failed. The operatives of Stockport struck on the 13th
inst. in consequence of the masters having revoked the
10 per cent, granted some time ago. The number of
men on strike at Stockport exceeds 10,000. Before this
strike Preston drew about £200 a week from Stockport,
a supply which must now cease. At present, however,
the weekly income of the Preston men keeps up to
about £3,000.

According to the parliamentary returns on the subject
of the Post Office, there are in the United Kingdom
986 post-offices and 6,612 receiving-houses for letters;
1,810 of these post-offices and receiving-houses are
money-order offices. The number of letters which pass
through the post office department in the course of a
year is nearly 400,000,000. The number of miles which
mails travel over railways in a year is about 7,000,000.
The length of the English ocean mail lines is 55,000
miles. The English ocean mail packets traverse 1,600,000
miles annually. The number of money orders
issued yearly is 5,000,000. The number of applications
for missing letters during twelve months is nearly
10,000. The net revenue of the Post-office is now above
£1,000,000 a year, and the cost of management
£1,400,000; the payment to railway companies for
conveying mails is £330,000 a year, and to steampacket
companies £850,000. The amount of money orders
issued annually is nearly £10,000,000, and the yearly
revenue derived from commission on money orders is
£80,000. The value of property contained in missing
letters during twelve months is about £200,000.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert have forwarded to
the secretary of the Royal Naval School, at New Cross,
£500, to constitute the Prince of Wales a life governor,
which confers upon his Royal Highness during his life
the privilege of always having one pupil in the school
for gratuitous board and education—such pupils being
necessarily the sons of naval or marine officers.

Prince Gholam Mahomed and his son, son and grandson
of Tippoo Saib, have arrived in England. The
object of the Prince's visit is to get his pension settled on
his grandson. He speaks English fluently. His
physiognomy is very peculiar—almost Jewish in appearance.
He is dressed magnificently: his cloak is something like
a cardinal's, with inwoven gold; his cap is like that of
a catholic ecclesiastic high in rank, with a star of
glittering diamonds in front.

Mrs. Chisholm has sailed for Australia, to join her
husband at Port Philip.

The Rev. Robert Scott, Prebendary of Exeter, Rector
of South Luffenham, and one of the authors of the Scott
and Liddell Greek Lexicon, has been elected Master of
Balliol.

Mr. Bryan, a preacher of the Baptist denomination,
of some standing among the sect at Oxford, has
conformed to the Church of England. He was confirmed
last week at Thatcham, near Newbury, by the Bishop
of Oxford.

Colonel Rose, late secretary of the British Embassy
at Constantinople, has been appointed her Majesty's
Military Commissioner in the French expeditionary
army. Colonel Rose's previous services have rendered
him fully conversant with the warfare and politics of
the East.

Sir James Graham has received the appointment of
"Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the first
class of Knights Grand Cross" of the Order of the Bath.

Colonel Perronet Thompson has been again placed in
the list of Colonels, from which he was excluded in 1846.

Mr. Henry Unwin Addington has resigned his office
as Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which
post he had held since March, 1842. Mr. Addington
had been for many years in the diplomatic service. He
is succeeded by Mr. Edmond Hammond, who entered
the Foreign Office in 1824, and has been a clerk of the
first class since 1841. Mr. Addington has been appointed
a Privy Councillor.

Dr. Kitto has been afflicted by a paralytic stroke,
which has entirely unfitted him for literary labour.
An appeal has been made to the public for aid for his
family.

Mr. Holford, a rich American merchant who resided
in the Regent's Park, and who died recently, has left
his large fortune to the Prince of Wales!

Obituary of Notable Persons.

The Duke of Portland died on the 27th of March, at
Welbeck, in his eighty-fifth year.

The Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse died at Harpsden House,
Somerset, on the 13th inst., in his seventy-eighth year.

Alderman Hooper, of the ward of Queenhithe, died on the
17th inst.

Lady Elizabeth Ashburnham died on Easter Sunday, in
her ninety-first year.

Mr. John Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the
University of Edinburgh, died in that city on the 3rd inst., in
his sixty-ninth year.

M. Frasey, curé of St. Nicholas des Champs at Paris, died
lately, at the age of ninety. He witnessed most of the scenes
of the first Revolution, and has lived for forty years in one of
the most turbulent quarters of Paris. He was universally
beloved and respected.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The intelligence received during the month, from the
West Indies, British America, the Cape of Good Hope,
and Australia, is unimportant.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Bombay
to March 14. The news from Burman partakes of the
usual character. Disturbances have broken out in the
province of Bassein, hitherto tranquil. That two
Burmese noblemen had raised the population at the
northern extremity; that Major Fytche had marched
against them with such forces as he could collect; and
had found, fought, and defeated them, killing one of the
chiefs in a hand-to-hand encounter. While he was
absent, Bassein itself was threatened; but swiftly
returning, Major Fytche also attacked and routed the
dacoits, or "patriots" as the disaffected are now
beginning to be called. Other collisions between the
troops and these dacoits are spoken of. In one encounter
two officers, Captain Geils and Lieutenant Grant, were
wounded. But all was reported quiet at the date of
the last advices; although "the army of Ava" is still
maintained on a war footing.—Fighting has occurred
between the Persians and the people at Abbas Bunder,
a place in the Persian Gulf. The authorities at Muscat
had sent assistance to Abbas.—Report speaks highly of
the success of Dr. O'Shaughnessy in laying down the
electric telegraph; and it was thought probable at
Bombay that the line of communication between
Calcutta and Loodiana would be completed before the
mail reached England.

Gold, it is said, has been found in Ceylon. It appears
that six sailors from Australia, navigating the ship
Faithful, on arriving at Colombo, asked leave to go
"prospecting." From "the features of the country,"
they were sure gold existed. Having obtained leave,
they went inland and washed some of the sand of the
Maha Oya, at a spot about thirty-two miles along the
Kandy road. Here they found gold. As it was half-
suspected they were hoaxing the Cingalese public, Mr.
Macartney, the superintendent of the police, was sent
to the spot, and he reported that after washing two
pans of earth, "very many minute particles of gold"
were found.

The House of Assembly of Nova Scotia on the
motion of Mr. Joseph Howe, seconded by Mr. Johnston,
leader of the Opposition, voted, on the 29th March, an
address of loyalty to the Queen, containing the
following passages. "Though far removed from what