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-The public will learn with little surprise that General Simpson is about to return to England. His appointment to the chief command was, ars we-announced at the time, only provisional, and her Majesty's Govern- ment have now taken steps to gratify General Simpson's desires and to relieve him from the arduous position which he has hitherto filled. The names of General Codrington and of others have been mentioned es suc- ceeding to the command of the army in the East ; but as the despatches conveying the appointment have only just left town, it would be maul- festly unadvisable to publish matters of so high and delicate a nature here before they are known to those they chiefly concern. The appoint- ment -V! ill be announced so soon as the telegraph shall notify its receipt by the new Cottunander in the Crimea.—Morning Poet, Oct. 24.

According to the Globe of Tuesday, General Anson, Commander-in- chief of the Madras AMY; will saapeed Sir William Gmamseam- mender-in-chief in India.

Sir Lawrence Peel having iniimated his intention to resign the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta, Sir James Colville has been raised to that office, and-Sir Charles Jackson has been promoted from Bombay to Calcutta as Puirme Jettge. The seat en the Sombay bench vacated by Sir Charles Jackson has been Offered to Sir William Jeffoott, who now holds the office of Recorder of Sinjomore ; and Mr. Richard Maccausland, of the Irish bar, has been appointed' to. the second Recordership, recently created in 'the Eastern Settlements— namely, that of Prince of Wales 'eland.

Parliament was further prorogued on Tuesday, to the 11th Decem- ber. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Earl of Harrowby.

In May 1853,Dr. Kane was sent on an expedition to the Arctic re- gions in search of Sir John Franklin, by Mr. Grinnell of New York and Mr. Peabody- of London. Some apprehensions have been felt for his safety ; but they are now set at rest. Mr. Peabody has received.a letter from"..Dr. Kane, dated Greenland, September 12. The Doctor had arrived at Godhaven, and had taken a passage in a Danish brig to England. "The explorations of our party embraced the entire shores of Smithra Sound, and a new channel expanding from itsNorth-eastern curve into an open Polar sea. This greatt-watercouree embraced an area of 8000 square miles entirely free from ice. It washed a bold and mountainous coast, which has-been-charted as high as lat. 82.80. Smith's Sound terminates in an ex- tensive bay which bears your name ; and the coast of Greenland, after being followed until it faced the North, was found cemented to the continent of America by a stupendous glacier which checked our further progress towards the Atlantic." Dr. Kane was forced to leave his ship in the_ice,"iand make .a journey overland of 1300 uglea to Upernavik.

We regret to hear that the Bishop of London is seriously ill, at his resi- dence at Fulham. His Lordship has very lately returned from a visit to the Continent.— Titnee, Oct. 26.

A Royal warrant is about to be issued by the War Department, pro- viding that the widows, families, and father, mother, or sisters of officers killed in action, or who shall die from wounds within six months after being wounded, shall receive, if they think fit, the regulation-price fixed for conneasmem,

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Veittred in the names of trustees.

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Although the tables of the Registrar-General show that the mortality of

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the Metropolis is below the average of former years, yet it is still very considerably in excess of that of the country generally, and of what it would be were London in a satisfactory sanitary state. The deaths last -week were 927; an increase of 57 on those of the preceding week.

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 Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels

Diseases of the Lungs, sod of the other Organs of Respiration as Disease. of the Stomach, Liner, and other Organs of Digestion

Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Child birth , diseases of the 1.7terus,&c Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ttc Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dm Malformations Tremature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

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The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge visited the Earl and Count- ess of Wilton, at Heaton Hall, last week ; this week they have been the guests of the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley. On Wednesday they went to Liverpool, and viewed the public buildings under the guidance of the Mayor.

Sir Charles Wood, Sir Baldwin Walker, and Admiral Eden, officially in- spected Woolwich Dockyard on Wednesday.

Lord John Russell is now residing with his family at Rodborough, near Stroud. He has purchased the estate from the assignees of Sir John Dean Paul. Lord John was received by the inhabitants with bell-ringing and music : and it is an electioneering surmise that he will stand again for Stroud when he loses London.

Mr. Kennedy; the new Governor of Western Australia, arrived at Fre- mantle on the 20th July.

The King of Sardinia had recovered sufficiently on the 17th instant to be able to preside at a Council of Ministers.

The Emperor of Austria arrived at the Palace of Vienna on the 18th from Schcenbrumi, and received in an audience Count Buol, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Baron Prokesch-Osten and Count Rechberg were also re- ceived by his Majesty.

On the 17th instant, the King of Prussia gave a dinner, at which Alexan- der von Humboldt, the statuary Rauch, the artist Schadow, and Dr. Barth, were present. Dr. Barth is now at Gotha visiting Dr. Petermann; who, it is said, will execute the maps which are to be appended to Dr. Barth's forth- coming work.

Prince Carini, Neapolitan Ambassador at the British Court, has arrived in Paris, with his family.

Villa, a banker of Casale, has been granted the title of Baron by the King of Sardinia, "for his numerous acts of public charity."

The order of the Seraphim, the oldest and most honourable order of Swedish knighthood, has been conferred on the Emperor Napoleon. Marshal Reille is the only Frenchman beside the Emperor who possesses the order.

The Spanish Government have conferred the grand cross of the order of San Fernando on Marshal Pelissier and General Simpson, and the grand cross of Charles III upon Generals Canrobert, Bosquet, and La Marmora. The Queen has also presented, in commemoration of the fall of Sebastopol, the riband of the order of Noble Ladies of Maria Louisa to the Marquise de Turgot, wife of the French Ambassador, and airs. Otway, wife of the Secre- tary of the English Legation.

Lord Wharncliffe, better known ten years ago as Mr. Stuart Wortley, died on Monday, at Wortley Hall in Yorkshire; aged fifty-four. In politics he was -a liberal Ceaservative ; but he mainly employed himself in promoting the interest: of his tenants, and, like his father, was greatly attached to agrietliture. He contested the West Riding at the general election in 1841; .aehen he was returned with Mr. E. Denison, at the head of the poll, defeat- ing Lord Milton and Lord Morpeth. He succeeded to the family honours and estates in 1845, on the death of his father. Be is succeeded by his eldest son, the Honourable Edward Stuart Wortley.

The first London Policeman died on Tuesday—Superintendent May. When Sir Robert Peel's bill became law, Mr. May received the first appoint- ment, as Superintendent. He was much respected.

General di Montevecehio has sunk under the wounds he received at the battle of the Tchernaya.

Cholera has appeared for the first time in Corfu : Europeans have escaped as yet. Governor Sir John Young took immediate steps to combat the inva- der. Zante, and the country about Missolonghi, in Greece, also suffer from cholera.

There were fifty-one deaths from cholera in Madrid on the 15th instant.

The cholera increases at Naples ; and it has created such a panic in the town of Catania, in Sicily, that every one who could leave it, including the medical practitioners, departed : the poorest and most helpless people were left, apparently, to perish unaided.

Sunday was the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar: it was celebrated on board the old Victory in Portsmouth Harbour by a display of flags, garlands at each mast-head, and an extra allowance of grog.

There is a scheme in progress to remove the British collection in the Paris Zeposition building to the Crystal Palace, the Directors of the latter pro.. 'riding space for it gratis.

Ten Weeks Week of 18i5-34. 01855.

By the last musical festival at Hereford, the fund for the widows and or- phans of clergymen of the dioceses of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester has been aegmented by 914/.

The Globe explains that the transfer of Lord Ernest Vane Tempest to a regiment serving in the Crimea had nothing to do with the fracas at Wind- sor. Lord Ernest had asked for the exchange some weeks ago, in order to see active Service; it was a sacrifice on his part. Even at the time of the actual exchange, it is said, Lord gardinge knew nothing of the Windsor as- sault,

A young man at Wakefield suffered from a malignant fever ; life seemed to have departed ; the people around, dreading infection, wished to inter that corpse the same day, but a clergyman refused to concur in such indecent, haste : during the night, the coffined and supposed dead man proved to be . ali've, and seemed in a fair way to recover.

The theatrical world of Turin is excited just how by the presence of an, actress and singer of great powers, Signora Piceolomini. Her career has a romantic interest : she is a member of a noble family of Sienna, and couldi not resist an impulse to appear on the public stage, to which her connexions-. were at first strongly opposed.

The bands in the French army have received a new organization, by which a youth who enters as a pupil can rise to the position of "musical officer."

A railway slaughter on a great scale has occurred on the Lyons Railway.. At night, between Thornery and Moret, an express-train ran into a cattle- train ; a carriage containing the cattle-drivers was smashed to pieces, and sixteen of the occupants were killed, while six others were more or less hurt.

According to the Journal of Commerce of Victoria—a useful little pe- riodical for merchants and shippers—the production of gold this year is. greater than in 1854. The gold export. duty works very well, and produces a satisfactory amount of revenue. In the quarter ending July 5, the excess of arrivals in Victoria over departures was 16,200 persons, a large number of whom were Chinese. A very 'bad feature in the immigration of the Celes- tials is that hardly any females accompany the men.

The Australian papers do not speak very favourably of the establishment of a mint at Sydney ; it is considered to be unnecessary, while it is costly. The coin is not a legal tender in Victoria ; and the journals ask, will it be in England ? As silver has been used for an alloy, the coins have a white appearance not pleasing to the colonists.

Whelan, a malefactor, when about to be hanged at Hobart Town, cleared up the mystery attaching to the disappearance of three gentlemen named Green, Dunn, and Axford : he had robbed and murdered them, and he told; where he had buried their remains—these were afterwards found. Whelan committed other murders, for the sake of plunder.

There is a great want of seamen in the United States;caused by demands for a large amount of shipping : it seems that the supply of sailors is not vigorously kept up by apprentices. [Have not the Americans largely de- pended on es to find them seamen ?—we give them plenty of employment. ourselves now, what with war and enlarged commerce.]

In the first seven months of this year no fewer than 322 persons were killed by violence in Celifornia ; and while two criminals were executed by the sheriff, twenty-five men were hanged by the mob.

The trade of California in wheat, barley, and flour, has experieneeke great impetus from the Australian demand for cereals.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday October 26th, including season-ticket-holders, 17,804.