ATTRACTIONS OF WINDSOR.—The good people who thrive by visi- tors,

namely, thushopkeepers and innkeepers of this ancient town, are

extremely anxiont, now that the great attraction is gone, to furnish out as many small ones as possible. First, it seems the Castle terraces are open an hour earlier than formerly—it must be added, however, that they are also shut an hour earlier. Secondly, the band of the Dragoon Guards plays while the visitors are straying over the terrace ; so that the ears as well as eyes of the lieges are delighted. Thirdly, the gate. • way from the Castle to the Long Walk is open all day long. Then there are deer and partridges, and embrowning woods ; but these, to be sure, are nothing new. Beasts and birds and nodding trees were to be found in Windsor Park before the foundations of the Round Tower were dug. Taking, however, the advantages of William's reign and of Nature's together, the Windsor folks deem their neighbourhood at this pleasure-seeking season, much more deserving of the pleasure-seeker's attention than all the " shallow fopperies" of the watering-places. Had such terms been applied to Brighton at this moment by a Radical print, we should have suspected it of a fling at the Court ; but we cannot of course suppose that any such intention is entertained by those who have so recently felt its influences, and soon hope to feel them again.

PUT EVERY THING IN ITS PROPER PLACE.•••••" On Tuesday week," says the Herald, " as the King was taking an airing before break.. fast, on the Marine Parade, Brighton, two officers of the — reg.!. ment made their obeisance ; his Majesty stopped, inquired where their regiments were quartered, and on receiving their answer, replied very laconically, It would be as well, gentlemen, I think, if you were there too !' The effect of this pithy reproof may he easily imagined." On this story the Brighton Guardian remarks.- " How if the King should stumble on a pluralist parson ?" Really with respect to a gentleman who is bound in duty to be in two places at one time, it would puzzle even Majesty to make an equitable distribution.

THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK'S CARRIAGES.--FOUT of these vehicles. arrived by the Queen of the Netherlands on Tuesday. They came from Rotterdam. One of the carriages was studded in the inside and on the box with pistols ! Such an apparatus of war does not seem particularly suitable for a runaway knight like the ex-Duke.

WORCESTER FESTIVAL.—The Worcester Triennial Musical Fes- tival commenced on Wednesday. The Cathedral was crowded in every part, although two extra galleries had been erected ; upwards of IMO tickets were admitted, 400 more than were received the first day of the last festival. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria were among the audience.

Prince Leopold has gone to Brighton, on a visit to their Majesties.

The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining an exceedingly gay party at, Chatsworth, which shines out in more than wonted splendour.—Morning Post.

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE.—The new residence of Miss Digby, she late unfortunate, though beautiful Lady Ellenborough, is in Stanhope Terrace, approximating the Gloucester Gate of the Regent's Park, on the right of the high road thence to Hampstead, commandinga fine view of Primrose, Hampstead, and Highgate hills. Her only companion is a little boy and an old servant, who was her late Ladyship's nurse.—• Morning Post.

LORD WILLIAM LExsrox.—We find the following paragraph going the round of the newspapers. " Lord William Lennox, who, the other day appeared in the Gazette as an Ensign in the Sussex Militia, assumed that rank, by command of his Majesty, preparatory to his return to the regular army. It will be remembered Lord William Lennox sold his commission in the Blues about a year ago." It is needless, of course, to say that the previous purgatory of the Militia is quite unnecessary in order to gain admission to the elysium of the Regulars, and therefore that the idea of Lord William Lennox going into the Sussex Militia by his Majesty's command is nonsensical. But there is a foregone conclu- sion in the fabrication. It may be the wish of some of our excellent leaders—(qu. with a view to smooth down the Duke of Richmond ?} to give back to this Lord William the commission which he had been al- lowed to sell. It may be thought hard that he should lose both his wife and his commission in one year ; and, as the more valuable of the two, the Ministers would fain restore the commission. The paragraph may be a straw thrown up to see bow the wind sits. The people of the Horse Guards mayrest assured that it blows directly in the teeth of the project. [Since the above was written, we observe Lord William has denied that he had any such command from his Majesty as has been asserted; and he adds, that he has entered the Militia merely to connect himself more intimately with the county.] Miss PATON.—The bills state that this lady is engaged at the Hay.. market for a limited number of nights, and that she will appear for the first time on Tuesday in the Barber of Seville. Nothing is said of M. Wood. MINISTERIAL RELAXATIONS.-.." The Regent's Park abounds with hares, pheasants, partridges, and various wild-fowl, all of which are gidly preserved by vigilant keepers, who are on the watch day and night for their preservation. Last year the Chief Commissioners of Woods and Forests, accompanied by some of the members of Government, were very successful in partridge-shooting there on the 1st of September." So says the Herald. There was a talk three years ago, of throwing open Marybone Fields to the public, as they used to be before they were re- baptized and set apart for the exclusives ; but after such an example of these high utilities, it would be too rauch to propose profaning them by vulgar feet. We wonder who pay those same vigilant keepers ? COLONEL BLIGH —On Thursday morning, Colonel Bligh, who had been for many years confined within the walls of the King's Bench Prison for debt, and who had been gradually declining in his health fora consi- derable time, was found dead in his bed at his apartment in the State- house. The peculiar circumstances of this gentleman, and his contra- versy with the Earl of Darnley, between whom and himself there was a family connexion, have been.repeatedly before the public.

