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Altered in the name of the students ! The young men who signed these placards in behalf of their classes tame forward and avowed their act, and denied having sanctioned withdrawal or disavowal of them. How. neer, to put an end to all misinterpretation upon this part of the busi. nos, the question was again put upon these placards to the classes in whose name they had issued, and they were unanimously affinned. The next question was upon the thanks voted to them by the Chain. hers, and upon this vote there was a good deal of intemperate speaking. (Inc orator in particular said, that although they should feel always honoured by the thanks of their fellow citizens and of France, yet that they could derive no honour from the applause of Bic Chamber of De puties, for it was not the Chamber to which the people could look up with either confidence or hope. It was nut the Chamber for which they had fought at the barricades, or the Chamber which had been promised them by the Provisional Government at the Hotel de Ville. (Lime voices exclaimed %0 No, it is the Chamber of Charles X.") After the four speakers had been heard, and the addresses or protestations agreed to which you have already received, several others rushed to the tribune. But it was deemed better by those who appeared to have most influence at the meeting, that the question should be put, and the discussion dosed. This was accordingly dune, and the decision pronounced with unanimity. This debating spirit by large bodies (as those bodies !) in the capital, is far from being useful to those who wish to consolidate the institutions of the new government. lam cony to add, that it has broken out like wise among the National Guard. There arc now 61 petitions passing through the ranks of that body, demanding various political modifica tions, particularly with reference to the new electoral law. The students and the National Guards say they will maintain public order, and pro tect thc King; but when you talk to them of the two Houses of Par. liainent, you find at once the prevalence of a qualified allegiance, and a demand that these two branches of the legislature shall be reformed— the one to be made more democratic, and the other stripped of hereditary rank. You will judge better than I can of the eventual tendency of such opinions. I see, however, in them at pre.ent the diffusion of much mischief, and the continuance of umrict The casualties doting the late disturbances were fewer than might have been expected. Many persons were hurt by being trodden down : only II (as far as the hospital returns go) received slight bayonet wounds, and about 34.1 of the soldiers were struck with stones; three or four ofecers were by missiles of this kind cot in the face. Count de Sassy's wound was not inflicted with a knife, as sonic papers assert; he was knocked down by a workman with a blow of a wooden mallet, and intrely required the precautionary aid of bleeding, to prevent worse consequences. There were happily no serious injuries inflicted at any side. The arrests already, lam informed, amount to 583. Among them are many heated zealots of respectable classes in society, but no persons of any rank ; althuugh people's mouths are always filled with names (such as I have mentioned in conveying to you these rumours) of indi iiduals, who had no:, 1 believe, the least participation in these violent means of aggression upon the Government. Y. CO LOM BIA. lio vAn .- (From the New York Evening Post of the ..9th November, received at the North and South American Coffeehouse yesterday) : COLOMBIA. The schooner Waterloo, Capt. Briggs, which arrived yesterday, has fur nished ns with Carthagena Papers to the 22d October, con t•uiniva some additional intelligence in relation to the late ;rove:news in Colombia. Bolivar had gone to Solidad, a small town in tho Magdalena, where, it is said, he was Ilelcomed with great enthusiasm, and where he was to re. nun until he should learn the result of an expedition sent by him, under General Montilla, with 2,500 men, to re i,oce the province of Rio de la Hache. There was a report ti.at the province had submitted, and that Bolivar had pro-1 ceeded to Maraycaybo. Antiquia Panama, Magdalena, and other places, had di vined in favour of Bolivar. The Electoral Assembly of Magdalena met on the 17th of October, for the election of certain public officers under the new Constitution. Twenty fire members were present. Bolivar received the votes of twenty-four for the Presidency, and Urdaneta seventeen for the Vice Presidency. At Bogota, on the 28th of September, it was said that news had arrived from Venezuela, the substance of which was that the inhabitants of that province were anxious to place themselves under the protection of Bolivar. A cor respondence had taken place between the