weatherby's Te,kay and Mr. Mills's Zin- garee. Sweepstakes of one hundred sovereigns each—Duke of Grafton's Omen beat Lord Exeter's Enthusiast, and the Duke of Portland's Freak colt.

After the races to-day, a novel scene for Newmarket took place. Two gentlemen, well known on the turf, made a trotting match for a considerable sum—the one to drive his horse twelve miles, taking a companion in the gig weighing 18 st., in the same time that the other party should trot his pony (saddle) eleven miles. They started from the Gist mile-stone on the Barton Mill's Road, and proceeded to the 67th, the horse leading all the way. The pony, however, got to the 62nd mile-stone, in returning, by the time thee the horse in harness had passed it about a minute and twenty seconds, win- ning the match cleverly by pearly three quarters of a mile. The horse broke, and backed his wheel three times, or the match would probably have had a different termination, The miles were done as near to four minutes each as possible. The betting was heavy. Thursday.—Sweepstakes of two hundred sovereigns each—Mr. Payne's Gramarie walked over. Second class of the Oatlands of thirty sovereigns each—Mr. Delme Ratcliffe's Fleur de Lis beat Lord Verulam's Helas, Lord Auson's Bee-in-a-Bonnet, Lord Stradbrooke's Miss Craven, and Mr. Forth's Ridicule: won cleverly by two lengths. Handicap sweepstakes of ten sovereigns each—Mr. Payne's filly, by Skim, beat Mr. Dilly's Zeuxis, and General Grosvenor's Danceaway, by a head. Handicap plate of 100/.—The Duke of Richmoud's Alderman beat Lord Wilton's Goshawk ; Mr. Rush's The Town plate of 501.—Mr. O'Connor's Charon beat Lord Tavistock's Dmmon, Mr. Sowerby's Theresa, Lord Verulam's Helas, and the Duke -of Grafton's Nutmeg: won by a neck, after a hard race. Friday.—The Prendergast stakes of 50 sovereigns each.—Lord Exeter's Greeninantle beat Mr. Dilly's Canary. Match for 100 sovereigns.--Lord Exeter's Fillto beat the Duke of Portland's Carthusian. Match for 50 sove- reigns.—General Grosveuor's John de Bart, and Mr. Payne's Jungfrau : a dead heat. Handicap stakes of 10 sovereigns each.—Lord Jerseys Gle- nartney beat Lord Exeter's Filho.

CRICKET.—On Monday and Tuesday an excellent match, for 50/. a-side, was played at Hampton's cricket-ground, Camberwell, between eleven play- ers of the parish of Mary-le-bonne, and eleven of the Camberwell Star Club. The match excited great interest; and as both days were extremely propi- tious, there was a good assemblage of amateurs, many of whom came from a considerable distance. The following is a statement of the game at its conclu- sion. Mary-le-bonne—first innings, 75; second ditto, 42-117. Cam- berwell—first innings, 47; second ditto, 58-115. The Mary-le-bonne win- ning with eight wickets to go down. The play throughout was good on both sides.

FALCONRY.—The ancient pastime of hawking was revived at Redbourne, on Wednesday se'nnight, by the Duke of St. Albans, hereditary Grand 'Falconer of England. A number of the neighbouring gentry and of his Grace's tenants were invited to the sports. The Duke himself appeared in the Mid dressed in his official costume, with green jacket, golden girdle, and gauntlets, magnificently trimmed Spanish hat turned up before, with a large white feather, buskins, and gold spurs. His Lordship was mounted on a fine chesnut hunter. The Duchess, the Ladies Beauclerk, and other ladies, splendidly dressed in Lincoln green and scarlet shawls, came on the ground in open carriages and four. The first hawk brought down a partridge c' in fine style ;" but on being again let loose, it made off beyond the ken of the sportsmen. A second hawk killed its brace of birds, in a manner which delighted the company, and warmed the eloquence of the Morning Chronicle in the subsequent narration. The wind was high, and the weather unfavour- able for the sport ; and it was deemed prudent not to hazard the hawks further, as the sport altogether was only a trial of them. "Such, however, was the sport, that it has afforded (says The Chronicle) a most interesting specimen of the old game. But the hawk ! it would puzzle all the philoso- phers of the world to account for its action by any of the known laws of motion, or the principles of mechanic power. You frequently see it elevate, depress, increase, or retard its flight at pleasure, without any visible action of the pinion, as though its motion were the result of volition, or of some electrical power, the operation of which is hidden from human scrutiny. Had the last bird not been struck the first time, it would have flown into the arms of the crowd—overcoming its dread of man in the presence of a superior and more terrible enemy. It was instinct with fear, from the mo- ment it arose within the sight of thc hawk, and flew cowering and fluttering, as though conscious of the destiny which it could not escape." At the termination of the hawking, the company were entertained by the Duke and Duchess with a most sumptuous banquet, and a splendid exhibition of fireworks con- eluded the amusements.

