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London, England, 1824-07-26 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE IYTELLIGENCE.

The Countess Cowpa's rout, oa Friday evening, in Littla Mad-
dox-street, was attended by upwards of one hundred of the keel.
tun; among whom were Prince Leopold, Princes (lortchaeoff,
Esterhazy, and Polignae, Princess Pohgnae, Count and Countess
Lieven the Duke and Duchess of Argyle, and the ladies .'ages,
the Dukei of Grafton and the Ladies Fitzroy, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Londonderry, the Earl and Countess t'erulam, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey,' the Earl of Westmoreland and lady
Georgina Fane, Lord Palmerston, the Countess of Ilarrowhy
and the Ladies Ryder, the Countess and the Ladies Bathurst,
dec. An.
The Duke of St.Albans had a grand dinner party on Saturday,
at his house in St. James's-square.
The Marquis of Cholmondley had a dinner party yesterday, at
Cholmondley-house, Piccadill).
Lord and Lady F. Bentinck entertained the Duke and Duchess
of Rutland and a distinguished lane at thinner yesterday, at their
house in Charles-street, Berkeley-x.1,41re.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence had a grand dinner party
yesterday, at Bushy-park.
Mrs. mutts entertained the Dowager ;Marchioness of Lansdown
and a large party at dinner yesterday, at her villa, Holley-lodge,
Highgate.
Prince and Princess Polignac have issued cards of invitation for
a grand entertainment on Wednesday next, at their house in Port-
land-place.
The Marquis of Hertford has issued cards of invitation for icon-
cert on Friday next, at Hertford-house, Piccadilly.
Sir Charles and Lady Long left their seat, Bromley-hill, Kent,
on Saturday, for Patio.
Sir Charles Saxton, Bart., has left Blake's Hotel, Jermynatrect,
for his seat. Abington.
Mr. and Mrs. Sletheun have left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-
street, for their sest, Corahant-house, Wilts.
Sir William Gerhard, Bart. and Mr..lndcrton hare arrived at
Gould's Hotel, Jennyn-street, front Garetwood-hall, Lancashire.
kir. and Mrs. Gratuln and family. have arrived at the British
Hotel, Jermyn-street, front the t'rnittnent.
General Ord has left Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for his
seat in Hants.
Sir Francis and Lady Wood have arrived at the London Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from a tour. Mrs. Trelawney Brereton and the
Mimes Trelawney have le ditto fur Canterbury.
Arrivals at Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley-severe :—Mrs. Isuog
Wellesley and the two Misses Tilney Long, firm Paris Mr. Oli-
ver and Mr. Keating. from America; George Ashton Linde, Esq.
from Cheltenham ; Mr. and Met. Stewart urd family, from In-
dia. Departures:--Sir John Lister Kaye and son, fur their seat,
Grange, Forkahite.
Arrivals at Flaelong's Hotel, Oxford-street :—Mrs. Colonel
Marsack, from Cavesham Park, Reading • Miss Letwood, front
ditto ; Sir William Dunbar, Bart. from the Continent; A. Stough.
ton, Esq. from a tour; and R. B. Gardiner, Esq. from ditto,
Departures:—Major Blackall and family, on a tour; Thomas
Patterson, Esq. on a tour ; Captain Bacon. fur Cheltenham ;
Has, Esq. on a tour ; Colonel Gordon, for Scotland ; Colonel
Edwards, for Wales ; and E. B. Impey, Esq. for Sussex.

