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ce g. for the benefit of the cbaritable institutions • i n 'this City. Our Journals say that, in the course of the last sin years, 550 Swedish ships have been freighted to an d from Turkish ports, of which about 300 were b o nd to Alexandria, 9.00 to Constantinople and the E n xine, 50 to Smyrna and the Archipelago. Her Highness the Princess of Leuchtenburg is ex pected to arrive on the coast of the Baltic in the month of May. It is thought she will embark fot soden at Warnemande, in a Swedish vessel, and that Admiral Cedetstrom will command it. BERLIN, JANUARY 11. On Wednesday there was a grand review of the garrison by his Majesty in person. AusTERDAM, Jail. 21.—Exchange on London, 39-10-59-7. nimburgh, 11AXAVEIGH. JAN. 14.—Exchange on London, 56-8...56-11. J AN 17.--36-7... 36-10 . Sr. paintsgeßGll, DEc. 51.—Exchange on London 10 1-52, Amste rdam 1-32, Ilamburgh 9 5-32, Paris 104 We have received this morning Norfolk (Virginia) rapers.to the 12th of December. FROM THE NORFOLK HERALD, OF DEC. 12. We almost dread to hear from our public vessels in the West Indies, so disastrous has been the intel ligence from them for some time past. The latest ac counts from the Cayenne are received by the schooner Frances, from Curacoa, arrived at this port. The Cayenne had put into Curacoa about the 6th ult. on account of the sickness of the, crew. FROM CURACOA. A Spanish squadron from Coro, consisting of a frigate, brig, and schooner, came into Curacoa a few days before the Frances sailed, for the purpose of procuring supplies. The day before its arrival, Com modore Daniels, with his Colombian squadron, ap peared off the harbour, bound to some port on the Main. The French brig Mexican, from Vera Cruz and Campeachy, arrived at Charleston, in distress: she was bound to Bourdeaux, arid was robbed in Campeachy Roads by a pirate of 35,000 dollars in specie. The pirate• was from Campeachy. Accounts from all parts of the Continent represent the winter as unusually severe. In Paris the cold has been greater than in London, and the hard frost seems to prevail all over Germany. At Augustus burg, a pitcher of water costs about three halfpence; and in Hohenstein, the scouring of rooms is prohi bited under a penalty of five fit dollars. Gibraltar Chronicles to the 31st ult. have been re ceived, from which we extract the following from the paper of the 30th : PORT MAHON, DEc. s.—The Military Governor of this island made the following communication to our Town Council on the 30th Ills Excellency the Rear-Admiral commanding the Dutch squadron, at anchor in this harbour, informed me, under yester day's date, that through the Consul of his nation at Algiers, the DEY had been called upon to state whether he had declared war against Spain, and whether it was intended to commit hostilities upon our flag ; to which the Minister of the Marine replied, that a rupture with Spain had certainly taken place, when our Consul went on beard (the 18th Sep tember last), and that, if the Day's corsairs shonl.l go to sea, they would capture whatever Spanish vessels they might chance to fall in with, just as he supposed our own would do with the Algerines. Although their forces are at present insignificant, the fitting out of their ships proceeds but slowly ; they have not yet any privateers, and they are quite disheartened by the unfavourable intelligence received from the Levant. I have thought it right to make this known to the Civil and Local Authorities, in order that the merchantmen belonging to their respective dis tricts may take the requisite precautions to guard against any unpleasant accident that might happen to them, if they should incautiously fall in with an Algerine corsair, or the frigate of that nation, which, it is said, will sail from Algiers with a schooner, for the purpose:of convoying that of the Pacha of Egypt. FROM THE PAPER OF THE 27TH. By the Sea Nymph, arrived the day before yester day, from Algiers in eleven days, we learn that since the 25th August, there has been no case of the plague in that city or neighbourhood, and that the following men of war are fitting out :—A 58 gun-ship almost ready ; a 50 and a 36 gun ditto ; an 18 gun brig, and two schooners getting ready, destination unknown. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by— The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool. Earl of liar -11:11'67, the Earl of Westmorland, Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Seiritiry Peel, Earl . Bathurst, Viscount Melville, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Robinson, Viscount Sidmouth. "file Council sat in deliberation till about a quarter Before five. The Fart Ct.arwtr•uaot left town yesterday for the Duke of liviroigtiods seat, Strathfieldsay, Hants. The Earl and Countess of cot.toox and family have arrived .tt the Itirl of Ilardwicke's house in Sc. James'szsquare, trom Lstd Eastuor's seat in Surrey. The •4arl and Countess of Symmr have left the Marquis of vatgford's, at Richmond, for Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire. The Earl of Cumusatour left the Pulteiley Hotel, Piccadilly, 11 11 Thursday, fur his seat in Ireland. AAnong the numerous Institutions in the Metropo lib the Spciety for the Soppressioai of Mendicity Is, P e t i llo 6 o The ' Most prictically Oiiefut; for it not only Mitres the actually distressed, but preventt the Public ifrm being imposed opus by the idle and dissolute, uho lived on charity. - :-:-. l al- 0 #14 1 244AN11.411Y1 24. The answer to inquiries at thi Palace, to learn the s tate - RlPhiVittAnarfs - health, continues most desir ably favourable ; that of to-day has been— ,, The KING is better." The cessation of entertainments at the Palace has produced a corresponding inaction and gloom in other parts of the town ; but little of gaiety in that way has enlivened us during his Alentsres regretted indisposition. The KING is not now confined to his room ; the gout has been so fat reduced that his MAJESTY has removed and dined in another apartment for several days past. The weather cottinues intensely cold. Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, Sir ROBERT GARDINER left Claremont, in a carriage and four, for Brightou, to convey to the KING Prince LEOPOLD'S duty, and to announce his Royal Highness's arrival in England. The Prince left Claremont yesterday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, and proceeded in his travelling carriage to the King's Palace, at Kensington, to pay his respects to his sister, the Duchess of KENT ; also his Royal nieces, the Princess of KENT and Princess FEODOR ; together with the Princess SOPHIA. Afterwards the Prince proceeded to London, on a visit to the Duke of YoRK, where the Prince remained some time. His Royal High ness proceeded from the Duke of Yona's to Marl borough House, in Pall•mall. At six o'clock the 'Prince went to Kensington, to dine with the Du chess of KENT. The inquiries respecting the state of the Duke of YORK yesterday were very memetous : the answer was His Royal Highness is a little be:ter." Viscount GRANVILLE left town yesterday for the Duke of WELLINGTON'S seat, Strathfieldsay, Rants, on a shooting excursion. The Thermometer, yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, was 23 deg. and at one, 27 deg. This morn ing, it was somewhat lower. The navigation of the Thames is now completely obstructed by the masses of ice collected near the bridges. Between London Bridge and SouthWark idge the River exhibits one uniform mass of ice, and if the frost continues, there is no doubt but the River will be soon passable for foot passengers. The Rulers and Members of the Court of the Lightermen and Watermens Company have deter mined to distribute amongst the Freemen the sum of £430, in addition to I:200, which they voted on the 16th instant, and which had been distributed, in con sequence of the very distressed state of the men usually working on the river Thames, and who are now prevented, by the navigation being stopped with ice, from pursuing their occupation. The accounts from all parts of the country speak of the severity of the weather. At Oxford, on Sun. day morning last, the thermometer stood at 5 deg. or 27 degrees below the freezing point. At Maid stone, on the same morning, the thermometer was-at 10 deg. at noon 24 deg. and at ten at night 4 deg. which is 28 degrees below the freezing point. Mon day, the Medway was so frozen as to put a total stop to the navigation: many persons enjoyed the pleasure of skaiting on its glassy surface. At Plymouth and in Cornwall it has been particularly severe. A horse was killed on Townsend Hill, on Saturday, the roads being so slippery. The City now vies with the West End of the Town in sales of valuable and splendid effects, and Mr. Wu.