Misullaurnno.

It is understood that Sir Denis Le Merchant will succeed the late Mt. Ley as Clerk of the House of Commons, on a reduced salary of 20001. per annum. Mr. Booth, the Examiner of Recognizances and Counsel to the Speaker, is likely to succeed Sir Denis Le Merchant as legal Secretary of the Board of Trade. Mr. Booth's office will be abolished. These changes will cause a considerable saving to the public.—Tunes.

The works of the New Palace at Westminster, suspended during the sittings of Parliament, aro now resumed. In the House of Lords, the artists are engaged in the historical paintings remaining Meow- Plet-Re In the new chamber of the Commons, the alterations and

acoustic improvements, found necessary at the trial sittings, are in pro- gram. St. Stephen's Porch, the approach to the New House of Com- mons, is qiiite finished it will be reached by a noble flight of steps, the entire breadth of which extends fifty feet into the body of Westminster 'Hall. ' On Thursday the restoration of the splendid roof and interior of . Westminster Hall was commenced. A new entrance has been opened from the centre of the Hall into the cloisters. The bosses and statues in the interior of the Royal Entrance, Victoria Tower, are complete ; and it is expected that on the next occasion of her Majesty opening Parliament in person this entrance will be made use of.

A large number of workmen are busily engaged in making extensive alterations and improvements in various parts of the Tower of London. The two lofty gun-towers of the Eastern and Western extremities, facing Trinity Square, are to be reconstruted on a new and patented plan, re- commended, by Government. The high walls near the water-side have been pulled down, and are to be rebuilt on a new principle, with gun loop-holes.'. The interior of this ancient fortress is also undergoing a re- gular repair, under the superintendence of a military officer specially ap- pointed for the purpose by the Duke of Wellington.

. Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last: the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years.

Ten of Weeks 1839-49.

Week. of 1850.

Zymotic Diseases 3,511 .... 196 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 506

40 Tubercular Diseases 1,681 .... 162

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses

1,090 .... 118 Disease@ of the Heart and ]flood-vessels 231 .... 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 797

S8 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 703

44 Diseases of the Kidneys Sc 85 .... 11 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ire

• • • •

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sic

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, fie.

Malformations

Premature Birth 211

30 Atrophy 216 .... 24 Age 478 .... 43 Sudden

Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperauce

268 ....

36 Total (Including unspecified causes) 10.126

858

• no mortality was favourably low. The deaths in the corresponding weeks in and since 1846 were 863, 1169, 1038, 1981; - last week they were 8.58. The calculated average would be 1105 ; so the mortality was 247 below what might have been expected—expected if the sanatory standard were not year by year rising in men's minds. The widow of a law clerk died in the Me- tropolitan Almshouses, Ball's Pond, at the nearly completed age of one hundred and one years. The cases of diarrhoea were 61; the cases in the three preceding weeks were 128, 85, and 85. There were but two cases of cholera; in which an omnibus-conductor living in Paddington, and an infant living in Queen Square, were the victims.

The barometer mercury at Greenwich stood above 30 inches till Tuesday; the mean height for the week was 29.851 inches; temperature, 58.4'—about the average ; wind North-east for the first four days, and afterwards gene- rally South-east.

An interesting trial at Tours, for abduction, is reported by Galignans's .3fessenger. The Reverend Mr. Hamilton, an Irish clergyman, resides at lours, with his wife and a numerous young family. Of thek children; Isabella, the eldest, born in 1836, at Clifton near Bath, is the heroine of the tale. Isabella was wont, with her young sisters and brother, to promenade under the care of their bonne, Adele Gendron; and during their walks, the Count Forestier de Coubert made their acquaintance by presenting cakes to the youngest of the children. After a time the Count paid marked attentions to Isabella ; and having gained the interest of her bonne, he found little difficulty in prosecuting his suit advantageously. He was invariably present at their walks, having prevailed on Miss Hamilton to indicate, by placing a flower-pot in an agreed position before her window, where she would be .found. , It seems that the young girl was unhappy at home, and that her .griefa were just about to be increased by her being sent to a school in Eng- . land. The Count availed himself of her unhappiness, and at last he per- suaded her to put herself under his "protection " ; the bonne Adele being an easily consenting party to the arrangement. Count Forestier wrote to his friend in Paris, the Baron Eugene de Vivier, requesting him to receive the young creatures and take apartments for them. . I send to you, my dear friend," said the roue, " a young English girl, aged fifteen, with a pretty little face, light hair, clear blue eyes, delicate nose, sensual mouth, and a slightly prominent chin. She is the daughter of an Irish minister, who has a host of children. She will be accompanied by a little bonne of seventeen, with aubhrn hair, 8r.c., named Adele." " I beg of you to meet them at the railway sta- tion on their arrival. Isabella (that is the name of my charming pretty miss) will have on a plaid gown, a straw bonnet, and a black woollen cloak ; the servant, an old black bonnet of her mistress. They have been told you will be there, and will expect to meet you. That they may recognize you, have a white flower at your but- ton-hole, or rather keep a pocket handkerchief constantly to your mouth.' "Take aniipartment for them ; let it be simple, but becoming." Ile would tell his friend the history of the affair at a future time ; mean- while he might learn that the girl had threatened to commit suicide: there- fore, said he, " don't make me any objection," "I have only acted after long deliberation."

" The father will no doubt take some measures, which it is important to render vain. I shall therefore continue to show myself in the public promenades, that I may not be suspected ; and then I will relieve you in your guard. My wife is better. Bretonneau is tending lier as if she were his own child. She is surrounded with devoted attendants, has a good house, and her physician in ordinary is one of the princes of the science. What can I do more ? I may venture to give myself this little gratification. Don't scold me. I tell you that the father is an Englishman and a clergyman—two animals I detest, and who are, as it were, grafted one on the other expressly to take from me all sort of remorse." "I laugh,' concludes concludes the debauchee, "at the thought of your meeting these poor creatures." His friend objected with amiable weakness, and consented—" I had some thought of moralizing with you, but what's the use ? The wine is drawn, and you must drink it !"

On the 22d of May the two girls met their seducer, and were conducted privately to the railway ; where their fare was paid to Paris. "At Paris," runs the report in Galignani, "they were received by the Baron de Vivier ; i

and he took them to a lodging-house in the Rue de l'Universite. There; the young lady directed that no one should be admitted to her except her uncle (Vivier) and her husband, whom, she said, she expected. Vivier visited her several times during the day.

- " Meanwhile Forestier remained quietly at Tours, in order that he might not be suspected of having been oonoerned in the flight. But it so hap- pened that the family at once suspected him and the Reverend Mr. Ilarail- , ton immediately laid a complaint against him, before the Procureur de la

lfk- publique. That functionary, in order to avoid scandal, went to Forestier's house, and called on him for explanations. ' Forestier declined to say any- - thing; and thereupon the Procureur de la itkpublique resolved to have him arrested. But it being then after nightfall, the arrest could not be legally-

effected. The Procureur accordingly caused the Count's house to be sur- rounded by police-agents during the night, to prevent his escape. On this

Forestier wrote off to Paris to Vivier to send back the girls immediately, and he constituted himself a prisoner. The next day Miss Isabella and her at- tendant arrived in Tours, and the former was restored to her parents. The public prosecutor, however, deemed it his duty to detain Forestier, and to prosecute him. The Reverend Mr. Hamilton, on the contrary, was anxious that the matter should be dropped ; and he wrote an affecting letter to the public prosecutor, formally withdrawing his complaint, and entreating him to drop the prosecution. But the Procureur represented that the law must take its course.

