JANUARY.

GREAT BRITAIN.

1.-ITURBIDE, ex-emperor of Mexico arrived in London.

The loan contracted by Austria was yesterday brought into the market; the amount is 2,500,000l. for paying off the debt of that government to this country. The price at which the subscribers receive their shares is 82 per cent. to be paid by the 10th of May, in five instalments. The contractors are the houses of Messrs. Baring, Brothers and Co., Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., and Mr. N. M. Rothschild.

6. The consuls and vice-consuls appointed to the independent states in South America, leave England.

Trial of Thurtell, Probert, and Hunt.-The trial of these men came on at the adjourned assizes at Hertford this day. Public curiosity has been greatly excited by the atrocity of their crime, in decoying a friend and companion into the country, under the pretext of a shooting excursion. Probert was admitted evidence for the crown. The criminality of this man was unquestionable: though not an accomplice before the murder, he was confessedly privy to the concealment of the body, consequently of the murder. The trial lasted two days. The evidence was

entirely circumstantial, but so satisfactory that the judge declared he was as clearly convinced they had committed the murder as if he had seen them with his own eyes. Thurtell conducted himself with great firmness; he read his defence; and concluded by calling God to witness his innocence, when his guilt was as clear as the sun at noon! Hunt declined to address the court: the shrinking and effeminate appearance of this man formed a striking contrast to the nerve and fearless demeanour of his ferocious accomplice. During the delivery of the sentence, Hunt covered his face for a short time with his handkerchief. Thurtell was attentive, but did not change countenance, and immediately after, having slightly bowed to the bench, leaned over the bar to speak to some one who was near him.

Pugilistic Contest.-A battle took place on the Worcester race-course, for six hundred guineas and the championship of England, between two prize-fighters, Spring and Langan, which was won by the former, after a severe contest of eighty-four rounds. The assemblage of persons to witness the exhibition amounted to upwards of thirty thousand, for whose accombooths modation temporary erected. During the fight, two of these, on each of which there were from one thousand to one thousand

were

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five hundred persons, gave way: one person was killed, and between thirty and forty wounded.

9. Thurtell. This day, at noon, this unhappy man paid the forfeit of his life in front of the county jail at Hertford. The multitude assembled to witness the execution was immense, and extended, in a dense body, for a furlong on the London road. Between the sentence and the execution, Thurtell declared that he was satisfied that he had justice done him; and met his fate with a firmness and composure worthy of a better cause. A reprieve was received for his wretched fellow-criminal, Hunt, whose doom has been changed to transportation for life.

16. Guy's Hospital.-The formidable operation of removing the thigh at the hip-joint was performed this morning for the first time, by sir Astley Cooper, in the presence of some of the surgeons and pupils belonging to the institution. The limb was removed in the space of twenty minutes, the securing the arteries and dressing occupied fifteen more; the whole was completed in thirty-five minutes. During the operation the patient was extremely faint; but some wine being given him, and fresh air admitted, he recovered. He bore the operation with extraordinary fortitude, and after it was finished, said to sir Astley, "that it was the hardest day's work he had ever gone through;" to which sir Astley replied, "that it was almost the hardest he ever had."

23.-The two largest theatres in Europe, those of Naples and Milan, at this time under the direction of Mr. Glossop, formerly of the Coburg theatre, and a tallow-chandler. 24.-Gambling Houses.-Two persons of the name of Oldfield and Bennett, having been convicted of

keeping common gambling-houses, were this day sentenced by the court of king's bench-Oldfield, for the first offence, of which he had alone been convicted, was sentenced to pay a fine of 500l.; for the next offence, Oldfield to pay a fine of 1,500l. and Bennett 2,0001.; and for the third, to pay each a further sum of 1,500l. and give security for their good behaviour for five years, themselves in 10,000l. and two sureties in 2,000l. each, and to be imprisoned till the fines were paid, and securities found.

A latin MS. by Milton, was discovered at the state-paper office. The subject is religious, and the arguments drawn from the scriptures. There are many hebrew quotations, and the work contains seven hundred and thirty-five pages, many of them closely written, and believed to be in the hand-writing of the poet's nephew, Phillips, with many interlineations in a different hand.

26. The terms of the contract for the Mexican loan were made public. Its amount is 3,200,0002. and is issued at 58 per cent. payable in five instalments. The whole of the revenues of Mexico are security for this loan, and a sinking fund for its redemption is created, to which the sum of 64,000l. is to be applied in the first year, and 32,000%. in each succeeding year, till the ment thereof.

repay

27. The ship-owners' society held their annual meeting at the City of London tavern, the earl of Liverpool in the chair. There were more than three hundred persons present; among them were Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson.

28.-The common-council of London resolve to place in their court a statue of the late patriotic Granville Sharpe.

31.-A silver cup has been presented to Mr. Cobbett, by the proprietors of one-horse carts of Kensington and its vicinity, for his exertions in reducing the turnpike tolls to the amount authorised by law.

Capture of an Algerine corvette of 18 guns, and 120 men, by the English brig Cameleon, of 10 guns, and 75 men, within gun-shot of the batteries of Algiers.

3,0001. has been presented to the Middlesex hospital by an unknown benefactor, for the purpose of establishing a cancer ward.

JAMAICA.

19.-Nine negroes found guilty of a conspiracy to murder the white people. At one of their meetings one of them bled his finger, and having mixed the blood with rum and gunpowder, they all drank of it, taking an oath of secresy and fidelity. Four sentenced to be hanged.

FRANCE.

3. The second council of war assembled on the 29th ult. for the trial of voltigeur Simon, the sentinel who shot M. Honein, on the day of the duke of Angouleme's public entry into Paris. The court after threequarters of an hour's deliberation declared Simon not guilty by a majority of six votes to one. The singularity in this process is the nature of the court before which the accused is brought. A soldier is charged with the murder of an unarmed person in civil life; for this the soldier is tried by a court-martial; that is, citizens have to appeal from the delinquency of one soldier to the equity of many!

The emperor Alexander has testified his attachment to the ultra politics of France, by transmitting the grand cross of the imperial order of

St. Andrew to the present minister for foreign affairs, M. de Chateaubriand, and to the late minister of the same department, M. de Montmorency, to the omission of M. de Villele, the president of the council.

The theatres at Paris in the past year received eight tragedies, twenty-two comedies, one hundred and twenty-two vaudevilles, fourteen comic operas, eight grand operas, and other pieces: in all two hundred and seventeen.

SPAIN.

2. Ferdinand orders a te-deum to be celebrated in all his dominions

in South America, for his happy delivery from the constitutionalists.

RUSSIA.

The emperor has permitted the erection of a monument to the memory of Kosciusko, near Cracow, which has become an object of extreme veneration to the Poles. It is a simple barrow or tumulus, like the sepulchres of the ancients, about three hundred feet in diameter, and one hundred and forty feet in height; and it stands within view of the ancient monuments of Cracus and Wanda, on a low hill near the Vistula, which happens to bear the appropriate name of Bronislawa, or "the defender of glory."

AFRICA.

21.-The British troops on the Gold Coast, about four thousand in number, under the command of sir Charles McCarthy, completely defeated by the Ashantees, above ten thousand strong, and sir Charles, with many other officers, taken pri- . soners and put to death.

FEBRUARY.

FEBRUARY.

GREAT BRITAIN.

4. The recent discovery of a subterraneous labyrinth, by St. Giles's gate, Norwich, has excited great curiosity. The marine shells that have been collected are numerous, a great portion of which are shewn at the door; as are also some coins, which were discovered near the entrance. In one of the finest arches, the name of John Bond, 1571," has been found, written in the style of antique manuscript.

Mr. Canning lays upon the table of the house of commons, a convention between our king and the emperor of Austria, by which the king agrees to receive the sum of 2,500,000l. sterling from the emperor, in satisfaction of the whole of the British claims, amounting to 30,000,000l. sterling.

10. A meeting of the West India proprietors took place in the city, when a petition to the king was unanimously resolved upon, praying him to withhold his sanction from any legislative measure which might affect the colonies, or to pray a full compensation to the planters, if parliament should consider the emancipation of the slaves a national object.

It appears from the quarterly return of the coroner of Manchester, presented last week, that during the preceding three months, out of the numerous cases of death, no less than twenty-nine have been owing to drunkenness, and twenty-six to drowning, caused by the effects of intoxication.

Samples of wheat, for which this time last year only 34s. per quarter were offered, were sold at Canter

bury market, on Saturday se'nnight, at 80s. per quarter.

11.-India house.-A meeting of the proprietors of East India stock had been convened to consider the changes necessary in the academic institution at Haileybury; but, before the business of the day commenced, sir John Doyle put the following questions to the chairman, William Wigram, esq.- Whether an embezzlement of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds had not been discovered against the marquis of Hastings-whether they had not refused him five thousand pounds a year on that account-whether they did not intend to impeach him? To these questions several directors answered in the negative; but the chairman pertinaciously refused any reply, on the ground of irregularity. În consequence of the agitation of this question a great tumult took place, and the business of the day was adjourned for a fortnight.

12.-A society instituted at Glasgow, for the purpose of paying the expenses of persons prosecuted for libel.

A general meeting of the directors and proprietors of the auction mart; when it was resolved to establish a reading-room.

14. At the present market price of silver, 48. 11d. per oz., the crown, or 58. piece, is worth 4s. 6d.; the shilling 10d.; the sixpence, 5d. The value of the penny, at the market price of copper, 951. per ton, is d.

15.-Liberty of the press.-The cause of Mr. Clement argued before the court of the duchy of Lancaster, in regard to the extraordinary step of levying the fine of five hundred pounds imposed on him for publishing the trial of Thistlewood and his accomplices, contrary to an order of the court.

Count

Count Schulenburg, a Hanoverian nobleman, run over and killed by a gentleman's carriage in Chandos

street.

17.-Brewers and publicans. The attorney-general has given an opinion, that all publicans who are under bond to take the beer they retail of a common brewer, can be considered in no other light than as hired agents, with three months' notice to quit, according to the obligation of the bond; and that the com`mon brewer who sells his beer under such conditions is, in fact, a retail brewer, to all intents and purposes, and not entitled to the allow

ances.

Police of Ireland.-In Maryborough gaol alone, there are at present fourteen policemen for trial at the next assizes, on charges of mur der, and other unjustifiable acts, in performance of their duty.

19. The privy council were engaged this morning in an appeal from the French commissioners' decision, in which 150,0007. is at issue, arising from the bankruptcy which took place some years since in the extensive house of Boyd, Benfield, and Kerr, and which was the cause of a number of other failures. The same parties recovered 100,000l. some time since under similar circumstances. The pleadings were principally in French. The deci sion was postponed to a future day. 20.-The court of common council, on the motion of Mr. Slade, agreed to petition parliament to ap propriate a portion of the coal duties for the local improvement of the metropolis.

A prospectus of a Greek loan of 800,0001. brought forward under the sanction of the Greek committee. The national property of Greece generally, the custom-house revenues,

22.-Despatches arrived at the admiralty from captain Spencer, an nouncing the unsatisfactory termina tion of the negociation with Algiers, and the capture of an Algerine cor vette, on board of which were seventeen Spaniards, whom the Algerines were carrying into slavery.

A trigonometrical survey of Ire land in contemplation. It is proposed that a party of artillery should accompany the engineers, as some surveyors taking points on the coast of Ireland a short time before had been mistaken for custom-house officers, and most brutally ill treated. 28. Preparations making at Portsmouth for a naval expedition against Algiers.

Lancashire. New works, containing seven hundred and fifty thousand spindles are contracted to be finished next September: of these, six thousand spindles are for England, and one hundred and fifty thousand for Scotland. They will spin fifteen million pounds of yarn in a year. The state of the cotton manufactures, as respects the weaver, is rapidly changing: looms moved by mechanical power are becoming every day more common; it is computed that as many of them are already erected in England and Scot

land,