It is stated in circles likely to be acquainted with

the Royal intention, that her Majesty has expressed a desire to have a royal marine pavilion erected for her residence at Killiney, within eight miles of Dublin. A more desirable site for a marine villa could not be selected. It is situated on a high promontory, eommandiug an uninterrupted view of the bay, sur- rounded by enchanting scenery and the most convenient bathing-places, and possessing every combination for health and pleasure.—Horning Post.

So fond are her Majesty and the Prince Consort of music, that they cause all the Royal children to be instructed more or less in the divine art. Such was the case with King George the Third's numerous family; several of whom became accomplished performers on various instruments. The Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth, was an excellent violoncello- player. All the Princesses excelled on the pianoforte. The King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge were good violin-players; • and the lat- ter has, until a recent period, taken a part in a quartet with Major Ste- phens, his Equerry, and Blagrove, like a steady musician.—Globe.

The Duke of' Cambridge returned to London on Saturday, from visiting his brother King Ernest of Hanover; and on the same day the Grand

Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz returned from the Continent to Kew. On Wednesday, the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, with the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Dutchess, left London by a special train on the North-western Railway, for Plasnewydd, Anglesea.

The Hanoverian journals mention with praise an act of handsome- liberality by the Duke of Cambridge, on his recent visit to his brother, King Ernest. During his long and popular government of Hanover, the Duke had expended much labour and money in the collection of books, maps, and manuscripts relative to Hanoverian history, and succeeded in forming a most valuable library upon these subjects. This collection he has made over to the Royal Library in Hanover; making "no other condi- tion than that all the valuable double copies of works of all kinds now existing in the Royal Library should be made over to that of the city."

Letters from Berlin of the 27th August, in the Solner Zeitung, announce the death of the Grand Prince Michael, under an attack of apoplexy, at Warsaw.

The National announced, on Monday, that the Prince Louis Napoleon has demanded the hand of the Princess Charlotte Eugenia Augusta Albertine, the daughter of the King of Sweden, and that the demand has been formally accepted. The statement is said by the other Paris papers to be worthy of very little credence.

The two speeches delivered by M. Victor Hngo to the Peace Congress and the manner in which he presided over the assembly, so captivated hiL auditors that they resolved to give him a signal testimony of their satisfac- tion: the Americans and Germans proposed a medal in his honour; the English, a more appropriate memorial—a silver oak crown; which was adopted.

Mr. Macaulay, who is at present in Ireland making inquiries connected with his history of the operations of William the Third and James the-

Second in Ireland in 1689, visited the battle-field of the Boyne on Tuesday the 21st of August, accompanied by Captain Larcom, Dr. Wilde, and Mr. Pierce Maliony. Mr. Macaulay has since left Dublin for Cork and Killarney; whence he is to proceed to Limerick, Aughrinz, Belfast, and Londonderry.— Globe.

We understand that the Honourable Mr. Bancroft, the accomplished Minister of the United States at this Court, returns to his native country in the Europa mail-steamer of the 1st of September.—Times.

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It was stated on Wednesday that Dr. Southwood Smith had been sud- denly taken ill at his residence; and we have no subsequent account of his return to business.

We regret to hear of the serious illness of the Very Reverend Dr- Merewether, Dean of Hereford. His friends in that cathedral city had some reason to feel alarmed respecting him during the past week.— Globe.

The statue of Sir William Follett is now erected in what may be con- sidered its final resting-place, in Westminster Abbey. The inscription has not yet been settled by the Committee.

Tuesday's Gazette notifies that the Queen has granted the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Timothy O'Brien, Esq., and heirs male. The Gazette also notifies the appointment of Thomas Nicholas Reding- ton, Esq., to be a Civil Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

We understand that, by a recent regulation, any letter having the writer's name and residence engraved on the seal, or written on the outside, and not finding the party to whom the same is addressed, will be returned to the writer immediately through the Post-office, and not through the Dead Let- ter-office; by which regulation considerable anxiety and loss of time will be prevented. It was announced when the distribution of prizes was made by his Royal Highness Prince Albert at the Society of Arts in June last, that the So- ciety hoped to be enabled to organize a great national exhibition of manu- factures in 1851. We have reason to believe, that since that time his Royal Highness, as President of the Society, has been actively engaged in devis- ing a plan of an exhibition which shall worthily represent the present manu- facturing position of this country. We hear that it is contemplated that, for the first time in the annals of similar institutions, this exposition shall

be not national only, but as far as possible universal, embracing the products, machinery, and manufactures of our own country, our colonies, and all na- tions. It is proposed to give large money prizes and medals, which shall be awarded by a tribunal so elevated above all the interests of competition as to inspire the utmost confidence. The whole undertaking is in some way so have a national sanction given to it, but the taxation of the country is not to be called upon to provide the funds.—Times.