central government of Colombia and General Morales, commissioner of the government of the South, front which it appears that the latter consents toa union of the two states as soon as Bolivar shall have been placed at the head of affairs. The prontowiamentos, or declarations of the provinces of Panama, of Antiquia, and others, abound with the strongest expressions of confidence in the Liberator. So far as can he judged from them, and from the tone of the public prints, the voice of Colombia is in favour of the Liberator; and it it not improbable that we shall ere long receive the intelli gence of the re-union of all the provinces of the republic under their former head. Paez is brave ; and, if he resists, will not make a feeble resistance ; but he is not remarkable for constancy in his determinations : and, were there no ob jection on the part of Bolivar, it would not surprise us to hear that the Venezuelan Chief was reconciled to the Liberator. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. inaostro.x.—ln the Correspondence of Mr. Pinkerton, there is a Letter from Mr. Dempster, who represented the Aberdeen Districts of Burghs in four Parliaments, dated 1789 ; he says, speaking of the manner of living in London :—" I remember the present Professor Fa gown boarding and lodging most comfortably on a first door, at 18s. per week. His victuals were sent up to hint, or the family table open, just as he pleased. Our friend Thorkelin, I presume, lives on very easy terms M London ; and to a man so spiritually employed as you (Pinkerton) tardily considerations are not of much consequence. The Spectator and Tatter, and 1 believe half the Members of Parliament in Queen Anne's 'hoe Bud so. Dr. Samuel Johnson lived many years in London for :rOl. a year. I once heard him detail the system and style of life. I knew David Hume when he had not above thirty pounds a year to spend. it is pretty clear that the English of those days, and the English of the present have little in common besides the language. People then stu e.ied their circumstances more, and appearances lea. The rage, ever •i^ee we became so prodigiously rich, is to have what no man else has— to be admitted to parties from which others are excluded—to avoid en. tertainments to which all are admitted. The agitation of the coun try has roused us out of our trance. People begin to have a sort of vague idea, that the laws will only be obeyed when the majo rity have an interest in obeying them, anti that it is dangerous to press heavily on those who are on the ground. Many persons now be. .hitik them that we have all a common nature, and that as in society we arc all beholden to each other, no class ought to be treated with con. tempt. The Revolution of July has led to a variety of comparisons, which would not have been made even a year ago. We have -heard lotely of instances of Clergymen repairing with their wives in person to cottages of distressed parishioners with soups ; and even meat, and traleavouring to renew the old feelings, which the war for our holy reli gion and its consequences extinguished among us. Misfortune makes teen acquainted with strange bedfellows. The apprehension of cals. softens the hearts of the proud. We will answer for it, that t•snte Laws, and the other delights of our Aristocracy, have seen their i,tv. days. Porr.—The authentic intelligence from France Is not important, but t reports are highly interesting. According to these, although the rtropolis for the moment is in a state of tranquillity, every appear. 4:,ce forbodes the approach of another convulsion. In fact, as we have a:l along considered, nothing short of the revival of the reign of Terror' will srttisly the ferocious spirit of the Parisian mob. All the ultra Re utd,liranism of Lafayette, all the professions of the banker Minister of i'iPance, all the degrading conduct of the mock King and his bumf. hating demeanour wherever he publicly appears—all these, dis gruefully conceding u they arc to the vulgar feelings and the basest passions of the multitude, have not been sufficient to propitiate them, or permanently to ensure the tranquillity of the State. Lafayette, in honest disgust, has resigned the command of the National Guards : even the interested Witte is said to have tendered the resignation of his high office; and 4 Heti is the growing prevalence of the advocates of Terrorism, that it will require the most vigorous exertions on the part of the Government to save the country front the endurance of scenes of terror and bloodshed more frightful, if possible, than any with which France has hitherto !lien accursed. The insolent youngsters of the Polytechnic and other Schools are said to have been dispersed into their respective provinces. We hope this report may prove correct cor.vinced as we are that unless ere Government is capable of prompt and energetic measures ofthis de. rzription, it is irrecoverably lost. Tixas.