Itlistellaneous.
A paragraph going the round of the papers reports that the Queen's "domestic ties" are about to be "multiplied "—that "the family circle next year at Claremont will be more numerous."
Prince Albert has given 25/. to St. George's Hospital.
We learn, on good authority, that Mr. Davis, who formerly acted for a short time as successor to the late Lord Napier in China, has been se- lected by the Government to relieve Sir Henry Pottinger as the Queen's representative and Governor of the new British colony Hong-kong. Mr. Davis will depart very shortly on his highly-important mission, by the over-land route.—Standard.
Sir J. H. Whitshed has been formally appointed Admiral of the Fleet,. in the room of Sir C. E. Nugent, deceased.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White has been appointed Com- mander-in-chief at the N ore ; Captain William F. Martin, son of Admiral Sir Byam Martin, being the flag Captain.
It is understood that the address in answer to the Queen's Speech will be moved in the House of Commons by Viscount Clive, the Member for North Shropshire, and seconded by Mr. Cardwell, the Member for Clithero. • Lord Brougham has arrived at his house, in Grafton Street, from Paris. He remained two or three days in Paris, on the way from his chateau at Cannes, to pay his respects to the King of the French ; with whom he dined.
Reports have been spread that the Duke of Angouldme had died, at Goritz ; but they have been contradicted, and it is even said that he is better. The Duke of Bordeaux passed through Belgium in great haste, to rejoin his uncle.
The obituary of the week announces the death of the Marquis of Hastings, on Saturday last, at Southampton ; whither he had gone for the benefit of his health, accompanied by the Marchioness. George Augustus Francis Rawdon Hastings, Marquis of Hastings, Earl of Raw- don, Viscount Loadoun, and Baron Botreanx, Hungerford, Molines, Hastings, Moels of Cadbury, Newmarch, Peverill, De Hornet, and Rawdon, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Earl of Moira, county of Down, and Baron Rawdon of Moira, in the Irish Peerage, was second son of Francis first Marquis, the distinguished Governor-Gene- ral and Commander-in-chief of India, by Flora Mure Campbell, in her own right Countess of Loudoun, who died in 1841. He was born on the 4th February 1808; so that he had not attained his thirty-sixth year. On the death of his father, in 1826, he succeeded to the Peerage ; and in 1831 he married Barbara Yelverton, in her own right Baroness Grey de Ruthyn. He leaves issue, a son,sayn Reginald Serb, born
the 2d June 1832, who succeeds to the title estates, and four young daughters.
Among the many eminent men who have been cut off, is Count Max- zinghi, the composer ; whose Paul and Virginia and some separate pieces are still popular. He died at Downside, near Bath, on Monday. He was born on the 25th December 1765; was twice married ; and has left a son, in holy orders, and a daughter, married to a French banker at Florence. His father, one of a numerous family, was descended from an ancient but decayed house in Tuscany.
Another death recorded this week is that of Mr. Joseph Strutt of Derby, the head of the celebrated manufacturing firm of that name. He was nearly eighty years of age.
The mother of the celebrated General Mina died at Pampeluna on the 6th instant, aged ninety-nine.
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