Aliscellantous.

We much regret to state that the health of the Earl of Lincoln is far from being in a satisfactory state, his Lordship having recently had repeated at- tacks of the gout, which have invariably had a tendency to the heart; his Lordship's medical attendants, however, do not anticipate any actual dis- ease there. His Lordship, accompanied by his brother, Lord Robert, Mr. Granville Vernon jun., and three or four other gentlemen, we believe, will set out in the Gitana yacht on Monday next for Spain, and it is the present intention of the party to remain abroad for eight or nine months, during which they will visit the Holy Land, Sicily, and Italy, and proceed up the Nile as far as the cataracts.—Doncaster Chronicle.

The Duke of Leuchtenberg arrived in London on Saturday, on his way, it is said, from St. Petersburg to Madeira, for his health. Maximilian Jo- seph Eugene Augustus Napoleon, Duke de Leuchtenberg and Prince d'Eichstadt, was born 2d October 1817, and succeeded to the ducal title on the death of his father, Duke Augustus, 28th March 1835. He married, 14th July 1839, the Grand Dutchess Mary Nicolaiewna, eldest daughter of the Emperor of Russia; and has several children. Since his marriage he has chiefly resided at St. Petersburg, and but seldom visited his possessions in Bavaria. The Duke raembarked on Thursday, in the Russian frigate Kamschatka, and proceeded for his destination.

General Cabrera arrived in London on Saturday evening, and visited the Jeripling Post establishment on Tuesday.

The Count de Montemolin arrived at Berlin on the 11th instant; and WS invited to dine with the King and Queen. The Spanish Envoy, the Marquis de Val de (Llama, who is also accredited to the Saxon Court, left Berlin for Dresden two or three days previous to the Count's arrival, and was followed by his secretaries and attaches, in consequence, probably, of Count Moutemolin having taken up his quarters at the- same hotel where those gentlemen were lodged. It is reported that the person charged with carrying out the Court invitations, which are made verbally and not by card or letter, entered the apartment of one of the Spanish secretaries, and, without the slightest knowledge of committing a mistake, very respectfully requested the Secretary to communicate the Royal invitation to "his Majesty the King of Spain." "His Majesty the King of Spain," replied the Hidalgo, with a most awful accompanying carrainba, "is at Aranjuez or Madrid; but I will not fail to inform my chief, who is at Dresden, of the Royal invitation intended for the King."— Berlin Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.

A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 31st July, states that Lady Franklin had addressed a memorial to the Emperor, stating that her husband's Arctic expedition might have been thrown on the coast of Siberia or Nova Zombie. The Emperor "instantly resolved to fit out an expedition to search those distant shores." "For this purpose, the Imperial Academy of Science at St. Petersburg has been consulted as to the best course it would be expedient to adopt."

Accounts from the Sandwich Islands, dated the 20th of May, announce that her Majesty's ships Pandora and Herald were anchored at those is- lands. It will be remembered that they were, some time ago, instructed to search in the Northern Pacific for the adventurous Polar navigator, in order to render succour if such were required.—Times.

A Marseilles paper reports the sequel to the story of the fugitives from Italy- " The Vautour steamer, and the Gennaro, which contain the unfortunate Sici- lians who were concerned in the late insurrection, have returned to Tunis ; hos- pitality having been refused them at Bona and Algiers, as it had previouely been at Malta and at this place. The Bey intends to send them back to Malta; and it is to be hoped, for the sake of humanity, that the English Government will put an end to their misery, either by securing for them a safe return to their own country, or by indicating a place for them to go to. Their position on board the vessels is truly dreadful, reminding one of the misery which was suffered on the raft of the Meduse. They are two hundred and fifty in number, with wives and children ; and many of them are wounded or ill."

