MONEY MARKET.—CITY, SATURDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.

The transactions in the money market during the last week have not been very important. The first price of Monday was 88 for Consols (in- cludir°v, dividend), and a gradual advance took place till the price reached 881 on Wednesday and Thursday, but yesterday it fell to 88i. Although there have been a variety of rumours, some of them of a very trifling character, to account for these fluctuations, the real cause is to be found only in the state of the account, which terminates on Tuesday. The rise in the early part of the week was a continuance of the reaction which succeeded the fall of last week, and the subsequent fall is most probably owing to the operations of certain speculators for an advance, who, hav- ing bought largely have not found their speculations gratified to their full extent, and are now anxious to be relieved of their stock. On the whole, the transactions of the Public or bona fide buyers and sellers have been pretty equally balanced—the supply of stock not exceeding the demand, nor yet falling short of it. It is still too early to judge of the effect of the reduction of the sum applied to the purpose of the Sinking Fund, but so long as the present abundance of money continues, any considerable fall, (in the absence of political causes) is hardly to be anticipated. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds have advanced in price, and now bear the enormous premium of 73 and 107. In the Foreign Market, the transactions have been very unimportant, and with the exception of some fluctuations in Portugueze Stock arising out of the affairs in that country, there has been very little business doing indeed. The price of that Stock on Saturday last was 57k; on Tuesday it bad fallen to 53i, and it is now about 56.

The French Funds continue to advance, and some are of opinion, that that Stock is fast approaching in public estimation 'to t he value of our own Funds.

In South American bonds there is nothing new to mention. A mail arrived from Mexico this morning, bringing letters to the 31st May, but no money, nor hopes of money, to the band-holders. These bonds are about 1 per cent. lower. The accounts from the mining districts are said to be decidedly favourable, particularly to those belonging to the United and Bolanos Companies. The shares of the latter, which were lately at 80 discount, were to-day done at 30 discount.

BRITISH FUNDS.

Consols for Money 861 to 87 Consols for Account ssi to

Consols for August 881 to

Three per Cent Red. 871 to

Three ttz a half Red. 951

New Fourpercents.104 to Ex. Div.

Four per Cents.I826 1041 to

Exchequer Bills 72 to 73 Prem,

India Bonds 106 to 107

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Brazil Stock 62 to 621 Buenos Ayres 44 to 45 Brazilian 391 to 1 Portugueze 56 to 1 '

French Three per Cents. 73 Ex. 25.30

Russian 94 to i SDARES.

United Mexican 381. paid 19 per Share. Brazil 20 73 Bolanos 290 260 to 255.

Anglo-Mexican 93 811 to Wt.

The King gave a grand entertainment yesterday at his favourite Windsor retreat. On Taesday his Majesty paid a visit the giraffe, which, " we are are happy to announce, is rapidly gaining strength.' The House of Commons will adjourn on Monday to Friday, the 25th ; when, or on Saturday, the parliament will be prorogued.

The people of Weymouth are rejoicing at an expected visit from Royalty in the approaching autumn. The new bridge at Kingston was opened on Thursday. The Duchess of Clarence, accompanied by Mrs. Pallmer, honoured the work by crossing in her carriage.

The gallant soldier and historian of his countrymen's achieve- ments, Major General David Stewart, has been appointed Gover- nor and Commander in Chief of the Island of St Lucia.

Mademoiselle Mars takes her leave on Monday.

Messrs. Laurent and Laporte have taken the King's Theatre for another season.

The improvements in Covent-Garden market are begun.

The house of Baring has purchased a million acres of land in the province of Texas, a rich country in the north of Mexico. The 12,000/., expected to be raised in London, for Mr. O'Con- nell's election, has dwindled down to 300/.

Lord F. L. Gower, who vacated his seat for Sutherlandshire by accepting the office of Secretary for Ireland, was unanimously re- elected on the 7th instant. •

The " oldest inhabitants of Durham," are blessing their stars at the unprecedented occurrence of having among them but one prisoner for trial at the Summer Assizes—and he is out on bail.

It arpears, from the usual published returns, that the brewa,ge

of porter by the principal London houses during the last year has declined to the extent of eivhty thousand barrels. For this alarm- ing degeneracy, the Herald assigns two causes, somewhat con- flicting in their nature—the increased use of " intermediate beer," and the increased use of ardent spirits. We may name two others —the badness of the porter, and the augmented gentility of the population.

