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We understand that Sir George Grey is the Secretary of State expected to accompany her Majesty on her visit to Ireland. The Royal party will embark at Osborne on the 1st of August; and, weather permitting, dis- embark at Cork on Thursday night or Friday morning. From thence the Royal squadron will proceed to Dublin; and it is expected that her Ma- jesty will be able to disembark in Kingston Harbour early on Monday. Belfast is to be the next port at which her Majesty will touch; but the day cannot at present be indicated, as it must necessarily depend on many circumstances. From Belfast the Royal squadron will proceed to Scotland, landing at Greenock.—Globe.

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has been appointed to the Judgeship vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Coltman. Ile received the Lord Chancellor's official note on Monday, on the Oxford Circuit at Stafford; and immediately returned to London, to sit at Chambers in place of Lord Denman, who has been indisposed. Mr. Talfourd's promotion makes a Parliamentary vacancy for the borough of Reading.

A few friends of Mr. Charles Buller have obtained, with Dr. Buckland's permission, the site for a monument in Westminster Abbey—between the tombs of Homer and Warren Hastings: the monument, consisting of a tablet and bust, is nearly finished; and is to be seen at the studio of Mr. Weekes, No. 29 Lower Belgrave Place, Pimlico. It would have been easy to raise the cost (3701.) among the friends who projected the memorial; but they remembered that others might desire to join in the work, and to that end a subscription has been opened at Messrs. Drummond's bank. As the total amount to be made up is so small, no contribution above 51. is to be received.

Lord Ellesmere is erecting a monument in the North aisle of Henry the Se- venth's Chapel at Westminster to mark the grave of Joseph Addison. There is a statue to Addison in Poet's Corner; but hitherto the spot where his remains lie has been unmarked by a tablet.

Mr. Peter Bartholomew Droaet, the proprietor of the late infant pauper esta- blishment at Surrey Hall, Lower Tooting, died last week, at Margate, of diseased heart and dropsy. Mr. Dronet had never been well since his wife's death, eighteen months since. Among the victims to the cholera has been the Reverend C. Broughton St. George, the Chaplain of the Tower. Mr. Broughton was seized while in the act of preaching on Sunday last. "His voice, which at all times was perfectly clear and loud, suddenly fell towards the conclusion of his sermon, and became quite inaudible. After the sermon was over, he went home to his parsonage-house, ad- joining the church, and was immediately attacked with the symptoms of cholera.' He died early on Monday morning.

A sad accident occurred recently at the Niagara Falls. A party of seven Americans—Mr. and Mrs. De Forest, their three daughters, and two gentlemen— were viewing the waters from Luna Island. One of the gentlemen, Mr. Addington, was betrothed to the eldest daughter of Mr. De Forest: Mr. Addington, in jest, threatened to throw Antoinette, the youngest daughter, a girl of seven, into the torrent if she played so near the edge; and he caught her up as if to carry out his threat; she struggled—slipped from his grasp, fell into the water, and was rapidly borne away ! Mr. Addington plunged in after her, caught her by the waist, and then both were hurried away to certain death.

An anctioneering estimate of Mr. Hudson's estates about to be brought under the hammer—Londsborough, (bought of the Duke of Devonshire,) 470,0001.; Baldersby, 108,0001.; Oaten Grange, 80,0001.; Newby Park, 22,0001.; Gibraltar House, at Albert Gate, 18,0001.; making a total amount invested in lands and houses alone within a trifle of 700,000/.

We are informed that the sentence on Captain G. Douglas, late of the Sixteenth Regiment, is about to undergo revision.—Guernsey Star.

On Friday week, several steam-vessels belonging to the Waterman's Coin. were were engaged in removing between four and five hundred convicts from the ill- bank Prison to Woolwich, where they were transferred aboard a Government steam-vessel to be conveyed to Shoreham Cliffs, on the coast of Sussex, to remain there until the cholera has subsided in the prison. The barracks at Shoreham Cliffs are very spacious, the locality is extremely healthy, and the place is well adapted for a temporary prison.