" In the preliminary examination, the Reverend Mr. Hamilton, Mrs. Ham- ilton, and Miss Isabella, were called on to give evidence. Isabella herself varied in her statements. In her first examination, she declared that she had resolved on the flight herself, and that Forestier had scolded her on her folly, and had dissuaded her from it; he only consented to aid her when he saw that she was quite determined to go. She was not aware that she was to meet him at Paris, and she had resolved to change her name. She solemnly took God to witness to the truth of all this. But when Forestier's letters were read to her, she expressed great indignation, though she did not re-

tract her statement. In ber second examination, on the contrary, she declared that it was Forestier who had first proposed to her to fly ; and that he had

offered to abandon his wife, notwithstanding her illness, to go with her. -. She

had at first considered this was a joke, and had laughed at it ; but he had pressed her, and - had got the servant Adele to do so likewise.- It was

only by their entreaties that she had gone. On arriving at Paris, Vivier told her that Forestier was in love with her, and would die if obliged to live without her. When told of the way in which he had spoken of her in his letter, she burst into tears, and said, Ah, it is painful to see his contempt for

me ! I opened my.heart to him' and he learned that I loved him. Yes, I. knew he was married. Alas ! Iknow not how I could have acted so !' Isa-

bella was then confronted with Forestier, and she persisted in declaring that it was he who had enticed her to go. Forestier said that the contrary was the fact, and he complained to her that she was not telling the truth. 'You cannot wish to ruin me, mademoiselle,' said he, 'by stating what is un- true !' and he pressed and supplicated her to retract. But she refused ; and he said at last, Well! having in vain made an appeal to the honest senti- ments of mademoiselle, I must resign myself to my fate !' In the third. examination Isabella again varied her story. She said she had laid too much, to the Count's charge ; that in consequence of dissensions with her sister, she had resolved on leaving her parents ; that she had declared to Forestier that if he would not take her away she would poison herself; and so on. She added, that she had spoken against him on the last occasion, because she had been told that he had declared that he would sooner go to the galleys for life than marry her. In her last examination she again formally and positively declared that it was she alone who had resolved on leaving home; that Fores- tier had never persuaded her to go • never promised to leave his wife for her ; and never, she added, attempted to introduce himself into her apart- ment."

At the trial, which took place before an immense audience, neither Isabella nor her parents nor next sister appeared to give evidence, though all had been summoned. The precise age of Isabella was proved by other witnesses, among whom was her young brother. This point was important,. as by the French law, the crime of what is called " detouniement d'une ieune fille mineure " can only be committed when the girl is under sixteen ; after that age she is considered a free agent, and is accountable for her own actions. Baron de Vivier was examined. Questioned by the President, he excused himself for his share in the transaction by alleging his friendship for the Count. "It was Stated that since this unfortunate affair Forestier's wife had died, and that he, anxious to make all the reparation in his power for the injury he had done her, had offered to marry her, but that her father had positively refused. Forestier caused evidence to be given by several persons to prove that he had every reason to believe, from Isabella's personal appear- ance and other circumstances, that she was more than sixteen years of age, the had called her fifteen in his own letter to the Baron] ; and he laboured both in his interrogatory and throughout the trial to show that he had not persuaded her to leave her home." . At the end of the proceedings, the Count read these melodramatic subterfuges- " I have to make, before my fellow citizens, the avowal of a fault which the haw does not punish; and you will accept this avowal as a further expiation to be added to my long sufferings. During two years I struggled to save from death the life of an angel to whom I had associated my destiny, when a fatal and unforeseen meeting surprised me in one of those moments of moral discouragement in which a man has not sufficient strength to maintain himself in the line of duty. You will not brand my life, gentlemen, for a moment's self-forgetfulness; you will not confound a fault with a crime : you will not forget that the honour of Miss Hamilton is intact, and that I have offered her all the reparation in my power."

After an hour's deliberation, the Jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty." Their finding was received with some applause, which was immediately repressed by the President. Count de Forestier remained in gaol till the evening, but when he went away a numerous crowd was waiting at the door i

to see him. Adele Gendron was included in the indictment ; but the case against her was abandoned.

We have received a letter from a correspondent in Devonshire, stating that the Bishop of Exeter has refused to accept testimonials signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.—Guardian.

A return to Parliament just issued contains a list of sinecure benefices in England and Wales, with the name of the patron and incumbent, and the annual value and population of each. It appears that there are 57 sinecure benefices, of which 18 are in the diocese of Norwich. The annual value of these benefices ranges from 10/. to 11251. In some of the places there are no churches, and in others the churches are in a dilapidated state. The population in some of the sinecure benefices exceeds 1000 souls.

