The total sum recovered, as above, is £16,533 17s. 5d., and the costs of the several actions will amount to about 3,000l. in addition. In the two actions yet to be tried, the damages are estimated at £253 9s. 6d. 25. MURDER AT BRIGHTON.— About a twelvemonth ago a shoemaker named Burt married. After some time, a dispute arose between him and his wife, occasioned, it is said, by her refusing to show him the contents of a letter she was writing. This so exasperated him that he took up a poker and beat her severely with it. For this offence he was committed to take his trial; but through the effects of the wound his wife could not appear against him, and he was therefore liberated. She had, in the interim, resided with her mother; having resolutely refused to live with, or have any connexion with him whatever. About three months ago she was delivered of a male child. On Tuesday afternoon she was at her mother's house, and seeing her husband coming, was apprehensive of violence. There being no other person besides herself in the house, she snatched up her infant and ran into a neighbour's house for protection; but was instantly followed by Burt, who pursued her to a room on the first floor; where the infuriated wretch began his attack on the helpless woman and child. He was armed with a shoemaker's knife, the blade of which was worn away at the point, so as to make it very sharp; this instrument he instantly plunged indiscriminately into the infant and the woman; the woman screamed dreadfully, and implored mercy in the most piteous terms. Nothing, however, appalled the assassin, and he continued his murderous work, till the woman fell, exhausted by loss of blood and the exertions she had made to screen herself and her infant from the effects of his rage. Some persons had by this time assembled at the door below, and one, with more courage than the rest, rushed up stairs, and after a desperate struggle, threw Burt on the ground, by which time more assistance had arrived, and he was VOL, LXVIII, secured. There is no doubt but he would also have stabbed the man who first came to the assistance of his wife, had not the handle of the knife come off from the blade, which remained sticking in the murdered infant. The woman, wounded and lacerated as she was, fled into an adjoining house with her child. The infant died in a short time afterwards. The woman was conveyed to her mother's house with but faint hopes of recovery :-she received a severe stab in the thigh, another in the right arm near an artery, another under the eye, and a fourth in the temple; her front teeth (at least six or seven of them) were dashed out, and she also received a kick in the side, from which more danger was apprehended than even from the wounds. FRENCH PATENTS.-The Moniteur has given a list of patents taken out for new inventions or improvements upon existing machinery in France, from the commencement of the Revolution down to the present time, showing the comparative inactivity of inventive genius and industrious enterprise during the reign of terror or the oppressions of despotism, and their sudden revival on the return of internal peace and social security. In 1791 there were taken out 34; in 1792, 29; in 1793, 4; in the year 2 of the republic, 4; in the year 3, 5; in the year 4, 8; in the year 5, 4; in the year 6, 10; in the year 7, 22; in the year 8, 16; in the year 9, 34; in the year 10, 29; in the year 11, 45; in the year 12, 44; in the year 13, 63; in the year 14, 17; in 1806, 74, in 1807, 66; in 1808, 63; in 1809, 52; in 1810, 93; in 1811, 66; in 1812, 96; in K 1813, 98; in 1814, 53; in 1815, 77; in 1816, 115; in 1817, 162; in 1818, 153; in 1819, 138; in 1820, 151; in 1821, 170; in 1822, 175; in 1823, 187; in 1824, 217; and in the first six months of 1825, 161. 28. HYDROPHOBIA. A distressing case of hydrophobia occurred last week in Salford. A Mr. Vaughan was bitten, about two months ago, by a strange cat, which exhibited no symptoms of disease. The day after receiving the bite, he went to Mr. Spencer, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who applied a common dressing to the wound: it healed in a very few days, and nothing more was thought of it until Monday week, when Mr. S. was once more called to visit his patient, whom he found exhibiting symptoms of a peculiar nature, which, after a little investigation, he discovered to be those usually ascribed to hydrophobia. The patient manifested the usual symptoms at the sight of a looking-glass, or of fluids: he was, however, several times prevailed on to take a little water, but swallowed it with great difficulty, and complained that it hurt him. He remained in a state of great suffering from Monday noon till midnight on Wednesday, when he expired; having been in possession of his faculties until within half an hour of his death; though, when suffering under the paroxysms of the disorder, he was occasionally so violent, as to require considerable restraint. Nothing is known of the fate of the animal which inflicted the wound, as nobody could tell to whom it belonged; but, as it exhibited no symptoms of disease, it is not improbable that this is another of those cases, of which there have been several in the annals of surgery, wherein the bite of an enraged animal, not labouring under hydrophobia, has produced that disease in human beings. 29. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.About a quarter of an hour's walk from the small town of St. Remy, in Provence, a shady and flowery path conducts to two remarkable monuments, inclosed by a small stone fence, which, without any historical grounds, are called the Triumphal arch of Augustus, and the Mausoleum of Julius Cæsar. They stand upon a little eminence, hardly twelve or fourteen feet separate; and of itself, this vicinity of the two monuments appears to indicate a connection between them, and to show that the conqueror, in honour of whom the Triumphal arch was erected, lies covered by the monument. The arch is so much damaged, that the whole of the upper part is wanting. By means of a roof, which gives shelter from the rain and snow, its total destruction has been prevented. Two Doric pillars support the arch on each side, rise two fluted pillars, which have lost their capitals, and the upper part of their shafts. The ornaments of the cornice consist of ivy and olive twigs, interwoven in small fillets. Betwixt the pillars are figures in basso-relievo; on one side, a male and female bound to a tree, as the Romans represented conquered cities and provinces; on the opposite, a woman resting her hand upon the arm of a chained warrior. The Mausoleum is in good preservation, and one of the rarest works of that period. It is in height about fifty-five feet, and rests upon a square pedestal of large hewn stones, which is ornamented on each side with full size SEXI MIVLIEGF PARENTIBUS SUEIS. According to the explanations of antiquaries, this monument must have been erected to their parents by the sons of Caius JuliusSextus, Lucius, and Marcus. a NEW METHOD OF LIGHTING THEATRES.