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Yesterday four companies of 11., (or Duke of York's Rifle Corps), under the command cheater, arrived in Leeds from Manchester, en route The 10th Dusaars are to succeed tie 2,1 Dr,izt.ott 6..- -Lecds Inklligenter. And all Sheriff*, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose custody a ny prisoners, charged with offences committed on the high seas, or within the said jurisdiction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the commitment of every such prisoner to Mr. CHARLES ,JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his Office, No. 10, Lan c..ter-place, Strand, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken for removing all such prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol Newgate, for trial at the said intended Sessions. And all Mayors, Woke., Coroners. and other Officers, before whom any inquisitions, :nformatlons, examinations, or recognizance., may have been taken, touching any lull offence., are required to transmit the same forth with to Mr. JOHN CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House, in the Old Bailey, London. MONDAY EVEN iS6, v 1 tY 16, 1831. N°. 13,785. rawF. 71). THE CUUltea. LITERATURE. GEORGE ELLIOT. DEDICATED TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR BROUGHAM. PATRIOTIC EDUCATION. DOWN to the present time there has been undue delicacy in rendering the principles of CIVIL LIBERTY a distinct branch of Education ; and instruction on these important subjects has been considered incompatible with prejudices artfully kept alive by corrupt interests now contemned by the whole nation. There are, however, innumerable Parents, who would desire to have their Soo, inspired with principles which are the glory of Englishmen,--and many enlightened Schoolmasters who would be happy to introduce this national subject to their Pupils. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPR, who for nearly forty years has been the improver and reformer of Elementary Books, therefore respectfully in forms the Schoolmasters of the United Kingdom, that in a few days he will publish, A CONSTITUTIONAL CATECHISM, displaying the Fars PRINCIPLES OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION, its advantages and perfections, and its defects and desirable reforms; including a plain abstract of the Reform Bill now before Parliament,—adapted to the use of Schools, as an Elementary Book. Price ONE SniiEurci. He hopes that among sensible Tutors, and in intelligent Families, such a tract will become as general and fashionable as BLAIR'S WHY and BECAUSE, or any School Book now in general use. To be had of J. Bitooxs, 421, Oxford-street, and of all Book sellers in Town and Country,—with 13 to the Dozen. THE BEST AND MOST DURABLE HATS IN THE KING DOM. nOWDEN, Waterproof Hat Maker, 17, and 27, High Street, Bloomsbury, most respectfully informs his numerous Customer' and Friends he has opened the House (17) nearly opposite St. Giles's Church, partly in consequence of the increasing demand for Mats of his manufacture, and partly to counteract an opposition forming by some individuals known by the cognomen of Jews, who have crept into the trade and dubbed themselves flit Makers, vending an Article which the unsuspecting Purchaser might imagine, from a casual survey, to be intrinsically good, a. d thereby materially injuring the long-esta. blished fame he has enjoyed, from the circumstance of many occasional customers not being acquainted with the precise situation of his houses. BOIVDEN needs only to add, that from the extensive patronage he has already received, (and which he with gratitude views daily extend ed) he is convinced that all articles purchased at his houses have given that satisfaction which it ever has and shall be his study to deserve ; asking as a favour from the public, and his more immediate friends, that they will please to observe his Establishments are only Two in that Street, viz. 17 and 27, which Houses he has endeavoured to ren der conspicuous, thereby to avoid disappointment. c:P. Old Hats covered with Silk from 6s. to fia. N.B.