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Mr. Keogh, in his defence last week, cited a letter from Mr. Edmund O'Flaherty respecting a conversation between himself and Lord Naas during a journey to Ireland. The statement in Mr. O'Flaherty's letter

"He [Lord Naas] spoke in terms of much disappointment and regret at what he considered your [Mr. Keogh's] ungrateful conduct in making an attack, a few evenings previous, in the House, on Mr. Disraeli ; as they had deserved a kinder consideration from you after the feeling evinced in his having sent for you and asked whether you would take office under the Government of Lord Derby." A flat contradiction to this was:given by Lord Naas in his speech : he said—

"Had I made such a statement, it would have been at variance with the truth, and I beg to state that I never did make it."

Thus challenged, Mr. O'Flaherty has produced a letter from Mr. James Martin, a Deputy-Lieutenant of Galway, and an adherent of Lord Derby's party, who was present during the conversation. Appealed to as a man of honour, Mr. Martin describes from memory what Lord Naas said- " Lord Naas, in alluding to the political hostility to the Government evinced by Mr. Keogh, expressed great surprise at it, and observed that after the ofers they had made to him, it was entirely unexpected, and that he thought Mr. Keogh would have acted with more prudence if he did not evince this hostility to them."

The Earl of Carlisle passed through Vienna, on his way to Constan- tinople, on the 14th.

Baron de Bruck, Austrian Internuncio, arrived at Constantinople on the 10th.

Prince Mirza Mohammed arrived at Constantinople, from Teheran, on the 8th instant, on a special mission from the Shah of Persia.

The Spanish Government has sent General Prim on a mission to Constantinople.

Mr. Marsh, the American Minister, arrived at Constantinople, in the frigate Cumberland, on the 6th instant.

Prince Menschikoff was at Odessa, awaiting orders, on the 3d instant. He had reviewed the troops there.

Prince Gortebakoff, the Russian General who attended the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, will command the Russian army intended to oc- cupy the Danubian Principalities.

The Prince and Princess of Prussia are expected to arrive in England, on a visit to the Queen, on Sunday evening.

The marriage of Prince Albert of Saxony to the Princess Carole Wasa was celebrated on Saturday last, in the cathedral of Dresden.

It is reported that Dr. Begot, Bishop of Bath and Wells, will shortly re- sign his office, in consequence of infirmities under which he has for some time laboured.

The clergy of the diocese of St. David's have resolved to have a portrait of Dr. Thirlwall, their Bishop, in token of their high estimation of his character. It will be painted by Mr. Samuel Laurence.

The Bishop of Ripon has been celebrating the rite of confirmation in sonic Continental cities. In Hamburg he confirmed twenty-seven in Hanover ten, in Berlin, eight ; and from Berlin he WRB to proceed to Dresden, there to confirm twenty-six persons.

The obituary records the death of the premier Marquis of Scotland— the Marquis of Huntly, Knight of the Thistle, and Aide-de-camp to the Queen. He had attained the extreme old age of ninety-two. He was descended from the fourth son of that Marquis of Huntly who was be- headed at Edinburgh in the great civil war of the seventeenth century. The deceased is succeeded by his eldest son, the Earl of Aboyne.

M. de Bille the Danish Minister at St. James's, died suddenly on Sa- turday, from disease of the heart.

Mr. Maurice O'Connell, Member for Tralee, and eldest son of the late Daniel O'Connell, died early on Saturday morning, of apoplexy. Though unwell, he had been in the House of Commons early on Friday. His eldest son, a Midshipman on board the ill-fated Dauntless, bad recently returned home.

The long-expected signal to the British fleet at Malta—" Fleet prepare for sea "—was given on the evening of the 7th instant. No time was lost : steam was rapidly got up ; the Arethusa was towed out; but the night was dark, the wind blew into the harbour, and the risk of towing nut the whole fleet in the darkness was too great ; so they waited till morning. Then the whole were towed out except the Rodney, Captain Graham ; who, holding it a discredit not to be able to find his way out without the aid of a "smoker," refused to be taken in tow, and "beat out in beautiful style." By eleven all the ships were out of sight.

