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auditus, the same as in man, and nearly of the same form ; the labyrinth is a part of the ear which, as far as has been examined in the four footed mammalia, exactly corresponds with that of the human subject, but the cochlea exclusively belonging to this class has often a turn more than in roan, with some differences of less importance. To the mammalia exclusively belongs the external cartilaginous ear, which is wanted in the whole class of birds; but this seeming de fect is amply compensated, especially in those of the rapacious kind, by the peculiar arrange ment of the feathers round the opening of the meatus ; and, in addition to this, several of the last class, particularly the • tribe of owls, possess a kind of valve, situate at the orifice, and con sisting in part of a membranous, and in part of a muscular, texture. In its form the membrana tympani of birds on its outer surface is convex, and the tynfli*of the tw o ears are so connected together by the air cells of- the cranium, that they have but one ossicula auditus, by which the membrana tympani is connected with the fenestra ovalis, and thus supplies the place of the malleus and stapes of the mammalia, when the part cor respondii;g to the mailer's is usually of a card la4mous structure, without any tensor tympani. The enstachian tubes also have one common opening on the arch of the palate, while the labyrinth is conspicuous by large canals project ing from the cranium. There is likewise here a _want of the cochlea, and, instead of it, birds possess a short obtuse, and hollow process of bone, directed obliquely backward 3, from the vestibulum ; and, like the cochlea of the mam malia, parted off into two scalae, of which one terminates at the fenestra rotunda, where it re ceives a portion of the auditory nerve, in the same manner as the cochlea does in other a: mals. Besides the remarks, already made on the eus tachian tube of the cetacea, certain peculiarities in other parts of the organ distinguish this class, and, from their deviating so widely from warm-blooded animals, they deserve particular attention ; their want of an external ear is well known ; the opening of the meatus is uncom monly small ; in the dolphin and porpoise the bony part is but weakly attachedto the skull, and in the common whales it is entirely separate. The tympanuM and bulla ossea consist of a hard bony substance, formerly, but erroneously, called lapis manati, or tibernis ; in the same class the ossicula auditus and the labyrinth, especially the bony canals, are remarkably small, one reason why they were long overlooked. The structure , a bly of the organ of hearing in the amphibia, displays l oise.. much greater variety than in the two former daises, but there is still greater variety in the last s tale- class. Turtles, frogs, and most of the species of b e in- the lizard kind, possess, besides the semi-circular „ w eds, canals, a tympanum and eustachian tube like the gr eater warm-blooded animals. Ili the turtle the mem t what" brana tympani resembles a cartilaginous mass, are Inet•covered externally by the common skin or tegu vle,thatments ; their single ossiculum is also very like its paTttthat of birds. In frogs a large membrana tym- On titan: is conspicuous ; their eustachian tube, which onsidere4 short, consists of a wide opening at the fauces. ; f en ce th ey have also two cartilaginous ossicula, and a t , aaachria iment of vestibulum appe ars , compose d o f v. nlcrit? .e soft stony substances which assume a ~tingoare conspicuous form in lizards and serp en t s , r- ce b uce oi c in the three following orders; a sort of astoel j oi .meatus appears wily in the solitary in, *r(46nat of tin.' crocodile amongst all the amphibia. teh l is -animal ,in common with the liz a rd, ex hil also 1. the ossicula, and the stony concre- tions4 the vestibulam already noticed. Besides the went of a tympanum, the foramen ovale in the salamander is closed. only by a portion of cartilage, and its vestibulum Consists of a - soft gone. .Fn serpents there is neither tympanum Por eustachian tube, with very few exceptions, as the blind worm (anguzs . fragilis), but they have a kind of rudiment of an ossiculum. In some -Yeller/ of cartilaginous fishes, viz. the skate, :shark, ; and lamprey, a tubular appendix of the vestibulum a ppears, continued backwards and outwards, retiJesenting, as it were, the rudiment of a tympanum ; but this form of ktructure is confined to them :only. PrOfessor Weber has lately afforded some information respecting the organ of hearine-':in the bony fishes, and from his investigation of the organ it Appears that they possess larg• ossici, , la, that may be compared to the malleus, incus, and stapes ; and these are situated at tliia antavior cervical vertebrx. In fishes provided -with a swimming bladder the hones are so connecitd with that part of the asrgan as to render it I.ighly probable that this bladder is an assistant to the sense of hearing ; three large canals, seen pro,iecting into the cavity a the cranium, form tileir Laternal ear: there are found also two or three neatly-formed stones in the vestibulum, exac tly oppos.ite to the termi nation of the auditory new e ; in several of - the bony fishes they are . white, resembling porcelain, and in their tes:ture are very dry and brittle. A remarkable peculiarity distin guishes the internal ear of fish es , different from that of the other three classes of t;tii-.blooded animals, for it grows in proportion a s the fish increases in size, and thus, by its bein t , , in the dire& ratio of the bulk of the fish, displi.ws the mark of its age. Though there can be no Llouht that several insects possess the sense of liem.l-ag, yet the organ of this sense is very uncertain ; a part, indeed, can be distinguished in some of thLv larger kind of the genus cancer, and this part i ` appears to be analogous to the vestibulum of the former classes, for a small bony tube is disco vered on the palpw ; at each side of the root a firm membrane closes its external opening, hav ing a membranous lining, on which is expanded a nerve, having its origin .at a common branch of tire antennae or feelers ; and from this circum stance it might be conjectured that the antennae themselves are organs of hearing, if that suppo sition be not refuted by the fact of some insects having no true antenna;, and still possessing the sense of hearing in an exquisite degree, a strong proof of which is instanced in spiders ; and ex periments on other insects also prove that the sense of hearing is not weakened by removing the ante - mix. With regard to this sense in worms, it is in the sepiie only that any thing hitherto has been discovered resemblin g an organ of hearing. BEN JONSON'S RULES.