_Miscellaneous.

The Globe vatieinates touching the future movements of Royalty. The Queen is to set out for Ireland during the first week in October. If the appeal go against Mr. O'Connell and his companions, an act of grace will remit the remainder of their imprisonment. The Queen will . take a short aquatic excursion early in September. Louis Philippe is expected about the 17th of September, to stay a week or ten days.

Prince William of Prussia, after a round of sight-seeing in London, has been making a tour in the provinces. On Saturday morning, he went to Woolwich, where he saw a review of artillery, and the lions of the place ; and partook of a dejeuner given by Lord Bloomfield. Re- turning to town, he dined with the Duke of Wellington, who had a select party of royal and distinguished guests to meet him ; and at night his Royal Highness went to the Italian Opera. On Sunday, he visited the Queen Dowager at Bushy Park ; went in one of her car- riages to look at Hampton Court Palace ; and dined with the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge and a select party at Kew. The Prince left town on Monday. He was accompanied by the Duke of Wellington, the Chevalier Bunsen, several members of the Prussian Legation, and his suite. Travelling by the South-western Railway, they arrived at Gosport by the first train from London ; and were received by Admiral • Parker and Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenharn. After viewing the Dockyard in a barge, the party embarked in the Comet steamer, and went on board the Collin,gwood war-ship at Spithead ; on board the Victory—being duly shown the spot where Nelson fell ; and the Vic- toria and Albert yacht. The party then repaired by railway to Basing- stoke, and, in carriages provided by the Duke of Wellington, to Swath- fieldsaye. Here the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley were present; and the Duke gave a grand banquet. Next day, all the party, except Lord and Lady Charles, proceeded by the Great Western Railway to Oxford; alighting at the residence of the Vice-Chancellor Dr. Wynter. A formal reception was provided for the Prince in the Schools Quadrangle ; whither he repaired, having donned the academic gown and cap conferred upon him in 1814, when he visited England with his father the late King of Prussia. The Duke of Wellington, having also attired himself in his Chancellor's robes, delivered an address in the name of the University ; in which, allusion was made to the good understanding which has subsisted be- tween the two countries of England and Prussia since the peace, and . to the Prince's former visit. He responded suitably, in a written English speech ; making a personal allusion to the Chancellor—" I unite my fer- vent hopes with those of this University, that it may long continue to be presided over by the hero, who, after having acquired the highest military honour and glory, has known how to increase both in the time of peace.' After partaking of a dejeuner in St. John's College, the party set off for the Archbishop of York's residence at Nuneham ; where they dined. Among the guests, were Viscount Melbourne, the Countess of Essex,. Miss Johnson, and Mr. Samuel Rogers. On Wednesday, the Duke of Wellington returned to town ; and the Prince, with his suite, proceeded to Stowe, spending three hours in the grounds ; and thence by railway to Derby ; sleeping at the Midland Counties Hotel. His Royal High- ness rose early on Thursday morning; viewed Chatsworth in passing, and partook of a dejeuner prepared for him ; and so on to York.

Count Nesselrode returned to Pegg's Hotel, at Brighton, on Friday. Count Dmitry Nesselrode, with the Baron and Baroness Seebach, arrived • on Sunday. On Monday, the Baron embarked for the Continent ; the Baroness remained with her father. On Monday, arrived M. Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris, to visit the Count.

The Cheltenham Looker-on has a bit of gossip about signs of the Duke of Wellington's age-

" It will be heard with regret that the Duke was seized, on Sunday, with a fit of deafness, of so extraordinary a character as to produce some uneasiness among those more immediately about his person. His Grace has always been subject, more or less, to slight attacks of this kind ; which he accounted for by saying that he supposed the roar of the artillery in his various battles had deranged or impaii ed the auricular nerve : but this last attack was so decided as almost to make him completely deaf; and though he went to his office in the Horse Guards, and attended the Cabinet, and his general health appeared altogether unimpaired, yet at his advanced age the slightest symptom of de- rangement cannot hut be regarded with uneasiness."

Mr. Edwin Landseer was thrown from his horse, at Porchester Ter- race, on Sunday, and was a good deal hurt, though not dangerously. He was carried to the house of Mr. Lionel! the painter, where he re- ceived surgical aid ; and thence went home.

