AilisErIlantous.

We understand that the vacant Garter will be conferred upon Earl Spencer.— Titnes.

A statement having appeared in a contemporary that Rear-Admiral Dundas, Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty, and M.P. for Greenwich, is about to relieve Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker in the command of the Mediterranean squadron, we have authority to state that the report is en- tirely without foundation.—Times.

Some of our contemporaries have recently announced the appointment of Mr. Charles Villiers, M.P., to the government of the Ionian Islands, whilst other have as confidently contradicted the announcement. The fact we understand to be, that the Government of those dependencies, to which is attached a salary of 7,0001. a year, was offered to the honourable and learned gentleman in the most flattering terms; and that the offer was respectfully declined by him. This refusal was, it may be added, given about the time Mr. Villiers had publicly stated his determination not to join in the agitation for financial reform; a circumstance which affords another illustration of the disinterested motives of his political conduct.— Daily News.

The Liverpool Courier states that the military command of the Northern and Midland district has been given to the Earl of Cathcart. The ap- pointment has not been officially intimated to the Staff at Manchester; but Lord Cathcart has arrived there, and summoned the officers round him

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Mr. W. Ramshay, barrister, has been appointed an Assistant Commis- sioner under the Enclosure Act.

At a General Assembly of the Royal Academy of Arts, on Saturday, Mr. Richard Westtnacott was elected an Academician, in the room of Mr. Ramsay Richard Reinagle, resigned.

" A Barrister and not a Reporter " writes to the Times, beseeching the Lord Chancellor to speak more distinctly in his court. " It is," he says, " notorious to every one that there is a considerable part of ever.y long judgment-which neither counsel nor professional short-hand-writers can hear or report."

Captain Kellet, R.N., has been suddenly ordered out to Behring's Strait' s in search of the expedition under the command of Sir John Franklin.— Clonmel Chronicle.

" Lady Franklin," says the Standard, " with all the fervour of a devoted wife, is at present engaged in a pious pilgrimage to the ports whence the whale-ships are likely to proceed to Davis's Straits, with a view to plead her anxieties and distresses, and to animate the daring and generous com- manders of these ships in her cause." The friends and relations of persons serving on board the Erebus, Terror, Enterprise, and Investigator, should send letters to the Admiralty before the 20th instant: the letters will be sent out by some of the whalers now about to depart on their voyage; Sir James Ross intending to despatch one of his ships to the whaling-stations for the chance of home news and instructions.

A note in the Times, signed by " Viscomta de Bretignieres de Courteille, De Metz (Directeurs de Mettray)," assures those who take an interest in the system pursued at Mettray that the Republican Government now pro- mises to continue its support to that institution.

A Constantinople letter quoted by the Journal des Debats states, that in despatches to Sir Stratford Canning, Lord Palmerston "complains warmly of the conduct of Russia in the [Danubian] Principalities." " Russia had just, for the second time, made formal propositions to the Porte for the con- clusion of a treaty, repeating in some of its clauses that of Unkiar-Skelessi, of disastrous memory."

In the Morning Chronicle, " Jack Easy " has been performing for the Navy, only with a more rapid and slashing execution, the same service that " Emeritus " performed in the Times for the Army; showing in what directions many economies may be effected without impairing the efficiency of the service.

" To begin with the first—how can the Board of Admiralty sanction such follies as the subjoined I-

At Woolwich—A school for apprentices £1,600

At Sheerness—A new well 1,583 At Chatham—A shed for fire-engine 1,000 At Portsmouth—An annealing-shop 3,018 At Pembroke—A surgery and pollee-house 5,311 !

Ditto—A shed for lire-engine and school for apprentices. • 5,009 ! I 1

"Imagine, Sir, a shed for a fire-engine costing 1,0001., or a well at Sheerness 1,5331.! The remaining items are more wonderful still; and if we are to pay 10,3201. for a dispensary, police-station, engine-shed, and school-room, it would be advisable to pay off the establishment altogether. In my parish of Beeves-crun- Tithing, containing more than four times the population of Pembroke, we have built a school capable of holding seventy boys and girls, at an expense of 3501.; and the police-station, weighing-house, and parish-engine, are under the same roof, this edifice having been erected at a cost of 5701-; and I venture to say, we can keep the peace, instruct our little male and female Dumplings, scrutinize our neighbours' importations of coals, and squirt water over the weathercock on the steeple, all at an expense of 9201., as well as they can at Pembroke for the grander sum of 10,3201."

Other laxities and extravagancies are pointed out, in Chatham, Gibraltar, Malta, and Deptford; the Harbour and Railway department has its sine- cures; monopoly has crept into Somerset House, and " great complaints are made by merchants, that obstacles are thrown in the way of tendering for t e Admiralty contracts." The Great Western Railway Company have established a reading-room for the accommodation of passengers awaiting trains; in which the daily newspapers and other publications are supplied. An entrance-fee of one penny is charged.

The Directors of the North-western Railway Company have notified that any of their servants who accept gratuities from passengers will be immediately dis- missed.

A report appeared in the morning papers of Thursday, that Mr. Dronet of Toot- ing had died from disease of the heart, brought to a crisis by the late unfortunate notoriety he has obtained. The report of his death was untrue; but Mr. Dronet has been dangerously ill from the cause mentioned, and he is now in a seriously bad condition of health.

Messrs. Warren and Fuller, the Bath silversmiths, have been admitted to bail --8,0001. in all.

Some months back, a number of persons were accused of stealing wood from the New Forest. At the recent Quarter-Sessions, a verdict of aoquittal was en- tered, and officials who had been suspended were reinstated in their places. But it seems that robberies have recommenced: a " respectable " man and his son are in custody on the charge of stealing six fathoms of timber.

The Coast Guard have had a struggle with the crew of a smuggling French galley, in Ramble River: the smugglers were worsted, and jumped overboard. The body of one was afterwards found in the mud of the river, where he had perished by drowning. Thompson, the man who was convicted of attempting to assassinate the Town- Clerk of Greenock, is not to be hanged, the sentence passed on him being com- muted to transportation for life.

Learns Boswell, a very young Irishman, has been arrested at Liverpool, on a charge of murdering the Reverend Mr. Lloyd, at Roscommon, a year ago. A fellow lodger having seen a letter addressed to Boswell which referred to the mur- der, and advised him to flee, as a man connected with the crime had been arrested, the lodger had some talk with Boswell; who told him that he and another had been selected by a club to murder Mr. Lloyd, that they stopped his carriage, and Boswell shot him. Boswell now denies that he made any such confession. He has been sent to Ireland for trial.

James Griffiths alias Williams, a lad of eighteen, has been committed to Bre- con Gaol on the charge of murdering his fellow servant, at Cwmgoody.

Mary Anne Melton, a young woman in the service of a farmer at Nocton Heath, Lincolnshire, has perished from arsenic, which she took on the criminal suggestion of Clark, a shepherd, in order to procure a miscarriage. A verdict of " Wilful murder " has been returned against the man; who absconded when his paramour was taken ill.

A servant-girl at Peterborough, only fourteen years old, having successively lost articles and accidentally set fire to the kitchen, hung herself to a hook in the ceiling: her master discovered her just in time to save her life. She declared that a man had come into the place and stolen the property, fired the kitchen, and on his last visit had hung her to the hook. People grew much "excited" by the tale; but a policeman soon discovered the missing articles. The girl then said, that having had the misfortune to drop them in the places where they were found, and also to set fire to shavings, she had first trumped up the story of the thief, and then attempted to hang herself from fear of a discovery. She has been sent to prison for three months.

A young woman at Charenton has been fined five francs by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for having negligently left her two children to play with a box of lncifer-matches; in doing which they set fire to their clothes and the bed, and before assistance could be rendered, were burnt to death.

An engine-driver and fireman have lost their lives by an accident on the Cla- rence Railway, near Stockton. While drawing a train, something gave way in the locomotive; the driver was crushed between the engine and tender, while the fire- man was so dreadfully scalded by an escape of water that he died two days after. The sufferers were brothers, and their father perished on the same railway two or three years ago.

A very distressing gun accident has occurred at Thorne. Robert Boyes, a young waterman, who had been married only a few weeks, went out at his wife's desire to shoot sparrows for a pudding ; he returned with the gun loaded; as he was entering his dwelling the gun exploded, and the contents lodged in hie wife's side. She died next day, but not before she had distinctly exonerated the dis- tracted husband.

A woman having entered the boiler-house of a mill at Manchester, a revolving spindle caught her shawl or kerchief, and she was strangled: she was found in a sitting posture, dead, but without any external wounds. Three vagrants have been killed, and two others hurt, in a brick-field near Leicester, by the falling-in of a shed made of loose bricks where they had taken refuge. They passed the night in the shed; in the morning, the walls suddenly gave way and overwhelmed them. Two men and a woman were taken out of the mass of bricks, quite dead.

Letters have been received in London and Manchester, by respectable mercan- tile firms, which describe a mutiny and murders on board the Amelia, on her voyage from San Francisco to China; Californian gold being the exciting cause. " On the night of the 3d October, in the middle watch, three of the crew, namely, Jose Cabrera, Jose Torres, and Andres Boldevio, mutinied, attacked the mate, and killed him. Captain Alva, a Spaniard, and Mr. Francis Cooke, passenger, hearing the noise, came on deck. Two of the ruffians attacked them, killed Mr. Cooke, and immediately threw him overboard, and badly wounded the captain; the latter succeeded in getting down into the cabin to arm himself, and came on deck again with a cutlass; but the murderers stabbed him in the neck with a knife, and he fell a corpse. Mrs. Cooke, her maid-servant, Mary Hud- son, and the flag-captain, APNally, a native of Dublin, who were below when the murderous scene commenced, were confined to their state-rooms ; and the mutineers, who were all Peruvians, shaped their course for Peru. On the following morning, Captain M'Nally offered, with the assistance of the carpenter, to leave the ship with the females, provided the mutineers would give him one of the boats and the necessary provisions. This they seemed to as- sent to; but on his going on deck he was seized, bound, and thrown overboard. They then threw the papers and documents also overboard ; and getting out a large quantity of gold, divided it amongst the remainder of the crew, compelling each to take a part. On the night of the 5th, the murderers having drunk freely, two of them went to sleep; when the carpenter, in accordance with a plan ar- ranged by some of the crew, killed them with his axe, while others attacked the third murderer, who resisted, but was likewise despatched by Smith; and the vessel brought to the Sandwich Islands by the apprentices, Thomas Gannon and Charles M'Donald. Smith, the carpenter, is a native of Rotterdam; Gannon and M'Donald are from London. The specie, about 300,000 dollars, has been seemed by her Majesty's Consul-General Mrs. Cooke and servant are living on shore, and it is expected will return te the coast of Mexico when an oppor- tunity offers."

The Hants Independent relates the wonderful escape of Mr. Woolcot, a young officer of the Teviot mail-steamer, in the Atlantic. On the 13th January it was blowing half a hurricane, when the hands were ordered up to reef the topsail and foretopsail. Mr. Woolcot hastened aloft to what is considered the post of honour —the weather-oaring of the foresail. " In the process of reefing the sail and in hauling out the eariug, by some unfortunate circumstance, in his anxiety to get it done quickly, he did not haul the first turn tight; and after taking the second, and taking a good pull on it, the first rended suddenly, and, losing his balance, he fell over the yard. By the greatest mercy, in his fall, be caught or rather kept hold of the earing, and was suspended by it about nine feet from the yard- arm. His situation at this moment was most perilous, being twenty feet outside the ship and sixty feet from the deck. He felt his hands giving way from the weight of his body, but managed to get hold of the earing with his teeth. In this situation, between life and death, he was suspended for at lean three minutes. The cry of ' A man overboard !' echoed through the ship, and in a second every soul was on deck to save the life of a fellow being, if possible." Vain efforts were made to aid him ; but speedily " his teeth giving way, and his hand paralysed, he let go his hold, and as the ship lurched heavily to leeward, fell on the fore- castle. The carpenter, to whom much credit is due, with great presence of mind jumped forward as his feet touched the deck, and caught him in his arms. For all this only his ankle-bone was broken; and he is now, we are happy to hear, doing well.

A sailor having lost his cap while looking out of a carriage on the Great Western Railway, leaped through the window while the train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour: he rolled down an embankment, and escaped with a cut face and a bruised arm: bed he fallen on level ground the leap might have been his last. In explanation of his conduct, he said be was sailing so steadily that he imagined the ship was making scarcely five knots an hour.

A medical correspondent of the Times gives an amusing account of the econo- mical manner of drawing trains on the Hampton Court branch railway. An old grey horse, ridden by "Evans the Moulsey flyman," takes the place of an engine at the head of the train; all the porters and other employes pat their shoulders to the wheel; and after a vast deal of straining, sufficient momentum is got up for Evans and his old grey horse to start: the mile and a half of the branch is accomplished in twenty minutes.

The people of Eday, in the far North, had a whale-hunt on Saturday sennight, and got 300 on shore; but a high tide carried away some sixty or seventy on Sunday morning; the people, apparently, objecting to work on the Sunday. How- ever, those left will gain them 5001.

London was wrapped in a dense fog on Monday morning. It caused much in- convenience and some danger; but the only fatal accident reported was at the Camden station, where a policeman, incautiously crossing the rails, was run down by an engine. The fog has reappeared since, but not so heavily.

The cholera returns of the week give these results. London—cases, 76; deaths, 35. Provinces—cases, 67; deaths, 19. Scotland—cases, 732; deaths, 298.

In Glasgow, a series of meteorological observations have been published, which seem to show that the disease flourishes under certain atmospheric influences; in particular, it has been noticed that the barometer seems to disregard the ordinary circumstances under which it acts, and to be guided by some counteracting in- fluence.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Zymotle Diseases

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat

345 ....

47 .

221 511

Tubercular ar isesses

162 ....

203 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses .

141 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels

40

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... . Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 234 .... 69 ....

243

67

Diseases of the Kidneys, etc 13 . • • •

12

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Mc. 11 .. • . 9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Iiiints,fte 9 ....

7

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sic

1 . • • •

1

Malformations 3 . • • •

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Premature Birth 17 . • • •

23

Atrophy 26 • • • • IS Age 47

Sudden 15

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 26

Total (including unspecified causes) 1196

1169

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 62.7° in the son to 29.5° in the shade; the mead temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 11.9°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable.

The accounts of the Bank of England for the week ending the 10th February exhibit, when compered with those of the preceding week, the following results—.

HANEIN0 DEPARTMENT. Increase. Decrease.

Rest £2,247 —

Public Deposits 629,522 - Other Deposits £138,239 Seven-day anti other Bills 36,692

Government Securities, including Dead-weight 140,000 — Other Securities ... 265,938 Notes unissued 555,500 _

Actual Circulation 439,065 UWE DEPASTMENT.

Notes betted 116,435 - Bullion 143,701 —

This week. Last week.

Total Bullion in both Departments 15,249,465 15,105,764 Actual Circulation 18,338,320 18,777,385

number of Winter

Deaths. Average.