Miscellaneous.

Lord Bloomfield, the British Minister at the Court of St. Petersburg, has arrived in London from Russia, on leave.

Mr. Wise is forthwith to be appointed British Minister at the Court of Athens. This circumstance will account for his resignation of the office he lately held in the Board of Control.—Globe.

We have the satisfaction of announcing the appointment of G. W. An- derson, Esq., of the civil service of India, to the office of Governor of the Mauritius. Mr. Anderson filled a succession of important offices at Bombay with equal credit to himself and satisfaction to both the local and home authorities; and, ultimately attaining a seat in Council, he succeeded, in April 1841 to the office of Governor of Bombay, which he occupied in the interval between the departure of Sir James Carnac and the arrival of Sir George Arthur.—Morning Chronicle.

The announcement last week that Mr. Edward William Lane has re- ceived a Government pension of 1001. is incorrect: Mr. Lane has received, not an annual pension, but a grant of the sum of 2001. from the fund " for special service : Mr. Lane is now engaged on a great lexicon of the Arabic language.

Since the appearance of the paragraph in the Times announcing the Herald's fruitless search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, news has been

received at the Admiralty from Captain Bella, of the Herald, confirming the report of his not having fallen in with the Plover, which ship was bound in search of the missing expedition; and so far the Herald had failed in her desired object: but it was hardly under any circumstances to have been expected that the Herald with her instructions could herself have fallen in with Sir John Franklin's expedition.—Times.

The Times authoritatively contradicts a report copied by itself and other papers from the Corsaire, to the effect that some communication had taken place between Louis Philippe and the President of the French Republic with respect to the conditional return of the Orleans Family to France.

Several journals of the Democratic and Socialist party have announced that M. Guizot arrived in Paris on Saturday. We shall not seek for their object in spreading this news, but shall content ourselves with contradict- ing it in the most formal manner. M. Guizot has not left Brompton, and does not think of returning to France before the end of two or three months. As to the details with which the account was accompanied, they are not worth being noticed.—Journal des Debate.

The King of Prussia has conferred on M. Guizot, member of the French Academy, the order of merit for the arts and sciences.

A duel was fought on Monday morning, with small swords, between M. Clement Thomas, the late Commander-in-chief of the National Guards of Paris, and M. Coetlogon, the editor of the Corsaire. The Corsaire had an article in which M. Clement Thomas was grossly insulted; and the editor having refused to give up the name of the author of the article, M. Clement Thomas struck him. Both the combatants were dangerously wounded.

M. Thiers also sent a hostile message to M. Trelat, last week, on account of some offence given in one of the Bureaux. Marshal Bugeaud and Gene- ral Baraguay d'Hilliers, the seconds of M. Thiers, and M. Grevy and M. Recurt, the friends of M. Trelat, effected a reconciliation.

The Italian papers are full of the facts of a terrible concussion be- tween the two Neapolitan steamers Vesuvius and Antelope on the night of the 18th January, with a distinguished freight. " The Vesuvius was en route to Naples, having on board his Majesty and the Count of Trapani; the latter en route to Gaeta, with four Cardinals, M. Ous- tinoff, (the Secretary of the Prussian Legation,) Count Comfit, and others. The concussion took place, it seems, about three o'clock in the morning, in conse- quence of some carelessness on the part of the people of the Antelope, which, instead of keeping on the right, kept on the left. In the first moment of alarm, M. Oustinoff, Count Corafa, a priest, and another person, threw themselves into the sea, which was as call as a lake; and, unfortunately, M. Oustinoff was never recovered. His Majesty was lavish of his attention t) those who were savel, I am told. The Antelope was afterwards towed into Procida, and the commander is to be tried by a council of war. The King afterwards proceeded to Naples."

Signor Mazzini, chief of the Young Italy party, and Signor Fabrizzi, one of the principal Italian Democrats, are now at Marseilles.

The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have transmitted to the Com- missioners of Customs an order in Council, constituting the ports of Waterloo Bay, and East London, in the Cape of Good Hope, free ports and free ihrehouging ports.

The whole of the Infantry reerniting-paities in London have been or- dered to rejoin their respective &pats and regiments, with the exception of the Rifle Brigade. Recruiting for the Cavalry is to continue. This mea- sure is supposed to be preparatory to some reduction in the strength of the Line.—United Service Gasette.

We understand that, in consequence of the want of cavalry in India,' her Majesty's Eighth Hussars and Twelfth Lancers have received an intima- tion from the Horse Guards to hold themselves in readiness to embark for that quarter of the world.—Morning Post.

Her Majesty has presented to Mr. Charles Kean, through the hands of the Honourable Colonel Phipps, a splendid diamand ring, and has enhanced the value of the gift by condescending to express to him in person her approbation of his professional exertions, as well as of the complete success that has attended his direction of the late Windsor Castle theatricals.—Times.

