ilaistellantous.

Lord Besborough has been appointed to the Mastership of the Buck- hounds, vacant by Lord Granville's acceptance of the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade. _—

The Committee for Privileges have decided that the Reverend Frederick Twialeton has made out his claim to be Baron of Say and Sete.

Lord Ashburton, long distinguished both in commerce and politics, died on Saturday morning, at Longleat, the seat of his daughter Lady Bath, after a few days' illness.

The deceased was descended from a family which came to England from Bre- men, but originally belonged to Friesland. His father was a London merchant in

Senate: clt be &kit kri810. Sir Francis was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas. Mr. Alexander Baring obtained his weight in Parliament chiefly by his great commercial influence: in 1828 he was made a Privy Councillor; he filled offices under various Govern- ments, and entered the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade, under Sir Robert Peel, in 1834; but he never happened to remain long in office; and his most successful public act was his mission to America in 1842, to settle the dis- puted questions then pending. He was elevated to the Peerage in 1834. He is succeeded in the title by his eldest son, the Honourable William Bingham Baring, previously Member for Thetford.

The Gazette of Tuesday announced that the Danish Government bad officially declared, on the 8th instant, that the blockade of Pillau, Dimtzio, Stralsund, Rostock, and Wismar, would cease on the 16th; but that the blockade would be continued at Kiel, the mouth of the Schleswig canal at Holtenau, and at Swinnemunde; and after the 16th would be extended to all the three mouths of the Oder.

Intelligence has been received from South America that General Roses has reopened the trade up the Parana river.

We have just visited the neighbourhood of Claremont; where we have learned on unquestionable authority, that the single hired carriage with which Louis Philippe indulged the Ex-Queen and himself during the first month has been dis- centinned, and the only expense of that kind ventured upon is the hire of three cabs on a Sunday morning to convey the family to the Roman Catholic chapel at Weybridge. The whole of the household, chiefs and dependents, dine together. Everything, including whatever wine and dessert is allowed, is placed on the table at once without a single remove. There is only one servant in attendance in the room. The descendants of Charlemagne wait upon themselves and each other.— Cambridge Advertiser.

It is said that the late abominable accusations against Lord Leigh were made with the intention of getting an abutment of a bridge—in which the bodies of the murdered people were alleged to have been concealed—pulled down, that the claimant of the estate might obtain a certain stone which he thinks is built into the bridge, and the possession of which he supposes would advance his claim. It is also reported that the men declared to have been murdered will be produced alive, on the prosecution of the man who swore to their death.

The five men suspected of the Swansea murders have been taken. There was blood on the clothes of all. One was found concealed in a bush ; the atten- tion of the officers having been attracted to the spot by the noise and agitation of a number of crows.

A burglary attended with brutal circumstances has been perpetrated at South- sea in Hants. The house of Mrs. Liningston was entered by four men, who beat the lady until she was insensible, and then carried off a number of valuables. 'A reward of 1001. is offered for the apprehension of the villains.

Mr. R. Loader, overseer of the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, has absconded. Last week he received two checks amounting to 8001. from the Home Office, for the payment of salaries and accounts; and he carried off the money. Before leaving Woolwich he had borrowed 601. from a tradesman who supplied the Justitia; and other tradespeople are sufferers.

The contents of a rick-yard at Wootton in the Isle of Wight have been de- stroyed in a fire caused by boys playing with lucifer-matches.

The town of Fordbam has suffered severely by fire. A Mr. Bernard let off a gun at-a bird standing on one of his barns.i. the wadding fell on the rout, and the thatch was soon in a blaze; the flames rapidly spread over the whole premises, and thence to three other properties: at one time two acres of property formed one immense sheet of flame.

A Leeds paper reports that Mr. Sanderson, a tailor of Stanton, near Stockton, who had been in but indifferent circumstances, has lately succeeded to a fortune of 100,0001., left by an uncle in India many years since.

The owners of the Ben ma-Chree steamer announced a pleasure-trip in that boat from Douglas to Whitehaven on Easter Monday, in order, as we are told by one of the Manx papers, to afford some 300 or 400 " high-born brilliant Manx- men" an opportunity of spending a few hours amongst the " coarse,vulgar, linaey- woolsey, double-soled hogs of Cumberland."—Afanchester Examiner.

The lands about Wootton in the Isle of Wight have not very attractive names —Small Gains, Mount Misery, Starve Grounds, Fern Hill, and Heath Farm.

There has been an extensive land-slip at Cnlbone in Somersetshire. Abvnt. tight acres of Calbone Wood moved a hundred yards towards thew-. sinking several hundred feet: the trees and shrubs on the land are starinag, and the whole mass looks like an island on the beach. A road to tbe church was cut away by the falling land. Many years ago, the cavern. beneatlithe wood had been the resort

of smugglers.

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

-Zymotic Diseases. Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases. Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . Diseases of the Bean and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration...

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c Messes of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Sudden

Violence, Privation, CoM, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) 1052 943 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 100.5° in the sun to 31.0' in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the mean average temperature by 10.3°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was East. the great firm of Baring, Brothers; which has sin.- Alexander Baring was born in October 1774: he was- 444:?-4644*-{'"' relinquished his studies at a comparatively early age, Taunton in 1812. In 1798 he married Anne Louisa,' dity414 Bingham of Philadelphia, a merchant and member of the j this connexion largely added to the business of Mr. Bag virtually became the head before the death of his father' 'Se

Number of Spring deaths. average.

263 271 53 50 190 202 113 122 30 33 129 63 10 167 BO Ii 16 9 a 1 7 2 22 20 23 15 41 65 2 12 .

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