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The following proclamation for a general thanksgiving appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday.

"By the Queen.—Victoria, R.

" We, taking into our most serious consideration the indispensable duty which we owe to Almighty God for the manifold and inestimable blessings which we and our people have received at His hands; and desiring, by prostrating ourselves before His Divine Majesty, and offering up in the most public and solemn manner our praises and thanksgivings, to manifest to our faithful and loving subjects and to the world our deep and devout sense of His late mercies in having abated the grievous disease with which many places in this kingdom have been lately visited, which mercies have established and confirmed in us the surest trust and con- fidence in His protection and good providence, have thought fit, by the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby appointing and commanding that a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these His mercies, be observed throughout England and Ireland, on Thursday the 15th day of November instant: and we do earnestly exhort that the said publio day of thanksgiving be reverently and devoutly observed by all our loving subjects in England and Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God. And for the better and more orderly solemnizing the same, we have given directions to the Most Reverend the Archbishops and the Right Reverend the Bishops of the United Church of England and Ireland, to compose a Form of Prayer and Thanks. giving suitable to the occasion, to be used in all churches and chapels, and other places of public worship; and to take care for the timely dispersing of the same throughout their respective dioceses.

" Given at our Court at Windsor, this Gth day of November in the year of our Lord 1849, and in the thirteenth year of our reign.

" God save the Queen."

A similar proclamation with the usual variations in form has been issued for " that part of our kingdom called Scotland," addressed to the civil functionaries for publication at "the market-cross of Edinburgh and all other places needful."

Notice has been officially given, that on next Thursday, the 15th in- stant, all the large public offices will be closed as on Sunday, in come- quence of that day being appointed as a thanksgiving-day for the cessation of the late epidemic.

We have received information from an influential quarter, that it is the intention of her Majesty to purchase forthwith the Gloucester Lodge, at Weymouth, formerly the favourite residence of her royal grandfather, with a view of spending a portion of each summer at that delightful water- ing-place.—Poole Herald.

In the Council held by the Queen at Windsor on Tuesday, it was ordered that " the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the 20th day of November instant, be further prorogued to Wednesday the 16th day of January next."

Tuesday's Gazette notifies the issue by her Majesty of letters-patent granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Sir James Duke, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London, and the heirs male of his body lawfully be- gotten.

We understand that Admiral Sir Byam Martin is to succeed Sir J. Haw- kins Whitshed as Admiral of the Fleet —Globe.

Sir James Ross has returned to England with his Arctic ships, the Enter- prise and Investigator, with the sad report that he has not discovered a single trace of Sir John Franklin's expedition. The following extract from a private letter written on board the Enterprise contains all the points of information yet before the public.

" Her Majesty's ship Enterprise, at sea, becalmed about forty miles to Eastward df Scarborough, November 4, 1849.

" We have been boxing about the North Sea these last seven days ; having made the Orkney Islands on the 28th of October. We got clear of the ice on the 25th of September. I have nothing interesting to communicate to you, beyond the fact that we have neither heard nor seen anything of Sir J. Franklin. We wintered in Port Leopold (entrance of Prince Regent's Inlet). Sir Jam, a C. Ross and a party of seamen set out on a journey to the Westward, along the coast of North Somerset, and were absent from the ship forty days ; during which time they must have travelled somewhere about two hundred miles,--a journey un- paralleled in the Arctic regions: saw nothing to lead to a belief that Sir John Franklin had touched on that shore. We are all well and hearty at this present time ; but we lost four men during our stay in Port Leopold; which place we en- tered on the 11th September 1848, and got out into open water, Barrow's Straits, on the 29th August 1849; having been shut up in our winter harbour 342 days.'

We understand that it is intended shortly before the assembling of Par- liament to bold a public meeting in the Metropolis with respect to the conduct of Mr. More O'Ferrall at Malta. It is expected that before that time much more detailed intelligence will have reached this country than was available at the time of the correspondence of Mr. Hume with Lord John Russell.—Daily News.

We must remind the Premier, that, whatever his private feelings may be on the matter, the ultimate public responsibility for all that may go wrong in Canada will rest not on the incapable Governor, whom a word of his might recall—not on the wilful and wrongheaded Colonial Secre- tary, whom he might displace at an hour's notice—but on the Chief Min- ister of the Crown, who prefers risking a colonial empire to a tiff with Earl Grey.—Morning Chronicle.

