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London, England, 1865-08-26 00:00:00

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BERNE, Aug. 23.
A letter received here from Frauenfeld says :
" Yesterday afternoon (Sunday) the Emperor and
Empress, accompanied by the Grand Duke of Baden
and the Queen of Wurtemberg, made an excursion
upon the Bodensee, from which they returned to
the Castle of Arenemberg at six in the evening. His
Majesty telegraphed to the singing club of Stock-
born, which speedily attended and sang several
songs, and was then hospitably entertained by the
Emperor. The Imperial pair leave this morning
for Lucerne, intending thence to ascend the Righi,
or pass into the Bemese Oberland over the Brunig.
The Empress is said to have a great desire.to see
the mountains."

PRINCE -MICHAEL OF SERVIA.—The reigning
Prince Michael of Servia and his wife the Princess Julia
have separated by mutual accord. The Prince has had no
children by his wife. The Princess Julia, formerly Coun-
tess Hunyady, will take up her residence at Vienna, where
the arrangements concluded with Prince Michael before
the separation will enable her to maintain a large establish-
ment. The Prince Julia is aged 28.
The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official resi-
dence at the Admiralty, Whitehall, yesterday, from accom-
panying the fleet to Cherbourg and Brest.

The Earl de Grey arrived yesterday at his house
in Carlton-gardens, from attending in the suite of the naval
squadron to Cherbourg and Brest.

Lord Lyons does not leave for Constantinople, to
enter upon his diplomatic duties as ambassador, until the
week after next.

Prince and Princess Vogorides have left town to
spend a few weeks at St. Leonard's-on-Sea.

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His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador left the
Turkish Embassy yesterday to join Madame Musurus and
family at St. Leonard's.
THE ROYAL MAUSOLEUM AT FROGMORE.—The
works of the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, the burial
place of the Prince Consort, which have been in progress
since the laying of the foundation stone by her Majesty,
on the 15th of March, 1862, are gradually verging towards
completion. The walls of the interior are adorned with
coloured marbles, which will be combined with frescoes
and other decorations.

THE ALBERT MEMORIAL CHAPEL WINDOW,
WINDSOR GASTLE.—Several of the cartoons by
Messrs. Clayton and Bell, of Regent-street, from which the
mosaic pictures of the sovereigns of England are to be ex-
ecuted by Dr. Salviati, have, it is understood, been for-
warded to Venice. On the arrival of the mosaics in Eng-
land they will be placed in the panels of the interior west
wall, and will form a work of splendid and georgeous
decoration. One panel, representing King Henry 111., has
already been placed in the chapel, and has an excellent
effect.

Death of Mrs. Fraser, Mother-in-Law of
Hugh Miller.

(From the Inverness Courier)

In our obituary this week will be found an announce-
ment of the death of the above lady, which took place at
Drummond, in the vicinity of Inverness, on Friday last.
Mrs. Fraser was great-grandchild to the celebrated John
Hossock, Provost of Inverness, about the days of the
" Forty-five," and afterwards styled the Sir Robert Wal-
pole of the North, from the able assistance he afforded to
the Lord President Forbes in guiding and ordering matters
after that unhappy period. Without his advice, the Presi-
dent especially, left it as his dying injunction to his son,
" to do nothing."
Provost Hossock married ono of the Cuthberts of Castle-
hill, and by her had two daughters, one of whom married
Phineas Mackintosh, of the lislachies in Strathdearn,
Ness-side, and Drummond, near Inverness. He purchased
the estate of Drummond from the Town Council of Inver-
ness, and built the house upon it about the time of the
birth of the lately-deceased Mrs. Fraser. Dying childless,
the bulk of his property went to his nephew, Mackintosh
of Holm.

Hossock's other daughter married the Rev. Murdoch
Mackenzie, of the High Church, Inverness, one of the old
family of Redcastle. These were the grand-parents of the
deceased lady.

