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ROYAL. sociEnt . . Tuesday, the . Anniversary Dinner of the Royal Society, was, held art. the,Crown and Anchor.Taverp. The President, f r ir HUMPFIRY DAVY, was in the Chair, sup ported by N . , Seiretary Pam and Lord $E [LEY. DAVIES GUMMY, Esq. M.P. Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, President of the Royal .Academy, .and many other Gentlemen, distinguished for their attachment to the Arts and Sciences, were present. After the usual loyal toasts had been given from the Chair— Mr. DAVIES GILBERT rose, to propose the health of the President. Amongst the duties which the Society had imposed upon him, in electing him to the office which he bore, none was more congenial to his feelingi than the annual task of thus claiming their attention to • the distinguished individual who occupied the Chair. The discoveries cf Sir Ilumphry Davy, in "analyzing the alkalies and the earths, were unequalle:! in brilliancy an d:importance since the days of Sir Isaac Newton. He had the satisfaction of announcing another discovery of a similar character, and of the greatest pract;cal utility. It was known to the love! sof chemical science that Sir H. Davy, in the course of his expel iments tipon the alkalies and earths, was led to suppose that the chemical affinities of bodies have a certain relation to their electric er galvanic attractions ; and that by effecting an al teration in the latter, the former might be changed.-1 This, which was at first no - more than a sagacious con iectiate or ingenious theory, Sir Humphry Davy had now established by actual experiment, and bad applied puri,oses 'of gi eat na;i: nal importance. He alterei mac chemical affir.ities of copper, so as to render it nearly italest uctible. &rips could !saw perform the longest voyages without ihe copper sheathing on their bottoms tang corroded by the action of the water; and while a ‘ta y i r poitant saving was thus effected in this necessary ra:a_le of naval equiamenr, the invaluable lives of our icamcn were rendered less insecure. Ile had only to add, that wlii!e the Urn al Saciety was under the guidance of iach a President, its honours would perpetually accu n.ehee, and its serricei to science would hourly inct ease. —(';moat .Applause). The PRESIDENT returned thank; in a very appropri ate address, and proposed the health of their Treasurer, :slr. Davies. Gilbert, who returned thanks. The PRESIDENT proposed, " The health of the Right Hon. Robert Peel." They were peculiarly happy in being honoured with the presence of one of his Majes t)'s M inister s, who, from the nature of hit. office, was the natural parson of every discovery in science and ap. plication of art, which tended to promote the internal improvement of the count: y. The Royal Society was a:ready under many obligations to the present Home Secretary, and be was confident would yet be under :rainy more. Mr. Secretary PEEL returned thanks, in a speech pe celiar ly happy and appropriate, and sat down amidst the cordial approbation of the company. The PRESIDENT then gave " The health of Dr. lhookby, the President of the Royal Irish Academy? Ile had, in his address in the morning, explained the grounds upon which the Council had conferred the Cop ley Medal on this distinguished mathematician. In the ligher-analyses he seconded La Place. His papers upon the parallax of the fixed stars were before the Society in their Transactions. Last year the Copley Medal was conferred on Mr. Pond, the Astronomer Royal, for a series Of observations made at Greenwich, w hich seemed to establish the parallax of the fixed stars ; this year they conferred the same medal upon Dr. Brookby, for a series of observations made at Dublin, which go to prove that the fixed stars have no parallax. He would net pre tchd to d'ecide between these distinguished mathemati cians. All he would say was, that the controversy be.' tireen them wag carried on in a spirit which shed ad ditional lustre upon science. Mr. Pond, as a Member of . the Council, was the first to vote for conferring the medal upon Dr. Bruokby. The toast was received with great applause. The PRESIDENT then gave "The Progress of Sc;etice all over the Woad r and the company, consisting of ninety Members, broke up about ten o'clock, after a day peculiarly gr atifying to the lovers of science. The Gazette of Tuesday contains a Proclamation promising his MAJESTY'S most gracious pardon to any one concerned in the atrocious murders of Frances Smaller and Mary Ann Hattenborough, the two little girls who sere found murdered near Boston some time ago. The Proclamation excepts those who actually cJmmitted either of the said murders; and offers, as a pecuniary reward, one hundred and thirty-five pounds (with the previous exception), to any person who shall king the murderer o--murderers to conviction, in either of the cases: the rewards to be paid-by