The Right Honourable and Reverend Earl of Guilford has announced his intention of resigning the living of St. Mary's, Southampton, estimated to be worth between 2,0001. and 3,0001. a year. It appears Rho, that in prosecuting an investigation into the abuses of St. Cross Hospital at Wiu- chester, of which the Earl of Guilford is Master, some informality has been discovered as to the appointment of the Earl to that office, and it is not improbable that he will have to refund the vast sums which he has received from the revenues of the hospital.—Daily News.

Mr. Stuart, the Factory Inspector, most widely known as " James Stuart of Danearn," has ha long survived the exeiteneent of his controversy with Mr. Horner, which we noticed a fortnight ago: the illness alluded to in his letter to the Morning Chronicle became more alarming about the beginning of last week, and on Saturday he died. The following biographical sketch, which appeared simultaneously in the Times and the Horning Chronicle on Monday, is evidently from the pen of one of his countrymen, who lived in the closest intimacy with Mr. Stuart, and is eminently qualified to appre, ciate his character.

"The deceased gentleman, the eldest son of the late Reverend Dr. Charles Stuart, belonged to and was nearly connected with the noble family of Moray. He was bred to the profession of the law, and became a writer to the signet in 1798. He had excellent talents for business; and had he given it due attention, he would most probably have attained to the highest distinction in his profession: but having inherited a respectable property in the county of Fife, he became at- tached to agricultural pursuits; and these, with his duties as a country gentle- man and magistrate, and the political engagements into which he entered with the utmost warmth, speedily engrossed by far the greater portion of his time and attention. He was a zealous and an uncompromising Whig. No man ever ex- isted more completely devoted to his party, or more disposed to make every possible exertion and sacrifice to promote its objects. In the halcyon days of Tory- ism, when the Dundases were all but omnipotent in Scotland, Mr. Stuart main- tained his perfect independence, and distinguished himself by the vigour, the de- cision, and the boldness of his political conduct. At a later period, when the Liberal interest began to make some way in Scotland, and party-spirit ran very high, Stuart was always to be found in the front of the battle. His advice, his efforts, and his, purse, were never wanting to forward the cause he had at heart. Hence he naturally became an object of hostility to the baser portion of the Tory party. Abuse of all sorts was heaped upon him. Most part of it, indeed, was too scurrilous and contemptible to deserve any notice; and but for the circumstance of its having been discovered that Sir Alexander Boswell, Bart., was one of its prin- cipal authors, it would have speedily and quietly sunk into oblivion. This dire covery led to the duel in which Sir Alexander Boswell expiated his libels by his death. The trial which followed was in the highest degree creditable to Mr. Stuart; who, it was admitted on all hands, could not have acted otherwise than he did.

" His business necessarily suffered by these continuous distractions; and his means were crippled, partly and principally by the expenses in which they in- volved him, and partly by his too generous hospitality. • Being of an extremely sanguine disposition, he attempted to repair his fortunes by speculating in land; but the crash of 1825 proved fatal to his schemes, and involved him in embarrass. ments by which he was overwhelmed. "As he had done nothing dishonourable, he might easily have settled with his creditors; but, his feelings would not allow him to face them, and he took the rash and unfortunate resolution of retreating to America. On his return he obtained his discharge ; but he lost the situations he had held in Edinburgh, which he might have retained had he not left Scotland. " After his return, Mr. Stuart published an account of his travels in the United States; and though not very profound, this work gives on the whole an extremely good, though rather perhaps a little too flattering account of our Transatlantic kinsmen. Soon after the publication of this work, Mr. Stuart became the editor of the Courier; and, true to his principles, he gave in this capacity every support in his power to the Whig or Liberal party. "He was appointed by Lord Melbourne to the situation of Factory Inspector, which he held till his death. And it redounds much to his credit, that in this difficult position he conducted himself so as to acquire the esteem not merely of the manufacturers, but of the great majority of the workmen.

