Bloomsbury-square. Westmacott is the artist, and it is in his best style. The work consists simply of a statue of Mr. Fox, of colossal dimensions, being to a scale of nine feet in height, executed in bronze, and elevated upon a pedestal of granite, surmounting a spacious base formed of several steps or gradations. The whole is about 17 feet in height. Dignity and repose appear to have been the leading objects of the artist's ideas he has adopted a sitting position, and habited the statue in the consular robe, the ample folds of which passing over the body, and falling from the seat, give breadth and effect to the whole the right arm is extended, the hand supporting Magna Charta; the left is in repose the head is inclined rather forward, expressive of attention, firmness, and complacency: the likeness of Mr. Fox is perfect and striking. The inscription, which is in letters of bronze, is, "Charles James Fox, erected MDCCCXVI." This statue, and the statue of the late Duke of Bedford, by the same artist, at the other extremity of Bedfordplace, form two grand and beautiful ornaments of the metropolis.

In Glasgow, one of the curiosities shown to strangers, and one of the greatest curiosities in Britain, is a cow-house, set up on his own plan by a Mr. Buchannan, an old but a very skilful and successful master weaver. In this cow-house are kept constantly about 300 cows in the neatest, most clean, and healthy order. The house (one room) is a square building, the roof supVOL. LVIII.

ported in the centre by iron pillars. The floor is boarded, washed clean and sanded. Small long stages, about a foot above the floor, are erected, each containing perhaps twenty cows. These stages are just as wide as the cow is long, and behind the cow is a trough to carry away what falls from it. They are kept two and two together, are fed regularly with grass of some kind, and watered; women attend upon them and groom them as men do horses, but during the nine months they are in milk they never change their situation. They live upon about six square feet each : yet their skins are always sleek and silky, they are fat and beautiful. The moment they become dry they are sold to the butcher, for whom they are highly fit. The owner has a man or two travelling about the country purchasing new ones, coming into milk; the owner, too, keeps a farm, which the cows' manure enables him to dress well. In this way the business goes on like clock-work, it being but secondary to his weaving trade, and has gone on for eight years,- -no bustle, no confusion; and he sells his grass milk for half the price the Londoners sell their nauseous mixture, though land is dearer around Glasgow than around London.

22. A barbarous murder with robbery was perpetrated on this night, near Vauxhall-bridge, in the vicinity of Liverpool. A person who was returning home from the country saw the flash, and heard the report of a pistol; but imagining it to proceed from some person amusing himself, it did not greatly arrest his attenG

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tion, and he continued walking down the side of the canal, but he had not walked far before he perceived two men bending over the body of a third, which was stretched on the earth. On nearer approach, he inquired what they were about: instantly one of them, apparently an athletic man, started up, seized him by his legs, and precipitated him into the canal. He struggled some moments in the water; and when he had just regained the bank, the villain beat him on the head with what he supposed the butt end of a pistol. Concluding him to be entirely disabled, he returned to his associate, and, it is supposed, completed the robbery. In the precipitation of retreat, they left a pistol, which was found lying near the body. Mean time the man got out of the canal, and with all celerity proceeded to the nearest house to give the alarm. A party of men immediately proceeded to the scene of the murder. They found the man still extended on the ground, insensible, and weltering in his blood. They conveyed him to the infirmary, but just as they reached it the unfortunate man expired. Two men have been taken into custody upon suspicion, and have been remanded for examination. The murdered man is unknown; but is supposed to have come from the country to proceed to America.-Liverpool Courier.

A destructive fire broke out at Thorverton, near Exeter, at four o'clock in the morning, in the stable of Mr. James, and spread so rapidly, that it could not be arrested until seventeen cottages were demolished, whereby a great

number of poor industrious families were reduced to great distress. In the Exeter papers the circumstance has been attributed to accident, through the carelessness of a boy; but gentlemen of Thoverton state, that not any doubt remains in the minds of the respectable inhabitants but that it was wilfully set on fire, as not the least satisfactory proof can be made of any light being used in the stable during the whole night: and, as it was detached from any dwelling-house, fire must have been carried into it for incendiary purposes. Threats have been made use of for a month past, that the town should be burnt; and evidence has been substantiated before Mr. Fursdon and Mr. Carew, magistrates, against one man who said he would burn the town. A subscription has been opened for the relief of the poor sufferers,

23. The following melancholy accident occurred on Sunday evening, on the river Swale, near Faversham, Kent. A party of persons, chiefly females, had spent the day in a water excursion to Whitstable, and had arrived at Faversham-creek's-mouth, on their return home, when it was proposed to proceed to Harty-ferryhouse to take tea. After staying there until nine o'clock, they all (being ten in number) re-embarked in a small boat, and were in the act of going off to their vessel, which lay at anchor near to the opposite shore, and to which they had almost arrived, when the boat turned over. The ferryman crossing the river in his boat at the same time with eight passengers, went to the assist

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ance of the unfortunate sufferers, and succeeded in rescuing two men from their dangerous situation. They also dragged into their boat the lifeless body of one of the women. Proceeding in their humane endeavours to save others, their own boat, being under a pressure of sail, and keeling still more from their reaching over the side, was almost filled with water. Another party of young men immediately pushed off from the ferry way in a third boat, and happily succeeded in saving the ferryman and the whole of his passengers, and also the two young men who were in the first boat. The remainder, viz. one man, six females, and an infant, met a watery grave!

On Sunday evening a boat, with 10 persons in it, 6 men and 4 women, which had been out all day on an excursion of pleasure, attempted to shoot Londonbridge: the women were alarmed, and at their own urgent request were landed the men, however, persisted in their attempt: the consequence was, that the boat was upset: four persons were drowned, and the remaining two were with great difficulty brought

to shore alive.

24. Halle.-In consequence of the almost incessant rains for weeks past, and the bursting of the mountain clouds, the Saale swelled so much, that in the night of the 21st, we heard from many of the lower villages signals of distress, by the firing of guns and ringing of bells; but we were unable to send assistance, because the whole surrounding country was under water, and the only object visible above water was

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our lofty bridge. have been drowned. The price of bread and other articles of subsistence is rising among us in the same proportion as the number of poor is on the increase. In the neighbourhood of Aschersleben, swarms of locusts have made their appearance.

25. The following lamentable event occurred lately at Knelston, near Swansea, and ought to ope¬ rate as a caution to those who are in the habit of using poison to destroy rats or other vermin. Two youths, brothers, of the name of Hoskins, the one 17, the other 19 years of age, being in a progressive state of recovery from a fever, requested their mother to give them, instead of a medicine prepared for them, some brimstone and treacle. A basin, containing a preparation of arsenic for destroying rats, being placed on a shelf, and the unfortunate youths supposing it to be brimstone and treacle prepared for them by their mother, took each a portion of this deadly poison, and shortly after expired in the most excruciating torture. On being opened, the cause of this calamity was instantly discovered. Verdict of the coroner's jury-Accidental Death.

26. Extract of a Letter from Baroda.-" A report was brought by a cultivator about eight o'clock yesterday morning, of two large tigers having taken up their abode the preceding night in a garden, within a mile of the west extremity of the town. The gentlemen of the residency, after a hasty breakfast, anxiously prepared rifles, fusees, and muskets, and attended by 10 sepoys of the G 2 resident's

resident's escort, went forth in search of the animals. The place in which they were said to have taken shelter, was covered by bushes of the mogree flower plant extremely thick, and standing about four feet high, with narrow pathways, occasionally intersected by hedges of the prickly milk bush, and low and thick ramifications of the aloe tree.

The party beat about the jungle (for it had this appearance, rather than that of a garden), when by great good fortune it had a glimpse of one of the animals making off with some rapidity. It was first taken for a large grown calf, a misconception very natural, as the sequel will show, and as by the report of the morning, the party expected to meet with tigers. The appearance of the animal, however, gave a stimulus to the exertions of the gentlemen, who moved forward in the low jungle, surveying every bush, and expecting each instant to hear a tremendous roar, or perhaps to encounter the savage attacks of the animals. Little more search brought the two beasts in full view, when one of them started off, receiving a ball from a gentleman in the side. It went rapidly past two others of the party, and was wounded by a single shot in the flank. These wounds appeared to have produced no decided effect, and a quarter of an hour had elapsed before it was again discovered crouching in a thick plantation of aloe trees. It was here that a few sepoys and one of the gentlemen, advancing within 8 paces, brought the beast prostrate on the ground; when,

for the first time, considering the indistinct view obtained in the low jungle during the pursuit, it was found that, instead of tigers, the objects of the chase were lions of considerable size! Some danger attended the death of this animal (which was a lioness), as the other party were diametrically opposite to the aloe plantation when the volley was fired into it. The balls whistled over their heads and around them, but happily without bad consequences to any body.

"The success which attended the first hunt redoubled exertion, and with great management the party scoured the bushes in search of the lioness's companion. Some time passed, and a great deal of laborious exertion, before the animal was traced by his footsteps to one of the high hedges which intersected the garden. The party approached within eight yards, when, by previous concert, two gentlemen and two sepoys fired, independently, with effect. The animal moved off immediately on the other side of the hedge, and in ten minutes more, he was discovered lying under another hedge groaning with rage and pain. Some pieces were instantly fired, which exasperating him, he ran out, and nobly charged his assailants, his tail being curled over his back.

In his advance he was saluted, with great coolness, with several balls from all the gentlemen and a few sepoys of the party who had come up; and though within a few yards of the objects of his attack, he suddenly turned off (it is supposed, on account of being severely wounded), and sprung upon a sepoy detached

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to the right, with whom he grappled, and afterwards, by the violence of the exertion, fell to the ground beyond him.

"It was at this moment that the party gallantly, and for the humane purpose of saving a fellow creature, rushed forward, and with the bayonet and swords put an end to the monster. The sepoy was wounded in the left shoulder, but it is hoped that there is no danger of his losing his life.

"The complete success of the day was justly calculated to excite many pleasing reflections; but after all was concluded, it appeared that a countryman who attended at a distance unarmed, and for his own curiosity, was wounded in the thigh by a ball. This accident has of course damped the pleasure of the sport; though it is but just to remark, that before the party entered into the garden, entreaties were used to the curious by-standers to induce them to keep away from the scene of action, and many were sent off by main force, who afterwards returned in defiance of every remonstrance.

"The animal last killed was a lion, not quite full grown, but strong and powerful in his make; the lioness was in the same proportion.

"On being brought to the residency and inspected, these animals were sent to his Highness Puttah Sing at his own request.

"The appearance of tigers in the immediate vicinity of Baroda is not common, two only having strayed from the ravines of the river Myhie to the enclosures round the town within the last

15 years, but lions have never been seen. Indeed the existence of this species in India has been questioned, though since satisfactorily established. It is conjectured, that the lions killed yesterday had wandered out of the deep defiles of the Myhie, about 12 miles from Baroda, in the night, which was unusually dark, and attended throughout, in the neighbourhood of that river, with torrents of rain. It was fortunate that their retreat was immediately discovered, or from the number of people now employed in cultivation around this populous town, some would in all probability have fallen victims to their voracity."

The improved semaphore has been erected on the top of the Admiralty. It consists of a hollow mast of 30 feet, in which two arms are suspended when not making signals. There is also one erected in West-square, Lambeth, and in a few days the expeperiment of communicating to Sheerness will be made.

The quadrangle of the Penitentiary-house on Millbank is completed. The governor, with the task-masters and mistresses, &c. have taken possession of their apartments; and this week the prisoners from the different gaols will be removed thither. The rooms in which the convicts will reside, are very comfortable for individuals who have forfeited their claim to remain at large; they are about 12 feet by 6, lofty, with an arch, and glazed window, iron bedstead, table, and stool. The whole of them are warmed by means of flues placed in the passages, and proper measures

are