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thought the yeomanry of Essex were particu-
larly liable to be serviceable in protecting the
Ordnance stores at Waltham.
Lord J. RUSSELL and Sir H. VIVIAN both
stated that the yeomanry were not required for
that service.

On renewing the motion for the House to go
iiito Committee,
Mr. O'CONNELL expressed his regret that the
conduct of the Earl of CARDIGAN had not been
brought distictly under the notice of the House.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman condemned
the court-martial on Captain REYNOLDS for not
having taken into its consideration the mitigat-
ing circumstances of his offence. He also con-
demned the conduct of the Horse Guards for ex-
tending its protection to titles and rank, and re-
fusing it to merit. The Honourable and Learned
Gentleman referred too, very emphatically, to Ca-
nada. He declared that in the civil war which
had already existed there the Government was
wrong; and he cautioned Ministers as to their
future conduct. He referred to the proceedings
of the Bishop of EXETER, which he denounced
as tending to rob the Catholics of Canada, be-
cause they were Catholics. But he would not
believe that such an act of injustice would be
consummated. From Canada Mr. O'CONNELL
went to India, where many of the soldiers are
Catholics ; and he had received many letters
from them complaining of the want of religious
comfort. He assured the House that the present
was a time when they would find it prudent to
conciliate the Catholics of Ireland.

Sir G. GREY, the Judge Advocate, asserted
that the court-martial on Captain REYNOLDS had
strictly done its duty.
Sir DE LACY EVANS thought the court was
not fairly composed. He combatted Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S opinion that the Earl of CARDIGAN
was persecuted because he was a Peer, the fact
being, that a person of title has many means of
making himself popular more than an untitled
man. He also stated that it was not unusual to
place an officer on half-pay who had incurred
displeasure.
Mr. WARBURTON was of opinion that the facts
of the case required an investigation.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained that the rank
of the Earl of CARDIGAN had attracted the no-
tice of the public, not that it had rendered him
unpopular in the army, or with his officers. He
only referred to the affairs of Canada, to say that
any interference with the ordinance would be
considered as intended to withhold a benefit
from Catholics as Catholics.

Mr. HUME thought that Lord HILL should be
removed from the command of the Army.
Mr. MACA ULAY also explained his former
words, and added that they were bound to pro-
vide religious instruction for the Catholics they
sent to India.

Sir R. PEEL deprecated meddling with the
Commander-in-Chief and with the Army. He
approved of the conduct of the Ministry, and
hoped they would persevere in their just course.
After a few words from Colonel SALWEY, Sir
H. HARDINGE explained that he had said the
differences in the Eleventh partook of the nature
of a cabal on the part of some of the officers
he had not attributed a cabal to the whole re-
giment.

The House then went into a Committee of
Supply, and the Committee divided on the vote
for the yeomanry, which was carried by 49 to 14.
Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN then moved the Ordnance
Estimates, several of which were voted, and the
House resumed.

The Copyright Bill went through a Committee,
pro forma, and is to be re-considered on the 17th
instant.

Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in
Bills to amend the Criminal Law. The Noble
Lord explained the objects of these Bills at some
length. No opposition was made, and leave was
given.

The House adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.

The rancorous attacks now making, both in Par-
liament and by the Tory Press, on our Catholic
fellow-subjects is calculated to excite alarm for
the permanent tranquillity of the empire. Do the
Bishop of EXETER, Lord STANLEY, and Mr.
Counatourr suppose that the Roman Catholics
will lie down and be trampled on by them ? If
they do not, why do they seek to make the Le-
gislature an instrument for oppressing the Catho-
lics? Lord STANLEY, utterly regardless of their
feelings, brings in a Bill avowedly to disfranchise
the Catholic peasantry of Ireland, abate the influ-
ence of the Catholic priesthood, and restore the

ascendancy of the orange landlord. The Irish
Catholics do not for a moment lose sight of this,
—his real object, and the Catholic Journals
have taken for their watchword, Lord MOIL-
PETH'S Bill or Repeal. Lord STANLEY, as Mr.
O'CONNELL said, is the great promoter of re-
peal, if he be not also the fosterer of rebellion.

