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The arrival in town of influential politicians, refreshed by the Easter re- cess, falls to be noted— On Thursday, Sir Robert Peel arrived from Drayton Manor; Sir James Graham from Folkstone; Mr. W. E. Gladstone from Brighton; Mr. Sidney Herbert front Wilton House; Lord Granville Somerset; the Earl of St. Germans from Glouces- tershire; the Earl of Haddington.

Today Sir Robert and Lady Peel go on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle, to remain till Monday.

It is rumoured that the Princess Royal and one of the Royal Princes will shortly arrive at the Pavilion, and remain during her Majesty's confinement. Fires are constantly kept in the principal rooms, in order that the apartments may be prepared for the reception of the Royal Family at the shortest possible notice.—Bnghton Gazette.

Prince Albert's fat bullock and heifer were exhibited at the Royal Dublin Society's cattle-show, on Saturday. In the space allotted for fowl, her Majesty's pure Cochin China cocks and hens and Dorkings cut a conspicuous figure; being placed at the head of the column, with the union jack floating over their cage.

The Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-chief, has jest presented Mr. Gough, the nephew of General Lord Gough, the victor of Sobraon, with a Cornetcy in the Third Dragoon Guards.—Pook Herald.

The appointment of Lieutenant Wilmot to the command of the brigantine Griffon, fitting at Sheerness, is considered an example of the right exercise of patronage; Lieutenant Wilmot having had nothing to recommend him but his services.

Mr. Edward Lewes Pym, who was recently tried at Winchester for the duel in which Mr. Seton fell, has been restored to his former rank in the Royal Marine corps, by her Majesty's order in Council.

Brevet Major Clarke was installed a Military Knight of Windsor, on Monday morning, at St. George's Chapel. The Major entered the Army in 1808, and served m the Peninsula from the following year to 1814.

Between 800 and 1,000 persons availed themselves on Good Friday of the privilege of going over the state apartments in Windsor Castle.

Three valuable horses died from over-exertion in following the Queen's back- hounds on Easter Monday.

Lord Palmerston has been handsomely feted at Paris. On Saturday, his Lord- ship, accompanied by Lady Palmerston, dined with the Princess Lievm; meeting M. Guizot and other members of the French Cabinet. The evening was spent in the presence of Royalty at the Tuileries. On Easter Sunday, Lord and Lady Palmerston dined at the Royal table. On Tuesday, M. Guizot gave a sumptuous entertainment; the Cabinet Ministers, and a large portion of the Corps Diploma- tique, were invited to meet the distinguished stranger. In the evening. there was a reception, which was attended by the whole of the hant ton of Paris. Count Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, was to give a similar entertain- ment on Saturday. But this is not all. "The pleasures," says the Times, "which Lord Palmerston is tasting in Paris are enhanced by the company of Lord Brougham. At the Institute of France, last Saturday, the noble and learned pair were hailed by a most eppropnate address of Baron Charles Dupin on the External Forces of Great Britain '; and, although Lord Brougham was (of course) obliged to set that sedate assembly right on a few points con- nected with the little undertakings of his accomplished companion at Aden, Naples, and the at of Syria, the scientific courtesy of the Academic prevailed over its political prepossessions, and Lord Palmerston will doubtless be elected an honorary member of the French Institute at the very first vacancy." Besides the ordinary newspaper announcements, the Globe and the Morning Chronicle record the Palmerstonian movements with more exclusive particularity.

The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in Paris on Tuesday; and, according to the Times, is also using his influence in favour of the noble Ex-Secretary.

Among the passengers by the Hibernia was Mr. Bidwell, Mr. Pakenham's secretary, with despatches for Government.

A correspondent informs us that he has seen a letter from Lady Sale, written in. a style worthy the heroine of Cabool. Lady Sale was at Simla, where she intend- ed to reside. It is said that Colonel Gough, nephew of the Commander-in-chief, received no fewer than six balls in the late action, but remained notwithstanding, in the field.--Brighton Gazette.

