Miscellaneous.
Chevalier Bunsen left town on Saturday evening, en route for Berlin; whither he has been summoned by the King of Prussia to take part in a conference on the Schleswig-Holstein question, as well as to receive final instructions of the Prussian Government as to the conduct of the nego- tiations about to be resumed in London for the purpose of reconciling the Sing of Denmark with his rebellions subjects in the Dutchies.—Times.
Another Peer's name is added to the obituary: the Earl of Talbot died on Wednesday, after a long illness, at his seat of Ingestre Hall, in Stafford- shire. Charles Chetwynd Talbot, Earl Talbot and Viscount Ingestre, was horn in 1777; be was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under the Liverpool Ad- ministration. His son and successor, Viscount Ingestre, M.P., and Captain in the Navy, is in,his forty-sixth year, and has a large family. By the death of Earl Talbot, and by the succession of Viscount Ingestre to the Earldom, the Lord-Lieutenancy of Staffordshire is placed at the gift of Go- vernment, and the representation of the Southern Division of the County is Vacated.
The vacancy caused in the Commission of Lunacy by the death of Dr. Pritchard has been filled up by the appointment of Dr. Gaskill, late super- intendent of the Lancaster Asylum.
The funeral of Lord Auckland took place on Saturday afternoon. The re- mains of the deceased had been brought up from Hampshire to the official residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty; and the procession started thence to Beck- enham Church, near Bromley in Kent. Shortly before ten o'clock, Rear-Admiral James Deans Dundee, the Honourable William Cowper, Captain Milne, and the other Lords of the Admiralty, Mr. Ward, M.P., and Captain Hamilton, the Secre- taries to the Admiralty, the principal clerks, and the barge-master and assistants in their liveries, connected with that department of the state, assembled in the inner hall and vestibule of the First Lord's official residence, and formed lines on each side, through which the coffin and mourners passed on the way to the hearse and mourning-coaches. Only four coaches accompanied the hearse. The present Lord Auckland, the Honourable Frances Eden, and the Honourable W. Osborne, (the deceased Earl's brother, sister, and brother-in-law,) were the principal mourners. In accordance with the expressed desire of the deceased, the externals of the cortege were studiously private and unostentatious. The Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the other members of the Royal Family, the Marquis of Lansdowne and the members of the Cabinet, made applications to be allowed to send their respective equipages; but the offers were respectfully declined. At Lewisham, the carriages of the Countess of Buckingham and of Lord Bex- ley joined the procession. The Reverend A. Brandram performed the funeral ser- vice; and the coffin was deposited in a family-vault in the aisle of the church.
Mr. John Major, formerly an eminent publisher in Fleet Street, died on Tuesday morning last, at his apartment in the Charterhouse; aged sixty-seven years. Though unprosperona in business in his later life, he retained to the last the respect of all who knew him, and the more solid regard of many attached friends. In literature he was known as the editor of a splendid edition of Walton's Angler, and of Ireland's Hogarth with notes. His trifles in poetry also were not without merit. Through the friendship of the late Honourable Thomas Grenville, Mr. Major obtained, about seven years since, a brotherhood in the Charterhouse; where be spent the close of an active and useful life in comfort, and died in peace.
It is said that Mr. Pierce Butler, despairing of success in his suit against his wife, has made a proposition for a compromise. The terms are understood to be, that the parties are to live apart; Mr. Butler to provide his wife with a suitable allowance, and allow at least one of the children to live with her.—Boston Evening Transcript. Four companies are already formed in London for sharing in the riches disco- vered to lie in abundance in California, and which are to be had only for the trouble of picking up, added to the expense of the time and labour of doing so.— Herapath's Journal. The Wicklow gold-mines, which were formerly worked by the Government, and which by the Parliamentary returns were made to pay even under their slovenly and expensive management, are now in the possession of an independent company, and likely to be worked with advantage to those engaged in it.—Idem. It is believed that 100,0001. a year would not clear the duty on illicit spirits made in the parish of Manchester.—Liverpool Mail. The bark Palinurus, supposed to be bound from Demerara to London, has been wrecked on the Lion rock, near the Scilly Islands, with the loss of all the crew. Twelve bodies have been washed ashore at St. Martin's Island.
A match-seller of Manchester has been dangerously burnt by the explosion of a quantity of his wares in his pockets.
The cholera has become more prevalent, and more fatal in its attacks. The weekly returns give these results. London—cases, 125 ; deaths, 101. More than three quarters of these deaths have occurred in the Tooting Asylum. Pro- vinces—cases, 75 ; deaths, 40. Scotland—cases, 540 ; deaths, 356. Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—
Number of Winter Deaths. Average..
Zymotic Diseases 359 .... 221 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 42 Tubercular Diseases 165 .... 203 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Harrow, Nerves, and Senses . 109 141 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 39 40 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 203 243 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 01gami of Digestion 60 67 Diseases of the Kidneys, &e 7 13 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c. 7 9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c 13 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c 2 1 Malformations 4 3 Premature Birth 24 23 Atrophy 23 15 Age 47 78 Sudden 6 14 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 19 97
Total (including unspecified causes) 1131 1169 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 48.9° in the sun to 17.2° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 6.6°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was North-east.
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