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Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was at Paris on Wednesday. He had been in conference with M. de la Cour, the new French Minister to Constan- tinople.

Mr. Layard M.P. has gone to Constantinople, as a pro tempore attache of the British Ambassador.

General Sir Edward Kerrison, long Member for Eye, and Colonel of the Fourteenth Light Dragoons, died on Wednesday, aged seventy-nine he had attended the levee on the same day. Sir Edward entered the Army in 1796, and served through the Peninsular war from Corunna to Toulouse ; he was also at Waterloo.

• General Bustamente, three times President of the Republic of Mexico,. diet recently, at his residence near Queretaro.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, with her husband Dr. Stowe, and some cothek members of their family, are to embark at New York for Glasgow on the 26th instant.

India is to be provided with more than 3000 miles of electric telegraph, to be erected by the Government. The construction will differ materially from the English mode. Dr. O'Shaughness7, Deputy Assay-Master of the Calcutta Mint, has tried an experiment with eighty-two miles of tele- graph on the plan invented by him, and with entire success. The .wind of India would snap wires and wooden posts, and there are other objec- tions to them : their place will be supplied by iron rods three. eighths of an inch in diameter, supported on bamboos ;, the bamboos yield a little in hurricanes, and then resume their erect position, and no insulation is re- quired for the iron rods. Dr. O'Shaughnessy has simplified the battery and other machinery. The section already completed has been a paying speculation. It is intended that the Presidencies and the Punjaub shall be connected by the telegraph. The Court of Directors gave orders four months back for the preparation in England of the materials required.

The Australian steamer, being at length repaired, steamed out of port for her destination on Thursday.

The Commissioners for Building New Churches have expended, sine March 1840, 1,007,839/.

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

We understand that contracts have now been entered into for the building of a new mansionhouse for her Majesty and Prince Albert at Balmoral, and that the works will be proceeded with so soon as the weather permits.— Aberdeen Journal.

Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., has agreed to allow himself to be put in nomination for the office of Honorary President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh. The election takes place next week. Lord Campbell, Mr. Macaulay, and Mr. Disraeli, had previously declined the honour.—Times. [This explains the affiche in the Times. Mr. Disraeli, then, did refuse something!]

The boys of the Shoe-black Society, clad in their well-known red unform, together with twenty-seven girls from the Female Refuge in Dorchester Place, paid a visit to the panorama of Hindostan in Baker Street, on Wed- nesday. The museum in connexion with the exhibition was also opened to the little visitors, who were much delighted with this collection of Eastern curiosities.

The Berlin Police has just done a very clever thing. A Jew, occupying an old dilapidated house in an obscure street, and suspected as a receiver of stolen goods, was secretly arrested in the night, and carried off to prison. His shop, however, was opened as usual the next morning ; a policeman disguised as a Jew was stationed in the back-room, and several others of the force lay hid in the cellar. It was not long before customers began to make their appearance. They were requested by the supposed Jew to accompany him to the cellar, where the proprietor of the shop was busy, and would dis- cuss the bargain. They were there seized, gagged, and handcuffed, and kept till they could be conveyed at night unobserved to prison. By this stratagem the Police has succeeded in entrapping not only the chief profes- sional thieves, but several servants, who urususpeetedly robbed their masters. —.Berlin Correspondent of the Daily News.

Teti Weeks

of 1843-52.

Zymotic Diseases 1,946 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, 617 Tubercular Diseases -- 1,847 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,281 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 376 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,1, 2 .... Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 581 Diseases of the Kidneys. Ac 124 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, itc 109 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 72 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 16 Malformations 32 Premature Birth 256 Atrophy 174 Age 525 Sudden 128 Violence,Priyation, Cold, and Intemperance 250

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Total (including unspecified causes) 10,446

Week

of 1853. 214

sa

216 160 60 3812 13 12 S 4 24 33 81 10 1,427