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turned towards the barracks. 

 Nothing remarkable happened in 

 this street, although it was veiy 

 crowded, except the taking of 

 two men, one of Avhom was 

 immediately rescued. A few 

 windows were broken in Calton. 

 Several individuals besides those 

 above stated have been taken into 

 custody. — Glasgotv Citron. 



Glasgow is well known to be 

 one of the best recruiting stations 

 in the kingdom j and so many 

 spirited young lads enter the 

 service, that there is scarcely a 

 person in the operative classes in 

 the town or neighborhood who 

 has not relations in the army. 

 But in no place we believe are 

 the military exposed to more in- 

 sult, when called out in the ful- 

 filment of their duty, than in this 

 very city. It is generally alleged, 

 that the Scotch claim fully their 

 own share of the merit in all 

 the battles in which their coxnitry^ 

 men liave been engaged, and that 

 the Highlanders are particularly 

 the theme of their praise ; but 

 no person would suppose this 

 to be the case, who witnessed 

 the manner in which the officers 

 and soldiers of the 78th regiment 

 were used yesterday in the sub- 

 urbs and streets of Glasgow. — 

 Glasgow Herald. 



9. Copy of a letter addressed 

 by the French Minister of the In- 

 terior to the Marquis of Ville- 

 neuve, Prefect of the Cher : — 



" Monsieur le Prefect, — After 

 a long dispersion, the remains of 

 the ancient IMonks of la Trappe 

 have assembled, from all parts of 

 the world, amidst the njins of 

 their old abbey. Their property 

 has been sold, and the greater 



part of the buildings have been 

 alienated or demolished. Bene- 

 volence alone has supplied M. De- 

 lestranges, their respectable Abbe, 

 with the means of repurchasing 

 some buildings, wheie these good 

 fathers have re-found a roof vmder 

 which their old age is but badly 

 covered. Their virtue has at- 

 tracted to them men of various 

 classes, even warriors, who come 

 to share their voluntary rigours. 

 The Order of La Trappe has still 

 about thirty members. 



" Hard as is their life, con- 

 sisting wholly in privation, they 

 are about to want wherewith to 

 sustain it : the roof which shelters 

 them must fall, if charity do not 

 come to their succour ; and it is 

 to avoid applying again to foreign 

 hospitality that M. Delestranges 

 solicits the permission of making 

 a collection in France. 



" I have thought it my duty 

 M. le Prefect, to authorise the 

 request of M. Delestranges. It 

 cannot but be interesting to the 

 bishops ; and I beg of you to 

 afford him all the facility that 

 may depend on your administra- 

 tion. (Signed) Laine." 



10. The assassination of Mr. 

 Lyell, the King's Messenger, at 

 Madrid, is fully confirmed by offi- 

 cial accounts from Mr. Vaughan, 

 British Envoy at the Spanish 

 capital, to the Government at 

 home, and also by letters from 

 an Finglish gentleman at Ma- 

 drid to Mr. Lyell's family at Pim- 

 lico. 



Mr. Lyell, it appears, was in 

 the daily habit of walking in the 

 Retiro from 10 o'clock in the 

 morning till two o'clock in the 

 afternoon, at which hour he ge- 

 nerally 



