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We are happy to be enabled to announce that Miss Florence Nightin- gale has arrived at her home in Derbyshire, after her arduous and honourable career of public service in the East. Miss Nightingale sedu- lously avoided that public welcome which would have greeted her had the day or place of her landing in England been made known. She is not the less conscious, we trust, of the "honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," which accompany her presence and wait upon her future career.—Globe.

It is understood that Lord Talbot de Malahide is about to be raised to the British Peerage, and that he has selected the title of Earl of Tyrcon- nell as that by which he will hold his seat.

Sir John Milley Doyle, an old soldier, who had served in Egypt and had passed through the fiery ordeal of the Peninsula, who wore fifteen decorations—who had sat in Parliament for Carlow, and had commanded. Don Pedro's army—died on Saturday, a Military Knight at Windsor, in the seventy-second year of his age.

Two other Peninsula veterans preceded him by a few days—Lieute- nant-General William Alexander Gordon, and Lieutenant-General P. Hay. General Gordon was a Captain in the famous Ninety-fifth through. the Peninsula campaign ; and General Hay was Major in the Twenty- fifth Dragoons, in the cavalry combats at Sahagun and Benevento.

The weather, long so propitious for the ripening crops, has been somewhat broken of late; and storms of rain, thunder, and lightning, which hitherto have been few and far between, have become frequent. In some parts a good deal of grain has been levelled by the heavy rains, but casualties of this kind have not been sufficient to call for general re- mark. In consequence of the intense heat, the crops are unusually for- ward, and the chief difficulty will be in gathering them in. The severest storms have fallen on Lancashire and Cheshire. Heavy rain, accom- panied by hail-storms, has done much damage there. The rivers over- flowed ; hail lay six inches deep at Helmshore ; the Holmfirth people were anticipating danger from the reservoirs. A gardener was killed by lightning at Edenfield. Two youths were passing a bridge near Rams- bottom ; the bridge was swept from under their feet, and they were drowned. In some places railway traffic was arrested by the destruction of the permanent way.

We understand that Lord Palmerston has issued a circular to the Parlia- mentary heads of each department, requesting them to supply him in the month of November with the particulars of all legislative measures which they are desirous of being introduced into Parliament. The object of the Premier in making this prudent request is, that the Cabinet may, in the first instance, have a full and early opportunity of being acquainted with and of deciding upon the departmental bills to be introduced into Parlia- ment, of determining in which House of Parliament the measure shall be introduced, and of avoiding the confusion which invariably arises from the introduction of a large number of Government bills at the end of the ses- sion, when there is no longer sufficient time for their full and ample consi- deration.—Manchester Guardian.

The Duchess of Kent is in Scotland : she arrived at Abergeldie on Tues- day.

The Lords of the Admiralty have extended their tour of "inspection business combined with pleasure—to Ireland : they arrived at Queenstown on the 7th. Next morning surrounded by the squadron of war-ships, they set out on a trip to Bantry Bay. Professor Quekett has been appointed Curator of the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons, in place of Professor Owen, who resigned to assume his post in the British Museum. Sir Charles Napier did not make a long stay on Russian soil : he arrived at Berlin, from St. Petersburg, on the 6th. Totleben and Canrobert are at Aix-les-Bains. Their meeting was very cordial,—at least on the part of Totleben, who, it should be remembered, was not beaten by Canrobert.

Vehse, the author of a secret history of the German courts, who was im- prisoned at Berlin for some of the statements he published, has been liberated, but sent out of Prussia.

Mrs. Charles Mathews, better known as Madame Vestris, died on the 8th, at Gore Lodge, Fulham. She had long suffered from a painful and incurable disease ; and had not appeared before the public since 1854. She was born in 1797; and married at sixteen, to M. Armand Vestrist dancer and ballet-master at the Kings Theatre, Haymarket. He died in 1825; but it was not till 1838 that the fair widow married Mr. Charles Mathews. When her sister, Mrs. Anderson, died, and left daughters alone in the world, Madame Vestris took them under her charge, and brought them up with jealous care. She was accomplished beyond her prbfession, and kind and goodnatured to all.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, accompanied by her husband, arrived at Liverpool on Monday, by the Niagara from New York. A lady recently ascended Mont Blanc,—Miss Forman, accompanied by her father. This is the fourth occasion when a lady has ascended to the sum- mit. There was quite a popular triumph when Miss Forman returned re 011anienni; Just at p .nt, Berlin is said to have "no other destiny or use in the world than to serve as a change-house or station on the road to Russia" ; shoals of people passing through it en route to Moscow and the Imperial coronation.

John Bright has been detected enlivening his Highland tour with a poetical denunciation against game-preserving. The Inverness Courier 'pre- sents its readers with the following rhymes extracted from the visiting-book of the inn at Drumnadrochit, which it affirms are from Mr. Bright's pen. In Highland glensTra far too oft observed That man is chased away and game preserved : Glen-Urquhart is to me a lovelier glen,

Here deer and grouse have not supplanted men."