A young gentleman in London-street, Fitzroy-square, went to dress on Friday evening, for a music party. As he seemed to linger, his father went to ascertain the cause, when he found him dead.

On Wednesday afternoon, the neighbourhood beside the Obelisk-, nea George's-fields, was thrown into a state of alarm by a loud explosion, which occurred in the lower part of the house occupied by Madame Hengler, who during many years has manufactured the fire-works for Vauxhall. The ex- plosion was followed by a thick volume of vapour, which came from the kitchen. It was soon ascertained that a tire had happened in the kitchen. Several fire-works went off at intervals; and the inmates of the premises, as well as those kept by Mortram, the fire-work maker, were in a state of great terror, expecting the blowing up of the building. It soon appeared that the danger was not of the magnitude which had been apprehended. The damage done was not extensive ;but the dread which the public felt of the explosion which the powder and fire-works might have produced, was displayed on every countenance. These establishments for pyrotechny are a great nuisance, and should stand far distant from inhabited houses.

On Monday morning, while Joseph Knott, one of the patrol belonging to the Clink liberty, stooped down to aid a drunken man who was lying on the ground, one of his pistols, which was in his great-coat pocket, went off. The shot lodged in the thigh, which was lacerated in a dreadful manner, and the poor man now lies in the hospital in a very dangerous state.

An Irish labourer employed at the repairs going forward at the Italian Opera-house, was on Tuesday killed by a fall front the scaffold on which he was standing.

The body of a young woman, about eighteen years of age, was found in the Surrey canal, Greenwich, on Wednesday afternoon. There were no marks of violence upon the body, but the deceased was with child.

An inquest was held on Tuesday night, at Knightsbridge, on the body of a well-dressed female found in the Serpentine river. There was no evidence to show how she was drowned ; but a witness stated the manner in which the body was discovered. He was teaching two dogs to take the water, near the head of the river, when he saw a bonnet floating close to the cast end, near the shore : his Newfoundland dog then jumped an and brought the body to the shore : the water was about ten feet deep. The body seemed to have been about two days in the water. Verdict—" Found drowned ; but how or when, there is no evidence before the jurors."

Last week, a fine young woman who resided in the neighbourhood of Guerneyslade, was killed by falling in the dark into a pit among some large stones. She was found quite dead. The unfortunate girl was on the point of being married. She was buried in her bridal dress on the Sunday subse- quent to the accident, about the same hour she had promised to stand sponsor to a neighbour's child.

A woman in Stirling, fourscore years of age, last week lost her life in con- sequence of her dress having accidentally caught fire.

On Monday evening, Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, a widow lady, aged sixty-five, residing in Thames-street, met a similar melancholy end. By some un- known means her dress had caught fire. She rushed down stairs to the par- lour of a tavern ; but before assistance could be afforded, she expired. The whole of her clothes were burnt off, and she was scorched in a most dreadful manner all over, particularly about the head, face, and bosom. On Tuesday, a parent residing at Paddington, went out, and locked the door of his house, leaving his child inside. On his return, he found the in- fast in the agonies of death, its clothes having been burned in his absence.

The premises of a colour-manufacturer, in Allen-street, were on Monday morning destroyed by fire—for the third time. The last time was about nine weeks since, and the new works were only completed on Saturday, and the workmen commenced their operations on Monday. The fire is supposed to have originated in the stoves being overheated.

The workshop of Mr. Goldsworthy, cabinet-maker, Half Moon-passage, Aldersgate-street, was partly consumed by fire on Monday afternoon. A number of reports were circulated as to the origin of the fire. On hearing these, Mr. Goldsworthy, whose spirits were depressed, observed to a friend, " surely no one thinks I set the house on fire." Shortly after he hanged himself on the premises.

