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Il 4 ['r , Ei ki THff LATE EARTHQUAEN IN INDIA. The following remarkably interesting details of Ow phenomena accompanying the above event, are extracted from Me Bomar Courier : . .. . 1P.0114‘11111 , 1111. MULL i 7. We minds/ experienced in this town and fort , one of the mostiiiitut scenes in nature, that of a violent assil.sleetructive thock ea rthquake 171)e weather was epic lewd 8011 , 1, the, thc7isla! 'titer ranging at .86 40, q ,,1t mod a scarce pie'receptible air was soieeligem felt from the south wiseagft ieutemint L. and iCWIF'. were taking on even ; illes walk on the roalpitog of the fort, and had overly gone all ,rowitel, when at forty minotes past we observed to each other, 4. how excessive s :use and oppretsive the atmosphere I" and five ini notes afterwards. I s hroud a distant mend from the westward. not unlike that of is ammo& et ; thought had scarcely past elre,fand lei se to *hot ircold have given rise to it, wilmin I t • Sintent shock beneath my feet. and imitently exelainsed, "..au earthquake !" then looking forward, paw the stone parapet, at two ye+ distance, violestljekeod.. iogin nod one, with • quick ware-like modest, and pith • vibration of about a foot ; this appalling Nib' extended as far as I could see. fur about fifty yards in length. sod the whole height of the para pet; it was attended with a hissing, cracking noise. Had the parapet been made of whalebone, sad shook in anger by any power less than nature, the agitation could not have beets so great as that which we witnessed. There was nothing, appeared more surprising thau that solid masonry should have received the pliability of the most elastic of all substances., .1 thought it impossible that the works could stand, and expecting their immediate fall, instantly determined on descending as quick as possible, but as the rampart was a perpendicular height of seven teen feet, 1 was obliged to run back towards the horniest ramp, which was a flight of stone steps at the distance of 76 yards; Lieutenant L. followed. As we passed along, at a quick run, the sensation felt was similar to that hazardous and disagreeable one, of running along an elevated and elastic plank, the rods oft:filch alone are supported. I every instant expected to fall with the works, or to be precipitated from them ; but reaching the steps, ran down as fast as I could, each step apparently meeting the descending font, which I sincerely brlie.e it did in reality, and the whole flight was violently agitated. While passing down, I expected to he overwhelm e.l by the works, which were touching my right shoulder, and were partly above my head. Although the romped and parapet are ten feet thick, and twenty-two in height, yet this wall of masonry waved to and ho like a sea. Fortunately the steps were broad ; had they t.-en narrow, as is frequently the case, it is doubt ful, so great was their agitation, if we could have gat down without having been thrown over their stile, for, as they joined the works. they were not only affected by their own motion. but also by that of the well to which they were 'niched. Arrived at the bottom of the flight of stew, we did not cease running until we had got a sufficient length from the works to prevent their falling on iv. On stopping, we were surprised to feud that the works had not fallen, after having been agitated try so extraordinary a violent and sea-like motion. On reaching a spot of comparative safety, fur " tlwn no place was safe, the attention was directed to a vast cloud of black dust, arising at about $O yards distance, and from the sea face of the tort, which ran at right angles from that which we quilted. The danger being past, for the shock oval now over, my curiosity became excited, and iipproaching the cloud of dust, I found it to pro cs4d from the fall of nine towers (I) and large parts of the curtain (2), leaving twenty-one breaches of forty and sixty yards wide. This devastation ex tended for 500 yards, and over a part of the fort wtich I had been walking on not five minutes before. I do not imagine that a twenty-four hours fire, f•om tea pieces of heavy ordnance, could have pro n Jeer, an extensive a destruction as was thus effected J.