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE GLASGOWEGIANS.--.The Zitterateurs .of Glasgow, and the worshippers of Joseph Mune there, have disgraced themselves by the silly and illiberal way in which they have treated the name of Sir Walter Scott. At a meeting held of the Stewards ap- pointed to make the necessary arrangements, and prepare the toasts, a Mr. Douglas spoke to the following effect :—" The toast of Sir Walter Scott and the literature of Scotland can never be permitted to stand. As a politician, he is the very zero of sycophants—as an historian, he falsifies history systematically, palliates tyranny, and descries liberty, and ridicules its martyrs. So far from being the proper name to con- nect with Scottish literature, reversing the boast of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble, he found the literature of Scotland classical, and by his prose left it vulgar." The toast (Credat Judfflus) was expunged ; and in consequence, Mr. Finlay, the Chairman, and a number of the Stewards, hays tendered their resignation. This petty prejudice will cast a stain on the character of Glasgow, as it has marred the harmony of a public meeting, whose object was that of showing their respect for the talents and services of Mr. Hume.—North Briton.

BURKE AND LORD MILTON.—The following story appears in the Manchester and Salford Advertiser. "The world is tolerably familiar with the story of Burke, who was the great trumpeter to the war com- menced against France in 1793, for the purpose of suppressing demo- cratical encroachment.' The world knows that for his literary services to the boroughmongers, this ' slave of state' received a pension, which was not only paid to himself during life, but which, after his death, was paid, and continues to be paid to his executors, of whom Lord Milton, we believe, is one. Now, it has been related to us, that this reversionary pension was granted, and has been applied for the purpose of paying off a debt contracted by Burke to the Fitzwilliam family. We should be glad to kuow if Lord Milton, on behalf of his family, does or does not, plead guilty to this ; and whether, in renewing his opposition to Minis- ters, he contemplates, in his view of reform, the refunding of the public money wasted in this scandalous job. If he do not, we assure him others do ; and that he will be very short-lived, or very poor, if he do not live to refund every farthing of the money." Our country contemporary would have done well to have higher evidence than a "we believe" or -"it has been related to us," for this story. The will of Burke is an ac- cessible document, and had he looked into it, he would have seen, that neither Lord Milton nor any other lord was executor to that celebrated man ; he would have found also, that the whole of Burke's property, whatever was its amount, was bequeathed to his wife.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' BED.—The followingis what the Shrews- bury Chronicle calls the traditional history of this supposed relic. " When Mary Queen of Scots was at Tutbury Castle, in custody of George Earl of Shrewsbury, Drousilla Rabasan, or Robson, a tenant's daughter, was introduced to serve her in the capacity of a chambermaid. This Drousilla remained till the Queen was executed ; she had the Queen's bed-room furniture given her. Among other articles, there was a gold candlestick, a carved bedstead, with crimson velvet hang- ings, trimmed with broad gold lace, and a chest upon a stand, with places under to lay out the robes. Drousilla died four mouths after the Queen's execution, leaving the furniture to her family. Her brother sold the gold candlestick ; and one Margaret Rabason sold the gold lace to a Jew for 30s. One the 2nd of April, 1772, Samuel Rabasan gave the carved bedstead to his daughter Margaret, wife of George North- wood. After her death he brought the bedstead, chest, and other ar. tides, with his own furniture, to Choulton Bridge, near Bishop's Castle, m this county. He died, leaving them to his niece, Eliza Jackson, who says i I think it was in 1783 when I first saw the bedstead—a gold cross hung at the head ; I remember seeing four chains, which I was told were used to fasten up the bed. I remember a cambric cap, trimmed with broad lace, which my uncle said was the Queen's ; it was given to a woman who waited on him. After his death I brought the curtains out of the chest, and, finding them in tatters and moth-eaten, parted with them to a travelling pedlar.' " fit is not very necessary, perhaps, to criticise a story so very disjointed in all its parts. The sale of the gold lace and the retaining of the gold cross accord but indifferently ; and a tradition which bounds at one leap ovtr two hundred years (Mary was be- headed in 1587) is little to be heeded. Without, however, raising any dispute about the relic in question, which may have belonged to the Queen of Sheba, it is evident that the• story of Drousilla' is without foundation. Mary's will, which .is very particular, and which contains legacies written in her own hand of so small value as forty shillings, with the names of all the maids and men that were about her at Miter- ingay, is in existence (Cott. MSS. Vespasian, D. 145); and it mentions neither Drousilla Rabason, or Robson, nor any other son. If the tra- dition given by the Shrewsbury Chronicle had been true, it is altogether incredible that the original inheritrix of the bed should not have figured in the above document.] MRS. PITZHERBERT.--ThiS lady, who once exercised such an impor- tant influence on the fortunes of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth, was so deeply affected when informed of his late Majesty's death, that she has ever since been confined to her chamber, very se- riously-ill...aim', from her advanced age, and consequent infirmities, her recovery is considered doubtful. Her maiden name was Smith ; her father a Roman Catholic gentleman of an ancient and respectablefamily ; and previously to her connexion with the Prince she had been twice married ; on the first occasion, when only fifteen years of age, to Mr. Weld, the proprietor of Lulworth Castle (the place assigned to the ex. King Charles the Tenth as a residence), who was desirous of an heir to his extensive estates ; in this, however, he was disappointed, for he died without issue in less than a year after marriage, and his estates passed to the possession of his brother Thomas, father of Dr. Weld, whom the Pope has lately invested with the dignity of Cardinal. The lady was again married, before she had completed her twentieth year, to Mr. Fitzherbert, but in little more than three years she was again a widow, and remained single until the period when the heir-apparent to the Crown saw and was fascinated by her charms, then ripened into meta- rity. Her virtue, however, was proof against the temptations of becom- ing the mere mistress of a Prince, and they were privately married, ac- cording to the forms both of the Protestant and Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic priest who married them consulted his safety by quitting England.immediately afterwards, and he was well provided for in another country. The lady has for many years lived in comparative retirement ; she had an allowance of 6,000/. a year from the King, the continuance of which has been secured to her upon his Majesty's death. She has been on terms of intimacy with most of the other members of the Royal Fa- mily, both male and female ; and has received from them visits of condo- lence since the death of their Royal Brother.—Caledonian Mercury.

