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370 MR. HENRY UNWIN ADDINGTON has resigned his office of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which lie has held since March 4, 1842. Mr. Ad dington entered the service of the Foreign-office so far back as 1807. After having been successively at tached to the missions in Sicily, Spain, Berlin, Stock holm, and Switzerland, Mr. Addington was appointed Secretary of Legation at Switzerland in 1814 ; at Copenhagen, 1821 ; at Washington, 1822; and Mi nister Plenipotentiary at Frankfort in 1828; and at Madrid in 1829. He is of course entitled to his diplo matic pension after so many years' service, and on his retirement has been elevated by the Queen to the rank of a Privy Councillor. Mr. Addington is suc ceeded as permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Department by Mr. Edmond Hamond, who entered the Foreign-office in 1824, and who has been a clerk of the first class since 1841, at the head of one of the departments. THE ANNUAL RETURN relating to loan societies for 1853, by Mr. Tidd Pratt, has just been printed. There are 267 loan societies in England and Wales, only one being in Wales. In Lancaster there are 58 (the largest number) ; in Middlesex, 34; in War wick, 42; and in York, 33. There were as many as 6,267 applications to one office in Manchester, and the amount in circulation by the office last year was 25,632. In the year out of the 267 loan societies, 318 distress warrants were issued. THE " RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS" are further ex plained and extended by an order in Council, pre pared on the 15th instant and gazetted on Tuesday. It is now ordered that all vessels under a neutral or friendly flag, being neutral or friendly property, shall be permitted to import into any port or place m her Majesty's dominions all goods and merchandise whatsoever, to whomsoever the same may belong, and to export from any port or place in her Majesty's dominions, to any port not blockaded, any cargo or goods, nothing being contraband of war, or not requiring a special permission, to whomsoever the same may belong. And it is also permitted that all the subjects of her Majesty and the subjects or citizens of any neutral or friendly state shall and may, during and notwith standing the present hostilities with Russia, freely trade with all porta and places wheresover situate, which shall not be in a state of blockade. IT is currently reported in respectable circles in Manchester that the Greek mercantile houses there, and in London and Liverpool, have subscribed largely to promote the insurrection in Turkey. The Man chester fund alone is said to have reached 10,000 1. THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF THE BRITISH MU SEUM laid before Parliament were printed on Satur day by order of the House of Commons. It appears that the sum required for the year ending on the 31st March, 1855, is 55,2251. The sum granted for the year ended the 31st ult. was 55,8401. There was an increase in the number of visitors to the general collection last year compared with the preceding. In the year ended Christmas, 1852, the number was 507,973, and in the year ended Christmas last, 601,113. The expenditure in the financial year ended the 31st March last was 54,0341. 4s. 6d., and the balance carried to the current account was 16,189/. 10s. Bd. THE HORSE GUARDS AUTHORITIES have restored Colonel Peyronnet Thompson, the author of " The Corn Law Catechism, " to the list of Colonels, from which he was excluded in 1848. _ _ IN the week ending Saturday last the deaths regis tered in London showed a decrease on the returns of preceding weeks. The number was 1,087; in the previous week it was 1,149. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1844-53 the average number was 1,013, which if raised in proportion to increase of popu lation, becomes 1,114. A MEETING is to be held in London on Saturday, the 29th inst., for the purpose of considering the best method of carrying into effect a desire universally en tertained by the friends of Sir Thomas Noon Tal fourd, that a suitable memorial shall be erected in honour of the late lamented judge. The idea, which has up to the present time met with the largest share of favour amongst the literary men who have been consulted upon the subject, is the foundation of a Tefourd scholarship in one or both of the great na• tional universities. THE value of the practice of " conditioning" silk is daily becoming better understood in London, and a resolution is contemplated by the most influential portion of the trade to adopt it in every case after tbe Ist of June next, with the exception of China and Bengal raw silk. DURING the year 1853 there were built and regis tered in the United Kingdom 635 sailing-vessels of timber, of the collective burden of 146,380 tons, and ten of iron, of 8,576 tons ; the number of steamers built was 30 of timber, with a tonnage amounting to 3,305, andll7 of iron, with a tonnage of 44,010 ; 32 colonial•built vessels (20 of them from New Bruns wick) were registered here, and ]O2 foreign ; the ton nage of the former was 26,443, of the latter, 30,073. 