POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.
Lisbon Gazettes to the 26th ult, arrived this morning. They are chiefly filled with accounts of religious ceremonies and processions, in which Don MIGUEL and his sisters joined without any suite,—giving, says the Gazette, "the finest example of Christian piety. MIGUEL subsequently presided at the opening of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon; an institution which we thought extinct. The private letters by this arrival possess no interest. We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday morning, but they are barren of intelligence. Private accounts from Paris state, that the King had within the last ten days added materially to his Deputy Pension List : not fewer than twelve Deputies of the Liberal side had, it is said, been thus secured.
It is quite true, we believe, that all the preliminaries for raising the Prince of Saxe Cobourg to the Throne of Greece have been agreed upon, but we are informed through an official channel that the affair is not yet settled—where the obstacle is, we do not profess to know. There is not, of course, the slightest truth in the statement of the German Papers, that the Emperor of Russia has stipulated for Capo d'IsrmAs being perpetual Prime Minister in Greece. Considerable sensation has been caused in the City by an announcement at the Customhouse that all exciseable articles on board outward-bound vessels are to pay duty. Hitherto they have been exempt from duty for the use of the ships crews. The ship owners intend to memorialize the Treasury on the subject. A coroner's inquest is sitting at the Red House, Battersea, on the body of Mr. Clayton, who it is said, was shot yesterday in a duel with a gentleman of the Island of Ceylon.
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