Misullnittnuo.

Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for the reception of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia, who will arrive at Windsor shortly before the 9th of November, for the purpose of being present on the birthday of the Prince of Wales.

It appears from a letter from Sir George Cornewall Lewis that the Government has no intention of having any public celebration of the day when the Prince of Wales will complete his eighteenth year.

Prince Napoleon, on board the yacht Dauphin, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday, and proceeded by the South Coast Railway to Brighton.

The Board of Trade returns for the past mouth were issued on Mon- day. They prove that the trade of the country is on a basis sound and free from speculative excitement. The declared value of our exporta- tions shows an increase of 917,6611., or 81 per cent over those of Sep- tember, 1858, and there is also an increase of more than 5 per cent over the high total of the preceding year. Cotton goods, owing mainly to the Eastern demand, still figure for the chief augmentation. The aggregate value of our exports during the first nine months of the year has been 98,037,3111. against 86,310,3291. in the corresponding period of 1858, showing an increase of 11,726,9821., or nearly 14 per cent. This has occurred as follows :- January £2,371,823 June £424,458 February 2,325,727 July 291,454 March 2,312,954 August 982,512 April 1,879,297 September 917,661

May 221,096 Compared with 1857 there has been an increase of 562,552/. on the month, and 2,301,7191., or more than 2 per cent, on the nine months, The consumption of imported articles has been scarcely on a correspond- ing scale with the activity of our general trade. A decline in the quan- tities of breadstuffs and rice has again been consequent on the low price of home wheat. In the deliveries of coffee, tea, and sugar there has also

been a falling off. Wines, spirits, and tobacco show a moderate increase.

The Volunteer movement prospers in every part of the country. Sub- scriptions flow in constantly to the London City Brigade, and frequent Council meetings are held. A band is to be organised for this corps, and will, it is expected, be ready to take part in the approaching Lord Mayor's show. The St. George's Rifle corps is to consist of five com- panies of a hundred men each. The drill ground is at Burlington House in Piccadilly. The North London corps has a practice ground near Hol- loway. The uniform for this corps costs only U. 17s. 6d. The yearly sub- scription is a guinea. There are many other corps raised in the imme- diate neighbourhood, and numbers in every county which we have not space to enumerate.

It is stated in the Manchester Guardian that the Volunteers now en- rolled throughout the kingdom amount already to 20,000.

A confidential circular memorandum issued by the Commander-in- Chief calls attention to the neglect of the regulations for examination of officers laid down in July 1858. At that time " a general order directed the attention of commanding officers to the necessity of having officers examined for promotion without waiting for expected vacancies."

" That order has been unpardonably neglected, and at this time there are numerous regiments from which no examination papers for the ranks of Captain or Lieutenant have been received. The neglect of this duty calls for the severest reprehension of the General Commanding-in-Chief, who regrets to find many commanding officers so utterly unmindful of the in- terests of those under their command. " The corps to which this rebuke especially applies are those named in the margin.* " His Royal Highness requests that the General officers under whom these corps, or their dipetts, are serving, will call upon the commanding- officers to explain the cause of their remissness, and enjoin them strictly to fulfil their duty.

* The corps specified " in the margin " are the following-

" For the rank of Captain.-12th Lancers ; 3d Foot, 2d battalion ; 4th Foot, 2d battalion ; 7th Foot, 1st battalion ; 8th Foot, 1st battalion ; 9th Foot, 2d bat- talion ; 18th Foot, 2d battalion ; 20th Foot, 1st and 2d battalions ; 2Ist Foot, 1st battalion ; 24th Foot, 2d battalion ; 29th Foot ; 30th Foot ; 34th Foot ; 35th Foot ; 42d Foot ; 43d Foot ; 54th Foot ; GOth Foot ; lot, 2d, 3d, and 4th battalions ; Glst Foot ; 63d Foot ; 64th Foot ; 6Gth Foot ; 79th Foot ; 81st Foot ; 82d Foot ; 83,1 Foot ; 84th Foot ; 85th Foot; 90th Foot ; 93d Foot ; 97th Foot ; let West India Regiment ; 3d West India Regiment; Royal Newfoundland Companies ; St. Helena Regiment. For the rank of Lieutenant.-24th Foot, 2d battalion; 42d Foot; 56th Foot ; 60th Foot, 9th battalion ; Gist Foot ; 79th Foot ; 82d Foot ; 93d Foot ; 97th Foot ; Royal Newfoundland Companies."

"The General Commanding-in-Chief has had occasion frequently to re- mark on the insufficiency of the examination to which officers are subjected, many of the questions being such as are not calculated to elicit the profes- sional acquirements of those under examination on important points ; and his Royal Highness regrets to add, sometimes evincing a want of intelli- gence on the part of the examiners. The answers to the questions are often badly expressed, and written in a careless and illegible manner ; the inac- curacies are not noted by the Board ; nor, in forwarding the proceedings, do General officers at all times give the required opinion on the course of the examination and the eligibility of the examined. When Boards exa- mine officers of different regiments, the proceedings in connexion with each regiment are to be transmitted separately."

