It appears by a Quebec pa...
The Times, 1824-01-24T00:00:00

It appears by a Quebec paper of the Gth ult., thiat the Commons of Lower Canada, in their sittings of the 3d, re- vived the question of an acknowledgment fbr the'very great services of the late Sir GeoTge Prevost, Governor of thc province during the wvar With the United States.' In the sitting of the21st of March, 1815, tlhere had been vot.i by the Commons the suim of S,O00O.,'to be emplbyetd in the -purchase of a piece of plate to he presented to'Sir'George Prevosti as a - testimonial of. the sense entertainpil'of tie 'talents anid visdom of his administration, and of his sitcces- fut lefence of the province-; but this resolution, solely from causes bevond the'control of the Conirmons, lhad not been carried iDi( effect. . A committee of five mcmbeHshas nowv been' .appoir;teul to de~tenir>he:te Xbest tmoil&of bombQ memorating their sense of the distinguished eofduct-4f sir George Prevost. . This tribute, though a tartly one, :a -thu services of a-ga'llant officer, wvhose A.churacer has heea at-~ tacked by a GIovernment party publication, as highlti.. nourable to all' parties. ' a Thasse. Mtrssv.-As sorne labourers were lately sinkh#" a pit to provure gravel in a bog in the county Kildare, OIl tee estte of'.IrI. ?Vm.-.urphy, of DMif, thev discevered at a consjd~mlble depth the body of a man, in a state of complete preservatIon i The earth whichencompassed the body was a dty tarf mould..; 'he body itself is of the'nsistence of tanneedleather the menmljers' so 'flexible, and the featurs.o perfect, isto.inducecomnmon ob'servers tosuippse ithadbeen arecentsepalture; but the stnte oft}ho'iroutd in which it hadbeen discovered, aundthe depth'at which it w4 floutd, joine' to the confident assertionts of the oltest persons in the neigh- bourhood, " that no person had'ever been therelnterred-duting their time." establishes beyoud.a doubt the fact, thatthe body has lain in that ground at least one century. Ithas been interred in aniadjacent burying grotind.- Carlow. ornzing Post. on Irueslay evening (20th inst.), an inquest was held al Kuaresborougb on the bohv of a youig womaa of the name of Croft, formerly a sermant of liss Aoyser, of tbat town. She had been missingabove afortnight, and was at length discovered in .tberiver Nidd, aboutthree miles from Knarpsbrough. The iarv returned a verdict of-Fozud drozwned. It is supptosed fromn wbatfe fro-mthe deseased'a'day or two before she w's missed,that love was the catsie of her nifirtunate end, her frienad haying opposed her htnion vith a yotung man to whOrri shc was attached.- She was seen standing dn the brink of the river only a short time (t is con ectuved) before she threw herself into ie.-Leedsr Intelli4,,cneer. SllAVIhG FOR T1iE'B ENxFI OP THE GRErKs1i.. WC have beard somnething in the course of the few lasit dayl'df-attempas at sharing i;h the mnare of the Greeks. In New YrkI ihe racre P.i triotic operators seem to shave for the leneft -of -the Greeks. Wc give theparamraph as it appears in the New York f.`omnmevcrai.da vertLver_- tI vill be seen, by. an advertisement inthepa,ers of the day, that the ' Tribrnal of 'Blod,' being a view of-the:fterior of the Spanish Inquisition, is to beexhibited one week in 'this city for the benetit of the Greek Fund. Also that shavinig anda-utting hair will be carried on by T. Hawley, hairdresser, No. I, Courtland,. street, for one week, vwhere hle hopes all gentlemen will attentd and have their hair cut, &G..' to aid the srufle'ing Greeks.'. . - In a .paragre.ph in TK- Thnerof yesierday, dated . '"lrare, Jan..22,'trespecting "- Lgaty Duties,' we are delsired to contra. dict that p.ar of the statemeTit srhieh-described the money as tenaitn. ingin the hands of the exe'cujtor3: 't appebra tlat'thenmarnsy onu. sists o?4001. 3 per cent, consolidated annu1ties; how in.the'-3auk if . England. '- th .....' zErrot7;z.-I n thc first seltence 'of the p Era&Tapk- lfadid. CieP.etal. .Rotten' yesti:day, iir the Q?dA. q , which,"' shotilithove been added "ie passed."' :. . .