Permission having been obtained, the Directors of the Atlantic Tele-

graph Company have published the despatches which have passed under the Atlantic between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan. They are as follows—

The Queen to the President.

"The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work in which the Queen has t4e,11 the greatest interest. The Queen is convinced that the President mill join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now already connects Great Britain with the United States, will prove an additional link between the two nations, whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus di- rectly communicating with the President, and in renewing to him her best wishes for the prosperity of the United States."

The President to the Queen.

"Washington City. . "The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of her klajes0 the Queen on the success of the great international enterprise accomplished be the skill, science, and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a tiriumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by a conqueror on the field of battle. Mtty the Atlantic Telegraph, under the blessing of heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law through Out the world. In this view will not all the nations of Christendom spon- taneously unite in the declaration that it shall be for ever neutral, and that its communications shall be held sacred in passing to the place of their des-

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tination even in the midst of hostilities. JAME Buenexale.

The Queen has signified her intention to confer the Victoria Cross upon Lieutenant John Adam Tytler, Ghoorka Bengal Native Infantry ; Sergeant-Major Rosamund of the late 37th Bengal Native Infantry, Sergeant-Major Peter Gill of the Loodiana Regiment, and Colour-Ser- geant William Gardner of the 42d Regiment. Lieutenant Tytler charged into a battery, alone at Choorpoorah, and fought the enemy until his men carried the guns. Rosamund and Gill, at great peril to themselves, saved the lives of several officers, during the mutiny. Gard- ner saved Colonel Cameron from the tulwars of the Ghazees at Bareilly.

The title of Colonel Moody, who goes out to British Columbia in com- mand of a detachment of Engineers, is to be Chief Commissioner of Pub- lic Lands and Works. His men will have to survey the country, make roads, and construct bridges ; works which none are better fitteeto per- form.

The Sporting intelligence of the morning journals of yesterday con- tained this interesting statement-

" Sale of Lord Derby's Stud.—The entire stud of the Premier is an- nounced for sale by Messrs. Tattersall at Doncaster on Saturday, 18th Sep- tember."

Thus Lord Derby retires from the turf without adding its "Blue Ribbon" to the heir looms of Knowsley.

On the recommendation of Lord Derby, the Queen appointed Mr. James Disraeli to the office of Commissioner of Inland Revenue, vacated by the death of the late Mr. Stevenson ; and Mr. Philip Rose to the office of Treasurer of the Derbyshire district of County Courts, vacated by the appointment of Mr. James Disraeli.

Captain Collinson has forwarded to the Times a letter from Captain M'Clintock, who commands the steam yacht sent out in 1857 to in- stitute a last search for Sir John Franklin. He had made, it will be seen, but little progress.

"Yacht Fox, Holsteinborg—commenced May 3, 1858, closed May 7.

"My dear Collinson—Our cruise hitherto has been short and sharp— most lamentably short, indeed, but, thank God, it is not at in end ; the real work is only now beginning. We have only got to repeat the attempt this year which failed so signally last year. Our progress was finally stopped in Melville Bay, August 18, from which time up to the 25th of April we remained in the pack, drifting southward with it. While beset we have drifted down from 75i north to 634 north ; the whole amount is 1194 geographical miles. You will understand what disappointment and anxiety this ill-fortune entailed upon me. For a whole month in Melville Bay our fate hung in the balance. The season was very similar to 1848, when I was with Sir J. Ross ; the whole bay was crammed full of light pack, and there was no land ice. Having previously examined the edge of the middle ice down as far as 72.20, without any prospect of success, there was but one course open to me—to enter the pack whenever a favourable opportunity offered, and trust to boring through into the north water. This is what Sir I. Ross did, and, being on the same spot, and also on the same day, and, moreover, a very favourable opportunity of long leads opening out I tried the same plan. We did not succeed ; a long run of southerly winds closed the ice together so much that it did not open again. Still I had the precedent of the North Star from which to draw the hope of a drift through into the north water, and this, I think, we should have done in time to save our season but for the grounding of some bergs on a bank off Cape York, which it has been our lot to discover. We drifted up within twenty-four miles of that cape, and subsequently far to the west- ward before commencing our southern march. But all this you will see in any statement of proceedings and track chart which I have sent to Lady Franklin.

"We are thoroughly efficient, but rather shorthanded, and I am sorry to add that R. Scott (leading stoker) died on the 4th of December. "We are in excellent health, and the ship uninjured. She leaks a little, and we had to pump her out all winter three times weekly. "Forty tons of coal remain on board, and we will take in as much more at the Waigat. As for provisions, we have, excellent in quality, of salt meat seventeen months', preserved meat and pemmican thirteen months', &c. From this you will see how well provided we are, and how easily we can complete ourselves for a third winter at Beechey Island. "With regard to my future plans, I see no reason for departing from my original scheme. If early into the west water, I will thoroughly sift the Pond's Bay Natives, so as to separate the history of Belcher's abandoned ships from such knowledge as they may possess respecting Franklin's ships. "I hope to look into Port Leopold before visiting Beechy Island, as the former would be the place to which we would have to fall back. If the launch is injured, I will take a boat from Beechy Island, and leave her there should I go down Bella Strait, or at Cape Walker should I succeed getting down Peel Strait.

"Should I get down to the Magnetic Pole I will pass on the east side of King William's Land, communicating with the Natives, and into Fish River. If I can manage to complete my work in Fish River by ship, it would be an immense advantage to winter near the south-west angle of King William's Land.

"Disco May 24.—For the early part of this season I shall be among the whalers, leisurely following their motions, but, should they not persevere to the north as long as I think desirable, I must then judge for myself whether to persevere or return south with them and seek a southern pas- sage. I purpose sailing tomorrow morning. We shall long remember the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Olrick and all here.

"Yours very sincerely, F. I,. WOLneroex."

News of br. Livingstone's expedition up the Zambesi has been re- ceived vu l the Cape up to the 2d July. With much difficulty the Pearl was got into the Zambesi River. This having been accomplished the Pearl went onwards to Ceylon, and Dr. Livingstone with the expedition went on towards Tete in his steam launch. Up to the 2d July all were Well.

Raving visited his estates in Great Britain and Ireland, Lord Palmerston ass etaken himself to France. Ile left England for Paris on Sunday evening accompanied by Lady Palmerston. A Dublin paper reports a rumour that the Duke of Cambridge, Sir How- ard Douglas, and Lord Clyde, are to be made Field-Marshals.

The widow of General Havelock and her family arrived at Rouen, on Friday, from Dieppe, and on the following day left by the steamer for Havre.

Sir Edwin Landseer is on a visit to Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., at Glen- queich, Inverness-shire.

Captain Sir Henry Huntley, Eat., R.N., has been appointed British Consul at Loanda.

The Marquis of Dalhousie and Lady Ramsay. are passing the season at Malvern Wells. The health of the Marquis remains much the same. It is said the Marquis and daughters will pass the winter at Malta.

The Hereditary Prince of Prussia and his English bride have presented to the University of Jena on the 300th anniversary of its foundation, three marble busts of Fichte, Hegel, and &belling, all professors of philosophy in that alma meter.

The Empress Eugenie, says the .Patrie, in one of her drives in the Bois de Vincennes before 1856, several times remarked a statue of the Virgin fixed in a wall near the site now occupied by the military hospital. Her Majesty, at the moment she became pregnant, made a vow that if Providence blessed her with a son she would erect a chapel on the spot. This vow has been religiously kept ; and on the 15th, the fete of the Assumption, the building was inaugurated with great solemnity.

It is reported that the Duke of Malakoff will shortly repair to Paris, and that on his return he will bring with him a Duchess of Malakoff.

The bride of the Duke' it is said, will be the daughter of the Marquis of Paniega. She is young, handsome, "surpassingly graceful in her carriage, the very type of an Andalusian gentlewoman," says a Spanish Jenkins ; and a relative of the Empress Eugenie.

The Emperor of Russia will arrive at Warsaw on the 24th September. Thirty-five thousand troops are concentrated in and about the city, and will be reviewed by the Czar. These forces are now under tents.

The Brussels Independimee states that M. Guizot, who has returned to France, spent five days when in England at Twickenham and one at Clare- mont.

Prince' Metternich arrived at Frankfort on Saturday, with his family, .on his way to his chateau of Johannisberg. His vigour and the gallantry with which he ran up the staircase of the hotel to greet a lady—herself eighty- two years of age—who was waiting to receive him, were the subject of general remark.

M. Sabatier, the French Commissioner, has left Paris for Jeddah, accom- panied by M. Emerat, who will act as interpreter.

Mr. Harley, the eomii actor, died on Sunday. He was seized with para- lysis while acting Launcelot Gobbo in "The Merchant of Venice," on Fri- day sennight. Fortunately he had left the stage at the moment. He was instantly carried to his house, and carefully tended, but he died on Sunday.

i He was n his sixty-ninth year ; and had been on the London stage since 1815.

Colonel Kelly, inspecting field officer of the London recruiting district, an old soldier of the French wars, died suddenly at his house on Saturday.

Brigadier-General Campbell of the 2d Dragoon Guards, a promising cavalry officer, died of disease at Cawnpore on the 5th July. He was the heir to the Craigie estates in Ayrshire, where his loss is much regretted.

As the Dean of Bangor was on Sunday week reading the epistle he was "seized by one of those epileptic fits to which he has of late become un- happily subject, and prostrated on the floor of the chancel, to the great alarm of the bishop and the whole congregation. Assistance being at hand, he was promptly removed, and had so far recovered, that in the afternoon, he was again seated at his official desk in the choir, assisting in the service."

Mr. F. Edward Bache, a young musical composer of Birmingham, whose early works had given much promise, but who has been for some time gradually declining in health, died recently. He was only twenty-four years of age.

The Lords of the Admiralty went to Cork on Saturday, in the Diadem, inspected the establishments there, went to church at Queenstown on Sun- day, and in the evening steamed out of the port.

During the Emperor's stay at L'Orient a significant incident occurred. The Calvados, a troop ship, was launched. She is "the first of a series of twenty vessels of the same class which have been ordered; each ship will have accommodation for 2500 soldiers, 150 horses, and 1200 tons of stores."

A Russian squadron, consisting of two corvettes and a clipper, arrived at Spithead on Tuesday morning, under the command of Commodore Popoff, from Copenhagen, bound for the Pacific.

Oaks always inspire feelings of interest. The Parliamentary Oak, in Clipston Park' says Sir William Symonds, a good authority, is said to be 1500 years old. This park existed before the Conquest, and belongs to the Duke of Portland. The tallest oak was the same nobleman's property ; it it was called the Duke's walking-stick, and was higher than Westminster Abbey. The largest oak in England is the Calthorpe Oak, Yorkshire ; it measures 78 feet in circumference at the ground. The Three Shire Oak at Worksop is called so from forming parts of the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and York. This tree had the greatest expanse of any recorded in this island, drooping over 777 square yards. The most productive oak was that of Gelenos, an Monmouthshire, felled in 1810; the bark brought 200/., and its timber 670/. In the mansion of Tredcgar Park, Monmouthshire, there is said to be a room, 42 feet long and 27 feet broad, the floor and wainscot of which were the production of a single tree—an oak—grown on the estate.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Oxford, who were nomi- nated trustees for the adjudication of a prize of 300/. offered by a member of the Civil Service of the East India Company, for the best exposition of the Hindoo systems of philosophy and refutation of their fundamental errors, have decided upon dividing the prize between the two best essayists, -viz. the Rev. Joseph Mullens, missionary of the London Missionary Society, and Dr. James R. Ballantyne, Principal of the Government College, at Benares.

Mr. Spurgeon preached for the first time in Belfast, on Thursday week. The scene of the performance was the Botanic Garden. There were present from four to five thousand persons.

"One of the most curious developments of imperial activity in France, was the issue of the recent commission for the purpose of attaining a uniform diapason' or pitch. As Louis Napoleon las not thought the subject un- worthy of his notice,. I may be pardoned for saying a word or two on it. The commission—whteh, it must be admitted, is admirably constituted- is still sitting; but its labours are already sufficiently advanced for on dits of their probable results to be circulated in Paris. One of the best ac- credited, I hear, is that the present prevailing concert pitch in France will be lowered half a tone—a rumour which has created no little consternation amongst those who perform upon instruments of which the 'pitch' is fixed."—Correspondent of the Manchester Examiner.

A Hungarian, M. Leon Humar, has, according to the Emancipation of Brussels, made a new and curious application of electricity. In a public concert at the National Theatre he played, by means of electric wires, on five different pianos at the same time. The electric battery which worked the wires was in an adjacent room.

A chess congress has been held this week at Birmingham, Lord Lyttelton presiding. There have been many interesting matches, but we have no account of the final combat between the two best players.

Scientific farming sometimes, it seems, leads to fatal results. A state-. ment is published in the papers that Mr. Bird, a farmer at Bamburgh, in Northumberland, has lost a flock of sheep in this way. He caused 867 sheep to be " dipped " in a chemical solution used for destroying ticks, lice, &c., and then turned out to grass. It is supposed that this solution was washed off the sheep by a shower of rain and fell upon the grass, which being eaten by the sheep poisoned them, as they began to die on the 16th instant, and on the 21st instant only twenty-six out of the flock of 867 remained alive.

The returns of the Metropolitan registrars are still of a satisfactory character. In the week that ended last Saturday (August 21st) the deaths registered were 1112, of which 569 were those of males, and 543 those of females. In the corresponding weeks of 1849 and 1854, when so many lives were destroyed by cholera and diarrhcea, the deaths rose to 2230 in the former year, and to 1833 in the latter. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1848-57 the average mortality was 1259. The deaths of last week occurred in an increased population ; and the present rate of mortality is therefore comparatively low, being 273 below the corrected average deaths in London. Of the 1112 persons who died, 614 were under 20 years of age; 136 were 20 and under 40; 148 were 40 to 60; 161 were 60 to 80; and 40 were 80 years of age and upwards.—Reaistrar-Gcneral's Report.

The sale of the books and manuscripts collected by the late Dr. Bliss of Oxford has realized the sum of 6281/. 168. 6d. Among them was a splendid manuscript of the Shah Nameh of Ferdusi which brought 80/.

Vancouver's Island now boasts of a newspaper—the Victoria Gazette. Of course, its sole topic is gold and Fraser River.

The total number of horses shipped to India from the Cape colony since August 1857 is 3059. There were also 104 mules despatched to Cal- cutta in December last. Cape horses are admirably suited for cavalry purposes.

It is stated that the Spanish Government has deciaed to clear out the Biff pirates. Communications to that effect have been sent to the great maritime Powers, and an expedition is preparing to rid the seas of this, almost the last remaining, nest of sea brigands.

The astounding sum of 60/. was the other day consumed in drink at a publichouse in the vicinity of a line of railway now constructing in this county. No one will wonder when we add that at night more than twenty navvies were carried out by two or three policemen who were in attendance, and laid in a common stable, dead drunk. Of course this is only a climax in a course of habitual and chronic drunkeness which nightly presents scenes sufficiently horrible.—Aberdeen Free Press.

John Few, a resident at Potteme, in Wiltshire, died recently. He had for years lived in a state of the most disgusting penury and squalor, noto- rious as a miser. His abode was inconceivably filthy, and the stench of it when entered overpowering. He had amassed 600/.