productive on such ; but the warm and good lands are of the highest promise. The growth of spring wheat is full as considerable as last year.

The spring crops promise a general abundance, with the exception of some barley and oats, which have been blighted probably as well by the lightning as the chills and variable weather. Pease and beans will be a full crop potatoes an extraordinary one. It is said the potatoe crop in Lancashire has been for several years overdone, much undrained and improper land be ing applied to that purpose, to the great deterioration of the quality of the Lancashire root. Hops will be an universal crop, and fruit most abundant. Some little damage has been done to the rutabaga, by the stag or fly. English turnips will be rather a late season. ably.

The lands work admir

Fat beef uncommonly dear-store cattle somewhat cheaper, the grass going off..

In Ireland and Wales, the seasons have been wet, cold, and backward, probably near a month behind the southern parts of England. In France, and generally upon the continent, the present, it is said, will be the most productive year of the last ten.

FASHIONS. Walking Dress.-A pelisse of pale pink sarsnet lined with white, and ornamented with rich silk Brandenburg trimmings of correspondent pink or pale brown; a high standing ruff round the throat; a Persian mantle of pale blue, or white, thrown over the dress. A basket hat of straw, ' ornamented with a demi-wreath of halfblown roses.. Shoes of blue kid; gloves of York tan.

Parisian Ball Dress.A frock of white crape, ornamented with white satin in a leaf pattern, the bottom of the dress trimmed with pale French roses and a plaiting of green and root, coloured ribband mixed; short bell

sleeves; Persian fringed sash, long white kid gloves; stockings much embroidered, and hair plaited, and twist ed with a double row of pearls.

General Observations.-The hair is now worn strained back from the side of the face, twisted behind, and brought round the head on one side and confined in full round curls, the front hair is curled in thick flat curls. Orna mental combs are not much worn: pearl wreaths are considered as remark ably elegant. Many ladies have nothing on their heads. The prevailing colours for the season are yellow, deep green, blue, pink, lilac, and amber,

JULY.

3d. CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION, -This morning the Chancellor finish. ed his visitations to the several colleges; and about one o'clock walked through the great court of Trinity College, from whence the balloon as cended, in order to inspect the operation of filling it, and afterwards as cended the top of the turret of the great gate, from whence he viewed the spectacle. He was dressed in his scarlet robe, with a military cocked-hat, and was accompanied by his usual suite. The balloon, which had long been on view at the Tennis Court, was early this morning removed to Trinity Great Court, and the operation of filling it went on till two o'clock.

The morning was one continued drizzle of rain, with some wind to the N. E. Mr Sadler intended that his two daughters should ascend with him, had the weather been fine; that not being the case, however, the second seat in the balloon was at the service of any gentleman, at the price of 100 guineas. It was reported that Dr Clarke, who has made many extensive travels on terra firma, had purchased

the vacant privilege of this aerial excursion; but Lieutenant Paget, of the royal navy, was the gentleman who concluded the treaty with Mr Sadler for sailing in the air instead of on the ocean. At a quarter past two, Mr Sadler and Lieutenant Paget were seated in the balloon, which had some difficulty in getting under weigh. At length it was the aeronautic captain's opinion, that the vessel would not carry a lieutenant as well as himself; and Mr Paget reluctantly stepped out of the car. At about twenty-one minutes after two o'clock, Mr Sadler having his grappling-irons and ballast on board, the balloon rose, and immediately crossed the south side of Trinity Great Court, and over King's College Chapel. The aeronaut waved his hat, and was cheered with the acclamations of the spectators, every heart beating with anxiety for his safety. The balloon moved towards the south, steadily and beautifully rising gradually, or with a slight impulse as Mr Sadler threw out ballast. It remained in sight about two minutes, when a cloud enveloped it, and withdrew it from the view of the enraptured spectators, with as much quickness as the curtain falls upon an interesting scene of a play. At this moment the spectators gave Mr Sadler a farewell cheer of encouragement and satisfaction. It was his intention to remain suspended in the air only for 48 minutes.

4th.-COURT OF ARCHES, DOCTORS' COMMONS.-Newbury v. Goodwin. This case came before the court on the admission of the libel: it was a suit promoted by Mr Newbury against the Rev. Mr Goodwin, curate of the parish church of Heathfield, in the county of Sussex, for irregularity at the communion-table, and for chiding, quarrelling, and brawling in the church. It appeared that the Rev. Mr Goodwin, on reading a chapter in the 1st Book of Kings, appointed for

the day, left out a part of a verse thereof, and immediately observed to the following effect :-" I have been accused by some ill-natured neighbours of making some alteration in the service: I have done so now, and shall do so again when I find it necessary." That he also observed, on administering the sacrament to an old man who came to receive the same-" Does not your conscience prick you? You are rich, and suffer your son to come to the parish for relief;" or words of the like purport. The learned judge (Sir John Nicholl) in this case admitted the articles of the libel; at the same time observed, that the reverend gentleman would do well to consider, under the advice of his counsel, whether he would act prudently and discreetly in defending this suit.