A Itfusical Festival, upon a grand and extensive scale,
is to take place at Edinburgh, the latter end of October, to
be conducted by Sir Geotge Smart.
Miss Beaumont, late of Covent-garden theatre, was mar.
tied on Saturday to Mr. Owen, of the India House. Beau-
mont was the lady's theatrical name; she is the daughter
of Dr. Browne, late of Dublin.
We understand that a well known theatrical architect
farce writer, who souse time since availed himself of a
Scotch divorce, has recently left town foi the North, in
order to avail himself of the comfortable and convenient
facilities of a Scotch marriage.
The taste for music, which has lately made such mar-
vellous inroads upon the old habits of this eountry, has
extended its influence even to the colder regions of Scot-
land. Miss Stephens is there at present performing with
great eclat. Mr. Sapio has likewise made a first appear-
ance upon the stage as a dramatic singer, with extrordmary
success. In the Streakier his triumph was so complete as
to n.ur,l the repetition of the Siege of Belgrade for a
fortnight. This is the more gratifying, as we understand
that Mr. Sapio is engaged for the next season at Drury-
lane theatre, at a salary almost unprecedented, and though
his reputation as a concert singer has always stood very
high, yet some apprehensions were entertained respecting his
success upon the stage. It is creditable to this gentleman
that he is engaged to sing at the Ancient Concerts also for
the next serFon—a tribute rarely, or never before, paid to a
theatrical singer.
Lord Milton, who reached Wentworth House on the
' Sth instant, is proceeding forthwith to Ireland, where his
presence will be highly gratifying to a numerous tenantry.
—Sheffield Iris.
East Fizzwitttax.—As idle report found its way
Into the EdinburgkEeening Courant of last Friday, to
the effect, that an exiiress had arrived at Leeds, announcing
the death of Earl Fitswilbam ; and it is true that such a
rumour prevailed here, but we are mo't happy to say, that
it proved to be groundless. The venerable Earl was
detained in town after Lord and Lady Milton had returned
to Wentworth, by the indisposition of the Countess, who,
we have the pleasure to learn, is now in a state of wave-
leseence.—Leeds Mercury of Saturday.
Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Steele and family arrived at
Kirnbalten Castle, on Wednesday last, from London,
where they are expected to remain some time.—llunting-
don Paver.

Scarborough was scarcely ever known to present so gay
and distinguished em assemblage as it at this early period
affords.

Government have given orders for every attention and
respect being shown to the remains of the late King and
Queen of the Sandwich Islands in their conveyance to
Owyhee, for which purpose the Blonde frigate, Captain
Lord Byron, at Wools/mil, is ordered to receive them,
together with the Admiral and suite, and proceed to that
island.

.....
Perhaps one of the most interesting objects, as regards
the trade of the town, presented itself on the Cam on
Thursday, being a steam-packet 72 feet in length and 12
wide ; which is intended to ply daily between this town
and the port of Lynn.—Cambridge Paper.
A Fat :NCH PC yr !—The person who inclosed 15 francs,
with an article relative to the De hut of Madame I)arcey,
in Tancrede, and who foretells, in the morning, the proofs.
of sensibility and energy the debutante will give at night,
is requested to withdraw that sum. We shall speak of
her Debut gratis. —l,a Pandore, .1 uly 20.
SOUTH AUPTON, JUL% '3.—The Camilla, Havre steam-
' packet started from here on Tuesday, and reached France
in less than thirteen hours, in which time she has also
made her return, bringing home nearly forty passengers of
the first respectability, among whom was J. Fleming, Esq.
M.P. for this county, and two carriages. Last week the
Right lion. Sturges Bourne, M.P. took his passage to
Havre in the Camilla.
The cause between the heirs of the late Count General
Staekpole, and their opponents respecting the execution of
the judgments given by the Court of Chancery in Ireland,
and in the House of Lords in England, was this morning
(Thursday last) called on at the First Chamber of the
Court Royal. The opponthts of Richard, son of Count
George, demanded that the Pause " sortit du role" should
be taken out of its place, at lent so far as regarded the pro-
vision of 375,000 francs, which had been granted to them
by a decree of the First Instance. The Court held, that
the case should be kept on the roll, whence it results that it
cannot be heard till after the vacation.—Paris Paper.
Auto ttrEs—We have received the following from !Ho-
' linella, legation of Bologna, dated the 6th of February :
" Some days ago, in the neighbourhood of the village Are-
new, there fell from the skies a great number of Aetolites,
the largest of which weighed twelve pounds. This fall
was preceded by an extraordinary sound, accompanied by a
little wind. All the inhabitants were in the greatest ter-
ror. The largest of these Aerolites has been removed to
the Cabinet of Natural History iu Bologna."—News ofd
Literature and Fat/lion.

We heg to call attention to a New Company. the pro-
spectus of which we insert in this day's paper. J. appears
to be dependent on no contingencies, it interferes .with no
private business, and to :he public its objects can hardly
fail to prove advantageous; it will relieve parties whose
proputy is of such a nature as to require them to raise
money by annuities.
The following distinguishes! personages are amongst a
numerous list .of fashionables who visited Vauxhall Gar-
dens last week :—Prince Esterhazy, [hike of Rutland,
Duchess of Rutland, Ihscheas of Si. ,ilbsuu, Marquis of Win-
chester, Marchioness of Cornwallis, Earl Grey, Earl Falmouth,
Countess of Warwick, Lord (:hestertield. lady Dubery, Lady
Hutchinson, Lady Muni:aster' Lady Stamtiwil, bad Wynn. Lady
Fitzroy, Laity Beaucleek, Lard F. Ileauclesic, Misses Ilesuclork.
Lady Burroughs, Lord Charles Townsend, Lady Trollop:, Ho-
nourable Mr. Gordon, Lady Mountnurris. Lady Cunningham,
Lady blildmay„ Lord Tullimore, Hun. Captain Pelle'', Mrs.
Coutts, Major Mercer, Colonel Vaughan, Captain B. Hall, lion.
Captain Barton, Admiral and Mrs. Douglas, Captain Donatty,
General Drury, General Sir John Doyle, General, Agg, General
Royle, Sir John Mitchell, Mts. Mitchell, Lord Nugent, Sir
Thomas 'Neave, Bart., General Taylor. Lady Pelham, Lord
Elliott, Mr. l)runnnond, Mr. Denman, Sir R. Farquhar, Mr. T.
Wilson, Sir John Hope, Loral Petersham, lion. Mr. Stanhope.
&c. &c.

M.41711S OF MR. °DOHERTY.

[Conehided from the Briti.4 Press of Saturday.l

11.—The intensely amorous temperament in a young girl
never fails to stamp melancholy on her eyelid. The lively,
rattling, giggling romp, may be capable of a love of h.er
own kind—but never the true luxury of the passion.

l'2.—Nothing is more overrated, in common parlance at
least, than the influence of personal ban Isumeticss in men.
For my part, 1 can easily imagine a woman (I mean one
really worth being loved by) falling in love with a Balfour
of Burleigh—but I cannot say the same thing as to a young
Milt.wood. A real Rebecca would, I also think, have been
more likely to fall in love with the Templar than with
Ivanhoe ; but these, I believe, were both handsome fellows
in their several styles. The converse of all thi.. applies to
the eine: of women. Rousseau did not dare to let the small-
pox pennanently injure the beauty of his lieloise. One
would have closed the book bad be destroyed the sine qua
/1011 of all romance.

13.—Loan Bvzow observes, that the daily necessity of
shaving imposed upon the European male, places him on a
level, as to misery, with the sex to whose share the occa-
sional botheration of parturition has fallen. I quite agree
with his lordship—and in order to diminish, as far as in me
lies, the pains of my species, I hereby lay down the result
of my experiences in abrasion. if I had ever lain in, I
would have done my best for the ladies too—but to pro-
ceed.—First, then, buy your razors at Paget's—a queer,
dark-looking, little shop in Piccadilly, a few doors eastward
from the head of St. Jaines's.street. He is a decent, shrewd,
intelligent old man, makes the best blades in Europe, tem-
pers every one of them with his own hand, and would sooner
cut his throat than give you a second-rate article. Secondly
in stropping your razor, (and a piece of plain buff leather
is by far the best strop) play front you, not towards you.
Thirdly, anoint your beard overnight, if the skin be in
any degree hard or dry, or out of repair, with cold cream,
or, better still, with bear's grease. Fourthly, whether you
have anointed or not, wash your face carefully and copious-
ly before shaving, for the chief difficulty almost always
arises from dust, perspiration, &e. clogging the roots of the
beard. Fifthly, let your soap be the Pasta di Castagn3.
Sixthly, let your brush be a
.fell one of camel's hair. Se-
Tenthly, in spite of Sir John Sinclair, always use hot wa-
ter—boiling water. These are the seven golden rules.
N. B. Use the strop again after you have done shaving,
and get old Paget, if possible, to give you a lesson in set,
ting your razors. If you carnot manage this, send them to
him to be set—ay, even if you live .500 miles from Londo.i.
People send to town about their coats, boots, &e. but what
are all these things to the real comfort of a man, compared
with a good razor?
14.—A smoker should take as much care about his
cigars, as a wine-bibber does of his cellar, yet most of them
are exceedingly remiss and negligent. The rules are as
follows: First, keep a large stock, for good tobacco im-
proves very much by time—say enough for two year's con-
sumption. Secondly, keep them in the coolest place you
have, provided it be perfectly dry—for a cigar that is once
wet is useless and irreclaimable. Thirdly, keep them al-
ways in air-tight canisters—for the common wooden boxes
play the devil.
•N. B. The tobacco laws are the greatest opprobrium of
the British code. We laid those most extravagant duties
on tobacco at the time when North America was a part of
our own empire, and we still retain them in spite of rhyme
and reason. One consequence is, that every ger:lb:man
who smokes smuggle* ; for the duty on manufactured to..
baccy amounts to a prohibition—it is, I think, no less than
eighteen shillings per pound—and what is a pound of
cigars ! Why does not the 'hike of Sussex speak up in
'the House of Lords? " I like King George, but I can't
'afford to pay duties," quoth Nanty Ewart; and I quite
agree with tile inimitable Nanty.

15.—(Composed giter sir months' residence in Athens.)
John Baorcarlos for bourdeaux,
Robert COCKBURN for Champagne,
John FERGUSON for hocks,
CAY for Sherri/ sack of Spain.
PIIIN for rod, pint, and hooks,
DUKE for conge and salaam,
Bailie BLACKWOOD for books,
Macvey NAPIER for balaam.
Sir WALTER for fable.,
Peter ROBERTSON for speeches,
Mr. TROTTER for tables,
Mr. BRIDGES for breeches,
GALL for conchae and gig.,
STEELE tor ices and Jam,
Mr. Uattl'HAlrt for wigs,
Mr. JEFFREY for hunt.
Lord 51mtvoN for the r:bra,
Billy ALLAN fur the trush,
Johnny I,Est.tt: for the Hebrew,
And MYSELF for a blush.

16.—People may talk as they like, but, after all, London
is London. Now, somebody will say, here is a foolish
tautology—does not everybody know that? Hooley and
fairly, my friend—it is ten to one if you know it. If you
wet:: csked what arc the fine things of London ?—what is it
that gives it its metropolitan and decidedly superior cha-
racter? You would say Pariiament—St. James s—Carl-
ton House—the Parks—Almack's—White's—Brookes's--
('rockford's--Boodles—Regent Street—the Theatres—the
Dioramas—the Naturoramas—the fiddle-de-devils. Not

one of these is in London, except perhaps the last, for I do
not well know what that is—but London itself—Me city
inside Temple-bar, is the place for a philosopher.
Houses of latb may flourish or may fade,
Bob Nash may make them as Bob Nash was made.
But can Bub Nash (gam honoris causn nontian) create
the glories of Cockneyland ? Can he build a Wading-
street—narrow, dirty, irregular, it is true, but still a Ro-
man way, trod by proud Praetors, and still to be walked
over by you or me, in the same form as it was trampled by
the " hobnail" of the legionary soldier, who did service at
Pharsalia ? What is London stone' a black lump in a
hole of the wall of a paltry church (the Loudon Stone
Coffee-house opposite, is a very fair concern), bat a Roman
milliarium, laid down there, for any thing you know to the
ontrary, by Julius Agricola, who discovered Scotland, and
was the friend of Cornelius 'facitus, according to the rules
enacted by the road-meters of old Appias Claudius? But
I must not go on wit't the recollection of London. Curse
on the Cockney school of scribSlers—they, who know no-
thing, have, by wilting in praise of Augusta Trlsobantum,
(I use this word on purpose, in order to conceal from them
what I mean,) made us sick of the subject. I, therefore,
have barely adverted to the Roman times, for luckily they
have not had the audacity to pretend to ay acquaintance
with such a period.
The Court—Why, to be sure, it contains the King,
whom, as a Tory, I reverence as an integral portion of the
state-1 hate to hear him called the Chief Magistrate, as if
he was but an upper sort of Lord Waithroan—and whom
as a mail I regard—but my attachment is constitutional,
and in the present case personal, and not local. The same
may be said of Parliament. As fur the clubs, why they are
but knots of humdrum people after all, out of all which
you could not shake five wits. London proper I back
against Southwark and Westminster, including all the ad-
• jacent hams, and steads, and toos, and terits. Where can
we find the match for the Albion, in Aldersgate-street, as
thou goest from St. Martin's-le-grand to the territory of
Coswell-street, in the whole world, take the world either
ways, from Melville Island to Van liieman's Land, or
front Yell° in the Island of J.apsn, to I veragh in the king-
dom of Kerry, and back again ? Nowhere !
But 1 am straying from io v cups.
Retoomons, dint Grand (lousier, a nostre propous.
Qud ? dint Gargantua.
‘Vhy, punch making.
• I7.—The controversy respecting the ft liquor for punch,
is far from bring set at rt.t. As some folks mention Dr.
Kitchener, I may as well at once dispose of him. In his
477th nostrum, he professes to give you a receipt for mak-
ing lemonade in a minute, and be commences by bidding
you mix essence of lemon peel by degrees with capillaire.
llow that is to be done in a minute passes my comprehen-
sion. But waving this, he proceeds to describe the process
of acid making, and then, in the coolest and most audaci-
ous way in the world, bids you put a spoonful of it into a
pint of water, which will produce a very agreeable sherbet,
.‘ the addition of runt or brandy (quoth out hero) will con-
vert this into ruse II DI II Eel. i.v.' What a pretty way of
doing business this is! It is just as much as if 1 were to
say, get flint—the addition of a stock, lock, and barrel to
which, will convert it into a GUN DIRECTLY. Why, the
i spirits were first to be considered.

IS.—Of Tom's, thus casually preseutd to my mind, let

ire indulge in the recollection. Coffee-house, redolent ef
cash, what magnificent association of ideas do you not M-
ate ! By you for generations has rolled the never-cast,,,
flow of wealth—the chink of money, since the memory 07
man, has not been checked within your hearing. Vet.
with the insouciance of a sublime philosophy, you;
cooks and waiters have never turned away trorn their
works of gastrosophy, to think of the neigt.boori„.
millions. How superb is your real turtle toup—ho:
peppery your mullagatawny—how particular your M:.
deira ! Depend upon it, the places for dining in, r,
the city taverns and coffee-houses. You have not, to b,
sure, a skip-jack monkey hopping behind your chair—er,
have no flaring mirror glowring out on you in all the ins.
jt 6ty of a deep gilt frame—you have no marble chimer),
pieces, pleasant to look at, but all telling cursedly agroi,,,
you in the bill—lnstead of them, you have steady.goips
waiters, all duly impressed with the dead certainty of the,
working up gradually to be tavern keepers themselves—
thence men of potency in the ward—in time merchants of
some degree—aldermen in due course, perhaps—and per.
haps the vista presented to their mental optics is gilded at
the end by the august chain of the Loan MA vox. They
bow to you for a penny, while a jackanapes at the west end
would tors up his nose at a halt crown. 'fbe prudence of
their visitors makes them prudent themselves. The east-
ern pence are hoarded, while the western two-and-six-
pencier are flung to the wind, after the thousand of the
dandies who have batowed them. Then their boxes are
dark and dingy—but warn) and cozy. A cluck ticks audi.
bly to remind you of the necessity of keeping good hours
even in the midst of revelry. Even if a man gets muzzy in
one of them, it is a sober intoxication—you are thinking of
profit and loss in the meandering, of your intellect—and
you retire to rest to dream of the necessity of industry and
attention.

' Major-General Charles Turner, C. B. Captain-Ge-
neral and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra
Leone, and its dependencies in Africa, will, it is ex-
pected, embark for his Governorship in the course of six
weeks.

