A deputation from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hartlepool, and Filey, waited upon Lord

Palmerston, on Wednesday, to urge the necessity of commencing the construction of harbours of refuge on the North-East coast. A large number of Members of Parliament attended, and Sir Frederick Smith set forth the facts which form the basis of the appeal. Lord Palmerston promised that the subject should have the serious at- tention of the Government.

Mr. William Hutt, M.P. for Gateshead, succeeds Mr. Cowper at the Board of Trade, and his appointment has gratified the inhabitants of the North. Educated at Cambridge, where he was the fellow-student of Macaulay, Mackworth Praed, and Charles Buller, who were his inti- mate associates, he entered Parliament after tho Reform Bill, as member for Hull, which he represented till 1841, when he was almost unani- mously called upon by the electors of Gateshead to represent them. His constituents at Hull, who speak of William Hutt and Andrew Marvell as the best members Hull ever had, presented him with a magnificent silver shield. In 1852, Mr. Hutt fought and defeated Mr. Liddell, a Tory, and Mr. Ralph Walters, a Liberal, by a large majority. No pri- vate member has been more industrious in legislation. He wasIan un- paid Commissioner for the Management of the Australian Colonies. Long before the Anti-Corn Law League, Mr. Hutt, in a pamphlet proposed a fixed duty as low as 5s., and he was the author of the measure to allow the grinding of corn in bond. He also introduced the Alien Bill, to facili- tate the cheap naturalization of foreigners. His opposition to the Afri- can squadron, and the Sound and Stade dues, is well known. Mr. Hutt's appointment to the Board of Trade has the quality of fitness, for he is, as the principal partner, in the Marby Hill Company, the greatest cinder burner in the world, and no man has a larger acquaintance with trade generally.

The Navy Estimates for the year 1860-61 have been issued as Par- liamentary papers. The net increase required to be voted for the service of the year 1860-61, as compared with the vote for the financial year 1859-60, is 1,026,4821.

The grand total required for the year is 12,802,2001. The items of in- crease are thus distributed. Wages to seamen and marines, 410,0001. - victuals for ditto, 215,228/. ; Admiralty-office, 14,323/. ; Coast-guard service, Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve, 16681. ; scientific branch, 2964/. ; her Majesty's establishments at home, 21,289/. ; her Majesty's establishments abroad, 2870/. ; wages of arti- ficers abroad, 93561. • naval stores, 387,3041. medicines and medical stores, 13,0001.; miscellaneous services, 18,529/. ; making the total in- crease for the effective service, 1,096,5311. The wages of artificers at home are reduced this year by 87,1011. ; and the cost of new workshy 203,8621.

In military pensions and allowances, there is an increase of 4849/. ; and, in civil pensions and allowances, 9614/. The charge for half-pay this year is reduced by 27,049/. The sum required for the conveyance of troops, shows an increase of 233,000/.

The decrease on the year is 317,512/. ; the increase 1,343,994/. ; making, as we have said, the net increase 1,026,482/.

The number of men included in the estimates for the fleet this year is 54,000 officers, seamen, and boys-2000 officers, seaman, and boys to be employed in surveying, troop, and store-ships ; 2000 boys for training ships; 8100 seamen and boys for the coastguard service ; 4100 of whom are to be employed afloat, and 4000 on shore. The number of marines to be voted is 18,000—viz., 12,000 for service afloat, and 6000 on shore. The civilians for coastguard service will number 1400, making the total force in fleet and coastguard service for the years 1860-61, 85,500.

Although little is said of the progress of the Rifle Movement—Parlia- ment having swallowed up almost everything else—it nevertheless pro- ceeds in comparative silence. The Duke of Cambridge has been for- mally appointed Colonel of the City of London Brigade. Mr. Edward

Mappin, of the firm of Mappin and Co. give a handsome silver cup to be shot for. Several large city firma—White and Son, Pawson and Co., Hanson and Co., have enrolled a large number of persons in their employ. At Birmingham, Mr. Charles Rateliff, brother of Sir John Rat- cliff, has raised and equipped 100 men at his own expense. The Read- ing corps have been solemnly sworn in, and the Berkshire regiment to which they belong, has a distinguished Colonel—the Guardsman Major Loyd Lindsay, who won his Victoria Cross at the Alma.

Some 20,000 Circassians have immigrated to Stamboul. They suf- fered great distresses on the voyage, being transported in every sort of craft, and packed together like cattle. Arriving destitute, the Turkish Government gave them such shelter and aid as may keep them from lite- ral starvation. But the allowance is so small, that it is insufficient for a family. They lie on damp floors, "in every stage of want-induced disease.' The women, especially, suffer. An appeal is made to Eng- lish charity on behalf of these victims of Russian aggression.

At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday, the following papers will be read :-1. Chiba : Notes of a, cruise in the Gulfs of Pecheli and Leo-tung in 1859, by Mickie, communicated by Mr. John Crawfurd, F.R.G.S. ; 2. Africa : Discovery of a new River flowing to the East, in lat. 17.30 S., long. 19 E., by Mr. C. J. Anderson 3. Proposed Expedition up the Congo, by Captain N. B. Bedingfeld, R.N., F.R.G.S.

Lord and Lady Palmerston entertained the Prince of Orange and a large company at dinner, on Wednesday.

The Town Council of Cambridge has placed on record its profound re- spect for the memory of the late Lord Macaulay. The Duke of Bedford has been chosen High Steward of the Borough, in the room of Lord Macaulay.

Mr. Rowland Hill, Secretary to the Postmaster-General, is appointed a R.C.B., or Knight Commander of the Bath.

Sir John Bowring had a prolonged interview with the French Emperor on Monday, at the Tuileries. The Earl de Grey and Ripon, as President of the Royal Geographical Society, gavothe first of a series of three receptions, on Wednesday, at his mansion on Carlton House Terrace, to the fellows of that learned body and a large circle of private friends. It is stated that a Rifle Volunteer Ball is to take place on the evening of the 7th of March, the day on which her Majesty will hold a court specially for the reception of the officers of the volunteer corps of London and the different parts of the kindom. The ball is to take place in the New Floral Hall, adjoining the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, and will be under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Queen. The following officers have been appointed sub-inspectors of Volunteers :- For the Artillery, Major Forteseue. For the Rifles, Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. A. Luard, Major Gustavus Hume, Major G. B. Harman, Major W. G. D. Stewart, and Major A. A. Nelson. They will have the pay and allow- ances of Majors of Brigade ; the Chief Inspector, Colonel M'Murdo, C.B., ranks as a Deputy-Adjutant-General—Army and Nary Gazette.

The Commander Desambrois having been recalled from Paris at his own request, thel Chevalier Constantin Negri has been appointed Chargé d'Affaires at Paris.

• Signor Gallenga, the Times correspondent at Florence, has been expelled from Rome. He had received permission to stay; it was suddenly revoked, and he was packed off.

A grand banquet has been given at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, in honour of Feld-Marshal Prince Bariatinski. All the generals actually at St. Petersburg were invited. At the conclusion of the dinner, the Emperor proposed "The health of Field-Marshal Prince Bariatinski and of the army of the Caucasus."

Father Lacordaire, the eloquent Dominican friar, hasbeen elected a mem- ber of the French Academy.

Ernst Moritz Arndt, the German poet, died recently at Bonn, and was buried with military henoure. His body has been placed near ;hat of his friend, Niebuhr.

M. Bouchard, one of the most eminent wine-merchants in Burgundy, died lately in his native town of Beaune, at tte age, within a few weeks, of one hundred and one years.

Our first number has to record a heavy calamity to the friends of social irnproventhit. Frederic Auguste Demetz, the noble-hearted philanthropist, has been struck with paralysis. His frame has given way under intense and unremitting labours of thought and of action, east upon him by the self-imposed duty of providing the means of subsistence and training for the seven hundred colons of Mettray. He has been removed to Nice.—Friend of the People.

The King of Sweden and Norway has awarded a medal to Commander Montagu 0 Reilly, R.N., in acknowledgment alit; services in heaving off the rocks last October, in Gibraltar Bay, the Swedish corvette Ornin (Eagle), and the Admiralty have sent out this decoration to the Commander- in-chief in the Mediterranean for presentation.

The British Government has just presented Captain Hemel of the French vessel Lusitano, of Havre, with a telescope for having rescued the crew of the Birkenhead.

M. Michel Chevalier has been unanimously elected a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Sweden.

The telegraphic line, from Kurrachee to Muscat, was successfully laid on the 17th of January. Mr. Newell started to lay the wire from Muscat to Aden on the 21st.

In a lecture on sewage, delivered at the Farmers' Club on Monday even- ing, Mr. Alderman Mechi, referring to his There° Hall estate, said—" For the last six years, my gain as landlord and tenant on my little farm of 170 acres, has been nearly 700/. per annum. Even this year, with wheat at 42e. per quarter, I have gained 6001., after paying every expense. Of course, much of this benefit has arisen from steam power, drainage, deep cultiva- tion, and other improvements ; but the liquefied manure system has greatly contributed to this result."

The Government has agreed to pay to the parish of Woolwich 40,000/. a year, as an equivalent for the rating of the Queen's military and naval es- tablishments in the parish.

The Prussian Government is proceeding in a course of liberal reforms. The bastinado has been abolished. Persons deprived of successive aug- mentations, of salary for alleged political and religious offences, have had their salaries restored. Jews are allowed to take the degree of Doctor in Philosophy.

A modest request. The Hull _Adcertiter has the following advertise- ment :—" Wanted to borrow 5001. en a manuscript poem, the estimated value of which is 10,000/."

The Dutch papers are now discussing an extraordinary will, made at Amster- dam, 150 years ago, by an exceedingly wealthyMynheer, an Israelite named Jacob Pereyra. Out of the immense wealth left by him he only allowed 20,000 guilders annually to his widow and children. The remainder, consisting of Dutch East India Bonds and other securities—then considered as safe as valuable—he left in trust to the wardens of his synagogue, who, after 150 years, were to convene, by advertisements in the papers, all his descend- ants, and, after rendering them an account of the stewardship before the judges, were to devote 100,000 guilders to the endowment of a certain oharity, and then to divide the remainder in equal proportion between the heirs. The 150 years will expire in February 1861. Meanwhile, the de- scendants of Pereyra are summoned to appear before the LordsJudges, in the Chamber of Justice at Amsterdam, on the 7th of June next, at eleven o'clock in the morning precisely, there to receive a full and faithful render- ing of the trust. The formalities of the law are of course complied with, but it is well known, as in the Thellueson case, a sad disappointment awaits the sanguine heirs. The accumulation of the immense wealth of Pereyra will hardly be sufficient to meet the first charge of the endowment. The greater portion of the securities, which for more than fifty years after his death paid forty per cent, have dwindled down into almost worthless paper. The bankruptcy of the East India Company in 1775, the revolution and French invasion in 1795, the loss of colonies and trade, the war taxes, and the disastrous annexations to France, have done their work, The settlement of the national debt at the Restoration in 1813, completed the ruins wrought by the previous calamities. The wealth of Pereyra, instead of attaining in 150 years the colossal dimension expected by the testator, has shrunk into a mere nothing, thus pointing once more the moral so impressively taught by the Thellusson will. Jewish Chrontele.

An eclipse of the moon took place soon after one o'clock on Monday night. The sky was cloudless ; the progress of the observation could be distinctly watched. About eight-tenths of the moon were darkened.

The British barque, Zuleika, was wrecked off Cape Spartel, in North Africa. Mr. Drummond Hay, our Consul, at once proceeded from Tan- gier, to aid the crew who had been saved ; and the 'Vulture also went round to render assistance. The villagers treated the shipwrecked men kindly; but they were assailed by a body of ruffians from other villages, and com- pelled to run for their lives. Mr. Hay and his brother encountered the Moors, but were obliged to fly under a hail of shot. The boats of the Vnl- tire appearing, stopped pursuit. The Moors thought the sailors were Spaniarth.

In August last, Swatmini, a clerk, robbed his employers, ironmaeters in Dudley, of 350/. He got clear away, but in September it was ascertained that he had shipped for Melbourne. His employers immediately obtained the aid of the police, and sent a detective to Melbourne overland. The de- tective arrived first, captured the thief as soon as he landed, and recovered nearly all the money.