The Paris ifoniteur denies that any agent has been sent to England by the Minister of War for the purchase of horses for the French cavalry, or that any horses have been purchased for that object.

Three persons started on Wednesday morning from Barnsley station on their way to Russia, for the purse of superintending the establishment of some extensive manufactories. The machinery that they are-going to erect was sent off' about two months ago, and had been made at Manchester, Leeds, and Barnsley. Their engagement is for three years.—Leedsliercury.

The number of emigrants arrived at New York during the month of Au- gust last is 18,091; a decrease of 16,385 as compared with the previous month. The total emigration thus far, up to September 1850, is 144,536. During the same period in 1849, it was 172,126; and in 1848, 127,121.— New York Journal of Commerce.

According to a trade circular, there is a spurious tea-manufactory in Jer- sey, where the bad and damaged tea from the bond warehouses, the tea- leaves purchased at the London hotels, and the indigenoua leaves of the island, are converted into what is sold for tea. It is said that a tree with a green leaf upon it will soon be as rare a sight in Jersey as a May flower in England at Christmas.

pay tax for a

A pleasing net on the part of Lord Hatherton is recorded by the Iroker- hampton Chronicle. Mr. Handy had long held a farm under his Lordship, and he recently resigned it to his son; Lord Hatherton invited the retiring farmer to dinner, and presented him with a massive silver tankard, on which was engraried an eulogistic inscription setting forth the good qualities of the aged tenant.

Mr. W. B. Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, has given orders to his keepers and tenants to destroy every head of game they meet with. Hitherto the game has been strictly preserved.

Railway excursion-trains are now all the vogue in Ireland; the compa- nies running them on Saturdays and Sundays on a large scale.

Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony have just concluded a convention on the subject of telegraphic communication, and adopted a tariff in com- mon, by which the charges will be reduced one half. The new tariff is to come into operation on the 1st of October.

"Twin" steamers, on the plan adopted in the United States, are to be tried on the Thames. The Gemini, the first constructed, made an experiment- al trip on Tuesday. It is made according to a patent obtained by Mr. Peter Borne. "Two hulls, which are chiefly constructed of iron, are placed side by side, with a space or canal between them, in which the paddle-wheel works, and are strongly connected together by the deck which extends over all, and also by a plate-iron arch below the deck, and a number of wrought- iron stays between them, so that the two divisions of the vessel are bound together in the most secure manner. The hulls thus joined afford a great extent of deck room, with a very small amount of tonnage, or of resistance from the area of the section passing through the water ; and, as both ends are exactly similar, the vessel will sail with equal facility either way with- out turning. The keels and stems are not placed in the centre of the hulls, but are situated toward the inside of them, so that the water-lines are very fine on the inside, which diminishes the tendency of the water to gorge up between the hulls; which gorging up of water has been a material draw- back to the success of twin steamers hitherto constructed, as it not only tends to separate the two hulls, but also greatly increases the resistance of the ves- sel in passing through the water. The inner bilges of the hulls are much fuller thin the outer ones, in order to afford a greater degree of buoyancy on the inside ; which is necessary for supporting the weight of the deck, &c. between the hulls." - The vessel is to be fitted with "saloons" and "hurri- cane deck," on the American model. [" Twin steam-boats," with accommo- dation for sheep, oxen, horses, carriages, and loaded waggons, were in use on the Tay at Dundee many years ago.]

Some of the Jersey papers are congratulating the inhabitants of that island upon the importation of thirty horses and twelve cabs, as a mark of progress. The cabs plied for the first time on the pier last Saturday.

Two pieces of heavy artillery have been presented to the Berks Yeomanry. —Morning Chronicle. [By whom; and for what conceivable purpose?]

The wife,of a coachman named Eagles, living in Cumberland Mews North, Itryanston Square, has presented her husband with three stgeong and healthy boys at a birth. Eagles has been for some time out of emliffiyment, and this unusual increase in his family is an addition to his distress, which some cha- ritable people are assisting to relieve.

