Yesterday the despatches ...
The Times, 1824-04-20T00:00:00

Yesterday the despatches for China by the ship Princess .Amel,a were closed at the East India.house, and delivered to the purser of that ship. PARIS, April 1 7.-Yesterday the King attended mass inl his apartmente. Hfis Majesty did not ge out. Friday, at half-past two o'clock, the Eucharist was celebrated in the gallery of Diana. His Royal Highness Monsieur, accompanied by the Duke of An- gouleme and the great officersof the King's Household, washed the feet df thirteen children representing the Apostlae. For the first time the Duke of Bordeaux was represented in this solemnity, on wbiclt occasion his substitute was selected from aniongst the juvenile domestics in thc service of the Duchess of Berry. Each of the chil- dren were presented with thirteen plates of eatables, and also with thirteen pieces of five francs. After the ceremony, the Princes and Princesses, with their suite, attended mass in the Chapel.- Etoike. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at lMfemel, dated April 3 :-"For the information of the trade at Large, I can tuacuint you that our Government has given directions to put Bri- tisn ves3els on a footing of perfect equality with those of thii coun- try, and which will commence on anti after the 5th instant." WVIVENHOE, April 18.-The Humber keel IFannsh, Chambers, from Hull to London, with stone, got on the Buxey Sand during the gale on Friday, and was lost. Crew drowned. The ship-betilders are in such active empley in most parts of the west and south of England, that great inconvenience is sustained at several yards for want of hands ; and the masters have, in consequence, been unable to fulfil their terms of contract for building vessels within a given time._.Portsmoath paper. LEiTRiti ELECTION..-The election (if a member to serve in Parlianient tor the countv of Leitrim, in the room of the late Luke White, Esq., took place'at Carrick-on-Shannon, on Mon- Jay week, when hisson, Samuel White, Esq., was elected with the usual forinsa.-Leirimn 4!zte. RssEx.-I-t would seem that the Colchester burgesses resident in London are looking forward to an early tlissolution of the present Parliament and are making active preparations for a struggle. A monthlv club of upwards of 160 memnbers has been rormed at the Gun TIavern, Spitalfields; anm at the last meeting it was resolved to invite several gentlemen to offer tbemselves as can- 1idates. A committee of ten was appointed to carry the resolution into effect, and to report the result at the next club meeting, which, ;e understand, is held the first illonday in every month. Thesa worthy burgesses seem to proceed upon the assurance that in a mul- itude of candidates there is safety. We believe our information is orrect, wlhen we say, that letters have been sent by the committee o the presentmembers, Mr. Wildnian and Mr. Bating; to two rest'en who have already been candidates6the one successfil, he o!.r.not_air. Harvey and Sir H. Russell: and to two gentle- ~ erfd l to be tried-Sir Haney Sniith, Bart., and Mr. Potts, e,xge vinegar-inerchant in the Borougb.-Sass.= and Esgsex CAUSE OF THE DIFFERENT TASTE OF PORTEx MtAD)E h- LODON AND PARst-The French brewers have attem-pted to mi?ate the London porter by hiring brewers from the metropolis o brew there; but, hoowever carefully these bave exerted heir talents, they have not been able to brew a porter exactly simi. ar intaste to the London; and the savans of the French capital ave been puzzling their brains to determine the cause of this allure. Mr. Francceur, Professor to the Faculty of Sciences at aris, imagines-for what will not mnan imagine ?-that the peculiar aste of our London porter ari'es from the smorke of our sea-coal res. He says, that the peculiar smell of the smoke of sea-coal is o abundantly diffused in the atmosphere of London, and especially a those manufactories which employ great fires, and in their neigh. ourisood, and is sopowerful and adherent, that in London every rtide is strongly impregnated with the smell of it. English cloth, acked inothemetropolis, carries the smell into foreign countries . nd the clothes of Londoners retain their smell for a tbrtrnight after ey have left their homes. flence, he says5 there is no wonder at the porterslmould taste of this smoke, especially considering how gthe porter is esposed to the smoky atmosphere, with a large rface in coolers of the brewhouses, whose steam-engiDes emit such ense cloud5 of smnoke.-ifednaatic'4 Weekry Journal. MOCK SuNs.-On the 7th of Mtay, 18293, when the sun's wer lnnb had just dipped the water's edge at the Cape of Good ope, the Rev. Mr. Fallows observed several parhelia, viz. four on cleft and three on the right hand of the sun, and all cuit by the ik, Uhe the real sun. They had the same shape as the real us, and were as highf, but not so long. When the upper limb of tesun cme in contact with the horizon, it and the mock suns at. rad as bright spots upon the water's edge, and then one of theiD statlvivanished.-Mechanic' Mragaiiae. SrNGULAIt CASE.-AboutOctober last, a laboudn- man, uned Osbozn, of St. John's Common, Sussex, was seized with us fever, under which he suffered a considerable time, when at sh the fever fell into his feet, which gradually wasted, until titten days ago, when both his feet dropped olFat the anele-joints, dwse bulried in eRymer church-yard.. The poor man's health is g petfeetly re.abhibed-County Chronicle.