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London, England, 1825-03-18 00:00:00

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cArcomc EMANCIPATION DECIDED.
'From the Doblirflu,a. nrAter.l
Landon, Wednesday, Ilatt-past 7 o'clock.
1 announce to you on the higliest authority, that the
measure of Catholic Emancipation has ha•n decided. lam
not at liberty to state the quarter from which this most
important and moat grateful intimation has been made ;
but I hesitate not to say, that it comes from orhe who would
not deceive, and could not be him. if deceived. You may
therefore, without qualifloation, and Without reserve, an-
nounce to the Irish Catholics—you may, on my.authority,
*take the credit of your Journal on the fact, that the Bill
for the Emancipation of the Catholics will pass into a law
before this day two months. I state this fact ; but of
courte, on matters of detail or of condition, I cannot

answer.

BRIGHTO.V. Ithaca 17.
Lieutenant-General Dortien, we regret to say, Was
taken suddenly ill on Saturday last, and died on Monday
night at his house in Lower Rock Gardena.
Sir George Shiftier, Bart. has left for his seat Coombe-
place, near Lewis.
Colonel and Mrs. Wilks are arrived.
Mr. Ricardo is returned from town to .his residence on
the Marine-parade.
Sir Robert Wilmott, Bart. leaves Regency-square to-
morrow, for his seat, Cbaddleaden, Derbyshire.
Among our arrivals are Captain Railton, and the Hon.
H. and Mrs. Knox.
Sir James Duff and family have returned from town
to their seat in this county.
J. H. Slater, Esq. our new Sheriff', has appointed the
Rev. G. Shiftier, to be his Chaplain.
The Dowager Marchioness of Downsbire (Baroness
Lantlys) arrived on Sunday.
Count St. Antonio is about to build a new square at
Brighton, to be called Cavendish-square.
The remains of Mrs. T. R. Kemp were interred on
Thursdayy last,in die family vault in the chancel of our
pariah church. The body was brought from London, and
being met at Preston, the funeral procession there formed,
and moved into the town, attended by an immense con-
course of spectators.
So numerous were the applications in London for shares
in the New Brighton Gas Cornpahy that as many as 438
were refused, a certain proportion being reserved for the
inhabitants of this place. The streets will, we understand,
he lighted with gas at Michaelmas next. The spot selected
for the erection of the gasomer is near the chirch at Hove.

EDINBURGH THERTRE.—M9. Young comrnenced a short
engagement here on Saturday evening. He performed the '
part of logo to Mr. Vandenhors Othello, while the gentle
Denlemuna was personated by Mrs. H. Siddons. The
whole performance was applauded to the echo. The house
was crowded at first priers.—Caledonian Mercury.
Miss Foots.—The celebrity of this charming actress,
as a singer, basso long been acknowledged by all who have
had the pleasure of hearing her, thatit requires no eulo-
gium from us ; but if report speik truth, she has added
another laurel to her wreath by the composition of the
music to the new song of " You ask Me to wake Me soft
strain," which, as a musical composition, entitles her, it
is said, to the highest praise—even, as we have beard,
from the first judges in the kingdom.
It is rumoured at the west end of the town that Miss
Foote was yesterday married to Mr. 'Jayne.
The efforts of the ladies of Tralee to procure employ-
ment for the poor of that part of the countfy hive been
I attended with success. Upwards of 1000 yards of linen,
manufactured under their inspection, and of the best de-
scription, are for sale at that repository. Those who pur-
chase their repository linen will have the satisfietion,
besides getting the value of their money, of assisting in the
employment of the poor.
A Correspondent at Paris informs us that at the sitting
of the Chamber of Peers on the .sth inst. a petition was
presented by the Duke Matthieu de Montmorency pray-
ing the French Government to propose to the King of Sar-
dinia the exchange of Savoy for Corsica, and to England
the exchange of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, for the
French Settlements in Asia and Africa. The Chamber,
however, passed to the order of the day.
M. Niebuhr, in his travels through Egypt, gives some
curious instances of the ignorance anti superstition of the
Turks in that country. During the whole journey his
measuring apparatus, he says, was viewed by them with
peculiar fear and distrust. At Alexandria, a Turkish
merchant observing our traveller direct his instrument to-
wants the city, had the curiosity to look through the glass,
and observing, with surprise, that a tower appeared in-
verted, spread a report, that the strangers (meaning
Niebuhr and his companions) were come to overturn the
city. At another place, an honest peasant, who had at-
tended their operations for some time, was so terrified at
seeing in the glass his native village turned upside down,
that he requested a respite for a few minutes, till he could
rescue his toyi and cow front the destruction which seemed
impending.
On Monday last the water was let into George's Dock
for the first time since its enlargement. Vessels will, we
understand, soon be permitted to enter the dock through the
south entrance.—Liter rut Courier.
NCGROES.—The following is a tradition of the Bra-
zilians as to the origin of the black race:—At the time,
say they, of the creation of Adam, Satan looked on and
formed a man of clay, but everything he touched becom-
ing black, he determined to wash him white in the Jordan.
On his approach the river retired, and he had only time to
push the black man on the wet sand, which touching the
soles of his feet and the palms of his hands, accounts for
the whiteness of those parts. The devil, in a state of irri-
tation, struck his creation on the nose, by which the flat-
ness of that organ was accomplished. The negro then
begged for mercy, and humbly represented that no blame
could be attached to him, upon which the other, something
pacified, patted him on the head, and by the heat of
his hands curled his hair in the way it is seen in the pre-
sent day.
We consider we are rendering a service to the public in
calling their attention to a Treatise upon Cancer, published
by Mr. Farr, explanatory of a method of cure by the use
of the Corsican sea-moss. The successful cases adduced
are very strong, and we do not hesitate to recommend the
Treatise to the sit-ions perusal of all those who are afflicted
with so dreadful a malady.
THICK Sr U LI I.—The following extract from Dr. Crich-
ton's Inyuiej into Mental Derangement, proves that the
reproach is anatomically correct when applied to those who
labour under a defect of intellect:—
" It is very remarkable that the skulls of the greater number of
such patients are commonly very thick ; nay, some have been found
of a most extraordinary degree of thickness. Among two hundred
and sixteen patients of this description, whose bodies were inspected
after death, there were found one hundred and sixty seven whose
skulls were unusually thick, and only thirty-eight thin ones;
among which last number there was one which was much thicket
on the right side than on the left. But in particular it was observed,
that among one hundred raving madmen Reventy-eight had very
thick skulls. and twenty very thin ones ; among which skulls there
was one quite soft. Among twenty.sia epileptic raving madmen,
them were nineteen found with very thick skulls, and four very
thin among sixteen epileptic ideots there were fourteen. and
among twenty epileptic patients sixteen, who had very thick skulls;
among whoar there was one discovered one aide of whose skull was
thick and the other thin. Among twenty-four melancholic patients
there were eighteen with very thin skulls; and lastly, among thirty
idcots, twenty-two with very thick. and six with very thin skulls.
All the others had skulls of a natural thickness".
FA NA TICIBM.—At Lancaster Assizes, on Monday,
11. Lee stood charged with killing I). °finisher', a child of fifteen
days old. A sect called the Johannahitesi, disciples of Johanna
Southeoce, had lately increased greatly in that county, and parti-
cularly near Asliton-under•liine. All the sect had adopted the
Jewish rite of circumcision. The children belonging to the sect
were circumcised on the eighth day after birth. During the cere-
mony music was perfurmed in a garret, called a chapel, where the
circumcision took place. The child, whose death funned the sub-
ject of inquiry, was circumcised by the prisoner; and ia conse-
quence of the wound the raw died. Prisoner was the circitmciaor
of the sect. A hollow piece of metal was used to prevent too
much from being cutoff; a knifeand scissors were stymied. When
incision was made a cobweb was applied to stop the blood, and
over this was placed a lin-en rag. The child was barn nn the fah of
September. it was circumcised on the lath, and it died on the t2d•
frond a mortification which took place in the wounded part. After
sonic evidence had been given the Counsel for the proßerution
stopped the case, observing that the only object was to put down an
illegal practice. Mr. Justice Bayley said, •• It is right that the
public should know that thie practice is not legal with respect to
children, and that they should understand that this indictment goes
of' only because it is not properly framed as to the tlescrtytitm of
the means of death.".—The Jury, und:r his Lordship's Ll:•,:ctiun,
acquitted the prisoner.