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We have reason to believe that the Duke of Wellington has accepted the office of Master of the Horse to her Majesty under the new Adminis- tration.—limes, Tan. 10.

We understand that the directors of the London and North-western Railway are taking measures to apply to their trains the beat practical communication between the guard and driver.—Daily Papers.

Sir James Graham attended for the first time at the Admiralty on Saturday. While hunting at Woburn Abbey last week, Earl Granville had a fall which broke his collar-bone. He is recovering.

Dr. Hawtrey, Head Master, has been appointed to the Provostahip of Eton College, in the room of the late Reverend Francis Hodgson.

Lady John Russell has presented the Leeds Mechanics Institute with "an engraving of Lord John," as "a little memorial of his visit," and as a token of the gratification with which she will ever look back to his hearty welcome at Leeds.

News arrived early in the week that Lord Denman was dangerously ill at Nice : the report was correct so far as the illness is concerned, but we are happy to add that the latest intelligence speaks of his gradual re- covery from a paralytic fit.. The Earl of Stair, who died this week, at his seat at Oxenfoonl Castle in the county of Edinburgh, was the son of Sir John Dalrymple, and bora in 1771, He entered the Army in 1790, became a General in 1896, and Colonel of the Forty-sixth Foot in 1843. But it was not as a soldier that he was most regarded ia Scotland, but as a Liberal, who espoused the cause in evil days, and held fast to it until the last. He was an ac- tive Reformer before the Reform Bill; and during the agitation which accompanied the progress of that measure, he was one of the moat in- fluential of its Scottish supporters. He was chosen Member for Midi Lothian in the first Reformed Parliament, in opposition to Sir George Clerk. Ile sat for the constituency until 1835, when it was swamped by fictitious votes. In 1810 he became Sir John Dalrymple, on the death of his father ; in 1840 Earl of Stair, (a Scotch Peerage,) by the death of his kinsman the seventh Earl ; and in 1841 he was made a Peer of the United Kingdom, under the title of Baron Oxenfoord. Always in the hour of need, (says the Scotsman, from which we collect there particue lam) he was never wanting either in purse or person in support of "the good old cause."

Sir Henry Bulwer left Florence, it is believed on account of ill health, on the 31st December.

Francesco Madiai died in the prison at Volterra on the 2d January.

General Rossi, a Liberal, has been appointed tutor to the hereditary Prince of Sardinia. It is considered a great victory over the clerical party, who wished the education of the Prince to be left in the bandit of the clergy.

The Portuguese Cones met on the 2d instant ; but on the 6th the De- puties had not arrived in numbers sufficient to make a House.

The steamer Australian, long looked-for and latterly with some anxiety, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday last : she left Adelaide on the 5th of October. The delay in arrival had been caused by want of hands. Her crew deserted, and she was supplied at Sydney by a party of volunteers from her Majesty's ship Fantome. At King George's Sound, partly owing to the weather, but chiefly to the deficiency of labourers she was de- tained eight days, coaling. Thence to the Mauritius she was thirty-. two days ; having sustained an accident to her machinery, and encoun- tered successive calms. Her course to the Cape was beset by similar obstacles, aggravated by want of hands. From the Cape homeward, how- ever, with the exception of unshipping a topmast, she seems to have had a prosperous voyage. She brought 222,293 ounces of gold, valued at 890,0001.; and the famous Victoria nugget, weighing twenty-eight pounds, sent from the Government of Victoria as a present to the Queen.

We mentioned the arrival of the Magdalena at Southampton in a part of our impression last Saturday. During the voyage she lost seven of her crew, one "distressed British subject" taken on board at St. Thomas, and two passengers, from yellow fever. As the last case occurred on the 26th and the last death on the 28th December, and these dates being more than ten days before her arrival, pratique was instantly granted. Subse- quently, however, in the evening, the chief steward died. It appears that the principal difficulty of the surgeon, Mr. C. J. Symonds, who is warmly praised for his conduct, was the" fear" entertained of the disease by all. Mr. Wiblin and Dr. Harvey, the quarantine-officers, speak highly of the sanitary condition of the ship. She was kept well venti-. lated and clean ; and but for this the mortality on board would have beep greater. From a report published by the Society for the Promotion of ;remelt) Emigration, of which Mr. Sidney Herbert is the chairman, it appears that 1071 emigrants have been sent out since 1849, chiefly to Australia. Of the fund raised in 1849, amounting to 22,000/., 3500/. now remains ; but at the present rate of freight, this will not enable the Society to despatch more than three parties of emigrants. But as females are still in excess over males, and many suffering greatly, in spite of the general prosperity, the Committee of the Society feel that they would not be justified in closing a work in which an much remains to be done. They therefore appeal for additional means of carrying on the good work. Several characteristic letters from emigrants are published with the appeal, giving a lively idea of the improvement in their circumstances.

We understand that the Marquis of Breadalbane resigns his post of Lord Chamberlain, in consequence of ill-health. We also understand no person has yet been appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland.—Standard, Jan. 14.

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

Ten Weeks Week of 1843-62. of 1853. Emetic Diseases 2,315 .... 200 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 622 .... 47 Tubercular Diseases 1,812 .... 131

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 115 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 439 • . . . 43 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,708 ... • 174 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organ, or Digestion 621 .... 5G Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 123 .... 13

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, de c

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 88 • • • • 11 Diseases of the halo, Cellular Tissue, Sc 18 . • • • 4

Malformations 35 • • • • 3 Premature Birth 218 21 Atrophy 167 29 Lae MO 47 Sudden 777. Tiolence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 212 25 .---

Total (including unspecified causes) 11,453 985 Our obituary this week presents some remarkable instances of longevity. The decease of seven persons is chronicled, whose ages were—two ninety, and the others respectively ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety- four, and ninety-seven years. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, who has just arrived from that colony, has brought with him a diamond of good form and of the finest water, weighing three-quarters of a carat, found at the gold-diggings at Ophir, West of Bathurst, Sir Thomas has presented this specimen, as also one of sapphire found in the same locality, to the Museum of Practical Geology.