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The Gazette of Tuesday contains-an order, iii,-Council further pro- roguing Parliament ftora Thursday the-21th. October -to.Tuesday-the 29th November/ The order was formally. carried: out on. Thursday, in the House of Lords—Commissioners, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and-Lord Stanley-of .Alderley. The House of Commonsavassepresentedly a,ele- pity clerk and two doorkeepers-. The formal -prorogation of the Convocation off Canterbury, until the 30th .November, took place yesterdays The Shipowners SoeietrofiforthsTaielda recently addressed a letter to urd Grarendon, calling his attention to the number of British vessels trading with ports in the Black Sea and Baltic, and asking,whether,. in the event of war, sufficient notice would...be given to enable the British vessels to clear out-and avoid capture; and "whether Lord Clarendon considers the.pineent state of affairs so critical as to make it expedient for the Society of Underwriters. to prohibit the chartering and sailing of veg., oak for RuasiruiperteP Lord. Clarendon has replied through Mr. Adding- ton—

"I am &estate to you in reply, that there does not exist any treaty stipu-

lation between- this country and Russia, by which the giving such a notice as that to which-len refer is made obligatory on either Government ; and that, with respect to the general questions, whilst it is of course impossible for her Majqstyls Government to answer for future contingencies, which !night depend on the conduct of others, her Majesty's Government will ne- glect no step in their power which may conduce to the security of the trade of this country," Detachments of the,Royal Artillery at Woolwich have received orders to hold themselves in readineres to embark for Gibraltar, Malta, and Cor- fu, "to fill up the.eompaniesut those station."

Sir William- Hall Gage is appointed "Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Baroziet, deceased."

Major-General Fleming, who has served in Calabria, Egypt, Spain, America., Canada, and. the East Indies, is the new, Colenel of the Ennis- The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia left Dover on Saturday, for Ostend. She was accompanied on hoard by the Duchess of Hamilton and Baron Brunow ; who subsequently returned to town.

The Bishop of Norwich has been suffering from so severe an attack of illness, that he has been compelled to postpone a course of confirmations for which arrangements had been made.

Lord Mint° has arrived at Genoa.

The Duke de Nemours has joined the Countess de Neuilly at Genoa. Mr. Soule, the American Minister, whose arrival at Madrid has been incorrectly announced several times, reached that capital on the 15th in- stant; and has presented his credentials at an audience of the Queen. General Alaix, an old Spanish officer, died of apoplexy on the 15th.

The subscriptions- towards the erection of a statue to Prince Albert in Hyde Park,—a project originating with the Lord Mayor of London, .-.-are the public-is assured. by that gentleman through the .Dally News, already of such an amount as to render success certain. Mr. Challis is naturally desirous-of giving .a national character to the movement. The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Overstone, Lord John Russell, and. a, host of artistic, scientific, and mercantile men, have subscribed for sums varying from Si. to 100/.

Up to the 22d September, the yellow fever continued its ravages in Ber- muda. The island was left without a Governor ; and an officer, Major Byles, who had only attained his majority three months previously, was the senior military officer. Only one clerk of the Ordnance was left.

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

Ten Weeks of 1843-32.

Week of 1853.

Zymotle Diseases 2,555 306 Dropsy, Cancer, and othet.diseases of uncertain or variable seat 446 .... 44 Tubercular Diseases 1,625 113 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,074 110 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 350 39 Diseases of the Rungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,394 163 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 558 68

