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We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has been appointed Grand Ranger of Windsor Park.

Prince Albert has been munificent : he -has given the Nelson Monument Committee a hundred guineas towards the cost of the monument ; and he has presented the commanders of each of the three vessels of the Niger Expedition with a handsome gold pocket chrono- meter, made by the best London makers, and inscribed with the name of the giver and the receiver.

Michael Lyons, the Garryowen weaver, this day completed the model pattern of trousers for Prince Albert. It is a fabric of mixed cotton and worsted, from his own loom, and perfectly finished without either stitch or seam.—Limerick Chronicle, April 3.

An Italian named Marchi, whose business is that of a model to artists, broke a blood-vessel lately, and was desirous of returning to his native country. Prince Albert is among the artists for whom Marchi has stood; and the Queen, hearing of his distress, sent him 15/. towards a subscription which has been made to send him home.

The Ministers are leaving or have left town for the holydays. On Wednesday, Lord Melbourne set out for Brockett Hall, his seat in Hertfordshire ; Lord Normanby departed on the same day for Lord Hard wicke's seat, Wimpole Hall, Cambridge; and on the same day also, Lord John Russell left Wilton Crescent- for Ensleigh Cottage, the Duke of Bedford's property, in Devonshire. Lord Morpeth took his departure for Dublin Castle early in the week.

The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House on Wednesday, for Strath- fieldsaye.

The Duke of Wellington has purchased, it is stated, the painting by Mr. Burnett, of " The Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar," from which the well-known engraving was made.

The Speaker gave his last Parliamentary dinner, at his house in Eaton Square, on Saturday.

The Earl of Limerick is the only one of the original Representative Peers for Ireland now living.

The Tyne Mercury, referring to the claim recently made to the Earldom of Perth by Mr. George Drummond, reminds its readers that Mr. Thomas Drummond, a pitman of Penshaw Colliery, in Durham, has been served heir male of the last Lord Drummond ; only he is too poor to prosecute the claim which he makes as the descendant of an older branch than Mr. George Drummond's line of ancestry.

There is a rumour afloat in private circles to the effect that Sir Ed- ward Blakeney is about to retire from the command of her Majesty's forces in Ireland, and that he is to be succeeded by Lord Keane.— Dublin Monitor, April 3.

Lord Granville, the English Ambassador at Paris, is exceedingly ill, having been attacked by paralysis. On Saturday his condition was alarming; but he is getting better.

The Count de Survilliers (Joseph Bonaparte) has been dangerously 311 at Newnham Paddocks, the seat of the Earl of Denbigh.

Mr. Jonathan Brundrett of the Temple, has made a gift of 2,000/. to be divided between London University College and London HospitaL This is in addition to a donation of 1,000/. which those institutions received from Mr. Brundrett in 1837. He says he gives the money now to save legacy-duty.

It is understood that Colonel Torreus has resigned his seat at the Colonial Land and Emigration Board, under both the general and the South Australian Commissions. In 1835, when the establishment of the South Australian Company was in contemplation, Mr. Angas, then a member of the South Australian Commission, entertained scruples as to the compatibility of his office with the holding of land in the colony and his participation in trading speculations. He consulted Lord Glenelg on the subject ; and received a letter expressing Lord Glenelg's concurrence in his scruples. Colonel Torrens, it now ap- pears, holds land in the colony. His attention was drawn to Lord Glenelg's letter, and he felt it necessary to take some step in con- sequence. Accordingly, on the 15th December last, he tendered his resignation to Lord John Russell. It was accepted ; Colonel Torrent; having the option, however, of retaining his post if he got rid of his land. These circumstances came out in the examination of Colonel Torrens before the Select Committee on South Australia, about ten days back. In some further communications which have passed between Colonel Torrens and the Colonial Secretary, the Colonel expressed a doubt whether his resignation had been construed to apply to both the Commissions under which he held office. He was informed that it had been so construed ; and that it would be proper that it should take effect as soon as the pending inquiry on the state of South Australia closed.—Colonial Gazette, April 7.

By an Order in Council inserted in Tuesday's Gazette it is declared, in pursuance of certain acts of Parliament passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of the present Sovereign, that the ships of all such Foreign Powers as have treaties of reciprocity with this country, and the cargoes imported or exported therein, shall be admitted on payment of like rates of duties and tolls with those charged on British vessels and their cargoes.

In a letter from Mr. Hutt, the Member for Hull, to the Dundee Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the Sound dues, the writer says— It will be satisfactory to know that there is now every prospect of these dues being abolished. The present proposition is to reduce the whole tariff to its legal dimensions ; and to collect the dues either at the port of departure or of destination, so as to abolish all necessity for stopping the ship on her voyage, or for exposing the ship's company to troublesome ceremonies and restrictions. But in addition to this, there is a disposition on the part of the Northern States to buy up the dues altogether, and have the passage of the Sound free to the commerce and navigation of the world."

The Indian overland mail brings intelligence from Bombay to the 1st March. There is little to add to the following summary-

" No intelligence of importance has been received from Scinde or Afghanis- tan during the present month. Nusseer Khan is still at large, but there are strong reasons to hope he will surrender himself. Dost Mahomed had, on the 10th February, proceeded from Ferozepore to Loodeana!i. He was desirous to go to Calcutta to see Lord Auckland, but it was doubtful if this would be per- mitted.

"The Punjab is in a very unsettled state Sheer Sing had deposed the Ranee, after an attack on the citadel of Lahore, which lasted three days; but the au- thority of this new Rajah is far from being generally recognized. General Court had been obliged to make his escape from Lahore to Ferozepore, in con- sequence of a mutiny among his troops. " The Governor-General of Bengal has issued an order breaking up and dis- gracing the natives of the Second Light Cavalry, which recently deserted its European officers while leading them against Dust Mahoined's cavalry. " Major-General Sir Robert Dick has arrived at Madras from Bengal, and as- sumed the command of the army of the former Presidency."

The papers contain an account of an action between troops under Captain Farrington and a strong body of rebels under Auktur Khan, in the district of Zamin Dawur, in Afghanistan. The rebels were routed with considerable loss.

The Brighton Gazette says that the line-of-battle ship Cornwallis, 72, is to be commissioned at Plymouth without delay, for the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker, appointed to the command in the East Indies, in the room of Rear-Admiral Sir George Elliott, C.B.

Letters have been received from Alexandria to the 25th March.

The Pasha was awaiting the decision of the Porte upon his objec- tions to the proposed conslitions annexed to the hereditary Pashalic of Egypt, without, however, relaxing his preparations to enforce his own views. Be had declared his determination to concede nothing beyond the pay 'tient of a fixed yearly tribute of 500,000 or 600,000 dollars, and to allow no interference in the details of his government. As if in defiance of the hatti-scheriff of the 22d January, he had ordered the army to be increased from the present number of 55,000 to 70,000 picked men ; he was daily bringing in conscripts in fetters to Cairo ; he bad stopped the supplies of corn shipped at Suez for the Holy Cities, which form their y early tribute from Egypt; and he had raised the French Colonel of Engineers, M. Galise, who recently fortified Alexandria and was now strengthening Cairo, to the rank of a Bey on full pay, at 150 purses (750/.) per annum. Three regiments had been ordered from Cairo to garrison Alexandria, and none of the Pasha's sailors were permitted to leave the city for a moment. The frontiers of Egypt were much disturbed. Melik Ninir was said to have beaten Ahmed, the Pasha's Governor of Kartoom. The two great Bedouin tribes on the west of the Nile were engaged in warfare on their own account; and the peaceable inhabitants employed in the collection of natron at the lakes south of Alexandria had been exten- sively plundered. The Pasha had formed an alliance with the Bedouins of the Desert, on the borders of Syria, exempting them from tribute ; and he was preparing them to fortify Gaza.

