The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-15 00:00:00

COLOMBIA.

We find in our Carthagena papers by the Athenian,
the following information, in addition to what we
published yesterday from that quarter
The Lberator President, now Sole Supreme
Chief of Colombia, is adopting the most prompt
and efficacious measures to resist the rumoured in-
vasion contemplated by the Spanish forces of the
island of Cuba. The three frontier 'provinces of
Zulia, Magdalena, and the Isthmus,_ haveilbeen placed
in a complete state of defence, and the army in that
quarter on a war footing. The executive powers of
the ex-Republic being now entrusted to energetic
hands, we may safely calculate upon the Spaniards
receiving a very warm reception, should they prove
so foolhardy as to attempt the invasion of a valiant
nation, governed by the uncontrolled will and genius
of the warlike Bolivar. The military and municipal
Government of the three before-mentioned depart-
ments have been confided to Lieutenant-General
Mariano Montilla, under the title of Superior Chief.
Previous to his departure for -Magdalena, Montilla,
in the presence of the .Liberator and the principal
Officers of the general Government, took a solemn
oath to defend the republic, and faithfully fult4l the
important duties intrusted to him by the Chief Ma-
gistrate of Colombia.
" By the following translations it will be seen that
Bolivar pledges himself to lay down the Dictator-
ship whenever called upon to do so by the people.
Whether he be called Dictator or President is a
matter of little moment—the people will _flourish
under his. government, if it is in their destiny to j
flourish at all. We have no fear that Bolivar will
ever prove a tyrant.
" Translated for the New York Morning Courier,
from tiles of Cto thagena papers to the 14111 of Sept. :
" PROCLAM ATION.
" Simon Bolivar, Liberator President of Colombia, &c.
&c. &c.

" Colombians,--The public will having been elm,
getically expressed in favour of the political reform
of the nation, the legislative body acceded to your
-wishes, by directing the convocation of the grand
Convention, in order that the representatives of the
people, in compliance with your desires, should
constitute the republic conformably to our reli-
gious faith, our inclinations, 'and our emergencies;
nor did the people require aught that was incompa-
tiLle with their individual interests. The hopes of
all were, however, frustrated in the grand conven-
tion, which was ultimately compelled to dissolve
itself, because some were submissive to the will of
the majority, and others:anxious to enact laws
-which their consciences and opinions dictated. The
Constitution of the Commonwealth no longer pos-
ses,ied its legal force over the multitude, because that
seif.setno conv"ti". had annulled it, by unani-
mously Aecreeing the urgenci of its reformation.
then becomingwhich threatened their rights,
—The peOple
enormity of the evils w
reassumed those Calistitutional privileges that
had been delegated td them ;and by the in-
stantaneous exercise of the plenitude, of their
sovereign power, they provided for their , own
welfare, ad future security, The sovereign people
deigned ton honour me with the title of their Mini.
ster, and moreover authorized me to execute their
commands. My character of chief Magistrate im-
posed upon me the duty of obeying and serving the
nation, even to a much greater extent than my
humble abilities could perform. At a period so mo-
mentary, I could not decline the acceptance of. the
confidence reposed In me,—a confidence which over-
whelins me with unspeakable glory, while at the
same time it humbles me by a consciousness of my
own inability.
" Colombians—l obligate myself to obey impli-
citly all your legitimate desires; to protect your
holy religion, as the faith and code by which
all Food Colombians should be guided. I shall or-
der justice to be done unto you,such being the prime-
val law of nature, and the universal guaranty of the
citizens. Economy in the administration of tliig
public funds shall constitute the particular care of
yowl- servants. We shall eminently distinguish our-
selves by discharging the obligations of Colombia
towards the generous foreigner. In a word, I shall
only retain the supreme power until such period as
you may command its restitution • and should you
not previously Otherwise direct, It shall, within a
year, convoke the national representation,
" Colombians—I shall say nothing to you of
liberty ; for, if I fulfil my promises, you will be more
than free, you will be respected ; besides, under the
Dictatorship, wherefore speak of liberty. Let there
be a mutual union between the people who obey,
and him who governs supreme.
(Signed)

cg sOLIVAR."

