The Duke of Clarence visi...
The Times, 1824-12-07T00:00:00

The Duke of Clarence visited the King yesterday. Yesterday the Duke of' Wellington had an audience of His Majesty. The Dukc of Clarence came to town yesterdav morning from Bushy, anid returned to Bushy in the afternoon. Yesterday the Duke of Clarence andl the Princess Sophia visited the Duchess of Glocester. The Royal Duchess was so much recovered yesterday, as to enable hler Royal High- ness to take an airing with the Priicess Sophia, which is the first time her Royal Highness has gone out since her ilndisposition. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which was attended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of the Earl of Harrowby and Viscount Sidr mouth. The Cabinet Ministers sat in deliberation about three hours. Mr. Fennessy, a King's MIessener, left town on Sunday nighit for tihe Netherlands. A French paper says-" M. Baron Rothschild has been accredited to theCourtof Franceas Minister of a greatGer- man Power." In a contest-for the scat in the French Academy, vacant by the death of M. Lacretelle, a M. Droz has triumphed over Al. Lamartinie, the celebrated author of the Mll'edita- lion.? Poeliqzees. A1. Droz is not at all ktaowvn in Englanid, and we have not heard that he is so in France. His exces- sive modesty roust have hitlierto concea!ed his merits frorn public view, and their dliscovery reflects great credit on the penetration of the Academy. We have been requested by several correspondents to call public aitention to the propriety of convening meetings in London, in order to raise subscriptions for the sufferers on different patttb of the coast by the late storms. 'l'here can- not be, we conceive, a more proper and legitimate object. The accounts received from the principal ports for shipping, which are alone officially communicated to the committee at Lloyd's, comprise, it is believefd, but a small part of the evil. A committee expressly appointed to collect informa- tion, would witlhout dloubt bring to light scenes of suffering ia obscure and thinly-inhabited places, rendered by their very obscur;l wjtd poverty more genuine objects of co0- passion. Wliile so iiieyal a subsc-iption is raisilg in this vity in behalfof the sufferesu by the inundations in Ger- roany, it is impossible the public-can i ernain insensible to a call of a similar nature, for a calamitv sr, auch nearer home, and affiecting our owin countrymen. The Miletlina has been employed in conveying Lortl Strangford fromConstantinople to Trieste: his Lordship debarked at the latter port en the 3d of November, and was to proceed in a few days to rienna. it is suppcsed he will be in England about C,hristm3as. By thedeparture of his Lordship fiom Constantino- pie, the interests of the British G}overnmnt in that quarter devolve to a Clharge d' .8aifdes bet we should suppose they are of too much in portance, at ptesent, to be long intmsted to any one but a Ali- nirter of the Qrst rank.-Haezpshire Telegraph. On the l4th ult. the first session of the Prussian States- General was opened at Konigsberg. At nine o'clock all the de- puties, in number 175, were assembled, and after attending divine worship, t he Royal Commissioner solemnly declared thesession com- menced. The same day, the deputies of the civil and military au- thorities dined with the commissioner. Dr. Elihu Tudor, who was a lieutenant in the army of General Wolfe in the celebrated battle on the heights of Abraham, in 1750, is uow.living at East Windsor, Connecticut, at theadvanced age of 94 years. He is supposed to be the only surviving offlcer of General Wolfe's army in Europe or Atmerica. He continues to re. ceive a pension from the British iGovernment. Dr. Tudor graduated at Yale Colilee in 1750, and before he entered the army was a sur. geon in the British navy.-Boston Courier. His Majesty has granted a charter, erecting the town of Anderston, near Glasgow, and certain lands adjacent, comprehend. ing a population of about 10,000, into a burgh or barony. Tte Rev. G. Gould, Rector of Fleet (a village destroyed by the late storm). intends huilding a new viUlage; and, with a de- gree of philanthropy that will ever imrnortalize his name, has taken lad provided for all thc sulTerers under his roofi-Sherborne Mereury. The Catholics of the Midland District, comprising the counties of WVarwick, Staffbrd, Wercester, and Salop, finding that the designation which they had assumed, as forming a branch ef the General British Catholic Association,wa.s illegal, have formed them- selves into a distinct society, to be called the Midland Catholic As. sociation.-Hereford Independent. PosT-oFFIcE.-We believe that the impression is very general that persons have a right to send letters by stage-coaches and carriers, and, in general, otherwise than b post, provided they be sent opent. To correct this mistake, we think it right to notice a case which o^carred the other day, which ought to .be generaUy known to prevent parties committing, in ignorance, similar ofiences. A respectable nercantilehouseputupim a parcel35 lettersI all open, and transmitted the eame by a stage-coach. The parcel was ad- dressed to a correspondent, who was directed to put wafers in the different letters, and cause them to be immediately delivered. An information having been laid against the parties sending the let- ters, they were immediately calledon by the Post-Master.General for the paymcnt of tbe statutory penalties incurred, viz. 5L foreach letter, and which2 in the present ease, nmounted to 1751. The plea of the letters havmng been sent open was urged, but was found to be of no avail. By the Post-office statutes, one half of all penalties zoes to the informer, and the other half to the King.._Caledon6zn Mercury.