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it U I '~ r I r~~ liki % LITERATI:RE AND SCIENCE. SUAKESPEARE ANT) QUEEN ELIZABETH.— Mr. Thorpe, the bookseller, of Bedford-street, is in pcssession of a MS. of songs and poems, copied prior to the year 1631, and including many unpub lished pieces, by a variety of celebrated poets. — One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas, thus beaded ;—' Shakespeare's rime which made at the Mvtre, in Fleete Streete.' It begins From the rich Lavinian shore ;' cad sci::e few of the lines were published by Play ford, and set as a catch. Another, shorter piece, is called in the margin, SHAKESPEARE'S Rims. Give me a cop of rich canary wine, Which was the Mitre's (drinks) and now is mine; Of which had Horace and Anacreon tasted, Their lives as well as lines 'till now bad lasted. Many other songs and poems are attributed to Ben Jonson, Sir NV. Raleigh, H. Constable, Dr. Donne, J. Sylvester, and others. Particulars of the death of Queen Elizabeth, collected from this MS. are curious and interesting', especially the in cidental mention of Lord Essex and the ring. " March 23.-1 was at the Court at Richmond to heave Dr. Parry, one of her Majesties Chaplens preache, and be assured whether the Queene were living or dead. I heard him, and was assured slice was then living. •• • These were present at his sermon. The archbishop of Cant. the L. Keep. the L. Treasurer, L. Admiral), L of Shrewsbury, R. of Wormer, L. Cobham, L. Gray, Sir Willm. Knollys, Sir Ed. Wotton, &e. " I dyned with Dr. Parry in the privy chamber, and un. derstood by him, the Bishop of Chichester, the Deane of Canterbury, the Deane of Windsor , & c. that hit Majestic bath bin by fits troubled with melancholy some 3 or 4 monetbs ; but for this fortnight extreame oppressed with it, in soe much that she refused to eate any thing, to receive any phisicke, or admitt any rest in bedd, till within these 2 or 3 dayes. Shea bath bin in a manner speechless for 2 .ayes: very pensive and silent since shrovetides, sitting sometymes with her eye fixed upon one object many houses togither ; yet she alwayes had her perfect senses and me. mory, & yesterday signified by the lifting up of her hand & eyes to heven, a signe which Dr. Parry entreated of hir, that shoe belecved that fayth which she bath caused to be pro hissed, and looked faythfully to be saved by CHRISM me. rits and mercy only, and no other meanes. She took. great delight in hearing prayers, would often at the name of.lssus lift up hir hands & eyes to heaven. Shea would not hear the Archb. speake of hope of hir longer lyfe, but when he prayed, or spake of heaven and those joyes, thee would hug his hand, dm It seemes she might have lived yf she would have used meanes, but shea would not be penuaded, and princes must not be forced. Hie physicians sayd she had a body of a firme & perfect constitution likely to have lived many yearn ; a royal majesty is not priviledge against death. " Much 24. This morning about 3 at clocke her Ma jestic deputed this lyre, mildly like a larnbe, easely like a ripe apple from the tree; rum Levi quadavi frbre, abag. ge►aitu. Dr. Perry told me, that he was present, &sent his prayers before hir mule ; & I doubt not but slice is amongst the royall saints in heaven in eternal' joyes. " April 4. Dr. Parry told me the Countess Kildare as. sured him, that the Queene caused the ring, wherewith she was wedded to the erowne, to be cutt from her Boger some six weeks before hir death ; but wore a ring. which the E. of Essex gave her, unto the day of hir death." i. 337. 8. The following well illustrates the personal vanity of Elizabeth : " At this date [1584] Elizabeth, never very en gaging, uas 51 years old ; but nothing can place her personal vanity in a more ridiculous light than the following extract from the Registers of the Privy Council, dated 30th July, 1596, when she was twelve years older, and when her ministers, for the second time, were called upon gravely to interpose their authority to put an end to the dis tribution of unfavourable likenesses of the Queen, offensive to her self-conceit. SO July, 1696. " A warrant to her Majesties Sergeant Painter, and to all publicke officers, to yielde him their assistance touching the abuse, committed by divers unskilful artisans, in un. seemly and improperly paintinge, gravinge, and printinge of her Majesties person and vysage, to her Majesties great of. fince, and disgrace of that beautyfull and magnanimous ma jesty wherewith God bath blessed her. Requiring theta to cause allettche to be defaced, and none to be allowed, but such as her Majesties Sergennt Paynter shall first have sight of. The mynute remayning in the Counsell Chest.' " ii. 447.8. Marine shells have recently been found in the . diluvial gravel on the summit of Moel Tryfane, near Carnarvon, one thousand feet above the level of the sea. M. DUPF.TIT-TIIOI.7ARS, the French botanist, died lately, and his decease leaves a vacancy in the Royal Academy of Sciences. TORTOISESIIEI.L. It is a most horrible fact, that the handsomest shell, and, consequently, the most valuable, is stripped from the animal while living ; the shell becoming more and more opaque and dull, as the animal is dying. This exceeds our plucking geese alive, boiling lobsters, or skinning sheep, &c. before dead. A CHINESE BRIDE.