The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

7111- &art COLOJjL YORE,

•
In Cultpuel Willi.itu Mare, of Caldwell, the &wow
pliehed historian of the " Literature of Ancient Greece,"
the nation haw lost one of its deepest and ablest saheb:**
He was the head of an old and respectable 'added family,
who have been settled for some ages in Ayrshire and Rem
grewahire, of which latter county the gentlentau now de-
ceased heW the honorary office of viemlimitenant, bell.
father had alone before him. The eon of the late Colonel
William More, of Oaidwell, by Anne, eldest daughter of
the late Sir James Hunter Blair, Bart., of Dunakey, and
grandson ..f another William More, who represented Rem
fresrshire in parliamett from 1742 to 1761, be was born at
Oaldwell in 17!61 or early in 1800, and having received hie
' early education at Westminster School, he paned thence to
the University of Edinburgh, end *Niched the currioultmt
of his studies in Germany, where he imbibed that taste for
criticism for which be eventually became so famous. About
twenty years ago he first came before the public as an
author, having publisfied "A Journal of a Tour made in
Greece, &c., inIBJS, whieb Was follewed,afteren interval,by
amore strictly keened and very elaborate disquisition "On
the Oeleedar of Ancient Egypt." In 1841 he was an unsuc-
armful ausatitiate for Renfrewehire against the late Mr.

Patrick Maxwell alewart, but obtained the wet on the
Ideath of that gentleman, shortly before the close of that
parliaunent. Re was egain returned iu 1547 and in MA cat
bOth*occasions without
_mpaitios, kutuetALlME

As was •• moditkate

in politico,

ported the free.traiherasestires of the lite hir Robert.
Peel. He held the Aloe of lard Hector of the
University of Glasgow during the year 18474, an honour
which could not have been more worthily and more appro-
priately bestowed. Colonel Mure took the greatest interest
in Scottish rigricultuie, and, indeed, joined heartily
in promoting every movement which had for its object
the improvement of the condition of hie fellow-eountry-
men. Among other matters we may mention that he took
_great pride in the of of the Renfrewshire militia, of
which be was for many years colonel commandant, thus
proving, like Xenophon, that the character of a scholar is
not incompatible with that of a soldier. It is, howeve as
the author of the "Critical History of the Language nd
Literature of Ancient Greece" that Colonel Mare's
will be longest remembered, if not by the public at large,
still by scholars of every rank and of all shades of °pink%
The first instalment of that admirable work, as Rani and
comprehensive In its outline as it is elaborate in its details,
was eiven to the public just ten years ago, and only bare
volumes of the satire work lave se yet appeared. The
name, therefore, of Colonel Mare must, unhappily, he
added • to thine of Niebuhr, Arnold, and Macaulay, as one
who has not been permitted to see t►e fruit of hie tabours,
and to add " Finis" to his last proof sheet,
" Atque opere in medio defies reliquit antra."

Bosse idea of the depth and learning which characterise
lii clerk may be formed when we add that the three drat
margin are exclusively devoted to the mythical period of
:=lllll6 04.1014 including sketches of the epic, cyclic, and
lyric poets. The fourth volume (of which a reprint is now
at press) treats of the early Omsk hletorians, ending with
Herodotuv. The fifth and last volume comprises the
remaining historical writers of the Attic period, including
not only Thucydidee aed Xenophon, but about twenty other
authors, of whose works fragments only, more or less
extensive, have come down to tut. In what state of
forwardness the remainder of Colonel Mures treatise may
be we are not aware ; bet we fear that the "History of the
Literature of Ancient Greece" must and will long stead,
like Arnold's "Bona" as a mutilated memorial of ita
amiable and accomplished author.
Colonel Mare, as we learn from the "County Familia,"
married, in 1825, Lure, second daughter of William Mark.
haw. Req., of Deem-ball, Yorkshire, and grand-daughter of
the late Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York, by whom he
leaves irate. His eldest son and heir, who is a licatenaht-
colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, was recently married
to the Hon. Constance Elizabeth Wyndham,
of Lod Leoonfteld.

r/lORGE RE)

