NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE news from Portugal is unfavourable, though probably not to that extent which the apprehensions of those immediately inte- rested'had led many to anticipate in the course of the week. The Royalist, or we should say the Rebel army, is advancing towards Oporto : the Constitutional forces have retreated from the line of the Vouga : partial engagements have taken place ; and the arrival of the wounded in Oporto, coupled with the news of the retreat, spread an alarm which reached this country on Friday. The re- treat is, however, stated (by accounts dated Oporto, June 30,) to have been made in excellent order, for the purpose of taking up a strong position at Carvalhos. General Saldanha, an officer in whom confidence is placed, is in command ; Count Palmella has joined him. Sir Thomas Stubbes commands at Oporto, and over the North of Portugal.

There is no doubt that affairs are in a very critical state in this country, and that the issue is doubtful. The delay which has marked the progress of the Constitutionalists indicates imbecility. The name of KING, alnOnZ so ignorant a people as the Portuguese, is likely to possess no small influence. The British Ministers, it is clear, have looked upon the cause of Miguel as one that might possibly prosper : in this light we are to view the announcement of the blockade. That they are not without apprehension for the fate of Oporto, may be inferred from the precautionary measure of sending a transport to Oporto, for the purpose of bringing away British persons and property. The following letter from the Foreign Office, was this day addressed to Messrs. Q. Harris and Sons ; in consequence, we presume, of an interview which the principal Oporto merchants who reside in London had yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen.

"FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 12, 1828.

" GENTLEMEN,—i am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acquaint you, for the information of the merchants connected with Oporto, that directions have been given by the proper Department of his Majesty's Government, to send a transport immediately off that port, for ti.e reception, under the orders of the senior officer of his Majesty's ships there, of such British subjects, with their property, as may think it necessary to avail themselves of such an opportunity to embark.—! am, Etc. &c. (Signed) " DUNGLAS."

It appears that the British Government still consider the blockade of Oporto as effective, and not as an infraction of the treaty be- tween Portugal and England.

Cadiz is to be peremptorily evacuated by the French troops. They are to join the expedition which has sailed from Toulon ; and which, it is expected, is making for Cadiz to receive them on board.

The news from the theatre of war in Turkey does not amount to much : what there is, indicates that the Turks are making des- perate resistance wherever they are attacked, and that, conse- quently, the progress of the Russian arms is slow. The fortress of Brailow has fallen. It capitulated on the 18th of last month, after sustaining several severe attacks, and causing, by the vigour of its defence, a very considerable loss to the invaders. The Russian bulletin states, that two of the generals of their army were killed in the assault of the 15th, and that not less tl—n six hundred and forty men were left under the walls. It has been calculated that this fort alone has cost the Russians four thousand men. The camp of theEmperor has been removed some distance. The last bulletin is dated June 20, near the walls of Trajan, which run from the shore of the Black Sea to the Danube. It states, that the enemy had been met with under the walls of a town called Kustendzia, which was fortified. An attack had been made upon this place by General Rudzewitz, and failed. Batteries were then erected against the place, and had the honour of being inspected by his Imperial Majesty. Skirmishes in other quarters are spoken of. It will be seen that these circumstances do not indicate a rapid campaign. Mr. O'Connell is now the representative of the county of Clare. The election terminated on Saturday. The gross poll stood 2057,, for Mr. O'Connell, and 982 for Mr. Fitzgerald. A question was raised on the eligibility of Mr. O'Connell ; it was argued before Mr. Keating, the high sheriff's assessor, who decided that there was nothing in Mr. O'Connell's case which stood in the way either of his being put in nomination as a candidate, or elected as a repre- sentative ; but with regard to his being qualified to take his seat in the House of Commons and vote, this Mr. Keating said was no part of his business ; and he should therefore advise the sheriff to return Mr. O'Connell as duly elected ' • stating, however, specially on the document, the fact of Mr. O'Connell's being a Roman Ca- tholic, and of his being opposed in the election by Mr. Fitzgerald. The High Sheriff accordingly declared Mr. O'Connell duly elected ; and the conflict ended with much apparent cordiality and good humour. Whether Mr. O'Connell will attempt to take his seat this session, or not, is at present unknown. The legal question of his right to sit, has been a subject of discussion among lawyers, and an elaborate statement of the grounds of his opinion has been published by Mr. Charles Butler. It hangs upon a fine construc- tion of various statutes, and is by no means a clear case. We do not present it to our readers, for we fear it would rather embarrass than enlighten them on the subject The following miscellaneous collection from Irish papers, Ennis letters, 810. of points which have marked this extraordinary con- test, will form the best history of its latter scenes.

