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The Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha arrived in town from Esher on Wednesday, and started for Ostend in the evening.

Lord Cowley, British Ambassador at Frankfort, left that city for Lon- don on the 22d of July. It is reported that he promised to return to his post about the end of August.

The Risorgimento of Turin has published Mr. Gladstone's letters to Lord Aberdeen on the Neapolitan atrocities ; and the German Universal Gazette has been seized and confiscated for publishing an account of them.

The Morning Post lauds the "last new fashion " ; in this case, with -good reason. It is a fashion set by the Queen, and followed by many of her most distinguished subjects, of paying all tradesmen's accounts every three months, instead of allowing them to run for an indefinite time, with all manner of ill results. The Post notes that this new fashion is a re- -viral of one which prevailed during the Regency of George the Fourth.

The eclipse of the sun on Monday, as far as London was concerned, was a decided failure. Very few saw it at all. The weather was wet and the sky was shrouded in clouds. But some persons nevertheless, by gazing intently and without intermission at the spot where the sun was supposed to be behind the clouds, did behold, from about twenty minutes past two until a few minutes past three o'clock, the globe of the moon apparently traversing the disc of the sun. At first, that luminary looked like a bright shilling having a small morsel cut out with a cheese-chopper. Then the dark surface gradually grew obscured, assuming a crescent shape having very sharp extremities, until, just at the critical period when the paitial border of light ought to have been visible, the clouds huddled themselves together, and eclipsed both sun and moon. As to the ex- pected darkness, a moderate London fog would have far surpassed the change caused by the eclipse ; which, in fact, was no darkness at all, only a gloom common to town on a dull day.

It was not so at Paris, where everybody who chose to look upward had u capital view of the phtenomenon—not a cloud obscuring the sky. Of course all Paris was gazing skyward. Accounts which have reached us state that in Devonshire the eclipse was not seen at all ; while in Dur- ham nearly as good a view of the occurrence was obtained as at Paris. The greatest obscuration took place at seven minutes past three, when the sun looked like a young moon, and the light like moonlight. At Dublin, the sun was very brilliant in the early morning ; at noon a fierce thunder-storm mime up, and covered the sky with dense clouds of great depth and gloom over the whole of the North-west—light, fan- tastic, and silvery, in the South and South-cast. Of course nobody saw the eclipse.

M. Soyer gave a capital dinner at his Symposium, on Saturday last, to the deputation of French workmen, on a visit to the Exposition.

The late Mr. B. Brame, of Ipswich, has by his will devised to trustees the large sum of 60,000/., the interest of which is to be annually expended for ,charitable purposes in that town.—Ipswich Express.

Colonel Sibthorp has sent a second 51. for Ann Hicks : his first donation was said to be by "M.P. a consistent opponent of the Crystal Palace." Members of the Stock Exchange have forwarded 351. 108. to the Marlborough Street Magistrate; and other subscriptions have been sent.

Mr. Robinson, the incumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn, found a crowd of Ranters assembled near his church : he waited tills hymn had been sung, and then claimed to be their preacher—mounted a chair, and de- livered a sermon, with which the people seemed much pleased.

At the conclusion of the trials at Winchester, Mr. Justice Coleridge pre- sided at another kind of trial, in which the bar were engaged, but only on one side : a cricket-match between the bar of the Western Circuit and the North Hants Club. The lawyers were too much for the natives; beating them by 145 to 127.

An Iceland falcon has been shot by a gamekeeper at Inverbroorn in Ross- shire. This is a very rare visitor, and it was not till some feathers had been sent to Mr. Charles St. John the naturalist that its species was ascertained by the sportsmen of the locality.

