The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-11 00:00:00

1 e r ORIGIN OF THE PERRIER MINISTRY. The recently published work, entitled Lafayette and the Revolution of 1830, by M. Sarrana, front which we have already given some extracts, details a I the secret t ransactions and manoeuvres by which the elevation of the Orleans dynasty was brought about. The publication ex hibits Louis Philippe and the leading men of the juste milieu Administration in a very unfavourable light. We insert the following extraordinary disclosure of the cause of Laffitte's resignation, and the subsequent appointment of Casimir Perrier, as a curious example of Court intrigue : " A short time after the discussion relative to the affairs of Italy, that is to say, on Tuesday, the sth of March, 1 831, a Cabinet Messenger brought M. Sebastiani a despatch from Marshal Maison, stating, that M. de Met ternich had just made known to him that the Austrian Cabinet had resolved not to acknowledge the principle of 00 n -intervention, but to interfere, with an armed force, not only in the insurrections of Parma and Modena, but in every part of Italy where there might be a popular move- Merit. ' Hitherto,' said M. de Metternich, we have allow e d France to put forward the principle of non-inter vention ; but it is time for her to know that, so far as r egards Italy, we shall send on armed force in every province Where there shall be an appearance of insurrection. If Rich interference leads to war, then let war come. We pre: fer running its chances to perishing in the midst of revolt.' " You know,' wrote our Ambassador, that hitherto no one has proved a more str:nuous and open advocate for Peace than I ; but I am now convinced that, to avert the dangers which threaten France, advantage must be taken of the Austrian levies not being yet organized, to begin the war, and throw an army into Piedmont.' This important despatch arrived at the Office for Foreign Affairs on Saturday the sth of March. A copy, Made by M. Sebastiani's son-in-law, was immediately sent to the King, and yet, on the Tuesday following, no notice of the arrival of such a despatch had been given to the Council of Ministers. Laffitte was only informed of it through the indiscretion of a clerk in the Foreign-office. lie immediately went to the Palais Royal, and asked the ring whether he knew anything of a despatch from Vi enna, said to have arrived three days before. The King replied in the affirmative; and upon Laffitte expressing his surprise that the circumstance had not been made know n to the Cabinet, explained this reserve by the neces sity of providing against the indiscretions sometimes com mitted in the Council. Whilst this conversation was going on, the War Minister arrived. Upon Lffitte ask ing Marshal Soult the same question as he had addressed to the King, the Marshal replied that he was wholly igno rant of the circumstance, and expressed great indignation against M. Sebastian', whom he termed a traitor. At length came the latter, who was much confused at AI. Laffitte's question, and stammered out that it was true he had received a despatch from Marshal Maison, but of ho great importance, and that he had not had time to com municate it to his colleagues. However, at M. Laffitte's particular request he was obliged to go a n d f e t c h th e des patch. The opinion of the Members of the Cabinet from whom this document was at first concealed, was, that it Was the intention of the King and M. Sebastiani never to let it he known to them. From this time, although it was promised that such a mystification should never be repeated, M. Laffitte de termined to retire from office. I can boldly affirm, that the principal cause of this determination was the King's w np o T il ion °Pon th e ex t erna l po li cy o f F rance. Th e l atter d Whatever have peace at a n y p r i ce , an d open l y d ec l are d, t h at might be the opi n i on o f hi s Mi n i s t ers , his was s o, Nevertheless, he combated, or feigned to do Laffitte's resolution, by which, he said, his friend Latitte would do him a greater injury than he had done u'm good ever by helping to put a crown upon his head. How ' at the close of a Cabinet Council, in . which he had stated his system of policy, a system diametrically opposed to that „i s , in which the King announced his intention of per- Als Laffitte begged his Majesty to accept his reaig• The nation, appoint M. Casimir Perrier Prime Minister. the h(iwever, refused the resignation, and expressed strongest office , repugnance to the proposed successor to the dared tha a tte. At 1, °I M. ffi that time Louis• Philippe de health, and t the overbearing temper, constant state of ill- Were to even the complexion of M. Casimir Perrier, him object s of insurmountable disgust. I. Laffitte, tohowever, who determined at all events getcal,aout of the Equivocal position in which he stood, Cabin e t C • - which, after stating th at 1 ouncil the next morning, in prin ciples t system then pursued was fatal to the prin- Pie upon which the revolution founded, to the honou r of was and France, he a g • fpolicy, and called developed ?poi) his colleagues to al a i s'stm and his immediate retirement from)nse between his ), He re peated his demand, • office. No answer. silence. Which was again followed by absolute t length M. he prefe Montalivet said, that for his part, On this rred the policy of M. Perrier to that of M. Laffitte. the 11 d eclaration, the Council broke up. This was on 11th of March, and the next day tbe President of the equal& il tendered, for the third time, his resignation, which preyaccepted by the same Monarch wh o , on l y a f ew d ays rrev ' Q ua, had declared th a t St. Jame s an d St, Phili were unit e d on eart h as i n Heaven P " p CHOLERA IN SCOTLAND. The disease has now spread generally over the town of Inverness, dest it particularly in the G a green re of Muirtown, or western sid e of the river, where at number of poor and The ute families are huddled together in miserable houses. Progress of the disease is thus fearfully accelerated by want, filth, and a c l ose nox i ous atmosp h ere. Yesterday, a ror man entered a shop an d i mp l ore d a d rop o f b randy for B ° l3 , wh o was taken ill ; this morning both father a n d lying In thi s un f ortunate house there was not a blanket to cover the wretched victims of disease, and scarcely a mouthful of provisions ! The effects of the disease on the social and commercial relations of the town, are truly striking and melancholy. Business is almost at a stand, th e few schools that are open can scarcely boast of a dozen scholars, and Mr. Lowe has shut up his dancing— rooms and returned to Edinburgh. The English tourists and strangers, who at this season used to crowd our inns and traverse the surrounding country, have almost wholly disappeared. STRIKING MORTALITY IN ROSS- SIURE. The former stations of the pestilence—Portmahomack, Balintore, Helmsdale, Embo, &c., are now clear of the contagion, but it has since our last broken out in the small fishing village of Inver, near Tain, with a virulence hi therto unexampled in this country. Inver is supposed not to contain more than thirty families, or from 120 to 140 souls, yet in this scanty population there have been ninety cases of cholera and forty-one deaths! The man ner in which the pestilence was introduced is not vtry well Kno wn. The