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cry has been worsted in an action, and that his return to Gerona was compulsory, There seems to lie no other way of accounting for his retrograde movement.- (From the Journatiles Debate of yesterday.) " PARIS, MAY2I. " NEWS FROM THE ARMY OF SPAIN'. According to letters of the 15th of May, from the head-quarters of Marshal Moncey, ..11imi is retiring on Barcelona. " The Baron d'Eroles is pursuing him. Ge norals Donnadieu and Curial are in march, the former on St. Colomna, and the latter on Man resa, in the hope of intercepting him, and of forcing him to an action. The Royalist Parti zan, Boson, acts in concert with them.' The army of Catalonia is as well received as that -which marches on Madrid. [From the Etoile of ye:tcrday.l , NEWS FROM THE ARMY OF SPAIN. " GERONA, MAY 15.—Last night at twelve o'clock a dispatch was received from Marshal Moncey, who had moved forward to attack the enemy. His Excellency announces that Milans had just retired, and regrets that he had not been able to hear a certain whistling sound, which mould have made his old age young again. These are hii own expressions. " It is now five o'clock in the evening, and his Excellency is not yet returned. The Chief of the Staff went out to meet him, but he is, come back, and according to all ap pearances his Excellency will not return to. night. C. The movements of General Molitor will tend still more to dishearten Milans, and induce him to take the , road to Barcelona. " MAY 16.—His Excellency the Marshal re entered Gerona a short time after the departure of my preceding letter. Milans has evacuated the strong positions ho occupied, and retires on Barcelona, the only road now open to him. 44 PARIS, MAY 21.--We have this instant re ceived by express the Journals of the South. (Head Quarters of the Army of Catalonia, Afay 13.) 64 The forces of Mina diminish daily, and fly before the troops of the 4th corps. This Con stitutional Chief moved from Cardonna on Maya, with the intention, it is supposed, of again form ing a junction with Milans in the vicinity of Bar celona. The second corps of the army marches in the direction of Ceivera. ( From Me Pilate of yesterday. ) " PARIS, MAY 21.—Letters from Perpignan present us with some curious details respecting the composition and movements of the Spanish Army, now operating in Catalonia under the or tiers of Mina. We will lay before our readers the information which has reached us on this subject. " The army under the command of Mimi, exclu sive of troops in garrison, amounts to 20,000 men. It is composed principally of veterans who serv ed during the war of independence, under the same General who is now at their head, and •to whom they are entirely devoted. The garrisons have not weakened the army to any extent, for they are almost wholly composed of Active Militia. The principal Chiefs of Mina's corps are M Llob era, Manso, Rotten, and Gorrea. Milans and Llobera are in the environs of Hos talrich, Manso in Cerdagne, and Rotten and Gorrea were at the opening of the campaign in the im mediate neighbourhood of Tarragona. As to Nina, the Journal des Dlbats alone is sufficiently skilful to point but his route. Gun knows how admirably it does this! " The Monileur preserves so strict a silence upon the operations of the army in Catalonia, that we are obliged to have recourse to our pri. vate correspondence, and to extract from that all the information we can to satisfy the impa tient curiosity of our readers. " A traveller who lies recently arrived from Spain assures us, that the . Constitutionalists are full of enthusiasm, and resolved to defend them selves to the utmost; they alt retire from those places where the French arrive, and then reunite on the points indicated in the general plan of defence. 44 The Count de l'Abisbal is at the head of a large force ; Morillo,aho unites his bands, which daily increase in number. " The Constitutithmel yesterday 'erroneously announced that Mituns had re-entered Barce lona. On the contrary, every thing indue.es the belief that this General has not, yet quitted the environs of llostalrich. 44 Letters from Vich do not speak In the most favourable terms of the manner in wklich our men were received in that place. "Mill tuD, M AY 7.