The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-11 00:00:00

YOUNG NAPOLEON'S EPITAPH.

The following is the epitaph which the Emperor of
Austria, Francis 11., has had engraved on the tomb of the
Duke of Reichstadt, his grandson :

.ETERSE MEMORLE
JOS. CAR. FRANCISCI DUCTS REICHSTADIENSIS
NAPOLEONIS GALLIARUM IMPERATORIS
ET
MAR. LUDOVIC2E ARCH. AUSTRIE
FILII
NATI PARISH XX MART. MDCCCXI
IN CUNABULIS
REGIS ROME NOMINE SALUTATI.
?STATE, OMNIBUS INGENII CORPORISQUE
DOTIBUS FLORENTEM

PROCERA STATURA, VULTU JUVENILITER DECORO
SINGULARI SERMONIS COMITATE
MILITARIBUS STUDII ET LABORIBUS
MIRE INTENTUM
PHTISIS TENTAVIT
TRISTISSIMA MORS RAPUIT

SCBURBANO AUGUSTORUM AD PULCHRUM
FONTEM PROPE VINDOBONAM
XXII JULII I,,IDCCCXXXIL

This inscription may be translated as follows :
" To the eternal memory of Joseph Charles Francis
Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon, Emperor of the
French, and of Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, born
at Paris, 20th March, 1811.

" In his cradle he was saluted by the name of King of
Rome ; he was endowed with all the faculties of the mind
and advantages of body ; his stature was tall, anti his
countenance adorned with all the charms of youth ; his
language was full of affability ; he had shown extraordi.
nary talents for the study and exercises of the military art.
" Being attacked by a dig°, der in the lungs, he was
carried off by a most deplorable death at Schcealrun, near
Vienna, the 22d July, 1832."

The Marquis of PALMELLA, accompanied
by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the
Chevalier DE BARBOZA, are to leave town this day for
Oporto. They leave in a Government steamer, with a
messenger from the Foreign Office, who is charged with
important despatches for Don PEDRO. Speculation is rife
as to the contents of these despatches, but, of course, no-
thing certain is known ; but the fact of a Government
steamer being placed at the disposal of the Marquis, and
the sending of a messenger with despatches for the Regent,
are considered significative proofs of good will towards
the Constitutional cause on the part of our Government.
The British Consul at Oporto, who was supposed to have
had a bias in favour of the Usurper, bas been recalled, and
a gentleman appointed who was litely Consul at Corunna,
and who is an avowed friend to the Portuguese Constitu-
tionalists.

Lord FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE, upon his
return from Berlin, will assume the functions of Assistant
Adjutant-General to the Forces, to which his Lordship
has been just appointed, in the room of Major GAkvocK.
It will be recollected that the Earl of 111ussTEK, when
Colonel GEORGE FITZCLARENCE, accepted the post of
Deputy Adjutant-General shortly after his MAJESTY'S
accession, but the Noble Earl resigned the situation at the
end of two or three months, in consequence, as it is under-
stood, of the onerous duties of the appointment. Lord
FREDERICK and Lady AUGUSTA are expected at their re-
sidence in Eaton-square, about the 20th instant.
The house recently inhabited by the Hon.
WILLIAM PONSONBY, in St. James's-square, has been let
furnished, for five years, to the Literary Union Club, at a
renal of nearly one thousand pounds a year and a premium.
Surely this is a dull situation for a Club house.
Lord MINTo, Ambassador from Lis Britannic
MAJESTY to the Court of Berlin, arrived at Brussels, on
Wednesday last, with his family and suite, on their way
from London to Berlin. Lord and Lady MINTo had the
honour of dining with their MAJESTIES, and next day set
out with their whole suite in five carriages fur Berlin. lie
arrived at Namur, on the evening of the ith.
The Palace of the Archbishop of ARMAGH,
in Charles-street, remains no longer hermeticilly sealed.
The Right Reverend Father in God and the Ladies
BERESFORD are arrived from Hastings, and the iron-cased
windows again show signs of habitation less hospital or
prison-like than the exterior exhibited during his Grace's
absence.
EDINBURGII ELECTION.----OBC of the
Edinburgh Tory Journals makes the following admission :
" We hear from many quarters that the return of the
Loan ADVOCATE and Mr. ABE SCROMBY is certain ; but
that Mr. BLAIR'S canvass will show two things, first, that
all the electors of Edinburgh are not of one way of think-
ing ; and, second, that the Tories will exhibit a most
respectable minority."

