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MI . ~T r. 4 F ~•' a ~' ~' increases daily ; so that considering the opposition *hooch the Constitutionalists have to combat iii this country, it is to be feared they will be overpowered or obliged to repass the Ebro. The columns of Colonels Campine sad Jaurelisi are continually in motion—the first in 13i4=, the second in Guipuscoa. where they ham bsaitemtheir adversaries whenever they could overtake Them, winch is not easy. because they follow the plan isred by Quenda in Norm% which is to enlist MO organise troops, to cut off the communica tions, intercept the couriers, attack the small es • mitts and garrisons; but it be said, that, gitb the exception of St. Sib Yron Tolosa, . _Seegers, 3londrago,Dura they are masters of the w ce, so that the list remittance of the Inau, ting to two mil lions of francs, which was some days ago from Bayonne, for Ge spiny,. was still de tained at Yrun the day be re yesterday, fur fear it should fall into their hands. The accounts from Navarre are nearly of the same nature. Espinosa. at the bead of 3,000 men, divided into three cohaanak advanced on the 9rl upon the positions of.,Quesada, and occupied on the 4th Grin: and Anis, but the General of the Faith and the Trap fills having together about four thousand men, had advanced from the Honest, going along the Mountains on the volley of Canfran, having left a garrison of 300 men at Irati, sud a battalion of 600 at Ochagavia, Taurieta. Aronot, Espana, and Le Roach,. Oo the sth Quesada surrounded the frit:trees of hems, and summoned the Governor to surrender. It is very probable he would have taken ii if General Enspecinado, at the head of 800 men, hiscl . no( arrived in time to force him to raise the siege,,on the 6th, after ao action in which there were • about 30 killed, and some wounded oil both sides. Espinosa. continuing his march to Le Roucal to pursue Quesada, the latter and the Trappist iuroed srpoo Median° sod Horses, in Arragoo, where they have carried off and united to their forces all the youth they found in their way. The later accounts If the two armies are not known; bat to judge by Quesada's proceedings, it would seem that, encou raged by the snivel of the Trappist, he lies resolved to quit the mountains sod enter Arragon. which must have disconcerted the plans of Espinosa, who hoped to attack him, and force him to withdraw into France. Others pretend that Quesada has been forced, against his will, to enter Arragion. - Whatever may be said, Quesada retains the com mend of the division of Navarre ; his services to the royal cause have procured him the praise cud the confidence of the troops he commando, and certsinly .jt f must not be forgotten, that it was not until the 9.3 th of June that this general entered Spain with about 900 men, and that he has now under his com mand above 5,000 men, of whom two-thirds are perfectly termed, equipped, aud disciplined, besides 400 cavalry not iuferior in courage to their adver . aariM. Jt is, however, positively a ffi rmed to-day, that treneral O'Donnell, who is at Bayonne, is going to foie the command of the division of gavotte, which daily ittcrei es, Quesada having twice offered to reggn.. , %eh is the state of affairs 'tithe provinces on the side of the Ebro, where the counter-revolution makes such rapid progress, that unless the Omni . tutionalists receive sufficient reinforcements, it is to be rested these provinces will recover their ancient jgdependence, that is to say theirfireros end privi v, which are continually promised them. yesterday there arrived at the Lszeretto of 'Atdia.., two soldiery of the Faith, from Biscay, with dispatches for General Equir. 