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Parliament assembles on Tuesday. The Queen, as is her wont, will open the session in person. Lord Palmerston has issued a letter to his supporters, expressing an earnest hope that they will be in their places on the 24th. Mr. Disraeli will not give a Parliamentary dinner on the eve of the session in consequence of a domestic affliction.

A long letter from Sir Fitzroy Kelly to Lord Brougham on electoral corruption, found its way into the Times of yesterday. His cure for bribery is a bill compelling every Member of Parliament, on taking his seat, to make oath or a declaration that he has not paid, and never will pay, any money in any way whatever for the purposes of an election ex- cept to and through the election auditor. Infraction of this law to be a misdemeanour punishable as in cases of perjury, and making the law- breaker liable to civil disabilities.

An Institute of Naval Architects, we are happy to see, is in course of formation. The first meeting was held on Monday in the rooms of the Society of Arts.

The National Life-boat Institution, one of the most efficient and use- ful public servants in the land, has now ninety-six life-boats under its management. To maintain these in a state of efficiency funds are re- quired. British sympathy with those who go forth or come home in ships is great, and we trust that it will give substantial proof of its sin- cerity by liberally aiding the funds of this noble institution.

The Board of Admiralty has decided on taking the examinations of candi- dates for apprenticeship in Chatham Dockyard entirely out of the hands of the Dockyard officers, and placing them under the control of the Civil Ser- vice Commissioners, who are directed to attend at Chatham Dockyard on the occasion of the next examination. The Lords of the Admiralty have fixed the examination of the candidates for this year's entry to take place on the 23d and 24th instant, on which days the candidates for apprenticeship in Sheerness Dockyard will assemble at Chatham in order that the whole num- ber may be examined at the same time. The lads will all be required to undergo a physical test, and must conform to the rules laid down by the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy. This arrange- ment has given great satisfaction, as it will put an end to that system of favouritism by the local officers, which has been complained of, not only at Chatham, but at the other Royal dockyards.—Times.

The place of First Paid Attaché at Constantinople having become vacant by the promotion of Mr. Agar Ellis to Paris, the place will not be filled up, as the Government find it possible to reduce the staff of paid attaches of that embassy.

The Irish Government have, it is said, decided upon not filling up the vacancy created in the office of Poor Law Inspector of Ireland, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Sharman Crawford.

The statue of Lord Clive, erected at Shrewsbury, was inaugurated on Wednesday. Among those present were Sir Charles Wood, Earl Stanhope, and Colonel Herbert Edwardes. The statue is the work of Baron Mare- chetti. It is a good likeness, and bears on the pedestal the simple inscrip- tion "Olive.''

Major-General Bell, late inspecting field officer at Liverpool, raised 20,000 men for the army while in that office. A distinguished veteran, he served in the great Spanish battles, and afterwards in the East and in the West. He commanded the Royals at the Alma and at Inkerman, aud was wounded at the siege of Sebastopol.

The Moniteur announces that M. Amedee Thierry had been nominated Senator ; and M. de Lavenay, Councillor of State. A full-length portrait of Napoleon m. has been sent to all the Imperial Gourts, the Prefectures, and most of the public establishments of France.

M. Thouvenel had arrived at Marseilles on the 19th, and is now in Paris. M. de Lesseps came in the same steamer.

The youngest son of Garibaldi is at present studying at a school kept by an Italian gentleman at New Brighton, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey.

Prince Bariatinski, the fortunate victor of the Caucasus, arrived at St. Petersburg on the 8th of January. Ile was met at some distance from the capital by an Imperial aide-de-camp bearing a Marshal's baton. At a parade the Emperor had rendered to him military honours.

One of Dr. Johnson's goddaughters, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mauritius Lowe of the Royal Academy, died on the 15th at the advanced age of eighty-two.

H. Girard, the leader of the orchestra of the Paris Opera, fell from his seat on Monday night during the representation of the Huguenots, and died in the course of the night from the effects of the rupture of an aneurism.

Lord Sinclair is the oldest member of the peerage of the United King- dom, having been born in 1768, and, which is stranger still, he has held the honours of the peerage for no less than eighty-four years—a period we be- lieve without precedent, He is no longer a member of the House of Peers, having ceased to hold a Scotch representative peerage at the late general election. The oldest members of the House of Lords at this moment are Lord Lyndhurst and the Earls of Stair and Guildford, who were born in 1772; next follow the Archbishop of Armagh and Lord Combermere, born in 1773; Lords Gormanston and Rear' and the Earls of Charlemont and Dundonald, born in 1775; the Earl of Onslow' the Bishop of Exeter, and Viscount Southwell, born in 1777; the Earls of Beverley and Manvers and Lords Brougham and Arbuthnott, born in 1778; and the Earls of Strafford and Radnor, and Lords Gough and Seaton, born in 1779.

A new academical degree has been founded by the University of London— that of Bachelor of Science; the first examination for which will take place on the third Monday of July next.

During the week ending January 14, the visitors to the South Kensington Museum have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free days), 5122; on Monday and Tuesday (free evenings), 5501. On the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.), 1436; one students' evening (Wednesday), 505. Total, 12,561. From the opening of the museum, 1,228,426.

The manufacture of Sir William Armstrong's rifled cannon at Woolwich continues with undiminished success. On Tuesday a batch of 10 9-pounders was fired at the proof-butt in the Royal Arsenal, with perfect satisfaction.

Falconry is revived. During the last two or three weeks the sporting gentlemen of the neighbourhood of Southwell have been busily engaged in this old English sport. The neighbouring preserves of Norwood Park, Thurgarton Priory, Fiskertou Grange, Haskerton Hills, Oaten Forest, and other perks and preserves have been selected for the chase.

The Return of the Registrar-General indicates a slight excess of mortality above the calculated average. The number of deaths was 1344.

Two accidents in the hunting-field are recorded. Mr. George Bentinck, M.P., scorning to pass with others through a gate, rode at n hedge sup- ported by a wooden fence. His horse struck the fence and fell. Mr. Ben- tinck's collar-bone was broken. The Mayor of Louth meeting the hounds, his horse shied, reared and fell upon him. He is dangerously hurt.

Mr. Horsfall, M.P., and the Reverend .A:Seaton, vicar of Colton, near Rugeley, are engaged in hostilities. Mr. Horsfall sent a reporter to church ; the vicar ordered the churchwarden to eject him the churchwarden had no power. Whereupon the vicar broke off the service and retired.

The case of Scott versus the Earl of Shrewsbury, touching the title to the Alton Towers estate, will be taken by the Court of Exchequer on the 1st of February.

Mr. Peck, treasurer of the State of Maine has been arrested at &lager, charged with defrauding the treasury of 85,000 dollars. A Mr. Smith has also been committed, charged with being concerned in the robbery.

Carlo de Rudio and nine other convicts have escaped from Cayenne in an open boat, and sought a refuge in Demerara. Raw was one of the Orsini conspirators whose life was spared.

A very beautiful specimen of an entirely cream-coloured lark (alauda ar- vensis) was shot on the 6th instant by Mr. E. B. Palmer, of North Bonier- cotes.

Gas, paving, cabriolets, and even omnibuses are among the innovations at Pere in Constantinople. -- -

mom THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 17. Bankropts.—GEORGE CLARKE, Streatham Place. Brixton Hill, carpenter—Wu,- LIAR RUSSELL GROVER, Hand Court, High Holborn, victualler—Cum/Lys PAVIK, Lime Street, merchant—Grout:a Warn:. Birmingham, grocer—Joint Prow, Bir- mingham, brass-cock-founder—Pa/tar -Axnanw, Swansea, brew er—Gronon, WAN and JOSEPH Dixon, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, steel-rollers.

Scotch Sequestrations.—Gion, Balass, by Cupar-Fife, nutioneer—Nrmson, Bells- hill, Lanarkshire. grain-merchant—Arrxrx, Dundee, currier—Sr/neater, !WM- haugh, Perth, manufacturer.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 20.

Bankrupts.—JAYESKEws (and not Kraus, as before advertised), Old St.St. Lakes. victualler—EowArtn HASKINS, Shortwood, Gloucestershire, luirde-dellEr—THOSIAS Lewis INORAN, Lupus Street, Pimlico, merchant—STANTON Minas, Rochester, butcher—Jogs VARLET, King's Mill, Huddersfield, yarn•spinner—Wituria CILIUM junior, Longnor Edge, Staffordshire, cattle-salesman-8.05VEm Warn, Croxhall, Derbyshire, dealer in osMrs—Wuasam Curiam. Point, Truro, com- ruission-agent—FILEDENICK Gluts, Dudley Port, Tipton, Staffordshire, iron-master —WILLIAM ELLIS senior, and Wrtaasx ELLIS junior, Nottingham, scalaboard- manfacturers—Wavraa Saancrrox, Compton, Hampshire.