„Miscellaneous.

Major-General Thomas Banbury is to be Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, with the chief command of the troops, in the room of Major-General John H`Donald, C.B.

A long correspondence has been published between the Education Com- mittee of Privy Council and the National Society, on the management clauses to be inserted in the trust-deeds of the National Society Schools. The correspondence has been mainly on the question of arbitration. in dif- ferences about the management of the school not relating to religious in- struction. The Privy Council and the Society had agreed on an arbitrar tion-clause in all general cases; but the National Society stood out on thei- proposal, that in all cases where one-thirclof the local promoters of the:school desire it, they should be allowed to refer the matters in difference to the arbitration of the Bishop of the diocese. This exceptional arrangement the Lords of Privy Council have refused.

A general meeting of the Bishops and the other members of the National Society will be called in November, to decide what shall be their course under the circumstances of the case. Prince Metternich and his son, Prince Richard Mettenaich, and Baron Huegel, have become members of the Brighton Conservative Club.

Lord Duncan, as Chairman of the Scottish Central Railway Company, has written to the papers correcting them on details of the Queen's route from Scotland—

Observing a statement that her Majesty on leaving Perth for the South pro- ceeded from Edinburgh to Carlisle, the writer states that it is unnecessary to touch either at Edinburgh or Glasgow in going from Perth to London. "The route taken from Aberdeen to London was the following—From Aberdeen to Montrose, by posting; from Montrose to Forfar, by Aberdeen Railway; from Forfar to Perth, by Scottish Midland Railway; froin Perth to London direct, per Scottish Central, Caledonian, Lancaster and Carlisle, and London and North-western Railways." Mr. Wyndham Harding succeeds Mr. Laurentz Campbell, deceased, as Secretary of the South-western Railway Company. Mr. Harding is well known for his experience, intelligence, and activity in railway affairs.

Dr. Sutherland and Mr. Grainger have been despatched to the Continent to investigate the cholera in the spots where it is now raging; having pre- viously visited Hull, where three eases of Asiatic cholera are said to have occurred. Their expenses are to be paid, and they are to receive two guineas a day.—Journal of Public Health. We have received from a source on which we can rely, the intelligence that the Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in Edinburgh. There were two unmistakeable cases on Wednesday in the Calton district.— Morning Post, October 6. This extract from a letter dated Sunderland, 4th October, has been posted at Lloyd's-

" We are exceedingly concerned to have occasion to report, that one of the crew of the brig Volante, Mr. C. Smith master, of that port from Hamburg, died on the 1st instant, during the passage home. The vessel arrived here yesterday even- ing; since which the mate has been taken suddenly ill, and died this morning. Both cases are suspected to be Asiatic cholera. The vessel has been ordered under quarantine.'

It is stated that scarlet fever has broken out amongst the gentlemen cadets in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; and that the cadets have been ordered to quit the establishment for their homes, till the dan- ger of contagion be passed.

Intelligence from Northern Brabant speaks of the harvest of wheat, rye, and clover, as being unprecedently abundant in that province.

The Morning Post has published some fragments of personal interest from letters by Lord George Bentincic to Mr. Bankes, written when Lord George resigned the leadership of "the Country party" in the House of

Commons, at the end of last year. The letters establish the fact that the leadership was unwillingly accepted, and not assumed by him, as some journalists asserted; and that Lord George was as modest and highminded in both taking and leaving the position of party leader, as he was bold and indefatigable in its active command.

We quote from a letter to Mr. Bankes of the 23d December 1847- "I reiterated my warnings that, so soon as the battle we were then fighting was brought to a close, and other questions blended with religious sentiment came on for discussion, differing as I did with the great majority of you I should be in found as convenient and unsuitable a leader for the great Protestant party, as I knew myself on all questions to be inefficient, and ufferior in ability to a great number of those who were then resolved to misplace our respective positions as leader and followers. I thought it not in human nature that any body of men could be successfully led except by a man who sympathized in all thew feelings on subjects connected with religion. That prognostication has met with its sig- nal verification now. * * • The prophesied time has come when I have ceased to be able to serve the party, the great cause of Protection, or my country,

by any longer retaining the conanjeesion be ilie in the spring of 1846. Y.m will remember, however, that when, aReil nufeigeedly and honestly, but in vain, trying to escape from being faised.tea position which I foresaw I must fail to maintain With advantage to you or honour to myself, and from which I must eventually fall, I at last gave my consent, I only did so on the express under- finding that me advancement should be held to be merely a pro tempore ap- pointment, waiting till the country should have the opportunity of sending to 'Parliament other men better fitted by ability and talents, and better suited by more universal sympathy with all the feelings of the great Protestant party, to lead the country gentlemen of England. I have recalled these circumstances to your mind,. with no other purpose. than that the party may feel how entirely free they. are, without even the suspicion of doing an injustice by me, or of showing me in this any disrepect, to remodel their arrangements, and to supersede my lieutenancy by the appointment of a superior and permanent commander.

In a letter dated Christmas Day last, also addressed to Mr. Bankes, and having reference to his own abandonment of the post of leader, Lord George refers to his own health— "My dear Bankes—Your warmhearted letter is very grateful to my feelings. Confidentially, I tell you, that far from feeling the least annoyed, I shall feel greatle, relieved by a restoration to privacy and freedom. I worked upon my spirit m 1846 and 1847; but I have karat now that I have shaken my constitu- tion to the foundation, and I seriously doubt my being able to work on much longer."

A scandal which has attracted same notice in the world of art has been distinctly explained by our weekly contemporary the Atheneum. In the last exhibition of the Royal Academy was a picture entitled "Shipping, &c. off Hurst Castle, Isle of Wight," set down in the Catalogue with the name of Mr. Reinagle, R.A., as the painter. The picture was selected by

a 251. prize-holder in the Art-Union. It was recognized, however, by the friends of a young artist, Mr. J. W. Yarnold, as his production : he had painted it and sold it to a dealer for a few shillings. The case was brought before the Royal Academy. The Academy called on Mr. Reinagle for an explanation. He denied the charge; and intimated that he would rather resign than submit to inquiry. Mr. Yarnold was then invited to substan- tiate his accusation by evidence. Mr. Reinagle now modified his denial: he said that the picture had been repainted by him, so as to have become actually the work of his hand. "A strict examination of the picture by the Academieians—who had in the mean time very properly refused to give it up to the demands of any party—resulted, we understand, in so unsatisfactory a comment on this plea as to leave no doubt on their minds that the houour of the Academy had been stained ": and they referred Mr. Reinagle, by resolution, to what he had said about resigning. He resigned.

The Standard publishes intelligence of Captain Sir James Ross's Arctic expedition, down to the 12th of July, in the shape of a letter from a gen- tleman who was with the expedition.

"Tis a block game with us at. present. We are now fast to an iceberg off Uppernavic a Danish settlement, in latitude 730 North. A barrier of pack ice prevents us from making any further progress to the Northward. The weather here is remarkably fine—the thermometer ranging from 50 to 60 degrees. "The whalers are all gone to the Southward, with the exception of one ship; which is to beat amongst the ice about twenty miles to the Northward of us. "We have had communications with the following ships—True Love, of Hull; with four fish; Lady Jane of Shields, with four fish; Alexander, of Dundee, with three fish; Horn, of Dundee, with four fish ; and Joseph Green, of Peterhead, with five fish.

" We have as yet felt nothing of the hardships attending an Arctic expedition. 'Like the young bears, our sorrows are all to come.' At Resent we have no- thing to do but to eat, drink, and sleep, and shoot wild-fowl. The greatest comfort of all is the unity and concord which exist among the officers and crew: we are indeed a happy family.' "It is impossible for me to say how long we shall remain here—perhaps a week, perhaps not an hour—it all depends upon the state of the ice. I am ra- ther doubtful that we shall get to Lancaster Sound this year. The season appears to be rather inauspicious. "We have heard nothing of Sir John Franklin and his gallant associates; neither from the natives, among whom we have instituted the most minute in- quiries, and have endeavoured to interest them in the object of our humane enter- prise, nor from the whalers that we have spoken. We have watched most nar- rowly everything that has floated past us, and have explored the coasts, and searched round the bergs; but not a vestige of wreck have we seen, nor anything to indicate the fate of the lost ones.

"It will perhaps surprise you when you hear me state that it has been so warm during our stay here, that the men have been all working in their shirts—that is, without jackets or waistcoats, and with necks bare h Is Mediterranean. • * "I must close my letter, as report says we make another attempt tomorrow to get to the Northward. I don't think we shall succeed, as there does not seem to be the least alteration in the appearance of the pack. Should we fail, I rather think the Captain intends to return to the Southward as far as 71 degrees North, and then endeavour to force a passage across. "Farewell for a season?

