TliE KING'S COURT.-HiS Majesty came from Windsor-park on Thursday, and

held a Court at St. James's Palace, which was attended by the Margrave of Baden, (a visitor front the Continent), and the principal Officers of State. Mr. Stratford Canning was presented on his return from his embassy to Constantinople, and Viscount Strangford on his return from his embassy to the Emperor of the Brazils. His Majesty held a Privy Council, and received the Recorder's report of convicts. The Court broke up at half-past six, and the King returned to the Royal Lodge.

In the course of his drives on Monday, his Majesty inspected the Menagerie ; where, as we are informed, " he found that the Giraffe had gained such strength as to be enabled to stand upright."

The Duke of Clarence was at Windsor on Monday. His Royal Highness and the Duchess have beets at the Opera and other places of public and gay resort. On Saturday last, they gave a. grand dinner to the Royal Family, to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding.

The Duke of Cumberland was at the Haymarket Theatre on Thursday. The Duke of Sussex gave a grand dinner yesterday at his apartments in the King's Palace, at Kensington, to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, Prince Leopold, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and a select party of the nobility and gentry. Princess Augusta has gone to Frogmore Lodge for the season, and the Duke of Gloucester to Cheltenham.

The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday. Previous to his departure, his Grace received visits front Mr. Secretary Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary at War.

It gives us much pain to bear that the state of health of the Duke of Welling- ton is such as to render frequent change g air, and relaxation from business (as far as this last is practicable) a matter of necessity. Persons who, front their par- ticular functions, have constant opportunities for observation, assert, that the anxiety, fatigue, late hours, and vexatious occurrences of the recently-closed Ses- sions have produced more effect on the constitution of the Premier than half a dozen active campaigns. It is asserted that the Duke has been frequently heard to spelt in terms, rather alarming of his consciousness of increasing infirmity.-- Morning Chronicle. Among the late departures may be noted that of the Secretary for the Home Department for Norfolk. The frequency of Ministerial excursions, contrasted with the known fact that latterly they rarely or rather never include Windsor in the circle, is the subject of general speculation.-Morning Chronicle.

Tuesday's Gazette announced the appointment of the Very Rev. R. Bagot to the See of Oxford, and the Rev. Dr. E. Burton to the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Oxford, and a Canonry in Christ Church, void by the death of Dr. C. Lloyd, late Bishop of Oxford. The Gazette of last night contains an order in Council by his Majesty, that no ballot or enrolment for the Local Militia do take place for the space of one year from the present time.

the following resolutions :-

6' I. That all persons born within the King's dominions are British subjects, and im. ineffiately upon their birth, are entitled to the King's protection. 2. That the Legisla. tare of this country never possessed the legal competence to enact, and never has enacted, any law, declaring that innocent British-born subjects shall be converted into slaves for the benefit of other British subjects ; and that this Meeting fully concurs in the doctrine ascribed to the present .Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who, in the debate on the Catholic Question, 1828, is represented to have said, that every subject of the state has a right to life and liberty; and that the Government that would invade those rights would not only subvert all law, but would be acting on a principle whose operation must destroy that Government itself.' 3. That, if it could be at all necessary to support an authority so distinguished for depth of learning and sobriety of judgment, it would be sufficient to quote the following passage from the introduction to Blackstone's Commen- taries, in whose work the opinions of all his illustrious predecessors are concentrated, viz :-"fliose rights which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights-such as are life and liberty-need not the aid of human laws to he more effectually vested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary•, no human Legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall lihnzelf commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.' 4. That It is, notwithstanding, a noto- rious fact that, within the dominions of the British Crown, innocent children, burn British subjects, are, by a monstrous usurpation, illegally and unconstitutionally de. priced of their natural rights as human beings, and of their civil rights as British sub- jects, by thousands and hundreds of thousands. 5. That the British empire would be convulsed from one extremity to the other, if it were proposed to convert into slaves the unoffentling offspring of the most atrocious felon that ever died by the hand of justice ; but that these are the children of innocent men, who are themselves deprived of their natural rights only because they are unprotected-who are unprotected because they are poor-and who are poor, not because they are profligate, but because they are forcibly plundered of their labour and their time. 6. That, in advocating the cause of the future children, this Meeting does not mean to admit, by any implication, that the rights of the existing Negroes are less positive and unquestionable than those of their offspring, but that it deems it expedient to leave to a Sudety already established for the purpose, that branch of the Anti Slavery question which relates to actual slaves and that it will, on that account, and nut in compliment to any pretended rights of the op- pressor, confine its present efforts to the simple object of praying the King and the 1.e. gislatare to adopt effectual measures to put an end to the Colonial practice of converting British-born children into slaves. 7. That petitions to the King and both Houses of Parliament, expressed in the terms of these resolutions, be prepared by the Committee, and that proper means be taken for obtaining signatures to the same, praying that offer. tual measures may be adopted without loss of time to put an end to the Colonial abuse of converting British-born children into slaves.

The Rev. Mr. Isaacson moved the following as an amendment :-

" That this meeting views with the deepest interest the situation of the West Indies ; and are most anxious to lay before his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament, under time form of a petition, such a phut of amelioration as may finally tend to the abolition of slavery. That fur this purpose the practicability of introducing a free labour system lie tried, by purchasing, in the first instance, one of the smaller islands ; and, if this experiment succeed, that other resolutions having the same object in view be founded upon it. That subscriptions be immediately entered into for this purpose ; and that funds, hitherto available for other purposes connected with the cause, be in future op. plicahle to this object alone, as the only certain means of carrying the intentions of the Committee into effect."

The resolutions were carried almost unanimously, only ten or twelve voting with Mr. Isaacson.

CITY NESS.-At a Common Council held on Tuesday. Mr. Clark, nephew

of the late Mr. Shelton. was elected to succeed him as Clerk of the Peace fiir London and Southwark. The City Solicitor was also appointed to act as Co- roner, and the Town Clerk as Registrar of the Mayor's Court, till further orders. In the mean time it was referred to a Committee to inquire into the nature, du. ties, and emoluments of the several offices in their gift, which had become vacant by Mr. Shelton's death, and to report the same to the Court, with their opinion as to the qualifications necessary for the persons to be elected thereto.

RECORDER'S Reroer.-At the King's Council on Thursday, the Recorder was introduced, and made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, during the last May Sessions. The law was ordered to take its course, on Wednesday next, on the following-Jones, for forgery; Ann Chapman, for at- tempting to murder her child at Hammersmith; and Crowther and Turner, two men, for a highway robbery: and on Monday sennight on the following-Martelli and Conway, for forgeries on the banks of Drummond and Coutts, and also on Mr. Hamlet, the silversmith; James Butler, an incendiary, for setting fire to the floor-cloth manufactory in the King's-road.

THE Weaenee.-Wednesday was St. Swithin's Day, and it proved the ficest we have had fora long time. It has bower rained almost by buckets ever since.

THE Ceoes.-The wheat crop has, within the last few weeks, improved wonder- fully. The ear promises to be heavy, and there is not a single acre to be seen but has a fine healthy appearance, and if the mildew keeps oft, this great" staff of life" must prove more titan an average crop.-Leeds Intelligencer.

Hurs.-With the exception of afew favoured spots, the hops have been daily

rARLTANIENTARY Reeoem.-Messrs. Cobbett and Hunt had a meeting at the Mechanics' Institute on Monday ; where resolutions for universal suffrage, annual election, and vote by ballot, were unanimously agreed to. Cobbett tells us in his Register of this morning, that the friends of reform intend to meet and discuss the different motions and orders of the day discussed in the Commons, purl pane with that House. He proposes to call these Southampton-street meetings the " Out-of-doors Collective."

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING.-This meeting took place, as anticipated, on Tues- day, in Freemason's Tavern. Mr. Otway Cave was in the chair. The company, about one hundred in number, consisted chiefly of ladies. Mr. Pownall morel getting worse-the continual rains having much increased the vermin; the quail- tity grown must be very short.-Letter front Maidstone, July 16.

