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The Brighton Gazette announces, that orders have been given at Portsmouth for the immediate equipment of the Royal steam-yacht Victoria and Albert. Her captain, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, has gone on board; and in a few days a trial-cruise will be made. " Ru- mour states the 5th September as the contemplated period of her Majesty's embarkation for summer cruising. The iron steamer Dwarf, Lieutenant Chamberlain, from her small size and light draught of water, is selected as a tender to the yacht, to convey her Majesty up narrow rivers, or where the Victoria could not by possibility reach."

Prince William of Prussia arrived in London on Tuesday. He left Ostend at nine in the morning, in the Princess Alice steamer, and arrived at Woolwich at eight o'clock in the evening. He was received by Lord Bloomfield and the authorities of the Dockyard, and Baron Thile, Secretary of Legation ; the Chevalier Bunsen having waited for a long time during the day, in expectation of an earlier arrival. Enter- ing one of the Queen's carriages, Prince William proceeded to the Prussian Embassy, where he took up his abode. He was accompanied by Count Koningsmark, and Count Hermann Puckler, his Chamber- lain ; and Captain Meynell has been appointed Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Next day, the Prince paid a round of visits,—to Windsor Castle, where he partook of a dejeuner with Prince Albert and the Datchess of Kent ; to the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, at Kew, where he saw the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Dutchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz ; and to the Dutchess of Gloucester. In the evening, the Chevalier Bunsen gave a grand dinner to several members of the Corps Diplomatique, invited to meet the Prince. On Thursday. his Royal Highness went to visit the Duke of Wellington ; and was met at Apsley House by Prince Albert, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and other distinguished guests. Prince Albert was obliged to return early to Windsor ; but the rest of the party ate luncheon. In the after-

noon, Prince William went to see Westminster Abbey and the New Houses of Parliament ; returning thence to the Embassy. In the even- ing he went to the Italian Opera. Yesterday morning, the Prince went down the river in a steamer, to the Thames Tunnel ; and afterwards he visited the London Docks, the Bank, the Tower, and the British Museum; partaking of a luncheon in the Bank parlour. At night, the Chevalier Bunsen gave a grand banquet and ball, at which several Royal and noble guests were present.

Count Nesselrode repaired to Brighton on Tuesday, and took up his abode at Pegg's Hotel. It was supposed that he would stay for about six weeks, as he had placed himself under the care of Dr. Franz, a resident physician ; but on Thursday the Count returned to town, stop- ping at the Russian Ambassador's.

Sir Robert Peel and several other Ministers left town on Saturday, for their country-seats ; and more followed on Monday. On Tuesday, however, the Premier and his chief colleagues were again in town, sit- ting in Cabinet Council for two hours, at the Foreign Office. Sir Ro- bert Peel went into the country again on Thursday.

The death of Lord Powerscourt, of consumption, was sudden, though not quite unexpected. He was returning from Rome, with Lady Powerscourt and the Countess of Roden, his mother-in-law ; and having landed at Dover, they arrived at Rochester on Sunday morning. The Viscount's companions remarked a great change in his appearance ; medical aid was summoned ; the patient was pronounced to be dying ; and he expired next morning. Richard Wingfield was the sixth Vis- count Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in the county of Wicklow, and Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield, county of Wexford ; in the Peerage of Ireland. He was born in January 1815 ; succeeded to the title in 1823 ; married Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte Jocelyn, eldest daughter of the Earl of Roden, in 1833 ; and leaves three children.

Another vacancy in the Irish Peerage is occasioned by the death of Lord Huntingfield, at Heveningham Hall, in Suffolk, on Saturday lash Joshua Vanneck was the second Baron Huntingfield. He was born on the 12th August 1778 ; and was twice married—in 1810, to Frances Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr. Challoner Arcedeckne ; and in 1817, to Lucy Jane, third daughter of Sir Charles Blois ; who survives. There was issue by each marriage. The title devolves upon his ouly son, by the second wife, the Honourable C. A. Vanneck ; who was born in January 1818, and was married, in 1839, to Louisa, only daughter of Mr. Andrew Arcedeckne.

Sir W. Follett, the Attorney-General, left England a day or two since, to try what effect the more genial climate of Southern Europe, as well as the total abstinence from all professional and political duties, may have upon his shattered constitution.—Cheltenham Examiner.