Colonel Sutherland, with reinforcements from Sierra
Leone, was expected to arrive at ('ape Coast Castle
about the 20th of May. 1), snatches are daily expected
by the Driver, from that ()Mica, at the Colonial Ik-
partment.
Lord Viscount Melville arrived at the George Inn, Porta.
mouth, at the early hour of four o'clock on Saturday, and
titer a few hours rest, he embarked for Ryde, to visit his
family. His Lordship has been detained in town the last
ten days by the frequent Cabinet Councils held. To-roo:-
row noon his Lordship will embark in the Royal Sovereign
yacht, Sir Michael S.lmour, Bart. K.C.B. accompanied by
Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Secretary
Barrow, and Mr. Private Secretary Hamilton, in an official
visit to Plymouth Dock-yard. Sir George Cockburn and
Sir George Clerk arrived last night. We understand the
Royal Yacht will return to Spithead about the 6th of
August.—The ('alliope, Lieut. P. Justice, attends the
Royal Yacht to Plymouth. We understand the visit to
Milford Dock-yard is deferred.-.-Hampshire Telrgrupli.
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Afoorsom is appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief in the river Medway, in the room of Sir
Benjamin Hallowell, whose period of service is expired.
Captain Mingay is appointed to command the Romer,
troop ship, at Chatham.
It is reported in the naval circles, that Captain M'Cul.
loch, who has for some years held the command of tie
coast blockade, for the prevention of smuggling, is aboli:
to be superseded by Commodore Sir Edward Owen.
The Recorder of Waterford, John Doherty, Esq. K.C.
M.P. for New Roo is determined to stand for the City cf
Waterford next vacancy.—lrish Observer.
The electors of the County of Kilkenny have
quested, in the public papers, the Ilonourable
Butler to stand candidate for that county at the ensuing
election. He has acceded to the request.—Limnick
Accounts to the 16th from Madrid say, that the Ministry
was still disorganized--but it was supposed that the Fana-
tics had triumphed over the " Semi-liberals," apd that
the remaining departments would be cleared of their presint
occupants and confided to others. The object of the
Apostolic Junta is to have a Ministry of its own creatures,
with Prince Don ('arlos at the head of it.

THE Baszma—The following is an extract from a
ter we have received from an Officer in the Brazilet
Navy, of very recent date:—" Off Pernambuco, nth
June, IB24.—Commodore John Taylor is now off this
port, blockading it, with his broad-pendant flying in the
Netheroy frigate, having a fine squairon of ten sail,
amongst which is the Paraguay, 60 gun frigate, com-
manded by Capt. Norton (married to the lion. Miss Us-
kine). lie has an extensive Military and Civil command,
and lately has received the thanks of his larp.rial Ma.
jedly, and of the Brazilian Nation, both for his aiple.
mule and military services. He has also been comp&
mented with stars and honours, and sec ived the thank'
' of the BritishConsnl and merchants. for his liberal medial
to the British interests during the blockade of Pernambuco.
Lord Cochrane has sailed from Rio, with the P.dro I,
74 ; Caroline, 48, and Maria de Gloria, 28, for Angola,
(Coast of Africa) to distroy two enemy's frigates.—We
I have not received any prize-money yet."—Portmeottli
Paper.
Calcutta Government Gazettes to the 6th of Marsh bare
been re.eived, which contain so.ne interestingAetails of the
first operations of the war against the Burmese. It appears
that the enemy had poured down in great numbers, and
attempted to secure possession of the country by erecting
stockades to cover his positions, skilfully selecting the not
advantageous grounds to establish himself and plant bis
fortifications. From several of these he was gallantly
driven by the force under Lieut.-Colonel Bowen, thosol
at one time there appeared to have been not less than &OW
Burmese engaged. The last attack, however, was not 0
successful, and the British detachment was obliged to m
tire, after experiencing a loss of several officers and 130
Sepoys killed and wounded. That of the enemy was
more severe, though he repelled the storming party. It is
said to have amounted to 400 men, and a few days after
he voluntarily, evacuated the stockades which he haul a
bravely defended. The British having by that time re-
ceived reinforeanents, bad resumed the offensive, C
moved forward in pursuit.
In a little journal of advertisements at Valenciennes 7abg
weak, is the following gallant invitation to the fair:—"
young man of a most amiable disposition, not having
conveyance at his disposition, is desirous of being con-
ducted gratis to the Kermesse (the Village-Wake) ea
Douay ; he engages to make the journey appear short, by
his interesting conversation. Address to the Office of the
Journal."— Killen Sylicluss de Valenciennes.
On the 7th of this month, La fille l'acault, aged 3
years, was found assassinated in her cedar at Ussery in the
Arrondissement tie Niont; the stick with which this hor-
rid murder was committed, as well as some clothes added
with blood, were found in the house; the monster 56'
pectesl of the crime has absconded, but it is hoped that he
will soon fall into the hands of justice. fhe Assio.:s
at
Niont will have, at the approaching sitting, to try a dIT,7,
of poisoning in the commune of Breloux. The acerr
are the wife, mother-in-law, snd sister-in-law of the
victim.—Gaz. de France.
For the last two or three clays nothing has been talke4
of in the literary world, and particularly among the P 64
cipal booksellers, but the expulsion of the brothers
Lora the company of proprietors of the Constitetiored. It a
said that these gentlemen turned that Journal to theireo
personal advantage, with a partiality decrading to a per°
bearing so honourable a title. A few days ago a meeting
took place among the proprietors and the brothers
were so seriously accused of tin& thaw! dealing, that they
found themselves obliged to retire from the administrstio7
of the Paper, and to sell their shares.—Cierrose
Paper).
We understand the concerns of lilessrs. Leathern, Tee'
and Co. (to meet the times) have reducal their chame for
discount of hills and respectable paper to 4 pa co"'
Leeds 31 ereary.
Anin't.NFlojc1;(11)111c1:
with stealing a certain dont, 'MC art LAI. The Clisinn6h_
aadted.—gAutiittyhet
,presan oni:tl,lSe:ctsistilocnnst
cahgarirgil ;Ike!
after sentencing her to be itnpriso;ied to the end of 1,7
Sessions, observed, that it was only a pot carried sera`'
A Flood.—Manehester Guardian.
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Iwhich the pulpit and reading-desk bad beta hung, as
respect ,to the memory of his Lowlship.

