... WlVsDsoR, TUESDAY.-lorsome few days past Windsor ala its immediate neighborhood have been in a state of considerable excitement in consequence of a house known as Want's Cot- tage,' standing alone, surrounded by its grounds, at Clewer, about a mile from the town, having been reported, from the ex- traordinary noises which have been beard thereto be haunted.' The house is occupied by Mr. and ...

... I 1 (BY EXPRESS.) SHREWSBURY, SATOVDAvt MORNING. (From our own Correspondent.) This wretched convict, who was sentenced to undergo the last penalty of the law at twelve o'clock this day, has been respited, by the great exertions used by his brother, Mr. John Misters, and others, whose representations to the Secretary of the Home Department have been, for the present, at least, attended with ...

... , FSANCE;.-ThO defeat of the Whig Ministry on the Address was known in Paris on Sunday nlight. The speech of Sir Robert Peel was regarded by the Court organs as tlhe fore- itinnr ofmreaicbe relations betwjeelj France and tEng- land.er of more aoicsble ireported in La .Resue de Paris to bave prevailed uponl the King of tile French to negotiate with the Spanish Goveinmeent to permit the ?? to ...

... Parliament is up-the short session is at an end-the Con- servatives are decidedly in office, and sure of time to arrange their plans for governing the country. This is gall and worm- wood to the Whig-Radicals, and their rage is excessive. What. ever the talent of the new opposition may be, and we believe it is rather of the smallest, there is quite enough of bitterness. They suffer not only ...

... -w'S OF 7HE WEEK. Mri:CtreLee .A5 TEaaM-Tu lesdsy being the first day of Micel. mas acrml, the Judcges. Vice-Chalncellor, ster of te Rolls, the neol -tppoiliterl Vice-Chancellure, and leading members of the bar brieakfasted awit'jh he Lord Chancellor, and thence *veirt in plocession to Westminster. At hali'past one o'clock their lordships entered the court, accrmspanied by the r.vwly- ...

... . . - . . . ! . Her Majesty's opposition, as the Whigs are pleased em. ?? to call themselves; appear to be making a very bad fight. inetead 'Of the grand stoccess which they anticipated, they are getting deeper and deeper into the mire of defeat, and ascordingly they look very glum. They may. be seen, with pain. ful steps and aslow, ascending the stairs of the Reform Club, and pensively ...

... Her Majesty came to town on Tuesday afternoen-rather, we believe, for the convenience of her Majesty's physicians than her own, as she would have preferred the quiet of Wind- sor for her accouchement. But, in these modern days, esea the physicians of Royalty do not find it expedient to sustain any long absence from their dear and fee-paying public in London, so her Majesty has come to town ...

... Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, a fire broke out on the premises of Sir George Whitmnore, hart., Shadbrook-terrace, Notting-hill, which nearly destroyed the dwelling-house and stables of Sir George, and those of Mr. Per- cival ?? Thursday, at two o'clock, the jury re-as- sembled, according to adjournment, at the George 'nn. Lower Doptford, to proceed with the inquiry into ...

... TA ItrA. [LAS hT EDITIO5.3 SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1841. The battle for parliamentary superiority having been fought and won by the Conservative party, the conflict of party feeling and party interests is now left chiefly to the daily journals of either side. Between them the war. fare is now carried on with a degree of warmth and even fierceness, such as we have not witnessed since the period of ...

... Dr. Johnson's remark upon the death of Foote, tlhat there was a chasm in society that would not easily be filled tip,was never more aptly illustrated than in the death of Theodore Hook. He was a man whose like we never saw, nor vwere we to live for a century, should we expect to look upon his lits again. As a writer Mr. Hook obtained considerable celebrity in the various departments of ...

... I . _ ~~o st. The Queen Dowager will pay a visit to the Duke of R at Belvoir, about the 15th of September. Lord u d the Hon. R. Fortescue, and Mr. Geale, are the trustee marriage settlement of the Countess Fortescue e and th e settled on her ladyship by his Excellency the Lord Lieut is 2000 per ?? Congleton (Sir Henry Parnell) is about to be appointed a commissioner of the Irish Poor ) -The ...

... DISTRESSINQ SUICIDE OF THE EARL OF MIUNSTER. On Monday morning, a painful sensation wee creats d a the West-end, by the distressing circlmstan~e of the todia cholv death of the Earl of Munster, who terminated Ids - ?? by shooting himself through the head. As e.ri ;. eight o'clock, the mansion of the family in Belgrave-sti.e5Was literally besieged with inquirers, but very properly the me~a. ...