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Exnnss or Han MAresrv's MARRIAGE.— The ambunt to be defrayed out of the public fund for‘the expenses of Her Majesty’s marriage is £9,426; of which £4,708 were spent in altering the Chapel Royal of St. James’s; £680 for illuminating the public offices; £2,115 for opening all the theatres. The last item in the account is £1,753, being the expenses incurred for the journey of His Royal Highness Prince Albert, to this country l

ROYAL MinAcnss.——When Judge Day return- ed from India, the minister represented to George III. that knighthood would be acceptable, to which he thonght the Judge entitled. “ Poh,

h,” said his'Majesty, “ I cannot turn Day into guight; that is impossible.” At the next levee, about Christmas, his Majesty was again entreated to knight Mr. Day. The King enquired if he was married, and was answered in the aflirm- ative. “ Well, well," said he, “then let him be introduced, and I will work a couple of miracles; I will not only turn Day into Knight, but I Will make Lady Day at Christmas.”

NAPOLsON.—-A London editor, after chroni- cling the determination of the French Govern- ment to bring the bones of Napoleon from Saint Helena, and bury them in the 5qu of France, snakes the following comments :—

“ It seems singular that so vast political com- binations as those of which he was at the head, have left so little trace of their existence. His only direct descendant is dead ; the thrones of the difl'erent members of his family—Spain, Na- ples, Westphalia, Holland—have all passed away ; after the lapse ofless than a quarter of a century, Europe has settled down under itearly the same dynasties, and within nearly the same territorial demarcations as those he overthrew. and fancied he had obliterated. On the soil to which his bones are now reverently borne, all of his name and blood are forbidden by law to set foot, and if they are interred with royal splendour hard by the tombs ofthe kings whose throne he usurped, it is because all Europe feels that with himself his dynasty perished—that he neither had, nor can have, a successor.”

TEETOTALISM.——~A Dublin paper states that Father Matthew has been invited, by the Bishop ofNorwich, and other leading members ofthe British and Foreign Temperance Society, to visit London. Drury-lane Theatre has been fixed on as the scene of his operations, and the rev. gen- tleman intends to administer the pledge in Liver- pool, Manchester and Birmingham, on his way to London. Upwards of 50,000 persons took the total, abstinence pledge from Father Matthew, in Hassersgh, on Tuesday last.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY, MAY 14.— The annual meeting of the London Missionary Society was held to-day, in the great room, Ex- cter Hall.—The meeting was one of the most crowded of the season, the hall being filled in

corner with ladies, and the platform with men. Sir George Grey, Bart., took the chain—The number of the Society’s missionary stations is at present 361 ; the number of mis- sionaries I56 ; and the number of assistants, native and English, in foreign parts, 451.——Dur- ing the past year 28 new missionaries have been sent out with their wives and families. The ’number ofthe Society’s Churches is at present 101.—-The number ofcommnnicants 9,966; and the number of scholars 41,752. The receipts for the year, have been £91,119 1‘25. 10d.; and the expenditure £82,197 0s. 4d. It was an- nounced by Mr. Grathwait that the munificent sum of£10,000 had been made over and placed in trust for. the Society by a resident in the man: ufacturing districts, who most nobly gave this splendid donation anonymously.—It was also _stated by the same gentleman that two farms in Lancashire had been made over to the Society, and the annual proceeds, amounting to £200, se- cured to the fuitds. Two of the directors pre- sent gave £100 each, and the treasurer the like handsome sum. The boxes were handed round durinsthe meeting, and a very large sum collect- ed. no individual put seats the box.