—(Private Correspondence.) —The accounts which we have received from Seville assure us, that the Ring and his August Family were in the best health; His Majesty has appointed Major-General F. Milano, Lieu tenant General of his Armies ; he will con- tinue in his employment in Catalonia. The portfolio of foreign affairs is confided ad in terim to M. %radiilo, M. San Miguel having obtained permission to join the army. It is said, that this superior officer has embarked with the intention of attaching himself to that of Mina. M. Calatrava has accepted the office of Mini ster of the Interior; MM. Zoraquiu, Coosens, and de la Barcena, appointed successively to the Ministry of 'War ad interim, have refused the portfolio of that department. • ( From the Journal des Debate of Tuesday.) 44 They write from Bayonne under date the 15th of May.—. 6 A report of the most important nature, and to which reasonable persons seem to attach considerable credit, has been circulated here since yesterday. It is said that his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme has dispatched a message to I%lina entreating him to make his submission, and not to prolong a contest so unequal, and the consequences of which must be so dreadful to the Constitutional ArTy and to humanity, in de laying the deliverance of King Ferdinand and the pacification of Spain.'—( Ruche d'Aquitaine.) ( From the Cotistitntiounel of Tuesday. ) gi SEVILLE, APRIL 30.—There is no Ministry, and the heads of the Administration transact business with much ill-will. Opinion!, are di vided on the change of residence or departure of his Majesty, but the decision of this point will depend, I believe, on the occuirtion of the ca. pital.—(Extraci from the Monitear,Official Par•t.) " BAYONNT, MAY 12.—(Extreict from our Private Cor. respondent.)—The artillery which was at Madrid has been moved in the direction of Baclajos, and the Comte d'Abisbal occupies the pass of Somo-sierra with 8,000 men. " There is no longer any question of negociations between the Duke d'Angouleme, and the government of Seville." All the Funds at Paris continued to rise on Tuesday. Fhe French Rentecopened for money, at 88 f. AO c. and closed at 88 f. 80 c.: for the account they opened at 88 f. 60 c. and dosed at 89 f. 20 c. After the shutting of the mar ket, they got up to 89 r. 85c. Spanish Bonds were in demand for 45i, and Neapolitan Bentes for 77. We understand that fresh arrangements have been made for the conveyance of letters from Vienna to varioas parts of , the Russian dominions via l3rody. The post is to arrive twice a week at Moscow, Odessa, and St. Petersburgh ; and in like manner letters Trom those towns are to reach Vienna t‘s ice a week. [Extract from the Agents to Lloyd's at Havre, dated May 20.] " The following is ah Extract of a Letter, dated St. Thomas's, 20th March, received here from Bourdeaux We have at Guadaloupe the French ship of war Jean Dart, hating cap tured a Spanish frigate of '22 guns, with about six millions of dollars on board. There were lying there 15 French merchantmen, to sail shortly for Europe under the Martinique con voy.—By a letter from Martinique, dated 29th March, received by the Esperance, arrived at Dunkirk, we learn that the convoy had sailed from that Island for Europe the 25th of that month. The French merchant vessels Caroline and Aurora are reported to have been taken by English cruisers for beingengaged in tl►e Slave Trade.—This report reaches us by way of Bor deaux, and the ships captured are said to belong to Nantes.' " M. BONNE MAISON.—III THE Sum of the 17th of last March, there was a paragraph, under the head of " Paris Papers," which stated that " M. BONNE MAISON, a Painter, who is em ployed in repairing the apartments of the Duchess of BERRY, being a Captain of the National Guard, is to preside"- over a (Miser given in honour of Serjeant MEactEn, who refused to act against MANuer., when excluded from the Chamber of Deputies, and to present a sword to the Serjeant. The paragraph in question was copied Into Tut Sus from 7'he Times of the 17th of March, in which it appeared under the head of 4 4 Express from Paris." M. BONNE MAISON is Indignant that such conduct should be imputed to hint, and we are desired to assure the Public that the report, so far as relates to that Gentleman, is wholly without foundation. Mr. CHARLES Vauon tx entered on his func tions as our Minister in Switzerland on the 2ith of last month. The same day Mr. WyNN, his pre. decessor, took his leave of the President of the Diet. Yesterday the KING received a visit from the Duke of YORK. Prince LEOPOLD left town on Tuesday for Claremont. His Royal Highness returned to town last evening. _ FIRE Ix NEW-STREET, COVENT-GAUDY:N.—Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an Inquest was held at the house of Mr. Huggett, the Whit e Lion, Hemniings-row, St. Martin's_ lane, on the remains of the body of Mrs. Margaret 'Wood, who pAiihed in the dreadful conflagration at the house of Mr. 4 iotte, Pastrycook, King-street, Covent-garden, on the night of .thv 12. th inst. Several witnesses proved the fact of the fire having taken place.