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We understand that the two screw steam-frigates, Dauntless, Captain Halsted, and Highfiyer, Captain Matson, ordered to be ready for sea at Spithead on Thursday, will proceed at once to Jamaica, there to await the arrival of Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, the Commander-in-chief of the West Indies.—Standard.

Ile steam-ship Primer°, one of a pair built at Rotherhithe for the Spa- nish Government, constructed to carry two thirty-two pounders and to run in very shallow water, was launched on Saturday. They are destined for the defence of Cuba.

Although the Duke of Wellington's death has withdrawn attention from most other matters, the Duke was not the only man of mark who died on the same afternoon, not very far indeed from Weimer Castle— near the town of Ramsgate. Mr. Welby Pugin, the eminent architect, had returned to his family after his temporary and distressing absence ; and he died in the inidst of his career, on Tuesday, at five o'clock. He was the son of Augustus Pugin, a Frenchman, known for his share in the revival of the pointed style of architecture. The son, now deceased, who was also named Augustus, continued and surpassed his father in hie love for that style and in his profession generally. Mr. Pugin has beet/ the great master of the revival of medireval tastes in building and decora- tion. Ile has built many churches and chapels, and has written largely and with characteristic energy on his favourite theme. Amongst other buildings may be cited the cathedral of St. George in Southwark churches at Nottingham and Cheadle, Alton Castle, the Cistercian Abbey of St. Bernard in Leicestershire, and the cathedral churches of Killarney and Ynniscorthy. Every one remembers the " Mediteval Court" in the Crys- tal Palace, and with it the name of Pugin. He had also, it is said, a share in carrying out the design of the New Houses of Parliament. A friendly writer in the Morning Chronicle gives us a glimpse of the man-

" Innumerable are the anecdotes current among his friends of the cha- racteristic, often eccentric, always energetic, and always warm-hearted brusquerie of Pugin's character. He was a very Boythorn ; and wo to the Skimpole who tried to humbug him, or the Dedlock who essayed to lord it over him. To the last he combined a love of the sea as only second to his love of a Gothic church ; and at one time he owned, and sometimes com- manded, a merchant-smack trading with Holland. The proximity of the sea was one great inducement which led him to fix his abode at Ramsgate; and among the appendages of his mediaeval dwelling was a large cutter, with which he was always prepared, with his merry men, to push off to the rescue of any vessel in distress upon the Goodwins. His short figure, dark com- plexion, and habitual attire, had always more about them to remind a stranger of the sailor, than to give any clue to the person before him being the great -Christian artist."

He was three times married, and he has left a large family.

Mr. Secretary Walpole, accompanied by Colonel Jebb, visited Park- hurst Prison in the Isle of Wight on Thursday.

The Royal Bucks Agricultural Association dined together on Wednes- day, without Mr. Disraeli; who, doubtless, was too busy, preparing for the

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A report that Mr. Disraeli was at Melrose Abbey the other day—to consult the wizard Michael Scott—is contradicted.

Lord Carlisle being at Morpeth, was requested to lecture at the Me- chanics Institute. As he had not time to prepare an original lecture, yet being anxious to gratify the wishes of the people of Morpeth, he repeated, on Friday last, the lecture on the Poetry of Pope, which was first delivered at Leeds in 1850.

Mr. John Bright is one of the numerous Saxons at present travelling in Ireland.

Mr. Glyn, Chairman of the London and North-western Railway Com- pany, has announced that it is his intention to retire from that post, on account of the state of his health.

General La Marmora has been ordered by the King of Sardinia to pro- ceed to Lyons, for the purpose of congratulating President Bonaparte.

Baron Bentinek, Minister of the Netherlands,_has left London for Rotterdam, on leave of absence for a few weeks. He will return towards the end of October.

Sir Charles Hotham, N. de St. Georges, a Papal Nuncio, and a Minis- ter from Sardinia, had arrived at Monte Video on the 2d August

An American paper states that Miss Catherine Hayes has been engaged to sing in California, and that she sets out in October.

Miss Laura Addison, the English actress, who arrived in the United States a few months ago, died suddenly, on the morning of the 2d instant, on board the steam-boat Oregon, on her passage from Albany to New York.

It is said that the approaching opening of a broad-gauge communica- tion between Birmingham and London has so stimulated the North- western Company that they intend to run express-trains which will per- form the distance, 112 miles, in two hours.

The European Telegraph Company and the South-eastern Railway not having been able to come to terms for erecting additional wires from London to Dover, the Telegraph Company have resolved to effect a com- munication along the old high-road to Dover. The wires, covered with gutta percha, are laid in a trough, which is buried in a trench : the work is completed from London to Chatham, and a mile and a half of addi- tional wires are laid down each day.

The Morning Herald this week repeats its former announcement, and other journals repeat the repetition at second-hand, that "Parliament will be summoned for the despatch of business early in November."

The Committee of Council on Education have appointed the following gentlemen to be her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools,—the Reverend R. F. Meredith, M.A., Rector of East Chalborough, Somerset, and Vicar of Hal- stock, Dorset ; the Reverend Robert Lewis bee, M.A., Incumbent of St. Margaret's, Yalding, Kent; the Reverend John G. C. Fussell, B.A., In- cumbent of Chantrey, near Frome ; the Reverend William I3irley, M.A., Incumbent of Chorley, near Manchester • and the Reverend Thomas Wil- kinson, M.A., Vicar of Stanwix, Cumbeiand.

Sir James Graham has given his Netherby tenantry permission to kill hares and rabbits, between sunrise and sunset ; providing neither guns nor snares are used. He hopes this will prevent poaching, and will cause the tenants to preserve the "winged game."

On and after the 1st October, correspondence between Austria and France sent by Vienna, Inspruck, and Bale, will no longer follow that route, but the route of Vienna, Leipsic' Frankfort, Carlmuhe, and Stras- burg; by which it will be conveyed in thirty-six hours less than the pre- sent route requires.

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

Ten Weeks of 1842-51.

Week of 1852.

Zyntotic Diseases

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248 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 462 41 Tubercular Diseases 1,730 .... 180 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,103 90 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 272 40 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 707 102 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 718 53 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc SS .... 7 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 71

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, Sc 76 .... 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 11 .... 4 Malformations 29 .... 1

Premature Birth

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Age 403

Sudden 110 ....

* TiOlence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 373 41 Total (including unspecified causes)

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It is rumoured that the men employed in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, somewhere about 1500, will be enrolled into a corps, to be called the Royal Arsenal Volunteers; and the drill to be similar to the Dockyard Brigade, an hour of an evening after the working hours, and the same rate of pay.— ..Kentish Mercury.

The great quantity of silver money taken out by emigrants and shipped on speculation to Australia has caused somewhat of a scarcity of that coin in this country : it is said that the Mint cannot keep pace with the demand for it. At the last meeting of the Court of Directors of the Bank of Eng- land, however, the Governor said he believed measures had been taken te insure a sufficient supply.