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In accordance with public opinion, the Queen has appointed Lord Hardinge Commander-in-chief. His first " general order" is published in the London Gazette, as follows. " Horse Guards. 23d September 1852.

" In obedience to her Majesty's most gracious commands, Lieutenant. General Viscount Hardinge assumes the command of her Majesty's Army ; and all matters relating to her Majesty's military service which have hereto- fore been performed by his Grace the late Commander-in-chief will hence- forth be transacted by his Lordship. " He confidently hopes, that in the performance of the duties intrusted to him by her Majesty's favour, he will receive the assistance and support of the general and other officers of the Army, and be enabled to maintain its discipline and high character by a continuance of those services which have identified the British Army with the honour, power, and prosperity of their country. "The Queen having, in the general order to the Army of yesterday's date, expressed her Majesty's sentiments on the irreparable loss sustained by her Majesty, the Country, and the Army, n the sudden death of Field-Marshal Hardinge the Duke of Wellington, Viscount presumes only on this occasion to give utterance to his devoted attachment to the memory of 'the greatest commander whom England ever saw,' and whose whole life has afforded the brightest example by which a British army can be guided in the perform. ante of its duties.

"By command of the Right Honourable Lieutenant-General Viscount " MARDI:MGR, commanding-in-chief. "G. BROWN, Adjutant-General." "Mourning for the Army : General Orders. "Horse Guards, Sept. 22, 1852. "The Adjutant-General has received her Majesty's most gracious com- mands to issue the following general orders to the Army.

"1. The Queen feels assured that the Army will participate in the deep grief with which her Majesty has received the intelligence of the irreparable loss sustained by herself and by the country in the sudden death of Field- Marshal the Duke of Wellington.

"In him her Majesty has to deplore a firm supporter of her throne • a faithful, wise, and devoted councillor ; and a valued and honoured friend.

" In him the Army will lament the loss of a Commander-in-chief un- equalled for the brilliancy, the magnitude, and the success of his military achievements; but hardly less distinguished for the indefatigable and earnest zeal with which, in time of peace, he laboured to maintain the efficiency and promote the interests of that army which he had often led to victory. " The discipline which he exacted from others, as the main foundation of the military character, he sternly imposed upon himself; and the Queen desires to impress upon the Army, that the greatest commander whom Eng- land ever saw has left an example for the imitation of every soldier, in taking, as his guiding principle in every relation of life, an energetic and unhesitating obedience to the call of duty. " It is her Majesty's command that this general order shall be inserted in the order-books, and read at the head of every regiment in her Majesty's service.

" 2. The Queen does not require that the officers of the Army should wear any other mourning with their uniforms, on the present melancholy occa- sion, than black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the sword- knot, and on the left arm ; with the following exceptions,—viz. Officers on duty are to wear black gloves, black crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the sword-knot, and on the left arm, the sash covered with black crape, and a black crape scarf over the right shoulder. The drums of regi- ments are to be covered with black ; and black crape is to be hung from the pike of the colour-staff of infantry, andfrom the standard-staff and trumpets of cavalry.

" 3. The Queen has been most graciously pleased, under the present

afflicting circumstances, to direct that Lieutenant-General Viscount Har- dinge, G.C.B., shall be placed on the Staff of her Majesty's Army; and that all matters respecting her Majesty's military service, which have heretofore been transacted by his Grace the late Commander-in-chief, shall henceforth be performed by Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardinge, G.C.B.

" By her Majesty's command,

"G. Bnowie, Adjutant-General."

The other appointments have been announced as follows. Master-General of Ordnance (with ( i

-lc-- a } Lord Fitzroy Somerset.

Peerage) Military Secretary Colonel Wood. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports The Earl of Derby. Constable of the Tower. Lord Combermere.

Colonelcy of the Grenadier Guards Prince Albert. Colonelcy of the Fusilier Guards Prince George of Cambridge. The Duke of Northumberland and the Marquis of Londonderry to be Knights of the Garter.

The Earl of Derby arrived at Knowsley Park, Lancashire, on Wednes- day, from Perth.

The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Balmoral on Tuesday, on a visit to the Queen.

Sir John Pakington left his seat, Westwood Park, on Monday, for Bal- moral.

The Emperor of Austria, who has been slightly indisposed, has now re- covered. He left Vienna, and arrived at Pesth on the 14th.

The Crown Prince Alexander of Russia, the Crown Prince of Wurtem- berg, Prince Albert of Saxony, and the Earl of Westmoreland, were at Pesth early in the week.

The Count and Countess de Chambord are still at Ebenzweier, on a visit to the Archduke Maximilian &Este ; but a Vienna letter states that they are to return to Frohsdorf at the end of the month.

M. Odilon Barrot arrived at Genoa on the 16th, on his way to Naples.

M. Guizot had arrived in Paris on the 17th ; intending to remain a few days.

The Prussian army was to go into mourning for three days, as a mark of respect to the memory of Wellington. A paragraph, which originally appeared in some of the Continental papers, has been copied into several English journals, stating that the Earl of Westmoreland had proceeded to Florence with a view to settle some pending dispute between Tuscany and England. This report is utterly without foundation ; the visit of Lord Westmoreland being purely of a private nature, and unconnected in any way with public affairs.— Morning Herald. English subjects abroad are as liable to outrage from the authorities as ever ; at least if an account published by the Leicestershire Mercury is true. Dr. Paget, the writer on Hungary, has been for some time living in Dresden, the capital of the Napoleon-made kingdom of Saxony. Sud- denly, on the 2d September, his house was entered by the police ; and his letters, notes, manuscripts, diaries, and many books, were carried of Mr. Forbes, our Minister at Dresden, at once called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs ; but neither he nor the Minister of the Interior knew anything of the matter,—at least so they declared. Of course the ques- tion- arose, instantly, if the authorities were ignorant, who instigated the police ? And it has been asked whether Austria had anything to do with the burglarious transaction ; especially when Saxony is a kingdom in a state of tutelage ?

A line of screw-steamers is about to commence running between South- ampton and Bordeaux.

Replies favourable to the establishment of international postage have been received by the Association from the Ministers for Austria, the United States, Spain, Brazil, Sardinia, Portugal, France, the Nether- lands, Turkey, from the Consul-General for the Hanse Towns, and from other representatives of foreign countries. The promoters of the agita- tion intend to form branch associations in the provinces, and they have already received promises of support for this purpose from the following places : Bath, Cork, Cheltenham, Dumbarton, Deal, Dublin, Exeter, Fal- kirk, Glasgow, Huntingdon, Huddersfield, Halifax, Hastings, Leicester, Leeds, Merthyr Tydvil, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Notting- ham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Reading, —Rotherham, Spalding, Swansea, Sheffield, Sunderland, Staffordshire Potteries, Totaes, Tiver- ton, Wareham, Wisbeach, and Waterford.

Last week the towns on the course of the Rhine and the rivers flowing into lake Leman were inundated by the great risingof the waters. At Stras- bourg, the river rose upwards of twelve feet above the high-water-mark ; and a battalion of troops was employed to prevent or diminish the mis- chief. Between Lausanne and Berne the roads were overflowed, broken up, and rendered nearly impassable; in the lower quarter of Lausanne the waters rose one foot higher than they did in the destructive inun- dation of 1831. Yverdun was reported as "an isle in the midst of a lake" ; and at Basle the Gazette could not be printed. Other places suffered in like manner.

A telegraphic despatch from Strasbourg, dated Tuesday morning, states that the whole plain, extending from the Rhine to the military road, was an immense lake, and that many houses had been swept away by the flood. The inhabitants, however, had been saved.

The Duchess of Orleans suffered an accident on Sunday, while travelling from Lausanne to Berne. In consequence of the inundations, the coach- man overturned the carriage into a ditch full of water : the collar-bone of the Duchess was broken ; the children escaped unhurt.

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

Zymotic Diseases _Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, of 1642-51.

3,659 463

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of 1852.

276 39 Tubercular Diseases 1,717 .... 182 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses ' 1,114 .... 74 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 264 .... 22 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 827 .... 103 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 656 .... 69

Diseases of the Kidneys, &e

96 .... 6 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c 103

10 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 84 .• 8 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dte 14

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Malformations 56 .... 5 `Premature Birth 329 .... 21

:atrophy

257 .... 83 Atte 455 .... 56

-Sudden

'St .... 4 violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 285 • ... 21 Total (including unspecified causes) 10,386 • 913

Six men are to be selected from each division of the Metropolitan Police to 'form a.poliee force for Australia. The pay will be 7s. 6d. a day, with passage and all expenses paid : each volunteer will have to engage to serve five years, or incur a penalty of 501.

Mr. Weble, represented as a young Englishman of fortune? has lately been a 'prominent party in several lawsuits before the Parisian courts. These have arisen out of his connexion with three persons ; Monsieur and Madame Loussada, and the mother of the latter, Madame Devaisore. Weble met theme persons at Homburg. Loussada was a "gentleman at large," ad- dicted to play ; his wife was intended for the opera, but bestowed. herself upon other things ; her mother seems to have hued with them. All four travelled a great deal together ; the woman living more or less upon Weble, until he grew tired of giving. A quarrel was easily got up ; a duel resolved on; and Weble before fighting placed 7000 francs in the hands of Madame Devaisore, in case of mishap. Somebody's courage failed ; the duel was not -fou ht ; Weble returned to Paris, and claimed his money. It was given up with great reluctance. In the squabble, some sulphuric acid was thrown on Weble, and for this Loussada was condemned by the Court of Assize. Still Webb does not appear to have profited by experience. When he came to Paris in October 1851, he employed the two women to buy him furniture ; and they did so ; but when they had got it they refused to surrender pos- session, unless he would secure to Madame Loussada an income of 12,000 francs per annum. He declined ; an action was raised, and it was tried on Thursday week, before the Civil Tribunal at Paris. The facts here briefly .set forth were detailed at length by M. Jules Favre on behalf of Weble ; ,and counter-statements were made by M. Lachaud for the Loussadas. M. Unhand represented Loussada as running over Europe in search of Mr. lVeble, who had robbed him of his wife. But M. Fevre read letters from both mother and daughter, clearly showing that they had only one object— that of fleecing Mr. Weble as long as he would endure the proem ; and the Tribunal accordingly decided, that Madame Devaisore should surrender the furniture, or in, default pay 40,000 francs.

Ten Weeks Week