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'rHE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 525. [THE TimEs.] The message of Santander, Vice-President of Colombia, to the Congress, is a public document of great interest, and presents a very favourable picture of the advances made by that infant com monwealth on the road to national prosperity..— For the first time the Vice-President has been enabled to congratulate his countrymen on the total clearance of the territory of Colombia from the vexation of a forei g n enemy. There- is not now a single Spaniard in arms throughout the whole Republic. Advantage has been taken of the danger which threatens alike every part of Spanish America, to press upon the several pro vinces the identity of their cause, and the neces sity of uniting iu support of it. Besides, there fore, the measures of active military co-operation, which are carried on by Bolivar for the imme diate relief of Peru, and which are fairly de scribed in the message to be undertaken in defence of Colombia herself, as much as if they bad been confined within her own frontier,—be sides these operations, the Vice-President an nounces that treaties of friendship end confe deracy have been concluded with Buenos Ayres and Mexico : and that one of a similar nature was on the point of being signed with the Go vernment of Chili. The growth and consistency of the friendly relations between Colombia and the United States are dwelt upon by Santander with natural and just complacency. He asserts that the Colombian Minister was received at Washington, with a full expression of the honours dui to him; and draws the recollection of Congress to that remarkable and decisive sentence in the message of Mr. Monroe, wherein lie extended to Spain herself the warning addressed by England to France and other Powers—that any•attack upon the Free States of America, with a view to bring them under the domination of European politics, would be regarded as a lawful cause of war by the - Cabinet so announcing its intentions. The various branches of the internal Government of Colombia are touched upon throughout the mes sage. Education is said within the last year to have made sensible progress -by the establish ment of schools and colleges; but a grant of money for the further extension of this benefit is earnestly solicited from the Legislature. A new organization of the Courts of Justice is recommended, withdrawing them from the cognizance of the Intendants and Governors, increasing their number, and rendering them more accessible to suitors in a thinly-peopled country. The lsws relative to the natural ization of strangers have already been pro ductive of considerable good ; as have the privileges of navigation, and the distribution of uncultivated lands. The proposed establishments of steam-boats on the lake of Maracaybo, and on the Pacific, are to be immediately submitted to Congress. A system of revenue is yet, it appears, to be begun. The resources of the country have, we admit, been exhausted by years of civil war; but it seems questionable how far the Vice-Pre sident is qualified to repair such a misfortune, when he opens his fiscal operations by recom mending- a revival of the old monopoly of tobacco! It would not be right to pass by altogether the mention made in this official document of the po sition in which England has been placed by her Ministers with regard to the Colombian people. " Pier politics appear favourable to the cause of " South America." " The sympathy of the British public and Government inspire the Vice-Presi " dent. with the most flattering hopes." 44 A Com " missioner from the British Government is now ac " tually in this capital"( Bogota)." Yet," I am sor " ry that 1 cannot communicate to you what may he " the ultimate resolution of his Britannic Majesty '' with respect to this Republic." Here, then, it is manifest that Mr. Canning has succeeded in puzzling the Colombians, as well as he has per plexed. his ow ii countrymen, with regard to his real policy towards South America :—perhaps, and still we are loth to say so, the Holy Alliance may be more familiar than either, with the secrets of the Right lion. Gentleman. If the honest re cognition of South" America would have, as we think it must have, the effect of preventing Fer dinand and the blinded Spaniards from rushing into another war with America, we hold it to be the bounden and sacred duty of the English Go vernment to cast aside al! frivolous excuses, and take that manly step the first moment at which they receive au official report from their agents. To wait for an acknowledgment by Spain herself, was a mere fraud upon the common sense of this country.. Our Ministers know, and have known from the