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That excellent paper tl: e Sc o t a • ctralittitoq. day last, contains an article on the subject of a recent exposition of the law in Scotland, accord ing to which, the setter of a spring-gun is de clared a murderer ; the fair inference from valid' is, that the person who hires another to set a spring-gun, by the discharge of which death en sues, must be classed in that country with the hirer of an assassin. The case which has led to the decision is that of James Crow, gamekeeper to the Earl of Home, arLigned for the crime of WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice, that a HALF-YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parlia nient, at the West India Dock House, 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of July next, for the purpose of choosing and appointing six Directors of the said Company, in the room of those going out by rotation, and a Director in the room of George Hibbert, Esq. who has disqualified ; at which Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company, for the half year ending 30th inst. _By order of the Court, H. LONGLANDS , /Sec. West India Dock House, June 19, 182'7. _ . FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1827. No. 10,859. PRICE 7D. To Sail immediately, DIRECT FOR CALCUTTA, LITERATURE. alphabetically (the present part treats only of the A's and B's ; the Abelard's, Benyowsky's, Anne Boleyn's, Sec.) ; but we much doubt whether he can confine his subjects within such narrow limits ; som,) letters are more amorous than others ; C, for instance, which includes the names of Caesar, Cleopatra, Catullus, Charles 11., Charlemagne, and a host of others, whose amours alone, setting aside their other charac teristics, would suffice to fill a volume. If, however, he can adhere to his proposed plan, it will be the better both for himself and the public ; a "great book is a great evil" (as much so almost as Lord Lauderdale's pamphlets on the Corn Laws), and that evil is magnified when the subject discussed is Ipve. In looking through the volume for extracts, we have met.with none which, within the circumscribed limits of a news paper, would suffice to give an idea of its nature. The following one, descriptive of Alfien's receipt for curing " Love," is perhaps the best, inasmuch as it proves how long the mental facul ties may lie dormant, till some extraordinary circumstance occurs to rouse them from slumber. Alfieri's dpinatie talents grew out of and were secondarytiO his amours ; had he never loved he would never have been the first dramatist of Italy. THE Fine First-Class Ship, YORK, HENRY R. WILKINSON, Commander. Bur then 500 Tons. Lying in the East India Export Dock. Has very superior Accommodation for Passengers, and will carry an experienced Surgeon. For Freight or Passage apply to the Commander, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; or to BUCKLES, BAGSTER, and BUCHANAN, 33, Mark-lane. ILLUSTRATIONS OF , LOVE—VoI. 1., pp. 287. IiUNT AND CLARICE-1827. murder, inasmuch as he had set a spring -gun in the Earl's preserves, by which John Guthrie had been killed. N•B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. IMPROVEMENT IN BEAVER HATS. " George Brummell, who was always oracular in what appertained to becoming dress, was not singular in his opinion, that no part of the wardrobe more strongly indicated the gentleman than his hat. I have known a man, of the old school, who would rather have been out 4t elbo ws , than have wanted that finish to the appearance Which a good hat, well put o n, uniforml y a ffords. Nor has any part of our manufactures been [more decidedly improved, of late years, than the hat. What hours of misery have I not endured, merely from the tightness and weight of a hat. Being particularly subject to headache, from any Pressure or constraint of the forehead and temples, I have been far from inattentive to all professed improvements of that article, but I have never yet met witk the equal of COVINTON'S SHORT NAPPED BEAVER. its durability is without precedent, it retains its shape to the la s t, in spite of weather, and is waterproof; it is as light as a feather, and so elastic as to adapt itself most com fortably to the wearer's head." —Vide Stockdale's Budget, :No. 21. These Hats are to be obtained , with every variety of shape and fashion, at C. Covinton's, 192, Cheapside, two doors from Gutter-lane. 11- R IVA TE PUPIL.—A Married Clergy man, for some years Tutor to a Nobleman, and sub sequently receiving Six Pupils into his house, a moderate distance from London, would be glad to fill a Vacancy with a Gentleman's Son, whose Education or Health may require more than usual attention.—Letters addressed to the Rev. H. S., at Messrs. Harding and Lepard's, Book sellers, No. 4, Pall Mall East, London, will be duly for warded to him in the country. 