and Schmidt's trumpet was managed in an extraordinary manner. On Friday evening the theatre was crowded in every part to excess, but there was no extraordinary bustle, or any pressure in filling the house. The selection was admirable, the whole performance spirited and masterly, and, we may say, without a fault. The concert opened with the celebrated Symphony of Beethoven in D., a composition that was never before attempted in Scotland. The whole was executed with infinite science, precision, and taste. Mr Lindley on the violoncello completely arrested the attention of the audience by his extraordinary command over this fine instrument. The selection for the vocal department merits equal praise. The extracts from Mozart's Operas were performed in a style worthy of the music, particularly the concluding piece of the first part, a sestetto from the opera of Figaro, which rises into a degree of grandeur that must strike even an uncultivated ear. Signora Corri was peculiarly happy in her two songs; that of Mozart was given with great tenderness and feeling; and the bold martial air of Pucitta was executed with great boldness and animation. Mr Braham was great in his first song from Zingarelli, and displayed all his powers in the "Last words of Marmion." Miss Stephens fully supported her usual character, and seemed to win the good will of the audience by volunteering the song of" Auld Robin Gray" which, on account of her illness, was omitted on Wednesday evening. The manner in which the whole was arranged and conducted appears to have given great satisfaction to the public, and must reflect the highest honour on the presiding judgment and good taste of the directors as displayed on this occasion.

20. MANCHESTER.-Meagher, the

trumpeter to the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry, was brought up for examination at the New Bailey court. The charge against him, for which he had undergone some previous examinations, was firing two pistols from the garret-window of his house in Deansgate, and wounding J. Jones in the thigh, and R. Robinson in the leg. He underwent a long examination before Mr Wright the magistrate. The excuse he offered was, that his house had been beset by a riotous mob, and his windows broken. Several witnesses gave their testimony, that the prisoner was not threatened, nor even molested, at the time he fired the pistols from the window; and that there was no assemblage of people opposite the house to cause alarm. On the contrary, John Davis, druggist and apothecary, who resided nearly over against the prisoner's residence in Deansgate, deposed, that at half-past twelve he heard, while in his bed-room, stones thrown, glass broken, and most opprobrious language, such as "rascal, mur. derer, massacrer, butcher, trumpeter!" Soon after, he heard the report of a pistol; he then went to the front of his house, and saw three different parties, who used very gross language; the prisoner was in the garret window, facing Queen Street: he was in his shirt-sleeves: he cried out," What do you there? Begone, get away, or I'll fire upon you." He then fired again. Sarah Kennedy also deposed to hearing the windows broken, before there was any firing. then declared he should adjourn the court to that day fortnight. He also stated, that in consequence of the evidence of Mr Davis, who was a most respectable witness, he should take bail for the prisoner's appearance on that day, himself in L. 200,

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and two sureties in L. 100 each. Mr Davis was one of the bail. Meagher was then liberated.

22. TALES OF MY LANDLORD.-Sir; I have observed in the newspapers lately, an advertisement of a fourth series of "Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, schoolmaster and parish-clerk of Gandercleugh, containing Pontefract Castle; orders received by all booksellers in Londdon. That the public may not be taken in to suppose this work a production of the author of "Tales of my Landlord," in three series; the first, containing the Black Dwarf and Old Mortality; the second, the Heart of Mid Lothian; and the third, the Bride of Lammermoor, and a Legend of Montrose; I who have transacted betwixt the publisher and the author of these books, as his agent, do, on my certain knowledge, assure you and the public, that this author has no concern whatever with the catchpenny publication announced as above; and although I have not his express authority for saying so, I am morally assured he will at no future period send any further work to the public under the title of "Tales of Landlord." The copyright of the "Tales of my Landlord," in 12 vols. has been purchased by, and is now the property of, Messrs Constable and Co., who are taking legal measures to interdict the publication of this spurious work under their title, and to punish those concerned in it when they shall be discovered. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN BALLANTYNE. Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Oct. 22. 23. EARL FITZWILLIAM. This nobleman has been dismissed from his situation of Lord Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in consequence of his being one of

those who signed the requisition, and attending the meeting at York, in reference to the proceedings at Manchester on the 16th of August.

24. OLD BAILEY WIT.-On the recorder passing sentence of transportation for life on John Moore, at the Old Bailey, the prisoner, in the most hardened manner, said, "I wish to ask your Lordship a favour;" and on being desired to state it, said, "I'd thank you, my Lord, to give me another year."

