departure for England. Her majesty drank health and prosperity to his majesty George 4th. The toast was received with enthusiasm by the whole company. The guests left the palace at eight o'clock, highly gratified by the amiable and condescending manner of her majesty. The health of her majesty is as good as her sincerest friends can wish. She will thus be enabled to travel rapidly to England."

GLASGOW.-Yesterday morning (Sunday, the 30th ult.) about half-past two o'clock, two of the county patrol, when going through Bridgeton, were assaulted by an armed gang of ruffians, who wantonly beat them in a most cruel manner; the gang consisted of from 20 to 30 persons or more, were armed with fire-arms and bludgeons, and some of them had pitchforks. The gang afterwards attacked the house of an operative cotton spinner, and it is supposed that the patrolmen were assaulted to prevent them giving notice of the attack on the house.

The following is extracted from the Censeur Europeen, under date Madrid, April 22:-" Nineteen individuals have been arrested here, accused of conspiracy against the established government. These persons are the prelate of the P.P. de la Merced, the solicitor of the monks of the Escurial, a Jesuit, a curate, various emissaries, and a few soldiers, who were tempted by high rewards. It is affirmed that a considerable sum of money, with arms and important papers, have been seized in the convent of the P. P. Merced."

The following is an extract of a letter, dated Cadiz, April 14:

"Seven ships of war are now fitting out in this harbour, and will sail about the first week in May, for the purpose of carrying out deputies to different parts of South America. It is understood that the milder weapons of negociation and of expostulation will be tried before recourse is had to arms."

7. PARIS.-On Wednesday [the 3rd], Louis 18th received the compliments of the two Chambers, who had named deputations to wait upon his majesty, to felicitate him on the anniversary of his return to the capital. "Men pass away," said the king, in his answer to M. Ravez, "but facts endure; and I trust that the remembrance of this day will be for ever engraven in the hearts of all Frenchmen."

IRELAND. Saturday morning last, Master C. Mills, a youth of most engaging manners, only 16 years of age, son of Wm. Mills, of Craddoxtown, county of Kildare, esq. a magistrate, was found dead on the lands of Punchestown, with marks of great violence on his person; notice was immediately given to T. Harrison, esq. coroner, who impaneled a jury at Naas, on the Monday following, and in the mean time, made active search for a circuit of 15 miles (in the progress of which he seized some fire arms, found in the possession of suspicious persons), and took into custody J. Kelly, whose very unsatisfactory answers gave cause for suspicion. The Court House at Naas was crowded to excess by the nobility, magistrates, gentry, and inhabitants of the county. Surgeon Charlton, having extracted some slugs from the deceased's breast, said they were

not the cause of his death, but that wounds on his head occasioned it. The slugs bore no resemblance to the shot sold in shops, but were cut with a knife out of pewter. Deceased had risen at an early hour on the day of his death, to detect poachers on the rabbit burrows; he chased the murderer better than two miles, who discharged the contents of his gun in the young gentleman's breast; and struck the deceased with the cock of his gun, as he was crossing the wall, which caused his death; his powder horn was got near the body and also the trigger of a

musket, but his gun was not to be found; at six o'clock, one of his school-fellows who was out coursing, discovered his body. After hearing a train of circumstantial and corroborating evidence, the coroner left the case to the jury, who found that the deceased came to his death by a gun-shot wound in the left breast, and a blow of some weapon on the back part of his head; and that from the evidence they had reason to suspect that J. Kelly was implicated in the murder. Upon which Mr. Harrison committed Kelly to Naas gaol.

9. The king of Prussia has presented to the archbishop of Canterbury, by the hands of baron Bulow, a splendid dessert and tea service of porcelain. A similar present has been made to Mr. Wilberforce, and to N. M. Rothschild, esq. accompanied by a complimentary letter from baron Hardenburg, in the name of his royal master.