most satisfactory account we can learn is, that the fishermen, when they fled from the herring fish ing, left the clothes which at that time they had on in their boats, where they remained such a length of time ex posed to the elements, that their owners thought they mi ght safely take them home. This was accordingly done, and on that very night the disease made its appearance, and at once assumed a most fearful aspect. This occurred ° , l th e evening of Wednesday last. Great numbers were 4 40, and before the accounts reached 'fain the following m orning, four cases terminated fatally. On Thursday ev e n at4g tw e l ve were d ea d, an d b e f ore F r id ay evening the deaths amounted to seventeen. Medical assistance was °ll t them as soon as poss ibl e. D r. Macglashan from Ed t4huret, whose serv i ces were engage d some t i me ago by e Board of Health, hastened to the spot ; but unfortu a.telY had not b een any length of time there when he f ro himself seized. He was succeeded by Dr. Munro to Tain. The mortality now became so great that it impossibl e to procure coffins for the dead, with that here d es i mpossibl e which the urgency of the case required. Eleven buried without shroud or coffin, six in one grave, 7 _" n u ein another. Ou Saturday nineteen coffins were out of Tain ; some of them for immediate use, and r ne restto be i n read i ness. On Monday very few of them remained. On th e f i tst alarm of the disease, many of the Pour people fled to the woods in the neighbourhood ; and Shortly after, other nine families went off to the Morrich more, an extensive tract of • and a half from their houses,sandY mile hillocks, about a in ttvo or three persons were takenv:ilherene regret to add.. So intent were i they on escaping that they carried nothi (if away with t;ern; t1(1 some of the poor women snatched upoff their children . ' l 4 ) a state of nudity, and hastenedfor their lives. We actors Macandie and Evans visited ttals place and learn that some of the medical this also,t as theirf opinion, that they never saw cholera we g ar av a e more 'rlitidable appearance than at this village. qiti Of t ar are daily burnt, and we are told that Great even uant some es of t he ho uses are set on fire by their ovvners, to s, P er t as a P r eventi ve o f t h e contagion.—lnverness Courier. e kr. JEFFREYS ALLEN, Master of College, has announced his intention of offering Dulwich himself a 4 Alernber for th e eastern division of the county of Surrey.s PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—His Majesty's brig P antaloon, from Oporto, arrived last evening. Nothing 4 e , v by her. His Majesty's ship Britannia, from Lisbon, , ied thi s morn i ng —five days' passage. It was ex ,Pi'eted that Mrau EL ' s fl eet would come out of the Tagus `ue day alter the Britannia left. Admiral Sawa:mins was qi the port ready to meet th em , h ut had received no ad ition of ships. When the Britannia left the Tagus, all as supposed to be tranquil at Lisbon, DOVER, SEPT. 9. Sailed yesterday his Majesty's packet Ferret, with the mail, despatches, and passengers, amongst whom were Col. Garner, Mr. and Mrs. Wiss, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Sir Robert Acton, Mr. Halcomb, &c. for Calais. Arrived yesterday his Majesty's packet Crusader, with Mr. Fitz patrick, Mr. Huxby, Mr. Jones, Miss Norcleff, Mr. Ar mour, &c., from Calais ; also his Majesty's packet Sala mander, with the carriage of Mr. D'Almain, the mail, despatches, a messenger, and passengers, from Ostend. Ar• rived to-day his Majesty's packet Ferret, with despatches, Mr. Ball Hughes, Dr. Winter, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Jones, Mr. Philpott, Mr. Trotter, &c., from Calas. Ar rived to-day the Sovereign steam .vessel, from Boulogne, with Mr. Montifbre, Dr. Thomas, Mr. Bowring, Mr. Innis, Mr. Daniel, Mr. Metcalf. Twelve o'Clock. Departed in the greatest haste, the Fire Fly steam-boat, for Calais, with three King's messengers, viz. Mr. Moore, Mr. Kay, and Mr. Waring. The Fire Fly has been wait ing several hours for two of the above Gentlemen, who have come down under orders to travel by night and by day with the greatest speed until they succ , eil in over taking Lord Minto before he reaches his place of destina tion. Their orders were to have as little contact as possi ble with any body upon their journey, and to step out of their carriage and four at once on board the packet, which they did ; and it was rather a novel sight to see them drive up full speed with four horses (white as snow and trembling like wires) to the packet station at the Pier. This is all I know ; you may guess what you please. I have had trouble enough to get as much as I have, for all was done so quick and secretly. YOUNG NAPOLEON'S EPITAPH. The following is the epitaph which the Emperor of Austria, Francis 11., has had engraved on the tomb of the Duke of Reichstadt, his grandson : .ETERSE MEMORLE JOS. CAR. FRANCISCI DUCTS REICHSTADIENSIS NAPOLEONIS GALLIARUM IMPERATORIS ET MAR. LUDOVIC2E ARCH. AUSTRIE FILII NATI PARISH XX MART. MDCCCXI IN CUNABULIS REGIS ROME NOMINE SALUTATI. ?STATE, OMNIBUS INGENII CORPORISQUE DOTIBUS FLORENTEM PROCERA STATURA, VULTU JUVENILITER DECORO SINGULARI SERMONIS COMITATE MILITARIBUS STUDII ET LABORIBUS MIRE INTENTUM PHTISIS TENTAVIT TRISTISSIMA MORS RAPUIT SCBURBANO AUGUSTORUM AD PULCHRUM FONTEM PROPE VINDOBONAM XXII JULII I,,IDCCCXXXIL This inscription may be translated as follows : " To the eternal memory of Joseph Charles Francis Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and of Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, born at Paris, 20th March, 1811. " In his cradle he was saluted by the name of King of Rome ; he was endowed with all the faculties of the mind and advantages of body ; his stature was tall, anti his countenance adorned with all the charms of youth ; his language was full of affability ; he had shown extraordi. nary talents for the study and exercises of the military art. " Being attacked by a dig°, der in the lungs, he was carried off by a most deplorable death at Schcealrun, near Vienna, the 22d July, 1832." The Marquis of PALMELLA, accompanied by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Chevalier DE BARBOZA, are to leave town this day for Oporto. They leave in a Government steamer, with a messenger from the Foreign Office, who is charged with important despatches for Don PEDRO. Speculation is rife as to the contents of these despatches, but, of course, no thing certain is known ; but the fact of a Government steamer being placed at the disposal of the Marquis, and the sending of a messenger with despatches for the Regent, are considered significative proofs of good will towards the Constitutional cause on the part of our Government. The British Consul at Oporto, who was supposed to have had a bias in favour of the Usurper, bas been recalled, and a gentleman appointed who was litely Consul at Corunna, and who is an avowed friend to the Portuguese Constitu tionalists. Lord FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE, upon his return from Berlin, will assume the functions of Assistant Adjutant-General to the Forces, to which his Lordship has been just appointed, in the room of Major GAkvocK. It will be recollected that the Earl of 111ussTEK, when Colonel GEORGE FITZCLARENCE, accepted the post of Deputy Adjutant-General shortly after his MAJESTY'S