beginning, that Spain will not acknow ledge the independence of her colonies. Let us, then, hear no more false pretences, and let Eng lish h on our be the great leading principle of those ho are its appointed guardians. [MORNING HERALD.] There was a numerous attendanc e of the Peers last night to hear the complaint and motion of Lord Holland, respecting the Protest entered upon the Journals agains t the passin g o f " th e Earl Marshal's 13i11," and signed by the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Abingdon. The complaint was confined to the fourth and last reason assigned for the ' protest. It was there stated that the Bill protested against was read a third time " at the early hour of five o'clock," when many Peers were absent, and that the vote did " not express the sense of the House." Lord Holland contended that five was not an early hour, but the regular hour for beginning public business in that House, and that, in fact,.eight petitions - upon public questions had been presented and read after five o'clock, and before the Earl 'Marshal's Bill was read a third time ; there was a much more numerous attendance than at seven, • when the House divided ei g ht. to three, ppon the Welch / Judicature Mil, and no Lord was taken by surprise. As to the sense of the House, there could be no safe, and there was no en . o. ry . mo . de of ascertaining, it, but by the Parliam rit • No divisiollth a " vote of the mqo. y t ever took Place bad a majority of all the • Lord s for the majority in that division. There we. .: e • - 351 Peers ) and no majority ever yet boasted 176. The No ble Lord gave a pleasant account of the contests in former times about expunging protests, the protesters always embodying their offensive reasons in every succeeding protest against the expunging of those reason.. He moved not for expunging, but for inserting a state ment of facts in contradiction of the reason of the protest in question. The Earl of Abingdon at once expressed his regret for having signed the reason complained of, and declared that he had meant only to protest against the principle of the Bill. The Duke of Newcastle, less yielding, persisted in thinking the reason quite correct. — It might be five minutes past fire, but not more. He would, however, submit to the judgment of their Lordships. The Lord Chancellor expressed a very decided opinion upon the vote being the sense of the House, and, with some verbal amend ments, supported the motion, which was una nimously adopted. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Sussex were present, and seemed to enter with great interest into the dis cussion. The Duke of Richmond bore testimony to the fact of having himself presented five pub lic petitions after five o'clock, and before the third reading of the Earl Marshal's Bill. There was the greatest good humour on both sides.— Much laughter was excited by Lord Ilolland calling the " Welch Judicature Bill " the Welch Peers' Bill. He remarked in explanation- 46 I am sure they must be of sufficiently ancient de scent." [MORNING POST.] There was no business of importance in the Commons last night. A Petition was presented from the Debtors confined in the Surrey Gaol by Mr. Hobhouse, complaining of the severity of the regulations made and enforced by the Magistrates. Mr. Denison admitted the truth of some of its allegations, and expressed his intention of calling the attention of his brother Magistrates to the subject. The petition was then received. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] _ __ _ Among our extracts from Paris Papers will be found a communication from Sir Wm. A'Court to the Count Ofalia at Madrid, disclaiming, on the part of the British Government, all concern with the return of Iturhide, and stating that it never had had any communication with that in dividual. A ridiculous story is told, in the Madrid article of the Etoile, on the au thority of the Master of a vessel which left Havanna!) the 6th March, of an attack and rob bery of the English Commissioners to Mexico, on their attempting to return. Numberless commu nications from Mexico, of a much later date, hare been received here, and the letters from the Ha vannah come down even to the middle of May. But any thing will do for Madrid and the Etude. [BRITISH PRESS.] Amongst the current on ditsof the day, it is said that the Parliament is to be prorogued till the month of October next, when a dissolution is expected to take place. Mr. W. Wynn, rumour states, is to be appointed Speaker of the House of Commons ; and the present Speaker, who has for some years filled that situation with a suavity of manner and a dignity of conduct entitling him to the praise of men of all parties, is to be ele vated to