It appears by - a return laid before the House of
Commons, that the House has expended for printing Parliamentary papers, within the last eight sessions only, no less a sum than 373,116/. 5s. 2d.
The will of the late Mr. Mori, of Bond Street, has just been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by the executors. The per- sonal property of the deceased has been sworn tinder the value of 16,000/. ; which the testator has bequeathed to his three daughters
The proprietors of the Great Western steamer are about to build a ship of iron, of about two thousand tons tonnage, with engines of a thousand horse power!—Globe, Last evening, a report was very extensively circulated in the City, that the British Queen had been lost, and that all on board had pe- rished. This, on inquiring at the American Coffeehouse, we found to have been circulated without any foundation. The British Queen had been spoken to on the 25th ult., in lat. 25, and no arrivals have since taken place to justify such a rumour. A report of a similar kind had been circulated at an early hour of the day in reference to the Great Western, and in about two hours afterwards the same report was circu- lated with respect to the British Queen, but it appears that there is no truth in it as regards either. A large wager, it appears, depends upon the arrival of these two vessels in port, and this, perhaps, may in some degree account for the circulation of the rumour referred to.—Morning Pest.
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