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The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr. Charles Barry, the architect.
Major-General Cathcart, the new Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, embarked with his staff at Portsmouth on the 7th, in the Hydra steam- sloop, on the voyage to the Cape. Mr. Layard, who was a long time attached to the Embassy at Con- stantinople, but who is better known by his discoveries at Nineveh, has been appointed Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Henry Cartwright has been appointed Superintendent of the Penal Settlement of British Guiana.—Globe. [A new Penal Settlement, and in British Guiana Death has removed a well -known though not very famous Peer, in Lord Dinorben ; who expired at his seat, Kinmell Park, Denbighshire, on Tuesday morning, in his eighty-fifth year. William Lewis Hughes, Baron of Dinorben, was raised to the Peerage at the Reform sera of 1831. He was a great personal friend of the late Duke of Sussex, and was one of his executors. He was married twice,—in 1804, to Miss Grey, by whom he has left a son born in 1821, "who is unfortunately. incapable of entering on the legislative duties of his position" ; and in 1840, to Miss Smythe, sister of the Princess of Capua. He was a kind landlord and a great benefactor to the poor.
Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—
Ten Weeks Week of 1841-60. of 1861.
Zymotic Diseases 1,988 .... 201
Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, 649 .... 40 Tubercular Diseases 1,833 .... 206 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,276 . • • • 117 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 899 .... . 45 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,172 171 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 633 .... 63 Diseases of the Kidneys, dm 83 .... 14 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, fie 90 .... S Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 73 .... 8 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.. 13 .... 2 Malformations 39 • .• • 6 Premature Birth $18 .... 33 Atrophy 176 .... .. 16 Age Mil 42 Sudden 104 • • • • 13 Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 277 .... 30 — — Total (including unspecified causes) 10,303 1.015
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