The Chronicle of this morning gives a favourable bulletin of the health of Mr. Brougham, and accounts for his late comparative inactivity in public life. " We are glad to hear that Mr. Brougham has experienced great benefit from his Northern journey, and that there is every prospect of his being sufficiently recovered to discharge his professional duties at the Circuit. There is not the slightest foundation for the report so confidently circu- lated of Ministers having been in treaty with him for the Mastership of the Rolls. If Mr. Brougham spoke less lately in Parliament than usual, the cause, we are sorry to say, was the state of his health, which was much worse than he was willing to allow his friends to perceive. Because he possesses moi e energy and activity than any other public man of the day, it seems to have been taken for granted, that if even for a short time he might be unable, in addition to his arduous professional labours, to take a prominent part in every Parliamentary discussion, this could only be accounted for by a change of sentiments. We trust the country air and the interval of leisure between the termination of the Assizes and the opening of the Courts in town, will restore to perfect health the pub- lic man who has done more, perhaps, than any man living, for the pro- motion of the best interests of his countrymen and of mankind."—Morn- ing Chronicle.

At the assizes at Abingdon, the man Brinklett, and the Hunts, have been tried for the murder of Lord Mount Sandford at Windsor. It was proved, on the part of the prosecution, that Brinklett kicked Lord Mount Sandford when lying on the pavement, and the Hunts appear to have been concerned with him and others in the affray. Evide,ice was adduced by the prisoners to show that the affair in which this melancholy accident occurred. had been commenced by the gentlemen visiters to Ascot Races. Brinklett, in his defence, allowed that he kicked somebody whom he did not know, but without any evil design. The 'Jury bun the prisoners guilty of man- slaughter. The Judge (Vaughan) said, in order to mark the odious light in which such brutal scenes of violence were viewed by the law, he should extend Brinklett's punishment to the utmost limits of the statute. Brinklett was sentenced to transportation for life, and the two Hunts each to seven years.

We understand that Mr. Wyattville is to be knighted on the 12th of Au- gust.—Morning Paper.

So fond is Lord Anglesey of sailing and manceuvring, small craft, that it is stated he has offered a wager to a large amount, that he will himself sail his yacht, the Pearl, from Kingstown Harbour, round the light-ship and back, and without the assistance of any of his seamen.—Dablin Eeening Post. The Marqueis of Cleveland, when Lord Darlington, several years ago,

purchased the borough of Tregony, for 20,0001., and having little furdler occasion, as he a few months ago imagined, for the continuance of all his

borough interest, v to sell it ; but before the purchase was completed new events occurred, and, among others, the surprising fact that the titk deeds of the borough were missing. The offices of several r.-spectable soli- citors have been ransacked without success.—Sherborne Zliercury.

Mr. O'Connell was the first to announce his return for Clare to the Ad- ministration, by franking his four first letters to the Doke of Wellington, Lord Eldon, Mr. Peel, and Mr. Goulburn.— Limerick Chronicle.

LAW CHANGES IN SCOTLAND.—A paragraph has appeared in several of our contemporaries, stating that Lord Eldin's resignation has been accepted of that Sir James Moncrieff, Dean of Faculty, is to succeed to the vacant gown, and Mr. Jeffrey to be elected Dean of Faculty. Whether there is any foundation for the statement, as to Lord Eldin's resignation, and Sir James Moncrieff being called to the Bench, we do not know; but should it prove to be correct, we have every reason to believe that Tits S0LIC1TOR-GENLRAL will be put in nomination for the office of Dean of Faculty, and we doubt not he will he elected.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

It was stated in the debate the other night on the Game Bill, that "his

late Majesty's table was supplied with bought game." If this was so, we can only say the more the shame. What were royal gamekeepers paid and appointed for, if they could not find the late King a brace of pheasants any- where but in Leadenball-market ?—..11Iornauj Herald,

The Rev. Mr. , one of the most notorious and successful English

gamblers in Paris. and who. in the space of two years, realized about 12,0001., has at length met with the fate which he so well merited, by what is called a run of ill luck at Rouge et Noir. The whole of his ill-gotten wealth has returned into the pockets of the contractors.—Ifforning Post.

