EXECUTIONS.—On Monday morning John Jardine and Daniel Page were banged

at Horsemonger-lane, the county gaol of Surrey. Jardine, it will be recollected, was convicted at the Kingston assizes of having administered arsenic to his wife with the intention of poisoning her ; and the crime for which the other suffered was horse-stealing. The report from which we quote says that the " air was so thick as to hinder a sight of the awful ceremony being seen from the street."

On Wednesday morning, James Coleman, for coining, and James Wheeler, for highway robbery, both convicted at the December Old Bailey Sessions, were executed in front of Newgate. Coleman, as a " traitor," was drawn to the scaffold on a hurdle. Wheeler asked the Rev. Mr. Baker to wait upon his parents and sisters, and give them his religious advice • and that gentle. man having promised to do so, the culprit exclaimed, " I then am happy; may sentence is just, and I trust God will pardon me."

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—An inquest VMS held on Monday, to inquire into the death of Amelia 'meson, aged five years, the daughter of Mr. 'meson, who resides at the corner of Aldermanbury Postern and Fore-street, and whose death was caused by the mother cutting its throat in a paroxysm of insanity. By the evidence, it appeared that on Saturday mertiing last, the servant of Mr. Imeson (Eliza Bator) took the child up stairs to its mother, in the bed-room, who Caressed it, and said, " It looks like one of the children in the wood." In five minutes afterwards the girl went up stairs, and saw her mistress covered with blood, sitting upon the bed, and her throat cut. She informed her master, who went up into the room, and he found the child lyin g Olk the floor with its throat cut from ear to ear. A surgeon, Mr. Vaux, was cilled in, and he found that the wound had divided the carotid artery and the larynx, and that death must have immediately ensued. It was proved that Mrs. 'meson had some time ago been confined in a lunatic asylum ; that she had somewhat recovered ; but that she had relapsed within these few days, into her former deranged state. Mr. Yaux further stated; that he had con- versed with the unfortunate mother since the melancholy affair ; that she ap. peared perfectly sane, and was deeply affected at the crime she had committed. She acknowledged murdering her child, and said `she was ready to expiate her offence by the forfeiture of her life. At the periods he had seen her, she exclaimed, " Oh, my God ! what caused me to commit so horrid a crime to murder any poor dear little Amelia—the dear little innocent that never in- jured me, or any one else ! Oh that I could recall the fatal day, I would give my life ! Oh, surely the Almighty must have hid his glorious face from my sight, and an evil spirit must have goaded me on to commit the offence!" The Jury found, " that the deceased's death was produced by a wound in the throat, which was inflicted by Amelia 'meson, its tnother, whilst in a state of temporary derangement." Mrs. 'meson is not expected to recover the effect of the wound she inflicted upon herself.

SUIC/DE.—The body of a female aged fifty-three, was on Sunday, found floating in the Grosvenor Basin, Pimlico. It was proved on the inquest, that she had drowned herself nearly a month ago, in a fit of insanity.

On Tuesday evening, Joseph Rosetti, an Italian, clerk to Mr. Obiccni, Coleman-street, shot himself in his lodgings. He was found on the floor with his head nearly blown to atoms. It appeared on the inquest, that the de- ceased had laboured under a depression of spirits, which was attributed to pecuniary embarrassments, brought on by his connexion with an extravagant female.

Last week, a traveller from London took up his residence in an inn in Man. chester, and on Saturday morning he was discovered on his chamber floor dead. In a fit of insanity he had nearly severed his head from his body with a razor.

MURDER.—A man named Boyle has been committed to Lancaster gaol, for the wilful murder of a companion with whom he was drinking on New Year's morning.

On Sunday night, as George Roberts of Frenchay, was returning home, he saw a man lying in the middle of the road, near the armoury. He went to

him to render him assistance, got him up, and offered to assist him as far as the Blackbirds, near which he understood him to live. The man fell down again, and in Roberts's attempt to get him on his legs, the fellow drew a pistol

from his breast pocket and fired at him the ball entered the abdomen on the right side. The man was afterwards taken into custody, and proved to be John Skeats, the toll-taker at the Blackbirds turnpike-gate. The unfortunate young man (who has been married only three weeks) lies in a very dangerous state.—Bristol Mercury.

