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Le/LYDON JOURNALS. DAILY' • ..Eseracts fro wrthe- Mornmg Papers, Sept. 8, 1842'5. [THE TIMES.I A - recent proceeding of the King's Government in re!daition to the currency at the Cape of Good Hor k le, appears to have excited considerable in te-,)est among merchants and proprietors connected - With that colony. A proclamation of the Go vernor in Council, hearing date the 6th of June, refers to a resolution of the British Government,' that the British currency should he henceforth' established as the circulating medium of all his Majesty's colonial possessions, and that them Bri tish silver money should be a legal tender in that colony in discharge of all debts, whether to indi viduals or to the Crown, at the rate of Ts. 6d.for each paper rix-dollar, and so• in proportion for any greater or less sum. The subsequent clauses of the proclamation go into. a detailed statement of the manner in which the new law or order is to operate, and a public notice subjoined to the in strument apprizes men of business that the Com missary-General will grant bills upon Etigland,.at the above exchange, to those who may be d'e sirous of remitting. The whole of this transac tion, we observe, has been exclaimed against as-a ruinous fraud upon his Majesty's subjects at the Cape. A respectable Evening Journal' states, that " the inhabitants find their property depre " dated in the most alarming manner ;"the paper rix-dollar having previously circulated at the rate of 45., " the merchant worth 20,0001. is reduced "in one day to 7,0001." It is further affirmed,. that at the capture of the colony, the currency, then amounting to two millions rix-dollars," was " recognized and guaranteed ;" and in 1810 the English Governor issued another million of this paper, which, taking into calculation the rate of exchange, produced to Government the value of about 3s. 6d. per rix-dollar. We are not well ftirnished with facts in this case, but there are two points on which we place some reliance-Ist, the extreme improbability that Ministers, with their eyes open, would or could adopt any single mea sure so violent in its operation as to affect the momentous reduction of near two-thirds in the general value of property. 2d, We do not con ceive that any 44 misrepresentations" of Lord Charles Somerset would now obtain possession of the ear of Ministers, or induce them to act upon such authority in any important case. But the facts brought forward as grounds of reprehen sion are not in themselves conclusive. We are told that the rix-dollar was allowed as equivalent to 4s. at the time when the colony was surren dered to us. If so, it was of course paper against paper that was the subject of such a cal culation ; but how could that arrangement per manently and irrevocably fix the exchange be tween the Cape and London ? It is certain that no such consequence as an everlasting and un changeable relation between the rix-dollar at the Cape and the pound sterling, could ever have been contemplated as a rule for commercial re mittances, because we know as a matter of fact, that the exchange has declined so much sincethe capture as to make the pound sterling worth on the average 13 or 14 rix-dollars. If the state of commerce was such as to render 4s. in specie in trinsically worth more than the paper rix-dollar, it is absurd to talk of any official arrangement having power to reduce that proportion. It is probable (for we have not facts to go upon) that the average value of the rix-dollar for a number i of years has been taken in this instance as a suf- 1 Acient measure of its intrinsic value, and that Go vernment, with a natural anxiety to accommodate names and regulations to realities, have taken the step so strongly objected to, as a means of affixing to the currency a certain and definite standard. All calculations of the relative value of gold and silver must have been the fruit of experience giving averages ; and this which resolves Cape paper into silver must (we suppose) have been _built upon a similar ground. It cannot escape remark that the Colonial Government accepts Is. 6d. as an equivalent for the rix-dollar from its debtors, and is therefore on no better footing than any one else. We understand that mer chants generally are satisfied with the proclama tion, which gives a sort of steadiness to coturuon transactions. The persons who complain are those who, having lent money formerly at the rate of value which the rix-dollar nrainally carries, look to some future possibility of the exchange coming round again—a revolution already re garded as chimerical in practice, but by this measure completely barred. A committee, not of merchants in general, but of gentlemen hay ip..g property at the Cape, and fearing to be affected in the degree we have noticed, was held yesterday, and a resolution intimated, to address Government on the