The members of the Inner and Middle
Temples will, it is said, add upwards of 500 to the consti-
tuency of the city of London. ,

It ought to be universally made known that
the present Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. Moisic) has pub-
licly pledged to devote from the present time a
10th part of the revenue of that See to the augmentation
of small livings within his diocese.

Mr. RO;IISCHILD'S BUSINESS.-This gen-
tleman stated before the Committee of the House of Com-
mons, that he buys bills, drawn on foreign houses, to the
amount of 80,0001. or 100,0001. per week ; and that he
received in the year 1824, in two months, bills to the
amount of 1,500,0001.

DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF
FRANCE.—It having been fully ascertained that CHARLES
X. and his suite are about to leave Scotland (preparations
fur their departure having already commenced), several
parties have been formed in consequence, to testify the at-
tachment of our countrymen to the adherents of the ex-
KING, whose polite and gentlemanlike conduct has justly
gained the esteem of those to whom they have been intro-
duced.—New North Briton.

The Duchess of ANGOULEME, with her
niece, the daughter of the Duzhess of BERRI, left the Pa-
lace of Holyrood on Thursday, for London. In the cow se
of the present week the ex—King and the Due d'ANGOU.-
LEME will take their departure for Hamburgh, on their
way to Gratz, in Styria, where the family will again as-
semble. The departure of the ex-Royal Family appears to
be very much regretted in Edinburgh. Gratz is a fortified
town, a Bishop's see, and the capital of Lower Styria, in
Germany. It is 85 miles south-west from Vienna.

We are sorry to announce the death of
CHARLES CALVERT, Esq., Member for the Borough of
Southwark, at the seat of his brother-in-law, at Easton
Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk. He was attacked on
Friday night, after a day's shooting, by the cholera, and
died on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. If we recollect
rightly, Mr. CALVERT was the gentleman who presided
at a late meeting of the Market Gardeners, and was at the
time in robust health. On that occasion the interdict of
the use of vegetables and fruits by the faculty, having been
adverted to, Mr. CALVERT said, " I have not al.r.
stained from eating vegetables and fruits—the former
boiled, and the latter ripe—aid I have experienced no ill
effects from the indulgence, as my appearance will testify."
This declaration and remark, couplet with Mr. CAL
VERT'S florid complexion and hi,!la health, elicited consi-
derable applause, and was deemed by all who heard him,
as decisive of the non-injurious effects resulting from the
consumption of vegetables and fruits.
BONAPARTE'S SAIALLCLOTHES.—One day
ALEXANDER expressed his ardent desire to have a pair or
NAPOLEON'S breeches. Durtoc, the Grand Master of the
Palace, sounded his master upon the subject. NAPOLEON
laughed heartily. " Oh, by all means," said he, "give

him them all if he wishes it, only leave me a pair for a
change." This may be vouched far as authentic, but it
is not equally certain, though strongly affirmed by many,
that ALEXANDER, who was very superstitious, made the
campaigns of 1812 and ISIS in the French Emperor's
breeches.

We are sorry to say, that we have received
information that the cholera is raging at Boulogne ; our
correspondent, in his letter, says that the people are dying
like sheep.— Courier.

SAMUEL THOMAS SPRY, Esq. of Tregoles,
being desirous th it the poor of SitLney, near Helston,
should cpleLrate the passing of the Reform Bills, ordered
three fat bullocks to he slaughtered, and distributed amongst
them, o❑ Friday, the 31st ult., by which act of kindness
upwards of 380 poor people were supplied with a Sunday's
d inner. —Primo u tit Packet.

The Conservatives, previous to their disper-
sion (north, south, east, and west), held several meetings
at their secret divan, fur the purpose of definitively ar-
ranging the general terms of their Addresses to their con-
stituents, preparatory to the General Fection. The
Noble Duke remained in town purpos.ly to attend these
meetings ; but Sir ROBERT PEEL hail previously taken his
departure for Tamworth.

