liaistellaneous.

Much amusement was created at the Bourse on Saturday, by the an- nouncement, in a London morning paper, of the arrival in London of M. Thiers, at the very moment when he was seen walking the streets of Paris. It is true that M. Thiers passed through Valenciennes a few days since, on his way to the mines of Anzin, of which he is a director.—Paris Corre- spondence.

The rumour prevails that it is not Mr. Watson who is to be promoted to the vacant Judgeship, but Sir Frederick Thesiger. We need not say with what changes and coalitions such an appointment is connected.— Dally News.

The Queen has appointed George Edward Wilson, of Heversham House, Esq., to be Sheriff of the county of Westmoreland.

The somewhat sudden death of Mr. Pattison, has made another vacancy in the representation of the City of London. Mr. Pattison represented the City in the Parliaments of. 1835 and 1837, but was unsuccessful in the general election of 1841. He succeeded Sir Matthew Wood in 1843, and retained his seat at the general election of 1847. Mr. Pattison was a mem- ber of a family who have been eminent as London merchants for several generations. He was a Director of the Bank of England, and had filled the post of Chairman of the Directors.

In addition to the three leading points which we abstracted last week from the report of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company's Committee, the City writer of the Times points out two other points, which deserve to be noted.

"On the third point of inquiry—namely, the York and Newcastle extension shares—the facts announced are, that Mr. Hudson took 590 shares of this issue, to which he had no right, the aggregate premium on which amounted to 4,0001.; for which also the Committee recommend he should be required to account. They further report, that although Mr. Hudson paid neither deposit nor calls upon 200 of these shares from the date of their issue in February 1847 until the pre- sent investigation, the parties to whom he sold them have been receiving dividends upon them out of the funds of the company as regularly as if all calls had been duly met; and it is likewise observed that while Mr. Hudson was making these sales for his own benefit, 9,682 unappropriated shares were held by the company, which might have yielded a profit of 100,0001., but that no such sales have ever been made for the benefit of the shareholders. The fourth case detailed com- prises the fact of 2,000 shares of the Brandling Junction Railway being voted to Mr. Hudson by his brother directors at a time when they were at 211. premium ; being equivalent to a bonus of 42,0001."

At a special meeting of the York,;Newcastle, and Berwick shareholders, at -York, on Thursday, it was resolved to appoint a Committee to commence legal proceedings with respect to the matters and things that may have arisen out of the investigations of the Committee of inquiry. The members of that Committee were chosen for the duty; with the exception of two gentlemen who refused to serve.

We are enabled to state that Mr. Hudson ceased to be a Director of the York Union Bank on Wednesday the 11th instant.—The Yorleshireman.

At a special meeting of the shareholders of the North-western Railway Company, held on Tuesday, for the purpose of considering the measures to be adopted with reference to the Audit of Railway Accounts Bill now before Parliament, a resolution was almost unanimously adopted, to the effect that "the proposed compulsory interference by Government with the accounts and affairs of railway companies, would be highly objectionable, both on public and private grounds." The meeting was however of opinion, "that it is expedient that it should be made compulsory on the auditors of rail- way accounts to call in to their assistance some known public accountant, but without the interference of Government." A resolution was propossd by Mr. Dean, a barrister, which affirmed the " principle " of Lord Mon- teagle's bill, though deeming the details susceptible of amendment. But all the speakers at the meeting opposed it, and on a show of hands Mr. Dean stood alone.

The Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to consider the practice of the House in respect of the exclusion of Strangers have made the following report-

" That the existing usage of excluding strangers during a division, and upon the notice by an individual Member that strangers are present, has prevailed from a very early period of Parliamentary history; that the instances in which the power of an individual Member to exclude has been exercised have been very rare; and that it is the unanimous opinion of your Committee that there is no sufficient ground for making any alteration in the existing practice with regard to the ad- mission or exclusion of strangers."

The accounts of the crops continue very favourable from all parts of the empire; occasional nervous rumours from particular localities in Ireland, of a potato blight, being discredited, or outbalanced by the general mass of favourable reports.

Numerous inquests continue to be held in the Metropolis on the bodies of persons dying by cholera; but no official returns are published by the Board of Health by which the daily mortality can be known.

The disease prevailed in the provinces with great virulence during the early part of the week—the deaths in Portsmouth were 17 on Tuesday; but since the rains that commenced on Tuesday, and the change of wind throughout England from the Southerly points to Northerly points, the mortality of the disease seems to have much abated. Portsmouth, Ply- mouth, Salisbury, and Bristol, are the towns which have suffered most.

Cholera has emigrated from Paris to the provinces. It broke out in the Tours Penitentiary, on the 13th, at once attacking more than a score of persons. Ultimately it :carried off the chaplain, the director and his daughter, several turnkeys, and forty-seven out of eighty prisoners. Only eight persons were unattacked: the whole of the inmates were removed to a hospital, and the prison was thrown open for ventilation by the unchecked winds.

