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The Archduke Constantine of Russia arrived at Plymouth on Saturday morning, in the line-of-battle ship Ingermanland, 74. The large ship was accompanied by the corvette Vaarshafsky, 30; and both cast anchor in the Sound. They left Cronstadt on the 23d October, having had rather a long passage. The weather being bad, the Archduke did not land; but Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, went on board. The Archduke is the Emperor Nicholas's second son: he only assumes the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy, and he travels incognito. He is a tall, slight, sallow young man, with an intelligent countenance. On Sunday the Archduke landed, and took up his abode at Elliott's Royal Hotel; being attended by M. Brunow, Admiral Lutke, and the gentlemen of his suite. The local military and naval authorities have, of course, paid the distinguished traveller every at- tention, and shown him all that they have to exhibit at the station. He was visited on Wednesday by Duke Ferdinand and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, on their way to Lisbon; on Tuesday he went to the Theatre; on Wednesday he dined with the Earl and Countess of Morley, at Saltram,— staying all next day for a hunt, and a ball at night; and yesterday evening he was to dine with General Sir George Murray, at the official residence.

The mouths of the scandalous, opened so wide at the late elopement, are finally closed by the marriage of Captain Charles Parke Ibbetson with Lady Adele, Villiers, at St. Pancras Church, on Monday last, according to the regular forms of the English Church, and in the presence of some of the young lady's relatives. We are told in the published accounts that the consent of her parents had been obtained; that Viscount Villiers, her bro- ther, was to have given the bride away; and that Dr. Bagot, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, her uncle, was to have officiated: but the Viscount was detained by illness in his family, the Bishop by a press of business in his diocese. The clergyman who did officiate was the Reverend Lord Wriothesley Russell ; and the father for the nonce was Mr. William Rus- sell, (Accountant-General in the Court of Chancery,) Lady Adela's cousin. The ceremony was also attended by Mr. Henry Ibbetson, the bridegroom's father, aud others of his relatives. The fact of the previous marriage occasioned a peculiarity in the entry on the register: instead of signing in her maiden name, the lady wrote—" Adele Corisanda Maria Ibbetson heretofore Villiers." The whole party repaired to the residence of Mr. Henry Ibbetson, in Chester Terrace, Regent's Park; where they partook of a d6jeaner. In the afternoon, the newly-married pair set out for a few weeks' retirement in the country.

Death has been busy with persons distinguished by station or otherwise. The Tory Peerage has lost a member in the Earl of Verulam; who died at Gorhambury, the ancient family seat in Hertfordshire, on Monday. James Walter Grimston was the only son of James Bucknall Grimston, first Earl of Verulam and third Viscount Grimston. He was born in September 1775, and was therefore in his seventy-first year. He married, in 1807, Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of the first Earl of Liverpool; who survives. Lord Verulam succeeded to the family honours in 1808 He was Earl of Verulam, Viscount Grimston, and Baron Verulam of Gorham. buy. , Hertfordshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; Viscount Gnmston and Baron Dunboyne, county Meath, in the Irish Peerage;

Baron Forrester of Corstorphine, in the Scotch Peerage; and a Baronet of England. He leaves a family of nine children; and is succeeded in the family honours by his eldest son, Viscount Grimston, ALP. for the county of Herts. His Lordship was born on the 22d February 1809; and married, last year, Miss Weyland, daughter of Lady Johustone and Mr. Weyland. He was returned to the House of Commons for St. Alban's in 1830, in 1831 for Newport, in 1832 for Hertfordshire. A seat for the county is vacated by his elevation to the Peerage. Another death among the nobility is that of Lord Hartland: he ex- pired at Stokestown House, in Roscommon, on the I I th instant. He was the youngest son of Maurice, the first Lord. He was born in October 1772; entered holy orders; and married, in 1813, Isabella Jane, daughter of Mr. William Hume, of Hume Wood. The lady died in 1838, leav- ing no family. Lord Hartland succeeded his brother in 1835. By failure of issue the title becomes extinct; but the estates go to Major Ma- hon, the Baron's cousin.

