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Tuesday's Gazette contained the following announcements, under date April 30th—

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Ogle Carr, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Edward Grimes, and Charles MacMahon, Esqrs., to be non-elective members of the Legislative Council of the colony of Victoria.

Sir Hew Ross is also gazetted as Lieutenant-General:of the Ordnance of Great Britain and Ireland.

A fortnight since, we noticed the fact that Colonel Perronet Thompson had been restored to the Army List ; but a doubt was expressed as to whether he was restored to his right place. The new Army List satis- factorily settles the doubt : Colonel Thompson appears in his right place ; and the present military administration has the credit of rectifying an injustice which a former regime had perpetrated and persevered in.

Sir William Parker has been appointed flag-officer at Plymouth, in the room of Sir Francis Ommaney, whose term of service at that port has expired.

Mr. George Ferguson Bowen, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, has been appointed Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, in the room of Sir John Fraser, who retires on a pension, after twenty years' service in that post.

Government is about to appoint a Commission for the management of the fund subscribed for the relief of the wives and children of soldiers. The funds will be paid over to the account of the Paymaster-General. The services of the Commissioners will be gratuitous.

Admiral Sir Charles Napier, with a division of the fleet, paid a visit to Stockholm on the 25th April, and had an interview with King Oscar. He was well received by the Swedes, who take great interest in our naval proceedings. The ships of observation had passed close up to the ice, and had observed the Russian squadron lying within the harbour of Seising-

fors.

An agent of Lloyd's at St. Ive's, Cornwall, forwarded, on Wednesday, a statement made to him by one Gaston Fouque, second mate of the French brig Ville de Marseille. Fouque stated that his ship had been captured, about twenty leagues from Cardiff, by a Russian frigate, which first hoisted English and afterwards French colours; and that he escaped by swimming. To test the truth of his statement, the Admiralty have sent two steamers to look after this " Russian frigate." But the story is not credited.

The Queen has ordained that "Mary Annette Talbot and Gwendaline Elizabeth Talbot, sisters of the Earl of Shrewsbury, shall henceforth have, hold, and enjoy the same title, place, preeminence,and precedence, as if their late father, Colonel Charles Thomas falbot, had succeeded to the dignity of Earl of Shrewsbury."

The Queen has also ordained that the younger children of "the Honour- able William Fraser, deceased, and brothers and sisters of Alexander now Baron Saltoun, shall henceforth have, hold, and enjoy the titles, place, pre- eminence, and precedence of the younger children of a baron, as if their said late father, William Fraser, had survived his elder brother, Alexander George Baron Saltoun, lately deceased, and thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of Baron Saltoun."

The Countess of Granville held a "soiree dansante" on Thursday even- ing; it was attended by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, many Foreign Ministers and their wives, and a large general circle. The Earl and Countess had a dinner-party at an earlier hour.

Mr. Sidney Herbert entertained the Cabinet Ministers at dinner on Wed- nesday.

Mrs. Gladstone had an assembly on Wednesday evening, which was very numerously attended by the Corps Diplomatique and a general circle.

Sir Robert Peel arrived at his mother's mansion in Whitehall Gardens on Wednesday evening : his recent narrow escape from death in the Italian seas of course added to the warmth of his reception by his family.

Lord Carlisle arrived at Constantinople, from Varna, on the 14th April.

The remains of the Marquis of Anglesey will be deposited in a vault in Lichfield Cathedral today.

Lord Cockburn, who died at his seat of Bonaly, near Edinburgh, on the 26th April, has been interred in Dean Cemetery, in a grave adjoining that of Lord Jeffrey.

The funeral of Professor Jameson, of Edinburgh University, was attended by the members of many public bodies and philosophical societies, and the concourse of mourners was very large. The place of sepulture was Warriston Cemetery.

On the night of the 24th April, the Ercelano, a Genoese steamer, was sailing off the coast between Nice and Antibes. Mr. Charles hansom, a pas- senger, who had been supping. with Sir Robert Peel, went upon deck to smoke a cigar ; it was a dark night, and the ship rolled heavily : to his great surprise, he saw no man on deck but the man at the helm. Lights appeared in the distance, and he pointed them out to the steersman ; who gave no reply. In a few minutes, the ship was struck on the larboard side, by a screw steamer, which proved to be the Sicilia. The masts of the Ercolano gave way ; it was evident she would soon sink ; all was horror and confusion on board. Mr. Sansom, seeing two sailors lowering a boat, jumped in and was saved. Sir Robert Peel ran to the bow, stripped, plunged into the sea, and swam until he was picked up. Another passenger, a Frenchman, gives a lively description of his experience. He was below, smoking a cigar: rushing on deck, he found the ship going down by the stern : he seer " women and children screaming—fathers seeking children—husbands making desperate efforts to save their wives " : he himself, a good swimmer, kept himself above water, until he got a plank. " Whilst swimming, I saw some females rise to the surface of the water, and then sink. One of them, before going down, cried out, 'Charles, Charles, my dearest Charles, save me!' This was twice or thrice repeated—and the unhappy being sank." Of the passengers, thirty-seven were drowned, including all the women and children on board save one, a servant ; and twelve of the crew. Among the drowned, were Mr. Thomas Halsey, M.P. for Hertfordshire, Mrs. Halsey, and their child. Among the Englishmen saved are these—Mr. Sansom, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Rankin, Mr. George Wilkinson, Mr. Edward Davrnley, Mr. Edward Knight, and Mr. Charles Gresham. The boats of the Sicilia picked up these, except Mr. hansom, who escaped with the sailors to An- tibes. There can be no doubt that this calamity was the consequence of criminal neglect. The Frenchman above quoted emphatically says—" I declare most solemnly, and in the presence of that God whom I implored when I thought my earthly career terminated, that the horrible misfortune which has plunged so many families into mourning, is owing to the criminal negligence of the two captains, neither of them being on deck at the moment of the accident : all the officers were below, and the Herculaneum was left to the care of the steersman only." An inquiry into the conduct of the captains will be made at Genoa.

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

Ten ;Weeks Week of 1844-'33.

0[1864.

Zymotic Diseases 1,881 .... 289 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 469 .... 43 Tubercular Diseases 1,990 .... 243 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Sensca 1,203 .... 121 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 371 .... 46 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,593 .... 186 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 596 .... 67 Diseases of the Kidney. Ste 114 .... 22 Chilebirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c. 113 ....

s

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &e.

91

.... 11 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c. 13 • • .• 7 Malformations. 26 • • • •

0

Premature Birth 194 ,...

39,

Atrophy 203 ... 37 Age 471 .... 43 Sadden 101 ....

21

Violence,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance 215 .... 25

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— Total (including unspecified causes) 9,726

1,211

"The Shade of Lempriere," writing to the Morning Chronicle from the- Athenwum Club, corrects one of Mr. Disraeli's prepared impromptus at the Royal Academy dinner. Mr. Disraeli had said—"It is a great fallacy to pretend, because a nation is unhappily at war, that the arts of peace ought not to be cultivated. You will rather find, if you appeal to history, that it is when a nation feels and thinks the most deeply, that the arts most flourish. It was during the greatest struggle in which the Athenians were ever engaged, the Peloponnesian war, that Phidias flourished." The Shade- of Lempriere writes— 'There could 'hardly be a more unhappy illustration. The Peloponnesian war commenced B.C. 431; Phidias died the very year before, namely, B.c. 432. The Parthenon and all his great Athenian works were completed several years before the commencement of the Peloponne- sian war. Can Mr. Disraeli never by any accident be right in an historical allusion, unless he plagiarizes wholesale ? "

Whatever the intentions of the late Mr. Holford might have been, his property has not been bequeathed to the Prince of Wales. His deceased. brother's children inherit it, under a will made in 1845. The rumour that the Prince of Wales had been nominated heir seems to have originated in Mr. Holford'a having jestingly remarked, when improving his house and grounds, that they were intended for the heir apparent to the Throne.

It would seem from chemical examinations that the increase in the weight of bread obtained from a given quantity of flour, as exemplified by M. Joumet at the Marylebone Workhouse, is no real gain. By the addition of a substance having great power to retain moisture, the amount of water in the bread is largely increased, while the nutritive elements remain the same : more bread appears to be got from a sack of flour, but there is no real in-' crease in the amount of food.

Mr. Hobbs has been baffled in an attempt to pick a patent " climax de- teeter lock," constructed by Mr. Cotterill, of Birmingham. He was to re- 7 ceive 501. if he picked the lock in twenty-four hours. The experiment was made on a lock affixed to an iron chest in the office of Mr. Fothergill, at Manchester. Mr. Hobbs examined the lock on the exterior, made tools, and set to work ; but after labouring for a day and a night he failed. When allowed to examine the interior of the lock, he admitted that an extension. of time would not have assisted him, as he had worked in the dark as to some of the details of its construction.

The collections on the Fast-day in the churches of Cheltenham amounted to 737/. ; at Manchester, to 9521. Last month, 31,500 emigrants left Liverpool—the greatest number that ever departed in a single month.

While in 1852 there were 745 ships with a tonnage of 192,949 built in the -United Kingdom, the totals in 1853 had swelled to 853 ships, with a tonnage of 233,524. The principal now remaining due of the Russian Dutch Loan is 15,500,000 florins. We pay annually an interest of 5 per cent, and 250,000 florins as a sinking-fund to extinguish the debt.

The balance due to this country on account of the Greek Loan guaranteed by it has now reached 472,5181. The sum which we have to pay, and are still paying, is 47,0001. a year. The last sum received by us from the Greek Government, in repayment of our advances, was as long ago as 1848, and the amount was only 7740/. The stone which enjoyed the reputation of having been the seat of Dick Whittington when he rested on Highgate Hill to hear the bells chiming him back to London and the Mayoralty, has been removed, and a public- house will shortly stand upon the spot.

A widow recently died at Peckham at the age of a hundred and two. She was confined to her bed only one day, and was sensible to the last. She had received parish-relief for some years.

News has arrived of the burning of the Irene, on her voyage from London to Melbourne, when thirty-one days out. Her crew and passengers are be- lieved to have been saved.

The remains of the Marquis of Anglesey were yesterday conveyed by rail to Lichfield. A squadron of the Blues escorted the funeral procession to Euston Square. The mourners who followed, in carriages, were the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Paget, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord George Paget, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Crofton, Lord Enfield, Lord Sandwich, Admiral Cadogan, Lord Templemore, Lord Maidstone, and Lord Henry Paget. The carriages of the Queen, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, and the French Ambassador, with some sixty other carriages, joined in the procession. The funeral takes place today.