BAD LUGGAGE.---AS HUNT, after his late
visit to Middleton, was on his way to Rochdale, the coach
in which he and his party sat, ascended a gentle eminence
at a very slow pace. A witty I ndlady observed it, and
shouted to the post boy, " Its a very poor Reform that
will not afford better cattle than those to travel with."
The driver, with a significant gesture, said, " Its bad
luggage, mistress, bad luggage." One of the squad was a
well kno nu dealer in toffy, who keeps a standing in Roch-
dale market.—Manchester Guardian

BACHELORS AND AIAIDENs.—The march
of matrimony has made no proAr,ss in the parish of,Elrns-
thorpe, in this county, which contains only four houses,
occupied by 34 individuals, the whole of whom are living
in a state of single blessedness ! The Rectory of this
parish is a comp'ete sinecure, no service having been per-
formed since the year 1798, and then only when the Rec-
tor read himself in 1 The church is now a fine pic-
turesque ruin, richly clad with ivy.—Leicester Chronicle.
DISSOLUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL PAR-
LIAMENTARY REFORM UNION.—At the meeting of the
Union, on Wednesday last, a report from the Committee,
recommending the dissolution of the Association (the ob-
ject for which it was formed having been happily accom-
plished) was submitted and approved of. It was then
moved, " that the Parliamentary Reform Union be now
dissolved," which was carried unanimously, and the meet-
ing separated.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The accounts from Calcutta, Madras, and Ben-
gal this morning state, that meetings had been held
at the three Presidencies, in favour of the Eng-
lish Reform Bill. Many able speeches were delivered.
The Sheriff of Calcutta had called a meeting to
consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for pro-
tection to real property, in consequence of the recent de-
cision which extended the English Alien Act to India.
The cholera had broken out in the garrison at Pettah.
The letters received from St. Petersburgh this
morning are to the 26th of last month. They state that the
intercourse betwee❑ the Ministry of the Emperor NI-
CHOLAS and Lord DURHAM had been active, and the opi-
nion entertained in the Russian capital was, that the
negociations were proceeding favourably. The mercan-
tile transactions in St. Petershurgh were on a large scale,
and the shipments to Great Britain were going on with
activity. Since the season ()petard, there had arrived at
St. Petersburgh 477 British vessels, and 354 bad sailed
with cargoes. The demand for Hemp and Flax was
good. The Exchange is quoted at lop.
HOSTILITIES BETWEEN HOLLAND AND
BELGIUM.—In the probable event of a collision between
these countries, the " military means" of the belligerents
becomes a question of primary importance and interest.
As regards our ancient ally, Holland, the United Service
Journal for the present mouth anticipates inquiry, and
supplies ample and authentic information respecting the
Dutch army, their camps, reviews, and general spirit.
The letter written from the spot in which these animated
and novel details are communicated, is not only highly in-
teresting to military men, but may be perused with advan-
tage by all who speculate on these subjects.
STATE OF TRADE.—The sales of last week,
in the woollen trade of this neighbourhood, have been more
than usual. The blanket trade, which was lately depressed,
has greatly improved during the last fortnight, Dewsbury
and its vicinity have now as many orders as can conve-
niently be fulfilled. The cloth halts of Leeds and Hud-
dersfield were well attended last Tuesday, and the demand
for superfine cloths and cassinetts was on the increase.
At Bradford market, last Thursday, there was also a great
deal of business done, and the stuff merchants were buying
freely, though, we understand, at the usual prices. The
cotton trade, in Liverpool and Manchester, is likewise
gradually improving, and a degree of briskness is apparent,
from which we expect a still further improvement.—
Halifax Express.

NEW ERA IN SHIP BUILDING.-WC un-
derstand that the Directors of the Kirkaldy and London
Shipping Company, impressed with the advantages of the
additional strength and safety to vessels, and diminished
risk to the=ir crews, passengers, and cargoes, which is at-
tainable at a trifling expense, by tightening the interior
planking (heretofore left op n in all vessels), so as to ex-
clude water, have ordered the Company's smacks, Enter-
prise and Ftfeshire, to be completed on " BALLINGALL'S
system" of double bottoms, and which has now been carried
into effect. By all ship-owners who study the comfort of
passengers and crews, and wish to save insurance on their
vessels and cargoes, for such has been ascertained at
LLOYD'S still be the effect, this improvement must soon be
adopted.—Fife Herald.