accession, but the Noble Earl resigned the situation at the end of two or three months, in consequence, as it is under stood, of the onerous duties of the appointment. Lord FREDERICK and Lady AUGUSTA are expected at their re sidence in Eaton-square, about the 20th instant. The house recently inhabited by the Hon. WILLIAM PONSONBY, in St. James's-square, has been let furnished, for five years, to the Literary Union Club, at a renal of nearly one thousand pounds a year and a premium. Surely this is a dull situation for a Club house. Lord MINTo, Ambassador from Lis Britannic MAJESTY to the Court of Berlin, arrived at Brussels, on Wednesday last, with his family and suite, on their way from London to Berlin. Lord and Lady MINTo had the honour of dining with their MAJESTIES, and next day set out with their whole suite in five carriages fur Berlin. lie arrived at Namur, on the evening of the ith. The Palace of the Archbishop of ARMAGH, in Charles -street, remains no longer hermeticilly sealed. The Right Reverend Father in God and the Ladies BERESFORD are arrived from Hastings, and the iron-cased windows again show signs of habitation less hospital or prison -like than the exterior exhibited during his Grace's absence. EDINBURGII ELECTION.----O BC of the Edinburgh Tory Journals makes the following admission : " We hear from many quarters that the return of the Loan ADVOCATE and Mr. ABE SCROMBY is certain ; but that Mr. BLAIR'S canvass will show two things, first, that all the electors of Edinburgh are not of one way of think ing ; and, second, that the Tories will exhibit a most respectable minority." The members of the Inner and Middle Temples will, it is said, add upwards of 500 to the consti tuency of the city of London. , It ought to be universally made known that the present Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. Moisic) has pub licly pledged to devote from the present time a 10th part of the revenue of that See to the augmentation of small livings within his diocese. Mr. RO;IISCHILD'S BUSINESS.-This gen tleman stated before the Committee of the House of Com mons, that he buys bills, drawn on foreign houses, to the amount of 80,0001. or 100,0001. per week ; and that he received in the year 1824, in two months, bills to the amount of 1,500,0001. DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—It having been fully ascertained that CHARLES X. and his suite are about to leave Scotland (preparations fur their departure having already commenced), several parties have been formed in consequence, to testify the at tachment of our countrymen to the adherents of the ex- KING, whose polite and gentlemanlike conduct has justly gained the esteem of those to whom they have been intro duced. —New North Briton. The Duchess of ANGOULEME, with her niece, the daughter of the Duzhess of BERRI, left the Pa lace of Holyrood on Thursday, for London. In the cow se of the present week the ex—King and the Due d ' ANGOU.- LEME will take their departure for Hamburgh, on their way to Gratz, in Styria, where the family will again as semble. The departure of the ex-Royal Family appears to be very much regretted in Edinburgh. Gratz is a fortified town, a Bishop's see, and the capital of Lower Styria, in Germany. It is 85 miles south-west from Vienna. We are sorry to announce the death of CHARLES CALVERT, Esq., Member for the Borough of Southwark, at the seat of his brother-in-law, at Easton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk. He was attacked on Friday night, after a day's shooting, by the cholera, and died on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. If we recollect rightly, Mr. CALVERT was the gentleman who presided at a late meeting of the Market Gardeners, and was at the time in robust health. On that occasion the interdict of the use of vegetables and fruits by the faculty, having been adverted to, Mr. CALVERT said, " I have not al.r. stained from eating vegetables and fruits—the former boiled, and the latter ripe—aid I have experienced no ill effects from the indulgence, as my appearance will testify." This declaration and remark, couplet with Mr. CAL VERT' S florid complexion and hi,!la health, elicited consi derable applause, and was deemed by all who heard him, as decisive of the non-injurious effects resulting from the consumption of vegetables and fruits. BONAPARTE'S SAIALLCLOTHES.—One day ALEXANDER exp resse d hi s ardent desire to h ave a p a ir or NAPOLEON'S breeches. Durtoc, the Grand Master of the Palace, sounded his master upon the subject. NAPOLEON laughed h eart il y. " Oh, by all means," said he, "give him them all if he wishes it, only leave me a pair for a change." This may be vouched far as authentic, but it is not equally certain, though strongly affirmed by many, that ALEXANDER, who was very superstitious, made the campaigns of 1812 and ISIS in the French Emperor's breeches. We are sorry to say, that we have received information that the cholera is raging at Boulogne ; our correspondent, in his letter, says that the people are dying like sheep.— Courier. SAMUEL THOMAS SPRY, Esq. of Tregoles, being desirous th it the poor of SitLney, near Helston, should cpleLrate the passing of the Reform Bills, ordered three fat bullocks to he slaughtered, and distributed amongst them, o❑ Friday, the 31st ult., by which act of kindness upwards of 380 poor people were supplied with a Sunday's d inner. —Primo u tit Packet. The Conservatives, previous to their disper sion (north, south, east, and west), held several meetings at their secret divan, fur the purpose of definitively ar ranging the general terms of their Addresses to their con stituents, preparatory to the General Fection. The Noble Duke remained in town purpos.ly to attend these meetings ; but Sir ROBERT PEEL hail previously taken his departure for Tamworth. BAD LUGGAGE.---AS HUNT, after his late visit to Middleton, was on his way to Rochdale, the coach in which he and his party sat, ascended a gentle eminence at a very slow pace. A witty I ndlady observed it, and shouted to the post boy, " Its a very poor Reform that will not afford better cattle than those to travel with." The driver, with a significant gesture, said, " Its bad luggage, mistress, bad luggage." One of the squad was a well kno nu dealer in toffy, who keeps a standing in Roch dale market.—Manchester Guardian BACHELORS AND AIAIDENs.—The march of matrimony has made no proAr,ss in the parish of,Elrns thorpe, in this county, which contains only four houses, occupied by 34 individuals, the whole of whom are living in a state of single blessedness ! The Rectory of this parish is a comp'ete sinecure, no service having been per formed since the year 1798, and then only when the Rec tor read himself in 1 The church is now a fine pic turesque ruin, richly clad with ivy. —Leicester Chronicle. DISSOLUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL PAR LIAMENTARY REFORM UNION.—At the meeting of the Union, on Wednesday last, a report from the Committee, recommending the dissolution of the Association (the ob ject for which it was formed having been happily accom plished) was submitted and approved of. It was then moved, " that the Parliamentary Reform Union be now dissolved," which was carried unanimously, and the meet ing separated.