* a minute and a half!! ! We conjectured that the shock had not !sated more than the above short period. But its effects were sufficiently powerful to have destroyed the wnik of ages. We now directed our attention towards home, er:l the first occurrence we met with near it, was the horsekeepers with our hones in their hands, standing in the open air, having, as they said, been apprehensive. ' , that the stables would have fallen and killed them." On entering one horse the servant informed me, Vest while making the bed in the upper apartment, lee had hero thrown down on the floor; recovering •Intarself. he attempted to escape out of the door, but before he could reach it be was thrown down hecond time ; he then et up, mad ran quickly into tie oven air. Doctor and Mrs. A. as baring al their tiles via. lertly agitated. and cracking as if in a fire. sod onsersing the whole of their furniture in sr radio. • seolMn. immediately ran down iuto the open air; tie former with his infant in his seines He is.' twined me. that though his stairs see bread, sod boat of pukka masonry, yet he experienced much II Tculty in descending, from the violent agitation of ll.steps, and that of the house, to which they were joined. Lieut. L. 'e house is • strong pukka stone build ing, of *bunt forty feet high; it stands by itself; tLe shock appears to have ehakes it more tlnin • mart other booms. The 'repays det.cribe it as 44 hay. itsg rocked, from aide to s.itte." like a Si tree in a 1..44 sis;nd." Os exsaiiiiatiois, there were found lin ens. y wits in itiwoollo. that it VMS deemed ail.. s.sista:e 'foe Lieutenant L. not to sleep beneath it* • /oaf:. • :1 believe there are feet heron, lbeeeleiliot this istrevity 'Web tsars net hero ism or MO Wilted; wine have fallen, and blocked up the streets iu winds they .were situated. d m happy to say. that but one life has beat Wet au this town. a circumstance which appeals eit Isom miraculous, train die &auger winch existed. 'foe liajah..and principal ialuibilants sua.bad, eu raYilred ouniide of .the fort, rather ilia* trait th e m. eel fnir *beneath their unsafe. roots. which. alapsid (I) The home were 30 . 104Allikierl keg. Ct; The caucus tt ta es. they fall, would prove mat dastrative. sine, tiger • am made (as i* the eae a all upper gars sloe) of a thick terra, supported by stone, an large timbers: The earth opened. and water issued from the es vity. over an ostensive piece of ground, in a plain, distant fourteen mike hence. The atmosphere to-day has been impregnated with a strong smell of sulphur; and there have been several other shocks between 10 o. as. end 2 p. tn. which bronchi some old houses down, and violently shook the seats of those who were seated within doors, which caused them to ruts out of their houses; but these inferior alarms are n ot to be compard with yesterday's awful phenomenon. It was observed that all animals were much fright ened during the greet shock : the dogs hid down on theirhellies, and would not he moved. The earthquake has been felt fir and wide; hut its effeeta appear to have been lees violent in the interior than on the era shore. I fear that all the • line of towns and r,rtresses situated immediately se • this coast hive suffered much. lam this mornent informed that 50 men were killed by the fall of wells at Msngrole, on this coast, which is distant 60 miles, in a S. ft. direction. The great shock uppers to have proceeded front we.t to east. The injury which this fortress has sustained is estimated et half a lee of finites. There is nothing in nature more avrfol, than to see the proudest works of men. in an instant. re. nishing„ and becoming a heap of shapeless ruins. FORIOGN 1147 ELLIUE.VCII. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS. JANUARY 2. Yesterday, the first day of the new year, the King received the respectful felicitations of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, of the members of the Royal Family, the Ministers, Officers of State, the Foreign Ambassadors, and the Maishals of France. His Majesty answered the congratulations of the Chamber of Deputies iu nearly the following terms .