... TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have to return thanks to our correspondents generally, for the very numerous communications and offers of support which we have received. Our gratitude to some, however, is considerably diminished by the labour we have had in de- ciphering what, we presume, they would term writing, and we were preparing a serious and angry expostulation on the subject, when we happened to ...

... APRIL, 1829.—It is now time to say something of St. Peters- burgh, and I can assure you that this is a task I enter upon with considerable reluctance, as the subject has so recently been dis- cussed by more able and accomplished travellers, yet I should but ill discharge the duties of your correspondent were I not to contribute my mite, and should pay but a poor compliment to the Russian ...

... William Salewell was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Sarah Salewell, at Ruspcdge-Meon, St. Briaval's. Mr. Justice (with whom was Mr. Watson,) in stating the case to the jury, said that the prisoner was a foundling—no one was acquainted with the place of his birth or his parents while an infant he had been left at the door of a farm-house called Sollywell or Salewell, and from that ...

... ISrtttsjfj. A bazaar sale of fancy articles, for the benefit of the West Herts Infirmary, an institution established a few years ago at Hemel Hempstead, by Sir Astley Cooper, was held on Thursday and Friday last at Bushey House, near Wat- ford, under the auspices of the Countess of Clarendon. The popularity of this distinguished patroness called forth the active exertions of the young ladies ...

... GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, %mns. Farliament it is-expected will be prorogued the second week in June, as the only business which remains to be dis- posed oi this Session is the proposed plan for improving the Police of the Metropolis. A considerable part of the time of the Members has been consumed receiving number- less petitions for and against Catholic Emancipation, and in the prolonged debates ...

... All the intelligence which has been received from the East of Europe since the conclusion of the treaty between the Russians and Turks is favourable to the hopes conceived of its effects, and of the good faith of the contracting par- ties. The fine-spun stories of the Parisian papers, of the insurrectionary movements of the Pachas in the rear and on the flank of the Russians, have vanished, ...

... The following Petition has been prepared by the Cork Committee to be presented on the meeting of Parliament:— THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED LAY MEM- BERS OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRE- LAND, INHABITANTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF CORK, HUMBLY SHOWETH, That your Petitioners regard the United Church of England and Ireland as the chosen instrument of Almighty God to pre- serve ...

... As the important measure of supplying the town with water is now revived, it appears proper that the detail of the plan pro- posed upon a former occasion should be submitted to your consi- deration, and at this time, because the adoption of any one plan will prevent the proposal of another at a future time, even if the first should be defective. Mr. Smith, the engineer, recommended that the ...

... Smithfield, Monday, May 25.—There was very little trade on Friday for any thing but lamb, which sold readily at the currency of last Monday. To day our supply of beasts is particularly short, and as buyers were free the best things obtained £ 1 in on the terms of this day week. The whole will be sold out. There is a better demand for mutton than we have observed for some time, but the price is ...

... The amount of the land forces voted for the service of the year 1829 was 89,723 men, exclusive of the men em- ployed by the East India Company. The sum voted for the whole expences of the army, including every change connected with it, was £ 6,336,231. The British army is composed of one hundred and three battalions. About twenty of these are in the service and pay of the East India Company, ...

... AIR. WILLIAM Jmms's ALMS HousES AND FREE: GRAMMAR SCHOOL. This is a perpetual charity; and the name of the founder will be co-eval with the existence of Great Britain as a civilised country for who but barbarians will ever dare to con- fiscate the inheritance of the poor? The objects of the charity are to clothe the naked, give food to the hungry, and instruction to the ignorant. Though the ...

... The ground appropriated to the course is the most beautiful part of the Duke of Richmond's park, who has raised these races from comparative obscurity until they now rival all others in the goodness of the sports, and greatly surpass them in the excellence of the arrangements. The race-couise has a straight run out, a good hill, a fine turn, and a beautiful straight run In it is two miles and ...