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Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in London on Monday night; having visited Howick Hall, in Northumberland, on their way Southwards from Mint() House.

The Scotsman describes "a narrow escape" which Lord John had at the

railway station in Stirling, while he was waiting for the Edinburgh train- " a narrow escape not referred to by the local papers." "The up-trains, or those going South, travel upon the line furthest from the station-house; and as his LiorilstIZ had arrived just at the time advertised, he lifted his youngest child and proceeded in a thoughtful mood to cross to the side for the up-train passengers. But it so happened that the train arrived nine minutes before its time; and his Lordship, not observing its approach, had just reached the intervening space between the lines, when the engine was not above its own length from him, moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a station, in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day, which prevented the brakes from catching. Mr. Cuckson, the superintendent, with admirable self-possession, instantly darted from the platform, and seizing his Lordship, drew him back just as the ponderous engine passed; and thus prevented an accident which in all pro- bability would have been fatal."

Mr. Thomas Young has addressed the following note to the Times, respecting his divulged letter to General Napier. Sir—I beg leave to state, through the medium of your journal, that a letter written in the confidence of private friendship, and of a gossiping nature which recently appeared in your, columns as having been addressed to Colonel in June 1832, in a moment of giddy excitement, was written without the know- ledge of Lord Melbourne; who was completely ignorant of the matters alluded to in it, relating to the wild views of certain Radical Reformers, with which I did not become acquainted till after the crisis in the first or second week of May 1832. I alone am responsible for the contents of the letter in question. "The indiscretion of my making (in a familiar note) a communication so in- considerate, I readily admit; but the construction now attempted to be fastened upon my careless expressions was as remote from my mind, and as alien from mf)e e s:ot- ments, as was the idea of the possibility that a letter so written should public and the subject of ungenerous and unfair interpretation, after a period of sixteen years. 'I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, "London, October 14. TS:MILAN YOUNG."

We are assured that M. Pageot, the late French Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States has left that country for England, to offer Louis Philippe a part of his princely fortune, and induce him to establish him- self and his family in America. This is most admirable in M. Pageot, and the more so as it is most rare.—Journal du Havre.

A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, in a letter written on the 20th September, supplies a personal description of the suddenly celebrated Joseph von Jellachich, Ban of Croatia-

" I have had occasion often to converse with Jellachich. He is a man of the middle height, of a powerful and firmly knit frame, forty-nine years of age; in his youth of a delicate constitution, but now enjoying excellent health. His head is bald at the top, but encircled with a fringe of jet black hair; he has a high forehead, bushy eyebrows, a mild clear dark eye, an aquiline nose, a finely-chi- selled month, with an expression of great decision of character. le leaves the impression upon the observer of a man of a mild but determined character, fully confident of his own powers. He has not one particle of pride about him; and One would scarcely look upon him as the leader of a wild race or a man of high ambi- tion. His voice is soft: his education is entirely Gernuin; he speaks German as if it was his native tongue, and with the Austrian accent; he is a great admirer of the German language and literature, but his Sclavonic nationality scorns the German arrogance which disdains anything Sclave; he speaks the Hungarian, Croatian, and Italian languages equally well. Ile is unmarried; does not possess and does not care for riches, but is devoted to his nation. It was only last year that he was Colonel of a Granzer, or frontier regiment, which was annihilated in an expedition on the Turkish frontier—he himself escaping almost miraculously in a shower of balls. The secret of his influence over the Croats is that he is Croat, and proud to be one • and all his energies are turned towards one object— to procure &r his nation that position in Hungary which they claim. He speaks the dialect of the people: 'It is the language of my beloved mother, (he said to me one day) and I am prond that I can speak it.' Their Ban and their Gene- ral, he converses with his Croats, and tells them things they had never dreamt of —visions of honour and glory. It is no wonder that when he appears every eye is turned upon him—that they listen, open-mouthed, to what he says, and that they are ready to follow him to Buda, Path, Vienna, or Milan 1 When they See him, they shout their enthusiastic Zivio!' (Let him live I) and will follow him anywhere."

We are able to state from the very best authority, that the Archduke John, as Grand Vicar of the Empire, has resolved to call out an army of 50,000 men, as a reinforcement to march immediately in support of Mar- shal Radetzky, to settle finally the Lombard question.—Standard.

With reference to the statement made by Prince Curial, that a positive assurance had been obtained from Lord Palmerston "that her Majesty's Go- vernment would not offer any kind of impediment to the military expedition which the Royal Government was preparing for the purpose of restoring peace and order in Sicily," we are authorized to say that the statement made by Prince Cariati is without any foundation.—Globe.

The Lords of the Admiralty have placed her Majesty's steamer Light- ning at the disposal of his Excellency Count Reventlow, who proceeds in her to Copenbegen. We believe that this visit of the Danish Minister has been rendered necessray by the negotiations still pending for the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question.—Times.

It is authoritatively stated that the charge made against the orthodox Jews in Lemberg, of poisoning the Chief Rabbi and his family, was a calumny. Persons were arrested on the charge; but an investigation proved that it was malignant cholera, and not poison, of which the Rabbi died.

The Lords of the Privy Council, on advice from the Board of Health that Asiatic cholera has actually appeared in England, have resolved "that quarantine precautions against that disease are no longer necessary." They have issued orders dispensing with the further detention of vessels having cholera on board, and ordering the liberation of vessels now under restraint.

The accounts of the disease are favourable, both in town and the pro- vinces.

Some few additional cases occurred'in the beginning of the week, chiefly on board the convict-ship Jtistitia, at Woolwich; but no fatal case was re- ported on Thursday in any part of the Metropolis. A few more cases have occurred at Hull and Sunderland, and some at Tynemouth and Stockton-on-Tees; but they are all those of persons on board ships newly arrived from the ports of Northern Europe. The accounts from Edinburgh were more favourable up to Thursday, but the disease had appeared at Newhaven; and yesterday's arrivals ash- pounced that it was spreading again, with increased fatality. Not mane than forty cases on the whole have occurred at Edinburgh; but upward* of thirty of those have been fatal.

It is reported that the suggestion of the Miscellaneous Estimates Committee for consolidating the State Paper Office with the Public Record Office has been acted upon by the Government; and that the union is to take place immediately upon the retirement of the Keeper of the State Papers, Mr. H. Hobhonse. Mr. W. H. Bentley, of Manchester, a very ingenious man and a skilful anato- mist, recently died very suddenly. Mr. Bentley articulated the skeletons of two elephants, one that of the well-known Chume, now in the museum of the London College of Surgeons.

Commander J. F. Wharton committed suicide at Devonport on Saturday week. In his bedroom was found a piece of paper on which he had written, " My unhappy marriage has destroyed me; my reason has left me. J. F. W." Commander Wharton was sixty-nine years of age; he was a midshipman under Lord Howe in the action of the lot June 1794, and went on the retired list in 1838. He mar- ried his present wife ten years since. At a meeting of the Royal Dee Yacht Club, on Tuesday, Mr. Scott Walker exhibited a number of very interesting models of vessels, constructed on a new principle, with a doable keel. The chief objects aimed at are a very shallow draught of water, combined with great safety and speed, and a peculiar adapta- tion for the use of the screw as a propelling power—or, we should say, screws, as the model built to represent a steam-vessel carries a screw at each keel, which revolving in opposite directions, though worked by the same engine, produces a perfect steadiness and equality in the motion of the vessel, hitherto unattained. One of these models represented a vessel of 200 tons; and Mr. Walker assured the party assembled, that on the nicest calculation, and allowing for incidental circumstances, a vessel built on the lines of that model would not, together with its burden, draw more than three feet water.—Chester Courant.

A skiff match between Candlish of Newcastle and Dawes of Manchester was rowed on the Irwell on Monday. Candlish soon took the lead, kept it, and at the close was far ahead of the Manchester man.

On Thursday morning last, a couple presented themselves in front of the com- munion rails in our cathedral, for the purpose of being "joined together in holy wedlock." But while the officiating clergyman was proceeding with the ceremony in the usual course, his attention was arrested by a most unbecoming show of levity on the part of the bridegroom; and this continuing, the clergyman closed his book, and lectured the man rather severely on the impropriety of his behaviour. The bride, who seemed much shocked at the thoughtless conduct of the man to whom she was being united for life, at length interrupted the clergyman to ask if it was absolutely necessary that the ceremony, after having gone so far, should proceed to completion. The clergyman replied, "Certainly not, unless you aesire it." The lady, learning that option still remained to her, thought better of the matter' and absolutely refused to proceed any further with the ceremony, and quitted the building with her friends; leaving the disappointed "groom" no longer laughing, but looking very disconsolate at this unexpected result of levity, as ill-timed as it was ill-placed.—Ma:zehester Guardian.