subject of this alteration in the currency. [NEW TIMES.] The Etaile of Tuesday has brought the Three per Cents. still lower. The accounts from Greece a:e 7 As.usuai, co►►tradictory ; but it seems certain that Ibrahim Paella still maintains his superiority. Besides giving an account of the execution of Bessieres, the French Papers contain many other details, which shew the agitated state of Spain. Letters from Roa mention that the Einpecinado, at the foot of the gallows, made efforts to hinder himself from being hanged, by plunging amid the bayonets of his guards. He received several wounds, but they succeeded in executing the sentence. A distinguished Ecclesiastic, the Ca non and Councillor .Roxas, has been arrested, as have also the Director of the Hospital and several other Ecclesiastics, and the imprisonments con tinue. The celebrated Baron d'Eroles, who dis tinguished himself so greatly in Catalonia, has been seized with apoplexy, and his life is de ' spaired of. If- we may believe some accounts, the:Spanish Government has laid its hands on the funds of the Cathedrals of Cuenca and Pla centia, amounting to seven millions of reals. At the ,same time eight Canons of the Chapter of Placentia were arrested. Apprehensions were entertained that General Mina had return. ed from London to Gibraltar, and was going to take the command of a,Colorobian expe dition destined against 'Port Mahon. All these matters appear to the politicians of the rest of Europe to present a mass of inextricable confu sion : and in truth, judging of Spain on the same grounds and principles as we would of any other part of Christian Europe, it presents a mere enigma. But this enigma, like every other, has its solution, which is only to be sought in the pe culiar character and habits of the Spanish people, derived from centuries of what we should call misrule, but what they regard as their chief boast. it must be remembered that from the times of the Cid to the present day, the Church has been the real and effectual Sovereign of the Peninsula. Its power was never questioned till the present aff P e - and now it is only disputed by men of an opposite extreme in opinions. Fanaticism and impiety divide the whole kingdom; but the for mer is mnch more powerful than the latter; being far more deeply rooted in the thoughts, habits, and feelings of the great mass of the population. Hence the two invasions of Spain by France ex hibited equally the influence of the Spanish Priesthood, first in exciting the great majority of the country to oppose the French under Buona parte, and secondly in exciting the same majority to support the French under the Duke d'Angou leme. The Civil Government of Spain is always paralyzed when it is placed in opposition to the Priesthood, and this seems now to be the unfor tunate situation of M. Zea Bermudez, who is one of the most intelligent statesmen in that country, but who could not stand a day, were it not for the foreign influence which LS exerted to keep him in place. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] 4 We understand that some astonishment has been excited in one of the departments of Go vernment, at the great activity of the French in their relations with Brazil. No sooner was it known with a degree of certainty that Sir Chas. Stuart was to go over to Rio de Janeiro on a spe cial mission, and entrusted also with the dis patches of the King of Portugal, than a Minister Extraordinary was appointed in Paris, with the greatest secrecy, who actually arrived in the Brazilian Capital several days before Sir Charles reached it from Lisbon. Consols for the Account were all yesterday morning 88, alternately buyers and sellers, till one o'clock, when they suddenly rose to 88ii. The state of the Money Market attracts great attention, and the late changes are with out precedent. Money is, however, more plentiful, and it can be borrowed on Consols at 3 per cent. Merchants bills are dis counted privately, at about , q per cent. and by the Bank of England at 4 per cent. Exchequer Bills were about par, and the question as to money being taken by the holders on the 27th instant, or new bills, attracted the attention of the money job bers. The intense interest, however, of the,Market, was di rected to the Foreign Exchanges. As we anticipated on Tues day, the rates were rather higher, and they had attained at the close of the day a quotation that checks the export of specie. A further rise would turn the tide in favour of England, and would produce the import of gold and silver, which we think not at all improbable, as we remarked on Tuesday that there were im mense numbers of bills offering, but there was little money at Market, that is to say, the capitalists would not give money for the bills, except at a Higher rate of Exchange. The Foreign Funds were very steady in the morning, at the closing prices of Tuesday. In Shares there continued to be no business trans acting worth mentioning.