The Court has been ordered to go into mourning for

the King of the Two Sicilies from the 9th to the 19th. But, in order "to prevent any injury to trade," mourning is not to be worn at the Drawing-room to- day.

Sir Charles Arthur Magennis has been appointed British Minister at the Court of the King of Naples ; Mr. Augustus Paget, Minister to the Court of the King of Sweden and Norway ; the Honourable Charles Au- gustus Murray, Minister at the Court of the King of Saxony. Mr. Wil- liam Lowther becomes Secretary of Legation at Naples ; and Mr. George Petre at Hanover.

Four officers of the Indian service have been appointed aides-de-camp to the Queen—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Reid, C.B., and Lieutenant- Colonel R. B. Smith, C.B., of the Bengal Army ; and Lieutenant-Co- lonel Thomas Tapp, C.B., and Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Robertson, C.B., of the Bombay Army.

Brenier, the new French Minister at the Court of Naples, is to leave Marseilles on Sunday, for his post. Baron D'Aquin and Count Goblin are appointed to the Legation at Naples.

The Rifle movement goes on growing in strength all over the country ; it assumes greater consistency, and a more businesslike air. But we must still repeat that the restrictions of the law and the backwardness of .the Government operate to check its advance.

The Atlantic Telegraph Company are again in the field, resolute to prosecute anew their stupendous enterprise. At a general meeting of the shareholders on Wednesday, Mr. Stuart Wortley in the chair, it was stated that the Government will guarantee 8 per cent upon a capital of 600,0001. to be employed in laying the new cable. The new capital is to be raised in preference shares of dl. each.

The Red Sea Telegraph has been successfully laid to Aden, which place it reached on the 28th May.

Mr. Huxley lectured at the Royal Institution on Friday last, "On the Persistent Types of Animal Life," and pointed out that although the fauna and flora of the geologic period are generally believed to have been very different from those of the present time, only six per cent of the known zoological orders have become extinct, and every order in botany of which we find fossil remains, is represented on the earth at the present day.

The Telegraph, on Thursday, announced to our regret the death of David Cox, the greatest of our English water-colour landscape painters, at his residence, Harborne near Birmingham. As a tribute to the de- ceased, the committee superintending the collection of his drawings now exhibiting at the French Gallery, 120, Pall Mall, resolved not to close it on Saturday, as they had announced doing. Though small, it contains enough to show hose great an artist David Cox was, and how little likelihood there is that any living rival will take his place.

Though the Prince of Wales has left Italy, there is no expectation of his immediate return ; indeed, it is more than likely that the young Prince will remain abroad until the full extent of the time originally appointed for his travels, though, of course, the direction has been considerably altered.— Court Journal.

The health of the Duchess of Kent is sufficiently established as to enable the Royal Duchess to travel to her country residence, Frogmore Lodge.

Prince Carini is to be the Neapolitan Minister at London whendiplomatic relations are resumed.

Baron de Hubner, Austrian Envoy to the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies, has arived at Naples.

The Parliamentary dinners announced last week for Monday duly came off on that day.

Lord John Russell visited Mr. Sidney Herbert at Wilton a day or two be- fore his departure for London.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Eyre arrived in England from Canada on Wednesday. Also a further supply of recruits for the 100th Regiment.

A letter from Naples, in the Nord, says—".The new Ring and his young Queen have taken their first carriage drive in the environs of Chiatamonte ; they were accompanied by the Queen Mother and Count de Trani. The object of this promenade seems to have been to prove that complete union exists in the royal family, and to efface the bad effect produced by the de- monstrations in the provinces in favour of Count Trani."

Mr. W. H. Bodkiu, of the Home Circuit and ;Central Criminal Court, Recorder of Dover, is appointed Assistant-Judge of the Middlesex Sessions Court, in the room of Mr. Psshley, Q.C., deceased.

The Lord Chancellor has signified his intention of conferring silk_ gowns on two members of the Chancery bar—Mr. John Hinde Palmer and Mr. W. D. Lewis.

The Opinione of Turin states that the municipal cities of Genoa, Salem Alessandria, and other towns of Piedmont, have drawn up addresses to King Victor, entreating him not to expose his person so recklessly in battle.

A correspondent of the Delhi Gazette, writing from Kussowlie the 1st of May, says that " the Commander-in-chief met with another accident at Pinjore. It seems that the Putteealla Rajah's troops, with artillery, were drawn up to do honour to his Lordship, and, as usual, the honour was neither required or expected. Just as the chief, who was in advance of his staff, got abreast of the guns, the salute commenced ; the chief's horse started and threw his rider, who appeared at Kalka with sundry patches of plasters across his forehead."

The remains of the late Sir Thomas Picton, long mouldering in a burying ground in the Bayswater Road, and still in the coffin in which they arrived from Waterloo, were on Wednesday removed, with affectionate ceremony, to St. Penis. The coffin reposed on a gun-carriage. The Duke of Cambridge led a host of distinguished mourners.

The Victoria and Albert, in the Princess Frederick William to Antwerp, was piloted ashore n the Scheldt. Captain Denman went ashore, and recalled the Vivid, gone on ahead, by telegraph. The Princess went to Antwerp in the Vivid.

A new wooden steamer of 6000 tons burden, the General-Admiral, built for the Russian Government by Webb of New York, was tried in the Bay on May 20. She will mount upwards of 100 guns, including two powerful Dalghren shell guns. The New Yorkers regard her as a masterpiece.

A novel mode of advertising is about to be introduced to the advertising pub- lic of London by some of the large music publishers. The medium is to consist of an octagon pillar or column, of from fourteen to sixteen feet in height standing on a base. The base is to be constructed so as to form a letter-box. The column itself will have its corners gilded with gold. The sides will be of glass, on which will be written, within tasteful borders,the announce- ments. On the top of the column will be a clock which will indicate the year, the day of the month, the day of the week, and of course the hour of the day. The clocks for several will be placed on them gratuitously by the several clookmakers of London. The clock will be surmounted by a lamp. The interior of the column will be illuminated with seventeen burners, so as to show the announcements by night as well as by day. The first is to be erected in Cornhill ; the clock of which, we believe, is to be by Dent. Another is to be placed near Apsley House. And one near the Polytechnic in Regent Street, (which, by the by, is to be closed for ever.) We un- derstand that about forty spaces have already been obtained from the au- thorities for the placing of the columns.

Sir John Bowring is preparing for the press an account of his late visit to the Philippine Islands, in H.M. steamer 3lagicienne, with special reference to the ports of Lamboadgo, Iloilo, and Sual, which have lately been opened to foreign commerce.

By the Emperor Napoleon's directions strict orders have been sent to the Director-General of the Post-office to the effect that all letters written by the Austrian officers who have been made prisoners shall be the object of especial attention. The Odessa Messenger states that it is proposed to establish a telegraphic line between Ismail and Odessa, thus conveying news from Western Europe to Constantinople without passing by Vienna. The .Presse Egyptienne of the 26th May, published at Alexandria, states that the preliminary works for cutting through the Isthmus of Suez are going on with great activity.

" Under the influence of fine weather the weekly deaths have fallen below 1000," says the Registrar-General. The number last week who diell was 998, or 78 fewer than the calculated average.

A correspondennt sends us the current mot on " the Derby and Wise- man League." Derbtus.et sapiens -flaw.. fecere profannia, • Redus utinque cesium, Pans uterque fait.