DUEL.—On Friday last, a duel took place near Belfast, between Mr. John Lawless and Mr. F. Gregg, in consequence of a letter, signed by Mr. Law. less, charging Mr. Gregg with falsehood, winch had appeared in the Northern Whig. The parties fired twice, and Mr. Lawless's second ball passed through the skirts of Mr. Gregg's coat. The seconds then interfered ; and declaring that both the gentlemen had conducted themselves with honour and courage, refused to sanction further hostilities.

EMBEZZLEMENT:A reward of 150/. has been offered for Robert Walter, the clerk in the service of Messrs. Drummond, the bankers at Charing-cross, who lately absconded with about 3001. His securities have made good his deficiencies to tile Bank.

Another clerk in a highly respectable mercantile establishment has ab- sconded with 1200/. the property of his employers. Mr. Eyre, postmaster of Marlborough, has been committed to Devizes gaol, on the charge of having embezzled various sums received by him as postages of letters. Bail to the amount of ,1500/. was offered for his libera- tion, but refused.

BODY STEALING.—On Sunday evening, two dead bodies were stolen from • the dead-house of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which contained six dead bodies at the time. One of the bodies was that of a child who had been burnt to death.

A REJECTED PLEDGE.—On Wednesday week, a male infant, about five weeks old, was left in the entry to Mr. Dry's house, St. Martin's-lane, dressed in a calico bed-gown, two old blankets, a checked muslin cap, a calico shirt, and a white hat7dkerchief tied round the head. Mr. Dry is by trade a pawn- broker, hut having no nursery for living pledges, the infant was conveyed to the workhouse.

GOUT CURED BY FEAR.—On Sunday morning last, a sudden squall of wind or tornado, was observed in the neighbourhood of Tewkesbury, which threw down many large timber trees in its course, one of which fell across a barge in the Severn, and did considerable damage, and another fell over a public- house, breaking down a great part of the roof. But "it is an ill wind that blows no good :" the noise so alarmed the landlord, who had been confined with the gout for three months past, that he leaped out of bed and ran down stairs immediately, completely cured of his complaint.—Gloucester Journal. A HANGING IMPOSTOR I—On the 15th of last month, a man, who had taken up his quarters at the Crown and Sceptre, Bromyard, not making his ap- pearance in the morning at the usual hour, his chamber-door was forced open, when he was discovered lying on the floor insensible: one portion of a broken rope was hanging from a beam, and the other part was fastened round his neck. He shortly recovered; and, being kindly treated, arid detained till Wednesday to recruit his strength; was sent away, prinitied s ith Ns, to carry him on. The Sunday following, he was found in a similar situation under an oak-tree, in the parish of Earl's Crome, near Upton ; nor was he again long ere he came to himself. Here he also received the kindest attention from the rector, who sent for a surgeon to bleed him, and enabled him to proceed by the coach next morning. He said that he had not a farthing in the world, and should die from starvation. We are told that he played off the same trick at Stroud, Gloucestershire.—Hisrcester Herald.

ASSAULTS.-•-A man in Glasgow was lately assailed by a number of Irish miscreants, who knocked him down, and trampled upon him until his bowels burst out. He was carried to the Infirmary, and is expected to recover.

COUNTERFEIT CosN.—A few days ago a small heavy box, on its way from Birmingham, in England, to Fyvie, in Aberdeenshire, and which was sus- pected to contain base coin, was intercepted at Aberdeen. On the box being opened by the proper authorities it was found to contain no fewer than 314 base half-crowns, which the Sheriff directed to be melted down. The name on the address of the box was fictitious. On the coin being taken out, the box was forwarded by the mail-coach to the post-office, where, by the ad- dress, it was desired to be left ; and we understand that the box was imme- diately called for, and taken away, by a man of the parish of Meldrum, who is well known in that quarter.—Edinbargh Weekly Joarnal.- At a country sessions last week, a man was acc_uitted on indictment, charging him with writing a seditious and incendiary letter, on the ground that in copying the supposed libel, the clerk had inserted a a instead of a g.

CRIME IN FRANCE0....T11C Court of Assize of Indre and Loire recently con- demned a woman to death for an attempt to poison several individuals. She admitted that she had thrown poison into the soup, of which they individual.

She par- taken; but maintained that the poison was intended only for one ndividual. She had previously been guilty of infanticide. Some robbers lately attacked, on the bridge of Neuilly, an officer of the re- giment of the Royal Guard, e at Courbevoie; and after having rob-

bed him, by holding his hands behind his back, they thew him over the pa- rapet into the Seine. The noise of his fall awoke the proprietor of the float- ing baths, stationed in this spot, and he succeeded in saving the officer.

