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The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
smitenced to twelve anonths imprisonment in the house
of correction.
ASSAULT WtTa iirrewr TO MORDER...VITinistn
Baler, who waa tried in. Turinlay, hut acquitted. on all
indictment for unwilling Sarah eavey, at Ewell. i!I
November last, anal rribbina her tot 24 MI, was again
indicted for assatoltinz with intent to der her.—
There was a second count charging hint with a commotr
assault.

The Jury, under the learned Judge's directions. found
the prisoner guilty on the second count only, and he was
sentenced to two years imprisonment in the house of
coerce. nun.
Thotims Birch, alias flirt, wig indicted for feloniously
stabbing Ilannah Roberts, at Furitham, on the 9th of
September last, with intent to minder or do her some
bodily harm.
Mr. Tutton cone acted the prosecution. The prisoner
was without counsel.

The prisoner and she proseentrix were both paupers of
Basingstoke workhouse. In September last they were
scot to work at hop-picking in the neighhouritood ni
Farnham. They boarded in the same house at the latter
place. alie prisoner had tepeatedly made improper
overtnres to the proseentrix
.(who was the wile of a
soldier), but she resisted his object. Ott the 9ii of
September the prisoner had knocked down a • child of
the prosecturixa ' which conduct she resented with
warmth, and he knocked her down also, and treated her
with great violence. lie then eroceeded to eat some
bread and meat, and used a Luxe clasp pocket knife.
The prosectitrix went to work at some washing, anti in
two or three hoots afterwards the prisoner emote up to
her, and punting his arm vanish her neck, nsed sonte
expressions of kindness, importing his sorrow fur having •
previously struck her. She wished hint to let her alone
and wetilt to complaln to the mistress of the house in
which they bred. 'l'lll. mistress remonstmed with him
for his conduct, and desired him to leave the young
woman alone. She returned to her washing, and when
she was in the act of putting her hand mutt a pail, the
prisoner came up,to her and Moist his knife into her
hotly in the upper hart of the abdomen. near the groin.
She fell with tite pain, and waicarried to a neighbouring
house, and was outlined for nearly a month before she
recovered. ,When the prisoner was taken into custody
lie expressed his sorrow for What had haprened, and
said it woula berthe happiest day of his lie if the young
woman recovered and did well, for that lie was not of
his Mind when he did the stmettinary act, anti laboured
under the influence of drink, which had 311 dire%
upon his head, which bad been fractured in the sea
service.

The prisoner now said, in his defence„ thaate did not
know what he was about, and expressed great contrition
fur what had happened.
The Jury, tinder the learned Judge's directions, found
the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy,
which recommendation was seconded by the prosecutrix.

Thirteen capital convicts received sentence of death
In (lay. The further Lusineszof the assizes was adjourned
till Saturday.

Exe.coTtore.—Tuesday morning Edward Cochrane,
for a burglary in the house of Mrs. Muria Kelly, at
Harrortv, was eXeellted, pursuant to his sentence, in
front of the Debtors' door, at Newgate. Thus unlinm.
wite young man lived in the service of Mrs. Kelly, and
during the time he was in her employ, conducted him-.
self to her satisfaction. Abont August last, he quitted
'her service, and came to London, where he soon be-
came connected with persons of depraved habits, and
i gave himself up to every species of dissipation. Ilis
conduct front the time of his conviction had been
' oCarked with a just sense of the enormity of his offence.
While his irons were being knocked cff, in the mess-
room, he exhibited a firm and calm demeanour, Seldolll
WlttleSStd, and frequently expressed himself in terms of
gratitude 10 Mr. BMW', the governor, and Mr. limier
Sheriff Smith, for their kind and humane intention to
kiln. The Rev. Mr. Cotton and Mr. B. then enitaaed
in prayer, in which he joined with touch fervour. Tillie
being concluded, he was asked if he was ready; and
• replied, " perfectly so, I am quite prepared." I lit hands
were then tied, and he walked forward with a firm step.
On reaching the fatal platform he cast his eyes on the
beam, and viewed the awful preparation without emo-
tion. After reatiaintog a short time in prayer, the signal
Was given, .and the world closed on the unfortunate
youth for ever.
Stott:mg.-0u Friday morning, Mr. Nix, a boot and
shoemaker, residing at the corner of White Hart-yard,
prory-latte, in a tit of delirium, pot an end to his ex-
istence, by cutting his throat wait a razor. His wi:e was
in bed with him at the time he perpetrated the deed,
and was awoke by the noise of the blood issuing from
the wound. Ile divided time jugular vein and the wind-
pipe, and, its fact, nearly severed the head from the bony
at one stroke. lie had been lur some mouths nil ject in
rheumatic pains in the limbs, winch recently affected
his bead. Excessive pain, it is believed, produced tem-
porary derangement, and in that state of mind he cum-
!flitted the lamentable act.

