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" This production of one of the most distinguished dra matic writers of the age abounds in amusing and interest ing subjects."—Morning Post. FAMILY LIBRARY. On Wednesday, April 13th, with M a pe and Brood - cuts, pAMILY LIBRARY, No. XXI., being the HISTORY of ENGLAND, (Anglo-Saxon Period). By FRANCIS PALGRAVE, Esq• John Murray, Albemarle-street. REFORM. AT a PUBLIC IVIEEtTING of the IN H A. BITANTsArresi'vERN4SS audits VICINITY held in the Court-House of Inverness, the 19th day o March, 1831, to enable them to convey to Parliament their sentiments on the very liberal Plan of Reform brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers, JOHN MACKENZIE, Esq., Banker, in the Chair, It was unanimously Resolved, Ist. That this Meeting approving, as they cordially do, of the liberal and enlightened measures for Parliamentary Reform brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers, agree to present a Petition to both Houses of Parliament, declar ing their entire concurrence in the principles of the Plan, and praying that the same may be passed into a law. 2d. That the following Petition be approved of by this Meeting, as exoressive of their sentiments : UNTO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS AND PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF IN VERNESS AND ITS VICINITY, SHEWETTI, That we, the Inhabitants of Inverness and its vici nit y , respect fully approach your Honourable House, with the expression of our sentiments on the great measure of Reform now before Par liament. We are not only deeply impressed with a conviction of the wisdom, justice, and necessity of Parliamentary Reform, but we firmly and honestly believe, that the plan proposed by his Majes ty's Ministers is comprehensive and efficient,—that it is entitled to the cordial approbation of all classes in the empire,—and that it will in its working and result operate in the highest degree in satisfying and improving the people, in giving fair influence to the Aristocracy, stability to the ihrone, and strength to the Con stitution. We are decidedly of opinion that the gratitude of the country is due to his Majesty's Ministers for the wisdom exhibited by them in devising the plan, and for the firmness and disinte restedness with which they have proceeded towards carrying it into execution: - We humbly pcoffer our acquiescence and support on this great occasion, and indulge au ardent hope that the wisdom of Par liament will second the wishes of the people at large, by com pleting and passing into a law a measure which we believe to be in accordance with the best interests of the community. If, in the midst of our most anxious wishes for the success of the depending Bill, we might venture to suggest a single point of doubt as to its details, we would with deference notice the pro posed qualification of owners of houses in counties being the same in amount as that of proprietors of land; inasmuch as towns having no separate franchise, and villages, which may be indefinitely increased, might thereby have the return of a county in their own hands ; but this one only doubt we unhesi tatingly merge in our general and cordial approvalof themeasure, May it therefore please your Honourable House to pass the Bill into a law, and your petitioners will ever pray. 3d. That the Lord High Chancellor be respectfully re quested to present the petition to the Peers, and the Right lion. Charles Grant that to the Commons. . 4th. That a copy of the above Resolutions embodying the Petition, be transmitted by the Chairman to the Lord Advocate, requesting his attention to them, and that they be published in the Inverness Newspapers, and in The Sun and Scotsman Papers. That the following Address to our Gracious Sovereign, moved by Robert Fraser, Esq. of Torbreck, and carrird by acclamation, be transmitted to Lori Viscount Mel bourne, Secretary of State for the Home Department, to be by him presented to his Majesty : TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. THE HUMBLE, DUTIFUL, AND LOYAL ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF INVERNESS, AND ITS VICINITY, IN A PUBLIC MEE'T'ING ASSEMBLED, MOST GRACIOUS SOVERMICN, We, your Majesty's most dutiful and local subjects, beg leave to approach the Throne, with the most heartfelt sentiments of loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's person and Government. Deeply impressed with the necessity of a Reform in the Com. mons House of Parliament, we lately petitioned both Houses of the Legislature on that important subject. We beg humbly to represent to your Majesty, that we never felt any lack of confidence in those Ministers, whom it was your Majesty's pleasure recently to call to your Councils, pledged as they were to grant that boon, which