OLD BAILEY.-On Saturday, before the Court adjourned, the following persons, who were charged on suspicion of being concerned in the Cato-street conspiracy, were brought up and placed in the dock, viz. :-Thos.

Preston, the shoemaker; William Hazard, an old man, 70 years of age, a schoolmaster; Abel Hall, a shoemaker; R. George, a labourer, who resided at Paddington; W. Simmons, a gentleman's servant; and W. Firth, the owner of the shed in Cato-street.Preston made an attempt to address the Court, but was immediately silenced. The prisoners were informed, that as no prosecution appeared against them they were discharged. The reader will recollect that these prisoners were apprehended on suspicion of having been in various ways connected with the late dia

bolical conspiracy in Cato-street. Bills for high treason, &c. were preferred against Hall and George, but the grand jury threw them out. No bills were preferred against the other pri

soners.

On Wednesday last an inquest was held at the Mitre, Broomsgrove, on Elizabeth Waterson, wife of J. Waterson, nailer, who on Tuesday morning was found dead in bed, with marks of violence on her throat. It appeared in evidence, that the husband of the deceased had occasionally laboured under violent fits of insanity, and that on Monday se'nnight he again became so much indisposed, that the deceased expressed her fears that he would make away with himself. The cries of his wife were heard by a neighbour, who immediately got up, and forcing open his door, found the husband sitting upon the bed on which his wife lay dead, with the child in his arms, and on being questioned, his answers were so extremely incoherent, that it became fully evident he was not then in a state of sanity. It was proved, that Waterson and his wife lived happily together, the jury, however, returned the following verdict:

That the said Elizabeth Waterson came to her death by strangulation by her husband, Jos. Waterson, he not being of sound mind at the time. The poor man has since been conveyed to the Lunatic asylum at Droitwich.

SOUTH AMERICA.-Some further information respecting the operations of the patriots in South America has arrived. The dates from the head-quarters ofg ne ral

Bolivar reach down to the 6th of February, and it appears that his forces were within 50 miles of the city of Carraccas, and in view of those under general Morillo, so that the next arrivals from the westward will probably bring intelligence of some important blows being struck either by the one party or the other. It is affirmed, that the troops of the patriots were nearly three times the number of those of the royalists, general Morillo's force not exceeding from 4 to 6,000 men, of which there were only 350 Europeans; so that it was believed confidently, that ere long general Bolivar would have possession of the city of Carraccas. There had been a great deal of fighting among the detached par, ties of the troops, in which the Independent General Paez lost his life while in the act of forcing an important pass. He was much lamented, and will prove, no doubt, a great loss to the patriots. He was immediately succeeded by general Soublett.

It is gratifying to be able to record a late remarkable instance of the power of the Christian preacher over the human mind, habituated to a system of the grossest idolatry. It appears that recently the Rev. Mr. Cam, of the London Missionary Society, was met in his progress through Amboyna by a concourse consisting of about 800 persons, carrying their wooden gods in solemn procession, who requested of the preacher to inform them what they were to do with those deities for the future, as he had previously made them sensible of the absurdity of such worship; the result was, that they

inclosed their idols in boxes, which they filled with stones and flung into the sea.

The village of Honiton Clist, in Devonshire, was in a great part destroyed by fire on Tuesday last before it could be subdued, the flames spreading from one thatched roof to another.

DIVORCE OF PRINCE CONSTANTINE OF RUSSIA.-St. Petersburgh, April 15.-On the 20th of March, O. S, was published the following important imperial manifesto:

