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The Queen has forwarded 10/. to two brothers at Cheadle to enable them to publish a work written on popular education.—Morning Post. The Cambrian prognosticates a fashion which will be very gratifying to artists, as it will tend to revive a most pleasing material for drapery- "Daring the Queen's recent visit to the Highlands she happened to meet with a lady from 'Wales who was dressed in the national thinnel. The Queen was much pleased with what was to her such a novel manufacture, and made many and par- ticular inquiries as to what the material was, where it was manufactured, and even obtained from her fair informant the name and address of the humble weaver of the admired article. Her Majesty commanded that an order should be forth- with despatched to the weaver, who resides in Neath, for a large quantity of the same material to be sent to her immediately. The honest Cambrian, not being used to receive epistles from such high quarters, could not understand what it was all about; so he carefully folded up the letter and put it away, thinking this the safer course. The lady had by this time returned from her visit to the Highlands to the neighbourhood of Neath; and, thinking it not unlikely that the Queen might have ordered the man to be written to for the flannel, went to him, and asked if he had had a letter from the Court. Finding that he had received such a Royal missive but had done nothing with it, she informed him of the real state of the case; and, selecting from the astonished weaver's stock such flannels as she thought would suit, immediately despatched them to her Majesty. The lady had scarcely done so when a second letter from the Queen was left at the man's house, demanding why her Majesty's commands had not been attended to. It was only on Friday last that the much desired flannels were despatched. Should the Queen and the little ones make their appearance in Welsh flannel, there will be no doubt as to what will be the fashionable material for the coming winter; and Welsh flannel, which few ladies in England have ever yet seen, will be at a premium be- fore long."

Lord Cardigan is again under the notice of the public. The Honourable Gerard Noel, a Captain in the Eleventh (Prince Albert's) Hussars, and Id.P. for Rntlandshire, "was late one morning for stables "; and it is stated that he reported himself, and apologized for the remissness, pro- mising that the breach of duty should not recur. Lord Cardigan placed Captain Noel under arrest, and did not remove the arrest while the regi- ment was marching out of town to strange quarters; so that Captain Noel had to endure the disgrace of marching behind his regiment without hie sword.

' Shortly after this, Captain Noel was again placed under arrest, for breach of duty in not availing himself of the Easter holydays of Parlia- ment to rejoin his regiment.

Subsequently, Captain Noel, not being at a particular time exactly on the spot where he ought to have been, (to quote the words of a favourable narrative,) he was ordered by Lord Cardigan to go to his troop; but instead pf obeying, he "replied," "I am with my troop." Lord Cardigan rejoined --" You are not, Sir: none of your London manners here." Captain Noel afterwards requested a private interview, and asked why insulting language had been used to him before his troop? The answer was—" Get out of my room, Sir." Thereupon Captain Noel wrote to the Duke of Wellington, demanding inquiry; but received in answer a direction to apologize for "three enumerated errors,"—namely, "answering" his Colonel on parade; requesting a private interview, instead of complaining to the authorities; and asking why he had been insulted. Captain Noel was summoned to an interview with the Adjutant-General, and desired, in the presence of Lord Cardigan, to apologize. This he "respectfully refused to do." He is said to have acted on high advice.

Mr. Noel's father is the Earl of Gainsborough, a supporter of the Govern- ment, though the Captain himself is a Conservative; his maternal uncle is Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary ; and his stepmother is a Lady of the Bedchamber.

The Morning Chronicle of Wednesday announced that "the gallant officers are now reconciled, and the differences between them arranged to the satisfaction of the Horse Guards." It is rumoured that Captain Noel 'was not required to make the first overture, nor an tuareciprocal apology.

The Poor-law Board have appointed Lord Courtenay, M.P., to be an Inspector of the Unions in the counties of Dorset, Southampton, and Wilts. —Globe.

We have reason to believe that a Companionship of the Bath will be conferred upon Count Strelecki, in acknowledgment of his voluntary but most arduous services in administering relief to the destitute Irish during the late famine. Count Strelecki is known to the scientific world by his valuable work upon the Geology of New South Wales, and other publica- tions.—Times.

A few days before the death of Viscount Midleton, a notice was issued by the Churchwardens of Wandsworth, convening a Vestry for Thursday the 9th instant, the principal object of which was "to obtain the concur- rence of the parishioners to a vote of thanks intended to be proposed to the Hight Honourable Lord Midleton for his munificent gift of the free schools in Love Lane to this parish." That object, our readers are aware, un- happily cannot now be carried out; but we have been given to understand that Lord Miclleton's gift will be perpetuated by a tablet erectedito his Lordship's memory in the parish-church.—Surrey Standard.

