The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, FEB. 10.-Thursday last the following Degreei were
conferred :

BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY,
BY ACCUMULATION.
Rev. John Cookesley, Exeter college.
BACHELORS IN DIVINITY.
Rev. Benjamin Saunders Claxson, Worcester.
Rev. Edwin Prodgers, Trinity.
MASTERS OF ARTS.
George Pavies Kent, Scholar of Corpu a. _
Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Balliol.
Rev. Charles Oakes, St. John's.
Rev. Thomas Price, Exeter.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
T. J. Heming, C. C., Grand Compounder.
Edward Cave, Brasenose.
James Macbell, Brasenose.
George Cary Elves, Trinity.
Patrick Murray Smythe, Christ Church.
John Gower, Magdalen.
Samuel Beckwith, St. John's.
Charles Nicoll, Exeter.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.
The Rev. Dr. Nares, of Merton College, Regius Professor of
Modern History in this University, and Rector of Biddenden,
Kent, by dispensation to hold the Rectory of Newchurch, in the
same county.
The very Rev. the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have
been pleased to present the Rev. James Lupton, Chaplain, to the
Vicarage of Black Bourton, in this county and diocese.
The Rev. Dr. French, Master of Jesus college, Cambridge, to
the Rectory of Moremuncton, near York : patron, the Crown.
The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Musgrave,
M.A. to the Vicarage of Halifax, in the county and diocese of York,
void by the death of the Rev. Sam. Knight.
The Rev. John Vernon, B.A. has been instituted to the Rectory
of Shrawley, in Worcestershire, void by the resignation of the
Rev. John Foley, the last incumbent, on the presentation of the
Executors of the late Thomas Shrawley Vernon, Esq.
A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Hon.
and Rev. Thomas Henry Coventry, M.A. to hold with the Rec-
tory of Porton. with Croome d'Abitot annexed, the Rectory of
Croome Montis, otherwise Hill Croome, all in the County and
Diocese of Worcester, to which latter preferment Mr. C. has
lately been presented by the Lord Chancellor.

The French fishermen who visit this port carry on
a very profitable traffic, by purchasing quantities of skate (a fish
commonly known by the name of ray), and selling them to great
advantage in France. They are purchased here. for Is. Bd. per
dozen, and are sold in France, at the rate of from 12s. to IBs. per
dozen.—Plymouth Journal.

CAPuA.—We loft Naples for Rome, in company
with two Englishmen, and a Neapolitan priest. Capua was the
first stage. If Hannibal and his soldiers had fared as we did at
that place, perhaps Rome might have yielded to Carthage, and
the face of the world been entirely changed. Most of the inns in
the South of Italy are of the worst description. In winter they
are cold and dreary, and in summer they abound with mosqui-
toes, bugs, fleas, and every annoyance. The remains of ancient
Capua, which are still considerable, are about two miles from the
modern town, anciently called Cas:linum, and celebrated for the
brave resistance which, with only 500 Prmnestian soldiers, it
made to the repeated attacks of Hannibal. The Volturnus now,
as formerly, flows by the town, and forms at one place an angle,
which the imagination can hardly withhold supposing to be that
at which the half-famished inhabitants caught the barrels of flour
and the nuts which the Roman General had thrown into the
river above the town.