—The Coroner observed, if there was mi. dance to "thew that Chute had set the House on fire wilfully, ire would be as intili 'guilty of murder, as if he had shot the -dec eased, and this was what they had to consider.—A Juror said some shavings had been seen carried into the house on the evening the lire took place, and much suspicion attached to (lotte.—After some considerable disc os*i upon this subject, e . the following verdict was recorded - " Tkedeceased was burned to death in her lodging in .'tl Ifi'Wei but whether the tire was . aecid o wtalor Avilfui, ti - was no proof before the jury." -....::: - 1 . .. 1- ~.: . N COMMERCE with the SPAI'I.4II MITS. The following Extract of a Letter from Bar b:Woes, dated the Bth April, was posted Yester day at Lloyd's :- 64 We are informed that assurances have been giv,en by the Governor of Porto Rico, that no British vessels, however bound, even to blockaded ports on the Spanish Main, shall be molested by any Spanish cruisers from that Island, unless they should have arms or other munitions of war on board ; and if any should be sent in, the Courts shall not be allowed to hold a jurisdiction over them, though in fact, he has no power whatever over the judges; bath e %Oil take upon himself the responsibility to order restitution forthwith. We presume the same line of conduct has been exacted of the Colombian Government, and that this has most likely been the object of the mission of the Commanders of his Majesty's ships sent along the Spanish Maine, since the arrival of the' squadron under the orders of Sir Edward Owen, of which the Valorous, Capt. Murrayovas the first dispatched, and must have touched at every port, from Carupino, whence we heard of his first call going eastward to : Jmnaica. Notithstanding his condemnation 6r the ship Aurora, from Greenock and St. Thomas's to Ilunduras, the most wanton act of aggression, most assuredly that could be committed, Sir T. Cochrane, after much, remonstrance, and some delay, did succeed in get. tin;; an order from the Spanish authorities of Porto Rico for the restoration of both ship and cargo to' the owners, and though the cargo had 'been sold and distributed throughout the country, and the ship was a wreck not worth receiving back, still it was an admisSion in principle of their own wrong, and must serve as ' the best basis for re. !motion from the Spanish Government. From all this we may infer we shill have fewer acts of aggression upon British commerce in these seas fur a time." WEST INDIA Co'ststrsslON.,--The Mfrbaduei Globe of the 27th of March, says—". The Com missioners of I nquiry,sai led on Friday for Tobago,. on -their mission through the islands, after having finished their business here ; the nature of which, if we may judge from the cases we were in. strumental in laying before them, as well as others we have heard of,must have furnished them with a good stock of information for his Majesty's Ministers, and thereby given them an opportunity of discovering,that to the profligacy of those in au thority over us, are owing to the discontents which prevail, and not, .to the morals, religion, or want of loyalty in society, as has been artfully whis pered into the ear of the Executive. From what 1 1 we can Midler, it will not be necessary for them 1 to rcntuht Ipnger than .the 'next. autumn, having, in this Island alone, waded through nearly all the dirty work." The Papers from Ireland throw some light upon the views of the insurgent peasantry in the south of that country. It appears that the oh. ject of their threats and violence is to root out all the middle men who stand between the head land lord and the occupiersor th e s o ii. Ina recent case, in which their vengeance was directed against a farmer of this class, the charge alleged against him was, not that he was a new, purchaser, but that, on the expiration of a lease of land which he had enjoyed for fifty Tears. he had taken a renewal instead of dividing th 6 land among his tenants.—Much of the misery and degra dation of the peasantry of Ireland has been as cribed to the system of mesne landlords, in many cases amounting to four or live, between the su preme lord of the land and the , man who culti vates it, each of them deriving a profit rent from his inferior 41 the series, and the lowest pressing, like the base of a pyramid, with the accumulated weight of all above ) upon the peasant. SPRING AND NEATE.