HARROW Senooe.—The two scholarships for this year, after three days of examination, were awarded to Wentworth H uyslie, son of the Rev. Francis Huvehe, rector of Clist Heydon, in Devonshire, and Foster Bower Jodrell, son.of Francis Jodrell, Esq., Henbury-hall, near Maccleefield.

Our readers are aware, that when the experiment was lately made on board the Prince Regent, of firing her guns, the gingerbread work on her stern (a round one) fell off at the first broadside. We have heard—and have some reason to believe it true—that the ship actually caught tire : at all events. a fire-engine was despatched in great haste limn Woolwich.— Brighton Gazette.

A Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette %‘ rims—"I believe that the child bearing the words 'NAPOLEON, Empereur! is its eyes, is shortly to set out for the British Metropolis. I saw it the other morning, and am now convinced of the existence of the fact."

Madame Margat, the French aeronaut, lately ascended in a balloon, and at ten o'clock at night descended in a field near Ancenil, where she remained the whole night in a state of anxiety. In the morning the Mayor was about to commit her to prison for travelling without a passport, when fortunately the Procurcur du Roi arrived on the spot, and took her under hie protection

At a very early hour on Thursday last, an elopement took place from West Teignmouth, Devon. The parties were married in Taunton (nearly sixty miles from Teignmouth) the same morning, and so great was the interest ex- cited on toe occasion. that from 900 to 1,00(1 persoris were in attendance at the church-yard, to catch a glimpse of the happy pair. The gentleman's name is Caleb Mortimer Smyth: his father is a clergyman, and resides near Winchester. The lady is a Miss Mary Rutherford Leigh, daughter of a gen- tleman who is at present living at Teignmouth. The officiating clergyman was from Hampshire, and a friend of the bridegroom.—Tannern Courzer.

On Sunday last, a young lady and geutleman (front the neighbourhood of Derby, we are informer]) passed through Carlisle on a matrimonial trip to Gretna Green. The lady was young and beautiful. and apparently not mere than seventeen years of age ; the bridegroom a comely and vell-proportioned youth. scarcely arrived at man's estate. The parties had dreaded pursuit, and therefore drove with great rapidity. They left Manchester in a chaise and four, on Sunday morning, at six o'clock. and arrived at the coffee-house in 'arlisle at five in the evening ; having travelled 120 miles in eleven hours. including stoppages! They instantly set off for Gretna, and were back again at Carlisle about nine o'clock. On retiring to rest, the young gentleman de- clared that he had not had his boots off' during the three preceding night. At six o'clock on the following morning a gentleman named Lester (sup- posed to be a relation of the lady's) arrived in pursuit : the parties had an amicable interview, and returned to Manchester that evening by the mad, booked in the name of Alsop.— Carlisle Patriot.

As one of the steam-bores was setting off the other day to plough the bosom of Loch Ness, a lady on deck happened to be leaning over the side of the vessel, watching it progress, when she was thus admonished by a douse south country farmer on board.—" Gudesake, Men], keep back, or ye may fa' o'er aid lose your passtme "—Inverness Courier.

A rich Jewess of St. Mary-Axe, who died on Friday sennight, made a singular will about a fortnight before. She has directed her body to be buried in Jerusalem 4 and twelve of her friends (Jews), who are to accom- pany the body. are to have four hundred pounds each for their trouble, two on their departure, and the other two on their return to England, after executing their extraordinary commission. This will is to be literally obeyed.

A few days ago, Mr. Fenning, father of the lamented Elizabeth Fencing, accidentally felt from the first floor window of Mr. Brnoksbank, Doughty- Street. The poor man was much bruised, but preserved his life by falling between the water butts and the wall.

Edward Lord, seventeen years of age, the son of the Rev. Dr. Lord, was

unfortunately drowned in the river Rother, Northsam on Tuesday last.

About three o' clock on Monday morning, a young female plunged into the Thatnes at Waterloo Bridge, and was taken out apparently quite dead. By surgical aid, she soon recovered ; and stated that her name was Mary Anne James, that she was a native of South Wales, destitute of friends in London, and had eaten nothing for the last three days.

