Star. — London, England, 1831-07-29 00:00:00

EVENING STAR. LON DON . FRIDAY, JULY 29. We have received the Polish official Gazette up to the 17th instant inclusive, at which time the particulars of the battle near Nlinsk were not alto gaher known in Warsaw. It appears, however, that the battle lasted three days, and that nine fleets cf cannon and nine hundred prisoners were ta:tcri from the Russians, and upwards of three itiut.:and Muscovites put hors de combat. To the dark deeds of Prussia, which have been mg on increasing ever since the coinmencement of the canpaign, we may add, that the boats and h'idges, by which PASKEWITSCH, and his hordes 44 Muscovites, crossed the Vistula, were sent from Thom, by these treacherous neighbours. So much for their deeds. But now the black Prue hiani have also declared, in word, that they are no lor,ga neutral, that they never were, nor ever in- tended to be so ; and that for (the future they will .- (lttleir faithful ally, NICHOLAS, and harms his r , :colted subjects, the Poles ! We are happy to add that Warsaw is prepared for MY attack ; the army and the people all are in the highest spirits, and firm in their determination to resist to the last. Nine pieces of cannon were brought into Warsaw when our advice, left. The Belgians treat with calmness and ration ality the groundless clap trap of Louis PHIL LIPPE about their Fortresses. They say very properly that before Fortresses are destroyed which stand on the soil of Belgium, the consent of the Belgians is necessary ; and they disclaim any agreement of which their Legislature is ignorant. The daring of the assertion, put them however in the wrong, and they will be Instructed and surprised when they read Lord GREY'S explanation, and the discussions in our Parliament. Then again as to their being or not being part of the German Con federation, was not a subject for boast to a King of FRANCE, who had as little to do with that question as with the Fortresses. Belgium never was part of the German Confederation, and as no one ever pro posed that it should become so, it is passing strange that Louts PHILIPPE should insinuate, that he had prevented what never bad been mooted. The annexation of Luxemburg, may, or may not, so far, connect Belgium with Germany ; but as that is a point not settled, it was ridiculous to found any assertion on a mere problem whose terms are undetermined. In our opinion, if Europe intends Belgium to be independent of France, it ought to encourage the Belgians to keep up their forces—not to menace France, which is ridiculous—but to protect Belgium. What, how ever, are we to think of a Government's opinion of its own past conduct, when it seeks popularity by such mean assertions, and superadds other boasts about Italy—a country which ought never to be named by the present Government of France ? Mr. O'CONNELL is proposing to establish the sure foundations of justice in Ireland, by reforming the JURY SYSTEM. The object is legitimate ; for we believe that Irish juries aro caricature juries, who merely take from the courts the responsibility of caprice, and confer plausibility on oppression. Now Mr. O'CoNwzi.t. is at once a liberal and superior man ; yet of the true cause of the evil he may know as little as Lord ERSKINE, who once told the writer of this paragraph, that it had never occurred to him to ask himself the question how the Jury got into the Box ; or, as Mr. PEEL, who pretended to legislate about juries, and missed the only point which needed prescription. The end is a fair judgment of the community at large on the question at issue. Hence 12 men passing con secutively through a public thoroughfare would be the best aye! age of the community. But twelve neighbours out of ono street in a town, or one parish in the country, would be no average of the community; for all such juries must consist of ten or eleven obsequious persons, governed by one or two, who had acquired an habitual ascendency over the others, and to whom the ten or eleven usually defer. Yet nine times in ten, from idle ness, this is the way juries are convened, for the summoning officer has then but one walk, and the clerk, who copies the list, but one page to open. Hence, that definite character which a jury acquires, during a term or assize; if the one or two leaders a re ki n d men, t h e verdicts are merciful—if severe men, distinguished by prompt convictions. It is not a decision by 12, but by one or two ; and as lawyers do not sit on Juries, they are ignorant of this cause. Call the Jury from two districts—i. e. put two cocks or leaders of six into the Jury, and they will uni formly debate long before they come to a decision. Yet, it is a convenience to Jurymen, who come from a distance, to travel in company ; but this in- 1 dulgence to them may be combined with a ' neutralization of leaders, and an average of intel ligence, by impannelling every Jury from three districts, or in three fours taken as distant from each other, as the jurisdiction permits. Such then is the elementary construction of a good Jury, and any Law which does not secure this mixture of influence, and average of intelli gence, misses the object. The whole is fully dis