Mr. George Rennie, late Governor
land Islands, whose death occurred at his
York-terrace, Regent's-park, on the 22nd ult.,
of George Rennie, Faq., of Fantassie, East Lott.
Britain, the eminent agriculturist, and nephew ,
Rennie, the celebrated engineer, and well sustained,
his brief career, the hard-earned reputation •

In early life, devoting himself to sculpture,
in Rome some remarkable works, one of which,

Archer, he presented to the Atheneum Club, where it is
now to be seen. Dissatisfied with the state of the arts in
this country, he boldly denounced it on his return, and sag.
gelded to Mr. William Evart, ALP., in the year 1836, the
parliamentary committee which, besides inquiring into the
state of the National Cisßeq, Royal Academy, and other
institutions connected with the arta, caused the immediate
formation of those schools of design which have since given

so great an impulse to the arta and manufactures of this
country. Together with the late Joseph Hume, M.P., he
proposed and obtained the freest access to the public monu-
ments of the arta in St. Paul's, the National Gallery, Bri-
tish Museum, and other depositories of fine art. When a
member of the House of Commons, he first suggested, for
the security of the public, that the Serpentine as well
the St. James's water should be reduced to a uniforms
depth and otherwise improved. If not the first inventor,
he was certainly the first to suggest to Sir William Symonds,
the then Surveyor of the Navy, the now widely recognised
advantages of water-tight compartments in building ships.
Mr. Rennie was a strong liberal in politics, and was in
the year 1841 returned for Ipswich in conjunction with Mr.
Rigby Wawa. At the next general election he was again
in the field for Ipswich, with every prospect of Emma,
when he was induced to retire in favour of Mr. Hugh
Adair, the local candidate.
Shortly after this he was offered the government of the
PaDdand Islands, which, small as was the appointment com-
pared with his merits, he accepted, thinking that it
would give some scope for those varied resources he felt
that he so eminently possessed.
During his government he raised the small colony from
the most abject condition to one of as great prosperity as its
very limited resources would admit of ; so much so, that
whereas before his arrival the inhabitants had been entirely
dependent on miserable rations supplied from England,
they, by his vigorous exertions and skilful arrangements,
were soon not only enabled to dispense with these and live
in ease and plenty, but could supply ships of war and
mer-
chant vessels with provisions and coals at a cheaper rate
than the) could procure them at Valparaien
But the great masterpiece of his government W 23 the
still courage, and determination with which he utterly
frustrated the unjustifiable pretensions, of the Americans
with respect to the fisheries in the Falkland Islands, as well
as the depredations they were in the habit of committing on
the cattle, &c., belonging to the Falkland Islands Company.
With no force to tack him but a little sloop-of-war, mount-
ing six guns, and a little battery with two guns, constructed
by himself, and served by a few enrolled pensioners, he
concluded a most difficult negotiation with the captain of a
heavy American corvette, whose guns were pointed upon
the town, ready to 'open fire at any moment. In front of
those guns, and is spite of the most violent threats of the
American captain, two American whalers were taken into
the harbour, their skippers brought into court, fined, and
nude to pay for the depredations they had committed on
the coast ; while the captain of the corvette husked on with
suppressed indignation, unable to Gad a loophole for taking
any measures to present the course of justice.
In all these tomer:time Mr. Rennie deservedly, of course,
received the highs* approbation of ;Me honm government.
He returned to Easkixl about fcr.ir years ago, and for the
lAA three years fill 'into • bad torte of health, which ended
in an attack ell pircalysis, from which he never rallied. The
country has le/t in him a truly efficient and faithful public
servant.

