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The Gazette of Tuesday notifies that the Queen has issued a conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to elect a Bishop for the see of London, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Blomfield; and that she has recommended Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait, Dean of Car- lisle, for election. A conge d'elire has also been issued to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, to elect Dr. Longley, Bishop of Ripon, as Bishop for the see of Durham, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Maltby.

The same Gazette notifies the appointment of the Reverend Richard Chenevix Trench to the Deanery of Westminster.

The Gazette contains a notification from the Lords of the Admiralty, to the effect that they have been informed by Count de Persigny, that Prince Napoleon, in his recent expedition to the North Sea, caused a number of floats, bearing inscriptions denoting the place of their immer- sion to be thrown overboard, with a view to determine the direction of the currents in that sea ; and it is requested that if any of these floats be cast on the shores of Great Britain, they may be sent forthwith to the Count de Persigny at Albert Gate House, London.

The Commander-in-chief, through his Adjutant-General, has notified that the King of Sardinia has set apart a portion of the issue of silver medals distributed to the Sardinian troops, for distinguished soldiers and officers of the British Army ; and the commanding-officers of regiments which have served in the Crimea are directed to send in a nominal list of those worthy of the decoration.

Sir Henry Young, in a letter dated Government House, Hobart Town, July 5, contradicts a statement Made in the Times of April last, to the effect that he had dissolved his Council with a precipitation and violence which recall the days of Charles the First and Second.

"In Tasmania," Sir Henry writes, "by the constitutional prerogative of prorogation, (not dissolution, as you state,) I upheld the respect due to the supreme Judicature and the sanctity of the writ of Habeas Corpus as a time- honoured guarantee of the liberty of an Englishman against an illegal war- rant ; and by the prorogation I preserved the public peace. The proroga- tion was most deliberate, unexceptionable in tone, language, and manner, and opportune, for it quietly in the evening prevented the violence of an impending riot, publicly threatened and announced to take place the next morning." "'or my own part," he adds, "I am most willing to quit the office of Governor whenever I am unable to exemplify the axiom—on which my policy hitherto has been founded—that Englishmen can be constitution- ally governed by their own will and consent."

The journals of Monday recorded with a very general expression of regret the death of Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, who died early on the morning of the 10th, at Bath, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health.

"Mr. Wood had been upwards of a quarter of a century in the public ser- vice, first as Chairman of the Board of Stamps and Taxes, and afterwards as Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue. In 1826, he was elected re- presentative for the borough of Preston, in conjunction with Lord Stanley, the present Earl of Derby ; and at that period was a member of the North- ern bar, having large practice as a barrister. Mr. Wood was the son of Mr. Ottiwell Wood, a successful manufacturer near Manchester, and, like his father, was a stanch advocate of Liberal political measures. On his ap • pointnient to the Board of Stamps and Taxes, he retired from the repre- sentation of Preston, and did not afterwards sit in the House of Commons. He died at the age a sixty-six years."

Mr. Charles Rowcroft, late Consul at Cincinnati—previously known as the author of Tales of the Colonies, and other literary productions—died. while returning home with his wife and five children, in the Cherubim. Mr. Rowcroft was one of the three Consuls dismissed by the American Go- vernment for his connexion with the enlistment business ; and he was ex- posed to much enmity in America on this account, especially from the Irish, who threatened him. His death was rather sudden, and is considered to be somewhat mysterious. There was no surgeon on board ; and when Mr. Rowcroft complained of illness, the master of the ship supplied him with what he considered suitable medicines. The body so rapidly decom- posed that it was necessary soon to commit it to the deep. The master of the Cherubim "cannot 'easily persuade himself that the death was na- tural."

The Honourable Charles Gritnston, third son of the late Earl of Verulam, and brother of the Countess of Clarendon, died on the 8th instant. He fell under the effects of a fever with which he was attacked at Constan- tinople shortly before the close of the war.

The last weekly return of the Registrar-General exhibits a favourable state of the public health.

"The deaths, which in the previous six weeks have been on an average 1035, declined last week to 939. In the corresponding weeks of the ten

vears 1846-'551 the average number was 1003; and if this is raised by a [enth part for increase of population, it becomes 1103; compared with which, the present return shows a reduction of 164. Your persons died at the age of ninety years or upwards ; two women who were ninety years old, a Green- wichpensioner who was ninety-one, and a gardener's labourer who died in the Wyndham Road, Camberwell, at the age of ninety-four years."

The limes of Wednesday contained a marvellous narrative, by "an eye- witness," entitled "Railways and Revolvers in Georgia." The " eye- witness " entered a train at Macon, in the State of Georgia, at three in the afternoon, and arrived at Augusta at three o'clock next morning. There were twenty-five persons in the train, three of whom were women, and one a little boy. According to the narrative, one of the women and a man de- signated " B" were going on a party of pleasure. A second man "A," in love with the young woman, determined to spoil sport. No sooner were they in the train than A and B talked at each other ; and an- *her passenger, "C," took up the quarrel and urged the parties to light it out. The rest of the passengers fell to talking ot duelling; and two of • them quarrelling, they got out of the train, fought, and the telegraph re- ported the death of one. As B would notthen fight A, C challenged B; and B was killed off. C then successively fought two other duels, each time kill- ing his man. Two of these were fought with champions of the young wo- man, whom C and a companion proclaimed to be a strumpet. Twice the train stopped in order that the duels might be fought. One of them was fought with MonteChrist() or noiseless pistols, in the smoking-car. On the whole journey six persons. were killed. One was a boy, the son of one of the slain. He reproached C with the murder of his father ; whereupon C cut his throat and flung him out of the train. After the last duel, the conductor adroitly left behind one of the chief duellists and boxed up the other. No 'Wit of these atrocities appeared in the Georgian newspapers. The Globe of Wednesday evening took up this tale of horrors, delicately hinting that the limes had been hoaxed. The Times of Thursday morning, returning to the story, said it would be a great relief if it could be made out that the narrative was an invention. "Its insertion was delayed for some days, that we might obtain satisfactory vouchers for the writer's respect- ability, sanity, and truthfulness; said on those .points we have no doubt. Short of a miracle, we never read anything so simply stated yet so incre- dible in its substance. Yet we are told that nothing but the terror which possesses peaceful men in the States prevents the publication of more hor- rors of this sort."

Still incredulous, the Globe of Thursday evening intimates that "our powerful contemporary writes on the subject with his tongue in his cheek' "-' but, taking the word of the limes that the journal had obtained vouchers for the truthfulness and sanity of the eye-witness, the Globe pro- ceeds to look for the evidence of the truth of the narrative. The " eye- witness " actually saw nothing of these multiplied horrors ; neither did he or she hear any of the reports of the fire-arms. Nearly the whole must have occurred in the night. In short, the Globe "can only explain the matter by supposing an elaborate hoax to have been played off on the stranger.'" Nearly three columns of small type are accorded by the limes this morn- ing to two letters—one from a Southern, the other from a Northern gentle- man—expressing utter disbelief in the story, and offering strong considera- tions, derived from internal evidence showing, that it is inconsistent with itself and with known facts. Both the writers express their determination to send the letter of the " Eye-witness " to Georgia for the purpose of obtain- ing either a confirmation or a refutation.

The military scapegraces of the Fourth Dragoons—Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, Lieutenant Winetailley, and Cornet Dirt—have naturally attracted alarge share of public attention. From the faller account of the late disgrace- fuloutrage it appears, that CornetAmes, who has recently joined the regiment, has incurred the dislike of Lord Vane Tempest and his friends. At the mess on Sunday the 21st September, Lord Vane Tempest behaved insolently to Cornet Ames; asking whether he had walked from the Pavilion to the Lewes Road Barracks to save expense • whether the reason he did not drink cham- pagne was that he could not afford it ; and other taunts. Ames ultimately refused to answer any more questions ; whereupon Lord Vane Tempest threatened him with a degradmv. punishment. The same evening, the three officers dragged Ames into Lord Vane Tempest's room, overpowered and held him on a sofa while they shaved off one of his whiskers; then they put a bib on him, and fed him with pap, slapping his back as if he had been a baby. They played other pranks on different occasions, such as breaking into his room and destroying his furniture. On Monday morning, at half-past three o'clock, (as we are informed by a re- spectable inhabitant residing at the North part of the town,) the inhabitants of the Lewes road were awoke by a loud noise and shouting. A quarrel, it seems, had taken place between Lord Ernest Vane and Cornet Dirt, supposed to be under arrest, who had just driven up to the stables occupied by his Lordship, at the Race Ilill Inn. From what our informant could see, his Lordship knocked Mr. Birt out of the vehicle using very bad language ; and afterwards a general fight took place between all parties, the grooms included. This continued for some time, until the police came up and put an end to the affair. His Lordship then drove away towards the barracks.— Brighton Guardian.

Mr. John Macgregor, M.P. for Glasgow, has sent a letter to the news- papers respecting his connexion with the io_yal British Bank. He says he neither projected nor founded the bank. He merely consented, at the in- stance of the projectors, to become a director. He tells us what every one knew—that the manager conducted the business as he pleased. "Neither I nor any other directoe, as far as I am aware, knew anything of any private book kept by the manager ; nor could I know the persons in the City whose Paper was worthy of being discounted." One of the blunders of the bank was making advances on the shares of the Islington Cattle Market. Speak- ing of these and similar " securities " Mr. Macgregor says—" Of the value of such securities I could know noti;ing : therefore I became convinced, but too late,. that in the city of London, as is' I believe, the true and practicable custom an Glasgow, no one should be a director of a bank but a City man of business ; for it was and is impossible for a purely West-end man to know who ought, or ought not, to be trusted. It was under these convictions that I separated myself from all joint-stock connexions. As regards liabilities to the Royal British Bank, I deny the amount of debit, either legally or equit- ably.; and for any legal debit, of which, when I can ascertain the details(which I cannot for some days) there are numerous offsets,—as transferred New Three per Cents in the Bank of England, 1000/., then at 951 ; 5001. Stock at par ; other securities, valued each at from 300/. to 4001.; two valu- able life policies, that especially of a very old one' in the Law, for 10001., to which several large bonuses have been added. AsI have concluded in haste, I will only add that I will not shrink before calumny, nor shirk from paying any just claim that may be proved against me."

