_Miscellaneous.
It is rumoured, that previous to the nuptials of the Princess Augusta of Cambridge with the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, an application will be made to Parliament, by Ministers, to settle an annuity on that Princess of 3,000/. per annum. The auspicious ceremony is now un- derstood to be fixed for flie first week in July.—Morning Herald.
In announcing the names of Queen Victoria's third child, "Alice Maud Mary," the Times praises them as "indisputably English "; and the Post, going a step further, says that they are "of pure English 'origin.' It would be puzzling to find any names of English origin. Two of the names, disputation waived, may be considered English after an Irish fashion—Alice and Maud, which_ are German._ We do not
remember that Swift proves Mary to be indisputably English, in com- mon with Epaminondas, and other names in vogue before the days Of Caractacus : it is commonly considered of Hebrew origin ; and it would be interesting to discover that it had been borrowed by the Jews from the Anglo-Saxons. Saturday was the birthday of the Crown Prince of Hanover. It was celebrated at Windsor by the firing of cannon and the like signals of rejoicing.
Monday was the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the Second. The House of Lords did.not sit. The Chaplain of the House of Commons preached before the Speaker and "the House" in the morning, at St. Margaret's Church ; the House consisting of the Speaker, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and other officers, and about eight Members.
Mr. Dyce has resigned the office of Director of the School of Design at Somerset House, on being appointed Inspector of Provincial Schools and Member of the CounciL He is succeeded by Mr. C. H. Wilson in the management of the central school.
Mr. Bird and his sons were finally ejected on Friday from Brougham Hall. Mr. Bird says his next step will be to distraiu on Lord Brough- am's goods there, and sell them, unless his Lordship replevies.
An address from the electors and inhabitants of the West Riding of Yorkshire, agreed to at a public meeting in Wakefield, at which Earl Fitzwilliam presided, was presented by deputation to Viscount Morpetb, on Tuesday. It bore the signatures of 38,674 of his supporters and friends ; and was presented by a deputation of about eighty gentlemen, headed by Mr. Charles Wood, M.P., Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Howard, M.P., Sir George Strickland, M.P., Mr. .1. Stansfield, M.P., and Mr. E. Childers, M.P. Lord Morpeth received the deputation in the vestibule of Stafford House ; the Dutchess of Sutherland, and other ladies of the houses of Stafford and Howard, being present. The address disclaimed the delusion which had made the West Riding join the ranks of monopoly and reject Lord Morpeth as their representative ; and it exhorted him not to await the time when the Riding would again return him, but to give his services to the country as the representative of some other place. Lord Morpeth's answer implied that he might adopt that advice on proper occasion.
The Judges sat on Thursday, in the Exchequer Chamber, and se- lected their circuits for the approaching Summer Assizes. The fol- lowing is the arrangement— Norfolk Circuit, Lord Denman and Baron Alderson ; Home Circuit, Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Baron Parke; Midland Circuit, Lord Abinger and Justice Pattison ; North Wales, Baron Gurney; South Wales, Baron Rolfe ; Oxford Circuit, Justice Williams and Justice Maule; Western Circuit, Justice Coleridge and Justice Erskine; Northern Circuit, Justice Wightman andJus- tice CresswelL Justice Coltman remains in town.
Very vigorous efforts have been made to send more forces to Ireland. The Cyclops steamer, lying dismantled at Woolwich, was hastily com- missioned on Sunday morning, was made ready for sea in thirty-six hours, nd sailed with the Woolwich division of Royal Marines ; pro- ceeding to take up at Sheerness a detachment of Marines from Chat- ham. The steam-frigate Alban, with stores and ammunition, sailed for Ireland on Monday. The Rhadamanthns steamer arrived at Ports- mouth on Tuesday, and embarked a party of sixty gunners, with four six-ponnders and two howitzers; sailing immediately for Dublin. A detachment of Marines was put under orders for embarkation. It is said that Rear-Admiral Bowles will hoist his flag in the Malabar (72) at Plymouth, and proceed to Cork. The Second Dragoon Guards at Hulme, in Lancashire, marched for Liverpool and Ireland on Monday.
A very singular explosion took place at Southampton yesterday. About eleven o'clock, it was known that the Tartar brig, laden with Paixbans shells, rockets, and twenty brass guns, for Vera Cruz, was on fire. The ship, and one next to it, were deserted ; hundreds of people left the town ; and shops were shut. A party of Sappers and Miners were employed to fire into the vessel, with a view to sink it ; but before they could do so, the combustibles began to explode; and the men were drawn off; every one retreating to a distance. Some time after twelve there was a terrific explosion, rockets and shells flying in all directions ; another at two ; and at twenty minutes to three the vessel sank. Pieces of iron were thrown a third of a mile. The brig was old. The cause of the fire is unknown.
A boiler burst in the Medlock dyeworks of Messrs. Hulme and Sons, at Failsworth, near Manchester, on Wednesday. Steam was supplied from one boiler to a number of dye-shops ; many dyers happened to turn back their steam at once, and the boiler exploded. One man near it was dashed against the wall, thrown on the ground, and deluged with scalding water. He died in a few hours. A second was much scalded; and others were more or less hurt.
We mentioned a few days ago, says a French paper, on the authority of a letter from Copenhagen, that a journalist of that city, charged with libel, had, in virtue of some obsolete law, been thrown into a dungeon, and kept on bread and water. By another letter, of the 17th May, we learn that he has since been brought to trial and acquitted, and the crown has been condemned to the costs of the suit.
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