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We have reason to believe that her Majesty will be advised by Lord ralinerston to raise Sir Edmund Lyons to the Peerage, in consideration of his services while in command of the fleet in the Black Sea. This will be the only peerage conferred for military or naval service rendered during the last war. Sir Edmund Lyons, notwithstanding the new dig. nity it is proposed to confer upon him, will retain the command of the Mediterranean fleet It is also, we are informed, intended to confer upon Sir Baldwin Walker the honour of a Baronetcy, in recognition of the great ability and unwearied assiduity with which he has fulfilled his laborious duties as Surveyor of the Navy.—Times.

The Gazette of last night announces that the Queen has appointed Sir Charles Wood to be an ordinary member of the Civil Division of the First Class or Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ; and Mr. Henry Adrian Churchill, some time attached to the staff of Sir William Williams of Kars, to be an ordinary member of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Order.

The National Life-boat Institution propose to establish life-boats for the port of London, to succour those shipwrecked on the Goodwin Sands, which lie on the highway to London. For this purpose, they solicit subscriptions from the Metropolis. For the present they propose to sta- tion one large life-boat at Widmer, the South end of Deal ; cost, 4004 ; and then if possible to place a second at the South end of Deal.

Sir Henry and Lady Barkly, and Sir Joshua and Lady Rowe, have ar- rived in England from Jamaica. Chief Justice Rowe retires on a pension. Governor Barkly was understood to have leave of absence for six months : the West Indians were not aware that they were about to lose his valued services, by his appointment as Governor of Victoria. Lord Wodehouse, en route for St. Petersburg, dined with the King of Prussia at Potsdam on the 12th.

Prince Napoleon left Havre on Monday, in the Reine Hortense, for his voyage to the North. On Wednesday be landed at Shields, and visited Newcastle : he was to proceed from the Tyne to Edinburgh.

Mr. Thomas Barrett Lennard, a gentleman locally distinguished for the uniform support he had given to the Liberal cause in Essex for a quarter of a century, died at Brighton on Monday. Mr. Lennard was sixty-eight years of age. He first sat in Parliament for Ipswich. In 1826 he appeared at Malden, and defeated Mr. Dick by a majority of 53, after an arduous contest of fifteen days. Had he lived he would have offered himself again for Malden in the event of a dissolution. His father, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, ie now in his ninety-fifth year.

The remains of Captain Henry Langhome Thompson were conve-ed to Brompton Cemetery on Tuesday morning ; accompanied, besides his mime- cliate relatives, by his gallant chief, Sir William Williams of Ears, as well as lord Panmure, Colonel Lake, and other officers.

Count de Toequeville, father of M. Alexis de Tocqueville, member of the French Academy, has just died, at the age of ninety-two, in his château of Claroix, in the Ow. The deceased was son-in-law of M. de Malesherbes, and had filled high public functions. He wrote, at the age of eighty years, a philosophical history of Louis XV., and another work on Louis XVI.

The Countess de Neuilly has given 15,000 francs in her own name and that of her sons to the fund for the aid of the sufferers by the inundations in France.

The water of the Jordan, used for the baptism of the Imperial Prince, was brought from Palestine by the Baron de Saint-Julien, the stepson of M. Charles Dupin.

The Queen of Spain has caused a thanksgiving service to be celebrated for the recovery of the jewels stolen from the chapel of the palace !

Signor Mario had a narrow escape at the Lyceum Theatre on the evening of the 12th: while he was on the stage a rope broke, and a heavy iron can- delabrum fell from the flies, with a frightful crash : it passed close beside Mario ; had it fallen on his head he could hardly have escaped being killed.

There was a difficulty in shipping the horse of Mr. Walton, of the Clare Militia, at Newport : Mr. Walton suddenly sprang upon the animal's back, and in an instant horse and rider were safe upon the ship's deck, at a depth of ten feet.

Mr. Maguire 11.P., in a letter to the Cork Examiner, revives the story that John Sadleir is not dead—that the suicide m as a sham. He mentions circumstances which some think support the view that the body found on Hampstead Heath was not that of Sadleir. Such as that the boots on the corpse were without a stain; whereas, even by daylight, one could not ap- proach on foot the spot where the body was found without getting very dirty. If Sadleir rode to the Heath, where is the man who drove him thither ? There is no proof that any oil of almonds had been swallowed by the person lying dead on the ground—no post-mortem examination was made. What has become of the money—the hundreds of thousands—which Sadleir misappropriated if he, living, has not carried it off? [Mr. Nichol, a surgeon of Hampstead, shows the value of some of these assertions. There was a post-mortem examination, and Mr. Nichol has now in his possession oil of almonds obtained by distillation from the contents of the stomach of the corpse. The body was fully identified, especially by the Coroner, who knew Sadleir well.] The English and French officers in the Crimea who have sold homes and other property to Russians have made very sorry bargains wherever they have taken bank-notes in payment; out of Russia the notes are valueless, for there is an ordinance prohibiting their exportation, and if they leave the country and are openly sent back again the customs-officers confiscate them ! The French and English were not aware of this ; and have been disagreeably surprised by the discovery of the fact. An appeal to the Russian Government is talked of.

The merchants of Odessa are much excited by a rumour that their city is to be made a free port.

While the travelling Russians are pouring over the Prasso-Russian fron- tier, there is a stream of French invading the Czar's territory—teachers, dancingmasters, cooks, actors, artistes of all sorts.

There are two items of news from the Sandwich Islands : Kilio was no longer threatened by the flow of lava from the volcano ; and the King was about to be married to an Englishwoman named Rook.

The whole of the crew of the Hymen have been rescued from the Riff pirates by the Queen's steamers Arid l and Retribution, sent to their aid from Gib- raltar. The Hymen drove ashore, and went to pieces, after the pirates had abandoned he.