Catalani, has published at Paris, under the title of State of the Italian Theatre, a refutation of some calumnies, which had been circulated against his wife, as Directress of the Theatre Feydeau. She had never made unlawful profits at the expense of performers. Her supplies from Government are less by 130,000 francs than those of the former administration of the Odeon. She had deposited 120,000 francs as security, and had to pay a great rent, as well as to make many repairs. During her absence she had lost 100,000 francs; and in the present state of affairs, she had no profit except when she sang. Her expenses are 32,000 francs per month; the Government pay 21,000; thus she loses whenever the receipts do not amount to 11,000.

The Prince Regent, in Council, lately sent an order to the Royal Court of Guernsey, to prohibit the importation of French silks, lace, &c. into that island. After the order had been read in open Court by the King's Treasurer, the Court refused to register it, alleging, that it militated against the long established customs, rights, and privileges of the island; that the islanders had suffered great privatious by the abolition of smuggling; and that should the importation of silks and lace be put a stop to, it would reduce many to poverty and distress. The Court further ordered, that a humble representation should be made to the Privy Council of all those circumstances, and praying that the order might not be put in force in Guernsey.

The Fife case, which has excited great interest in Scotland, as involving property to a large amount, has just been decided by the Court of Session in favour of the Earl of Fife. The late James Earl of Fife, his uncle, had acquired in his lifetime by purchase, estates to the value of upwards of 20,000l. a year, which he conveyed to trus tees, the rents of which were to accumulate for an indefinite period,excluding his nephew and heir at law, the present Earl, from any future benefit whatever in the estates. An action was brought before the Supreme Court in Scotland for reducing the deeds, on the ground, that in the year 1808, when they were executed, his lordship was so blind as not to be able to read any written instrument or printed book, and that they were not read over to him and signed in the presence of all the subscribing witnesses, as the Law of Scotland requires. These allega tions were proved, after a long trial before the new Jury Court, who made their report accordingly to the Court of Session. After bearing counsel, at great length on the import of the verdict of the Jury, the Court gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff, thereby reducing the deeds in question.

Our readers will remember the indecent and mercenary, conduct af some persons attached to St. George's chapel at Windsor, on the ceremony of the funeral, of the

A Secret Committee has been appointed, preparatory, we suppose, to a Bill of Iodemnity. The Treaty with Spain underwent one night's debate, and was, we think, fully justified, as one of great national pride, wisdom, and honour. We cannot say, how ever, that we assent to the justice of an argument adduced by Mr. Wilberforce, though it seemed to be cheered by the House; namely, that the 400,000l. paid for the extinction of the Slave-trade, would be a tax of only about twopence per man on the British population. It is not the amount which proves the elegibility or impropriety of such transactions; and did not this treaty stand on far better grounds, it is not that only one day's bread should be taken from a hungry mouth to fulfil it, which should re-, concile either statesmen or the people to its terins. But the treaty is as expedient and prudent as it is just and ennobling.

From the high price which grain has kept up, in spite of our late abundant harvest, the ports of this country will be open to im portation for the next quarter, commencing Feb. 15.

Of a mixed nature, between politics and science, a Society has been formed for the furtherance, by public subscription, of the measure recommended in the Royal Speech, respecting the erection of Churches. Every thing of this sort is now done by calling a meeting at a tavern; having commendatory. speeches made; publishing the proceedings in the newspapers; and gratifying human vanity, by advertising the list of subscribers. We will not however quarrel with these, means, provided the object, as in the present, instance, be good. We only smile at the, excellent Archbishop of Canterbury presiding at a Tavern Meeting; and with all our hearts applaud his purpose, and wish it the utmost success. Only one sugestion we. deem requisite, and it is that a fair and

honourable competition be opened for our native artists on this occasion. Architecture languishes in this great country, and it is devoutly to be hoped that the building of these churches may not be made Parish Jobs. On the night between the 10th and 11th instant, an attempt was made to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, as he entered the gate of his hotel, in Paris. The villain, who had concealed himself near the place, rushed out as his Grace's carriage approached, and fired at him, thank Providence, ineffectually. He then made his escape, and it does not appear that any clue has been obtained to trace him to his lair. The political journals have mounted an argument on this diabolical act, and eagerly discuss the question, whether the attempt was the result of public or private vengeance.