THE HIGH SHERIFF'S RETURN TO THE WRIT.—The return to the writ is to the following effect—" That after having given notice to the free- holders, two candidates were proposed, the Right Hon. Wm. Fitzgerald Vesey Fitzgerald, a Protestant, and Daniel O'Connell, Esq., a Catholic, and that the latter announced that he was a Catholic; and further that a protest against his return was signed by a certain number of freeholders; but that Daniel O'Connell, Esq., had a majority of the qualified free- holders at the termination of the poll, and was therefore returned duly elected as a knight to represent the county of Clare in Parliament." HIGH SHERIFF'S CORDIALITY AND MR. O'CONNELL'S. SELF-CONGRATU- LATION.—The High Sheriff then shook hands with Mr. O'Connell, and congratulated him upon being returned. Three cheers were given for the successful candidate and three for the late representative ; afterwhich the vast concourse of persons separated, and at eleven o'clock the streets were as quiet as if nothing had occurred during the week to disturb the harmony which existed previously to the commencement of the election. Mr. O'Connell immediately on the precept being signed, franked a letter and remarked at the same time, "this is the best job of agitation I ever at- tempted." PROTEST AGAINST MR. OTONNELL.—" 1MM:ill& as Daniel O'Connell, Esq., is a person professing the Roman Catholic religion, and as such cannot qualify to sit in the House of Commons of the united kingdom, even if he were elected—we now therefore give you notice, that the elec- tion and return of the said Daniel O'Connell to sit in the House of Com.. mons of the united kingdom, under the writ to you delivered, will be il- legal and.void, and we do hereby call on you the High Sheriff, to return the Right Hon. William Fitzgerald Vesey Fitzgerald, he being the only qualified candidate in nomination." This document bears the signatures of upwards of thirty gentlemen, all of whom are men of rank and in- fluence in the county. CHAIR:NG OF MR. O'CONNELL, AND TRIUMPHANT MAaca.—The chair- ing of Mr. O'Connell took place on Monday. At twelve o'clock all the trades of Ennis, and some fifty thousand freeholders, prepared themselves on the road to Limerick ; and, soon after, Mr. O'Connell, in a handsome chair, was drawn through the main street, and then conducted to the road. The whole was performed in silence ; not a single cheer was per- mitted. So anxious were the leaders to abate the apprehensions of the Magistrates, that strict orders were given to the crowd not to shout. About a mile from Ennis, General Doyle, and a large body of cavalry, in- fantry, and some artillery, were drawn up ; but when they saw the mul- titude approach in such good order, they were passed on the by-roads and into the fields, and the chaired and chairers passed between them without a word.

At Limerick, the Catholic merchants and principal inhabitants went out in procession to meet Mr. O'Connell ; the trades were also in attend- ance, with colours flying and green boughs waving, and an immense mul- titude with some most curious devices accompanying them. Though the distance from Ennis to Limerick is but eighteen miles, it was ten at night before the procession arrived at the latter place, so densely packed were the masses of people through which it had to move.

THE GREAT 0. IN DANGER.--I have reason to know that dreadful car- nage would have ensued in the event of a triumphal entry. It is spoken

of generally, and believed, that O'Connell's life would have paid the for- feit of his triumph if there were a triumphal entry. A plot was formed to assassinate him in the public streets, as he passed along. This is not

an idle surmise. You know I am not an alarmist, nor am I easily terri- fied, nor am I ignorant of the state of politics, and it is my firm belief that, if O'Connell made an entry into this metropolis such as was con- templated, he would have lost his life.—Merning Herald. MODERATION OF THE MANAGERS.—The managers in Dublin have come to the forbearino.° and generous resolution of abstaining both from illumi- nations and the display of a triumphal entry. The terms in which the

determination has been conveyed to the public are highly honourable to the temper and good feeling of the body. It is of course the intention of the friends of civil and religious liberty to give Mr. O'Connell a public dinner. Monday is the day considered most convenient for this demon- stration of the public sentiment.

POWER OP THE PRIESTS SURPASSING, TIM LOVE OF WHISEY,—.-011 the Arst day of the election, the people were commanded not to drink ; and up to this moment, although the excitation of popular feeling has been great and the weather intensely hot, I do not believe, though thousande of per- sons have been in town each day Since the commencement of the elet- ton, that a single individual has disobeyed this mandate of the priests. t LANGUAGE OF THE Patesrs ; SPEECH OF MR. SHEEHAN.—" If therein a man in the vast assembly whom I now address, Who has voted against O'Connell, that man has voted against his religion, and cannot hope to enter the kingdom of Heaven ! How can any of you, who vote against your God, hope on your dying day that God will listen to you when you are called away and have returned to your kindred dust—when the priest shall be called upon to offer up the sacrifice of the mass for your souls, think you, deluded men as you are, that that sacrifice will be one of expiation ? No, no. You who vote against your religion and your God in this life can expect nothing but eternal damnation In the next. How can you expect, should death overtake you in the midst of your career, and that enough of life remains to enable you to receive the last rites of your church, how, I say, can you expect that the priest who visits you in your dying moments, with your God between his fingers,

can hold out a hope of e to the man who votes for the man who swears that his religion is damnable and idolatrous ?"