A man named Ashton, who inhabited a lone cottage at Stayley Wood, be- tween two of the highest mountains in Cheshire, lately set two spring-guns in the house before going to bed with his son. Each gun was charged with half-a-dozen of bullets. On the following morning, while the son was pre- paring to go out, Ashton reminded him to beware of the wires. It appears that the unfortunate man had himself afterwards touched one of them ; for on his son's return, he was found dead on the floor, pierced with several balls. Two men belonging to Wolverhampton, who were at different times last week witnessing the baiting of bulls, had each a leg broken by the infuriated animals.

Mr. Pritchard, dancing-master, Bridgenorth, was drowned in the Severn on Tuesday evening. In rising from his scat on the deck of a barge, Ile fell into the river; and as there were only two men on board, and the night dark, no assistance could be rendered him.

On Thursday se'nnight, a father aged sixty, and his son aged sixteen, were smothered in a plaster-pit, near Leicester. A large quantity of earth fell in while they were endeavouring to make the pit more secure, and they were both dug out quite dead.

An impudent attempt at fraud was made upon the Earl of Derby, the othe.r day, by an impostor, who, in a long, circumstantial, and most plausibly-written letter, signed " Edward Watkins," represented himself as an unbeneficed clergyman of the Established Church, labouring under the complicated mise- ries of old age, disease, and absolute want. The Earl sent the letter to the Mendicity Society, with 101., to be given to the party if he should be found deserving ; but upon inquiry, it was discovered that the tale was false, and the scheme of an impostor who has been successful in levying contributions on several gentlemen by similar means.

A gentleman at Beverly was swindled out of 2001. last week, by sending a bill to that amount to an advertising money-lender in the Strand, for dis- count.

On Saturday morning, a g,entleman, so green from the country that he stood gazing at St. Dunstan's church for the purpose of seeing the hours struck, was joined by a man who described the actions of the machinery to him ; but while the gentleman's eyes were directed to the clock, his loquacious com- panion robbed him of his watch and purse.

On Sunday evening, a young lady, whose friends reside near Soho-square, and who, it is stated, is possessed of wealth, beauty, and accomplishments, eloped from the residence of her parents with a young Swiss, courier to a noble Earl, and it is supposed they have gone to the Continent. A draper's shop, at the corner of Speldhurst-street, was broken iitto on Tuesday morning, and robbed of goods to the amount of 2001.

The house of Mr. Mildmay, M.P., at Claremont, near Roehampton, was robbed on Saturday of property to a considerable amount. The thieves went about their crime with great deliberation ; and effected their escape without creating the least disturbance.

On Monday, a publican in Shadwell hanged himself in a fit of insanity. He had some years before attempted to cut his throat. It was stated on the Coroner's inquest, that mental disease was hereditary in the family.

Mr. John Rist, an officer on half-pay, who was residing with a friend in Chelmsford, shot himself on Saturday evening, in his bed-room. Ile re- mained insensible till the Wednesday following, when Ile died. James Thomas, who was assistant to Captain Thompson, the proprietor of the shooting-gallery and billiard-rooms, in Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, committed suicide on Saturday morning, by blowing out his brains with a pistol in the front of the premises, William Parr Pope, whose committal was mentioned last week, has been convicted at the Warwick Sessions of having obtained 51. from a gentleman, on the pretence of being the agent of Mr. F. C. Westley, the publisher of this paper, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

At the New Bailey, Manchester, Mrs. Richardson an& Mr. Jackson, hat manufacturers, were convicted in the mitigated penalty of 251 each, for having a compound called varnish, in their possession, which was mainly composed of spirits of wine, without a permit. On the part of the defendants it was argued that a large quantity of shell-lac, turpentine, and other articles being mixed with the spirits of wine, it was thereby rendered unfit for con- sumption in the way of spirits, and therefore it did not come under the meaning of the act. The magistrates, however, thought otherwise, and the parties were convicted. The full penalty is 100/.

An action was lately raised before the Sheriff of Forfarshire, by the Kirk Session of Dundee, against the owners of the steam-packet, Rapid, to compel them to discontinue sailing her between Dundee and Broughty Ferry on Sun- days. A decision has been given in favour of the Rapid. The crime of horse-stealing has again become common in Essex. Two ponies were stolen last week ; and it appears that some other attempts to steal were made, though they proved unsuccessful.

George Howarth, a very steady watchman, was murdered at Manchester on the morning of Saturday last. On Friday evening, a stranger was seen drunk in the company of a disorderly female. This woman, the stranger imagined, had robbed him of a few shillings ; and he applied to some watch- men to have her apprehended. They refused to listen to his incoherent tale ; and he was equally unsuccessful in an application which he made at one of the Lock-up-houses ; out of 'which he was forcibly ejected, as he would not go away quietly. Howarth and the drunken man parted but the former soon after saw the man coming towards him. In an instant lie pulled a carving-knife from under his coat, stabbed him in the abdomen, and ran away. The poor man was found sitting on the pavement, with his hands on the wound, from which his bowels were protruding. The murderer, who is entirely unknown in Manchester, has for the present escaped.

A man was last week committed to Haddiogton Gaol, on suspicion of having murdered an old man, on his return from Gifford fair. The deceased was found dead, with his head dreadfully mangled, and his pockets turned inside out. He had only a small suns of money in his possession.

An American paper mentions the murder of the two daughters of an inn- keeper in Giles county, Tenessee, by a neighbour who had a law-suit with their father, in which they were material witnesses. The noise made by the murderer awakened two lodgers, who had been admitted into the house against the injunctions of their father, in his absence. They armed themselves and went to see into the cause of the disturbance. One of them met the murderer on the stairs, and on his endeavouring to pass on without speaking, shot him dead. On entering the room, the two sisters were found in bed with their throats cut.

On the evening of the 9th, a party of banditti set fire to seventeen stacks of corn, in the farm-yard of the glebe-house of Wollstown, in the county of Cork. They also burnt the glebe-house, which was unfinished. It was tithe- corn, and only one load, which had been left on a cart, was saved. The loss is supposed to be 500/. The farm-house, offices, and corn, in another quarter, have also been destroyed, causing a loss to the proprietor of nearly 3001.

Eight persons were last week committed to the Devizes Bridewell for o fences against the game-laws. Others were pardoned, on condition of their informing against the buyers ; one of the latter of whom was convicted in Fenalties amounting to 20/. , A servant in the Paris post-office has been apprehended on the charge of purloining money-letters. No fewer than eight letters of this kind were found upon him, and he confessed that he had long carried on the practice. Among other losers, were several English families residing in Paris. They could ob- tain tto redress; as, although it could be proved that the letters had been put into the London post-office, it could not be proved that they had not been stolen before they reached the continent.

A young man, son of the letter-carrier between Tobermory and Auchna- Craig, in the island of Mull, has been committed to Inverary gaol, for trial, on the charge of having stolen a money-letter from the mail-bag, which he was deputed to carry by his father.

Several street robberies have lately been committed in Liverpool, by gangs of three or four men. Their victims are generally aged and infirm persons, incapable of offering resistance.

TRIAL BY JURY IN INDIA—The Bombay Gazette of the 30th of April con- tains a charge of Sir Charles Chambers, one of the Judges of that Presidency to the Grand Jury, on the extension of the privilege of sitting on juries, in

criminal cases, to native subjects of the three Presidencies, under the act 7 George, IV., c. 37. The Judge, in congratulating the Grand Jurors, and

