Pees toxs.—From a Parliamentary :paper,, published this . session, it appears
that the amount of pengions and salaries exceeding 10001. is somewhat above two millions per annum ! The following is the dis-
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Loaers.--The Bank of Engleatlidieee offered to make advances, in sums not less than 2000lesandatioeviaeriteenton deposits of Exchequer Bills, -bills of exehangeetindint Bonds, andesthee approved seceritiese The rate of interest for:slide-gra:knees-was previouily three per cent.- e • DEATH or A SeiriNicholier4efneylieie a "SwiSs spy, -aged -siety- eight, died at his lodgiriges on,'Friday last fveek. jermyan -commenced his honourable weer in Helfand, under the-late Duke of Yerk ; where he frequently entered the French lines in- diva rise, amid communicated their intended movements to the British:' He'wes afterWards upon seve- ral occasions employed "by the Allied. Sovereigns as an, emissary, and supplied them with muchinformatioe upon the "subject of popular dis- content."' Soon after the battle of Waterloo, he came toEngland, having obtained a pension for his services from the then French GoVerament, and was employed by 'Lords SidmOdth and Castlereagh. He generally intro- duced himself to -the unsuspecting under- the guise of a hawker and pedlar, making use of the most inflammatory language, and pretending to sympathize in the sufferings of the distressed. Forsome time' past he had been afflicted with 'an asthma, which rendered him incapable of pur- suing his calling; and for the last few days complained"of illness, which seemed to have bffen much increased by' heStopfra,ge Of his pension by the present French Government. The peacefulending of such a consimanate rascal, forcibly reminds one of Gelditnith'eftineral ova lee Mt Theophillis Cibber. It does Segrifstrange thatehe hatter should slip' over a head so well-formed to hook it. • - TEE GOOD OLD TI1STES.—We have just heard that E. B. Portman, Esq.; one of our county members, has given orders that every men on his estates shall have two shillings a day, and has determined to reduce his Tents to the standard of 1795 e an- example worthy' of imitation.— Dorset County Chronicle: [It is -easier to recommend the example to Imitation than to follow it. Lan d l or d s who receive only the rents of 1795, cannot afford to pay the wages of 1830.] • INDEPENDENCE OF ELEOTOlts.Thd other 'day, a greasy journey- man timelier, rather more than half seas over, came out of the tally- room, followed" by a canvasser, and exhibited" great unwillingness to go to the poll. The canvasser was earnest in .his exhortations; but the worthy freeman was deaf to all expostulation.At last, being reminded ef.his promise to vote, and asked•why he did not perform, the;obstinate knight Of the cleaver replied, " I'll bed--d if I go to poll !--you know del well, that ivlien I axed for het last night, you gave me could water to my punch ! "—Liverpool Mercury. " 4 •DrEatcquir NOT IMPROVED. Beel./sE.—Wben the Beggar's Opera was performed the seventy-secand time, Welker, who performed. Mac- hea4,11appened to . be rather imperfeetein his Part,. which" Ri eh, „the manager, observing, exclaimed,, " Why,, how,MIAter Walker, has this happened ; I, thought you had 'it pretty, memory..?"—" So I .haee,", pliedthe actor ; "Ind -yoncen7t expect-it to lase for eVer.".7.rTatler, TliR,BL1BOAI OF ..INTELLECT 'TN Irem -A. letter from -Florence, dated the lath Novemberesays,. " In consequence of an frees Vienna, our Grand- Duke bee hem under the necelisityeof /sending into exile, ha-the space ,of .tweue y-fottr. tours, a. great no mher of literaey persons, -amongst whom.:weraliteGiordence and Baron Poet* fort44.17 a-DeptitOro taNe Isles, and Councillor of State in the reign of Murat." EIRMLLISRMENTS OF PARIS.-e-Many of the great projects of Napoleon for 'embellishing Paris, will be now completed. The Place. Carousel will
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The whole of this immense sum is received by 993 individuals; making an average of 2,0811. a year to each. Of these 993 persons, 216 receive nearly one-half. There are 161 with salaries of 2,5001. and under -5,000/. ; 44 with 5,0001. and under 10,0001.; II above 19,0004 -a year.
• Stu ROBERT WILSON.-4fIt. is now said that Sir Robert goes out to New Smith Wales, to supersede Geueral Darting.
To Officers of the Rouse of Commons '.£ 13;4342 Judicial Officers 466,836 Civil ..... • 655,434 Diplomatic and Consular 251,624 Naval and Military :334,527 Colonial ' 538,711 Total £2,066,574 be finished as Was formerlY intended, and the Street which was to be formed from the Plebe Pastille to the Louvre will also be Made, and will form an uninterinpted communication from the Barriere du Trone to the Barriere de l'Etoile, and will thus procure for the Canal St. Martin an important access towards the centre of the city.-e..Paris Paper.
THE DUKE OF ORLBANS.—When the Duke was at St. Etienne a short time ago, the clergy of the place requested to pay their homage to him ; but the prince was not to be had. " M. he Prefect," said be, when the admission of the reverend gentlemen was prayed for, " I know, to my regeet, -that .these gentlemen have hitherto refused to pray for my. father. Asaa citizen, :E" qught not to receive these who refuse to invoke God for the King ; and as a-son, I cannot admit those who will not pray for my father." • EAST Gemzereeen—The following rests on the questionable authority of the Indicaleur of Calais. " We-learn from Copenhagen, that an ex- pedition, which sailed from that port in May last, succeeded inalearhing the eastern coast of Greenland, where some Norwegian colonietesettled eight centuries ago, and to which all access had since been presentedby the ice. The expedition found there the descendants of the primitive colonists, who still profess Christianity, which was carried thither by their forefathers ; theirlanenage is that of the Norwegians of the tenth century." [ Should this account prove true, it will add to the number of cases in which fact and logic have been opposed to each other. It has been repeatedly proved, to demonstration, that no such colony as that here -alluded to ever existed. An Italian once wrote a folio, to prove that window-glass was unknown • to the ancients ; and.either a week before or after publication—we forget which—a house was found in Bercula- neum with a regularly glazed window •and not a -pane broken. It is not- impossible that the speculations of irofessor Leslie may turn out to be equally sound with those of the Italian cognoseento.] ••-
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