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, The Marquis d'Azeglio has returned to London from Italy, to resume his official duties as Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires.—Court Circular.

The Duke of Wellington, as Commander-in-chief, has appointed Ma- jor-General George Brown, C.B., K.H., present Deputy Adjutant-General, to emceed the late Sir John Macdonald as Adjutant-General of the Forces; and Colonel G. A. Wetherell, C. B., K.H., Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada, to fill the office vacated by General Brown's promotion.

We hear from good authority, that it is the intention of the Admiralty to revise the present regulation for the uniform of the Royal Navy, with the view of reducing the costly expenditure of the junior officers. It is said that epaulettes are to be altogether abolished, and it is a question whether the antiquated cocked-hat will be retained for use on board ship.— United Service Gazette.

Two Cathedral Canonries are vacant by deaths. The Reverend Canon Bowles of Salisbury—the poet famous for his controversy with Byron— died on the 7th instant, at the advanced age of eighty-nine ; and the Reverend Canon Eaton of Chester, a profound mathematician, died on the 5th instant, at the age of eighty-two.

The obituary also chronicles deaths among notable men of the military and naval serviece. General Sir Archibald Galloway, Chairman of the East India Company, died suddenly, at the age of seventy-four, on Satur- day' last; only a few days after presiding at the grand banquet to Lord Geugh. Bear-Admiral Hills died on the 8th, at the age of seventy-three. Captain George Smith, the ingenious inventor of paddle-box boats, and of many improvements in naval gunnery practice, died on Saturday, after a short illness, at the age of forty-six.

Letters from Sloperton give a most painful account of the decaying health of the poet Moore, whose death was daily apprehended. For three months past Mr. Moore had not left his room and altogether his condition -Was considered hopeless.—Dublin Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.

We are sorry to hear that the health of the poet Wordsworth, who, we believe is now verging on his eightieth year, is not so good as his friends and admirers could wish.— Westmoreland Gazette, Lord John Russell made the following reply to an address presented to him at Manchester by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce— "I rejoice to learn that the labouring classes of this district are in the possession of comfort and enjoyment rarely experienced by them. The re- moval of restrictions on the importation of many articles of necessity, but more especially of the heavy duties on corn, have, I am persuaded, very materially contributed to this gratifying result. Believing that the policy of which Mr. Huskisson laid the foundations, and of which Sir Robert Peel has of late years raised the extensive superstructure, is highly beneficial to the country, I have given it my best support, and I have no fear that it will be overthrown. Unhappily, the errors of 1816 cannot be repaired without incurring some evil ; but I trust that the evil may be transient and that the good effected may be enduring."

Lord Stanley has written to the Association for the Repeal of the Malt- tax, confessing that he coincides with those who think the benefits of repeal doubtful and exaggerated ; and that he should vote, as he has before voted both in and out of office, against the remission of a duty involving 4,500,0001. without clearly seeing a way to the means by which the de- ficiency might be made good.

The United States having perfected Post-office communication between New York and San Francisco (California) via Panama, the English Post- office announces that correspondence may now be sent from this country to California, addressed via. New York" or "via the United §tates.' The combined British and American postage must be prepaid,—namely, for letters 2s. 51d. per rate of half-an-ounce; for newspapers 2d. each.

The Postmaster-General announces, that henceforward letters for Holland "via Ostend" or "via Belgium" will go in the "closed mails," thongh not marked "by closed mail" ; they will be chargeable a com- bined British and Foreign rate of ls. 2d. per rate of half-an-ounce, pre- paid or not at the option of the sender. An official correction is also given to a misapprehension respecting the pqment of postage on letters to the Papal States forwarded by the French Mediterranean packets : "no portion of the postage on such letters should be paid in this country, as the entire postage, British and Foreign, is col- lected on the delivery of the letters."

The warm-hearted Irish have discovered a new Saxon grievance in Mr. Thackeray's Andennis. It should be premised that Miss Catherine Hayes, the opera-singer, is of Irish extraction, and admired to ecstacy in,' her own country. The Irish newspapers therefore quote with an in- dignation that taxes even Irish eloquence, the following passage from Mr, Thackeray's current work— "Let us admire the diversity of the tastes of mankind ; and the oldest,. the ugliest, the stupidest, and most pompous, the silliest and most vapid, the- greatest criminal, tyrant, booby, Bluebeard, Catherine Hayes, George Barn- well among us, need never despair." Vindex writes to the Freeman's Journal, declaring that Mr. Thackeray has consigned himself to "everlasting infamy." The Freeman's Journal' itself declares that Mr. Thackeray is "the Big Blubber-man," "the hugest humbug ever thrust on the public" ; that he is guilty of unmanly grossness and cowardly assault, and -that he wrote to ruin Miss Hayes,. but did not succeed. The Dublin Evening Maid says of the peceant sen- tence—" Its brutality is so far neutralized by its absurdity as to render it utterly harmless.' The DublinEvening Packet rejoices over this prompt and chivalrous espousal of a lady's cause, but explains that there is a mistake. The mistake is also explained by Mr. Thackeray himself, in a capital letter to the Morning Chronicle. He first describes his delicate- position towards Miss Hayes, and his harassing position towards her Irish champions- " Sir, three Irish newspapers, and an Irish Member of Parliament in his- place in the Rotunda, have delivered their fire into me through a similar. error [to that of the Irishman who averred that anchovies grew on the walls' at Malta,—meaning capers]. Every post brings me letters containing ex- tracts from Irish papers sent to me by friends; and one of them, who is most active in my behalf; informs me that there is a body of kith gentlemen who are bent upon cudgelling me, and who are very likely waiting at my door. whilst I write from the club; where, of course, I have denied myself."

Then he explains how the affair originated-

" Ten years ago, I wrote a satirical story in Fraser's Magazine called. Catherine,' and founded upon the history of the murderess Catherine' Hayes. The tale was intended to ridicule a taste then prevalent for making novel heroes of Newgate malefactors. Every single personage in my story was a rascal, and hanged, or put to a violent death; and the history became so atrocious that it created a general dissatisfaction, and was pronounced to be' horridly immoral. While the public went on reading the works which I had intended to ridicule, 'Catherine' was, in a word, a failure, and is dead, with all its heroes.

" In the last number of the story of Pendennis' (which was written when I was absent from this country, and not in the least thinking about the Opera here,) I wrote a sentence to the purport that the greatest criminals and murderers—Bluebeard, George Barnwell, Catherine Hayes—had some spark: of human feeling, and found some Mends; meaning thereby to encourage minor criminals not to despair. And my only thought in producing the last of these instances was about Mrs. Hayes who died at Tyburn, and subse- quently perished in my novel—and not in the least about an amiable and, beautiful young lady, now acting at Her Majesty's Theatre."

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last: the first column of figures gives the, aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous' years.

Zymotie Diseases 1821 ....

158 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 493 ....

64 Tubercular Diseases 1788

186 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses • 1188 ....

182 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 31t ....

37 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1515 ....

253 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 650 ....

62 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 07 ....

11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ae

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9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 76

it • Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Ste 11 ....

a Malformations 18

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Premature Birth

220 ....

31 Atrophy

isa ....

26 Age 664 • • • • 62 Sudden 153 • • • • 17 Violence, Privation, Cold, andlntemperance 291 ....

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— • Total (Including unspecified causes) 9184

1124

In the week ending last Saturday, 1,124 deaths were registered in the Metropolis; a slight decrease on the abnormally large number of deaths- list week, and an increase of 123 beyond the average of the corresponding- weeks in the ten preceding years. As compared with the preceding week, the re-. turn "shows a decrease in the epidemic class of diseases, an increase in the tubercular, and in diseases of the brain and nervous system; but in complaints.' affecting the respiratory organs the two returns are almost the same. As compared with the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks, it shows a decrease in epidemic diseases, but a considerable mprease in diseases of the respiratory organs."

"At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height cd the barometer in the week was 29-363 in. The mean temperature was 49-6', higher by 4-5° than the average of the same week in seven years, and no leas than 13-7' higher than in the week immediately preceding. On Monday and Tuesday it was respectively 6' and 7° higher than the average." The direction of the wind for the week was variable.

The Queen has presented to the Zoological Gardens a lion, a tiger' and an ostrich, with some other specimens of Afncan zoology, which have been sent to her by the Emperor of Morocco as state presents.;

The Duke of Norfolk has given a donation of 100 guineas, and the Dutchese 20 guineas, in aid of the funds of the Spinal Hospital for the Treatment of Distortions, in Penland Road, Regent's Park.

A young French lady made a public recantation from the_ heresies of the Church of Rome, on Sunday last, in the French Protestant Church, St. Mar-- tin's le Grand ; and was admitted as a member of the Protestant congrega- tion.

Among the contributors to the recent erection of the Friends' new meet- inghouse, Preston, was the late George Haworth, the fraudulent actuary of Rochdale Savines-bank, who subscribed 251. Several of the members, con- sidering that this money was not his 'own, are raising the like amount, and intend to return it to the fund for paying the poor depositors.—Prestort Guardian.

On Saturday last, the Honourable Mr. Astley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, ran a match of speed for 150 yards with W. Pack, a famous runner in the band of the First Life Guards. Pack got a start of two yards, and kept his advantage for half the course : Mr. Astley, running with stoutness, and in very elegant form, then came up with him, ran abreast of him sonic distance, and went in a winner by three yards. The betting had been four to three against Mr. Astley; and Mr. Astley bad backed himself at a guinea a yard to win. .

A youth under twenty years of age has performed a notable exploit at Uxbridge, by walking twenty miles within three hours : he had nearly two minutes to spare, but was "much distressed."

''Ten Weeks Week_ . . of 183949. of 1860.. ,

It is said that "amongst the agriculturists of Gloucestershire, Worcester- shire, and Herefordshire," there is a grand scheme of emigration afloat, which projects the purchase of a million acres of land in one of the Western States of America.

Some of the paper slips dropped by the telegraphing balloons, sent up experimentally by the Admiralty at Whitehall, have been returned by post from Hamburg and Altona, a distance of 450 miles direct.

Dr. Gesner, of New York, believes that he can light that city with gas made from Trinidad asphaltum at a cost of 50 cents per 1,000 feet.

The French, Belgian, and Prussian Governments appointed a commission in 1848 to draw up the base of an arrangement for an international railway communication : the commission is about to commence its sittings in Paris.

The theatrical machinists of Paris have invented a beautiful " snow " for stage-effects. The "flakes an seen drifting and agitated by the wind, in a manner altogether magical." The appearance, as the snow coven the ground, perfectly resembles nature.

Lieutenant Graham has been discharged from prison, without any petition or solicitation from himself; on the supposed reason that some sailors of the Childers have lately made affidavit that the treatment of Lieutenant Graham and Mr. Elliott was so cruel that they wondered how it was borne SO long.

The convicts on board the Stirling Castle hulkmoored in Portsmouth Har- bour, broke into riotous insubordination on Friday last week; several des- perate characters having been lately introduced among them. On Monday evening the ringleaders were flogged, and then the riot subsided.

Robert Curtis Bird and Sarah Bird absconded from their home near Bide- ford shortly after their acquittal of the murder of Mary Anne Parsons ; but they have been overtaken-by the officers of justice, and recommitted to prison for trial on a charge of criminal cruelty to the poor girl.

The Rifleman war-steamer has at last caught the slave steam-ship Provi- dentia, celebrated for her fleetness and successful voyages. When, at day- light, the Providentia saw the Rifleman, she bore straight down upon her, in order to deceive her; then pretended to give chase to a slaving felucca: but she had gone too near her captor, and was overhauled after a three-hours chase, and some "advice" from the heavy guns.

On Good Friday morning, " a reguiah little clipper," once a revenue-cutter, was captured off Marsden by the Chstoinhouse authorities, and taken into Shields. It is named the Rob Roy, of London, but belongs to Folkstone. There were 137 bales of tobacco on board, and six valuable cases of cigars— considered to be worth about 4,0001.

Captain Henry Cary Elwes, late of the Twelfth Foot, has loot his life at Exmouth, from the effects of an accident in riding with his son. The boy's pony inn away; Captain Elwes put his own horse to the gallop ; it dashed into the town at a furious rate, the rider being unable, from weakness in the arm, to restrain it ; it came in contact with some iron rails, and Captain Elwea was iinpaled on them. At first it was thought that he would recover ; but he had received fatal inward hurts.

• While the Reverend George Pretyman, of Great Carlton, the eldest son of the Chancellor of Lincoln, was out in the fields with a loaded gun, he at- tempted to. pass through a hedge ; the gun went off, the charge lodged in his body, and m a few seconds he was a corpse. The week in which he was to be married will be that of his funeral.

A few of the bodies of the persons who perished in the wreck of the Royal Adelaide have been washed ashore at Harwich and on the coast of Essex.