The Dowager Lady Holland is one of those who have left us: her Lady- ship died at her residence in South Street on Monday morning, after eight days' illness, in her seventy-sixth year. Lady Holland was the daughter and heiress of Mr. Richard Vassall of Jamaica: she married the late Sir Godfrey Webster, of Battle Abbey; but that marriage being dis- solved, the lady was married secondly to Lord Holland. Her surviving children are Sir Henry Webster, Lord Holland, Colonel Fox, and Lady Lilford.

Lady Canterbury is one of the departed: she died at Clifton on Sunday evening, after a long and painful illness. Lady Canterbury was the se- aced daughter of Mr. Edmund Power, of Clonmel : she married, first, Mr. John Home Purees, brother to the late Sir William Home Purves, Bart, and, secondly, Viscount Canterbury; whom she has survived scarcely four months.

- Mr. William Dundas a statesman of the past generation, died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on Friday, at an advanced age. He was the second son of Chief Baron Robert Dundas, of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland: lie was bred to the English bar; in 1800 he entered office as one of the Commissioners for the affairs of India and a Privy Councillor; and in 1806 he was Seeretary at War in Mr. Pitt's Administration. In the House Pr Commons he represented Dein and Dingwell; but he sat in several suc- cessive Parliaments for Edinburgh city, until 1831. At his death he held Use offices of Lord Clerk Register, Keeper of the Signet, and Register of &sines in Scotland; receiving from the public purse a sum little short of 4,000/.

• The working classes have lost a friend and companion in the Reverend Dr. Wade, the noted Radical politician; who died on Monday, from an attack of apoplexy. Dr. Wade called at his tailors,' Messrs. Nicoll, in Regent Street, on the morning of Monday; and while giving some orders, he suddenly stumbled and fell; exclaiming, that he was afraid he was at- tacked with paralysis, and that he had lost the use of his left side. He 5:1ever spoke again; and, though he slightly revived at intervals, he died in the afternoon. Dr. Wade was in his fifty-eighth year.

• Mrs. Mary Flaherty, the founder of the Flaherty Scholarships in Lon- ton University College, died recently, at the age of eighty-four. Mrs. Irlaherty was the daughter and heiress of a hatter, who lived near Covent Garden: she was of Irish extraction, a Roman Catholic, versed in litera- ture, a great advocate of education, and a warm admirer of Lord Brougham's exertions in that behalf. In illustration of her simple and self-denying -habits, the Morning Chronicle tells an anecdote- . " It is related of her, that at the conclusion of her interview with the gentle- man to whom she first communicated her intentions in favour of University College, on his proposing to have her carriage called she said, You may spare yourself that trouble, Sir. If I kept my carriage, I should not have 5,0001. to present to University College: I am quite content to ride in an omnibus.' She adhered throughout her life to the Roman Catholic religion, and was interred in the por- tion of the Cemetery at Kensall Green appropnated to that persuasion, on Mon- (lay last. A proposal was made to her executors, on the part of University College, to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of their benefactress, by the attendance at the funeral of deputations from the Council, Senate, and Flaherty scholars, at their own expense: but the offer was declined, as not consonant with the directions of the deceased, who had prescribed that her remains should be followed by a single mourning coach, containing her executors and two other friends named by her."

The Morning Post puts forth the following paragraph among its personal stews, as an advertisement- " I, the Earl of Bath, heretofore known as Douglas ICuinaird Pelteney, Esq., • do hereby give notice, that from this day and hereafter, I shall assume and use the style, titles, and dignity of the late Earl of Bath, Viscount Pulteney, and Baron of Heydon ; which I hold by prescriptive and inalienable right of heredi- tary descent (Sip's]) Bath. Dated the 13th day of November 1845. 4, Parliament Street, Whitehall."

