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The Gazette of the 25th October announced the following appointments under the provisions of "the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853."

"Peter Erle, Esq., barrister-at-law, to. be Chief Commissioner; James In11, Esq.. barrister-at-law, to be Second Commissioner; the .Rev. Richard Jones, M.A., to be Third Commissioner; the Right Hon..Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.B., to be Fourth Commissioner; Henry Morgan Vane, Esq., to be Secretary ; and Thomas Hare, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Walker Skirrow the younger, Esq., to be Inspectors."

Mr. Henry Cole has put forth a plan for erecting the proposed building on the ground at Kensington Gore bought.with the surplus funds of the Exhibition of 1851, by private enterprise. Mr. Cole, addressing Prince Al- bert with his Royal Highness's consent, proposes to erect spacious and at- tractive buildings, partly for exhibiting collections illustrating the pro gress of science and art, and partly for-Government objects. Whether the whole or part should be executed by private agency, would depend on the Government and Commissioners but Mr. Cole thinks a company might be chartered to erect the buildings and lay out the grounds. When finished, if Government thought fit, they might purchase the place, and admit the public gratuitously ; or the company might retain A and receive payment for entrance. A part of Mi. Cole's plan la, that buildings should be provided for Government collections, and private ia- stitutions, on lease, or sale. Mr. Cole is in. favour- of private enterprise.

The Persian Ambassador has been suddenly recalled by his Govern- ment, for reasons unknown. He was to leave London on ?Thursday.

Namik Pacha has been sent on a mission to Paris to negotiate a Turkish loan.

The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia passed through Berlin on the 27th October, for St. Petersburg.

General Narvaez left Paris on Wednesday, for Madrid.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany and his eldest son arrived in.Rome on the 24th October.

The North British Daily Mail gives currency to a• report, according to which the shippers of Leith have been informed that notice has been served on their ships at Cronstadt "to be in readiness to go to sea at four or five hours' notice, with or without cargo."

Some clergymen of the Church of England have recently addressed a memorial to tlie Oriental Patriarchs and Synods, accusing the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Bishop Gobat, of exceeding the proper objects of his mission, and of introducing schism into the Eastern _Churches. Lest it should be considered that this memorial is an offitial censure-of the Bishop, the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh, and Dublin; have T'ab- lished a protest against the irregular and unauthorized-proceedings-dee memorialists; deeming it expedient to make a publia declaration "that the said memorial does not in any manner emanate. from"' "the Milted Church of England and Ireland, or from persons authorized by that Church to pronounce decisions."

From a letter published in the morning papers, addressed by the Bishop of Exeter to Dr. Mill, it appears that the Bishop does not receguiee the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, because Bishop Gobat has not the ex- press permission of the Bishop within whose diocese Jerusalem is situate. Ile does not know "how to distinguish the principle-of. that act froni,the mission of an Archbishop of Westminster by the Pope."

It is stated that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners intend to remove the College of St. David-at Lampeterfrom that town-to Christ.ChureIrCollege at,Breeon 5 and likewise that the portion of the: diooese of St. David in which.the latter is situate is to be severed from: thateeesadainnesed-th thesdioeese,of Lkindaff. They have the pawatandea:ameeesitiaoti, . • eili . viaidaroa

the week ending on Saturday last. Result of the-Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for

Ten Weeks of 181342. Week of 1853.

Zymotie Diseased; 2,427 .... 314 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 457 .... 45 Tubercular Diseases 1,669 ., ,,, 169 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,075 • • , • log Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 352 • • • „ 34 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,527 .... 200 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 270 • • • • 52 D se 101 • • • • 12 'Uterus, Childbirth, diseases of the &a

127

.... 8 Rheamatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ilic 76 .... 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, go 18 • • • • 0 IdaLformations. 34 „ • • 5 Premature Birth 23/ • , • • 36 Atrophy 212 • • • • 35 Ate 461 • • • • 36 Sudden 95 • • , , 5

Violence,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance

210

31

— Total (including unspecified causes)

9,744

1,144

Wednesday was the first day of Michaelmas term , in ' the Courts of West- minster. The Judges, as usual, breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor. Four barristers—Mr. Temple, Mr. Edward James, Mr. Montague Smith, and Mr. Grove—hare obtained silk gowns, and were called within the bar by the Judges. The curious caw:sof Lumley versus Gye is still pending, and will be tried at the sittingster the ensuing Michaelmas term. It is an action against in Mr. Gye for inducing Miss Johanna Wagner to break her contract with Mr. Lumley, who lays his damages at no less a sum than 30,000/. The princi- pal witnesses, including Miss Wagner herself, being beyond the regular ju- risdiction of the English courts, a commission -has been issued to take their evidence at Berlin ; where their examination and cross-examination will be- conducted by English counsel, through the medium of a sworn interpreter. sir. Hayward, Queen's counsel, has been named sole commissioner, and will discharge, pro tanto, the duties of a judge at a nisi prius trial. The com- mission is to be opened at Berlin on the 7th instant.—Horning Chronicle.

Mr. Lowe and Mr. Felkin junior; of Nottingham, have seen an extraor- dinary meteor. "The meteor, moved nearly perpendicularly down, inclining to East. It was first seen as a circular body, of about half the apparent dia- meter of the sun, being accompanied by a stream of light ; afterwards it increased to almost the diameter of the sun, and then burst into fragments, with an explosion. The report of the explosion was from 1 sec. to 3 sec. after the meteor had disappeared, and resembled distant thunder. The meteor passed over about .15 deg. of space, disappearing 30 deg. E. of N. at an altitude of about 10 deg. ; duration, 3 sec. It was very brilliant, shining with a somewhat yellow light. Soon afterwards, near the spot where it had disappeared, a band, of, prismatic colours was visible, being 2 deg. wide and 5 deg. in length. This phenomenon when first perceived with as brilliant as a rainbow, but soon faded, finally disappearing in about 5 min. Clouds were dispersed over the sky, from behind.one of which the meteor appeared, after- wards vanishing behind another. The prismatic colours were seen upon clouds,- or shining through them-"

During the month of October, the number of persons who visited the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House on public days was 28,807; on the students' days, 1466 were admitted as students on the pay- ment of sixpence each. The numbers during the month were nearly double the average.

Lord Londonderry has met with a painful accident at Dublin. A circular hole for shooting coals into a cellar had been left open, and the Marquis, while looking at the Exhibition, stepped into the hole. His leg, fortunately, was not broken ; but. it was much contused. He left Dublin for the North on Tuesday, and was then doing well.

It is stated that Mr. Leman, of York, has purchased Newby Park from Mr. George Hudson, for 190,0001., on behalf of Viscount Downe, already a large landed proprietor in Yorkshire.

The barque Princess Victoria. from London, was- destroyed by fire on the • 18th August, when near her destination, Melbourne. There were 400 barrels of gunpowder on boird. As soon as the fire was discovered the crew took to the boats, and put a good distance between them and the ship before it exploded. They were taken up by a vessel which had seen the fire. In sinking a mine-shaft at C•dlys, near Aberdare, the workmen struck a vast "blower" of gas, which of course impeded their operations ; the manager had pipes erected and conveyed into the upper air, and the gas was set on fire : there is a flame three yards in length, which is expected to con- tinue for a long time. It is a gratifying feature in eonnexion with the shipping of our port that there has been an increase of full 500 sail this year more than during a cor-

raninditin-13116;"lisinu 1 ternilhe .Piacke,Lthat notorious ruffians who are sent to prison for beating women, unoffending men, and constables, should on their liberation have their noses blacked by the proposed American process ; each "blank noses" to be liable to arrest for comparatively trivial offences, and publicans to be probibited from harbouring them. When a ruffian's nose resumed its natural tint, the remembrance of the way in which a "black nose" was universally shunned would have some .effect in deterring him from offences leading to that adornment.