faistellantous.

The Gazette des Beaux Arts describes an album which King Louis Philippe has brought over as a present for Queen Victoria- " It would have been difficult to execute with more magnificence, perfecs tion, and exquisite taste, a work of which the idea is the perfection of deli- cacy, and which will contribute to place the works of our contemporaneous. artists among the wonders of Windsor. The album is of uncommon dimen- sions-18 inches by 28, and 4 inches thick. The water-colour drawings, of which there are thirty-two, are encased iu Bristol boards, to prevent them from being rubbed. [ Several incidents of the arrival at Trdport, at Eu, the parties in the Chateau and forest, and the departure, are then enumerated.] The binding of this precious album is remarkable for its exquisite taste. The ground is of fine morocco leather of a crimson colour, ornamented with gold filagree work, re- presenting the arms of England. The album is enclosed in a rich case covered with violet-coloured morocco, and embroidered with the arms of England."

Sir Henry Pottinger arrived in London on Tuesday, in excellent health.

Tuesday's Gazette contained the expected announcement of Lord Stanley's elevation to the Peerage-

" The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning the Right Honourable Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley (commonly called Lord Stanley) to the House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster."

The Queen has conferred upon the Reverend Dr. Wordsworth, Head Master of Harrow School, a Prebendal stall in Westminster Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Venerable Archdeacon Bayley. An annual residence of three months being requisite, Dr. Wordsworth will resign his present post.

The Morning Post mentions a rumour that Earl Delawarr is to be raised to the first rank of the Peerage, as Duke of Dorset ; " the Coun- tess being, with the exception of the Countess Amherst, the only sur- viving representative of John Frederick third Duke, as sister of George fourth Duke, whose melancholy death, by a fall from his horse, occurred on the 14th February 1815." Another death has occurred in the Peerage. The Marquis of Donegal died on Saturday, at Ormeau, in Ireland. George Augustus Chichester was born in August 1769; and succeeded, in 1799, to the titles of Marquis of Donegal, Earl of Donegal and of Belfast, Vis- count Chichester, Baron Belfast, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Fisherwick in the Peerage of England. In 1795, he married Anna, daughter of S:r Edward May ; by whom he had issue seven sons. The late Marquis was a Conservative in politics, and was esteemed as a re- sident landlord and a kindhearted man. The titles descend to his- eldest son, George Hamilton Chichester, Earl of Belfast, a Whig; who- married, in December 1822, Lady Harriet Anne Butler, eldest daughter of the Earl of Glengall ; by whom he has issue.

The will of the late Mr. Beckford proves that

" Vathek, England's wealthiest son," did not die so very rich, though possessed of an enormous income at one period of his life : his property, which when he inherited it at ten. years old was 100,0001. a year, had dwindled down to the sum of

80,0001. His daughter, the Datchess of Hamilton, succeeds to the bulk of it Robert Taylor, the Infidel preacher, died last month in France, at ' Tours whither he fled to escape being seized for the damages for a breach of promise of marriage to Miss Richards, who afterwards be- came Mrs. Dorey. Taylor was at one time a clergyman, but was de- prived of his gown for preaching Deistical doctrines.

Mr. J. 0. Hanson junior sends to the Standard this extract of a letter to himself, from Constantinople, dated on the 19th September- " I have this instant received a letter from Persia, saying, Wolff writes from Bokhara, dated July 25th—' The Ameer has returned from Kohhan and pre- sented me with a dress of honour, a horse, and 100 tomauns; and I hope to set out in a few days for Persia.' "

Under the date of Leipsic, 29th September, a Dutch paper says- " The King of Saxony, before his journey to England, made purchases of a Jewish jeweller to the amount of 30,000 dollars, for presents. On distributing them, it appeared that most of the stones were false ; for which reason the return of all the presents is requested."

An "awkward affair" has occurred at Mayence. The young Prince of Leiningen crossed the Rhine in a boat, the drawbridge being raised to allow some ships to pass : the wife of the bridge-keeper demanded toll of the Prince ; who refused to pay, as he had not used the bridge : an altercation arose ; the Prince raised his walking-stick, and struck the woman : the blow fell on her breast, and she fainted. She has prosecuted the Prince. His relatives have offered her large sums of money to forego the prosecution ; but she persists in taking the law of her assailant.

Mr. Thorne, an Englishman who practised as a surgeon at Calais, has been murdered by M. Salior, the Commissary of Police for passports. Salior is given to drink, and was intoxicated at the time. The two had a dispute, probably about cards ; and Sailor stabbed the other to the heart with a poniard which he had once taken from a mad Spanish lady.

It was stated last week, that the young lady who married Mr. Ca- dotte, the interpreter of the Ojibbeway Indians, had returned to the paternal roof, the couple not being able to live happily together. This is denied by the London papers on the authority of the bride's father, and by the Liverpool Albion on the authority of a letter from New York : the gentleman and lady had landed at that city on their way to Upper Canada, and were living on the most affectionate terms.