the Mayor and actirg Magistrates of Boston. During the severe gales which prevailed in the Downs on Monday last, a small bird, called by naturalks the Stormy Peterel, nick-named by seamen M titer Carey's Chicken, was picked up alive on the :bore near Walmer Castle, by a servant belonging to l\lr. BnooKE, of Marine House. Only three of these species are said by Bewtot to have been found in this country, and these not alive. They swarm in stormy v eather in the Atlantic, and follow the ships with a doleful screech on the gathering of a storm, Information was received at the Town-hall yester day morning, that a cart loaded wi;h two hoe eads of hams from Mill-lane-wharf, Tooley-street, had been, during the momentary absence of the carman in a shop in Bialicysgate-street, on business, on Tuesday night, t.iken elf by some thieves, whose retreat remained un ,Esc vered, notwithstanding the utmost industr y of the ea ifeJ carman 'to ascertain it. Notwithstanding the numerous and zealous efforts that are made ) with a view to improve the morals of the lower classes of society its this country, it does not appear that crime has decreased. It is only just a month since the last jail klivery of Newgate ; yet in that short interval, no less than two hundred and twenty-five persons have been committed to that prison, charged with various offer ces, pr incipaly felonies; to which are to be added, perlmps, as many more for trial at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell. The Old Bailey Sessions begin to-day : Mr. Justice BATLEY and Baloll Hum-cies( are the Judges expected. Tuesday se'iinight, as seven persons were crossing the Wye with their asses, at the Wirsiiings, near the Wear, the barge upset, and four pergms were-drowned. One of them, named Edward Ballinghant, has left a large family. One person, a female, had the good for- tune, after sinking twice, to catch hold cf the boat, and was saved. Another saved himself by laying hold of One of the donkeys. Two of the animal, weir drowned. More than twenty vessels are on the stocks near New' York. LAW REPORT. • COURT OF RING'S BENCH, DECEMBER 1. The Loup Citud Jusvicu sat at Nisi Prius today in the new Court of King's Bench for the City of Lon don. It is very spacious and handsome, and, in gene ral, well adapted to the purposes for which it is de signed. Ac present there is an echo, which renders it difficult to hear, except on the side of the Court to which the voice is immediately addressed; but thiewill probably lessen, and may be in a great measure reme died; by coveting the tipper part of the walls with tapeqt yor matting. The Judge's seat, which is placed beneath a very tasteful canopy, should be a little more raised above his officers, and a greater elevatiou should be given to the seats for the Jury, as at present the Counsel nho address them seem to aim their eh (pence rather at the wall oppotite, than,the Gentlemen below their level. To-day there was no cause tried of the 'nit interest• One case, Shaw v. Broom," on the opening, gave ex pectation of the appearance of Mr. Clan J, the con veyatictr, who was convicted at Westminster on Tite;- day, as a witne,s to substantiate a defence on a bi!l to hich he was a patty ; but the cau►e was referred.— Several other causes were referred ; many mote were .struck out or withdrawn, because parties were, not ready; and the whole paper of the day, including more thin thirty causer, was exhausted before half-past one, when the Court rose. The adjouriintent-day is fixed for the 3kl of January. In the meantime the Loan Cuter Justice will sit at Westminstet,where there is a great entry of causes. Miss Foote's action, therefore, which stands in the Middlesex cause-h.t, will probably be tried before Christmas. " Cox v. Kean" still holds its place in the Lon don cause-parer. HORACE V lIALLADY. Mr. DENMAN stated, that this was as acti:•n brought to recover the sum of 250/. the value of a Bill of Ex change, drawn by T. E. Winslow upon the defendant, Mr. James Milady, of Grafton -street, Bond -street, in favour of the plaintiff. The plaintiff had negligently sent the bill in question to his washerwoman, in his dirty waistcoat pocket, and it came from the mangle in a most mangled condition. The fragments of the bill were produced in Court, and the object of the detendant's bringing the ca,e into Court was, to. identity these fragments as the remnants of the iden tical b:11 accepted by him.—Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 2631. 