--For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read. the best books, observe the best speakers, and much exer cise his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and After what manner, he must first think and cogitate in his mind his subject, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either ; then take care, in placing both matter and words, that his annposition be comer •; and to do this with diligence and often. matter how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate ; seek the best, and be not glad to. forward conceits, or first words, that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we , invent, and order what we approve. Repeat often what we have formerly written, which, besides that it helps the consequence, and makes the juncture better, quickens the heat of imagination, that often cools in the time of settinc , a down ; but the safest w a y is to return to our judgment, and handle over again those things, the easiest of whicis might make them justly suspected Discoveries edit. 1640. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH FUNDS. —PA US, DEC. 22.—Five per Cents. Consols, J 06f. 90e.; Three per Cents., (Jouissance du 22 December), 74f. sc. ; Bank Stock, 1,835 f. ; Neapolitan Rentes, 77f. 70c. Exchange o❑ London, one month, 251 25c. ; three months, 25f. Sc. The portrait of her Grace Charlotte Florentia Duchess of Northumberland, which we have just seen, and which is intended for the forthcoming number of La Belle Assemblee, is an admirable specimen of att. The deli cacy and richness of the engraving are equalled only by its extreme correctness of proportions. We have no doubt it will meet with general admiration. FALCONRY.—The Duke of St. Alban's re peated the experiment, as Grand Falconer, of substituting pigeons for partridges, in exercising his hawks, on the race-course, on Friday last, and with a result precisely similar to that before described. One partridge, however, on being let loose, was struck in good style 'and killed. The Duchess and the Ladies Beauclerk were again pre sent; but again, from the secrecy observed, there were but few spectators on the Downs. We regret to mention that the Grand Falconer's favourite hawk, which had broken the trammels of restraint during the diversion, directed his flight towards Rottingdean, in which neighbourhood he alighted on the summit of a barn, where he paid the fatal price of disobedience, being shot by a wandering fowler, unacquainted with his importance and connexion. The Duke has given orders that the bird should he stuffed. —Brighton Guardian. In 1668, the Viceroy of Canton, in a me morial to the Emperor, on the Portuguese embassy, says, " We find very plainly that Europe is only two little islands in the middle of the sea." When Marshal Tallard was a prisoner of war at Nottingham, .he gave several ballet to the ladies in the neighbourhood, and danced one evening with a young lady, who Made a great impression upon him. His Se cretary, who was a man of easy morals, and had observed his master's agitation of mind, and the cause of it, think ing to recommend himself to the Marshal's favour, threw out several hints, that there would he no great difficulty of obtaining the young lady upon his own terms ; but the Marshal, with a magnanimity of soul that did him the greatest honour, replied, " Sir, if I were one-and-twenty, and of the same religion as the lady, I should think it no discredit to offer her my hand in an honourable manlier ; but to ruin a virtuous young woman for a momentary gratification, I should think• a far greater dishonour than to he defeated and taken prisoner by the Duke of Marl borough." On Friday, Joseph de Ballin, the French sur geon in this town, who stood charged with violating the person of Sarah Skelton, a young woman about nineteen years of age, on the 28th of November last, and who bad been twice remanded in consequence of the young woman's indisposition, underwent an examination in the office of Mr. Smith, opposite the Town Half. After the magis trate heard the evidence, he addressed the prisoner in a very afreeiing manner, and said he felt it his duty to corn. mit him to York to take his trial for the capital offence. Various rumours have gone abroad respecting this young woman's character; but, from what we have been able to learn, it remains unspotted. Several respectable people in thie town, with whom she lived as servant, were ready to come forward to speak to her character.—Sheffield Iris. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.---Last Friday night, a party of poachers, to the number of thirty-five, or thereabouts, entered the Lee Wood, near Elmden, in Essex, the property of Mr. Sheriff Copeland. Previous to commencing their business, they proceeded very metho dically to find the' keepers, and obligingly informed them, that if they attempted to prevent the execution of their purpose they would shoot them. The keepers, intimi dated by their formidable appearance, thought it prudent to adopt their advice. The poachers, thus left in undis puted possession, fired forty-seven shots, and bagged about as many pheasants; after which they made their way to a neighbouring preserve, the property of Mr. Wilks. Here they were interrupted by the keepers, who had been em ploying the intervening time in adding to their force. The poachers, however, still maintained the superiority ; after wounding .ten of their opponents, more or less se verely, retired in good order from the field of battle. Mr. S era Copeland's keeper, in his letter to that gentleman, a sight of which we have been favoured, states that . n poachers were e i t h er known or taken, but that. inocinueitr;,.f the .slvere making in every direction. RomiERY AT DAVIDSTOW.