... Gloucester Musical Festival.—Gloucester, Monday.—The 125 th anniversary of this ancient and charitable meeting will commence on the 21st proximo, and if we may judge from the goodly array of stewards and the praiseworthy objects of the charity, a very prosperous meeting may be anticipated. The funds are appropriated for the benefit of the widows and orphans of deceased clergymen the three ...

... Edinburgh, Atro. 30. The storm which rent the canvass awnings of the Queen's household at Laggan has done fearful j damage in other parts of the north of Scotland. At Thurso, a vessel called the Britannia, of Ardrossan, was wrecked, and two of her crew drowned. Another —the Triad, of Dundee—was lost; erew saved. From Shetland intelligence has arrived of the loss of the packet-boat from ...

... BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER. The Gazette of last night contains an Order in Council sanctioning the following scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners On and after this day, September the Ist, the collegiate church of Manchester is constituted, and becomes, and shall for ever be, cathedral church and the seat of a bishop within the province of York, invested with all the honours, dimities, ...

... General attention has frequently been attracted of late to the prosperous condition of the Austrian dominions, by the efforts of the Trieste Lloyd's Company to accelerate the conveyanee of the Indian mail, and by the jealousy and alarm which the Parisian journals.have expressed at the growing'power of this opponent to the old project of converting the Mediterranean into a French lake. But ...

... Ardverikie, Sunday, Aug. 29.—0n Friday, the Earl of Aberdeen arrived on a visit to her Msjesty. On Saturday, the only additions to the royal party were the Marquis of Abercom and the Earl of Aberdeen. This day (Sunday) her Majesty and the Prince and the royal household attended the performance of divine worship at Ardverikie. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office ...

... The Bottle, by George Cruikshank.— The Bottle is a kind of Drunkard's Progress, told after the manner of Hogarth, by George Cruikshank, eight rather large sized plates, and sold at the low price of six shillings on six separate sheets of paper, or at the still lower costof one shilling upon one sheet of paper. Here is its history far as words can convey the varied excellencies of a well ...

... LANCASHIRE. Extension of the Electric Telegraph.—The posts for the electric telegraph have been put down, and the wires have been laid along a part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, so that in a month or two we may hope to have a telegraphic communication from Liverpool to London via Manchester. This is rather a roundabout way for the first outport in the empire to communicate with the ...

... Woolwich Sept. 2.-Royal ExoiNEERs.-Capt. J. l aUwa eommtalon, has re. Court-martial.—At the proceedings of the general court-martial in the case of private Smith, 7th Hussars, who was tned for attempting to shoot his sergeant at Ballinasloe in June last the court sentenced the prisoner to shot; but her Maiestv taking into consideration the excellent character of the to thl P of Cru y' wa ' P ...

... A Summer in the Wilderness, embracing Canoe Vouaqe up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. Charles Lanman. This volume comes from the spawn of American literature, and it is one of its worst specimens. It professes to be the record of a voyage up the Mississippi, from St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, to the Red Cedar Lake, in which that great river takes its rise • and thence by way ...

... MANSION-HOUSE.—Charge of Forgery.—F. T. Griffiths was chained with haying committed a forgery upon i the London Joint-Stock Bank, to the ameunt of 116/. 10s. W. Kay, a clerk in the London Joint-Stock Bank, stated that a cheque, purporting to drawn by Mr. West, who kept ; an account at that establishment, for 115/. 10s. was prer sented and cashed on the 16th of August last. The cheque was drawn ...

... commerce ab rabet. WOOL.-The imports into London daring the week ending Thurs- day were 4,752 bales, of which 1,862 were from Sydney, 1,959 from Portland Bay, 355 from Van Dieman's Land, 354 from Germany, and the rest from Spain, &c. The public sales have been brought to a close. THE FUNDS. OD t Monday Consols opened at 871 to ' fof money, and left off at 874 to 4 For the account they closed ...

... NOTICES—This DAY. Bankrtttct, Baswohai.l-st.—(Fank.)—T. Bishop, final ord., 10; W. Hooker, final ord., 10 ; W. Austen, final ord., ;J. S. Dunman, final ord., 10 ; J. Woodcock, final otd., ; J. Willans, final ord., 104 ; J. Mills, sen., final ord., ; 5. Bell, final ord., 101 ; T. Berridgc, final ord., ; J. D. Tippett, final ord., 11; J. Appleton, final ord., ; T. Ileggarth, final ord., 104 ; ...