A memorial from the ieliabitants of Margate has been presented
to the Lords Commisek,mes of tile :1dmira1ty, on the subject of that port being selected as a refeete-lentlemr. It sets forth, " that during the recent storm, the Clan liee, 000 tons, from Madras, laden with rice,
indigo, and en: ton, lied the Westminster, 51 tons, from Singapore, laden with tea, are bolli stranded on tlte very site of the harbour pro- posed by the Parliamentary Committee ''; its,, " that a third vessel of equal calibre was drifting into the same bay," supposed to he the Equi- valent, of t;uutlerland, new on shore met,: Kingsgate. The object of the memorial is to 1,ring before their Lordships' attention these instances of the proof' of the propriety of' the situathm proposed by the Parlia- mentary Com etisLeitis, or of the neighbourhood adjoining, for the reception et the pleas eed herbour of refuge ; as the three vessels thus lost would, iii tilt prolability, have been sheltered and saved, had such a harbour been in existence.
Alderman Thoinp ten has purchased the estate of Underley, in West- moreland ; which eeteti,:s of about :1,f eet ecres of land with a splendid
umnsion, and w the pa: patty of -Mr. Noel.
Mtet. Pael;:e. e I 1,a, !a mm appeinted tvet-nurse to the Prineess
Royal, is a le t: ,,t• s. sit: wirs well known as Aliss
Augusta Cow. td,e is of Ltet Nathaniel Cow, of thisti city, and gre,el.leeel,t-r i,f the celehrate,l Neil Cow. Airs. Packer studied music :It Cle It -yal Academy, London, with the view of be- coming a pub lie Si! et— ; in which character she appeared here at several concerts., Mrs. feeler has, or at least had, a splendid figure ; and no doubt possesses en the Ttali Ii eat i arts requisite for the proper performauce of the duties of' her important (Ada—Scotsman.
A correspnwlent of the Tinos from Nuremberg, in a late number, talks of a pied: of seulidere reresenting the "English reeling"
iu-
stead of the "Greeting of the Angels,"—the word in German for " english " and "angel" being the same. A recent number of a Paris paper, the Itfoniteur Jades (reel, in translating a paragraph from a London journal relative to Mr. Stephenson, the distinguished engineer, calls him M. Stephen, fi/s,—signifying in English, Mr. Stephen, junior.
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