—The whiptation occasio;ed in Paris by t of the en. Ministers is pily terminated, but has beenfo l lowed by a dis. itlay of those angry dissensions in political parties, and a development 4 those plans of opposing faction, which probably created the whole of ;he danger in the late disturbances, though they did not appear on the smart of die tuonilt• The arena of contest and alarm has been trans. hoed from the mtreets and public places to the legislative chambers and the council of the King ; and the parties are not the National Guard and the tabble, but the Ministers and the Deputies of France, —the supporters of the system intended to check the progress en the revolution, and the partisans of that which desires to see it proceed with its present momentum, till it has realized all the consequences of its principle—the sovereignty of the people. These parties during the late troubles were pressed into one mass by the fear of a common danger, for they all felt that anarchy was a common enemy, that order was as necessary as liberty, and that en ' infuriated mob, yelling for blood, was a disgraceful and perilous instru ment of reform in any hands. But the formidable character of the late tumults, and the means taken to quell them, have widened their previous differences, and rendered a crisis in the Cabinet or Chamber almost inevitable. The ministry belongs to the left or extreme kit, tied arc favourable to the more extended basis of popular rights claimed by the mass of the people. They are, therefore, opposed by the majority, and would be outvoted but for fear of a dissolution. The majority exists in the centres, and has hitherto resisted violent charges. Should they succeed in their motion for an enquiry into the state of the coun ty, and pass a censure on the lilinistry, or should they resist the democratic tendency of the law of election about to be intro duced, the Cabinet will have no alternative but to resign, or to owlet a dissolution without having obtained a budget or settled the necessary forms and conditions under which the new Chamber is to be chosen. Such is the presen, state of parties in France,—such is the unstable tenure of power and popularity among public men after a revolution. About six months ago, the majority of the present Chamber were con sidered the champions of liberty, and almost the idols of the tieciple. They made a citizen King, whom General Lafayette called his " best of republics," and liberalized the charter beyond even the fondest hopes of the Liberals under the Bourbon dynasty. Now they arc so discredital with the multitude, that the lads of the Polytecimic School protest against the imputation of their thanks, " because they speak not the voice of France." Within the last five months, the King has had two Cabinets,--the flret, very liberal, has been displaced by one still more liberal ; and complaints are made against the second for not being liberal enough. The tumults of 18th October terminated the existence of the former, and the disturbances of last week threaten the stability of the present. Let us hope that the Sllinistera will show more firmness than they have done of late ; that, secure now by glorious experience of the faithful support of the National Guard, they will re ply in s firmer tone to the clamours of faction, and that the majority of the Chamber of Deputies, seeing at once the necessity and the dangers of an appeal to the country in its present excited state, it' they throw obstacles in the way of reasonable measures, will co-operate with the Administration, rather titan encounter such an alternative by oppos ing it. CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. Mr. Buckingham last evening delivered, at this Institution, a Lec ture upon France. The company assembled in the Theatre of the In stitution, and amounted to about three hundred in number. Mr. Buck ingham said his object was to describe France as he found it; and as to his mode of doing that, he should consider the voiceof the meeting at the Institution a good censor. He descanted upon the inutility of passports, which checked the free intercourse of natives of different countries. 