—The son of our host bay ing been married a few days before, we were hon oured (according to the usage of the country, during the honey-moon,) with permission to look at his wife, as she stood at the door of her apart ment, while we were passing out. The lady wts surrounded by several old women, who held tapers and lamps above and about her, that we might have a more complete view of her figure and attire. She was a young person, (perhaps se►enteen years of age,) of middle stature, with very agreeable features and a light com plexion, though she seemed to us to have used paint. She wore a scarlet robe, superbly trimmed with gold, which completely covered her from the shoulders to the ground. The sleeves were very full, and along the bottom ran a beauti ful fringe of small bells. Her head-dress sparkled with jewels, and was most elegantly beaded with rows of pearls, encircling it like a coronet ; from the front of which a brilliant angular ornament hung over her forehead and between her e3e-brows. She stood in a graceful and modest attitude, having her eyes fixed on the floor, though she occasionally ' raised them, with a glance of timid curiosity, to wards the spectators. Her hands, joined together, but folded in her robe, she lifted several times to wards her face, and then lowered them very slowly. Her attendants, presuroing that ti t s guests would be gratified with a peep at that consummation of Chinese beauty, the lady's feet, raised the hem of the mantle from hers, for a moment or two. They wore of the ihost diminutive kind, and reduced to a mere point at the toe. Her shoes, like the rest of her bridal apparel, were scarlet, embroidered with gold. In justice to the poor creature, during this torturing exhibition (as wh imagine it niust have been to her), her demeanour was natural and becOthing ; and once or twice something like half a smile.-71yerwian's Travels. Burn's-ETC VIEW OF CANTON.—From the platform of the roof of Sir James Urmston's house, . is cassidei ably elevated ,we obtained a bird's• vie* of the city of Cautco, and the adjacent The former is exceedingly crowded with in and the latter neither picturesque nor a the roofs of the houses, which are end tiled, and arparently It-Letting end' r•• i which in I eye vie` countryi building fertile. nil flat I i ,• „ , • 4, 1 ) t i . 1 ? [ l . tt.l l 1.1 other, scaffolds are erected for drying clothes and dying manufactured goods. Conveniences for piling fire-wood, and other lumber,•are also arranged on the tops of the dwellings, that no room may be lost below, where ground is so precious that men are made to grow in forests, of which the trees of life' are not suffered to occupy more space than is barely sufficient for thriving, individually, and drawing each other up in society. Above the monotony of ordinary structures, rises one pagoda, of great height, while three others appear at some distance from the city. None of these seem to [have any connection with idol temples, standing quite apart from such, and being built, it is said, in honour of the illustrious (lead. While these monuments to mortal man are thus stately, the temples dedicated to' the immortal gods' of China (so far as we have had opportunity of observing, both here and in the islands), are comparatively low, and without towers or domes sufficiently elevated to give them any measure of grandeur. THE LANDERS AND THE RIVER NIGER. The two Landers arrived here on Tuesday last, in the William Harris transport, from Rio de is neiro, having reached that country from Fernando Po. They both appear in good health, and state that in their progress through Africa they found the climate perfectly healthy, experiencing no in-, convenience in this regard, until they reached the pestilential influence of the coast and Fernando Po. These travellers have, doubtless, thrown *very con siderable light on African geography ; how far their discoveries will be beneficial to our commerce, or enable us so to communicate with the interior as to aid in the suppression of the Slave Trade in its origin, remains yet to be proved. It appears the Lan ders landed ut Badagry March 22,1830, and imme diately proceeded on horseback to the northward, to a city called Boussa, which is known to be on the Niger, and which city is described to be of great extent, being upwards of twenty miles in circum ference, though it may not contain more than four thousand houses. These, however, in general, are little better than huts, and, like Timbuctoo, con tains no large buildings. It is situated about lat. 