For mischief he is well matched by the Bishop
of EXETER. The great majority of the inhabi-
tants of Lower Canada are Catholics, who,
through much oppression, have been loyal to
England. The chief of their seminaries in Ca-
nada, San Sulpice, has been in possession of

certain property—for seignories, aswellas tithes,

are property—ever since the year 1760. Their
possession has never been contested, but latterly
it has been thought advisable to commute the
seignories. That was recommended by Mr.
BULLER, in a Report to Earl DURHAM, and after
years of contention the terms were agreed
on between the owners of the seignories
and those who were bound to do them service.
An ordinance to carry them into effect was
passed by Lord SEATON in 1839, but could not be
then rendered effective. •It has subsequently
been passed by Lord SYDENHAM, and properties
to the value of 65,973/. had been enfranchised
under that ordinance between last July and last
January. The Governor-General, on the spot,
declares that the disallowance of this ordinance
would be most disastrous. Nevertheless, the
Bishop of EXETER, out of a rabid hatred to the

the Catholics in every part of the empire into P
determined resistance to the Legislature. Such
conduct may be Christian, charitable, Protes-
tant, and just).- We\ are, however, quite sure,
that, under our present circumstances, it is not
politic.

The ground on which the Bishop of EXETER
and the Times defend their conjoint attack on Lord
SYDENHAM'S ordinance, calling it illegal, anti-
Protestant, usurping, and a host of other names,
is the following Act of ELIZABETH. In the 16th
section of the Act of 1 ELIZABETH, cap. 1, it is
enacted—

" That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state; or poten-
tate, spiritual or temporal, shall at any time after this Session
of Parliament use, exercise, or enjoy any manner of power,
jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence, or privilege,
spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm, or within any other
your Majesty's dominions or countries that now be, orhereafter
shall be."

Now this enactment is one of the many lies
with which the Statute Book is incumbered. The
Tories at this moment complain continually of
the influence and power of the POPE. No statute
can put a stop to it ; it has always existed, in
fact, to some extent, and will exist, till men,
ashamed of priestcraft, put it down; but on this
abortion of an enactment the Bishop of EXETER
and the rest of the Tories find themselves justi-
fied in throwing Canada into flames. How
strangely must their minds be constituted when
they have such a reverence for ancient falsehood.
But any weapon will serve an angry man ; the
Tories just now are very angry—very hungry,
too, for office—and they would rather, under the
guidance of a Bishop and a ci-devant patriot,
plunge the empire into strife than not give way
to their blind passions. They can afford, great
a stake as they are supposed to have in the coun-
try, ,to promote a bloody contest, which is not
likely, they think, even to spatter their garments;
but the bulk of the people here, in Canada, and
in Ireland cannot afford to butcher each other
under the hostile banners of the Bishop of
ROME and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in
order to gratify the bigotry and malignancy of
any Bishop or any Lordling.

We are happy to announce that there is an
immediate pruspect of an amicable termination
of all differences between Fiance and the Four
Powers, relative to the Eastern question. Al-
ready have Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Eng-
land, signed a Protocol, announcing the expira-
tion of the Treaty of the 15th of July, the acts
which it was intended to perform being happily
accomplished. The Treaty of July, which gave
such umbrage to France, has therefore no longer
an existence. Having made this formal conces-
sion to the susceptibilities of France the Powers
next proposed to her a plan for placing the con-
servation of the peace and integrity of Turkey
under the joint guarantee of the Five Great
Powers—a proposition which, we have pleasure
in stating, has been received in the amicable
spirit in which it was conceived by the present
French Cabinet. There is no longer anything to
quarrel about, and M. Guizot is too wise and pa-
triotic a statesmen to indulge in the fiendish
1 axury of keeping before the public the long-
buried national hatreds, which the exorcisms of
M. TRIERS compelled to start from their un-
hallowed sepulchres.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been
duly received. They are principally occupied
with the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on

