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Some minor official changes are announced. Colonel Reid, of the Royal Engineers, formerly Governor of Bermuda and afterwards of Barbadoes, will proceed as Governor to Malta, when his duties as a member of the Executive Committee of the Exhibition of All Nations shall be concluded. The government of Malta will in the mean time con- tinue to he administered by General Ellice, the Commander-in-chief of the forces in that island.

Mr. Arnold, the Magistrate at Worship Street, will take the place of Mr. Burrell in the Westminster Court at Queen's Square, and will be succeeded in Worship Street by Mr. D'Eyncourt, the newly-appointed Magistrate of the Police district Captain Knight, now Superintendent of Military Prisons in Canada, is op:- pointed Superintendent of the Convict Prison at Portland, in succession to Captain Whitty, promoted to be a member of the Board of Government Prisons in London.

Mr. Headlam, of the Chancery bar, M.P. for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will be immediately added to the list of Queen's counsel.

The Globe says that since Sir John Romilly took his seat in the Rolls Court, on the 15th of April last, he has cleared off every portion of the business of the court. He has disposed of 90 causes and rehearings, 101 further directions, pleas, demurrers, and exceptions, 25 claims, 3 special casea, 160 petitions, besides short causes and consent petitions. Judgment has been given in every instance with a single exception, in which it was thought that by delaying a decision the parties may be brought to an amicable arrangement • •

The act to consolidate and continue the Copyhold and Enclosure Com- missions, and to provide for the completion of proceedings under the Tithe Commutation Act, has just been printed. The Home Secretary has appointed Mr. Blamire, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Darby, to be Com- MiSe4011013. The act is to continue for two years ; and in that time the work of the several Commissions is to be concluded.

The Reverend John Harding, late Rector of the united parishes of St. Andrew's and St. Ann's, Blaekfriars, was consecrated on Sunday as Bishop of Bombay, in place of the Right Reverend Dr. Carr, resigned. The ceremony took place in Lambeth Palace.

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Three reverend gentlemen, Mr. G. 1s,. Baber, Mr. G. Roberts, and mr.

G. I. Ottoway, Honerary. Clerical Secretaries of the Metropolitan Church .1.:nion, have addressed a letter to all the clergymen in the diocese of Lou- proposing to them to suggest to the Bishop of London the assembling of a synod of the clergy of the diocese of London.

A central committee has been formed in London to protect the interests of Church lessees with reference to the act just passed. On it are Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Forster, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Headlam; and it is proposed to establish, in connexion with this central organization, local societies for the same purpose.-Daily News.

The order issued recently by the Admiralty, that no contract mail- packet should be built of iron, has been rescinded.

Au order was issued by the Lards of the Treasury on Thursday last week, authorizing the grant of a charter to a company formed to run an independent line of first-class steam-ships direct from Liverpool to Rio. The company will be entitled the Ssuth American and General Steam Navigation Company, and the directorate will include some of the first mercantile man of Liverpool and Manchester engaged in commerce with the Brazils. The line (the shares of which will to a large extent be held in Manchester) will comprise four first-class steam-ships, with a branch steam-ship to run to and from Rio and the River Plate ; and the de- partures will be once per month from either end.-Times.

The wheat harvest has well commenced throughout the Southern and Midland counties of England. The sum of the local accounts from all quarters is that the crop is fine ; and that where not seriously damaged by being "laic" in the course of the storms of wind and rain which have occurred in the last three weeks, it will give a "full average yield," if not something beyond that. In the Northern counties, which are some- what later, the aspect of the wheat is excellent ; theeorn is " well topped, and remarkably fine," and the yield will be " abundant." In Scotland also, the appearance of the wheat crop is "in general satisfactory" : some of the forward sorts will have been cut this week, but the bulk of the crops will not be ready to cut for a week or a fortnight more.

The oats, barley, and beans, are generally well promising.