—(nfd.) [MORNING POST.] Advices arrived yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope to the 11th of June, which are not without interest. They ..1 1 .U.Cr that much alarm was felt in that colony since the receipt of an order in Council from England, directing the colonial paper currency to be put on the same footing as that of the mother country, on terms which the inhabitants considered to be highly in jurious to their property. The paper money in circulation was in rix-dollars at 4 shillings each, and the Order in Council directed payment for that currency to be made in shillings and six pences, at the rate of only 18 pence for each rix dollar. The reduction of nearly 2-thirds in the value of every species of property and merchan dize in the colony, which of course- must en sue, was the cause of the general consternation said to have been experienced. The inhabitants repaired to the Governor and prayed him to delay the execution of the Order in Council till representations had been sent to England and an answer received, but his Excellency finding that his orders were peremptory, was unable to comply with their request, and issued a procla mation directing the measure to be carried into effect. The inhabitants of the Cape then deter mined to memorialize his Majesty's Government, and as a general meeting for that purpose was appointed for the 13th of June, there is no doubt that the next arrival will put us us in possession of their memorial. Their friends in this coun try declare that when the colony capitulated to the British arms, the currency, then amounted to two millions of rix dollars, was recognized and guaranteed, and that in 1810 the English Governor issued another million of this paper, which, taking into calculation the rate of ex change, produced to the coffers of Government the value of about three shillings and sixpence per rite-dollar. • [TIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Mon day and the Etoile of Tuesday. The latter con tains copies of two dispatches from Count d'Es pana, who commanded the troops sent in pursuit of Bessieres, one announcing the capture, the other the execution of that miserable adventurer. No trial took place ; and Bessieres, with seven more, were put to death without any other for mality, but the production of the Royal Decree, which declared them outlaws. They are stated to have admitted the enormity of their crime, as well as the justice of their punishment, and to have expressed a hope, that their fate would deter others from imitating their example. This manner of making his exit was worthy the cause which Bessieres had latterly supported ; and it forms a striking contrast with that of a Constitu tionalist, who, about the same time, was executed at Madrid. The latter was a respectable inha bitant of that capital ; and even the Etoile is obliged to admit, that much sympathy was exhibited by the crowd who witnessed his execution. When the rope was adjusted round his neck, he exclaimed, " Spaniards ! I have been a passionate lover of liberty ! I die for my country—for you all. Learn from me to die with courage." Even when he was cast off, he cried, with a piercing voice, " Death or Liberty." The last ominous words were repeated by some per sons in the crowd, and, it appears, with perfect impunity, as nothing is said to the contrary. Let Ferdinand go on this way, and it will be his turn at last ; whilst in the interim he will so sicken the Nation of its servility, that the very word will be grating to its ears. That such a man should be absolute master of the lives' and fortunes of ten millions of rational beings, is a monstrous reflection. We have some hopes, however, that this disgusting anomaly will not be suffered to last much longer, as it is confidently stated that both England and France have already interfered with the view of correct ing it. It is also said, that Ferdinand has be come more tractable in consequence of recent events; and as his chief Minister has been re cently fired at on his way to Court, he may imagine that the despair which suggested this furious act may have another bullet for him ' self. The mere supposition, however, will serve to render him more accessible to good advice ; and as the other Powers of Europe cannot see, without the most serious alarm, the dan ger as well as scandal of his proceedings, they will probably endeavour to confirm the salutary terrors which he must feel at this time.— The news from Greece in these Papers is of too vague a character to merit much notice. It rests on the alleged authority of letters of the sth ult. from Smyrna, and depicts the affairs of that country in very gloomy colours. But it mentions nothing beyond the hacknied charge of disunion amongst the Greek leaders, in support of this si nister view. It does not state that the Egyptian troops have obtained a new advantage, or that they have even left the environs of Tripolizza.