SOCIETY OF DRUGGISTS, OILMEN, 86c.""-•
Yesterday a very numerous and respectable 'Meeting of
gentlemen, connected with the oil and drug trade, was held
at the Louden Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, Sir C. PKIC6 in
the Chair. After some discussion, relative to the protec-
tion of their trade, it was agreed on that the Society should
nominate and appoint two or three polke-officers, who
should be consulted whenever any robbery took place, and
proportionably remunerated.

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1838.

The French Papers are as barren as ever with
respect to news from the East. The reported
capture of Silistria hail not been confirmed by
any authentic news, and the first notification of
that event will probably be received through
Berlin, as having been the official channel of
communication during the war. If we may
credit the accounts received at Berlin, from Rus-

sia, it is the EMPEROR'S intention to prosecute
the war during the winter, but this requires con-

firmation.

The prevailing opinion on the Continent at
present is that the Duke of WELLINGTON and
Prince METTERNrcu perfectly understand each
other, and that France is well disposed to any
plan which may bring about a peace between
Russia and Turkey, after the independence of
Greece has been placed upon a sure basis.

We copy the following long-winded article
from the Allgemeine Zeitung, upon the affairs
of the East. The article is addressed to the
Journalists of Europe, and more is promised :

AUGSBURGII, NOV. 8.

The Supplement to the Aligenteine Zeitung con-
tains a letter to all the Journalists of R.rope, dated
Constantinople Oct. 10, and the Editor gives the
following note :

This letter was received at the Office of the
Allgenzeine Zeitung by the last mail from Constan-
tinople, after having been duly fumigated and cut
through at the Lazzaretto on the frontiers. It is
written, as well as an accompanying note, in German,
but signed by a real or pretended Turk, Osman
Joselub, who, however, gives us his address, and re-
quires an answer; at the same time a German trans-
lator, who does not name himself, calls on the Editor
of the Allgemeine Zeitung, in the name of the
Turkish writer, to shew his impartiality by giving it
insertion. As well on this account as for the singu•
larity of the case we comply with this desire; we
insert the whole, only pruning away some unimpor-
tant redundancies which
_have nothing to do with
the subject.

" CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 10.

" Gentlemen! How greatly you interest yourselves
in the affairs of the East; but also how imperfect
and partial your information is, is evident from the
numerous articles respecting my country, and espe-
cially since the insurrection in the 'Volvo on that
subject in particular, which are to be met with in
the otherwise highly respectable journals of Europe,
and by which, with a few honourable exceptions,
public opinion has been gained over against the
Government anti the Nation to which I have the
honor to belong, and is still endeavoured to be ruled
and deceived. Though an inclination for writing is
no part of the character of my nation or my own,
I cannot refrain from making some plain re-
marks on the present state of things, for which
E view ttliea%bovteo
correctinsurrectioni
oie measure gave tlieefiurrset
signal, with
Otis false reports and erroneous notions, and I shall
ewho prefer a clear
attain my object for the present, if I should convince
ando j
only tilisipteflotetwtip. rpejfildthidngs persons
to pleasing illusions. In
the. spirit of partiality which every religion recom-
was as a vii tue, and whichis justise msepoecipallain
especially duty
of a Christian Id
writer, you will not deny a ussul-
fbnirjiilliglti'ellngiefe hdct notions respecting the
which, however,
before
Inthaentrtiteuimialenor o
an
eg
appears to have very mp
character of the Ottomans, and the state of the
Empire, either in a moral and religious,or in a uk,n_
tific and political view. (The writer confessing the
merits of that civilization which sends its agents to
the 1,--?44e to bring an account of all that lives or vege-
tates, and tit; norance of his own people on such
points, thitt!cs however that they are much better
H in-
.. • e
formed of what passes in tetr own country.
continues)—lf we read the European journals it
seems as indisputable, as just, and beneficial, that a
ziew Greek State found...id pn Ottoman ground should,
recognized by the Sublima Porte. I will not
Pretend 10 examine the utility of this measure, that
I may not offend tie wisdom of my august monarch,
but I will make some observations on the jus-
tice of the proposed emancipation of t4e Preos.

