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Ibrahim Pacha's visit to England terminated yesterday. On Wednesday evening he left London for Portsmouth, travelling by the South-western Railway. On Thursday he partook of the hospitalities of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle; and on the following day embarked on board her Majesty's Steamer Avenger, for Alexandria; intending to visit Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Malta, by the way. The Pacha seut 5001. to the Lord Mayor to be dis- tributed among the poor. Semi Pacha is still in London.

It is reported that the divorce of the Prince of Denmark is decided on, and that negotiations have commenced for his union with the daughter of the Landgrave of Hesse.

The Morning Chronicle records an accident to Sir Robert Peel— We regret to learn that the absence of Sir Robert Peel from the House of Com- mons on Monday night, arose from the right honourable Baronet having been con- fined to his residence by the effects of an accident which might have been far more serious than has turned out to be the case. We hear that, while dressing in the morning, he incautiously rested his foot in a china basin, and by the weight of his person the bottom broke, and severely lacerated his foot. Sir Benjamin Brodie was instantly sent for, and was as promptly in attendance on the right honourable Baronet. Although the blood was profuse from the wounds inflicted, we are happy to learn that Sir Benjamin Brodie, after a minute examination of the injured parts, announced that no danger was to be apprehended, as not any important leader had sustained injury. The casualty will necessarily confine the right honourable Baronet some days to the house.

Mr. Edgar Alfred Bowing has been appointed Private Secretary to the Earl of Clarendon.

Lord John Russell has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable George Keppel, the son of the Earl of Albemarle, to be one of his Private Secretaries. Earl Grey, as principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, has ap- pointed the Honourable Captain Grey to be his Private Secretary. The Marquis of Clanricarde, the new Postmaster-General, has appointed Mr. G. C. Cornwall his Private Secretary. [But when is Rowland Hill to be ap- pointed Public Secretary ?)

The Earl of Leicester has been appointed to the Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of Norfolk, vacant by the decease of the late Lord Wodehouse.

The students attending the Latin classes of University College have pre- sented Mr. George Long, their late Professor, with a valuable silver tea- service, as a testimonial of their personal regard and respect. Mr. Long has vacated the chair in consequence of his appointment to the Readership of Jurisprudence in the Middle Temple. Mr. Francis W. Newman, for- merly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, is Mr. Long's successor.

Among the pensions granted by Sir Robert Peel before retiring from office, were 1001, a year to Mr. Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet; 50/. each to two aged sisters of the late Major-General M‘Gaskell; and a pension of the like amount to the daughter of Brigadier-General Taylor, killed in the late war in India.—Observer.

A Parliamentary return has just been issued of pensions charged on the Civil List for the year eliding 20th June last. They were these— Mademoiselle Augusta Emma d'Este, 5001. a year "additional, in consideration of her just claims on the Royal benevolence." Dame Mary Archer Shee 200k a year; " the wife of Sir Martin Archer Shee, President of the Royal Academy, in consideration of his eminence as an artist, and of his services as President of the Royal Academy during a period of sixteen years." Mr. Alfred Tennyson 2001. a year; "in consideration of his eminence as a poet" Mr. James David Forbes, 2001. a year; "Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in consideration of his attainments in science." Jane London, 1001. a year; "widow of the late John Claudius London, author of several works connected with botanical science, in consideration of his services and merits."

Lord Metcalfe has sent the following touching reply to an address from Calcutta announcing the completion of " the Metcalfe Hall," an institution erected and named in commemoration of his Lordship, to be appropriated to the reception of the public library and to the sittings and proceedings of the Agricultural Society of India.

"Malshanger, Basingstoke, July 10. " Sirs—Scarcely possible as it would have been under any circumstances to convey to you in adequate terms my sense of the generosity of the communication which I have received from you, on the occasion of the opening of the public building with which the inhabitants of Calcutta have done me the honour to con- nect my name, the difficulty is increased by the infirmities which beset me, and the hopeless state of my health. I must therefore confine myself to the expres- sion of the fervent thanks of a grateful heart, which is fully sensible of your kindness, and of the honour conferred on me by the association of my name with the edifice appropriated to the several important institutions and purposes to which the use of the Metcalfe Hall is devoted. My anxious hope that prosperity and every other blessing may attend you, will accompany me to the grave, which is open at my feet. MaTcsr-va. " To the Inhabitants of Calcutta."

To " the Bright testimonial" 1,2001. has been subscribed; Mr. Cobden con- tributing 1001.

Mr. Cobden has gone to Radnorshire, with his family.

A carrier-pigeon race from Hull to Antwerp took place on Saturday last. Eighty-seven birds, the property of competitors for prizes at Antwerp, were brought to Hull by the Monarch steamer: at seven o'clock in the morning they were set at liberty on the deck of the steamer; and after the usual circuits of observation in the air, they set off for Belgium. Thirteen arrived at Antwerp at two o'clock on the same day, voyaging from 280 to 300 miles in seven hours; twenty-seven got home by seven on Sunday morning; the remainder arrived in the afternoon. " The extreme heat of the weather," says the Hull Packet, "is supposed to have caused the stragglers to alight on reaching terra firma; or the probability is that all would have reached their respective cotes on Saturday."

Nineteen shares in the Globe newspaper, out of sixty-two of which theo- perty consists, were sold at auction, by Mr. George Robins, on Thursday. They produced 12,9901. guineas. Four were purchased by a Mr. Aldridge; the re- mainder by Mr. Ridgway the bookseller. The shares were the property of Mr. Chapman, who resigned them and the management of the paper on account of infirmity and age—eighty-two.

The electric telegraph is now at work from Yarmouth and Norwich to London; the first message sent by it was on Thursday last from Norwich to London.---. Yarmouth Chronicle.

Railways have materially affected the value of fish. The number of fish-. mongers in Birmingham has since the formation of the various railways which now centre in that town increased from ten to forty; and the quantity of fish con- sumed, from 400 to 3,910 tons annually. At Manchester, the poorer classes are supplied daily at an average of 2d. a pound.

In the year 1815 they had 52 acres of docks and basins at Liverpool; the ton- nage was 709,849 tons. In 1825, there were 71 acres of docks and basins; and the tonnage was 1,233,820. In 1835, there were 99 acres of docks and basins' • and the tonnage bad increased to 1,768,426. In 1845, the docks and basins had increased to 120 acres; and the tonnage to 3,016,531.—The Builder.

Last year, four grains of the far-famed mummy wheat, procured by a gentle- man in the North from a friend in England, were dibbled in a garden in Lochroom; the produce now amounts to ninety-four ears; twenty-three ears have sprung from each of three grains, and twenty-five ears from the remaining ono—Inver- ness Courier.

In 1845, during the procession of the Fête-Dien, at Kleinzell, a small town in Hungary, a widow named Witrewslewsky lost her child, a little girl, in the crowd. All her efforts to find her were in vain. This year she again attended the procession; when she was accosted by a little girl, holding in her hand a wooden box, who was begging for alms. She immediately recognized her own child; but, to her horror, on examining her she found that sbe was blind, the orbits of her eyes being empty ! A woman who attempted to obstruct Madame Witrewslewsky in taking away the child was arrested: she at last confessed that she was a public mendicant; that she had stolen the child; and had scooped out its eyes with a knife, in order to excite the greater commiseration for the unfortunate little creature, and thus to obtain more abundant alms. The punishment inflicted by the Hungarian laws for this crime is breaking alive on the wheel, commencing with the lower extremities.

The Maiden City steamer, which plied between Liverpool, Portrush, and Lon- donderry, has been wrecked on the Mull of Galloway, about fifteen miles from Stranraer. She struck on the rocks, during a fog at night, with tremendous force; part of her keel and hull were carried away; and the sea rapidly rushed in, compelling the passengers to collect on the deck. Of course the terror was ex- treme. However, the engines were kept going, so as to get the ship nearer the shore, and signal-guns brought assistance; and thus the crew and passengers, the number of the latter being a hundred and ten, were all safely landed. The steamer is a total wreck. The vessel appears to have been out of her track, either through negligence or the force of the currents.

An extensive pile of building, occupied as a cork-cutting manufactory, in Cooper's Row, Liverpool, was utterly consumed by fire early on Wednesday morn- ing. For three-quarters of an hour no water could be obtained. The falling-in of the roof is described as a magnificent sight. The damage is estimated at 10,0001.

During a thunder-storm at Whithorn, the wife and son of a labouring man, who were sitting by the fireside with the husband, were struck dead by the lightning: the man was not touched, but a dog which was lying under his chair was killed.

A letter from Naples of the 27th ultimo mentions that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was greater than ever: the crater vomited forth its lava with much noise, and in the night the flames presented a magnificent spectacle. The heat at Naples was 24 degrees of Reaumur (86 Fahrenheit).

The Commerce, on the authority of a letter from Stockholm, states that the weather was so cold in that city on the 26th June, that all the vegetables planted

in the open air had perished: lumps of ice were also found in the basin of the fountain in the park of Stockholm.

This summer the banks of the Cam exhibit an unusual multitude of those sin- gular phainomena, cases of spontaneous ignition and combustion in growing wil- lows. About a week ago, we observed in one instance, at a point of the river not far from Granchester, the process rapidly going on. It was really astonishing to look upon a fine willow, in the full vigour of robust vegetable health, pouring ffirth clouds of smoke from its half-burnt stem, and doomed speedily to expire, itself its own funeral pile. The tree which we observed last week is now prostrate; its very foliage charred, a vegetable ruin, as if stripped, shattered, blasted, and half consumed by the electric fluid.—Cambridge ddvertiser.

It is said that the clause in the Metropolitan Building Act relative to the occu- pation of cellars has had the effect of nnhousing five thousand people in the pa- rish of St. Giles's.

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

Zymotic (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions) Diseases 217 ... 201 ... 188 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseasesof uncertain or variable seat 108 ... 99 ... 10i Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 132 ... 155 ... 137 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 203 ... 227 ... 291 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28

27 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 114

72 Diseases of the Kidneys, dtc 11

7

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c

8

10

Rheumatism, disease,/ of the Bones, Joints, &c 13

7

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, ite 1

2

Old Age 29

67 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

16

26

Total (including unspecified causes) 901 ... 098 ... 968

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 90.3° in the sun to 47.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 2.7°. The mean direction of the wind for the first five days was South-west, and for the last two, North-north-west

Number of Summer Annual deaths. average. average.