PA is tellaneous.

It is understood that the Queen Dowager will not return to Cashiobnry; but will pass the next winter at Madeira, with the principal members of her court and a small suite of servants.

An unusual number of deaths among persons of note is recorded this week.

Much consternation was felt in Edinburgh, on Monday, at the sudden death of Dr. Chalmers, the celebrated preacher and writer: he had been found dead in his bed!

For some time past Dr. Chalmers had been sensible of crowing infirmities; but none anticipated an early termination of his life. On Friday last week he re- turned from England: he had given evidence before the Select Committee on Sites

for Free Churches; and had preached in London on three Sundays, to crowded audiences. In his way home he visited a sister at Gloucester. When he arrived in Ed,nburgh he appeared to be in excellent health and spirits. On Sunday last, he attended divine service, with Dr. Cunningham, in the Free Church at Morn- ingelde ; and afterwards saw some friends. On Monday morning, Professor Mac- donee], to whom the Doctor was to have sent some papers, called for them. Dr. Chalmers was not up; a servant went into his room, and found him in bed, quite dead. A basin was between his knees, as though be had felt sick; he had fallen hack from the sitting posture, and lay tranquilly, as if in sleep. Ile must have been dead for several hours. The bursting of a blood-vessel in the head has been conjecturally mentioned as the cause of death. Dr. Chalmers was born at Anstruther, in Fife, in 1780. He studied at St. Andrew's University; filled various charges in the ministry of the Established Church of Scotland; and was successively Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrew's University, and Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh; but relinquished his appointment on account of the Secession, in 1843. His powers and popularity as a pulpit orator were of the first order. His writings on political economy, if doubtful in soundness, are ingenious and interesting; his religious zeal was fervid, yet rational; his polemics were tempered by the most amiable disposition, and

enlivened by much eloquence and humour. It may almost be said of him that he WAS the antagonist, and the esteemed friend, of everybody he encountered. He leaves a widow, and four daughters: two of the daughters are married to Scottish ministers.

Another demise is that of the Honourable and Reverend Mr. Herbert, Dean of Manchester; which took place on Friday last week, at his house in Hereford Street, Park Lane. He had been in ill health for the last two years.

The Hobart Town papers relate the death of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, on the 3d of February. His fatal illness was the general decay of nature, although he was not of very great age. His decease, of course, terminates the discreditable criticism on his personal conduct, though probably it will not prevent the publication of an official letter which is said completely to exonerate his character. Sir Eardley Wilmot was born in 1783: he was twice married—to the daughter of Dr. Parry, an emineut physician at Bath; and secondly, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Chester. He sat • in Parliament, as a moderate Conservative, for Warwickshire, receiving the votes of Liberal electors. In 1843 he was appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Van Diemen's Land; and in 1846 he was superseded by Mr. Latrobe.

• Letters from Perth in Western Australia, of March the 10th, mention the sudden death of Colonel Clarke, the Governor; he had been ill for some time. Major Irwin had assumed the conduct of affairs, as Acting Governor.

Lady Dudley Stuart died at Rome, on the 19th of May. She was the second daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, and was married in 1824 to Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart; by whom she had one son, Paulo Emilius, a Lieutenant in the Sixty-eighth Regiment of Foot.

Marshal Grouchy died at St. Etienne, on the 29th of May, in the eighty- second year of his age. Ile had been to Italy, under advice for a long- • standing disease of the lungs; he was much better, and was on his way to Vichy, the waters of which had been recommended for his wife; at St. Etienne be was seized with the illness which proved fatal. He leaves three Children,—a General, a Colonel of Hussars, and the Marchioness d'Ormesson.

The Supplement to Tuesday's Gazette contained a general order, noti- fying that by the Queen's command a medal has been struck to commemo- rate the services of the Army and Navy during the wars from 1793 to 1815; and directing the mode in which officers, non-commissioned officers, aka soldiers, are to prefer their claims to participate in the dictinction.

The Times publishes a statement exhibiting the railway calls falling due in June. After deducting for such proportion of the calls on foreign lines as are held by shareholders abroad, the amount stands at 2,871,3621.

Commercial affairs continue dulL The following summary of the past month is from the circular of Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, Manchester-

" The month just concluded has been one of great trial to the interests em- barked in the cotton manufactures of this country; and it is most satisfactory to observe that the crisis, so far, has been passed without having been attended by any of thew commercial disruptions which have usually accompanied former periods of less severe monetary restrictions; thus affording a pretty sure proof that the business of this district has latterly been conducted on sound and pru- dential principles.

The rapid fall in corn has received a slight check, and prices have ex- hibited a tendency to rise again. But the accounts from all parts of the country continue in the highest degree favourable.

Orders have been sent by the Admiralty for some of our steam-ships of war to assist in towing the vessels laden with grain for this country through the Straits of Gibraltar; and we have also good reason to believe that similar aid will be furnished in time by the Admiralty on these corn-vessels reaching the entrance of the Channel, should they be detained these by Easterly winds or calms.—Statidard.

In last October two vessels were wrecked off Fishguard; three men were seen clinging to the rigging; but the sea was so rough that the hardy sea- men of the port refused to venture out with their boats. Two young women named Llewellyn were more daring: having bad ropes attached to them, they entered the surf, and succeeded in conveying a rope to the wrecks, by means of which the sailors were got ashore. Both the Com- mittee of Lloyd's and the Humane Society have contributed to a collection for the heroic women, who are in very bumble circumstances.