69 of our sailing-vessels and 15 of our steamers, with a united tonnage of 5,221, were broken up in the course of the year, and 669 of our sailing-vessels, and 12 of our steamers, together of 120,714 tons, were wrecked. gam ad volict. THE DEMAND FOR STOKERS AND ENGINEERS in her Majesty's service has been turned to a fraudulent account by two Irish labourers, James Caffrey and Michael Mangan, who were charged at the Man-ion house by Mr. Coleman, clerk to the registrar of seamen, with having used forged certificates of ser vice in order to be enabled to obtain berths as stokers on board steam-vessels now being fitted out for foreign service:— Thomas Wakerley, quartermaster to H.M.S. Crocodile, now lying off the Tower, said: Ou Monday last we had a notice out aide the naval rendezvous, on Tower-hill, that sixty stokers were required for her Majesty's service. The two prisoners came into the office on that day, and, in answer to my questions, informed me that they had been employed us stokers for two years past, and they produced papers in corroboration of that statement. From the contents of the papers I was induced to take the men to my commanding officer, who, after their approved examine Lion by the doctor, caused them to be officially entered. This morning they came again by appointment, and Captain Grant, not being quite satisfied that all was correct, desired me to take them to Mr. Coleman, who overhsuled them and gave them into custody. Mr. E. H. Coleman said: When the prisoners were brought:to me I put questions to thew, from the answers to which it was evident to me that they had never been employed as stokers, as was represented in the characters they produced. Had the pri soners succeeded iu deceiving the commanding officer, they would have been entered as stokers for her Majesty's service at 21. 14e. 6d. per month, berths fur which they were not at all qualified, as they had only been employed as labourers ou the quays of Dublin. The prisoners said that they had made up their minds to come to England to get employment. Knowing that they were not likely to succeed without a good character, they spoke to amen whom they met iu a public-house upon the subject, and he told them he would write such an account of them as would soon place them in good situations. They then paid their adviser Is. 4d. each for their characters, and had a drop together by way of good luck ; but, having taken more than enough, they got ou board the boat which was coining to London, instead of that bound for Liverpool, and were thus brought into the difficulty iu which they at present appeared. Sir R. W. CAILDEN : You have been charged with endeavouring to obtain employment with false characters, and in a service in which your deficiencies might occasion great inconve—ience and embarrassment, if you had succeeded in so gross an attempt at imposition, more particularly at the present moment. By your oval account it is evident that you attended at the naval rendez vous for the purpose of receiving the bounty money, with which you intended to return to Dublin. They were sentenced to one month's imprison ment and hard labour. Lrtio Sus°, a Chincse sailor, and two comrades and fellow-countrymen of his, were charged at the Mansion-house with begging in the public streets. Upon each of the defendants were found several ~_ THE PRESS. TILE BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION num• bers 520 members, of whom during the past year eighteen members and thirteen widows of members have received assistance from the funds to the amount of 6241. 4s. 6d. The receipts from subscriptions and donations have been 452/. 10s. 3d. ; from invested capital, 4051. 14s. 11d. The amount of capital in vested up to the present time is 20,9041. THE METROPOLITAN CAB DRIVERS are forming an association to find legal assistance for each other when charged with offences at the police courts, as also to create a fund out of which all fines inflicted upon them are to be paid. There are upwards of 11,000 licensed drivers in London, and by a weekly subscription of threepence the association anticipate a monthly income of 5001. SOME NEW POST. OFFICE MONEY REGULATIONS, which came into operation on the Ist instant, are of considerable interest and importance. They will render money-orders to a great extent negotiable, be cause, provided they are crossed by bankers, they will be honoured by the Post office without reference to the signature of the previous payees. The strict ness hitherto observed in refusing payment of money orders unless signed in full by payees, and unless holders could describe the remitters, has been the chief cause of checking the utility of the money order department. Numbers of persons refused or ders in payment because of the numerous sources of error. A NEW MILITARY TRAINING GROUND IS to be es. tablished, for which the authorities of the War-office have obtained a grant from Parliament of 100,0001. They have accordingly purchased about 4,000 acres of land at Aldershot, Farnham, and Ash, in the counties of Hants and Surrey, about thirty-five miles from London. From the bold elevations and undulating character of the ground it is admirably adapted for that purpose. The Basingstoke Canal, with some contributory lakes at Ash, afford opportu nities of display in crossing rivers, and in various other military exercises. It is intended to encamp the militia on the ground in the ensuing month. Par ties are already building and speculating on the im proved value of