Inistellantous.

The Prince and Princess de Joinville, and the Duke and Dutchess d'Aumale, arrived on Wednesday morning at Dartmouth, by the Solon steamer. They landed on the same day, and have joined the refugees at Claremont.

It is stated by La Prase that the Duke and Dutchess of Montpensier are at Brussels, in strict incognito. They go first to Ems, to visit the Dutchess of Or- leans; and thence to Madrid, where an official reception awaits them.

The Marquis of Bute died suddenly, at Cardiff Castle, on Saturday evening; it is believed, from disease of the heart. The Marquis was the eldest son of John Lord Mountstuart, the eldest son of John first Marquis of Bute. He was born on the 10th of August 1793; succeeded to the title on the death of his grandfather in 1814. He married, first, Lady Maria North, daughter of the third Earl of Guildford; who died without issue: and secondly, in 1845, Lady Sophia, daughter of the Marquis of Hastings; by whom he has left an only eon, six months old. The Marquis held some distinguished hereditary offices in Scotland: his family was founded by John son of King Robert the Second of Scotland. He also held the office of Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Scottish Church, and that of Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire, besides many others of a distinguished character. By his death a riband of the order of the Thistle be- comes vacant.

A private letter from Stockholm, of recent date, says—" Jenny Lind is playing a most beautiful social part in her native land. She sings very often, and gives sway every shilliug that she earns, and a good deal besides, to charities, in a ble manner. She continues, of course, to be adored, and is invited into the best society: but, although she is fond of dancing, she hardly ever stays more than a few hours at a ball, in order to be able to rise early, and attend to the daties which she has generously imposed upon herself."

A curious revelation is made in the A thentsum of Saturday respecting the treatment of an artist by a Committee of the United Service Club. It seems that Mr. Marshall Claxton painted for the Westminster Hall competition a picture, the subject of which was the burial of Sir John Moore. Not having found a pur- chaser, Mr. Claxton very handsomely presented the work to the United Service Club; and it was to all appearance eagerly accepted. Having been presented and received, the members of the Club seem to have thought that with the painting they had a farther right to the artist's services. First they request from him a key to his picture; and this Mr. Claxton sent. Then they expressed a wish for an alteration in the costume of the officers; and that Sir David Baird might make way in the picture for somebody else, on some small point of chronology. Their next demand coolly suggested that the light should be altered—the light of the pic- ture, be it observed—to adapt it (we suppose) to its place, the billiard-room, instead of the library, its original destination, instead of the usual plan of making the place suit the light of the picture. Next, Mr. Claxton is informed that "some gentle- men bad proposed covering up the face of Sir John Moore "! Lastly, Mr. Claxton is desired to take his picture back again. "But," says our contemporary, "by far the richest bit remains behind—the Club will never get over it. The reason assigned by these soldiers for finally requesting the withdrawal of the picture ex- ceeds anything we know of in farce. The Chairman of the Committee informed Mr. Claxton, that it was to be removed because some of the members objected to sit in the room with a picture of a dead body!" The New York Literary World states that a good many of Charles Lamb's books, some of them his folios, " huge armfuls," are now for sale in New York. " These books, which Lamb so loved that they seemed a part of himself, have been plucked from the smoke of London, deracinated from the pavements of Cockneydom; and now they are in Astor:House, all written over on the margin by Coleridge, and Southey, and Lamb himself. What will their fate be now? Who, amid the ever-changing fortunes of American families, will keep the herd together in a library ? Their destiny is now most assuredly to travel over the Continent; some to be dogs-eared in Oregon, some to grow crisp of cover in La- brador, some to be freshly bound in leather from a Californian bullock, some to follow annexation, and be shelved in time in the Society Library' of Mexico." The .slfoniteeir of Mondaypublished a document found among the papers left by M. Genie, the secretary of M. Guizot, which has caused great scandal. It is a report by M. Bouchy, late Procnreur du Roi, on charges made against bi. Libri, a member of the Institute and a professor of the University, of stealing valuable and unique books, to the value of some 400,000 francs, from various libraries in Paris, Carpentras, Montpellier, the Chartreuse at Grenoble, and other places, to which he obtained access as a political writer in the service of Guizot and Duel's, teL Several of the Welts and documents have been sold by auction; and some have even been brought over to the British Museum. M. Libri was the intimate friend and confidant of M. Guizot up to the last, though the Government had in- formation on the charges of two years data M. Libri has escaped to England. It is stated that in all the bureaux, correspondence proving the most disgrace- ful venality of nearly all the Ex-King's Ministers and agents have been dis- covered. M. Guizot stands alone unimpeached of personal venality; yet it is plain he knew of all the corruption around him.

Mr. Gambart has announced, in the Obaervateur Frangais, that he is in the receipt of subscriptions from all parts of England, many in small amounts re- mitted by postage-stamps, for the relief of the English workmen lately expelled from France. Count D Orsay, founder of the Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance, has forwarded a subscription of 100 francs, and written a letter urging the duty of all Frenchmen inhabiting England as much as possible to diminish the un- happy consequences of a deplorable act which can only be imputed to a mo- mentary loss of wits. M. Cottu, the French Charge d'Affaires, is also a sub- scriber.

The Zoological Society have resolved to admit the public to their Gardens in the Regent's Park on Mondays, after the 10th of April, at the lowered charge of sixpence. Children on all days but those of promenades at the same sum.

The America, the first completed of four new steamers for the British and North American Company, arrived in the Mersey from the Clyde on Sunday morn- mg. At full speed, she performed 210 miles iu thirteen hours and a half. Her dimensions are—length of keel and fore-rake, 250 feet; breadth of beam, 38 feet; tonnage, 1,840; horse-power, 650. She has stowage for 700 tons of coal and 500 tons of goods. Her total cost has exceeded 80,0001.

While some fishing-boats were attempting to make the shore at Latheronwheel, during rough weather, one of them was swamped, and the whole crew, seven in number, perished. On the West coast of Sutherland, a boat that was collecting sea-ware was upset, and seven men and three women were drowned.

The Neptune, a Jersey vessel, has been blown up, at Cardiff, by the ignition of gas generated in her cargo of coals: one of the crew having struck a light, the gas took fire. The ship was much damaged; the chief mate was killed, and several seamen were hurt, some dangerously.

A curious case of somnambulism has occurred at Brampton Moor. The daughter of Mr. Cunnington a fancy-turner, rose during the night, left the dwelling-house, went a hundred yards to the engine-house, lighted a fire under the boiler, returned home, and, not being able to open the house-door, roused her father, and told him to "go to work, for the steam was up." Mr. Cunnington has- tened to the engine-house, and found the steam roaring from the boiler. On his return his daughter was still asleep, and when awakened she had no knowledge of what she had done: she had not been accustomed to do anything with the engine.

A fellow having been charged at Stockport with imposing upon a number of women by pretending to tell their fortunes, he gave the Magistrates to under- stand that he was both deaf and dumb. The clerk wrote on a slate, "Can you read writing? " and the man wrote "No"; to the question " Can you write ? " he also answered in writing with "No." The foolish rogue was sent to prison for three months.

A novel species of theft has been committed at Leeds: some men stripped off the placards from the usual posting-places, and sold them for sixpence a atone. They were arrested ; but, as it was their drst offence, the Magistrates discharged them with a reprimand.

The Liverpool Standard cautions the public against an issue of forged five- pounffbank-notes. "The water-mark is perfect, though perhaps rather more strongly developed than in the genuine note. They are numbered M—L 50,395; dated 16th February 1846; apparently issued from the Branch Bank of England at Manchester, and are signed 'IL Hogden.' So well has the forgery been exe- cuted, that one of these notes was paid into a bank in Liverpool; by the bankers it was paid to a firm who again paid it to a foreign mercantile house; and it was only upon the note being presented to the Bank of England, in London, that the forgery was discovered. The only fault that we could find with the forgery was the incompleteness of the figure of Britannia in the left-hand upper corner." The Police are in possession of another copy of the note. A sacrilege has been committed in the church of St. Peter at Rome. The shrine containing the head of St. Andrew, with about 30,000 crowns worth of jewels, was forced open on the 10th, and the precious relics stolen.

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

Number of Winter Lymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat deaths. average.

205 average. 205 Tubercular Diseases. 203 199

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 130 .... 130 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 20 .... 39 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 175 225 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion . 75 41 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 18 9

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. a 13 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc. 1

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular tissue, Sc Malformations 2 Premature Birth 15 Atrophy 30 Age 43 Sudden 11 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33 Total (including unspecified causes) 1107 1118

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 63.9° in the sun to 24.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 1.8°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable.

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