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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

In the Cotton-market at Liverpool, yesterday, there
was a fair demand from the trade, the sales being
4,000 bales, at previous rates. The Share-market had
rather improved. Paris and Rouen were a shade
higher; Birmingham and Gloucester Scrip were
marked 12i ; Eastern Counties, 8K ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 471; Grand Junction, 190 ; Birmingham
Thirds, 631; Brighton, 36k; and Paris and Rouen, 264.
Accounts from Hobart Town of Sept. 2, and from
Launceston of September 1, notice the important
fact of a reduction in the rate of interest charged
upon the discount of bona fide bills by the banks,
from 10 to 8 per cent., and on mortgages from 121
to 10 per cent. To meet this increased accommoda-
tion to the public, no interest was to be allowed to
depositors, and the Governor had consented to let the
public money remain without interest, the same as
that of the other customers. His Excellency, in his
speech upon the opening of the Legislature, seems to
anticipate great relief to the colony from this mea-
sure, and from the abundant crops, intimating, at the
same time, his intention to assign convicts as labour-
ers while the stoppage of immigration continued.
Flour was lower, and stock could be bought very cheap.
From Sydney there is nothing later than Aug. 20,
when less was doing in manufactured goods. Ship-
ments of flour to some extent were going on.
We learn also by this indirect opportunity that the
river Yarra, at Port Philip, had broken its banks, and
flooded the country, causing much damage. The
crops were expected to be good, and such as to yield
a surplus for exportation. Letters received at Port
Phillip, from South Australia, give a very gloomy
picture of the state of affairs there; and the contention
at New Zealand between the settlers and the Govern-
ment, though, as we believe, very grossly exaggerated,
was expected to lead to re-emigration.
That the principles of free-trade are appreciated in
America, the following remarks prove :—" The late
Tariff of Great Britain was enacted with the view of
encouraging the import of American agricultural pro-
duce into England, in exchange for her manufactures,
as a means of relief. The late Tariff of the United
States was enacted with the view to exclude foreign
goods, for the protection of manufactures. Hence it
is seen that England will not be able to sell goods
enough here to pay for the raw cotton which she
must have, and which she cannot get elsewhere. All
beyond which she imports from this country she must
pay for in coin, which cannot be done to any
extent and preserve her paper system. Hence
it becomes with her an urgent matter of self-defence,
to prohibit the import of everything of United States
growth, except cotton. It is not matter of conveni-
ence, nor of State policy, but of urgent State ne-
cessity.' Unless, therefore, our new tariff is promptly
modified, the farmers are likely to lose, at a critical
juncture, a large market for their produce, both
English and colonial."
When the Americans themselves write such sound
sense, who shall assert that they are not likely to meet
England in a fair spirit of commercial liberality ?
English Stocks are well supported to-day, although
the business doing is not extensive, and speculative
operations have not been entered into, most of the
transactions being bona fide. The purchase for the
Commissioners of the Savings' Banks was again
effected to about the usual amount in Reduced Three
per Cent. Annuities at 94k. Exchequer Bills have
realised 535. to 555.; and East India Bonds 475. to
48s. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been done at 1011 to 1011. Consols are 93i
to 934.
The Foreign Market has been again rather ani-
mated, bnt there is a falling off in the business done
as compared with yesterday in the Spanish Bonds, all
the large holders being inclined, apparently, to take
advantage of the rise got up by the parties putting
forth the New Loan. The Actives have been quoted
19if to 18i, and the Three per Cents. 244 to 24i. Mexican
Stock has touched 31i to 321 ; Colombian is firm at
2l ; Brazilian at 711; and _Buenos Ayres at 241 to
25. Portuguese Converted Stock has realised 34, and
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
marked 53.

Business in the Railway Shares is very inanimate,
but prices are maintained. Great Western are 25,
and Brighton Loan premium. Brighton are 13,
and South Eastern 27i discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes

Midland Counties 100
Paris and Roue• . 20 26
South Eastern and Dever 5O
Ditto Scrip

JOINT STOIK BANKS.
London and Westminster . .. 20
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent...... 19,1 181
Ditto Three per Cent.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE,. DEC. 27.--We
have had a steady market to-day, and prices continue
firm. Dublin and Drogheda, 22*; Lancaster and
Preston, 29 ; South Eastern Scrip, 17} 17i 17i ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 20 to 204.

GOSSIP ABOUT THE KIRK.—The following is an
extract from the Edinburgh Observer :—During the
last eight or ten days we have had a succession of
rumours relative to "coming events" connected with
the affairs of the Church. One of these is a revival of
one which had its day, about two montbs ago, and
before the late Convocation. We are credibly informed
that a Bill has actually been seen bodily in L+
and is said to have obtained the approval of a Reverend
Doctor of Divinity in this city, who is generally un-
derstood
to have the confidence of the Government in
some things. From this it has been inferred and asserted
that the Queen's Ministers have given their fiat; and that
this Bill, combining Lord Aberdeen's Bill of 1840 with
Sir G. Sinclair's addenda, will be introduced into
Parliament, under the auspices of Sir R. Peel and his
colleagues ! In addition to this, some of the high men
in town are stating, with the utmost confidence, that
Dr. Chalmers or Dr. Gordon (for there are different
editions of the story) has got a letter from
Sir Robert Peel, to the effect that a Govern-
ment measure will be introduced when Parliament
meets, which will prove quite satisfactory to the
Convocationists, and prevent the secession of so krge
a number of pious and illustrious clergymen from
the pale of the Church; and supplementary to this,
there was a schismatic report yesterday- (Thursday),
that Sir James Graham had actually come to Edin-
burgh on Wednesday to arrange matters with Dr.
Chalmers and his friends. A third report is, that
Lord Melville and Sir George Clerk: are busying
themselves in some healing measure ; arid a fourth is,
that a certain learned functionary, who formerly took
a great interest in these matters, is -nom • devoting all
his leisure time to framing some Bill which is to meet
the views of all parties, and place the Church in a
position of amity and harmony.—EdinburghObserver.
As a party of revenue police were smirching for
poteen through the mountains of Barnes this week,
they discovered a still-house, in which was a still at
full work, and round the fire lay two men in a state
of insensibility from intoxication, an d another man
quite dead. The police did all in thei r power to re-
store animation, but in vain • the unfortunate man
was called before his Maker ein a sta. te of drunken -
ness. The two other men are slowly recovering.
Private distillation to a great extent is going on
throughout this and the neighbourhag counties.—
Ballyshannon Herald.
The Hon. F. Reginald Forbes is act :redited Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary to the Court of SUE Coburg Gotha,
in addition to his functions at Dres den ; and Mr.
Barnard is to reside at Coburg, as Chi rge d'Affaires.
The Earl of Howth has sold his horn Ids and horses
to the officers of the garrison of Dublin I. It is stated
that his Lordship intends going abroad :For some time,
in consequence of the death of his a Allah le Countess.

IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS.

• Count de Rambuteau, the Prefect of the Seine,
presented on Saturday to the Chamber of Commerce
of Paris, an expose of his administration during the
year 1842. After enumerating the streets, boulevards,
and quays, that were either opened or improved in the
course of the year, he described the immense works
undertaken for ameliorating the navigation of the
Seine, and for supplying Paris with water. Thirty
million francs were expended since 1832 in comtruct-
ing sewers, laying down pipes, Nand placing the
1,390 fountains that now distribute the water of the
Canallde l'Oureq and of the lignon, throughout
all the quarters of the capital. Independently of
these, the Artesian well of Grenelle has, ever since its
tubing, furnished 1,600,000 litres of perfectly limpid
water in 24 hours. The religious edifices had like.
wise been an object of special solicitude with the Ad-
ministration, and large sums had been applied to the
construction of ne N churches, and to the repairing of
the old. The Municipal Council had granted two
additional temples to the Protestants, the one in Rue
Chauchat, and the other at Panthemont, and a new
synagogue was to be built for the Israelites. The
primary schools of Paris, which in 1834 were only 57
in number, are now 206, and the pupils exceed 37,000.
The augmentation of the Municipal Guard had im-
posed fresh sacrifices on the city. The works executed
in the barrack ofthe Celestines alone had cost 1,800,000
francs, and the whole expense required for the accomo-
dation of that guard would, it was expected, amount
to 4,000,000 f. Two prisons were completed in 1842,
land another, for which the municipal authorities had
voted 4,000,000 f., was to be erected in the place of
La Force ; it is to contain 1,200 cells. Particular at-
tention had been likewise devoted to the hospitals,
and the number of beds was increased dnring the
year by 850. The situation of the savings'-banks
showed that habits of order and economy were every
year taking deeper root among the Parisian popula-
tion. The new pass-books delivered in 1842 amounted
to 35,688, and the investments to 39,189,612 f.,
which, as compared with the returns of 1841, exhi-
bited an increase of 3,583 pass-books, and 3,400,235 f.
The reimbursements in 1842, however, surpassed
those of 1841 by 4,586,000 f. The financial situation
of Paris had been as favourable as that of last year.
The proceeds of the octroi or tolls amounted, on the
20th of December, to 29,634,216 f., or about 500,000/.
less than in 1841, which was attributed to the inter-
ruption, during several months, of the navigation of
the Seine from the shallowness of the water. There
had been a slight increase in the consumption of
butchers'-meat. The value of Parisian exports, which
amounted on the Ist of December, 1841, to
138,000,000 f., presented for the corresponding period
of 1842, a diminution of upwards of 23,000,000 f.
The silks figured in this diminution for a sum of
6,500,000 f., which the Prefect ascribes to the financial
crisis in the United States and the elevation of the tariff.

ON THE ORIGIN OF NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.-At

this time of the year, why should presents be made
upon the first day of January more than at other
times ? The origin of this custom is attributed to the
reign of Romulus and Tatius, King of the Sabines,
who governed jointly in Rome, in the seventh year
of the town. Here it is said that Tatius having
been presented on the first day of January with some
boughs, &c., out of the forest of the goddess Strania,
in token of good luck, began this custom and called
the present Strena. The Romans made this a
holiday, and consecrated it to the honour of Janus,
offering sacrifices, &c., to him, and the people went
in throngs to mount Tarpeia, where Janus had an
altar, clothed with new clothes, and chose to begin
their respective employments or work on this day;
they wished one another good luck, and were careful
not to repeat anything ill natured or quarrelsome ;
the common presents, among the meaner sort, were
dates, figs, and honey, which were usually covered
with leaf gold, and those who were under the protec-
tion of great men used to add a piece of money. In
the reign of Augustus the , populace, gentry, and se-
nators, used to send him new year's gifts, and if he
was not in town they carried them to the Capitol.
From the Romans this custom went to the Greeks,
and from the heathens to Christians, who very early
came into the practice of making presents to the
Magistrates. Some of the Fathers wrote very stre-
nuously against the principle, upon account of the
immoralities committed under the cover and protec-
tion of it ; but since the Governments of the several
nations in Europe are become Christians, the custom
is still retained as a token of friendship, love, and re-
spect.— Correspondent of the Cambridge Advertiser.
PROSPECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.—The Ministry
and their supporters will decidedly quarrel. There
will be a vast number of dismembered parties, not
only contending with one another, but with the pre-
sumed and presuming heads of all the Ministry itself.
They are clearly destined to contention on the Corn-
laws, the income-tax, the tariff, and the sugar-duties.
They have gone about things in so unbusiness-like a
manner, that while they wished to raise the revenue by
their accursed income-tax, they will pull it down by the
effect of their tariff, and other proposed changes of duties
both now and probably for some time to come. We
do not expect that the European effect of the tariff
will be much—the greatest hope we have is from
America, but the distance and the freight will be so
considerable, that we fear the country will not by any
means profit by it to the extent that was supposed.—
Tyne Mercury.
THE CROYDON RAILWAY COMPANY.—A special
general meeting of the proprietors of the Croydon
Railway was held yesterday, at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, to consider the most desirable
course to be adopted under the present embarrassed
state of the Company's affairs. W. A. Wilkinson,
Esq., the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Company, took the chair, and briefly stated the object
of the meeting. He then called upon the Secretary
of the Company to read the report of the Directors.
The report, after setting forth the circumstances con-
nected with the payment of a toll of 4id. per passenger
by the Croydon Railway to the Greenwich Railway,
stated that the Directors, having exhausted all
means to endeavour to prevail on the Green-
wich Railway Company to modify their toll,
had come to the resolution that it would
tend to the advantage of the Company to
discontinue the carrying trade. The Directors
concluded their report by expressing their belief that
the Croydon Railway could not be profitably con-
tinued with a toll of 41d. per passenger. The Chair-
man, in moving the adoption of the report, remarked
that the Company had for some time past been losing
upwards of 121. per week, and there could be no doubt
that it would be to the advantage of the Company to
discontinue the traffic. The report was then carried.
A resolution to the effect that the meeting approved
of the proposition made by the Directors for relin-
quishing the carrying trade until some arrangement
with respect to the toll were made with the Green-
wich Company was then carried, but the Directors
were requested to delay putting the resolution into
effect until the 24th of March next, and a Committee
was appointed to negotiate with the Greenwich Com-
pany. A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been
carried, the meeting separated.
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN POLYNESIA.—The most
ardent patrons of missions to Polynesia will not main-
tain that in no instance has zeal overstepped the
bounds of prudence, or that pearls have not occa-
sionally been thrown before swine, who tried to turn
again and rend their benefactors. But to justify the
use of the means which have been employed, they
point with satisfaction, and even some degree of tri-
umph, to the effects which are already produced.
They can assert that, wherever Christianity has been
received, however imperfectly, the habits of the na-
tives are improved, their fierce tempers have been
mollified, and a respect for human life has succeeded
to that thirst for blood which formerly occasioned the
most deplorable catastrophes. In all the islands where
the missionaries have succeeded in establishing a set-
tlement, security is now afforded to the mariner of
every nation, who either seeks refuge from misfor-
tune, the intercourse of trade, or the gratification of
a liberal curiosity. At other places, on the contrary,
where the mild spirit of the Gospel has not yet been
felt, scarcely a year passes in which vl edo not hear of
murderous quarrels between the inhabitants and those
by whom they are visited. At some of the Marquesas,
till very lately, a trading vessel scarcely dared to an-
chor. In the Friendly Islands, according to the state-
ment of a recent author, while the chiefs were mani-
festing the strongest attachment to Captain Cook,
they planned the assassination of himself and all his
officers, and with this view invited them to an enter-
tainment by torch-light. Even on the shore of
Otaheite, when Bligh's vessel arrived, the people cut
the cables, in order that, being drifted on the beach,
she might fall into their hands as plunder. Some
years afterwards, the Society Islanders seized an
English brig, murdered the officers, killed or disabled the
crew, and took possession of her; but since the lessons
of the Christian teachers have been given, every ship
that has touched there, or at any other in the adjacent
groups, has been as safe as in the Thames or the
Weser.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. XXXIIL
Polynesia.
How TO BRING UP CHILDREN.—" Mamma," said a
little fellow, whose mother had forbid him drawing
horses and ships on the mahogany sideboard with a
sharp nail—" Mamma, this aint a nice house. At Sam
Rackett's we can cut the sofa, and pull out the hair,
and ride the shovel and tons over the carpet, but here
we can't get any fun at all.
The following days of the week are set apart for
public worship in different nations :—Sunday, or the
Lord's Day, by the Christians; Monday by the Gre-
cians ; Tuesday by the Persians ; Wednesday by the
Assyrians ; Thursday by the Egyptians ; Friday by
the Turks ; and Saturday by the Jews.
We understand that the goods of Patterson, in
Holywell-street, have been seized this week in execu-
tion for rent. Nothing has been heard of him since
the warrants were issued on Saturday for his appre-
hension.

ALEXANDRIA.

DEC. 6.—The. Pacha is still at Mansourah, whither
Colonel Barnett proceeded some days since from Cairo,
without anything being known of the object of this
interview with his Highness. All the other Consuls-
General are at Alexandria. Nothing is yet known of
the further movements of the Pacha, who is naturally
seriously occupied with the fearful consequences of
the nearly total extinction of the race of cattle in this
country—a murrain frightful enough in itself, but
still more horribly promulgated by the reckless habits
of the natives and their Turkish masters. Healthy
cattle may be seen tethered at their food within 20
paces of the abominably foetid unburied carcases of
their late companions, which may have died a day or
two previously, and having been thus dragged this
little distance from the sheds in which the yet healthy
cattle sleep and eat, are thus left to rot, after afford-
ing a aurfeit to the Arab dogs, it being no person's
business to bury or destroy the bodies, which must,
in every probability, propagate the infection. After
seeing their race of cattle exterminated, their lands
sown without ploughing, and every prospect of a
famine in the land, they have at last thought it advis-
able to offer a premium for the importation of cattle fit
for agricultural purposes. the following proclama•
tion was issued to-day :
" His Highness the Pacha, in order to facilitate the
importation of cattle, authorises the undersigned to
inform the public that the same may be imported duty
free, until the 6th of December, 1843, empowering
him also to grant a premium of two dollars per head
on all oxen brought from Europe, fit for agricultural
or other labour. (Signed). " BOGHOS BEY."

Under these circumstances it is not to be expected
that the Government will be anxious to make sales at
present low prices in face of the prospect of short
crops next year ; and although last week they could
not sell wheat at 41 piastres, they yesterday made an
auction of wheat at 45 piastres, and beans at 32
piastres upset prices, which were of course retired
without a bid, tantamount, of course, to a continued
suspension of sales. One consequence of the mortality
of the cattle is the natural deficiency of butchers'
meat, connected with which is a story, just arrived
from Cairo ; of course, like all Cairo stories, from the
very best authority ! worthy Of a place in the " Thou-
sand and One Nights." On dit that a butcher has just
been hanged there for fattening up, and selling as
mutton, Arab dogs, of which a large stock, both alive
and slaughtered, were found upon his premises.
His Sardinian Majesty's steamer of war Tripoli,
arrived yesterday from Malta, bearer of a letter from
the Sardinian Minister to his Excellency Boghos
Bey, moderately and quietly demanding satisfaction
for the insult offered in Cairo to the Sardinian Con-
sulate there, and the violence perpetrated on the Sar-
dinian Janissary. This most important dispatch must
await his Highness's reply from Mansourah, and
there is little doubt that this communication will pro-
, cure a proper inquiry into the real merits of the case ;
for, whatever may be the Pacha's love of justice, it is
equally true that, nine times out of ten, the whole
truth does not reach his ears, unless when an event
like this brings it forcibly to his attention. The
Tripoli was bearer of a dispatch from Malta, which
occasioned the immediate departure for Syria of the
Medea steamer. It is also worthy of notice that the
Pacha's steamer Hajji Baba, or, as now called, the
Reschid (or Rosetta), brought a dispatch, in conse-
quence of which the French brig of war Alcibiade
left on the 3d inst. for Syria, where evidently some-
thing of political importance is going on.
The Generoso brought news from Scio of the re-
cent discovery there by an English diving apparatus
of two immense pieces of brass ordnance, twenty-five
feet in length, and with two feet bore, but the metal
not sufficiently strong to have fired a solid shot of
that dimension. The Pacha has now, perhaps, the
same guns in existence—about thirteen feet in length,
and fifteen and a half inches in the bore, carrying for
five thousand yards a solid shot of nearly five hundred
pounds weight. They are to be mounted on battery
on the coast, and should they be found serviceable,
will prove a formidable weapon of defence.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S POLICY

The following letter from Bombay, though of an old
date, contains some interesting particulars respecting
affairs, in India and Affghanistan :
" In my last I mentioned the regret I felt at being
obliged to quit the force at Caubul and return to
Bombay on sick certificate. What I then thought a
misfortune has in the end proved in all probability
my preservation, or I might have been numbered
with those who subsequently met their deaths by
treachery 'on their retreat from Caubul—a fearful
tragedy; but it is passed, and as far as British valour
could effect, all has been repaired. But no thanks to
Ellenborough for it. It will, however be a long
itni time,
the
ei f ever,
of r,betfhe before our
Nativer
discomfitureowers;
and to aggravate will be got over
the matter, Lord Ellenberough's proclamation has
tended to lower us still more in their opinion ; for he
tells them we had no business ever to have entered
the country, or interfered with them—a pitiful cut at
Whig policy, but pregnant with ultimate injury to
the service, as our whole system here rests entirely
on opinion. Teach the natives only that unity is
strength, and our power would soon crumble to pieces.
He also lets them into the secret that we are not
powerful enough to retain our conquests in the
country, because it is 500 miles from our resources—
a pretty tale to tell the Native Powers. He orders
the troops to withdraw a second time, before the cap-
tives are released, and like a bully tells the Affghans they
may now choose their own Sovereign, which they will do
on our retreat without asking his leave or consent to
their choice, having been told by him, we cannot send
a force to coerce you, because it is 500 miles off.
What a pretty Governor General ! The best of the
joke is, he takes all the merit of our late successes to
himself, whereas, if Pollock and Co. had withdrawn,
when ordered, we should never have seen Caubul or
Ghuznee again ; and as for the poor captives, both
Europeans" and natives, they might, for all
he cared, have been left in captivity. Not
a company, troop, or any supplies have entered
the country but what was, previously to his arrival,
ordered by Lord Auckland. So much for the Tory
boaster. Pollock, since the second order to withdraw,
I has taken and knocked about their ears the two
strongholds of Istalif and Chareekar, and recovered
in them, not only the guns and other plundered pro-
perty, muskets, drums, colours, &c., but taken pri-
soners some families belonging to chiefs of the highest
rank. These, I hear, he intends to hold in bondage
till Akbar Khan is delivered up. The battle of
Teezan, also, caused our captives to be restored.
" A native brought me, a few days ago, a copy of the
Governor-General's pi oclamation, and asked me the
meaning of the words Conservative policy, as he
could not understand them. I told him it was to
preserve things as they were. Then,' says he, why
don't you keep Affghanistan ; or, if you quit the
country, why don't you make them pay a yearly
tribute as an acknowledgment of subjection,
as Runjeet Singh did the Cashmirians? I suppose
now, (he added,) as Lord Ellenborough in this pro-
clamation says you ought not to have gone there,
or interfered with them, that he will of course relea e
Doit Mahomed, and give him twenty lacs of vagodas
as an indemnification for his =just captivity and
knocking his forts to pieces.' I advised him to see
his Lordship on the subject. It is nevertheless a
pretty general opinion amongst the natives, that his
Lordship ought so to do to be consistent, and cer-
tainly, as he says we had no business to enter the
country or interfere in their concerns, I cannot see
on what principle of equity or justice he can any
longer detain in captivity Dost Mahomed.
" On the 14th his Lordship issued another procla-
mation on the strength of the peace with China.
Here again is nothing but vain boasting, and
another sly cut at the Whigs. He says in it--
Two months after the arrival of reinforcements from
England and India, and the troops being ordered (of
course by himself) to the true point of attack, has
compelled the Emperor to submit to all her Majesty's
just demands.'
"In the first place before his arrival here the attack
was not only directed, but had actually long com-
menced at this true point ; and secondly,
since his ar-
rival not a man from India has joined General Gough
but what was previously ordered by Lord Auckland, and
not one of the regiments from England had, when the
peace was signed, joined Gough's force, but the Em-
peror has been compelled to submit to all otir just
demands. Bravo, Conservative Ellenborough! Yet
this is the same individual who in Parliament was
most loud in condemning the Whig policy of the war,
who declared over and over again it was a most
unjust and unholy war, an opium war,
&c., and prognosticated all sorts of reverses ; but now
our just
office opens a man s eyes.
just dmnanarecoTplidwith! How wonder-
fully Depend
upon it, if
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re-
sources. So the Chinese might have continued to in-
sult us with impunity, instead of, as now, paying the
piper and submitting to our just demands.
It is currently reported that the gates taken from
the tomb or rather temple of Sacunauth, at Ghuznee,
are intended to adorn the new House of Lords as a
memorial of the prowess of the Conservative Lord
Ellenborough in Affghanistan. Depend upon it, ere
long, you will hear of some strange freaks of this im•
becile Governor, if not speedily recalled. Both civil
and military would heartily rejoice to see him safe
over the surf.
" Bombay, Oct. 28, 1842."

The Marquis of Douglas arrived at the Duke of
Hamilton's, in Portman-square, On Sunday, from
Mannheim, in the Grand Duey of Baden. We hear
that his Lordship's marriage to her Serene Highness
the Princess Mary Amelia Elizabeth Caroline of
Baden, the fair and accomplished neice of the reigning
Grand Duke, will be solemnised in Germany, where
the illustrious fiancee, who is one of the most distin-
guished beauties of the Continent, resides with her
mother, the Grand Duchess Dowager Stephanie.