" }IYDATIDS.—Now there are Hydatids found in
the liver ; and wherever you see these animalculm, they form in
cysts. You find them, however, in natural cavities, as well as
in cysts ; and the cysts are so large sometimes, as to occupy the
whole lobe of one side of the liver. I say, whenever you meet
with them, they are either found in natural cavities which have
secreting surfaces; in the abdomen, in the bursa of joints, in the
bursae of muscles, and so on ; they grow to a considerable size,
and burst.—" Now, with respect to these things, some believe
they are nothing more than coagulable lymph, and some believe
they are a peculiar species of animalcules. The latter opinion
have I. You find 'them in the brain. A sheep has one in its
brain, and it goes off in a fit of apoplexy. Now, I have had.the
opportunity of opening the brain of a sheep that died in this man-
ner; upon taking off the top of the skull, opening the brain, and
making an incision into the cyst, out has leaped one of those glo-
bola hydatids. If you catch one of them in this way, in warm
water, really you would think that there is undoubtedly vitality in
it. They grow to immense sizes, and there are specks upon them,
which seem to be young hvdatids. Nov there was a person in
this hospital who had them in his belly; it was supposed that
something else was wrong with him, and he was ordered to be
tapped ; and he was tapped, and that let out something like a sort
of soapy stuff ; he was punctured afterwards, frent time to time,
and then there seemed something to come out like onions. How-
ever, as this mode of going on was very painful to him, the
wound was closed, and upon examining the contents of the abdo-
men where the pain from the disease had been most acute, there
were found to be an immense number of hydatids in the fluid that
was contained there, of all sizes. Now if they can live and grow
—if they can multiply, and detach young ones—if those can live
and propagate, I think they have every right to be accounted as
as a species of auimalculee.—.Abcrnetlay's Lectures.
BABYLoN.—WiId beasts appeared so numerous,
that we gave up all examination of the ruins. From the summit
we had a distinct view of the vast heaps which constitute all that
now remains of ancient Babylon ; a snore complete picture of de-
solation could not well be irwined. The eye wandered over a
barren desert, in which the snips were nearly the only indication
that it had ever been inhabited. It was impossible to behold this
wale and not to be reminded how exactly the predictions of Isaiah
and Jeremiah have been fulfilled, even in the appearance Baby-
lon was doomed to present ; that she should " neyev be inha-
bited ;" that " the Arabian should not pitch his tent there ;" that
she should " become heaps ;" that her cities should be " a deso-
lation, a dry land, anil a wilderness," * • • Theprophecy
of Isaiah, that Babylon should be inhabited by wild beasts, was
fulfilled after the extinction of the Selocithe ; for their suc-
cessors, the Parthians, turned the city into a park, and stocked it
with wild beasts for the purpose of hunting. Amongst these the
wild boar is enumerated. It has been supposed that many curious
trees are to be found on the site of the Hanging Gardens. This is
not the case ; there is but one and that is in the most elevated spot ;
it is a kind of cedar. One-half of the trunk is standing, and is
about five feet in circumference. Though the body is decayed,
the branches c,re still green and healthy, and droop like those of
the willow. With the exception of one at BussorQh, there is no
tree like it throughout Irak Arabia. Tire, Arabs call. it Athele.
Our guides that this tree was left in the Hanging Gardens for
the purpose of enabling Ali to tie his horse to it after the battle of
Hilleh, Not far from this tree we saw indications of a statue, which
had bee 4 imperfectly seen by Beauchamp and Rich. -
We set our
men to work, and in two hours foundcoossii piece of sculp-
ture, in black marble, representing a lion standing over a man.
When Rich was tiqc the igure was entire; but when we saw it
the head w 2,4 pile. The length of the pedestal, the height of
the shoulders, and the length of the statue, measured, in each of
their respective parts, nine feet. I would venture to suggeSt;
that this statue might have reference to Dc.pit4 in the lion's den,
and that it ft-Innerly stood eve; one of the gates, either to the
palace, or of the liang:og Gardens. * It is natural to suppose
that so extraordinary a miracle could have been celebrated by the
Babylonians, particularly as Daniel was afterwards Governor of
their city. The prophet was also
governor of Susa (the Shushan
of Scripture), where he frequently went in the discharge of his
official duties, and at which place he died. A short time ago,
Susa was-visited by some French officers in the service of -the
Prince of Kermanshah ; amongst other antiquities, they found a
block of white marble, covered with Babylonian characters, hav-
ing sculptured on it the figures of two men and two lions. This
may also allude to 'the same event.—Keppel's Journey from
India.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

' HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH NOW

STAND ON THE ORDER HOOK FOR TILE ENSUING; WEEK.
.Monday, Feb. 12.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Postage Duties Acts (Great Britain and Ireland)—Committee there-
upon.
2. Supply—Committee.
3. Ways and Means—Committee.

