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JULY 22, 1854•

latter especially) were most admirably performed.
As interludes, there were Ethiopian serenaders, &c.,
and pieces performed by the splendid band of the
ship. The audience, which consisted of some 200
officers, were greatly delighted with the entertain-
ment, more particularly as it was concluded by a
most excellent and substantial supper.
A concession of the Turkish coal-mines in the
valley of Kozlou and Zangeldek, near Heraclea, has
at length been obtained by the English Government.
Lord Stratford, finding that the private interests of
several of the Pachas were opposed to the measure,
had an audience with the Sultan, and, after some
difficulty, succeeded in convincing him that the
interests of the Turkish Government would be best
served by permitting the mines to be worked by English
capital, directed by English skill. The Porte will
receive a high rent for the mines, and the French
will be allowed to share in the benefits of the con-
cession. The mines, it is believed, will yield about
60,000 tons of coal during the first year, a quantity
amply sufficient for the fleets in the Black Sea, and
produced at an estimated cost of IL per ton. Eng-
lish coal cannot be furnished to the fleets under
31. 10s. or 41. per ton.
On the occasion of the visit of the Emperor to the
squadron off Calais, an incident occurred which
caused some amusement to his Majesty and others
who were looking on. The tide running up very
strong, the small boat which was to convey his
Majesty from the yacht to the Hannibal was let go
too much to windward, owing to some delay in get-
ting the visitors on board, and drifted a considerable
distance astern of the squadron, despite all the
efforts of the sailors. The boat, with his Majesty
and the general commanding in chief, General
Valliant, anti several others, would soon have
reached Dunkirk, had not the Fire Queen steamed
after it and arrested its flight. Le Corae, French
corvette, soon after took her in tow and brought her
alongside the flag•ship. The only inconvenience
experienced was a plentiful dash of spray over the
splendid green and gold uniforms, but the Emperor
shipped his salt water like a man, laughed heartily at
the rather novel position in which he found himself,
and jocularly consoled Marshal Valliant, who got
rather more than his fair share of the wetting.

THE following narrative of French enterprise is
given by the Southampton correspondent of the Daily
News :—One of the richest men in France, and who
associated in that country with those distinguished
for rank and fashion, left Parisian gaiety a few years
since, and took to farming, He had his estates in
Normandy farmed after the English fashion, bought a
steamer, and established a communication between
Carenton and Southampton, to convey horned cattle,
sheep, poultry, and all kinds of farm and daily pro-
duce from France to England. The captain and crew
are all English. The steamer makes one or two trips
a week, and realises an immense profit. A large es-
tablishment, French and English, is kept employed by
the farming operations and the steam traffic. Carenton
is a small town, where Norman manners exist in per-
fection. It has a church nearly a thousand years
old. Amongst native farmers in the neighbourhood
agriculture is carried on with primitive simplicity.
Their horses are harnessed by coarse ropes and
heavy chains, as in the days of William the Con-
queror.
TEN DEATH Or A NATIVE INDIAN Of some mark
is announced by the Calcutta Englishman received
by the last overland mail. His name was Baboo
Russomoy Dutt, and he was the first native of Ben
gal ever appointed to the bench of the Petty Court,
where he sat for about sixteen years, having retained
his post when the jurisdiction of the court was en-
larged, and its title altered to that of Small Cause
Court. The experiment of employing a native has
completely answered, for it may be safely said that
no judge who ever presided in that court has given
more general satisfaction. The Baboo had not the
advantage of a legal education, but his habits of bu-
siness, and knowledge of the people, particularly
qualified him for disentangling the conflicting state-
ments of the great majority of suitors who appear in
that tribunal. It is reported that he will be suc-
ceeded by the present junior magistrate, also a na-
tive, Baboo Hurroochunder Ghose. It is farther
stated that it is intended to appoint a native as his
successor at the Police Court, and that Baboo Loke-
nauth Bose is the person likely to be selected, he
having filled the post of Suddur Ameen for some
years.

AN ADDRESS has been presented to Mr. G. P. R.
James, her Majesty's Consul in Virginia, numerously
signed by tho leading merchants, lawyers, physicians,
and other respectable inhabitants of Norfolk, in that
State. It says :—" As this is the anniversary of her
Nity's birth, we have selected it as a time likely
agreeable to you to receive from the merchants,
less men, anti other citizens of Norfolk, an ex-
ion of their good will, and of the high apprecia-
which your official and personal intercourse has
ved from our entire community."

