There is a report from Marseilles, that the French Government

are about to fit out another expedition for the Morea ; to be com- posed of four regiments of infantry, one regiment of horse chas- seurs, and some hundred artillerymen. The convention, or treaty, between the Pacha of Egypt and Admiral Codrington, for the evacuation of Greece by the Egyptian troops under the Paella's son, has been published. It is of little consequence now as a state paper, since it has been officially an- nounced to the British Government that the last transport with the remnant of the Egyptian troops has left the shores of Greece. The treaty may thus be held to be carried into execution. The first article stipulates for the restitution of the Greeks who have been carried captive as slaves to Alexandria,—at least as many of them as can he got. By the sixth article, Ibrahim Pacha is al- lowed to leave some men (afterwards limited to twelve hundred) in the fortresses of Patras, Castel Tornese, Modon, Coron, and Navarin, to occupy these places. The French blockading squadron sunk four .Algerine corsairs, each with six guns and sixty men, three leagues to the west of Algiers, on the 1st instant. It is not said whether the crews of the Algerine vessels were saved. The French had twenty men killed and wounded by the bursting of a cannon, but little loss otherwise. The sanatory state of Marseilles is considerably improved, and the small-pox is almost eradicated : 264 persons died from that disorder in August, and only 88 in September. In August the total number of deaths was 612, in September only 393.

Private letters from Cadiz mention that, when the French were embarking, they were hissed and hooted by the lower orders. The commander made a formal complaint to the Spanish authorities ; but no redress was obtained.

The private accounts from Philadelphia make mention of large purchases of corn and flour, on account of the news of the failure of the English crop. Flour, which two months previously was 41 dollars, had advanced to 7.

Some unpleasant rumours respecting the state of the King's health have been in circulation. The Morning Post says, that his confinement since the recent drives which his Majesty took in Cm neighbourhood of his residence, has not arisen from any accession of serious illness; but " solely from the affliction into which his Majesty has been plunged by the melancholy event which has taken place in the death of his favourite sister, the Queen of Wir- temberg. This circumstance, and not the state of his health, has been the cause of his Majesty having refrained, during the last few days, from taking his favourite exercises."

His Majesty had a party to dinner on Wednesday evening, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. The King, being free from the gout in his hand, has signed, within the last few days, a number of official papers and docu- ments which were waiting his signature.—Court Circular.

The dinner is lucky and well-timed ; for without some such occurrence, his Majesty's retired mode of life—adopted, no doubt, from necessity- ittlerds room for conjectures of every kind and bold assertions cannot al- ways be proved fallacious by the most convincing of all arguments—by pointing to the Royal person—Thnes.

The obsequies of the late Queen Dowager of Wirtemberg were performed on the 11th current, with great solemnity. The body was deposited in the vault of the Royal Family, beneath the chapel of the palace of Louisburg. The Queen of Portugal has been seeing the various sights of the metro- polis this week,—St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, &c., &c. There is a re- port that the King is not inclined to receive her in her regal capacity ; and that she is to be sent forthwith to her father-in-law. We believe she goes to Laleham to-morrow.

The Duke of Sussex is at present on a visit to the Marquis of Cleveland, at Raby Castle ; where Lord Durham, and a distinguished party, have been invited to meet his Royal Highness.

The Duke of Wellington hasleft town for Northamptonshire, on a shoot- ing excursion.

The Duke of Devonshire has been entertaining a large party of distin- guished individuals at Chatsworth ; among these are the Duke de Richelieu and Count Monteron.

The Earl of Dalhousie, late Governor-General of the Canadas, arrived in town on Wednesday from Scotland, and transacted business at the Colonial- office, Downing-street.

The Earl and Countess of Liverpool are at Coombe Wood. The report that the Earl's disorder had undergone some mitigation is contradicted.

We deeply regret to state, that intelligence has been also received at the Admiralty, and the other Government offices, of the premature death of the lion. Captain Canning, R.N., the eldest son of the late Right Hon. George Canning, and heir to the peerage recently conferred on the Viscountess Canning. This gentleman was drowned, it is hoped accidently, whilst bathing in a pond in the Island of Madeira, to which station, it will be re- collected, the ship under his command was some time since appointed.— Standard.

It is generally rumoured that there are to be two, if not three, additional Judges appointed, previous to the commencement of the ensuing term. This is preparatory to the abolition of the Welsh judicature. In future, Oxford, it is supposed, will be added to the Midland Circuit ; and the Northern Cir- cuit will be divided, so as to include Wales in one of its branches.—Times.

Mr. Copeland was on Wednesday sworn in at Guildhall, as one of the Sheriff; of London and Middlesex.

Dr. Blomfield, the new Bishop of London, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday, to the parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. He was welcomed on his entrance, and greeted on his departure, with a peal of bells The church was most incommodiously' crowded : several ladies were obliged. to leave it before the commencement of the sermon, in consequence of the great pressure and heat.

A meeting of the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks was held on Monday, for the purpose of promoting donations and subscrip- tions in aid of King's College, London. Earl Amherst was in the chair, and the Marquis Camden was present amongst many others. The sum sub- scribed amounted to nearly 3001. The Duke of Newcastle, it is reported, anxious for the more Christian education of the youth of this now too-liberalizing nation, has proposed to found some scholarships of Eton College, to be called " Christian Scholar- ships," and contended for by youths of the school. The chief authorities of the College are understood to hesitate.

A meeting of the Western Jewish Philanthropic Institution was held at the Athenaeum, Leicester-square, on Tuesday evening. This Society was insti- tuted in October, A.M. 5588, for the relief of indigent Jews residing north and west of Temple-bar, who formerly were obliged to apply for relief to the enemies of their faith ; and it appeared from the report, that it had been in- strumental in relieving, at small expense, many cases of extreme distress. The money at the disposal of the Society was not much in amount, but it had been last year more than sufficient to accomplish all the purposes required. A subscription of 12s. a year was begun by some who attended the meeting on Tuesday.

A vacancy has taken place in the police magistracy of the metropolis, by the resignation of Sir Daniel Williams, who has held the appointment since the first establishment of the police in 1794. The Irish revenue for the quarter ended on the 10th of October, has expe- rienced a considerable improvement, as compared with the corresponding quarter last year.

The Hackney-coach Office is no more ; the licensing of coaches and ca- briolets being transferred to the Stamp-Office; and the sole superinteudence to the police,

A number of extra shipwrights have been employed at Sheerness dock. yard, for the purpose of reducing several men-of-war to frigates. It was announced at Lloyd's on Tuesday, on the authority of a Portsmouth letter, that his Majesty's ship Onyx had sailed to cruise in the Channel for the Russian fleet, and to inform the Admiral that lie is to be supplied from the dock-yard of Portsmouth with any stores the fleet may stand in need of. A deputation, consisting of three distinguished Portuguese citizens, the Conde de Sabugal, Senhor Sarmento, a member of the late Regency of Oporto, and Senhor Magalhaens, one of the Ministers of that Regency, is to set out by the next Brazil packet for Rio Janeiro, to represent to the Emperor the state of his daughter's affairs, and to suggest to him such steps as scent to his friends and her subjects in Europe best calculated to secure the triumph of legitimacy, in placing her on the throne of her ancestors. The more im- mediate and direct purpose of their mission, as specified in their instructions, is to thank his Majesty for sending the young Queen to Europe ; to explain the grounds on which her destination has been changed from Vienna to Lon- don ; to represent to him the superior advantages of a residence in England over an asylum in Austria, as placing her Majesty among the mass of her exiled subjects, and enabling her more easily to hear, and more promptly to obey, any call from her oppressed country ; to petition his Majesty for the employment of all the resources of his empire to assert the rights of his fa- mily ; to beseech him to demand the pledged succours of his allies for the same object; and to pray him never more to trust in the professions of a brother who has betrayed his confidence, and insulted his authority by the basest perfidy and the most daring usurpation.—Times.

The refugees have solicited permission to inhabit Dartmoor prisons during the winter, and Government has charitably complied with their request.

Mr. Nicholas Robinson has been chosen Mayor of Liverpool, for the ensuing year, without opposition. It will be recollected that the contest for office last year cost the late Mayor a good many thousands.

Mrs. Fry has been propounding a new scheme of charity, by which she hopes to be able to cure all the ills of poverty ! A committee of gentletneu are to consider the project ; which in the mean time has not met with uni- versal concurrence.

A fire broke out, on Monday evening, at No. 11, Huntingdon-street, Shoreditch, which has been attended with shocking consequences. It ap- pears that about halt-past eight, Mr. Ball and his wife, who inhabited the house, after putting their three children to bed, went front home (a common practice of theirs), having locked the door, and left a rush-light burning in a candlestick placed on a plate. About ten, the upper part of the house was dis- covered to be in flames. Lee, one of Mr. Ball's apprentices, along with ano- ther young man, went up stairs, and broke open the room-door ; but the fire and smoke compelled them to retreat, without being able to rescue the chil- dren. John Vallerley, who lived on the opposite sidle of the street, there rushed through the flames, and laid hold of two of the children, whilst en- veloped in fire, and brought them out, at the risk of his own life. The eldest child, a girl about eight years of age, was burnt to death in her bed, and her body reduced to a cinder; and the other children, a boy and a girl, were so much burnt in all parts of their bodies, that they died next day. As it was nearly an hour before a supply of water could be obtained, the house was burnt to the ground. The origin of this calamity is merely conjectured. Mr. Ball says that the two youngest children were asleep when he went out ; and it is supposed that the eldest girl had by some means brought the curtains of the bed in contact with the candle.

Samuel Lucas, a painter, was cleaning the windows of a house in John- street, Bedford-row, on Monday last, when the ladder on which he stood slipped, and he fell into the area. He died in a few hours. Mr. Thompson, clothier, Manchester, came to town on Friday, and drove to the house of Mrs. Andrews, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, where he took lodgings. Next morning he was found dead in bed. A medical gentleman who was called to examine the body, ascribes the sudden demise to apoplexy The Reverend Mr. Evans of Bromsgrove, who recently officiated in the Independent church of Halasowan, has died in consequence of being ridden down by a gentleman's carriage, as he stood on the highway near St. Albates waiting for a coach to carry him to London. The Reverend John Cullen, Stockport, died last week, in the act of bar- gaining with a broker for a writing-desk. An inquest was held on Wednesday, in Hart-street, Grosvenor-square, nit the body of a man who was killed by leaping out of a three pair of stairs window. It appeared that lie had for the last two months laboured under a peculiar complaint in the wind-pipe, which subjected him to fits of delirium. Verdict, insanity.

It is not true that Mademoiselle Verrey, the young and interesting petissiere of Regent-street, was stared to death by the mob. Her real malady e as scarlet fever, which was not attended to till two days previous to her decease. —Windsor Express.

A letter from Tarragona mentions, that a most extraordinary tempest had recently occurred there, during which a considerable number of aerolites fell, which had even penetrated the roofs of some of the houses, and done considerable damage both in the city and surrounding country. The writer of the letter adds, that he had weighed some of these aerial stones, and found that several were equal to 6lbs. fioz.; and it was said that some of them weighed as much as 101bs.

An article from Teflis, of the 10th September, states that a violent shock of an earthquake had just been felt in the province of Schirvan, which has destroyed some thousands of houses and other buildings throughout_ the province. A village situated about a mile from the foot of a high mountain has been completely buried under the earth ejected from it. At one place e wide chasm has been made in the earth, extending to about two miles; front which at night a light of a pale colour issues.

Shocks of earthquake have been felt in some parts of Italy. A convulsion of Vesuvius is anticipated.

A meeting took place on the 17th, between Mr. Peters, of Park-street, a West Indian, and Captain Hutchinson, late of the 47th regiment. The hostile parties and their friends proceeded to Chalk Farm; but seeing themselves observed, they went on till they found a convenient spot on Hampstead-heath, near the ponds. The ground was measured, and the distance taken of twelve

paces. The combatants pulled off their coats. The word being t'eivegiven.," Gentlemen, present—fire," the ball of Captain Hutchinson brushed the hat

of Mr. Peters, who aimed low, and no mischief ensued. The seconds inter- posed, and effected a reconciliation. The cause of dispute was a young Irish lady. Mrs W--, wife of T. W—, Esq., a gentleman of great respectability and fortune, and a magistrate, in the temporary absence of her husband, who

was engaged in his public duties at the county sessions, last week, eloped

from their residence at Cheltenham, in a carriage and four, accompanied by Mr. B—t, a friend of Mr. W.'s, and who took this method of requiting a long-continued series of hospitable attention ! The agony of the injured husband may be better conceived than described, especially as, during a union of fifteen years' duration, the most devoted attachment on his part seemed to he reciprocally felt on that of his wife. The connexions of the gallant are resident in London.—Gloucester Journal.

Notwithstanding the number of police-officers and constables stationed about the different Theatres, both inside and out, several robberies have

• lately taken place. On Monday evening, Mr. Grainier Antuziner, a foreign gentleman, was robbed of a valuable gold watch, at Covent-garden Theatre ; and Mr. William Chaffers was robbed at the pit entrance of the theatre the same evening, of a valuable diamond pin. On Saturday evening, two gentlemen had their pockets picked of their purses at the Surrey Theatre. The empty purse of the one gentleman was found placed in the pocket of the other.

On Friday afternoon, a robber entered the house of Mr. Rauch, Tavistock- street, 13edford-square ; and carried off a cash-box with a large sum in gold and bank-notes, two banker's checks, and several hills of exchange.

On Saturday night, a decked barge laden with 18 quarters of wheat, worth about 601., was stolen from Voss's-road, East-lane, Bermondsey. Next day the barge was found at Horne's-road, Bankside, with the hatches broken open and all the wheat gone.

A sloop of about 100 tons burden, appearing to be the Nancy of Boston, wasseized at Gravesend on Monday, by the Revenue Inspector. It was pre- tended that she was laden with corn ; but upon close inspection, it was found that the corn was only a covering to conceal nearly two thousand tubs of foreign brandy. The seizure is thought to he worth about 20,000/. The crew of the Nancy, who were towing her when she was boarded, nade their escape, but the captain was lodged in Gravesend prison. In the afternoon, however, the crew appeared at the gaol-door, like country labourers, dressed in smock-frocks, and obtained admittance from an old woman, who had been left in charge of the prison for the day. After some manoeuvering, they brought the captain out, carried him to a spring-cart in waiting, and drove off ; the people cheering them, as they went along, with the cries of " Go it, my brave smugglers !" The Corporation, who were feasting at the time of this daring adventure, were astounded when the old woman entered the hall, and cried out, " An' please your worshipful worships, the smuggler is gone !" The fact of the captain's escape having been ascertained, it was thought needless to pursue him, as, from the rate at which the smugglers travelled, no hopes of recapturing hint were entertained.

The murderer of Howarth, the Manchester watchman, has been appre- hended.

William Longthorne, of Barnby Moor, near Pocklington, quitted Wake- field on Friday morning, at six o'clock, accompanied by William Mosey, a native of the latter place, taking the foot-road to Pontefract. After they had walked together about five miles, Mosey (it is supposed) knocked down his companion, and after cutting his throat so desperately as to lay the gullet entirely open, and to separate the roots of the tongue, robbed hint, and threw hint into a ditch. Lottgthorne had lived long enough after he was found in the ditch to leave an accusing record of his dreadful death behind him. The murderer has escaped.

A man aged seventy, was last week murdered in Kildare. His wife, her son, and the maid-servant, are implicated in the crime, and have been com- mitted for trial.

A fatal accident occurred last week in the house of Mr. Rodwell, solicitor/ Ipswich. Thomas Churchyard, the butler, and Elizabeth Squirrel], a maid- servant, quarrelled, on Sunday evening, about a tray which was used at sup- per ; and it appears that Churchyard, in the heat of the moment, threw several dessert knives at her, for the purpose of frightening her. One of these pe- netrated her clothes, and entered her side, without her being conscious of the wound ; and Churchyard also seemed to be entirely ignorant of it. The girl afterwards complained of sickness; but she went to bed without making any one aware of what had happened, if she was aware of it herself. Early in the morning, however, she awakened Elizabeth Taylor, with whom she slept ; and Maria Bishop having been called, Squirrel! said, " 0, my dear girl, I am dying." Taylor said, " Don't say so, you'll soon be better. ' At this time she was sitting in bed, supported by one of her companions; and when an attempt was made to move her, she exclaimed, " You must not touch my side." She said her side was bursted ; and a good deal of blood was on the bed. The heads of the family were then called ; and Squirrel( recounted to Mr. Rodwell and others the whole circumstances of the quarrel with Churchyard, declaring that she did not know that she was wounded till she saw the blood, as she thought that it was the handle of the knife which had hit her. Churchyard could give no account of the knife—the house had been searched for it ; but no knife with a stain of blood could be found. After Mr. Rodwell had made every possible inquiry into the circumstances of the case, and as the unfortunate woman was dying, the following declaration was read over to her while she was perfectly sensible, and before she took the sacrament.

" Ipswich, 12th October, 1828. " In the event of my death from the injury I received last evening, I hereby so- lemnly declare, that the wound was inflicted by a knife thrown at me by Thomas

Churchyard ; and that I do not believe be was actuated by any feeling of or malice towards me, but that he was acting under sudden provocation that I might unintentionally have given ; and I freely forgive him, as I hope in Almighty God to be saved through Jesus Christ. " The mark of >4 SUum matte TA."

She died in the evening. Her body was opened next day, by Mr. Bartlet, surgeon ; when the fatal knife was found among the intestines. It had en- tered the cavity of the body, penetrated through the stomach and one of the small intestines, and into one of the large ones. A Coroner's Jury examined into the circumstances touching the melancholy catastrophe ; and after hear- ing the evidence, returned a verdict of manslaughter.

The Mayor of Liverpool last week received an anonymous letter, stating that a Mrs. Reed, who had been buried a fortnight previously, had died in childbed, owing to improper treatment from the surgeons who attended her, Mr. Kelly, and his assistant, Mr. Barnard Scandlon. The body was exhumed, ' and examined by a surgeon ; who gave it as his opinion that the woman's death was occasioned by ill-treatment. A Coroner's Jury then investigated the matter; and, after a long inquiry, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mr, Kelly's assistant.

A carter's wife in a Scotch village recently hanged herself in consequence of a quarrel with her husband ; who had forbidden her his bed, and sternly refused his forgiveness, which she had repeatedly solicited on her knees. The poor woman had for some time been unsettled in mind by a discovery that the buried corpse of her child had been removed from the grave by resurrectionists.

Liverpool, according to the reports of last week's Mercury, continues most prolific in robberies. The theatre had been robbed of dresses, pistols, and daggers; three individuals had been knocked down and robbed of their watches ; and five men had been taken into custody for stealing bales of otton from the warehouses.

The Countess of Rochelvie, aged twenty-eight, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment by the Court of Correctional Police at Paris, for having pilfered a gold perfume-box front a jeweller's shop.

It is in the contemplation of Government to establish a new colony on an extended scale, on the west coast of New South Wales, opposite to Port Jackson, and in the same latitude.

The Duke of Rutland has lately completed, under the superintendence of Mr. M. Wyatt, a superb new drawing-room, after the style of Louis XIV. The proprietors of the Winter Theatres are to proceed legally against Mr. Elliston, for the performance of the regular drama at the Surrey.

Mr. Green, last week, made an attempt to ascend front Brighton in his balloon ; but the attempt failed, and the gazers were disappointed.

Our city presented such a military display on Sunday as we never before witnessed. The Seventh Hussars, were marched to church fully accoutred fur

soar, with carbines, pistols, swords, and ammunition. They were followed by the Thirty-second infantry, from the barracks, carrying their muskets, with fixed bayonets, and well-filled eartouche-boxes.—Leinster Journal.

It is estimated that the corn destroyed by game in the county of Hants alone, in one year, would be sufficient to support 100,000 people; and that the number of persons confined in prison, in the same county, for offences against the game-laws, are sufficient to employia capital of 100,0001. in the manufacture of wool, cotton, or silk.

In January last, a Dutch vessel, with 370 German emigrants on board, for the Brazils, was wrecked in the Channel, and brought into Falmouth. The poor foreigners were without either funds or friends; and they have, from the time of their arrival till now, been supported by the bounty of the people of Falmouth. Government has granted a transport to convey them to Brazil.

The people of Falmouth are making exertions to provision the ship, and also to supply the emigrants (among whom are many children) with clothes, of which they are nearly destitute.

The Viceroy of Egypt has made a present of one of Cleopatra's Needles to the King of France. M. Chatnpollion, one of the French savant, in a letter from Alexandria to some of his colleagues in Paris, expresses a hope that means may be contrived to remove this monument of antiquity to France. The other obelisk belongs to England.

It appears from a notice in a French paper, that M. Carnet, an enterprising young French traveller, has succeeded in penetrating to the mysterious city of Timbuctoo. He is come home, and is under quarantine atToulon.

In Denmark, last year, the number of births was 36,t).94, and that of deaths 26,160.

In the middle of September so great a quantity of snow fell at Fabian, in Sweden, that the roads were rendered impassable.

At Munich, every child found begging is taken to a charitable establish- ment: the moment he enters, his portrait is given to hint, representing him in his rags, and he promises by oath to keep it all his life.—The Mirror% A steam-vessel, the Atlas, carrying three engines, each of 100 horse power has been recently launched at Rotterdam. Her first voyage is to he to Ba- tavia with troops and passengers.

INSURANCE ON THE LIFE OF TILE LATE DUKE OF Saxe GOTILI;AII im- portant trial came before the Court of King's Bench on Tuesday respecting this insurance. From the rank of the insured, and some curious details which it was expected would be divulged in the course of the trial, consi- derable interest was excited ; but before the plaintiff's case was terminated, the Court nonsuited the plaintiff, and the full exposition of the matter was prevented. By the statement of Mr. Brougham, the plaintiff's counsel, it appeared that in June 1S2-1, a policy of insurance had been effected in the Atlas Insurance Office, on the life of the above-named prince, for 3203/. at a premium of 5 per cent. per annum. The premium was paid for the lirst year. On the 11th of February 1825, the Duke died ; but the office re- fused to pay, on the ground that the state of the Prince's health at the time the insurance was effected, had been misrepresented. On the trial it was proved that the usual certificates required by the office had been furnished, and that these certificates were given by the physicians who were in constant attendance on the Prince's person ; and they stated that the Prince was in general good health, though labouring under complaints which did not tend to shorten life. On the examination of Mr. Green, the eminent lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital, it appeared that a fact of some importance for the consideration of the Directors of the Office had been suppressed; namely, that for a considerable period before the insurance was effected, the Duke had been unable to speak. In the certificates one physician had used an expres- sion that had been construed by the Directors to mean "an impediment of speech ;" and the other had said that the Duke was unable to speak ; but the physician had not inferred front the fact the existence of any cause by which the life of the Prince might be supposed lobe endangered. Mr. Green expressed himself to he of opinion that this was a fact of considerable im- portance; and Lord Tenterden intimated that he should in consequence put it to the Jury whether there was anything concealed which it was material for the Jury to know. On this intimation Mr. Brougham elected to be non- suited. The plaintiff was nonsuited accordingly, with leave to move the Court to set aside the nonsuit and enter a verdict in his favour, or have a new trial.