The insurrectionary movements hi some of the
provinces of the Ottoman Empire, inhabited by
subjects of the Greek religion, occurred about
the time that a Holy Alliance, as it was called,
was formed between most of the Princes of Europe,
which was announced as a solid basis of justice,
cba-
rity, and peace, on which the internal administration
and the external relations of the several States
should immovably rest. Though the Sublime Porte
was no more a party to the alliance than the Pope
at Rome, it could not fail to see with pleasure the
formation of an alliance, the principle of which
might he looked upon as consolidating a general sys-
tem of legitimacy and morality, and as a pledge of a
surer- system of diplomacy. The interference of
Austria in the revolutionary movements of Naples
and Piedmont, in 1824., confirmed the Porte in its
good opinion of the alliance; and if it declined fo-
reign interference in the troubles in the Morea, it
was not from distrust in the Foreign Powers, but in
the consciousness of its own ability soon to put
down those insurgents. But now the alliance pro-
jected by Russia in 1815 appears in its true light as a
plan farmed byßussiaagainst the Porte." (The writer
declares it to be now evident that Russia has se-
cretly and openly encouraged the Greek revolution,
has by troublesome interference given it an appear-
ance of lawfulness, and cherished the hopes of the
rebels, while its threatening attitude on the Pruth
has diverted the attention of the Porte.) " If,"
says he, " we consider all this, and weigh against
the apparent inequality of the contest, (the length of
which, in the opinion of so many ill-informed per-
sons, is so honourable to the courage of the rebels),
the many circumstances which have favoured it and
impeded us, all that is extraordinary in the matter,

the false lustre that surrounded it, will vanish, and
the merit of promoting liberty, if licentiousness is
liberty, will not belong to those who have acquired
this liberty. The honour that belongs to them will
consist only in treason to their lawful Sovereign, and
in the indelible disgrace of unparalleled cruelties
which have, marked every day of their insurrection."

Calcutta Papers to the 29th of May have
been received at the North and South American

Coffee-house. Their contents are chiefly ex-
tracts from the English Journals. They state
that the steam-boat, Enterprize, is to be trans-
ferred to the Bombay Marine, and will proceed
to that Presidency shortly. The Company are
said to have the intention of sending out ma-
terials for building, at Bombay, a vessel in every
respect similar.

t
Extracts from Am Wean Papers will be found

elsewhere, but nothing important has transpired
with the exception of the following Peruvian
Decree, contained in a letter from. Colombia :
Article I.—That the foreign importations of all
those articles, which, by the 'present regulations,
pay 90 per cent. duty, shall within ten months
from the States of Europe, and eight months from
those of America, counting from the date of the
proclamation of the law, be entirely prohibited.
Article 2.—Within the same time and terms as the
'above will also be prohibited the foreign importa-
tion of all kinds of %% ine, raisins, flour, butter, and
esculents of whatever denomination.

In common with our cotemporary, the Times,
who has so ably led the way, we direct attention to
the case of the Spanish refilgees, at this moment in
a state of absolute destitution. We can conceive

nothing so truly hopeless as the condition of
these exiled patriots. Far removed from their
own country, from the sound of friendly voices,
and the welcome greeting of relations, they are
cast upon a foreign strand, where every face is
strange, and the only language in which they
can make known their sorrows, is a harsh,

settled, and inscrutable mystery. To ag-
gravate, if possible, their wretchedness, these
man-abandoned Liberals are denied even the poor
privilege of hope. Cheated, perhaps, in the lying
hour of dreams, they may fancy for awhile
that they are happy ; but the morning sun
breaks in upon their slumber, the delusion
vanishes, and they wake to a full, an acute, a
comprehensive sense of their situation. The
reckless adventurer, whom his own guilt has
exiled ; the low pitiful felon, whose offences are
to be expiated in the dungeon or by the tread-
mill ; have yet the satisfaction of reflecting that,
when the term of their probation is passed, they
will be again restored to society. But the poor
Spanish refugee, the disinterested asserter of his
country's honor, the warrior in the field, the states-
man in the Senate, the high-born uncompromising
patriot, has no such soothing reflection. For him
alone, of all the myriad wretches in the creation,
there is no comfort. His mind stands upon an
isthmus, between two deserts, the past and the
future. Hour after hour, day after day, drags
on in the same slow hopeless manner : he rises
an outcast in the morning—he lies down an out-
cast at night. The sight of his starving children,
of his wasted uncomplainhag wife, are an endless
reproach to his eyes : the blessings of nature are
converted into curses ; England, the refuge of
the destitute, is to him a charnel-house, wherein
all hope lies buried, and if he ever ventures to
send his thoughts abroad over the waters, to-
wards his once delightful Spain, they recoil with
horror at the sight, for a FERDINAND is there
triumphant.
For the sake of these lofty-minded refugees,
who, had they cringed to despotism, might still
have possessed wealth, influence, and rank, we im-
plore the attention of our readers. We implore
them to
consider how little—how very little—
deducted from
the sum of their own daily luxu-
ries, will bring comfort to the fatherless, light up
the drooping eye,
raise the languid head, and
cheer the bed of 4 Should the hour ever
.64
arrive, when those who now waniton in
af-
fluence shall be reduced like the poor Spaniards

