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WINDSOR, TUESDAY. —This morning the Marchioness of
Normanby took her departure, and was succeeded by Lady
Portman, who arrived this afternoon, as Lady in Waiting on
her Majesty.
Lady Gardiner has also left. Her Ladyship will be suc-
ceeded by Lady Forbes, as Lady in Waiting on her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent.

The Queen has not left the Castle to-day.
The Duchess of Kent walked to Adelaide Lodge, and
afterwards took a carriage drive in the Park.
Lord Portman is expected to arrive this afternoon to join
the Royal dinner party.

Baron Bulow transacted business yesterday at the Foreign
Office.

Lord Torrington transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign Department.
The Envoy of the Imaum of Muscat transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign Department.
Sir George Villiers transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign Office.
The Bishop of Nova Scotia transacted business yesterday
at the Colonial Department.
The Agent for Gibraltar transacted business yesterday at
Colenial Department.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief trans-
acted business yesterday at the War Office.
The Neapolitan, French, Russian, and Hanoverian Am-
bassadors, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign De-
partment.
Despatches, dated August 24, were received yesterday at
the Colonial Department from Major-General Sir Alexander
Woodford, K. C. 8., Governor of Gibraltar.
Lord Bloomfield transacted business yesterday at the office
of the Commander of the Forces, in the Horse Guards.
Despatches, dated the 26th ult., were received yesterday at
the Foreign Department from the British Charge d'Affaires at
Madrid.
Despatches, dated the 29th ult., were received yesterday at
the Foreign Office from the British Consul at Vigo.
Despatches we're forwarded yesterday from Downing-
street for Lord Melbourne at Windsor.
Despatches, dated the 28th of August, were received yes-
terday at the Foreign Department from the British Charge
d'Affaires at Lisbon.

Despatches, dated the 29th ult., were received yesterday
at the Foreign Department from the British Consul at Oporto.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

Miss Pleydell, at the Hanover Hotel, Hanover-square, from
Brighton ; Lady de Blackquicre, at ditto, from Dover;
J. Freeman Hughes, Esq., from Arley Hall, Staffordshire,
the seat of the Earl of Mountnorris; Count de Vandes and
Miss de Vandes, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from
Hastings; Lady Campbell, at ditto, from Nova Scotia;
Leton Karr, Esq., at ditto, from the Highlands ' • - Evans,
Esq., at ditto ; Count do la Pasture, at ditto ; Lieutenant J.
Bull, 52d Light Infantry, at English's Royal Hotel, St.
James's-street, from Gibraltar ; Thomas Moore, Esq., at ditto,
from Cheltenham ; the Marquis d'Arnarini Bolognini, at
ditto, from Cadiz; J. Greig, Esq., at ditto, from Malta.
DEPARTURES.
Sir Dudley and Lady Hill, from English's Royal Hotel, St.
James's-street, for their seat, Dorsetshire ; Jaques Myers,
Esq., from ditto, for Liverpool ; A. C. Panes, Esq., from
ditto, for Bristol ; W. Macready, Esq., from ditto, for Dub-
lin; Thomas Lechmere, Esq., from ditto, for Edinburgh;
Lord and Lady Rossmore, from the Hanover Hotel, Hanover-
square, for Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Morse, from ditto, for
Norwich ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Atkins, from ditto, for Dub-
lin ; Miss Surtees and Miss Hay, from ditto, for Edinburgh ;
Mrs. and Miss Strure, from ditto, for Brighton ; the Earl
and Countess of Verulam and family from Grosvenor-square,
for Dover ; Sir H. and Lady Durant, for Bognor Rocks ;
the Earl of Abingdon, and Viscount and Viscountess Norreys,
from Eaton-square, for Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire; Mr.
Charles and Lady Mary Townely, for Townely Hall, in Lan-
cashire; Major-General Sir John Waters, on a Continental
tour; the Earl and Countess Cornwallis, from Hill-street, for
Linton-place, Maidstone ; Viscount Stormont, from Caen
Wood, Hampstead, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Ellison, at
Hebura Hall, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Baron de Haber,
from Cleveland-row, for the Continent ; the Earl of Bandon,
for f;astle Bernard, near Cork ; the Hon. Capt. David Mur-
ray,n &cots Fusileer Guards, for Lord Mansfield's seat, Scone
"lace, Perthshire ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, from
Downing-sireet, for Mount Trenchard, his seat near Lime-
rick ; Lord Ncrthwick for Northwick Park ; Sir Arthur and
Lady
Paget, for Dover; Lord Stanley, from St. James's-
square, for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire ; the Hon. Colonel
Caradoc, from Hereford-street, for the Continent ; Sir Henry
Martin, Bart., for Lockinoe Park, in Berkshire; Sir Charles
Douglas, M. P., on a tour.

The Earl Howe and Lord Douglas intend joining
the Duke of Buccleuch at Blair Athol in a few days.
Viscount Palmerston gave a dinner last evening
at his residence in Great Stanhope-street, to his Excellency
Saeed Alley Bcn Naser, Envoy Extraordinary from the
Imaun of Muscat. Lord Glenelg, the Right Honourable Sir
Alexander Johnston, Sir George Villiers, G. C. B. ; the Right
Eon. Fox Strangways, and Captain Cogan, were among the
company to meet his Excellency.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll are entertaining a
select circle at their romantic seat, Slains Castle, in Aber-
deenshire, where his Lordship intends to spend the autumn.
--Aberdeen Herald.
The Countess of Chesterfield, accompanied by
her children, Lord Stanhope and the Lady Evelyn, ar-
rived at Chesterfield House on Monday evening, from the
Isle of Wight. Her Ladyship afterwards went to St.
George's-place, Hyde Park-corner, and dined with the Coun-
tess of Charleville ; of the party were Lord Jocelyn and
Mr. Charles Greville.