The turnip-crop, throughout Wales and Scotland, is threatened with the most serious damage from " worms "-caterpillars. The Dumfries Herald says, with great anxiety, " We have in some seasons seen a few square yards of turnips infested with a large-sized caterpillar, but never saw anything approaching to the thousandth part of the present awful visitation."

As in Ireland, the potato blight has again shown itself throughout Great Britain so generally as to raise a cloud of local alarms : but at pre- sent there is no doubt that the disease is only of a mitigated type. The hay harvest was good, almost universally ; and it was well se- cured; an important point in connexion with the crops of oats, beans, and turnips.

Great storms in the early part of the month have caused the European rivers flowing Westward and Southward from the Alpine range to over- flow their banks and inflict extensive injuries to property and life. In Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg, the low lands remained under water till the ripening mops were destroyed. Much damage has been done to the fortifications of Rastatt ; the lower casemates of which are under water. In Baden-Baden the waters rose to within very few feet of the large helL A. newly-built Swiss cottage, inhabited by an English family, was carried away so rapidly that the inhabitants had barely time to save their lives.

In Savoy, the Arve overflowed its banks, and caused a frightful inunda- tion. All the country around Bonneville and Thyez was ender water ; the potato harvest was entirely spoiled, theeorn washed away, and a large num- ber of small farmers ruined.

The Piedowntese Gazette of the 5th August quotes a letter from Padua, stating that the storms had destroyed about ten houses and thirty, huts at Mestnno and Lissaro, in the province of Padua; Valstragna, in the pro- vince of 'Vicenza, had a similar visitation. Many lives had been lost, and a great number of houses, farms, &c., destroyed by the consequent inunda- tion of the Brenta.

The sudden death, through accident, of Mr. D. R. Ross, Lieutenant- Governor ef'Tobago, is announced by the West Indian mail. The To- bago Chronicle of the 3d July describes the mode in which Mr. Ross lost his life.

He had'been present on Friday the 27th June at a ball in honour of the coronation of the Queen, and started for his home at about two in the morn- ing, in a gig, with his servant sitting beside him. The night was very dark, and the way precipitous. At about a quarter of a mile from Government House, the road is narrow, with a high bank on.one aide and a steep descent of some thirty feet deep on the other side. To avoid the precipice, the gig was guided too near to the high bank on the other side of the road, and was thus overturned and sent over the precipice. Mr. Ross fell upon some rocks, and was killed on the spot; but, by a great marvel, the servant, the horse, and the gig, were wholly uninjured.

The funeral obsequies were offender] by a large and respectful assem- blage of the colonists. The Tobago Chronicle says of the deceased Csevernor- " During the short period that his Excellency presided over the af- fairs of this colony, not quite three month; having only arrived here on the 16th of April, it is our pleasing duty to state-and the statement will no doubt prove consoling to his bereaved family-that as he became more conversant with the nature of the difficulties with which he found the co- lony contending, and as his administrative talents were being gradually de- veloped to the public, the more intelligent portion of the community were rapidly coming to the conclusion, that he was the very man to grapple with, and successfully to overcome, the obstacles which have for some time past retarded the prosperity of the island."

Mr. Ross, a Liberal in politics, represented the borough of Belfast in the last Parliament, awl was a prominent member of the Unitarian body. He formerly possessed considerable pr )perty at Rosstrevor, in the county of Down ; but latterly the name had been rather conspicuous in the en- cumbered estates list.

By one of the late statutes (14th and 15th of Victoria, chap. 41) the sala- ries of the Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas are re- gulated. Under the the 2s1 and 33 of William IV. chap. 116, the salary of the former was 10,0001. and of the latter 80001. a year. From the death of Lord Tenterden the Chief of the Queen's Bench has accepted 80001. a year, and the Chief of the other Court has been paid 70001. for some time. The salaries are MAW declared to be-to the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, 3000/., and to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 70007. a year.

