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Runaway Husbands

Married persons legally divorced
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Total 96,834 This is a new kind of statistics. We are assured that one of our first moralists is engaged in drawing up a similar account for the city of Paris. It will be curious to see which country may claim the advantage of the matrimonial balance.

heavy intervals betwixt the gayer, lighter and more active enjoyments of public amusement, whilst the Concert and Oratorio dully and heavily fill up the space; and private enjoyment, the tete-a-tete and conversazione supply the place of the usual gay and giddy routine.

Of the latter, we must say a few words.-The picture is composed of groupes-the admirers and admired—the orators (male and female) and the auditors; and, as it has been said that the three orders of male beings in fashionable life may be reduced to the ruffians, the exquisites, and the useful men, so the three denominations of the fair sex may be classed under the heads of savantes, merveilleuses, intriguantes, the latter being generally of riper years.

The first holds the highest station in point of intellect, the second in point of attraction, the third in point of operation. The savantes, seated in Cathedra, affect masculine manners and strong mind. The familiar nod, the stern countenance, the gentlemanlike deportment, imposing manner and elevated tone announce the women of talent. Negligent, or rather disappointed in their attractions, they call around them not the Mars or the Adonis, not the model or the dandy, but the author, the editor, the poet, the reviewer, the sycophant and reporter; and from them they receive the incense of adulation with The story of the Lady with the Death's Head, with front elate and philosophical importance. which the French Papers have lately been amusing their The merveilleuses, reclined on a sopha, seem to admire readers, is not of recent origin, as appears from the fol- the learned and lettered dame; but, with unveiled bosom lowing anecdote, which we extract from a number of the and naked arm, with well adjusted tresses and lanJournal Historique de Collé for the year 1750. guishing eye, make such a powerful diversion in their faThere is at present a girl to be married in a convent in vor, that every youth of form and fashion revolves round Paris who will receive an annuity of 30,000 livres if she resides these heavenly bodies, forming a constellation which eclipses in Paris, and 40,000 if she resides in the country. This portion all the rest. will be settled upon her future husband by the marriage contract. The intriguantes, like neutral powers, look on and It is not required that the husband should be either rich, hand-draw off what they can, forming from indecision and deome, well-made, or possessing rank or education: he must how-sertion a certain Corps d'armée. ever be an honest man and endowed with plain common sense. The girl has a good figure, possesses a considerable share of wit and understanding, and has been well educated: but-since matutine hour. The savante retires to her closet with mathere absolutely must be a but, she is obliged to wear a silver mask continually before her face, as her head or at least her face is precisely that of a skeleton. She is besides occasionally seized with convulsions and struggles similar to those of a dying person. Who will consent to marry her?

Thus passes off the night, until it encroaches on the

terials for a new novel; the merveilleuse dreams of the havoc which she has made amongst hearts; and the intriguante or neutral power ensures a rendezvous for the ensuing day.

FRENCH COIN. One of those persons who amuse that, whilst the short crop, apparent ancle, and mascu With regard to costume, it may be proper to remark, themselves by observing the most futile occurrences, has line ensemble of the savante attract notice, the brief waist, remarked that of the old pieces of six livres which are yet pinched in at the bottom, pigeon tail, large hips, tight in circulation, two-thirds at least bear the impression of stays and padded bosom, of the young lisping male tribe, the cow, which is the distinctive mark of the mint of Tou-with their body in gallowses and their neck in the stocks, louse; and that many of these pieces, though struck in seem to imitate the softer sex,-having all its weakness 1783, 84, 85, and 86, are as new as though they had been without any of its attractions. These puny representaissued but yesterday. It is evident, therefore, that the tions of manhood are not a little indebted to odoriferous minds of the common people have been influenced by the waters, and cold cream for the sickly refinement and following popular proverb: Quand on a dans sa poche un insipidity of their complexions, and for the only suavity écu à la vache, on ne manque jamais d'argent.