A seat (or sinecure) in the Prerogative Office is Bray to become vacant by Mr. Capes having gone over to the Church of Rome. The salary is, we 'believe, 1,5001. a year.—Globe.

We are enabled confidently to state that another student of Christ Church, the Reverend Mr. Coffin, M.A., Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, has resigned his preferments at Oxford, preparatory, it is said, to following his curate, Mr. Collyns, to Rome. " Quousque tandem? "—Church and State Gazette.

The Bath Journal asserts that Government contemplate a measure which looks like the establishment of a kind of Landwehr in this country- " A plan, we hear, is under consideration by the Government, which, if carried into effect, will be likely to produce a constant supply of good soldiers to fill up the vacancies that are constantly occurring in the Army. The Militia are to have a most efficient staff in each county; one-third of them= body of the Militia to be embodied for three _years' exercise at the same time allowing the men to volunteer to the Line with certain regulations to subaltern officers to extend their 'services also. This will put a stop to the demoralizing scenes that are witnessed in all public-houses to catch a recnrit."

It is stated that Government have resolved on making a great harbour 'of refuge at Dover; to be commenced at an early period.

Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Williams will hold a Winter Assize at Liverpool, and Mr. Baron Platt at York. No other Assizes are to be held this winter.—Times.

Our active farming correspondent in Surrey sends us a favourable report of agricultural operations; awakening an agreeable hope for the future in -the midst of present difficulties- " The farmer has just concluded one of the latest and one of the most expen- sive harvests ever known; and pars paws with this hard work has almost con_ chided the no less arduous task of putting in the crop for the next year. Never was there a finer seedness: everywhere the seed is up; it looks well and healthy, and there is every reason to believe that the more recent-sown wheat will come up as strong. In the midst, therefore of all the talk and repining, the farmer has been at work quietly, and hitherto ; successfully; and it is to be hoped the late harvest will not in the long run be found quite so bad as it is endeavoured to ba shown.

"This will shortly be ascertained; for the branch Agricultural Protective So- cieties are holding meetings in every county, and getting returns from all the farmers in each district of the amount of this years crops; and whether they exceed or are below an average, and to what extent and in what proportion the potato crops have failed throughout each district.' Hitherto the Anti-Corn-law advocates have had it all their own way, having had no opponents in the field: however, when February comes we shall see how, why, and wherefore there is La be this mighty and sudden change."

[With respect to opinions, and the insertion of essays assuming an edi- torial form, our correspondent must suffer us to conduct our journal ac- cording to those rules which we have adopted neither hastily nor recently; but any facts with which he may oblige us, whether favourable to our opi- nions or not, will be welcome.]

The Irish Potato Commissioners have issued a fresh report, giving further and more detailed instructions for the conversion of the diseased potatoes into starch. They recommend that the starch be mixed with oatmeal, and formed into cakes for baking, or into " stirabout" soup.

The Morning Chronicle has a kind of " Commissioner" who is making a tour of the Southern English counties, to gather information about the failure of the potato crop; and the editor thus sums up the pith of his cor- respondent's statements—

'The disease is progressive; and where it has not yet appeared it may show itself even as we write. This is the burden of the more recent accounts. Po- totoes which when dug and stored, six or eight weeks back, were apparently fiee from taint, have been since found rotten. Such is the state of things described by our correspondent in Wiltshire, in the letter which we potbli.d yesterday; and from his letter which we publish today it appears that the state of the crop is equally bad in Dorsetshire. Mr. George Abbot believed one half of his crop of potatoes to be free from disease, and had them stored away in pits. At the end of three weeks they were looked at, and it was found that • the good ones were going bad very fast.' Mr. William Brown's potatoes were not affected when he took them up in August, but those he put away for seed have since gone bad.'. James Everley, a labourer, had but one basket of good potatoes to two of bad in his garden; but the good ones have since decayed, though pat away in a dry place. In Dorsetshire, 'some potatoes which had been stored away within two weeks had been examined on Saturday last, and sorted out; and only one sack in ten were good—nine-tenths of the whole were either rotten or affected with the disease.' A great deal of similar evidence has been collected by our correspond- ent, and is confirmed by the amounts which reach us daily from other parts of England and from Ireland.'

The Glasgow Constitutional publishes the following extract of a letter from Professor Liebig to Mr. Walter Crum, of Thoraliebank-

Giessea, November S.

"The researches I have undertaken upon the sound and diseased potatoes of the present year have disclosed to me the remarkable fact, that they contain in the sap a considerable quantity of vegetable casein (cheese), precipitable by acids. This constituent I did not observe in my previous researches. It would thus appose that, from the influence of the weather, or, generally speaking, from atmo- spheric causes, a part of the vegetable albumen which prevails in the potato has become converted into vegetable casein. The great instability of this last sub- stance is well known; hence the facility with which the potato containing it undergoes putrefaction. Any injury to health from the use of these potatoes is out of the question; and nowhere in Germany has such an effect been observed. In the diseased potato no solanin can be observed.

"It may be of some use to call attention to the fact, that diseased potatoes may easily, and at little expense, be preserved for a length of time, and afterwards employed in various ways, by cutting them into slices of about a quarter of an thick, and immersing them in water containing from two to three per cent of

sulphuric acid. After twenty-four or thirty-six hours, the acid liquor may be drawn off, and all remains of it washed away by steeping in successive portions of fresh water. Treated in this manner, the potatoes are easily dried. The pieces are white and of little weight, and can be ground to flour and baked into bread along with the flour of wheat. I think it probable that the diseased potatoes, after being sliced and kept for some time in contact with weak sulphuric acid, so as to be penetrated by the acid, may be preserved in that state in pits. But further experiments are necessary to determine this. It is certain, however, that diluted sulphuric acid stops the progress of putrefaction.* One of the Earl of Devon's under-agents returned yesterday from Liver- pool, having purchased two thousand pounds' worth of rice for distribution among his tenantry on his estates in this country. This is an example worthy of being followed.—Dub/in Evening Packet.

Meetings to petition for opening the ports have been held at Manchester, Salford, Nottingham, &c. The Pacha of Egypt has prohibited the exportation of all grain, in con- sequence of deficiency in the crops.

The announcements of new railway projects continue to crowd the Lon- don Gazette.

The entire number of new notices for Irish railways in the Dublin Cra- zette now amounts to 112.

We learn from a gentleman of some authority in such matters, that it is understood in certain quarters to be the intention of the Government to proceed as promptly as possible, when Parliament meets, with the various railway bills relating to Ireland, and consequently to leave over till anoCeer session the new projects relating to England.--Sharekolder. The Times on Monday devoted five whole pages (equal to thirty columns) to an analysis of " the Railway Interest" and its present state, compiled by Mr. W. F. Spaekman, from official documents. It embraces "all com- panies registered to the 31st day of October; showing the amount of capital, the number of shares, amount or each share, the amount paid per share, the amount of deposits required by each company, the amount of capital in- vested in railways already constructed; distinguishing the amount called up from the shareholders and that borrowed on debentures, loan-notes, and mortgages; and also the amount paid and the further sum required to com- plete those already sanctioned by Parliament; and an estimate of the lia- bilities incurred in respect of the whole." All this is displayed in tables, by which the whole information is set forth; and the mass of figures ex- cites admiration at the industry of the compiler and the typographical resources of the Leading Journal. Subjoined is the concluding series of tables, presenting a summary of the whole.

RAT/MAYS COMPLETED.

Oa account of which the shareholders have paid up 448,043,563 The shareholders have borrowed on debentures, loan-notes, and mortgages 22,637,314

47 Companies completed 470,690,877

StAILWAYS DT COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION,

And for which Acts of Parliament have Seen obtained.

