tance which a passenger on foot could accomplish in as many hours, and this without any deviation from the line of march for purposes of aggression or plunder. In the valley through which they passed only four houses were destroyed, which was the act of the inhabitants, who set them on fire to deprive the Russians of a shelter from the weather, which was of the most inclement description. As they proceeded, all that could be done by unarmed and undisciplined masses of people to annoy them was practised; they hung continually on their flank and rear, and kept this large force, a considerable portion of which consisted of cavalry and artillery, in full occupation. A few days previously the whole army had been compelled to march from the fort of Semez into the plain of Anapa, to meet there a convoy of three hundred carts with provisions and stores for the fort, brought from beyond the embouchure of the Kuban under the escort, along the plains of the sea, of some infantry and twelve hundred cavalry, who dared not advance further till joined by the army from Semez. The fate of Napoleon on his advance to Moscow was common in the mouths of the Circassian population, and they were determined to subject their invaders to the same consequences by laying waste, if necessary, the whole of the country. General Raverski, the commander of the Russian force, marched his army early in December towards the mouth of the Kuban, and was safely intrenched in his own territory. This terminates the eleventh campaign of the Russians in that country, since the fall of Anapa. What new operations the spring may bring forth remains to be seen, but this further instance of dogged perseverance by Russia in a favourite object, regardless alike of the waste of money and of life, should sink deep into the minds of all reflecting politicians. RESULT OF THE DEBATE ON LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S MOTION. The debate on Lord John Russell's motion commenced on Monday, and has been continued nightly since. Sir Robert Peel moved the amendment of which he had given notice. At three o'clock this morning the House divided, when the numbers were as follows: For the original motion For the amendment moved by Sir R. Peel Majority for Ministers... 318 296 22 Mr. Duncombe's amendment, which went to call for further substantial reform, was then put to the vote: The stagnation which has prevailed, during the last three months, in the foreign trade of this country, is producing the effects which might naturally be expected to result from its continuance. In one of the weekly cotton circulars received from Liverpool, it is stated" that the average consumption of cotton this year is at least 12 cent. less than last year, and if it should continue on this diminished scale the falling off for the whole year will be 100,000 bales at least. The trade have only taken from this port 264,110 bales, against 322,830 bales at the same time last year, showing a difference of 3,770 bales week. Notwithstanding this discouragement, the American speculators show no dispo sition to relax in their demands for high prices for the raw material,” OBITUARY. We regret to record the demise of Sir J. Dunlop, Bart., M.P., member for Ayrshire, which took place on Wednesday last at the family residence at Hastings. The late baronet, then Captain Dunlop, was returned for the county of Ayr in June, 1835, in opposition to Sir J. Cathcart, Bart., and was created a baronet by the present ministry on the coronation of the Queen, in June last. He married in December, 1835, Lady Harriet Primrose, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Roseberry, and sister of Lord Dalmeny, M.P., by whom he has left an infant family. By the Hon. Baronet's death a vacancy is caused in the representation of Ayrshire. On Friday, April 12, in consequence of a fall, the Marquess de Semonville, aged 82. Lately, at Oxford, Professor Rigaud. Mr. Rigaud was matriculated of Exeter College as the son of Stephen Rigaud, Esq., of Richmond, April 15, 1794. He proceeded B.A November 9, 1797; and M.A. November 21, 1799. Senior Proctor of the University, 1810. Reader in Experimental Philosophy and Professor of Geometry, in the same year. Delegate of Accounts, 1824. Delegate of the Press, 1825. Professor of Astronomy and Radcliffe Observer, 1827. A Vice President of the Royal Society, 1837-8. He was appointed Public Examiner on occasion of the alteration of the statute 1801, in conjunction with the present Bishops of Llandaff and Exeter; again in 1806, and lastly in 1835, as Examiner in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, when another change took place, and the Classical and Mathematical Examiners became distinct offices. Mr. Rigaud was also selected by the President of Magdalen Colledge (Dr. Routh) as the first examiner for the Johnson Mathematical Scholarship in 1835. We regret to announce the death of the Hon, Mrs. Mildmay, from the effects of her clothes having caught fire a few days ago. She was a daughter of Lord Ashburton, and will be long regretted by a very numerous circle of relatives and admiring friends. On the 21st of March, at Rome, Sir Herbert Taylor. G.C.B, aged 64. His mortal remains, after being embalmed at Rome, were conveyed to England for interment in the hospital of St. Katharine's, in the Regent's Park. Sir Herbert was attended in his last moments by his intimate personal friend, the Rev. John Ryle Wood, chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, who proceeeded from Malta to Rome to visit the gallant General on learning his dangerous illness. On Thursday, April 11, John Galt, the celebrated author of several popular novels and tales. Lately, at the Chateau of Ligonières, Chatelain, the Count de Calonne, one of the noble remnants of honor of ancient France, at the age of 91 years. It is our painful duty to annouce the death of the Honorable Michael O'Sullivan, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for this district, which event took place at half past eleven this morning.