ROME. 30th January.-Prince Camillo Borghese has purchased from the family of Lante, the beautiful Villa Lante, distinguished by its admirable situation on the Janiculum, and by the architecture and Fresco paintings

of Giulio Romano.

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY.

BRITISH FEMALES!!!

THE Sombre season of Lent, although it has neither promoted fasting, praying, nor even abstinence, imposes

about them.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH MANNERS CONTRASTED, BY
A FRENCH WRITER.

quently reproached us with excessive and extravagant
FOREIGNERS, and in particular the English, have fre-
politeness. Perhaps they are not entirely wrong. At all
events, we cannot level a similar reproach against our
neighbours on the other side of the Channel. Our com-
pliments, they say, are counterfeit coin which are current
only in France.-Very true.-But then this coin is given
and received for what it is worth; nobody is duped by it.

All these were read, and ordered to lie on the table.

A Bill was brought in for the better repairing and paving the streets of London.

Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday.

The Exchequer Court Bill, and the Exchequer Bills Bill, were read a second

time, and committed for Wednesday.

The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed.

In a Committee of Supply, to which the Ordnance Estimates were ordered to be

referred, Mr. WARD said it was his intention to move a vote on account, as was done with regard to the Army and Navy Estimates, limiting the supply to six

months, ending on the 30th of June, 1817. The following suins were accordingly voted

£248,000 for the General Service of the Ordnance Department for the half

£25,000 for the services of 1815, not provided for by Parliament.
£25,081 for the services of 1816, not provided for by Parliament.
£24,000 for the reduction of the expenses of the Ordnance Department for the
year, &c.

half

to

£105,000 for allowances to half pay officers, superannuated officers, pensions
widows of officers belonging to the department, for the half year, &c.

£35,000 for the like purposes for 1816, unprovided for by Parliament.
£15,000 for allowances, compensations, &c. to superannuated and half-pay

officers in the civil department of the Ordnance, for the half year, &c.

£72,000 for the general Ordnance service in Ireland, for the half year, &c.
£7000 for pay for retired officers belonging to the Irish Artillery and Engineers,

for the half year, &c.

£1074 for pensions, compensations, &c. to superannuated officers, for the half

year,

&c.

The resolutions were agreed to, the House resumed, and the Report was order

ed to be brought up to-morrow.

It is now-a-days extensively circulated even among the common people; and, of this, certain individuals very unreasonably utter complaints. Our baker's wife may call her neighbour Madame, and beg of her a thousand pardons. Yet what does this signify ?- If foreigners do not study politeness when in France, they are themselves to blame; for they receive gratuitous lessons even in the open streets. This is proved by the following anecdote. Some days ago an Englishman having asked an applewoman to direct him to a certain street, went away with-year, from the 1st of January to the 30th of June, 1817. out thanking her. The woman suffered him to proceed to a considerable distance, and then in a loud voice called him back again. The foreigner, supposing that he had dropped something, immediately returned. The lady then made a low courtesy, and told him that he had forgot to thank her. The gentleman immediately drew some money from his pocket, gave it to the woman, and again set off to the place of his destination. Did he mean to pay for this lesson of civility? We do not think so: he supposed the woman was asking payment for the direction she had given him. This is the more probable, as it is well known that in England the slightest services are taxed and paid for. This has no doubt occasioned our neighbours to relinquish the custom of thanking. Their good manners are in their purses, and with good reason are but sparingly drawn forth:-ours being on our lips, we are naturally the more lavish of them. The word compliment, which is both French and English, but which in France has a very different meaning to that which it bears in England, is a proof of what we alledge. If for the correction of your sins, and in particular of your purse, you should happen to go to London, you will scarcely have engaged A Petition was presented from the town of Wellington in Shropshire, praying two persons to serve you, when ten will present them-relief from the present heavy burden of the poor rates; received and ordered to selves, and on all hands ask you for compliments. You be referred to the committee of will perhaps offer them thanks, civilities, and protestations. But this is a useless expense, a species of coin which is not current in London. It is money which they demand of you, and you must pay them. But you will soon become tired of these compliments. You will re-embark, and if you are not acquainted with all the richness of the English language, you will at least bear in mind the value of certain words.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1817.

HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1817.

The Mutiny Bill, and Marine Mutiny Bill, were brought up from the Commons, and read a first time.

leon Bonaparte at St. Helena. [A long debate ensued, on which we have else-
Lord HOLLAND moved for Papers connected with the treatment of Napo-
where commented]. The motion was negatived without a division.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1817.
Petitions were presented from Mitcham in Surrey, complaining of the large

standing army, and praying for reform; from the town of Belfast, praying for the
in Worcester Gao!, for a proctor's bill of 141.; and from the inhabitants of St. Pe
ter's, in the county of Cork, for the repeal of the window tax.

abolition of sinecure places; from a poor laborer, named James Evans, confined

All these were received and ordered to be laid on the table.

poor laws. A Bill was brought in to amend the 54th and 55th of the King, for the better

preservation of the peace in Ireland, and for the better regulation of the police. The Bill was read a first time.

Mr. CALCRAFT moved for a writ for the election of a new member to serve in the present Parliament for the Borough of Bridport, in the room of Mr. Serjeant Best, who had accepted the office of one of the Justices of the Great Sessions of Wales.

Sir S. ROMILLY observed, that he could not help taking this opportunity of

calling the attention of the House to the distinction made between the English and Welch Judges, with regard to the capacity of sitting in that House. The lat

ter had duties equally arduous, although not so frequently exercised, as those of the former; they had to sit in judgment in cases affecting the property, reputation, and lives, of his Majesty's subjects.

Another writ was ordered to be issued.

The Hon. Mr. LYTTLETON rose in pursuance of his notice, to call the attention of the House to the dangerous, immoral, and fraudulent mode of raising mo

A Petition was presented from the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhoodney upon the people by way of lotteries.
of Bandon in Ireland, praying for the repeal of the tax on windows.

A Petition was also presented from the Bath Agricultural Society.
Both were ordered to lie on the table.

The Bill for the more effectual prevention of seditious meetings was read the first time. It was ordered to be printed forthwith, and be read a second time on Thursday next.

The Indemnity Bill, and the Silk Exportation Bill, were read a second time. The Royal Assent was given to the Regent's Protection, the Army and Navy Seduction, the Coffee Duty, the Carnatic Commissioners, the Barrack, the Passengers, and the King's Bench Fees Regulation Bills.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1817. Petitions were presented from Ross, in Herefordshire, praying for Parliamentary Reform, and an Abolition of all Sinecure Places; from Ipswich, praying for Retrenchment in the Public Expenditure; from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of London, praying that the House may not sanction any State Lottery; from the same, complaining of the various frauds and deceptions practised both in the Metropolis and provincial towns, by the means of Mock Auctions; from Copping, in Essex, praying a revision of the Poor Laws; from the Needle-makers of Reddish, in Worcestershire, praying that a tax may be laid on machines; from Lanark, praying to be relieved from the tax upon houses of a rent under 51.; and from an individual, named Butt, stating that a fine of 10001., which he had paid under a sentence of the Court of King's Bench, had not been applied to the use of Government.

Mr. LYTTLETON'S statement respecting the scheme of the present lottery was this:-That the odds, reckon them as you will, and assuming the nominal prizes (where the winner has paid more than he receives) as real ones, are nearly four to one against the holder of a ticket, instead of more than two to one in his favor, as the first scheme (the only one published in the newspapers) with astonishing impudence, pretends. This scheme states 10,098 prizes to 4,502 blanks: but of these prizes, no less than 8,000 are tickets for a supplementary lottery, of which the scheme is given in the Gazette, but in great part carefully held back by the contractors in their advertisements, where the great prizes it contains are alone mentioned, to tempt the credulous. In this supplementary lottery, there are 6,956 blanks, for 1,044 prizes; so that there the chances are seven to one against any prize, nominal or real. Then, since in the first lottery 8,000 of these bad chances are called prizes, let them be deducted from the total of 10,098, and there remain only 2,098 to 12,502 blanks-again near seven to one against the adventurer. Upon this showing, then, he who gambles in these two lotteries, of rather in this lottery of four drawings, has, at the best, two chances, each of seven to one, against him; or three and a half to one against him on the whole.

But Mr. LYTTLETON, in order not to overcharge his case in stating it to the House, did, in fact, greatly understate it; as will appear to whoever considers, that a vast proportion of the prizes in the supplementary lottery are nominal, amounting only to 101.-less than half the price of a ticket when sold in small shares: so that the winner of such a prize is in fact a loser to the same amount. There are not less than 1,008 such 101. prizes, out of 1,041, in this supplementary

lottery; leaving only 36 effective prizes; and the chances of such an effective dized her dominion and her glory-when he was the prize 7,964 to 36, or above 220 to 1 against the dupe. When this abatement of the whole favorable chances of the two lotteries is estimated, it will set the odds scourge and the terror of Europe-when the feeble contienormously high indeed against the public. The chances of the second lottery nental kings in wretched weakness or in awe, knelt before are, in fact, as nothing. Add them, however; i. e. add 36 to the whole number his footstool-to his boundless ambition Britain was the of the real prizes of the first lottery (2,098), and it gives 2,134; and the chances then are, 12,466 to 2,184, or more than six to one in favor of Government and the sole obstacle, and her subjugation or destruction was therefore his chiefest aim. Hence patriotism and pride, impatience of threats and scorn of danger, love of independence and contempt of despotism, then rendered reciprocal enmity, hate, and schemes of destruction, the duty of every Englishman.

Contractor.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could see nothing bad in the sysgames were declared lawful, they were never so allowable as when they tended to promote the benefit of the State! If people felt inclined to ruin themselves, The Hon. Mr, LYTTLETON in reply, animadverted on the arguments which had been adduced in refutation of the motion he still contended for. He was

tem of Lotteries, unless all games of chance were to be condemned, and if such

they could accomplish their point without the aid of a Lottery!

glad to observe, that the principle of the thing was given up by the advocates of money must be had for the business of State, that it was obtained by borrowing

the measure. They were cheating the King's subjects; and he would rather, if

than procured by swindling.

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Licences.

Both were read, and ordered to die upon the table.

The New Street Bill; a Bill to enable Justices of the Peace to ascertain and settle tables of the fees and other allowances of the Clerks of the Peace in their the Window Duty, and a Bill to amend and alter the Act for the farther improve

respective counties; a Bill to explain and amend the 48th of the King relative to

ment of the Land Revenue of the Crown, were read a first time.

The Naval Stores Bill was read a third time and passed.

Mr. Ponsonby gave notice, that on the 22nd April next, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the provisions of the Act of Anne, incapacitating certain officers to sit in that House, to every person holding the situation of a Welch Judge.

HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY, MARCH 20.

Even now, the print of this man's footstep on the shore of France would terror-strike the worshippers of the divine right of kings, the declaimer of ultraroyalism and the admirers of superstitious mummery ; the pageantry of Bourbonism would fall, as it has fallen like the ephemeral fabric which the magic wand of pantomime hurls to the ground, with a rapidity which defies the possibility of distinguishing what part of it first reaches the earth; and three hundred thousand veteran and devoted soldiers would once more start up in arms. The peace and security of England, therefore, require even now that her armies should occupy the fortresses France, and that this man, so hated and so beloved, should be closely and strictly guarded.

of

But at this moment, he is fallen from his grandeur, his glory is eclipsed, his friends are scattered and dispersed, his wife and his child are torn from him, he is a sad and solitary exile-in one word, he is in the power of England. Would it not then be mean, base and infamous, if Enggland were to trample on her prisoner, or were to tolerate in those to whom he is entrusted, one act, word or look of insult-one, even the minutest, unnecessary infliction? Such inflictions, then, are alleged; and an investigation

The Seditious Meetings Prevention Bill was read a second time and ordered ro is equally due to honour and to humanity.

be committed to-morrow.