HAY AND CLOVER.-.The late continued and heavy rains have proved very inju- rious to the crops of hay and clover, not only in this neighbourhood but in most parts of the country. In several places we have witnessed the crops of clover which have been cut, gathered together, and left to rot for manure.-Bath

Chronicle. .

DUTY ON FOREIGN Witear.-The duty on wheat has advanced 3s. per quarters .1 it is now 134 8,1, All other dutie4 are as before,, DREADFUL INUNDATION.—In the night of Saturday last, a large natural reser- voir, situate at Blackhill, near Addle, about seven miles from Leeds, broke down its banks. The damn occupies an extent of from twenty to twenty-five acres : it broke about twelve o'clock at night, but did not reach Leeds till between three and four o'clock on Sunday morning. The earliest intimation eiven of the cala- inity was by a workman in the employ of Mr. Hainsworth, of AddleMills, the first works on the line of the stream, who set off to inform Messrs. Andrew and Co. of Scotland Mills; and from thence to Mr. D. Smith's of the • Smithy Flour Mills. The last named gentleman then mounted his horse, and rode to Leeds with all speed, giving alarm of the approach of the flood to the principal manu- facturers as he passed along, until he reached Mr. Jonathan ,Lepton's oil mill. Mr. Lupton then, in his turn, gave the alarm to his neighbours, Mr. Weare, dyer, and at Mr. Pearson's cloth manufactory. The large bell at Messrs. Lawson and Walker's works was next rung, for the purpose of giving the alarm to the nu- merous cottagers whose dwellings are situated on the side of the stream down Mabgate, and the confusion amid :darn which followed beggars description. Mr. Smith had far outstripped the speed of the stream, which in its reckless course met with many impediments. Nothing, however, could long arrest its progress. It threw down bridges. levelled walls, uprooted fences, and carried devastation into all the adjoining lands. Nor was the injury cienfined to mill-owners, and those of large property : the dwelling of the humble cottager has been invaded, many of whom have suffered severely, and several been deprived of ever vestige of clothing and furniture they had in the world—the houses themselves being in a great measure demolished, and rendered totally uninhabitable. The whole con- tents of this vast reservoir emptied itself in nearly two hours ; and the flood reached to a greater height than any which has occurred since the one that took place at the close of the contested election in 1807, generally known by the name of the "Milton flood." By a personal inquiry at all the manufactories and other buildings on the line of the stream, we have collected a variety of interesting par- ticulars, relating to the'extent of damage, hairbreadth escapes, &c.—Leeds Itt- telli3eneer. [The same newspaper then gives a long list of time damage caused by the inundation, in which we arc glad to find that no life was lost.]

The heavy rains appear to have done considerable damage on the banks of the

Morsels, in the neighbourhood of Stockport. On Saturday morning, the river rose nearly twelve feet above its usual height, in the course of two hours ; and in the low lands about Didsbury, Cheadle, and Northenden, considerable damage was done to the hay grass, which is for the most part uncut. A young mal, who was attempting to arrest the progress of sane timber which was floating down the stream at Portwooddfell into the river, and was carried away.—Muceles- field Courier. MILE AND Burma Coessisareors.—On Wednesday evening, a meetin.b was held on Woodhousednoor, near Leeds, of about one thousand persons, chiefly weavers ; at which the following resolution was carried. " That the persons as- sembled pledge themselves to abstain from the use of milk and butter, until the former ahould be sold at three half-pence per quart, and the latter at eight-pence per lb. This abstinence to be observed for one year."

On the same day, Halifax was visited by a storm, which has not had its parallel in the memory of man. It seemed as if one vast sheet of water ball descended upon the town. Hailstones fell with the torrent ; and the gleams of lightning and peals of thunder directly over the town were incessant. Several small cottages were almost inundated, and it was with great difficulty that the inmates effected their escape. On Sunday, the town of Pontefract was visited by a most appalling thunder- storm. The lightning set fire to the house of Mr. Lever, at Monkhill, while Mr. Lever was at Church. The ladies of the family in extreme alarm, had retired to the back-kitchen for safety; several of whom were struck to the earth, but re- ceived no injury except what was occasioned by the fright. A portion of the furniture in one of the rooms was partly consumed. A boy was struck blind in time church, but he afterwards recovered his sight.

WRECK of TIIE CARNBREA Casaie.—The hull of the Carnhrea Castle lies at.

sonic distance from the shore, off Atherficld, to the eastward of Freshwater, and should the weather continue moderate, there is good reason to suppose she will be weighed. All the passengers' luggage has been saved, but much damaged.

Most of the light cargo has also been got out damaged. Every assistance has been most handsomely rendered by the coast guard; but we are sorry to remark that the farming part of the community, in the vicinity of the ship, fully bear out the character formerly given them for marauding in the most literal sense. Goods housed by the agents in their dwellings for time night are not fidthcoming with the dawn.—Letter front Portsmoud,hily, 14. [It is reported in the City, that this wreck has brought to light an extensive fraud on the revenue, the ship- went of large parcels, marked as glass, on which the drawback is great, but con. tanning, instead of glass, only brickbats and rubbish. The shipper is stated to hare Isconded.]

During time gale on Friday sennight, Thomas Percival, a deputy pilot, and his son, lost their lives in a Pill yawl, which was swamped off Walton-bay. They

were observed by the crew of a Bideford trader, which owing to the high sea then running, could render them uo assistance; and just before the boat sunk, the son was seen with his arms elapsed round his father's neck.—Bristol Mercury.

The Paisley Advertiser relates the misfortunes of the schooner Fame, on the voyage home from Buenos Ayres. The Fame was one hundred and thirty-three

days on the passage, the last seven weeks of which was very stormy. The crew, consisting originally of nine persons, were disabled by scurvy, all except one Paisley man, who worked the vessel himself for about twenty days. " By this time provisions and water were short. They had South American salt beef of a

very bad quality, plenty off coffee, but no sugar—no medicine or cordial aboard ; and all that he had to give the sick men was his biscuit soaked in coffee. In these

circumstances the situation of our townsman may be better conceived than described. He had the vessel to attend to, and a number of his dying shipmates under his charge. Often in the midst of difficulty and danger, lie had to go below to attend to their complaints, and administer such comfort as it was in his power to bestow. The captain, mate, and two of time hands died, and he had to make use of a block and tackle in hoisting them in their hammocks on deck. Before committing them to time deep, he read the 15th chap. of 1st Corinthians, in which the resurrection of the body is clearly stated by St. Paul the apostle." They were kindly succoured by a French brig, and by a Liverpool East India ship ; and finally, by the aid of two fishermen, were taken into Dartmouth. Small pox has been fatally prevalent at Melton Mowbray and the neighbour- hood. Three &Wren died in one family, where previous vaccination had taken place.

A boy seven years old lately fell from a window in the second story of a house in Hull. There happened to be some sheets hung out by a pole from the same course of his descent, because so wrapt in the linen that it broke his fall, why', except a single bruise on the hip, occasioned no injury.

Mr. James M'Intosh, the captain of the brig Sophia Ann, of Newcastle, lying off Deptford, was drowned on Monday, his hand having slipped as he was getting up the ship's side. At a fire in Lambeth, early on Tuesday morning, Mr. Campbell, a cabinet- maker, was burnt out of his house, but escaped unhurt. A servant and her child were not so fortunate; for in running alone' the blazing corridor, her right arm was so dreadfully burnt that she was forced to let it drop into the burning ruins. The body of the child was afterwards found almost burn to a cinder.

Three young 'nen, belonging to Lambeth, were drowned on Wednesday morn- ing at Millbank, in the act of bathing. The bodies were found imbedded in the mud, fast locked in each other's arms. One of the young men narrowly escaped the same fate only a fortnight since; he had twice sunk, when a waterman cause to his assistance, and succeeded in saving him. A child of Mr. Jackson, the woollen-draper, in Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, has been killed by falling out of a seemed-floor window.

Joseph Sewell, the Lincolnshire Giant, is dead. He was seven feet four inches: high, and weighed 37 stone. Sewell's dress required five yards of broad-cloth for his coat, five yards of cloth and lining for his waistcoat, seven yards of patent cord for his trowsers : his shoes were 14A, inches long, and Q; inches wide. Whilst alive and exhibiting in public, he was accompanied by a dwarf, NVIIO weighed only 68Ibs.

