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The following notifications appeared in the Gazette of January 19: — The Queen has been pleasdd to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the-United Kingdom.of Great Britain and Ireland unto Henry Marshman Havelock, captain in the army (eldest son of the late Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lucknow, X.C.8.), and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainder, in default of such issue, to the heirs male lawfully begotten of the body of his father, the said Major-General Henry Havelock. The Queen lias been pleased to ordain and declare that Hannah Shepherd Havelock, the widow of the late Major-General Henry Havelock, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, shall have, hold, and enjoy the same style, title, place, and precedence to which she would have been enjiitled had her said husband survived and been created a baronet, and for which creation her Majesty had given instruction?, as notified in the London Gazette of the 27th Nov. last. And also to command that the said royal order and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms. The. adjourned; |Bxamination of Mr. Feist, late master of Newington workhouse, has terminated. The charge, it will be recollected, was that of disposing of the bodies of persons who died in the workhouse under his charge for anatomical purposes, contrary to law. Additional evidence was brought to implicate Feist. Hogg, the undertaker, was one of the principal witnesses. He said it was his practice, when bodies were left for dissection, to go to the office of the defendant and get the necessary papers for the inspector of anatomy, and forward them to that gentleman. Mr. Feist was always present when the substitution of the unclaimed bodies for claimed bodies took place, and was quite aware that the latter went to the hospital instead of the former. The evidence in the case of Phoebe Clarke, a pauper, who had been in the workhouse, and who died on the 19th of February last, was fully established. In this case, the body was sent to Guy's, and and another substituted, and two of the sisters of Clarke followed the strange body, in the belief it was their relative, to Victoriapark, and saw the coffin interred there. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Some very curious- details respecting the Manchester Exhibition are contained in a series of articles upon its statistics an 4 history now publishing in the Literary Grazette. One of the amusing items is that which sets forth the "lost articles." It appears that amongst the articles which may be presumed to belong to ladies, the following were found:—-69 brooches, 47 bracelets, 23 lockets, 13 shawls, 20 mantles, 39 veils,.B .scent bottles, 4 fans, 21 victorines, and no less than 65 parasols. Amongst the gentlemen's articles are enumerated 63 season tickets, 111 pencil cases, 61 pairs of spectacles, 81 umbrellas, and the enormous' ;number of 265 walking sticks'. Of articles; which might belong to r either sex, there! were 21 pins, 3 telescopes, 3 opera glasses, 15 keys, 140 odd. gloves, arid 251' handkerchief s. 'The'total number of articles lbst was 1585, of which 547 were found and restored, together with a sum of £95 18s. 9Jd. also found and restored in small amounts. The final results of the Exhibition, jwith reference to receipts, may be thus set forth:—The sum received at the doors amounted to £60,990; the season tickets produced £23,014; the sale of catalogues, £8000; the umbrella department, £1500; making altogether, £93,504. To these are to be added the income derived from the refreshment' rooms, and the hire of Bath chairs and opera-glassqs, arid, perhaps, some minor sources which have not been finally ascertained. A correspondent of the Manchester Examiner notices a significant incident at the recent opening of the law courts, to wit, the appearance of ; the first Jew Q.C.:— " Amongst the batch of counsel who have just received silk, and taken their seat within: the bar, appears the name of Mr. ; Goldsmid. He is a son of the Baron Goldsmid, and is, I believe, the first member of the Hebrew persuasion who1 has1 yet attained that dignity. This is another step in that gradual social ' Jewish1 emancipation' which has of late advanced with such steady progress. The «lord mayoralty' has lost its 'Christian' character;' and that of the inner bar is now gone—according to Sir F. Thesiger." It is stated in the Athenmun that General Havelock has left behind him valuable papers more or less autobiographical; papers descriptive of his feelings as a relifious man engaged in war, of his mode of ealing with his troops, and of his relations to great governing officials. We rejoice to hear that these papers are in good hands, and that ere long they will be in everybody's, hands.

