The Earl of Clarendon returned to London on Monday. The

Globe of Tuesday stated that "her Majesty expressed her wish to signify her re- cognition of his services by conferring a Marquisate upon the noble Earl, but Lord Clarendon has begged her Majesty's permission to decline the honour."

According to the Morning Post, the vacant Garters are to be bestowed upon Lord Palmerston and Earl Forteseue.

Count Cavour arrived in England at the close of last week. He has had interviews with Lord Clarendon.

The Gazette of Tuesday announced that the Queen has been pleased to grant to the Reverend Henry Melvin, B.D., the place and dignity of a Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, voil by the promotion of the Honourable Henry Montagu Villiers, D.D., to the Bishopric of Carlisle.

THE CRIMEAN INountr.—The chief interest in the Chelsea Inquiry this week lay in the examination of Sir Edmund Lyons on Monday, by Lord Lucan and Colonel Tulloch. FActonined as to the use of sailcloth, Sir Edmund said he had never heard of it until it was mentioned before the Board. Lord Raglan, he believed, would never have applied for spare sails, even if the idea had occurred to him. It would have been totally useless to put up canvass on the plateau. He was not a military man, and could not tell whether it would have been useful to put it up in the valley at Kadikoi. All the sails that could be spared were landed. It was a tempestuous season; the spare canvass—he did not know, no offi- cer does know, what quantity there is on board—might have been want- ed any .day. He had not so many ships under his command as Colonel Tulloch imagined. As to carpenters, he had only one fourth of the num- ber set down by Colonel Tulloch. Fifty or sixty were landed. To show how badly they were off for carpenters, he said that when the Royal Albert lost her rudder all the carpenters in the fleet were thirty-one days re- pairing it. There was not one man who could possibly have been spared.

for the army. When ships returned from blockading service, they were obliged to give them carpenters from the fleet to repair damages. At Constantinople there were not enough to keep the boats in repair. None could be obtained, not even at Constantinople. An admiral is not bound to know that carpenters abound at Constantinople because it is built of wood. As to sheltering horses, in riding through the camp he saw a great many officers sheltering their horses by embankments. Thus Sir George Brown's horses were sheltered from first to last ; and thus Co- lonel Wood saved most of the horses of the Royal Artillery. The Judge-Advocate—" The Board wishes to know whether you consider yourself competent to speak further as to the want of promptitude or in- genuity ' displayed in providing shelter for the cavalry? '

Sir Edmund Lyons—"No, I do not. My opinion is, as far as it goes, that there was no want of promptitude ; but I cannot constitute myself a judge in military matters.',

The Board adjourned until Friday, to give Colonel Tulloch time to prepare a reply.

Colonel Tulloch yesterday addressed the Board in reply upon the whole case so far as it has been investigated, and stoutly argued for the cor- rectness of the conclusions of the report. The Board granted Lord Lucan until Monday to make a rejoinder.

The Queen, it is said, told Admiral Dundas at the review on Wednesday, i that it is her intention to grant a medal for the late Baltic campaigns.

In consequence of the very great number of troops which are expected to arrive in England during the month of May, and the barrack-accommoda- tion being extremely limited, it is intended to establish camps on Southsea Common, Penenden Heath, Barham Downs, and another near Plymouth, at which the various regiments will be located until they are reduced to the peace establishment of 1000 rank and file each. The camp at Penenden Heath will be exclusively for cavalry. It is not intended to erect huts, the camps being only temporary ; and the men will be under canvass.

A review on a grand scale is expected to take place at Aldershott early in June ; when upwards of 30,000 men, cavalry, infantry, and artillery, will be present. This will be succeeded by reviews at Colchester, Penenden Heath, and Barham Downs ; and siege operations on an extensive scale will conclude the season on Chatham lines.

Theatrical exhibitions have been commenced at Aldershott Camp : there is to be a grand ball on the 9th of May; and various games are to be pro- vided for the amusement of the soldiers. A third church is in course of construction, with a gallery for the Royal Family. Already some tents are pitched, and it is expected that in the summer all the regiments will be un- der canvass.

Since the commencement of the war, 170 non-commissioned officers have been presented with commissions in the Army—about an eighth of the total first commissions granted without purchase.

Considerable improvements have been made at. Harrow School by means of subscriptions from the Head Master, the assistants, old Harrovian, and the parents of boys now there. A new edifice, containing six school-rooms, has been raised and a new aisle has been added to the chapel, with a beau- tiful chancel—the latter cost 25001., munificently given by Dr. Vaughan.

The foundation-stone for a row of almshouses at Holmfirth, commemora- tive of the fatal flood of February.1852, and of the liberality of the British public in subscribing for the surviving sufferers, was laid on Monday.

A letter from Alexandria gives some additional information relative to the Black Sovereign of Abyssinia. This imitator of Solouque has organized, it is said a Christianity of his own, and proposes to convert all Africa to it by fire and sword. He is stimulated in this project by a Copt of Cairo, well known in that city for his fanaticism, and whom he has named Patriarch. The " Emperor" has abolished slavery for men, but retains it for women, Aim he deems inferior beings.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson have been selling Mr. Lane's collection of rare books. They produced high prices. A fine first edition of Shakspere -brought 164/. 178. ; and Prynne's Records, three volumes—nearly all the -copies of the first volume of which were destroyed in the great fire of Lon- don—sold for 2001.

It is said at Warsaw that Count Walewski wishes to purchase the estates that formerly belonged to his family in Russian Poland. If he should buy the ,m says the 21Mes correspondent, of course the wicked world would say he had received them as a present from the Emperor Alexander for his ser- vices in the Conference.

Sir Hamilton Seymour has at length found a house at Vienna suitable for his residence as a British representative,—no easy task in that city. It would seem very proper to the dignity of this country to erect a mansion at Vienna for our Ministers there.

The English Government have presented gold medals to the officers and crew of Dr. Kane's Arctic expedition ; and a silver vase to Mr. Grinnell, who, with Mr. Peabody of London' sent out the expedition. A. present of plate was sent to Dr. Kane, but the rules of the American service prevented his acceptance of it.

The Times Paris correspondent says that Deranger denies the authorship of the verses "Aux Etucliants."

According to the Journal de Frankfort, Staudigl, the eminent bass- singer, is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum ; and Madame Heinefetter, once a favourite prima donna of the German stage, has died insane, from the loss of her property.

A pastoral letter has been addressed to the clergy of Lower Austria, but without the authorization of the Government, ordering that in Roman Ca- tholic cemeteries, where hitherto it has not been the custom to make a dis- tinction between the graves of men of different religious views, a special and distinct spot be henceforth kept for the bodies of Protestants.

The Austrian Lloyd's has established a line of steamers between Trieste and Constantinople direct, to perform the voyage from port to port in six days.

An immense steamer for the Collins line has been launched at New York. The Adriatic is built of wood ; she is 364 feet long, 330 feet keel, 60 feet beam, and 33 feet 2 inches in the hold. Her tonnage is 5900. She is the largest vessel afloat in the world.

The principal proprietory fire-insurance companies of France insured in the year 1852 no less than 1,026,705,0871. of property ; the premiums were 902,4781. ; the losses 397,696/. ; the expenses 351,998/. ; and the dividends to shareholders 150,1201.

.The Doncaster Gazette asserts that common butter is adulterated with finds I—that is, flint is ground fine, exposed to a chemical action which Converts it into a gelatinous mass, and this is mixed with the butter, with salt and colouring matter.

Mr. Frederick Tyerman has patented a "Vehicle Umbrella Receptacle," to be affixed to the doors of public carriages for the reception of the wet umbrellas of passengers as they enter. The receptacle appeals to be a very simple affair, and if it came into general use would certainly promote the comfort of travellers in town or by railway in rainy weather. It is rather surprising that such a plan has not been proposed before now.

Zymotle 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 Ingestion ...

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Malformations Premature Birth

Atrophy Alle Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes Ten Weeks of 1848-13.

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Mrs. Ellen Grey, who rashly accused a lady of stealing her watch while in an omnibus—and afterwards found the watch, where she had placed it, in her own dress—has published an apology, paid all expenses, and made a donation of 51. to a charitable institution.

After a considerable interval for America, two great fires are re- ported,—one at Baltimore, sweeping away 200,000 dollars' worth of pro- perty the other at Philadelphia—the Artisan Building, also valued at .W0,000 dollars.

The American journals assert that a system of slavery is now existing in Cuba under pretence of receiving Chinese as indentured labourers. The horrors of the passage from China to the West Indies exceed those of the African slave-trade ; and when the Coolies arrive in Cuba they are more cruelly treated than the Negroes—they are slaves in effect, and yet have not been purchased at great cost as the Blacks are. Suicides among the un- happy wretches are very common.

By the ship Mercury, arrived at Torbay, we have a narrative of the fear- ful sufferings of the crew of the Blake, a Liverpool ship. She sailed from the Mississippi with a cargo of deals for Cork ; after a time she experienced dreadful weather, had eight men washed overboard, and became a mere log on the water ; all her provisions had been washed away by the tremendous seas. For seventeen days the survivors of the crew suffered horribly: two died of fatigue and starvation. The poor fellows were constantly wet they had but one cask of water, and no food; a rat was caught, and divided among them ; this was all they had for thirteen days : on the thirteenth day the second man died—his body was not thrown overboard as the former had been, but was used for food ! Several ships passed, but did not see the wreck. On the seventeenth day the schooner Pigeon, of St. John's, New- foundland, bore down, and the eight survivors were rescued.

for the week ending on Saturday last. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis