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Mr. John Stuart, QC., has been appointed Vice-Chancellor, in the room of Sir James Parker. In politics Mr. Stuart is a Tory ; and he was rather notorious last year for his hostility to Law-reform. He was the nominee of the late Duke of Newcastle at Newark, when Mr. Glad- stone resigned in 1846.

Mr. John Oliver Hanson succeeds Sir John Pelly as director of the Bank of England.

The Emperor of Austria arrived in Vienna, from Ischl, on the 2d. His next public proceeding will be a tour in Croatia.

The Earl of Westmoreland left Florence for Vienna on the 29th of August.

Sir Henry Bulwer started for Rome, from Florence, via Leghorn, on the 1st instant.

General Pepe and a French officer are to assist in the military review of the Piedmontese forces on the plains of Marengo.

The Duchess of Orleans and her two sons have left the baths of St. Gervais, for Eisenach.

General Gemeau, commander of the army at Rome, arrived in Paris early in the week.

M. Craton and M. de Lasteyrie have returned to France. M. Anthony Thouret prefers to sojourn at Ostend.

The Prince of Prussia has left Stettin and arrived at Berlin.

The Sing of Prussia gave a military banquet on the 6th in honour of the Grand Duke of Russia and the Duke of Cambridge.

Lord and Lady Truro were at Berlin early in the present week. General Haynau reached Frankfort on the 4th. .

The Archbishop of Paris arrived at what seems the head-quarters of Absolutism, Ischl, on the 31st August.

The Duke de Broglie is at present at Coppet, once the residence of Madame de Stadl, now in possession of the Duke.

The King of Sweden has been staying at Interlacken lately. He passed through Berne on the 2d, on his way to Christiana via Bale, Ham- burg, and Lubeck.

King Leopold has conferred the order of Leopold on the famous geolo- gian Sir Henry de la Beche.

Emperor Soulouque, or Faustin I., disgusted with the free use made of his name by the Hamburg papers, has directed his Minister there to lodge a formal complaint against the press with the authorities.

Mr. Henley returned to town from the Continent on Saturday last, and to his official duties on Monday. Mr. G. R. Porter the well-known author of "The Progress of the Na- tion," died on Friday the 3d, at Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Porter has iden- tified his name with the struggle for Free-trade, and has left behind him a great reputation for untiring energy and conscientious research in his peculiar department In 1832, be was invited by the late Lord Auck- land, then President of the Board of Trade, to organize a statistical department in his office. This was accomplished in the course of two years, and Mr. Porter was placed at its head. Here he remained till 1840, when he was appointed senior member of the famous Railway Depart- ment of the Board of Trade. In the deadly railway mania of 1845, Mr- Porter's labours were most efficient, and were thoroughly appreciated by Lord Dalhousie, who presided over the Railway Board. When Mr. John M'Gregor retired, previously to his entering Parliament, Mr. Porter was appointed one of the joint Secretaries to the Board of Trade. Work- ing too hard and too closely in his office, he died like a soldier at his post—but a soldier who hears the trumpets of victory. He had lived to see the establishment of commercial freedom.

Sir Harry Smith, in reviewing the Militia at Guernsey last week, made• use of some remarkable expressions respecting the value of "citizen sol- diers " as a national defence. Having praised the special contingent be- fore him, he thus eulogized militia in general— "Now a word to you. Comrades ! neyer-has.an enemy so much cause of dread as when opposed to armed citizens. History is full of examples. Look to the plains of La Vendee, where the armed people so successfully foiled Napoleon's veteran armies. Look to Algeria, where France's four hundred and fifty thousand men have found full employment, during many years of territorial occupation, without bringing the people to subjection. Look to Circassia, which still withstands Russia's host of eight hundred thousand. myself have never been so nearly foiled as when opposed to the armed pea- santry. I have just returned from a long and fatiguing war in a country where, when I have beaten them in one place, they have started up in another with renewed vigour to resist me. You, loyal Guemseymen, would have to do and would do likewise, did the foe dare to plant his foot on your shores. Heaven grant that England may never have to repel an invader ! but, if she should, and I had to take part in her defence, I would not ask to lead better soldiers than you—I call you soldiers—I would not ask to lead better troops. than the Royal Militia of Guernsey."

It is quite needless to say that these words produced great effect on the nerves of the " soldiers," who threw off their unusual excitement in rounds, of applause.

Enterprise is busy at the Falls of Niagara, fashioning and setting up w wire-cable suspension-bridge, to connect Canada and New York by rail- way. The bridge will form a single span of eight hundred feet in length, weighing 1,678,622 pounds.

The Great Britain was spoken with in lit. 42° 37' long. 12° on the 25th of August, going at the rate of thirteen knots an hour.

The clearances from the port of London for the Gold Colonies of Aus- tralia during last week show again an increase in the number of ves- sels. There were five to Port Phillip of an aggregate burden of 3422. tons, two to Port Phillip and Sydney of a joint burden of 2381 tons, (one of them being the Cleopatra screw-steamer of 1500 tons,) and two to Sydney of 1661 tons. There was also one vessel to Adelaide of 62S tons. The exports of goods and of wines and spirits have been consider- able ; but, although a reduction of from 20 to 25 per cent has taken place in the rates of freight, there has not been so much activity as was mani- fested a few weeks back. The demand for passages is also rather dimi- nished.—Tirnes.