Whether it be one of the results of free trade or not, it is an undoubted fact, that since the passing of Sir Robert Peel's tariff, the foreign breeders have come over to these annual meetings in greater numbers, and have made very large pur- chases of the best specimens of stock for the purpose of improving their own de- ficient breeds.—Morning Post: Norwich Correspondence.

A very violent storm burst over the Metropolis on Thursday about two o'clock, and lasted a considerable time. The rain descended in torrents, and there was a brief shower of hail; the lightning was vivid, and the peals of thunder astounding. During the tempest the wind rapidly shifted. From the accounts since published, it appears that some damage was done by the lightning in most parts of London. At Whitechapel, many buildings suffered; and a young man was killed, in the act of talking with another at his own door. A man who received a shock, was rat dered motionless for a time, and was found to have lost his reason. The clock tower of St. Saviour's, Southwark, was struck, and a stone knocked out and shivered to pieces; the fragments breaking in the roof where they fell. There was a meeting in the Vestry-room at the time—the alarm may be easily con- ceived.

The stormy weather that has brought such seasonable relief to agriculture in the shape of rain, has been attended by a fatality at Woolwich. On Wednesday af- ternoon, the military band was preparing to play on the parade; to keep a clear apace amid the crowd, a number of soldiers were being told-off, when the light, mug struck the group: Gunner Queeny was killed on the spot ; Gunner Mills stead was rendered insensible for some time; and several others were stunned. The electric fluid passed through Queeny's head, and thence down his body.

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

Number of Summer Deaths. Average. Zymotle Diseases 1002 .... 302 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 39 .... 44 Tubercular Diseases 206 .... 190 Diseases at theSpinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 117 .... 119 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 36 .... 29 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration.— 87 .... 81 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 67 .... 76

Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 17 .... 11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, 3oints, Sc

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, dte Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

Total (including unspecified causes) 1741 1008

"The return for last week records the further progress of the prevailing disease. The deaths from all causes, which in the two previous weeks were 1,070 and 1 369 rose in the last to 1,741; a number which exceeds the average of the season by 783. In the two previous weeks the deaths caused by cholera were 152 and 339; but in the last they have reached 678, whilst the weekly average is only 8. Of the 678 persons who have sunk under the epidemic, 355 were males and 323 fe- males; a more equal distribution than in previous weeks: the rate of increase is apparent in the Liet that in each of last two weeks the mortality from cholera has been about double that of the week immediately preceding. The mortality from diarrheas and dysentery also increases, the deaths in three weeks having been 54, 100, and 146; while the weekly average of this season is not more than 84. The whole mortality from the three diseases, in last week, is therefore 824, and gives an excess on the average of 732 which almost exactly coincides with the excess of mortality from all causes as slated above. The diarrheas was fatal

in a large is of cases to children under two years of age. The increase oif cholera /8 observed in each of the five Metropolitan divisions except the North- 29 .... 22 35 .... 15 84 .... 48 19 .... 8 10 .... 35

ern, which comprises Marylebone, Pancras, Islington, Hackney, and Hampstead. where the deaths in the week were only 7. But it is chiefly remarkable on fist; South side of the river; where the deaths from the epidemic in the last three weeks were successively 93, 192, and 443. In Newington they were 53: in St. George, Southwark, 51; in Bermondsey, 64; in Lambeth, 106. In Rotherhithe the deaths were 37, the same as in the previous week. Typhus continues near the average; hooping-cough above, scarlatina and smallpox considerably under it. Two persons died of privation ; three of intemperance. "The mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29.692, and lower than in the previous week. The mean temperature was lower than the average, except on Monday and Tuesday. The highest occurred on the former day, and was 83.6°. The mean of the week was 60.5°; less by 6° than in the previous week." The direction of the wind for the week was variable.