--A good Account of the Fight will appear in 4 ‘ The Englishman" on Sunday. No advertisements 'whatever are in serted in " 7 1 10 Englishman" Sunday News paper, which is a large Folio Journal of twenty, columns, of the same size as 46 The Observer." It is regularly published every Sunday Morning, at the early hour of four o'clock, at Messrs. Ss writ's, lin, Strand, London. The price of " The Englishman" is Sevenpence. Many young men, we may say to.the exent of hundreds, have of lute left various places in Gal loway, and gone to Englund, to p rosecu t e a in which th e y are They are engage d b y new styi e d b , r , a s ti c c o e ti s o h ! p e b d u i s a te . s „ s extensive merchants, who employ them to hawk tea, soft goods, &c. in large towns and t h e surround ing country. Arrangements are so made, that a certain district, or walk, is allotted to each individual. This he travels over us often as necessary, taking orders upon one visit, and calling with the goods on the n ex t. B y t hi s means he evades the hawker's licens e , and effects sales to a very considerable amount. Their terms of agreement bind them to three years' servidude, for which they are remunerated by boarding, clothing, and washing ; and at the ex- Oration of this period they are allowed the credit of a few goods from their employers, with the privilege of commercial business ma their own behalf in the walk which th e y f ormerly oc. copied. In honour of our young countrymen, it may be mentioned, that so high an opinion is there formed of their honesty and assiduity, and so anxious are the wholesale merchants to be sup plied with the true Scottish breed, that they dis. missed a young man because his mother was an Irish woman.--(Stirling Paper) r g. :74400. , , • v _ . 4 • ZS Z tt . I " g 111 FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Marahioness of Salisbury, from her seat, Hatfield Lord 'and Lady G. Cavendish, from their seat, Eastbourn ; Earl and Countess of Sefton, and the Ladies Molyneux, from their seat, Stoke Farm ; the Bishop of Bristol. at Hodgson's Hotel, Dover-street, from Cambridge ; Mrs. Johnstone and Miss Ricket, at the Bath HoTel, Arlington-street, from Brig►hton ; Mr. and Mrs. Turner, at ditto, from Bath ; Mr. Saunders and Family, at ditto, from Southampton. DEPARTURES.—Lord Blaney, from the Royal Hotel, St. Janies's-street, for Paris ; Sir Robert and ; Lady Douglas, from Payne's Hotel, Jertnyn-street, for their seat at Brigton,' Scot land ; Colonel and Mrs. Haines, from the Bath Hotel, for Bath ; Mrs. Crampton', from ditto, for Devon ; Mr. and Mrs. 'Williams and. Family, from ditto ; for Hants. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Lady Ellenborough opened her elegant residence, Cambridge House, to the haut ton, on Tuesday evening, with a grand rout, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Duke of Glou. caster, and upwards of 400 distinguished fashionables. Lady G. Nugent gave a grand Ball on Tuesday evening, at her house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square : the whole suite of apartments on the drawing room floor were thrown open ; the two principal ones were elegantly fitted up for dancing ; the ball commenced at eleven o'clock ; the supper, which consisted of every delicacy, was announced about one ; it was prepared in the two grand parlours; dancing recommenced soon after two, and continued with great spirit till nearly five yesterdiiy morning. There were present between four and five hundred persons of the first distinction and fashion. The Earl and Countess of Lonatlale gave an elegant enter. tainment on Tuesday, at their house in Charles-street, Berkeley.. square, to, the Duke of York. Among the distinguished com:. pany invited to meet his Royal Highness were the Marquis df Hertford,. the Marquis of Anglesey, Earl Westmorland, Lord Lowther, Mr. and Lady Ann Beckett, Lord and Lady Y. Ben; tinck, Colonel and Lady E. Lowther, Mr. and Lady C. Pow:. lett, Mr. Croker, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Lowther, &c. &c. AaGyLL-Rooms.--Mr. S.pio had his annual Concert last night at this place, which may properly be styled the TEMPLE of llinaroxY, as Music seems to be heard there to peculiar advantage. The Concert *as very well attended. The Selections were judicious, and all was well performed.— We have no room for detail : Madame Roxzr and Signor bE BEGNIS gave one of those amusing Italian duets which have so often been admired, and it was encored. The other encore was "Oh ! Albion," a duet composed by BnAHASI, and wall sung by him and SAPIti. GARCIA, SAPIO, BELLAMY, HAWES, Miss GOODALL, Miss VEXES, Miss PATON, and CAM. PORESE, were the vocal performers. Sir GEORGE SMART apologised for the absende of Mri. SALMOR, stating that she was to sing at another Concert, and that no blame was imput. able to her. When she arrived, however, a Very few illiberal hisses were heard, which naturally excited surprise and dis pleasure in the audience.. She sung with her usual excellence, and the applause that followed properly atoned for the unmerited disapprobation which assailed her on her entrance. Boots*, Ntc o mom, and M oat, severally displayed their instrumental skill on the occasion. COVENT GARDEN.-^TIIO Comedy off` Twelfth Night, and the Opera of The Marriage of Agora, were represented lust night, for the benefit of Miss M. TuEE. She is deservedly so favourite a performer that the house was crowded.— Her sister, Miss K. Tarr, performed Olivia, in the Play, and Miss A. TREE (Aerobia° in the Opera,. They both displayed very promising talents. Miss A. TREE introduced the song of " No joy without my love," which she sung so well as to be loudly and universally encored. ' The wholewent oti with great applause. NATIONAL. Socivrv.—Vesterday the AnnuallPublic Exa mination of the Children educated by this Society, under the Madras system, took place at the Central School, I n B a ld w i n ' s Gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, which was numerously and respect. fully attended on the occasion. His Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY took the Chair, and was supported by the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Gloucester, Worcester, St. Asaph, Chester, Exeter, and Carlisle, Dean of Carlisle, Arch deacons Blomtield, Pott, Cambridge Bowyer and 'Watson, and Lord Kenyon, Sir J, Longhorn, Sir J. Nichol, Drs. Walnt- Icy, Yates, and Watson, and Joshua 'Watson, Esq. John Bound, Esq. and many other persons of distinction. The re. suit of the examinations was highly gratifying and encouraging to the object of this most excellent institution. MELANCHOLY CONSEQIIEX CES GAIthLING.- On Thursday last an Inquest was held at the Greyhound Inn, Newmarket, before Jolts AV...YUAN, Esq., Coroner for the Liberty of Bury St. Edmund's, on th e hotly of Slr. Herbert Cot, a respectable d ra p er , recent l y established in business in that town, and who was found hanging in Ms bed-room on Tuesday morning. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had been living in Newmarket since August last, and carried on the trade of a draper ; he was about 33 years of age, and un married, and lately he had addicted himself to gambling. On Monday night lie was at Mr. Chapman's in Newmarket, in a room called the hatird-room with many oth er p ersona . H e ap peared not to know, what he was about. He joined in play and in betting, and appeared not to know when he was a winner or when a loser. Upon the whole, there was a singu larity in his manner which witnesses could not avoid re marling. Ile said lie had brought a little money with him, and he would win some more to it or lose that, and lie pulled out eight pounds, which he said was all he had. He played for some time, and after witinhig, he lest the whole of wha t he had with him, and he borrowed four ten pounds, which he also lost. After this he sat more than an hour observing the other persons . play ; he appeared very low, and went awa y about three o'clock in the morning. For the Last three weeks the de ceased appeared very low spirited, and one witness had remarked it to him. Ile replied, he wanted to borrow money to go on with his business ; that be should have to make up a sum of money in a short time, was not prepared to meet it, an d h e did not know what lie should do. The Jury, after a short con sultation, returned a verdict of—lnsanity.—( Bury and Nor wich Poste) SHUTE9 AND WESTON.—SIIUTER had long been the favourite of the galleries; and WesToN, fore he was well known, appeared as a suhsti-' tute Yor Shuter, in the part of Sharp. Shuter's name was in the play bills; and when Weston appeared ) the galleries vociferated " Shuter ! Shuter!" Mrs. Clive played the part of Kitty Pry, and was no a less favourite than the other. The uproar continued, and nothing could be heard but " Shuter ! Shuter I " As soon as he could make himself audible, Weston, in his own ini mitable and humourous manner, asked aloud, in a seriously stupid amazement, and pointing to Mrs. Clive, " Shoot her ! shoot her !—why should I shoot her ? I am sure she plays her part very welt !" The apparent earnestness and simplicity with which he asked this question were so inimitable, and so truly applied to the excellent acting of Mrs. Clive, that the burst of laughter was uni versal, and the applause that Weston deserved attended him through the part. A i~" ERCANTILE • ~.', : gl ..,;, - ,* -, s:k' . 