A singular trial is at present going on before the tribunals of Lucerne. The Regent (parochial schoolmaster of the commune of Uffikon) was accused by his curate of having made use of sacrilegious and unchristian expressions to his scholars, by saying that the repentance of the heart was preferable to auricular confession ; and indeed, that one could do without the last, as well as without the fasts appointed by the Church, which might be much better spent in useful labour ; and that meat might be eaten every day in the week, without either crime or Sin. The tribunal of Altishofen pronounced judgment on the 19th of December to the following effects—That the witnesses were chiefly children ; but from the unanimity with which they had given their evidence, there was a strong probability that they had spoken the truth ; and considering that the accused had made use of the audacious and astonishing expression that his Holiness the Pope was only a man like himself, the Court subjected him to the highest fine (100 francs) which can be imposed for of- fences touching matters of religion.

A few days ago, two lunatics were placed in a room of the house of deten- tion at Vascouleurs, previous ts, being conveyed to Mareville. During the night one of them strangled the other.—Paris Paper.

On the 11th ult, at ten o'clock at night, a female enthusiast at Herisan, in Switzerland, set fire to her house, under the idea of driving out from it evil spirits. She then awoke her husband and warned him of his danger. She next took a Bible and a Prayer-book, and after throwing into a rivulet a bag containing a gold chain and a ring, traversed the village and went to St. Gall, where she was apprehended and taken back to Herisan. The house was entirely consumed, and it was not without difficulty that the contiguous buildings were saved. Some years ago this woman was compelled ,to quit the village of Sonderegg, which she threatened to set on fire. So far from repenting of her crime, she regards it as a meritorious act, well pleasing to God. In her Bible there are a great number of erasures.—French Paper.

TIIE SEASON.—S0 severe a frost as at present prevails has not been expe- rienced for several winters past. All inland navigation is completely at a

stand ; and it is expected, if the frost continue, of which there is every ap- pearance, that the river will he altogether blocked up to-day, Large masses of ice were floating up and down with the tide yesterday, in immense quan- tities, rendering it exceedingly dangerous to attempt a passage. One gentle- man reports he was an hour its crossing below London-bridge in a boat; and the proprietors of several powerful steam-boats, respectively refused forty-five

guineas to tow a vessel down. If time frost continue much longer, we may shortly expect a repetition of the celebrated frost-fair of 1813-1814, with all its extraordinary festivities.-7'imes, SatImlay.

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated the 19th.—" The weather continues dreadfully cold. The Seine, will, I am sure, be. frozen over in a day or two; yet a letter I had yesterday from Toulouse, of the 15th inst., contains the following passage 'The cold season is over here; we have already been obliged to discontinue our fires.' Not so here, or in Russia. The thermo- meter was last night seventeen and a half degrees of Fahrenheit below the freezing point. In Russia, Reaninur marks nineteen degrees under zero ; that is, one degree more than the cold of the night on which, as was men- tioned in time celebrated bulletin of Napoleon, 30,000 horses died."

Accommoesteioe TO Ammoas.—It is said. that the Lords of the Treasury have issued, or intend to issue, an order to the Postmaster-General, permitting

the free transmission to authors residing in the country, of the proof-sheets of any work going through the press, and which may be sent to them for cor- rection. For this purpose the proofs are, it is said, to be sent open to Mr. Francis Freeling, who will enclose them in a post-office cover, and forward theni according to the address, and perform the same on their returni—Lee. rary Gazette.

iRISH Pheaarxrias.—The Lord Chaacellor of Ireland has decided that clergymen may hold pluralities of livings, provided they are not thirty English miles apart. The judgment was had in the case of the Primate of all Ireland, who refused to grant a faculty to the Rev. Mr. Cotton, who was presented to the living of Thurles, holding at the same time the archdeaconry of Cashel. The decision is, therefore, in favour of the Archdeacon of Cashel.—Limerick Chronicle.

Private orders have been issued to all the Colonels of regiments in Ireland to prevent any conversation on, or reference te, polities, at mess, or in the presence of the servants; also to discountenance all such conversation among the soldiers, and to vrevent their intercourse with the civilians ; to prohibit

the attendance of their bands of music at party dinners, and to compel all officers to sleep in barracks.—Dublin Paper. A CLEVER -TAILOR.—There is now living at King's Lynn, a Mr. Henry Regester, .formerly a considerable wholesale tailor and draper of that town, who, since he was seventy-four years of age, has cut six teeth! He has been blind four-and-twenty years ; and though now in his eightieth year, he has lately cut out and made himself a complete suit of clothes, without any as- sistance whatever.—Bury Post. THE FEMALE HUSBAND.—A gentleman stated to the Magistrates at Bow- street, on Wednesday, that Mary Allen, who was married to the supposed

James Allen, whose death was mentioned last week, was anxious to make oath that she was entirely ignorant of the fact of James Allen being a female, until that circumstance was communicated to her by the person who undressed the body. The poor woman, it seems, has been dreadfully annoyed by some of her neighbours who have doubted the truth of her statement; and she thinks, that by making affidavit to the fact, she will get rid of this persecution.