the Peerage. We give this as we have heard it, without at all vouching for its authen ticity. [NEW TIMES.] This day his Majesty is expected to prorogue his Parliament in person. The loyal Speech will, of course, touch upon the tranquil and happy circumstances of the country, the flourish ing state of tho Revenue, Manufactures, and Com merce, and the pacific views of the Foreign Powers in general. We do not anticipate that much notice will be taken of South American affairs. Hitherto Government has not been in poss e ssi on of information, such as might justify its adoption of a decided policy with respect to the newly established Sovereignties. Ills Majesty's Minis ters have carefully watched the advance of the new Communities, with every disposition to aid their progress ; but we need not say that it is not ours to put to hazard the peace and tranquillity of the civilized world in general on any vague and theoretical idea of promoting the civilization of a distant region. We trust we shall never be found backward in discharging our duties to mankind in general ; but our task begins at home, and we must not rashly put to hazard the blessings with ii hich we have been favoured by Providence. — His Majesty appears in public under peculiar cir cumstances of veneration and regard at the end of the present Session. We must remember that not manymonths have elapsed since he bestowod on the nation the munificent gift of theßoyalLibrary; and,now, within a few days, he has stood forward to subscribe five hundred pounds towards the monument of a plain and humble citizen, whose only claim to distinction rested in the talents which he devoted to public utility. History has afforded many examples of subjects who have raised monuments to their Sovereigns, but few of Sovereigns who have thus acknowledged and commemorated the intellectual greatness of a subject. Letters from Rome, dated the 22d May, say, that Cardinal PALLOTTA, the new Legatee in the province of Maritima and Campagna, has issued a proper Decree of Severity against the banditti who infest the country. According to its enact ments, no robber is ever to expect pardon, or in fact, any diminution of legal punishment. All who are publicly known as banditti, are to be regarded as under the sentence of death ; and any person may kill or shoot them with perfect impunity. In point of fact, a considerable re ward is promised on the delivery of a robber, dead or alive. And, it is strictly enjoined to every Commune to protect itself from the ma rauding attacks of these miscreants, upon pain of having to pay 500 scudi (12.51. sterling), for each attack. —On the Via Nomentana, 33 miles from Rome, upon the estate of Prince Sciarra, there have lately been discovered skeral arti cles of great value amongst these are four beau tiful statues of marble, though that which is pre-eminently estimated is , the b e a d o f a female of ivory, of most exquisite and beautiful work ma fish p. PARIS PAPERS. ( From the Etolle of June 23. MADRID, JUNE 17.—(8y Express•)—Sir Wil liam A'Court, the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, has addressed the following Note to Count Ofalia, the Prime Minister : " Conformably to the desire manifested by his Excellency Count Ofalia to the undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of England, he has the honour to repeat to him in writing what he has already declared to him verbally—namely, that when General Iturbide arrived in England some months ago, the un dersigned was authorised to assure Count Ofalia that the English Government had not entered into any relations with that individual. " Now that General Iturbide has left England, the un dersigned has orders to repeat the same assurances, adding further, that during the stay which he made in the British Do minions, the Government had no kind of communication with him. (Signed) " WILLIAM ATOURT," We learn that the fke of the King our Sove reign has been celebrated by the English Gar rison of Gibraltar, with a pomp worthy of the sentiments of an allied and friendly Government. The Bombard St. Antonio, which sailed from the Havanna!' on the Gth March, reports that the English Commissioners, with the Consuls of that nation, having set out from Mexico in two car riages to embark for Europe, were attacked by some insurgents, who killed three of them, and wounded the Captain of a frigate who escorted them. They then robbed them of a sum of 200,000 francs in gold. Anarchy is at the height in that unhappy country. The Captain of the Iris English frigate from Guayaquil, has brought news of the Asia and Aquiles. He saw those vessels on the 4th March oil the Isles of Diego Romviez : thus, after a voyage of 51 days, they had doubled Cape Horn; there is