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London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

COURT INTELLItiENCR

TALLEY ItAND.--Upon the Hotel of the French A ..
bassador at London, we understand, there is to be placed :L.,
immense weathercock, indicative cf his fame and reputation.
It is to be surmounted by a white fia,g, upon which, wk.
the sun shines, the three colours will appear (Wind:.
marked. The four cardinal points are thus indicated -
north, a cap of liberty ; south, an imperial eagle ; east,
Gallic cock ; west, a fieur delis.—Le Corsaire.
Their Royal Hinncsses the Duchess of Kent and ti.,
Princess Victoria, on their taunt from Raeford, honoured John lii.!
dulp, Esq. with their company, and spent some time in viewing tilt•
grounds. Their Royal Highnesses were warmly greeted in passin.;
through Ledbury.

It is said that the Duchess of Kest will rennin at Ma!
vern until the beginning of October. The Prince and I'. i fts Est,
hazy were expected to arrive there yesterday; they have
Pleasant House for their reskience.

Friday last her Royal Highness the Duchess de Ikrri
and suite slept at the King's Head Hotel, Gloucester, on her way
the North.

The ex-King of France, accompanied by the Duchess (.:*
Beni and suite, passed through Macclesfield on Friday afternoon, trout
Chatsworth and Buxton. The royal travellers changed horses at ti.,
Angel-inn, and immediately: proceeded towards linutsford.—ifaccles-
fseid Courier.

The ex-King of France, who is said to be a very good
shot, has kept his band very well in practice during the present se.mur.
He has been " liunsed to kill," if common report is to be believed,
by two different authorities—he took the license for shooting partridgci
from the King of England, and that for shooting his subjects from Ole
Pope.

It is stated in the papers that the Duke of Brunswick, now•
in London, has bad an interview with his Majesty; but that is not the
case. The Duke went to Brighton, and sent a letter to Sir Herbert
Taylor; but, having received no answer, he went to the Pavilion. Now
his Majesty declined this interview in these terms:—The King. as a
private man, would receive the Duke ; but as King of England, and
brother of the late King, that would be impossible for his Majesty.—
This statement is correct.

Prince Polignac is closely connected with the English
Nobility. He has been twice married to English ladies—his second
wife being sister to the prestnt Lord *Lanett& ; and he is tall further
allied with our Atistocracy, by the marriage of his niece, Mademoiselle
de Gramment, daughter to the Duc de Guiche, with the had of Tan-

It is understood that overtures were lately made to Lo Ids
Me'bourn and Palmerston, Mr. C. Wynne, and Mr. C. Grant, but they
refused to join the Administration without Mr. Huskisson. This cir-
cumstance sufficiently indicates the arrangements on which we may c:.l-
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STATUE OF GEORGE 111. ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The
damage done to this piece of sculpture, in attempting to place it in the
appropriated niche, in the Royal Exchange, having been repaired so as to
escape observation, the partial skean thrown ova it has been miaowed,
and it now has become a general object of remark. The statue is of free
stone, eight feet and a half high, and weighs out ton and threeequar-
ten ; if not so bold and free In the execution at some of the others, it
nevertheless is generally admired for a faithful delineation of cosmic.
Dance. Under the statue is the following inscription :—" Georgius 111.
D.G. Mag. Brig. Fra. et fiber. Anno. Dom. 1700. P. S. Q. L." .The
whiteness of the stone forms a striking contrast with the sooty appear-
ance of the neighbouring statues, which, though having been cleaeasi
about 18 months ago, are again begrimed with cobwebs and dust.
Matthews has met with but indifferent si:evess in the ex-
hibition of his "At Home," during his summer visie in the provinces.
The elections, anti other occurrences, have latterly beeu extremely pre-
judicial to theatrivels of every description. Maeready, a week ago,
performed three nights at Margate; on the first everorg the receipts
of the house were 31. 17s. 6d; on the second, 41. 7s; and on the third,
being his benefit, 91. Is. 61 I
Charles Kensble arrived in London a few days ago, when
he finally arranged with his own s:age-mansger, and the manager of
Drury-lane, the ptrind for opening the winter theatres. Bliss Fanny
Kemble, at the pressing invitation, we believe, of the Earl of Witten,
remained in the North, to be present at the opening of the Liverpool and
Manchester rail-road. Mr. Kemble has since left town for that
trict, and will return, accompanied by his daughter, in a few days.
Royal titles, it is well known, have often very little ap-
plication to existing circumstances, and retain no correspondence a ith
their original meaning. Thus our excellent Protestant King derives
his designation of " Defender of the Faith" from a Pope who bestonea
it on one of his predecessots for writing aphis' the Protestart came:: ;
and the little monarch of Sardinia is King of Jerusalem, in the Red
Book, though he has not a foot of land between the Mediterranean and
the Red Sea. But even on the supposition that we are to attend to Lets
in the matter of titles, no good rea,on can be assigned why Philip
the First should not be called " Most Christian King as well as
Charles the Tenth, though lie has rot mass said to him by a
Cardinal, though he was never anoir•.ted with the miraculous oil
of Clovis, or fell on his belly before the Archbishop of Rheims.-
This may, indeed, be offensive to a part of los free-thinking subji rts
who have no religion at all. but in order to reconcile their scruples with
the retention of the venerable capitals S. M. 'l'. C. prefixed to the name
of their titian king, we would suggest that the words which these ini.
tials represent should be altered for their especial tninvot; and t 9 suit
their peculiar views. Why should not t. M. T. C. mean Sa piss jeste
ire, Ohioans as well as Sa Majoste Ire s Chrelietuaell " His most
civic of citizen Alejesty" would sound as well as His most Christian
3lejesty," though not so piously.—pines.

Tho funeral of Mr. Haskins°. is fixed for Friday next. --
Le.ters of invitation to attend the ceremony have been forwarded this
morning to the right honourable gentlmnan's personal and political
friends. The late Mr. Huskiseon's inuoduetion into public life has
not, we are informed by a correspondent, been quite accurately stated.
It is true that he was intended for the ►urgical profession, that be went
to Paris for the purpo,e of usedisd Nod', and that king their, a young
man, at the breaking out of the heenhation, he partook of the fervour of
the day, and was, it is said, actually a member of the then Jacobin Club,
but without being much bitten by the revolutinaary mania, as the subse-
quent event proves. At Ibis period the then Ambassador to France,
Earl Gower, was in want of a dorm young man to assist in his seem-
tary's department, and the young surgical pupil, 91r.Huskisson, was re-
commended to him for the purpose, which the latter readily assented to.
This was about ti's dose anti& In January 1793, the French Kirg,
Louis XVI. was beheaded, anoint which led to the meal of the Ant.
bassador, who, with his suite, Including Air. Hmtkisson, returned to
Eugh,,,,i. Thus situated, Lord Gower felt himself 1111 duty bound to
provide, se far as possible, fur persons ties thrown uneepectedly out of
employment; and 31% Residues having shown a peculiar aptitude
for hug nos, We' placed as a supernumerary clerk la the Treasury, under
Sir Even Nepeati, from whence he rose, as has been stated, to the
various official situations he ►ubsequently lived to fill

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