10s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER 1. The Coutt sat this morning at ten o'clock ; but rose in a few minutes, them being only two causes entered for trial, of which one was withdrawn, and the other undefended. • COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DECEMBER 1. THE KiNG. V. VEIN , E. This was an information filed' against the defendant, Pby the Attorney-General, to recover penalties for having looms and utensils for carrying on the process of malt ing, which were not entered at the Excise. • • It appeared from the evidence, that the defendant carried on the business of a maltster, in an old farm house, at a place called Shelwich-court, near the city of Hereford. lie had entered at the Excise-Office, ac the places in which he carries on hisbusihess, one malt house, two steeping-tubs, one working4loor, two kills , and one store-room. The Excise officers having ob-, served about the premiset a much greater quantity of grain than the defendant, with his apparently limited means of manufacture, had any occasion for, entertained a suspicion that he was engaged in some fraudulent transactions. They accordingly searched the premises, and, in addition to the entered or licensed rooms, they discovered a concealed set of rooms, furnished with all the necessary apparatus for malting, and a large quan tity of grain, in the different stages of the manufacture. This evidence having been given, Jaavis said, he was in structed, on the part of the defendant, to submit to a conviction. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Peualty, 1,0001. PREROGATIVE COURT, DECEMBER i. CAMBIAZO V. NZGROTTO. Dr. STODDART Said that the Court having appointed Giovanni Negrotto Committee of the property in this came, during the lunacy of the heir at law, and had or dered the usual securities to be given, it appeared that all the property, with the exception of a bond tor 16001. had been so circumstanced as to be out of the power of the Committee to injure; he, therefore, moved the Court to limit the quantum of security to the sum which could only be hazarded by Mr. Giovanni Negrotto. Dr. LUSHINOTON followed in support of this motion, and said, as the party was a foreigner, in many cases where it was necessary for them to procure securities in this country, it was customary with merchants to make a charge of five per cent. on giving their gua rantee ; which would come very heavy in this case, if security was required for those sums not in the_admi nistration in this country. Sir Jolt/ NICHOL observed, the circumstances of this case were of such a nature as to induce him to pause before he would deiiate from the usual course, wh'ch was, to require security for double the amount of the property. He would give his opinion on a future day. HOWELL V. METCALF AND SAMMY. Dr. LUSHINGTON moved the Court to grant admi nistration, limited as to the funds at present in the Court of Chancery. The application was in effect similar to that in " Cambiazo v. Negrotto," that the amount of : security should only be required for a lesser amount than the property left by the testator. Dr. Luthington stated, that as tlre funds were under the controul of the! Court of Chancery, they could not be subject to any risk by granting such an administration. Sir JOHN Nrcitor. said, if the Court had a certificate front the Court of Chancery, that such an administra tion would not give Mrs. Howell the power to meddle with the funds, they would grant the administration ; until that was done, this Com t should be cautious how it en•thled any man to assume a character which might put it in his power to destroy the property of orphans. —Motion to stand over. KIPLING, AGAINST ALL PERSONS IN GENERAL. Dr. - Data:Bay moved an affidavit for letters of admi nistration being granted to Mr. Moses Kipling, iron founder, in Thames -street, as creditor to the estate of Mr. William Willis, deceased. Mr. Willis died in June, 1822, leaving his widow, Sarah Willis, sole executrix and residuary legatee ; but no probate was taken out by her to her husband's property. The deceased was proved to have been indebted to various persons to the lamount of about 1,0001. out of which Mr. Kipling was a creditor to the amount of 21.21. Mr. Kipling last Ter:n obtained a ciiati(n, calling on the widow and other persons as next of kin, to take out letters of adminis tration, or tai.hew cause why ihey'should not be granted to him, as the prin:ipal cieditnr-but no appearance having been given to the citation, Dr: Daubeny no* , frayed that probate 'might psis to Mr.Kipliog: „ . • • . • . • Sir J. Mcnat.-.-Let. probate be granted as prayed, and let an in ventory of the property be giver in. - .4RUNTON AND NICROLASI7.II?