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THE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace
on Monday morning, at which the new Prussian
Envoy, Count Bernstortf, presented his credentials.
He was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon.
IN the afternoon of that day her Majesty left Lon-
don for Osborne•house, where the Court will remain
until after the prorogation of Parliament.
IT is reported that the first royal cruise this
season in the Victoria and Albert will be a visit of
the Queen to the Channel Islands. Captain Lefehre,
in the steamer Dasher, is ordered to Portsmouth, to
be in attendance on the royal yacht.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester will leave
Gloucester-house, Park lane, early in the ensuing
week, for the White lodge, Richmond-park, for the
season.
Miss Bußprrr COUTTS gave a grand banquet on
Monday to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Maharajah
Duleep Singh, and a distinguished circle, at her
mansion, Stratton-street, Piccadilly. There was an
assembly in the evening.
LADY ROIEEBY gave her second ball at Montague-
house on Monday evening.
THE Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir W.
Molesworth gave Ministerial banquets on Monday
last.
THE COUNTESS CRAVEN had her second ball of the
season on Thursday in Charles-street, Berkeley-
square.
A MARRIAGE was celebrated•on Tuesday last at St.
James's Church, Piccadilly, between Mr. King,
grandson of Viscount Lorton, of Rockingham, county
Roscommon, and the Honourable Augusta Chiches-
ter, sister of Lord Temp lemore, of I)unbrody-park,
county Wexford. The service was performed by the
Rev. Alfred Peel.
CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and
Wednesday last at the .Foreign-office in Downing-
street.
His Excellency Count Bernstorff, accompanied by
the countess and family, arrived at the Prussian
Legation, on Saturday night, from Berlin, in order
to assume his diplomatic duties as Prussian Minister
in this country, in the room of Chevalier Bunsen.

Volitual an 6tutral.

THE receipt of some considerable sums for con-
science-money
has been again acknowledged by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. On Wednesday the ,
Treasury was enriched by 1201. in notes and postage
stamps for 6s. 4d., from " C. E.," for unpaid taxes ;
51., from "S. V.," for "unpaid customs duty " ; and
251., from "W. A. C." for " unpaid income tax."
ONE thousand and fifteen deaths were registered
in London in the week ended last Saturday, a num-
ber which greatly exceeds that of the previous week,
but is still in a trifling degree below the decennial
average. Five deaths from cholera were registered
during the week, and diarrhoea preyed fatal in forty
six cases.
AN ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN praying for the closing
of public-houses and beer-shops, except to travellers
and lodgers, during the whole of Sunday, has within
the last few days been transmitted to the Home-office,
from upwards of 10,000 women of the working classes
of Bristol and its vicinity ; besides petitions to the
House of Commons, bearing between 8,000 and 0,0(X)
signatures, mostly of working men, for the same ob-
ject and from the same locality.
A BALLOON fell in a field near Faversham last
Saturday evening. It was without an occupant, and
with nothing in the car but a jacket, a tobacco box,
and 2d. The gas was nearly exhausted, and the
grappling-irons were gone, raising fears that some
fatal catastrophe had occurred.
THE NEW BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS has been
formally enthroned in Wells Cathedral. The oaths
were administered by the Very Rev. O. H. Sacheve-
rell Johnson, M.A., Dean of Wells, and the bishop
was then inducted into his stall. In virtue of his
bishopric Lord Auckland has ecclesiastical patronage
at his disposal worth 15,0001. per annum.
THE annual country meeting of the Royal Agricul•
tural Society commenced on Thursday, the 13th inst.,
at Lincoln, and has been proceeding during the pre-
sent week with full success. The collection of agri-
cultural instruments and machinery is spoken of in
the highest terms of praise. The best and largest
makers were in the field. A deputation from France
of twelve French manufacturers have been on the
ground from morning until night. They have been
sent to report upon the general features of the show,
preparatory to the formation of a similar society in
France. There is a new corn-reaping machine exhi-
, biting by a French doctor of medicine, which was
tried in a field of rye on Monday. It is small and
• inexpensive compared to Hussey's reaper, and per-
formed, according to the accounts of the trial, very
satisfactorily.

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AN acceleration of the overland India, &c., mail is
announced by the Post-office, consequent upon the
completion of a further section of the Marseilles
Railway. The letters sent via France will accord-
ingly now leave this country one day later—viz., on
the oth and 25th of every month. When those dates
fall on a Sunday the mail will not be despatched

until the following day.
THE directors of the London and North-Western

Railway Company have, after most careful investiga-
tion, decided on adopting a plan introduced by
Professor Gluckman for establishing a communica-
tion between the guards and drivers of their trains.
Definite arrangements having been completed, the
apparatus will be applied to all the trains of the
company as rapidly as the necessary machinery can
be provided.
AN ENORMOUS SHIPMENT OF SPECIE was (188-

patched by the E uxine, which sailed from Southamp-
ton to India, &-c., on Thursday morning:—To Malta,
2001., sovereigns ; Alexandria, 25,0001., sovereigns ;
Calcutta, 5,2001., dollars; Singapore, 8,721/., dollars,
and 6,8111, doubloons ; Hong-Kong, 52,1831., dollars,
and 11,0201., gold ; Canton, 175,0391., dollars, and
1,0001., doubloons; Shanghae, 7,1251., dollars; total,
300,0991., in 971 boxes.
THE Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford,
acting under the sanction of their visitor, the Bishop
of Winchester, and in conjunction with the Warden,
Fellows, and Head Master of Winchester College,
have determined that the election of ►cholars into
Winchester will henceforth be determined by open
competition, the most promising candidates being
taken, after examination, with due regard to the
circumstances of parents, as prescribed by the foun-
der's statutes. Under the same authority, it its in-
tended for the future to receive commoners at New
College, instead of gentlemen commoners, as here-
tofore.

PROPOSITIONS for closing Lloyd's establishment at
two o'clock on Saturdays were submitted to a meet
ing held on Wednesday in the underwriters'-room
and carried almost unanimously. Next week the
matter will be definitively settled ay a ballot.

THE fine steam-ship Golden Fleece arrived at
Spithead on Wednesday from the Black Sea. Her
machinery turned out very defective on the voyage
home, breaking down and involving much troubles
and loss of time in its repair. Her passage from
C,,nstantinople was, from this cause, protracted to
twenty-one days. She brings home a number of
invalids from the fleet and army in the East.

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THE arrangement for the establishment of
monthly mail service between the Mauritius and
Ceylon, proposed by the General Screw Steam Com-
pany to the colonial Government, has been adopted.
The payment agreed upon is 10,0001. a year. The
mail will commence running on the 10th of August
next.
AT A MEETING OF THE WALLINGFORD TOWN Cons-
en„ held on Saturday last, the Earl of Malmesbury
was unanimously elected to the ancient office of high
steward of the borough, in the room of the late
Thomas Duffield, Esq., deceased. His lordship has
consented to accept the appointment.
AN INGENIOUS IMPROVEMENT has been made in
artificial hatching by Mr. C. Minasi. By the use of
a small naphtha-lamp without wick, and burning with
an equal flame continuously fur weeks together,
seventy eggs are hatched at the top of the apparatus,
' and the young are reared by the assistance of an
at tificial mother at the bottom. The first cost of the
whole affair being trifling, the apparatus admits of
the application of gas.
Two MORE SUPPLEMENTAL. ESTIMATE! have just
been laid before the House of Commons. One is for
10,0001., the charge which will probably be incurred
during e year in earning into effect the recommen-
dation of the commission on promotion in the army,
under the head of retired full pay. The other esti-
mate is from the Ordnance Department, and amounts
to 95,6011.
AT the close of last year the British statute-book,
commencing the enumeration from the oth Henry
11I.,contained 16,579 public general acts, 9,285 local
and personal acts, and 14,208 private acts. The
public general acts have been thus classified:—
Acta repealed
virtually repealed
obsolete
expired or virtually expired
of a merely local or personal application
relating exclusively to Scotland
relating exclusively to Ireland
relating exclusively to the Colonies 403
relating, some to the United Kingdom ge
!ovally, others exclusively to England,
others to Great Britain, and some few to
England and Ireland

16,879

THE adaptation of Harwich 8.8 a harbour of
refuge is actively proceeding. The celebrated diving
cutter Wideawake has for some time been engaged,
by submarine explosions, in removing rocks etc.,
which render the anchorage and approaches difficult
and dangerous.

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