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Herr Von ITsedom, charged with a special mission from the Xing of -Prussia to the Court of St. James's, landed et Dover on Wednesday, and proceeded to London on Thursday.

The Commander-in-chief has issued a general order, dated December 19, directing that until further orders the standard of infantry shall be 5 feet 4 inches.

An old warrior, Sir James Kempt, Colonel of the First Regiment, died on Wednesday. He had served his country for seventy-one years, having entered the army in 1783. Sir James fought in Holland and Egypt under Abercromby; and commanded the Light Brigade at Maida. In 1811, he joined Wellington in the Peninsula ; attacked and took the Picurina, an outwork of Badajoz ; and was wounded in leading the brigade that carried the castle by escalade. Xempt headed a brigade of the famous Light Division at Vittoria, at the fights in the Pyrenees, at Orthee, and Toulouse. At Waterloo he commanded a division, and -was wounded in the head. He died a General.

Lieutenant-General William Napier has published a letter in the Times against the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill, written with ell the fer- vour of the famous historian of the Peninsular War--or rather, with that author's style run to seed. He-complains that "the Duke of Newcastle, with a strange presumption, told his brother Lords, that except Lord Hardinge,-no offieer of oapacity and experience remained in England with whom he could consult to avoid the errors he had committed as a War Minister—all were in the Crimea! He must now be taught that there are officers still in 'England with sagacity enough to see through his incapacity." • • * • The -German Lesion could do gallant -things ; but, with Lord Pllenborough, lie would say, that they could not equel the terrible fightieg of the British soldier. The French are worthy. to stand vide by side with "the red line that never -yields." But let not them and their Brit& comrades " hatold to depend

on the dressed-up foreigners—poor frauds, like the camels of Semiramis ac- coutred as elephants, and sure to leave dark silent gaps where loudest shouts and fiercest fires should stream forth in the hour of need."

This ranting letter has been conspicuously posted as a placard about the Metropolis The Marquis of Lansdowne was prevented from visiting the Queen at Windsor on Saturday, by a temporary indisposition; but he was able to at- tend her Majesty en Wednesday.

The Honourable C. A. Murray, recently appointed Minister to Persia, arrived at Alexandria at the beginning of this month, on his way to his post.

The Marchioness of Hastings, and her daughter Lady Bertha Hastings, were in peril on Monday, on the deck of a steamer proceeding from Kings- town to Holyhead. The weather was very rough ; a sea struck the ship, and drove the ladies across the deck, under the bow of the long-boat--the Marchioness was completely wedged under tlip boat, and was much hurt on the head. The master of the vessel considered that both ladies had a nar- row escape from being washed overboard.

The Viscount de Almeida Garette died at Lisbon on the 9th instant Ile had been Minister of Foreign Affairs uuder the present Saldanha Adminis- tration, but was more thought of as a poet than a politician. Ile had written several works in prose and verse, of high estimation in Portugal.

According to the Gazette de 1 Aeadtinie of St. Petersburg, the Chevalier Bunsen continues to reside in retirement at Heidelberg: he has just sent to a publisher at Berlin an historical work, the fruit of his recent leisure.

Lord John Russell has purchased Bure Homage, the seat of Sir John Littler, near Christehurch, in Hampshire.

A little before eight o'clock last evening, the venerable President of Mag- dalen College, Oxford, the Reverend Dr. Martin Joseph Routh, died, after a few days' illness. Dr. Routh -was in his hundredth year, and had held the Presidency of Magdalen College for sixty-three years, having been elected to it in 1791, when he succeeded Dr. George Horne.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to order that the following reduced fees should be taken for searches, &e., in the County Court Registry. For every searoh for a judgment or petition for protection made at the registry, Os. 6d.; for forty searches, to be made within two months (to be paid in advance), 10s. Od. ; for every certificate of search, obtained either throrwh-the clerk of the court or by a letter to the registrar, 2s. Oil.; for having the record of any judgment removed from the -register (to be paid to the clerk of the court), Is. 6d.

The case of the Queen versus Harrison, an action against the printer of the Times newspaper for a libel on the Honourable Francis Scott and other Directors of the South-Western Railway Company,—in remarks which im- puted intriguing conduct during a dispute between two parties in the Corn- pany,—was yesterday tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury. The libel was published on the 23d of Novem- ber last year. The Jury found the defendant guilty, but he was not brought up for judgment.

Messrs. Carter and Co., the London shipowners, have suspended payment, in consequence, they state, of Mr. Oliver's trustees withholding certificates and preventing them from obtaining freight-money from Government. Their liabilities are estimated at 80,0001., but they expect a handsome surplus for themselves.

Miss Stanley, daughter of the late Bishop of -Norwich, has sailed this week with additional nurses for the East, to reinforce the corps under the direc- tion of Miss Nightingale.

The new graving-dock at Southampton, the largest in the world, was used for the first time on Monday, when the huge steamer Crcesus was placed in it : the water was-pumped out-in three hours.

The drain of bullion from the Bank of France goes on : lint month there was:a decrease of 1,700,0001.; while the decrease in three months has been 4,100,0001.

The new Police in Paris is reported to work exceedingly well. About 3600 men are already on duty.

Good progress is made with the Industrial Palace at Paris.

The price of -wheat has a downward tendency in nearly all the markets of France.

The Emperor of the French has doubled, from his privy purse, Madame St. Arnaud's pension of 20,000 francs.