/1N AND GREAVFC. Dr. LustfiNoTom said, this was formerly a suit re. spectink the granting• letters of adminisirttiem to the estate and effects of the deceased Charles (heaves, pro, mated by Brunton and Nicholas against other patties in the will. The deceased died in November, 1817, gild the suit was commenced the following Dezember. An allegation had been asserted, on which five witnesses were examined, but the parties then consented to a compromise. A deed was prepared, and letters of aJ• ministration were granted to ltose Nichola=, a sister ot the testator. Besides considerable per' onat e..raze, there was real estate, which, in d•re courar, would hare de volved to James Brunton, the heir-at ; having been guilty of an offence against the laws of the coots try, the property.was "eNtreated to the CI °xi). Upon -Cite petition of the other parties. how ever, it tea; under the consider ation of hi, NI ij..:sty's Attorney-Gene ral, and it was desirable that every ingot m sliculi be given relative to tl.e former pi oceedings in this Court. The present moti••n was, thert•frne, to allow copies of the depositions of witnesses to be taken out art this Court, in order to the elucidation r•f the whole facts. All patties were anxious t.) have the in itter set tled, an t i as the Attorney and Solicitor-G , neral tegnired the production of the co ies, he, Dr. Lushinyton, hoped the peculiar circumstances of the case would induct: the Court to accede to the prayer. • Sir J. Nicrot..—ls there any precedent for thicapplieation? Dr. Lusniticrot4.—l am not aware there is; it is not violating a role-of Court, it is asking the Court to do that which under the eir. l cumstarces might be deemed expedient. Sir J. Nicum.—l.et the mntinn gtautt over. THE EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Public 'attention has bqn much directed fur the last week to the probable result of the Qiiarterly General Court held this day 1), the Equitab:e Assurance Society.—Few of our Readers need to be informed of Ihenature of this Institution, wh•ch, though originating from smalls beginnings, has been justly described as being now Of the highest importance in a public, and we may add, even in a national, point of view. It was establi,hed, we believe, C. somewhere a s bout the year 1771, and the late Sir C. Gould, the Judge Advocate, brought a Bill into Pailiament for its incorporation, which was thrown out by the influence of Lord Chan cellor Thurlow, who pronounced it to be a bubble. This bubble, hovrever, has not only maintained itself for more than half a century, affording to thousands of fa milies most essential benefit, hot its capital has advanced to a magnitude wholly unparalleled : the exact amount is, of course, not made public, but we have heard it esti mated at above ten Millions sterling! Every person making assurance with the Society be comes a Member, so that the whole body (9,000 or more in number, as report states) form one great copartner ship ; they would be liable to a call, in case of deficiency, and they therefore become equitably entitled to divide a surplus, whenever such can be safely and properly withdrawn from the general capital. As to calls upon the Members they have been quite out of the question. The rates of insurance were ori• ginally fixed in a very guarded manner, above what 'might have been justified by the then chances of human life. Those !chances, from the improvement of medical science, and of the general habits of society, have since very greatly improved, and consequently the premiums ate paid for longer periods than was at first contem plated. Hence it has happened that on every investi gation of the affairs of the Society anincreasing surplus has been uniformly found to exist. • In 1776 it was £25,000; in 1786, £164,000; in 1793, £302,0001 in 1800, £4.84,000; 1810, £681,000; and in 1819, it ex ceeded £3,000,000. The mode in which the benefits have hitherto b..!en distributed among the members has been by a rateable addition to their claims, according to the number of years that they have lasted; and these additions hate been made at no stated interval, but as circumstances seemed to justify the measure—in 1782, 1786, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1800, 1810, and 1820 ; insomuch that an insurance of 1001. effected in 1771 became entitled, in 1820, including the former accumulations, to an ad dition of 4011. 10s. It is obvious, however ) that this is not the only, and may not be always the most desirable mode of disposing of the surplus. It may be advisable to make money payments to the holders of the policies, in proportion to their claims: and such, we understand, was the proposi tion submitted to the Meeting of' this day. On the other hand, if objections exist (as we believe they do) to this mode of benefiting the Members, a similar effect may be produced by :educing the premium in propor tion to the time the policy has la.ted. This mode ha, much to recommend it in the present state of pi opett). The interest of money, and the profits of most trades and employments, have fallen very considerably. Sup pose an insurance to h.tvebeen effected in 1798, when Consols wete at 4 n , requiring for the purpose of keep ing it up the interest of 1,0001. it is obvious that to pay the same premium now, when Consols are above 95, would requite the interest of nearly 2,0004 Whatever may be the determination of this in any future Meeting, we apprehend there can be no doubt 'out that they will agree in the propriety nt making some