The address in the House of Commons will be moved

by Lord Grimston, member for St..Alban's, and seconded by Mr. Robert Adam Dundas, member for Ipswian—Times.

Tun Rovan SOCIETY.—Mr. Gilbert has written to the Society, that as he understands the Duke of Sussex had been applied to on the subject, and that his Royal Highness had consented to be proposed for the Presi- dentship, he (Mr. G.) declared that he must abstain from allowing him self to be put in nomination in opposition to the Royal Duke.—Corre- spondent of the Morning Herald.

CAPTAIN RUSSEL.—This gentleman has been restored to the rank of which he was deprived for the loss of the Wolf sloop, on the back of the Isle of Wight. He is placed, of course, at the bottom of the list ; but he loses little, as he was the youngest commander in the service when he was broke. We have reason to believe that the loss of the Wolf, so far as Captain Russel was concerned, was accidental ; and that he is a diligent, painstaking, and intelligent young officer. The Court-martial could not perhaps legally act otherwise than it did, and the Admiralty could not justly have acted otherwise than they have done.

THE NEW BEER Bien.—As we anticipated, the operation of this bill has produced very little effect on the established publicans. The number of new houses opened is inconsiderable, and the customers they abstract vill be more than compensated by the additional demands of those that remain and are created by the new measure. The beer sells generally for 3d., and in some cases for 3id. per pot ; it ought to be 3d. universally, and soon will. The diminution of tax and the absence of supervision amounts in ordinary porters to at least 33 per cent., and is so estimated by the brewers. Private brewing will, in town at least, be nearly annihilated by the bill; so that in this way the publicans will have a large additional sale, if they can contrive to keep really good draught beer.

LAW INsrringr toN.—In consequence of the great increase of law business, and the distance to which the different 'Courts, as well as the offices of individual members are front each other, the gentlemen of the long robe are now erecting in Chancery Lane a capacious and sub- stantial building to be called the Law Institution, which will contain a large hall, open at all hours of the day to members of the profession, but having one specific hour appointed for their daily general assem- blage. There will be for the clerks an antegooln, in which will be ex- hibited a list of the general and daily cause-papers and arrangements in the several Courts. There will also be a law and general library, an office of registry, rooms for bankruptcy meetings and consultations, with a law lecture-room ; the basement story will be eccupied by fire- proof apartments with iron partitions and safes for the secure deposit of deeds ; and lady, there will be club-rooms. The building extends from Chancery Lane to Bell Yard. The principal front is in the former.

THE TOWEIt MOAT.---The Duke a Wellington, as Co:wable of the Tower, having issued his order for the cleansing and deepening of the . Tower-moat, workmen are now busily employed in the precess. The moat is to be deepened four feet all round the Tower. The water in the moat was allowed to run off; pieces of wood were laid across the bed at short distances, in the form of ratlins, upon this foundation a railway in miniature is constructed : the mud—a thick rich compost, invaluable as manure—is collected into square boxes' on wheels ; these are pushed along the railway by the labourers with very little trouble. The con- tents of the boxes are dropped into a barge, moored in front t.f. the Trai- tor's gate; the soil thus collected is taken up the river for the use of the rearers of "Battersea plants," and other agriculturists. The Tower Moat has not been cleared since the days of Charles the Second, and the labourers constantly keep an eager look-out in the hope of finding coins and other valuables; but beyond a plain halfpenny or two, nothing fur- ther has been heard of. However, that there are watches, trinkets, &c. embedded in the mud, cannot be doubted. It is stated that the notorious Moll Cutpurse, one night having robbed a gentlemen of his gold repeater on Tower Hill, fearing detection, threw it into the Moat, and it has never since been seen. When the water was drawn off, a considerable number of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets were pre- sent, and appeared to anticipate an almost miraculous draught of fishes ; but in this they were miserably disappointed, a single basket of eels, and these of ordinary size, being all that was obtained.—Times.

THE CHURCH.—WE can now state from unquestionable authority that the following promotions in the Church are certain, and may be shortly expected to appear in the Gazette. Dr. Bethel, Bishop of Exeter, to the see of Bangor, vacant by the death of Dr. Majendie ; and Dr. Philpotts, Dean of Chester, to that of Exeter, retaining the rich living of Stanhope, and his present valuable Deanery.—Cumberland Packet.

THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN UNION Cr. un.—A new club, under this designation, is about to be opened at Hertford House, in Piccadilly, under very high patronage. It is proposed to receive the Memlwrs of the two Houses of Parliament, the Foreign Ministers, Naval, Military, and Literary men.

LORD Lasso° wNE.—The Marquis of Lansdowne was installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow on Monday last.

LADY Br...tx T YRE.—This lady with her seven orphan children arrived at Dover from Calais on Wednesday morning.

LORD O'NEIL.—A correspondent of the Morning Herald states that this nobleman resigned the office of the Post Master-General two months ago. This contradicts the story of his dismissal. • THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—Iiis Excellency is at pre- sent on a visit to the Marquis of Thomond, at Rostillan House, near Cork. He has been everywhere received by the people with the greatest possible cordiality.

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.—Oreat pains have been taken to collect subscriptions towards defraying the expense of purchasing a site for and erecting a building for a hospital at Charing Cross ; and n considerable sum has been raised for the purpose. Of the necessity for this building there are various opinions ; but we would ask the subscribers two or three questions, which should be answered before they waste in a useless building what they design for a charitable purpose. Is the Westminster Hospital, which is within a miles distance, so full that " accidents" cannot be admitted ? On the contrary, are not the wards half empty, and do nut the surgeons complain of the paucity of operations ? Is not the Westminster Dispensary limited in its sphere of utility for want of funds ?—Let the humane and charitable aid by their subscriptions these useful and old established institutions, rather than lend their sanction to a mere job.

ZEAL versus Zr.m..—On Wednesday night, a number of placards were posted throughout the city of Edinburgh, announcing an anti- slavery meeting; but through the indefatigable exertions, it is supposed, of some red.hut West Indian, few or none of them saw tl:e morrow ; the puller-down having stuck so closely to the luster-up, that while the one was busy at one end of the street, the other was equally busy at the °then—Edinburgh Observes-.

POPULARITY.—The interment of Mr. Huskissou's remains in the New Cemetery has, according to a Liverpool paper, rendered it extremely "popular ! " Po PULATION.—Upon the space that maintains a man in Iceland, 3 men subsist in Norway, 14 in Sweden, 36 jut Turkey, 52 in Poland, 63, in Spain, 99 in Ireland, 114 in Switzerland, 127 in Germany, 152 in England, 153 in France, 172 in Italy, 192 in Naples, 224 in Holland, aud 1,103 in Malta !

COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE.—The following are the rates at which the chief branches of the revenue are levied,— Le tL

Stamps 210 0 per cent. Excise .... 5 13 0 .••• ' ' ''' ''''' 5 3

•••• • • •• 5 13 Crown Lands . 41 Customs .... .... . 0 13 15 Hackney-coach, and Hawkers and Pedlars duty... 15 2 0 The Hackney-coach duty is farmed. The Customs might be done a groat deal cheaper, were the small and insignificant items which occupy half of the officers' time struck out altogether.

EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—Mr. Stepltensm, proprietor of the Rocket engine " did '' (in jockey phrase) thirty-two miles on the Man- chester and Liverpool railway, last week, iii thirty-three minutes, for a wager, it is said, of one thousand guineas. Illtat were the exploits of flying Childers to this ?

CHEAP PISII.—Soles have been so abundant this week that they have been retailed at three halfpence per pound.-134ghton Gazette.

CALAIS Mane—A new French steam-packet, with diagonally sus- pended cylinders, worked at high pressure, has commenced running with the mails from Calais to Dover.—KentiA Gazette.

SATISFACTORY NEWS.—A provincial paper says, " We are happy to lannounce that the foundation stone of a new prison for the town of Falmouth was laid with all due formalities by the mayor on Tuesday Intsu RAILWAY.—The Liverpool and Manchester Company have, it is said, determined to lay down a railway between Limerick and Water- ford. This would be a great boon to the country.

DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.—The amiable daughter of a gentleman of rank and fortune met with a severe disappointment on Saturday morning at Brighton. Betrothed to a gentleman, as she thought, the bride was attired for the wedding, and the carriage was at her father's door, to convey her and the expected bridegroom to the Temple of Hymen ; but, lo ! the faithless swain had fled the preceding night, and with him the young lady's immense fortune, which had incautiously been paid to him the day before the intended consummation !—Morning Post.

MISS SMITIISON.—Miss Smithson has sustained a considerable loss at Paris, by the flight of M. Ducis' the manager of the Opera Comique. This theatre was nearly deserted and losing heavily by its performances ; Miss Smithson was engaged by the manager, and brought crowded houses. It is the custom in Paris to pay the performers monthly. During Miss Smithson's month the receipts amounted to upwards of 70,000 francs, 9,000 of which were due to Miss Smithson. The manager suddenly disappeared, taking with him the whole receipts, not paying ..•.•.• . even the chorus-singers, w‘liose salaries are barely sufficient for their sub- sistence. The theatre has been since opened by a new manager, and Miss Smithson is again engaged, and is to have a benefit to assist in

repairing her loss. .