The East India Company have chartered nineteen vessels for the conveyance if troops to Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.

The following circular was issued on Saturday to the Directors of all the Railway Companies provisionally registered.

" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 9th April 1846.

" Sir—I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Connell for Trade to communicate to you the following information, with a view to your making it known with the least possible delay to those provisionally registered railway companies to which it relates. "It is the intention of her Majesty's Government, immediately after Easter to propose to Parliament a bill to enable any railway company which, at the time of the passing of the bill, shall not have obtained an act of Parliament, to dissolve itself.

"By the bill it is intended to provide for the calling of a meeting of the share- holders, either by the managing body or by a given number of shareholders; at which meeting it is intended that the holders of a majority of the shares in the company, or the holders of three-fifths of the shares belonging to those present or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall have the power to determine upon the dissolution of the company. " Doe provision will be made for a sufficient public notice being given of the time and place of meeting, and of the mode in which absent shareholders are to represented by proxy.

"Upon the dissolution being carried at the meeting, the property of the com- pany is to become vested forthwith in certain persons to be appointed for the purpose of winding up the concern, and after discharging the liabilities for dis- tributing the surplus.

" The actual holders of scrip are to be taken as shareholders entitled by them- selves or their proxies to attend the meeting. "I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Some Laeuvuu." The Committee appointed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi- gation Company to investigate the circumstances connected with the loss of the Great Liverpool steam-ship, which occurred on the 24th February, about ten miles from Cape Finisterre, have made their report. The Com- mittee appear to have made a very searching examination; and, in addition to the evidence afforded le, the log-book and the testimony of the steamer's crew, valuable evidence was given by Mr. John Bowen, an experienced seafaring man, who was a passenger on board the vessel. The following is the Committee's conclusion- " The Committee examined a copy of the chart by which the Great Liverpool was navigated, the original having been lost with the vessel. They find, from the evidence, that the compasses were in good order and true, and that the vessel was correctly steered. They further find, that the course steered on this last voyage was the same as that which had been steered by that vessel with safety on twenty-one previous homeward passages; and that Captain //Mead had him- self been stationed on the forecastle looking out for two boars previous to the accident, where he continued until the ship struck. " The Committee deem it due to the character of the late commander of the Great Liverpool to state, that the utmost vigilance and care for the safety of the vessel and those on board committed to his charge have been uniformly mani- fested by that lamented officer; and the Committee, after mature deliberation on the whole evidence adduced, are unanimously of opinion, that the loss of the Great Liverpool was occasioned by a very unusual inset 'from the ocean, which had never been met with in any of her former voyages, or in the experience of the several commanders and officers whose evidence has been taken."

An influential meeting of mercantile men was held at the London Tavern yesterday, to consider Lieutenant Waghorn's scheme for establishing steam communication between this country and Australia. Sir George Larpent presided. Mr. Waghorn's plan, which was explained by himself, consists n establishing a steam-boat station at Singapore, [to which place there is already communication by steam,] the vessels connected with which would ran to Australia, touching at Batavia and Java, and rounding the Eastern coast of Australia, and arrive at Port Jackson and Sydney. The scheme was favourably received, and a committee appointed to assist in carrying it into effect.

A meeting of the National Association of Medical Practitioners was held yesterday, at the Hanover Square Rooms; Mr. R. R. Pennington presiding. A report which embodied the views of the committee on the subject of medical reform, and contained several suggestions for its furtherance, as well as for the guidance of the Association, was submitted to the meeting, and approved. One of the suggestions relates to the establishment of the Association on a more- permanent basis than at present; and another to the formation of a national institute of medicine, surgery, and midwifery. On this latter point the opinion of the profession generally is to be taken.

The liberal encouragement of gem-engraving, proposed last year by the Com- mittee of the Art Union, has been promptly responded to by artists of both sexes. Of the three premiums of 601., 301. and 151., offered by that body, the first two have been awarded to the two dau.ghters of the celebrated cameist, medallist, and sculptor, Mr. B. Pistrucci, of the Royal Mint. The subject given was a copy, in atone of at least two strata, of the bronze head of Minerva marked CA in the Bri- tish Museum. Unfortunately, the second. premium, though awarded to one of these young ladies, cannot be actually given to her, in consequence of the fact (only known to the Committee after the decision was come to) that she was born IR Rome three or four months after her mother had left England; and the com- petition was exclusively confined to British-born artists. We are glad, however, to see such a flattering proof of heredi talent in a family so distinguished in the annals of the fine arts.—Times. [We wish Mr. Pistrucci would finish his Waterloo medal.]

Six scholarships of 241 per annum, tenable for seven years, have been founded in St. David's College, Lampeter, by Thomas Phillips, Esq., oeBrunswick Square, London. The scholarships are to be open to natives of South Wales; preference being given, cseteris paribus, to natives of the counties of Brecknock and Radnor. Morning Chronicle.

The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for the year 1845 amounted to -112,8231.; which has-enabled the Society to pay all debts, and commence opera- tions in the present year with a balance of upwards of 7001. in hand.

The effects of the late Mr. Liston have been valued'for probate-duty at 40,0001. Of the subscription raised in aid of the family of the late Mr. Thomas Hood, 1,0001. has been invested in the Funds; and in a few weeks 2001. will be added. A small monument, not to cost more than 501., is to be placed over the poet's re- mains in Kensal Green Cemetery; the money to be raised apart from the general fund.

Total (including unspecified causes) 664 692 969 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 70.8° in the sun, to 83.1° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 2.0°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was variable; it was principally, however, from the North-north-west. Upwards of 660 locomotive steam-engines are in course of construction in England, and 370 in France to be made use of on English lines. The cost of each is from 1,8001. to 2,0001.

The National Life-boat Society estimate, from authentic sources, that the num- .ber of British vessels yearly destroyed by shipwreck is 600; the value of property, about 2,500,0001. sterling; and the number of lives lost, about 1,560.

The ship Mary, which left England in 1843 on a whaling expedition to Wood- lark Islands, was wrecked on one of them, during a storm, on the 21st November of that year. Seven of the crewperihed; but twenty-eight reached land, and were hospitably received by the Natives. Captain Stein, finding there was no chance of speaking with a ship, resolved to build a small vessel; and it was finished in about nine months. After it was launched, and just as the party were about to set sail, the Natives, instigated, it is believed, by a feeling of re- venge for a foal crime committed by one of the men, came down upon the unsus- pecting sailors, and killed seven of them, including the captain. The survivors took refuge in another of the islands, and were well received ; but the inhabitants of the first island made 'known their grievance to their neighbours; and they, taking part in the quarrel, massacred all the Englishmen save one who happened to be in a wood. This man is now on his way home; having been assisted to escape by a Native, whose life he had been the means of saving.

Major Hovenden, who went to Sydney about four years since, perished miser- ably of hunger in the bush. He had been missing for about eighteen months, when a bee-hunting party found his remains in Bungarabbee Brush. A variety of articles were lying around the bones; and on the peak of a cap were these words, apparently cut with a penknife—" Frederick Hovenden died of hunger." It is said that the deceased took a large sum of money to the colony, which he lost; and when he left Sydney he had been heard to remark, that he would rather go into the bush as a shepherd than be dependent on his friends.

On the afternoon of the 28th March, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Malta, and the neighbouring island of Gozo, which lasted for several seconds; and, after two minutes, another very violent shock, which was of longer duration.

The Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week end- ing on Saturday last shows the following general results. Number of Spring Annual deaths. average. average. Zymoile (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagion's) Diseases - 144 ... 162 ... 188 Dropsy, Cancer,and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 85 ... 98 ... 104 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Morrow, Nerves, and Senses . 139 ... 155 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 270 ... 271 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 37 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, Se 4 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 12

_Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 6 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc. 3

Old Age 39 'Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 32

... 157 ... 194

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