—Shopkeepers and Country Dealers supplied on the moat ad vantageous terms. TO MOTHERS AND NURSES. MRS. JOHNSON, the original and only proprietor of the celebrated" JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP," for Children Cutting their Teeth, Begs to inform the pub lic, and especially those ladies who have ho noured her by using the above medicine, in preference to any other, for Infants suffering from Dentition (the pain attending which it has immediately relieved, du ring the experience of the last twenty-five years) that, finding the fatigue of preparing the said medicine greater than her health will allow her to continue, and desirous that the Medicine may be dis pensed in all its original purity and effect, she has disposed of the aecret for making the said Syrup to her friends, Messrs. Barclay lad Sons, of Farringdon-street, London, who will faithfully prepare the :ame, under her immediate direction. Mrs. Johnson, therefore, ear nestly requests all purchasers to take notice, that the Stamp affixed to each bottle of the genuine Johnson's American Soothing Syrup," will hereafter contain the names of " Barclay and Sons," without which it cannot be genuine ; and much evil may arise to Tawas trom neglecting this caution, some unprincipled persons having pub lished spurious imitations. Price of the Genuine Jounsou's &manta SYRUP, 2s. 9d. per Bottle, Duty included ; and Sold by all respectable Venders of Me dicine. THE METAMORPHOSES; OR THE SCHOLARS AND THE ASS. THREE Scholars, near Abingdon, lately espied A fellow asleep in a ditch, by the road ; An Au grazing near him, with panniers and load : Said one, in whose bigb-polish'd Boots were descried, By Warmers's fine Jet, the dark forms of reflection, " The Ass in cur keeping we'll take, and protection, And sell him, finances consumptive and bare Recruiting, to-morrow, at Abingdon fair : Then off with the panniers and place them my back on The reins in my mouth !—now with Neddy pray pack on." The owner awoke—rubb'd his eyes, as they met His image, like two little imps in the Jet— And cried, in amusement and terror. " alas! Wern't you, my good friend, my identical au?" so I was!" said the Scholar, " I was 'till this minute ! " " The skin of an ass, man, sounds! how came you in it? " " The reins from my mouth, and the load from my back Pray take ;_these good imps to my shape, in a crack, Restore me at last, by my father's permission,— A quarrel, good sir,—he's a potent magician! Relenting, these imps to relieve me be sent 'cm ; I go, if you please, then, my thanks to present 'em : An ass, much kind treatment I met with from you; A man, then, I bid you a grateful adieu! " The owner the ass recogniz'd at the fair,— " What, quarreli'd again with your father already?" He said; but to purchase him did'ut much care, His shape and his services both so unsteady ! Yet still with an eye of entreaty attacking 'This friend, the Enchanters in Waaaan's Jet Blacking! This Easy-Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by ' le4l b7k;7 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID, in Bottles, and PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, it 6d. 12d. and IQ. each. Kr Be particular to inquire for WARREN'S, 50, STRAND. ♦LL OTHERS ♦a[ COU RRRRR LIT. . 41 11 The United Service Journal.—May. We never take up this work without being struck with the superior value of a publication which gives facts to them which deal in theory and fiction. Without even knowing the odour of gunpowder, every person feels interest to hear about the heroic but unchristian exploits in' which his employed. " War," a wise man has said, "is a game 'which, were the people wiser, kings would not play at ; " but, strange so say, we have come to a period when kinp wish to avert war, and it is the people who, judging by a neighbouring nation, are anxious to bring it on. The number opens with an Essay on " Tactics," from which a per son even not prepossessed may derive some curious information. The second is a review of Capt. Beden's treatise on the " Discipline of ths Mercantile Marine." The perusal of that work convinced us ion age.l that some regulation is required on this gabfest, said there are some very Judicious additional remarks tending to produce the same conviction in this - Essay. The Essay ensile " State and Efficacy of the British Army," and that on the " Organisation of the British Artillery," we presume, merit the attention of those who have the direction of our military affairs. " The Narrative of the late disastrous Voyage of the Bridgewater" will find attentive readers everywhere; but more particularly among those who are themselves about to embark on a similar voyage, or who are interested in tte fate of absent or depart ing friends. " The Anecdote of Marshal Beresford on the Field of Salamanca" is graphically related, and is a modest memorial, creditable both to the hero and historian, Among numerous other interest ing papers, none will be perused more than the Memoir of General Diebitsch, which have all the marks of an thenticity. The short communication on the mode of arming and fighting steam-boats should really obtain serious attention. There are several valuable geo graphical papers and miscellaneous practical hints on important sub. jecta, which we recommend to our readers—Senex on Malaria is one of them—but to descend from the smoke of cannon to a humbler sub ject, the smoke of cigars, we confess ourselves so much pleased by some remarks on this subject, that we are tempted to make an extract s CIGAR SMOKING• The Surgeon-General of the Forces has recently made public his belief, that never, till within the last twenty years, did he see so many young men with pale faces and emaciated figures, and he attributes the, existence of the evil to the use of Cigars. The unreflecting servility with which men adopt new and foreign practices, is fully exemplified in the present case ; it is notorious that the practice of cigar smoking the modern foppery from Regent.street to Cheapside and Cornhill, was an importation of the peninsular war ; the imitation having been began by the Spaniards, whose models are what are usually called the savages of America. The dietetic mischief, and consequent paleness of com plexion and emaciation of muscle, which are attributable to the use of cigars, belong, no doubt, to an injury inflicted, perhaps, in more ways than one upon the skis and organs of digestion ; nor is that hypothesis at all inconsistent with what we hear from so many cigar-smokers, namely, that their cigar is their dependence for digestion I That after having impaired the organ, or weakened its tone, or dried up the salival menstruum, they should needs stimulant, even in the very form of the bane which injures them, is only of a piece with all that has been said of drinking, and especially of dram-drinking, with which latter debauch, the debauch of cigar-smoking, has the closest possible alliance. We never pass one of those stifling rendezvous •in the metropolis—a ci. gar-shop, open till the latest hours, without mentally classing it with the gin-shops, its only compeers. Reclusive of the low habit of imitation, a dullness and feebleness of understanding, an absence of intellectual resources, a vacuity of thought, is the great inducement to the use of this, as .01 all o bet drugs, whether from the cigar-shop, or the snuff-shop, or the gin.ahopt or the wine cellar; a truth by no means the less certain, because it hap- pens that men of the highest powers of mind are drawn into the vice, l and made to reduce themselves, by their adoption and dependence upon it, to the lowest level of the vulgar ; but at the same time it is not to be denied, that a great support in defence of cigar-smoking is found in the medical opinions sometimes advanced as to its salutary influence. Now if we admit broadly, and at once, that there may be times and dr cumstancea in which the inhaling the hot smoke of a powerful narcotic drug, is useful to the human body, must it follow that the habitual re sort to such a practice, and this under all circumstances, is useful also, and even free from the most serious inconveniences? It is the admitted maxim, that if smoking is accompanied by spit ting, injury results to the smoker; and the reason assigned is, that the salival fluid, which should assist digestion, is in this mann e r dissi pated, and taken from its office. But may not the habitual application of the narcotic influence to the nervous system have its evils also ? May it not weaken or deaden the nervous and muscular action which is needful to digestion ? And may not even the excessive quantity of the matter of heat, thus artificially conveyed into the body, tend to a desiccation of the system, as injurious under general circumstances, as it may be beneficial under particular ones ? Smoking invites thirst, and there is little risk in advlncing, that whatever superinduce, an unnatural indulgence in the use of liquids is itself, and without farther question, injurious, even if the liquids re. sorted to are of the most innocent description ; but in point of fact, the cigar -smoker will usually appease his thirst by means of liquors in them selves his enemies It is said, however, that the use of cigars is beneficial when we find ourselves in marshy situations, with a high temperature, and generally whenever the atmosphere:inclines to the introduction of putridity end fever into the system. We believe this, and perhaps a useful theory of the alternate benefit and mischief of cigar-smoking may be offered upon the basis of that proposition. When and wherever the body re quires to be dried, cigar-smoking may be salutary ; and when and wherever that drying, or desiccation is injurious, then and there cigar. smoking may be to be shunned. We know that, while surrounded by an atmosphere overcharged, or even/only saturated with moisture, moist bodies remain moist, or do not part with that excess of moisture from which a drier atmosphere would relieve them ; and that living bo dies, so circumstanced, are threatened with typhus and typhoid fever. It is highly probable, therefore, that narcotics, in such cases, may allay a morbid irritability of the nerves, or effect a salutary diminution of healthful sensibility; under such circumstances, the desiccating and sedative effects of tobacco-smoking may prove beneficial; while, in all ordinary states of the system and of the atmosphere, the same desicca dve and sedative influences may produce immediate evil consequences, more or less readily perceptible, and undermine, however gradually, the strength of the constitution. E. A. K. DAMASCUS. Damascus ranks as a city of high antiquity ; indeed, it is one of the most venerable on the face of the globe, a nd h as experienced many vi cissitudes. It is supposei to take its name from the blood of Abel, Dim signifying in the Hebrew language, blood, and Sack a righteous person. In the earliest part of the peered volume, we find it distinguished as a theatre of many extraordinary events ; and it stands at the head of Syria, of which it is the metropolis. Abraham repaired to in pursuit of those monarchs who brought his brother in a st..re of captivity, from which he rescued him. It is also supposed to have been founded by hint, and it was she birth-place of hut steward Eliezer. liarrisons were established here by David after he had sub dued the Syrians, and had taken a multitude of them prisoners. Arias King of Israel, offered up sacrifices to the gods of Damaseur, and de stroyed the vessels of the house of the Lord. When Solomon went after other gods he was punished by the revolt of his people, se that they stirred up Reson against him, win reigned here. From that period the kingdok of Israel became separate irom that of Judah ; and was governed by its own monarchs. During the period of harvest, the King of Assyria, with a powerful army. spread horror over the land by fire and sword; burning the crops on the fields, destroying the flocks. devastating the country, end cuttiag off thousands. It must be most. dered se having been a place of extensive ;rade and commerce. since, during the flourishing state of Tyre, it is alluded to by different pro phets as a distinguished town for merehandtze and riches. Here it war that Saul, ones the persecutor of Christ and his church, who shed the blood of his saints, was by a most wonderful act of divine power made a convert to, and zealous advocate of, the Christian f a ith. Thi s city was captured by the Saracen princes, who took up their residence here till Bsgdad was prepared for them ; and after many revolutions ' it was taken and destroyed by Tamerlane . It was again repaired by thellarne lutes, when they obtained possession of Syria, but was wrested from them by the Turks in the year 1506. Afterwards it was re . l it Arad towhee by the Emperor Timur. Baldwin, the 2d of that name, a Warder, and highly distinguished by acts of heroism, f e ll up o n Jerusa end beat the King o f Damacus. In 1709, three thousandof the tents were destroyed by an earthquake. - city is situated in a valley, called by the Arabs El Shaw, and famous among oriental' under the name of Gloutch Demesk, or the of Damascus, and watered by the Chryzoorhoes, or den stream, now Barad' ; and infidels entertain an idea that it was the original paradise. It is two miles in length from northeast to soodt-west; but its breadth is not in proportion to it, being ez. treacly narrow, and it is divided into twenty-three districts. The circumference of the whole is calculated at about twenty miles, and it appears to have formerly been inclosed within three strong Walls. The first, or innermost, was the greatest in point of tirades, between which and the second was a ditch ; and the third, or exterior wall, which was the lowest. These had towers. some In • circular form, and whets in the shape of a square. The first Is the only perfect wall at this moment ; the others are broken down, and the ditches full of rubbish. During the crusades, the eastern • wan accounted impregnable. The place is beautifully situated in Say bosom of gardens, which contribute highly to its ornamat. The number of its population was greatly increased on the destruction of Tyre and Sidon, Coutes, and other adjacent cities, whose inhabi. task retired up the country from the coast. The air is pure, though the streets are narrow, perhaps with the view of shading its inhabitants from a hoe sun. The present dewrip don of materials and mode of building, I have no doubt, must have continued from the very earliest period of time ; the houses are of the colour of clay, resembling the meanest cottages in Britain, and built, after the form of those I had occasion to speak of at Jerusalem, of the most perishable materials, viz. bricks which have been dried not by fire, but the heat of the sun. During wet weather, the slough arising from them renders the streets almost Impassable; and it may be added, that rain falls here more than elsewhere along the sea coast between Joppa and Tripoli. Babylon also being in a , situation where no stones can be got for building nature supplies this defect by an inexhaustible store of clay for ma king bricks, which were either dried in the sun or burnt. Those I have seen were hardened in the former mode, and were three inches in thickness by twelve in breadth, many of them being covered over with arrow headed characters. Of these was constructed the famous Tower of Babel. This mode of making bricks is clearly referred to by Pha raoh, in his command to the taskmasters of the people and their of ficers. Few of the houses have floors of wood. In building, the plan is to fix nails or pins of wood in the walls while still soft, to suspend such domestic articles as are required, since, consist ing altogether of clay, they are too frail to permit of the operation of a hammer. It is to these apparently that reference is made by the prophets. There are few windows. The houses are est on the roof like a terrace, which is spread over with a kind of plaster,•and made I arm with a roller. Many of these are surrounded with mad walls or battlements, 4 feet high, to prevent accidents. Several domestic offices are performed on these roofs ' such as drying linen and lax, SEC. Indeed a person who was disposed to make his escape from any pursuit might, by stepping from house to house, reach the walls of the city. Such roots were recommended. as the most elevated and proper places, to sound alarms, in order to be heart; at a distance, which may explain an expression made use of by the evangelist. It Is scarcely necessary to observe. that the walls of such superficial houses are liable to crack ; and crumble by the heat of summer, which creates a most offensive dust, especially when rain is followed by wind, which occured one day in particular when I was here. This kind of weather is also most injurious to such buildings, the wet penetra.ing and soaking into them, by which the materials become loosened, and, being suddenly dried by the sun and the breeze, peel off in large f..tkes and pulverise, so that great quantities of rased are collected - in the streets, rendering them a perfect quagmire, which it is almost impossible for the pedestrian to move in; and, as I found, my slippers became absolutely useless. To such effects of thew winds and rains reference is made by a prophet and an evangelist. The apartments in houses of a superior class are in the back part, where the inmates are in a state of complete seclusion, and effectually guarded from all Invasion. There is a large quadrangular court within, open at the top, and finely s payed with marble, having pillars of marble, and ornamented with plants and fountains of water; in. deed scarcely one house in the place is without a marble basin and whir, ao that each occupier may literally be said to " drink the waters of his own cistern." During great heats, a kind of awning or veil Is spread over the top of these count. The floors of the apartments are covered with carpets, with large couches like woolsacks, and pil lows, where the Turks are seen reclining at their ease, smoking the finest tobacco, and indulging in every sensual gralVestion. In front o f the streets the houses have kw or no windows, but appear like blank walls, similar to those in Jerusalem, in which t h e r e i s a gate or wicket, so sm all as to require those who enter to stoop very low. Such narrow entries must have been alluded to in the expression used by our Lord, in answer to a question put to him regarding the number of those who should be saved. They me secured with wooden bolts and keys, also of the same form with those at Jerusalem. It is impossible, how ever, to determine if these trete the particular kind of locks and keys in use anciently, although them is certain evidence that the doors of houses and other places were secured in this way. Before these were known it was the custom to :secure things by a knot, and some of these were so difficult, that he alone who posseaed the secret could unrcvel them. The gardens are numerous, but no order appears to be observed in the planting of trees. There are fruit trees of different kinds; one of these bears the damson or damas cene plum, which takes its name from this city. Oranges, citrons, apricots, and roses, are in great abundance, and from the last of these perfumes are extracted. There are besides vegetables of enormous size. The dry fruits exported to the Ottoman capital amount to the enor. mous sum of one hundred thousand pounds sterling yearly. It short the place appears to be rejoicing in the abundance of its wealth. It Is a goodly sight to see What heaven bath done for this delicious land ; What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree, What goodly prospects o'er the bills expancL—Ree Wil son's Travels in the Holy Land. PORTSM OU TH- SAT u RDA!. The sanguine hopes we indulged in last week, of his Majesty's ho mouring this port with a visit on the 7th of June, will not be realised. His Majesty has caused it to be communicated that he has abandoned that intention, and it is reported for the same reason (one deeply de. plored by his loyal subjects) which induced his Majesty to decline his visit for the present to the Lord Mayor and the good citizens of Loodon —via. his state of health. Considering his Majesty's affection for the sea, and the estrangement for so many months of our sailor King from that element in uhich he so much delights, a visit of his Majesty to his fleet would greatly (we think) contribute to restore him to strength and health. We earnestly hope his Majesty's medical advisers will re-' commend the quarter-deck as one of the means to this anziouslywished for end. It is surmised that the King will visit the fleet on its return front the summer's cruise. Itznuertons.—Tbe situations held by Conunissioner Ascoogh and Mr. Hepburn, of the Jamaica dock-ya 4 are done away with. The Master Attendant, Master Shipwright, and Chaplain of Bermuda dock yard, are also reduced ; and the Naval Hospital of the Cape of G o od Hope is to be dispensed with; Mr. S. Swayne, the Surgeon, will be appointed to the Ordinary at this port. By a recent Treasury Order, passengers coming from France are permitted to land at Portsmouth , with their baggage, and the duty for any customable articles can be now taken at our Customhouse, without delay or trouble. We make this fact public with some satisfaction, as a contrary regulation last reason was the cause of much inconvenience and annoyance. A report has been prevalent that the African squadron is to be with drawn ftoin the coast. Although we think this to he unfounded, we regret that lice exertions of the squadron are greatly paralysed. if not entirely remit:red useless, by the tact that the French flag covers this nat.:ions traffic, for under the protection of that flag, c hip s are de. lirited of the right of serge!). For the sake of boint.nity we trust the Itt•eral tior.mment of France will interfere, and inteidiet this trade in vuntan St sh ; indeed, we are given to understand that Lafayette and Admiral de Rigny both glee it as their opinion that our ships should i hare the right of twarch on the African coast. N'ice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, K.C. 11. arrived here yes urthiy, and hoisted his flag (red at tile tote) on board his Itlajesty's ship St. Vivant, 120, Capt. Senhouse, with the customary salutes. She was paid alleattet wage's today, and will sail on Tuesday for the Mediter ranean, Where Sir Henry elhl assume the command. The Yacht Club vessels wail have a fine opportunity of displaying thews, lees before King Philip of France in a few days, as that Mo narch is to visit the town of. Havre-de.Gram on Friday The 20th inst. The Pluto stram-vessel, of 800 tons, recently launched at Woolwich, was commissioned yesterday for the wart cat Africa.—Hompshire e.'egraph. OXFORD, I:ar 13 This day the following degre.z en enr fart d MASTERS OF Aars.—James Henry Hughes, Yet, Wm. Pilkington, Demy of :Magdalen ; Rev. C. Whit, BACRILORS or ASTS.—Thomas Green Simeox, 11 , Compounder ; George B Moore, Christ-church, Grand Philip James Hooywood, Trinity, Grand Compounder Brazen-nose ; George Clark, University ; Wm. Boyd, Latimer, Lincoln ; Edward Welwyn Foley, Scholar James Heal; Wadham ; Thomas Dyke Acland, Kynaston, Student of Christ-church; Wm. Williall's, John Richard Errington Worcester; Charles F..,11 Worcester ; Henry Hebron, Queen s ; Charles ('a Henry Goldney Randall, Queen's ; Thomas Legh Claughton, &WOW' of Trinity ; Walter Kitson, Scholar of Rao! ; Archibald Allen Ca meron, Pembroke ; Robert M 'llium Browne, Fellow of St. JOiesl . 6; Charles Spencer Bunyon, New College. The examinations of the candidates fur the Mathematical Scholarship will be holden on the 26th inat. and following days, in the Convocation House. The Mathematical examinations for B.A. degrees commence on the 31st instant. PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Henry Hugh Way, of Merton College. to the Viz./wage of Henbury, near Bristol, on the joint prerisitation of Sir Jahn Smith, Bart. and the Rev. C. Gore. The Rev. Mason Anderson has hien institu:ed by the Lord Bishop of Bath and IVella to the Rectory of sherrirgtoli, Someraeuditre, void by the resignation of the Rey. Thomas Davies, o:i the prtsenta.ion of Aylmer Burke Lambert, Esq. of Boyton House. Somerset. The Bey. J. Cuttingbam, B.A. of Clare Hall, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Shotwiek, Cheshire ; parrots, the I)setai and Chap ter of Chester. The Rev. H. B. Owen, M.D. of St. John's College, lti cior of Si. Mayes, Hart-street, to the Rectory of Throcking, Herts. His .Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Benjamin &Bei, M.A. Senior Colonial Chaplain of the island of Ceylon, in the room of the Hon. and Rev. Edward Finch, deceased. • oteN Te e ••• *.. • • - ;.: -•% " 4 4 . " '%! •.• • ~/p L'eu.ena".• • the born replaced by Gus•d• (nT 1 Colonel Hay ; two id the beau quarters has bArn ectacherl to °v..' which has been of the Ginh itegisti..it nand of Major Chi.. route to Newea,ll.. ;uordsit 6• Fellow of 31agdaien ; Vhitefooni. Qwecti•b. nr, Wsdham, Grand Grand Compounder; under ; Geo. t loyd, University , D. • ar of Wadhani ; W. , Christ-church; H. WOICO•ter ; Edward Arnistionts, Cameron, Queen':.; SURREY DISPENSARY. The anniversary of this excellent institution was celebratzd on Frid.,y at the City of London Tavern. William Brougham, IN. M.P. u.t+ in the Chair, and nearly 150 gentlemen, chid!) , belonging to the B. rough, were present on the occasion. After the usual toasts, Mr. BROUGHAM gave, " Success to Surrey Dispensary," and entered into a brief account of its objects, and the benefl.s which it was calculated to confer on the lower artier+ ..1 society. It wee founded in 1778, and was intended chiefly to furni-o advice and medicine to those who had not the means to procure medicsl or surgical assistance. Since its irstitution no less than 187,270 patients had been cured ce relieved, and of these. 53,008 had been attended at their own habitations. About the commencement of the Institu;ion, 1 in 34 died in the year, while at present the avenge was not more than 1 in 99; and the expense altogether was not more than 2s. a-heed for medicine, advice, and surgical operations. When it was taken into account that nearly 5,000 persons received relief annually at such a trifling expense, and its beneficial effects wese so apparent, be trusted, that :the public would continue, as they had hitherto done, to contribute Largely to the sup. port of the Institution. Last year there had been rather a faiPeg in the contributions, but be trusted that the deficiency would this year be made up. The Secretary, Mr. Carter, who has long been a steady and effective supporter of the charity, but who is, on account of uther avocations about to resign, then read the report for the year, and sub:wriptions, which amounted altogether to near 8001. LANDSEER v. ROBINSON. - A letter has been published by the defendant in this case, itt which he states, that he was taken by burpri#e at tic trial, by tae production of the anonymous letter, of which, however, he denies all knowledge, and states his intention of moving fora new trial, when he expects to be able to place his conduct in the affair in very different eadours from those which it assumed at the trial on Friday. We have also received a letter from a gentleman, she imp. he is a friend to one of the families, in which he complain, ,•f :tone Mac earaches in our report. We have caretuAy examined tito.e which he• has been good enough to point nut. but we must Kai that nose of .theim affect in any way the meri•s of the c. u.e. We 1.a%,. c I.LCOI4 - letter received by Mr. Litedeeer's family an anonymous letter atm.'s it had a name, though a fictitious one, al:ached to it. Ws al.