at Hull. Manure in the last instance.-The superior excellence of crushed bones as a manure, is now fully proved by experience. They are a most invaluable article to those farmers whose distance from large towns precludes them from obtaining a sufficiency of manure, when the supply from their own farm is inadequate to their wants. Such are their surprising fertilising qualities, that a cart and two horses can in one day come for, and carry home, at a distance of fifteen miles, a quantity sufficient for one acre. Even this small quantity has been found to render an acre more fertile than one manured in the common manner; and they also possess the valuable quality of retaining their fertilising powers for several succeeding crops. Property: Meum at Tuun. those of large pots or caldrons, were each person.-It is of course, impossible found; also many massive rings of various that the lower orders should find accommodimensious, supposed to have been attach-dation in the churches of the establishment ed to their sides. On the first discovery, the people of the vicinity carried off great quantities of old copper to Hereford,, and disposed of it to the braziers. It is presumed that this copper was probably some part of defensive armour. A person residing near the spot also found a small copper box, containing what he described as similar to sealing wax, but he unfortunate ly destroyed both the box and its contents. It was not until about nine days after the first discovery that any gentleman in the neighbourhood was informed of it, and in consequence many curiosities no doubt were Jost; amongst such as were preserved are several ornaments of copper, a piece of Sint hewn into the shape of an arrow head, a battle axe very perfect, and several arrow heads, and a small quantity of a composition which is presumed to be the same as the contents of the box above mentioned, upou which time has not had the least effect. In appearance it much resembles red cornelian; it is very combustible-and if the smallest particle is set on fire, it contiones burning until the whole is consumed, giving a very beautiful and clear flame-an odour by no means unpleasant is also perceptible. The situation in which these antiquities were discovered is extremely damp, and many, from being placed upon each other, have become one mass of rust and completely lost their original shape. A Child of Straw.-Lately, W. Reed, jun. At the Durham hiring, lately, the numone of the Police Officers of Hatton-Garber of both men and women servants was den, took a woman into custody in the act of begging in that street, and telling a most deplorable tale of distress, about her poor fatherless infant, which she carried wrap ped up to her bosom. On attempting to take her before the magistrates she struggled hard to escape, and in her struggling she dropped her child, which proved to be a bundle of straw carefully tied up, so as to represent a child, with a cap. The discovery caused a hearty laugh, and the impostor, at the intercession of some ladies, was permitted to depart. A misunderstanding subsists between the Barrack Officer, and the Lord of the Manor of Weley, in Essex, respecting the sale of these extensive barracks; the latter contending, that, as they were built upon his copyhold estate in consequence of a negociation between government and his tenant of that estate, to which he was no party, those erections are become his legal property; and, in consequence, he has prohibited their removal. Servants wages lowered. very great, and wages considerably lower. ere At Gainsboro' statutes, so numerous were the servants, that upon a reasonable estimate there were five to one master: wages consequently were much reduced. Canal Carriage. As soon as the new powder magazines on Hounslow-heath are finished, the gunpowder will be conveyed by the canals to The ancient and only remains of Boling-every part of the country. broke Castle fell down, last week, with a tremendous crash. Church sittings sold !!! Lately an aution sale took place at Hun, of sittings for individuats in the Holy Trinity church in that town: when 70 sittings (or the right of so much room on a seat as 70 persons can sit down in during their lives, were sold for 5201. besides an sunual payment of several shillings by We understand that an offer has been made to Government, to convey the Mails to the different parts of the kingdom, at the rate of nine miles an hour by steam; the details of the plan are so far complete and satisfactory, as to have obtained the serious consideration of the Executive. In the list of Insolvents who have taken the benefit of the present Act, priated by order of the House of Commons, is a fashionable Surgeon for 10,3651.; a Cook to one of the Royal Family for 120; a Barrister for 150,000l.; and a Baronet for 30/. 