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Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, explains his public appearanee at Manchester Bosom after he had declared himself unable to attend a meeting in Edinburgh. Mr. Gladstone says that his visit to the neighbourhood of Manchester was settled at the commence.. ment of the present year, as a purely private visit, in eonne* wit14.6- consecration of a church built by a personal friend. "But it so happened that the statue of Sir Robert Peel wasoeptpleted, sent down to be inaugurated here at this very time ; and thus a about, that, within the last few days, I have been invited to attend that', bream, and afterwards to meet the Corporation and certain other bodies in the Town-hall. The whole .proceeding, therefore, as you will446 is wholly unpremeditated and.purely moptional on my part ; and as it yfenkl. greatly pain me if I appeared because of it to undervalue such a testimonial es that which I hold from Edinburgh, I have thought I might be warraite4-1 in this explanation, which I beg you not to take the trouble of acknowledging."

The Colonelcy of the Twenty-second Foot, vacant by the death of Sir Charles Napier, has been bestowed upon his -brother, Lieutenant-General. Sir William Napier.

The senior General in the Queen's service, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, died at Bath on Monday, in the eighty-third year of his sp. General Mackenzie had been educated partly at Edinburgh with Sir Welter Scott, and subsequently with the Duke of Wellington in France.

Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, formerly British MinisteratAthens, has arrived in town from his post in Switzerlandtand is in frequent com- munication with the Government.

The friends of the gallant Colonel Outram will be glad to hear that he has been reappointed as Resident at Baroda.—Times.

The Duchess of Montpensier is suffering from an illness, described by one journal as " measles," and by another as a " slight attack of se.arlatina."

The Countess de Neuilly is detained at Geneva by indisposition; and the journey to Spain has been delayed in consequence, if not aban- doned.

The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden has arrived in Paris, on a visit to the Emperor.

Count Walewski has taken the tall house at Albert Gate formerly occupied by Mr. Hudson the Railway King. It is seated that the, lease is for five years, at a rental of 18001. per annum.

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The Channel fleet, under Admiral Corry and Commodore Martin, arrived at Spithead on Sunday. Two of the ships, the-London and-the Highflyer, were immediately telegraphed to prepare for foreign service.

It is stated. that Sir Edmund Lyons has been selected to the second post in the command of the Mediterranean fleet, and that he will hoist his flag in the Agamemnon ; that Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenee will be the new Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital ; and that Captain the Honourable Joseph Denman will have the command -of the Queen's steam-yacht squadron. These are reports current at Portman/stk.

Commander M'Clure has been advanced to the post rank of Captain for his discoveries; and Commander Inglefield reeeives aaimilar promo- tion for bringing home the news of the discovery, and for having gone out in 1851 in his own yacht, the Isabel, and penetrated to the open water of the Polar basin.

The Cambridge Bribery Commission has issued a lengthy report, with full details. They find that "bribery, treating, and tither corrupt prac- tices, have for a long period systematically prevailed-at elections for Members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Cambridge."

During the year of Lord Derby's administration there was an increase of nearly 100,0001. in the cost of the stationery for the public departments. The figures were 258,4104 for 1852, against 166,9161. for 1851 !

The home ticket-of-leave system began on Friday last week, by the conditional liberation of four convicts confined in the Warrior hulk at Woolwich, and of four others on Saturday. They are freed on the Bole condition that they shall avoid the haunts of thieves and bad characters : should they not fulfil this condition, they will be arrested, and instantly confined anew for the unexpired term of their sentence. There is a re- port current that Captain Denham, now in the South Seas, has been in- structed to report upon some new and suitable place whither convicts may be sent should the present scheme fail. [It must be remembered that Captain Denham sailed before any public allusion was made to the present scheme.]

In consequence of new arrangements with France, letters for the Pa- pal States may be prepaid or not at the option of the sender. The rates are is. 4d. per letter under a quarter of an ounce; 2s. U. above a quar- ter and under half an ounce ; 3s. 7d. above a half and under three-quar- ters ; 4s. 6d. above three-quarters and under one ounce ; and 6s. 3d. above one ounce and under an ounce and a quarter.

Owing to the Austrian Government having revived a system of intole- rance against its Jewish subjects, a plan has been suggested for the Jewish capitalists in all the principal commercial cities to refuse to deal in the bonds of that country. Whether it is likely to be carried out, is doubtful ; but anything that may tend to cripple the ability of Austria to raise constant loans in this country should be welcomed here as a national service.---Timee, City Article.

"J. G." in the Daily News is more sanguine. He mentions that the plan has been much talked -of in Vienna, Berlin, Frankfort, Paris, and the London Stock Exchange ; and he even contemplates as a possibility that the Austrian Consul-General, who is also one of the Liberal Mem- bers for the City, will join in it.

It appears that %oasts is not yet at liberty. Mr. Marsh and Baron de Briiek having agreed that he should be released, word to that effect was sent to the French Consul who had charge of the prisoner. The French Consul refused to comply with the order s stating that he was under an engagement not to release Kossta without the consent of the American and Austrian Consuls at Smyrna. Now, the American Consul refitses to give his consent, or to obey the commands of the, Embassy at Conatanti- nople. He insists that Kossta is either an Ainerican or an Austrian ; if an Austrian, then Austria should have biro, but if an American, then he ean go or stay as he pleased. [In explanatien, wa_ may say, that dire con- dition of his release, said to have been agreed on at Constantinople, pledged

the Americans to take him direct to the United States, without touching at any Mediterranean port.]

Pjlie follotrinW el-positron of the past and present relations of the Dem- stePrincipalities to the Porte, furnished in a leader of the Times this #.6k, was welcomed as a relief from the monotonous iteration of the same " news" in the daily, journals. "The territories of the old Byzantine monarchy, which the Turks appro- priates, had been bounded on the North by the Danube ; but, as the power of the Ottoman SeVereigns increased, they carried their conquests beyond this frontier, and established themselves for a considerable period even in the capital of Hungary. Among. the states in these parts which they,__re- &seed to obedience, were two principalities of some antiquity, termed Wal- lachia and Moldavia, governed by rulers of their own, and comprising very nearly the same districts which they include at the present day. These were brought by the great Solyman into a species of subjection to the Otto- man Crown. That'the conquest was in itself incomplete, is not very pro- bable, considering the strength of the Turks at that period ; but, for some reason or other, the provinces in question were never actually incorporated in the Ottoman empire, but were left under their own princes with a reser- vation only of sovereignty and tribute to the Sublime Porte. "The other conquests of the Sultan to the North of the Danube were all ultimately lost; but the Danubian Principalities, as they were now denomi- nated, remained under these relations with the Turkish monarchy, until its fortunes began to be affected lay the ascendancy of Russia. Peter the Great was contented with obtaining the support or connivance of their Princes in his contests with the Sultan but, as the ambition of the Czars expanded, it became a leading object of Russian policy to detach these semi-independent states from the Turkish dominion altogether, and to transfer to St. Petersburg, by gradual encroachments, the allegiance due to Constantinople. These designs were aided by a concurrence of favourable circumstances. As the Ottoman power declined, the independence of Wallachia and Moldavia became somewhat more substantial ; and, as their population was exolusively Christian, the pre- text of a protectorate was brought plausibly into requisition. The Russian Go- vernment affected,. therefore, to defend, against the Porte, the rights and im- munities constitutionally reserved to the Principalities; and so successfully were her operations conducted, that, in the end, the authority of the Sultan was practically divided for the benefit of the Czar. Every victorious war was made to contribute its impulse to this consummation. As long ago as 1792 it was stipulated and agreed that the Governors, or, as they are styled Hos- podars of the Danubian Principalities, should neither be appointed nor re- moved without licence obtained from the Russian Court; and so rapidly since that time has the work of encroachment proceeded, that the Sultan now stands debarred by his own surrenders from most of the privileges of a su- preme lord. The 'sovereignty' of the Provinces, it is true, still nominally pertains to him; but no Turk can settle in them; nor can any Turkish troops be quartered there, except under specified circumstances, insomuch that, if at this very moment the Czar were to retire from the Principalities, the Sul- tan could not march into them except at the cost of another breach of treaty and another embroilment. We have before remarked, that within the last thirty years the good offices of Great Britain were employed at the instance of'Russut to procure the evacuation of these very provinces by the Turks. "As yet, however, the Danubian Principalities are not Russian."

Result of the Registrar-General'sreturn of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturdaylast.

Ten Weeks Week of 1813-32. of 1853.

-'31761102■DISeasea • as

3.349 .... 291 Dropsy,. Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 462 .... 60 ViibercularDiseases 1,703 .... 173 -. Diseases of the Enda, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,011 .... 98 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 317 .... 39 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,238 .... 150 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 636 .... 61 Disease. of the Kidneys, he 102 .... 17 Childbirth, diseases of the items, he

99

- -Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, Ste

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Diseases of the Skin, Oellalarlisene, he

Malformations

14

32 ....

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6 Premature Birth 197 .... 24

Atrophy 223 .... 34 Age 437 .... 40 ,, Sudden 73 .... 7 Violence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 234 .... 23 Total (Including unspecified causes) 9,491 1,039

A quantity of surplus live stock was sold on Prince Albert's farm—Nor- folk Farm, near Windsor—on Tuesday. The prices were very good, and the total proceeds amounted to nearly 40001.

There is a splendid crop of cider-apples in Devonshire. Of late years i there has been a large trade in Devonshire cider for the London market.

Lord Onslow has revoked the munificent bequest which he had made to the nation of his fine collection of pictures by the old masters. We are informed that he has taken this step in consequence of the very unsatisfactory nature of the report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery.—Times.

Lord Onslow has addressed a note to the Morning Post, appending to the report that he had presented 100 guineas to Mr. Morris Moore, the fact that Mr. Moore had "delicately and courteously declined" acceptance.

Intelligence has been received at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, of the death of Lieutenant Hutchinson, a young officer, whilst cruising in his pleasure-yacht in the Australian rivers ; a sudden squall of wind catching the sails and upsetting the boat, the whole of the hands on board perishing. The bodies were shortly afterwards picked up, and have been buried with military honenrs.—Kentish Mercury.

We understand that an order has been received by the authorities of the Woolwich Royal Arsenal for the completion of a large quantity of war rockets, on an entirely new principle, and which are expected to supersede those formerly in use. In consequence of this, a number of hands are to be entered in the course of the next week.—Kentish Mercury.

The first trial of a locomotive, constructed at Seraing, to work over the steep inclines of the railway from Vienna to Trieste, has just taken plane on the inclined plane of Liege. This gigantic machine, which weighs not less than 60,000 kilogrammes, and which has ten wheels, went up the incline with the greatest facility, having a great number of waggons attached to it. The trial was perfectly successful.

A second line of telegraph has beet son pleted between London, Man- chester, and Liverpool. It belongs to Vie gnetic Telegraph Company.

On the afternoon of the 14th, between 300 and 400 coal-ships left the Tyne, the greater number for London.

No fewer than twenty-four ships, with a tonnage of 14,737, left London for the Australian Colonies last week. • Many of these vessels had been lin- gering for more freight ; but the last advices from Australia having checked ernortation thither, they were at last obliged to sail with what cargo they haY.

A correspondent of the Titnet suggests that there should be a " railway Captain" to every train,—a man who should direct all the movements, while

his undivided attention should be given to that object, and not coonpied, like an engine-driver, in fifty other tasks.

The mail-steamer Despatoh, which plies between Guernsey and South- ampton, has been in great peril near the harbour of the island. Her ma- chinery became disabled in a rough sea, close on to the rocks. Signal-guns were fired, and the Queen's steamer Dasher came to her aid, and eventually towed her into the harbour.