The public will scarcely credit the fact, that the Public
Records which were removed from the temporary sheds in Westminster Hall to the Kings Mews are still huddled together in what remains standing of that building; and that though the site is wanted for the National Gal- lery, not a single step has yet been taken towards providing either a permanent or temporary receptacle for them.—Standard. [The public will not be slow to credit facts of this description when told of those jobbing gentlemen of the Record Commission.]
The Commissioners for liquidating the claims of the West India proprietors for the emancipation of their slaves have resolved, under the direction of his Majesty's Ministers, to appropriate the money awarded to each proprietor, in liquidation of any mortgage or sum lent upon the estate, if such there be, in the first instance.
A letter free] Seville states that a merchant of that city, who ob- tained in the beginning of this month the usual permit for exporting a quantity of chocolate to Portugal, was also allowed a military escort to protect his merchandise against robbers. On arriving at Ayamunto, one of the soldiers, longing for a chocolate breakfast, forced open a box to get possession of some of the cakes. To his surprise, instead of chocolate, the little packets were &mid to contain money. The fact wits soon known to all the patty, and the cannonading officer informed the authorities in Ayamunto of the discovery. On examination, it was found limit the bozo's contained 8,C00,000 of reals, intended for the ser- vice of Dun Miguel. This sum had been collected by sonic of the monks of Seville from the Royalists.
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