- Ltasts has for the last three days bad as crowded levees of per , sons of rank and fashion at the Auction Mart as ever graced a sale in the metropolis. We understand. that the sale of the second division of this valuable property commences on Tuesday, when a variety of the richest China and Porcelaine, with several magnificent Glasses, curious Alabaster Vases, Chronometers, Watches, Diamonds, massive Plate, &c. will be submitted to the hammer. Quadrilles still maintain their ascendancy in the fashionable parties of the metropolis; and the system taught by Mr. VINCENT WEBB, of 28, Edward's -street, Portman-square, appears to be generally adopted. So anxious, indeed, are the Ladies at the %Vest End of the Town to acquire the graceful Dancing taught by Mr. WEBB, that his rooms, which are elegant and commodious, are daily crowded with persons of rank, beauty, and fashion. Among other attractive novelties in the Neu Monthly Magazine, are a series of Papers, giving a description of the principal Galleries of Art in the British Metropolig, The Number for FEBRUARY will contain an interesting account of the Marquis of STAFEoan's GALLERY, at Cleveland House. Mitchell's Dictionary of Universal History, and Historical Biography, the only Work on these inte resting subjects in our Language, will be published on Friday, the 31st, and delivered with the Magazines and Reviews of the Month in all parts of the Empire. Ma. GCRNEY'd New ary-Hydrogen Blow Pipe.— It is with real satisfaction we find that Mr. Guattry, the able Chemist, and Lecturer at the Surrey Institution, has announced for next Tuesday an extra Lecture, entirely devoted to that most interesting and useful instrument in Chemistry, his new Blow Pipe. We felt ourselves, in conjunction with all who were pre sent at his recent Course of Lectures, greatly indebted to him for the highly important discoveries and theories, as well as for the very interesting experiments therein so ably given; and did not expct this additional exertion for the public gratification and instr e uction, but t o must be warmly and gratefully received. We can only hope, as we always feel interested its what. mast convey real instruction and gratification to the Public, that the indefatigable Lecturer may be induced to present, as speedily as possible, his labours to the world, namely, by publication ; and which, we have no doubt, must be the wish of all who had the opportunity of benefiting by his unusual talents and abilities. In the Lecture announced for Tuesday, we learn Mr. G. in. tend, as well as fully to exhibit the great use and unprecedented power, so also the valuable improvements, and particularly the great simplification he has been able to effect in that powerful chemical agent ; and, in consequence of which, he is enabled to obtain such novel and important effects, and to which cot only scientific men, but artists in general, look with so much anxiety. We understand Mr. G. is from Cot nwalL A horde of gypsies have been very lately encamped at the foot of NVoodburphill, in Devon, where they cut off the tails and manes of every horse they could catch ; several horses have also been stolen, but whe.: ther by this gang or not, is as yet uncertain. Lord RoLLE gave directions to take the whole of those va grants into Custody, but they had previously decamped. A woman, named White, it now living at Frome, in her 104th year; the old lady, who resides in the almshouse in that town, remembers taking wine with the waiting maids of 'Queen Anne, at Berkeley House; she continues in good health'''. Some inhuman wretch bad the barbarity to leave a new-born female child in the snow, near Ashbur ton, on Wednesday se'nnight. Tile !idle innocent was. picked up before the vital spark was extinct, and ap pears likely to do well.* It has been christened by the appropriate -name of Mary Ann Snow! Tor ARMY. Th 46th Regimeat crewed at Chatham Oa Monday, from Gravesend, where they disembarked from on board the Charles Forbes East Indiaman. • • Tuesday eight soldiers belonging to a detachment on boarl the brig Louisa, lying in Plymouth donnd, going to the Coast of Africa, under punishment, took one of the boats and made their escape. The master of the Louisa went on board the CALLIOPE tender, and informed the Commanding Officer of the circum stance, who immediately dispatched several boats in pursuit, and fired guns and rockets at them ; they succeeded, however, in escaping. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Fast India Company's outward-hound ship Thames was in lat. 36. 1. S. lone. 7. 2. E. on the Ist of November, all well. The Regent was to leave Angier Roads for Chum, on the 17th of September. The Rising Empire, from Buenos Ayres to the Ilavannah, was lost in October, on the Ortez Bank. The America, Tutors'', from Savannah, was on shore in Bootle Bay on Wednesday, but was expected to be got off. • DEAL, .1 AN. 24.—Wind N. E.—Remains in the Downs, the &wean frigate. RAMSGATZ, JAN. 22.—Arrived the WRAZIC, WRIGHT, from Leghorn, to Hull; sailed 14th November last.—Wind easterly, fresh breeze. JAN. Cl.—Arrived the Amelia, BULLY, from Cadiz, for Hull ; sailed 9th Dec. 1822; Argus, Deal pilot cutter, from a cruise. Picked up off the Longsand, by a French fishing boat, 16 deals, marked G ; also a piece of mast ; and off the Galloper, a copper fastened boat, name thereon Ocean, of Leith, J. JOIINSON. d easterly, blows strong. G KAVEMEND Jaw. 24.