" His too great sensibility, his impetuosity, and his obstinate adherence to the opinions and steps he had either avowed or taken, sometimes hurried Mr. Stuart into difficulties and embarrassments, which more dispassionate, though not abler or better men, would have avoided. But in his bearing and manner he was a perfect gentleman. And his many excellent qualities made him be highly es- teemed and beloved by a wide circle of attached and intelligent friends. If ever the history should be written, as it well deserves to be, of the rise and progress of Liberal opinions in Scotland during the present century, the name of James Stuart will occupy one of the most prominent and honourable places in its pages. " Mr. Stuart was robust, active, and singularly capable of bearing fatigue. He died in his seventy-fourth year, of a disease of the heart, most probably in- duced by the excitement in which he passed the greater part of his life. When a young man, he formed a union, productive of unalloyed domestic felicity, with Miss Moubray, of Cockairny in Fife. He had no family, but his disconsolate lady still survives.'

To this truthful and discriminating tribute it might be added, that no man excelled Mr. Stuart in all companionable qualities, and none equalled him as the joyous dispenser of hospitalities at his own table. He loved, and to the extent of his opportunities encouraged, art; and he had filled every apartment of his cottage at Boyne Terrace with a nice selection of pic- tures.

The Registrar-General has published his quarterly and annual report of marriages, births, and deaths. In addition to the usual comparative statistics on health, disease, death, and the correlative movement of popu- lation, the volume gives a review of the mass of facts officially reported by the local Registrars on the progress and decline of the cholera. The marriages have been "a little above the average, the births slightly below the average, and the deaths in greater number than have ever before been re- gistered." The numbers for the quarter ending last September were—marriages, (about) 35,908; births, 135,200; deaths, 135,364. Emigration having gone on rapidly at the same time, "England has now less inhabitants by several then- sands than were within its shores at Midsummer."

In reference to cholera, the report confirms the general idea already entertained, that it is induced by filth, damp, and had ventilation, and mitigated or averted by the opposites of those conditions. In London, the mortality from cholera varied in different districts of the Metropolis from 8 in 10,000 to 239 in 10,000 ; and "was greatest in the low, the worst-drained, the poorest districts, the districts supplied with water from the Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Battersea New Iowa.' The general course of the pestilence in the Provinces has been up the great river- courses; with more or less virulence in the towns according to their closeness to the river-banks, and to subordinate variations in their sites, and more especially accord- ing to the sanatory vigilance and exertions of the inhabitants. " Theepidemic ex- tended up the Thames to Richmond, Kingston, and Chertsey, and through Mitcham, South of Wandsworth to Croydon; but made no impression on Epsom or the districts on and South of the Surrey bills." So it appeared at Windsor and Eton, at Henley, Reading, Wallingford, Abingdon, and Oxford, and greatly heightened their rates of mortality; while the towns in the interior, as Bucking- ham, \Vantage, Farringdon, and Banbury, were almost exempt. The high dis- tricts about the sources of the Thames in Gloucestershire and Wilts were "ex- ceedingly healthy"; the sites most marked were the densely-peopled towns on the margin of some rivers in the North, and in the " new neighbourhoods" of the Welsh mining districts, the filthy quarters of some seaport towns, the low un- drained districts of some inland towns on the banks of unnavigable rivers, Of the first sort, are the "fatal region" of Bradford, Hnuslet, Dewsbury, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Leede—on the river Aire, in the centre of Yorkshire, where 5,802 persons were buried in three months; the valley of the Tees and the coal regions of Barbara; the vale of the river Taffe 'and the district of Merthyr Tydvil. In Leeds, the deaths by eholere were nearly 2,000 out of a population of 100,000. The Registrar of Leeds draws attention to these remarks on the course of the dis- ease-- a gime It has been confined almost exclusively to that class of society who occupy eau dwellings, or those who use the same room for all purposes; and. lastly, to those lobo sleep six or more in one small room. In my observation, I am induced to think it one respect to sewerage : those localities, as York Street and liarsh Lane, which have cost the town thousands of pounds In draining, have been the scenes of its most malignant ravages ; whilst in the adjoining district, which lies nearly levet with the river, and will scarcely admit of any sewerage, I have not heard of a single case of cholera. Secondly, with reference to the trades and occupations of the sufferers, it ap- pears that shoemakers, their wives and children, have fallen victims to its virulence In an estraordinary manner." The district of Merthyr Tydvil is naturally bealthful—" open, airy, and well- exposed"; but causes of death are accumulated by the inhabitants themselves, in such a manner that the mortality was two, three, and four times the average dur- ing the prevalence of cholera—

From the poorer inhabitants, who constitute the mass of the population, throwing all slops and refuse Into the nearest open gutter before their houses, from the impeded courses of such channels, and the scarcity of privies, some parts of the town are com- plete networks of filth emitting noxious exhalations." " During the rapid increase of this town, no attention seems to have been paid to its drainage !" " There are no re- gulations for draining the town ; the surface water is retained ; there are stagnant pools and ditches contiguous to the dwellings."

Among the seaport towns which suffered most, were Rochester, severely; Margate and Ramsgate, more than double their average of deaths; Hastings and Brighton, little less; Portsea, Portsmouth, and Southampton, three times their average ; while many inland places close to these towns, but separated or distinguished from them, were little or not at all visited. Harwich suffered severely: the rural dis- tricts from Epping to Colchester were generally healthy. Yarmouth, Norwich, and Depwade, pieces on a Metropolitan railway, had their mortality " sensibly increased "; yet generally the coast of Norfolk, " fenced by sand-banks and cliffs of sand and gravel, on which the sea is encroaching, [where, therefore, nothing is left stagnant,] suffered nothing "; and many of the districts in the interior of the county were " unusually healthy." Hull and Sculcoates were swept by the cholera•' yet in the rest of Holderness the deaths were below the average. Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields, suffered severely; Scarborough and Whitby, scarcely at all. Crossing to the West coast, the ports of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Wales present similar instances of contrast. Nantwich and Runcorn suf- fered heavily; Chester, having benefited by sanatory measures, sustained a lower mortality than in 1848, although some deaths by cholera did occur. Liverpool was a chief cholera station; it lost 3,488 lives by the disease; and West Derby, which surrounds Liverpool on the land side, lost 1,962. The ports of Corn- wall and Devoe presented some of the most aggravated cases of mortality in the kingdom. In the Isle of Portland, and in Weymouth, deaths were excessive; while in Dorchester, separated from them by the Black Downs, the deaths were below the average. In Newton Abbott, the deaths were doubled; in Plymouth and its adjoining districts, they were trebled; and the disease even spread to a consider- able distance thence over Dartmouth Forest; but generally, in Central Devon and Cornwall, the mortality of the year was low. At Liakeard, the deaths were doubled; at St. Austell, tripled; and at Megavissey, the disease raged with such fatal prevalence among the population of some thousands, that " the inhabitants left the town."

The most notable of the inland towns that suffered by cholera was Salisbury, "always an unhealthy place," from its situation "on a low valley, in the midst of water meadows," its " courts and alleys in a filthy state," and deriving no bene- fit from the general cleansing of the main street.

Among the marked instances of inland towns enjoying a naturally good situa- tion, but suffering from exceptional or inscrutable causes, are Coventry, on ele- vated ground ; Huddersfield, on the Caine, 230 feet above the sea; and New- castle-under-Lyme, 400 feet above the sea, not far from the sources of the Trent. The elevated moorlands of Yorkshire, the downs and plains of Wilts, (even where each were fully populated,) and the highlands of Westmoreland and Cum- berland, have maintained an average health higher than usual: in moat of them no epidemic" was reported. The great towns of Birmingham and Nottingham have been exempt from the scourge; the escape of the latter being attributed, as we lately related on the authority of a local official report, to the sanatory mea- sures adopted by the municipal authorities and principal inhabitants.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—,

Zymotic Diseases 214 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or violable seat 37 Tubercular Diseases 182

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

93 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels . 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 120 Diseases of the. Stomach. Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 48 Diseases of the lildneys, fie 13 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, itc 8 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, dm

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, 67c

Malformations

Premature Birth 16 Atrophy 21 Age 38 Sudden 10 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

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Total (including unspecified causes) 837

"The mortality of London, which fell below the weekly average of five autumns in the second week of October, has steadily continued to decline during the three subsequent weeks. The present return shows that only 837 deaths were regis- tered in the week ending last Saturday, while the average is 1,162 (allowance being made for increase of population on previous years); the decrease is there- fore 325. A comparison of returns made for the same week in the last ten years shows that in any of the nine weeks the mortality has not been so low as at the present time; in the corresponding week of 1841 the deaths were 840; in that of 1848 they were 1,115, after cholera had given warning of its presence. Only 11 deaths from cholera were registered in last week; in the three preceding weeks they were successively 110, 41, and 25,—declining by nearly a geometrical pro- gression. Of the 11, one occurred in Lower North Street, Chelsea; two in the workhouse of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (one having been that of a girl brought from a house in Bedfordbury, the condition of which is minutely described by the Registrar); one in Claremont Place, Gray's Inn Lane; one in George Yard, Saffron Will; two at No. 12 Sevenstep Alley, Gravel Lane; one in the Lunatic Asylum, Heston House; one in Maidstone Place, ' a very low and ill-drained spot' in Hag- gerstone (East); one at 4 Paternoster Row, Spitalfields, where the mother of the deceased died five days afterwards of diarrhrea'; and one in Wycombe Place, Kent Road. In the last week 40 deaths were registered from diarrhma and dysentery (the average is 27); in the three previous weeks they were 105, 63, sad 51. Two of these in the present return occurred at Jenning's Buildings, Kensington, a locality which has frequently obtained unfavourable notice in the records of the late epidemic. Typhus was fatal to 37 persons ; the average is 56. Other epidemics are still under the average. The mortality from smallpox and measles continues unusually low. A woman of fifty-seven years died of "inflammation from a plum-stone lodging, thirty-three days before death, in the colon, and producing thickening and complete obstruction.' In two cases in- temperance is stated to have been the cause of death. "The mean reading of the barometer at Greenwich was upwards of 30 inches on the first three days of the week. The mean of the week was 29 897., Th:

Number of Autumn Deaths. Average.

.... 307 .... 49 .... 174 . 125 .... 40 .... 214 .... 65 .... 11 .... 10 .... 23 .... 18 57 .... 12 .... 36 sits

mean temperature of the week was 50 3° ; which is 4° above the average of the same week in seven years." The direction of the wind for the week was variable. Amidst the general abatement of cholera, there are still, however, some marked instances of return or new outbreak of the disease.

A local writer in Taunton describes the revival of the epidemic there with ex- treme fatality. " It appears that a woman of loose character died a few days since in the Union house, apparently from the much-dreaded disease, and that her body was afterwards opened. On Saturday some of the children were seized; and in spite of the prompt attendance of nearly all the medical men of the town, the victims fell with frightful rapidity. At. the time when this was written, 18 of the inmates of the house had died under the disease, and 24 were labouring under severe attacks. Many of the inmates, in alarm for their own safety, had, with the permission of the authorities, left the house, after changing their apparel, to prevent the possi- bility of conveying infection to other localities. The Poor-law Board, and a Board of Health which has just come into existence under the Public Health Act, have had special meetings, and taken every step to check the disease, by ordering the fumigation of the town, and by organizing a system of house to house visitation, &e. They have also issued placards, urging the inhabitants to provide themselves with disinfectants; and a large dealer in lime has very liberally offered to supply the poor (gratis) with enough of this purifying substance to make clean their dwellings. To add to their consternation, the inhabitants now discover that the churchyard (which had been condemned as in a crowded and dangerous state) can hardly receive any bodies ; and the advice and assistance of the Central Board of Health has been solicited in this dilemma."

At Gloneester, the disease has shown itself in a new and unexpected quarter. The servant, the wife, and the nurse, of a highly respectable tradesman living in an open and fashionable street joining a principal approach to the Railway sta- tion, were carried oil, each in a few hours, on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday last.

Mr. Wingfield, one of the Masters in Chancery, and the father-in-law of the Lord Chancellor, has resigned his office. This makes the second vacancy, and we believe there is an understanding that the Masters will be limited to their now existing number.—Aforning Chronicle.

On Tuesday, the Bishop of Victoria and his wife, with a party of seven and candidates for holy orders, embarked at Portsmouth in the Sir George

Pol- lock, for the distant field of their evangelical labours in China.

According to letters received by the last mail, Sir William Gomm, accompanied by Lady Gomm, had arrived at Port de Galle, Isle if Ceylon, from Calcutta, en route for England; but had been detained in the island by the illness of Lady Gomm.

