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CORN-EXCHANGE, WITP,IIIIDAT, MAT 17.
In ronsequenee of the favourable ehArtge la the weather, we had a very
doll market for all deacrlptlone of Utaln thie morning, but without the
slightest variation In the currency from alonday. There were a few freA
arrival, of Uata from our own rout.

The Court of Assize of Paris passed sentence on Satur-
day in the affsir of M. Zaffiroff, known by the name of
Zwhiroperdo who was accused of bigamy by Madame
Mauduit. fie was accused of having, before his marriage
with Madame Nlatulttit, espoused, in Greece, a Miss Ve-
rislia ; and a paper, said to be the certificate of the =t-
riage, was produced. This paper, written in the Greek
language, being laid before competent judges, was thought
to be very irregular; and the Court, after a short consul-
tation, szeptitted the prisoner.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Liverpool,
ruestlay evening:—" Report states that Mr. Cobbett and
his party met with a (tool reception, yesterday, at Preston.
It happened that Mr. Wood was on the same errand in
another part of the town."
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the undermentioned ships were thus
stationed, viz.—Cambridge, for Bengal, to touch at
Madras; and James Sibbald, Cornwall, and Hercules, for
Bengal direct.
A Hull Paper states that some symptoms of electioneer-
ing have been manifested in that town during last week.
On itrednesday a placard was issued, addressed to the Bur-
geese% stating that " a third man—a gentlemen every
way qualified for the high and important trust of repre-
senting them—highly connected by family, strongly op.
posed to the Catholic claims, and a strong advocate for free
trade and cheap corn—purposed offering himself." It was
added, that, although independent in every respect, yet,
"as long as his Majesty's Ministers pursued the liberal
commercial changes and other political improvements which
of late had been introduced, he would support them to the
utmost of his power;" and those Burgesses who felt de-
desirous to support such a third man, were requested to
sign a requisition for that purpose, at the Humber Tavern.
In the evening, the streets were paraded by a few of the
lowest class of voters, with music, but little interest was
excited, and the whole affair looked very like a hoax. We
understand, however, that MO Burgesses, without knowing
for whom it is intended, have signed the requisition.
The odds are even, said an Irish gentleman, between
the dissolution of Parliament and the death'of Lotteries—
the one is expected every day, and the other doomed to
expire ow the 18th July, when six thirty thousands close the
scene of lotteries for ever.

DIOVITION.—The French Academy of Sciences having
last year proposed, as a prize subject, to determine, by a
series of chemical and physiological experiments, what are
the phenomena which succeed one another in the digestive
organs during the act of digestion, granted to Messrs. Leu-
ret and Lesscigne the sum of 11600 francs, in consideration
of the numerous and expensive experiments made by them,
and of the remarkable results obtained. The principal
conclusion to be drawn from the researches of these gen-
tlemen is, that digestion, in warm-blooded animals, con-
sists in the transformation of the food into organical or
chyleous molecules, after it has been diluted and divided
to infinity by the juices of the intestinal canal. These mo-
lecules, of a globular shape, they consider analogous to'
monads, or microscopic animalcule of the simplest kind.
In support of this supposition they adduce the great quan-
tity of animalcule which are found in the intestines of
frogs, and which they also regard as the produce of di-
.
gestion.