The Committee to inquire into the bribery at Derby, and

to ascertain whether Major Beresford is implicated, has sat this week. Mr. Flewker, Mr. Moss, Mr. Cox of Nottingham, Major Beresford, and Mr. Cox of Derby, had been examined up to Thursday ; but neither Frail nor Mor- gan. The Committee excluded the reporters ; and the consequence has been that only fragments of the examinations have been published. Ac- cording to these, Major Beresford's explanation is, that he did write the " W. B." letter to Mr. Frail ; and that he gave it to Cox of Derby on the understanding that no illegal practices should be resorted to ; Cox affirm- ing that the safe man " was wanted to watch the opposition and prevent their bribing and kidnapping the voters. Frail, it appears, has been for some time retained by Major Beresford at a salary of 3001. a year. Cox of Derby charged conspiracy against the opposition witnesses ; which they denied. Summonses have been issued for the attendance of Frail, Rad- ford, and Morgan.

The Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders visited Liverpool on Wednesday and Thursday last week.

Lord Palmerston was so unwell on Saturday, that he could not be pre- sent at a banquet and reception, at which Lady Palmerston presided, in his own house.

Lord Brougham arrived at Marseilles, on his way to Cannes, last Friday The remains of Ada, Countess of Lovelace, were buried on the 3d, at Newstead Abbey, beside the remains of her father.

Mr. Thackeray delivered his first lecture at New York on the 19th November, to a crowded audience.

Our countryman, Baron Thomas Ward, Prime Minister of the Duke of Parma, has received further honours from his master. He is now Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Louis.

The wife of the late Duke of Leuchtenberg has been made President of the Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg, in the room of her husband.

Abd-el-Kader left Paris for Amboise on Saturday ; ho was to leave France for Brousaa on Thursday.

The daughter of Marshal St Arnaud was married to the Marquis of Puysegur on Tuesday, at Paris.

Marshal Haynau, who seems a restless spirit, was at Florence on the 22d of last month.

The seven principal ports of the Canary Islands were opened as free ports on the 10th October.

Fifty London Policemen, three Sergeants, and one Inspector, who have volunteered for service in the colony of Victoria, will be despatched to Australia by Government as soon as passages can be provided.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

of Ten Weeks 1812-51.

Weak of 1852.

Zymotle Diseases

2,663 210

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat

491 ,... 51 Tubercular Diseases 1,794 170 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,292 134 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 426 46 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,768 .... 171 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 628 66 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 100 .... 12 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 98

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, JOillta, c

Si

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 15

Malformations 21

Premature Birth 241 31 Atrophy 158

Age 684

Sudden 85

Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 267

Total (including unspecified causes) 11.775 1,043

The Exeter Gazette gives these particulars of a recent elopement from Sidmouth. " Miss Carew, daughter to Mr. Carew, of Ayshford, was passing the day with the lady of Captain Elphinstone, at Livouia, unaccompanied by any of her family; when in the evening, the gentleman.of the house being in the dining-room, Mr. R. P. Floyd, son of Sir H. Floyd, rushed in at the window of the room where the ladies were, and ordered Miss Carew to follow him. Miss Carew, asking for a little time in vain, unfortunately com- plied, and left with Mr. Floyd in a fly which he had in waiting. Mr. Carew traced her to the station, but found that she had been taken on to London by the nine o'clock train. The young lady being of age, all further pursuit or inquiry was at once given up as useless. Miss Carew is entitled to con- siderable property." [The couple were married on Saturday, at Paddington.]

A young operative, who left Glasgow without paying his landlady 31. for board and lodging, has sent her an order for 101. from the Australian diggings, where he has been fortunate in obtaining gold.

-A little boy has been lost in a coal-pit at Blaine from Friday morning till the following Monday. While in the mine his lamp went out, and in the darkness he got into some old workings, where he wandered about, unable to make himself heard by the miners. He had his dinner with him, which he "saved as much as he could, eating a bit at a time, not knowing whether he should ever be found or not." On Monday morning he heard the hauliers, and made his way to them. He thought he had been in the pit seven or eight days. Some idea of the extent of the groundless panic in the whisky-trade, anti- cipative of, important changes expected to be introduced in the Budget, may be formed from the fact, that within the past fortnight no less than 60,0001. has been paid in Glasgow as Government duty on whisky in bond. —North British Poly Mail. lia Letter receiving-boxes are now placed in the roiddte of the streets in Jersey.

They are in cast iron pillars, which are sexagonal in pe, and about four

feet in height. Three of the sides of the pillars bear th royal arms; on two of the sides the words "Post-office" are printed; and on the other side the words "Letter-box" appear. The letter-collector unlocks a sliding cover to take out the letters. The pillars are painted red; they are fixed in solid i granite blocks, two feet deep, and raised about four inches from the ground. The robber Krotinus, who during the years 1848 and 1849 ravaged the country on the Prussian and Polish frontier, and against whom detachments of Russian and Prussian troops were frequently sent, lies under sentence of death 'at Tauroggen ; having been condemned to receive 9000 strokes with the stick between the ranks of a Russian battalion in the plain between Tau- roggen and the frontier, the principal theatre of his crimes. The sentence is not formally one of death ; though equivalent to it, since no one has ever been known to survive even a much less degree of this punishment. Within the last week four robbers have been executed in the same district : they died before 6000 strokes bad been inflicted, and, as the sentence must always be fully performed, it was in each case completed on their dead bodies. At a coursing meeting lately at Boddington, near Cheltenham, more than thirty hares were killed, all more or less affected with the disease termed the "rot," arising from the excessive wetness of the season. Since then more than forty hares have been picked up by the keeper on the lands of the Bod- dington estate, dead from the same disease. The destruction of hares, it is expected, will in low and marshy districts be very great. We sincerely hope that this visitation may not be indicative of extensive disease among sheep.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

. A Parliamentary return has been issued of the comparative prodtree of the Window-duty in 1851 and the House-tax in 1852. The total of the former impost, m England, Wales, and Scotland, was 1,950,7921. ; in the year ending 5th April last, the number of taxable houses was 461,919; the amount of tax, 707,0181.: the remission of taxation by the change was 1,24%774/. An estimate is also furnished of the probable income from the increased House-tax as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, calcu- lated on ten-pound houses and upwards : the sum expected is 1,723,9801. ; or 227,0001. less than the old Window-duty.