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Apropos to the reported return of Sir Charles Napier, the Standard of fleet." fused by Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Dundonald refused the command of the fleet to Lord Dundonald. That great Admiral answered, that he should be willing to take the command, 'provided he were allowed to use the power put into his hands without restraint or impediment ' ; s e, provided the Monday made some strange assertions, as worthy of earnest attention. " command was to be bon5. fide—a real command, not a sham—and that he was to carry on the war against Russia in earnest. 271e8e terms were re- wrong; and Lord Aberdeen was menaced with "immediate impeach- ment, for having infamously deceived and treasonably sacrificed the inte- "Lord Aberdeen in the first instance offered the command of the Baltic Lord Dundonald was challenged to say whether the statement was rests of the empire." • On Tuesday the Globe declared, with "all confidence and gravity," that the statement of the Standard "has no foundation." "We have the best reason to believe," adds the Globe, "that Sir Charles Napier has a carte blanche with regard to any operations which he may think it expedient to undertake, and that he has never in any way been fet- tered with respect to the mode of conducting the war in that sea." On the same afternoon, and also on Thursday, the Standard reiterated its statement of Monday, with much comment ; again challenging Lord Dundonald to deny it, and abusing Lord Aberdeen, who, it was roundly asserted, will not dare to meet Parliament as a Minister"—nay, doubts were expressed whether he will dare to remain in the country ! On Wednesday a hostile article on the Baltic campaign appeared in the Times. This brought out Lord Dundonald, on Friday, in the following letter to the Times. "Sir—Until yesterday, when I obseryed the kerious manner in which a conversation said to have taken place betviest the Qbief Minister of her Ma- jesty's Administration and myself is now treated, I did not consider it in- cumbent on me to volunteer a formal public disclosure,' 'in order not to allow such a statement to go abroad uncontradicted ' ; and therefore I now rectify the omission, and declare that I have never been honoured by any conversation or communication with or from Lord Aberdeen relative to the command in the Baltic, or in regard to operations to be conducted in that or any other quarter. Petmit me to add a line in justice to Admiral Napier, against whom the indignant dissatisfaction of the nation' is said to be roused,—namely, that success could not have attended the operations of combustible ships against stone batteries firing red-hot shot, however coolly unresisting walls may be leisurely demolished. "There is but one means whereby to place the opponents on an equal footing; and that I have confidentially laid before the Government, with the hope that a protracted defensive war should not linger on, to the disorgani- zation of Europe and the ruin of our country. "I am, Sir, your obliged and obedient servant,

"London, Sept. 21. DIINDONALD." The Globe, on Tuesday, stated that nothing was known at the Ad- miralty of Sir Charles Napier's return.

Colonel Airey, late Brigadier-General of the Second brigade of the Light Division, has been appointed Quartermaster-General of the Army, in the room of Lord de Res, who has come home. Colonel Airey is to be succeeded in the command of his brigade by Major-General Codrington, late Colonel of the Guards. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbraham, Seventh Regiment, has succeeded to the post of Adjutant-General to the Second Division, vacant by the death of Colonel Maule.

More British officers have fallen in Turkey from fever and cholera. The Honourable Colonel Boyle, of the Coldstream Guards, and Member for Frome, died of fever on the 3d; and on the same day, Captain Long- more, of the Eighth Hussars, and Lieutenant A. Baltmarahe, of the Eleventh Hussars, died of cholera. Major Mackay; of the Eighty-eighth, died on the march of his regiment from Aladyn to Varna. Beloved by the men, they bore his body with them so that it might be decently buried. The body of Colonel Boyle was committed to the sea, by direc- • tion of his relative Admiral Dundas. "Poor Colonel Boyle !" exclaims the Times correspondent at Varna ; "who does not remember the boy- ish-looking Member for Promo, as he walked quietly about the House ,,o bustled through the lobbies on state occasions, the gentlest and most amiable of men." Colonel Boyle was the second surviving son of the -eighth Earl of Cork. •He entered the Army in:1826. Last you he mg appointed seeretarysto the Master-General of the Ordnance.—Iii politica heNksitif* Lihnal, and has represented Frome in Parliament since 1847. The &alb ef Sir, -Georgetairtisur' ColOtieley of the Fiftieth:legit:40'4 ostain-lltelltts. Sir George Arthur entered the Army in 1804; and served in-Italy, Sept; and Walcheihn. He was viounded at Rosetta, and (Biting the atteek en Flushing. In 1623 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land; in 1887, Lieutenant:GoSernor of Upper Canada; and subsequently Governor, of

