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Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer had a narrow escape with his life, a few days since, while descending the Rhone from Avignon to Lyons, in one of the ordinary passage-steamers. The boiler burst, and the vessel sank in the river : Sir Henry and other passengers, swam for their lives, and Sir Henry was much exhausted on reaching the shore. He is in very deli- cate health ; and is now residing at the British Embassy in Paris.

Orders have been issued to place Tilbury Fort in a state of defence. A full company of Artillery is to be quartered there. The fort mounts ninety guns of heavy ordnance.

Lord Brougham arrived in London on Tuesday, and took his place in the House of Lords on Thursday.

Lord Cowley left Paris for London on Sunday last.

The Greek Patriarch has suddenly appeared at Constantinople.

Count Otto Moltke, a Danish statesman of some mark, died recently, at the age of eighty-three.

The Duke of Brunswick has met with a sad mishap in Paris. For some time he has blazed in diamonds at all the Imperial fetes ; on re- turning home from the ball given by the Senate to the Emperor, he found that his famous diamond star had been cut from his coat !

Abd-el-Kader arrived at Broussa on the 17th January ; where he was speedily joined by his family. He was received in great state by the Turkish authorities.

At Manchester, during the past week, although the market was inactive, prices had not changed. At Bradford and Leeds, the prices of woollen goods had been kept up ; and the manufacturers of the West Riding are described as carrying on a prosperous and extensive trade. At Notting- ham, the workmen had obtained an advance of wages without being obliged to effect a threatened "strike," which was to have taken place last week. At Birmingham, the spring trade had set in, and every branch of metal manufacture was active. Labour was scarce, and raw material dear. Copper was still advancing in price. The cry was, "We cannot get metal to go on with." Exports of hardware to Australia were great, es- pecially of guns and pistols ; and "an immense order is now in course of execution for handcuffs and leg-irons." Reports both from Nottingham and Birmingham mention the dearness of coal. As an evidence of the great demand for labour, it is stated that there were only two able-bodied paupers in the Birmingham Workhouse on the 1st January 1853; whereas in the summer of 1849 the Guardians paid at the rate of 3000/. a year for the poor.

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

Symotic 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

Ten Weeks of 1843-32. 2,029 493 1,811 1'242

407 Week of 1863. 212 56 194

4 1467

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,139

312 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 597

36 Diseases of the Kidueys,&c 98

18 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Bic 114

16 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, itc

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c

8 126 0 11

Malformations

4 Premature Birth 24l

27 Atrophy 183

17 Age 603 .... 59 Sudden 121

Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 273 .••• 41 Total (including unspecified causes) 10,340

1,233

Winter has at length set in with a considerable degree of severity, with sharp frosts and repeated falls of snow, more or less extensive. In London the quantity has not been excessive, but in some parts of the country it has been great, and in some districts where it has drifted traffic has been im- peded or stopped. At Shields, on Thursday, there was a great fall of snow, with lightning : a mail-train came in drawn by six engines. The London Parks have had their too eager skaters and sliders, and the consequent duckings and dangers : the Police in vain warned and threatened in several cases. A young man has been drowned while skating at Wolverhampton. At Edin- burgh the thick sheets of ice enable the skater and curler to enjoy them- selves with safety.

The Great Central Gas-consumers Company have liberally placed large quantities of coke at the disposal of the Police Magistrates for distribution to the poor during this inclement season : fifty chaldrons are given to the -Guildhall Magistrates, twenty-five chaldrons:each to the Magistrates at other Metropolitan Police Courts.

The phrenomenon of mock suns has been witnessed in England twice this week. At a quarter past twelve p. ne. on Monday, Mr. John Thornton, who dates from the Grammar School, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, saw it in company with Mr. Valentine Hill, agent to the Duke of Manchester : he saw four parhelia in a bright circle of white light round the sun ; the two most Southerly were the most brilliant, fawn colour towards the sun, violet white on the outer side, and were situated at the intersection of another horizontal circle with the vertical one. A third beautiful ring near the zenith showed brilliant prismatic colours towards the South. The phrenomenon is next described by Mr. Emeric S. Berkeley, of King's Cliff, Wandsford, Northamp- tonshire; who saw it at noon on Tuesday. In two intersections of a hale, were two parhelia of prismatic colours. Above the halo, touching it, was the are of an inverted rainbow; above that, another inverted rainbow, more vividly prismatic. Towards the North, a third parhelion, not prismatic ; and in the North, red clouds. The appearance lasted more than an hour.

phamomena were seen at Sudbury in Suffolk, at eight a. m., August 28, 1698 at Lyndon, in Rutland, at eleven a. m., October 22, 1721; and by Scheiner in 1630.

Some of the members of Christ Church, Oxford, have tried their hands at a "barricade." Early on Tuesday morning, it was discovered that the Dean's Arch was impassable. The;barricade consisted of snow and ice, to which additional strength was given by coal-bins, pails, coal-boxes, doors, tables, chairs, &c., from various parts of the college. It is supposed, from the size and strength of the barricade, that some forty or fifty persons must hare been engaged in its construction ; and the effective manner in which it was put together afforded a convincing proof of the skill which even amateurs can bring to bear in such operations. The discovery was made about six o'clock in the morning ; and although several workmen were employed, they only succeeded in making a small gangway through the barricade, to enable the members of the College to pass through to attend the morning service at the cathedral, at eight o'clock. The affair furnished abundance of amuse- ment; and it is cited as a proof of good generalship, that, notwithstanding the quadrangle was surrounded by canons, the insurrectionists were enabled to form such a barricade as would have gladdened the heart of any Red Re- publican. George Goff, a seaman of the brig Voyager of Sunderland, has just per- formed a notable swimming-feat at this cold season. On the voyage from Newcastle to Hull, he fell from the fore-yard-arm into the sea about eight o'clock on the evening of Monday last, and swam to Filey Beach, a distance of two miles. Here the tar was fed, lodged, clad, and sustenance-money given to him by the honorary agent of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society, and a free passage given him to Hull.—Neineastk Journal. The Paulding Clarion,a paper published in Mississippi State, has a horrible account of a Legree in real life. The journal suggests that the monster is mad. "On Thursday morning last, James Clark, a well-known citizen of the county of Clark, made an assault upon his negro woman for a cause which we have not heard stated. He then ordered her into a corner of the room, and commenced pitching his knife at her, point foremost. As the knife would enter her flesh, he would compel his victim to draw it forth and return it to him. This demoniacal amusement was continued until the slave was covered with about fifty bleeding gashes. The same day he whipped his wife, cut her all over the head with his knife, not dangerously, we understand, but in a mass of cruel and painful punctures. He also cut off her eyelids. This strange drama wound up on Friday last by the commission of a murder. Clark, on that day, ordered his wife to go and call Lewis (a negro belonging to the family). She obeyed, but the slave refused to come —through dread of his enraged master, we suppose. Mrs. Clark returned, and was whipped by her husband for not bringing the negro. Five times was she sent upon this capricious mission, five times was it fruitless, and each time was she whipped for her failure. Clark then called to the slave, in- forming him that he would shoot him next morning. The negro, it seems, did not heed the warning, for while splitting rails the next day he was de- liberately shot by his master. The wound was fatal. The negro ran about 300 yards and fell in mortal agony. Thus terminated one of the most barbarous transactions that it has ever been our painful end repugnant duty to record. Clink was arrested on Saturday last by a deputation of citizens, who, indignant at the horrible crimes attributed to him, deeraed it their duty to aid in bringing him to condign punishment. The verdict of the Jury of inquest was murder, and the Justice committed Clark to gaol without bail."