9 1 CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFIT- A. • TING WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gen tlemen proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe, will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Appointments, Swords, Chacos, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, &c. together with a large and well •manu factured stock of Sea Cots, Couches, and Bedding ; Cabin w as h-hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every ether description of Travelling Equipage, Tile self-contempt produced by this amorous imbecility at length began to effect proportionate consequences in a mind possessed of the native vigour of that of Alfieri. He once more resolved to struggle with his passion ; and con vinced by experience of the uselessness of travelling, he resolutely determined to effect his emancipation without re moving from Turin. We again borrow from himself : " Imagining, from the obstinacy and peculiarity of my character, that I should succeed most certainly by the adoption of such measures as would compel me to make the greatest efforts, I determined never to leave the house, which, as I have already said, was exactly opposite to that of my mistress ; to gaze at her windows ; to see her go in and out every day ; and to listen to the sound of her voice ; although firmly resolved that no advances on her part, either direct or indirect, should ever again tempt me to a renewal of intercourse." IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE , S UN-COURT, CORIiftILL, and No. 5, ST. JALlitits t s-STaaaT. DIRECToRS. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Chairman. Charles Danvers, Esq. Deputy. Chairman. Grant Allan, Esq. Daniel Mildred, Esq. Chas. 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All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, of asking one Ready Money Price, but from which no abatement will be made. John Henry Deffell, En- Richard L ee ,'il liana F, E' Eeq. --- Jeremiah Olive, Esq. Henry Starry, Esq., and Richard Twining, Esq. `ORS. Martin Tucker Smith, Esq. and Ger ard De Visme, Escl ,'"lnas Foster, g "aniel Mildred, i Egun" John Tritton, Esq. • EX-AUDITOR: James Pattison, jun. Esq. . I %leti ce is hereby givn, that Insurances which expire at fidlummer, should be e r enewed within 15 days thereafter, °l ' they become void, and that receipts for such renewals 4 r! now ready for delivery, at the Offices in London, and w ithlth the respective Agents for the Company throughout the United Kingdom. P. MILNER, Accountant. UROPEAN COMPANY, FOR LIFE , INSURANCES, tha SALE and PURCHASE ANNUITIES, and ENDOWMENTS for CHILDREN 4 , 141 OTHERS. Established January, 1 819. 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DIRE' This Company continue to effect Life Insurances at re duced premiums, which may be paid Quarterly, Half- Yearly, or Annually, at the option of the Insured ; to grant Annuities on single or joint lives ; and to advance Money ° , O Ann u ity se cured on Freehold, Copyhold, or long Lease 401d Property, or on Money in the Funds. The Assured and Annuitants with this,. Company par 7ciPate periodically in the profits. THE NATIONAL SILK WEAVERS' SOCIETY, ketablished far the sole purpose of giving constant Em- Ployment to the poor Weavers and their numerous Fa milies of Spitalfields, and to educate 500, and clothe 2 00 of their Children ; and also to educate an unlimited number of the Children of other industrious Silk-Weavers. HEIR PATRONS, and the NOBILITY ir l t and Public, are most respectfully informed, that their 59, Oxford -street, WILL OPEN on 4 o t tsi hment, ,„, the 25th Day of this Month, and that they s e lling at their Warehouse, No. 15, De- I coMmenced vonaldre-squ a re, Bishopsgate - street , opposite the Church, P i re ' e icus to opening their Retail House, at No. 59, Oxford_ street, They cut at their Warehouse any quantity of Silk yard on the cost price, t he Piece, at one penny per where they always keep ready manufactured rich Ducape, plain a nd figured Gros de Naples, stout Lustring and Sarsuet, Black and coloured Levantines, and Satins of every de scription and quality, and a most extensive assortment of rich Silk Damasks, including, amongst a variety of others, Thirty new Patterns of elegant Taberets, the designs of Which are p er f ect l y Original, and executed exclusively for the Society, consequently will be found the greatest no velty ever submitted to public inspection. Ladies are most respectfully informed that it is not profit they seek, but only sufficient to cover expenses, and keep the men in constant employment. Those Ladies and Gentleineu who will honour the Societyby becoming yearly Subscribers of Ten Shillings, will be waited upon at their respective dwellings by one of the members of the Com mittee, with every new Pattern of Silk previous to their b e i ng submitted to publi c sale. The Subscriptions will go to the Fund of the Society , to p ro vide for the benevolent purposes for which it has been established, viz.—at each member's death, 121. A Member's wife's death, 61. If any member sick, 12s. per Week, and if out of employment, to.. The purchasers, if they wish, may see rich Silks in the Progress of being manufactured. W. G. GARLAN D , Secretary. 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Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street. Second Edition, in 4 vols. post Bvo. DVERE ;• or, the MAN of INDE PENDENCE.—By the Author of " Tremaine." " De Vere is one of the ablest productions of its class which has ever been published. We have met no work of such extraordinary naerit."--Literary Gazette. " The author of De Vere has shown his unqestionable title to rank among the true historical painters of manners and human nature.".--New Monthly Magazine. " De Vere will be . regarded in the light of a precious legacy, from an artist of the very highest order."— Monthly Review. Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street. On the 2d of July will be published, THE SECOND NUMBER OF THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL of SCIENCE, LI TERATURE, and ART. (New Series.) Edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By W. T. BRANDS, Esq., E.R,S. Prof. Chem. R. I. &c. Printed for Henry Colburn, Nev Burling-ton-street. This Work will in future be conducted upon a more ex tended and popular plan than hitherto, and instead of being chiefly confined to the abstract Sciences, and principally. addressed to the proficient, it is proposed to render its con tents more suitable to the general reader; for it cannot be denied that the elements of many of the Sciences, when treated in a popular manner, are as interesting in the perusal, as they are useful and important in their results. The subjects discussed, will, accordingly, consist chiefly of such of the Sciences and Arts as are cultivated more or less in domestic circles, and which consequently number, among their Students, a large body of Amateurs of 'both' sexes in various classes of society, particularly in the highest ; as, for example, Chemistry, Botany, Horticulture, Geology, Astronomy, Natural History, in all its divisions, (especially the very attractive one of Zoology) Music, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Popular Trea tises on the Medical Art will also be included, particularly as it relates to Diet, Air, Exercise, &c. • Another portion of this Journal will be devoted to the Biographies of Scientific Men, and to Reviews of such Publications as may be considered to have relation to the general design of the Work ; including Voyages and Tra vels, Books connected with Antiquities, &c. A full Quar terly Abstract will also be given of all that relates to the General Progress of the Arts and Sciences in this and other Countries. The Proceedings of Learned Bodies, and of Scientific and Literary Institutions, will thus forma De partment, in which an opportunity will, doubtless, be offer ed of furnishing much that is new and interesting. The Transactions of the Members of the Royal Institution espe cially, will form a prominent article, and, from their varied nature, may be expected to confer a useful and distinctive character upon the Quarterly Journal of Science, Litera ture, and Art. Communications for the Editor are requested to be ad dressed to the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street. DR. COURTENAY'S NEW WORK. This Day was published, price 4s. AN HISTORICAL an d PRACTICAL TREATISE on SYPHILIS, Gonorrhea, Gleets, Seminal Weakness, Strictures, Eruptions, and Nocturnal Pains, so frequently mistaken for Rheumatism. These subjects are illustrated by a variety of highly interesting cases, together with the Miseries of a secret Vice, so long and so unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes. In the one it will be found the unfailing source of Barrenness, the other have its ravages fatally developed by a distressing state of debility, which, if not timely remedied, terminates in Impotence; these are its remote and ultimate effects, while Consumptions, loss of Muscular Power, and various Nervous Complaints, usually characterise the earliest stages of this most destructiv e and insidious habit, for the cure of which a mode of treatment, the result of long and success ful practice, and at on.: 4 safe, speedy, and effectual, is adopted by the Author. With concluding remarks on the evils resulting from attempts at Self Cure. Principiis obsta ; sero medicina paratur. By C. R. COURTENAY, M.D., Robert-street, Adelphi. Printed for the Author : Published and sold by Suther land, No. 9, Carlton-street, Edinburgh ; Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-row ; Onwhyn, 4, Catherine -street, Strand; Walker, 90, High Holborn; Chappell and Son, Cornhill ; Marsh, 137, Oxford-street ; Chapple, 94, Pall -mall ; Brook, Opera Arcade ; and may be had of . all booksellers in town and country. " Amongst the numerous Medical and Surgical Works of the day, we consider that written by Dr. Courtenay, on Syphilis, and other frequently fatal complaints, to he worthy of the highest encomiums, and justly deserving the serious attention of all those persons who may unfortunately happen to be afflicted with the maladies which form the subject of this very interesting publication. The luminous views taken of these diseases, together with important warnings against excesses, entitle this work to great praise ; and we may add, as a further recommendation, that it is written with much delicacy and morality."—lnspector and Literary Review. LETTER READING.-_I never read my letters in the ev e ning before going t o b e d, or i n th e after noon befo re dinner. Letters generally contain mor e bad news than good ; and in reading them, we call up subjects of inquietude, which disturb our repasts and our repose.--Huet. Of all the countless passions about which hu man nature is interested, none has ever yet excited such bewildering enthusiasm as love. In every age, and in every class of society, it has inspired, and still continues to inspire, an equal infatua tion the poet and the philosopher, the fool and the knave, the man of war and the man of peace, here meet on the same vantage ground ; none is superior to the other, all tire members of one commonwealth, and their great leveller is—Love.l Yet notwithstanding the omnipotence of this passion, even "the march of mind," so conspi cuous in the poresent day, would be somewhat puzzled to define it. Novelists and poets have made it a thing exclusively of sentiment, the mere abstract creation of romance ; but nothing can be more absurd than such a notion. Love, no doubt, like every thing else, has its sentiment, hut as far as one class (and that the most inte resting) of its subjects is concerned, we would venture - to say, that in seven cases out of ten tile most sentimental wooer that ever existed would stand little or no chance against the superior at tractions of a raw underdone and extensive Irish man. Sentiment is the mere glitter with which a writer of tact tricks out a common-place love tale, the tinsel with which he gilds its homely realities. Look, for instance, at that far-famed story " The hide of the Village," in Washing ton Irving's Sketch Book. As penned by him and heightened with his utmost ability, nothing can be more exquisitely touching—beautiful— or romantic. A lovely young virgin dies of " a broken heart " for a gallant cavalier, who has somewhat cavalierly deserted her ; he is de scribed as every thing that is seductive, she every thing that is angelic—he is an Adonis, she a Venus ; when she expires he raves, attends the, lowering of her coffin into the grave, plants 'a rose at her head, and then returns home, with his pocket handkerchief at' his eyes, to make every suitable arrangement for an in teresting and speedy consumption. Now, what are the probable facts of this affecting narrative, stripped of their varnish and translated into com mon sense ? Why, something to the following effect :—Patrick Mahoney, a dashing Corporal in one of the Irish foot regiments, formed an attachment to a thumping village lass with red arms and black worsted stockings, daughter of the publican in whose house he was quartered. The usual, results followed : the Corporal was pressing,•the bar-maid frail, so that in a few months synlptoms of a young Corporal appeared, which coming to the ears of that very unsenti mental personage the parish officer, he instituted an immediate inquiry into the case, in conse quence of which the seductive soldiei:,:w4s com pelled to " pack up his traps" and bolt with such amazing precipitancy from the village, that, in the hurry of the moment, he forgot to dis charge his reckoning with the landlord. The frail fair one after his departure married t4e, bar her from spite, and happening one Imla y day to be caught in the ram when. xeturning home from market, was seized with a violent sore throat, and ultimately died, not of " a broken heart;" but of an inflammation of the kidneys. As for the Corporal,.* * he took shortly afterwards to drinking, and being (to use Mr. Irving's phraseology), somewhat " deficient in moral sensibility," was transported at the next county Assizes for bigamy. Such, stripped of their romance, would be most likely the plain facts of this notorious love-story. Its author, a shrewd man of the world, knew that the mere truth would never suffice, that in fact it possessed less sentiment than a Chancery Report, so wisely gar nished it with the graces of fiction, and thereby rendered it acceptable. The realities of life, like a dose of physic are in themselves trite and unwelcome, they must therefore be seasoned with romance, or the taste will infallibly reject them. Let us by way of illustration, refer to matrimony; that ne plus ultra of love. It reads well in a novel or a comedy, yet what, after all, is the plain fact ? Why this, that in three out of four cases it is a mere speculation, founded on principles of mutual convenience ; first to the parents, secondly to the contracting , parties. We read in fiction of the graceful agitation of the young bridegroom, as blushing and absorbed in thought, he presents the ring to his susceptible bride : he is there, of course, made to be pen sively ruminating upon " the mind, the music breathing from her face," when in reality, lie is reflecting (at least if we may credit the authority of a writer in the ",New Monthly Magazine ") on the probable contingency of 10,0001. three per cents. now, and something more when the old fellow dies. Love, then we contend, is a passion purely physical ; it is the child of health, youth, a sanguine temperament, and above all, of idleness : " Yet marked I where the bo lt LoveofCinupliddlefnelels,s It fell upon a little Western flower, and isc n a Called e dmb more r y e w a n n g aba maidens strc t mental quality than the Marquis of Londonderry's late speech on the Foreign Office Expenditure. It is in this light that th e Editor of the present volume has viewed it. He has discarded all thoughts of sentimentalizing his subject, but has illustrated it ; not, indeed, with the minuteness with which old Burton anatomized melancholy, but with facts, gleaned from history, which display its varying power s as they influence an Abelard or an Eloise, an Antony or a Cleopatra, an Alboin, all Attila, an'Alfi er i, au Alcibiades, or an Alex ander the Great. We here see how it softens the severity of some, and lends energy to the weakness f others; how it tempts to crime or dissuades from it ; pow it prompts or prevents great actions. This is precisely what has been long wanting to our literature; . a desideratum in the history of human passion, which the present Editor has success fully supplied. Strange to say, however, though he has entitled his volume " Illustrations of Love," he has most diligently omitted all men tion of melancholy and moonlight. We have carefully perused the volume —being amateurs of the science—yet have not yet detected a zephyr, a bower, or even a stray nightingale. Had we met with this last, we should infallibly have shot it ; for critics may be looked upon as the game keepers of Literature, whose duty it is to see that all improper subjects are kept off the pre serves. The Editor proposes to extend his illustra tions to six volumes; discussing his lovers To fortify himself in this resolution, he cut off his hair, as none but clowns and sailors could appear at that time in short hair ; and what is still more curious, caused himself to be tied with cords to a chair, in order to prevent him from leaving the house to visit his mistress; his . servant being strictly commanded never to release him until the paroxysm of his daily amatory conflicts had subsided. The cords were concealed under a Large mantle in which he was enveloped, leaving one hand only at liberty ; and he remaraed.in this situation for whole hours, and was seen 'by malty who called on him, without any one suspecting that he was tied to the chair. He thus passed more than two months in a state almost bordering on frenly, but at length was led to think of lite rature as a relief, and attempted the composition of some verses. The Cleopatra' of Cardinal Delfino also fell into his hands, and reminded him of the papers which he had fortunately withdrawn from the cushion of his mistress's sofa a few days before he left her. Astonished at the re semblance between the state of his own heart and Antony's, he resolved to retouch his scenes, and have them performed by the actors who visited Turin in the spring. Pursuing this fortunate idea with his characteristic impetuosity, after several months of poetical consultations, and a laborious ref!reuce to r grammars and dictionaries, he produced the tray of Cleopatra,' which was represented at Turin in June 1775. " If," writes Alfieri, " I have since been deemed worthy to rank "among our celebrated tragic or comic authors, this first step must be regarded as the most important of my life." e liereAake,leave of our author, grateful for the entertainment, not uniningled with instruction, 'Aid; .he has afforded us. He has satisfied us math eßiaticany," vtr. by proof, that love is the root from which springs the majority of . human actions, shooting up in some instances into healthy . and expansive luxuriance ; but in far the greater part rising only like the Ifpas tree into rank and poisonous vegetation. We hope (for we find him rather negligent in some few of his " Illustrations") that when he comes to the R's, he will do Rousseau justice. No man ever yet made or wrote of love like him ; it was his food, the element in which he lived, moved, and had, his being. In the world of fact he was a mere humble abstraction—in that of sentiment a despot. His sensibility, however, produced madness and what was worse, "La Nouvelle Heloise," a book which, whatever may be the fascinations of its style and sentiment, has ruined and has yet to ruin thousands. Sed ille Si foret hoc nostrum fato tlilatus ad mvurn Detereret sibi multa, reeideret omne quod ultra Perfect= traheretur-- FRANCE AND MEXICO. The Custom-house at Havre has received, in re lation the declarations exchanged on the 9th of May last, between the Baron de Damas and M. Camacho, the instructions, the tenor of which follows : The commercial relations between France and Mexico have just been regulated by declarations provisionally obligatory on t h e two countries, com mencing from the day of their date, and it is of im portance, that, with as little delay as possible, the Mexicans who may arrive in France, should be put in possession of the special privileges which they are in future to enjoy, in the ports of the kingdom, where they have been for several months admissible, in consequence of the orders issued by the Ministry of Marine. The privileges consist in the following modifica tions of our general regulations : I- Cotton of, long staple, imported direct from any of the ports of Mexico, in French or Mexican vessels, shall pay no higher duties than what