The long-pending negotiations between the East India Company and the East India Railway Company have at last been brought to a practical con- clusion. The Times gives the following summary of the terms of the Com- pact under which railways in India are to be commenced- " The East India Railway Company is to start with a capital of 1,000,0001. sterling; which is to be paid into the Treasury of the East India Company by the following instalments. A deposit of 60,000/. has already been made, which still stands to the credit of the shareholders with the East Indian Treasury; and the expenses incurred in prosecution of the undertaking, amounting up to the 28th of last March to 33,6001., are also permitted to count as portion of the capital; so that the sum remaining to be provided is only 906,4001. Of this sum 106,400/. is to be forthcoming within four calendar months from the date of the deed, and the remaining amount is to be paid up in such portions and at such times as shall be assented to by the East India Company, after a rate of not less than 300,0001. per annum. Thiscapital is to bear an interest of five per cent guaranteed and payable by the East India Company ; and upon it the Railway Company is to draw, from time to time, for such sums as the proper execution of their works can be duly shown to require. "From these funds a railway is to be constructed under the immediate direction and control of the East India Company. It is to commence either at Calcutta or at some spot within ten miles of that city, and is to take a direction towards the upper provinces; the first section being so laid down that it may admit of being continued either to Rajmahal or the more distant station of Mirzapore. Over the arrangement and construction of this line the East India Company is to exercise a supervision amounting to a virtual dictation of all the engineering and archi- tectural conditions involved in the work; and as the project is avowedly experi- mental, a power is also reserved to the Indian Government of altering at pleasure either the character or direction of the line itself."

The Great Western Railway Company held their half-yearly meeting on Thursday. The board of Directors with deep regret recommended a re- duced dividend of 21. for the six months ending last June. The report stated that the result of the accounts for the half-year, which might have yielded a dividend at the rate of 51. per cent per annum, with a small balance over, will only supply funds for a dividend of 4 per cent per annum; leaving, however, the sum of 18,0201. as a balance, to be hereafter appropriated as may seem most advisable. After long discussion, the re- port was adopted.

The London and North-western Railway Company held their half- yearly meeting yesterday. A dividend of Si. 10s. for the six months end- ing hut June was recommended by the Directors and unanimously adopted by the meeting.

The harvest accounts continue as favourable as they were last week in relation to the cereal crops, which are everywhere large and forward. The storms of the early part of the week have had some ill effect in the North of England and in Ireland; but in the South and Midland English dis- tricts most of the corn was in sheaf and shock, and a great deal of it al- ready carried, before the bad weather commenced. The potato crop is par- tially attacked by the rot in Ireland; but on the whole, that crop also is comparatively uninjured.

On application to the authorities by the Board of Health, the Ordnance department have ordered tents to be supplied to the inhabitants of Mega- veney, Cornwall, for them to live under whilst their village is being cleaned. Her Majesty's lighter Rochester sailed from Devonport with the tents on Tuesday last.

It is decided that the proposed Vernon testimonial shall consist of a marble bust of Mr. Vernon, with an ornamented pedestal, to be placed in the National Gallery.--Iforning Post.

We see it stated, on what we deem good authority, that the terms of a divorce have been agreed upon by the counsel in the case of Pierce Butler v. Fanny

Kemble Butler, satisfactory to both parties. The principal conditions are, that Mr. Butler is to allow Mrs. Butler 1,500 dollars annually; he to retain pesses- sion of their children (two daughters,) excepting two months in each year which they are to spend with their mother. The arrangement was agreed to some weeks since, both preferring it to a further contest before the courts; and the daughters are now with their mother, in Massachusetts, where she proposes taking up her residence.—Philadelphia Paper.

The Countess of Landsfeldt and Mr. Heald arrived in Paris on Saturday even-

ing- Lord Londonderry has stated to the newspapers that he received Lieutenant Heald's resignation under his own hand, through Colonel MDougal, commanding the regiment, and forwarded the same, according to his bounden duty, to he laid before her Majesty, with the promotion in succession.

The change of names which eighteen months since was made in the Colleges of Paris was not readily accepted, and many persons had not been able to accustom themselves to the nomenclature. It was necessary to translate Louis-le-Grand by Descartes, Saint-Louis by Menge, Henri IV. or Napoleon by Corneille. Tra- dition was interrupted; the reminiscences of youth were disturbed and saddened by this disrespect to the memory of /the old and glorious patrons of the Colleges. The heads of the Colleges, the pupils, and their families, exclaimed against this useless and pnerile innovation. We learn with pleasure that the Government have it in contemplation to restore to the Lyceums of Paris their former names. The Lycee Charlemagne and the Lyeke Bonaparte will retain their present names; the Lycie Descartes will resume that of Louis-le-Grand, and the Lye& Menge that of Saint-Louis. The Lye& Corneille will be called the Lycee Napoleon, as tinder the Empire.—Conatitutionnel.

When three of the crew of the Amelia, on the voyage from Mazatlan to Hong- kong, iii October last, murdered the master, the mate the supercargo' and a pas- senger, and then seized the command of the ship and its freight of bullion and other property, it was Jan Smit, a Dutchman, seconded by others of the crew, who successively killed the villanons mutineers and then safely took the ship to the Sandwich Islands. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette tells the sequel regarding the courageous Hollander. "We have the gratification to state, that Jan Smit of Rotterdam, whose conduct on this occasion is above all praise, has been presented with 1,1001. by several of the insurance companies; and also with a valuable sextant, by Ashdown, of Finch Lane, with the following inscription—

"Presented to Mr. Jan Smit, of Rotterdam, by the Corporation of the Royal Ex- change, the Corporation of the London, the Indemnity Mutual Marine, the Marine, and the Alliance, Marine Insurance Companies of London, In testimony of their high estimation of Mr. Smit's services, and their special appreciation of the fidelity and courage displayed by him in rescuing the schooner Amelia, of Glasgow, and her valuable cargo, out of the hands of mutineers, during her voyage front Mazatlan to China, In the year 1848. "London, Aug. 1, 1849."

It is stated by the Preston Chronicle, that Mr. Edward Brown has at last ac- complished the liquefaction of hydrogen gas; an experiment which chemists have many years attempted in vain.

There are now living within half a mile of Bromsgrove, on the Worcester road, four children born at one birth, all girls. They are fifteen months old; two of them can walk alone, and the others nearly so. The father is a labouring man named Lambert. His wife at her previous confinement bore him three children, the whole of whom are also alive; making seven children within two years.

A farmer in Suffolk has been fined 11. and costs, for drawing blood from an old woman whom he called a witch, by scratching her head with a nail. He said she had bewitched him.—Bedford Times.

Samuel Ensor, a boy of eleven, has been drowned in the artesian well which supplies the fountains of Trafalgar Square. The boy was the son of the engineer of the works at Orange Street: on Monday evening, during the absence of the men, he took another boy into the engine-room to look at the works; which be had been expressly forbidden to do. While there one of the managers of the Works entered; Ensor, frightened, suddenly. stepped back, and the well being par- tially uncovered he fell into it: the depth of the well is 140 feet to the water, and the water is 60 feet deep. When the boy was got up he was quite dead. A New York paper reports that San Francisco had been "excited" by a dis- covery that its streets were "paved with gold ". and indeed numbers of See whole of the ore were found in the paths: this called together a crowd of ea- .

thusiastic collectors, who thought that by digging they might find a more copious supply. It turned out, however, that the minute specks of gold were merely on the surface, and had been swept out of the stores, where gold-dust is taken in exchange for goods. A boy has been found hanging dead in a joiner's shop at Halifax. It would seem that the death was accidental; as the boy and others his companions had recently been making foolish experiments on hanging. A very extensive fire has occurred at Mr. Webb's farm at Wennington, near Raynharn, by which large quantities of farm produce and numerous buildings were destroyed. The area of the fire at one time was more than half an acre, it is believed that the fire was wilful: arson has recently been rife in the neigh_ bourhood.

A remarkable case, illustrating an unusual degree of perversity on the part of a child nine years old, occurred recently at Dunkirk. The boy first threw him- self under the wheels of an omnibus, and was rescued with some difficulty by the passers-by. He next attempted suicide by throwing himself before a railway train; but his attempt was frustrated in like manner. Finally, having announced to his little comrades that he was resolved on dying because his parents beat him every day, the unhappy infant threw himself into the canal at Bergues, and perished. Since the Revolution of February, we have had several examples of suicide committed by children of very tender age.—Paris Correspondent of the Medical Times.

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

Total (including unspecified causes) 1909 1008

"The deaths in Loudon during the week ending August llth were 1,909. The mortality 'is somewhat leas than it was in the previous week. The deaths from all causes in the last six weeks were 1,070, 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,967, and 1,909; of which 393, 630, 1,002, 1,173, 1,308, and 1,185, were by diseases of the zymotic class. Smallpox, scarlatina, and hooping-cough are comparatively quies- cent; typhus is more fatal than it was. The excess of 901 deaths over the aver- age is due to diarrhcea and cholera, which were fatal to 173 and 823 persons. The deaths from cholera during the last six weeks were 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, and 823. The decrease is gratifying; but it is right to observe that the improve- ment is chiefly confined to West London, Poplar, St. George Southwark, Newing- ton, Camberwell, and Lambeth. The deaths from cholera in the two last weeks were 29 and 48 in Wandsworth; 9 and 21 in Pancras; 4 and 14 in Islington; 3 and 10 in London City; 16 and 35 in Bethnal Green; 15 and 85 in St. Giles. The deaths from all causes on the North side the Thames (1,118) were 89 more than the deaths (1,029) of the previous week. The parishes which have not yet been visited must be on their guard. Those in which the epidemic has partially subsided should redouble their precautions. It is satisfactory to find that the deaths of 819 out of the 823 persons who died last week of cholera are certified. They were seen by qualified medical attendants. But it is to be feared that the advice was not obtained in time. If this were done, and proper precautions taken, the tragedies of Albion Terrace, Wandsworth Road, where seventeen persons died in two weeks in ten houses, could eearcely recur. The particulars ot the seven- teen deaths will be found in the notes under Wandsworth and Clapham. Another case appears this week in the note under Hampstead. In the house No. 6 Al- bion Terrace, five deaths have been registered—a Wesleyan minister's wife, aged 59; his mother, 80; a widow, 49; and two old servants. This is all we learn from tha Clapham Registrar. The Registrar of Hampstead adds, that during the week, an aged man came with a friend to Hampstead for change of air,—breakfasted, dined, went to London to transact business at the Bank of England, and after his return seemed 'pretty well'; at. six o'clock the next morning he felt ill, and had medical advice, but died in eight hours. This old minister was apparently the last of his family, for he had seen his mother, wife, and servants die, before him in Albion Terrace, and could not fly from the poison which he carried in his breast. Such scenes of desolation could scarcely happen without great ngligence on the part of the people themselves and on the part of the authorities." The mean direc- tion of the wind for the week was South-west.

[Mr. John Charles Atkinson, surgeon, writes to the Times, from No. 4 Albion Terrace, to correct the foregoing statement. "The number of cases which have occurred in a line of seventeen houses, detached and attached, has been, up to this date, 50, and the deaths 27. It is well to mention that any one, friend or nurse, who slept even for a night in any of these houses after its first appearance in this part of the terrace, was almost sure of an attack. The plague appears not to have extended beyond 150 yards, and this only on one side of the road. Every one of those first attacked perished in between twelve and fourteen hours. The major part of these cases were unattended by any premonitory symptoms; sudden sickness being quickly followed by two or three copious evacuations, and almost instantaneously, as it were, succeeded by complete collapse, which generally con- tinued, notwithstanding the most energetic treatment, till death took place. There is no analogy between these cases of the effects of a large concentrated de- gree of the choleraic poison and those wherein the milder attacks are only fol- lowed by graver symptoms. All the residents of the houses were in what may be termed good condition: their means ample, living regularly, and havig theF houses daily ventilated, no undarious exhalations have affeeted them. There is a ditch of some 250 yards to the back of these houses, perhaps emitting gaseous products; but it must be known, to exhibit the eccentricity of this disease, thaL the inhabitants living immediately contiguous to these abominations have been peculiarly exempted. Your remarks that 'such scenes of desolation could scarcely happen without great negligence on the part of the people themselves, or on the part of the authorities,' are therefore not borne out by the facts above stated."]

Number of Summer Deaths, Average.

Zymotie Diseases 1182 .... 302

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 42 .. • • 44

Tubercular Diseases 173 .... 'so

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses lie.... 119

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28 .... yg

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 102 .... 81 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 74 .... 76 Diseases of the Kidne s. fie 16 .... 11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, fie 8 .... 7 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, dre Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 2 Nalformati ns.

Premature Birth 23 .... 25

Atrophy . IS .... 21 Age. 39 .... 43 Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33 .... 38