The Queen and Prince Albert, after the debate in the

House of Com- mons on the condition of the juvenile poor of London, contributed 100/. in aid.of the Ragged Schools Union.

On being informed of the completion of the statue of Mrs. Siddons, about to.-be placed in Westminster Abbey, Prince Albert immediately sent a con- tribution of 251. towards the erection of the monument—Globe.

The Grand Duke of Hesse, Lewis the Second, died at Darmstadt on the 16th, of an apoplectic attack. He was in the seventy-first year of his age, and succeeded his father in April 1830. His death will produce no poli- tie,a1 consequences, as he had on the 5th of March last appointed, his son, Lewis, Co-Regent, and had taken no part since in public affairs. The Duke of Wellington gave his annual Waterloo banquet at Apsley House on Monday the 19th, as the 18th of June fell on Sunday. Prince Albert was present. 'The Archbishop of York was sufficiently recovered from his late acci- dent to leave town for Bishopsthorpe on Friday. Dr. Chambers the physician has, we regret to learn, been obliged to re- tire into the country on account of ill-health; and we are informed that it is extremely improbable that be will ever be able to take an active part ill the arduous labours of physiaian of his rank in praoticia—Wobe.

We understand that Mr. T. S. Duncombe came to town on Monday, for the express purpose of being present at the debate on Mr. Haines motion; but experienced a severe relapse after his arrival in town, andfhas been in- terdicted by his medical advisers from attending the House OrCommons at present.

Don Patricio de la Damara, member of the Spanish Co( Minister of the Interior' and a popular dramatic author in Spain, arri, Mivart's Hotel on Tuesday: he escaped from political imprisonment at Cadiz whence he was on the point of being shipped off to the Philippine Islands.

Henry Collingwood Selby, Esq., has been appointed Queen's Advocate for the island of Ceylon.

The Honourable Edward Stanley, 30A of Lord Stanley, and the Honourable Colonel Brace, brother of Lord Elgin, the Governor-General of Canada, have gone out by the Cambria on a pleasure excursion to the United States and Canada.

The late Mrs. Matthewman, a native of Leeds, has willed property worth 2.5,0001. to trustees to be used by them, for the promotion of divine worship in Leeds, ac- cording to the liturgy and usages of the Church of England; under the sanction of the Bishop of Ripon.

Mr. Warren, the author of " Ten Thousand a Year," at a lecture in the hall of the Law Society, the other day, mentioned a pleasing fact. A gentleman having been exasperated by his daughter's marriage, disinherited her; and left his for- tune—some 40,0001.—to a solicitor and two other gentlemen. The solicitor in- duced the other legatees to assign the whole amount to him, and then settled all the property upon the lady and her children. In narrating this,. the Doncaster Chronicle confirms the statement from its own knowledge; hinting that the father was a Leeds manufacturer, while the generous lawyer shit lives, a prosper- ous gentleman of the West Riding.

Mr. Councillor Brigg, of Sheffield, a well-known Chartist leader, and one of the delegates of the late National Convention, died on Tuesday, raving mad, in the Sheffield Lunatic Asylum. The immediate cause of his malady is sup by Mr. Overend, one of the surgeons who attended him, to have been the of a Government prosecution for a seditious speech that he delivered at a Chartist meeting on WhitLiSionday.

The freedom of the Negroes was proclaimed at Besse Terre, Guadeloupe, on the 27th May, and at St. Pierre, Martinique, on the 23d.

The Brussels correspondent of the Morning Chronicle reports a curimui affair as sequel to the attempt on the Belgian frontier at Risquonstont, made by Re- publican propagandists from Paris in March last. " Two principal chiefs of the invading gang had been taken into custody at Lille, in conformity with a decision of the law courts, and afterwards released by an autocratic order of the Commis- sary-General Delescluza The most important of the two personages, Blervaeq, was at Paris, and ready to start for Algiers, where he intended to assume the di- rection of a great agricultural establishment; when, on Friday last, he was ar- rested, and brought back to Lille. He has already undergone several interroga- tories. He is greatly exasperated at being arrested; and says he undertook his expedition with the sanction and assistance of Messrs. Ledru-Rollin and Caussi- diere, who supplied him with money, arms' ammunition, and a battalion of the Paris Garde Urbaine, commanded by a M.Nicolai. He is said to have prepared a list of witnesses, including Messieurs Ledm-Rollin, Cansaidiere, Delescluze Pil- lette, and another list of three hundred persons who, in the event of his tieing guilty, would be his accomplices. Blervacq is in hopes that the prosecution will fall to the ground, from the difficulty of bringing so many individuals to trial."

