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The Dutchess of Orleans has arrived at Ludwigslust (Schwerin). Her 'loyal Highness will remain a few days with her family, and then pro- ceed to England with the Count de Paris and her younger son. A grand family banquet was given by the King, at Charlottenburg, in honour of the Prince of Prussia's birthday ; and in the evening her Highness the Princess of Leignitz had a small party to meet their Majesties and the Royal Family.—.3forning Chronicle's Berlin Correspondent. The Queen has appointed James Tyler, Esti , Lieutenant of her Ma- jesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vise Sir Matthew Wyatt, retired.

The Army sustains the loss of a brave and accomplished officer in the death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Macdonald, G.C.B., Adjutant- General to the Forces ; who died at his own house on Thursday, after a "very short illness, the effect of a cold." Sir John Macdonald entered the Army in 1795, and performed distinguished services in Egypt, Spain, and France ; commanding a wing of the Peninsular Army in 1813 and 1814. He was appointed to the Adjutant-Generalship as long since as 1828 and had been Deputy Adjutant-General for ten years previously. John ohn Macdonald was a near relative of the famous Flora Macdonald ; and possessed some remarkable memorials of his kinswoman.

The obituary records the death of Vice-Admiral the Honourable Donald Hugh Mackay, at his rooms in the Albany, suddenly. Admiral Mackay was second son of the Honourable George Mackay, M.P. for the County of Sutherland in 1754, and brother of the present Lord Reay.

The death of the Very Reverend Francis Lear, D.D., places the Dean- ery of Salisbury at the gift of Ministers.

The Dean of Westminster, Dr. Buckland, continues ill, at his living of Islip, near Oxford : " little or no change for the better has taken place."

The Gorham controversy continues to excite much interest and activity of movement, lay as well as clerical. Mr. Richard Cavendish, of Bel- grave Square, has published the following address to the Bishop of Lon- don, with the answer.

"To the Lord Bishop of London.

" We, the undersigned lay members of the Church of England, in, your Lordship's diocese, being deeply impressed with a sense of the dangers to the faith and vitality of the Church of England which the judgment in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter involves, of its certain tendency to destroy the bona fides of all subscription to religious tests, and of the general unfitness of a court so composed as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for the treatment of questions of Christian doctrine, humbly entreat your Lordship to take counsel with your right reverend brethren concerning the application of a remedy to these evils, and especially concerning the adoption of means which may enable the Church to declare, in such terms as shall appear most effectual, its doctrine touching the sacrament of bap- tism. "C. B. Acider1-, ; 13eresford; Edward Badeley, Barrister-at-law ; H.

Baillie, M.P.; Batten, Barrister-at-law; H. Barnett ; C. G. Bar-

nett; G. F. Boyle ; Courtenay ; Campden; Castlereagh, M.P. ; Richard Cavendish Charles Cavei J. D. Chambers, Barrister-at-law; T. Somers Cocks, M.P. ; J. D. Coleridge jun., Barrister-at-law Andrew Colville ; Be Tabley ; Emlyn, M.P. ; W. J. Evelyn, M.P.; Fielding ; H. Fitzroy M.P.; George Frere W. E. Gladstone„ M.P.; Harewood; Thomas Hare, Barrister- at-law ; Alfred Hervey, M.P. ; Henry Hoare -, A. J. Bereaford Hope, M.P. ; J. R. Hope, Barrister-at-law ; J. Gellibrand Hubbard ; W. C. James, Bart. ; J. H. Kenyon, Barrister-at-law; Lyttelton; Lewisham, M.P. - Colin Lindsay; C. M. Lushington ; John Manners, M.P. ; H. A. Merewether, Sergeant-at-law; Wm. Mensal, M.P. ; J. R. Mowbray, Barrister-at-law ; Nelson ; Newry and Moyne, M.P.; Ralph Neville; Stafford H. Northcote ; Powis; Roundell Palmer, M.P. ; J. R. Phillimore, Advocate in Doctors' Commons ; Melville Portal, M.P. ; Redesdale ; J. J. Rogers, Barrister-at-law ; Frederic Rogers; Somers; IL K. Seymer, M.P.; John Charles Sharpe ; C. W. Short, Lieut.- Col. ; J. Simeon, M.P. ; Augustus Stafford, M.P. ; John C. Talbot, Barrister- at-law G. C. Talbot i H. Tritton F. It Wegg-Prosser, M.P. W P • age

The Answer.

