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Misrptlaums.

M. Thiers is reported by a Parisian paper as having started for the Pyrenees, and by the Messages. du Soir as on his road to London ; to start thence early in August for Vienna, where there is to be a meeting of German Sovereigns.

Lord Cowley is said to be about to leave Frankfort for London.

'The following gentlemen have formed themselves into an association for the purpose of inducing the governments of the countries to which they belong to establish a low and uniform rate of postage on letters to and from all parts of the world— Lord Ashburton, Sir J. P. Boileau, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir Roderick Mur- chison, Sir Stafford Northeote, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr. William Brown, M.P., Mr. George Mont, M.P., Mr. C. J. S. Lefevre, and Dr. Lindley, England ; M. Wolowski, Baron Charles Dupin, and Professor D'Aubigne, France ; Professor Hancock and Mr. C. J. Kennedy, America ; Herr von Wiebahn, Germany ; and M. de Bergne, Russia.

The grievances of the present system are chiefly the high and varied rates now charged, the double collection, and the difference in the scale of weights. It has been ascertained that, under certain stipulations, France, America, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Baden, Switzer- land, Greece, Sardinia, Tuscany, eighteen of the German states, and eight of the Northern European states, have agreed to collect the whole of the postage chargeable on letters to England, and England will collect the whole postage on letters to those countries. The governments of all other countries collect only their own portion of the postage chargeable on foreign letters.

The increasing interest in Italian affairs has originated a society called the Association of the Friends of Italy. Its mode of action is to be by lectures, tracts, the publica.ion of authentic documents and expository works, and by appeals to Parliament. In an initiatory address its objects are thus summed up- " To promote a correct knowledge of the Italian question, to stimulate the expression of just public opinion on the Italian question, and to urge the Farliument and the Government of the country to an appropriate course of national action in the Italian question—such are the aims of this society. Its funds are not to be expended in subsidies for war, or in any other way contrary to the spirit and habits of Englishmen. It is to pronounce nothing, to dictate nothing, as to the form or forms of national government which it might be desirable to see set up in Italy. 'This question of the future in- ternal organization of Italy it regards as belonging exclusively to the Italian people. It is strictly a society of Englishmen, working within the English territory, and according to English methods, for the freedom and inde- pendence of the Italian nation."

The Council includes the names of many active and influential men; among them, Lord Dudley Stuart and several other Members of Parlia- ment, Mr. Walter Savage .Landor, Professor Francis W. Newman, bir. Edward Mr, William Coningham, Mr. W. C. Macready.

We are informed that the preliminaries of tbe.milwa from Alexandriay to Cairo have been so far settled that the works vat be „iiimmed forth- with.— Times.

place on the Great Messrs. Wil-

son the next week, a trial of speed is to tak.

Northern Railway between two engines, the one bmt by

on be Great Northern son of Leeds, called the Jenny Lind, now working

line, the other built by Messrs. Hawthorn of Newenak working on the South-eastern line between London and Dover. Each canine is to draw six carriages and a break-van, and the course is betwet ].endon and Boston, 107 miles. I he quantity of coke consumed by each vill be taken into consideration.

Mr. Robert Stephenson, the mutual umpire, has awarda the sum of 5120/. to Messrs. George and James Munday, as a comPonEntin for losing the contract to construct the Exhibition building, and 5871. 1 9d. costs, to be paid by the Society of Arts.

The marriage of Miss Talbot with Lord Edward Howard took lace on Tuesday, at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Warwick Street. Six rides_ maids attended Miss Talbot, and a host of distinguished people were pre- sent. Lord Chancellor Truro gave away the bride. Alter the cerermay, "the happy pair" departed for Arundel Castle.

The Queen has conferred a pension of 100/. a year on Mrs. Jamesor, the well-known authoress of several intelligent and agreeable works on art.

The long-pending claim of Mr. Silk Buckingham against the East India Company bus been compromised for an annuity of 4001.

The death of the venerable Dr. Lingard was barely mentioned in our Postscript lust week. Dr. Lingard died in the saute quiet little village of Lancashire where he bad lived so long as a parish priest. Born in 1769—the birth-year of Napoleon and Wellington—he was des- tined to the Roman Catholic priesthood, and received his education at the seminary of Douai. On tntermg into holy orders, he returned to England, and became a parish priest aniong the collier population of Northumberland. He was the first to lead the way back in historical research to the times of the Heptarehy ; and his .History of the Anglo-Saxon Church was published originally in an obscure manner at Newcastle-on-Tyne, when the author was in his thirty-seventh year and unknown as a writer beyond the limits of his parish. This volume, however, brought him prominently forward in litera- ture; and his subsequent composition and publication of the History of England placed him at once among the best writers of the day. The first volume was published thirteen years later than the History of the Anglo- Saxon Church, when Dr. Lingard was the pastor of Hornby. The library of the Vatican was placed at his disposal, with the collection of records left by the Stuarts which are deposited there. His whole life appears to have been passed in his clerical avocations and in scholarly re irewent. He Was a man of whom all parties have spoken well ; and his abstinence from the politico-religious contests of his day has even added to his reputation. One of his most notable productions is an English version of the New Testamentv said to be superior to the Douai version. A report has been circulated that Dr. Lingard was afraid to die. This report has been contradicted by Mr. Johnson of Lancaster, the medical ad- viser and friend of the deceased, in a letter to Mr. Dolman the publisher, Dr. Lingard's nephew. Mr. Johnson is a Protestant, and above suspicion. •• For many years. probably thirty or more. I have had the confidence of the vene- rated historian as his medical adviser and friend. I beg to state, that he never manifested, on any occasion w bitterer, an unreasonable fear of any kind, lie was, in my humble judgment, as wise and good a man, his mind as highly cultivated and as thoroughly disciplined, as is attainable in this life. During the whole of his last Silo, so, be was unitormly cheerful, tranquil, and resigned. Not a word or gesture betrayed complaint, iumatience, or dread of any kind."

The "chess tournament" came to a close on Thursday. These are the final results of' the combats—Herr Anderssen is the victor, beating his four antagonists ; Mr. Wyvill second, having been three times victorious, but beaten by Anderssen - Mr. Williams third, Mr. Staunton fourth, Herr Szen filth, Captain Kennedy sixth, Messrs. Horwitz and Mucklow, who have not played off, seventh and eighth.

Results 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 Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Distaste, of the Heart and Bluod-vessels Ten of Weeks 1841-50.

2,883 442 .... 1,980 1,03 282 ..• • Week.

of 1851. 209 45 157 88 42 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration

taa ....

112 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of DigesUon 715 .... Si Diseases of the Kidneys, AM

Chtldbirth, diseases oi the Uterus, ate 103 • . • 15 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Pm 57

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Mc 9

Malfornuttions 30

Premature Birth 225

Atrophy 213

Age 418

Sudden Si

Violence, Privation, Cold, andlistentherance

240

Total (including unspecified causes)

9,730

878

"Mass" is to be celebrated at Abbotsford: Mr. Janne Hope, QC., is the present tenant; he was recently, converted to Roman. Catholicism, A chapel is fitting up in the Catholic mode.

The Stockholm journals state that Jenny Lind has purchased one of the largest estates in Sweden, that of Beckarshoerg, in the province of Nykoping. They also say that the last letters received by her friends in Sweden contra- dict positively reports lately published of her approaching marriage with Belletti.

The railways of Holland and Germany are about to be put in communica- tion; the Prussian Government has just given its consent for the construc- tion of a line to Arnheim on the Dutch frontier.

No fewer than 546 foreigners visited Woolwich Dockyard and Arsenal lot week.

Since the passing of the Church Building Act, 58 Geo. HI e. 45, there have been 304,062 free sittings appointed in churches erected under the act.

By an awkward typographical error, a daily journal announces that a gen.- ,t tletnan has given • 00 guineas" towards a certain object.

Copiapo in Chili wee nearly shaken dawn by an earthquake on the 24th of May, in clear and beautiful weather. It is remarked that no nose preeed,ed the earthquake.

A swindler is at work robbing tradesmen by altering Poat-office money- orders. The swindler goes taa post-ofece a few miles.froraLondon, andeleta an ceder for Is. ; then he sends to a tradesman in London for goods, de- spatching the Post-office order in payment, the" Is." being erased and "51." neatly inserted. The tradesman is thrownoff his guard, and forwards the goods : on applying at the Post-office he finds he has been cheated.

Count Hippolyte ITisarte de Bocarme, the murderer of his wife's brother, was executed at Mons on the 18th instant. Ile expected a reprieve or a pardon up to the latest moment. His behaviour strangely alternated be- tween weakness and courage. But he died firmly,-steadily gazing, before he lay down, upon the gleaming axe suspended above him. The execution seems to have been a solemn spectacle. Cafes, hotels, and shops, were closed, and the window-blinds of private houses were drawn down. The Arch- bishop of Cincinnati and the Dean of St. Wandru attended the accomplished criminal to the scaffold.