Great dissatisfaction was felt amongst the Syrians still detained in Egypt. Numbers were to be seen in the regiment of cavalry encamped outside Alexandria. It was chiefly this circumstance which had given rise to the coolness and dissatisfaction observed between the Pasha and Commodore Napier previously to the departure of the latter. The Ma- ronite Emirs and Druze Sheiks had, however, arrived safely at Beyrout. It is remarked that M. Cochelet, who had been replaced as Consul- General for France by Count Bohan Chabot, had long confidential in- terviews with Mehemet All before his departure.

Ad% ices from Constantinople of the 17th March state that the Ottoman fleet returned to that capital on the 16th, and had resumed its former station along the European bank of the Bosphorus. A con- ference had been held a few days before, at Terapia, in the palace of Lord Ponsonby, for the purpose of examining the reply of the Porte to the last demands of Mehemet Ali ; when the Ambassadors came to the resolution of supporting the claims of the Pasha, and notified to the Divan, that if the Sultan did not grant them, his Highness should not expect any further interference on the part of the Four Powers. The Porte would, it was expected, accede to the wishes of the Am- bassadors.

The most remarkable subject in the Paris papers of the week is the debate on the motion of M. Mauguin and M. Pages, for a committee to examine into the question of excluding placemen from the Chamber of Deputies. It was brought forward by M. Pages on Monday. The law at present prohibits great military, legal, and financial officers, from

being elected in the department or arrondissement where they hold office. M. Pages said this was illusory, for they got elected in the next district. The opposition to the motion was headed by M. Lift- dieres, a Colonel and one of the King's Aides-de-Camp, who denounced it as a disguised beginning of more sweeping reforms. He retorted on the promoters of the scheme, that they, being lawyers themselves, desired to monopolize all power for their own profession ; and he pointed out the seven lawyers, MM. Pages, Mauguin, Barrot, L'Herbettd, Charamaule, Jattbert, and Ballang6, as the Pleiades who united their influence to engross the House to themselves : " Go on," he cried ; "exclude every one from the House but lawyers, and you will reproduce that contemptible Council of Five Hundred lawyers which Bonaparte expelled by his bayonets from their ball of sittine. at St. Cloud, amidst the approving acclamations of all France." M. duatiocnier, an ironfounder, supported the motion with the statistics of the Chamber- " The Chamber contained 232 non-salaried deputies, and 172 salaried and in active service. Of the first there were, 31 members of the Institute, 49 advo- cates, 35 merchants, 10 manufacturers, 8 bankers, 7 proprietors of forges, 5 physicians, 4 notaries, 83 landed proprietors ; of the salaried persons there were, 4 ministers, 88 councillors of state and judges, (of whom 47 were un- movable,) 28 directors-general, engineers, and members of the University, 52 officers of the army and navy ; and there were 55 retired functionaries ; making in all 459 deputies, of whom 227 received salaries from the state."

The motion was rejected, on Tuesday, by 203 to 170 votes. The smallness of the majority at figst led to rumours of a dissolution of the Chamber ; but they have not been renewed.

The Paris Fortifications Bill, which passed in the Chamber of Peers on the 1st, instant, received the Royal assent on the 3d, and was officially published in the ,ilonitcur on the Gth.

By the North American, a New York packet-ship, intelligence has arrived from the United States to the 20th March. It does not add much to that received by the last Halifax steamer. We now learn that Mr. M`Leod's trial was to take place on the 29th March. The place will be either Lockport or Rochester—the accounts men- tioned both. The chief circumstance of interest with reference to it is, that Major-General Scott, an officer of the United States army, had proceeded to Lockport to be present on the occasion. General Scott's courteous and conciliatory demeanour has already been apparent, in communications with the government of New Brunswick respecting the boundary, and be was intrusted with a tour of pacification on the Canadian frontier. His attendance at M'Leod's trial is avowed to be " to take all proper measures to repress or repel any partisan out- breaks that might arise in the course or by reason of M'Leod's trial at Lockport."

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 5th January to the 30th March 1841—

ASSETS.

Circulation £16,537,000 Securities £22,328,000

Deposits 7,212,000 Bullion 4,339,000

£23,749,000 I

£26,667,000