On Wednesday evening, as three young men were rowing up the Thames, a little above Battersea Bridge, one of them fell overboard, and immediately sunk. In the course of half an hour his body was raised,—but too late for life.

As a poor lime-burner, named Evans, residing at Milford, was sailing across the Haven with three of his children, a sudden squall ovei turned the boat, and all four perished. A wife, who is pregnant, and three children are left destitute.

Eleven persons returning in a sail-boat from the fair of Carrigaholt perished in the Shannon, on the 4th instant, the bark having swamped %she') attempt- ing to gain the creek on a tack. The bodies of eleven victims were found next morning on the slob at low water.

A fire broke out on the Greenfield estate, in Jamaica, on the 1st of May, which destroyed all the buildings, with the exception of the overseer's house and the hospital. About two thirds of the negro houses were also consumed.

On Monday night last, some miscreants poisoned the fish in a pond near to Ringmer Church. called Howell's Pond, belonging to the lord of the manor. Nearly 2001b. weight of fine carp were found floating dead upon the surface of the water the following morning.—Sussex Advertiser. On Tuesday, the lightning entered the house of William Dowell, in Alfred- street. Stepney, as he sat at dinner with his wife and six children. It first penetrated through the window, next shattered a partition, then destroyed the contents of a cupboard, and finally teached Dowell, who died immedi- ately after the shock. The body was streaked and spotted by the awful visi- tation.

A woman has been committed to Horsham goal, charged with an attempt to poison her husband at Mayfield, by administering a quantity of blue stone in a black currant pudding, which she had sere into the fields for his dinner, and having eat of which, he was suddenly taken ill, and continued for some time in a precarious state, though we believe he is now out of danger.— Sussex Advertiser. A labouring man named Brumage, baying been drinking rather freely on Tuesday week, unknown to any person, went to sleep in a hay-loft. On the following Sunday afternoon, several individuals being in the stable under- teeth the hay-loft, heard a voice faintly exclaiming from above, " Help me out, help me out." Assistance was immediately rendered, and the man that had been missing ever since Tuesday night, was taken out from among the hay, being so weak at the time that he could not rise without assistance. His appearance bespoke a woful change, his face having fallen in, and his eyes, taken brought to the light, began to glare similar to the eyes of a ferret. A quantity of hay was put into the loft on Wednesday, while he was asleep, but it seems it did not disturb him.—Leicester Herald.

At Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a shocking occurrence has happened. A gentle- man named Hawksworth, clerk to Messrs. Mamott and Co , had entered into an engagement with a young lady, aged eighteen, also of Ashby ; the wed- ding-dress was provided, and tile day appointed, but alas! her father would not give consent. On Monday, Hawksworth took a quantity of poison, but not sufficient to cause his death : while it was operating upon him, he went several times to see the lady, and on his return, he shot himself dead.— Sloe/Tort Advertiser.

Sen. Huerta, it appears, left his home with a guitar under his arm, when a boy, in consequence of the harsh treatment of his father, who is a person of some rank in Spain. He has since encountered " perils by land and perils on the waters," having been in most of the West India Islands. (in some of which he gave a concert to the blacks.) in Mexico and tile Cuffed States of North America, and also in Egypt, and different parts of the Medi- terranean. It is not many weeks since he fought a duel with Monsieur La- harm, harpi-t to the King of France, on account of some musical quarrel. He is now only in his five-and-twentieth year.— i:orning Paper.

Tim late storms of hail and rain have done great mischief in the country, particularly in the North. The Manchester and Newcastle papers contain long accounts of inundations. At Stockport, the premises of Ntr. Marsland were undermined, and a part of the building fell into the water, carrying with it about a thousand pieces acetic° and other property., Great has been the destruction of hay, corn and potatoes. The eastern parts of York-hite, par- tiaularly near the Humher, have suffered severely; some hundred risres of hay and corn have been inundated. and several fields of hay, ready to be car- .. Ned. ae well as those cut, have been swept away. The corn-fields present the appearance of having been rolled over.

