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A further correspondence between Lord Panmure and Sir John M‘Neill has been made public. It is more concise than the former correspondence, but quite as characteristic and racy.

"War Office, Feb. 28, 1857. " Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 21st instant, in reply to mine of the 20th. "1 should not have thought it necessary to add to this correspondence had it not been for the interpretation which you have put upon a passage in my letter arid which I feel it to be due both to you and myself to correct. I certainly had no intention whatever to place a money value on the advantages derived from your report; and, on a careful perusal of my letter to you, I cannot help considering that inch a construction of its terms is somewhat strained and hypercritical. All that I aimed at was to convey to you, in the most courteous manner, the offer of the Government, and to signify my regret for my own personal omissions in this matter. "I have, &c. PANMITRE. " Sir John M`Neill."

" Granton House, Edinburgh, March 2.

"My Lord—I had the honour to receive this morning your Lordship's letter of the 28th of February, in which you inform me that all you aimed at in your letter of the 20th ultimo, was to convey to me in the most courteous manner, the offer of the Government, and to signify your regret for your own personal omissions in this matter.

"This assurance has afforded me the greatest satisfaction' and I deeply regret that the proceedings in regard to the Commission with which I was connected have not been such as would have entitled me to assume that your Lordship's intentions were friendly or courteous, though the terms in which you expressed them appeared to imply a different meaning.

"I have, &c. Joins hi‘Nnn,r,. "The Right Hon. the Lord Panmure, G.C.B., &c."

The Gazette of Tuesday stated that her Majesty has appointed Dr. Robert Ferguson to be Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty.

Mr. Speaker Lefevre will be called to the House of Peers as Viscount Eversley, of Heckfield in the county of Southampton.

Feruk Khan, the Persian Ambassador to the French Emperor, landed at Folkestone on Thursday afternoon, and set out at once for London.

• At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday, the President, Sir Roderick Murchison, mentioned that a letter had been just received from Captain Richard Burton, announcing his arrival at Zanzibar, on the East coast of Africa, and his intention to proceed as speedily as possible for the interior in search of the Great Lake.

The Postmaster-General notifies that additional mails will be sent to China. A mail will leave London for China via Southampton on the 20th, and via Marseilles on the 26th of each month.

The total number of deaths registered in London, which in the previous week was 1175, was in the week that ended last Saturday 1156; showing again a decrease which has been maintained during the last five weeks, and which in circumstances as favourable as those of the present time is to be expected towards the end of the firat quarter of the year. In the ten years 1847-'56 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1199. If this is raised in proportion to increase of population, it becomes 1319, and represents the number of deaths which the average rate of mortality would produce at the present time ; and it is shown by a reduction in the actual number to the extent of 163 that the public health is at present decidedly better than usual.Rofistrar-Generata Report.

Lord Palmerston gave a grand banquet to the Duke of Cambridge on Wednesday ; Lady Palmerston afterwards held an assembly.

The Speaker's last dinner and levee were held on Saturday. The guests at the dinner were gentlemen of the Conservative party. The levee was attended by nearly every Member of the House of Commons in London, and some returned to town specially to do honour to Mr. Lefevre ha this farewell assembly.

The Countess de Persigny had a crowded assembly on Tuesday evening : the Duke of Cambridge was present. Lord Overstone has consented to act as President of the General Council of the Art Treasures Exhibition—a post vacant by the death of Lord Ellesmere. Early in the week it was announced that Mr. Stuart Wortley, the Solieitor-General, was suffering from a very severe attack of brain-fever.

William Pitt Amherst, Earl Amherst, a Peer who had been conspicuously engaged in the public service, died at Knowle Park, Sevenoaks, on the 13th instant, aged eighty-four. Earl Amherst had been a Canada Commissioner, Ambassador Extraordinary to the Chinese Emperor in 18/6, afterwards Governor-General of India, and Governor-General of Canada. He was also. a Lord of the Bedehrunber to three Sovereigns—George LEI, George IV, and. William IV. He is succeeded in the title and estates by his eldest son, Lord Holmesdale. The present Earl is a Captain in the boards: he was dangerously wounded at the battle of the Alma.

