We have heard, on what we consider good authority, that

among the various plans proposed for the location of the King's College one was to appropriate, with the consent of his Majesty, the new palace in St. James'spark for that purpose.—Brighton Gazette. The proposer of this plan is entitled to the thanks of his Majesty, for affording him so good an opportunity of getting rid of a share of the discredit attached to all who have had to do with this expensive and ill-designed building.—Globe. The Site for "The King's College" is said to be positively fixed upon. It will be on the spot now occupied by Lord Listowell's house and grounds at Knightsbridge, on the western road fronting Hyde Park, and the grounds (upwards of live acres) extending towards Bromptum—Morning Post.

The Scotch Universities are said to have avowed their determination not to recognize the certificates of the Professors at the London University, on the groom' that the new establishment posesses no Royal Charter. This refusal, it is expected, will have the effect of taking from the New Medical School all, or most, of those English and Irish students, who may be desirous of graduatiog in the Scotch Universities. The 'new catalogue forming at the British Ililusetun will be the largest and most comprehensive in the world. It will run to the extent of fifteen quarto volumes : exceeding, by several volumes, the catalogue of the Royal Library at Paris,hitherto reckoned by the learned the most voluminous extant.

Bibles in the Spanislalanguaae have now become a considerable article of export to South America, under the auspices of the Bible Societe. The Society have besides undertaken the arduous task of having the Gospel of St. Luke translated into the Peruvian language, for the purpose of being circulated among the natives.

On Thursday afternoon, about five o'clock, a great concourse of persons were assembled on Westminater bridge, in consequence of a floating forest

that was seen moving up the river—such an extraordinary sight as has

hardly been witnessed since " Birnant wood to high Dunsinane came." One gossip on the bridge said sine was sure it was occasioned by an earthquake ; and another, as deeply learned, said it was occasioned by the comet. On its nearing, however, it turned out to be a barge laden without about fifteen uncommonly tine orange trees, a present front the King of France to his Majesty, that was floating with the tide to the royalgardens at Kew.—New Since the gas companies have wholly or inn a great measure cc :and to let the refuse of their works into the Thames, great numbers of fish aaily come down with the tide. Between Kew and London bridges a considerable number of the larger size are caught by anglers who asseinde in boats at the piers of the bridges ; and the industrious fisherman is now enabled to serve up as fine a dish as the inhabitants of the metropolis were in the habit of witnessing about fifteen or sixteen years since.

The income of the Marquis of Stafford is supposed to be about 360,0001. per annum ; that of the Duke of Northumberland upwards of 250 000/.; and that of the young Duke of Buccleugh about as much, yearly. The father cf Colonel Hughes, of Kiumel park, was a Welch curate, whose income did not much exceed 80/. per annual; the Colonel's income exceeds 80,000/. per alma m.—Berkshire Chronicle.

Fr0111 a letter in the number of tine Harmonicon just published, it appears that the band of the King's Theatre are asked to engage for the next Opera season, nnnn conditions which will reduce their actual remuneration to five shillings per night, including rehearsals N. Bochsa seems to be indicated as the author of this illiberal proposal ; and the writer in the Harmonicon calls upon the musicians of the orchestra to unite against it.

It is a fact now well known' that Maine. Sontag did not draw fifty pounds a night to the King's Theatre during the term of her second engagement last season.—Harmonicon.

A reverend divine, about the period of the late Doncaster races, preaching to a congregation in which Inc knew there would be several sporting characters, chose for his text the following words—" So run that ye may obtain ;" and in the course of his sermon stated that the "rules of the course were so clear and intelligible, that those who ran might read."

Small-pox is raging with the greatest virulence at Oxford, and carrying di daily the old and the young-, the vaccinated and the inoculated, indiscriminately with those who have submitted to no precautionary means of prevention —Bristol Journal.

The eldest son of Mr. Henry Lamphier, of Beckford-place, Regent'spark, has (as is supposed from unremitting application to literary and scientific studies); been for some time past in the habit of walking in his sin ep after the family bad gone to rest. On a late occasion he was discovered after roidniOd by one of the servants, whose duty it was to watch his nocturnal tnieenients, pacing up and down the garden in his night-gown and cap, and a book in his hand. Having walked about for half an hour, he re turned to his chamber OD the second floor, laid the book on the table, and quietly retired to bed. Mr. Lamphier, fearful that his son would, from so many repetitions, become confirmed in the habit of somnambulism, determined, if possible, to try some effectual means to prevent its recurrence, and desired his servant to awake hint the next time his son was discovered in that state. On Tuesday morning last, about two o'clock, the man who remained in the room next to the young sleep-walker observed hint coming out of his bed-chamber, move into his room, take up the night-lamp, and descend regularly down to the library closet on the first floor, open the bookcase, take a volume from it, and with the greatest composure sit down as if to read. The servant instantly awoke his master, who ordered hint immediately to get a pail of cold spring water. The father, on entering the study, found his son apparently poring over attentively a Greek copy of Xenophon's Crap/ado. The servant was directed to shower the pail of water perpendicularly over the youth as he sat in a chair, while the father stood close by to prevent his falling. The shock for a few moments after the ablution had a powerful effect upon him, hut he soon recovered from it ; and his father having explained the cause of the severe experiment practised on him, Inc felt thankful, and said, "lie never could forget the frightful effect it produced on him when he awoke."—New Times.

The ancient building which the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine, Queen of Charles II., occupied upon the banks of the Thames, near Hammersmith, is yet standing. It is the property of a private gentleman. Many vestiges of its ancient enclosures and outworks are to be traced. A curious house, built in the old English style, at this time known as the sign of the Ship, was the western lodge of the palace. The grounds and gardens extend from the bank of the river to the western road.

An antiquarian investigation at Keston, in Kent, last week, brought to light some Roman remains. The ruins of a building of some strength, supposed to be a Roman tomb, have been discoVered. A stone coffin was also found; and the handle of a sword or dagger, two or three tusks, and not a few fragments of pottery, have been turned up.

The amount of duty upon strong beer brewed in England and Scotland in 1827 was 6,172,239/. The number of quarters of Barley malt upon which duty was paid in the year 1827, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was 3,488,793. The total number of gallons of proof spirits. distilled in the United Kingdom during the year ending the 5th of January, 1828, was 19,684,426; and the amount of duty 4,178,535/. 158. 4d. EVADING THE Tota—On Wednesday, SkiLlern, a conductor of Bow-street patrol, was standing on the Middlesex side of Waterloo-bridge gate, near to the steps that lead to the water-side on the left hand. He observed two sweep-boys, with a sack partly filled with soot. One of the boys said to the other, "I've only got a penny, Sam, and that vont pay for both, so you must pop into this ere bag, and if I carries you, nobody will know but as how you are sut." " I vont get in the bag," replied the other knight of the brush, "hut (he added) I vill toss you up which shall, you or me." This was agreed to, and Sam threw up the penny. "Now, Jem," Inc said, "what will you hare; heads or tails ?" " Vy," said Sam, "I sill have a voman." "You've lost," cried Sam. Jem instantly got into the bag, and in a few seconds he was on his companion's back, who made his way to the toll-gate. The money-taker believing that the sweep had got a bag of soot, took a penny toll and allowed him to pass with his load. Skiffern immediately went to the gate-keeper and said, "Do you know what that chap has got on his back ?' "Why, what should he have but a bag of soot ?"—Skillern laughed and said, "The sweep has done you out of a penny: if you go to him you will find he has got a sweep in the sack." Away went the gate-keeper, and away went Skillern, hot in pursuit of the "chap what bilked the toll," and they overtook him near to the gate, on the Surrey-side of the bridge. "What have you got in your sack ?" asked Skillern, " Vy what should I have but only nut," replied the sweep. " We must see what is in the sack," replied the officer. By this time a crowd was collected round the sweep, the sack was opened, and out came a poor sweep lad, who confessed that it was the want of a penny that had caused them to bilk the gate." The crowd immediately entered into a little subscription, and, in a few minutes, by pennies and two-pennies, a few shillings were raised and given to the sweeps, who appeared not a little pleased at the issue of this rattler comical incident. —Morning Chronicle. The doors of the prison in Moor-street, Birmingham, were thrown open on Tuesday week, there being no prisoner within the walls.

Amongst the premiums at the late Aylesbury Agricultural Society meeting, was one to a poor man, for having brought up twenty children without parochial relief.

The immense slaughter of deer on Cranborne Chase. has reduced the price of venison in the West of England almost to a par to that of mutton.

Several slight shocks of earthquake have been repeatedly felt throughout the summer in the neighbourhood of Comrie and Crieff, Perthshire.