INTENSE COLD.


At Astracan, Feb. 19, the cold was 28 deg. below the zero of Reaumur.

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ROYAL POET.


A volume of poems by the King of Bavaria has just been published at
Munich, the profits of which are to be given to an institution devoted to
the blind.

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The late Mr. Henry Hase succeeded Abraham Newland, as cashier at the Bank
of England. Newland is buried in St. Saviour's Church, Southwark. The
lyrical celebrity of Abraham Newland will not be forgotten in our times.

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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.


A fine white lion and the largest bear died here last week. This bear was