DEiTII OF EARL Haecounsr.—The venerable Earl of Harcourt died on

Thursday afternoon, at his seat in the neighbourhood of Windsor. His Lordship was born 20th March, 1743, and was consequently in his 88th year. He was a Field-Marshal, Colonel of the 16th Dragoons, Governor of Portsmouth, Deputy Lieutenant of Windsor Forest, De- puty Ranger of Windsor Park, and K.C.B. DR. CHALDTERs.—The great orator of the Scottish Church is appointed one of the_King's Chaplains in Ordinary. He was much followed and f6ted by the great during his late residence in London. PALACES reit STATESMEN.—A new and unsightly building, said to be stables for Mr. Huskisson, is raising in the rear of the United Service Club House ; against the further progress of which the members of the latter are said to have warmly protested.—Standard. The pulling down of the rear of the house in Pall Mall, adjoining that of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, is said to be for the purpose of making domestic offices to that of Mr. Herries—Iclem. It is stated that Sir Robert Peel intends immediately making consi- derable improvements at Drayton Manor, in this county, with the view to its becoming the family seat.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. LEGISLATION FOR EAST BETFORD.—The House of Lords have examined witnesses on the East Retford Bill during eighteen days. Of the evidence taken during those eighteen days, there have been printed 700 folio pages ; and it may be satisfactory to know that their Lordships have now got through the evidence on one side—namely, in support of the Bill : they have now to hear the witnesses on the other side—namely, against time Dill! This Bill is likely to rival, in duration, Mr. Hastings's trial, and not unlikely to have a similar result—i.e. failure.—Morning Herald.

STEAM FOR EVER !—In consequence of the notice which bad been given of the intention of the Directors of the railway to visit Manchester yesterday morning, a great number of persons assembled at the Railway Works, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, to see them take their departure. At a quarter before nine o'clock, the Directors took their seats in two of the new coaches which had been pro- vided for them and after passing through the small tunnel, seven car- riages laden witli stone were attached to the engine. The weight of the

two coaches, with passengers, was . . • • 5 tons

Seven stone waggons . • . • . 27 do. Engine, tender, and water . • • • 7 do.

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Gross weight 39 tons.

At the above.named hour (quarter before nine), the order for starting was given, and the procession moved slowly towards Wavertree Lane, where the speed was increased. The carriages passed through the deep cutting at a rapid rate, the bridges and sides of the slopes being lined with spectators, who had thronged to see the partial opening of this magnifi. cent work. On arriving at the foot of the inclined plane an assistant locomotive engine was attached to the carriages, and the train ascended to Rainhill at a steady pace. At the end of the ascent the assistant engine was detached, and the "Arrow" proceeded forward at the rate of sixteen or seventeen miles an hour. On arriving at the Sankey viaduct the speed was decreased, on account of the present unfinished state of the embank- ment adjoining the bridge, which is not yet sufficiently consolidated. The engine then moved rapidly past Newton to the Kenyon excavation, where a fresh supply of water was taken in, occupying about seven minutes ; after- wards proceeding at about seventeen miles an hour, across Chat Moss • and after taking in another supply of water at Eccles, the engine proceeded to Manchester, where it arrived at six minutes past eleven ; the whole time 'occupied on the journey being two hours twenty-one minutes, which, after deducting twenty minutes for taking in water, &c., leaves two hours and one minute for the time of performing the journey. Having par- taken of a cold collation, the Directors returned to Oldfield Lane, where the carriages were in readiness to receive. them, and left Manchester on their return to Liverpool. The procession started with two Coaches, containing from forty to fifty persons, which darted through the dense mass of individuals who thronged the railway, passing Chat Moss at the rate of about twenty-two miles an hour, and arriving at Edge Hill, Liverpool (after deducting seven minutes for stoppages), in one hour and thirty-four minutes. The average speed on the return from Manchester was twenty miles an hour ; and in passing over Chat Moss, the carriages proceeded for a time at the rate of twenty-seven miles !.--Liverpool Paper of Tuesday.

STEAM GOMMUN/CATION WITH INDIA.—The Hugh Lindsay steam- boat arrived in the end of April at Suez, from Bombay, after a passage I of thirty-three days' twelve of which were wasted in taking in coals at I Aden, Ludda, and Cosseir.. The Hugh Lindsay carries only six days' ''coals:- Passages, it is now ascertained, can be reade.from Bombay. to Suez in about twenty days with ease. A passage to India is tints ri- sduced to about seven weeks!