through them the community, on the introduction of this great principle into the administration of justice in India, stated, that with a view to the more sa- tisfactory arrangement of such rules as might be necessary to regulate the selection of native jurors, the Bench had thought it right to consult the prin- cipal persons of the several Hindoo castes at Bombay and its neighbourhood, with regard to the wishes which they might entertain; and to the exemptions and indulgences under which they might be satisfied to fulfil the duties as- signed to them by the act of Parliament. The individuals consulted trans- mitted to the Judges a paper, setting forth certain matters connected with their religion and customs, which they wished the Judges to consider, in framing regulations relating to the serving of Hindoos on juries. They claim to be exempted from all coroner's inquests, as the inspection of a dead body is deemed a pollution. They wish to be exempted from juries when a Bra- min is to be tried capitally, it being a religious duty not to contribute to the death of a Bramin. The sane caste pleads exemption from all juries on capital crimes, as they dare not contribute to the death of any animal. No Hindoo to serve under the age of twenty-one, or above seventy. It is wished that six British subjects, conversant with the duties of jurors, should be as- sociated with the native jurors, until the latter are properly qualified for the duties, but no longer; and that there should always be one individual who has a competent knowledge of the English language, and of any language in ordinary use among the natives on the petty juries. It is requested that none but respectable Christians 1isll be selected to serve along with the Hindoos. Six castes are named, the persons composing which are considered best qualified to act as jurors ; and it is desired that no Hindoo may be called to act except those who are judged qualified by the heads of their castes.—who are to give the court a list of their names. Exemption is also claimed for Hits- dons from appearing in court on days when their doing so would be contrary to their religion and customs, and in cases of sickness in themselves or fa- milies. The other points suggested relate to the hours of attendance, and to some matters of personal convenience. The Hindoos anticipate that some difficulties of practice may occur in the commencement of the new system, but they hope to see them speedily and entirely removed.

TI1E DARDANELLES.—As to the practicability of blockading the Darda- nelles, reference has been made to the official correspondence of Admiral Collingwocd with Lord Mulgrave in 1807. The gallant Admiral, who was off the Danlanelles in August 1807, shows—lst, That Constantinople depends very little on the navigation of the Dardanelles for supplies; 2d, That the capital of Turkey ought not to do so, even in times of profound peace, "as the strong north-east winds which prevail during the summer months, and strong current which runs out, as effectually prevent vessels from entering aS any blockade ;" 3rd, That Constantinople is supplied by caravans from Galipoli and other places on the sea of Marmora, so that the Greeks would suffer

most from the interruption of trade. 4th, That a squadron of large ships cannot be of any sort of use at the 'Dardanelles, as it is impossible to keep the sea, and difficult to find a port. Ships from Egypt, or from foreign na- tions, Lord Collingwood conceives, might be interrupted by a cruizer sta- tioned between Cape Matapan and the west end of Candia, and between Rin.des and the east end of Candia.

SCARCITY IN GUERNSEY AND JF.RSEY:---A Guernsey paper of Wednesday says, " The recent rises in the price of flour have created a more than ordi- nary sensation, both in this place and in Jersey. In the latter island, several hundreds of the poorer classes presented themselves in a mass in the Royal Square lastMonday, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, and to solicit the authorities to take the subject into consideration. Theconstable placed himself in the thickest part of the group, and addressed them on the subject, pledging himself to do the utmost in alleviating their calamities. Sir Colin Halkett, the Lieutenant-governor, happening also to pass through the square, was

immediately surrounded by the poor people, who solicited his interference. His Excellency promised them to interest himself in their behalf. On Tues- day the States of Jersey met ; after remaining in deliberation about two hours, they determined on prohibiting the exportation of corn and flour from this island ; and also appointed a committee to purchase, in the name of the States, a stock of corn and flour for the winter season, to be sold to the poorer classes at as low a price as possible."

Some zealous friends of episcopacy contemplate opening a chapel in London, for the restoration of worship according to the Rubrics and Canons of the Church of England. It is proposed that all the parts of the service, aforetime ordained to be sung, shall be sung ; that no omissions shall be al- lowed to take place in the Communion Service ; and that such expressions in the Book of Common Prayer as seem to favour some of the erroneous notions of Catholics, shall be revised and corrected. It is intended to remain in perfect unity with the Church of England, in the same manner as the Episcopal Church of Scotland does, and to select for the ministry young men who have been educated at Oxford and Cambridge.

The celebrated conventicle in Tottenham-court road, built for the memor- able Mr. Wit itefield, has beets somewhat unexpectedly closed. The lease was taken in 1756, and was for seventy-two years: it expired at Michaelmas last. The committee of management had long been in negotiation with the ground landlord for a renewal of the lease or the purchase of the ground. The sum required is mentioned at 18,0001.; the sum offered is named at 12,0004; hence the negotiation was broken off; and the occupiers of seats suddenly found themselves without sittings, while others were deprived of graves, mo- numents, tablets, 8sc.

From 1702 to 1815, this country was at war for fifty-six years ; and with one exception, the present peace has already lasted longer than any within that period.

