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London, England, 1821-11-12 00:00:00

find, the statement of the.Freuch Journals, that)
the cessation of.the.epiderny .at oarcelonetta had
been announced by the firing of cannon. • They
only announce that the number of 'deaths could
not be ascertained on account of the illuess of all,
the l'llysicians at that place.. At Barcelona 'the
fever continued to.Tage.with . unabated Violence,.
and from the returns from..other towns whichi.
had not yet been mentioned as infected, it
appears evident that; notwithstanding all the,
precautions taken to stop its, progress, 'the
contagion is gaining ground in various parts
of Spain. At Madrid tranquillity prevailed,
and the Cortes carried on their labours Without
any interruption- from the populace, who bad
been completely reduced to .order by, the ener-,
getic conduct of the Military. Commandant. In
the Sitting of the 9.6 th October, Mr. Paul, an
American Member, moved that the Minister of
the' Colonies be directed to present, as soon as
possible, a statement of the measures which he
considered best adapted to effect the tranquillity
and happiness of the Americans. This motion
excited a long and Vehenient &bate, and the
parties were so nearly balanced' that it ivas only
carried by a majority of one, the numbers being
7S for the motion, and 77 against it.

IBRITISII PRESS?
We have 'received the Paris Papers to the 9th
instant. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied
on .1 uesday and Wednesday with forming the
bureaux, appointing officers, &c. The attendance
of Members on both days was very thin. The
Chamber consists of 426 Members, and to en-
able it to transact business, more than a half,
that is 214, must be present. On the latter day
only 102 attended. The verification of the
powers of the new Deputies, which was the
business of the day, could not therefore be pro-
ceeded on, and, after a long conversation, the
House adjourned sine die, with an understanding

that on the arrival of a sufficent number of
Deputies in Paris, notice would be given at their
respective places of residence of the day of the
next meeting. We do not know how to account
for this negligence of the Members of the Chani-
ber in the discharge of their public duty. We
should have expected more zeal and energy from

the novelty of their situation. It is too soon
for Frenchmen, however fickle their character,
to be tired of their free Constitution. The
news respecting Turkey in the Paris Papers
is either derived from imperfect sources, or
so manufactured to the taste of the Censors
of the Press, that it scarcely deserves notice.—
It was stated last week, inadvices from Odessa,

that the Russian troops had broken up for winter
quarters. It is now stated, under the same head,
that they have received orders to march for the
Pruth, that is, against Turkey.—The Chamber
of Peers proceeded on Tuesday to the nomina-
tion of Officers, and of a Committee of five mem-
bers to prepare an Address in answer to the
King's Speech. The Peers selected for the pur-
pose were, the Marquises de Pastoret, Lalla
Tolendal, and Bonnay, the Duke de Doudeauville;
and Viscount de Montmorency.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Wednesday's and Thursday's- Paris Papers
have arrived since our last. It appears from the
journals of both days' papers that the yellow
feier is 'losing its force and virulence. in Barce-
lonetia. A letter of the 29th states, that at that
date no new case was reported by the COmmis-
stoners of Health. In other towns, however, of
the- providces of Andalusia and Murcia, the ac-
counts were still of an afflicting and alarming na-
ture. There are accounts in Thursday's papers
from Odessa of the 13th, from Hermanstadt of the
18th, and from. Vienna of the 27th of- last month,
which state, that the Turks and- Russians once
more manifest mutually hostile dispositions. A
courier, it is Stated,. had just arrived at the first-
mentioned place from St. Petersburgh, with dis-
patches for the Governor, Count Langeron. He
had performed his journey in five -days, and con-
tinued his: route to Chersonesus, where the Count
happened-to be 'at the time.' " They say," says
;this-account, " that since his arrival the troops in
the Ukraine received orders to march towards
the Pruth (tlie Turkish frontier); and were already
ontheir march."TheHermanstadt article states that
'the advanced posts of the Turks and Russians were
in sight of each other on the river Pruth,aud that the
Turkish forces in the provinces of Moldavia and
Walachia had been augmented to the amount of
30,000 men. Accbunts substantially the same as
the foregoing • are received from Vienna, with
this difference; that in these the Most confident
opinion is expressed, .- of the continuance of
peace ; and the Austrian Government is -stated
to be so confident of the pacific 'intentions of
the Emperor Alexander, as to make no
preparaticins. The accounts from St. Peters-
burgh, Of the 15th,- bring no intelligence' but` that
of a tremendous fire, which broke out on the 21st
of 'July at Uralsk, the capital of the Cossacks of
the Ural.- The' number of-houses, churches, and.
Other buildings 'coniumed-in the town and its vi-
cinity, is stated 'at 1,700. Accounts from Rome
of the 14th state that' the Austrian army of, 0 ccu,
pation in Naples is about to be considerably re-
inforced. - --•-