By the Grace of God, We, Alexander the First, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, &c. hereby signify to our faithful subjects, Our much beloved brother the Czarowitsch, and Grand-duke Constantine, has, by a request addressed to our beloved mother, the empress Maria, and to us, drawn our attention to his family affairs with respect to the long absence of his consort, the grand-duchess Anne (born princess of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld), who, making a journey into foreign countries, so far back as the year 1801, on account of her extreme bad health, has not only not yet returned to him, but, according to her own personal declaration, cannot again return to Russia; and therefore he wishes that his marriage with her may be dissolved. In consequence of this request, with the approbation of our beloved mother, we have referred this affair to the consideration of the Holy Synod, which, on comparing the circumstances of the case with the laws of the church, and on the principles of the 35th article of Basil the Great, has decided "the mar

riage of the Czarewitsch and grand-duke Constantine with the grand-duchess Anne is to be dissolved, and he is to be allowed, if he thinks proper, to contract a new marriage." From all these circumstances we have seen that every effort to maintain unimpaired the matrimonial union in our imperial family, after it has been already broken off nearly 19 years, without any hopes of being restored, would be of no avail. We have given our approbation, according to the principles of the laws of the church, to the actual execution of the above-mentioned decision of the Holy Synod, and command it to be every where recognized in its full extent.

Directing our thoughts on this occasion to the various circumstances which may take place in the matrimonial connexions of the members of the imperial family, and the consequences of them, if they are not provided for and determined by a general law, we consider it as necessary to the perpetual maintenance of the dignity and tranquillity of the imperial family, and of our empire, to add to the already existing regulations respecting the imperial family the following supplementary ordinance:

"When any member of the imperial family shall form a matrimonial union with an individual who is not of a corresponding rank, that is to say, who does not belong to a sovereign or reigning house, then and in that case the member of the imperial family cannot communicate to the other individual the rights which appertain to the members of the imperial family, and the children born of such a marriage have no

At the same time that we announce this our will to all present and future members of our imperial family, and to all our faithful subjects, according to the 23rd article of the regulations respecting the imperial family, we hereby bind, before the Almighty Ruler, all and every person whom this concerns to keep this our supplementary ordinance holy and inviolate to time everlasting.

Given in our capital city of St. Petersburgh, the 20th of March, in the year of our Lord 1820, and of our reign the 20th.

ALEXANDER. CORONATION.-The Gazette of this day contains a proclamation by his majesty, dated the 6th instant, announcing his intention of celebrating the solemnity of his coronation, on the 1st day of August next; and further notifying, that he has appointed a commission, under the great seal, to meet at the Painted Chamber in the Palace of Westminster, on the 18th instant; and from time to time to adjourn, as to them shall seem meet, for the purpose of hearing and determining such claims as may be exhibited by any of his loving subjects, in regard of sundry manors, lands, and other hereditaments, for which they are to perform divers services at the time of the coronation.

10. LEVEE. This being the day appointed for his majesty to hold his first levee since his accession to the throne, it was the most numerously attended of any that ever was recollected; all ranks being desirous to have the honour of being present at the

George 4th, to express their attachment to his person and government; and upon this occasion all present had the honour to kiss the king's hand. Although the levee was not announced to begin till two o'clock, the company began to arrive soon after twelve; and by two about 500 had been set down. The company continued to arrive till near four, when it was ascertained that there were near 1,800; being about 300 more than were present at the first levee after his. present majesty became regent.

BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. This morning, at the sitting of the Court of King's-bench, the Solicitor-general moved for judgment on John Goodeve, Abraham Wynne, and H. Dornford, convicted at the last Cornwall assizes, before Mr. Justice Burrough, of bribery, in giving money to the electors to vote for Henry Swann, esq. to be returned a member to parliament for the borough of Penryn. Mr. Adam and Mr. Wylde addressed the Court in behalf of the defendants. The Solicitor-general supported the information. After an address by Mr. Justice Bayley on the enormity of the offence, they were sentenced as follow:-Dornford to one year, Goodeve and Wynne to three months imprisonment each, in Bodmin gaol.

Robert Wedderburne was sentenced to two years imprisonment in Dorchester gaol, for uttering blasphemy at a chapel in Berwick-street, wherein he was a licensed preacher. Eight venders of pamphlets, who had been convicted of selling seditious publications, were sentenced to short periods of imprisonment;