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The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Sir Thomas Wilde, Knight,. Chancellor of Great Britain,the dignity of a Baron of the United King- dom, by the title of Baron Truro, of Bowes, in the county of Middlesex.

SirJohn Jervis was sworn in before the new Lord Chancellor, on Tuesday, as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ; and immedi- ately afterwards left town for Lincoln, to hold the .Assizes in conjunction with Mr. Baron Platt.

A numerous and influential meeting of Irish Members, and some Irish Peers, took place at Holderness House, the residence of the Matquis of Londonderry, on Wednesday morning, for the purpose of adopting mea- sures for petitioning and organizing every legal opposition, during the ensuing recess, against any renewal, next session, of the bill for the abo- lition of the Viceroyalty of Ireland. Among the Members of the Lower- Home present were, Sir Henry Winston Barron, the O'Gorman Mahon, Colonel Chatterton, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. Edward Grogan, Mr. Fitz- stephen French, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Dickson, 8m.—Daily News.

We are informed, on good authority, that the late Sir Robert Peel has left his papers to Lord Mahon and Mr. Edward Cardwell, M.P.—.Liver- pool By an error committed on the line of telegraph from Bayonne to, Madrid, in announcing the death of Sir Robert Peel, the name of Palmelltt was substituted for Sir Robert's. The Madrid journals have, in conse- quence of this error, been making long commentaries on the consequences which may result to Portugal from the death of the Duke of Palmella.

The Daily News announces that the long deliberations as to the build- ing to be erected for the Exhibition of 1861 have been terminated by a decision in favour of Mr. Paxton's design and estimate. "Mr. Paxton suggests a building chiefly of glass—in fact, a huge but ele- gent glass house. The great feature in its erection is, that no stone' brick, or mortar, will be necessary. All the roofing and upright sashes will be made by machinery, fitted together and glazed with rapidity ; most of them being finished previous to being taken to the place,. so that little else will be required on the spot than to fit the finished materials together. The whole of the structure will be supported on cast-iron columns, and the exteneive roof will be sustained without the necessity for interior walls for this pur- pose. If removed after the exhibition, the materials may be sold far mom advantageously than a structure filled in with bricks and mortar, and some of the materials would bring in full half the original outlay. Complete ven- tilation has been provided, by filling in every third upright compartment with lutfer-boarding, which would be made to open and shut by machinery, the whole of the basement will be filled in after the same manner. The current of air may be modified by the use of coarse open canvass, which, by being kept wet in hot weather, will render the interior of the building much cooler than the external atmosphere. In order to subdue the intense light in a building covered with glass, it is proposed to cover all the South side of the upright parts, together with the whole of the roofs outside, with calico or canvass, tacked on the ridge rafters of the latter. This will al- low a current of air to pass in the vallies under the calico ; which will, if re- quired, with the ventilators, keep the air of the house cooler than the external atmosphere. To give the roof a 14.ht and graceful appearance, it is to be on. the ridge and furrow principle and glazed with sheet glass. The ridge and valley rafters will be continued in uninterrupted lines the whole length of the structure, and be supported by cast-iron beams. These beams will have a hollow gutter formed in them to receive the rain-water from the wooden valley rafters, which will be thence conveyed through the hollow columns to the drains. These drains will be formed of ample dimensions under the. whole of the pathways throughout. The floors of the pathways to be laid- with trellis-boards, three-eighths of an inch apart, on sleeper-joists. This kind of flooring is both economical and can always be kept clean, dry, en& pleasant to walk upon. The gallery floors are to be close boarded. ber MOOS need be cut down, as the glass may fit up to the boles of the trees, leaving the lower branches under the glass during the exhibition ; but Mr. Paxton does not recommend this courses as, for the sum of 2501., he would engage to remove and replace every living tree on the ground, except the large old elms opposite to Prince's Gate. Only a few }rears ago, the erection of such a building as the one contemplated would have involved a fearful amount of expense ; but the rapid advance made in this country during the last forty years, both in the scientific construction of such buildings and the cheap manufacture of glaze, iron, &c., together with the amazing facilities in the preparation of sash-bars and other wood-worlc, render an erection of this description, in point of expense, quite on a level with those constructed of more substantial materials."

The name of a venerable leader in science appears in the obituary,— that of the Reverend William Kirby, "the father of entomology in Great Britain " ; who died at his rectory of Barham, in Suffolk, on the 4th in- stant, at the age of ninety-one, after sixty-eight years of active ministra- tions among his affectionate parishioners. An admiring eulogist in the Atheneetnn enumerates his achievements-

" Mr. Kirby's first work of particular note was the Monographia Apum Anglite,' in two volumes, published half a century ago at Ipswich. His admirable work on the Wild Bees of Great Britain ' was composed from materials-collected almost entirely by himself, and most of the plates were of his etching. His further progress in entomology is abundantly marked by various papers in the Transactions of the Linnean Society ' -' by the entomological portion of the Bridgewater Treatise On the His- tory, Habits, and Instincts of Animals ' ; and by his descriptions, occupying a quarto volume, of the insects of Sir John Richardson's 'Fauna Boreali-Americana.' The name of Kirby will, however, be chiefly remembered for the Introduction to Entomology,' written by him in conjunction with Mr. Spence. In this work, a vast amount of material, acquired after many years' unremitting observation of the insect world, is min led together by two different but congenial minds in the plea- sant form of f,mi1tar letters. The charm, based on substantial knowledge of the subject, which these letters impart, has caused them to be studied with an interest never before excited by any work on natural history ; and they have served for the model of many an entertaining and instructive vo- lume. Whether William Kirby or William Spence had the more meritorious -share in the composition of these letters, has never been ascertained ; for each, in the plenitude of his esteem and love for the other, renounced all claim, in favour of his coadjutor, to whatever portion of the matter might be most valued.

"In addition to the honour of being President of the Museum of his country town—in which there is an admirable portrait of him—Mr. Kirby was Honorary President of the Entomological Society of London, Fellow of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of the same city, and Corresponding Member of several Foreign Societies."

An actress who has been admired and respected by three generations of playgoers has quitted the stage of life in the person of Mrs. Glover. The final exit was somewhat sudden, as it seemed to the general public ; but it was anticipated by her friends. A friendly biographer in the Morning Chronicle explains the circumstances; first referring to the extraordi nary manifestations of public feeling which attended Mrs. Glover's last farewell, at Drury Lane Theatre, on Friday the 12th.

