SIR EDWARD Comustorom—Sir Edward Codrington, whom the John Bull has

sent to "the coast of Holland," has arrived here for the winter —Brighton Gazette.

TRADE.—A large mercantile failure of a house, chiefly engaged in the West-India trade, was announced on 'Change on Monday.

Daly Pemce Banuscw.s.—The triumphal arch at Hyde Park has been given up, by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to the Commis- sioners of the Metropolitan Police, for the purpose of being converted into a police-barracks or station-house. A sergeant's party, consisting of twenty men, has already taken possession of the left wing.

THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.—A letter from Broadstairs, dated Sunday, says—" At a quarter before two o'clock, the squadron lately collected in the Downs, got under weigh ; at three they passed this town, in their way up Channel ; and now (four o'clock), the leading ships, having cleared the Goodwin, are dropping away to the eastward, from the North Sandhead Light. There can, therefore, be little doubt that the squa- dron is destined for the Scheldt. The wind is fair, W.S.W., but light. The squadron would therefore without difficulty, if there is no change, reach Flushing with the morning's tide." The vessels are the Talavera, Revenge, and Wellesley, line-of-battle ships ; Curaeoa, Galatea, Tri- bune, and Stag, frigates; Imogene, Brisk, Recruit, and Falcon, gun- brigs ; and Tweed sloop of war.

FRANCE AND BELOIU3L—A highly-finished medal has been struck off in Paris, to commemorate the intervention of France in the defence of Belgium. The medal presents on one side the King's head bound with a crown of oak, and surrounded by the following words :—" Louis Philippe I., King of the French ;" on the other, " The French army, under the command of Marshal Gerard, rushed to the assistance of the Belgians."

WHAT'S IN A NAME ?-31t. D. Ronayne, while addressing the assem- blage at the Waterford Reform meeting, said, " If we but once get Re- form, we shall soon see an end to dui Vestry and the Subletting Acts." At that moment a man called out " the pikes, the pikes, Mr. Ronayne, don't forget the pikes," so long and loudly as altogether to put a stop to Mr. Ronayne's speech. Mr. It at last asked him what he meant, when the man answered, " the turnpikes, the turnpikes, won't you put an end to the turnpikes g "—Dublin Morning Register. PROTESTANT CuaarrY.—The rector of Rathdrum has addressed to the parish=priest, on the occasion of the funeral of a female named Phillips, the following notice :—" My churchyard is very small, and my Pro- teatini. flock numerous. I do not, therefore, usually allow Roman holies or strangers to be interred therein ; however, I shall not object to Esther 'Phillips, as her husband is a Protestant parishioner ; but I shall ;not permit any Roman Catholic ceremonies to be performed on the oc- casion." [The churchyard's being small, is a curious reason for for- bidding Roman Catholic ceremonies.] TERM TIME.—Wednesday being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Judges breakfasted with Lord Tenterden, instead of the Lord .Chaneellor,. who is out of town. Mr. Williams and Mr. Holt having been appointed King's Counsel, took their seats within the bar of the .Cettrtof King's Bench on Wednesday. PAL:mita QUI MERUIT FERAT h—It is said that the Lisbon mail, the letters by which were delivered on Tuesday, brought the insignia of a Portuguese Order, and an autograph letter from Don Miguel, as a mark of respect to the Marquis of Londonderry. ADVANTAGE OF A PARLIAMENT.—A French writer remarks, that "such is the respect of the English for their Parliament, that, when it is sitting,

crimes are extremely rare ; but as soon as it rises, the papers are filled with accounts of the most horrible atrocities." Simple as this observa- tion appears, there is some truth at the bottom of it. Many crimes in society are the result of that craving for mental stimulus which is so marked a feature in human nature. if every man had an interest in the representation, there seems no doubt that Parliament would furnish that stimulus, and thus prevent it from being sought in criminal courses.

ENGLISH CHOLERA.—On the 26th of October, a case occurred at New- castle, of which the symptoms were precisely those described by Sir

Henry Halford,—great prostration of strength, lips and face livid, dis- charge of matter like thin gruel, spasms of the lower extremities, skin deadly cold, weak intermitting pulse, death. Three doctors certify the case and the symptoms, but declare it to have been one of English cho- lera. Query—as it is evidently impossible to distinguish, in such in- stances, the English from the foreign, by what tests are we to distin- guish the foreign from the English ?

THE NEW GAME ACT.—A butcher at Saffron Walden has fixed the following prices for his game :—pheasants, Cs., partridges, 3s. per brace ; a hare, 2s. Gd. A noble lord in the neighbourhood has promised him a good supply.

LABOURS OF LOVE.—According to the year's return, there are 60 tra- velling preachers, nearly 200 local preachers, and 12,355 members of the

Methodist Episcopal aurch, in Canada. Each travelling preacher preaches on an average 25 sermons a month ; thus the travelling preachers preach 1,500 sermons in a month. The local preachers, per- haps, preach 900 sermons a month ; so that if this estimate be correct, 2,400 sermons are delivered to the people of Upper Canada every month, besides the other public and private duties of the ministry, the labours of exhorters and class leaders, Sunday school teachers, &c.—Canada Paper.

OSSIFICATION:A native of the Isle of Man has lately, by a rare but most rapid process, become one continuous bone throughout his entire frame. This unfortunate and truly pitiable creature, who drags out a miserable existence in Dublin, is, probably, the only specimen of general ossification of the joints living. John Hunter gave 100 guineas for a skeleton, in which a similar process had taken place.

THE Bisuors sru.i..—The Archbishop of Canterbury has for some time past been expected to consecrate the new Northgate Church in

this city, but the ceremony has hitherto been deferred, it is said, from prudential considerations. The Archbishop's opposition to the Reform Bill has greatly disgusted the inhabitants of Canterbury and its vici- nity.—lient Herald. BOARD or HEALTH.—The Lords of the Privy Council have ap- pointed Drs. Babington and Roupel to be the medical officers of the - Board of Health, established by the Court of Common Council, to watch over the health of the Metropolis.—Times. [Without questioning the

skill of Drs. Babington and Roupel, we think the Lords of the Privy Council would have done well to associate two such gentlemen as Dr. Johnson and Mr. Kennedy with them. Both have shown that they are intimately conversant with the disorder ; nor is it any discommendation

of either that their theories of its contagiousness are different. The Lords of the Privy Council, however, we suppose, like the worthy Chan-

cellor of the Exchequer, do not read—they have no time. Certain it is, when we ask for the reason of their resolves, we have most commonly to ask again.]

ANCIENT DRUIDS.—Among the most curious effects of Sir Charles Wetherell's visit to Bristol, is his intended expulsion from this society. A motion has been formally made to that purpose. ENERGETIC MEASURES.—On Saturday last, a couple of workhouse boys were sent, by order of one of the dignitaries of the Church, round the town of Dereham with a mop and pail, to wash from the walls the ominous words " Reform," "Pay no tithes; "Down with the Bishops."—East Anglian. [We do not know what 'farther steps are meditated, but one mop, one pail, and two whole boys, against the people of England, indi- cate something very serious.]

ToaAcco.—The actual value of all the tobacco, exclusive of any pro- portion smuggled, annually consumed in the United Kingdom, does not exceed 350,000/. ; while the revenue derived from foreign tobacco amounts to 2,800,000/. a year—eight times the sum.