investigation at the present time; and there can be as little doubt but that the investiga tion will be conducted with all that care and prudence which has so eminently distinguished the Equitable 'Society. There is little reason to apprehend that any measure will be adopted without a thorough and Lare- ful examination of all its bearings; hut subject to that it would be absurd to suppose that the fair right of the present members t participate in the profits of the So- ciety should he sacrificed to the imaginary interests of their distant and unknown succescoi s. The Colombian Government has prohibited the im , portation of foreigu salt. Tuesday evening, an Inquest was held at the Ilaber dashers' Arms, Ho:ton-fields, on the body of a fine boy, five years old, the son of a carpenter, whose clothes caught file, and although a gitl was in the room, and tried to extinguish the flames, he was so s'iockingly burned, that he survived but a few hours.— Verdict, Accidental Death. Sunday se'nnight, a man and his wife were drowned crossing the Dee, at what is called the Abergeldie Cradle, which unfortunately gave way on the occasion. Saturday, a strilcing instance of sudden death hap pened at Edinburgh. A flesher named Miles Porteous, while eating a bit of beef steak, iii a - house in the vici• pity of the market, let a piece fall horn his fork, and stooping down to iift it, wiped it with a cloth, observing, 1 " It talc's Bantle pair folk." These words were scarcely uttered when he expired. • . .• . • z .• .? • !! , . 7 'DRURY-LANE THR.f7VUL •- • • • -• • • • • . . The Opera of ,The. &qv of, Belgrade was, last night performei in a very effecttse style. Mr. Sam, whose met its as asoucert.singtr Are.well icnawn to the toway appeared for the first . time. in. the united capacity„of actor at,pcl vocalist, as the representative, of the Seraskier. His performance was received in the. ron.t flatterint! manner ; and certainly the api.latt , e which was bestowe4 on it was uot.greater,,than ; it deserved., M 4. SAPIO'S vnice.i.: a Fine tenor, full of . ..skives! and,erpression ; his ja.toto is hold, and . hi s 'its le, like that of, Mr. KRAIIA ia ff trid.. lie ontiis nool.portnnity of embellishing the ell iginal theme With the glace'cof,art, and umnestinn. ably he introduces his endiellishlients,v Ult. the taste 4'f a practised musician. We have rarely heard the 1,0.,e and the L.ilj sang , ith so much hsptitiful expres>ion. ,It was loudly encored, and it.richly meshed that honour. In the duet with I illav Whets thy /most. in the air My heart with Lore is beating, and in Mr. T. Coolie's set e vade, the sa•ne delicacy of feeling And felicity of ex pres!iou were preserved.. Miss GRADDON, who im prnres every time she perfot ms, sang the airs allotted to Kothep bee with great ability.. Her concluding song, in the hi avur I - style, was very spirited. Miss STEPHENS was a de:ightful Litia. Her duet v ith Leopold—a dia • racier admirably su s t a ined by M r . lIARLEY—was beau tifully playful. We scarcely imagined that Miss STE. PIHINS could unite so much comic humour with so mach exottisite harmony. The minor characters were wea cast, and the wh.tlet performance was received, by a very crowded house, with great satisfaction. AMA RICAN FUN. Mathews, in his amusing Trip to America, notices the claim of a Mr. Raventop, on the part of the Ame ricans, to genu-ine fun, and in proof of it relates the stalest Joe Millers possible. The following are better specimen, but the authors of the jokes do not adpear to be AmerTcans. They are from .a New York Paper: A Gentleman, a few days since, with a handsome pair of whiskers, stop; ed at a barber's shop in Philadelphia get shaved. Tire barber _proceeded to shave but a short time, when the Gentleman discovered, to his ut- ' ter 'astonishment, that the barber had taken off one of whiskers. " Zounds and fury, what have you taken off my whisker for, you rascal?" exclaimed the Uentle man, as he rose to chastise the barber. " Vi, sare, de Mat quis La Fayette year no rriskar," replied the knight of the razor, with the utmost composure and self-im portance, indicating a conscious triumph. The day after our Races, an honest Hibernian, whose face, " flushed with a purple grace," sufficiently evinced his love for the dear stuff of ould Ireland, called to a landlord, with all the native impudence imaginable, for a tickler of the best whiskey,.which, after he had swal lowed, he with great composure told the landlord he had no money to pay for ; the landlord, justly incensed at his_ immeasurable share of Republican independence, told him he ought to have informed him of that before he drank. " Why, my jewel," sail Pat, " I tried that wilt your• next door neighbour, and the devil the drop he'd let me have ; and so I had no mind to be taken in a second time, d'ye see." Two wags present thinking it too good a joke to be Jost, prOdUced the follcAving, and released Pat, by liquidating his claim : Pat roar'd like a lord for his gill, And swiped it )ust like it was honey; ilia when call'd on to settle hii bill, Quite coolly replied, " I've no money !" 