There are twenty-two provincial newspapers in Ireland, deemed" sound" by the Brunswickers,—that is, devoted to their views of church and state matters. Twenty journals advocate the Catholic cause. Three of the apostles of the defunct Johanna Southeote were lately in Edinburgh disseminating their nonsense about the promised Messiah and the millenium, to listening crowds.

A gentleman of Tewkesbury lately purchased a large flounder, in the belly of which a gold ring was found. A fisherman at St. Eeverne, last week caught a conger eel which weighed 1041bs.

A farmer near Stirling, is said to have recently killed seven dozen of spar rows at two shots, in his farm-yard. If you question the story, he proves it by showing "the very gun that did it." Mr. Lidbetter, of Bramber, having lately shot a handrail, was in no haste to bag it, but proceeded to re-load his gun. A hawk darted down upon the dead game, and bore it away in his talons.

Captain Manby, the inventor of the life-preserver, has received from the King of France a gold medal, as a mark of his Majesty's satisfaction with the services which he has rendered to humanity.

A NEW FIRE-SCREEN FOR THE LADIES.—Draw a landscape on paper with common Indian ink, representing a winter scene or mere outline; the foliage to be painted with muriate of cobalt (green), .‘muriate of copper (yellow), and acetate of cobalt (blue); all which colours dry in invisible ; but on the screen being held near the fire, the gentle warmth will occasion the trees, flowers, 8:e. to display themselves in their natural colours, and winter is magically changed to spring. As the paper cools, the colours disappear; and the effect may be repeated as often as required.

The French are improving upon the practice of their instructors, the Eng- lish, in the conduct of public dinners. At a dinner of 140 electors of the De- partment of the Lower Rhine, on the 8th instant, the following toast was given after the health of the Royal Family had been drunk with enthusiasm. "Re- ligious liberty, the most noble possession of an enlightened people, and the necessary result of political freedom! Consecrated by our fundamental pact, may it penetrate more and more our laws and our manners ! and may France, which after long error has so fully recognized and proclaimed it, become in this respect, as in all others, an example to tlse civilized world."

M. Swim, of Paris, has invented a musical language, a report of which was lately printed by the Academy of Belles Lettres. The inventor developed his method in the presence of the committee appointed for that purpose by the Academy, spoke his musical language on the violin, wrote it in musical signs, and caused it to be instantly translated on the spot by his scholar Ifelderez, a boy eleven years of age. Divers experiments were repeated, and the lad translated every time what his master musically communicated to him, and his translation always agreed with what several academicians had dictated.

Two schools of Mutual Instruction, the one for boys and the other for girls, have just been opened at Verrieres, department of the Seine and Oise. A new method has lately been adopted by some French physicians of in- troducing medicine into the system by the skin, and to which they have given the name of" Endermic Medication.'

The number of English residents at Dieppe, is daily increasing, and the demand for unfurnished houses is so great that scarcely a good one is to be procured.

The following story, which is almost equal to a genuine American, is given in a French paper, the Mentor :—" A washerwoman of Bergen-op-Zoom lost, in the great flood of the year 1757, a few days after her marriage, her wed- ding-ring. Her husband set out a few days afterwards for the East Indies. This woman, who is nearly ninety years of age, about a month ago, bought in the fish-market of that place a whiting, and on opening it she found the ring which she had lost seventy years before. This was not all. A letter from the Indies arrived at the same instant, and informed her that her husband who had lived at Chandernagore, had recently died, and had left her a fortune of several millions. The good old woman was so affected that she died on the spot. This large fortune has fallen to the inheritance of five collateral rela- tions, who are very poor and who reside at Bergen-op-Zoom—namely, a tailor, a barber, and three carpenters. Oh, blind fortune !" The Sultan Mahmoud has ordered honorary medals, to confer upon those who distinguish themselves in the present war against the Russians. The medals have for their device—" For valour." The Turks have hitherto shown an aversion to such honorary distinctions. The Order of the Crescent instituted by Mira III., and conferred on Lord Nelson, as well as some other distinguished foreigners, could never be rendered popular in Turkey. wow Thus,

A letter from Batavia, written by the captain of a brig called the Eliza, states that, on the 2d of April, when off the Cape of Good Hope, he fell in with five icebergs of immense size, floating in his track. These unwonted visitants in that latitude had the appearance of so many steeples; some of them were be- tween two and three hundred feet high.