Among the deaths announced this week is that of Sir

Augustus Frede- rick d'Este, son of the late Duke of Sussex by Lady Augusta Murray.

"Upon the death of the Duke, in 1893, Sir Augustus preferred his claim to succeed to the titles and honours of his father; and the claim was beard by the House of Lords in 1843; when, after proof was given of the marriage of his fa- ther and mother, and the birth of Sir Augustus in 1794, a question was submitted to the Judges upon the effect of the Royal Marriage Act, 12th George III. The Judges pronounced their opinion, that the statute had incapacitated the de- scendants of George IL from contracting a legal marriage either in the British dominions or elsewhere without the consent of the Crown: whereupon the House Of Lords resolved that Sir Augustus had not established his claim.'

• The Earl of Oxford died on Thursday evening, at his seat, Roehampton; aged seventy-five. He is succeeded by Lord Harley. Lord Oxford took no prominent part in Parliament, but may be classed as a supporter of Go- vernment.

The Prince and Princess of Parma, who are at present guests of Lord He Tabley, at Tabley in Cheshire, lately paid a visit of curiosity to several of the manufactories of Manchester. Lord de Tabley and the Marchioness Of Douglas and Clydesdale (Princess Marie of Baden) were of the party. It was received at the Town-hall by the Mayor, Mr. J. Potter; who had beforehand provided a collation for them in his official parlour.

The Queen has ordered the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel George Huller, of the Rifle Brigade, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the. Companions of the Order of the Bath; Colonel Duncan Macgregor, Inspector-General of the Irish Constabulary, and Lieutenant. Colonel Charles Rowan, C.B., one of the Metropolitan Police Commission- eras to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of Knights Command- ers of the same Order.

M. Vavin, Liquidator-General of the French Civil List, has addressed a letter to the newspapers, to recommend the creditors of Louis Philippe's fa- mily not to cede their debts on unfavourable terms; because, he says, he is convinced that they will eventually be discharged in full. He adds, that he will shortly pay a rather large sum on account. M. Dupin has also written to the journals to declare the same thing. He says that all the members of the Orleans family have granted the power of mortgaging their properties, and that even the Princesses consent to give up certain privi- leges with respect thereto, secured by their marriage-contracts. M. Vavin adds, that he has placed at the disposal of the Liquidator-General all the funds and bills which were in the treasury of the private domain; and that he will pass to his order the bills given for the ordinary cuttings of wood in 1848, so as to effect a payment to the creditors.

M. Guizot has written, in London, a work entitled "De la Democratie en France"; which is announced for publication in Paris next month.

The 3forning Post announces that its special correspondent at the head- quarters of Cabrera has, for the second time within ten days, been subject- ed by the French frontier police to an outrage of a nature that requires the interference of some authority befitting the gravity of the question. "We have therefore," says the Post, "placed the whole circumstances be- fore her Majesty's Foreign Secretary; and past experience makes us confi- dent in his Lordship's earnest and strenuous exertions on behalf of a Bri- tish subject oppressed by the agents of a foreign Government."

In reference to a prevalent rumour that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have lost the contract for the conveyance of the mail between Southampton and Alexandria, the Hampshire Independent says- " We are now glad to have it in our power to state, on the best authority, that in consequence of the parties who were said to have obtained the contract having failed in their negotiations, the Admiralty have signified their willingness to renew the contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, upon the terms which they tendered. The mails will therefore be conveyed as usual, by the same com- pany, and from this port."

The late Mr. Allan, of Midbeltie, besides making various bequests to his rela- tives, has devised nearly 20,0001. to form a fund for granting annuities to widows of respectable character in Aberdeen and old Machar. The annuities to be al- lowed are to be not less than 51. nor more than 151. to each widow ; and the selec- tion of the parties to whom they are to be granted is left very much to the dis- cretion of the trustees named by the deceased, several of whom are official gentle- men connected with the city of Aberdeen.---Aberdeen Banner.