FURTHER INSTANCES OF PRIESTLY POWER.—A gentleman who Came into town at the head of his tenantry was deserted by them, when re- quested to do so by a priest, and he in a rage ordered his carriage to the Court-house, and there violently declaimed against them ; the noise alarmed the High Sheriff, and he desired the Riot Act to be read, and the police to be called out ; but the agitators, who heard the order, waved to the people to disperse, and when the Riot Act and the police came, there was only the honourable gentleman, with a dozen of his own friends near him, for the terrors of the law to operate on. Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald went out to meet, to-day, a body of his tenantry, and he addressed them at great length; but a priest who was at hand called on them not to abandon their religion and their country, and the freeholders declared for O'Con- nell. Mr. Fitzgerald was very indignant, and charged the priest with an intention to insult him, but the priest replied, that asking the people not to abandon their religion and their country was no insult to any man, and the dispute terminated by the desertion of the whole body. Another land- lord offered his tenants an abatement of rent if they would leave the town and not vote for either party. They did so to the number of three hun- dred; but one of the agitators on horseback, with a green liberator riband about his neck, and a priest, followed them, and induced them to return, which they did with colours flying, and green boughs waving, and a musi- cian playing the fife before them. I heard a 40s. freeholder vote against Mr. O'Connell, but he ground his lips, stamped his feet, and hesitated se- veral minutes before he could pronounce Mr. Fitzgerald's name ! I must go with my hands tied, (he cried at last) and I vote, because I cannot help 1 , for Mr. Fitzgerald.'

AGITATORS THE BEST PRESERVERS OF ORDER.—There never was a. market- day at Ennis without a riot, and the police called on to quell it— no such thing has taken place during the election.

PATRIOTIC ABSTINENCE.—It would be impossible to praise Mr. O'Gor- man Mahon too much for his conduct during the entire of this election : for eleven nights he has not had his head upon a pillow, nor taken, I may say, sufficient sustenance to support nature. FRANKS; THE VALUE OF MR. O'CONNELL'S.—MT. O'COMICIPS franks came to town this morning. The first was addressed to a Catholic mer- chant of great public spirit, and who, although seventy years of age, has worked night and day to advance the election. It was marked N. I. The second frank was addressed to Mrs. O'Connell.The remainder were obtained by his friends upon the spot, as memorials of this singular triumph, to transmit to their friends. These curiosities were exhibited to-day with pride and ostentation by those who were so favoured as to receive theme ; and as to the frank No. 1," the gentleman who received it said he would not give it for five hundred pounds. THE MIGHTY AGITATOR A PEACEMAKER.—Some of the great factions in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny, who regularly met and fought at fairs and markets, shook hands in his presence, and declared their determination to live in perfect amity for the future; all they required from the great leader was, to send them a medal, such as are now selling here.

COUNTER-AGITATION' OF THE ORANGEMEN.—" The Twelfth of July. The Orangemen in every part of Ireland will assemble, will walk in pro- cession, will dine—aye, and will drink the GLORIOUS AND IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT AND G )OD KING WILLIAM, On the approaching twelfth of July—and the Orangemen of Ireland are perfectly right. All faith has been broken with them. Their enemies have been tolerated, enoouraged, courted; while they have been insulted, coerced, put down. It is quite fitting that they should show themselves in their power, in their strength, and in their NUMBERS. The TWELFTH or JULY will afford an opportunity of ascertaining whether the loyal Protestant of Ulster is to be prosecuted for exhibiting his Orange badge, while the seditious Demagogue of Munster displays his green decoration with impunity. If the measure of evenhanded justice hitherto meted to the Irish Protestants should be resolved upon :—.but we shall borrow of Mr. Shiel an aposi- opesis—If "—Prom a Dublin Paper. INTENTIONS OF MR. O'CONNELL, AS PROCLAIMED IN HIS SPEECH ON WEDNESDAY.—" Mr. V. Fitzgerald put the bribery oath to the honest freeholders who polled for me. Does any man think that they got six- perece for their votes ? But, on his side, all human terrors they had the courage to threaten were used. One gentleman, when he saw his tenants vote against him, exclaimed, 'they should not have a house over their heads.' I swore by that holy name, and may the recording Angel, as he notes it down, drop a tear upon that oath and blot it out for ever, that they should—(Cheering and waving of hats for several minutes.) A man of ninety tottered to give me his blessing, which I cherished more than the vote he gave me ; and another, in the second century, of a hundred and seven years of age, and I am cheered by it. The man gave me his vote—(Capital.) They tried to wear me out by delays, but the people have but one petition to make, and they ask me only to get them polled, in order that they may go home quietly to their families. I am proud of the circumstance, that some Protestant forty-shilling freeholders voted for me. I had three of them, and Fitzgerald had not one. As for the paltry Catholics who voted against me, I will not stain my lips nor your ears with their names: the wretches who send in a man to parliament to swear that their holy religion is impious and. idolatrous.— (Shame, shame !) I am soon to be placed on the ground I most desire. I shall have to- morrow, under the Sheriff's seal, the right to go into Parliament ; and I have that affirmed by the Act of Union, and I will go forth and take my stand under the Constitution, and tell Wellington and Peel, "keep me out of the representation of Clare if you dare." What care we then for the Catholic question, if it is to be absorbed by this still greater question of national independence. (Great cheering, and waving of hats and hand-. kerchiefs.) What care we then for the Catholic question ? We shall have a national-association, and the genius of 1782 will sanction our re- newed independence ? (Cheers.) Thus An I now stand ; I may bless my- self for this, that I am able to exist among the tide of feelings which pour on my soul. Whathave I done for the people ? What can I do for them?' They are slaves in my native land, and I am ashamed of it, to see so glorious, so great, so generous a people degraded. I dare not con- tinue; but I will go to my grave, and this shall be my epitaph—" Here lies Daniel O'Connell, the first Catholic Representative of Ireland." (Continued cheering.) I will not allow Ireland to continue the pitiful, pelting province of Wellington and Peel ; you have given me an arm po werful enough to strike for justice, and (waving it) while I have life I will devote it to your service."

