... NEW MODE OF PROCURING SpiRiTS.—A simple and ingenious method has lately been devised and carried into effect, by which flour, in the formation of bread, is made also to yield a certain quantity of alcohol. A tube communicates with the oven in such a manner as to collect the vapour which rises from the 'bread during the process of baking. This is then conveyed into an- other apartment, and made ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE MILITARY-DISPERSION GF THE LEVELLERS AND APPREHENSION OF THE RINGLEADERS. Our account of the proceedings in the Forest of Dean last week was necessarily concluded at a very interesting crisis, like an act in some dramatic entertainment, where the curtain drops upon a scene of great excitement, leaving the imagination upon the fret, until the time arrives for its further ...

... Øtarketø. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, June 13.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight have been, of English and foreign wheat, English and foreign oats, and English flour, moderate of barley, malt, pulse, and seeds, very limited; of American flour rather great. The day's market was thinly attended both by London and country buyers, particularly the latter. Barley, on account of the high ...

... Borough, Monday, June 13.—Our hop trade, owing to the ap- pearances of the bine having been greatly improved by the late genial showers and favourable change in the temperature, has become exceedingly dull at a depression in the price of old hops of from 5s to 20s, in new ones generally 20s to 30s, in some in- stances 40s per cwt. Currency East Kent, in pockets, 1830, f7. 10s to £12; 1829, £ 6 ...

... LONDON NEWS. The Duke of Sussex presided on Saturday at the Anniver- sary Festival of the Highland School Society. His Majesty, as a patron, sent a donation of £ 50; the subscriptions were liberal, exceeding that of last year by £ 250. 20,000 child- ren are receiving the benefits of education at the expense of this institution. It is expected that the King will shortly pay a visit to his ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. We understand that the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Mulgrave are to move and second the address in the the House of Lords, and Mr. Charles Pelham, member for Lincolnshire, with Sir John B. Johnstone, member for Yorkshire, will do the same thing in the house of Commons. The accounts from Poland in the French journals continue to be satisfactory. A private correspondent in the ...

... LONDON NEWS. His Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knight- hood, on Wednesday, at the Levee, upon Colonel Stephen Remnant Chapman, of the Royal Engineers, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bermudas. Lord John Russell has been honoured with an invitation to dine with the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London, in order to receive the freedom of the city. Her Majesty's last Drawing ...

... Sarah Siddons was the eldest daughter of Roger Kemble, and was born on the 16th of July, 1755, at a public-house, called the Shoulder of Mutton, at Brecknock. Her father was the manager of a strolling company of comedians hence the family penchant for the theatre. Her first appearance on the stage is narrated by Mr. Holcroft in his memoirs ;—it was for the benefit of her father, when she was ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. Extract of a private letter of the 26th ult. from Lis- bon :—A messenger, who had been sent to Madrid by Don Miguel, when he received the ultimatum from the com- mander of the Endymion, returned yesterday. The Princess Maria Theresa, eldest sister of Don Miguel, and who has always been the organ of Ferdinand VII. in the affairs of Portugal, advises her brother not to yield, ...

... THE LATE REVOLUTION AT RIO JANEIRO. The abdication of the Emperor Don Pedro, and his abandon- ment of Brazil, is far from being an unforeseen or unexpected event. Since the separation of that extensive colony from Portu- gal, by treaty in 1825, the Brazilians have been jealous of any renewed connexion with Europe calculated to involve them in European quarrels. Their chief motive in adopting ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. MR. EDITOR,—In a late number you stated the population of the parish of Monmouth to be 4916; and you properly observed that, as the borough extended over a considerable portion of the parish of Dixton, the return for that part of the borough would increase the aggregate to about 6000. Now, I understand, the return directed to the parish officers will ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, JUNE 14.—The new members began to assemble soon after 12 o'clock, in the Long Gallery, where the Marquis of Wellesley, habited in his robes of office as Lord Steward, ad- ministered the oaths to the members of the new parliament. Among those who earliest presented themselves were, Sir R. Peel, Sir C. Forbes and his son, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr- Tennyson, Mr. ...