THE QUEEN'S RELATIONS.—His Majesty's steam-vessel Meteor arrived on Sunday afternoon
at 'Woolwich, from Rotterdam, with her Serene Highness the Duchess and the Princes Edward and Frederick of Saxe Weimar. They immediately proceeded to Windsor. GOODWOOD RAcEs.--These races will be unusually splendid and at- tractive this year. We understand the King goes to Goodwood on Mon- day, by the Petworth road, and returns to London on Saturday, by the Midhurst road. His Majesty will be at the races every day; and will take in his carriage the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and Lord Jersey. Two other carriages will be in attendance with the r.,yal suite; and the road by which his Majesty goes to the course affords'every one on the ground an opportunity of seeing him. There will be fifty visitors t. Goodwood House, where the royal standard will be hoisted.—Morning rose.
Sntct Lsorow.—Whe Right Honourable Robert Adair, who has been appointed Minister to King Leopold, accompanied by tke Honourable Henry Fox, left town for Brussels on Saturday night; to enter on the duties of his MiSSi011.
AD3I/RAL CODRINOTON.—The fleet commanded by this gallant sailor arrived in the Downs on Tuesday afternoon. A gun brig arrived off
Dover in the morning of Tuesday, and sent on shore for a pilot ac- quainted with the Dutch coast, who went off, and the vessel proceeded to join the fleet.
COURT-MARTIAL.—By order of the Lords of the Admiralty, a Court- martial was held at Woolwiclt, on board the Royal yacht William and Mary, for the trial of Lieutenant Symonds, commander of his Majesty's
steam-vessel Meteor, Mr. J. A. second master, and Mr. Becket, pilot, for running the Harlequin Margate steam-packet on shore, thereby endaagering the lives of the numerous passengers on board. The evidence clearly established that all the blame rested with the Harle- quin, which went close in-shore, though going with the tide; and the
parties were honourably acquitted. Sir J. Beresford, the President, in returning his sword to Lieutenant Symonds, said he had come out of the inquiry without a blemish or a stain. SIR FIERILY BUNBURY.—This gentleman has been obliged to abandon his Parliamentary duties, and is now in a very poor state of health at Barton.—Suffolk Herald. FRAUDULENT BaNicaurrcy.—The Lord Chancellorhas made an order, " that the Commissioners of Bankrupts do, where a person becomes a bankrupt twice, inquire very particularly into the cause of such failure, and the time since he was a bankrupt before, and certify the same to him ; his Lordship being determined, where there shall appear the least fraud, not to grant a certificate." CITY FINEILY.—Upwards of 1000/. was expended in gilding and refit- ting one of the City barges, before it was deemed fit to take its station in the grand aquatic display at the opening of London Bridge. A MORNING CAI.L AT TILE PREIIIER'S.—One of our city functionaries, who has, with credit to himself, filled a prominent situation for many years, and is as well known as Show Jamie, applied to our good-natured Provost for a passport, saying he was going to travel. To please the old man it was at once given. To his Lordship's surprise, in a few days after he received a letter, franked by the Premier of Great Britain, from the individual, detailing his adventures in the great city. The following extract is not the most singular part of this singular letter : not having seen the original, it is given from memory As I was dandering through the streets, I seed a grand carriage. I speered wha it belanged to. They told me it was Lord Grey's. I followed till it stopp'd at a brew house, and was told it belonged to Lord Gray. Next forenoon I called, and said I wanted to see Lord Gray, and geed in my name. I was then shown into a grand room, when wha should I see there but Lord D—n and Lord B—h—m ? They were pleased to see me, for I had seen them before ; but I could not see Lord Gray. Anither gentle- man speered what I wished with him ? I said I wished to see Lord Gray. He bowed, and said, L I am Lord Grey.; You are no the Lord Gray I mean ; it is Kinfauns I want to see.' The ither Lords laughed at me, and speered how I was, and how a' the folk in Edinburgh were. I thanked them baith, and asked for a frank, as I was going to write down. Lord Grey said at once he would gi'e me ane. Sae I called this morning, and was as kindly received as at first."—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.
TOILS OF THE GREAT. THE JOCKEY CLUB.—On the 7th September last, the Guy Stakes were run for at Warwick, by Mr. Beardsworth's Birmingham and Sir Mark Wood's Cetus. Birmingham was the fore-. most horse; but it happened that Birmingham had been nominated by Mytton, and that Mr. Mytton had not paid up his stakes and for- feits at Warwick and Winchester ; and the Newmarket Jockey Club, to whom the affair was ultimately referred, decided, in terms of their own rules (neither Mr. Mytton nor Mr. Beardsworth were members), that Sir Mark Wood was entitled to the stakes. The stakeholder, how- ever, refused to give them up ; and Sir Mark brought an action against him, which was tried at Warwick on Monday. The Duke of Rich- mond, who had in October last acted as one of the judges in this mo- mentous case, was subpoenaed as a witness. Mr. Beardsworth, the real defendant, endeavoured to show that he had not consented to the re- ference to the Jockey Club ; but the letter produced in evidence of this merely went to prove that he was disinclined to the reference, not that he positively objected to it. On this point, the decision of the Jury turned ; and the Jockey Club rule being proved, they gave the stakes (COOL) to Sir Mark. Considerable mirth was excited in the court in consequence of Sergeant Ludlow's referring to the Racing Calendar as a legal authority. Dorsto Busixxss.—A young gentleman, of Brunswick Square, lost, on Friday night last week, the whole of his fortune, upwards of 22,000/., at play !—Globe. FA3IILY QUARRELS.—The lady of a wealthy commoner, who was recently restored to conjugal rights, has again, we understand, left home. —Morning Herald. A Sisuu.x MARRIAGE..---OH Sunday last, after divine service n the Church of Grantown, a young man and woman stood up, and declared before the congregation that they were married man and wife. Such a public recognition, by the law of Scotland, constitutes a valid marriage. .—Inverness Courier.
THE SUBLIME IN STATUARY.—Mr.Flaxman, the sculptor,has addressed a letter to the Committee for raising a Naval Monument to commemo- rate the triumphs of that important portion of the public service during the wars of the Revolution. He declares himself in favour of the colossal statue. A statue, he says, might be raised, like the Minerva in the Athenian citadel, whose aspect and size should represent the Genius of the Empire ; its magnitude should equal the Colossus of Rhodes ; its character, Britannia triumphant, mounted on a suitable pedestal and basement ; the pedestal might be decorated with the heroes and tro- phies of the country, and the history of its powers inscribed upon the basement ; the whole work raised to the height required, two hundred and fifty feet, and present the noblest monument of national glory in the world—a colossal statue built by the same kind of labour and with the same durability as a column, with its proper accompaniments and decorations, and perhaps in the end not more expensive. We have often heard of the Genius of the Empire, but never knew her preciwdi. =tensions before. But why marble, Mr. Rosman ? Why not -granite,. in which case this glory of the world may be English-born, as well as conceived in England ? Besides, for a dame like this, endowed as she must be with a nose like the tower of Lebanon and eyes like the fish. pools in Heshbon, the more durable the materials the better. Mr. Flax. man estimates the cost of this colossal lady at 50,000/. ; and he would place it on Greenwich Hill, because it is near the Kent road, the grand ingress to London from Europe, Africa, and Asia I We would prefer Kennington Common, the grand ingress from Balaam Hill.] THE ADELPIII ELEPIL1NT.—ThiS docile animal, having terminated her engagement in America, has embarked once more for our hospitable shores ; and is now ploughing her way up Channel. News FOR IRELAND—This will be one of the most productive year.; for potatoes ever remembered ; in anticipation of which, prices are ra- pidly declining.—Globe. THE CnoLena.—Extract of a letter from St. Petersburgh, July 13.- " The cholera is supposed to !lave reached its acme. There have been 500 cases a day. The total numbers since the beginning of the disease were, as nearly as could be made out—cases, 4,146; deaths, 1,888; sick, 2,258, upon a population of 400,000. The people are, at length, beginning to believe that the cholera does exist, and are, in consequence, setting off in thousands for the interior. The riots are now quite over, but some curious facts have come out concerning them. It appears that those who spread the report of the poisoning in the hospitals &c., were determined to give it a certain plausibility, for several individuals have been taken in the act of putting poison into the water-carts. Dr. Russell analysed some water into which a man had been seen to throw some• thing, and found it to contain a quantity of corrosive sublimate ; the man was respectably dressed. Sums of money were found on many per• sons who could not possibly have come fairly by it, and parcels of cor- rosive sublimate. It is evident from this, that there is some conspiracy, which leaves nothing undone to get up a row." CONTAGION OR NON-CONTAGION.—The Windsor Castle, from Riga, now delivering her cargo of grain at Grangemouth, having been relieved from quarantine, has communicated some curious particulars relative to the cholera morbus, which tend indisputably to establish the fact that it is by the medium of the atmosphere alone the disease is coinmuni- cated. A vessel approaching the town was attacked at the distance of fifteen miles, and four of the crew fell victims.—Scotsman.
FRENCH ORDERS.—Some doubts were entertained in regard to the suppression of the French orders created during the Restoration ; the appearance of the new Almanac/I National has dispelled them. The or.. ders of St. Louis, St. Michael, St. Esprit, in Short, of all the saints, are tacitly abolished ; the almanac recognizes no royal decoration but that of the Legion of Honour.
A NEW ISLAND IN THE MEDITERR UNEAN.—A Captain Corrao, coma mending the Sheresine brig, being on his voyage from Trafani to Ger.. genti, saw on the 10th July, twenty miles from Cape St. Mark, amass of water rising to the height of sixty feet, in a circumference of about four hundred fathoms. A sulphureous smoke arose from it. The day before, he had seen a great quantity of dead fish, and a great quantity of black pumice-stones floating on the surface of the sea ; he heard also a noise as of a volcanic eruption. He saw the smoke during the rest of his voyage, and all the time he was at Gergenti; and on the 16th, passing the same spot, he perceived an island about twelve feet above the stir. face. The middle is a kind of plain, with the crater of a volcano, whence burning lava is seen to issue during the night, and the island is sur- rounded by a girdle of smoke. It is in 37. 6. N. latitude, and 10. 26. E. longitude, from the meridian of Paris. The depth of the sea all around the island is one hundred fathoms.—Semaphore de Marseilles.
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