infittitantous.

The Queen Dowager- has. returned to Busby Park, from the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty left Ryde on. Tuesday morning, in the Lightning; steamer, and travelled to town by the South-western Railway.

The Dutchess of Kent landed at Dover from' Ostend, on Wednesday morning; travelled to New Cross by the' SOutireastern Railway, and pro-. ceeded to Frogmore.

Prince Waldemar of Prussia.left London on Thursday, and crossed from_ Raresgate to Ostend.

A Vienna letter in the Cologne Gazette states that the Arcbdutchess Parma, Maria Louisa, yielding to the growing infirmity of years, intends- to resign her sovereignty and fix her residence at Vienna. The Dutchies, of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla; says the letter, will in this case go to the Duke of Lucca.

The Edinburgh Gazette of Tuesday notifies that Lieutenant Walter Scott' Lockhart, of the Sixteenth Light Dragoons, [grandson of Sir Walter, and, heir of Abbotsford,3 has been permitted to assume the name of Scott in addition to that of.Lockhart.

Lady Jane Peel, wife of Mr. Yates Peel, Sir Robert Peel's brother, died' on Sunday last, at Bagginton Hall, near. Coventry, after a few days' illness, produced by a cold caught at the Meriden archery meeting. Lady Jane

was the second daughter of Stephen second Earl of Mountcashel; and she was married to Mr. Yates Peel in June 1819. She has left sixteen chil- dren, of whom ten are daughters. She has also left a memory endeared to all who knew her by the most amiable and engaging qualities: her friends will recount her virtues; her children will remember how she, personally, nursed them in illness, and guarded their sick bed from sor- rows.which she suffered in patience; and the poor of a wide district will rememberher charity. Lady Jane's disposition seems to have been truly reflected in the tender and graceful portrait-vrhkh forms one of Sir Thomas Lawrence's happiest works.

Adam Gordon, Viscount Kenmore and Lord of Lochinvar, died on the lstinstruat, at-Keumure Castle; aged fifty-five. The deceased was a Baro- net of.Scotland and Nova Scotia. Having died without issue, the family estates pass to the late Viscount's sister, the Honourable Louisa Bellamy, relict of Mr. Charles Bellamy. It is not yet known whether the title has become extinct.

The Irish legal world has sustained a loss in the death of the retired Chlef Justice Pennefather; who expired on Monday, after a long illness, at his residence in Fitzwilliam Square. Mr. Peniaefather was called to the bar in 1796, and was held to bathe ablest equity lawyer of his day.

Dr. Pusey has-thought it necessary to send the subjoined disclaimer to the Morning Herald- " Sir—In consequence of a circumstantial statement copied by you from the Standard, that one formerly, a clergyman in the English Church said that he had 'gone to Rome 'by my advice, it seems best to say, once for all, that-if any person ever said anything of the sort, he was guilty of a wand untruth. I never advised any indirideal whatever to go to Rome,' or leave the English Church. Such advice mostly comes from a very different quarter. On-the contrary, those who know me know well, that being convinced of the Divine office and mission of the English Church, I have never ceased to endeavour to remove the doubts of any who have applied to me. °I contradict this account, because it washrought before me, and is detailed so very circumstantially; but I cannot undertake to contradict all the idle tales in circulation; nor, if people are willing to believe them y meat I leave my proper duties -to correct them.

"I remain your humble servant, E. B. Pu-sur." "Christ Church, 4th Sept."

The Government has appointed - the- following special-COMmissioners for inquiring into the means of. improving the Sanatory condition- of the Me- tropolis—Lord Robert- Grosvenor Mt': Edwin Chadwick, Dr: Southwood Snxith,- Professor- Owen,,Mr. Richard Lambert Jones: Taro new postage-stamps for la. and 108, respectively are about to be issued by the Post-offiee, to be used equally for foreign letters and for in- land packets of larger weight They will be issued to the-public on Min, day.

Sir George Larpent, as Chairman of'the Committee for Extending Steam Communication between Australia, India,. and ' England, has received in- formation, by the last mail, that the Legislative Council of New-South Wiles has voted -5001. per month outof. the Colonial revenues towards carry- ing,out his-great object.

