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Lord Panmure was " slightly indisposed" last week, but transacted busi- ness every day at his residence in Belgrave Square. His health is now- much improved.

Earl Granville met with an accident on Tuesday evening. While driving his cabriolet rapidly from the House of Lords to Paddington to catch a train for Windsor, he lost control over the horse; the carriage came in contact with a post, and the Earl and his groom were thrown out, but were not much hurt, and Lord Granville was able to proceed to Windsor to attend. the Queen.

Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne arrived in London from Vienna on Sunday.

Major-General Yorke Scarlett, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Captain. E. Elliott, arrived in town late on Tuesday night, from the Crimea.

Sir John Young, the new Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, arrived at Corfu on the 9th; Sir Henry Ward was to depart on the 12th. '

The death of Sir Henry De Is Beche, on the 13th instant, has left vacant some of the few offices by which the State recognizes and rewards scientific eminence. Sir Henry was Director of the Geological Survey, Director of the Museum of Practical Geology, and Director of the Government School of Mines.

As the age and state of health of the Bishop of Durham unfit him to per- form the duty, the Bishop of Manchester is about to hold confirmations in the diocese of Durham.

Lord Stanhope, son of the Earl of Chesterfield, a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, suffered the accident of a fractured leg on Thursday, by his horse slipping down in St. Paul's Churchyard and falling on his rider. The fracture was quickly set, and Lord Stanhope was conveyed to the barracks.

Sir George Stephen announced in the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court on Mon- day, that he then appeared there for the last time ; and he took farewell of the court. It is stated that Sir George intends proceeding to Aus- tralia by the Oliver Lang on the 5th of next month, with those members of his family who are now in England, to join others who have settled in the colony.

It has been remarked that the star and riband of the Garter with which the Emperor of the French was invested on Wednesday are the same that were returned to the Order on the death of the late Emperor of Russia.

The City Amphytrions were profuse in delicate attentions. The napkins were trimmed with lace, and embroidered with the Imperial and City arms ; the doyleys were of imperial green velvet, fringed with gold, and spangled with bees and the imperial cypher. The dessert-plates were a special effort of the great Colebrooke Dale Pottery, made in seven days, and were of a beautiful imperial pattern on the celebrated turquoise ground, the great dif- ficulty of high-class porcelain. There was also on the table a service of the celebrated Du Barry pink, which is intended for the French Exhibition.

The wines at the feast included Johannisberg of 1822, Champagne of 1825, Malvoisie from grapes grown on Mount Ida, Amontallado 109 years old- " part of a cask supplied at the enormous price of 6001. per butt to the Em- peror Napoleon I.' In the rooms leading from the Guildhall to the Council Chamber were portraits of the family of the first Emperor Napoleon. The present Empe- ror recognized the likeness of his mother, and the Empress exclaimed, "This is kind indeed l" Some idea of the splendour of the City entertainment may be formed from this description of the temporary boudoir of the Empress. "The dark ruby hue of the sofa and chairs was relieved by the elegant lace window- curtains. The chief decoration of this unique apartment was the noble toilet, upon which was a magnificent mirror, in a carved gold frame, the whole draperied with rich lace festooned over white satin. The toilet-bottle and china vases bad been selected for their artistic beauty as well as superior manufacture. A magnificent cheval glass, in a splendid gold frame, adjoined the toilet, and the flooring of the apartment was covered with an elegant Turkey carpet."

Two of those new inventions in maritime warfare, floating batteries, were latuiched on Tuesday at Mr. Mare's yard, Blackwell. The peculiarity in these batteries is, that notwithstanding their enormous weight, they are so built as to draw, when fully armed, not more than six or seven feet of water. They are constructed of solid timber, to the thickness of about two feet ; which is eased externally with large plates of wrought iron, of the thickness of four inches, carefully fitted one to the other, and strongly bolted to the timber sides of the ship; the whole possessing such prodigious strength as to be entirely shot-proof. They are pierced for twenty-six guns, and the guns will be of the heaviest metal.

One hundred and twenty Polish prisoners at Plymouth have volunteered to serve in the Crimea against the Russians: they are now on board the Royal William, waiting for a transport-ship to convey them to the East.

A correspondent at Maidstone asks us to insert the following record of former sickness in the Crimea; extracted from the Times newspaper of 25th September 1839.—" Accounts from Constantinople state that the Russian troops at Sebastopol and its neighbourhood were sadly suffering from illness, particularly from the ophthalmia, which presented all the symptoms of the Egyptian disease. Upwards of 7000 sick were lying in the hospitals."

Manchester has subscribed 29,0221., Salford 37751., and the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows 25001. to the Patriotic Fund : of the thousands of per- sons who promised contributions, not one failed to pay.

According to the Dublin Evening Hail, the late Czar made Lord Dunkel- lin an innocent instrument in a bloody piece of work. A Russian captain had drunk too much, strayed into the lines of the English at Sebastopol, and been taken prisoner : the Czar wished to get hold of this man to make " an example " of him; Lord Dunkellin became a prisoner, Nicholas hast- ened to set him aliberty in exchange for the tippling captain. Lord Dun- kellin, it will be remembered, was profuse in his gratitude for Nicholas's generosity. Within forty-eight hours after the Russian captain had re- entered Sebastopol, he was shot for his act of inebriety.

Mr. Cubitt has contradicted the report that Denbiea is intended for the residence of the Prince of Wales : it is for a private family. The limited experiment of last year of opening a steam communication between Harwich and Antwerp having been successful, the service is to be carried on upon an extended scale. Passengers for Antwerp who leave Lon- don by rail for Harwich save ten hours of river and sea voyage.

A "mounted escort corps" has left Liverpool for Australia. It numbers 90 privates, 8 sergeants, and 2 inspectors. They were selected from the Police of Glasgow, Liverpool, and other Northern towns. Garrett, the bank-robber, is carried to Melbourne in the same ship, the Exodus.

Mr. Mitchell Henry, a surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital who deposed that he believed Buranelli the assassin to be insane, has written to the daily papers that an effort will be made to save the culprit's life, on the plea of insanity. He says that Mr. Shaw, the senior surgeon at the Middlesex Hos- pital, could have given important evidence to that effect at the trial ; but he was not produced as a witness, the prosecution declining to call for him when it was found in what way his testimony would tend.

CRYSTAL PALLOR—Return of admissions for five days ending Friday April 20th, including season-ticket-holders, 33,458.