name has not yet come before the public. The American
packet now lying at Portsmouth was a few days ago minutely examined all through by the police, but no culprit was found. Similar measures of vigi- lance are adopted at all the other outporfs of the United Kingdom.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Staffoi d and suite landed from the Soho steam-ship on Monday, at the Company's wharf, Blackwall, after a passage of sixty-four hours, from Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland- shire. The Soho is in a few days to sail to the assistance of Don Pedro.
The matrimonial alliance between the Marquis of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Russell will take place at Gordon Castle on the 26th instant. It is the desire of the Marquis's mother that the ceremony may take place in Scotland; her Ladyship, the Countess of Aberdeen, being in too delicate a state of health to permit of her travelling to London. After the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom will proceed to their own seat to pass the honeymoon, and thence they go to Ireland.
By the recent death of Lord de Clifford without issue, this ancient barony of 1295 is in abeyance, between his nephew Mr. Cousmaker, the daughter of Viscount Sydney, and the Countess of Albemarle, his Lordship's cousin, aged sixty-five years.
A plan is said to be under consideration for discontinuing the packets to the Leeward Islands, and conveying the letters to England by the Jamaica packet.
Some speculation has been adventured by the press respecting an im- portation of flour from Calcutta. Such importations are not new, though hitherto they have been on a very limited scale. The flour is consumed chiefly in the manufacturing districts ; where its properties for sizing are considered valuable.
The crew of the English ship Science, lost on the south of Van Diemen's Land, were picked up by the Warrior, Bliss, from the Society Islands, and landed at Rio Janeiro on the 28th July. The unknown substance attached to the bottom of the Donegal which was neither vegetable nor animal, turns out to be a piece of tallow. It is supposed to have come from the wreck of the Royal George.
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