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It is now quite certain that the Queen intends to open the ensuing ses- sion of Parliament on Tuesday next in person. The necessary orders have been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office for the occasion ; and a num- ber of workmen are busily employed in the House of Lords, fitting up seats and completing the usual preparations for the reception of her Ma- jesty.—Standard.

A correspondent of the Cheltenham Examiner mentions an instance of Royal patronage of the arts- " There is a very clever young artist, Richard Doyle, known by his illustrations to Punch and other periodicals; he is son of the well-known caricaturist HB; at least of the gentleman to whom alone the productions under these ini- tials are generally ascribed. Young Doyle is not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age; and the Queen, having heard that his own album was full of the most exquisite fancies and conceits, commanded its appearance in the Royal drawing- room, some three or four months since; where it has up to this remained. I sin told her Majesty has taken so much interest in Master Doyle's future success, that she has intimated her intention to send him fer two years to Italy at her own expense. This is indeed truly royal munificence,n The Stewardship of Greenwich Park, (which has been erroneously de- scribed as the Rangership,) vacant by the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, has been conferred upon the Earl of Aberdeen.

The Dublin Evening Mai/ gives countenance to a report that a va- cancy will probably be occasioned in the representation of Ripon, by the elevation of Mr. Thomas Berry Cusack Smith, the Attorney-General for Ireland, to the Bench. In the event of such a movement taking place, it is added that Mr. Sergeant Warren is to be Attorney-General; and that Mr. Brewster is to go into Parliament to do the law business of the Irish Secretary—such an attendant being now considered necessary.

Mr. James Daly, brother of the Bishop of Cashel, and for many years Member for Galway County, is to be raised to the Irish Peerage by .the title of Lord Dunsandle. Mr. Daly is accounted an excellent landlord and a moderate politician.

A recent report from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests states that the purchase of the Earl of Haddington's right as Hereditary Keeper of Holyrood Palace has been completed, for 30,6741. Several improve- ments have been made in the Palace, and others will follow when some contiguous lands are purchased.

The reports concerning the Earl of Mornington have again for some days, been most unfavourable, and his recovery is considered hopeless..

The London Missionary Society have published a correspondence which they have had with the French Government, touching the affairs of Tahiti:.

The principal document is a memorial from the Directors of the Society to King Louis Philippe, dated 13th December. Describing the Society as "one of the Protestant institutions of Great Britain," but " entirely unconnected with any political objects or interests," the Directors recount the efforts of their mis- sionaries in various parts of the world, and especially in Polynesia; the result having been "internal harmony and progressive improvement." They allude to. the expulsion of MM. Caret and Laval, under the law of Tahiti; respectfully insist- ing on the right of the Native Government to regulate the admission of foreigners:: "they cannot suppress the conviction, that the measure was adopted by the Queen and the Native authorities rather from an apprehension of civil than re- ligious dissension—a fear which subsequent events prove not to have been ground- less. To the operations of the same law, however, the agents sent forth by the London Missionary Society have ever been subject?' The Directors refer to the aggressions on the rights of the Sovereign Queen Pomare and the liberties of the. island, the scattering of the inhabitants and the burning of villages; while they are happy to acknowledge the honourable decision of the French Government In declining to assume the sovereignty of Tahiti; and "they are encouraged also to entertain the assurance that a similar course of upright and generous policy would have been pursued in reference to the French protectorate in Tahiti, ha your Majesty's Government at the time of its commencement been accurately ac- quainted with the means by which it was established; inasmuch as it is now no- torious throughout the civilized world, that instead of being a measure sought by Pomare and her people for the protection of their country, it was forced upon the Queen in the approaching hour of maternal anguish." They hope that the French Government will be generouSly inclined to remove from Queen Pomare every just cause of oppition and complaint. The reply 1s written by N. Guizot, and is dated on the 31st December. The Minister says, that although he could not acknowledge the entire correctness of some of the conclusions or statements of fact in the memorial, he had laid it before King Louis Philippe. "The King has been sensibly affected by it; and he instructs me to inform you, that he is pleased to discover in this happy conformity an additional motive for hoping that the missionaries placedunder- your direction will put forth all their efforts to aid the authorities charged to, exercise the French protectorate at Tahiti in the work of civilization, which it, will be their object to accomplish. I need scarcely add, that the missionaries, on their part, may reckon upon the support and the good-will of the French au- thorities."

The Secretaries of the Society make a rejoinder, dated on the 20th January._ They regret the intention of the King to perpetuate the protectorate, as the mam- fold miseries of the people will be aggrawited.' and they see no prospect of termi- nation in the obstinate resistance which will be made to the French, except the extermination of the Natives. "Entertaining such views and convictions, the Directors of the London Missionary, Society still cherish the hope that the Go- vernment of his Majesty the King of the French may yet be induced to relinquish the exercise of its coercive authority. over a civilized and Christian people, too. distant and feeble to strengthen the interests of France, but whose subjugation. and ruin would, in proportion to their feebleness, compromise the honour of a. great nation."

