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plete. Two of the names are given as doubtful, only as not having been The following list of the Aberdeen Administration is proximately com- officially announced. Some half-dozen of the minor offices are still vacant. THE CABINET COUNCIL.

First Lord of the Treasury Earl of Aberdeen. Lord Chancellor Lord Cranworth.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. W. E. Gladstone. Home Secretary Viscount Palmerston. Forei,gn Secretary Lord John Russell. Colonial Secretary The Duke of Newcastle. First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham. President of the Council Earl Granville.

Lord Privy Seal The Duke of Argyll. Secretary at War Mr. Sidney Herbert. First Commissioner of Works Sir William Molesworth.

The Marquis of Lansdowne.

CIVIL ADMINISTRATION.

Junior Lords of the Treasury t Mr. Sadleir.

Lord Alfred Hervey. Honourable F. Charteris. I Mr. George Hay ter. I [Mr. James Wilson. n

Joint Secretaries of the Treasury Under-Secretaries of State (Home—Honourable Henry Fitzroy. Foreign—Lord Wodehouse. Colonial—Mr. Frederick Peel.

Postmaster-General and Paymaster of 1 the Forces Viscount Canning.

President of the Board of Trade Mr. Cardwell.

Vice-President of the Board of Trade Lord Stanley of Alderley. President of the Poor-law Board Mr. M. T. Baines.

i Mr. Robert Lowe. Secretaries of the Board of Control I [Mr. A. H. Layard. 71

LEGAL.

Attorney-General Sir Alexander Cockburn. Solicitor-General Mr. R. Bethel'.

Judge-Advocate-General Mr. C. P. Villiere.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Right Hon. E. Strutt. Lord-Advocate of Scotland Mr. J. Moncreiff.

NAVAL.

Admiral Hyde Parker. Captain A. Milne. Junior Lords of the Admiralty Hon. W. F. Cowper. Admiral Berkeley. Captain U.S. Dundas.

Secretary to the Admiralty" Mr. Ralph Osborne.

MILITARY.

Commander-in-chief Lord Hardinge. Master-General of the Ordnance Lord Raglan. Clerk of the Ordnance Mr. Monsen.

IRELAND.

Lord-Lieutenant Lord St. Germans.

Chief Secretary Sir John Young. Attorney-General Mr. Brewster. Solicitor-General Mr. W. Keogh.

THE QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD.

Treaaumr Earl of Mulgrave. Comptroller Viscount Drumlanrig. Vice-Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce.

Captain of the Gentlemen at Anna Lord Foley. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard Viscount Sydney. Clerk Marshal. Lord Alfred Paget.

We have reason to believe that an event may be expected in the early part of April next which will add a new member to the Royal Family.— Times.

Lord Aberdeen gave his first Cabinet dinner on Wednesday.

Lord John Russell transacted business at the Foreign Office on Wed- nesday. The Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Frederick Peel, Earl Granville, Mr. Gladstone, Sir William Molesworth, and Mr. Henry Fitzroy, attended at their offices on Wednesday.

Count Walewski had an interview with Lord John Russell on Monday. He afterwards set out en conge for Paris; where he is expected to stay about three weeks.

Lord Derby left town on Tuesday, for Knowsley.

Sir George Turner, late Vice-Chancellor, has been appointed a Lord Justice in Appeals, in the room of Lord Cranworth.

Dr. Max Mailer has been appointed Lecturer of Modern Literature at the University of Oxford.

The Reverend Francis Hodgson, Provost of Eton, who died on Wed- nesday at the age of seventy-two, was well known for his scholarship and his literary associations. While a classical tutor at Cambridge, he be- came acquainted with Lord Byron and their friendship lasted until the poet died. He succeeded Dr. Goodall as Provost of Eton in 1840.

The Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna on the 24th December.

The Princess Royal of Sweden was safely delivered of a son on the 14th December.

M. Martinez de la Rosa has been reelected President of the Historical Academy of Madrid.

The Countess and young Earl of Shrewsbury were at Rome last week. Lord Frederick Fitzelarence reached Bombay on the 24th October.

Authentic documents have now been published showing that the Vienna correspondent of the Morning Chronicle was arrested in the street on the 10th December ; imprisoned, stripped naked, and searched; thrust into a foul dungeon, first with malefactors, afterwards with a Hungarian who had been there ten months for some political offence and never brought to trial ; detained nearly twenty hours, and then liberated ; only to be con- ducted home to his lodgings to witness the seizure and sealing of all his papers, public and private. The charge brought against him was, that in his communications to the Morning Chronicle he showed hostility to the Austrian Government, and misstated facts. Be complained to tbe Eng- lish Embassy ; who first condoled with him, and then complained to Count Buol ; and he referred the matter to General Kempee, the military Governor who had ordered the arrest. After waiting from the 12th to the 25th, the injured man had his papers restored to him with the seals broken ; and a receipt was demanded from him, stating that nothing had been kept back. (Lord Westmoreland had been absent from his post until the 22d, when he returned.) Thus the British Embassy was thirteen days procuring a bare restitution of the property of an outraged English- man, in the capital of an empire professedly one of our olilest allies and stanchest friends. , In a letter addressed to the Times by Mr. Petermann, on the 28th De- cember, he gives further intelligence recently received from the Expedi- tion to Central Africa. It will be recollected, that at the date of the latest previous letters, Dr. Overweg was at Kuka awaiting the return of his colleague, Dr. Barth, who was absent on an exploring journey to Bag- hirmi, a country between Lake Tchad and the Nile, heretofore unvisited by any European. On the 20th of August last, Dr. Barth returned to Kuka in good health, and well satisfied with his expedition which he had been able to prosecute as far as the capital of Baghirnii, Maseru,. About the time of Dr. Barth's return, some long-expected supplies from Prussia, as well as liberal ones from Lord Palmerston, were received. Before this, the members of the Expedition had been reduced to great straits; only relieved by the generosity of the Vizier of Bornu, who has all along shown an enlightened interest in their proceedings, and is mak- ing collections of the natural products and manufactures of his country to send to England. Dr. Barth recommends the countries bordering on the Kawara (Niger) and the Tchadda, and that part of the coast between the Equator and the Kawara, to our special attention. Mr. Petermann again refers to the activity shown by the Americans in this region. He mentions Captain Lynch's expedition to Western Africa ; the object of which, according to President Fillmore's late message to Congress, "is the reconnaissance of the continent of Africa Eastward of Liberia." It is stated in their last eommunicatien that Dr. Overweg and Dr. Barth are determined if possible to push their way across the continent in a South- erly direction to the Indian Ocean. They seem to fear the failure of their funds for so hazardous an undertaking. They digest that other travellers should penetrate into the interior of Africa, lind cooperate with them, some coming by way of the Tchadda and the We,stern coast, and others by way of Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean.

All our readers have personally experienced, more or less, the disas- trous or disagreeable effects of the enormous fall of rain this year. But they may not have realized the fact in all its magnitude. There hasmot been a fall of rain anything like so great since 1834, and then it was'Oply 16.65 inches for the year. In 1850, the amount for the year was I8.28 inches ; in 1851, it was 20.79 inches; in November 1852, apt inches ; the estimated amount for the year being 33.17 inches.'" The an- nual average is 24 inches. One of the consequences is that the ground has been almost unfit for seed, and the farmers are looking to sow the land with spring corn.

It is reported in London that Mr. Kirwan, the Dublin artist under sen- tence of death for the murder of his wife, has been reprieved ; but no official order to that effect had been received down to Thursday. The general impression, however, was, that the capital sentence could not be carried out ; and it is said that Judge Crampton, who tried the case, has expressed himself in terms much more favourable to the prisoner. Mr. Bower was tried at the Paris Court of Assize on Tuesday, for the murder of Mr. Saville Morton. Both, it will be recollected, were corre- spondenta of London morning papers. Mrs. Bower, in a delirium suc- ceeding her confinement, told her husband that her last child was not his but Morton's. Bower left the bedroom, and entered another apartment ; where seeing Morton, he snatched up a knife from the table ; Morton ran off, Bower pursued him, and overtaking him on the stairs, stabbed him in the neck. From the act of accusation, and the admissions of Bower, it appears that he had been intimate with other women, and that this had enraged his wife ; and it was also alleged that he had treated her harshly. Mr. Bower was defended by M. Chaix d'Est Ange ; and a verdict of acquittal was pro- nounced.

Richard Sill, the attorney whose name has so often appeared before the public in reference to the card-cheating ease at Brighton, and who was con- victed and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court, has been liberated from the House of Correction, Coldbatla Fields; a writ of error having been allowed in his case, which will be heard in a supe- rior court at some distant period.

There is some reason to fear that Mr. Heald, the husband of Lola Monter, in company with a friend and two beautiful "young ladies," were lost in the yacht Sparrow Hawk, off Fort St. Julian, at the mouth of the Tagus, on the 17th December.

Heavy gales, and even hurricanes, have prevailed recently in most parts of the country. On the morning of Christmas-day the wind was fierce in Lon- don, and more violent still in other localities ; but during Sunday night and Monday morning there was quite a hurricane. The direction of the wind was principally from the South-west, accompanied by showers of rain.

In London, on Monday morning, a considerable amount of damage was inflicted, several persons were hurt, and at least one life was lost. Tiles and chimney-pots were blown off in every quarter ; in some places chimney. stacks fell, crushing in roofs; and in one or two instances there was a greater amount of destruction. In Baker's Buildings, Bishopagate, an old couple who lived in the top-floor were buried in the ruins of the chimney-stack and roof; the woman was taken out dead, but her husband was not much hurt. At Mile-end, in Agar Street, St. Pancras, and in Smithfield, a num- ber of persons were buried in ruins caused by the falling of chimnies ; but all were got out alive. A tile struck a man on the head as he passed through Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn his skull was fractured, and when taken to the hospital be was pronounced be in danger. A shopman was seriously hurt in Newington Causeway by a large pane of glass having been blown in upon him while he was preparing the window for the day.. A portion of the Crys- tal Palace at Sydenham was blown down ; and the iron roof over the rails at the Shoreditch terminus was so lifted from its supports and displaced from its situation that it was necessary to take it down. Many trees were blown down : among them, a large elm at Gwydyr House Whitehall ; and another tree of the kind, a very venerable one, in Upper' Norton Street, Portland Place.

Christmas-day at Manchester was ushered in by a most destructive gale. Trees, cottages, a brewhouse-chimney, and portions of roofs, were blown down. The new church of St. Paul was much damaged by two stone pin- nacles falling from the spire : they crushed through the roof, and will occa- sion considerable expenditure in repairs. On Sunday night there was an- other storm.

At Liverpool the storm commenced on Friday morning. Many vessels were damaged or wrecked outright ; the buildings in the town suffered a good deal; but it does not appear that there was any loss of life. At Preston, on Saturday morning, a mill which was in course of erection was completely overthrown : the loss will be heavy. A large gasometer was blown down at Windsor on Monday morning. In the Great Park and in Windsor Forest there was sad havoc among the trees. An aged woman was killed in Oxford Workhouse by the fall of a chimney. A large stack of chimnies gave way at Magdalen College, and fell through the roof into the drawingroom of the President.

At Southampton, the boats were destroyed in great numbers, while the larger craft got adrift, and crushed against each other. Some vessels were sunk. House property in the town was extensively damaged. At both Bristol and Clifton the storm was very fierce, but the latter place suffered most.

A large wool-spinning factory at Carlisle was blown down. The mail from Exeter to Budleigh Salterton was stopped on the road, so many trees having fallen that for a time traffic was at an end. At Carnarvon the quay-wall 'was breached in four places. The steeple of Trinity Church, Stockton-on- Tees, fell upon the roof, crushed through it, and destroyed a considerable portion of the interior of the structure. Part of the steeple also of Middles- borough Church was blown on to the roof. In the fields, in all parts of the country, great damage was done : stacks of hay and corn carried away, roofs blown off, chimnies overturned, and trees snapped in two or lifted from the earth.