We understand that Mr. Richard Somerset, son of General Lord Fitzroy Somer- set, late Secretary to the late General Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, has accepted the post of Private Secretary to his Majesty the King of Hanover, and is on the eve of leaving for Germany.—Globe.

Mr. William Hutt, the Member for Gateshead, has been publicly presented by the Mayor and leading inhabitants of Newcastle-on-Tyne with an address con- gratulating him on the result of his labours in the House of Commons in con- nexion with the African Slave-trade, and encouraging him to persevere in the cause which he has taken in hand.

The Princes Richard and Lothaire .Metternich have joined the Prince and Prin- cess Metternich and family at Brussels, where they intend to pass the winter.

The Duke and Dutchess de Nemours arrived at Eisenach on the 31st Sep- tember, on a visit to the Dutchess of Orleans.

The Paris papers state that Mademoiselle Rachel, the celebrated Jewish actress, is about to be married to a M. Rodriguez, a merchant of Bordeaux. She will, of course, retire from the stage. Meanwhile, Mademoiselle Rachel has been summoned before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, by the committee of administra- tion of the Thatre Francais, to show cause why she should not pay 12,000 franca damages for leaving that theatre and refusing to carry out an engagement with the committee.

We understand that Mr. Dyce Sombre is still dissatisfied with the restrictions on his person and property, imposed by the Commissioners of Lunacy, and that he is preparing a petition to the Lord Chancellor for another medical and judicial investigation.—Morning Chronicle.

The recent arrival at Poole of several packages of marbles by the vessel La Belle Alliance, from Bombay, consisting of specimens illustrative of history, which originally formed part of the ruins of Nineveh, were not on this occasion brought for the purpose of deposit in the national receptacle for such articles, but were imported for Sir J. Guest, Bare; being the private property of that gentleman, and intended to form part of his private collection.—Sherborne Journal.

Mr. Orde, of Caius College, Cambridge, only son of the Reverend John Orde, Rector of Vensley in Yorkshire, was accidentally killed last week, by a fall in riding, occasioned by the too sudden reining-in of his horse.

Thomas Hall, a warder in Milbank Penitentiary, has been the victim of a murderous attack by a convict, and now lies in a hopeless condition. His assail- ant was John Francis, a ruffian who was recently sent from the hulks to the prison' while at the hulks it is said that he attacked the surgeon. Francis asked Hall to let him out of his cell for a few minutes; on his return to it, the convict suddenly knocked the warder down, and with some weapon beat in his skulL The other prisoners were locked up; but their cries on witnessing the assault brought other officers to the spot, and the assassin was secured. Hall died on Thursday night. The capital punishment of Brady, the man under sentence at Jedburgh foe murder at St. Boswell's fair, has been commuted to transportation fur life.

The sentence of death on Jordan, the Dulwich Wood murderer, (by intention,) has been respited "during her Majesty's pleasure "; on what ground, is net stated. The ferocious ruffian received the intimation with indifference.

A respite has been received at Taunton Gaol for the convict Charlotte Harris; preparatory, it is expected, to a commutation of her capital sentence.

A very fatal steam-boat explosion has occurred at Bois-le-Duc' in Belgium.. As the Jan Van Arkel was leaving the pier, the boiler burst with terrific violence.. Eight corpses were found, nine people were picked up mortally wounded, and other persons were reported to be missing.

Accounts from New York report that the wreck of the ship Apollo had been seen, bottom upwards, off Cape Horn; and all hands are supposed to have perished. The ship was from California, and is supposed to have had a large amount of the "diggings" on board.

Two men have perished in a coal-pit at Dalrnellington, in Ayrshire, by the ground above falling in. Nearly half an acre of the surface sank, and two rivu- lets poured their waters into the chasm. A good many personal accidents were caused by fireworks on the Fifth, and several fires in houses and sheds. At Tower Hill, the mob went beyond the licence ordered to be granted them by the Police, and used fire-arms: a number of the offenders were taken into custody, and fined by the Magistrates.