Bombay. • The Gazette of Tuesday contains the following announcements-

" The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Rhin of the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the Island of Prince Edward ; and Governor-General of all the Provinces On the Continent of North America, and of the Island of Prince Edward; to appoint Sir William Thomas Deed- son, Knight, Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Captain-General and.Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony cif New South Wales, and Governor-General in and over the Colonies of New South Wales, Van Die.. men's Land, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia ; and to ap- point Sir Henry Edward Fox Toting, Knight, to be Captain-General asel Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Van Diemen's Land.

Among the persons seized by the Austrian authorities at Bucharest, recently, was a Mr. Moritz Hartmann, a .German poet, and fermerly a

Member of the Frankfort Parliament... • . _ - • We are authorized to state positively that the report of Mazzinis ar- rest at Basle is false; and that he is safe.—Daily News. M. Louis Kossuth was invited to Sheffield to make a speech at an

Anti-Ministerial meeting on the war in reply,. ho states that it woold, be better to await the issue of the expeditiop to Sebesto.po1,4 and adjourn the Meeting " to • a more favourable political opportunity." 'Ar, guments entirely different Most be used, and an issue entirely diffneni must be taken, according as the expedition will have succeeded or not.."

- The Journal des Das* has .given currency in its columns to a 'pretty story of the recall of the Hendee Ambassador, .1:terms Ileyeridorffi front Vienna ; in which we are: introduced to the imperor of Austria, blues MetterniChs and the Emperor of Russia; and one corner of the veil that hides the secrets of diplomacy seems to be lifted. M. Meyendorff went to Vienne. in 1850, prepared to push Russian infinenee, on the ztrength- 9f.Rossian services. He found a stout opponent in Prince Schwaetzen- berg ; -but On the death of that enemies; and the -accession. of Count Buell M. Meyendorff believed his influence increased, for he had married the sister Of the new Austrian Foreign Secretary. it is stated that when the Eastern question game permanently forward, the Russian Minister told his master that be was certain of Austrian neutrality; and the Em- peror about the same tithe bad been informed from London that the alliance between France and England was impossible, and that he need not be uneasy on that score. • Meyendorff rose in 'favour, and gained the unlimited confidence of the Emperor.

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"What," continuen the Debate., • were the real designs of the Emperor of Russia in 1853? That is a point which it would be very important to clear up. M. be Ifeyendorff certainly knew them; and doubtless-be-thought so when he wrote to his friends in Paris, London, and Berlin—'I do-not pretend to prophesy, but I think I may any that the supra peace of Spume will not last a year, and that before that time haa expired we shall Witness greet events.' If. be Meyendorff returned to Vienna; where he found that great changes had taken place, and he explained himself to Prince Met- ternich on the subject. Take care!' said the old, to him : ''From what 'bare just heard, I understand that ye Emperor wishes to proceed to great lengths against Turkey.- Let him reffect on what he is about, and let him consider that the moment is not opportune for battering that Government in breach. Be assured' that, if be does not let the East remain quiet, the face of things will Change throughout all Europe, and I would not answer for anything.' I regret to tell yon,'-replied-M. Itteyni- dorff, that the Emperor sees things in quite a different lights and the ins structions, which he has given to me compel me to press you to take a decisive part.' 'Well, then,' said M. de Metternich, tell you beforehand, that I cannot conscientiously remain silent under such grave circumstances, and that I shall warn the Emperor my master. Ile will not follow you in the path into which you wish to lead him ; he will not follow you in it be- cause be cannot do so; and your Sovereign, you may. believe me, will in the end find himself isolated in the midst of Europe.' A few days after this conversation, which was much talked of at all the courts of Germany, the Emperor of Austria wrote an autograph letter to the Emperor Nicholas, (June 1853) in which he said, 'that he should- lease in his hands all that was necessary to do at Constantinople—that lie approved of it-all befers-