-...._ . " We are at pellet with all Europe; but we have an enemy to combat : it is anarchy. Our position can present no danger while I can reckon upon you, as you may upon me." The Ambassadors of Spain and Naples accom panied the King at mass. There was a grand Court. At ten o'clock at night her Royal Highness Ma dame the Duchess of Orleans was delivered of • Prince, who will bear the name of Peathievre. A deputation from the Chamber of Peers pre sented their coogratulatious on the new year to Mons;eur. At the head of the deputation was the Prince of Eckasnhl (Davoust). Mansion , replied to the deputation with the benevolent affability that distinguishes this Prince:— " I am deeply affected by the sentiments ex pressed towards me by the Chamber of Peers. I have never doubted of them. The proof that they gave me of them its the last silting liar touched me to the heart." - _ . Monsieur then addressed the Prince of Eck mull! :-4 1 Monsieur le Marechal," said he, " 1 snake my compliments to you for having been on that occasion the organ of the seatinseuts of the Chamber." " Monseigneur," replied the Marshal, " I only expressed what all these Gentlemen felt." " Monsieur le Mareclial, I am particularly happy that it was you who *poke on that occasion." The celebrated painter, Sir Thomas Lawrence, whom the amateurs have n..med the Euglish Ti.. flan, has completed the portraits of Pope Pius VU. at the commend of the Prince Regent of England. The artist, previous to his return home, obtained an audience of his Holiness, who received him in the most friendly manner, and desired from him a copy of the portrait of his Royal Highness, which was executed a few years sioce iu London, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. A letter from Lisbon, of the 13th of December, says—" The amateurs of the arts succeeded iu in. ducing Mr. Robertson, before his departure, tu per form a descent in a parachute, which had never been witnessed in this capital. Yesterday (Sunday, the 14th) Mr. Eugene Robertson, the son, ascended in presence of the first Nobility, who had subscribed for his inducement, and of an immense concourse of .tbe inhabitants of Lisbon. He rose with great ra pidity to a height alii,2oo French feet. Imme. diately the aeronaut separated himself from the bal. loon, and the double parachute, which his father in in 11304. expanded majestically, and depo. sited the intrepid traveller in safety about half a league from Lisbon, after a descent of about twenty. five minutes. This hardy experiment excited su much curiosity that the receipt exceeded 6.000 piastres. Mr. Robertson proposes to set out imam. diately for Madrid to retreat his experiments." •COEBERG, MCCLURE& 41. The benevolent efforts made by M. Maurice de Funtenwaerter to r e lieve the distresses of the Ger. man emigrants to the United States are well . known. The following is the letter addressed to him on this subject by Mr. John Quincy Adams, in the tonne of Vie American Government W ashi ngt on . him 14, 1419. " Sttt^t harebe the honour of receivirig your letterer Iles ltbd of April, elish the taidusure of the Diem As (ila. germ, your rtlativi, oits . ebpf of your rioted 'Report ; hope, sins hiderd elands% vii dlabt that the hitter rosy be of great utility to such of yaw sosserysees as soy have hoots' enessitis ideas 'with iegsr4 to emigration from &t -rope to this couatry. It los beet dead) sheers to yes, sad yen have segnestely 'gibed the Willa pi& Waite, that OA Goverousest of the United Rases has neat taken say sleeps I. 41 " 4 " ( ie toseer•li migrants to eats from any part of Romps to Awake. It has sever held teue say isdelasurste to draw to this cesestry elm subjeta of a POMO State. Motives of Inesmaity bore seseetiuses determined it Islam , arta% facillrles he awn enigistells woe story have altiiveßbere with l b . immense of alehlishisg ilermalsete WI., and who had seed of particular assisasee fee estestiog their isles. then. Reithet the Govenimeat of the Unites, nor the dif. forest Stales that compose ft, Aviirise oe disdain the increase of smuggle sad prosperity which the solos weight receive from • sass of new inhebitsote, healthful, Isherioss, and temperate—Yam' ars they more isdiferest to the great ad. vantage, which this eosntry has derived, sad is still Jr. riviag fesue the esereouree of adopted children coming from Germany; bet there is teas principle co which 411 the initi. tattoos of this Republic are fassuled, sad which is a per. eminent object to graeliag famous to sew comers. This is at • esoutry of privileges, but of es tonality of rights.