— In a word, it does not announce a single reverse on the part of the Greeks ; and the loose gene ralities, in which it abounds, will be treated as they deserve. [BRITISO PRESS.] The daily contradictions in the news from Greece in the Continental Papers render the in formation they give us of little value. What they contain one day they deny the next. In the French Papers, received yesterday, the affairs of the Patriots are represented to be in the most ruinous condition. Ibrahim Pacha is said to be proceeding steadily with the conquest of the Nlorea, and the dissensions of the Greek Chief tains to be higher than at any former period. We observe, however, that these statements are loose and indefinite. No places are mentioned of which the Egyptians had obtained possession since they left Tripolizza. We are not disposed, therefore, to place any reliance on these vague reports. In Spain the Government is busy arresting the suspected confederates of Bes sieres. These persons are mostly ecclesiastics, and some Noblemen of high rank. The Mini ster Calomarde is about to be prosecuted for his connexion with the Carlist conspiracy, While Ferdivand is thus guarding against the dangers with which his late Royalist friends threaten him, he relaxes not from the work of destruction against the Constitutionalists. Not only has the gallant Empecinado been put to death, in viola tion of the capitulation on which he surrendered, but two others have since suffered in like manner at the very time when pursuit was making after the Royalist rebels. These two individuals, who were executed on the 24th ult. were named Igle sias and Santos. They were residing at Tarifa, when that town was taken by the Constitution alists-, and as they remained there until it was re-taken by the French, they were arrested and condemned to death for high treason. They met their fate with admirable heroism, espe cially Iglesias, whose conduct made a deep impres sion on the people of Madrid. These spectacles are not calculated to fix more firmly the tottering throne of Ferdinand Vll.—The Etoile contra dicts, in the most positive terms, the report that a French fleet had sailed to take possession of Cuba. The squadron whose movements have excited alarm in the West Indies, was, it is stated, to proceed in the direction of the Azores, for the purpose of manoeuvring, previously to its return to France. [MORNING HERALD.] The changes made in the Distillery Laws, by Acts of last Session;&c. are likely to be of most beneficial tendency. About half a dozen of the English distillers, with perhaps a million at their command, have been in the habit of dictating to the market and the consumer ; and they there fore may not be very well pleased with the in fringement upon their monopoly, not only by allowing the use of much smaller stills than were heretofore legalized, but in permitting the Scotch distiller to send his manufacture to England for sale and consumption. This was a complete triumph of the Scotch over the English distiller; or rather, it was a signal and resolute act of justice and policy in the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in breaking down old precedents, crippling monopoly, and equalizing the laws and the advantages of the two countries. The character of the change is that which few of the public are capable of appreciating ; compared to it, Mr. Huskisson's battles with the Brewers (a set of gentlemen who still want a good deal of mending) were mere child's-play. The whole provisions of the chief Act will take effect in the course of two or three months. The most im portant change, perhaps, is that which will, after January next, remove the restriction as to the article to be used by distillers ;—they will no longer be limited to corn. They may then use molasses, sugar, rum, &c., or whatever they can procure the requisite spirit from. The first great advantage of these changes (we profess only generally, not minutely, to describe then)) undoubtedly is, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the courage and the good fortune to be able to kick from before him some musty, unscientific, and impolitic pre cedents, by which most regulations on this sub ject were heretofore guided. This has cleared his way a little for future operations. The next benefit ( w ith os t d we lli ng on th at of legalizing smaller stills) will result from no longer tram melling the distiller as to the article he shall use. If corn be cheap, he will purchase that article , if sugar be a drug in the market, and consequently low in price,he becomes a purchaser of sugar ; and similar will be the case of rum, &c. Such purchases will improve the markets for all those articles ; and by such operations, those interess that re quire relief, from their produce being a drug, will find it in increased