1116 object in going to that country was to obtain aid for accomplishing his proposed Voyage round the World. He took the road through Rouen, and stated, that during his journey be saw Charles X. caricatured in every shop ; and he remarked that, particularly near Rouen, the ope rative classes appeared to be living very comfortably. He observed that the chief marks of the existence of what we call piety were to be found in the female sex, and one of them, a female sexton, expressed her re gret at the revolution, as she feared it would put an tad to religion. He referred to the institution, and spoke of the support given to men of learning and science by the government; and mentioned, in high terms of praise, the manners of the various members of that learned body. He visited the dinner of the Masonic Institution, and remarked with pleasure the fervour of the popular feeling. At this dinner some of the wounded masons of the three days of July were introduced, and received the eager respect which their pa triotie gallantry had merited. He had the honour of paying a visit, at eight o'clock in the morning, to General Sebastian', whom he found to have been occupied in business for more than two hours be fore. He referred to the freedom of access given to the public, who are allowed to witness the discussions of the Chamber of Deputies, without being obliged to have recourse to payment of money or individual favour for their scats in the gallery. During his stay in Paris he was intro duced at Lafayette's Soirees, which he described &seven more nume rous than those of Lafitte and the King—so great is the respect paid to honourable consistency in patriotism. He compared the public institutions for the exhibition of pictures in Paris, with similar exhi bitions in this country, and strongly insisted on the important ad vantage possessed by the former. He referred to our Courts of Justice, and then compared them with the French, especially with regard to the costume of the lawyers, and very properly ridiculed the wigs of our barristers and judges. He referred to the Literary Re unions in Paris, and spoke with pleasure of the monthly assemblages of the contributors and editors of the" Revue Encyclopellique.'"the medical schools were the subject of his praise—those schools which enabled young men to attain a good practical knowledge of surgery before they assumed to exercise their professional abilities on their living fellow.men. These schools, it appeared, had been, to a consider able extent, discountenanced by the Bourbons, but were now flourishing in full vigour. In the course of his lecture, Mr. Buckingham described the various towns he passed through ; and his lecture, delivered with his usual ease and fluency, was well received by a very respectable auditory. LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. MISS MACAULEY'S DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS. Last night Miss Macauley delivered the last of her series of Drs. matic Illustrations for the present year, in the Theatre of the Me chanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings, to a very respectable and intellectual auditory. The Play illustrated was The Stranger. previ. ous to which Miss Macauley delivered an Essay on Domestic Singing, in which term she explained that site included English singing gene rally. She commenced by observing, that every nation has a style of singing peculiar to itself ; that in England, the national style, which is simple and effective, is sacrificed to the Italian, which is so overloaded with ornament, that the words of the song are in general overwhelmed and lost. She highly recommended English singing, with distinct articulation, which might be called mu sical recitation, as a delightful and bighly useful accomplishment, tend ing at once to give power and feeling to expression, and to extend its beneficial influences to the mind and heart. For this purpose she par ticularly recommended to young ladies, to practice singing without musi cal accompaniment, to give them the habit of perfect articulation, of deeper pathos, and more effective execution, than when they depend on the instrument for support, and would also enable them to gratify their friends in many situations in which the accompaniment of an instru. ment is unattainable. In illustration of this recommendation, Miss 3facauley gave " The Death of Abercrombie, with suck felicitous effect as to excite universal approbation, and draw forth the warmest applause, and the encore excited by admiration, not perhaps suf ficiently thoughtful of the increased labour it was imposing, was as promptly and as kindly answered, and produced if possible in creased delight. Miss Alacauley next gave a musical imitation of the Old English ballad, " Time enough yet," ins style so cotnic as to pro duce peals of laughter, which were only exceeded by her recitation of a comic caricature in "Ma Chere Arnie, " in which a Yorkshire musical lady, an Irish Captain, and a Scotch critic, were made to sing and speak with such force of nature and of custom as to admit of no tnistake of character. Miss Macauley, to illustrate the contrast be tween the effect produced by singing musical pieces expressive of strong feeling In the ornamented Italian style, and in the simple manner which she recommends, sung the ballad of " Crazy Jane" in both ways ; and whatever might be the opinion of those who take ornament of difficult execution to be the highest excellence, the effect on the feelings bore ample testimony to the judgment displayed in her recommendation. The essay was received with high approbation throughout, and as the examples were calculated to make a deep im pression, it is very probable it may not be lost on many by whom it was heard. Miss Macauley, having disposed of the musical portion of her sub ject, proceeded to illustrate the far-famed play of the Stranger ' which she admitted to be of doubtful moral ; and yet the represented the re pentant Mrs. Haller, so formed for goodness and for greatnevi—so strongly purified from all the contamination of error—that by the feel. ing with which she gave utterance to her sentiments of self-abasement —to the strength of her maternal love and the force of return. ed and disinterested conjugal attachment, more anxious for her husband's honour than ber own peace, that she made it quite natural, that on evidence so conclusive of sincere and perfect reformation, the almost heart-broken husband should find rest for his soul in forgiveness. Miss Macauley did not allow the occasion to pass over without a moral, directed to the improvement of the married of both sexes. She strongly advised husbands to place the most unlimited confidence in their wives, making them the sharers in all their thoughts ; and wives, to Sy with horror from the man who would dare attempt to injure their husbands in their estimation. This good advice, we were glad to see, was so well received, both by husbands and wives, and the candidates for these titles, that we may hope it has not been thrown away. Miss hlacaulay announced a series of dramatic ißustrstions for the ensuing month, by subscription. The Bishop of Winchester has offered to allot portions of Waltham Chase, to be parcelled out for occupation by the poor of some of the adjoining parishes. The river below London Bridge has been completely blocked up for the last few days in consequence of the frost, and barges and other small craft have been pre►ented from making the least progress. A FEW WORDS ON RATING AND DRINKING. " And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating fle , h, and drinking wine ; let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die."—lsaiah WI. 13. I. " The English gorge themselves with the heaviest food : this plethoric habit must have a corresponding influence on their minds ; therefore, eating beef, which the simpleton Sir Andrew Aguecheek thought obstructed his wit, may seriously be esteemed the cause why sointany British are dull and saturnine.—Ensor's Independent Man, i. 189—a very excellent and praiseworthy work. Sir WILLIAM TEAIPLE, on the contrary, says, that the superior bravery of the British is owing to their bang so carnivorous. 11. In the year 1800, a Mr Thomas Foden, of Coventry, dis. covered that plaster of Paris made excellent bread ; and the late Sir Bober; Peel announced, in the House of Commons, all its whiteness, sweetness, and other chalky nourishment ! " Astounded, see the senate taught, by Peel, How men, like calves, on luscious chalk may meal !" Mukniust, ii. 3108. Mr. Vndcn must have borrowed his plan from the Ottomaques, an ugly 1.4 C , 1 dwelling on the banks of the Meta and the Orenocco, for li ultra mut., in his Tableau PAysique, informs us that those amiable savages feed on a species of pipe-clay, which they knead into balls of four or six inches in diameter, and bake slightly before a slow fire ! It' is rather remarkable that castor.oil is in some parts of Hindostan, used as food. 111. Neither the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Christians, nor I►Lrhometans, did, or can do, without feasts. We read of one at Ilubastis, on the banks of the Nile, at which were no less than 700,000 spectators, who revelled to such purpose, as to consume more wine, on this one occasion, than throughout the whole year. The Persians never discourse or deliberate of their most important business, but in the middle of their feasts. The English have followed so wise a pre cedent. No business is transacted by an Englishman without a dinner. IV. Vitcllius consumed between seven aril eight millions a year oh, •tcfi[: soaper:, and Caligula expended above eighty thousand pounds sterling on a single entertainment. Clodius /Esopus, the tragedian, lavished on one luxurious dish, 600 sestertia-4,8431. 10s; and the , young spendthrift, his son, treated his guests, after dinner, with a su perb cordial, in which a costly pearl had been dissolved. See Pi.twir,' x. GO. xxxv. 12. The famous Apicius, after spending in culinary de licacies minks H. S. or 807,2911. 13a. 4d. and squandering, besides, the amount of immense grants and pensions, on casting up his ac counts, finding he had only this exact sum retnaining, poisoned Winch', that he might not perish by the severer pangs of famine. Q. Borten. sius had the honour of being the first Roman that introduced the pea cock to the table as a great dainty, in a magnificent feast which he made, on his being created augur. The price of a peacock, says Ar buthnot, 129, w.is 50 denarii—that is, 11. 