Lord Duncannon and his amiable daughter, the
Countess of Kerry, will leave Cavendish-square for Dublin
as soon as the health of his Lordship will permit.
The Right Honourable Lord Poltimore has taken
Shurpham House, near Totnes, as a temporary residence,
pending the extensive improvements that are now going
on at Poltimore. The alterations about to be effected at
this noble residence, will make it, we understand, every way
worthy the rank and acknowledged taste of its noble owner.—
Western Luminary.

The Duke of Devonshire and suite have left Paris,
where they sojourned several days at the Hotel du Rhin,
Place Vendome, for the baths of Aix, in Savoy, where his
G.-ace will stop several weeks, and return to England early in
November, to receive company at his magnificent scat, Chats-
worth.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has arrived at
the family seat, Mount Trenchard, near Limerick, where
Lady Theodosia and the Misses Rice had arrived some days
before. The Right Hon. Gentleman's eldest son, Mr. Stephen
Henry Rice, has resigned the private secretaryship to his
father, in consequence of his appointment to the Uglier ar.sl
more lucrative office of Commissioner of Customs.

Lord, Lady, and Miss Montagu left town yester-
day on a visit to the Duchess of Buccleuch, in Scotland.
Lord John Scott has jointed a party at Caroline
Park, near Edinburgh.
Sir Augustus D'Este, Mr. Jones, Mr. Greig, Mr.
Pennington, and Major Mitchell had interviews with Lord
Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Colonel the Hon. F. W. Grant, of Grant, M.P.,
and his son, F. W. Grant, Esq., M. P. for Inverness-shire,
are at present residing at Cullen House, where they are enter-
taining large parties of their friends in true baronial style.—
Aberdeen Herald.
Prince Esterhazy has been on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Buccleuch, at the Palace, Dalkeith ; where
his Excellency met the Prince and Princess Schwarzcnbcrg,
Earl and Lady Mary Talbot, Lady Anne Montagu Scott, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, Lady Harriet Scott, &c.
The Duke of Buccleuch left the Palace, Dalkeith,
last week for Blair Athol, to join the grouse-shooting party of
noblemen and gentlemen who have come over from Gordon
Castle.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.-The ordinary meet-
ing was held yesterday afternoon, Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq.,
V. P., in the chair. Amongst the presents announced was
the last number of the Flora Batava from his Majesty the
King of Holland. Dr. Lindley described the various articles
in the room, which were not very numerous, though containing
some interesting varieties. Amongst the fruit was a new kind
of pine.apple. from Mr. Henderson, of very good quality ; a
queen pine-apple, weighing 4ilbs., from Mr. Davis, gardener
to Sir Simon Clark ; some Victoria plums; a large and beauti-
ful kitchen fruit like the red magnum bonum, from Mr.
Denyer ; Washington plums and Kirke's Duchess of Olden-
burgh apple, from Mr. Joseph Kirke ; and nectarine, Washing-
On and other plums, and Acton Scotch peaches, from the
gardens of the Society. The most interesting specimens
amougst the plants was one from the sandy plains of Peru,
called the soap plant, from its detersive and saponaceous qua-
lities, and had not previously been noticed by writers on the
botany of that country. Mr. Alarryatt exhibited an interesting
collection of cockscombs, among which were some new-
coloured varieties, and, amongst other plants a specimen of
lavatera maritime, which although lost for a long time, being
well known in 1597 in this couetrv, was now re-introduced for
the first time. Messrs. Roliesen exhibited two pretty orchi-
daceous plants—cattlea crispa, in most brilliant perfection,
dispensing every agreeable perfume ; and stanhopea insignia,
Le plant frequently seen but never in such good cultivation.
F, em the gardens of Mcs. Rothschild, at Gunnersbury, was a
fine ,-oecimen of fuchsia fulgens, a plant introduced last year
from a_lexico, and rendered, with careful cultivation, one of
the most interesting specimens from this country. The most
prominent specimens from the gardens of the Society was a
yellow cataselen'.. sent over by Mr. Hartbeg, the Society's col-
lector in Mexico; and amphicorne arzula, brought by D..
Royle from the Himalaya mountains. The prizes awarded
were the Keitzlitian Medal to Messrs. Roliison, far
cattlea crispa; and Banksiae Medal to Mr. Marrvatt, for
cockscombs, and Mr. Mills, of Gunnershury, for fuchsia ful-
gene. The extract from the meteorological register, kept in
the gardens, from the 21st of August to the 4th of September,
save barometer highest, the 2J of September, 30.201 inches ;
loteest, the 22d of August, 29.250 inches ; thermometer,
9 -
hiehes• the 23;h of August, 82 degrees ; lowest, the 3d of
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September 3i.; degrees ; and quantity of rain, 0 48 inches.
THE Itoyit L GUILDHALL I\:lEDAL.—This medal,
executed by Me. air;.en, at the request of the Corporation, in
memory of her Malesty'e visit to the City, is about to be pub-
lished. The bead of her Majesty on the obverse is said to be
well executed, and to be an excellent likeness.