-From the MontrealCourier. Intelligence arrived yesterday morning of the death of the Earl of Caledon. This causes a vacancy in the representation of Tyroue County. The average prices of grain for the past month have been 0as ཀ་འ ཨ་ང་འ་་་་་འ་འ་ TELESCOPIC OBJECTS AND METEORLOGICAL REPORT. TELESCOPIC OBJECTS.—MAY. η 321 DOUBLE STARS.- Cassioper, both stars red; 6 8 Cygni, large star red, small blue; & Lyræ; 39, λ and p Ophiuchi, Cassiopea, large star fine white, small garnet; 46 w3, λ, 8 and ↓ Cygnus; & Herculis; 29 Andromeda, both stars reddish. NEBULE.-8 min. 19 sec. south preceding 9 Hydri; a little North of 26 B Persei; 2 deg. north following 77 e Ursa Majoris; south preceding 184 Camelopardalis (Bode); north following Cassiopea; near 14 Coma Berenicis, are three nebulæ; near the first d in Virgo. The planet Saturn will be in opposition to the sun, at 35 min. after 3, on the morning of the 29th; near the star w Ophiuchi, in R. A. 16 hrs. 21 min. 59 sec. Dec. 19 deg. 33 min. 35 sec. COMPUTED PLACES OF GAMBART'S NEBULOUS COMET, I839. May 3rd-Comet rises ENEN, at 25 min. before 4 in the morning. About 14 deg. S of Mesarthim Arietis. Right Ascension 1 hr. 50 min. 37 sec. Dec. + 17 deg. 20 min. 18 sec. 7th.-Rises NE by E, about 33 min. before 4 a.m.; forming an isosceles triangle with a and B Arietis, near a cluster of small stars of the seventh magnitude. Right Ascension 2 hr. 3 min. 8 sec. Dec. + 18 deg. 8 min. 36 sec. 11th.-4 deg. S of a Arietis; passing the meridian soon after that star. Right Ascension 2 hr. 16 min. 11 sec. Dec. + 18 deg. 55 min. 36 sec. 15th.-Rising NE by EN, at 8 min, after 3 in the morning. Near the star of the fifth magnitude in the back of Arietis, following that star about 2°. Right Ascension 2 hr. 29 min. 47 sec. Dec. + 19 deg. 40 min. 48 sec. 19th.-2 deg. following the double star e Ariesis. Right Ascension 2 hr. 43 min. 59 sec. Dec. + 20 deg. 23 min. 42 sec. 23rd. Rises NE by EN, about 3 a.m. north, following and Arietis, distant from the latter star about 2 deg. Right Ascension 2 hr. 58 min. 47 sec. Dec. + 21 deg. 3 min. 18 sec. 27th-Rises NE by E N, at 8 min. before 3 in the morning Equidistant from the stars 64 and Arietis, preceding the former star about 14 deg. Right Ascension 3 hr. 16 min. 11 sec, Dec. + 21 deg. 39 min. 59 sec. 31st.-Rises in the NE, at 15 min. before 3 a.m. 2 deg, following the brightest star in the Pleiades (7 Tauri.) Right Ascension 3 hr. 30 min. 15 sec. Dec. 22 deg. 11 min. 48 sec. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, From March 20th to April 20th, 1839. Only two changes of the wind have occurred during this month; and these have been attended by two general changes of the weather. During the first seven days the wind was South-west, and West with light breezes and occasional showers, causing the fields and meadows to exhibit a striking improvement in their appearance, and the crocusses suddenly to unfold their resplendent colours. The 28th was a cold stormy day, each storm bringing the wind more towards the North, and at ten at night, it blew directly from that quarter. For several days it inclined more and more to Eastward, and then, with slight variations, remained in the North-east till the 13th of April. On the 2d, 3rd and 4th of April, it blew a very strong breeze, and though the continued cloudiness of the sky prevented any great severity of frost, yet during those three days the thermometer in the daytime never exceeded 34. The power of the sun's rays,when he had the occasional chance of shining, moderated at length the severity of the daily temperature, and on the 7th, though the morning was sharp, it had the effect of drawing the wind rather towards the South; but at night it came back to the old quarter, from which it again blew with almost its former strength till the day before it changed. On the 13th and 14th there was much hesitation and variableness, and on the latter day a very strong inclination again to fix itself in the North-east. On the 15th, however, there was a lively breeze from the South, and the wind has been between that quarter and the West ever since, with occasional showers of rain, and a moderate temperature. So long and so strong a North-east wind has often been known later in the spring, but not often in the month of April There is evidently no wind peculiar to any period of the year except the North-east wind to May and June. HEATHERFELL was a straggling moorside village in the North-riding of Yorkshire; it had its burn and its brigg, the former had even acquired some celebrity from an anecdote or two preserved from dark traditional times though its stream was shallow, and in summer often nearly dry, yet it answered the miller's purposes, and sometimes came down roaring and raving in fearful spates of a winter's night. The Monks of Fountains had a Chantry there-a very humble scion of the magnificent mother establishment; but they therefore detached a few of their brethren to this bleak spot, to take spiritual charge thereof. The matter to which we are about to refer, chanced towards the close of the reign of Henry the Seventh, or the commencement of that of his son, that dread and puissant prince, the Eighth of his name. The people who form the drama, are few and obscure, and the ground whereon they were grouped, solitary and dreary. From their humbleness, heaven seemed to have so cast their lot as they might have been blameless; but accident, nature, or the devil, crossed their happier destiny. Between Oswald the miller and his conventual brethren, there was, as of need, frequent occasion of commerce he was a discreet and a thriving carl, and a devout vassal of holy church. There was an old ruined hall or mansion house, to whose whilom masters half of the hamlet and much of the neighbouring land had appertained; but the ancient knightly family had been ruined in the late sad wars-The heir was a Yorkist, and, if alive, was probably a |