'i: :4tiit';,:..-',:','•':.-2, - ,.!pZ%• ;.!,- :_,.._'•:.m LEGII 0R N 51A - r 74—" The Sseilk here the 3d inst. from .A).eltan4riii one man died — a - thi on the passage, and the :Ilaiter and two of the crew being in-. disposed, they have been put into our third Lazzaretto, and area in a fair way of recovery. Every' precaution has been strictly adopted by our ffoard of Health." DEAL, MAT 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the WilHaiti Harris, Harris, and Jack Tar, Anderson, from Jamaica. Came down from the River this afternoon the Florentia, Whale; Aherton, Percival; and Orient, White, for Calcutta; Underwood, Remington, for Demerara ; Mint bias, Rutherford; for St. Vincent's; Alfred, Fithye; and Essex, Appleton, for Quebec; Raikes, Gardner, for Jamaica; and Potton, Wellbank, for Bengal. PdarsitouTu, MAY 21.— , Wind arrivals or sail. , togs. PLtstotrtri, .MAY 20.—Wind S.—No arrivals or sailing& FALMOUTII, MAY 20.—Wind s.—No arrivals or sailing& DOVER, MAY 2l.—The men belonging to the coast blockade here on Sunday morning seized a Punt on the beach, having concealed, under a very ing eniously contrived false bottom, 140 pieces of Bandanna silk handkerchi e f s; and this morning's- lugger, employed in the oyster fishery, was also detected with 100 pieces of silk and two bags of tobacco stowed under her ballast. The Monarch steam-packet is arrived from Boulopie. The Arrow steam-packet is arrived from Calais, but _brings neither passengers nor news of importance. TITHES IN ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN. - Yesterday a nUmerous Meeting of the Inhabi tants of the London Liberty of the Parish of St. Andrew, Hol born, took place at the Inquest Room of the Church, at twelve o'clock, to take into consideration certain whits proposed for a permanent arrangement, by Act of Parliament, of the present differences between the Inhabitants and the Rector, in regard to tithes; Mr. Wrist)tv, Churchward en , in the ch air. The requisition being read, Mr. Sayler) r us, the Secretary to the Tithe Committee, read the terms of the average rents proposed on the pert of the Rec.- ' tor, which were—lst, That the parish should allow 7004 a year; in lieu or tithes and Esster.offering s to the Rect or ; 2dly, That the allowan ce s h ou ld b e secured by'Aet of Parliament, at the joins expenee of the Rector and the parish, and that the sum of P-1110/. should be given to him for arrears of tithe for the term of four years 31r. Bx A lIC AMP rose to propose that these terms should be recommended to the Tithe Committee for their sanction. It appeared that the aunt demanded by the Rector would amount to about ls. in the pound. • Mt. FEARO observed that the Offer which was now submitted to the Meeting was one which the Rector had rejected, through his Solicitor, When he (hit. Pearon) and two other Gentlemen waited upon him, Indeed, he had rejected various Measures of conciliation, and the probability was, that he made the pro. sent concession because Government had eipressell a wish, as the Committee bad been informed, through a Member of the House ofeounnons, that something of the kind should be done. But it appeared the most prudent course to agreed to the resolution, although it should be distinctly understood that neither respect not attachment attended the acquiescence. A motion far adjournment was then negatived by a vast ma. jprity, and the original motion was carried. The dra ug h t o f the petition to Parliament for a bill to th e e ffe ct a b ove state d was read and agree d to; and thanks being given to the Tithe Committee for their labours, that Committee was dissolved, and the meeting separated. Thus ends the question of tidies in this perish. AdVices froth Lima, dated Dec. ti, mention that the Royalists had evacuated the Provinces 'Parma, Jauja, And lluamanga, and retired to Ituancavelica, on the approath of the expedition under the orders of General ALYARADO, who exi pected to obtain great resources from the Pro ♦iuces thus freed from the presence of the enemy. CIAARGB oc ARUM—Yesterday Sir Richard Birnie and G. R. Minshulj, Esq. were occupied during the principal part of the day in investi gating the charge of Arson against John a one, who was brought up for examination. Some fresh evidence was adduced, among which was that of Mrs. Gibb's husband, and of Mr. Beetham, the Secretary td the Fla& insurance Company. The Prisoner was again remanded till Saturday nex t. WEIOVErt I AN Sber Satttnlay *e were