is the ardent desire of every true Scottish heart. Happily, our anticipations of confidence in them have been fully realized ; but while we give them the full praise s hey merit, it is impossible net to be feelingly and sensibly alive to that first and great obligation, which we owe to a benign and patriotic Sovereign, who delegated to his servants the power of benefiting his people. Entertaining these sentiments, we humbly trust that your Gracious Majesty may not deem us presumptuous, in thus ap proaching the footstool of your Majesty's Throne, there to express our grateful and loyal attachment to your Majesty's person ; and also our firm determination to support, by Al legal and constitu tional means, your Majesty's Ministers, in the great and beneficial work in which they are engaged, but our still more firm resolve, should such necessity ever arise, to sacrifice our persons and pro perties in defence of your Majesty's rights, and the dignity of the Crown, so gloriously upheld by a Sovereign, who reigns triumphant in the hearts of his people. JOHN MACKENZIE, Preses. On the motion of Mr. REACH, solicitor, seconded by Bailie CUMMIN6, the Thanks of the Meeting were unani mously given to Mr. Mackenzie, for Isis able conduct in the chair. CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, 71, LEADEN HALL-STREET. MR. 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" It contains a variety of original and curious notices of nearly all the literary and scientific characters who flourished at the close of the seventeenth and at the be ginning of the eighteenth centuries."—Courier. BRITTON'S PICTURE OF LONDON. Just published, in ISmo., with 110 Views, Plans of all the Streets, Squares, Public Buildings, &c., and a Map of the Country twenty miles round London, price 9g., (with the Maps only, 65.) neatly bound, THE ORIGINAL PICTURE of LON DON, corrected to the present time; being a Guide to the Metropolis of the British Empire ; with a Descrip tion of the Environs. By J. BRITTON, F.S.A., &c. Long nt in, Rees, Clime, Brown, and Green. TAIL LARDNER's CABINET CYCLO A—, F2EDIA, Volumes I. to XVII. price 6s. each, in cloth, and continued Monthly. The Publishers, Messrs. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., and Mr. John Taylor, respectfully solicit the public attention to the following Selection from the body of the Literary and Scientific Men whose productions arc in pro gress of publication. Authors of volumes actually published are marked (*). Those whose productions are in immediate preparation are marked (t). CONTRIBUTORS. * l* The Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh, M.P. °I. Sir 'Walter Scott, Barr. 4.-1- John Frederick William Herschel, Esq. t Thomas Moore, Esq. t J. B. Biot, Member of the French Institute. t Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate. t The Baron Charles Dupin, Member of the Royal Insti tute and Chamber of Deputies. Thomas Campbell, Esq. t David Brewster, LL.D. t J. C. L. Sismondi, of Geneva. Capt. H. Kater, Vice-President of the Royal Society. t T. B. Macaulay, Esq. M.P. The Astronomer Royal. S. T. Coleridge, Esq. t D The avießsigGhitlil,elrotn;ETsq..P. Al. C p o . urtenay, Esq. M.P. 4 James Montgomery, Esq. J. J. Berzelius, of Stockholm, F.R.S. &c. t The Rev. G. R. Gleig. t T. Phillips, Esq. Professor of Painting, R.A. t Rev. C. Thirlwall, Fellow of Trinity Col., Cambridge, t Andrew Ure, M.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. &C. Published lot April, Hydrost &tics, &c. by Dr. Lardner. To be published, 2d May, History of England, Vol. 11 by the Right Hon. Sir Jamee Mackintosh. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1831. This day was published, price 4s. boards, or with coloured Plates, Se. • that Mrs. Pitt seemed to have plied the fire-shovel Pretty briskly ; and called upon that lady to offer something in the shape of explanation for all this. Mrs. Pitt declared she would prefer leaving her defence to a disinterested party—to wit, Mrs. Ed wards ; and accordingly Mrs. Edwards stood forward. Poor Mrs. Edwards had not come quite uninjured from the fray, her dexter eye being also closed up. She assured the Magistrate that, notwithstanding his scepticism, they were all " mighty comfortable and sober" until the last " (platen," when Mrs. P.tt exclaimed, " •Blow me! if I 'nt got :the blues !" Whether any of Mrs. Connelly's family belonged to the Metropolitan Blues, and that she supposed this was intended as an insult to them, or that from her national ignorance (the more likely cause) she could not understand the beauty of this fashionable phrase, certain at least it was that she waxed might _wrathful, asked Mrs. Pitt if she meant to insult her, and said —nay, swore it, that she wouldn't be insulted by any woman who ever stood in two shoes. Mrs. Pitt