Nearly a month ago, two large shabby-looking boxes arrived by
coach at Penritb, from Edinburgh, directed " Lady Brougham, Brougham Hall, near Penrith ; to be opened with the greatest care." An intimation was given to Lord Brougham of their arrival, who sent for the same ; but on examining their appearance and superscription, his Lordship immediately ordered them back to the coach-office, with an injunction not to be opened, lest they might contain articles of a combustible nature, and produce an explosion, and that inquiry should be made at Edinburgh who took the boxes to the coach-office. The inquiry has taken place ; and the answer was, that two men left the boxes at the office a little before the coach set oft; but any thing fur- ther is a total mystery. The boxes are now lying at the coach-office in Fenrith ; they are light, and supposed each to contain a bust, though very little doubt exists but that the whole is a hoax upon his Lordship. ...—Cumberland Packet.
During the trial of Fieschi and his accomplices, a young man at Munich became insane. He fancied, and is still persuaded, that the infernal machine was made by him, and not by Fieschi, who was wholly innocent.
On one of the students, apprehended in consequence of the disco- very of the manufactory of gunpowder in the Rue de l'Oursine, was seized a list of names, including those Of Malthus, Ricardo, and I. B. Say. The Police doubted not having pounced upon a catalogue of Regicides. In consequence, the house of Mr. Horace Say, a highly respectable and quiet merchant of Paris, and a son of the late well- known author of the Traitg dEconomie Politigue, was surrounded early in the morning by an armed force, and, to his amazement, a search proceeded with. It was not before a minute inspection of the pre- mises, and of all the books and furniture it contained, had been accom- plished, that a note arrived apologizing for the blunder. Whether M. Ricardo have been subjected to a similar annoyance, is not said.—Paris Correspondent of the Post.
The last of the thirteen Magistrates who were first sent out to Jamaica to aid in carrying into effect the new law, died a few days be- fore the last packet left the island.
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