T HE BRISTOL COLLEGE.—IL appears that we have been guilty,
of an unintentional omission in our euumeration of the objects of study to be pursued in this seminary. Those which appeared in our list are meant to follow, and are considered as but secondary to classical and English litera- ture, mathematics, and history ancient and modern, which are all included in the course. We are obliged to a correspondent of the Bristol Mercury for pointing out the mistake, and have much pleasure in correcting it. OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The Globe of Thursday says, " A Sunday paper, which is considered official, says the Globe states that the pecuniary arrangements between Prince Leopold and the Sovereigns who are parties to the treaty for the pacification of Greece have been completed, and that his Royal Highness is to receive from them about one million and a half of money, divided into seven yearly payments. This information is pretty cor- rect. Prince Leopold is, we believe, (but we do not state this officially,) to have about 200,000/. annually for seven years, to enable him to meet the various claims upon Greece, and to organize a Government.' " THE MOST CATHOLIC KING.—Ferdinand has ordered M. Fransois Arango to revise the " black code." Which of them ? ENGLISH NOTIONS or SAxiTY.—The correspondent of the Morning Herald, announcing the arrival at Paris of M. Eynard, adds, that had he lived in England, the devoting of his fortune to the Greeks would have been the subject of an inquiry at Gray's Inn Coffeehouse. -We did not know that the lavishing of money on Greeks was so rare a practice among English gentlemen. Alit. DAVIES TIIE LUNATIC..—This gentleman, whose trial excited so much interest lately, has turned out insane after all, and fairly surrendered himself to the " mad.doctors." He had been haunted, ever since his libera- tion, by his old fears and horrors, and did not hesitate to admit that he had been insane all the while.
TITHES.—There is a curious item in the Gosport parish account, of l. 5s. paid to the Rector, for tithes on the poor-house garden.—Hants. Telegraph. EXPENSE OF THE POOR AND THEIR 3IANAGEES.—AI the meeting of the parish of Christ Church, Surry, on Monday, it was stated that the poor cost 17511. 4s. 6d. ; and that the Rector and the various parish-officers cost 1883/. 9s. 'dd.!
REACTION.—The church of St. George's, Limerick, is about to be ap. propriated to the service of the Irish Provincial Bank ! The dragon has gained the day at last. VOTERS AT TIIE INDIA If onsE.—No proprietor is allowed to votewhose stock does not amount to 1,000/., that sum being the qualification for one vote; 3,000/. stock entitles to two votes ; 6,000/. to three votes ; and 10,000/. or upwards, to four votes. The total number of votes is about 2,800, but more than 1,900 have never voted.
BUTTONS; THE PUFF nitri.traxT.—It has been observed at the Opera, that the new dress-coat, decorated with plain metal buttons, richly gilt and burnished, is universally worn by men of fashion. The plain extra treble- gilt button (and not the waived pattern) was the article accepted by his Majesty from the Birmingham Deputation.—Birmingham Journal.
A DANGEROUS JOKE.—A wag having thought fit to mar a day's sport last week, by coming across the Holderness fox-hounds with a trail, was pursued .by the pack, and forced to take refuge in a tree. When the hun- ters reached the spot, they pelted him with eggs, supplied in liberal abun- dance from a farm-house in the neighbourhood. DECLINE OF TORYISM—A general meeting of the Manchester Pitt Club was held at the Star Inn on Thursday week, when, we understand, a resolution was passed," that there shall not be any anniversary dinner of the club this year."—Manchester Journal. . THE LATE GlitAFFE.—The stuffing of the deceased giraffe, on which we are informed many skilful persons have been long employed, is now nearly com- pleted. The King intends to have the figure placed in one of the galleries in Windsor Castle. The death of the giraffe appeared, on dissection, to have been occasioned by a different cause than had been imagined. It was found that the ligament of the right shoulder-joint was so much extended that the ball projected beyond the socket, which from friction, as the animal moved its leg, was ground nearly away. CURE FOIL Daorsy.—The Glasgow Chronicle states, that a boy in that neighbourhood, who has long been afflicted with dropsy, and who was about to be tapped for it a second time, was seized with a longing for onions, and cured himself of his disease by eating heartily of them. SWINDLING UNDER THE MASK OF RELIGION.—A fellow with the exterior of a clergyman, and professing to be enlisted in the Missionary service, has been playing the swindler at Gosport for some months back. He contrived to get admission to the domestic circles of the clergymen in town ; preached repeatedly with good effect; and found comfortable pick- ings in the contributions of the zealous to the advancement of the great work of converting the heathen. He was recognized, at last, as the dishonest apprentice of a linen-draper in that town ; and he has been known in Lon. don as a swindler for many years. His names are Richard Wimpole, alias Wimpole Williams, alias Richard Wimpery, alias the Rev. Baldwin de Bouverie Wright, alias Richard Harmitage. He has found his way to gaol. ELOPEMENT, NOT FasnioNABLE.—An inspector of the police, named Ouseley, who received a legacy of 12001. some days ago, immediately eloped with a young woman named Kidder, leaving his wife to the parish. Letters, it seems from the reports of the daily conversazioni at Bow Street, have been received, in which the young lady excuses herself, on the ground that• Onseley was her first love—if the worthless hussey had said her latest lust, she would have come nearer the truth. Among the numerous laws with which we are encumbered, is there not one for whipping such vagabonds at the cart's tail from Caithness to Penzance?
TIIE Ex LADY ELLEstrioaonen.—The circumstance of Lady Ellen. borough having set up no defence against the Divorce Bill, and that her family took no part in those tedious and unfortunate discussions, has given rise to an erroneous supposition, that their non-interference arose from a promise of marriage given by Prince Schwartzenberg, and that in the event of the divorce being accomplished, their union would not fail to take place immediately. It is in our power, and we deem it our duty, to put the fact in its true light. It is highly improbable—indeed impossible—that the Prince should have made any promise of marriage to Lady Ellenborough, since the laws of his country do not recognize any marriage with a divorced
woman during the life of her husband. The Catholic religion admits no divorce, properly so called ; and unless a marriage be absolutely annulled, to the degree of being considered never to have existed, the tie is indissoluble, and precludes, during the lives of the parties, the possibility of either en- tering into new matrimonial engagements. In countries, although Catho- lic, where marriage is regarded as a purely civil contract, the laws operate differently ; but in Austria, where the marriage of a Catholic subject is a religious act, and can only be regarded as valid in-as far as there exists no Canonical bar to its completion, the union of Lady Ellenborough and Prince Schwartzenberg can never be invested with a legal character.—Times.
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