no previous instance of so rapid a passage. The King and his august family are still at A ranjuez. A courier from Cadiz brings the following news: . . The Viceroy Laserna, with his usual activity, has already sent six Spanish armed vessels to cruize on the coast near Lima. That capital of Peru, as well as the port of Callao, must he now again under the dominion of his Majesty. Bolivar, having learned from General Paez the happy events of the Ist of October, and the deliverance of the King, immediately set out on his return to Colombia. Letters from Xalapa say, that some federal troops are posted at Plan del Ris e to oppose the Spanish expedition that is expected there ; but the officers declare openly that they will be the first to embrace their European comrades. Public opinion every where manifests itself by cries of Viva el Rey. It is dt Campeche espe cially that the Royalists have go.t the ascendancy to such a degree, that a company of Spanish sol diers and a corporal would suffice to restore the legitimate authority. The division of Laborda, which sailed from the Havannah the 29th of April, has cleared those seas of the insurgent privateers that in vested them. The letters from Vera Cruz are of the 29th March. The Fort of St. John d'Ulloa did not cease its firing. The insurgents dare not ap proach it. Four of the IThirtilleros who participated in the assassination of the Canon Vinuessa, were hanged yesterday, being excluded from the am nesty. Mr. Ouvrard, Commissary-General of the Army in Spain, has removed his bureau to Tolosa. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES---SITTIN or JUNE 21. Martignac, Reporter of the Commission charged with the examination of the project of law relative to the sup plementary credit for the expences of the disbursements of 1823, said the Ordonnance of the 18th March had opened for this object a credit of 50,000 francs, from which was deducted the sum of 10,008 francs. 111. Martignac then passing to the Minister of the Marine, proposed to grant 11,000,000, by which be had exceeded his credit, and a supply of 1,809,916 f. demanded. The Commission proposes unanimously the adoption of the project of law. The President—Gentlemen, the Report of the Commision shall be distributed to-morrow. What day does the Chamber understand to be fixed for the opening of the discussion ? Many voices—Thursday. M. de Labourdonnaye (a Member of the Commission) de nied that this would be a sufficient time. The public func tionaries ought to have the opportunity of refuting several imputations made against them. For example, the Military Intendant Sicard had delayed from necessity the order for transporting the Army, and afterwards in order to rectify that delay, he was obliged to make the expenditure complained of. It was evident, therefore, that the imputation he laboured un der required time to explain it, which was in justice due to him. They could not, therefore, refuse the public function aries a delay to which they were justly entitled. De concluded by proposing that the Chamber would grant a delay of eight days before the general discussion took place. The adjournment to Monday was carried by a great ma jority, there being only about 40 members who opposed it.— The Chamber then rose. FRENCH FUNDS. Panis, Ju NE 22.—Five per Cents. opened at 102. 35. ; closed at 102. 55.—Bank Stock, 1,91;2. 50.—Neapolitan Rentes, 89. —Bente d'Espagne, 191. Royal Spanish Loan, 62.—Ex. change on London, one month, 25. 30.—Three ditto, 25. 15. (Coors Authcntique. Our Theatre opened yesterday fora few nights, for the purpose of introducing Mrs. DAVISON, late Miss Dun can, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. This Lady has ac quired much celebrity in comedy, and for the enchanting sweet.: ness of her voice in- singing Scotch airs; in the latter she has no competitor, and few in the former. The public are much indebted to Mr. Ryder for the treat they received last night ; and we have little doubt they will patronize the Theatre dur ing Mrs. Davison's engagement. The play was Sheridan's admirable comedy of " the School for Scandal," in which Mrs. Davison's perforrnanCe of Lady Teaile was what we should e xpect from her in every particular by a buoyancy of spirits, and sprightliness of imagination, so requisite for this ard uous c h a racter. The screen scene, was admirably managed by Mrs. Davison ; her a p olo gy to Sir Peter; the conf us i on Sh e t hrows upon Joseph Surface; and Sir Peter's rage; taken together could never be e xcelled. Mr. Williams support s M rs . D a vison in a very respectable .manner, and had he only the crabbed looking countenance re quired for Sir Peter, he would be excellent. We think Mr. Ryder would much improve the cast, were b e to p l ay Joseph Surface ; and Mr. Le ec h Ch ar l es . The Manager is too heavy and demure looking for the gay Charles ; and he possesses the requisites, in person and look, for Joseph ; notwithstanding which, he supported the former character with much ability.