demand, which will of course tend to improve their prices. The distiller will, of course, if the law permit him, resort to that article in the market which is cheapest ; so great a customer appearing there, requiring, as he does, such large supplies, must re lieve the market, and thus where the mar ket most wants relieving, where articles are a drug or low priced, the purchases of the distiller will extend the required aid. The duties are still to be levied on the wash, not on the sprits; a change on this point has been urgently pressed on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by the most conversant with the subject ; and as he has made so good a beginning for the distillers and the coun try generally, should the policy of the required alteration in the mode of collecting the duties be proved to Mr. Robinson, doubtlessly no long time will elapse before it be recommended to Parliament. It is satisfactory to observe that the Government has bowed to the progress of science in these matters ; heretofore Exchequer Chan cellors seemed to think that science on such sub jects, instead of improving the article, or aiding the community, could only be exerted to cheat the Revenue. The notion is exploded. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile.) MADRID, AUG. 28.—Our Gazette publishes this day the following dispatch addressed to the Minister of War : " I have the honour to announce to your Excellency, that on the 23d at noon, the traitor Bessieres and his associates were arrested in the village of Zafrilla, by a detachment of horse grenadiers belonging to the Royal Guard, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Don Saturnino AlbuM, whom I had or. dered, as I apprised you in my former dispatches, to pursue them till they were exterminated. Lieut.. Colonel Albuin has this moment arrived with the criminals at my head-quarters, where I had taken by anticipation the necessary measures to carry into full effect the orders of the King our master, commu nicated to me by your Excellency, the entire execution of which I shall report to-morrow, in order that you may transmit the same for the information of his Majesty.—" God preserve you many years. " Head-quarters, Molina de Arragona, Aug. 25. at nine o'clock in the evening. (Signed) " Count D'ESPAGNE." SECOND DISPATCH. " The sovereign decrees of his Majesty of the 17th and 21st of this mouth and the orders communicated to me by your Excellency, Sated the 25th, have atready been executed. As soon as Don Georges Bessieres, and the men in his suite, had been taken by the troops under my command, which had been in pursuit of them, they brought them to my bead-quarters, where they arrived yesterday at nine in the evening, as I have already had the honour to announce to you by my dispatch of yesterday. The decree of his Majesty was immediately made known to the Chief, and the seven accomplices of his crime, whose names and rank are subjoined. All the spiritual aids of our holy and consoling religion were administered to-them, and when they bad confessed theirightful crime of which they had been guilty, they were shot. The execution took place this day, the 26th, at half-past eight in the morning. They died like Christians, repenting their high treason, and praying to God that their punishment might serve as an example, and prevent the recurrence of a similar attempt. The troops of the Royal Guard, infantry and cavalry, and a squadron of the Ist Regiment of the line (formerly Santiago), which was at my head-quarters, have been witnesses of this execution, and have defiled before the dead bodies: (Signed) " Count D'ESPAGNE. " Molina d'Arragon, Aug. 26."' The death of Paul Iglesias has produced among the people of Madrid opposite sensations. When they saw arrive, drawn on a hurdle, a man whom they had known as one of the most flourishing citizens of the capital, a general sentiment of pity was manifested. But Iglesias mounted the scaffold, and hay ing already the cord round his neck, asked to speak. " Spa niards, my brothers," said he, " I have been devoted to liberty ; I die like a Christian ; I have received the aids of religion ; pray for me. 1 die for my country, for you all ; learn from me to die with courage." Here the executioner threw himself off with him, and Iglesias, already suspended, cried with aloud voice " Liberty or Death." At this unexpected incident cries of " Long live the King" burst from all parts. In the midst of these shouts an exclamation of an opposite character was heard. It was with difficulty that the individual from whom it proceeded was saved - frotn , the hands of the people. The 'loyalist Volunteers of Salamanca have voted an address to the King, to solicit from him the re-establishment of the Holy Office, in order to secure public tranquillity in Spain. PARIS, SEPT. s.