Here.—A storm. which, for violence, was totally unprecedented within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, passed over the town and neighbour- hood of Taunton on Tuesday la-t. The damage which it has done is almost in- calculable. At Brymore House, the seat of Lady Hales, nearly 600 panes of glass were broken in the conservatOry. hothouse, 6:c.; and hailstones, or rather cakes of ice, were picked up which measured three inches in diatneter. At the Shoulder of Mutton inn, on the Bristol road, but two panes of glass were left unbroken in the whole house ; the principal part of the meadows were under water, and the unearned hay was seen floating about in them. One farmer at Pawlett, near this pace, has sustained a loss by the fury of the storm to the amount of five hundred pounds : and another in the same pat ish three hundred pounds, the corn and beans being either levelled with the ground, or cut off from their sterns by the hailstones.— Taunton Courier.

HURRICANE IN THE MAuRITIUS AND LOSS OF THE GEORGE CANNING.— Extract of a letter from Port Louis. Mauritius, dated the 10th of Mareh.—" On the morning of the 6th of March. the appearance of the weather was very threatening' and the gradual falling of the barometer led us to expect that we were about to be visited by a hurricane, and the event justified our worst fears, for before sunset the work of devastation had begun, and continued, without intermission, till midnight. The destruction, as is usual in hurri- canes, has beet, considerable to houses, cattle, crops, &c. ; but I believe, happily. no lives were lost on shore. The ships in the harbour being but lew in number, by timely preparation, have not experienced much injury ; but I regret to say that a different fate awaited the George Canning, of 426 tons, Captain James Clark, which had arrived the preceding day from Calcutta, with a cargo of rice, &c., and for the want of a bill of health was riding three days' quarantine of observation at the Bell Buoy. At noon she was observed sending down top-gallant masts, and it would appear had rode well at an anchor until rbout eight o'clock, p.m., at which time the hurricane was at its height. when the captain, being desirous of availing himself or the wind being off shore, to proceed to sea, ordered the chain cable to be slipped, aed the fore-topmast stay-sail to be hoisted. Unfortunately, at this moment, she was caught in a squall by a sudden shift of wind, which laid her head on shore, and before she could wear, or be brought under any command, she ran on shore with great violence on the western entrance of the Grand River, and shortly after broke in two. Her stern is now lying nearly two miles front the forecastle, and all who were in the after part of the vessel (Captain

Clark, the second taste, surgeon, the carpenter, three passengers, two ser- vants, and six seamen) have lost their lives. Those who had the good for- tune to be on the fore part of the vessel (which remained stationary, owing to the force with which she struck the ground) were preserved until morning, when they landed on a raft."

OBSTETRIC SCIENCE —Means have been discovered, by the application of galvanism during a painful and protracted labour, to ascertain positively whether or not there will be a still-birth.—Paris Journal.

PRESERVATION OF LEECHES.—A wooden tub, furnished with a Stop-cock, and large enough to contain sufficient water for 500 leeches, should be pro-

cured. It is to be half filled with the mud from the lake or pond whence the leeches have been taken, and two or three roots of the Florence Iris are to be set in the mud. The leeches are very fond of this plant. The usual precautions as to change of temperature, Sec., are to be observed; the water is to be changed slowly, and the fresh water added by means of a funnel descending to the bottom of the vessel. This was the method adopted by Mr. Chatelain, and is followed in most of the French Hospitals.—Lanect.

RELIGION AMONG THE LAWYERS.—Sometime ago, a person, with his agent, appeared before one of the Judges in the Court of Session; to be sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, a form of administering an oath not common in Scotland. When the Judge desired the agent to bring the inspired volume, he hurried to the libraries, and sought in vain for a Bible ; but, to the credit of this honourable profession, and most respectable class of the community, no such work was to be found either in the library of the Faculty of Advo- cates, or in that of the Society of Writers to the Signet, the two most exten- sive in Scotland. We are glad, however, to be able to state, that the course ofjustice is not likely, in future, to be impeded by a similar occurrence, for,