We understand that it is in contemplation to
improve the communication between Penryn and Helston
by making a new line of road, to supersede the present
very hilly road near Penryn; also to make a new line
from the western end of Long Downs (about 2i miles
from Penryn) towards Truro, to be connected with the
present road from Fenryn to Truro at Perran Vale, which
will supersede the present very hilly road from Killiga-
noon to Half-way House. This will probably he con-
nected with an improvement between Penryn and Perran
Vale, to get rid of the present hill near Bella-vista and
the hill that descends into Perran Vale, which' will com-
plete all the proposed improvements between Falmouth
and Truro. Several meetings of trustees of the roads
have taken place on the subject, and the proposed lines are
now being surveyed, and the cost estimated.—Fal. Packet.
MALT LIQUORS.—IG is a singular fact that,
as far as we know, not one of the men employed in the
breweries in this city and neighbourhood have been at-
tacked with cholera. These men, it is well known, get
a daily allowance of the best. There is more malt liquor
consumed in India by the British residents of late years,
in proportion to their number, than any part of the world,
which must arise from its being considered favourable to
health, and probably in some measure an antidote to cho-
lera. We have no doubt but a deal of the trash sold under
the name of porter (which is just coloured small beer) is
most injurious to the stomach and bowels. Let, therefore,
only the best wine, the best spirits, and the best porter
and ale he used in moderation, and we have no doubt but
cholera will disappear from among us. From a Corres-
pondent of the Glasgow Chronicle.
PI CL I-1 ARD FISHERY.—some considerable
catches of pilchards have taken place this week. At
Newquay, about 3,000 hogsheads of the fish, said to be
the finest that have been seen on any part of the coast,
have ben enclosed ; and at Perran, 1,000. Eleven seans
belonging to Sr. Ives were shot on Saturday last, and
about 6,000 hogsheads of very fine fish were secured.—
Devonport Telegraph.
THE PILCHARD FISIIERY.---Up to the pre-
sent time the pilchard fishing off our coast has been pretty
successful, as will be seen by the following list, which
gives a stay bent of the quantity taken at each station
from the commencement :
Alevagissey and Goran 1,500 Hhds.
Gerrans lOO
St. Hawes BOO
Porthallow 1,500
Coverack l5O
Lizard 1,700
St. Ives 7,000
St. Agnes 4oo*
Perran Porth 1,200t
Newquay 2,500
• All sold fresh and for manure.
All bold fresh, except about SO hits. carried to cellar.
From Port Lee, Alullion, Mount's Bay, Sennen, and
Perth 'lowan, we have no reports. On Monday last
about 1,000 Ithds. of fish escaped from one of the seans in
St. Ives' bay, belonging to Messrs. WEARtrE.—Falmouth
Packet.

On the 31st ult., the date of the despatches
from Oporto, the army was in good condition : the works
thrown up to defend the city were in the best possible
state, and no alarm appeared to he felt as to the result of
an attack if the Miguelites should attempt one. The ad-
vanced season of the year makes it impossible for the army
of Alwyn. to remain long before Oporto, and provisions
are already getting scarce. Accounts received by the
Marquis of PALMELLA, from Lisbon, are by no means
unfavourable. Allan Er. had announced the intention of
sending out the squadron again, but it was admitted that
it had received very serious damage, which would re-

quire some time to rqair, and that eighty men had been
killed and wounded in the In Myth SARTORIUS. The
return of the squadron to the Taus, after the boast that
had been made that it would destroy the squadro❑ of SAR..
TORIUS, had cast a great damp over the Mieuelites, and
given such satisfaction to the friends of Don PEDRO.
A HINT TO POLITICAL PRELATES.--
Bishop Buxom. every summer took a tour for six weeks
or two months through some districts of his bishopric,
daily preaching and confirming from church to church, so
a', in the compass of three years (besides his formal trien-
nial visitations), to go through all the principal livings in
his diocese. He fixed himself for a whole week in the
principal market towns, and though he went out every
morning to preach and confirm in some parish within
seven or eight miles of the place, yet at the evening
prayer for sit days together he catechised the youth of
the town in the principal church, and on Sunday con-
firmed those who had been thus instructed and examined.
—Morning Herald.