° elated that the defendant was a money-lender and broker, wherta. our cm-- respondent intimates that he was stated to have been a " money ag,..i," These errors, it will be perceived, cannot at all affect the fee arcs o: the use, and the others are of a similar character. ENGLISH PORTRAITS. The collection of drawings made by NI, ssrs. Hardi ng and leptird, from portrai ts ill ustrat i ve o f English history, was opened yesterday for private view, previous to its being submitted, for the season, to general inspettior. Some drawinAs have been added, which are quite.equal, in point of execution and perhaps of sup er i or ; ntereat * a t h ose which have before cxhibiled. lfhe additions conhist chiefly or the statesmen • the reign of Queen Anne, and her immcdiete successors, and of dia.e admirals whose names have become ' Stalin: • as household words' in the memory of Englishment, and are connected with some of the most important achievements of British courege and skill. Hood, Neli.on, Rodney, and others of like fame are presented, and the drawings of them are not only beautiful specimens of art, but they have the merit of conveying in each inatence a most spirited and entreat notion of the paintingwfrom which they have been copied. Tie whole of the collee don is highly interesting, and, considering the useful illustration which it affords to English history, as well as Its pictorial merits, would no doubt be very attractive, even if it was plated on the "Abe footing as other exhibitions, instead of the admission being, as It is, gratuf•ons. The Royal Society is about to apply for a new charter, in which it is proposed to limit the number of Fellows Do the society begin to find that Dr. Pangloss's slur upon LL.D. begins to attach to F.R.S. VALUE OP MUS I CAL NOTES.—Stephen Storace had a remarkably good head for figures. When a boy, his passion for calculation was beyond all belief. Michael Kelly says he has been known to multiply four figures by four figures by mentory, in three minutes. When young, Kelly tells us, Storace was so astonished that 50 guineas should be paid for singing a song, that he counted the notes in it, and calculated the amount of each at 4s. 10d. This passion for calculating '!be value of notes (musical ones) has seized a Parisian dilet tante, who, according to the Furet de Londres, has been Axing the price of every note and rest in certain pieces idwd by Paganini recently, at a concert given at the Opera at Paris, which produced him 16,600 francs. This may be play to Paganini, but destruction to less fortunate musicians, for he swallows up all that would otherwise be distributed among many. An English violinist must work many long laborious days and nights before he can scrape together 6871. sterling, the sum, it seems, which the lucky Italian gets by a single concert !—Dilettante in Harmonicon for May 1. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INFLUENCEOF COLD ON Nam.- BORN CHILDREN.-Dr. Trevison has been making re searches in Italy, principally at Castel Franco, analogous to those of Messrs. Villerrai and Milne Edwards, in France. The conclusions at which he arrives are—in Italy, of 100 infants born in December, January, and February, 66 die in the first month, 15 more in the course of the year, and 19 survive ; of 100 born in spring, 48 survive the first year ; of 100 born in summer, 83 survive the first year; of 100 born in autumn, 58 sur vive the same period. He attributes this mortality of in fanta solely to the practice of exposing. them to the oald air a few days after their birth, for the purpose of haviag them baptised at the church. Dr. Trevison, as well as MM. Mike Edwards and Villerm4, calls the attention of the eccleiias tical authority to measures suited to put a stop to such disas i ters, without violating the prece,:ts o • practices of relig. n I —Lit. Gazette.