10. North. They remained nearly three months at this place, and ascertained that it was not an island, as had been supposed. The King of this place treated them very kindly; indeed they speak in high terms of the kindness and gentleness of the negroes in the interior, who, so far from offer ing to molest them, afforded them all the informa tion and assistance in their power. It was only when they approached the vicinity of the coast that they experienced insult and impediment. During their sojourn at Boussa, they made ex cursions round it, and ascended the Niger against the stream for three days, visiting another city, which will be found in Clapperton's map, called Youri, directly north of Boussa. At the end of the three months, during which time the water in the river had been rising, from the influence of the rainy season, and which they were told would be requisite to ensure their safe passage over the rocks and other impediments, which form rapids, &c. they began to descend, and soon found the river ran easterly till they reached the vicinity of Fun ds ; which city should be placed on the maps at least two degrees further east than it now is. Near Funds the Niger was joined by a large river, which, from description, was doubtless the Shary, and which the natives said came in a direct line from Tchad Lake, distant fifteen days' journey in the north-east—thus clearly proving that the Niger receives from, instead- of expending its waters in that Lake. With regard to the Tchad Lake, it was understood it sent out its waters to other rivers further to the east than Funds, and running to the southward, most probably supplying the great rivers Zaire and Congo. Below Funda, at a place called Thirree, these adventurous travel lers were pursued and captured by a fleet of 30.0 r 40 war canoes. In the pursuit (it does not appear why the Landers should have fled) their canoes were swamped, and all their writings, collections, and instruments were lost. This took place about ten days' journey from the coast. The natives of Thirree, after their capture, treated them kindly, and forwarded them towards the .coast. Below Funds they fell in with a river which branched to the westward, and which they ascertained to be the river Benin. They reached the seas by the Nun river, a few miles to the eastward of Cape For mosa, and about two degrees from Badagry, from whence they started. They conjectured they had come down the Niger at least 900 miles ; but having lost their instruments and papers, they had no means of ascertaining the exact posi tion and distances of the many towns they passed on either side of its banks. When they arrived at tke mouth of the Nun river, they discharged a servant, Antonio, who set off up the river to return to his own country'; but on the ar rival of the Landers at Fernando Po, they ascer tained that this servant, after psoceeding up the Nun river, branched off to the eastward, and reached the .coast again by the New Calabar river, thus proving that the Benin, the Nun, and the New Calabar rivers, were all mouths of the great Niger, with a direct communication to the Tchad Lake. After their capture they were purchased by a slave dealer, who doubtless knew he should ob tain a good price for giving thorn up. They reached the sea about the 30th Nov. 1830. During the time they were in the interior, a volume of Watts's Hymns fell into their hands, which had formerly belonged to Dr. Anderson, who was in company with Mungo Park at the time of his death. Hampshire Telegraph. Sir Stamford Raffles' children had imbibed from him those tastes it was his pleasure to cultivate; this will not be wondered at, even at their early age, when it is added that two young tigers and a bear wore for some time in the children's apartments, under the charge of their attendant, without being confined in cages ; and it was rather a curious scene to see the children, the bear, the tigers, a blue moun tain bird, and a favourite cat, all playing together---the parrot's beak being the only object of awe to all the party. GOOD Pt LOTAG E.--A captain of a man-of-war, newly appointed to a ship on the Irish station, took the pre caution in " beating out" of harbour, to apprise the pilot that he was totally unacquainted with the coast, and then. fore be must rely entirely on the pilot's local knowledge for the safety of the ship. " You are perfectly sun, pilot, said the captain, "you are well acquainted with the coast ?" "Do I know my own name, Sir ?" " Well, mind I warn you not to approach too near to the shore." " Now make yourself easy. Sit ; in troth you may go to bed, if you plate." " Then, shall we stand on ?" " Why, what else wou'd we do ?" • " Yes, but there may be hidden dangers, which you know nothing about." " Dan. gem !—I like to see the dangers dor hide themselves fkom /dick. sure, don't I tell )ou I know every rock on the coast ?" (here the ship strives) " and Mats one of 'our PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. The STAR etir tor several months exhibited suelat, a pie. tare of the Domestic Events of the Empire, as never before was attempted. It gratifies unspeakably the natives of districts who reside in London and distant counties, and is a LITTER Taos/ Hon to every provincial in foreign countries, or in the colonies. - *lt raises also into general hnpoetance the exertions of local talents in every public cause. Then as this is a duty performed alone by the STAR, those local patriots would 11l deserve their name, if the STAR and its interests were not reciprocally promoted by them in every district. We know it has been so in many places, and the STAR in principles, and In all the best qualities of a paper,• has justified preference; but we reasonably expect the same attentions EVERY WHIM, as the means of at once recompensing our diligence, and adding to the utility of our valuable and exclusive information. We call also on the Provincial Proprietors of Papers, whose local labours we thus illustrate, and invite with earnestness their powerful attentions in promoting those interests of the Paper which they best understand. We notoriously excel all London Papers in priority of Foreign News, and our display of the transactions of the ;country is equally exclusive and pre eminent. SUSSEX ADVERTISER, JUNE 13. A correspondent at Magma states as follows.—The county of Sussex Is an agricultural county, containing 933,360 acres. The number of families employed in agri culture in 1821 was 21,920, winquently, thee is more than forty acres to each family. In the parish of Rlngmer. in the same year, the number of families returned as em ployed in agriculture was 144; and to take, for arotnent's sake, 40 acres as the average for each family, Ringmer would contain upwards of 5,000 acres. The total number of inhabitants in the same return of the parish of Eingmer, was 1,271, which would amount to more than four acres for each individual throughout the parish. And taking this supposition to be correct, there would be 40 acres for the employment of each family, which I contend, is an ample space for beneficially employing an increased number of la bourers. It Is here worthy of remark, that in England, where there is such an outcry about surplus population, there are about forty acres to every able-bodied labourer employed In agriculture. On Friday, an East Indlaman, of five hundred tons, the Wellington, from Madras, Captain Evans, anchored bout half a league from the shore off this place. She brought home a company of the 6111 regiment of foot, which had been in India twenty-one years. The Wellinron was four months and two days on her voyage. She had on board three Bengal tigers, two hyenas, three zebras, a Bengal pony, and a young elephant, only three feet in height. Among some recently discovered fossil plants from Til. gate Forest, Mr. Mantel has a leaf in whicb the fructifica don is most beautifully displayed. It is now about five years since the savant of Germany and France have annually met for the purpose of bringing together the distinguished literati and naturalists of various countries, and of promoting a more cordial co-operation among them. We are glad to learn that a similar meeting is to be attempted in this country, and that it is proposed to be held at York, on Monday, the goth of September. A scientific friend has favoured us with the following particu lars :—“ A committee of the principal Societies of London, Edinburgh, &c. have fixed on the city of York as a desirable place for the first meeting, to commence on Monday, £6th September, a period of the year which has been ascertained to be most convenient for the parties intended, and the meet ing is to be continued during as many days as may be deemed expedient. Any friends of science in Great Britain Of in other parts of Europe, who may wish to attend this meeting, are requested to send stetter post paid to the Se cretary of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, in order that' adequate preparation and accommodation may be secured. It is proposed that the visitors shall assemble in the Mu seum and apartments of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to receive memoirs and communications, and they shall dine together daily. Persona arriving in York on the 20th of September, are requested to apply to the porter of the Mu seum for information as to the hours and places of meeting. —Foreigners. who may honour the meeting with their presence, will find every accommodation prepared for them. The hop plantations have, :within the week put, greatly Improved in appearance. Time fly with which they were af fected, has greatly decreased. The wheat crops assume a strong and healthy se, but we understand in some situations in the it is ca. then thin upon the ground. Asa proof of the increasing value of eopyhold at a sale by auction a few days Binge, by Mr. Ody en: ham, a small been, with 11 and quarter acres of ' at coplatid land, situate at Wilmintui was knocked down This was a bona fide We, notwithstanding,the estate was subject to four live harlots of the bast beast, and a flue at the Lord's will. CURIOUS ST ans.