Orders have been received from the Board of Customs for the immediate re- duction of the staff of landing-waiters at the port of Hull; four of whom are to be discharged with compensation in lieu of retiring pensions.—ifull Advertiser.

The Coast Guard at Langstone harbour, near Portsmouth, on Sunday morning seized the Two Sisters, smack, and her crew, together with forty tubs of foreign spirits, which were concealed in a false bottom.

The London and Quebec packet-ship Astoria, on her outward voyage, has been lost within seventy miles of her destination, on the coast of the Little Fox River.

She struck violently on some rocks, and there was no expectation of saving her. The passengers and crew landed in safety, and some stores were also got to the shore. A party of wreckers attempted to plunder the vessel, and were only driven away by the seamen firing on them.

The regularity with which the steam-packets from America usually arrive causes the more anxiety if one of them does not make her appearance when due. Some uneasiness was felt at Liverpool on Tuesday respecting the Hibernia; and it appears to have been not without foundation; for she ran on shore in the evening of that day on the Calf of Man, during a fog. Whether she sustained any damage has not been ascertained, as the misfortune was not divulged on her first arrival.

Charles Verrier, of Kingswood Hill, near Bristol, killed his infant son a fort- night since, by a mischance resulting from passion. He threw a poker at another of his children who had disobeyed its mother; and, missing that child, the poker fractured the skull of the infant killed. A Coroner's Jury found the father guilty of" Manslaughter."

Taylor, an inhabitant of Ledbury, had been beaten, while drunk, by Thomas Bennett, the son of an innkeeper. A few days ago, Taylor met Bennett, who in his turn was drank, and challenged him to fight; the other declined; but Taylor knocked him down twice, and left him dead in the street. Taylor has been sent to prison on a charge of manslaughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, a very aged couple, have been drowned in the Ayr, by an unusual accident. Accompanied by a grandson, they were attempting to cross the river by a ford near ETalmston, in a chaise, when a sudden flood came down, sweeping the vehicle away. The young man was saved by the intrepidity of 11. ploughman's wife.

The elephant Rajah, in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens, killed Richard How- ard his keeper, on Saturday. Howard struck the elephant for disobedience; and was immediately beaten down by its trunk, and crushed into the earth by a single movement elite foot. The proprietors immediately resolved to kill the elephant. Two ounces of prussic acid and twenty-five grains of aconite were administered, in a bun: but not the least effect followed this extraordinary dose. After waiting an hour, twelve privates of the Fifty-second. Rifles entered the den, and fired; the elephant staggered, and leaned against the wall: twelve other privates then fired, and it fell dead.

Two years ago, a little girl, seven years old, was lost from Perth. It was sup-. posed that she had been stolen by a may. She has just been restored to her family. It appears that she was enticed away from the city by a female hawker,, who then forced her to say that they were sisters, and travel with her about the country. At Nairn, a benevolent couple were interested for the supposed sisters; put the elder to service, keeping the stolen child with them, provided her with schooling, and behaved with the greatest kindness. At length the hawker went away from the town; and the child being released from her terror, told her tale. •

Mr. Coxwell, an English aeronaut, has made a perilous ascent at Brussels. Hei had the alternative of allowing the gas to escape from the balloon after it had been; inflated for his first voyage or of ascending during a; fierce gale: he chose the 1st ter, and, with a friend, was hurried fifty-five miles in twenty minutes. The deacent was safely made, though. with difficulty. • -'. There was a gipsy's wedding at Upton Bishop on Saturday, and we are in- formed that the parents of the bride were enabled to give her the handsome fortune of four thousand pounds. Taking it, however, at one-fourth or even one-eighth of that amount, this is a dowry such as falls to very few indeed of the industrious classes.—Hereford Journal.

On Saturday, a woman named Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central Cri- nainal Court for stealing a watch from the person of William Deverill. So great was the alteration for the better in her appearance, that the prosecutor had some difficulty in identifying her.