-M. Locatelli, mechanist, at Venice, has contrived new apparatus for lighting theatres, which has been adopted at La Fenice, in that city. By the aid of parabolic mirrors, the light of a number of lamps is concentrated over an opening made in the middle of the ceiling of the theatre, and reflected down on a system of plano-concave lenses, of a foot in diameter, which occupy the aperture, and convey into the theatre the rays of light, which arrive at them parallel, and depart from them divergent. From the pit alone, the lenses are perceived, resembling a glowing furnace; and, although the luminous focus is sufficient to light the whole of the theatre, it does not dazzle, and may be viewed without fatiguing the eyes. Besides the advantage of being more equable and mild, being a single luminous body, the light is more intense than that of the common lustre; and there is no part of the theatre in which a person cannot read with the greatest facility. The apparatus being entirely concealed, accommodates itself readily to all the changes which the representation can require. It likewise occasions neither smoke nor bad odours, and has none of the inconveniences of the ancient system. figures in basso-relievo. The foundation is firmly laid with stones of the same sort. The monument consists of three stories: the first and second are square, like the pedestal, only that the latter is much larger; but the third is round, and terminates in a small cupola. A pillar, without pedestal, supports each angle of the first square, which is ornamented with a heavy crown of festoons of fruits and flowers. Each of the four sides of this story has bas-reliefs. On the one side appears a compact body of Roman infantry, in the act of assault; on another, are seen the dead and the wounded lying on the field of battle; on the third, is a combat of cavalry, but which, as well as the preceding, has suffered much from time. The fourth side is in much better preservation, and upon it a procession is represented, probably the triumph of a conqueror, as the hands bound behind the backs of the captives which appear in it, and the priests with animals for sacrifice, seem to intimate. The second story is, as has been already mentioned, also square, and has four open arches. At each angle is a fluted Corinthian pillar with a frieze, ornamented with vine leaves and sea horses. This story supports the third and uppermost; a small rotunda formed of ten Corinthian pillars, in the middle of which, through the spaces between the pillars, are perceived two statues, one of which is larger than the other, but both without heads. A cupola, bound round with a very fine crown of leaves, terminates the whole. Of an inscription which runs round about the middle of the mausoleum, the following letters only can be de- FOR ciphered&c. SEPTEMBER. 1. OPENING OF THE PORTS THE ADMISSION OF OATS, At the Court at Windsor, Sept. 1, 1826, present, the King's most excellent Majesty. Whereas by the laws now in force for regulating the importation of corn, oats and oatmeal, may be imported into the United Kingdom, and into the Isle of Man, for home consumption, under and subject to the regulations of the several statutes in that case made and provided, whenever the average price of oats (to be ascertained in the manner therein prescribed) shall be at or above the price of twenty-seven shillings per quarter, and pease may, in like manner, be imported, whenever the price shall be at or above fifty-three shillings per quarter: And whereas by a certain act of parliament, made and passed in the third year of his present majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn," it is enacted, that whenever foreign corn, meal, or flour, shall be admissible under the provisions of an act, passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late majesty, king George the third, intituled "An Act to amend the Law now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn," or under the provisions of the said act, passed in the third year of the reign of his present majesty, there shall be levied and paid certain duties therein specified upon all such foreign corn, meal, or flour, when admitted for home consumption; and whereas, by the weekly returns of purchases and sales of corn, made by the several inspectors of corn returns in the cities and towns of England and Wales, to the receiver of corn returns, it appears that the average price of oats, and also the average price of pease at the pre sent time exceed the before-mentioned prices of twenty-seven shillings and fifty-three shillings per quarter; and whereas, from information which hath this day been laid before his majesty, it appears that the price of oats, as well as that of pease, is still rising, and that the crop of oats, and also the crops of pease and beans, of the present year have failed to a considerable extent, and that a deficiency in the crop of potatoes is also apprehended in some parts of the United Kingdom, and whereas, if the importation, for home consumption, of oats and oatmeal, and of rye, pease, and beans, be not immediately permitted, there is great cause to fear that much distress may ensue to all classes of his majesty's subjects: And whereas, under the acts aforesaid, no foreign grain of the above description, whatever may be the respective average prices of the same, can be admitted to entry, for home consumption, till after the fifteenth day of November, in the present year, when the next quarterly average, by which the admission of such grain is regulated, will be made up, according to the provisions of the said acts: His majesty, with the advice of his privy council, doth order, and it is hereby accordingly ordered, that foreign oats and oatmeal, rye, pease, and beans, whether warehoused or otherwise, shall, and may, from the date hereof, be permitted to be entered in the ports of the United Kingdom, and of the Isle of Man, for home consumption, provided the parties making entry of any such foreign oats, oatmeal, rye, pease, or beans, do give bond, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the commissioners of his majesty's customs, |