3 JUNE 1854, Page 10

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The Gazette of last night announces that the Queen has granted the usuarsonge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Bath and Wells empower- ing them to elect a Bishop in the room of the late Dr. Bagot ;:and recom- mending for election to the see Robert John, Lord Auckland, now Bishop of Sodor and Man.

The appointment of Captain Peter Richards to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty, is also announced. He succeeds the late Admiral Hyde Parker.

Sir Peregrine Maitland, whose name is associated with the military glories of the last war, died on Tuesday, at his residence in Eaton Place. Born in 1777, he entered the Guards in 1793; and served at Walcheren, in the Peninsula, at Corunna, and at Waterloo. For his services on the Nive, as commander of the first brigade of Guards, he received a medal. He had been Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and of Nova Scotia, and Commander-in-chief of the Madras Army. By his death the Colonelcy of the Seventeenth Foot is vacant.

The Militia regiments that are or will be embodied include the Essex Rifles, now at the Tower ; the Hampshire Militia, about to occupy Ports- mouth ; the Staffordshire Militia to garrison Dover ; and the Royal Berkshire to go to Weedon, and thence to Windsor. Several other regi- ments have signified their readiness to serve.

An order for raising each infantry regiment of the Line to 1400 effec- tive men has been issued from the Horse Guards.

Rear-Admiral Edward Boxer is appointed Admiral-Superintendent in the Bosphorus.

Captain Robert Smart is appointed Captain-Superintendent of Pem- broke Dockyard.

The French naval force at Kiel on the 25th May consisted of eight ships of the line, five carrying 92, one 86, and two 80 guns ; four frigates, one of 60, three of 50 guns; and four steamers of from 6 to 16 guns. They had been delayed by light and contrary winds.

In a letter dated off Odessa, Admiral Dundee says that the fleet 18 in "the finest condition imaginable " ; that the guns "carry beautifully" ; and that "we are on the beat possible terms with the French, and the utmost cordiality exists between us."

The mortality in the Metropolis is still in excess. The number of deaths last week was 1143; by the calculated average it should be 1016; excess 127. The increase is greatest in cases of scarlatina, whooping- oongb, and diarrhcea.

Viscount and Viscountess Combermere gave a grand entertainment to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Mary on Thursday evening,—a banquet, followed by a general reception.

The Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited the Crystal Palace on Thursday.

Earl de Grey, as President, received the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects to dinner on Wednesday. The subsequent soiree was at- tended by many members of scientific and artistic institutions.

Colonel Samuel White, of Killakee, formerly Member of Parliament for the county of Leitrim, died recently. In early life he was present at most of the victories gained by the Duke of Wellington.

The Liverpool Mercury records the death of Mr. James Wiseman, the brother of Cardinal Wiseman, long a resident at Liverpool, and latterly act- ing as interpreter of foreign languages.

It is stated that the Duke of Cambridge touched at Brindisi on his way from Trieste to Constantinople; and that when he sent for the British Vice- Consul the Police authorities refused to let him go on board. [What had the Duke of Cambridge to do at Brindisi?] Lieutenant Macnish, of the Ninety-third Highlanders, has been accident- ally drowned, near Scutari. He and a brother officer, Lieutenant Crowe, were returning to camp at night ; and they had to cross a gully which was perfectly dry a few hours before, but had been swollen by a recent thunder- storm. They stepped into the torrent inadvertently ; Lieutenant Macnish was swept away to the sea ; Mr. Crowe only escaped by clinging to a tree till aid came.

Malta has recently looked nearly as much like an island belonging to the French as to the English. A large body of French troops have been quar- tered there—four times as many as the British garrison. For some days a French regimental band daily played "God save the Queen," and some- times "Rule Britannia," in the Palace square of Valletta ; and French and British officers marched about arm-in-arm.

At the request of Marshal St. Arnaud. the Turkish Government has granted a piece of land at Gallipoli for a Roman Catholic cemetery. It has been consecrated by the Abbe Bellet.

A Russian merchant in St. Petersburg failed recently, and closed his shop. The event created a great sensation ; and the Government seized the unhappy man and posted him off to Siberia, for the crime of failing at such a moment, and thus showing that Russian merchants are in difficulties.—La Patrie.

During a recent cruise in the Baltic, the Cumberland ran over a Swedish brig in a fog, and sunk her ; but fortunately the hands, seven in number, were saved. The crew of the Cumberland spontaneously gathered 401. and divided it among the Swedish sailors. They were shipped off in a steamer to a Swedish port.

A story is told of Mr. Evans, the late Master of the Ann McAllister. It appears that the Russian Government insisted that a neutral crew should be found to take home the Ann M'Allister ; and Mr. Evans and his crew were sent off by land. The other day he arrived at Berlin : there, disgusted at some official treatment, he spat upon the double-headed eagle, and crumpled up big Russian passport. Fired by the insult, the Prussian guard levelled his bayonet. Stepping back a pace—" Thrust away, my hearties," cried the British tar ; but, by jingo, the first man that lays hands on me I'll floor as flat as this one rouble, which the Russians at Warsaw gave me to provide myself with on the road, and which I'll present to the British Mu- seum as ,a curiosity." Lord Bloomfield had to be invoked to set matters straight.

M. Ducos, the French Minister of Marine, is the fortunate father of twins. On their birth, the Emperor sent Madame Ducoa a portrait of the King of Rome ; and the two infants are to be named by the Emperor and Empress, in person, Napoleon and Eugene !