The late blockade has caused such an accumulation of goods at Ham- burg and Hull, that fifteen steamers are intended to be kept fully em- ployed on that station during the remainder of the season.—Gybe.

It is said to be understood from the best authority, that the Dutch, fear- ing the effect of the repeal of our Navigation-laws upon their shipbuilding, are about to repeal the duty upon copper, iron, and other articles that enter into the construction of ships.—Times, City Article.

The grain crops have mostly been secured throughout the Southern and Midland counties, both in this country and in Ireland; and the harvest is rapidly and favourably proceeding in the North and in Scotland. The accounts preserve the uniform tenon held during the last fortnight as to yield and sample. From Ireland there are many isolated assertions that the potato crop has suffered from blight; but a cautious reviewer of the whole accounts remarks that the assertions are everywhere limited to statements that the leaves and bine of the plant have alone been attacked —the tuber has always been found healthy.

" The following memorial," says the Times, " drawn up by Lord Fitz- william, was in course of signature when the late disastrous intelligence ar- rived from Hungary: it would probably otherwise, in addition to the names of those with whom it originated, have had appended to it the siguatures of many other Peers and Members of Parliament," "To the Lord John Russell, First Commissioner of the Treasury, and the Viscount Palmerston, Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

"The undersigned (being Peers or Members of the House of Commons) desire to express to your Lordships, and through your Lordships to the rest of her Ma- jesty's confidential servants, the deep interest which they take in the contest which IS now carried on between the Hungarian nation and the Emperor of Austria.

"It is their anxious wish to see this contest speedily terminated in the manner which they conceive most conducive to the interests of the Austrian Empire— viz, by the recognition of the just demands of Hungary, the most important of the hereditary dominions of the house of Hapsburg. "The undersigned are of opinion that it is both the interest and the duty of Eng-

land to contribute, by every legitimate means, to the tranquillity of Hungary. They are of opinion, however, that this object, so desirable, cannot be obtained so as to insure its permanence, unless the terms on which it is accomplished be con- sistent with the ancient laws and constitution of the country.

" While so many of the nations of Europe have engaged in revolutionary move- ments, and have embarked in schemes of doubtful policy and of still more doubt- ful success, it is gratifying to the undersigned to be able to assure your Lordships that the Hungarians demand nothing but, the recognition of ancient rights and the stability and integrity of their ancient constitution. To your Lordships it can- not be unknown that that constitution bears a striking resemblance to that of our own country. King, Lords, and Commons, are as vital parts of the Hungarian as of the British constitution. So far, therefore, from the undersigned being animated by a revolutionary spirit, or being actuated by principles inconsistent with regular government and with the established order of things, they beg to assureyour Lord- ships, that it is with the view of maintaining regular government, and of per- petuating institutions which, though occasionally modified, have had an unbroken series of existence since the foundation of the Hungarian Monarchy, that they venture to invoke the interference of the British Government.

"They have witnessed with great alarm the application of the Austrian Go-

vernment for the assistance of Russia. They conceive that this assistance will not be granted upon terms consistent with the integrity of the existing dominions of the house of Austria. Their alarm, however, is not confined to the apprehen- sion that some encroachments may be made upon the present boundary between the two empires. They apprehend that a powerful intervention on the part of Russia, a state in which the existence of a constitution is not acknowledged, cannot be effected without danger to the free institutions of the country in which it is invited to interfere. They conceive that the military occupation of Hungary by Russia must be necessarily subversive (for the time) of all regular government; and they know not what terms affecting the internal condition of the country may be ultimately imposed by a power whose intervention has been invited for the express purpose of controlling a people which is struggling for the preserva- tion of long-established and undisputed rights. The undersigned conceive that the essential character of Russian intervention must be to disregard rights which the spirit of the government of that empire does not recognize; and that,. if effectual, the intervention must lead to the subversion of the ancient constitution of Hungary, must destroy her prosperity, and endanger the security of states in whose welfare and independence England is deeply interested.

"It is to avoid this fatal result that the undersigned feel impelled to entreat

her Majesty's Government to use such means as shall seem to them most effectual for producing a reconciliation between the Emperor of Austria and the people of Hungary, on the basis of those rights which the Hungarians have never ceased to demand, and the firmest attachment to which has hitherto been found not only to be compatible with, but to promote the most fervent loyalty to the house of Haps- burg, and has enabled them to render such services in the hoar of danger as could never have emanated from the spirit of a subdued or servile people.

