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The military authorities have directed that an order from the Foreign Office, dated the 24th of January last, respecting the wearing of foreign decorations by British subjects, should be promulgated for the inform- ation and guidance of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Roman. Catholic Church Militant may perhaps by this time have left little to be learned by itself from the analogies which events suggest. The order con- tains two regulations, of which the second is as follows- " 2. Permission to wear a foreign medal cannot be granted to a British subject unless such medal is bestowed for military or naval services ; but no permission is necessary for accepting a foreign medal, if such medal is not to be worn."

Intelligence has been received of the death of Commander Sir William Winniett, RN., Governor and Commander-in-chief of her Majesty's forts on the Gold Coast.

We regret to have to announce the death of an illustrious lady, Mrs.. %evens Wiseman, mother of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. She died on the 7th instant, at the house of her daughter, the Countess Gabrielli, at Fano in Italy, after a short illness.—Freernan's Journal.

Mr. Wyld the geographer has secured, by payment- of 30001., the permis- sion to erect his great terrestrial globe in the enclosed space forming the centre of Leicester Square. "The building is to be of a circular form, 90 feet across, enclosing the globe, of 60 feet in diameter. Corridors for prome- nade will surround it, and it is to have four covered approaches from the sides of the square. The external elevation at the sides is proposed to be 2G feet high, surmounted by a large bell-shaped roof of zinc. The building itself will be mainly of timber, the inner surface of the globe of plaster of Paris. In the centre of the globe will be a series of galleries, four in number, constructed so as to enable visitors to see every portion of the model. These galleries, it is said, will afford accommodation for 1000 or 1500 persons at one time, and are to be approached by spiral staircases in the centre."

The Messrs. Thomas Tucker and Co. of Liverpool, shipbuilders, have offered to accept the American challenge to build a ship which shall sail a race to India and back, and beat all competitors in speed and largeness of capacity for tonnage : the winners to have the beaten ship.

The life-boats of the Liverpool Dock Committee have during the last ten years assisted 269 vessels either wrecked or in distress, and saved no fewer than 1128 lives.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years.

of 1841-50.

of 1851.

Zymotie Diseases 1,931 .... 212 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 532 .... 53 Tubercular Diseases 1,808 .... 167 Diseases of the Bruin, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,241 .... 105 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 371 .... 47 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,111 .... 220 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 608 .... 56 Diseases of the Kidneys, &e ts

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ate 124

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 87

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c 10

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Malformations 24

Premature Birth 231 .... 27 Atrophy 163

Age 704

Sudden 141

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 265 .... 31s Total (including unspecified causes) 10,497

1,038 Ten Weeks Week.