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// W. ,)t eg7 l- • . '... • ' --... .C.- - /1111 . d" eh , N 1 01 V I to ..„...,...._,,,,,,, , i,nusaar.,. o 1788. Oatmeal THURSDAY ETENING, JUNE 16, 1831. V. 13,811. PRICE SEVENPENCE. OATMEAL, WHEAT, AND PEAL VICTU44 I.L ING OFFICE, June 14, 11131. SHE CUVMISSIUNERS for VICTUAL LING hie MAJESTY'S NAVY, fe, de kw* glue Notice, That on Funksv, the Iltb Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the following Articles, to be delivered Into his Majesty's Victualling Stone at Deptford, vis. •lIICLL QUANTITY. PERIOD OP DELIMIT. 20 Tons thereof by the 10th of July 30 Tuns next, and the re mainder by the 31st of that month. One half of each Wheat, Red ... 2,800 Quarters by the 20th day of Ditto White 200 Quarters July nest, and the (Weighing 60 lbs to the Bushel), remainder by the Peas ... 500 Quarters 20:h of August fol lowing. Samples of each of the above mentioned Articles most be produced by the party tendering. 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NOTICE is hereby given, that a Session of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, for the Trial of Offences committed on the High Seaa, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be held at JUSTICE HALL, in the OLD BAILEY, LONDON, on FIUDAT, the 17th of June Mr, at Eight o'clock in the Morning. And all Sheriffs, Gaokn, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose custody any prisoners, charged with offences coin- mired on the high seas, or within the said jurisdiction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the commit ment of every suck prisoner to Mr. CIIARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his Office, No. 10, Lan caster-place, Strand, London, in order that the necessary Pleasures may be taken for removing all such prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the said In traded Sessions. Aud all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Dicers, before whom any inquisitions, informations, examinations, or resognlaances, may have been taken, touching any au h offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. JOHN CLARK. the Clerk of Arraigns of the high Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office. at the Sessions House, iu the Old Bally, London. GEORGE ELLIOT. CA MBRIDGESHIRE, Within Five Miles of the Town of Cambridge. On THURSDAY, the 7th Aux. 11131. will be Put op, FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, By ELLIOTT SMITH. Ac Garraway's Coffee.Honse, Cornbill, Loudon, At Twelve o'Cloek at Noon, IN ONE LOT, (Unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due Notice will be given), AN ESTATE, at Hardwicke, in the county of Cambridge, comprising HALF THE ENTIRE PARISH, and coutaining, by estimation, nearly SIX HUNDRED ACRES Of Freehold and CopyttoLl LAND, divided into TWO FAR AS, with Farm Houses, Barns, Stabks, Dove House, and caber Outbui!dais, ansl extensive Common Rights.— It include, also the celebrated FOX COVER, called HARD W ICKE WOOD, with the fine growing Tim b•r, &c. &c, About Forty Acres are superior old inclosed Pasture. This Estate is within view of the Town and University of Cambridge. from which it is dbtant only fire miles, on the great road leading to St. Neot's and Oxford. There is nu other proprietorship of above. one-third the eateut in the parish; the purchaser, therefore, must be principally concerned whenever an inctusure of the parish takes place, which, it is believed, there are no obstacles in the way of, and which Ls the only thing wanted to render t:,is a moat desirable property. The Estate will be sold a great bargain, and speculator. and capitalists are respectfully invited to inspect the very supetix crops of corn with which the land is now clothed. Fut further Particulars apply to Mr. Geo. Jos. Twin, Solicitor, Cambridge; or to Mr. Lythgoe, Solicitor, 22, Essex erect, Strand. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, FOR THE SKIN AND COMPLEXION. 