News in Brief
The I)uke andt Duchess of Clarence, accompanied by the Duke of Meiningen, arrived in town yesterday morning from their residenice at Bushey. On Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, the Duchess oF Kent, accompanied by the Princesses Victoria and Feo- tore, with their usual attelidants, arrived at her apartments at the Kine's Palace, Kensington, from Ramsgate, wbhere the Royal Duchless has been staying for a considerable time. Her Royal Highbness gave a grand dinnei yesterday to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence and the Dtuke of Meiningen. Prince Polignac, the Frenchl Ambassador, iransacte(d bu- siness yesterday afterlnooni at the Foreign-office, Downling. street. T'hc foilowing paragraph, containiing the intelligence of the failure of the attcmpt to introduce slavery into the state of Illiniois, is extracted from a Philadelphia newspaper of the 28th of July, 1824:- " ILLIN1OIs.-The important question of convention or no con. vention, for revising the constitution of the state, with a view princi. pally to admitting thle introduction of slaves into that state, has, we arc happy to lcarn,beel decided in the negative by the PFOPLE,after as full and free a discussion as, pehaps, ever wvas had aluaong any pcoplcon any subject."