The first Cabinet dinner takes place on Monday, at Mr. Stanley's.
Lord Grenville has again been attacked by apoplexy ; and, from the state in which it has left him, he is considered to be in the greatest danger.—Morning Chronicle.
From a correspondence between Mr. Ewing, the Provost and Member for Glasgow, and Mr. Charles Grant, it appears, that although ves sels cannot ostensibly clear out and sail from this country for China before the 22d April 1834, still they might immediately proceed to Sincapore, or any other settlement, so as to enter the ports of China on that very day, if practicable, and take in a cargo of tea.
Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey has been appointed one of the solicitors for the distribution of the twenty millions granted as compensation to the slaveholders in the West Indies.—Globe. The Times contradicts this report, and says that Mr. Vizard will be appointed. This is most likely : Mr. Vizard is useful to the Chancellor, and (perhaps a better reason) he has already too much.
The first stone of the works for the formation of the London and Greenwich Railway will be laid during the present month, with great ceremony ; a number of distinguished individuals being invited to honour it with their presence.
As the law stands, manufactured foreign bread can be admitted into this country upon an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. Baking-houses might be established at Calais, for instance, and daily supplies sent from thence by steam to London, and sold at a much cheaper rate than it can be made for here. Such establishments have been long busily employed at Hamburg and Dantzic in making biscuit, which comes here in bond, for the use of our shipping employed in foreign voyages.
A law has recently been passed in France, which ought to interest the people of this country, as it is closely copied from their own. We allude to the law Sur texpropriation pour cause d'utilite publique. Before the passing of this law, when the property of an individual was wanted for public purposes, the amount of compensation was fixed by theCourts under the advice of experts; henceforth it will be fixed by a jury of twelve, as in England. This law is also remarkable as being the first introduction of juries in matters of a civil nature in Fraece.— Law Magazine.
Mademoiselle Dosne, the daughter of the Receiver-General of the department of Finisterre, attained her fifteenth year on Tuesday ; and was married to M. Thiers, Minister of Commerce. The lady is small, pretty, and above all very rich, having, it is said, a fortune of 2,000,000 franes.—French Paper. M. Thiers is a remarkably small man.— Times.
The combinations among the working classes of France may be taken as evidence of general prosperity in the country. The begging system continues on the high roads, because there it has become a regular trade. There are beggars on certain roads who possess freehold houses and fields and gardens, and who derive an income of from 3,000 to 6,000 francs a year from their property. But in the principal towns, and in Paris in particular, where nothing is to be got by begging, you never see a beggar in the streets. Indeed, so great is the demand here for all descriptions of work, that you never meet with a man who is not engaged in some profitable occupation. Manual labour is much dearer than in any other city in the world, which is proof enough of the scarcity of hands. If you have only a few nails to drive into any part of your house, you are obliged to wait sometimes whole days for the "job," and you are required to pay no small quantity of francs for its execution. The natural effect of this general pros. perity is a rise in all the necessaries of life, insomuch that living in Paris is no longer found to be less expensive than it is in London. Even house-rent, which had so much fallen after the Revolution of 1830, is now, in certain parts of the town, as high as it is in London. In the immediate neighbourhood of the Bourse especially, the most .extravagant prices are asked for apartments. A great number of new "louses have been built, and are still in the course of building in that quarter. They are invariably let before they are finished, and occuIded before they are dry.—Correspoodent cf the rms. The working jewellers of Paris have struck for a diminution of an hour in their day's work, and have demanded a charter. 'I be journeymen tailors of Mans have imitated the conduct of their brethren in the capital, and the working men of different trades in many of the provincial towns have followed the example. The journeymen blacksmiths and joiners of Caen have formed combinations for compelling their masters to reduce their day's work by one hour ; and some of them have gone so far as to visit the workshops in a body. threatening those who should not leave off work at the hour they had fixed. Many of the men, however, have refused to join the combination, and others have left the town ; so that no great fear is entertained of any serious consequences from these proceedings. The tailors of Frankfort have declared for a Republic. A man who had been shouting a "Republic for ever !" in one of the principal streets, being taken into custody along with a tailor's apprentice and some of his comrades, and subsequently expelled the city for their misconduct, a great number of journeymen tailors espousing their cause and embracing their _principles, have also refused to return to their work.— Galignani's Messenger.
A faux pas has recently occurred at Berlin, which, from the high rank of the lady and her noble birth, and hitherto amiable qualities, has caused much regret to the numerous circle in this country by whom she was known and esteemed. The Princess alluded to is distantly connected by-birth with an illustrious lady in this country.—Morning Herald.
An honest Swiss journeyman watchmaker at Besancon, having several watches to mend for his master, put all of them into pawn, taking care to quit Besancon the same night. On leaving, he had the extreme
delicacy to send the duplicates to his employer, with the folloe note —" Sir, having pawned your watches in order to have some money, I should think myself wanting in my duty as an honest man, if I did not send you these duplicates."—Fretich Paper.
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