NOTICIES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Secretary Peel—To move an Address of Condolence to Hit Ma-
jesty upon the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
2. Sir George Clerk—Navy Estinictes (in Committee of Supply).
3. Mr. Hume—Copy of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry.on the
Mutiny of the Native Troops at Barrackpoor in November 1824, and
of Orders issued since that time.

Tuesday, Feb. 13.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Mabel*ly—Returns of articles imported and exported; also, an
Account of Bank Notes in circulation.
2. Mr. Scarlett—To discharge Order for considering the Wootton Bas-
sett Election Petition.
3. Lord Viscount Althorp—Committee on Petitions alleging notorious
Corruption at Elections for Members of Parliament.

ORDERS OF THE.DAY.
1. Denbigh Borough Election (Double Return) Petitions—Ballot for
Committee at three.
2. Leominster Election (Double Return) Petitions—Ballot for Commit-
tee at half after three.
3. Mallow Election Adjourned Debate on Motion for en..
4. Waterford County Election larging time for enterin
5. Cavan County Election g into lite-
cognizance!.
6. Limerick County Election
7. Stirling., &e. Burghs Election
8. Dover Election Consideration of Petitions for further
9. Pontefract Election time to enter into Recogni lances.
la Ilchester Election

Wednesday, Feb. 14.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. Hume—Motion for Copies of Orders and Commission' respecting
Major Arthur's Command at Honduras, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Bradley's dismissal from the Army.
• Thursday, Feb. 15.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Colonel Davies to move a Resolution; That the Estimates, previously
to their being printed, be referred to a Select Committee.
2. Mr. Spence—Motions concerning the Excheqm.r, Rolls, and Vice-
Chancellor's Court, &c.
3. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Appoii.tment of Committee on Emigration.
4. Mr.' Fyne. Clinton—To disch:rge the Order for consideration of the
Hec..in Election Petition.
5. Sir John Newport—Select Committee on the Petition from the City of
Waterford [presented 9th February], for the improvement' f the
eommunication to the South and South-west of Ireland by Milford
Haven.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Westmeath Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at three.
2. Ilchester Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half after three.
a Private Bills—Adjourned Debate on Motion (4th December] re-
specting payment of Costs on Appeals.

Friday, Fob. I&
NOTICE OF MOTION, •
Sir Henry Hardinge--Ordnance Estimates (in Committee. of Su]

NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Monday, Feb. 19.
_

Mr. Secretary Canning—Consideration of the Laws relating to the I.
portation of Foreign Corn.

Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Mr. Brownlow—Copies of Correspondence which passed between 'the
Irish Government and the Magistrates of Lisburn, and Its vicinity,
relating to Orange Parades on the 12th July, NU :—Also, Copies of
the Opinions of the Law °lacers of the Crown in Ireland which
were laid before the Magistrates respecting Processions.
Thursday, Feb. 2.1.
Sir Francis Burdett—Roman Catholic Claims.
Thursday, March 1.
Lord Viscount Althorp—Committee to consider the mode of taking
Polls at County Elections.

Thursday, March 8.
Sir Henry Parnell—Debt due by the Government to the Bank—the ba-
lance of the public money in the hands of the Bank—and the sum
paid in 1826 to the Bank for the management of the National Debt.

Tuesday, M --
March 13.
Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend the Slave Trade Consolidation Act.

NGE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn 47}i
Genoa 43%
Venice 46
Ma4ta ,
Naples 3B
Palerzno per oz. 114
Lisbon 51%
Rio Jan
Oporto
eiro 4 50%1
Bahia 42
Buenos Ayres .
Dublin, 21 days' sight .1%,
Cork l%.
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MULLION, PER OZ.

s. d.
Portugal Gold, in coin OO 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6
New Doubloons .......
New Dollars 0 4 gi
Silver, in bars, standard 0 4 Ili

PRICE OF IRISH
Bank Stock: 235%
Consols, 3 per cent-, SO%
Gov. Stock, S per cent. ... 86%
Ditto, New
4 per Cent.
Gov. Deb. 34 per cent B9
Royal Canal Stock -
Grand Canal Stock -
City Deb. 4 per cent. 89%
Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. --

STOCKS, •FEB. 7.
St. Patrick Incur. (per share)...
Royal Irish Ditto .............. ...
National Ditto ....................
Patriotic Ditto 4x
Hibernian Bank ............ ....
Provincial Ditto ........... _,Royal Irish Mine
Imperial ...
Mine ... . ...........
Mining Co. of Ireland ..................
Commercial
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SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 182 t

We are happy to state that the report of the health
of Mr. CANNING is more favourable to-day.

We received last night the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday, and at an early hour this morning those of
Thursday, with the Etoile dated yesterday,,extracts of
which will be found in a preceding column.
The news from Greece is of a gratifying nature ;
the tide of affairs appears to have turned in favour of
the Greek cause, and success to have attended the
operations of their Commanders by sea and land.
MIAULIS is stated to have taken, sunk, and dis-
persed the Turkish fleet near Zea, while IBRAHINI
has been defeated by the
combined forces under Co-
LO'COTRONI, NIKITAS, GENEUS,
and BOTZARIs,
with the loss of 1500 killed, a great number wounded
and prisoners, 14 pair of colours, 8 cannon, and 300
horses. It is further reported, that REDSCHID PACHA
had perished in another bloody battle. .
The Moniteur of Friday, with its supplement, is
filled with the project of Law on the Press and the
proposed amendments, which are to be discussed on
Tuesday. Forty-four Members have inscribed their
to speak against the law, and thirty-one for it..
The Etoile
contains intelligence from
Lisbon of the
2 of yesterday,
uit.and
d from Madrid of the 2d
instant. The pacific resolutions adopted by the Court
t a
of Spain had been announced by a Spanish Courier to
the Count de CASA FLORES, who was ordered at the
same time to communicate them to the Portuguese
Government. No mention is, however, made that he
did so, and it is a little curious that the next paragraph
states that the COUNT had obtained leave of absence ;
but it adds, that the Secretary of Legation will remain
Charge d'Affaires. Lord BERESPORD had embarked
for England in the Ocean. The intelligence from the
Army is all of a favourable description, and the insur-
rection, now concentrated in Tras-os-Montes, will, it
is said, not threaten the tranquillity of the other pro-
vinces. The Madrid article contains nothing of
political importance. Some executions had taken
place at Velez Malaga, in consequence of revolutionary

_ -. • .
movements. The roads are described as infested with
robbers, and an Austrian Courier had. been stopped
within half a league of Madrid. -

The French Funds continue to rise. On Wednes-
day, the 5 per. Cents. reached 101 f. 35c., and the 3 per
Cents. 69f. 15c. and 69f. 30c.; and our letter, accom-
panying the express, gays (speaking of Thursday's
Prices...._

" Our Exchange has been pretty animated to-day ; there have
been numerous transactions in the American stock. Colombian,
38. 37f. 37. ; Mexican, 6611 66.
" Pants, FEB. 8 . -FivE o'CLocic P. M. -Three per. Cents.
69f. 25c. 30e."
Fax NC 11 FUNDS. -PA Rig, FE B• S. -Fia2 per Cents. 101.
40. 50. 45. 50. 45. 50. 45. 40. ; Three l r Cents., 69. 15.
30. 25. 30. 25. ; Bank Stock, 2,000. ; 'Bar es de Naples, 75.
25. 30. 35. 40. 45. .75. 40. ; Rentes one, l 11. 12..;
Royal Spanish Loan; 51/. 52. 51i. ; Hayti of exan, 695. 690.
Exchange on London, one month, 25. 40. ; „kee months, 25.
25.--- Goers. Authentique, Feb. 9. e Mt
Another list printed at four o'clock gives t the blowing prices :
Three per Cents. 69. 50. 45. 25. 40. ; of Cents., 101.
45. 50. 40. 45. lice

The proceedings in Parliament last night were not
of much general interest, if we except the notices given
by the Marquis of LANSDOWN in the Upper, and by
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in the Lower House.
The Noble Marquis gave notice, that it was his
intention on Wednesday next, when he would present
the general petition from the Roman Catholics, and
also one from the Roman Catholic Bishops, to point
out a course which he wished to suggest for the adop-
tion of the House, without going into the merits of
the General Question : and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT
gave notice that he would submit a motion on the'
subject of the Roman Catholic Claims, on, Thigsclay
the 22d inst., for which day a Call of the House wias
fixed.

