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(pate compensation for that of which you choose to de-
prive us."—We really do not know whether those who
are busy in exciting a clamour respecting Negro Slavery
are prepared to provide this compensation to the
Planters ; but we cannot help feeling that the honour
and good faith of the nation are pledged to yield them
a fair compensation for any injury which may be in-
flicted upon their property. It is a principle recog-
nised and acted upon to every turnpike bill in this
country, that no measure, having in view the good of
the public, shouldb e carried into effect, without secur-
ing an ample .recompense to the private individuals who
may be injured in its progress. If the people of this
country insist upon interfering with the Colonists in
the internal management of their property, let them
purchase these estates, and they may then, without in-
justice, make any experiments in the West India
Islands which the most fanatic theorists may prevail
upon them to try.

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE,

At the ordinary meeting of the Royal Society, held
at their apartments, Somerset-place, on Thursday last
(April 13), a series of communications were read, of
considerable interest, from Capt. PARRY and Lieut.
FOSTER, R. N., jointly, describing a number of
observations and experiments made during the
late Northern Expedition, on the various magnetic
phenomena which presented themselves in those high
latitudes, especially at Port Bowen. An extensive
course of observations on the variation and intensity,
daily, and in some cases, hourly, on the dip, was given
in a set of tables. The daily variation appeared to
have a close connexion with the place of the sun, and
a less obvious one with that of the moon ; and the
Aurora Borealis (contrary to what has been generally
supposed) seemed to have no influence on these phe-
nomena.

After the meeting, there were exhibited to the mem-
bers a variety of specimens of glass, manufactured by
a new process (invented, we believe, chiefly through
the indefatigable attention and eminent skill of the
President), for optical purposes, under the superin-
tendence of a Committee of the Society, at the in-
stance of the Board of Longitude, with a view to the
improvement of telescopes, the impossibility of pro-
cunng glass sufficiently pure for large object glasses
having hitherto proved an insurmountable bar to their
being carried to that degree of perfection which the
present wants of the astronomer require. Several
eminent opticians were present, and expressed their ad-
miration of the specimens produced.
Thunda.y, April 20.—At the meeting this even-
ing, the Right Honourable WILLIAM STURGES
BOURNE, M. P. was proposed, ballotted for, and, ac-
cording to his privilege as a Privy Counsellor,
electedinto the Society without the usual form of
recommendation.
A very elaborate paper (of little general interest)
was read by Dr. YOUNG, on the calculation of the
value of lives, in which all the well-known mathemati-
cal skill of that philosopher was most conspicuously
and usefully displayed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STATE or THE ODDS.—TS

CLAIIEND,
6 to 4 ego The Moslent
2 to 1 eget Monarch
5 toq aget Crusader

2000os.
5 to 2 on the Fielit
1000 G 3.

C to 4 apt Butterfly
3 to I agst Problem

NEWN

~..TTlIkla.llOOAl, APRIL 20.
STAICES.
110 to 1 eget Parapluie
10 to 1 eget The General.

STAKES.

2 to 1 apt Dragon

—Very little betting.
STAIOES.
4 to 1 agst l'arapluie

,RKE T.

4 to 1 agst Monarch
5 to 1 agst The Moslem
ii to 1 agst Panic ,
15 to 1 agst The Baron
16 to 1 agst Advance
18 to I agst Carthago
18 to 1 aget Dorinda
20 to I agst Charming Molly
30 to 1 agst The General
to 1 aget The Moslem

7 t_____
o 1 agst The Baron.
BY.
25 to 1 agst Viscountess
28 to 1 agst Dervise
30 to 1
,agst Centaur
40 to 1 agst Bolivar
40 to 1 agat Waterman
40 to 1 ago Norman
40 to I agat Twatty
50 to 1 age. Syphon

fin Derby and Clarendon.
xs.
:3 to 3 agst Butterfly 12 to 1 agat Elizabeth
7 to 1 agst Problem 14 to 1 agst Bo.peep
8 to 1 twat Paraplule 18 to 1 agst Morel
9 to 1 agst Mignonette 18 to 1 agst Tears
16 to 1 agst Rachel 20 to 1 agst Louisa.
6 to 2 agst Duke of Orafton'a Lot taken
7 to 2 agat Lord Jersey's Lot ditto
7 to 1 agat Butterfly for Oaks, 1000 gs. stakes ditto
to 4 agst Problem and Paraplule.

MATCH BETWEEN HUG
AND LIEUT.
This race, for 600 sovs. %ram
Ashted race course, Herta, pest
was 12 miles, and each one and
follows :

lIES FORRESTER, ESQ.
HANI3URY.
I run over a mile and a half of
terday morning. The distance
. a half mile was performed as

THE LIEUT.
Ist mile and a half -
2d

4th - . .
oth . . .
6th . . .

7th
oth

77.48
last mile, although he possessed