have," said his lordship, seen suggestions which are useful; but as to laying down any permanent rule, I shall leave it to those who know the subject better than the chancellor, and shall think I do enough if I adopt a salutary rule for the present conduct of business." COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS AT HAMBURGH. A new law for the better regulation of brokerage on goods has been lately published by the government, and put in force. It is thereby prohibited, by penalty, to the merchant as well as to the broker, either to allow or to take a higher rate of brokerage, than that stipulated in the tariff annexed to the law. Brokerage is exclusively paid by the seller, and amounts, according to the present laws, to Five-sixths per cent on cotton, cotton-twist, cocoa, cochineal, copper, hides, indigo, manufactured goods, nankeens, sugar, and tea* ; One per cent on annatto, camphire, cinnamon, cardamums*, cassia*, cloves*, drugs not denominated*, deer skins, dyewoods, ginger*, jalap*, mace*, nutmegs*, pepper, pimento, potashes, Peruvian bark, Quercitron bark, rice*, saltpetre, sarsaparilla*, shell-lac*, tamarinds*, tobacco in leaves*, and tobacco stems of the growth of the United States of America, whale oil*, vinelloes*; N. B.-Tobacco stems of all other origin, segars, and other manufactured tobacco, pay two per cent; all other leaf and roll tobacco, one and a half per cent; One and a half per cent on wine, brandy, rum, and arrack, if sold in parcels amounting to 3,000 marks banco and upwards; Two per cent on ditto, for sales of and under 3,000 marks banco. In auctions, the selling broker is entitled to one and a half per cent, and the purchasing broker to two per cent, without regard to the amount. per [All articles marked (*) pay the brokerage before-mentioned, if the quantity sold amount to 600 marks banco or higher; for smaller lots of less than 600 marks banco, and down to 150 marks banco, the brokerage is paid, with the addition of one half, and under 150 marks banco, the double is allowed. All other merchandises pay 1 cent at least for sales not exceeding 150 marks banco. It is, however, to be observed that all augmentations, in proportion to the amount sold, are only to be understood for sales by private contract, and not for those by auction; and even not for such private sales, where a broker has made the purchase of a larger quantity of goods above the said amount of 600 marks banco, and has afterwards divided it into smaller lots.] FRAUD IN JEWELLERY. In the year 1818 a great number of white Brazilian topazes were introduced into France, which were some times mistaken for real diamonds. A. M. Legigand, a jeweller, having bought a great quantity of these stones for 2000 frs., sold a small part of them, after having had them cut and set. He was prosecuted for having sold them as diamonds, but acquitted. In the month of February last, he sold 71 of these stones set in 23 trinkets for 6,256 frs. In his bill he designated them as fine white stones recognised as white Brazilian diamonds. Another action was brought against him, and the following judgment was pronounced :-"Seeing that in the Brazils there are real diamonds of the nature of Indian; that the stones sold by defendant are of no real value, and that the real price of the trinkets sold by him does not exceed 800 frs., including 412 for the setting, the Court of Correctional Police sentences him to six months' imprisonment, to pay a fine of 50 frs. and to return the amount paid.” FORGERY OF ANTIQUES.-Not far from the ruins of Vesta's Temple at Rome, was heard, some months ago, a subterranean noise, which foretold, according to some superstitious people, a great calamity. The police went to the place; they dug, and soon discovered a subterraneous passage, in which they seized a man who was amusing himself with forging pieces of money stamped with the effigies of Caesar, Maximilian, Caracalla, Heliogabalus, &c. This novel sort of coiner owned that he had been carrying on this trade for more than ten years, and that, thanks to his industry, the antique cabinets of many English, German, and French antiquaries had been enriched by these means. The manufacturer of antiquities was released, upon promising to abandon his trade. THE KING OF FRANCE.-The king is said to be very melancholy. The following is the manner in which he passes his time at St. Cloud. He rises at five o'clock, and has all the journals read to him. During the reading, he appears to feel very sensibly the attacks made on his ministers. He then breakfasts, receives the great officers of his household, signs such ordinances as Villele may have prepared for him, goes to mass, on his return stretches himself on a sofa, goes afterwards to the great park of St. Cloud, lies down on the grass, plays with his dogs, has always a fowling-piece by his side, ready to shoot sparrows or other small birds, at five o'clock visits his grandchildren and plays with them, dines, plays at whist, goes to bed at 11 o'clock, and sleeps until the morning, when he re-commences the same regular course of political and intellectual life. 24 HAIL STORM. Collereto Parella (in the province of Jorea). -A most dreadful storm in the course of last night spread desolation over this district. The whole of yesterday the sky was covered with heavy clouds, and at midnight profound darkness prevailed, broken only by frequent flashes of lightning. Instead of the usual sound of thunder, a