the deficiency, we understand, is now supplied,—Eceitiburg4 Evening Pos

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.—OD Sunday,- the Duke of Cumberland dined with Earl Bathurst. The Marquis of Cleveland gave a grand dinner to the Duke of Sussex and Prince Leopold. On Monday, the Earl of Mansfield gave a grand entertainment to Prince Leopold at Caen Wood. Lady Lyndhurst entertained a large and distinguished party. The Duke of Cambridge dined with the Earl of Clarendon. On Tuesday the Duchess of Kent gave a grand dinner to the Duke of Cambridge, and a select party of the nobility. Lord Wm. Poulett entertained the Duke of Sussex. Lady Barbara Ponsonby had an assembly. On Wednesday, Mr. Secretary Peel entertained the Cabinet Ministers at dinner. The Earl of Chesterfield gave a dinner to Prince Leo- pold, and had afterwards a numerous evening party. On Thursday,the Duke of Wellington gave a dinner to the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Leopold. Lord Hill, as Commander of the Forces, gave a splendid dinner to about twenty military officers of distinction. Lady Anne Becket gave a brilliant assembly at Stratford House. On Friday, the Duke of Cambridge dined with the Duke of Sussex at Kensington Palace. The Duchess of St. Alban's gave a splendid ball and supper. The Duke of Grafton entertained a distinguished party at dinner. The Earl of Clarendon gave a dinner to the Marquis of Cleveland, and a large party.

ELTHAM PALACE.— The present state of Eltham Palace, concerning which a conversation took place in the House of Lords during the week, is described in this extract from Mr. Hunt's Designs for Parsonage Houses, 8tc. " The great ball in which Edward III. held two Parliaments, and in his thirty-eighth year gave a princely reception to John, King of France, who had been his prisoner in England, and then came over to visit him at Eltham, is now used as a barn, and suffering constant mutilations from the jarring action of a threshing-machine, from neighbouring maid-servants, who require soft free-stone for whitening their hearths, and from ' Gothic' visitors frequently taking home fragments—purposely made—of the exquisitely carved ornaments, as memorials of their travels to King John's Barn."

The harvest in the Midland Counties will be this year later than usual. Many meadows remain yet uncut, and much of what hay has been cut, is destroyed by the heavy rains, and some carried away by the floods. The wheat crop promised well, but many of the best fields have been lodged by the rains, and it will require some fine weather to raise them. The bean crop is excellent. The face of the country is as green as in the middle of June.—Morning Herald.

DEATH IN THE STING OF A Bee.—Last week a man of the name of Taylor, residing at Glenleduock, Perthshire, was stung by a bee in the face. For some time no remarkable symptom was apparent, except that the inflamma- tion which followed was attended with an unusual sensation of itching. This, however, soon brought on an uninterrupted fit of sneezing, which proved so painful and distressing to the poor man, that his family became alarmed, and sent off one of his sons to Comrie, for the attendance of a medical gentleman. In the mean time the fit increased with such obstinacy, that the poor sufferer soon sunk under it, and died in the utmost agony, before any relief could be afforded him. He has left a wife and family.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

The check-weavers of Wigan, about fourteen weeks since, turned out in consequence of the lowness of their wages ; and notwithstanding the incon- venience and misery which they must have endured by taking such a step, they have expressed their determination to persevere until they accomplish their object, if they should remain out of work until Christmas.—Manchester Herald.

On Sunday morning, a whale of large dimensions was thrown ashore on a part of the rocky coast about half a mile south of Dunbar. The animal was dead when discovered, and one of its jaw bones was broken. It is about 50 feet in length, and, as near as could be judged, eight or ten feet in depth from the back to the belly, so that Jonah, as our informant expresses It, might find room to say his prayers within it in a proper position. The span of the tail, or the distance from one extremity to the other, is 15 feet. The colour is dark, and the back and sides are prettily striped, from which, and from other circumstances, our informant (who is, however, no naturalist) thinks it is the Balmna Boops, or pike-headed whale. Thousands have gone to see the huge animal, which has indeed become a subject of great speculation in more ways than one. The writers particularlyare divided in opinion as to the party to whom the deodand falls ; some thinking so great an animal must needs be a royal fish, and go to enrich the privy purse—while others held that it belongs to the proprietrix of the soil, the Duchess of Roxburgh. A circumstantial state- ment of the case has been sent off the King's counsel, who will no doubt take' due care of his Majesty's interest.—Scotsman.