The Vice-Consul at Copenhagen has transmitted to the Admiralty a let- ter from Dr. Rink, who has recently returned from a scientific journey in Greenland, and who fell in with the expedition at Uppernavic. He states, that on the evening of the 13th July the Enterprise and Investigator set sail. They both proceeded along the coast to the Northward, and next day were out of sight. "Everything appeared to be well on board," says the Doctor, "up to the me- meat that they left us. On the following Saturday and Sunday, the 16th and 17th July, we had a severe storm from the S. W.•' which has certainly broken np the ice, which in the early part of July still lay ten (Danish) miles to the North of Uppernavic, and has thereby removed the last hirtderance to the expedition proceeding further to the Northward."

Mr. Crockford, of London' has purchased the silver lead mines of Ibrickane in Clare, and will immediately begin to work them. The continued brilliancy of the weather, and the numerous out-door fetes which the environs of this capital present, nnder Paris gay almost beyond belief today. A stranger would find it apparently as crowded, as busy, and as cheerful, as at any former epoch. There is, however, great political rancour abroad, seed deplor- able distress and misery.—Times Correspondent, Monday.

The apartments in the Tuileries occupied by the late Queen of the French have been converted into an infantry barrack. A Naval Court-Martial was held on board the Victory, at Portsmouth, on Thursday, to try Lieutenant Peter Fane Edge Daniel, an officer of Marines on board the ship Powerful, for having induced two young gentlemen to indorse a bill of exchange for 101. Lieutenant Daniel had been pressed by a creditor on board the ship; to eeetzie ofekhe,-.,pe,deew a bill for 101.; and he induced a naval

cadet and a midshipmaiflo iiidólbe idef these indorsers be' in his nine-

teenth year and the other only fourteen. n the bill came to m rity it was dishonoured: The prisoner was found gun •eud adjudged to be re seee to the half-pay of his reek, and rendered incapable o serving actively in the Reed Marine Ps. Several street robberies have of late been com ad, apparently with the aid of chloroform, thrust under the nostrils of the victims. Two cases are reported this week, in which women have pretended to embrace men at night in the streets: both men became insensible, and while in that state were robbed. In one of these instances, in St. Pancras, the woman forced a handkerchief against the man's

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it is said that a number of counterfeit sovereigns, artfully cast, are in circula- tion at Manchester.

A specimen of the "great snipe" of Bewick, an extremely rare bird, was shot on Saturday, by the Honourable Captain Harris, ALP., near Heron Court, the seat of the Earl of Malmesbury. Icebergs of enormous mass are floating Southward from the Arctic seas, and are met by ships on the regular packet route to the United States. The Blonde, (Crawford,) which arrived at Greenock on Friday, saw one of them on the 5th September, in longitude W. 49°, latitude N. 48°, upwards of 600 feet high and a mile in length.

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

Number of Deaths. Summer Average.

Zymotic Dinette*

395 ...

257 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 54 ... 45 Tubercular Diseases 151 ... 194 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses. 135 .,. 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 43 ... 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... . 120 ... 60 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 82 ... 70

Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, tic. 5 ... 10 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &me

7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 1 .

Malformations

3

Premature Birth

21 ...

22 Atrophy

18 ... 25

Age

28 .. • 60

Sudden

Is ... 8

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

145 ...

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Note.—The present return exhibits a great increase of deaths registered above the weekly average. But it must be observed that the excess is only to a slight extent produced by increased mortality : it is almost entirely due to an accumulation of Coroners' cases, most of which occurred in former weeks, but were not registered, till the end of the quarter. The whole number of inquests registered last week is 305; the whole number during the quarter, 780; the weekly average is 60. If no more than the average number of inquests is assigned to last week, the mortality which actually occurred in the week may be stated, by approximation, as 1,012 deaths. Scarlatina, Or mortality from which is more than fourfold the average, seems to be the only epidemic which now prevails to an excessive degree. In the above table, Coroners' cases fall principally under Violent and Sudden deaths. The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 86.4° in the sun to 44.5° ha the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the mean average temperature by 3.90. The general direction of the wind for the week was North- east.