highly gratified by having an opportunity of hearing an account of the dissection of that very lure and curious animal the Oast r. Tttatttcirxeus PARADOX Us. The results of fernier dissections, as published by the celebrated euvier and some others, have been entirely overthrown by the discoveries of Dr. Knox, so far as they related to a very extraordinary horn er spur which pros Jests from the heel of the animal's hinder foot, inclining in. wards towards its body. Previously to Dr. Knox's most accu rate examination of it, this spur, us it was found only as the male specimens of the genus, was supposed to have served the purpose of a prehensile to seize its mate ; but Dr. Knox has demonstrated that it is Connected with a gland which secretes poison, and that It ena bl es t h e an i mal to de stroy its enemies or its prey. As Providence furnishes all its creatures with some provision or other tier those purposes. we may remark, that the necessity of the Ornithorhyn_ cus having some weapon, offensive and defensive, is very obvious, upon considering the shape of its mouth, which very much resembles the bill of a duck. Dr. Knox also made some curious observations on the structureof other parts of the online!, particularly of the ear, which seems to be entirely internal: we regret the impossibility of our following but the remarks of this anatoinist. Dr. Yule read a paper, in which he disclosed a ilis coltery that he made in the germination of plants, which, as fir at our information extends, is new. Independently of the radicle and plutnule with which seeds are furnished, and which are most easily observed in the leguminateous class, they are also provided with vascular membranes that contain the embryos of additional plumules, which will push forth if the shoot happen to he injured. We never recollected to have heard that these vascular receptacles have been noticed by other pliyeiologists, but they will at once acedunt for the tiller: or side shoots, which some species of seeds, particularly wheat, throw out.---( Edinburgh Observer, May ito A few days since, we stated that we had seen the " Prospectus of a Scottish Military Academy," but not having had tune to look at it ininutely on that occasion We now revert to the subject. In the first place, then, we most heartily approve of any attempt to enlarge the opportunities of commu nicating and acquiring knowledge of eitery description ; and with respect to the peculiar branches of information; which conic properly within the scope of a itfl/itoey Academy, we cannot but observe that Scotland is at present, under great di:i advantaget.—Ne young man of this part of the kingdom has an opportunity of preparing himself for the service, to the way which all officers should be prepared, without goilig, ut a very great expense, to the South of England. This is a very serious inconvenience, anti is certainly one of - the objec tions to the splendid establishment at Sandhurst, in Ilerkshire tin objection which cannot be obviated by Government with out incurring a great national expt'nee. Viewing the subject in this light, we cannot but think that a:Military Acedemy Edinburgh must be regarded as a great advantuge to the pu blic, not only by bringing the means of education home to us also in consequence of retaining the revenues necessary for the support of the pupils anti the masters amongst our.- selveit. It is impossible for us, to say whether the /modem now ' projected is such as will supply the deficiency of whit'.; we complain, though, by consulting the prospectus clone, we should say it would. Mr. Scott, who will superintend the Sccalit— my, is, as we have heard front Gentlemen well acqualoted with him, a very good soldier, told fully aware of what is te (visite for a member of the military profession to be acquiiinted with. As far, then, as these urrangenicrite g,o, it scents to is. i t n h ect at th w i i s ih n a e d w ef i i n u s n t in itu s t n io p n po p r r t oin i i t is —(fdinturgh Observer, May 19.) igen to do well. Whether it will OVICIAL Decoaust.—Jude Haywood, of poliaible for us foresct. in the Constitutional( Advocate of Nashville, on l'ennesse, concludes a legal opinion (published the deft ult.) as follows :--" On all these point' I am very clear ; but the judges of this state are such d--d fools, that no reran can toll how they will decide." Count PoLos, the eldest son or the Russian .Ambassador, with two foreign gentlemen, bear ing despatches for Government, arrived at Shore limn harbour by a steum.yacht yesterday sell night, arid Tossed through this town on their route to London.—(iirighton Chronick.) N