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The Enterprise, Captain Collinson, arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday evening, on her return from the exploring expedition in the Arctic re- gions, from whence she returned via China and the Cape of Good Hope. Commander Phayre, Lieutenants Jago and Parks, and Mr. Skead, the master, are all under arrest, and have been so some of them for nearly three years. As counter-charges are made by these officers against Cap- tain Collinson, a series of courts-martial may be looked for. Mr. Wise, of the Comus, was lent by Admiral Stirling to assist in carrying on the duties of the Enterprise during the voyage home.

The Government intend to establish three camps, near Hull, Carlisle, and Beverley, each for 5000 infantry ; and a number of smaller ones for less numerous collections of Militia troops.

In addition to the draughts of cavalry intended to recruit regiments already in the Crimea, the following regiments are under orders to em- bark—

The First or King's Dragoon Guards, Second or Queen's Dragoon Guards, Sixth Dragoon Guards (Carbineers), Seventh Black Horse Carbineers, Third Light Dragoons. The above-mentioned regiments will form a force of nearly 3000 sabres. The Fourteenth Light Dragoons, upwards of 700 strong, have to a man tendered their services for the Crimea. This regiment is at present stationed in the Bengal Presidency, and has a depot of nearly 200 efficient men at Maidstone ; consequently, should its services be accepted, the strength of the corps should be immediately augmented to 900 mounted men.

An interesting proposition, which has been often mooted before, has been revived by Mr. Thomas Wilson, formerly a Dutch merchant. It is to connect the Danube and the Black Sea by means of a canal, following the line of Trajan's Wall, between Kostendje and Czernavoda, a distance of thirty miles only. It has always been objected before to this scheme, that the partial granite formation of the Dobrudscha, which begins near this point, imposes all but insuperable difficulties, especially with regard to relative elevations. But if the plan could be effected it would be an. indisputable benefit to Turkey and the Danubian provinces.

Sir Robert Harry Inglis has not long enjoyed the leisure of venerable and honoured retirement. He died on Saturday night, after a short but painful illness, at the age of threescore years and ten. Kindly regard, so freely expressed when he quitted Parliament, has been again renewed at the more solemn departure from the world.

Sir John Liddell, M.D., C.B., has been appointed Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy.

The accident to Prince Lucien Bonaparte was not so serious as was at first feared : when the swelling had subsided, it was found that the bone of the leg was not broken.

It is said that Abd-el-Kader has requested and obtained permission from the French Emperor to visit Paris during the Exposition.

The Duke and Duchess of Nemours have gone on a visit to the Bing of Portugal.

The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha arrived in Paris on Saturday, and dined at the Tuileries on the same day.

The Emperor of the French has granted a pension of 4000 francs to the widow of General Bizet.

The statue of Thomas Campbell has been erected in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The material is white marble ; Campbell is represented in his robes as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The sculptor was Mr. W. C. Marshall.

The remains of Sir Henry Bishop were interred on Saturday, in the new Marylebone cemetery at Finobley.

The remains of Sontag have arrived at Dresden, on their long journey to their last resting-place, the convent of Marienatern, in Lusatia.

The oldest Catholic prelate now living is Samuel Archbishop of the United Armenian Church, at Lemberg in Gallieia : his age is a hundred and four years. He is still vigorous, and strictly observes the severest fasts.

Washington Irving has been in danger from an accident at Sunnyside, his residence in the United States. He was riding, when his horse ran away, and in turning a corner threw his rider ; Mr. Irving was taken up insen- sible, and for a time his life was in peril, but at the last advices he was xeCOVering.

The weather on the night of the 4th of this month was peculiarly un- genial for the season. At the Isle of Purbeck there were three inches of snow on the ground, and the Winchester hills and the Northumberland coasts had a white covering. The frost was sharp throughout the Southern counties.

The accounts of the vine in many parts of Portugal are very bad—the disease seems worse than ever ; but in the Alto Douro the Port vines are in a healthy state. The orange and lemon trees have been damaged at the roots by a worm, and the olives have suffered from myriads of flies.

A letter from Barcelona states that in the course of a violent tempest which burst on the 24th April over the valley of Arran, in Catalonia, near the French frontier, some enormous masses of snow fell from the Pyrenees and completely buried three large villages, named Una, Vaquerque, and Llabely, each containing from 500 to 700 inhabitants. The authorities of the district immediately caused labourers to be employed to remove the snow ; and though the operation was far from complete at the date of the letter, not fewer than forty-seven dead bodies had been discovered.

At the beginning of this month a long-expected eruption of Vesuvius began. A large quantity of lava flowed towards Resins. All Naples was absorbed in watching the phenomenon.

Cholera is raging in Warsaw ; about 200 persons are attacked daily, and a third of these die.

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

Ten Weeks of 1845-'34.

Week of 1856.

Systolic Diseases 204.9 .... 214 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 42.8 .... 53 Tubercular Diseases 793.9 .... 229 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 119.0 .... 181 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 38.8 .... 49 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 164.9 219 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 56.0

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Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc. . 10.6 9 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Ste 7.7 14 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Ae. 8.4 10 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Se. 2.2 3 Malformations. 3.0 5 Premature Birth 22.6 31 Atrophy 23.3 37 Age 46.7 48 'Sudden 8.0 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 29.4 43 Total (including unspecified causes) 989.8 1,186

Switzerland has produced a rival to Lord Dundonald. According to the $alut Public, a mechanician named Foederer, a Swiss by birth, but long re- sident at Lyons, recently left that city for Paris in order to submit to the examination of competent men a warlike machine of his invention. It has cost him many year& meditation and labour, and will, he says, throw 700 projectiles a minute, and destroy in a very short time either a town or a whole squadron.

The Pontypool Magistrates have added yet another definition of "a bona fide traveller" : they have decided that one who travels three miles by rail is such a traveller.

The new Bank of London has purchased the Hall of Commerce, in Thread- needle Street, for its chief office.

The Oliver Lang, which left Liverpool for Melbourne on Saturday, took out a very heavy mail—no fewer than 350 bags and packages of letters and newspapers.

A New York ship, the Emily Banning, is collecting treasure at novel "diggings "—the bottom of the sea near the island of Margarita, Venezuela. The frigate San Pedro was blown up there in 1815; she had more than two million of dollars on board; some 300,000 of them have been recovered at various times; and the Emily i Banning, with the aid of the Nautilus Sub- marine Company's machines, s now digging up great quantities of the coin, and recovering copper, guns, shot, and other valuable remains, from the wreck.

A baker in Paris is driving a great trade by selling the 14-sons loaf for 12 sous: he is enabled to do this by using one-sixth of rice instead of wheat- flour. It is said that the bread is as good as that made in the ordinary way : its quality had been tested by the Government in feeding troops, and the report was favourable.

The Sylvia revenue-nutter has captured, off Arklow Head, two smacks, laden with 298 bales of tobacco. The master of one of the smacks leapt into the sea, which was rough, and an attempt to rescue him failed.

The total sum realized by the thirty-two days sale of the Bernal Collec- tion was 62,680/.

The new planet discovered at Dusseldorf is to be named Leukothea : its distinctive sign will be an ancient light-tower.

It turns out, as was to be expected, that in addition to the skeleton of Saint Felix the Martyr, sent to the Queen of Spain by the Pope, and to that of -the same saint which previously existed in a church in Andalusia, there is also one in the Hermitage of the Virgin, near Manzanares. In presence of these three sets of relics of one and the same saint, the Pope will be respectfully entreated to say which is to be considered the real one.

A letter from Rome states that the Golden Rose, which the Pope blesset every year, and presents to some female sovereign, is this year to be given to the Empress of Austria.

A correspondent of the Times warns ladies against a new dodge of thieves. " My mother and sister returned as usual from their morning's walk with the following account. They had walked a short distance up the Grove in this neighbourhood (Camberwell), when a youth of about fourteen, pursued by another, aged perhaps twenty, and armed with a large stick, sprang upon my mother and implored her protection against the violence of his larger companion, who appeared actuated by the most vengeful and malicious feel- ings ; she very naturally took the part of the weak applicant, and spoke to the young man to turn him from his bullying purpose, and at length suc- ceeded in calming his rage and the lad's trepidation. She had not been home long, however, ere she had a call upon her purse; when, to her sur- prise and mortification, she found that it had been abstracted from her pocket ; and she had no difficulty in recalling the circumstance 'which caused her loss."

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday May 11th, including season-ticket-holders, 17,754.