4 JULY 1840, page 9

A Great Number Of Persons Assembled At The West. India

Dock, Black- wall, on Tuesday, in order to witness the landing of a magnificent male elephant, from the ship Lady Flora, which has recently arrived from Calcutta. The elephant......

Is It Possible That Three Steam-vessels Will Be Sent Up

the Niger, "to effect the extinction " of a slave-trade having its seats at entirely other and liar distant parts of the continent ? is it supposed that the slave- trade now......

The Accounts Received A Day Or Two Since Of The

alarming scarcity and dearness of corn in the interior of Russia, together with the un- favourable prospects of the forthcoming harvest, are fullyconfirmed by the advises......

Lirtisceitaneous.

Last night's Gazette announces that the Earl of .Aboyne has been appointed one of the Lords in Waiting on the Queen, in the room of Viscount Falkland, resigned; that Mr. Charles......

The Literary Association Of The Friends Of Poland Are About

to make another effort to obtain time means of relieving the necessities of the gallant and unfortunate victims of Russian tyranny. It is intended to have a ffte on Friday at......

We Arc Glad To Learn From The United Service Gazette,

that a sub- scription was commenced by naval and military gentlemen to pay the .fine of 50/. imposed on Mr. Watts, the editor of that paper, for the libel on Admiral Ommanney,......

It Is Rumoured That Mr. Thomas Llabington Macaulay Is Likely

to be removed from the War Office to Ireland. Lord Normanby, as we stated a week or two since, is to go to Paris, as Ambassador to the Court of the King of the French, and he......