_Miscellaneous.

We understand that the visit of the King of the French to her Ma- jesty is now definitively fixed for the early part of next month. It is arranged that his Majesty will embark at Treport on the 3d October, and proceed at once from Portsmouth to Windsor. The Queen of the French will not accompany his Majesty ; but it is expected that King Louis Philippe will be attended by two of his Ministers, and by his youngest son the Due De Monpensier.— Times.

From a paragraph in the Windsor correspondence of the papers, it seems that arrangements have actually been made at the Castle for the reception of Louis Philippe-

" The portion of the state-apartments which will be devoted to the exclusive use of his Majesty the King of the French, will be the Queen's closet, the Ring's drawing-room, the King's closet, the Council-Chamber, and the ante- throne-room. This is the only portion of the state apartments which have at present been arranged to be appropriated for the use of the French Monarch. His Majesty will sleep in the apartment known as the Queen's closet, in which is the superb state-bed of George the Fourth. This room was also used as the dormitory of the King of Prussia during the visit of his Majesty to the Queen at the period of the christening of the Prince of Wales."

The Hampshire Independent announces the arrival of a present from the King ot the French to Queen Victoria- " The Monarch steam-vessel, which arrived at Portsmouth from Havre on Thursday morning, brought over an exceedingly handsome char-a-banc, similar to those used by the Royal Family during the Queen's visit last year to the Chateau d Eu. It appears that, in the course of the numerous excursions made by King Louis Philippe and his Royal guests in the neighbourhood of Eu, the Queen often expressed her admiration of those commodious and social vehicles, and the King, immediately on his return to Paris, ordered this one to be constructed as a present to her Majesty. The char-5.-bane was landed at the pier, and immediately left tor Windsor, drawn by post-horses; the vehicle being too high to be conveyed by railway, as, when placed upon a truck, it would not go.under the arches or tunnels."

Mr. Brown, Surgeon to the Royal Household, who has accompanied the infant Princes to Brighton, has recently received a very valuable present from the Queen,—two water-colour portraits of the Princess Boys], one at the age of four months, the other of twelve months, by the Queen's own hand.

The last day spent in England by Prince William of Prussia was a busy one. He set out early, and went to see the National Gallery ; called at Argyll House, but found that Lord Aberdeen was still at Windsor ; went to Apsley House, and took leave of the Duke of Wel- lington; to Portman Square, to take leave of Sir Benjamin, Lady, and Miss Hall; and back to the Legation to luncheon. Thence he went to Barclay and Perkins's brewery, and to Greenwich ; seeing all that could be seen. He met a large party, entertained at a white-bait dinner by Chevalier Hebeler the Prussian Consul-General, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern ; drove over to Blackheath, to take leave of the Prin- cess Sophia; returned to the Crown and Sceptre ; embarked in the Queen's steamer Lightning, which was anchored opposite the house and set out for Ostend, amid the parting cheers of a crowd collected on the bank.

Sir Robert Peel was to have accompanied the Queen to Scotland ; but he was summoned to Tamworth on Sunday, by the alarming illness of his daughter. Miss Peel, whose illness we have heard called scarlet fever, continued to grow worse for some days, and she lay with little hope of recovery—the breathing difficult, the pulse at an enormous height, and the throat ulcerated ; but on Tuesday afternoon there was a slight change for the better ; and on Thursday, although still in danger, the improvement was decided.

Letters were received in town this morning from Germany, which, we rejoice to announce, state that the learned and distinguished Attor- ney-General Sir William Follett is considered to be better, and that his health is daily improving.—Standard, Sept. 13.

The Morning Herald quotes this passage from a provincial paper, not named, but described as likely to be well-informed with regard to Whig tactics- " It will be recollected that we announced some time back, on high autho- rity, the difference of opinion among the Judges, and also that the majority of the tribunal of final appeal held an opinion favourable to the traversers. We revert to this, not for the purpose of vain boasting, but to obtain confidence for the announcement which, upon the same authority, we are now enabled to make, it bus been resolved to form a union of Liberal parties, for the purpose of driving the present Ministers from power ; and it is intended to propose that one of the bases of agreement shall be a Federal Parliament for Ireland. We have every reason to rely on the source from which we dense our information ; and we recommend the constituencies of the kingdom to be prepared soon to declare what policy is to be adopted in the present critical circumstances of the state."

The Irish Chief Justice Pennefather, and Mr. T. B. C. Smith, the Attorney-General, are said to be in town, awaiting t'ir Robert Peel's return from Tamworth : the Globe infers that they come to tender their resignation ; and it is added that Mr. Justice Burton also means to re- sign—all for the slur cast upon their official qualifications in the recent decision on the writ of error.