hand, and that he would hold himself in readiness for all." - • Meyeradorff enjoyed a brilliant but brief triumph.. Count Buol declared that Austria would be neutral, but only up to a certain point. The change had been operated by the intervention of Metternich ; and when Count Orloff failed in his mission, and learned from Metternich that he biinself had warned Meyendorff, the fall of that -diplomatist. was completed, and his recall was decided upon. The Dibats adds, that "Prince Gortschakoff, his successor, belongs to the Russian party the German party at St. Petersburg bas been vanquished in the person of M. IffeyendOrff." [Bat it will be remembered that when war ;became inevitable, it was also said that the German party had been vanquished in the person of COuritNee- selrode ; who had, so it Was alleged; opposed the War.]

Mr. Mechi's last ' meeting at Tiptree has given rise to an =nine amount of discussion on the improvements which he illustrated. One of the most interesting communications is, a letter from Mr. James Ceirfi-to the Times ; the chiefobject Of which is to Show that the application of manure, liquid or otherwise, must be regulated in a greater or teal sl-wne . by the comparative dryness or moisture of the soil far which it is int,..nfed• sIncidentollys Mr. Caird gives the exackfigures showing the reltiliiissnres duce of an acre in the same field dressed with guano and not 4rok.aqa the one yielded more than thirty-two bushels of wbeat, worth 101. 18t. 4d. ; the other twenty-five bushels and a half, wore'. 81. 4. lid.: cost of guano, .11.; additional, profit per acre, besidei one-fourth more straw, 11. 12s. 7d. Another dressing of nitrate Of Soffit and comnson,#,tlicldsd a.net.profit, on the measure of 21. 18s. Virtually, such applsontitnn si-P- nure adds one quarter of tufacre to each acre. • - /3th zpi7Er; [Result of the-Registein,Generars return of mortality in.thcoMziMfraf for the week ending on Saturday last. ....: 0111 flE b3D,Gig's, • i Ten Weeks of 1844-'63.

gymotic Diseases 4.696 ....

Drupe% Owner, and other &setae. of uncertain or variable seat 440 ....

Tubercular Diseases, 1.709 ....

Dtseesee of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses MO .... Theeases of the Heart and Blood-vemels 308 ••• •

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs a Respiration 779 ..•. Dioesses of the Stomach, LITe.r, and other Grains of Digestion 669 ....

Diseases of theeys 112 ....

Child birth, diseases of the literusotm. 79 ••..

Week of INN. 2,021 43 158 143

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108 68 9

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Rheumatism, disease' of the Bones, Joints, &A. 71

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Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Time, dtc.

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6 Malformations 32 ...4 6 Prematnre Birth 254 .... 36

StroPhY 260 .... 41 Ate 371 .... 60 Sudden 96 .... 7 Thfience,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 390 .— •••. 93 Total (including unspecified causes) 11,364

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The Earl of Clarendon left town on Tuesday, for the Grove, near Watford. Lord and Lady Palmerston have gone from Broadlands to Shanklin in the Isle of Wight. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone arrived in town on Tuesday, from a visit to Sir Walter James, at Betteshanger, near Sandwich. Sir James Graham and Captain Richards have paid an official visit to Deptford Dockyard. The Duchess of Gloucester, with renovated health, is residing at the Ranger's Lodge in Richmond Park, The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess St. Germans intend to pass a few weeks at Port Eliot, the family seat in CornwalL Alexander von Humboldt celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday on the 14th: he retains his full bodily health and intellectual vigour.

General Cordova, formerly Minister of War in Spain, is one of the band of exiles at Bayonne.

General O'Donnell has suffered from a serious attack of disrrhcea ; but on the llth he was pronounced to'be out of danger.

Mr. Rogers, a surgeon of Dean Street, was hurrying up Berwick Street early on the morning of the fatal 2d of September, when he was almost over- powered by a most sickening odour—he was passing an untrapped gully- hole; be looked up, and found it was opposite a surgeon's shop. Later in the day, he heard that the surgeon was dead; Mr. Rogers immediately ex- claimed, "That gully-hole has destroyed him !" In that house there were altogether eight cases of cholera, and seven deaths. In another house op- posite a gully-hole, there were six cases and five deaths. Some time since, the unfortimate 4urgeon in Berwiek Street applied to the Commissioners of Sewers to trap the drain : the answer was, that if it were done he must bear the expense himself.

"Lydia" supports the view that the outbreak in the Golden Square dis- trict arose from disturbing a Plague burial-ground, by an extract from a long account in Miss Seward's Letters. "In 1668 the plague visited the village of Eyaos in Derbyshire ; the churchyard being speedily filled, a plot of ground was fired on in the immediate neighbourhood. In 1767 this plague. ground was dug over by fire men ; they came to something which had the appearance of having been linen ; fearful of consequences, they buried it again, but in a few days they all sickened of a putrid fever, and three out of the five died, and the disease proved mortal to seventy persons at Eyam. Thug, after the period of ninety-one years, the subtile, unextinguished, though abated power of this superlatively dreadful disease, awakened from the dust:" "Alpha," of Wolverhampton, informs the Times that smoke did not save Bildeni one of the smokiest of towns, from dreadful ravages from the ehele-ra in 1832 and 1849; it is not less exempt than other places from the visits of epidemic disease ; its general rate of mortality is high.

Even the highest mountains are not refuges from the cholera : a Ger- man missionary has died of the disease in the Nellgherries, eight thousand feet above the sea-level. He was the first European victim on the moun- tains, but the disease is not uncommon among the natives.

While the rest of the world has suffered so much from cholera, Egypt has been partictilarly healthy, and there have been no signs of the epidemic.

The Bible Society are carrying on active operations at the French camps at Boulogne ; where their colporteurs are distributing the Scriptures to the French soldiery at almost nominal rates. The Society is also busily engaged in Turkey ; where there has lately been an increased inquiry after the Bible. They have an agent at Bucharest ; and the New Testament has been lately Eublished in the Bulgarian language, under the superintendence of Dr. Henderson, In Spain they profited by the late disturbances to dispose of a considerable number of Bibles ; and they are going to commence a vigorous campaign under the new constitution, which profesees to secure civil and religious liberty to all parties and sects.

More ureligioue " rioting in America. The Protestant Association march- ed in procession through Newark, New Jersey ; they were hissed and pelted, and shots are said to have been fired from a Roman Catholic chapel—at any rater. the enraged and.realous Protestants broke into the chapel, and ruined the interior. Theie.diegraceful conflicts are becoming as common as Ameri- can fires.

While the Germans of Philadelphia were celebrating the "grand Turner- band festival," a fight arose; the police interfered, and there was a general battle ; the police are armed with revolvers, and they fired on the mob, ounding several : one of the officers was stabbed.

Truths encourages the Russian trade through Memel : all steamers that will ply regularly to that port are to receive a remission of one-third of the harbour-dues.

The pripe of grain in the North of Europe still keeps at a higher figure than as expected ; but thiri is explained, like the recent rise in our own markets, by the almost total exhaustion of old stocks.

The brewers of Bath are about to reduce the price of beer, in consequence ethic-fall in the value of malt. The brewers of London are never guilty of such a weakness.