MILLINER'S APPRENTICES—An Inquisition was taken on Friday evening at the sign of the Argyll Arms, Agyll-street, before Mr. Higgs, the coroner,

on view of the body of a girl, aged only nineteen years, named Catharine Aram. Mr. John Hartup stated, that the deceased had been in his employ- ment about five weeks ; her business was to make up ladies' dress caps, veils, and other fancy articles of female attire. When she came to him she said she had just left a fashionacle Magazin des Modes, in Beak-street, Regent-street, where she had served her time. She and the rest of the youngladies were, upon particular occasions, obliged to sit up the whole of the night ; and finding thather constitution was not adequate to the labour im- posed on her, she was determined to leave the situation. Witness agreed to take her at a salary of 15/. a year, board and lodging. She had not been there long, when she was attacked with an hysterical fit; about ten days after that, she had a similar attack, and complained of a sick head-ache, which produced considerable bodily weakness, and witness sent her home to her family. About a week before her death she returned to her employ- ment. On Thursday evening about six o'clock, she rose from the tea-table, and went up stairs to her chamber to wash her hands previous to resuming her work. Witness had occasion to go past her door in a few minutes after, when he observed the unfortunate girl lying upon the floor; she was quite dead. Witness kept three other young ladies in his establishment, and all were at present in good health.—Foreman, "What hours do your young women work, Mr. Hartup ?"—Mr. • Har- top, " From eight in the morning, till ten at night."—Foreman, "Four- teen hours : that is certainly too much for any female to bear."—Mr. Hartup, "It is not hard work, Sir, that they are employed upon."—Fore- man, " Perhaps not. I am not looking at the labour, but at the confinement, which of necessity must bring on disease. It is too long for any female to work."—Others of the jury acquiesced in the opinion of their foreman.—Mr. Hartup said, that his situation was much easier than the one the deceased had left, as she had told him she had frequently worked eighteen hours out of the twenty-four.—Nr. John Hunter Nicholson, surgeon, of Conduit-street, was of opinion that her death was occasioned by a determination of blood to the head.—After some observations from the jury, they agreed to return a ver- dict—" That the deceased died from natural causes, by the visitation of God."

The first railway coach constructed in Scotland for the conveyance of passengers, made a trial journey in the neighbourhood of Airdrie, on Tuesday sennight It is dragged by one horse, and is to ply on the Kirkintilloch railways in carrying passsengers to boats on the canal. It is meant to carry twenty-four passengers, but started in high style with no less than forty within and without.—Caledonian Mercury.

PUBLIC Bensosas OF THE METROPOLIS.—The evidence taken before the Committee on the Office of Works is amusing, though unfortunately too long for us to publish—even if all our readers would take an interest in the details of the squabbles of architects, and the process by which bad designs for build- ings are made worse. Among other things, there is an amusing game of cross-purposes between Mr. Decimus Burton aud Mr. Nash, concerning the triumphal arch at the end of the garden of Buckingham House, near Hyde Park. Mr. D. Burton, it seems, built the arch by order of the Commissioners of Woods, in order to form an entrance to the King's garden. Just within this entrance, Mr. Nash, who has the planning of the garden, places a reser- voir, which Mr. D. Burton pronounces to be an unsightly object. Wheu Mr. Nash is questioned on this subject, he says he 6 never understood that the triumphal arch was to have anything to do with the gardens—he does not know by whose authority it was ordered—that there is no entrance to the Palace on that side nor ever was, and it was never intended there should be.' What in the world the arch has lo do we are ignorant. If his Majesty indeed chooses to have a new road made—to make two sharp turns, and go a hundred yards about for the sake of going through the triumphal arch, reconciling the conflicting plans of his architects, and having a view of the unsightly reservoir, he may get into Constitution Hill through the grand en- trance, instead of going the shorter road which is to be open to his subjects. The " royal road" which an ancient geometrician alluded to cannot, we pre- sume, have been of this kind.—Globe.

