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COURT CIRCULAR. - . -..10.- Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KEN r, accom palsied by the Princess Vtcroma, with their usual attendants, left he King's Palace at Kensington yesterday, for Broadstairs. The Duke of Cu al BE R LAN D returned to town on Sun day evening, from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness left the King's Palace, St. James's, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, on • vWt to his Maricsvir, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. The Earl of ABERDEEN and Mr. Secretary PEEL came to town yesterday, from the residence of the Chancellor of tke Exchequer, near Dorking, Surrey. The Commissioners under the new Police Act are in daily attendance at the Home Office, making arrangements fur the trial of the new system of police, and examining the numerous ap plicants for the situations of police officers at their temporary office. The Earl of ROSSLYN transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. _ CHANGES. The Queen of Portugal, yesterday, at the seat of the Embassy. i n South Audley-street, from Laleham ; Lord Alvanky, in Park place, from Surrey ; Marchioness Dowager of Salisbury for Liver pool, on a visit to the Marquis and blarchioness of Salisbury, who are at their seat in the vicinity ; Lord and Lady Francis Osborne, in Norfolk-street, from their seat in Cambridgeshire; the Earl of Chesterfield, in South Audley-street, from his seat in Leicester shire; the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter for the Marquis of Ex e rnes seat, Burleigh House, Lincolnshire ; Lord and Lady Gray, from Connaught-place, for their seat in Scotland; Major 1 5 eland, from Canterbury, for Paris; Lieut. Colonel Elliot, for Dublin; Mr. and Mrs. Egerton, for the Netherlands ; Major Smith, for Manchester ; Capt. and Mrs. Mills, for Tunbridge Welb ; Major Kemp, for Gloucestershire ; Mr. and Mrs. Warburton, for Paris ; Major Vaughan and Capt. Taylor, for the lonian Islands ; Major and Mrs. Crawford, for Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire; Capt. and Mrs. Duncan, for Nelson's-orescett,Ramagate ; Mrs. and Miss Atherton, for Ramsgate ; Mr. and Mrs. Tracey, in Dover-street, from their seat in Gloucestershire; Edward Hartong), Esq. and J. Pack, Esq. at Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's,) St. James's-street, Irons the Continent; Capt. and Mrs. Sanders, in Grosvenor-square, from Italy ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, for Earl Grosve nor's seat, Moor Park, Herta ; Capt. Locke, from Grosvenor place, for Balstrode ; Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond -street, for the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Sturges Bourne and family for their seat, Testwood House, near South ampton ; Sir John and Lady Maria Stanley, from their seat Al derby Park, Cheshire, for Leamington, Warwickshire i'ohe Earl and Countess of Sefton, Lord and the Ladies Molyneux, from Stoke Farm, Berke, for Earl Grosvenor's seat in Herts ; Captain Gaseoyne, from Crawl's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, for his father's seat in Yorkshire; Mr. and Mrs. R. Douglas, from Eaton-square, for Scotland ; Lady Elizabeth and Miss Palk, from Bruton -street, for their seat, Rectory House, Enfield ; F. Thomp son, Esq. Mrs. Thompson, and family, at the Berners Hotel, Berners.areet, from Lancaster ; the Rev. M. Newton, at ditto, from Oxford; the Rev. Dr. Burroughs, Mrs. Burroughs, and Miss Burroughs, from ditto, for Hitehin, Herts; the Rev. T. Payne, Mrs. Payne, and family, from ditto, for Cambridge ; Jas. Fielding, req. from Long's Hotel, Clifford-street, for Brighton; Gerard de Coster, Esq. ftom ditto, for Ireland; Major Hilton, from ditto, for Chester. HARROGATE, JULY 25. This old favourite watering-place is, as usual at this season of the year. assuming its accustomed gay appearance.— Amongst the latest arrivals are—Sir Francis and Lady Burton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Constable and family, SirW. Pepys,iCaptain Colmultt, R.N. Mrs. Show, Colonel Salmon, Mr. Young, Lieut. General Dyce, Mrs. and Miss Dyer, Sir Harcourt Lees and family, Sir Abraham Bing and family, Sir Philip and Lady Durham, Mrs. Woodward and family, the two Misses Woodward, Lady Ferguson, Lady Broughton Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, Miss Warburton, Mrs. Rycroft Best, with a long list of other fashionabJes. BRIGHTON, JULY 26. _ _ _ In addition to those formerly mentioned, apartments are engaged at the Albion for the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord John Fit x roy,and Lord &radbrooke,who also purpose being there to-morrow. The Earl of Liverpool is returned to Busted, his Lordship's seat in this county. The Count Montroud returned to the Albion yes terday. Lord Petersham is in its departure list. The Earl of Egremont is expected to be at the Races, though his Lordship has recently suffered from illness at Petworth. THE DRAMA. As usual at this period, the mighty rulers of Covent Garden and Drury have commenced the hard tug of theatrical di plomacy—the straight road and