Ziorttlautous.

The Queen has signified through Mr. Osborne, Secretary to the Admi- ralty, her Majesty's approbation of the exemplary conduct of the officers and crews in the late review. These passages in the order have attracted some attention—

"Her Majesty observed with great satisfaction those effects of order and discipline which never fail to sustain the honour of the British flag, and_af- ford pledges of the undiminished power of the British Navy.

"The Queen received also with peculiar pleasure the hearty proof of good- will shown to her person, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and family, which mingled grateful feelings with proud recollections ; and they added happiness to COnfaCi01113 strength in witnessing the evolutions of such a fleet, ready to defend the authority of the Crown and the independence of the na- tion.",

Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Lord High Admiral of the Prussian Navy, visited the Spithead fleet on Tuesday.

The Committee appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the reinstatement of Mr. Engledue as a Lieutenant of her Majesty's Navy have made a report. They find, that as Lieutenant Engledue still considers himself at liberty not to comply with demands which may be made upon him for his services, his restoration by Lord Derby's Govern- ment was "not a judicious proceeding."

The Diligence, one of the store-transports which accompanied Com- mander Inglefield on his Arctic Expedition in the steam-sloop Phcenix, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday. She left the Phcenix and the other transport starting from Disco for Beechy Island on the 13th July. Com- mander Inglefield and his officers and crews were all well, The Diligence has brought home the crew of a whaler rescued from the ice in Melville Bay.

At the Ministerial white-bait dinner, held at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, on Saturday last, all the members of the Cabinet were pre- sent except Lord John Russell and the Marquis of Lansdowne.

It is stated that Mr. Edmond O'Flaberty has been appointed, con- jointly with Mr. Godley, Commissioner of Income-tax in Ireland.

The Hopourable Frederick Bruce, now Chargé d'Affaires at Montevideo, has been appointed Consul. General in Egypt.

Another Waterloo veteran has left us. On Wednesday, Sir Frederick Adam, having been on a visit to his brother Admiral Sir Charles Adam, at Greenwich, entered a railway-carriage and suddenly died. He had been present in many battles in the Peninsula, and was several times wounded, last at Waterloo. His death places the Colonelcy of the Twenty-first North British Fusiliers at the disposal of Lord Hardinge.

Mr. Bransby Cooper, the elder brother of Sir Astley Cooper, died sud- denly on Thursday, at the Atheneum Clubhouse. Mr. Cooper first entered the Navy as a midshipman but finding that the sea did not agree with him, he studied medicine. :Eks an assistant surgeon in the Royal Artillery, he was present at the later battles of the campaigns in the Peninsula. His works on surgery are well known.

Colonel Hawker, the well-known sportsman, who died on the 7th in- stant, in his sixty-seventh year, had served with distinction in the Penin-

sular war; and on his return home, he published a work called "Instruc- tions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting." This book had a wide reputation. Colonel Hawker has made many inventions and improvements in guns.

The Duchess of Brabant left Vienna for Brussels on the 14th August. She had been married by proxy at Vienna.

Last week, the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders arrived at Ramsgate, on a visit to their grandmother the late Queen of the French. Without completing her toilette, the Countess of Neuilly hastened to the pier, and met the young Belgian princes. The scene was witnessed by great numbers, and is described as extremely affecting.

The Vienna Presse asserts that an interview, by appointment, has taken place at Wiener Neustadt between the Count do Chambord and the Duo de Nemours.

M. Brae has again written to a Belgian journal, declaring that he will not avail himself of the permission to return to France accorded by Louis Napoleon at the instance of the improvisator°.

By the latest accounts from Valparaiso, July 1, we learn that hostili- ties were imminent between Peru and Bolivia. Peru had seized the port of Cobija, connecting Bolivia with the Pacific. Commercial relations had ceased between the two countries. There were other causes of difference, and the Bolivians were making active preparations for war. Some writers think that there will be no war ; but that Belzu, the President of Bolivia, will be upset by a revolutionary movement, and Peru satisfied.

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

Ten Weeks 0( 18(1-52. Week of 1853.

tymotle Diseases 4,282 .... 320 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat,. 455

38 Tubercular Disease.

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,121 , ... 89 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration .... 748 . • ..

77

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion ... 729

Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 90 ....

22

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 78 .... 5 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 65

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, die. 12

Malformations 24 ....

2

Premature Birth 218 • .. • 21 Atrophy 290 .. • . 51 Age 403

23

Sudden 32

.... 4

Plolente,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance 279

•••• 39

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--- Total (including unspecified causes) 10,941

981 The floods in Oxfordshire seem to have been not without some advantage : the farmers are now cutting a most luxuriant second crop of grass.

The little cutter Corsair, only 83 tons, commanded by Mr. Kreeft, per- formed her voyage of 18,000 miles to Melbourne in safety, having arrived at her port on the 6th June.

The Caner has been docked at Pembroke : she will require but little re- pairing, and will then be stronger than ever. The failure in the launch arose from its having been attempted before the tide had risen high enough : the bilgeways stuck in the mud, the water not being of depth sufficient to relieve them of the weight of the vessel.

Very unfavourable accounts have reached us of the partridges. Numerous pairs of birds are seen without young ones, and it is thought that the rains of July have destroyed whole coveys.—Northatepton Herald.

"An Oilman" writes to the Times that he detected an iron shilling by means of a magnet ; he suspected another shilling, but the magnet did not attract it ; he then placed the coin in aquafortis, and it turned out to be copper. "B." informs the same journal that sovereigns made of gold largely alloyed are in circulation ; they are worth about 15s. each. "R. It." took a sovereign in payment of a book : it proved to be made of copper gilded over.

A beautiful specimen of American aloe is now bursting into bloom at the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe's Italian garden, near Plymouth. It is expected to be thirty feet high when it has attained its full growth.