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The Paris Prene announces that the Dutchess of Nemours is shortly to leave Paris for London, being invited to the fancy-ball to be given by the Queen on her Majesty's birthday.

We have heard it reported that it is the intention of her Majesty to pay a visit. to the Earl of Ellenborough, at Southern Hall, during the coming summer.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

It is understood that Prince Albert will honour the Fishmongers Compatry' with his attendance at dinner on Wednesday the 21st May; on which occasion Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Fortescue, and Lord Cet- ten/rant, are to be admitted honorary memers of that corporation.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen had appornta. Admiral Sir Ro- bert Waller Otway, Baronet, and Vice-Admiral Sir Mward W. C. It. Oweek Knights Commanders of the Bath, to be Knights Grand Cross; and Rear-Ad.. miral Sir Edward Chetham, Knight, Companion of the same Order, to be Knight Commander thereof.

The Marquis of Westminster, we understand,, bet been appointed Lord-Lieu- tenant of Cheshire, vacant by the death of the Lice Earl of Stamford and War- rington.—Globe. The Cheltenham Examiner asserts that the Earl of St. Germaine is to succeed. Lord Stuart de Bothesay in the British Embassy at St. Petersburg.

The Irish papers announce the death of Lord Carbery, a Representative Peer. John Evans F.eke, sixth Baron Carbery, of Carbery, county Cork, in the Peerage. of Ireland, was born in November 1765, and succeeded on the death of his cousin

John. in March 1807- In January 1783, he married Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore, third daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran; and having bad no issue, his title and estates devolve _upon his nephew, George. Patrick Percy. Euans"F;eke. As Sir John Freke, the late Lord sat in the Irish House of Com- mons, and strenuously,opposed the Union, in the fear that it would endanger the Protestant interests of Ireland.

Mr. W. IL Mayan, a Lieutenant in the Fourth Light Dragoons, and a gentle- man of large property, who was proceeded against by Captain Hill for criminal conversation with his wife, Lady Georgina Hill, daughter of the Earl of Albe- marle, has not defended the action, but allowed judgment to go against him by default. He will have large damages to, pay, besides costs.

The Lincolnshire Chronicle says, that "Colonel Sibthorp has met with so sever an accident that he will not in all probability be able to attend the House of Com- mons for some time. On Saturday week, as he was entering or leaving his club- house, he fell down the step and fractured two or three of his ribs; and he is, we regret to hear, in rather a dangerous state." The Colonel is now recovering.

A fatal accident happened to Colonel Shelton, of the Forty-fourth Regiment, at Dublin, on Saturday. He mounted a spirited horse belonging to a brother offiesr, and went out for a ride. He dropped the reins, it is supposed to take a alsortsar hold of them; but as he had only one arm, that was a matter of (fa- culty. Feeling its head loose, the horse ran away, and returned at a violent

towards its stable. In passing through an archway, Colonel Shelton's

was dashed against a walL The horse fell; and in rising, its foot struck the rider heavily on the chest. Colonel Shelton was picked up senseless, a por- tion of the brain protruding through the ear; and he died on Monday evening. He had served a long life in the Army. He was present at many remarkable engagements in the Peninsular war, and lost his arm at the siege of St. Sebas- tian. He served during the campaign of 1814 in Canada. Subsequently, he was more than twenty years in hither was a participator in the disastrous cam- paign of Afghanistan, and a captive at Cabul; whence he returned to this coun- try with his regiment but three months ago. He was distinguished for valour and high military attainments.

The personal estate of the late Baron Gurney has been sworn under 80,000L lie has also left freehold estates, which he bequeathed to his second son.

The late Bishop of Ely's personal estate has been sworn under 40,000/. He likewise possessed estates at -Manchester and in Cheshire.

In a letter to a clerical friend, the Reverend Theobald Mathew announces that his debts have now been all liquidated, to the amount of 7,0001., principally by mutilations from England, with some partial aid in Ireland. [What has become of the annuity that was to be secured to Mr. Mathew? Was not Mr. O'Connell to be active in that behalf?]

We have great pleasure in being able to state that Sir Robert Peel has granted to the widow of the late John Banim 501. from the Royal Bounty Fund; and has further engaged to place her name on the Pension-list when a vacancy occurs. This relief has been granted on the application of a body of Irish Members of Par- liament; at the head of whom was E. B. Roche, Esq., the Member for Cork.— Kilkenny Journal Our private letters [from Paris] stabs, that the draught of the convention re- gmting the right of search agreed upon by the Commissioners, the Due De Broglie and Dr. Lushing,ton, which had been transmitted for approval from Lon- don to Paris, had been returned with an objection to one of its provisions. The precise terms of the proposed convention were not of course known; but it was understood that they contemplated treaties with the African native chiefs to pre- vent the sale and embarkation of slaves; and in the event of failure or deception on the part of such chiefs, or of any of them, that their territory be blockaded, and possession taken of their factories. " In the present rage in France for seizing and' protecting' foreign ports, islands, and territory, and for the extension of the steam and other naval force of the country, few schemes could better than this," observes our correspondent, "be hit upon. It would appear, however, liable to objection on many accounts."—Times.

We have great pleasure in announcing that the Diet of Sweden has responded to the appeal of the King in such a manner as to secure the abolition of slavery in tne Island of St. Bartholomew.—Aeti-Slavery Reporter.

At a meeting of shareholders in the Provincial Bank of Ireland, in London, on Thursday, Sir Robert Peel's Irish Banking Bill was discussed, and fully approved of both in principle and detail.

A Treasury order has declared, that since precious stones are to be imported duty flee, under the new tariff, as unmanufactured articles, the duty chargeable on precious stones set is to be calculated solely on the value of the setting, not on the value of the jewels, which are usually worth ten times the setting; thus substituting a duty of 20 per cent on the setting for a much heavier duty on the stones themselves.

An address has been presented to Mr. Thomas Duncombe, by a deputation from the Polish National Committee, thanking him for his conduct in the matter of the letter-opening at the Post-office, with especial reference to the cases of hl. StOlzman and M. WorceL An amusing correspondence between the Society for the Emancipation of In- dustry and the Anti-Corn-law League has been published. The Society is an as- sociation of "currency doctors"; who, it is well known, go about seeking whom they may refute; but the worst of it is, that people won't stand to be knocked down. So it proved in the present case. The Society sent, through its Chairman, Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, to say that it had observed some inconsistency between the Free-trade principles of the League and the votes of the Parliamentary Mem- bets of the League with reference to the particular commodity gold; and it re- quested a reply to these questions-

" First, Is the Juin-Com-law League prepared to admit that the commodity • gold ' ought to be subjected to the law of supply and demand, and all the consequences of that law, as well as cotton, iron, or any other commodity?

a Second, If so, Is the League prepared to maintain, that when the Legislature se- lected gold as the money of the country, It should, as coin, be exempt from that law Of supply and demand to which it is so admitted the merchantable metal ought to be Subject ?

Mr. Saul, the Secretary of the League, replied in these few words- " I bag to acknowledge the receipt of year favour of the 18th instant ; and I sm directed to refer you for a solution of the questions you have proposed to the acknow- ledged authorities on political economy, as the Council are not desirous to enter into controversy on such points."

The Society again sent an elaborate letter, inviting discussion; then a third shorter letter, merely asking a reply; and finally, receiving no further contribu- tion to the correspondence from the other side, it determined to " shame the fools, and print it."

Mrs. Malthus, the widow of the celebrated writer on population, has sent to the iferning Chronicle the following opportune extract from an article which he wrote for the Edinburgh Review in 1809. " Let the Irish Catholics have all that they have demanded, for they have asked nothing but what strict justice and good policy should concede to them. Let them not only enjoy all the civil advantages of the British constitution, but give them a Church Establishment, like Scotland, and we venture to predict that the increasing proportion of the Catholics will be less. perceptible. Let the spirit of the Union, or what ought to have been its spirit, be carried into execution without fear or jealousy, till Ireland is in no re- spect to be distinguished from any other part of the empire but by its situation and superior fertility. Such a train of measures, begun by the Government with earnestness and good faith, and while yet the power of the sword is in its hand, would soon work a change in the feelings of men who are known to be highly susceptible of gratitude and affection, and who could receive no such offers from other quarters; and though we will not affirm that all the discontented would be immediately conciliated, yet we are confident that they would be reduced to so few as to be perfectly insignificant, and that the country would then be completely amine against foreign invasion or domestic treason. Notwithstanding the known capriciousness and perverseness of man, we believe that not a single instance can be produced in history of an established government being unable to suppress di.s- couteut when justice was clearly and entirely on its side."—From a of "Neweaham," in the year 1809, by T. R. At.

The fifteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will be held at Cambridge, commencing on Thursday 19th June. The time was fined thus early in order to snit the " Commencement," which brings a large

concourse to the University. The great feature of the ensuing session will be a 7. congress of the observers at the different magnetical observatories stationed throughout Europe. Sir John Herschell is the President for the present year. A curious engineering project has been described recently before one of the Rail- way Committees. To secure a rapid communication with Ireland, it is thought desirable to continue the North Wales Railway across the Menal Straits to Holy- head. The existing suspension-bridge is too weak to bear the railway trains, and the erection of a stone bridge is deemed impracticable. In these circumstances, it is proposed to extend an iron tube or gallery across that arm of the sea, which, from the top of the one bank to that of the other, is 900 feet broad. There is a rock in the middle of the water which divides the space into two. The tube will, therefore, be in two lengths of 450 feet, built like an iron ship of strong plates fastened by rivets, and perhaps strengthened by longitudinal ribs of iron. Its section is to be 25 feet in height and 15 in width. It seems to be thought that the tube will maintain a nearly horizontal position by its rigidity, at a height above the water sufficient to allow masted ships to pass; and that, too, while it is loaded with a railway train, weighing sixty or eighty tons.

An electrical telegraph is shortly to be laid down on the railway between Edin- burgh and Glasgow.

" We understand," says the Globe, " it is the intention of Government, in con- junction with the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, to have the electric telegraph established on that important line, reaching from London to Holyhead, - a distance of between 200 and 300 miles, and embracing in its route the com- mercial capitals of Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham." The length of rail- ' way in different parts of the United Kingdom on which the electric telegraph is now in operation, amounts to nearly 250 miles.

A new article of import has been introduced by the Trent steamer, from the West Indies, in new potatoes; which have been successfully cultivated in the Ber- mudas, for the early supply of the English market, grown from the best seeds. The climate and soil is well suited for their growth, and about a ton has bees brought over as a sample by the above steamer. In boiling, they are said to be even of superior quality to those of home produce, being less watery. The sane vessel has also brought over a quantity of One-apples, preserved in their juice in , bottles, which are likely to be a very valuable addition to the kitchen.—Mornisass Post.

The Elgin Courant having published alarming accounts of a mortality snug the grouse, the Inverness Courier has made inquiries into the matter; and, to allay the apprehensions of sportsmen, it announces that the birds are attacked by disease on only one spot m Inverness; the stock being in excellent condition. throughout the rest of the county.

The late Marquis of Westminster's racing-stud was sold by auction, at Eaton . Park, on Saturday. Touchstone has been retained by the present Marquis. There were twenty-four lots, and nearly 5,0001. was realized. Agents from the King of the French and the Emperor of Russia were present.

Mr. Samuel Stone Briscoe, the Magistrate who is charged in the petition of Eliza Price with oppressive conduct, has written a letter to the papers, stating that it was he who begged for a searching inquiry, and that he feels confident of being exonerated from any charge of illegal or harsh conduct. The details of the case, he says, would throw a different light upon it: for instance, Mrs. Price did not complain to the Magistrates of the constable's conduct; and "the constable repeatedly offered to pay for a bed for the woman, and even offered to let her sleep with his own wife."

The Canadian papers describe a frightful contlagration at London, in Canada West. It broke out at an hotel, about noon on Sunday the 13th April; the tim- ber of the houses being dry, while the wind was blowing a gale, the flames were . carried on with great rapidity; not spending their force until they had destroyed four blocks of houses, and part of three others, covering an area of nearly thirty acres. At least a hundred and fifty families were rendered homeless. The Ices in money is estimated at 200,0001.; but not a single life appears to have been sacrificed.

At a recent meeting of the Statistical Society, Assistant-Surgeon Balfour read a paper on the mortality of the Army in the Colonies. The annual mortality per thousand ranges from 14.1 in New South Wales to 483 in Sierra Leone. In the Cape of Good Hope it is 15.5, and in Canada 20.

It is but three or four weeks since that we gave an account of the extraordinary age of Mr. and Mrs. Plaisance, then living in Redmoor Fen, in the Isle of Ely, the husband of the age of 107, the wife 105!—a case without parallel perhaps in England or in the world. On Wednesday., strange to relate, after a short affliction, both expired on the same day; their united ages 212. The greater part of their • lives were passed when agues were so prevalent in the Fens that very few escaped the disorder, yet their lives were prolonged to this extraordinary period; and Pro- vidence seems to have ordained that as they had lived so long together, in death they were not divided. They have left one daughter, who lived with them, of the age of 84.—Bury Post.