__ Mr. Mitchell's Crabtree was very good ; this gentleman had considerable talent in this line. - flaying seen Mr. Murray's (of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh) Sir Be n j amin Backbite, we could not admire Ai r . Bell's, a lthough Mr. Bell i s a young man of respectable tal ents . Mrs. Fawcett's Mrs. Candour is a v ery complete performance ; indeed the whole of the parts were played in a manner which reflected' much credit on the company . . We had almost forgot Mrs. Davison's in troduction, in the third act, o f the beautiful ballad of "Robin Adair," which w as sung in her usual style of excellence. The Farce of " Turn Out" concluded the evening's perfor mance—a farce particularly fitted for the exhibition o f M rs . Davison's talents in acting and singing. " I'm Marian Ram say," and "Logic o' the o Buchman," were sung most delightfully. Th e pleasure a Scotch man rece i ves from hearing th e b eaut if u l ballads. f his country execute d i n the and Mrs. D. does them, is a felicity which w e se l do m en j o y ;opportunity s h ou ld not be thrown away. The performances this evening The,Belle's Stratagem," and " A Roland for an Oli ver," two very excell e n t pieces.— (Aberdecn Journal.)- A DESERTER PARDONED. ( From the Jamaica Courant of April 30.) At an early hour yesterday morning, private Francis Campbell, of the 50th regiment, who had been tried by a General Court-martial, held at Kingston barracks on the 17th inst., and found guilty of desertion, and sentenced to be shot, was taken from the gaol of this city in a cart, under the escort of a sergeant's guard. At the entrance of Up-park camp, the escort was joined by the band of the regiment, which played the Dead March in Saul, with the drums muffled. in this most impressive and melancholy manner, the prisoner was conducted in front of the corps, which had been previously formed into a square. —He was afterwards placed on the right flank, where the coffin to receive his body had been pre pared ; he immediately knelt on the coffin, and prayed for some time with great fervour and resig nation. He was attended in this devotional act by the Rev. I. Mann. After a brief lapse of time, the fatal firing party was drawn out, the sentence of the Court-martial was read by Lieutenant and Adjutant Crofton, and the last preparation made to carry into effect the dreadful award. At this moment of anxious dread and commiseration, a melancholy silence prevailed—no whisper was heard, and the bosom of the spectators heaved alone with the noiseless sigh of pity, terror, and hope. At this period of suspense, Col. Harrison the commanding officer, advanced, and with much dignity and benevolence, communicated to the prisoner that his Excellency the Commander-in- Chief had been pleased to extend his mercy to wards him. The unfortunate being, thus unex pectedly relieved from a violent death, received the grateful information with overpowered feel- He was forced to be assisted from his kneel ing posture by the help of his brother soldiers.— There were many spectators assembled to wit ness this military execution, who visibly partici pated in the pleasure which the officers and pri vates of the regiment experienced from this sudden and happy reprieve. SLAYIi TRADE.—Frorn the Gape Coast Ga zettes we learn, that off Lagos the Bann dis covered a squadron of Brazilian slavers, consist ing of a large ship, brig, and schooner, the whole of which were taken possession of ; the slaves of the two last vessels were on the beach, in readi ness for their reception, platforms laid,provisions and water complete, &c. The Captains of the above vessels being on shore, the boats under Lieutenants Amsink and Wilson were sent up the river to request their attendance on board, in order that they might have an opportunity of justifying their trading for slaves. Th e y were received with every manifestation of friendship by the King and the Portuguese ; the former promised to send off the slaves in the morning, which he said amounted to only 1000, the ship not having completed half her cargo. With this as surance the boats remained in the river during the night ; at daylight the Officers waited on the King, to request lie would fulfil his promise, and send the slaves on board, but he endeavoured by every means to evade the question,and conduct ed himself with much rudeness,as well towards the officers as to Mr. Hodson, a British merchant, and at length endeavoured to detain them ; nor was it