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The King of Hanover is expected to arrive in this country at the latter end of May.
We understand that the Government have decided on sending addition- al troops to the Island of Jersey, and the Horse Guards authorities have selected the Seventh Fusiliers for that service, to embark in April.— United Service Gazette.
Everybody remembers the prominent manner in which Mr. Sheriff Swift took his Roman Catholic chaplain into the Royal presence at a re- cent levee, bedecked in the showy paraphernalia of his religious order ; and how the presentation was formally inserted in the Court Circular to the great elevation of the spirits of the Ultramontanes " in this country. It would seem now that the indecorum of that obtrusion was not unmarked by Protestant Royalty, and that it has been thought worthy of rebuke :- the Gazette of Tuesday contained the following laconic announcement-
" Notice is hereby given, that the presentation to the Queen at the levee on Thursday the 26th of February last, of the Very Reverend Monsignore Searle, is cancelled, that title having been assumed without the required au- thority,"
We understand that the Blue Riband, vacant by the death of the late Duke of Cambridge, was given the Marquis of Donegal by the late Go- vernment before their retirement from office.—Standard.
A very large quantity of wheat and flour has been shipped from the ports of London and Hull for the ports of Prussia ; which will be ad- mitted at only a nominal duty, in consequence of the great scarcity which prevails in that country of every description of grain. Large contracts are stated to have been entered into by some of our leading corn-factors for that country.—Standard.
The Admiralty has caused to be published in the newspapers a letter received from Dr. Rae, of the Hudson's Bay Company, dated " Biddle- House, Detroit, United States, Feb. 28," describing rapidly his last boating and sledging expedition in search after Sir John Franklin. The furthest point reached by him during the summer's voyage on the Arctic Sea was latitude 70 degrees 30 minutes North ; longitude 101 degrees West, on Victoria Land, about 80 miles Westward of the magnetic pole. Ile was there arrested by ice for nearly a fortnight and, despairing of being able to push on further, he turned back thence on his return, on the 19th of August He states that his " search for John Franklin has been fruitless" ; but he describes the following discovery, which he does not hint to be in any way connected with the lost expedition. 4, On our way to the Coppermine River two pieces of wood, the one oak, the other pine, were picked up. The former appeared to be a stancheon, in the upper end of which there had been a hole, through which a chain had evidently been passed. The wood on one side of the hole had been torn away, as if by pressure against the chain. The piece of pine looked like the butt-end of a small flag-staff, and had certainly belonged to one of her Britannic Majesty's ships, as there was a piece of line and two copper tacks attached to it, all of which bore the Government mark. The thread in the line is red. The line, tacks, and portions of the wood, are preserved, and anal be delivered to the Admiralty on my reaching England.'
Accounts by way of Bahia have been received from Sydney, that Mr. Benjamin Boyd, the well-known colonist of New South Wales, has come to an untimely end. The statement is, that he was conducting his own vessel, the Wanderer, home from California to Sydney, and she was wrecked in the Macquarrie Bay, but no life was lost The crew stated that Mr. Boyd had perished in a fray with the cannibal natives of one of the islands of the Solomon group ; but the details of their story were 80 inconsistent, that great doubts were entertained of its truth, not without suspicions that he had been made away with in the vessel itself. The Duke of Northumberland, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is at least re- solved to clear the sad mystery with promptitude: he is understood to have ordered a war-ship to the island designated, to ascertain the truth.
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