Tuesday's Gazette notifies the appointment of Henry Samuel Chapman, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the island of Van Diemen's Land; • and of Thomas Falconer, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the territory of Western Australia. [Mr. Chapman, lately a Judge in New Zealand, was formerly connected with Mr. Roebuck in Canadian polities ; Mr. Falconer is Mr. Roe- buck's brother-in-law, and the author of several meritorious works.] The barque Levenside arrived at St. Helena on the 29th of May, having on board a detachment of an artillery corps commanded by Captain Vesey. This officer at once made a charge of assault with intent to murder against the master of the Levenside, Captain Campbell. It seems that a dis- pute arose between the land captain and the sea captain about the Closing of the " booby-hatch" • Captain Campbell ordering it down, Cap- tain Vesey ordering it up, and seconding his order with a file of men. Shortly afterwards the scene was again enacted : Captain Campbell, tenacious of his rights as master of the ship, put a pistol to the breast of Captain Vesey, and threatened to shoot him if he interfered in the management of the vessel. Whereupon Captain Vesey ordered his men to fall in and to go below for .arms. As the muskets were handed up the hatchway, a scuffle ensued; during which the pistol was wrested from Captain Campbell : farther' he Ives arrested, padlocked to a stanchion in the hold, and kept for sixteen boars without bread or water ; his journal and the ship's papers were seized; and until the arrival of the Levenside at St. Helena, he himself was kept in confinement. During the remainder of the voyage, the mate navigated the ship; and on leading, Captain Vesey preferred the charge above mentioned. On this charge Captain Campbell was committed for trial by the M tgistrates, He immediatoly.charged Captain Vesey with piracy, but it is said Cie Magis- trates refused to hear the charge.

Mr. Snare, a bookseller of Reading, recently brought an action in the Court of Session at Edinburgh, for damages against the trustees of Ow Earl of Fife. In 1845, at the sale of the effects of Mr. Benjamin Kent, oi Radice Hall, near Oxford, Mr. Snare bought a portrait of Charles the Fir-I. by VeT- lasquez ; be exhibited it in various places, and in 1849 took it to Edinburgh. The trustees of the Earl of Fife declared it was a picture stolen from the

collection belonging to the family; instituted legal proceedings ; had the painting taken from the possession of Mr. Snare, from the 31st limitary to the 17th of March, when they were compelled to restore it. Damages were laid at 5000/. The Jury awarded damages for 1000/., irrespective of " cola- tium," which they did not take into account.

A cowkeeper and his wife of Liverpool having circulated stati-illcnts that Fleet, a " pork " butcher of North Street, used diseased meat for his sausages and other delicacies, Fleet prosecuted them in the Court of l'age for slander. For the defence, the cowkeepers called witnesses who proved tk:t Fleet bought diseased cows—cows that died of the milk fever—jigged " cows—calves, or "staggering bobs," a day or two old—" all sorts et cows," and so on, boiling them or chopping them up. From the cow-meat w,-re manufactured "pig's" head and sausages. The meat was "very 1-1.e "smelt awful." One witness sold a heifer to Fleet for the benefit of his customers, though the witness would not give it to his pigs. Cross-vxa he said—" I turned the machine at the plaintiff's, and helped them to chop up the meat, but it made me sick. I can staml a bit of a smell, but 1 couldn't stand that. I asked the lad that was chopping the meat, did he ever eat any of it himself ; and he said 'No, nor they can't get me to eat it either.' " As "truth's a libel," the Jury found for the plaintiff; but with only a farthing damages.

The tide has made a shoal of porpoises suffer penance by sending them up the Thames to the dirty flood, enriched by the stream of the " river " Fleet, about Blackfriars Bridge. They were seen for a time early on Thursday morning, and then disappeared,—doubtless seeking a more salubrious lo- cality.

A good deal of confusion has been caused at Liverpool by the electric tele- graph wrongly reporting the winner of the Goodwood Stakes. Bets were paid ; but next morning the mistake was discovered, to the chagrin of the payees and the delight of the pas era of the preceding night.

The Midland and the Great Northern Railways are competing to bring visitors to London ; and they have alternately lowered their fares SO much that they have conveyed third-class passengers from Leeds and Bradford to London and back for 4s. 6d. and 5s. respectively.

The Propaganda states that in the capital of the Republic of the Equator, Quito, by a decree cf 25th March 1851, the Holy Order of Jesus is restored to its rights and to the property belonging to it in that laud. The Pragniatica of King Charles the Third of Spain was, through this decree, set aside •' to all eteimity."

A recent order for closing of the shops on the Sunday in Berlin is riot to be gone on with. Last week it was strictly carried out ; but caused such dissatisfaction to buyers and sellers that it was deemed expedient to yield to the strong popular feeling on the subject.

In the first six months of this year there were 966 fires in Pails; 813 of chimnies, and 123 of buildings.

The lighting of the General Post-office with gas cost 3047/. in 1847 : last year, it cost only 14851., owing to the reduction of price, from competition.

The total quantity of wheat imported into the United Kingdom during the second quarter of 1851, was 1,097,569 quarters ; of wheat-flour, 1,359,400 quarters ; of barley, 314,878 quarters ; of oats, 359,853 quarters.

The number of sentences of transportation in Great Britain in 1848 was 3152; in 1849, 2813; in 1850, 2256. The number actually transported in the same years was respectively 1378, 1391, and 2389. The number in the hulks has risen from 3778 in 1848 to 6191 in the present year. In the last twelve years there have been 12,966 sentences of transportation in Ireland, and 7211 actual deportations.

George Douglass; mate of the whaler Flora, has written to his brother at Dundee enclosing an account of the finding of four bodies buried in the snow among some mountains near Lancaster Sound. As the attention of the whalers was drawn to the spot by a party of Esquimaux, who asked the sea- men whether they "belonged to the chief Franklin," it has been conjec- tured that the bodies may be those of some of Sir John Franklin's crew. In reply to inquiries, Lloyd's Committee say that they are not aware that any ship "Flora" has arrived at Stroinness.

A boy has been killed by lightning during a storm at Sunderland. Many houses were damaged by the lightning.

Two of five men who had been cleaning out a fish-pond belonging to Sir Benjamin Brodie at Buekland, near Reigate, entered anothet pond to wash ; one sank, and the second nearly perished in attempting to rescue him ; a third plunged in to the aid of the drowning man, and both were lost.

An attempt at assassination was made in a suburb of Paris OT1 Saturday, under circumstances which have caused some sensation. A young lady of seventeen, who had expressed strong opposition to the intention of her mother to contract a second marriage, repaired to the house of the accepted suitor, and said, on being admitted, "I wish to know if you persist in your design to marry my mother ? " On receiving an answer in the af- firmative, the girl drew from beneath her mantelet a pistol, and dis- charged it at her mamma's intended. The ball grazed his shoulder, and lodged in the wall. The young lady was conducted to the Commissary of Police, and after being interrogated, was placed at the disposal of the Pro- cureur of the Republic.

Through a private letter from Athens we learn that workmen employed four miles from the city in draining the field of Marathon, found-the place of sepulture of the warriors who fell there in the memorable battle 490 year a before the birth of Christ.—Morning. Chronicle.

Workmen are employed at present in repairing the cases containing the orange-trees of the Tuileries garden. These trees are of great age, some going back as far as seven hundred years, and the youngest three hundred. Every twenty years the earth in each case is changed, and during the three follow- ing years they appear sickly. They then acquire fresh strength, and throw out an immense quantity of blossoms. It is this periodical change of nourish- ment which has led to their longevity.—Galignanis Messenger.

The writings of Shakspere would appear from the following fact to be read with as much avidity and delight in Sweden -as in his native country. A translation of his plays by Hagberg, Professor of Greek in the University of

Lund, is now in course of publication. Of this, twelve volumes have ap- peared; and although the first edition consisted of no less than 2000 copies,

In a large village in Dorsetshire, not far from the county-town, an intel- ligent man went recently into the house of a somewhat respectable woman who keeps a general shop in the village, and who is the mother of a nume- rous family; and seeing her with a large family Bible open before her, and several of her children collected around, while she was cutting and paring their finger-nails, and so holding their hands BB that their cuttings might drop on the leaves of the Bible, he asked her why she did this. Suspecting, by her manner, that she had some object in view, judge of his -surprise, when she replied, "I always when I cut the nails of my children let the cuttings fall on the open Bible, that they may grow up to be honest. They will never steal if the nails are cut over the Bible."—Hotes and Queries.