—Liverpool Chronicle. The accounts from Calcutta, Madras, and Ben gal this morning state, that meetings had been held at the three Presidencies, in favour of the Eng lish Reform Bill. Many able speeches were delivered. The Sheriff of Calcutta had called a meeting to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for pro tection to real property, in consequence of the recent de cision which extended the English Alien Act to India. The cholera had broken out in the garrison at Pettah. The letters received from St. Petersburgh this morning are to the 26th of last month. They state that the intercourse betwee❑ the Ministry of the Emperor NI CHOLAS and Lord DURHAM had been active, and the opi nion entertained in the Russian capital was, that the negociations were proceeding favourably. The mercan tile transactions in St. Petershurgh were on a large scale, and the shipments to Great Britain were going on with activity. Since the season ()petard, there had arrived at St. Petersburgh 477 British vessels, and 354 bad sailed with cargoes. The demand for Hemp and Flax was good. The Exchange is quoted at lop. HOSTILITIES BETWEEN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.—In the probable event of a collision between these countries, the " military means" of the belligerents becomes a question of primary importance and interest. As regards our ancient ally, Holland, the United Service Journal for the present mouth anticipates inquiry, and supplies ample and authentic information respecting the Dutch army, their camps, reviews, and general spirit. The letter written from the spot in which these animated and novel details are communicated, is not only highly in teresting to military men, but may be perused with advan tage by all who speculate on these subjects. STATE OF TRADE.—The sales of last week, in the woollen trade of this neighbourhood, have been more than usual. The blanket trade, which was lately depressed, has greatly improved during the last fortnight, Dewsbury and its vicinity have now as many orders as can conve niently be fulfilled. The cloth halts of Leeds and Hud dersfield were well attended last Tuesday, and the demand for superfine cloths and cassinetts was on the increase. At Bradford market, last Thursday, there was also a great deal of business done, and the stuff merchants were buying freely, though, we understand, at the usual prices. The cotton trade, in Liverpool and Manchester, is likewise gradually improving, and a degree of briskness is apparent, from which we expect a still further improvement.— Halifax Express. NEW ERA IN SHIP BUILDING.-WC un derstand that the Directors of the Kirkaldy and London Shipping Company, impressed with the advantages of the additional strength and safety to vessels, and diminished risk to the=ir crews, passengers, and cargoes, which is at tainable at a trifling expense, by tightening the interior planking (heretofore left op n in all vessels), so as to ex clude water, have ordered the Company's smacks, Enter prise and Ftfeshire, to be completed on " BALLINGALL'S system" of double bottoms, and which has now been carried into effect. By all ship-owners who study the comfort of passengers and crews, and wish to save insurance on their vessels and cargoes, for such has been ascertained at LLOYD'S still be the effect, this improvement must soon be adopted. —Fife Herald. We understand that it is in contemplation to improve the communication between Penryn and Helston by making a new line of road, to supersede the present very hilly road near Penryn; also to make a new line from the western end of Long Downs (about 2i miles from Penryn) towards Truro, to be connected with the present road from Fenryn to Truro at Perran Vale, which will supersede the present very hilly road from Killiga noon to Half-way House. This will probably he con nected with an improvement between Penryn and Perran Vale, to get rid of the present hill near Bella-vista and the hill that descends into Perran Vale, which' will com plete all the proposed improvements between Falmouth and Truro. Several meetings of trustees of the roads have taken place on the subject, and the proposed lines are now being surveyed, and the cost estimated.—Fal. Packet. MALT LIQUORS.—IG is a singular fact that, as far as we kn ow , not one of the men employed in the breweries in this city and neighbourhood have been at tacked with cholera. These men, it is well known, get a daily allowance of the best. There is more malt liquor consumed in India by the British residents of late years, in proportion to their number, than any part of the world, which must arise from its being considered favourable to health, and probably in some measure an antidote to cho lera. We have no doubt but a deal of the trash sold under the name of porter (which is just coloured small beer) is most injurious to the stomach and bowels. Let, therefore, only the best wine, the best spirits, and the best porter and ale he used in moderation, and we have no doubt but cholera will disappear from among us. From a Corres pondent of the Glasgow Chronicle. PI CL I-1 ARD FISHERY.—some considerable catches of pilchards have taken place this week. At Newquay, about 3,000 hogsheads of the fish, said to be the finest that have been seen on any part of the coast, have ben enclosed ; and at Perran, 1,000. Eleven seans belonging to Sr. Ives were shot on Saturday last, and about 6,000 hogsheads of very fine fish were secured.— Devonport Telegraph. THE PILCHARD FISIIERY.---Up to the pre sent time the pilchard fishing off our coast has been pretty successful, as will be seen by the following list, which gives a stay bent of the quantity taken at each station from the commencement : Alevagissey and Goran 1,500 Hhds. Gerrans lOO St. Hawes BOO Porthallow 1,500 Coverack l5O Lizard 1,700 St. Ives 7,000 St. Agnes 4oo* Perran Porth 1,200t Newquay 2,500 • All sold fresh and for manure. All bold fresh, except about SO hits. carried to cellar. From Port Lee, Alullion, Mount's Bay, Sennen, and Perth 'lowan, we have no reports. On Monday last about 1,000 Ithds. of fish escaped from one of the seans in St. Ives' bay, belonging to Messrs. WEARtrE.—Falmouth Packet. On the 31st ult., the date of the despatches from Oporto, the army was in good condition : the works thrown up to defend the city were in the best possible state, and no alarm appeared to he felt as to the result of an attack if the Miguelites should attempt one. The ad vanced season of the year makes it impossible for the army of Alwyn. to remain long before Oporto, and provisions are already getting scarce. Accounts received by the Marquis of PALMELLA, from Lisbon, are by no means unfavourable. Allan Er. had announced the intention of sending out the squadron again, but it was admitted that it had received very serious damage, which would re quire some time to rqair, and that eighty men had been killed and wounded in the In Myth SARTORIUS. The return of the squadron to the Taus, after the boast that had been made that it would destroy the squadro❑ of SAR.. TORIUS, had cast a great damp over the Mieuelites, and given such satisfaction to the friends of Don PEDRO. A HINT TO POLITICAL PRELATES.