the crooked road, the secret bribe and tempting premise, the " espionage " and manoeuvre, are all pursued with rival machlavelism, and one moment it is whispered that Liston, gained by an enormous salary, returns to Covent Garden ; then we are astounded to learn that Vends has been caught by Drury, with a bait equally splendid ; Young is given to one and the other ; Healy, in the same way, is as liberally disposed of ; the Loves and the Trees, the Paton. and Phillip's., are vari ously enlisted, by rumour, in the dramatic service. But in all these changes we hear nothing of a thorough purification and re form : managers are as costive in this as the managers of the great Westminster Theatre of State. The dramatic aristocracy, the Stars I are all to be retained and magnificently provided for ; but the sticks, the ranters, and the barkers, the buckram mummers and paateboard faces are bought silently by the score, at a miserable price, to damn Shakspeare and Rossini, and drive us from the theatre. How strange it is that managers will persevere, in despite of their own interests and public complaint, in maintaining this wretched band of play murderers--those assassins of English, propriety, and feeling! The het is, they, like other practitioners, have been long "Muth " with their trade. Ihe minor beauties and secondary interests of a play are lost in their satiety ; they can only bestow attention on the little Garrick. and the eternal squid of pitiful underlings, with whose faces and defects we are so long condemned to be familiar, may suit or not suit, just as the public pleases. Now we, who frequent theatres, as much to enjoy the works of our dramatic writers, as to hear them recited by a Young or a Kemble, are indignant at the hard ship to which we are doomed in thus, season after season, having our patience tried by the sorry efforts of these wooden stop. gaps in play acting. There are some fellows as invariably to be found in Covent-garden, Drury-lane, the Lyceum, and Haymarket, as insects in corrupt bodies, who appear as regularly as the stage bell is rung to fret our ears and put us in a cold perspiration. Why cannot our provincial theatres beat a share of this affliction and labour with them in turn? The great theatres of Paris find it ex. pedient to get rid of their old faces, by sending them occasionally to the provinces—judiciously replacing them by fresh candidates _ engaged from thence. Surely our Managers Can afford to do as much. There are respectable actors at Oath, Liverpool, Edin burgh, and Dublin, who doubtless would be glad to try their (attunes on a London stage even in the humble walks; — failure in the experiment could only subject us to the mere change of stick for stick; at all events we should find some relief in novelty : besides the old proverb says, " new brooms sweep clean," and a new batch of inferior actors striving to captivate our good opinion, would be truly refreshing after the long annoyance we have suf fered from hopeless mediocrity, making the round of the drama like horses in a mill, and cured of every other ambition but that of salary. Above all we lament to learn, that the directors of Drury-lane and Covent-garden are preparing, as usual, to get up, during the winter, every species of Drama on the same stage—tragedy,comedy, opera, melo-drama, pantomime, spectacle, mimicry, and ballet, by which justice will be done to neither. Morton and Reynolds will be overwhelmed with the press of business ; reading running, or rejecting ;—unread, perhaps, manuscripts in the gross, and puffing off the stuff they may chose to admit in all the fulsome ways prac tised in. the art. While Coleman, the puritanical Guardian of Theatrical morality, will be castrating and mangling comedies and tragedies to suit the tastes of his friends, Boatswain Smith, and Irving the apostie.--It is said he is about to become Quaker, and renounce Satan and his works fur ever. What a death blow this will be to the literature of the country. At tha very rumour of his desertion the genius of the drama turns pale. Still bow can such a saint preside over a theatre, when language such as this prevails to the contamination of godly ears—Zounds, 'od's bobs,' zookers, 'sblood, sod thunder and lightning :—A new MS. Co medy in which he detected an allusion to an angel, and that naughty place called bell, together with a damnable good Heavens ! and a superdamnable den it ! bas it appears horrified hint into this hasty retreat to the bosom of the righteous. The Earl of Mansfield had a grand dinner party yes terday, at his villa, Caen Wood. Viscountess Hampden had a dinner party yesterday, at her house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square. Divine service was performed at the Chapel Royal, St. lunge's Palace, on Sunday, for the last time previous to its un donoing a thorough repair. This chapel, which is in t ting to the anti qu arian, as being the first public place of worship in which the present Church Liturgy was performed in this kingdom, has long been in a very dilapidated state. The order for its renovation has been issued by the Board of Works, it is said, at the instance of the