On the coasts the shipping has suffered severely, with a lamentable sacri- fice of life. A vessel was seen to founder near Tyncmouth. At Brighton and Portsmouth vessels was driven on shore : but the crews were saved. At Plymouth—where considerable damage was done to the harbour-works—the brig Ocean Queen, bound for Jamaica, was lost near the Mew Stone : all the crew perished : on Tuesday, fourteen bodies had been washed ashore. Two ships were lost on the sands near Dungeness : one was an emigrant-ship from Hamburg to South America, and had some eighty people on board, of whom only forty came to shore alive by clinging to pieces of wreck. The other was bound from Rouen to Rotterdam : all hands saved. Three ships foundered in the Downs : all the crews are supposed to have been lost. At Lyme Regis, the Heroine, an emigrant-ship, from London to Port Phillip, was totally lost. Boats put out, and the crews and passengers were saved; but, unfortunately, four 'brave fellows, out of five who manned a boat with the intention to aid the ship, perished through a wave's filling the boat. At Aldborough, a brig was dashed to pieces, and all on board perished. A Dutch vessel was lost in the same way at Orfordness, and some of the hands were drowned. In Yarmouth Roads a vessel foundered, and four of her people were lost. Three men were drowned in a brig that was wrecked near Brid- lington. In Morecombe Bay the gale was heavy from the South-west : a schooner was driven ashore, with all on board dead, with the exception of one man. The works of the breakwater sustained much damage, and the lighthouse was washed away. Higher up this range of coast many wrecks happened, and the South pier and lighthouse at Maryport are reported to have been broken up.

Very early on Christmas morning., Dublin was visits d by a fierce storm, which raged for some hours, strewing the streets with tiles and slates from the roofs. On Sunday night the storm broke out again, but with far greater violence, and lasted for eleven hours. Houses were damaged as in other places, but no life was lost. Some damage was done to the Exhibition build- ing. At Milltown, a large tree fell on the lodge of a factory, and three per- sons were killed. The shipping at Kingstown was a good deal damaged, and a schooner was sunk by another vessel running foul of her. The accounts from other parts of the country are equally disastrous. At Limerick a man was killed: the wind lifted bun from the pavement, his head struck against a

wall, and his brains were dashed out. Many vessels were on shore, some total wrecks.

The Lady Flora, which arrived from Sydney and Port Phillip last week, bringing gold-dust valued at 420,0001., was robbed of a box of gold worth 20001., at Rio de Janeiro. Suspicion fell on a passenger, and on Mr. Gore, the second mate. The passenger got to land in a boat ; but Mr. Gore was placed a prisoner in the war-ship Rifleman. Nine pounds of gold-dust had been sold at Rio to a bullion-dealer—it is supposed by the passenger who escaped.

The captain of the Prussian brig Flora, which arrived at Marseilles on the 22d December, reports, that on his way to that port with a cargo of coals from Shields in England, he was stopped in the Straits of Gibraltar, on the 7th, by a strange vessel manned by ten men, who immediately fired on the crew, and going on board ordered him to direct his vessel on the coast of Morocco, and to run it on shore. From the calm which prevailed he was un- able to do this; whereupon the pirates, thinking the fault was in the helms- man, shot him dead, and threw him overboard. This murder terrified the crew, and they went into the hold, leaving the captain and his mate on deck. The pirates then pillaged the effects of the crew, the stores, and provisions ; after which they quitted the vessel, and sailed towards Morocco.

A large bark, named the Lily, which left Liverpool for Africa last week, was caught by the gale on Sunday evening, and driven on shore close to the Calf of Man. In endeavouring to leave the ship, five of the crew were drowned. The captain and the rest of the crew succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, but only to meet with a death in another form. Next morn- ing, a number of people from the shore boarded the ship, along with the cap- tain and the portion of the crew saved. They had been on board about an hour when the ill-fated vessel blew up, and every one on board was killed. It is thought that not fewer than from twenty to thirty have perished in all.

A tunnel now in course of construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad, piercing the Allegheny Mountains, 3570 feet in length, 24 feet wide, and 16 high, which will be lined with brick or masonry throughout, is considered to be the largest work of the kind in the United States.

A dreadful scene took place last week at the bagne of Toulon. A convict, named Demoulin, accused one of the other prisoners of having informed against him for having been concerned in a plan for escaping. T13e accused - denied the charge ; and, after some bickering, they both returned to their places on a bench in one of the yards. There the quarrel recommenced, and at last Demoulin stabbed the other in the face with a shoemaker's knife ; the adjutant of the bagne, hurrying up to prevent further mischief, was stabbed by him in the belly ; and another officer received a deep wound in the thigh. The sight of blood appeared to excite Demoulin ; who, perceiv- ing the man to whom he was chained looking at him with an air of horror, struck him also with the knife, as well as two or three others, who tried to prevent his shedding more blood. Then, fearing to be taken into cus- tody for his sanguinary acts, he stabbed himself repeatedly, crying out, "I will never be taken ! " At last, one of the blows happening to pierce his heart, he fell dead across the bench.—Galignani's Messenger.