- STEAM-BOATS AND WATERMEN,..-We are glad to perceive that there :-Itt a prospect of the public being relieved from the danger and difficulty srSchich the present mode of landing from steam-boats, by means of wher-

ries, entails on them. The corporation of Gravesend have, it is said, offered a thousand a-year in furtherance of the construction of a perma. neat or moveable pier for landing passengers directly from the steam- boat. A survey of the proposed site, near the Customhouse, took place on Saturday.

DIVERSIONS or THE WEAVERS.—The roll for the amount recovered from the county of Lancaster, for damages sustained by various menu. facturers and others, in consequence of the riots of the hand-loom weavers, during the spring of last year, has just been issued. It amounts to the sum of ten thousand one hundred and eighty-two pounds five shillings and sixpence—Manche:ter Guardian. UNEXPECTED GENEROSITY.—Sir James SCaTlett has returned 20 per cent. to his tenants at Halstock, on their rents from Lady-day 1828. —Sherborne Mercury.

Da. GOLDSMITH AND THE COURIER:A wag, who dates from Hen- rietta Street, has wickedly imposed on the unsuspecting simplicity of our contemporary, poor Goldy's witty paper on mad dogs ; two or three, and but two or three words being changed, in order to give it an episto- lary form. The letter is introduced by a recommendatory notice ! The ingenious editor said, some time ago, that no paper was allowed to enter the journal without his permission. Where were his recollections stray. ing, when so hackneyed a piece was palmed on him as new ?

GOVERNMENT or ALGIERS.—The present system of government was established by Barbarossa' in 1516, and completed by his brother and successor. The military force consists of a Janissary corps of twelve thousand, made up of Turks from the Levant, and Christian renegadoes. No native is permitted to enter this corps, not even the sons of its mem- bers, so zealously is it separated from all sympathy with those over

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whom it tyrannizes. The Dey is chosen from it, and s, in reality, no- thing else than its Aga. His elevation is commonly preceded and almost invariably accompanied by the murder of the other competitors for the precarious dignity. The people, who are partly more recently-intro- duced Arabians, partly aboriginal tribes, mixed up with the de- scendants of the early conquerors and of the Moors of Grenada, are described as in the lowest state of civil degradation, with the exception of the hill tribes, who maintain a sort of rude independence.

A VETERAN TOPER.—Hipolyto Bendo died on the 15th of April last, near Perugi, at the age of 123 years, 11 months, and 19 days. In his youth he exercised the trade of a butcher. He married at the age of 32, and lost his first wife in 1806. In 1807 he contracted a second marriage, when he was 101 years old. At the age of 115, he still followed the occupations of his trade ; but in 1822 he lost the use of his limbs, in con. sequence of a fall ; still preserving, however, his intellectual faculties. In 1825 Pope Leo XII. wished to see him, and settled a pension on the veteran. But he could not stand the rigours of last winter. In his eating he was very abstemious ; but he drank, regularly, six bottles of wine a day.

COMET.—"Monte Video, March 19. At eight o'clock in the evening of the day before yesterday, a comet was observed at an altitude of 52 degrees above the horizon, it bearing at that time south five degrees by east. In two hours it had traversed 10 degrees in a western direction; and at 10 o'clock it bore south five degrees by west, and 47 degrees above the horizon." [Is this the same gentleman under whose weeping influences, according to certain astronomers, we are at present suffering, and likely to suffer for the remainder of the summer ?] SANTA Cauz.—This island is said to be about to be ceded to the United States, in liquidation of certain old claims which they possess on the Danish Government. A Morning Paper doubts if the English Governs meat will give its concurrence to America obtaining a footing in the West Indies. If it do not, we suppose America must obtain it without.

DR. SIEBOLD, THE Narunamsr.—Letters from Munich state that this celebrated naturalist, who had been imprisoned at Japan, has been restored to liberty, and has arrived at Batavia with his valuable col lection.

TURKISH KNIGHT-ERRANTRY—Letters from Italy mention a very rare instance of disinterestedness amongst the Turks. Fate had thrown a beautiful Greek slave, who had been torn from her husband, into the hands of Ali Bey, the Pacha of Aleppo. The husband, learning the retreat of his wife, went to the Pacha, and offered him a considerable ransom. Not only did the Pacha refuse this, but he also hastened to reunite the married couple, with a present of 30,000 piastres ! The slave had been purchased by the Pacha himself for 13,000 piastres !