A Sister of Mercy at Frome prevailed upon a couple recently married at an Independent Chapel to be remarried at the parish-church at Frome by the Curate of the Reverend Mr. Bennett. The maiden name of the bride was Elizabeth Plummer; her husband's name is Dimmock ; in the mar- riage-certificate issued at the church she is described as " Elizabeth Dim- mock, formerly Plummer" ; and in the column usually filled in with the words "bachelor and spinster" are the words " previously united at the Zion meeting-house." The inhabitants of Frome have held a meeting, and passed a resolution declaring the remarriage a "violation, at least an eva- sion of the law of the land "—part of a system "designed to set up eccle- siastical arrogance above civil authority," and " an act deserving of the re- probation of every Englishman."

In the Miscellaneous Estimates is a vote of 60004 to be proposed by Go- vernment to defray the expense of obtaining a complete system of agricul- tural etatistics for Scotland ; the execution of the work is to be in the hands of the Highland Society.

Mr. Gurney, Judge of the City Sheriff's Court, has fined twenty-eight per- sons 101. each for non-attendance when summoned to serve on juries. Out of thirty-six only eight were present.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has recently received many sums from unknown correspondents on account of unpaid Income-tax. On Monday last he acknowledged the receipt of 301. from one person—a year's tax on more than 10001. of income.

The subscription for the four Irish fishermen who, in their smack Emerald Isle, saved the lives of a number of persons on board the barque Eva, amounts to nearly 10001. New boats are to be purchased for two of the brave fellows, and houses are to be built for the other two, who are old men.

A. writer in the Christian Times complains that some ladies who attend Exeter Hall meetings "sit working on various sorts of female work, in front of the speakers." [The Custom is not a new one either in England or other countries ; but it says little for the eloquence of the Exeter Hall speakers.] The keel of the gigantic steamer for the Eastern Steam Navigation Cora- pany is laid in the yard of Messrs. Scott Russell and Co., Milwall, opposite Deptford Dockyard. Her proportions are to be nearly twice the length of the great Himalaya, and more than three times her tonnage. She is to be completed in two years ; and is expected, it is said, to do the distance to Australia in little over thirty days, and, if necessary, to carry sufficient fuel for the voyage out and home. She is to be fitted with paddle-wheels and, screw-propelling Fewer.

The wreck of the Tayleur, now lying under water off Lambay Island, has been sold by auction at Liverpool; it brought only„480/. The Tayleur was a new ship, of upwards of 2000 tons burden.

The Cranstonhill Hill bread-factory at Glasgow, a large building, halt been completely destroyed by fire.

Mr. Ballantyne's printing-office at Edinburgh has narrowly escaped. As the printers were locking the outer door at night, fire was seen in the drying-room; engines were quickly obtained, and the flames were confined to the drying-room. Some inconvenience will arise from delay in the publi- cation of several new books, the sheets of which were consumed. Had the fire occurred a little later, in all probability the whole place would have been consumed.

Lord Robert Grosvenor was recently travelling on a German railway ; there was but one first-class carriage in the train, and three gentlemen in it were puffing out volumes of tobacco-smoke. Lord Robert complained to the conductor of the train; who excused himself from interfering with the smokers because two of them were the chairman and vice-chairman of the railway—the officials who had signed regulations forbidding smoking in first-class carriages!

The police at Lyons have arrested a young man and a girl—Tolomeo, a native of Piedmont, and Miss Grafton, daughter of a London silversmith. Tolomeo had been in Mr. Grafton's service as foreman ; he proposed to marry Miss Grafton' but the father refused. The young man seduced the girl, and then both fled, intending to gain Piedmont ; Miss Grafton carrying off a considerable sum belonging to her father.

A new bank is to be founded at Frankfort, in which the people are exceed- ingly anxious to take shares. The crowd struggling to get to the office to sign the subscription-list was one day so great that an Austrian battalion was called in to preserve order, and they cleared the place with such charac- teristic brutality that three citizens received dangerous bayonet-wounds.

A letter from Naples states that on the 14th May M. J. Delius, of Bre- men, having ascended Mount Vesuvius with a party of his countrymen went too near the edge of the crater, and, the ground giving way under him; he fell into the abyss. His groans were heard from the bottom ; but when some persons descended by means of ropes, he was dead.

Charles Kruine, a Prussian, formerly in the army, has killed himself at Paris in a way to create a great and painful sensation—he blew his brains out with a pistol in a front box of the Operahouse during the performance of Le Prophite I The performance at once closed, and the audience hurried away.

Mr. Francis Norton, clerk of the kitchen to the Queen, attempted suicide on Wednesday, in his room at Buckingham Palace. He has been clerk of the kitchen for some years, at a salary of 7001.; he originally filled a much lower post in the Royal household.

A temporary repair of the broken fan of the Simla's screw is proceeding at Malta. There is no dry dock large enough to receive her ; so she is moored off the anchor-wharf, her heavy cargo moved forward, and chains and anchors suspended to her bows, to raise her stern high out of the water.

News has arrived of the loss of the Winchester, all emigrant-ship bound from Liverpool to Boston. There were upwards of 400 passengers. On the 17th April, a hurricane swept away the Winchester's masts, and she became a wreck. The Edward took off fifty people, and other vessels received as many as they could ; on the 3d May the steamer Washington 0=0 up, and she took off all the survivors—just in time, for within an hour the waterlogged wreck went down. When the masts fell, four persons were washed overboard ; and twenty-one others perished subsequently. The rescued emigrants, principally Irish, were landed in an utterly destitute con- dition.

On the 25th April the slaves of Venezuela became free men, an aot for their emancipation having come into operation on that day. It is said that the Negroes did not appear to appreciate the boon.