. ,
On Sunday the 4th inst. during the high wind, an immense
Lomhardy poplar, at the north-west corner of the Fellows'
Garden, St. John's College, Cambridge, was blown down. The
tree was one of the finest of that species in the kingdom; its
Firth was 15 feet 4 inches, its height very considerable, and it
Is supposed to be about 200 years old. (inc of the Fellows was
within two yards of the tree when it beg y
an to give wa ,but was
fortunately out of its reach before it fell, and the only damage
it occasioned was the demolition of part of the garden wall. A
swallow was found in the hollow of the trunk, in a torpid 'state.
The beautiful weeping willow at the corner of Trinity College
walks, near. Gerard's hostel Bridge, was blown into the river ;
. a tree Queen's College 'grove was blown down, and some
other injury sustained. At Peterborou, on the same morn.
ing; the large weeping willow in Archdeacon Strong 's planta-
tions, so many years the ornament .of the gravel walk In that
city, was entirely blown to the ground.
The Committee appointed . for conducting the
late Civic Banquet met at eleven .o'clock, on Sa-
turday, and distributed the remains -of the baron
of beef and the victuals left after the Lord
Mayor's feast to many poor decent persons as-
sembled in Guildhall, who had tickets of recom-
:mendatidn 'given them for that purpose. A part
was sent to the poor prisoners.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Trot ZontAc.---The curiosity excited at Mar-
seilles by the arrival of the Zodiac from Den-
derah cannot yet be gratified.' This grand' Inn:-
nument of antiquity is still on board the ship
which conveyed it from Egypt, and there it must
remain till the beginning of December, in con-
sequence of the rigorous measures adopted to pre-
vent the introduction of the pestilence, whiCh at
this moment devours the population of Catalonia
with an insatiable appetite. In order that the
great expences already incurred by the removal
of this precious relique may not be increased,
the administration of the Customs, with a libe-
rality which reflects the highest honour on that
department, have given directions that its in-
troduction into France shall be exempt from
the usual duties ; and the Institute intends
to apply to Count Simeon, to cause the ex-
penses of transport to Paris to be paid out of
the
.public treasury. Besides this monument,
M.' Lelorrain has sent some boxes of mummies,
and a great number of those objects of antiquity
with which Egypt abounds, and which its climate
preserves in such an astonishing manner. Thus,
the English have ceased to take an exclusive
share in the Archteoilogical treasures scattered
along both banks of the Nile. It is notorious
that, after the example of the Romans, that enter-
prising people ornament their capital with the
magnificent remains of Egyptian civilization.
The obelisk, known by the name of Cleopatra's
Needle, recently arrived in London, is to
be erected in one of its squares : another
obelisk, that of Philoe, will ornament the
residence of a private gentleman. The head
of the colossal statue of • Memnon, a fine Aar...!
cophagus of alabaster, discovered in the se-
pulchres of the Pharaoh, and a vast number of
other valuable curiosities, are deposited in the
British Museum ; hut all these monuments toga
then do not, perhaps, equal that of the plani-
sphere, so skilfully detached from the vaults of
the ancient temple of Tintiris. This precious
relic, of such remote antiquity, is no less inte-
resting to the history of the arts in general than
useful to that of astronomy, and of geography in
particular.---(Journal de Marseilles.)
WINDOW-TAI..--A numerous meeting of the
Churchwardens and Deputies of the co-operating
Parishes of Dublin took place on Monday even-
ing, at the Post-office Tavern, when several re-
solutions were adopted, and arrangements made
for forwarding, at the earliest possible period,
Petitions to Parliament against the Window-tax.
After appointing a Deputation to wait on Sir R.
SHAW on the subject, the meeting adjourned.
THEATRICAL Row —On Tuesday evening last
there was a tumult in the Theatre Francais, at
Paris, excited by a party of noisy young men, in
consequence, as was pretended, of the omission
of some passages in The Marriage de Figaro: In
vain the Commissary of Police and the performers
LI
stated, that the lines in question had been struck
out eighteen years ago, and had never since
been restored. All attempts to restore order
were unavailing, and at length the Commis-
sary gave notice, that the curtain would be
dropped and the house cleared, and requested
all well-disposed persons to retire. The threat
was immediately carried into effect, and the' mal-
contents quietly retreated with the rest of the
audience. The omission consists, it appears, of
only a few lines. One of the papers observes,
that it would have been wiser, in the first in-
stance to have forbidden altogether a work which
is throughout an outrage upon morality.