-- Bishop Buxom. every summer took a tour for six weeks or two months through some districts of his bishopric, daily preaching and confirming from church to church, so a', in the compass of three years (besides his formal trien nial visitations), to go through all the principal livings in his diocese. He fixed himself for a whole week in the principal market towns, and though he went out every morning to preach and confirm in some parish within seven or eight miles of the place, yet at the evening prayer for sit days together he catechised the youth of th e town in the principal church, and on Sunday con firmed those who had been thus instructed and examined. —Morning Herald. BANFF, SEPTEMBER 3.—The stormy wea ther that prevailed the beginning of last week stopped all fishing till Thursday night ; a few of the boats ventured out that night and got some 6sh. On Friday night most of the boats got to sea, but the quantity caught was hut moderate. We are sorry to find that on the whole of this side the Moray Firth the fishing has not produced above half of what it did last season, and as the weather appears still unsettled, and the nights are now getting long, it is not expected that the fi , hermen will prosecute it beyond this week. Most of the south country boats that were fishing at Peterhead and Fraserburgh have already gone home.—New North Briton. MEMOIRS OF LAFAYETTE.—" We have received a copy of a very remarkable work, just pub lished in Paris, entitled Lafayette and the Revolution of 1830, by a M. B. SARRANS, who was LAFAYETTE'S secretary. As its title suggests, it gives an entire biography of the venerable General, who has acted a distinguished part in three revolutions ; but its chief interest hinges on the details which it supplies on the part which he and his friends played to the last. Its narration, of late events, is so full, that it occupies the whole of the second volume, with a considerable part of the first; and so recent as to furnish us with the proceedings of the movement party during and after the insurrection of last June. Its disclo sures, therefore, have all the attractions of novelty, and, if authentic, will enable us better to judge of tl'e feelings and views of existing persons and parties than any con temporary work with which we are acquainted.— Times." The following notice has just been issued from the Stamp Office : " Stamp Office, London, Aug. 31. " Sir,—A question having arisen, whether dealers in patent medicines, residing in places which have become entitled under the Reform Act of the last Sessions to send Members to Parliament, are required to take out their licences upon the lOs. duty, and also whether licences to vend patent medicines in any of the disfranchised bo roughs are still liable to the same, as heretofore; I am directed by the Board to inform you, that in their opinion licences to vend medicines within the limits of such new boroughs are liable to the duty of lOs. each, and that licences to vend medicines in any of the disfranchised bo roughs will continue liable to the duty of 10s. ; as such places will still be boroughs or towns corporate, although deprived of the privilege of sending Members to Parlia ment.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " CHARLES PRESSLEY, Secretary." We understand from Banff, that about ten o'clock a. m. on Wednesday week the smack London was struck, off St. Abb's head, by the electric fluid, which descended the top-mast, seared the mast-head, and, dart ing along the iron jibstay to the deck, knocked down several men, startled some planks and bolts, filed the hold with dense sulphureous smoke, and left a coating of black bituminous matter oh a large extent of surface. In its course it came in contact with a man named SIMPSON, who was standing on the cross-trees, set fire to his can vass trowsers, and absolutely tore the drawers and stock ings from his limbs in tatters. Yet, although he found his legs extended, stiff, and useless, he had the presence of mind to hold on with one hand, and extinguish the flames with the other; but not before he was severely scorched. On being brought or. deck, be soon recovered the use of his limbs; but it will be [some time before the injured parts are healed. This man probably owes his life to the non-conducting property of the flannel shirt, drawers, and stockings, which he wore.—New North Briton. At Langport, Somersetshire, on Wednesday last, two grand dinners took place to celebrate the passing Of the Reform Bill, E. CHARD, Esq. in the Chair.— About seventy electors sat down at the Dolphin, and two hundred at the Swan. Mr. C. K. TYNTE (the inde pendent Candidate,) was invited, and was most enthusias tically welcomed. The whole population, with banners, &c. escorted him into the town, amidst the most enthusi astic cheering, the windows filled with females waving their handkerchiefs. Mr. C. K. TYNTE addressed the people from his carriage, and was loudly cheered. After dinner the Chairman proposed " The KING"—(Loud cheers.)—" The QUEEN and Royal Family." " The Duke of SussEx."—(Cheers.)—" C. K. TYNTE, Esq. our independent Candidate, may he be returned at the head of the poll."—(Loud cheers. )—Mr. C. K. TYNTE, in a lone and eloquent speech, returned thanks, and was rap turously cheered in many parts of it. The whole went off most delightfully, and the people of Langport will long remember the glorious day. Mr. TYNTE has a majority of above twenty to one in this part of the division. Indeed, Mr.LUTTRELL'S name is quite ridiculed. OLD LONDON.—truly these are disastrous times for the venerators of old localities and old customs; innovation, spoliation, and mutation, stare us everywhere in the face. The London of former generations is disap pearing daily, by piece-meal. St. Dunstan's clock, the quondam lion of Fleet-street, is gone to air itself in the Regent's Park, where it looks as ridiculous and outré, as shockingly plebeian and grotesque, as an old wife from Whitechapel would appear at one of the aristocratic fetes given by its present possessor at the villa which it now serves to decorate. The College of Physicians has been most profanely converted into a market for butchers ; and on the same spot where anatomical lectures were once de livered, anatomical specimens are now daily exhibited in the carcases of sheep and oxen. Nay, to make matters woe, ee, ntofthe there is an place, air of for h offensive butchers tchrsmust, forsooth, insolence e even in ther e fi have Grecian lamps, and re-decorate the ceiling. Of old London Bridge, no other memento will shortly remain than the cul de sac, now formed by what was whilom an ap proach to it; or by such record of its beauty and magni ficence as the pencil of the topographical draftsman may have perpetuated to delight future illustrators of PENNANT. —Metropolitan. CHANGE IN THE PROPRIETARY OF THE Il'sw NORTH BRITON.