IT is currently reported that Sir Benjamin Brodie has withdrawn
from the practice of his profession, and it is suggested that he should be made a Peer.
It is reported that Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, who is betrothed to the Princess Alice of England, will leave Berlin in a few days for London, where he will makes long stay.
The Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany took the oaths as burgomaster of Vienna, a few days since, in the private chapel of his palace at Schlackenwerth.
The king of Prussia has conferred the decoration of the Black Eagle, the highest Order of the House of Prussia, on the Marquis of Breadalbane.
The last India mail announced that Sir A. J. de Hochepied Larpent had been nominated to the important post of Secretary to the Board of Income-Tax Com- missioners for the town of Calcutta. It is rumoured, however, that the Secre- tary of State for India in Council has disallowed the appointment.—Daily News.
A Paris letter in the Inde'pendance says: "King Victor Emmanuel was scarcely less prompt than the Emperor Napoleon in congratulating the Prince, his son-m-law, on his success in the Senate. The following is given as the text of the telegraphic despatch addressed by his Sardinian Majesty to the Prince:
have just read your splendid speech, and I thank you in the name of Italy and in my own." Among the subscribers to the laurel crown which has been offered by the German Princesses to the Bavarian consort of Francis II., "in memory of her heroic conduct at Gaeta," the English reader remarks, "Augusta Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, nee Princess of Great Britain." A solemn requiem was sung, on Friday week, at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Newcastle, for the souls of the unfortunate persons slain in the streets of Warsaw by the Russian soldiery. The ceremony was of an imposing and impressive character.
Sir Archibald Maclaine, Colonel of the renowned 52nd Regiment, a soldier who fought against 'Filippo Sultan, against Scindia, against Bo , and against the French Marshals in Spain, has just died. He was in his seventy-eighth year.
Sir Benjamin Lovell, an old soldier, who had been in ten battles and forty combats, and who wore a medal with eleven clasps, died at Brighton on Monday, in his seventy-third year. He was Colonel of the 12th Lancers.
The Duke de Luxembourg a Montmorency), formerly a peer of Branca, a lieutenant-general, and a captain of the body-guard of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., died on March 5 at his château of Chitillon-sur-Loing (Loiret). He was the last surviving captain of the old Garde du Carps
The Cortahill Magazine for April will contain the first of a series of papers entitled "A Bird's-Eye View of Society," with Illustrations by Mr. Richard Doyle, humorously satirizing some of the pursuits and amusements of fashion- able life. The drawings are similar in style and character to those of "Ye Manners and Customs of ye. Eiglishe," but they are of larger size and more elaborate ex- ecution. The first represents the Refreshment-room at an evening party, and. is crowded with figures every one appearing to be a study from life.
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