The accounts of the harvest, from all parts of the United Kingdom, speak of the crops as excellent, while the reaping has been retarded by the bad weather that prevailed in the earlier part of the week. In Westmoreland and Cumberland, the weather has been bad for three weeks, and heavy wheat crops have been levelled to the ground by torrents of rain. In Lancashire, frequent and heavy falls of rain have delayed the harvest. Such has been the case in the neighbouring coun- ties of the North. In Hampshire and Sussex, the yield is excellent : the wet has given the reapers trouble, but has caused no serious damage. In Kent, the harvest has become general. In Dorsetshire, much has been cat, but the operation has been interrupted by the weather. In South Wales, after drought there has been a deluge ; but still the grain looked healthy. In Ireland, the story is the same : torrents of rain have fallen about Dublin ; all the provincial papers are filled with reports of wet and gloom, and much grain has been laid ; but in that state the farmers have been cutting it. In Scotland, it is still the same—the crops are excellent ; but the reaping has been interrupted by the wind and the rain, and complaint is also made of cold : however, towards the middle of the week there were glimpses of improvement, and farmers still hoped for the best. In the Metropolis there was a decided improvement on Thursday, and yesterday there was an appearance of settled fine weather.

Upwards of 11,0001. of duty has been cleared at Leith Customhouse, on wheat, during two days; a rise of duty having been anticipated. At Liverpool, also, 100,000 quarters of wheat were entered for con- sumption; and in London, 49,000 quarters during the same period.

Lord Brougham has sent a circular to the prisons, informing debtors, not charged with falsehood in the schedule, or fraud, that they may ob- tain liberation on presenting a petition to the District Bankruptcy Court, according to forms set forth in the circular. Lord Brougham ex- horts keepers of gaols to explain these matters to persons in their custody ; and he promises that the paper shall be followed by " a short and plain statement of the provisions of the acts for abolishing all im- prisonment of debtors, excepting such as have committed frauds on their creditors, or have been guilty of gross extravagance."

Another circular from Lord Brougham, to gaolers, explains that the former referred to prisoners in custody for larger sums than 201.: the small debtors have only to petition the Court by whose process they are detained.

The new law has already taken effect ; and we see it mentioned that on Thursday as many as twenty-five persons were discharged from Whitecross Street Prison, under orders made in chambers by Mr. Justice Mamie, on affidavit.

It has just been determined by the Commissioners of Woods and Fo- rests to take down the old and dilapidated houses in the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle, the residence of the Military Knights, known as the Lower Foundation. It is in contemplation to form a noble terrace on the site of these houses, to be open to the public ; affording extensive and highly picturesque views over St. Leonard's and the Great Park. It is also intended to restore the Salisbury Tower, agreeably to the ori- ginal plans devised by the late Sir Jeffrey Wyatville and approved of by George the Fourth. When this has been accomplished, it will af- ford a convenient residence for three of the Military Knights on the Lower Foundation. The remaining two Knights on that foundation will have apartments provided for them at the upper end of Henry the Eighth's gateway. Other improvements are talked o£ Sir John Guest, the Member for Merthyr-Tydvil, lately received an order from Russia for 50,000 tons of iron, for the purpose of being em- ployed in the construction of railways.

The Morning Post, in an article exulting over the decline of the League, calculates the cost and profit of the Covent Garden meetings this year. The cost it sets down, for hire of theatre and orators, at 2,0001.; the receipts at 2501.—the amount of shillings from 5,000 members, who, with 1,000 ladies admitted for nothing, formed the audience at the meetings night after night—according to the Post.

The Scotsman announces, that Messrs. T. and H. Smith of Edinburgh have been making experiments to discover an antidote to prussic acid, and have succeeded. Iron partly in a state of peroxide and partly of protoxide, administered to the person who has taken prussic acid, will combine with it in the stomach, and form the compound prussian blue, which is harmless. Such is the statement of the Scotsman ; which does not give minute particulars. It is to be supposed that the antidote can be kept on hand, ready labelled, for prompt use ; as prussic acid, when taken in such quantities as to be poisonous, does not usually leave much time to seek for " iron partly in a state of peroxide and partly in a state of protoxide "—if the distracted friends could recollect that peri- phrastic title.

Flowers are made the type of what is fading : but the moralist does not look deep enough—the seed of the flower is for ever reproduced, and, as we so often see, retains its vitality for ages. A pea taken from a vase found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, and supposed to be 2,844 years old, has germinated in the garden of Mr. Grimstone at Highgate, and there are now nineteen pods on it. The flower of the pea was white, but of a peculiar form. So, if these nineteen podfuls were cooked, the Englishman of the nineteenth century would eat with his lamb peas one generation later than the peas that fed the Egyptian in the days of hieroglyphics I

Mr. Macready has been playing with great success at Montreal. The Governor-General attended his benefit ; when his reception in the cha- racter of Macbeth was enthusiastic.