Mr. Alderman Salomans has sent a check for five guineas to the secre- tary of the Bentinck Testimonial fund- " Although I did not partake of his political ?pinions," says Mr. Salomans, "I do not feel on that account debarred from joining in a testimonial to his zeal, vigour, and honesty; nor ought I to omit this opportunity of recording my grati- tude for his Lordship's kind and noble conduct in relation to the Jewish Dis- abilities Bill."

The King of Denmark has placed one of his royal steamers, the Skirner, at the disposition of his Excellency Count Reventlow, for the purpose of conveying his Excellency back to this country, where he may soon be ex- pected, with full instructions to conclude the negotiation of the Schleswig- Holstein question.—Morning Post.

As proof that our Pontiff has personally no objection to hallow by the Church's benison the marriage of parties who:cannot give up their respect- ive conscientious belief, he has allowed a young Roman spinster to wed her lover, an adherent of the Synagogue, and whose creed continues to stop short at the blank page that separates the Old Testament from the New. This occurrence has just taken place in the parish of St. Paul.— Roman Correspondent of the Daily News.

Professor Owen, of the London College of Surgeons, has made an inte- resting contribution to the controversy on the Great Sea Serpent. The Professor writes in reply to a letter from a friend, who bad asked his opinion. He enumeratss the points of the description in Captain IYI'Quhae's letter, and refers also to the drawing: the traits are these—

"Read, with a convex, moderately capacious cranium, short obtuse muzzle, gape of tie mouth not extending further than to beneath the eye, which is rather small, round, filling closely the palpebral aperture; colour, dark brown above, yel- lowish white beneath ; surface smooth, without scales, scutes, or other conspicuous modifications of hard and naked cuticle. Nostrils not mentioned, but indicated in the drawing by a crescentic mark at the end of the nose or muzzle. All these are the characters of the head of a warm-blooded mammal, none of them those of a cold-blooded reptile or fish. Body long, dark brown, not undulating, without dorsal or other apparent fins; ' but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of sea-weed washed about its back.'"

Guided by the indication of the mane Arr. Owen pronounces the animal to have been not a cetaceous mammal, but a great seal—probably the " phoca proboscidia,"—Anson's " sea lion," called by whalers of the Ant- arctic fishery the " sea elephant"; which attains the length of twenty or thirty feet.

" These great seals abound in certain of the islands of the Southern and Ant- arctic seas, from which an individual is occasionally floated off upon an iceberg. The sea lion exhibited in London last spring, which was a young individual of the phoca proboscidia, was actually captured in that predicament, having been car- ried by the currents that set Northward towards the Cape, where its temporary resting-place was rapidly melting away. When a large individual of the phoca probosculia or phoca leonine is thus borne off to a distance from its native shore,

it is compelled to return for rest to its floating abode, after it has made its daily excursion in quest of the fishes or squids that constitute its food. It is thus brought by the iceberg into the latitudes of the Cape, and perhaps further North, before the berg has melted away. Then the poorseal is compelled to swim as long as strength endures;. and in such a predicament I imagine the creature was that Mr. Sartons saw rapidly approaching the Da3dalus from before the beam,—scanning, probably, its capabilities as a resting-place, as it paddled its long stiff body past the ship. in so doing, it would raise a bead of the form and colour described and delineated by Captain M'Quhae, supported on a neck also of the diameter given; the thick neck passing into an inflexible trunk. The organs of locomotion would be out of sight. The pectoral fins being set on very low down' the chief impelling force would be the action of the deeper immersed terminal fins and tail; which would create a long eddy, readily mistakeable by one looking at the strange phzenomenon with a sea serpent in his mind's eye, for an indefinite prolongation of the body."

This constructive explanation, Mr. Owen illustrated by a sketch, in which the figure exhibited in Captain_M'Quhae's drawing was fitted to the submerged body of a seal.

Mr. Owen argues negatively against the probability that any great sea serpent can exist unknown. In the enormous lapse of time since the first creation, numbers must have lived and died, and bodies must have been seen.

