The Duke of York arrived ...
The Dukc of York arrived at his residenec in Stable- yard, Str James's, about three o'clock vesterday afternoon, frern Brighton,and scsn after His Royal Highncss's arrival, received a visit from the Princess Sophia. Yesterday the Mlarquis of Hertford, MIr. Croker, an(d a number of other gentlemen, went down the river in the Admiral's barge to the WVhite-bait house, *Yoolwich, where they dined. Mr. Secretary Canning was improved in his health yes- terdlay, but was not sufficiently recovere(d to attend at the Foreign l)ffiee, b'ot transacted official business at his hIousC inl Bromptonl. Barons Solomon, Chiarles, and .Jamcs de Rothschild, left Londlon for Paris yesterday morning. They have been on a visit for about a weck, to their brother, Mr. N. M. Rothschild, and, as is supposed, on important business, the nature of wlhich, lhowever, has not transpired. 'Thel Blonde, M6, C,iptain Lord Byron, after conveying to ()Oviyhee the bodies of the late King ani(I Qttecil of the Sandwich Islands, and( the surviving suite, will miake a short stay at those islands, and will thence return to England, toochinig successively at St. Blas, Panarmqa, Callao, Valpa. raiso, anl any other ports on the west coast of America, wvhre British intercsts may exist, andI whence the B/ondle will bring dlirect to Englanld the latest intelligence of the state of affairs in those parts. TItre two D)issetnting Ministers senteicec(il to a onnfoit's itm- prisotit,ent and( thl treail-inil in Aylesbury gaol, were on We(nesday released iy ati order froto thc committintg I la- gistrate, the Rtev. Mr. Lowodes. IV. Empson, Esq., 3. A. of Trinity Colleire, Barrister of the I nncr Temnple, has been appointed by the Bast inndia D)irectors to s,icece(t Sir James Alacintosh, Bart., as L,aw 1'rofessor at Ilaylcy- buiry. lPessrSAN Pirors.-The Special Comtnittee of Inquiry at Copenicl, niotwitihstand(ling thc great numbcr of persons under confineniert, and the ditficulLiS aTising tro0l the cxtensive ramitica. tions ol the secrct lcaeue, tias alreadty prepared thc indiicnicnts for hiigh treason againlst .5 iti(livtiluals. Thc tribunal at lBresiau will try thesc causes, and it sceis that some persons will bc condenised to dieatli, as guilty of i connspiracy violently to overthrow the Go- vernimient, or of a plot against itc lite and liberty of tic Sovereign. Should the principal authiors of thesc plots be punishlcl with all the severity of the law, there is reason to expect that thic R4oyal clemency vill greatly mnitigate the ppuiishinient of flost of these young mlen, wrho are ratlier deludei than erlinal. Several of the leaders are sail to have undreltaken journeys into etier countries and to have enterect into associations with f creign rnaiontcnts. It is thoughit that the sentence that will be passed will give a just notion of this dangerous associatiOn, which not only spreads its pernicious political theories amnong the studious youth, but even threatened to gain ground among people ine public oflices and private persons We learn, wrth regret, that several Professors, who should have known the dangerous tentlency of such theories, are anmong thc pri. Oners. it is atlirned that the otolice of Berlin has succee(lde in dis- covering, ie one of the provinces of the Prussian moniarchy, a s&eret association, which hard the projrct not onily to overiiiow the consti- ltution of the provincial astemblivs, but had also coiiceivert the gi- gantilc project of giving a nevw orranization t6 all (Germany, by csta. blishig he svstemi of uniity. We look itiipatiently for tie partiCt- lars of this aff.lir, which ntuch excites thlc attention of the public._ Frankfort, Aug. 20.-DaIch P'ipcr. Swallowficid-place, between Reading and Basingstoke, Berks, wlich sold on Thursday at Garraway's for 54,0001., was the birth-pl:cec of Queen A nne. The rooiss in whics siw was borii atill remains hi its original state. I'lIC opeitiign of the po7ts seems to have already hart seine effect on thc retail prices of oatniseal in this town (Wlasgow). Several of the victuallers have labels in their windiows inscribed " iGood oat- meal, Is a peek." " Best oattneal, Is. 0.Qd. a peck." "Best English corn meal, Is. Id. a peck."'-G sawou C/sronlicl. The borough of Derby, we understasit, will be contesttd ct the next general election. An attempt will be made to turn out asr. Cokc, one of the lpresent members. The new Candidates are iMSr. E. Strutt, son of ,1r. IV. Strtitt, of Derby; ani Alr. Samuel Cromlton, niensber for Retford, These gentlemiieh, though of the samne politics as Mr. Coke, are hostile to each other on the present occasion. The interest of the Duke of Devonshire will decide ttic return: so much for the non-interferenee of Peers in the election of tlne C:ommons.- Livrcapool pave,. The recovery of the yoummg lady who lately eloped with her father's groom (George), and was restored to her family through the exertions of P>insey, the officer of the Tows-liall, and which appeared in ull the papers, it has turned out; was a most fortunate occurrence for the lmapp,Nesa anti welfare of the fair run- away. The gallant George, whose surname is Idon, and who was brett a baker, for about a fortnight mouthed his dis- appointment in lodgings, near the bint, fron whence hc sudIdenly disappeared, and was not hcaird of nutil about a fort- night back, when lie was taken into custotly by lilay, the constablc of Chiselhurst. in Kent, for horsc-stealing, and place(d in lIisel lhurst cage, whience, during the night, [le conhtived tO escape. and shortly after broke into the stables of Slr. John Green, a farmsr, at Elthain, in the saens county, and took away a valuable gelding. For this last offence he was tatken in the neighbourhood of Smith- field, two days back, by Barnley, thIc night constable, whio brought himn before the Al agistrates at liatton-gartlen, by whiotim, afier being identified by .Hay, fromi C(iriselhurst, lie wa comsnitted for trial. " Vitlc outr voiturier," says Mr. IBakewvell, " was resting his horses at Villeneuive, I observed a singular instance of sagacity in some dlucks that were collected under the carriage. On our throwing out pieces'of hard bisctit, which were tno large for themn to swallow vwhole, they made mnany efforts to brealk them with thleir beaks; lailing in thiis, the younger ones gave upt time spoil, but some of-the older ducks carried pieces of the biscuit to a pool of standing water, and held them to soak, till sufficiently soft to be broken and 'sv,a]lowed wisli great facility. I must leave it to metaphysicians to determine whether thisprocess was the result ofinductionor instinct.'