Orders have been received at Brighton to prepare the Pavilion,

with- out delay, for the arrival of the Queen and Prince Albert, with their children.

Sir Augustus D'Este has, we hear, presented a petition to the Queen claiming to In entitled to the titles of his father, the late Duke of Sussex.—Globe.

The Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, accompanied by Baron Hugel, and attended by Baron Maulcer and Count Zeppelin' arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Tuesday evening, after a tour of several weeks in Scotland and the North of England, and a hasty visit to Ireland.

The Queen, in the name of the Prince of Wales, has appointed the Duke of Northumberland Constable of the Castle of Launceston, in Cornwall.

The death of the Duke of Dorset, which occurred at Harley Street on Saturday last, creates a permanent vacancy in the Peerage. The Duke was in his seventy-sixth year ; and he succeeded his cousin Charles in 1815. Dying without issue, the title becomes extinct. The Edinburgh Weekly Journal records the death of Mr. Charles Mackintosh, of Campsie and Dunehattan, the inventor of the water- proof cloth that bears his name. The widow of Colonel Fawcett, besides paying the expenses incurred on account of the dying man at the Camden Arms, has presented to Mr. Miles, the landlord, and his wife, a valuable diamond ring each, in acknowledgment of their kindness and humanity.

Mr. Dennis John Blake, a landing-waiter of the Customs who was implicated in the recent charges and dismissed about six months ago, has been arrested at the suit of the Crown. He had retired to a fine estate which he possessed at Dublin ; but it is said that Government have de- termined to proceed against him for 80,000/., the amount to which he is ascertained to have defrauded the Customs.

The Morning Herald announces changes in London University, re- cently authorized by Government-

" At future matriculation-examinations, candidates will be approved if they show a competent knowledge in classics, mathematics, and natural philosophy, or chemistry. And at future B.A. examinations, candidates will be approved if they show a competent knowledge in mathematics and natural philosophy, animal physiology, classics, and logic and moral philosophy. It is further stated, that several of the English Bishops have expressed their willingness to ordain candidates for holy orders who are graduates of the University of London. It is not perhaps generally known, that by an express Act of Parliament, tat Vic., cap 56, two years in his cleikship to a solicitor are saved by the B.A. or B.L. of this University. And it may now be added, that the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn have appointed a Committee to consider the subject of placing the degrees of the University of London OD the same footing as relates to ad- mission to the bar as those of Oxford and Cambridge."

The Perth Courier reports on the prospect of sport for the grouse season, which commences on the 12th August-

" We understand that the prospects for the sport,men are excellent on all but the very highest grounds, where the severe frosts of the early part of June had caused great loss at that critical season. A second hatching was not un- frequent ; and hence there will necessarily be a good deal of disparity among the young birds, and a more than usual proportion of cheeperx Where the low grounds afford a shelter, the shepherds report a full average prospect of grouse; but black game are manifestly on the increase, and, unless checked, will reduce the former greatly."

The wreck of the Pegasus has naturally recalled ration to sugges- tions for the safety of passengers ; and a description of a life-p:Zferv_er has been sent to us, in the shape of extracts from a resolution passeti the Directors of the Edinburgh and Leith Humane Society, on the 17th March 1842. This life-preserver is a short cloak or cape, made

under the direchone-o. ijsr of the Society, by Messrs. Mack- intosh of Manchester- " When put on, nothing appeared but a common cape, which wouili lLyze drawn no attention whatever if worn in the streets. By air blown through a valve, this cape was felt, but scarcely seen, to swell to the thickness of an inch and a half. it was now a life-preserver. The inventor bad, by three modes of proof, satisfied himself of the buoyant powers of this safety-cape. First, he calculated that the volume of air would support fifteen pounds in the water— equal to the tenth part of the weight of an individual of about ten stone; and therefore, would keep the head and neck, at least, above water. Second, the dead weight borne was between fifteen and sixteen pounds. Third, he person- ally tested the contrivance in water six inches deeper than his own height; when he floated, with head, neck, and shoulders, above water, as expected.

"The Directors requested that the personal experiment might be made in their presence. By the kindness of Mr. Berwick, the use of a large cast-iron tank or tun in his extensive brewery was granted to the Directors. It was filled with warm water to the depth of six feet two inches. A stout man, a sailor, five feet six inches in height, and about ten stone weight, went into the water with his clothes on, wearing the safety-cape; and, to the satisfaction of all present, floated vertically at his ease, with his bead, neck, and part of his shoulders, above water. Wishing to ascertain what degree of buoyancy he had to spare, weights were given to him, which he held in his hands. Seven pounds sank him to the throat, and four more to the lip : proving that be could easily have sustained another person in the water."

Besides the cape, a belt and other articles of similar construction may be worn to increase the buoyancy.

The Scotsman, alluding to this contrivance, remarks, that though great improvements have taken place in navigation, the item of safety in the event of shipwreck is not one step advanced from what it was when Julius Ctesar landed in Britain ; and calls upon the Commons Committee on Shipwrecks to see that this reproach be blotted out-

" We trust that the Committee will report, for after stringent legislation, that all ships'-boats should be life-boats, and he regulated in number and accommodation by the regulated number of souls on board. Expense spared in ornament would meet their cost ; and the seamen should be exercised in the use of them, and generally, for presence of mind in managing the saving of life in wrecks. We further hope that every ship shall be obliged to provide air- floats, to be thrown, in danger, into the eater. Long cushions of Mackintosh cloth, of a light colour to be seen in the night, say six feet by two, covered with nets to be laid hold of, would each sustain as many persons ascould get hold of them ; and should be always ready, stowed round the nettings or rails of the quarter-deck. Lastly, we trust that the Committee will give the whole weight of their sanction to the practice of adopting a life-preserver as a piece of dress —as a recognized and necessary part of equipment for a voyage. When the unhappy victims were beseeching the captain of the Pegasus to tell them what to do, his best advice would have been' had their dresses included a float, Trust yourselves in the water, and hold by the ropes at the boat', stern.' One boat which could not hold ten will tow a hundred to the shore in a few minutes."