A Nladagascar youth, of about fourteen years of age,
died on Thursday on boird the Andromache, at Ports-
mouth. He was dent to this country by the King or
latlagascar, with others, to be instructed in the prin-
ciples of the Christian Religion, and knowledge of
since useful art, bin the change of climate produced a
consumption of which he died, ere he could be con-
veyed lick to his native country. His remain; were
lauded on Saturday lasi, to be interred in grunion
chapel.
Mr. William Smith, of Erith, Kent, butcher, has
at this time a ewe of the Wiltshire breed, who on the
Ind of March yeaned five lambs, who with their dam,
are nine and healthy. Among the lambs arii four ewes
and one run. The lamb:. were gut by a two.took
Lin-
cular ratsi.

A massive and curious piece of antiquity wa-
lately discovered at WatereFryston, near Ferry
bridge. As two labourers were digging groond for
liquorice, in a field called the Paper Mill-field, on
the Fryston-hall etitate; near the'boundary between
the parishes of Pontefract and Fryston, they Irenes
trated to a mass of stone, only about eleven inches
below the surface, which) on being cleared, proved
to be an ancient coffin of undressed stone, without
inscription. The lid, which was bevelled, but
without harrige, projected over the sides about two
inches, ant: on being raised in the centre, presented
a complete skeleton of large dimensions, in a high
state of preservation. The skull was placed be-
tween the thigh bones, and the occupant of this
narrow mansion, who had probably in his day filled
a considerable space in society, had evidently suf-
fered decapitation. In the place where the head
should have lain in an unmediated body was a
stone. The teeth were all perfect, both in the up-
per add . lower jaw, and the bones are Those of a
strong athletic man, cut off apparently-in the me•
ridian of life, and when the coffin was opened they
were all entire; but immediately on being exposed
to the air of the atmosphere, the ribs fall in. No-
thing remains of the flesh ; but some hard white
chalky substances were found, which appear to be
a mixture of earthy matter of the bones with the
muscular part of the body, the latter converted into
a fatty substance. The coffin is of the dimensions
of Q feet 5 inches in length, and 19 inches width
within, with sides about 4 inches thick ; it has been
cut out of the solid stone, anti is supposed to weigh
about a ton and a half. The place where these
relics were found is about a mile and a half from
Ferrvbridge, in a valley near the road leading to
Castleford. Many conjectures are of course afloat
as to the identity of this man of other times ; but
the preiailing, and we think the most probable opi-
nion is, that these are the remains of Thomas Earl
of Lancaster, the unfortunate leader of the insur-
gent barons in the battle of Borough-bridge, fought
in the year 1521, and who was beheaded at Pun-
refract, 500 years ago, by order of his nephew,
Edward 111 —(See History and Directory of York-
I shire, pp. 145 and .239.)—The coffin and remains,
which have attracted a great deal of public atten-
tion, are now removed to Fryston-hall.
A FOSSIL SHIP!—A very extraordinary discovery
has just been made at Capelle, in the Canton
of Wualwyk, in the Province of North Brabant.—
While digging the foundation of a building, the
workmen found the hull of a ship, the prow of
which was the first part they met with; the poop
appears to be buried a great depth in the ground.
Much time and expence will be necessary to recover
it entirely, anti the more so, as it is completely filled
with mud, and the vessel is about 60 feet long. It
is very difficult to determine the time when this
vessel was buried in the middle of the land, unless
it may have been in consequence of the inundation
of the IStli of Nov. 1421 , in which case it would
have been four centuries under ground.
MAUNDY THUltsDAT.—Therstluy last being
Maundy °Thursday, the annual royal gifts were pre-
sented to 60 poor men, and as many women, being
as many as his present Majesty is years old. Soon
after eleven o'clock the applicants were admitted,
and the poor people took their seats at the table; a
piece of beef and half' a quartern loaf of bread were
then placed beibre them, which each put into a
basket with which they were provided. Shortly
after they were served with a second course, which
consisted of a large wooden bowl, filled with the
following articles of food; thirty-six red and pickled
herrings, two salt cod, and two small salmon ; these
were garnished with parsley. At the top of this
provision were four half-quartern loaves. This
quantum was also presented to each. After this
distribution Dr. Goodenough repeated an occasional
prayer, in which he was joined by the poor people
with apparent fervour Each individual was after-
wards presented with a can of excellent ale, in which
they drank the health of the Royal donor. After
which the thanktid visitors packed up their provision,
and went home tottering under their load. At three
o'clock they assembled again in Whitehall Chapels
the men on one side, and the women on the other.
A procession then entered of those concerned in the
ceremony. Dr. Goodenough, in his clerical robes,
Mr. Hattdby, the almoner, Mr. Jones, &e. with
white sashes round their shoulders, and a party of
yeomen, one of them carrying a large gold disk on
his head, containing 120 purses, with the amount of
ss. in each, being as many pence as the king is years
old : consisting of one silver fourpenny coin, two
threepenny, anti three twopenny, and the rest in
silver pennies. Then followed the boys, two and
two. The evening service was then performed, alter
which the purses containining the silver coin were
distributed amongst the 160 individuals; in addi-
tion to which, the men were presented with a piece
of cloth, u piece of linen, shoes and stockings, and a
glass of wine.
The resolution of the government to have three
, assizes yearly in the home circuit atiOrds satisfaction.

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TROrIING MATCH ES

On Monday last the three greatest attempts perhaps
ever recorded of trotting, and on which thonsatorts were
pending, took place. The fir 4 match was that of Mr.
Within's horse, which heat the slate coloured Ame Oran,
barked to trot threr miles in nine minutes for 100 guineas.
It was reported that the horse was lame, and sip to Ilse
vv. ring before the start,b to I was the hinting on time at
the Tom Tavern, and more thou 2 to I wa■ bet before
atarliar, as the horse spewed a link lame in going from
Hampton to Sunbury Common, where the match took
place. Mr. Dyson's nsan,Jack, rode the horse, and when
at speed the lauseness was slot apparent, but she horse was
more than three minutes doing the first mile, isod there
was LI increase of speed dining the match. The horse
broke into a gallop near the George Inn, when about 100
yards from honk, and the pressure of horsemen was so
great at his heels, that his jockey turned him with ditfi
cony, and the match was lost by 40 seconds.
Caps. liallord's matches to trot eight miles and a half
in half ass hour, and to carry 1 t atone, with a horse bona
flek his property, for 100 guineas ; and a second snatch, for
a like sons, to trot a horse 17 miles in an I , also Ids
property, took glare on Monday, over a two•wile piece
of ground, at Nlerston vale, Surrey. The eight miles and
a hall match was stone as follows :
Miss. Sec.
Pint two miles
Second ditto 7 3
Third ditto
!tonsils ditto 7 8
The half mile

29 57

A minmusre not dreamt of was here pruetised. A
jorkey of 10 stone immediately mounted the same horse,
and peoreeded rut the second match, to the eAtotikhinent
of all present. The horse had esidently been kept in, as
the figures under will 'thew t

Min. Sec.
The mile and a half making ten miles,
including ntonnting time, done in 6 In
The Sixth Iwo miles ...
Seventh ditto
Eighth ditto
Last mile

3) 13

The match was lost by 13 seeonds. when the Captain
harked the horse to do the 17 miles within the hour on
Thursday, and to carry lOst.7lbs. The match is for 200
guineas.

RENEWAL OF CAPTAIN HALPORD'S MATCH.—This
Amick, for the Captain's horse to trot 17 miles, for 200
poineas, was renewed on Thursday, and the failure on
Monday gave it all additional interest. The horse, upon
that occasion, did rittlii miles and a half, with II stone
upon his back, within half an hour, hut, on beim;
pushed to do the 17 miles within an hour, the match
was Imt by 13 seconds, and it led to the present one, the
backers of time thinking too much had been taken out
of the horse to complete the 17 miles so soon after. The
ground over which the horse trotted was two miles of
the Mine as he performed on Monday, on the Bury road.
He carried I I stone in the former half hour race, and 10
stone in the hour race, and in this instance lie carried I!)
stone and a half, and did each two miles as follows;
Min. See. Min. See.
Float two miles 6 18 6th two miles.... 7 34
211 ditto
34 ditto
4:li ditto 6id I The 17th mile .. 340
sth ditto I 53
58 38

Betting was even at starting. and fi to 4 on time after
the horse broke into a gallop in the 4th mile, and had to
turn. He also broke in the Illth mile, but won the race
easy at last.
Mr. It. Iloulston's match for 50 guinea•, to drive a
tandem IS miles in one hour, and to trot the first seven
nicks, took place on Thursday, over a foor mile RA on
the Bromley-road. The horse did the fir,4 four mites in
18 minutes and 22 seconds, and the other three in 14
/ninnies and 8 seconds, leaving 27 minates for the eight
sidles gallop. The horse did the eighth in:le in 3 mi-
nutes to seconds, the next four in 13 minutes 12 seconds,
and the retnaining three utiles in to minutes and 50
svconels, winiting, the match by 18 seconds. It was a
Ail,. performance, and the pacing of the horse at the
gallop was a line treat.—Betting was 5 to 4 on time.

G. B. Mainwaring, Esq. bas resigned his office
as Chief Magistrate of Marlborough-street, which
he had held since the removal of Sir Robert Baker
from that office to Bow-street. He has also resigned
the treasurership of the county of Middlesex.—
Mr. Stafford, the chief clerk of Bow-street, hits
announced his intention to become a candidate for
the vacant office, and has addressed a circular to
the Magistrates soliciting their suffrages
Ott 11 ednesclay ;thermion a youna man named Nine.
;tan, a carpenter, employed in the King's-theatre, while
eittleatoitritta to secure a trap-door, slipped the hold he
hod of the beam; and tell iltiough the stage and imiz t-
rine floor, a distance of 37 feet, and unfortunately tall-
ing on his head, fractured his skull in a dread ul man-
her. lie was instantly taken tip by several of the per-
formers, and prompt medical assistance was vmdeted
Lim, but tvithoat any avail, as he died in about an hour.
A Coroner's Inquest was held at the Regent's Arms,
Regent-street, Westminster, before hos. thugs, Esq.
on the body of ?Jr. Timmas Brown, a most respectable
trartsulaii, residing in Frederick's-place, who died see!.
drnly out Friday list, From the es idence it appeared,
that the deceased returned from Isis business as usual in
the afternoon, and seemed well; his spirits were also
extremely cltearlul. He had drank one clip of tea, and
on 'Auto the second, deceased suddenly exclaimed—
"On dear, what is the maned " soil fell backwards
in the chair; lie never spoke after —Mr. W. Il Pamter,
surgeon, of !twilit y-terrace, Horreterry•road, said, lie
anentled the deceased, and be considered he had died of
serious apoplexy. Tile Jury returned a verdict—died
of apuklexy.

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CAMBRIDGE COU.VTY MEETING.

Thursday, pursuant pursuant to a Requisition to the High Sheriff, a
Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this county was
held. for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety
of again petitioning for a Reform in the Commons House of
Parliament, as the most effectual means of relieving the present
agricultural distress, and securing the future prosperity of the
kingdom. Ti,e High Sheriff having opened tic business a the
day,
J. D. ;Helmet, Esq. gime forward and addressed the meet.
ing. IVith regard to agricultural distress, lie said, it was unne-
cessary to say a word—the tenantry were reduced to ruin—the
yeomanry, the pride of their country, were fast sinking to po-
certy—and the labourer reduced from comparative at uence to
abject beggary I and, lastly, the impoverished landlord was
obliged to row to his capital to keep up appearances. He ridi-
culed the idea that distress was occasioned by over-production,
and that the only relief to be looked to was in the acridity of the
land. He alluded to the Agricultural Report, just printed, and
declared his opinion that a greater mass of delusion hail never
before been set forth•—(llear. hear.) It was only by the re-
duction of taxation proportionate to the low price of corn, that
effectual relief could be afforded. It was asked then, how could
the public creditor be paid ? He would answer, by a reduction
of the Civil List. Places, Pensions. Arc. and lie denied that there
was any necessity for a breach of faith with the landholder until
these remedies had been tried. A Reform in the House of Com-
mons he deemed essential, and hoped to see the day when Re-
form would triumph over Ministerial inherence, sad that the
House of Commons would become the guardian of the rights
and liberties of the people, instead a a machine to extort money
out of the pockets of an impoverished and overburdened people.
He concluded by proposing a aeries of resolutions, dee:ming
that the main cause of the distress was in an exorbitant taxation ;
and that the removal of a large portion of the public burtlicns
was the only effectual relief I and that a reformed House of
Commons was the only security against that ,ystcro of mis-
government which had nearly overwhelmed a classes of society
in one common ruin. _

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The Rev. G. A. Racing supported the resolutions.
The Duke of BEDIMILD said, he had waited to see whether
any gentleman would appear to oppose the resolutions. He had
not been in the habit of attending meetings in this county, but
he thought it his duty to attend this. and urge a petition for re-
form. without wkich there was no salvation for the country. His
opinion was not founded on slight grounds ; he had sat thirty-
four years in Parliament. and his experience convinced him of
the necessity of it. Agriculture had long suffered, and was now
suffering. without any hope of relief, from the House of Com-
mons. The report of the first Aspicultuial Committee was a
complete Arrarhvg; and Although he hail nut seen the hew report
he believed it was, like the last. a Arras/ 1 The sole object of
the former was to say nothing—to throw uust in the eyes of the
sople. The expectations of economy and retrensOment had
been disappointed; a reduction of 1w per bushel on malt, and
ten per cent. ca the salaries of Ministers, was all the relief
afforded. His Grace alluded to the two Postmasters-General,

and compared them to the two labourers who were helping each
other to do nothing. Their salaries ought to be savi.J. They
were both respectable men ; but was this a time when such
persons should draw their increased incomes from the sweat
and labour of the people, whose diminished cJinforts of life
called upon us to abolish these unnecessary salaries ? "By
Heaven l' said the noble Duke. quoting Shakspeare in a very
emphatic manner, I hail rather coin my heart, and drop my
blood tOr drachms, than to wring from the load hands of peasants
their vile trash by any indirection."—(Loud cheers.)
The meeting was then addressed, at consideittb!e length, by
the Rev. F. H. :Moberly, Mr. Pryme, Mr Howell, Xlr. F. K.
Eagle. Mr. S. P. Bottles. Mr. John Forillism, Mr. Gunning,
and Mr. E. Poiter, and a petition to the House of Commons,
founded ou the Resolutions, was unanimously adopted.

141'011T Of THE AcialcuLTIMAL COMMITTEE.
—The Report, which has been presented to the
House of Commons, in the first place reemnmends
that no alteration shall be made in the existing
Corn Laws until the price of wheat has reached
eighty shillings the quarter; and that so soon as
this price shell be attained, then a duty upon im-
portation to the amount of five shillings the quarter
shall be imposed. The Report further recommends,
that after wheat reaches 1110 s. the quarter, the exist-
ing Corn Bill shall cease, and a permanent protect-
ing duty be substituted in its stead. The ports are
to be open fur importation when wheat is 70s. the
quarter, and the protecting duty is to be from Its.
to 15s. Thus the leading object of the Report is
to increase the restriction on the trade in corn.
The object indeed is explicitly avowed. The Re-
port recommends, as a principle which should re-
gulate our commercial policy, that the duties to be
imposed on the importation of foreign produce shall
be equal to all the difference between the cost of
raising corn in this and in other countries.
Early on Thursday se'nuight three barley stacks,
the property of Mr. S. Delf, of Toperoft-hall farm,
were discovered to be on tire. They were situated
in a field about halt' a mile from the house, and are
supposed to have been set on fire by some incendiary.
They were totally consumed.
Madame Catalini's concerts at Sheffield were well
attended. We know not that a higher compliment
could have been paid to her unrivalled talents, than
was simply expressed by a blind musician in the
gallery. While singing the beautiful air tit—
" Angels ever bright and fliir," when she had
uttered the line—" Take, 0 take, me to your
care," " Aye," exclaimed the humble son of Apollo,
" that they will, fur they'll never let a voice like
that go the d-v-l."
Mr. Drake, midshipman of the Severn, has been
recently presented with a rich gold medal, by the
King of the Netherlands, for his humane and suc-
cessful exertions, in saving from a watery grave, a
Dutch sailor, one of the crew of a vessel lately
wrecked on the Sussex coast, off Winchelsea.
The Committee sitting on the state of the Police
has made considerable progress. It is hoped that it
will be soon ready to lay before Parliament, and
that some means may be devised to protect the public'
from the swarms of rogues, thieves, and swindlers
with which the Nl;tropolis particularly is infested at
present.

BOXING.

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1 " The battle between Peters, the Bath tinman, and
Flower', the coachman, from Dunsdan, Oxon, kept
1 the Rosinantes and their masters in full exerrise on
Thursday, for want of generalship to avoid inter.
ference. The match fur 40 gnineas a side was
.to
have taken place very snug, between Oakingham
and Maidenhead, on Thursday, agreeable to the de-
sire of the barkers. Capt. Hans fin the coachman,
and Mr. Meadows Fuller, for the tinman. Some
authority men gave their negative to the sport on
the ground fixed upon ; and after a consultation of
provincial sages, the men met in a field across Wind.
sor Forest, at Apsley, Surrey, ten miles from the
said authorities, where an obstinate battle was fought,
in an open ring. H. Ford seconded Flowers, and
Wheeler officiated for Peters. Both men had fame
fur various successful combats, and the tinman was
rather the favourite.

