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serve the spzead of the disastrous malady from place
to place in the " round" of its melancholy devas-
tations.

Gwydyr House might as well never have been
built, so far as any benefit can be said to
have resulted from the labours of its offi-
cial frequenters. Parliamentary Committees might
as well never have been convened—blue books
might as well never have been compiled, and printed,
and published in reference to the results of the pro-
tracted sanitary agitation—witnesses might as well
never have been examined and cross-examined for
the purpose of eliciting data for the guidance of
our administrators in the same direction—so far es
any advantage can be said to have resulted from all
these Committees, and blue books, and witnesses
in the way of carrying out the smaller even of
the
many eagerly-desired sanitary improvements. Re-
verting to the most important and the most imperative
necessity of all under the head of these desired
Sanitary Innovations--alluding almost for the nine
hundred and ninety-ninth time to the want of some
radical change in our national system of sepulture—
it is painful to discover on all hands reason only to
regret the continued disappointment of our hopes as
to extramural interment. Instead of finding the
metropolis better prepared against the return of the
Asiatic cholera in this particular, we only discover an
enhancement of an evil which on the last occasion
was unquestionably of sufficient magnitude and
virulence. In defiance of the nominal prohibition of
an Act of Parliament directed against those who
flourish by burying
thednefaedssioanmaol amongst
tthepopulous
desecrators of the
habitations of the living—the London graveyards are
still profaned
prtohfe baneadekb
eyr s thosea
nd hewers of the bran-new coffins professional
and but partially decomposed remains of the departed
—the sextons of our city Golgothas, There the
"glimpses of the
unholymoon" are still
visited by creatures more terrible than ghosts
and more ghastly than "the sheeted dead," who on
the death of C.MSAR, "did and
squeak gibber in the
Roman streets"—the gravediggers of the capital of
England—making room in the rank earth of the
burial-grounds "within the walls" for more of our
"dear brothers and sisters" who have expired. The
same loathsome incidents may be witnessed even
now-o'-nights at any hour from sunset to sunrise—the
same desecrations and abominations which first
aroused the indignation of GEORGE ALFRED
WALKER,
the most ardent and the most practical of living phi-
lanthropists. And all this while
the Asiatic cholera • stalking across the European con-
tinent, from city to city, not with slow and measured
steps, but uncertain and giant strides--without one
adequate precautionary measure having been adopted
against the period of its possible revisitation. Without
one, we say—but we are wrong—the Legislature
during the course of the last session did actually pass
one beneficent measure of a sanitary nature, incited
by the energetic goodwill of the newly constituted
DERBY Government.
Remembering that, we are disposed to look to the
Cabinet for some yet more direct and yet more satis-
factory interposition. The intelligence which we
have just received from the city of Warsaw reminds
us very sadly of the need for some such Ministerial
interference, and we look forward therefore with pro-
found anxiety for the display in this instance of
more than their usual activity and of more than
their accustomed patriotism, by the active and
patriotic members of the existing Government.

It is reported that the expected Ministerial " ad-
justment of taxation" (to use Mr. DISRAELI'S phrase)
will extend to the abolition of the duties on Insu-
rance. There are many reasons why these duties
should be removed—the chief being that they actually
form a tax upon Prudence, while their aggregate
amount is not so very great but that it can be spared.
The misery and misfortune which are prevented by
Fire and Life insurance are very considerable, so
much so that it ought to be the part of a paternal
Government to encourage rather than oppose the
progress of such prudential provisions. Any tax upon
them is an impost levied exactly where it should not
be imposed.

Despite of the impost, the fire-insurances through-
out the United Kingdom have gradually and largely
increased during the last half century. In the year
1801, the total amount of property insured against
fire in the United Kingdom was 232,242,2251. It
had increased to 366,704,8001. in the next year ; to
408,037,3321. in 1821 ; to 526,655,3321. in 1831 ; to
681;539,8391. in 1841 ; and in 1851 (the date of the
last return) the mere tax on the amount insured had
reached 1,104,8521. This shows an immense per-
centage of increase, but it is nothing to what we
ihould have were the duties removed, which
are as much as 200 per cent, upon the actual
premiums paid to the insurance offices. A paternal
Government doing its duty would by all means en.
courage fire-insurance. " If it be desirable," Says
Mr. PORTER in his Progress of the Nation, " and
who can doubt that it is so, that all persons should

