News in Brief
On Thurrsday, Mfss Foote's residence was visited by a asheriff's officer, acting under a wrIt obtained by Mlr. Playne ngainst her father, for advance., amounting, it is said, EO a very large SUm. tis searcl, from which the lady's bdoir was aotea;emnped,proved,' however, fruitless ; lUr. Foote having, it is 5upposed, found means to escape at the back of the prcenises.-Star. Wye understand that thereis some chance of lr. Brough- am's being in Edinburgb about the beginning of January. 'If thin rumour should prove correct, we believe that the admirers of genius and patriotism w. ill have an opportonity of testifying thdir reWpect for h is caracter, nnd gratitude fsz his serv:ces, at a publiccdim er, rrhich he wll be asked to accept of. ln this event, the ordinary Fox meet- ing will probably nin be held here this seaaon.-.Scutwrmen. A blow has been levelled at. the projected Wcstern Rail- way by the maiagers of the Forth nnd Clyde Canal, who have re- duced the toll duties on coal to onaetiveYfM of a pentey for each ton per mile. Coal cartied from Gxangemouth totilaEgoawifl only pay 2ii per ton. We believe the charge beCore was about the &ame neson the Union Canal-Id. permile. If so, the reduction is at tberate of 1,200 per cent. Oar impression, however, is, that the eucces of the railway wUIl not depend so much on the transportation of coal, as on that of imported and manufactured goods, end sdU xl!ren thc co- vevanceeef assengers.-.cotarnou. ofd stilmteontecn of 70 male ilAr3nems sen- tenced to transportation, Or who, having been under sentence of deatl, had been conditionally pardoned, wereremoved frr Nev- gate te the valiOUa htdiss, or to the Penitentiary at Blillbanr. It is remarkable that the above gaol was never known to contcin -within iLs gloomy walls so faw'prisone; as it has done within the last day or two, when the number was as low as 172 When dcbtors, as well as felons. were confined there, smLetimes tYFerm were upwards of 1,000 persons in the prison. 1Advertiaement i-~aZlldnzor, "freely translated into German from tbe EDnglish of Sir Weler Scott," .and now freely translated from the GerMan into Erigliab, is pabliAlted this day, by Tavlor and Hiessey. Fleet-street anti Waterno-o.lace.