The Parliamentary return of the Civil List Pensions for the year mai' 20th June 18,51, gives the following distribution-To John Payne Collier, the literary merits, 100/. ; Honourable Duleibella Maria Eden, and Honourable Caroline Courtenay Boyle, for services to the Queen Dowager, 1001. each; Mary Maclear, for the discoveries of her husband, Astronomer Royal at the

Cape of Good Hope, 1001. ; James Bailey, literary merits, 100/. ; Kitto, Biblical Literature, 1004 ; George Petrie, archeological literature, especially of Ireland in addition to former pension of the same amount, 1001. ; Har- riett Wag torn, widow of Lieutenant Waghorn, in addition to pension of 401., 601.; John Poole, literary merits, 1001. ; Christina Liston. widow of Robert Liston, surgeon, 1001. ; Sarah Belzoni, widow of the African tra- veller, 1001. ; Mary Sturgeon, in consideration of the scientific attainments of her late husband, William Sturgeon, 501.; Sarah M'Carthy, in considera- tion of the military services of her late father, Captain Edward M'Carthy, 501.; Anna Maria Caroline Moylan, in consideration of the gallant services of her late brother, Captain C. Moylan, who died from over-exertion during a pestilence at Barbados, 401.: total, 1200/.

A Parliamentary return, obtained by Sir Benjamin Hall, shows the amount of fees charged by the Dean and Chapter of Windsor for royal in- terments since January 1830. At the burial of King George the Fourth, in 1830, 2281. 14s. Od.; 1834, of the Duke of Gloucester, 218/. Os. 8d.; 1837, of King William IV., 221/. 148. Od. ; 1840, of the Princess Augusta, 2261. Os. 8d. ; 1844, of the Princess Sophia Matilda, 2181. Os. 8d. ; 1849, of the Queen Dowager, 2201. Os. 8d.

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20 27 238 261 Age 432 .... 45 Sudden 80 Violence, Privation, Cold, andintemperance 321 Total (including unspecified causes) 10,427 1,038

" This season of the year, when the general population usually enjoy

some improvement in health, affects injuriously lives of infanta ; and, from whatever cause, the fatality which it brings to children has been ex- ceedingly aggravated in London during the last six years In the five cor- responding weeks of 1841-45, the deaths from dierrhcea varied from 16 to 62; in those of 1846-1850, the lowest number was 106, and the highest 195; and in the week ending last Saturday this complaint was fatal in 136 eases. The total number last week, arising from diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera, was 162 ; and of these only 21 occurred amongst adults."-Registrar -Gene- ral s Return, August 9.

We are informed that a satisfactory arrangement has been concluded be- tween her Majesty's Government and the patentees of the screw-propeller, and that similar arrangements have been effected with other parties; we have, therefore, now a reasonable hope that this mode of propulsion will be- come as universal as it is economical and efficient.-Horning Chronicle.

We were informed the other day by a gentleman from the Western di- vision of the county of Sussex] that the Duke of Richmond is having all his farms revalued, with the intention of adjusting his rents on the basis of wheat at DX a load. If this he ao, it is a very wise step on the part of kW Grace, and it will go far to convince the farmers that their leaders have abandoned all hope of regaining protection.-BriAton Guardia's.

Unusual activity appears to prevail in railway matters across the Atlantic, with the view of uniting all the British provinces by railway. At a meet- ing held at St. John's, New Brunswick, resolutions have been passed respect- fully remonstrating against the delay that has taken place in giving the Royal assent to the facility bill for this line, and the Governor has been re- quested to forward them to the Home Office. Meetings have been held in Quebec and Montreal, and resolutions carried in favour of the Halifax and Quebec Railway. A meeting held in Manchester' Mr. H. Houldsworth in the chair, to meet a deputation appointed by the directors in Canada, has passed resolutions in support of the Great Western Railway of Canada, as an undertaking of national importance.

In order to protect the fishing-grounds of the Colonies more effectually against the encroachments of American fishermen, arrangements have been made by which Canada is to place a steamer, and Nova Scotia two small ves- sels, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to enforce the terms of the fishing-con- vention of 1818.