assured her nothing was farther from her wishes than to offend, and endeavoured to explain, but Mrs. Connelly thinking, with her countryman, Sir Lucius ‘o l Trigger, that the quarrel was a yely pretty 'quifrel as it stood, and one word more said would only spoil it, refused to listen to any explanation, sprung from her seat—in doing which she upset the candlestick—seized Mrs. Pitt, and began pom melling her about the head and face. Mrs. Edwards endeavoured to make peace, but, in her attempt to do so, came in contact with widow Connelly'E knuckles ; for this, however, she was ready to for give her, as, the light being out, the widow Connelly could not, of course, distinguish very accurately on whom she dealt her favours. Mrs. Pitt, conscious that she was by no means a fistical match for the widow, seized the shovel just to defend herself, and the widow Connelly, in the heat-of her rage, hit her face several times against the edge of it ! " 'Tis true, upon my honour," exclaimed Mrs. Pitt; " the good lady hit herself every mark your Worship sees upon her." " If that be true," observed his Worship, " I fear the widow was not so - mighty sober as she would have me believe after the six pots of ale and half dozen quatens of gin. But, as you were hugging one another so loVingly that night, can't you go and try to settle the dispute lovingly together flow ?" The widow declared all love was at an end be twixt 'em for the residue of their lives, and she would never look again at the same side of the street at which she saw Mrs. Pitt. " Well, then," said Mr. GRIFFITH, " Mrs. Pitt must either make compensation to the widow or find bail." The parties retired, but, when the widow Con nelly understood that by compensation the worthy Magistrate meant money, she brushed back into the Justice-room, exclaiming she wanted no money. " I cum for law," added the widow, " an' law I'll have," binying her clenched dexter in the palm of :s fellow-hand with a sound that proed she was in earnest. The worthy Magistrate ordered Mrs. Pitt to be locked up, hoping that in the course of the day the widow's wrath would cool, or the persuasions of the other party would prevail with her; but in vain. " I cum for law, an' law I'll have !" was her last phrase as she left the office, leaving poor Mrs. Pitt to find the necessary securities. PRICE 7D. GREENWICH PETTY SESSION. Yesterday a young man, of rather respectable ap pearance, who stated his name to be Boswell, and that he was an ornamental painter, was brought be fore Colonel FORMAN and a bench of Magistrates, charged with having been found in Mr. Richardson's itinerant theatre, with the intent to fire it, on the night of Tuesday last. The examination lasted several hours, and excited much interest in the town, as it is supposed that the prisoner is the same individual who caused the de struction of the Greenwich Theatre a few months back. Mr. Richardson stated that, a few mornings pre vious to the fair commencing, he received a letter by the twopenny post, signed " Thomas Johnson, an actor belonging to the Surrey Theatre," wherein the writer threatened to burn down his theatre, and all his property. He had written to Mr. Elliston upon the subject, requesting to know if he had a man named Johnson in his company. Mr. Elliston w rote him back that he had not such an individual belonging to his theatre, and advising him to treat the threat with indifference, as he (Mr. Elliston) had done when similar letters were sent to him. He (Mr. R.) had done so, but still he determined upon making the circumstance known at the Phoenix Fire-office, wherein he was insured for 1,8001 ; and, at the desire of the Insurance Company, he had kept watehmen night and day about the premises ; and on Tuesday night the prisoner was arrested under very suspicious circumstances, as would be re lated by the witnesses. At the desire of the Magistrates Mr. Richard son produced, the letter, of whiCh the following is a copy : March 26, 1831. " Mr. Richardson,—Be pleased to pay advice to your well-wisher.—First, let me inform you that you have got secret enemies about you, off whom I am one, although I am tired of my way of living that I have followed for some time; and, having an inclination to join your company of performers, I must now inform you that on Monday morning, the first day of the fair, at about four o'clock, there will be about ten men prepared to set fire to your theatre, and every thing belonging to it. I shall be with you about nine, or soon after. So no more from your well wisher, "THOMAS JOHNSON, " Late an Actor of the Surrey Theatre. " To Mr. John Richardson, at his theatre, Greenwich.