We understand that the Bazaar about to be held in
aid of the funds of the " Society for the relief of Foreigners in Distress," will derive a large supply, of fancy articles from the ladies of the Continent. This valuable charity is applicable to cases which are excluded from the relief of our poor-laws, and has often saved from the severest misery persons who have introduced the arts of their own country into ours. The Queen has kindly consented to patronize the Bazaar. Mr. O'Connell is now eating his commons at Lincoln's Inn, to enable him to practise at the English Dir.—Limerick Chroniek.
Vauxhall Gardens opened on Wednesday evening.
One of the reporters of the Times was charged by Lord Roden in the House of Peers, on Monday, with fabricating a reply from the Earl of Suffolk to some remarks of the Bishop of -Durham respecting the purification of the Church. He has consequently written to the Times to say, that he has Lord Suffolk's authority for asserting that his report was substantially correct. No formal reply, it seems, was given by Lord Suffolk ; but he uttered a few words which were audible in the Gallery, to the same effect as those attributed to him by the reporter. This turns the tables upon the Earl of Roden, who represented Lord Suffolk as having been completely silenced by the Bishop.
New York papers, to the 11th ult., contain a long account of a most gross assault committed on the person of the President by a Lieutenant Randolph. It appears that the President and a large party were proceeding on board a steam-boat to witness the first stone of a monument being laid in memory of the mother of General Washington, at Alexandria. Lieutenant Randolph went on board ; and after accusing the President of having ruined his prospects by having dismissed hum from the Navy and maligning his character, seized the President by the nose, which he pulled until the blood flowed. He was seized and carried on shore, after having been struck by several who were in attendance upon the President. The occurrence had naturally created much observation ; and a public meeting was immediately called at Alexandria, to address the :President upon the occasion.
A New York Paper contains the following account of the dishonour of a bill of exchange drawn by the Government of the United States on the French Treasury. It is a very singular transaction.
"The first instalment of 5,000,000 of francs under the French treaty of indemnity. having fallen due, our Secretary of the Treasury avails himself of the funds, as he had a good right to do, by the mercantile process of a bill of exchange. The bill was negotiated by the Bank of the United States, and remitted to Baring. Brothers. and Co., who sent it over to Paris for acceptance and payment. It was prt;sented at the French Exchequer ; but the Chambers not having made a specific appropriation for the purpose. it could not be paid with mercantile promptness, and was dealt with according to the custom of merchants, and protested. Hottengeor and Co., however, to protect the mercantile honour of the United States Bank, p.tid the 5,000,000 of francs, and so took the bill out of the hands of the agents of Baring, Brothers, and Co.; but the United States Government having no friend at hand to protect it by the same liberal process, the bill has come back with the protest against them, and is. we presume, entitled to damages of 10 per cent. We do not see that blame can be attached to any one in the transaction, unless it be to some departments of the French Government for not having carried the business through the necessary forms at an earlier period. The affair is not attributable in the least to any hesitation on the part of that Government to carry the treaty into full effect."
England is about to possess one of the finest rooms, and the largest and most powerful organ in Europe. What the other qualities of the latter will be, remains to be proved. But the metropolis of the king
dom will not have to boast of these advantages ; the credit of them will belong to a provincial town, to Birmingham, where a town-hall is nearly finished, the interior of which is 140 feet long, 65 wide, and 65 high. In this is to be placed—chiefly for the use of the Musical Festivals there to be held for the benefit of the General Hospital—the organ alluded to ; the following description of which accompanies a lithographic print of the gigantic instrument now building. The organ case will be forty feet wide, and forty-five feet high. The largest metal diapason pipe is to be five feet three inches in circumference, and thirty-five feet in height. The largest wood diapason. pipe will measure in the interior upwards of two hundred cubic feet. In the full organ are to be ten open diapasons, and all the other parts, must be in calculated proportion to this. There will be sixty drawstops, and five sets of keys. To supply so stupendous an instrument with wind, will require many sets of bellows, the whole superficial measure of which will exceed three hundred and eighty feet. And to give, if it can be fairly estimated, some further idea of the magnitude of this organ, it may be stated, that its weight will amount to upwards of forty tons. It was intended to open this grand ball, and still i
grander organ, n the autumn of the present year ; but to prevent any injurious haste in the completion of the building and of the instrument, the grand Musical Festival, which will prove to the county of Warwick that it possesses one of the most splendid rooms, and the most magnificent organ in the world, is deferred till October 1834.— Harnionicon for June.
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