Yesterday at three o'cloc...
Yesterdav at three o''lo,k, a Cabitiet Council was held at the For.ign-office, TI-wninig-street, by virtue of sum- Mol-s issue,l, whicb continuel in delib;rativa about asi no,,r anil af half. It is,-a.el that ten Ad!nirals have died every year during .he last tcol vears. 1,Vc un.d rmiand that Sir Astiey Cooper is at present at- tending Genieral Mina, hasving voluntarily offered to undertake the care of a *-erv serious bruise in the leg, oc6wsioned, as we have under. stoo<l. be an avalanche, the effTets of which xhe gallant Gencral was unable io attenJ to durinz the vcrv severe duty to which he was exposed in the late campauln against the French.-Afarnzing paper.. prvate letttrs from Constantinople mentio-a the arrival there o theRugsian Secrettry of Legation, and that he had been very vw.ll received. The Russian banker who hatl been so many year imprisonel there, had been set at liberty.-Eereingpaper. C ortrl4iall. the s',at of the late MIarquis Corn- w.lis, is sold to Benyon de Bcausoir, Esq. 0)RAN(-,ts N.-Yesterday upwvards of sixty rcspectable -oung mnen. from the neighbourhood of Comber, attended at the layor'v. office, anl. to qualifv themnseles for incorporation with the o'range bodv, voluntarily took, the oaths of allegiance, supremacv, *nd abjuratfon. An equal number attended last week for the iilke purpose.-.oudoonderry Journrl, Peb. 24. Tre rents ot houses at Odessa are so extravagantly high, that the Czonsul General receives a sam equal to 3001. sterling a iear tor part of the ground floor of his hoase, whicih is occupied by shop- keepers. Mr. Nolan has been appointed a Welsh Judge. SOcIETY Os' ANCIE.NT Bm-roxs.-Yesterday beino' the festival of St. David. this srociety celebtated if's hundred anU tenth a nniversary, at the Freemasonos' Hall. The Earl of Brecknock was in the chair, supported on his right by the Lord e ayor, and on his left hy thc Bishop of Chester. There was a numerous attendance of the frends of the institution, amongst whom were many Welsh gen- tlemen ofconsequence. No effort was left untried by the stewards to increase the interest of the occasion. Two Welsn barpers per- i)rnmed native airs, frnm timc to time, during the evening. A mili. tary band wvas stationed in the orchestra, and Messrs. Smith, T. Cooke, Collier, and Taylor, lMaster Smith, and another hoy, sang various songs, most of wvhicb were warmly applauded par. ticularly a comic song by ILr. Taylor, in which an .llusion to the rerent afrFair with the Algetines and to Air. AI'Adam, " the Colossus, of roads," was introduced. After the cloth Inadl been removed for sonme time, and.severa,l of the usutal standing toaLsts drank, the childrer., consistiog 6f 1OO boys and 50 girls [all well fed and clothed, were introduced and paradedl rount the room, attented by the stewards; a selection of themr then sung an appropriate odle, aulapted to the simple Welsh air Arhy lynos. Amon,gsttbievarious toasts which were proposed, nofte was received with; such enthusiasm as the health of the Lord Mlayor, wio was stated by the Barl of 3recknock to be the first welshman who filled the civic chairof London for the lasti'lveals. I Mr. lD. F. Jones, in the absence of the treasurer, Lord Kenyoi, who was prevented by a domestia calarnity fron being present, read the list of donations, aniounting to 1,1281.,.which, together with the pro. eeedZs of the Cambrian balt, 7001., after payiniz certain buildinex penses, left the sorety a clear fund of 40,0001. in the 3 per Cets C;onsols. At the head of the list of subscribers was his Mnjesty 105l.ler ann. The gallery was thronged with ladles, and eahibited no bad specimen of Cambrian beauty. 1tr. Rumasey of Amershain, expired suddenly on Thurs. day morning. c liad. one to Chalfont in his carriage, accOinpa. nied by his daughter, who had been set down at Air. Nash's5 and he was procecding farther when one of the horses got h3s leg across the pole of the cairiage.. br. Runmsey, beong alarmed, opened the c;arriage.doorand let himself otxtl he walked a few paces, and sat down on a bank, edclaiming he had but a few minutes to live, and expired before assistance could be procured. SOUTrAeeiPTOX, Feb. 2.-On Wednesday raornmng, about two o'clock, a fire brok.e out at Wood-mill, about three miles from' this town, which terminated in'. the total dshAtrctioa of that extensive building, but providentially withouc the loss of life. It appears to have originated in that porti&i of tle premises in which a sawing-mnachine had been erected by air. Irvine, who, with his fa. mily,.nwe their fortunate paeservation to a dog, whose loud and In- cessant barking aroused them to a sense of their xdaonei5hntd iha escaped nearly in a state of nudity; but the faithfsl ahrsal fell a victim to the flames. Immediate inteUigence of the calamity was sent to this town; yet, notwithstanding eVe'y exertion, it was nearly or quite five o'clocl: before the efigire arrived at the spot, during which tTnae the'build(ingm codntsiag th'e 8awhrng.rhac'h!nory? waS aW fat destroyed that all attempts te save it were deemed, navailing. 'Te adjoining part, consietigDofa dweWling-house corr.miU,.and- stOre in the occupation of Alessrs.1omcrn; were therefore the objects whici attracted attention; but, notwithstandinx every exertiejn, t'de destructive eleinent had obtained such an ascendency, fromthe quan- tity of wood in the differentt buildings, the ousidc being weather; boarded and tarred, that a fewv hotirs completed its entite ruin, The premises belonged to J. Fleming, Esq., A1. P_ of Stoneha;a.patk, antlhe varibus insurances amouit to about 4jG00L. A few days since, as sorne labourers.were-dligging sand on the lands O W. Tennant, Esq., in the paristr of Shenstone, thez di4eoverat, at the depth pf eight or nine feet from the urface,a hu. man skeleton, with that of i boai'6'head,nnd some 'eres of a cofflin not wholly decayed: about three feet from the gravttbey foind at earthen vessel or urm, filled with avariety of curious instrunests, a few of'which are accurately described in Sho's liry of Spaord. s ire. r any circumnstances induce the belief that thty re Bntth and that s eee High Pripst of the .i4s must have,benburied tbire. The place inwhich'theywere found is an elbvatespot.oh he confines of Drnid-heath, aild'centrallysituated bstvCd tWppoioi whichatradition has designateel asetbeHUimer ad wsnter iesidepcc of an Arch Druid._ Setard paper. Friday'night; the 6ouie of J ;G Struit, E4q., in Peicy- strect; BeMftd.-s-4urre, wisbroken into at the back part of the pre- mises, atnd robbed of a considerable quantity of plate ard other pro. perty.g 'Ihe thieies effected,their etriance by means.i!fa cetre.bit apd ron.cMo*, which latt&'istriuient th`fy 'left bii-*n,athesn -fter regaltg therselYesith tl e titart ~of the pantry. . un ^ednedaecoIilting.hbEis of an ek- tensive carpet-manufactory, near Stirling, was brbkeij intor ari bills an& receipts to areat Ismountorried :fF ..O-Thursday Morn.. inik, a bank receijfl For30wt - ITIMrwi ank het6l brut pa .-1;,waS'.Prefit e tell.aIC .Pt1he au,jiB ks tpiran Ed ~ ~ tP s fund tareeps givn'tb'Ga*W e, 1lied 4001