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f r oatitr. Itudiger mancurred for two days, moving his forces some. Ones to the right, sometimes to the left, probably to alarm or induce me to quite the position I occupied. As he could not succeed in this, h e d e tached, on the 26th, in the night, some thousands of cavalry ' ,Ain'. Galicia in my rear ; he took on himself to disperse the soldiers s. the Austrian frontless, and took the sithes with which they were Armed from them. • On the 27th the whole corps advanced on my left wing, and some Cha.•eura on the right, in the same place where they entered Gallicia in the night. • It was now evident that I could he attacked on all sides, and that the frontiers no longer afforded me protection. It being impossible for toe to oppose a corps eight times stronger than my own, I was corn .l,l!ci to withdraw to Gallicia, after I had informed the commander of ;he frontiers. _ _ Itudiger paid no respect to the frontiers; his column occupied the Austran territory, and although my rear-guard did not Are a shot, ac .rding to my strict orders, the Russians un ceas i ng ly fi re d on our troops . ALITW of our people were woonded, and 20 taken prisoners. The Austrian corps of Hussars and infantry caused them to !UM r ..,1 their operations ; but they held their position half a mile from o w frontiers, near the village of Lasiecnik, and left it five hours af towards. I was posted at Chlehanowska, the place appointed me by the Austrian Colonel Fak. I sent a courier to Prince Lubkowits, re. gtuts•ing him to allow me to proceed through to Poland. I entreat the National Government to adopt measures for the safety dirt corps, which has done all in its power for the welfare of the courant up to this time, and may be of great benefit in future. " DWERNICKI. " Chlebar.owska, April 28, 1831, two miles from Z'oaviu." GERMAN PAPERS RECEIVED THIS DAT. FROM THE Tuaxisu FRONTIER, APRIL 30.—0 n the 20th inst. Natapheys Oglu, one of the chiefs of the insurgents, entered Sophia r<ith 10,000 men, after the garrison of 1,200 men had obtained pet mis stii to retire unmolested. The Grand Vizier is closely invested by the in%urgenta in Bitoglia (otherwise Monastir); but it is reported that Hu•sein Pacha is on his march from Adrianople, with 30,000 men, to relieve him. On the other hand, it is said that the people of Lower Albania, undo the Pacha of Crola, are inning against Mustapha puha, their hatred to whom is said to exceed their dislike to the inno rations introduced by the Porte, and their resentment at the treacherous conduct of the Grand Vizier to their chiefs. The reason of this hatred is stated to be, that Mustapha Pacha last year dismissed m deputation from Lower Albania, who came to ask his assistance, with the rough answer, " that he had nothing to do with their disputes with the Porte." BELGRADE, MAY 2.—Accounts from persons worthy of credit, latedScopia, April 20. leave no doubt that the Paths of Scutari intends to attack the Grand Vizir immediately. The greater pan of his troops are already advancing to Bitoglia, for this purpose, and has already partly passed the river Vardar, at Koeperlik, and the town of Ptrlipe ; the van guard is now three leagues beyond that town, and about five leagues front Bitoglia. On the other side, Zclady, Bey of Dibra, has approached within some leagues of Bitoglia, and another corps of in surgents is said to be coining from Lower Albania ; so that the Grand Visit's communications are every where interrupted and menaced ; but It is still not impossible for him to retreat towards Seres, as there are only marauding parties on that side, and the Qrand Vizir's army is supposed to amount still to about 20,000 regular troops.—Nuremberg Correspondent, May 12. A trosnuao, MAY 12.—Letters front Belgrade, of May 1, say that the Grand Vizir, who was invested in Bitoglia by the insurgents, had been obliged to surrender, from want of provisions. The Courier of Greece contains the following article During the inveterate contest between the Albanians and the troops of the Grand Vizir. some battalions of Greek troops were stationed on the frontiers. Tie Grand Vizir requested the Greek Government not to allow the Al banians, whom he pursued, to take refuge in the Greek territory. On which the Greek Government gave to its civil and military Governor such orders as showed its desire to be on terms of good neighbourhood with the Turks." Vaccination has been introduced into Greece, by the asslstacce of the physicians of the French troops. The Turki , h authorities have allowed the exportation of live cattle to the continent of Greece, which had been previously prohibited; and the Grull Government, by a circular of the 29d of January, has al.o allowed the exportation of them. VIENNA, Ma 9.—Metalliques, 11i. Bank Sk. 10M..