Leather leggings are to become an article of clothing for the troops. A circular from the Secretary of State for War has been issued to all general officers and officers commanding corps of infantry, to the effect that each non-commissioned officer and soldier of the Foot Guards and regiments of Infantry of the Line serving at home and in the colonies is to be supplied with them. The Commander-in-Chief has desired commanding officers to be instructed that the leather leggings are to be worn over the trousers, which are to be pulled up to the top of the boot, nearly folded round the leg. The leggings are only to be worn in muddy weather, and at guard mounting when necessary.

A letter from Mr. Lathom Browne, one of the deputation to the Duke of Newcastle, on the subject of the removal of Sir George Grey from the Governorship of the Cape, says :—" After intimating his entire concur- rence with the views held by us of the extraordinary administrative powers of Sir George Grey, the Duke informed us that, by his despatch of August last, he had practically overruled the decision of his prede- cessor, though he could not say that that decision was not justified. That despatch had crossed Sir George Grey at sea, but a copy had been sent to him since his arrival in England, and he expected his decision without delay. It now rested with Sir G. Grey to decide whether or not he would return to the colony as its Governor."

A few weeks ago we chronicled the death of the fifth Earl of Jersey. His successor, the sixth Earl, born in 1808, died on Tuesday at Brighton. He had been a Member of Parliament for some years, and was of late years Member for Cirencester. The new Earl of Jersey is a young lad of fourteen.

The Emperor of Russia arrived at Breslau on Monday. The Prince Regent of Prussia had already arrived. A political alliance is connected by report with this royal interview.

It is stated from Paris that the stay of the Imperial Court at Com- piegne will be for the whole month of November. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and the Queen of Holland will be visitors, but the rumour of a visit from the Emperor of Austria is contradicted.

Count Colloredo, the Austrian Plenipotentiary at the Conferences, died at Zurich on Wednesday.

The Nord publishes a new version of the Zurich treaty, which it puts forward as more correct than the version published in London. It is obvious from this manner of speaking that the writer of the new version had not actually seen the text of the treaty. Both accounts arc abridge- ments from the same text. Each omits some point which is included in the other. The London version, for example, omits the Presidency of the Italian Federation reserved for the Pope. This formed a provision in the plan for the Italian federation sketched out in the note of the Cavaliere Massimo d'Azeglio, and laid before the European Congress of 1856 by Count Cavour. Some have imagined that the Zurich account must have been derived from an early edition of the treaty ; but the Papal Presidency is included in the final document. In some other respects, probably, the London version, which is more correct, deviates from the intent of the treaty itself; but upon the whole it gives a very fair idea of the plan contemplated by the negotiators.

In the Cavalier A. Poletti, who is now holding his " soirees myste- rieuses" at the Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, Herr Frikcl has a worthy competitor, Poletti has no apparent confederate, and the ap- paratus with which he performs is reduced to a minimum. Labouring under a great disadvantage in making himself understood with his broken English, he more than compensates for this difficulty by a quiet gentle- manly humour that charms his astonished audience.

The Cunard (Liverpool and New York) steamers are in future to call at Cork to receive the Irish mails for America.

The inquiry into the loss of the Express Jersey steam-boat was resumed at Southampton on Monday, but after hearing the additional evidence the Magistrates (Captain Engledue and Mr. J. Bernard) could not come to a de- cision. Consequently, Captain Mabb, the commander of the vessel, had his certificate returned to him, and Mr. Bernard will make a report to the Board of Trade, in which his brother Magistrate does not concur.

The Great Eastern is still at Holyhead. Now that her voyage to America has been definitively postponed till next year, and it has been decided to leave Holyhead, several ports are making efforts to obtain the great ship. The matter is still under discussion, but it appears probable that South- ampton will be chosen,

The Great Eastern nearly drifted aground during squally weather, which came on at Holyhead on Thursday. Steam was got up, and then a new berth was taken up, in which the vessel was secured by two of Trotman's seven ton anchors.

Messrs. Brown and Co., of Millwall, have completed part of a cable to be used fur mooring the floating coal ship at Malta. The cable is formed of 4} inch iron, with links 27 inches long, each link weighing no less than 2cwt.

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Sir James Clark has retired from his office of Physician in Ordinary to the Queen, and has been succeeded by Dr. Baly.

Sir Joseph Paxton writes to the Times, urging the propriety, of disinter- ring the body of George Stephenson from the humble grave at Chesterfield, and finding a more suitable resting-place for it beside that of his son in Westminster Abbey.

A statement appeared recently in several papers to the effect that a Miss Angelina Caroline Bosanquet, daughter of the late Admiral Bosanquet, had committed suicide by taking laudanum. The whole story appears to have been fictitious,—no such persons ever having existed. A destructive fire took place at the Royal Entreptit, Antwerp, on Monday. Several lives were lost, and much property was destroyed. The Dundalk Democrat makes an extraordinary proposal for raising an Irish body-guard for the Pope. The Catholic countries of Europe and Ame- rica should together contribute 100,0001. a year for its maintenance. The requisite 20,000 Irishmen might, thinks the _Democrat, be easily raised for this service.

A telegraphic despatch from Cassel, in the Gazette de Cologne, announces the death of the celebrated composer Louis Spohr.