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It is stated that the Queen's infant will be baptized with "the Christian names of Arthur Patna Albert' ; the first in compliment to the noble and gallant Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, (as has been an- nounced,) the second in compliment to Ireland, and as commemorative of her Majesty's visit to the sister country,' and the last after his illustrious father the Prince Consort."

Tuesday's Gazette notified, that the Queen has appointed Lord !Cowden, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain.

We are happy to learn that the ecclesiastical arrangements of the set- tlement of Canterbury in New Zealand are in a state of great forward- ness; and that the Reverend Thomas Jackson, M.A., Canon of St. Paul's, and Principal of the Training College of Battersea, is likely to be appointed the first Bishop.—Times.

The Times of Monday had the following announcement, seeming to imply that the popular politics of the Reform Club have been chiefly due to the ameliorating gastronomy of its cook ; and that, with the with- drawal of that sustaining power, the Club will probably lapse into a can- nibal Conservatism- " Monsieur Boyer has sent in his resignation to the Reform Club. This leaves a blank not easily to be filled up in that heretofore popular as- sembly."

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis ior the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years.

Ten Weeks of 1839-49.

gymotic Diseases 1643 Dropsy, dancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 509 Tubercular Diseases . Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 1 i,li

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1273 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 594 ' Diseases of the Kidneys, he 71

• Childbirth, diseases of the Litmus, tee 113 Rheumatism, triremes of the Bones, Joints, &c 88*

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &C. 9 Malformations 22 Premature Birth 200 Atrophy 130 Age 487 Sudden 90 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 176 —

Taal (including unspecified Mum) 8696

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• ..• The Recordership of Macoleafield has become vacant by the death of Mr. Wil- liam Charles Townsend, Q.C. The appointment is in the gift of the Crown. By Mr. Townsend' s death a Benchership in Lincoln's Inn also becomes vacant. —Times.

The celebrated chemical philosopher Gay Lussao, Peer of France, died at Paris on Thursday week, at the age of seventy-one, after a long and painful illness.

A few days ago, the whole of the property taken from Mrs. Manning, and at found-at the railway station and in her possession, which, since their examination at the Southwark Police Court, has been in the custody of In- r Yates, wail handed over to the Trearry,.to be disposed of as the Home rotary may think fit; Government having intimated their intention of settling the demands of the convicts' solicitors.—Daily News.

The paupers in the Taunton Union have presented the retiring Master, Mr. Welsh, with a silver spoon, as a testimony of gratitude for his great kindness to them during his rule.

Sir W. N. Younge has rim a mile and leaped over a hundred hurdles, three feet six inches high, in 18 minutes 30 seconds : he had made a wager to perform the feat in 25 minutes.

The dispute between Mr. Sefferies, the manager of the raquet-eourt of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Talbot, the treasurer, has been settled by the payment to the former of nearly 4001. costs and damages arising from the recent trial at the Kent Assizes. This is the result of a court of inquiry or- dered by the Master-General of the Ordnance.

A library formed at the Bank of England for the use of the clerks was opened the other day, after an appropriate address from Mr. Thomson Mul- key junior, the Deputy-Governor. One of the large offices has been hand- somely fitted up for the purpose, and 5001. (in addition to several large con- tributions from individual Directors) has been voted by the Court for the innihase Of books.

-= A new 'dock, the largest in Europe, was completed at Portsmouth on Sa- turday; Captain James RE. fitting the last stone: This forms the ninth

dock in the Royal Yard. It Will be very -useful for long steamers. From the summary appended to the Fourth Annual Report of the Com- ioners in Lunacy it appears, that there are—Of county asylums, 225; total lunatics, 6,494. Hospitals, 781; total lunatics, 1,195. Metropolitan houses, 1,177; total lunatics, 3,137. Provincial houses, 1,576; total luna- tics, 3,704. Total of lunatics in confinement throughout the country, 14,560.

A nuniber of "navvies" employed on the Vale of Reath Railway have been guilty of a very wanton barbarism. A "logan" or rocking-stone was situated near Sewd-adis waterfall, weighing some 'twenty tons, yet 80 nicely balanced that a touch would shake rt. By means of levers, the railway men overturned the rocking-stone. The natives of the district are naturally very indignant at the outrage.

At a Petty-Sessions held at Linton in Cambridgeshire, recently, some strange freaks at a " meeting-house " in Weston Colville came to light. A man was charged with disturbing a congregation of Primitive Methodists ; the Magistrates held that the offence was not proved, and dismissed the Week.

01 1860.

146 43 159 123 37 137 50 14 8 9 2 2 20 U 37 ..

18 — 857

-The deaths were 8,57; a less number than in the corresponding weeks of 1843, '7, '8, '9, but a greater number than in the corresponding weeks of the other aix of the tea years 1840-9; a diminution of 92 compared with the cor- rected average. The mortality from consumption continues unusually small —116 persons, the average being 145.

Mean daily reading of the barometer at Greenwich, 29.575; temperature, 46.7'—less by 5.4' than the average of the same week in seven years ; wind generally North-east and South-west.

There have been falls of snow in the Highlands, in some places to a depth of several inches. charge. In the course of the investigation, it appeared that indeceakseenes take place in the chapel; by which a rabble of curious spedatm at- tracted to the place, and disgraceful riotings ensue. • A: 4W

An extraordinary imposture has been detected by the surgeon of th Brighton Hospital. Betsy Ginn, an Essex woman, aged twenty-three, has been suffering from December 1847 from sores on her body, and latterly on her face : she tenanted divers hospitals without any means of cure being dis- covered, fresh sores breaking out as others healed ; so that her body is scarred all over those parts which she could reach with her hands. In a London hospital she created quite a sensation : drawings of the appearances on her body were made, and consultations held ; but all the faculty were puzzled by this new disease. Charitable persons pitied and relieved the sufferer' and by their means she obtained admission to many hospitals. Recently she was admitted to the Brighton Hospital. After a time the surgeon suspected that the woman caused the wounds, by means of hydrochloric acid (spirits of salt) ; he washed the wounds, tested the water, and detected the acid : he applied a little to the skin, and it produced sores similar to the others. Betsy was searched, and a phial containing a small quantity, of the acid dis- covered upon her; finally, she confessed the fraud—she declared that she had committed it to obtain better homes than a workhouse. She must have suffered greatly, and both her body and countenance are frightfully disfigured.

The Newcastle Journal reports that a thief has completely stripped the church of Dinnington of every portable article—service-books, books belong- ing to the congregation, an alms-dish, and even a box of steel pens. He broke open every place ; but the communion-plate was not kept in the church.

The district church of Amiotts in Lincolnshire has tumbled to the ground: fortunately, no one was in it at the time. The Rector is endeavouring to raise 8001. to rebuild it; whereupon a journalist prophesies that "an 8001. church will tumble down again to a certainty."

A mass of rock was to be blown up in the port of Algiers, by means of gunpowder : nearly four tons were placed in the mine, and great numbers of persons collected around to witness the explosion. It was expected that the rock would have been broken off in one large mass ; but, unhappily, it was shivered into a thousand fragments, which were hurled a long distance in every direction, falling among the spectators. Eight pawns were killed, and twenty-one wounded, some of them very seriously. M. Jourdan, Jugs d'Instruction, was literally cut in two. This disaster stopped the intended rejoicings to celebrate the proclamation of the Republic. Robert Barnes, a horse-breaker near Whitehaven, has narrowly escaped with his life from the fury of a stallion. It was very vicious, and had often felt the whip in consequence : one day, on a lonely road, the revengeful creature suddenly seized his rider with his teeth and threw him on the ground; then made repeated efforts to tear him with his teeth, going on his knees for that purpose; - while -Barnes kept the enemy at bay by striking on his face with a stick. Thus foiled, the horse appeared to be about to trample on his prostrate rider, when Barnes suddenly sprang up, dealt a staggering blow on the animal's neck, and succeeded in vaulting upon his back. The horse exhibited extreme rage, and tried his utmost to throw his rider: it was only when his strength was much exhausted that his fury subsided, and at last the man was the conqueror.