Saturday on the condition of the slave popula-
tion of Guadaloupe, in the course of which dis-
closures were made which must cover with eter-
nal infamy M. THIERS and the Cabinet of the Ist
of March. Every day brings forth some fresh
disclosure of the scandalous dishonesty of the
Ex-President of the Council. This, for M.
TRIERS, unfortunate discussion, was commenced
by M. LACROSSE, who put some questions to the
Minister of Marine and Colonies concerning the
case of a planter, who had been tried in Gua-
daloupe for brutally confining a female slave for
twenty-two months in an iron cage, and who
was not only acquitted, but carried in triumph
on the shoulders of the planters, although the
atrocious charge was clearly proved. Admiral
DUPERRE, on the part of the Government, de-
nounced the sentence of acquittal as infamous,
and promised inquiry. M. JOLLIVET, who re-
ceives a salary of 20,000 francs for defending
the horrors of the slavery- system in Mar-
tinique, had the audacity to defend the infamous

Catholics, and to their priests, which he avows as
his motile, is to move on Friday next, with, we

wretch who had confined a human being as
tlie keeper of a menagerie would a tiger, or a
hyena, or other wild beast. M. PASSY then rose,
and as a Member of the Commission for In-
quiring into the state of the Slave system, de-
liberately charged M. THIERS, not only with
throwing obstacles in the way of the commission,
but with employing the public Money

in influencing the return of Deputies hos-
tile to emancipation ! At this charge symp-
toms of amazement were visible on every
countenance, and M. TRIERS, who but a mo-
ment before was in his place, was suddenly
nowhere to be found. M. DE REAIUSAT attempted
a lame defence of himself by stating that he knew
nothing of such proceedings on the part of his
colleague, but M. PAssY 'silenced him by offer-
ing to prove that the late Cabinet had set aside a
sum of money out of the credits of 1840 to pro-
cure the return of anti-Abolitionists to represent
the Colonies. Expressions of general disgust now
rose from all sides of the Chamber, and before a
moment was allowed for it to subside, M. AUGUIS
rose and read the following modest epistle amid
the ironical cheers acid laughter of the Chamber,
which admirably exposes the mock philanthropy,
and mock liberality and honesty, of the ex-Presi-
dent of the Council :-
64 LETTER OF M. GRANIER DE CASSIONAC, SENT BY AD-
MIRAL ROUSSIN, MINISTER OF MARINE AND COLONIES
IN THE TRIERS CABIN-ET, TO GUADALOUPE, ON A MIS-
SION, AND WHO IS NOW DELEGATE FOR THAT COLONY.
" My dear Sir,—Feuillide, who wjll call upon you, and who
leaves to-morrow for Toulon, on a Government mission, to go
on board the frigate Atalante, which touches at Senenr4l and
Ca}enne, v ill give you a friendly shake of the hand for me.
He will exp!ain to you how how certain engagements which I
have with the Cabinet compel me to remain here, otherwise
we should have loft together ; but it will depend on Guada-
loupe whether rr y voyage is deferred.

"I wrote at ICngtli to D-, in order to detail the plan of
defence which would be, in my opinion, the most efficacious,
and the only efficacious one. . That is likewise the opinion of
the most enlightened colonists who are here, and who see that
all the power of our time is in the press. It is quite clear at
a time -and in a country where every thing may be said, the
one who speaks best is naturally in the right. D- will com-
municate my letter, and I am going to tell you what I have not
said to him. N. de Jabrun has sent us, without putting him-
self too much out of the way, by-the-bye, since he even did
not take the trouble to give us notice, the 6,000 francs, which
had been voted to all three by the Council.
_ .

regret to state, the support of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, that this ordinance be disallowed. 1-1(
is determined to demonstrate to the Catholics of

Canada that they must not rely on the English
. _

Government for justice and protection. -Will
they, particularly if a time of peril and war

should arrive, submit to this injury, or will their
loyalty be enhanced by learning that some bigoted
priest in the House of Peers, of a different reli-
gion from theirs, have a veto on every ordinance
which may be passed for their benefit, and for
the peace of the Colony ?

, I
rciie:ngauyet hsbti neyk o
onl
resolved
toi
ce
oyi
n(
mnt 1 onuninyiethraei subject
tsitt relations
m with
,istoihniloe explanations,
ir.dedretjhaabtruthne. which
iu.
ill perceive by one of his letters bearing the postmark of the
10th of June, 1837, that he evades owing me any arrears.
They were old date, and he has made no remittance to us
since that period. Three years and more have, therefore, elapsed
without my having received anything from the delegates; and
the 6,000 francs which he remitted to me, with a somewhat cha-
racteristic sally of imagination, is the first money which I have
touched. What he had requested me to accept, before 1837,
amounted to 2,000 francs a year, which he forwaided to me for
two y•ears. At the period when you came to Paris I had already
bought, with the view of being eligible, since the colonies wished
to have a delegate to the Chamber, a small estate for a sum
of 60,000 francs. I pay it off by instalments, and I confess
that in buying it I had reckoned on the annual concurrence
of the colonies. The concurrence entirely failed until this
year. Once, about fifteen months ago, being pressed for a pay-
ment that was due, I went to M. deJabrun, who consented to
lend me 1,000 francs on my own bill. I must say that he re-
turned me my bill this year, when he paid me the 6,000 francs,
informing me that he had retained the amount on some funds
which had arrived from the colonies. I must also add, that
about a month before the arrival of the news which you sent
me, M. de Cools, delegate from Martinique, had remitted to me
1,000 francs. These, Sir, that is to, about a centinie, are all
that I have received since 1837, a period when,
according to
M. de Jabrun's letter, which I annex hereto, there were already
arrears. I beg pardon for having entered into these details,
but I was anxious that you should be informed of my situation
with respect to the Council, and as some exaggerations have
been brought back to me which might be, perhaps, credited for
want of documents, it was necessary for me to enter into minute
details, as well as figures.
" It appears to me, besides, that the colonies must now know
me. I have written for them for three years without even the
slightest acknowledgment on the part of the delegates. There
must, therefore, be a certain authority in
my words. Well, I
assure you that the colonies were wrong to desert me, because
they would have found what to do with use. I can say, be-
cause every one knows it, that I have here a fine position, and
fine future prospects ; I only wanted a small fortune. With
what you give to some stupid people you would have made me
eligible, and you would have had an agent who writes and
those stupid speaks when necessary. I know that I shall make my career
alone ; but I shall take twice as much time as if you had as-
sisted. I sincerely tell you that the colonies are quite wrong
not to understand that. You have fostered certain bankrupt
journals which laugh at you. Feuillidc will prove it to you.
" I have the vanity to believe that though your delegates
the quarrel will thu be
have not acknowleded me for the last three years, I have
been more useful tog you than any of them. I have got rid of
so dangerous. The debate is now between M. de Lsmart.ine
and myself.
fellows, Isambert and others, who were, however,
imagine that you have received the first. letters
I addressed to him on emanciation. He has just written to
ine that he was goingl shall reply, and
s Drought about between us two. Be.
sides, on Sunday t answer. Naturally
next, I descant in the Revue de Paris on

In conjunction with the Bishop of EXETER
and Lord STANLEY, Mr. COLQUROUN brings for-
ward a motion to put down the College of May-
nooth. The Hon. Gentleman aims at suppressing
the only seminary in Ireland for educating the
Catholic priesthood. They have no access to
Trinity College, though on the Continent Catho-
lics and Protestants study theology at the same
University, and have equal privileges. Excluded
from all the opulent national establishments,
which were endowed by Catholics, the State,
which they contribute equally to defend with
tyre Protestants, has niggardly conferred on them
seven or eight thousand a-year to support May-
and this poor boon Mr. COLQUHOUN and
. his friends propose to take away. In the House
of Parliament, then,
(atiteanclkiessmtoadbeeocnhathineedlC: ace
tofii
ei nor
Catholics
ec tdsl:i raeal esi
ds
iisfmc
theyouulit a.gneiedv oe. ur
were
the.
The attacks are well seconded by the Tory
press. The Times of Thursday
aie
hlaoacosctdues
de callsd ino thefce
an
dCdi
net t
--
sign -
tholic priests of Ireland
rii esn o
,f, t 0
M ayn o
betrayot hi: Theyeland into the hands of a fo-
reign Power," to make martyrs of Protestants,
and " to persecute to death every independent
be e endured remonstrant." It is emphatically asked "is this
frightful
and bloody
to despotism
of
red ?" These
the It omish
priests any longer
Romish priests, who exercise this "bloody des-
potism," are
said to live on the estates of the
cclrish landlords by
suffera4lce," who are thus
encouraged to use their power in Parliament and
they out of Parliament, as in fact do use it, to
put down and get rid
of these so-called "bloody
" The Tory press, there-
and despotic tyrants.
fore, of Tory Bishops and
Tory Commoners, an seconds the efforts
d the Tories and bigots,
in Parliament and out of Parliament,
emselves to goad
are diligently exerting th

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1811

Thirty.aevcn•

STREET.

the sugar question. I will send you some of the papers, and
I hope you will be satisfied. I admit to you, frankly and openly,
that the delegation would be an immense thing for me, which
would give me more weight, and would soon make me gain a
seat in the Chamber. It is very possible that I may do so with-
out that, if there is a dissolution this year; but I shall come
there with less importance and independence. lam going to
do my utmost to gain the confidence of the Colonial Council ;
I am certain of the most explicit support from. the Govern-
ment. Feuillide will explain and support my pretensions ; and
I assure you, if I were not in the case, there would be few
competitors who offer better security. Two volumes from me
will appear next week. I will send you some copies, both for
yourself and friends.

" Gentlemen of the Council, give me power; it shall be well
employed on your behalf. I repeat to you that I shall be very
strongly supported by the Government, and on this occasion
I bring the influence of the Revue de Paris, but this time can-
didly and positively, becau'e the President of the Council has
sent the director to me in order that I might make my condi-
tir•n3 for the future. There has been a contract made. I

begin business this week by the sugar question. I will send
you some of the numbers. I find myself, therefore, keeping
the lead at this moment in discussions on colonial matters in
the Revue de Paris, in the Presse, and in the Revue du 19eme
Siecle. It appears that that offers some security to the Colo-
nial Council. Add to that that a delegate, and a deputy at the
same time, only speaks once a year at the Chamber, and that I
am always speaking.--Adieu,"
What a system of hypocrisy, corruption, and
villany does not this letter lay bare ! To silence
the clathours of the Abolitionists at home and in
England, M. TIIIERS appointed a commission of
inquiry, at the same time giving instructions to
the colonists to take no heed of the Commission,
to answer none of its questions, good or bad; and
to return none but Anti-Abolitionists as repre-
sentatives. This M. PASSY affirmed in his speech,
and accordingly, when papers of queries were ad-
dressed to the planters, they, to ridicule the
powers of the Commissioners, replied to each of
them with the word "nil."

Besides the slave question, which has thus af-
fixed an indelible stain of infamy upon M. TRIERS
and his colleagues, the French Journals of Sun-
day publish and discuss the merits of a speech
which the Prince of Moscow, the son of Marshal
N EY, would have spoken. on taking his seat on
the previous day in the Chamber of Peers, had
he not been interrupted by the PRESIDENT. As
this speech displays a pleasing picture of filial
piety, we have given it insertion in another part
of The Sun:—

THE FORTIFICATIONS BILL.—The respective parties are
mustering their forces for the struggle which is about to take
place in the Chamber of Peers. In a recent interview with
the King, the Chancellor, the leader of the Opposition upon
that question, nobly resisted all the Royal entreaties to give up
his enlightened and conscientious opinion ; he has offered his
resignation of the high post which he fills with such admirable
courage and real devotedness to the most sacred interests of his
country. The respective strength of the opposite parties as
thus stated :-100 Peers for the law, such as it has been voted
by the Chamber of Deputies; 50 in favour of the amendment
about to be proposed by Baron Mounier in the name of the Com-
mission, whose labours he is to report; and 50 wavering, and
likely to be brought over by the King's blandishments and real
powers of persuasion. The Ministers say they depend upon a
majority of 30 in favour of the law.
We have received the following letter from the frontiers of
Italy, dated 27th February.
" Nothing has happened to disturb the tranquillity which the
Peninsula enjoys. But the Italian Government do not think
of disarming, and hold themselves in readiness for all events.
'I he attitude assumed by France, though rather equivocal in
the eyes of the French people, has excited the attention of the
Northern Courts, and their great vassals remain armed to take
part in the events which may take place in the scrin7. The
Austrian army cantoned along the frontiers is at its full com-
plement, ready to proceed to any point where there may be an
attempt at insurrection to be suppressed.
" Diplomatic agents of all ranks are passing through Italy,
and a great number of legitimists have lately traversed it to
join the Duke of Bordeaux."

TouLow, MAncx 2.—The mail from Algiers has not yet
arrived; this delay becomes more and more unaccountable.
( The telegraph announced this evening the arrival of the
Phaeton on the 4th, and of the Castor on the sth. It will be
two or three days before we have the letters.)
A letter from Tangiers of the 19th of February, says that
the arrival of three or four armed packets, and the afanounce-
ment of the speedy arrival of some ships of the line, has pro-
duced the effect that was expected. The Emperor has caused
a declaration to be made to the Consul-General that he highly
valued the friendship of the French, and that in proof of it he
sent the copy of the orders forbidding all the Arabs on the
eastern frontiers, on pain of death, to take up arms for Abd-
el-Kader against the French. But all this is a farce, for Abd-
el-Rhaman is not ignorant that ammunition is frequently em-
barked in his ports for the Emir, and that the caravans which
convey it to the provinces of Oran pass through a part of his
dominions ; so that he might very easily have them stopped, if
he was so disposed. If, however, the French Government
wished to prevent Abd-el-Kader from receiving supplies
through Morocco, it might easily do so. The packet-boat
which plies between Tangiers and Oran might announce to
General Lamoricier the departure of the caravans, and the
latter might go with his army to meet and stop them. But in
order to effect this it would be necessary for us to have active
and zealous Consuls in the little ports of Morocco.--Le Corn.

BELGIAN I. UNDS—llanssims, Menu 6.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent... .........
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per
3per Cent. —
--- 69
.(1 4o) 9 %
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BS
Society of Comm.rce, 454 per Cent lO2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 8774
National Society .
Exchange on LondoM (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vivitta, FE8.26
Five per Cents. Aletalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares )624
—4llgemeine Miring, March 3

The Madrid Papers received are of the 28th
ult. At a Council of the Regency held on the
27th, it was agreed that the Duke of VITTORIA,
as chief of the Regency, should read the Royal
Speech at the opening of the Cortes, and that the
different Ministers should prepare reports of the
state of their respective departments. M. AR-
GUELLES had positively refused to be named a
Member of the Regency, " but we are sceptical
on the subject of such an appointment having
been seriously offered to him. The Treasury
was so empty, that the Minister of Finance
fbund great difficulty in obtaining 25,000 dollars
to defray the expenses of the troops stationed
round the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE.

NooN, Mnecn 9.
Barometer 3O 48 In.
Thermometer
Highest . 61
Lowest
Wind W.—Freezing. Point 32 Deg.
TI e e►eather withir► the c few days has undergone a
most agreeable change. For the month of March it is
mild in the extreme; the wind has been gei,e-ally from
'he West, and the barometer remarkably high, with a fine
clear ,tmosphere. A neck of such general weather will
biing forth all the verdure of the finest Sprirg.

ANIMAL HEAT.—The production of animal
heLt is ot.e of th.! essential conditions of life; by its me ins
an equality of temperature in the body is produced in all
climates. Were this not tie case, the blood of those who
inhabit the northern regions would soon become congealed.
Animal heat is generally supposed to be developed in the
lungs and all the extreme eisels, dui ir,g the combination
f the ox3gnn of the air with the carbon of the venous
blood. Ceteris paribus, the quantity of beat generated
will be in proportion to the integrity with which the
rerpiratery functions are performed, and the size and
vigour of the lungs. In this way we account for persons
predisposed to consumption, who have imperfectly deve-
Joped cr diseased lungs, complaining of hal irual coldness
f the surf-Ae of the body and the feet. Persons exposed
to the influence < f intense cold require enormous quanti-
ties of stimulating animal food. If the supply of nutri-
ment be insuffit lent, the blood becomes impoverished, and
he production ( f animal heat in the lungs is sensibly im-
paired, and tl.e ability to resist the operation of a low
temperature is greatly lessened. —Polytechnic Journal.

AN ECCENTRIC.—About a month ago a man,
wreteiedly dressed, wearing a broad and shabby hat, and
carryinz, a pair of shoes hung to Iris neck en forme de sau-
toir, presented hlmself at the Hotel de Provence, at Gap,
kept by M. Bore'. " I am," said he, "a poor traveller
who have but just what I want to accomplish my journey ;
if you will shelter me for a night I shall be most grateful,
provided you do not put are to too great expense." " Sup
first," replied M. Bore), " and then go to bed; we has,
vacant Lads usually occupied by waggoners; you will pay
me what you please." After a humble meal the stranger
went up to the bedroom, expressing his wish for a change
of linen, which Monsieur Bcrel immediately complied with.
Next morning, at dawn, the traveller, who was ready to
resume his journey, called for the landlord, flung a fort)-
franc lieco on the table, adding, that, his expenses paid,
the remainder was for the servants, and took his depar-
ture, leaving everybody astounded at his liberality. On
the evening of the same day the arrival of a splendid equi-
page at the Ilotel de Provence explained the mystery
TI e poor pedestrian of the day ly•fore was no other than
Lerd Alford travelling incog., in order to study the
manners of France, and followed at a day's distance by his
carriage and servants. This Lord is the same mentioned
last 3ear ia the hfercure Aptesien. We saw at Aix his
equipage, c insisting of eight carriages, and we were ti'en
assured that that wealthy Englishman had 120,000 francs
a month to spend._. Gazette du Midi.
NATIONAL SWIMMING SOCIETY.--A general
meeting of the Members of. this Institution, established in
1837, for promoting the art of natation, and for affording
gratuitous instruction to youth ia the healthful and manly
exercise of swimming, took place on Wednesday even-
ing, at the Green Man tavern, Berwick-street, Ox-
ford street, for the purpose (among others) of re-
ceiving the report of the Committee. Mr. Baume,
F. S S., late Secretary to the Prince Regent of
Naples, in the absence of Captain Marryat, R. N.,
the popular naval author, pret ided. The report stated
that branches of the institution had been founded in various
parts of the country. At Oxford and Glasgow swimming
matches have taken place, and medals awarded to the
winners. The society had also appointed swimming mae-
ters at most of the metropolitan baths, and notwithstanding
the severity of a long and protracted winter, a number of
pupils had been perfected in the art. The service of those
instructors had hitherto been gratuitous. The report was
received and printed.