Mr. WYsE gave notice of his intention to•move for a bill to exempt from window tax all buildings used as scientific or literary institutions. The Lower Canada Government Bill, after some conversation, was read the second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday next. Mr. LA

ITALIAN OPIMA.—The benefit of Laporte, which was to have taken 'Awe on Thursday evening, was ; postpnned, owing, as stated in the advet tisement, " to the immense preparations which Were requisite for the effective production of Guillaume Tell." The name of Signor aubini was the

The agriculture of this island, the Palladium informs us, is at a dead stand. The labourers have everything their own way; the cattle are decreasing, the land neglected, and capital sinking, never to be retrieved. Sir Evan M'Gregor, the governor of Barbadoes, is governor also of

CATCH-FLY.—This name is applied to several plants of different kinds, which are endued with the property of insnaring or entangling insects. Some entrap them by:the irritability of their stamens, which close upon them as soon as they are touched. Others, as the arum muscivorum,

At the siege of Badajo — z - , - ; - Can - nWn:sli - ot, fired by the French, struck the ground first, and then hit one of our artillerymea on the back, when he fell, as was thought, kil!ed on the spot. In a moment, however, he jumped up unhurt, the shot having glanced off his k

SMITHFIELD.—Hay, ga 15s to El; Clover, £5 to e 5 ss; Straw . El las to /lIINGERFORD.—Hay, El Os to £4 ss; Clover, f 5 to £5 ss; Straw, £2 to £2 Vs. REGENT'S RAMC—Hay £4 Os to £4 ss; Clover, £5 03 to £5 Straw, £2 Os to £2 2s.

the ex'ensive district of Ea-'t Aug that he is the only regularly appointed Agent for the sale of the WEEK ix CHRONICLE in their district, and that all orders for that paper, to secure a regular delivery of the beautiful series of Portraits forming the " NATIONAL GALLERY," shoul

Sold by Barclay and Sons, Farriugdon-street ; Bateman, Chemist to THE QUEEN, 8, Castle-street, Leicester-square, and 2, Dean-street, Westminster; Edwares, St. Paul's Churchyard; Johnston, 68, Cornhill; Prout, 229, Strand; Sanger, ISO, Oxford-street; Willoughby, 61, Btshopsgate-w

and the inclination of manufacturers to sell goods at almost any prices, we have just made a large purchase for cash of De Lame Dresses, and small patterns for Children's wear, which will Im ready for sale on Monday morning beat, the nth instant, and following days.— The qualiti