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An exchange of notes has taken place between the Marquis dekzeglio and Lord John Russell, from which it appears that King Victor Emmanuel will hereafter be recognized as King of Italy at the British Court. It is regarded as probable that Lord Elgin will arrive in-England in the middle of next week. Lord Elgin is now travelling at his leisure from Trieste, and is expected in Paris on Saturday next, where Lady Elgin will go to meet him. r-Admiral Mundy, C.B., sailed on the 28th of March from Malta in the Hannibal, 91, Captain Farquhar, for Beyroute to take command of the division of the fleet assembling on the coast of Syria. Mr. Newton, Mr. Severn's predecessor in the British consulate, has just returned to Rome, with the intention of examining and reporting to the British Government upon the terra cotta and Etruscan gold and jewel departments of the Campagna collection, which there is some probability will be purchased for the British Museum.
Count de Stackelberg, formerly. Russian Minister at Turin, has just passed through Paris on his way to Madrid, to which city he was appointed Minister some time back.
The Duke de Modena is about to leave Vienna for Venetia. General Cabrera, Count de Morera, has arrived in the Austrian capital from Modena.
The Scotsman states that the Duke of Richmond will be put in nomination for the office of Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.
The marriage of Miss Victoria Russell, eldest daughter of Lord. John Russell, andedr. Villiers, son of the Bishop of Durham, is appointed to be solemnized on the 16th inst.
Lady Charlotte Bury, so well known in the world of letters and politics, died on Monday evening, at an advanced age. Her ladyship was the only surviving daughter of John, fifth Duke of Argyll, and was born January 28, 1775, so that she was in her eighty-seventh year. The lamented lady was twice married, first in June, 1796, to Colonel John Campbell, by whom she had Lady Arthur Lennox, and other children ; and secondly, in March, 1818; to the Rev. Edward John Bury, whb died in May, 1832. The deaths of two public functionaries, at Dublin, place some important pa- tronage at the disposal of the Government. The late Captain Felton Hervey, who died on Sunday, aged thirty-five, held the office of Inspector-Generaeof Prisons, the duties of which he fulfilled to the satisfaction of themublic. It is an office to which great importance is attached, and a strenuous effort will be made to get the appointment for a Roman Catholic, especially on account of the Reformatorysystem, the operation of which is anxiously watched by the rival Churches. The Roman Catholics found their claim to one of the inspectorships on the fact that the vast majority of the inmates of our gaols belong to the Roman. Catholic Church. The salary is 900/. a year.
Sir Jonah Barrington died on the same day, in the seventy-third year of his age. He held, during forty years, the lucrative office of Crown Solicitor for Munster. In ordinary times the office was worth about 40001. a year. In troubled times, when Crown prosecutions and special commissions were frequent in Munster, it is said to have been double or treble that amount. It is rumoured thatthree or four.Crewn Soiicitorships will be formed out of this one which will be better for the public interest, and better also for the lawyers who are waiting for such prizes. The Lincoln Times, speaking of the death of a gallant and amiable young officer attached to the Indian army, says, " Our readers mast have seen with regret in our obituary of last week, an announcement of the death of Dr. Larken, eldest son of our esteemed neighbour the rector of Burton, an event which has plunged the different members of his family in the deepest grief, and will, we are sure, draw forth the sympathies of the public generally, by whom the worthy rector has recommended himself by his catholic spirit and unostentatious and =sectarian philanthropy. The many virtues of the deceased had endeared him to a large circle of acquaintance, by whom the intelligence of his sudden removal, at the early age of twenty-six, will be received with deep regret. Dr. Larken had been out _about five years, had, during that time, been over nearly all Western India, and had voyaged many thousand miles by sea. He had been engaged against the rebels, and in the pursuit of Tantia Topee, and had been in action when, though a medical officer, he was called upon to defend his life like any other individual in the corps to which he was attached. His humanity in Ids attention to-the sick and-wounded-was manifested on several occasions. It is well known by his friends that he would never leave a wounded man behind, either European or native, though the removal was attended with gratuitous labour at his own personal expense. Subsequently he was stationed at Aden for ten months, and had just returned to Bombay to take temporary charge of the hospital at that place, when be caught the small-pox, and died after four days' illness, which, we are happy to learn, was alleviated by the kind care and atten- tions of a most devoted friend. Thus bail been suddenly closed at its very outset a career which, from his attainments and attachment to his work, promised (had life been spared) to be a most brilliant one.
A. notice was on Wednesday pat up at the entrance of the reading-room of the British Museum, to the effect that in future persons having the privilege of admission will not be allowed to make use of the room for the perusal of news- pepers-and other publications which are not supplied from the shelves of the library. In consequence of the considerable augmentation in the number of
visitors it has been found that those who go specially for the purpose of study and reference are too often deprived of the opportunity of obtaining desks and the necessary attendance from this cause. A free public library and reading-rooms were opened at Birmingham, on Thursday, with all due ceremony. The library contains upwards of four thou- sand volumes, and will be open from nine in the morning to nine in the evening. It was stated in the course of the proceedings that upwards of four hundred ap- plications had been made for permission to take books from the library. Two plain and practical answers were given to one of the assistant commis- sioners in the recent educational inquiry, when he took opportunities of asking working people whether they really thought education was of any use to their children. "'To be sure I do," said an Irishman with a strong brogue; "and do you think that if I could read and write I should be shoved into every dirty job as I sin now? Instead of driving this horse I'd be riding him." On putting the same question in another quarter about girls, the reply was, " I don't know, sir, whether you'd like to have your love-letters read or written by strangers."
A remarkable trial has just terminated in the United States, by which a lady named Gaines, after thirty years' litigation, has become the richest woman in America. One of the earliest settlers in Louisiana was Daniel Clark, who was at the head of the monetary and social circle of that State on account of his great business talents, wealth, and agreeable person and manners. In 1802 he married secretly a beautiful Frenchwoman, named Zulime Corriere. She had been married to a Jerome de Grange, who had represented himself as a noble- man, but who turned out to be a confectioner and likewise a bigamist. In 1806 Zulime had a daughter by Clark named Myra, the present Mrs. Gaines. Zulime went to New Orleans to obtain proofs of her first husband's rascality, in order to be enabled to have her marriage with Daniel Clark made public, and while she was gone Clark became enamoured of a Miss Caton, and was engaged to marry her. She, however, heard of his marriage with Zulime Carriers, and the en- gagement was broken off. Miss Caton afterwards became Marchioness of Wellesley. Clark, in order to marry Miss Caton, had destroyed every docu- mentary proof of his marriage with Zulime that he could lay hold of, and when she returned from New Orleans he abandoned her, destitute and helpless, with an infant child. A Dr. Gaudette protected and married her. Clark afterwards repented and took his daughter, Mrs. Gaines, and had her educated. He died in 1813, and the immense fortune he amassed in Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, he left to his mother. His wife, Zulime Carriere, died a few years since at New Orleans, nearly eighty years of age. Myra, her daughter, married a Mr. Whitney, and afterwards General Gaines, and her whole life has been de- voted in establishing the legitimacy of her birth, the honour of her mother, and her claims to the princely for tune of the millionnaire Clark. She has just suc- ceeded in doing this.
The weekly return of births and deaths in London, issued by authority of the Registrar-General, states that the rate of mortality in London has been very uniform during the last five weeks. In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths registered were 1236. The average number as obtained from the returns of corresponding weeks of ten years 1851-60, and corrected for increase of popula-- tion, is 1580, and the result of the comparison, namely, a reduction in the week of 344 deaths below the average, must be viewed with satisfaction. In 1853 and 1860 the deaths in the last week of March rose above 1700, chiefly in consequence of pulmonary complaints. The deaths now returned are therefore about 500 less than they were in either of those weeks, though there has been an increase of population, which, since the first of the periods mentioned, must be considerable.
The Miles Barton, a line transport, carrying upwards of three hundred men of the 3rd Buffs from Hong-Kong, was lost early in February off the Cape of Good Hope. She struck on a sunken rock, and lay a hopeless wreck. Rafts were made, and the men, behaving with admirable discipline, all got safely ashore. One man was drowned in an attempt made to visit the wreck. The men were taken off the gloomy coast by the Cyclops, Albatross, and Kadie. A gentleman signing himself " W. B.," has presented to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution the sum of 3151., to enable it to plant an additional lifeboat and transporting carriage on some exposed point of the coasts of the United Kingdom. The institution has already one hundred and ten lifeboats under its management, some of which have during the past fifteen months been instru- mental in rescuing four hundred and ten lives from shipwreck.
The last letters from the Andes, in South America, bring a singular piece of intelligence. A Frenchman has proclaimed himself King of Araucania ; has appointed ministers; and has given his people, composed of savage tribes, a con- stitution as good as many others. The right of succession is established in the line of direct descendants of his Majesty Orefie-Antoine I. In case of his dying without issue, the crown will devolve to one of the members of his family in such order as shall be hereafter established by royal ordinance. Araucania is divided into departments and communes, with prefects, prefectorial councils, municipal councils, &c. The French code is acted on in the kingdom. The constitution establishes the attributions and privileges of the King, the unity of the Araucanian people, and the equality of all persons in the eye of the law. The King's real name is Ordlie-Antoine, of Tonnems (Lot-et-Garonne). He has been living for six years past among the tribes in the south of Chili, whose chief he became, and exercised considerable influence among them.
On Thursday morning it was announced, by means of large placards, which tended greatly to disfigure the venerable building, that " the house in which mri. John Company lived and died is to be let, or to be sold to the highest bidder, his successor going further west." Prior to being altogether disposed of the old place is to be dismantled, and on Monday, May 6, the auctioneer's hammer will resound within its walls. The effects which the auctioneer will have to dispose of on that and successive days are sufficient to furnish a moderately sized country town. There are yards and pieces of carpet without number, thousands upon thousands of yards of wainscoting, and every conceivable article of furni- ture in superabundance. The very aspect of the list of things thus to be sa- crificed is positively alarming. When all these valuables have been cleared out, the freehold of the old house itself is to be sold, but whether " the great, solemn, suggestive pile, with all its historical associations, will be pulled down and sold as eo many lots of brick and plaster," is at present not announced.
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