Bishop of London, who is es Oa* Dean of all his Majesty's Cbspeb Royal. We hope the handsome painted ceiling, charged in its varied compartments with the portcullis and other devices, and ciphers of the Beaufort. and Todors, will be preserved. THE ARMY . Lord Robert Manners, brother of the Duke of Rutland, and Member of Parliament for Leicestershire, has joined the 3d Light Dragoons, now stationed in Sheffield barracks, of which regiment be is Lieutenant-Colonel. Major-General Hinde will be appointed Colonel of the 98th Re giment of Foot, vice Lieutenant -General Conran, deceased. The following Regiments are ordered on foreign service :-17th Foot, to New South Wales; 24th ditto, to Canada; 5.5 d ditto, to Nova Scotia ; 65th ditto, to the West Indies ; 34th ditto, to Gibraltar. Arrived home : The 68th Foot, from Canada; 74th ditto, from Nova Scotia ; 60th ditto (24 battalion) front the West Indies. LIMERICK, JULY 25. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has appointed the Marquis Thomond to be Colonel of the Royal City Cork Militia, vice Sir N. Colthurst, Bart. deceased. Tuesday next, the 62d Regiment will arrive from Temp!emote. to do duty in this garrison. The head-quarters are to be stationed in the Caitle Barracks. Moaday next, two pieces of artillery are to proceed from this garrison to Clare Castle, where eight companies of the 60th Miles are stationed. Two troops of the Ist Dragoons from Gort are to arrive at Ennis on Tuesday next, there to remain until further orders. The 36th Regiment will shortly leave this garrison for Tem plemore._ __ _ The Hoe. Major Grey, son of Rail Grey, has arrived and joined his Regiment, the 60th, in this prriaon. The 60th Rifles, from Clare Castle, it is reported, will replace the 53d at Bier. The 53c1 embarks for Gibraltar. The 95th Regiment leave Gibraltar to replace the 28th at Curia. The 28th are •rdered home. The 55d, from Bier, replace the 12th at Gibraltar. The 68th Regiment are to surrender their station at Quebec to the 24th Regiment. from Manchester. The 68th may be ex pected to return to Ireland in November. The 57th proceed to India, on being succeeded by the 17th, who go in detachments escorting convicts from England and Ice land to Botany Bay. Orders have been issued to the 34th and SSJ Regiments to no minate the Staff and Meen to the Reserve Companies, previous to the Corps embarking on service. Capt. Ttedennick's company of the 70th Regiment arrived yes terday at Mallow, having replased Capt. Kasai''. company, who have joined head-quarters at Buttevant. The head-quarters of the Bth Hussars, under the command of Lieut. Colonel the Hon. G. B. Mohnen:, are at Belturbst. Troop s at headquarters—Captains Harkey , Wodehouse, and Ponsonby's. At Enniskillen, under command of Major Brett, one squadron, consisting of Captain Lord Brudenell, and Lyons' troops. At Monaghan. Captain Lord George Hill's troop. The chief Colonelcy of the 98th Regiment is vacant, by the sudden death of Lieut. General Henry Conran . A report that Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Cuyler, Bart. commanding the 69th regiment, at Athlone, bad been shot by one of the soldiers under his command, on Tuesday last, has been in circulation, and has obtained very general belief. We are happy to have it in our power to give it a complete contradiction. The rumour had its origin from the fact of Sir Charles Cuyler having accidentally fallen from his horse on Tuesday last, when in the front of the regiment, which had been firing blank cartridge at the time. Sir Charles suffered some injury front his fall, but is now doing well. Oil Wednesday, Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.B. proceeded from Athlone to Phdlpstown, where be inspected the detachment of gist Fusileers, under Captain Meade, K.H. and expressed his entire satisfaction at their cleanlinesi and efficiency. On the following day the Major-General reviewed the main body of the regiment at Mullingar (eight companies), at present com manded by Major Colin Campbell, whom he complimented in the handsomest terms on the high state of order and discipline of the battalion. Major Campbell is the officer, who, when a Lieutenant in the 9th Foot, led the forlorn hope at the siege of St. Sebastian, on which occasion every individual of that brave and self-devoted handful of men was either killed or disabled. He was himself severely wounded at their head, and was promoted for bi. gallant conduct at the especial recommendation of General Lord Lynedoch. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Aims Amman Tins DAT—Dublin I—Waterford I—France 1— Sweden 1. The St. Michael, Chancellor, from Gibraltar to Carthagena and Genes, has been taken and carried into Valencia by Spanish guards costae. DIM., JULY 47.—Wind N.B. by N.—Arrived the Lady Flora, from Loudon, fur India. Powramouvn, JULY 27.—Sailed the Minerva, Hue, for St. Pe tersburgh ; and Arrow cutter, on a cruise. Pzvisouvat, Jim , ' 26.—Wind B.N.R.—Arrived from London the William, Goring, for Swan River ; and Baldry, Wood, for Malaga. Arrived the Lady Peel, —, and Britannia, Beckley, from Rip. Fazarouvu, Jury VS.