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The Queen did not leave the Castle during yester- day. Prince Albert, accompanied by Viscount Mel- bourne, Sir Edward Bowater and Mr. G. E. Anson, left for Swinley, where the party were engaged a short time in shooting, and returned about two o'clock. The Princess Augusta, according to the official bul- letin issued to-day, continues in a state of pain and suffering but no material change has taken place in her Royal Highness's symptoms since yesterday." At a General Meeting of the Bank Proprietors Thursday, a dividend of 3! per cent for the half year ending the 10th of October was agreed to. Previously, however, Mr. Thompson, in consequence of the con- 1 tinued reduction of interest on Bank Stock-having: been lowered from 10 to 8, and now to 7 per cent. —moved That in consequence of the diminution of the profits of the establishment, the salaries of the Di- rectors, be reduced one-half, that of the Governor one- third, and that of the Deputy Governor one fifth." —Mr. Young moved as an amendment, That this Court have full confidence in the Court of Directors, and return them thanks for their attention to the affairs i of the Corporation."—The amendment was carried by a vast majority, there being only three hands held up against it.—The Deputy Governor, in the absence of Sir John Rae Reid, the Governor, in consequence of his recent marriage, then announced that the dividend- < warrants would be delivered and paid on the 12th of October. The Lords of the Treasury on Tuesday communi- cated to the Gresham Committee that they assented to the plan of Mr. Tite for the new Royal Exchange selected by the committee Operations will com- mence, it is expected, immediately. There is no truth in the statement of Lord Auckland's return from India, and the appointment of the Marquis of Clanricarde, as his successor, which was confidently affirmed in some of the papers. The Bishop of Lincoln consecrated a new church in Holbeach Fen, last week. His Lordship gave the munificent sum of 800/. towards the building, 50/. towards an endowment, and an elegant silver commu- nion service. The Hon. Mr. H. Erskine is to have the living of Kirkly Underdale, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Thirlwall to the see of St. David's. Mehemet Ali, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Duke of Wellington, were all born in the same year! The Earl of Glengall has addressed a letter to the Rev. Theobald Mathew, thanking him for the great benefits which he had conferred upon his district (Caher) by the wholesome advice he had given to the people on his various visits, and inviting him to an entertainment to be given by him to the members of the Temperance Society of the district in the course of a fortnight. There was a repeal meeting in Thurles on Sunday. j The Tipperary Free Press states that the crowd as- sembled on the occasion refused to groan for Lord Stanley, because his Lordship had proved himself the best friend to repeal." He certainly has been O'Connt'll's most efficient recruiting sergeant. In Ireland, a Repeal uniform, of pepper-and salt- coloured frieze, with black velvet collar and Repeal buttons, is said to be nearly complete, when all Re- pealers will simultaneously wear it! The ladies are also to have Repeal dresses of Irish manufacture the higher classes to be clothed in velvet, the middle class in poplin, and the working female members of the Association in calico. The Scotch Sabbattarians are fierce to a degree which must be almost incredible to an English reader. In Edinburgh (will it be believed?) the saints of the kirk sessions are even attempting to interdict the burying of the dead on the Sabbath day! The West Kirk Sessions of Edinburgh has actually passed a resolution preventing Sunday funerals! On Wednesday five well-known characters were taken into custody at Ratcliffe Races, having beea detected in the act of cheating at roulette, &c., which they were'; playing in a marquee there. Their tables, upon examination, proved to have concealed springs in them, by which dupes were wholly precluded from the possibility of winning. They were all committed for three months, their tables ordered to be destroyed, and the whole of the expenses incurred in the case or- dered to be stopped out of the cash from their tables. Lieut-Colonel Thomson, of the royal engineers-has been sent down by the Board of Trade, to inspect the Eastern Counties railway, with instructions to make a full and detailed report upon the late accidents which had occurred on that line. Colonel Thomson visited the line on Tuesday and Thursday, and was to con- clude his inspection on Friday. He was attended by the engineer and several of the directors of the com- pany, who met him in the best spirit, and showed themselves anxious to afford every facility towards a thorough and searching ihvestigation. Lieut-Colonel Sir F. Smith is about to proceed shortly, under the authority of the Board of Trade, to inspect and report upon the Hull and Selby railway, with respect to the fatal accident which recently attracted so much atten- tion, and to the other accidents which have since oc- curred upon that line.-Morning Chronicle. Duritig the recent expiration in the ginning of cot- ton at Liverpool, in the presence of several Directors of the East India Company, a sample of cotton grown in Hindostan from Bourbon seed was produced, and commanded the admiration of all the cotton-spinners and brokers who had an opportunity of seeing it. The staple was not only long and even, but, what is by no means the case with that of the same cotton grown in the island of Bourbon, very sound and strong and the cotton, if it could be grown in sufficient quantities, and at a moderate price, would prove exceedingly useful, and would answer all the purposes of the best Pernam- buco cotton. The sample shewn was valued by spin- ners at about 101d. per lb., which, in the present de- pressed state of the cotton market, was a very excellent price. A gentleman from India, who was in Man- chester shortly after the experiments in question, and who has paid perhaps more attention than any other European to the growth of cotton in India, stated that he was quite satisfied the Bourbon cotton would in a short time be very extensively cultivated, wherever there existed facilities for irrigation, without which it cannot be very successfully attempted.- Manchester Guardian. THE ROYAL TAK IN TROUBLE.—The Board of Cus- toms having received a report from Falmouth that certain contraband goods had been found in the mail- boat of the Royal Tar steamer, on her return from the Peninsula, on the 30th ult., sent down an order to de- tain the boat when the steamer should go down again, which the officers effected on Monday when she went on shore to receive the mails. In consequence of the company's having been made accquainted with the ex- tensive illegal traffic of the crew of the steamer, they were all discharged, and two of them were passengers to Falmouth in the Devonshire steamer, where, on their arrival, they were apprehended, and remanded to prison, to await the decision of the board, as to a prose- cution being instituted WINDOW DUTIES.—The following letter from Mr. Joseph Hume has been forwarded by the gentleman to whom it was addressed Ryde,Sept. 9, 1840. Sir—In answer to your letter of the 7th inst., I beg to inform you that the pledge given by Lord Althorp, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, to me in the House at the time one-half the window duty was taken off, was that on all houses then built, and where some windows had been shut up to prevent the charge for window-light, there never should be any additional charge made for any of those windows that might be made in such house. The raie for window-light charged at the time of the repeal was, as I clearly understood, to be the greatest rate that could afterwards be charged for that house. When the addition of 10 per cent. to the window- light duty, and also a new survey, were proposed by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, I, in my place in Parliament, claimed for the public the benefit of the pledge given by Lord Althorp, and was informed by Mr. Baring then, and afterwards in the House on a question put to him by me, that he intended to keep the pledge given by his Lordship. I remain your obedient servant, Joseph Hume. To W. Thompson, Esq., Yarrels, Poole."

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