have previous notice, that such person is not the actual owner thereof. Any person intrusted with any goods for the purpose of sale, or any bill of lading, or any warrant or order for the delivery of goods, shall be deemed to be the true owner of the goods, so far as to give the same validity to his contracts for the sale or disposition of the same, or for the deposit or pledge thereof, as if such contracts had been so made by the bona fide owner; provided that the person so contracted with shall not have notice that the person so intrusted is not the actual aud bona fide owner. Any person who shall accept or take any such goods or documents, in deposit or pledge from any such agent, as security for any antecedent debt or demand, shall not acquire thereby any right to such goods, &c. other than was possessed by such agent at the time of the deposit or pledge. The last section of the act provides that if any such agent or factor shall deposit or pledge any goods or any such document as is before mentioned, which shall have been intrusted or consigned to his care or management, with any person as a security for any money or other property borrowed by such agent or factor, and shall apply the proceeds thereof to his own use, with intent to defraud the owner thereof, he shall, on conviction on indictment before the supreme court, be fined not exceeding $1000, and be imprisoned for a period not exceeding the two candidates having the highest number of the votes given at such election so ordered shall be declared duly elected; and if only one of the candidates shall have such plurality, then he shall be declared duly elected, and another election shall be ordered. CONVEYANCES.-So much of the act regulating conveyances of real estate as requires the judge, justice, mayor, or notary public, without this state, when taking an acknowledgment of deeds of real estate, situate within this state, to certify the same under his seal, is repealed OF. FEMALES, IMPRISONMENT All original writs issued against any female, founded on contract not under seal, shall be writs of summons and not writs of arrest; and no execution shall issue against the body of any female in this state on any judgment founded on contract not under seal, where the debt or damages recovered do not exceed $50. But this act is not to affect the remedy on any contract which now exists. LOTTERIES.-No person shall transact business as a vender of domestic lottery tickets, without first obtaining a yearly license therefor from the town-council. For a license to sell in Providence the applicant is required to pay $100; but in the other towns of the state, a less sum is required. If any person shall sell any domestic lottery ticket or part of any such ticket without license, he shall forfeit $100. The act also empowers town-councils, upon request of the applicant, to include in the same license, authority to sell foreign and domestic lottery tickets, and to transact business as a money broker. MILITIA-An act was passed to re-organize the militia. OATHS.-If any person shall administer to any person in this state any oath, affirmation or obligation in the nature of an oath, not authorized by law, or shall knowingly permit any such oath, &c. to be administered to him, he shall forfeit $100 for the first offence; upon conviction for a second offence, the party convicted shall, in addition to this penalty, be forever disqualified for holding any office of honour or profit under this state. QUARANTINE.-The governor was authorized to employ one or more vessels for the purpose of aiding in enforcing the laws in relation to quarantine; such vessels to be under his directions, and the officers and crews to be removable at his pleasure. He was also empowered to provide a suitable hospital, for such persons not citizens of this state, as may be attacked by the Asiatic cholera. The several boards of health are authorized to enact such rules as they may deem expedient, to pre vent any person or persons, from infected places, from entering the town or city where such rules and regulations shall be made, and shall affix such penalties for the breach of such rules as to them shall seem necessary, not exceeding $100. At the session of 1833, the Rhode. Island legislature in acting upon an anti-masonic memorial praying that "the masonic corporations should be cited to appear and show cause why their charters should not be declared void," passed a resolution calling upon masonic bodies, to appear at the next session, and show cause why the prayer of the petitioners should not be granted; or, in other words, to show cause why they should not be called upon to defend their charters." TAXATION.-1833. $138,590 9,900 Salaries of clergy 25,530 The disbursements were -$80,302 00 Viz:-For the ordinary expenses of government 60,852 00 For public buildings and institutions 10,774 00 $71,626 00 CONNECTICUT SCHOOL FUND.—' capital of this fund consists of bonds, of New-York $575,929 34 66 Ohio Stock in Connecticut banks, 7,943 79 147,450 00 Cultivated lands and buildings, viz: In Massachusetts, 114,020 67 Connecticut, New-York, 65,366 52 17,630 95 Wild lands in Ohio, 84,444 66 New-York, 35,844 40 197,018 14 remarkable exhibition of fire balls, commonly called shooting stars. The attention of the writer was first called to the phenomenon about half past five o'clock, from which time until near sunrise, the appear. ance of these meteors was striking and splendid, beyond any thing of the kind he has ever witnessed or heard of. To form some idea of the phenomenon, the reader may imagine a constant succession of fire balls, resembling sky rockets, radiating in all directions from a point in the heavens near the zenith, and following the arch of the sky towards the horizon. They proceeded to various distances from the radiating point, leaving after them a vivid streak of light, and usually explo. ding before they disappeared. The balls were of various sizes, and degrees of splendour: some were mere points, but others were larger and brighter than Jupiter or Venus, and one, seen by a credible witness, before the writer was called, was judged to be nearly as large as the moon. The flashes of light, though less intense than lightning, were so bright as to awaken people in their beds. One ball that shot off in the north-west direction, and exploded near the star Capella, left, just behind the place of explosion, a phos. phorescent train of peculiar beauty. This line was at first nearly straight, 4,871 130,146 but it shortly began to contract its 159,779 length, and dilate in breadth, and 105,609 assume the figure of a serpent fold68,809 ing itself up, until it appeared like 1833. May. The Connecticut a small luminous cloud of vapour. river rose 20 feet above the ordina. This cloud was borne eastward by ry height, and occasioned much the wind, opposite to the direction damage. in which the meteor had proceeded, remaining in sight several minutes. The light was usually white, but was occasionally prismatic, with a predominance of blue. 134,302 06 16,638 29 $1,929,738 50 Salaries of clergy, $398,389 ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON. By Professor Olmsted. The meteors.