.Mr. W. N. Sainsbury, of the State Paper-office, has discovered in that repository of original documents some important Rubens papers. Mr. Sainsbury is arranging them for publication. The project of a tunnel under the Straits excites attention in Scotland. At a recent meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, Mr. Young (one of the members) read a paper oil a new method of making tunnels under Water, in which he came to the conclusion that a railway tunnel could be made across the Straits of Dover for three and a-half million sterling in a comparatively short time. The tunnel proposed is to be principally made of cast-iron, and to rest not under, but on the bottom of the channel. The chief peculiarity of the plan' is a simple method of keeping out the^ water while the work is being o executed. Many objections were started by members present, every one of which, it is said, was promptly met by' the inventor. .''■ 'A recent number of the Scotsman contains no fewer than thirteen advertisements of presentations by ladies to ministers; of the kirk, both bond and free, of elegant gowns, cassocks,' and "other ecclesiastical furniture.

c' The Post states that as many as six plots against the life of the Emperor Napoleon, have been frustrated—four of them in consequence of information furnished by the British Government. "In one instance a British minister despatched a relative of )^s - own post-haste to France with the admonitory intelligence. On another occasion a brother of Pianori having started for France with the view of avenging the execution of the assassin, by the completion of the atrocious scheme, his movements were anticipated and his objects defeated by timely information conveyed to the French authorities by the Government of this country." The Post refers to the uninterrupted publication from day to day in the columns of the Moniteur of the insolent addresses of certain regiments in the French army in the following singular terms:— "We cannot be surprised at the indignation expressed by a sensitive people, at the sight of their sovereign's danger, nor at the unguarded ebullitions of an excitable army, whose life is linked by so many ties with that of their beloved emperor. From such causes proceed those numberless addresses hastily compounded in a barrackroom. Packed off to the Moniteur^ they are as hastily inserted by an editor glad of matter to'fill his columns. We have reason to believe "that no one has regretted the publication of these documents more than the emperor himself, and stringent orders have been issued against the appearance of any further addresses in the official organ." j

New passport regulations have been issued from the Foreign-office in order to facilitate 4he obtaining of the Foreign-office passport by British subjects. The passport of the Foreign-office has always been the best with which an Englishman travelling abroad could be provided; but great complaints have been made of the difficulty of procuring it, the regulations hitherto in force requiring that applications for it be accompanied with a recommendation from some person known to the Secretary of State, or of a banker. The Emperor of the French has just intimated to our Government that his consul-general and consuls in the United Kingdom will no longer grant passports to other than French subjects. Thereupon Lord Clarendon now . consents to grant his passport to British-born subjects, lonians, and foreigners 'naturalised here, upon the recommendation of the mayor or chief magistrate or justice of the peace, and the new regulations are framed accordingly. A memorandum by Lord Canning in reply to the attacks upon his "clemency policy " has been long talked about in certain circles,. and adumbrated in certain columns, and it now appears bodily in the Times. It is an able and succinct paper, very unaffected and clear in its style. It explains that " martial law" was not proclaimed in the mutinous provinces, because it gave no such powers as are given by special-acts cited. These acts extended the control of military officers and civilians, i enabljajg them to deal with rebels though; riot actually taken in arms, to confiscate \ property though the rebels were not actually caught, and in many ways to use coercion over districts arid individuals. In some instances these powers were grossly abused, arid were exerted: against individuals who were probably not deserving of any blame; and thOse abuses were checked.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is to be raised to the rank of FieldMarshal. This gives him an increase of £6 19s. 3d. per day to his pay, an allowance of forage for 20 horses, and other considerable additional advantages.