MirsOPOLITA FRES HOSPITAL, DEVONSIMIZ-
Sqlly',K, erry.---Tbe legate number of patients' relieved
thir Log the week ending b 31 wae—YedicaL, 1,168;
11urgicel.663 ; total, 1,721; of which 667 yore MW Maki

THE
POSTOL MERVICEWfTIii,AVEITAL4tiI.
, The following independent memorial, whist ha. 4
been addressed to the Tressuq by s number of
mercantile hotness in Liverpool connected with
coiussides exactly with the suggestion
"'hid was Vat, forward some macthr Jig% on
behalf
thad t, the
i lieu Pellilmofutilarse present Oriental
emErtoanithlsteyacpiamm-eornu:
pa
nication, a fortnightly postal service shouil be
arranged between England and Australia, rid
Ceylon. The company are willing to undertake
.this in consideration of an addition of only
15,6001. a year to the present subsidy. tThe
memorial has been signed by the Mayor, the !akin-
owners' Association, and many of the leading
merchant&

To the Right Hun. the Lords Commissioners of per
Majesty's newer,.
My Lords,—Obsening by the published report of the
directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Ccenpany that they have intimated an intention to abandon
the Australian Postal Service, in consequence of very few
availing themselves of them steamers that
passenger, rs
sad the service being therefore unreinunentive to the
We the bankers,
undeisignod, banke. merchswirw, shipowners,
and oth era connected with the trade of these colonies, re-
amed:a
.beg leave to direct your lordships' attention to
the ex eney of forming a new a nt for the
Amtpostalke, which sho jsklagpeisponi-
Maisess
scooDsiderntrag:ineut may be elfectecemith
very little, lf any, lion to the cost dd the present
monthly through mate, and as that through route is
obviously dray for passenger accommodation, for
*birds it is little avail of, we submit that it is highly in-
expedient to burthen the colonial and imperial exchequers
with so needless an expense WI is thereby caused.
We would, therefore, respectfully propome that your lord-
ships should endeavour to anasge fur a fonaightly cont-
mastication with Australia by lines of steam paten run-
ping between Australia and Ceylon, the mails to be trans,
famed at the latter place to and from flip steamers convey-
ing the Indian mails.

We have the honour to be, &c.

HEALTH OP LONDON.

The weekly return of births and deaths iu Lou-
don heed by the registrar-general states that the health of
London is at present far from being in a satisfactory state.
last week the mortality was exceedingly high. The 'deaths.
which were in the first week of March 1,31/7, have during
the rest of the month shown a constant incresee, far they
were 1,563 and 1,611 in the two following weeks, and they
further ram in the week that ended last Ikturday to L 706.

In the ten years 185049 the average number of deaths in
the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,302 ; bat as
the deaths now returned occurredin an increased population,
they should be compared with the average raised in propor-
tion to the increase, namely, with 1,520. The comparison
shows that the deaths of last week were more numerous by
18
lityta hado than they would have been if the average rate of 'mor-
Mod.

The deaths in the present return exceed those of any cot,
responding week, except that of the year 1853, when they
rose to 1,748 in consequence of the prevalence of pulmonary
complaints from extreme cold, the mean temperature of the
air in the previous week having been so low as 33'3 deg.
- - -

In the last four weeks the deaths from pulmonary
diseases, exclusive of phthisis, were 387,450, 486, and 476 ;
those from whooping-cough 42, 45, 62, and 72 ; those from
plithisis or zonsumption 143, 171, 167, and 202. This last
disease exhibits a striking increase in last week; a hundred
of its victims were in the period of life W-40 years.
Bronchitis and pneumonia last week carried off respectively
272 and 162 persons ; the corrected averages being only 146
and 106. /Seven children died from whooping-cough in the
sub-district of Islington west, sin that of Bow. Small-pox
was fatal in 35 cases ; scarlatina in 49; diphtheria in 11.
Influenza was returned in 8 cases. Eleven persons, all wo-
men except one, died at the age of 90 years and upwards, of
whom one had attained the pest ago of 101 years. A man
died in the almshouses, Fulliam•fielda at the age of 87
year., who had assisted at the victory obtained by Lord
Howe on June 1, 1794.

Nine children died by accidental auffocition, 7 el these in
bed. Thirteen persona died by burns and scalds : a varnish-
maker from turpentine tel are; a labourer atiautillery fell
into boiling muriate of lime ; a female servant was burnt
when in a At ; two children of Id:curers, each aged 8 years,

the thanks of the members returned for the same. The
special thanks of the members were returned to M. Ron-
land, the French Minister of Public Instruction, for his pre.
sent, on behalf of the French government, of forty-nine
volumes of "Documents In6dits sur I'Histoire de France."

FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDRNT. Yesterday
morning a frightful accident took place at No. 22, Hanover-
square, which unfortunately resulted in the death of
one man, and in serious, if not eventually fatal, injuries to
two others. It appears that about eight o'clock three men,
named John &ightnian, • painter, of 6, Ilaversford-terrace,
Caledonian-road; John Malony, Hopkins-street, St. James's,
labourer,. and Charles Henry Cooper, a painter, of Charles-
street, Middlemx ff lel, to the employ of Mr. Forley,
builder, King-street, -moire, were at work cleaning
mad paintin • well staircase, at 22, Hanover-square, when
a pole on which a scaffold bearing the men was fixed,
suddenly snapped—it is stated owing to its being in a rotten
state—and the three unfortunate men were precipitated
distance of 45 feet. Brightman, in his fall, was thrown
across some balustrades on his tack, and one of the others in
his fall came in contact with a dove fixed in the floor of the
hall, azd with such form that it was broken in pieces.
Assistance being promptly at hand, the unfortunate men
were at orce conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where, on
examination, it was found that Brightman had met with
such serious injuries to his spine that his case woo considered
hopeless, and he shortly after expired. The others were
also found to be seriously injured, and they remain at the
hospital in a dangerous state. Brightman, whose age was
32,1comea a wife and four children.
PARTIAL DWITHITUTION OF A RAILWAY STATION
AT MANCHINITIR. —A little before ten o'clock yesterday
morning a portion of the iron roofing over the Victoria
station of the London and North Western Railway at Ran.
cheater fell in through a train coming in contact with, and
breaking one of the cast-iron pillars supporting the north-
west corner of it. This pillar was exceedingly near to the
line of rails, and in shunting a train one of the carriages got
off the rails and came in contact with it. About 16 or 17
yards of the roof by about 30 fell in upon the railway, and
• carriage cleaner was severely cut across the forehead by a
bar of iron, hut though the unfortunate man was sent to the
Infirmary, it was believed that his life was not hi danger.
The other railway 'orients escaped uninjured. Fortunately,
there was no tram taking up or discharging passengers under
this part of the roof at the time, or the consequences might
have been serious. The loss to the company by the accident
will probably not exceed 1,0001. Until the fallen materials
had been removed—a work of some hours—no trains c-uld
enter the station, and departing trains had to be despatched
from outside the dation, so that passengers were neemsray
put to some inconvenience.
WRECK OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP IN CARDIGAN BAY.
—Poirritanoc, MONDAY NIGHT.—About 7 o'clock yester-
day morning • large barque was seen on the rocks called
Sam Bsdrig, near this Oace, during • heavy ple of wind.
She proved to be the Oberon, of Liverpool, from the
Brazils, with s valuable cargo. The boat of the National
Lif-boat institution, stationed at Criccietk, was imme-
diately manned and launched, and proceeded off to the
distaessed ship. At a great distance from the land a host
was seen full of people, rowing in • very heavy sea. The
lifeboat forthwith directed her comae towards it. After a
ham{ pull of an hour and a half in • heavy sea, and in the
face of a strong gale, the boat was melted. There were
found in her fifteen of the ship's crew, in a most exhausted
state, and quite unable to manage ker. They had been in
the open boat the whole of the bitter cold night. Thenr
were at once taken in charge by the lifeboat, and stterwsrda
brought safely to land by her. One poor fellow, however.
soon after died from exhaustion on leeching the shore. The
captain and crew had abandoned all hope of being sawed.
but when the saw the flag of the lifeboat their courage
revived, and they continued to struggle with the elements
until its wolframs arrival. The Badmouth lifeboat, belong-
ing to the same valuable institution, bad put off to the
wreck, and ggrreaaat was the crew's regret on finding no one on
board, the boat having picked up the crew un-
Insown to the Bansionth one.
"Torn Sayers, the Champion of England,"
whose intended fight with John Remo, the American
pugilist, is exciting great interest amongst the admirers of
these ',trap exhibitions, has Men occasionally hovering
about our neighbourho.sl during the last two or three
weeks, being in training at Newmarket, and walking about
thirty atilee a day.—eery and Nrtnnfil POI