0 why did'nt you say so before, You rascal, bow dare you deceive me ?' " Qh, faith, Sir, I try•'d that next door, But the devil a drop would they give me !" SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. FIELD SPORTS FOR DECEMBER. Pheasants have been found tolerably numerous, though (as re marked in our last) not so well grown as usual. Woodcocks appeared early, and have, in some places, been met with in considerable numbers. Snipes have been found in the marshes in their usual abundance, but at the commencement of the season, more wild than common. It often happens, that a well'frequentedmar3h which one day con tained many thousands of these birds, will not afford a single shot the following; arising, no doubt, from scarcity of food. Coursing is now general. From the wetnuss of the season, it might hence have been supposed that it would be almost impossi ble for hares to escape their lengthy pursuers ; but they have run much better than expected, under the greatest disadvantage be yond all question, since that peculiar conformation of this animal's feet (and its having no ball to them in particular) which gives it a decided superiority in frosty weather, and on hard roads, is demi.. mental to its speed when the ground is so soft as not to be able to support its weight without sinking—in a suit fallow, for instance, it has little or no chance with a greyhound, whose superior strength enables him to get over it much faster than the bare, to say nothing of the advantage which the dog derives from the superior breadth and structure of his feet. The sante remarks will, in some degree, apply to hare-hunting, which, as well as fox-hunting, is geniis' at this period ; hut, from the continued wetness of the weather, and the consequent state of the ground, hunting has been, particularly in some parts, very dis tressing to the horses. A NGLlNt2.—Jack, Pike, Chub, and Reach, continue to take a bait freely daring this month, especially on those days when the wind is southerly, and the sun makes his appearance for a few hours; but as such weather does not frequently occur in December, the angl,-r should make the most of such a favourable opportunity, and deviate it to trolling or &Wont fishing. lie should commence fishing 'about ten o'clock hi the morning. and not leave the river side till four in the afternoon. If his health will allow him to do this, he has a right to expect excellent sport, for the fish above enumerated are now strong and hungry; all the winged insects als3 bring in a torpid state, and the spawn of fish and the different species of the veritlicular tribe scarcely to be met with ; the angler will not spend his time in vain. Ile should, however, be careful to use proper baits and tackle, because the heaviest or the old fish will now ha zard their lives for a belly-full, which nothing could entice them to do a few months back. Barbel, carpo perch, gudgeon, and tuts, are now retired to their Usual winter quarters.—From Ike Annuls if' Sporling. SINGULAR STAG HUNT. Lord Derby's Stag hounds met at Kerby Common, on Tuesitar last, when the following singular' circumstance occurred:-4 6 e stag was turned out at a quarter past ten. (Laing around him to.• three or four minutes, the hounds being near At hand, got wind or hint before the usual time allowed for the deer to go away ; a bur • in view was the consequence, which pressed him over the (7onto so hard as to run hint into the farm-yard belonging to Mr. Ke... of Denby, where he leaped on the thatch of the pig-stye, frar thence on the roof of a very Lute thaLlted barn, ascending to she very top of a height from the ground of 7.0 feet. One of the 1.. - nter s men got on the roof with along pole, and attempted to driv _ . . _ _ him off, hut he boldly faced him, and made a rush at the Matt, v be, had be no: retreated, mutt have been dashed front the roof. 't h.. hounds were laid on the scent, and seven or eight colt* absole ely gattied,the roof of the barn, gut close to his haunches, and dru. him from the roof into the fartit-yard, from thenceintolan l ing pond, out of which he made a short turn through the torch: rd and garden, back to the roof of the barn again, with the ho d dy close at him; and ultimately was taken and housed in the yi.td. The hounds then went over to Lord Derby's, at the Oaks, at d a fresh stag was turned out front the home paddock. 'the hiont , were laid on In ten minutes : the deer was taken after a most es• el. let.t chase of an hour and a half,. at Ewell. The only check slui.ng the chace was five minutes. The Baptist Missionary Society lately recei►ed rronk a Christian friend, the noble sum of Al,OBO, with a request that At might be entered as from " An unprofitable Servant." •