4s. Oxford, May 20.-On Thursday, the Prize-Compositions were adjudged as fol low : Chancellor's Prizes-English Essay; "The Effects of Colouization on the Parent State." Mr. T. Arnold, B. A. Scholar of Corpus Christi college, and Fellow Elect of Oriel. Latin Essay-" In illa Philosophia Parte, que Morali, dicitur tractanda, quænum sit præcipue Aristotelice Discipline Virtus?" M. C. G. Daubeny, B. A. demy of Magda len college. Latin Verse-" Europa Pacotares Oroniam invesentɩs." Mr. A. Macdonnell, Student of Christ church. Sir Rodger Newdigate's Prize-English Verse: "The Temple of Theseus." Mr. S. Rickards, Commoner of Oriel college. Married.-Lately, at Wedsley, in Yorkshire, after three days courtships Mir. R. Rawntree, tailor, grocer, &c. ago seventyfive, to Miss Hannah Cowling, aged eighteen, both of Leyburn. The happy bridegroom's late wife produced him 12 children; he is now grandfather to 60, and great-grandfather to 11. the number already ascertained to be disabled is 14; and that 69 wives and children are thus deprived of their usual support. Tax on Bachelors, escaped. We find that the tax upon Bachelors in Ireland is not to extend to the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, or the Roman Catholic Priests, they being prohibited from marrying; the former by the statutes of the College, and the latter by the tenets of their religion. Ireland Improvements. Eighty years ago there was but one small field of eight acres of green ground between Castlebar and the sea coast, and this was round Westport-house; and within forty years the roads to the west did not pass Castlebar. At present, a mail coach comes into and leaves Westport every day; and also, within the period of forty years, the town has increased in population from about 200 persons to 2,500, and the houses have been changed from a dozen dirty fishermen's huts, to streets built with unusual regularity; all which has been ef fected by the exertions of the Westport family. SCOTLAND. School for making Lace. The Dowager Lady Ramsey has established a lace school in Edinburgh, which is the first manufactory of that knd in Scotland, and in which a considerable number of females are already employed. College bear, broke loose. Died. In London, after a few days illness, the Right Rev. Dr. William Cleaver, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. His disorder is said to be a Cambridge fever. His Lordship was first raised to Episcopacy in 1787, Lately, a bear, which had been kept being then made Bishop of Oxford, from for sometime past in the College of Edin. which see he was translated to Chester.burgh, broke loose from his confinement, The Archdeaconry of St. Asaph and the Vicarage of Nortop, in Flintshire, were held by the Bishop. IRELAND. Malicions Robbery: Flowers. On the night of Saturday, May the 1st, some ill-disposed person or persons entered the flower-garden in front of Lady Castlereagh's school, at Newtown-ards, and carried off from the porch of the school eleven or twelve flower-pots, containing nearly thirty valuable exotic shrubs. A number of flower patches and shrubs in the garden were also much injured, and some entirely destroyed and left upon the spot. It is thought the pots have been sent to some person in the country, or at a distance, as several of the things in them were so uncommon as to render it impossible to conceal them in the town.(Belfast Paper.) were Liers lost by the pressure in a mob. It appears by the Irish papers, that the number of lives lost by the recent calamity at the Royal Exchange, in Dublin, was 10; and endeavoured to make his way over the paling into the street; as no person cou d be found hardy enough to secure the enraged animal, it was necessary to shoot bim; and this was not accomplished till five or six balls were lodged in his body. On Monday, May the 8th, was caught, on one of the fishings of the Tay, belonging to the city of Perth, a salmon weighing 58lb. avoirdupois, and measuring four feet one inch in length, and two feet six and a half inches round. Remarkably strong ram. In the farm of London, of Gallery, there is at present a ram, betwixt the Cheviot and English breed, supposed to be the largest in the country, and with regard to strength, it will be difficult to find its equal. He lately gained a wager, by carrying a lad weighing seven and a half stones, a quarter of a mile, at a rate of seven miles an hour. The animal's attachment to horses is singular--he travels with them to any distance without a guide.