— /lee Sovereigns of Rarer grant to certainntasoes of iedivi thuds &Tilsit' privileges, which have some object of political utility; but it is the gases' opinion here, that privileges grouted to Doe clam of people are secesserily as injury to some other. 6 ' Emigrants from Germsty, or from any other country, ham not on arriving here say favour to expect from the Goverookarts, but in ease Hey shooll desire to become ci• thorns of the State, they may latter the mselves with enjoy ing t►e same rights as the satires of the ossuary. If they remove property, they may reckon upon lading the means of iseressiog It with nusierstioo, but with certainty ; If they are poor, but laborious, hems% sad know how to be satis fied wish a little, they will succeed in peeing enough to sup port themselves mod their families ; they will pass an lode. rendes% hot a laborksos and painful life, and if they cannot accommodate themselves to the moral, political, sad physical state of this country, the Atlantic Ocean will always be open to them to reform to their native countries. They must Mud their characters to necessity, or they will motored ly fail as America's in all their 'schemes of fortune ; they must throw off, as it were, their European skin, never more to resume it; they must direct their thoughts rather forwards towards their posterity, than behind them to their ancestors ; they must persuade themselves that whatever may be their owl seotimeats, those of their children will assuredly approach more to the habit* of the country, and will catch I something of the haughtioess, perhaps a little contemptu ous, which they have themselves remarked with surprise in the general character of this people, sod perhaps still more pertiesderly is the individoela of German origin, who are bora in this esootry. " This sentiment of arsperiarily over all other saliva, which serer leaves them, and which has been se very dia. pleas's( to foreigners who have visited our shores, proceeds from the orioles ealaelsiasd by each individual, that in qua. lily of s member of society, there is au person in (Isis coun try superior to him. Prised of this forties, be regards wit► some Issogistioess throe mistime among whom the masa of the people are regarded as sabordioste to certain privileged classes, and where me. are moot or imigoificsol by the be 'Ned of their birth. Est front t►is it also happens that no Government lo the world has so little mesas of bestowing favour as that of the UaitedStales. The Omerasseeds ore eke aerraals of On people, sad they are regarded as such by the people, who creutqapd depose them. " They are elected to ofindaister the public affairs for a short space of time, rood whets the people are not satisfied with them, they cease to maintain them is their functions. Bert if the mesas of the Orsvmmeat to do good are limited, the means of doing ill . are limited also. Depeadaace here in the affair. of Government is precisely in the inverse ratio of what takes place is Europe. The people here do sot depend wpm those that powers them—but the latter, as such, de peed constantly upon the good will of the people. " We know very well that of the quantity of foreigner who every year come to our tawdry to ix their abode, mole of them come from taste, or from any regard to a country to which they are totally misusers, and of which the Ger mans do sot ussilerstaud ems the 'Maar. We know that they come here not for our advantage, but for their own; not to labour for our prosperity, but to ameliorate their own condition. Thus we expect to see very few individuals of Romps who enjoy is their own country ease, happiness, or eves say gratiffeatioa, come sad settle in America. Those who are happy and coutsated remain at home, sad it requires o principle of motion sot less powerful than mut to remove a man from his native euentry,sad the place where t►e tombs .of his &mestere are Mama. Of the small number of emigrants of fortune who mdsommered to settle in our misery, m con siderable portion were dissatisfied with our singular customs, and after a certain residence, regorged home. There are mrlaioly some eseeptioes, and is the most opulent and dis tiegoished this of oar fellow.eitisens, we ham the good Nelms to comet some individuals who would have acquired fortune and distinction% area had they not passed into a new country, sod another portion of the world. We should feel great satisfaction in seeing yourself among this num ber, and that it would accord with your dispositions and sentiments. " I have the honour to be, Sir, Sic. " JOHN QUINCY ADAMS." Eibesimm.