to destitution-..hew delightful-at such a period
for the mind will then need every source of con-
solation—will be the: reflection, that the prayer
of the exile, whom they succoured in his distress,
is offered up to Heaven iii their behalf!

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TIVNLYR o'CLocr.

Saturday, in ordinary circumstances, is generally
a dull day at the Stock Exchange, and this has been
exemplified by the operations which have taken
place this morning. Consols opened for Tuesday
and Account at 86i 87, and 87i I for January, and
the only variation to notice is, they became sellers at
86i for a short period, and are now at their first quo-
tation. Exchequer Bills are 75 76,►and India Bonds
85 86 prem.
There is nothing worthy of particular notice in
the Foreign Funds, the business continues to be
very limited, and prices without any change of the
least importance. A trivial advance in Chilian and
Mexican Bonds is the only thing to note, the former
being 27i, and the latter 34 ; Russian 941 ;
Danish 62 ¢ ; and Portuguese 551
The Share speculations are almost a dead letter,
and the disappointment of the dealers who have en-
tered into them, even those of the favourable de-
scription, has given a disrelish on the part of the
public to have anything further to do with them. In-
stead of returns for what has been advanced for
their prosecution, fresh calls are continually being
made, and this has proved a source of sickening dis-
like to all the parties concerned, who originally had
the intention of investment.

Three per Cent. Consols, 86i 87 ; Ditto, for Ac 7
sount, 86i 87 ; India Bonds, 85 6 pm. ; Exchequer Bills,
75 76 pm.

FORElGN.—Brazilian, 641 ; Buenos Ayres, 47i ;
Chilian, 27 ; Colombian, 174 18 ; Danish, 62 4;
Greek, 174 184; Mexican, Five per Cent., 264 74;
Ditto, Six per Cent., 344 4 ; Peruvian, 17 4 ; Por-
tuguese, 551 1 ; Russian, 94/ ; Spanish, 10i j-.

MINES.—AngIo Mexican, 73 71 dis. ; Brazilian, 35 7
pm. ; Bolanos, 1101,20 pm. ; Colombian, 11 10 dis. ; Real
Del Monte, 260 240 dis. ; Tlalpuxabua, 20 25 per share ;
United Mexican, 22 21i dis.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for account, 86 87, nominally, but no

business.

India Bonds are a shilling higher, 87 86 premium.
A Dutch mail has just arrived, letters will be de-
livered soon after two o'clock.

AMAZING STRENGTH AND ACTIVITY.-
On Thursday last, a gentleman of this neighbourhood
undertook to fell 171 oak, fir, and other trees, in seven
hours, and to the amazement of a numerous company who
had assembled on the occasion, completed his task in 35
minutes within the given time ! —Berkslii re Chronicle.
EGYPTIAN REVERENCE FOR THE DEAD.-
A couple here have Lately effected an insurance on the lives
of themselves and an only child, and appointed trustees,
with power to appropriate the money (1001. oa each life)
to the sole purpose of embalming or otherwise preserving
their bodies after death, instead of consigning them to the
grave !--Berkshire Chronicle.

The following advertisement appeared in the
Dublin Morning Register of Thursday :—" CATHOLIC
SERVANTS.—The cruel and unmerited persecution under
which Catholic servants are at present suffering, demands
the adoption of some measure for their relief. As a pre-
paratory step, it has been deemed expedient to hold a meet-
ing of servants at the Catholic Association Rooms on Sa •
turday next, the 15th instant, at one o'clock, when the
Rev. Mr. L'ESTRANC It will take the chair. Servants
(both male-and female) who are out of bread, or who have
experienced any difficulty connected with their religion in
getting employment, are invited to attend."