;His Majesty's packet brig Zephyr has arrived with
a Mediterranean and Cadiz mail.' She sailed from
Malta on the. 21st DeceMber, from Gibraltar on the
16th January, and Cadiz on the 19th January.

It is mentioned by historians that in consideration
of the virtue and exploits of the Emperor PR oßus,
the Roman Senate conferred on him. the title of Father
of his Country, and the right of making, in the same

day, three motions in the Senate. On the Emperor
MARCUS ANTONINUS, they had at an earlier period
conferred the still higher distinction of "jus pinta
relationis," or the power of making five. But what
are these to Mr. HUME's self-emanating privilege of
making some twenty or thirty of an evening ? Would
not the ancient Romans be lost in astonishment of
character and talents sufficient to confer on their pos-
sessor a distinction so far beyond that of which they
had any notion ? But sensibly alive to the extraor-
dinary merits of our great calculator, we trust that he
will, during the present Session, use with be-
coming moderation those high privileges , with
which he has invested himself. In his zeal for
eccmomp—we - hope that he- will not overlook the
economy of time, but will feel anxious that the
dignity of the house should be transmitted to posterity
unimpaired by the effect of his over frequent and
frivolous motions, notices, and petitions. Nor is there
Only one bad effect of such procedure, for trifling sub-
jects naturally defraud more important ones of their
just share of attention, since on a night when a very
weighty matter is to be discussed, if some sturdy
sPealier gets Up and keeps possession of the House for
three or four hours, it is not in human nature subse-
tlnetltly to bestow on the more important question
that consideration which it deserved. We cannot say
however, that be has raised any hopes of his improve-
rnent in this respect, by moving again for papers on
that eternal subject of Major ARTHUR and Colone.
BRADLEY.

It •
,Is.unnecessary now to give any opinion regarding
the merits of that business, but feeling sincere regret
for any I case of individual hardship, which may originate
iu an error of judgment, and not in wilful mistake,
we must regard this as one which having frequently
tmdergon, discussion, Mr. HUME can have no rational
expectation of being able to alter a decision so often
confirmed. We must,• therefore, look on his farther
interferenCe as calculated to produce much unnecessary

annoyance.

lite Austrian Observer of the 28th ult. has been
received this morning, by which it will be seen that
the Marquis- DE RIBEAUPIERRE had set out on the
15th, to fill the post of Russian Ambassador to the
Porte

and JASSY JAN. 15.
The Marquis. de Ribeaupierre set out
yesterda, y to Bucharest
Constantinople, to 511 the post of Russian Ambassador to the
Porte. ' M. Ponton, Councillor of State, and M. V. Berg, the
secretary of Legation, followed him this morning. Besides the
Alehrnander and Commissioner Constantine Konaki, who /mom-
F'lles the Russian Legation through Moldavia to the frontiers of
Wallaelda, the Iroipodar sends with it his son-in-law, Gregory
Ghika and Aja Alexander Bulsch.

The Allge.
'b
Zeittino• of the 3d instant has also
been received; 'lint it Contains little more than the
account of some aqUabbles between the Cardinals at
Rome and Father, VENTURA
who has been dismissed
from his Professorship of Canon
.k,
of his salar of 2000 crowns.
avv, and deprived
Y The King of FRANCE
has presented some
wonderful :specimens of art to his
HOLINESS, in return for the consecrated truncheon. to
the DAUPHIN.

aosa, nzc *
All Rome talks of the magnificent presents which the R. 6.
France has sent to his Holiness, in return for the cons.,.-ng•°`
truncheon for the Dauphin, the shield of Achilles in inosaiT.rre
Nobody, however, has seen them, as they are not yet unpacked.
They are reported to consist of a table clock, more perfect than
any ever before made, of a piece of Gobeline tapestry, a bronze
candelabra, and a china vase, said to be eight feet high, eom_
posed of four pieces, which are connected together by a costly
net. Among the news of the day the most important
is that the famousGiornale Ecclesiastic° is again gone to rest,

probably never to awake again. We ear' as little of it as i

had never existed. The proprietor has lost very considerably by
it, and ha's voluntarily renounced his licence, as nobody could
be found willing to buy it of him. Not he alone, but
Father Ventura has snffered by it. You recollected the
controversy in which he was engaged with the Cardinals,
each of whom thinks of becoming Pope, and the Prelates
of whom each thinks of becoming Cardinal and Pope, in conse-
quence of the "opinion which, he perhaps, innocently expressed, that
" of all the forms of Government an elective monarchy is the
worst." At first the affair took a favourable turn for the father,
he even obtained permission to print, without being subject to
the censorship, his answer to the odious accusations brought
against him, and also the first two parts of a new commentary
on the canon law. But all at once the tables were turned ; not
only is the licence refused to finish the third part, but he is re-
moved from his Professorship of Canon Law in this University,
with a salary of 2000 crowns, and another is already appointed
in his room.

VIINNA, Jaw. 29.—Metalliques, SS ; Bank Shares, 1050

We understand that ESCOMBE is the name of the
young gentleman who has obtained Mr. WYNNE'S
Prize Writership, and we sincerely hope that by his
future career, he will do credit to the Judges who se-
lected, and to the Institution which reared him. In

not strenuously resisting the systematic attacks which
have been made on Haileybury, we are not sure that the
'Directors of the East India Company are fully aware of
the danger which their own patronage would incur were
that institution suppressed. They have been long ac-
customed to look on the distribution of writerships
and cadetships as a species of private property, and the
expulsion from Haileybury of any of their prOtegees
as an infringement of it. But they should con-
sider that there is something much More dazzling
in the rival system commenced by .111 r. WYNNE, and
that :the notions of the present day are rather against
the viewing of patronage in the light we have alluded
to—unless the just exercise of it be effectually
guars- nteed— by tests of some description. Above
all, :we, would remind them that EUCLID'S axiom
iit perfectly true, that a part is less than the whole, and,
we may say, better too, when applied to the loss of the
good things of this world.

We are staunch friends to the College, upon accurate
acquaintance with its merits, and must therefore express
our hopes, that notwithstanding the suspension of the
Act rendering it indispensable for civil servants to be
educated there, the number of students entered at
Haileybury this year will not be less than usual.

We are sorry to state that Lieutenant-General RAMSEY, Com-
mandant of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, died this morning.
We have also mach regret in stating, that General Wm. CART-
WRIGHT died. yesterday. By his death the Colonelcy of the let
Dragoon Guards become vacant.

We understand that Lieut.-Col. JAMES WEBBER SMITII, C.B.
commanding the detachment of Royal Artillery in Portugal, has
been recalled, and that Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. MAY, K.C.B. and
K.C.H., has been appointed to succeed him, and ordered to pro-
ceed forthwith-to Lisbon.

Extract of a letter from Monte Video, dated 20th November,
I S26:—The John, from London, after being looked for, came in
this morning a prize to the squadron blockading Buenos Ayres.
The Utopia of Liverpool, George of Glasgow, and John, are
the only English prizes now here, I believe, besides two or three
Americans, with cargos of British property from foreign parts.

The Lima, from Liverpool, brings word that the Government
at home refuses interfering in reference to those already sent to
Rio de Janeiro ; but there are here some cases so unjust, it is sup,
posed, they must do so. This is a war, not against the Govern-
ments at variance, but against the British particularly.
A file of papers from Port-au-Prince (Hayti) to the 17th of Dec.
was received yesterday. They contain no news, but seem to establish
the fact which has been so much disputed lately, of the existence of
a rural code in Hayti, as the Telegraphs of the 12th of Novem-
ber contains a notice from the office of the Chief Secretary to the
Government, fixing the amount of a stamp duty to be paid on cer-
tain contracts prescribed by the law No. 3, of the Rural Code.__..
It appears also by the address to the Chamber of Deputies in
Hayti, at the close of the session on the 10th of May last, that a
Rural Code is mentioned as one of the measures completed during
its continuance. No copy of such a, code has, however, reached
England by the present arrival.