THE KING.—Iiis Majesty has taken his usual drives during the

week • and

' next week, it is arranged, he will take up his winter residence at Windsor Castle. "The state of public feeling at Brighton," says a Sussex paper, "may be better imagined than expressed. The projected illuminations are at a stand-still, and long faces universal."

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge return in the spring from Hanover. Chol- mondeley House is undergoing a thorough repair for their reception. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence have been at Bushy during the greater part of the week ; and the Duke and bnchess of Cumberland are at Ecw. Of the Aldermen of London, twenty-six in number, there are but five who have not filled the office of Lord Mayor. The Father of the City, i.e. the oldest Alder- man, Sir R. C. Glyn, was elected forty years ago.

A meeting of the Trustees- of the road front Foxley-hatch to Reigate was held at the Greyhound at Croydon on Monday. The shameful state of the road, and the best means of repairing it, were the- subjects of discw.sioa. Alderman Waith- man observed upon the impropriety of the meetings of the Trustees being held at a place four miles distant from one end and eleven from the other extremity of the road.

The quickness of communication with some parts of the Continent, by means

of steam-vessels, has led to a profitable trade in the introduction of many articles of consumption of a perishable nature, which could not previously be attempted. A novel undertaking in this way is about to be carried into effect, by which the projector expects to realize a considerable sum. Ile has formed a large establish- ment on the coast of Holland for the baking of bread, which will be conveyed immediately from the oven on board of a steam-boat, and in twenty-four hours, which is the ordinary period of the voyage, he expects to Offer it for sale on the banks of the Thames. He expects to realize a profit of 2d., all expenses de- ducted, on every loaf thus imported. The introduction of biscuit, prepared at Hamburg and other places, for the supply of our shipping, has already become extensive, and yields a good return.—Times.

The failure of a clerk of Messrs. Ricardo excited some sensation on the Stock Exchange on Tuesday. He had speculated on his own account, and was deficient about 20,0001. at the day of settlement. The rumour of a loan to Turkey has been much canvassed in the City. One

great obstacle to the success of such a measure is the fact that interest for money is unknown with the Mussulman. In dealing with the Turk, a bad debt is never msrle : at some period, however remote, the debts of a Turk are certain to he paid, eitheriViiinself or his relations, children or descendants ; but in no case with 1140T-it: ".This,: however, may not be found an insuperable obstacle. What, say ethe advocates for a loan, if Russia, to facilitate the arrangement, should join in the *Laity oivino. as a guarantee, her bonds bearing the stipulated rate of in-

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in- terest? Such at this moment is her credit, that she might possibly at one co:- assist the Mussulman to pay his contribution, and raise a few additional needed millions on her own account.-2lforning Chronicle, Nov. 18. A Mr. Wells of Sudbury has addressed a letter to Mr. Peel on the subject of Mr. Anderdon's case, and lunatic establishments in general. It is written not in the best taste, but it abounds in honest seat. Mr. Peel has referred the letter to the Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy.

The new Fleet Market opened yesterday, with great eclat. No sales were per- mitted till the Mayor arrived, but a great many ladies and gentlemen had pro. follows:—length of the building, 280 feet ; breadth, 246 feet ; height, 41 feet; cured admission by tickets in the morning. The dimensions woftdtthhe tonfardkiettto,arte: width of each wing, 48 feet; length of opening, 232 feet ; feet.

The Greenwich improvements, which were agreed upon at a vestry meeting on the 30th of October, and for which a negotiation was entered into with the feoffees of " Roan's Charity," have been suspended, by the feotTees re- fusing to sell the ground which the Greenwich trustees required. There was a vestry meeting yesterday, about this matter ; but such was the confusion, that it was impossible to catch the purport of the speeches.

The Attorney-General of Ireland filed, last week, criminal informations against the Dublin Evening Post and Freeman's Journal for libels which appeared in these papers relative to the Borrisokane trials.