Diseases of the Kidneys, se

121

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &e 105

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &e 66

Disenses of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Re le

Malformations 32

Premature Birth 236

Atrophy 240

Age 442

Sudden. 76

Vioienee,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance 223

Total (including =rumbled causes) 9,577 1,034

Experiments on a matter of great importance—the stopping of trains— were made on the East Lancashire Railway on Saturday. Mr. Newell has patented a railway-break intended to stop trains in a much less space than tinder the present system. His breaks have been tried on a train upon the East Lancashire line for six weeks, and have worked well. At the experi- ment on Saturday, a train was filled with scientific and practical men con- nected with railways; there were seven carriages and a van, and four breaks. Mr. Newell's invention is described as follows. "The principal feature of the plan is a long. horizontal shaft which passes over the top of the entire train' from the engine i front to the van at the rear, and is connected with each break so that it is in the power of any of the railway servants in charge of the train, from the engine-driver himself to the guard behind, to apply in an instant and simultaneously the whole of the breaks with which a-train may be furnished. The shaft is about two inches in diameter, and it is so contrived that it matters not if one carriage be higher than another, or if the train be curved, elongated, or contracted while in motion ; the differ- ence in the height of carriages being provided for by a ball-and-socket joint, bolted through at right angles, two of them being sufficient for each carriage, and the sudden elongations and contractions to which trains are subject in Iftertingor stopping are provided_forhy a portion of the connexion made of twe- lfth round iron tubing, having a steel square welded in the end, and a square bar, five feet long, working logitudinally inside, so that when the engine starts or tips this slide expands or contracts, as the motion of the train may require. the shackle by which any of tte carriages in a train are coupled together were to break, leaving the train to be held together by the side- chains, the slide referred to is still I me trueigh to be held in the socket. The connexion between the shafting on the top of the train and the breaks is effected by an upright cylinder at the end of a carriage or van, (forthey may be attached to either ) which contains a spiral spring acting on a cross Pi, aria worked bye wheel and pinion at the top, between double racks with emneeting links to act on the lever. The object of havingtwo upright rack one only being used 'at time, is to enable the motion to be reversed, should a Carriage or train have to go in a contrary direction without being turned wound.; and this is effected by an eccentric, throwing one rack out and the other in gear. One important feature of the new patent is, that all the breaks are self-acting. They are turned, off to,enable a train to start by means of a

wheel and pinion, which wind up the spiral spring, and which are held in suspension by a more catch ; so that in case of danger the catch has only to be slipped, (and when the catch for one break is slipped by a slight motion of the wheel the catches on all the others slip also,) and the whole,of the other breaks on the train instantly apply themselves.'

These were the results of the trial. When the train was ping at twenty miles an hour on a level, with slippery rails, it was stopped in eighty yards; in another case the distance was between forty and fifty yards. The great experimenta were on the descent into Accrington. The gradient is very steep; trains usually run at only ten or fifteen miles down it. On Saturday, the speed was raised to thirty-five miles, when the guard applied a slight cheek; some fog-signals exploded, all the breaks were applied fully, and the train was stopped in 228 yards. On the same descent, with a speed of forty miles, the train was stopped in 380 yirds. In these experiments the breaks were applied so as to bring the utmost resistance to the motion of the wheels short of stepping their revolution : they can be entirely locked if necessary, but when wheels are in that condition both rails and wheels are demaged: the wheels are flattened by the friction, and afterwards, in revolving, the intake angle of the flattened part acts as a hammer on the rail.

London was visited by a thunder-storm on Thursday. The weather had been very warm for several days. There was a thunder-storm on the Southern coast in the morning.

The Carlton Club has taken the residence of the late Duke of Buckingham in Pall Mall, for two years, at a rent of 1e001.; during which time the club- house of the Carlton will undergo some alterations.

Messrs. Bass and Company have issued a circular statement, that " in con- sequence of the high price of hops and malt, the brewers of Burton-upon.. Trent have been compelled to raise the price of pale ale." The advance is 68. per barreL

A professional gentleman of Brighton recently travelled from Vienna to Brighton in three days; having left the Austrian capital on Monday, and reached home on Wednesday night.

Letter-receiving-boxes have been furnished to all the stations situated in towns on the South-western Railway. They are to be fixed in the most conspicuous parts, against the walls of the platforms of the various stations.

A recommendation having been made to the guards, firemen, &e. of the Scottish Central Railway, to allow Nature to have her own way with chin and upper lip, they have discarded their razors ; and, in a letter addressed to a gentleman connected with the establishment, they state that the benefit they have derived from such practice induces them to recommend it to the general adoption of their brethren in similar service throughout the king- dom. —Liverpool Albion.