PARIS. The noted Sebastiani has been elected a deputy for Corsica, as well as M. Ramolino, cousin-german of Bonaparte's mother. The latter election has excited great notice. Corsica is a sort of rotten borough to France; the voters were only thirty-five in number.

26. PARIS.-The translator and publisher of Mr Hobhouse's History of the Hundred Days, have been con. demned by the Court of Assizes, the former to six, and the latter to twelve months' imprisonment, and each to pay to the King a fine of a thousand francs.

27. THE LATE DUKE OF RICHMOND.-An official dispatch from Charles Cambridge, Esq., addressed to Earl Bathurst, contains a detail of particulars attendant upon the melancholy death of this nobleman. After mentioning the tour which his Grace had taken for the purpose of investigating the actual state of the provinces, and other particulars, the letter proceeds thus:" When his Grace parted with his family at Kensington, he proceeded, accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel Cockburne and Major Bowles, and two domestics, to visit the eastern township, where already the population had been considerably benefited by the excellent policy of the administration. On the 23d of August, the Duke

dined with a detachment of officers stationed at Perth, and it was only on the 25th that the first symptoms of that cruel disorder presented themselves, which only three days afterwards terminated in death. Early on that morning, his valet found his Grace alarmed at the appearance of some trees which were near a window where he slept, and which he insisted were people looking in; and shortly afterwards, when a basin of water was presented to him, he exhibited evident abhorrence at the sight of it; and on several other occasions on that day, and on the 26th, the same symptoms were but too obvious whenever any liquid was presented, and which it now appeared his Grace partook of with extreme reluctance. On this day, at dinner, he had requested Lieut.-Col. Cockburne to take wine with him, but his Grace had no sooner lifted the liquid to his lips, than, unable to control the violence of his disease, he replaced the glass on the table, observing "Now, is not this excessively ridiculous? Well, I'll take it when I don't think of it." The same evening an Assistant-Surgeon, the only one in the vicinity, was sent for, who bled him, and his Excellency apparently found so much relief from the operation, that he arose early the next morning, and proposed walking through Richmond-wood, to the new settlement of that name, which had recently received its appellation from its illustrious founder, who was about to immortalize it by the catastrophe of his death. He had, in his progress through the wood, started off at hearing a dog bark, and was with difficulty overtaken, and on the party's arrival at the skirts of the wood, at the sight of some stagnant water, his Grace hastily leaped over

a fence, and rushed into an adjoining barn, whither his dismayed companions eagerly followed him. The paroxysm of his disorder was now at its height. It was almost a miracle that his Grace did not die in the barn. He was with difficulty removed to a miserable hovel in the neighbourhood, and early in the morning of the 28th the Duke of Richmond expired in the arms of a faithful Swiss, who had never quitted his beloved master for a moment. Whilst in this miserable log-hut, reason occasionally resumed her empire, and his Grace accordingly availed himself of these lucid intervals to address a letter to Lady Mary Lennox, in which he reminded her that a favourite dog, belonging to the household, being in a room at the Castle of St. Louis, at a time (five months before) when the Duke, shaving, cut his chin, the dog was lifted up, in order to lick the wound, when the animal bit his Grace's chin. The recollection of this circumstance gave his Grace but too sure a presentiment (the dog having subsequently run mad) of his approaching fate; and his Grace, therefore, in his letter to Lady Mary, expressed his conviction (which indeed appears an irresistible conclusion) that his disorder was hydrophobia. His Grace recommended the line of conduct to be observed by his children in the painful situation in which they would be placed at his death; and, it is said, requested to be buried in Quebec, on the ramparts, like a soldier, there to remain. His Grace's remains arrived in Montreal on the night of the 30th of August, (the very day on which the levee was to have been held), in a state which I shall not outrage your Lordship's feeling by detailing; far less can I attempt to depict the

sensations of the young ladies of his Grace's family, when the fatal news so unexpectedly reached them on the 30th, at Montreal. His Grace's sufferings were extreme, yet his mind soared above his agony. He directed Colonel Cockburne not to attend to his orders any longer, For you see,' said this great man, the state I am reduced to;' and during a paroxysm of pain, he exclaimed, For shame, Richmond; shame, Charles Lennox; bear your sufferings like a man.' The Duke, the first man of his rank, perhaps, who ever died on the American continent, will ever be regretted by all classes of his Majesty's provincial subjects. The awful termination of his Grace's illustrious career must excite universal sympathy."

