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Great preparations are in progress to render-'the opening of the Crystal- Palace at Sydenham, by the Queen, on the 10th of June, as effective as possible. The Archbishop of Canterbury is to officiate with a prayer. Besides 1000 volunteer performers from the Sacred Harmonic and Phil- harmonic Societies, the choral societies of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and other towns, are to join in the Hallelujah chorus. An ex- traordinary gathering of Peers, Members of Parliament, learned men, and municipal authorities, is expected. Sir Joseph Paxton is now dictator at Sydenham, and every effort is made to bring the work nearer to corn-' pletion.

The Times announces that the departure of the Chevalier Bunsen must- now be considered final. He only awaits the arrival of Count Bernstorff from Naples to leave England for Germany ; and on Monday and Tues- day his valuable collection of objects of art will be disposed of by private sale at the Prussian Legation. "No foreign Minister,' adds the Times, "has more endeared himself to a large circle of English friends than the Chevalier Bunsen ; and this fact, coupled with the peculiar circumstances attendant on his recall, has caused his departure to be regarded with general regret."

The Ninety-seventh Regiment of Foot, 1000 strong, left Windsor on Saturday, played to the railway station by the band of the Blues, an& cheered by the Eton boys and a crowd of townspeople. They proceeded to Southampton by railway, and embarked on board the Orinoco the same day, amid similar manifestations from their countrymen. It is said that the Ninety-seventh are to form a part of an Anglo-French army of occupation in Greece.

The second detachment of the First Royal Dragoons, 120 strong, em- barked at Liverpool on Saturday, in the Arabia and Rip van Winkle, for the East. The third detachment embarked from the same poft in the Coro- nella on Tuesday. The Forty-second Highlanders embarked from Portsmouth on Satur- day. They were accompanied to the port of embarkation by the bands of the Thirty-fourth Foot and the first battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and by throngs of people.

The Forty-sixth and Sixty-third Regiments of Foot and the Twenty- first Fusileers are said to be under orders for service in Greece. Another account states that the Twenty-first are destined to service in the Baltic.

The Essex Rifle Regiment of Militia, 700 strong, under the command of Lord Jocelyn arrived at the Eastern Counties Shoreditch station on Thursday, from 'Colchester, and marched to the Tower, to do garrison duty there. Their uniform is a rifle-green tunic and trousers shot-belt and pouch ; and their arms a short rifle, a cut-and-thrust sword which may be fixed as a bayonet. This is the first Militia regiment called on for garrison duty.

Early in the week, a telegraphic despatch from Berlin was received stating that "the English have taken a fortress on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, and that 1500 Russians have been made prisoners." Another form of the report names the fortress as Guslafsvarn at Hango Head, an important military position commanding the Gulf of Finland. Up to this morning no confirmation of the despatch has been received ; but, on the The British Consul-General at St Petersburg, Mr. de Michele, has left that city at the desire of the Russian Government He passed through Konigsberg on the 18th May.

Mr. Frederick Buckman, of the late Bristol firm of Bucknall and Spark, recently returned from St. Petersburg, reports that an attack upon the capital itself is seriously apprehended "in high circles." The masses have a superstitious confidence that the war will be successful be- cause its objects are religious ; but many of the nobility and leading families were retiring into the interior. The commandant of Cronstadt had informed the Czar that the fortress, although of great strength, is not impregnable ; the Emperor went there twice or thrice a week, and great endeavours were used to strengthen the works. The city was crowded with troops ; and Cossacks, rarely employed there, were marching in. The troops were quartered on the inhabitants, greatly to their annoyance.

The electric telegraph is now open between Copenhagen and Stock- holm,—" really an important event" in the estimation of the good people of both capitals.

The statement of the Bridgewater Times, that the Reverend George Anthony Denison had resigned the Archdeaconry of Taunton, turns out to be totally destitute of foundation : the Archdeacon announces that he has neither resigned, nor intends "at the present or any future time" to resign, the preferment and the office which he holds in the Church of England.

The report of the Registrar-General exhibits an increase in the mor- tality last week. The total of deaths in the Metropolis rose from 1093 to 1188,—an excess of 135 above the calculated average 1053. It is re- marked that "the increase on the previous week arises from epidemic diseases, some of which have become more than usually fatal." They are scarlatina, hooping-cough, and typhus. There were two deaths from cholera ; one in Spitalfields, the other in Fulham.

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

Ten "Weelm Week of 1844.53. 0( 1884.

301 48 209 127 41 164 76 17 6 8 1 5 34 42 43 14 61 LUIS

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary dined with the Belgian Minister on Wednesday.

A ball given by the Countess Craven, on Wednesday night, was honoured by the presence of the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary.

Sir William Diolesworth had a general dinner-party on Wednesday, which included the Duchess of Inverness and the Hanoverian Minister.

Sir George Campbell, by one year the senior of his brother the Lord Chief Instice, died recently, at Edenwood, Fifeshire. He was born in 1779.

One of the enterprising explorers of the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant W. H. Hooper, died at Brompton last week. He commanded the second cutter of the Plover in an expedition of the boats of that ship from Icy Cape to the Mackenzie ; for three days he was lost in a snow-storm ; and for two winters he and his boat's crew were isolated near the Northern shores of America, living chiefly on the offal of fish. The hard- ships he endured caused the pulmonary disease of which he died.

Mr. Headlami Member for Newcastle, has been appointed Chancellor for the diocese of Ripon, vacant by the death of his father, the Venerable Arch- deacon Headlam.

Professor Wasgen, the director of the picture gallery at the Royal Museum of Hamburg' has received an invitation from Prince Albert. It is surmised that he will make a long stay in England.

Lord Stanley has sent in his adhesion to the movement for the repeal of the stamp-duty on newspapers, in a letter to the Secretary to the Association for the Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge.

The Earl of Elgin has arrived at Montreal, and reassumed the govern- ment of Canada.

Admiral Pellew quitted his ship the Winchester, at Hongkong, on the 16th March, to return home. His officers gave him a farewell dinner. When the Admiral left the ship, the sailors were ordered to man the yards : they obeyed; but no voluntary cheer burst forth.

A marriage is talked of between the Prince Regent of Baden and the Princess Louisa, daughter of the Prince of Prussia. The lady is only sixteen years of age.

It is reported that the Duke of Saldanha's health is in a :very precarious state.

The Duke of Gotha is now at Vienna. After a brief stay he will return to his palace of Reinhardsbrunn, near Gotha.

Queen Christina of Spain is pronounced out of danger. from the recent attack of scarlet fever.

The Emperor and Empress of the French witnessed the representation of "Les Cosaques," at the Galte, on Saturday. The political allusions in the piece caused shouts of "Vive rEmpereur !"

Ehimi Pasha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, who is to marry one of the Sultan's daughters, has arrived at Constantinople on a complimentary visit, bearing the usual presents.

The Emperor of the French has conferred the cross of the Legion of Honour on F. T. Abb4, master gunner on board the steam-frigate Mogador, who particularly distinguished himself at the bombardment of Odessa: Thirteen medals of honour have also been granted by the Emperor to the seamen of other ships who signalized themselves on the same occasion.

The King of Prussia has conferred orders of various degrees upon nine officers of the Russian army, all now in active service.

The Ann IVAlliter sailed from Cronstadt on the 15th instant. Sir Hamil- ton Seymour's property had been shipped on board a Prussian vessel, which had not sailed on the 16th.

Symotic Diseases 1,929 • • • • Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 443 ....

Tubercular Diseases 1,936 ....

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,175 . • . • Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 350 • • • • Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,458 • • •• Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 614 • . • • sesses of the Kidneys, &c. ... 103 • • • • Chilehirth, diseases of the Uterus, dec. 82 ..•• Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ac. 81 ...• Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, ke. 12 . • .•

malformations.

30 • • .• Premature Birth 237 ....