—The prisoners in our House of Cor. ?talon struck, on Friday last, and refused to go upon the tread wheel. The cause of their refusal war in consequence of an idea that the bread which had bun served to them was not of the proper weight. The fact, however, was found to be otherwiee. La mean Ye—Cheat numbers of this curiously heated Ibb have been caught in our river. On !Woodsy last, between forty and tifty pounds weight were ea y . cti on a shallow near Hamsey Church, and sot y thy above is the large stones on which they had fixed dissusiese s the persons who discovered them waded into the water, aid grasping the fish round the body with their bands, threw them into the boat. The lampreys weighed from one to two and a half pounds each. We have frequently noticed the beautiful improvement, which is still in progress, in widening the carriage road es the Marine Parade, Brighton , and in giving additional pro. twice to the elif,by an efficient waif, to the encroachment of the tide. The said improvement is amply meriting tbs , jraise bestowed upon it—but, from some strange error is udgment, in reducing the rise, the foot-path in front of Herman-place hu beconie an unsightly object, the carriage way passing beneath it to a depth of several feet, and to the no trifling discontent of the inhabitant householders in that fashionable quarter. LzwEs. Ju us 7.—White Wheat, 31. 10$. to 31. 15s. Mixed Wheat, 3L 8.. to 31. 144; Red Wheat, 31. to 31.134 ; Barley, 11. 13.; Oats, 11.8 s. to 11 11$ ; Beans, 11. 17.. to 11. 19 ; Oil Cake, per M. 121. Jowl: 11.—Oats. 11. 4s to 11. 84 ; Beans, 11. 16. MARRIED.—At Leominster, near Arundel, Mr. El kins, eldest son of W. Elkins, Esq. of Guildford, to Miss Elizabeth Duke, of Blakehurat. DIED.—At iStorrington, Mrs. Challen, sea 63. LEICESTER CHRONICLE, JUNE 11. POPULATIOII.—The following parishes in this town have completed their returns t. I 4111 T MAZY. 1831. Males, 3214—Females, 3324 4776 1821. Males, 2346—Females, 2868 6414 Increase since 1821, 1362 CASTLZ VIIW., • 1821. Males, 71—Females, 77 • • 148 1831. Males, 63--Females, 74 • • 127 Decrease since 1821 21 NEWARK. 1831. Males, 72—Females, 122 • • 19 4 Decrease since 1821, 25. SAINT MARTIN. 1821. Males, 1489—Females, 1711 3900 1831. Males, 1444—Females, 1890 3034 Decrease since 1821, 168 ALL SAINTS. 1821. Males, 1728—Females, 1712 3440 1831. Males, 1639—Females, 1846 3284 . .... Decrease since 1821 156 SAINT NICHOLAS. 1821. Males, 760—Females, 780 1510 1831. Males, 716—Females, 778 1494 Decrease since 1821. 48 The population of Uppingham is u follows s—Males, 880--Females 880—Total, 1760, Increase in the lest ten years, 130. Non 1' II • 2 IPTONSEIIII RLECTIOY.—We understand, that the expcnam attending this memorable contest for Lords Aithorpe and 14Uten„ amount to nearly 15,0001. to de fray which the Committee hay,: made an appeal to the friteds Of return, not le-ling it : ight to call upon the Noble Lords for that purpose. Mr. Coke, the patriotic member for Norfolk, has answered an application made to him on the subject, by sending a check upon his banker for one thousand pounds. A new chapel for the General Baptists has been metal at Market Haiborough, and will be opened for public was ship en Friday next. Tuesday, the 2dth nit. about four o'clock in the af an Irishman, with his two children, knocked at therie s t' Mr. Causebrook, a farmer, at Tharpe-on-the-Hill, foe help for his wife, who was taken in labour in a trift seine distance. Mrs. Causebrook, after hastily ism gruel, &c. made good speed to the spot, but / w or n tbe poor woman already safely delivered, in a field a few yards inns the road, of a fine boy, which the father wrapped up in lie seat sod carried into the village. Not a rag having been prooldod is the way of childbed linen,Mrs.C.clothed the little eteateger from her own stock, and both mother and child are Mop well. This unfortunate family bad been travelling through the country in search of work, but unsuccessfully. A few days before they had been at Bucktninster on the soon snood; and on the very day of her accouchement, the poor woman, finding herself growing worse hourly, bad ap. plied, as she states, for shelter, and the necessary &nomads tile; at a parish a few miles from Thorpe, but was refused, the apothecary of the parish, according to her account, pro nouncing her only in the fifth month of her pregnancy, and the pea strangee was compelled to travel on as well as she might a few miles further, and bring forth her child on the bare ground of "hospitable England!" The Rev. Hugh M'Neile, son.in.law of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Rector of Albury in Surrey, and a memberof the " Reformation Society," has published