Admiral Houston Stewart arrived at Malta on the 8th, to relieve Ad- miral Harvey as Superintendent of the Dockyard.

The Princess Royal, a new screw two-decker of 91 guns, was launched on Thursday at Spithead.

The submarine telegraph between London and Brussels was officially opened on Monday at the office established in the House of Commons. Complimentary messages were interchanged between the Duke of Bra- bant and Lord de Manley, M. Drouet and the Duke of Brabant, Lord William Paulet, on behalf of the Duke of Cambridge, detained at Choh- ham, and Lord Howard de Walden, and Lord Howard de Walden and Lord Stanley. The experiments proved the perfectness of the communica- tion.

Commander Lynch, of the United States Navy, recently returned to New York from a preliminary exploring expedition into the interior of Africa, with the view of ascertaining how far American trade can be pushed in that continent-. He reports against the probability of effecting White settlements on the West coast, in consequence of the unhealthy climate, and therefore also against the probability of any great extension. of trade.

"Miles," writing to the Times from Chobham Camp, gives a ludicrous picture of the "young officers." He says, as they have little to do and no books, they "sit down and smoke, or else go to sleep—sometimes to, bed."

Mr. Sleigh, the barrister, has offered an explanation of his recent licentious conduct at the bar. He says that he appeared in the ease in lieu of a friend ; that he had not time to look over the papers for the defence; and that he merely made use of the "hypothesis" he advanced to show that there might be doubts.

The Reverend John Mayor, ]3.D., son of the "spelling-book" Dr. /lever, has been found dead in a debtor's cell in Oxford County Gaol, where he had been confined for nine years. Be had a living in Essex worth 3501. a year ;

nearly ten years ago it was sequestered to pay his debts ; if he bad lived till October next he would have regained this income. The deceased was ec- centric; he lived on the bounty of his friends, but sometimes refused to taste food for two or three days ; and though he had long been ill he refused to see the prison surgeon. He died of inanition, from obstinate abstinence. A frightful disaster occurred on board the London, a 90-gun ship, one of Admiral Corry's squadron, returning from Lisbon to Portsmouth. The squadron was at the time three days from Lisbon, and there being a calm, the steamers were ordered to take the sailing-vessels in tow. The London was taken in tow by the Impeneuse, 50-gun screw-frigate; the tow-rope from the latter being fastened to the London's chain messenger, which was attached to a ring-bolt on the lower deck. It would appear that the chain- messenger was not well secured to the " bite" ; and a sudden strain oc- curring, the whole force of it was concentrated on the ring-bolt, which gave way, and flew round with terrific violence, killing First Lieutenant Wel- lesley Pole Chapman, and six men. Nine others were hurt; one person's thigfi, arms, and wrist, were broken, and he is not expected to survive. A ship has arrived at Liverpool direct from the Canada Lakes—the first achievement of the kind. The Cherokee was built at Kingston, on Lake Ontario ; took in her cargo at Toronto, and descended to Quebec. She was only twenty-five days from that city to Liverpool, outstripping in this voy- age all competitors but one. It is thus proved that a Lake-built vessel, with a light draught, can cross the Atlantic ; which had before been doubted.

The boomerang propeller was tried in the Conflict screw-sloop on Saturday, at Portsmouth. A previous trial had been made with the screw propeller, and the results noted : the speed was 9.068 knots per hour. With the boome- rang it was 9.125—no great excess ; but then it is said that wind and tide were unfavourable on Saturday, and that the revolutions of the boomerang were less rapid than the screw, causing a saving of fuel.