Atrophy 196 • • • • Age

•••• Sudden

4351

88

27

•••• iolence,Pvation, Cold, and Intemperance T n

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Total (including unspecified causes) 9,566

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Lieutenant Crawley has been tried by a no, l' Court-martial at Porter; mouth, for the loss of the Jasper gun-boat, in jid Channel. 'The evidenqe did not enable the Court to pronounce on the 'girt of the fire; but tlfet honourably acquitted Lieutenant Crawley : he Cliht crew used .their 14,0 most endeavours to extinguish the flames. The 'President, Sir Theola Maitland, in returning Lieutenant Crawley his flviord, said, "I have been requested by the Court to state that you did your duty nobly, both as,' sem- mending officer and a seaman."

Mr. George Brown, master of a ship whose name he omits to mention, has sent an account of the burning of the Portuguese barque Olimpia, bound from Pernambuco to Falmouth, with a cargo of sugar. Mr. Brown fell in with the barque on the 1st May ; as soon as he discovered that she was on fire he despatched a boat, which brought away all hands,—the master, the mate, thirteen seamen, and a passenger. It was well that Mr. Brown came to their aid, for when the burning ship was boarded the people were found in a state of fear and confusion, and had made no preparations to save them- selves.

There is no longer a "break of gauge" between Birmingham and Bristol. A narrow-gauge line has been laid down from Gloucester to Bristol, and the broad gauge will cease to be used for ordinary purposes.

Mr. Croall, teacher, Montrose, has received orders to prepare a collection of the plants of Forfarshire, as well as those indigenous to Balmoral, for the especial use of the Queen.---difontrose Renew.

Mr. John Bright M.P. has attained to distinguished honours. His speeches on the Eastern question are carefully translated and printed in the Russian papers; and gathered together they are published in divers Slavonic dialects. The special correspondent of the Times, whose letters from Gallipoli attacked our Commissariat and other arrangements, shares the honours with Mr. Bright: Upon the occasion of the recent announcement of a free discharge to the convicts in Newgate Prison, Dublin, under sentence of penal servitude, so overjoyed were four of them at the sudden intelligence, that they dropped dead.--Saunders's News letter.

The French Government has _prohibited the export of hemp grown in France, or hemp on which the French import-duty has been paid. Pur- chasers of hemp at Nantes and Havre thus find themselves unable to remove their property, and have been obliged to sell again at a loss. The representa- tions of their case by the British Ambassador at Paris were unavailing.

It is stated that plans of Russian fortresses are in such request in the Baltic, that a Swedish officer in Stockholm, who some years ago took a draw- ing of the fort of Sweaborg, demands for it no less than 40001.

Marshal Vaillant has presented to the Emperor of the French a long re- port on the state of Algeria in 1853. In that year all kinds of produce exhibited a large increase over 1852, and affairs generally denoted greater prosperity.

The New York Crystal Palace was reopened on the 4th instant, as a per- manent institution. Mr. Phineas Barnum, Mr. Horace Greely, Mr. Parke Godwin, and Mr. Elihu Burritt, delivered " orations " on the occasion. Prizes are offered for useful inventions and works of art.

A new gold coin has just been issued from the United States Mint. It is a three-dollar piece, and beautifully executed. But the issue of such a coin is condemned, as unnecessary, and as not being in conformity with the deci- mal eoinage system-100 or 1000 dollars could not be paid in three-dollar pieces.

Large shipments of coals are now regularly made from Vancouver's Island to San Francisco.

Last year, 36,699 immigrants arrived in Canada from Europe—rather fewer than in 1852. The Irish numbered 18,972; and of these the females preponderated over the males by more than 18 per cent: this is ascribed to the number of young women sent from the Poor-law Unions in Ireland, and to prosperous settlers sending for their wives or sisters.

An Italian in California has found at Yankee Hill, near Columbia, a lump of gold weighing twenty-seven pounds : the day before, he had been obliged to beg for alms to buy food.

The Ericsson caloric-ship has been raised out of the water.

According to a census taken on the 31st December last, the population of the island of Hongkong amounted to 39,017; of whom 37,536 were Chinese.