—Put hack, the George, bound for India. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind E. N. E.—No arrivals or =flings this day. HA RWICH, Jaw. 24--Wind E.—Arrived, the Leicester, HAMMOND, with Mails, Ste. from IloHand. HA RWIC 11, JAN. 24.—A truly bears-rending event took place here yesterday afternoon, by which three poor unfortunate fel lows have been precipitated from the heyday of life into eternity, and their afflicted relatives plunged into inexpressible anguish. A boat belonging to his Majesty's Revenue cutter SYLVIA, in which were William Nutting, deputed mariner, John Black sell, and Richard Stuart, upset during a sudden squall, and sunk instantly. One of the poor fellows was seen upon the surface for a moment and then disappeared for ever. The cold was so intense as to preclude every hope of their being saved. CusTox-Housr, JAW. 24.—Ships Entered Inwards: Hope, front Seville; Cadmus, from St. Petersburgh ; Lord Gambier, from Jersey; Kitty, from Lisbon.; Wellington, from Sr. John's; Henry, from Dantzic ; Margaret, from Waterford. Entered Outwards: Matilda and Salacia, for Lisbon; Brazilford, for Bombay ; Eliza and Earl Clancarty, for Rotterdam. This morning the London Adjourned Sessions took place at Guildhall, before Sir limes SHAW, Alder- Men Wool), THORP, and VENABLRS ; the RECORDER, COMMON SERJEANT, and City Officers. Several ap• peal cases were heard, an d one or two trials for as saults, &c. of no great importance. _ _ SP9TING.DI7'ELLIG4NCE. • 'The match for SO sovereigns, between...Halton and. 4. Mateo is off, the six sovereigns deposited oh the part of Wino being forfeited, by the nun-observance of the time and place to make stakes good, by Belaseo's backers. Halton i 4 again open to light any man in England, and to give slit pounds in weight. Five fifties to four were laid on Cooper Ole gypses) against Cabeage, from Bristol, who fights Cooper on Wednesday near. 1 It is 4)ne of the greatest sporting matches known for some time. ROYAL SPORTING. The Duke of YORK pursued the sports of the field very inic cessfully while in the country. On one day, while at the Earl of RittuotwAraa's, his Royal Highness shot 80 pheasants. So extremely plentiful has game been on the Noble PArl's estite, that 1400 head of game was in his mansion-house at nee time. MINTING. The-Ssmersetshire Subscription Hounds meet on Ttieedat,at Halt Cleave; Friday, at Nettlecombe. The Worcestershire Hounds nett on Tuesday, at Fox, on Shipley Common; Thursday, at Ilichgate; and Saturday, at Chittington. • BETTING. The practice of betting (says a Glasgow paper) lip become much more general here than it used to be. We have heard of a Gentleman in this town who bas betted that, in two months, he will produce a pig to run against a horse, for a distance of 100 yards. The race is to he in no open field, and the pig is to run to its meat. The odds «rein favour of the pig. TROTTING. The owner of the American horse has taken the tet of MO guineas to 100. which we lately mentioned, to trot his horse 18 miles in an hour. PEDESTRIANISM. MATCU TO CANTERBURY AND BACK.—Mr. It. Abernethy, ne phew of the North country amateur of that name, started ab eleven o'clock yesterday morning, to go from Westniinster-bridge to the turnpike at Canterbury and return (111 miles) in 28 hours, for abet of 5(1 sovereigns. Ile did six miles in the first hour, five and a half in the seem], and six in the third, before be halted for five minutes. He kept steadily at work; with app. rent ease to himself, at the rate of something more than five miles an hour, and at four o'clock, he bad done t 9 miles, and had lain down. 6 to. 1 agst time. • GAME. In the streets of Brighton moor-hens, woodcocks, snipes, and. other birds of a similar description, art daily hawked about tit sale, and many flocks have passed over the*town. lii the neigh.- bouring fields too they are very abundant, a circumstance that is probably owing to the ground being covered wish snow. A few days since a wounded' wild goose fell down in East -street, front a flock that was passing over the town, and was of course easily caught by the spectators. AIID-LOTHIAN AND PEEBLES-SHIRE CURLING. The former challenged the latter, in the winter of 1821, bet the frost not having afforded sufficient ice, it was only on Tun day, the 14th instant, that the game could he played. Fifteen were the number of the rinks fixed en from each county, four. teen players to each rink, and thirty-one shpts the length of the game. The ponds at Pennycuick and Whim were the appointed places of meeting fur deciding the match, and, after an anxious contest, victory was declared for Peebles-shire, by no less than sixty one shots! exclusive of thirty-one forfeited by the non-ap pearance of the Uuddingston rink, for reasons not known to the unopposed Peebles rink. Nine Peebles-shire rinks were success ful, and five of Lothian, one of which was gained by only one shot. This was, probably, the largEst meeting of thtl kind that has taken place in Scotland, and was attended by many of the Gentlemen and others of the two counties, and city of Edin burgh, anxiously awaiting the fate of the day. ARTICLES or THE PEACE.