An official intimation was given on Friday the 20th inst, on the duties on timber. "That upon a full consideration of all the circumstances of the case, and more particularly with reference to the Act of the 55th Geo. III. c. 86, (by which timber from the British North American colonies is exempted from Duty till the 25th March, 1820, it is not at present the intention of his Majesty's Government to submit to Parliament any alteration of the law, as it now stands, in respect to the importation of timber, whether from our own colonies, or from Foreign States." To give our readers some idea of this trade, and of its value to the Shipping Interest, we need only state, that in 1816, 783 British Ships (for none other are allowed to be employed in it) of 181,384 tons burthen, and navigated by 8783 British Seamen, arrived in Great Britain from British North America ; and to satisfy the Manufacturers of the deep interest which they have in this question, we shall merely quote from the printed documents, that in 1800 the official value of the Exports to British North America was 937,8241. 178. 11d. whilst in 1814, it was 4.080,9901. 9s. 2d. !!! an increase, which must astonish persons unacquainted with the practical details of the subject, and convince the Manufacturing Interests of the importance of the Trade to them. Besides, the Mother Country, in her intercourse with the colonies, realizes all the advantages of it, direct and collateral,

To such an extent has the carrying trade of money been on the Jamaica station, since the peace of 1814, that within the last command, the sums paid by the British and Spanish Merchants, for the freight only, amount to no less than 300,0004, onethird of which the Commander-in-Chief receives as his share,

The Greenland fishery is likely to derive considerable advantage from a newly-invented harpoon, calculated to save the whale in case of the shank of the harpoon breaking, which is frequently the case. The improvement consists in placing a

kind of preventer, made fast to the eye of the foregauger, which, passing along the shank of the harpoon, is attached to the thick part of it in such a manner as neither to lessen its strength, nor impede its entrance when the fish is struck.

It appears, from a list of each class inserted in the last number of Annals of the Fine Arts, that modern patronage has created in England not less than 931 professional artists of various descriptions, in and near the metropolis; of whom there are 532 painters, 45 sculptors, 149, architects, 93 engravers in line, 38 in mixed style, 19 in mezzotinto, 83 in aquatinta, 22 on wood; and it deserves to be especially noticed among the painters there are no less than 43 ladies.

A letter from Sierra Leone mentions the return to that place of the British scientific expedition for exploring the interior of Africa. They were completely unsuccessful, having advanced only about 150 miles into the interior from Rio Nunez. Their progress was there stopped by a chief of the country, and after unavailing endea vours, for the space of four months, to ob tain liberty to proceed, they abandoned the enterprise, and returned. Nearly all the animals died. Several officers died, and, what is remarkable, but one private, besides one drowned, of about 200. Captain Campbell died two days after their return to Rio Nunez, and was buried, with another officer in the same spot where Major Peddie, and one of his officers, were buried on their advance.

A dreadful event lately took place in the neighbourhood of Castris, in France. The gend'armerie of that town received orders to arrest in his house the Sieur N, condemned to death for contumacy. His house stood by itself in the open fields. They summoned him to surrender, He armed himself with a fusil, half opened the door, and pierced M. Andoni, Brigadier, with two bullets. The brother-in-law of the Sieur N. and his domestics wished to sup-' port him in the resistance he made; but the gend'armes fired, and mortally wounded two of them. The son seeing they were preparing to set fire to the house, exhorted his father not to prolong a useless resistance.-"Yes, my son," said his father, "I am about to give myself up;" and immed diately blew out his brains.

A letter from a gentleman sent on purpose to ascertain the state of the Indian, lost off Roscoff, states, that the bodies of 143 of the unfortunate sufferers have been found and buried: the crew and passengers amounted to 198, and not to 240, as was reported. The only survivors from this melancholy shipwreck are two pigs, that came, on shore in one of the boats without damage. The vessel is scarcely to be seen at. low water. She has been sold for 2,000 livres.

FEB. 12.

The Rev. George Walker, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, has been presented, by the Master and Fellows of that Society, to the rectory of Papworth Everard, in that County, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. W. Rose.

OXFORD.

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1817, the last day of Michaelmas Term, the following gentlemen were admitted to Degrees :

Doctor in Civil Law.-Rev. Jas. Moore, of St. John's College.

