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London, England, 1827-06-06 00:00:00

reasons for not immediately giving him hu discharge
which he asked, and an answer to this effect was given to
M. Von Schmidt, without refusing his request :—The
personal liberty of M. Schmidt, has not been for a moment
in danger, nor has there been an idea of such a thing.
At the very time when the Privy Counsellor, Von
Schmidt, with the well meant intention of giving
him Isis discharge,
,was called upon to give some
necessary information relative to the matters concerning
the state, he thought fit, instead of complying with this call,
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to withdraw from the States of Brunswick, and to go to
• where Ise has met with protection, as unexpected
Hanover,
as undeserved.

ST. TETER973IIII.OI/, MAY 16.

His Majesty the Emperor, who is going in a few days to
Wiasnia, to review a great corps of cavalry, assembled in
that neighbourhood, will be absent from us about a fort-
night. All preparations and parade fur his reception by
the inhabitants and authorities of the places through which
he is to pass, are most strictly forbidden ; and his Majesty
has expressed his will on this subject, in the following terms::

" The usual course of business shall nowhere be in the
least disturbed or interrupted by my presence."
At all events the Emperor, who attends to the affairs of
Government with so much paternal care and wisdom, will
take advantage of this excursion to make a strict investiga-
tion into the administration of justice in the Governments
and districts through which he will have occasion to pass.
At the beginning of next month the Empresses will leave
the capital for the summer. The reiguing Empress goes to
Zarskejeselo, and the Empress Mother to Pawlosk. •
It is not Prince Labanoff Rostowsky, Minister of Justice,
who has been allowed to retire from office ; but his brother
the Privy Counsellor, and Member of the Council of the
Empire, who at his own request has been permitted to resign
with a pension of 16,000 rubles. The Minister of Justice
being seriously ill, his second, the Privy Counsellor Prince
Dolgorucky, has been ordered to exercise the functions of
Minister of Justice till Prince Labanoff Rostowsky is suf-
ficiently recovered to resume them.
VIENNA, MAY 25.—Metalliques 90k. Bank Shares,
1087.

SWITZERLAND, 'MAY 25.

On the 20th in the evening, a dreadful storm accom-
panied by a kind of water-spout, did much damage in the
Canton of Vaud ; that in the district of Geneva alone is
estimated at a million of francs.

Among the matters brought forward this year in the
legally authorised assemblies of the Guilds of Schaf hausen,
was a proposal for the introduction or permission of Ca-
tholic worship in Schaf hausen ; but as the Catholics living
in that city have a very convenient opportunity close at
hand for the exercise of their worship, it is likely that this
proposal will fall to the ground.

We would again call the attention of our
readers to an able article, which we have copied
from the Times of this morning ; and also to one
on the same subject, from the Dublin Patriot
of Saturday. We must say, however, that our
cotemporaries seem rather hard on Mr. PEEL—
though in the estimate of his talent we perfectly
agree with them. There is a saying in the Army
that he is a good man who does his duty, and
this merit Mr. PEEL certainly has—in as much
as he led the way (so we hope) to future Home
Secretaries, in amending our Statute Book, and
clearing it of the rubbish which the operations
of centuries have naturally left. And in thus
endeavouring to take a fair estimate of his
character, we think that we act a more friendly
part towards the• Right Hon. Gentleman than
those who have done their best to puff him
up with exaggerated notions of his talents,
which, however respectable, are unquestionably
not of the first class.

By the decision of the Court of Aldermen
held yesterday, the resolution passed at a former
Court for a return to the Mandamus obtained
by Mr. Sheriff WINCHESTER to be prepared,
was rescinded ; Mr. WiNctitsTEß's election,
therefore, as Alderman of Vintry Ward, was
established, and that Gentleman would have
been immediately sworn in, had not one of the
Aldermen refused to remain in Court, and with-
out him there was not a sufficient number of
Aldermen present to allow of that business being
proceeded in.

The Margate Post Letter of the 4th contains the follow-
ing intimation, which we copy in the hope it may lead to
the knowledge of the party or his friends :—" Picked up,
close to the buoy of the Foreness Rock, the body of a young
man, dressed in a blue coat with metal buttons, black
waistcoat, and blue trowsers, and boots ; had in his pocket
a penknife, marked 'M. Spence.' For any other particu-
lars address Mr. White, landlord of the Stag, Margate."

M. MARTINON.—M. Martinon, advocate,
was extremely dark. He had his picture painted
by Legoux of Angers, and allowed it to remain
for a long time with the painter, before he sent
for it. Legoux said to him one day, " Sir, I
think you had better send for your portrait, for
the landlord of the Moor's head has been ap-
plying for it."
On Monday the 28th May, being the fair of
Mount Shannon, near Scariff, at an early hour
of the day about 400 persons in an outrageous
and most turbulent manner, paraded the roads,
beat every man they met, entered some houses,
demolished several windows, and left two men
nearly dead. It has been represented that this
outrage has arisen out of a religious dispute.—
Carlow Morning Post.

A SELECT AUDIENCE.--I said of a pro-
fessor who had no one in his class, that this was
~ the voice of one crying in the desert." This
puts me in mind of one who, in order to make
up an audience, was obliged to request his friends
to be present. Happening to ask one of them
who had been absent, the reason of his stay, he
told him that he was afraid of breaking in upon
his solitude.

A correspondent offers the following advice to
persons who are fond of rook pies, and who are
preparing their guns for that purpose Let
me caution them against putting the birds in
their pockets—they will feel the evil effects four
and twenty hours—they are at all times full of
vermin—Experientia Motet."—Alfred.
THAMES TUNNEL.—The following plan for
surmounting the difficulty, has been suggested by a cor-
respondent of the Times : —Let a strong, square, frame-
work, somewhat wider than the tunnel, covered with
tarpaulin or some such material, so as to be waterproof, be
lowered immediately over the aperture through which the
water issues; this may be secured by piles driven into the
bed of the river, taking care not to drive the piles which
are to cross the arch too deep ; the water may then be
pumped out of the dam, and the workmen having a dry
space over their heads will be able to proceed with facility
in their labour ; this dam might be shifted as the work
should.the frame-work be found imprac-
ticable, coluldnOt a dam be formed by driving piles round
the aperture? J. R. O.

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