secure themselves from losses arising through acci-
dents beyond their control, it must then be held un-
wise to subject insurances to taxation; and when, as
in this country, the tax thus levied amounts to 200
per cent. upon the sum required by the insurance-
offices to cover the ordinary risk from accidents by
fire, the degree of discouragement occasioned by the
duty must needs be very great. It is not only by
reason of the security arising to individuals, amounting
often to the prevention of beggary, that insurances
against fire and upon lives are beneficial ; they exer-
cise a good effect upon the country generally throngh
the accumulation of savings which they cause. The
sums paid for premiums on life policies especially
are, in every case, put by and added to the accumulat-
ing capital of the community. The money, as it is
paid to the insurance-offices, is beneficially employed,
and made to stimulate, in one Way or another, the
industry of the nation ; and when called for by the
arrival of the contingency against which the
premiums were meant to provide, it is pretty
certain that in a large proportion of cases the money
is so much clear gain, because without such a re-
source the premiums out of which it is provided
would have been unprofitably consumed." Thus, in
effect, the public at large are benefited by the pru-
dence of individual insurers, but the Government, re-
taining the heavy tax upon that prudence, do in fact
discourage it. In a school, if a lad distinguishes
himself by good conduct, application, and ability,
should he be punished ? We think not, but if Go-
, verument were the schoolmaster (acting towards the
good toy as it does towards the prudent insurer), a
severe
infliction would be the only acknowledgment of
the desert!

ataIIeGbREGOR,
traind
. _
Mr. joun ,
for Glasgow, the able representative
aeny ando n clh
revenue doubt
asa as
anywell
the kingdom--a
tl:erather than a coun-
try gentleman from w
shire of Oxford,
ought to preside -
over the
Board of Trade
—has expressed his opinion
vincingly on this head. ici cleha.rly and con-
great work
on The Progress of America, he str
cates the total abolition of the duty enon.gly advo-
insurances.
duty upon fire .
Insuraue •
He says,
double the amount charged es is,
annually, about arged for in.
" The stamp
suring property. The high duty not only greatly
property, but
m, not
property, of
fxposed to danger by the fire.
4
not exerting themselves
s
men, with their engines,
insured itshefreingsuueriiint.ry
extinguish uninsured property, as they are directed
by the companies who pay them, to take care, in the
first place, to preserve the property insured. On
marine insurances the stamp duty is so heavy and
insurances which
pernicious, that a great part of the insurances
would otherwise be effected in England,
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, are made at
an d il
burgh. The stamps, therefore, on fire and
marine insurances, now yielding about a
million and a quarter, should be abolished."
To carry out to the fullest the inconsistency, folly,
and injustice of tho imposts upon prudence, the Go- '
vaernment have ordained a curious inequality in the
ammoauanteffoefatthae tliafxe.aiansdartlalneame,ode
and
flev3ing i!.. Let
life. , ..y, a single amount
he pays, for the
stam
surance on of duty—
p upon his policy,
his I;
Paying no further tax during the remainder of his
Let a man, on the other hand, effect an in-
surance furniture, or other property,
and he is annually obliged to pay a duty of more than
200 per cent.
upon
for on the amount of his premium.
Insure your
l
the premium 3,0001., at middle life, and
will
be over 1001. a-year, with the
first
addition, for the
,r,
on the olio 4. year, of 3/, for sump duty
p .
y
'I" Pay the same 1001. a-year

