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The date of the Queen's visit to Manchester, and other details, are now published on "authority." "The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, the Prince Alfred, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, will leave for Manchester on Monday the 29th indent. The Royal party will honour the Earl of Ellesmere by residing at Worsley Hall, the noble Earl's seat near Manchester, during their stay. Her Majesty will pay a formal visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday the 30th instant. On Wednesday the let of July, the Exhibition Building will be reserved for the private examination of its contents by the Queen; and it is expected that her Majesty will return to London on Thursday the 2d of July. The Secretary ot State in attendance on her Majesty will be Sir George Grey."

An important step in Army Reform has been taken by the Commanderin-chief. An order has been issued limiting the expense of mess-dinners to two shillings a day, and prohibiting the use of claret and champagne. The Prince Regent's allowance for wine is to be appropriated for common use. It was estimated that this would reduce the cost of dinner to each Officer to ls. 6d. ; but in practice it turns out that the allowance does not Afford 6d. to each officer, in some regiments not even 4d. But whether this be so or not, the step taken is in the right direction, since it shows that the Commander-in-chief will not countenance the prevailing extravagance.

A Select Committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the allegations of Mr. Francis Robert Bertolacci, late Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The allegations involve the characters of Lord Granville, Lord Harrowby, and the Receiver-General of the Duehy. The main allegation* that the two noblemen, when Chancellors, prevented the late Auditor from performing his functions, and that the Receiver-General kept back the accounts. Mr. Bertolacci was appointed Auditor by Mr. Strait, on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone ; and dismissed by Lord Harrowby, "for not passing his accounts" in due time—the means of doing so being withheld. The number of deaths in the Metropolis still declines. Last week the total registered was 868,—" a grabfying fact," says the RegistrarGeneral. This number is less by 209 than the corrected average. "In the first week of June 1847, the deaths were 786, in that of 1850 they were 844; and these furnish the only instances in corresponding weeks in which the deaths were not more numerous than those of last week, though each successive year has added to the number of persons living within the bills of mortality."

Mr. C. E. Rumbold, the well-known Member for Great Yarmouth in the hist and many preceding Parliaments, died a few days since. lie was the son of Sir Thomas Rumbold, a Governor of Madras. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Law, Bishop of Carlisle. Mr. Rumbold made the "grand tour" when Napoleon was vainly striving to recover the losses he sustained in Russia. From 1818 to 1835 he represented Great Yarmouth in the Whig interest. Ousted for two years, he was again elected, and sat till 1847, when he was defeated, but unseated his opponents on petition for bribery, and sat again for the borough from 1848 till this year, when he retired.

The literary public of London were surprised on Tuesday morning by an announcement of the death of Mr. Douglas Jerrold, at his house, Kilburn Priory. lie had taken leave of Ins intimate friends on Sunday, and on Monday he expired in the arms of his eldest son. Mr. Jerrold's life and character are too well known to need from us more than a bare recapitulation of the leading facts. Ile was born in London, in 1803. His father was the manager of the Sheerness Theatre ; but young Jerrold's first calling was that of midshipman in the Navy, At the peace he left the sea, and was apprenticed as a compositor in London. In this situation he made his first essay in literature. It was successful, and ho surrendered the composing-stick for the pen. From writing for journals he began to write for the stage, and produced in succession several dramas that made his name popular—notably" Black Eyed Susan," with which he began, and " The limit Day." Mr. Jerrold contributed considerably to the fame of Punch, in which the well-known " Caudle Lectures" first appeared. At the time of his death he was still, _we believe, a contributor to

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Fussed, as well as editor of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. He was much

distinguished in social parties by a keen, ready, and sparkling wit. ' Lieutenant Strain, leader of a Darien exploring expedition sent out by the American Government a few years ago, died at Aspuiwall on the 13th May.

M. Brifaut, a dramatic poet of no great mark, member of the French Academy, died at Paris on the 6th. He resembled Dryden in one respect— lauding n verse the powers that be : he wrote stanzas in honour of the birth of the King of Rome, and welcomed in verse the return of Louis the Eighteenth.

Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Windsor Castle late on Wednesday night. It was not generally known that ho would again visit England so soon. He was warmly received by an improvised gathering of people at Dover. The Archduke FerdinandofAustria was expected at Portsmouth yesterday.

Lady Theresa Lewis had an assembly on Saturday at the Chanoellor of the Exchequer's official residence.

A grand dinner was given at Boodle's Club, on Saturday, to Viscount Eversley, by members of the club who had sat in the Commons when Mr. Lofevre was Speaker. Mr. Robert Palmer, Member for Berke, filled the chair.

The first Drawingroom of the season, on Saturday last, has been followed by bitter newspaper complaints of the gross mismanagement of the Lord Chamberlain and his staff, by which a visit to the Queen is converted into a painful struggle, unseemly under any circumstances, and peculiarly so in a royal palace.

The Emperor and Empress of Russia, attended by Prince Gortschakoff and Prince Dolgorouki, are to leave St. Petersburg on the 2,5th instant, en route for Darmstadt. Whither they will then proceed is not stated.

The King of Prussia has left Berlin for, Marienbad, and the Queen for Topaz. On their way they were to stay for some time at Dresden.

The young Empress of Austria feels acutely the loss of her little daughter : it is reported that she is terribly dejected, weeps continually, and hardly ever quits her private apartments except to go to the church attached to the palace at Vienna.

The health of the King of Sweden has been bad for some time ; there is talk of relieving him of the cares of state by appointing the Prince Royal to be Regent till the King shall have recovered.

It is said that the King of Sardinia will be married to the Princess Sidenia of Saxony. The lady is in her twenty-fourth year.

It is expected that M. do Segur, First Secretary to the French Embassy i at Constantinople, who is now n Paris, will succeed Count de Morny as Minister at St. Petersburg.

Carlo Matteucci, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pisa, and well known for his works on physiological and electric subjects, has been elected a member of the French Institute.

M. de Germiny was installed Governor of the Bank of France on Thursday : he resigned the post of President of the Cr6dit Fonder.

The Queen has presented a beautiful white Cashmere goat, from the herd in Windsor Great Park, to the Twenty-third Regiment—the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This is the fifth goat presented to the regiment by the Queen : the third goat, which had been trained to march before the regiment, died on its passage from the Crimea.

The Mayoress of Liverpool is to be presented with a silver cradle to commemorate the birth of a child during her husband's year of office.

The Haberdashers Company having presented the living of Chertsey to the Reverend Lawrence W. Till, his late congregation attending the district Church of St. Philip, Dalston, have given him a handsome testimonial as a mark of their grateful affection. Mr. Till had been conspicuous in promoting the efficiency of the Infant Sunday Schools, and in establishing charitable institutions in the district.

A novel enterprise is in progress at Frodsham in Cheshire. Works have been erected for the purpose of extracting gold from quartz rock brought as ballast from Virginia in the United States. On Saturday last, in the presence of a party of visitors, a ton of quartz, picked up at random from a heap, was crusted, calcined fine, ground, magnetized, and amalgamated ; and the yield was 1 ounce 7 pennyweights 7 grains of pure gold, or very nearly an ounce and a half per ton. The average yield of the Virginian ore is stated to be 1.1 ounce per ton. It is very rarely less than this' and sometimes more. Half an ounce per ton, if worked upon the spot where the quartz is found, would pay all expenses. Twenty tons per diem are now reduced at the Frodsham works, at a cost in coals for amalgamation, loss of mercury, labour, sundries,. and wear and tear of machinery, of 178. per ton; which, with the original price of the ore, raises it to 21. 7s. The local facilities afforded at Frodsham are very great ; labour is cheap ; there is water-carriage by the river Weaver to the very door of the works ; and coals can be had at fis. per ton delivered. Should the supply from Virginia fail, it is thought that other supplies may be obtained from Dolgelly and the base of Snowdon. One curious fact is stated in the account published by the Times. "Close to the Frodsham works stande an extensive ffour-mill, at which twelve tons of the quartz have been ground finer than anything

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done by the etampers and crushing-machines n the same period of time. The stones used were the ordinary °heft or millstone grit as it is called ; and the millers aver that this work wore them km than even grinding Indian corn. It must be remembered, however, that the quartz is calcined before it reaches the mill."

Some twenty-franc pieces have been coined at, Paris from gold found in Cayenne.

According to a statement in the Times by Mr. Samuel Hughes, of Park Street, Westminster, the working of a great well in Duck Island, St. James's Park, has caused serious inconvenience in the surrounding neighbourhood; for the water-level in all wells has been reduced, the pump in the Park exhausting so much of the supply afforded by-the Westminster bed of gravel. The public pump in the Broadway is now useless.

M. Courtines, the French engineer who has been employed in the construction of the principal French railways, and who was commissioned formerly, in conjunction with MM. Garella, to study the question of gutting through the Isthmus of Panama, has been admitted into the Russian service, and appointed one of the principal engineers of the Russian railways.

Much-needed improvements are to be made in St. Petersburg in the way of draining and paving : as the city is built on piles, the houses are very damp, and it is proposed to attempt to remedy this by the use of drain-pipes.

Cardinal Viale Prela is acting in a very Christian manner at Bologna, being busy in" clothing the naked "—statues. One of the figures that is to be partially covered, "to avoid scandal," is the Gigante di Piazza, the work of John of Bologna. The Cardinal has forbidden singing in the churches, and no servile work is to be done on Sundays—a person found in the streets carrying a parcel on a Sunday or holyday is heavily fined. Bologna threatens to become a " model" town.

It is said that the passports issued in Russia this year amount to 60,000: doubtless an exaggeration, but great numbers of Russians have set out to visit difibrent parts of the West of Europe—England and Austria are out of favour with the tourists. Young military officers are travelling in swarms ; they have been "invited" to forward notes of their travels to their superior officers ; thus both increasing the information of the Government and affording a means of judging of their own capacities.

Correspondence from Odessa of the 20th May states that the GovernorGeneral of New Russia has received orders from the Minister to fix the end of the month for the last ;term of the residence of foreign merchants at Sebastopol. After that period none can remain. The Russians are labouring with activity at clearing out the port and raising the ships. The fortresses of the South side are, it is said in this letter, completely repaired.

The now celebrated "Bred Scott," his wife and two daughters, have been formally emancipated at St. Louis in Missouri.

"A British ship "—meaning, doubtless, a British-built vessel—the Duchess of Sutherland, after landing 600 slaves near Sagua la Grande in Cuba, was burnt to the wator's edge : the value of the slop was of little moment when so profitable a cargo had been landed.

The sum expended on "national collections" in the year 1856-'7 was 202,467/. The British Museum, the National Gallery, the Department of Science and Art, and the Museum of Practical Geology, consumed nearly all the money.

According to the latest statement, the amount received for the Patriotic Fund is nearly 1,460,000/.

Messrs. Newell and Co.' of Birkenhead, completed their half of the Atlantic telegraphic cable--1250 miles long—on Monday; and they celebrated the event on Wednesday, by a dinner to their workmen,, with their wives and families,

Though the silk crops on the Continent are likely to be very deficient this year, the prospects of corn and wine are universally encouraging.

A gamekeeper on the estate near Lochawe, who had been annoyed by the depredation of foxes, discovered a kennel in a glen at the side of a small loch. 'While watching one evening for the appearance of the tenants, he observed a brace of wild ducks floating on the loch ; in a little while a fox was seen approaching the water-side with cautious steps ; on reaching it he picked up a bunch of heather and placed it in his mouth, so as to cover his head ; then slipping into the water, and immersing all but his nose, he floated slowly and quietly down to where the birds were quacking out delight in fancied security, seeing nothing near them but a bunch of weed. In duo time he neared the ducks, dropped tho heather, and substituted a bird ; with which he returned to the loch-side, and was making off to his young with the prize, when the keeper, who had noted all his movements, closed them by the discharge of his double-barrel.—ScoteA Ta,ver.

The loss of life by the casualty in the railway tunnel at Hauenstein in Switzerland has been greater than was at first reported. It appears that the timbers supporting the roof took fire from a furnace ; and when they were burnt through the roof fell in, imprisoning fifty-four workmen ; not one of these was got out alive, and sixteen of the people striving to release them were killed by the foul air.

The Estafette says that crinoline dresses having been largely employed to smuggle goods into Paris without paying the °dna' duties, women are about to be employed.at the various offices of the barriers to make a personal examination of all females wearing crinoline.

The sea-serpent has turned up again. This time he has been east ashore dead in Algoa flay; and tho residents have out off his head, which a waggon could • scarcely contain." The account of the monster is very circumstantial. A " Sea-Serpent " certainly did arrive in Algae Bay on the day referred to, but that was a ship.

ASCOT RACES.

The weather, so important to racing operations, has not been altogether propitious for the fashionable races at Ascot. It rained heavily on Tuesday, the opening day, it was stormy on Wednesday ; but Thursday, the time-honoured "Cup day," furnished real "Queen's 'weather."

The sport on Tuesday was good. Mr. Walker's Early Bird, (D. Hughes,) won the Trial Stakes from seventeen competitors. Mr. Howard's Arsenal, (Fordham,) a Derby horse, beat another Derby horse, Strathnaver, (Cheriton,) in the race for the Gold Vase.

The racing on Wednesday was "most interesting to turfites. Twentyfive horses came to the post to contend for the Hunt Cup. It was won by Lord Londeeborough's Rosa Bonhenr, (Rayner,) by two lengths. The, Handicap Plate was carried off by Mr. B. Land's Amelia, (J. Land,) from fifteen rivals.

The Queen and a brilliant party of her guests attended the races on Thursday. The great contest was for the "Gold Cup "—which by the by was a silver cup. Twelve horses started. The race was "won easily" by Lord Zetland's Skirmisher, (Charlton.) The second horse was Mr. Rowit's Gemma di Vergy, (D. Hughes.) Blink Bonny walked over for a sweepstakes. She was paraded before the Queen.

THE ARMY.

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 12.

WAR 01110E, June 12.—Royal Artillery—Brevet-Col. J. W. Mitchell to be Col. vice eater, retired on full-pay; Capt. R. Blackwood-Price to be Lieut.-COI. Tice Mitchell; Second Capt. E. E. R. Dyneley to be Capt. vice Blackwood-Price; Lieut. R. J. Cairnes to be Second Capt. Tice Dyneley.

Brevet.—CoL T. 0. Cater, retired full-pay Royal Artillery, to be Major-Gen. the rank to be honorary only.

The undermentioned ofScors of the Royal Artillery, having completed three years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the Royal warrant of Nov. 3, 1854, viz.—Lieut.-Col. A. J. Taylor, Lieut.-Col. G. Maclean.

TO COREESPONDENTS.

Our table is crowded with Communications, for some of which we may find space hereafter, though not at present. Letter-writers should bear in mind that the Parliament is now in full session, and very busy.