News in Brief
HoLyROoon-Rroug.-WVe are sorry to learn from.a corres. pondent, that the portaits in the Picture Gallery of tbis venerablE palace are threatened with destruction, through B$c mistaken zeal of a servant, Our irformant, on a late visit to the Gallery, found an old female domnestic busy scrubbing the fates er our departed ma. narcilswitel a oarse towel, tied round the head of a house broom. Shocked at seeing the visage of our good King Robert so uncere- moniouslY assaulted, he patrietically interceded in his behalf but in vain. tiethen attempted,with no'bettersuccess to ptocure tie sub ritlttaion of a cloth of finer texture, to wipe the face of the beautifub Alary; but the old dame had no greater respect for the fair Princea than for the gruff warrior; and despite his entreaties, nay, indignant at being interfered with, continued her destruetive eperationa.n .EdieburgA Observer. Y esterday morning one of the in-pensioners belonging to Greenwich Hospital was discovered suspended from one of thc tress in G reenwich-park, quite dead. It seems the unfortunate man (who was g, native of Italy) had been guilty of some improper conduct, and wasyesterday to have been exammed by the offic^rs of the esta- blishment relative to it, which, it is supposed, had such an effeet upon his mind as to induce him to comnit the rapl act. A OisQer'e ianucst b to behold upon the body.,