without considerable difficulty that they succeeded in regaining the boats, followed by the armed multitude,amongst whom were the Por tuguese employed in distributing apadente, which had the effect of working up the natives to a pitch of perfect frenzy. They had scarcely got into the boats, when a most furious attack was commenced upon them by the whole population, which consisted of from 2,000 to 3,000 men, generally armed with bows and arrows, in ad dition to which a battery of nine guns opened its tire. The first discharge proved ineffectual, a few seamen landed and spiked the guns be fore a second took place, the people having fled on the pinnance and yawl directing their fire against them ; after an engagement of forty minutes, in which time the whole of the boats' ammunition was expended, the natives con tinuing to keep their ground, notwithstand ilia their being mowed down by every discharge of grape from the boats' guns, they returned on board, having sustained a loss of one seamen, and one marine killed ; besides Lieut. Wilson se verely wounded in two places, two midshipmen, and five seamen and marines slightly wounded, out of the small force which manned the boats. The three vessels were on the following (lay dis patched to Sierra Leone, for adjudication in the mixed Commission Court. NAPLES, MAY 18.—Our course of exchange stands at a point of -altitude it never reached be fore, producing as a necessary consequence the ex port of specie in great quantities. The Spanish dollars, so plenteously supplied by the House of ROTHSCHILD, have wholly disappeared from our market ; they are gone chiefly to Rome and Mar seilles. An Agio, in fact, is now asked for our own Piasters. Though late, on account of the bad weather, the silk-harvest promises to be very productive this year. The extraordinary vicissitudes in the temperature of the atmosphere frequently in the course of the same day, au ex treme sultriness and then a perfect autumnal coolness, have produced very prejudicial effects on the health of the inhabitants. The Italian papers state, that, near to Pesaro, on the banks of the Foglio, there has lately been found a chest of bronze, hooped with iron, con taining several very valuable effects—amongst others a crown of gold. The Literati suppose they were buried there by BERINGER, King of Sicily, in 963, when the Emperor of Germany, OTTO the First, marched against that Prince. On the 9th instant four brothers were at work in a field in the Commune of Romagnat (Puy-de-Dome).—A thunder-storm arising, three of them sought shelter under a large vvallnut tree. They had hardly placed themselves there when the electric fluid struck the tree and killed one of them, injuring both the others.— Hence we have another melancholy instance of the danger ,of seeking protection under a tree ( luring a thunder-storm.—(Constitutionnel, June 1.6.) • FOR THE SUN. ADAM. MR. EDITOR—The manner in which the Wia hommedans relate the creation and fall of our first parents, presents a striking mixture of truth and absurdity, which might appear extraordinary did we not know that Mahomet himself was as sisted by a Christian and a Jew in the composi tion of his Koran, and therefore mingled some of the truths they communicated with his own vi sionary notions. According to the Mussulman, then, when God wished to create man, he sent the angel Gabriel to take a handful of each of the seven beds which composed the earth. But when the latter heard the order of God, he felt much alarmed, and requested the heavenly messenger to repre sent to God, that as the creature he was about to form might chance to rebel one day against him, this would be the means of bringing upon himself the divine malediction. God, however, far from listening to this request, dispatched two other angels, Michael and Azrael, to execute his will ,• but they, moved with compassion, were prevailed upon again to lay the complaints of the earth at the feet of her author. Then God confided the execution of his commands to the formidable Azrael alone, who, regardless of all the earth might say, violently tore from her bosom seven' handfuls from her various strata, and carried them into Arabia, where the work of creation was to be completed. As to Azrael, God was se , well pleased with the decisive manner in which he had acted, that he gave him the office of sepa rating the soul from the body, whence he is called the Angel of Death. Meanwhile, the angels having kneaded this earth, God moulded it with his own hands, and left it sometime that it might get dry. The angels delighted to gaze upon the lifeless, but beautiful mass, with the exception of Eblis, or Lucifer, who, bent upon evil, struck it upon the stomach, which giving a hollow sound, he