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The Royal Commission on Dockyards has again lost its bead—by the appointment of Mr. Frederick Peel to the Treasury. Mr. Ricardo, the first chairman, resigned very shortly after appointment.

Thp B,erwick Election Commissioners sat on Wednesday in Committee Room No. 10 of the souse of Commons., Alexander Broge was ex- amined : he gave his account of his connexions with Mr. Disradi; who sympathized with him on account of his dismissal from Weedon- " I saw Mr. Disraeli come out or the Rouse and walk along the lobby to- wards the library. He stopped me at the corner of the door leading to the library and said, Well, Brodie, what are you doing ?' I told him I was waiting to see Mr. Sergeant Gossett, whose son I had been fitting out ; upon which Mi. Disraeli touched my arm and told me to walk along -with I was about two or three yards from the door when he first spoke to me. I accompanied him into a little room on the left, arid remained with him about a quarter of an hour. Before reaching the room, I had some conver- sation with the right honourable gentlemen' not on niy oval private affairs, but respecting the election, and my anxiety to serve the Conservative cause. He asked me where I could be of most service ? I said I had relations at Berwick, where I was born and brought up. He told me Mr. Erie was going to Berwick, and I said 1 thought I could be of serrice there." Being examined by the Commissioners, -Biddle admitted that at the time of the interview he was not desirous of serving the Conservative cause ; his papers had previously beenretarned to him, and he was told nothing could be done for him, but seeing- a - change in Mr. Disraeli, he thought be might do good by promising to do Something at Berwick. He

had an interview with Mr. Rose— -

" I called upon Mr. Rose the day following the 'conversation with Mr: Disraeli. I bad repeatedly seen Mr: Roes in the offieenf the Chancellor in Downing Street, but I do not think I saw him when I called at Victoria Street. I believe, however, that I taw Sir 1Villiant Jolliffe and Mr. Whit- more, and some of Mr. Rose's clerks. Sir W. Jolliffe and Mr. Whitmore' shook hands with me. I saw Mr. Rose in the course-bf that day, or the day following, in his private room. I told him 1' was in the Chancellor's con- fidence, and that he told 'me to come end get money from lain- (Mr. Rose) to go to Berwick-upon-Tweed or Frame. Mr. Rose said he would see the Chan- cellor about it, and,I was to call-on the following day. I told- him that the next day was Sunday, upon which he said, mean Monday.' I did not tell him that I had received fl memorandum or envelope from Mr. Diaraeli. I had spoken to him previously in Downing Street, but I am not aware that he knew my name. I told him that the purpose for rthich,I wanted money to go to Berwick or Frome was to get votes. After speaking to Mr. Rose, I saw Mr. Disraeli, and told him what Mr.-Rose had said. He said, He is. quite right to be cautious:. I saw -Mr. Rose again in Victoria Street. I told him I had seen Mr. Disraeli, who had intimated that he would see Mr. Rose, and explain that I was in his confidence. Mr.:Rose then said that Mr. Disraeli had spoken to him, and if I would come next day he would get me a place to go to." Brodie professed that his object was to betray Mr. Disraeli to Mr. Donald Nicoll, who bad proved a true friend to him. Mr. Markham Spofforth, a partner of Mr. Rose, was called; and denied some of Brodie's statements ; Mr. Rose refused to see Brodie, and Mr: Spofforth pointed him to the door. Mr. Matthew Forster gtrie evidence as to the ex- penses of his election at Berwick.

On Thursday the Commiasioners were occupied with the examination of Williamll•Gall, the Conservative agent who refused to be sworn at Berwick,, and was committed for contempt, but released on condition of his appearance in London. Nothing new was added to what is already known by notoriety, but M`Gall was ordered to prepare a list of persons to whom he had distributed money.

The officers commanding volunteer regiments have been directed by the War-office to prevent shooting across Rotten Row with blank cart- ridge, and also to abstain from crossing suspension bridges in the parks, which are not calculated to bear the strain.

Themes Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, died on Wednesday morning at his house in Kensington. His ivonderful eareer is pretty well known. Ilia great activity and amazing invention, during the French wars, made him terrible to out foes: With the little Speedy, of 14 giiiis,he captured thirty- tree vessels, carrying in all 128 guns and 533 men. His Operations on laud in France and Spain showed his fertile genius and daring. None for- get the burning of the French 'fleet in the Basque Roads, nor the defence of the castle at Barcelona. But Lord Cochrane was politically opposed to the powers that were. As a Member for Honiton -and Westminster, he joined the opposition, and kept up his attacks on the corrupt administration of the Admiralty. This diminished his usefulness. In 1814, be was convicted of spreading false news for the purpose of raising the prwe of Console, fined, degraded, and expelled from the House of Commons. Still, Westminster was faithful to him. Ile subsequently, as all our readers know, exerted las skill in the service of the South American Republics. In 1830:William 1Y. restored him to his rank in the Navy, and in 1847, the Order of the Bath was restored to him.

