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London, England, 1824-12-31 00:00:00

adequate to cover all the charges of the present
war with the Burmese ; and consequently there
will not be any occaiion to br,al; in upon noir
present reserved fund at Calcutta. 1 t has AH,
been communicated to us, that in the account:
annually presented to Parliament, no notice
whatever is taken of this enormous fund at
Calcutta, or of much of the other treasure, pro-
perty, and effects, of which the Company's
servants have possessed themselves, under the
various political changes which have taken place

in Central India and elsewhere since 1817. It
is, however, necessary that the attention of His
Majesty's Government should be drawn to these,
accounts, that a thorough investigation of the
affairs of the Company should take place be..
fore any attempt is made by thew, for a fur-

ther renewal of their oxistin4 powers, political,
military, and civil, or for a continuance of their
exclusive trade to China.

Letters were received yesterday from Corunna,
dated the lleh • instant, which state that the
troops ordered for the Havannab, sailed ou the
7th. They consisted of three regiments, amount-
ing in the whole to about 1,800 men. They
have been sent, as is said, at the urgent entreaty
of the merchants, and planters of liavaunah, for
the purpose of keeping the Negroes in subjec-
tion, as it was apprehended that an insurrec-
tionary spirit existed among them. They were
compelled, however, to remit to Spain the money
required for the equipment of the troops before
their request was complied with. So little able
is this degraded country even to furnish protec-
tion for the few colonies loft her :'although, if the
Madrid Gazette could obtain holier, it would be
inferred that. Spain still possesses sufficient power
to regain those which have thrown off their (10-
pendeuce.

Loun MOUNT CuAut.Es.---We yesterday in-
serted a paragraph, taken from a respectable
Morning Paper, announcing , the death of this
young Nobleman, son of the Marquis of Ca.
NTSG 11A74, but we have had the pleasure to learn
that the family have recently hvatd from him',
and that there appears to be uo foundation for
the report.

TUesday the eleventh Anniversary of the Bir.
mingham Pit Club was celebrated at the Royal
llotel ; Titßououtt PUICE, RN. In tho Chair.

Lord G. Is. CAVKNDISSI has given 5001. to.
wards the establishment of a County Hospital
at Brighton.
It is said that the malls from Weymouth to.
Guernsey and Jersey are to be conveyed by Post
Office steam-packets, which are to be placed on
that station as soon as circumstances will admit.
MEL—Yesterday morning, soon after eight
o'clock, a meeting took place in a field nearly
opposite the Cavalry Barracks, at Windsor, be-
tween Captain D. of the Grenridier Guards, sta-
tioned In that town, and Hon. Mr. M., of the
7th Hussars, each attended by their respective
friends. After an exchange of shots the parties
were interrupted, when they speedily repaired a
short distance to adjust a point of honour. An
exchange of shots again took place, ‘ilthout any
injury, when, we • are happy to state, a recon-
ciliation took place.
The fondation stone of the intended North
Devon Infirmary will be laid by the Right lion. Earl Felt-
TEscuE, on Wednesday, the 15th of January, when there
will be a public dinner at the Fortescue Arms, the Noble Earl,
President; and in the evading a Ball at the rooms, under the
patronage of the Right lion. the Countess of' FORTUSCUE.—
(Exeter Paper.)
ANECDOTB OF Loan EAIIDLEY.—SOITIG years
ago a regiment was laying in the neighbourhood of Belvidere,
his Lordship's peat in Kent. It having come to his knowledge
that the Senior Lieutenant, a most deserving young man,
though without fortune, had not the means•to purchase a com-
pany then vacant; without any previous knowledge of the
gentleman, except what he gained from the Commanding and
his brother Officers, his Lordship wrote him a letter of apo-
logy for taking the liberty to inclose a check for 1,500 guineas,
which was the purchase-money of, the company. This and
many similar instances of his Lordship's kindness and gene-
rosity are within the recollection of our informant, who knew
intimately a brother of the above otlicer His Lordship's re-
mains will be interred in the parish church of Belvidere.---
(Brighton Gazette. )
ILDWFSS OF rut Sr kso/4.—NOlWithStalldillg

the repeated heavy " falls" of rain which we have experienced
since the close of autumn, and the severity of the gales on our
coasts, and in the interior of the country, yet the present winter
is by far milder than any that " our remembrance can parallel,"
at least in Cheltenham and its neighbourhood. The most un-
questionable proof of this statement is furnished by the fact,
that there may be seen, even now, a few days after Christmas,
a blooming display of vegetable nature, at Jesep's Somerset.
house Nursery-gardens, amongst which he particularly ob-
served the Christmas-rose, primrose, China-rose, daisey, pan-
seys, sweet-scented eoltsfoot, polyanthus, stock and wall-
flowers, alpine strawberry, ez.c.—( (Viten/tam Paper!)

A. FORCED TlDE.—There prevailed here (lur-
ing Wednesday afternoon a strong gale Of wind froin the N.W.
which in the evening chopped (as sailors say) almost due
North, and brought such a ini,s;lity sea into the neighbouring
channel, thst oar coast waii visited With the highest tide that
has been experienced for several years. We regret to add that
this tide occasioned a moat serious loss to two farmers of Fish-
toft, Meisra. Miley and Tete, whom it bereaved of no less
than twenty-three sheep that had happened to be grazing on
F ishto ft Ma:a1t....4 Boston Gazette. )
Snowe COLJILTSIIII..—Miss Pot slat, the bloom•
ing slaughter of a respectable farmer, living in the parish of
King's Itipton, near Huntingdon, having placed her fond affec.
Lions on Thos. Wootton, son of an inunerant rag-merchant,
and servant to a neighbouring fanner, resolved not to lose the
indulgent privilege or the year, although so near its close, sent
for the favoured youth ; the moment he came in view, she ran
into the yard to meet him, exclaiming " Tom, willolu have
me ?" to which amorous question, lie lending compliant ear,
her father immediately sent for a licence, and on . ristmas
morning they were united in the silken bonds of matrimony,—
Cambridge Chronicle.)
The inhabitants of Sloane-street and its neigl

,
bourhood are at present in a state of painful suspense, owing to
the following cacurristance I.—One of it new row of houses,
standing ut the corner of Sloane-street, has given alarming
symptoms of a fall, by detaching itself from its fellow build-
ings, in which state it overhangs the mad, threatening destruc.
don to all, who may have the teinerity to venture underneath.
Under these circumstances all Mom and ei.Tress of carriages is
stbpped by a barrier thrown across the street. The shop-
keepers on the opposite side of the crossing, feel themselves in
VW awkward situation, not knowing;, should this tottering house
fall, whether they way no be destined to feel its weight. A
humble wine-shed, erected at the foot of the building, is piti-
ably situated.
A youth in the employ of a tradesman in Bridge.-
water, attempted to destroy himself with a loaded
pistol, on Smithy last. The bull grazed his head,
hut the woUnd is not considered dangerous. A.
slighted attachment which he bad formed to-
-1 wards a young lady occasioned the desperate act.