... In the reigns of Elizabeth and James,-those peculiarlY 'Protestult Sovereigns-plays were repeatedly performed before them at Court oil Sunday evenings. MILITAAaY FLoGuIewG.-`We learn from Colonel Stanhope, that floggingr has been entirely abolished in the Prussian Army. I yvas however shocked (observes this true patriot) to reflect, that Phile we imitated the Prussians so closely in our ...

... SIRI THOMAS LETHBRIDGE AND THELNDED INTEREST. Any one who is acquainted with the constitution of the House of Corn- mons, and who observes, at the same time, in what manner it performs its legislative duties, cannot but know that there is no body of men within its walls whose talents and knowledge are so utterly insignificant as those of the Country Gentlemen-none whose power is so great-cer- ...

... FRENCH PAPERS Op SATURDAY4 SUNDAY., [FRO51 THE AIONITEUR 01F SATURDAY, JAN. 3.) Thle Official Part contain only the Table of the prices of C grain, to regulate the importation and exportation. b NON-OFFIClAL PART. i EXTRACT OF A LE'PrER FROM TnlE BANKS Or THlE VISTULA,2 DEC. a, 13, TAKEN FROM THE JOURNAL DE FRANKFORT. e Si-The observations which you will find annexed, and I which will not be ...

... A Meeting was yesterday held at the City of London Tavern, 3,xr~stafat to the following advertiscienet, which asppearedl in Th~e Mfor-ning Chronicle of the -10th instant;- '1TAX ON COALS.-TheC Committee appointed at a Meeting .of Inhabitants of London aind places adjacent; on thle 21st of p.ebruary, 1823, to Paocuitl a RtOIEAL Of tile COAST DUTY on COAL and CULUM, request the persons who then ...

... NEW MIJILITARY WRITERS. This is certainly a new era. We find common mechanics itof devoting theirleisisre hours to the study of the differenthrtauches 31a0 of .science, setting apart a pol-ion of their gains for the pur- )AY chase of philosophical apparaitus and 'bookie, and striving to acuretostttihnteh!har eriierfectly possessed Ni. enbyteigerakofoscotrs. There may he for smabgutheetrwthrset ...

... -nmm GO - CAPE' OF GOOD HOPE. [FRaOM A PRIVATf LrTT'ER.] On the 2d day of October last, at ten o'clock at night, 1 and John rescued 33 head of cattle from five armed Cahfres. They had stolen them from a boor's place, about 20 miles from us, and were driving tbem by my house, in order to cross the river for Caffre trotd; buot beinn a foggy night, I think they mistook my house for a bush, ot ...

... TILE 310INIAWG C(IIONVICLE. ry ve LO ND OON: C, TI-J URSDAY, JUNE 17, 1824. te Nothing so much astonishes enlightened Foreignei I who visit this country, as the loose state of the Law, c Dn matters of the utmost consequence, with reference to th hv welfare and happiness of individuals, whereby those t pe whom the execution of the law is comrnitted, may, fo 1(1 as the very same things pronounce ...

... Tile following has been sent to us by the persons under- signed:- AN EXACT ACCOUNT OF TIlE SITUATION, TiEArIAIENT, &C. OF Ri CARLILE'S SIIOPMEN IN NFWOGATE. 1. Tfhe place we are confined in is 22 feet by 16. It has three vindows, each with a paper casement, whicli must either be lept shut, to the exclusion of a great portion of light, or bear the cold winds that must occasionally beat in. In ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT :REAT BRITAIAND LADOF G'REAT BRITAIN AND'IR.E.CJAND. re TeHOUSE OF LORIDS.-MARCH 23. Ur TeLord Chancellor, and the Earls of Shaftesbury and- Harrowby, as the King's Commissioners, gave the Royal MyP Assent to the Sugar Bounties' Bill, the 4 per Cet oneso I Bill, the Army and Marine Mutiny Bills, the Irish Court of DU Exchequer Bill, the Female Orphan Asylum Bill, Iand ...

... jLETTERS FRoM BONAPARTE ro JOSEPHINE. Fac-similes of Eight Letters, from Bonaparte to Josephine, written during thle period which elapsed fiom his quitting Paris, to take the command of thle ariss of Italy, on the 4th of March, 1796, to the capitulation Of Malurta, On thle 2d of Febrary,1797 ar gien in a work, in two octavo volumes, !list published, ondcr thle title of' A 7husr thog ars h ...

... 'pORT F LOYONv :SOCIETY. ysterd 'y &ery utiamertnsh and ghblj reaeetable Meeting ,was held at the City of London TiV'eru, of t e supporters O the ociey fr~r~il~iO3 eli ifi'gIhtruction to ifte SetAmeni ofate toth rY he inquired if~ i asi the Com ite hairnyfvo Hi odsl t0Wth-'te6bjectsb6f't'te` Meeting, and, after an ap~ep~ro~t°5rqu tes -Report'of`theCns imittee wis read' hidht~5 ati g details, ...

... MECUANICS' INSTITUTION 'FIThfirst Quarterly General fleeting of this Institution, whichi was very numerously attended, took place last night at Dr. Lindsay's Chapel, Mon~kwtillstreet. Dr. Blik-beek, President of the Society, in the Chair. Tihe Report of the Corn- limte was readl, and contained some gratifying statements. Froum it wve learn that .the Society nowv consists of 1,300 Mem- ...