15 FEBRUARY 1840, page 11

British 'wrongdoings In India.

TO TIIE EDITOR. OF TILE SPECTATOR. MR. IHTOR—The cold-blooded massacre of prisoners at Ghazni, by order of the puppet King put on the throne of Afghanistan by Lord AccaLAND, the......

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

BIRTHS. On the 22,1 nil., at Naples, Viscountess Dexeale, of a daughter. At *adapt House. Whitehall Gardens, Lady Mnaoansar MARSHAM, ore daughter. On the 811, inst., at Assley......

The Theatres.

THE deserted Olympie has at last found a lessee in Mr. BuTLETI, a gen- tleman who appeared as Hamlet at Covent Garden a few seasons ago ; under whose management it was opened on......

The Army.

WAn.orrtcr, Feb. 14.-6th Regt. Drag. Guards—Lieut. 0. V. Jackson. from the 53r11 Foot, to be Capt. vice F. Brown, retired upon his fltrmer half-pay. Scots' Fusilier......

Both The Patent Houses Have P Tribute In Kind To

their Royal Mis- tress on the happy event of her marriage. Drury was the last to announce and the first to produce its " Emblematical Tribute ;" but it was so slight and......

East India Shipping.

The Alice Crowther, Fish, for Cork; and Tickler, Ellis, from Sydney, have been wrecked at Manilla. Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 10th, Ring William, Thomas, from Ceylon; 12th, imam......