... The following remarks are extracted from Observations on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords upon the Timber Trade:- Their Lordships suggest that the duty upon deals should be charged by a graduated scale, agcording to the cubical contents.: The grounds of this suggestion are stated to be, that 1 the same duty having been imposed in Great Britain on deals front 8 to s0 ...

... SAITIP NEWS.- The Wye, Captaina Fisher, U. replenisbing, and making good defects'; she will be ready for sea in tan davs. * Captain, George French has re.commnijsioneA the Sophie, and is fitting herout for foreign service. The Surinam, Captain Godfrey, has been fitted out for fo- reign service, and is ready for sea. Captain Jereoise has commissioned the Dispatch sloop, and is fitting her out ...

... HAMB URGH MAIL. CIgeSrTANIA, Fee. 2.-The following Is the remarkable Speech with whichi his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway opened she Norwegian Diet: N at RsP.R s1utrAriVrcS Or Tie: NATION I t4 Six years have elapsed since your King accepted the Com- pact that united you to a nation descended from the same in. cestors as yourselves-which secured you liberty, and placed you in the rank ...