-41/setweine Zritonp, Nay 13. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. HER ALD.—If it be true that the frightful disease known as the Indian cholera has advanced so far into the north of Europe as Leipsic, there must be more than sufficient ground for our urging again upon Government, as we have heretofore done, the necessity of the most ac ::ve precautionary measures being used to prevent, if possible, under Me blessing of Providence, Its reaching our own shores. We would hope, and have, indeed, no reason to doubt, but that Government are silently and effectually doing all that they can do toavert the threatened calamity. list the danger we ate exposed to is not a little augmented by the differ ence of opinion prevailing among medical men as to the fact of this disease L.:ing contagious or not—some of them, we understand, contending Ihlt it spreads itself through the atmosphere as a seedario, and against %bids, of course, no quarantine regulations can provide. This may or may not be so. If on this, or any other similar topic, we were to wait till doctors cease to differ, half the human race might fall mar tyro to this and other such visitations. The Government, therefore, we trust, will steer clear of adopting the crochets, or even the wisdom of medical professors, on this one point of nonseontagion. The safer course is to believe the contrary ; leaving to the non-contagionists all the honours of victory, should they turn out to be right. Blessed as we are with a sea-girt territory, we are infinitely better provided with means to avert this evil than any Conti nental States can be which have to rely on a military force to form a sanatory cordon. On the other hand, our immense mercantile traffic, as well as our enlarged personal intercourse with all parts of the Con tinent, it must be admitted, in no small degree counterbalances this, and imposes a difficult but not the less indispensable duty, on the part of Government, to leave no precautionary means untried to avert so fearful a calamity. TlMES.—Although the opinions of independent men are made up as to the necessity of preserving entire the two great principles of the measure of reform,—viz. the demolition of rotten boroughs, and the extension of the elective franchise. as well as of the right of being re presented to large communities and classes of property, which are now excluded from both, there is, we see, some discussion going on with resp;et to one or two points of qualification.—l. Proprietors of land let out on building or other leases, whose tenants Can vote, while they, the landlords, are disqualified, by the mere fact that their tenants derive a qualification from the same premises. At this rate, Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, or Sir Francis Burdett might have thousands of voters on their property, without being themselves recognized as electors. This isa manifest error in the wording of the bill; from acting too pedanti cally upon the principle—in Licit most salutary—that two qualifica tions siiall not be founded on one and the same portion of an estate. A remedy may, we humbly conceive, be easily provided for so obvious an inadvertency in the bill. 2. Many persons are disposed to think, that when not only freeholders and copyholders of 101. per annum, bet leaseholders fora term of 21 years, paying 501. per annum, are destined to exercise the righ of voting in counties, the disqualification of tenants at will, no matter bow extensi ve or v aluable may be the premises which they occupy, is a defect in the measuse which ought at once to be corrected. On the face of things, undoubtedly, it appears harsh, nay capricious, to refuse the franchise to a leaseholder of five hundred acres, at a rent of kit or eight hundred pounds per annum, while the occupant of fifty acres, at a tenth of the sum, can show himself manfully at the busting & Yet we are decided in our belief that no tenant ought 'n be a voter, in respect of any premises from which he may be ejected tae arbitrary will of another individual. A 501. leaseholder for 21 vters is secure of his holding for whatever portion of his term may re train unexpired. He may therefore vote for whom he pleases, and a t taimt his landlord's wishes, with impunity. He is an independent "Ili and as such possesses the first attribute of a useful elector. POST.