—(Private.") Mr. John Wheatley, one of the overseers of the parish, and the extensive coach proprietor, said that just before the fire at Greenwich theatre, he had re ceived a threatening letter, stating that the writer would destroy ail his property ; and he believed that the writer was the same individual who wrote the one to Mr. Richardson, as the diction was nearly similar. The prisoner said he knew nothing of the letters. James 'Knighton and David Ayme, two persons emplOyed in the theatre, swore that, at about half past nine oclock on Tuesday night, when the theatre was crowded, they observed some person in the act of striking a light under the stage—they saw a spark through a hole in the flooring. They instantly gave information to Mr. Richardson, and they, toge ther with two policemen, proceeded underneath and pounced upon the prisoner, whom they took into custody. He seemed terribly agitated, and begged hard to be allowed to escape, offering them Ivey money. They took him behind the scenes and searched him, when they found in his possession a phosphorus box and a quantity of matches, and a bottle in the shape of a kaleidescope-case, nine shillings and fourpence, a silver watch, chain and seals, and some camel-hair pencils. After searching him he was placed in the station-house, when he be came very reserved, and refused to answer any ques tion whatever. Mr. Richardson said that when he saw the pri soner he asked him for what purpose he had gone under the stage, but he declined giving an answer. The detection of the prisoner was most fortunate, as at the time the theatre was crowded in every part; and the materials being se light and inflammable, they would have been destroyed in a very short time. The Magistrates asked Mr. Richardson if he had any knowledge of the prisoner ? He replied in the negative; he never hail seen him before. The Magistrates . (addressing the prisoner) said it was a most serious charge that had been made against him, and, in calling upon him for an answer to it, they were bound to caution him from saying any thing that might tend to criminate himself, as his statement would be :•aken in writing. The prisoner declined saying any thing then, but should reserve his defence till a future period. Committed for trial at Maidstone, and the par.ies bound over to prosecute. The election for a Representative for the cit) of Londonderry has terminated in the return of Sir R. FErtcosoN. It is said that about two millions sterling of gold and silver have either arrived, or expected to arrive in a few days, from China and different parts of the East, but principally from Canton. The Andromache has an immense freight of specie on board. The fact is, England is now the entrepot of the commercial world for the pre- cious metals. HOWITT'S BOOK OF TILE SEASON.—Now that the forests and the fields are putting cn their gay livery, and rejoicing in the sunshine as they give forth their welcome gifts to man, this little book comes as a guide to their many beauties, to teach the lover of nature how best they may be enjoyed. An essay on the general appearances of the earth and sky each month ; a complete table of the migrations of birds ; a copious list of garden plants that are to come in flower ; a botanical calendar ; an entomological catalogue, and notices of rural occupations and angling, form the principal " matters of fact" of which the volume treats. But these are interspersed with so many exquisite descriptions, so much sound phi losophy and moral comment, as to render it a pleasant and beneficial companion, not only to him who can walk abroad with Nature, hut to him who must spend the long summer's day condemned to city " durance vile."—New Monthly Magazine. An action of some importance to the com mercial world came on for trial at the last Lancaster Assizes,—lt appears that it is customary in cases of bank ruptcy for the Post-master to detain all letters directed to the bankrupts, for the purpose of delivering them to the assignees. The letters of a merchant, of the name of Mamma:es, a bankrupt, were lately detained by the Post master of Liverpool, who refused to deliver them to Mr. Al. on bis personsr application. Under these circum stances an action against the Postmaster was brought by the bankrupt. It came on for trial at Lancaster, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, his Lordship reserving the point of law for the consideration of the Judges. An action has also been brought against Sir FRANCIS FREELING, in the Court of King's Bench, the ()RI K for detaining the letters having originated from him. It ap pears that he received a fee of four guineas for the deten tion, for one-half of which only he accounts. The Act of Parliament expressly declares that any person wilfully, wittingly, or knowingly detaining, or allowing to he de tained, letters, shall pay a fine of 20/. for each letter, and be rendered incapable of ever again holding any appoint ment in the Post-office. COUNTY OF ELGIN.