are leviable on cotton of short staple, in cases of impor tation. Thi s e xt ens i on to the Mexican trade of an abatement of the tariff, which ab a t e ment at pre sent, enjoyed only by Brazil, is a necessary conse quence of th at article of the above-mentioned decla rations, according to which the respective produce is to be placed, i n the one part, and the other, in re spect to the duties for entry, on the same footing as similar prod u c e of the most favoured nation; and you are awa re that the reduction acc e d e d to i n fa vour of the cotton of long stapl e com i ng f rom B raz il is the only exception hitherto made to the general principle of the tariff, according to which there ought to be no respect paid on account of origin in collect ing the duties of entry. 2. The proclece of tlit soil or industry of Mexico, in order to be admitted into France must be accom panied by a certificate of origin, delivered and signed by the competent authorities of the Customs of the port where they are loaded. The certificates of each vessel must be numbered progressively, and joined, by the seal of the Custom-house, to the manifest, the latter document having been visee by the French Consuls. In the same way, when the produce of the soil or industry of France shall he sent to Mexico, the Custom-house of the port whence the vessel tares her departure shall be bound to deliver certificates of origin, which shall be numbered and joined, as has just been described, to the manifest; and the shippers shall receive notice that the latter must be visee, by the Mexican C o nsul. It is alway s that, in i e tt the are ports of the one or the cer otothbeer understoodcountry where tificate of the Custom-hou se , always numbered pro gressively,. and joined to the manifest, shall suffice to establish the origin ; and that in those where there is neither Custom-house nor Consul, the certificates of origin will be delivered and signed in the same forms by the local authorities. It will be easily seen that this reciprocal obligation of proving the origin of the cargoes arises necessarily out of the conces sion made in favour of these cargoes, of the treat ment enjoyed by the most favoured nation ; and that, in that case, it would not have been suitable that a formality, which our commerce, as well as that of other nations, must submit to in respect to Mexico, from motives inherent, in its special situa tion, should not have its equivalent in our ports, with regard to Mexican commerce. 3. No other taxes shall be levied on the Mexican commerce, nor any navigation dues, that are not • paid by the flag of the United States of America— that is, that the vessels shall pay, in lieu of all charges, the sum of five francs per ton, according to their Mexican register; the port where they enter being bound to reimburse the pilots and brokers for the difference of their respective fees, which, in con sequence of this regulation, they cannot demand from the Mexican vessels. The object of this order is to fulfil the engagements respectively entered into, not to impose on the one part or the other on the vessels of each respectively any other dues for ton nage, lights, .portage, pilotage, and other analogous matters, than those paid by the flag of the most favoured nation, excepting always, from. tbis nations which enjoy the same privileges as natives by virtue of treaties founded on a system of exact reciprocity. Now, the flag of the North American Union is the only one among those, whose naviga tion enjoys in France privileges to which this last exception is not applicable, and to which, of conse quence, the Mexican has a right to be assimilated. As to the discriminating &hies on the cargoes, it has been agreed that these shall never exceed the rate fixed for the most favoured nation, except only such nations as, by special stipulation of reciprocity, are altogether exempt from discriminating duties in the same way ; but this clause still leaves in operation, in respect of cargoes imported in Mexican vessels, our general surcharges, as they are fixed by tariff, it being understood, in terms of convention, of the 24th of June, that the cargoes of the United States shall enjoy, dating from the Ist of October next— that is to say, from a date sufficiently near to be considered as the actual state of things—the same privileges as natives, which English and Brazilian cargoes at present enjoy, always, however, in return for a reciprocity, which in this respect has not been stipulated for by Mexico.. 4. All vessels shall be considered as Mexican, and privileged as such, of whatsoever build they happen to be, which bona fide . belong to one or more Mexicans, and whose Captain and three fourths of the crew are Mexican, or legally natu ralized in that country. The said vessels must, moreover, be provided with a register, passport, or security bond, stating, in the first place, the name, occupation, and residence of the proprietor or pro prietors, pointing out each individual, and in what proportion each of them is a sharer; then the name, the dimensions, capacity, and, lastly, all the pecu liarities of the vessel which may lead to her recog nition, as well as establish her nationality. Subse quent instructions will point out the form in which this .document is to be drawn up, and by what func tionary it is to be delivered, and until these are given no difficulty will be raised, either as to the form of the document nor of the persons who subscribe it. The conditions to which Mexican nationality is sub jected, are none other than those, which, according to our rules, constitute French nationality, except ing always, that respecting the build of a vessel in the country to which she belongs. 5. Damages sustained by Mexican vessels on the high seas when coming to a French port, shall be re gulated by the Mexican Consuls, except in cases of stipulations to the contrary, entered into by the own ers, freighters, - and insurers., If, however, French men are interested in those damages, they shall be arranged, at least in so far as they are concerned, by the general laws of the kingdom. You will be ap prised that on this point, a perfect reciprocity has been granted to us in the ports of Mexico. 6. All-operations relative to salvage of vessels from Mexico, wrecked-on our coasts, shall be directed by the Mexican Consuls. The French authorities shall interpose, however, to preserve order, guarantee the interests of the salvors, if they are strangers to the shipwrecked crew, and to ensure the execution of regulations for watching the entry and going out of the merchandize saved. In this respect, also, we have the right of reciprocity, in cases of French ves sels wrecked on the coasts of Mexico. Such are the regulations to be observed, in order that the arrangements agreed on by the one side and the other, for the double interests of commerce and navigation, may be completely realised on the part of France. It is unnecessary for me to add, that, in regard to any particular that has not been anticipated by these instructions, the conduct to be observed towards Mexican vessels and their cargoes, are those of common right enjoyed by others. Receive, &c. (Signed) CASTELBAJAC, Councillor of State, and Director General of the Customs. Seen and approved, (Signed) VILLELE, The Minister of Finance. A true Copy, Rouen, June 9, GALOT, Director of the Customs. On Saturday, the 2d inst. there was a dread ful thunder storm in East Lothian. The plough men on the farm of Skateraw were engaged in preparing a field for turnips ; but the horses were so frightened by the thunder and lightning, that they had to unyoke them about five o'clock in the afternoon. There was a boy harrowing with an iron harrow in the same field, at a small dis tance. On the way home, it was remarked that he was not following them ; and, .upon looking back, his horses appeared very flat like. —The observers immediately went to the spot, where they found the boy and the horses struck down by the lightning. One of the horses was d ea d, and lying upon the boy's legs ; and the other was struck blind, and so much debilitated, that it had to be killed. The boy's clothes and shoes were hanging in pieces ; sokr.e of them were scattered around him. There was a hole in one o f his shouldeTs ; and his arms, b o d y , an d legs, are much scorched.—Caled on i an Mercury. LAWS OF HONOUR.—As much talk has.been expended with regard to the right of the chal lenged party to choose his, weapon, perhaps the following story may settle the question :—Some years ago, American captain was challenged by a French gentleman, .at Paris. The captain had been a whaler, and chose the 14orpoon for his weapon. The Frenchman shrugged up his shoulders—." E d ble , je ne sias pas at is de harpoon r 101 meet you, as un jentil-homnze vid my small sword"—but the old whaler was inexorable. The dispute was subinitted to a court of honour, which cit.cidcAl that the Frenchman must fight With the harpoon, or apo logise. He Shrugged up his shoulders a second time—;-" Monsieur captaine,' I beg your par don, I ave no skill in de harpoon ; I am not one whale, I beg pardon began" Thus matters ended peaceably, and the harpoon of the Nan tucket whaler did not make a pincushion of the body of the Gaul.—New York Paper. " The superiority of the law of Scotland (says our contemporary), in one branch of the criminal law, has just been strikingly and beautifully ex emplified in the decision pronounced by our Court of Justiciary, on Monday last, in the case, " His Majesty's Advocate against James Crow, gamekeeper to the Earl of Home." This person having been arraigned for the crime of murder, inasmuch as, he had set a spring fmn in the Earl's preserves, by which John Guthrie had been killed, objected to the re levancy of his indictment. He had acted by his employer's orders, and his main ob ject was, by intimidation only, to preserve the game The Judges—Lords Justice Clerk, Gullies, Pitmilly, Mackenzie, and Alloway—held unani mously that the crime libelled amounted to mur der. Lord Gillies could see no difference be twixt shooting a man with a gun and deliberately placing an engine so that he might be shot. His Lordship put the case that an Indian had been aationed on the spot with ! orders to fire upon any intruder. .The Indian would obey his orders, and kill. The 'spring-gun would kill