The Magistrate was to consider whether the affidavit was one which could be sworn with propriety, against the titne the woman came again before him. Amongst the various conjectures as to the cause of the deceased having taken the extraordinary step of concealirg her sex, and assuming that of a man, the following, is said to come nearest to the truth,—namely, that the deceased had been violated when a child ; which operating upon a mind of extraordinary strength, induced her to adopt the resolution which it appears she carried with her to the moment of her death. It appears that the two women were married in December 1807. Previous to this the deceased lived as groom in the service of a Mr. Wood, No. 6, Camberwell-terrace. Mary Allen was housemaid in the same gentleman's family ; and it was while living there she first became acquainted with the deceased, who was at that time considered a smart and handsome young man, and an excellent groom, doing all the work belonging to time situation quite to the satisfaction of the gentleman with whom he acted in that capacity. Mary Allen remained as housemaid with Mr. Wood for three years ; and it was at the latter part of this period the deceased began to be extremely attentive to her, and was viewed in the light of a lover by Mary ; who at length consented, at the earnest entreaties of the deceased, to be married. The matrimonial alliance took place between the parties ; and from the church they retired together to a house called the Bull, in Gray's Inn-lane, where they slept. Very soon after they had retired to bed, the bridegroom was taken ill, and continued or pretended to be so the remainder of the night. Subsequently to the marriage, Mary Allen went back to service, and the deceased was hired into time service of Mr. Lonsdale, of Maze-hill, Blackheath, and staid there some time, during which period the new married couple seldom saw each other, but carried on an epistolary correspondence, in which the deceased always wrote most affectionately to the bride, addressing her in all the endearing terms of a wife, and concluding his letters by subscribing himself the bride's " most loving and affectionate husband until death." They were absent from each other eight months ; and, at the expiration of that period, the deceased prevailed on time bride, Mary Allen, to throw up her situation, and both live together as man and wife. Mary consented ; and at this period the deceased, having accumulated sotne money, became landlord of a public-house called the Sun, at Baldock, in Hertfordshire, and was getting on most prosperously in business until their house was broken into one night and robbed of all the money they possessed. After this misfortune, the deceased gave up the business and came to London with his wife, and took lodgings in the neighbourhood of Dockhead. Here the deceased obtained employment in a shipwright's yard, as a pitch-boiler; and subsequently wrought at a vitriol-manufactory before she became a sawyer. In neither of these situations was her sex suspected. The deceased was of rather an ill temper ; anti expressed strong resentment against Mary when- ever she noticed a man particularly, On these occasions, the deceased never failed to act the part of the jealous husband, and has often inflicted corporeal chastisement on the wife when she considered that she was not conducting herself as she ought to do. The deceased was however generally kind and affectionate towards her ; and worked early and late for their subsistence. The labour she was employed at could not have been performed, except by a person of uncommon strength of body. She generally dressed in sailor's clothes, like shipwrights, and always wore thick flannel waistcoats, which extended from the neck down to the hips. She also wrapped a bandage of'

linen over her chest, for the sham purpose of protecting her lungs from cold, as she was in the habit of being much exposed to cold and wet, often working over her knees in water, when engaged in clearing out the ways—that is, clearing a part of a shipwright's yard of the mud collected on the receding of the tide. The deceased was also of a most ingenious turn, and was a very expert car- penter, in addition to her other qualifications: in fact, as Mary Allen describes, she could turn her hand to anything. Subsequently to the examination by the Coroner's Jury, the body of the deceased was placed in a coffin, and conveyed to the lodging of Mary Allen, who appeared greatly affected at the death of her " lord." The deceased is said to have been an interesting- looking girl; her limbs were well proportioned ; and the only thing of a mas- culine character about her was her hands, which were large, and the flesh extremely hard, owing to the work she performed for so many years.

