WINDSOR CAsrLE' Mdy os AooV' .," The King has passed the whole or yes terday comfortably. His MaJcstys symP- toms were mitigated, but his Majesty has passed bad night.

 "HENRY HALFoRD.

 kIE "MArHEw J. TIEREEY,"

 "ARANJUEz, April lq.

 "The King, our master, has suffered dI- ring the whole of the night from an attack oi the gout in his right hand but since nve o'clock this morning the pain IS not so great' and his Majesty has slept for some hours

 The Pope was lately said to have fallen into a state of weakness, which excited ap- prehensons for his life, but it is now said that his complaint is not dangerous, being chiefly an attack of the gout in his knee.

 The Greek question has been settled.-- France, Russia, and England have guaranteed to Prince Leopold the sum of @,2lO,OOOL, for eight years.

 Accounts from Smyrna state, that the Turkish government are about to increase the duty on goods imported from U. Britain.

 The ss Hamburg Reporter" and other Hamburg papers. to the 1st inst, arrived yes terday. Some of the latter, in the absence of real news, contain accounts from the Turkish frontiers. which are evidently fabri- cated, of the Sultan having positively refused to order the evacuation of the different places in Greece still occupied by Turkish troops, and of his having otherwise resolved to op- pose the execution of the Greek treaty.

 If letters from ABcona are to be credited, the present state of Greece is very unfavora- ble. The lower classes are said to be in want of the commonest necessaries, and apprehen- sions ofa political crisis were entertained. Talue ofa Head of Hair.-At the Sussex Assizes, an action was brought by female pauper against the Governor of Winfield Poor house, and five ofthe Overseers, for forciby cutting of her head of hair. It appeared that the overseers had recourse to the meas ures complained of to despoil her of her attractions, and "to bring down her pride."' The hair in question was stated to have been a yard long, and extremely handsome. Mir. Justice Bailey told the Jury that the conduct efthe defendants was extremely upjustiiable. and they found verdict for her-damages f60. .+4

 The Anniversary Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society took place at Free mason's Tavern, on the 5th May. Lord Bex- ley was in the Chair. It appeared by the Treasurer's Report that the receipts of the Society during the past year had amounted to the enormous sum of G84, 1882, and that the expenditure had been 481,6l The number of Bibles distributed during the year was ASA, 4,432. The report further detailed to the | Meeting the successes which had attended the exertions of the Society in various parts oI the world; among other particulars that owing to the overflowing of the river Memel the Society had pesented the sufferers with a thousand Bibles---that the Jews of Frankfort had applied for Bibles, which were granted to them--that in Sweden 283.787 Bibles hae been distributed that from Norway twt thousand Testaments had heen requested ! that the Danish Rihle had just been comple [PrintIng the Old Testament edition of th Psalms in the Esquimaux language. Tn Rev. Dr. Minor, of New York, was present land addressed the meeting.

 Death of Sir Robert Peel.-It is with regre we announce the death of Sir Robert Peel which took place on Monday afternoon, al Drayton Park, StafOrdshire. SirRobert had a relapse on Sunday morning, when an ex- press was immediately sent off to MT. Secre- tary Peel, who on Monday left town for the seat of his father; hut it is said Sir Robert had expired before his arrival.

 The Princess Yictoria. daughter of the late Duke of Kent, whos after the Duke of Clar. ence, is the heir presumptIve to the crown, is in the eleventh year of her age. and is already 1 nearly as great a favorite with the English people as was the lamented wife of Prince Leopold. Her acquisitions and accomplish ments are said to be quite uncommon for such child, and her temper and manners have been highly extolled. The present heir ap- parent is represented as being of a naughty and morose disposition" neither seeking nor obtaining from those around him admra | ton or respect" If SO. he must differ very much from the rest of his family. who. what ever may be their personal character in other respects, have never been charged with want of nrbanity of manners. There are those in this city who recollsct the Duke of Clarence, when midshipman of the British Navy as lively and frolicsome boy. Al the very time that his firtatiOns here with some of the 'belles of that day were assuming so grave character, that the Admiral under whom he sailed thought it Unnecessary to interdet the la dies of the city from dancing with his royal highness, the brother to "the first gentleman in the world' was skating with the boys of the city behind where the hospital is now sit uated, with a sergeant 8 guard as an escort tagging at his heels.--N. r. American.

 The Jews connected with the Barbary states, say that there is q greater accumula- ton of treasure at Algiers (particularly silver) than at anysplace in the world, not excepting Persia; and that the treasure now in the cof- hn ~e~ t. Ak..