"Council Office, Whitehall, 23rd 1831.

" B1 R—T am directed by the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council to transmit to you a copy of a letter which has been forwarded to the Foreign secretary of State, that all vessels having on board rags and dried hides, arriving in the kingdom from the ports of Russia, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Towns, will be placed under quarantine ; and I have to desire that you will lay the same before the Governor of the Russia Company for his information. " To Thomas Cope. Esq." "WILLIAM L. BATH URST."

In addition to the above precaution, it has, it seems, been determined that all vessels corning from the Baltic ports, whether or not they have goods on hoard, shall perform quarantine for a few days until the health of the crews shall have been ascertained.

MEXICAN DIVIDENDS.—The Eclipse packet, from Vera Cruz, has brought 61,600 dollars on account of the Mexican dividends, making the total sum received about 140,000 dollars. The Commissioners state that the next remittance would be about the same amount.

BEARS.—The Anti-Reformers speculated for a decline in the Funds : they were growlers, and therefore they would be bears, but the Stocks rose—it was the Conservatives that fell. One man named Battye has levanted for thirty or forty thousand pounds. The poor broker has to suffer the penalty.

Tun Priv Disusa.—Upon further inquiry respecting the Pitt Club dinner, fixed for Saturday next [to-day], we find that circumstances will prevent it from being a meeting of that general nature which, from its first announcement, we had anticipated. It has been found, that as the Drawing-room will take place on that day, it would not be convenient for many gentlemen to attend who would wish to take part in any gene- ral manifestation of the feeling of the Tory party ; and it is therefore determined to confine the meeting strictly to the members of the Club, and the celebration of the birth-day of the illustrious man in whose honour it was established.—Morning Post.

CONSERVATIVE CONGRESS.—The Duke of Wellington arrived on Saturday at Walmer Castle ; the Marquis of Douro and Mr. Croker are wAth him. CA.THOLICS IN THE NEW PanuastENT.—The number of Catholics in the late Parliament was fourteen ; eight Irish county members, one Irish city member, and five for English boroughs. The number in the present Parliament will be—from Ireland, county members ten ; towns, &c. two ; from England, one county member, and six for boroughs— total, nineteen.

REPRESENTATION OP InvenrooL.—Mr. Denison has declined the re- presentation of Liverpool, and accepted that of Nottinghamshire. Lord

Palmerston, Mr. Hyde Villiers, Lord Molyneux, Mr. Backhouse (one of the Under-Secretaries of State), and Mr. Buckingham, are the only per- sons at present talked of to fill the vacancy. A public meeting was to be held yesterday for the purpose of putting some gentleman in nomi- nation.

THE APOSTLE OF REFORAL—A colossal statue, in bronze, of the late venerable Major Cartwright, has been completed at Birmingham. It is to be stationed in some conspicuous part of the metropolis.

THE LATE SIR WILLIAM HOPE.—The remains of the good and gallant Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope were interred on the 21st,

in the family vault in Johnstone Church, attended by his sons, his brothers, several members of the Hopetoun family, and the tenantry on the Annandale estate, anxious to show the last mark of respect to one who was equally distinguished as an indulgent husband, an affectionate father, a hospitable neighbour, a warm and sincere friend, and a kind and indulgent master.

RETRENCHMENT.—AD officer from London has paid a visit to the Cus- tomhouse, Boston, and effected the following reductions. From the salary of the collector, 1,0001.; comptroller, 50/. per annum. The col- lector's clerk and another officer to be superannuated ; a tidewaiter to be removed to another station. He came to Boston from Hull, where also he has been paring down the emoluments of the officers, and has proceeded to Lynn for the same purpose. The above is correct in the main, though some of the alterations are not yet finally determined.— Boston Gazelle.

B.tuntsruits.—It is computed that no fewer than 439 gentlemen of the long robe travel the circuits, viz.—Northern Circuit, 116; Western, 92; Home, 77; Midland, 41; Norfolk, 31; Oxford, 82; exclusive of those who now go the Welsh Circuits.

Iles AND Dowxs.—Yesterday, Mr. Horace Twiss, who was understood to have retired from the bar some time ago, and to have disposed of his law books, &c. "walked the hall" once more in full professional costume. —Times (f Tuesday.

N013LE REVENGE.—Several of the militia band, who were employed on the chairing-day of our county members, have been mulcted of their usual weekly allowance from the officers' fund, as a punishment for joining in the cavalcade on the occasion !—Leicester Chronicle.

Tun NIGER.—The Literary Gazette of last week announced, in a se- cond edition, intelligence that the course of the Niger has been ascer- tained, by the Landers having sailed down its stream till they reached the sea, near Cape Formosa, in the Bight of Biafra. We noticed this fact in our second edition.

CHOLERA MORRIS S.—Two young French surgeons, who are patrioti- cally attending the Polish army, write as follows touching this much talked of disease.

"April 13.—The Polish army now occupies the posts abandoned by the Russians. It is certain the cholera morbus was amongst them ; and it has shown itself also in the Polish ranks. It is at any rate positive that the night before last twelve men fell sick in the camp, and of this number five were dead before morning. I need not say that should this disease increase, our place will be with the army, and not here. At this moment the invitation arrives for me to repair to the hospitals- " The unhappy news is confirmed ; not twelve, but twenty-seven have fallen ill, and not five, but nine have perished. I am ordered to repair to head-quarters, and 31. de Boismont is in charge of the Russian prison- ers in quarantine at Praga."

"April 17.—Dr. Brierre has insisted on accompanying me. At four o'clock we arrived at head-quarters. At eight P. M. we were introduced to the Generalissimo Skrzynecki, and had a conference with him and with the head physician of the Polish army. We have learned that during the previous four days the army had lost upwards of fifty men, and that the patients were increasing hourly in numbers. A provisional hospital had been established at the wnvent of Menai, within a league of the army. We immediately repaired thither, saw the patients, an learned from them the particulars of their torments. All concurred to prove the nature of the disease. The same symptoms have also broken out among the Russian prisoners and their Polish sentinels at Praga. IC appears that this malady is not so contagious as it is generally believed to be. I was awkward enough to cut myself four times on Wednesday, and Once again this morning. I have also respired the breath of the patients, and nevertheless I am perfectly well. 31. Brierre was ill all last night, but is up to-day ; I believe it was merely the effect of fatigue."