... COMM ISSION. . I On Satunday last, at one o'clock, the Commission Court was opened by Judges Moore And Vandeleur, accompanied by the Lord Mayor and ci\vic authori- ties. The clerk of the crown having read the com- mission, the following grand juries were sworn:- CITY GRAND BURY. Robert White, ForemranJohn Power, Andrew Vance, Thomas Kirw'an, Andrew, Pollock, John Goold, Daragh Osborn,, John ...

... Dr. Elliotson, in a Lecture delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital, on Fever, mentioned, as the two besetting sins to which medical men are liable, the magnifying one particu- lar symptom or circumstance into a great cause, and the extolling any particular remedy or mode of treatment into almost a specific for numerous diseases. He gives some curious illustrations, amongst which are the following: ...

... I - - ?? AND. DRUGGiSTS. Some thirty or forty members of the above trade met on Thursday night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of taking into considerationk how they might procure an alteration or remis- sion of the taxes placed upon medicines by the 23d of George Ill. Mr. Midgeley (being called to the Chair) statedl that although he was not one of those who had been proceeded ...

... ANECXDOrES (FPSOU'ITI-AFRIIICAN DAI OONS, BY THOMAS ?Oi'NGI., E i. CrM The large dog-face babaon of So sib Afric. (3imai g1 C/ynocephalus, Cercopithecus, Uiesta) is knonis' t naturalists from the descriptitns Of SiaIi cmaIT, V il- lint, lIurchell, and other scieiitifie trseeinra. It is -in animal of considerable stresngib, ail attains, ahlen tUl- gfownl, the si2e 6f a very larire ...

... CHIANGES OF ANNET1S. s The following i. from thc peot of Captain Gros, the JA 1I .etnlirce snt iqitary, relio lied in the year 1791, lit thie Jst- . e ogf s -r.; it *v;s wrilten a2lto I the ye ir 1 72:- Bill. I cm i ain ii of little more titan fif'y venrs of Irf i a ge, trazyet Ihave nearly surheed errietyofsys- Pa' teirns asl,1 wmainers. Inhell I was a youn 'g min, there e'e sexistid i the ...

... H CO L O S -U - I J i: t~ S: THB.o COLOSSEiUM. i ; . . I . . , .: _ , , I . L - I . , W' E : s I' Frotn The Observer of Jrlgte diy. - We have been much gratified by a recent view of that wonderful- monu ment of the triumph, of art over nature-The' Coi.ossXeus, in the Regellt's Park-in its nowv :comparatively finished state. Every part has been co- pleted, if not on Mr. Hornor's plan' exactly, ...

... POLITICdL SArTE 0 PNR4NCErLxrr1sY X. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. XParis, December 28, 1829. Cettc crise polititize serai 1i ?? ,our U nous devoms 1'espdrcr; eue tolurnera a- jnofit dew I rbert;V.- I remember to have read .a pamphlet, writte'o- an old champion of the liberal side of politics in. England (John Crost)1 entitled These are the Times to, 'ry Men's Souls. The title ...

... -- I MR. t I - . ?? 004? Ortagglo AIM -Flallurbavo WOO. (froi~l thc German. Papers.) VIENNA, DEC. 18. N English courier coming from Lon- A don has passed through here on his way to ?? Constantinople. It is believed that he car- ries to Sir Robert Gordon the final result of the late conterendes in London, in which the entire in- dependence of Greece is declared. it is said that only a shoit ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON 'SIBS 31ST OF DEC. 1829. 1st Life Guards, Regent's Park; 2d do., Hyde Park; Royal Horse Guards, Windsor; Ist Dragoon Guards, Loeg- furd; 2d do., Cahir; 3d do., Coventry; 4th do., York ; 5th 6o., Canterbury; 6th do., Dorchester; 7th do., Ipswich ; Ist Dragoons, Manchester; 2d do., Badlincollig; 3d do., Shef-. field; 4th do., Bombay; 6th do., Dundalk; 7th ...

... Saturday afternoon the major part of the Committee se- lected to conduct a diversity of performances at the Hay- market Theatre, for the benefit of poor Isaacs, his wife, and distresse(l family, assembled at Covent-Garden Theatre, for the purpose of coining to some arrangement respecting the entertainments to be performed on the night of the l8th instant. It was resolved that allpossible ...

... LU011DOfl. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1820. The Paris p npers of Fridav are filled with reports IQu Of the trial of DI. Bertin, before the Cour ,Royale, for dui *- an offence against the King's person, and an attack Ian upon his Royal dignity and constitutional authority, takl published in the Journal des Debats in August last. ann An able and energetic speech for the defendan't was de. ott' ...

... .I AMERICd. Naw YOREc, DFc. 1.-The first Session of the 21st Congress commences at W~ashington on Monday next. The Presi- dent's Message will probably be delivered at twelve o'clock on Tuesday. Arrangements have been made by the several daily papers of this city to receive it by express in twenty hours after it is submitted. Like all other documents of the kind, it will be looked for with ...