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A marble statue of the Queen, executed by Mr. Wolff, an English sculptor, at Rome, was removed from the Customhouse to Windsor Castle, on Thursday.

The Dutchess of Kent left Clarence House, St. James's, on Saturday morning, by the Birmingham Railway, for Witley Court, in Worcester- shire, on a visit to the Queen Dowager. On Wednesday, the Queen, accompanied by the Dutchess, repaired to Gopsall Hall, in Leicester- shire, on a visit to Earl Howe.

The Dutehess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Grand Dutchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, left Kew, on Monday, to visit the Duke and Dutchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, in Gloucestershire.

The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek- lenburg-Strelitz have left Lord Ravensworth's seat, and, after visiting .Drumlanrig Castle, have gone to Inverary.

Miss Peel is pronounced to be not only out of danger, but conva- lescent ; a marked progress having been made at the beginning of the week. Change of air is recommended, as soon as the patient is well .enough to bear removal. Sir Robert and Lady Peel came to town on Wednesday.

The Morning Post announces that Lady Augusta Somerset, eldest daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, is about to bestow her hand upon Baron Nieumann, the Austrian Minister. The ceremony will take Place in the course of a few weeks.

Prince Gustavus Vasa, heir of the dethroned house of Sweden, was divorced from the Princess Louisa Amelia Stephanie, of Baden, d via- nolo matrimonii, on the 14th August. They were married on the 9th November 1830.

We are informed, that after much correspondence, and obtaining from our own Government all the interference and aid it feels authorized to undertake for the release of Dr. Wolff, Captain Grover a few days since started for St. Petersburg, personally to interest the Emperor Nicholas in the same humane and holy cause.—Literary Gazette.

'Some of the Irish papers revive a report that it is Sir Robert Peel's :ntention to raise Chief Justice Doherty, of the Common Pleas, to the tBritish Peerage, in order to have his assistance in the House of Lords.

In a letter to the Standard recently, citing instances in which the 'Lay Lords had voted on questions of law, Lord Kenyon incidentally mentioned Lord Brougham as upholding the doctrine that they ought not to vote. In a second letter, Lord Kenyon quotes a communication which he has had from Lord Brougham, in correction- " In the letter with which I am honoured by Lord Brougham, he states, -' that he wishes above all to avoid the imputation of holding an opinion sub- veraive of the House of Lords' jurisdiction." He supposed that the Lay Lords recant to ground their opinions (if they should vote) upon a matter which they beard and did understand,—namely, the House calling in the Judges, for the Lurpose of excluding party feeling.' However, his own reason for supporting ord Wharncliffe was, that those Lay Lords had not heard the case; and he never in the least degree intended to hold that their being Lay Lords was any reason against their voting.'" "O. P. Q. in the East," the Bombay correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writes a contradiction of a letter signed " E. P. D." which recently appeared in the Indian papers, touching some remarks by Sir Henry Pottinger on British policy in Scinde. It is not denied that those remarks were intended to apply to past transactions ; but the im- puted breach of confidence is repelled— "The natural inference to be drawn [from the letter of E. P. D.] is, that the letter of Sir Henry Pottinger was shown is confidence by some injudicious friend of E. P. D.'s to the Bombay correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, who betrayed the trust reposed in him by making public the most important wt of it. This, however, is quite at variance with the facts of the case; and 1 conceive it to be my duty, therefore, to come forward and explicitly declare that Sir Henry Pottinger's letter was placed in my bands expressly that I might extract from it, and publish in the Morning Chronicle, such passages as disclosed Sir Henry's views as to the deposal of the Ameers of Scinde ; and farther, that this was done under circumstances and in a manner calculated to A new comet was discovered on the 6th instant, by Professor Mel- hop, of Hamburg. It is said by Professor Shumacher to b3 visible to the naked eye. Its situation is thus indicated by Sir James South, writing for the week just past- " On Wednesday night it will be about one diameter and a half of the Sun West, and about one diameter South of Eta Ceti; whilst on Saturday night it will be about one diameter of the Sun North, and about the same quantity East of Eta Ceti. Indeed, if the diameter of the field of the night-glass be, as it generally is, about six degrees, (or able to take in the two stars of the Great Bear, commonly called 'the Pointers,') on the star Eta Ceti being brought round the circumference of the field, the comet will be found in the field also."