(Edinburgh Paper.) POLITICAL PERISCOPE. reign. On the twenty-eighth of March [A. D. 193.] eighty six days only, after the death of Commodus, a general sedition broke out in the camp"-Pertinax was slain. "The Pretorians ran out upon the rampart, and with a loud voice, proclaimed that the Roman world was to be disposed of to the best bidder by public auction." If it were possible to doubt for a moment the wretched situation of that country, where" might overcomes right," where the armed power disposes of the Sove- Didius Julianus, was competitor with reignty over the entire community, we Sulpicianus-and began to bid against have only to review the pages of History, him from the foot of the rampart. The unand see what has been--or to look on mo-worthy negotiation was transacted by faithdern France, labouring under throes, pre ful emissaries, who passed alternately paratory-unless preventedby a miracle, to from one candidate to the other, and acthe most dreadful convulsions, and in her quainted each of them with the offers of to behold what is. The head should direct his rival. The gates of the camp were the course of the Political Body, as it does thrown open to the purchaser, Julianthat of the natural body; the arms are for whose euemi s found it necessary to affect defence, not for conduct: they are the seat a more than common share of satisfaction of strength, not of wisdom. at this HAPPY REVOLUTION. After Julian had filled the Senate house with armed soldiers; he expatiated on the FREEDOM of his election, his own EMINENT VIRTUES, and his FULL ASSURANCE OF THE AFFECTIONS of the Senate." "He had reason to tremble, On the throne of the world he found himself without a friend, and even without an adherent. The guards themselves were ashamed of the prince whom their avarice had persuaded them to accept, nor was there a CITIZEN who did not consider his elevation with horror, as the last insult on the Roman name. The nobility-met the affected civility of the Emperor with smiles of complacency, and professions of duty. The people-conscious of the impotence of their own resentment, called aloud on the legious of the frontiers to assert the violated majesty of the Roman Empire." When Rome was fast sinking under the blows of fate, the Emperor was elected by the army; and when the army found that they could elect Emperors, they found also that they could destroy them. It was not the welfare of the Roman people, at large, which they had at heart, but the purposes of the army, as a separate body. They contemplated the donatives they expected on every new election, the bribes, the licence in which they should be indulged, the security in which they should be able to perpetrate their atrocities, and the weakness or blindness of the laws, from whose cognizance of their crimes they should be free. On the death of Commodus, the purple was accepted by Pertinax; but Pertinax was a man of sense: he found the finances of the State in extreme disorder: Are there no points of resemblance in "Though every measure of injustice and this narrative to events of modern times?— extortiou," says Gibbon, had been adopted none, to those which at this moment form which could collect the property of the that most astonishing spectacle toward subject into the coffers of the prince, the which the eyes of all Europe are turned? rapaciousness of Commodus had been so "The enemy was within two hundred aud very inadequate to his extravagance, that, fifty miles of Rome:—he filled the city with upon his death, no more than eight thou- unavailing preparations for war, drew lines sand pounds were found in the exhausted round the suburbs, and even strengthened treasury, to defray the current expences of the fortifications of the palace;-as if those Government, and to discharge the pressing last intrenchments could be defended withdemand of a liberal donative, which the out hope of relief against a victorious in new Emperor had been obliged to promise vader?"-Surely this at least is a close reto the Pretoriau guards. Yet, under these semblance: the issue we must not anticidistressed circumstances, Pertinax had the pate: but Julian was condemned and exegenerous firmness to remit all the oppres-cuted, by order of the Senate, June 2. afsive taxes invented by Commodus.""Amidst the general joy, the sullen and angry countenances of the Pr torian guards, betrayed their inward dissatisfaction. They had reluctantly submitted to Pertinax, they dreaded the strictness of the ancient discipline, which he was preparing to restore, and they regretted the licence of the former ter an anxious and precarious reign of SIXTY SIX DAYS!!! What an instructive spectacle to other nations, is that of a people sunk under subjugation to their own army! May it strike due terror into the heart of every Briton! May coming time to the latest generation, never have to record a degradation so re volting to every honest and patriotic breast, as that which now afflicts unhappy France! May unhappy France soou do herself justice, by ridding herself of a tyrant, and the world of a monster!-We turn now to actual state of things. the brain of Buonaparte which well deserve to be recorded. The first is what he calls his "Overture for Peace." OVERTURE FROM BUONAPARTE. Presented to Parliament, by Command of bis Royal Highness the Prince Regent, May 1815. No. 1.-Letter from M. de Caulincourt to Viscount Castlereagh, dated Paris, April 4, 1815. Our last noticed several disappointments, which, as we supposed, had befallen the mover of the present mischief; others were not far behind. Murat, in Italy, has been MY LORD. The expectations which inexcessively disappointed: his italian troops duced his Majesty the Emperor, my august have shewn little attachment to his person: Sovereign, to submit to the greatest sacriFrance has -why should they? he has been worstedies, have not been fulfilled: in several engagements with the Austrians. not received the price of the devotion of Having a greater force than he had, theyits Monarch: her hopes have been lamentdivided their armies; oue marches down the west of Italy, direct on Naples, while another pursues him on the east, where his routed army is hastily retreating. It is even possible, that he is un-hinged, by this time. The moment that the Moniteur boasted of the unprecedented unanimity of the French nation in the choice of their Emperor, we inferred that insurrectious had broke out in France. It proves to be the fact. In the South, Marseilles is declared to be in a state of siege; Lyons has witnessed a plot to seize its arsenal and artillery :-in the west La Vendee is up in arms once more; and Napoleon has so few troops he can trust, that his young guard has been seut post from Paris to Orleans, to meet the insurgents; in the east, we are assured | there have been no disturbances :-In the Borth Lisie has had a fine laid on it, by way of improving its loyalty to him who laid it; Dunkirk has experienced the same kindness. In short, though we have no free and direct intercourse with the interior of France, yet enough transpires to warrant the inference drawn from the assurances of the Moniteur. All this while, that vcracious paper assures the Parisians that the peace between France and England is profound-which is civil enough, no doubt, to Lord Castlereagh; who has described the countries as being in a state of warfare; and has persuaded the House of Commons to sanction that state. He was In the upper House, LA Liverpool has accomplished the same purpose. supported by Lord Grenville, in opposition to Lord Grey;—as iu the Commons, Lord Castlereagh was supported by Mr. Grattan, and others of the usual opposition, in contravention of the arguments of Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. Whitbread, &c. | ably decurved. After some months of painful restraint, her sentiments, concealed with regret, have at length manifested themselves in an extraordinary manner: by an universal and spontaneous impulse, she has declared as her deliverer, the man, from whom alone she can expect the guarantee of er liberties and independence. The Emperor has appeared, the Royal Throne has failen, and the Bourbon Family have quitted our territory, without one drop of blood having been shed far their defenoc. Borne upon the arins of his people, his Majesty has traversed France, from the point of the coast at which be at first touched the ground, as far as the centre of his capital, even to that residence which is now again, as are all French hearts, filled with our dearest remem brances. No obstacles have delaved his Majesty's triumphal progress: from the instant of his relanding upon French ground, he resumed the Government of his Empire. Scarcely does his first reign appear to have been for an instant interrupted. Every generous passion, overy liberal thought, has rallied around hum; never did any nation present a spectacle of more awful unani mity. The report of this great event will have reached your Lordship. I am commanded to announce it to you, in the name of the Emperor, and to request you will convey this declaration to the knowledge of his Majesty the King of Great Britain, your august Master. This restoration of the Emperor to the throne of France is for him the most brilliant of his triumphs. His Majesty prides himself, above all, on the reflection that he owes it entirely to the love of the French people, and he has no other wish, than to repay such affections no longer by the trophies of vain ambition, but by all the advantages of an honourable repose, and by Under these circumstances, and while we are waiting with that awful anxiety which all the blessings of a happy tranquillity. It is to the duration of peace that the Emmarks a uoment of extreme suspense, we shall not affect to do more than give in-peror looks forward for the accomplishment sertion