It is with regret we have to record the reported death of another victim in the cause of African exploration. Intelligence has been this week received at the Foreign Office from our British Consul at Tripoli, of theassassinatieu of Dr. Vogel, whose arrival at Kuka, on the boaters of Lake Teed, in the best health and spirits, we announced in our impression of June 3, 1854The letter received at Tripoli is from Corporal Maguire, one of the Sappers sent out with Dr. Vogel, and is written from Kula. Dr. Vogel had departed from that place comparatively, alone on a most perilous journey }:.astward, with the view of reaching the Nile. He is said to have advanced. through Birgirmi into Waddy, and to have been there murdered. The, Sheik of Bornu has promised to forward particulars to our Consul at Tripoli, as soon as they have been asairtained.—.Literary Gasette.

A commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Imperial Institute of France, at the head of which is Slid de Beaumont, the fellow traveller of Humboldt, have pronounced warmly In favour of I. Ferdinand do Lem:pelt scheme for cutting a ship-canal through the Isthmus of Suez.

It has transpired that Russia has taken more active stepa than England, to establish telegraphic communication with India. According to private and reliable adrices just received, she made a contract previously to the termination of the late war for a line from Nicholaieff via the Caspian Sea to Ispahan and Herat. It has since been in progress, and although, under the secrecy enforced in that country, no conjecture can be formed as to the probable period of its completion, the contingency is not impossible of cnir finding before long that she is in regular receipt of news from our possessions weeks before its arrival in London.—Titnes.

At the beginning of April a Frenoh steam company will commence competition with the Austrian Danubian Company on the Lower Danube.

It is said that the Russian Government intend to grant the terms originally proposed for the Riga Railway.

Sir Benjamin Hall appoints soldiers who have distinguished themselves to be keepers of the public parks. The last appointment, in Regent's Park, was that of Corporal Shields, of the Welsh l usiliors ; who wears the Victoria Cross and the Cross of the Legion of Honour for his gallantry, at the attack on the Redan, when he and four other soldiers recovered the dying. Lieutenant Dyneley from some rocks close to the works.

M. Amedae de Casella writes to the Times denying that he made the laughable blunder of the "West Riding" being the "East end of London," imputed to him last week.

"Uncle Torn" is dead—Thomas Magruder, of Indianopolis, who had attained the great age of a hundred and ten. Ho was called " OM Uncle Term"' and had been visited by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Stowe ; and there scenic reason to believe that he was the original of the lady's world-famous character,

Some public inconvenience will arise from the fire at Messrs. Bacon and, Co.'s in Fleet Street : the Government will be unable to issue new 2001. and 5001. Exchequer Bills to the amount of 600,0001., for a month, the plates and papers for those bills having been destroyed in the Eire.

Since the present Parliament met, in 1862, 46,863 petitions have been presented to it, with 7,362,798 signatures attaohed.

The estimate for the works of the Parliament Palace for the current year is 138,086/.

A new shooting-gallery for naval officers to practise in at all seasons has been erected at Cronatrult. The officers aro to provide their own guns ; thus making it in seine degree a point of honour that the fire-arms shall be good.

The "revisor" at Messina, and thirty persons who applauded a.particular scene in a comedy called .Pasquino, have been sent to the island of Favignano : in the scene a soldier was represented killing his geneial.

A sad but beautiful and touching scene was witnessed at the accident of the Du Page Bridge. On the morning after the accident, the slow tolling, of a bell was heard. On looking to nee whence it came, it wits discovered to proceed from the engine, as it lay submerged in the water. The waves, as they foamed and surged over the sunken engine swayed the bell, which alone, with the smoke-pipe, appeared above water, and caused it to give a slow tolling sound. V, hen the engine Was raised from the water, the engineer was found in a standing posture, with his stiff, cold, icy hand firmly grasping the throttle-valve, as though amid the thick darkness he had discovered the perilous condition of the train, and had sprung to avert the ruin. But it was too late; the engine and train, with their precious freight of life and property, went down, and during the dreary night the engine-bell and the mad rushing waters rang out a solemn requiem for the dead! It is probable that had not the freight-train gone down as it did the passenger-train from Chicago, due two hours later, and loaded with sleeping, passengers, would Reel' have taken the fatal plunge.—Joliet (11linoni) .Democrat.

The editor of the Genoa Moe/men/a has been sentenced to a fortnight'. imprisonment and fined 600 francs for an article insulting the Emperor of the French.