—The copy-right and good will of this Journal having yesterday (Friday last) been sold to the Proprietors of the Edinburgh Observer, both Papers will after this day be consolidated, and on Tuesday next will appear under the joint title of the Edinburgh Ob server and North Briton. There are no two Journals, perhaps, now published in Edinburgh betwixt which such an union could have been formed with greater propriety and with more entire satisfaction to the readers of both. During the whole period that the subject of Reform has been agitated, they have both pleaded the same cause, and have only been distinguished from each other on this sub ject by those shades which different temperaments in their editors may have unconsciously produced. The intimate friendship which subsisted betwixt them in private life rendered their opinions and sentiments fully known to each other; and in now transferring the editorial charge of the North Briton into the hands of Mr. JOHN Mar, corm ,' we confid e i t to one w h om we k now to be loyal to the KING and C onst i tut i on—a f r i en d of l ib erty, a man of genius, and a gentleman. It is with the highest satisfaction, therefore, that in relinquishing our own superintendence of the Briton, we consign its name and character into such hands ; and we earnestly recommend to those of our readers who put any value on our goodwill to continue their favour to the united Journal, as we are well assured it will be conducted with that impartiality and moderation which is equally remote from subserviency to power, and from wild insubordination to legitimate authority. The New North Briton will, from this date, cease to appear as a separate Journal ; and the conjoined Papers will in future be forwarded to the readers of both until further orders be given by the subscribers. The accounts, how ever, for all future numbers, will be payable to the Pro prietors of the Observer and North Briton. EDITOR OF NEW NORTH BRITON. VALUE OF NEWSPAPER PROPERTY.—The copy-right and goodwill of the New North Briton were sold yesterd ay f ur 251 . , an d t h e P aper i s h ence f or th to be united with the Observer. There are few kinds of pro perty of which men form such fallacious notions as of Newspapers, till experience undeceives them.—Scotsman of Saturday. A LFlERl.—Talking of ALFIERI, he told me to-day, that when that poet was travelling in Italy, a very romantic, and, as he called her, tete montee Italian Principessa, or Duchessa, who had long been an enthusi astic admirer of his works, having heard that be was to pass within 50 miles of her residence, set off to encounter him ; and having arrived at the inn where he sojourned, was sho..vn into a room where she was told ALFIERI was writing. She enters, agitated and fatigued, sees a very good looking man seated at a table, whom she concledea must be ALFIERI : throws herself into his arms, and, in broken words, declares her admiration, and the distance she has come to declare it. In the midst of the lady's im passioned speeches ALFIERI enters the room, casts a glance of surprise and hauteur at the pair, and lets fall some ex pression that discloses to the humbled Principessa the shocking mistake she has made. The poor Secretary, for such he was, is blamed by the lady, while he declares his innocence, finding himself, as be says, in the embraces of a lady who never allowed him even a moment to inter rupt her by the simple question of what she meant ! AL mar retired in offended dignity, shocked that any one could be mistaken for him, while the Principessa had to retrace her steps, her enthusiasm somewhat cooled by the mistake and its consequences. —Lady Blessinton's Con versations with Lord Bye on. BYRON'S OPINION OF BEAUTY.—I do not talk of mere beauty (continued 131Rox) of feature or com plexion, but of expression, that looking out of the soul Through the eyes, which, in my opinion, constitutes true beauty. Women have been pointed out to me as beautiful, who never could have interested my feelings, from their want of countenance, or expression, which means coun tenance ; and others, who were little remarked, have struck me as being captivating, from the force of counten ance. A woman's face ought to be like an April day— susceptible of change and variety; but sunshine should often gleam over it, to replace the clouds and showers that may obscure its lustre, which, poetical description apart (said BYRON), in sober prose means, that good-humoured smiles ought to be ready to chase away the expression of pensiveness or care that sentiment or earthly ills call forth. Women were meant to be the exciters of all that is finest in our natures, and the soothers of all that is turbulent and harsh. Of wbat use, then, can a handsome automaton be, after one has got acquainted with a face that knows no change, though it causes many ? This is a style of looks I could not bear the sight of for a week, and yet such are the looks that pass in society for pretty, handsome, and beautiful.—New Monthly Magazine. DRY WINE.—Some queer fellow in Phila delphia inquires of Mr. CHANDLER, of the Gazette, the meaning of dry wine. The editor's answer is very satis factory, he says, " Dry wine means wine imported in empty bottles."—Boston Sentinel. We do not see why the owl, if domesticated, might not be a valuable assistant to the husbandman. If there were one or two belonging to every rick-yard and barn, they would well repay a little trouble, and would be at work when others sleep. The habit of taming birds or other animals is of no little use in forming kind and patient dispositions i❑ the young. Those who have seem the storks in Holland building on the cottage roofs, and stalking about the road-sides and dykes, will not think this a hopeless attempt. It is by continual and often wan ton persecution that all the lower animals are driven from us ; and their dread might be overcome by kind treatment. Those who reside in the country might thus derive a con stant source of innocent amusement. Hawks formerly were taught to assist in the chase. (They do so now.) The otter and cormorant have been tamed to fish (or their masters, and still do so in India. We have seen numbers of wild ducks flying round a person they were used so, and quacking their joy at his approach with food. Phea sants, in several preserves, come to the keeper's whistle to be fed. Sparrows, and other small birds, will soon approach those who feed them regularly.—Literary Gaz. EXTENSIVE RAILROAD.—The railroad to Birmingham, carried on to Liverpool, as was intended, would have brought Dublin within twenty-four hours of Loudon. This of itself would have been a stronger argu ment against a Repeal of the Union than any in Mr. STAN LEY'S quiver. But this should not, nor will it be, the only line; another grand route will run through Berkshire, Wilts, Somerset, and Devon. The eastern counties Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Huntingdon, and Lincoln, will be supplied with one grand artery, and Yoikshire and Scotland with another. By these roads all intelligence will pass; &stance, as measured by time, will be snore than half annihilated ; and the three kingdoms, without losing an acre or an inhabitant, will have all the compact ness, force and efficiency invariably given by concentration. Waste lands will instantly acquire value when the railroad strikes across them, as if by the touch of a magnet; the poor will all be wanted; they will flock to the banks of the railroads as new emigrants flock to the hanks of the rivers of America. It is facility of communication that gives all the value to the great bed of the Mississippi, which, in a short time, the Americans expect will be the heart of its population and the centre of its wealth and activity. A railroad is the river of art —it is the nearest approach to creation that man has yet arrived at.—New Monthly Magazine. NEW CUSTOMS' ACT.