BANFF, SEPTEMBER 3.—The stormy wea-
ther that prevailed the beginning of last week stopped all
fishing till Thursday night ; a few of the boats ventured
out that night and got some 6sh. On Friday night most
of the boats got to sea, but the quantity caught was hut
moderate. We are sorry to find that on the whole of this
side the Moray Firth the fishing has not produced above
half of what it did last season, and as the weather appears
still unsettled, and the nights are now getting long, it is
not expected that the fi,hermen will prosecute it beyond
this week. Most of the south country boats that were
fishing at Peterhead and Fraserburgh have already gone
home.—New North Briton.

MEMOIRS OF LAFAYETTE.—" We have
received a copy of a very remarkable work, just pub-
lished in Paris, entitled Lafayette and the Revolution of
1830, by a M. B. SARRANS, who was LAFAYETTE'S
secretary. As its title suggests, it gives an entire biography
of the venerable General, who has acted a distinguished
part in three revolutions ; but its chief interest hinges on
the details which it supplies on the part which he and
his friends played to the last. Its narration, of late events,
is so full, that it occupies the whole of the second volume,
with a considerable part of the first; and so recent as to
furnish us with the proceedings of the movement party
during and after the insurrection of last June. Its disclo-
sures, therefore, have all the attractions of novelty, and,
if authentic, will enable us better to judge of tl'e feelings
and views of existing persons and parties than any con-
temporary work with which we are acquainted.— Times."
The following notice has just been issued from
the Stamp Office :

" Stamp Office, London, Aug. 31.

" Sir,—A question having arisen, whether dealers in
patent medicines, residing in places which have become
entitled under the Reform Act of the last Sessions to send
Members to Parliament, are required to take out their
licences upon the lOs. duty, and also whether licences to
vend patent medicines in any of the disfranchised bo-
roughs are still liable to the same, as heretofore; I am
directed by the Board to inform you, that in their opinion
licences to vend medicines within the limits of such new
boroughs are liable to the duty of lOs. each, and that
licences to vend medicines in any of the disfranchised bo-
roughs will continue liable to the duty of 10s. ; as such
places will still be boroughs or towns corporate, although
deprived of the privilege of sending Members to Parlia-
ment.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" CHARLES PRESSLEY, Secretary."

We understand from Banff, that about ten
o'clock a. m. on Wednesday week the smack London was
struck, off St. Abb's head, by the electric fluid, which
descended the top-mast, seared the mast-head, and, dart-
ing along the iron jibstay to the deck, knocked down
several men, startled some planks and bolts, filed the hold
with dense sulphureous smoke, and left a coating of black
bituminous matter oh a large extent of surface. In its
course it came in contact with a man named SIMPSON,
who was standing on the cross-trees, set fire to his can-
vass trowsers, and absolutely tore the drawers and stock-
ings from his limbs in tatters. Yet, although he found
his legs extended, stiff, and useless, he had the presence of
mind to hold on with one hand, and extinguish the flames
with the other; but not before he was severely scorched.
On being brought or. deck, be soon recovered the use of
his limbs; but it will be [some time before the injured
parts are healed. This man probably owes his life to the
non-conducting property of the flannel shirt, drawers,
and stockings, which he wore.—New North Briton.

At Langport, Somersetshire, on Wednesday
last, two grand dinners took place to celebrate the passing
Of the Reform Bill, E. CHARD, Esq. in the Chair.—
About seventy electors sat down at the Dolphin, and two
hundred at the Swan. Mr. C. K. TYNTE (the inde-
pendent Candidate,) was invited, and was most enthusias-
tically welcomed. The whole population, with banners,
&c. escorted him into the town, amidst the most enthusi-
astic cheering, the windows filled with females waving
their handkerchiefs. Mr. C. K. TYNTE addressed the
people from his carriage, and was loudly cheered. After
dinner the Chairman proposed " The KING"—(Loud
cheers.)—" The QUEEN and Royal Family." " The
Duke of SussEx."—(Cheers.)—" C. K. TYNTE, Esq.
our independent Candidate, may he be returned at the
head of the poll."—(Loud cheers. )—Mr. C. K. TYNTE, in a
lone and eloquent speech, returned thanks, and was rap-
turously cheered in many parts of it. The whole went
off most delightfully, and the people of Langport will long
remember the glorious day. Mr. TYNTE has a majority
of above twenty to one in this part of the division. Indeed,
Mr.LUTTRELL'S name is quite ridiculed.

