The Ring and his suite visited Windsor Castle on Wednesdav.

Mr. Dawc, the portrait painter, attended by command of his Majesty with full-length portraits of the present and late Emperor and Empress of Russia. the Empress Mother, and the several members of the Imperial family, together with those of the fate Duke of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, and various distinguished personages painted during Mr. Dawe's absence on the Continent. ills Majesty remained about an hour inspecting the pictures. A shrewd Brightonian, writing in the Globe on the slender chance that the King's rumoured visit to Brighton will be realized, consoles himself with the reflection, that although his Majesty's visit would confer an honour on the town, it is doubtful whether it would confer "any substantial benefit." The ,litten says that the Duke of Clarence is not to do business at the Admiralty beyond this week. The Duke of Wellington arrived at his residence in Downing-street at a late hour on Sunday night, from Cheltenham. He left London on Monday for Windsor-park, where the Duke had an audience of the King, and afterwards proceeded to his seat at Strathfieldsay.

Sir William Knighton arrived from Ostend on Wednesday. A Treasury order was sent to the Custom-house for the immediate delivery of Sir William's carriage ; and it was very rationally inferred, that business of much importance required this despatch. Mr. Phillips, the Under Secretary for the Home Department, also arrived from a Continental tour.

The Honourable James Barbour, the new American Plenipotentiary to the Court of Great Britain, arrived in London on Wednesday. Mr. Barbour formerly filled the offices of Secretary of War and Governor of Virginia, United States. He is accompanied by his lady and family.

The Duke of Sussex is on a visit to Einmel Park, Denbighshire, the residence of Colonel Hughes.

Prince Lieven. the Russian Ambassador, is gone to Pensanger, the seat of Earl Cowper, where he is to spend a few days. The Duke of Cumberland, and his son Prince Geosge, arrived, in good health, at the Duke's palace, Schonhausen, near Berlin, on the 20th August. The Duke of Gloucester has been sworn in a bur,gess of Southampton ; and the Earl of Guildford has been made a freeman of Dover.

The Master of the Mint is at present on a tour in Scotland with his It is now affirmed that an arrangement has been at length effected between Count Ofalia and Lord Aberdeen for the settlement of British claims on Spain ; and that the Spanish Government. under this arrangement, is to pay the sum of 900,000/. as a composition or acquittance for the whole of the claims. The money is all to be paid within six or seven months.

The Archbishop of Canterbury was enthroned on Wednesday week, in the Cathedral of Canterbury, by proxy. The imposing ceremony occupied two hours.

The late Archbishop of Canterbury's will has been proved in Doctors' Commons by his son, the Speaker of the House of Commons, who is the executor. The personal property is taken at 180,0001. His wife and seven unmarried daughters are amply provided for ; and his sons-in-law, the Bishop of Carlisle and the Archdeacon of Canterbury, are to have legacies of 30001. each. The will is all in the prelate's awn handwriting. The Speaker has purchased from Mr. Alderman Thompson his house in Gloucester-place, for the future residence of his mother and unmarried sisters.

The Chancellor of the diocese of Winchester died suddenly on Friday night, at his brother's house, Blackheath, at the moment he was sitting down to dinner with a fashionable party. He was previously, to all appearance, in excellent health and spirits.

The Dean of Westminster has concurred with the Dean of St. Paul's, in refusing permission to the admirers of Lord Byron to erect a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. The Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, on Thursday, voted ait address to their late Diocesan on his elevation to the See of Canterbury.

From the accession of George III. to the present time, a period of sixtyeight years, there have been eighty-one Bishops appointed in the established church of England and Wales.

The parishioners of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, have served notices upon time Lord Mayor and the Aldermen for the Wald of Farringdon, of action for trying whether they have not the exclusive right of svatching and warding them selves, at their own expense, uncontrolled by civic authority. This right is founded on one of the acts of James I., which the parishionerscontend still stands unrepealed.

A general order, issued front the Horse Guards, on Tuesday, announces the appointment of Sir Herbert Taylor to be Adjutant-Generalpf the Forces. The appointment is said to have given much satisfaction to the army.

We learn that an order will shortly be issued, allowing the captains of 1809 and 1810 the option of retiring on the old rate of half-pay, with a step of rank superior to that they at present hold in their regiments. Those availing themselves of this boon, who may be at the top of the list, will be restored to full pay in their own corps, in the event of a vacancy occurring within a given period. We believe two years is the time fixed upon. The like indulgence, under the same restrictions, is to be extended to the lieutenants of 1812 and 1813.—Morning Chronicle.

It is stated that Colonel Lumley, acting as Lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone, in consequence of the death of Colonel Denham, will be appointed Governor.

Major-General Sir John Colborne has sailed from England, to assume his appointment of Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.

The old colours of the Royal Marines have been suspended from the dome of the Painted Hall in Greenwich Hospital. Several of them were in tatters, having been used at the memorable battle of Bunker's Hill, in the Year 1773. Time committee for the relief of the Spanish and Italian Refugees have made another appeal to the beneficence of the English people, in behalf of these unfortunate men. There are yet about three hundred of them dependent upon the committee for support.

The Commissioners of Customs have appropriated a suite of rooms at the Custom-house for the reception of passengers and luggage arriving, front abroad. Separate apartments and accommodation are provided for I.:dies, and a distinction is made between the cabin and steerage passengers. Means are also proposed to render the embarkation on board the steatieboats less hazardous than at present.

The Brighton papers are discussing the merits of a proposed change in the route of the French mail from Dover and Calais to Brighton and Dieppe. It would produce a considerable saving of time in summer.

The Common Council of Liverpool have voted 5004 to the King's College, London.

The dairymen and cowkeepers of London have appointed a Committee to confer with time brewers, for the purpose of fixing the price of grains at 2s. per quarter, for the ensuing year, with a view to keep milk at its present price and quality. This is the highest price, they think, which can be reasonably demanded. The brewers already rule the price of beer ; and if they are allowed to combine to raise the price of grains—the principal food of cows in the neighbourhood of London—they will also virtually control the price of milk in the metropolis.

The parish-officers of the metropolis and its vicinity had a maim* last week, at Alderman bury, to devise means to employ the paupers in a.se'ricatural pursuits, as the practice of employing them in manufactures bad been productive of mischief. The price of the goods, the produce of pauper labour, was much below what the regular manufacturer could bring them to time maiket at. Picking oakum and breaking, stones debased thew mink. At Camberwell the paupers set fire to the house in which they were employed ; and at Islington they threw the stones into the Canal. It was mentioned that madder and liquorice might be culcivated with advantage by pauper labour. A resolution was agreed to, recommending the cultivation of the soil.

A body of persons composing a Society called "time Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty," held a meeting on Monday evening, in the Theatre of the Mechanics' Institution. The object of the meeting did not appear to be, very clearly known ; and it is of the less consequence, since it was only a scene of riot. Mr. French the barrister was in the chair. In his opening speech he took Mr. O'Connell to task for having abandoned the use of the expression 0 Radical Reform" for the less significant one of " Constitutional Reform." Mr. O'Connell found a defender in the person of Mr. Spooner; who, after uttering somethingin the shape of a definition of the words " Radical" and Constitutional," proposed a resolution to the effect that every man ought to serve his Maker, according to the dictates of his conscience, without being subjected to restrictive laws and penal enactments. A person named Murphy next availed himself of his faculty of speech ; and a long altercation was kept up betwixt him and the chairman, intermixed occasionally with a few interjectional words from others, and all manner of din from the body of the assembly. The chairman at length discovered the propriety of abdicating the post of honour; and the confusion of tongues ceased.