Mr. Owen left London on Sunday, for America, on a visit to his family, residing in New Harmony, Indiana. His friends and disciples assembled in St. James's Park in numbers amounting to some thousands, and accompanied him towards the terminus of the Southampton Rail- way as far as Vauxhall Bridge; where Mr. Owen bade them farewell. ' The fairer weather is reflected in the more cheerful accounts of the harvest. The improvement 'which began last week has continued ; and although the sky has often been hidden by clouds, there has been little rain, and nothing to interrupt the farmer's proceedings. In most of the English and Welsh counties all goes on well ; and in many, great pro- gress has been made in carrying the corn to a place of safety. North- ward, as in Cumberland, matters are not quite so forward ; but there appears to be nothing really to complain of. The Dublin journals speak of a "providential change" in the weather ; the potato. crop is " quite retrieved" ; and there is "a blessed prospect of abundance in the land." The Irish provincial papers tell the same tale. The change has perhaps not been quite so decided in Scotland, East or West ; but the crop is abundant, no damage has yet been done, and if the better weather has continued the harvest will have become general. In the extreme North, about Inverness, the harvest has yet to be begun ; the farmer awaiting a dry day.

An event of some interest in journalism has occurred this 'week: after several years of party alliance, the Standard and the Times are at open war. When the evening paper proclaimed itself a thorough partisan of the Government, the morning paper went into a kind of half-opposi- tion; and, as the distance between the two gradually widened, the tones of civil intercourse grew fainter. There has, too, been an avowed pro- prietary connexion between the Standard and the Morning Herald; an affinity of interest which may have helped to dissolve the less intimate union with the Herald's morning rival. But the immediate cause of the rupture was one of a still smaller kind—the appearance in the Times of certain letters by British officers at Morocco. The evening editor saw in that publication of exclusive intelligence, not a felicitous supply of news for the public, but an indiscreet offence to the French; and he fell to questioning the genuineness of the exclusive intelligence, denying that the letters were those of British officers. The Times defends its adopted epistles ; banters its antagonist on his anxious politeness towards the French ; and, warming in the controversy, says, in its strong way, amid other amenities, "We are afraid our contemporary is a goose." At that word the Standard throws off all restraint of courtesy; labours to make out, with minute criticism of style, that the letters are those of news- paper-reporters ; and more hotly retorts with retrospects at the incon- sistencies of the Times; declaring "such sneers and coarse Billingsgate the necessary resource of a journal that from first to last has maintained its position without principle, without talent, (save now and then a bor- rowed spark,) without character, and solely by the reputation of wealth." To that pitch had the quarrel reached last night.

A treaty between Hanover and England, for the settlement of the Stade-duty question, was signed on the 22d July, by the Earl of Aber- deen and Mr. Gladstone on the part of Queen Victoria, and by Count Kielmansegge and the Sieur Hupeden on the part of King Ernest. As It awaits the ratification of the "Elbe-bordering States," it was agreed, at a conference on the 9th instant, that the present duties should continue in force until that ratification should be obtained ; excepting only the duties specifically excepted in the sixth article. The Morning Post gives a descriptive summary of the treaty--

. The first article provides that Hanoverian vessels arriving in British ports, and British vessels in Hanoverian, shall be subject to no higher dues or charges than national vessels respectively. "By the second, third, and fourth articles, a reciprocity of free advantage is given to British and Hanoverian vessels in the carrying of goods to and from the dominions of either Power to the dominions of the other.

"Article five declares that, for the convenience of commerce, the advantages detailed in the preceding articles shall be extended to Hanoverian vessels enter- ing British ports from the mouths of the Meuse, of the Ems, of the Weser, of the Elbe, or from the mouth of any navigable river between the Elbe and the 'Weser, or between the Trave and the Memel.

"The sixth article (the most relevantly important of the whole) ordains that from the 1st October next the Stade charges on British vessels shall, with a few exceptions, be the same as those specified in the convention between the Elbe-bordering States,' signed at Dresden on the 13th April last. The excepted articles are to be charged only two-thirds of the duties specified in the Elbe convention.

" By article seventh, the contracting parties engage that no reductions of duties, nor any powers, privileges, or Immunities whatsoever, in matters of commerce and navigation, shall be granted by either to the subjects of any other state, unless Hanover or Great Britain, as the case may be, be entitled to the same advantages and on the same terms. " The eighth article provides for the continuation of the treaty until the let January 1854; and to a further period of twelve months after either party shall have given notice of its intention to terminate the same."

A new feature, and one that deserves notice from the fact of the bene- fit it will confer upon those connected with the maritime interest of the country, is about to be introduced in the reorganization of Lloyd's,— namely, the establishment of a chart-room ; which will contain the offi- cial charis and surveys published by the respective Foreign Govern- ments, so that the subscribers may have at band a ready reference to any point or place they please. The Admiralty, the East India Company, and the Russian Government, have already in the most handsome man- ner furnished the requisite copies; - and there seems every probability of the collection being the most complete of the kind in existence.— Times.

It is pretty generally understood that the Deficiency Bills, deposited by the Treasury with the Bank to cover advances for dividends and other causes, are either entirely paid off at this moment, or their amount so much reduced as to leave them altogether a matter of no importance. This is the natural result of that disposition of the surplus revenue, ever since the country had such a thing to boast of, which has been adopted in applying the greater part to paying off Deficiency Bills.— Tunes, Aug. 23.

The Morning Herald announces a contemplated " revision " of the Game-laws. Some of its contemporaries had animadverted on those unpopular laws ; whereupon the Herald says- " It may save both the Chronicle and the Times an infinite deal of declama- tory writing as to the origin, effects, and defects of our Game-laws, to be told that the Home Office has for some time past been making very extensive in- quiries on the subject, and that there is every reason to believe that another session of Parliament will not pass without a complete revision of those laws. We may also add, that since Sir James Graham has been at the head of the Home Department, the evidence on which convictions and committals for poaching have been founded, has' in every case of alleged severity, been required' by him from the convicting and committing Magistrates; and that in not a, few cues the term of imprisonment has been shortened, or the immediate re- lease of the convict been ordered, by the Home Secretary. On every account, it is, then, most desirable that the administration of the Game-laws during the approaching autumn and winter should temper mercy with justice, and a broad distinction be taken, by Magistrates, between poachers from necessity and poachers from idleness and confirmed vicious habits.'

Lord Brougham, with that energy which so remarkably characterizes him in any enterprise that be has at heart, has addressed a letter to the Morning Herald, intended to counteract obstructions to the immediate and facile operation of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors. He explains, that debtors detained for sums under 201. need not petition the Bankruptcy Commissioners at all, nor make affidavit ; but may in any way address a petition or letter, even by post, to the Judge of the Court by whose process they are imprisoned. Debtors detained for sums above 20/. must petition the Bankruptcy Commissioners of the district,. and make affidavit in the form prescribed by the act and annexed to it. But no " attorney-at-law " [that is, no attorney at all in the popular sense of the word] need be employed to draw up a petition to the Com- missioners for the petitioner's discharge; for the petitioner himself can copy and fill up the form annexed to the act of Parliament, and any person can act as the petitioner's "attorney or agent" in signing as a witness to each sheet. Affidavits must be sworn before a Master Extra- ordinary in Chancery : most solicitors are Masters Extraordinary ; they are bound to take affidavits, whether from clients or not ; the fee is 2s. 6d.; but perhaps they may reasonably make a further charge for attending on purpose. Lord Brougham has received letters from per- sons complaining that Masters Extraordinary had refused to receive affi- davits; and from others, complaining that gaolers had demanded fees for expediting release : he invites any who are aggrieved to send him particulars of such or any other obstructions to the working of the act.. [We see that Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, with the concurrence of three other Bankruptcy Commissioners, puts the very opposite con- struction on the word "attorney "—he thinks it means only an. "attorney-at-law."] The Sixtieth Regiment of Rifles and the Sixty-first Foot, at Cork, were awaiting transports under orders for India; but the order for their departure has been countermanded ; in consequence, it is supposed, of the warlike appearances nearer home.

Two returns lately printed by order of the Commons show the pro- gress made in augmenting the British steam-marine. The first gives the "amount of horse-power ordered for her Majesty's steam-vessels between the 1st of April 1839 and the 31st of August 1841," as follows—

Horse Power. Number of Vessels. Tonnage.

4,496 18 16,581

The second describes the "amount of horse-power, 8:c. between the- 1st of September 1841 and the 1st of July 1844," thus- Horse-Power. Number of Vessels. Tonnage.

11,261 30 26 , 892

From these statistics it seems, that in the first three years of the pre- sent Administration there has been an addition of twelve to the number of our war-steamers, with a corresponding increase of more than 10,000. tons in their burden, as compared with the strength of the same depart- ment during the two years preceding their accession to office.