It must be an error to suppose that there is any want of "the Spanish" at Madrid; for the Clamor .Publieo says that the Queen is about to present the Pope with a magnificent new tiara, ornamented with three crowns of brilliants, and with a great many pearls, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. The estimated value of the tiara is about 2,000,000 reale, (nearly 21,000/.,) and the present is to be placed in a box of sculptured silver.

The Prussian Minister of War has ordered telegraphic wires to be laid down to connect all the principal fortresses with Berlin; also the military stations situated along the coast.

The children of Schiller are endeavouring to obtain from the Prussian Chamber an extension of the copyright which they at present enjoy in the Works of their illustrious parent. According to the present law, their pecu- liar property in Schiller's works is secured until 1858, and they pray that the term may be extended twenty years.

Ryan ukase of the Emperor-of Bassin, the surveys and estimates are or- dered to be niade for two new railway lines—one to form a junction between the -St Petersburg-Warsaw line (already in progress) at the Prussian Iron- tier with the Berlin-Konigsberg line, which will be prolonged for that pur- pose to Stallupohnen ; the other from Moscow to Odessa, with a line branch- ing off at Charkow through Alexandrow, Hienia, and Arabat, to Theodosia or Kaftb, in the Crimea.

By couriers to -Moscow, and by railway express thence, despatches are conveyed from Sebastopol to St. Petersburg in 108 hours, if no accident occur.

The entrance to -the harbour of Riga has been so effectually bloeked up with masses of stone, to keep -the Allied fleets out, that now the Baltic is free to the Russians their coasting vessels can get neither in nor out.

The streets of Memel are still filled with Russian sledges, and other vehi- cles, loaded with hemp, tallow, corn, linseed, and smelted copper ; while from the sea-side are imported, for Russian consumption, coffee, sugar, sheet- hen, twist, and cotton goods, and, above all, olive oil. This last article is used in great quantities during the fasts of the Greek Church, in place of , butter. Immense quantities of salt are sent through Prussia to Russia, I where the price is three times what it formerly was. 1 The Pasha of Egypt has authorized M. Lessem formerly French Consul in Egypt, to form a company to construct a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. As a capital of 6,000,000/. would be necessary, to be provided by Europeans, and the undertaking is one of questionable success and profit, probably as little will come of the scheme as of other Egyptian projects. I Said Pasha wants a company or capitalist to take the Egyptian railway off his hands, with a view to procuring the construction of the portion between Cairo and Suez ; one of the projects in which Mehemet Ali traded to win European credit.

The price of wheat, beans, and barley, continues to advance at Alexandria.

The last two English steamers took to Alexandria 180,000/. sterling in specie ; which is at once ingulfed in the country, and mostly buried by the tillers of the ground, who get it in payment of their produce.

The fall in the price of opium in India, consequent on the troubles in China, will be a serious matter to the Indian Government, involving as it does the loss of a million of revenue from the monopoly.

The postage of newspapers in India has been reduced one-half.

The successful diggers in Australia are reported to be investing their gains in farms.

One good result of the mercantile depression in Australia has been a re- duction in the price of food, very seasonable to the working folks, whose la- bour is in less demand than formerly.

Antigua has had an "Industrial Exhibition" : it went off with great eclat.

Mr. I. L. Norton, of New York, was knocked down in the streets and killed by a car : the body was not recognized, and it received a pauper's burial. But Mr. Norton was worth 500,000 dollars ; and when his death was discovered by his relatives, the body was exhumed, that a more costly fune- ral might be performed. [Great is the "almighty dollar."]

The late Mr. Pickering's collection of manuscripts and autograph letters was sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson last week. There were several interesting relics of Burns. The most attractive was the original manu- script of "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," written in a fine bold hand, which was knocked down to an American for 30/. The original document, signed and sealed, appointing the poet an exciseman, produced 51. 12.s. 6d. The other letters and poems, all holograph, sold for high prices. A letter to R. Cleghorn, with the first stanzas of "The Chevalier's Lament," 51. 2s. 6d. A letter to Mrs. Dunlop, thanking her for friendly criticisms, "Not the blasting depredations of a canker-toothed caterpillar-critic," 51. 12s. 6d_ Letterto R. Miller, declining the offer of an engagement to write poetry for the Morning Chronicle, 51. 12s. 6d. Part of a letter to Mrs. Dunlop, con- taining "Auld Langsyne " and other verses, 51. 2s. 6d. Part of a letter to Mrs. M`Lehose, containing the beautiful lines "To Mary in Heaven," 71. 10s. "The Brigs of Ayr," 6/. 5s. "On Cessnock Banks a Lassie dwells," and "Auld Langeyne," on one leaf, 10/. 10s.

The Court of Assize at Munich was lately occupied with the trial of a band of robbers, who had for some time back been committing at great number of robberies and several murders. What distinguished these men was that they lived altogether in the Gil Bias style. They inhabited a vast cavern in the Schillbinger Forest, the entrance to which was concealed by old trunks of trees. Two-and-twenty steep steps led to the chambers below, five in num- ber, two of which were twenty feet long by nine wide. In the kitchen was placed a vast fire-place, the chimney of which issued in the midst of a thick clump of trees ; and through precaution, fire was only lighted there by night. The robbers had also their stables and store-houses, all under-ground ; and at the end of a long corridor there was even found a sort of slaughter- house, where they killed the animals which they required for food. The Court condemned five of the accused to death, and the others either to im- prisonment with hard labour or to simple imprisonment.

Carnal, Palate-E.—Return of admissions for six days ending 22d De- cember, including season-ticket-holders, 9290.