—The Lords Com missioners of his Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration the statements, memorials, &c. sub mitted to them on the subject of the contemplated opera tion of the clause 48, in the Act 2 and 3 WILLIAM IV. Cap. 84, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that it appears to them to be proper that the regulations which you are required by the Act referred to, to make for permitting the export of warehoused goods as ship's stores, ought to comprise those articles only herein after enumerated, and I am to desire that you will give the necessary instructions for that purpose accordingly:—A List of Foreign Goods to be allowed to be shipped as Stores from the Bonded Warehouses, free of duty—Tea, oz. or coffee 11 oz., cocoa 1 oz. per day for each person on board. Wine, 1 pint per day for the master, each mate, and each passenger. Spirits, brandy, geneva, rum (Bri tish plantation), pint per day for each person on hoard. The last to be in proportion of one-half of the whole quantity of spirits shipped, and no spirits to be shipped in less than the legalised packages. Raw Sugar and Mo lasses (together or separate), 2 oz. per day for each per -8014 on board. Dried Fruits, 2 pounds per week for each person o❑ board. Rice, ditto.—Devonport Telegraph. TITHES—SEVERAL LIVES LOST.—The Rev. M. GAVEN proceeded yesterday to effect the valu ation of the parish of Wallstown, near Doneraile. It was thought necessary in order to effect the object, that a de. tachment of the 14th Regiment of infantry, from Butte vant, and a body of police, from the neighbouring stations, all under the direction of several Magistrates, amongst whom the names of G. Benin Low, Esq , ADAM EVANS Gen. BARRY, and GARRETT NAGLE, Esq., have been re turned to us—should be procured. The process of valu ation had scarceley commenced, when the people, to the number of between 12 and 1500, began to give manifest indications of hostility ; whilst the author ties, on the other side, evinced determination to resist any attempt that might be made to frustrate the valuation. The people, as I they increased in numbers, became more and more resolute and exasperated—stones were thrown at the military-- the order to fire upon and charge was given by the Ma gistrates, and an instantaneous and general discomfiture of ' the unarmed peasantry was the result. As stated in the letter above referred to, the retreating party were met by a company of Highlanders, from Castletownroche, where another conflict ensued, the result of which was, that four of the people were killed, ten or twelve badly wounded, and eighteen or twenty made prisoners. The names of the deceased, are—WILLIAM DOYLE, a com fortable farmer, aged 50 years, who leaves a wife and five children to mourn the loss of their only provider. MICHAEL HORROGAN, a labourer, aged 27, and DAVID REGAN, a boy of about 14. The whole country for seve ral miles round has been thrown into a state of great con sternatien, and the feelings of the tampers and peasantry are roused to a pitch of fearful excitement. —Cork Re porter. We take the following from the Eclaireur de la Mecliterran(ie of Aug. 30 :—" The daughter of a M. R , res.ding at Lupain, being dissatisfied with the treatment of her mother-in-law, fled from the pater nal roof, and took refuge in a convent of Grey Sisters at Lambese. For a time the attentions paid to her were so great, and her existence rendered so happy, that she made a will, leaving the whole of the fortune she inherited from her deceased mother to the community. Upon this being dove, the conduct of the nuns towards her became entirely changed, and she was subjected to such close confinement, and other harsh treatment, that she felt she was sinking gradually into the grave. Becoming at length satisfied that this was done with the design of obtaining an earlier possession of her property, she wrote several letters to her father, but they were all intercepted by the superior of the house, till, fortunately, when the last gleam of hope was on the point of extinction, a boarder, who bad been at tached to the sufferer, quitted the establishment, and con veyed an account of the state of his daughter to M R . lie instantly hastened to the convent, and de manded to see his child, who appeared before him in the last stage of consumption, begging, with piteous tears, that lie would take her with him. Her weakness was so great that he was obliged to take her in his arms to remove her. On his making the attempt, however, the superior op posed him, and, ringing the alarm bell, called around het the whole of the sisterhood, and some ecclesiastics attached to the establishment. Attracted by the bell, some of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood also came in, and, on learning the circumstances, ranged themselves on the side of the afflicted father. A long and desperate contest en sued, but in the end the young lady was taken from a place which, in a very few days more, must have become ,her tomb. Depositions have since been made before the Magistrates of the place, upon which judicial proceedings against the guilty parties will be founded. TRENCH PAPERS. It is said that the first two bills to be presented to the Chambers next Session will be, the one for the expro priation of property for the purposes of public utility, and the other relating to the duties on the importation of fo reign iron.—Journal du Commerce. Exti act of a letter of the 2d inst. from Hanau : " The execution of the arbitrary decisions of the Frank fort Diet of June 28, meets with decided opposition on the part of the people. The town of Hanau, one of the first that protested against theM, has just shown that its protest was not vain words ; and it is probable that the courage its population have displayed may tend to save the liberties of Germany. The Government had decided upon dissolving the association, which has existed at Hanau for some months. The President of the Society, Count Belazel-Sternan, declared at one of its meetings, that if Ministers violated the article of the Charter of Hesse- Cassel, which permits political meetings, the tribunals would be applied to for redress. The Government, how ever, persisted in its resolution. A meeting of the Society having been announced for last night, the streets and mi litary posts were occupied in the morning by strong pla toons of Genedarmes. The National Guard also was called out, and a detachment of armed eit , zens, in con junction with the Gensdarmes, took possession of the room where the meeting was to be held. At seven o'clock in the evenin a about 800 members of the society presented themselves for admission in pursu ince of the right secured to them by the Charter to hold po itical meetings. The agents of the Government imagined that the National Guards would concur in their measures; but they made no objec tion to the constitutional demand of the Society.