_Miscellaneous.

The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of the Black Eagle on the Duke of Sussex ; and the Order of the Red Eagle of the first class on General Sir Hudson Lowe.

Mr. Robert Bateson was elected Member for the county of Derry, on Thursday, in the room of Sir Robert Bateson. There was no opposition. Lord Manners died on Tuesday morning, at his residence in Brook Street ; aged eighty-six. Thomas Manners Sutton, Baron Manners of Fostoo, in Lincolnshire, was born in 1756, and was bred to the bar. Appointed Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, he asserted in the House of Commons, where he sat for Newark, the claims of the Prince as Duke of Cornwall : in 1802, he acted as one of the official accusers of Colonel Despard : in 1805, he was elevated to the Bench as Baron of the Exchequer : iu 1807, he was called to the House of Peers ; and immediately afterwards he was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, a post which he held for nineteen years. He was twice married ; the second time to Jane Butler, sister of the Earl of Glengall ; by whom he had issue, John Thomas, who succeeds to the Peerage. Lord Man- ners was uncle to Viscount Canterbury. Captain Elliot, famous in Chinese story, sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, in the Clyde West Indian steamer, for Texas ; for which country he has ben appointed Consul-General and Charge d'Affaires.

A proposal has been adopted by the Hebdomadal Board of Oxford to annul the statute of censure passed on Dr. Hampden in 1836. Forty- six members of Convocation met in Magdalen College Hall, on the 26th May, and agreed to the following address to the Vice-Chancellor-

" The undersigned members of Convocation beg respectfully to express to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor their sentiments on the proposed repeal of Stat. Tit. xvi. 8. 11. While they desire to abstain from expressing any opinion in the present address on the subject of the original statute, they cannot but feel that this proposal to repeal it is for many reasons likely to be followed by very injurious consequences. Moreover, they feel bound to express their deep regret at the sudden manner in which a question so momentous has been re- opened, without previously ascertaining the sentiments of the University, or giving time to those who are responsible for the consequences of the measure to deliberate on it properly. "Under these impressions, and anxiously desirous to promote the tranquil- lity of the University, and to save it from the renewal of a painful theological controversy, the undersigned think it their duty to lose no time in making their sentiments known, and in expressing to the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor their conviction that much evil would be spared to the University if some means could be adopted for withdrawing the present proposition, without form- ally submitting it to Convocation."

Twenty other names were afterwards appended to the address. The Hebdomadal Board refused to accede to the request ; and consequently an invitation was circulated by the objectors, calling on members of Convocation to muster on the 7th instant, when the new statute will be formally submitted to Convocation.

The Times yesterday, in a second edition, contained the following, derived from the French telegraph— "The Indian mail, which arrived at Marseilles on Wednesday night, brings, we lament to say, an account of the fall of Ghuznee. The place capitulated and surrendered, on condition that thegarrison be safely conducted to Cabul. On the other hand, Colonel Pollock had forced the Khyber Pass, and taken possession of the forts commanding it ; and would, no doubt, march to the re- lief of Jellalabad. General Sale, in a sortie from that place, overthrew the insurgents.

"A rumour prevailed that Akbar Khan had been badly wounded.

"General Knott had gained some advantage on the side of Candahar • but General England had not yet joined him. It is reported that Shah Soojah had been poisoned.

" There is no news from China."

The Anti-British feeling has shaken the French Chambers again during the past week. On Friday, M. Ducos, Deputy for Bordeaux, made a furious attack on Ministers for reducing the Navy ; denouncing England's proceedings in Syria and China, and declaring that she only waited an opportunity to seize Java. He anticipated a war between England and America, and insisted that France ought to be in a posi- tion to take advantage of it. Vessel to vessel, he said, the French are infinitely superior to the English ! 11

