AllisctIlarceous.

The Dutchess of Kent left Frogmore Lodge on Saturday, on a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park ; and returned to Frogmore on Wednesday.

The Duke of Cambridge, who had been staying for a few days at Bagshot Park, on a visit to the Dutchess of Gloucester, returned to Kew on Monday.

The Duke of Sussex left Kensington Palace yesterday morning, for Alton Towers, Staffordshire, to pay the Earl of Shrewsbury a visit.

Baboo Dwarkanauth Tajore has presented to the Queen a magnificent Indian shawl, of turquoise-blue colour, with rich palms of a new pattern ; and a dagger for the Prince of Wales, the handle of rock- crystal, mounted in black enamel, encrusted sith diamonds of pure inter, the sheath being studded with rubies.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is convalescent. He sat up on Tues- day, for the first time. The last of the bulletins, issued on Wednesday, stated that his recovery was steadily advancing.

The Standard contradicts a report which had been put forth, that Mr. S. M. Phillips, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home De- partment, intended to resign.

We understand that the Government have conferred pensions of 80/. a year each on the four daughters of the late Colonel Dennie, of the Thirteenth Foot, who was killed at Jellalabad, where he commanded the sortie.—Globe.

"A corresponent in England" of the Edinburgh Witness, whose letter is dated August 31st, unveils a Jesuitical plot : it will also be seen that he has discovered who constitute the most powerful party in Eng- land— " I do not know whether the Queen intends to disappoint her Presbyterian _subjects by refusing to worship with them next Sabbath ; but this I know, that her procedure in the matter is awaited with the utmost anxiety by the Faseyites here. Archdeacon Wilberforce is the Queen's favourite among the clergy, and from her intercourse with him the Puseyites have great hope that the head of their church will declare on their side; and I have little doubt that the Archdeacon—a most insinuating, bewitching man, and who keeps his eye on the interests of Mother Church with the steadiness of Loyola—has done what be can to prevent the enormity of her patronizing schismatics on this occasion. He is to be tutor, it is said, to tire Prince of Wales—a prospect sufficiently sad for the interests of Protestantism. This same Archdeacon is a much more dangerous man than Newman or Pusey, for he is not so much sus- pected; and his pretty nursery-tales are poisoning the very children with the new Popery, and inlisting on his side the most powerful influence in England, viz. mammas and nursery-maids."

[This unfolds a new, or rather a revived stroke of policy. Other conspirators make direct attacks upon the state to bend it to their will : Whigs and Tories appeal to electors ; Whigs insinuate their treason into the ears of Anti-Corn-law manufacturers, Tories their despotism into the ears of agriculturists, Radicals sedition into the ears of the non- electors ; Whigs and Tories modulate the Lords to their alternate tune by creating Peers ; Whigs and Radicals excite the people ; Tories and Radicals evoke the paupers ; each party acts upon some obvious public section of the country. But the Pusey-ites, it seems, by favour of the modern Loyola, concentrate their forces on the softer and more yielding portions of society—the most yielding, "mammas and nursery-maids." This is a good hint for political leaders : let them transfer the battle from the Registration-courts to the Nursery, and urge their doctrines, not over the bottle at public dinners, but over the pap-boat and the milk-and-water.] Friday's Gazette formally notified, that "A despatch has been re- ceived from Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, dated off Granton Pier, the 1st instant, reporting that her Majesty's yacht the Royal George, under his Lordship's command, with her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert on board, arrived off that pier in perfect safety that day; and that her Majesty disembarked at five minutes to nine o'clock a.

The following announcement conveys some news—" The Queen has been pleased to direct letters-patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto General Rowland Baron Hill, G.C.B , and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke, in the county of Salop ; and, in default of such issue male, the said dignity of Viscount to Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., (nephew of the said Rowland Baron Hill,) and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten."

Reports of the harvest are satisfactory. In Essex and along the East coast, the quantity of corn gathered in is said to be immense. In the central counties the harvest is finished, and the yield is in many places enormous. Reaping proceeds well in Scotland ; and in Ireland the produce is large, and of good quality. The accounts from the corn- countries of Europe and from America are similar : all tell of abun- dance.

The Times City article has some remarks to show the useful working of an assize of bread in Paris ; comparing the proportion between the cost of flour and bread, the raw material and the manufacture, in Lon- don and Paris. The results may be tabulated thus—

Price of finest flour per sack. Price of finest bread per Excess of four.pound loaf. Eaidish price Excess Paris. London. per cent. Paris. Loudon. per cent.

November 1841 ... 39s. 7d. ... 65s. . 64i 6d. ... 10d. ... 66i May 1842 36s. 5d . . 57s. ... 9id. ... 62 September 1842 44s. ... 47s. 7 6W. ... 8d. ... 33i Or or 8d. ... 23 The points of comparison are the third and sixth columns of figures: the excess of the English price has fallen, in flour, f om 64f per cent to 7—in bread, from 661 or 69, no lower than to 33; to 23. The Standard of Wednesday announced, on the authority of a gentleman from Dusseldorf, that the King of Hanover died at that place on Saturday night or Sunday morning ; having attended at a re- view in the course of Saturday, and having been taken ill after eating an ice or some other refreshment. The Times publishes the following statement, which shows that the original report was incorrect, but not unfounded- " Onsreldarf, 6th September 1842.

"A report Laving been generally spread that his Majesty the King of Han- over died here last night, I hasten to inform you that this is not the fact ; but that his Majesty is bing seriously indisposed, at Prince Solms's Palace in this ten. The symptoms, I hear, are dangerous."

For some time past, says the Times, rumours have existed of projects said to be entertained by secret societies and political agents in the do- minions of the King of Denmark, for the purpose of availing them- selves of the first opportunity, such as the death of the reigning Sove- reign, or a political convulsion in Europe, to effect a material alteration in the balance of power among the Northern States. These rumours have recently assumed a greater degree of importance, from the official publication of a circular despatch, which appears to have been framed more than four years ago by the Swedish Government, for the purpose of discountenancing schemes which tend to the aggrandizement of Sweden. The despatch, which is dated 14th April 1837. says- " We have learned that a society of young German literati has proposed to publish a weekly journal, to be called the Nordisk Ugeschrift, for the purpose of inducing the inhabitants of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, to renew, under the pretext of their common origin, the ancient Union of Calmar. • • • The King knows the manceuvres and intrigues which are put into play through- out Europe, in order to revive former animosities, and thus to bring about po- litical catastrophes. His Majesty has resolved not to tolerate them in his do- minions, to whatever reminiscences they may belong, and especially to that of the Union of Calmar, which is connected with events so deplorable to Sweden.

t' Providence has again allotted the elements of that union as the geographi- cal situation and the interests of Scandinavia imperiously required. A. mutual contract has defined the limits of the two states, which are calculated to insure their internal tranquillity and prosperity, their external independence and peace. Any other combination would be toreign to their desires and to their interests. To maintain what exists, to reject with vehemence and contempt every insinua- tion which would lead to disturbances, to cause public order and tranquillity to be respected, to favour the prosperity of his dominions by good institutions, to keep up amicable relations with his neighbours and allies, and, if necessary, to lend his good offices to the cause of general peace—such are the ends to which the solicitude, the ambition, and the efforts of the King are directed." The Scandinavian population of Jutland and the islands sympathizes most with Sweden, especially since Norway has derived social and political improvement from being transferred from Denmark to Sweden : the Teutonic population of Holstein and Sleswich are at- tracted by the German League : hence the hope of a party to revive the union of Calmar. Denmark, however, has the guarantee of the friendship of the Russian Emperor against the contemplated par- tition and absorption.

The King of Prussia has issued a decree directing that the Provin- cial Diets shall be elected, to meet on the 18th October, in order that he may take the advice of the States before coming to any decision on. the following measures- 1. The arrangements for the diminution of taxes, promised for the 1st January 1843.

2. The establishment of a general railroad-communication between the states, at the Government expense. 3. A bill respecting navigation where private rights of property are con- cerned.

The Journal des Dibats accuses Belgium of ingratitude- " The French Government, having recently raised the duties on linen and linen-thread, excepted from this over-taxation the kingdom of Belgium, whose manufactures are chiefly in linen. The French Cabinet, in exchange for this benefit, demanded a compensation, particularly in favour of French wine- growers, which were very highly taxed in Belgium. In consequence, the Bel- gian Government a few weeks ago reduced its import-duty thereon by one- fourth. A. diminution of the same kind was made on silks. But the, conven- tion had scarcely been signed, when the Belgian Ministry, by a decree of the 28th of August, extended the benefit of this diminution to silk-stuffs and wines of the German Union, demanding at the same time something in return. This is a bad proceeding on the part of Belgium. The only silks which come

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on the Belgian market n competition with the French are those of Crevelt, and other places on the Rhine. The wines, too, which enter Belgium in com- petition with ours, are the German wines of the Rhine and Neckar, the Mo- selle and the Sane ; which have besides the advantage of a shorter transport. Thus France has been deprived of part of the advantages expected."

At Spithead, on Friday, Dr. Payerne, who has discovered a simple means of purifying air by chemical agency, made a descent in a diving- bell, accompanied by General Pasley. The purified air is drawn at pleasure from a case about the size of a writing-desk. In order to coun- teract the pressure on the air within the bell, and the consequent rising of water from the bottom, some vessels filled with highly-condensed at- mospheric air were carried down ; and the confined air was let out during the descent. All communication with the external air was cut off. On Saturday, similar experiments were made; the Doctor having other companions. The trials were very satisfactory. A remarkable thunder-storm visited London and a wide extent of country on Wednesday evening. It began in London about seven o'clock ; and for an hour the lightning-flashes grew more and more vivid, lighting up the sky. The bright blue colour of the lightning had at times a slightly crimson tinge, as if a little of the red fire of the theatre had been mixed with it. Rain fell long and heavily, till nine, when the storm subsided. At Stepney, a postman was struck down while delivering some letters. At Poplar, a woman was thrown by the

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lightning from the pier into the river; whence she was taken out n a very dangerous condition. Higher up the Thames, hailstones of great size fell. Near Amersham, a man in a cart was struck and rendered insensible for several hours : his horse was killed, and the wheels of his cart were shattered to pieces. Several large trees in Windsor Great Park were much damaged. At Brighton, the storm lasted only a short time; but a policeman was knocked down. At Rushfield, many build- ings were damaged. Jones, a shoemaker, was struck from his seat and stunned ; and it is feared that his mind has been permanently affected by the shock. Glass was destroyed by the hail ; and trees were split through and shivered as if a heavy discharge of ordnance had been levelled against them.

Several grouse were displayed at a poulterer's in Whuhperpon Wed- nesday, labelled, "These were from near Dalkeith, and ampseed 10 have been shot by Prince Albert."