to ome of those emanations from of his noblest intentions. With a dispo sition to respect the rights of other nations round you men who hate France, and his Majesty has the pleasing hope, that who desire to ruin you. I formerly gave those of the French uation will remain in- you useful warnings. What you write to violate. ne is at variance with your actions. I The maintenance of this precious de-shall, however, see by your manner of actposit is the first, as it is the dearest of his duties. The quiet of the world is for a long time assured, if all the other Sovereigns are disposed as his Majesty is, to nake their honour consist in the preservation of peace, by placing peace under the safeguard of honour Such are, my Lord, the sentiments with which his Majesty is sincerely animated, and which he has commanded me to make known to vour Government, I have the honour, &c. (Signed) CAULINCOURT, Duke of Vicence. Ilis Excellency Lord Castlereagh, &c. &c. We do not profess to understand this paper: it seems to us to be any thing rather than an overture for peace: yet, when necessaay, this man can write in a style sufficiently intelligible, as appears clearly from his POLITE epistles to his brother of Naples. To the King of Naples. ing at Ancona if your heart is still French, and if it is to necessity alone that you'yield. I write to my War Minister, in order to set him at ease with regard to your conduct, Recollect that your kingdom, which has rost much blood and trouble to France, is your's only for the benefit of those who gave it you. It is needless to send nie an answer unless you have something im portant to communicate, Remember that I made you a king solely for the interest of my system, Do not deceive yourself. If you should cease to be a Frenchman, you would be nothing to me. Continue to correspond with the Viceroy, taking care that your letters be not intercepted." From these most obliging polites es our readers will infer that Murat, while affecting to support the cause of the Allies, and of humanity, held a private, confideutial, correspondence with Buonaparte; such was the fact; and being fully aware "I say nothing to you of my displeasure of this, the Allies turned a deaf ear-so far at your conduct, which has been diametrias politicians turn a deaf ear to any thingcally opposite to your duty. That, however and treated his application to their honour, belongs to the weakness of your nature, generosity, loyouté, magnanimity, &c. with You are a good soldier on the field of bat-into Prance, Murat advanced to the North indifference. When Buonaparte advanced tle, but, excepting there, you have no vigour, no character. Take advantage of an act of treachery, which I only attribute to fear, in order to serve me by good inte ligence. I rely upon you, upon your contrition, upon your promises. If it were otherwise, recollect that you would have to re pent it. I suppose, you are not one of those ho imagine that the ion is dead, and that he may be upon (et qu'on peut lui pisser dessus). If such are your cal cuations, they are false. I defeated the Austrians yesterday, and I am in pursuit of the remuants of their columus. Another such vitory, and you will see that my aff is are not so desperate as you have been led to believe. "You have done me all the harm that you cou d since your departure from Wilua, but we she say no more about it The title of king his turned your brain. If you wish to preserve it, behave well, and keep your word. To he King of Naples. March 5. "SIR MY BROTHER.-I have alrea commusicated to you my opinion of you. conduct. Your situation had set you be side yourself: my reverses have completely turned your brain. You have called | of Italy, to support him. Murat is defeated: and this is irretrievable detriment to the Emperor and King. Among other proofs of Murat's duplicity, are the following: Documents read by Lord Castlereagh in kis Speech in the House of Commons, on the 24 of May, 1815. Letter from Eliza Buonaparte to Buonaparte. Lucca, February 14, 1814.-"SIRE,-I have had the honour of informing your Majesty by my reports of the 5th and 8th of this mouth, of the concentrating moTement operated by the Prince of Lucca upon Pisa, in consequence of the circumstances which induced me to quit Florence, to order the evacuation of that city, and to assemble all the troops of the division upea has midtained himself at Pisa till now; a point of greater security. The Prince ubhaving received advice of an English expedition, amounting by all accounts to at least 6,000 men, and which appears to e undoubtedly directed to Sicily aganist eghoru, Spezia, or Genoa, I have deterined to order the Prince to continue ins ovement upon Geuoa, in order that his retreat may not be cut of by the only road which stili remains open, |