REPUBLICAN TRANQUILLITY.-An American paper, on the autho- rity of ship

arrivals, mentions that in Mexico, General Guerrero, the Revolutio-tary leader, had gained a victory over the Government troops, near Acapulco, of whom foar hundred were killed ; that an extensive conspiracy had been recently detected in the capital, the object of which was to murder Bustamente, the President ; that the roads were still in-. fested with banditti, though not quite so much as formerly ; but that in every other respect-that is, saving always civil war in the provinces, plots in the capital, and robbery and murder everywhere-tranquillity prevailed throughout the republic !

POLICE OF NEW SOUTH WALES.-The latest accounts from the settlement say that persons in gigs are afraid to pass from Sydney to Paramatta even daring the day, unless in company with the stage-

coaches. Other things as well as robberies seem to be on the increase in the colony. An account of a sale of land on the Paramatta Road, for

8254 which cost a short time ago but 1801., concludes with recording the destruction, by a constable, of a serpent eight feet and a half lung ;- which is longer by half a foot than any that has been hitherto killed either by constable or magistrate. DIAMOND CUT Dramosp.-The Sydney Monitor contains a notice of

six actions brought against parties who had libelled the proprietors and editor of that journal, in five of which they have recovered damages and costs. The actions were brought the moment that the statute came into

operation by which the committee of seven officers, who used to act as jurymen, were declared illegal, and all questions at law left to be decided by juries indifferently chosen. The juries in the actions of the Monitor were special, by the express desire of the parties prosecuted. Two of the actions were against magistrates-one against the Rev. Mr. Scott, late

Archdeacon of New South Wales, and three against a clergyman named

Mansfield, who edits the .S'ydney Gazette. Under the ancient form of administering the law, the editor of the Monitor had been subjected to ten prosecutions in the course of eighteen months. "his Excellency," says he, speaking of these actions, " having gone through his list, it at length became our turn." YORK MINSTER.-In clearing away the rubbish from the interior of the organ screen last week, the workmen came to the foundation of the

walls of an ancient choir. These walls are six feet eight inches thick, and run from east to west, passing the pillars of the lantern tower; a portion of them having been cut away to admit the bases of those pillars. They are composed of rough granite and coarse sand-stone. This dis- covery proves that the old choir was much longer westward, and liar- rower from north to south, than the present one. More of the walls

have been discovered, tending eastward ; they have been traced to a

considerable distance, and have been found to return in a cross or transept form to the north and south. The returns are of perfect ashlar, and adorned with bases, columns, and capitals, of the Norman style of architecture. In 1070, Archbishop Thomas rebuilt the choir on a nobler scale than that on which it was erected, previous to that period; and it is conjectured, with every appearance of probability, that these walls, &c. are the remains of his erection. The workmen are still making ex- cavations, and the result will no doubt be highly interesting to the anti. quary.-Leeds Intelligencer.

SEEING AND NOT SEEING.-The following bit of sublimity is running- the course of the journals.-" The heavenly phenomenon. of an eclipse of

the moon, which took place on Thursday night, was altogether invisible in the metropolis, owing to the overcast state of the sky. The moon. was not seen at all ; and to us, therefore, who could not witness the

phenomenon, there remained only the gloomy prospect of a total eclipse, not only of the moon, but of all the other sublime objects of the heavens."

A CONSIDERATE Hussastro.-An old man died lately, in a solitary house not far from Callender, in Scotland ; there being none but himself and his wife in the cottage at the time. A few minutes before his de- parture, to the astonishment of his helpmate, lie raised him up in bed, took off his night-clothes, which he deposited at the foot of the bed ; and observing that his wife was ignorant of the manner of streeking corpse (laying.out a dead body), he deliberately proceeded to place him- self in the proper position, and then .bidding her farewell, calmly ex..

pired ! •

ENGLISH NUNS.-A young woman, the daughter of a respectable Roman Catholic gentleman in Axminster, took the veil last week, in the Franciscan nunnery at Taunton. We need not of course observe, that though, in this country, any one may take the veil, any one may put it off again when she pleases. As long as these associations are sanctioned by no law, their repression within due bounds may be safely left to the feelings of human nature and the common sense of society. THE CHURCH AND THE DissmerEns.—The Bedford Mercury says that a clergyman in that neighbourhood has come to a determination not to permit Dissenters to be interred in the parish church-yard. What -next?

IRISH Prroleactrr.—At the trial of a butcher of Downham in Lan- cashire, on Saturday last, for stealing .a cow, there was some difficulty in identifying the skin ; but the owner swore boldly to it, from some hurts that were in it. "He was sure it was his cow, for she was an Irish -cow, and had been fighting the day before she was stolen."

Consoles MODE OF CHALLENGING A JURY.—An officer, not very conversant in law terms, was lately tried for an assault. As the Jury were coming to be sworn, the Judge, addressing the Major, told him that if there were ally amongst them to whom he had any objection, that was the time to challenge them. "I thank your Lordship," said the gallant prisoner, "but, with your Lordship's permission, I'll defer that ceremony till after my trial ; and if they don't acquit me, by the Piper of Leinster I'll challenge every mother's son of them."—Dublin Morning Register. [Joe Miller," howsomever."] RIGHT or BREWING.—Many contradictory opinions having been prevalent, as to whether persons taking out a license under the new Beer Bill will be allowed to brew their own ale, a professional gentleman has taken the opinion of an eminent barrister on the subject, and he states positively "that the new Act is merely to enable persons to vend ale; but any one taking out a common brewer's license, and a retail license under the new Bill, will undoubtedly have a right to brew and sell his own ale."—.1.iforning Post. GEORGE THE FOURTH'S RINGS AND SNUFF BOXES.—It is said that the trinkets of the late King have been valued by Rundell and Bridge at 205,000/. ! His present Majesty retains the whole. A LAKE or GENEVA.—The Furet de Londres says—" There was consumed in England last year twenty-four millions (!) gallons of gin. Au amateur has calculated that had this immense quantity of liquor escaped from the barrels, it would have formed a river a yard deep, twenty yards wide, and five miles in length."