at Ruel; this latter village has been the point of assemblage for all these troops, and they were put in march at four this morning, with their artillery, upon St Denis. The English can toned at Neuilly, nearly at the same time, took the same route. This morning, at nine, 800 men of the English infantry, preceded by their music, left Paris by the gate St Denis.

An alteration took place on Thurs day night at the Isle of May, by the substitution of an oil light, with re flectors, contained within a glazed room, instead of an exposed coal fire. The old light, established in 1635, consisted of a large choffer of coals placed on the top of the tower, lighted every night, consuming more than a ton of coals, and subject to great variations, according to the state of the wind. In December 1810, the Pallas and Nymphe frigates, deceived by a glowing lime kiln on the coast near Dunbar, which they mistook for the May light, were both lost. Sometime after, a treaty was entered into for the purchase of the property, which was followed by the passing of an act of Parliament, under which the light and island were bought from his Grace the Duke of Portland, and vested in the Commissioners for Northern Lights, by whose directions this new light has been completed.

The light-house on Inchkeith like wise underwent an improvement the same evening, by substituting a revolving in place of a fixed light. The magnificent light-house on the Bell Rock, a spot so long detrimental to the trade of Scotland, has rendered this place no longer dreaded.

The Carr, which lies about a mile and a half from Fifeness, has proved fatal to many a coasting vessel. Not longer ago than December, the James and Jean, of Queensferry, was wrecked upon it. This rock being of small dimensions, the erection of a super

structure has proved a more arduous undertaking; but the work is now in progress.

6th. Two industrious shoemakers, accompanied by the wife of a third, were going from Elgin to Granton market, a distance of 38 miles, with a few shoes in wallets on their backs. Having sold their goods, on their return by the Mannoch rod, they were overtaken in that dreary and desolate hill, far from any human habitation, by the terrible snow storm of Wednesday evening, the 17th January ; exhausted by wading in the deep now and the fury of the elements, no pitying eye or helping hand near them, they seem to have crowded together in a hollow place on the road side for rest or shelter: here they had been overpowered by sleep, and death was the consequence! A countryman passing along the same road the next morning, struck with horror on obser ving a hand and foot pointing through a wreath of snow, ran back a mile and a half to the nearest house, and brought assistance to dig the three unfortunates from their cold grave. Information being sent to Elgin (six miles off) a party of men with a hearse went to bring home the bodies to their sorrow. ing relations. Four poor families were at once thrown on the compassion and bounty of the public; and it is with much pleasure we record the liberality of the inhabitants of Elgin, who most readily contributed one hundred guineas towards their sup port.

The French government has suspended the circulation of English journals throughout France; a measure which will only increase the de sire to read them. In a pecuniary point of view, it will do little or no injury to any English paper, for such obstacles have been always opposed to their circulation on the continent, and such high prices demanded, that

the number circulated was very small. And although it has been found necessary to mitigate in some degree the first order of the minister of p lice, yet it is only altered thus far, that the postman was yesterday directed to deliver to the different subscribers their papers, on condition of paying three and sixpence for the postage of each journal, which previously cost only two pence. No subscriber would comply with this exorbitant demand, so that the newspapers were sent back to the post office, and in all probability now consigned to the flames. And, in fact, by these means the cir culation of the English journals in France is as effectually prohibited as by any coercive measure the minister of police could devise.

The Paris paper exhibit another lamentable proof of the morale of the disbanded French soldiery. One of these wretches, named Magloire, on receiving sentence of death, for at least 50 robberies and attempts to murder, coolly and impudently addressed the judges, expressing his hopes that they would order him "white bread and wine" until he was hanged, as he was a poor man, and had

honour of an unfortunate but certainly of a highly accomplished and vir tuous prince of the royal house of Stuart, is beyond all praise; perhaps no sovereign prince in Europe, and disavow all invidious distinctions, ever exhibited a similar trait of heroism and true magnanimity. The celebrated Canova is to execute the monument.

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It is said that Chief Baron O'Grady intends to dispute with the crown the appointment to the clerkship of the pleas in the Irish Court of Exchequer, and that he has actually appointed his own son to fill the situation, and his brother to the place of deputy. The clerkship is worth 15,000 per annum; the situation of deputy is estimated to produce 5000/.

There is a considerable group of spots visible at presen near the centre of the sun's disk, besides one very large spot not far from the sun's eastern limb, the diameter of which, on the 14th instant, exceeded three times the apparent thickness of the strata of luminous matter which surrounds the dark central nucleus of the sun.

14th.-CURLING MATCHES-On the 9th curt. a game was played upon the M Lean Pond, betwixt the parishes of Newlands and Penicuik; the game was divided into six rinks, two sevens to each; Newlands was successful upon three rinks, gaining 32 shots; Penecuik gaining 44 on the remaining rinks, entitled them to the honour of the day by twelve shots. On the 12th curt. in consequence of an agreement, twelve of the members of the Merchiston curling club met with twelve of the members of the Penicuik club, on Merchiston Pond, in the vicinity of Edinburgh. The game was played upon three rinks. After a keen contest, victory was declared in favour of Penicuik upon each rink, the first rink gaining 20 shots, the second nine, and the third four, making in whole 33 shots.

The day being fine, the game gave amusement to a great number of spec

tators.

On the 30th January, during a gale of wind from the S. E. three transports with troops, part of the army from France, were lost on the coast of Ireland.

The Seahorse was driven on shore in Tramore Bay, and 317 men, 30 women, and between 30 and 40 child. ren perished.

The Lord Melville and Boadicea were embayed and stranded in CourtMasherry Bay. Of the former, only 11 persons, including several officers' wives, were lost, having attempted to leave the wreck in a boat; but of the Boadicea, 196 perished out of 283, as she went ashore upon the rocks. They were all three fine coppered vessels, and well manned.

On Coombe Warren, last Friday, a battle was fought between Ballard, a little Westminster man, and a young Jew, lately a sailor on board a discovery vessel. Ballard is a veteran in the ring, and the odds were two to one on the Jew at setting-to, and increased to three and four to one during the battle. It was bravely maintained for 45 minutes, when the Jew, who was backed at the time at three to one, over-reached in hitting with his left hand, and the shoulder-bone slipped.

15th. Some Laplanders are arrived in London with game, which is selling by different poulterers in the city. These poor fellows expected, when they left Gottenburgh, that the pack et would land them in London, and that they would have no duties to pay; whereas they have been obliged to pay upwards of 50%. for duties, besides ten guineas for freight from Harwich to London. The state of preservation in which these birds are is really surprising, after travelling upwards of 1000 miles. They are

preserved by being hung up to freeze as soon as killed, and afterwards being packed in cases, lined with skins, to keep out the air. This process so effectually preserves them, that when the packages are opened, the birds are found frozen quite hard; and those packages which are not opened will continue in this state for some weeks. These Laplanders wear a kind of great coat, made of rein-deer skin, with caps and gloves of the same, which gives them a very grotesque appearance; they are very shy of appearing in the streets in this attire, on account of their attracting so many people round them.

The following account of a dreadful accident which happened in the parish of Lochbroom, Ross-shire, is given on undoubted authority :

"ULLAPOOL, January 8, 1816.— On the 21st October last, Thomas Craig, son of George Craig, pensioner here, a school-boy, about 14 years of age, while climbing for amusement, and unluckily exerting himself beyond his ability, slipt from near the topgallant mast of the sloop Friendship of this place, struck in his way the cross-trees and gunwale, and fell, with an awful crash, on the gravelly shore beneath, a height, as has since been ascertained, of full 60 feet, the vessel lying at the time dry in the harbour. He was carried into a shop, and laid gently on the counter. The boy, at first, appeared to be quite dead, but, after lying a short time, he began to exhibit some weak symptoms of life, upon which he was placed on a large plaid, and conveyed by four men to his father's house. Mr Pollock, surgeon, was immediately called, who found that, besides a number of smaller injuries, the boy had received a shocking transverse cut, or gash, directly under the chin, from jaw to jaw, and another, of nearly the same horrid size, on the right knee, that the left thigh bone was broken about the