A Breslau journal announces the arrival there of a freight of Bibles,. all under seal, which had been seized by the Austrian Government at the Missionary Society's depot, and sent out of the country.

The Horning Herald will lose its credit as "Government organ," if it does not deal more accurately with its exclusive intelligence than it does with matters patent to the public. It is not correct to enumerate the Spectator " among the foremost in promoting the Bill for the Removal of Smithfield Market" ; since the suggestion which we repeated last week, for the suppression of the live meat market, was originally made by us in 1850, before the Removal Bill of 1851 was in existence.

The fire-proof safe, for which the Society for the Encouragement of Art awarded to Mr. John Chubb an honorary testimonial, has been purchased by the Queen for a birthday present to her aunt the Duchess of Gloucester. The safe is of polished steel, beautifully inlaid with fine gold.—Manchester Examiner.

Some marvellous members of the body politic seem resolved that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer shall not want for postage-stamps : the last munifi- cent supply acknowledged amounts in value to 58. 10d.

In our obituary this week will be found the demise of Catharine Willis, the mother of Mr. Willis of Reading, aged eighty-eight years. She was the last of a family of six, whose united ages amount to 640 years. Catharine Willis died in her eighty-eighth, her mother in her ninety-fifth, her father in his eighty-second, her sister in her ninetieth, her father's sister in her ninetieth, and another sister in her eighty-eighth year.—Berks Chronicle. A miserly old man has appointed the Queen residuary legatee to his large fortune. Various stories have been afloat, differing greatly in the estimate of the riches left by the deceased; but the _Kentish Gazette gives this circum- stantial account of the matter. "Last week, Mr. John Camden Neild, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, died in Chelsea, aged seventy-two years. He was possessed of an immense fortune, but was of very eccentric and penuri- ous habits. At the death of his father, thirty years since, he came into pos- session of about 250,0001., which sum had not been touched up to the period. of his death. The deceased was never known to wear a greatcoat. He usually dressed in a blue coat, with metal buttons, which he prohibited being brushed, as it would take off the nap and deteriorate its value. He held considerable landed property in Kent and in Bucks, and. was always happy to receive an invitation from his tenantry to visit them ; which he occasion- ally did, often remaining a month at a time, as he was thus enabled to add to, his savings. His appearance and manners led strangers to imagine that he was on the lowest verge of penury, and their compassion was excited in his behalf ; of which many instances might be related. A few days before his death the deceased told one of his executors that he had made a most sin- gular will, but as the property was his own he had done as he pleased with it. . The executors are the Keeper of the Privy Purse for the time being (Dr. Tattan) and Mr. J. Stevens, of Willesborough. After bequeathing a few very trifling legacies, the deceased has left the whole of his immense for- tune to ' Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria ; begging her Majesty's most gracious acceptance of the same, for her sole use and benefit, and of her

heirs,' &c. The property is estimated at upwards of 500,0001. For some years past Mr. Neild has scarcely allowed himself the common necessaries and comforts of life ; and he has left a poor old housekeeper, who was with him for more than twenty-six years, without the smallest provision or ac- knowledgment for her protracted and far from agreeable or remunerative services.'

The Auesvanckrer Zeitung, a German emigration paper, says—" One item of intelligence in the last South American mail is rather startling : German emigrants to Peru are articles of sale, and are advertised in the papers as merchandise. They are the remains of a band of emigrants who some time since were induced, by the representations of an agent named Rodolfo, to sail for Lima; the enterprise totally failed, and sixty of the men took service in the army. General Flores had purchased 120 for the Ecuador expedition ; a landed proprietor had bought eighty for his estate ; forty were working on the guano islands; a hundred had died ; and fifty, left in the hands of the agent, were advertised in the paper as for sale.' [This reminds one of the Redemptioners who used to be on sale in British America before the in- dependence. But Germans retain their capacity to be sold, even in these wise days, and in their own country.]

Sarah and Ann Rimmer, who were sentenced to death for administering poison to the daughter of Sarah, are to have their lives spared.

Louisa Ferris, the woman who was transported for cutting a Policeman's throat at Bristol, having behaved herself in a most exemplary manner whilst in gaol at Van Diemen's Land, obtained a ticket of leave ; almost immediately afterwards she cut another man's throat in Melbourne, and she had been left for execution when this intelligence was despatched.—Bath Chronicle.

The Vienna papers contain a horrible story. of banditti. A peasant of Gal- lician Podolia had sold a pair of oxen at a fair ; he drank freely on the occa- sion, and for the safety of his money fastened it round the waist of his daughter in a girdle. On passing through a wood, three men fell upon the man, dragged him away, and murdered him, his daughter witnessing the dreadful scene from a distance. She fled, and gained the shelter of a cottage ; she told a woman who was in the cottage what had occurred, and gave the money into her custody : the woman placed her in a bedroom. Presently the girl heard the three murderers enter—one was the woman's husband. They related to her their disappointment at not finding the money upon the pea- sant; she laughed, showed them the belt, and said the girl was in the house. The villains resolved to murder her too, by burning her to death in the oven! The girl heard them light the fire. Despair gave her strength to break a hole through the clay wall of the hut, and she got out, met two gendarmes, and told her tale. The aasamens and the woman were afterwards arrested.

A shark seven feet long, which had got entangled in some herring-nets, was captured off John o' Groat's on Thursday week.

There has been an odd importation at Liverpool from America—thirty-six rattlesnakes, brought over by their captor.