Zurtilautung.

It is understood that the christening of the infant Princess will take place in the middle of next month the sponsors being the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia. The Princess will receive the names of Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore.

The Globe states that Mr. Thomas Baring, Member for Huntingdon, will be the new Lord of the Admiralty in the place of Sir Robert Peel.

The Gazette of Tuesday notifies that Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Knight, of Bombay, has been created a'Baronet.

Mr. William Russell, the Crimean Commissioner of the Times, is engaged in delivering popular lectures on the Russian war, at Willis's Rooms. One set of three lectures was delivered last week ; and they are to be repeated—the first this afternoon—for the benefit of those who could not attend the former course. They were characterized by the spirit which animated the letters from the camp, with some amendments, and an important addition bearing on the share which the French took in the war.

The number of deaths in the Metropolis last week was 1050—or 101 less than the corrected average, and but slightly differing from the mortality of the previous week ; "a result," says the Registrar-General, "which must be accepted as a proof of the favourable condition of the public health."

Mr. Thomas Law Hodges, so well known in connexion with the representation of the county of Kent, and the hop-planting interest, died on the 14th instant, at the advanced age of eighty-one. To the last he was doing duty as a public man. He attended a meeting of hop-planters at Cranbrook so lately as the 28th April; he returned from the meeting to his house, Hemsted Park; declined in health, and died. Mr. Hodges first represented Kent in 1830; he was ousted from the representation of West Kent in 1847.

Robert Burns, the eldest son of him who made that name immortal, died on the 14th instant, at Dumfries. He was born at Mauchline, in September 1786; so that he had nearly completed his seventy-first year. An obituary notice in the Dumfries Courier says—" In several respects, in point of intellect the deceased was no ordinary man. He was an accomplished scholar. Endowed with a prodigious memory and great powers of application, he had amassed a vast quantity of knowledge on a great range of subjects. His enthusiasm in the acquisition of information continued to almost his last days, and for some years he had been almost passionately, attached to the study of the language of the Gael. In music he was a proficient student, possessing both a theoretical and practical knowledge of the art. A portion of the father's poetic mantle had fallen upon the son, and in his earlier years he composed verses of considerable intrinsic merit." His remains were to be laid "beside those of his father, in the mausoleum, St. Michael's Churchyard, the vault of which had not been opened for upwards of twenty years."

Two French Senators have died this week at Paris—M. Vieillard, and the Marquis de Pastoret. H. Vieillard had been tutor to the Emperor's brother. The Emperor visited him a few days before his death. Vidocq, the noted Parisian police-spy and thieftaker, recently died at Paris, in his seventy-eighth year.

Ministers were active in dinner-giving on Saturday : the Premier, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir Charles 'Wood, and Sir George Cornewall Lewis, all played the part of host. Lady Palmerston also had an assembly.

The heart of the Queen of Westphalia, second wife of Jerome Bonaparte, has been placed in an urn and deposited in the tomb of the First Napoleon, —" the heart of a noble woman," who did not desert her husband in his hour of adversity, though entreated to do so by her father the King of Wurtemburg.

The officials in Hungary have been so urgent in making people spend money in spontaneous rejoicings on the Emperor's visit, that it has been found necessary to hint a rebuke in the Peah-Buela Gazette : the Emperor does not require any further expenditure to convince him of the loyalty of his subjects,—he will be " hurt " and "vexed" at it.

The pious and exemplary Court of Spain have been assisting at a grand ceremony—the depositing a nail of the cross" in a magnificent reliquary provided by the Queen. It seems that the nail and the costly box containing it were stolen some time since ; the nail has been recovered but not the box.

The Liverpool underwriters have presented 1000 guineas to Mr. Porter, master of the Meteor, for navigating her home from Mobile though le instead of submitting to enormous charges for repairs at Key West. Porter succeeded in bringing the ship home by providing himself with a powerful steam-pump.

It appears from an analysis prepared by Mr. White, the honorary secretary of Lord John Russell's Committee, that Lord John had no fewer than 1906 " plumpers" at the City election : Baron Rothschild had 540, Sir James Duke 442, Mr. Crawford 64, and Mr. Currie 117.

The construction of an electric telegraph line from Madras to Ceylon has been sanctioned by the Supreme Government of India. It will pass through the French territory on the coast, and there will be a station at Pondicherry.

Screw-steamers are to be employed in the whale-fishery; the aid of steam will enable the vessels to penetrate inlets and small bays frequented by the whales where a sailing-vessel could not readily follow them. The first steamwhaler has just left the Tyne for Davis's Straits.

According to letters from Shanghai the exports from that port for the half-year ending the 31st December 1856, are stated to have amounted to about 7,500,000/., and to have been balanced by imports of goods to the extent of about 1,850,0001., of opium 2,000,0001., and of specie 3,650,000/.

The appearance of the growing crops in France is described as "magnificent." In the South, ravaged by inundations last year, there is a

prospect of an abundant yield. The speculators in grain are in tribulation.

The Lake Erie and Wabash Railway Company have failed to pay: interest on their second mortgage bonds : the company say that this arises from temporary want of cash, another railway not having paid them a large sum for freight.

During seven days that the new reading-room at the British Museum was opened to public view, no fewer than 162,489 persons visited it.

During last year no fewer than 22,427 exemptions from serving in the French army were purchased at the price fixed by Government-2800 francs for each conscript. The places of those willing to pay rather than serve seem to be principally filled by soldiers whose tune is out reenlisting, for which each man receives 1500 francs.

The Paris Cour Imp5riale, after a long deliberation, delivered its-judgment in the affair of the Napoleon Docks on Tuesday morning. The sere. tones of imprisonment against MM. Cusin, Legendre, Duchesne de Pere, and Berryer, as pronounced by the Tribunal of Premiere Instance, is affirmed ; but the fines to which they were condemned are reduced to 3000 francs for Cusin and Legendre, to 2000 francs for Arthur BenTer, and to 1000 francs for Duchesne de Fore. M. Orsi, who was acquitted on the former trial, has been declared guilty of complicity on account of his participation in the agreement with Fox and Henderson, and has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine, and, moreover, to restore 4400 dock shares. Tho prisoners are condemned to the coats in different proportions.

Reiter, one of the cashiers of the Austrian National Bank, had absconded, leaving a deficit of 360,000 forms: he has been apprehended, but no money was found on him. What he has done with his plunder is at present a mystery.

The case of Mansell the murderer is not yet ended : the Attorney. General, as this is a case involving human life, has resolved to have it again reviewed by the Exchequer Chamber. In the mean time, Mansell has been respited to the 22d June.

A letter from Erzeroum, dated the 28th April, published in the Prase d' Orient, states that "a violent shock of earthquake was felt two days ego in the neighbourhood of Mooch. The oscillations continued at intervals for thirty-six hours. Several villages in the Plain of Bolanek were destroyed, and nearly 180 persons lost their lives."