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FRANCE.—The Ultra-Royalists have transmitted to the allied Powers a memoriat against the ministers, stating their dreadful apprehensions in case of the departure of the army of observation, at which the King is stated to be very indignant.

A new commission has been made out for the sole purpose of forming final arrangements for the liquidation of the foreign debt of France.

It is stated that a preliminary congress will take place at Carlsbad, between the ministers of the allied sovereigns, before the grand congress of the latter at Aix-la-Chapelle,

The subscription to the loan last month succeeded beyond all expectation: it opened on the 9th and closed on the 27th.

Details of the execution of Jausion, Bastide, and Collard at Albi for the murder of Fualdes, are given in the papers, from which it appears that Jausion evinced considerable firmness, but persisted in his innocence. The courage which Bastide displayed at the trial, forsook him on the approach of death. Collard wept bitterly, protested his innocence, and talked only of Anne Benoit, who had been exposed on the pillory, and branded withthe letters T. P.-Bach's sentence has been deferred, and a further respite given to the woman Bancal, under a hope that further confession might be elicited. Germany.-A Frankfort paper says, that several new demands have been addressed to the Diet. They relate to the establishment of full and entire liberty between the German States with regard to their mutual commerce; to the free navigation of the German rivers; to the guarantee of the maritime commerce against all pirates; and to the abolition of censorship not only for works properly so called, but also for journals and periodicals, with the enactment of a general law for repressing its abuse.— -The emigrations from Germany to America seem to continue: in the month of May nearly 300 persons, it is said, passed through Mentz on their way to America.

Spain.- His Catholic Majesty has decreed that every foreigner who shall be taken in arms within His Majesty's dominions in America, shall be treated as a rebel, and be subject to the same punishment as natives, having a due regard to the different ranks in which they serve.

South America. The cause of the Insurgents now appears not quite so desperate as accounts had led us to believe; at all events the arrivals at the commencement of the month were very favourable to them, A subsequent dispatch, however, again changes the face of things, and describes a defeat of the Insurgents on the 14th of March at Ca brara; whether this will prove of the importance attached to it remains to be seen. We may, in the mean time, be sure of one fact, namely, that the Insurgents are not yet en? tirely subdued.

Africa. The Plague still rages at Algiers; the Dey has lost a son and a daughter ; its ravages at the other end of the Mediterranean, however, have subsided, all the lazarettoes in Constantinople and the neighbourhood being quite empty.

East Indies.-The intelligence from this quarter is of the most satisfactory nature. A dispatch, dated Jan. 1, from Sir T. Hislop, had brought us the account of the submission of Holkar's government, and of another Pindarree chief, who had not only offered hostages for his future good conduct, but had shown his readiness to march against the other Pindarrees.—In addition to this, the Calcutta Gazette of Feb. 2d. contairs accounts of other successes obtained by the British troops over many of the Pindarree chieftains, to the northward of the river Nerbudda. Headed in all directions, and almost surrounded by the co-operating divisions of the Generals Donkin, Marshal, Sir W. Keir, and Col. Adam, the Pindarrees, with the loss of much of their baggage, betook themselves towards Holkar's camp: but having intelligence of the treaty negociated by that leader with the British Government, they moved to Rampoora, where they were attacked by Gen, Brown, and dispersed without resistance. Cheetoo, the richest and most powerful of these plunderers, whose immediate followers had had a principal share in the former invasion of the British territories, was attacked by Sir W. Keir, on the 6th of Jan. when he lost five guns and a portion of his baggage. The main body of the Pindarrees were reported to have fled in the direction of Oudeypoor. Cheetoo's force was said to have been beaten and plundered near Shapoorah, where his brother was taken prisoner, and he himself escaped with only nine followers. General Smith had an action with Appagee, a Surdar of the Peishwa's, who fled, but in vain, to Chemeenfal. The fort was carried by escalade, when Appagee, with several other officers, were made prisoners; and 70 guns, 83 elephants, a number of fine horses, and great quantities of treasure were taken. In no part of India does it appear from these statements, that any formidable opposition still menaced the projects of Lord Hastings; nor, indeed, should we suppose that the victories of our arms had left much more in the way of hard fighting to be apprehended throughout the continent of India.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE,

ALIEN BILL.

