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The Constitutionnel of Wednesday announced that M. Guizot had suffered during six days under an affection of the larynx, which had caused some uneasiness to his family ; but that he was much better, and would be able to accompany King Louis Philippe in his visit to England.
The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek- lenburg-Strelitz arrived in Edinburgh, from Inverary, on Monday ; and they were to leave the Scotch capital on Wednesday morning, for Ethel House, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence's Northumberland seat.
The Augsburg Gazette mentions as gaining ground, a report that Prince George of Cambridge is to marry the Grand Dutehess Olga of Russia. " This is regarded as the result of the journey of the Emperor of Russia to England, and as the commencement of a more intimate alliance be- tween Russia and England. The Prince Royal of Hanover having no family, it is known that the Duke of Cambridge is heir presumptive to the crown of Hanover."
Lord Ellenborough arrived at Cairo on the 19th September, and immediately proceeded on board the Geyser steamer ; by which he was to sail the following day for Marseilles. Mr. H. Bourne, of the London Post-office, had arrived at Alexandria for the purpose of definitively settling the treaty between the British Government and the Pacha relative to the transit of the mails. The de- tails were kept secret.
Queen Christina of Spain, who is believed to be bent on the restora- tion of some of the religious orders, has herself become a member of the sisterhoods of the Nuns of Juan De Alarcon and of Calatrava ; so that she could now enter any of the convents belonging to those orders, should she deem it fit to take such a step.
One of Pites surviving colleagues has just departed-the Duke of Grafton ; who died on Saturday evening, at his estate, Euston Hall, in Suffolk. George Henry Fitzroy, fourth Duke of Grafton, was born on the 14th January 1760. He received his college education at Cam- bridge; which University he represented in Parliament, while still Earl of Euston from the year 1784 until his succession to the Peerage, on the death of! his father, in 1811. He mostly supported the policy of his illustrious colleague until the embarrassments of that Minister con- duced to Lord Euston's conversion to Whig polities. The offices which the deceased Duke had filled form rather a miscellaneous list : he was made Knight of the Garter, appointed Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rota- lorum of Suffolk, and Vice-Admiral of the coast of Suffolk, Receiver- General of the profits of the seals in the Courts of King's Bench and. Common Pleas, and King's Gamekeeper at Newmarket ; for some years he was Ranger of Hyde'Park and of St. James's Park ; besides these of- fices, conferred by the Minister of the day, he was Hereditary Ranger of Whittlebury Forest, Recorder of Thetford, a Trustee of the Humeri= Museum, President of the Eclectic Society of London, &c. Lord Easton married, in 1784, Lady Maria Charlotte, second daughter of James se- cond Earl of Waldegrave ; whose widow married the Duke of Gloucester. Lady Easton died in 1808, having given birth to eleven children ; six of whom survive. Her husband attained his eighty-fourth year ; and lived, of course, in the reign of five Sovereigns, as George the Second was still reigning at the time of his birth. The Dukedom descends to his eldest son, Henry Earl of Euston ; who was born in 1790. He sat in the House of Commons, for Bury St. Edmund's, and then for Thet- ford, from 1830 to 1841. He married, in 1812, the daughter of Ad.,- miral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley ; by whom he has several children.
The Reverend Thomas Robinson Welch, Chancellor of the Diocese of Chichester, fell down in the streets of Brighton last week, and ex- pired in a few minutes.
A notice has just been issued by Dr. Hawtrey, the Head Master of Eton College, that after Easter next he will not admit to the school any boy who shall have completed his fourteenth year. There has been .a great increase in the number of scholars during the last ten years.
Messrs. Bury and Company of Liverpool, who are engineers on a giant scale, have been commissioned by the Emperor of Russia to supply the iron-work of an iron bridge, to cross the Neva at St. Peters- burg, as a substitute for the present bridge of boats. That the Impe- rial " order " is a stupendous one, the following particulars will testify. The bridge will be 1,078 feet long, (Southwark Bridge is 708); there will be seven arches, and the centre one will be 156 feet span ; there will be a swivel-bridge 70 feet wide, to allow of the passage of ships, the bridge itself being of small altitude ; the carriage and pathways will be together 70 feet in width, (those of Waterloo Bridge are only 42); and the weight of iron will probably be little short of 10,000 tons, and of the value of 100,000/.
Friday last was the nineteenth anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the oldest of the existing railways, and the first on which locomotive engines were employed for the con- veyance of passengers and goods.
The sentence of death pronounced by the tribunal of Berlin upon Tschecb, who attempted to assassinate the King of Prussia, was com- municated to him on the 23d September. He heard his sentence read. over to him without showing the least emotion.
A man has been killed near Carmarthen by a bull: it tossed him twice, and he died almost immediately. A woman has been gored to death by a ram, at a farm in Charmonth. A man was torn to pieces, last week, by a savage horse, near Kill, county of Waterford. He had persisted in going through a field where the horse was, in opposition to warning of his danger : he was found dead and mangled, the horse's feet and mouth incrusted with blood.
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