n, third daughter ' hom their clothes taldog fire ; also from the same cause the
daughter of a labourer and the daughter of a general dealer;
des ter of a dock labourer was burnt barn •
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. ,
ENNIE. Last week the Mills d I,el sad V4l 'Vita 44 all
1,969 children, were registered in London. In the ten cm..
of the Falk- responding weeks of the years 1830414 the average number
is residence, 32, was 1828.
tit, was the son
t Lothian, North ROYAL INETITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.—At
the general monthly meeting on Monday last William Pole,
ephew of John
Seq., M.A., F.R.S., treasurer and vice-president, in the
'Detained, during chair, George Bowdler Buckton, Esq. F.R.S., F.LS.,
attached to tat F.C.S., Arthur Cohen, Faq., 8.A., and John Wyatt, EN., •
were duly elected members of the Royal Institution ; and
__._,,' Stephen Busk, Esq. and John Charles Salt, Esq., were
re, he 1""""'"' admitted members of the Royal Institution. The presents
rich, the Grecian received since the last meeting were laid on the table, and
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4.

Tee proceedings in one of the Law Courts of
this country presented yesterday a strange ana-
chronism, and a still more singular injustice. The
Court we refer to will not readily occur to our
readers, for while it retains a nominal authority, it
is so completely inediieval in its character, that
most of its functions, except a few formal ones
of a civil nature, have happily become obsolete.
This tribunal is the "Consistory Court of London,"
and the case brought before it yesterday was con-
nected with the riots at St. George's-in-the-
East. That long-suffering martyr and devoted
friend of peace, the Rev. BRYAN KING having
alienated both his parishioners and his diocesan
by unauthorised practices, having created and in-
dustriously maintained a public scandal, alike in-
jurious to religion and the church,has endeavoured
in every possible way to maintain his illegal prac-
tices by force, and bring the machinery of the law
to bear on his indignant and rebellious parish-
ioners. First he brought a large body of his
own friends, imported an extra-parochial
congregation, to occupy the church and overawe
the local dissentients. Then the church was
crowded with police, who were to suppress all
signs of disapproval by the forcible logic of their
staves. Subsequently an attempt was made to
punish the dissentients by indicting them before
the magistrates for creating a disturbance. All
these expedients having failed, the rector betakes
himself, as a last resort, to the congenial obscurity
of the Ecclesiastical Court, and promotes the
office of the judge against one of his rebellious
parishioners, a Mr. ROBERT ROSIEE. The offence
charged against Mr. ROSIER was what is techni-
cally termed " brawling," a sort of crime which
sounds even more archaic than the outworn
penalty of " excommunication," which in the good
old times usually accompanied it. The Rev.
BRYAN Elmo, the law-regarding Rector of St.
George's-in the-East, charges Mr. Rostra, who
appears to be a respected and well-conducted
parishioner, with brawling and interrupting the
service of the church on the 14th of August last.
This singular case was tried before the Conaistory
Court, and was reported at some length in our
columns last evening.

