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to sot ie resolution as soon "as possible, otherwive
the Theatre could slot be owed in proper time.
All the actors were now discharged except those
who were tinder contracts. Decoration and paint.
mg would be necessary before the commencement
of next season. To till up the cutup:my nod pre.
pore the house would take• some tine ; and Ilicre-
fore it was necessary that a %pertly drterininatiou
should be come to.
A her u f. w observations from Sir THONA* TOR..
TON, Mr. PERRY submitted the following
lion :--
" That a voluntary subscription vhnislit be entered into by
the sharedniblers, for the payment of Ilse contract deht•, opine
security being given that the new renters, bnini.huldrirs. and
Proprietors, should icerive no dividend until one plump{
and interest of this subscription were paid."
'Phis itesolui;oti was agreed to unanimously, and
ordered to be referred in a CI. 11111 l iitee.

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Upon the :notion of itouta, it was also re.
solved—

That a Committee he appointed to conaider and report
Morn all documents produced, aml to receive propoaals ur
noy proposili 0000 fur conducting the Theatre."
The following were the Haines cf the Com-
mittee :
tard Yarmonth. Sir T.Tartim, Mr. Cali-raft, Alilermaii
Wood, Mr. Gieufell, Mr. Rohinu, Mr. II r, Mr. John
Mr. Perry, and Mr. fallow/field. 'fu which' the Sub-
CUSIIIMIttee aua added.

Mr. Routes exprersed a hope that this Resolu-
tion would lu published as widely as possible. and
that every facility would he given to thine desirous
of malting propositious for renting the Theatre.—
(//ear.)
It war then resolved that the Committee shrntld
sit de die in dieter. and that they showld tenon their
proceeding. on Saturday next. the 1,2t1i implant.
Sir T. TILII/ON moved the thanks of the Alerting
to Mr. Calcraft, for his conduct iu the Chair.
Mr. CAIXIIIAFT. 11l rrtuntinK Iris acknowledg-
ments. slid it was the diatret•sed state of the concerti
that had induced him to come forward.

Tt is now hecome quite comnpris for per ions to
come down firm London on velocipedes. 51r. T.
At.Fottn and three others arrived here at one o'clock
on Sunday afternoon, having performed tire journey
(50 miles) iu little more that nine hunts. .1 gen.
tlerniiii, who undertook, for a wager, to do the
twice in ten hours, started from town on Thursday
morning, and had reached Ilicl;sted, thirteen nodes
distant, in :even hour., whets the machine broke
down, which caused him to lose the lict.--(Brigh-
ton Paper.)
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Three Professors of Protestact Theology have
been established in the• University ol Strasburg.
They are chosen by the Governmeni.
Sonic further accounts are given in an article from
nuordeoliz, of the Iridium Cloef, Coan Et.tus SA
ULTA. who, with his family, has recently arrived
there by a vessel from New York. This Chief taut'
the Oneida tribe, about 85 years of age, and is still
full of vigour. lie has two sons, one about 30,
the other about 45 years of age, and three daughter*,
who are represented as young and handsome. The
family are of • copper tinge, with the exception
of one of the daughters, who is married to a
Freeicliman, and is white. The Chief is at pre-
sent Sachem, that is King, or rather General, of
a tribe of savages ; and nr the art of war pos.
seues sonic talents, which lie has had occastori
to display in the quarrels between his owu
and stone neighbouring tribes. He speaks bail
English. He has left his native country for the
purpose of instructing his children in the customs
of Eitiope. 'flue dress of the females is breousitig,
that of the men simple and picturesque. They are
Christians, and bear a errors n► remembrance of
those which were originally given to the ludant con-
verts by the early missionaries.

One proprietor of Dartmoor Forest, of tipwarela
of .1,000 aims, has proposed to lay it out in small
allotments or farms, to be let fur 99 years, at low
and progressive rents; fur the encouragement of its
illustrious persons with small capitals, and to enable
parishes to settle oil' industrious families.
A letter from a Gentletniiii at Messina. dated
May 5, who is with IiANNIKR ‘I'AuitiNGToN, Es 1.
British Consul at Tripoli, mys--4. WC 1.111111 not
touch at Malta in our is:iy to Tiipoli, in conse-
quence of the plague having again brute out
there."
Monday the election of a Member of Parliament
for the Selkirk, Peebles, and Laulithgow diiiriitt of
Burghs, in room of the late Sir J. B. HiPPEI,I,,
Bart. took place at Selkirk, when Mr. PUN
Clifton and [Wiling, was returned.
IVe are rejoiced to state, that the manufacturers
at Leeds and Nlancliester are re-engaging thrir di.-
diarged workmen, and that trade to general is ra-
pidly reviviiig in the rusintlictuling districts.
The 13th regiment, Colonel Sir W. Wi1.1.1A11411.
K.C. B. has taken the duty of Portsmouth garrison,
iii the room of the 79th regiment embarked.

The tramporta with the 9111 regimesit ..f foot on
hoard, arrived at Baisbadoes iii the
April.
The military depot which was formed at Mir-
(+ester, fur the safe custody of draertrr► from Ithe
army, is ordered to be broke up oil the Mat.

A very serious accident happened on board the
Brisk brig of war, lying off Dover, on Saturday
gl►t. One of the guns went off and wounde►l
aevertly two wen and ■ Midrinpusua.

Lately a melancholy occident happened near
Winchester :—Aa Mrs. IiIiARUAM, wife of Mr.
lIEARIIAM, innlister. of Hartley, war re-iurning
borne in a little ca►t, her horse took fright at a
veliocipede, with which some young g&tleinest weir
amusing themselves on the rood, Mil away, and
overturned the cart, by which accident Mr,. 116 AR.
HAM was killed un the ►poot, leaving an afflicted
gamily to mourn her irreparable loss.
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On Wednesday afternoon an Inquest wus held
at Bourn, Lincolnshire. by Mr. Entranns, Coro-
ner, on the body of a young woman whose parents
reside in that place, but who being in ACIVICP at
• public-house at Falkinghans at the time of the
late raw there, received in an affray some violent
treatment from • person named Joseph Johnston, •
travelling draper, who put tip at the house, from
the effect of which ill treatment she died on Tuei,..
day last, after lingering for about • 'fortnight. The
.Inry returned a verdict of triffut murder moiont
Johnston, and the Coroner 1111.11111 a warrant for his
•hpielirusioo. The fatal wound sea, 011 the bark
of the head.