" Landon House, March 25, 1850. My dear Mr. Cavendish—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the address which accompanied it, signed by several Peers,Xembers of Parliament, and other gentlemen connected with my diocese, yourself among the rest, entreating me to take counsel with my right reverend brethren con- cerning the application of a remedy to the evils likely to result from the recent judgment in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, and espe- cially concerning the adoption of means which may enable the Church to declare, in such mode as shall appear most effectual, its doctrine touching the sacrament of baptism. "I hasten to assure you, and the other subscribers to the address, that I am fully alive to the necessity and the duty of taking counsel with my brethren at the present crisis, and of doing all in my power to avert the in- imieus consequences which are apprehended as likely to follow from the judgment in question. " The task of devising measures for the attainment of that object is one of great delicacy and difficulty i but it will not be hopeless, if all those who desire its success will maintain the truth in a spirit of moderation and cha- rity, and seek to build up the walls of our Sion by their prayers for unity, and by their endeavours, in reliance on the Divine Head of the Church, to strengthen or amend whatever is weak or faulty in its government.

"I remain, my dear Mr. Cavendish, your faithful friend and servant, " The Hon. Richard Cavendish." C. J. LONDON."

The Bishop of London has also received from "four of the Bishops of the Church in Scotland" an address tendering their deep and heartfelt thanks for his faithful refusal to concur in the decision of the Judicial Committee. In his reply, the Bishop says— "I could not bring myself to concur in the reasons assigned by the Judi- cial Committee for recommending her Majesty to reverse the judgment of the Court of Arches.

"Mr. Gorham holds that the remission of original inn, adoption into the family of God, and regeneration, must all take place, in the case of infloits, not in baptism, nor by 'means of baptism, but before baptism: an opinion which appears to me to be in direct opposition to the plain teaching of the Church,' and utterly to destroy the sacramental character of baptism.

"I cannot admit that this opinion is to be reconciled by any latitude of interpretation which call reasonably be claimed with the Church's articles and formularies; nor do I believe that it is an opinion which held by more than a very small number indeed of our clergy' [The address presented by Dr. Spry to the Bishop of London, which we mentioned last week as that of influential clergymen in the diocese of London, should have been specifically described as that of the "London Union on Church Matters,"—a body the Committee of which is composed , of clergymen and laymen in the proportion of 21 to 26.] "A Curate" suggests, in the columns of the Morning Post, the taking of steps "to pay the costs" incurred by the Bishop of Exeter's "heroic defence of the Church against heresy" : they amount, he understands, to. 14,0001. The Curate hopes to be able to raise a considerable sum in the, parish in which he labours.

The Committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of diminishing the present quantity of spirits served out daily to the seamen in the Hoye/ Navy have reported in favour of reducing the allowance by one-half, of serving the reduced allowance at dinner-time only, and of compensation in wages on a stated scale for the portion withdrawn.

Proposed Allowance of Grog and Compensation-money.

Admirals, captains, lieutenants, and ward-room officers, half present allow- ance ; compensation, nil.

Mates, assistant-surgeops, second masters, and clerks, half present allow- ance; compensation, savings price. Midshipmen, master's assistant, clerk's assistant, and boys of first class, no allowance except by the special direction of the captain; compensation, savings price. Cadets, and boys of second class, nil; compensation, savings price. Warrant-officers, junior engineers, petty officers, able seamen, and others of that class, ordinary seamen, non-commissioned officers and privates of Royal Marines, half present allowance; compensation, 38. 6d. per man per- calendar month.

Second-class ordinary seamen, landsmen, and others of that class, half pre- sent allowance ; compensation 28. 6d. per man per calendar month.

The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-General, left London on Friday morning for Paris. We understand that the object of the visit of' his Lordship to the French capital is to negotiate a modification of the rates of postage upon letters passing between Great Britain and France, with a view to the diminution of the present ehavges.—Standard.