Mr. S. A. Warner, the explosive inventor, has written a letter to the- Morning Post in correction of some statements by Sir Charles Napier, and stating a challenge which the writer says he conveyed to Sir Ro- bert Peel through the Commodore. Sir Robert referred Sir Charles and the proposition to Sir George Cockburn, who " threw cold water upon it,"—certainly a most unfair method of treating gunpowder mat- ters ! Mr. Warner now repeats his challenge, in these terms- " If the Government will anchor a line-of-battle ship at the back of the Godwin Sands, out of the ship-track so that no harm may happen to passing, vessels, I will from on board another ship destroy her at a distance of five miles. I am willing to take on board the vessel in which I operate, General Sir George Murray, Captain Viscount Ingeatre, R.N., Captain Dickinson, R.N., and Captain Henderson, U.N.; who shall have every opportunity of inspecting my mode of operation, and satisfying themselves that on this occasion .1 uses pro- jectile. " The kind liberality of my friends enables me to exhibit this experiment without asking the Government for a shilling towards it. If I fail, I am to' receive nothing but ridicule—of which I have received enough to satisfy any reasonable man already. But, previously, I require a guarantee from her Majesty's Government for its purchase of my secret for 300,0001., in the event of my destroying the ship and satisfying the four above-named officers of the feasibility and practicability of my plans.

"Lastly, I invite Sir Howard Douglas, Sir Byam Martin, Sir George Cock- burn, Colonel Chalmer, R.A., and Commander Caffin, R.N., to attend in. another vessel and watch proceedings." [Of course it would be quite safe to accept this challenge ; and those who have so confidently ridiculed Mr. Warner's "powers "—Captain Pechell, for instance—will have no objection to remain in the ship to be shot at with the "long range " ?] This challenge brings out a rival, Mr. Needham Scrope Shrapnel, "son of the inventor of the Shrapnel shell," who casts doubts on Mr. Warner's power to overcome the optical difficulties of atmospherical re- fraction in aiming his "long range " ; and also repeats, in the Times,. an offer which he has made to Sir Robert Peel-

" I am ready to destroy at any distance from our shores an enemy's fleet, in the heaviest sea in the darkest night, and without any noise; and will expose my bomb-proof to the heaviest fire from batteries or a fleet; and shall have much pleasure to chase or attack Captain Warner ; and will defy any one to destroy my bark with an invisible shell,' or with such a much more invisible range as six miles.'" A great concourse of people had the satisfaction of witnessing an unusual exhibition in Hyde Park on Saturday—the horsemanship of a Tartar soldier. Balthazar Beck Pogus is the son of a Khan of Inde- pendent Tartary. At the age of fourteen, fighting for the Circassians, he was taken prisoner by the Russians ; and then allowed to engage ha a Mussulman regiment in the Russian service, at 'Warsaw; in which he commanded twenty-nine men. One day, a man was ill, and was missed by the commanding-officer of the regiment ; who would take no ex- cuse for the man's absence, but struck Balthazar, and threatened to punish him for the "breach of discipline." Balthazar drew his sword, cut down the officer, turned his horse, and, hotly pursued by Cossacks, with e-1- change of shots and wounds, fled into Prussia, upwards of a hundred and ewenty miles distant. Thence he was assisted in coming to England; with his horse: here he has been helped by Lord Dudley Stuart and others, and the object is to send him to Constantinople, and a subscription to pay his expenses has already been opened. The man has been exhi- biting feats of military skill at various barracks. On Tuesday last 'week, he was matched with two capital swordsmen at the Regent's Park Barracks; either of whom was more than a match for him. On Saturday, at five o'clock, he appeared on the ground before the Horse Guards Barracks in Hyde Park, mounted on his gray Arab horse, and accompanied by several gentlemen on horseback ; one of whom acted as his interpreter, and seemed in some degree to direct his movements. A large space of ground was cleared out, and "kept" by privates of the Second Life Guards- " The Tartar is a good-looking man, apparently between twenty-five and thirty years of age, of an athletic frame, with considerable squareness of limb, but with no superfluous flesh. He stands about five feet ten inches in height, and may weigh about thirteen stone. He was dressed in a tight-fitting tunic of rose-coloured silk, wadded, and capable of resisting a hard blow ; very loose trousers, drawn tightly round his legs just below the knee, and met by tight black boots almost resembling long gaiters. On his head was a sheepskin cap of black wool, similar to those worn by the Persians who were in the suite of the Persian Ambassador when in this country a few years ago. He had mus- tachios on the upper lip. His arms consisted of a pair of pistols, which in the course of his performances he repeatedly discharged, and a pole about ten or a dozen feet long, which he used as a lance ; throwing it with considerable force when galloping, and with so correct an aim, that had it not been for the quick- ness and agility of the gentleman who volunteered to be the object of his aim, and who was also on horseback, a broken head or a fractured bone would pro- bably have been the result. We believe this part of his practice is what is called throwing the djereed. The Tartar also displayed considerable skill in lifting this weapon from the ground without dismounting ; but this he per- formed without putting his horse in motion, making him stand still while he recovered his weapon. He also threw himself off his horse whilst at the top of his speed, and vaulted again into the saddle with great ease. These performan- ces were very well in their way ; but nothing that cannot be done, more espe- cially the equestrian feats, by a large proportion of the men in our cavalry re- giments, and by hundreds of others; and the spectators did not seem to be much astonished by what they beheld. Towards the close of the exhibition, Mr. Maynard, formerly an officer of the Blues, the son of Lord Maynard, mounted upon a troop-horse, with a fencing-foil, undertook to encounter the Tartar, who was armed with a basket-hilted single stick ; and, nothing daunted by his formidable appearance and reputation as a swordsman, succeeded with apparent ease in inflicting a palpable hit' upon his ribs, just beneath the left arm of the Tartar, (who is a left-banded swordsman,) as the latter raised his arm to inflict a perpendicular cut at his head. The Tartar did not appear to comprehend what had occurred, and in rather an irritable manner dismounted, and did not renew the contest. Mr. Maynard then threw his fencing-glove on the ground, and putting his horse in a canter, lifted it up without dismounting. "This gentleman also exhibited the feat of vaulting into the saddle; and in the comparison of horsemanship with the Oriental foreigner certainly suffered mothing."

Captain Grover writes to the papers to show that Dr. Wolff's mis- sion was not unnecessary, although unsuccessful-

" In the letter which Dr. Wolff was forced to write at Bokhara, and which yon had the goodness to insert at my request, the King of Bokhara proclaims to the world that he put to death Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly in the month of Sarratan 1259. The Christian date is not given in Dr. Wolff's letter, but, for the information of the public, I inserted between brackets what I had calculated as the English date. I was wrong. The correct date should be July (Cancer) 1843. Thus, one very important fact appears : at the time I proposed to her Majesty's Government to proceed at my own cost and on my own re- sponsibility to Bokhara to attempt the release of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, these wretched men were actually alive!"

The subjoined speculation about the proposed College of Agriculture merits attention-

" We are happy to find that there is to be a College of Agriculture, and that the worthy clodhopper will henceforth have his Alma Mater, like the Cantab, -and the honest high-low of industry will tread the sacred groves of Academus as well as the aristocratic Oxonian. We see no difficulty in organizing a Col- lege of Agriculture, and we can suggest a few of the probable Professorships. Of course there will be a chair of New-laid Eggs, which the Professor of Poultry would be well qualified to occupy. Degrees will be conferred in Guano; and a series of lectures on the philosophy of making hay when the sun shines would, no doubt, be exceedingly popular. We should propose that, previous to ma- triculation, every student should be required to undergo an examination on moral philosophy in connexion with chaff and the efficacy of thrashing by hand when the ears are unusually lengthy. Corresponding with the University Masters of Arts, there could be Bachelors of Barley; and the Under-Graduates might be brought direct to the Agricultural College from plough, as they are now brought to the Universities immediately from Harrow. The examination-papers would at first be difficult to frame; but the following may be some guide for preparing them. Find the square-root of a stick of horse-radish. Describe the milky way, distinguishing the whey from the milk, and chalking out the way by which the milk gets there. We merely throw out these hints, but the Professors themselves will be better able to frame the necessary questions for the use of students. Clover will offer a very wide field ; and hay, though rather -dry, will be the sort of food that the students may take advantage of."—Purrek.

The Globe tells an anecdote of an illustrious Yankee now travelling In this country-

"' General Torn Thumb' was taking a ride near Clifton on Sunday after- noon, in an open carriage, accompanied by his father, his guardian, and his preceptor, Mr. Sherman. The General and the latter were on the driver's box; and on descending a steep hill, the horse took fright, ran at the top of his speed, and dashed against a high stone wall, with such force as to break his neck, and shiver the shafts and a portion of the carriage to atoms! The two inside gentlemen escaped with a few slight bruises. Mr. Sherman had seen the approaching danger, and held the General firmly in his arms; and the moment the concussion occurred, he cleared the horse and wall, the latter nearly nine feet in height, and landed safely in the adjoining field, preserving his charge harmless."