A vessel has brought fifty hogsheads of brandy from Calcutta—an unpre- cedented importation from the East Indies.

The following writing was posted near the church of Santa Maria del Po- polo in Rome, and in other parts of the city, on Sunday the 8th instant, when the Pope went to celebrate the anniversary day of the Virgin.

Marie a Pio IX _ Mazzini viva lungamente La Republica 6 it pit dolce Governo

ii pit infame Governo 6 quello dci Preti

Abbasso it Potere dei Preti it Dominic del Popoli regal in eterno

If you read the two incriptions in one line across the column, the sense of the first inscription is applicable to that of the second : thus—

Death to Pius the Ninth Mazzini long life to him the Republic is the sweetest of governments the most infamous of governments is that of the Priests down with the Power of the Priests the Dominion of the People may it reign for ever

I am told that the great project of piercing the Mont Cenis for a monster tunnel has been abandoned, and that a new line, connecting Basle with the subsisting railroad from Genoa to Turin, is under consi- deration. Should it succeed, (and the projectors are most sanguine on the subject,) it will complete one continued line, with the aid of the Rhine navigation, from Ostend to Genoa, and give our Indian mail a cer- tain route in case of renewed troubles in France.—Turin Correspondent of the Ties.

In August 1837, at Aquaboeu,, e, Long Island, one John Cameron, a native of Scotland,. after taking his tea, fell into convulsions, and died very sud- denly. 'A doctor, named Wright was sent for, but was informed that the man was dead, and he immediatel went away. The body soon swelled up very much, and by some strange i y ea the hands were tied across the stomach. The body was interred the day after death, but presented none of the appear- ances of a corpse, being quite limber. - Mrs. Cameron was absent at the time in this city, and did not return for a fortnight. After some years, young Cameron entered the employment of N. Currier, lithographer, corner of spruce and Nassau Streets; and the mother married a man named Falls, a ropemaker, and now resides with him at Yorkville. Lately, young Cameron, having prospered in his business, thinking it his duty to have his father's re- mains more decently interred, and some sort of a monument erected to his memory, had his body disinterred by a man named Aldridge. To the great astonishment of this min and his assistant, it was with the greatest difficulty that they could raise the coffin; and on removing the lid, they found the re- mains fresh and undee.ayed, though a little blackened, and the hand behind the head in a strange position, as if the deceased had awakened from a trance, and struggled for freedom. This is the'more strange, as the hands were tied. The coffin was pretty well decayed, and gave way in some parts. This dis- cOvery led to a great deal of duicussion in the neighbourhood, and to many strange suspicions and surmises. There appears to be a desire that an in- quest should be held, or some investigation that would elicit the facts of this mysterious case. The deceased was thirty-five years of age, and ap- peared to be in perfect health-the day before he was interred. He was fond of stuffing birds, and used a large quantity of arsenic for the purpose. It is ex- pected that a legal investigation will take place in a few days.—Nete York It is said that whisky has been extracted from mountain heather in Scot- An interesting discovery has just been made near Fontenav' between Sois- -

land,—opening a fine prospect for illicit distillers on the hills. sons and Compiegne. A'great number of Roman antiquities having been Mr. Webster, Boundary Lane, Everton, has been made to found in digging, the workmen were instructed to continue, and soon came to the foundations of Roman buildings covering a surface of more than

' Galignanes Messenger.

An excursion-party from St. Helier's to St. Male, on the 16th instant, was exposed to great peril. The Polka steam-boat left St. Helier's with fifty pea- sengers ; when seven miles out, it was found' that the vessel had sprung a leak ; the wind was unfavourable for returning speedily to port; 'and the only hope of saving the lives of the people was by ,gaming some rocks called the ' Mmquiers, on the coast of France. The leak gained, attemptsto keep it under by baling being unsuccessful, and at last the fires were extinguished. The vessel, however, was got near the rocks ; and the passengers were landed, a few at a time in the small' boats of the steamer, the last leaving it just as the ship sank. Three poor fishermen who live upon the rocks supplied their unexpected visitors with a little food. For twenty-four hours they remained with small shelter and sustenance, when their situation was perceived by the ' South-western steamer, on her way to St. Maio; boats were sent, and all were taken from the reek. Before setting out, the passengers subscribed 101. •

for the hospitable fishermen. .

