the county of Lancaster, as successor to the late Earl of
Derby.

The undermentioned sums have been awarded to the
following General Officers as rewards for distinguished
services—Lieutenant-General Lloyd, £200 per annum;
Lieutenant-General C. Gordon, £200 ; Major-General
Aylmer, £200 ; Major-General Sir De Lacy Evans, £100 ;
Major-General Fleming, £100 ; Major-General Maclachlan,
£100.

The Marchioness of Ely has been appointed one of
the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to the Queen,
in the room of Lady Portman, resigned.

Mr. C. Romilly has been appointed Clerk of the Crown
in Chancery, in the room of the present Earl of Cottenham,
resigned.

Miss Augusta Talbot was married to Lord Edward
Howard, on the 22nd, at the Roman Catholic chapel in
Warwick Street. The Lord Chancellor, as the bride's
legal guardian, gave her away.

Mr. Silk Buckingham has at length succeeded in his
long contest with the East India Company for indemnification
for his losses as an oriental journalist. The bill
before Parliament for restitution has been withdrawn,
the Court of Directors and the Government having
agreed to settle upon him a pension of £400 per annum.

The Queen has conferred a pension of £100 a year on
Mrs. Jameson, the well-known author of several literary
works of merit.

Mr. William Hurrell of Felstead, farmer, and Mary
his wife, had their uninterrupted connubial felicity at
once attested and rewarded by receiving the Dunmow
Flitch of Bacon, at Lord Maynard's park, near that
place, on the 16th. About five thousand persons were
present, of whom the greatest number came to the park
in gaily decorated vans, gigs, carriages, and vehicles of
all descriptions.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

ADMIRAL THE HON. SIR JOHN TALBOT, G.C.B., died on the 7th
inst., in his 83rd year.

DR MOIR, the well-known "Delta" of "Blackwood's Magazine,"
died at Dumfries on the 6th inst.

COLONEL STORY, late of the 3rd Dragoon guards, died at
Brompton on the 3rd, aged 66.

GENERAL WOOD, Lieutenant at the Tower, died on the 3rd, at
an advanced age.

MR. T. S. BELL, late a student in the Government School of
Design, who was sent out in November last, by the trustees of
the British Museum, to act as draughtsman under the direction of
Mr. A. H. Layard, in carrying on his excavations amongst the
ruins of Nineveh, was unfortunateiy drowned on the 13th of
May last, whilst bathing in the river Gomal, near Mossul.

The BARON DUDEVANT, husband of the famous romance-writer
George Sand, has just died at a boarding-house in one of the
small streets of the twelfth arrondissement of Paris.

GENERAL SIR ROGER SHEAFFE, BART., Colonel of the 36th
regiment, died at Edinburgh on the 17th, at the age of 90. He
had served in the army seventy-three years.

M . DAGUERRE, the inventor of the daguerreotype, died suddenly
on the 11th, at Petit-Brie-sur-Marne, in the 63rd year of his
age.

DR. LINGARD, the celebrated Roman Catholic historian of
England, died at Hornby, in Lancashire, on the 17th inst., in the
82nd year of his age.

LOUISA, VISCOUNTESS BERESFORD, died on the 21st inst., at
Bedgebury Park, Kent. She was a daughter of Lord Stuart de
Decies, and was married to Lord Beresford in 1832, at which
time she was the widow of the late Thomas Hope, the celebrated
author of Anastasius, and to her that charming work was
dedicated.

MARSHAL SEBASTIANI died at Paris on the 20th, in the 86th
year of his age.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE subject which still takes the place of every other in this department (including, as it does, almost
every "vexed" question between our Colonial fellow subjects and the Home Government) is that of the
Cape. It presents the double and disastrous aspect of an actual war outside the frontier hardly more open
and desperate than the war of words and principles which rages within. They are not connected in any way,
yet each gives the other a darker aspect. What we may call the political war has become more intense
since Lord Grey announced his intention of removing the seat of Government from Cape Town to Graham's
Town; yet of the propriety of this change there does not seem to be a doubt, if the impossibility be admitted
of at this moment conceding those institutions of self-government, and a parliamentary representation, which
have been formally promised, and are become simply a question of so many months more or less. On the
other hand the prospect of the servile war, the actual conflict with the Kaffirs, manifestly does not improve.
The theatre of contest is extending, and it is at length becoming a serious question whether or not the Boer
and Hottentot population may not ultimately be dragged into it. This question, as well as the other, time
must solve; and it is much to be regretted that the temper in which parties appear to be engaged, on both
sides, is such as to offer small chance of help to anything like a speedy solution.

The Overland Mail has brought little intelligence
from India and China. The Governor-General and
suite, the Commander-in-Chief and staff, and the
Lieutenant-Governor of the North- Western provinces,
were all at Simla. The news from the north-west
frontier is of a more pacific character than it has been
lately. The hillmen are all quiet; no apprehensions
of any immediate outbreak are entertained; and all our
own troops have been withdrawn from the advanced
posts to which they had been moved in expectation of
an outbreak. At Lahore itself, the military hospitals
are fast filling with English soldiers labouring under
fever.

The accounts from China state that the insurgents in
the Kwangsi provinces were still in force, and preparations
were actively carried on at Canton against them.
At Hong-Kong there was nothing stirring. There was
an improvement in the health of the troops in garrison.
During May there had been only three deaths in both
European and native regiments. This contrasts favourably
with the sanitary report for the month of May last
year, when fifteen deaths were recorded.

There is intelligence from Canada to the 1st instant.
The resignation of two members of the government,
Mr. Lafontaine and Mr. Baldwin, had produced great
excitement. Lord Elgin had been present at a dinner
given in Toronto to promote British American railway
enterprise. In his address to the company, he expressed
his conviction that "the time had at length arrived
when a vigorous effort should be made to secure for
that great province the benefits of an extensive and
efficient railway communication." On the 24th of
June, the first locomotive was launched on the Pacific
Railway, in Navy Bay.

The accounts from the Cape of Good Hope are to the
31st of May. No remarkable military result had been
obtained, the governor being unable to undertake any
great military operation for want of troops. Reinforcements
from England, however, were beginning to
arrive, and were finding their way, in small numbers,
and with difficulty, to King William's Town in
Caffraria, Sir Harry Smith's head-quarters, and to
Graham's Town, on their way to General Somerset.
More troops from England were daily expected. In
the meantime, the hostile spirit was spreading among
the native tribes, and the Governor's position was
becoming more and more difficult.