12s. 5d ; a flock of a hundred was sold at a much dearer rate, for 3221. 18s. 4d. of our money. M. Aut:dius Lureo, according to Vitro, used to make every year of his peacocks 4811. 7s. 6.1. Heliogabalus introduced a dish of the combs of cocks. He caused at one supper, the heads of GOO ostriches to be served up, only for the sake of their brains. Doo►itian, according to Juvenal, iv. convened the Senate to deliberate in what vase he should boil a huge turbot which had been sent him. Aulus Gellius says, it was Philoxenus, a musician, who wished to have had a neckl as long as a crane, that he might enjoy still longer the viands he ate. And how very nice must the ideas of that actor have been, who regaled his guests with nightingale pie ? One M. Antonius having but twelve guests to supper, provided eight boars, one set to the fire after each other. But Caranus, as Athenwus says, outdid him even in this, for every guest had each a boar in a particular dish. V. Of Chigi (Augustin) strange things have been published concerning his luxury. One day he treated Pope Julius the Second, and all the sacred college, with so much magnificence, that one would have thought he had a design to exceed the enormity of Vitellius. All that was taken from the table at every course was thrown Into the Tyber, though every thing was served in silvere latp ; and, in the last place, abundance of parrots' tongues were served up, dressed several ways.—Jumv Animadversiones, iv. S. In the year 1176, the Seigneur Ouillaume Oros d' Martel gave an immense dinner to the Seigneurs of Languedoc, the viands of which were all cooked by the flame of wax tapers ! Vl.—ln the year 1522, the Emperor Charles V. on a visit, and King Henry VIII. called at Faversham, in their way to London, and were , entertained by the corporation. The expense was 11. :Is. 3d; and, at the same time, for a gallon of wine to the Archbishop one shilling. VII.—ST. Font tells us, that at the mars plenieves of Paris, tl e dinners were very magnificent, and that the constable and other great officers received and served up the dishes on horseback At the din ner of the inauguration of Charles VI. says Froissart, the Sires de Courci, de Clisson, de la Trimouille, the sea-admiral, and others, served upon high horses, all covered with cloth of gold. VIII.—In BowEa's Life of Beattie, 65, a curious aneeZote is re lated of Professor Read, viz. that he could take as much food, and im mediately afterwards as much sleep, as were sufficient for two days ! IX.--HORACE, AXACREON, SHAASPEARE, and even the grave MILTON, in beautiful Latin, have celebrated tl.e spirit of the grape. Dr. JOHNSON says, "In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cow ardice for courage, and bashfulness fur confidence." It has been justly remarked by the SPECTATOR, that the person ,you converse with after the third bottle is not the sante man who at first sat down at table with you. By the testimony of Roger Ascham, the Emperor Charles V. scents to have been a votary of Bacchus : " The Emperor drank the best (most) that I ever saw . He had his head in the glass five times** long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wise." Sir William Temple stinted himself to (Ince glasses of wine: " one for myself, one fur my friends, one for my enemies !" Bishop Warburton said, They who drink beer, think beer." In the space of 23 years, it is computed that a Mr. Vanhorn drank 35,688 bottles of red pott. " It is incre dible what pleasure any individual can feel from such abundant pota tions, in the course of which he resembles more a cellar than a mar; for there are many cellars that never contained what this man's stomach must have done, namely, 59 pipes of port wine" SINCLAIR'S Code of Health, i. 358. There is something peculiarly ingenious, though rather severe, in this comparison of Mr. Vanhorn's stomach to a cellar ; though, as he rarely exceeded four bottles at a time, it is rather hard on the honest gentleman, to say that his stomach ever actually contained 59 pipes of port ! What would have been Mr. Vanhorn'a astonishment at reading the following startling assertion made by Mr. Baaava in the l'hiloso phieal Transactions for 1811, 2 : Port wine, says that ingenious the. mist, contains about half its bulk of pure brandy ; so that a man, every time he drinks two bottles of strung bodied post, swallows exactly one bottle of the strongest brandy The Ashantees, according to Mr. Hutchinson, are hard drinkers.— One of their privy councillors asked hint why he did not get drunk sometimes I—and looked amazed at his only swallowing a half bum. per of palm-wine, adding, be would drink three pots (about lbjrattosu !) before he went to bed.—Bownrcu's Ashanlee, 388. BEaIELRY, the most amiable of bishops, used to call the few, who had drank spirituous liquors with impunity for a series of years, Me devil's decoys. X. In ancient times it was customary to present to malefactors, on the way to the gallows (which, about the year 141$, was removed from Smithfield, and placed between St. filet's High Street and Hog Lane, now blessed with the more euphonies' name of Crown Street,) a great bowl of ale, as the last refreshment they were to receive in this life. XI. The celebrated Dr. Pau', like many other great scholars, was food of good living. This is sufficiently established by the following passages extracted from the lest volume of Porriana, by X. H. Bals ams, Eeq.—a work replete with curious literary anecdote and interest ing classical discussion. " The doctor would sometimes bring with him into the school a mines pie, or some such morsel, and enjoy his lunch by the fireside," p. 244. u Like Johnson he loved good living, though he professed to disregard it. He was food of a shoulder of mutton roasted. I have beard him give directions that it should be sent to table covered with a brown incrustation of salt and lower. His favourite part slats joint,to which he liked to help Mang was that which costaiord nothing but fes—ii lies opposite to the part the& is fret carved• ' Ti.is lie would cut not into slices, but into a large cizcular lump : head led it a hunch. " 356. " Part's I;!uttony, (at least when I have seen him) was nothing but good appetite. Ile used to remark that pat ticular tastes in eating went with scholarship, such as liki. irks and stews, owAdyra watrarre, liver, heart, 6.c. whilst whole joit.tz are the favourites of men of grosser propecsities. Posidonius says that in his time the barbarians of the North used to dine on whole jobild brue,;l4 to table." p. 542. XII. Theodorct relates, that a WOIV:VI of Syria was in the habit of eating thirty fowls a thy without being •atisfied A Iverson hatred Phagon, in preset cc of the Emperor Attrtl.ao, is said to have devourol a boar, a sheep, and a pig ! The Enip, it I Claudius Albinos cal, one morning at breakfast, 500 6gs, 100 patches, 19 m e lon s , 1410 b c;a ii coK. 40 oysters, and a large quantity of raisins! The Rutin:tor M:.ximiau became so fat in consequence of excessive cvirg, that his s lose, - lets only served him for rings ! XII I. Persons licensed to sell ale were f.rtoerly compelled to take the Sacrament. This we learn hoot Locke : sec his trend and third " Letters on Toleration." PEACHASI, who wrote in the titre of Elisabeth, saes, '• Within these fifty or sixty years, it was a rare thing with US in England to see a drunken man,* our nation carrying; ti to name of the 11106 l sober and temperate of any other in the world. lict since we bad to do in the quarrel of the Nethtrlands, about th, e t,f Sii Norris first being there, the custom of drinking and I:ca!ths was brought met into England. XV. On Sunday lout, says Swirl, lit. IT was a noble entertiAtmant in our great hall, where were present the parson and the farmer : the parson eat like a farmer, and the farm, • a parse:' ; we ref r you to the curious in calculations to decide whirl' r.,t most. .T. J. W. EN'TELLIGENC' MAIL ARIIIVYD THIS am—Dublin, 1. 110 Lvierats, Dec. 17.—. Arrived the Jane, from . .M.w.inharn ; Go!- condt, from New Orleans; Mary, Lord, from B..vannati ; flown Tuke, from Virginia ; and Dowson, fri , m Miramichi. LimirooL, DFc. 27.—Arrived the Endymion, Garbutt, from Quebec. NIWILY, Die. 7.6.—Arrived the Gretahow, Mackay, from Quvbee. DUBLIN, Dec. 25.—Arrived the Barbadoes, Lee ; Briton, Baxter , Castlereagh, Coates ; Hope, Middleton ; Ovitigton, Bell ; Transit, Potts; Kitson, Dillon ; aid Tell, Prest.a4 from Quebec. Also, the Mary, John,ron, and Wilton, Pascoe, front St. John's, N.B. and Pace, Lellan, from Virginia:. Donut, Dec. CS. —A r rived off the port, the Indian, New South Wales. ~ from Gainsay, Dec 26.--Arrived the Perseverance- Carter, from Leith to London, haying rata d away her bulwarks, lost niain.bouni, and split her main-sail. The Columbus, Law, from Quebec, was on shore on the Si tub Bull, Dublin, on Monday, and full of water. The Richard, Williams, horn Demerara to Liverpool, has been con demned at Bsrbadoes. The Mary, of London, Weiy from the Bay of Fundy, was molly destroyed by fire at Coleraine 17th inst. THE ENGLISH AT CALAIS. An escape from prison took place at Calais a few days ago, with+, from the originality of the scheme, and the cool and deliberate tran-er in which it was executed, has perfectly astonished the natives, accus tomed even as they are to the tricks of our ingenious countrymen. The parties were a Mr. H. and Mrs. T. the gentleman had been incarcerated some time, the lady a few months