also ; and it was indifferent whether the killing was accom plished by the agency of a moral being or by physical force. There must, it was true, be malice aforethought; but . if one intending to. kill B, fires by mistake on his friend A, the deed is one of murder. Malice is presumed wherever homicide is committed by a lethal weapon. This is the law both of England and Scotland. The spring-gun is - a lethal weapon, and it is admitted to have been set deliberately and intentionally for the purpose of killing or doing grievous bodily harm, and it was of no moment whom. But let the law of England be what it might, their Lord ships were not bound by it. They were not hound by it, as their Lordships showed, even in Ireland. Lord Pitmilly concurred. If a man do an unlawful act, whereby death ensues, a charge lies for murder, though he had no particular in dividual in view. To set spring guns is an un lawful act, and therefore notice of having done '3O is no justification. Mr. • Hume has laid it down as unlawful to kill a poacher who persisted in searching for game. It could not, therefore, be lawful to plant an engine by which he might be killed but besides poachers there are stupid old women, children, and insane persons. Lord Mackenzie held it clear that no one could. legally prevent the wrong of entering a planta tion by killing the transgressing party. The law of Scotland is tender of human life, and does not • permit it to be taken away, except an. cases of urgent and overwhelming necessity. He went, farther than Lord Gullies, and held not only that the Procurator Fiscal, but also an immediate neighbour, might apply for interdict against, or removal of spring guns. children might elude the watchfulness of parents,' and thoughtlessly expose themselves to destruction. If spring guns were allowed, where would the owners of property stop ? A landlord might dis lodge a refractory tenant by a hand••grenade, or burning the house about his ears. Such things could not be tolerated. If a man sharpened a javelin and pitched it into a crowd, it was murder. So it was in this case of setting a spring-gun. Lord Alloway held there was less risk from an armed gamekeeper, placed in a wood with orders to fire on trespassers, than from a spring -gun, which has no moral feeling, and destroys who ever approaches it. At the last York Assizes, a gamekeeper was tried, and found guilty of murder, for shooting a poacher in the act of destroying game. But his Lordship showed that they were not bound by the English law; and the late Lord Justice-clerk Rae would not allow an opinion obtained from the Attorney- General and the Recorder of London, to be read in Court. The Lord Justice-Clerk concurred. The general doctrine of the law, even in England,. was, that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, could be punished with death.' Poaching would not be io punished. Spring-guns, his Lordship ob served, were secret, deadly, and, at the same time, dastardly engines. The persons who set them were frequently killed by them ; •and it was an aggravation that they did in a secret, clandes tine, and dastardly manner, what durst not be openly attempted. The indictment was clearly relevant to infer the pains of law. " Whether desiring it, or caring for it, the Justiciary Judges will, by this decision, obtain the most decided popularity. But why should Judges be indifferent to popular approbation ? This, generally speaking, will only be awarded in favour of what is right ; and when the feeling is different, it will generally be in cases where the law is inexpedient, and runs counter to moral justice and sound reason. The Judges must, no doubt, administer the law, even in such cases, but with the ut most leniency, and, instead of taking offence at the unreflecting, who attribute bl a m e t o th e Judges instead a the Legislators, they - should amend the law ; or if the popular prejudice arise from their not having embraced all the principles And objects of the law, the Judges should then, through addresses to Juries, endeavour to public,en and reconcile them w i t h t h e sensitive Judges ar e t o a f a i r dis llaigwh. tenTthhee less cussion of all the errors, real or imagined, of the law, or the errors which they, through human infirmity, may commit themselves, the higher, unquestionably, will they, and the laws which they administer, stand with the public.— In this respect, we believe, times are greatly improved through the whole United Kingdom. —There is less distrust of the public on the one hand, and less distrust of those in power m 'by the people, on the other ' —a state of t hi ngs which; if conti nue d, w ill lead to in-numerable blessings." The following awful occurrence happened in Gorbals, Glasgow, on Sunday last. A man of the name of James M'Ewan, 'aged 71, a la bourer, belonging to that place, after having had a violent altercation with his son-in-law, wherein a great deal of blasphemy had been used on both sides, went into a public house in the neighbourhood, and called for some ale, uttering th e m o st horrid imprecations till the liquor was brought, which he instantly drank, and fell dead upon the floor.-....Caledonian Mercury.