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'Ve understand that the subject of counteracting the monopoly and abuses nowvexisting wvithirespecttothe supply- iig water at fires and otherwise, lhas fs 5soretine astpoccu pied theatteiition of soye of the most inteligent and respecta- ble mercantile men in the city; atd tle restlt oi their labours will be imnmedliately commnunicated to the public in a pro- spectus for the establishment of a Conmpally, un(der the title of 1 he Thames Water Company." On Moniday evening the town of RamiisgaLe wvas lighted with gas for the first time. The preparations for lighting Margate in the saUte manuer are iii a state of great for- war(dness. It is reporiterl that His Majesty, otn the recominendation of Alr. Secretary Canning, has appointed Lord Erskine Ambassa. dor to the Court of Stutgard. A magnificenit and entirely spontaneous inatk of attent. tentiot has recently been shown hv the highest personage in the state, to the comfors of tie widow oi one of the nioat distinguishied I stateamen of inodern times. This high personage having heard that the wife ofhis old fiiend whoim, wile living, he so much esteem- ed, that lie reconimiended the d(loption of hi8 principles to his ex. alted dangliter, was not 80 easy in her circumstances as the widow of so great a manl should be, from his own private purs., atid with all thc delicacy peculiar to his rank and situation, presented the lady with a handsome and ample annuity.-Globe and Traveller. The niew churel in Laugharn-place, nowv that itie finished, looks even more ridiculouis thian was anticipiated. The great error of thc artist seem-, to be, that he has not felt that thle size of a build- ing ir a very mnaterial circumstance in the construction of a model. An object may be very beauitiful in large, which would look con. temptible or absurd in little; and no exactness of lproportion can compensate for the ivatit of apprepriateness to the peneral object St. Paul's, which is so riaJestic, and WVestminster-abbey so sub. lime, would both appear conteniptible, if reducedl to the size of or. dinary parish churches. 'Ihe very wealthy Ur. Haine, of Burdrop-park, in Wiltshire, is to be married on Alonday next to the beautiful JIiss Foote, late of Covent-garden Thieatre.-Eveniitg paper. HeaEAT OF THrE WEA1 HER.-Yesterday was otie of the hottest d3sy wlhich we have experiericed thlroughont tbe whole sum. me: the therumotmmeter in the shade, at tWo onclock, was as high as 63 degrec Faahrenheit. I'hie horses in the differantatafes on the fles. tern road suffered severely fioim the intensity of the heat, and we understand that three tine cattle dropped down dead between AMaid. etihead and London. A reaper, in a field near Brentford, was struck by the heat of the sun at gne o'clock, and was carried home in a state af delirium.