50. GEORGE BIDDER.-The singular powers of calculation possessed by this boy having attracted very general notice, he was visited by se veral scientific gentlemen: and the following are some of the questions put to him on the occasion: How many times does a wheel 7 feet 3 inches in circumference revolve in a distance of 13 miles 3 furlongs? Answer (in one minute) 9740 times. What is the product of 62,473,864 multiplied by 27,356? Answer (in 3 minutes) 1,709,035,584. What is the percentage on L.35,727 17 6 at 173 per cent? Answer, L.6386:7:14. What is the cube root of 122,615,327,232? Answer (in 2 minutes) 4968. If the Bible contains 743 pages, each page 57 lines, and each line 17 words, how many words are there in the book? Answer (in less than a minute) 719,967. A statue stands between two trees; the pedestal of the statue is 90 feet from the top of each tree, and the one tree is 60, and the other 54 feet high: required

the distance between the trees? Answer (in one minute) 139 feet. A great number of other questions were put to him, most of which, except some of a complicated kind rather belonging to Algebra, he answered with astonishing rapidity and accuracy. The process is entirely mental. The numbers he had to work with, however long, were not reduced to writing, but merely mentioned aloud; and by repeating them to himself, he kept them in his memory, and performed all the necessary operations with invariable accuracy. He evidently did not work by the ordinary rules; for in getting the product of two or more numbers, he generally found the highest numbers first. Like Zerah Colburn, George Bidder has since asserted the possibility of communicating the process by which he proceeded, in reaching arithmetical results, by an apparent species of intuition.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE OF DATES.-The year Eighty-eight has, for several centuries, been fatal to the Royal House of Stuart. James III., on the 11th of June 1488, lost a battle to his subjects, by whom he was afterwards pursued and assassinated. Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded on the 8th of February 1588. James II. of England abdicated the throne of Great Britain on the 12th of December 1688; and, in the year 1788, the last of the House of Stuart that aspired to the throne of these kingdoms expired.

NOVEMBER.

1. FEVER IN SPAIN.-By the mail of this day, intelligence from Seville, Cadiz, and other places in their vi

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cinity, has been received. The mortality arising from the fever, which has already made such extensive ravages there, is reported to be greater than The city of Seville itself has hitherto been free from this severe visitation; it has, however, broken out in one of the suburbs, where about one hundred and twenty cases have occurred, of so malignant a nature, that above fifty of them proved fatal, and of the whole number scarcely any had so completely recovered as to be pronounced out of danger. The precautions practised at Seville, to prevent the spreading of the infection, were unusually rigorous. The persons afflicted, as soon as the symptoms could be ascertained, were all removed to houses at a short distance in the country, provided for that purpose, and all communication with them interdicted. To the severity of these regulations, however, the peculiar malignancy which the disease had assumed at Seville was at tributed. The physicians there were of the opinion, that if medical assistance were rendered at the first appearance of the symptoms, it would scarcely ever prove fatal or even dangerous; but such was the terror inspired by the thought of being separated from all friends and relations, that the sufferers generally withheld complaint until all assistance became unavailing. Next to the suburbs of Seville, the Port of St Mary had comparatively suffered, the deaths there being twenty daily out of seven hundred sick persons. In the isle of Leon the disease had also been extremely fatal, and both there and at Chiclana continued to rage with greater violence than before. In Cadiz itself, probably owing to the superior medical skill to be found there, the proportion of deaths to the number of sick was

much smaller. The number of sick persons is, however, truly awful, being said by the letters of the 12th ult. to exceed 11,000. According to a report published by the Board of Health, the deaths, from the 1st to the 7th of October, were 588; and on the 12th, one hundred and five persons fell victims to the epidemic. It is a curious circumstance connected with this calamity, that without any alleged variation in the nature of the disorder, the proportion of the deaths should have so materially varied. It appears from our preceding statement, that in Cadiz the cases proving fatal have been one in one hundred; at St Mary's, one in thirty-five; but in the suburb of Seville, every third person died. The mercantile houses in Cadiz, many of which are of recent establishment, and therefore not protected by their members having had the disorder at a former period, appear to have suffered in a peculiar degree. Twothirds of their number are stated to have been shut up or abandoned, the clerks and servants being all sick or dead. The principals had in many instances fled into the country on the first breaking out of the infec tion. We have before mentioned the effect of this visitation, in dispersing the troops collected for the expedition, and frustrating, in fact, by the delay that must take place before they can be again collected, all the objects for which it was originally planned. The circumstance has given rise to a saying among the Spaniards, characteristic, perhaps, (and only in that case to be mentioned without profanation), of a people highly loyal, and assuming that free tone in speaking of the Deity which is often combined with superstitious feeling, that "Dios mismo insurgente."