-About day-break this morning, our sky presented a A little before six o'clock, it appeared to the company, that the point of radiation was moving eastward from the zenith, when it occurred to the writer to mark its place, accurately, among the fixed stars. The point was then seen to be in the constellation Leo, within the bend of the sickle, a little to the westward of Gamma Leonis, and not far from Regulus. During the hour following, the radiating point remained stationary in the same part of Leo, although the constellation in the mean time, by the diur. nal revolution, moved westward to the meridian, nearly 15 degrees. By referring to a celestial globe, it will be seen, that this point has a right ascension of 150 degrees, and a declination of about 20 degrees. Consequently, it was 20 degrees 18 minutes south of our zenith. The weather had sustained a recent change. On the evening of the 11th, a very copious southerly rain fell, and on the 12th, a high westerly wind prevailed, by gusts. Last evening the sky was very serene; a few falling stars were observed, but not so numerous as to excite particular attention. The writings of Humboldt contain a description of a similar phenomenon observed by Bonpland, at Cumana. It is worthy of remark, that this phenomenon was seen nearly at the same hour of the morning, and on the 12th of November. As the cause of "falling stars" is not well understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relating to the meteors. DENISON OLMsted. Yale College, November 12, 1833. LEGISLATION.-Public statutes passed at the May session of the legislature of Connecticut, in 1833. ANATOMICAL SUBJECTS.-Whenever any person shall die in any town in this state who may be, at the time of such death, supported by the public, whose interment must be at the public expense, and in case no kindred, relation, or friend of such deceased person shall, within thirty-six hours after such death may take place, appear and object to the delivery of the body of such deceased person, then it may be delivered to such professor, surgeon, or physician, as the selectmen may deem proper, to be used for the advancement of anatomical and medical science; but before such delivery, the person entitled to receive the body is required to give a bond in the penal sum of $500, conditioned that the body shall be so used, and that the remains thereof shall afterwards be interred; the application of any professor, belonging to any medical college in this state, shall be entitled to a preference over other applications. BANKS. Six banking companies were incorporated, the aggregate capital stock of which is $1,350,000, which may be increased, upon cer. tain conditions, to $2,800,000. BIRDS.-Acts were passed for the protection and preservation of birds and feathered game, and for the protection of cornfields against crows. CORPORATIONS.-Whenever any bond, note or other security, taken and executed to the officers of any corporation in this state, wherein the beneficial interest appears to belong to such corporation, all suits or actions at law or in equity to recover or enforce the saine may be commenced, and prosecuted to final judgment, by such corporation in their own corporate name. The cashiers of banks, and the secretaries of insurance and turnpike companies, are required annually on the first of October, to make out on oath, and deliver to the comptroller of public accounts, a true statement of the whole amount of capital stock of their respective institutions, and how much thereof belonged on said first day of October to resident, and how much to non-resident stockholders; and the secretaries, treasurers, or clerks of all banks for savings are also required to return to the comptroller a true statement of all the moneys be longing to their respective institutions at the same time, under the penalty of $100. DEBTORS.--The discharge of any debtor from imprisonment for debt, by the direction of the creditor, shall not operate as a release or discharge of the debt, so as to prevent the creditor from collecting the same out of the property of such debtor; but no debtor so discharged, shall thereafter be imprisoned for such debt. If any debtor imprisoned for debt shall not, within three months from his commitment, be admitted to take the poor debtor's oath, he shall be deemed an absconding debtor within the meaning of the act authorizing the collection of debts by foreign attachment; and the creditor may proceed against his goods, effects, and credits, in the manner provided in that act. Justices of the PEACE.-Where a justice shall not be reappointed, all processes which shall have been begun before such justice, may be continued before said justice, to final judgment and execution. Where any writ, &c. shall be made return. able before any justice, and at the time appointed, he shall be absent. from the town where the trial is to be had, he may, at any time within twenty days thereafter, proceed to try the cause, upon giving six days' previous notice to the parties. LIMITATIONS.-Where the time limited by the statute of limitations for the commencement of any personal action, which survives to the representatives of any deceased person, shall not have elapsed at the time of his decease, the term of one year shall be allowed to his executor or administrator from the time of such decease to institute a suit therefor. MORTGAGES.-The foreclosure of any mortgage shall not preclude the mortgage creditor from recovering so much of his demand as the property mortgaged shall be insufficient in value to satisfy; and where an action is brought by such creditor upon his demand, after foreclosure, this shall not open the foreclosure. NOTARIES PUBLIC.--Notaries public are authorized to administer oaths in any case in which a justice of the peace might administer the same, and also to take acknowledge. ments of deeds. All grants, deeds of bargain and sale, and mortgages of lands, execu ted by any grantor resident in any foreign state or country, without the limits of the United States, and acknowledged before any notary public or justice of the peace in such foreign state or country, shall be valid. PARTNERSHIPS.-An act was passed in addition to the act authorizing limited partnerships, prescribing the mode of renewing such partnerships, |