Miscellaneous.

A deputation of "gentlemen connected with the representation of Ire- land" waited on Lord Clarendon this week at the Irish Office in West- minster, and "presented to him, as the representative in Ireland of the Queen," a memorial signed by twenty-six Members of Parliament, re- questing him to stop the further prosecution of Charles Gavan Duffy. Sir Lucius O'Brien headed the deputation; of which Mr. F. Scully, Mr. W. Fagan, Mr. Devereux, and Mr. Grogan Morgan, were members. Sir Lucius. O'Brien explained the memorial. It represented Mr. Daffy's long and close imprisonment, his loss of health, and ruin of property; his high cha- racter; and the political excitement all over Europe at the time he wrote the publications charged; also the inhumanity of instituting repeated pro- secutions for the same offence. Lord Clarendon stated, that he believed there was no precedent for remonstrating against the trial of a person, par- ticularly when that person had not expressed the slightest contrition for what he had done, or had offered any pledge that he would not repeat his offence. The course pursued by the gentlemen who signed the memorial was calculated to hurt the individual they intended to serve; but Lord Clarendon undertook to assure them that Mr. Duffy should in no way be prejudiced by it.

An extraordinary notification is copied by the New York Herald of the 5th March, from "one of the German papers of that city," and headed- " Proclamation of the German-Americans to their German Brethren in Old Fatherland." It states that prayers and representations and efforts have been made in vain by the German people to the oppressors, emperors, kings, and princes of all kinds, to induce them to abandon their unnatural positions; prayers which they have answered only by cannon-shots, and murders. No means are seen of " rooting out these deadly enemies of mankind," other than that the German-Americans should offer rewards to the person_ or persons who by any means whatever shall make the barbarians of the nineteenth century to be and abide harmless and incapable of hurting-

" Therefore we offer the following sums of money—

Guilders.

For destroying the Emperor of Austria 30,000 For destroying the King of Prussia 25,000

For destroying any other king, prince, or duke 15,000

For the head of the common hangman Windischgratz 10,000

" We believe we can justify these measures before the world, because they are open, and against men destructive to the common race of men, whose hearts are. hardened against every feeling of justice, and whose actions are not better than those of common thieves and murderers.

" We further believe, and it is our firm conviction, that it is the most holy duty of every free man to help to banish them from the earth, and to root out their- majesties from among the people; and they who help to do this work ought to be highly honoured and esteemed, each one of them as a William Tell.

" For the punctual payment of these rewards, as soon as the doer or doers of the deed are properly identified, to be paid to them or their heirs, we pledge one fortunes and our honours.

" In the name of the Union,

" L.A. WOLLENWEBER, Corresponding Secretary,

" No. 277, North Third Street, Philadelphia. " To whom all applications and letters (post-paid) must be addressed."

The veteran diplomatist Count Nesselrode has lately experienced an at- tack of measles, which for three days placed his life in peril. He is now quite recovered.

" It is well known here," says the Dublin correspondent of the Daily News' "that Sir Robert Peel always took a great interest in exploring that terra in- cognita of literature, Irish history. At all our important book-sales for some years past, any rare Irish works of merit were bought in for him; and not long since one of our literary salesmen here had in his possession a printed catalogue of Sir Robert's Irish library—a very respectable volume in point of size."

Mr. Frederick Wordsworth Hayden, son of the late lamented artist, has been appointed by Lord John Russell to a landing waitership in the Customs Depart- ment. It will be recollected that Mr. Haydon's eldest son received an appoint- ment under the Crown at the hands of Sir Robert Peel when he was in office.— Times.

Mr. Baptist Noel preached last Sunday, and the Sunday before, in the National Free Church, Regent Square, for the Reverend Dr. James Hamilton.

The Reverend Mr. Chapman, lately appointed to the wealthy Vicarage of Pres cott, committed suicide on Thursday week, in the house of his sister, at St. Al- ban's. The cause is supposed to have been depression of an anxious and over- sensitive spirit.

The Reverend John Lawson, Rector of Sherburne St. John, Hants, was walking with his wife through the streets of Reading: a rug which the gentleman had on his arm caught the hinge of an iron wicket-gate which was unfastened and placed against a wall, and pulled the gate over; it fell on Mr. Lawson's ankle, inflicting a great gash. During the surgical treatment, inflammation and morti- fication came on, intense agony resulted, and the sufferer eventually died quite insane. Death was ascribed by the surgeons to the shock of the nervous system resulting from the wound. Mr. Lawson was in his thirty-fifth year, and has left a widow and young family.

Mr. James Morier, the author of Hajji Baba, Zohrab, and Ayesha, died on Monday week, at Brighton, of an apoplectic attack. By his death a pension en- joyed for diplomatic services in Persia and Mexico reverts to the Crown.

The contract passed between the General Post-office and the Eastern Counties Railway administration for carrying the mails between Harwich and Holland and Cuxhaven is cancelled because the company could not muster the needful to pay

for the steamers they had purchased of Government; nor could they find any other steamers for the service.—Hamburg Letter in the Daily News.

During a trial at Lyons, in which M. Felix, the father of Rachel, was sued for penalties on account of his daughter's failure in the execution of an agreement to perform in that city, a circular was read which had been issued by order of Ledrn- Rollin, when Minister of the Interior, to the directors of theatres in the provinces, in which "Is citoyenne" Rachel was warmly recommended, and it was said that her singing of the Marseillaise would produce a marvellous and salutary Republi can effect.

Mr. Macaulay's History, in type, arrangement, and even punctuation, precisely similar to the English edition, has been published at the price of Is. id. per vo- lame.—New York Correspondent of the Times.

In the Sheriff's Court at Liverpool, on Saturday, a jury was impannelled to assess the damages in an action brought against Mr. James Thomson by Mr. John Bernard Hartley, for criminal conversation with Mrs. Hartley. Mr. Martin appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and Sir Frederick Thesiger for the defendant. Mr. Martin said, that the plaintiff was actuated by a strong desire to spare the feelings of the woman who had been his wife for five years; and Sir Frederick stated that the defendant felt it due now, late as it was, to make the only atone- ment he could—to acknowledge that Mr. Hartley had been deeply wronged. A verdict was then taken by consent for 4,0001. A savage and probably fatal outrage has been perpetrated at the Earl of Dar- lington's slate-quarries near Ulverston. Woodend, an old man, and four others, =leaving work, were going down an inclined tunnel. John Johnson threatened that if they went away at that time he would start a waggon into the tunnel after them; the men went on their way, and Johnson executed his threat. The men, all but Woodend, heard the waggon dashing after them, and exerted them- selves to the utmost to avoid death: one of into a recess, and the waggon brushed him as it passed; the other three rushed out of the tunnel just in ttme to throw themselves on the bank as it thundered past them. But poor old Woodend was knocked down; the waggon went over him; and, though not killed, he was ter- ribly bruised and torn. The ruffian Johnson is in custody. Webster, the parish-constable of Edwinstowe in Derbyshire, attempted to com- mit suicide by setting light to a pound of gnnpowderin a canister which he placed on his bosom: his breast and eyebrows were scorched, and a thumb was lacerated, and that was all; but his cottage was greatly shattered. An old woman and a little boy have perished by fire at Tavistock. The child's dress caught Sre; in attempting to extinguish it, the woman set fire to her own clothes; and before they could be aided, both were frightfully burned.

The accounts of the Bank of England for the week ending the 31st March exhibit, when compared with those of the preceding week, the following results- BA*KINO DEPARTMENT. Decrease.

Rest £2,743

Public Deposits 261,508

Other Deposits

£29,242 Seven-day and other Bills

16,195 Government Securities, including Dead-weight

Other Securities 663,996

Notes unissued

492,155 Actual Circulation 317,155

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued

175,0130 Bullion

125,107

This weak. Last week.

Total Bullion in both Departments 15,197,654 15,322,791 Actual Circulation 17,945,990 17,628,835

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Number of Deaths.

Winter Average.

Zymotk Diseases 268 .... 221 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 63 .... 54 Tubercular Diseases lee .... 203 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 147 .... 141 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 41

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Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... . 197 243 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 64 67 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc It 13 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. 13 9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &a 10 7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 3

Malformations 5

Premature Birth 26

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Atrophy 28 15 Age 43 73 Sudden 60 14 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 82 37 Total (Including unspecified causes) 1211 1169

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 74.5° in the sun to 30.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 3.9°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable. Increase.