The Earl of Rosse's huge telescope, at Parsonstown in Ireland, was for the first time pointed to the heavens on the 11th instant ; but the cloudy 'weather was unfavourable. After a visit which Lord Rome was about to pay in England, the telescope would be put to its critical triaL The Times culls some curious blunders of the French press : it would not, however, be difficult to find things equally strange in the English papers- ' The late elevation of Lord Stanley to the Upper House is thus recorded and explained in the Commerce, a Paris paper of high character, in its number the 8th instant—' Lord Stanley, Minister for the Colonies, has accepted the title of Lord Chiltern Hundreds—a title with no duties annexed—which is in- compatible with that of Member of the Elective Chamber, because it is attached to the Household of the Queen' In the same blundering spirit, the National of Sunday has a long article in which it talks of the efforts made by Lord Hardinge ' to conclude a commercial treaty with the Pacha of Egypt. A. mysterious personage, called Sir Peel, is still commonly described in the French provincial journals as the English Premier ; and it is only a few weeks since we were startled by the announcement, that Sir W. Peel, the son of the said Sir Peel, had passed his examination at Portsmouth for the rank of Admiral I produce on my mind the impression that E. P. D. was a consenting party to the communication."

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 6th instant publishes a reply by Cap- tain Wallis, the commander of the Warspite, to the "General Mem." in which Admiral Owen censured the authors of the British officers' " letters on the bombardment of Tangier in the Times : Captain Wallis calls the letters "highly offensive, ungenerous, and un-English"; and says- " Depend upon it, Sir, I will use my best endeavours to find out the person or persons who wrote them. I agree with you to the utmost extent as to the objectionable character of such remarks and publications; and, though the let- ters are dated Warspite, I am unwilling to believe that any of the officers of the ship I have the honour to command could have been the authors."

Mr. S. A. Warner, the explosive inventor, charges Government with omitting two important letters in the published correspondence between himself and various official persons ; and he sends one of the suppressed letters to the papers. It was addressed to Sir Robert Peel, in May 1842 ; and it offered to leave the rate of remuneration to the Premier ; only stipulating for the appointment of a third Commissioner of Inquiry, a personal interview with Sir Robert, and his assurance that, after dis- closure, the matter should not be cast aside and the inventor left with- out reward, on the plea that his plans could be worked out without his cooperation.

A Supplement to Friday's Gazette was published on Saturday, con- taining a series of Orders in Council, giving effect to recent commercial treaties with Hanover, Oldenburg, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

" The commercial treaty with Hanover is that under which the Stade-duties are in future to be regulated, and by which certain concessions and privileges are accorded to Hanoverian commerce in Britishports. In compliance with the terms of the treaty, it is now ordered by the Queen in Council, that all Hanoverian vessels coming from the mouths of the Meuse, the Ems, the Weser, or the Elbe, or from any navigable river between the Trave and Memel inclusive, shall be admitted into British ports, at home or in our Colonies, on the same terms as if they had come from ports actually within the dominions of the King of Hanover. These concessions are a return for British commerce being placed in Hanover on the footing of that of the most favoured nation.' " Similar orders are made with respect to ' vessels of Oldenburg,' and 'ves- sels of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.' Those of the litter state, when coming from the ports of Barth, Stralsund, Greifswald, Wolgast, and Stettin, or from the ports in the Trave, Elbe, or Meuse, or any river between the Elbe and the Meuse, or between the Trave and the Oder, are to be admitted into British ports on the same terms as if coming from ports actually within the dominions of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

It is also ordered, among some minor regulations, that all vessels of leas than sixty tons burden, belonging to Austria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Meek- lenburg-Strelitz, and Oldenburg, shall enjoy the same privilege in British ports as British vessels under sixty tons burden,—namely, that of being exempt from the necessity of taking licensed pilots."

The Times thus barbarously disposes of some exclusive intelligence put forth by the Morning Herald- " The following startling announcement appeared, a day or two since, in the columns of a contemporary, whose ardent zeal in the service of her Ministerial patrons should have saved her from so cruel a hoax. [Here is given the para- graph which we quoted irL7.1 the Herald last week, about the cession of Suez to the British Government, with the concurrence of rtuss;ii, and Prussia, but not of France.] It is scarcely necessary to add, for the infornui- tion of the very few whom this transparent fiction may have misled, that the treaty thus described has not, nor ever had, any other existence than in the fertile imagination of the wag by whom our over-credulous contemporary has been deceived."

A letter received by Lloyd's Committee mentions a serious disturb- ance at the island of Ichaboe, on the coast of Africa, on the 6th July, among some of the vessels loading with guano. There were about seventy or eighty ships, and the new corners tried to push before the others in loading ; which was resisted. Mr. Albert Hancock, of the Victoria, who had been elected to a kind of command over the ships, under the auspices of Captain Brooks, of the Queen's steamer Thun- derbolt, had sent to the nearest station for naval aid ; and in the mean time some of the rioters had been put in irons, and sent to St. Helena.

Letters from Singapore have been received by Lloyd's Committee, recounting further outrages perpetrated by pirates on the coast of Borneo. They had seized the ship Luckly Blass, plundered it, burned it, and massacred all the crew and passengers, eighteen persons. Cap- tain Edward Belcher repaired to the coast in the Queen's surveying- ship Samarang, fought the pirates, and, after a severe fight, destroyed eight of their proas ; the British commander receiving a sharp wound in both thighs.