a Swoon which is making a great noise in the world. The tolloolog are extracts from it : *My dear brethren, licentiousness of the women of die sides Is the sure forerunner of the most deadly adooky, because it stupifies all the remaining kind and gemesoo feelings of the nation. Even our profane writers could sae this; even our profane poets, who discarded religion, could show that this sin, the licentiousness of a nation, stupilin all that is valuable, and all that is right, and all that Is generous, and all that is kind and tender. . . . . . The condition of this country, in this respect, is very fearful ; and here, under the righteous canopy of the explanation that I have already made, I must not hold my tongue against one of the most awful, one of the wet fear ful affronts that was ever put, in the history et moo, um the morals of a Christian nation. My dear brethren, meat I not say, can I answer for myself before Goa if I say it net in connection with such a portion of Scripture as this ? bold, that we, as a righteous nation, ought to rise in indig. nation against it; I hold that the church in this nation should protest against it; I hold that the bishops in the church, if they have a seat in the House of Peers, ought to bring before the public—to bring into public notice the put tinglinto the Gazette-_the putting into honourable dignity of station —what shall I say ?—children that are the fruit re the fruit of ungodliness in the land ! The priesthood, too—the authorised Widnes atike people— not alive to the circumstances of the sawntry, to the in creased intelligence of their flocks, esslinue their idle ness, continue their carelessness, continue their amusements, continue glorying in sins which grieve the hearts of those that love them, and give their enemies a handle whereby to speak against them. They continue to donee, and to play, and to hunt, and to gamble. Men who ought to be at prayer, and engaged in studying the word of 00D —who ought to be visiting the sick, who ought to be going from house to house, from bed to bed, to pour the consolation and the joys of religion into the hearts of the poor helpless dying creatures around them ; instead of being there, are to be found at ball rooms, and play-houses, and fox loots, and race-courses. My brethren, this is true, and the truth must be told." Mr. Phillips , who started as a candidate for the county the day before the nomination, has given much offence by the following apology for the monopolies of avarice : " But after all that human laws can do, they will never make poverty cease from the land. It was denounced the inevitable doom of the human race, that In the sweat of his brow man should eat bread ;—but in ha very denounce ment was repealed the cum, and convened into the blessings of honest labour and successful industry. So long as the moral and physical powers of mankind shall differ, so long will unthri ft iness and waste', fr ugality and accumul ation, and the gradations of opulence, want, and penury prevail. But they kindle and keep alive within us, all the kindlier feel ings of our nature, and bring all the charities of the human bosom into full play. They are contrasts indeed which, se. ptraWy viewed,disturb and afflict the mind; but they are the lights and the shades of the human picture—they constitute the strength and harmony of social existence. To complain, therefore of poverty as implying a charge against the laws and institutions of a country, is to complain of the consti tution of human nature heel; and of the laws that uphold the universe."—(Mr. Phillips's Speech on the .day of Election. It now appears (says the editor of the Leicester Chronicle) 'that'" want and penury" are necessary to private virtue, and that the contrast which they present to indi v id ua l opufence, " constitute the strength and harmony of human existence." We leave either sptem to the judgment of the public. We now come to the all-Important, the momentous conclusion of .this chain of reasoning. It is this—" To complain, there fore of poverty, as Implying a chaF in apinst the laws and institutions of a country, is to coo of the constitution of human nature itself, and of the we that uphold the uni verse ! These are the opinions of a reformer !—why a re former we cannot imagism But they painfully remind us of a circumstance which we would most willingly for ever have forgotten—that when Mr. Philipps was before borne into Parliament upon the the good wishes, and the expectations of the people.afei having proclaimed in the Castle of Leicester the sentiment—" Vox poputi, cos dei," in a very few weeks after his election, he voted for the enact ment of those laws emphatic ally called the " Six Acts,"..— the worst laws of the worst government that ever afflicted this country. Lzicerran, Juan 11.