The Court go into mourning for one week for the late Grand Duke Charles of Saxe Weimar.

The Duke of St. Albans was made an honorary Doctor of Laws last week; at Cambridge.

The Marquis of Northampton on Wednesday took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, for the first time since the death of his father.

Friday's Gazette contains his Majesty's order in Council, for continuing the suspension of the ballot or enrolment for the local militia, for another year, from the 16th instant. A meeting of the Portuguese merchants was held in London on Friday, to consider on the best means of pieserving their pro- perty from falling into the hands of the Miguelites. Mr. Bowles, the poet, has been appointed to succeed Archdeacon Coxe, the historian, in the latter's Canon Residentiary Stall in Salisbury Cathedral. The Reverend John Somerville, a Scotch clergyman, has been to Court to present his "patent safety-gun" to the King. The merit of this clerical piece of ordnance is, that it will not go off by accident.

The Dundee paper reports, that since a late public disputation on the Roman Catholic doctrines, " some symptoms of instability" in the pillars of the kirk have been observed. This comes of Pres- byterian ministers interchanging courtesies with Papist s. From the same journal we learn, that the Dundee authorities hit upon an admirable plan for saving their church from falling under the weight of too great a crowd when the Reverend Edward Irving preached ; they issued tickets of admission, and put a price on each. Mr. Irving 's spirit was at first disquieted at the sinful- ness of the thing, but he became reconciled to it on a due consi- deration of the occasion and the motive.

Two officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards fought a duel on Monday morning, in a field behind Exeter barracks. One of them was wounded on the first exchange of shots. A lady fell down dead on Friday, in the act of receiving her dividend at the Bank of England. Mr. Jarrin's celebrated horticultural breakfast at Chiswick has been condemned in the Court of King's Bench. The confectioner brought his action against two members of the society, for a ba- lance of 409/. 15s.: they resisted on the ground of insufficiency ; evidence on both sides was examined, and the verdict was for the defendants.

Lord Palmerston has drained fifty acres of bog in Ireland, at an expense of seven pounds per acre. Four months after the spade was put into them, there were growing upon them the finest pota- toes and turnips in Ireland. -In three years, it is expected, they will repay the outlay. This is as good as making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, and worthy of its reward. The fifty-second anniversary of American independence was celebrated at Paris on the 4th of July. General La Fayette was present and spoke. The Brighton Gazette contradicts the current account of a story to which we alluded in last Spectator, and gives the following as the correct particulars :— " After the marriage of the son of a wealthy Baronet, which was announced lately in our paper, the bride and bridegroom went for a day or two to the country-seat of a learned judge, and then came to the residence of the bridegroom in this county, where in a few days after the wedding, the bridegroom was attacked by a brain fever ; two days afterwards similar symptoms were perceived in the bride, who threw herself out of a window thirty feet from the ground. The parents of both were immediately sent for express, and the lady was conveyed to Brighton, where, we are happy to say, she is now recovering rapidly. Her husband is also much better, and has, we believe, gone to a watering place. It is utterly untrue that any attempt was made on the life of the lady." Mademoiselle Mars and the manager of the French theatre have quarrelled respecting her benefit ; and that lady has thrown herself on the judgment of the public. She charges M. Laporte with un- generous conduct, in denying to her the same advantages which he enjoyed at his own benefit. We have been informed that Mlle. Mars, without intimation to the manager, had sounded the note of preparation for an opera-night, at opera-prices ; and she had obtained the promised aid of Pasta and Sontag. The manager refused to acquiesce in this arrangement, as M. Mars was only en- titled, by her engagement with him, to the benefit of a French play at French play prices ; and consequently he was only obliged to incur the expenses which the French play performances require. The difference in point of expense is great ; amounting, on the orchestra account alone, to about 70/. There was this further reason for the refusal of the manager, that the opera of Monday night would destroy that of Tuesday, for the frequenters of the opera would not attend both nights. Mlle. Mars rests her claim upon the circumstances of AL Laporte's benefit, in which appeared several eminent singers, and, the entertainments consisted of both opera and French performances. He took his benefit as manager of the Opera and the French Theatre ; and Mlle. Mars seems to have forgotten, that though Pasta and Sontag offered their services gratuitously, she tendered hers at the price of 5u guineas ; at which price they were accepted. It appears from the mass of evidence collected by the Lords Committee on the Wool Trade, that one great cause of the de- clension of the price of British wool has been the falling off in its quality. The price of meat and the demand for it have been of late years great, compared with those for other agricultural pro- duce, and the fleece has been comparatively little attended to. One of the plans which has been suggested to the Committee is, to give a drawback on the exportation of cloths, and also to impose a tax on the importation of wool.