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The battle lasted 41 minute', in which ten very gay room%
war lough!. In the that the claret dee from the bends of
each s and in clming, an na-kaar.l anemia ant mole to
weave, but they could not get any beat of it, and tire tintatto
war thrown from b••ing the lightest.
2. Ilath felt their inuseks at work, and they turned to
with much earntriners. Fluters gut u heavy rattler un the ,
jaw ni going in, hut the, e was ion denial about him. lie
kept steady at his w its It, although Peters she ire,' hest arietie.•.
Floe err's red hair nand an end like that ern !pig 111 it par-
Won, and a sarcastic grin, a hiM the claret Bowing from his
devourers, pre•eutrd it melancholy rpectucle. Ile, how-
ever, [Lured Peters by a heavy tic up on the loin', which
bent hi u,•

9 and 4. There rounds were give and Inks to the very en 1
of nature. Peters continued to hive the be►l of the first of
tic routith had his turn to atretigth, nod be
arti-lied Ike n workoran. Peter• WAS under in 'nu fotiv. 41.41
both were latigued out of time.
The sth and 6th rounds produced but Tittle mischief, a►
both were waiting to gel their wind mewled. They how•
ever uuntuzz'erl Haunt in the 7th round, and no brave nsen
ever st I inure to duty. A chance hat placed Peters',
heal uproo his right shoulder, mod a pistol could not have
drooped hint mare neatly. It woo Flowers the Mettle,
although the tininao ioulbt the other three WWI& under
evei y disadvantage. Ili, orcituds yielded victory to Flowers
very n•leetuotly. A purse of sontethiug under Si. WAS CIS6
lecied fur the loser.

The removal of the dilapidated Gothic work,
projecting in front of the eastern entrance of West-
minster Hall, has thrown open to public inspection
three arches, which originally formed three en-
trances to the Hall. The centre arch is higher
than the others. This proves that the Gothic pro-
jection, so long considered the remains of that ancient
building, was nothing more than ornamental work,
carried out long after the Hall was built.

The structure to be raised in Hyde Park, near
Piccadilly, is what is called the Ladies' Monument,
in honour of the battle of Waterloo. It consists of
an immense colossal figure cast in bronze, 20 feet
high, in imitation of the celebrated ►tatue on the
Monte Cavallo, at !tome. The pedestal is already
fixed, and the whole is intended to be completed in
about two months.

Flavin., failed to establish himself as an Inca
in Granada, Sir Gregor Maegreg.:r has started a
new scheme, and has put forth a flaming procla-
mation, in which he states that the King of the
Mosquitto nation has bestowed upon him and his
heirs the territory of Paying, adjoining to the pro-
vinces of Honduras and Nicaragua, of which ho
styles himself " Highness the Cacique," and forms
a plan for its settlement and cultivation, " intend-
ing there to spend the remainder of his days. !! "
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Ro-
binson, in bringing fl)rward his•plan in the Hausa
of Commons for removing the commercial restric-
tions to which our West India Colonies hive been

subject, closed his speech with the following en-
lightened sentiments.—" But no man could doubt
that the removal of barriers and the breaking of
fetters would contribute to the ultimate advance-

went of commerce. Indeed the energies of com-
merce would only develope themselves under an un-
restrained system. The remark• of the poet as to
the influence of climate upon the oul of men was

pettedly true when uppiied to the power of free
and unrestrained measures upon commercial inter-
course. They never could do wrong in gradually
endeavouring to remove from commerce the fetters
by which she. hut been too narrowly restrained.
These had been hie earliest and most recent opini-
MIS, and he bud always wished to praaute a free
and unrestrained system of commerce."
In a letter from Brunswick, in the Ai!villeins.
Zeitos;,,it is said—'4 strong and at the satii time.
interesting testimony to the confidence of foreigner 4
in the lumesty aml kindness of the G,rmat► charac-
ter, was lately afibrilcd here. A deaf :ma dumb
Englishman came here as a solitary wanderer, with
no guide but his dog, without understanding Ow-
man, and with no other means at existing than hi-
trade of a printer. He did not meet with the slight-
est unpleasant occurrence all the way from Ham-
burgh hither, an 4 he contrived to make himself
easily Understood by signs in the printing-oeice of
M. Vicweg, to who be sold his invention of spreej-
lug the iul with rollers iustcul of

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