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NlK.—The great scarcity of foreign intelligence, so much
1:,,„:1,d. by all your e..ti mporaries, has at least one good
, that it gives us more I• 'anti spar; to look about us
and col attention to matters width, if they do
much as information concerning the in-
;, the French I %thin( t, or the machinations of the
at it :ISt to collie 110111 e Wine to 0111
• brnutss nl bosons;-- the ailt n i ll istration of justice
Hit' Own country.
F;,-,r% cur knots that Mr. I:ourlay, a clever but not
I man (author, be-the bye, of the best work
i e•ola extant), insulted Mr. Brougham in the lobby
11,,Le.e of I 'ominous. The I louse of I'm:moos took
lb, law into its own hands, and very properly put Mr.
i.,,aday in durance for such a flagrant contempt of that
ef the legialature. So far all was as it should be.
h:•! followed is that on which I hay- to remark, and to
fi w iinestions which I holy will not be tleetiosl
impertinent; and as I consider Messrs. Gourley and
Itrougliam sa
bring Arcades strap.. ht."
there can be no danger of my showing any partiality to
Tr: j 111 or Ty rian.
Altir the Parliament was prorogued, and Mr. Gourley,
of curse, set at liberty, we find him taken up on the war-
rant of a Magistrate, accused of uudnesx, and this accusa-
tion supported by two doctors, who knew but little about
Lan, against the evidence of several witnesses equally com-
ptent to decide on the subject, who knew him intimately ;
and for the imputed crime of madness he is Sentelleed to
imprisonment in the !louse of ( 'orrection, until he becomes
sane, or can find bail to keep the peace.
Now, I ask, first, with Sh.nb,,i, " Is this the law ?" and
if it is answered, " Thyself shall ace the Act," I then say,
if such an Act exists the sooner it is abrogated the better ;
for no man is for one moment safe from imprisonment,
since it will be hard to find any one whom some two doc-
tors or other will trot deem !nail, if the contrary testimony
of intimate acquaintances is not received as exrulpatory
evidence. If Mr. tlourlay was mad, was the !louse of
4 'ornetion, where his antipathies must be excited by the'
continual View of his fellow-prisoners, a proper place to,
wlia um to? i%tost nbsue..dly not. Ile ought to have
b.,n sent to some well-regulated lunatic asylum, where
icily tonna that kindness and skill could suggest would
b• applied to restore him to his right 1114111, and where he
could enjoy every Indulgence compatible with the well-
being of one in his unfortunate situation.

My only wish, Sir, is to know whether the prerogative
here ixercised by the magistrates is legally vestell in them ?
li they arc empowered, in the due exercise of their magis-
until functions, to dispose of us in this way, it may be any
turn nest, according to the feeling or fancy of whoever
iirtv be President as grand conseil upon thew inquisitions
or lunacy, and I should like, therefore, to learn how the
stands; perhaps some of your readers can inform me.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
A Loos sa-osr.