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The Conde de Mirasol left London on the 9th, for Madrid.

M. Isturitz, the Spanish Minister, has left London for Madrid; intrusting the affairs of the Legation to M. de Tacon, the Chevalier Diaz, and M. Urbistondo.

This departure gave rise to various rumours, some of which found their way into the Sun, and which the Globe received authority to contradict: it did so on Wednesday, in the following categorical manner; the reply incorporating the original reports—' " We are authorized to give the most 'unqualified contradiction to the rumours which are alleged to be circulated in the Clay with reference to our relations with Spain. We should not have noticed the matter had net insertion and prominency been given to these alleged rumours in the columns of an evening contemporary. "1. It is not true that M. Istnritz, the Spanish Ambassador, had received notice from the British Government that his passports were made out, and that his departure would be expected to take place in forty-eight hours.' " 2. It is not true that any declaration of war is intended against Spain. " 3. It is not true that an expedition will immediately be fitted out against Cuba, and that the unliquidated debt from Spain to British subjects will be put forward as a cams belli. The intention of Government will probably be announced in Parliament tomorrow night.' " Under these circumstances, it is not probable, we need hardly add, that the intentions of Government will be announced in Parliament tomorrow night.'" In the last number of the Revue Retrospective appears a letter from M. Gnizot to Louis Philippe, dated the 19th July 1846, in which a curious passage occurs- " Jarnac's letter indicates that Lord Palmerston has intentions which are vaguely good and timid enough. It is the timidity which pleases me. He is completely surrounded by persons who watch him, and endeavour to hold him back,—Lord John, the Duke of Bedford, Lord Lansdowne, even his wife. Pro- vided he does not get angry at last and turn upon his douegnes there will scarcely be more than a manage de raison between us and him; but even there we may make bon menage."

MI Hostein, the French manager of the Drury Lane company of actors, has addressed to the papers a letter stating that Mr. Macready, "whose name is pronounced by all French artists with respect," had paid him a visit— "Mr. Macready came to protest in his own name, aid in that of every honour- able man in the profession, against the cabal got up against ns on Monday even- ing by interested parties; and furthermore, to give a positive denial to the ca- lumnious insinuations which would induce the public to believe that English ac- tors are badly received in Paris. Mr. Macready was good enough to hand me the subjoined letter, with his full permission to make it public. " lath Jane, 180. " Sir—I have the greatest pleasure in assuring you of the grateful recollection I entertain and shall always cherish of the very flattering reception I met with in Paris on the three several occasions of my making professional visits to that city. Not only on the stage and in society, but from very many artists of the various i

theatres in Paris, I experienced the most gratifying and liberal attentions. It is with equal pain and surprise I have heard of the disreputable proceedings at Drury Lane last night. "1 have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant,

"To Monsieur Hostein. W. C. MACEEADY." M. Hostein's solicitor, Mr. Frederick Patsy Chappell, has also addressed the papers, to the following effect. " Last August, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane was let to M. Jullien. Aware of the classic prejudices attached to this building, his first step was to seek Mr. Macready, and endeavour to engage his services, with those of Messrs. Charles Kean and Brooke, Mrs. C. Kean, and others, embracing all the available talent, to make one great effort to reanimate the expiring national drama. These attempts failed signally; no such coalition could be obtained. More on this subject I de cline to say. M. Jullien then turned his attention to the formation of a national opera, with what success is known. At a nightly expense of 3501., his receipts on many occasions did not reach 501. So much for national support of national eforls. " The theatre then fell upon M. Jullien's hands, with a rent of some thousands a year. Every inducement was made to induce an English company to take it. It would have been let at a less rent than the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and at about one quarter of what is now paying for the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. No offer could be obtained; every one shrank from the speculation as if it were the plague. A French company, consisting of thirty individuals, take the house; they afford employment to about two hundred of our countrymen; they beg but oc- cupy what is shunned, deserted, and cast away by ourselves; AND THEY SHALL ErmE Tp. I speak armed with justice and common sense. I do not want to ap- peal to Englishmen for the support or countenance they must have already ac- corded. I do. but write these lines to assure them that I will use the strongest arm of the law to vindicate the outrage committed in their name."

A letter from Cairo in the Allgemeine Zeitung, mentions a very large levy of troops by Ibrahim Pacha, the Regent of Egypt. It is known that by existing treaties the Egyptian army must not exceed 18,000 men; but it is now actually 50,000. The recruiting of the Fellahs is attended with fearful cruelties. It is not easy to account for these extraordinary preparations, and various causes are assigned: among other reasons given is, that an invasion is apprehended by 25,000 English from the coast of Aden. It is, however, suspected that false pre- texts are assigned in order to cover the actual plans of Ibrahim; who has resolved to take advantage of a moment when nearly all the European Powers will be oc- cupied in the maintenance of order in their own states, for throwing off the sove-

ty of the Ottoman Porte, and making Egypt independent.

he Morning Chronicle gives this instance of the depreciation of property and want of money in Belgium—" The sale of one of the largest weaving establish- ments at Ghent, which only six years ago let at a yearly rental of 80,000 francs, (about 3,2001,) realized only 21,000 francs, or about 8401. sterling. It is stated that the bolts to fix the walls, the machinery, and steam-engine, cost as much as this selling price."

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Morning Chronicle wrote on the 30th May—" The unprecedentedly large number of 10,035 steerage passengers arrived at the Quarantine Ground on Saturday and Sunday, mostly Germans, and in good health and circumstances. The vessels in which they came were in a very clean state. Some seventy cases of smallpox were the whole amount of sickness amongst this large number of passengers."

We omitted to state the numbers polled by the candidates for North Cheshire, last week: they were-3,065 for Mr. Legh; 2,428 for Mr. Astley ; majority, 637.

The Archbishop of York was thrown violently from his horse on Thursday week, while riding along the Bird-cage Walk to the House of Lords. He was taken home in the carriage of some ladies passing at the time; his head so severely bruised, that Dr. Bright and Dr. Brodie thought it fit to bleed him in the evening. His Grace is now convalescent.

Mademoiselle Jenny Lind contemplates an act of profuse liberality in aid of the funds of the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton: she proposes to give a con- cert in its behalf at Her Majesty's Theatre; engaging the theatre and performers at her own expense, contributing her own performance, and handing the full pro- ceeds to the managers of the Hospital.

Mr. Fortune, curator of the Botanic Gardens at Chelsea, has been engaged by the East India Company,to proceerkto:China and procure for them live specimens and seeds of the,teaidant, for use in their tea-plantations in the Himalayah mountains. Mr. Hartweg has raturned from a journey of two years and eight months mostly passed inCalifomla, with a collection of seeds for the Horticultural Society.

The second exhibition of plants and flowers by the Royal Botanic Society,: in the Regent's Park Gardens, took place on Wednesday. The company was im- mensely numerous, and very distinguished. The Conde de Montemolin, the Dutchess of Saxe Weimar, the Princess Metternich, and many of our high nobi- lity, were present.

The times are so bad that a great number of pawnbrokers have notices that they will not take in pledges, it being next to impossible to get rid of unredeemed property.—Globe.

It has been calculated that a poor-rate of sixpence in the pound, levied on every parish in England and Wales, would annually provide the passage-money and outfit for 200,000 emigrants to Australia, or 300,000 to the Canadas.

At a late conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers was exhibited a model of the Great Britain steamer, full rigged, and containing fac-similes of the engines, with the screw propeller complete, and working by means of condensed air, which weighed but one ounce.

The Vice-Chancellor of England decided a case last week—the Attorney-Ge- neral versus Wilson—involving the question whether the Scottish Presbyterians are entitled to participate in the Lady Hewley charities. The Vice-Chancellor held that English Dissenting congregations of Baptist, Congregational, or In- dependent doctrine and discipline, and English congregations united to or under the jurisdiction of the Kirk of Scotland and the Secession Church, are alone in- tended in the foundation-deeds of 1704 and 1707. He therefore decreed, that all Scottish Presbyterians must be removed from control over the funds of the Hewley charities; and referred it to the Master to appoint new trustees out of the body of the English orthodox Dissyters. William Ridgwell, a boy of twelve, living at Springfield in Essex, killed his i sister, nine years old, by kicking her in the stomach, during a scuffle. A Coro- ner's Jury found him guilty of Manslaughter."

Mr. John Dell, of Sonning, near Reading, killed a man by mischance on Asoot race-course, last Thursday week. Mr. Dell went to persuade a friend who was tipsy, and who had much money about him, to leave the company of a woman whom he had joined. A stranger.demanded Mr. Dell's right to interfere, and as'. Burned a fighting attitude before him. Some blows were struck by both: the stranger received one on the side of his neck, fell to the earth, and died in a few minutes. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of " Justifiable homicide."

A railway train from Dorchester to London met serious misfortune on Satur- day, at St. Leonard's Bridge, between Wimborne and Ringwood. Rust had Fe- vented the action of a "self-acting" switch; this caused the train to ran at a high velocity into a siding where stood several trucks loaded with fir poles; the trucks and poles were dashed to fragments, and scattered like light sticks; the front of the engine was crushed, the engineer and fireman were wounded, but the passen- gers were all unhurt.

A man at Netherton, Worcestershire, took three horses, riding the foremost, to drink at a large pond: the foremost horse walked out of his depth, and in his struggles dragged the others after him: the man and all three horses were drowned.

While workmen were engaged on a viaduct over the Dewsbury and Gomersal road, forming part of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway, they let a !stone slip against a coping; a large stone was forced from the coping, and falling into the road beneath, struck dead two men who were passing. William Wombwell, a keeper in the employ of his uncle the owner of the ani- mal menagerie, last week, at Stafford, was attacked by a lioness, and nearly killed. Wombwell was in the den exhibiting to spectators, when the lioness seized him by the head and tore off his scalp; and the lion threw himself on the keeper,

so as to assist the lioness. Another keeper attacked the two beasts with an iron bar, drove them from Wombwell, and dragged him away. Several of the spec- tators fainted.

The Peninsular steam-ship Ariel, of 900 tons and 150 horse-power, on the 2d instant struck on the rocky shoals of Mal di Vetro, thirteen miles Southward of Leghorn lighthouse, and is given up for lost. Her crew and passengers were safely landed: the specie on board and most of the cargo have been saved.

The Sydney papers of the 31st January, received by the last mail, relate that the natives of St. Christoval in September last murdered three English mission- aries, and devoured their bodies. Some English attendants on the mission- aries escaped to New Grenada, in the ship Anor.yme, which brought the news to Sydney.

There is living at Moscow a lady who is 169 years of age. She has had five husbands, and married the last one in her 121st year.

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

Number of Spring deaths, average. Zymotle Diseases 291 .... 176 Dropsy, Cancer, and other &sasses of uncertain or variable seat 43 .... SO Tubercular Diseases. 160 .... 202 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 103 .... 122 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 2l .... 33 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... . 93 Diseases of the Stomach. Liver, and other Organs of Digestion ... 60 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 13 .... 10 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. 4 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc.. 6 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular tissue, Sc 1 Malformations 3 Premature LErth 22 Atrophy 23 Age 37 .... 85 Sudden 4 Vio'ence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 34 — — Total (including unspecified causes) 911 913

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 89.0° in the sun to 81.5° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 0.6'. The mean direction of the wind for the week was South-