Government has agreed to grant a site j for a monument to the late.General Sir Henry Havelock. The monument will be erected on the opposite side of the Nelson column, to that of Sir Charles Napier's statue. The monument, which will consist of a full-length statue of the late General Havelock, will be supported by a handsome ; base, on which will be givenl a full notice of those regiments which took so gallant a part alone with the deceased general in the glorious relief of Cawnpore and Lucknow. The names of the officers who accompanied General Havelock through the memorable struggle will also be recorded on the base of the monument. A supplement to the London Gazette was published, which extends over 50 pace's, containing additional lists of the Europeans, men, women, and children, whether belonging to the East India Company's service or not, who have been killed or wounded by the hands of the rebels in India. In some instances the nature of the wounds which have been received is specified, and where they have had a fatal result the entry is "since dead." There are very many names with which the public has become iamiliar. "A list of about 150 persons; most < of whom appear to be females or children, and who are stated to have " arrived at a house" on the 7th of July, and to be "supposed to have been all killed," refers to the great Cawnpore massacre. The names of those soldiers who have died from a sunstroke,, or from disease contracted in the service, appear in this list. The following is the arrangement of the clauses .-of the East India Loan Bill:—East India Company may raise not exceeding £10,000,000; money may be raised 'on' the bonds of the Company; debentures to be issued by the Company; payment of principal and interest on .debentures; debentures ■ transferable by delivery; the whole amount secured not to exceed £10,000,000; moneys may be raised 'for repayment of principal moneys; securities to be charged; provision as to composition for stamp duties on India bonda extended to, bonds and debentures; forgery of debentures to be punishable as forgery1 of East India bonds; subscriptions for loans raised in India may be received in Great Britain; saving of existing powers oi'the Company. Dr. Livingstone, it is announced, has been appointed H. B. M;'s Consul for Quillimane, Senua, and Tete, on the east coast of Africa. The iron steamer in which the expedition will ascend the Zambesi

river is to be taken out in pieces on Aboard . the African packet of next month, and prepared at Quillimane for the voyage. ; Several serious, and some fatal, accidents occurred on the 25th of January on account of the crowds collected about the neighbour-, hood of St. James's Palace during the "marriage of the Princess Royal. Persons Were Mbcked down and trampled on in the crush. trhere are rumours afloat, says the Literary Gazette, that the title of " Prince Consort" was, like the Thanedoms of Glamis ana! Cawdor, only a step to the "king hereafter." The Court Circulars however, thinks that the Prince Consort's position should be " rectified," and asserts that the prince ought to have borne the title-of king, ever since the birth of the Princess Royal. The same authority contends that the rule which enables the husband of a peeress in her own' right to'be tenant of her 'title by coiirtesy, if he have issue by her, applies "by grace" to the Sovereign. "The English have one little weakness," observes the Literary Gazette, " and that is an insular dislike of foreign interference. Perhaps it would be wise in this case to follow Sir Robert Walpole's maxim of qiiieta^noh movere." . ; \ ~ ' Tlie new Divorce .Act is beginning to work practically with, apparently, very beneficial effect. Several married women have applied for protection to the police magistrates, who are empowered^ under certain circumstances, ?ip relieve them. The magistrates am acting with caution in their decisions; but pne deserted wife has already obtained projection. Several bishops are opposing the; operation of the law, by issuing orders to their registrars not to grant licenses for marriage to divorced perspns;.although the law empowers such personsitoniarry. :. c ; The Royal; Agricultural Societys offer a prize of £50 for the best report 'fon the results of microscopic observation applied to the vegetable physiology of agriculture."! The Rev. E. F. Manby has communicated to the Society's Journal 'an account of a new method of potato-culture, whereby.! he gets two crops a year with little of'ho disease. Morecairibe potato is the kind he recommends—a kind much in request in the large towns of Lancashire, and the West Riding. , : : The sea-serpent has reappeared. Oap*tain Harrington, of the ship Castillian, has communicated to the Times a copy of; an extract from the Board of Trade Meteorological Journal, dated "December; 12, 1857, north-east end of St. Helena, bearing north-west, distance 10 miles." From this it appears, that an immense serpentlike monster had been seen moving slowly through the water within 20 yards ofr, the ship. The head and neck were about 10 or 12 feet out of the water, and they would occasionally dip down and then reappear. Several of the crew thought that the crea-; ture must have been 500 feet in length.! "Its head was shaped like a large|nunl buoy?rand I suppose," says .the^capjjains J iff the diameter to be 7 or 8 feet in "the! largest part, with a kind of scWl,;Or i jisfc;of loose skin, encircling it about two feefc from the top." The color of the head was dark, and the body was covered with several white spots. The serpent, if such it were, appeared to be moving towards the island. The following is a translation of the despatch from Count Walewski to Count Persigny, expressing the regrets of the French Government at the publication of the addresses in the Moniteur :—" February 6, 1858. M. le Comte, —'The account you give of the effect produced in England by the insertion in the Moniteur of certain addresses from the army has not escaped my attention, and I have made a report of it to the Emperor. You are aware of the sejitinients by which we have been influence^ in the steps we have adopted with her Britannic Majesty's Government on the bcicasion of the attack of the 14th of January, and>of the care we have taken in applying for its concurrence to avoid everything that could bear the appearance of pressure on our part. All our communications manifest our confidence in its sincerity ; ({loyaute') and our deference for the initiative being taken by it; and if, in the enthusiastic manifestations of the devotion of the army, words have possibly been inserted which have seemed in England to be characterised by a different sentiment, they are too much opposed to the language which the emperor's government has not ceased to hold to that of her Britannic Majesty, for it to be possible to attribute them to anything else than inadvertence, caused by the number -of those addresses. The emperdr enjoins you to say to Lord Clarendon how much he regrets it. I authorise you to give a copy of this despatch to the principal .Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.. —Receive, &c, A. Walewski." : :i '-'.:'

Mr. Harcburt, licensed victualler, of Wolverhamptbn, tumbled backwards, while asleep, into the brewing boiler. Thpugh he fell into nearly five feet of water, he got' out by himself, went up to his bedroom;; arid then raised an alarm. Medical aid was procured, but he died at four o'clock next' morning. He was sitting on the edge of the copper at the time he fell asleep. The ship New England, Captain Pembertori, bound from New York -to Glasgow, with a crew of 18 m'eri including officers, and a cargo of naphtha,' took fire on the 9th; of January wheic^at sea, owing to an explosion of the combustible. The vessel encountered a tremendous hurricane, whicji, caused her to leak so much that it was found necessary to throw the cargo oVerboard. While this was being done, one bf the barrels: of naphtha -exploded; and a hatful scene ensued. The burning fluid flooded the decks with liquid fire, and all ori board were threatened with an agonisingdesith," when the barque Cora Linn bore down on the New England, and ultimately succeeded in getting off all the crew; some of whom, however; were dreadfully burnt; one so much so that he died1 th^. next night.: This man was found, alight; all over. Bucket after bucket, of water was thrown on him, but hecontinued.toburnfor,a,conliderabje time.

Mary Stringer, the wife of a marine storedealer at Leicester, had gone out one day recently in search of her husband. As she proceeded towards a public-house, she found him standing in the street with his arm round the waist of a girl named Elizabeth Simmonds, with whom he was known to have established an improper, intimacy. - Words ensued between the husband and wife, arid and the latter, who was much excited and complained bitterly of the conduct of her rival, ultimately ran across a piece of waste ground and threw herself into the river Soar. Her body was found in the river not long afterwards, but she was quite dead. . A lamentable accident occurred at Dover, on the occasion of firing a salute from the Drop Redoubt, on the departure of the Prussian Princes for London. Two young men belonging to the Royal Artillery had both their arms blown away. One of the poor fellows died a couple of days afterwards, and the other is lying in a precarious state from the effects of his terrible injuries. The latter is a fine young man, and the possessor of a Crimean medal with four clasps. A; dreadful explosion took place on the afternoon of the Ist February at the pitkuown : asJ3iamorid Pit, at Bardsley, near/Ashton. It appears there were about 20|) men and boys employed in these works; and at the time of. the explosion the engineer considers he had drawn about one half out of the pit. The force of the explosion was so great that, although the shaft is 470 yards deep, the rope attached to, one of the cradles was blown off. the pulley at the "headstock," and the rope was at once taken off the drum. The conductors were also broken, and the UtmPst care had' to be taken;in the winding up and down with the remaining Tope. As soon as it was possible to descend the pit there was no lack of volunteers to assist in rescuing any of the survivors; and the underlookers used every exertion that was possible. It is feared that about' 40 men arid boys, if not more, have been killed. ,;'," ■',