The Duke Decazes died on Thursday week at his house in the Rue Jacob, in the 81st year of hisage. Thus has passed away another of the "nota- bilities" of the First Empire and the Restoration. Admiral Sir Charles Napier, who has been ill, is now better, and there are sanguine hopes of his speedy recovery.

The Newcastle Chronicle says that Signor Alberto Merit), the husband of Miss Jessie Meriton White, was killed before Capue. He was sent by Gari- baldi, at the head of a erbium of one thousand men, to put down a reaction- ary movement in Molise. The patriots were overpowered and cut to pieces by a body of Neapolitan soldiers six times their number. Only forty out of

the thousand are repotted as being.sirred, and in that number Mario's name does not occur. The endennter is said to lima:sheen tremendous, the Gari- baldians having fought like lions, and against desperate odds. It is also reported that a bmve young man, the, only volunteer who went from Newcastle-upou-Tyne, Mr. Alfred Gorringe, is killed. He was only nineteen years of age, but his sympathy with Italian liberty was such as to cad him to offer his life to its cause.

"john Charles Bucknill," writing from Exminster, communicates to the IYmes the official history of the formation of the Exeter and Devon corps of Volunteers in 18.52, since which time its drill has never intermitted.

The screw steam-frigate Liverpool, 51, was safely launched from the Devonport dockyard on Tuesday shortly after four o'clock. Her principal dimensions are—length between perpendiculars, 235 feet.; breadth extreme, 50 feet 1 inch; 'ditto for tonnage 49 feet 7 inches ; ditto moulded, 48 feet 9 inches ; depth in hold, 18 feet 5 inches ; burden in tons, 2654 46.47; armament on the main deck, 30 8-inch guns, 6.5 hundredweight, 9 feet long ; on the upper deck, 20 32-pounders, 58 hundredweight, 9 feet, 6 inches long ; light draught—afore, 13 feet 6 inches ; abaft, 18 feet 3 inches ; load ditto, afore, 20 feet 11 inches ; abaft, 22 feet. On the 10th of November, the new steam-sloop Petrel, It, 150-horse power, will be launched from the same yard, making four new ships in the present pnancial year, or from October last, six new ships—namely, the Narcissus, 51; Jason, 21; Gibraltar, 101; Pantaloon, 11; Liverpool, 51; and Petrel, 11.

A return has been made up at the War Office which shows the sums the have been voted by Parliament to meet the expenses of hostilities in China There is a suns of 850,0001: which was required to cover deficiencies in the estimates of last year, arising from tie expense of preparing, during last winter, for these operations; there is a sum of 1,111,920/., being, as nearly as can be calculated, the additions made to the Army and Navy estimates of the current year on account of the contemplated operations • and there are grants made during the Seasion, to the extent of 4,206,1041. on estimates submitted to meet the expense' of these hostilities. The sums, which are not stated to be other than cumulative items, together amount to 6,168,0241. in addition to which there have been votes of credit to the amount of 3,356,1041., making up a total not very far from 10,000,000/.

California has now a population of 700,000, collected in twelve years; this rate of increase indicates that the number will be seven millions in forty years.

The Grand Trunk of Canada Railway is under investigation. Its un- secured debts amount to no less than 1,705,689/.

A recent number of the Inelipendente, the journal founded at Naples by Alexandre Dumas, contains the following article. It has, at all events, the merit of brevity—" Some people of Naples complain of there being no Government ; but if we count all now existing, there are four at least-1. That of Victor Emmanuel, who is now in the kingdom; 2. Of King Fran- cis IL, at Gaeta; 3. The Dictator's, at Caserta; and 4. The Pro-Dictator's, at Naples. All these are without counting the Ministers, who are now I do not know where. A. D."

The chrysanthemums in theTemple Gardens are daily progressing towards their greatest perfection; one named Cassandra, a tlower of marvellous beauty, wins the admiration of all. Visitors are respectfully solicited not to omit an inspection of the pompones, a dwarf variety (bearing a minute blossom,) of this charming autumn flower in the large circular beds of the Middle Temple Garden near Essex Street. The exhibition is (free) with- out the trouble of obtaining tickets or orders, and is open daily from nine till dusk.

M. Wrard de Sainte-Anne, a short time ago, sent a paper to the Aca- demie Francais° on a project for establishing a belt of electric telegraphs all ronnd the world. -We find, from a table given by the author, that the trade of England with the East amounts to 2,723,000,000 francs per annum ; that of France with the same, to 404,300,000 francs; of Holland, to 295,220,000 franca; of Russia, to 150,000,000 francs ; of the Hansa Towne, to 14,199,000 francs; of Spain and Portugal, to 1a,875 francs • of Belgium ' and Switzerland, to 38,726,000 francs- of North America, East and West, 3,061,680,000 francs ; and lastly, of South America and the West Indies, 1,730,723,000 francs. In the United States, the network of telegraphic lines comprises a length of 70,000 kilometres, or 47,250 English miles ; and when the New York and San Fraicisco line is completed—the line over Europe and Asia being supposed to exist—there would only be 3500 leagues of cable to be sunk in order to enable Paris and London to receive intelli- gence from Canton in one hour and fifty minutes, from New York in two hours and twenty minutes, and from Valparaiso in three hours and a quarter. A considerable number of partial lines, which, according to the author, may easily be collected into one great whole, are already in existence, or about to be established. Thus, in Japan, the lines have been granted to a company, and one of them is in course of construction; New Zealand is already con- nected by a cable with Australia, Melbourne with Sydney, and Batavia with Singapore, the whole continent of India, thanks to English enterprise, is now being intersected with telegraphic lines, connecting Calcutta with Madras, Benares, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, Hyderabad, &c. Again, from Bombay, a line goes to Goa, and Westwards to Kurrachee, whence it will soon reach Hyderabad.

The deaths in London, which had been in the previous week 1116, fell to 102Q in the week that ended last Saturday. The average for corresponding weeks in the ten „years 1850-9, after correction for increase of population, Is found to be 1141, and therefore the number in the present return is less by 115 than that which would have been recorded if the average rate of mortality towards the end of October had preyailed.—Registrar-General's 2eyort.

The total loss of Tyne ships since the 1st of October is very frightful. In money value, the insurance-clubs will have sustained losses considerably above 50,000/. in vessels alone. The cargbes that are lost will also be another large item. The Viscount Lambton screw-steamer, belonging to Sunder- land, also has perished in the October gales. She was a powerful vessel, and sixteen hands have suffered with her. The number of North country seamen who have perished in the North Sea and Baltic since the 1st of October, is known to exceed eixty ; and if some vessels that are missing do not cast up the number will, most probably, closely approach 100.

An economical and tasteful design for ormunenting the grounds around the house in which Shakspere was bore:has just. been adopted. It is known to tourists that the boundary towards the Guild Street is kept by a plain, substantial wall ; and entrance te the garden will, be obtained through hood- some gates, surrounded by Shakspere'a crest—a falcon. From the gates to the house a broad central walk will be formed, on either side of which shrubs are to be planted. The approach to the birth-place, which will stand on a plateau, will be gained by a flight of steps—an arrangement which will allow of the formation of a terrace runuing the entire width if the garden. The West side will be laid with turf, and a mulberry tree planted, round which will be a gravelled walk. On the South-east side, a walk will lead to the custodian's residence, and from thence round the birth-place. An orchard, after the fashion of those in Shakspere's time, is to be planted, on the North.sitst side, with such trees as are named in the great poet's works ; and in another and more retired spot an arbour will be constructed. "The committee," it is said, "will select those trees, plants, and flowers only which are mentioned in the poet's writings ; thus the ensemble will be complete, and, as far as the means will allow, everything will be done to have the whole in strict keeping, so that nothing shall meet the eye which has not a true'Shaksperian association."

BELGIAN AGRICELITEAL INSTITtrrE.—An agricultural institute has been just founded on the largest scale, by the Belgian Government. This esta- blishment, situated at Gembloux, in proximity with Brunets and Namur, in the midst of the best cultivated lands of Belgium, combines theory with practice. It includes—two farms, gardens, and land cultivated for the spe- cial purpose of instruction ; a sugar factory, and a distillery ; stables, with proper means of utilizing the manure ; access to the "tiaras" of Govern- ment (horse-breeding stables), which are close by. The pupils are internal, but a certain number of externals may be authorised. They must be six- teen years of age at least, and must pass an examination to prove that they are possessed of sufficient information to profit by the course they are to un- dergo. Application to be made to the Minister of the Interior, Brussels, be- fore the loth October, 1860. Charge for in-door students, 700 francs, all in- cluded; out door, 300 francs. Opening of classes, November, 1860.— Builekr.