— The Naional Guards only came to prevent, by their interference, a conflict which might have become very serious had one arisen. Toe armed citizens allowed the Society to enter ; the sitting was opened, and speeches were about to be delivered, when a Commissary of Police entered the room, saying—' Gentlemen, the Prince Co- R-gr nt has been pleased to direct that your meeting be dissolved immediately.' Upon this a general cry of dis approbation arose, the Charter was again appealed to as authorizing such meetings; the Prince was reproached with rendering himself unworthy the confidence which the people of Hesse had placed in him ; and, finally, the Com missary of Police was conducted out of the room, with the declaration that such unconstitutional demands would not be complied with ; and that moreover, the tribunals would be applied to for justice against the Ministers who violated the Charter, and against the Commissary of Po lice himself, fbr executing an illegal order. The sitting lasted several hours. The members of the Soci-ty th.ra accompanied beyond the town the young men of Frankfort who had attended the meeting. In the morn!na the lat ter had ben informed by the authorities of a Hessi in vil lage, half-way between Frankfort and Hanau, that if they attended the meeting at Hanau they would be imprisoned ; they, however, had the courage to attend, and in the night returned to Frankfort, under the protection of the armed citizens of Hanau. The Committee of the Society is about to commence proceedings against the unconstitu tional measures directed against them. It is certain the tribunals will not pronounce against the Charter. Tee constitution will be defended by every class of the people. It is nut sufficient to draw up ukases at Frankfort, the difficulty consists in carrying them into execution. We have already announced that the Procureur-General of the Royal Court of Aix had appealed against a decree of the Ch anbre des Mises en Accusation of that Court, ordering that the Count de St. Priest, M. de Bourmont, jun., and the other passengers of the Carlo Alberto, should be set at liberty. This appeal occupied the Court of Cassation on Thursday and yesterday, the pleadings in support of the appeal, and those for the maintenance of the decree of the Royal Court, being of great length. The Court, after these had been gone through, retired at half-past eleven o'clock, and, at a quarter past five, re turned to the bench, and delivered a judgment to the following effect :—" Seeing that the principles of the law of nations cannot be applicable to ships and vessels, which, in contempt of alliance or neutrality, commit hos tilities upon any territory whatever ; seeing that the Chambre des Mises en Accusation of the Royal Court of Aix has admitted, in fact, that there was against the Go vernment a plot which had been begun to be put into execution on the part of the Carlo Alberto, by landing the Duchess of Berry on the coast of France, and by car rying on board persons having co-operated in this plot; seeing that the fact of the Carlo Alberto having touched on the coast in consequence of damage, cannot be invoked by this vessel, which took on board passengers plotting against the French Government; the Court quashes and annuls the decree of the Chambre des Mises en Accusation of the Royal Court of Aix, as to the clause which ordeis the respondents to be set at liberty, the remainder of the decree having its full and entire effect, and sends the affair before the Chambre des Mises en Accusation of the Royal Court of Lyons." A letter from Madrid of the 29th ult. states that several persons have been arrested at Cadiz, and others have been expelled from the town, on suspicion of entertaining pro jects hostile to the Government. - Letters from Barcelona announce that M. de Corriere, a natural son of the Duke of Berry, and M. Falcon, his pre ceptor, both represented to be active agents of Holyrood, have lately quitted that city, and drawn nearer to the frontiers. The Milan Journal says, " The Chamber of Com tnerce of Geneva, desirous of testifying to the King of Sardinia the gratitude of the merchants, for the us , Atil re forms ordained by that Sovereign in favour of the free port, has bad a statue, with an inscription in honour of his Majesty, erected in the Palace of the Chamber." Oa the 2d inst. the editor of the Precurseur of Lyons was acquitted upon the fifth and last indictment against him. A telegraphic despatch announces that en the 3.1 a farewell dinner was given to M. Odill on Barrot, and that on the 4th he quitted Lyons for Paris. Marshal Victor, Duke de Bel!une, with his family, ar rived at Bordeaux on the 3d inst., on his way from the Pyrenees to Paris. A letter of the 3d inst., front Geneva, states, that the late conspiracy at Berne had ramifications at Basle and Neufchatel. The plot was of a very serious extent, arid on the point of execution when discovered. Upon domi ciliary searches being made at Berne. armed peasants were found concealed in the houses of the conspirators. Prince Csartoryki, late Chief of the National Giivern meat of Poland, has returned to Paris front London, where lie passed several months. The Baron il'Andlau, Gentlemen of the Chamber of Duke Charles of Brunswick, has ,ildressed the following letter, dated Sept. 7, to the Editor of the Message,- des Chambres The erroneous articles upon the Duke of Brunswick that have been published by some of the jour nals of the capital have at length induced him to bre.ik the silence which he finds himself unable any longer to keep. His Highness, therefore, has eh aged me to sum up in a few lines an answer to the insinuations respecting him that have been throw n out since his arrival. He toes not think it possible for him to be exposed to a re fusal of hospitality on the part of France, so lont, as he shall not undertake anything contrary either to her laws or to her interests, and it is within these limits that he has kept himself, and will ever keep himself. His High ness has never kept up any relations with the Duchess of Berry, or other members of the Court of Holyrood, either directly or indirectly. It is completely false that his Highness has ever caused any purchases of arms or enrol ments to be made. Hi Highness never went to Neuilly ; he never remitted to General Romarino the money men tioned by the Swabian Mercury, and after it by the jour oats of the capital. His Highness has not the slightest knowledge of M. Dumarre, who has been repre-ented as his agent. Such persons as are desirous of learning how far the absolutist ideas attributed to his Highness are foun- Jed may apply to himself, or even to M. Mauguin, to know what impressions remained upon his mind atter the conversations he has had with his Highness." OLYMPIC THEATRE.-Last night, a new piece, in one act, entitled Cupid, was brought out at this Theatre. It is of the burlesque school, and was received with much applause and laughter. Mr. J. REEVE was Cupid, and danced a la TAG uom in the bro.dest style of humour. GOETHE'S FIRST LOVE.—Shortly after GOETHE came front the University of Leipsie he settled in Alsace, where his first love was a young maiden named GRETCHEN (MARGARET), who has given her name to the heroine of Faust. Indeed the name had for GOETHE the sime charm as MARY for Lord BYRON, who says—" I have a passion fur the name of MARY." The ci-devant King of Spain, JOSEPH Bo- NAPARTE, is, it seems, extremely anxious to domicile him self somewhere in this country. He has been to look at Rocltetts, the seat of the late Earl St. VINCENT, wi th which, it is said, he was so well pleased that agents were instructed to treat for the place, provided the man.. don was found to be sufficiently capacious for the accomino ilation of his numerous suite. The same agents also paid a visit of inspection at Thorndon Hail, late the residence of Lord PETRE, who has removed into Hertfordshire. With regard to the former, the idea has been abandoned ; but we are told that negotiations are now pending with respect to Thorndon Hall, which is considered, in all re spects, a suitable residence for the illustrious person in question.—Kent and Essex Mercury.