Before a week had elapsed, another steamer was wrecked on the same group of rocks, and with a lamentable loss of life. The Superb left St. Male r for Jersey at half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday morning : it is said that the master, Priaulx, approached more than usually near to the Minquiers, that the passengers might see the wreck of the l'olka ; the consequence was, that the vessel struck on the Matrielle, a sunken rock, stove a hole in her bottom, and immediately filled. Had there been any proper command, all the people might have been saved, as the steamer did not actually sink, and the fore-end was high and dry. But a rush was made to the boats. Priaulx the master was the second to abandon the ship ; jumping into the first boat . with a few other men, and thus increasing the consternation of the passengers. The second boat was lowered, filled with people, and pushed oft'; then it was discovered that the plugs were out of the bottom, the water rushing in, and that there were no oars; the people found, to their horror, that they must perish in smooth water: the boatgradually sank. The master's boat was capsized, but he got back to the steamer. The tide was falling, and the vessel was soon loft high and dry. Nine persons had perished by the filling of the second boat, and two children were jerked into the sea when the Superb struck,ehildren of Mr. Jackson, a gentleman who was wrecked in the Polka, and who was talk- ing with the children when they were plunged into the sea and drowned be- fore

his eyes ; he and his wire perished in the second boat. Signals of distress were hoisted, and these were observed at Jersey ; the Collier steamer from Shoreham was hailed by a boat when about to enter St: He-

lier's, and immediately proceeded to the rocks. She took all the sur- , vivors—about forty—from the wreck, and brought them to St. Helier's. Mr. Doke, the master of the Collier, was immediately presented by the inhabitants of the town with a silver cup, subscribed for him while on his humane voyage. In contrast to Priaulx's conduct, the bravery and coolness of Mr. 'Pennell, chief mate of the Superb, Mr. Hamilton, a pea- senger, and a sailor-boy, are honourably mentioned: while others were despairing the boy was making a raft, and he it was who went to the mast- head to give signals.. One account states that the people of the Superb were first taken on board the cutter Jupiter, and afterwards transferred to the Collier ; but the Jersey Sun does not mention the Jupiter. A list of ten of those who perished is published,—Mr. and Mrs. Gosset, of St. Relief& ; Mr.•1 Rattenbury, of Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and two children ; John • Palmer, stoker, Williams, boy, and Billott, cook. It is said that the Superb was not fit for sea-service—a river-boat, formed of thin iron plates. fhis was not her first disaster.

While two men were charging gun-banuls at the Government proof-house at Birmingham, on Monday morning, by some means a store of powder in the room took fire, and blew up the building. The men were takeh from the ruins in a very bad state, and one of them, it is feared, will not recover. , Part of a grinding-mill at Sheffield fell down on Saturday. Many of the people employed in the place noticed signs of the approaching disaster, - and escaped; but four men were buried in the ruins, two of whom were seriously hurt.

Miss Dolling, daughter of the late Captain Dolling, R.N., has been found drowned in the sea at Bovisond, at the entrance of Plymouth Sound. She had been bathing a little dog, and it is supposed that she blipped from a rock.

A boy only twelve years of age has died at Cheltenham from excessive smoking : the case exhibited the usual symptoms of poisoning by narcotics.

The Chancery suit of the Attorney-General v. Trevelyan is now one hun- dred and sixty-four years old.

Two Arbroath innocents met in London, and each being in want of a cas- tor, they forthwith entered a dashing shop in the West-end, with a view to supplying themselves. While examining the quality of the hats, the one very inconsiderately whispered to his friend, " I suppose we maunna prig here." The word prig fell upon the hatter's cars. " I'll take care you don't," quoth he; and forthwith having sent for a Policeman, had the two innocents placed in "quod." It will be necessary to explain to most of our readers, that " to prig " means, in Arbroath, to beat down, to cheapen.— Arbroath Guide.