In the progress of this bill through the upper house, a good deal of opposition occurred, the arguments, however, for and against being much the same as those briefly stated in our last in the Commons. In the committee a clause was proposed by Lord Sidmouth relative to aliens who bought shares in the Bank of Scotland pursuant to the Scotch act of 1895, the object of which was to prevent aliens from secretly introducing themselves into the state by the purchase of shares in the Scotch Bank, which entitled them to rights which be

longed to natural-born subjects, and thereby render the intended act effectual. The clause had a retrospective operation to the 28th of April, when advantage had first been taken of the Scotch act.-On the following night, the standing order of the house was suspended, that the report might be brought up, and read a third time, which was done accordingly.

REFORM.

Op the 2d of June, Sir F. Burdett rose, pursuant to a previous notice, to call the attention of the House to his favourite topic, and made an elaborate and not intemperate

speech, the scope of which went to prove that annual parliaments and universal suffrage were according to the practice and spirit of the ancient constitution, and that a recurrence to first principles had now become indispensibly necessary to the happiness of the nation. The Hon. Baronet concluded with a string of resolutions, declaring the expediency of extended suffrage to all householders and inmates, (females excluded!) who have, during a determinate time before the day of election, been resident within the district within which they are called to vote; that the united kingdom should be divided into districts and sub-districts for the more easy and expeditious collecting of the votes-that the votes should be by ballot--and that election should take place once a year. Lord Cochrane warmly seconded these resolutions, and in the course of his speech, being about to quit the country, seemed 'much affected at the idea of taking farewell. Mr. Brougham followed; to the excellence of his speech it is not in our power to give adequate praise. He seemed methodically to follow the Hon. Mover through the whole of his arguments, most clearly proving their absurdity and the weakness of authorities quoted, and diffusing conviction all around him that the plan proposed was wild and chimerical, and such as was neither suited to the Con stitution at any time, nor to the nature of society at this time. He still retained the desire of correcting some defects within certain limits.-The reply of the Hon. Mover not producing any change of the sentiment which had been wrought by Mr. Brougham, on a division on an amendment made by Mr. Canning, viz. the order of the day, there appeared for the amendment 106-on the contrary, Sir Francis and his seconder.

PRISONS.

On June 3d, in the House of Lords the Marquis of Lansdowne animadverted upon the increase of crime and the state of the prisons; and moved an address to the Prince Regent, requesting His Royal Highness would order an account of the number of prisoners, and the state of the prisons, to be laid before Parliament early in the next session.-Lord Sidmouth approved of the motion, and agreed with the noble Marquis in many of his statements; but he was apprehensive lest philanthropy itself should produce an increase of crime, by rendering imprisonment so comfort

able as not to be dreaded; transportatio a itself had already lost its terrors, and there appeared a desire to emigrate to NewSouth Wales. He, however, concurred cordially in the motion. Agreed to.

EDUCATION OF THE POOR,

On the 3rd, Mr. Brougham brought up the Report of the Committee, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. B. censured, with some severity, the alterations which and rihad been introduced into his bill; diculed, with much point and humour, the idea of having recourse to the Court of Chancery for a remedy of abuses in public charities. The amendments of the Lords were then adopted, and Mr. B. gave notice that he should move to renew the committee next session.

ARRESTS FOR LIBEL.

Lord Erskine moved the second read

ing of this bill, the object of which was to prevent arrest on charges of libel till an indictment shonld be found; on division, it was rejected by a majority of 18.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

On the 10th, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent went in state to the Upper House to put an end to the present session, and with it an end also to the parliament. This event had been expected on the Saturday preceding, but in consequence of the Lords' amendment to the Alien Bill being found to encroach on the privileges of the Commons, where alone all money-matters can originate, it was rejected; and hence some delay was indispensible to supply an obvious defect. A new and short bill, therefore, was introduced to suspend the operation of the clause in the Scotch Act till the 25th March. The speech of His Royal Highness was on the whole very gratifying. Our relations with all the foreign powers are declared to be still friendly; our revenue is in a course of continued improvement; trade and commerce are said to be progressively advancing, and promise to proceed with steadiness-Such, with the command to the Lord Chancellor forthwith to dissolve the parliament, and call a new one, were the chief features of the speech.-The contest promises to be very severe, and more new faces are likely to be seen in the new Parliament than have been remembered for the last fifty years. The writs are made returnable on the 4th of July.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

LONDON.

Melancholy Accident.-May 25, three young men were returning from Gravesend in a sailing boat, apparently in a state of intoxication, along the river Thames, when, by their own misconduct, the boat overturned and they were precipitated into the water, where they remained struggling for some time, none of them being able to swim. At length a young man, who was rowing a barge by the spot, observing their awful situation, tried every means to save them, but without avail, and at last jumped into the water after them, and on rising in an attempt to lay hold of him he sunk, and rose no more. The other three were also unfor. tunately drowned.

British Tea. The process of manufacturing certain imitations of Chinese tea is stated to be as follows: The leaves used were those of the black and white thorn, which were gathered at the charge of 2d. per pound. These leaves were first boiled. and then the water was squeezed from them in a press. To make green tea, they were rubbed with the hand to curl them. At the time of boiling there was a little verdigrese pat into the water. After the leaves were dried, they were sifted; this was to separate the thorns and stalks from them. After they were sifted, some Dutch pink powder was added. It was shook up with the tea; and, together with the verdigrese, gave the leaves that yellowish green bloom observable on genuine tea. They had no particular name for this process, except giving the bloom. The black tea went through a similar course with the green, except the application of Dutch pink; a little verdigrese was put in, in the boiling, and to this was added a small quantity of logwood to dye it, and thus the manufacture was complete. The drying operation took place on sheets of iron, Aud thus the sober beverage of the fair sex, and of sedentary persons, was made almost as poisonous as the gin of the lower classes.

Fire. On the night of June 10, the house of Mr. Harding, a gunsmith in the Borough, was discovered to be on fire, which excited the most dreadful alarm, in consequence of its being generally known that Mr. Harding kept a considerable quantity of gunpowder on his premises. Heron, the constable, while the flames were raging within a few inches of the spot, removed

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Guardian Society.- June 11, a General Meeting of the Guardian Society took place at the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House. The object of this Society is the preservation of public morals, by affording a temporary asylum and employment to the fe-, males who have been taken up for walking the streets at night, and who may be desirous of returning to the paths of virtue. The meeting was numerously attended, and consisted principally of well-dressed females. Mr. Alderman Atkins presided in the absence of the Lord Mayor. From the Report of the Committee, consisting of 24 ladies, it appeared, that since the formation of this society 431 had been receiv. ed into the Asylum, of whom 131 were put out to service, having merited a good character while under the care of the Committee. Ninety-nine were restored to their friends. One hundred and thirty-five had withdrawn themselves." Five died, and the rest were sent to the various parishes. The Report was ordered to be printed, and, after adopting several resolutions for the future regulation of the Asylum, and voting thanks to the Chairman, the meeting broke up.

Bank-Notes. -The power which the Bank has hitherto been supposed to possess of retaining forged bank notes which have come to their bands seems to be taken away by the decision of the following case, before Lord Ellenborough in the K. B.:- The Defendant (a clerk in the bank) had called upon the Plaintiff with a forged note; the Plaintiff recognized it, and offered to go with the Defendant to the different persons through whose bands it had passed. They went together to a Mrs. Bull, who had received it of the Plaintiff, and to whom Plaintiff gave another note in lieu of it. Upon their return to the shop of Plaintiff, Defendant insisted upon the note being returned; on a steady

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refasal, the Plaintiff was charged with felony before a Magistrate, and sent to a prison, and there remained for 24 hours. This action was consequently brought against Defendant for maliciously charging Plaintiff with felony, whereby he was imprisoned.

The Jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found for the Plaintiff damages £50.

GENERAL.

Singular Character.-Died, on the 12th of April, in the guard-room of Kinros gaol, in extreme wretchedness, And. Nicol, well-known in the Court of Session under the name of Kinros Lawyer. From a tradesman in easy circumstances and of decent character, be reduced himself, by his most litigious and quarrelsome temper, to the state of a beggar, and finally an outcast from all society. Rather than give up his pretended rights to the famous Middenstead, be obstinately refused all supply from the poor funds of his native parish; and, in order that he might retain what he conceived would be the means of bringing him once more within the walls of the Parliament House, wandered about from place to place, until at last, from his habits both of body and mind, he became such a nuisance, that, disowned by every relation and shut out from every house, it was found necessary to convey him to the common prison, which he quitted only for that asylum "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest."

Mysterious Circumstance.--At the beginning of this month, as a servant of T. Bent ley, Esq. of the Great Hermitage, was going on an errand for his master, he sat down on the border of an ash plantation, near the Half-way House to Gravesend, He there heard two men in conversation, one of whom asked the other if he had cleaned his knife, to which the other replied that he had; thinking the men were cutting some of the young ash plants, he called out to them, asking what they were about; they made no reply, but instantly ran off with the utmost precipitation. On his return from the errand he had been seat on, curiosity induced him to go to the place in the ash plantation, where he supposed the men to have been trespassing; he there saw a basket, covered with a multitude of flies; and his first suspicion was, that the men had been stealing a sheep, and that the basket contained a part of the car. case; he opened the basket, and found two sacks in it, one of which contained a bag; and on opening the bag, to his utter asto

nishment and horror, he discovered two human heads! When he had a little recovered from his alarm, he perceived that one was the head of a middle-aged man, with large sandy whiskers, reaching to the corners of the mouth, and the other was the head either of a female or of a very young man ; one head had been severed from the body quite close to the chin; and the other was as near as possible to the shoulders. He carried the basket, with its contents, to his master, who took immediate steps to promote a legal enquiry into so extraordinary an occurrence. This circumstance excited a considerable sensation in the neighbourhood, and hundreds of people went on Sunday and Monday to see the heads, which have not yet been recognized. A variety of conjectures are in calculation, but the most probable is, that the heads have been procured for anatomical purposes.

YORKSHIRE.

Dreadful Accident.- May 24, a most dreadful accident took place at Wentworth House. Four girls, sisters, having ascended a swing chair, the chain to which it was fixed being fastened at each end to a stone lamp post, their weight brought down a large stone, which fell upon them, and shocking to relate, one of the girls was killed instantly, and the other three were terribly crushed, one having both thighs and another a leg broken.

The Methodist Missionary Society for the Sheffield district held their annual

meeting on May 26. The introduction of three Indian idols (pettycontemptible forms of brass, remarkable only for their bad workmanship) by the Rev. Robt. Wood, in the course of his speech, produced an unatterable sensation of amazement, horror, and compassion. The subscriptions and donations in this district, during the past year amount to upwards of £1100.

Doncaster Church Missionary Meeting. May 27. On Wednesday a general meeting of the inhabitants of Doncaster was held at the Town-Hall, for the purpose of establishing a Church-Missioary Association for Doncaster and its vicinity, auxiliary to the society in London. Henry Walker, Esq. of Blyth, in the chair, opened the business of the day with an address peculiarly appropriate and impressive, in which the proceedings of the Church Missionary Society were most ably vindicated upon the ground of their being in perfect unison with many passages of the Holy Scriptures, and with several portions of

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