At Wakefield, the celebration of " Guy Fawkes Day" caused a serious riot. The authorities attempted to prevent the usual disturbance, and the Police took possession of the Ball-ring. The mob trundled a blazing tar-barrel into the midst of the officers, and a desperate combat ensued. Stones, bricks, and other missiles, were freely used by the mob; several of the Police were hurt, and in the

end they were obliged to retreat. On the other hand, the mob did not escape punishment: one man's arm was broken, and many others were hurt. After another fight, the Police put out the bonfire in the Bull-ring, and order was re- stored by midnight. At Exeter, according to a correspondent of the Morning Post, there are licensed saturnalia on the Fifth. In the morning, the bells were ringing, flags flying, and Onys were carried in procession; at night, the bonfires blazed in every direction. But the grand point of attraction was the Cathedral Yard, a large open space, surrounded by the cathedral, banks, hotels, and tradesmen's houses. Here there was a mass of fuel " heaped considerably higher than the second-floor windows of the houses." Among the mob were numbers of persons attired in fancy dresses, and well provided with fireworks in tin boxes slung from their shoulders. When the bonfire was lighted, the effect of the blaze upon the cathedral and other build- ings was very fine, and the light discovered every window and house-top crowded with people, moat of them ladies. It does not appear that any untoward acci- dents or riots occurred.

Among the numerous projects afloat, indicative of this advancing age, is a plan of supplying the great Metropolis with new milk from the country. by railroad. The directors of the various railways running into London, with a view of encou- raging country farmers to supply the Metropolis with fresh milk, have agreed to reduce their charges, and bring milk to London, by contract, at a very low rate of charge. How far it may be practicable for the agriculturists of East Essex and Suffolk to enter into speculation in this new traffic, we do not venture to say. It is enough for us to call their attention to the topic, in the hope that they may find a new and profitable market for one of their articles of produce.—Ipswich Empress. In the Court of Aldermen the question has been mooted, whether Sir James Duke acted within civic right and dignity at Prince Albert's late visit, in bearing the City sword before his Royal Highness—an honour hitherto reserved for the Sovereign in person. The matter is referred to a Committee.

Mr. John Lord has performed the duties of Mayor of Wigan for the extraordi- nary period of severs years. Last week, his fellow townsmen invited him to a public dinner, and presented him with a silver candelabrum. The Papal Triumvirate have decided that the railway to Naples is a useless scheme, "tending to inundate Rome with worthless foreigners": they have there- fore definitively suspended the works, and thereby thrown thousands out of em- ployment—Railway Times. You never see a Welsh beggar in London. The author of Tales about Wales says, that "when an investigation into the mendicity of London was made some years ago, not one Welshman was found; although the number of beggars that infested the streets of that capital at that time was reported by the Committee of the House of Commons to be 15,249."

Ellis Norris, the groom, has been married a second time to the lunatic lady who recently escaped from Burgh Hall Asylum. The marriage took place on Monday last, at Pemstone, in Yorkshire; and it is said, "there seems no reason to doubt the legality of the second marriage ; the greatest caution having been exercised by the parties most deeply interested."

. A Free Kirk congregation of a neighbouring parish were so highly delighted with the excellent qualities of their pastor, that they not only subscribed a sum of money to purchase him a gig, but afterwards presented him with twenty guineas to take a summer's jaunt for the recruiting of his health. The use he made of gig and money was to drive to a distance and preach as candidate for another charge. The trial sermon procured a call for him. Is there any possibility of this case giving rise to another clamour of "Send back the money"?—Aberdeen Herald.

The Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the Thames, claimed the whale which was captured at Gray's; but having asserted his right, he relinquished the huge carcass to the captors, on condition that it should not be removed to any populous place for exhibition, on account of the offensive smell. It yielded thirteen tons of blub- ber, leaving twenty tons of meat on the carcass; and about eight tons of pure oil will be obtained.

Major Alvord has discovered a singular plant of the Western Prairies, said to possess the peculiarity of pointing North and South, and to which he has given the name of Silphium Laciniatum. No trace of iron has been discovered in the plant; but as it is full of resinous matter, Major Alvord suggests that its polarity may be due to electric currents. Opening the body of a culprit, I once found a very long rusty needle thrust from before backwards in the left ventricle near the apex of the heart. One extremity of the needle occupied the anterior walls; the other the posterior wall of this ven- tricle; the body of the needle was free in the cavity of the organ.—Cruveilhier's Pathological Anatomy.