The Army and Mariue Mutiny Bills were read the third time and passed.
HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY, MARCH 20.

A Petition was presented from the Ward of Bishopsgate, praying for Parliamen

tary Reform, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

A Petition was presented from Leicester on the subject of the Poor Laws, which

was ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Poor Laws.
The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time.

The Colliery Labourers Bild was read a second time.
The Madhouse Bill was read a third time and passed.

POLITICS.

However

secretly instituted, we know it will not be withheld. Some, indeed, talk of delicacy due to the feelings of the officer to whose custody Napoleon has been committed; but he who has the delicacy to accept the office of gaoler, however high or low his rank may be, has the delicacy not to be hurt by fair investigation. For such delicacy, we are persuaded, the honour of England will nev er be compromised.

We have already avowed ourselves the advocates of generous ambition and honorable war. What we have said It is honourable to the sentiments and the feelings of on the subject is strictly applicable to the Chinese empire the British nation, that, while important subjects of in- and its external relations. If ever there existed a negative ternal policy call for so much of their attention, the fate proof that adversity generates intellect-that men learn of the Exile of St. Helena excites so deep and universal only by suffering-that humanity makes its greatest adan interest. On this subject, however, all reasoning re-vances only through tears and blood-through terrific duces itself to a very narrow compass.

wars and glorious triumphs, China affords the proof.

Generous ambition and honourable war are essential ex- The Chinese empire has, during a long series of ages, citements of the human mind: they generate skill and cou- enjoyed a peace rarely interrupted by any war. The spirage. Nor are these unallied with high moral advantages. rit of its inhabitants has never been roused: their energies We may venture to say, that Valour is the son, and Virtue have never been exerted. All has sunk into death-like the daughter of Wisdom. The high intelligence of ancient lassitude and indolent repose. Genius has been extinguishGreece was closely allied with civil rivalry and inter-na-ed; morality, perverted; humanity, degraded. That infantional war; and, in modern Europe, the contest which has ticide which has been required to thin its population, has just ended has more elicited genius, and more ame- left behind only villains: war would have left only heroes. liorated public opinion than any other event could have done. We are no enemies, therefore, to generous ambition and honourable war.

To the boundless ambition of Napoleon, then, when he occupied the imperial throne of France-when he aggran

When nations fall so low, it is a law of God and nature, not less beneficent than it is wise, that they should speedily become a prey to some neighbouring power. Such soon will be the fate of China. To discern this, but little wisdom is required.

In these soft and seductive regions, where gold, gems and luxury, are more admired than steel and enduring valour-where men are the destined victims of native despotism or of colonial slavery, no Asiatic prince is likely to arise as their redeemer. The tide of conquest must, as heretofore, flow from the north. The ocean route, however, is now a more facile one than that of the Scythian desert; and the men of England, not the Tartar hordes of Russia, are destined to regenerate the East.

that for Plancus, should not have preceded the printing of this portion of the infallibly have been enriched by these two fragments.

works of the Roman orator. This edition, which is already so excellent, would The Articles of the Library of Mr. Mac Carthy which produced 1,000 francs,

(or 411. 13s. 4d.) from the 21 to the 27th of February, are the following:

Nos. 427 Preces Christianæ, a manuscript by N. Jarry, 501. 88. 4d.

