Olistellantous.

We understand the marriage of Lord John Russell and Lady Fanny Elliot will be solemnized towards the close of the ensuing month.- Mnrninp Post. Yesterday, the 18th June, was the anniversary of the battle of Water- loo, and the Duke of Wellington gave the annual banquet at Apsley House to his companions on the field, in the usual style of magnifi- cence. The guests, not partakers of the fight, were the Duke of Cam- bridge and Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Envoy. Among the proper company, were the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Hill, Lord Seaton, Lord Saltoun, Lord Hotham, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir Hussey Vivian, Viscount Beresford, Sir James Kempt, Sir Henry Hardinge, General Sleigh, and Colonel Gurwood.

The Navy Club gave their annual entertainment to the First Lord of the Admiralty, on Thursday evening. Admiral Sir Phillip Durham presided ; and there was a numerous attendance of naval officers. Sir Philip declared in proposing Lord Minto's health, that " No one ever administered the affairs of the Navy with more credit to himself, or advantage to the service, than the noble lord has done.

The Russian Minister and Baroness Brunow gave a grand dinner on Tuesday evening at Ashburnham House, to a numerous and distin- guished party ; among whom were Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Marquis of Normanby,. the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Viscount and Viscountess. Canning, Viscountess Palmerston, Baron Bulow, Baron Nieumann, the Dutch Minister, and Madame Dedel. Covers were laid for twenty-two.

Earl Fortescue died on Tuesday, at his seat, Castle Hill, Devonshire. He was in his eighty-ninth year, having been born on the 12th March 1753. He succeeded to the title of Baron in his thirty-second year ; and married, in May 1782, Hester, third daughter of the celebrated George Grenville, of the Buckingham family ; by whom he has left a large number of descendants. His eldest son, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, who succeeds to the Earldom, has several children ; the eldest of whom, now Viscount Ebrington, is candidate on the Liberal side for the borough of Plymouth.

• We are able to give a distinct contradiction to a statement of the Standard, that the Honourable E. J. Stanley is about to proceed to Bom- bay as the successor of Sir James Carnac in the Governorship of that Pre- sidency. The honourable gentleman will leave the post of Secretary of the Treasury, as we stated on Saturday, but for a higher one in the Government at home. Mr. Stanley will leave town immediately on the dissolution of Parliament, for the purpose of again seeking a renewal of the confidence which his constituents of North Cheshire have reposed. in him, and which he has so well merited.—Globe, June 14.

The Standard has found another successor to Sir James Carnac as Governor of Bombay, in the person of Mr. Shell. We are sorry again to inflict another blow on the reputation of so celebrated an adept in the- art of conjecture ; but the truth must be told —there is no foundation for the statement. Several changes will take place at the close of the session. Among others, we believe we may include Mr. Sheil's ap- pointment to the office of Judge-Advocate, as successor to Sir George Grey, who will have an appointment with a seat in the Cabinet. The Honourable Fox Maule will succeed Mr. Shell as Vice-President of the- Board of Trade. The office of Under Secretary of State for the Home Department will be filled by Lord Seymour, now Secretary to the Board of Control.—Globe, Jane 17.

We give the following as the on dit of this morning : Sir George- Grey to succeed Mr. Macaulay as Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet. Mr. Macaulay to have a foreign appointment. The Marquis- of Normanby to succeed Lord Granville as British Ambassador at Paris. Lord Morpeth to be Home Secretary ; and Mr. E. J. Stanley to be appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, with a seat in the Cabinet.— Correspondent of the Standard, 18th June.

The Sun of last night denies the reports that there is to be a further change in the Home Office, and that Lord Morpeth is to be succeeded as Secretary for Ireland by Mr. Stanley ; but says that Sir Henry Parnell retires from the situation of Paymaster of the Forces, and that Mr. Stanley will be appointed to that office.

The Weekly Chronicle says that the place of Mr. Parker, a Lord of the Treasury, who takes the Secretaryship of the Admiralty, will be filled by Mr. William Cowper, the Member for Hertford.

At a Court of Directors held at the East India House on Wednesday, Major-General Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.B., was appointed Commander- in-Chief of the Company's forces on the Madras Establishment It is rumoured, and from good authority, that Admiral Elliot, the brother of Lord Minto, and the " renowned ' hero of Chnsan celebrity, is about to be appointed to the lucrative command of Plymouth Dock- yard.—Correspondent of the Times.

