House of Correction. The inquiry was mainly directed
into the mode in which the "crank labour" discipline
was carried out; and the commissioners find great fault
with that part of the plan which deprived prisoners of
portions of their food, who did not make the required
number of revolutions in a given space of time. In
some cases food was withheld for several days. The
practice was pronounced to be illegal, and has been
discontinued. Other evils, such as bad health and
insubordination, followed in the train of this grievous
excess of power. The commissioners "rejoice" in
being able to state that "no grave personal imputation
rests upon any of the persons concerned in the government
of the Leicester County Gaol." The magistrates
are nevertheless blamed for having sanctioned the
stoppage of food, and for want of vigilance generally;
and the governor and surgeon are spoken of as having
failed in important parts of their duty.

The Civil List Pensions granted during the year
ending on the 20th June vary from £40 to £100; and
amount in all to £1200., the Parliamentary limit. The
widow of the late Dr. Glen, missionary to the East for
nearly 30 years, receives, in consideration of her
husband's services to Biblical literature, £50; Sir Francis
Bond Head, for literary merit, £100; the widow of
Dr. Moir, the "Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine, £100;
the Reverend William Hickey, the "Martin Doyle" of
Irish agricultural improvement, £80; the widow of Mr.
Oliver Lang, the ingenious master-shipwright at Woolwich,
£100; the widow and daughter of Mr. Joseph
Train, in consideration of Mr. Train's literary merit
and the antiquarian services rendered by him to Sir
Walter Scott, £50; the widow of Sir Harris Nicolas,
in consideration of Sir Harris's contributions to historical
and antiquarian literature, £100; the four daughters of
Dr. Macgillivray, writer upon natural history, £80; Mrs.
Hogg, widow of the "Ettrick Shepherd," £50; the sister
and two daughters of the late Mr. James Simpson, the
promoter of education, £100; the two daughters of the
late Mr. James Kenney, in consideration of Mr.
Kenney's literary talent, £40; Mr. Alaric Alexander
Watts, for services to literature and art, £100; the five
daughters of the late Mr. Joseph Tucker, eighteen
years surveyor of the Navy, £100; Dr. Edward Hincks,
the antiquarian and scholar, £100; the widow of Mr.
Bowditeh, the African traveller, in consideration of her
own literary merit, £50.

The business of the Encumbered Estates Court is still
increasing, notwithstanding the immense quantity of
land already sold or ordered for sale. The payment to
creditors in the last week of July amounted to £144,894,
which makes the total of funds distributed £10,109,714.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

On the 8th instant the Queen paid a visit to the
Channel Islands. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
elder children, embarked on board the Victoria and
Albert, and, accompanied by the Fairy, the Dasher, and
the Black Eagle steamers, proceeded to Alderney, and
arrived there in the evening. When the yacht stopped,
Colonel Le Mesurier and Admiral Cochrane, who
chanced to be present, waited upon her Majesty, and in
the evening dined with her on board. Next morning,
the Judge of Alderney presented the Queen with an
address; and shortly afterwards the Royal party landed
and visited the lions of the place. Re-embarking at
noon, her Majesty made a circuit of the island; and
then steering for the Needles, anchored at Hurst Castle
about eight o'clock. Next morning the yacht returned
to Osborne.

The Queen arrived at Buckingham Palace on the
11th; and next day, after having prorogued the Parliament,
her Majesty returned to Osborne.

Her Majesty has appointed Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
now Governor of New Zealand, to be Governor and
Commander-in-chief of the settlement of the Cape of
Good Hope and its dependencies.

Lieutenant-Colonel Freeman Murray is appointed
Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the
Bermudas or Somers Islands.

The Queen has appointed John Hill Burton, Esq.,
advocate, to be secretary to the general board of
directors of prisons in Scotland, in the room of Ludovick
Colquhoun, Esq., deceased.

Sir Benjamin Hall, late member for Marylebone, has
been appointed president of the board of health, under
the new bill brought in by Sir William Molesworth for
the reconstitution of that board.

The venerable G. M. Beresford, archdeacon of
Ardagh, has been appointed to the see of Kilmore,
vacant by the death of Dr. Leslie.

At the episcopal synod held at Aberdeen on the 19th,
the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church appointed
the reverend Dr. Hannah, of Lincoln College, Oxford,
rector of the Edinburgh Academy, to be warden of
Trinity College, Glen Almond, in room of Bishop
Wordsworth, of St. Andrews, resigned. Dr. Hannah
has held the post of rector at the Edinburgh Academy
for eight years.

The long vacant see of Sydney has been at length
filled by the appointment of the Rev. F. Barker, incumbent
of Baslow, Derbyshire. Mr. Barker was for many
years perpetual curate of Edge-hill, Liverpool.

Mr. Tom Taylor has been appointed secretary of the
new board of health, with a salary of £1000.

The will of the late Duke of Portland has been proved.
The personal property was sworn under £900,000; pro-
bate duty, £12,000. The duke directed that the cost of
his funeral should not exceed £100. He bequeathed
£5000 to be divided among his servants.

El Hamee Pasha, the son of the late Viceroy of Egypt,
arrived at Southampton on the 29th ult., in the steam
yacht Faid Gehaad. It appears that he had been only
one day's sail from Alexandria when his father died,
but that he first learned the fact at Southampton. He
gave instant orders to return to Egypt. His object in
coming to Europe was to pay a visit to Queen Victoria
and the Emperor of the French.

A number of the friends and admirers of Mr. Hume
waited upon him, at his residence, on the 5th inst., to
present Mrs. Hume with a portrait of her husband, as
an acknowledgment of his public services and a testimony
of their respect for his personal character. The
deputation included four cabinet ministers—Lord John
Russell, Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood, and Sir
William Molesworth; a large number of members of
parliament; and a deputation from the Council of
University College, London, including Earl Fortescue
and Mr. Grote. The family and visitors assembled in
the drawing-room of Mr. Hume's house in Bryanstone-
square, and the portrait was placed in the room. Lord
John Russell read an address to Mrs. Hume, warmly
eulogising her husband's conduct and services during
his long public life. Mr. Hume acknowledged the
compliment in suitable terms. "He had always (he
said)—been guided by one principle—the interest of the
many—and had always desired to promote economy and
retrenchment. My lord, I am now an old man. It is
forty-three years since I first entered parliament, and
for the last thirty-six years my political life has been
uninterrupted. I have undoubtedly committed many
errors in its course, but my faults have not been those of
intention; and it is most gratifying to me, towards the
close of my political career, to see around me on this
occasion not only those with whom I have acted, but
many also who formerly differed and still continue to
differ from me, but who no doubt feel that we had the
same object in view, though our means of attaining it
may be different. It is pleasing to me, however, to
believe that we are all gradually approximating towards
the same views as to the measures and principles best
calculated to secure the future welfare of our country." With
respect to the destination of the portrait, he had
conferred with Mrs. Hume on that subject, and as nothing
had more constantly engaged his attention than education,
and as he had been a member of the first council
of University College, it would be most gratifying to
them both to see the portrait hung up in that institution.
Earl Fortescue, on the part of the college, paying
a graceful tribute to Mr. Hume's services, accepted the
portrait on behalf of the council. He added an apology
fur the absence of Lord Brougham, who regretted that
he could not attend to receive and acknowledge the
gift.