cussed in PHILLIPS on Juries, a book read in every European Language, more than its own. The next object is to prevent the picking of men, either by Sheriff or the Summoning Officer, who too often takes blank Summonses and sells exemptions ; and therefore there should be a penal clause, compelling the sheriff's office to fill up the summonses to twelve or six- teen in three districts, in the exact order in which they stand in the general list, annually returned for the purpose. They should then be called and sworn talternately, so that the twelve should con sist of four from three districts as remote as pos sible from each other. The same rale should govern the summoning and impannelling of every kind of jury, whether grand, special, or common, since the decisions of all require a free, honest, and independent average of public common-sense opinion on the subjects brought before them. If Mr. O'CoN N ELL'S Bill embrace these points, he will be a benefactor to his country; but if he leave this foundation of security and justice still open to listlessness or intrigue among Sheriffs, or their knavish subalterns, he exposes society to that afilicting uncertainty, under which men have fretted through life for so many ages. Nor will he deserve praise if he disfigure the statute book by an inefficient law ; for then he will do the same mischief as PEEL, who being supposed by ignorant or idle people to have done all that was wanted, since that is the implied intention of every legisla tor, has forestalled others who, with sounder views, may desire to render the system perfect. The following is an extract of a letter received this morning from a correspondent in Paris, whose mean, of information are unusually good. We give it as we receive it ; at the same time stating that the confidence we place in the good faith of our present ministers, does not admit us to doubt, but that the apparent discrepancy which its state ment, if correct, involves, can be easily and honour ably explained : " Not to charge with absolute falsehood the statement which your Ministers have given, as to the demolition of the Belgian fortresses, it is almost impossible to avoid saying, that their memories have proved strangely treacherous, since it was not un til their permission was obtained, , that the ex pressions on the demolition of the fortresses, and neutrality of Belgium, were admitted into the speech of the citizen King. They must recollect very well, that upon this occasion the President of the Council of French Ministers sent his eon— M. CASIMIR PERI ER, junior, expressly that he might verbally explain, that his fa ther and colleagues could not venture to declare their assent to the nomination of Prince LEOPOLD, unless they were permitted to announce in the KING'S Speech, the demolition of the fortresses and the neutrality of Belgium. This decision was formed on the 7th July in a council at Paris. On the Bth M. C. PERIER was dispatched to London ; from the 10th to the 12th, negociations on the subject took place between M. TALLEYRANn and your Ministers, which ter minated in their admitting, that the:demand of the French Government was well founded, and that they felt themselves the more strengthened in that result, from its having received the passive assent of Prince LEOPOLD. It must be regretted that your Ministers have committed themselves 'on a point, which can so easily be rebutted by the Mi nisters of France." The Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday says : —" Notwithstanding the luminous and persuasive address of Baron SMITH, the Grand Jury ignored the bills for murder in the Castlepollard case ! Bills for manslaughter have been found against Chief Constable BLAKE, and some of the Police who acted under his orders. When our com munication was despatched yesterday (Monday) the Clerk of the Crown was going through the panel, preparatory to the trial of the accused." The Regis ter makes no mention of a rumour which prevails here to-day, that a sanguinary conflict has taken place at Newtownbarry, between the Yeomanry and the people of that place ; in which, it is reported, thirty-six of the Yeomanry were killed !—This rumour is noticed by our City Correspondent, as being current on 'Change. This day, his Excellency, Monsieur SYLVAN VAN DE WEYER, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary, from Belgium to the British Court, accompanied by the Secretary of Legation, Monsieur JEAN BAPTISTE WALLET, transacted business at the Foreign Office in Downing-street. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 82R # for the account, opened at 82i afterwards were done at 82t, since which they hare receded to 821 and at present they are S2l TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been fluctuating during the morn ing, from 82i down to 824, and are at present 82& buyers for the Account. THREE O'CLOCK. Swocx Excnawcm.—Bank Stock, Three per CL Red. 831 3. Three rer Cent. Consols, .821 11. Three and • Half per Cent. 181 R. 91. Three ands Half per Cent. Red. 901 1 6. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 906 6. Four per Cent. 1846, 991 1. Long Annuities, Jan. 1360, Annuities, Oct. 1869, 176 1.16 3-16. Annuities. Jan. 1860, India Stock, • do. Bonds, B 1 3 prem. Old Annuities, £ lOO O Exchequer Bills, 13 16 15; £3OO do. 13 16 15 ; £lOO and 4200 do. 13 16 16. Consols for Account. 821 1. There is a report in town from Dublin this morning, of a sanguinary conflict between the yeo manry of Newtownbarry and the people of that place, in which 36 of the yeomanry were killed. Private advises from Paris bring accounts of the first of the three days rejoicings having passed over quietly ; and, according to all appearance, the other two days will be the same. The reported interference of Prussia to put down the Poles still continues, and has had the effect of lowering the funds this morning. Accounts from Warsaw state, that the Munici pal Counsel has given notice to the inhabitants of Warsaw, not to resist the requisition about to be made for horses, which will take placo in a day or two. The Polish army now occupy all the country evacuated by the Russians on the other side of the Vistula. The lines extend from Pul tusk to Wysezogrod ; and it was expected that in the environs of the latter place a decisive battle would take place. A report was in circulation that two persons from Vienna and Berlin were expe c t e d at Warsaw, who were to make important commu nications to the Government. The Message? des Chanthres announces (from authority) that the Conseil Superieur de Sante, established in 1822, sits daily, and has done so ever since the first appearance of the cholera in Europe, to devise measures for protecting France against the disease. Roscommon ELLCTION.—It gives us the most sincere pleasure to be able to state, that an honest, able, and efficient reformer has been returned for the county Roscommon, in the person of O'Conor Don, who thus succeeds his patriotic father, in the laborious duty of honestly and efficiently defending the rights of his countrymen.—O'Conor Don was, on Monday, proposed to the electors by Daniel Kelly, Esq. of Cargins, and his nomination seconded by Oliver D. Grace, Esq. of Mantua. No one presumed to dispute the claim of O'Conor Don upon the county, and he was unanimously elected.—Monsimg Register. an inch of the territory of Holland shall re l o st without being purchased by blood. We swear it." Then all present uncovered, and, with outstretched hands, repeated, " fre swear it;" which words, like electric fire, dew t hrough all the ranks of our army. The Prince was, for a moment, too much moved to an•%er: soon recovering, he said, he regretted that His Majesty had not been present to witness such a scene; but that he should make his Majesty acquainted with all the "articular! the same morning. His Majesty and the Princes, it is said, are' expected here again to.morrow or next day, after which they will go to op-Zoom.—Dutch Papers, July 27. ST. PETERSBURGH PAPERS, RECEIVED THIS DAT. PETEItSBURCIA, JULY 9.—On the 4th inst. died 1' icy Councillor Lanskoi, aged 79, of the Infirmities ol,! Age. His long services to the Sovereign and the :country, and his amiable and honourable private cha r:act. Kill make him long regretted by all who knew him. Jr: v I l.—According to an official notice published by tiovanor of the City, a special commission has been s ppointed by his Majesty to try the persons arrested during .f., 1.1. e troubles. Majesty the Emperor has received the following I From Field-Marshal Count Paskewitsch. Th Field-Marshal arrived at the head-quarters of the trmv, confided to him on the 25th June; and having e , the arrangements made before his arrival, by the C lei of the Staff of the army, entirely approved them. The corps of the guards, and all the troops of the army ele field, were reviewed by the Field Marshal, and found the best condition. 2. From Count Tolstoi, Commander of the Reserve army. This report gives an account of the pursuit of the corps of • ;en. G ieigu d, atter its repulse from Wilna. Gen. Sicken sur :.tised the insurgents, 2000 in number, in the town of Kowno, from which they were driven and pursued eight wersts.— Brigadier General Ketternicki, Colonel Plotrer, Major Sa- 1 iirlsky, 29 inferior officers, and above 600 privates were made prisoners. The Russians had one private killed ; one officer and ten privates wounded. 3. From Field 3larshal ;Count Sicken, commanding the Istarmy: In the Goverments of Podolia, Volhynia, and 'Clew, the troops of rebels are wholly dispersed and de stroyed a tranquillity is every where restored ; and the In. =lttgents do not even chew themselves in small parties. The measures ordered for the maintenance of tranquillity .; future, are executed with energy. CHOLERA MORBUS. Russia. New cases. Deaths. Recovered. July 8-665 3)9 186 11 9-887 525 177 14 lit-1221 579 207 48 11-1515 870 277 54 The number of persons attacked since the commencement of the disorder, is 3070; deaths, 1311 ; recovered 250. On the Pith in the morning there remained 1754 patients of which 139 S were in private houses, and 859 in the hos. pital,-136 were expected to recover. Toe Petersburg Gazette contains a long list of promotions n the army.—Si. Petersburg Papers, July 13. :RUSSIAN PAPERS-RECEIVED THIS DAY• ME mei., July 17.—The remains of General Gielgud have t , 2cn buried by'the Poles in the bivouac assigned them on the :3:11 in the Prussian territory, near the village of Stettin. His assasstn is said to be Lieut. Skulski, of the corps of Roh. and is reported to have shot himself soon afterwards. The corps of Gielgud and Chlapowsky consists, according :o a list given to the Prussian authorities by the latter Gen. of 2,108 men, viz. 2142 subaltern officers and privates,:3s s:aff officers, 202 offices, 13 surgeons, &c. They had 620 ufEcers' horns, and 689 soldiers' horns, and 6 cannon, which last are brought for the present to Memel. The wounded, 307 in number, are already well bound, and the remainder if the corps removed on the 14th to a dryerand better bivouac r ear the river Mengeand Sehemen ; where it is kept in quer -,r,tinc, surrounded by infantry and cavalry ; these men are 'n perfect good health. KONIGSBERG, Joys la—The Polish General Rohland is said to have lost many men and six cannon, in the short march from Langallen to Coadjuten, where be entered the Prussian territory. Dembuski, the only Polish General now remaining in Samogitia and Lithuania, with his corps, :s said to be surrounded by the Russians in a point four (eighteen) miles from Memel; but to be resolved rather to suffer by them than to enter the Russian territory. Wansaw, JULY 18.—In consequence of the action at Slink, a detachment of the enemy in Sietserza is said to be :::t off. Six hundred and eighty. three Russian prisoners, taken by General Chmanowski, arrived at Warsaw the lay before yesterday. And troops are said to bare ^ccupied Plozk and Mlawa, and Gen. Sierowski, to have taken 2000 prisoners and 7 cannon. The Russian General Know Knorney, is said to be killed. Gen. Pahlen's corps has 3trived at Lipno ; it consists of twelve regiments of infantry, Ich of two battalions, three regiments of cavalry, and 72 :annon. 1 The Ira rum:Courier says—News has been received that the enemy will go to the province of Kaliseh, before approach Warsaw. Our papers say that Field Marshal Paskewitsch has set a: liberty several of the wounded Polish officers, who are e prisoners in Ostrolenka, on giving their parole to take farther part in the war. —Prussia* :Stare Gareth', July 23. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland visited his Majesty on Wednesday afternoon previous to his departure from town for Windsor. Prince Paul, of Wurtemberg, paid his respects to the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland on Wednesday afternoon, on his arrival in this country, at their residence at St. James's Palace. The French, Russian, and Austrian ambassa dors, and the Prussian minister, had a conference with Vis count Palmerston yesterday, at his lordship's private resi dence in Stanhope-street ; Earl Grey visited the noble vis count yesterday. M. Feick, the Dutch ambassador, had an inter view with Viscount Goderich yesterday, at the Colonial Office. The Spanish and Danish ministers transacted business yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. WEVIIIOUTH ELECTION—WEDNESDAY. STATE OF THE POLL, TOWITH DAY, HALF.PAST TWO, P. M. Mr. Baring '%Vall. . Mr. Ptendergast Majority for Mr. Wall ... 215 REFORM BILL. We regret extremely that so many mistakes take place in taking the divisions on this bill ; but' in a crowded house it is scarcely possible to avoid them, unless members will take some trouble to record their own proceedings. We understand that lists of members in each county have been made out separately, and given to one of the members of the county, to whom every other member may, if he thinks proper, report his vote at the time. There is also an easy method of avoiding mistakes as to members who may pair, as a book has been prepared, and is ready for every member who is for the bill to enter his name with the name of the member with whom be has paired, and the time he is to be absent ; and we would do well to receive with caution those reports of voting, as it has been stated that, in every division that has yet been printed, more members have claimed to have voted for the bill than the numbers on the di vision showed.—Herald. The Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell, the philanthropic Prebendary of Westminster, in addition to his other munificent donations, has announced his in tention of endowing a Professorship of Ecclesi astical History in Edinburgh, for the use of Students for the Episcopal Church in Scotland and the Colonies. Lord Howard of Effingham, who, with the younger branches of his family, has been sojourn ing a length of time in Italy, has arrived in town from the Continent, for the purpose of taking his seat in Parliament. If the political principles of the noble Baron assimilate with those of the members of the patrician house of Howard, who have sup ported the Reform Bill on every division in the House of Commons, it may reasonably be expected that his Lordship will not obstruct the progress of the measure in the other House of Parliament. COMMON HALL ON THE REFORM BILL. -. A requisition has been numerously and respectably signed for a Common Hall, to express the sense entertained by the Livery of London of the delays in passing the bill, and of the vexatious and pro longed opposition raised against it. Mr. Harmer, the Common Councilman, Mr. Dillon, and other of the requisitionists, yesterday waited on the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, who expressed the greatest readiness to hold the hall. As Monday, the earliest day for which notice could be given, will be occupied with the opening of London bridge, the Common Hall will be held on Tuesday or Wednesday next. There is a rumour prevalent of the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Butson, Lord Bishop of Clonfert. We do not vouch for the truth of the report. There was a grand review and sham-fight in the Pbcenix Park, Dublin, on Saturday, under the direction of Sir E. Blakeney. The Ist Dragoon Guards 10th Hussars, Scotch Fusileer Guards, 70th and 92d Foot, and the Depot of the 60th Rifies,with a train of artillery, were on the ground. Almack's grand ball, on Wednesday evening, was attended by above four hundred distinguished members of the fashionable world. Dancing was kept up with great spirit till four o'clock. The period which this celebrated resort of the haul-lox generally closes for the season has arrived ; but in consequence of so considerable a number of per sons of distinction being detained in town by the sitting of Parliament, the ladies' patronesses con template extending the subscription to one or two nights more. _ As the Harlequin steam-boat was coming up the river on Tuesday, just opposite Deptford, she per ceived a government steam-vessel bearing down , upon her. The rapid approach of the latter excited I great alarm on board the Harlequin, the captain of which, with several passengers, terrified at the prospect of certain destruction, immediately cried out, and most earnestly exhorted the peo ple on board of the Government vessel to keep off. No attention, however, was paid to their entreaties ; the vessel held on her direct and rapid course, in which she must have met and sunk the Harlequin, had not the latter fortunately just cleared her by running on shore. Among the company on board were two members of Parlia ment, some East India Directors, and some other gentlemen, who immedtately prepared and signed a memorial to Sir James Graham, animadverting in strong terms on the gross misconduct of the captain of the Government vessel. This vessel proves to be the Pluto, and in consequence 1 of the statement of Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford, and other passengers on board the Harlequin steam-packet on Tuesday last, on her return from Margate, the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered an immediate investigation to take place into the circumstances stated, before a court-martial. Un less the severest punishment is inflicted on the person, whoever he may be, who is found guilty, the inquiry will be a mere mockery.— Times. In France a new Civil List has been prepared, more moderate than the last, containing items for the express support of the Royal Household only. The list, which filled five or six pages in the Royal Almanack of last year, is now to be reduced to half a page ; and the salaries of Ambassadors and Con suls are reduced almost to the American scale. The following vessels are at present in Catwater, performing quarantine, five of which have black balls in the centre of the yellow flag (which denotes they are from infected places, and have unclean bills of health), a circumstance almost unprece dented in this port :—Fate, Moritz, ftoni Dantsic ; Fried., Nitzer ; John and William, Beble ;'Friends, Dukes, and Providence, Walker, from Memel ; Agenoria, Martin, and Boren, Ness, from Pe tersburg; Charles, Sanderson, and Betsy, South wood, from Riga. BREACH OF PRIVILEGP—OO3:MoNs. Another unlucky " stranger" was captured ia the House of Commons last night. He not only ventured into "the enemy'scamp," het was actuaby present at, and at first counted in, the disvision re specting Cockermouth, little everting that in so doing he was so noar the /;ores mouth. It appeared that the luckless gentleman is a very respectable gc tleman of the name of Wentworth residing in Lower Seymour -street, that he had been under the gallery, introduced by a member, that his nominee*throut. t whose means he gained his seat in the house, was Col Clements, that, when the division came, by duly mu ved off with others— that, being neurally stranger' in the the house (never before haring been there.) he followed, as he thought, the example of his betters— that, in so doing, he went along divers passages and sundry winding staircases till he found himsel in " the gallery"-- that lie no difference between tho strangers' galled ) . and, to him, the humorous strange gentleman'; or side gallery—that he remained, as he sup posed a passive spectator, and only in his proper place ; but that, in the progress of the division, he was pointed out as no honourable menthe% Though, as a resident of Seymour -street, he might , have pleaded a nominal claim on Col. Seymour, the ruthless Serjeant-at-arms consigned hint to durance vile,' and there he was detained till tier speaker resumed the chair, when the caption was to be mentioned to him. The stranger's name, perhaps, strange to say, was strangely enough against hint, for as there are people so fearful of "an enemy I sing in the camp," it may have been imagined that he was a spy from " Wentworth House," or a clan destine supporter of all schemes to destroy irrespon sible, fickle, and not always very rationally c xercised power. In sober sadness, m-.y it be asked whether the privileges of the house, or the dignity of Pa rlia ment,would have been in any way comp: o.nised,lf thin gentleman, who was never in the house till last night, had been told which was the way out for strangers, instead of being fidgetted by being taken into custody and locked up in a tittle room for several hours, to await the Speaker's resump tion of the chair? If strangers are to be acc.. mma dated under the gallery, or in the gallery, ought so obvious a mistake on their part, such clear proof that no insult or breach of Privilege could have been for an instant contemplated, to subject them to that sort of ostentatious capture, which, with many in dividuals, might not be attended with the most agreeable consequences. If the messengers were to take into custody all those who wander out of the right paths, and even into the side galleries, they would daily have " prisoners ;" but the mistako being discovered, the wanderers are set right, and the privileges of the House remain unscathed.— Herald. CIIOLERA.—A letter has been addressed by the Privy Council to the Moderator of Scotland, re questing him to write to the clergymen of the ma ritime parishes of Scotland, directing them to cau tion the people as to the nature of the cholert morbus, and recommend them, on account of the danger to be apprehended, not to communicate with any vessels arriving on the coast until they shall have been regularly admitted to entry by the officers of Customs; and also that he will be pleased to notify, that persons having any such communica tion will be subject to penalties from 501. to 4001. CHURCH PERSECUTION.—On Thursday las., effects belonging to a respectable merchant on the South Bridge, were romped at the Cross, to pay the Ministers' stipend tax. A great number of people collected to witness the sale. The goods were bought in, to prevent their being carried to the weigh house, the only bidders present being a friend of the props ir tor, and a town officer among the crowd, who gave a bode to keep up the appearance of a sale, A laughing faced porter stood in juxtaposition with the auctiones-, like the devil at a hwyer's " lug,* beating aloft a huge board, labelled on each sdo with " Houp for ministers stipends," This outrage on the feelings of the inhabitants is going forward in defiance of a case for resisting this obnoxious and partial tax, now before the Lord Ordinary." The taunts and jeers at the sale were so cutting, that the poor auctioneer himself grew pale, his hand trembled like an aspin leaf, and his knees smote together with fear.—Scotsman. There is no better criterion of the influence of public opinion than the number and the size of newspapers. Two newspapets supply the kingdom of Naples; Portugal has as many; and the Spa nish monarchy about four ; France possesses from 150 to 200 ; the British Isles about 400 ; and the United States 1000. Ten years ago, the Conbti-: tutionnel was about one-fourth part of the Star, and badly printed on coarse paper ; but since that time all the French journals have been extending their dimensions. The Tensps Paris Paper is so • larged to a size exceeding the English Times. .1 he present price is only 80 fr. or 645. per annum, or two pence and half a farthing for each number. Such is the result of the absence of paper and newspaper taxes. DRY ROT.—The Navy Board having approved of Mr. Body's proposed chemical method of pre paring wood to resist the dry lot, in 1823 some timber was delivered to him to undergo the process recommended, which being executed it was subsequently placed in his Majesty's ship Wind sor Castle, that its durability might be proved. This vessel is recently returned from active service in the Mediterranean, a station proverbial, with other hot climates, for prsducing dry rot. A few days since the timber was examined at this dock-yard by order of the Navy board. The orlop beam appeared to be dry, hard, and well seasoned. On opening the deck of the ski) above it there was no appearance of fungus, and on boring into those parts of the beam which usually become first defective, they were found fres from rottenness. A report has subsequently been forwarded to his Majesty's Government, and our townsman will probablybe allowed a wider scope for the trial of his remedy,whichwe understand is altogether novel, the plan being to extract the malignant qualities from the wood, while others have endeavoured to counteract the malady by the injuncti.n of nos trums. The most valuable part of the new pieces, is the facility with which the timber can be effec tually reasoned. The Lord Bishop of Exeter has signified his intention to hold a confirmation at Scilly in the end of August. This will be without a parallel, no native of Scilly having ever had an opportunity of enjoying that rite of christianity on his own soil. f ' , e. I )2