—Wind N. byN. g—Arrived the Brothers, Paterson, from Hansburgh, with loss of jib-boom and fore-sail. Sailed the Brazilian frigates Imperatriz and Isabel, for Ports mouth. DONDIII, JULY SO.—Arrived the Hannibal, Casa!, from Ja maica ; Gratitude, Young, from Montreal ; Sprightly, Johnson, from Quebec ; and Johns, Dryden, from Miramichi. COLLECTANEA. It is a well-known fact, that, notwithstanding all the eqjoterin practised by the Russian Government to secure the affec tion of the Finlanders, this brave people have never forgotten the mild sway under which they lived whilst belonging to Sweden, nor the treacherous and barbarous mode in which an overwhelming Russian army took possession of this country, at a period of pro , found peace. The following anecdote will serve as an illustration : Some years ago a deputation, consisting of some of the most in fluential men in Finland, was secretly sent to Stockholm to inquire of his Swedish Majesty, " whether their countrymen might hope to be once more restored to Sweden?" The King, highly pleased with their patriotic feelings, but unwilling to say any thing which might be construed into ■n hostile intention towards Russia, re turned the following laconic answer :—' Gentlemen, Hope is the life of man !" Cu mous Cot c DENCE.—At one time when the late Mr. William Mears kept the New American Hotel, at the bottom of Sparling-street, there lodged with him Captain Wood, Captain Stone, Captain Long, Captain Short, Captain Trott, Captain Gal. op, Captain Graves, Captain Toms, Captain Frost, Captain Snow, Captain Black, Captain White, and many others, with whom the person who give to this information was acquainted.—Liverp. A MATRIMONIAL ADVENTURER.- -An advertise ment lately appeared in a certain morning paper for a lady " qua lified as a partner for a gentleman whose business, generally very good. has of late very considerably increased." On inquiry it turned out that the gentleman was neither more nor less than a crossing-sweeper, who declared thrt should St. Switbin be propi- I dons be should be able to ler d a good round sum to any proprietor of fra-prdeits able to give good security. We fear many would be glad to apply for it. MARY-LA-BONNE SELECT VESTRY.—A numerous meeting of the inhabitants of the pariah of Mary-la-bonne was held yesterday at the Western Bazaar, Joseph Hume, Esq. in the chair. Mr. Hume addressed the meeting at great length, and in the course of his speech went over most of the topics that had been previously adverted to at meetings held for similar purposes, namely, to adopt suck resolutions as would enable the parishioners to exercise an effective cootroul over the expenditure of the parish funds. Mr. Hume particularly impressed on the meeting the necessity of per severance and unanimity. A string of resolutions were entered into in terms of Mr. Hume's recommendation, one of which was for the collection of subscriptions in the shape of rent, with a view to render effective the resistance of the inhabitants to the con tinuance of the select vestry. Colonel Janes spoke in favour of a rent, which he said bad been the means of procuring freedom to the Catholics of Ireland. The Trustees of the National Brazilian Mining Asso ciation have made their first Report respecting the proceedings of Mr. Oxenford, relative to the purchase and working of mines. It appears that that gentleman has entered Into partnership with several native proprietors, and that every assistance is promised by the public authorities. The total expenditure, Including XlO,OOO lately drawn by Mr. Oxenford, is X 26,064 ; and the Trustees in timate that a further call will soon be made on the shareholders. MR. SLATFORD, TILE STOCKBROKER.—An Inquest was held on the body of this unfortunate man,at Stoke Newington, un Saturday. Mr. S. was, a few years ago, possessed of a fortune of 20,0001. but ruined himself by speculations in the funds. It ap peared from the evidence of Stephen West. a labouring man, that a little before one o'clock on Friday be and his master. Mr. Lock. went to the chamber of the deceased. who bad taken lodgings at Stoke Newington, for the benefit of his health. His breakfast had been taken to him at eleven o'clock, when be was in bed, and as be did not afterwards appear, and had previously been in a dejected state, his room-door, which he had locked, was broken open. The deceased was found undressed lying upon his bed. wehering in blood, and a discharged pistol lying near him. He was then appa rently dead and cold..—Verdict, temporary insanity. JURISDICTION OF THE LORD MAYOR OVER THE THAMES. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last, ‘vere devoted by the Lord Mayor to the septennial custom of measuring the boun daries of the civic jurisdiction This is one of the occasions on which it is considered n y to extend the boapitality of the Chief Magistrate, and due notice is sent to the ship+ of war in the Medway, and to the several authorities at the places which are to be visited, of the approach of his Lordship. At a little after seven o'clock the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress set off from the Mansion-house for Woolwich, where they received on hoard the City of London steam-boat aliout 50 guests. The servants and attendants, &c. increased the number to about 80. At two o'clock they reached Southend, landed, and marked the boundary there; after which they re-embarked and proceeded to cruise down the Nore. A splendid dinner was served up on board, and at nine o'clock the vessel went into Rochester. where, having made the Crown Tavern head quarters, the company were provided with beds. His Lordship was waited upon by the Mayor and Corporation.who welcomed,and were asked to dinner by I him for the next day. At half-past nine isext morning the party again went on board the steam-vessel, in order to witne.s a sailing match' between 20 peter-boats fors prize given by the Lord Mayor. They proceeded to the boundary stone, near Uproot Castle, within a mile of Rochester-bridge, where his Lordship marked the boutplarsy drank " The good City of London," and threw abundance of money about amongst the poor. They then went to the Regent 140 gun-ship, lying in the river Medway, where they were received by the Port Admiral, and waited for the return of the racing beats. At half-past one the winning boat (the Mary Anne, of Ito cheater) ca me in. Soon afterward+ they went to Chatham,where they were met in the Dock-yard by the Cunt mis•ii otters, who showed them over the various compartments and the arsenal. The sawing of timber by means of machinery attracted great curiosity. The party returned to Rochester at a little before five o'clock, and a magnifi cent dinner was served up at the Crown. The Mayor and Corpo• ration of the tows were punctual to their engagement. Mr. Croker, the Secretary to the Admiralty, Sir Henry Hotham, the Port Admiral, and all the Authorities of Roches:et., dined with his Lordship' lso. In the evening there was a splendid bsh, On Saturday morning his Lordship embarked in the steam-vessel to come to London. As be passed the ships of war, the men appeared in the rigging, and buzzard. The party, when they reached the Gloucester man of war (74), in the Nore, accepted the 'invitation to view the ship. The Captain ordered three piece., loaded with ball, to be fired off. After they had viewed the inte rior of the vessel, and tasted of the grog, they set off. They reached Southend at a quarter before three, and were ntet by a committee from the town, who requested that the Lord Mayor would lay the &et stone of the new pier. Atter this ceremony was performed, the party returned to the hotel and partook of a collation. At a quarter past five they set off direct for London, where they arrived at a quarter before nine, alter having spent three days of the most delightful variety. EDINBURGH, July 25. •RRIVID AT GM'S ROYAL ROTEL. Their Excellencies Baron and B.roness de Capellrn, front Utrecht ; Sir Richard Brook Norton, Priory, Chester ; Henry Brook, Egg. Miss Mary Brook, and Miss Heriot Brno■ ; their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Lotzbeck ; John Deans, Esq. ; Hugh Lyle Oaks, Esq. from Londonderry, and the B 41 William Harvey, Langley Park; George Lloyd, Esq. Kirby Hall, Yorkshire, and Lady; Miss Serjeantson. SET Ott 111014 TUE •lOV[ PLACE. The Right Honourable the Ran of Harrowby. and the Hon. F. D. Ryder, for the End of Rosebery's, Dalmeney Park : the Right Hun. Lord Salton'', and Miss C. A. F. Cunningham for Philorth Castle, Aberdeenshire; the Right Hon. the Dowager Lady Saltoun, and the Hon. Miss Fraser; the Hon. Edward Stewart; John Wormald, Esq. of Bramehope Glove, Yorkshire; Charles Crewe, Esq. of Calke Abbey. Derbyshire, and George A. Whittaker, Req. of Mendham, Norfolk ; Alt:ander Crombie, of Pbesdo ; J. Gilpin, Esq. of Sudberry Hall, Yorkshire ; J. Gil pin,inn: Esq.; ( wain Willbank ; James Molyneux, Rsq. Chel well House, and Lady ; the Reverend Mr. Garrett ; Captain Msc phersen of Cluny ; W. F. Clark, Req. and Lady ; John Clark, Esq. and Miss Mininick ; Provost Patton of Montrose, and Mr. Patton ; Captain Cumming ; Bailies Young, Duthie, and Stewart, of Aberdeen ; the Rev. Stephen Creyke and Lady, Miss Anne Creyke, and Miss Hallam ; George Parish, Esq. ;the Rev. James C. Gordon; Kenneth. Macpherson, Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of Aboyne arrived at Aboyne Castle, last week, fron► London. Tas Dues na CNA RTILIII.—His Royal Highness the Doke de Chartres, and suite, arrived on Wednesday at Douglas's Hotel, St. Andrew's-square, tram the north. Thursday his Royal Highness visited Holyroodhouse, the Court, the Castle, and the Sessional School, accompanied by the gentlemen of his suite, Sir Patrick Walker, and M. Laine, the French Consul. In the course of the day he was waited on at his hotel by the Lord Provost, Sir John Sinclair. and Sir It. W. O'Callaghan, Commander of the Forces. Friday be visited the Register-house and other public places, and was afterwards present at the review of the Mid-Lothian yeomanry on Portobello Sands. He Jett Edinburgh for London Saturday morning. The Duke de Chartres is about nineteen years of age, and is the eldest son of the Duke of Orleans, and heir to his title, as well as the bulk or his immense fortune—a fortune estimated at half a million sterling per annum, and which surpasses, we believe, that of any subject in Europe. He speaks English with consider able ease and correctness, a very rare attainment for a Frenchman at hie age, and educated in Pails. The family of Orleans is descended from Philip Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. King of France. His son was Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. and died in 1722. Ile was succeeded by his son, Philip Duke de Chartres, afterwards Duke of Orleans, and he by Philip his son, who married the daugh ter of the Duke de Penthievre, a Prince of the blood royal, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. The Duke of Orkatts perished during the Revolution in France, in 1795, and was suc ceeded by his Chita son, Loui. Philip, present Duke of Orleans, who was lung an exile from his native country, and resided for several years in England, till the restoration of the family of Bour bon on :he abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. The Duke was horn Oct. 6, 177.1, and married 1809. Maria Amelia, born 1782, sister to t►e King of Naples and Sicily. by whom he has the following children, vis Ferdinand Duke de Chartres, born Sept. 5, 1810. Loui.a Duchess de Orleans, April 3, 1812. Mary Duchess de Valois, April 12. 1813. Louis Charles Duke de Nemours, Oct. 25, 1814. Clementina, June 3, 1817. Francis Duke de Join•ille, August 14, 1818. Charles Duke de l'enthievre, January 1,1820. Henry Duke de Aumale, June 16. 1822. Anthonio Duke de Mompensier, July 31, 1824. The Duke of Orlean. is the eldest prince of the blood in France, and nest in succession to the present royal family. The only other prince of the blood is Louis Henry Joseph, Duke de Bourbon, born 1756. but he bas no family; bis only son,the Duke d'hViglnen, who was shot by order of Bonaparte, was 'untamed. M. A. Taylor, Esq. M.P. entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house, Wbitehall-)ard. The learned Abbe Angelo Mai, librarian of the Vatican, to whom literature is indebted for the discovery of the treatise " De Republica," by Cicero, has recently presented to the Pope sonic curious fragments of Sallust, Tacitus, and Cornelius Nepos, which he has discovered. Thomas Peel, Esq. cousin to Mr. Secret.try Peel, has arrived here to embark for the Swan riven—Duos/tort Telegraph. INFLUENCE OF TILE FRENCH CUE/WT.—The Ga sons l'lstseruetion Postilion says—" We are told every day that the Clergy have lost their influence in public instruction. The fol lowing list is the personnel which the University has borrowed from the Clergy, extracted from the almanack of the University for 1899, will disprove this assertion ; two Members of the Council- General ; three Inspectors-General ; live Rectors ; 12 Academy Inspectors ; 77 Members of Academic Councils ; 90 Proviwurs (out of 38) ; nine Crofters, or Prefects; three &continue of Royal Colleges ; 136 Directors, principals, or sub-pnncipals ; 269 Deans, Professors, or Regents ; and 92 Institute Chiefs or Schoolmasteis; forming a total of 627; to which may be added 97 Almunera at tached to different establishments for education. ibis is nearly one-fifth of all the persons employed, and it adds 940,000 francs to the budget of the Clergy I" The late King was very partial to Eton College. He used often to write to the bead -muter, to obtain a half holiday for the boys, and invariably recommended to the Noblemen about Court to send their sons to be educated there. His Majesty used to relate the following characteristic anecdote :—" Some years past I saw two of the urchins shooting in my preserve • both shirked in a ditch ; gave them a view-hollow ; I c a ught the m, and took away• their guns. Didn't know me; took me for a keeper, and offered me a half.crown to let them off, and said they would tell the King, who, they were sure, would not mind their killing a bare. Frightened them out of their wits when I said who I was, and that I should complain to the Doctor (the muter), instead of which I sent them a few pheasants and a hare, upon their pro mising not to poach again; and they kept their word. Both Peers —both Peers now, and two of the strictest game-preservers in England," concluded the King, laughing ; " a proof of the saying, that an old poacher makes the hest gamekeeper, eh ?"—filadser Hertsl SIR HUMPiIRY DAVY. The splendid discovery of the composition of the fixed alkalies was announced in Davy's second Bakerian lecture, read before the Royal Society in November. I&►7, and was the dined result of an application of the laws of Voltaic decompositiothoo ad mirably developed in his lecture of the preceding year • the memoir, therefore, affords a very happy instance of philosophical induct.oo, the most brilliant results having been obtained through a chain of reasoning and experiment ; and, with the exception !whip: of Newton's account of his first discoveries in optic•, the antial, of science cannot boast of such another monument of transcendent genius. Dad it been true. as was at tbe time itidou dell with singular incomisteocy, and we will add with equal unfairtiesc, by the Ediuhurgli reviewers. that the decomposition of the alkalies was accidentally effected by the high power of the appasatuaQlaced at his dkpo.al, Davy's claim: to our admiration would have aosumed a very different character. Inisuch a case he might be :aid tiitilVP forced open the temple by direct violence, instead of Laving covered and touched the ►ecret spring by which its portal: wei unclosed. The filed alkalies, as well as the earth., had formerly bet ti sus pected t•, contain met 'Sic bases ; but as tie proof, nor even esprit meatal indicatiiin of the i cr, could be obtained, the idea vra: by many entirely abandoned ; and, with regard to the former of these bodies, the supposition of their being compounds of hydrogen was considered more plausible, inasnimb as they maintained a ataikiiii analogy in Sensible SU as well as in chemical babitlides, rip ammonia, whose composition had bet n fully established ; while dal supposed relations between hydrogen and oxygen, the acknowledged pnnciple of acidity, added strength to the conjecture. Still all the chemists in Europe had in vain attempted to iffect their decant position ; they bad been tortured by every vas iety of experiment which ingenuity could sugge►t in perseverance accomplish, but all in vain; nor was the mount abandoned until indefatigable dir t had wrecked the patience and exhausted every resource of the ex perimentalist. Such was the forlorn and disheartening position of the philosopher when they proffered his assistance. He created new instruments, new powers, and fresh resources; and, interns. gating nature un a different plan, her lung-cherished secret was re vealed. We have :lready explained the important fact, established by Davy, that during the development of principles, from their various conibinations, by voltaic action, an at rat:time invariably subsists be tweet' oxyaen :DJ the positive pole. and inflammable matter and the negative pule : thus, in the decomposition of water, its oxyge:i was con tautly transterred to the former, and its hydrogen to the latter. Furnished with such data, Davy proceeded to submit a fixed alltdi to the moat intense action ot the galvanic pile ; belies log that if it cootained any hydroge-ti, or other inflammable bee.. it would to separated at its negative extremity, and, if any oxyg r o, that it would appear at ch.! uppostte end. dis first attempts Wert made on soluti ins of the alkalies; but, notwithstanding the in tensity ot the electric :action, the water alone was decomposed. oxygen and hydrogen being disengaged with violent effervescence. and transferred to their respective pules. The presence of water . thus appearing to prevent the desired decomposition, potass, in a state of igneous fusion, was submitted to experiment, when it was immediately evident that combustible matter of some kind, burning with a vivid light, was given off at the negative wire.— After Iranians trial., during the progress of which the numerous difficulties which successively arose were as immediately combated by ingenious manipulation, a sniall piece of potass, sufficiently moistened by the wrath to impart to it a conducting power, was placed on an initiated disc of platina, and connected with the negative side of the battery in a state of intense activity, and a plating wire communicating with the positive side was at the same instant brought in vet= with the upper surface of the alkali.— What lel owed? A cries of phenomena, ash of which the reader will understaild as it is announced ; fur it wall be in strict accord • once with those laws which Davy had previouly discovered, and which we h eve been !aborting to render intelligible. The potass began to fuse at both its points of electrization ; a violent efferves cence comme-nced at the upper or po-itive surface. while at the lower or negalve,iiistead sit any liberation of elastic matter, which must have happened had hydrogen been present, small globules having the appearance of quicksilver were disengaged, some of which were no sooner formed than they burnt with explosion' and bright flame. What must have been the sensations of Davy at this moment! He had decomposed the alkali, and discovered it to contain a metallic basis. The gastous matter developed at the positive pole was soon identified as oxygen; but to collect the metallic matter at the opposite extremity in a sufficient quantity tor a satisfactory examination, was not so easy ; fur such was its attraction for oxygen, that it speedily reverted to the state of alkali by recombining with it. After various trials, Davy found that recently•distilled naphtha presented a medium in which it might be preserved, by covering the metal with a thin transparent film ot fluid which defended it from the action of the air, and at the same time allowed an accurate examination of its physical qualities. Thus provided he proceeded to investigate the properties of the body, giving to it the name of potassium, and which may be described as follows. It is a white metal, instantly tarnishing by exposure to air ; at the temperature of seventy degrees Fahr e nh e i t it exists in small globules, which possess the metallic lustre., opacity, and ge nera/ appearance of mercury ; so that when a globule