A worthy person, who subscribes himself " Peter Layng," and professes to be an ardent supporter of the House of Brunswick, has thrice essayed to get up a public meeting at the Crown and Anchor, to address the King against the removal of the Duke of Clarence from the office of Lord Iliim Admiral. The first two attempts proved utter failures ; but, nothing daunted, Mr. Peter Layng made a third attempt on Tuesday last. At the hour appointed, Mr. Layng and a friend entered the room ; an hour and a half elapsed, and the meeting consisted of seven individuals exclusive of reporters. The efforts of the patriotic Mr. Peter Layng to gain eclat for his address have thus been frustrated—whether from the apathy of the public, or from the tax of a shilling which he desired should be levied upon all who came, remains unresolved. A correspondent in the New Times, complains of a great want of courtesy at the bureau of the French Ambassador in Portland-place. He called once for a passport, but was told to call the next day between one and three. The writer called at one o'clock, and was desired to sit down in a small room six feet by four. Time passed on, till at length twenty-seven individuals, among whom were several ladies, had been crammed into this narrow space, all waiting for passports. They waited till past three o'clock, and then they were told by a person " that the gentleman whose duty it was to till and issue the passports was ill, and could not attend—lie hoped, however, that he would be able to come to-morrow !" He thinks that either the French or English authorities should interfere to get these matters better ordered.

Three of the Cheltenham magistrates issued circulars for a meeting to consider of an address to the Duke of Wellington on the honour of his visit. The'matter came to the ears of the Duke ; who deeming it a work of supererogation, discountenanced the meeting and address, as he had come to Cheltenham only as a " private individual." The projectors are said to have been sadly disappointed. While the Duke of Wellington was at Cheltenham, an impudent fellow claimed acquaintance with his Grace, on the score of having given him a glass of water during the battle of Waterloo. "Be off, you scoundrel !" said the Duke : " I never took a glass of water during an engagement in my life."

The venerable Judge Sir William Draper Best is at Cheltenham; but so lame (of gout, we believe) that be is drawn to Sherbourne Spa in a chaise.

Dr. Spurzheim is lecturing on phrenology—where, does the simple reader suppose ?—in all places of the world, at Gneltenham, to the waterdrinkers!

The French Theatre in Tottenham-street was opened on Thursday evening. The house was tolerably well filled; and the pieces—the melodrame of Tecate Ans,ou In Vie d'un Joueur, and the vaudeville of the Valet—were respectably executed, but the company boasts of few first-rates. While Lord Foley was proceeding to Stourbridge race-course the other day, his horse fell with him, and his Lordship's arm was fractured a little below the shoulder.

At the grand archery fete lately given by the Earl and Countess of Bradford, at Castle Broinich Hall, the Countess and the Hon. Mr. Finch carried off the two grand prizes.

The manly pastime of archery was also enjoyed at Richmond, on the 20th —the prizes, a silver arrow, a silver cup, and other rewards. The silver arrow and captaincy of the target were won by Mr. William Kirkby ; the lieutenancy of the target by Dr.Sewster Homer; • the cup was awarded to Dr. F. Homer; and Mr. Christ. Croft was declared captain of numbers.

The Brompton Archers had a grand field-day on Tuesday week. The gold medal was won by Mr. R. Cruikshank ; the silver one by Mr. Griffiths; and the gilded arrows by Mr. G. Mitchell. A grand cricket-match between the married and single of Windsor and Eton came off on Wednesday week, at Eton Common. The match was decidedly in favour of the married : they had 103 innings, and the single only 36.

A match of cricket, which from all the circumstances attending it, excited a vast degree of interest in the neighbourhood of Stamnore, Edgeware, and the adjacent country, for a considerable distance round, was played a few days ago at Bendy Priory, the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn. The Marquiss formed a match to play himself, his brother Lord Claude Hamilton, Viscount Grimstone, the eldest son of the Earl of Verulam, the Honourable Mr. Bathurst, a son of Earl Bathurst, who were all there on a visit with the young Marquiss, and all about his own age, together with six of his Lord

ship's servants, whom he had selected, making in all ten players, against ten of the best players amongst all the tradespeople of Stanmore and Edgeware. These two ancient villages put forth their best and picked men on the occa sion ; and the ten selected, at the head of whom was an Edgeware butcher, who is esteemed a crack player in those parts, went to meet their aristo cratic opponents. The wickets were set about 12 o'clock at noon, and the game commenced immediately after. The play continued with varied success, till it became too dark to continue it longer; and the contending parties were obliged to make it a drawn game.