"A serpent, being an air-breathing animal, with long vesicular and receptacu- ler lungs, dives with an effort, and commonly floats when dead: and so would the sea serpent, until decomposition or accident had opened the tough integument and let out the imprisoned gases. Then it would sink, and, if in deep water, be seen no more until the sea rendered up its dead, after the lapse of the aeons re- quisite for the yielding of its place to dry land: a change which has actually re- vealed to the present generation the old saurian monsters that were entombed at the bottom of the ocean of the secondary geological periods of our earth's history." "Considering, too, the tides and currents of the ocean, it seems still more reason- able to suppose that the dead sea serpent would be occasionally cast on shore. How- ever, I do not ask for the entire carcass. The structure of the backbone of the serpent tribe is so peculiar, that a single vertebra would suffice to determine the existence of the hypothetiad ophidian; and this will not be deemed an unreason- able request, when it is remembered that the vertebrm are more numerous in ser- pents than in any other animals, [some 200 in each skeleton]. Such large, blanch- ed, and scattered bones, on any sea-shore, would be likely to attract even com- mon curiosity : yet there is no vertebra of a serpent larger than the ordinary pythons and boas in any museum in Europe." No such bones exist in the museums of Denmark, Norway, or Sweden in the collections of Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States. Several specimens are mentioned, but all too small. Fossil ver- tebne have been found in England; but they belonged to snakes not more than twenty feet in length, and there is no proof that they were marine.

Was the creature seen from the andalus a great saurian?

"The sea sanrians of the secondary periods of geology have been replaced in the tertiary and actual seas by marine mammals. No remains of cetacea have i

been found n lias or oolite; and no remains of plesiosaur or icthyosaur, or any other secondary reptile, have been found in eocene or later tertiary deposits, or re- cent, on the actual sea-shores; and that the old air-breathing sannans floated when they died, has been shown in the Geological Transactions, vol. v. second se- ries, p. 512." Mr. Owen "regards the negative evidence from the utter absence of any of the recent remains of great sea serpents, krakens, or enaliosauria, as stronger against their actual existence than the positive statements which have hitherto weighed with the public mind in favour of their existence. A larger body of evidence from eye-witnesses might be got together in proof of ghosts than of the sea serpent."

The bark Prince of Wales, which arrived at Hull on Friday morning, has brought some important information relative to the Franklin expedi- tion. At sea, in latitude 68 deg. 10 min. North, and longitude 64 deg. 30 min. West, on the 2d October, the crew picked up a cask containing this note-

" Her Majesty's ships Investigator and Enterprise cleared the main pack in Melville's Bay on the 20th of August; and, after examining Pond's Bay on the 23d, passed on to the Northward, in search of the expedition under Captain Sir John Franklin.

"The cask which contains this paper was thrown from her Majesty's ship Investigator on the 28th August 1848, in lat. 73 50 North, and long. 78 6.30 West. All well. Enterprise in company. Whoever may find this, paper is re- quested to forward it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the date, latitude, and longitude in which it was found. "EDWARD BIRD, Captain."

The Government, says the Times, have just presented a very beautiful pocket chronometer to the Captain of the Brazilian frigate Affonso, who displayed so much daring and humanity in his successful exertions to save the passengers and crew of the Ocean Monarch. The chronometer is a perfect model of the marine chronometer No. 2; which obtained for the maker in the year 1831 the Government prize of 1701. Its size is that of an ordinary waistcoat-pocket watch. The following inscription is engraved on the inner case-

" Presented by the British Government to Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa, of the steam frigate Affonso, of the Brazilian Imperial Navy, in testimony of their admiration of the gallantry and humanity displayed by him in rescuing many British subjects from the burning wreck of the ship Ocean Monarch, August 1848."

Two American emigrant-ships, from Bremen, have been wrecked this week off the coast of Kent. The Burgundy, with three hundred passengers for New Orleans, got upon the Long Sande: signal-guns were fired, assistance camel and every person was taken from the wreck. The people were landed at different ports—some, it is supposed, have been carried to France. All were in a destitute gate. The Atlantic struck on the Goodwin: before aid arrived, four people had perished—the master, two passengers, and a boy. The remainder of the crew and passengers were taken off by Deal and Ramsgate vessels.

The second iron tube on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, at Conway, was safely fixed on Wednesday; and trains now run through it. The ponderous mass of 1,300 tons had been suspended by chains for ten days previously, swinging twenty feet above the Straits.

Lieutenant Munro, late of the Blues, who suffered twelve months' imprison- ment for the fatal duel with Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, is to be appointed riding- master of the Seventh Hussars.

A free pardon has been granted by the Crown to Mr. Barber, who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court in April 1844 of being accessory before the fact to forgery, and transported for life. In conveying the information to Mr. Barber's friends, through his own private secretary, Sir George Grey gives this intimation—" While he has arrived at this conclusion, [in favour of Mr. Barber,] from a consideration of all the documents in his eassessiore comprising very material circumstances which have transpired since the conviction, Sir George Grey feels bound to add, that he sees no reason to doubt that the verdict of the Jury was warranted by the facts proved at his trial; and although he now believes Mr. Barber to have been free from any guilty participation in the frauds of which he was made the instru- ment, he thinks that greater prudence and caution on his part would have ex- empted him from the suspicion to which his conduct in the transactions in:ques- tion naturally exposed him."