It is stated to be the intention of the Government to put an end to "special pleading" in the Superior Courts at Westminster, by bringing forward a measure in the House of Commons to abolish the form of pleading to actions, and thereby to diminish the present great expenses in law proceedings.—Daily News.

The Royal Commission for promoting the Show of Industry by All. Nations has issued a circular to the Local Committees that have been organized throughout the country, coiling on them to put themselves in. personal communication with the probable exhibitors of their clistsictsi. and ascertain the character and number of the objects they would wish to' exhibit : they will then report to the Commissioners such information as- may show the probable demand for space and other accommodation- that the Show will need.

The Madrid Gazette of the 22d instant publishes the documents sent from this country relative to the Show of Industry, with an accompany- ing official circular to the Governors of Provinces, qualifying the scheme- as splendid and important to the industry of all the globe, and applaud- ing the exalted views of those who planned it." The circular concludes_ with her Catholic Majesty's express commands to Provincial Governors that they "stimulate the zeal" of Spanish manufacturers, "in order that they should prepare to respond in a becoming manner to the desires" of those charged with the realization of that "industrial solemnity." [Most Castilian phrase']

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the ag- gregate number of deaths m the corresponding weeks of the ten previous- years.

Ten Weeks Week.

of 1839-49. of HMO, Zymotic Diseases 1724 .... 161 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 520 .... 34- Tubercular Diseases 1873 170 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1243 • • • • 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 289.. 43- Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1684 ..... 231 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 693 • • • • 55 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 89 • • • • 15. Childbirth, diseases of the *Uterus, He 114 . • • . 12 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 69 . • • • 6

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.. 11 .... 5.

Malformations 13 . • . • 6

Premature Birth 239 29

Atrophy .... 18 Atte 160 • • • • 695 Mc.

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 314 •• •.•.•• 36

Sudden 31 Total (including unspecified causes) 9821 192M

" In the week ending last Saturday the deaths registered in the Metropo- litan districts were 1,026. This return shows a further increase in the mor- tality; for since it began to rise the deaths during the two previous weeks were in the first 876, and in the second 967. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1840-9 they fluctuated between 770 and 1,197, the latter amount of mortality having occurred in the twelfth week of 1845 ; the average of the ten weeks corrected for increase of population is 1,071; the present return is therefore only less than the average by 45. The only classes of diseases in which an increase on the average is remarkable are those which affect re- spectively the organs of respiration—pneumonia and :bronchitis—and the- organs of circulation. This excess, both on the weeks immediately preced- ing and on the corresponding weeks of former years, is, sufficiently explainedi by the fact that the mean temperature, which last week Was only 37.8°,. shows a great fall on each week throughout the whole month of February and the half of March ; and, taking the corresponding. weeks of 1840-9, it appears that it was never so low as at present, eicept in 1840 and 1845, and. that m six of those years it ranged from 40°. to 49.7°.

" The mean daily reading 'of the barometer at the -Royal Observatory,. Greenwich, was above 30 inches on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thurs- day; the mean of the week was 29.971. The mean temperature (37.8°, as. stated above) was lower than the average of the same period in seven years, particularly on Sunday, Monday, and Saturday, when it was from 7' to 11° less than the averages of these days." The mean direction of the wind for the week was North.

• The Irish political offenders Smith O'Brien, Meagher, O'Doherty, Ma.rtirry

Donohue, and M'Manus, arrived at Hobart Town, in the brig of war Swift, on the 27th October. By the same vessel thb Slevertier received orders to grant the prikaters ticket:El:of-lea-ire on condition indulgence should not be made a means of escape. ifir. O'Brien rejected the offer of a ticket- of-leave, [it is not stated that this was because of the condition,), but all the others accepted the offer on the condition expressed. M'Manus was "lo- cated" at -Norfolk, Meagher at Campbell Town, O'Doherty at Oatlands, Martin at Bothwell, and Donohue at Hobart Town. All have competent means but the last, who will use his occupation of law-writing to earn his.

living. O'Brien was despatched to Maria Island, to be kept under strict guard.

Berlin, and indeed the whole country, is again buried in snow, with the thermometer steadily at 3 to 4 degrees Reaumnr below zero.—Letter of the 23d March.