liftistellantous.

The Victoria and Albert yacht is prevented by the draught of water from approaching close to the coasts, so as to present a favourable view a spots that need to be seen at a short distance. The Queen has ordered a smaller vessel tohe constructed, as a tender to the yacht, with a screw propeller. Such a boat is building in the dockyard of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, at Woolwich. It will be 140 feet in length, 22 feet in breadth, and is not to draw more than four feet six inches of water. It will be fitted with a stage, that it may serve also as a landing-boat.

Queen Victoria has sent three carriage-dogs of great beauty as pre- sents to King Frederick William of Prussia.

The King of the French has sent 2001. to be distributed this winter among the poor of Windsor.

We state on what we conceive to be good authority, that her Majesty's Ministers have advised the Sovereign to confer a high distinction on Sir Henry Pottinger for his diplomatic services in China.—Morning Herald. General Nott has had a relapse, and is now very ill. It is conjec- tured that this change for the worse has been brought about by the change in the weather,— Welshman. It was announced in the newspapers one day this week, that the Re- verend Sydney Smith was so ill that he could scarcely be expected to recover ; next day, it was announced that he was relieved and out of danger, by the appearance of—gout! The force of wit is felt even in disease—the union of remote ideas, gout and ease The obituary announces the death of Sir Gore Onseley ; who died on Monday, at his seat of Hall Barn Park. Sir. Gore, the second son of Mr. Ralph Oaseley, was born in 1770; married in 1806; and in 1808 was created a Baronet In 1810 he proceeded to Persia as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and subsequently went to St. Petersburg. Be was a Knight of the Russian Order of St. Alex- ander, and of the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun, and was a Privy Councillor. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his son, Frederick Arthur Gore ; who was born in 1825.

,Acorrespondent of the Times suggests that a uniform stamp-charge of one penny should be imposed on all receipts for sums above 51., includ- ing bankers' checks: he calculates that it would abolish evasion of the stamp-duty, and would realize 1,000,0001., instead of the 200,0001. accruing to the revenue from the present scale. Two enormous Gazettes Extraordinary were published on Saturday and Monday, filled with notices of private Parliamentary bills, princi- pally for railways : the Saturday's had 152 pages, the Monday's 72— together 2241 We have reason to believe that the Cabinet is meditating a complete change in the government of India, by introducing a measure next ses- sign tantamount to the extinction of the political power of the Court of Directors.—Scotsman.

Letters from Alexandria, of the 26th October, represent Mehemet Ali as determined to monopolize the transit between that city and Suez : with that view he had refused to allow the steamer Delta, which had just arrived from England, to navigate the Nile ; and had given

notice to the Peninsular and Oriental Company that their two steamers already plying on the river must be forthwith withdrawn.

The Globe states that a Tractarian work recently published by Mr. Ward of Balliol College, Oxford, has been referred to a Committee of the Hebdomadal Board for consideration.

It is reported that the statue of Lord Byron, by Thorwaldsen, ex- cluded from Westminster Abbey, is to be put up in Kensal Green Ce- metery. An inscription should recount the vicissitudes of the effigy.

We find by the papers, that the state bed in which her Majesty slept at Burghley cost one thousand pounds, was made expressly for the visit, and has been the labour of many years. If the two latter statements are facts, the invitation of the Queen to Burghley must be one of many years' standing: those noblemen who intend to ask her Majesty to come and see them, had better put state beds in hand a few years in ad- vance, so that the Queen on her arrival may have a bed fit to lie upon. —Punch.

"Lord Stanley is advocating the principle of the fixity of tenure.' This is slightly at variance, we think, with his recent expulsion front Downing Street." So writes Punch ; of course prophetically —using that figure of speech by which predicted events are spoken of as already past : for Lord Stanley is not yet expelled from Downing Street, but only admitted to the House of Lords. It has, too, escaped our contemporary's acumen, that Lord Stanley's favour for "fixity of tenure" is not incon- sistent with the precariousness of a tenure which he enjoys at others' will. It is severe to charge a tenant with inconsistency, because, while he said that tenants ought always to stay, his landlord turned him out. You might as well accuse a man of being hard-hearted, because, when he can't pay his rent, his landlord seizes his goods.

The Ranger, a Goole vessel of small burden, was run down by a col- lier, on Monday, near Gravesend; and Mr. Duffield, the master, perished. The morning was foggy.

A Marseilles journal states, that the schooner Curieux, of that port, has been captured by an English cruiser, on her way to Goree, on sus- picion of being a slaver. The journal asserts that there was nothing on board to warrant the capture : the schooner had ten empty casks and twelve sacks of rice on board ; but they were down on the mani- fest, and were for the use of the crew. The vessel had been confiscated, and was about to be sold when the account was despatched.

A daring act of piracy was committed in the very midst of the ship- ping in the port of Gibraltar, on the night of the 5th instant. The crew of the San Michel, a Sardinian polacca schooner, had all retired to rest, except the mate. A party of Spaniards, masked, and armed with long knives, came alongside in a boat, and boarded the schooner. The mate although surprised, raised no alarm ; not suspecting the character of the intruders. They seized him, went into the master's cabin, and under threat of death demanded to know where he had put 3,000 dollars that he had received on board. They had mistaken the vessel, for there was no money on board ; but they took away all the loose cash, some jewellery, some watches, and clothes. Binding the crew, they ranricked the vessel, ate a hearty meal, with wine, and decampee. The idemical sum mentioned had been shipped on board an English vessel from Leghorn, which much resembled the Sardinian. It is surmised that the robbers belonged to some ship in the harbour; as no vessel could have approached or left the anchorage-ground without having been seen by the watch and examined.

A frightful accident happened to Prince Albert's groom, Herr Huisch, while riding with the Prince on Tuesday. His Royal Highness had. been out shooting, and was galloping back to lunch with the Queen, going along the sward by the side of the Long Walk. Mr. Huisch rode a fine but very vicious horse : it dashed in among the trees—the rider's head was stricken violently against a bough, and he fell to the ground, the blood gushing from his face and head. When he MRS picked up, it was found that the collar-bone was broken. Mr. Huisch has suffered much pain, but is understood to be doing welL The Prince did not hear of the accident until after his return to the Castle ; but when he did so, he at once sent a messenger with directions that the sufferer should receive every requisite attention.

Mr. Ames, who disappeared so strangely immediately after his mar- riage, has returned to his wife. He could assign no motive for his conduct ; merely saying that he experienced a feeling of despondency with regard to his new enterprise of public-house-keeping.

One Joseph Mason, of Clifton near York, was last year sentenced ts, twenty years' transportation for a burglary and is actually at Norfolk Island undergoing punishment. It now appears that the sentence was quite undeserved ; for two men who have been committed to York Castle for felony have confessed that they were the real burglars ; Mason being, as many persons supposed at the time, quite innocent of the crime. These men also assert that four others have been transported for offences really committed by the gang to which they belong. [This is an instance of one frequently recurring practical argument against capital punishment, which is utterly irrevocable : suppose Mason had been hanged!] BANK OP ENGLAND.—An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Vic- toria, cap. 32, for the weekending on Saturday the 16th day of November 1844. issue DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued ,C27,507,795 Government Debt Other Securities

Z1211191: Geld Coin and Bullion

11,914,184

Silver Bullion 1,593,611

£27,607,795

£27,507,768'

RANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' Capital £14,553,000

Government Securities, (Is"

Rest 3,137,195 eluding Dead Weight An-

Public Deposits, (including Exchequer, Savings Banks, Commissioners of National

nuity) Other Securities Notes ,613,539,775 8,398.630 6,927.045 Debt, and Dividend Ac-

Gold and Silver Coin 723.407 counts) 3,879.468

Other Deposits . 8.029,934

Seven-Day and other Bills...

989,320

£30,688,907

Dated the Illst data Novesober 1844. M. Chief Cashier.