20 MAY 1843, Page 10

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King Ernest visits this country, it is said by the Hanover papers, to be present at the christening of the little Princess, and the marriage of the Princess Augusta of Cambridge with the Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

The Duke of Wellington has sent a letter to the Morning Post con- veying the disavowal by a Mr. Lang, of Douglas in the Isle of Man, that there had been any authority from the Duke for publishing his name as honorary director of "the United Service Emigration Company."

Lord Stapley is better, and has attended at the Colonial Office.

The new appointments, of the Earl of Ripon to be President of the Board of Control, and of Mr. Gladstone to be President of the Board of Trade, are now announced as made.

The death of the Earl of Coventry, which occurred at his house in Piccadilly on Monday night, causes a move in the Peerage. His strange conduct in a debate on the Corn-laws convinced his friends that be was disordered in mind, and he was placed under proper care in St. John's Wood. Lord Coventry was born in 1784; in 1808, he married Emma, daughter of the late Earl Beauchamp ; and in 1811, Mary, daughter of the late Duke of St. Albans ; and had issue by both marriages. His eldest son died in 1838; and the Earl is succeeded by his grandson, George Viscount Deerhurst, who was born just before his father's death.

Mr. Brunel has been relieved from the coin which had got into his -windpipe. An account of the method of relief, signed S. 'f., has been sent to the papers. The accident happened on the 1st April, and Sir Benjamin Brodie was consulted on the 18th: he thought that the half- sovereign had passed into the windpipe ; and next day, on bending his head and shoulders over a chair, Mr. Brunel felt it drop towards the glottis. Subsequently it was concluded that the coin rested at the bot- tom of the right bronchus. On the 25th an attempt was made to dis- lodge it by inverting the patient with an apparatus specially con- structed; but violent coughing obliged the surgeons to desist in the attempt. On the 27th, and the 2d May, tracheotomy was performed, -without success ; and a dangerous irritation ensued. On the 13th, ano- ther attempt at dislodgment by inversion was made : the patient was placed on the apparatus, inverted, gently struck on the back, and, after two or three slight coughs, the coin dropped from his mouth. Sir Benjamin Brodie had the assistance of Mr. Aston Key, Mr. C. Haw- kins, and Dr. Thompson.

The Wesleyan Committee of Privileges and Education Committee have issued an official circular, stating that "the united Committee have most carefully considered the alterations of the educational clauses of the Factories Bill ` as amended in Committee,' and have deter- mined to abide by the principles contained in their former resolutions ; as 'no adequate alterations or satisfactory modifications' of the bill have been or are likely to be at present effected."

The following is an abstract of the principal totals in the last report on Public Petitions presented in the House of Commons, down to the 5th May—

Petitions. Signatures.

For Extension of Church of England 141 .... 9,090

For Repeal of Corn-laws 675 .... 186,889 For Repeal and for Freedom of Trade 64 .... 46,731 For Repeal of Corn and Provision Laws 489 .... 163,656 Against Repeal and Against Freedom of Trade 11 For Repeal of Property-tax Act . 29 .... 3,820 Against the Factory Bill 13,060 .... 2,015.607 In favour of the Factory Bill 22 .... 9,831 Mail Coaches (Ireland) 99 .... 99,074 For Repeal or Amendment of the Irish Poor law 50 .... 14,258 In support of the hash Poor-law 13

The names of petitions presented on the 28th April occupy 149 pages ; on the let May, 216; 2d, 4; 3d, 43; 5th, 28; total pages in five days, 440.

The Lisbon Diario do Governo of the 1st instant contains an eulo- glum on the Duke of Sussex, with a brief sketch of his life. With respect to its own country, the journal speaks thus- " Previous to the Peinsular war, Prince Augustus was for some time in Lisbon, and a guest at the palace of Necessidades. Here his noble qualities won for him the affection and respect of all who had the happiness to become acquainted with him; and from that time forth his Royal Highness lost no opportunity of evincing the affection and favour with which he regarded the Portuguese. Ile always received them with extreme affability; and when, in London, important questions were agitated respecting the legitimacy of our august Sovereign and the rights of the Portuguese nation, as opposed to the pretensions and tyranny of an usurper, the Duke of Sussex lost no oppor- tunity of giving his aid to the cause of justice, and of affording to it his valu- able services."

A straggler of the Forty-fourth Regiment, Lance-Sergeant Philip Edwards, arrived at Deem, on the 2d March. He escaped from the massacre with a companion, who travelled with him for eight months ; but they separated, either because the other was sick, or because they could not agree about the direction of travelling ; and for seven more months he travelled alone, avoiding the great towns, and shaping his Course South by the sun. He says that the Afghans treated him kindly ; but when he entered Scinde be met with great indignity, and sometimes they hunted him from the villages with dogs.

An American paper gives good news of the Siamese twins-

" They have been residing for several years past in North Carolina, where they purchased a plantation. We had not heard of them for a long time, when we received a letter yesterday from a correspondent in North Carolina, informing us that they had entered into a state of double blessedness. Our correspondent says—, On Thursday, April 13th, were married, at Wilkes County, North Carolina, by Elder Colby Sparks, of the Baptist Church, Messrs. Chang and Eng, the Siamese twin brothers, to Misses Sarah and Ade- /aide, daughters of Mt. David Yeates, of Wilkes County, North Carolina.' Whether the happy quadruple started on a journey to pass off the honey- moon, or remained at home, we are not informed."