said, since this creature will be hollow, it will often need being filled, and will be, therefore, exposed to pregnant temptations. Upon this, he asked the angels how they would act if God wished to render them dependent upon this sovereign which he was about to give to the earth. They readily answered that they would obey ; but although Eblis did not openly dissent, he resolved within himself that he would not follow their example. After the body of the first man had been pro perly prepared, God animated it with an intel ligent soul, and clad him in splendid and mar vellous garments, suited to the dignity of this favoured being. He now commanded his angels to fall prostrate before Adam. All of them obeyed, with the exception of Eblis, who was in consequence immediately expelled from heaven, and his place given to Adam. The formation of Eve from one of the ribs of the first man is the same as that recorded in the Bible, as is also the order give❑ to the father of mankind not to taste the fruit of a particular tree. Eblis seized this opportunity of revenge. Having associated the peacock and the serpent in the enterprise, they by their wily speeches at length persuaded Adam to become guilty of dis obedience. But no sooner had they touched the forbidden fruit, than their garments dropped on the ground, and the sight of their nakedness covered them both with shame and with confu sion. They made a covering for their body with fig leaves; but they were botk immediately con demned to labour, and to die, and hurled down from Paradise. Adam fell upon the mountain of Sarendip, in the island of Ceylon, where a mountain is called by his name to the present day. Eve being se parated from her spouse, in her fall alighted on die spot where China now stands, and Eblis fell not far from the same spot. As to the peacock and the snake, the former dropped in Ilindoostan, and the latter in Arabia. Adam soon feeling the enormity of his fault, implored the mercy of God, who relenting, sent down his angels from Heaven ►;ith a tabernacle, hich they placed on the spot where Abraham, at a subsequent period, built the temple of Mecca. Gabriel instructed him in the rites and ceremonies performed about the Sanctuary, in order that he might obtain the forgiveness of his offence, and afterwards led him to the Mountain of Arafat, where he met Eve, from whom he had now been separated above two hundred years. A. P. In the Siberian Government of Tobolsk, a new town, called Tukalinsk, has been founded ; the local authorities were solemnly installed on the 24th December last, being the anniversary of the Emperor's birth-day.—(Petersburgh Pa per, May 29.) BIRTHS. On Wednesday, the 23(1 inst., at his house in Montagne square, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Maeneil, of Barra, Inverness shire, of a son still-born. On the 18th inst., at Stanground, Hunts, the lady of the Rev. H. V. Stnythies, of a son. AIARRIED At Wandsworth Church, on the 24th inst., Mr. Daniel Bell, jun., to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the late Daniel Holmes, Esq. On the 13th inst., at St. Andrew's church, Holborn, Mr.- William Moore, of Aldgate, to Miss Smith, eldest daughter of George Smith, Esq., of Hoxton-square. On Thursday, the 17th inst., at the collegiate church, Man chester, by the Rev. C. W. Ethelstone, Fel. Col. Ch., Charlcs, Grant, Esq., of Barwood House, near Bury, to Mary Ann, only daughter of Thomas Worthington, Esq., of Manchester, and. Sharson Hall, Cheshire. Yesterday morning, at the new church of St. Pancros, W. C. Macready, Esq., to Miss C. M. Atkins. DIED, On the 21st inst., the Hon. Gerard Tumour, R.N., son of Edward Garth Tumour, late Earl of Winterton, by Anne, his first Countess, daughter of Thomas, late Lord Archer, aged -59 years. On the 19th inst. at his house in Green Park-place, Bath, Fiennes Trotman, Esq., of Siston Court, in the county off Ox ford. On the 23d inst., at the house of his brother-in-taw, Wil liam Fethetston, Esq., Clarendon-place, Edgware road, Philip Raine, Esq., of Gainford, Durham. At Weymouth, o n th e 16th inst., in his 30th year, o , eorge 31eliss, Esq., of Perthshire, having arrived in England front Calcutta in the Kingston only twelve days before. This loss will be sincerely lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance at home and abroad. His afflicted parents, by the unexpected death of this valuable young man, have also to deplore their bereavement from a just, generous, and most affectionate son, at the very period when they fully expected to enjoy his society, After a long absence from them and his natiVe country. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORA. at the SI;14". OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIBS.