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London, England, 1834-07-21 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

MUNICH, JULY 10. —All our Journals contain to-day an
official correction of the unfavourable accounts published by
them respecting the events in Maina. The news given in one
of these papers yesterday that 6,000 Bavarian troops had lately
been ordered to Greece, is fully refuted by the fact that the
Minister of War has recalled the two battalions that still re-
main in that country. In case of need the Greek Government
would have the assistance of the numerous troops on board the
English and French squadrons in the Mediterranean, and at
Malta. It is affirmed that the mission of Count Von Sein-
heim to Malta is relative to this matter. The recruiting for
the Greek service proceeds here very briskly. A new company
of pioneers has been organized, under the command of Lieut.
Muller, and will set off for Greece in a few days with 100
volunteers.

One of the most recent numbers of the Greek Journal
Sotir contains the following paragraph :
There were in Greece 518 convents, which contained
only 4,111 and 287 nuns. Only 83 had 6or more monks;
many had only 2, or 1, or none at all : reckoning the income
of each current, at only 1,000 drachms, 518,000 drachms were
annually thrown away, and this revenue might easily be
doubled. Now, however, the remaining monks and nuns have
been collected in a small number of convents, there to devote
themselves to their original destination, prayers, and agri-
culture, and to pay the tithes to the Ecclesiastical Treasury.
The remaining convents are suppressed, and their revenue
added to the Church funds.
TOPLITZ, JULY 7. —The chief objects of attention here is
his Majesty the King of Prussia, the Victor at Krelen, the
Protector of Toplitz and Bohemia. His Majesty arrived
here on the 3d, in the evening, under the name of Count
Von Ruppen, with three aide-de-camps, his physician, the
venerable Wiebel, and three privy counsellors. On the 4th
his Majesty drove to Peterswolde, to meet the Princess
of Liegnitz, who arrived in the evening, accompanied
by the Minister of State, Prince Wittgenstein. On
the sth, the Duchess of Angouleme came with her
niece, Mademoiselle de Berry, from Dresden, where she had
received the compliments of the foreign Ambassadors. She
alighted at the Hotel de Ligne, where she received a visit
not only from the family of Prince Clary, but from the King
of Prussia, and the Princess of Leignitz, who remained with
her till late in the evening. She returned to Prague the fol-
lowing morning.
ZURICH, JULY 12.—1 n the first sitting of the Diet on the
Bth July, it was resolved that the public should be admitted on
the next sitting, on the 10th. The regulations for the admit-
tance are very simple ; a right is reserved to the President
immediately to order the galleries to be cleared in case of any
disorder taking place.
The sitting of the 10th sheaved that the apprehensions
of some timid Members of the Diet were ill-fouuded.
As this was the first public sitting, the galleries were
of course crowded with barriers of all classes, but the
greatest silence prevailed, and all the speakers who spoke
at all distinctly were easily heard. The publicity of the debates
will certainly contribute to strengthen the general conviction
that the assembly is composed of combatants who are so fet-
tered by strict instruuctions they cannot act according to
circumstances, and as their own judgment would suggest. But
this publicity will tend to remove the prejudices of the hearers
against individual members, when they are convinced that their
behaviour is not such as it is represented by hostile Journals,
and that they only do what they are bound to do, and that is to
fulfil to the best of their ability the mission given them by their
Canton. This publicity too must inevitably have a good influ-
ence on the Assembly itself, by exciting each individual Mem-
ber to conduct himself with dignity and moderation, and to pro-
mote as far as his instructions will allow him everything that
can tend to the advantage of the Confederation in general.
Many other advantages might be enumerated.—Frankfort
Papers, July 16.

A few days since L. Griffiths, Esq., of Marie Hill,
Cheltenham, caught a carp in the lake on his estate, weighing
upwards of 201 b. The fish was taken with a rod and line, and
having been drawn into a shallow place, was ultimately cap-
tured by a boy going after it.

The Hereford Journal states that a large quantity
of cider will be made in that county this year; the orchards
in this county promise alike favourably, but the perry fruit is
almost every where a failure.— Worcester Herald.

Charles X. has written a letter to the Duchess of
Gontaut, expressing his satisfaction at her attentions to his
grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux, and acquitting her altoge-
ther of the intrigue which had been insinuated against her of
endeavouring to bring about a marriage between the young
Prince and a daughter of the King of the French--a connec-
tion which, it is said, Louis Philip, for sundry weighty reasons,
is as eager to repudiate as any portion of the branche ainee.

A sword fish, the xiphias gladius of Linnwus, sup-
posed to be nearly 300 pounds weight, was caught in the
River Parrett, near Bridgewater, on Sunday last. This fish
is found in the Mediterranean and other seas, and is esteemed
a high delicacy, and greatly prized by the Sicilians.—Salis-
bury Herald.

The dwarfs now exhibiting in this town have been
objects of great curiosity sino e their marriage, and have been
visited during the week by a number of highly respectable
individuals. It will be observed that they have determined to
remain here a few days longer.—Birmingham Journal
IMPROVEMENT OF TIIE PORT OF LONDON.---
The improvement of this great port is now in active progress.
The tonnage duty on the shipping, which amounted to 84,0001.
or 85,0001. a-year, is reduced to about 5,0001. a-year, after the
Corporation of London had for such a length of time borne the
odium of having a highly-taxed port. The Board of Admiralty
have been nearly six years engaged in a new hydrographical
survey of its surface from the Foreland to London-bridge, under
the direction of Captain Bullock, R. N. ; and the Thames
Navigation and Port of London Improvement Committee are
also engaged in a survey of all its shoals from Woolwich to
London-bridge, with a view to their removal under the direc-
tion and personal trigonometrical surveys of the harbour-mas-
ters and the surveyor of the port of London, who have been
now nearly six weeks engaged in this laborious and highly use-
ful work. This may account for the number of yellow, blue,
and red flags on either side of the river, which flags are the
boundaries and bases of the great triangle across the river for
the surveys. Those below Gravesend are of the Board of
Admiralty, and those above Woolwich of the Corporation of
London.

Not a little has been said of the apathy of Don
Carlos ; but the fact is, that the energies of the man are but
little known. We profess ourselves adverse to his absolute
principles, but yet his individual character shall have justice
from our hands. Previous to the capitulation of Miguel, it
appears that Miguel had promised Carlos the aid of 3,000
men to penetrate into Castile, and Carlos was in the act of
marching into Spain, when the whole of Rodil's force came
upon him, and instead of receiving the promised assistance
from Miguel, he received a cool note, stating he had been com-
pelled to surrender to Don Pedro, and had, therefore, with-
held the promised 3,000 coadjutors. In this difficulty, Carlos
wanted to force a march to the northward, but all his Generals
were against the project; and, indeed, the thing was impossi-
ble. In this dilemma, his first desire was to secure his family,
and this could only be through a British man-of-war in the
Tagus. He embraced the opportunity of such a route—he se-
cured his family, and he will yet exhibit in Spain a strong de-
termination to hold what he contends is his right; and the
matter is of so doubtful a nature, that we would not say it is
not, and in addition we learn he really has some liberal notions.

ANGLING—ARTIFICIAL FLIES.—When a parti-
cular fly prevails upon a river, an artificial one in limitation of
it will never resemble it so closely as to appear the same to
those below (i. e. the fish ; ) on the contrary, a certain degree
of resemblance, without anything like an exact similitude, will
only render the finny tribe the more cautious through suspi-
cion ; while a different shape and colour, by exciting no minute
or invidious comparisons, would probably have been swallowed
without examination. Indeed it seems sufficiently plain, that
where means of comparison are allowed, and where exact imi-
tation is at the same time impossible, it is much better to have
recourse to a general idea, than to an awkward and bungling
individual representation. How often has it been asserted,
with all the gravity of sententious wisdom, that the true mode
of proceeding in fly fishing is to busk your hook by the river-
side, after beating the shrubs to see what colour of insect pre-
vails. A very expert angler, who perhaps carried the oppo-
site theory rather too far (although he always filled his pan-
nier), was in the habit of stirring the briars and willows to as-
certain what manner of fly was not there, and with that he
tempted the fishes.—Bncyclopeedia Britannica.