llantous.

The birth of Prince Alfred was registered, at Windsor Castle, on Sunday, by the name of Alfred Ernest Albert. The entry was made by Mr, Towers, District Registrar for Windsor, in presence of Prince Albert, Sir James Graham, Major Graham, Registrar-General, and Mr. William Cole Long, Superintendent-Registrar. Six weeks having elapsed since the birth of the Prince, a fee of 7s. 6d. was incurred.

It is announced that the Hereditary Grand Dutchess of Mecklenburg- Strelitz is in an " interesting situation."

Sir Robert and Lady Sale arrived at Southampton, from London, on Thursday ; and after a visit to a friend, they will embark for India on Tuesday, in the Oriental steam-packet; Sir Robert returning to his duties.

Lord Ellenborough arrived at Kidmore on Friday, on a visit to the owner, Lord Colchester, his brother-in-law. At Forest Row, the neigh- bouring town, whose inhabitants remembered past charities and kind- ness from Lord Ellenborough, he was received with triumphal arches and an address congratulating him on his successes in India and his re- turn home. In his reply he said- " Undoubtedly, great changes took place in our position in India while I ad- ministered the government. I found disaster, and I left victory. I found war, and I left universal peace ; from which has already resulted a great extension of our commerce with the East, necessarily bringing with it some improvement in the general condition of the people. But not to me be ascribed the merit of these happy events."

On the contrary, he ascribes.:it to the Army and Providence. He finished by saying-

" Again I cordially thank you, gentlemen, for your kindness in so welcoming me home. I am happy, certainly, in returning to my native country ; but I confess to you that I have left in India many dear friends and grateful affec- tions, especially towards the Army, which can only terminate with my life."

Lord Nugent was thrown from his horse, while riding out at Twick- enham, on Saturday. He sustained some internal injury and a fracture of three ribs ; but is doing well.

The celebrated Berzelius has just been seized with a violent conges- tion of blood; but the apprehensions felt for the result have diminished ; and there is a promise that his health will be restored.

Mexican letters announce the marriage of the President Santa Anna to Donna Dolores Fostan y Gomez, on the 2d October ; the ceremony being performed with great solemnity at the National Palace.

Several Brighton tradesmen have put forward a statement contradict- ing a report in the Brighton Guardian respecting the embarrassed affairs of Mr. Hurst, M.P. Their bills have all been paid at the usual time ; Mr. Hurst's departure for the Continent was not secret, but well known some time before he went ; the sale of "goods" was only the ordinary sale of stock, &c. of a gentleman relinquishing the pursuit of farming.

The Duke of Devonshire has contributed 100/. to the fund in aid of "the deservedly esteemed and universally respected, the good and benevolent Father Mathew."

A correspondent says that the quarter's revenue, as far as it has gone, presents an improved aspect : this is the case, we learn, both in the Customs department and the Post-office. The tariff is also said to be work- ing well with France and the Netherlands. If, continues our informant, the revenue comes up as is expected to the end of the quarter, Sir Ro- bert Peel will reduce the Income-tax to 3ic/. in the pound.—Globe.

It having been reported that a cargo of sugar had been admitted at Liverpool from a country employing slave-labour, the Morning Herald states "the facts "-

" A cargo of sugar from Venezuela was entered at the Liverpool Custom- house for admission at the reduced rate of duty on foreign free-labour sugar. The Queen's officers then, well knowing that slavery existed in the state of Venezuela, and that the Act of last session contemplated only the admission, on such terms, of sugar from countries untainted with slavery, very properly hesitated to pass it. The Law-officers of the Crown were consequently con- sulted; and, as the treaty which regulates our commercial relations with Vene- zuela contains what is called the most-favoured-nation article, they reported, we are informed, that its admission could not be legally resisted ; and the cargo has been accordingly admitted at the low duty." [The Herald adds, that al- though slave-labour still exists in Venezuela, free labour is also employed; and that the country is not engaged in the slave-trade. Therefore the sugar may have been the produce of free labour. Moreover, Venezuela could only supply this country with a trifling quantity of sugar. The Herald regards the im- portation of this single cargo as a trick, probably devised by some one in the Brazil trade.]

The Anti-Slavery Reporter states, that a deputation from the Anti- Slavery Society, on the subject of immigration into the West Indies, was received by Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley on Monday. In the course of conversation, Lord Stanley stated that a set of Guiana ordi- nances had been disallowed, because they threw the expense of immi- gration on the colony, instead of its being thrown on the produce. The Reporter approves of the determination not to make the labourers (as tax-payers) contribute towards introducing their rivals ; but dislikes the idea of throwing the cost on the consumers—" ourselves." "In con- clusion, Sir Robert Peel expressed his entire concurrence in one of the leading principles of the Society, that it was by the abolition of slavery alone that we could ever hope for the extinction of the slave-trade."

The Morning Chronicle denounces a contemplated " job " in filling the office of Queen's Proctor, vacant by the death of Mr. Iltid Nicholl. The families of Sir John Nicholl and Sir Herbert Jenner Fust are re- lated; and the candidates named for the office are—Mr. Nicholl, cousin to Sir John ; Mr. Dyke, son-in-law to Sir Herbert ; Mr. Fox, son-in- law to Sir Herbert ; Mr. Jenner, son to Sir Herbert; Mr. Dyneley cousin to Sir Herbert.

New obliterating-stamps, to cancel the postage-stamps, have been adopted by the General Post-office. Within the London district the ob- literating-stamp is oval, with a serrated border, and a circular rim within, enclosing the number of the receiving-house at which the letter is posted. The stamp for letters posted in the London district for the country is similar, with a square lozenge; on letters posted from the provinces for London, it is striped at top and bottom, with semicircular marks at the sides, and the official number of the post-town; the Irish stamp is a square; the Scotch a parallelogram. In all cases of cons- plaint, or of delay in delivery, the cover of the letter or newspaper sup- posed to have been detained should be sent under cover to the Secretary of the Post-office. Newspapers which frequently fail should in all cases be named to the Secretary ; who will, upon application, cause- them to be put "on check," both in the office in town and in the country.

A Gazette published on Thursday, extended to the size of sixty- three pages, and filled with railway notices, contained notice of a pri- vate bill for erecting a bridge over the Thames near Chelsea Hospital.

"A Reader of Hansard," writing to the Times, quotes, from Parlia- mentary papers, an account of money raised for the service of Ireland' in the fourteen first years of the Union, namely, from 1801 to 1814 inclusive ; showing a total of 79,354,3321., or an annual average of 5,500,000/. " I should advise Mr. O'Connell," says the Reader, "when Repeal is obtained, not to repay, but to repudiate." He does not tell why he stops the account with the year 1814.

In the audience-hall of Gresham College, on Monday, Professor- Taylor delivered a splendid lecture on Milton and his Coma. The object was to show that the songs and stage adjuncts, with which the poem had been overlaid by Dr. Dalton and the managers of theatres, were not only superfluous, but detrimental to the moral unity of the piece. Its original performance at a private house by amateurs was probably the reason for musical deficiencies which the author himself, on fit occasion, would have supplied. Mr. Taylor, however, produced some compositions of his own, modestly deprecating the notion that he meant them to be accepted as sufficing, but offering them as his idea of the method of treating the subject with a due sense of its exalted cha- racter and without adulterating the pure text. The City audience, more crowded than the lecture-room could well hold, was greatly im- pressed. The question remains, whether Comes, presented in the chaste- style advocated by Mr. Taylor, would be suited to an ordinary theatre, or relished by a common audience : it would probably succeed better in a concert-room.

Miss Martineau has published an account of what appears to be her cure by mesmerism. For five years she suffered from a very distress- ing internal complaint, which latterly obliged her to keep perfectly still ; opium being a palliative, but cure hopeless. In June last, she- consented to try the experiment of mesmerism ; and was mesmerised, on the 22d of that month, by Mr. Spencer Hall. Her sensations, de- scribed with great minuteness, clearness, and dispassionateness, re- semble some described in other accounts : surrounding objects seemed' to be bathed in a hazy phosphorescent light, while the patient was possessed by a kind of conscious trance. Some uneasiness was suc- ceeded by unwonted ease and pleasure. Miss Martineau was-subse- quently mesmerized by her own maid. Each step of relief appeared to be permanent; opium was soon discarded; and the patient rapidly re- covered.

The eclipse of Sunday night was concealed from the curious in the Metropolis by the clouds that overspread the face of the heavens ; but some consoled themselves for not seeing, by observing that the darkness of the night was uncommonly dense. Towards morning, those who sat up saw the fag end of the eclipse.

At the instance of the Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor Nicholas- has ordered a bos aurochs of the Lithuanian mountains to be shot, for presentation to the museum of the London Royal College of Surgeons ; a specimen of this last survivor of the gigantic primmval races being desiderated for the use of Professor Owen.

Mr. Emerson Tennent has presented to the Natural History Society of Belfast a living cameleon caught by himself in the garden of the Greek convent on Mount dalvary. The gift of the creature that changes its colours so easily, provokes from a Whig journalist the re- mark, that from Mr. Tennent it is very appropriate : perhaps it would have been still more appropriate from Lord Palmerston, who also has, been abroad this autumn.

The Charivarz tells a story about a millionaire of European renown,. which is said to be "founded on fact." The anecdote is evidently dis- guised by the artificial cookery of the Parisian Punch; but it does not seem difficult to pick out the real " fact" The day was very wet ;. and a gentleman, wrapped in a pelisse, hastily got into an omnibus, at the corner of the Rue Lafitte. At the Rue de Richelieu, opposite the Exchange, he alighted, and was going off ; when the conductor stopped. him with a demand for his six sous. The gentleman felt in his pocket, but he had no change. The conductor waxed angry. "I am M. De Rothschild," said the gentleman ; "there is my card.' " Never heard of you," said the man : "give me my six sous." The banker was in haste : "I have only an order for a million," he said, "give me change,"—handing a coupon of Five per Cent Routes for 50,000 francs. The conductor stared, and the passengers began to laugh. Just then an agent de change came by, and M. de Rothschild borrowed the six sous. The conductor was seized with remorseful respect ; and,. turning to M. de Rothschild, he said, " If you want ten francs, Sir, I don't mind lending them to you."

An Arab Othello was tried before the Var Court of Assizes, on the 16th instant. Abd-el-Kader Ben Aoufi, an officer of the celebrated Emir Abd-el-Kader, but now one of a number of prisoners of war in France, quarrelled with his friend Abd-el-Kader Ben Rehab; and the latter, to exasperate, boasted of undue familiarity with Ben Aoufi's. wife, Fathom. The husband murdered her, beating her to death with a log of wood ; which he pleaded his right to do. Two remarkable points in the trial were, the presence of several Arabs in their hour- nouses, and the Christian Judge's citing the Koran against the right claimed by the prisoner. The Jury convicted the prisoner of man- slaughter under extenuating circumstances ; and he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment.

A boat conveying twelve men, mostly soldiers, and a woman, from. the Cork transport-ship Apollo to the shore at Gibraltar, on the 13th instant, was run down by a Danish galliot from Malaga, and seven were drowned. The patron of the small boat, one of the men who died, rashly tried to cross the galliot in its course. It is said that the Emperor of Russia has issued an order by which all natives of Poland are prohibited from marrying till they have com- pleted their thirtieth year.