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"3. 0." [Jacob Omnium ?] forwards an interesting letter to the Times "de revestiaria." He states that "the much-needed reform in the dress of the British Army is at last to take place." The uniform of the regiments of the Line has actually been decided upon ; the Guards—" frightful ex- amples of vanity and prejudice "—are to remain as they are.

"The soldier of the Line is henceforward to wear a double-breasted red frock-coat, with pockets and without epaulettes. It will be a great improve- ment on the old coatee ; but is still. I am sorry to say, encumbered with decorative patchwork and useless buttons on the skirts and sleeves, is shaped in at the waist like a dress-coat, instead of being cut loose and straight like a paletot, and is fitted with slight and small calico pockets of no use or wear whatever.

"The hideous Albert shako is to be replaced by a felt helmet, considerably over-adorned with German silver, irksome to clean. The rifle regiments are to wear bronze ornaments, preferable in every respect to German silver.

"The trousers of the Line are, I believe, to be dark blue ; the light gray having been found to soil readily, and to necessitate, in consequence, an abundant use of blue ball, quite as detrimental to the health and comfort of the men as pipeclay."

Giving credit to Mr. Secretary Herbert for summarily taking the mat- ter in hand, J. 0. expresses distrust of the military reformers "du lende- main " ; and adds a complaint that no remedy is about to be applied to that crying evil the bad quality of the cloth oi which the clothing of our Army is made.

"I have before me at this moment," he writes, "patterns of the three qua- lities of cloth now in use in our Army. The first, 'Guards' cloth,' is excel- lent in colour, and so strong that I cannot tear the pattern with my fingers ; the second, drummers' cloth,' (of which the uniforms of the non-com- missioned officers of the Line are made,) is swath/ inferior to 'Guards' cloth' both in dye and texture, and tears easily ; and the third, infantry cloth,' is a sort of vile drugget, worked up with size and devil's dust, which absolutely breaks to pieces at the slightest tension. A uniform coatee made of No. 3 costs 17s. lid. ; were it made of No. 2, it would cost 20s., and were it made of No. 1, 22s. Gd. ; and I am assured by one of the most eminent of our army clothiers that a coatee made even of No. 2 will last twice as long as one made of No. 3. He tells me, too, that by suppressing the decorative patchwork and but- tons on the new frock-coat a saving- Of two-thirds of the difference of cost be- tween No. 3 and No. 2 might be effected." To remedy the evil without putting the country to one shilling extra expense, "J. O." proposes that "each regi- ment should be -supplied with a number of regimental coats, uniform in make, of the three qualities of cloth, at the lowest price, by open tender. Add to the pay of the private soldier the sum now paid to the clothier for his rotten coatee and tromers, and let him take up and pay for his clothing from the regimental stock—deciding for himself whether he will purchase a good coat of Guards' cloth for 22s. Gel., or a rotten coat of infantry cloth at 17s. 6d. This system succeeds perfectly in our Navy—why should-it not succeed in our Army ?"

The Count and Countess Walewski embarked at Dover for Calais on Sunday in the French mail-packet, Captain Devot.

Mr. Commissioner Erie and Mr. Denison, of the Chancery bar, and Mr. Thomas Phinn M.P., and Mr. B. P. Collier .M.P., of the Common Law

bar, were sworn in before the Lord Chancellor Btti.heHanle of Lords; Monday, as Queen's counsel;, the latter two with patents of precedence. The First Lieutenant of the Tiger arrived in London-On MondaY night; having been exchanged.

The Reverend George Anthony Denison, Archdeacon .of Taunton, has addressed a strong letter of remonstrance and censure to the Bishop os Ripon, whose pupil at Christchurch he was some thirty years ago, on his acceptance of the' office of Commissioner under the Oxford University Bill. The acceptance of such an office by a Bishop of the Church of Eng- land, the Archdeacon deems to be "an evil sign!'—" not'emily either io be forgotten or forgiven." He passes over "sundry provisions of the bill," which he will "call by their fitting name—i.e. praiseto" ; and fixes on one provision which he will call by its fitting nanse—" e. wicked" : that provision is the clause dispensing with the obligation of oaths actually taken. This remonstrance is addressed to the Bishop of

Ripon because he is "the chief offender." - "If the connexion between the Church and State-of England be drifting fast towards a miserable catastrophe, as I believe it to be,-what is there which is hurrying it on so powerfully as the lack of truthfulness and principle.ia the Bishops and the clergy ? "

Some interesting accounts have been received br the Royal Geogra. phical Society, from Mr. Andersson, a traveller who accompanied Mr. Galton in his South African explorations ; and who 'remained in South Africa with the view of following up the path of discovery from Valfisch Bay, lat. 20' South. Mr. Andersson had reached Lake Nagami, from the Western coast, and had ascended the Teoge river for '150 miles ; _but in consequence of its winding course; he had only maileicIxtY miles North- ing from the Lake. From his information it is conjectured, that with a small break of fifty or sixty Miles, there is water communication right across Africa near the 17th parallel of Smith latitude. Mr. Andersson, one of the keenest of sportsmen, does not seem, to have lacked serious adventures in the pursuit of game. At the close of one of his letters he says— "I had some fine shooting going to the Luke; single-banded, I killed thirty-nine rhinoceroses and eight elephants, and Abet tgo on foot. A black rhinoceros that I had wounded seriously., got hold of me one night, and bruised and wounded sue in such a fearful manner that my men gave me up for lost; for fourteen days I was unable to move any part of my body without assistance : I think, -however, I have recovered, almost en- tirely from the shock. I have also been under the trunk of an elephaat, but, strange to tell, escaped unhurt. -I had, also a narrow escape from a wounded hippopotamus, who upset one of my canoes : the men were all saved, but most of my luggage found a watery grave. Now that I have got out of all these things, I can sympathize with the travellsr who, when at- tacked by robbers, exclaimed, 'All right ; this will add to the interest of my travels.'

" If my next letter from home brings me more cheerful tidings, I shall probably start immediately on another expedition—that is, if I can procure the means."

The Navy Club gave their annual dinner to the First Lord of the Ad- miralty last week, at the Thatched House Tavern.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Duke and Duchess D'Aumale and the Princess de Salerno, at Twickenham, on Tuesday.

The Earl of Lichfield and the Earl of Euston 1I .P. have sailed from. Co- penhagen in the Gondola yacht, on a cruise in the Baltic.

Midshipman Lucas, who so gallantly pitched into the sea a bomb-shall which alighted on the deck of the Heels, has been promoted to a Lieutenancy.

M. Horace Vernet, the painter who has illustrated with his pencil the war- scenes in Algeria, has arrived at Constantinople, en route to tile seat of war, with a view to sketch the striking military occurrences.

K. Raoul Rochette, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of the Beaux Arts, died at Paris last week. Many notables attended the funeral ; among them K. Guizot, Count Mold, and the Due de Noailles.

Captain Foote's body has at length been washed ashore, at Kernel; audit has been interred at that place with military honours.

A Government emigrant-ship, the Dingo, from Liverpool, has put into Cork in consequence of cholera having broken out among the passengers. Several had died when the ship arrived at Queenstown, and many others were ill. There is no accommodation at Queenstown to receive sick .or auy other passengers ; so it was necessary to send the vessel back to-Liverpool, and a powerful steamer was hired to tow her thither. Two additional sur- geons were put on board by the emigration-agent. By the time the vessel had arrived at Liverpool, on Monday, forty-one persona had died ; five more died on Monday, and five on Tuesday. The disease is of the most virulent kind. The healthy passengers were imme- diately removed to the emigration-depot at Birkenhead, and the erection of a temporary hospital of corrugated iron was quickly -effected. When the Dingo left Liverpool she had 530 emigrants on board, meetly Scotch, with some English and Irish ; every one seemed in excellent health and spirits. The disease first manifested itself in an English family from Southiunpton.

It is stated that Government has purchased the steamer Himalaye, for 140,000/., as a troop-ship.. •

A notice has been posted at the naval rendezvous in Tower Hill that no more landsmen are required at present for service in the Royal Navy. , The cargoes of eleven Russian prizes—principally salt—were sold A

Garraway's on Tuesday, and produced 3903/. _

Something like a Russian prize has eluded our cruisers—the Ciesarewitsch, an Indianian, laden with tea and silk, valued at 150,000/. British mods were on the look-out for her in the Channel ; but the master, a Hamburg man, made a detour round Scotland, and got safe into the Elbe. The cargo has been discharged at Hamburg, and the crew have been sent home iner" land.

In consequence of the interference of- the Russian Government with vsst quantities of grain purchased in the South of Russia by Mr. Spiridone G0P- cevitch, a merchant of Trieste, he has failed, with liabilities estimated at n° less than 250,000/. This week his brother and correspondent in London,

Mr. Mark Gopeevitch, has been compelled to step v there are ac- ceptances afloat in England to the amount of 120,0001.o 150,000/. The latest report is that the Bank of Vienna will advance an immense an.l!I to assist Mr. Gopceviteh; he himself is at St. Petersburg advocating Mt claims on the Czar : there are hopes that the house will resume business.

The extent of the weekly mail for the Baltic has astonished the

office authorities authorities at Dantzic : it is mentioned. as a great marvel that in the course of fourteen days 8500 English letters passed through their hands. The price of grain at Mark Lane is steadily declining : on MOnffay-wheat fell ls. to 24. a quarter.

The trade of BristoIconlinues its rapid increase: in the year ended 5th

April last there Was an an i

gmentation n-the foreign tonnage equal th 26 per cent over the preceding year ; while there were also an increase in the Irish and coasting tonnage. The dock-dues were no less than 40,716/. The Dean and Chapter of Exeter have abolished the fee to the verger of the Cathedral, which is now free to the public. Five clergymen of the Church of England have already commenced open- air preaching at Birmingham, and a sixth is about to follow their example. An arrangement is on foot amongst the Mends of temperance, offended by the sale of wine, &c. at Sydenham, to purchase the Surrey Zoological Gar- dens, and to erect a large 'building of glass. We have not yet the precise particulars before us, but understand that it is proposed to raise 100,000/. by 100,000 one-pound shares, and that the gardens have been provisionally pur- chased for 25,000/.—The Builder.

In his book on the Irish Church, Mr. Sergeant Shee has stated that the Dean of Dromore has 1400/. a year as Dean, and no duties to perform. Dean Daniel Begot writes thus to the learned author—"I have been Dean of Dromore for nearly, four years, and have never received one penny of in- come, though I have duties to discharge as Dean, and am put to expense in discharging them. I should, therefore, feel exceedingly obliged to you if you will kindly inform me where and to whom I am to apply for the pay- ment of this very handsome and very acceptable income ? "

It is remarked that the screw-frigate Termagant is "determined to main- tain the propriety of her name "—something is always going wrong with her machinery ; this week it has again had to be overhauled at Portsmouth for some defect. Mrs. Dunn, a married woman thirty-one years of age, has commenced,

near Liverpool, the task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand suc- cessive hours.

Coffins and grave-stones are among the articles shipped from Liverpool to Melbourne : the coffins are packed in each other like pill-boxes.

The ship Cuthbert Young has been recaptured from the Riff pirates by the Queen's steamer Prometheus. The vessel had been rifled of her contents. The Prometheus had a skirmish with the pirates, and three of her men were sli„,ehtly wounded : the pirates suffered much more. The Prometheus carried the Cuthbert Young to Gibraltar, and then left to search for another vessel taken by the pirates.

Cardinal Fonari having died at Rome intestate, all his property goes to the congregation Do Propaganda Fide, according to the existing law that regulates the inheritance of cardinals, so that his relations lose all their rights to it.

The news from Lisbon respecting the vine-disease becomes worse and worse : there are great fears that nearly the whole of the vineyards will be destroyed. .

The Tuscan Minister of the Interior has directed the civil authorities throughout the Grand Duchy to endeavour to convince the lower classes that the vine disease is not attributable to the smoke issuing from locomo- tives, as some ignorant or evil-disposed persons have induced them to believe.

The Parlament° of Turin gives a very favourable account of the harvest in Italy. "The crops are generally fine and abundant, some corn-fields have been lodged by heavy rains, but suffered no serious injury. The har- vest has already commenced on the points most exposed to the sun. At this moment the wheat has been reaped dn the Roman territory, in Tuscany, Naples, Sicily, and probably in Lombardy. At Rome, round which extends a territory of about forty ' square miles generally uncultivated, grain was sown this year on that immense auperficies. Sicily, that granary of Italy, has been blessed with an abundant harvest. The island of Sardfnia alone will be able to supply from 300,000 to 400,000 hectolitres."

Southern Russia, in the region of Odessa, is promised a splendid harvest ; and the producers and mercantile classes are likely to feel acutely the stop- page of the Western trade in grain, caused by the blockade.

The Kreuz Zeitung, a Russian organ in Berlin, announces that at Kissin- gen, near the Ithine,.a house has been taken for the present bathing-season for the Emperor of Russia, who will drink the waters there for some weeks !

The war in the East has stirred up the people of Marseilles to unwonted activity. ksamw-steamer has been placed on the Constantinople line. Some shopkeepers are selling off their stocks, that they may seek fortunes in the East : they post in their windows an announcement—" On part pour Varna."

A trial was made at Toulon on Saturday of some newly - invented rocket-shells, which are admitted to be a great improvement on those hitherto used. They were found to produce a prodigious effect at a distance of from 4000 to 4360 yards (2i miles), while the others only carried from 3300 to 3500 yards. Varna is lively enough ; the more 'so, peradventure, that so many of its ordinary denizens have disappeared before the "march of improvement." You are aware, from previous letters, of the railroad pace at which we have been improving. New buildings, new quays, new storehouses, streets,

named regularly and numbered, public offices conspicuously i . ndicated, thoroughfares alive with business of all kinds. But those of the inhabitants who remain look at all this with not merely apathy but with sullen gloomy distrust. There is no use in concealing it; they do not like us or our neigh- bourhood to them, and would infinitely prefer their congenial filth and squalor to all this novel and troublesome cleanliness: briskness, and bustle.— horning Past Correspondent.