Iftistellantous.

Tuesday's Gazette announced, besides the levee at St. James's Palace for Wednesday last, another for Wednesday next, the 20th instant.

We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Albert is going, during the Easter recess, to make a short excursion to the Continent, in order to visit his afflicted relations at Coburg.— Times. [The Morning Herald denies this.] In a letter to the High Constable of Brighton, Captain Pechell says, he finds on inquiry that there is no truth in the statement that a bill is to be introduced into Parliament to authorize the sale of Brighton Pavilion.

It gives us sincere pleasure to learn that confident hopes are enter- tained, in the highest quarters, of a visit to this country of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, which is expected to take place in the month of May. .—Morning Post.

The France of Wednesday says, that though a recent report of the Duke of Angoule me's death is not true, yet, by accounts of the 6th, received from Goritz, there was no doubt that he could not hold out for many days.

Lord Ranelagh has returned to Paris from a visit to Don Carlos, at Bourges. It is said that Don Carlos is disposed to make sacrifices, hitherto refused by him, to advance the settlement of Spain ; and that he has placed in Lord Ranelagh's hands documents justifying this state- ment.—Morning Herald.

The Herald says " upon authority," that there is no foundation for the rumours that have been lately circulated of the intended resignation of the Lord Chancellor, and of the appointment of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland as his successor.

The Bishop of Peterborough has addressed a note to the Times, in reply to animadversions in that journal ; explaining, as be did in the House of Lords, that Mr. Marsh, the Rector of Barnack, has not per- formed the duties in church, since the accusations against him were made known to the Bishop.

Arrangements have been made with Mr. Mullah, by the National Society, for a systematic course of musical instruction in all the training institutions of the Society.—Standard.

The record of deaths this week contains the name of Sir Henry Hal- ford, the eminent physician ; who expired on Saturday last. We abridge the biographical notice iu the Times— Sir Henry Raiford was born on the 2d October 1766, and received his early education at Rugby School, and at Christchurch, Oxford. He afterwards studied medicine at Edinburgh; and commenced practice, in conjunction with his father, Dr. Vaughan, a physician of high reputation, at Leicester. In 1792 or 1793 be settled in London, and rose with wonderfully rapid steps to the very first practice. After the death of Dr. Baillie, in 1823, he was left absolutely without a rival. In 1820, he was elected President of the College of Phy- sicians ; and remained in that office until his death, having been reelected every year for nearly a quarter of a century. He was created a Baronet by George the Third; and changed his name from Vaughan to Halford, in compliance with the will of his maternal great uncle, the last Sir Charles Halford, of Wis- tow, in Leicestershire ; whose estates he inherited. He was Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, a member of the Royal Society, and of several other literary and scientific bodies, trustee of Rugby school, &c. He married a daughter of John eleventh Lord St. John of Bletsoe ; by whom he has left one son, the Member for South Leicestershire, who succeeds to the title and estates, and one daughter. Sir Henry was physician to four British Sovereigns, three of whom he attended in their last illness; and he was often consulted by sovereigns of foreign states. In practice, he was distinguished by acumen, sound judg- ment, and abundance of resources; in private life, by strong sense, classical attainments, cultivated taste, and amenity of manners.

Mr. Sharman Crawford has written a letter " To the Unenfranchised People of Great Britain and Ireland," from which it appears that he has definitively relinquished his project of " stopping the Supplies," at least " for this session." He says- " My Friends—On five different occasions, since the commencement of the Parliamentary session, I moved amendments on the Supplies, asserting the constitutional principle, that you ought not to be taxed without being repre- sented.' What was the result? I divided the House with declining mino- rities each time. 1 began with twenty-nine English Members ; which, on the fifth division, was reduced to eight ; and of thes2 eight Members only five had voted in all the divisions. My wish would have been to have made an effective stand on the items of the Army Estimates ; but, in communicating with these five Members who had steadily voted with me, I found their opinion was, that the public voice had not sufficiently sanctioned the proceeding to warrant the making use of the forms of the House to assert a determined resistance against so great a majority. I could not then take on myself the responsibility of car- rying on a contest to which I gad no pledge of even the smallest support ; espe- cially when I found that some Members who had been long considered as pre- eminently representing popular opinion, and others elected by popular consti- tuencies, were either avowedly hostile, or, by repudiating the principle of the movement I contended for, gave what may be called only a damaging support. But perhaps the greatest evil of all wag, the disunion among the people, mani-

fested at two public meetings in London. • • •

" The voice that attempts to advocate the people's rights in the present House of Commons must fall in dead and pointless accents, unless it be the emanation of public enthusiasm."

Lieutenant Munro's letter to Mr. Thomas Duncombe, explaining the circumstances of the duel with Colonel Lynar Fawcett, has been pub- lished in the papers. In the earlier part he dwells on his unfortunate fate iu being obliged to abandon his family, his country, and his pro- fession. In 1839, he undertook the office of agent to Colonel Fawcett, in order to save his brother-in-law expense ; and he managed some business very advantageously. Among other things, he concluded a very good bargain for the sale of a house ; and, with Colonel Fawcett's express concurrence, he remitted 50/ due from a person who had pre- viously taken the house, which then had a tenant in it who failed to pay that amount for rent. Colonel Fawcett returned from China to London last June, and at first cordially approved of Mr. Munro's arrangements..