Joseph Bunnion, of Theme, Bucks, dropped down dead in Totteuham-court- road on Friday sennight. He arrived in town the day before to receive a legacy of 1001.

Mr. It. Scholes, farmer, of Scotgate, Stamford, lost his life on Wednesday by falling from a hayrick on a pitchfork, which penetrated his bladder.

A little boy was nearly killed best week, by eating bread and butter, on which arsenic, sufficient to poison fifty people, had been put for the destruction of rats. He was saved by means of the stomach-pump and emetics.

Jonah Nicholson, a debtor, was committed to the King's Bench prison on Wednesday week ; and the effect produced on his body and mind was such that he died on Saturday morning. Ile was first attacked by epilectic fits, and then gradually became insane, until he lost all knowledge of those about him, and ex- pired in a state of raving madness.

A young man, supposed to be a cellegian of Oxford, was drowned on Tuesday, by a fall from the bowsprit of the Alden steamer, which had been on an excur- sion to the Nese for the benefit of the Indigent Blind Society.

A number of men were employed in. hoisting up into one of the top rooms, which is occupied by Mrs. Parker, Manchester, several bundles of iron rods, of the length of nine or ten yards a piece. A bundle had been elevated to the height of five stories, and was in the act of being drawl' into the factory, whoa one of the rods slipped out perpendicularly, anti descended upon a young mare named James Annan, a cotton-spinner. The sharp end of the rod entered his shoulder, and passing through his body, came out at the back, beneath his shoul- der-blade, and then struck his leg, which it broke in two. He .was immediately carried home to his residence. in German-street, where he remains without hope Of recovery.—dianchester Mercury.

Fasintesamese Terevide.—A thief got, unperceived, into the house of the Dowager Lady Warwick, Chesterfield-street, May laid on Wednesday last, and stole about et dozen of her Ladyship's table-spoons. The same day, a similar rob- bery was committed at the house of Mrs. Price, No. ld, Upper Baker-street, Marylebone, who lost some trinkets, a musical snuff-box, together with several articles of plate. One Tuesday last, a valuable gold ring, set with pearls and eme- ralds, was stolen from tile Junior United Service Club, St. James's, the property of Captain Johnson.

On Thursday afternoon, a daring robbery was committed on the banking-office of Messrs. E. and C. B. Foster, at St. Neot's. The clerk had locked up the office, and on his return, in about half an hour, discovered that some ode had entered it, by means, it is supposed, of picklock keys, and had abstracted pro- perty, consisting of their own notes, Bank of England notes, cash, &c., to the amount of about five thousand pounds.—Suffolk Herald.

A person named John Richards, second officer to the Samuel Brown, a trader to the Isle of France, was observed on Wednesday running out of his house ire Vincent-street into the Commercial-road. Blood was streaming from him pro- fusely; and after he had run some distance, he staggered anti fell. He was stripped of his apparel ; and on time stomach, from whence the blood was rapidly pouring, a wound about an inch long was discovered. The injury had been caused by a stab with a knife; but how was it done ? Richards, whilst lying on the table in extreme agony, said that it was an accident. He was car- ried to the London Hospital. Mrs. Richards was afterwards taken to Lambeth- street office. charged on suspicion with stabbing her husband. It appeared that she was he liquor ; and her husband was so incensed at her conduct, that in a paroxysm of passion he seized a sword, and plunged it into his body and rushed into the street. As soon as the Magistrates ascertained that the roan inflicted the injury with his own hand, they discharged the wife, after an admonition. Richards died in the hospital; confessed the suicide, urged the provocation, hoping that God would forgive him, but he never would forgive his wife.

On Friday night, the man belonging to the Royal Marines, stationed at Chalk to look out for runaway soldiers, apprehended a deserter, and lodged him in the cage for the night. Next morning he visited his prisoner, and found him safe and well, and then went to fetch him a breakfast. On his return lie found the unfortunate man suspended by a cord and quite dead.—Rochester Gazette, July 14.

Early me Monday morning, three persons, charged with felony, escaped from Dorchester gaol, by making a breach in the wall of their cell, and having cut their bedding into ropes, they were enabled by that means to scale the boundary. An alarm being given, they were all taken at Parkstone, near Pool, the same night.— Bath Chronicle.

On Monday last, six convicts, that were sent on shore from the Justitia hulk to work in the Arsenal, endeavoured to make their escape, but were all taken with- out any serious consequences, except one who had plunged into the canal that bounds the arsenal on the Plumstead side, and got so firmly fixed in the mud that he was drowned before assistance could be rendered him.—Kentish Gazelle.

Some boys who were looking for birds' nests, near Ripley, on the Leeds: and Harrowgate road, lately discovered a person in the agonies of a bloody death, and the implements of housebreaking near him. The Coroner's jury have re- turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," but they have failed in tracing- any clue to it. The conjecture is, that the murdered man was connected with a gang of thieves which infested the neighbourhood, and that he fell a sacrifice to his

BAD EXAMPLE.—On Friday afternoon, a man named Knight, a parchment- maker, attempted to strangle himself; and he would, in a few seconds, have ac- complished his object, had he not been discovered in the act by his wife, who

released him from his perilous situation. On Sunday morning, during divine service, the son of the unfortunate man, actuated by the example of his parent, tied himself up near the spot at which his father attempted his life, and it is be- lieved would have shortly strangled himself in a similar manner; but, being observed, he was prevented doing himself any injury.—Essex Herald.

The Acadian Recorder, received by the last mail from North America, give some horrifying particulars of the consequences of a shipwreck which was lately

discovered to have taken place on the island of Anticosti. Various descriptions of property have been found, and will doubtless lead to a discovery of the name of the vessel and her ill-fated passengers and crew, who, after reaching the shore, scent to have been driven by hunger to the dire necessity of feeding upon the bodies of some of their companions, until the severity of the climate ter- minated the sufferings of the whole. The following is from an affidavit made by Jaques Bourgois, Joseph Boudroit, Joseph Bourgois, and John Chesson, all of the Shallon Victory, of the Magdalen Islands, before P. F. Coibeck, Esq.. one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the district of Gaspe. " On Tuesday the 12th of May instant, they lauded on the north side of the island of Anticosti, about six leagues from the east point, and visited a fur station there which they had previous?), known ; that they found the door of the house shut, and tied in- side with a rope ; that on forcing the door, they perceived the carcasses of four human beings, with the heads, legs, and arms, cut oil; and the bowels extracted, hanging by the thighs in the room, and two others on the floor cut up in the same manner ; that they found a human body in a hammock, who appeared to have died there; the body was habited like a sailor, and there were two trunks in the room with human flesh in them, cut up in small pieces; • there was also a pot with human flesh in it ; round the house pieces of human flesh and bones strewed about ; there was no appearance of bread, flour, or animal food in the house. Two brands of fire were in the fire-place and some ashes ; in the house were two axes and an adze ; on the shore was a jolly-boat. but the name was defaced. From the clothing there appeared to have been both women and children of the party. The Frenchmen interred the bodies."

MeNceesersi Gooes.--I regret that I cannot corroborate the accounts which have appeared in some of the newspapers, that an improvement has taken place here in the state of trade. Towards the end of last year prices began to fall, and at Christmas, goods could be produced lower than they were ever known before. A general expectation prevailed, that as the spring advanced things would im- prove. In this expectation 10,009 weavers and spinners at Stockport turned out, rather than submit to a proposed great reduction of prices ; but the spring came, and brought with it no change for the better. Still there was a hope that things would tumid, and when at the end of March the owners of factories in Manchester proposed a reduction in the prices paid for spinning fine yarns, the spinners turned out, and threw out of employment all the persons engaged in preparatory processes, to the number of 8,000 or 10.000. Here then was the labour of nearly '20,000 persons taken out of the market, but although one-half of them have been idle for six months, and the other for three months, there has been no such lessening of stocks as in the slightest degree to raise prices. On the contrary, Ponds have continued to fall, and on Tuesday (yesterday) some descriptions of gmels were sold at 201. per cent. less than was obtained for them in the very middle of winter.—Letter in the Times, dated July 16.