PROTBS'I'ANT CHAPEL m JERUSALEM.—A letter from Jerusalem says,4-‘ the building of the Protestant chapel proceeds rapidly. For the present a house is hired. The English Church liturgy is translated into Hebrew, and printed, and the missionary Nikolayson performs divine service, with his assistant Pient. Of 400 Jews, 100 have embraced Christianity. Ati iii- atitution for converts has been established by the English Missionary Society, and a Hebrew prayerobook is to be published. The English consul endeavours to engage the Jews to culti- vate the land oftheir fathers, under the favour ofMehemet All, and considerable quantities of land have been purchased for foreign emigrants. It is said, there is somewhere a Talmudic saying, that when there shall be 25,000 Jewish inhabi- tants in the Holy Land, the laws and regulations VIIIIIGI be again enforced which prevailed when Palestine was a Jewish state. The rabbis in Turkey are endeavouring to complete the above number by colonists, which doubtless will not be dificult under the powerful protection of Eng- land. Some rich Jews in London and Italy iri- tend to establish factories and manufactories in Jerusalem, and some other considerable towns, under the protection of England. The English government has appointed a vice-consul in Jeru- Zl'ein for all Palestine.’-—Hamburg Correspon-

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Tina DAMAscus J EWs.—The Journal des De- bats publishes a letter from M.Cremieuni, stating, that on a demand of Darmon, a, lawyer at- .tdehed to the French legntion at Constantinople, M. de Ponties had on the 27th of April last, sent orders to M. Cochelet, the French Consul Gene- ral tnAlexandria, to enjoin COunt de Ratti Men-

ton, Consul ofFrance, in Damascus, to suspend

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Israelites of Alexandria had preyiously.addres-‘ sed a spirited memorial to Mehemet Ali,in which they entreated him to direct that rhetorturing of their coreligionists in Damascus should. cease, and that all the documents connectedmth .the affair should be forwarded to him. 'The,Vice- roy, it appears, acceded to their request. The Consul of Austria, in his report, draws a most horrible picture of the tortures to which seven of the prinpipa ewish inhabitants of Damascus were subjected, to extort n confessmn of qtheir alleged guilt.—Two of them expired after the most excruciating suffering. ‘ The barbarity of the torments i icted on the five others]. says Merlate, ‘is s frightful that a miracle of Pron- dence can alone have saved them from death. They were flo'gged with rods; they ware kep; plunged for hours together in cold water, and " * ‘ Alas! the cries and groans of the unhappy patients were heard afar. Their cars were torn off, their faces flayed, and their chins, beards and noses burnt with red hot irons. Sol- diers, in compliance with orders, trod under foot their attenuated bodies. Another torture was inflicted on one of them, Mussa Salonichi. Small pincers were introduced into his flesh, under the nails ofthe feet and hands. “ “ "‘ In a subsequent reportof the 23d of April, the Austrian Consul 'announces, that thetortures had been at last suspended, but that so rcely a day elapsed without some fresh insu ,t being offered to the Jews by the ignorant Christians. The first three physicians ofDamascus, who had been examined in the affair, were directed to proceed to a new verification of the supposed remains ofFather Thomas, and it was thought that they would be ultimately placed in a box and transmitted to the Academy of Medicineof Paris, who would decide whether they are the bones ofmen or animals. This course had been proposed from the commencement, by M. Lo- grasso, who unhesitatingly pronounced them to be animal remains.

A letter from a banker at Vienna, announces that the Archbishop ofthe Austrian capital had from the pulpit declared that no faith ought to be given to calumnies propagated against the Jews, representing that they kneaded their pas- cal bread with the blood Of Christians.

Courvoisier, the valet, and supposed murderer of Lord William Russell, has had his final exa- mination, and is committed to Newgate to await his trial. .

The recent publication of the last division of the report of the Charities’ Commissioners, closes an inquiry which has occupied upwards oftwen- ty years, and cOsts the country at‘ least £200,- 000. It is supposed that the total annual iii- come of endowed charities amounts to nearly £4,500,000. ' .

FLOODs.---'l‘|te Scotch papers speak of the occurrence of floods in several places. Though less destructive than those of 1829, they appear to have been productive of tnuch mischief-"Hap- pily there has been no loss oflife from the inun- dations. ' , .