Tuesday's Gazette contained a notifidation from the Foreign Offioe, that the coast of Albania has been blockaded by- the Turkish Government. The blockade commenced on the 3d instant, and extends from Prevesa to the extremity of the port, of 'Duraggo. It forms part of- the offensive opera- tions. commenced . by -the. Sublime Porte for putting down without delay "the rebellious.acts which certain' ill-advised persons have lately committed in that part ofAlbania which is inhabited by the Toscali."' The result of the various trials among , the ships.composing Sir Charles Napier's squadron is reported to be, that the Queen, 110, is the smartest- handled ship. in the force, the St. Vincent. the next, the Howe third, and the Caledonia last. The Vengeance is the fastest sailer of the squadron. The steamers had • not been tried separately. As a steam-frigate, the Amphion is-pronounced a complete failure, but an admirable sailing man- of,avar. She has come home to have her machinery again put to rights; never having-been enabled to use it since- she left England a-few- weeks, since.

Thring the past week several extensive failures have become known. A further embarrassment was notified in Mark Lane on Wednesday, though there were hopes that timely assistance would avert the calamity. The liabilities were estimated at 120,000/. The failure of a wholesale grocery firm in Stockton-upon-Tees was reported, for a suns ranging between 20p001. and 40,0001. In Glasgow, aafirm extensively eug,aged in the India and -China trade was spoken of amongst the failures. At Genoa, an extensive house.. has, stopped payment, in consequence of enormous losses in corn.

There is scarcely any doubt, says a letter from Frankfort, "that -a Con- greas for postal reform will be held in October next at Dresden. Hanover has assented, and the few objections-made by Bavaria will be easily waived at the Congress. All the principal postal administrations-of Germany are agreed on the urgency of a reform."

The General Free Trade Congress-will be-held-at Brussels otr the 14th instant, in the Hotel de Ville, which. has been offered. by-the authorities for the occasion. The deliberations of the Congress, it-is said, "will turn upon the general principles which constitute the basis of political economy, and of the doctrine of- free- trade; on the special reasons of each country for or against free trade; on the influence of the freedom of interchange on the working classes; on the arts and sciences; on civilization-in general; and on the maintenance -of-a good understanding between nations. Any finan- cial questions in connexion -with the freedom of commerce will also be dis- cussed. The writers on political economy and .statistical writers of all countries are invited to attend; and the Congress, in all respects, is expected to be-an important-one."

The Belgian Association for promoting the Liberty of Commerce has issued a circular setting forth the advantages of the meeting-

" By assembling at Brussels the individuals who from their exertions and posi- tion are at the head of the politico-economical movements of the world, the Bel- giall Association for the Liberty of Commerce apprehended it should take the shortest road for reducing the difficulties and destroying the prejudices which. continue to be opposed to the extension of the commercial relations between dif-

ferent countries. • • • • "Advantage has been taken of a meeting at Brussels for the extension of reformative punishments, (cowrie penitentiare,) and of the fortunate coinci- dence of an exhibition of the products of Belgian industry, to call together the- present congress of the friends of political economy and statistics. Its meetings will take place four days before those of the meeting on reformative punishments —that is to say, on the 16th of September. "The civic authorities of Brussels have placed the great hall of the Hotel de Ville at the disposal of the Committee.

"A special Committee, composed of Messrs. Corr-Vandermaeren and Fortamps, members of the Tribunal of Commerce and of the Committee of the Belgian M sociation, and Ad. Le Hardy de Beaulieu, civil engineer and secretary of the Com- mittee, has been appointed to arrange the construction of the Congress, and make provision for the personal comfort of its foreign associates during their stay in the Belgian capital."

Letters from Strasburg state that it is impossible to conceive anything more magnificent than the present vintage; it is rich and abundant in the extreme. Immense quantities of champagne are exported, especially to the North of Europe. The price of wine is failing daily, while that of vessels increase. In some districts the sellers will return one cask of wine for three empty vessels.

The Duke and Dutchess of Norfolk have sent 501. towards the London sub- scription for the purchase of Shakspem's house.

The sister of Schiller, Madame Rainwald, died on the alst Augnst, at Maids- gen, in Germany, at the advanced age of ninety.

We deeply regret to learn that the myrmidons of the law forcibly took posses sion of the princely seat of a noble Duke, in a county long noted for the political' influence he exercised, on Tuesday week; and it is feared that the urgency of the demand made on his Grace will eventually-lead to the dispersion of the finest-col- lections of art and verta possessed by a private individual in this country. We should have refrained from announcing this much-to-be-regretted fact, had we not felt convinced that it cannot fail to be made public very shortly.—Morning Chronicle.