This was followed up on Saturday, in the discussion of the Navy credits, by M. Mermillod, Deputy for Havre ; who made a severe at- tack upon the Government for ordering the release of certain English fishermen, charged with fishing on the French territory, who ought not to have been detained. The Minister of Marine explained that he had done no more than had been done by England on a similar occasion. A vote of 23,356,000 francs being proposed for seamen and marines, M. Lacrosse, another Havre Deputy, moved to augment it by 1,240,000 francs, in order to keep eight sail of the line ready at a moment's warn- ing; and M. Mauguin declared that France ought to have sixty instead of twenty ships of the line. The amendment was carried by an im- mense majority. In the same discussion, M. Sebastiani explained the circumstances under which he signed the protocol preliminary to the Quintuple Treaty. He had been a leading member of Casimir Perrier's Cabinet, whose policy was based on friendship with England as guarantee for the peace of Europe ; and on seceding from that Cabinet he was appointed Am- bassador in London ; his attention being directed to two objects—the preservation of the English alliance, and the extinction of the slave- trade. On the 7th December 1838, arrived M. de Sages, with a letter from Count Mole, constituting the former his confidential representa- tive. He came to urge a negotiation respecting Belgium, in which France was deeply interested : England demanded the signature of the protocol before opening any new negotiation ; and M. Sebastiani signed the protocol on his own responsibility, reserving to the Government the right of making certain modifications. The French Government was accordingly invited to consider certain modifications suggested by the Ambassador. To this invitation it vouchsafed no manner of reply. Between 1836 and 1838, Marshal Sebastiani visited Paris several times, and had been in frequent communication with Count Mold, who never opened his mouth upon the subject. He inferred, therefore, that his policy was regarded with unqualified approbation. M. de Salvandy, in reply to this explanation, insisted that M. de Sages was ignorant of the negotiation respecting the slave-trade. 'the Morning Post says that the Ministers have recommended the King's sons, the Prince de Joinville and the Due d'Aumale, not to visit England until after the French elections, in deference to the excited state of the public mind against this country. On Friday, in discussing the war-estimates, M. Lherbette, sharing the alarm at the enormous fortifications rising round Paris, proposed, apropos of twenty millions for the works in 1843, that cannon should not be mounted on the ramparts except in case of actual war. The proposition was rejected by the Chamber. Being catechized, Marshal Soult admitted that the cruelties of Ge- neral Negrier in Algiers were atrocious ; but he had subdued impor- tant tribes, and he had obtained large contributions in money and forage from the natives ; and therefore the Marshal must be excused from recalling him. Besides, the Mussulmans themselves approve of summary executions! It was mentioned in some salons that General Cass, the American Envoy, was dissatisfied with the tone of a very able reply of M. Guizot to his note on the right of search question. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, it was rumoured, had treated the note as officious, and had ex- pressed the hope that the United States would ultimately associate with the other Powers for the more effectual suppression of the slave-trade, by agreeing to the principle of the right of search.--Morning Post.

The news of the attempted assassination of the Queen of England had excited universal indignation. The Chamber of Deputies has passed the Rouen and Havre Railway

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Intelligence has been received from New York to the 16th May.

Information as to the progress of Lord Ashburton's negotiations is scanty. Mr. Webster had written to the Governors of Massachusetts and Maine, stating that the British Plenipotentiary had officially an- nounced, " that in regard to the Boundary question he has authority to treat for a conventional line, or line by agreement, on such terms and conditions, and with such mutual considerations and equivalents, as may be thought just and equitable; and that he is ready to enter upon a negotiation for such conventional line so soon as this Government shall say that it is authorized and ready on its part to commence such nego- tiation." Some rumours explain the " equivalents " to mean one or two millions of dollars, to be paid by Great Britain for the disputed territory. Mr. Webster calls upon the Governors for cooperation ; and recommends the reassembling of the Legislatures of those States, with a view to the appointment of a Commissioner by each, to act with the Federal authorities in the negotiations for an immediate settlement, without incurring the cost and incalculable delay of further surveys. The Legislature of Maine had already been summoned by Governor Fairfield ; and Mr. Webster himself had arrived at New York on his way to Massachusetts and Maine, to give the aid of his counseL

The researches of the Police have discovered that John Francis was charged at the Mansionhouse, in July 1841, with stealing a purse with thirty-two sovereigns from Charles Mendham, in Cannon Street, an acquaintance whom he had visited at a public-house. The evidence appears to have been insufficient to support the charge.