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IRISH EQUITABLE EQUITABLE LOAN BANK COMPANY, established for the purpose of advancing Money on Pledges of Goods, Alerchandize, Plate, and other Effects, at a more moderate rate of Interest than such advances can at present be obtained; thereby affording assistance and relief to Persons who may be in volved in temporary difficulties, and who may thus be enabled to preserve their credit, and to prevent the sacrifice of their property at the same time that a fair and moderate profit may be realized for the benefit of the Proprietors. VICE-TAZIIIDENTS. EDWARD ELLICE, Esq. M.P. THOMAS ELLIS, Esq. M.P. THOMAS SPRING RICE, E•q. Sir ROBERT SHAW, Bart. M.P. JOHN SMITH, Esq. M.P. THOMAS WILSON, Esq. M.P. TOR INGLAND: Thomas Bainbridge, Esq. Yeats Brown, Esq. lluiiell Ellice, Esq. ilenezer Fernie, Eqq. Nicholas Garry, Esq. Richard Beale, Esq. Matt. P. Lucas, Esq. Ala. Simun M. Gillevray, Esq. lion. John Leslie Melville John Plummer, Esq. M.P. Benjamin Shaw, Esq. John Abel Smith, Esq. Sir W. Bettam Simeon Boileau, Esq. W. H. Carter, Esq. James Ferrier, Esq. OR IRILLAND: .loseph Grant, Esq. Abraham Lane, Esq. John Itainsford, Esq. Thomas Pim, Eq. 111. ENGLAND : 11. Sykes Thornton, Elq. AUIJITORS W. Frampton, Esq. W. T. Dloney, Esq. Tazasussas—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith. Souctrons—Messrs. Freshfield and Kaye. A deposit of £2 on each Share of £5O is to be paid into the Bank ing-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, on or before SA TIADA Y next, the Ist of May; and on MONDAY next, the Sd of May, Certificates will be ready for delivery. Further instalments will be called for only as the same may be required for investment. And in the event of the Subscribers, or their Assigns, failing to tnakv good such further deposit within ore month after public notice being given so to do, all previous payments will be forfeited. THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, and LITE RARY JOURNAL, for May 1, contains : I. On the Advantages of Attempting the North East Passage the American Continent, and on the present ineffectual mode allnut to be az;opted by the Land Expeditions for tracing the Arne titan Polar Coaet, &c. By Captain Dundas Cochrane, R.N.— IT. Captain Parry's Second Voyage of Discovery.-111. Alasco and the Play Licenser.—lV. A Lecture upon Heads and Un- ' irrhten Books.—Vi Memoirs of Goethe. By Himself.—Vl. Bri tish Galleries of Art, No. 11. Mr. Matthews's Theatrical Gallery, Part 2.—V11. Poetical Scenes, No. S. Par.dzmonium, a Sketch. ...VIII. London Lyrics ; the Church in Langham Letters from the East, No. 4. Cr.tittl Cairo.—X. The Baptism of the Bells.—Xl. Lints on Sleep.--XII. Spas and. Watering Places —X II L The Pirate's StE.—N IV. Tive Up t.,1 tr.—X V. The rhyikian, No. 13. On the i;:flu.nce of the Winds or th-., lie.tith. —XVI. The Sacrifice of VII. Winter Song.— XV I 11. The Huitter of the Uruguay to his Love.—XlX. The Choke, &c.—XX. New Publications, with Critical Remarks.— X I. Varieties in Art, Sciem:e, Literature, Music, and the Drama ; Political Events and Donitsic Occurrences, &c. Printed for Henry Colburn, New Blolington-street ; Bell and Lradfute, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; of whom may be had all the former Numbers from the commencement of the Work, in January, 1821. PIANO-FORTES AND PEDAL HARPS. TWO new double-actioned Harps, have not been used ten times, they are uncommonly beautiful, for eighty and eighty-hve guineas, cost 1201. each ; a very good single-actioned Parp, at forty-five guineas, cost seventy-five guineas—late the pro perty of Ladies. Also, a Cabinet Piano-forte, not to be equalled in touch and tone, good as new, tkkty-eight guineas, usually sixty guineas ; a Rosewood, inlaid with brass, sixty guineas, worth eighty guineas ; a Square Piano, tweaty-five guineas. To he viewed by day-light, at J. Watlen's, 13, Leicester-place. Air ILK PUNCH, at 425. and CONCENTRATED L PUNCH 60s. per Dozen ; the former is drank cold—the latter with the addition of warm Water only makes the most deli cious Punch. Sample Bottles, with Directions for use, may be had at C. BARRON'S Foreign Warehouse, 19, Pall Mall. Maraschino di Zara, Curacao, Dantaric Cherry Itatifia, Gold Water, Persico, Ste. 16s. per Bottle.