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The Channel squadron, consisting of the Sanspareil, London, Prince Regent, Imperieuse, Amphion, Leopard, and Highflyer, left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday evening. 'The current report was that the fleet was bound for Gibraltar, touching at Cork and Lisbon by the way.

Orders were sent down to Portsmouth on Saturday for the immediate departure of the London (90) and the steamer Sanspareil (71) from Spit- head for the Mediterranean. The steam-frigates Highflyer (21) and Odin (16) are also under Orders for sea. . . , . .

Thexamp at Chobliam Conunon is to be fully occupied by the 14th of June, when about ten thousand men Will be on the ground. - The soldiers who first encamp will not remain for the whole time; but be relieved .by other regiments; thus giving a larger number some experience of camp life. Upwards of two hundred Sappers and Miners and soldiers of the Line are now engaged in marking out the camp, sinking wells, and-form- ing stables. The following among other details have appeared in the course of the week.

In sinking, the men used fir timber for shoring up the sides, until it was found that the turpentine exuding from the green wood made the water brackish. The work had to wait for beech-wood. • Each . stable occupies about 20 feet by 12 feet, and is estimated to afford accommodation for eight horses standing head to head. ,„The lower portion 'of the walls are of turf, suppOrted by stakes, and the upper portion bonsiotiof a trellis-Work of boughs of Scotch fir closely intertwined, so as to keep out the cold.' The roof is of canvass, supported on "four corner and two central pine staves. There are too :entrances—one at each end, and it is not intended to affix any doors. The ground of the locality is of a broken surface, and the evolutions of the military will be real hard work. As the place is damp, the men will not lie on the bare earth, but will be allowed palliasses. Contracts have been entered into with London houses for supplying 50 sacks of flour per day and 6000 pounds of fresh meat for the men, with 600 sacks of corn, 80 loads of hay, and 60 loads of straw weekly for the horses. It is stated that the officers of the Household Brigade, anxious to keep up the character of their mess, have arranged with Mr. Gunter for supplies.

The camp is nearly four miles from the town of Chertsey. The managers of the South-western Railway are making arrangements for the working of the great traffic which will be sure to arise from the un- common spectacle of a camp in England. - • • •

' It seems that the Earl of Onelow the lorfl of the manor of Chobham, , "gave permission, so far as his right extended," to Lord Hardinge to en- camp the troops on Chobham Common; and the inhabitanti held a vestry and appointed a committee to let the ground for booths. But at a Court Baron held by Lord Onslow at Guildford on Monday, Mr. Hockley, the steward of the manor, stated that the inhabitants had nothing to do with it ; that the consent of the copyholders was necessary ; that every copy- holder is entitled to compensation for waste done; that if any booth be erected any copyholder may pull it down; and he advised the " ho- magers" to adopt a resolution applying for compensation to the Horse Guards. The result is not known. If Mr. Hockley is right, great con- fusion is likely to ensue.

The Guilford battery, near the East Cliff, Dover, is now ready for its guns. They will be six in number, and heavier in metal than those for- merly used. The works in the Shoulder-of-Mutton Field and on the Western Heights will be ready for their guns in a few weeks.

According to the Medical Times the Queen inhaled chloroform during her recent accouchement. It was administered by Dr. Snow, in the pre- sence of Sir James Clark, for the last hour of travail. A small quantity of .choloraform was dropped on a handkeichief and held to her Majesty's face. She was never completely insensible, but expressed herself satisfied at the effects produced by the anodyne. '

According to the Morning Herald, the degree of Doctor of Civil Law will be conferred on the following gentlemen at the Oxford Commemo-

ration— •

- "The Marquis of Chandos, Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Eglinton, Earl of. Malmeabury, Lord Colchester, Lord Redesdale, Lord Stanley M.P.,' Lord St. Leonardo, .Major-General Sir E. Cost, Lieut.- General Reeve, Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., M:P., Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., Sir Roderick Murchison, Philip Pusey, Esq" Professor Aytoun, Right Hon. B. Disraeli ALP., Right Hon. S. H. Walpole M.P., Right Hon. J. W. Hen- ley ALP., Right Hon. Jos. Napier M.P., Dr. Forbes Winslow, David Forbes, Esq., Eight Rev. C. Wordiworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, Scotland, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay M.P., his Grace the Duke of Richmond, Right HMI. Sir T. S. Pakington M.P., Major-General Sir H. Smith, Bart., the Bishop of Ohio, G. A. Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Samuel Warren, Esq." • - The Morning Chronicle, in imitation of this announcement of Lord Derby's nominations, has also its ironical information- - " We are informed that that the Earl of Derby, as Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Oxford; has recommended the following noblemen and gentlemen to be presented for the honorary, degree' of-D.C.L. at the' approaching Com- memoration—His Grace, the Duke of Northumberland, Major W.' Beresford, Augustus Stafford, Esq ,and the Hon. C. - Forrester. -It is believed that the name of Mr. Forbes plackenzie will be added to the list. It is understood that Mr. Brown will receive a degree in a special faculty."

We understand that Piofeasor Moseley is to have the vacant Canonry at Bristol.—Morning Chronicle.

Sir Richard Buckley Comyn, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Madras from 1835 to 1842, when he resigned and came home, died on Monday last, at his house in Spring Gardens, He was the author of

several works ; among them, of " A History of the N'Teliti■tti-Intikl from the birth of Charlemagne to the accession of Charles th-a,

It is announced that Queen Isabella of Spain is in "an interekiiig'si-' tuation ' ; she is said to have been so since last month—some say for thice months..

M. de Bruck, Internuneio of the Emperor of Austria to the Turkish Government, started from Vienna on Tuesday, to assume his duties.

It is stated that on the 2d June, the Count de Paris will be confirmed to the Roman Catholic Church, and that the Duo do Chartres will be re- ceived into the holy communion.

• Joseph Mazzini arrived safely in London on Tuesday.

Mrs. Beecher Stowe visited the grave of Thomas Clarkson, at Ipswich, on Friday week; and dined at the house of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dickenson.

Stafford House was the scene of a concert, on Monday, intended to test and make known the vocal powers of Elizabeth Greenfield, a Negress, and about a year ago a slave in the state of Mississippi. It is said to have been successful. A very distinguised company were present.

• Lord John Russell has replied to Lord Londonderry's letter complain- ing of the injurious entry in Moore's Diary. Lord John states that ho is "deeply concerned" : his "first impulse" was to strike out the entry, "both as extremely improbable in itself and as injurious to the memory of the late Lord Londonderry " ; but, "in the hurry with which the pub- lication was conducted, for peculiar purposes, the passage was afterwards overlooked." He adds, that it is certainly inconsistent with the bold and open:character of the late Lord Londonderry " ; and he places it "among those calumnies which float in the idle gossip of the day." Lord John pro- inises to expunge the passage in a new edition of the Life, now preparing.

This "honourable explanation," Lord Londonderry rejoins, should close the correspondence, were his own humble character alone concerned ; but "as the name and fame of a great statesman and relative have been traduced," he thinks the "proposed redress of expunging the passage would go but a small way towards repairing the injury already so exten- sively done"; and he therefore thinks it right that "the public should be apprized of the result and truth of this affair." Accordingly, with Lord John Russell's consent, the correspondence has been published in the Times.

Anxious to vindicate the memory of his father, Sir Robert Wilson's son has forwarded to the Times letters from the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Cathcart, and the Emperor Alexander, in order to show that Sir Robert Wilson's services in the campaign to which the battle of Leipsic belonged were thought "important and splendid" by Lord Aberdeen, and highly appreciated by Lord Cathcart and the Emperor Alexander • so much so, indeed, that the Emperor of Austria bestowed on Sir Robert the Com- mander's cross of the order of Maria Theresa, and the Emperor of Russia the order of St. Anne of the first class. 'These letters are produced in consequence of a slighting expression in the letter of Mr. John Bidwell, quoted by Lord Londonderry. .

The bill which was mentioned by Lord John Russell in his reply to a deputation on the question of the admission of Jews into Parliament, that Lord Lyndhurst was about to introduce into the House of Lords for the purpose of altering the oaths to be taken by persons now by law re- quired to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, was printed on Monday. The following oath is proposed to be substituted—

"I, A B, swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria ; and that I will maintain the succession of the Crown as established by an act intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject*: and I do make this recognition, declaration, and promise, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian, so help me God."

, The name of the Sorareign for the time being is to be inserted, and the penalties for not taking the oath are to remain in full as at present. The .. affirmation for Quakers, &c., and the 10th George IV. cap. 7, for the relief of Roman Catholics, are not interfered with. The sixth clause provides that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter or affect the decla- ration ration now required to be made by persons of the Jewish religion by the provisions of an act intituled An Act for the relief of persons of the Jewish religion elected to Municipal Offices.' "

Public attention has been called to the fact that Sir Thomas Wilson is again attempting to appropriate Hampstead Heath for building pur- poses, by an act of Parliament. He had previously made four similar attempts, in defiance, it is said, of the provisions of his father's will. Under that instrument, he, as lord of the manor, has power only to grant leases of his property on Hampstead Heath for twenty-one years ; and it is urged that his father intended to bar his son from the power of enclosing the common. The bill is now in the House of Lords, where it has been read a second time.

A club for the accommodation of gentlemen who cannot or will not pay the large sums demanded by existing clubs, has long been catalogued amongst the wants of this metropolis, and it will be seen by our adver- tising columns that such a club is now projected. Looking at the extent of the classes appealed to, the proposition merits support ; and if the ob- jects contemplated be steadily adhered to, there would seem to be every probability of its success.

There is a proposal on foot to carry the electric telegraph, already laid down as far as Genoa, onward to Spezzia, and thence by Corsica and Sar- dinia to the nearest point of the African coast. The highest names is France and Piedmont appear as patrons of the enterprise ; and some English names of note in like projects are engaged in it. There are strong hints thrown out respecting the practicability of carrying the tele- graph on to Bombay ; and some think this attempt would be successful. A bill on the subject has already passed one stage in the French Legis- lative Body.

The new electric cable between Donaghadee and Portpatrick.ivas suc-. ccssfully submerged on Monday. Mr. Wyndham Harding, in a letter to the Times, discountenances the mode of communication between guard and driver in railway trains by means of wires and tubes, recommended by a Committee of the House of Commons. He says that the only safe and rational way is to provide " that along every train, without exception, the guards should be able to

make their way to the engine, so as to make a personal communication with the driver." He states that this is universally the case in America and on the Continent ; and that the plan originated with George Stephen- son on the Liverpool and Manchester line.

Oxford contains the monuments of six eventful centuries. Each variety in the architecture of her colleges marks the change or fall of dynasties, of systems, and of creeds ; and in her streets men may moralize over all the vanities of royal, priestly, and intellectual power. She has survived con- vulsions which seemed to threaten the very existence of society ; and she has seen the fiercest enthusiasm grow cold, the loudest faction become mute, and the most famous and terrible names dwindle to a turgid epitaph or a sorry bust. Yet she has not learnt faith in herself. She has not yet dis- covered that her mission relates to interests which no political revolutions can affect, and that it is her true dignity and her true strength to take her stand upon those interests alone—to mete out to all merit the honours which no intrigues can buy—to place the crown on every illustrious brow—and to bring up citizens and statesmen of all parties in the knowledge of justice and in the love of truth. She has now been a Tory University for two centuries ; and of all her chequered annals the history of those two centuries is the worst. A torpid and corrupt prelacy—a priesthood relying not on truth alone, but on test acts and penal laws—a Church which abetted and sanctioned the great- eat follies and the worst injustice of the State—legislators who pursued class interests with a blind selfishness and a reckless immorality unsurpassed even in despotic countries—such are the historic monuments of that disastrous and dis- graceful epoch. Science and speculation were banished, theology only worried Dissenters or commented on the Articles, all tests of merit were abolished, every degree was sold to every applicant, the duties of education were shamelessly neglected, immorality of every kind filled every order in the place, sinecurism and corruption rode rampant, and the ghastly pretence of orthodoxy made more hideous the deformities which it could not veil. Such a university could have no trust but in princes. Oxford squires and Oxford rectors were the great pillars of tyranny and intolerance; and nothing but an accidental split in the High Tory party prevented the University from conferring the Chan- cellorship on the incarnation of justice, truth, and Christian virtue, in the person of Lord Eldon. Even when some better men arose, and the sense of duty began to revive, the old leaven still worked. Victorious despots re- ceived at Oxford the last excesses of adulation, untempered by any plea for justice to the world. The Duke of Wellington was made Chancellor be- cause he was ignorantly supposed to be an enemy to freedom ; and Sir Robert Peel, trained up in intolerance, was renounced because his heart was turned to justice. —Morning Chronicle.

The whole of Louis Philippe's collection of Spanish pictures, 528 in num- ber, have realized 28,0001. at the sale by Christie and Manson.

We understand that it has been resolved to erect a full-length statue, in free-stone, in a picturesque part of the " honest toun" [Musselburgh] as an appropriate memorial to the lamented "Delta."—Scottish Record.

The remains of Pope Martin V. were buried in the Basilica of the Lateran ; and with them several rings, gold and silver chalices, and the triple crown studded with precious stones. Fifty years ago the coffin was opened, and these valuable relics were perfectly safe. But the other day, in consequence of some architectural repairs, it was found necessary to remove Pope Mar- tin's coffin : it was opened—and lo ! all the buried wealth had disappeared. The dead Pope had been robbed.