According to a paragraph which is going the round of the press, " a young gentleman but a few weeks of age, and hitherto a total alien to the graces of the blind goddess Fortune, will this month lead to the alter the richest heiress in Ireland. The lady [Miss Martin] is now in her thirty-third year, and has been for several years known in the literary world. The fortunate youth [Mr. Bell] was seeking a commission in some-regiment on foreign service, when dame Venus demanded him of Mars for the home department; and ere this month shall be ended he may ride twenty-five miles in a straight line on the lands to be bestowed on him. These possessions-devolved on the lady by the demise of her father; a Western M.P., in April last."

The Waterford and Limerick Railway Company have published a notice in the- London Gazette, to which we think the attention of railway shareholders goner rally may be advantageously directed at the present time. The notice states that' the several shares therein specified have been declared forfeited by the directors for non-payment of calls; and that, in- ease the arrears of calls and interest due • the said shares shall not be paid within one month from the 28th of August- ultimo, the -shares-will hee,ome -forfeited and absolutely merge in the said corn The list of shares referred to includes according to our summation„ shares. The-total shares of the undertaking are 15,000. The notice, therefore, in- cludes nearly one fifth of the whole; although it is possible there are other shares- on which all the calls have not been paid up, but which for various reasons may not be included in the list. We have no means of knowing what amount of calls may be due on the shares specified, but the total amount called op to the present .

time on each share of 501. is 351. including the last caLL—Morning Chromck •

The new regulations respecting the removal to Australia of young prisoners-- arholave completed their term of confinement in this country, were carried into effect on Saturday -last, for the first time.' between seventy and eighty male pri- soners being conveyed from the Millbank Prison to Woolwich. They will there be joined by another batch from the Medal-Prison, and will be shipped for Aus- tralia; the ship calling at Cork on the way for more. They will all be provided with "free tickets," and on their arrival in Australia will be free, like other s* tiers and emigrants.

According to the last official census of Prussia, it had an entire population of 15,800,000 souls; of whom 9,250,000 were Protestants; 5,800,000 Catholics; 196,000 Jews; 14,500 Mennomtes; and 1,800 Greeks. The Prussian army num- bers 115,900 men; of whom 14,950 are of the Royal Guard.

It appears from a recent official return that the total number of steam-engines in France in 1845 was 207; in 1840 it was only 109. Another return respecting the produce of the iron mines states, that in 1845 the quantity of iron cast was 439,000 tons; in 1825 the quantity was only 190,000. The price of bar iron, which in 1825 was 48 francs the 100 kilogrammes, was in 1845 only 34 franca.

A writer at Berlin, speaking of the protracted trials of the Polish prisoners for treason says it is scarcely possible to imagine the conceit, the love of display and

evident to attract attention, which are manifested by the accused. Their studied and theatrical manner, from Mieroslawski downwards, shows very plainly ' the weakness of their character. Dombrowski's answer to his counsel was very• characteristic. "How do you mean to defend yourself ? " inquired the con. —" In a black dress coat and yellow kid gloves.'

Mr. George Green, the son of the veteran aironaut, ascended in his balloon at Frankfort, on Sunday the 220 of August, during a storm. The voyager thus describes his trip—" The ascent, which took place at a quarter to five, excited great alarm and astonishment, because just after a violent peal of thunder the balloon rose almost immediately under the clouds from which the storm pro- ceeded: when at about four thousand five hundred feet high, and on a level with them, several electrical discharges occurred; which afforded me the long wished- for opportunity of observing the effect of lightning upon the air, as the clouds and the balloon were going abreast of each other at only a few hundred yards distant. The air was very much disturbed; it seemed full of eddies, which agitated the balloon a good deal. Every fresh discharge communicated a vibrating motion to the balloon, and caused it to oscillate considerably; while the rain falling on the earth made a noise like a waterfall at a great distance. In descending, we fell in with a current blowing a few points more to the North, which bore us away from the storm; -and after being up about an. hour, I descended at Windeeken."

A gun for the purpose of projecting harpoons into whales has been invented in America; and &Lao a bomb-lance, which, on being fired into a whale, explodes and kills the animal.

Some short time ago a man was cutting ling or heather in Papplewick Forest, for the purpose of being manufactured into besoms; when having slipped between two pieces of fallen timber which lay concealed beneath the heather, he broke his right leg. Being unable to extricate himself from his position, with a desperate resolve he seized the handbill which he had brought for the purpose of eating the ling, and chopped the leg clean off. Though thus liberated from the confinement under which he had previously suffered, he found himself, of course, unable to make his way over the forest on one leg' when he deliberately set himself down

on a large stone, and, placing the entire leon an adjoining block, without more

chopped it off, level with the other broken leg, and trudged his way home, more than two miles, on his stumps, with his amputated legs his arms!

