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The Stamp-Office returns of the number of stamps issued "for all the London Newspapers, from the commencement of the year 1832 to the 31st March 1833" (five quarters) is-26,588,050. The number for the year 1831, was 22,097,539; for five quarters, supposing the ratio of the fifth quarter equal to that of the esssrsding tour, the number would have been 27,671,923. In the period, therefore, which the new return embraces, the circulation of London Newspapers has fallen off by 1,063,873. By a return to the House of Commons, it appears that, since January 1824, thirteen London banking firms have become bankrupts. Two were army agents, and one a navy agent. Mr. John Wood, whom the Globe calls " a known able man of bu- siness," has been appointed Chairman of the Consolidated Board of Taxes and Stamps.
Among the on-dits of the passing hour is a very current story that an M.P. connected with Devonshire, who, it is said, has been a more regular frequenter of the purlieus of St. James's Street, and other mis- called fashionable neighbourhoods in the Metropolis, than of the famed . old chapel of St. Stephen's, has been fleeced by the more knowing visitors of these hells to a very large amount, ranging, according to busy rumour, from 70,0001. to 150,0001. It is also added that by the intervention of relatives the matter has been arranged.—Ereter Flying Post.
The French King has ratified the convention made between the Postmaster-General of this country and the Director. General of the Posts of France for establishing a daily estafette between London and Paris, instead of only four days a week, and for the return of mis- directed letters. The Post- Office steam-packet will, according to this arrangement, sail daily to and from Dover and Calais ; and even on Sundays the French letter-bag will be transmitted from Calais.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented spirit Mr. Laporte has evinced in.his management of the Opera this season, he is said to have lost be- tween six and seven thousand pounds, owing to the tardiness shown by the aristocracy in paying up their subscriptions. There ought to be a summary process of dealing with these titled swindlers, and we only . regret that the law does not allow of a general incarceration of the whole Peerage. They had much better be locked up in the Bench, than suffered to be loose upon the country swindling honest tradespeo- ple, and voting in the House of Lords against their country's interests. If our gracious pleasure could be of any avail in this matter, we would commit the whole House, Whigs as well as Tories, for one month to the House of Correction, in order that they might have an opportunity of chewing over the votes of the last twelve months. By the by, these people have got a shabby process of making ready money, which ought to be exposed. They take Opera Boxes for which they don't pay, and sell what are technically called their bones, for which they get imme- diate payment. This is at least swindling, if not downright robbery. —Figaro in London.
The favourable news from Portugal had created a great and most powerful sensation in Paris. The Funds rose on Wednesday in con- sequence ; and would have improved more considerably but for the oc- currence of a general " strike " for higher wages of the workmen of Lyons, out of which it was feared disturbances would arise.
New York papers to the 25th ult., contain melancholy details of the ravages of the cholera in different parts of the United• States, but more particularly at New Orleans, which was revisited by the disease in the beginning of June. A considerable proportion of the deaths, which are said to have averaged eighty a day, is composed of persons of the more respectable classes of society. A letter, dated the 8th of June, states that a sudden abatement of the virulence of the scourge had taken place. The disease commenced contemporaneously with a breeze from the north-east ; and the favourable turn was observed after a change of wind, which occurred on the night of the 7th. It is remarked that this mysterious epidemic appeared and disappeared in the same sudden . manner at New Orleans in the preceding November.
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