—The Journal des Debate repeats to-day, knowingly, a false statement, which we have already contradict ed. We have never said that France could not blockade the ports of At. Domingo because England would not suffer it.— Such an insult to the national honour cati only be imagined by a Journal which lauds every day the foreigner at the expence of his own country. Thank Heaven, every body knows that our respect for France is a little greater Miff that of the writer of the Journal des Debate, for with us France does not date from 1789. The phrases which the Journal des Debate refers to belonged to an article in the Memorial Bordelais, which is known by its opposition to the Ministry, and which incessantly republishes the articles of the Journal des Debate. Individuals from Paris have already traversed the great cities, to purchase the indemnity which will be coming to the colonists of St. Domingo, or to offer their assistance in obtaining for them their proportions. They even insinuate that they have a com mission from the French Government to make these pur chases. These individuals are without doubt the same parties who wished to treat for the indemnity due to the emigrants.— We consider it our duty to apprise the colonists of St. Domingo that the Administration will, no doubt, take the same precau tions in this case as were adopted in favour of the emigrants, to ensure them full payment without expence, and without the intervention of a class of men, who, ider the pretext of pro tecting their interests, seek but to turn to their own profit the indemnity reserved for misfortune. It is to be remembered that while a re-action was made to depress the French funds, by announcing that an ordinance for re-establishing the censorship was to appear the next day in the Moniteur, in England tile re-action for the fall which took place on the Exchance, on Friday, was founded on a report spread abroad that a French fleet had been seen steering for Cuba, to take possession of that Island. This fleet is that which appeared at St. Domingo, and which proceeds towards the Azores, to manceuvre before it returns to France. ORGANIC REMAINS. We copy from the New Orleans Gazette the following description of the wonderfully LARGE BONES lately found in that part of America : cc Our enterprising fellow-citizen,,lNlr. SAMUEL W. SCII OFI ELD, has disinterred, from the low prairie grounds between Plaquemine and the Lakes, a number of remains of the most gigantic s i ze . They evidently belong to some class of animals now no longer in existence ; whether anti-deluvian or not we are unable to say. The great elephas mostodon, or American mammoth, described by Dr. Mitchell, is ftr inferior in size to these bones we have seen. From the circum stance of ambergris being collected in some quan tity from the inferior surface of the maxillary bone, we are led to the conclusion that they are of marine origin, but of what description we are unable to conjecture. Upon examining these re mains, we are easily led to give credit to the ex traordinary relations given by Father Kircher, of the Kraken, and Norway sea snake. This non descript, when alive, must have equalled either of them in bulk. It is much to he regretted, that the high stage of the water prevented Mr. Scho field from obtaining any more of these interesting relifains ; but there is considerable reason to W e d,i ! i re t p e u r t r a e t d i o . n o W f o e u e r a c r t e y s , tl t y h a h t o t p h e e s a e s much remain that the whole skeleton may be completely' for b l i t e i u n t o h t e b r e cu suffered tol s lleawveethaiss thatla e theo nricshoah an l Mun ificence of our fellow-citizens will contribute such P ere niary aid as will enable Mr. S. to succeed in ad ding more to his invaluable collection. There is e ven ! reason to believe that more could be with very little exertion. The situation 01 di e . place place where these bones were found, i s about 20 miles south-east of Fort St. Philip, in the allt i ( 1 vial ground formed ley the Mississippi river the lakes, and but a short distance from the see; They appear to have been imbedded in a mo i l kind of sand, which appears to have the same preservative qualities as peat, which generallY covers the bones of the great American mastodon: We will attempt a faint d e scripti o n of those wil t have already been brought up to this city , an are now on board the steam-boat Expedition.' They consist first of an enormous fragment of cranium. It is about twenty-two feet in legs" and in its broadest part four feet high, and P er e . haps, nine inches thick. It is said to weig h about twelve hundred pounds. On the interio.; surface the ritreous table appears to be sep arated from the cancelli for some way down; this table' is perfectly firm, and in a perfect state of Pre se i t ; • vation ; the digital depressions formed b y t convolutions of the cerebellum are very P,'; fect. The foramina for the passage of tu sensorial nerves are very discernible. A rer : large portion of the inner table of the insid e of t h e „ cranium is joined by a very singular squat-nous ture. The inner surface appears in many places per manently discoloured, by the bed of earth from whence it was taken. In the interior part of tt.'