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The Earl of Derby has recommended the Queen to elevate three gen- tlemen to the Peerage. The three new Peers, says the Times, arc, first, Sir Charles Morgan, of Trodegar, in Monmouthshire, a kind of Chieftain of the Welsh Marches, as much so, at least, as any man can be a chief- tain in these modern and prosaic times. The second new Peer is Mr. Egerton, of Tatton, in Cheshire, who, after the decision in the House of Lords upon the celebrated Will cause, divided the Bridgwater property with Lord Alford. He, too, it is almost needless to say, is a man of large property, and a stanch Conservative. The third on the list of new nobles is Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth, in Sussex. It would be super- fluous to enlarge upon the territorial dignities and wealth of the Egre- mont family, or the manner in which they have devolved upon their present possessor. There will also, we are informed, be a promotion of Lord Derby's followers to the rank of the Baronetcy ; but the names of these less favoured adherents are not yet announced for publication.

The Gazette of last night announces that a Commission has been issued to inquire into the present system of recruiting in the Army. The Com- missioners are Major-General Lord Hotham, Colonel Sir Alexander Mur- ray Tulloeh, Major-General William Frederick Forster, Colonel David Russell, Colonel John Thomas Leslie, Colonel John George Smyth, and Mr. Peter Blackburn, a Lord of the Treasury.

It is also officially announced that the Queen has appointed Lord Canning and Lord Elphinstone, Knights Grand Cross of the Bath.

The Speaker held his first levee this session on Saturday. It is remark- able as the first Speaker's levee ever held in the Speaker's new house in the Palace at Westminster.

Lord and Lady Palmerston gave a grand dinner on Wednesday, and in- vited a number of distinguished persots including Earl Grey, the Earl of Sefton, Lord and Lady Stafford, Lord and Lady Shaftesbury, to meet the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. The Duke of Cambridge was present at the assembly in the evening.

Letters from Turin state that the Prince of Wales will not visit that town, but that he will prolong his stay at Rome.

As a mark of her satisfaction at the treatment of Prince Alfred by the Maltese, the Queen placed a commission in the Rite Brigade at the disposal of the Governor, to be bestowed on a Maltese. Sir Gaspard le Marchant offered it to two young gentlemen successively. Both declined, because their private means would not allow them to keep pace with their brother officers more favoured by fortune and family connexions !

The High Stewardship of the University of Oxford, rendered vacant by the death of the Earl of Devon, has been conferred by Lord Derby upon the Earl of Camarvon, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. His lord- ship was educated at Christ Church and graduated in 1852, when he took a first class in classics.

- Mr. Reed, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to China, has arrived in Paris.

The Munich Gazette publishes, officially, the application of M. von der Pfordten for his dismissal from the post of President of the Bavarian Min- istry.

Lord Stanley has granted a pension of 150/ a-year each to the sisters of the late General Jacob. The pension commences from the date of General Jacob's death.

The amount subscribed towards the gift to the Misses Begg, the nieces of the poet Burns, as advertised in the Ayr papers, is upwards of 5601.

The Countess of Harrowby, a daughter of the first Marquis of Bute, who married Lord Harrowby in 1623, when he was Lord Sandon, died. on 'rues- day, at the family mansion in Grosvenor Square. She had been ill for some weeks.

Mr. Alderman Andrews, well known as "the radical coachmaker " of Southampton, the architect of his own fortunes and his own great coach- making business, died on Monday, after a long and painful illness. He is much regretted by his fellow-citizens and the men he employed.

The Government have given their consent to the erection of two new bishoprics, namely, the Bishopric of Brisbane (Moreton Bay), and the Bishopric of Goulbourn (New South Wales). Towards each of these now sees the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has contributed 1000/.

There are two other candidates for the vacant judgeship of the Sheriffs Court—one being Mr. John Simon, of the Northern Circuit. Mr. Simon is of sixteen years' standing, and has had judicial experience as the deputy judge of the County Court of Liverpool. The other candidate is Mr. Charles Rann Kennedy.

The international congress on telegraphs, which met last year at Berne, is to meet this year at Paris, at the request of the French Government.

Accounts from Posen state that the Polish General Miroslawski has ad- dressed to the Polish youth a proclamation of the most revolutionary cha- racter, which is nevertheless published by the journals without hindrance.

A correspondent of the !Newcastle Chronicle writes—" Not many days since the Bishop of Durham had a number of foxes conveyed to his esta- blishment at Bishop Auckland from Inverness-shire. They were in boxes, and after they arrived at the station one of them, not being satisfied with his confinement and travelling expedition, gave vent to his impatience by bark- ing. The bark attracted the attention of the bystanders, and it took some management on the part of the railway officials to make the sly gentle- man silent. This singular consignment caused several very curious com- ments."

The number of deaths which was 1175 a fortnight ago, sank to 1141 last week. This is a remarkable fall. The deaths are now 216 below the calcu- lated average.

A fortnight back or so, Rossini laid the first stone of his villa on the ruins of " Ranelagh," at Paris. Determined to have his joke even in the serious

matter of building a house' he placed a coin of the date of Caraealla in the foundation, so that some future savant, centuries after, coupling his dis- covery, it is to be hoped, of the effigies of one of the Ciesars with the fact of Rossini's residence on the same spot, would pronounce the musician to have been one of the Roman masters of the art. .& quatrain has been suggested as the inseriptiOtiover the portal. " Vos amis, quand cette villa

Surgit comma an doigt d'une fee, Demanderent su'on inscrive la ; Saluez la maison d'Orphee."

The great "Collection of unpublished documents relating to the History of France," a magnificent work which has been in progress now for many years, has just been enriched by two volumes of Memoires de Claude Haton," edited by M. Bourquelot, Professor at the College of Chartres. Claude Haton, " prebstre at dere de l'eglise Monseigneur Saint-Aycnil,"' was a fanatic Catholic priest of the time of Henri II., more expert in hand- ling the musket and the broadsword than Bible and rosary. He organized within his parish a kind of rural militia to fight "the damnable Hugue- nots " ; and employed his evenings to write down in his journal with great apparent gusto his daily exploits for the cause of order and religion. "Pour faire tuer un homme par lea rues," he exclaims naively in the course of his entries, "il ne fallait qua dire : veil un Huguenot!" Claude Hilton, or as he politely calls himself, Messire Claude Baton, is, it will be perceived, a most faithful representative of that sera which produced the eve of St. Bartholomew ; and his Memoirs, therefore, are an exceedingly valuable contribution to the history of the second part of the sixteenth century. : A book which ought to be highly interesting to wave-ruling Britons has just been published by Dentu at Paris. It is edited by M. G. de is Landelle, a former officer of the French navy, and entitled, "La Langage des Marina" (the Dialect of Sailors.) The contents of the book comprise not only a copious vocabulary of nautical terms but an accompanying analysis and explication of most of the words, and large quantity of information relative to the Management of vessels. It thus forms a complete Handbook (or "Handy Book," as it has lately become the fashion to say,) of the Sea.

M. Lubbert, former director of the Paris opera, and author of some li- brettos, died the week before last at Cairo, where he had lived in retirement for many years. He was a great favourite of Mehemet Ali, who during his reign made him a Va Keel, or Under--Seirettuy of State, for Foreign Affair! In his youth, M. Lubbert Was page to Xing Charles the Tenth. • '