Now the anachronism is that an Ecclesiastical
Court at this time of day should attempt to exer-
cise a criminal jurisdiction. Nominally, indeed,
it preserve, the power of doing so in special cues,
but in these days it is rarely ever exercised, for
the simple reason that if it were it would be at
once abolished. Formerly, in the palmy days of
ecclesiastical power, the case was widely
different. Those courts inflicted bodily penal-
ties as well as spiritual, strengthening the eccle-
aisatical sentence of excommunication by the more
definite and palpable help of the shears and the
branding-iron. The culprit, on conviction, was
adjudged to have one of his ears cut off, if he had
any ears, and, if not, to be branded on the cheek
with the letter F, that he might be known and
taken as a fro ymo ker. But those happy times
have passed away. It is no longer necessary to
make any special provision in Acts of Parliament
for the non-existence of ears. Even excom-
munications are no longer fulminated against
fraymakers. If any man creates a disturbance in
a church or theatre, or elsewhere, he is answer-
able to the civil power ; and the Ecclesiastical
Courts have, therefore, very wisely resigned to a
great extent the exercise of any such anomalous
and obnoxious functions. Trials in the Ecclesias-
tical Court for brawling are extremely rare, and it
is well they are so. Nothing could be more
damaging to the church, or more fatal to the
church courts, than any serious attempt to revive
their penal authority. It is impossible, however,
not to see that the trial of Mr. Rostra is intended
Al a movement in this direction. It is a desperate
attempt made by an extreme party in the Church
to call in the penal power of the Ecclesiastical
Court in cases where the Civil Court fails to inflict
the desired punishment. As such it deserves the
strongest condemnation. But it is needless
to protest at this time against such an
infraction of that personal and civil freedom which
is as eleential to our national life as the air we
breathe. Mr. Deems KING and those who share
his anti-national sympathies may wish to revive
the obsolete powers of the Ecclesiaatical Courts,
but it is too late. However strong the vested
interest of the Church in tyranny and injustice
may he, its claims to possess special powers of
oppression, after they have been banished from
every other department of public life, cannot be
allowed. The Ecclesiastical Court must be governed
by the amino of e•eu►l right which are the safe-
guards of oar freedom, or they must cease to exit.
The trial of yesterday seelciently illustrates
their 'exceptional and offensive character in this
respect. The administration is not protected by
the ufiviude that exist io other courts. To the

anachronism of the junsdiction there is added a
palpable injustice in the form of trial. Hare
is a good and respectable citizen tir(stl
for an offence that may be visited by
heavy tines, yet without the constitutional
protection of a jury. Mr. ROBIIIR very naturally
stated "that he had been under the impression
" he was to be tried by a jury of his country-
" men." The Judge informed him " there were
"no juries in that court." In other words, the
consistory Court is an exception to the great
charter of our national liberties, and is,
to the extent of its jurisdiction, an in-
fringement on the principles that guide the
administration of justice in this country. It may be
said that the character of the judge provides a
sufficient guarantee, and this maybe true at the pre-
sent moment. The Consiatory Court happens to be
presided over by a judge equally able and impar-
tial. But that is a mere accident, and does not
affect the real question at issue in the least. No
judge ought to be placed in such a position, nor
ought the administration of justice to be exposed
to such hazards and accidents. Nothing could
be more injurious to the public than for the
verdict of the court in a criminal case of this sort
to depend on the individual character of the pre-
riding judge. These are the very cases too where
strong feeling is excited, and in which therefore
even the most upright judge may be unconsciously
biased by his own sympathies and convictions.
We do not apprehend any specially injurious re-
sult& in the present case. After the worthless evi-
dence given in support of the original charge, it would
be impossible to convict Mr. Rosie& But it
must be remembered that the mere trial, though
ending in an acquittal, is itself a heavy penalty.
It is necessarily tedious and expensive, and
involves a considerable lows of time and money.
And no man ought to be exposed to such a loss
on mere frivolous and vexatious grounds. The
present case could not have gone before any
ordinary tribunal at all. No magistrate would have
entertained it, and any grand jury would have been
sure to throw out the bill. The defendant in such an
action ought to have ample sesursnce that he
would have a full and impartial trial. But there
is no such guarantee in this court, and it ought
therefore to be impossible to revive their rusty
machinery for such purpose. The attempt in the
present case is a purely vexatious one, and if it is
repeated we venture to predict that the jurisdiction
of these courts in such cases will be finally done
away with.

gbe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Tummy.

The Queen and Prince Consort, shortly after
arriving at the Castle yertenlay, visited the Duchess of
Haat at Fregemore.
Princess Ahem also visited her Royal Highness.
Her Majesty sad the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Prince of Wake, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, walked
in the Home Park this morning and visited the Duchess
of Kent.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess of Leiningcn paid
a visit to her Majesty in the afternoon.
The Earl of Caithness and the Hon. Rear•Adminl Sir
Henry Keppel have succeeded Lord Cremorne and Lieat.•
Colonel Kingacote as the Lord and Groom•in-Waiting to
her Majesty.