The Edinburgh Guardian tells the fate of "a Scotch Actreon." Two young ladies were battling at a secluded spot near a village ; a "gentleman" not only stared at them, but actually proceeded to bathe close to them ; and the ladies resolved to punish him. They appeared to fly from his intrusion, dressed themselves, and then carried off the gentleman's clothes : in vain he shouted and gesticulated and entreated—they retreated. Some hours elapsed before any one came near this meanspirited bather. "At length a grinning rustic made his appearance, and informed him that the twa leddies had left his cla'es we a wench at the green, a mile awn', wha wadna gi'e them back without he paid a pun' for taking care o' them, forby being a penalty for affronting the leddies dookin'.' The penalty was paid on the restitution of the garments; and the unlucky wight quietly left the village, where the joke was already known, and the conduct of the damsels publicly approved of. The offender is now suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism.'

The opening of the South Wales Railway has enabled the fishermen of Cal marthen and Swansea to send large quantities of fish to London, Birming- ham, and other inland towns : formerly there was only a local market, and the catch was restricted in consequence.

Six of Turner's paintings have recently been sold by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at the under-mentioned prices: five were from the gallery of .3tr. \Vilnius, of Tottenham ; the other belonged to the collection of Mr. Broderip. " Venice—Evening : Going to the Ball," 520 guineas ; its com- panion—" Morning : Returning from the Ball," 610 guineas ; "The Dawn of Christianity—Flight into Egypt," 710 guineas ; "Glaueus and Scylla," painted on panel, 700 guineas; "The Approach to Venice," 8001.; "Do- gma: Church of San Giorgio," 1100 guineas.

A secret worth knowing ! How to avail yourself of the cheap book-post- age in India. If you send a half-pound book from Calcutta to Lahore by " dawk baughy," under the most liberal Indian rules, it will cost you in the conveyance thirteen alines. If money is a greater object with you than time, as it sometimes is with thrifty people in the matter of literature, send your book to a friend in England, Scotland, or Ireland, at the charge of four annas, and let him redirect it to Lahore, whither it will go for four annas more. Thus the book is carried some 12,000 miles for eight annas, and you save five annas by the process.—Bengal Hurkaru.

A Brighton correspondent of the Times records a curious phainomenon. "In making the excavation for the lock on the Hove Ship Canal, near Brighton, a quantity of shale, of a blackish colour, which was thrown out, has spontaneously ignited. The stratum of shale is about eight feet in thickness ; the quantity thrown out is, therefore, large; and the whole of it, extending over a space of some score of square yards, gives signs of ap- proaching combustion, while in many parts it is already burning like a lime- kiln ; so that it has been removed from around the piling, for fear of its being destroyed. The process of combustion gives out a stifling and offensive vapour ; and leaves upon the surface a deposit of a white and also of a yel- low substance, the former resembling saltpetre in appearance and taste, and the latter sulphur. A small quantity of the shale, evidently forming a part of the same stratum, has been thrown up from under the clay in a brick- ground near the chalybeate at Brighton, about three miles distant from the lock ; and this has also ignited. Your informant attributes the combustion to the presence of phosphorus, in some form, which ignites when it has reached a certain temperature and comes in contact with the oxygen of the atmosphere."

The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph reports the escape of slaves. "Slaves are running away from Missouri, at the present time in battalions. Three be- longing to Mr. R. Meek, of Weston, ran away on Wednesday of last week ; two of whom were afterwards apprehended ; they were making for the plains. Fifteen made a 'stampede' from Ray County the week before, and took the line of their march for Iowa. Several were captured in Grundy County, but the larger number made good their escape. It would be a glorious thing for Missouri if all her slaves should take it into their heads to run away. If she only know it, they are one of the greatest drawbacks to her advancement and prosperity." The Hew York Journal of Commerce re- marks on the scarcity of labour in the South—" We yesterday conversed with a Southern planter from the Northern part of Georgia, who has come on here to engage men to work on his plantation. He has commenced harvesting, and requires additional help ; but the enhanced value of slaves since the abolition agitation places it beyond his ability to purchase a large supply, and White labour can be employed more economically than that of hired slaves."