Orders have been issued by the Directors of the South-western Railway Com- pany to advance the charges on the first and second class fares, to the extent of about twenty per cent, along the whole of the line from London to Southampton.

A reading-room for passengers, furnished with newspapers and periodicals, has been established at the Rugby station of the North-western Railway. A penny to be paid for admission. Captain Laws has resigned the management of the Great Northern Railway, He proceeds to Manchester to take charge of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail. way, an office which he formerly held for years. He retains his seat as Director in the Great Northern. No one has yet been appointed Chairman of the Board in the room of Mr. Denison.—Herapatles Railway Journal.

The man Upton, through whose negligence the explosion of gunpowder on the Eastern Counties line lately took place, has been fined 51. and dismissed the Com- pany's service. Some 300 men on the North British Railway have struck for an increase of wages; and the works at the central station in Newcastle are at a stand-still from the same cause.

Certain premises being required by the South-western Railway for its extension to London Bridge, the owner demanded 14,7421.: a Jury has awarded him 1,3941.

A human head has been discovered in a heap of stones at Ballyvauglaan, in the county of Clare. The body has not been discovered, nor can any person in the vicinity give any information ou the matter to the authorities. The flesh was firm, and the blood seemingly quite fresh. It could not have been there many days.—Fermanagh Guardian. As the Norwich Union coach was entering Ipswich on Friday night, the horses took fright, dashed forward, and in turning a corner the coach was pitched over. One of the passengers—Mrs. Parker, an old lady of London—died in a few mi. nutes ; a young man was much hurt; and other passengers suffered in a less de- gree. A Jury has returned a verdict of "Accidental death " in Mrs. Parker's case,

A boy having been sent by his uncle, a miner of Trimdon Colliery, near Dar. ham, to fetch some milk, he fell and spilt it on the way : when he returned, the mac was making cartrid,ges for blasting; he was very angry with the boy, and struck him on the head with a bag of gunpowder; the bag burst, some of the powder got into the fire, and there was a violent explosion. An infant was killed, and two other persons were burnt very severely. During the storm on the 15th instant, a Greek vessel, bound from Chios to Liverpool, was wrecked near Fethard, on the Wexford coast. The ship ran on the sands called the "Bulls of Bannon," despite of signals of distress which were hoisted to endeavour to warn the crew of their danger. The sea ran very high, and no assistance could be given from the shore. The vessel struck at low water; when the tide rose the waves dashed it to pieces. Four seamen came ashore alive on part of the wreck; but the rest of the people—the master, his daughter, and twelve mariners—all perished.

Another German emigrant-shie has been lost on the coast of Kent. The Brarens, from Hamburg to New York, with ninety-one passengers, early on the morning of the 21st struck on the Kentish Knock, and lost her rudder: by cutting away a mast she got clear, but drifted on to the Tongue Sand, where a tre. mendous sea was running. Two Margate tuggers, the Intrepid and the Queen, came up, took off all the people except one man who was drunk and would not quit the ship, and landed them safe, but utterly destitute, at Margate!. The drunkard was afterwards rescued by a Whitstable smack: the ship went to pieced.

deaths 14; the Provinces—cases 59, deaths 24; Scotland—cases 408, deaths 204. The cholera returns of the past week give these results: London—cases 36, Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the

week ending on Saturday last— Number of Autumn

Deaths. Average Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 331 270 ZymotIc Diseases 46 52 163 184 Tubercular Diseases. 113 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 9.9 127 38 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... . 177 222 67 67 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion ... 14 12 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 11 14 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c. 10 Rheiunatism, diseases of the Bones, joints, &e 2

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular 'Tissue, &c 2 3

Malformations 38 23 Premature Birth 29 19 Atrophy 39 64 Age 12 12 Sudden 32 44 Vitgence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) 1115 1154

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 62.8° in the sun to 18.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 2.0°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was East.