—WHeat, Ws 8d; Rye, 60s; Bar. ley, 44s bd ; Oats, 28s ed ; Beans, 41s 4d; Peas, 401; Fine Flour, 64s to 56e; Standard Wbeeten, Ws to bb; House hold, 50s to ; Quart= Loaf, Wheaten, led; Ditto, Household, 9d. MARRIED—At &espy Magus, Mr. Ashford, surgeon, Hinckley, to Miss Louisa Ridley.—George Darby Dermott, Esq. to Charlotte Amelia, eldest daughter of Lieut. Ban. DlNA—Thomas Beaton, 73, gent. of Hoby—John, the eldest sou of John Neale, gent. of Skeffington.—At Sheeps. head, deservedly esteemed, the Rev. C. Allsopp, vicar, 74. —Benj. Evatt, of Castle Doolugton, Society of Friends, 63. Paganini, we learn from a gentleman who has been intimately acquainted with him for many years, is in private life a most amiable and excel lent man. His charity has always been extensive, and in his native country, many persons live on his benevolence. All the stories told to his disadvan tage are idle and malevolent fabrications. COMMISSIONER/ OF BAR UV rTs.—The bill to abolish the fourteen lists of conimiesioners is to be brought into the House of Commons on the first night of the session, by the Attorney-General. The only surviving son of Mrs. Siddons went out a writer, and is now a Judge in India, where be has greatly distinguished himself by his forensic acquirements. The only surviving daughter, Miss Siddons, a very accomplished young lady, was with her mother when she died. PAINS OF OFFICE.--I had Once a discussion with a gentleman, Who had been for a great number of years in public situations, upon the effects of such appointments on the character of those who were thus elevated into power. He said, that he had never seen a minister, after his appointment to any high situation, who had preserved his temper : that the Marquis of Carmarthen (afterwards Duke of Leeds), who had been appointed by Mr. Pitt Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, was the person who had preserved it the longest; but that in the space of a few months ev en his good temper was subdued, and be became as irritable as his predecessors.—Sir Joh* Sinclair. Friday an East Indisman of 500 tons, the Wel lington, from Madras, Captain Evans, anchored about half a league from Lewes. She brought home a company of the Gist regiment of foot,which had been in India 21. years. The Wellington was four mouths and two days on her voyage. She bad on board throe Bengal tigers, two hyenas, three zebras, a Bengal pony, and a young elephant, only three feet in height. SCINTILLA.) TO ITALY. scythe and tyrants rods Shiver upon thee—yet thou sfrepost on ! 1. From pole to pole the deep electric tone Of " liberty" is out--wilt thou not share— And crush the hydra in his reeking lair— Have you not tempered hearts and swords—as shone In the full pomp and blaze of freedom- 4 4. n Thnbattlements were spears—thy walls were walls of men. 2. Is all extinguisbed..—is there not a ray— To wax thee into life—your fathers bled— And still they live—tbo' thousand years are fled. Virtue, like God, reanimates the clay— Look to thy Tullies—Cresars—.Pomples--Catos—still Their names are uodecayed, as Blanc's eternal hill ! 3. Tower—temple —tomb— a y e even the very dust Should wake a being in thee—but how long Has the dead tide of tyranny rolled on, And choked thee with its slime—awake—thou must. Start from thy nothingness--thy might retain— Shatter the tyrant's bow—and burst the bondsman's chain Kings—Emperors --and Statesmen—Slaves and Lords And all the myriad pigmy things that bind The bright aspiring. of the human mind, Bow to the majesty of conquering swords, — Strike ! what is death but sleep ? and freedom rides In triumph o'er old Adria's undisputed tides! Nations are spreading on the course of time Their race of glary,—from the sacred porch Of liberty wilt thou not slue a torch To light thee onward on thy march sublime ? Thou living record of red wonders wrought When men sprung into life as freedom's votaries ought ! 8. Look at tby ulster...Hellas ! 'mid the roar Of war's exulting thunders, did she yield ? No victory lit her path on foam and field, Her bright immortal isles are free once more ! Her beacon-light wu glory—and her deeds Lay centered in her swords--your's in your amber beads ! 7. Her's ars the deeds that shall not pass away— Her's are the beads that freedom's children tell, Combined and countless despots could not quell The spirit they would quench ! A glorious ray Of hope is gathering round ha—wilt thou stand The Niobe of earth—in band and heart unmanned ! T.C. EPIGRAM. Monied, H. Finch, Esq. to Ann, third daughter of the late Mr. Thrope Thy perseverance, Finch, I needs must praise— In courtship you could have but little hope ; But your success has proved that there are ways To gain in marriage e'en a Miss An-Thrope. THE LATE IRISH DUEL. Qooth Charlie to Thomas by way of a joke, The Duels in Clare have all ended In smoke, He is wrong, remarked Tom, to an old College Soph, For the heroes themselves, not their pistols, went of. A celebrated Irish Judge, in passing sentence on a thief who had been convicted of stealing a time-piece in a dwelling-house, said, "that in grasping at time, he had reached eternity." THE TWO PACKS,—" What will become of the whippers-in now, " said a sage of Brookes's, the other evening, when the people will take the lash into their own hands, and drive us from our newspapers and coffee. rooms to the House 1 0 "Never fear,' said S— S—, " the office will be always useful ; party always bunts in packs; the only &Ekren= in the now and fifty years ago la, they then were For.hounds, and now they are Grey-hounds. CHILDISH ANACHRONISM..—.A child, about seven years old. daily demands charity en the road to Nan. terre, with this exclamadon--" I have six little brothers my father has been dead 52 years—eyes plus de used !" FEMALE KNIGHTS Or THE GARTAR !— Three females, and only three, have in this country worn the insignia of the prter, via. Lady Harcourt, Lady Gray, and Lady Suffolk. The garter is above the elbow of the left arm. CLIMAX OF PACIANINI..-011 Friday evening. a gentleman in the Opera pit, expatiating on the wonderful powers of the virtuoso, and after much superlative phrase, concluded thus—" Wonderful I wonderful ! 'Poo my soul. that 'ere last ems just like a visits!" THE MALTHUSIAN SYSTEM SIISPINDEIL - Among the many curious returns to the population papers on Monday, there was one in Sloane-street, probably unique. The return gave twenty-four females, ladies, servants, &c. in one louse. A rather whimsical dialogue ensued between the maid and the astonished collector. " What !" cried the latter, looking over the paper, " twenty-four women all in one house, and no man among ye?" " Yes, Sir," replied Sally, "it is too true ; but mistress has set it down as if upon oath, and I am ready (a sigh) to take oath too, if you doubt it."—Literary Gazette. THE NEW PARLIAMENT "D1511ED."...411 astounding announcement, but an incontrovertible fact, as shown by the following festive arrangements, made wholly from names of members returned forming the new legisla ture. At the bead of the table will be found, in A'Cours Style,* Blunt, Harty, king, dressed in Green and Searktt. seated on a hies—supported on the right by three Thynne Fellow and two Bastard freights, Baring a Skid; and on the le ft by a Radler, seven Streit/, and the Taykr " wot" Manske with his Badliss. The bottom, it is understood, will be graced by a Alaisdevilk on s Resitsbottows, with a White Rose at each elbow, and a Forreskr sod Carter on one side, and a Constable and Clerk on the other. The sides will contain a Host of unknown FA:. Lamb, dressed by an English Cooke, will be one of the principal joint.: and birds being scarce this season, there will only be a Heron, two Martins, a couple of Toting Drakes, and a Wild Croaker. There will, however, be en immense Loll of French Currie, and the Best 30;10 Fruit being yet unripe, there will consequently only be some Peach and Lewis Peel. The whole will be get up at s Great Price; but in order to go a Psalmist/Jo - , the amuse men, of the evening are to be further promoted by the per. fonnance of Dick Struts, the celebrated Millbasik Eyler, who will -Women a Hill, and afterwards, whilst swallosing a Long Pole, blow a Horn fantasie through his nosewith out Pain, and then Skipseith a live Buck and two POMP.' concluding with a description of his late two Mike Hunt is three Woods. Among the splendid pictures decorating the walls ore some views along the Starry Banks and of the Bridges. On the whole, some warm work la anticipated. from there being a supply of both Cekeand Cole; but as W ' who will Wynne, remains to be seen.—Mimer. BIRTHS. The 11th inst. In Charla.steret. Berkeley-square, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Ramsden, of a daughter.—Wednesdar. last, at Reading, the lady of the Rev. F. Valpy, of a son In Fitzroy-square, the 13th inst. the lady of W. J. LysitY. Req. harristevat-law ' of a son.-12th lost. at Somerset . cottage, Camberwell, Mrs. W. Burn, of a daughter. MARRIED. The filth inst. at St. Marrs, Newington, Mr. W. Chandler• of the Meiotic,. to Matilda, second daughter of J. S. Fisher, Esq. of Newington.-11th inst. at St. Luke's, Cbd' sea, the Rev. J. T. Robinson, of Jesus College, Cam" 'bridge, to Pdarian, eldest daughter of Captain Lugard, "*. the Royal Military Asylum. DIED. The 13th inst. Mrs. Joshua Watson, wife of Jo w' Watson, Esq. of Pirk.street, Westminster.—The 10th init. at Blenheim-cottage, King's Road, Chelsea, Jaae /10 1014, wife of Mr. Nathaniel Haodfiwtl.—The 10th inst. Chulaw Janetta, wife of Captain D. B. Nowa% E. I. S.—The 9th inst. Susannah Hewitt, youngest daughter of Mr. SoI'!. Vernon-place, Bloomsbury .square agrd 19.—Tha lit inv. at Newmanswalls, Elisabeth Bainnermsn, only cativo; daughter of Alexander Renny Tailyour, Esq. of Bwow 6e/4 North Britain, aged 18.—The 29th of April last, at us, by accidentally falling overboard, Edward, fourth son of W. n• [Holt, H‘q of E LONDON s Planted and Published ►y Jona Nevus, at "be Stem OFFICE, No. 1 9 Pickett-place, Temple Bib