... CE (1'rom our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. As the Parliamentary recess draws towutds close, and the opening of the new session begini make its appearance, the functionaries in all thedV partments of the Government are under the nMP sity of applying themselves more assiduously ?? siness, which they are doing with becoming 0 for the public interest. The members of the 31' ...

... A BATTLE WITH A TIGER, There is now living in the village of Kildwick, in Craven, Yorkshire, a Mr Turner, who, at nit early period of his life, was in the East Indies, as a soldier in one of the regiments stationed there. When encamped at Ganjani, on the Malahar coast, he had a dreadful personal conflict with a huge ti- ger. With the particulars of the affray Mr Turner himself has obligingly ...

... THE QUEEN AMD TfIE DUKE (lRory O'Muore's Ver sion of it.) TO DANIEL o'CONsEr.L. King Arthur reigns, in England. in Ireland reigns King Dan, The Queen in Windsor Castle; 1)Dthrene them if you cnn. Ilozos.n21) Slft__0r broad is 1,aked black ; a~nd your fine spikulations about 'Mi3thur Jrohnoy go for nothing. The match is made sure enough. C'ouns'llor Prata is drawing up the marriage articles, ...

... ITUL I . . , .^ I Constantinople, September 13. The Minister of the Interior, Perteff Pasha, and the Minister of the War Department, his bro- ther, were, on the 11th instant, dismissed from their office, and sentenced to deportation, the one to Adrianople, the other to Sofia. The palace of Perteir Pasha, on the Bosphorus, and the truly magnificent mansion recently built by him at Tchif- tehl ...

... A Dunbar correspondent sends us the following parti- culars respecting a mineral spring which has been disco- vered at the village of Belhaven, in the immr.ediate neigh- bourhood of Dunliar. The water has been analyzed by two eminent Edinburgh chemists, Dr D. B. Reid and Mr Kemp, both of whom pronounce it a most excellent medicinal liquid. Is consists of sulphate of limo, muri- ate of magnesia ...

... Wednesday's Moniteur contains the ordonnance dissolving the Chambers, which is as follows :_ Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved. Art. 2. The Electoral Colleges are convoked for November 4, to elect each a Deputy. Tbose of CO siC;L are to meet on the 168h of November. *Art 3. The Chambers are convoked for the 18th of December next. (Sigded) MIONTALIVET. The Morriteur announces ...

... DOWNilNG STIREET, OCTOBER 4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-Gene- ral George Thomas Napier, C.8., to be Governor and Comarmander in Chief of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. WAR OFFICE-Octoher 6. 2d Life Guards-Cornet John Lindsay, from the 2d dragoon guards, to be Cornet and Sub Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tolleinache, promoted. 2d Dragoon Goard&-Robert William Dallas ...

... N. On Wednesday the Presbytery of Breol'in met togive their deliverance in the case of Mir Norval, presentee to the church and perish of Brechin, who, it will be roes!- lected, was chrrged rith copying two sermnims which, in ronforfrmity with the law te Chhurch, he had preached irn that place. It wa3 moved by Dr Smith and seconded by MIr Ferguson, that the Prebvtery find, that the allega.- ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESE. MINISTERIAL ECONNarY.-XVC have again to notice a third financial mis-statement of our con. temporary, John Bull, in his paper of Sunday. Dull and uninteresting as these matters may ap- pear un-to many, we nevertheless feel it our duty to expose such fallacies as those of our contem. porary, but shall be glad when Bull will cease to impose upon us so irksome a task. ...

... DiNNER TO WILLtAM R. RAMSAY, ESQ. D OF BARNTON. On Friday last, the 6th current, a public dinner was given to Ml Ramnsay, by the county gentlemen anti in- habitants of Stirling; to testify their regard and esteem for that gentleman's persevering exertions in getting up the Stirling Races in such splelddi style, and for his cha- racter as acoantrygentleman. Thedinner took place in a large ...

... - { ?? OFFICE OF ORDNANCE-October G. Ordnance Medical Department-G T. Ferris to bo0 Assistant-Surgeon, vice Turner, deceased; dated Sept. 26, 1837. WHITEHALL, OCTOBER 9. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the seal appointed by fhe treaty of Union to be made use of instead of the Great Seal of Scotland, appointing the following noblemen and gentlemen to be ...

... SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC Pnsgi I EXPOSITION OF TORYv PRINCIPLES.-In the fifth volume, just published, of Mr Lockhart's delightful Life of Sir Walter Scott,' a bio- graphy which possesses the rare merit of exhi- biting, without disguise or reservation, the ac- tions, character and views of the subject of it, we find Sir Walter, inma letter to Lord Montague, dated March 1822, laying down what may ...