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The following four regiments have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to move from their present quarters to Ireland,—the 28th Regiment from Leeds to Dublin ; the 50th Regiment from Plymouth to Cork ; the 77th Regiment from Glasgow to Belfast ; the 82d Begi. ment from Stirling Castle, via Glasgow, to Dublin. These regiments are to replace the service companies of the 9th, 14th, 17th, 39th, 62d, and 89th Regiments, which are under orders to embark at Cork for Gibraltar and Malta.—Times. [A portion of the last-named regiments have al- ready embarked]

Sir Edmund Lyons sailed on Sunday from Spithead for the Dardanelles, in the steamer Terrible.

The Commissioners appointed to conduct the inquiry into the practice of the Bankruptcy Courts, under the presidence of Mr. Walpole the late Home Secretary, are prosecuting their labours with as much vigilance as their other manifold engagements will permit. A series of questions has been forwarded to the leading professional men in those Courts, as well as to the Commissioners and the higher officers of the Courts, with the inti- mation that their opinion is desired on the several points included in the inquiries. They are divided under three heads, and are as follow- ' 1. Revenue, expenses, establishment, and business of the Court. —To what, in your opinion, is to be attributed the diminution in the business of the Court, and of the fees and funds applicable to the payment of its ex- penses ? Do you think, and for what reasons, that the present insufficiency of the funds of the Court to meet its expenses is likely to be permanent or not ? Do you think, and for what reasons, that any and what reduction in the establishment of the Court in your district can now, or at a future time, be safely and properly made, or not? What would be the amount of annual saving effected by such reduction, if any ? Would any and what other bene- fit arise from it ? Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what change in the division of districts, or in the distribution of business among the several branches of the Court, or its several officers ? Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what measure other than those already men- tioned, by which the expenses of the Court may be diminished or its revenue increased ?

2. Official assignees.—Do you think that there exists at present a sufficient check on the accounts of official assignees, or not? If not, do you suggest any, and what more efficient check ? Do you recommend, and on what grounds, the adoption of a uniform scale for' the allowance of remuneration to official assignees in all cases, or not ? If so, what scale do you recommend, and on what grounds ? Do you think it desirable or not that official assign- ees should be remunerated wholly or in part by fixed salary ; or do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what change in the mode of remu- nerating them ? or in the mode of appointing them ? " 3. Classification of certificates.—Do you, and for what reasons, approve of the principle of classification, or not ? What benefits or evils, in your opin- ion, have resulted or are likely to result from the existing system of elaSSi- Bealion ? Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what alterations of the system ? Do you suggest, and on what grounds, any and what amend- ments of the existing system in bankruptcy other than those already men- tioned? "

Mr. Roebuck was invited to attend a recent meeting of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution ; and as he could not attend he sent a letter. One passage, on education, is of general interest.

"Education has ever been with me a subject of the greatest interest. My first efforts as a public man were to promote it, and my last wishes will be in its favour. All other subjects, in comparison with it, appear to me insignificant; and, could I see the people of than country once impreased with

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a due sense of its importance, I should then have no fear as to our future. But at present I see sectarian differences, and the private interests that thrive upon division, in the way of all improvement ; and it would seem that to some minds ignorance of everything appears better than a creed differing from their own. Those people seem to forget that morality among the various sects of England is the same and that a man may be honest and a good citizen, no matter to what sect he belongs. But the fact is, that it is not religious belief that stands in our way, se much as human pride. What is feared is the loss of power, not error in belief. But, whatever may be the cause of opposition, the opposition itself to all attempts at legislative aid in support of education is at the present time so formidable as really to be a complete obstruction. In this state of things, I look upon mechanics' insti- tutions as neutral ground, and one of our chief means of educating the en" ple. By this means, the people will, I hope, be able to do for themselves what the State ought to do for them ; and they, therefore, have my wisrmed support."

In another portion of the letter Mr. Roebuck states, that as he 10 anx- ious to take his place in the House of Commons next session, he rigidly observes the medical rules prescribed to him, and " all speaking and pub- lic meetings are especially proscribed."

The Duke of Norfolk has accepted the Presidency of the Surrey lir' chreological Society for the ensuing year.

The appointment of Ulster King at Arms has been given to lall' John Bernard Barks, the well-known genealogist. .wr The English residents at Paris are to meet on Tuesday next, at Men- rice's Hotel, to form a committee for collecting funds in aid of the Bellot memorial.

The Spanish statesman Seiler Mendizabal died on the 3d instant.

The rumours of General Santa Anna's intention to make himself Em- peror of Mexico are renewed.

It is reported that the Mexican General Arista is about to proceed to the seat of war on the Danube.

The Cologne Gazette narrates a pretty incident in the career of Hassen- pfiug, the notorious Minister of the Elector, who caused the constitu- tional revolution in 1850. Hassenpflug quarrelled with Count Ysenberg, the son-in-law of the Elector. In the evening of the same day Ysenberg went to the house of the Minister to demand an explanation. "Herr Hassenpflug was at the theatre; and to the theatre the Count fol- lowed him, and, inviting him to come out, he took him into the public square, where he made a peremptory demand for an explanation and apology. It appears that Herr Hassenpflug would not explain, and that he treated the proposal to apologize with the utmost scorn ; for Count Ysenburg, who was accompanied by a servant holding a cane, stepped back, took the cane from the servant's hand, and commenced belabouring his Excellency, who cried tastily for help. His cries attracted a crowd ; but the Count prevented the interference of the populace by saying, ` Good people, I am Count Ysenburg, and the man I am beating is the Minister Ilassenpilug,.' Saying which, he continued thrashing hie unfortunate Excellency until the cane broke in his hands, and then left the Premier covered with blood. The greatest excite- ment prevails at Cassel, and the embarrassment of the Count beggars all de- scription. Count Ysenburg has left Cassel for Erfurt."

One of the passengers in a recent voyage from Marseilles to Malta, sends us a heavy complaint against some of the arrangements of the Oriental Company as respects the accommodation of their customers.

"This ship, the Yectis, as far as vessel and machinery goes, is as fine a specimen of the builder's and machinist's art as can be ; but oh! the dis- comfort exceeds all I ever saw. More tickets were issued than accommoda- tion could be given to the holders. Berths were actually let twice over ; as was the case in my own instance. The fore-cabin for the nonce was given up to holders of first-class tickets, of course at first-class prices, and servants and gentlemen were all huddled into the same cabin. All I could get was an uneasy kind of shake-down on the further end of the saloon-floor. Not even a sofa, for they were already turned into temporary berths ; and there I lay all the time, and could hardly get common attendance. It was too bad after having paid for a berth, the number of which was denominated on my ticket- In a French boat this would have been better managed; they would at least not have taken money for places, if they could not have given them."

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

Ten Weeks 0(1843-32.

Week of 1883.

ZymotIc Diseases 2,421 .... 331 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 439 .... 48 Tubercular Diseases 1,642 .... 178 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

1,1411 ....

112 Diseases of the Heart and mood-vessels 389 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,745 188 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 603 59

Diseases of eys,

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, die 108

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 91

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc..

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Malformations 24

Premature Birth 263

Atrophy 210

Age 454

Sudden 71

Violence,Privatlon, Cold, and Intemperance 248

Total (including unspecified causes) 10,014 1,112

The Admiralty have issued a notice stating that letters for the Enterprise, Rattlesnake, and Plover, in Behring's Straits, must be sent to the Admiralty on or before the 30th November.

The late Mr. H. Nicholson of Furnival's Inn has left 1001. each to the Law Clerks' Society and the Law Society for the Benefit of Widows and Children of professional men.

Apropos to the absence without leave of some young gentlemen from a frigate at Portsmouth, the United Service Gazette bitterly condemns the habits of extravagance now prevalent among the midshipmen of the Royal Navy, especially those employed in the Channel Fleet. Many are so amply supplied with funds by their friends, that they can indulge in luxuries un- known to middies of old ; while those leas endowed with money are placed in the unenviable dilemma to the young of not doing as others do or of running into debt. The Admiralty has oftener than once interfered in the matter; but, it is feared, seldom with vigorous support from the captains of ships.

Father Andrew Bobola, a Polish martyr, was promoted to the honour of saintship last week, at Rome, in spite of the remonstrances of the Court of Russia. All Roman Catholic subjects of the Czar, residing in Rome, received Private intimation that they would do well to abstain from attending the ceremony; which was sumptuously performed by the Chapter of St. Peter's.

The Prussians have put glass to a novel use. A column, consisting en- tirely of glass, placed on a pedestal of Currant marble, and surmounted by a statue of Peace, six feet high, by the celebrated sculptor Rauch, is about to be erected in the garden of the palace at Potsdam. the shaft will be orna- mented with spiral lines of blue and white.

Several thousand copies of a work entitled "L'Almanach des Opprimes" have lately been circulated in Paris and other parts of France. The author is M. H. Mogen, a French refugee, formerly member of the Democratic So- cialist t Committee, and author of a history of the coup d etat of December 2. The almanack is a farrago of furious attacks on Louis Napoleon and the Em- press. The mode in which the author contrived to distribute the almanacks was very ingenious. The work was printed at Brussels, and at the same place several thousand plaster cads of the Emperor and Empress were made, and in the inside of each an almanack was cm ncealed. The Republican party in France having learned what the burs erne ained, bought them eagerly; to the great astonishment of the Police, who could not understand the sudden loyalty of the masses.

The Reverend Mr. Clay, Chaplain of the Preston House of Correction, esti- mates the loss caused to the public by fifteen pickpockets whose career he has traced, including the value of the property stolen, expenses of prosecution and maintenance in gaol, at 26,5001. At an annual expense of 7 51. the Whole fifteen might have been trained in an industrial school.

The number of Parliamentary electors on the register in Ireland for 1862-'3 was 179,488: 149,&52 in counties, and 29,634 in cities and boroughs.

The "rated occupiers" form the great majority of the county voters- 139,088.

Crime is on the decrease in Ireland. The year 1850, compared with 1849, showed a decrease in the number charged with offenses before the tribunals of Assizes and Quarter-Sessions, of 10,663 ; 1851, compared with 1850, had a de- crease of 6642; and now, 1852, compared with 1851, shows a further decrease of 7006; being a total decrease in the last three years of 24,311. The decrease exists not only in every class of offence, but in every province.

A second series of experiments has been made of Newell's break on the East Lancashire Railway ; and the results fully supported the favourable opinion formed on the first trial.

The Lancet Commissioners-have submitted fifty-eight samples of cigars to microscopical examination ; when all but three were found to be genuine. One was made up apparently of sweepings of a warehouse, fragments of mor- tar, apple-parings, and refuse tobacco-leaf; and two, purchased of hawkers, were made up internally of hay.

"Apropos of that article in last Spectator on Temple Bar : I saw Peter Cunningham's suggestion entirely carried out in the South of France with very good effect. About two stages to the North of Avignon is the very old town of Orange, abounding in antiquities, Roman and Middle-Age. One of the former is a fine triumphal arch erected to or by Marius, and in a beauti- ful state of preservation. It stands most conspicuously in the very entree of the town ; and, though large enough to let in a train of Roman chariots, is not quite so convenient for the modern lumbering diligence : the citizens, however, have not pulled it down, but partially enclosed it by an oval of posts and chains, and made a handsome sweep all round, so that vehicles enter round the one side and go out by the other."—Private Letter.

The Deep Sea Fishing Association of Scotland are about to introduce a novelty—a fishing steamer : it has just been launched in the Clyde. The steamer can carry four fishing-boats to the fishing-ground, where they will be lowered into the see, while fishing will also go on from the steamer. The machinery of the vessel is of a new kind—there are neither paddles nor screw ; and the vessel can be stopped, turned, or backed, almost instantaneously, without stopping the machinery or letting steam off.

The schooner Heroine, of London, has just arrived at Castletownsend in Ireland, from the coast of Africa, navigated home by strangers. The He- roine went to Africa on a trading expedition along the coast. Tho master, Mr. Cormack, tried to trade with the King of Tabou, to whom he gave goods on credit, to be repaid with palm-oil : but the oil was not forthcoming ; so Mr. Cormack seized the King and some of his people, and kept them as sureties. The savages on shore resolved on revenge. A number of canoes proceeded to the ship with casks filled with water instead of oil ; Mr. Cor- meek was deceived, and prepared to receive the people amicably ; but while leaning over the ship's side, he was stabbed by the King's son, and pitched overboard. Then all the crew, except one boy, were massacred. The mas- ter of the brig Tweed subsequently saved the schooner from being burnt, by paying a ransom ; and Mr. Stafford, of the Chalco, of Bristol, provided a crew of three Europeans and some Kroomen to take her home.

At the sale of the Mostyn estates, in the vale of Llangollen, last week, the prices obtained were beyond all ordinary calculation, several of the farms realizing between sixty-five and seventy years purchase on the present rentals. A large and influential company from London, Liverpool, Man- chester, &c., attended.—Liverpool Standard.

The engineers on the Ohio river have formed an association for the ad- vance of wages. The scale they have adopted ranges from 100 to 150 dol- lars per month, according to skill and position. They say they have work for only six or eight months in the year, and that the above rates are as low as they can live upon. The employer& refuse to pay the above scale of wages, and a strike has been the consequence. The engineers do not seem to have chosen a good time of the year for their demand.