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London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

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Louis Philippe returned to Paris from Eu on Friday night.
The King and Queen ethe Belgians were expected at Paris
on occasion of his fete, the Ist of May.
The Duke de dlontpensier on arriving at Marseilles
alighted at the Hotel d'Orient, where he gave a grand
dinner to the public functionaries, &c., and embarked on
Wednesday for Algiers in the Asmodie.
Intelligence from B. urges states that the health of the wife
of Don Carlos is gravely affected. Physicians have been
sent for from Paris.
"We are positively informed," says the Courrier de la
Gironde," that the king is to proceed in September next to
the Chateau of Pau, which he has had repaired. It is even
affirmed that the youn.r Queen of Spain will, at the same
period, pay a visit to the King of the French at Peu."
The Moniteur publishes two royal ordinances, dated En,
the 15th instant. The first regulates the promotions in the
civil service in French Africa ; the second divides Algeria into
three provinces (Algiers, Constantine, and Oron), and in-
stitutes a superior Council of Administration, a Director-
General of Civil Affairs, and other functionaries, in addition
the Governor. General.
The Pressc states that the number of Peers to be created
by the Ministry will, added to the nominations which have
already taken place, make a total of forty-five.
M. de Mouchy, Honorary President of the Royal Court of
.Amiens, died on the 15th instant, in the eighty- fifth year
of his age. He was the last member of the Parliament of
Paris.
The committee of the Strasburg and Basle railroad sub-
mitted on Friday to the shareholders a report on the opera-
tions of the company during the year 1844. The whole of
the receipts was 2,486,868 f., or 340,116 f. more than in 1843 ;
and the expenditure, 1,578,118 f., showing an increase of
13,117 f., as compared with the preceding year. Taking the
interest of the loan and 10 per cent. for the reserve fund,
there was only a dividend of Bf. 25c. per share.
We learn from Lucerne, April 15, that Dr. Muller, one of
the leaders of the insurgents, and who was taken prisoner,
has effected his escape.
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The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies So•
merset have arrived at Beaufort House for the season, from
Badminton.
The Duke of Somerset, who has been suffering from an
attack of influenza, is recovered.
Earl Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Fitzwilliam intend leaving
Milton Park, near Peterborough, in a few days for Mortimer
House, for the season.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the
Lady Alexandrine Vane have returned to Holderness House
from Faris.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and family have
left town for the Priory, where they purpose to make a stay
of some few weeks' duretior.
The Marchioness of Douglas, who has been slightly indis-
posed from the effects of a cold, is, we are happy to say, con-
valescent. The precise peried of the christening of the infant
Earl of Angus is not yet definitively settled, but it is under
stood that the ceremony will take place previous to the de-
parture of the Marchioness's mother, the Grand Duchess
Stephanie of Baden, on her return to Manheim.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in Belgrave-
square on Friday evening, from Newmarket.
The Duke of Rutland left town on Saturday for Bel-
voir Castle. His Grace is expected to return to London on
Thursday next.
The French Ambassador's grand entertainment, in celebra-
tion of the birthday of his Majesty the King of the French,
will take place on Wednesday, the 30th instant, instead
of May Ist, Holy Thursday falling this year upon the
latter day.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at
dinner, on Saturday, the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen, the Baron and Baroness Arnim, the Belgian Mi-
nister, Lord William Russell, Lord and Lady Ashley, &c. a
select circle joined the party in the evening.
The Earl of Ellenborough had a grand dinner party on
Saturday, at his mansion, in Charles-street, Grosvenor-
square. The following formed the circle :—The Earl and
Countess Delawarr, Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of Devon,
Earl Nelson, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount
and Lady Sarah Ingestre, Lord Redesdale, Lord and Lady
Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Colchester, Hon. G. R. Rice
Trevor, M.P., and
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XSCISLYetI.3TMOUS.
The following return "of the number of apprentices who
have attended at each of the schools established in her Ma-
jestv's dockyards. during the year ending the 31st of De-
cember, 1844," has been issued by order of the House
of Commons :—Dockyard at Deptford, nil (no school
has as yet been opened at Deptford; which was not re-esta-
blished as a building-yard until the let of April, 1844);
dockyard at Woolwich, 94 ; dockyard at Sheerness, 110 ;
dockyard at Chatham, 136 ; dockyard at Portsmouth, 219 ;
dockyard at Devonport, 232 dockyard at Pembroke. 76.
On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Marylebone
Vestry, the annual election took place for the churchwardens
and sidesmen, &c., fur the year ensuing, the Rev. Dr. Spry,
the rector, in the hair ; a letter was received from Lord Lin-
coln, stating that her Majesty had been pleased to re-appoint
the Hon. George Lord Kenton as churchwarden on the part
of the Crown, and George Spencer Smith, Esq as his sides-
man for the ensuing year. The nominations dother church-
wardens for the parish were made, and the auditors' report
was brought up and read. It was stated by Sir Peter Laurie
that there was every probability of the affairs of this pariah
becoming an object of inquiry before a Committee of the
House of Commons. After some other business of trifling
importance the vestry separated.
The Society for teaching the blind to read are to have a
public dinner in aid of the funds of this philanthropic society
on the 29th instant, and with a view of raising the amount
necessary for the purchase of a building more suitable to the
wants of the institution. It is to be hoped that it will be
well attended for the sake of the benevolent objects proposed.
We learn that the statement that the requisition for the
condemnation of Tract 90 had been either presented to the
Hebdomadal Board at Oxford, or was under their considera-
tion, is not correct.
In the small colliery village of Philadelphia, near Sunder-
land, the typhus fever is prevailing to a serious extent. In
one street alone, Wellington-row, it is said seventy-two in-
dividuals are new lying dangerously ill.
Messrs. Lee and Co., chemical manufacturers, at the Fel-
ling, near Gateshead, with a laudable desire to promote the
comfort and welfare of their workmen, have laid out a field
in garden allotments for occupation by their workmen, and
to encourage these humble amateur gardeners in the cul-
tivation of their plots of ground they have offered a number
of prizes for the best specimens of produce, and also for good
cultivation.