—Kerschenwasser Liqueur, Creme de Rose, de !Volta, de Quatre Fruits, de Cedre, Noyau, &c. I:ss. the Bottle. —Cherries in Brandy, ss. the Bottle.—Old White Cordial Cognac Brandy, 7s. 6.1. the Bottle.—Old Jamaica hum, Hollands, &c. Lists, with the Prices of a most extensive assortment of Wines, Liqueurs, &c. may be had per Post. Champagne of first quality in Pints, 60s. per Dozen—in quart Bottles, ars 15s. a Dozen. READING SAUCE. T COCKS, the liiventor and Proprietor of the lu • CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, begs most re spectfully to caution the Nobility, Families, and the Public, against :he (Lily fr , tids and impo:itinns practised by minty London and Country Oilmen and Fish Sauce Venders, to deceive and deprive them of the GENUINE READING SAUCE. None are genuine but those which have the corks sealed with the impression, " J. Casks, Rending;" and also the following descrip— tion of the Sauce on an orange-cok.ured L,bel, " Reading Sauce for Fish, enriching Gravies, &c. Prepared and Sold, Wholesale and itet il , by J. Cocas, Reading." This Sauce is generally used at table with all sorts of TLII, in preference to all other Fish Sauces, and is esteemed peculiarly deli cious with Game, Wild Fowl, flashes, Steaks, and Cold Meat.— Warranted to keep good Steen Years in any climate. It is presumed that no Sauce ever met with such general approbation and extensive sale. It is patronised and recommended by most of the Firm FACILIES in the Kingdom, and is retailed in London by 250 of the most respectable Oilmen and Fish Sauce Venders; in Lath, by 30; Lristol, 20 ; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, at:d Aber deen, 50; and by nearly all the principal Fish Saute Dealers .itt .he United Kingdom, most of whom sell Cocas's Genuine and Superior Essauce of Anuovms, made with prime Gorgoua Fish, -.A as possible. DR. BOERILIAVES IU A CELEBRATED ANTI-VENF.R.EAI. PU itiFIER of the BLOOD. Tines , : Pills are peculiarly useful to those who are 4..111ite. to tra vel, of to take Medicine without interruption Of ilit.it.c.s. by mild and *life (yeration, they strike at the root of eiise.ott, and quickly eradicate it ; thereby preventing the fatal effects to which thousands are vicams. Copious directions are given with each Box, by which the Patient call minister to himseif with safety and secrecy. A single trial will prove their siyerior efficacy and power to subdue and expel diseas..., even when other remedies have totally failed. &Id by 111 r. Johnson, No. 68, Corr:hill; Mr. Sanger (!ate Bacon and Co.) 150, Oxten d street ,oprosite Ne..v Bond -street; Holborn ; and Mr. Strai!ling, Royal Exchange, Lon. don ; and all Medicine Venders, le Ice 4a. 6d. per Box. PAINTINGS. , TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. WILLIAMS, At the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, TO-MORROW, the 29th of Apr 11,1824, at Twelve o'Clock, A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS by the fullowi.l Masters, via. Om-cher:l, P0w,21!, N'elasquez, Towne, NV:2enix, Worrell, Savory, Williams, &c. &c. days preceding the Sale, and Catalogues had -ogosorton-street. Ruben% Poussin, Claude, Van Palen, To be viewed two of Mr. Willidnis, Tb HARROW WEALD LODGE, MIDDLESEX. DESIRABLE RESIDENCE. with OFFICES, GARDEN, CAPITAL COACH-HOUSE, STABLE, &c. PLEASURE GROUNDS, AND MEADOW LAND, IN ALL NEARLY FIVE ACRES, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ILO/SINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent Street), At Garraway's Coffee-House, in 'Change-alley, Cornhill, TO-MORROW, the 39th of April, at Twelve o'Clock. A DESIRABLE FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD ESTATE. Comprising a very Compact and Eli6ble Residence, HARROW WEALD LODGE; _ _ Situate at Harrow Weald, in a fine part of the County of Middle sex, One Mile West of Stanmorr, and about Eleven Miles from Oxford -street, adapted for the Accommodation of a Gentleman's Family, commanding beautiful Prospects; containing a good En trance Hall, excellent Dieting-parlour, Drawing-room, -lireakfast parlour, with Bow-window leading out upon the Lawn ; House keeper's-room, commodious Kitchen—each forming a Wing to the House; Butler's Pantry and Sleeping-room; Wine-cellar, Laundry, Larder, Scullery, and a Water-closet on the Ground Floor. On the First Floor, two excellent Bed-chambers, and Dressing room to each; and five secondary Bed-rooms. Out-offices: A Three-stall Stable, Coach-house with Left over, Standing for a Gig, Dairy, Root-house, Tool-house, Coal'Cellar, Wood and Fowl-houses, Bath-house, end Servants' Office, with a Pump of good Water in the Poultry-yard. The Estate consists of nearly FIVE ACRES, laid out in Lawn and Shrubbery, with a Carriage-drive and Pond, a good Kitchen and Fruit-garden, having a wall 260 feet long, stocked, cropped, and planted with choice Fruit-trees. A Chapel near the gates. -To be viewed by 'rickets. Particulars may be had at the Lodge ; at the King's Head, Harrow; Abercorn Arms, Stanrnore ; Essex Arms, Watford; Cranes, Ellgeware ; Swat, Rickmansworth, White Horse, Uxbridge; of Messrs. Brundrett, Spinks, and 1t,.(1- dish, Solicitors, Temple; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Robins, No. 170, Regent-street, opposite Burlington-street, of when Tickets for viewing may be DEVON. THE VALUABLE MANOR OF SIDBURY, AND CA I'IIAL FREEHOLD ESTATES, Comprising nearly THREE THOUSAND ACRES, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent-street), At Garraway's Coffee-noose, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, TO-MORROW. the 29th of April, 1824, at Twelve o'Clock, IN ONE LOT, THE EXTENSIVE MANOR of SIDBURY, with COURT-LERT and COURT-BARON, and Dearly THREE THOUSAND ACRES Of rich Meadow, Pasture, Arable, Orchard, and Wood Land, &c. , . Including an eligible Residence, SI DURY HOUSE, _ - . With Offices. Garden, Lawn well planted, and sundry other Dwellings and Cottages, forming nearly THE WHOLE VILLAGE OF SIUBURY, Of which upwards of TWO THOUSAND ACRES Are in DEMESNE, divided into ELIGIBLE FARMS, (with Farm-house, and other Buildings), and nearly EIGHT HUN DRED ACRES are expectant on the Termination of One or more Life or Lives (mostly aged). The whole lies nearly ina Ring Fence, in a fine Sporting Country, abounding with Game. The River Stu flows through different parts of the Lands, which are pleasantly diversified, sloping to the South, and command grand and picturesque Views, and affording must delightful Situations fur Building. The ESTATE is witliiira short distance of Lime Kilns, and is capable of many improvements, in a mild healthy climate, within three Miles of the much-frequented Watering-place Sichnouth, and about five from Honiton; three from Ottery St. Diary; twelve front Lyme Regis ; nine front Seaton ; and fourteen from Exeter. With the Turnpike-roads from Lyme to Exeter, and from Honiton to Sidinouth, running through the Estate. A mail coach to and from London passes through Sidbury daily. WITH THE "ABOVE ESTATE WILL BE SOLD The MANOR or REPUTED MANOR of BUCKLEY, and FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE ACRES adjoining, Of rich Wiaer Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land; and Or chard; principal part in hand. Both Estates together, nearly THREE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED ACRES. May be viewed, by applying at Sidbury 140115 C, where Parti culars may be had; and of Messrs. Floud and Mules, Solicitors, Iloniion ; the London and York Hotels, Sidmouth ; the New London Inn, Exeter ; Castle, Taunton ; - house Hotel, and White Lion, Bach; Bush, Bristol ; Hen and Chickens, Bir mingham; Bear, Reading; Castle, Salt-Hill; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Robins, 170, Regent-street, where Plans of the Estates may be seen. FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. IN this Preparation are concentrated all the nal Properties of the Sarsaparilla Root, even to a perfect satu ration of the Menstruum with which it is prepared. To such Per sons, therefore, who, from various causes, would experience erea: inconvenience, or with whom it would be utterly impossibl.: to prepare the Decoction, the FLUID EXTRACT, which possesses the advantages of portability and of keeping in any climate, will be found a most desirable mode of employing this much esteemed Me ilioine.—The Diseases in which it has proved nio,t beneficial are :hose of tl.e such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive IY=eases, Secondary Symptoms, &c. arising front a diseased state of the System at lirge. It is taken in water, rendering it of the same strength as the Decoction. _ Prepared and Sold by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, and ZO , Regent -street (near the Argyle Rooms), London ; 20, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ; 54, Sackville-street, Dublin ; and by the principal Druggists and Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom, in bottles at 4s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. A3lc for" Butlers' Fluid Attract of Sarsaparilla." RIGHT OF SHOOTING AND FISHING. TO BE LFT, For such Number pf Years 34 may be agreed on, THE RIGHT of SHOOTING over an extensive ESTATE, in the SOUTH of sciyr LAND, Consisting of some Thousand acre., well s7o:ked wbh .IJuir-fu vi, Btack•ccck, Pheasanm, ;-14, atitl with excellent Fishing in two llivers, and in Lakes on ;be property. For Particulars, apply (post rail) to Andrew Stvtk, E:q.Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh. SHEPHERD ON THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. This day was publi.hed, in 12mo price 5.. boards, t ITCItGIC AI.. CONSIDERATIONS; or, An Apo ' I logy for the Service of the Church, contained in the Book of Common Prayer. Bv ri.e Rev. W. SHEPIIRRD. • Perpetual Curate oi' 'Cit.:tone, and Curate of Cheddirsgton, Bucks. Printed fni - Lon.rl,ll, I Tut st, Bees, Orme, Brown, and Green. SUPERIOR PRESENT FOR YOUTH. This day was publishal, in small fivo. with Portraits of the Writers, price 7s. PRACTICAL WISDOM ; or, The MANUAL of LIFE; the Counsels of Eminent Alen to their Children; Comprising those of Sir NValter al4h, Lord Burledil, Sir Jitney the Earl of Strafford, Francis Osborn, Sir Matthew Ila!e, the E.r: of Bedford, and Benjamin Franklin : with the Lves of the Ainin,rs. " It is irupossid,le that any one, be he your?, co - old, can read this valuable lite!? Nlaaual without finding himself bath wiser And hztter fur the perusal of it."—N.M. Mag. l'oblished And sold by I lenry Colhurn, 8, New Ilnedr7tor-stree!. SOLOMON'S CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD. THIS MAlicine has been uncommonly succes , fnl with young People, who had the appearance and air of old age—who were pale, effeminate, and benumbed—who had an uttei distaste fur everything, or were totally incapacited. The virtues of THE CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD are also daily demonstrated in eradicating the worst and most dan gerous symptoms of Nervous Debility—such as Inward Wastings, Loss of Appetite, Indluoition, Depression of Spirits, Trembling or Shaking ot the Hand- or Limbs, Shortness of Breath, and Con sumptive. Habits; and nothing has tended so much to establish its fame as its certain success in these complaints, which strike their ri.sis deep in the Constitution, and are fatal to the happiness ot iiumuers of mankind. It is 0:41 by Mr. Johnson, Bookseller, No. 63, Cornhill ; Mr. Sant r (late Bacon and Co.), 150, Oxford-street, opposite New Bond-street; Mr. Ward, I lolborn ; and Mr. Straining, Royal Ex change, Loudon; and all Medicine Venders, price I is. each, or four in one family bottle for 355. by which one I Is. bottle is saved, with the words " Sand. Solomon, Liverpool," engraved on the stamp.—Round each bottle is wrapped a copious Bin of Directions, containing select illustrations of its efficacy. The Five Pound Cases may be had at Gilead Bow l Li vcrpuul, as heretofore. COL U M BI A. In Two very large Volumes Octavo, with Map and Portraits, _ _ price £l. 16s. OOLUMIMA : being a Gen4raphical, Szativical, Agricultural, Commerci..l, and Political Account c.f that Cow, try ; adapted to the general Reader, the Mur...liant, and he Culonist. London l'ublislied by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. Also, I. A Manifesto to the Spanish Nation. By Jose Moreno Guerra, price 2s. 6.1. 2. Itepresentacion al Soberano Pueblo Espanol, sobre la Ewan cipAcion de rods, sus Colonias. Par V. Llano*, price Ss. 6J. FROM LAS7' NIGHT'S GAZETTE. [This Gazette contains a notification of the pnstponenscnt of hic Majesty's Drawing-liJom,from the 29th inst. to the 13th of May.] 11E.MHER HETI. RIIED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT EARTTANIFST. Borough or Lancas.:er--Thomas Greene. Esq. in the room of Ma jot-- Gabriel Dovetail, deceased. BANN RUPTS. Williant Lansley, Andover, Hants, carpenter, to surrender May 11, 13., and June 8, at eleven, At the White Hart Tim, Andover. AttorMes, Messrs. flicks and liraikenridge, 13artlett's.huildings; or air. Clement, Southampton. Jams Morgan, Bedford -street, Commercial-road, victualler, May 4, 11, and June 8, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, 13asinghall-street. Atterney, Mr. Young, Mark-lane. Thomas Brown, late of Chelmarsh, farmer,_3lay 17, IS, and June 8, at twelve, at the Union Inn, Birmingham. At:or nies, Mr. Wood, Wolverhampton; or Messrs. Williams and White, Old-buildings, Lincoln's Inn. Thomas Cooke, late of Banbury, mealman, May 3,4, and June 8, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Banbury. AttGrney, Mr. Tints, Banbury. William Johnson, Worksop, Nottingham-hire, coal-dealer, May 3,4, and June 8, at eleven, at the lied Linn Inn, Worksop.— Attornies, Mr. Owen, Worksop; or 'Messrs. Hall and Brown- Icy, New Boswell-court. DIVE DEN DS to be made in BASING ITALL-STRERT- M:ly £5, G. and I. Peet, Guttcr-lane. Cheapish, ribhon-mann facturers, at twelve. May 1, A. Gompertx, Great Winchester street, merchant, at twelve. May 18, P. F. Ilattetbee, late of Norton, Suffolk. brandy-merchant, at ten. May 22, A. Itivolse; Brook -street, Ilolborn, looking-glass-manufacturer, at ten. May 29, J. Grant, Coleman-street, merchant, at eleven. May 18, D. G. Stevens, Harlow, Essex, linen.draper, at ten. DI VI DEN OS to be made in the COUNTRY. May 19, W. beast, St. Erny, Cornwall, lime-burner, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Plymouth. May 24, T. Greetham, Liver pool, ship-chandler, at one, at - the George Inn, Dale -street, Liver pouL May 21, J. Cunningham, late of Birmingham, linen-draper, at eleven, at the Wuolpack Inn, Birmingham. May 19, G. Leigh, %%Inchon', Cheshire, dealer in coals, at twelve, at the George Inn, Sand bad', Cheshire. May 21,J. Firmin, Bohner, Essex, farmer, at one, at the Hose and Crown Inn, Sudbury. May £7, J. Avery, Barnstaple, shopkeeper, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. CERTIFICATES.—May 18. R. Govett, Stringstone, near Bridgewater, tanner. J. long• worth, Liverpool, joiner. F. Jones, Bristol, mason. L. IL vies and J. T. Dorlin, Liverpool, timber-merchants. R. A. Jones, Tottenham-court-road, linen-d raper. J. Cox, late of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, Somerset, miller. I'. Powell, Brighton, silk-mercer. T. Oakley, Poole, coal-merchant. F. Dixon, late of Grcenwich, linen-draper. DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS. Slade and Bristowe, late of Venison Island, coast of Labradore, merchants. iloghton and Leeming, Manchester, worsted-spinners. Bri.reton and Co. Pottery Field Colliery, nearlston, Stafford shire, coal-masters. Carter and Raw, Keighley, Yorkshire, but ter-factors. Dell and Scullard, Brunswick-place, Hammersmith, boot-makers. Mans and Cu. Leith, merchants. llutterott and Co. llesse Cassel and Bremen. Ballow and Marris, 'Manchester, flannel-manufacturers. Cable and Bass, Ilay-street, Clerkenwt.ll, iron-founders. Flint and Rogers, Birmingham, drapers. Sims and Husband, Cow-lane, curriers. Pike and Lewis, Wood-street, Chcapside, carpenters. Collins and Savage, Woolwich, coach. masters. Bee and Co. Banksisle, coal-merchants. I3oote and Knight, High Holborn, chersemongers. Roper and Troughton, Liverpool, porter-merchants. Clay and Co. Old Broad-street, mer chat.i.s. Sutton and Co. Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturers. THE WEATHER IN GERMANY. A letter from Welzheini,of the 1411 i instant, says— " Tills morning early it began to sn.sw heavily, and ccustinuel without interruption till between two and three in the afternoon. A storm of thunder and lielit hing came up gait the N.W. the thunder was most awful. In about an hour the snow ceased, the clouds dispersed, and the brightest sunshine succeeded. The thermemetet was at 0.4." • A letter from Besenteld, of the same date, says— " In this place the snow is in many parts six feet deep, and on an average it lies about four feet deep in the whole parish. We have had snow ever since November, :hid even to-day we had to clear a road with great la 'hnd this while in the neighbouring village of Se.iv.artzenburg, in the Itlntgthal, only three-quarters of a league distant, the summer coin is already shoot ing, and it is only in the morning that a little snow is seen on the ground." A lamentable accident o:cui red on Saturday last, at ten o'clock in the morning, ar ltoachamp, near Beloit. The subterranean air of some coal-mines near that place suddenly took fire, with a dreadful noise, and is a nio mem :dl the passages were chuaked up by the I.rileit 'earth. Twenty persons, amongst whom was the master of tliti mines, who had entered a few minutes previous to the explosion, were taken out dead. Four pet sobs, grievously wounded, were also round, but we are still ignoranirof theexact number missing. A man and his wife, who had run to save their son,' also became vic itims of the disaster.—Fretta Paper. 111 ETROR tC STONES. Thoofzit we re Illy know nothing of the source .or of tiles^ aerolites, or meteoric stones, as Mr. Br antic say's, it liar I),:ea ascertained, upon ;he mlst satisfactory ansi indispurasle evidence, that they are not of "terres trial formation ; and, cmrsevently, since men began to think anti reason correctly, their visits to our planet have awakened much speculation, and some experi mental research. It de errs to he remarked that we 1. have very distinct evidence of the failing of stony bodies from the atmoThere in v,;-ious countries, and at very remote periods. The first tolerable narration of the fall of a meteoric stone, relates to that of Ensisheini near Basle, upon the Rhine. The account, which is de posited in the Church, runs thus: " A.D.1492, Wednes day, Noveinber 7, there was a loud clap of thunderotnd a child saw a stone fall from Heaven ; it strtck into a tieldor wheat, andiiid no harm, hut made a hole there. The noise it made was heard at Locerne. Tilling, and other places. On the Monday, King .Maximilian or. tiered the stone to be brought to the Castle, awl alter having conversed. about it with the Noblemen and the . people of Ensishe:n hung it 'up in the church, and his Reyal EicellencY so icrle totbade any person to take anything from it. Ilk Escellency, however, took two pieces himself, and sent another to Duke Sigismund of Austria. This stone weighed 2551b5.*. In 1627, NP vember 27, the cele b rated Gassendi saw a burning stone fall on Mount Vaisir, in Provence: he found it to weigh 59Ibs. In 1672 a stone fell near Verona, weighing 3001bs. And Lucas, when at Larissa, describes the fall ing of a stone, with a loud hissing noise, 4nd smelling of sulphur. In September, 1753, Lelande witnessed tliis extraordinary phenomenon near Pont de Veste.— In 1768, no less than three stones fell in different parts of France. In 1790, there was a shower of stone near .1:;en, witnessed by M. barcet, and several other re spectable persons. 0: the 18th of December, 1795, a stone fell near Major l'opham's house, in Yorkshire ; it was seen by a plouphman, who immediately dug it out of the hole it had buried itself in; it weighed 561bs. We have vat ious other and equally satisfactory accounts of the same kind. In corroboration of the testimony on which these stones are reported to have been seen to fall from Heaven, it must be remarked that the compo sition of them is uniformly the same, and it is quite different from that of any other found on our globe; the metallic particles of them are composed ciiietly of iron ; the eat thy, of silica atld magnesia. •••• ..cI3IIF POMPEII. The excavations at-this singular and interesting spot continue. Among the most remarkable of the build ings brought to light is a temple, supposed to be a pan theon. Its principal entrance is on the eastern side cf the forum, under a small colonnade. Its form appears to be that of a paiallelogr:im, surrounded with a w.l/1, the lower part if which is ornamented with hand nrne fresco paintings on a greyish ground, In the middle of the building is found a large dodecagon (marked by twelve pedestals), and an aqueduct in nrarh!c. Corres ponding with the si2es of this figure, are twelve cham bers paint r ed with dig seat subjects, in pretty good pre servation. At the further part of the edifice are three great divisions, to which tae approach is by a Right of steps. In the middle one of the three, which rei.embles the cell of a temple, are five riches wrought in the wall, two of which contain statues, declared by the antiqua rians to be those of Nero and Messalirra. The right hand division isof the same form; that on the lett ap pears to have been a room for the Pi iests to assemble in, and along its walls are placed tables and benches. EMINENT CHARACTERS. Those who at a distance contemplate characters pro fessionally eminent for invention, wit, and satirical ht. 'nom-, suppo,,e their. society must be °nivel% sally sought; and that such most, of necessity, be the life and soul of the convivi.il board. Men, however, who see much, and speculate but little, know better. Among the dullest in company, could be pointed out those who are wondrous witty by themselves; and this, not from pride of their superior faculty for invention or humour; or front an unv,illingness to please, but from a constitutional shyness, or modest desire to avoid notice or applause; or from indolence, or actually from con scious tininess when absent from the study and the desk, when without the pencil or the pea. Peter Pindar was vcitles , , even over Lis bottle, with his most intimate cronies. Anthony Pasquin was sour, and not prone to conver: - ,e. CLuicirill was a sulky sot. Butler was lively, neither drul,k nor sober, only a choice companion when ha/if-gone; hence, as the witty Duke of Buckingham observed, "Le was to be compa.ed to a skittle, little at both ends, hut great in the middle." Birton, who had no less - humour than Cervantes, and the learning of a whole University, was neither a cheerful corupanion, TIOT en durable to himself. A hundred more could be named whose aptitude and promptness to discover the ridicu lous side of human action, has astonished the grave': and yet these men, who have thus exposed folly to the 1 rughter of mankind, have been themselvds the dullest dogs aJvc. Poor ay w:,s always hipped, and at last sunk into that deplo: able ~ .tate of mental aberra tion which verifies the line c f :!ie most acute of our satirical bards— ", Bow nearly wit to madness is allied!" . The German ..11a.s,Yazinc of Foreign lila/kat Litereure for April, contair.s the first oMeial account of the appearance cf the Cholera nturbus last autumn at Astrachan, and of the stop put to its progress by the judicious and vigorous rn asu.es of the Rusisiau Go vernment. The most sanguine expeeta!ions arc encouraged by the Success of these nivasures against a disease which, since 11117,• Lis been incessantly advancing from East to West, and in the space at three yrarthas cal tied off Litre.: milions and a half of people in nitis stone.—Fiankforr Paper. The i ab it Ants of SLJOILinna, among other cttstotlls * have the following:—They beg an Lc elish name cf the sailors vo i lio touch at their isl:.nd ; and of cellist!, names of the first eminence are given by our cats. Thus, when they came to visa the +ships that touch at the islana, it has liappeneel, that the Duke of Richmond bus humbly • solicited the washing of linen ; Lord Eldon requested *preference fur I.is vegetables; Loud Liverpool has been detected inttealing a blanket; and Use Luke of Bedford been known t , beg for a tenpenny uaiL I beta known to beg //': i . • • ; • '4 1~ ;i 1. ~I I