Mr. i3uthwell, the photographer, of Baker-strost, has
had the honour of attending several times at Buckingham
Palace to take photographs of her Majesty, the Prince
Consort, and other members of the Royal Family.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchegner, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George
Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the
Right Hon. E. CardwelL

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of the North American colonies,
De•patehes were rot to the Governors of Canada, Malta,
Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labnan, and Gibraltar, and to the
Lord High Onsimisrioser of the lonian Islands.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Counts= de Persigny will leave Albert-gate House in
a few days for Paris, where they intend to ran the Easter
room

His Excellency the Saxon Minister leaves town
to-day for Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose entertained
a select circle at dinner but evening at the family mansion
in Belgrave-square.

The Earl and Counteaa Stanhope have left
Ornevenor•pkaoe for their seat, Chevening Park, Kent, for
the Lister holidays.

The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, who has been
suffering from a cold, will leave Berkeley-square in a few
day. for Middleton Ark, near &center.

, The Earl and Counted% of Euaton leave town to-
, day fur the Continent.

The Earl and Counteea Delawarr and Lady Ara
bell Backville West left towel yeeterday fur Beekbarst
Park, Same:.

Viscount and Viacounteas Combermere left Bel-
grave•amstre s few days since for Ganbermers Abbey,
Cheshire.

Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P., and Lady Emily
Peel left Whitehall•e-ankaa yesterday, for their chateau at
Gear's.

We regret to learn of the death, on Sunday, at
his residence, 9, Devonshire-terrace, Hyde-park, of Thomas
Keogh, FIN, Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue,
aged 64.

- The official programme of the arrangements which
have been made for the Earl of Shrewsbury's entry into
Altai Tower,' is published in the local papas. Great
preparations are being made by the inhabitants of Alton,
Uttoleter, and the neighbourhood, for giving Mat to the
feativitiesliThe noble earl will give two balls In the
amity town, at the shire hall, on the evenings of Tuesday
and Wednesday nest. The ball on Tuesday will be attended
by the aristocracy and the leading inhabitants of the county,
and that on Wednesday by his lordship's tenantry and
radeamen.

To all partite interesteil in a pecuniary sense in
the late county Cork election, it will be gratifying to learn,
cm the competent authority of the Cork Zramtieer, that
arrangements are in progrem for the settlement of the en.
pewee arising out of the late contort. In a few days it is
hoped all win be squared.

Professor Owen delivered the ninth lecture of his
wens co keel mammalia at the Nam= in Jermyu.etreet,
ea Friday. Of the extinct carnivore that waged war with
the abundant stocks of ruminant creatures mice occepyieg
this country, Professor Owen spoke of an ancient real
"British 10,n," of a British bear and a hyena, the evidences
of whose drstruetivenees are distinctly visible in the bone-

eaves of this country. The WA hair, will be delivered
ois the 20th of April.

DEATH Or THE COCNTEHS (DOWAGLR) or ELGIN.
—We have to announce the demise of the Counts Dowager
of who died on Sunday, at Paris, after a protracted
Moms The demised countess was mooed wife of Thomas,
limb Ear? of Zigia, sad wee mother of the present peer.
The late coaster, who was youngest daughter of Mr. Jas.
Townsbend Vewitki, married Septmber 21, 1810, by whom,
who died ie N,wenaher, Iftel, her ladyship leaves surviving
we the Berl Li Cohmel dui. Hon. Robert Bruce,
CIL, the Bea P: HIV Bruce, e:leey lit Chins, he. By this
ensischady event museums fews.`bre of rabic are Owed In
mommiag. 7%. Aw 4 of the costs wit delay the de-
parture of the BM d ligia fur Chins fen don.
Sr. Jam's Pearcz, MASeR 11.—The Queen,
has been plumed $ cadet George ?soots Robert, Lord
Harris, tole one el /hip Mob in welds( in Prdinarfto ber
Majesty, is the room of Gawp AMMO, Lord Wm's, me
'weed. The Queen toe eke be pleased to app. rt George
A WOJO. Lord Byrne, to be as extra lord is wiLt:r4 to Fee
Ilsiarty.