The Freeman's Journal describes "a splendid testimonial of respect, gratitude, and love, which the Christian Doctrine Confraternities of Dublin, headed by the Very Reverend Dr. Spratt, presented to the Li berator of Ireland, with a soul-stirring address, on the very morning of the day on which his liberation was announced, to the joy of mil lions."

"This exquisitely beautiful emblem of a Saviour's love is a solid rustic cross, made of the finest Wicklow gold, and of course is in every sense of Irish manu- facture. The entire stands ten inches in height. The figure representing our Divine Redeemer nailed to the ignominious gibbet, after being condemned by his unjust judges, [observe the implied parallelism in the victims I] is five inches long, the figure being admirably proportioned. The whole is as simple as it is chaste, and the material as pure as the purpose is holy. The material is na- tional, the design perfect, and the workmanship exquisite. Such a memorial, to such a man, at such a time, and from such a body, cannot be without its significance to the people of Ireland. This precious relic weighs, we under- stand, fifteen ounces ; and the gold is, exclusive of the cost of workman- ship,:worth nearly 50/."

We are assured that a treaty, the origin of which may be referred to 1840, is on the eve of being concluded, by which England will obtain possession of the port of Suez, free passage from Alexandria to that port, and other advantages of importance in Egypt and Syria. This treaty, to which France is said to be no party, is guaranteed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia. We know not by what intrigue the King of the French has been prevented from participating in it, but have reason to believe that England has had nothing to do with her exclusion.—Morn- ing Herald. According to the Times, Mr. Pritchard is not to be sent back to Tahiti, but is to be, or has been, appointed Consul to the Navigator's Islands, a group considerably to the Westward. Mr. Walter Brodie has written a rejoinder to the Secretaries of the London Missionary Society, who had replied to his attacks on Queen Pomare and the missionaries at Tahiti with sharp retorts against his own conduct. He remarks, that though be was only eight months at Tahiti, he had ample time to find out what was going on in its small extent of habitable territory ; and he insists that his charges against the missionaries were correct. The accusation that he sold rum in Tahiti is explained away, by the fact that he was only appointed supercargo of the schooner Unity, in order that he might watch over some goods be- longing to a friend, who did not know that rum was prohibited ; and that he did not at all interfere in the sale of the rum. As to Mr. Pritchard- " I do again ascribe the refusal of the Queen and the native Government to receive Catholic missionaries to the sole influence of Mr. Pritchard. I have now a letter before me from Paris, with an extract from a letter signed by Queen Pomare, wherein she betrays her adviser. I mentioned in my letter of March last, that ever since 1836 Mr. Pritchard has been a marked man by the French, on account of the active part he took in expelling the two Catholic priests from Tahiti. Did not the London Missionary Society refund to Mr. Pritch- ard the 125 ounces of gold which were paid, as compensation to Messrs. Caret and Laval, to the captain of the French man-of-war, for the good cause he had gained ? " What he said about the divorce of Pomare has been printed either in Ellis's Polynesian Researches or John Williams's Missionary Enterprise. As to Queen Pomare's drunkenness, he stated what he had seen, and not what be had heard ; and he believed even more than he had seen- " Queen Pomare and her officers of state are supported in a great measure through prostitution, in fines levied upon the women going on board the shipping, and for living on shore with Europeans and Natives : this no one can deny who has lived there only one month, in place of eight months. The fines are sufficiently low to enable them to be paid; and from the calculation I made when at Tahiti, they cannot be receiving less than 4,000 dollars annually ; paid sometimes in money, and at other times in cloth."

The Constitutionnel quotes this passage from a letter by an officer, who had read letters from Maley Abd-er-Rahman to his son, seized in the Prince's tent-

" We have laughed heartily at the epithet with which the Sultan salutes her Majesty of England on communicating to his son the note of Mr. Bay. 'See what is demanded of me by this witch of a Queen (Chilana, in Arable, signi- fying a cursed or devil of a witch, or anything that may be thought equivalent.') The whole of the great Christian family its placed on the same level by the spirit of these fanatics." The Portsmouth correspondent of the Times says it is the intention of the Government "quietly to increase our naval strength, by com- missioning six or eight sail of the line and a few fifty-gun frigates." Commissions for the experimental squadron, consisting of the steam- frigate Firebrand and five brigs, were issued on Saturday. Three ex- perimental twelve-gun brigs, which were launched last April, were also pat in commission, at Chatham, on Tuesday.

The real cost of the insurrection in Canada, during the Melbourne- Whig regime, at last comes out--almost five millions and a half! By a return laid before Parliament on the motion of Mr. Leader, it appears that the total expense of the Army, Navy, Ordnance, and Commis- sariat services in Canada, for the year 1837, amounted to 189,0481.; and for subsequent years as follows-

1838 £510,248 1841 £898,998 1839 1,629,070 1842 884,998 1840 1,313,884 1843 806,007

The difference between the expenditure of these years and that of 1837 amounts, with 528,8771. difference on account of supplies, to the sum of 5,437,6941.

