read at the different sections are described as generally
valuable and of a practical character. At a meeting of
the General Committee it was determined that Cheltenham
should be the place of meeting next year. Dr.
Daubeny was elected President, and the Earl of Ducie,
and the Bishop of Gloucester, Vice-presidents.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

HER MAJESTY and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the
Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, left Osborne on
the 5th inst., for Buckingham Palace, and next day
proceeded to Scotland.

The Queen received the news of the fall of Sebastopol
by an electric message, which reached Balmoral on
Monday the 10th, at ten o'clock at night. Her Majesty
instantly commanded the news to be spread abroad;
and Prince Albert, with Earl Granville and the young
princes, went up to Craig Cowbain, where an immense
bonfire was lighted and illuminated the country round.
A number of Highlanders speedily arrived, and, whiskey
having been brought, the health of the Queen and
Prince, and of the brave soldiers in the Crimea, were
drunk with acclamations. The Queen and the Duchess
of Kent, with the ladies of the suite, viewed the distant
scene from the windows of the castle. The Queen sent
fifty guineas to the station-master at Banchory, in
acknowledgment of his activity in expressing the
intelligence.

Prince William Frederick of Prussia has arrived at
Balmoral on a visit to the Queen. He has taken part in
the deer-stalking expeditions of Prince Albert, and her
Majesty's pleasure excursions in the country.

The government has agreed to grant a pension to the
mother of Dr. James Thomson, of the 44th, who
distinguished himself so signally in waiting upon the Russian
wounded after the battle of the Alma.

Lord Palmerston has given a reply to the memorialists
who prayed that an unconditional pardon might be
granted to Mr. Smith O'Brien. The Government decline
to recommend the Queen to grant the required pardon,
but wish it to be distinctly understood that they entertain
no personal or political resentment towards Mr.
O'Brien.

During the stay of the Queen at Paris, her Majesty
paid marked attention to General Canrobert. She
observed his absence from the cortége on the Saturday of
her arrival, and from the Palace of St. Cloud in the
evening. On the Sunday the General received a special
invitation to dine at St. Cloud, by order of the Emperor.
The Queen made him sit on her left hand, and conversed
much with him during dinner. On the Monday, General
Canrobert was invited to the apartment of Prince Albert:
while he was in conversation with the Prince, the Queen
entered unannounced, detained the General, made him
be seated, and told him her intention, with the sanction
of the Emperor, to present him with the Grand Cross
of the Order of the Bath.

The Queen, upon the recommendation of Sir William
Molesworth, has appointed Mr. Hincks, a distinguished
member of the Canadian Legislature, to the Governorship
of Barbadoes.

The Royal Humane Society have awarded a medal to
Master Andrews, of the Market-hill, Cambridge, for
saving the life of a fellow-creature from drowning in the
river at Sheep's Green, a few weeks ago. Andrews, in
the most gallant manner, plunged in, dived down, and
brought the man up when he had sunk for the last time,
and with the assistance of an Irishman, a Mr. Doyle,
succeeded in restoring him to animation. The deed is
the more praiseworthy, as Andrews is little more than
a boy.

Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge, on their return home from
the East, have received a public welcome, in which
Earl Howe, Sir George Chetwynd, Mr. Dugdale, Mr.
Adderley, Sir John Chetwode, took a leading part. A
procession was formed from the railway station to
Atherstone, and the route through which they passed was
adorned with arches of evergreens, and flags upon the
houses, with mottoes, many of them from the Holy
Scriptures. When the procession arrived at the Park,
Mr. Dugdale presented an address of congratulation,
which was acknowledged by Mr. Bracebridge. He
stated on the authority of Dr. Sutherland, that through
the exertion and influence of Miss Nightingale, the
hospitals had become a paradise compared with what they
had been; and he confirmed the statement from his
own observation.

The late Mr. Abbott Lawrence has bequeathed
the sum of 130,000 dollars for educational and benevolent
purposes.

The Duke of Northumberland has been expending
the enormous sum of £50,000 a-year in rebuilding
cottages, farm-houses, and buildings, and in draining
lands, on his vast estates in Northumberland.

The late Mr. Feargus O'Connor has had a public
funeral, which took place on the 10th inst. A considerable
number of persons assembled in Finsbury-square
and Smithfield; proceeding thence, they joined a third
body in Russell-square; and the whole mass marched
to Notting-hill, whence they escorted the hearse to
Kensal-green Cemetery. The roads were lined with
people, and several thousands were in the cemetery
to witness the final proceedings. After the ordinary
service, Mr. Jones, formerly of Liverpool,
delivered an oration on the virtues of the deceased.
A hymn was sung, after which the people quietly
dispersed.

Dr. Barth, the celebrated African explorer, whose fate
has caused so much anxiety, arrived on the 8th inst. at
Marseilles from Tripoli.

Dr. Easton and Mr. Sullivan, who were captured at
Hango, in the Cossack's boat, were exchanged at Odessa
on the 18th inst.

The money subscribed towards the defence of Lieut.
Perry, late of the 46th regiment, has been paid over
towards his account in Australia, through Messrs.
McGregor, the army agents. Mr. Perry did not succeed
in his application to obtain for his son a commission in
the Turkish Legion, and Lieut. Perry is therefore
determined to proceed to Australia. The total sum collected
was £2,032 8s. 9d. Expenses on account of court-
martial, advertising, &c., &c., £472 19s. Cash and interest
previously paid to Lieut. Perry, £149 6s. Balance,
£2,010 3s. 3d.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY TORRENS, K.C B.,
her Majesty's Military Commissioner in France, died in Paris
on the 24th ult., in his 47th year, after a short illness. He
had not recovered from the wound received at Inkerman.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ROBERT NICKLE, Commander of the
Forces at Melbourne, died at the seat of government in that
colony in May last.

MR. FERGUS O'CONNOR died on the 30th ult. of paralysis.
For the last two years he had been under the care of Dr. Tuke,
at Chiswick, but about a week before his death he was
removed by his sister, Miss O'Connor.

GENERAL SIR GEORGE THOMAS NAPIER, an officer of
distinguished service in the last war, and Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope in 1837, died suddenly at Geneva, on the 8th inst.,
in his 72nd year.

M. BINEAU, Senator, and lately French Minister of Finance,
died at Paris on the 8th inst., from the complaint under which
he has been suffering for some months.

ALDERMAN KELLY died on the 7th inst. , at Margate, whither
he had gone for a few days. He was in his 84th year, and has
represented the Ward of Farringdon Within as alderman for
twenty-five years.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS UNETT, who was returned
as severely wounded in the late assault upon Sebastopol, has
since died of his wounds. The deceased officer was in the
battle of the Alma, and with his regiment in the trenches
before Sebastopol all through the trying period of last
winter.

MISS AUGUSTA FITZCLARENCE, only daughter of the late
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, who had for some time past been
in a declining state of health, died on the 8th inst., at the
Countess Dowager of Glasgow's residence in the island of
Cumbrae, N.B.

VICE-ADMIRAL REPINGTON died on the 22nd inst., at
Amington-hall, Warwickshire. The gallant admiral had been
upwards of half a century in the navy, having obtained his
lieutenancy in February, 1804.