Mrs. Fraser was possessed of uncommon powers of mind
and memory ; perhaps no one had a more accurate know-
ledge of the origin and genealogical history of the various
families about Inverness. There were of course many in-
teresting reminiscences connected with her own family.
Among others, it is curious to know that her mother
opened the first Northern Meeting in a minuet with her
cousin, Mrs. Davidson, of Cantray (Mary Cuthbert, of
Castlehill). It was in religious matters, however, and
especially those connected with the first spread of Evan-
gelical truth in the Highlands, that the traditional know-
ledge and memory of the deceased were most remarkable.
From her own lips her son, the Rev. Thomas Mackenzie
Fraser, formerly of Yester and Singapore, now of the
High Church, Geelong, gathered those interesting
memorials of the olden time, " Muckle Kate," " The
Soldier of Fort George," &c., which have become so popular
in the form of tracts. Her son-in-law, Hugh Miller, refers
to her, though not by name, in his story of " The Young
Surgeon," as she through whose instrumentality that re-
markable young man was led to abandon his wild and
reckless life, and made a true disciple of the Cross. Mrs.
Fraser herself was early brought to a knowledge of
the truth by the preaching of the Rev. Dr. Payne, of
Kiltarlity—a very dear personal friend—and was enabled
through a long life to hold fast the profession of her faith
without wavering, and to give ample testimony,during her
last trying illness, of the power of faith in the Redeemer
to support in a dying hour.

MR. DAVID URQUHART IN SWITZERLAND.—A
correspondent of the Abeille de Chamonix writes
thus :—" At Saint Gervais I had heard that a rival of M.
M. Nicolai was building an amateur chalet on the plan of
the Melezes, between Forclaz and Prarion. I wanted to
see the chalet of Mr. Urquhart, about whom everybody is
talking in the valley. For Mr. Urquhart has not come to
live on the Alpine mountains from mere curiosity. He
has taken on himself a noble mission ; his creative mind
has already laid out a garden around his chalet, where he
will try the cultivation of the kitchen garden plants of the
north of Eurape, a plantation of young trees where there
will be the cedars of Lebanon, the Wellingtonia gigantea of
Andes, and the rarest coniferous plazas of the Himalaya.
Thanks to Mr. Urquhart, Prarion will have its acclimatisa-
tion garden, which will be as valuable for the mountains
as-that of the Bois de Boulogne is for the plain. I can
predict that he will be successful, and obtain the gratitude
of the public. If I tell you that since his arrival Mr.
Urquhart has been a sort of providence to the poor of the
parish, you will not be astonished to hear that he has
already won the sympathy of all. 1 leave you to judge if
my curiosity was not excusable. Heaven evidently did
not look upon it as culpable, for it was propitious to ine•
I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Urquhart at the chalet of
the Melezes, the honours of which he did with his natural
urbanity and gentlemanly courtesy."
ABD-EL-KADER AT BREST.—The latest accounts
from Brest up to the 23d inst. are satisfactory.
The weather continues very favourable, its only fault
being that it was rather too calm for the second day of
the regatta, which was Tuesday. Abd-el-Kader paid a
formal visit to the French Minister of Marine on board the
Reins Hortense, and was saluted by the guns of the Sol-
ferino and the shore battery. The calm lasted till 3 p.m.,
and was taken advantage of for the races of row boats. At
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the starting point, and take their turn in the regatta.
Meanwhile Abd-el-Fader visited the English and French
Admiral's ship. Each vessel when he left it saluted him
with 13 guns, the French flag run up at the mizen. A shore
battery replied to these salutes. The Emir, who is almost
a greater lion at Brest than the English fleet, returned on
shore and afterwards took boat again and went to the great
dinner on board the Solferino. At night the weather wail
favourable to the illuminations and fireworks, which latter
were let off before the commencement of the theatrical per-
formances, got up with the assistance of Madame Gabel/
Wertheimber, and Madlle. Broban. These performances
went off with great éclat, the aspect of the theatre is de"
scribed as superb, and the English officers as much pleased
to hear such good singers and actors. The day was a veil
busy one, and everything went well. Not a single accident
on sea or on land took place on the 21st or 22d.—Times
Path Correspondent.
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BISHOP COLENSO. —We understand that the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Vice"
Chancellor Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hubbard, and Archdeacon Hale, who are the defendants
to the Bishop of Natal's suit to recover the arrears of WI
income, have put in their answer, and that the principal
grounds upon which they defend themselves for withhold-
ing the bishop's income are, that the clergy of the coloni
refuse to obey him ; that the bishops at home have pr°-
hibited him from officiating in their dioceses ; and that
the recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Priv)?
Council has deprived him of all coercive power over 1115
clergy, and also relieved him from all metropolitical
diction and control ; consequently that the objects sought
by the subscribers to the fund have not been attiained.
The case will be argued after the long vacation. wit!
be gathered from the above statement that the substantial
litre of defence is one equally applicable to all the colonial
bishops who have been appointed by letters patent in
colonies possessing 'legislative institutions of their own'
Solicitors' Journal, Aug. 26.