On Saturday se'nnight, were committed to Devon High Gaol, Jane Cox and Arthur Tucker, for the wilful murder of a child about fourteen months old. The deceased was illegitimate, and was fathered on Mr Tucker, who paid weekly allowance towards its maintenance, and was kept by the mother of the girl who bore the child. The woman committed for the murder called the beginning of the week, and, in seeming fondness for the infant, took it away, as it were, for an airing, and after some time brought it back to its grandmother in such a horrid state, that it died in a few hours. On opening the body, there was arsenic enough found in the internal parts to have poisoned several persons. Upon examina-* tion, Jane Cox confessed she gave the child a pill of arsenic about the size of a marble; that the child vomited and brought up some part of it, and was in dreadful agonies, and when it seemed a little free from its convulsions, she carried it home; that she was prompted to it by Mr Tucker, a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Hatherleigh, who has eight child

ren, and was to receive a one-pound note for the deed. The poison was left in Mr Tucker's sheep-pen, from whence she had it. She has since lamented implicating Mr T., saying she did not mind herself, but was sorry she had injured him.

On Monday last, Mr Samuel Foote, solicitor, at Salisbury, went with some gentlemen, assignees under a commission of bankruptcy, under which Mr Foote also was employed, to take the inventory of the bankrupt, a druggist of that city, and in moving some of the bottles, and putting them down from the shelves to ascertain their contents, he with his right hand took the stopper from one in particular, of a large size, which he held in his left hand, when the bottle immediately exploded with a tremendous shock, shattering and carrying away the left arm, which held the bottle, a little below the elbow, and also destroying the thumb of the right hand. The cause of this calamitous accident has not been explain ed.

6th-DUBLIN.-A few days since, the Society for discountenancing Vice, which chiefly consists of clergymen of the established religion, were met together, when the Professor of the Scriptures, (the Rev. Matthew Crowley) from the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, requested an interview with them, which being obtained, he stated that his object was to declare his intentions of renouncing the errors of popery, and to become a member of the church of England; and that 150 of his pupils were ready to follow his example. The society informed him, that the business was inconsistent with the objects of their institution; but that, after the meeting should be closed, they would, as private individuals, communicate with him. A conference took place accordingly.

A Dublin paper, of the 8th, contains the following paragraph, but says

nothing about the 150 pupils following the example of Mr Crowley:

Yesterday morning, the Rev. Matthew Crowley, Professor of the Sacred Scriptures, at the College of Maynooth, read his recantation at Christ-Church Cathedral, and afterwards attended divine service there, and received the holy communion.

The latest reports of the commissioners for the improvement of the vicinity of Westminster-hall, and the two houses of parliament, is dated the 6th of April, 1811. It states, that they had advertised proposals for building on the ground between Great Georgestreet, and the north transept of Westminster-abbey; but no adequate tender was made to them. They were informed that there was no probability of letting the ground at an adequate value, unless the ruinous and offensive building behind should be removed. They therefore propose, that these buildings should be purchased, and pulled down, which would cost 11,0001. and a Mews erected in their stead, fronted with a row of decent shops, which would remove the difficulties in the way of erecting elegant houses on the ground now vacant. This purchase has been authorized by the Treasury.

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For several days past, a lad, nine years old, belonging to a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood of Paddington, has been missing. was at school near that place, and not returning home at his usual hour, search and inquiry was made for him. No tidings were heard until last Tuesday morning, when he was found dead in one of the vaults of St George's Chapel, Paddington. The body was standing against the wall of the vault. His bag, with his school-books, was on his shoulder; there were several coffins in the vault. It is conjectured that the boy had been led there by curiosity, to see a funeral, and that, having been inadvertently shut in, he died of fright.

Sunday morning, a great concourse of people assembled in Whitechapel, near the church, to witness the decision of a curious bet. A young gentleman, apparently not more than 20 years of age, slender and slight, but well proportioned, had undertaken to go 50 miles on foot against a pair of horses in a gentleman's carriage. The condition of the wager was, that the horses should stop to bait once only on the road. The start took place at eight o'clock, and the pedestrian reached Whitechapel Church soon after four in the afternoon, on his return, having been to the 25th mile-stone, and back within the interval. He was received by the multitude with triumphant acclamation. What became of his antagonists and the carriage, was not known, as they had long been out of sight of the winner.