—A meeting of this county was held on Tuesday last, to consider the Reform Bill, when resolutions were proposed by Major C. L. CUSISIINO BRUCR, of the following tensur, and were una nimously adopted :—That while certain alterations in the state of the representation are expedient, the changes pro• posed in the Bill now before Parliament are much too ex tensive to be adopted with safety to the existing institu tions of the country. That as regards the representation of all Royal Burghs, while the system of the self-elected councils calls for correction, the alteration . proposed volves the virtual disfranchisement of the smaller towns in Scellsed. A N . INTROD UCTION to BOTANY, it a Series of Familiar Letters, with Illustrative En• ;ravings. By PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD. The Tenth Edition. To wh►ch is added an Appendi x , containinz a short Introduction to the Natural! Arrange ment of Plants. London : Published by Harvey and Darton ; Longman, Rees. Orme, and Co. ; Baldw►n and Cradock ; John Harris ; Simpkin and Marshall ; and Whittaker, Teacher, and Arnott. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW STREET. Yesterday a young man, named Thomas John Pottcr, who stood nearly seven feet high, was brought before Mr. HALLS, charged with having stolen a painting and a cloak, or dress, the property of one William Tarlton. Tarlton, a little irritable man, reaching to the elbow of the prisoner, began with—" This, your Worship, is a case of most uncommon hardship and ingratitude as ever was heard of. You must know, your Worship, that that there tall young man 'is the Cumberland giant—though the fact is, your Worship, between ourselves, .he is really a 'West India slave-driver. I was taking a pint of half-and half and smoking my pipe some few weeks ago in a public-house in Whitechapel, when lie came in a begging. He said he had not money to pay for his lodging, and I, thinking that he would make a good subject for exhibiting as a giant, made a proposal to him, which he at once agreed to. I accordingly handed him my half-and-half, and provided him with lodgings and money. I subsequently had a full. length portrait painted of him, in his exhibiting robes —to procure which, by the by, I had to send the clothes of my wife and myself to the pawnbrokers. Mr. HALLS observed that it must have required a good many yards of canvass to form such a picture. Tarlton—l can assure your Worship that the quantity was considerable, as I felt, to my cost ; but that was not ail, for, in order that the thing might be done handsomely and respectably, I em ployed a first-rate artist, at a heavy expense, to ex ecute the painting. Mr. HALLS—And of course you paid a heavy price ?—Tarlton—l did, indeed, I paid as much as half-a-guinea.—(A laugh.) Mr. HALLS—Oh, it must have been a fine paint ing truly; bat who christened the giant ?—Tarlton —I did, of course; 'twas I. I called hint the Cum berland giant, and we should have done very well if he had not thought fit to walk off, and to take with him the painting and exhibiting cloak. Mr. HALLS asked by whom the cloak was made? —Tarlton said that he found the materials, and the prisoner put them together. Mr. HALLS—WeII, then, he is, as well as being a slave-driver, a tailor, and a giant _to boot.—Tarlton replied in the affirmative, and called forward as a witness, A publican, who stated that the giant had occu pied a room in his house. This room was taken for him by Tarlton; but the rent not having been paid, he (witness) had taken possession of the' articles alleged to have been stolen. He would, however, gladly surrender them up, on receiving the amount of his demand, for the picture was a mere daub, and the exhibiting cloak equally valueless. Tarlton, in a passion, declared that he had no ex pectation that the witness would give any such tes timony as'that. Mr. HALLS—No doubt you had not, but you may regard the matter as the failure of a sleight-of-hand trick. The prisoner then stated that he had - quitted Tarlton simply because he refused to act fairly re specting the receipts. Tarlton was for putting all tha money into his own pocket. Tarlton (scornfully)—Pooh! you say you are only IS, but any one who examines your teeth will find that you are at least 36. Mr. HALLS said he never knew before that the age of giants, like that of horses, was to be disco vered by their teeth. The Magistrate then observed, that there was no grounds for the charge. It arose out of a professional trick, and he should, therefore, discharge the prisoner. The prisoner asked if he could have any remedy for the false imprisonment lie had endured, and was by the Magistrate referred to his attorney. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Mrs. Anne Pitt, an antiquated matron, deeply pitted with the small pox, one eye entirely closed up, and the mulberry of her complexion re lieved by a large patch of sticking-plaster upon the opposite cheek, appeared before Mr. .Gnwrrrit to show cause why she inflicted smithy blows of a tire shovel upon the face of the widow Connelly,thereby endangering the sympathy otherwise excited by a suit of sober sables. One entire side of Mrs. Connelly's face was covered with patches of plaster, making it resemble in some degree a tailor's book of patterns, and which the curtailed dimensions of her mourning cap ren dered more prominent. Dropping a curtsey until her chin nearly rested upon the bar, she began with " Plase yer Wurchip, on Monday evening last me an' this sire woman (pointing with her dexter thumb over her left shoulder to a lady who snood behind) jhust took a bit ov a walk to see the people as was comin' from the fair, an' whin we cum back wint into her house to rest myself. There was Mr. Edwards there an' his doughtily:, an' the pris'nur— an' as for her, I never seen her afore in all my life. —(Here Mrs. Connelly spread her broad palm over half a dozen patches of the plaster, sighing deeply that she had met Mrs. Pitt even that once.) Well, Mr. Edwards pronounced, as it was a holyday, we'd have a drop o' sumthin' before I goed, an' so be twixt the five ov us we had jhust six pots of ale and half a dozen quatens o' gin, an' I assure yet. Wur chip we wur mighty sober and comfer• able togithe r." " Mighty comfortable, no doubt," exclaimed the worthy Magistrate, breaking the thread of the widow Connelly's narrative, but I doubt very much your being mighty sober—but go on." So I will, yer Wtnehip," responded widow Connelly ; " and I was sayin', yer Wurchip, whilsht we wur makin' ourselves very comfortable over the , lasht quaten, Mrs. Pitt all of a sudden jumps up an throws her hands around --;—" " Mr. Edward's neck l" exclaimed the Magistrate. " Not at all, I assure ye," continued the widr Connelly, " but around mine; she was sorry, s", said, I lived in Lunnun so long without her bein 'quainted vidh me, an' so she hugged me an' hugged me; an' as I likes good nature at all times., more 'specially whin people meet for harmony, so we hugged one another, till at lasht she slipped.ore hand off, an' the nexht moment I felt it in my ri g ht pocket where I had had a sovrin an' a half. A rrah . , by my sowl, Mrs. Pitt, says I, but this is sort o' love ; none o' your blarney, ma'am, yo u a nit goin' to b e a f t hur robbin' me. So vidh that, yer W urchip, I pusht her from me,when she ups with a great big fire-shovel, as what they put ashes un der the copper vidh, an' wallops me in the face vidh it, in the way yer Honour sees," concluded the widow Connelly, turning round the battered cheek to the M ag istrate's inspection, and comb in g up with her fingers all the ringlets on that side, to af ford hi m a c l earer v i ew o f th e h avo c Mrs. Pitt h ad caused with the fire-shovel. The w ort hy M a gistrate having adjuste d glasses, his awl. surveyed the devastation, acknowledged NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Plymouth Journal of Thursday.) PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.—The Caledonia, 120, Captain Curry, and Revenge, 76, Captain Ilillyar, C. 8., are ordered to be titted for sea. The latter will be wady in a few days. In Hamoaze—Caledonia, Revenge, Druid, Ores tes, Trinculo, Carroll and Colombia steam-vessels, Industry naval transport. At the Is'and—Royalist. Ilk Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, 28, arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday from the Mediterranean. His Majesty's brig Lyra arrived at Madeira from Falmouth on the 22d of February, and sailed on the 23d for Brazils. His Majesty's ship i Hind arrived at Constanti nople from Napoli d Romania on the 14th of Fein-Limy. , Hi,Majestys steamer Echo arrived at Gibraltar from Falmouth and Cadiz on the 17th of March, mid sailed on the 18th for Malta. His Majesty's ships Meteor, Mastiff, and Phila. mel, were at Smyrna on the 19th of February ; the Alligator had sailed for the Dardanelles. An order has been issued from the Admiralty to the effect,:el r la v t edCtohmremear years lde as s f F l r n s e t-oLf-ieb Lieutenants e t n le ian s a l r s in future will only be eligible for such app o i ntments , who li rated s hips, or three years in the command of a sloop of war. The following order has issued from the Roya Marine Office, to the several Commandants of that corps:— ,4 Royal Marine Office, March 21, 1831. " Brigade Order. 