—The ref,. rrn Bill of his Majesty's Ministers, if it should ever ra,s into a law, will give rise to some scenes of a nature never before hued in this country, and the progress of which will certainly dial •'- the delusion thut now enwraps the ministerial reformers, dense and l 'imivtrable as it is. Let the gentry and freeholders of the counties of England figure to themselves two or three Privy Councillors, nominated )3 7 Earl Grey and Lord Brougham, probably the Right Hon. J. Calerait the new member for Dorsetshire, who has so highly distinguished him ,elf tqon the reform question, together with Mr. Wellesley, the new measlier for P.ksex, another character equally distinguished, and, per harm, Mr. D. W. Harvey, the celebrated member for Colchester, the two latar having previou.ly been created Privy Councillors for the °cm slon--let the gentry and freeholders of England, we say, figure to themselves these, or three other equally worthy and re 7'ediehle men, visiting our counties in succession, in order in divide them into convenient districts, for the purpose of r t, fr , :sentation. L et t h em i mag i ne the great Whig landholders paying rir court to these three, or any other three equally right honour. commissioners, and whispering into their ears, " draw the line demarcation thus. or thus, and we, steadfast friends as we are . !le dynasty of Grey and Brougham, shall always be sure of our ::.embers, while we shall have our fair chance at least with miler gentlemen of the county, less devoted to that dYnist7 vie are, in t h e d ivis i on of the county on the other side of our line." must no doubt be conceded that Earl Grey and Lord Brougham are eery last persons in the world to sanction any partiality on the part eir Commissioners; but yet, when the scene comes really to be the spectators may begin to think that, upon the whole, it might Lave beeb es well not to expose those eminent persons to a temptation . 4 _ l . !T)g as th at ri f secur i ng to t h e i r party, permanently i and inde .i.ll.4l_ Y, no less than thirty-four co u nty seats in the House of i THE GENERAL ELECTION. MEMBERS RETURNED TO Fermanagh (County).—General 41 STATE 01 Northampton (County ), Blay 19. I Four o'Cloe Althorp - - - 2415 Milton - - 2076 - Cartwright - 1952 Knightley - - 1377 Dublin (City), May 16. Lard Mayor . 1831 Mr. Perrin . 1826 Mr. Moore - . 1459 Mr. Shaw - - 1458 THE NRW PARLIAMENT. Arehdall ; Lord Cole. IF POLLS. Pembroke (County), May 17. Owen - - - 1490 Greville . - - 1433 Cavan (Connty)-3d Day. Maxwell - - 598 Young . . 661 Southwell - - 316 King's County, lit day. Lord Oxtnantown - 1 Colonel Bernard • 1 Captain Wistenra - 1 _ The following address has just been issued by Lord Milton: "TO MT FELLOW-COUIPITSTMEX. " I understand that some observations have been made upon my con duct, which require from me a statement of facts. To the facts I shall confine myself. " On Thursday, April 21st, a dissolution of Parliament was inevi table. On that day I wrote from London to Mr. Hanbury, to request him to stand for the county of Northampton. in opposition to Mr. Cartwright On Saturday, April 23d, I received Mr. Banbury's an swer, stating that the attempt would be unsuccessful. In reply to this letter, I wrote ag to Mr. Banbury, stating my reasons for thinking otherwise, and again pressing him to stand. To this second letter I received an answer on Monday, April 25th, in which Mr. Hanbury positively declined standing. " On Wednesday, April 27th, I received a letter from Mr. Curtis, of Wellingborough, in which a wish was stated to be entertained in that place that I would stand for the county. My answer, written April 27th, was, that ' I should infinitely prefer seeing any other person in the situation of member,' that no power on earth should induce me to engage as a candidate in a popular election,' but that, ' under certain circumstances, I might feel it a duty to obeys call strongly made on me.' " On Monday, May 2, I received a letter from Kettering, stating, that there was a rumour there, that Lord Brudenell was to stand with Mr. Cartwright, and that the friends of reform in that town wished MC to stand. " On Tuesday, May 3, I received a letter, signed by 45 freeholders at Towcester, inviting me to stand. On Wednesday, May 4, I received a letter from Daventry, ex. pressing s trust that I would allow the freeholders an opportunity of voting toe me. " My answers to the letters from Kettering and Towcester were analogous to the one I sent to Mr. Curtis of Wellingborough. " My answer to the letter from Daventry hu bean printed : it is conconnable with the others. " While my correspondence with Mr. Hanbury was going on, I endea voured, through the intervention of two friends, to obtain requisitions from some of the inhabitants of Northampton and of Wellingborough, calling upon that gentleman to stand. In this matter, however, nothing i was done, and all my attempt/et° induce any body to come forward against Mr. Cartwright crated on the 25th April. unless you consider in that light a letter that was published in the Stamford and Huntingdon papers about the last day of April. This letter was signed 'One of You.' It was addressed to the inhabitants of the northern parts of the county. Its - object was to draw their attention to the advantages which they, in particular, would derive