-011 NVedlleS day la's,l: aOd named Broad, and a girl named Ferrett, were coom i ‘ led to Bodmin gaol, by John Braddon, Esq., of Carnelkard, on suspicion of robbing the h ouse o f t h e Rev. L. Mai 'dm' 0, of Davidstow, hi wh ose serv i ce they were employeif,' ,of a tin box, containing bill s an d cash to the amount of lit lween three and four hundred pounds. it appears that the was kept in a chest of . drawers in a MOM in which the R' , .l. Gentlemau and his Lady usually previous to the di scovery of slept, but that for somea.oights the robbery, they had sie k 't in another room. Of th e i r knowledge of this f ac t tlic confederates had no d oullt availed themselves, and got ac:" vs, to the apartment o f their master, either by u s i ng a f a l se tie}' td open the do or , or by getting iu at the window. Every attempt to disco ver the thief or thiev e s p rove d unava ili ng , :sntil at length it wag whispered that application was about to be made to a certain learned gentleman (the conjuror) famed for his skill in tke discovery of all such delin quents. This threntened appeal to the powers of dark ness I produced, it seems, the desired effect upon the mind • of the juvenile depredator; for on Monday the boy was seen in a furze-brake, at som. , t distance from his waster's house, trampling something into the furze. On perceiv ing that he was observed by a man at work upon the road, he made up to him,. and entering iito conversation about the robbery, stated that Mr. William ;the Reverend Gen tleman's enn) was determined to apply t,o the conjuror in order to discover the thief. Ile then aske,:l the man if he thought the conjuror could tell who took the money—who replied, that he had heard the cunning man multi certainlV point out the thief. The boy then left him. The ques tion and manner of the youth aroused suspicion in the man, who determined to see what he had been doing in the furze brake. lie went there, and after a littl e se arc h f oun d th e box, which he took up and restored to its proper owner, with all its contents, not one farthing of the lost treasure having been diminished.— Western Luminary. FRENCH PAPERS: (From the Gazette de France, dated Dec. 23:) ODEssi, DEc. 2.—Letters, worthy of credit, affirm that Varna is by no means blockaded by the Turks; and even that a division of the main army still occu pies Bazardjik, Kustendje, and other places in Bul garia, which have been placed out of danger of a surprise by the erectien of new works. It is added that these troops will take up their winter-quarters on the right bank of the Danube. The first official news will, undowbtedly, dispel all doubts concerning the state of affairs in Bulgaria.--Angsburgh. Gazette. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) The storms, which are very violent, particularly this year, in the Black Sea, cause great disasters. Two Russian vessels' coming from Varna, one of which - had on board the trophies gained in that town, and the other a number of sick and wounded, have perished. It is said that another vessel with sick has been obliged to take refuge at Bourgas, and that it has fallen into the hands of the Turks. We have no official news from the theatre of war. ST. PETERFBURGII, DEC. 3.—Divine service was performed to-day in all the churches, in commemo ration of the accession of his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas, to the throne. By his Majesty's order, the Vice-Chancellor, Count Nesselrode, who has returned to St. Peters burgh, has resumed all the functions of the depart ment confided to him. We have just received very satisfactory news from Stawropol, dated the 11th of November. General Emanuel, commanding the troops of the Caucasus, had returned from the expedition which he had undertaken against the Karatschajeffs, a tribe of mountaineers who, animated by a hostile spirit against us, made frequent incursions into the Russian frontiers, and especially since the declaration of war against the Turks, and whose country served as a rallying point for all the tribes of mountaineers hostile to Russia. After a most obstinate engage ment, the enemy were totally defeated by onr brave troops commanded by Gen. Emanuel, and lost the best part of their army. On the 3d of November, the Sultan of the Karatschajeffs, the elders, and all the people, took the oath of fidelity to his Majesty the Emperor, and as a security for their submission, gave hostages of the Sovereign Family and of three families of the elders. The subjection of the Karats chajeffs is of the greatest importance for the tran quillity and security of the countries near the Caucasus. . - - PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 22. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent Goy. Stock, 35,E per cent. !14% :NaVonal Ditto — Ditto, New — 'Patriotic Ditto — 4 per Cent lollillliberniau Bank 16% Gov. Deb. 3% percent.... 115% I Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal stock — Royal Irish Mina — Grand Canal Stock lB N, Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Dcb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings — FOREIGN XXCHANGES ON LONDON. ElAmituucti, D2c. 12.-13. 91X.—Two months, 13. '7%, latiPsic, Dec. B.—Three months, 6. 14. BEILLIN, DEC. 9.—Three months, 6.22%. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIOCHE TO-MORROW. Morning ...59 initaftes after 4. Evening....l6.minutes after 5. A t z k[7l)s *lll4 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1828 The Lord Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is at last disposed of—the Duke of WELLIi4G- TON, following the precedent 'of other Prime Nlinisters, during whose Administration the office had become void, has appointed himse to the vacant office. The Wardenship has bee] n the last three instances given to Prime M nistels—Lord NORTH, Mr. PITT, the Earl o LIVERPOOL, and now the Duke °MELLING- TON. The only emoluments appertaining to the office are the pay as Governor of Dover Castle, worth about 4851. per annum ; the beautiful re sidence of Walmer Castle, on which the late Earl of LIVERPOOL expended a considerable sum of money, and the Droits as Admiral of the Cinque Ports. This ancient fee of office comprehends all the Rights of a Lord of the Manor, from a point near Seaford to the coast of Essex, and any wrecked goods within the District, that remain unclaimed for a year, are condemned in the Cinque Ports Admiralty Court held at Dover, as the Droit of the Lord Warden. It very rarely happens, however, that any arti cles of value are cast•on shore without a claim for them being made and established. We are not disposed to quarrel with the Duke of WELLINGTON for appropriating to himself what his predecessors have done before him. His Grace has as 'good a right as any of them to the office, which is, a f ter a ll, one more of honour than emolument. The residence of Walmer Castle is the most desirable thing about it, and his Grace's health will benefit consider ably by an occasional recreation from the fatigues of office in the vicin'ty of the sea-breezes. It has been said that the Lord Wardenship is worth 6,000/. per annum, but this is surely a mistake. His Grace has been pleased to retain Mr. ROBERT JENKINSON as Deputy Warden and Lieutenant-Governor of Dover Castle ; and this mark of respect to the memory of the Earl .of LIVERPOOL has given sincere satisfaction to the inhabitants of Dover, who cherish the greatest affection for the amiable character of the Liei:• :enant-C overnor. The appointment is expected to appear in to. morrow night's Gazette. Hamburgh and German Papers have been received this morning to late dates, but their contents do not supply any news of an authentic character from the East. The old reports of Russian disasters—sickness—and want of provi sions continue to be referred to in letters from all the towns in the vicinity of the Danube. But bad as the condition of the Russians is repre. sented, we do not hear of any great successes on the part of the Turks, or of the boasted demon stration which they were making about crossing the Danube, and driving the Russians out of the Principalities : VIENNA, DEC. I I. Their Royal Highnesses the Infant of Lucca aad his Consort intend, as we hear, to spend the whole winter at Vienna. Gen. Baron Von Ficquelmont is on the point of sett;ng out on his mission to St. Petersburgh: Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador, has to-day dispatched a Courier to the Ambassador of the Netherlands at Constantinople. DEC. 12.---Numerous Couriers continue to pass through this city between Lowdon, Paris, and Con stantinople. The mail from the latter city, of the 26th of November, has not yet arrived, but is hourly. expected. Letters from Brody, of the sth, say that the Russian troops returning from the right bank of the Danube are collecting in the principalities; 6,000 infantry, 1,800 cavalry, and four brigades of artillery, had arrived at Bucharest. These troops must -be new clothed, and Count Pahlen is to take the neces sAry measures • for procuring cloth and leather. Tailors and shoemakers are much sought after, and even foreigner; are engaged, which was not done before. The hospitals at Bucharest are said to be filled with sick, Ittl as it is feared that tire mild weather may cause a recurrence of the epidemic disorder,the old precautions are again enforced. Specu lators, who at the beginning of the campaign sold large quantities of various articles to the Russian army, are again purchasing. As it is to be supposed that these people are sure of disposing of their goods, it is inferred that the next campaign will be on the same plan as that just ended, and that the measure; said to be taken in Little Wallachia and Servia are only a demonstration in favour of the main army. If the Russians intend to make themselves mestere of the whole course of the Danube, and operate on it next spring, very different measures would be neces sary, to which the badness of the roads would be a very great obstacle. The conveyance of the heavy artillery, and of all the requisites for passing great rivers, to a great distance, is not to be thought of under circumstances, when light troops can hardly advance a mile (five miles English) in a day. BUCHAREST, NOV. 29. , - -- - Nothing has occurred here since the last post. We still are without any certain accounts respecting the movements of the Turks on the other side of the Danube. Troops are going to Little Wallachia to His Majesty's ship Galatea, Sir CHARLES SULLIVAN, wept into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday, to be paid off: The elections to the different City Wards closed yesterday. They were characterised by no particular party spirit, except in the few in stances where the subject of Select Vestries was alluded to, when the disapprobation of the majority of the electors, with regard to these grinding monopolies was, much to their honour, both promptly and unequivocally expressed." In the Ward of Farringdon. Without, Mr. HUNT, of Radical notoriety, made him self conspieuous by a copious defence of his morals, but having, nevertheless, lost his election, retires into private life with the peculiar and satisfactory consolation that " virtue is its own reward." CORBETT too—that paragon of purity, consistency; and bashfulness, whose generous payment of his debt to Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT can never be sufficiently admired—is in the same predicament, and may now borrow his associate's Matchless Blacking to pen dia tribes against the Electors, on his own lately in vented paper. Brunels Papers of the 24th, inst. have been received. They state that the KING has or dered a project of law for regulating the liberty of the Press ; and for abolishing the present law n force BRUSSELS, DEC. 23, The sittings of the second Chamber of the States General, for the last three days, have been entirely occupied in discursing the budget. In the sitting of yesterday the President announced the receipt of a message from his Majesty, with a project of law for abolishing the measure adopted in the begin ning of his Majesty's reign against the licentiousness of the Press. In the sitting of the 23d the project of law for a loan to the Colonies was adopted by:a majority of 84 to 17. The Chamber then