Mr. Roebuck has recently given notice^ in the House of Commons of a motion for the abolition of the Irish A great meeting was held lately in Dublin to oppose this. Lord Howth proposed ; the first'resolution, to the effect. that Mr. Roebuck's motion, coupled with Mr. Horsmari's attack on the office of Viceroy, made it a duty on the part of the meeting to resist by ail constitutional means a proposal to irisult the Irish people and to compromise the interests of the Crown itself. Colonel Taylor seconded the resolution, which, with others of a similar tenor, was adopted. It, seems that it .is the practice at the Clay Cross collieries to draw the coals and men with wire ropes, which are regularly examined with care. Nyertheless, a few days ago, as four men got on the chair tb; descend, the pit rope broke and they; were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft; (a distance of; 70: yards) and killed on the; spot. The bodies were fearfully multilated, the limbs of most of them being fractured in several places. !V .*j ; : , r ; A frightful accident has just happened to two young ladies, the daughters of Mr. Exley,a manufacturer, at White Lee. They were returning late in the evening from a chapel in the vicinity, when owing to the darkness they missed their way, and both fell into the Burtker's-hill Quarry. One of the young ladies was instantly killed, but the other managed, after four hours'painful exertion, to creep to an adjoining cottage, wherefshe now lies in a very precarious state. An, account appeared in the London papers some months ago of a very complete instrument found in jth& possession of athiejf in; the metropolis for boring holes into'irpn safes. Since that time a much more comr plete instrument of the kind has been found in possession of a returned convict at Manf chester. The instrument found in London would simply drill a small hole through the iron door of a safe; and- thef^ne seized in1 Manchester cuts out' a piece of iron at^ one operation through which a man's hand may he inserted. The invention and workmanship are such as might have been turned out only; at' one of our first-rate machine shops i The instrument has been tried by Messrs.; Chubb,, the iron siafe makers, who found that it would cut a piece out of a quarter-inch iron door in 400 revolutions of the lever by which it is Worked, or in an hour; and it had cut out a piece from a plate half an inch in thickness without being in the least injured or rendered inefficient for further use. The person in whose possession the machine was found in Manchester escaped punishment because he was in a dwelling-house with it when taken; had he been taken with it in the streets he could have been reached by the < law. It appears that Uiere;; are; 94 returned transports at present in Manchester, including 26 who have returned from penal servitude for four years since August last. Of the whole 94 there are not more than six in employment, or who have any known means of livelihood.

It is difficult to form an adequate idea of the immense quantity of earth, rock, and clay that htfs been picked, blasted, shovelled, and wheeled into'embankments by English navvies during the last 30 years.; On the South-western Railway alone the earth Removed amounted to'l6 millions of cubic yards—a mass of material sufficient to foj-m a pyramid 1000 feet, high with a base of 150*000 square yards. Jilr. Stephenson has estimate^ the total amount on all therailways ofiEnglan^ as at^least 550 miiliohs'bf cubic yards! (And what does this represent? **i We are1 acciietoiied,"';he saiys, " to regard St.; Paul's asajtest for heightand space; but by . the side of the pyramiq of JearthHiiese; vi^orks would; rear, St, Paul's would be,but as;a pigmy to giant Imagine, a mountain half a mile indiariteterat;U the clouds one mile &ncl a ha(lf hi height-— that'woul'd be the size of the mpuritam of earth which these earthworks would form; vviriie §t^; James'r'Park; ? frorii the' /Horse Guards itpßu^ngh^P^^eyw^ space for^its /^ been removed by English navvies—perhaps the hardest workers in the world. •