_ ..
CURIOUS ALMANACK.--There are 365 dots in
a pack of cards—so many days are there in a
year. There are 52 cards in a pack—so many
weeks are there in a year. There are 13 win-
ning- tricks in-a pack of cards—so many months
are there in a year.
OUTRAGEOUS ROBBER-Y.—Saturday evening,
between the hours of five and six, a most daring
robbery, accompanied with an attempt to murder,
was perpetrated by a gang of eight ruffians, who
have, as yet, eluded the vigilance of the Police.
The particulars of • the atrocious affair are as fol-
lows-:—An old man, named Stacey, a porter in
the employ of Mr. W. Bateman, silversmith, No.
108, Bunhill-row, St. Luke's, was on his way
home to his master's house with a bag, containing
260 ounces of silver consisting of unfinished tea-
pots, spoons, &c. &c. which had been to be
stamped at Goldsmiths' Hall ; when, on getting
to the corner of Lamb's-passage, in Bunhill-
row, about fifty yards from the house of his
master, he was stopped by a gang of villains,
one of whom raised a• huge bludgeon, and
struck him a tremendous blow, on the head,
.which felled him to the ground ; the villains then
dragged him by the heels into Lamb's-passage,
where they repeated the blows in the most in-
human manlier, and all entreaties for mercy
seemed only to increase their vengeance—a little
boy who was with the poor man,: was prevented
from creating any alarm by one of the villains
hugging him, with his face to his breast, till the
lad was nearly exhausted. One of the robbers
who was standing over the old man, whilst the
others •-were heating him with their bludgeons,
exclairnedi ." D-11 his b—y eyes, cork
(kill) litnostid then we are safe." The asso-
ciate replied, " No, no; he has had enough."—
The whole of the gang then .took the bag con-
taining the silver, and made off through Lamb's-
passage, and escaped through the various
courts and alleys, with which the place abounds.
—The little boy then hastened
to inform
his master of the outrage, and the poor old man,
in a gore of • blood, was assisted home to his
lodgings, in Twister's-alley. A surgeon was sent
for, when three desperate wounds were found at
the back of the scull,. and a very severe one on
the right temple. Information was given to ,Gar-
ton, Van, and Hanley, three active officers be-
longing to Worship-street Police-office, and the
persons of two of the villains are known ; and to
facilitate justice, Mr. Bateman has offered a re-
ward of 501. for their apprehension,
The poor
man continues in a very weak state.
SulcinE.—Saturday,an Inquest was held at the
King's Arms, Great Bath-street, Clerkenwell,.
before THOMAS STIRLING) Esq., Coroner, on the
, body of Thomas linde, who committed, spicide
by throwing himself out of the window of the
house in which he lodged. Verdict—lnsanity.