011 the same Idly a clique muree from l-squestio, anchored in be port of Sucos. to be placed at the disposal of peoeral Equia. Yesterday some geord'ornses stop figrfon the road from Yrun to Bider' a postillion with dispatches from Madrid for Paris, comigned to the house of Bastarrec.he ; the courier had remained at the bizaret of Behobte. It iv affirmed that the dis pitches have been deposited with the Sub-Prefect Of, this city, who is provisionally intrusted with the direction of the police, and that, notwithstanding the application of the house of Bastarreche, it has not been able to get the dispatcheit. The courier vim for the house of Rothschild in Paris. Six hours Jitter the house of L rrrrr e received another escort's, teltich Dot having been detained, proceeded to Paris. ..The mails from Madrid, Pampelune, and Bilbos, are suit due. i 1 i z 1 i , 1 , $. ,i '- HANBURCH MAIL. BT. PETIIRIBURGH, AUGUST 30. The, rettript directed by his Majesty on the itth instant to the Minister of the Interior, Count otscbuberg. respecting the dissolution of all imeret societies and freemasons lodges, is as fol lows Coos? Pasta PAVLOWitICII, The troubles and disorders which bat'e arises in various sitter Slain, throngh the exisiesee of secret societins, non st-which, under the name of Freemason*, were at Mat tweed- Ad kw charitable purposes, sod others sly pursued' poll. *al objects, have induced some Goveromeots to pay stricter gyration to them, and is the tad wholly to prohibit such secret associations. As I always direct particular attendee tb the creation of a arm bulwark ageism every thing that may be injurious to the empire, and especially 41 a lime like She pretest, when unhappily so many States offer sad exam. ,pales of the ruinous cossequeuces of the philosophical sub. *dies now in wogs', I have found it necessary Kt the gear sal good to command as follows, with respect to the above wientioned secret societies:- Ist. All secret societies, under whatever same they exist (as well as the freemasons lodges), 'ball be closed, and the p▪ tablishmeat not tu be allowed. td. Ail the members of such societies, as soon as they 'babe informed of this measure, are tomtits., is writing, to take no part henceforward, under any pretext, in any menet society, under whatever well-meaning name it may mitt, either is the empire or in foreign coltatries. 3d. As it does not become officers in the public service to• Mod themselves by soy oath but that whitb the laws deter. mine, the Ministers and Antboritira are bound to reyoire Amu those subordinate to them a frank declaration, whether Obey biding to any freemasuits lodge . , or Whet secret society, is snout of the empire, and what that society is. 4* A written engagement is to b- taken hors the mem- Imes of thrum that they will break. of all istercourre with them and - be who refines to Witt such an engagement shall be dismissed from the public service. Ath. The Antlettritles in the Governments are strictly m isdeed to take tare teat oo lodges subsist or be created airy when, or under any pretest whatsoever. 14. That all persons employed is the public service en. owe by their Moistures, according to the 3d and 4th aem Gess, not to4eloag to any secret society, either now or is lettere. Without bawls( sigoed inch so engsgemeitt they wpm be employed is our service. emismiviiiced that you will went sothiag to effect the due elocution of my and that 'you will eontaasui este this to the other Munster, that they say eo.operste with you fur this purpose. (Sicaed) ALEXANDER. The Ulisse/Restript) has been read partly in the Russia's language. partly in the translation, to all Public 'Seers and freemasons. in 'consequence all seers here, as *ell as all other members of freemason lodges now present, hive signed the en pasemeat rtivired, and they are already delivered to the Minister. The police too huts already ex amined the places where the freemason* held their meetings, to see whether all the emblems. &e. were rooo , etl. Lest week the freeinssour sold theft fur niture by auction among themselves. All hate 'hewn the greatest readiness to execute hisMojesty's commands. A great many persons were discharged from their offices shortly before the Emperor's departure. M. Rothschild, who is still here, was present last week at • grand diplomatic dinner at the hotel of the Austria.) Ambassador, Baron Lebexeltern. M. Rothschild has been fur some days very seriously ill, and his friends are in great alarm for him. Expresses, with the opinions of the phyou ciattr, have been dispatched to the houses at London and Paris. STOCKHOLM. SEPTIMBER 3. In the night of the 30th ult. we had mother fire (the sixth tins year). One building, indeed, only was burnt, but unhappily the highly-respected family of M. 13.111serg loot every thing, including the highly valuable museum of nature! history. w•wAW, SEPTIMBIit I. Hi■ Majesty the Emperor left us this morning, brit we hope to see bim •gain on his return.— (lionsburgh Papers, September 13.) HANDMIGH, SEPTIENIBMI 13. Exchange on Lond.ii,—.37. 1. ; 37. 4. IT. PILTEMISURGH, ♦UGUST 30. Exchange—. Loadosi l4i Huabargh 9 ll Amsterdam lO 3 32 I Parts lO6 GRRRt PROCLAMATION. giROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF GREECE. Whereas the (Jaeger menacing the West's Coatinent of w, god co/momently the whole of Greece, is great and ent; and whereas it is oecesoary that the wool/oat and Seel exirsurdioary measures should be taken; " In virtue of the 3391 h srtirle of the Deeree of the Lee*. 'atilt( Body of the 11th of May, the President of the Rec essive did decree, aud dues decree as follows: " 1. That all the inhabitants of the Wester, Continent of Greece, of whatioever class, from 16 to 60 years pf age, with out exception, must take up arms, sod most repair to alibi • they the danger of the country may call them. " 2. All Greeks, from 16 to 60 years of age, who, having left the country io these critical moments, sod taken refuge in the Neighbouring lonian latitude, do ant return within three days after the above decree shall be made known to them, in order to second theesettioesoftheir brethren, will be declared expelled from their couotry, and their property, real and perms!, shall be publicly sold by auctioN. " 3. Whoever in these circumstances shall show them selves unworthy of their country, and disobedient, not only will they be declared as such, but will lose every right of Citizens; their property will be sold by public auction, and the produce of it serve as pay to the soldier, who defend the pantry. " Military acid Civil °Beers are charged with the is 'mediate execution of the above Decree. " Machu., Jell 7 (19), rein. • (Mooed) " MAUROCORDATO. " la the absence of the Psineipal Secretary of Stale, (Signed) "H. POLISOI DEA." tUt hlkti s. LONDON, THURSDAY, SIPTIIIM 19. 111514. We have received Flamburgh Papers to the 14th inst. They announce the departure of the Emperor of Russta, on the lat, from Warsaw for Vienna. Letters of recent date have been received fens Lisbon, from which it appears that the Portuguese Loan, so ihruchliillied of, has ended in nothing.— The National Bank, as we before learnt, had offered to advance the money, but only for a limited time. This proposal had not been accepted, and indivi. duals had accordingly been applied to, to lend the sum regained, and it has been borrowed at the rate of fire 'per ant. for every 951., on condition that whenever repayment is made, the persons making the Loan shall receive 1001. for every 95/. These terms, considering the present state of the money market of EuroPe, may be considered a little exor bitant. The revenue of Portugal has proved very defi cient, not yielding more than two-thirds of the amount formerly - collected. This circumstance has, in tact, rendered the Loan necessary; and the advices of yeaterdsy talk seriously of some change in the commercial system of Portugal, in order to render it more productive. The expedition for the Brazils had not sailed, and the day for that event seemed as distant as ever. The people of Lisbon, in general, were wholly in the dark as to the situatiou of the Braz,la, and even soasewof those best informed doubted ■s to the course the Pan lts REGENT at Rio Janeiro might be compelled to tali,. We have received the Paris - Papers of firerday last. Instead of giving ally 'new amnesia from Turkey, they indulge in speculations wpm the old ; the general tendency of which is unfavosirabie to the rumoured sorcerers of the Greeks. One of these Papers, the Journal des Debuts, considers that op pressed and persecuted people reduced so low, the Turks may now safely extend to them the enjoy ment of their religious and civil rights. A man's insignificance has often proved his best protection. Wehope thatrOreece is not reducer:lto that state set. Bayonne Papers to the 101 h instant hive arrived. Extracts are given in our precediag columns. The from bladrid of Abs'iltb state, that ._ :. the Decree of the icin g is published for the meet ing of the Extraordinary Cortes on the Ist of Oc tober. The Constitutional party hope that the new loon Will enable the Ouiernment to put down the insurrection in the northern proVinces. and the share taken in it by the English bankers mukes them flatter themselves that the Cabinet of St. 3.11111e11.11 will not oppose the Constitutional systeth. Notwithstanding the afflicting State of Catalonia, &c. the greatest hopes are entertained that Mina, Torrijos, Milans, and Rohn, will be able to main. tain themselves till the reinforcements on their *ay to join them shall arrive. In the southern pro "incea there are still some predatory bands, but the inhabitants are animated with the greatest attach ment to the system, and perhaps even too ardent in their zeal ; for the accounts from Cad a, Seville, Grenada, Cordova, Malaga, Jaen, Murcia, and Va lencia, state that a great many persons, chiefly Ec clesiastics, have left their homes to avoid the perse cntion of the Liberals. -..-•••••••M.w. The present Marriage Act stands on our records as a monument of human folly. It meets with op position in every quarter; but if the people felt and acted.. they ought on such an occasion, they would, as soon as the Parliament re-assembled, insist on its erasure from the Statute Book. The principle on which it is founded is jute, that parties solemnly married, though the banns should be irregular, or the license improperly obtained, shall not, after cohabitation, for such irregulatity, annul the con tract ; but this principle presents itself to the ostler' in the midst of language the most obscure, of blun ders the most disgusting, of forms the most absurd, and of regulations the most intricate. The Act of 20 George 11. was bad enough ; and the law that compelled the poor, who could not afford a license, to have their banns read three times in the church, is a blot its our code. It is the duty of a statesman to contribute all io his power to keep the morals of the people in purity, and a wise statesman would endeavour to preserve the delicacy of females. A judicious regulation often produces effects which the most sangiiiiie could not anticipate; and it is easy to corrupt, but difficult to purify a people. In this age in vain may we expect a sanctity of man ners, whilst a looseness of morals so universally prevails. This senseless statute exposes the young people who are about to be married to the ribaldry of the obticersi., arid imposes on females a task which they ought not to perform. Whilst the Bishop was administering the solemn rites of ordi nation in our Cathedral," septa contemporary Paper, " three or four girls were laughing and giggling about the persons mentioned in the notice." Such exhibitions, as the Act requires, sully the character of the sex ; tend to suppress that modesty which is their loveliest characteristic; and, instead of en couraging the delicate relation of man and wife. they throw chstacles in the way of matrimony. So rude and so barbarous is air Legislature, so indif ferent to decorum, and to that sensitive feeling which gives grace to woman, that there is nothing relating to the holy contract, however preposterous, . . which we may not anticipate from its caprice— nothing, however di•guaiing, which we may not an ticipate from its folly. If the Act were only absurd, it might be borne with patience--it is mischievous, nod ought to be abolished. Those who are ac quainted with the mode of passing Acts, and the erasures, amendments, corrections, udditioov, and interpolations, which take place in their progress, are est astonished, when they receive the royal assent, that they are too often a congeries of contra diction•, and a farrsgo of absurdities. it is the least part of the nonsense of the present law, that the house or houses rf their respective abodes shall be affixed on the principal door of the church or chapel, and in some conspicuous place within. The conjuror who is to effect this sleight of hand is not described ; and the parties may employ any necro mancer of their own choosing to affix the houses on the outside of the door of the church, and in the inside of the same church at the same time ! But a clause requires what nobody can perform, unless the parties procure an armed sentinel to guard the notice, that the same shall remain so sexed until the expiration of the three Sundays no which such banns shall be published ! The Act appoints no officer to perform this hocus-pocus trick, and gives no fee even to the volunteer in such an undertaking. After the rigmarole nonsense, the vile trash, about the mode of obtaining the license, the Act states, that if one of the parties shall be of the age of 21 years, but the other party shall be under that age, and a widower or widow, both parties shall make oath accordingly, as to himself and herself, and to his and her natter with respect to the other party! Belief of what f—Let the spirit of nonsense tell! Make oath accordingly f—Spirit of nonsense say ' what this accordingly means! But that bosh th e parties shall make oath as to himself and herself, and ss to hit AND her belief "with respect to the other party," spirit of nonsense at tempt not to explain I The whole clause teems with this monstrous matter. In a wise age the supporters of such absurdities would be deemed fit objects fora commission of lunacy. The four teenth clause intends to give, we may presume, the power of grunting licenses to the Archbishops, Bishops, sod their officials ; but this wise Act says, that no person shall be deemed authorised by law to grant any such license except the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, according to the tights now vested its them, and except Ile several othei Bishops within their respective dioceses, one of whom (that is, Bishop or Archbishop) shall be resi dent at the tine within the diocese of the Bishop, &c. The Act declares, that it shall extend only to that part of the klhgdont coned England ; and yet' lest the kingdom called England shill be deemed to be beyond the leas, it also declares, that it shall nut extend to any marriages solemnized beyond the fear! The consent of parents or guardians must be given in the presence of; and be attested by, two or more witnesses; and an affidavit, not only as to the signature of the guardiau, but also of the party so consenting, being the parent or lawful guardian, must be made. This is delightful ! The question as to the parent may not be difficult; bdt as to whether any other consenting person is or is not the lawful guardian, few persons but lawyers can decide; and yet this is to be Sworn to, accord ing to the best of the knowledge and belief of au attesting witness, who, it is probable, may have no knowledge of what constitutes a lawful guardian ! But the thirteenth clause is the most monstrous of all : it makes the officer granting such license not duly observing e// the provisions contained in the Act respecting such license to be guilty of a misde meanor; end yet there are many provisions in the Act respecting such licenses which the officer cannot observe. The Act repeals, on the 23d of .1 oily, cer tain provisions of the 26th of Geo. II.; hut its own operation is deferred till the Ist of September—the intervening period forming a sort of purgatory most delightful to the anxious suitors of Hymen, the new Act being so long in abeyance, and the old one in part nullified. In order to make the monster more monstrous, it requires that roof must be made to the satisfaction of the official : if he be not sati.!fled, the Dept may play the prompter ; and the parties, tired of the intricacy, folly, and absur dity of this abominable measure, may be induced to take each other's word for it. To wind up the iniquity, it plunders the person peujuring himself or herself of all property arising from the marriage, though that property should be derived from the innocent party. This is • fine specimen of legisla tion : it should be preserved in all cabinets as a curiosity of en age pretending to be enlightened—a curiosity fabricated by certain well-educated and respectable persons, who are offended when the peo ple laugh at their nonsense ! He who has watched the in-ogress of legislative enactments will not be astonished. Many of our Solon, have been foremost in depriving the country of its liberties—ln render ing the castle of en Englishmen no longer a place of safety—in proposing death for having a net or a wire in • field or on • common, for a few minutes before seven o'clock, in the month of October—in consigning British free-men to a man of war, for being found on board a smuggler—ln abridging the right of petitioning, and the privilege or assembling—ill imposing enormous fines for petty offences, without the intervention of a jury —in de nouncing transportation for the heinous offence of libel against the Minister*, though the Ministry should be ruining the nation—in short, in destroy ing Magna (Aorta, and reducing Englishmen to • level with the vile slaves of the vile despots of the Continent. It would be a good thing for the coun try. if some one who could write English correctly, were employed to prepare public laws ; and still better if • philosopher were appointed to correct the vagaries of the wild Statesmen of the day. Then the young gentlemen who dabble in these matters might safely indulge themselves in legislation ; then one might presume that all improper restrains on marriage would be discouraged, as promoters of vice and &pressers of virtue; the ceremony might then be rendered simple, and the obstacles to it be few : we should not then see Acts staining the Sta tute Book that bid defiance to decency and deco rum. If some reasonable method to prevent the inc . of the abominations be not adopted, the re verence due to the laws will fast decay ; legislators will become despicable by their wretched abortions ; and the people, tired of being the plaything of ca price. will take their affairs into their own hands ! Power, when it insults, is unsafe. This scandalous measure will excite indignation from Berwick to the Scilly Iles, and raise such a clamour, we trust, that the parents of the monster will tremble in their heart's core. There are, among the forgers of these fetters, many declaimers against French customs end mennfrs ; and yet they have adopted one of the most odious, in this notices-sticking ceremony. They cry aloud against jacobins and levellers, and see themselves, in action, the greatest levellers and jacobins. The strongest language is weak in con. demnation of this Act— " Which blurs the graft and bloat of modesty ; --------.----• takes off the rope From the fair forehead of innocent love, And sees a blister there: . (Alfred Exeter Paper) It is whispered in the political circles, that Lord PALMERSTON has srwiified his wish to retire from the War Department. and that he is to be suc ceeded by Lord WILLIAM lIIIINTINCR. It is added, that Lord PALMERSTON is to be raised to the English Peerage.—(Loesing Paper.) TUN FUNDS.—Our market yesterday continued particulerly steady :—Consols 804 81 ; New 4 per Cents. 100 if 100 ; India Bondy, 47 46; Ext.:he gira Bills, ; Smell ditto, 49 ; Bank SW k for Account, 9474 248 ; Commis for Accoonr, Foreign Stocks ; New Spanish, 65 65i i t . tVenrsliw "A i r' nil. .- m k i le ,c,) ,-01.A.ong tto POETRY. C-NN-G•S REFLECTIONS. How happy I feel—to my joy I'll give loose; I'm not crossing the ocean to rule the Hindoor: I too* very well that a great many wish me 'Nougat &natio* discoursing of Vishnu* mud Arliirva ; Aud the A rat-toratioald God hay, the truth I must osa, Less frequently chang'd hia outside than I've my own, My political substance is so worn out, That what I can't have I most eel do without. To my Liverpool friends I most be very kiad; 1 shall need them again to bear me ill wind. But though I'm not going 'monist Nabobs to roam, I hope to be Governor-Gni rat—at bowie. My friends (as tin y couldn't well help ii) they gave me a place; am "their ornament, their life, and their grace." There's an old schoolboy tale, of a man sad a snake ; I don't mean to apply itbill just fo► the sake Of disclaiming all obligation for what they're given, r without me they'd have all been at "six and at seem" Meantime with thin I conclude how pl the feels, Who has pensions and pow'r, high rank, and—theSealr. • PM nu, one of the Iliadoo Dritirs, had ten vest in carnations or transformations, besides several when of minor iinporiasee. FASMONABLE MOV BMENTS. The Doke of Port rand has ■►rived at his seat, Welbeck, Nono, from Scotland. The Marchioness of Westmeath arrived in tow. yesterday from Hatfield. The Marquis and Marchioness Cornwallis hare left Swindles Lodge, Berke, for Brume Hall, SoloIII. Earl Whitworth and ihe Duchess of Dorset have left Knowle, Kent, fur their seat, Barkhorst, Sussex. Earl Thaset arrived on Tuesday eveoiog at Fentoo's Ho. tel, St. James's-street, from Paris. The Earl Patti, arrived on Tuesday of his house is Berkeley-square from a visit to tee Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at their seat, Alowick Castle, Northam. herlaud. The Earl and Countess of Hardwiche have arrived at their house iu St. hases's.squere front Ramsesle. The Earl of Darlington has left Ruby Castle, Dubow, for Doncaster. Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne arrived yesterday at their house in Si. James's place from their father's (the Mar quis of Salisbury's) seal, Hatfield. Lord and Lady Amherst have arrived at their seat, Mos treat Hower. Keel, from a tour. Str Fleury sod Lady Georgia* Wellesley base kfl toes fur !the Haupt, of Salisbury's seat. Hatfield. The Hon. Carain T. B. Carel, R.N. ea Mrs. Capri, hive arrived at the Coburg Hotel, Charles street, Grammar "genre, from a visit to the Earl of Eaves, at his seat, Cubit bury Park; John Temple, Esq. at ditto, from P.rir. Mrs. Hume Purvis arrived ou Tuesday at her sister's (the Canute,' of Elesiuton's) house ill St. James'ampare, frau Arrivals at the St James's Hotel, Jerostym.strtett--Cap taut Cbarles Rick Mr. Leesont, sad Mr. dreseuvel, from• tovr. Aries! at Blake's Hotel, Ji my's-street W. Stewart, Esq. yesterday, from his seat in Berks. Departeres:—Thr Right Hoot George Roux sod Mr. Knox for Portsmouth, us their way for Ireland. Arrivals at the Wage,loo Hotel, Jermyn-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Garden and family riot. Paris; mud Mr. and Mr.. Peace from the Continent. Mr. and Mrs. Toke arrived yesterday al Jordsa's Hotel, St. Ja(Ore/ sired, from a tour. T. White, Esq. his arrived it Dorigricin's Hotel, Down times, from his west in Yorkshire; Wm. Heeshse, kft ditto, for his seat, Hinton House, thus.. Mr. ..d Mrs.Cioulburo have kit the PSlteary Hotel, Ple nuttily, fur the Cuuttoeut. Among other distinguirhrd fashionehles at the Earl or Essax's ►eat, Ca•hiobury Park, ere (Ay and Misr CORNWALL, Lady and Miss rnt loos, Mr. Da Roos, ■nd ARTHUR CAM, E•q. Two monuments voted by Parliament toGeneral FOORD BOWES and Colonel CADOGAN, have lately been erected in Si. Paul's, the execution and deign of which reflect the highest credit on the taste of Mr. CLIANTRET. BaLzoxi.—This celebrated traveller, who is upon the point of setting out to make further ie searches, intends to exhibit the produce of Ins im portant di►coveries and greet labours during a rest deuce of five years in Egypt, previous to his depv. tote from Europe. The exhibition will be opened about the end of next month, at the Boulevard des I , aliens.—(Paris Paper.) A duel was fought yesterday morning on Houns low Heath, between a Mr. MONTAGUE and Lieu. tenant GRANT. A dispute originated respecting a bet at Egham race-course, where a ►light ex change of horsewhipping took place. Tao shots were exchanged, in the second of which Mr. MON. TAGUR was slightly wounded in the shoulder, and the affair terminated. FERULE PEDESTRIANISIII.-1 widow woman, named Wtr.son, at the advanced age of 78 yarn. travelled from • village in %Vestmorlsaid, on a vMt to her son, who is landlord of tie King's Head public-house, in Mansfield. The distance is ISO miles, which she performed on foot in five days. making an average of 36 mile, per day ; an in stance of strength rarely to be met with in a person so fur advanced in years. On Saturday next, being St. Mattheves.it. according to annual custom the Lord Mayor. Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal Hospitals, will attend divine service st Christ Church. After a sermon by the Rev. Wa. BURGES H•Trat, A.M., they will adjourn to digt,. great hall in Christ's Hospital, where two orations will be delivered—in Latin, by S•M. HtsoarroB; in English, by Joattu• WELCH, the two Senior Scholar, of the Grammar School. Mr. HOFFMANN. a Professor i :r.ruw. lies discovered a new al cf:ing. It consists of • copper j, tenings on the feet, givink mem fowl swimming. With the aliai chine the wnit inexperienced cal in the most rapid torrents. It great utility in eases of stanwrel tuoval of troops from one side of The result of experiments prove' be made by a person using it io 1 bl.ll, ICC 01. • in the Unlversity of apparatus for ssiro- jack with linen fop- tiblance to those of a nuance of this nu- coo sate themselves It cannot but be 01 rck, sad in the re• a river to the other. es that 120 steps coo is minute.