The export of flour and wheat from Canada to England has greatly increased this year. To the 9th August last year, 50,000 barrels of flour and 15,000 bushels of wheat were exported; this year, 307,000 barrels of flour and 237,000 bushels of wheat.

A letter from Darmstadt, dated 2d September, in the Ober Post Amts Zeitung, describes a striking method newly invented for the cure of pectoral complaints- " The surgical operations of Dr. Von Herff at present attract great interest here. These operations have in several instances effected a decided cure in cases of tubercular pulmonary consumption—phthisis tubereulosa. The seat of the ulceration having been ascertained by means of the stethoscope, the matter is discharged outwardly by an incision being made in the cavity of the breast, penetrating the lungs. The cure is finally effected by medicine in- jected into the wound by a syringe. We have hitherto refrained from making known these operations, as we wished to await the results ; but we are now enabled to affirm with confidence, that in several instances the operations have obtained the most complete success, and in DO case have been attended by any danger to life. We hope that Dr. Von Herff, after an extended series of expe- riments, will make the observations deduced from them the subject of a philo- sophic inquiry."

We observe it stated in a Liverpool journal, that several vessels have left that port for the Western coast of Africa, with sealed instructions, to be opened in a certain latitude ; and each carrying an experienced practical chemist, furnished with tests for ascertaining the real quali- ties and composition of ores and salts. The destination of these vessels, probably the pioneers of a new traffic, is understood to lie between the 20th and 30th degree of latitude on the Western coast; and their ob- ject, the discovery of certain suspected veins of copper, lead, iron, or gold, stated to exist about forty miles from the sea-coast, and in a rich and fertile country.—Morning Chronicle.

On three or four days lately, there have been violent storms in va- rious parts. On Thursday last week, Hampshire was visited by a thunder-storm, accompanied by heavy showers of hail ; the hailstones were very large, and did much injury. Hereford, Staffordshire, and Gloucestershire suffered from a like visitation. But the most disas- trous storm was at the village of Hazel Grove, Cheshire, on Friday, in which six persons lost their lives. The lightning and thunder were terrific, and the rain fell in such torrents that a little brook overflowed its banks and did great damage. The water rushed with such force into a cotton-mill, that the fires were extinguished, the engines stopped, and some of the workpeople narrowly escaped drowning. A number of the mill-hands resolved to return home to the village ; and while a party of about thirty were passing under a brick wall on their way home, an old reservoir behind the wall gave way, and forced it down ; burying most of the people under it, while others were swept into the stream : several had limbs broken, and many were bruised, while five females and a boy were found dead under the ruins of the wall. On Sunday night, there was a severe thunder-storm with rain in Sussex and Kent; the Metropolis coming in for a share of it. Some farm-buildings near Sandwich were fired by the lightning, and all destroyed except the farm-house. At Havre, on Tuesday last, the wind was so violent as to do great injury to several houses; and the rain fell in such tor- rents that the water in some streets stopped the passage of all carriages.

Who liberated O'Connell?—Considerable difference of opinion exists Ss to the real author of the Liberator's liberation. At first it was attributed to the three Whig Law Lords in the House of Peers : but this simple and natural account of the matter did not long satisfy the curious inquirers of our age. An ulterior cause, a primum mobile, has been sought for. The Morning Chronicle modestly hints that its "leaders" did the job. The National is decidedly of opinion that the terror of French Democracy was " the cause of this effect." O'Connell and a majority of his friends piously attribute it to a special inter- ference of the Virgin Mary in his behalf; while the graceless Smith O'Brien avows the Epicurean doctrine that it was all owing to "Chance." Discordant and irreconcilable though these opinions are, they seem all clearly traceable to a common conviction that the liberation did not take place, like ordinary gaol-deliveries, "in due course of law."

BANK OF ENGLAND.—An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Vic- toria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday the 7th day of September 1844. ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Government Debt £11,015,100 Notes issued £28,351,295

Other Securities 2,984,000 Gold Coin and Bullion 12,657.208 Silver Bullion 1,694,087 £28,351,295 £28,381,295

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

£14,553,000 Government Securities. (in.

3.564,729 eluding Dead Weight An-

nuity) £14,554.834

Other Securities 7,835,616

Notes 8,175.025 Gold and Silver Cain 367.765 3,630,809 8.644,348 1,030,354

431,423,244 .631,423,240 Dated the 1211b day of September 1844. M. ILsassuss, Chief Cashier.

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