The Great Northern Company have, it, is said, offered Lord Fitwilliam 60,0001. a year for his coal-mines on a lease for fifty years. Aconsiderable portion of the coals supplied to the Great Northern come from the pits of his Lordship.— Yorkshire Gazette.

A boatman, on returning to Fence in Schleswig, on the 5thinstant, re- ported that he had sighted a vessel at sea capsized : boats were sent out in search, and on approaching the hull a tapping was heard. A hole was mad.e in the bottom, and a young Englishman discovered in a delirious state, standing up to his chest in water. He was taken to Nordbv, and carefully tended ; but died there, on the 9th instant. In his wanderings he continu- ally repeated the inscription of a medal he wore, "Let every man do his duty." It is supposed that the vessel had been bound from Ilull to Ham- burg, and was lost in the storm of the night of September 26; in which case our hapless countryman had been in that pitiable position eleven days before he was extricated.

A son of George Linley the composer has had a narrow escape. He had fixed on the Dalhousie to take his passage for Sydney ; but his mother, having taken a prejudice to that ship, urged him so fervently to give up his desire of going in her, that, at the last moment only, he consented. She visited the Dalhousie three times with her son, hoping to overcome her super- stitious feelings. On the occasion of her last visit, a gentleman signing pa- pers in the cabin, seeing her hesitation, said, "Madam, this is a first-rate ship : I have 40,0001. on board ; and rest assured, I must think well of the Dalhousie before I would trust so much in her." Much more he argued to persuade her ; but Mrs. Linley immediately went to the Semarang, and there secured a berth for her son.

Another batch of ticket-of-leave convicts, selected this time from the Dartmoor Prison, are now at large.

It is one of the happy results of the cessation of transportation to Van Diemen's Land that instructions have been given to pull down the gallows at Launceston. Facing the river, the first object which met the stranger's eye was the permanent gallows, a substantial affair, built up with bricks and stone, and having a huge beam securely let into the walls ; altogether de- signed for any amount of service. But convictism has ceased, audit is rather significant that the removal of the gallows should be ordered immediately.— Tasmanian.

A packing-case maker in the quarter St. Martin, on commencing work on Tuesday morning, perceived a well-dressed man of about forty years of age pass frequently before him and look at him attentively. At length the stranger asked him what o'clock it was. The man answered, "Seven." Whereupon the stranger said, "You begin work early—you must earn a good deal ? " "I just earn enough," was the reply, "to maintain my family" : and, seeing the stranger was anxious to get into conversation, he continued—" I have a young wife and three children. I work for myself; but I only began business with my savings as a workman, and my wife brought me nothing. But I do not repent having married her for we are attached to each other." "Could you not extend your business?" "To do that, I mud have money." "A good deal ? Would 10,000 francs, for ex- ample, be enough ? " " Oh, that would be more than is necessary. But if I had that sum, I could, with my activity, soon rival the best of my. trade ! " " Well," said the stranger, "give me your name exactly, and I will endeavour to do something for you!" The tradesman handed him one of his cards, and the stranger went away. In the afternoon, when the man had almost forgotten the visit of the morning, he was surprised to see the stranger come in and present him with a carefully- sealed parcel. "I confide this to you," said be, "and I requirethat you shall not open it until twenty-four hours shall have elapsed. You will find it contains something that concerns you; but I repeat, that you must not open it until tomorrow at this time, unless you see me in the mean time." The stranger did not again appear ; and next day, at two o'clock, the trades- man, pressed byhis wife, broke the seals of the. parcel, He then found ripaper containing these lines—" Imperative reasons oblige me to .quit life. I shall go far from Paris to accomplish my design. At the moment at which you read these lines, I shall be no longer in existence., But before dying, I am anxious to promote the happiness of an honest family. The information which,I have obtained respecting you, convinces me that my money will be well placed. You will find enclosed a sum of 10,000 franca, with a donation of it to you in due legal, form" Enclosed were, ten notes of, 1000 ham each.—Gakgneni's Messenger.