SEA-BORNE Coacs.—For some weeks past very confident statements have appeared in the London papers, that.Ministers have it in contem- plation to remit taxes to the amount of 3,000,000/. or 4,000,000/. That there is an absolute necessity for some relief, no-one, we presume, will have the temerity to deny ; and the only question is, which of the taxes it would be most expedient to abolish. The distress of the labouring classes in the South of England is at present extremely great ; and their sufferings are cruelly aggravated during the winter season by a tax as onerous as it is unjust, as impolitic as it is iniquitous—we allude to the duty :laid upon sea-borne coals. The Southern counties, if they are true to themselves, will not seek at the hands of the Minister the aban- donment of this impost as a favour, but they will demand it as a right, for a more unfair and oppressive tax was never sanctioned by the worst of Governments. It is well known that coals are almost entirely pro- duced in the Northern counties of the kingdom ; where the quantity is so great,- that the poorest persons can always have an abundant supply of fuel at the most trifling cost ; and yet in that part of the country no duty whatever is charged, and the wealthy inhabitants have an abund- ance of the best coals without paying a farthing duty ! In the Southern counties, which must necessarily have to pay all the expenses of bargeing, freightage, and carriage, a Government duty of six shillings is laid upon every chaldron ; so that the poorest inhabitants here, in addition to all necessary expenses, have to pay six shillings per chaldron on coals, while the wealthy inhabitants of the North are wholly exempted from the tax. The total amount of this duty is only 922,000/. a-year—a sum in itself but a trifle when the benefit of its repeal is considered:; but even if it were greater, we would ask, why are the Southern counties to bear exclusively such a burden ? We would therefore recommend that as many petitions to the Legislature as possible be immediately set on foot ; and we feel no doubt but that this duty would soon share the fate of the Corporation and Test Acts, and every other obnoxious measure against which the public voice has been distinctly heard.—Kentish Gazeta.

RESIDENCE OF CHARLES THE TENTH.—After all that has been done and undone, asserted and contradicted, it appears that Charles is destined to seek a resting-place in Edinburgh. The following is from the Dorset Chronicle. " It is now definitively settled that Charles the Tenth will, with his retinue, leave Lalworth Castle, in a few days, for the purpose of occupying his former residence, Holyrood House, Edinburgh. At Lulworth, consequently, all is bustle in the preparation for slepar- ture. A steam-packet is expected at Poole to take the luggage, and those persons who prefer the sea voyage to so long a journey by land."

POOR DUCHESS OF BERnto—" The Duchess of Berri ordered a sale ef her private property, in order to raise about 400,009E, due from

her Royal Highness for her expenses of the month of July and the pre- ceding quarter. The hope Of treating with a high personage having been disappointea, she deposited a great quantity of her effects at Resny, and

the rest iVere"sold at Verylow prices ; but she was resolved to .diaclaarge all demands. Among the objects reserved by the Duchess is .a. travelling . service of plate, presented to her by Charles X., and a collection of medals, which, with several other articles, a confidential servant is en- trusted to convey to Lulworth, and who has either left Dieppe, or is on the point of departure. The report of the sale of Rosny we have before 8tated to be unfounded. Already every thing that can be made produc- tive, such as the land, kitchen-garden, &c. has been let, in order that. the Princess may derive the best income which this, her only remaining Property, can 'afford her. Vet notwithstanding her situation several poor families which had been long supported by her Royal Highness still contintie to receive the widow's mite. '—Quotidienne. NATIONAL GUARD IN Exc LAND.—A respectable looking man, who, it appeared, had been in the fight of the Three Days, waited on the Police Magistrate at 3Iarylebone on Monday, to ask his permission to wear the uniform of the National Guard during his stay in London. Of course he was told that he might wear any uniform he pleased. The application shows how very ignorant the good people of the Continent are of our social condition, notwithstanding the long, and for some years past familiar intercourse, that has subsisted between them and us. If Louis Philip would permit London newspapers to circulate in France for the same tax as Parisian ones, we should soon know each other Letter.

TitB PRESS IN GERMANY.—The Germanic Diet is deliberating on new measures for the restriction of the press. [It will require deliberation to find any new measures for restriction. If the Diet seek for novelty, they had better aim at removing restrictions—this would be

• something new.]

Lon. TREASURE.—INThen Sir John Moore in January 1809, in his unfortunate retreat to Commie, found himself closely pursued by a su- perior force of the French army, he was it is said, compelled to abandon his military chest, consisting of thirty-five barrels full of Spanish dol- lars, carried by mules that were quite knocked up by fatigue. The mules were driven to the edge of a tremendous precipice' when the girths being cut, the barrels rolled down a yawning abyss. Some of the barrels having been staved, the British dragoons took care to stow away as much as their saddle-bags would hold. A .Frenchman, named Sarran, the ex-editor of the Drapeau Blanc, is reported to be at present at- tempting the recovery of this lost treasure. There is some doubt as to she amount, and the story altogether is not a very credible one.

SURGICAL RECOVERY OF AN EYE.—M. Maunoir, Professor of Surgery at Geneva, having performed the operation for cataract, by extraction, upon a man eighty-two years of age, weakened by an ope- ration for hernia which he had endured six weeks before, perceived to

• his regret that although the pupil remained beautifully black and per. fectly intact, the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye were not • replenished, the cornea became stink and wrinkled, a fevibubbles of air penetrated the anterior chamber, and the patient bad no Vision. Withosst yielding to the first melancholy impression, the operator, by a happy presence of mind.. conceived the hOpesOf filling the cavity: .

he sot: inimediatelv for. some *distilled water,' • warmed it,' • placed the ratie.lt on his back, and'filled the external orbit of the eye with the water, opened the eye-lid, and raised the flap of the cornea. The water then penetrated into all the accessible cavities, the folds of the cornea disappearedi-and its convexity was restored. Having kept the eye shut for some minutes he then directed the patient to open it, and found it in the most satisfactory condition the patient distinguished all the objects presented to him as well as after the most successful opera- tion. A slight pain was felt after the introduction of the water, which went off after a short time. From that time the eye healed without difficulty, and when opened a week after the operation it was free from swelling and inflammation; the cornea was perfectly united, but the pupil was a little obscure, the sight feeble, and the patient complained that he did not see so well as immediately after the operation. But six days after the bandage was removed the shade of the pupil was much diminished, the sight grew stronger from day to day, and no doubt was entertained that the patient would soon be able'to read common print.— Journal Royal Institution.

NEW HoaLaxn.—One of the supposed anomalies of this strange country has disappeared. It has long been a theory of the Australian geographers, that the rivers of their great island fell into an inland lake, whence the superfluous I'vaters were carried off by evaporation. It now appears that the rivers of Botany Bay run to. the sea, as rivers ought to do. The following extract gives an account of the tracing of one of these streams. The discovery will, it is supposed, be of great value to the colonists. "Captain Start, Mr. G. Macleay, and a Government party, have followed the Murrumbidgee river about 1,000 miles through a fine pasturable country, until it united with many other waters, and formed a lake of about sixty miles long and forty wide, emptying into the ocean at Endeavour Bay, near Kangaroo Island. Its junction With the sea appears to be unfavourable to navigation, except for small craft, and the lake itself is full of shallow sand-banks ; but, as the fact is esta- blished that nearly all the rivers in Argyll and Bathurst Countries are drawn by the dip of the earth to our south-west point, it is only fair or reasonable to conclude that more ris-ers and convenient harbours will hereafter be found, by the vast body of waters which are formed by the descent of the country between Spencer's Gulf and Port Philip. Here there opens a tract of country richly pasture], of an extent equal to maintain more flocks of sheep than would furnish all the fine wool re- quired for British manufacture, and equal to receive and give bread to all the superabundant population of the parent State. The discovery is of incalculable importance in many points of view, the delightful climate forming a medium between,Sydney and Van Diemen's Land—the ease with which herds and flocks can be driven from us to any part of our south-west coast, from the facility which rich pasturage and abundance of water give to the removal of stuck." Provisions are abundant at the colony; beef Id. and mutton I id. per pound, sugar 3d., tea 113d. per pound, wheat 7s. per bushel, and no prospect of a .rise. The colonists are excessively anxious to get labourers from England. They get their land for nothing, and want only to get it tilled for nothing, or as little more as possible.

A clergyman of the Established Church, in a watering-place on the cost, committed suicide on Monday night, 121 the most determined mari- ner. It is said that, after inflicting a seyete wound in his throat with a razor, he stabbed himself to the heart with a peukuife.—Glasgow Chro- nicle.