—Heliday at the Reek. Iltaelagaer, East ludia, sad Stalk Sea Mime& THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. ilio. Paris Papers of Saturday and Sunday last have arrived at our Office. The Legislative Chamber►, the Municipal Body of Paris, and all the distin guished personages of the Court, offered their congratulations to the KING upon the new year.— His MAJZITT'II answer to the Address from the Chamber of Deputies, is remarkable :—'< We are at peace with all Enrols., but we have .till one emus); to combat, which is anarchy." To the existence of this formidable foe the KING strongly alluded iu his speech to the Legislative Await blies. at the commencement of the present Se.- slot), and the apprehensions then expressed from the throne were reiterated by both Peers and Deputies in their respective address'''. We Slid it wow again noticed, bet a mystery wait to be affeeted..for diking the debates which have hi• 1 Owen to place in the Chambers, be teMillute has been made to the *object; and were it sat Tee the circular letter addressed by the Secretary of War to thew vent military Commanders (published in skis Paper on Monday last). recommending Id thews doe diligence in preventing the circulation of sedulous writings among their troops, we should still remain unacquaisited with any one weapon of offruce tared by the disaffected. Similm congratulations were offered to the se veral m embers of the Royal Family ; but Court ceremonies are seldom matters of any interest be yond the walls of the Palace, our should we now so particularly notice them, were it not for an mew. niter that took place on presenting the Addreve of Congratulation from the Chamber bf Peen to the Count d'Arrott. It may be remembered, that in the sitting of the Peers el the 28th of last month. petition was presented from one Va ems', in favour of the Regicides.and detionockg as uuconstit mime! the law by which they were banished. The Peers, it seem% writ very indignant at the terms of this pet'. ti tttt , soil on the 'mina of the Prince of ECILISUNI. (Marxist Davison . ) the 'petition was ordered to be torn to pieces outside the doors of the Chamber. and that Ito similar petition should ever after be to. ceived. This conduct of a man so distinguished as Davouse has highly gratified the Court party, and MoNSICUtt took this public opportunity offer ed by presenting the Address of the Chamber to thank the Marshal fur this proof of his affec tion to the House of Ilouutou. A similar peti tion from the some individual will at the next sit ting be presented to the Chamber of Deputies, but its fate may be collected from this public avowal of the feelings entertained with respect to it by the heir presumptive to the throne. We do toot re gret the fate of the petition, but such conduct, on the part of the first Prince of the blood. might. on a more questionable topic, exercise an improper influence over the opinions of the Legis lative Assemblies. A sou was born to the Duke 0f.011.11111111 on the first day of the year. The infant Prince is to bear the title of lievithierre. The French Five per Cents. are at 71 f.—Bank Stock, 1,380. _ The report of a case heard yesterday et the Board of Excise is given in another part of our Paper. It strongly illustrates the severity with which the Excise laws operate upon trade. The personal convenience of the party, it would seem. had beers very little considered by the Legislators who framed those laws. We have received letters sad papers from Dab. lin of the lit instant. They contain ■ correspon. deuce on the Catholic Claims. in which Mr. GaaT T•N appears to entertain sanguine hopes or their success it. the present Session of Parliamen►. The body of the late lamented Countess TALIWT will be removed from Dublin on the sth instant, for interment in the family vault in Staffordshire.