for fire-insurance, a ou must, in addition and
during every year u continue insured, ply
over an additional 2001., and upwards, to the Re-
venue, as a tax upon your prudence. Yet wiseacres
are to be found—" practical" men of the red-tape cad
routine system of misrule—who continue to contend
that our system of taxation is as fair as any that can
be devised. We should like to see their looks, if,
after buying a loaf for sixpence, they have to pay
another shilling for duty. Absurd as this idea may
seem, it is precisely on the Government principle of
levying 200 per cent. upon fire-insurance premiums.
One argument (or assertion) in favour of this tax
is that it is direct. No doubt. It is direct—pocket-
emptying. On that score, let no man dream of de-
fending it. Another is that it cannot be spared, as
its amount is considerable." There are no means of
ascertaining the amount of the stamp-duty annually
arising out of the life-policies, for it is not particu-
larized in the stamp returns. It amounts, certainly,
to a considerable sum. As for the tax on fire-in-
surances, we are at no loss, as there are annual re-
turns. 'We learn, from these, that in 1850, the
whole amount of duties psid on fire-insurances
in the United Kingdom was nearly a million
and a quarter. Take the whole amount
realised from all sorts of insurances, as averaging a
million and a half sterling, and then ask, in the name
of common sense, is it worth while to exact this sum
from the prudence of the country? The amount is
large, but could it be swept away, so that a man
might insure his house and property for one-third
what he now must pay, then, without doubt, we
should have double, or treble, aye, or ten times the
number of insurers, and ten times the amount of
misery shielded against by their prudence.
On every consideration, then, the total reduction of
the taxes upon prudence should take place. Their
abolition, with that of the taxes upon knowledge, would
be hailed by the public as proof that the Ministry
really had a desire to serve the country. Before long,
whoever may hold the reins of power, such imposts
must be removed. They are contrary to the spirit of
the age, and the feelings, wishes, and wants of the
country. We have contended—feebly it may
be, but hopefully and faithfully—for Direct
Taxation : not such as is wrung from Pru-
dence and Knowledge, by imposts upon in-
surances and paper, but upon the wealth and
the property of the land. Mr. DISRAELI, before he
entered office, appeared to have correct general ideas
upon this subject. Let him make the land-tax as
productive as it ought to be, without a shadow of
unfairness. If it becarried out, on the principle re-
cognised by the Act of Wrr.T.Ltet and MARY—an
equal impost of 20 per cent. upon all accumulated
and realized property of every description, and of 1
per cent. upon that which is unproductive--an
amount of fifty millions sterling might be annually
raised, amply sufficient, with wise economy, to de-
fray the; whole cost of government, to pay the
interest on the Debt, and to permit the abolition o"
unequal or oppressive taxes of every kind.

Within the last few hours M. DE PERSIGNY—one
arr amongarrived
tihne n
our mi set
terrespoefi
st.n e
Recently
of the most gifted and one of the most distinguished
yCE r :Se: have had
occasion to refer to incidents WENT—has
of peculiar sig_
nificance taking place in the vicinity of
either the Elysee or of St. James's ; but not one,
we conceive, may more reasonably give rise to con-
jectures of a remarkable character than the presence
in London at this particular juncture of AL DE PEE.
slGNT—among the most important personages in the
Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON'S Government.

According to very recent and authentic intelli-
gence received from Lisbon, we are enabled to an-
nounce the resignation of ALMEYDA, the Foreign
Minister in the Portuguese Government. The retire-
ment of this able administrator from the councils of
Queen MARIA DA GLORIA, cannot but be matter of re-
gret amongst ourselves, seeing that his mind was pecu-
liarly impressed with the value of a cordial English
alliance, to the maintenance of authority, and the
preservation of liberty in the Peninsula.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Illoniteur contains the decree which has been
for some days expected, relative to the concession of
the Bordeaux to Cette Railway.
"Several journals," says the Patric, "have spoken
of the rupture of the negotiations opened between
Prance and Spain for the delimitation of the frontiers
of the two countries. We believe this news to be in-
exact, and that the labours of the mixed Commission,
instituted by the contracting parties, are only mo-
mentarily suspended."
There is a long article in the Pays, under the bead
of "On the Chances of Peace or War," by M. AME.•
DEE DE CESENA, long known as one of the warmest
partisans of the Empire. The eventuality of the
Empire is admitted on the ground-work of the
reasoning, and we are assured that it contains in itself
no germs of war. The writer is fully justified is his
protest against blending the words War and Empire,
as if they were necessarily connected, and much of
his reasoning against the chances of war is sound.
The best guarantee against war, however, is not this
pacific disposition ascribed to nations or rulers, but
the conviction that in the present state of things, it
is their interest to remain at peace. NVar is not
what it was when victories could be obtained at com-
paratively small cost. In improving the means of de-
struction, we have ascertained that even the most sac-
cessful war cannot he waged without the certainty of
paying much dearer for victory than it is worth. The
writer says :
All is now changed--times, circumstances, cad men.
Yes, all is now changed; and if Europe has never had
any aggression to fear from France, France on her cid()
has no longer any attack to apprehend from Europe.
Between 1792 and 1832 there is an abyss. There is now
a new state of things and a new spirit; there are other
interests and other ideas; even be hits are modified in
the movement of civilization which leads nations to-
wards a future of industry, arts, and sciences. France
and England themselves, those two secular enemies who
so long disturbed the world with their divisions, no
longer thick of contending except in the peaceful fields
of commerce; the people only dispute in the markets.
There is not one who now places his pride and his
ambition in ravaging countries, in burning towns, in
conquering territories and extending frontiers. There
are some who dream of the domination of the seas
because they are the roads of commerce. But this
is only a mercantile question. The national feeling
still exists in tho hearts cf the people; but the warlike
spirit becom©s every day more and more extinguished in
the north as well as in the south of Europe. It is the
manufacturing spirit which now everywhere prevails.
People like governments only dreamt of conquests and
of victories. Now all nations only think of rendering
their soils fruitful, and of developing their manufactures.
There is not one thet is not alarmed at the idea of war,
and who does not see in a conflAgration in Europe the
greatest calamity that, in the present state of civilization,
could afflict humanity. On the part of governments
as on the part of the people, there is no leaning to-
wards war, no desire for conquest. The taste and ne-
cessity for peace is everywhere felt. Europe
would be senseless to stake the peace of nations
in order that the Government of France should be
a Monarchy rather than a Republic or an Empire,
and that the chief of the Government should
be called a Bourbon rather than a Bonaparte. All the
chances of the future are therefore fur peace and not for
for war. If in times of barbarism war was an instru-
ment of progress, now it is peace alone which can give
humanity the time to reap whit civilization has sown.
What would be now gained 'by precipitating masses
against each other? We can no longer understand those
rencontres of whole nations. In the present state of
feeling there is no longer place in Europe for a con-
queror; France herself could no longer produce a new
CreAar, now rho can only give to the world a new
Augustus."

ti.A.: few days
.ago two venerable Canadian prelates,
E CE, Bishop of St. Hyacinthe and M. L
Ren°_e_QuoE„,jr%ooadjutor Elect of Montreal,' had anaudAi:
aien,;e:nrivi tice Louis NAPOLEON, in which the PRE-
xv.testified_o the greatest sympathy for the mis-
fortunenhoiiothhthheadsulea,terelyrsfallen on the city of Moot.
their acceptanceinatofohurth part of the inhabitants had
of
e greatest distress, and begged
2000 f. towards alleviating the
prerivLabtiyonlvs plunged
x p €. n s e s ofth .e:tthfhTeettl
by The
the vUihnoilvecrasmi favouronunt
1 to defry the e
atl EpwremsAenx,
10,841 f. 45c.
Ambassador, has
Prince CA LLIMAKT,
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ii iso rn. N instituted
the
cm:,
rl.Ysitriescnt
oere; ,ToSAfV where
Dhe
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JewsNh zieEwß was
returned to Paris trona
taking the waters.
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Fg. rraalrihdceer7tbolblocik place on Tuesday morning. The coffin
having been taken to the synagogue of the Rue Notre
Dante de Nazareth, was there received by the Rabbi
ISIDORE, fifth twelve delegates, and the officers at-
tached to that place of worship. The brother of the
deceased, M. ENNERY, ex-representative of the people,
acted 23 chief mourner; and in the synagogue were
the family of Baron RtaIISCRILD, M. FOULD, brother
of the Minister of State, M. CERFBEER, M. ALLEGRY,
M. ANspACII, Procureur of the Republic„ the rib-
hies of the departments, &c.The body was received
with chants from the Pallas
of DAVID. The It%Lbi 4