THE COOKING APPARATUS OF EARL MANNERS AT THORESRY.-0I1O patent roaster with sliding frame and lift off spit hooks. 20 inches square, 34 inches deep ; will bold six very large joints of meat, heated by a sinall fire under- neath with double doors. A kitchen stove, the fire 3 feet 6 inches wide, with double bright spit-racks to draw out ; two boilers to hold 75 gallons each ; one for hot water to serve at about thirty yards distance, the other to cook with by steam twenty inches across the front, with steam pipes and valves, cocks for steam and water, cast iron slips and arch plate to face all the inside with a steam table, four feet wide by six feet long. Four large double steamers four large single steamers. One large single steamer for fish ; one large steamer for turbot ; a metal table for steamers to stand upon, 31 inches high, 36 inches wide, by 15 feet long. Twelve charcoal stoves in metal, 3 feet 6 inches wide, by 10 feet 6 inches long, with fronts, doors, &c. neces- sary fora reserve of charcoal. A hot table to boil and fry upon, 3 feet wide by 5 feet long. A handsome black smoke jack, NI:WI two horizontal and perpendicular motions. The whole to occupy a space of 75 feet long by 6 feet high, and weighing, altogether, nearly six tons. We understand, that this immense cooking apparatus is calculated to supply a warm dinner to upwards of one thousand persons—Sheffield Iris.

An epidemic disorder has broken out at Marseilles, which at one time carried off from 35 to 40 individuals daily. Its violence, however, has abated.

LAWSUITS TRANSFERRED TO THE COURTS BELOW.—AI the funeral of an advocate, which took place lately at Munich, when the coffin was lowered into the grave, a man approached and threw into it, with many oaths, the deeds of a lawsuit, that the defunct might finish in hell the process which had caused ruin upon earth.

The French thieves seem to be much more open than their English brethren to the shame of exposure. A few days since, an account was given of a bookseller's clerk cutting his throat when charged with theft ; and a more recent Paris journal mentions a similar suicide by a person taken in the act of theft in the Rue de la Seine. The journalist bestows great praise on this delicate susceptibility of character.

In a work lately published in Paris on the Monomania of Theft, a singular case is mentioned by M. Esquirol, a physician. This gentleman had a pa- tient, who, at the age of 55, suddenly acquired a propensity to steal the silver spoons and forks wherever he dined ; but as he was never unattended; the property was always taken from him on the following day and returned to the owners. Determined to conquer this propensity if he could, M. Esquirol having at dinner with his patient a numerous company, detected him in the act of stealing a spoon, and publicly exposed him at the table. From that hour the propensity to steal entirely left him.

Two men were a few days ago sentenced by the Correctional Tribunal of Fontainbleau to ten months' imprisonment, for having wantonly caused the death of nineteen persons. The accused, while driving the horses which were dragging a barge in the Seine, contrived to make the rope dip on the water, with a view of wetting a pleasure party of twenty-five persons, in a boat, going to a fête at Momery. The frolic, however, was a fatal one ; for the boat was upset, and nineteen out of twenty-five were drowned. Fifteen of them were girls under eighteen years of age.

FRENCH CRIMINAL CALENDAR, 1827.— From a report by Count Portalis, Keeper of the Seals, on the administration of criminal justice, it appears that last year the number of persons brought to trial before the Courts of Assize in all France was 6.929, and of persons outlawed, 345, being 59 short of the previous year. Of these 6,929, there were condemned 4,236, and acquitted 2,693. The capital condemnations amounted to 109 ; the sentences of hard labour for life, 317; of hard labour for a specified time, 1,062; of solitary confinement, 1,223 ; and of imprisonment, 1,446. Out of the 109 persons capitally condemned, 76 were executed. M. de Portalis states, that 98 per cent. of those sentenced for the most .dangerous crimes, profit by the first punishment, and retnrn to society improved in principles and habits. The most of the relapses are in the case of the con- demnations for theft. "639, accused afresh, have been prosecuted for crimes of the same nature as those which were the ground of their first con- demnation, viz, for rape, or attempts against modesty, 1; infanticide, 1; cutting and maiming, 16; association of malefactors, 1; fraudulent bank- ruptcy, I, forgery, 5; coining, 1; theft, 631." With respect to the Cor- rectional Tribunals, 115,488 judgments have been rendered, 6,416 more than in 1826. The number of persons put upon trial was 171,146. Of these 25,980 were acquitted, and 145,166 condemned to imprisonment or fine.

TRE OPORTO BLOCK A DE—Letters have been received from Paris, in which it is state], on good authority, " That the French Ministry have as- sured the Charge d'Affaires of Don Pedro IV. in that city, they will not ac- knowledge the Blockade of Oporto, because they conceived that it emanated Tom an authority actually unknown to all the powers of Europe, and that it was in manifest contravention of the law established and recognised by France."