— An Evening Paper says. it is understood that Lord TALItoT wishes to hive 1.011111 Justices appointed for the administration of government in Ireland. while he attends the obsequies of his late Couutess here. For some time past the Funds have been prowess sively improving. The Thu., per Cent. Couto!. hove advanced, within two week., from 67 8.69. Exchequer Bills. which were at 13 and, 14 die count, are now from 3 discount to par. It is also to be observed, that notwithstanding the Batik of England have reduced their issues during the year 1819, bum twenty.seight millions to twenty-two, yet that money remains plentiful. sod just now is tinprecedristedly so. It may, therefore, be inferred that when them is an alarm in the country. the monied men withdraw their capitol, and thus add considerably to any temporary distress; while the circumstance of the plentiful supply at present de monstrates a returning confidence. and the well founded expectation that there will be a great and immediate improveuient in our trade and mann factures. Two defaulters have been declared at the Stock Exchange, one Tuesday afternoon, and another yes terday. They were persona of some credit, but we do not think that their deficiencies are to large amount. These are the first that hsve oc curred during the January account. Extract of a private letter, dated Halifax (N. S.), December 4 " We have bad accounts still of the cootiosance of fewer at Bermuda . an much so, that Admiral GRIFFITH does not think it necessary to risk the health of the squadron, by proceeding there imme diately. His Majeety's ship Mersey, Captain Cot, LULU. sailed fur Bermuda this morning. in order to obtain the necessary information. The Carnation, Captain lIALL, and liellette, Captain PRI:WELL, are already there. Remain here. the Neweastk. Rear.Ailiuiral GRIFFITH, Captain FAMSHAW, end Cyrene, Captain Torta. •"11se determination of Ceptain.C;emrsl the Earl of ..-nALHOVIIR to reside here instil she spring (*lien he proceeds to Canada). has given great sud universal satisfaction. " At the North British Society's Dinner. on St. Andrew's Day. the toast winch °blamed tits most enthusiastic applatire. with shunts and buis4s. wets. • May the wisdom of l'srlirsuesit devise mesas to roar out the /Wien's." Notwithstatu the prohibitory laws of the Antes rican Legul .lure. two ‘esorls sailed from New York on the Ist ult. wholly laden with arms and animas notion. 'mown to hr ikof Lard CUCH RA N ies squadron and other Patriot summands. The cargoes were lend ter in herd dollars. The Insolvent Debtors Court otijourced oa Teer day to the44tii instead. Vr i a) .. •N ..7*l-4 If '--- I. h ItZ . .... ,(o * . ‘''' .' ? 4.: • `.: '. 43 vim.— c- -, --,ate Vi 1 .4 9- 4#!k t- i f •- ( t.,e 1 " . .1L *.,: ab 00 PANMIAN FASIIIONI. [FOR JAIIVIAT ] It is mare tame a asasth shwa hats trimmed will plaid silk as the knit have rack their appea►ance, sad yet 'hi have U.S M this Meat failed their way amens Ow ra %ante. Masbate astliratellisisse are no long. r is. the wise,- :ices of thearersorl order. Bosse toque* of Mark ' , lv. t have the edge est all rimed, bat instead of Airraisie f.e.sewena, the teeth of this enttiter are In Male. Sy MI n.b•a, ■rd all the speceers, have small skirts like the ANNUM halal.. PASMONABLE DEPARTURNS. Mir Royal Highness she Ditches. of Cdourestrr, Coot Brighton, yesterday, fir htr seat, Brphrrt. Lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish and family, on Tor.lav, from ibirlingloa Honer, Piccadilly, for their war, Manic. lisocashire. for • short time, ow illicit way to the Deka a Devonshire's seas, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. Major Trafford (of the Marscisrater ycninsory cavalry) ard Mrs.Trafforil, from she Polimey Hotel, Piccadilly, Carr their wet, Trafford Park, rear Mawbeater. Sir Alexander Jim. Sari. front Ike Piskensy Hotel. Pie eattslly, on a visit in Sir Joh* and tatly Sket lry, at their saw, Mader/Add Park, itassex.. Lord and lAdy Holland, fro their house is Suri fur their mat, AlDellbill. Ordfu►dshirr. F. Heattarot', Esq. M.P. from liar bonne in St. Jame.... square, fur his mat, &sibley, Huts. George Pocock, Emu ALP. from his honer in Chsdro. street, Berkeley -paste, fur his seat, Hallarmal, Kent. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER being recover.d from her late indisposition, which afF•rols us much phaeure. her Royal Highness is in consequence about to leave Brighton, previous to which the PRINCE REGENT had an elegant party on Tuts. day evening to meet his Royal and h.-loved Sisner, and which was the first party 'loch the REGENT has given this season at the Amalie the diotiorguished characters present were— The Dowager Dwihras of lewd., (;eweral and Mrw. coarse*, Earl sad Connors. of Warwick, Lady H darightera,.Lord sad Laily Essaisatore, Sir Rubrrt and Lett R. Wigwam, Lady Headwall?, .1 be Marquis and of Coityozias ;ad Lady Elizabeth donyogliant, Lady Rellasepro, &r Janes Graham, Lord Ear dhry, Lady Soy,- an J. Sele, Miss Tyiaeltaa, 4e Joe. The company were gratified with a dance. Count Liaetn, the Russian Ambassador, gave another superb entertainment nu Tuesday, at his residence in Harlepstreet. to a large party of dir ungui•hed personisges, among whom were—. His Royal Dighiterathe Duke niTork, Prince tralrlinu.kl„ the Duke of Wellington, Earl Cathcart, Lunt St. Hih es, Count Funchal, Sir Win. Seim. Bart. Mr. Croaker. Sir. Xt.. mane, Musa. Blumaloff, Ste. Ike. The Earl a HASIIINOTOS entertained a select party at dionae# y011'161.01 bin home in the Stable yard, St. isates'a. Earl Gaostriaot and Lard BELGRAVE, at-corn. ponied by Lord Limnos Gowza, have united at Eatooaliall, near Chester. Mr. CONWAY. late of Covent-garden Theatre, is now play hog with edit at the Bath Theatre. Dussouftica, the once celebrated French Re publican General, now in the 80th year of his age. is at this time in Loudon. &wand valuable additions have been made to t; e Fitzwilliaas Museum. Cvmhritlir, in the course a the past year, among which are— A beautiful Model, to • reduced scale of sue of lie Tombs dissevered some time rime, at Nol a,l in esinpan,i, pretested by Mr. Carrtgba• --Several valuable Print., per meated by Dr. Clarke mod Mr. Filewood.--A large and vi lostik Collection of Sketches, Sze. by the late Mr Ronson, presmoted by kW 50n....-A DlraVillif of an Firmest/ism Statue of Marcos Aurelius, by the late Lord Fitswtllisas, whra youth, pretested by Mr. Cooksun.—An txque.sitt Drawist of Flowers, presented by Mrs. Mern.—Svveral valuator Books, presented by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Mollett.-.-Auol a spikedid anima of Oseimes Poems, in Gaelic, !pewit. ed by the Digitised llostiety of London. We are sorry to learn that Mr. GaviviLLE. Vamiox was seriously wounded on Saturday. by aceideut at a shouting party, at Cobham 11811, tl.e seat of the Earl of Dais LEY. HAZARD and Co.'. coaliawed success . t .....11A2 and CO. sold the First-drawl' Prize of 20.000/ the First Day, sod ampfher First-drawn Prise of 20,0001 on the Neared Day of the Lottery just ended, making Tot. Prizes of 20,0001. sold by them in the very last I Neal Watheenkty Two more Tnenty Thousands start be drawl. The Wheel cosstaios Four Prizes of 20,01101. (Money sod Commis), kt. Iked—Hattarto and Co 's Offices, &IA Recharge Gale, 24, Conshilt, sad 324, Oxfurdmrcet, cui u. r of Swallow-street. The frost has been so intense since Tuesday, o.e Thames is now frozen over, to an extent O isea!!y f one-third of its bieadth, on the Surrey side, between the bridges. Variations of the Thermometer this week : Monday, 32 degrees (freezing point) —Tuertlay. 24 degrees—Wednesday. 16 degrees—that ia, degrees below the freezing point. • Dust..—Oa Saturday, Ist inst. a meeting tack place near St. Omer's, in France, between tan officers (who arrived from England the day lieforrl. a Colonel D— sod a Captain The se cond fire, the former was slightly wounded in the neck,and the latter is the left arm : the seemiiir then interfered, and as stowable arrangement took place. The worthy Bishop of Nom,' tot has cal led a Spa - chi' Meeting of the Society for Promoting Chri,o..l Knowledge, to consider a plan lately adopted t , % the Parent Society. for checking the spread of sti,.- ism. blasphemy, sad infidelity, by approprnii.. , .. 1,000/. to the circulation of tnicta opposed in ,Ir istical doctrines, at less than half their cost. A few weeks since, es r man w.., pltarglinig la 6 field belongiog to the estate of W. Cetus , ' Esq. of East Deftll.lll4 to the occupation of Mr• MINIM CRAP'S!. of Brenton-next-Milthasu, t.. the county of Norfolk. he was surprised by ihr sudden disappeensoce of a part of the land ; when going to the spew, which war near where its ws• ploughing. he fouled the whole mass of earth stmts. trod le similes cavity, about 30 yards in ciiraitt. &centre, sod about seven yards detp, in it* place. Upwards of 130 tubs of gin were on ‘Vrils.ss. slay se'unisbt lodged in the Excise store, It bridge, brit the Cargo of e rineggling cum r. inetlaod if Hollealey ; the crew of winch, elght in number, is eoppoord to have