The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland sailed from Kingstown on Thursday evening,
in the Prince Arthur, for England. It is stated that he will not return to Dublin until the beginning of November.
The election for King's Lynn, to fill the vacancy' caused by the death of Lord Jocelyn, is to take place this day. There can be no doubt that Mr. J. IL Gurney will be returned.
Sir Benjamin Hall issued- a circular from the Board of Health, on Thursday, directing all persons intrusted by law with the care and man- agement of streets and public ways, and, where there are no local author- ities, the owners and occupiers of houses and tenements adjoining thereto, "to take the necessary measures for the frequent and effectual cleansing thereof." The owners and occupiers and persons having the care and ordering of all houses, dwellings, churches, buildings, and places of as- sembly, are directed "to cleanse, purify, ventilate and disinfect the same." Local authorities are to do their utmost, legally, to remove nuisances ; and the directions of medical officers are to be obeyed "as to the speedy interment of the dead."
The journals announce the death of the Earl of Eldon, on Wednesday, at Shirley Park, near Croydon. The deceased had been pronounced of un- sound mind, in January 1853. He was grandson of the first Earl of Eldon ; and was born in December 1805; married,. in 1831, the Honourable Louisa Duncombe, third daughter of the late and sister of the present Lord Fever- sham. He leaves one son and six daughters : his son, John Viscount En- combs, now Earl of Eldon, was born in November 1845.
The Reverend Dr. William Thompson, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Ox- ford, formerly a Fellow of Queen's College, and Rector of Gateombe, Isle of Wight, died yesterday morning, after a long ilium. Dr. Thompson was elected to the Headship in 1843, on the death of Dr. Grayson. The a?- pointment of a new Principal rests with the Provost and Fellows of Queen 5 College.
Cardinal Mai, the celebrated linguist and custode of the Vatican Library, died at Albano on the evening of the 8th. His death has been erroneously attributed to cholera.
Miss Jane Jones, the daughter of a clergyman of the Established Church applied to the Stockton-upon-Tees Magistrates, on ThUraday, for an order to maintain her illegitimate son, against the Reverend R. Singleton, the Roman Catholic priest of Stockton. Miss Jones had become a convert, and had lived in Singleton's house. The testimony was conflicting, but favourable to Mr. Singleton ; and the Magistrates refused to make an order. Mr. Singleton intends to prosecute Miss Jones.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The number of admissions for the six days ending yesterday was 36,715.
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