In a walk to the City, the Colonel hinted that there were some suspicions on his mind of a most unhappy nature. On the 29th of that month, Mr. Munro called on his brother-in-law to explain some small items-

" He appeared considerably excited. There was a person of the name of Romer in the room, who was sent away as soon as I entered, although upon previous occasions he had remained. I think that I was expected; and from the accounts being at once entered upon, and from other circumstances, I be- lieve that the gross insult that was put upon me afterwards was premeditated. The small sums previously alluded to were soon explained to his satisfaction, but the 501. that Mrs. Smith was allowed for the loss she had sustained from taking Warwick House with a bad tenant in it, was made the subject upon which a quarrel was to be effected. I endeavoured repeatedly to make him understand, that it was strictly in conformity with his own directions that Mrs. Smith had been let off paying 50/., as well as to draw his attention to the important services I had rendered him in other matters, and the high price I had obtained for the house : but he kept constantly reverting to the subject of the 50!., and insinuated repeatedly that I bad neglected his interest, and had allowed myself to be bamboozled by Mrs. Smith. I have no doubt but that he was anxious to leave London for some reason or other ; for he said frequently, that if be could only get away, and get rid of the house, that he would sell it for 1,600/., and that he would force the lawyers to do so by the power of attor- sty that he had sent to me from China, &c. I remained perfectly passive under all the insinuations for a considerable time."

The Colonel grew more and more violent. He denied having charged Mr. Munro with having neglected his interests ; and the other insisting that he had made the charge, he said, " A flat contradiction I will bear from no man "—rang the bell, opened the door before the servant could answer it, and cried out in a rage, " Open the door, and keep it open, until Mr. Munro is turned out of the house.'

"I did not know what to do or what to say ; but I remained for a few minutes, and then went away, nearly distracted with the cruel and gross insult put upon me by a person that I had rendered such services to : and, supposing that 1 might be spurned for permitting it, I returned, and said that if it had not been for the connexion that existed between us, and the unseemly nature of such a proceeding, that I would bring him to account for it, or have resented it upon the spot. He replied, that as to the connexion, be wished never to hear of it again, and hoped that it would not prevent me from doing what I referred to. 1 then went away."

Next day, Mr. Munro consulted, besides Lieutenant Grant, five officers of great experience, one of upwards of thirty years standing ; and another of those gentlemen consulted a general officer. All said that there was no alternative but an apology or a meeting ; and the General said, that " no officer holding her Majesty's commission could possibly exist under such an insult "-

" I hoped that one word of regret might have been expressed for the wanton and gross insult put upon me : but none would be given ; and a meeting was proposed that day by Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett ; to which Mr. Grant ob- jected. • • ' I most earnestly desired that some arrangement might he come to the following morning: and I made three appeals to Mr. Grant upon the ground with that view, saying each time, Good God, Grant, can nothing be done to stop this dreadful affair from going on But it appears he was so obstinately and violently received the day before by Lieutenant-Colonel Faw- cett, that he bad no hope of coming to a friendly understanding. • • I now think that the quarrel was premeditated; and there were circumstances of so incredible a nature connected with it, that I cannot even allude to them ; but I will say, that I have strong reasons to believe that most diabolical means were used to produce a quarrel between my lamented and gallant connexion and myself, and to prevent a reconciliation. I am certain that Ire would not have otherwise behaved to me as he did."

Mr. Munro appeals for evidence of the estimation in which he was held to the officers of his regiment, the Roy al Horse Guards, and to Colonel Baillie, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ross-shire ; in which county he was bred and born. In the course of his letter, he makes a practical suggestion for the prevention of duelling-

" Inserting a clause in the Articles of War, forbidding all officers from giving or receiving challenges, upon pain of losing their commissions, and instituting a competent court before which officers who consider that they had been insulted or Injured in their characters may lay their complaints for in- vestigation, redress, or advice."

Mr. Turner's new check upon duelling—to make the slayer answerable for the debts of the slain—though ingenious, is not an original idea, but is borrowed from the stage. In the farce of I'll be your Second, an ad- venturer contrives to pick up more than one breakfast by offering him- self as a second to gentlemen in want of " a friend." Many may re- member with -what gusto Liston, having an eye to the amicable meal, used to begin the routine of his duties by saying, " Can't we arrange this little matter ?" In the course of his prosperous business, the vo- lunteer second discovers that a bill which he holds is accepted by his prin- cipal, a more than usually obstinate fire-eater. He is horror-struck at the criminal nature of duelling—he dissuades the belligerent young man- " Think," he says, " of your papa and mamma, George—think of your brothers and sisters " ; and then, emphatically lowering his voice- " Think, George, of your creditors."

Punch pencils the Premier in classic guise this week, as Sisyphus, heaving his stone up the hill ; the stone being " Ireland." The mass adumbrates the countenance of O'Connell, in which are blended a most prone determination to roll down the hill again—and in that sense there is nowhere such a Master of the Rolls—uneasy chagrin, and a roguish leer at the vainly-toiling Sisyphus. The Queen is in nubibus, surveying the fruitless labour with dismay ; while Russell, Palmerston, and other Opposition Furies, &c. chuckling, point backwards.

Glasgow and the neighbouring country were visited with a hurricane of wind on Saturday morning. It began about seven o'clock, was at its height about nine, had moderated at eleven, and with occasional gusts gradually subsided ; at five iu the afternoon the weather was beautifully clear and serene. During the height of the storm, persons were raised from the ground and violently thrown down ; chimney-pots were strewn about in all directions ; the roof of a house in the suburb of Tradeston was blown off; the roof of a church in Duke Street (Mr. Graham's) was forced in ; and the shipping suffered much damage. At Paisley, a tall chimney at the shawl-manufactory- of Messrs. Robert M`Arthur and Co., 130 feet high, was broken in half, carry lug away in its fall a building three stories high, and another one story high. Two children in the highest story were thrown out unhurt ; three persons saved themselves by clinging to part of the wall that remained stand- ing; but one woman was hurt and another was killed. The storm was also felt at Edinburgh, but less severely.