11th.-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. -Puller v. Montgomery, Bart., and Executors of the late Duke of Queensberry.-Mr Serjt. Vaughan stated this to be an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a respectable surgeon and apothecary, residing in Piccadilly, against Sir James Montgomery, Bart., and the executors of the late Duke of Queensberry, for professional labour and ser

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vices rendered to his grace. The present demand, the learned serjeant admitted, was novel in its nature, nay might be said to be unprecedented; yet still it could not be denied that the services rendered to the deceased were most meritorious, and for which no recompence, not in itself wholly unreasonable, and disproportioned to the ability of the person on whom they were conferred, could be supposed to be excessive. In the year 1803, the family apothecary of the noble duke being superannuated, the plaintiff was called in to attend on his grace during a severe and pretty tedious illness with which he was assailed. During some part of this time the plaintiff was obliged to sleep in the house, and during the whole of that period was, on the suggestion of the noble duke himself, allowed, besides his other charges, an additional sum of two guineas per night. From this time the plaintiff continued to be in constant attendance on his grace, visiting him constantly, sometimes three or four times a day, and, during almost the whole of the period, sleeping at his house all night, subject to be called out of bed at all times when his grace's state of health, or even his conveniency, might seem to render that necessary. No allowance, however, had been made to the plaintiff on this account, for the seven years and a half preceding his grace's death, although, during the latter pe riod of this time, as might be naturally supposed, the duties which the plaintiff was called on to perform for his grace were far from being diminished. The plaintiff, during this period, no doubt, had an allowance for medicine and attendance on his grace's household, which was regularly paid him; but this had no concern whatever with the separate, and infinitely more burdensome duty, which the plaintiff had to perform to the noble duke himself, in consequence of which the plaintiff had ·

to relinquish a considerable share of his practice as a surgeon, and was frequently obliged, during his constant nightly attendance on his grace, to disappoint some of his best employers and friends. The plaintiff had been repeatedly advised, during the lifetime of the noble duke, to give in his account; but a sense of delicacy, joined to declarations made by his grace himself, in the presence of the plaintiff, that he was to be paid, and that he knew he was entitled to be paid, if not by the noble duke, at least by his executors, prevented him. The particulars of the plaintiff's charge, now given in, consisted of 1700 nights, and 2737 days, each day comprising from two to four visits, charged according to their lengths, and amounting in the whole to 10,000l. This might seem a large sum when the circumstances of the case were not attended to; but, when they were taken into consideration; when the privations and sacrifices to which the plaintiff had submitted were fully weighed; when it was recollected that he had greatly circumscribed his business, that he might be enabled to attend on his grace, his time being fully occupied previous to his being called in to attend on the duke; when, in addition to these circumstances, all of them going to establish a peculiar claim on the noble duke, in favour of the plaintiff, it was stated that his grace had died possessed of property to the amount of one million sterling, it was impossible to doubt that services of the kind rendered to a person like the Duke of Queensberry, by a medical man like the plaintiff, were not estimated at the full extent of their importance, when valued at the sum put up on them by the plaintiff. This, he was happy to inform his lordship and the jury, was not a case of absolute contention between the parties. Had the real defendants in the cause, who

were the children of Lord Yarmouth, the residuary legatees of his grace, been of age at the moment, there was little doubt his lordship or the jury would have heard nothing of the present action. Lord Yarmouth had given a certificate under his hand, that he esteemed the demand now made by the plaintiff to be no more than the plaintiff was entitled to from the late Duke of Queensberry or his representatives. In his answer given into Chancery, too, by Mr Douglas, one of the executors, to a bill filed in that court by the present plaintiff, there were certain important admissions in the plaintiff's favour. Mr Douglas there admitted a variety of conversations with the duke, in which he (Mr D.) urged his grace to make a suitable payment to the plaintiff, which he uniformly refused to do, stating that he (the plaintiff) might be paid by his (the duke's) executors.

On the part of the plaintiff, the answer by Mr Douglas, in Chancery, was given in evidence.

Lord Yarmouth was examined, who thought the claim of the defendant no more than what he was entitled to, his opinion being, that the plaintiff would not have been overpaid, for his attendance on the duke, by receiving 10001. per annum in quarterly payments, which; he conceived, might be pretty equal to the present claim. His lordship stated, that, on an occasion when he was afflicted with an asthma, the duke sent the plaintiff to him, from whom he received great relief. On another occasion, when he was severely afflicted with the same complaint, he sent for the plaintiff, who did not come to him as his lordship desired, and, on his afterwards finding fault with this neglect, and intimating that he must employ another, the plaintiff informed him that he was prevented from calling on his lordship, having been detained all night with the Duke