from that section of the reform bill which provides for taking the poll in districts; and to point out to them the obstacle which Mr. Cartwright presented to their obtaining that advantage. It neither mentioned nor alluded to any individual asi an opponent to Mr. Cattwright. With the exception of my father's agent, whom I desired to get it published in the papers I have named, and to distribute some handbills of it, nobody knew that it was written by me, till Mr. Cartwright asked me the question on Tuesday the 10th instant. The letter had neither external nor internal evidence of being mine, and, for aught those who read It knew, any body else might have been its author. A letter unsigned by the writer cannot be considered as a canvas, either for the composer of it, or for any other person. It is perfectly absurd so to consider it. " Having brought before you one letter that I wrote without affixing my name to it, I will mention another, and then you will be in posses sion of the whole of my conduct. " While my correspondence with Mr. Hanbury was going on, I wrote a letter signed 'A I. reeholder,' pointing out that gentleman as a fit person to suceed Mr- Cartwright. It was sent from London by the post of Saturday, April 23d, and was published in the Northampton Free Pres, of Tuesday, April 26th. " When my endeavours to persuade Mr. Hanbury to stand were at an end, Lord Altborp knew that I had been corresponding with him, and that our correspondence had terminated, but he never knew that was the author of either of those anonymous letters till after the com mencement of the election. " 6 It has been stated that a committee, either for me or LordAlthorp, or both of us, sat at Peterborough about three weeks previous to last Thursday. This Is not true. " On the 4th of May, two days before the electi on , a Committee for Lord Althorp was formed at Peterborough by my ' desire. Being in London, I had received on the 3d a letter from Lord Althorp, at Northampton, in which he inquired who would be the proper persons to make arrangements for the conveyance of his friends in the soke of Peterborough in ease of a contest. In consequence of this letter i I wrote to Dr. Skriinshire, recommending the formation of a Committee, and, in writing to that gentleman, I told him that I thought it not impos sible that I might be nominated. I gave him this intimation, because I had then received the invitations from Wellingborough and Towces- I ter; and declarations had been published by several populous villages in the western part of the county, expressing their desire to vote for some gentleman of the same principles with Lord Althorp. " On Wednesday, May 4th, messengers were sent to the villages to the soke of Peterborough, to apprise them that a contest was possible. " 6 On Thursday, May 3th, a message to the same effect was sent to Warmingtoo, a village near Oundle. The assertion that any canvass was made for me or even for Lord Althorp by my desire, previous to the 4th of May, is unfounded. Error may have led to he assertion, but there is no truth in it. These are the facts. " You, fellow-countrymen, will form your own judgment upon them. " I remain your moat faithful servant, " Delapre, May 18, 1831. MILTON." The Irish elections are rapidly drawing to a close. It is quite impossible to account for the conduct of Messrs. Moore and Shaw in keeping open the poll in Dublin, when it is ob vious that not the slightest chance of success awaits them. In Down, we are sorry to say, that Lord Castlereagh con tinues to have a majority over Mr. Crawford ; however,when we consider the many recommendations of his Lordship to t:ie electors of Down, we feel the less surprise, but not the less regret at his success : it has been a bravely-contested battle. In Clare and the King's County, reformers are op posing each other, and in both cases, as in Meath, it is likely the late members will be re-elected. How much bet ter it would have been to have arrived at the same result without a coutest.—Dublin Times. We may announce that Mr. Shell will be returned without opposition for Louth. Sir Patrick Bellew has raised himself much in the estimation of the constituency, and has cer tainly given himself an undoubted claim on their future confidence, by withdrawing for the present, to prevent such a split in the reforming interest as might have given a mem ber of the Tory faction a chance of slipping in. We avow the great gratification with which we learn that Richard Shell is certain of being returned for an Irish county : it is the fashion latterly to decry his pretensions, on the score of alleged political aberrations. We know not precisely what these are•—but we believe that Richard Shell is utterly inca pable of saying or doing any thing which ho would suppose calculated to inflict an injury on Ireland, and it is, in our humble apprehension, too soon to forget that when the great struggle was undecided, his services, and his utter and entire devotedness, placed him second only to one name in the long roll of sterling and unpurchaseable Irishmen. On the score of talent, it is admitted, on all hands, that Ire land ought to be proud of Shell. He has already made a figure in parliament, honourable to her school of speakers and politicians: it was, indeed, the omission of the picture of the Roman patriots, in the public procession, to have him excluded from the list of her representatives, and we rejoice that the disreputable anomaly is to be corrected.