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The Town Plate of 50/. for all ages. Heats, two miles.

ance in the musical world. re
title precepts contained in the `cork,
the most favourite airs of the present
gressive lessons and properly fingered,
is gradually initiated in the mazes of this delightful science,
and speedily overcomes all the various difficulties incident
to this highly fashionable and attractive accomplishment.
CAMBRIDGV, JULY 21.—The Rev. Thomas Bonney,
B A. of Clare-hall, was on the 12th inst. unanimously
elected Master of Rugeley free gratimar-school. in the
county of Stafford, in the room of thelate Rev. J. Clarke.
FOSSIL A NIAIAI.9.—Our readers are aware that the re-
searches of modern geology have brought to light at diffe-
rent times specimens of the organized remains of a fora
titer order of things on our globe, of which by no means
the least remarkable characteristic is their enormous
size. In those periods to which the earlier formations
correspond, it has been inferred, from the absence of
any remains, that man did not exist • and it must be con-
fessed that tenanted with such animals as appear to have
been its inhabitants, the earth would have been by no
mean. an enviable residence. Professor Buckland, some
years ago, discovered what at first seemed a fossil tree, but
upon examination, proved to be a thigh bone, with all the
characters belonging to the genus Saurus (Lizard, Croco-
dile, &c.) Soon after a fragment of a jaw presenting si-
milar indications was found. From the known proportions
of the existing species be calculated that the length of this
reptile must have been upwards of 60 feet, and its bulk
equal to that of an elephant seven feet high ! It has been
appropriately termed the megalosaurns. A discovery of a
yet more formidable monster has very recently been made.
Teeth have been found by some French naturalists having
the character of the Shark spec:es. From accurate mea-
surement and comparison with existing sharks' teeth, it has
been computed that they must have belonged to animals
(upon the veryet
t nlength lowestesrate) in one instance SO, and in
another 43 feet

THE PROPOSED NEW FLEET MAREET.-It appears
that considerable difficulties oppose the completion of the
plan for the removal of the present Fleet-market, and the
opening of a new one. One of the Committre appointed
by the Court of Common Council, to superintend the ex-
ecution of the improvements, has made the following
statement:—The purchases already made, for the site of
the new market, amount t 0124,000/., and if the whole of
.
effect, it would
into account any
every step of
.1 great opposition,
__ they had almost a
assistance. Part of the
belonged to the
It could not be
the difficulty
resew.. . operal. .1 would seem almost
insurmountable. A good market could be built without
that property, but not on the scale originally proposed.
If it should be determined to do without that property,
$4,000/. would be saved to the corporation; and with
that sum a new market might be built, sufficient for every
practical purpose of those who were likely to prevent it.
rhe Conitnittee is at present in an awkward situation, for
they have been grossly deceived in the estimates presented
to them. Index el, if the original plan were still to be ad-
hered to, 50,000/. would be wanted to complete it.
The heart of a cod-fish, taken out and exposed to the
sun for some hours, till almost dry, still retains symptoms
of life; and whenever it is touched, becomes violently agi-
tated for a minute or two. _ _

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—About five o'clock yesterday
morning, as Mr. Gaskin, one of the Surveyors of the
Thames Police, was in his boat on the River duty,
near Blackfriars-bridge, lie observed a woman throw
herself off the upper steps of the south side of the
bridge into the river. Mr. Gaskin made the best of his
way to the spot, and after the unfortunate woman had been
for nearly five minutes under one of the arches of the
bridge, and, from the state of the tide, in about twelve feet
water, she was rescued by him and his teen from a prema-
ture death. She was immediately carried to Christchurch
watch,house, where the usual means recommended by the
Royal Humane Society were adopted with success. Mr.
Pollard, the surgeon, was promptly in attendance, and he
directed her to be sent to the workhouse, where she now
lies. When sufficiently recovered, she said her name was
Mary Akers, was forty-five years of age, the wife of a potter
in Lincoln's-Inn, and the mother of six children. She
gave as a reason for the rash attempt at self-destruction
the constant and insufferable ill usage of her husband.

and highly useful onusical the original plan were to be carried Into
shed by the proptietors of cost, altogether, 1.50,000/., without taking it
:ion, at the Argyll Rooms, of the expense of the new buildings. At
r to rival, as a book of in- their proceedings, the Committee met with g
lose numerous publications not excepting those quarters in which the
of late made their appear- ri lit to op-operation and waist:nee
addition to thelary w *eistbey bad yet to purchase, b
work, there is a selection of parish of St. Andrew, Holborn; and as it
resent day, arranged as pie- purchased without an Act of Parliament,
igered,by which the learner thus presented to their future operation wou