Bachelors in Divinity,-Rev. John Russel, some time Student of Christ Church, and

How master of the school of Charter House, Grand Compounder.

Rev. Charles Wrottesley, Fellow of All Souls' College.

Masters of Arts.-Rev. William Sutton, of Balliol College.

Mr. Charles Henry Watling, of Jesus Coll.

Rev. Robert Heath, of St. John's Coll. Rev. Robert Faithfull, of Wadham Coll. Bachelors of Arts.-Mr. John Sydenham, of Exeter Coll.

Mr. Francis Bayett Grant, of Christ Church.

Mr. Wm. Ferriar, of Brasennose Coll. Mr. Gilbert Henderson, of Brasennose Coll.

Frederick Sullivan, Esq. of Brasennose Coll.

Mr. Thomas Johnson, of Brasennose Coll. Mr. John Woodcock, of New Coll. Mr. George John Thomas, of St. Mary Hall.

Mr. Nicholas Aylword Vigors, of Trinity Coll.

Mr. George Warry, of Trinity Coll. Mr. Philip Filleul, of Pembroke Coll. The whole number of Degrees in Michaelmas Term was-D. D. 5 ; D. M. 2; D. C. L. 1; B. D. 6; B. M. 2; B. C. L. 3; One incorporation of B. C. L.; M. A. 19 ; B. A. 70; Matriculations, 143.

The whole number of Matriculations for the last year, ending at Michaelmas, was 335.

The number of candidates to whom Testimoniums for their Degrees were given by the Public Examiners, on the 12th, but who were not admitted into either of the classes, amounted to 43.

Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXIII. Feb. 1818.

JAN. 17, 1818.

Wednesday, the first day of Lent Term, the following gentlemen were admitted to Degrees:

Doctors in Divinity. - The Rev. H. B Wilson, of Lincoln College, rector of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, and St. Thomas the Apostle, in London, Grand Compounder.

Bachelor in Divinity.—The Rev. A. Matthews, Fellow of Brasennose Coll.

Masters of Arts.-The Rev. J. Watkins, Scholar of Jesus Coll.

Rev. J. Charnock, of Merton Coll. Bachelors of Arts.-Mr. J. Elliott, of St. Edmund's Hall,

Mr. W. Robinson, of Magdalen Hall. The Regius Professor of Modern History proposes, during the present Term, to read two courses of Lectures; one on History, and another on Political Economy.

TH

HE Rev. Richard Chapman, to the vicarage of Tannington, with the Chapel of Brundish, in Suffolk.

The Rev. Charles David Brereton, M.A. to the rectory of St. Edmund the King, in Norwich, upon an exchange for the rectory of Hullcott, Buckinghamshire, to which the Rev. John Athow has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln.

The Rev. Edward Offspring Holwell, Master of Arts, to the rectory of Plymtree, Des van, void by the death of the Rev. Daniel Veysie.

The Rev. Joseph Fayrer, M.A. to the prebend of Heredum Morney, alias Mornay's, founded in the Church of Endellion, Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Flamank.

The Rev. G. M. Slater has been appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Cambridge, regular afternoon-preacher, on Sundays, at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Cambridge.

The Rev. John Woodrooffe Morgan, A.M. of University College, Oxford, has been appointed to the rectory of Samt Giles, in Colchester, upon the presentation of Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, and Thomas Frost Gepp,

Esqrs. void by the resignation of the Rev. J. F. G. Fortescue, A.M.

The Rev. Charles Mann, A.B. to the perpetual curacy of West Dereham, Norfolk, patron, and Rev. George Leonard Jenyns, of Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, Prebendary of Ely.

The Rev. John Wicklow, to the rectory of Manstone, Dorset, patron the Right Hon. Lord Bolingbroke.

The Rev. George Walker, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. W. Rose, patrons the Masters and Fellows of Trinity.

The Rev. T. A. Dale, to be Second Master of the Grammar School at Louth, instead of the Rev. William Stopford, deceased.

The Rev. Thomas Jephson, B.D. and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be one of the Duke of Northumberland's Domestic Chaplains.

The Rev. Wm. Watson Dickens, rector of Hawkeridge, and Vicar of Folkstone, Kent, to the rectory of Adisham cum Staple, void by the decease of the Rev. John Palmer, patron the Archbishop of Canterbury.