1250 Justiniani Imperatoris Institutiones 1468, large folio, 601. 8s. Ad.
2809 Recueil de Poesies des Troubadours, in folio, 411. 16s. Bd.
2789 Petri Carmeliani Carinen, in 4to. 411. 138. 4d.
2824 Le Roman de la Rose, a manuscript in large folip, 561. 138. 4d.
4352 Cæsaris quæ extant 1712. 2 Vols. in one, in folio C. M. 601. 3s. 4d.
4393 Taciti Opera, illustravit Brotier 1771, 4 Vols. 4to. 431. 8s. 4d.
4442 Corpus Historia Byzantinæ 44 Vols. 581. 6s. 8d.

Mr. Von Haller, Member of the Sovereign Council and of the Privy Council

artificial institutions, but differ from other natural social relations only in degree,

We take precedence of all other journals in informing our readers, from high authority, of a truth known to a of Berne, has just published the first volume of his great and learned political few in the highest circles of India, that a British invasion work, called "The Restoration of the Science of Politics, or the Theory of the Natural Social State, opposed to the Artificial Civil State." The object of this of the Chinese empire is not looked at as a distant event, work is nothing less than to overthrow all the hitherto prevailing false political and that its path is across the mountains of Nepaul! The principles, or revolutionary errors, and to establish the true doctrine in their jealousy which the Chinese feel of that achievement, the place which is founded on the simple principle, that States are not arbitrary high tone which our ambassador employs, the conduct and that therefore the same principle of justice and benevolence prevails, and of the Alceste, and the daily attendance of Lord Ex-must prevail, in the one as in the other. In the interesting preface, which is mouth at the Admiralty, sufficiently illustrate our state-account of the origin, the chief principles, the form and arrangement, the spirit written with equal perspicuity and eloquence, the author gives a satisfactory and object of the work. The importance and novelty of the Contents, as well as the energy and beauty of the language, render the work one of the most emarkable literary productions of our times, and it will doubtless excite much attention in the learned world.

ment.

Friends as we are to every real improvement in the state, we were not displeased at what lately passed in the House of Commons relative to what are called the Welsh Judges. It is admitted that the administration of justice would be liable to the suspicion of partiality, if the two judges who are now at Lancaster were members of parliament.—In the name of common sense, why should not the same reason ing apply to the judges of the adjoining county of Chester, who are both members of the House of Commons?

And here it may not be amiss to hint, that as a revision of some of our more important laws, (the Bankrupt especially), is loudly called for, surely such a measure might be easily and speedily adopted. We have three Ex-Chancellors with salaries of 4000l. a year each, two Ex-Chief Justices with the same or nearly the same allowances, besides two retired puisne Judges-all of whom, we doubt not, would be most happy to render the public so essential a service, if the Regent would be graciously pleased to direct a Commission to be issued for the purpose. A. W.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

A motion was on Monday made in the Court of Chancery, on the part of Mr. Southey, for an injunction to stop the publication of the poem called "Wat Tyler," on the ground, as we understood, that Mr. Southey had neither sold nor assigned his right to the present publisher. On Wednesday the Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this cause. His Lordship found the work to be one of the most pernicious tendency, and of course a case in which a Court of Equity had no right to interfere; he therefore dismissed the application.

The Congo sloop of war is arrived at Deptford. Several large cases, containing the natural productions of Africa, collected in the late expedition to the Congo, have beep sent to Sir Joseph Banks, for the purpose of being assorted in their respective classes: many of them are of a kind hitherto unknown, and the whole will shortly be submitted to the inspection of the public.

Application, it is said, has been made by the French to Ministers, for issuing the usual orders to our settlements, for giving facility to the expedition under Mons. Freycinet, which consists of the Uranie frigate and a corvette, about to sai! from France to finish their survey of New Holland. Of course this request will be complied with; and, it is added, that Government have come to the determination of undertaking a similar enterprise, and have sent for that purpose a lieutenant, accompanied by two young midshipmen, who are to perform the service in one of the small vessels belonging to Port Jackson.