The Recorder of Liverpool, and Mr. Witham, a presiding Magistrate at the Middlesex Sessions, have decided that ladies who prosecute for thefts of purses out of front-pockets shall not receive their expenses.

The London and North-western, the Midland, and the Great Northern Railways, have now come to an agreement to charge the same fares between London and Nottingham, Newark, Stamford, Peterborough, and other places to which all have a cowl) uuication.

A fifty-gun auxiliary screw frigate of 2500 tons burden—the Carlo Alberto —built for the Sardinian Government, has just been launched at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The builders are Messrs. Smith.

The splendid screw-steamer Himalaya, built by Messrs. Mare and Co. of Blackwell, for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, was launched on Tues- day. She is 3550 tons burden, 340 feet long, and 46 feet 2 inches in breadth. It is the largest steamer extant.

Last year, 1,054,000 tons of shipping left Newcastle with coal for 311 foreign ports. Hamburg was the largest customer, taking 107,147 tone of coal.

A gentleman who has recently returned from a tour in the Mofussil has given the following description of a scene witnessed by him in one of the Company's courts. " The Judge, who was but too apparently ignorant of the language of the district, directed one of the Native officers of the court to put a question to a witness, and not obtaining any reply, repeated it; but

the witness, returning no answer, and his silence being looked upon as con- tumacious, the Judge ordered the summary infliction of the rattan ; which was accordingly administered in open court, as the readiest mode of eliciting his evidence. It proved, however, a total failure, as the question having been again and again put without effect, it was at last discovered that the poor fellow was deaf and dumb."— United Service Gazette.

The Italian journals report one of the most atrociously ingenious crimes ever perhaps committed, even in Italy, the land of a Borgia and a Tofana. "Mendaco was a person of fortune, and held the position of Syndic or Mayor of his native town, Veigotti, some twenty-four miles from Genoa. He be- came violently enamoured of a young and handsome woman of the same place, Maria Giusto, at the time a widow with four children. An illicit con- nexion ensued between them ; and after some time, Mendaco, with the con- nivance of his mistress, resolved to get rid of his wife by killing her. His scheme was most artfully contrived. On the night selected for the murder he invited two of his friends to sup with him and his wife, as he stated his intention of going on a journey the next day. He took care to display on this occasion the most affretionate kindness for his wife ; who, after some time, retired to rest, leaving her husband still at supper with his boon com- panions, whom he plied so copiously with liquor that they fell at last intoxi- cated on the floor. The mistress of Mendaco, as concerted, now made her appearance, and the two wretches set about their horrible work. Stealing into the chamber...of the sleeping wife, the husband succeeded in strangling her with a cord, while his accomplice smothered her cries by stopping her mouth with her hand. What added to the horror of the act, was the fact of the poor victim being enceinte at the time, and in her agony she gave pre- mature birth to a child. The deed once done, the assassins coolly proceeded to carry out the plan previously settled on. While the woman washed the linen of the bed and floor, the husband carried the corpse into the adjoining garden of a neighbour, with whom his wife had lately had a violent dispute, thus hoping to east this foul murder on an innocent man. At daybreak Mendaco roused up his drunken companions of the previous night, and the three left the house together. In a few moments Mendaco pretended that he had come off without money, and returning together to the house, he cried out from the outside to his wife to throw him his purse. His paramour, who was secreted in his wife's chamber awaiting this ingenious manoeuvre, threw out the money demanded, without showing herself; and Mendaco's friends naturally thought, and declared, that his wile was in her bedroom when they all left the house in company. When the murder was discovered, suspicion naturally fell upon the unfortunate man in whose grounds the body was discovered, and he was arrested and thrown into prison. This ne- farious plot was, however, providentially defeated. Two of Mendaco's chil- dren had overheard the death-cries of their unhappy parent ; and, in spite of the menaces and entreaties of the guilty father, they revealed what the had overheard. The arrest of the true criminals followed, and upon trial they both confessed and accused each other. The chief witnesses against the murderer were his own children. Sad to relate, the poor man who was first arrested, and detained in prison, lost his senses from terror. Upon the first trial, both were condemned to death; but a second one was ordered for some informality. The result was the same, and a second condemnation was re- gistered against both the criminals. Repeated efforts were made to save the woman from execution. A deputation of noble ladies belonging to the Miss. ricordia went lately from Genoa to Turin to intercede Pith the King and Queen for a commutation of the sentence ; but the case was too atrocious to merit it." Accordingly. Mendaco and Maria Giusto were executed at the end of the old mole of Genoa, on the 30th April. The execution, by hang- ing, was attended with circumstances of great horror, and must have becn almost as revolting to the public as the murder.