Iftistellaneous.

Tuesday's Gazette announced the appointment of the Countess of Dunmore to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary ; the Honourable Mrs. Georgians Mary Anson, to be one of the Bedchamber Women in Ordinary, in the room of Lady Harriet Clive, resigned; and the Honourable Alexander Nelson Hood, to be one of the Grooms in 'Waiting in Ordinary.

The Observer, in explaining the circumstances which gave rise to the report that Lord Cardigan and Colonel Wood bad fought a duel last week, intimates that reports injurious to the reputation of Lord Cardi- gan's sister had been for some days in circulation. They were proved to be false, however, by the fact that the story represented the lady to be in Middlesex and afterwards on the Continent, when in reality she was in Wales. Lord Cardigan's and Colonel Wood's movements are fully accounted for, to show that the duel was impossible. Lord Cardigan has been annoyed by the sellers of penny reports hawking accounts of the

"fatal duel" near his residence in Portman Square : the Police hay* had orders to prevent the nuisance.

A numerous deputation from the Committee of the British and Fo- reign Anti-Slavery Society, accompanied by several Members of Par- liament, had an interview on Wednesday with Sir Robert Peel, to pre- sent a memorial on Slavery in British India. The deputation were courteously received ; and were informed by Sir Robert, that some time before he received an intimation from the Committee of their wish to see him, he had directed the special attention of the President of the Board of Control to the subject, as deserving the most serious attention of the Government.

The average price of British corn has fallen to 72s. 2d., and the duty, on foreign corn has consequently risen to 2s. 8d.

The Paris papers of Wednesday have been received.

The ilifoniteur of Sunday contains a Royal ordonnance, countersigned by the Minister of Finance, authorizing the latter to raise a portion of the loan of 450,000,000 francs (18,000,000/.) under the bill passed by the Chambers. The amount of the sum to be raised by the ordonnance is 150,000,000 francs (6,000,0000 in Three per Cent. Stock. Sealed tenders are to be sent in on Monday October 18th; and the highest bidder, with the reserve of a minimum to be fixed by the Minister of Finance, will be accepted. The 6,000,000/. sterling are to be paid in by the following instalments-7,500,000 francs October 28th, 7,500,000 francs November 28th, 11,250,000 francs January 7th, 1842; the same amount February 7th, March 7th, and April 7th ; 15,000,000 May 7th, and the same sum June 7th, July 7th, August 7th, September 7th, and October 7th. The guarantee-deposits of the contractors to be 5,000,00G francs in cash, or in Stock, Royal Bonds, or Canal Loans, The Moniteur gives a corrected account of the man who shot at the Princes. His name is not Pappart, as it was at first supposed to be, but Francois Quenisset. He was born in 1814, at Selles, which is not far from the baths of Plomvieres, in the East of France. The original reports were wrong in many particulars : he never was a soldier in the Seven- teenth Regiment of Light Infantry, nor could he have had any cause of

vengeance against its Colonel or any of its officers. Quenisset inlisted in 1832 in the Fifteenth Regiment ; in 1835 he insulted his corporal, and was condemned to five years' imprisonment. His time of imprisonment was commuted to a year ; but he escaped a few days before the expiration of his time, and came to Paris, where he lived in different quarters under the feigned name of Pappart. Under this name he was condemned to six months' imprisonment for assault. Pappart, however, was really the name of a man well-known to the Police as a vagabond of the worst character ; and Quenisset was in possession of his papers, having stolen them, it is supposed.

Quenisset has been plied with wine, and has opened his month to his keepers. He has accused several accomplices, and is hourly adding to the list. It is said that he has already accused twenty-five, and that

seven of those are seriously implicated. They all, however, deny any knowledge of him or the conspiracy. The correspondent of the Morn- ing Post says that four principals were immediately engaged in the at-

tempted assassination—Quenisset; a second, who lent his shoulder for Quenisset to take aim from ; and a third, who took Quenisset's second

pistol, and handed it to the fourth ; who dropped it in the crowd. The correspondent of the Times gives an " incontrovertible " statement of the scheme, of which the assassination was but the beginning. Que- nisset was a Communism- " You will recollect that I wrote you on the day of the attempt a brief ac- count of the procession of the Seventeenth Light Infantry, and of its escort of men in blouses'; that 'some of them preceded the troops while others

were mixed up with the soldiers.' I was struck with that fact; as it appeared to me, who know nothing of military affairs, that an observation I heard from

a competent judge at Temple Bar, the day on which the funeral of Queen

Caroline took place, applied—namely, that 'the people were so mixed up with the Guards that not a man of the latter could have acted had an order to re- sist the populace been given.' Such was precisely the notion of this proceed- ing of the men en blouse, of whom I speak. Quenisset was to kill one of the Princes, it did not matter which; and this was to be the signal for the armed conspirators, who were in very great numbers at each side of the procession, to aid those unarmed, when the latter should turn upon the soldiers, and (at- tempt at least to) wrest the muskets oat of their hands. If that failed, an- other calculation was made. The soldiers, infuriated at the murder of one of

the Royal Dukes—upon their own Colonel perhaps—and at the attempt made upon themselves, would probably have butchered every man, woman, and child within their reach. A general insurrection throughout Paris would (as the conspirators calculated) take place ; and scenes would ensue of a character too horrible to contemplate, and be wound up Heaven only knows how."

The Court of Peers met and formally constituted itself for the trial of the accused, on Tuesday. It is elpected that the preliminaries of the trial will occupy some time.

The nightly assemblages of people in Paris have continued ; but there was no disturbance during the week until Monday evening, when the Municipal Guard charged the mob and dispersed it without diffi- culty.

The resurvey of taxes, or at least its most unpopular accessory the mode of conducting the survey, seems to have been abandoned. A letter from Rheims, in the Journal des Debats, says—" The recensement is about to commence at Rheims. The Municipality will take it, assisted by the Controller of Direct Contributions."

The Morning Chronicle reports progress in the negotiations between the Belgian and French Commissioners for arranging a commercial treaty— "in the conference which took place between the Belgian and French Com- missaries, the latter, we understand, saw little to demand. The Belgians, however, asked for the taking off the prohibition on iron and woollen-stuffs, as well as upon cotton. A very few words interchanged, however, soon brought the Commissaries to the conviction that they were not prepared on either side to fix the amount of duty to be substituted for absolute prohibition. The in- terests of both countries were first specially to be consulted; and the Commis- saries are about to separate, in order to devote themselves to a collection of more accurate information, thereby virtually adjourning the conference to next year. The Commissaries, however, will meet again ; and in the end it is very probable that a kind of triple commercial treaty between England, Belgium, and France, may be the result."