—In the Court of Com mon Pleas yesterday, Mr. ADOLPHUS moved to ex hibit articles of the peace on behalf of Francis Steel, of Oxford-street, and George Steel, his shopman, against Phillip and John Luccas, timber-dealers, for obstructing the exhibitaut's r• ht of way through certain wooden gates—assaulting, abusing, and threatening him with personal violence—taking ex hibitant and shopman, to the watch-house, and 'oc casioning alarming mobs to collect in front of exhi bitant's shop door, with the aid and assistance of a watchman, of the parish of Mary-la-bonne—striking exhibitant with an iron bar—causing his nosy to bleed, and giving him a black eye, with divers other bodily injuries and personal wrongs, so as to-cause the exhibitant to confine himself to his bed, to the , great injury of his health and danger of his life— waylaying exhibitant at a late hour at night, after having threatened to do for exhibitant, &c. &c. on the night of the 11th of January inst. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated, that this was a possession of premises by the family of the defendant, to the annoyance of every other neighbour adjoining. That an indictment had been preferred by other complain ants against these defendants, who, having been con victed, still went on to offer these acts of violence in defiance of the law. The Court permitted the articles to be filed. COURT OF kista's BENCH.— WILLIAMSON V. JOHN. soN.—Mr. MARRYAT moved in this case to enter a nonsuit. Three persons were in partnership of the names of Ilabgood, Fowler, Dixon, and Co. Dixon had been in the habit of indorsing bills in the name of the firm; and the question was (after a dissolu tion or alteration of the firm was alleg ed to have taken place), whether the issuing such bil ls for the pur pose of being discounted, was evidence of the exist ence of such firm, so as to sustain an action on a bill of exchange. The cause was tried at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Justice, and a verdict given for the plaintiff, on which an objection war taken by Mr. MARRYATe and reserved for the opinion of the Court. Mr. Justice BEST held that very slight evidence of the existence of the old firm would sustain the action against the exiting partners, without binding such original partners as had withdrawn from the exist ing firm. The Court was of opinion that the verdict for the plaintiff (who was an innocent holder) should not the disturbed.--Rule refused. PALACE COURT.—TURNER v. CITAPMAN.-This was an action to recover the sum of £ll Ws. for work done and delivered. Mr. MANGLES stated the case, and called a number of witnesses, who proved the order of the defendant for a pump to be erected in his house, and a tender of £lO ;—.CI. 10s. was charged for the wages of two men for two days in ' • • A bet has.been offered- by a Gentleman, of 600 erecting a pump, together with the cartage ; and it guineas to 100, that he would produce a horse that was contended b r plaintiff that the charge in general will'trot eighteeti mites in one hone.. It is said the was moderate. o Mr. Messmer:, for the defence, spoke at some owner of the American hiatie tak en the bet. Tireaday night, some firocidtis a nimal got into a length, and observed £lO was a fair remuneration firr the business done; and to prove this, Witnelses field, near,Ospringe, wliere,there were some ewes for were called, who said the pump might hive been 'early lambing,' belonging to-Mr. FRANCES PERKAWS fixed in five or six limns, instead of two days.—A and Mr: - Jouit C'era'aissers, - stif PaVershani, and mad e bricklayer said he was only three hours taking up not known. were either mutilated, legs broken, de owned, or killed, terrible haro4 thehr; nearly forty o f w hi t * the pipe, for which he charged 4s. Inc admitted that it would occupy much more time in putting it down. • the field presenting-a complete scene Of.staughtet, Mr. MANGLES replied, and observed, that if the The dog, supposed to have committed 'aepreda bricklayer charged at the rate of lfis. per'day,'his esday What ht a:811 '%w gietA tion, was seen ronning'alean• hot is 1 . a cotta ge a t ggispi e . client's charge in conoparison Must be very . mode- nest , where a tee s aid S.: T a att . od rate. The Jury would also recollect, dud a than the fire. The woman Caught the birtrittal plAtti it . tu might destroy in one beim. Whit would take days to where another skylark was kept, aninhie pier ammo b e u we g : execute. The eta*, p g and lesses bein fits* Pleab._-_d w e ' a* * 46 ' l " dartioed'alre•eibibitiltriepfil - perrect ceeresiiinefor• 49- • ./ luta in a abort dine be ! moved. v er s everer days pest himuseusellosikolif oitti=e4prils .; jud g e ! B. Meeesce antnpled ip tn: Igoe Mireesst t le the sattiMossilmoe. of W .l . whOl lOW • iniat'clie: foetid a terilict te. the ...numerous parties et moristaik 684. Imeil wive* ailmat ir. !