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It appears from a return supplied to the House of Com- mont, that the quantitv of tobacco seized by the Customs and Pre- ventive Service, from January 5 1823, to Januarr 5, 1824, amoants to 572,887 pounds, about one-half the qundtity seized the year pre_ ceding. Froin an account just printed by order of the House of Ctommons, it appears that the foreign tonnage imported into the. port of London, amounted, in 1814, to 269,834 tons; ia 1815, to '27; 375 tons; in 18262, to 106,099 tons; and in 1823, to 161,70i tons. The celebrated Professor of' Mathematics at Cambridge, Niclolas Saunderson, though quite blind, was so fascinated with the chase, that he continue to hunt until a very advanced periord of his life. His horse was accustomed to follow that of his rervant - the delight of Saunderson was extreme when he heard the cry o Lhe hounds and the huntsmen, and he used to express his raptures with ill the eagerness of those who possessed their sight, Tjhere is at Tabreez an European lady residing with her husband, a native of Persia, to whom she was married during him residence in England, whither he had been sent for his education by Abbas Alirza. He is a gunsmith, an excellent workman, atnd in otlher respects a Man of considerable merit. He treats his wife with great kindness. A New York paper notifies the extraordinary circum- stance of English newspapers having been received there of as recent a date, within one day, as those from New Orleans-the Emerald having perforned the passage trom Liverpool in the short space of 16 davslf. A liay at the west end of the townbas carried hertprudery so far, tbat she has separated the writings of the ?na/e and fenale au. thors im-her 1-brary. DAaING RoBBERY.-OU Friday the lhouse of George Cruikshank, Esq., the celebrated artist, No. 25, Mlyddelton-terrace, PentOnville, wasB brokn open. The bhrglara entered by forcing the back.kitchen windosw; and after tisding the box of the housemaid of her savings, amounting to five pounds, and her clothes, proceedetl to the di1ing-room from whence they canried offthe'sidcboard of plate, with a valuable Aookah. [Advertisement.1-The Birds of Aristophaneg, translated-into En lIsh verse, witi notes, by the Rev. H. F. CArV, A.M4,-.Price gs.tid., is just published by Taylor and Hlemsey, 93' Fleetitrieet, and 13, Wateraoo.place, PAll-malL Of whom may behad,-;VThe Vision; or, Hell Purgatory, and Paradise ot Dante Alighieri," translated by the zRev. H. F. Ctry, A.AI. the second edition,i-ith a Lifeof Dante, Notes, and an Index, S vols;8yo, price 1.-16s. '; hIr, Carts TRanrlation-the best we te" i i ab s y vol _ Q^T"rki 07 in f uy,