Mrs. Wilding, wife of a corporal of the Royal Artillery, was one of three women who were allowed to land with the troops at Old Fort, in the Cri- mea. She was present with her husband at the battle of the Alma ; marched by his side across the country to BalakLava ; and was present at the battle of BUlaklava, where she took a horse from a Russian officer. During her resi- dence in the camp, she earned by washing an average amount of 20s. per diem, and saved a considerable sum. Her invariable companion during the war was an excellent revolver, which she much prizes. Corporal Wilding, with his brave wife, left Woolwich for Weedon Barracks last week.

The Seventeenth Regiment entered Quebec on the 25th July, with a triumphant reception.

The library of the House of Commons now amounts to 20,000 volumes, exclusive of Parliamentary publications.

The great bell for the clock-tower of Westminster Palace was cast lust week, at the village of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees. The metal employ- ed amounted to eighteen tons. The casting appeared to be successful.

Recently, the members of the London and Middlesex Arehmological So- ciety, having visited Westminster Abbey, were shocked at hearing the gross blunders of the guides in relation to the various ancient monuments there ; in consequence, the Council of the Society. have written to the Abbey au- thorities offering to prepare a correct description of the monuments for the use of the cicerones.

The Radcliffe Library at Oxford has been opened by the trustees on Sa- turday evenings for the use of all persons in the city and University, wider some simple rules.

Some workmen who were levelling the rubbish near the new Victoria Street, Clerkenwell, found a rusty tin box, and within it 64 spade guineas, 11 half-guineas, and 12 seven-shilling pieces.

Dartmouth has been made a packet-station ; Mr. Lindsay, the Member for Tynemouth, having selected it for the port of final departure and arrival of his line of steamers from London to the Cape, Mauritius, Point de Galle, and India, which are to convey a monthly mail.

In every part of France North of the Loire the harvest is magnificent ; in other parte it is inferior or middling. A great fall in the price of grain is expected.

Sir Samuel Pete suggests, that in the present dearth of labourers to get in the harvest in England, Government should permit soldiers stationed in rural districts to earn wages in getting in the corn.

There has been a considerable augmentation in the receipts of railways in France during the first six months of this year.

In the first half of the presentyear, the gold shipped from San Fran- cisco was valued at 4,800,000/. ; for the first six months of 1855 it was 3,800,0001.

As much as 1001. an acre has been obtained for potatoes growing near Dublin.

The Austrian Government has ratified the arrangements for the junction of the Lombard and Piedmontese railways as fixed by delegates of each country who met at Milan.

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

Eymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, fie Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, fie Rheumatism, Diseases of the Bones, Joints, fie. Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, fie.

Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Violene, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) Ten Weeks of 1846-'55. 497.2 42.6 188.1 112.2 31.9 79.3 71.9 11.6 7.7 7.9 1.8 2.9 31.0 40.3 35.4 5.9 33.8 ....

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The Russian commissariat seem to have made sonic pretty " pickings " during the war in the Crimea—a committee of inquiry has discovered em- bezzlements and deficiencies of no less Ann ninety million roubles !

Dowell, the soldier who destroyed his right hand at Chatham to unfit him for service, has been sentenced to 168 days' imprisonment, and he is not to be discharged.

The Bishop of London has suspended the Reverend William Lambert, M;A., Perpetual Curate of Christchurch, Ealing, for three years, and after that until such time as a certificate is presented signed by three beneficed clergymen satisfying the Bishop that the suspension may be properly relaxed. The offence of Mr. Lambert is not stated in the official notice.

Herbert, the Californian Representative who killed a waiter at Washing- ton, has been hied for murder and acquitted.

rimerica continues to furnish fatal casualties, on a scale appropriate to the country. While the steamer Empire was proceeding from all River to Boston, one of the boilers burst, the steam was forced into the cabins, and seven persons were scalded to death, while a great number suffered fearfully, and many of them will probably die. A number of lives have been lost by a fire at Boston : people were burnt in houses destroyed, or killed by jump- ing out of high windows, while a fireman perished by the fall of a chnuney.

The Reverend Thomas Marsh, a passenger by the steamer Canadian from Quebec, died a day or two before the arrival of the vessel at Liverpool, from a sad mischance. He asked for a mineral water, which the steward had not got ; the steward brought him chloride of zinc in a basin, and Mr. Marsh drank some of it thinking it was a medicinal water. Medical aid was in rain, and he died after much suffering. Some months since, the ship Western Bride was wrecked in the Magellan Straits : all the passengers and crew got to land in Terra del Fuego ; and after eight days of great suffering, during which they subsisted on shell- fish, they reached a small Chilian settlement ; whence they were forwarded to England.