The huge steam-ship Great Britain has come up to London. It left Bristol on Thursday evening, passing the Flat Holm at twenty minutes to ten o'clock; and reached the Downs at two minutes to two o'clock on Sunday morning; having gone 250 statute miles in 28 hours and 55 minutes. Weighing anchor again at five minutes to eight o'clock, the steamer anchored at Blackwell about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. The voyage was very stormy: off Lundy Island, on Friday morning, the gale was tremendous, and not a single vessel was in sight. The steamer encountered some slight damage from a heavy sea that struck its bows. At that time the steamer was making 54 knots an hour; the greatest_ speed was 131 knots. The screw-propeller at the stern of the keel never rose more than to show three or four feet of its upper part out of the water; and thus during the heavy gale the engines were found to work uniformly. That would not have been the ease with a paddle-fitted vessel; the wheels being frequently plunged in the water up to their axes, at which time the engines are as it were. paralyzed; while at the next moment, the water leaving the wheels, the engines fly off at a speed much beyond their usual rate of working. Such irregular action not only requires very great attention in the engineers, but frequently, in spite of - every precaution, causes considerable derangement of the machinery. The action. of the engines in the Great Britain never varied more than half a stroke or one stroke per minute.

N. Alloux, the artist employed by King Louis Philippe_ to make a picture of the presentation of the address to his Majesty from the Corporation of London, began. his work, in the Guildhall, on Monday. Sir Robert Peel is adding to his mansion at Drayton Manor a picture-gallerx one hundred feet in length, for the reception chiefly of portraits of the most emi- nent men of the present day.. His present collection of pictures at the Manor is already among the largest, if not the largest, of modern date in this country; and it is constantly being extended. The new gallery will be fitted up in the richest

manner with carved oak and polished marble, now preparing.—Standard. - A poor workman named Hoover' of Port Carbon, in Pennsylvania, has recently. been left property worth 1,500,000 dollars by a relative in Germany.

The University of Dublin have conferred on Mr. Emerson Tennent, MP, they degree of Doctor of Laws.

It is said that Liebig when a boy was called at school "booby," as be was not. distinguished for verbal memory. A quantity of hops have been imported from the United states under the new tariff, They are said to be eaceUent,

Mr. Blunt, an eminent English civil engineer, has proceeded to Madrid, with the intention of laying a plan for a railroad from Bayonne to the Spanish capital before the Spanish Government.

The subscription for the formation of public parks at Manchester amounted to 29,3891. last week.

A fierce gale prevailed on Saturday night and Sunday morning, and committed sad havoc on our coasts. The loss of several ships and many lives is already re- ported. Three vessels were wrecked at Yarmouth on Sunday morning. The crews of two of them escaped ; but that of the third was wholly lost, the rigging to which they lashed themselves being washed away; and in addition, six men out of thirteen who put off in a yawl to endeavour to rescue the sailors, were drowned by their boat beingdashed against the stranded ship: the other seven who clung to the rigging, were taken off by the life-boat A brig bound from Alexandria to Gloucester was lost the same morning at Padstow in Cornwall, by running on a rock in attempt- ing to enter the harbour: ten men out of a crew of eleven perished; the other coming to shore on a spar. The Manchester of London, bound for Calcutta, has been wrecked near Liverpool: all bands were saved. M. Thalberg and a party of vocalists left Liverpool for Belfast on Saturday evening in the steamer Athlone; but on Sunday evening the vessel returned, after having proceeded as far as the Isle of Man, the violence of the gale having placed it in great peril.

At the Isle of Man there were many shipwrecks. The crew of one vessel, which was dashed to pieces, were all lost; and the masters of two others were drowned, though the men escaped.

The American brig Gazelle, Captain Philbrook, from Bangor, United States, bound to Port-au-Prince, was capsized in latitude 30°, longitude 6i0, on the morning of the 12th December, while lying-to in a gale of wind. She immedi- ately filled with water, and turned bottom up; but soon righted again, with the loss of three men. The decks were swept of everything movable, and the but- *arks were gone. During twenty-four days the crew were on the wreck, with only a few beef-bones and pork-rinds as food, and no water but what fell from the heavens. The appearance of nine vessels during this period repeatedly tantalized them, but no aid came. At last, the Tamerlane, an American ship bound from Savannah to Liverpool, bore down and rescued them. Captain Theobald, the master of the Tamerlane, treated them with great care and humanity, and has -.brought them to Liverpool. When taken on board the Tamerlane, the poor wretches looked more like marble statues than living men.

The Design, a clipper cutter bound from Terceira to London with fruit, has been ran down, during the night, by a large vessel, in the Channel, about thirty miles from Exmouth. The crew, six in number, with great difficulty saved them- selves in a small boat; the ship which sank the cutter cruelly leaving her crew to escape the best way they could. After being eight hours at sea, they were socked up by a Weymouth smack.

A chimney, sixty feet high, at the factory of Messrs. Holmes, coachmakers at Derby, was blown down on Sunday morning, and broke through five houses. The inmates had removed, as the disaster was expected. The chimney was not quite completed; and there was a massive scaffolding round it, offering a large stir- Ace to the wind.