Pssm, May 4.....We have jifs‘t/Ifit‘ii‘véd la- mentable news, that the populous, indtIstrious, and rich market town of Baja, in the County of Baes, on the Danube, with 16,000 inhabitants, was almost totally destroyed by fire ornthe 1st inst. It is said that about'5,000 hous s were burnt, with the places, several churches,,and all the great corn magazines. The value of the corn that is consumed is above half a million.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 26.----Emigmti0n lo Crrnarla.----Mr. Hastie presented a petition from the Emigration Society at Paisley, stating that many of the weavers of that town cannot, with a constant labour of fourteen hours perday, earn more than 43. each per week. The peti-‘ tioners prayed that means might be provided for sending many of those families out to Canada, and of giving tliem'small parcels of land to culti- vate for their support, and that they would give promissory notes for the repayment, at reasonable times, ofthe sums thus expended.

On June 2d, a very animated debate took place on the subject of emigration, on a prova sition of Mr. O’Brien to make liberal advances for Canada waste lands for the reception of the poor starving at home. ‘

[Correspondence of the Commercial fldvertiacrj Fort Jesup, La., May 7th, 1:840.

A most barbarous. not to say cowardly, act was recently committed by a party of Texans from or near Nacogdoches. About 25 men, well armed, attacked at midnight' a camp ofl Choc: taivs, somewhere in the neighbourhood of that place, killing six of the men, only two, I believe, escaping. They say the Texans killed them while asleep. The Texans, previous do this midnight murder, had killed two or three Choc- taws whom they had met in different places. A Dr. Norman, a Frenchman by birth, has re- cently been tried at Natchitoghes for a cttol' and deliberate murder, which has produced great excitement in that place, as he was a map here- tofore of respectable standing and considerable wealth. He was found guilty, and inslead of being hanged, was sentenced to twenty-one years’ imprisonment. A motion was made for a new trial and refused, and the prisoner, While the judges and sherifi'were at dinner in the ‘middle

out, and found a horse ready saddled mounted him and was off. ’

(From tlu Peoria Register, May 28.)

FINALE on THE OREGON ExssDiTION.-—A let- ter has recently been received by Mr. Burhans ofTazewell county, from Capt. Thomas J.-Farn: ham, leader ofthe party offourteen Peorians who set out a year ago for Oregon, written at Oker one ofthe Sandwich Islands, in Januarytlast. ’

Our latest previous advices from Capt.§F. left him at Brown’s Hole, in the Rocky Mountains,

all proceedingsagainst the Jews of that city. The:

with only one this Peoria companions, waiting to fall in With some company.- bound .to- the

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Columbia Riven—Though hm. his letterdhpedm not mention the fact, yet it is presumeIi 1 me- fall in with such a 6911:):[l11yéh‘alldI—tlléatjlo; gates uted his 'ourney wu . -

—- tin . e . - itidiitliraderftx‘dfp thg Methodist. mISSIOn—ng portion ofthe territory through whlgh he pass;- presents any thing attractive, or o ers any t ducements to farmers or any class of immigran s. In a word, all the unfavourable representajltons that'were made to him by returning traye eil’s, whom he met on the journey, and to which is then lent an incredulous ear, were abundantly realized. r ' -

THE LAST MURDER_IN FLORIDA.-—By a letter dated'Garey’s Ferry, May 25th,‘we have Lhe following account of a melancholy sceneaat occurred Oti thePicolata road on the 23d. n: wagon was coming out from St. Augustine find another going in ; both wagons were attac.e at about the same time, although about two miles apart, by parties of Indians numbering about 15 each. They killed two men in one _wagon, and three in the other; three were missmg and three made their escape—two of the misstng have since come in, one being fwounded, the other ruptured a blood vessel in running; his name is D. C. Vose. The Indians plundered the wagons of every thing; the one gotng in con- tained the wardrobe and articles belonging to Forbes’s Theatrical Company. One of the actors, a Mr. Lyne, and a musician, were ofthe number killed. ‘

One of theractors jumped out of the wagon and took to his heels; twuof the Indians follow- ed in pursuit, fired at and missed him; they then threw away their rifles and ran With their tomahawks, and whenever they came up near him he drew a pistol he had and they would re- treat. He thus kept them at bay for 3 miles, which enabled him to reach Fort Searle in safe- ty—the Indians close on him. There were only 6 men there. About 30 Indians came up, dress~ ed in the actors’ dresses, and danced all around the place, challenging the scldiers to fight, but they were too weak to sally out.

The Indians remained on the ground nearly_ four hours; they packed 2 mules and 1 horse with their plunder and pttt 03'. An express went to town, the citizens turned out in hot pur- suit, but did not reach the place until an hour after the Indians left ; they followed the trail to Six-m'ile-creek, a little below Picolata, where they found the Indians had crossed. The letter continues, “ Thus we go—the Indians as usual getting off. We are up in arms about it here. No further news from Fort King—I heard to-day, but cannot vouch for it, that Fort Crane, near

of the day, quietly Opened his window, jumped (

Newmansville, was taken by the Indians and all but one man killed. N. B.——Major Churchill had passed about an hour, coming to Picolata, and Major Vanness a short time only—neither saw any Indians—The ladies .of the theatrich corps went in the day previous.”

BENJAMIN. RATIIBURN.—Many ofour readers may not perhaps distinctly recollect the trial, for Forgery, and conviction of this man, who rose by his activity and enterprise from an humble ori- gin till he became the great speculator and lead- ing character of Buffalo; who at the time that his forgeries were discovered, in 1836, had in his employment two thousand labourers and ninety- seven agents, clerks, cashiers, dcc. doc. His dis- bursements at that period amounted to ten thou- sand dollars daily, and he was engaged in build- ings ofall kinds, mercantile transactions, com- mon carrying ; in ’short, to use a common ex- pression—he was at all in the ring. In carrying on this extensive business he found himselfsome- times presSed, and to relieve himselfhad recourse to forged acceptances and endorsements, upon which his high credit at the Banks enabled him to obtain the accommodation he required, and as he managed to redeem his spurious paper before It was due, he continued this system of raisino‘ funds, possibly without any fraudulent intentim: until his forged paper in the hands of the differ- ent Banks accumulated to an enormous extent. the amount of which has never been fully ascer- tained. But it is known that the names ofthirty five persons and firms were habitually used by him in effecting these transactions, in the course Of which he involved in his guilt a younger bro- ther and two nephews. After several delays and postponements this man was at length brouohtto trial, and notwithstanding great efforts aware made to save him, wasfonnd guilty upon the first of several indictments which had been preferred- against hint, which rendered it u proceed with the others, and he w imprisonment for life,

.Notwithstanding th his former bearing in and his character as a

nnecessary to as sentenced to in the Penitentiary.

e enormity of his offence, the days of his prosperity, . son, a husband, a brother and a friend, wrought strongly in his favour and a petition for a remission ofthe remainder (if his sentence, signed by several thousand citizens and many Of those who had suffered by his for: genes, has been presented to Governor Seward ofthe State of New York. To this Petition the

ness given a decided

H . nhisreltoe - titioners, which has been publishedp iii thtethdiv York‘papers,.he enters at length into the consi- derations which had weighed with him in refu- smg to lean to the side of clemency.

ALARMING PROGRESS OF S —The following specul paper, upon theiev increasing Steam are not very,

I TEAM NAVIGATION. . ations, frOin a New York ils to be anticipated from the co copuntunicgtiops with Europe, . nets on Wit tie “ . ” sentiment ofthe nation. New York Ga: agedii ofcominercial ambition,is jealous of Boston a); Boston, perhaps, is of New York. Hence’the

. Presbyterian. Chtirch of the United Statpg, - ' 160,000 to 180,000 communicants. ‘1. ‘ «

chum,’ in respect to more frgqttent -. commercial, social and political, ;wi world, and with Old England 11],. _ I According to the Nets Yorker, the urns, ‘ ‘ Unicorn, at Boston, is the forerunnerpf the United States, whose .morals are to. rupted; principles of political freedom t . . and seamen to be thrown out of employ , I a natural consequence of the event. Th. V logue~ofdisastets, is not, however, all told g enumeration ; for the loafers, (a groomer indigenous to the soil.,) are geared into th. that that “ Roman dignity, for which rican is distinguishgt'l in all circles, in, art from the lan . ' depThe Union”: and Steam Navtgatt ‘ enthusiasm displayed at Boston; on the. i, there of the first steam ship from_Englagd.r the prospect of the establishment of! ‘ line to Charleston and New Orlean . someiserious reflections; It is- very 7‘ . that great improvements may have a ve , our operation from what we at first exp Steam navigation from England, Fran ' must turn out.of employ vast numbers 41"" maSters and seamen. This reduction-o -‘ employment-of seamen and merchant sh go on in a ratio compounded of the dun ti time of passages, and the rate of expo“... frei ht and assert ers. " 2 Iig will ingrease gthe power of Europeto our markets with their goods, to fill our with their pickpockets and our country their panpers and vagabonds. It. IS'bu, say also, that it will facilitate the immigrat w a better and more valuable class ofpeoplex. _ the citizens ofa republic must be broughtup educated in the school of free government, ‘ J properly to understand its nature, or wise! exercise its privileges. And we declare, W11 » _ , any hesitation, that a new impulse given to ,’_ multiplication of foreigners on our shores, is t more likely, in the end, to. subject this count" to the ecclesiastical and political systems 0 Europe, than to’strengthen and sustain our ow institutions—a tendency which will be ma rially aided by other causes. ' 'J So easy a communication will carry our and daughters of wealth abroad, in shoals. T early exposed to the seductions and allure of courts and aristocratic society—to say hath ofthe vices Of Europe,‘ will they return si republicans? will they not lose their relis that plaiiitiess and simplicity of manners! that Roman .dignity and patriotism, war : which, a republican government cannot be it tained’l s‘ Had this successful experiment of ocean s navigation been postponed a half century. should have been, still, near enough to , ——we are now Within a stone’s throw.— ‘ [Morning News. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Acc0rdi a statement made in the General Assembl ting at Philadelphia, there are attached

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LONDON FASHIONS FOR JUNE.

The newest materials—alt this .moment for tire the mousseline prarie, organdys in srnallpatterna, barige, nnd baliste barege ecossaise. Lilac isae ,_ much in favour, and predominates both in dresses, ‘v nets and scarfs. I

Tight sleeves may he considered among the this season, though they encounter some opposition are only suitableto thick materials; they are so a l’Amatlis, with two scams, or en bluis with a seam, taking the form of the arm, having some the arm hole; oiliers are quite plain with , Corsages will continue fitting to the shape, with j couturcs, a row of buttons placed en V on two v seams, the skirts open on redingote, buttoning d _ front, or ornamented with gimp trimmings in. Arabic patterns, nceads, &c.; these are for v - stout materials. For poils de chevre, fancyche the trimmings will be generally of liais, no r wtth flounces, but always in threes,fives and Peignnirs for neglige are trimmed wilh twoor slim VNunkeen drésses are making in Paris embroider . Polonaise with silk or braid. Spencers and conn 4 are very fashionable. Lace and embroidery w very. generally used. Scarfs, shawls, bournoumof muslin are lined with lilac, pink, or p‘illef trimmed with lace. The most elegant bournous while cachcmere, embroidered in .colors, with frin match. ' »