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bastian, and did therefore great, service. I fear that the
total loss killect„‘VOidll'?.., and prisoners, is not less than
1,000. unfortunately, are not important.
Thcv.-6 is no concert among the different troops in this ser-
vice, the French, Portuguese, and
.Spaßia'rN most
part, acting independentlyl, enough, col-
lectively. to pot !I'*4 6ariists, there is no chance of it
white ¢icy remain thus disunited."

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
" ST. SEBASTIAN, MAY 5, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.
—At last we have obtained glory, and such as is not to be
surpassed even in reference to our Peninsular war. We
have driven the Carlist force out of the strongest fortifica-
tions ever seen by old officers. The Spaniards themselves
acknowledge they could not have done the same with
20,000—our force was 4,200. Of course we suffered tre-
mendously--500 killed and wounded, and nearly 80 officers
put /pit de combat. The disproportion is very great, but
had it not been for the gallant conduct of the officers, all
would have been lost, Men were falling like hay before
the scythe, whiub terrified the rest and caused great con-
fusion,. Regiments got mixed, and it was only by the
officers waving their swords and exclaiming—' Now, my
brave boys, follow me,' that they were rallied ; thus the ex-
posure of the officers and the great mortality amongst them.
I regret to tell you that my poor friend Hamilton was
shot dead. Only four of our officers escaped without
wounds. As for myself, I went out as an amateur, but
found the fire so tremendouS, that I thought it pru-
dent to return, particularly as I should only have bee❑
blamed for neglect of my own duty in town, and being called
a fool for my pains had I been wounded. Our regiment
has distinguished itself wonderfully. The colonel and both
majors and the captain are only wounded. How we drove
them from such strongholds is the wonder of all. It was
completed in seven hours. The sortie commenced at one
o'clock in the morning, and by nine we lowered the Vir-
gin Mary banner. The first fire commenced at two o'clock—
it was quite dark. The first three lines were taken with-
out a shot being fired on our part. Their loss must have
been nearly equal to ours, besides five pieces of cannon. The
Salamander steam-vessel takes this to England, on board
which General Evans also sends his despatches. The Spa-
niards here have behaved nobly to us. The landlords were
out, and posted themselves at the gates, and as wounded
officers were brought in, took them to their houses, and in-
sisted upon their not being taken to the hospital. The few
women who remained in town acted also wonderfully well.
They went out on the road with wine and bread, and gave
it to the poor fellows as they came in. This in a measure
makes up for our bad treatment at Vittoria. I think now
they will regret our loss."
(From the French Papers.)
The Messager states that, according to accounts it has
received, the Carlists lost in the affair related in the above
bulletin (that of General Evans, which we published yes-
tarday) as many as 2,000 men. On the Queen's side the
Commander of the Chapelgories was killed ; but by way of
compensation the Carlists have lost Segastibelza, whose skill
and bravery had long placed him in the line of their most
distinguished chiefs.
The Plzare de Bayonne, of the 7th inst., gives the fol-
lowing intelligence from Valencia, of the 23d ult.:—" Ge-
neral Roten has routed the insurgents, and driven them
from Camarillas and Fortanete ; but his success has caused,
the Queen's troops a loss of 154 soldiers and three officers,
who were shot immediately after having been made pri-
soners by the Carlists. These assinations are made in con-
sequence of an order from Cabrera, whom Don Carlos has
just made a General. The insurgents still occupy Le
Villar, La Llosa, Le Mas del Carrol, and Le Alas del
Cassino, villages and positions from five to nine leagues to
the west of Valencia. The archbishop of Seville, who was
exiled to Alicant, has arrived in the province."

SUBSTANCE OF THE INFORMATION RE-
CEIVED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

" Accounts have been received at the Admiralty from
Lord J. Hay, of the action fought on the sth, at St. Se-
bastian, in which the double lines of the Carlists were
stormed by the British Legion and some Spanish troops.

" About 6,000 men, including 1,500 Spaniards, moved
out of St. Sebastian at daylight on the sth, to attack the
entrenched positions of the insurgents.
" These positions appeared impregnable, but were stormed
one after another by these brave men, in a manner that
created one universal feeling of adniiration.
" It is impossible to state with accuracy the amount of
killed and wounded, but, according to the most favourable
accounts, the number amounts to between 500 and 600,
and a large proportion of superior and other officers
wounded.

" The insurgent's loss must have been considerable.
Two pieces of artillery and a stand of colours were taken.
" His Hajesty's steam-vessels Phenix and Salamander
were enabled to render most essential service ; and the fire
from the Phcvnir destroyed an angle of the principal re-
doubt which enabled two regiments of the British Legion
to enter."

The Marquis of 'Westminster, to his tenants, made
a return of ten per cent. upon their rents, at the last rent day.
—Cheshire Examiner.

ANNUITY TAX.—Councillor Russell and Mr.
Chapman, who were confined in Edinburgh jail for non-pay-
ment of the annuity tax, are again at liberty. Mr. Russell's
constituents, the municipal electors of the first ward, paid on
Tuesday last the sum for which he was incarcerated, and re-
stored him to freedom. Mr. Chapman was released from
prison on Sunday on account of bad health.
LIBEL LAW.—In an action against the Manchester
Guardian the Judge, in charging the Jury, said—" It seems
to me sufficient if, in substance, the charge against the plaintiff
is proved. It is, that, lie in confederacy with William Jones,
entered into a scheme for obtaining goods without the inten-
tion of paying for them. If that is proved, I think it will be
sufficient." This decision is the commencement of a reformed
and more rational mode of judging the sufficiency of justifica-
tion in actions of libel.

On Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions,
Henry Creed, conductor to an omnibus, was summoned to an-
swer the charge of Mrs. Sibley, of Holland-place, Kensing-
ton. The lady stated she called to the defendant for the pur-
pose of going to town with her sister. The latter got in first,
and on witness getting on the second step, the defendant sud-
denly called to the coachman to go on, saying, " all was
right." She refused to go unless he stopped the vehicle, when
the defendant seized her with great violence, and she was
dragged several yards, when the defendant, loosing his hold,
she fell on her face in the road. The defendant, in defence,
alleged that he endeavoured all in his power to prevent the
lady falling, and said the cause of his desiring the coachman to
go on was, that one of Cloud's omnibuses was opposing him.
The Bench fined him 255. and costs.

PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday last a gentleman
undertook, for a considerable bet, to walk from Glasgow to
Edinburgh within the space of ten hours, a distance of 44
miles. He started on his journey at six o'clock in the morn-
ing, and completed his task, by arriving at Edinburgh at 15
seconds before three o'clock in the afternoon, although lie
rested twice on the road, by which he lost 25 minutes—thus
accomplishing the distance nine hours less 15 seconds, and
having an hour to spare.

It is computed that the proceedings before the Com-
mittee appointed to try the merits of the Dublin election will
be attended with an expense of not less than 100,000/. ; but
the expense incurred before the Commissioners appointed to
hear evidence in Dublin will be paid.by the public.

. .
REVOLTING CASE.—A young woman of irregular
habits, having visited Stockport from Manchester on Tuesday,
was grossly ill-treated by seven men on that night in Waterloo-
road. A disgusting outrage was committed on her person
by the whole gang ; and, to add to their villainy, one of them
drew from his pocket a knife, with which he inflicted upon
her wounds and lacerations of the most frightful nature.
After this cruelty, the perpetrators repeated their brutal vio-
lation, and left the wretched woman exposed in the open air,
and in a dying condition. Providentially she was soon disco-
vered, and removed to the Infirmary, where she still lies.—
Cheshire Examiner.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--On Tuesday night a
most determined at self-destruction was made by a young girl,
named Eary Anne Povey, not more than 15 years of age, who
resided with her parents at No. 18, Queen-street, Grosvenor
square. It appears that about ten o'clock on the above night,
in consequence of the long stay of the unfortunate girl down
stairs, her mother went to look after her, when, on opening
the door of the front parlour, she was discovered lying on the
floor in a state of insensibility, and weltering in blood. On
lifting her up, a fearful gash was discovered in her throat, from
which the blood was fast flowing, and in her right hand a ra-
zor was firmly grasped, with which there is no doubt she
had inflicted the wound. No cause can be assigned by any
member of the family, or any of her friends, for her extraordi-
nary conduct, and as she has ever, since her inflicting the
wound been unable to articulate, the reason of her doing so
will probably never be known.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—Yesterday morn-
ing, at four o'clock, Richard Parman, a trumpeter in the First
Regiment of Life Guards, which is quartered in the Regent's-
park Barrack, died in the hospital of hydrophobia. About
three weeks ago, a little dog of the Blenheim breed came to
the barrack gates, when, as he appeared to have no owner,
Parman became its possessor, and he took it home to his wife.
During the three first days that it was there, the deceased's
wife remarked to him that it snapped at everything it came
nigh ; when, as she grew very importunate for its removal, she
at length prevailed upon her husband to turn the animal out ;
but in doing which he was bit on the thumb. The wound
healed up, and no symptoms appeared till about the latter end
of last week, when the part got irritable, and on Tuesday morn-
ing early he was placed in the hospital, under symptoms of
hydrophobia. He was attended till death put an end to his
sufferings. Parman bad been many years in the regiment, and
was about 30 years of age. He was a steady man, and as a
soldier respected by all his comrades. Two other men, it is
said, have been bitten by the same dog.
Two of the coaches between Hastings and the
metropolis are running at the reduced fares of 4s. and 55., a
rivalry of which the public have no cause to complain. —Brighton
Guardian. _ _

Thursday being the fast day, was observed with the
usual solemnities in this city.—Edinburgh Courant.

LITERATURE:

COLBURN',..3I',OPERS IV,OV.FL.t.Srg; Vot.
L01t0n,18:36.
•

This volume contains the whole of Mr. Bulwer's
popular tale " Devereux," together with a dedicatory
address to Mr. A uldjo, and is embellished with two
illustrations, 'wither of which are remarkable for ability.

FINE ARTS.

SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.—No. I.
C. Tilt. London. 1836.

Mr. Tilt has here hit upon a good idea. Every
one is acquainted with the principal female characters
of Shakspeare, and formed to himself some notion of
their personal appearance : and the present work is
an attempt to embody them in a series of fancy por-
traits. The Number before us contains three such
likenesses—one of Viola, the second of Beatrice, and
the third of Anne Page—" sweet Anne Page," whom
to read of, is to fall in love with. We do not, how-
ever, think her portrait a successful one. It wants
archness, and that laughing, coquetish spirit which we
all so much relish in the " Merry Wives of Windsor."
But Viola is indeed a gem. She is simply and
gracefully attired in the garb of a page ; and a more
symmetrical figure—with the single exception of the
neck, which is a trifle too thick—and more enchant-
ing countenance, with just enough of serious senti-
ment in it to convey the idea of a pure and elevated
character, we never yet met with, even among the
lovely female creations of Leslie. The youthful
Helen, before her marriage with Menelaus, and when
a dozen kings of Greece ran mad for her, must, we
take it, have been very like this bewitching Viola.
At any rate, if she was not, she ought to have been, if
only to justify the lunacy of so many monarchs. This
one portrait is alone sufficient to stamp the character
of this first Number.

MEMORIALS OF OXFORD, No. XLI.
Parker. Oxford.

Contains a striking view, which every one who is
familiar with the locality will at once recognize, of
Pembroke College, Oxford. The literary explanations
are from the pen of Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity,
and are copious and minute, without being unnecessarily
diffuse. But when is the work to be brought to a
conclusion ? At least a hundred weight of Numbers
—this being the forty-first—has already appeared, and
if we may judge from the symptoms before us, they
bid fair to " stretch to the crack o' doom." We fear,
if the work be not soon closed, that the public will
be apt to exclaim with Lord Byron, " something too
much of this."

NAPOLEON GALLERY, P4IT XII.
C. Tilt. London. 1836.
A cheap and commodious little publication, which
which will bind up with the 12mo editions of Scott's
" Life of Napoleon." The present part consists of
eight spirited engravings in outline, illustrative of
the earlier military achievements of the Emperor.

There was a grand treat at pistol shooting on Friday
at Long's Gallery, in the Haymarket, between a well-known
crack shot and the Oxford gentleman who has been beating
all England at pigeon shooting. It was at twelve yards dis-
tance, at small wafers. The Oxford gentlemen hit upwards
of fifty in the hundred shot, and won.
ROYAL CHARLEY BACK AGAIN.—We have re-
ceived the following account of the departure from Greenock
of Charles Edward Stuart and his brother, John Sobieski
Stuart. They are said to be grandsons of Charles Edward
Stuart, the Pretender. Of course they must be illegitimate,
as the present King of Sardinia is the heir of that Prince :
On Friday Charles Edward Stuart, and his brother John,
grandsons of the Pretender, embarked at Greenock on board
the Foyle, for Londonderry. These scions of the house of
Stuart belong to Italy, and have been on a tour to the north
of Scotland, visiting the places famed in the romantic adven-
tures of their ancestor, the Young Ascanius. They are good-
looking young men, and bear a strong resemblance to the best
portraits of " Royal Charley." They speak the Italian,
French, English, Gaelic, and Irish languages, and are always
attired in the Highland costume of the House of Stuart, and
accompanied by a piper of the clan. They have never worn
any other dress than the kilt and its Highland appendages, and
their seal is a crown. At the time they embarked, the piper
played some of the principal Jacobite airs, composed as la-
ments at the misfortunes of the Pretender. A number of
Highlanders of the higher and middle classes went on board
to have a peep at the strangers, and although they to a man
were all of the High Tory cast, yet they looked with venera-
tion on the Stuarts. The visitors and passengers assembled in
the cabin seemed determined to honour the memory of " Royal
Charley," by quaffiing a bumper of the best Glenlivet. One
of the company was deputed to ask permission of Charles
Edward, who respectfully declined the honour intended, and
said that it was not proper under present circumstances. The
brothers expressed their high gratification at the enthusiasm of
the Greenock Celtic Tories, and seemed much affected.._
Glasgow Chronicle.
DEAL.—The Magistrates appointed under the new
Municipal Bill have unanimously tendered their resignation.
A letter, it appears, was addressed a few days since to the
Tuwn Clerk, by command of Lord John Russell, signifying
that a separate Court of Quarter Sessions at Deal would in fu-
ture be abolished.—Kent Herald.

RAMSGATE.-011 Monday morning, during the
tempestous weather, the wind blowing strong to the eastward,
a schooner, in endeavouring to make the harbour, got aground
on the " White Dike," where she received so much damage
that she bilged and went down in deep water, just in the track
of the vessels that enter at low water, and near to the " Old
Cudd Buoy ;" as the crew has not been heard of it is feared all
have perishe : whence she was bound, or what her cargo, is
not known. On the following day a Prussian Galliot, timber
laden, and bound to Southampton, got on the " Brake," and
the sea running so high that no assistance could be rendered
for some hours, the crew, nine in number, were seer. clinging
to the bowsprit, expecting every moment she would sink, but
the weather abating about /0 p. m. the boatmen succeeded in
rescuing them from a watery grave. Much praise is due to
the boatmen for their exertions on this occasion. The wea-
ther improving yesterday morning, the Ramsgate Steamer
went and took the Hull in tow and brought her into the har-
bour.—Kent Herald.

During the Polish Revolution, Mr. B. was en-
trusted with the difficult task of watching •orer the safety of
Warsaw. When the arms of Russia prevailed, he fled to
Paris with his young wife, from whom, soon afterwards, he
was compelled to separate himself. The lady went to lodge
in a furnished hotel in the Passage du Pont Neuf, where she
formed an intimate connection with a medical student. A few
days ago, however, he informed her that necessity obliged
him to leave her, and he went to seek another lodging for
himself. On returning, he found that, in despair, she had
taken a quantity of arsenic. Every means were immedi-
ately taken to counteract the poison, but in vain. She ex-
pired the following day in dreadful convulsions, in the 23d
year of her age, and was buried at the expense of the Polish
refugees.
In the production of cast-iron from the blast fur-
nace a wonderful improvement has been effected by the in-
troduction of heated air into the blast furnace, instead of
cold as formerly. The temperature of heated air first so
applied was 300 degrees, and this has been raised to 600,
which is sufficient to melt lead. This new process saves the
necessity of converting coal into coke before being thrown into
the furnace, so that the iron-works are no longer enveloped in
dense clouds of smoke. The coals are thrown into the furnace
just as they come from the mine, and are converted into coke
by the time they reach the blast. A great saving of coals is
also effected by this process. Eight tons of coals were for-
merly used in producing one ton of cast-iron, but by the new
process only three arc consumed in producing the same quan-
tity of iron.
TIIE KING'S FETE AT PARlS.—Notwithtanding
the unfavourable state of the weather on Sunday, a consider-
able crowd flocked towards the Champs Elysees and the Bar-
rier° du Trone • but soon after the games and gaieties had
commenced a heavy shower fell, and this, added to the ex-
treme cold, greatly thinned the number. As the rain dimi-
nished, the scenes of pleasure became gradually re-peopled,
and the orchestras continued their music and the actors their
representations ; but about four o'clock the rain augmented,
and continued to fall incessantly during the whole evening,
and from that hour the Champs Elysees were comparatively
deserted. The competitors for the prizes at the summit of the
moat de cocayne were, much to their mortification, compelled to
renounce their struggle, so inconveniently slippery had the
pole been rendered by the moisture. A considerable number
of persons proceeded to the garden of the Tuileries at five
o'clock, to bear the concert, who, upon their Majesties appear-
ing several times at the balcony, greeted them with shouts of
Vive le Roi " Vine la Reine I" .6 Vice la Fatnille
Royale!" The immense multitude of umbrellas with all their
variegated colours, produced a singular spectacle. The fire-
works, which were on a magnificent scale, were discharged at
half-past eight o'clock; but their effect, as well as that of the
illumination, was much injured by the great quantity of rain
that fell. The Hotel de Ville was very tastefully decorated
and illuminated by gas, which resisted the wind and rain, and
had an extremely pretty effect. The stall and booth keepers,
and the sellers of eatables and drinkables in the open air, as
well as the restaurateurs, coffee-house keepers, and. petty
public-house keepers, who generally gather a harvest on the
occasion of a fete, must have been great sufferers from the
untoward state of the elements.—Galignani,