The Press.
London, England, 1854-02-11 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA._

The Ballarat has arrived from Port Phillip, having
sailed on the 11th of November. She brings 92,000
ounces of gold, worth 368,0001., seventy passengers,
sad a cargo of wool and tallow. The Great Britain
steamer was to leave Melbourne on the 3rd of De
cember, and may, therefore, be daily looked for.
The intelligence from the different digging locali-
ties continues good. The number of persons abso-
lutely in the employ of the local government of Vic-
toria, and paid as such, amounts to no fewer than
5,096. The total probable expenditure for the pre-
sent year is stated at 3,265,000/., and the population
250,000; the cost of government being, therefore, at
the rate of 131. per head of the population.

&art ant Sastion.

HER MAJESTY'S RESIDENCE AT WINDSOR this week
has been diversified by no incident of importance.
On Thursday the fourteenth anniversary of the
royal marriage was celebrated at the Castle with
various festivities and an evening concert. The
Court will return to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday
next for the season.
SATURDAY, during the parliamentary session, is
the favourite day for political dinners. This day
week the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Granville, Viscount
Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, gave banquets
to select parties of their Mends in either house.
The Earl of Derby also held his third parliamentary
dinner on that day, and a fourth on Wednesday last.
A DEPUTATION. from the Central Farmers' Club, on
the corn averages, had an interview with the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell on Tuesday at the Board of
Trade. The deputation consisted of Sir John Shel-
ley, M.P., Mr. W. Fisher Hobbs (chairman of the
club) ; Messrs. Paine, Pile, Reeves, and Spearing,
from Hampshirel; Messrs. Body, Coote, and Dawes.
COLONEL PEItCEVAL, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House of Lords, was seized with sudden indiskicsi•
tion while reading, at the Union Club, on the 2nd mst.
The gallant colonel's attack was of a nature calcu-
lated to alarm his friends, but its effect, it is hoped,
has already passed away.
BARON REHAUSEN, the representative of the King
of Sweden at this Court, has been suffering severely
from an attack of illness, which for some days as-
sumed a serious character. His excellency is now
happily approaching convalescence.
BARON BRUNOW left town on Wednesday afternoon,
travelling by the express-train to Dover. During
a short interval which elapsed between his arrival at
London-bridge and the departure of the train, the
baron and the members of his suite were accommo-
dated in the board-room. A carnage was reserved
for his excellency's use, and as he passed up the
platform he was received with the respectful saluta-
tions of the few persons assembled. On reaching
Dover, at seven o'clock, the baron proceeded to the
Ship Hotel, where he passed the night, and crossed
to Calais next morning. He was to proceed to
Brussels in the first instance.
THE RUSSIAN PRINCESS LIEVEN, SO many years
one of the leaders of fashion in the French capital,
has just reached Brussels, where other Russian fa-
milies have arrived, or are expected, to wait the
course of events. Baron Brunow and M. Kisseleff,
with the personnel of their legations, will, it is stated,
also await in the Belgian capital the arrival of in-
structions from Count Nesselrode.