PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen and royal family left Buckingham Palace
for Balmoral on the 14th instant.

Colonel Airey, late Brigadier-General of the Second
brigade of the Light Division, has been appointed
Quarter-master General of the Army, in the room of
Lord de Ros, who has come home. Colonel Airey is to
be succeeded in the command of his brigade by Major-
General Codrington, late Colonel of the Guards.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbraham, Seventh Regiment,
has succeeded to the post of Adjutant-General to
the Second Division, vacant by the death of Colonel
Maule.

Mr. Pitt Dundas has been appointed Registrar-
General for Scotland, under the new act for registering
births, deaths, and marriages, in Scotland.

Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen College,
Oxford, entered upon his hundredth year on Tuesday,
the 19th instant. He was elected President of
Magdalen in 1791.

Archdeacon Wilberforce has resigned his preferments
in the church, partly in consequence of the steps which
have been taken in reference to his published opinions
on the subject of the Eucharist, and partly in
consequence of increasing doubts on the question of the
Royal supremacy. He has addressed a letter to the
Archbishop of York, in whose diocese his preferments
are situated, from which we take this extract:—"I am as
ready as ever to allow her Majesty to be supreme over
all persons, and in all temporal causes, within her
dominions, and I shall always render her, I trust, a
loyal obedience; but that she, or any other temporal
ruler, is supreme in all things or causes I can no longer
admit. If the act of 1832 were all on which my
difficulties were founded, I might justify myself, as I have
heretofore done, by the consideration that it was
probably passed through inadvertence, and had received
no formal sanction from the church. But my present
objection extends to the act of 1533, by which this
power was bestowed upon the King in Chancery, and
to the 1st article in the 36th canon, which is founded
upon it."

Lieutenant Archibald Jolly, of the Navy, has been
promoted to the rank of Commander, in consequence of
his spirited conduct on the occasion of the destruction
of Greytown by Captain Hollins, of the United States
navy.

The Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin held an
extraordinary public sitting on the 24th ult., to celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the day when Baron Alexander
von Humboldt was elected member of it. A colossal
bust in marble of that illustrious man was placed in the
hall where the sittings are held in honour of the
occasion.

The Rev. Ed. Renn Hampden, a son of the Bishop of
Hereford, has made rapid progress in church preferment
in the course of the present year. Early in the year
the incumbency of Breinton, in the diocese of Hereford,
became vacant, and the Bishop conferred it upon his son.
He had held this living but a few weeks when Canon
Musgrave, rector of Eaton Bishops, was preferred to a
living in Yorkshire. The rectory of Eaton Bishops,
being worth about £500 a year, and in the gift of the
Bishop of Hereford, was conferred upon Mr. Hampden.
He had not long been installed into the rectory of Eaton
Bishops when the death of the Dean of St. Asaph
rendered vacant, among many other benefices, the
rectory of Cradley, worth £1000 a-year. This, being
one of the Bishop's livings, was conferred upon Mr.
Hampden, and he has been duly collated to it by his
father. The Rev. gentleman has thus been preferred to
three benefices in the course of a few months.

The children of Queen Christina of Spain, and the
Duke of Rianzares (Munoz), have arrived at
Southampton. They embarked on board the Madrid, at
Lisbon, incognito. The daughters are three in number,
and grown up; the sons are two in number, and are
mere boys. They travelled as the children of a gentleman
named Eugene de Ochoas, who was on board with
them, and whom they addressed as papa. Several
servants travelled with them. Eugene de Ochoas is
believed to be an assumed name. He is understood to
have been a Spanish journalist in the interest of Christina.
The quality of the children was soon discovered on board
the Madrid, a passenger's servant having previously
known them.

General Baraguay d'Hilliers has been raised to the
dignity of Marshal of France, in consideration of the
eminent services he has rendered at different periods of
his military life.

Mr. Otway, Secretary to the British Legation at
Madrid, has been made a Knight Companion of the
Bath, in token of approbation for his conduct during
the recent revolution, when he performed the duties of
Chargé d'Affaires.

Madame George Sand has written the history of her
life, in five volumes, and has sold the manuscript to La
Presse for 130,000 francs.

M. de Lamartine has sold a History of Turkey to a
Paris newspaper for no less than £4800.

The third ascent this season of Mont Blanc was
successfully performed on the 21st by Mr. and Mrs.
Hamilton, the latter being (since Mdlle d'Angeville, in
1838) the first lady that has ventured on this very trying
expedition.

Mademoiselle Georges, the once celebrated tragic
actress, has received from the French government, in
consideration of her advanced age and straitened
circumstances, the privilege of taking charge of the umbrellas
and canes at the Exhibition Palace next year. This
may be thought a miserable resource for the latter days
of a lady who basked so long in the sunshine of public
admiration, but the truth is, Mdlle. Georges has obtained
a splendid appointment. The Constitutionnel calculates
that the net profits of the guardianship of the canes and
umbrellas will amount to 100,000 fr., or £4000 sterling.

Obituary of Notable Persons

THE EARL OF ELDON died on the 13th inst., at Shirley Park
near Croydon, in his 49th year. His Lordship was pronounced
of unsound mind in January, 1853.

The Reverend DR. WILLIAM THOMPSON, Principal of St.
Edmund Hall, Oxford, formerly a Fellow of Queen's College,
and Rector of Gatcombe, Isle of Wight, died on the 15th inst.,
after a long illness.

Cardinal MAI, the celebrated linguist and custode of the
Vatican Library, died at Albano on the evening of the 8th.

Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, late Governor of Bombay, died on the
19th inst.

Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. ROBERT EDWARD BOYLE, of
the Coldstream Guards, and M.P. for Frome, died at Varna,
on the 3rd inst., when he was on the point of accompanying
his regiment to the Crimea. Colonel Boyle was in his 45th
year.

Mrs. FITZWILLIAM the eminent actress, has died of an
attack of cholera.

Mademoiselle SOPHIE SOULT, sister of the late Marshal Soult,
died at St. Amans on the 13th of August, at the age of 81.

FREDERICK WILLIAM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING, one of the
most prominent among the philosophers of modern Germany,
died on the 20th of August, in Switzerland. Professor Schelling
was born at Lemberg in Wurtemberg, in 1775; he was therefore
in his 79th year.

Field-Marshal WIMPFFEN died at Vienna on the 20th ult., in
the 80th year of his age.

RALPH BERNAL, Esq., the father of Mr. Bernal Osborne,
M.P., died in Eaton Square on the 26th ult. Mr. Bernal
represented Rochester for many years previous to the general
election of 1852, and, during several parliaments, was chairman
of committees of the House of Commons.

The Chevalier MACEDONIO MELLONI, the celebrated natural
philosopher, died at Portici, near Naples, on the 11th ult.,
aged 53. He was director of the Meteorological Observatory
on the summit of Mount Vesuvius.

Lieut.-General DALMER, C.B., Colonel of the 47th Regiment,
died suddenly at Hawkhurst, Kent, on Saturday. General
Dalmer had been over fifty-seven years in the army, and took
part in most of our warlike operations from the close of the
last century to Waterloo.

Major DE WANGENHEIM, the last officer of Frederick the
Great, has died at Altdam near Stettin, at the age of 92.

Lord DENMAN died on the 22nd inst., at Stoke Albany,
Northamptonshire, in his 76th year.