ltliscellaneous.

The Duke of Newcastle has been seriously ill, but is now said to be " fast recovering from his indisposition."

Mr. Philip H. Howard has addressed a letter to a constituent, informing him that at the end of last session he requested his friend Mr. Aglionby to place on the order-book of the House of Commons a notice for next ses- sion, of his intention "to move for leave to bring in a bill to extend the- elective franchise to inhabitant householders, resident and rated in every city and borough for not less than one year." The adjournment of Par- liament two days earlier than was expected alone prevented Mr. Aglionby

from complying with the request. The Austrian Minister and the Countess Colloredo left this country es Saturday, for Vienna. The diplomatic duties of the Austrian legation will be discharged by Baron Koller as Chargé d'Affaires.

The Duke and Dutchess of Nemours, accompanied by their family, ex- rived at Brussels, on a visit to the Palace of Laeken, on Tuesday last.

The members of the Army and Navy Club received on Thursday Meta superb piece of Gobelins tapestry, a present from the President of the French Republic, with the accompanying letter from the French Ambas- sador—

Herttbrd House. Nov...

"Monsieur—Le Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President de ta Republiqua Franc:dee, m's chargé de vous informer de son intention d'offrir an Nouveau Club de l'Artnee et de la Marine on tapis des Gobelins. Le Pneedent de Is Republique aime a esperer que Messieurs lea membres do Club vondront bien leacoepter comme sin teinoignage des exeellens souvenirs Ted a conserves de son sejour eft Angleterre, et des precienses relations qu'il a ea he plaisir d'y entretenir aver pkt- Meares officiere de eArmee et de Is Flotte de la Grande Bretagne.

" Vous pourrez, Monsieur, -faire prendre ce tapis chez MM. Hindley et elonc 134 Oxford Street. ' "Recover, Monsieur, eastairance tie ma consideration distinguie.

"E. DROLIT/t DE !Arum

"Monsieur is Seeretaire da Nouveau Club de la Armee stile la Marine.' The Ticino Gazette announces that Mazzini has been expelled from the Canton de Vaud, by order of the Director of the Federal and Cantonal Po- floe, In virtue of the decree issued by the Diet against M. Mazzini in 1833.

A Cabinet Council is summoned for the 27th instant, and most of the Ministers will meet in London in a few days.

'Pile Queen has been pleased to renew the favour, now practically be- come a triennial one, of issuing her letter for a collection in aid of the funds of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor. The letter recites that the number of children attending schools in imme- diate oonnexion with the National Society amounted in 1813 to 40,484; in 1833 to 400,830; in 1837 to 597,911; in 1847, when the last return was made, to 816,874; and since that date they have proportionately increased. The whole number of children in attendance at Church Schools is esti- mated at a million and a half. The training institutions maintained by the National Society have during the last five years sent out 1,042 trained teachers (553 masters and 489 mistresses) into schools in various parts of the country. During the same time, the Society have expended in aid of building, enlarging, or otherwise improving school-rooms and teachers' re- sidences, 139,1971. 11g., in 1,940 cases of application; thereby affording ac- commodation for 265,542 children, at a total outlay of 767,980/.

The Gaceta tie Guatemala of 31st August contains an official notification from Lord Palmerston to the Guatemala Government, investing Mr. Fre- derick Chatfield, her Majesty's Consul-General in Central America, with the additional diplomatic character of Chargé d'Affaires to that Republic. The conclusion of a treaty of trade and navigation with England is men- tioned with satisfaction.

The Investigator and Enterprise arrived in the port of London on Sun- day, and have undergone official inspection. The ships were found in a good state of preservation, and the men in excellent health—quite reco- vered from their Arctic fatigues. Accounts of the progress of the ships on their voyage of discovery have appeared in the papers; one of them a full report by the Commander, Sir James Clarke Ross, to the Admiralty. We glean the leading points. The vessels entered Port Leopold on the 11th. September 1848, and landed three months' provision fur each ship at Whaler's Point; intending to press for- ward next morning. But weather indications induced ,Sir James Ross to stay where he was, and be frozen up there in preference to a worse berth. The ice had settled round him on the 24th. The crew cut a canal forty feet wide and two miles long, to a good safe berth; and there the ships took position for the winter, 200 yards apart. The winter was spent in the old manner,—in alternate teach- ing, games, and lively occupations: reading, writing, and arithmetic, were taught by the schoolmaster, and "a youngster from Greenwich School, named Grunsell, taught navigation." Scores of foxes were caught, and turned into "twopenny postmen," by putting copper collars round their necks, stamped with the names and positions of the ships and the localities of the provision-depots: these foxes mega enormous distances, and some of them would probably be caught by Sir John Franklin's party if it still held out anywhere. Detached parties were sent out in April, and on the 15th May the principal expedition under Sir James Ross set out. It went to the Westward about one hundred miles round the coast of North Somerset, from Cape Clarence to Cape Bunny, and thence one hundred and forty miles further; here the party erected a cairn and buried cylinders, dating them 5th June 1849. They could see forty miles further, and there was no probability that Franklin's ships had penetrated in that direction, at least daring that season. Sir James Ross regained his ships on the 23d of June. A second party, under Lieutenant Robinson, went -along the Western side of Prince Regent's Inlet, to Fury Point, and thence to Crenwell Bay, about twenty- five miles further. A third party proceeded to the North shore of Barrow's Straits, as far as Cape Hord, and thence to Leopold's Island. A fourth party set off Eastward, across the ice, from the Eastern nameless shore of Prince Regent's Inlet: they gained "the Peak," a remarkable hill marked in Parry's chart. All these parties reared cairns and left cylinders. The ships were cut out of the ice about the 6th August, and entered open water on the 28th; intending to go to Melville Island; but the wind suddenly came on hard, and brought the ice round them so fast that', they got packed in a floe, which took them, whether they would or not, two hundred and forty miles to the West coast of Baffin's Pay. They escaped from this dangerous prison on the 25th September; stood across the .Bay, and made Sanderson's Hope on the Greenland coast, near Upernaviek, the Danish settlement, on the 3d October. On the 18th, they rounded Cape Farewell; and on the 29th, the Orkneys. Some incidents are narrated. A bear walked into Captain Ross's party, and surveyed them with cool inquisitiveness; guns were levelled, and the bear was wounded in the head; he scratched his ear, and walked off with an air of superior contempt. Another bear was seen to slide on his haunches down a cliff of seven hundred feet high, steadying himself with his forepaws, most " judgmatically " as the sailors said.

A correspondent of the Times supplies an extract from his current read- ing in the classics, apposite to the discussion of the day on "that great Metropolitan sewer the Thames "—the 99th of Pliny's Epistles, with Tra- jan's reply— C. Pliant' Tr. Imp—" Amastrianorum civitas, domine, et elegans et ornate, habet inter praseipua opera pulcherrimam eandemquelongissimam plateam; cujus a latere per spatium omne porrigitur nomine quidem flumen, re vero cloaca faedis- sims; gum Meet turpis et immundissima aspectu its .pestilens est, odors teterrimo. Quibus ex canals non minus salubritatis quam decons interest earn contegi, quod Let ei permiseris, curantibas nobis ne desit quoque pecunia operi tam magno quern necessario." C. Trajanus Plinio.—"Itationis est, ml secunde carissime, contegi aquam istam gum per civitatem Amastrianorum ffuit, si detects salubritate obest. Fe-

cunia lane operi dealt, camturam te secundum diligentiarn tuam certum habeo."

An original suggestion of Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney for the drainage of London has been forwarded to the papers by his friend Mr. James Hann, of :King's College, Loudon.

"The current of the Thames, in round numbers, at London Bridge, runs down seven hours and up only five every tide; in winter more, in summer less, depending on the amount of river water ; it runs at a rate of about from five to seven miles per hour (no matter what the speed, let us suppose it to ran at the same rate up mid down for our present purpose). It is plain that anything thrown into and forming part of the Thames at high-water would in seven hours be carried more than forty miles down the river—never to return. In order to make this more clear, let us suppose a portioa of sewage (or, what is better, a sea log) to be thrown into the river precisely at laiglaswater at London Bridge: in seven hours, taking six ,miles per how as the ineemeate of current, it would be Carried forty-two miles clown the river...Pu. the ratara of the tide, in five hours, the full time of flow, it will only have come up thirty Miles, and at the time of high-water would be twelve miles below the bridge. _The.:next ebb would carry it forty-two miles further down the river, or fifty-four iiatles below LeSidep Brides; at the return of next high-water itAtild lefht.wenty-four uiiIes'down the nver; thus descending twenty-four miles in Welty-foir hours, until it went'

clear into the sea. If our numbers-sife-aletrict, ad they aea nee hrfik,ra t6. truth, it is self-evident that if the ' ,r111..ondon were collected aid eissq to ran into the Thames at high-water, sea log shove stated, a icssdd low-water be forty-two miles clown the river:, it would never retum to poste at river, for five hours flow would only bring it tillieitules below

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Mr. William Etty, RA., died at his residence.in.Yorksam,Theaday eres‘ Mr. Etty's state of health had long been such as to-render his death-an skeet n,3; unexpected, though sincerely regretted by all who 'meat einiable-abarade, and unfeigned devotion to art. Etty was boniat 1n-1787, where his father

was a miller ; and it was not till towards the close of a seven-yearsapprentice- ship to a printer that his natural bias towards painting became irrepressible

The Scotch papers report the death of. Mr. "Lyon of Kinordy, the father dal5 celebrated geologist, Sir Charles. Mr. Lyell was chiefly educated at Cambridge; after returning to his paternal estate at Kirriemuir, .in 1826, he became noted fct his scientific tastes and successful labouri in the field of botany; be also cultivated literary pursuits, and is amob thb many translators of Dente. Sir Charles Lyell is heir to the estates.

Among the obituary notices of the week are thearefl tiviivenalists—Mr. Charles. E. Horn, who died at Boston, in the United States, artha•26th, of October; sad

Mrs. H. P. Grattau, on the 3d instant. • 1 :4

By the death of Dr. French, Master of Jesus College, -Cambridge, a Canonry a the Chapter of Ely has been placed at the disposal of the Bishop. The Master_ ship of Jesus is itself also in the Bishop's patronage.- -

About three years since, Mr. George Smith, of Bredfield, a farmer who had re- tired from business, took up his residence at Ipswich for the benefit of his heals, In the course of the summer of 1848, he was in the habit of bathing at the Ips- wich bathing-place, on the river Orwell. Upon one occasion he had the misfor. tune to get out of his depth, and having sunk once, his life was saved by the tendant at the bathing-place, John Actful Dardy Simpson. Mr. Smith died on Monday last. In his will, as a mark of gratitude to Simpson for his "act of heroism," be has left to Simpson a life interest in five tenements of the value of 501. per annum.—Bury and Suffolk Berated.

Hugh Maley, a poor tramp, has been Itilied eviTaiiatecrlii- gardener. Simon quarrelled with Maley„a,ssaultectkies,) him down on a bed, took a knife froin.hiiiioeket ,Mitate

sassm was secured. .e,els la • A poacher has perished in the river Lyne, near. e End, in cam,bel: laud, while attempting to escape from a gamekeeper wmac-Iwl. deteeleal•hia0P act of shooting birds.

Two little girls have been found dead under a hedge neariiverpoalinwitllaadV also dead, stretched across the breast of the elder. ,Thwchildnimabsiebbelailook; jog for nuts thrown up by the sea from a wreck; andperthenestedibillhanget

cold, they-had-sought a refuge under the hedge. • otaha..ielau

Tuesday (the 6th) was the day on which we hadetikquitivestalatentoteeihter's snow. We had then a smart foretaste of Christina.S.',a8ifii* fe4Plaraikly,4ilth a ,c1riaing,wie.a.,;enclaitniakt. the Street-a Were dried b a score ai&firost, -, iris Lai et4 ibd everr pool Iee-t I ioand.- w **obi; kriOW:aL ateshea °Wryer.- 'X'""11.11 1,13&Strt

Thomas Kimpton, the Policeman who at the Dagenham inquest, some two years since, swore that his superior officer was on duly when he was in bed, and who was afterwards convicted of perjury and sentenced to seven years' transporta- tion, has received a free pardon. What are the "circumstances that have come to the knowledge of Sir George Grey," inducing him to take this step, is not mentioned. The other man who was convicted was pardoned some time since.

A new arrangement between the Postmaster-General and the London and North-western Railway Company has been entered into, by which the speed of the mail-trains on that line has been accelerated five miles per hour on the ave- rage. An hour is thereby gained between London and LiverpooL—Lirerpoo I Albion. • A number of locomotive engines has just been ordered of lifesara. Robert Ste- phenson and Co. for a railway in Peru.—Nerreastle Journal, . . .

The first tube of the Britannia Bridge was finally lowered by a fall of three feet to its permanent bed of plates and rollers, on Saturday,- The calamine tube on the Carnarvon shore will be raised about the 3d a tient month. The first line of tube is expected to be opened for traffic on the 1st of latarch next.

Tenders for a gas-holder, tank, and purifier,. to be erected . at Ilford, haring been requested, fifteen were sent in: the highest was 5651.; the lowest 1841.; and the works were completed for the latter sum.

The water-mark on paper, often referred to as a test of the date of wills and other documents, is by no means infallible. A correspondent of the Times writes a note dated the 8th instant, on paper marked 1850, and purchased, as he states, two months ago, to ask what would be the result of litigation with reference to a will made on such paper this year.

The Indian runner Canada has beaten the celebrated English runner Jackson in a foot-race at Buffalo of ten miles. Several Indians and some other English and American runners darted; but at the seventh mile, Canada, Jackson, and Armstrong, had it all to themselves. The race was run in 55 minutes 491 Se- conds; the first two miles respectively in 5 minutes 7 seconds and 4 minutes 31 'seconds, and the last two in 5 minutes 45 seconds and 5 'Mantes 241 seconds. A local paper says— The race was a beautiful and exciting Cate; and conducted With the utmost fairness. It is evident that the Indians are superior to the En lishinan, notwithstanding all that has been said about the superiority of 'Engl. stork, and bottom' and wind.' Canada, Coffee, and Smoke,-are beautiful refiners; and it is said that the two latter—both of whom have formerly beaten Canada- made no extra exertions, but ran under directions; and either could undoubtedly have beaten Jackson, had it become necessary to pat their mettle to the test."

The roof of St. Michael's Church at Cambridge was much damaged by are on Sunday last. For some time, the slow arrival of' engines and-want of water kept the church in danger of total destruction; but the collegians formed long it to the Cam, in which some of them stood up to their middle filling the buckets; and they worked with such spirit and cooperation that the fire was subdued. A motion to remove Mr. Hudson's portrait from the Mansionhoase of pork has been rejected, after warm debate, by 13 votes to 11—ten gentleittelrisiii4 also

present who would not vote at all. . 2rne A Limerick paper states that one of the inmates of the workboaseetfabst city is a lady whose husband a few years since filled the office of High Sheriff of the eareawa on i county. Mr. R Edinonds; Penzance, has given an account of some inPialls*PFfMalem

.remains, discovered in the stream which flows into Mount-Bay at rdoienliat Market Jew, in Cornwall.

Several letters of Bossnet to a nun one containing the manuscript of illquia have been discovered in the library of 'La Flache.

. ' .- o- .: 'ilokosoom A A number of past-letters having been observed-at the outlet ofardraishatia& ton, near Abingdon, they were collected, end Burrows; theyastraan pf the aistri.eti was told of the discovery. He immediately wt to Alaipgdeakaa0 r ' adbul" of the self to the Pollee. Another lot of letters wasafiesia pp,gpr ,,,,, 4 letters discovered, thirty-six in number, were3nap . •- • ifts$05,2 Taloa; 'The as- ekkkee,Ben aftleiwSeedefon the_week ending the 10th Noyernher egeeeithe preceding week, the following reeults- ei ,bsimeRAMeistANKT,fr- Incre=12d- Decrease.

.£2,3 van Meow if • e. • wmees sst*Sei - Seven-day and other Rills Goventme_ut Securit1e8kinein44tig14ea4weight

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Notes issued Belon Total Bullion in both Departments Actual circulation 212,470 344,924 This week. Last week.

15,820,912 15,475.988 18,415,680 18,880,735 9.076 677,525

£47,665.

' 9,1460 45.5,055