REAL TENURE.—The great difficulties which occur in selling estates and obtaining money on real security, the time which usually elapses before the completion of such transactions, and the harassing ex- penses and disappointments which attend them, are evils universally acknowledged. They are by many persons considered the greatest evils belonging to our law of real property. We believe it may be confidently asserted that, of the real property of England, a very considerable por- tion is in one of these predicaments either the want of security against the existence of latent deed renders actually unsafe a title which is yet marketable, or the want of means of procuring the formal requisites of title renders unmarketable, a title which is substantially safe !—Cont. missioners' Report.

PHYSICIANS AND Quatcxs.—In the case of John Williamson, tried at the Old Bailey in 1806, Lord Ellenborough in explaining the faw on manslaughter, where death had been caused by medical treatment, stated the necessity of looking with an indulgent eye on those failures in the practice of niediehie which must occasionally happen; and thought that if medical men, properly instructed, used all due diligence, and ex. ercised the best means they were possessed of for the benefit of their patients, and failed in their endeavours, they ought not to be called be- fore a court of judicature to answer for their conduct; but that, if men exercise the profession of medicine without having duly qualified them. selves by previous experience and study, and death ensues from their practice, they would be liable to prosecution fur manslaughter, as having presumptuously undertaken an office on which the life or death of an in- dividual must depend, without having properlyfitted themselves to execute it." [This is not Mr. Coroner Stirling's law, but it is quite as good.] TRI-COLOURED CocK-ADEs.—The proprietors of the Manchester an Salford Advertiser distributed some thousands of these cockades at the opening of the Railway on 'Wednesday. The connexion between the tri-coloured cockade and English freedom does not appear, to us at least, very plainly made out.

HOME-GROWN OPIUM.—A quantity of opium, manufactured a few days since at Bishomnill, was yesterday brought to our office. This is the first we have heard of being prepared so far North.—Elgin Courier.

AN hum CURIOSITY.—It is a curious fact, and one no less curious than true, that the Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, accompa. nied by a son and daughter—we believe Lord Albert and Lady Louisa—. have been at their mansion of Slane Castle, only a few miles from Dublin, since Saturday laq ; and that up to this hour the persons re- sident in the town of Slane and its immediate neighbourhood—such is the strict degree of privacy observed—are ignorant of the honour they are leniting by the sojourn of such distinguished visitors. —Star of Bruns- wick.

BLACKLEGS OUTwITTED.—Some heavy bets, it seems, were laid, that the Duke of Northumberland would not be present at the races on the Curragh. When it was found that he really intended to be there, the desperate bettors had recourse to a fabricated letter to his Grace, in which they set forth, that the Countess of Mayo, whom the Lord Lieu. tenant meant to reside with during the races, was dangerously ill, and that the Earl could not, in consequence, receive his noble guest. The letter was written in the name of her Ladyship's physician ; but, un. luckily for the plotters, Lord Mayo was present at a Council held in Dublin on the very day that the letter reached the Castle, and the trick was in consequence immediately discovered and defeated.