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It is believed that the address in the House of Commons will be moved by Lord Lovaine, Member for North Northumberland, and seconded by Mr. E. Christopher Egerton, the Member for Macclesfield.— Morning Herald.

Major-General Sir Charles J. Napier will be appointed to the command of the Kent military district.--Morning Herald.

There has been a continuous stream of Wellington gossip, of varied quality, in the journals during the week. The arrangements for the funeral are still incomplete. As regards the car, so eloquently described last week by our contemporaries, it seems that the Queen only approved of the design on Tuesday ; and that in order to have it ready, the resources of seven large establishments will be taxed to the utmost. The Queen desires that there should be no makeshift expedients, but that everything should be what it pretends to be. Twelve jet black dray-horses, the best in the land, have been selected to draw the car—animals that won't " jib " or prance, but pull majestically on. The most striking rumour current on the subject of the preparations at Chelsea Hospital is, that " the idea of displaying in the hall the flags taken in the Duke's great battles has been abandoned—as the sight of them might give ofenee to foreigners" !

The authorities at the Horse Guards and in the City have conferred re- specting the measures to be taken in order that the streets may be kept tranquil.

Last week we published an outline of the procession for the funeral. Its " authenticity " was denied ; and undoubtedly it was not issued on authority—it was still under consideration. Yesterday the official programme was published, by leave of the Earl Marshal ; and the prin- cipal difference we find in it is, that Lord Malmesbury will march be- fore the Earl of Derby ; and that instead of riding on horseback, or walking, Prince Albert will drive in a coach and six. The day of the funeral is definitively fixed for the 18th November.

The following General Officers will bear the pall—Viscount Comber- mere, the Marquis of Londonderry, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Seaton, Viscount Gough, Sir Charles J. Napier, Sir J. L. Lushington, Sir George Pollock, and Sir Harry Smith.

Lord Roden, Captain Trotter, Lord Cavan, and the other gentlemen of the deputation sent to Florence to obtain the release of the imprisoned Madiai, arrived there on the 22d of last month. They adopted an address to the Grand Duke, and applied through the Foreign Minister, the Duke of Casigliano, for an audience. Lord Roden has communi- cated the reply of the Duke to Lord Shaftesbury, who in turn has sent it to the journals. The Grand Duke says that the Madiai have been legally imprisoned " for the crime of propagating Protestantism"; that the Court of Cessation has declined to reverse the sentence ; that the Grand Duke cannot permit any interposition in a case which concerns the internal administration of justice ; and that, "not considering it necessary to listen to any kind of intervention on the subject," he regrets that he can- not grant the interview solicited. Lord Roden hopes that an intention exists to pardon the Medial. The King of Denmark is perfectly restored to health. The King of Sweden has not recovered his attack of rheumatic fever. The Duke of Modena returned to " his dominions" on the 23d October. Sir Henry Bulwer has returned to his post at the Court of Tuscany. General Aupick, French Minister at Madrid, returned on the 24th to his post.

Vely Pacha has succeeded Prince Callimachi as Turkish Minister at Paris.

Sir Henry Ward, and Count Bacciochi, Grand Master of the Cere- monies to M. Bonaparte, dined with the Queen of Greece on the 16th October.

M. Boutenieff, Russian Minister at Rome, went on the 21st October to Naples.

The Chevalier de Collegno, Sardinian Minister at Paris, has been re- called.

M. Prittwitz of Berlin has taken out a patent for an improved "needle- gun," said to be free from the imperfections of its predecessor.

Count Adam Potocki, sentenced to six years' imprisonment for con- spiring to liberate Austrian Poland, has been set at liberty.

A subscription has been commenced to raise a monument over the re- mains of Thomas Hood in Kensal Green Cemetery—now unmarked by any token of public respect. Miss Eliza Cook has been the means of set- ting the project afloat, by publishing some lines entitled "Poor Hood !"

At meetings severally held by the companies interested, it has been resolved to effect an amalgamation between the London and North- western and the Midland Railway Companies, upon the following terms-

" That the relative values of the two undertakings be ascertained and fixed by three referees of high standing; that their decision be given after the passing of the Act of Amalgamation ; but in case the first application to Par- liament fails, further application shall be made in the following and ensuing session. It shall, however, be competent for either company to call upon the referees to fix the relative value of the two undertakings, such values not to be in any case fixed until after the 31st of December 1853."

The opinions of Mr. Russell, Mr. Denison, and Mr. Ellis, of five chairmen of important lines, and of Mr. Glyn, late chairman, were not long since cited in favour of amalgamation generally, by Mr. Smith, who now presides over the board of the London and North-western. The York and North Midland, the Leeds Northern, and the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, have also resolved to amalgamate ; and they have severally agreed to the following terms-

" The receipts of the three companies to be thrown into a common purse, and, after payment of working expenses, the neat proceeds to be divided in the proportion of 60 per cent to the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 33 per cent to the York and North Midland, and 7 per cent to the Leeds Northern, in the first year. During each of the six following years, the proportion to be paid to the Leeds Northern to be uniformly increased, until in the seventh year it will reach 9 1-3 per cent, at which it is to continue. The debenture debt of the three companies to be guaranteed by the amalgamated company, but each company to be chargeable with the interest payable on the amount of debt for which it is individually liable. The neat balance allotted to each company, in conformity with the foregoing articles of agreement, to be divided_ among the various classes of shareholders, in strict accordance with the financial arrangements by which the three companies are respectively bound at the time of amalgamation ; any alterations of those financial arrange- ments to be made at the risk of the company making them."

The Melbourne screw-steamer, belonging to the Australian Mail Packet Company, after a series of disasters in the Channel, at Plymouth, and in the open sea, put into Lisbon on the 24th of last month, dismasted and in a leaky state. Her topmasts went over in a fresh gale, about midnight. The wreck got entangled in the screw. After great labour, the screw was raised and set free, and the captain steamed into Lisbon. Here it was thought necessary to dock her ; but there was some opposition on the part of the captain of a British man-of-war there. However, it was pro- bable she would be docked and repaired. She carried upwards of two hundred passengers, the mails, and a valuable cargo of specie. It will be recollected that the old name of the Melbourne was the Greenock, when she was an Admiralty steamer.

The Revue Geneve states that the Federal Council has authorized the de- partment of justice and police to incur the charge of photographing the por- traits of persons breaking the laws by mendicancy in cantons where they have no settlement. It has been found that the verbal descriptions hitherto relied on are insufficient for the identification of the offenders.

On Sunday afternoon, at the Arenes Nationales, Paris, a rope on which two rope-dancers were performing, at a height of thirty yards, suddenly broke, and they were both precipitated to the ground; one was killed on the spot, and the other died an hour after. The performances were stopped ; and the public, who seemed greatly moved, left the place.