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Government is about to purchase a large piece of ground at Shoebury- nese, for Artillery practice.

The death of Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs vacates the post of Com- mander-in-chief at Portsmouth. Sir Thomas had been sixty-one years in the service.

It is now confidently stated that Prince Albert of Saxony will marry the Princess of Wasa.

.Abd-el-Kader reached Lyons on Sunday night, on his way to Broussa. Lord Howden, who has been absent from his post for some time, re- turned to Madrid on the 9th instant.

Count Than succeeds Baron Prokesch as Austrian Envoy at Berlin.

It is stated that M. His de Butenval, the French Minister at Turin, has been recalled.

Count Walsh, the last survivor of the Irish Brigades in the French service, died at Paris on the 10th, in the ninetieth year of his age.

Mr. William Empson, Professor at Haileybury, where he succeeded Sir James Mackintosh, and editor of the _Edinburgh _Review, died on the 10th, at the College. He was an excellent professor, an able and kindly reviewer and an amiable man. He had been married to Lord Jeffrey's only child.

Mr. Thomas Ballantine, one of the Magistrates of the Thames Police Court for twenty-seven years, died on Tuesday, in his seventy-fourth year. For many years he managed the River Police, and since his retire- ment he has been one of the Middlesex Magistrates. His son, Mr. Wil- liam Ballantine, is a well known barrister of the Home Circuit and Central Criminal Court.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times, writing on the 12th instant, states, that the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle was arrested on the 10th, because his letters published in the Chronicle were hostile to Austria. When he was liberated, on the 11th, his papers were seized at his lodgings. It appears, too, that Lord Pevensey, an attache of Lord Stratford when at Constantinople, was lately refused a vise to his passport for some days.

The Turkish Government has decided that in future none but Turkish steamers, carrying the national flag, will be permitted to convey pas- sengers in the Bosphorus. The Austrian Lloyds has protested.

The Fatima arrived on Saturday from Sydney, whence she sailed the 12th of August, with 18,537 ounces of gold, valued at 74,0001. The Abborton, from Port Phillip, passed through the Downs on the same morning, sailed the 26th August. This vessel also brings 15,000 ounces of gold, valued at 60,0001. The departures from the port of London for the Gold Colonies of Australia during the past week show a considerable increase. They consisted of six 'vessels to Victoria of an aggregate burden of 3700 tons, four to Sydney of 2414 tons, and one to Adelaide of 649 tons. Exporters continue very active, but there is no new feature in the general character of the cargoes. The number of emi- grants at present is not large.—Times.

Mr. Bower, the newspaper correspondent who killed Mr. Morton some time ago, left London for Paris last week, there to surrender himself to trial.

The following is a correct description of the specimen of coal sent down to the Lieutenant-Governor by Dr. White, of Swellendam, which was found by his brother on his farm on the Breede river in that district the mouth (Is which is better known as Fort Beaufort. The coal is highly bitumi- nous, conchoidal fracture, and of black colour; it burns freely with a clear flame, leaving a light white ash; the specific gravity of a specimen was 1.4. The coal was found near the surface, beneath a thin stratum of iron ore ; the place is about two miles from the banks of the river, which is navigable at that spot by vessels of from 200 to 300 tons, there being an inclined plane between this place and the river. No accounts have yet come to hand as to whether it exists in any quantity or not, but from Dr. White's letter it is supposed to exist in large quantities. Mr. Baia has been sent by Government to inspect the spot. In connexion with the discovery of coal, it may be mentioned that the boring, under the superin- tendence of Messrs. Bain and Woodifleld, is going on in the fiats near Cape Town.—South African Advertiser, Nov. 6.

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

Ten of 'Weeks 1842-51. Week of 1852.

Zymotic Diseases 2,755 .... 212 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, . 521 .... 70 Tubercular Diseases 1,775 .... 154

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

1,243 .... 131 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 389 •••• 43 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,800 .... 171 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 696 .... 65 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 114 .... 8 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 123 .... 5 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 90 . • . . a Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c.. 9 .... 1 Malformations 41 .... 6 Premature Birth 267 .... 35 Atrophy 187

Age 654 .... 45 Sudden 138 .... 7 Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

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— Total (including unspecified causes) 12,099

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On the night of the 23d November, the mail from Florence to Rome was attacked by a band of brigands between Montefiascone and Viterbo. Mon.. signor de San Marzano, his servant, and a Frenchman, were in the carriage, which was stopped by four men masked. The postilion endeavoured to whip his horses into a gallop ; but he received a pistol-ball in his leg, which broke it, and knocked him off his horse. The leader of the party then opened the door of the carriage, and ordered the travellers to alight ; and after taking from them their watches and money, demanded the keys of their trunks. Monsignor de San Mariano was on his return from Marseilles, where he had been sent to compliment Prince Louis Napoleon in the name of the Pope. He had with him 7000 francs in gold, which were taken from him, as well as 60 louis from his servant, and 100 from the Frenchman. The robbery took place so near Viterbo that the report of the pistol was heard by the sentinel at the gate. A detachment of gendarmes immediately pro- ceeded to the spot, but the robbers had taken to flight, and no trace of them could be discovered.—Galignani s Messenger.

A farmer at Llanddarog in Wales, who swallowed nearly an ounce of laudanum, and who had been asleep in a hay-loft from its effects for thirty- eight hours, has been restored to consciousness by medical aid.

The personal property of the late Earl of Shrewsbury has been sworn under 100,0001. The deceased has left some trifling legacies; but the resi- due of his personal property, and the proceeds of all his estates, at Alton, Farley, and elsewhere, which the will directs to be sold, are bequeathed to Mr. Ambrose Lisle Phillips,' of Grace Dieu Manor, Leicestershire, and Mr. C. Scott Murray, of Danesfleld, Buckinghamshire, both of whom se- ceded from the Church of England some years since and joined the com- munion of the Church of Rome. As by the Mortmain Act no sum ex- ceeding 6001. can be left for religious purposes, it is thought that although this large amount of property has been left unconditionally to Mr. Phillips and Mr. Murray, there is a tacit understanding that it is hereafter to be ap- plied to the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church. This supposition is strengthened by the fact, that in a will made some time ago the whole of Lord Shrewsbury's property was left to Dr. Walsh, and, in the event of his decease, to Cardinal Wiseman ; but this was revoked by a codicil in favour of Messrs. Phillips and Murray, who are to divide the property equally be- tween them.