A man residing at Stert, near Devizes,
.87
years of age, while in a state of intoxication a few days
since, fell into,the fire, when the whole of his hair was
burnt off his head, his coat reduced to tinder, and the scalp
of his head, and both his ears burnt in a shocking manner.
He is notwithstanding still alive.—Bath Herald.
Such has been the concourse of visiters this
year to Florence, that the keeper of one of the principal
hotels has been obliged to turn away not less than 120
families, chiefly English, who had been recommended to

his house.

On Tuesday last a cow, belonging to Mr. E.
Bußßows, of East Leake, produced a dead calf:at its full
growth, having two perfect heads and two tails ; and on
opening it, there were found two hearts and four kidneys.
—North Wales Chronicle.

THE THAMES.--There has been finer sport
to the levers of trolling in our rter this season, than has
been known for many years past. The number of jack
caught has been immense. If the Thames was preserved
from poachers, and the fence months strictly observed, it
would be the first river in Great Britain far the best de-
scription of almost every sort of ash—pike, trout, perch,
dace, barble, chub, gudgeon, roach, pope, and even eels,
are in abundance.—lferkshirc Chronicle.

The feelings of many persons having occasion
to pass up Peter-hill in Stamford on Sunday alter:mon last,
were a good deal excited by the circumstance of two or
three human sculls, and other bones, having been trampled
up by the sheep brought in for the fair, on the site of the
old burial-ground of St. Peter's parish. This was owing
to the recent paring of the hill for the improvement of the
road. The outrage might be prevented by the building of
a low wall, to act as a facing to the mound where it has
been cut away ; and it calls for the attention of the magis-
trates, anti of the commissioners of, the road.--Lincoln
Herald.

INDIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS.—A
curious scene is exhibited when a European is disappointed
in obtaining musquito curtains. He lies down, faint with
the heat, anticipating a night of refreshment and repose. ,
He begins to get sleepy; his mouth opens; his eyes shut
he sinks, perhaps, into partial unconsciousness—hollo ;
What is this? He starts up—seizes on his own nose and
ears, and begins to swear and lay about him like a
trooper. The enemy retreats from the nese and ears, with
a furious buzz, buzz, bun! and a detachment commences
an attack upon his feet. In go their lances—out comes
the blood—the exasperated stranger aims an annihilating
blow at the place—and is instantly taken by the nose again.
Dislodged from the front, they fasten upon the flank; and
if beaten in the flank, they deploy upon the rear ; fists and
lances fly in all directions ; the man cries " —!" and
the musquito cries " buzz !" In conclusion, the sufferer
has just to choose between giving up his blood to the con-
querors, who will never retire till they have sucked to re-
pletion, and sitting up and fighting it out manfully till
morning. In either case, be risen from his gory bed with
a determination to beg, borrow, or steal musquito curtains.
The mail from London to Poole had a most
providential escape from destruction soon after changing
horse s at Bagshot early on Monday morning, on its way to
London. The morning was extremely foggy and dark, and
' the coach had not proceeded further than the turnpike (not
a mile from Bagshot), when the horses " bolted" and ran
away at their full speed for nearly three miles ; for-
tunately there was no outside passenger, but the coach
one kept their place, expecting momentary destruc-
tion, the glasses were let down, and every
yards together. The coachman, whose name was Noslol.t,
waswioiit)h,
wonderful
t
l full
ie i
in i deo
ae
;ch was frequently on two wheels for many
presence of mind ran the leaden against one
of the large waggons going the same way with himself,
when they fell, and completely separated themselves from
the coach, which went over the body of one, and the other
appeared much mutilated, as the ground was covered with
blood ; they were left On the spot, and the coach proceeded
with a pair. The guard had been previously thrown out
lof his seat in one'of the rolls made by the coach; and was
hurt in the shoulder, but was able to proceed.—Dorset
C'onty Chronicle.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Nov. 14.--Wind S.S.E.—:-Arrived from
Londen, the Clifton,- Curtis, for Jamaica ; Tropic,
ditto; Flip; Phillips, 'for the Cape': Rosalind,
Brown, for Grenada; Resource, Ansell, for Tene-
rife; Lord Goderich, Danbury, for Grenada; Sir
Charles Forbes, Leslie, for Jamaica; Hope, for the
South Seas; Mellish, Vincent, for New South
Wales; Prince Regent, Taylor, for Tobago; Prin-
cess Royal, Sherwood, for Van Dieman's Land ;
Hector, Sandler, and Stranger, for Jamaica; and
Woodbridge, for Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived
the Norfolk, Rodman, from Calcutta, sailed the Ist
of June, Sand Heads the Bth, and St. Helena the
10th of September; Cheviot, Mawson, from
Quebec ; Madie, Patey, from Oporto; and his Ma-
jesty's ship Champion, from Madras. Sailed the
Maria, Steel, for St. Helena and the Cape.
FALMOUTH, . Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived
the Stephen, Handgrade, from Pictou.
COWES, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Manine, Guedon'
from St. Domingo ; Ceres, Dunn, from St. John's,
N. B.; Anastatia, from New Orleans ; and Beady,
Tanner, from Faro.
I POOLE, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Planter, Johnson,
I from Lisbon_