Lord Byron's Corsair, and Coxe's History of the House of Austria.
Among many other translations of English works into German, we observe

The indefatigable Mr. Nunnech, of Hamburg, has finished his Portuguese

Mercantile Dictionary, which is the fourth part of his great Encyclopedia of

Merchandise.

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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.
OXFORD.-In Convocation, the Election for Public Examiners has fallen on

Revds. R. Jenkyns, M. A. Fellow of Baliol; and J. Bull, M. A. Student Christ
Church. Rev. J. Coneybeare, M. A. Christ Church, is appointed Professor of
Poetry.

Degrees of M. A. have been conferred on Revds. J. Haretaine, Exeter; G. H.
Hames, Oriel; J. Davies, Pembroke; and W. Mill, Trinity; Messrs. C. G. E.
Daubeney, Magdalen; and W. Moore, Pembroke.

Bachelors' Degrees have been granted to Messrs. T. R. Ryder, Pembroke; H. C. Philpott, St. John's; and G. Proctor, St. Edmund's Hall.

Messrs. J Hughes, B. A., and W. Evans, B.A., both of Jesus, are elected Scholars of that Society.

CAMBRIDGE.-The Chancellor's Two Gold Medals for Proficients in Classical Learning, amongst the commencing Bachelors of Arts, are adjudged to Messrs. H. J. Rose, and E. Gambier, of Trinity.

Degrees of B. C. L. are conferred on Revds. W. Fortescue, St. John's; J. G. Wrench, Trinity; and Mr. J. A. La Merchant, Jesus.

Bachelors' Degrees are granted to Messrs. T. Knight, and J. Strickland, St. Peter's; and J. Hodgkins, Trinity.

Mr. W. S. Walker, Trinity, is elected a Scholar on Lord Craven's foundation.

TO OUR READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. majority of our Subscribers by an extension of our Political and We are happy to be at length enabled to gratify the wishes of the Fashionable Departments, and to acquaint them that, after the present publication, our pages will be so enlarged as to admit of this addition, without in the least curtailing our Literary and Scientific Deportments.

neva,"

Mr. Ruthiger has just published a report, addressed to the Members of the M. S.'s communication-The "Extract of a Letter from GeFrench Institute, on the solution of the problem of the "Quadrature of the -"Remarks on the prefixing of Portraits," &c.— and Circle." This little report contains all the proceedings and mathematical calcu." Lines on a Sheep-cote," are defective in interest. lations employed by the author to attain the exact demonstration of this quadra "Juliet's Bower" is too long for insertion; but the "Remarks ture, which has hitherto been deemed impossible. It remains for the learned on the influence of our elder Poets" would be suitable, if drawn Areopagus, to which M. Ruthiger has addressed his work, to decide upon the up in a light and popular form. merit of this geometrician, and the reality of his discovery.

The "Milk Maid" has no poetical merit.

The "Letter from Joulna" and " Observations on the Climate

A third edition of a late French translation of the works of Cicero, has appeared at Paris. It is vexatious that the discovery made at Rome by M. de Niebuhr, of the fragment of the Oration for Raberius, and another fragment of of Hastings" are unsuitable.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

This day is published, price 6s. 6d.
THE PAMPHLETEER, No. XVIII. containing:

1. A VINDICATION of the POLITICAL CONDUCT of GENERAL SA-
VARY, Duke of Rovigo. Written by Himself. [Original, and
Translated exclusively for the Pamphleteer.]

2. The SOURCE of the EVIL; Addressed to the United Parliament
and the People of Great Britain, on the league formed between
the Irish Lay Separatists and the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops,
on the measure of Emancipation. By ANGLO-HIBERNUS.
[Original.]

3. REFORM WITHOUT INNOVATION. By J. SYMMONS, Esq.
4. The NATIONAL DEBT in its TRUE COLORS. By WILLIAM
FREND, Esq.

5. A LETTER to LORD SIDMOUTH on PUBLIC HOUSE LICENSING.
By J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. F.A.S.

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