Joc-o-sot, a Sauk chief who was recently in this country, died of con- sumption, at Cleveland in Ohio, on the 3d of last month ; a victim to dissipation.

Both Houses of Parliament, in their skeleton state, met on Thursday, to be further prorogued, according to the arrangement at a Privy Council held in Windsor Castle on Monday. The Peers were repre- sented by the Lords Commissioners—the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Earl of Dalhousie; the Commons, by a few officers of their House. Parliament was further prorogued to Thursday the 12th December.

A copy of the intended new Brazilian Tariff appears to be actually in the possession of certain parties at Manchester ; and, we are glad to learn, is in reality rather favourable to us, considering that we have made no very warm overtures to the Government at Rio to induce it to act more liberally. There must, however, have been some concession, we presume, on the part of our Ministers ; and this is a point which we may hope to see cleared up by the next arrival.—City Correspondence of the Globe.

Espartero has issued an address to his countrymen, dated in London on the 10th instant. He reminds them, that on that day Queen Isa- bella the Second was to have been called upon, in conformity with the fundamental law of the monarchy, to begin to govern the kingdom ; and on that day, resigning the Regency, he was to have descended to the quietude of domestic life. He declares that he never transgressed the laws, that he neglected nothing that tended to the welfare of the country, and that he was moved by nothing but the desire to deliver up to the Queen, on that day, a nation prosperous within and respected abroad ; appealing to history and posterity for his vindication. He protested against the revolution which rose against him, not in the spirit of a war-cry, but because the dignity of the nation and the safety of the crown were invaded: the aim of his protest was, " to avoid the perni- cious precedent of countenancing, in the name-of the Throne, the de- struction of the Throne itself." Though removed from his countrymen, the slightest complaint in the kingdom has found an echo in his breast ; not a single victim has been bereft of his compassion. He concludes with what seems to betray the drift of this ostensibly bootless address- " When circumstances may allow me to return to my beloved country, I, as one issued from the people, shall again dwell among the people ; unmoved either by rancour or recollections, satisfied with the share which has fallen to my lot in securing public freedom, the enjoyment of its advantages will be my only desire in my private station : but if the institutions recovered by the Spa- niards should be endangered, the nation, to whose call I have ever responded, shall find me ready to offer my life in her support. If Providence, however, in its inscrutable decrees, should doom me to die in exile, resigned to my fate, my last and most fervent prayers will be for the independence, the liberty, and the glory of my country."

A railway is proposed from Lisbon to Oporto, through Santarem and Coimbra ; half the necessary capital to be raised in England, and half in Portugal.

One hundred Thames Tunnel shares, on which 5,0001. have been paid, were sold the other day for 301.

The Times describes an extraordinary document which has been sent to the editor—the prospectus of a society " for providing extended permanent employment for the poor, for enhancing the value of the estate of the landowner, for returning an almost incredible profit," &c.-

" We really stagger under the weight of words which they have sent' us in announcement of their magnificent discovery. To • work the gold and silver mines of Peru and Potosi—to ransack the diamond districts of Brazil and Gol- 'conda—would not be half so beneficial to any European nation as the project (now) offered to Britons and Irishmen ! A NEW AGRICULTURAL, MANU- FACTURING, AND ECONOMICAL ERA,' (the capitals are not ours,) is about to commence ! '

• Nova 'sacrum nascitur ordo !' A NEW and boundlessly prolific GRAIN is to be introduced 1'

• Ea nova progenies ccelo demittitur alto I '

We need no longer import the plague-infected RAGS of Smyrna or Constanti- nople, nor resort to Spain, Italy, and the Levant, for oil. As regards WIRT FROM OAS, our coal-fields may become fallow ! our whale-fisheries be super- seded by the cultivation of waste lands at home ' Our readers will wonder how. The great secret is neither more nor leas than a simple SUNFLOWER. • • • Do you want bread ? Cultivate the SUNFLOWER. The farina' of its seeds is equal to the finest flour for making bread, pastry, and biscuits' Do you want money ? Cultivate the Helianthus annuus.' It will give from 201. 6s. &I. to 241. 158. 2d. dear profit per acre ! Do you want ' cheap but rich food for milch-cows and other cattle,'—or potash,—or oil,—or paper,—or soap,— or manure,—again you must cultivate the SUNFLOWER,the sunflower ! the sun- flower !! the sunflower !!! "

The Standard describes how a most beautiful and easily-attained show of evergreens in winter may be had by a very simple plan, which has been found to answer remarkably well on a small scale.

• If geranium branches are taken from healthy and luxuriant trees just be- fore the winter sets in, cut as for slips, and immersed in soap and water, they will, after drooping for a few days, shed their leaves, put forth fresh ones, and continue in the finest vigour all the winter. By placing a number of bottles thus filled in flower-baskets, with moss to conceal the bottles, a show of ever- greens is easily insured for a whole season. They require no fresh water."