44 His Majesty having been pleased to appoint Major- General Sir :tames Cockburn, Bart., to be Inspector-Ge neral, e.ad to command the Brigade of Royal Marines, the Ala'or-General cannot assume the command without ex pressing to the several divisions of Marines and Royal Ma rine Artillery the g ratification which he feels in h a vin g his conne xion thus strengthened and continued with a corps of whose merit he has already had such long and satisfactory experienc e. H e begs th e y w ill co ll ect i ve l y an d individu ally be assured of his earnest disposition, upon all occa sions, to promo te their int e r e s t and welfare , and to direct the discharge of the high duties with which his Majesty graciously pleased to honour him, to the mainte has been no an d extension of the honourable fame which the I c l o a r - ps of Marines have so invariably and eminently established. By comman4 of the Major-General, " JOHN 'WRIGHT, Asst. Adjt.-General. 44 To the Commandants." NAVAL PROMOTIONS DURING THE QUARTER. Carrxixs—Charles Graham, Charles Talbot, Henry Edward Napier. CommAxDvns—M'illiam Savage, John Geary, John Fraser. LIEUTENANTS-Robert Fanshawe Stopford, Thomas MuHoek, St. Leger Aldworth, Hon. H. A. Murray, Hon. John O'Grady, H. W. Gifford, Joseph Denman, Philip pe Sauntarez, Hon. G. R. A. Clements. MAsTElis—W, L. Brown, H. C. Haswell, 11. Hoppen, John Dallas. SURGEONS.—J. Lane, J. Barr, M.D. PURSERS —S. E. Strett'on, J. Newnhain, H. Price, B. Barron, F. May, R. Singer, W. Hood, J. Pinhorn, J. Chirnino, W. rinlavmon. CA rTA INS —G . ROYAL MARINES. \Velchman, John Husband, Charles Morgan, Joh n N orr i s, J . G. R i c h ar d son. LIEUTENANTS—_C. W. Pearce, R. Carr, T. B. Reed, C. Parker. The William Dodd, Chalker, of and from this port for Liverpool put into Waterford, 29th ult. The Henry, \Vestcott, of this port, arrived at Gi braltar, from Terceira, ith March. The Elizabeth and Mary, Rees, of this port, arrived at Beachley, near Gloucester, from St. Andero, 29th March. The Mary, Pigeon, of this port, arrived atZante, from Ane mia , 14 th February. We und ers t an d t h at a di nner was yes t er day given at M erc h ant Tailors' Hall, by about 20 o f t h e hole and-cornercom- forting th e ex- Ch ancellor in Lis present forlorn s i tua t ion . It was, w e h ear, a very melancholy lachrymose a ff a i r , in , to poor Lord ELnoN, by way of which tears were almost as plentiful as wine. " One elver more" was attempted, but in vain. How are the mighty fallen! 1 - nidshipmen,and other;Junior lieutenants and, of the age of romance, always . make it a point*to visit these tombs as soon as possible after their arrival: if they can only get on shore_ for a feri` hours, they hire or borrow horses, and prO4ed with all haste to the interesting scene. O n reaching the spot to which they are directed they enter a pretty garden, laid • out with great care, and are conducted along a walk bordered with bushes, bearing a profusion of roses, and having a stream of the clearest water flowing on each side : at the end of this walk the visiter sees • a red glaring monument, which be is told is the tomb of Virginia ; at the termination of avenue, on the opposite side of the garden, ap; pears another monument, exactly resembling the first,• which is designated the tomb of Paul : a grove of bamboos surrounds each. The traveller Feels disappointed on beholding these red masses, instead of elegant monuments of Pariah marble ; which would seem alone worth& of such a ptir: , pose and such a situation ; but that is not the only disappointment destined to be experienced by him ; after having allowed his imagination to depict the shades of Paul and Virginia hovering about the spot where their remains repose-- , t4.fut having pleased himself with the idea that he I:lki seen those celebrated tombs, and given a sigh to • the memory of those faithful lovers, separated in life, but in death united—after all this waste of sympathy, he learns at last that he has been tinder a delusion the whole time—that no Virginia, was there interred, and that it is a ttlAitei of doubt whether there ever existed such a persoil as Paul ! What a pleasing illusion is then •dis pelled ! How many romantic dreams, inspired by the perusal of St. Pierre's talc, are doomed to vanish when the truth is ascertained ! • The fact is, that these tombs have been built to gtatity the eager desire which the English haVe atwayn evinced to behold such interesting mementos formerly only one was erected, but the pro prietor of the place, finding that -all the English visiters, on being conducted to this, as the tomb of Virginia, always asked to ttt that of Paul also, determined on building a simitaf one, to which he gave that appellation. Many • have been the visiters who have been gratified, consequently, by the conviction that they had • looked on the actual burial-place of that unfor- tunate pair. These " tombs" are scribbled ovet with the nattes of the various persons who have visited them, together with verses and pathetic . ejaculations, and sentimental remarks. St. Pierre's