A letter from Christiania in Norway, dated the 31st July, saye-" Mr. Stephenson, the English engineer, has just arrived here, with three other English engineers, Messrs. Bidder, Merritt, and Earl. They are about to undertake the construction of the railway between our capital and Lake Mjoesen. The engineers of this place gave them a grand dinner yesterday, at the Freemasons' lodge." .

At the close of last summer, a Danish merchant of the name of Sundt, who was in Greenland on a fishing-expedition, discovered in the neighbour- hood of Disco' Upernavik, &c. several veins of copper lead, iron, and plumbago. As the whole of Greenland is crown land, he petitioned the King for a grant of the mineral property under the soil. This has been ac- .ceded to ; and a short time since a well-equipped schooner, provisioned for wintering there, left Copenhagen. A mining engineer and several miners from Konigsberg accompanied the expedition.

Professor Liebig, of Giessen, has been decorated with the cross of Com- mander of the Order of Francis Joseph, for the services he has rendered to the science of chemistry.

Sir David Brewster has been elected foreign corresponding member of the. Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna.

The late Dr. Lingard has left his valuable library to St. Cuthbert's College, Irshaw.-Lancaster Guardian.

An ordinance has been passed by the Court of Policy, British Guiana, ad- mitting into the colony foreign reprints of English books on the payment of an ad valorem duty on the bond fide price of 20 per cent; whereof five per cent is to go to the collecting officer, and the remainder to the English, author.-Demerara Colonist.

The French Assembly last week discussed a project of law allocating a credit of 78,000 francs to enable the Government to continue the explores lions at Nineveh, and the scientific expedition sent to Mesopotamia and Media. M. Leon Faucher, the Minister, stated that the exploration of the ruins of 'Nineveh had been abandoned since the suppression of the Consulate

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

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Zymotie Diseases 411841 3,559 40..... d334

.... 334 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 470 .... 52 Tubercular Diseases 1,848 203 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,166 .... 119 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 25L .... 42 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 723 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 750 Diseases of the Kidneys, &e 89 Childbirth, diseases of the 'Uterus, Sic Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sic Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy

at Mosul, after the Revolution of February. The Consulate was then di- rected by M. Botta, who had collected many precious basso-relievos and re- mains of antiquity, which, he was sorry to say, had enriched foreign _mu- seums. Since the reestablishment of the Consulate, the new Consul had re- ceived instructions to resume the exploration, and a savant had been sent to Mesopotamia and Media furnished with an itinerary prepared by the Aca- demy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. The Assembly voted the credit by 319 to 232.

The following military statistics, with reference to the infantry force serv- ing abroad, are extracted from a detailed statement on the subject in the United Service Gazette. India, twenty-four regiments, officers and men, 27,125 ; Ceylon, two regiments (three including Ceylon Rifles), officers and men, 1760; Hongkong, one regiment, officers and men, 609; New South Wales and New Zealand, four regiments, officers and men, 3945; British North America, eight regiments, officers and men, 7517 ; West Indies (in- cluding Bermuda), six regiments, officers and men, 4163; Mauritius, two regiments, officers and men, 1727 ; Mediterranean (including Gibraltar), twelve regiments, officers and men, 8328; Cape of Good Hope, seven regi- ments (including two on passage). The force in New South Wales and New Zealand has this year becu considerably reduced, not by the return home of either of the four regiments, but by sending home supernumerary Men to form depOts of four companies. The seven regiments in Cape ser- vice (including the Second Foot and the Second Battalion of the Sixtieth Rifles on passage) amount to about 4250 of all ranks. The following regiments and battalions are quartered in London and its environs. Cavalry—First Regiment of Life Guards, Albany Barracks, Re- gent's Park ; Second Regiment, Knightsbridge Barracks, Hyde Park ; Royal Horse Guards (Blue), Windsor ; First Royal Dragoons, Barnet ; Fourth Light Dragoons, Hampton Court ; Eighth Hussars, Kensington and Hounslow; Seventeenth Lancers and Royal Horse Artillery, Woolwich. Infantry—First Battalion Grenadier Guards, Windsor ; Second Battalion, Penitentiary ; Third Battalion, St. George's Barracks, Trafalgar Square ; First Battalion Cold- stream Guards, Tower of London ; Second Battalion, Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park ; First Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, Portman Street Barracks ; Second Battalion, St. John's Wood Barracks, Regent's Park ; Se- cond Battalion, Twenty-third, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, London and Canter- bury ; Eighty-eighth Connaught Rangers, Canterbury, (Seventh Royal Fu- siliers, Forty-eighth, and Ninety-fifth, Portsmouth) ; First Battalion Rifle Brigade, Dover ; Second Battalion, Kingston and Canterbury ; Royal Foot Artillery, Royal Engineers and Sappers and Miners, and Royal Marines, Woolwich. Besides the above, are the enrolled Chelsea Out-Pensioner Bat- talions, who can always be called out, if required, within twenty-four hours.

