31ii5ullaurung.

We believe that her Majesty will visit Ireland in the course of a few days ; returning to Osborne about the 20th instant, whence she will pro- ceed to Balmor— Globe.

A letter from Cork, of the 7th instant, says-

" All here are on the look-out for the visit of her Majesty. I understand that orders have been received at Queenstown to make immediate preparations and lay down additional moorings for the French fleet, which is expected in port this week, with the intention of remaining during her Majesty's stay. I have heard that the fleet at present stationed in Queenstown have received orders to give place to the strangers."

It is stated in generally well-informed quarters, that her Majesty's Government intend to send 2000 of the Irish Constabulary to Australia, to aid the civil power in that colony in performing the arduous duties now requisite for the protection of life and property, owing to the discovery of the gold-fields.

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

Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat,

2,164

455

....

• • 187 Si Tubercular Disease; 1,846 • • 183 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,099 • • 191 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 878 • • • •

et

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

665

59

Diseases of the Kidneys, 8.2 79

13 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, !lc 77 • • . • 12 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ite 47 ...• 17 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Ac. 15 • • . • 6 Malformations 17 • • •

Premature Birth 196 • • . • 17 Atrophy 204 .... 10 Age 364 ...• 44 Sudden 128 • . • •

20

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 408 • • • • 95 Total (including unspecified causes) 8,974

987

The Lord Chancellor, by the "Master in Chancery Abolition Act.," being empowered to nominate conveyancing counsel to be the standing convey- ancing counsel to the Court, according to one of the provisions of this act, enabling the Court of Chancery, or a Judge of the Court at Chambers to act upon the opinion of conveyancing counsel, in cases in which it has been usual for the Master to take such an opinion for his assistance on questions of title, or on the settlement of drafts—has appointed the following gentle- men to fill these positions, in the first instance : Mr. Brodie, Mr. Coote, Mr. Christie, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Jarman, and Mr. Lewin.

The young Stratfords, lately released by the Tuscan Government, have arrived in Liverpool, by the screw-steamer Orontes ; having been shipped off by the Government of Malta. Government refuses to do anything in their behalf ; and as they are totally destitute, the Mayor has headed a subscrip- tion for their benefit with the sum of 51.—Liverpool Mercury.

There were 88 public and 146 local and other acts passed in the late ses- sion of Parliament.

From a late census return the following are the totals of houses and in- habitants in the Metropolitan Parliamentary boroughs. In the Tower Ham- lets, there are 75,710 inhabited houses, and the population is 539,111 ; in Marylebone, 40,513 inhabited houses, population 370,957; in Finsbury-, 37,427 inhabited houses, population 323,772; in Lambeth, 39,154 inhabited houses, population 251,345; in Westminster, 24,765 inhabited houses, popu- lation 241,611; in Southwark, 23,751 inhabited houses, population 172,863. In the City of London there are 14,580 inhabited houses, and the population is 127,869. The Government of Holland has sent notes to all the German Governments, informing them that they are ready to grant peculiar facilities to German emigrants disposed to settle in Surinam.

Mr. Ellis, the well-known caterer for public amusement at Cremorne Gardens, the Flora Gardens, and other places of entertainment, has just sailed from Plymouth in the Coldstream, for Port Phillip. Mr. Ellis takes with him scenery, properties, and the necessary adjuncts for a portable theatre, to be erected at the diggings, a complete band of musicians, and a Thespian company. Mr. Ellis proposes to introduce casinos into Geelong and Melbourne, and thus combine pleasure with gold-seeking.

Ten Weeks Week of 184140. of 1861.

SOITIC years ago, a servant girl who had robbed her mistress, a milliner in London, was transported to Sydney for a term of years. Since the discovery of the Bathurst Plains, the female convict has written to her former mistress that the colony was a good place; that, as she now kept her carriage, she was happy to return the amount which she had stolen, with interest ; that she earnestly recommended the milliner to come out and set up shop, in which case she should be happy to extend her patronage to a lady for whom she had so great an esteem.

The "oldest inhabitant" of Monmouth died recently, at the patriarchal age of a hundred and four.

At Dundee, last week, Mrs. Mylne, the widow of a landed gentleman in the neighbourhood, died at the age of a hundred and three.

At Dover, Mrs. Staples, a widow, died in her hundreth year, leaving chil- dren of the mature age of seventy and eighty. A short time ago, a letter was received at the Yarmouth Post-office, with this address—" For my grandmother, up two pair of stairs, Yarmouth, Nor- folk." Thanks to the active lettercarrier, the document found its way to the ancient dame for whom it was intended.—Norfolk Chronicle.

A few days ago a balloon fell near the Greenwich turnpike. A working painter caught hold of one of the ropes to keep it down ; and he was dragged up by the rope, so that those in the car had to pull him in, or he must have fallen some sixty or seventy feet to the ground.

Two pigeons were taken last week from Derby, twenty miles in the direc- tion of -Nottingham, and then released. One of them flew home in 33 mi- nutes 6 seconds, the other in 40 minutes 23 seconds.