THE Cohosscum.—This wonder of Cockney land was last week opened to the public: the entire design is not nearly completed, yet even in its im- perfect state, the exhibition attracts numerous parties of holyday loungers, and, barring the frost, which is intense enough to nip curiosity in the bud, it would already have drawn half the sight-seeing population of London to view it. We ourselves being the most candid of journalists, confess, that from some cause known or suspected—the cold weather, perhaps—or the engagements of time season—we have hitherto postponed the examination of time show with our own Spectatorial organs: but, being, kind as well as candid, we advise all who are less busy or more adventurous than we, to take the earliest means of transporting themselves to the Regent's Park, and, (leaving the gardens and waterfalls till spring, and the saloons and promenades till they are finislied,) by means of the aids thereunto provided, place themselves under the Colos- seum's vast dome. They will then look upon London as from the top of St. Paul's. This is both the farthest advanced and infinitely the most striking- portion of Mr. Hornor's great work. We borrow in the mean time, from the Literary Gazette, some account of its dimensions, and of the mechanical diffi- culties attending its exeeption. " In the first place, it is by far the largest picture that ever was painted. The diameter of the circle of canvass is a hundred and thirty-four feet, and it is sixty feet from the floor to the springing of the dome—making about twenty-four thousand square feet : at the bottoin there are nearly four dicusand MOM square feet of caavass eurving inwards; and at the top there are fifteen thousand square ,feet of plaster, on which the sky is represented—forming, in all, a painted superficies of above forty thou. sand square feet! Great, however, as is the size of this leviathan of art, its size is its least recommendation. The effect which it produces upon the spec- tator, when, after he has ascended the first flight of the spiral staircase which is constructed in the middle of the building, and entered the principal gallery, -s-it bursts upon his astonished eye, it is impossible adequately to describe. His first impression is that it is nature—that it is the stupendous scene itself —at which he is looking; and some moments of recollection and reflection are necessary to convince him that he is only mocked with art.' In one respect, the imitation actually tran "Semis the reality. Even on the finest day there is almost always some portion of the immense horizon that ought to be visible from the top of St. Paul's—an horizon of above a hundred and twenty miles in circumference—obscured by mist. Now, in the picture, although there is quite enough of atmosphere and of vapour, not any thing is permitted to be entirely hidden by them ; and it would be necessary to make a number of visits to the top of St. Paul's to obtain as clear and complete a notion of the surrounding objects and country, as that which is here to be acquired at once. There is scarcely a field, or a tree, or a hovel, from which St. Paul's can L s seen, which is not introduced, and not merely introduced, but introduced with a scrupulous attention to accuracy ; and yet, so admirably has the general effect been consulted, that these minute features, instead of injuring, appear to - be essentially beneficial to it. When it is stated that the circle bounding both earth and skies,' starting from Windsor Castle and taking to the right com- prehends Harrow, Hampstead, Highgate, Islington, Hackney, Epping Forest, Bow, Plaistow, the N ore, Shooter's Hill, the Beeches on Madam's Court Hill, Sytlenham, Norwood, Wimbledon, Richmond, and a thousand intermediate places (which are all distinctly visible, if not with the naked eye, with glasses which are kept in the gallery for the purpose,) before it returns to the royal residence,—it will be obvious to every one that it would require a folio volume even to enumerate the myriads of parts of which this immense distance is composed. The nearer buildings are remarkably fine. Of these the new Post-Office is one of the principal ; and is a most elaborate and masterly re- presentation of that beautiful edifice. And this leads us to express our ad- miration of the knowledge and skill with which, on a concave surface, the various lines intended to represent straight forms, have been drawn, so as completely to fulfil the desired purpose. To do this, it is evident that the simple processes of the scene-painter or the architectural draftsman would be quite inadequate. The closest objects are the lofty campanile towers of St. Paul's. On the canvass they are actually forty feet high. * * * * We must now say a few words with respect to the manner in which, and the individuals by whom, this great work, as far as it has hitherto gone, has been accomplished. To Mr. Hornor belongs exclusively the honour of the original conception. The singular ability and fearlessness which he manifested in making his drawings from his little fragile hut, raised upon slight and tottering poles above the elevation of the cross of St. Paul's, his determined perseverence, his 4 hair-breadth 'scapes,' and the ultimate completion of his task, are fresh in the recollection of every reader of the Literary Gazette. Having rendered those drawings as correct as repeated efforts and the best instruments could render them, Mr. Horner proceeded still further to rectify them, by visiting and examining all those features of the extensive scene, respecting the exact form and situation of which he entertained any doubt. Having thus amassed a collection of drawings of unprecedented fidelity and minuteness, the next object was to erect the building of which the picture to be painted from them was to constitute the chief ornament. The building having been erected by Mr. Decinius Burton, the canvass for the picture was prepared by Mr. Baber, who had prepared the canvass for the first of Mr. Barker's panoramas; the subject of which was also a view of London, but from the Albion Mills then standing at the Surrey foot of Blackfriars' Bridge. The dimensions of the can- vass we have already mentioned. It was suspended at the distance, towards the base of the building, of three feet from the wall, all round. The transfer of the outlines from the drawings to the canvass was then undertaken by Mr. E. T. Parris ; a gentleman possessed, not ouly of great talent as an artist, but also of extraordinary ingenuity as a mechanician. By means of squares, Mr. Parris, in December 1825, began to draw it, the outlines with chalk, on a scale sixteen times larger each way, or, in other words, two hundred and fifty- six times the size of the originals. This was a work of much labour, and de- manding close attention ; but it was completed in the following April. The painting (which is in oil) was then commenced. It was evident that Mr. Par- ris's single hand, or rather his two hands (for he is ambidextrous) must be unequal to so extensive an undertaking. Mr. Hornor therefore engaged se- veral artists to assist him. But, although most of them were men of high and • acknowledged powers, yet, owing in a great measure to their being entirely unaccustomed to their new occupation, their progress was slow, and, which was worse, by no means satisfactory. In fact, it was a kind of Dutch concert, in which every performer was playing a distinct and separate tune. Each also was anxious that his allotment, whatever it might be, should he conspicuous ; like some Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, seeking to render his character as prominent and effective as that of Hamlet. One individual, a lover of indepen- dence, and resolved not to be classed with the imitatores, servum pecus, made the smoke from his chimneys proceed in a direction directly opposite to that of his neighbour ; another, an equal admirer of originality, lighted up the building on which he was employed by a sun-beam from the north. The great change, almost amounting to that of enamel colours when they undergo the process of vitrification, which occurred in the apparent hue of the various pigments, according to the situation in which they were placed, was likewise a fruitful source of perplexity. Bricks, that were intended to be red, looked blue; and slates that were intended to be blue, looked. red. By degrees the picture began to assume the appearance of one of those patchwork quilts which show that the industry of our great-grandmothers predominated over their taste. The consequence of all this was, that in several cases it was ne- cessary to re-paint what had been done, and in every instance materially to modify it ; and that, eventually, Mr. Parris, having trained up several house- painters for the purpose, determined, with their assistance in the more labori- MIS parts of the task, to execute the whole himself. The delightfully har- monious result proves the wisdom of his decision. In addition to the nu- merous previous studies of aerial perspective and general effect which Mr. Parris made from St. Paul's itself, to the prodigious extent of surface to be covered, and to the multiplicity and complexity of the objects to be intro- duced, there was the great difficulty of getting at the canvass, in order to be able to paint upon it at all. Here Mr. Parris's mechanical ingenuity became exceedingly serviceable to him. He devised all kinds of light scaffoldings, bridges, and platforms. Sometimes he was supported from the floor by two