OLD LONDON.—truly these are disastrous
times for the venerators of old localities and old customs;
innovation, spoliation, and mutation, stare us everywhere
in the face. The London of former generations is disap-
pearing daily, by piece-meal. St. Dunstan's clock, the
quondam lion of Fleet-street, is gone to air itself in the
Regent's Park, where it looks as ridiculous and outré, as
shockingly plebeian and grotesque, as an old wife from
Whitechapel would appear at one of the aristocratic fetes
given by its present possessor at the villa which it now
serves to decorate. The College of Physicians has been
most profanely converted into a market for butchers ; and
on the same spot where anatomical lectures were once de-
livered, anatomical specimens are now daily exhibited in
the carcases of sheep and oxen. Nay, to make matters
woe, ee,
ntofthe
there is an
place,air offor h
offensive
butchers
tchrsmust, forsooth,
insolencee even in ther
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fi
have Grecian lamps, and re-decorate the ceiling. Of old
London Bridge, no other memento will shortly remain than
the cul de sac, now formed by what was whilom an ap-
proach to it; or by such record of its beauty and magni-
ficence as the pencil of the topographical draftsman may
have perpetuated to delight future illustrators of PENNANT.
—Metropolitan.
CHANGE IN THE PROPRIETARY OF THE
Il'sw NORTH BRITON.—The copy-right and good will
of this Journal having yesterday (Friday last) been sold
to the Proprietors of the Edinburgh Observer, both Papers
will after this day be consolidated, and on Tuesday next
will appear under the joint title of the Edinburgh Ob-
server and North Briton. There are no two Journals,
perhaps, now published in Edinburgh betwixt which such
an union could have been formed with greater propriety
and with more entire satisfaction to the readers of both.
During the whole period that the subject of Reform has
been agitated, they have both pleaded the same cause, and
have only been distinguished from each other on this sub-
ject by those shades which different temperaments in their
editors may have unconsciously produced. The intimate
friendship which subsisted betwixt them in private life
rendered their opinions and sentiments fully known to
each other; and in now transferring the editorial charge
of the North Briton into the hands of Mr. JOHN Mar,
corm,' we confide it to one whom we know to be loyal to
the KING and Constitution—a friend of liberty, a man of
genius, and a gentleman. It is with the highest satisfaction,
therefore, that in relinquishing our own superintendence
of the Briton, we consign its name and character into
such hands ; and we earnestly recommend to those of our
readers who put any value on our goodwill to continue
their favour to the united Journal, as we are well assured
it will be conducted with that impartiality and moderation
which is equally remote from subserviency to power, and
from wild insubordination to legitimate authority. The
New North Briton will, from this date, cease to appear
as a separate Journal ; and the conjoined Papers will in
future be forwarded to the readers of both until further
orders be given by the subscribers. The accounts, how-
ever, for all future numbers, will be payable to the Pro-
prietors of the Observer and North Briton.
EDITOR OF NEW NORTH BRITON.
VALUE OF NEWSPAPER PROPERTY.—The
copy-right and goodwill of the New North Briton were
sold yesterday fur 251., and the Paper is henceforth to be
united with the Observer. There are few kinds of pro-
perty of which men form such fallacious notions as of
Newspapers, till experience undeceives them.—Scotsman
of Saturday.
ALFlERl.—Talking of ALFIERI, he told
me to-day, that when that poet was travelling in Italy, a
very romantic, and, as he called her, tete montee Italian
Principessa, or Duchessa, who had long been an enthusi-
astic admirer of his works, having heard that be was to
pass within 50 miles of her residence, set off to encounter
him ; and having arrived at the inn where he sojourned,
was sho..vn into a room where she was told ALFIERI was
writing. She enters, agitated and fatigued, sees a very

good looking man seated at a table, whom she concledea
must be ALFIERI : throws herself into his arms, and, in
broken words, declares her admiration, and the distance
she has come to declare it. In the midst of the lady's im-
passioned speeches ALFIERI enters the room, casts a glance
of surprise and hauteur at the pair, and lets fall some ex-
pression that discloses to the humbled Principessa the
shocking mistake she has made. The poor Secretary, for
such he was, is blamed by the lady, while he declares his
innocence, finding himself, as be says, in the embraces
of a lady who never allowed him even a moment to inter-
rupt her by the simple question of what she meant ! AL-
mar retired in offended dignity, shocked that any one
could be mistaken for him, while the Principessa had to
retrace her steps, her enthusiasm somewhat cooled by the
mistake and its consequences. —Lady Blessinton's Con-
versations with Lord Bye on.
BYRON'S OPINION OF BEAUTY.—I do not
talk of mere beauty (continued 131Rox) of feature or com-
plexion, but of expression, that looking out of the soul
Through the eyes, which, in my opinion, constitutes true
beauty. Women have been pointed out to me as beautiful,
who never could have interested my feelings, from their
want of countenance, or expression, which means coun-
tenance ; and others, who were little remarked, have
struck me as being captivating, from the force of counten-
ance. A woman's face ought to be like an April day—
susceptible of change and variety; but sunshine should
often gleam over it, to replace the clouds and showers that
may obscure its lustre, which, poetical description apart
(said BYRON), in sober prose means, that good-humoured
smiles ought to be ready to chase away the expression of
pensiveness or care that sentiment or earthly ills call forth.
Women were meant to be the exciters of all that is finest
in our natures, and the soothers of all that is turbulent and
harsh. Of wbat use, then, can a handsome automaton
be, after one has got acquainted with a face that knows no
change, though it causes many ? This is a style of looks
I could not bear the sight of for a week, and yet such are
the looks that pass in society for pretty, handsome, and
beautiful.—New Monthly Magazine.

DRY WINE.—Some queer fellow in Phila-
delphia inquires of Mr. CHANDLER, of the Gazette, the
meaning of dry wine. The editor's answer is very satis-
factory, he says, " Dry wine means wine imported in
empty bottles."—Boston Sentinel.

We do not see why the owl, if domesticated,
might not be a valuable assistant to the husbandman. If
there were one or two belonging to every rick-yard and
barn, they would well repay a little trouble, and would be
at work when others sleep. The habit of taming birds
or other animals is of no little use in forming kind and
patient dispositions i❑ the young. Those who have seem
the storks in Holland building on the cottage roofs, and
stalking about the road-sides and dykes, will not think
this a hopeless attempt. It is by continual and often wan-
ton persecution that all the lower animals are driven from
us ; and their dread might be overcome by kind treatment.
Those who reside in the country might thus derive a con-
stant source of innocent amusement. Hawks formerly
were taught to assist in the chase. (They do so now.)
The otter and cormorant have been tamed to fish (or their
masters, and still do so in India. We have seen numbers
of wild ducks flying round a person they were used so,
and quacking their joy at his approach with food. Phea-
sants, in several preserves, come to the keeper's whistle
to be fed. Sparrows, and other small birds, will soon
approach those who feed them regularly.—Literary Gaz.
EXTENSIVE RAILROAD.—The railroad to
Birmingham, carried on to Liverpool, as was intended,
would have brought Dublin within twenty-four hours of
Loudon. This of itself would have been a stronger argu-
ment against a Repeal of the Union than any in Mr. STAN-
LEY'S quiver. But this should not, nor will it be, the
only line; another grand route will run through Berkshire,
Wilts, Somerset, and Devon. The eastern counties
Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Huntingdon, and Lincoln, will
be supplied with one grand artery, and Yoikshire and
Scotland with another. By these roads all intelligence
will pass; &stance, as measured by time, will be snore
than half annihilated ; and the three kingdoms, without
losing an acre or an inhabitant, will have all the compact-
ness, force and efficiency invariably given by concentration.
Waste lands will instantly acquire value when the railroad
strikes across them, as if by the touch of a magnet; the
poor will all be wanted; they will flock to the banks of
the railroads as new emigrants flock to the hanks of the
rivers of America. It is facility of communication that
gives all the value to the great bed of the Mississippi,
which, in a short time, the Americans expect will be the
heart of its population and the centre of its wealth and
activity. A railroad is the river of art —it is the nearest
approach to creation that man has yet arrived at.—New
Monthly Magazine.
NEW CUSTOMS' ACT.—The Lords Com-
missioners of his Majesty's Treasury having had under
their consideration the statements, memorials, &c. sub-
mitted to them on the subject of the contemplated opera-
tion of the clause 48, in the Act 2 and 3 WILLIAM IV.
Cap. 84, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint
you that it appears to them to be proper that the
regulations which you are required by the Act referred to,
to make for permitting the export of warehoused goods as
ship's stores, ought to comprise those articles only herein-
after enumerated, and I am to desire that you will give the
necessary instructions for that purpose accordingly:—A
List of Foreign Goods to be allowed to be shipped as
Stores from the Bonded Warehouses, free of duty—Tea,
oz. or coffee 11 oz., cocoa 1 oz. per day for each person
on board. Wine, 1 pint per day for the master, each mate,
and each passenger. Spirits, brandy, geneva, rum (Bri-
tish plantation), pint per day for each person on hoard.
The last to be in proportion of one-half of the whole
quantity of spirits shipped, and no spirits to be shipped in
less than the legalised packages. Raw Sugar and Mo-
lasses (together or separate), 2 oz. per day for each per-
-8014 on board. Dried Fruits, 2 pounds per week for each
person o❑ board. Rice, ditto.—Devonport Telegraph.
TITHES—SEVERAL LIVES LOST.—The
Rev. M. GAVEN proceeded yesterday to effect the valu-
ation of the parish of Wallstown, near Doneraile. It was
thought necessary in order to effect the object, that a de.
tachment of the 14th Regiment of infantry, from Butte-
vant, and a body of police, from the neighbouring stations,
all under the direction of several Magistrates, amongst
whom the names of G. Benin Low, Esq , ADAM EVANS
Gen. BARRY, and GARRETT NAGLE, Esq., have been re
turned to us—should be procured. The process of valu
ation had scarceley commenced, when the people, to the
number of between 12 and 1500, began to give manifest
indications of hostility ; whilst the author ties, on the
other side, evinced determination to resist any attempt that
might be made to frustrate the valuation. The people, as
I they increased in numbers, became more and more resolute
and exasperated—stones were thrown at the military--
the order to fire upon and charge was given by the Ma-
gistrates, and an instantaneous and general discomfiture of
' the unarmed peasantry was the result. As stated in the
letter above referred to, the retreating party were met
by a company of Highlanders, from Castletownroche,
where another conflict ensued, the result of which was,
that four of the people were killed, ten or twelve badly
wounded, and eighteen or twenty made prisoners. The
names of the deceased, are—WILLIAM DOYLE, a com-
fortable farmer, aged 50 years, who leaves a wife and
five children to mourn the loss of their only provider.
MICHAEL HORROGAN, a labourer, aged 27, and DAVID
REGAN, a boy of about 14. The whole country for seve-
ral miles round has been thrown into a state of great con
sternatien, and the feelings of the tampers and peasantry
are roused to a pitch of fearful excitement. —Cork Re-
porter.

We take the following from the Eclaireur
de la Mecliterran(ie of Aug. 30 :—" The daughter of a
M. R , res.ding at Lupain, being dissatisfied with
the treatment of her mother-in-law, fled from the pater-
nal roof, and took refuge in a convent of Grey Sisters at
Lambese. For a time the attentions paid to her were so
great, and her existence rendered so happy, that she made
a will, leaving the whole of the fortune she inherited from
her deceased mother to the community. Upon this being
dove, the conduct of the nuns towards her became entirely
changed, and she was subjected to such close confinement,
and other harsh treatment, that she felt she was sinking
gradually into the grave. Becoming at length satisfied
that this was done with the design of obtaining an earlier
possession of her property, she wrote several letters to her
father, but they were all intercepted by the superior of the
house, till, fortunately, when the last gleam of hope was
on the point of extinction, a boarder, who bad been at-
tached to the sufferer, quitted the establishment, and con-
veyed an account of the state of his daughter to M
R . lie instantly hastened to the convent, and de-
manded to see his child, who appeared before him in the
last stage of consumption, begging, with piteous tears, that
lie would take her with him. Her weakness was so great
that he was obliged to take her in his arms to remove her.
On his making the attempt, however, the superior op-
posed him, and, ringing the alarm bell, called around het
the whole of the sisterhood, and some ecclesiastics attached
to the establishment. Attracted by the bell, some of the
inhabitants of the neighbourhood also came in, and, on
learning the circumstances, ranged themselves on the side
of the afflicted father. A long and desperate contest en-
sued, but in the end the young lady was taken from a
place which, in a very few days more, must have become
,her tomb. Depositions have since been made before the
Magistrates of the place, upon which judicial proceedings
against the guilty parties will be founded.