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Tuesday!s. GazetteAnnouneed that Lord Palmerston had-received from Mr. Belford Wilson, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Caraccas, a de- ,spatoh, dated the 19th of May last,.reportiug thatthe Venezuelan. Govern- maul had declared and established a blockade of the port of Maracaibo and the .whole of -the coast bordering the Gulf of Maracaibo, from .Cape San Roman, on the Peninsula of Paraguana, to Point Espada, on that of La Goajira.

We have reason to-believe that M. de Efuntmelauer, formerly Austrian Charge d'Affaires in this country, is expected here immediately, to request the mediation of England between the Austrian and Sardinian Govern- ments.—Morning Post.

A private letter, just received in the neighbourhood of .Belfast from Italy, etates, we are.sorry to -say, that his -Holiness the Pope has had. a severe epileptic attack.—.Belfoat Northern ,T4rhig.

M. Pasqnier, late surgeon in ordinary to the Orleans family, -has just been summoned to Claremont 4.o give an opinion-as -to the health of the Prince de Joinville, who-is said-to-be labouring-under a disease of the liver, she origin of :which is referred to his.stay -in Africa. A great aggravation of his malady has latterly occurred; produced, it is said, by suddenly bearing, of the decree of banishment lately-issued against his family.—Globe.

-We have-heard from good. authority thaV.M. Guizot is about to take up his residence in-the -neighbourhood of St. Andrew's.—F/ e Herald.

Accounts in the 'Midland and Western papers, and in those of -Scotland, concur in a "eery favourable estimate of the coming grain crops. They promise a harvest both unusually -early and productive. The hay crop has already turned out universally large.

Our readers interested in the medals which have been struck to record the ser- vices of her Majesty's fleets and armies from 1793 to 1845, will be glad to learn that .a committee of-flag-officers has been appointed by the Admiralty to investigate aid adjadicate.all claims for this distinction. All officers, seamen, and marines, (and soldiers who served as marines,) who were present In any. action which at the time received the special approbation of the Lords Commismoners.of the Ad- miralty, are entitled to claim this mark of royal favour ; and the .authorised forms with full particulars and instructions for making such claim, may be elttabie,d, free by most, by remitting three postage-stamps to Coes and Holsclay, 27 Oki Change, Cheapside, Lydon. The following actions are in the ,Admiralty list: Lord Howe's, 1794; Lord St. Vincent's, 1797;,Lerd Dunc,an's, 1797; Lord Nelson's, Nile, 1798; Trafalgar,.1805; Sir E. Hamilton's, 1799; Sir R. Sheehan's, 1805; Sir J. Duckworth's, 1806; Captain Brisbane's, 1807; Captain M. Sey- mour's, 1808; ,Captain Stewart's, 1808; Captain Motumey's, 1809; Captain C. Cole's,1810; Captain W. iloste's, 1811; Captain Talbot's, 1812s Captain Broke's, 1813; Captain E. Palmer's, 1814; Captain IL Helm's, 1815; the siege of and capture of Martinique, in 1809; Gandaloppe, in 1810; Java, in 1811; aid-St, Sebastian in 1813. Also the attack on Algiers, in 1816; battle of Navarino, in 1827; and the operations on the coast of Syria, in 1840. Boat actions, in all cases where the officer conducting the enterprise..was.promoted.

Itis not unremarkable, as a sign of the times, that almost all the farms lately sold on the Duke of Buckingham's estate were bought by the tenants.—,Globe.

At the special request of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, it will be Prereed at the Oxford Commemoration next week, to confer the honorary degree

or on Alexander Beresford Hope, Esq., in consideration of his munificent donation of 30,0001:for the establishment of,a Missionary College at Canterbury. Some hesitation was felt in consequence of Mr. Hope's former connexion with Pie Romaniziog party in the Chorch; but it litigated that the gift .has been Made without reserve, and that the statutes of the College have been approved by the present Primate. The Right Honourable W. Gladstone, M.P., is also mentioned as about to receive an honorary degree ;. as also the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Arthur, M. Guizot, And some other distinguished personages.—Globe.

The executors of the late James Watt, Esq., have requested us to state that there is no truth in the report of a sum of money having been bequeathed to Lord Brougham by Mr. %V att.—Globe.

Lord John Russell has conferred the nomination at the Charterhouse which fell to his lot, upon the son of the late Sir Benjamin Malkin, Judge of the Su- rune Court-of Calcutta.

Prince Liechtenstein-has Liechtenstein has died of the wound he received at Vicenza, and which at the time appeared a very slight one. He was the youngest of the seven sons of the late Field-Marshal Liechtenstein, six of whom served in the Austrian army.

The remains of "Tom Steele" were carried from England, by the Duke of Cornwall steamer, on Sunday morning, and landed at the North Wall on Tuesday On Wednesday they were lodged in.Conciliation Hell; whence they will be re- moved to a resting-place by the side of O'Connell.

We are sorry to have to record the death of Mm. Them, the widow of the bard of Inverury; which took place on the 17th instant at luvernry, whithershe had

returned after the death of her husband. A cold which she had caught on her journey homewards resulted in typhus fever of the most malignant sort. Her three young children are now orphans indeed, and are cast upon the world at the

helpless ages of eight months and two and four years. The Queen has given a donation of ten pounds to the fund for behoof of the orphans; and the total sum raised by the joint efforts of the general committee in Dundee and the auailiary committee in London already somewhat exceeds 2501—Dundee Advertiser.

Mr. 0. R Egerton Holmes, of Llangoed Castle in Breconshire, has perished in the Wye. Whilst fishing in the evening, he seems to have slipped down a shelv-

ing rock: his gamekeeper was close by, but the first he saw of , accident was his master struggling In the water: Mr. Holmes could not swim, and though a gentleman and Mr. Holmes's coachman dashed in to his assistance lie was drowned.

A painful accident occurred last week to-Mr. Pritchard, the lessee and manager of the Leeds Theatre, while he was playing the part of Maeda," to Macready's Macbeth. In the fight represented in the last scene, the point of Mr. Idecready's sword unfortunately struck Mr. Pritchard on the face, with such force as to cat though the cartilage of the nose and the upper lip, penetrating to the bone. It was with difficulty Mr. Pritchard was able to retain his place on the stage till the conclusion of the scene; and he could not speak the remainder of his part in consequence of the blood which filled his mouth. Mr. S. Smith, surgeon, VMS promptly in attendance and dressed the wound; which, being made with a blunted weapon, was much lacerated, and required to be dosed with sutures. ,Welave the satisfaction to learn that the wounded gentleman is going on as favourably an could be expected.—Leeds Intelligencer, June 24.

Shirts of unbleached cotton, made in the national workshops at Paris,Jiave for some days past been offered for sale at Brussels and.at Antwerp. These /shirts cost the French Republic 2 francs 30 centimes each; and they have been sold to a large house at Paris, which has relied on placing them in foreign unirkets, at 1 franc 10 centimes. Before the business of our exchange was over, ,Ereach agents endeavoured to place 500 000 shirts with the Antwerp exporters. in this sense the French Government experiences aloes of 650,000 francs; and, inde prudently of other articles of dress which are furnished by the workshops of the women, shirts continue to be made at the rate of 20,000 per day. Lila clear, therefore, that the workpeople who are paid at the rate of 2 francs mer dey for doing nothing in the Pare,Moncean are not those who are the most eapeasom to the.ilepublic; for the making of each shirt represents no more than 50-0entiates, so that the loss is 1 franc 20 centimes per Aim It is evidently impootible that the 'French Republic should be able for any length of time to early oma traffic a this description.—Journal du Commerce, Antwerp.

At Warthill, about five miles from York, a widow and her son, named.Newlove, lived in a cottage in a very penurious manner, though possessed of considerable property. They kept a large sum of money in the house and sat up the greater part of the night to watch it. Que.rnorning recently, Mrs. Newlove witalbund in her house, apparently dead, and covered with, blood; the on was discovered out- side the house, with severe wounds on the head. An iron candlestick, which had been the instrument used in maletreating the people, was lying in themanstege, covered with blood and hair. Mrs. Newlove having recovered a little, 'militated that three robbers had entered by a back window, and attacked herself and son, but had fled on the son's escaping from the house, !Lying feared, apparently, that hei would rouse the village: they carried-nothing off, and the police found 45001. in the house. Mrs. Newlove, an aged person, died five days after.

Two burglars, armed with bludgeons entered a cottage at Blackpool inDevoe- shire, on Friday sennight, and began beating two sisters who were asleep: even- tautly, one of the women jumped from a window, and mituaged to reach a

house; and and the ruffians decamped without having -found any money. The -lives of the sisters are in danger from the brutal treatment they endured.

Mrs. Douglas' the wife of Major Douglas, and daughter of the 'Ate General Sir William Dixon, has committed suicide at Exeter, in lodgings where die was xesid- Mg with her husband, by swallowing a large quantity of pruasic Acid. She luta left seven children.

A woman at Peterchurch, near Hereford,has murdered her illegitimate child, immediately after she had, delivered herself of it.in a_field, by burying.it alive ! The wretch is a cripple and the marks of her crutches in the earth euabled those who searched for the infant to discover its burial-place.

Mitchel, a waterman of Newcastle, has murdered • his illegitimate child by dashing it on-the fluor. He had to pay for - the support of the child, -mod -this enraged him; so he went to the mother's house, took the babe front the -credit), and destroyed it. He has delivered himself up to justice. Byker Pit, near Newcastle, .though the working of it had ceased for some months, was left with the gear for descending the shaft still attached to the machinery over it: the other day, two brothers were playing near it; one of them slid down the rope into the.cage which was hanging some distance down; the foul air overpowered him; his brother attempted to, descend to his assistaece, but slipped, and fell into the water at the bottom of the shaft. A workman then went down into the cage, but the foal . air overcame him, and he also staggered over into the water. Eventually, the cage was hoisted up, and the boy revived; but the man and the boy in the water perished. During a recent thunder.storm, a ,germ-house at Brantingharn,. near Hail, NM struck by the lightning, sod the electric fluid split the poets of a bedstead, burning the curtains; yet the farmer who was lyingin the bed was uuhurt. A tempest occurred at Bromberg in,Prussia on the .18th Jane' the plusinonmea and effects of which.were remarkable. " bleesesof electrical fire like broad itheeta or clouds of flame encircled the steeples, tower* and chin-tines—now blazing with lurid splendour—now.giving way to total darkeees, sad then reappearing with brighter effulgence. So loud was the rolling-end bursting of the thander-,-eo overwhelming the rushing force of the windo-ao like the rattling of cataractathe hissing downhill of the riun—that we could neither hear nor see the terrible effect,' of this awful plmnomenon, until it pleased Providence to command an end. Then a fearful eight met our eyes. It created no surprise that with such a 'hurricane, whole roofs of buildings should be wrenched from their places, chimnies hurled down, and hundreds of windows torn from-their fastenings: this was almost natu- ral; but great was our surprise and grief to discover that the noblest ornaments of our city, our two lofty towers with their cupolas, were literally hurled from their foundations and buried deep in the earth. No one-knew of this misfortune; for loud as mast have been the crash of the falling towers the . noise was over- come by the uproar of the elements, and the deafening echoes of the incessant thunder. Bromberg has the appearance of a place shattered by an earthquake: but, God be praised, no lives are lost; and although the .surrounding crops are prostrate, they may. recover."

Number of Spring deaths. overage. Zymotic Diseases. 310 .... 176 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 34 .... 50 Tubercular Diseases. 153 .... 202 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 101 .... 122

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ......... ... . ... • .... 33

Diseases of the Lumps, and of the other Orgam of Respiration... 84 .... 129 Disease* of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 49 .... 62 Disrsows of the Kidneys, We 17 .... 10 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c.

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc

Di.eases of the Skin, Cellular tissue, Sc Malformations

Premature Dinh r

Atrophy 25 .... 15 Age 40 .... 52 Sudden 15 .... 12 Vioience, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23 .... 29 — — Total (including unspecified causes) 935 943

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 97.5° in the sun to 41.00 in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 0.10. The mean direction of the wind for the week was North- north-east. Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—