The Committee of the House of Commons on Public Works, &c., have made a Report, in which are the following recom- mendations— " That no public buildings should be hereafter erected, nor any con- siderable alterations in the structure of any of the existing buildings be adopted, except upon directions given by the Lords of the Treasury, and founded upon minutes of that Board; and that the plans and estimates for all such new buildings, or alterations of existing buildings, should be signed by at least three Lords of the Treasury, and he preserved in the records of that office.

"That a Commission, consisting of five persons, two of whom at least should be Privy Councillors, and holding some responsible offices, should be appointed by his Majesty to act as a Council Without salary, to advise the Board of Treasury upon all designs and plans for the erection or considerable alteration of public buildings. "That previously to the decision of the Board of Treasury on any designs, plans, or estimates, to be signed and recorded by them as before suggested, the opinions and recommendations of this Council for public buildings to be so appointed, should be laid in writing before the Board, and should be annexed to the plans and estimates approved of and recorded at the Treasury."

A special court was held at the India House on Wednesday, for the purpose of taking a ballot on the motion made by Sir Charles Forbes at a previous court, for restoring their confidence to Capt. Prescott. The motion was to the effect—that Captain Prescott, having been acquitted by a jury of his country of the charge of corruption relative to the disposal of patronage, ought to be restored to the confidence of the court; and the question was carried by 408 votes to 40.

Tilted waggons, loaded with the ,late King's library, are daily ar- riving at the British Museum; the books, as they arrive, are deposited in the eastern wing of the new building. The students and other gentlemen frequenting the reading-rooms will not, it is un- derstood, have access to these books for several months.

The sum now subscribed towards the New College, in donations and in shares, amounts to about 60,0001.

The fete at Vauxhall for the benefit of the Spanish and Italian refugees, on Tuesday, was not favoured with fine weather, but was attended by about two thousand people.

It is understood that Mr. Humphreys, the author of the distin- guished work upon the law of real property, has promised to give a few occasional lectures on subjects connected with his writings, to the class of English law, at the London University, at the parti- cular request of Mr. Amos, the professor of that branch.

Mr. Brougham has quitted town—the Times says in bad health, and under the positive orders of his physician. In the Court of Chancery, on Monday, Mr. Walker, the Re- gistrar, who had been in the office forty-five years, and was now disabled by paralysis, was discharged on his own application, and allowed the full Parliamentary pension of 1100/. In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, the Corporation of Bristol established their right to levy an ad valorem duty of two- pence in the pound on all goods entering or leaving the port ; not belonging to freemen. In the Court of Chancery, this morning, an application was made on the part of a Mr. Buxton, for a writ of habeas. The uncle of his wife had taken her away on the evening of her nup- tial day, and had succeeded in keeping her in secret confinement from that time to this. The Lord Chancellor consented that six writs should issue.

In the High Court of Delegates, this day, in the suit instituted by Mr. Montagu Burgoyne, to deprive the Rev. Dr. Free of his benefice, on the ground of drunkenness and improper conduct with a female, the jurisdiction of the Arches Court of Canterbury was ‘'onfirmed against the appeal of the defendant. An action for libel against the Times occupied the Court of King's Bench a great part of Friday. Mr. Alexander, a Jew printer in Whitechapel Road; was the plaintiff. In a suit which he brought .a short time ago against the British Insurance Office, to recover his loss from a lire which had consumed a great part of his stock, a young woman, Elizabeth Levi, his female servant, was a principal witness. Since the trial, she has been in great distress of mind ; and before the Magistrates at Lambeth Street, confessed that she had been suborned by her master, Alexander, to give a false oath. It was for a report of this case that the action was brought. The Timei justified on three counts: 1st, that Elizabeth Levi committed wilful and corrupt perjury ; 2d, that the plaintiff had suborned her to do so ; 3d, that the report in question con- tained a true account of what passed at the police office. On the general issue the jury found for the plaintiff; but for the defendant on all the three counts of justification. Lord Tenterden agreed to Certify, to deprive the plaintiff of costs FASHIONABLE PArerics.—On Saturday the Duke of Clarence entertained a select party at Kensington Palace. The Duchess of Kent dined with the Duchess of Clarence at Bushy Park. Prince Esterhazy entertained Prince Leopold and a large party to dinner in Chandos St. IA. Sidmouth gave a grand dinner to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and a select party at Richmond. Monday ; the Duchess of Wellington had a grand assembly at Apsley House. Mr. Rothschild gave a dinner to the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Wellington, Princess Ester- hazy, Prince Poli„enac, &c. &c. : an entertainment took place in the evening, at which 200 of the nobility and gentry were present. Prince Leopold gave a grand entertainment this evening ; amone° the company were the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, &c. &c. Tuesday ; Earl Chesterfield gave an entertainment this evening. Thursday ; the Duke of Sussex had a party to dinner at Kensington Pa- lace. The Earl of Aberdeen entertaine a distinguished party at dinner. Sir John Wrottesley gave a grand dinner. Lady G. Cavendish gave a splendid rout, at Burlington House. The Hon. George Agar Ellis enter- tamed a large party to dinner. Mr. Lancaster, of Sadler's Wells Theatre, died in a fit last night, in the Sir Hugh Middleton Tavern.

On Saturday last the cotton-factory of Mcssrs. Clarke and Sons, at Manchester, was entirely destroyed by fire. The premises were insured for 32,0001., but the total amount of loss is not known. An inquest was held yesterday at the Stirling Arms, Tower Street, on the body of Mr. Down Crowther, a merchant. It appeared that the de- ceased arrived from Leith a fortnight since. On Thursday he received a communication from his brother, announcing that a young lady, to whom' he was attached, had eloped from her father's house with a trades- man, and was married in Edinburgh, Shortly after he received this in- formation, he attempted to poison himself with laudanum. On Tuesday he accompanied some friends to Vauxhall, but suddenly left them, and they received no intelligence of him until after he was dead. It appears that be shot himself in a water-closet in the Stirling Arms. Verdict, insanity. About twelve o'clock last night, a fire broke out in the back part of the house of Mr. Lovick, plumber and glazier, in Red Lion Street, near Red Lion Passage, Holborn ; which burnt with great fury, and, from the part of the premises where it first appeared, threatened the safety of the valu- able houses in the rear towards Red Lion Square. The speedy arrival of the engines, with the active exertions of the firemen and a great number of individuals, who were timely on the spot, confined the fire to the house where it broke out, but which is now completely gutted. Some part of the family had a narrow escape. The Earl of Sefton has declared his intention of selling his surplus game (after serving himself and friends), and giving the produce to the benefit of the road, or the poor, in each respective parish. This is an ex- ample worthy of being followed by the nobility and gentry in general—a beneficial application of the new Game Bill to the interest of the commu- nity, and indicative of honourable feeling.—Nottingham Mercury.

The spirited (bellicose ?) proprietors of the Carron iron-works are at present casting three very levee and peculiar cannons. They arc lone guns of a great size, having a bore 12 inches in diameter, to enable them to throw bombs.—Caledunian Mercury.

A jeweller and a watchmaker in Cheltenham have manufactured an artificial tortoise, composed of 360 separate pieces of machinery, and ornamented with diamonds, which weighs only 12 pennyweights, and a spider composed of 220 pieces of machinery, which weighs only two pennyweights. An individual in Dorsetshirc lately purchased a feather-bed at an auc- tion, which was found to contain a parcel of Bank of England notes,

amounting in value to 700/.—Sherborne Mercury. ' TliE HAY Haitvesr.—" The fine weather of the past week has greatly accelerated the hay harvest all over the country, and a large proportion of the crops has been carried in the best possible manner."—Mancliester Herald.

On Saturday night, a boy about five years of age, while the mother was absent for water, got out of a first floor window in Jamaica-street, Edinburgh, ill his sleep, and walked along a ledge of considerable length, where he sat down. Being discovered in his dangerous situation by the neighbours, some of them extended blankets to catch the unconscious sleeper had he fallen, while others forced the door of the apartment. In the mean time the mother returned, who fortunately succeeded in rescu- ing her child before he awakened, but immediately fainted from the ex- cess of her feelings.—Caledonian Mercury. The Courier des Tribunaux contains an account of a curious law process at Boulogne-sur-Mer, in which a French tradesman was the plaintiff, and an English lord the defendant. The ground of action was an assault and battery committed by a bull-dog of the noble lord upon the poodle of the plaintiff—the said bull-dog not being muzzled, as by law directed. The defendant denied the correctness of the description of his dog, which he contended to be a pure English terrier. The Tribunal, not being suffi- ciently versed in canine matters to decide the difference, adjourned the cause, for the purpose of having the disputed point determined by a vete- rinary professor. Fortunately for the peace of Europe, the noble lord and the plaintiff settled matters out of court, and the decision of the Tribunal was rendered unnecessary.

Specimens Of "genuine" American stories, from a New York Paper--• EXTRAORDINARY CALAMITY.—The Duchess True American says "that the family of Mr. Nathaniel Underhill, in the interior of that county, con- sisting of eight persons, all arose one day last week in a state of mental de- rangement, and from the last accounts, so still continue. The case is worthy of the most scrutinizine° investigation of the medical faculty." "DREADFUL OCC.URRENCE.—As Mr. George Love, in Barre, Orleans county, was cutting wood near a maple sugar manufactory, his wife, dodging from the flame which a gust of wind blew in her face, threw her head under her husband's axe, which descended upon her neck and se- vered the muscles and tendons and entered the bone. The unfortunate woman, with medical aid, survived a number of days, and left her mi- serable husband and three children to mourn their loss. Mr. Love was so terribly affected by the first shock as never to retain his perfect senses, and on the day of her death left his house in a state of derangement."

A tremendous storm, accompanied with thunder and lightning, com- menced at Bath on Tuesday evening at eight, and lasted till twelve o'clock. The houses in Widcomb, at the bottom of Claverton Hill, were inundated by a land flood, to the depth, in some instances, of twelve feet, and so rapidly, that James Moody and his wife, occupying a lower apart- ment in Chapel-row leading to the canal, were drowned in their beds ! The soil and trees, in several parts of Beechen Cliff, have been dis- placed by the violence of the tempest, and swept into the valley beneath And at Weston, by the sudden rise of the brook, a chairman named Hunt was drowned,—Bat/ Chronicle, STORM AND FIRE AT HANOVER.—For several days, (says a paragraph of POLICE.

contributed sixty-five Louis d'ors. For the relief of the poorer classes children I" Lady—" It is my affection for my children, coupled with the magistrates have purchased a great quantity of window-glass, whicn a , is delivered to those who need it, at the prime cost, without any charge remember that two of them are well provided for, and are in an asylum

where every care will be taken of them. What was your inducement to for carriage, &c. The less opulent householders and farmeas of ground

come up to London ?" Lady—" To endeavour to better myself ; but the belonging to the city are to have an abatement on their taxes and rents

little money which I brought with me is exhausted, and I am now en- proportionable to their loss. On the 24th June, there was another tirely destitute." Sir Richard—" Believe me, self-destruction is not the disaster near Hanover, twenty-eight dwellings in the village of Burgwedel,

way to better yourself : think of your children, and I am sure you will inhabited by fifty families, consisting of nearly two hundred and fifty persons, having been destroyed by fire. . not wish to make them desolate and wretched. Go to the Institution

A dreadful murder was perpetrated towards the end of June, in the where your children are—inform the gentlemen there how you are situ- Chef Haute, Vosges. A farmer's servant, named Mathieu, exasperated ated, and I am confident they will relieve you if they have the power. In at the rejection of his addresses by a young girl named Lombard, assassi- the mean while, here is half-a-crown for you to obtain some nourish- nated her, and in two hours afterwards returned, ripped up the abdomen, ment, and let me beg of you not to entertain for a moment such a hord- and strewed the intestines round the body. The monster has been ar- hle idea as the putting an end to your existence." Sir Richard's chari- rested.—French Paper. ° A most horrible and brutal murder was committed a few days ago on a lowed by the street-keeper, with the purpose of going to the Clergy person of the name of Coyle, on the high road from Cootehill to Redhill, Orphan Institution. by some armed orangemen. Without any provocation whatever, they ran Two young women, who had been dismissed by their mistress a lean- him through the heart with a bayonet, and severely wounded another dress, on the advice of an astrologer, who directed suspicion of theft upon man, whose name we have not yet learned.—Dublin Morning Register. MURDER DISCOVERED.—A murder, perpetrated twelve months ago in trate promised to commit the astrologer, if the charge could be proved. this county, hasjust been brought to light. At last Summer Assizes, Tho- mas Ellson was tried for stealing a sheep, the property of Mr. Bradbury, of On Wednesday, a smart young "id eighteen years of age, aPplied Drayton; but the principal witness, James Harrison, aged twenty-one, had at Mr. Johnson's, the chemist, inbxford-street, for a quantity of lauda- disappeared, and the prisoner was consequently acquitted. Last week, Ell- num : the shopman, suspecting her intention, gave her instead a strong aperient draught

son was again apprehended for stealing fowls; and when questioned by Mr. , which she swallowed as soon as she got into the street. Harrison The shopman had watched her, and immediately carried her to the police Twemlow, the magistrate, respecting the mysterious absence of office in Marlborough-street. The poor girl had not been there long, before last year, he declared that on his return home after trial, be was informed that Harrison had been murdered, and buried in Mr. Hocknell's field, at the officers were obliged to hurry her out of the office, and away to the Drayton. This field was dug on Friday last, but the body was not found ; workhouse, the spectators laughing, and she bitterly complaining of the but in consequence of Ellson's information, Joseph Pugh and Ann Harris trick that had been put upon her. were apprehended. On Saturday, Pugh confessed to Mr. Holt, of Dray- Colonel Rotalde appeared before the Lord Mayor to complain of being ton (who had him in custody), and subsequently to Mr. Twemlow, all the Duke of Wellington, H circumstances of the murder ; and on Sunday morning Pugh was taken to He requested his lordship to patronize a clock he had constructed, the the field where he stated the corpse to have been placed (not in Hocknell's works of which were set in motion by one wheel. His Lordship desired him to leave his papers ; which seemed to have contained a detailed ac. field) : he there, in the presence of Mr. Twemlow, and many others, count of his correspondence with Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and which, to-

poin °ted out a certain spot as the place where the body lay; and on digging

there, to the depth of about four feet, the toe of a quarter-boot appeared. gether with indiscreet speeches on the part of the unfortunate colonel, ap- Care was taken to dig, round the body, the position of which was at length pears to have led to the erasure of his name from the list of emigrants en- made apparent ; and it would seem that the grave had originally been joying the public bounty. made about five feet deep, but too short, so that the head was pressed

forward on the breast. The body had not been stripped, and though the street, was brought up at Bow-street, for assaulting-a young lady in Hyde

remains were greatly decomposea, the waistcoat, trowsers, and quarter- Park. A young gentleman named Collier, was walking

boots were identified, and left no doubt that the corpse was that of the the park at ten o'clock on the evening of Tuesday week, when this Bailey unfortunate Harrison.—Times, Monday. made his appearance, and accused the parties of improper conduct to- The hay-harvest in this neighbourhood is fast proceeding to a close ; gether : he succeeded in extorting the lady's name; afterwards wrote

. letters to her, and insisted on an appointment; this appointment the lady and better and more abundant crops were never known to have been ob

tamed —Leicester Chronicle. granted, for the purpose of having him apprehended. It turned out that ,'For a number of miles around Edinburgh, the hay crop is now nearly the man Bailey superintends a house of ill.fame. He was committed in

all safely in the rick, and beyond the ordinary contingencies of the

weather. A larger crop, and a more flattering appearance of an abundant At the route given by the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House on Mon- after-math, have not been seen in the remembrance of the oldest farmers day night, a serious riot took place among that formidable body, the impudent and well-fed footmen of the nobility. The officers attempted in this vicinity. Only one large purchase is yet mentioned in this city. An extensive coach proprietor, who keeps from a dozen to a score of to keep the entrance of the house clear, -when a quarrel ensued ; and at horses, has bought the produce (if several acres, at 7d. a stone."—Scotamon. one time the officers arc said to have been beset by upwards of four The hay-harvest in this county is fast drawing to a close ; that now hundred able-bodied serving-men. The Duke, with the prescience of a abroad is upon backward and late-fed lands. A greater bulk of hay was prudent general, had directed that every servant should have a shilling scarcely ever before gathered in one year, or in so good a condition. Much, ticket given him on the neighbouring public houses, and that benches however, of the natural grass stood too long, and there will be a good deal of should be marshalled all over the court-yard for the reception of the a coarse quality. The wheats are not spoken of favourably; the ear is defec- gentlemen's gentlemen : in spite, however, of these precautions, and tive in set, compared with some years, is very generally infected with the partly in consequence of them, a riot took place. ' The Spanish Ambassa- maggot, thin upon the ground, and much of it a bad colour. The later- dor's servant was taken to the watchhouse with the ladies' shawls in his sown barley, but more particularly the oats, are at a stand-still for want pockets, (a serious case of a breach of privilege, of which the Ambassador of moisture. The peas and beans, although both of them very promising, in his ignorance of the law, has complained) ; and the Lord Chancel- require rain to expand the pod, to enable the seed to arrive at maturity, Chancel-

ion's servant having in vain endeavoured to subdue Ballard, wiLh that as well as to cleanse them of the vermin which the late mildews have en- potent arm, Lady Lyndhurst's clogs, was himself struck down by a severe gendered. The mangel-wurzel, of which there is a great breadth sown, blow on the eye from the peace-officer's staff. On Thursday he was and in many places we observe plants well, would profit just at this period brought up before the Magistrate at Marlborough Street and fined twenty by a :shower, and enable the hoe to work to greater advantage.—Esser shillings. •

Herald. On Friday, the driver of a Hammersmith stage, named Wm. Kirbyss, was An account from Newfoundland of the loss of his Majesty's ships Acorn, brought before the magistrates at Marlborough-street, charged with a gross Contest, and Sappho, which was posted on the board of the North and outrage on two female passengers, Mrs. Albima Richardson of Newington, South American Coffee-house, on Saturday, is incorect ; but it is feared and Mrs. Davies of the Borough. His agent or cad had engaged to take the ladies from Hammersmith and set them down at St. Paul's ; the name will prove true with regard to the two former vessels, as they have been long missing. The Acorn sailed from Bermuda on the 10th of April, for of which-place was inscribed on his coach. When, however, he arrived Halifax, and the Contest from Halifax, on the 13th of April, for Bermuda, at Coventry-street, Piccadilly, he refused to go further; the ladies insisted and neither has since been heard of. A violent gale was experienced be- upon being carried to their journey's end : the fellow would not proceed, tween Halifax and Bermuda on the 16th of April. The Sappho, by the became abusive, and at length laid violent hands on Mrs. Richardson, last advices, was at Halifax, out of commission. tore her clothes to ribbons, and committed her to the watch-house. A BONE MaNuaa.—The use of ground bones as manure, particularly for shopkeeper, living hard by, interfered, and procured her liberation, and turnips, is now becoming general in the counties of Angus and Perth in the ladies took measures for the driver's apprehension. Making but a r farm, near Cupar Angus, says—" The very indifferent defence, such as that he had a right to his fare, and that Scotland. Mr. Watson, o°f Kielle bone manure has been a great blessing to the breeders and feeders of he was not bound by the promise of his agent, &c., he was find 4/., and cattle in this district, and in some instances saved the industrioui tenant in default of payment, committed to the tread-mill in the House of Cor- from ruin. The severe drought even of 1825 did not prevent a ctop of rection for two months.

turnips with bones, while all other manures failed ; and it was thus the An unfortunate man,. charged before the magistrates at Bow-street, means of bringing through that disastrous winter herds of cattle which with an indecent assault on three boys, committed suicide in the watch-

must have otherwise perished for want of fodder." house. The magistrates, though persuaded that the accusation was un- CONSTANCY.—A common soldier's widow, now living in Westminster, founded, could not elicit the truth from the boys. The eldest lad, Craw. keeps the ashes of her husband under her bed, from afection to his me- ley, a son of the pugilist, a well known thief and reprobate, was ordered mory. He died abroad, and was burned, and she being present gathered gible rogue and vagabond. up his ashes, and carried them home with her.