It may be just necessary, in order to mitigate the horror w h the reader May be apt very naturally to feel at the above extraordinary recital, to inform him that both the legs were wooden onea—Noteinghant Mercury. A young man in the employ of the Manchester and Leeds Railway has got into trouble from an excessive desire to hear Jenny Lind. Some of the songstress's linen had been sent to a laundress at Manchester; Thomas Roberts, the son-in- law of the laundress, not being able to raise money otherwise, pawned ten of Made- moiselle Linda handkerchiefs, that he might pay for admission to bear the lady sing. When taken into custody, Roberts said he meant to redeem the articles so soon as he had money. He was ordered to pay for the release of the handker- chiefs and fined twenty shillines.

An impudent and daring robbery was committed on the Bootle road this week. A gentleman, after descending from the omnibus, was knocked down in the pre- sence of the passengers; his watch was wrested from his pocket; and the villain made his escape in the direction of the canal, the passengers all the time quietly looking on! This is one of the coolest highway robberies within our memory.— Liverpool Times.

In the late calamitous fire at Archangel, 680 houses were burnt to the ground. The greatest credit is due to all parties for their activity in aiding to extinguish it. The crews of the various vessels, especially the English, rendered immense service, exerting themselves to the utmost amidst the raging flames. The re- flection of the flames was visible at a distance of seventy versts. The sufferings of the poor are very great.—Ilamburg Paper, Sept. 2.

Brussels has been the scene of a triple assassination. On the night of the 3d instant, the sister of M. Evernpoel, agent for the Count de Merode, and two young female servants, were found murdered in the brother's bone, in the Place St. G6ry. M. Evempoel spent the evening at the theatre, and on his return found the three bodies still bleeding, but life totally extinct. The furniture was in great disorder, and a quantity of valuables had been taken away. It would seem as if the murderers were well acquainted with the premises. A man-servant and two men who were supposed to be the sweethearts of the two girls have been arrested on suspicion.

Letters from Sydney detail a horrible massacre on board a vessel called the Paul Jones, Moulton master, whilst on a voyage to the Swan River. Through stress of weather, on the 15th of April, the master was compelled to have the vessel towed into Amboyna; but in a few days he sailed, taking a passenger named Middlecot, a servant, and two Malay seamen. On the 24th, the Malays attacked the European portion of the crew while they were asleep in their re-

wtive berths, and succeeded in murdering the master, Mr. Middlecot, Grinsel the mate, and two seamen. Not understanding navigation, and fearing they would not only lose the ship but their lives, they spared two or three sailors, and bade them steer for the nearest land, their intention being to possess themselves of the cargo. Subsequently, however, the English whaling-ship Brothers bore up, and the Malays hired her to tow their vessel to Copang. On its arrival there, the seamen contrived to give notice to the authorities of the murders the Malays bad committed: they were immediately seized, and were to be tried for the murder and piracy.

The alleged wreck of the surveying-vessel Mastiff on the North coast of Scot- land appears to be without foundation. "We are happy," says the Times," to be able to contradict, on the best authority, the report of the loss of this vessel. By the last accounts the ship was safe and sound, though she had received some slight damage by grounding during the late gale."

A person, named Piffady died lately at St. Martin-du-Mont (Ain), aged ninety- one, whose early life was marked by a curious circumstance. When about thirty years of age, and in the army, he was taken ill at Lille, and to all appearance ex. pired in the hospital of that town. He was taken to the burial-groand in the usual way, and was on the point of being consigned to the grave, when the volley fired by his comrades over his coffin roused him all at once from his lethargy, and caused him to strike against the wood loud enough to attract notice. The lid was raised at once, and Piffady stood forth on the burial ground before the eyes of his astonished comrades. What is also curious is, that he found himself cured of his Elam by the sudden shock his system had received.

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

Kymotic (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions) Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Diseases of the Strain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, Ac Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc.

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.

Old Age Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) 1051 940

The comparison of the deaths registered last week in London with the deaths which would have been registered if the rate of mortality had been the same as in Dorsetshire, shows these totals—London, 1051; Dorsetshire, 614; excess, 437. The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 89.7° in the sun to 29.5° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 5.1°. The direction of the wind for the week was nearly West.

Number of Bummer deaths. average.

951 . 226 122 .... 103 138 ... 157 202 228 27 25 101 9i 7 8 8 10 10 7 43 50 40 28