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vessel on board of which her Royal 

 Highness was, to perform quaran- 

 tine in the strictest manner. 



A letter from Cologne, of the 

 l'2th of June, says : " To-day we 

 had the entirely novel spectacle of 

 a steam boat entering our port : 

 it is to ascend the Rhine and the 

 Maine as far as Frankfort . Should 

 Bavaria execute the project of 

 uniting the Rhine and the Da- 

 nube by a canal, the navigation 

 by steam boats might then be 

 continued to Vienna." 



15. Extract of a private letter 

 from Bordeaux : — " We really do 

 not know here where we are. We 

 sit with our doors and windows 

 closed, and with fire burning on 

 the hearth, as in the middle of 

 winter. It is as cold as in Octo- 

 ber, and the sky is dark and 

 rainv. ^ iolent winds, accompa- 

 nied with heavy lains and hail, 

 rage round our country houses ; 

 the low grounds are imder water; 

 if we have one tolerably warm 

 dav, several cold and rainv ones 

 are sure to follow. The oldest 

 people in the country do not re- 

 collect such a summer." 



16. At Lucerne emigration for 

 America finds several paitisans. 

 About 100 of this canton went off 

 with the last set ; but in the 

 canton of Glaiis it is felt more 

 strongly. ^\'ithin a few weeks 

 30 persons left a single commune 

 of this canton for Russia ; and 

 between the 1st of ]Marcli and Gth 

 of June 400 passports had been 

 dehvercd. Still greater emigra- 

 tion is apprehended. Misery aug- 

 ments daily. The multiplica- 

 tion of English machinery in the 

 thread-manufactories diminishes 

 the resources ; and even weaving, 

 the only resource of the poor, is 

 threatened with a like fate. 



Special Commission at Ely. 

 Monday, June 17. 



This day, at ten o'clock, the 

 Hon. ]Mr. Justice Abbot, ^Ir. Jus- 

 tice Burrough, and Ed. Christian, 

 Esq. Chief Justice of the Isle of 

 Ely, arrived in this town, pre- 

 ceded by a cavalcade consisting of 

 th.e principal inhabitants, and im- 

 mediately repaired to the court- 

 house, where tiiey opened a spe- 

 cial commission for the trial of 

 the persons charged with having 

 riotously assembled, and com- 

 mitted various felonies at Little- 

 port and Ely. The commission 

 having been read, the Judges pro- 

 ceeded to the cathedral, where 

 divine service was performed, and 

 a sermon preached by the Rev. 

 Sir H. B. Dudley. 



The Court reassembled at one 

 o'clock, and the preliminary busi- 

 ness being concluded, and the 

 grand jury sworn, Mr. Justice 

 Abbot made an address to them ; 

 after which, the Court adjourned. 



The trials commenced on the 

 ISth, and were continued daily to 

 the 22d, when tliey terminated 

 with the capital conviction of 34 

 jjersons on charges of burglary 

 and robbery. Mr. Justice Abbot 

 tiien made an impressive address 

 to the criminals, and having pro- 

 nounced sentence upon each se- 

 verally, he left five of them with- 

 out liopes of mercy. They were 

 all deeply affected during this 

 awful scene, and were taken from 

 the bar in an agony of grief. The 

 remainder of the prisoners being 

 put to the bar, Mr. Gurney said 

 he was instructed, on the part of 

 the crown, not to prefer any pro- 

 secution against them , upon which 

 they were discliaiged by procla- 

 mation, and the commission was 

 dissolved. 



Warsaw. 