` cranium the diplce presents a very singular PP ; • pearance—the cavities of which are very la r g o ; in some cases presenting holes of near an 'in i ,c ll • oo diameter, and generally very regular. uP,,st what we judge to be the temporal portion a inwir; singular process or elongation presents itse_, it. is eight feet in length and of a tr i a ngular ua and about six inches through, tapering grad to the point. T his singular appearance sets -I/I; our conjectures at defiance ; it is of a srittfr,' construction, with a rough and irregu lar S a o face. There appears to be no seat for the insertion of muscles, or foramina for passage of the nerves, or bland vessels.„s This bone must have been covered whole length with a membrane ; t, for P c the catteelli a. remarkably regular. There is a singular c° n: ~. solidation of the nasal and maxilliary b eme 5 ; 0 0 They are not united by any of the descriPt'..e of sutures found in quadrupeds, but form o'lll, entire mass of uniform consistence all thr°° iee A large groove, or canal, presents itself in o f superior portion of this bone, upon the 5 ' n y which considerable quantities of ambergris u're•ci be collected ; which appears to have muff' it little or no decomposition of change by age", e a' burns' with a beautiful bright flame, and elltil eo - s if odoriferous smell wltiliburning; it is of 9004 consistence, similar to adipose e. The "1" 0 : 4 (.1 .0 for the transmission; of the facial nerve iset° toe immense size. In the inferior portion .' 4 i:- stupendous bone there appears to 1?°• ai n j e riOr ticulating depression, in which the sar bo ce angle of the maxillary inferiors migh t o f te • articulated. The other hones are---- o n e to. cylindrical shape, with a round head Argil:fee the numores in quadrupeds. it is about tvi Ii in length, and about 10 inches in diameteryonece two processes near the head, in some r e foe similar to the t rocanters of the femoirs-_ 0 e ft , cartilaginous ext,temities appear to h ave tirely detached. 'Upon one end a su rface , t:' hic e articulation of tsvo bones appears, one 0 ' f o ot is in the collection. This bone is over on e e slinr in length, and of a flattened the cartilaginous esttremities are also gone' bon es, a firmer consistence; than any of the otbe r , oe 0 0 with a singular irradition of ossific appear s pro' the outside surface. These two bones al_ _ s tse bably the leg of the animal. T here are pe !amber, dorsal, and cervical verte brx. los o re cylindrical portion of those of the first e _ pro' fourteen inches in diameter, with transvers _do' cesses, in every respect like those 01 rerse i peds. One of them has the , introver at 12 substance completely detached. It i 5 inches in diameter, and perhaps 2 iuc e% tren' t.. in the centre, tapering gradually to the ~,reser:. ties, this specimen is in a perfect state °i s i t i le reO r vation. In the articulation of these hone - considerable analogy to the human verteuo,into7 . time, at this moment, forbids our enterrtr more particular description of these It t t : ve are remains of Probably another world• d e str much at a loss also in the anatom ical 00 is as we can form no analogy from un s t" w hat ge er i e anatomy to enable us to decide to tio„ animal belongeth. a lluvial sil t " tot the y they were found justifies the oP ininn the oas t . : must have been deposited there bY Couj e % tu r , but at what period we are at a loss ill f t his ~° i s ing. To judge from the appearance ° en if t' i l ttt tion of the cranium which we hav es e ,., 5 ' monster was of the Batanx species, 't"ated,..o, could not be less than 250 feet. It is s we setl' s ciil from this place, whence these rema ins fo od. so terred, a large carniverous tooth was ili t he 1? 0 • 0 carried away. It is also related that: cs eat i e d, 1799, many remains of anti-deluvia_uj s lip e C t were taken up near the same place, m o st to Europe. Mr. Scho fi eld feels the ax e, c o o conviction that he could. at a slig ht ' s f ie nce lect many more. Every friend 01 Science !wa r p feel highly interested in his exe rtions' obt that p pet wish him succ es s ; and have no d.. eng of liberality and m sist him of the cit iz ort hy Orleans will as in his praisew tions." g 01 tre eti n A 'or NEW CATHOLIC AssociaTiorteoneene"ctel the Committee of Thirty-one v/05 C . 5 cool ie fo p Saturday last. Some routine busin e ' ihe O s Air with the arrangement of matters for but i' ° :( nation of knowledge was disposed 0 bo sill e : 1 5 , p r . cussion took place, nor was .10 1 petit • public nature transacted.—(D tWill • • P' sister.) 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