On the 12th instant, shortly after midnight, the generale was sounded in the streets of Havre ; and it was soon found that the building-sheds of M. Normand, one of the largest shipbuilders in France, in the suburb of Perrey, were in flames. Immediately the authorities of Havre and Ingouville, about 500 men of the First Light Infantry, the Fire Brigades of the three communes, the Customhouse-officers, with the Gendarmerie, Police, and National Guards, repaired in haste to the scene of the disaster. It was found that the fire had broken out in the large block of workshops in the centre of the dock ; and the flames, which rose in broad masses, lighted up the horizon. From this centre the flames, favoured by the high combustibility of the materials col- lected there, extended to the frame on which rested the magnificent steamer Normandy, and a schooner yacht in course of construction for M. Caylus. The elegant lines of the steamer and schooner, which the flames enveloped on every side, showed grandly at times through the smoke, and occasionally assumed the most fantastic forms and proportions. Seen from the shore, the two vessels had the appearance of resting on a sea of fire and being beaten by its waves. Notwithstanding the efforts of the workmen, the flames made short work with the two ships. At the end of an hour the cradle of the Normandy was level with the ground, and the vessel, reduced to a mere hulk, lay upon it as upon its bier. Of the once promising schooner there remained but a few smoking embers. From the beginning it was seen that it would be impossible to save these two vessels. All the energies of the workmen were therefore directed with a view to circumscribe as much as possible the ravages of the fire ; and this end was partially attained. By much exertion the great workshop, situate in the Rue Perrey, as well as the immense stacks of timber piled in the Northern part of the yard, was saved. The loss sustained, as far as appears at present, is about 40,0001. The pro- prietor was insured for a portion of the damage, but neither of the vessels were included in the policy. Happily the direction of the wind at the time hindered the progress of the flames, otherwise, Perrey must have been in great danger of destruction, and Havre had hardly escaped.

A Chinese family has arrived in London from Canton. It consists of a gentleman named Chung-Attai, his wife Ahap, her two sisters, and a female domestic. The Queen has desired that they should visit Osborne and be presented to her.

There is a man at Vienna, says the Vienna correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, who offers to stake from 5001. to 10001., against all comers, that he will swim from Dover to Calais, in the month of August or September ; the money to be deposited beforehand with a London banker. He has already swum, according to his own account, from Vienna to Presburg, down the Danube.

The following entry from the prison Careeri Nuove of Rome is given by an Italian paper. " Committed by the Gaoler Ncri to the General !Inspector of Prisons, M. Ferrani, the following—Francis, son of the late Ladaceo John Papatelli and Lucatelli, of Sezze or Rome, aged twenty-eight years, mason or shoemaker, condemned by the Most Eminent Council, Inquisitors of the Holy Office, the 14th of Judi 1850, for unknown crime, to five years at the galleys."

M. Gross-Filay, Mayor of Nonancourt, has been sentenced to a fine of twenty-five francs by the Civil Tribunal of Evreux' for having drawn up i

baptismal certificates, in which two boys presented to the municipality were called the one Respell, and the other Louis Blanc, the law of the 11th Germinal, year XI., forbidding municipal officers to insert in those acts any other names than those inscribed in the almanacks, or those of personages known in ancient history.—Paris Correspondent of the Times. A man named Douglass was lately executed at New York, for murder on the high seas. A romantic life of Douglass appeared next day in the New York Herald, written by himself; and on Monday a letter he left behind him stating that there was much of it fictitious, and that he had spun a yarn to oblige a rnessmate. He owed 101. to the messmate, and thus paid him, for the Herald gave 101. for the story.

The Leeds Mercury reports an evil accompanying the cheap railway ex- -minions to London : many people at York and other places have pawned articles to pay for the coveted visit to the Metropolis.

At lisighley, on Tuesday sennight, the rain fell in torrents. In a cottage, called the Old Borhouse, at Hawkeliffe Wood, near Keighley, was a man named Blakeborough, with his wife and four children, together with other children not his own. These little ones were all playing at one side of the house, when the lightning struck an ash tree which overhangs the cottage, then pierced through the wall, struck down three of the children, and passed through a window on the opposite side of the room. The children. were immediately taken up, but one is expected not to survive. The child least hurt had an ex act representation of the ash tree which the lightning had struck upon its back with the branches and leaves complete, as if it had been burnt on with an iron stamp.—Durhant Advertiser.

During the past week, the neighbourhood of Everton has been the scene of a very singular occurrence, in which a married Lothario was the principal actor, and whose fate will, we trust, be a warning to others, and a caution to the fair sex. Some time ago, a young man named John Rowlands coin- menced paying his addresses to a young lady resident in Everton. A close. intimacy sprung up, and Rowlands was the recognized suitor for her hand. Matters went on pleasantly up to a very recent period. Women, however, are said to be naturally curious ; and probably the desire to satisfy this pro- pensity induced a friend of the lady to institute some inquiries about the lover. 'The result was the startling discovery that Mr. Rowlands was a married man ; that his wife was alive and well, but quite unconscious of the pranks which her lord and master was playing. The young lady instantly communicated the intelligence to her parents ; and in the course of Monday afternoon, whilst Rowlands was as usual paying his address to Miss —r the father waited upon Mrs. Rowlands, and was soon satisfied of the correct:. ness of what he had heard. The necessary explanations followed, and plans for the due punishment of the married delinquent were suggested and dis- cussed. At the termination of the interview, :Mrs. Rowlands received an in- vitation to visit Miss — at a certain hour next evening, and arrived at the house at the appointed time. Shortly after, Mr. Rowlands came to take his lady love her accutomed evening walk. He was shown into the parlour; and, in the presence of an assemblage of the lady's friends, was introduced to—his wife, and compelled to acknowledge his marriage in the presence of the young lady whom he had attempted to deceive. This confession of his guilt having been obtained, prompt measures were taken for inflicting sum- mary vengeance on the rascal who had thus attempted to trifle with the feelings of a respectable young lady. The females present immediately sur- rounded hini, and endeavoured to precipitate him out of the window into the rain-tub bimeath. Fortunately for his life and limbs, they were unable to accomplish this; but, in lieu thereof, he was treated to a shower-bath from a watering-can ; which had a most destructive effect upon his well-arranged curls, effectually cooling his back, if not his love. On making a precipitate retreat from the house, amidst the laughter of the inhabitants of the neigh- bourhood, the unfortunate Rowlands was helped quickly down the steps by a not very polite application of a gentleman's foot to his hinder-quarters.— .Liverpool hfereary.

The Wolverhampton Herald mentions that a bailiff, distraining on the premises of a villager, was defeated by the good woman of the house, who upset a hive, and stirred up the bees with a long stick.