TORBAY, Nor. 14.—Arrived the Jasper, from
Lisbon.

SCILLY, Nov. 11.—We experienced a very heavy
gale on the Bth and 9th inst. from S.E. to E.S.E.
during which the Egberdina, Bashans, from Cardiff
to Dordt, drove foul of a vessel in St. Mary's-roads,
and received considerable damage, her stern being
cut down nearly to the water's edge ; she lost her
rudder, stern-boat, main-boom, rigging, &c. but was
brought into St. Mary's pier with assistance, and
commenced discharging her cargo. His Swedish
Majesty's schooner Experiment drove near the rocks
on the Island of Sampson, and cut away her masts,
but since the weather has moderated has been got
into St. Mary's.

His MAJESTY will hold a Court on Monday
afternoon at Windsor Castle, at which it is expected that
the RECORDER of London will make his report to the
KtWG in Council. His MAJESTY took an airing on Thurs-
day afternoon in his phaeton.

Despatches were brought from Lord HEY TES-
BURY to the Foreign Office, by a gentleman who arrived in
town at one o'clock yesterday morning.
Viscount BERESFORD visited the Duke of
WELLixoTow yesterday, at the Treasury.
The LORD CHANCELLOR transacted business
yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.

Earl BATHURST left town yesterday morn-
ing, on his return to his seat, at Cirencester, Glouces-
tershire.

JAMES PARKE, Esq., of the Northern Cir-
cuit, ig to be the new Judge of the Court of King's Bench
—an appointment which has given universal satisfaction to
the Bar.

His Excellency the Marquis of ANGLESEA
arrived at Dublin Castle on Tuesday, at two o'clock, accom-
panied by Lords GEORGE and ALFRED PAGET. His Ex.;
cellency examined the various apartments previously to his
coming to town. Lord WILLIANI PAGET left town on Sa-
turday for Holyhead, and returned on Monday with the
Ladies AuNEs and GEORGINA PAGET. ---Dubl in Evening
Packet.

The Corporation of Dublin have granted their.
freedom to 1,200 individuals ; the Freeman's
.Journal says
2,000, and the Corporation of Cork intend to add 600 to
their con-fraternity. The only qualification is, that the
individual should be a Brunewicker.

Prince ESTERHAZY, we are happy to hear, is
going on as favourably as can be expected, after the effects
of his late severe accident.

W. P. HON Ywoon, Esq.. M.P., is at presen
seriously indisposed at his seat, Marks —Kentis)
Chronicle.

LOYAL PROTESTANT DECLARATION.-
Among the names to this important Document in Dublin
on Saturday, we notice the following Noblemen :—The
Earl of EGMONT, the Earl of MouNTNoaati, the Earl of
BLESSINOTON, and Lord PutczvAL.

BARON SMITII.--We regret to learn that
this able and upright Jadge is indisposed. His complaint
is said to be rheumatic gout. We sincerely hope he may
be soon enabled to resume his scat on that bench, of 'which
he is so distinguished an ornament.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

We have it upon such authority as enables us
to state it as a fact, that Sir .JOHN BROViNE, who com-
mands the Kent district i❑ England, has received a letter
from Sir HERBERT TA y unt , • conveying his Majesty's ap-
probation of his having refused to allow any military band
to attend the Brunswickers at Penenden Heath.— Cork
Southern Reporter.

