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The Queen has signified her gracious intention of visiting Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday the 5th of July. The arrangements, we understand, will be on a scale of unusual magnificence ; and the general public will have this opportunity of testifying their loyalty on the occasion, it being an extra night. A number of boxes will, it is said, be taken to form a grand State box for the Queen, the Great Officers of State, Royal visitors, and the Court retinue.— Times.

Mr. Herbert Poulton Voules, one of the Directors of Convict Prisons, 18 appointed Inspector of Prisons for the Northern and Eastern District, in the room of Mr. Frederick Hill, who has been appointed Assistant- Secretary to the Post-office. Captain Irvine Smith Whitty, Governor of the Convict Prison at Portland, has been appointed to succeed Mr.. Voules in the office of Director of Convict Prisons.

We are requested to state that every English subject will be henceforth admitted into the Prussian dominions upon showing a passport from the competent British authorities, without any visa of a Prussian Legaiion or Consulate, as was hitherto required. —Times, June 23.

We lately quoted from the Alexandrian correspondence of the Times a communication that the project of a railway across the Isthmus of Suez had, under the auspices of Mr. Robert Stephenson, made substantial advance towards realization. The report has been qualified by other English and French counter-reports, but the Times of Monday con- firmed its former statements by this announcement- " Since our former observations on Egypt and the commencement of the railway from Alexandria to Cairo, we have heard with reizret, that, some trifling point of detail not having been clearly explained to his Highness the Pasha, the agent whom he had sent over did not feel himself at liberty, under the circumstances, to commence operations without further instrua- lions. We now lean, with satisfaction that Mr. Robert Stephenson, with a zeal and liberality worthy of his reputation, is about to despatch an engineer to Cairo, at his own expense, to explain all details, and to con- clude the contract on the spot. The British commercial public, who are sensible of the advantages to commerce which this undertaking involves, will, we are sure, appreciate the energy exhibited by Mr. Stephenson, in which they will recognize an earnest of its speedy completion."

The Standard has received through a private channel, and has published, a copy of the finding of the Court-martial on Captain Watson, of the Cey- lon Rifles. Its form is twofold : it is a " finding " on stone specific charge the nature of which does not appear ; and it is the expressed opittion of certain military officers on the question of the authenticity of certain sig- natures imputed to Captain Watson, —a question already determined by the authority of legal functionaries whom one would think peculiarly qualified to sift the voluminous evidence adduced on that question, and to give it judicially the balanced and discriminated weight due to its whole mass. 'the finding, dated Colombo, 10th May 1851, is as fidlou.s- " The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the charge against the prisoner, Captain Albert Watson, of the Cey lon Rifle Regiment, and what he said in his defence, and the evidence addu ed in support of it, is of opinion that he, the prisoner, Captain Albert Watson, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, is ' not guilty' of the first instance of the charge preferred against him ; that he is • not guilty' of the second in- stance of the charge prekirred against him ; that he is • not guilty of the third instance of the charge preferred against him; that Ile is • not ,

guilty' of the fourth instance of the charge preferred against him : and do most fully and most honourably acquit him, Captain Albert Watson, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, of the said charge and the four instances contained in it.. I •• The Court is further of opinion, that the signatures attached to the four proclamations before the Court are not genuine, but are mere forgeries, as The Reverend Thomas Harvey, the clergyman whose complaints against the Bishop of London have been noticed in our columns, died recently at Boulogne, where he was the pastor of an English congregation.

Mr. William Callum, auctioneer and proprietor of time Cheapside House Re- pository at Birmingham, has committed suicide, under very lamentable cir-

cumstances. It appeared at the inquest, that Mr. Callum had for sonic time

exhibited symptoms of a mind ill at ease, and he drank deeply, as n witness believed, to drive unpleasant thoughts from his mind ; he had been straitened for money, and after his death no fewer than three writs were found upon him. He was of an excitable and irritable nature. His pecuni- ary embarrassments drove him to engage in bill transactions, and the end was a criminal act. A check for 1000/., purporting to be signed by Sir

George Chetwynd, was presented by Mr. Callum, or sent by him—the matter is not clearly reported—to a birm in gh a m bank. Soon afterwards it W8$ discovered to be a forgery. On Thursday sennight, Mr. Suckling, the

solicitor of the bank, with BIr. Glossop, Inspector of the Detective Police, went to Mr. Callum's house at Balsall Heath, Mr. Suckling informed Mr. Callum of his errand, conversed with hint, and announced that he must give him into the custody of the Inspector. Callum requested that he might be allowed to see his wife before he was taken away ; and Mr. Suckling

readily assented. While he had his arm round his wife's neck, the unhappy

rnan swallowed the contents of a phial: Mrs. Calluin noticed the ect, and screamed. When the officer entered the room, Callum managed to utter " No" to his wife's statement, and could not articulate more. The phial had contained prussic acid. A surgeon was sent for; but before he could obtain any remedies, if such there were, the patient was dead—in fifteen minutes after swallowing the poison. The appearance of the body a short time after death showed that a large quantity of the poison had been taken. The Jury referred the act to "temporary insauity."

Mr. Benjamin Lewis, the Town-Clerk of Tunbridge Welle, lies absconded with a large sum of money, and leaving still greater defaleations in his ac-

counts. Unfortunately, such faith was placed in his probity that he held no

fewer than thirteen or fourteen appointments,—Vestry-Clerk and Collector of faxes and Rates for Speldhurst, Secretary and Collector of the Gait Com-

pany, also of the Water Company, and so on ; and it is feared that in every ease he has appropriated the money of his employers. It is expected that the Gas Company and the Water Company will each lose 5001. Lewis is variously supposed to have fled to America or to be in London : a warrant has been issued against him.

The gardens of the Zofilogical Society have recently received an addition likely to rival in popularity the hippopotamus and the elephant calf,—an usserted by him, the said Captain Albert Watson, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, before the said Committee of the House of Conunons at Westminster, on the 14th of February 1850; and that the statements then and there made by Imn, the said Captain Albert Watson, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, before the said Committee, with regard to the said signatures, were ' true,' and not false." Signed by "A. Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineets, President. ' J. A. Wilson, Royal Artillery, Officiating Judge-Advocate.

"Approved and continued" by " W. Smelt, Commanding the Forces."

The Globe states that the Board of Ordnance has desired to obtain front the Great Exhibition, for the officers of the Twelfth Lancers, now under orders for the Cape, twenty-five of the repeating pistols of Mr. Samuel Colt of the United States, known as "Colt's revolvers."