Iniscellantous.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John William Dupre, Esq., to the office of Procurator-General in the island of Jersey, in room of Sir Thomas Le Breton, appointed Bailiff of the island; and John Hammond, Esq., to the office of Advocate-General, in the place of Mr. Dupre.

The obituary mentions the sudden death of Mr. Richard Jones, Clerk of the House of Commons, and the oldest employe in its service. This place is in the gift of Lord Charles Russell the Sergeant-at-Anus.

As the Admiralty have arranged to despatch a man-of-war to the coast of Africa station on the let of every month, taking mails to Madeira and other islands, en route to Sierra Leone and Ascension, so their Lordships have ordered Commodore Sir C. liotham, K.C.B., the Commander-in-chief there, to send one ship of his squadron on the let of every month with a mail for England .—United Service Gazette.

It is reported, and generally believed, that a negotiation between the French and British Governments is on foot for the cession to the former of an island to be used as a convict station.—Paris Correspondent of the Times.

Official communications from the Prussian Consulate have been received at Cowes, Isle of Wight, that all German vessels are free to depart to their respec- tive destinations. A large number of ships detained in Cowes Roads will there- fore soon take their departure; the three months' armistice agreed upon between Denmark and the German Confederation rendering a farther detention unnecessary. —The Times.

Intelligence has arrived at Paris from Tahiti to the 1st of January. Admiral Brost had departed for France, carrying with him A Tahitian chief and seven young islanders whose parents had stipulated that they should be educated by a Protestant teacher. Queen Pomare was in the Government palace, and had chosen as tutor to her children the Reverend Mr. Thompson, a Protestant mission- ary. Her family, in consequence of a recent addition, numbered six children.

The late Electoress, Leopoldine of Bavaria, has nominated King Maximilian of Bavaria sole heir of her immense fortune, which is estimated at 21,000,000 guilders.

A New York paper announces the death of the" Astor" of Canada---Mr. George Perez, of Quebec. He was a German by birth; emigrated to the New World to obtain a livelihood; and eventually became the richest man in the colony. On the occasion of the great fire in Quebec in 1845, Mr. Parez behaved with great generosity to numbers of his tenants.

By the will of M. de Chateaubriand, it is ordered that his Memoirs, which he calls "d'ontre tombe," shall be published under the direction of MM. Mandaroux- Yertamy, Louis de Chateaubriand, his nephew, Hyde de Neuville, and de Levis.

A work lately published in England, entitled, L'Avenu de la France et de rAngleterre, and ascribed to the pen of M. Lamartine, has occasioned some ob- servation in England, and much surprise to the reputed author. We have author- ity to state that M. Lamartine is in no way connected with the work in question. —Times.

On the arrest of Auguste Bliniqui, lists of proscriptions were found at his lodgings, at the head of which figured his brother, and his former schoolmaster, M. lassie! His brother had devoted 800 francs from his modest salary to pay for the board and education of Auguste.—Graignanis Messenger.

The Marquis of Abercorn has recently purchased Dale Park, near Petworth, of Mr. John Abel Smith, td.P. This seat is one of the most beautiful domains in the county of Sussex.

A young gentleman named Parker has made a surprising leap into the Tweed, near Coldstream. Ile was in a dog-cart; the horse took fright, and dashed to- wards the Tweed bridge; the near wheel of the carriage struck the wall of the bridge, and rose up so far as to allow the end of the shaft to get upon the top of it, on which it slipped a considerable way. Fearing that he might meet a worse fate, Mr. Parker leapt from the dog-cart over the parapet-wall into the stream, at a place where the water was deep enough to save him from striking the bot- tom; and he escaped afterwards by swimming. The depth from the parapet to the water was forty-five feet.

An old man of High Coniscliffe, near Darlington, has been trying a " cold earth" cure. Suffering from paralysis in one of his sides, he got a man to bury him in the earth, all but his head, and he remained thus for two hours: when ex- humed, he declared that he felt mach better, could walk more nimbly, and there was some feeling in his side.

According to the Cornwall Royal Gazette., s superstition still flourishes in the West. "A respectable farmer in the pans of Bothnia, believing that SOlre ment of his cattle was the consequence of their being bewitched, recently tried as a remedy the expedient of killing a chicken and roasting its heart after sticking it over with pins! The experiment has been so recently adopted that the en- lightened agriculturist is still waiting the result. Meanwhile, we understand he is in doubt as to the proper side, right or left, on which, for his own immunity and the health of his cattle, he ought to pass on meeting the supposed witch."

An elderly woman has lost her life at Bradfield St. George, in Suffolk, from the sting of a bee in her thumb. The medical witnesses at the inquest were of opin- ion that the sting had caused death by producing such a shock on the nervous system as to stop the action of the heart.

A tenth planet, bilonging to the group which revolve between Mars and Jupi- ter, has just been discovered by Professor Kaiser, of Leyden. It is calculated that this planet performs its revolutions round the sun in three years and eight months. The ninth asteroid, which was discovered by Mr. Hind about three months ago, has not yet been named; it may, perhaps, be the same as the one now noticed by Professor Kaiser.— Globe.

Extract from the New Zealander (Auckland newspaper) of the 26th Janu- ary 1848. "Another detachment of the New Zealand Feucibles, under the command of Lieutenant Grey, arrived in the Clifton on Sunday. There has beep, we are sorry to hear, much sickness on board, and considerable mortality; as many as forty-six deaths having occurred, principally amongst children, during the voyage."

From the "Shipping Intelligence" in the next number, 29th January 1843, It appears that in the Clifton arrived the following "Passengers—Lieutenant Grey," "Dr. Thompson, 75 New Zealand Fencibles, 70 women," "130 children."

The leading article of the same number,. after summing up the bright prospects of the Northern part of the colony, while "entering upon the ninth year of its existence," adds—" The only dark cloud upon our prospect is the extreme preca- riousness of our relations with the Native people. We have struggled long against the conviction, but it is daily and hourly &reed upon us, that mischief is brewing near us."

In the same number, a correspondent, signing as "Hippocrates," writes as fol- lows about the Pensioners—" Let us, then, extend to them the right hand of fel- lowship, and help them in their new character of colonists when we tan: but while we do all this, it behoves us to be alive to our own happiness and health. One of the transports that has recently arrived, the Clifton, has been sadly visited by sickness, and death has preyed upon many of her passengers on the voyage out: diseases of no trifling nature, but those scourges of the human race typhus fever and the smallpox—and these too, up to within a very recent period, have existed, even if they do not exist now. Knowing, as every one does, how easily these dreadful disorders are communicated, I must say that I am surprised and alarmed that the authorities have not taken more effectual means to prevent the possibility of their reaching the shore, by placing the vessel in quarantine or otherwise." "How deeply should we all deplore the dreadful devastation that would ensue if such disorders were once to take hold of the Native race !—what they have hitherto suffered from the introduction of European diseases, would be nothing in comparison with these plagues. Let us ask as a right, then, or let us ask as a favour of the authorities that be, that as they value their own peace of mind, as they value the blessing of health and the welfare of the colony, to adopt some rigorous measures to prevent these disorders being brought to the shore."