land in that locality. A VACANCY in the representation of Flintshire has been occasioned by the elevation of the Hon. Ed ward Mostyn to the peerage. Mr. Thomas Edward Lloyd Mostyn, his lordship's eldest son, has issued an address to the electors, soliciting their suffrages. FOR THE REPRESENTATON OF CAMBRIDGE there are already four candidates offering themselves to the Liberal electors, the Hon. F. Campbell, Mr. Adair, Mr. Mowatt, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. Messrs. Mowatt and James will, it is said, be the parties se lected. POLITICAL PARTIES IN HASTINGS are busy preparing for an election, consequent upon the intended accept ance of the Chiltern Hundreds, immediately after the reassembling of Parliament, by one of the present members. On the Conservative side, Mr. Alexander J. Beresford Hope, Mr. Crake, Mr. W. D. Shadwell, and Mr. F. North have been spoken off as possible candi dates. The Liberals have opened communications with Mr. Locke, who unsuccessfully contested the borough at the last general election. 0 bituarg. ADMIRAL MACKELLAR died at Cheltenham on the 14th inst., in the 86th year of his age. This venerable flag-officer was in the receipt of " a good- service pen sion," and consequently was on the reserved half pay list. He entered the navy in 1781, and served twenty-five years afloat during the war, for which —although he most gallantly distinguished himself, and was wounded and taken prisoner—he failed to obtain the slightest decoration. It is with deep regret we announce the decease of LADY JOHN MANNERS. Her ladyship, who had been seriously ill from the period of her accoucbement, which took place on the 12th ult., died yesterday week, at the early age of 23. Lady John Manners was the daughter of the late Colonel Marley, an owner of large property in Ireland, and was connected with the noble houses of Rutland, Charleville, and others. She was married to her bereaved husband in 1851. COLONEL ACTON, who, for a lengthened period, re presented the county of Wicklow in Parliament, upon high Conservative principles, died on the 10th inst at West Aston, county Wicklow. The deceased. officer retired in 1848. His opponents on several oc casions were the Right Hon. James Grattan,son to the celebrated Henry Grattan, and Sir Ralph Howard, Bart. LADY ELIZABETH ASHBUDNRAIE died at her villa at Richmond on Easter Sunday. She would have com pleted the great age of 91 years on the 10th of May. Her ladyship was the last surviving child of Jobn, Earl of Ashburnham, who was first lord of the bed chamber and groom of the stole to George 111., and sister of the late earl and of Lady Jemima, the first wife of the late Duke of Montrose. SATURDAY, JAMES KINNERSLEY HOOPER, Alderman of Queen• hithe, died on Monday last. The deceased alderman was elected in 1840, served the office of sheriff in 1842, and filled the civic chair in 1847. MR. GEORGE NEWPORT, F.R.S., a devoted disciple of science and distinguished naturalist, more par ticularly in the department of entomology, expired at his residence in Cambridge-street, Hyde park, on the 7th inst., after a comparatively short illness. Mr. Newport was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, but, in order to apply himself more fully to scientific pursuits, he had almost withdrawn from practice of late years ; and a small pension from Government enabled him the better to do this—a pension conferred upon him for his attainments in natural science. He contributed several valuable papers to the " Transactions of the Royal Society " and to the " Transactions of the Linntean Society ;" amongst them those "On the Respiration and on the Temperature of Insects;" "On the Reproduc tion of Lost Parts in Insects and Myriapoda ;" " On the Formation and Use of the Air••sacs in Insects;" " On the Vapour expelled from Beehives ;" and "On the Generation of the Aphides," deserve especial notice. He was the author of the article " Insects" in the " CyclopEedia of Anatomy and Physiology." He was a fellow of the Royal and of the Linntean Societies, as well as of many other similar societies on the Continent and in America. He had been more than once elected president of the Entomologi cal Society, in the originating and advancing of which he took a lively interest. Mr. Newport was not loss estimable as a member of society than eminent as a man of science. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR RICHARD ARMSTRONG died on the 3rd of March, on board the ship Barham, during his voyage homeward from Madras. The deceased officer was only son of Lieutenant• Colonel Armstrong, of Lincoln, and born in 1782. He entered the army as ensign in 1796, served during the whole of the Peninsular campaign, and then entered the Portuguese service, and remained for six years in Portugal. Sir Richard served as briga dier during the first Burmese war, as major-genera on the Staff in Canada, and finally was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army at Madras, which command he resigned from impaired health. He received medals and clasps for his services during the Peninsular war, besides badges of distinction from the Portuguese Government. He was a Knight Commander of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, and Knight Commander of St. Bento D'Aviz. He was also Colonel of her Majesty's 32nd Regiment.