(Signed) " Frrzwrzusor. F. Mowarr.

NORTHAMPTON. J. A. SMITLL ZETLAND. H. SALWEY.

BEAUMONT. B. M. Wirs.cox.

KINNAIRD. W. PINNEY.

NUGENT. J. TOWNSEND."

R. M. MILNES.

The Magyar patriots who left England by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's packet have arrived at Constantinople; but have not been per- mitted to disembark, in consequence of the interference of the Russian and Austrian Ambassadors. The meetings which have taken place in England in support of the Hungarian cause have produced an immense effect in Turkey.—Globe.

The Reverend Mr. Chapman, the Claaplain of Coventry Gaol, has ad- dressed a letter to a local newspaper, celetaining a surgeon's certificate, to show that the hand of the woman Mary Ball was only slightly hurt by his holding is ever the flame of a candle. He has also sent and published a letter to the Homo nretary,zeplaining the reasons for his conduct. The woman's intellect was obtueo, Pr sense of right and wrong benumbed; be could extort no acknowledgzfient of „„iit from her. After expatiating On eternal punishment at some length, he says-

" I implored her, in the kindest and most soothing accents, a incur the

wrath of God by persisting in the assertion of her innocence, and her

to kneel down with me in prayer. After these religions exercises were finished, her manner seemed to be rather subdued, in spite of a little sullenness which now and then betrayed itself, and an unwillingness to be communicative. Qn revisit. ins her in the afternoon, a thought struck me- an application to the senses of a person who was inaccessible te. ;Dawn might be attended with the desired result. I called for g liinied candle, and requested her to give me her hand; which elle unresistingly placed (or suffered to be placed) in my own. I then held it over the lighted candle, and asked her if she suffered pain; to which she made no reply, but presently began to struggle, when I instantly released her hand. This operation did not occupy more than two seconds, or three at the most ; du- ring which she never once cried out. I then inquired of her if she would venture upon another trial, and proceeded to take her hand for that purpose; but, per calving her disinclination, I did not persist in my attempt. • • •

" I regret very mach to state that the hand of the unfortunate woman was slightly blistered by the flame; but two days before she suffered, I received in- telligence of its entire recovery, and that she had almost forgotten the circum- stance.

" Perhaps it may not be unimportant to mention, that she subsequently con- fessed her crime, and admitted the justice of her sentence."

Mr. Chapman has sent his resignation to the Chairman of the Quarter- Sessions: the decision of the Magistrates to suspend him, he thinks, was influenced by the possibility that the other prisoners might entertain a pre- judice against him on their coming to a knowledge of the ciroumstanoe re- garding Mary Ball.

It is stated that some of the manuscript Journals and Minutes of the House of Lords, which have been missing since the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834, have been discovered on a book-stall. As a gentleman who resides at Walworth was passing along the Walworth Road, his attention was attracted by some old books, &c., in the shop of Mr. Terry, cheesemonger, at the corner of Amelia Street. On closer inspection, he discovered no fewer than twelve books, which appeared to be the Journals or daily Minutes of the proceedings of the House of Lords, comprising the following dates-1780, 1781, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1798, 1799, 1801, 1803, 1805, 1800. One of the books was pur- chased and taken to the Library of the House of Lords, when it was instantly identified. On Tuesday three messengers went to Mr. Terry and purchased the other twelve volumes, at the price of common waste paper. The account given by Mr. Terry is, " that he some time since purchased them, with about a ton weight of other papers, at a sale of the effects of the late Mr. Croft, one of the Librarians of the House of Lords. How they came to remain so long in that gen- tleman's possession, or to be mingled with his private effects, is at present involved in mystery."

We are informed that the vacant place of ganger in the Customs in London, which was held by the late Mr. O'Connor, together with another vacancy in the same class of officers, occasioned by superannuation, will be filled up by selection from the list. of redundant officers, which, in consequence of the late reductions, is now much increased. And it is also reported that a reduction of nine persons is likely to take place in the class of gaugers in the Customs at Liverpool, who will be employed in other ports as opportunities occur for replacing them in the service.—Globe.

A person named Joseph Fielder, well known in the neighbourhood of Titchfield as a vendor of water-creases, is likely to come into possession of 18,0001., the proceeds of an estate in Somersetshire, which has been in Chancery for many years.—Bath Chronicle.

One of the longest answers ever lodged in Chancery since the remarkable case of "Small versus Attwood "has just been filed; the original bill was filed by a leading railway company against a carrier in Blackfriars, who had brought ac- tions against the company to recover for lost parcels and to try the validity of the charges, amounting to about 2001.; and this bill was of great length. The an- swer occupied seventy-three parchment skins of the largest size.

The Marquis di Spincto expired on Sunday last, at his residence at Cambridge. The deceased came to England at the outbreak of the war in Italy, after the first French Revelation; and was very well known to the world as the Italian inter- preter at the celebrated trial of Queen Caroline. lie had resided for a long series of years at Cambridge, as teacher of the Italian language at that University; and was highly respected by a numerous and learned circle. He was in seventy- sixth year.—Globe.

David Coombes, one of the family so noted for their skill as watermen on the Thames, died this week, of cholera, after a few hours' illness. His age was only thirty-five. He had gained many prizes in rowing-matches.

The Troy Budget, an American paper, relates a recent case of premature banal after cholera. " A respectable resident at Montreal, Mr. Id— had occasion to go to Lachine, nine miles distant; and, leaving his family in their usual health, he left home in the morning, with the intention of returning in the course of the afternoon. He did so; but when within sonic distance of his house he met a funeral; and on inquiring who was about to be borne to their last home, he was informed that it was his wife. With feelings which it would be in vain to de- scribe, he followed her to the grave; and after the funeral services were over, at his request the coffin was opened, that he might take a last look at the departed. Long did he gaze with an agonized heart--but, lo! what pen can describe the scene that now occurred! when the coffin-lid was about to be replaced, he thought he discovered a slight trembling motion in one of the arms of the corpse. Again with steadfast gaze did he look, and the motion was repeated in a manner to leave no doubt that life still remained. Immediately she was lifted from the coffin, and borne home in the arms of her husband; and at the last accounts Mrs. M. was doing well. She had taken so much laudanum that the stupor it pro- duced was mistaken for death."

It has been remarked in Belgium, that whenever the cholera became violent in a village or town, the swallow and other birds assembled and emigrated, but that they returned on the decline of the disease. Thus it happened at Verviers, when twenty people died of cholera per diem out of a population of 2,000, that not a single swallow or singing-bird was to be seen. When cholera went away the birds returned.—Kalner Zeitung.

A very extraordinary scene for Paris occurred on Sunday evening, in the Place de is Bourse. Soon after six o'clock, a young and well-dressed Englishman got upon a post with a small pocket Testament hi la hand; and, a few persons having assembled, he began to harangue them, in very good French, on the bless- ings of peace. Two sergens de ville, who were on duty at the Vaudeville Theatre, perceiving that a crowd was assembling, went to the spot, and informed the zealous but imprudent orator that open-air lectures in Paris were contrary to law. The Englishman persisted, and said that his object was pacific. The officers re- plied, that they did not question the excellence of his motives, but that no person could deliver harangues in the public thoroughfare without a permission from the Prefect of Police; and they requested him, ,politely but earnestly, to withdraw. He replied, in French, "Je ne me retire pas' ; on which the sergena de villa took him by the arm and led him away.—Galignani's Messenger.

Baboo Siboo Kristo Banerjea. son of Radamadhub Banerjea, is going to start an opposition Juggurnath at Serampore. The building of the car itself will, it is expected, cost about 4,000 rupees; the temple, about 4,000 rupees; the images of Jaggumath and Bolaram, together with their jewellery and ornaments, as also the feast that the Baboo must give on the consecration of the god to all the pundits for many miles round, will cost him about 11,000 more, exclusive of the endowment of the temple and other necessary expenses, which will- in all likeli- hood bring the total expenditure to 50,000 ropees.—Indian Times, Jaly 9. The wbole of the celebrated Arabian breeding-stock at St. Cloud and Versailles is to be taaage,-,t, ea the hammer. Among the pure Arabs to be sold is the famous white stallion Hambdsni, said to Li, finest animal of his race ever brought to place in the last i'0,-eetht in October.

&rope. The sale is to take

M. Perinet, formerly Professor of the Hospital Militaire d'Instruci'leil, has suc- ceeded in preserving water in a sweet state by placing a kilogramme and a hail of black oxide of manganese in each cask of water containing 250 litres. He has kept this water for seven years in the same barrels, and exposed them to various temperatures; at the end of that time he found it as limpid, free from smell, and of as good a quality, as at the beginning of the experiment.—.Hieing Journal.

We are told that a Trowbridge minister has had pate percha piping carried round his chapel, and connected with a large oval funnel in the book-board of the pulpit ; and wherever a deaf hearer sits, he has an ear-trumpet attached to the tube, by which he can hear all that passes. Loving music, and anxious to extend the enjoyment of it, we have often contemplated the possibility of laying it on to various quarters by means of pipes from a central producing orchestra. The possibility seems to be becoming a probability.—The Builder.

It is stated by the Glasgow Chronicle, that a workman of that city has in- vented a shot which, from a combustible powder in its interior, becomes red-hot within twenty seconds from its being fired into an object.

The Dake of Sutherland closed the fishing of his rivers in Sutherlandehire last year in May, in order to try the effect upon the produce in the following season. The result has been a very great increase in the numbers of salmon and grilse this year; and since the Lammas rains, the pools in the Shin river, in particular, are teem- ing with &h.—Perth Courier. A boy in the district of Kirkaldy, who has a passion for chicken-hatching, got j a large egg some time ago from some sailors just come from Alexandria, and placed it under a favourite hen, expecting to get a large Egyptian fowl; but his surprise and amazement may be better conceived than described when he found one morning a live crocodile !—Fereshire Advertiser.

A gang of swindlers have been victimizing the tradesmen of Brompton to a considerable amount. "Mrs. Hemaley " hired a large house in Brompton Cres- cent, taking it for three years at 801. a year ; and she then gave her orders libe- rally. The best of viands were sent in, but not paid for. Mrs. Hemaley had a butler and a cook; and these functionaries—colleagues—were of the greatest advantage in imposing on the shopkeepers: a porter was so dazzled by the but- ler's comfortable proportions and striped jacket that he left a good supply of wine, brandy, and gin, despite his master's directions to get the money first. Mrs. Hemsley, now "Elizabeth Griffiths," has been captured; and she has been twice examined at Guildhall Police-office.

A fine Newfoundland dog having upset two large bee-hives, at Mr. Hardwick's house at Hampstead, the bees instantly settled upon and stung him so severely that he died in two hours; the body swelling to an extraordinary size.

Number of Summer Deaths. Average.

Eymotie Diseases 1712 .... 302

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 62 .... 44

Tubercular Diseases 182 .... 190 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 108 . 119 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 .... 29 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 93 .... 81

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs or Digestion 77 .... 70

Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc is Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 4 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc .

Malformations 7

Premature Birth 34 Atrophy 37

Age 48 43 Sudden a

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 39 Total (Including unspecified causes) 2456 1008

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 89.8° in the sun to 46.0° in the shade ; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 2.6°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was North- west and West-south-west. "In the week ending Saturday August 25th, the deaths in London were 2,456; of which 1,272 were by cholera, 240 by diarrhcea. The deaths from all causes in each of the last seven weeks were 1,070, 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,9.67„ 1,909, 2,229, 2,456; the deaths from cholera,• 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, 823, 1,229, and 1,272. Although the number of deaths last week is greater than any number yet re- corded, it is gratifying to learn that active measures are now in actual operation, or commencing, in every district, to combat the great epidemic which has already destroya 7,466 lives in London. The mortality stands in favourable contrast to that which has been felt in other cities, where the visitation has recalled the ravages of the middle ages. But if the general sanatory state and arrangements are superior to those of the other civilized countries of Europe, it is quite cer- tain, that while the present epidemic has excited some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto been employed to combat ft look feeble and insignificant when contrasted with the vast means and agency which are brought to bear by the na- tion in other fields for the protection of life and property."

By the daily reports made to the Board of Health, the movement of cholera and diarrhoea for the current week appears to have been as follows. In London, on Sunday and Monday, the attacks were 669, deaths 336: on Tuesday, attacks 415; deaths 183: Wednesday, attacks 468; deaths by cholera 250; by diarrheas 22: on Thursday, attacks 261; deaths, by cholera 232, by diarrheas 39: yester- day, deaths by cholera 229, by diarrheas 32. The tables ceased yesterday to spe- dfy the attacks, on the ground that the returns are defective. In the Country, on Sunday and Monday, the attacks were 463, deaths, 221: Tuesday, attacks 516, deaths 197: Wednesday, attacks 505, deaths 265: Thursday, attacks 259; deaths by cholera 238, by diarrheas 26: yesterday, the deaths were by cholera 150, by diarrhoea 2G. In Scotland, the deaths have not exceeded 34 in one day; the last return gave 17.

The accounts of the Bank of England for the week ending the 25th August erbihit, when compared with those of the preceding week, the following results— Mumma DEPARTMENT.

Beat Increase. Decrease.

£19,917 Prime Deposits £553,518

Other Deposits 136,706

Seven-day and other Bills

45,674 Government Securities, including Dead-weight 25,669

Other Securities

8,663

Notes unissued 582,900

Actual Circulation

429,540

DEPARTILEZT.

Notes issued 153,360

Bunton 178,057

This weet. Last wed...

Total Bullion in both Departments 14,759,853 Actual Circulation 18,450,770

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

14,581,796 18,880,310