-rxerro,fry p aiatiff. Ditniget£l l o as. - . 1 briogieetiosa a passim of them weds . anadsame , •'-• • . • DUMFRIES CURLING MATCH'. From the 11th to the 17th of the present month, this old and favourite amusement seemed quite the order of the day, and was everywhere kept up with uncommon spirit. In the morning nothing was to be seen but the waving of brooms, and bet little heard save the clatter of cramps and cbannel.stoties, mingled with the noisy-mirth of combatant% to all appearance as eager to engage in the icy campaign. as if the fate of nations had de pended on the result. Within the time alluded to, a greater number of bonspids, as they are called, have been played than we have leisure to enumerate, or indeed have been informed of. Friday a match was decided between the Curling Society of Dom ' fries and the parish of Tinwald, on the Black Loch, at the head of Tinwald—a point to which our townsmen had to travel eight miles, sometimes through snow nearly three feet deep. The party, to the number of forty players, were immediately divided into five rinks, when, after a contest almost unparalleled for its keenness, the Dumfries Society carried the palm, having won at four, and only lost at one rink; and even at this the victory was decided by a single shot. At the conclusion of the game, each man was regaled with a bumper of good old stingo, and a thump ing piece of bread and cheese, when all left the Loch highly pleased with the sports of the day. Mr. Amu HANNAY is the present Preses of the Dumfries Curling Club, and` to his kind attention in forwarding the channel-stones by his own carts and servants, the members felt greatly indebted. THE WINTER IN PARIS. PARIS, JAN. 17.—The wratlus at Paris continues to be ex... trentely cold. On the 14th, the mercury experienced at Paris a greater depression than at any period within the memory of the oldest person now living in France. It fell 5-4ths of adegree below the minimum marked on the thermometers as the point to which it descended in the memorable frost of 1741--eleven and a quarter degrees (of Reatimor) under Zero ! Unaccui. corned as the English are to such an extreme of cold, those of your countrymen now resident in Path; bear it much better than their Gallic neighbours—so much so, that you would be in dined to say they had exchanged characters. On the Basin de la Vilette, near the Barricre St. Martin, where there was much skaiting, the English were left undisputed masters of the field. Many of the latter went through a number Of beautiful emits ? dons upon the ice, in a Style which proved pretty clearly to tan that the performers bad graduated on the Serpentine. One party executed with admirable precision several quadrilles, without making a single Asa pas in the intricate chain Angisia—otbete engraved their own initials, or G. R. upon the frozen tablet, while the more aspiring and dexterous essayed and succeeded is the spread eagle. Deterred equally by the cold and the rivalry of John Bull, not a single Po/ineur Francais appeared upon she Basin or the Canal d'Ourcq. In Parts the English were not idle. The Marquis of Woicirsvgai in a superb sledge, headed a line of at least a dozen simi ar. machines; several French were amongst his followers, one of whom (the Due de Gatcurt) you will recollect to have seen in London. Flying past the Moine ries, up the Rue Rivoli, across the Place Louis Qulnze, ascend ing the Champs Elysees, back again, up the Rue de la Pail, and along the Boulevards, this cortege had a picturesque and fuse effect. From the centre of each cat tote a species of siest, which was surmouned by a gaudy and nodding plume of feathers; the trappings of the horses by which they weredraWn, studded with innumerable glittering bells, while (the pun is irresistible) the Bolles inside each vehicle vied with-each - other in the profusion and costliness of the furs in uthich,they were.envetoped. This scene has been daily repeater) 'ince, and as there is no prospect of a thaw, bids fair to enliven the lgorth of Paris for som e Itime to come.