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The Gazette of Tuesday contains an announcement of the Household of the Prince of Wales. Colonel the Honourable Robert Bruce is ap- pointed Governor' Brevet-Major Robert Lindsay, Scots Fusilier Guards, Brevet-Major Charles Teesdale C.B., Royal Artillery, and Captain George Henry Grey, Rifle Brigade are appointed Equerries. Lord Valletort, Captain in the Cornwall Rangers Militia, is extra Equerry.

Mr. Horatio Waddington has been appointed a Commissioner under the University of Cambridge Reform Act, in the room of the late Dr. George Peacock, Dean of Ely.

On Tuesday the Morning Post announced the recal of Lord Napier from his mission at Washington, remarking that "the cause assigned is his Lordship's tendency to favour the Monroe doctrine." Whereupon the Globe said-

" We have authority for affirming that the statement of our contempo- rary is incorrect. Lord Napier is about to be removed from Washington to represent her Majesty at a European Court, but the change is one in the regular course of diplomatic promotion, and arises from no dissatisfaction on the part of the Government with his conduct or opinions in the United States."

Another statement of the Post that Mr. Lyons, [now Lord Lyons] our Minister at Florence, would succeed Lord Napier is understood to be well founded. The .Daily .News states that Lord Napier goes to Berlin ; but there is reason to doubt this.

The birthday of the Princess Frederick William was kept on Sunday with much rejoicing at Berlin. The Prince of Wales was present. The Prince and Princess had on the previous day taken possession of their new palace.

The Canadian News, an "undoubted authority," asserts that "one of the young Princes" will shortly go to Canada.

The Bishop of London will resume his usual Tuesday levees for the clergy at London House, St. James's Square, on and after Tuesday, the 30th inst. ; hours eleven till two o'clock.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers arrived at their residence in Grosvenor Crescent on Saturday evening from visiting the Emperor and Empress of the French, and left town on Tuesday for the Grove, near Watford,

Accounts from Naples of the 20th, state that Lord Stratford de Iterldsse. remained on board the frigate while he was in that roadstead, and continued his journey to Rome without visiting the King.

It is rumoured, and we have reason to believe not without foundafiss that Count Bernstorff will, before long, quit his .post as Minister of tji Court of Berlin. The Prussian Miniaters at Pans and Vienna are, it s said, also to be superseded. It is also stated., that Count Kieltnansegge, sico has for many years past ably discharged the .functions of Minister of the Court of Hanover in London, is on the eve of being recalled from his diplo- matic duties.—Times.

Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., arrived at his house in Arlington Street, fres, America, on Sunday evening, in excellent health.

The New York Times piteously complains that Mr. Washington Irving is seriously interrupted in his labours on the concluding volume of sis "Life of Washington," by invasions of stray-tourists and inquisitive noto- riety-hunters. The poor man cannot even walk in his garden without lia- bility to this kind of annoyance.

The Ladies Lucy and Harriet Bridgeman are progressing as favourably as the severe nature of their injuries admits of, and strons,s hopes are enter- tained of the recovery. of both the sufferers. The Earl of Bradford and Lord Newport are slightly injured in the hands, but well in health. Lady New- port is uninjured.

Mr. Sergeant Wells of the Norfolk Circuit, has accepted the appointment of Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, vacated by -the retire_ ment of Sir Arthur Buller. Mr. Sergeant Wells is well known as havieg a large Parliamentary business, and also considerable business on his circuit.

Edmund Lyons], first Lord Lyons, has not recovered from the ilthess which beset him in the autumn. He died on Wednesday at Arundel Castle in the 68th year of his age. Born in Hampshire, in 1790, he entered theNavyin 1801 as a first class volunteer. As a midshipman he saw service while in his teens in the Mediterranean and the Dardanelles ; and in 1807 he sailed for the East Indies. In 1810 he was the first to scale the Castle of Belgica, and with a handful of men he wrested Fort Marrack from the Dutch by storm—taking with thirty-five men, a fort mounting fifty-nine guns and defended by 180 soldiers. He obtained post rank in 1814, and then ceased to be employed for fourteen years. In 1828 he commanded the Blonde in the operations on the Greek coast, and afterwards cruised with his frigate in the Black Sea. She was the first British man-of-war that had entered those waters. In 1835 Sir Edmund Lyons became a diplomatist, and resided at Athens as British Minister for thirteen years. He was afterwards sent to Berne and thence to Stockholm. In 1853 he took once more to the quarter-deck, and served with zeal and ability throughout-the Crimean war. One incident in that war is thus described by the memoir writer of the Times-.- "A day or two after the battle of Balaclanc Sir Edmund Lyons, on land- ing, learnt to his astonishment that orders had been issued to the Naval Brigade to embark as many guns as possible during the day, for Balaclava was to be evacuated at nrglit,—of course, surrendering to the enemy the greater portion of the guns. On his own responsibility the Admiral at once put a stop to the execution of this order, and went in search of Lord Rag- lan, who it appears, had come to the resolution of abandoning Balaclava in consequence of the opinion expressed by the engineers that after the less of the redoubts in our rear, lately held by the Turks, we ought to colleen- trate our strengthen the plateat. Taking Lord Raglan aside, Sir Edmund Lyons strongly opposed these views ; he pointed out that the advanced pre sition in the valley in front of which these redoubts were situated had been originally occupied, in accordance with the advice of those very officers and in opposition to that of Sir Edmund, who had suggested at the time that they were covering too much ground ; he argued that, as the engineers had been mistaken once, they might be wrong again ; and he clenched his argument by saying that, whatever might be the value of his opinion in such a case, he was at all events, entitled to pronounce an opinion as to the insufficiency of Kamiesch as a harbour for the allied armies that this harbour was utterly inadequate ; and that the abandonment of 'Balaclava meant the evacuation of the Crimea in a week. After some conversation, Lord Raglan said, Well you were right before, and this time I will act upon your advice.' Sir Edmund obtained leave to countermand the orders Which had been issued ; Balaklava was maintained as our base of operations and the army was saved from what might have proved an inglorious defeat, if not a terrible disaster."

After the peace Sir Edmund became Lord Lyons. His family consisted of two sons and two daughters. One son, now Lord Lyons, 11; British Minister at Florence ; the other son died of a wound received before Sebas- topol. The daughters are the Duchess of Norfolk, and the Baroness de ifurtzburg.

M. Boulay (de In Meurthe) formerly Tice-President of the French Re- public, died on the 24th. He injured his leg in entering his carriage, and the wound mortified.

A company has been formed at St. Petersburg for improving the dwellings of the working-classes of that capital. The Pnnce of Mecklenburg-Streliu is at its head, and it has the patronage of the Emperor.

A Dublin morning paper states that it received a telegraphic message on Wednesday evening from Cork, in which it was declared that the Mayor had issued a formal prohibition against the lecture which Signor Gavassi had announced for thar night.

The efforts made by Sir James Brooke to obtain the protectorate of Eng- land for his colony at Sarawak have been watched with great concern from Holland. The Indipendanee of Brussels, of Saturday, states that the cabi- net of St. James's has notified to that of the Hague that it has decidedly re- pelled Sir James Brooke's offers.

The Floating Derrick Company have succeeded in raising a vessel sunk sometime since off Erith, thus removing an obstruction from the river and saving the ship. The task of getting the Great Eastern ready for sea will commence pro- bably about the middle of next month, and to finish in every respect will require five months from the day the work begins. In all probabilith therefore, the Great Eastern will be filling up with coals and stores, ans making ready for her first great trial trips, by Midsummer.

The Board of Trade returns for the past month were issued this morning, and show a falling off in the declared value of our exportations of 716,9924 compared with the corresponding month of last year, and of 398,1541. cons- pared with October, 18..%. The reduction continues to be felt in almost every branch of production except cotton and woollen goods, the shiements of the former to the East' Indies still presenting an enormous increase. During the ten months of the current year they have amounted to 7,572,46?- against 4,586,6091. in the same period of 1857, and 4,560,4531. in 1806. Those to China during the past month show a decrease, but the total thus far for the year hsus been 1,437,159k against 1,179,049/.

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--denertd, . has embarked attlikeeeeilles est, tjte Anstralien mail kat:90114 n'eY.te Burinah. He prOpeaei to pais b* Ceylon, and at Ran- Pa% he will be met by the Burmese steamer Alm Pr ib, which, if the, e 504 be water enough in the Irawaddy, avid convey him to Am. He is 1: aided by two delegates of the company formed by him in France for dyeing in Burmese products, more particularly in silts. A short time ago renesal d'Orgoni, having solicitei an interview with Lord Stanley-, was re- ceived bv his lordship at the India House. On this oc Lesion the general dated tint several persons, mistaken for him, had rdently been arrested by the English authorities in India, that he wished to do away with the im- maasion that he had ever been a " systematic " enemy of the English, that ie was now returning to Burmah with purely commercial views, and that he would be glad to receive Lord Stanley's assurance that he might cross English territory without being molested. Lord Stanley, it appears, thought it right to listen to all that the adventurous general had to soy, but without making him any reply whatever. The latter complains to his friends that all his assurances of his innocuous intentions, and all his argu- ments tending to show that his own interest would prompt him to be friendly with the English, and that he could not if he would do any serious in'ary to English power in India, only drew from the aristocratic English Minister the stiff phrase twice repeated, Je n as nen de plus a rotes titre (I have nothing more to say to you), ho having said nothing to him what- ever during the whole course of the interview.—Datly News Paris an-- respondent.

"What think you of our library ? The attendance has reached 8000 per- sons a month—actually a larger number than that last year at the British Museum-96,000 to 93,000. This year also we are fortunate enough to bare a grant of 20,000/. to expend, and a wing is being added which gives an additional reading-room 90 feet long."—Letter front Helbourne.

M. Lain, professor of chemistry at the College of Besancon, has proved the presence, in considerable quantity, of arsenic in the wire from which pits are usually made, three or four serving to give a perceptible quantity in the common form. A young fanner, Pesty by name, well to do, and of good position, was recently arrested at Calms, as diligent readers may remember. What was his offence. Coveting a flock of 250 sheep he had followed and murdered the shepherd, as he thought, and had appropriated the sheep. The man was, however, found half dead, and Peaty's crime at -once made known. peaty was driven from home by his father, and captured by the police. What does the law say to him ? A Jury has found him guilty "with ex- tenuating circumstances," condemned him to hard labour for life, and ordered his estate to pay 6000 francs to the shepherd.

The Suisse of Berne states that four young men belonging to the Canton of Vaud have lost their lives in attempting to cross the Great St. Bernard on their way to Italy, notwithstanding the urgent entreaties of their friends not to venture. They were caught, when half-way up to the mountain, in a violent snowstorm, and all perished.

At the meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, held in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, on Thursday evening, the Reverend H. H. Higgins presiding, Mr. H. Eeroyd Smith exhibited a considerable number of articles from the seashore at Cheshire, chiefly found during the past

year, inclutling some valuable specimens of the bow, or lyre-shaped fibulm, of the Romans, several of which still retain their brightly-coloured enamel pastes through the preserving action of the vegetable soil of the i old Wirral forest, n which" they have lain till washed out by the advancing tides. Among other curiosities was a circular brooch, quite re- cently found about half-tide. It is of silver filigree work, and contains cap-formed receptacles for coloured enamels. The scrolled design is elegant, and the whole forms a very interesting specimen of the fourth century workmanship. The coins comprised a silver denarius of the Emperor Hadrianna, A.D. 117-138; a silver penny. of Ethelred II. (the Unready), having on its reverse the Hand (of llrovid.ence) between the Greek letters Alpha and Omega ; and silver pennies of Canute the Great, all being in an excellent state of preservation.