On six of the shooting quarters on the extensive estate of the Honourable W..Maule of Panmure, M. P., parties of sportsmen during the first week's shooting, bagged no fewer than 1416 brace of grouse, besides hares, ptarmigan, plover, dotterell, and snipes ; though the weather was not very favourable.

Partridges are tolerably plenty in the game county of Suffolk, notwithstanding the adverse state of the weather at a critical season for the young birds getting forward. On the hills around Cheltenham game is unusually. plenty, particularly hares and partridges; but both birds and hares are very The harvest is rapidly drawing to a conclusion. In most districts, the damage done by the rains is by no means so serious as was apprehended. On Tuesday evening, Mr. C. Green made his 102d ascent, from the city of Canterbury, and very narrowly escaped a descent in the ocean.

Madame Catalani has arrived in London. She makes her first appearance at the Derby Musical Festival, which takes place next week. This distinguished singer is also engaged for the York and Manchester festivals.

Madlle. Sontag has refused an engagement offered her from the Konigstadt Theatre, at Berlin, at a salary of 11,000 crowns. And why ?—because she knows that greater noodles are to be found in London.—Harnionicon.

The Hereford musical festival commenced on Tuesday. The city is crammed with company.

The Earl of Radnor is said to have discharged every one of his gamekeepers, and given his tenants liberty to sport over his lands.

There are no fewer than five candidates for the vacant office of Governor of White Cross-street Prison. It is worth a thousand pounds per annum.

The fishermen in Queenborough were last winter reduced to a state of great misery by the Corporation excluding them from the right of fishing, upon which the people depended for subsistence, and which belonged in common to the burgesses. The question of right was sent to a jury, who decided in favour of the fishermen ; but some ulterior proceedings have interposed to prevent them from exercising their right. The sufferings of the poor men and their families are therefore still great, and are likely to be increased on the approach of winter. Mr. Capel, one of the representatives of Queenborough, accompanied by some friends, visited the borough on Saturday, for the purpose of investigating its present condition ; and they found nothing but scanty and wretched fare in the houses. and the wan

faces of the women and children bespoke extreme want. At a meeting of the inhabitants, the majority of whom were fishers, Mr. Capel stated, that neither he nor his friends would relax in their efforts to mitigate their sufferings ; and he assured them, that though redress had been exceedingly slow, it could not fail to be ultimately conceded to them ; and that his Majesty's Government could never sanction such an act of spoliation as had been committed on their property and right to labour—a right as clearly expressed and as well founded as that. possessed by any individual to any estate in the kingdom. It appears that some of the fishermen procure a pittance by diving for stones to make Roman cement, Two men seldom succeed in raising more than a quarter of a ton per day ; and for pricking and driving, and lifting weights a whole day, each is rewarded with the sum of Is. 3d.

On the 8th of October, 1,000,0001bs. of tea will be sold at Rotterdam. An application has been made to the Treasury for a license to import purchases of such tea into Great Britain and Ireland, agreeably to Acts 18 and 24 of Geo. II., on payment of an equalized duty, correspondent with the present duty payable by the East India Company.

The weavers in Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Halifax, and other manufacturing towns, are represented to be in full employment, and in some instances an advance of wages has taken place. In Forfarshire, some of the manufacturers could employ double the number of weavers, but they cannot obtain them.

The pilchard fishery has been more successful this season than for many bygone years. Two barges laden with part of fine orange-trees, presented by the King of France to his Majesty, passed up the Thanies this forenoon on their way to Windsor.

