WINDSOR, August 11.-The K...
IVINDSOa, August 11.-The King is expected at the Castle to-morrow, it is said, for the purpose of laying the first stone to the new, grand, a:sd improved entrance to the Roval Castle. ff is Excelleng' Count Villa Real, the rortugucese Minis- ter, tran&actedWbusiness at the Foreign-office, Dowining- street, with MIr. Secretary Canning yesterdav. The Earl of iVestinorland left townI on Tuesday for the continent.- It is expected his Lordship will go to Florence, to visit his son, Lordl Btirghershi, the British Minister at that city. Yesterday the C(hancellor of the Exchequer, Lady Sarah Robinson, andI family, left town for their seat at Nocton, in Lincolinshire, for the season. Mr. Secretary Caanning gave a grand dinner on MIonday, at Gloe&ster Lotige, to some of the Foreign Ambassadors an(d a select party. On Tuesday a Boardl of the Lords of the Treasury was held at the Treasury.Chambers. It is not generally kniiowin that the redlemption of the 5 per cents. of 1797, the only stock in the market bcaring that rate of interest, takes place, according to the act by which they were created, in three years after the re(lemption of the Navv 5 per cewts., which wvas effected in 122. This stock is therefore redleemable by law in the course of nicxt year, anid nt3tice of the mode in which the retlemption is to take place will probably be given in the Gazette about January next. A letter from Gottenburgh, of the 28th of July, says that thic greater part of the town of M1arstrand is burnt to the ground. A terrible fire has destroyed above IGO houses in thc town of Kvritz, in Prussia. I HE ARcHarisHo OF DuBL1N..-i We are happy to state that his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin is almost perfectd recover- ed from the effects of his late accident. I?is CGrace will be enabled to attend confirmation in St. Andrew's church on Sunday, the 15(h instan t.-Dzblin Freemzn's .1ournral. him did not show any bad symptomis, he thought it prudent to have the wounded part taken ont.-Sarfford Advertiser. A private letter from the county of \Vexford, lated Au- gust 3, says&-" W'e have had soine disagreeable reTorts of a young clergyman these few days back and they found thei, waly into news- papers. It now turns out very fortunately that these reports are false and unfounded." By the returns from the Excise-office, it appears, that from the ?thi of October, ]823, to the 5th of' April, 1824, there were 2,194.274 gallons of spirits made by the distillers in Enigland ; and in Scotland, for England, anid during the sanie period, that 3.039,8!t-2 gallons of spiriu were distilled; and 1,800,411 gallons In I relandl. In the report given in the DJtlli,t Evening Post, of tile Nleeting of the Catholic Comimittee, on Stturdlay last, the thilowing passage occurs :-" A letter from the [Rev. J. F. O'Regan, O.S.'. was read. It was dated Franciscan Chapel House, Limerick, and contained a report of tire Ntunnery School, conducted by ihe Ladies of (ire reliiou5s order of St. Clare. The letter stated that trere were between 300 arid 400 pupils in the Nunnery Schoul t it also nien- tione(i that a c6ildl, of 14 years ot age, asked onie of tire ladies vrho was instrurting her the following question :.-' Pray, iadarir, it' it were beconrirrg anti lawful tbr Jacob tor hrrve two 'wives, for what reason (lid the clergtmari of our parish excommrnunicate, the otiler dlay, a poor rmal wlio had just twyo, and rio more ?' Tlre readiirg of tbis part of the letter caused sonre latghlter. The letter did nur state tie lady's reply." Tire irei/etr Jrr'or-;n/ says-" A cttaclitnerrt of I5 of tile 3. Dragoon <;uards arrived at this city about 12 o'clock orn Thursday Night trntll Cahier. At one o'clock they were dIraivn ulr in front of tire Hiberti.rii Hotel. The rultiour went abroad that they, were waiting tire arrival of persons charged witr ttie brrrniag of lthe 8uleas, to escor4the pisoners to Cf1nrnrsel, arnd Patrick-st'eet wan 1peedilv filledt whitr lople. A t hali past otie, two cliai'es, eacih con. tainingtwoapprovers .ndal eaceofficersarriveritronrDrrblirr,underanr l escort of the 7;m Dragoon tluarrls. They efianged craissei at tire above liotel, and iiritediaswly set forward on their journey. ill uct si-ron-r - -ror, e -n,lpr.s-,A -. . - -l lan and Killemery. It is s-iid, that tie cause of these preeautionis wax, that (overnment had received inlfrmation that a desperate effort would be inade, in the county of Tipperary, to destroy the approvers. (ne of them having enlisted as asoldier ahter the dread. fu messacre, hadl been sent to Iiidia, where hlis colisciemce stunj, hinm for his sliare in the awftl atrocity, on whiich he diC0losed all that he knew concernintg the bloody bu3iness,and wassent homic to nasist in bringing the murderers tojitixtice." ACHAIL.LENCE CtON)sURABLY RFPLUSE17.-. From1 thlt:Vew IQrk (, fizelle of July 3 1-'Tlte lion1. David Barton, a sentator tront Missouri, in tte dischnarge OtlilsduLy befone the C,oinntittee on Pub- lic lands, made some tenr.trks whicht were ofhienlsive to llenry V. Comway, a *-elegate from Arkansas. Mr. Cotnway, witdiout miuch; ceremonty, Fends Mr. Barton a chiallenge by his friend Mlajor Alil- ler, under date of' NVeshington, the 27til ult., to whiCh we sub. joit the answer, of' tlte same datet-" Sir,-Vour letter of'titlx evening (ttated 27th of Julne, 1824), has beeni just rereivnd by AlM. jor Mliller. Tite offensive expremsions in my letter of tine Jith of' May arc not only true, but proved by ipc to be so in the course of my punblic dutties in arraigning thte of cial conduct of your uncle and yeurselfax Itis nlepuy,Y fbr wvltich I refer all coiteerited to thie re- cords of the nation containeti in thte testimony by me tiled in that sate, and to the able report of the Attorney-General of the United staex npon that subject. I theretbre declite tilc honour proponced by you, never intending to recognize tie lirlnciple, thai tine inivesti- gation of official conduct, whetli6r of' principal or nleputy, in the nianner in whiich I Itaye conducted the one in question, can impose any obligation to give thel kind of Satisfaction which you seeni to cesire, even to an innocent party. I al7o reminti you, that tmy let- ter of the 5tlh of M\lay laxs was elicited by a documient filed by you in your own case ttnd that of yotir uncle, giving a most erroncous re- Presentation of mny unotives anil conduct in thie investigation alluded to. 'Phi. cloges our correspondence. Youtr obedient, H I. *r. Conway, Esq. " )AVID BlAitTOVz." At ilte siege oi St.Jean d'Acre) in lEgypt, Buonaparte had threc aldei-du.caotp, or officers, killed in advatnciig wich his orlers to tle sane point. It was necessary to send a fourth. Hfe had no o fficers near lnintn but tugetnc Ieauttnais and Lavalctte; ite called the latter and svilhl)ubeing overheard by the fornter, taid to himn. *'jst y aller; je ne vet- pox y enrvoycr eet ennfitnt et le fitirc ntter *sj,ane; saMrenue co/z,fle, va,s, yvoas savez ce qnue c'cst oc hi vie." ,avalette st:t off, attd con,trary to every expectation re. tunc, snf , n,, l,n ,n,t Last week, as some workmen were ditg6ig for a founda- tWin near the residenice of Mrs. Thornton, on tl.lc road leading to Pegwell, near tamsgate, they discovered, within four feet oe the sur2fce, a hutan skeleton, which is supposed to have been buried Mr. Greets aseended frotn Warviek in his bal!oon on Tilursday, and after a voyage of two hours, caiine down between Gilmortotl aid Lutterworth, in thlii couny, about hialf paet six o'clock, accompanied by a youtng lady, 16 of 17 vears of age, oin;- pletelv drenched by the rain, wvich was then falling in torrents.- Leice.;ter Ct aovickle. TINUNDEtSrOIT.0-011 Monday, at about two or three o0clock, a thunter-stoatin burst over l'ountain's-Town, near thE resi- lence of George Hodder, Eeq. One peal was tremnendous, and it.s LI*ccts hlave been severely felt. Five labottring men had taken retfge in the house ofa ttfriier named Daniel AI'Donnell ; the electric fiurd penetrated it, Scorched the labourers in the most dreaddtil inan- ncr, an 'cut a dog across the back; a child who lay in a cradle eNc;ped unhurt. Tbe men were all speechless, but hopes are enter- nind of ther.7 recovery.-Dtlgi,s paper. During Passionl iWeek int Italy, Sicily, &c.,all clocks andl bells are silenced; and this principk is carried so far in Malta, that eetno nthe( G entehr' dXinn scrbeU,in SIir Hldebrand Oake's tinve,was dimute yth laleepoeo hi etbinen.