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The following bulletin was issued yesterday :
" Marlborough House, June 5, 9.30 a.m.
" Her Royal llighness the Princess of Wales is
progressing as favourably as possible, and the infant
Prince is perfectly well.
" ARTHUR FARRE,
" EDwD• 11. SIEVEKING, M.D."

The Prince of Wales.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback, attended
by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke
of St. Albans, and attended by the Earl of Mount-
Edgcumbe, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Keppel, went to Woking and
inaugurated the Royal Dramatic College, the
foundation-stone of which was laid by the Prince
Consort.

In the evening the Prince of Wales dined with
the Duchess of Cambridge at Kew.

Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
de Paris honoured Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton with
their company at dinner yesterday evening at the family
mansion in St. James's-square. The Count and Countess
do Paris, attended by Captain Morhin and Madame Borice,
arrived at 8 o'clock. The following company were invited
to meet their royal highnesses :—His Excellency the Aus-
trian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, the Prince
Conti, the Earl of Macclesfield and Lady L. Parker, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford, Lord and Lady
Walden, Lord Loughborough, Lady Marian Alford, Lord
and Lady Rendlesham, Lord Eliot, Lord Edward St. Maur,
Sir Wm. Fraser, Bart., &c.
The Duchess d'Aumale's ball, announced for the
21st inst., is postponed till Friday, the 23d.
Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea are expected
to arrive in town on the 16th inst. from Ashdown Park, on
their way to the Continent.

Lord Hotham, MY., had a dinner party pester-
lay, at his house in Grosvenor-street.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait yesterday
moved from London House, St. James's-square, toFulham
Palace, for the remainder of the season. His lordship will,
we hear, this week be entirely occupied with the ordina-
tion examinations.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey has gone out
of town for a few days.

DEATH OF MR. PENNELL, OF THE FOREIGN- OFFICg•
—We have to announce the death of John Croker Pennell,
one of the senior clerks of the Foreign-office, who died on
Saturday morning at Mrs. Croker's apartments at Kensing-
ton Palace. Mr. Pennell was a nephew of the Right Hon.
John Wilson Croker, and a son-in-law of the late Sir Win.
Follett. He was appointed to a clerkship in the Foreign"
office during the time the Earl of Aberdeen was Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, in the spring of 1844. The
deceased gentleman accompanied his Excellency Sir Henry
Bulwer to Washington in Nov., 1849, and was attached to
the Legation till Aug., 1851. He was promoted to a senior
clerkship in 1863. It is said that he died from cancer, and
had been ill only a few months.
GENERAL GRANT AND MR. SEWARD.—A corre"
spondent to the Eastern Press writes that General
Grant had a most affecting interview with Secretary
Seward, a few days since. The secretary grasped the
general's hand with great emotion, and exclaimed, "
Thank
God, General Grant, you are alive !" The general, who jS
so stoical amid scenes of carnage, broke down completely
The sight was a shocking one, for the two dreadful gashed
on each side of the face so disfigured the grey-haired old
man that his friends can scarcely recognise him.
THE CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. —Tile
ti petticoat stories" of Mr. Davis's capture are pro-
nounced by the Now York Daily News to be purely the
inventions of imaginative correspondents." That journal
says :—" Mr. Davis's first proceeding upon being so rudely
awakened would naturally have been to draw on his dress-
ing-gown—a convenience inseparable from officers of rank
when at leisure from camp duties. The Michigan cavalry"-
men, not being familiar with that somewhat feminine-
looking article of attire, might naturally have mistaken it
for a la•ly's wrapper ; and their imaginations furnishing
them with all the details of womanly accoutrement, it TO
easy for a little camp-fire colouring to finish the picturo
so greedily accepted at headquarters. This system of per:
secution adopted against a fallen foe is unworthy of Ameri-
cans. Men of honour may kill their vanquished enemies
—they do not insult them."

THE LATE STORMY WEATHER.—The severe gale
of last week appears to have caught a fleet, of north
country colliers on their passage to the Baltic, and had
done a great deal of mischief. intelligence has reached
Hartlepool of the loss of the laden brig Queen, of that pert,
with all hands, at the north of the Cattegat. She TrBl3,
bound to Cronstadt. Eight persons have been drowned
with her—Mr. Work, the master, W. R. Ferguson, the
mate, John Seal, James Haywood, and Joseph Jackson,
able seamen, were all married, and have left families. Th°
brig Carron, of North Shields, and the brig Recovery, °'
South Shields, have also been lost, but their crews are
saved. On Sunday the weather had entirely changed in
the north, and was beautifully fine.
THE PENSION FOR MRS. CODDEN.—It has been
understood for some time past that the Government
were disposed to grant a pension to Mrs. Cobden as 8'
cognition of the eminent services of Mr. Cobden in eenuc:;:
tion with the negotiation of the Commercial Treaty 1717
France. We are enabled to state that the offer has bee"'.,
made in a letter from Lord Palmerston, and that the
amount of the proposed pension was £1,500 per Willi;
during the life of Mrs. Cobden. Wo may further 03
that Mrs. Cobden has declined the: offered perlsic)°,.'
the same time expressing her grateful sense of the 101 .
ness manifested towards her by the Crown and the Adif,
nistration. The public will be glad to know that the
family of the lamented statesman aro left in circutastallef,t
that make any provisions on the part of the Governalem
unnecessary.
ASSESSMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.----511:1
Bank of England has been assessed at the gross an11,11;;:v
value of £47,000 by the As.sessraent Committee of the
of London Union. The former assessment was soraethin''
like a fourth of that sum ; but the increased amount is chl:
sidered by the committee to be strictly fair and erfeitgn'oe.
We understand that tho Bank authorities have given toe
tice of appbal. Under the Union Assessment Conllns
Act, the rateable value of property in the City 1136
equalised. The disparity between the amount at wwwo
premises wore previously assessed and the present It:_est
has in many instances been very great. Perhaps the Po_
proof of the efficiency with which the City Union .A-18e0
ment Committee have discharged the delicate and di,,,as
duty entrusted to them is given by the fact that they
ioa°'
not had one appeal to the sessions against their decfs
—City Press.
The
THE HON. GAVAN DUFFY IN IRELAN.,.--
Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy, accompanied by vfirgB:
Duffy, arrived in Kingstown on Friday evening from 'iter
land, via Holyhead, per the Leinster mail steamer. A 141.5,
receiving the congratulations of their friends, 3fr. and lin
Duffy started by the ordinary special train for puwsco
They are staying at Morrison's Hotel, Dawson-stroet:u
understand that Mr. Duffy's visit to this country of bis
of short duration. It is, however, the intention
friends to entertain him at a public banquet, beno for
leaves for Australia. He has been absent from Ir°lBl3
nearly ten years.— Irish Times. braVe,
TIIE SECRET OF A LATE DEBATE.—Parn -
old man ; and, to do him justice, thinks ", ore
personal ease and personal comfort when higher that ater
at issue. He has long arrived at the conviction tha con'
him will come chaos ; and, as far as his own party ist coo-
cerned, we believe that he is right. Whether his Pts bolt
duct has been such as to satisfy him, when he loenif, is
upon it, that no portion of the blame attaches to hil.u.sl,.bea
more than we can say. Perhaps the time may cc)lne of 1110
we shall be tempted to mete out to him something t Our
same measure of justice which we have considereiliblo sea
duty to mete out to Mr. Gladstone, and then it will
how far such a retrospect could be attendodiritli,,o fu satis ture
tion to anybody. Meanwhile, it is certain that toe i-. 1 tavs
he looks forward with an alarm which he scarlaallf 0
the trouble to disguise, and that his great bugbear,,.ogreo
the almost certain advance of democracy. The P. Thor
and issues of the debate he insisted upon knewil:.g.at once
were commnnicated to him unreservedly, and s bridge
summoned a Cabinet Council, which met at Canl
wo
House. Not having been present at that ineetinrgu,
endivq.,
not pretend to give a detailed account of its P
or
but the issues to which it led have leaked out. -1-i
e that if be
merston, we understand, informed Jr. Glads_r,s
was determined to speak in favour of Mr. 13,
dins;ne, pro.
he must resign the seals of office. fat aria
_ooepted !Pe
and irritable, and full of self-conceit, at once
upon
to ore
alternative, and was with difficulty prevai_edoon bis silence
way rather than break up the Cabinet. id
reticence so painful to himself, that
IA 8,1110 St
during the second debate on Moutdiaty;
prise us if he took an early, and proha y_Th
nient, opportunity of accounting for it.
o,l3whtentr'his ft?eiticinei
as it may, Mr. Gladstone held his pe
ex octet
too
out, a eitonareP
to speak, and submitted to boom
with Sir Georg°
disgusted voter, into the same lobby
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of Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, anrolcahle3odolton
Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Baines.—lil
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