or three long and slender spars, which vibrated with every motion of his arm; sometimes he was suspended by cords from the roof, swinging like Shaks-. peare's celebrated samphire-gatherer. On two occasions Mr. Parris fell from, a considerable height ; but fortunately, in neither did he suffer any serious. injury. * * * * The staircase to the panorama ascends from the middle of the Colosseum. Within the column by which that staircase is supported,- is a, small circularchamber, which, by means of machinery, is to be made to ascend. with an imperceptible motion, for the purpose of elevating those visitors who. are too indolent, or who may be unable, to mount by the usual way. There are three galleries, at different heights, front all of which the picture- may be viewed. Nearly at the summit are the identical cross and ball which- were removed from the top of St. Paul's a few years ago, to be replaced by those at present there. Another short staircase then leads to a door which: opens upon the leads of the Colosseum, from which there is an extensive vi:tw oE the Regent's Park, and its beautiful neighbourhood."

DECAY OF BIGOTRY.—On Sunday an organ was used for the first time, its the worship of one of the congregations of Presbyterian Dissenters—the. Relief, at Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh ; the whole congregation joining cheerfully in the psalmody. The introduction of a " box of whistles," as the austere Reformers of Scotland formerly called the organ, into the worship of the National Church, has been often, but unsuccessfully, agitated.

EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MONOPOLY.—At the close of Mr. Buckingham's lectures mil this subject in Liverpool, the Mayor moved the thanks of the au- dience to him. In reply, Mr. Buckingham said, " I began these lectures by expressing my regrets at the difficulty of finding adequate terms in which to acknowledge, as it deserved, your generous and flattering attention. In the course of their delivery, I had frequent occasion to repeat those regrets : but at their termination I have now to say, that of all the painful emotions I have felt for many, many months, the must painful is the excess of pleasure and delight which I feel at this mark of your countenance and approbation. This excess of feeling has so passed all ordinary bounds as to have become absolute torture. It has been said, indeed, by the royal sage, that" out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh ;" but the fulness of the heart, under which I suffer is such as to place a seal upon my lips."

A public meeting is to be held in Liverpool next week, to consider the best means of removing the restrictions on the trade with India and China.

Mr. Abernethy, the celebrated surgeon, is suffering so much from a severe asthmatical attack, that his recovery is considered hopeless.

THE FRENCH REvottrrrox.—The Quotalienne has published a singular in- ventory of the losses, and waste, and destruction caused by this remarkable event. The revolution cost France 8,01,983 men ; in money,16 390,999,729 francs ; and it produced among other things 22,371 laws.

On Tuesday evening, a huissier of the King's household contrived to obtain admission to the ball of the Duchess of Berry, and was dancing with a

daughter of a Marshal of France, very near her Royal Highness, when he was recognized, and turned out of the room. We are assured that he has been suspended from exercising his functions.—Paris Paper.

A boy eleven years of age, living at Avesnis, having rescued a child, nine years old, who was in danger of perishing under the ice in the winter of 1827,

and having subsequently saved the same child front being drowned in a river, the Minister of the Interior granted him a medal, which was delivered to him a few days ago, in the presence of all the civil and military authorities of tho town.—Paris Paper.

Phillippe, the favourite actor of the Nouveautes, has been condemned to pay 10,000fr. damages, should he persist in his refusal to perform the part assigned him by the manager in a forthcoming piece, entitled Jonas in the Whale's Belly.

At Falaise, a few days ago, two brothers laid a wager as to which could drink the greatest quantity of brandy. One of them drank two quarts, hut lost the wager, as the other drank three. The latter immediately threw him- self into a river, from whence he was taken out by some persons pessing at the moment, but life was extinct.

FAST SAILING.—A letter from Havre, of the 2d of January says—" The American packet, Edward Bonaffe has just arrived in our port from New York

in sixteen days. The distance from New York to Havre, in a direct line, is 1,075 leagues ; and, in order to make it in sixteen days, a ship must sail, on the average, 67 leagues in a direct line every twenty-four hours ; which,

taking into account the variable nature of the wind, would suppose a rapidity of 100 leagues a day in certain circumstances, in order to make up for the time during which the wind, becoming either weak or shifting, may delay the progress of the vessel.—Journal des Debuts. MAKING CONVERTS.—A letter from Antwerp, dated 12th January, says- " People belonging doubtless to the Bible Society, are offering in this place four florius a week to such poor persons as are willing to embrace the Pro- testant religion."—Galignanes Messenger.

Pecutarton.—General Pouschkin, Contractor-general of the Russian army, has been put to death for peculation, its consequence of which the troops were in want of provisions.

AMERICAN PRIDE.—We understand that General Jackson will proceed to Washington about the 1st of January, to enter on the discharge of the duties of the" most exalted office in the world," and that "he will ascend the Ohio in a steam-boat, from Louisville, water permitting.".—Louisville Advertiser.

NEW SENSITIVE PLANT OF AUSTRALIA.—Several species of stylidium, par- ticularly stylidium graminifolia, possess a singular irritability of the column

bending over the reflexed lip of the corolla, between the two upright appen- dices. When slightly touched near the base the column suddenly springs up, carrying the anthers and stigma with a quick jerk over to the opposite side

of the flower. If left quiet for a short time, it gradually resumes its former position ; but is ready to spring again when exposed to any sudden irritation, though when irritated too frequently the force of each successive spring be- comes diminished. The use of the mechanism is probably connected with the dispersion of the pollen for the fertilization of the anthers.—New South ;Tales Journal.