Dr. Wallack, late superintendent of the East India Company's garden at Calcutta, has just brought to England one of the most extensive collections perhaps ever formed by a single individual. It consists of twenty tons of dried, and twenty-three toils of living specimens of the rarest plants peculiar to the North of India. Dr. Horsfield is at present culling the duplicates from the extensive herbarium of the East India Company, for the purpose of their being presented to the Medico Botanical Society of London. The duplicates will embrace many thousands of plants indigenous to India, all in the most perfect preservation.

John Bull remarks, that any misrepresentation in The Times, at this period, must either arise from ignorance or a desire wilfully to mislead." At what period was it otherwise ?

In 1823, the number of Lancasterian Schools in Denmark was 244; and such has been their rapid increase, that there are at present 2377.

A sagacious magistrate has observed, that among the persons that are brought before him, a great number can read, and many can. write. A still greater number of them, we have no doubt, walk on their feet, and eat bread made of corn.— Globe.

Dr. Gall, the phrenologist, has directed by his will that his head should he taken off and dissected for the use of his system, and to be added to his collection ; and that his body should be buried at Pere la Chaise, but that no priest be admitted at the ceremony.

Dr. Gall is likely to create a warmer interest among the good people of Paris after his death, than during his life. He has not only been honoured with a splendid funeral, but a proposition is made to erect, by public subscription, a monument to his memory. On this, the ultra papers denounce him as an Atheist, and more than insinuate that his partisans can have no religion. On the other hand, those who scoffed at his craniological system, now find out that he was a great philosopher, and denounce his opponents as bigots or Jesuits.— Times.

It appears that attempts have been made by some French Jesuits, to found colleges for education in the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey ; but both the civil and military authorities opposed themselves to the project, and it is dropped for a time. Mr. Butler, druggist, in Lieeester, was on Sunday publicly baptized by immersion, in St. Martin's church. In order to satisfy some scruples of conscience, he had recourse to all the controversial writers on baptism ; and his conclusion was that immersion was the only scriptural mode. The singularity of the scene attracted a great crowd. The clergyman having read the appropriate service, the individual got into a large tub provided for the occasion, and the minister, having previously obtained the consent of the Bishop, immersed Mr. Butler, who thus "renounced the Devil and all his works." A similar ceremony had not taken place in that church for two hundred years before. Among the Portuguese Refugees arrived in the outports, are one hundred and forty Coimbra students and eleven friars. A great number of the Portuguese nobility have arrived at Paris.

The small elephant from Exeter 'Change made his first appearance at Astley's on Monday last, in the melo-drama of Blue Beard. It was announced in the bills, that after the performance the elephant would go through a variety of tricks in the circle ; but, according to some of the papers of next morning, "he had no sooner entered, than he became quite unmanageable, and appeared terrified from the number of persons around him, and the keep ers who attended lost all control over him. The affrighted animal made a plunge towards the back part of the pit, and got his fore legs and trunk over the panels which surround the circle. The screams of the females were terrific, and a general rush took place towards the doors, and the confusion that followed it is almost impossible to describe. Several ladies were slightly injured by the elephant's trunk, and one lady was so much hurt that she was taken to a surgeon's and bled immediately. With some difficulty the elephant was secured and taken out of the circle, when it was announced that he would again be brought in to proceed with his performance ; upon which a general cry of "No, no," resounded through the house. He was however brought out on the stage, where he went through his tricks with the greatest docility imaginable." The Globe treats this edition of the story scornfully, but admits that the elephant had been tippling—small beer. Some of the inhabitants of Polstead have had the!folly to contemplate the erection of a monument "to the memory of Maria Marten!" The Rector, however, peremptorily refused to allow it a place in the churchyard. Others, with equal folly, have suggested a public subscription to remunerate the murderer's wife for the money she spent in his defence, and in arraying herself in the most expensive mourning.