The Duke and Duchess of Clarence embarked oil Saturday in

the Talbot steam. boat for Dieppe, on a visit to the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, who is taking the baths there. We cannot vouch for the following report : "Some surprise harm; been expressed that his Royal Highness should not have gone in a Royal yarn:, the Duke said he would not ask nor be indebted to the Admiralty for the sligimst favour." Nearly two thousand persons paid for admission to the Pier on Saturday to witness the embarkation of their Royal Highnesses. The Talbot had a passage over of ten hours only. The Duke of Clarence expressed himself well pleased with every thing, and said that he should return in eight or ten days He is at the Royal Hotel, Dieppe, under the title of Earl of Munster.

Two more Russian men-of-war were seen off Dover on Tuesday night, passing down Channel.

ELECTION OF Lotus MAYOR.—A very full attendance of the Livery of London took place on Tuesday at Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. After the usual preliminary proceedings, the names of the Aldermen in rotation were called over, when the show of hands in favour or Aldermen Key and Crowder appeared nearly equal. They were accordingly re- turned to the Court of Aldermen, and on their return to the hustings, the Recorder declared that Mr. Alderman Crowder was unanimously elected. This announcement was received with the utmost approbation. The two candidates addressed the Livery; Mr. Key expressing his hope of an unanimous vote in his own favour next year; and Mr. Crowder pledging himself to a zealous discharge of the duties imposed upon him. He was totally unoccu- pied, he said—free from the trammels of business, and he hoped he might add that he was possessed of :mother quality—an independent mind. (Cheering.) Mr. Hunt rose to move a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, because he con• sidered that excellent City Magistrate most unequivocally entitled to the grati- tude of his fellow-citizens. He considered the Livery had acted correctly in electing so eligible a successor; for he considered Alderman Crowder a man of independence and of most invincible integrity. Mr. Hunt had a few words to say on a subject in which the dignity of the City was, in his opinion, comps mised. He had served as auditor to the City accounts for two years; but when he applied for the money to which he was entitled, he found it impossible to get a farthing. He wished to apply it to the service of four hundred widows of poor freemen - but, as it appeared, that could not be done, he wished to give these poor widows one "good tuck out" at White Conduit House, and the expense; to be paid from what lie considered due to him. He was told, however, lie might have expended the money when in office by "regular good dinners;" and, since he had made some stir in the business, Alderman Farebrother kindly suggest" to him that he might as well pay for the entertainment of the widows himself, an f then ask the Court of Common Council for it. If the worthy and liberal Alder- man would set the example by knocking down 501. for the widows, he world follow it; but he would not give credit to the Court of Common Council for J. pinch of snuff! It had been drily observed by Mr. Hobler, that the Conn f Common Council never died. No, it never would die, if eating could keep it alive. If stuffing its maw would ensure its life, it would live to all eternity (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hunt concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor; • which was seconded by Mr. Galloway. The Lord Mayor, amidst loud cheering returned thanks. He regretted that° could not congratulate the Livery upon the condition of the poor, during ! eh, eleven months which he had nearly accomplished in office : he could not say ill" any improvement had taken place—distress prevailed to a great degree.

The thanks of the Livery were voted to the late Sheriffs ; who returned thanks inappropriate appropriate speeches.

Mr. C Pearson stated to the Livery, that he had travelled one hundred and twenty miles to attend the Common-hall ; but he that morning had learned, that the Committee on the Secondary's Office affairs had agreed in resolutions which left him nothing to desire. It had been determined not to make the place a job for any minion, and the appointment should be annual ; at the same time that all e orbited fees should be abolished, and a decided change was to fake place in the system. He rejoiced in having accomplished this great object, and he should go back to Newark (where another species of oppression was practised) with fittings of pride at the result of his labours for his fellow citizens.--The Hall then broke up. THE Suemees.—On Monday the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the ensuing year, Messrs. Richardson and Ward, attended by the members of their respective Companies, proceeded in state to Guildhall; where they were met on the hustings by the Lord Mayor and Messrs. Booth and Copeland, the late She- riffs, when the usual oaths of office were administered, and the late Sheriffs deli- vered over to them the keys of the different City gaols. The procession then re- turned to Vintners =hall, where a grand dinner was given. On Wednesday, the Sheriffs proceeded to Westminster in the City barge, and were sworn into office before the Cursitor Baron of the King's Exchequer. Torre NIIAM VEsTay.—A numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Tottenham was held on Tuesday, to forward an application to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act for the better regulation of the parish—in other words, for the appointment of a Select Vestry. Two previous attempts bad been negatived by large majorities, and the present met a similar fate; there being about 20 to 1 opposed either to the in- troduction of " Mr. Sturges Bourne's Act," which was considered objectionable, or to a local act, as unnecessary (which would cost, perhaps, 5001, or, if op- posed, 2000/.), the parishioners generally considering themselves capable of ma- naging their on affairs, The parish had been much excited, previously to the meeting, by placards, calling on all to come forward and show themselves worthy the trust bequeathed to them by their forefathers. One of these documents was whimsically addressed to the " Ladies of Tottenham," and contained the follow- ing passage :—" Ladies who have votes, let us, on Tuesday next, walk to the house of God as friends, and take sweet counsel together, Ladies who have not votes, give your husbands a curtain lecture on Monday night ; tell them that if they vote away their independence and the rights of their children, you will be their everlasting plagues ; that they shall have smoky water for their tea, their meat roasted to rags, and their washing done at home."

Toe Corrox Teane.—Letters from Liverpool state, that an unexampled brisk- ness was experienced in that market on Monday last, when no less than 6,000 bags of cotton of various descriptions and qualities changed hands in the course of the day. Among the purchasers were several of the principal manufacturers in Manchester and the neighbouring towns, who were supposed to be actuated by the belief that the " turn-out," as it is called, of the weavers generally, was coming to an end, and that a winter season of much briskness in the fabric of cotton goods might fairly be looked to. The Liverpool letters remark that the demand was not confined to manufacturing puiposes, but that there was also a good deal of export and speculative business doing, the natural consequence, in all probability, of the more legitimate demand.

Two hundred electors of Newark (tenants of the Duke of Newcastle) were served a short time since with notices to quit, for declining to vote for Mr. Sadler, the duke's nominee. A requisition to the mayor to call a meeting of the inha- bitants " for considering this direct violation of the freedom of election," was re- fused; in consequence of which, a general meeting of the townspeople was summoned by themselves. A great interest was excited at Newark by the expectation of a visit from Mr. Sergeant Wilde.

Mr. Edward Wallis, a ',respectable Roman Catholic, has been chosen Highs Sheriff for the city of York. Mr. Chaloner, late M.P. for York, brother-in-law to Lord Milton, has resigned the Aldermanic gown for that city, in consequence of being appointed agent to Lord Fitzwilliam's extensive estates in Ireland ; and there is reason to believe that the Honourable Edward Petro, a Roman Catholic, will be elected in his room.

JOHN KNOX'S CHURCH AT EDINBURGII;011Tuesday the foundation-stone was laid of a new edifice, to be called "John Knox's Church," at the point of junc- tion betwixt the Castlehill and the West Bow of this city. The ceremonial was conducted in a very quiet, and rather uninteresting manner, in presence of the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the city. The building is to be in the cathedral form—the choir being shorter than the nave ; and Mr. Ha- milton has in his design afforded another proof of his professional talent, which cannot fail to raise still higher his well-earned reputation. His High School is an admirable specimen of the pure Grecian architecture ; and he has now pro- duced a design of the Gothic order. The whole of the plan is in perfect harmony; and the tower, which rises over the transept, and which is to be 250 feet in height, is at once massy and magnificent—rising in just proportions as a square Gothic tower, and terminating in an octagOnal spire, enriched with buttresses and minarets, which have the finest effect in the drawing; and which, on the lofty and commanding position where it is to be placed, will present one of the most conspicuous objects among the striking features of our metropolis. When St. Giles's Church is restored, and John Knox's Church (we don't much like the name) is reared, and the new improvements in the vicinity are carried through, the Old Town of Edinburgh will be completely renovated, and will be superior, in picturesque effect and in specimens of city architecture, even to the finest parts of the New Town. Edinburgh Weekly Journal.

LUNACY OF Mr. Jeuvis.—A commission de lunatic° inquirendo was held on Wednesday and Thursday, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, relative to the sup- posed lunacy of the Hon. Mr. Jervis, son of Earl St. Vincent. After a most mi- nute investigation, the Jury returned a verdict" of unsound mind, and incapable of managing his own affairs since the 11th of January last." The Commission is said to be the most expensive one that has taken place since that upon the Earl of Portsmouth. It excited extraordinary interest; and though, from the answers of Mr. Jervis as well as from the general evidence produced, there could be no ratinal doubt of the justice of the verdict, the reports say that symptoms of dissa- tisfaction were exhibited When it was declared. Mr. Jervis, it appeared, was the eldest son of Lord St. Vincent by a former marriage. He was placed in the Navy, where he remained till within a few hours of being a lieutenant, and then he went into the Army. In July 1815, lie married a lady, who had a great

and beneficial influence over him. In 1823 her father died, and they took a house atTeddington, where they resided till the 2nd of of November, MS, Mrs.

Jervis was in a state of pregnancy, and a miscarriage was expected. Mr. Roots, a medical man, attended her, and wished to communicate with Mr. Jervis ; but he did not see him for four days, at the end of which they met, when Mr. Jervis made use of a very singular exclamation. Mrs. Jervis died, and the last conso- lation for which Mr. Jervis asked was a little medicine for himself, while the rest of the family were in the deepest affliction. In January, Mr. Jervis went to see his father, and appeared greatly estranged , and on the 10th of February the most unquestionable iinsanity appeared. He left the house at night, and was found at Camden-town, by the police, without shoes and stockings, in the mud, at four o'clock in the morning; and his reason for appearing so was " that he had a cold in tire head, and this was the way to warm him." On another occa- sion he leaped out of a window, to the danger of his life. It was necessary to have two keepers to protect him ; and a commission was applied for to the Lord Chancellor, before whom a great body of evidence was exhibited. To crown all the evidence, most respectable medical men were called in—Dr. Gooch, Sir George Tuthill, Dr. 'ashen, and Mr. King, who were decidedly of opinion that Mr.Jervis was of unsound mind. We select one specimen of his letters.

" Letter to his Majesty.

"Teddiugton-house, Teddiugton, Middlesex, Feb. 25, 1829.

" Fatlrer,—From the injuries, tyrannical, despotic, and unnatural conduct I have re- ceived from you, I challenge you to a single combat to-morrow morning, at four o'clock precisely, each armed with a naval regulation sword, to light it out manfully on Wimble- don-common, in the county of Surrey—So writ." " Mr. Thomas Jervis White Jervis, your second son, will he ready 011 the ground, ready to take my place immediately after you and I have decided the contest. " Your third son, Mr. Charles Twisleton, an ensign of your Majesty' service, will he ready on the ground, ready to take your second son's place, after you and him have de- cided the contest—God save the King.

Addressed " To his Excellent Majesty."

PROPERTY FOUND ON Ceimisar.s.--Mr. Sheriff Copeland applied on Monday to the Lord Mayor relative to a statement which has appeared of the Sheriffs having detained money taken from a person now under imprisonment. He explained the facts, and the motive. "As a sworn officer of the Crown, I one compelled to keep the money until Me right owner is jound. I will preserve the rights of my office." He found that officers were ready to give back crow-bars, phosphorus- boxes, and things of no value to the prisoners ; but when unfortunate persons had duplicates, money, or other valuables, they would not return them. He ad- verted to the case of a poor prisoner now under sentence of death in Newgate, of whom the officers had obtained 2221.; the wife of the prisoner could not obtain one tarthing of it. The Lord Mayor assured the worthy Sheriff that no imputa- tion could be cast on him; and so the matter dropped:

POISONING OF Mits. Putturs.—The Churchwardens and Overseers of FinchleYs and about eighty witnesses, presented themselves at Bow-street on Wednesday, as early as ten o'clock. Mr. Adolphus and Mr. C. Phillips, the counsel, were admitted into the private room. Mr. Adolphus, after recapitulating the known facts of the case, stated, that the laudanum, which was said to have occasioned the lady's death, could not pussibly have come from the shop of Mr. Snow ; and that Mr. Phillips, the husband, had refused to allow his servants to be examined. Mr. C. Phillips stated, that the husband of the unfortunate lady was ready to give any explanation ; and that though he had declined to have his household examined irregularly, lie had no objection to their being examined by Sir R. Birnie, on tenth. If a charge was to be made against Mr. Phillips, let it be made boldly; and if there were any persons who could cast imputations on his client, let them come forward. Mr. Adolphus observed that no charge had been made against Mr. Phillips. Sir R. Birnie said to Mr. Phillips, that he should investi-, gate this case as he would a common murder committed in the street, and that no stigma could be thrown upon any person at present. In this case, as there were

eighty witnesses to be examined, and as the room was of small dimensions, it would be better to have some ,A the principal witnesses only examined, and also

the Churchwardens, and summonses should be granted for their 'appearance. He asked Mr. Adolphus if he had any evidence prepared, and reduced to writing ? Mr. Adolphus replied that he had none, except the instructions in his brief. It was then arranged that Mr. Adolphus should apply again to the Magistrates to appoint a day for receiving the written informations, and that notice -should be given of such appointment to the solicitor of Mr. Phillips.

Deserrutios.—A young may without a particle of clothing, save a worn-out pair of canvass trowsers, was found on Sunday night sleeping in a brick-field. He said he was a tailor, but had been a considerable time out of work; and he was without hopes of getting any, as no one would employ him in his wretched condi- tion: he had no home, but slept sometimes in Fleet-market and sometimes in fields ; sometimes he got a little job in the streets, but latterly he had been obliged to beg. The Magistrate said lie should commit him to the House of Cor- rection for a fortnight, where he would get fed and clothed, and when he came out something perhaps should be done for him. The young man expressed his gratitude.

Moe. DORE Lew.—Mr. Wiltshire, and Mr. Robinson, merchants at Mogadore, appeared yesterday at Bow-street, to answer to a charge of assault and false im- prisonment by Mores Delevante, who had till lately been in the service of Mr. Wiltshire as his domestic servant, having accompanied him from Mogadore in that capacity. On Saturday week, the two defendants (such was the complain. ant's statement, as translated by a sworn interpreter) called him into a room in the house of Mr. Wiltshire's brother at Hoxton, and there told him, that if he did not sign a paper which was placed before them, they would hang or kill him. They then asked him about Jacob Banatah who had had his hands cut off at Magadore, and had died ; and told him that if he did not tell every thing he knew about what had occurred there, they would serve him in the same way They then locked him in the room, where he was confined between two and three hours. He was forced to sign the paper, but he did not know the contents of it. Mr. Wiltshire was required to produce the paper. It purported to be the confession of the complainant; and described various thefts in which the cook, Selimo (an. other boy), and himself, had been concerned. Mr. Wiltshire acknowledged the paper was for the purpose of giving evidence to prosecute the boy Selimo, at Mogadore. Mr. Minshull said, in case the charge assumed a very serious shape, it was not to be tolerated that a confession should be wrung from an individual in a free country like this, in order to ground a prosecution for felony in a dis- tant part of the world ; and where, it appears, they think very little of cutting off a man's hands, which would most likely be the fate of the buy Selimo, if this confession were forwarded to Mogadore. Mr. Wiltshire's brother declared that the complainant was not worthy of belief. "And yet," said Mr. Halls, " you think his credit good enough to make a confession which might cause the death of a fellow creature." The defendants were required to find bail in the sum of 1000/. each, and also to find two sureties each in the sum of 500/.

Imroseuee.—At Guildhall, on Monday, a woman, with two small children at her side, was charged with endeavouring to procure contributions wader the false

" WILLIAM JERVIS JEavls."

pretence of being pregnant and about to be delivered in the street. On Saturday she was taken to the workhouse, apparently in strong labour ; and when arrived there, she said, " Thank God, it's all over l" The nurse asked where it was ? The prisoner answered, "in the coach." The nurse ran immediately to the coach, and found a piece of sheep's liver, which she produced in her handkerchief The prisoner offered no defence, and was committed to Bridewell for three months.

PETITION-MONGE as.—The secret history of the Anti-Catholic petitions was far- ther developed, on Thursday in the Insolvent Debtors' Court; where William Earle applying for his discharge, was opposed by Francis Sparrow. Sparrow stated, that in August 1828, the insolvent informed him that a subscription had been entered into for preparing petitions to Parliament against Catholic emanci- pation, and that 80001. had been collected. The insolvent engaged witness to dis- pose of certain copies of a petition, and he undertook that witness should receive 30s. per week upon making a deposit of 251. They were to have a day's shoot- ing in September, on the splendid estate of the insolvent's father in Hereford- shire ! Witness considering the speculation likely to be attended with profit, paid the 251. to the insolvent's clerk, at 52, Aldermanbury. He disposed of fifty- seven petitions at the rate 13}tl. each, but received no wages ; and his claim spots the insolvent, including the 251., was 571. The insolvent said he had never received a shilling from any noble lord towards obtaining signatures to the peti- tion. A subscription was entered into by the Dukes of Cumberland and New- castle, and other noble lords; but he had never received any portion of it. Nei- ther had he received any portion of the 251. which was deposited by Mr. Sparrow in the hands of his clerk. The Chief Commissioner said that the evidence did not establish the charge of fraud against the insolvent, and he therefore discharged hint. The exposure, and the simplicity of poor Sparrow, afforded much amusement.