NORWEGIAN PATRONYMICS—If a man's Christian name be Robert, all his family, in the first generation, are Robertson's ; and if his eldest boy be baptised John, he is, of course, John Robertson ; and the girls in like man- ner, pro hac vice, Robertsons. When the son grows up and has children, they will all be Johnsons, boys and girls as before ; and so on, changing the family name every generation. If there happen to be three sons in a house, all named, we shall say, Ilenrick, Frederick, and William, there will branch off three separate patronymics from the three brothers, and their children will be

respectively Henricksons, Fredericksons, and Williamsons.

PECULIAR INSTANCE OF GOOD FORTUNE.—The remains of Mrs. Penrice, the widow of Mr. Penrice of Great Yarmouth,Who came to an immense for- tune through the late Lord Chedworth*, were deposited on the 12th instant, with due pomp, in the vault appropriated for the family. As the circumstances attending the bequest of Lord Chedworth are not generally known, we shall relate the singular but true story. Lord Chedworth, the victim of a wicked report, of a nature calculated to affect most materially his Lordship's cha- racter in the eyes of the world, was introduced to the late Mr. Penrice, a respectable apothecary at Yarmouth ; from whose urbane and useful attentions he received that consolation which he in vain sought from his own friends and family. Lord Chedworth in his will, after bequeathing about 40,000/. to one individual, and some other legacies, made Mr. Penrice residuary legatee. Mr. Penrice supposed that this might bring him perhaps 10,000/.; till the in- dividual who had been handsomely remembered, and who was well ac- quainted with his Lordship's affairs, offered him 100,000/. for his expec- tation. Mr. Penrice, with native good sense, unhesitatingly replied, that if it was worth while for any individual to offer such a large sum, it was worth his while to wait the result of the settlement of his Lordship's affairs ; which prudent determination put him in possession of more than 300,000/. Mr. Penrice did not many years enjoy his great fortune ; and at his death it was divided amongst his four children,—Mrs. Barney, Mrs. Fountain, and two sons; leaving his widow 3,000/. per annum for her life, and a sum of 10.000/. at her disposal ; with another sum of 20,000/. expressly to keep up the house at Yarmouth, containing a fine collection of paintings, and a handsome ser- vice of plate, all which now fall to the eldest son.

* An English Baron. The title became extinct in 1804. The family name was Howe.

THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER.—The Times of last Monday surprised its readers by appearing on their breakfast-tables in a sheet of paper double its ordinary dimensions. This Goliah of the printing-house is four feet long and three broad, and bears on its right ample pages a mass of closely printed matter, which, allowing for margin, covers a surface of twenty-two square feet; or, to adopt the formula of the Globe, exceeds by about eighty pages the contents of a good modern octavo vcAume. How greatly the art of newspaper composition has advanced during the last century in this country, (for most of the Continental journals are yet mere scraps of paper,) appears from a copy of The Daily Journal, of January 1st, 1723, now before us,— its size being exactly that of one leaf of our Srecraron ; and the quantity of information presented to its readers by this black and white dwarf of ancient days, estimated by the same scale as the modern giant, scarcely covers one foot. The Times purposes to treat its readers in the same manner occa- sionally during the sesgion, when accumulated advertisements or the interest of public business requires a supplement : and this for something better than the week's wonder of exhibiting " the largest sheet ever printed"—it saves the supplemental stamp-duty of twopence on each copy ; which, on the great circulation of the journal in question, will amount, we presume, to 70/. or 80/. every time.

A LAWYER'S BILL—The Times on Monday presented the typographical phenomenon of "the largest sheet ever printed," but not the largest ever manufactured. The largest sheet of paper ever manufactured, was made by Messrs. Fourdriniers, the patentees for making paper by machinery, and was exhibited in their warehouse: it was three feet wide and four hundred feet long. The patentees might safely work up a good stock of such sheets, as they would, doubtless soon be taken off their hands by the legal profession for the purpose of winding up the accounts of Chancery suits.

MOCK GRANDEUR.—The officers of a parish at the West end of London use for the conveyance of sick paupers to the workhouse, a sedan chair, sur- mounted by an earl's coronet, handsomely carved and gilt.

Ics.—On Monday afternoon, thirty-one carts laden with ice were waiting at one time, to discharge their contents into the cellar of Mr. Hart, the con- fectioner, in the Strand. In consequence of such an accumulation of frigidity, the wholo,neighbourhood was seized with shivering fits.

John Fullerton, Esq. Advocate, has been appointed one of the Judges in the Court of Session, in room of Lord Eldin, resigned—Caledonian Mercury. The will of Johnstone the comedian was last week proved in Doctors' Commons, and probate granted under 12;0004 The value of his real estates is supposed to be very moderate.