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It is not intended to send out any troops from England to Persia. This announcement we make with the most entire confidence that it will be found to be correct. We believe we may add, that the force already at Bushire will not advance into the interior, and that every effort is being made to bring about a peace. The Murray affair, we are assured, forme no serious part of the negotiations which are carrying on at Paris by Ferukh Khan and Lord Cowley ; and there is at present every reason to hope that these negotiations will terminate in the reestablishment of amicable relations between the English and Persian Governments. We have equally good grounds for believing that no troops are to be sent from England to China.—.Daily News, Feb. 13.
The Registrar-General reports an increase in the mortality of London, which he imputes to "the recent depression of temperature. There were in the first week in January 1135 deaths, in the last week of that month 1209. The total for the week ending Saturday reached 1368—an increase of 159. Of four nonagenarians who died last week two had attained the age of ninety-six.
Sir Charles Wood gave a Cabinet dinner, at the Admiralty, on Wednesday: only Lord Panmure was absent.
Lady Palmerston held her first reception of the season on Saturday evening: it was preceded by a dinner-party.
The first dinner of the Fox Club was held on Saturday, at Brookesl. Lord John Russell, Earl Grey, and Sir Benjamin Hall, were among the diners.
Dr. Sandwith of Kars has been appointed Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius.
The Grand Duke Michael of Russia arrived at Turin, from Nice, on the 5th, and proceeded to Geneva on the 7th.
In consequence of Mr. Rogers's very significant gift to the Lambeth poorbox, Mr. Charles Kean, the director of the Queen's private theatricals, has published an explanation. "When performers are singly engaged at the Palace, their remuneration is allotted according to a scale, which has never to my knowledge been questioned ; but when it occasionally happens that the greater number of the performers for the evening's entertainment are taken from one theatre, and the manager finds it necessary to close his house for the night, he receives a sum of money in payment of the services of himself and his company, which are transferred to Windsor Castle, instead of being given at his theatre in London. When a theatre closes for this pur
jive, every person of this company receives the same salary to which he would have been entitled if the theatre had remained open to the public, and those members who are engaged at Windsor, in addition to the payment of every incidental expense, receive an extra night's salary. Mr. Wigan closed his theatre, and Mr. Rogers therefore must have been paid as much again as if he had acted on that night in London. Individual salaries are not specified, but the manager names the aggregate sum, which is handed to him accordingly. Until I read the paragraphs in the newspapers, I was not aware that 138. 4d. was Mr. Rogers's nightly payment at the Olympic Theatre."
Count Felix de Merode, one of three brothers who distinguished themselves in the Belgian Revolution of 1830, died last week. He had been several times Minister and Ambassador, and was greatly esteemed. When the news of his death was communicated to the Chamber of Representatives, they resolved to attend his funeral in a body.
Mr. Robert T. Wilberforce, formerly Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire, who quitted the Protestant Church, died on the 3d instant, at Albano, near Rome.
Mr. Duffy has been elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria—he represents Villiers and Heytesbury.
The will of the late Mr. Richard Lee, of Wevmouth Street, has been proved at Doctors' Commons as under 600,000/. The bulk of this large property is settled by the testator upon the family of the late Mr. David .Bevan, who married a sister of the testator, and their children after them.
The Sultan has granted a concession to Mr. Gisbonie for the construction of a telegraph line front Cape Relic to India, so far as his rule extends. This is the route—from Cape Helle, by Solo and Rhodes, to Alexandria, by submarine cable; the wires will be carried on posts along the railway line from Alexandria to Suez ; then cables will extend to Kurrachee, having land stations at Cosseir, Jedda, island of Karaman, Aden, Ras Sharma, island of Moseir, and Ras-el-Hadd. The Turkish Government undertakes to pay 4,500/. a year for the use of the line from Cape Helle to Alexandria, connecting Cape Helle and Constantinople by a line of its own.
The public income from taxes for the year ended 30th September last was 71,348,066/., and the expenditure 88,307,477/. But for the year ending December last the income was 72,218,988k, and the expenditure 82,323,400/.
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