—Morning Register. From the accounts which we have received of the feelings which pervade the freeholders of the independent county of Londonderry on the question of reform, the friends of that measure may rest satisfied that one reformer, at all events, will be returned. The election of Sir John Byng is, beyond all doubt, secure, and the only question for the electors is, which of the late representatives they will choose. Not withstanding the wavering conduct of Sir Robert Batmen, since he was returned for this county, and during his canvass since the dissolution of parliament, his senatorial career has proved bun to be a most efficient and useful member, in for warding the inteiesta of his constituents. As Sir Robert Bateson is what is called a moderate reformer, he and Sir John Byng, who is a supporter of the ministerial measure,' will, it is expected, be returned, to the exclusion of the useless Captain Jones, whose only pretensions to so di..tin guished a station is his connection with the Beresford family. He was utterly unknown to the people until the la- t election, when he was thrust upon them by the same family. He is not possessed of a single acre of land, nor is he identified with any existing interest in the county. Under all the cir cumstances, it is incumbent on the electors of Derry to get rid of a gentleman, who has proved himself so utterly unlit to represent them.—Dublin Times. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS IN CLARE.—Satur day evening, Wm. Mahon struck Maurice O'Connell in the street, in hopes of urging him " to the field ;" 1111.. O'Connell coolly replied " that he would inquire into it after the election." This morning Charles O'Connell, the Solicitor, and a Mr. Cummins, had a difference with re gard to a voter, and it terminated by the former knocking the latter down. This, it is supposed will lend to a message. The election will not end to-day. The town is now densely crowded, the temper in which business is conducted, it is feared will lead to some more serious encounters. Mr. O'Gorman Mahon has the start, but there is no doubt he will be the beaten candidate. COUNTY WENFORD.—State of the poll at 12 o'clock on Monday—Chichester, 494 ; Lambert, 472 ; Lord Valentin, 418: Majority, 54. No doubt is entertained of the Re formers' success. LEITRIM.-Mr. Peyton has very wisely resigned. Mr. S. White and Col. Clements were therefore returned with out opposition. FERMANAGH.— General Archdall and Lord Cole— elected without opposition. Both are anti-reformers. COUNTY or SLIGO, MAY 15.—The absence of General King has militated against his return for this county. At ' the dose of the poll yesterday evening, the Sheriff declared ' the number of votes to be : for Mr. Cooper 84, Colonel Perceval 69, and General King 40. Several circum stances, however, concurred to give Colonel Perceval this trifling majority. Twenty-six voters, that are still deemed good, were objected to, and were not ruled by the assessor at the close of the poll. The sheriff's deputy closed the poll for the day just as two tallies for General King were coming up, and thus very unfairly left the other can didates two tallies each, a-head. The old tactician, Mr. Wynne, of Ilazlewood, immediately sent in all his forces, with the view of giving his favourites such a ma jority on the first day, as would discourage the simple minded country freeholders from continuing to adhere to the side which, he calculated, they would deem ominously weak, as they generally do deem that of the first minority ; while on the other hand, yesterday being chief market day, the trading classes of this town, who are almost to a man fa vourable to reform, were occupied in their respective shops, not apprehending any danger from one day's absence from the hustings. But notwithstanding this unfavourable be ginning, Mr. Martin and the other respectable friends to reform, are quite sanguine, and calculate upon a decided majority over Colonel Perceval tomorrow. I hope that their best wishes may be realized. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. The eat 2feite from Pails has arrived, but its contents are unimportant : all appeared tranquil in the above capital. Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 for the Account, opened at the same price this morning, and are at present alternately buyers and sellers at the above price, with little doing. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. Letters of the 6th of May from Madrid state, that infor mation had been received there from the Havannah, stating that M. Claude Pinellos, intendant-general of the island of Cuba, was to embark for Spain, charged with a mission from the Mexican Government, to demand of Spain the ac knowledgement of their independence ; for which the Mex ican Government would conclude with Spain an armistice for ten years, with a treaty of commerce. The accounts from Seville state, that the number of dis tinguished persons imprisoned there were 34; of which four officers of the Queen's regiment made a part. The last letters from Cadiz inform, that about 5,000 per sons have been expelled that city. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, since the early part of the day, have improved to 82j, 83 for the account; at present they are 82fj. This rise is attributed that some arrangement will take place between the Dutch and Belgians. In the Foreign market little or nothing doing. EPSOM RACES THIS DAY. BY EXPRESS. POUR O'CLOCK . The Oaks Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft. for 3 years old fillies, Bat. 41b.—Eighty six Subscribers. Duke of Grafton's Oxygen Lord Exeter's Miss Catton Lord Lowther's Pennytrumpet Lord Lowther's Circassian Only the above placed. Twenty-one started. Won by a neck. YA R 11011TII, MAY 19.—Yesterday morning at four o'clock, the Swedish ship ',WWI, Christopher Stephenson muter, from Oottenburgh to Ipswich, with a cargo of timber and deals, (the weather being thick,) drove on Cotton Sands, the master and crew, twelve in number, have been landed here ; anti should the weather continue mo. derate. probably the ship and cargo may lie saved. Sailed in ballast the Sundbury and Obey, for Rottenbro' ; in ballast, the Ann, for Faroe, and the Ferewskride, for Amhus. ANTIGUA, M A ucu:29.— Martini law has been in forec, since the 21st Instant. On the 20th, the Bill for the Abolition of Sunday Markets was enforced against the ncgroes, and 'event patches of cane on different estates set fire to. An attempt was made to corn. munieate fire to the town, by firing a patch of came which adjoined it; but by the prompt exertions of the inhabitants it wall extinguished. No combined attempt at rising has been made by the negroes. The people are perfectly orderly and attentive to their work in the day. The French Papers state, that the cholera tnorbus has appeared in Gallicia. A letter from Tarnopol announces its appearance in that town and some other places on the Russian frontiers. The people die so fast, that it is with much difficulty they can bury them. The whole of the circle of Cborostlow is encumbered with dead bodies, as is also that of Colon. POPULATION.- In the approaching enumeration of the inhabitants of every place, on Monday, the 30th May instant, the in tention clearly is, that every person shall be reckoned orce, and not oftener ; so that those who happen to be travelling, or absent from home on business, or for any other purpose on that day, shall be reckoned as if at their usual residence ; and if they leave directions at home accord. ingly, they may assign that as a reason for refusing to be !atoned else where. It is not easy to define in all eases what constitutes residence ; gonerally speaking, the enquirer may reasonably ask at every house far the number of persons who lodged there during the preceding week, or the last night, and proceed to reckon all such as residents there, un. leas sufficient reason be even for thinking that they or ary of them will be enumerated elsewhere. It may conduce to accuracy in po pulous places, to observe, that the larger the number of selected Enumerators, the less capable and intelligent some of them must be ; nor is it certain that Ilagistrates will think themselves justified In al lowing payment in the amounts of overseen, beyond the day's-work of one enumerator toa hundred houses or sir hundred persons, unless in very thinly inhabited districts. THEIR MA JE.STIES Wntimon. 19.—Ordetswere this day remit,' a; tl.e Castle to prepare for her MAJESTY'S reception, al,o g is tt - morrow, atcotupanird hy . the Duchess of Sala WEIN aP. in order that her Highness may inspect the accommodaticns that have is:ea prepare) for herself and family, u well u the rest of this splendid I{‘ cal r P - dtnce. The apartmems allotted to her Highness are situated to 0.:1; past of the Castle called the D,vil's Tower, which is the largest circulor tower in the whole ; and the frightful name of which mtrht now be justly changed to that of tie Nursery Tower —as, independent of bet Highn:th's children, there are three of Mrs. ERSEINE'P. and some others; in all amounting to reventeen. An elegant collation will be prepared for the Qur Est and Ler distinguished visite?, ii; the• family dining room. Iler MAJESTY i. expected to arrive:about tekei?.• o'clock, and will lace again about lour. rot St James's COURT CIRCULAR Their Nlajesties entertained the Lardsravine cf Hesse Homberg, the Princess Augusta, mid a se!ect FIT - , at dir.- ner, on Wednesday evening, at the Palace at St. James's. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Princes:4 _ _ _ • Sophia visited the Queen yesterday, and partook of a de ,jetini• with her Majesty and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar. Earl Grey and Lord Holland had audiences yesterday of the King. The Queen, accompanied by the Duche•s of Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday, in a carriage. The Duke of Cumberland left town on Wednt sda•: even ing, for his residence at Kew. The _Ambassador from the Netherlands LW a lon c .n -ference yesterday with Viscount Palmerston, at the Foreig n Office. Lord Ponsonby had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Treasury. His Lordship also visitud V i count Palmerston, at the Foreign Office. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. • MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Monday, in the eathedril of Kilkenny, by the Bishop of Killaloe, Harriet Eleanor Wande,fml„ daughter of the Marquess of Ormottle, to Barn Fowler, l'sq. .on of the Bishop of O.sory. It is said that the vacant Grand Cross of the Bath is to be bestowed on Admiral Sir Hairy Ttollope, K.C.B. and thit dut two vacant K.C.B s will be given to Agee-Admirals E. G. Colpt y•: nd E. J. Foote. A -petition, presented by Lord Holland at the levee on Wednetday last, is curious from the matter sad manner of it. Ibe subject of it is the replacement of Sir John Peter Grant in his situatioa as Judge at Bombay. This gentleman, it sill be recollected, is the " wild elephant," whom a certain President of the Board of Controul would " place between two tame ones," In order to render hith tracta ble. Our brethren of Bombay, of all estates and colours, seem to en. tertdin a different opinion of 1114 qualities.—i.Timrs. In this sing-song age, a few lessons in music may prove more productive to a boy than a hundred in Greek and Latin ; and when I have one, see if I don't put a fiddle into his little hand the moment he is out of his leading.strings.— Make him a parson, indeed ! Look at a Welsh curate, with his 301. per annum, and say whether, the opinion of a blind public, a blind fiddler is not a far more impor tant personage P—Regnolda's Dramatic Annual. A Hamburgh ship yesterday, in proceeding from off the Tower to the St. Katherine-docks, to take in a cargo for Hamburgh. being very crank, was blown over upon her beam-ends in the middle ut the river ; and her ballast port being open, she filled, and dropped down with the ebb opposite Watson and Metcalf's whirr, where she sank. The coast blockade have been superseded by the coast Iguard service round the eastern coast of this county, as far as Margate. The like exchange will be effected along the remaining part of the coast of this county, in the course of the present and ensuing week.—Kentish Gazelle. SONS OF TIIE CLERGY.—YPsterday was celebrated, at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Anniversary of the establishing of the Institu tion for the benefit of the Sons of poor Clergymen. The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Sheriffs, went in state to St. Paul's, where was as sembled a most numerous company. The performance of sacred aid other music was extremely grand, and a good collection was made in aid of the charity. The reason why barristers and solicitors always dress in black is, because they are anxious to be considered men of exquisite feel. log, and appear as if inownsing for the general fate of their unfortura:e The works at Hungerford Market are proceeding with amazing rapidity. The houses which heretofore abutted upon the river, are entirely removed ; and considerably beyond such point, workmen are engaged in forming a jetty or pier-head, so that boats may land their cargoes of fish or vegetables, at low, u well as hi t t!) tide, with far greater convenience than could have been done, had the line of the old Hungerford.stairs been obit:eyed. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The fine collection of this So ciety in the Regent's Park has just received a most important addition by the purchase of a noble male elephant. recently arrived from Madras. Prepatations hare been already commenced fbr inclosing with a most substantial fence a portion of the Society's garden, as a pad dock, in which he is to range; and in the centre of which is to be formed a capacious pond for the huge animal to bathe in ; an in. dulgence peculiarly grateful to these animals. The elephant - reached the Gardens on the night of Friday, having walked from the East.lndia Docks in little more than two hours. His paces were so active as to campel the keepers who accompanied him to run frequently, in order to keep up with him. Ile seemed, indeed, to be pleased at having regained the power of exercising his limbs with somewhat like freedom ; and it is rather surprising that he used them so well immediately after quitting the ship in which he had been con fined for nine months; having arrived in England by way of China, whither the vessel proceeded after quitting Madras. The elephant took a great liking, when on board of ship, to articles of female apparel. while at Blackwall he took from her head, and devoured without cere mony, a lady's bonnet ; and took f rom anot h er her reicule , containing half-;.claten nonpareils, which he swallowed, bag and all ! Yesterday morning, the wind WPS amazingly boisterous, and committed great havock in the roads, the parks, &c. So great, for instance, were the clouds of dust, that the various litntish coaches, on having to cross Blackheath, were obliged to stop for a time, to get relief from the whirlwinds of dust that absolutely imped.d ti progress. So powerful was the wind, that severd tries, and litany immense branches of trees, were blown down in St. James's Park —' Great damage was done to the shippinge.in the upper and lower Ecolr. At Limehouse, several vessels were driven from their moorings. srd • one tier was sent adrift, causing much ilarm ; but through the skill of their Captains and mariners the different ships were safely secured. Lot not before several had lost their anchors and chain cables. At We +. ping, where the channel is narrow. a number of craft, coal-barges. and lighters, coming up the River, were driven by the force of the wind on each other, causing great confusion, and, for some time before MO water, that part of the Thames was entirely block.d up. and si runt steam-packets going down the River, outward-hound, were ol•stiu.tad in their progres., aid remained for a cersiderable tin e lashed to tb:• chapel.shi p off Wapping New-stairs , until the different barges s. ere ex tricated. During the confusion, a punt, laden with heavy g14:11:1L, was swamped near liotheah:the church. • - - - A Correspondent writes 11A thus:—" A few days since a poor man was arrested for 201. and confined at his request in a spu. girg house a wee k, for purpose, if possible, of preceding upon hi• ere• tlitOr to take a comiovit: the creditor agreed to the terms proposed, of 21. per month, mid the coats down. Tl.e poor wife immedimely set about disputing uf sonic articles, to enable her to pup the costs; and having realized sufficient kr that purpose, hurried away in the attorney to settle ; but, alas! he 111.141 been previously called opt n by the Usrtes.t l'ainnon, who requested him to take • nothing short of the Dar ♦xD Coss DOWN. 'lite e:r.se_ • quince of this unlcoked-fur diaappointinctit was such upon the mimes of the poor wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, that it brought on a prema•ure labour, under which she sunk and expired. The husband in the mean time was conveyed to prisesn, where he sus, on the following day, made acquainted with the death of his poor and be • loved wife—the shock of which was too much tier 1 uman rx:ute to bear ; he clasped his hands with the deepest agony of grief, fell into a deep melancholy, n fusing all auatertance ; and in a kw she rt days death put an end to his suiferinv., leaving to the mercy tithe world six helpless babes!—ls it nut full time that the law of wt•st weir amended ? LONDON SESPIION S—(Thl 18 DA Y.)—The London joumed Sessions WIC held this day at Guildhall. At ten o'..lock ti Recorder, Sheriffs, and Aldermen Scholey, Gerrit, and Copeland, titi•lt their teats on the bench, when a novel scene presented itself. There were only two cases, nci her of them defended by cour.stl. The first was the indictment preferred against a poor man named Sawyer, tin father of eleven children, by a watchman. The defendant having he, ti confined in the Compter since the 7:h May, the Court only fined hint 6t. The other was an indieunent against.loseph Smith, for furiously di ivis . ti over Harriet Mary Gill, on the 24th of April, by which she wa..ti seriously injured. The prosecutrix not being io court, and the dee ildent not being prepared to prove thM nodes of trial had been ' , erred on het, the Recorder said the cage was me ai very serious importance to the public, as appealed by the deposhlo4. and the defendant Must Fite fresh notice for the nest 'axiom% The Jury were then dismisscil„not Urine been detsintel half an hour. "7 . t -11740 , , 1 1 , , ii li F