NEWMARKET SPRING MEETING.—The new regulation as to starting was tried,

without success, on Wednesday. The horses were to draw up in a foot's pace till ordered to start, after which no false start to be allowed. The novelty of the condition (an experiment of the Duke of Portland's) brought most of the gentlemen to the starting-post' where the opinion most current was that it would not do. In the first place it was no easy matter to get ten horses into a line, and when in one it was still less easy to get them to walk in that order. This was soon apparent, for five of the jockeys (who could not keep their horses quiet) being more acute in hearing than the others, they went off, the five left behind declaring that uo word of command was given. After some delay, the horses were got into a line, walked a few yards, and the word being given, they went off at score. The experiment is not likely to be repeated. It is exceedingly unpopular with the riders.

Lord Glengall, we stated last week, had in a letter to the Times declared the story about the tickets to be the consequence of a mistake—" a parcel of stuff." 111r. Andrews, it appears from a letter to the same journal on Mon-. day last, seems to be not at all aware of the nature of the mistake-he has received no light upin the subject.

THE GARTH HOAX.-Captain T. Garth, since the death of General Garth, has left his cottage in the neighbourhood of Calais and is now living at Windsor. Negociations for the final settlement of differences relating to a delicate affair have, we understand, been resumed.- Morning Chronicle. NEWLY-INVENTED BISCUITS.-In ,the biscuits destined for the French troops' are a number into each of which a small portion (10 grains) of ge- latinehas been introduced. It is supposed that they will be rendered much more nutritive in consequence. S'FEAM-BOATS.-The importance of such vessels (of which our neigh- bours have none of sufficient magnitude) to the French expedition, is ad- mitted, but it is said the Foreign Enlistment Bill prevents their being hired from English proprietors. Various expedients have been suggested, by which the enactment may be set aside : there is one very obvious-sell the

steam-vessels to the French Minister, and then he can do as he pleases with them. Three French boats have been offered to the expedition, but rejected, because too small, and too dear. The sum demanded for the three was 12,000/.

RUSSIAN ARMY OF OCCUVATION.-A letter from Bourgas states that the Russians were to pass the Balkan,. homeward, on the 4th April. Enitc.a.r tow OF TIIE GREEKS.-The University of Munich, with the approbation of the Sovereign, will in future have a free' scholarship for a young Greek to be selected by the Greek Government. The scholarship is founded by the Greek committee of Munich. TURNING THE TaBLEs.-In Spanish Galicia, the robbers make it a point to stop all the monks and priests as they are the only travellers that

carry money. In most other places, the monks and priests make it a point to rob all they come across ; the Galician thieves are only giving them a Rowland for an Oliver.

WARLIKE iltlactuNE.-Among the new inventions for the reduction of Algiers, is one in the shape of a barrel, containing about 20001bs. of powder, which is contrived to be shot as a shell. It falls at a distance of about 300 yards, and breaks by the force of the fall, the fusee all the while burning. VESUVIUS.-A new crater has lately opened on this Mountain. Bitu- minous matter and smoke issue from it.

A NEW RELIGION.-TWO fishermen have set up a new religion at Bir- mingham: the one calls himself the real "Shiloh," the other is his mes- senger. "Shiloh," says the Birmingham Journal (whose reporter's feelings these reprobate fishermen seem to have grievously offended), "is five feet

ten inches high, squints terribly, and weighs about fourteen stone." There is enough of him, in all conscience.

A REPORTE it's PLACE.-The reporter of the Morning Herald, contra- dicting the statement of an evening paper touching Lady Cockerel's ball,

declares that his account of that important event must be accurate, because

he stood for a couple of hours in the entrance-hall on the night it took place ! Such is the position that Lady Cockerel assigns to the man on whom the fame of her high achievements must ultimately depend. Proh pudor ! Could she not have stuck him in among the fiddlers, or were these gentry too proud to submit to the contact of a gentleman of the press ?

OLD BOOKS -At the sale, last week, of the valuable library of the late William Simonds Higgs, Esq., F.A.S., under the hammer of Messrs. Sotheby and Son, many of the books brought extraordinary prices. We subjoin a few

specimens.

Davis's Secrets of Angling; a few X s. A Boke of the Boole Lyf of Jason ; S.

leaves (no date) 12 0 Caxton, 1475 87 3

1Valton's Angler ; first edition, 1633 II 0 The Golden Legende ; Wynkyn de

Walton and Cotton's Angler Illus-

Worde, 1527 26 0 trated (no date) 63

0 Ship of Folys ; Rycharde Pynson,

Cronicles of England ; Caxton,1480 73 10 1303 21 0 Discripcion of Bretagne ; Caxton, '. ..... . ..... 27 6 The Crete Herball; Lanrens An- drewe, 1327 . ..... ........ 20 8 Cronyele of England; Julian No-

Liber Precum ; a Missal executed

43 10 for Charles VII. King of France,

tary, 1513. .... ............ Dives et Pauper ; ........ Pynson,

about 1430. . 94 10 1403.. ...... ............. . 30 9