A Correspondent, who is evidently a pro• Ca-
tholic, says that Lord Wwctur.sttA is going to train
horses in the north, in order to secure that Protestant
ascendancy which lie deems so essential for the prosperity
of the turf.—Doncaster Gazette.

The fineness of the day on Thursday induced
several persons to assemble in the neighbourhood of Ken-
sington Gardens, in expectation of catching a glimpse of
hie MAJESTY, on his way to St. James's Palace.
IMPORTANT TO CLERKS.—In BARTOLO-
MEO'S Voyage to the East Indies, he says, that the heat at
Calcutta is so excessive, that the Company's clerks, when
writing letters, are obliged to sit naked, immersed up to
the neck in large vessels, into which cold water is conti-
nually pumped by slaves from a well !

A correspondent complains that fees are ex-
acted of the persons who go to the Chapel Royal. It is
certainly below the dignity of a Royal Chapel to allow fees
to be taken : ctill we see no reason why people should desert
their own parish churches for the gratification of curiosity.

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Yesterday
afternoon the body of a young woman was taken out of
the Regent's Canal, and conveyed to the Crown public-
house, Portland-town, to await the result of
.a Coroner's
Inquest. The corpse of the unfortunate creature was
greatly disfigured, in consequence of a white ribbon having
been drawn tightly round her neck, and sufficient to have
caused strangulation.

On Saturday last a woman stole a large piece
of cheese in a grocer's shop on the Market Hill, and being
detected in the fact, one of the principals gave her the op-
tion of being taken before a Magistrate, or fastened to a
pillar in the shop for the space of three hours. The offen-
der chose the latter, and was consequently exhibited to the
gaze of the numerous individuals who were attracted to the
shop on hearing of this novel niotle. of summary punish-
ment.— Cambridge Chronicle. '

A BAD CASE.—The following extraordinary
case of illness occurred some few years ago at Wantage :
A neighbour passing by the shop door of a Mr. H—,
found him looking out for a customer, and iniviring after
his and Mrs. H.'s health, received the following answer
" All, Lord ! she's as bad as bad can be, and I be ten hun-
dred thousand times worse than her !"

Yesterday morning a seizure of rather a novel
kind was made by a number of the criminal officers be-
longing to the Glasgow police establishment, being nothing
less than literally and truly a whole cart load of honey,
which had been stolen from a place in the neighbourhood of
Paisley. The individual who had :succeeded in appro-
priating to his own use this cartful of " sweets," was
a rat-catcher in Hill-street, who, it appears, has driven a
profitable trade in honey, with almost as much industry as
the winged incept whose unceasing labours wrought it into
existence. In consegnence 'of. inforoWipo received, the
premises, occupied l)y this destroyer of vermin were strictly
searched, and the honey, which was contained in 17 or 18
skeps, discovered. A 'number of empty skeps were also
found. The whole were put into a cart, and conveyed to
the police office. When taken into custody) lie did not
deny the charge of theft, but affirmed that it was the only
dishonourable affair he was ever engaged in. The ease has
bees transmitted to the Sheriff of Renfrewellire.— Glasgow
Chronicle.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.

IN THE MATTER OF HEWITT, A LUNATIC.
Mr. PEPvs was proceeding to open this petition,
when

Mr. HORNE stated lie appeared for the respow
dent, and laboured under great disadvantages ;
the
Court had permitted the petition to stand over fforto-day, in order that affidavits might be procure'',
from Scarborough ; his clients had sent down to
that place immediately but had not yet received any • •
information from thence. He therefore,
trusted, the
Court would permit it to stand over for a few daY9
longer.'
Mr. SUGDEN appeared for one of the parties, and
could not for his life see the necessity for forcing the

case on.
Mr. PEPYS stated lie was in the hands of the
Court, ready to do what it thought: proper.
His LORDSHIP ordered the petition to stand for
Tuesday morning.
.IN THE MATTER OF STEWART, A LUNATIC.
while;.
opening LORDSHIP interrupted Mr. Phillimore,
opening this case, by intimating that it would
more convenient that this matter should come on oU
Tuesday also.