It is confidently reported that Mr. Hudson will very shortly resign the chair of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and Mr. Waddington will take his place, Mr. Pete being called in to take the Deputy-Chairmanship.

The ten principal railways pay, on the average, the following sums per acre per annum for parochial taxes—London and North-western, 131. 6s.; Great Western, 91. 163.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 141.103.; Midland, 71.6s.; York and North Midland, Si. 14.s.• York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 41.; Eastern Coun- ties, 41. 12s.; South-western, 71. 16s.; Brighton, 101. 14s.; Dover, 141. 68.— Herapath's Journal.

Mr. Andrews, Q C., acting as arbiter, has awarded 1481. to be paid to one farmer, and 1451- to another, for damage done to their buildings and corn-stacks adjoining the Eastern Counties Railway, at Needingworth, which were Bred by the burning coke failing from the funnel of the engine of the mail-train, the Com- pany having disputed their liability to make good the damage.—Chelmsford Chronicle.

The Yorkshire manufacturers are buying up all the wool they can find in the markets of the South and West of Ireland.—Leinster Express.

The Rhenish Democrat states that a gigantic project, the construction of a canal between Kiel and the month of the Elbe, connecting the Baltic with the North Sea, is seriously contemplated. The reason assigned is the frustration of the monopoly of the passages of the Sound and the Two Belts, at present enjoyed by the Scandinavian powers. Without some such independent communication, the creation of a German fleet would be vain.

The lady of Sir John Pole, of Shute House, in Devonshire, has attempted to destroy herself by jumping from her bedroom-window on the third floor. She will be a cripple for life.

A letter from Como, of the 13th, states that an employe of the hospital of that town, on returning home, was shot by a sentinel, for not having answered his challenge in an audible voice. The ball, after having gone through the body of the unfortunate man, struck against a wall, and wounded a canon named Sam- pietro, devoted to the Austrian cause, and brother to the Anne Councillor of that name. On the following morning he was obliged in consequence to undergo the amputation of an arm.

A miller's man has been killed at Whitstable by the sails of the windmill strik- ing him on the head. The sails are very low, and this is not the first accident caused by them. A little boy has died from hydrophobia, at Jesmond, near Newcastle, a month after having been bitten in the nose and cheek by a dog.

The ship Atlantic, bound from Liverpool to New Orleans, and having four hun- dred emigrants on board, has been wrecked on the shore near Ardressan; the ship went to pieces after a time, but all the people had been previously landed. The tempestuous weather had driven the vessel about in the Irish Sea for some days, and prevented a passage round the Southern part of Ireland; the master then tried a Northern course; but the ship suffered 60 much by the rough wea- ther that it was necessary to pat into port to repair, and in the attempt to make the Clyde the wreck occurred.

Scene, Junior U. S. Club.—Captain Ragg loquitur—".I say, Famish, my boy, here's another of those lucky dogs the Elliots provided for. Which of our ca- valry regiments do they put you in mind of? Ils'ye give it up, eh?—Why, the Scotch Greys, to be sore."—Kelso Chronicle.

The Halifax new Borough Police have printed instructions that their duty is to prevent offences. One of the body (who, though a teetotaller, is somewhat of a ram subject) the other day carried out his instructions in a rather novel man- ner. Two drunken fellows were quarrelling in the street, and from words were proceeding to blows, when the gentleman in blue came up. Without drawing either staff or snaps, he marched up to the irate combatants, and tapping one of them on the shoulder, said gravely, "You haven't either of you fourteen shillin' that you can spare, have you?" This broad hint at "penalty and costa" brought the two to their senses. They remembered that they could lot afford the luxury of a street row, and so they went away in peace.—Halifax Guardian.

The Bristol Journal reports an instance of dishonest ingenuity. Two would- be robbers tied a rope across the road between Lovington and Queen Camel; as a baker drove up in a cart, his horse stumbled over the rope, and the two thieves pounced upon the traveller from behind a hedge; but before they could rifle his pocket of 201. which he was going to pay to a miller, a gig came up, and they made off.

The cholera returns of last week give these results. London—cases, 85; deaths, 82. The Provinces—cases, 98; deaths, 28. Scotland—cases, 804; deaths, 504. The returns from several of the Scottish towns extend over a fortnight.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last- Total (including =specified causes)

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 60.8° in the sun to 26.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 8.5°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was South- west.

Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases 173 .... Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 150

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 22 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 215 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion .. • 63 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 14 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. 13

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc ICI

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 2 Malformations 4

Premature Birth 16

Atrophy 20

Age 45 Sudden 8 'Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23 1208 Number of Deaths.

329 ....

Winter Average. 221 54 203

141 40

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