The Press.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

SATURDAY,

The noble duke has taken the Countess Brownlow's
mansion in Belgrave•square during the rebuilding
of the new edifice.

On ituarg.

THE RIGHT REV. JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT,
provisional bishop of the diocese of New York, died
at his residence in that city on the 21st ult. The
deceased prelate was born at Liverpool, during a
temporary visit of his parents to England in the year
1793. His father was an Englishman by birth, but
became an American citizen immediately after the
revolution. His mother was a Miss Mayhew, a
daughter of the distinguished Dr. Mayhew, who was
the descendent of Sir Thomas Mayhew, the first
governor of Martha's Vineyard, and one of the
earliest settlers in America. It is a circumstance
worthy of notice that the grandfather of Dr. Wain.
wright was a stanch opponent of episcopacy.
GENERAL JOSEPH CHLOPICKI, well known during the
Polish revolution, died after a long and painful ill-
ness on the 30th of September at Cracow. At the
commencement of the revolution he was placed as
dictator at the head of the movement.
GENERAL SIR GORDON DRUMMOND, G.C.8., died
on the 3rd inst., in the 83rd year of his age. Sir
Gordon Drummond served in Holland in 1794 and
'95, and was present in Nimeguen during the siege
and at the sortie. Accompanied the expedition to
Egypt in 1801, and was present in the battles of the
13th and 21st March ; also at the battle of Ramanieh,
and at the surrender of 'Grand Cairo and Alexandria.
Sir Gordon saw much service in the American war,
and commanded in the action near the Falls of
Niagara, where he was severely wounded. He re-
ceived the silver war medal with one clasp for Egypt.
By his death the colonelcy of the Bth (King's)
Regiment is placed at the disposal of the War-
office.
LADY HARRIET DRUMMOND died on the 7th inst.
at Albary park, county of Surrey, the residence of
her husband, Mr. Drummond, M.P. for West
Surrey. The fatal disease was effusion of the brain.
The deceased was a member of the noble house of
Rutland.
Siorion, FRANCISCO FERRARI, the eminent Italian
banker of Madrid, died on the 3rd. It is rumoured
that he has left upwards of 300,0001.—an instance
of a large fortune acquired by one who began life
penniless.
Coma Rossi, who married in 1838 the Duchess of
Lucca, daughter of the Duke Louis I. of Parma, and
mother•in-law of the present King of Saxony, has
died suddenly at Venice, it is believed of cholera.

In addition to the six light-draught-of-water
screw steam gun-boats ordered to be built at Dept-
ford, and now launched, and the four built by Mr.
Pitcher, at Northfleet, of the Pelter class, Mr. Pitcher
is to build twelve more, which, with the two ordered
to be immediately proceeded with at Deptford, will
make a total of twenty light-draught-of-water screw
steam gun-boats, to be ready early in the ensuing
spring for any service they may be required to un-
dertake.
Government has resolved on placing Orkney in a
state of defence, by the erection of a fort of sufficient
size in the neighbourhood of Kirkwall. The work
will be commenced forthwith, and is expected to be
finished in a few months.
The Moniteur publishes a notification, issued on
the 12th of August last by Captains Ommanney and
Hubert, commanding the allied squadron in the
White Sea, declaring the ports of Archangel and
Onega, and all the other ports, harbours, and creeks
from Cape Sviatornos to Cape Kanin, in a state of

blockade.
Three copies of the Extraordinary Gazette con-
taining the official despatches, list of casualties, la.,
relating to the battle of the Alma, were forwarded,
by order of Mr. Rowland Hill, to every country
postmaster, with instructions " to affix one of such
copies to the office window, or in some other conspi-
cuous place, to cause a second copy to be posted at
the town-ball or market place, and to deliver the
third copy to the chief magistrate or clergyman of
the town." The same course is also ordered to be
pursued, without further instructions, on the arrival
of any Gazettes which may hereafter be transmitted
under similar circumstances.
THE SOUVENIRS SENT HOME BY MARSHAL ST.
ARNAUD by the Fury, and which he himself bad
gathered on the shore of the Crimea, have theirr,
interest mournfully enhanced for his daughte
Madame Preysigur, by her father's death. The first
stone on which his foot stepped, and the first flower
plucked by his hand, were the missives by which the
chieftain spoke to his child of his landing on the
Tartar peninsula.
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF BRISTOL have
been invited by the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
to a grand banquet at Badminton-house& Ills gm"
is Lord iiigh sieword of the eitf.