Zioallatunno.

The Gazette of Tuesday officially notified the elevation of Mr. La- bouchere to the peerage, by the name, style, and title of Baron Taunton of Taunton, in the county of Somerset.

Mr. Charles Wyke, British envoy to the Central American Republics, has been made a Companion of the Bath.

We hear that Mr. William Bengal Christie, who has been for some years Minister at the Argentine Confederation, is appointed to Brazil on the resignation of the Honourable Francis Reginald Forbes, who, our readers may recollect, was transferred to that Embassy from Dresden by the late Government. We understand that Mr. Forbes does not return to Dresden.—Globe.

Upon the 11th instant a petition was presented in the House of Com- mons by Mr. Roebuck from William Ainslie, against the Fort William Crown Officials (Scotland), praying for inquiry into certain criminal and civil acts of offences he charges them in said petition with having com- mitted upon him ; the production of documents in each case with wit- nesses; the Lord Advocate's report which had been withheld ; and for the dismissal of certain officials from office, and the bringing of the offenders to justice.

M. Louis Blanc has written a letter to the public journals in which he announces his intention of not availing himself of the amnesty granted by the Emperor Napoleon.

The foundation stone of Mr. Spurgeon's new chapel, or "Tabernacle," was laid on Tuesday by Sir S. M. Peto, who, in his speech, enlarged on the necessity that had arisen for the building. The site of the tabernacle is on a piece of waste land facing the Elephant and Castle in the Newing- ton Road. The building is to contain 5000 persons, and the schools to be established in connexion therewith, 2000. It will be one-third larger than the Music Hall in the Surrey,Gardens ; will cost some 25,0001.; and open in 1861. The subscriptions received do not yet reach 50001.

At a Court of Committees of Guy's Hospital, held on Thursday, the 11th of August, the Duke of Cambridge was unanimously chosen a Governor.

The Duke and Duchess of Modena have left Vienna for Hungary, where they possess vast estates. • Count Cavour is staying at present at Geneva on a visit to his relative, M. Be la Rive, distinguished in the world of science by his "Treatise on Elec- tricity."

The Grand Duke Constantine, whose thirst for travel seems unslakable, Las paid a visit to Portsmouth Dockyard. His mother the Dowager Em- press of Russia has arrived at Berne.

The Earl of Aberdeen has been in Scotland for the last three weeks. "His lordship," says the Edinburgh Courant, "does not rally so com- pletely from his recent indisposition as everyone would wish."

General Sir John Slade, the oldest member of the British Army except one, has just died in his ninety-eighth year. He entered the Army as Cornet in the 10th Hussars in 1780. Fifty years ago Sir Iohn was a Mayor- General and commanded the cavalry/ in the Peninsula. He fought in several battles and wore a gold medal with one clasp and a silver medal with two clasps. He was Colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards. General Slade is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Frederick William Slade, Q.C. One of his sons is General Marcus Slade, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, and another brother is Sir Adolphus Slade, RN., who, as Muchaver Pacha, is the head of the Turkish navy.

By permission of the Ranger, Lord Aberdeen, special service will be con- ducted by various ministers in Greenwich Park on Tuesday and Friday after- noons.

The patrons of the Leeds parish church on Wednesday filled up the vacancy in the vicarage of Leeds occasioned by the recent elevation of the Very Reverend Dr. Hook to the deanery of Cluehester. There were thirty- eight candidates for the vicarage, and the Reverend James Atlay, B.D., Senior Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was appointed. Mr. Atlay is understood to be a high churchman, but not of extreme views.

The Reverend M. A. Gilbert, rector of St. Peter's, Tiverton, has refused to allow the Bishop of Oxford the use of his pulpit, to the great annoy- ance of churchmen of that right reverend prelate's school.---Sherborne Journal.

A very full board of Admiralty inspected the whole of the naval establish- ment at Woolwich on Thursday.

In appears that out of 356 eases in which dissolution of marriage has been sought on the ground of adultery, such adultery, is alleged in 262 cases to have occurred before the passing of the Divorce Act—that is, before August 28, 1857; consequently, the cases arising from 1857 to 1659 have been at the rate only of about 47 a year on the whale population of England and Wales.

The French Emperor has issued an order for the immediate fortification of the Chausey Islands. These islands, as most of our readers must be aware, lie between Granville and St. Male on the one hand, and Jersey on the other. They are little more than mere rocks, some of which are entirely submerged at high water, and offer no footing for any living thing. The principal one is totally destitute of all vegetation except the sparest herbage. There is a lighthouse upon it, which is useful to the small craft employed in the oyster fishery. The present importance of the Chausey Islands con- sists in the shelter which their lee affords as an anchorage in gales of wind. As affording such shelter they were of immense use to the British cruisers blockading Granville and St. Mak during the late war with France. No doubt, therefore, their being fortified has originated in the prospective con- tingency of a not distant war with England. With our own works at Alderney in progress, we have' however, no right to complain of the French fortifying Chausey.—Guernsey Star.

A letter in Galignani from Cattaro states that Prince Danilo, who had in- stituted a military medal, has distributed it to the officers and soldiers of his army who distinguished themselves at the battle of Grahovo. The claims of the Montenegrin warriors were established in rather a singular manner; all those who had killed a Turk and produced his nose to the prince received the medal.

The Spanish titled aristocracy, according to one of the journals, consists of 2 princes, 82 dukes, 689 marquises, 546 counts, 74 viscounts, and 63 barons.

Mr. John Townsend, whose career as M.P. for the borough of Greenwich recently attracted public attention, has become the lessee of the Theatre Royal, Leicester.

Baron Wiesenhutten, who was a native of Frankfort, and who has been for many years Chamberlain in the Court of the Grand Duchy of Hesse,. re- cently died at Stuttgardt, and has left large legacies to various institutions in his native city, among which are mentioned 100,000 florins to the Lu- natic Asylum, 10,000 florins to the Pestalozzi Society, 10,000 florins to the Gustavus Adolphus Society, besides 25,000 florins to the Missionary Society of Bale and Barmen, 80,000 florins to the German Evangelical Community of Lyons, and 6000 florins to the Church of St. Leonard in Stuttgardt.

The return of the Registrar-General shows a further decrease in the number of deaths—they fell to 1296, or 69 below the calculated average of mortality at this season. The deaths from cholera in different forms were 22, the persons who died all except 8 being children.

Two persons have died recently under the influence of chloroform, one in Southwark, one in Westminster. The facts are only mentioned by the Registrar-General. "it is officially stated to the Emperor of the French," says the Daily News, "that chloroform was used in 30,000 surgical opera- tions in the Crimea by skilled assistant-surgeons without a single death ; a similar success has followed its administration at Solferino and Magenta ; but in English hospitals there have been about 100 deaths in one-third of this number of operations in the Crimea!"

The Blenheim, a fine Incliaman belonging to Messrs. Dunbar and Sons, foundered in the Bay of Bengal on the 16th June. She encountered a ter- rible gale. Seeing that she would go down, her master, Captain Headley, and the crew took to the boats. One got safely ashore on the Island of Rawree ; the other, containing the master, second mate, cook, and nine men, was swamped, and they all perished.

The collier brig Lebanon was lying in the Wear, with a cargo of gas- coals, on Saturday. On the previous evening a quantity of gas had been generated, ind had forced its way into the captain's cabin. An attempt to light the cabin fire was followed by an explosion, which damaged the vessel, and seriously injured the ship and three of the crew.