story of the lovers is very prettily written, and his description of the scenic beauties of tI!R island are correct, although not even his pen can do full justice to them ; but there is little truth in the tale. It is said that there was indeed . a young lady sent from the Mauritius to France, for education, during the time that Monsieur de la Bourdonnais was Governor of the colony, that her name was Virginia, and that she was ship wrecked in the St. Geran. I heard somethinq of a young man being attached to her, and dying - . of grief for her loss ; but that part of the story is very doubtful. The " Bay of the Tomb," • " the Point of Endeavour," the " Isle of Amber," and the " Cape of Misfortune," still bear the same names, and are pointed out as the memorable spots mentioned by St. Pierre.— Recollections of the Mauritius. THE TAILOR AND THE MIDDIES. Some people imagine that their sons, if unlit. for other professions, will do well enough for tly. sea. As a warning to them not to assign such a reason before the young gentlemen in the cock pit, we shall quote the following anecdote :- 44 This reminds me of a tailor at Halifax, who, on being sadly provoked by some of the scampish band amongst us, for nor paying his abominably long bills, said, in a rage, in the cockpit before us all, that, after having tried his son in half a dozen professions, without any chance of success, he was now resolved, as a last resource, to make a midshipman of him ! This sarcasm was me tered during the short peace of Amiens, when we first visited Halifax ; a period when the mids had so little real business to attend to, that they seized eagerly upon any opening for a joke. As soon, therefore, as the tailor had quitted the ship, it was resolved to punish him for his un courteous speech. It had not escaped the notice of his tormentors ; that this vulgar fraction of his species prided himself, in a most especial degree, on the dignity of a very enormous tail or queue, which reached half way down his back; and it was resolved, in secret council, that this append age should forthwith be docked. Nothing, I must fairly own, could be more treacherous than the means devised to lower the honour and glory of the poor tailor. He was formally invited to dinner with us; and, being well plied with grog, mixed according to the formidable rule for making what is called a Northwester, which pre scribes that one half of each glass shall consist of rum, and the other half of rum and watee, our poor guest was soon brought under the table - . Being then quite incapable of moving, he was lifted in noisy triumph out of the berth, and placed in the tier, across the bends of the small bower cable, where, after many a grunt and groan at the rugged nature of his couch, he at length fell asleep. His beautiful tail, the pride of his life ! was presently glued, by means of a lump of pitch, to the strands of the cable ; and such was the tenacity of the substance, that in the morning, when, on the daylight gun being fired immediately over his head, poor snip awoke, he could no more detach himself from the spot on which he lay than Lemuel Gulliver in like circumstances. His noddle was still so confused, that he knew not where he lay, nor what held him down. After tugging at his hair for a minute or two, he roared out lustily for help. One of the . raids, seized with the brilliant idea of making the tailor the finisher of his own fate, hurried to his assistance, and, handing him a knife, roared out, " by all means to make haste, as the devil had got hold of him by the tail !" The poen . tradesman, terrified out of his wits, and in great horror at his mysterious situation, instantly did as he was desired, and cut away lustily, little dreaming that his own rash hand was shearing the highest and most cherished honours of his house ! On turning round he beheld with dis may the ravished locks which, for half a ce ntury . and more, had been the joint delight of himself and his tender partner Rebecca. As the thoogilt of returning tail-less to his home crossed his half bewildered brain, he exclaimed, in an agoq () 01), Lord • spirit, to his malicious tormentors, revenge n L u o e r d o f!. the e am ma a li l c o i s o t us man middiesto now cour t, by-word in the man to one's Becky" became a denote the afterwards, to ship for trany years I ot into a scrape, ally 011 E, 10 g _ Basil predicanlent. of _ , cerp am qinikeaine out -oFlt A , IRE Hall's li-ra g worts. plete; and this expression of being a lost rny,,B.aescky !" Tb.o Just ready, in Svo. THE DIARY of Dr. DODDRIDGE, forming the Supplement to his Correspondence, and including many curious particulars in his life hitherto unknown. Edited by his Great Grandson, JOHN DODDRIDGE HUMPHREYS, Esq. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street.