adjourned to the 19th January. BRUSSELS, DEC. 21. The pleadings in the affair of M. de Potter con tinned yesterday till one o'clock, after which M. de Potter rose to speak. The narrow space allotted to the public was crowded with persons eager to hear the speech of our courageous fellow citizen. The most profound silence prevailed during his speech, which made a profound impression ; he had scarcely concluded when shouts of applause burst from all parts of the Court. Neither the respect due to the Court, nor the injunctions of the President, could check them; and the Magistrates having ordered that those who should indulge in these noisy marks of, approbation to be turned out of the Court, the whole audience proceeded to the door. At a quarter before two o'clock the Court retired to deliberate, and at half -past two declared the accused guilty, and sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment, and a flee of 1,000 florins. This sen tence was received with hootings and hissing, and the Court was cleared. When the carriage with M. Potter and three marechaussee in it left the Court, it was received with repeated cries of " Potter for ever! Down with the Ministers !" and the crowd accompanying the carriage increased every moment, uttering loud acclamationS. Immediately after M. de Potter had re-entered his prison, the windows of the hotel of M. Van Maarten, opposite, were broken to pieces with stones. The police, however, dispersed the mob, which separated quietly. The Scotch character is amusingly developed in the comments made by the different Edin burgh and Glasgow Papers on the subject of the late V‘Test-port -murders. Each Journal seems to think its own honour implicated in the busi ness, and hastens to prove, first, that BURKE and his wife are both Irish ; and secondly, that the idea of cutting people's throats for the sake of selling their bodies to anatomists, is far too original for the inferior conceptions of Scotch men. Now really, however much we may be dis posed to admire and love his national diffidence, we cannot but think it superfluous on the present occasion. Further than his name—and what a name ? —there is nothing to prove that BURKE is an Irishman ; while with respect to the inferior conceptions of the Modern Athenians what, let can equal the in genu i ty o f L or d LAU us ask, DERDALE'S famous torture-boot ? Really the Scotch do themselves injustice in this respect, and it is for us, as impartial English Journalists, to render them that praise 'which their own amiable bashfulness prevents them from publicly reinforce General Geismar. The typhus continues, and all kinds of provisions grow dearer. VIENNA, DEc. 13.—Metalliquee 951 ; Bank Shares, 1,096. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 2. The sitting of the 28th November in the Cham ber of the Nobility was very stormy. Baron Auch ersward made an accusation against the Ministers, especially against Count Wetterstedt. Tlio latter concluded his reply by calling on M. Aucheraward to present his accusation, with the documents to support it, to the Committee of the Constitution. 'Phis proposal was acceded to. Col. Montgomery Proposed the abolition of the lottery, as dishonour able to the nation. Count Wetterstedt seconded this motion, declaring that the King himself had proposed it, together with the budget. M. Auch ersward made a motion at great length on the mi litary and naval force, the fortresses, &c. To the astonishment of the Assembly, he proposed a con siderable reduction of the funds destined for the envy. HAMBURG'', DEC. 12. During the last 10 days of November 56 cargoes of corn passed the Souad : of these 40 were bound to British, ene to French, and two to Dutch ports ; one was bound to Bremen, and one to Leghorn ; the rest to Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ports. A French Paper again states, that it has been resolved in a Council of Ministers to fit out an expedition against Algiers. The force destined by the Government for this purpose is said to consist of about 50,000 men—a number too large. by half, unless the French entertain some ulterior projects of ambition. claiming. The West-port murder, judging from internal evidence, is decidedly of Scotch origin.- There is a cool, methodical, business-like air about it, a scientific tact in the conception, and a prac tised ease in the execution, which no Irishman could ever yet attain. An Irish murder is hasty, sudden, and impetuous —an English one, phlegmatic, cunning, mercenary—but it has been reserved for the Scotch, in this last unequalled atrocity, to blend the qualities of both English and Irish guilt, with a scientific effrontery pecu liarly and pre-eminently their own. IHE ARMY. DIALOGUE.---" Pray, where have you been ?" " I went to Kilone !"—And where are you going ?" " going to Kilmany !"—" And then ?"—" I'll be going to Kilmore !"—" Ay ? and then ?"—" Why, then, I'll go to Kilenall !''—The catechist ran away.—Neto Monthly Magazine. On Saturday last a lad passing up a lane, near Iford, was saluted by a gipsey with—" What's the time, my lad ?"—" We don't know what time it be now-a-days," replied the boy.—Then be if we don't see," replied the fellow; and whistling he was immedi ately joined by four more, who threw him down, robbed him of his watch, and immediately made off.- . --Brighton Gazette. BARBARA OF ANNAN.—The fate of this vessel` is now ascertained. Part of her stern, with the name painted on it, was picked up last Thursday, in Kirkandrews Bay, and sold by the man who found it for the trifling sum of 2s. Nothing farther has transpired respecting the crew ; but we hear they will never he heard of alive.—Deenfrics Courier. On Friday last, as the workmen of the New Gas Company were excavating the ground a little to the eastward of the Battery on the King's Road, they disco vered an entire human skeleton, two feet beneath the sur face of the earth. About 40 years ago a Dutch valliot was wrecked near this spot ; many of the crew were lost, and this skeleton is supposed to have belonged to one of them.—Brighton Gazette. LORD ANGLESEA.