The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge have returned to England frorn their chkteau near Frankfort.

Lord John Russell did not stay long at Turin but set out for Genoa ; Whence he proceeded to Pisa, and arrived there on le 8th instant.

The marriage of the young Princess Mathilde, daughter of Prince Charles Bonaparte with Count Louis be Cambaeeres, was celebrated on Tuesday at the Chapel of the Tuileries. The Count is grand-nephew of the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, and grandson of Marshal Davoust, Prince d'Eckmuhl.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa tells this story. "The Dowager- Empress of Russia avoids passing through Austria. Her Majesty is to pro- ceed to the Rhine by the German railways, and to repair thence across Switzerland to Genoa, where she is to embark for Nice. It is said that at one of the last public receptions at Moscow the Czar addressed these words to the Piedmontese General Broglio—' Tell your Sing that I recommend my mother to him ' ; and, turning towards Prince Esterhazy, he added.-'- 'Do not be surprised if I love and esteem open enemies.'" According to the Milan Gazette, the Imperial visit to Italy will not take place till January. [There seems to be great difficulty in arranging a proper reception for the Emperor. The nobility are lin;ering at their country- houses, to avoid meeting the Imperial Stranger. 'Workmen at the Royal Palaces are now receiving higher wages on condition of being very loyal an their shouts when the Emperor arrives. And the Church has been appealed to, that the pious may be exhorted to flock to Milan—the priests to be re- warded for their work.] The Archduke Albrecht, Governor-General of Hungary, has been severely hurt by. the overturning of his carriage : it is said that the unskilful driver was Prince Wilhelm, a younger brother of the Archduke.

The unfortunate Poerio has had to undergo a surgical operation, his chains having produced swellings and tumours on his body.

Captain W. A. Willis has been appointed a Captain of Greenwich Hos- pital, in the place of the late Captain Moubray.

A Civil List pension of 100/. has been given to the widow of Mr. A'Beek- eft. Government have also granted 1001. towards the fund for Mr. Angus B. Reach.

By the reduction in the Infantry regiments, on the 1st instant, 197 cap- tains and 430 lieutenants have been placed on half-pay.

A Mr. Gattai has applied to the Portuguese Government for leave to lay down an electric telegraph between Portugal and the Brazils, with exclu- sive privileges. He will seek similar privileges of the Brazilian Govern- ment.

At the date of the last advices from Ceylon, penny postage was to be in- troduced.

The Pasha of Egypt has made a contract with a Parisian company to light Alexandria with gas. Of late years, Alexandria has made great strides in improvement. The "sound of the church-going bell" is now heard from three Christian temples. There are new streets of handsome houses. A railway runs to Cairo.

A report on the silk produce of this year in the Lombardo-Veneto king- dom has appeared in the Verona Gazette : it shows, on the whole, a very deficient crop.

A very fine and costly collection of English horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, recently left Liverpool for America, consigned to Mr. Thorne, an en- terprising breeder of New York.

The Roman ecclesiastics have thought it best to postpone indefinitely the subject of forming diplomatic relations with Turkey, fearing that the Church might be "mixed up in the conflict of the various interests which will be in existence at Constantinople."

Holford House, Regent's Park, is to become a Baptist College ; Stepney College is to be removed thither.

Mr. William Harvey,. a pantomimist and ballet-master, has made away with hiinself, by jumping into the sea while voyaging gom Hamburg to Hull, at night. it was at first supposed that he had accidentally fallen overboard ; but papers which he left behind him show that he intended sui- cide. A quarrel with a person at Copenhagen, where he had been acting, is supposed to have disturbed his mind.

The Lord Provost of Glasgow has received a respite for James M`Manus, who was recently convicted of the murder of a fellow labourer at Castlehill Iron-works, but recommended to mercy because the Jury did not think he intended to kill.

In three months, no fewer than 150,000 "dead letters" from foreign countries have accumulated in. the post-offices of the 'United States : this arises mainly from the constant movement of new immigrants, whose where- abouts are unknown.

The brig Araby of Sunderland was lost on the French coast, near Sables, during the recent gales. The master, mate, and two lads, were drowned. Four of the crew were driven ashore on a piece of wreck, during the night, almost naked, and exposed to heavy rain ; but they could not move to ob- tain succour till the morning.

A bonita, a Tropical fish, has been taken by a fishing-boat off the Cum- berland coast—the first recorded instance in that part.