Ploschkowitz, had a room in that château fitted up
precisely similar to that which she occupied at
Bossenhofen; and her Majesty even found on a table some
fancy-work which she bad left unfinished when she
quitted her paternal residence.

Among the recent arrivals in France from the United
States are Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
and his son, who is a lieutenant in the United States
Army.  Mr. Jerome Bonaparte is a son of Prince
Jerome, now President of the French Senate, and Mrs.
Patterson, formerly his wife. Both father and son visit
France by invitation of the Emperor and Empress.

Vice-Admiral Parseval-Deschenes, who commands
the French fleet in the Baltic, is in his sixty-fourth year.
He served in the Bucentaur at Trafalgar, where he
earned promotion.  He is reported to be popular with
men and officers

Dhuleep Singh, the late maharajah of Lahore, the son
of the celebrated Runjeet Singh, has arrived in London;
the object of his visit is to study the institutions and
manners of Great Britain.

Obituary of Notable Persons

GENERAL SIR PEREGRINE MAITLAND, G.C.B., died on the
30th ult., aged seventy-seven.

ADMIRAL BAUDIN died in Paris on the 27th ult., after a
short illness. One of his sons is Secretary to the French
Embassy in London.

DR. STANGER, one of the survivors of the ill-fated Niger
expedition, died at Port Natal, on the 21st March. He was
Surveyor-General of Natal until 1851, when ill health
compelled him to resign.

DR. NEVILLE GRENVILLE, Dean of Windsor, died on the 10th
inst., in his sixty-sixth year.

MR. HENRY TUFNELL, long representative of Devonport,
and an active member of the Whig party, died on the 8th,
at Calton Hall, Derbyshire.

M. Mauguin, who took a leading part in the Revolution of
1830, and who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of
the Constituent Assembly, and of the Legislative Assembly,
died lately in Paris.

M. A. Vivien, ex-Minister of Justice, and Minister of Public
Works in 1848, has  died at Paris on the 8th.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES

THE Overland Mail has brought advices from Bombay
to the 10th of May. There is very little news. Dacoity
still manages to exist in our Burman territories, under
the chief Goung-gye; and several skirmishes are
mentioned. Lord Harris arrived at Madras on the 28th of
April; Sir Henry Pottinger had departed a few days
previously. The electric telegraph from Calcutta to
Delhi was to be opened on the Queen's birthday. The
line between Bombay and Indore is completed; the first
message was received at Bombay on the 9th of May.
The defences of Bombay were under repair; operations
being quickened by a report that the Russian squadron
was near Singapore. But it was felt that the Anglo-
French force in those seas was fully adequate to deal
with the Russians.

There is no intelligence of interest from the Cape,
Australia, or the West Indies.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS

The principal article of intelligence from the Seat of
War on the Danube relates to the siege by the Russians
of the strong fortress of Silistria, in the neighbourhood
of Schumla, one of the great strongholds of the Turkish
frontier, and its successful defence by the garrison under
Mussa Pasha. The regular operations of the siege
began about the 17th of May. Repeated storming
parties ware directed against the intrenchments; mines
and countermines overthrew the works and convulsed
the soil, frequently including in one common destruction
the besieging army and the besieged. On the 29th of
May, no fewer than 30,000 men made a simultaneous
assault on the place, which appeared, at one time, on
the point of proving successful; but, after an arduous
and sanguinary struggle, they were completely repulsed.
Two days later the attack was repeated, with the same
result, and with a loss of 2,000 lives to the assailants.
On the 2nd of June a mine was sprung beneath one of
the Turkish batteries; but, having been badly primed,
it exploded, in the wrong direction, and destroyed some
hundreds of the enemy, who afterwards suffered severely
from a sally of the garrison. On the 9th the Russians
stormed two detached forts, but were driven back with
heavy loss. On the 13th of June an assault was ordered
on a huge scale, under the command of Prince Gortschakoff
and General Schilders, Prince Paskiewitsch having
already been compelled to retire from the camp by a
contusion which has unfitted him for active service, and
endangered his life; again the Turks were victorious,
and a Turkish brigade from Schumla succeeded in
entering the fortress. The Commander-in-Chief and
General Schilders, the chief engineer, were both
wounded (the latter so severely as to cause one of his
legs to be amputated), and General Lüders is also
reported to have suffered. Mussa Pasha, the Turkish
commander, was also unhappily killed by a shell which
exploded in his house on the 2nd of June, some days
before this attack; but the defence of the place was not
the less manfully conducted; and on the 15th of June,
the garrison, reinforced by a detachment from Omar
Pacha's army, assumed the offensive with the greatest
energy and with complete success. They made a sortie,
attacked the Russians on all points, and drove them
across the Danube. Pursuing their advantage, the
Turks crossed an arm of the river, seized the opposite
island, where the enemy had constructed siege-works,
and from which Silistria had been bombarded. The
Russians fled to the Wallachian bank of the Danube,
and were compelled to witness the destruction of their
batteries. The Turks then brought out their guns and
erected batteries on the Bulgarian bank of the river,
before the north face of the fortress. The Russian
battalions east and west of Silistria immediately began
to recross the river, destroying their bridges as they
withdrew. The Russian army is said to be in a most
wretched plight. The men are downcast, and utterly
dispirited. All the chief commanders have been wounded
and disabled. Five generals were either killed or
wounded on the 13th, and on the same day the siege-
works on the right bank were destroyed by the Turks,
with immense loss to the enemy. Flight was thus the
only resource left to the Russians, and the latest
accounts say that they are in full retreat towards
Moldavia, while Omar Pasha, with his entire force, is
advancing to the Danube.

The Narrative of last month mentioned the arrival of
the English and French troops, and their commanders
in Turkey. They were stationed at Gallipoli and
Scutari, in the neighbourhood of Constantinople.

On the 18th of May, the French and English
commanders, Marshal St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan,
accompanied by the Turkish Seraskier, or War-Minister,
proceeded by sea from Constantinople to Varna, for the
purpose of holding a council of war with Omar Pasha.
On the breaking-up of this council, which was attended
by the admirals as well as the generals, Marshal St.
Arnaud and Lord Raglan returned to Constantinople;