—VariOIiS reports are in circulation, in the London as well as iu the Dublin papers, of the intention of Lord Anglesea to retire from the go vernment of Ireland. We think we can with confidence assert, that there is no truth whatever in the rumours.— , We contradict them, too, with pleasure—for, although we would not so insult the Noble Lord's understanding and taste, as to sully his name with the gross 'renal adulation of the Castle papers, which disgrace him by sordid praise, we accord to his intentions the manly and independent tribute of our respect. We believe, surrounded as he is by underling treachery, he has, in spite of it, done much good ; he has averted much mischief, and we would con sider his retirement or removal a great calamity to Ireland at present.—Pilot. THE WEST-PORT BODY-DEA LERA.--Tile interest excited by tine approaching trial of Burke and hie wife, which takes place to-morrow, is intense. The most extraordinary rumours have, since the committal of the prisoners, been current in the city; and it is anticipated that a very atrocious scene of iniquity will be disclosed. Be that as it may, the trial will calm the public mind one way or another,—either by proving the accusations which the pannels are called upon to answer unfounded or exag gerated, or by consigning them to condign punishment. We are not aware, that among the multifarious atrocities that our Justiciary annals, record, there is a crime of an exactly similar nature.—,Burke, we believe, is a native of Ireland.—Edinburgh Observer. The wood disposed of at Garmouth is grown in large forests in the Highlands, about 60 or '7O miles distance from Garmouth—to which place it is brought by the river Spey. The quantity of wood, partly in planks and partly in trees, which is floated down such a distance of the course of this 'circuitous, impetuous, and rocky bedded river, is sometimes as large us SOO solid feet, with out any other management than that given by two men, carried en the float, as it is termed, and whose duty it is to steer as clear as possible of any formidable obstruction. To witness one of those floats gliding down the Spey, a stranger could scarcely'help trembling for the safety of the two pilots; and yet, dangerous as the voyage appears, it is comparatively seldom that any lives are lost.—Glasgow • Chrouicle. There is at present residing in Saltmarket, Glasgow, a man named Thomas Widdriff, who has attained to within a week of 102 years of age. He was born on Christmas-day, 1726, in the town of Preston, Lancashire. Notwithstanding his extreme Gld age, this individual re tains in a great measure the activity sad hale appearance of a person in the vigour of life. He walks erect, and with a tolerably firm step, arid in his looks there is nothing of that listlessness and stupor so often observable in aged people ; but, on the contrary, a sprightliness rarely to be met with in advanced years; His sight and hearing are alight!) , impaired; and his right arm a little palsied. In 1745 he was called out to join the militia of his native town, and was engaged in the battle of Preston betwixt the King's troops and those of the Pretender. The body of militia with which he was connected was afterwards formed into a regular regiment, and served in . Flanders in 1753 and following years, Where Widdriff, who accom panied it, fought in several battles, and, among others, was engaged on the plains of Minden, where the French were so signally defeated by the Allies. He was also a considerable time in America, and fought in the bloody action at Bunker's-hill en the 17th of June, 1775. Se veral wounds in various parts of the body were received by him in the course of his soldiership. After receiving his discharge, which took place in Ayr, about 45 years age, lie came to Glasgow, where he has remained since:with a pei.- siim of Is. a-.clay._Edinburgh Pape►. VIRTUE IN POVERTY.—A writer, one of the must gifted of the present day, has told the narrator of this history, that no interest of a high nature can be given to extreme poverty. We know not if this he true ; yet, if we mistake nut our own feelings, there is nothing to us so exalted or so divine, as a great and brave spirit working cut ite end through every earthly obstacle and evil ; watching through the utter datknuss, and steadily defying the phantoms which crowd round it ;—wrestling with the mighty allurements and rejecting the fearful.yoices of that want which is the deadliest 11134 surest of human tempters; nursing through all calamity the hive of species and the warmer and closer affections of priVate ties; sacrificing no duty, resisting all sin ; and, amidst every horror and every humiliation, feeding the still and bright light of that genius which, like the lamp of the fabulist, though it may waste itself for years amidst the depth of solitude and the silence of the tomb, shall live and burn immortal and undimmed when all around is in rotten ness and decay. There are some whom the lightning of fortune blasts only to render holy. Amidst all that humbles and scathes, amidst all that shatters from their life its wen (lure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of ex►stence writeth a sud den and " strange defeature," they stand erect, riven, not uprooted, a monument less of pity than of Lawe.—The Disowned. To-morrow morning a detachment of the 20th Infantry will leave town to join the Depot stationed at Canterbury, in consequence of the recruiting parties of the regiments on the East India establishment being called in. It is reported that his Grace the Duke of Richmond rec&ved the Order of the Garter on Friday last. —Brighton Gazette. Partridges and pheasants are at present selling in our market at'a lower price than domestic fowls, and grouse not much higher.—Edinturgh Advertiser. A parish overseer at Holderness having to make an affidavit last week, and finding it inconvenient to attend, actually sent another person, as his substitute, to take it for bins. This is equalled only by two Irish women at Stockport, who the other day ranted to take an oath, because they were pregnant !Brighton Gaz. Highway robberies continue, we regret to say, increasing in this, and indeed in most other parts of the coentry.