PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen and Prince Albert, on the 16th instant,
visited the camp at Aldershott; and, on the 19th they
inspected the military hospitals at Chatham, showing
the greatest interest in the condition of the wounded
men, with whom they frequently conversed.

The Queen having discovered that a large portion of
the children of the domestic and other servants at
Buckingham Palace are very much neglected in the
matter of education, has commanded that premises in
Palace Street, Pimlico, should be fitted up as a school,
to be opened for educational purposes on Monday next.
Mr. Charles Dodd, a gentleman of tried ability in his
vocation, has been appointed master. The whole of
the expenses will be defrayed by her Majesty. The
number of scholars of both sexes at present eligible for
admission is sixty-six. An evening school will also be
established for such of the elder children as may be
prevented from attending in the day-time.

The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has built a
church at Dunham Massey, in the parish of Bowden,
Cheshire, at a cost of more than £10,000, and has also
endowed it with £100 a year. The Earl's first presentation
was to the Reverend J. Kingsley, who has been
curate of the parish church for twenty years.

Sir Hugh Munro, of Foulis, has bequeathed an
estate at Milton, in Ross-shire, worth £300 a year, to
found a school for the education of children of
tradesmen of Perth; also £100 for the erection of a
school-house.

Zephaniah Williams, the Newport Chartist, who was
transported with Frost and Jones to Australia, has just
made an accidental discovery in Tasmania of a bed of
yellow coal, which bids fair to place him among the
magnates of the land. During the searches for this
mineral, a quantity of yellow shale was thrown aside,
which being by chance brought in contact with a lamp,
burnt so freely as to be with difficulty extinguished, and
upon examination has proved to be a very superior
coal.

The news of the last American mail intimates that
Lady Franklin is at last resigned to the belief that her
brave husband is no more: she has requested that a
marble tablet, to be erected to the memory of Sir John
and his devoted companions of the Erebus and Terror,
might be taken by the Kane expedition and erected on
the White Cliff at Beechy Island, by the side of that
commemorating the fate of Lieutenant Bellot, of the
Belcher expedition.

Mr. W. Atherton, Q. C., is appointed to the office of
Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, as well as counsel to the
Admiralty, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Phinn,
appointed the permanent secretary to the board.

Captain Fox Maule Ramsay, of the 56th Regiment,
is appointed private secretary to Lord Panmure, and has
entered upon his duties at the War Department in
conjunction with Lord Giffard.

Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, retires on an
allowance of £500 per annum for life.

Mr. John Robert Godley has been appointed Director
General of Stores; Mr. Thomas Howell, of the firm of
Hayter and Howell, Director-General of Contracts;
and Mr. George Dalhousie Ramsay, nephew of Lord
Panmure, Assistant Director-General of Army Clothing.

Sir Moses Montefiore is on his way to Jerusalem,
intending to found a large hospital there for his
co–religionists.

Lord Palmerston has appointed the Reverend H. G.
Liddell, Head Master of Westminster School, Dean of
Christchurch, Oxford, in succession to Dr. Gaisford.

Dr. William Clark, of Wester Moffat, has placed at
the disposal of the Church of Scotland the munificent
sum of £20,000, for the erection and endowment of a
Free Theological College in Glasgow, provided other
parties in Glasgow should provide a similar sum, so
that £40,000 should be immediately available for the
purpose in view. The subscriptions in Glasgow towards
this second sum already amount to £14,000 and the
major sum of £40,000 may thus be considered as secured.
But Dr. Clark's liberality does not stop here: he offers
to pay down or secure an additional sum of £10,000 for
the same object, provided a like sum of £10,000
additional should be guaranteed by responsible parties
within the next twelve months.

Colonel Rawlinson has arrived in London from
Bagdad, having brought to a close the excavations in
Assyria and Babylonia which he has been superintending
for the last three years on behalf of the trustees of the
British Museum.

Meyerbeer has arrived in London to superintend the
production of  "L'Etoile du Nord," at the Royal
Italian Opera.

Obituary of Notable Persons

Dr. THOMAS GAISFORD, Dean of Christchurch, and Regius
Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, died on the
2nd inst., in his 75th year.

General DUBRETON, who defended Burgos in 1812, and
prevented Wellington from reaping the fruits of Salamanca, died
at Versailles on the 3rd inst. He was 88 years old. The Duke
of Wellington paid him a high compliment. After the peace,
finding himself sitting next to General Dubreton at a dinner-
party, the Duke said to him, "J'aime mieux, General, vous
avoir à côté de moi que devant moi."

Rear-Admiral BOXER, the harbour-master at Balaclava, has
died there of cholera.

The BARON DE BODE, whose case has been so frequently
before Parliament and the public, died on the 9th inst., at his
residence in Albert-street, Mornington-crescent.

Mr. CHARLES COCHRANE, once famous as a candidate for the
representation of Westminster, and well known as the promoter
of the "street orderly" system, died on the 13th inst.,
at his residence in Nelson-square, Blackfriars-road, of
inflammation of the brain. His age was 48.

Mr. ARTHUR GUINNESS, the head of the Dublin firm which
has a world-wide celebrity for its "stout," died on the 9th
inst., at the age of 88.

Madame LAVALETTE, who assisted her husband to effect his
escape from prison (while under sentence of death by the
Bourbon government), in conjunction with the aid rendered
by Sir R. Wilson, Hon. Colonel Hutcheson, and Captain Bruce,
has just died in Paris.

The Right Hon. Sir GEORGE ROSE, G.C.H., died at Sandhills
House, near Christchurch, Hants, on the 17th inst.

General the Earl of CARYSFORT died on the 16th inst., at his
residence, near Clifton, in his 75th year.

General ALESSANDRO DELLA MARMORA, Commander of the
Second Division of the Sardinian Corps, has died of cholera at
Kadikoi. He had served with distinction in the Piedmontese
army, and was wounded on the passage of the bridge of Goito,
on the 7th of April, 1848. He was in a precarious condition
of health when he embarked for the Crimea.

Robert LINDLEY, the celebrated violoncellist, has died at
Brighton, aged 83.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Colonial intelligence of the month has been
scanty and unimportant.

There has been a severe shock of earthquake in New
Zealand. It was chiefly felt at Wellington, on the 23rd
of January. Fortunately, most of the houses were
built of wood, and they suffered little damage; but the
Bank and Gaol were damaged; the Council Chamber
was destroyed; and other brick-built edifices were thrown
to the ground. Few if any persons had gone to bed,
and they had time to snatch up their children and run
out of the houses. Only one life was lost—that of one
of the earliest colonists, Baron Alzdorf, who was just
recovering from an attack of apoplexy. Vigorous
efforts were at once made to clear away the wreck and
rebuild; none deserted the town; and business soon
commenced as usual.—The shock was felt, about the
same time, with more or less severity, throughout the
island: many chimney tops were thrown down; much
property was damaged; bridges were broken; the beds
of the rivers rent and ploughed up; rocks levelled;
roads barred by fallen trees, upturned soil, deep cracks,
and displaced boulders. Four natives were killed in a
house at Wairarapa. The worst part of the coast-road
to Wairarapa, at the Muka Muka rocks, became the
best; for the beach, after the earthquake, extended
beyond them above the level of high-water. At Nelson