On account of these the shareholders have paid up 46,432,155 And to complete the same according to the estimates, will have to pay the farther subscribed sum of 44,927,170 Parliament having in all eases given the power to borrow one-third more, this will probably be further increased by the sum of 16,000,000

118 Lines and Branches In course of execution 467,359,325 RAILWAYS PROJECTED.

Of 218 of these the amount of deposit stated in the prospectus is 5 per cent, and a percentage for expenses. A large proportion of this class received their deposits before the resolution of the Lords was

passed, and others since, amounting to 411,171,727 To comply with the resolution of the Lords, a further payment of

5 per cent must be made, amounting to about 9,595,464 402 A deposit of 10 per cent is required, which many of them have re-

ceived—the whole, if paid, will amount to 38,369,109 643 have not registered their prospectuses.

1263 Companies. Total of depostts 459,136,300

Being 10 per cent on 4563,203,000, and 5 per cent for Parliamentary expenses.

CAPITAL.

Capital actually paid up and Invested in railways completed 448,043,563

Capital paid up on railways In course of execution and sanctioned by Par- liament 6,432,138

Petal required to pay the deposits on new projects 59,136,300 Total Capital invested 4113,612,018 LtABILITIES.

Borrowed on the security of railways completed 422,637,614 Incurred in respect of railways in course of execution 60,927,170 To carry out the new projects, deducting the amount of deposits paid or

required to be paid 506,882,706 Total Liabilities 4590,447,490

The Directors of the London and Brighton Railway have issued the fol- lowing excellent regulations for the better maintenance of discipline and vigilance—

lot. Every one in the service of the Company will be examined from time to time, to see that he has carefully read the regulations relating to his department, and that he understands and remembers them.

" 2d. Any neglect of the Company's', regulations will be rigidly punished, even though it should not lead to an accident.

*M. A donation of 251. will be presented to the provident fund for every quarter diving which no accident occurs on the line.

"4th. With a view to enabling you to profit by the experience of others, you will receive from time to time a short statement of any railway accident, wherever it may occur, pointing out the cause of the accident and the best means of pre- ventioa"

We have already mentioned that the Great Britain was delayed on her voyage by an accident to the machinery: the facts are narrated in a suc- cinct statement by the cabin passengers, the list of signatures to which includes some naval and military officers and other experienced voyagers- " The Great Britain left New York on the 28th ultimo, with every prospect of making a good passage. It is true that on her outward trip she met with an accident to her propeller, which rendered important repairs necessary before leaving on her return to Liverpool; and these were clone in a manner which was hoped to be efficient and substantial. Scarcely, however, bad she been at sea forty-eight hours, when an accident occurred similar to that which befel her on the previous passage--the loss of one of the arms of the propeller. Again, and when but a few days longer at sea, two more of the arms of the propeller were carried away; and the ship was now so far disabled that her commander deemed it prudent to discontinue the use of the engines, and to depend entirely for the remainder of the passage on the good qualities of his ship as a sailing-vessel. Favourable weather soon gave us the opportunity of testing her ability in this character; and, from what we then experienced, we have no -hesitation in saying that, in our opinion, her ability as a sailing-vessel is not inferior to any ship afloat. We overtook several vessels at sea sailing the same course, all of which we passed. This fact we deem as the best evidence of her qualities as a sailing-ship. On the 10th instant, We experienced a very heavy gale from the North-west, which continued for nearly twenty-four hours; and we then had an excellent opportunity of judging of her strength and ability as a sea-boat. Far from encouraging any of the ill- founded prejudices against the Great Britain, she, on this occasion, strengthened our confidence, and won the admiration of all on board. Those of us who have experienced severe weather on the Atlantic cannot refrain from expressing the opinion of the superiority of the Great Britain in a heavy gale; and we venture to predict, that if she should ever encounter worse weather than she has already, she will sustain her character as one of the ablest triumphs of modern naval architecture."

It is said that the man is alive, or was three years ago, who remembered the first bale of cotton imported into Liverpool from the United States. Now 15.000,0001. are annually embarked in that trade.—Liverpool Albion.