only. About a wed. since, Mr. H. gave out that it was his birth-day, to commemorate which the jailer and his wife were invited, after all was locked up for the night (that is, the outer doors), to partake of a bowl of punch a fa mode Anglaise. The invitation was accepted ; the punch, it appears, was strongly imptegnated with laudanum, which had no sooner taken effect upon tit,: guests, than he very quietly, accompanied by Mrs. T. after taking the keys from the jailer's girdle, proceeded to pack up and remove all their luggage to the outer door; even the lady** birds and a cat were not forgot ; he then returned to his room wrote upon a card, which was placed under the jailer's now, .fdieu mon anti ul4 revoir ;" they then not only let themselves out, but locked the doors after them, and they threw the it , •ys over the ramparts. This was about 11 o'clock at night, the time the Paris coaches generally arrive, conse quently tothing could be more apropos for their going to an hotel as pas sengers just arrived, which they did, ordered beds, and a coach for Bel. gium at six in the morning ; the gates are not opened sooner, and away they went very comfortably and arrived safe, for nothing was known until late the next day. The jail is in an out.of.the-way place, there. fore it is not unlikely that the jailer might have been watching for hours for a person passing to explain his situation ; it was no sooner known than the town was in a complete uproar; the police and the National Guards i Cheval were sent off in every direction; but the former being on foot, and the steeds of the latter being of the same breed as Dom Quizolee, lung ere they reached the first village the fugitives had pissed the frontier. A very obvious mode of relieving much distress presents itself at this moment, is parishes as well as individuals, em ploying persons out of work in cleansing the snow and ice from the streets and footways. The Rev. Dr. Lally, Rector of Drayton Basset, has in structed his agent to take 35 per cent. off his present compo sition for tithes.—Birminghant Gazette. The Earl of Coventry having expressed an earnest de sire to resign the Lord Lieutenancy of the County of Wor cester, is expected to be succeeded in that office by Lord Foley. The Marquis of Salisbury last week caused to be distri buted among 300 married females of Heitford 300 good Witney blankets, 300 stone of beef, and Is. each, for a I plum-pudding. He also gave a flannel petticoat, and 2s. 6d. each to ninety poor widows. Edward Stewart, Esq. has been appointed Private Secre tary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of T. T. Briggs, Esq. The Hon. L. Burrell yesterday gave provision for a Christ mas dinner to 254 poor inhabitants of the parish of Laleham, Middlesex, consisting of beef, bread, and potatoes, and also a bushel of coals to each family. • The toll-collector of Alphington -gate was summoned for taking toll on cows going to pasture. Mr. Tonkin appeared in support of the summons, and Mr. Mark Kennaway for the collector. The Bench unanimously confirmed their former decisions, that cows going to pasture are liable to pay toll.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. AN A PPLIC•NT FOR THE TR F.A stout little man yesterday applied to Mr. White, the Magistrate, at Queea-square, to be sent to some tread-mill, as he had no work, or any means of procuring a livelihood. On king told that such could not be done, he exclaimed, " Then make you ;" and after attempting to strike one of the offi cers, threw his hat at Mr. White, and knocked the news paper out of his band. The little fellow then said, " there's an assault ; now commit me." Mr. White refused, and or dered him out of the office. He appeared neither intoxicated nor insane, although extremely violent. Su ict DE.—Yesterday afternoon the family of Mr. Ba ker, No. 32, Stanhope-street, Clare-market, was thrown into the greatest alarm, in consequence of the distressing suicide of a young man, named Rooney, who lodged in the house. The deceived caine to his lodgings on the previous night very late, and about three o'clock yesterday afternoon a servant went up stairs for the purpose of main his bed, and on opening the room door, to her horror and astonish ment, she found the deceased hanging by a handkerchief to the bed-post. She immediately gave an alarm, and Mt. Baker, accompanied by Mr. Keene, landlord of the CrOVII opposite, ran up stairs, and cut the deceased down. Medical . aid was instantly procured, but the unfortunate young man • was quite dead, and from the coldness of the body most have been so for some hours previous. In his pocket was found a pack of cards, but not any money, and it is conjecterst the deceased bad been playing on the previous evening, .and • lost alibis money. An inquiet will be held on the body this - `day. I '1 Of 14 all ll* II