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Cheapaide ; Strad•ing, Exchange-gavel Nix. fronting the Royal Exchange ; Johnstone, 68, Corn. bill and J. and C. Evans. Long-lane. Eaeh'imsolne flot bio•the • Mete and Address 'on ' the Government Stmli A. ROWLAND St SON, 20, HATTON-GARDEN., Which is pasted no the Wrapper. , PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE IN OTAHEITE ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. unseal pleasant thoughts have been growing In my brew*, and I wish you to hear them. Perhaps every thing good and nary has been said already by the chit. ; yet. sa we are sot met to adopt this law or that law. because ere great man or another recommends It. but as we. the taati rut, just the same as the chiefs, are to throw all oar thoughts together, that out of the whole beep the meeting may maks those to stand up right which are best, witenesmwrer they crew—this is my thought. All that Tad said was goad ; bee be did sot men. don that one reason fw punishing—as a missionary told as, when he was reading the law to as, in private—la to *take the offender good again if passible. Now, If we kill a amr. deter. how put we make his better P But if be be sent to a desolate island, where he is all solitary, 'and compelled to think for himself, it may plearo God to make the bad things in his heart to die, and good things to grow there. But if we kill bin, where will his eon, go r of 0 hers spoke to the same purport. and, In the result, it was unanimously determined tl:st banishment, not death, should be inflicted on murderers.* (Frew Me Ed&slowegit Literary joansate Review qf Tyre man mai Benowfs Missionary Pomo' wed Travels.) We have been much interested with the account given by the missionaries, of the debates in the Parliament of Otaheite respecting the introduction of capital punishment. For speeches to the pur pose, and strict attention to decorum, the Otheitian legislators might read a useful lesson to some pro fessional brethren whom we could easily name. " To show the spirit and candour, as well as good sense, with which the disetssions were conducted, we shall furnish a sketch of some of the principal speeches delivered on the first and second day, in reference to death or banishment for murder. " On the question being proposed, Hitoti, the principal chief of Papeete, stood up, and, bowing to the president and the persons around him, said—' No doubt this is a good law,'—the proposed punishment was exile foe life to • de solate island- 6 but a thought has been growing In my bend for several days, and when you have beard my little speech you will understand what it is. The laws of England, from which country we have received so much good of every kind —mum not they be good ? And do not the laws of England punish murderers by desth ? Now, my thought is, that as England dies so, It would be well for us to do so. This is my thought.' " Perfect. silence followed :—and it may be observed here that, during the whole eight dap' meeting of this parlia ment, in no instance were two speakers on their legs at the same time there was rot an angry word uttered by one against another; nor did any miaow the possession of more knowledge than the rest. In fact, none controverted the opinion of a preceding speaker, or even remarked upon it. without some respectful commendations of what appeared praiseworthy in it, while, for nations which he mo destly, but manfully aasigned. be deemed another send. 'Dent better. "After looking round to see whether any body were al ready up before him, Utemi, the principal chief of Boma. ' ads, rose and thus addressed the president The chief of Papeete has said well, that we have received a great many good things from the kind Christian people of E.ngland.— Indet.d, what have we not received from Borisov 1 Did they not send us rum lCm gospel ? But does not Hi. toti a speech go too far ? If we take the laws of Ragland for our guide, then must we nut punish with death those who break into a house?—those who write a wrong name? —those who steal a sheep I—And will any man In Tahiti say that death should grow for these ? No, not this goes too far ;so I think we should stop. The law ar it is written, I think is good ; perhaps I am wrong ; but that is my thought.' " After a moment or two of stillness, Cpuperu, a noble intelligent, and stately chief stood forth. It was a plea sure to look upon his animated countenance and trans de. meattour, without the smallest affectation either of rope , riority or condescension. He paid several graceful cootplia mem, to the former speakers, while, according to his thought, in some things each was right, and each was wrong. ' ldy brother. Hitoti, who proposed that we should punish mud.r with daub, because England dues so, wait wrung, as has been shown by [heath Fur they are not the laws df Eng- 1 land which are to guide us, though they ark good i—the Bible is our perfect geide. Now, Alitti Tru.o (the mis. sionary Crook) ties preaching to us on (naming the cost) hem the Scriptures, " He that sheddeth man's Mudd; by man shall his blood be shed s" and be told us that this was the lesson of the lee 4f Enfold —My thought • therefor, is not with lima: but with Hitoti, (though not ;2/CAW the law of England, but because the B.ble, orders it), that we ought to punish with death every one found guilty of murder.' " There was a lively exchange of looks all through the assembly, as if each bad been deeply struck with the senti ments of the speaker, especially when be placed the ground of the punishment of death, not upon Lnglish precedent, but Scripture authority.—Another chief followed, and • rir lug, seemed a pillar of eta e,' one whose upset, and presence, and costume of drug (richly native), made the spectators fur. get even him who had just sat down.—His name was Tad; and on him all eyes were immediately and intensely Bud, while, with not less simplicity and deference to Other. than those who had preceded him, he spoke thus : • Perhaps some of you may be surprised that I, who am the first chief I bete, and next to the royal family, should have held my peace so long. I wished to bear what my brethren would say, that I might gather 'nit thoughts had grown, In their !struts on this great q.lestion. lam glad that I waited, be. cause some thoughts arc now growing Li my own breast wisich I did not bring with inc.—The chiefs, who have yokes be. foie me, h ire spoken welt. But knot the spe e ch of Upu paru like that of his brother, Wtod in this way ? It* we cannot foll.sw the laws of England, in all things, as Hitoti's thoughts would perhaps kad us, because they go tuo far—must we not stop short of Cpupatu, because has tuought goes too far lilrewies? The Bible, he says, Is out perfect guide. It is. But what dal that Scripture Olean, •• Hr that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Dies not this go so far that we cannot follow it to the end, ! any more then we can follow the laws of England all the 1 way ? lam Tati ; lam a udge; a man is convicted be 'lute me ;he has shed bloo d ; I order him to be put to death ; 1 shed Ms blood ; then who shall shed algae ! Here, because I cannot go so far, I must stop. This cannot br the meaning of those twotds. But, perhaps, since many of the laws of the Old Testament were thrown down by the Loan Jews Cunt's, and only some kept standing up. right—perhaps, I say, this is one of those which were dooms) down. However, as lam ignorant, some owe else will show me, that, in the New Testament, our Savtotra, or his 1 apostles, have said the same thing conlerning bins that sheddeth maw's blood, uls said in the Old Testament. Show me this in the New Testament, and then it must be our guide. " Much cordial approbation was evident at the coficluslion of Tati's speech, sod its evangelicalappeal t atedted to remove lsome difficulty and doubt respecting the Vac scriptural sue therity• applicable to the we. " Next rose Pad, a chief and a judge of &mei,. farmed, a highpriest of Oro, and the Snit who, at the baaard'ef his life, had abjured idolatry. My beast.' he 'exclaimed, is full of thought, and surprise, add delight; When I look round at this fare burs no (house of God). in which we an sssembled, and consider 'who we are that tale sweet . counwl .eigether here, it is to me all seen karst 'e 'thing of moose. tent), and mks /ea oats Sc awls (a thing that - makes glad -sty heart). Tad has settled the question ; fur it is not the gospel that is our guide; and who can find directions foe putting to death? I knew many' pieueases which. forbid; but I know not 'one which emuniandr; to kill. But theh another thought hi growing in my livelier, and, if you will hearken to my little speech, you shall know what it is. Laws, to punish those that 'commit CTIITIO are gelbd fee us. But tell me, why do Christians punish ? Is it became we are angry. and have pleasure in causing pain ? Is it because • we love tivetige.•as se did when We'viefelleadiefilr None of these t C'hristishe d not 1 .ve•reveie,se Chris'ians 'must not be angry.; they cannot have pleasure in causing pain.— Phristimir do not, therefore, punish kw these. Is it not hat, by the suffiring which is indicted, we way prvveni the erindrilii from repeating his 'crime, and frighte, otherilreini thsiottiraiithks dune'to deserve the' WeH dots not every body !quo that it would be's greattr • punishment Ho be banish 11 for ever from Tahiti. so a desobie island, I , ibaniust, in's Moment, to be put iii death ? And could the iawlailNA rdaft bettiailttiiiirdet Nitherd tietnore friShtened•by uochii septette. than - by °Wm lake away his life ? So my thossht is that Tad is right,' #od the law had best remain ap it has been written.' (Inkof tlis /data di; or litiki'meti; a comiiiimisi, or 're.l ~lfnOiewpftrligittie sated" watt ri;;;l•twerhil ar winefearteoliott is'bed iseen t glveit to' the 'ordly personas., withhold preceded him. • fie said—' As no ens else stauds lip. I will make say little speech, because the Ptemflactylus, or flying reptile, first make their appearance ; animals, which, with the wings of a bat, and the structure of a reptile, had jaws furnished a ith sharp teeth, and claws with long hooked nails. The entire series of deposits. composing the °alit. formation, of which the Liu is the inferior or lower me' rnber, abounds with the remains of the animals of this order, and these are associated • with vast quantities of marine shells, principally belonging to the ancient multitocular genera. namely, Ammonites, Nautilites, Belemnites, &c. the whole formation having manifestly been depo sited by an ocean. The only apparent exceptions to this conclusion are the Stonesfield beds, com posed of thin strata of calcareous sandy slate,wbich occur in the lower division of the (Mike, mild con BY Gizmos /11swerta., A THE AGE OF IM F. it SPTILES. S. Ike. /re. lain not only marine plants, shells, and bones o . meow idea .annempecainternetins 'Teak ,ash i e b reptiles, but also the outer cattle, or elytra of wing the researches of modern Geologists have brought to ed insects, and jaws of animals alli e d t o th e oppos sum (Didelphis). The occurrence of the tarrestri a l light, there is none more extraordinary and itu mammalia in beds of this ancient epoch has not posing than the discovery that there was a period been satisfactorily explained, and it would be fo when the earth was peopled by oviparous quadru reign to our present purpose to enter into any din pods of a most appalling magnitude, and that rep- reign upon the subject ; the intermixture of ter tiles were the Lords of the Creation, before the restrial remains with those of marine origin, may existence of the human race ! These creatures of of comae have b een e ff ec t e d b y t h e agency o f a the ancient world, many of which, from their ex river or current. In the Ston e sfi e ld s l a t e we first traordinary size and form, rival the fabled mon sters of antiquity, existed in immense numbers, meet with the remains of that gigantic reptile the and in latitudes now too cold for the habitation of Megalosaurus, Great Li zar d. Thi s monster , whic h lfrom the form of its teeth and skeleton, is evidently modern oviparous quadrupeds. Their remains oc cur in strata far more ancient than those which ,allied to the Monitor, must h a ve b e e n near l y f orty contain the reliquite of viviparous animals, and are feet in length, and seve n o r e i g ht i n height, and I was probably a terrestrial anim a l. Th e croco dil es found in marine as well as in fresh water deposits. . of this ancient epoch appe ar to have b een excee d- Seine of them, from their organizati o n have b e e n evidently fitted to live in the sea only : whil e 'ingly numerous, and belonged to sp ec i es di s ti nct :from those of the present period, a great proportion others were terrestrial, and many were inhabitant s of the lakes and rivers. The animal and v e geta- i being referable to the Gavials ; that di v i s i on w hi c h ble remains with which the fossil bones are use - I has long slender snouts. - elated, belong also to a very different order of I In the fresh-water formations that intervene ua- be thi to that in which the modern oviparous tiveen the Oolite and the Chalk, namely, the Pur p drup ngs eds are placed, and we are compelled to c q oo- bock, Hastings' sands and clays, and the Tilgate grit, the remains of several of the nera of the elude that the condition of the earth at the period must have been ! reptiles we have before noticed, occ ur ; but those when it was peopled by reptiles, which are strictly marine, such as the Ichthyosau wholly different to its present state; and that it probably was then unfit fur the habitation of aui- rus, are either altogether wanting, or of very male of a more perfect organization. It is, more- rare occurrence. At the period of th e forma over, interesting to remark, that some of these an• lion of these deposites, t ur tl es , b ot h mar i ne an d fresh-waver, exi s t e d i n grea t numbers, h av i ng f or dent and lost races are, as it were, the types of the existing orders and genera ; and that in the pigmy ceatemporaritra the Megalosa n i, one or more Measlier and Iguana of modern times, we perceive species of Plesiosaurus, several species of Gavials and Crocodiles, aud .probably Pterodactylea. At striking resemblance s t o th e c o l o s s al lifegalosaurase this epoch we have also an enormous herbivorous and Ifearrodon of the ancient world. It is also present reptile, essentially differing Com any of the ovi epochw.irthy of observation, that as iu the percale quadrupeds n o w e xi s ti ng , an d sur p ass i ng i n the herbivorous quadrupeds are those of the magnitude even the Meg a l tsaurus . Thi s i s t h e greatest magnitude, so at the period when reptiles ut:e were the principal inhabitants of our planet, the !g dam (so named from its te e th r esem bli ng berbiverous were those of the most gigantic propor- those of the recent Iguana.) A thigh bone of this creature, twenty-three inches i n circumference, has dons. The geological pe r iod when th e In d i g en e s been discovered to the grit of Tilgate Forest ; the of reptiles commenced must, acc or di ng t o th e Pie teeth are as large as the incisors of the rhinoceros, sent state of our knowledge, be placed imam and the vettebres, claw-bones, and oth er parts of diately after the formation of the coal me as u re s ; the skeleton, bear the sam e relative propartLons. ' the remains of Monit o rs having been f o und i n th e Mid creature, like some of the recent species of bituminous schist of Thuringia ; and tho se of a crocodile iu the gypseous, red sandstone of E ng - Iguanas,had warts or horns on its sno u t, an d an land : but it is not till we arrive at th e Li es that appendage of this kind has b een f oun d o f t h e s i ze and shape of the lesser born of th e rhinoceros the remains of reptiles occur in any considerable From the prevailing character of the f orm o f t h e quantity. At that period the earth must have teem bones, it is probable that this animal was sho r t er ed with oviparous quadrupeds; and the enalio in proportion to its bulk than the recent lizards t o nisei, or those which inhabited the sea, app e a r which it is most nearly allied, and marvellous as to have been equally numero us w ith tho se o o th e land and rivers. The prodi g io u s quantity o f t h e it may appear, we cannot but infer that some in remainsdividuals attained a height of nine or ten f e et, a n d of these animal' which has, within a com were from sixty to a hundred feet . in length ! A punitively short period, been fo u nd in Engl an d alone, is truly astonishing ; and if to these we circumstance even more extraordinary than its mag nitude, is that of its having performed mastication add the immense numbers that have been discover like the herbivorous manium:ia ; its teeth, which ed in France, Germany, &c. and reflect that f or one individual found in a fossil state, thousands are of a very peculiar form, being in gen era l worn down by the operation of grinding its food. The must have been devoured or decomposed; and that even of those that are fossilized, the number that vegetables associated with the remains of the Ig uanodon, are all of a tropical character, and comes under the notice of the Naturalist must b e con trifling compared with the quantities unobserved, or sit of various kinds of ferns, and of large plants destroyed by the labourers, we shall have a faint allied to the dragon-blood plant. The strata iu which they are found, unlike those of the Oolite idea of the myriads of " creeping things" which inhabited the ancient world. which preceded, and of the Chalk which f o llo we d these deposits., have clearly been formed in the In England, the Lis contains m o re e s pe c i a lly bed of a river ; while those of Stonesfield, %bib' the remains of two extinct marine g e nera, th e khayosaurus (fish-like lizard) and Plesiosaurus, contain a somewhat similar association of fossils, (animal resembling a lizard) whose osteology is have as evidently been deposited by a current which ran into the ocean of the Oolite, and carried most extraordinary ; combining characters obser with it remains of terrestrial and fresh-water unli vable in the Cetacea, fishes, and spurians, but mals, the shells in the last named strata being, as yet decidedly belonging to the order of reptiles.— before remarked, marine, and precisely similar to The Ichthyosaurns, of which several species have been discovered, had a large head, enormous eyes, those of the deposit.* above and below them ; a short neck, and very long tail; it was furnished while the shells of the Hastings beds are decidedly with four broad and flat paddles, and was evidently Iluriatile or lacustral. Besides the remains of destined to live in the sea ; it sometimes attained a the reptiles above mentioned, teeth and bones of length of from 20 to 30 feet. The Plesiosaures, other gigantic oviparous quadrupeds have been Which in some respects rfeembled the Ichthyosau- found, but the characters and relations of the latter ' sus, being also furnished with four paddles, but is have not yet been accurately determined. yet more nearly allied to . the Saurian', differs, how- In the extensive. marine formation, the chalk ever, from it, and from all other' afiinials, by the which covers the Hastings beds, reptiles are less numerous, and the Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and extreme length of the neck, and the great number other herbivorous genera, disappear altogether ; of of cervical vertebrae. lhe neck of reptiles is in general composed of from 3 to eight cervical ver- DO traces of their existence occurring after the tebrie, and even birds (which have the maxi- last named strata were deposited. At the epoch mum,) have but from nine to twenty-three; wh i le of the chalk formation the ichthyosaurus, and one one species of Plesiosaurus (P. dolichodeirus) has or more species of crocodile, and marine turtles 30 vertebrae. This extraordinary creature, unlike " late( ' ; and another extraordinary reptile, the tilt Ichthyoseutus, appears to have been but little Mososaures (lizard of the Meuse) or fossil animal calculated to make rapid progress through the sea, of Maestricht, first appears. This creature, so ce and was still less fitted for progressive motion on lebrated in Oryctology since the first discovery of the land; it• is, therefore, probable that it swain I its head and jaws by Hoffman, attained tLe size on or near the surface of the water, carryin g it s I of the crocodile, and held an intermediate place peck like a swan, and darting on its prey, its food' between the Monitors and Iguanas. it appears to consisting of fishes, cuttle-fish, &c. Contemporary : hare beeu aquatic, swimming in the wooer of a With' the' animals - above mentioned, were seierallcrncodile, and moving its vast tail from aide to side hObil'il i dos reptiles, whose remains have been as an oar. ... chalk the .. '• Age of Reptiles ", mac be found in the Liss at 8011, in Wurtemburg, al so a With t h e species 'of crocodile; and at Gundorf, a salamander , said to terminate--the greater part of the genera pf etio rn ibus' size. The reniaini 'of tortoises and above noticed appears to . have become extinct-dur• Pities occur also, but very sparingly, although iogaliechenges which took place on .the amities of ,from the foot-marks observable in the red sand- ti 4, earth at that period ; the crocodiles, turtles, Sm. steno at Conl-Cockle Malt; in Domfrieistire, th i l alone siarviveo, a new order of things commenced, t mily of reptile* muitilave eiiistea at 'a o w l oar . , . and in :be tertiary tormetions which speceeded, • ' " t 1 • , - period . In this' bed also , noven a op i kieo of .we perceive an approach o tae modern condition of the earth. UlilPErstri# zprriLLICENC P. CAMBRIDGE, Jews 13 The Rev. William Otter, M.A. Sermaly Fellow of Jesus College, has b e en appoi nte d P r i nc i pa l of King's College, London. 1113 Royal 111 11/ I n.e• the Debt of Sion bas apted the Rev. H. . Hamilton, MA. Fell o w of T r i n ity Wkle, to be one of Hid Royal Highness's Chaplains. The Rev. Ctarie• Wadsworth, M A. Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, to be Chaplain to Lord Palmerston. The Rev. E. R. Th ad, of Fietton. in the county of Huntingi.e, ha* been promoted to the Vicarage of Selling, in the e wily of K-nt, by the Right lion. Lewd Sondes, and hoes also been appointed one of his bor 'ship'. I) nn.:stic Caesium., Just B.—The Chancellor's 111.dal fur the irt English poem wa • Oil Savartla) last sidjudgel to Oeor t te fitovin Venahles. Sit dar o' vi,--•• The ittempts wide', have been male o late years by sea and land to discover a Noe:h.wfatern Pausue." 4:HOLERA AtORBUS The buds of the Privy Council have transmitted to the Royal College of Physicians a RIMS of atatimleal retur a ' furnished to die Govannient by the f4ritish atylsoritim rest. dent abroad, relative to the progress and present state of the Russian cholera, top. her with instructions that a committee of the members of the College do take the same into ronsi. derarion. and report thereon, as well se on the que.tion of :mound .e. This Wfrauttme. which it:dud a in he weat hers tie most eminent phyuicians in the metropolis, sits from day to day, and their report is expected to be made in a few days. and will be forwarded to the Government, so that h . • Majesty's Ministe a may be ready to Ly it before Parliament as soon as public boaineva aheil have cammeaced. It stay be here at. tad with perfect truth, that the present aplication of his Majesty' s Government to the College of Pu)steians does not warrant an appr h melon of the dleadtul scourge of cholera appeari •g in this cosi ary. Toe Goverentett uniformly refer to that leant,d body all questions relative to d...te set the last application of • character undue .0 the present, was in 1824, when the die. Cue called Indian e mina was deviating the whole of the East of &rope. to 1817 it first assumed a p:stilential reefer, ant in the spit; of two u r thr ee wee k s it trave ll e d 100 miles : end exhibited itself in Ctleutta, even amongst the Earepamplations in two months of the following year, at Baia es 16,000 persons peddled, and on bar h banks of the Ganges a mortality equally g ea. prevailed. In the Bengal ar:uy it appeared in the same year, and in a fortnight 0,01.0 s , kliers fell victims, and soon afterwards spiced a nong all classes. The disease travelled with a rapidity lipid to 21) miles a day, and In ut:e year traversed the whole of the Indian peninsol.a. Finally, it spread to Cey. lon, the Mauritius. the Ide of Bourbon, Java. Cochin China, Arabia, where 80,000 perw.nedied. In the city of Shwas 18.0110 died. It then travel' d along the Mediterm. neap, and ultimately found its way to A.tracan in Russia. lii 1820 it reached the frontiers of Siberia, shoeing thatcold could nut arrest its progress. Since then it has raged with more or I es violence in different places, until I sat year. when it broke out with intvea•ed virulence in many places in Rua. sia, and the disorder still to ;e4 in portions of the RUM ror's dominions. The report of tto Committee of the College of Physiciana upon the subject is expected to contain highly int. portant inlet oil:anon.— Moraine yips , . b —" LAW HE COURT 01141N0'1BENC4.—Juxe lb. oxi.eT v. PIT MAN. This was an action to recover damages fa breach of con. tract. The Plaintiff is a wine.merchant, and the Defendant, who ha pit the Hamburgh coffee house, had enured into a contract to take all his wine of the Plaintiff during thirteen years at the market pace. The breach assigned was the marches: of wine from other dealers. The defence was that the Plaintiff bad supplied bad sherry, and that the Defend ant was obliged to purchase other wine to keep his custom ers. It was also alleged that the contract was usurious. The Jury found a verdict for the Defendant. ARCHES' COUR r, JUNII IS. The Court sat this morning fur about twenty minutes, and disposed of several motions of course; after which Sir J. Nichol, Dr. Arnold, and neatly the whole of the learned doctors of the Ecclesiastical Courts, attended by the Proctors and Registrars. all in full coe.utue, prone did to join a con. vocation of the B.shope at the Chapter House. as usual on the comnsencentent of t w Ps. lisment ; from wi.erns; they proceeded in rocessioo to St. Paul's Cathedral to attend divine service. The solemnity of the procession attracted a peat crowd. COVRT OF COMMON PLEAS. Just 14 PLAMCHL T. COLBURN .•NO NAN rum. Mr. 0 , 1 an Wii.i (with whom was Mr. KILLT)Mated that the platatiC a literary geed. man of attainments, was engaged by Messrs. Galloon and Henley, the defcadants, to write a volume on Costume and Ancient Armour, for the Juvenile Library. a work which they commenced hat year. He Wollto receive 10G gt-1 teas for the v o l ume . for. Jord a n was the editor of the J. , venile Li ?erg and made the engagement. Three v.4umes oully of the.l.rvewik Librwr d appeared, sod in November it was discontimied. The plaintiff had bestowed considerable time and exerciou r. 