Some time ago, the Mayor of Dublin effected by the aid of the police the re- moval of the fish market from Pill Lane. The Hibernian public was somewhat & morous in regard to the forcible means that had been employed; and the Duke of Northumberland in a letter to a Mr. Hanratty, an opponent of the Mayor, expread himself in terms that were understood, to convey a censure of the Chief %gi,- trate's proceedings. The Mayor felt hurt at this ; he waited on the Lord Linn. tenant; explained the matter to him, and ohtailied from -bird Leveson Gower a letter containing an admission that the Lord Lieutenant had previously laboured under a misapprehension of the Mayor's conduct and motives in the business. A Roman Catholic priest handed to the Irish government last week, the sum of 1001., which he had discovered by means of confession, to be clue to the revenue.

A Mr. Cooke has been successful in a struggle with the Archbishop of for the advowson of a living, which had been usurped by the Church very many years ago. Mr. Cook had invited Lord Leveson Gower to name a Commission to examine his claims ; but Government declined interfering in the matter. It seems to be the intention of many gentlemen whose rights of patronage have suf. fered in former times by the encroachments of the Irish Church, to use every effort to reclaim these.

It would seem to be no uncommon practice in some parts of Ireland, to cut up bank-notes, to borrow portions from several, and by pasting these together, to limn a fraudulent whole. A gentleman, in transacting business with the Branch of Ireland in Cork, lately offered, among other notes, one which bore some Itr,H,: of paste and scissors. The Cashier rejected the note, and wrote " frandul,:- upon it ; adding, that they had sunred severely by such notes, and had deter- mined to mark all of them in the same way. The question of their right to do so was raised before the Police Court ; but the Magistrates declined giving store than an opinion that the Bank did not seem entitled to do more than reject time note. A meeting of the paiers and receivers of tithes was held at Exeter on Wed- nesday, for the purpose of bringing the present state of tithes limier the con- sideration of Parliament.

Gaascow UNivenstev.—The election of Lord Rector for the University of Glasgow took place on Monday. The candidates were—the Marquis of Lam.

• downe, Lord President Hope, and Lord Moncrieff The state of the votes in the Four Nations being announcedewas as follows—Glottiana, Marquis of Lansdowne; Loudoniana, do.; Transforthana, Lord President Hope ; and Rothsiana. Marquis

of Lansdowne. After the election was declared, the Professor of Divinity, amid the greatest uproar, which frequently compelled him to sit down, declocd, ti t though extremely unwilling to express any sentiment disagreeable to the oeneral feeling-, yet as a member of the Comitia, in the present state of the country, he felt himself bound to enter his solemn protest against the individual chosen—first

because he had no residence in Scotland, and was thus disqualified from duly per.

forming the arduous duties of his office ; his second objection, of a legal nature, was, that according to the articles of the Union between England and-Seotiand, every individual holding office was required to be of the Presbyterian religion. More force would-be due to this latter objection, were it not that three Protestors of the Episcopal communion had been tacitly allowed to take their seats on the Bench from which he spoke, and that the person who has so long filled the office of Chancellor belongs to time same persuasion —Gbiwou/ Chronicle.

[The importance which the young men of Glasgow College attach to tl:eir pri- vilege of choosing a Rector, is ridiculous enough ; but the resistance which grave Professors have for years opposed to the current of popular feeling in this matter, and the reasons by which they attempt to j os lily their opposition, are something worse than ridiculous. Here we have a Professor of Divinity urging the Articles

of the Union as a bar to the election of Lord Lansdowne to office in Scotland.

0 Office !"—why the title of Lord Rector is virtually as much an honorary dis- tinction as the title of F.R.S. And " duties" too, " arduous duties! "—the only duty of a Lord Rector is to tickle the cars of the students with a speech, and afterwards to feast and get mellow with the Professors. What can the Reverend Doctor mean by giving utterance to such twaddle?]

A meeting of weavers' delegates was held on Saturday last at Glasgow, to consider the present causes of the depression in their trade. Few of that class, it was stated, had been able to pay their rents, and many ejectments had been issued against poor families. The present misery they ascribed to machinery ; and after a long discussion, it was agreed that a general meeting of delegates iu every town in Scotland where weaving is practised, should take place on the day on which Parliament shall meet.

The cotton-spinners of Messrs. J. and W. Parker of Manchester, " struck" again on Monday last, in consequence of their employers refusing an allowance for " pickers." There was at first every symptom of a riot, but luckily none ensued. On Wednesday last, a party of twenty-five left Shepton Mallet to embark on board the Britannia, Captain Curry, for the settlement on the Swan River. 'flies' left the town in high spirits, two bugles playing national airs before them through the streets; and on Friday, ten more left the town for the same destination. Others are preparing to follow ; and one family, consisting of a man, his wile,. and thirteen out of fourteen children, had preceded the above, making a total of sixty-five.—Bath Journal.

It is proposed to-add to the new Police, a horse patrol for tile different roads round the suburbs. Information was given on Wednesday at Union Hall, of a very audacious rob- bery committed on a gentleman at the foot of London Bridge. Another gentle- man likewise appeared to complain of a desperate assault, with an attempt to rob shoo. committed on the preceding evening near the same spot. The Magistrate sent a message to the sitting Alderman at the Town Hall, requesting he would be so rood as to communicate with the Lord Mayor on the necessity' of having additional patrols in the district, for robberies were continually occurring for want of a sufficient protecting police force. Mr. Maurice Lee, a hatter in Thames Street, was convicted at the Mansion- !loose on Saturday, of a fraud on the Custom:. in having unloaded foreign plate ;lass on which duty had not been paid. The penalty sought to be recovered was Alia—four times the value of the goods. The penalty imposed was 66/. 15s. 2d.

The Messrs. Wilson, held in confinement on account of the accident at Waterloo Bridge, were liberated on Wednesday, the surgeons haring certified that the toll- keeper was out of danger. Mr. Halls, after an appropriate admonition, advised them to make the poor man such a compensation as should supersede the neces- sity of proceedings in a court of law. In the meat' time, heavy bail was required, and produced immediately. Major-General Ouseley. of the Portuguese service, was fined in 5/. at the Marl- borough Street Office on Wednesday, for his gallantry to a- young girl whom he had hired as a servant, and seemed willing to promote to the rank of his mistress. about a fortnight ago, a fellow, representing himself as servant to Sir Robert Vaughan, a Welch baronet, took, in his master's name. the house of a Miss Morris of Brunswick Square, for the winter, at the rate of eight guineas a week. His master, he said, might be expected in town in a few days ; and being unpro- tided with other lodgings, he prevailed on Miss Morris to allow him to sleep in her house, till his master should arrive. In a few days he decamped, having robbed the house of a few articles. These were traced, and the purchaser of them brought before r. Laing at Hatton Garden ; but nothing appeared to attach participation to the prisoner.

The porter and two female servants of Messrs. Sewell and Cross, silk-mercers in Lambs Conduit Street, have been committed for robbing their masters on a very extensive scale.

About a fertnight ago, the shop of Mr. Downs, silk-mercer in Fleet Street, was robbal of a very great amount of property ; and late on Saturday night, a It and a woman, were brought before Mr. Hails at Bow Street, to account for a great quantity of the stolen goods, which had been traced to their possession. They denied all knowledge of the robbery, and were committed to the House of Correction for further examination.

A young fellow was commited by the Lord Mayor on Monday, for an attempt to rob a little boy of his cloak, under pretence or catching birds for him with it.

Walker, a working jeweller, and a young woman named Plum, were held to bail at the Mary-la-bonne Office on Monday, on charges of frauds practised by them on jewellers and pawnbrokers. Walker is a workman of great skill, and loss learned to manufacture chains and other ornaments so exquisitely, as to be able to pass off a baser metal for gold even upon persons of experience.

At Queen Square, on Monday, Mr. Billington, landlord of the Coach and horses, Flood Street. Westminster, was held to bail for an assault upon an in- former, who had tried to enter his house.

A poor wmnan, who had just attempted to drown herself in the Thames, was brought before Mr. Minshull on Tuesday night. She was placed before the fire, and examined by the Magistrate. when the following edifying dialogue took place. Mr. Minsinill—" Do you not lind that tile heat of the fire is much more agreable than the cold of the water?'' Female—" Fire and water are both very well in their way ; I should have preferred being in the water." Mr. Minshull —" What ! do you mean to say that you would like to drown yourself?" Fe- male—'• I do say so; I don't wish to tell you a lie about it, fur that would be sinful." Mr. Miesluill—" You say that to tell a lie is a sin, then how much more dreadful is the act which you contemplated ?" Female—" Perhaps so, Sir ; but there are plenty of people in the world without me. I would not be missed out of it, except by my pour little child ; even that would not miss me.

alinshull—" You have got a child then ? Pray are you a married woman?" Female—" I an not. I was seduced by the father of my child ; but 'tis no matter ; he takes good care of it, and has not been unkind to me." Mr. Min- shull--‘ Has any one else treated you ill ?" Female—" No, Sir ; no one." Mr. Minshull observed that it was a lamentable case, and asked the poor creature what she would wish to have dune for herself? Female—" Nothing. I want nothing but to quit this weary life." The beadle stated, that hearing a splashing in the water, he ran down the steps on the Middlesex side of the bridge, and there saw the female wading into the river. At the time be saw her the water had

reached above her waist., and it was with great difficulty that he dragged her back to the shore. As she was advancing forward in the water, she kept exclaiming, "My bahv! oh, my poor baby ! would you were here with me, that we might die togetherP He had ascertained that the unfortunate .woman lived in a court as servant to her sister, who keeps a house of ill fame. Mr. Minshull asked if her sister used her if ? Female—" Oh no I've no complaint to make against any one; but I wog I rather perish than live in such a situation any longer—that I would," she added, at the same time piteously wringing her hands. Mr. Alinshull ordered her sister to be sent for ; but a considerable time having elapsed, without t he sister having made her appearance, he directed that the poor creature should be taken to the House of Correction, with a request from him to the Governor, that she might be made as comfortable as possible until measures could be taken to pass her to her parish.

Information was conveyed on Tuesday to Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith, at the Town Hall. that a young woman, named Sarah Winsor, was dying at her resi- dence, No. 8, Russell Street, in consequence of injuries received in a dispute with her brother. The Alderman waited on the young woman, and took her de- position. She acquitted her brother of all blame, but did not live to sign it. The Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

A soldier named Smithson presented himself on Saturday to the Magistrate at Union Hall, as a deserter from the Marines at Chatham. He stated that the Ser- geant-Major of his division had made his life uncomfortable, and driven him to desert. He had wandered about ever since, and was DOW anxious to join his division again. Mr. Chambers said he would transmit notice to the Secretary at War.

Mr. Dimond, a literary gentleman, presented himself on Tuesday to the Magis- trates at Marlborough Street, to complain of a libel upon him put into their

mouths by the Age newspaper some weeks ago, at a time when in fact, instead of being at Marlborough Street Office, he was on the Continent. The Magistrates assured him that no such liberty with his name had even been taken by them. Mr. Dimond then made the necessary affidavit, as a preliminary to legal proceed- ings against the A ge. John Bradley was committed on Thursday, by the Magistrate at Marlborough Street, for having robbed Mr. Latchford, of Piccadilly, of his watch and seals. It appeared that Bradley's wife had been locked up in St. James's watchhouse on Wednesday night, and that Bradley had attracted Mr. Latchford's notice by his clamour at the watchhouse door for admission to her. Mr. Latchford joined his solicitations to those of the husband, and was finally committed along with him to the same room which contained the wife. The pair began, shortly afterwards, to hustle Mr Latchford, and the prisoner at last knocked off his hat, and snatched his watch. Mr. Latchford was cautioned by the Magistrate not to interfere with watchhouse business again.

A private of the Grenadier Guards was brought before the sitting Magistrate at Marlborough Street on Tuesday, charged with having palmed a child of his own on the overseers of St. George's parish, Hanover Square, as a foundling, whom he had picked up in Hyde Park. The soldier admitted that his previous state- ment was untrue ; but stated that the child had been left upon his hands by a woman with whom he had never lived, but by whom he might have had the child, though he was not aware of the circumstance till she brought it to him on Satur- day week, and ran off without it. He was unable to provide for the child, and could devise no better plan for saving its life. He promised to assist the officers in finding out the mother ; and was discharged, on his commanding officer be- coming responsible for his appearance.

James Underhill, a post-boy, has been examined at Worship Street on a charge of having, near Tottenham, driven against the chaise of Mr. Deacon, of the White Horse Inn Cripplegate, and done him so much injury as to endanger his life.

Four young men, surgeons, were held to bail at the Mansionhouse on Monday," for a riot which they had created at the Mitre Tavern, Fish Street Hill, on the night before. They were described by a witness as half-drunk,—that is " in a frolic some, dancing, singing, condition." Whole drunk, was by the same authority h, alescribed as the condition in which men can " neither dance nor sing, nor do any ;thin a but fall upon their nose,."

—It certain Lydia Lee has been under examination on charges of swindling families out of linen by using the names of their respective washerwomen. Tradesmen have been swindled by a man who uses the name of Lord Carring- ton's servant.

A fellow who was tried at the Old Bailey a year ago, by the name of Antonio Roderigo, but who now calls himself Emanuel Lopez, was committed at Bow Street on Friday, for being found in a gentleman's house in Adam Street, Adelphi, handling the family linen.

On Thursday morning, the premises of Messrs. Clarke and Moore, woollen- drapers in Leadenhall Street, were broken into, and robbed of between 600 and 700 bales of superfine Saxony cloth, and other goods, to the value of 4001. But a few nights before, the shop of Mr. Barker, a pawnbroker in the same quarter, was robbed of twenty watches.

In the public establishments of the City, particularly in the sale-rooms, robberies to a great extent are committed every day. The thieves, calculate upon the frequenters of these places having money for their purchases and deposits, and are always on the alert to appropriate stray umbrellas or hats. A woman named Brooks was yesterday committed at Bow Street, for keeping a house in St. Giles's for the reception of young prostitutes. The woman ad- mitted that she harboured between twenty and thirty girls, whose ages varied from ten to fonrteen ; and that her own daughter was of the number!

A man and a woman named Skillman have resided for some months at Union Row, Newington, in extreme privacy. The man represented himself as having failed in business as a stationer, but his person bore none of those indications of poverty which> attached to his wife's. He left home on Friday night, and re- quested the landlady, (whom he had been in the habit of keeping out of his room) to pay some attention to Mrs. Skillman. The landlady on entering the room, found the poor creature wasted to a skeleton, stretched on straw, covered only by a few rags of carpet, and without food or fire. The parish officers were sent for, but she was too much paralysed by cold to answer their questions : she was then attended by the parish doctor, but she died on Sunday. An inquest was held on Thursday, at which it appeared that Skillman had another wife, with whom he spent Friday night, though he knew the decased to be on the point of death. This other wife it was proved, visited the deceased on Saturday, and said to her, "Poor creature, I freely forgive you, and I hope God will forgive you for the injuries you have inflicted on me." She remained with the deceased till she died. Skillman, when examined, pleaded poverty as the cause of the misery to which his wife had been subjected. The Jury expressed their abhorrence of his brutality. The inquest was adjourned till Friday.

At the adjourned inquest on Friday, it appeared that the woman who waited on the deceased had been married to Skillman for eighteen years ; that he had left her about five years to live with the deceased. It did not appear that the de- ceased had been married to Skillman. The Jury found, " that the deceased died from cold and want of the necessaries of life, and the Jury are unanimously of opinion that the said Benjamin Skillman has been grossly negligent and inatten- tive to her."

A gentleman lately belonging to a Cavalry Regiment was charged at Marlbo- rough Street yesterday with felor:y for having removed furniture from the cham- bers of Mr. Richardson in St. James's Street, during his absence from town. It appeared, however, that the parties had lord Money transactions together, and Mr. Roe dismissed the case ; but the prisoner was detained on a charge of horse-stealing, by Mr. Collyer, the army-agent. The horse had been paid for by the defendant with a forged note. The case was adjourned till Monday.

A porter was sent the other day to Messrs. Todd and Morrison's in Fore Street, with an order for two pieces of silk, purporting- to be written by Mr. Beck of Bishopgate Street, one of the Society of Friends. The shopman remembered that they load suffered by a forgery in the same name some months ago, and therefore caused a messenger to follow the porter. The porter went to Mr. Beck's shop with the silk, and found that no such order had been sent. The swindler who had employed the porter had failed to intercept him on his return.