IsiucatE then pronounced en address, in which he re-
capitulated the virtues of the deceased. This eulogiuna
being terminated, another portion of the Psalms was
chanted, after which the funeral cortege proceeded to
Pere Lachaise, where the body was interred.
Public securities continue to rise in value at the
Bourse. Tho Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at
1051. 40c., and closed at 104 f. 55a. for the cud of the
month. The Three per Cents. closed at 76f. 85c.; Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,4304; Rouen, 8771. 50c.; Havre,
370 f. ; Great Northern, 667 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 4771. 50e.;
Basle, 305 f ; Paris and Strasburg, 662 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 7781.
• ; Lyons and Avignon, 5871. 50e.;
Western of France, 6001.; St. Dizier to Gray, 545 E
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 25.
East Indian, 274—Grand Junction of France, 5,A—
Luxembourg, 6;,,—Madras 2„8
p.—Namur and Liege, 6N
Paris and Rouen, 341/2 ex d.—Paris and Strasbourg. 26 1/2—
_Rouen and Havre, 14%—Sambre and Meuse,7%—Western
of France, 9 % ex d.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journnls of the 20th have arrived.
The Gazette contains a royal decree, by which the
purchase of the Madrid and Aranjuez Railway by the
Government is officially announced, together with
the conditions of sale, and the lease of the railway to
Senor SALAMAINCA, who has made a better bargain
than was at first stated. The Government are to pay
fur the railway 60,200,000 reels, half in common road
shares, and half in railroad shares ; the whole to be
issued by the Government, and delivered by the 31st
of December, and bearing 6 per cent. interest, and 1
per cent. shaking•fund. Twenty millions of common
road shares are to be issued at once. Senor SALA-
MANCA is next declared to have become the lessee of
the line for five years, at a rent of 1,500,000 reels per
annum ; he is to pay all expenses of the same, to
keep it in full action, in due repair, &c., and to
deliver it up at the expiration of the term in the same
state as at present.
The fourth article declares as guarantees of the
interest, 40.--lst, the general responsibility of the
State ; 2d,
the railroad itself for the capital of the
stock issued ; and 3d, the products of the railroad for
the interest of the stock • an account to be given
to the Cortes, and the Minister of Public Works
(FoMENTo) is charged with, the execution of the
decree, which is dated San Ildefonso, 13th August,
and countersigned MARIANO MIGUEL REYNOSO.
The Three per Cents. were done at 45-; ; the New
Three per Cents. at 22 15-16; the Debt of the first
Class at 11 15.16 ; and that of the second at si.

GERAN Y.
The Second Chamber of M
tbe States of Electoral
Hesse adopted on the 21st the proposition of the Go-
vernment, tending to obtain the authorisation to con-
clude a loan of one-and•a-half millions of thalers, to
cover the excess of expenses of the years 1849,1850,
and 1851. The Opposition had combatted the pro-
position, contending that the vote of the Constitution
ought to precede the vote of authorisation solicited by
the Government.
A religious service was celebrated at Ischl on the
18th, in commemoration of the birthday of the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA. It was attended by the personages
of distinction now stopping there, by the public
functionaries, and by a great number of the inhabi-
tants. At Trieste the national hymn was twice sung
on the demand of the public, and the town was illu-
minated.

A letter from Rendsburg of the 16th, in the Augs-
burg Gazette, confirms the rumour that the fortifica-
tions of that place are to be demolished. It will be
remembered that the fortress in question was
thoroughly repaired, and its number of guns
increased in 1848, when the Schleswig-Holsteiners
refused allegiance to Denmark. After the battle of
Idsledt General WILLISEN had caused the whole for-
tress to be surrounded with strong entrenchments,
with a view to thrn it into a fortified camp. He also
erected two mud forts with blockhouses, viz., Fort
Schleswig to the north, and Fort Rudelsdorf, between
the canal of the river and the road to Eckernfoerde,
These being solely built to oppose the strategical
operations of the Danes, were razed immediately
after the conclusion of the war; as for the other works
erected by General WILLISEN, orders have already
been given for their removal. It i., however, still
uncertain whether the stoneworks existing before
1848 will be taken down or not. The large arsenal
in whioh the Schleswig-Holsteiners had accumulated
arms for upwards of 40,000 men, is now empty, all
its contents having been shipped to Copenhagen.

BELGIUM.
The Emancipation of Brussels states that the Bel-
gian Alinistry does not intend to convoke the Cham-
bers before the month of October, as the ratification
of the treaty with France is not obligatory before
November.

The samejournal gives an account of another mani-
festation made against Marshal HAYNAU on the even-
ing of Monday. From ten o'clock to midnight nume-
rous groups collected on the Place Royale, where
groans and bootings took place, and isolated cries of
" Tigre !' " Hjene ;" and " Bourreau de femmes!"
&c., were heard. The police interfered and dis-
persed the assunblage, but no fresh arrests were
made. It is stated that Marshal HATNeu, from ad-
vice that Ins been given him, intends to leave Brussels
immediately.