'he work : he bad visited Dr. Aleyrick, in 11.refordshire, io consult has library, and to make some drawings front his collection of armour, and it was a great hardship to be told that the work was discunti. sued, and his preparation to go for nothing. William Jerdan, Esq, it ito.ll that he was employed by the defendants as editor of the Juerniat Library. lie engaged Mr. PIANCI/C to furnish the e lily history of anti. nt armour and costume, and fur this be was to receive 1001. Mr. Phoebe, from his dramatic trent and knosl, dgeof armour, was thought to be well qua/ ford to pt rtorm this part of the undertaking, and no objection was made by Messrs. Culturn and Bentley to the terms of his engagement. Eight or ten gentlemen were engaged to furnish the die rant portions of the woik. Only three v lumee of the weak were published, when it was abandoned in 8 prrmtbrr. Nome was sent to Mr. Planche of the abandotanent of the work. He had 1141 then completed hit. article i but he had bestowed an much of his time and abilities upon it as in emitk him to a routine. ration of 601. He (the witnesa) would nut have odd less to a gentlest= for such OCITICIN. Cromexamined by Mr. Sagiant Srautss —The work was not stucceseful. He never, to. his . reeolleve a, said to Messes. Colburn and Bentley that 2M. would be felt re , muneratioa for Mr. Planche's trouble. (A patter was handed ' to the witne•a, in which he had inserted Mr. Puinche's tante in a list of the contributors who might be settled with toe 261.) lo explanation of this the witness 'AI he had esti mated that sum as one for which he himself might perhaps have prevailed oo them to forego their claims, because tie was on terms of intimacy with them and could cooler fa vours upon them . Twenty.fiv e pou nds each he thought a fair sum to stop them with—that was, if he had given it ; but between she authors and publishers be thought 601. lair and memorable. Mr. B..rjeant SvasrEtE (who was misted by Mr. Dodd) adthestied the jury in a very humorous speech foe the de. fendanta. Far from complaining of Mr. Planche's labours, the defendants only wished they bad been completed; for, although the Juvenile Liltrary had been gives up, Maws. Colburn and Bentley time pe fre.ly ready to take the plain tiff's book when written, and pay him tne 100 guineas; and this they had tiffired to him. And he would show that the plaintiff had admiral that costume and ancient armour were very embarrassing subjects to write about fix little masters and misses, in an abridged shape, and much better &sla g /Led for a full grown volume for full grown readers. Costume was a peculiarly imeretiting topic, almost, though not quite, as old as the world ; and all its vastirties,...whetuer the Highlander's kilt, or the tine ladieu brucade,—were only expansions of the renowned lig.leaf, the Bret effort at costume. Mr. Planche had no doubt studied Aber-his Martel de re eestiaries veteran and Seteumies, and all the other authorities collected is the chapter on dress in Tristram Shand,; and that all this intermting learnitig should be lost to the world, on account of this unhappy misunder standing with the booksellers, was much to be regretted. Ile trusted, however, it would still appear, to delight the jury and the adult public. ills. B•rjeant WILDS replied, contending that the defen. dants' offer to take the book and publish it separately was no performance of their contract. The plaintiff bad cur tun a work for children, and it was impossible ft could be pub. halted as a separate work without injuring his fame. The LORD Cuter JUSTICE summed up the evidence, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages bOl. Leave was given to the deferdam's Counsel to move the Court, on a point reserved on the pleading.. to SAG A CITT OP Docs, dogs in staasguear are said to be so sagacious, that, when cue hues occasion to cross a river, he will stand barking on the bank considerably lower dOwn then the point where he means to attempt • his passage. Wheal the 'litigators have been attracted to the former • .. y,. e2ot, away be . rups full apeed,, plunges, into a u at a sal's distance, and swims over be ive the enemy can sail lack against the current to interrupt him. omimiliMY. rge et me ett, ,t. r. or 1,,