30 MAY 1840, Page 6

The expectation of an heir to the Crown has been

announced in the Ministerial newspapers this week more broadly thorn before ; and one of them, which mounts the Royal arms at the humil or its dark masses of personal tattle, filled v, 'le columns with pert ie tilers of this ceremonial observed at the birth of t he Lust Prince of Wales,—ax though her Ma- jesty's accouchement fund been lituiled for next week. The quidnunes about town, too, have alreedy began to prate of and concerning a Regency.