ITALY.
We have received accounts (says the Constitution-
net) from Palermo of the 17th. The Prince DE
SATRIANo had returned there, and had returned the
Government of Sicily, having withdrawn the resigna-
tion he had tendered. Some days before his depar-
ture for the baths of Ischia, he was the object of a
special mark of consideration on the part of the King
of the Two SICILIES. The KING, accompanied by
the royal family, went in his steamboat to Ischia, and
bad a conference with the Prince, when an explana-
tion, courteous on one side, and frank and devoted on
the other, removed all the differences between the
KING and his Lieutenant in Sicily, to the great regret
of some courtiers and revolutionists.
In the sitting of the 17th of the Royal Court
of Florence, when the case of GUERAZZI and
others for high treason was adjourned to the 26th,
Advocate ANDREOZZI, one of the counsel for
the defence', rose, and observed that the offi-
cial announcement of the trial, posted up at
the doors of the court, was written in such a way as to
lead inattentive readers into a gross mistake as to the
nature of the case under trial. The title of the case
was set forth as follows --High Treason and Theft
in large capitals, and the words in so far as relates to
Marchetti alone in very small writing, so that a super-
ficial observer might think that the word theft ap-
plied to all the defendants, whereas it was but right
the public should know " that the defendants' bench
comprised one of the most illustrious writers of Italy,
and other gentlemen, who,
although unfortunate, were
all respectable. " He, therefore, applied to the court to
have the
name of MARCELETTI placed alone at the bot-
tom of the list, with the accusation of theft, peculiar
to him, on the same line. The President replied,
that this application ought not to have been made in
op en court, but to him alone; but that if it were
brought regularly before the Chamber of Council, he
would attend to it.

MISS MARTINEAU IN •Th
.LIELFAST.—This eminent
authoress visited Belfast last week, and, on Thursday, pro-
ceeded to Dublin on her way to the west of Ireland. It i
now twenty-one years since Miss Martineau paid her la t
visit to this country, having, in the meantime, travelled in
the East and America, giving to the world, as usual, instruc-
tive and entertaining accounts of her wanderings.
We understand that the authorities have it in con-
templation to purchase the extensive property of the Earl of
place for
Harrington, situated at_ Old Brompton, for the purpose of
erecting a new National Gallery. The Government are fa-
vourably disposed as to the site as a moat eligible
_-3forning Herald.the building.
or Lord Cosmo Russell, of
Brevet-igaj the 93d
Highlanders, is about to retire from the service.
EAST INDIES.—The papers respecting the c
[of the Ameer Ali Morad have been printed • "duet
, with a c
the proclamation issued on the 21st January last bormorf
Frere, the commissioner in Sande, by order of
the forfeiture vernor-General, declaring . .
to the the Go-
Frere,
British
Government of all the territories held by the Aweer
except those which he receivedl from his father, on the
ground of his having wrong ly obtained possession of
portion of those territoriesb by a forged documenta
" The styled,
" The Treaty of IsTowna se.r. .
of the
commissioners appointed to intoirneqsiumlrteoftete conduct of Ali
Morad are given fully. The
thelnquiry was, that
in the opinion of the commissionersirresistible, charge
by Sheikh Ali Russell brow ht
was and they had - -
to the conclusion there.
fore no liesitatior in coining
Meer AI that the fraud
was effected by his Highness i Monad, and most
probably at the time and in the manner set forth In that
charge.
GUYS ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning last Charles
Attewell, a labourer, in 'the employment of Mr. 'William
Shaw, farmer, of Newbury, Berks,.was walking through the
fields with a loaded gun, when he incautiously used it in en-
deavouring to obtain some nuts from one of the hedges.
The trigger having become entangled in the branches, the
gun exploded, and the charge was lodged in the poor fellow's
arm. Although greatly enfeebled by the excessive hemor-
rhage he succeeded in reaching his home, when he initne.
diately received medical assistance, which war, however, on_
avang, and he expired withiti an hour. The deceased was
23 years of age, and has left a wife and two children.
The receipts of the different theatres, spectacleq
concerts, &c., of Paris, for the month of July, amounted to
463,121 f. 35c., being a decrease, as compared with June, of
225,103 f. 6c., and 555,189 f. 60c. less than in May, when al,
receipts amounted to 1,018,310 f. 95c. It must be, c
however,
mentioned that in May all the theatres were open, while i_
July the Odeon, the Theatre Lyrique, the Ambigu, and "
the
Ga to were closed. - -

ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE MARCHIONESS OF OR.
moNDL —This event took place on Tuesday, at the Castle,
Kilkenny, where her Ladyship was safely delivered of a son,
The Marchioness and the noble infant are both doing well.
DUTCH CATTLE.—The vessel William Penn ar-
rivedarri-
from Nieu Die has has brought upwards of 1,400 ;beep,
besides 83 head of oxen and cows,_and 24 calves, comprising
the entire cargo, the produce of Holland. Some large
Pals of sheep have lately taken place by this vessel from the
port mentioned, but this is the largest importation of the kind
from abroad which has ever taken place.