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Colonist, Volume II, Issue 167, 27 May 1859, Page 3

Colonel Willoughby and Mr. Arnold, Deputy and Sub-Inspectors-General of the Council for India,-*recently inspected a batch of 230 siege guns, of heavy calibre, for coast purposes in India. These guns, which vary from 24 to 68 pounders, will be convej'ed in various ships to be taken up for the conveyance of other stores during the present month. A few days ago the Emperor of Austria made the Protestants m Vienna a present of a piece of ground on which to build their school-house. The Civil Tribunal of Paris lately ordered a Mr. Lorck, an Englishman imprisoned for a debt duo to the Company of the Hotel <ie Louvre, to be set at liberty. The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have decided on depositing the recently discovered remains of John Hunter, the eminent surgeon, in the Abbey, stating that "they shall be proud to be guardians of the ashes of so great a man." Death op Rudio.—lntelligence has, it is sai<!, been received of the death of Rudio, who, it will be remembered, was a party in the attempt against the life of the Elmperor in January, last year. Ho is said to have shown in his last momenta th« strongest marks of repentance. — Era.