As Lord Stanley's letter, in the correspondence between himself and Mr. Handley, published last week, implied that Mr. Handley attended at his house without being invited, the Member for South Lincoln has obtained Lord George Bentinek's concurrence in publishing the invitation given by the latter. Lord George's letter is dated 23d. February 1835; and says—"Believing you to be one of that chosen and patriotic band which takes its stand between the two extremes of party," • * * " Lord Stanley has asked me to see you, or to write to you, with the view to inquire whether you could make it convenient to meet the Moderate Whig party tomorrow afternoon, at his house." * * " Stanley was hesitating whether to write to you himself or not; but fearing lest you might think it presuming in him to do so, he requested me, as an old acquaintance, to call upon you, and ask you whether you had any objection to meet the Juste Milieu party at his house."

The last letter of the officers of the Chamber of Commerce. in their correspondence with Sir Robert Peel, published in the Manchester Guar- dian, called forth a further reply from Sir Robert ; and they have pub- lished it with a rejoinder of their own. Neither letter adds much light to what had already been said : Sir Robert reinsists that the deputation were not clear in any distinction which they might have intended between their joint recommendation of their own report and Mr. Ashworth's recommendation of Mr. Greg's pamphlet ; and they again insinuate that Sir Robert purposely confounded the two, and then used arguments of Mr. Greg's which they did not recommend, while he suppressed all allusion to the arguments which they did urge upon him. The Paris papers of Wednesday contain no domestic news. The -Catette de Fiance makes the extravagant assertion, that a treaty had been agreed upon by the Four Powers for the partition of the Ottoman empire ; and adds that Great Britain was to have Egypt, Russia Con- stantinople, Austria the provinces bordering on the Danube, and that Prussia was to be aggrandized by the acquisition of Saxony, a part of Poland, and Hanover ; France retaining her African possessions undis- turbed. The other papeis call on M. Guizot to break silence respect- ing these reports.

Advices from Madrid of the 11th do not mention any improvement in the health of the Queen. She assisted at the Fête Dieu.

A serious riot had occurred at Barcelona. A sale of some smuggled English goods was announced for the 7th instant. The operatives of the place assembled tumultuously, to the number of four thousand, and demanded that they should be destroyed. The Political Chief promised to comply with their wishes ; but they were not appeased until the goods were actually burned in the square of the Palacio.

Letters have been received from Lisbon to the 7th instant. The country was suffering all the inconveniences of a Ministerial crisis. The Ministers still held office, but only until a new appointment should be made ; and but little progress seemed made towards a choice of suc- cessors.

The hopes excited respecting the President by the ship Conde de Palma having met with a steamer under sail on the 23d April, were damped by the arrival at Gibraltar, on the 2d instant, of the French steamer Tonnere, from Brazil and the Azores. This steamer had been out ninety-four days from Rio, eighty-three from Bahia, and twenty from the Azores : it might therefore have been the vessel seen making for the Azores by the Conde de Palma.

The Espoir, British brig of war, which sailed from Lisbon on the 18th instant, to look after the President, returned on the 4th, having touched at the island of Madeira, without gleaning any intelligence of the object of her pursuit, though she spoke several vessels in her course.

A correspondent in the North of Germany has sent to the Times a document of much interest, which had not been allowed to appear in any of the German papers, though presented some months back. It purports to be an address from the Magistracy and Deputies of the city of Breslaw to the Provincial Diet of Silesia ; but it is in reality a decla- ration of rights, addressed to the King of Prussia, demanding a repre- sentative government for the kingdom, promised by William the Third, and, as the subscribers argue, giving their authorities in a very business- like manner, necessary to qualify Prussia to be a State of the German Confederation- " According to the German national law, a constitutional representative assembly forms one of the indispensable constituent parts of a German Con- federate State ; for the 13th article of the German Act of Confederation, dated the 8th June 1815, declares 'that a representative constitution shall be established in every state, (il y aura des assemblies d'etats dans tous les pays dela Confederation); and according to article 55 of the Final Act, published for the State of Prussia by order of the Cabinet, the 24th June 1820, (dated Vienna, May 15th 1820,) the Diet of the Confederation is charged to watch that this ordinance be in no state neglected. (Prussien Laws, 1820, p. 126.)" The discussions preceding the Act of Confederation furnish the key to the 13th article— "In those assemblies [of the German Princes] the first thing done was to fix the principle of a representation by estates for all German states ; but above all, it was resolved to define the rights which were to be granted to the estates to be thus established. These rights are—1, the right of granting taxes; 2, the joint control of the application of the sums thus raised; 3, the right of voting in the establishment of new laws ; 4, the right to demand the punish- ment of guilty servants of the State; 5, the right of representing the constitu- tion of the country in the Diet of the Confederation. These views pervade all the proposals contained in the Act of Confederation, and against the principle here laid down no German Prince has hitherto contended. (See Kiuber's Acts, L, p. 74; vol. IL, part 5, pp. 16, 94, 102; part 6, p. 156.) Solely be- cause, on account of local considerations, it was thought better not to enter into particulars, was the 13th article so concisely worded."

According to advices of the 26th from Constantinople, the Porte resolved to await the next post from England, before despatching the firman conveying the final terms to Mehemet Ali. The post was ex- pected to bring fresh communications from the Turkish Ambassador in London. The tribute fixed on is said to be of 80,000 purses, or four millions of Turkish piastres. The latest accounts from Alexandria represent Mehement All as continuing his armaments.

By the Caledonia Halifax mail steamer we have papers from New York to the 31st May. The extra session of Congress was to commence on that day. The message from the President would be delivered on the 1st instant. The journals are filled with speculations as to the leading business which was likely to engage the attention of the Legislature. The arguments in the case of Mr. M'Leod before the Supreme Court of New York having been concluded, the Court took time to consider its judgment. It afterwards made an order, " that, inasmuch as it is impossible that any decision will be made this term, M'Leod shall be committed to the Sheriff of New York, and that the Sheriff of Niagara be discharged from responsibility." The Sheriff of New York had, it was stated, refused to undertake the responsibility of the custody of the prisoner.

Governor Seward, of New York, persists in the right of that State to deal with Mr. M'Leod as it pleases, quite independently of the Federal Government ; and in a letter addressed to President Tyler, he expresses astonishment at the interference of the Central Government, by whose instructions, he assumes, the District Attorney for the Northern district of New York had undertaken Mr. M'Leod's defence. He remarks on the unseemly nature of a dispute between the Federal and State Govern- ments, which he characterises as calculated to give the affair a con- temptible aspect in the eyes of the people of Great Britain ; which at the present time he considers peculiarly deplorable. President Tyler, in reply, denies that the District Attorney had received any orders from the Government to appear in M'Leod's defence ; and declares that he had acted in a private capacity, having been retained some time pre- viously to his acceptation of an official situation. The President also expresses his confidence in the New York Court, and in the course it would pursue towards the prisoner.

Commercial affairs had improved. The rate of exchange was from 8i to 8i per cent. premium for bills on England ; and a very good propor- tion of business was done. The latest Philadelphia quotations of United States Bank Shares was 201.

The latest date from Quebec is May 28th, and from Montreal May 26th. On that day Lord Sydenham and his Staff were to depart for Kingston, whither the seat of Government was to be transferred for the present. Lord Sydenham intended to spend three days on the road. The meeting of the Legislature, which had been appointed "for the despatch of business" on the 26th of May, was again postponed to the 14th of June.

The contemplated alteration of the Timber-duties had taken the fore- most place in the public interest. The papers generally come out in support of the Colonial timber-trade ; and public meetings had been held in several of the chief towns to petition against the intended alteration.

A frightful accident occurred at Quebec on the morning of the 17th of May, at about eleven o'clock. A large mass of Cape Diamond, with the wall from the Governor's garden to the base of the citadel, gave way, and buried under masses of stone and earth the houses in Champlain Street opposite the Customhouse. About eight buildings were destroyed in all. Part of the inmates were at work. When the accounts were written, twenty-two persons bad been saved, twenty-six dead bodies had been found, and six were still missing.

The most destructive fire ever known in Toronto broke out on the night of the 7th, in the steam-engine foundry in Yonge Street, belonging to Mr. Andruss. Altogether from twenty to twenty-five dwellings were destroyed, and upwards of thirty families were driven from their homes. Among the buildings destroyed was the Globe newspaper-office, belonging to Mr. Carey.

We learn from the Spectator, that Mr G. Peck was, in September last, exhibiting the model of Hobart Town, constructed by Mr. Lowe, now a resident in Sydney, at the Suffolk Street Gallery, London. We are sorry to perceive that Mr. Peck has appropriated to himself the merit that belongs to Mr. Low ; for the Spectator speaks of Mr. G. Peck as the inge ions artist who was occupied four years on the work ; and we presume that the Spectator has been misled by the misrepresenta- tions of Mr. Peck. It is true that Mr. Peck purchased the model ; and certainly whatever merit there is in making a good bargain belongs to him ; but with this he should have been content, and not have exposed himself by representing himself as an ingenious artist, to the charge of being a disingenuous man. The Londoners appear to be mightily pleased with the model, and infer therefrom that Hobart Town is a pleasant place, and that its inhabitants are prosperous and comfortable as needs be.—Sydney Monitor, January 22.