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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

ESTIMATES FOR MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES FOR
THE YEAR 1825.

For the Roads and Harbours of Holyhead and
Howth £27,871 14 2
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For Holyhead Harbour 3,105 8 8
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For Howth Harbour 4,006 0 0
For Holyhead Road Chester Lint • 34,125 18 0
RETURNS
In the year ending the sth of January, 1825,
5,084,702 tons of Coals were exported from Great Bri-
tain, of which 278,695 tons were exported to foreign
parts, 691,430 tons to lieland, and 4,114,577 tuns
coastwise.
The duty paid on Hard and Soft Soap in England,
for the year ending the sth of January, 1824, amounted
to 1,1.54,6511. the drawback, 55,9111. allowance,
61,0611. For the year ending the .sth of January,
1825, the duty was 1,149,7191. tile drawback, 55,584/.
and the allowance, 61,0611.

During t! e last nine years, 654,8001 bushels of Buck
Wheat hive been .ntroduced into this country.
On t' e 5:11 of January, 1825, 408,788 pounds of
Tobacco remained in the King's Warehouses in Le-
land. In the last four years, 1.453,217 pounds of To-
bacco were seiztd in the King's Warehouses in Ireland.

The new King of NArLes has besought the mediation
of France to procure from Austria the retreat of her
occupying army.
A letter rece ved from Trieste, via Zante,dated March
3, states, that " the Turkish and Egyptian fleets have
arrived in port at Coron and MoJon, where they have
landed troops. The preparations by the Greeks for the
attack of Patras still continue; but the fonr blockading
vessels, by the last accounts, ate under weigh ff
renza, through fear of the Turkish fleet at Modon. It
is said that a considerable force of Albanians is about to
commence operati ns by land against the Morea."
The last letters from Alexandria state the last year's
crop of cotton in Egypt at 200,000 bales, of which
EnAland will probably receive 150A000.
CITY BUSlNESS.—Yesterday, the Loan Mayon held
a Court of Aldermen, at Guildhall. The Court were
occupied at some length in heating a complaint against
a Broker. The Gaol Committee delivered in a Report,
excluding the Public from the Condemned Sermon in
Neorgate, which was agreed to. The Court directed
payment of bills and salaries to Lady-day.
CORN LAWS.-A Requisition for convening a Public
Meeting of Merchants, Rankers, Ship Owners, Manu-
facturers, and Traders of the City of London, to con-
sider the expediency of petitioning Parliament for a
Revision of the Corn Laws, is in course of signature.
The Loau MAYOR has promised to preside. •
It appears by the entries at the Custom-house, that a
shipment has been made for Jamaica of 160,000 ounces
of silver, and 60,000 ounces of gold. The shippers are
not known, but the transaction has created some sur-
prise in the City, because the bullion could be obtained
on more favourable terms in the island than those on
which it could be transmitted from this country.

A Meeting was held yesterday, at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of petitioning Parlia-
ment against the proposed Quay along the banks of the
Thames, the Honourable Mr. Bouvaiva in the Chair.
Several Resolutions were passed, and a Petition founded
on them agreed to. Sir FRANCIS OMMANNEY and Mr.
TWrNING were the principal speakers against it.
With a view to extend education among the Irish
peasantry, it has been proposed to provide, that voters
at elections, after a certain year (say 1830), shall give
in their vote in a certain form, in their own hand.
writing, with a declaration that it is so.
Another instance of the intolerant spirit of the
French Clergy occurred a few days ago at Piney, near
Troyes. A rich and respectable farmer, named Bertin,
aged seventy-four, having died suddenly, aad without
receiving the Sacrament, the Curate refused to admit
the body into the Church, or to perform the funeral ce-
remony. The body was accordingly put into the ground
by the friends, who repeated the prayers ordered for
the service of the dead. It was worthy of remark, that
the Curate had been sent for to administer the Sacra-
ment, and had refused, on the ground that the sick per-
son was not in so dangerous a state as to require it.
PIONERT.—Since the committal of this miserable
man to the gaol of Newgate, he has conducted himself
in an exemplary manner, and endeavours as much as
possible to avoid the eye of the curious ; hence,t during
the day, he generally parades the ward-room, instead of
walking in the yard with the other prisoners.
Sunday sen'night an extensive robbery was committed
at the Grammar School, in Bury, nearly all the studies
appropriated to the use of the pupils, being entered and
stripped of clothes and other articles, and a sum of mo-
ney taken from some of the desks. The thieves entered
the play-ground by means of a ladder, which they left.
A meeting of the newly-formed Spitalfields Mecha-
nizs' Institution was held on Monday evening, in the
Gibraltar Chapel, 131thnal-green-road, Mr. I'. Grauer,
President of the Institution, in the Chair. The Chair-
man read to the Meeting a letter he had received from
the Marquis of LAWDOWN, inclo,ing a donatir.n of
1001. and erpres,ing in the warmest terms his approba-
tion of the onjects of the Institution, which, he said, he
ssiould at all times be ready to promote in any way in
which be could be useful. Other donations were an-
nounced in the cow se of the evening, making altogether
an amount already received of upwards of 7001. Two
hundred and eighty-one persons subscribed their names
last niet (t1-e first meeting night) as Members.
In the ye.,r 182 f, the numlfer fit Bishopricks in the
whole Austrian Monarchy was 100; among the num-
ber were, five Prince Archbishops, ten Archbishops,
five Prince Bishops ; and of these, 17 were Privy Coun-
cillors to Its MAJESTY.

At the C rnwall Assizes, three defendants, named
Stevens, iiichatds, and Tremearne, were separately tried
and found guilty of perj ,ry, on a trial connected with
the St. Ive's Election, in 1820.
JAIIICS 1. of England, by way of experiment, turned
out Iwo English bull-dogs on ene of the fiercest lions
in the Tower, and they soon conque ed him.
It is a custom in Sweden to bring the first lark shnt
in the year to the korai Palace, and the peasant who
brings it receives a gratuity rk a ducat. This has, at
least, the good effe:t of preserving a sort of record of
the forwardness or backwardness of the seasons; but
might not this fact be ascertained and recorded without
sacrificing the first, and one of the sweetest harbingers
of Silting? This year a lark was brought on the 20th of
February, being the eat 'lest ever known.
Friday se*nnight, in order to celebrate the birth of an
heir to the Noble family of Nlountcashell, Kilworth Wall illunii-
• "acd in the evening, and a large bonfire kepi blazing the whole
night. By orders of blf d MouvTcAsuiLL. the public homes were
thrown open, for the reception of the inhanithuts, tree of expense.