"In our capacity of spectators we did not then see occasion to mention what had otherwise come to our knowledge—that the evidences of extreme suffering manifested by Mrs. Glover on that evening—her inability to go through her part, except as a mere shadow of her former self, and the sub- stitution of an apologetic speech from Mr. Leigh Murray for the address which 'had been written for her by a well-known and talented amateur of the drama —arose not merely from the emotion natural on a farewell night after more than half a century of active public service, but also from extreme physical debility, the result of an attack of illness of a wasting character, which had al- ready confined that venerable lady to her bed for many days. In fact, it was only the determination of Mrs. Glover herself not to disappoint the audience, who had been invited and attracted for many weeks before, that overruled the remonstrances of her friends and family against her appearing at all. She was then utterly unfit to appear on the stage in her professional character, and the most serious alarm was felt lest there should be some sudden and fa- tal catastrophe. The result of the struggle of feeling she then underwent, superadded as it was to the physical causes which had undermined her strength, -was, that Mrs. Glover sunk under the disease which had been consuming her, and quitted this life on Monday night." Mrs. Glover, born Julia Betterton, was daughter of an actor named Better- ton, who held a good position on the London stage towards the close of the last century; she is said to have been a lineal descendant of the great actor of the same name; her birth-day was the 8th of January 1781. Brought up, as most of our great actors and actresses have been, "at the wings, she was even in infancy sent on the stage in children's parts." "She became at- tached to the company of Tate Wilkinson, for whom she played, at York, the part of the Page in The Orphan ; and she also exercised her juvenile talents in the part of Tom Thumb for the benefit of George Frederick Cooke, who on the occasion doffed his tragic garb and appeared in the character of Glum- dalcar. Another character which she played successfully with Cooke was that of the little Duke of York in Richard the Third; into which, it is re- corded, she threw a degree of spirit and childish roguishness that acted as a spur on the great tragedian himself, who never performed better than when seconded by his childish associate." In 1796 she had attained such a position in the preparatory school of the provincial cir- cuits, chiefly at Bath, that she was engaged at Covent Garden ; in the first instance at 101. a week, and ultimately for five years at 16/. a week, rising to 201.; terms then thought "somewhat extraordinary and even exorbitant." Miss Betterton first appeared in London in October 1797, fifty-three years ago, as _Mira, in Hannah More's tragedy of Percy. Her success was great ; and in a short time she had taken such a hold of popular favour, that when Ifis. Abington returned for a brief period to the stage, Miss Betterton held her ground against the rival attraction, and even secured the admiration of Mrs. Abington herself. Her subsequent engagements were at Drury Lane and Covent Garden alternately, till she made that long engagement at the Hay- market during which she has become best known to the present generation of playgoers. Her more recent brief engagement with Mr. Anderson, at Drury Lane, and her last one with Mr. W. Farren at the Strand Theatre, whi- ther she contributed so much to attract choice audiences, are fresh in the memory of metropolitans.

There was a long and very violent thunderstorm at Bristol on Monday, beginning at one o'clock in the afternoon. Many buildings and ships were struck% and more or less damaged ; several persons also suffered from the lightning, but there was no loss of life.

On Tuesday, Manchester and the vicinity were visited with a storm. At Enry, a boy was riding on a horse with a number of milk-cans, the light- flint them and both horse and boy were killed. Two men were as- cenonig shaft of a mine, when the lightning damaged the rope ; it broke, and the miners were precipitated to the bottom, very badly hurt.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of ortality in the -Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first oluran of figures grres the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding WW1'S of the fen previous years.

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186 ....is

208 .... 24 Age 459 .... 26 Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 213 12

Total (Including unspecified causes) 8860 781

In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths registered in the Metropoli- tan districts were 781; whereas the average derived from ten corresponding weeks of 1840-9, is 886, or, augmented in the ratio of increase of population, 967. Compared with this latter number, the deaths of last week exhibit a decrease of 186.

Seven persons died of cholera ; but in most of the cases it appears to have been the common English epidemic, and it is not stated in any case that the disease had assumed the malignant form. At Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29.875 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 59.5'. Except on the last two days, the mean temperature was below the average of seven years. On Saturday, the highest in the sun was 110'.

Captain the Honourable G. F. Hastings, of the Cyclops, has been recently cast in 5,000/. damages by the Slave Commssioners on the coast of Africa, for illegal detention of a l'ortuguese ship.

The Geyser has brought home from the Cape of Good Hope, as a present to the Queen, a tortoise of venerable experience. "The tortoise is in remarka- bly good health, and takes its regular promenades upon deck, and makes no apparent difference in its walks although a full-grown person sits on its back. Its age has been handed down in the families in whose possession it remained until sent to this country. as a present to her Majesty, and it is known to be a hundred and seventy-nine years old. It subsisted during the voyage to this country on pumpkins, taken on board to supply it with food."

A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian tells the following anecdote respecting the late Sir Robert Peel. "Old Sir Robert was extremely solici- tous in advancing his son in his tender years. To this end, he requested him to furnish the 'heads' of the sermons he heard at Bury Church, upon arriving home from Divine service. On one occasion, a stranger having to officiate, he was invited to partake of the hospitalities of Chamber Hall. As usual, the future statesman was called upon to go through his duty. When he had completed, his father turned to the minister and inquired whether he had given a proper account. 'No, Sir; he replied, 'he has preached a much better sermon than over I did in my " Among the Prussian exhibitors in the great English Exposition of In- dustry, will be the sculptors Rauch and kiss. The former sends a east of his gigantic equestrian statue of Frederick the Great, now almost ready to be set up ; the latter a model of his Amazon.—Berlin Correspondent of the Times.

The cheap postage system works well in America. According to the New York Courier, the last four years of cheap postage, compared with the last

four years of high postage, produced as follows—

High Postage.

Cheap Postage.

Year 1842 Dols. 4,546,000 Year 1846 Dols. 3,487,000 1843 4,296,000

1847

3,955,000 1844 4,237,000

1848

4,371,000 1845 3,289,000

1849

4,705,000

T1 Magistrates of Bradford are engaged in "putting down" the nuisance of roaming dogs, and Alderman Rand has much distinguished himself in the service. Lately he met an unexpected antagonist—himself Alderman Band: and his fent.", citizens observed with satisfaction and amusement that the judge was superior to the Man. Drolly cross-examining the Policeman who informed against him, he drew out such confirmations as clenched the ease against himself. So he passed sentence on himself, with an inexorable gravity, that the more provoked the laughter of his audience. "For this offence, Mr. Rand, you are fined 5s. and expenses 98. If not paid, a warrant of distress will be issued ; and if there be not sufficient goods, upon which to levy, you will be committed for fourteen days to the House of Correction."

At Marylebone Police Office, on Saturday, Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, said to be a lady of property, was charged with cruelty to a little terrier, the property of Mrs. Scott. It appeared from the evidence, that the accused lodged with Mrs. Scott, at St. John's Wood ;. she had some disagreement with her land- lady, and to vent her spite threw the dog down stairs, breaking one of its legs ; she expressed no regret afterwards, but said she would do the same for Mrs. Scott if she could." Mr. Yardley considered the case to be fully made out. He remarked, that the law now empowered him to send an offender to prison for three months for an act of cruelty to an animal ; but in the present instance he would inflict a fine of 51., or a month's im- prisonment.

Two persons have died from the explosion at Ilford toll-house—a man named Morris and his wife. The disaster originated in the foolish applica- tion of a piece of lighted paper to a pipe from which a quantity of gas had escaped.

A bust of Sir Robert Peel, made by Bernini about nine years ago, is ex- hibited by Mr. Hogarth, of the Haymarket : it is to be copied in two sizes—that of life, and a smaller size. The portrait is striking, though not perfect. It possesses the thought, energy, and air of command ; but wants the sly humour of the eye, the ingenuous expansiveness of counte- nance, and the genial good-nature. The SOUSCO8 of the deviation are obvious enough. The markings of the face are too deep—notably that round the orbicularis of the eye and between the corrugated brows—too deeply cut in, as compared with the expanse of the surface in each sec- tion: this destroys the "breadth of countenance." The projection of the bone over the outer corner of the eye is brought down much too low towards the cheek ; which reverses the characteristic cut of Peel's eye, and destroys the lifted lightness, if one may call it so, that imparted the well-known " slyness" ; and these errors together give undue weight and sternness to the expression. Not that the sculptor has absolutely missed the more amiable cast of the countenance ; but the real man has been too much obscured in some ideal of "the statesman," which yet falls short of the original. Ten Weeks Week.

of 1899-49. of 1850. Zymotic. Diseases 2944 .... 168 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 429 .... 36 Tubercular Diseases 1867 .... 162 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marron-, Nerves, and Senses 1138 .... 104 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 218 .... 21

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 769 .... 87 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 646 59

Diseases of the Kidneys, Au 57 11

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 82 11 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones. Joints, Sc 70 8

Diseases of the skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy