small Light.

The Duke of Wellington is considerably better.

The Marquis of Hastings, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Rail of 'Wilton, Earl Digby, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Alva:110y and Lord Molyneux, are among the distinguished persons assembled at Melton Mowbray to enjoy the diversion of hunting.

The Earl of Harrowby was in the Members' Gallery, during the delivery of Lord John Russell's speech on Monday.

Letters from Malta mention the safe arrival there of Sir Walter Scott, who had suffered little inconvenience limn the voyage, and was altogether in an improved state of health. On his return ftent Naples, Sir Walter, it is said, will visit Vienna, and thence proceed to Weimar, to visit Goethe.

A memorial has been addressed to Lord Melbourne by the Royal College of Surgeons, lamenting the inconveniences to which anatomical students are at present exposed in consequence of the state of the law. A coirespondent of the Times states that the Bishop of London has forbidden the Reverend N. Armstrong from preaching in his diocese.

The Corporation of Canterbury have unenimously voted a dispensa- tion from the oath of secrecy on its members against divulging their proceedings.

We hear that both Dr. Daum and Colonel Crcagh are ill at Sunder- land, but whether of the cholera or some other disease has not been stated.—Globe. [We hope the two gentlemen are not seriously ill; for if they be, it must be cholera—there is no other serious disease allowed in Sunderland.] M. Mauguin and M. Viennet, two of the French deputies, fought a duel the other day, on account of hot words in the Chamber : neither was hurt. The luck of the French -Deputiee is extraordinary. We

should suppose that since the Restoration there have been fifty duels and we do not recollect of one person engaged in them having beenhurt.

The Edinburgh Bums' Club gave an elegant dinner last week to Captain Burns, son of the poet; who has been visiting his fictherhuld after a long residence in India.

In a celebrated vale not one hundred miles from Keswick, a couple were married on the [outlay, had a festive party on Tuesday, the bride

ilidivered of a fine 'boy on Wednesday, whirl, was interred on Thursday ! Four eventful days of a matrimonial life !—Kendal Chronicle.

ithrrivE POWER or THE Vrs INERTI.T.—" On Monday, the hands employed in the manufacture of lace, residing in Loughborough, cent- mowed is total stout?.---Northampton Alurcary lthaltews is exhibiting his talents at Brighton.

Paganini asked twelve hundred pounds for four nights' playing at the Bath and Bristol Theatres alternately.-13tah • Chronic/e. [lie has a perfect right to ask twelve thousand, and take it too, if he ran get it.] The " unknown tongue," we understand, has got so far north as Aberdour, in Fife. It is not known whether it was conveyed by some At;ciseer. lefrom London, or if it were produced by the state of the atm°. s-i The Times says that the language of one of the exhibitors in the Scotch Church is Hebrew, pronounced with the Polish accent : The lady is the wife of a Polish Jew.

It is intended to preserve the skeleton of' Bishop in the King's College, as that of Corder's in the hospital of Bury St. Edmund's.

Among the terrible distresses which oveasionally MIN( t the higher orders of the people, we had lately to enumerate an old green chariot as

Otte. was in the cast, of Lady Candine Neeld; it was indicted by her hi-laud. Sir File drii Sugden, 031 TIIP!:flay last, in defending a ward of Chancery, a _Miss Newton, who was eE.trai'l with running away from the house cf her brother, Illen1iO1101a chi-hiss still more alartuiug..d The brother.- Sir Edward said, had believed to both sis- ters with so molt iltIES/1!;:`,.'S, that they were glad to lei:ye his house. On One Ol'eltSi011, he carried his rudeness to IA liss Novnio; the elder of the two sisters, so far us to cni the ..drings r h,rp!"

An old lady. ordering some ce:ils the other day of her coal-merchant,

would not Late OLIO till s!: ass need they had been six months front Sunderland.--lforning Bt';umuNea ax p.r. P.—A :short time ;leo. fa gentleman related at a public meeting that he was one night in the gallery of the House of Commons, and that he overheard the reporters whisker to each other, on the occasion of a particular member " Let us Burke this fellow !" His speeches were stilled on other occasions ; and had he been a younger or less powerful speaker, he certainly would have been " Burked" effectually.— restminster Perim.

There appeared in the Herald of Tuesday, a strange story of a revolution at Madrid, and of the poisoning and imprisonment of Ferdinand in consequence. The whole turned out to be a hoax.

It does not appear that Spanish Bonds were much affected by i nor is the motive to its perpetration known.