liflistellaneous.

At a Chapter held by the Lord-Lieutenant in Dublin Castle, on Monday last, the Earl of Fingal' was invested with the riband and badge of the order of St. Patrick.

The Right Reverend Thomas Fowler Short, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, has been appointed to the vacant see of St. Asaph.

It is stated that Sir Henry Pottinger, the newly-appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, will set out for the colony without delay.

It is rumoured that Lord Dalhousie will succeed Sir George Arthur as Governor of Bombay.

The celebrated Greek General Kalergi, who so admirably conducted the movement at Athens on the 15th of September 1843, arrived in town on the 10th instant.—Times.

- The Clamor Public° announces that Mr. Richard Cobden, the "cele- brated economist," has arrived at Madrid; and claims for him a hearty wel- come by the Spanish Liberal party.

News has been received from Gibraltar of the death of Viscount Allen, at the rock, on the 21st of September. Lord Allen was in his sixty-fourth year. He has left no issue; and the title is understood to be extinct. This event causes a vacancy in the Irish Peerage; which enables the Govern- ment to make a new creation, a third title having become extinct. The other two recently extinct are the peerages of Hartland and Mount Sandford.

Mr. J. C. Colquhoun, M.P., has been dangerously ill of severe gastric fever, at Killermont, his Scotch residence. From the last accounts it ap- sears that he is out of danger; but his recovery must be slow.

It will be seen from our list of marriages, that Lady Rose Somerset and Captain Lovell were joined together in matrimony on Sunday last. As the ceremony was performed by the Reverend Edward Everard, the Vicar of Didmartin, who is chaplain to the Duke of Beaufort, it is supposed that the Duke's consent to the marriage was obtained.

The Suffolk Chronicle mentions an instance of "Sir Robert Peel's un- it:obtrusive benevolence." It was related by Mr. Wilderspin, in a lecture which he delivered at the Ipswich Mechanics Institution; and the anecdote is given in the speaker's own words-

" Some of you have heard of Hayden the painter, whose death was rather lamentable; and no doubt, you have heard that Sir Robert Peel, the late Prime Minister of England, sent that man 501. in his distress. It ought to be known, by my moving about the country in this manner—and I never thought of self, for I always had faith that say countrymen would not allow me to die in a union, and that the Almighty would not allow me to ask for the common necessaries of life—that I had spent all my money. I was at last reduced to the utmost ex- tremity. I wanted a crust of bread; yet! kept the secret within my own breast. I set out for an obscure village, where I thought I would end my days. A friend called upon me. And when 1 bad not a single shilling in my house—when I had nothing to offer him, for I felt I should degrade my cause by running into debt— when my poor dog was as thin as my children--50/, came from the Prime Minister of England, Sir Robert Peel. Thus, you see, there are two men whom he has benefited : one is now in the eternal world, and the other is the humble indi- vidual who stands before you."

Bread in the Metropolis has again risen in price during the week. Its. Glasgow it is as high as in London, and in the provinces prices are rising.. It is the same abroad. At Odessa, new wheat obtained from 34s. to 34s. 8d. At Dantzic, prices had risen to 55s. to 57s. free on board. In the United States there is a considerable advance in all kinds of grain. The- Mark Lane Express estimates the failure in the potato crop of Western Europe at two-thirds, in the oat and rye crops at one-third; a deficiency that must be supplied by using the better kind of grain. There is even a fear that next year wheat crops may fail from insufficient reserve of seed. Meanwhile, there is a brisk con- sumption in England, as yet unchecked by rising prices. The supply does not appear to be obtainable in those countries to which we- usually look for aid. The Baltic, which has hitherto furnished us. with three-fourths of our foreign supplies in years of deficiency; is this year yielding none. The Black Sea (and its Italian entrepots), the United States, and Canada, will probably furnish abundant contributions, but not rapidly enough to check prices for some time. The recent arrival of a cargo of fine wheat from Van Diemen's Land, at Liverpool, reminds us cf a source that might have been made available, and will become so under- the new Corn-law.

The Commissioners of Customs have issued directions to the different ports for returns of all the corn, grain, meal, and flour imported into the United Kingdom during the present year; and also for the, amount ex- ported, and to what countries, and whether of home or foreign production. —Daily News.

It is stated by a writer at Stutgard, on good authority, "that the Wur- temberg Government has sent well-instructed persons to Hungary and to America to make large purchases of corn; and that three million florins had been voted for that purpose."

The Dublin Evening Mail stated, on Monday, that Archbishop Whately had refused to pernAt the form of prayer, recently issued by the Queen la Council, to be used in St. Stephen's Church; and-that he had preached a. 'sermon in which he argued, that as the scarcity is a visitation of Divine wrath, the prayer against it amounted to blasphemy. The next numbered the Mail contained a denial of this story, by the Reverend F. B. Wood-. ward. Dr. Whately's sermon was in the very opposite sense to that de- scribed by the journal. It was not the Archbishop who forbade the new form of prayer to be used in St. Stephen's Church, but the clergymen of St. Stephen's: they thought it their duty to use the form of prayer "appointed by the Church to be used in time of scarcity 'and famine,'" instead of the form issued by the Privy Council; those gentlempn "not. being aware that the Privy Council have power to relax the Act of Uni- formity, or to shelter the clergy from the penalties to which they become. liable by violating it."

A London journal has pretended that the French Government had de- manded from the English Government the extradition of the Count de Mon- temolin. We are authorized to give to this assertion the most formal con- tradiction.—Journal des Dibats.

Orders have been received to prepare thirty-three marten° towers be- tween Hastings and Seaford to receive guns. When the towers were aban- doned, or considered no knger necessary as means of defence, they were inhabited by men in the Coast Guard service, and their families. The tops of the towers were cemented over in a dome form, up to the top of the spindle on which the swivel-gun was fixed. The whole of that covering is ordered to be forthwith taken off, and a new traversing course of stone to be laid clown.—Brighton Guardian.

Three gentlemen abroad lay claim to the invention of a fulminating gun- cotton. M. Chodosko, a Pole, has exhibited some at the Academy of Sciences in Paris; but it has the defect of leaving a considerable deposit in the gun-barrel. M. Morel, a mechanical engineer at Paris, has taken out a patent for his invention; which has received scientific and official approbation. "Burned on the hand, it causes no sensible pain, leaves no stain, and produces no smoke. Dipped in water and pressed, and after- wards-dried between two leaves_ of blotting-paper, it preserves its fulmi- nating properties." Another inventor is Dr. Otto, Professor of Chemistry in Brunswick. Sneering at those who have been before him in protecting their inventions, he says that he "scorns to sell or take out a patent fcm his very interesting discovery ;" and he publishes his method of making.tlie cotton, "for the general good of the public "— "Common well-cleaned cotton is dipped for about half-a-minute in highly concentrated nitric acid, (the acid whichl use being made by the distillation of ten parts of dried saltpetre and six of oil of vitriol,) and then instantly'placed in water, which must be often renewed, in order to free the cotton fromthe acid with which it is impregnated. Care must then be taken that all the knotty particles of ther cotton are properly disentangled, and that it is thoroughly dried. -After this, the explosive preparation is ready for use: its effects create astonishment in all who witness them- and the smallest portion explodes when struck on an anvil with a hammer, like fulminating powder; when kindled with a glowing body, it takes fire just gunpowder; and when used in a gun, its operation, though in a fisr greater proportion to its weight, is precisely the same as that of gunpowder. This gun-cotton is employed exactly in the same way as gunpowder: a piece of it is. rammed down the barrel, then a bit of wadding, and after that a ball; a copper-cap ignites and explodes the cotton."

The chess match between Mr. Staunton and Mr. Harwitz, after a struggle of nearly six weeks' duration, has terminated in favour of the English player. Mr. Staunton gained the whole of the games in which he gave no odds, and the ma- jority of these wherein he gave the very large odds of a pawn and two mores. The memoir of Thomas Clarkson, published in the papers recently, omitted to mention that he was a clergyman of the Established Church. Such, nevertheless, is the fact. He was made a deacon in early life; but his exertions in the cause of Emancipation brought him into connexion with many estimable Quakers, whose views he imbibed to a very considerable extent. The consequence was, that he -dropped the title of" reverend," and ceased to officiate as a clergyman.— Globe.

• A statement appears in the Irish papers respecting an attempt to break the specu- lum of Lord Rosse's telescope; but there is some error in the tale. It is given in a letter that purports to be written at Armagh, and speaks of the telescope as being ." in this neighbourhood." Now Parsonstown, Lord Rosse's place, is a hundred miles distant from Armagh; so that if there is any truth at all in the dory, the instrument meant must be one belonging to Dr. Robinson, the well-known astro- nomer, who does live near Armagh. The offenders are said to be a party of three well-dressed men from Cheltenham; and the motive which they avowed was a religious belief, that" it was blasphemy to scrutinize too closely the works of the Creator." • A correspondent of the Dublin Pilot, writing from Philipstown on Tuesday, mentions, "on the authority of several credible and respectable persons," a strange proof of the famine in Ireland—" In the neighbourhood of Ballyburney, between this town and Edenderry, there is a grove of large trees which from tune imme- morial has been the resting-place of an immense number of crows. Last night the people of the locality were alarmed and kept awake by the continuous cries and screamings of these birds: at day-break this morning, many people repaired to the place to ascertain the cause of the disturbance; when, to their astonishment and alarm, they beheld large numbers of dead crows lying upon the ground; which, on balg examined, appeared to have been reduced to skeletons by hunger, and to have been actually starved to death !"

Lieutenant Story, of the Retribution steam-frigate, was tried by a Court-mar- tial, on board the Victory in Portsmouth Harbour, on Saturday, for having or- dered Edward Redpath, captain of the hold, to be imprisoned in the port coal- bunker without having authority from the Captain for so doing; the said Redpath having died while so confined. It appeared from the medical evidence, that the man did not perish from the heat of the place, but was suffocated by carbonic acid gas, produced by the coals' having been moved about. The Lieutenant had no • suspicion of this danger. He received an excellent character as a humane and considerate officer; and it appeared that he had been countenanced by the Cap- tain in inflicting minor punishments, with advantageous results, both in point of -discipline and leniency. The Court came to the decision that the charge was fully proved, but that no blame was attributable to Lieutenant Story; and the President returned Mr. Story his sword, with compliments.

• Lieutenant Henry Augustus Smith, of the Royal Artillery, has been tried by a Court-martial, at Dublin, for accepting a bill for 501. knowing that he would not -lave the means of paying it when it should become due; and also for dishonour- - ing the bill, falsely stating that he had received no value for it, and pleading that ,Ins was a minor when he accepted it The note was given to Mr. Lewis Gorer, a Jew; who deposed that he had supplied goods and lent money to Mr. Smith, re- ceiving the bill in payment of his account. The counsel for the prisoner stated that this was false: Lieutenant Smith wanted some money, and Gorer, of whom be had purchased cigars, offered to raise him 40/. on a bill for 501.; he got the document from the officer, but never paid him a farthing. Lieutenant Smith was notindebteel to him for anything. Evidence was tendered which in some measure -supported these statements; and many witnesses gave the prisoner the highest character for honourable and gentlemanly conduct. The finding of the Court will not be known till it be approved by the Commander-in-chief.

• The accounts of the Great Britain steam-ship given by the Liverpool Courier may be considered as filial for the present. "All the attempts made to gat this line vessel off the sands at Dundrum Bay having failed, Captain Hosken, on • Tuesday, had all her sails set, and drove her higher up on the beach, as she was then making two feet of water more per hour than the pumps could keep free. From the latest accounts, it appears that all chance Of getting the Great Britain off is nearly at an end. It is supposed she must at least wait for the high tides of the spring. A protecting breast-work is to be constructed round her. We learn that she has been insured in London for about 20,0001. An insurance has -also, it steins, been effected at Glasgow, but to what extent we do not know. It however, believed that the whole insurances fall far short of her cost—that is, above 120,0001.; and beyond this, we hear that the underwriters refuse to pay, on the ground that the vessel was lost through gross negli„aence. The position of the Great Britain down to Friday. last, was then nothing better ; and the spring- tides having passed away without the efforts made during their continuance having been attended with success, the destruction to a very great extent of this fine property is almost inevitable. Her condition is described as bad, no less than fourteen feet of water in the hold."

The Great Western arrived at New York on the 30th September, after having encountered a very severe storm. On the 19th, a sea struck the ship, wideh smashed the larboard paddle-box to atoms, and sprung the spring-beam; splinter struck the captain on the head, and would have knocked him overboard, but he was caught in the nettings. On the 21st, she was again in the greatest danger from a tornado, which buried the gunwales of the vessel in the sea. At the very height of the tempest, and when the hatches were battened down, the spars and boats torn away, and the water gaining on the pumps, a religious service was held in the cabin, and the holy communion was administered by the Reverend Mr. Balch, a minister of the Episcopal Church, to more than ninety persons; who partook of the sacrament, many of them for the first time, but all with the con- viction that it would be the last, and that death was immediately before them. After safe arrival, a letter of thanks was presented to the captain and officers by the passengers; who also subscribed 2801. to be given to the officers and crew fir their meritorious efforts.

The Times publishes an extraordinary tale of railway experiences, furnished by a correspondent. AMr. Parker, of Sydenhtun, was travelling by the mail-train from Derby to London, on Monday last; and his only companion in the carriage was a gentlemanly man, about thirty. This person began to ramble in his language, and eventually was seized with a fit of raving madness. He prayed fervently— declared a railway engine that passed to be hell—stripped himself naked—thrust his head through the window, cutting his head and neck with the glass—mauled Mr. Parker severely—and then returned to prayers. Mr. Parker called in vain for aid; and ultimately escaped by the dangerous means of scrambling into the next carriage; where he found another passenger, who helped him in. The madman tried to follow; but the two sane gentlemen succeeded in keeping him out; and he was last seen, near the Watford station, running naked by the side of the road. "Frequent and unavailing appeals were made to the guard for assistance, stating that a gentleman was dying: and the reply was, that being after their time, they could not stop, as the Manchester train was close behind them." The maniac has been recovered. He was found early on Tuesday morning, near Reuse! Green, by some labourers on the farm of Mr. Edward Salter, Notting Barns. He came over a bridge, naked with the exception of his trousers and socks and covered with blood and earth. On being told he was trespassing, he became exceeding violent, and it required the strength of twelve men to secure him. He was then bound with cords, and handed over to the Police; by whom he was lodged in Kensington Workhouse. Here it occupied Mr. Gitazzarom till four o'clock in the afternoon to cleanse and dress his wounds. He stated his name to be Osborne Markham, and said that he lived at No. 94, Mount Street, Berkeley Square. On inquiry this was found to be correct; and thither he was removed in the evening by a surgeon whom his friends sent for him. "There is every rearm," says a report in the Times," to bel:eve that he is lighly connected—that he is re- lated to a noble duke, uncle to a marquis, on! the 1 rother of a titled lady." The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle describes "the event of the fort- night" at New York—the opening of a new shop for ladies by Messrs. Stewart, the "Swan and Edgar" of that city. "The building to which these respectable tradesmen have now transferred their goods is more like a royal _palace than a place for shopping; and its pro,gress and embellishment-fettle hist thaekrahaths have been watched with general public interest. It is a vast structure of inarble, with a facade of fluted columns, fronting on Broadway, of a very chaste and neat style of architecture; a third larger, perhaps, than the largest of the new club- houses in London. The interior rises into a dome, with a most imposing circular gallery and staircase leading to the upper warehouses; the walls and ceilings are finely painted in fresco; and no expense had been spared on its arrangement, de- coration, and structure. It is, without doubt, the handsomest shop in the world. On the first day the police-officers at the doors reported the visiters, for twelve suesaasive hours, to be a little over one thousand per hour ! There are over one hundred clerks employed in this vast shop; and for them Mr. Stewart has built in the rear of his marble bazaar a boarding-house, with baths and library, a se- parate room for each young man, and rooms for the teaching of languages and other parts of mercantile education. The stock of goods on the shelves and coun- ters on the day of opening was to the value of six hundred thousand dollars."

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

L7motle for Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious) Diseases ropsy,Cancer,and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat isemies of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses &eases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration iseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Iseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Number of Autumn Annual deaths. average. average.

Total (Including unspecified causes) The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 72.8° in the sun to 45.50 in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 3.30. The mean direction of the wind for the week was South- south-west. ildbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc.....

heumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc iseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.

1,1 Age iolence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

leases of the Kidneys, Sc 189 ...

93 ... 208 ...

104 ...

188 10t

130 ... 151 ... 157 278 ... 313 ... 294 34 ... 29 ... 27 86 ... 70 ... 71

14 ...

11 ... 10 32 ... 88 ... 87 905 ... 1,000 . 91117