—Briglaon Gazette. The female figure on which Nollekens chiefly plumed himself, was seated with her arms round her legs. This was purchased at his sale by Lord Egremont, who engaged Rosti to execute it in marble, with strict injunc tions to make no alteration. Though defective in many points, the attitude was a natural one, and acquired by mere chance, as good attitudes often are. If literary rumour is to be credited, Lady Morgan is about forthwith to produce a work of great originality : the sohjeelt has not yet transpired.—Dublin Morning Register. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Lady Stepney, in Henrietta street, Cavendish-square,, 6 1 1 th a : ti l l , Brighton ; the Honourable John Fox Strangways, at the .e..1 , ,, g • Ilchester's Old Burlington-street, from Paris; the H o nouro,V Illo• th Captain Willoughby, of the Royal Navy, in Piccadilly; from To h. ' seat of his uncle, Lord Middleton; Mr. and Mrs. Spence , „*. ‘ititie Gloucester-place, hem Lyme Regis, in Dorsetsbire ; Cat'r,'",,j) to • Mrs. and Miss Stuart, and Captain Harcourt, at Crawlers 1.-r . : 4; ((late Cook's), Albemarle-street, from Oxfordshire ; the . 3, fc. tits esi Stuart, at ditto, from Oxfordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Rushbro,., and family, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from %%4w ,, jteiect i Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, at ditto, from Wales; 'Bollard Sans.. I, son, Esq , at ditto; Captain Macdonald, at ditto, from Irelo7: 'i'ttrlol J. Forbes, Esq. at ditto, from Bath ; Hon. Hugh cliftbnis r‘ P ' vf Piccadilly, from a tour, cc CHANGES. i 11 LOW _. The Dowager Marchi oness o f L ondonderry, at the Marg.":. P._ Camden's wet, the Wilderness, K en t, f rom her seat, 8011. .‘ uRCI wood Lodge, Hants ; the Earkof Besborough, from his house _._ i„. St. James's-square, for Earl Spencer's seat, Althorp, Northawr_,.. '.WII tonshire ; Lord Acheson, for the Earl of Gosford's seat iii i'SJ O lt folk ; Lord William Russell, from Warren's Hotel, Rego' h OT street, for Woburn Abbey; Captain Porteus, for Sasdhurstjas' t'OTT, and Mrs. Percy, from Ramsgate, for Bath ; Major Mack 1 . ; , , from Manchester, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, f.. *4O Ramsgate, for Brighton ; Mrs. and Miss Telford, frona .A' th. mouth, in Devonshire, for Bath ;J. H. Hawkins, Esq. ft.,,,,.` , ' 111 Warren's Hotel, for Little Hampton; Rev. William Bops t will ditto, for Maidstone ; Admiral Sir Graham E. Hammond, fro; , "'" the British Hotel, Jerinyn-street, for Suffolk ; Robert War,ii taxies Esq. from ditto, for Ireland ; J. Cooke, Esq• from ditto,„,'" - I t ,„ Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. lirown and family, from the LonS.' aloLa , Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Hastings ; Mr. and Mrs. Protherv, k from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street. for Waterford''"', 4 ' IOSt Raikes, Esq. from ditto, for Surrey; Captain Somers, fr°,:".[ ha w , ditto, on a tour; Earl and Countess of Onslow, from the ." h. ,- .. 1 George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their seat, Cland° 2 kingd Surrey. ARRIVALS AT BATH. i. Ltd( 11. Lord Borrington, H on . G. and Lady Foppery, Sir A. 8 ,, ' lso l h Lady Elton, Sir W. C a ll, Si r H. and Lady Rivets and fain. P. , ia " Baron de Grodit z , M a j or - General Nedham Colonel Ni c holson'; la o f Captains Ric e , C ross , M acdowel, Claytield , Deere, Littledakt , 1 Rev. Mr. and Mrs. King ; Bev. Messrs. Dryden, Long, KriePS 4 '' 4 ea til l e is Green, Paley, Bayne; Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, Earle, Parke',.',, Tindal, Green, Templeman ; Messrs. Barton, Brook, 13earloy t hese 1 Bartholomew, Cobb, Gore, Capper Everedge, Lambert, Jean , * t 1 1 „„ Mortis, Penson, Tyers, Tudway, Capper, 'Townsend, Woodforar' ate CI Knox Bourne, Hamerton WaiTen, Loftus, Anstey, Thuillisr , , , !ty ro Hawkins, Lyon, Winslow, 'Widcombe, Althorpe, Corballis, Fli t t , " Hornley, 'Whitisg, Jenkins, Stuart. Hare, 'Taylor, Bailey, Neve , 'Y 'l l k i i , Crump and family, Costello, Cassia), Wathen, Gunning, g a ellt4 4 Bayritun, Martrum ; Mistresses Walshe, Burr, Cassias, Collinkti',"ge h Meyhon, Norclifle and family, Costello, Stuart, Bridges; M 1 0,7 i 11,„ Malenerer, Paul, Thomas, Willis, Williams, Meyrick, PbillOL'i." ,-" an Gousford,'Corballis, two Drewes, &c. . ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAIIII. Dowager Lady Burrard, Lady Catherine Maunsell, 0 0 104' t it rt° Webb, Colonel St. Clair, colonel Burke, Major Bampton. lit 4 ' , id en iti l o i : : W. C. King, Rev. Mr. Jones, Captain Champain, Mr. and At r, miley, Mr. and Mrs. Henton, Mr. and Miss Mure Mr. and i11.,.,'.• ' l-eta • Nibell, Messrs. Ronahls, Johnson, Lewin, J. Lunge, Russell, ..' ,p w , , J. C. Hodge, Willoughby, Gorstin, Carey, Gray, Pullen, Wi'' ' - ' IV , ton, Vivian, Eden, Matthews, Mistresses Steele, S. Paul, Het'' ; r lee cSS son, Misses French, Ilahhury, Carter, &LI. ' l iQd . •""".............1.2 I N A Cabinet Council was held yesterday after ' tessrs noon at the Foreign-office, Downisgastreet, which wit attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington' - G ell e d the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, Lord Ellanho' . , , rough, Mr. Secr e t a ry P ee l, Si r G eorge Murray, the Cho- , %vv, . on , cellos- of the Excheq uer , M r . Il err i es, and Mr. Vesel ' . I tion Fitzgerald. " Iblie E The Ministers assembled at three o'clock, and. 4 Pils sat in deliberation till past six o'clock. 1%1 00 The surninonses for the meetinff e , of the C a bi' 'kin m , net were issued on T ues d ay a f ternoon, Earl Bathurst, the 'terpi• only member of the Cabinet absent, is not at present is , ' lit s 48 town. 1 ;Ilts 0 1 In the evening the same Ministers again as" , ' lered semled at the residence of th e D u k e o f Wellington, jo i , • Downing-street, where his Gra ce entertained his colleagues' , I c 'sit , i to dinner: ' : the The French Charge d'Affaires and the Nen-- t .- t politan Minister transacted business yesterday with die . 1 °mar Earl of Aberdeen, at the office of the Secretary of State for %sure Foreign Affairs. The King's Advocate-General also ,:'' tarns transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. - - 1 'dual The Bishop of London, Viscount Melville,. !i 1 and Mr. Secretary Peel had interviews yesterday with the . t e ,. l fC Duke of Wellington. ' 'ugh! Viscount Beresford visited Viscount MelvillJ 1 i the s yesterday at the Admiralty. - , ?ti o , . The Right lion. Sir G. F. Hill (Vice- 4 ' , r tail Treasures. of Ireland) has arrived in town from Dublin. There are four towns in North America i nl3°B( named Bath ; two of which are noted, like our own, for ' I.° . !' 5 baring but mines-al springs. r B IC, 1 ficeordilig to an average founded upon eight • years' observation, either rain or snow "falls every three • t h' i,-. or four days throughout the year in Lapland. ., r Many of the Portland islanders, as well as led 9 ' • others, will be enabled to enjoy their Christmas helyeleY - most merrily, front the effects of the late high tide and tiona, heavy gale of wind y which. have been the meat of throw- ' ,l , . 'Mg .up on the beach bats of gold and, silver. °vines*, .' '. i lilt( ~ 1 crowns, and dollars, are picked up in abundance, which ~ (for have been buried in the sea for inanyyeart frein the various :41col 14 shipwrecks ; the old adage, "Itis a bad wind that blows a , .X 1 the no one go'Od " is thus amply verified.—Dorset Chronicle. °Peril There is no accounting for taste. On Sun- • h i Ila day last a man unknown to fame walked into the river .- - t e h Eden, near Eden-bridge, pulled off his coat, and washed it ( r in tbe stseam ; then extending it on the grass, as if to drys . ?WI a, returned to the water, and bathed his head all over. He 4 t.-- n afterwards gave his coat another washing, put it on, and ' r ' lo Por walked away, apparently much gratifies'. The object , 0 - 's - - , 1 atl his ablution is not very perceivable. Some of the wonder- , 0 , • ing spectators thought him a water-worshipper ; other's . Ptlon with more reason, pronounced him crazy.— Car/ids , l e fi tic Patriot. `II, . On Wednesday afternoon the neighbourhoPd if or of Ilezham was visited by a violent storm of thunder and , to , lightning. The thunder was loud, and the lightning very 4 un vivid, which at this season of the year is rather extraor- .. r S s to dinaty, and attended as it was with a heavy fall of hail, i , ' -, sold strong wind, and partial dasknew, had a very awful et. 4i ti . . ot feet, though but of short continuance. After an autumn dry almost unprecedented for a long 'succession of fine, clear, ' . . and dry weather, we have for several weeks 'past had a )" ,to L continuance of cloudy and wet weather, with high winds, , ! Qu o but little or no frost. The absence of the latter has pro- ' ' 4 the duced a kind of second spring with some kinds of plan" ; ' ,i It Vs ‘ ant amongst others, the furze upon the fells is in several plat, covered with yellow bloom.--. Newcastle Chronicle. i :. ith. : '''‘''eiltrieelli.vdal'at The following remarkable suicide took place a short time ugo at Nyon :—A man named Clejat, who had lived for some time separated from his wife, entered the lodging of the latter, and fired a pistol at her, the b4ll 5.4 which missed his intended victim, and merely broke the candlestick which she had in her hand. He took from his pocket a large bottle of gunpowder, upon the mouth of which was a piece of German tinder (amadon), and have ing set light to the tinder, and supposing that the explosion of the gunpowder would destroy his wife, he placed the pistol against his own heart, fired, and instantly ceased to exist. The wife, however, escaped ; for the blood rush ing out from the wound of the intended murderer, ex tinguished the light and prevented it from comumuicating with the gunpowder.—Journal des Voyageurs. A chimney-sweeper of this town, named Morris, having been engaged to sweep the aimmy of house in Fox-street, repaired thither, accompanied by Ntl muel Lewis, one of his climbing boys, on 'ruemil l morning list, and, the usual arrangement,' being made, the letter was sent up one of the back-rocm flues. Some time after the boy had gone up, Morris observed that smoke was coming dowu the aperture, and, fearing danger, instantly called to the little fellow to make speed and return. Ile ' replied that he would ; and Morris fancying tha;:, from sonic connecting tlue, the vapour might hare got into the stack in which the boy watt from the one in front, lost no time in raking out the fire, which had been kindled ip the grisqo in the front room. The poor child, however, did net make his appearance, and Mot ria ran oft' to fetch two others, his apprentices. One of them wits promptly despatched up the chimney into which Lewis had gone, but, to the sin prise of all present, came down again without any tidings of him. The chimney in front was next tried, but with the like success, end all parties were at fault. At last it was suggested that a trial should be made of a chimney in the adjoining warehouse. The suggestion was adopted, the fire in the warehouse extinguished, a boy leas sent up, and returned, sure enough, with an account of having finned poor Lewis; but the flue in which be had discoveitil Lint • was so confined, that lie could not be brought down. The measures necessary fey the extricating the boy were promptly resorted to, and, by the reintaval of part of the stone-work at the back of the premises, the little fellow was - taken oat, but we lament to say, quite dead. To account tie• the singular circumatant•ea under which this poor child met his death, it must he explained that, although the ware house in question is at the extremity of the building in which the accideut happened, and the chimneys engaged to be swept are at the othet-, the fine of the former takes • a direction all along the back of thu house, and at last joins the chimney into which the boy had proceeded. It is, therefore, evident that the deceased, on his return, unfor tunately missed his way, and crept into the flue of the warehouse, where I.e was, no doubt, smothered, in his vain endeavours to force a passage. The unfortunate boy was between eight and nine years of age, and had been ap prenticed to from the Lancaster workhouse ? 4 ip inquest was held of the body the salve day, before J. Troughtbn, Esq., and a verdict of accidental death re eordcd.—Prestoil Pilot. 1 1i th o L ~g 1( . :,, ,,i civ i thew