On the cholera breaking out in London, the Marquis of Normanby applied to the French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for some information as to what was done by the French Government when the malady broke out in Paris. The Minister immediately referred the question to the Board of Public Health of Paris, who are now drawing up a report on the subject which will be transmitted as soon as possible to the English Government. In the mean time, as the cholera appears to be spreading, the celebrated Dr. Majendie, the President of the Com- mittee, is to go to London on a special mission from the French Government, for the purpose of communicating verbally to the London faculty the result of his experience, and of the profession generally, during the recent prevalence of the disease in Paris. Dr. Majendie leaves Paris for England this evening.—Paris Correspondence of the Morning Chronicle, dated 15th July.

It has been arranged between the Woods and Forests that the inhabitants of Brighton are to save the Pavilion for a sum between 50,000/. and 53,000/. The subject has been warmly taken up in the town, and very likely the object in view will be successfully accomplished.—Globe.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Army and Navy Club is to be held on the 21st instant. The object of this meeting, we have reason to believe, is to take into consideration the late ballot, at which, owing to a combination among a certain class of officers, nearly every candidate was blackballed, including one of the Lords of the Admiralty. These arrangements, if we may so use the expres- sion, are not of uncommon occurrence in the professional club; and, if we are not mistaken, a similar meditated design by the same class of officers, owing to an imaginary affront which had been cast upon them, was carried out a few years sinceat the Junior United Service Club, when the fact having been taken into consideration at a general meeting, the ballot was rendered void, and the candi- dates were elected by acclamation. We presume the same expedient will be adopt- ed in the present case.—United Service Gazette.

The Countess of Lansfeldt (Lola Montez) was married on Thursday, to Mr. George Trafford Heald, of the Second Life Guards. The ceremony was per- formed first at the French Roman Catholic Chapel, and subsequently at St. George's, Hanover Square. Mr. Heald is just of age: his fortune is said to be about 14,0001. a year. For some days every one has been able to perceive, in the roadstead in front of the bathing establishment of Frascati, a large steamer. This vessel, named the William, belongs to the Princess of Orange, who is at present at Dieppe, for the benefit of bathing. Thence she is about, it is said, to proceed to Palestine. This Princess is an intrepid tourist, and proceeds where she pleases in her yacht. In- dependently of this steamer, the Princess possesses, we are informed, eleven steamers, which trade for her with England, Russia, and the Netherlands. Her revenue is estimated at three millions of francs.—Journal du Havre.

Major Verity, a gentleman residing at Brompton, after long suffering from a painful disease, last week shot himself, with a duelling-pistol, in his own house, during a paroxysm of the disorder. The Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of " Tem- porary insanity."

The recent hanging of John Kellocher cost the Town-Council of Perth 1171. 17s. 6c/.

Number of Summer Deaths. Average.

Zymotic Diseases 630 .... 302 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 42 44 Tubercular Diseases 204 100 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 106 119 Diseases of the Heart and Blood vessels 28 29 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 108 81 Diseases of the Stomach, Lirer, and other Organs of Digestion 40 76

Diseases of the Kidneys, fee 10 11

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Ac. 10 7 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c. 7 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tisane, Sc 3 2 Malformations 3 3 Premature Birth 21 23 Atrophy 33 25 Age 36 43 Sudden 13 8 Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 63 MI — _ Total (Including unspecified causes) 1365 1008

" The present return exhibits a serious increase in the mortality of London. The deaths, which in the previous week were 1,070, have in the last mounted to 1,369, and give an excess above the average of 361. This unfavourable result is pro- duced by cholera and diarrhosa. The deaths from cholera were 339, more than double the mortality of the preceding week ; those from diarrheas and dysentery, which in the former week were 54, have rapidly increased to 100, which is more than in any corresponding week of five previous years. The total in the week from the three diseases is, therefore, 439, and makes an excess of 347 on the ave- rage of former years. The mortality from all other zymotic or epidemic diseases is 191, the average being 210; that from all sporadic diseases is 686, the average being 670. The progress of cholera in London is traced in the returns of the last six weeks, in which the numbers were successively 22, 42, 49, 124, 152, and 339; the progress of diarrhoea and dysentery in the same periods is shown as fol- lows-25, 38, 19, 33, 54, and 100. During these six weeks cholera was fatal to 425 males, and 303 females ; of whom 387 died on the South side of the river, only 101 in the West and Northern districts. Considerably more than one-half of deaths from diarrhoea last week occurred under two years of age ; whereas of the 339 deaths from cholera, 192 occurred between the ages of 15 and GO. Last week, 49 persons died of cholera in the district of Lambeth, 37 in Rotherbitbe, and 23 in Bermondsey ; but the epidemic now increases generally over the Metropolitan districts. Hooping-cough, pneumonia, and phtliisis are at present fatal to more than the usual number ; the second, as well as the first, al- most entirely to young persons. Typhus, measles, scarlatina, and smallpox, are about the average, or fall considerably under it. Two men died of intemperance.

" The barometer has been high daring the week. It reached 30.252 inches on Wednesday; and the daily mean was above 30 inches throughout the week, with

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last— the of Sunday. The mean of the week was 30.1,29 inch The tem- perature of the air was highest on Sunday, when it ;readied-Kr In the shade and 109° in the BUR at Greenwich. The mean of the week was 66 8°; consider- ably -higher than in previous weeks. It was throughout higher than the average of the same week in seven years; and the mean on Sunday exceeded the average by 9.5°." The mean direction of the wind for the week was North-west.