News in Brief
Rossini is engaged for the whole of the next year by the King of France, at an enormoas sum, but, by the influence of a noble Mlarquis, cminently distinguished for his musical tsste9 and his patronageofthe Iran Opera, an arrangenient has been entered into by the'proprietors of our Italian Opera house, with the French authortiesr by which Rossini is to conduct the musical department In Englana ering the months of Mlay and June. Died, in Qtxincy, North America, on the 28th ult., Mliss Caroline Mliatilda Smiths aged. 16. This young lady came to her death in the followiang manner :-A fw evenings before aher death, while sittig at a window, a person, unnbserved, touched: her ann suddenly and caused her to 6taet. Her iretvoluntarveiTort wvas so great- as to cause a rupture of a blood-vessel, which terminated her life. A violent explosion of gas took place on Thursday even- ingatRand's china shop, in the Westminster-road. The whole ftront vwas bl6twn to atoms, and a soldier on the opposite side of :the road received some of the contents of thetshop, but was not materially hurt. The returning prosr:erity of the country is- pretty clearly einced 'Dy tbe considermbleadvance which las recentiyta'lenplacein the wages of every description ofservants,particularly those employed in husbanidry. At nil the late hiring.s througtho t this- county, thie rise has beennotalittleremarl;able; for tbough'the last was whatis called tlhc,' long !lalf year," and censisted of almo.st sevcn inon ths, yet the wages given in many places for the ensuiing five moiinths have been above 40 per cent. Iigher than for the p,receding tenm.-Car.