low universal rumbling preceded by half an hour the destructive hail, which fell in impetuous torrents, driven by the north wind. The intense darkness, the sound of the bells, the orash of the hail, and that of the roofs and windows shattered to pieces, and the mournful cries of the country people, inspired universal terror. At half-past one o'clock the fury of the tempest abated, and there was heard only the distant rolling of the thunder. ; The dawn of day came, and showed the extent of the disaster the vineyards, which promised the richest crops, the fields which gave the most flattering hopes, were become a desert; as far as the eye can reach, not a trace of vegetation is to be seen: the fields, the roads, the roofs, are covered with hail. It is noon, and the stones are still the size of a hen's egg. On a wide extent of country, not a note of a bird is to be heard; the country people are gathering them up by basket-fulls, killed and mutilated by the hail, and they found in the furrows numbers of hares and foxes, victims of this tremendous visitation. The damage done to the houses and other buildings is very considerable. It is impossible to estimate the extent of the injury, but it is certain that the vineyards and plantations of Meige are wholly ruined, The storm swept some square miles of the country. Half an hour before the storm, the barometer was at 27.1: Reaumur's thermometer 19 deg. 25. The director of the royal observatory at Marseilles discovered, at a quarter before two o'clock in the morning, in the constellation of Taurus, a new comet, invisible to the naked eye. Its position on that morning, at five minutes past two o'clock (true time), at Marseilles, was right ascension, 62.1-3 deg., declension 26.3-4 deg. north. Its nucleus was very feeble and confused; and the surrounding nebulosity appeared sensibly elongated in the direction opposite to the sun. 26. LION FIGHTS AT WARWICK. -This exhibition of brutality took place, at a late hour in the evening, in an extensive enclosure, called the "Old Factory Yard," in the suburbs of Warwick, on the road towards Northampton. The cage in which the fight took place stood in the centre of a hollow square, formed on two sides by ranges of empty workshops, the windows of which were fitted up with planks on barrels, as seats for the spectators; and, on the remaining two, by the whole of Mr. Wombwell's collection of animals, arranged in their respective dens and travelling carriages. The prices of admission demanded in the first instance for the fight were extravagant. Three guineas were asked for seats at the windows in the first, second, and third floors of the unoccupied manufactory; two guineas for seats on the fourth floor of this building; one guinea for places at a still more distant point; and half-a-guinea for standing room in the square. The appearance of the cage when erected, was rather fragile, considering the struggle which was to take place within it. It measured fifteen feet square, and ten feet high, the floor of it standing about six feet from the ground. The top, as well as the sides, was composed merely of iron bars, apparently slight, and placed at such distance from each other that the dogs might enter or escape between, but too close for the lion to follow. Towards the afternoon, the determination as to "prices" abated, and it was suspected that, in the end, the speculator would take whatever prices he could get. In the mean time, the unfortunate lion lay in a caravan, by him self, all day, in front of the cage in which he was to be baited; surveying the preparations for his own annoyance with great simplicity and apparent good humour; and not at all annoyed by the notice of the numerous persons who came to look at him. In the course of the day, the dogs, who were to fight, were brought into the mena gerie in slips-it being not the least singular feature of this combat that it was to take place immediately under the eyes of an immense host of wild beasts of all descriptions-not including the human spectators three other lions; a she wolf, with cubs; a hyæna; a white bear; a lioness; two female leopards, with cubs; two zebras, male and female; a large assortment of monkeys, and two wild asses; with a variety of other interesting foreigners, all arranged within a few yards of the grand stand. --- The dogs disappointed expecta tion-they were very little excited by their introduction. They were strong, however, and lively crossed, apparently, the majority of them, between the bull and the mastiff breed; one or two showed a touch of the lurcher-a point in the descent of fighting dogs, which is held to give an increased capacity of mouth. The average weight of those which fought was from about five and thirty to five and forty pounds each; one had been brought over that weighed more than sixty, but he was excluded from the contest. At a quarter past seven in the evening, from 400 to 500 persons of different descriptions being assembled, preparations were made for commencing the combat. The dens which contained the animals on show were covered in with shutters; the lions' travelling caravan was drawn close to the fighting cage, so that a door could be opened from one into the other; and the keeper, Wombwell, going into the travelling caravan, in which another man had already been staying with the lion for some time, the animal followed him into the cage as tamely as a Newfoundland dog. The whole demeanour of the beast, indeed, was so quiet and generous, that, at his first appearance, it became very doubtful whether he would attempt to fight at all. While the multitude shouted, and the dogs were yelling in the ground below, he walked up and down his cage-Wombwell still remaining in it-with the most perfect composure, not at all angry, or even excited; but looking with apparently great curiosity at his new dwelling and the objects generally about him. Wombwell having quitted the cage, the first relay of dogs was laid on. These were a fallow-coloured dog, a brown with white legs, and a third brown altogether; averaging about 40lb. in weight a-piece, and described by the names of Captain, Tiger, and Turk. As the dogs were held for a minute in slips, upon the inclined plane which ran from the ground to the stage, the lion crouched on his belly to receive them, but with so perfect an absence of any thing like ferocity, that many persons were of opinion he was rather disposed to play: at all events, the next moment showed clearly that the idea of fighting-or doing mischief to any living creature-never had oc curred to him. At the first rush of the dogswhich the lion evidently had not expected, and did not at all know how to meet-they all fixed themselves upon him; but caught only by the dewlap and the mane. With a single effort, he shook them off, without attempting to return the attack. He then flew from side to side of the cage, endeavouring to get away; but in the next moment the assailants were upon him again; and the brown dog, Turk, seized him by the nose, while the two others fastened at the same time on the fleshy part of his lips and under jaw. The lion then roared dreadfully, but evidently only from the pain he suffered-not at all from anger. As the dogs hung to his throat and head, he pawed them off by sheer strength; and in doing this, and rolling upon them, did them considerable mischief; but it is a most curious fact, that he never once bit, or attempted to bite, during the whole contest, or seemed to have any desire to retaliate any of the punishment which was inflicted upon him. When he was first "pinned," for instance, the dogs hung to him for more than a minute, and were drawn, holding to his nose and lips, several times round the ring. After a short time, roaring tremendously, he tore them off with his claws; mauling two a good deal in the operation; but still not attempting afterwards to act on the offensive. After about five minutes' fighting, the fallow-coloured dog was taken away-lame, and apparently much distressed, and the remaining two continued the combat alone-the lion still working only with his paws, as though seeking to rid himself of a torture, the nature of which he did not well understand. In two or three minutes more, the second dog, Tiger, being dreadfully maimed, crawled out of the cage; and the brown dog, Turk, which was the lightest of the three, but of admirable courage, went on fighting by himself. A most extraordinary scene then ensued: the dog, left entirely alone with an animal of twenty times his weight, con tinued the battle with unabated fury, and, though bleeding all over from the effect of the lion's claws, seized and pinned him by the nose at least half a dozen times; when at length, releasing himself with a desperate effort, the lion flung his whole weight upon the dog, and held him lying between his fore paws for more than a minute, during which time he could have bitten his head off a hundred times over, but did not make the slightest effort to hurt him. Turk was then taken away by the dog-keepers, grievously mangled but still alive, and seized the lion, for at least the twentieth time, the very moment that he was released from under him. He died on the following Thursday. The keeper, Wombwell, went into the cage instantly, alone; and carrying a pan of water, with which he first sluiced the animal, and then offered him some to drink. After a few minutes the lion laid himself down, rubbing the parts of his head which had been torn (as a cat would do) with his paw; and presently a pan of fresh water being brought, he lapped out of it for some moments, while a second keeper patted and caressed him through the iron grate. The second combat presented only a repetition of the barbarities committed in the first. In throwing water upon the lion, a good deal had been thrown upon the stage. This made the floor extremely slippery, and the second set of dogs let in being heavier than the first, and the lion more exhausted, he was unable to keep his footing on the wet boards, and fell in endeavouring to shake them off, bleeding freely 'from the nose and head, and evidently in a fair way to be seriously injured. The dogs, all three, seized him on going in, and he endeavoured to get rid of them in the same way as before, using his paws, and not thinking of fighting, but not with the same success. He fell now, and showed symptoms of weakness, upon which the dogs were taken away. The dogs were again put in, and again seized the lion, who by this time, besides bleeding freely from the head, appeared to have got a hurt in one of his fore feet. At length, Mr. Wombwell announced that he gave up on the part of the lion; and the exhibition was declared to be at an end. The first struggle between the lion and his assailants lasted about 11 minutes; and the second, something less than five; but the affair altogether wanted even the savage interest which generally belongs to |