There is now living in the parish of St. Philip, Bethnal Green, a pensioner of the Foot Guards, George Lewis, who is in his ninety-fourth year: he had been disrharged from service in 1802, as very lame and "worn out." He had served in the Navy and Army for twenty-six years, and has received a pension of le. 7d. a day for nearly half a century. He was married five years since to his third wife, now living; and the old gentleman bids fair to receive his pension for some time yet. The clergyman who sent an account of Lewis to the Times speaks favour- ably of his character, and has reason to think that the veteran "is a humble and 'good soldier of Jesus Christ.'" The Staffordshire Advertiser gives a strange account of the chimes newly fitted up in the venerable tower of St. Mary's Church in Stafford. On Sunday, the bells play a psalm tune; Monday "Life let us cherish"; Tuesday, "My lodging is on the °old ground "; Wednesday, "There is use luck about the house"; Thursday, "The Harmonious Blacksmith"; Friday, "We won't go home till morning Saturday, (being market-day,) "Oh dear, what can the matter be?"

A woman living in Ashby inquired last Sunday of one of the police if he could give her any tidings of her "mon," (meaning her husband,) and said she wished" Parliament was fur enough for altering the lea"; alluding to the :new act now in operation compelling publicans to keep their houses closed the whole of Sunday morning. "She could always find her mon till the last Sunday or two, for he always got drunk in a morning, and was in bed the remainder of the day; but now she know'd no more where to look for him than the mon in the moon. But the Parliament folks cared flout what trouble they gee poor craters." —Leicesterihire Mercury.

The Gktsgow Post describes some negotiations which have taken place between the Glasgow Police and the Burgomeister of Holsheim in Germany, respecting a German music-girl, who had complained of detention in this country beyond the time named in her agreement. The following letter, written by Peter Zingal, the guardian of the girl in Germany, is amusing in orthography and sentiment.

Herr 31111er—Sir—The raesen why such maynl girls corn to Graet Britain is dons [this]. Men corn and promise a dael rnor money than what they get in our contry ; but the parents don't now what they du In Greet Britain ; if they nhow that their children must go from one for to another they would not let go one their. Sir, it is a shame to take Dons [those] girls ther becous their is plenty work in our Country, and plenty Maeth and Trink for dons wo like the work. Sir, the best way would be for You Sir, if you hath the pauer, to get a 100 [whip] and wieb them all out of your country—Masters wipt their girls, because it is nothing els but Laesnes [laziness] that they are going about iu England."

An old lady of Somers Town has proved more than a match for a robber. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Fanny Morgan found Edward blarney in the parlour of her nephew's house in the Polygon with two boxes under his arm. She asked what he wanted; on which he struck the candle out of her hand; but she seized him by the collar and shouted for aid. blarney made for the street-door, buffeting Ms. Morgan; but she kept her hold, and got the door open, continuing to call out; and at last the depredator was secured by neighbours. Marney is a convicted thief. He has been committed by the Clerkenwell Magistrate for trial on this charge. A painter of Windsor, named Saunders, accompanied by his son-in-law, went on the Thames in a boat last Sunday afternoon. Though warned not to venture below the bridge, where 'the current is strong, they rowed in that direction, till they lost all control over the boat, which was rapidly drawn towards the weir: their screams soon attracted numbers of persons to the banks, but aid could not be rendered in time; the boat went over the weir, and Saunders was dashed down the eddying stream, and perished. The other man clung to a portion of the weir, and he was rescued.

An explosion of considerable violence has occurred in a coal-ship at Monkwear- mouth Dock; a boy having gone below at night and lighted a match, setting fire to a quantity of gas which had risen from the cargo of coals. Part of the deck Was torn up, and the boy was much burnt.

A porter has been killed at the Blisworth station, at night, while crossing the line; a goods-train which suddenly dashed past, striking him down. The train was thrown off the line. The Coroner's Jury censured the practice of passing such stations as Blisworth at full speed.

A boy of fifteen, who had been employed to turn the points on the Liverpool and Bury Railway, has been killed by a train of earth-waggons cutting off his legs. It is supposed that he had fallen asleep on a turn-table. Carr, a waterman of Leeds, has perished in the river Calder, while attempting towns a wager by swimming a certain distance: he sank after swimming half a mile. He appears to have been not quite sober at the time. Results of the Registrar-General's return ot mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on 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 Heart 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, Sc Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

Total (including unspecified causes) 991 1154 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 87.00 in the sun to 33.2° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the mean average temperature by 0.9°. The mean direction of the wind for the first two days of the week was South-south-west, and for the last five days North. Number of Autumn Deaths. Average. 448 .... 270 36 .... 52 135 .... 184 54 .... 127 32

90 222 90 67 8 12 9 14 1 8 2 6 3

20 23

21 19 32 64 10 12 22 32