Dr. Reynolds, the Liverpool Chartist leader and vender of pikes, has arrived at New York, by the bark Elizabeth, from Bristol.

Mr. C. Griffin, solicitor, against whom an indictment for libel at the snit of Lord Leigh is pending, has just delivered a lecture in the Preston Theatre on "the claims and the murders and other crimes" said to be connected with Stone- leigh Abbey. The lecturer has improved on the foundation-stone romance, and has a catalogue of some forty-two murders in all!—Globe.

At Louisville, Kentucky, on the 16th instant, Peter Roberts, a free man of Colour, a regularly-licenced Methodist preacher, a member of the Indian African Conference, and a master mason of the Philadelphia Lodge, was sold at public auction before the Court-house door in that city, for the term of one year. He was bought by J. L. Hyatt, for 75 dollars 50 cents. An act of the Kentucky Legislature prohibits the migration of the Negroes to that State, under the penalty of 300 dollars; on which charge he was arrested and sold.—True Wes- leyan, Sept. 1848.

Count Leon, natural son of the Emperor Napoleon, has addressed a letter to the Paris journals stating and offering proof that the Emperor left a will, of which General Montholon is executor' and which was duly registered before M. Tabou- rer, notary at Paris, in which there are matters affecting the interests of Count Leon; and that such will hasebeen hitherto suppressed. Count Leon announces that he is about to appeal to the tribunals to enforce its disclosure.

" In the county of Pembroke," says the Principality, "there is not a single policeman; yet the High Sheriff was enabled at the last March Assizes to present Justice Williams with a pair of white kid gloves."

Mr. Carruthers, a gentleman of Dormonnt, Annan, has perished by the incau- tious use of chloroform. Suffering from asthma, he found relief by inhaling the vapour, and frequently had recourse telt. He was discovered dead in his chair, just as he had been left the preceding night making flies for fishing: near to him was a handkerchief from which he had been inhaling chloroform.

The Hudson's Bay Company's bark Vancouver was wrecked on the bar of the Colombia River on the 7th May last; and her valuable cargo, consisting of Eng- lish manufactures, was lost. The crew and passengers were all saved, and the ship and cargo are covered by insurance.

Nearly three thousand people from Essex came to London by the excursion- trains on the Eastern Counties Railway on the 9th instant, to witness the Lord Mayor's show; and returned the same night without accident.

At a meeting of the Ashmolean Society, held on Monday, the Dean of West- minster read a letter from Sir Robert Peel, describing a remarkable bull trout which had been lately caught at Tamworth. It was three feet four inches long, one foot eight inches in girth, and weighed twenty-one pounds; the greatest weight recorded by Yarrell being twenty pounds. It must have reached Tam- worth by passing twenty mills during the late floods.—Oxford Herald. [This fish was for some time at Messrs. Colnaghi's in Pall Mall, sent there by Sir Hobert Peel for the purpose of being painted at full length by a competent artist. Its weight was not no great as many others that have been caught: its real pecu- liarity was that it. was monstrous rather than immense. Its lower jaw was pro- longed and curved upwards in so remarkable a manner as must have prevented its capture of any but very small prey.] Joseph Ady is enjoying "something to his advantage" as an inmate of Tot- hill Fields Prison; where he is confined for a debt due to the Postmaster-General, 011 returned letters.

A porter of Redditch has been robbed by a footpad of a box containing the trifling number of 116,000,000 needles! Near Augusta, Georgia, United States, there is a hedge along 3,000 acres; it is formed of the Cherokee rose, presents a most beautiful floralapecticle, and per- fames the surrounding atmosphere with the richest fragrance.

The official cholera returns give the number of cases and deaths, up to yester- day, as follows: London and its vicinity—cases 339, deaths 180; the Provinces— cases 70, deaths 42; Scotland—cases 700, deaths 341. The disease has shown itself in Glasgow and Dumfries.

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

Number of Autumn Deaths. Average. £y-matte Diseases 911 .... 270 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 37 .... 52 Tubercular Diseases.

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses. M ••••••..... 1(240477

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 147 • • • • 222 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and. other Organs of Digestion • . • 71 Diseases of the Kidneys, dm 12 ... • 12 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ice. 5 • . • • 14 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, de. 14 3 •• •• 8 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dm 2 • • • • 2 Malformations 1 • • • • 3 P 2 • .•. Premature Birth 23 Atrophy 16 • • • . 19 Age 37 • • • • 64 Sudden 7 . • • • 12 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 21 ..• • 33 _ — Total (including unspecified causes) 1165 1154

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 57.5° in the sun to 24.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 5.7°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable.