The arrangement alluded to by a contemporary will not be
so easily closed, though the difficulty relates entirely to the alimony.—Post. [Are the Nortons alluded to 2]
On Friday night, his Excellency General Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, arrived at Dover by the Royal George steam- vessel, from Boulogne; his Excellency remained for the night at the Ship hotel, and the following niorning set off for London under a salute from the guns at the heights. The customhouse officers fancied that his Excellency's baggage was not purely official ; and on searching the two carriages of his Excellency, nearly 1,000 pairs of kid shoes and a quantity of blond lace fell into the hands of the Philistines !- Kentish Gazette.
M. Berryer was attacked with apoplexy on Saturday last ; and serious apprehensions were entertained for his life. But the Quotidienne says that he is now considered to be out of danger.
Mr. Gleig, the well-known author of the Subaltern, was travelling with his son, a lad of thirteen, in Carpathia, when, on the 13th of August, he was attacked on the road from Agram to Fieume, by a band of the peasantry, who took him for a spy or robber. Mr. Gleig, ivho has not lost his military propensities, defended himself with a small sword, and his son fired a pistol at the crowd ; but they were finally overpowered and imprisoned, having been seriously hurt. For- tunately, a merchant of I. ieutne, bearing of the affray, obtained an i iterview with 11r. Gleig, and ilia] sent fo: Mr. Hill, the British Vice.Coniul. Before Mr. Hill could arrive, the '.agistiate of the town of L glue put Mr. Gleig in irons, in spite of his passports. On Mr. Hill's arrival, however, he hastened to release him, and ordered the man who began the attack to be well flogged. The affair will be laid before the Austrian Government by the British Ambassador at
Vienna. •
The Chronicle says that Mr. H Melva, though he might have beers spoken of for the office of Principal of Haileybury College, never had it offered him. Mr. Le Bas has the appointment.
The penny postage on newspapers, which was supposed to have been abolished, is still charged on all that have not previously passed through the General Post.office.
Lieutenants Shaw and Harkness, and Ensign T. W. Walker, all of the Sixty-first Regiment, were unfortunately drowned by the upsetting- of a sail-boat in a squall, in Trincomalee harbour, Ceylon, on the 22d of May last. Five natives perished at the same time.
The Morning Chronicle practises a small deception on its readers in re- gard to foreign intelligence. Every day it has one or more paragraphs, as its first leading article, distinguished by large type, to give the idea it had obtained some special news by unusual exertion. Generally the matter thus paraded is of very little interest ; and we have observed that precisely the same facts are given, nine times in ten, by the Times, and the Post as pieces or ordinary news, received in the usual way from Paris, and not requiring particular notice.
We have great pleasure in being able to state, upon the very highest authority, that Sir Robert Peel was never in the enjoyment of better health than at the present moment. The right honourable baronet, who is considered one of the best shots in the kingdom, daily pursues his favourite sport of shooting.—Birmingham Advertiser.
At the West end of the town, a noble establishment, lately formed, has within these few days been broken up ; even the domestics have been paid off, and the supposed opulent owner has left the country.— Morning Post.
Sir John Hobhouse has taken the magnificent mansion, Erlstoke Park, Wiltshire, formerly the abode of Mr. Watson Taylor, ex-Mem- ber for Devizes.
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