of mercury is plated near one of potassium the eye cannot discover any differ. race between them. At this temperature, however, the metal is only imperfectly fluid, but when gradually heated it becomes more and more fluid ; and at 150 degrees it fluidity is so perfect that several. globules may easily be made to run into one. Hy reducing its tem perature it become. at fifty degrees a soft and malleable solid, which has the lustre of polished silver ; it is soft enough, indeed, Li be moulded like w. z. At about the freezing point of water it becomes hard and brittle, aid exhibits, when broken, a crystalized texture of. perfect whiteness and high metallic splendour. It is also a perfect conductor of both electricity and heat. Thus far, then, it fulfils every condition of a metal ; but we hair? now to mention a quality which has been as invariaby associated with the idea of a metal as , lustre; and its absence, therefore, in potassium has given rise to a question whether, after all, it can with propriety, be classed under this denomination—we allude to great specific gravity. instead of possessing that pendermity which we should have expected its a body otherwise metallic, it is so light as not only to mini upon the surface of water, but upon that of naphtha, by far the lightest fluid 'in nature. We may here introduce au anecdote which well serve to show th .t so inseparable, by long association, are the ideas of ponderosity and metallic splendour. that the evidence even of our senses may tail to disunite them. Shortly alter Davy had succeeded• in obtaining a quantity of his newly-discovered body. Dr. Georg:: Pearson happened to enter the laboratory, a. d having been shown the substance, and interrogated as to its nature, he at otice ea claimed, upon seeing its lustre, " Why, it is metallic, to he sure ;" and then, balancing it upon hi. Miser, lie added, and, bless me, how heavy it is!"—Spectator. The exportation of gold and bilyer is still E.:(iing on. On the 24th of July there were entered for liamburgh 16,50 V ounces of gold coin. mid 243,000 nutters of silver. AN EC DOTE OF GEORGE BA It RING TON.— A gentle man one night at the opera happened to bnd another gentkinetis, hand in hit pocket. On this be turned round to remonstrate, when Lie other, who was, iu fact, the celebrated Barrington, atter some unpleasant aim cation, coolly observed, " 'Pon my honour, S.r, - ox.k it for my own." " But how Cane you to take my snuff-boe?:' , " 'Pon my honour, Sir, I took it for my own." " That may be, but why, when I accused you 01 picking my pocket, did you tweak my nose?" " 'Pon my houuur , Sir, 1 took that for ',wawa!" MONK E YS.— in a course of lecture:; on natural his- . tory, by M. Groffroy Saint-Hilaire, recently published, it is stared that monkeys are susceptible of ennui. A celebrated philosopher of the last century, who was certainly much more of a man ut Ta lents than of a natural philosopher, pretended, in the first instance, that to his hands alone man was indebted for his superiority over other animal-. It was objected to Helvetins that mmikeys, having four bands instead of two, ought, according to him, much su prior to man hi intelligence. But be replied tli.t monkeys keis . by the disposition of their bodies in perpetual motion, were not susceptible of ennui--tone of the pi inciples, in his opituou. or human perfectibility. Heisted's. would see in Al. Geolliny's work that' in this supposition lie was again in error ; and. besides, that the Or-, ganization of monkeys differs in so many important respects frost that of man that it is manifest the monkey species must for ever be at an infinite distance from the human. One curious tact, and which alone would determine that question, is, that it has been ascertained that the young monkey is ninth more intelligent than the adult. By a remarkable law of nature the more the physical; strength of the monkey incre.ses the more its intellectual power diminishes. SUPERNATURAL VISITATIoN.4.—It in the &ninon to talk ot tales of diablere as being out of car ' or ot the present age being too enlightened to b e entertained with such follies. Dot, with all submission to those who entertain this clinician proceeds from' their having attained a degree of wisdom far beyond the bulk of their fellow-men. The human mind is, in all ages and Kates of society, prone to superstition ; and even those whose reason is pert fectly tree from its influence feel a pleaoure in surrendtrioi astir imagination to its sway. We all know that, while we ourselves are tearfully and wonderfully made, we are surrounded on ever) , side by a world of invisible beings still more fearful and wunderfccl. We know that tbls inftdble world bas been, and may be, rendered visible to man ; and the greatest makers of human reason have de : . I dared themselves inclined to admit the evidence of supernatural visitations even in these latter times. We And, therefore, that . 4 tale of this nature, if skilfully constrneted c and impreisively told, is sure to act powerfully on the intaglindon and feelings of the wise and learned, as well as the rode 11114 ignorant.--lkindisrsis, Worley Journal. . ;., St.