laistellaneous.

The Cologne Gazette announces the death of Prince Waldemar of Prus- sia. He breathed his last at Munster, on the 17th instant, in the arms of his father, Prince William of Prussia, uncle of the present King and Governor of Mayence. The Prince was thirty-two years of age, and died from the consequences of a fall received while hunting.

The Right Reverend Thomas Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Cambysopolis and Vicar Apostolic of the London District, died on Sunday evening, at the episcopal residence in Golden Square. Dr. Walsh was the oldest of the Roman Catholic Prelates in England, both in age and date of consecration. He was Bishop of the Central District for many years, and was removed to the London Vicariate last year. Dr. Walsh is succeeded jure successionis in the Vicariate of London by Dr. Wiseman, his coadjutor in the Central District and subsequently in London.

The Globe announces that the state of Sir George Napier's health has prevented his accepting the command of the Indian Army.

The Times states that Count Colloredo, the Austrian Envoy, has arrived in London, not for the purpose of entering at once on the duties of his post as Imperial Ambassador to our Court, but merely to intimate the views of the Austrian Cabinet with reference to the approaching conference at Brussels. "Austria does not intend," says the Times, "to surrender or concede any portion whatsoever of its territorial rights in the provinces of Lombardy and of Venetia." It is the intention of the Emperor Francis Joseph to establish in his Italian dominions institutions framed in a spirit of liberal concession; but as those intended concessions are entirely matters of internal government between the head of the empire and a portion of his own dominions, no foreign interference will be asked or accepted on the subject.

Chevalier Bunsen arrived at the Prussian Legation on Saturday, from Berlin and Frankfort.

It is understood that Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister in this country, has returned to his post invested with full powers, not only from the Court of Berlin, but from the Germanic Government at Frankfort, to enter upon a negotiation for the conclusion of a definitive treaty of peace between Denmark and those States of Germany which thought fit to inter- fere by arms in the dispute relative to the Dutchies of Schleswig and Hol- stein.—Tintes.

The Lords of the Admiralty have accepted the tender of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, to convey the Brazil and Rio de la Plata mails by means of steam-vessels, leaving England and returning once a month.

Mr. Gilbert A'Beekett has been appointed Police Magistrate in the room of Mr. Jeremy.—Times.

The lace-manufacturers and hosiers in Nottinghamshire have agreed to advance their workmen's wages.

Upwards of 8,0001. were remitted through the York Post-office to Ireland, by the Irish labourers and mendicants located in this city and vicinity, within a period of one year.— York Gazette.

A great number of Mormons or "Latter-day Saints" left Swansea on Tuesday by steamer for Liverpool, whence they will sail to California. Many were sub- stantial farmers; while others had arrived at an extreme old age, but had a firm belief that they would safely arrive at the "New Jerusalem." In California— in the pursuit of agriculture, not of gold—they "believe they will escape from the general destruction and conflagration that is shortly to envelop the earth." Their leader is a popular saint named" Captain Dan Jones." A veteran soldier has just died in Chichester Poor-house; Thomas Pennicook, who had attained the age of a hundred and two. He had fought and was wounded at Bunker's Hill. He lived in the Poor-house from choice, paying a weekly sum for his maintenance from a pension which he received.

A gentleman, near Waltham Abbey, experimenting with the electric light a few days ago, having an incised wound on his left hand, touched the conductor, a copper wire, and shortly afterwards experienced an irritation, which immediately spread in inflammation to the arm. The arm became immensely swollen, and large tumours appeared all over the body and limbs. Eminent surgeons from London have been in attendance; some of the tumours were opened, and every means resorted to for the purpose of checking the poison, but without avail. We learn that the unfortunate patient lies without the least hope of recovery.—Mining Journal.

At Clerkenwell Police-office, on Monday, Edward Painter and William Davis were charged with a forgery on the Bee-love Loan Society. Painter applied for a loan of 51. os.; representing himself as Henry Francis, of Charles Street, Claren- don Square, and tendering Davis as a security. Inquiries respecting Francis proved satisfactory, and the money was lent. It was afterwards discovered that Painter had personated a real Mr. Francis, who lives in Charles Street, and had forged his name. An officer of the Society stated that the men had been carry- ing on the same species of fraud on loan societies for some time. They made no defence, and were committed.

Two youths, *Millen and Sheepwash, have been committed to Maidstone Gaol, on a charge of murdering a very old man named Laws. Laws lived alone at the village of Bethersden, and was wrongly reputed to be a miser. At midnight, the prisoners broke into the cottage, beat the old man on the head with a piece of iron, and carried off the little property they found. Laws managed to crawl to a neighbour's house, but soon died. The youths confessed their guilt.

Three miners—father, son, and uncle—have perished in a coal-pit at Rowley Regis, by an explosion of fire-damp: other colliers were hurt.

There was a destructive hurricane in the Pool on Thursday. The worst dis- aster was the capsizing of the Loharre East Indianian, in leaving St. Katherine's Docks. A steamer was towing the empty vessel, when the wind forced it over, and it soon sank: a number of people who were on board had a narrow escape with their lives.

The cholera returns for the week give these results. London—cases, 82; deaths, 41. Provinces—cases, 29; deaths, 11. Scotland—cases, 661; deaths, 291. The disease appeared on the llth instant in the Refuge for young women in the Hackney Road; 22 cases and 7 deaths have occurred.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Number of Winter

Deaths. Average.

Zymotle Diseases 333 .... 221 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 54 Tubercular Diseases 170 .... 203 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 131 .... 141

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ............ .. . .... 50 40

Disease, of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 236 243

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other organs of Digestion 69 67 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 14 18

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Se. 11 9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc. 14 7

Diseases of the Skin, Cellalar Tissue, Sc .. 1

Malformations 53 Premature Birth 28 23 Atrophy 18 ...... 15

Age 50 73

Sudden 10 14 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 26 37 Total (including unspecified causes) . 1125 1169 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 71.7° in the sun to 19.8° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 4.0°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was West- south-west and South-west.