lilUsteL1aneous. --- Charles Albert has not long survived his abdication of

the throne of Sardinia: he died at-Lisbon on the 28th July,.after intense au-timing. .16 body was embalmed; and placed in the cathedral, to Omit the arrival of a steamer appointed to take his remains- to Genoa. The Portuguese au- tharities paid Suitable marks of respect for the fate of the unfortunate King. The. ast-Deutsche Peat and Lloyd report, from n trustworthy source, that Prince Metternich is suffering from softening of the brain, and exhibits un.. equivocal symptoms of this disease: he is in a complete state of apathy, greatly depressed in mind, and so far sunk in dotage that he did not recog. nize his daughter, the Cotintess 'Sander; who-made a jeurney'to England for the arrangement of family affairs.

The obituary records the deaths of two Members of Parliament,—Me. Godson, Q.C., Member far Kidderminster; and Mr. William Joseph Deni- son Member for West Surrey. Mr. Godson was a Conservative Free-

trader; Mr. Denison a somewhat advanced Whig. .

The annual sum of 1,2001. for pensions charged upon the Civil List for the year ending 20th June last was disposed of as fellows: to Mr. John Conde Adams,. for " astronomical discoveries and scientific merits," 2001.; James Sheridan Knowles, for his " talents as a dramatic author," 2001.; William Carleton, for his "literary merits," 2001.; 331. 6s. 8d. to each of three sisters of the late Professor bi`Cullagh, in consideration of his "eminent scientific attainments"; while the remaining 5001. has been bestowed ou Juana Maria de los Dolores Smith, in consideration of the military services of her husband, Major-General Sir Henry Smith.

M. Majendie, the distinguished physiologist and President of the Aca- demy of Medicine in Paris, has just arrived in this country, on a mission of inquiry from the French Government as to the progress and treatment of cholera in England. M. Majendie has had interviews with the General Board of Health on the sabject of his inquiry.—Times.

At a Privy ceuncil held at Osborne, on -Monday, a proclamation was ordered to be issued for giving currency to.e.oins called florins—equal to two shillings, or-a tenth part of tho pound sterling.

An interesting Parliamentary return has just been issued on the subject of savings-banks, giving a variety of particulars respecting them.

The return embraces the whole United Kingdom, and is made up to the 20th November last. The number of depositors was 1,054,663; the amount deposited, 28,046,1391.; While 6,368 persons had purchased annuities amounting to 105,0621. To conduct 584 sivings.banks, there were 635 unpaid officers and' 1,140 paid. No less than 75,3841. was disbursed in salaries, and the total annual expenses of management amounted to 103,1021. The average rate of interest allowed to de- positors, which relies in different banks, was 21. 18s. 12d. per cent. The largest establishment was that in St. Martin's Place, Charing Cross: there were 37,214 depositors, who 'had invested 1,114,6171.—a sum greater than the amount de- posited in the whde of Scotland; there were sixteen officers, all paid, and the total expenditure was .5:187l. The comptroller end secretary of this bank received a salary of 7701. The actuaries at Manchester and Exeter received 6001. each.

A paragraph has been copied from the Guernsey Star into some of the daily papers, to the effiret that the sentence upon Captain George Douglas, late of the Sixteenth Regiment, is about to undergo revision. We wish we could believe the statement had any real foundation.—United Service 'Gazette.

....We hear from good authority, that Lientenant Thomas Waghorn, the celebrated overland firyagezeteladia,;has been :granted a pension of 2001. per annum from the Royal Bounty Fund.—United Service Gazette.

Mr. Cottingham, the Southwark Police Magistrate, died on Tuesday morning. of cholera, after an illness of thirty hours.

Sergeant Busher:nu, celebrated for his feats of strength and of akin with the sword, has just succumbed to the cholera, at the age of forty-two:

The death of Mr.. Sanders in an attack on a slaver was mentioned in our obituary last week: a short account of the affair has since appeared. While the brig Alert was lyingroff the Gallinas,a slave felucca was discerned, mounting some guns and carrying sixty men. The Alert's boats were sent in chase. When an attempt was made to board by the first boat, the slavers offered a desperate resistance; Mr. Sanders and two men were killed, and a number wounded; and eventually the boats were obliged to retreat. A breeze sprang up, and the felucca escaped for the time.

A gentleman, " well known as the champion of the Yare," has rowed an ex- traordinary match against time—a hundred miles in twenty-four hours. He per- formed forty miles before breakfast; forty moregave him an appetite for dinner; and he finished the hundred in nineteen hours My-three minutes.

On Friday last, a respectable-looking female, afflicted with a wen in the yea, applied at Lincoln Castle, after the execution of Ward, for leave to see the body, with a view of curing her disease. The request was very properly refused.— Boston Herald.

On Monday evening, the Reverend James Waterworth caught, near Kelharr. Bridge, a salmon which reached the extraordinary weight of twenty-eight pounds. We understand the reverend gentleman was fishing in the usual way with a float. —Nottingham. Journal. A few days ago, Mr. S. Swaim engineer of the Ethiopia steamer, caught a young ,.hark while amusing. himself with fishing in the Nelson Dock. It roes- sures about fourteen inches in length, and is considered a great curiosity, as 0s.11 of this species are rarely caught in these latitndes.—Liverpool Courier.