The late demand for hemp has been so largely responded to from the in- terior of India that the merchants of Bombay are surprised, and are asking where it can all have oome from.

he banish islands have shared in the glorious harvest of the year : the gritlaties are overflowing. -The last news of the crops in-the -United States is Of a more cheering kind than formerly. nilia hi 'Egypt for next Year, hrrie escaped the threatened danger, the

Nile having risen rapidly. • ' ' • - - •

ITie calorie-engine* are pronounced, to. be failures, and are to be

replaced in the ship Ericsson by steam-engiamr...,- The value of hotel property at New York is estimated at twelve million dollars.

The Punjaub will send a collection of articles to be exhibited in the Paris Exposition.

At the last advises from India everything was ready for laying an electrie cable across the Sutlej.

The Norwegian Railway, from Christiania to Lake Miosen forty-two miles, was formally opened on the 1st, in the presence of the Ministers, the mem- bers of the Storthing, and the principal merchants.

No less than 1,100,000/. of the precious metals arrived last week : the ex- ports were trifling.

Captain Cook's chronometer has been presented to the United Service In- stitution, by Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert. It has undergone some ad- ventures : alter two voyages with Cook, Lieutenant Bligh took it out in the Bounty ; the mutineers carried it to Pitcairn's Island ; it was sold to an American, who sold it again in Chili ; finally, Sir Thomas Herbert bought it at Valparaiso, for fifty guineas.

When the Queen arrived at York on her journey to Scotland, Mr. Baines, curator of the York Museum, presented her Majesty with a bouquet contain- ing a splendid flower in the centre—a Victoria Begin just bursting.

The Rector of Gateshead and his clergy have commenced open-air preach- ing, to be continued during fine weather.

A new steam-yacht for the use of the Emperor and Empress of Austria on the Danube has been "consecrated" by a Bishop at Kloster Neuberg.

The data of Grisi and Mario at New York was not unsuccessful, but there was not that exuberant enthusiasm which :preliminary puffing pretended to expect and really helped to prevent.

Some very interesting experiments have recently been tried at Vienna by the artillery with "exploding cotton" instead of gunpowder ; and they have succeeded so completely that cotton will in future be used. New six-pounders have been cast, which weigh six hundredweight less than those formerly used ; and they answer the purpose perfectly well—if exploding cotton is employed instead of gunpowder. The army is to be equipped with the new rifle by the spring of 1855, at an expense for alterations of only 2,500,000 florins.

A "Railway Traveller" informs the Times that a collision occurred lately on the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway, between Leeds and Liverpool; a passenger-train having run into a train containing stone and ballast, stand- ing in the way in a deep cutting, near a tunnel; no passenger was hurt, but there was great alarm, with much delay and inconvenienee. The passenger- train was over-due when the "accident" occurred. The Company print on their tickets that they do not hold themselves responsible for any irregu- larity in the time of the trains, or for "any consequent loss or damage." Supposing this collision to have arisen entirely from unpunctuality, and a passenger to have been killed, would the Company plead that their previous notification.relieved them from responsibility ?

A bloodthirsty villain has committed three murders in the commune of St. Etienne, department of the Lozire. He is a corn-dealer; he learned that a farmer had 800 francs on his person ; he waylaid him at night, knocked him down with a stone, killed him with an axe, and took the money. Then he hastened 'to the farmer's house, killed a young man, wounded the farmer's wife and child, and carried off more money : the wife died subsequently, but not before she had described the assassin. He has been taken and delivered up to justice. Four years ago he was tried for murdering four persons, but escaped conviction.

A prisoner escaped from custody by jumping from a railway-carriage while passing through Lewes tennel : some days afterwards, the constable who lost the rogue received a parcel from Croydon, for which he had to pay six- pence—the runaway had returned the handcuffs he had carried with him.

Mr. T. H. Julian, second master of the Euryalus, has been found guilty of drunkenness, by a Court-martial at Portsmouth, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.