Lancaster, 2673 boys, 1935 girls; Kent, 1424 boys,
1323 girls; Surrey, 1277 boys, 1082 girls; Devon, 1121
boys, 214 girls; and Somerset, 1036 boys, 817 girls.

A parliamentary return has been obtained, on the
motion of Mr. Miles, respecting the Importation and
average prices of Corn in 1850. It shows that the total
imports of all sorts of corn, grain, meal, and flour, in
1850, amounted to 9,078,493 quarters, of which 4,856,039
were wheat and wheat flour, 1,043,082 were barley and
barley meal, 1,169,811 oats and oatmeal, and 1,289,589
Indian corn and meal. The largest quantities of wheat
imported in any single month were in September, being
596,896 quarters, and the least in February, when they
were 187,318 quarters. The countries furnishing the
largest imports of wheat were France (1,150,897
quarters), Russian ports within the Black Sea (572,446
quarters), and the United States of America (542,930
quarters). The highest monthly average price of wheat
in England and Wales, in 1850, was 43s. 8d. (in August),
and the lowest, 37s. 10d. (in April). The general
average for the year was 40s. 3d. The average prices
per bushel at which rent-charge in lieu of tithes is
taken for the year are, wheat, 6s. 5¼d.; barley, 4s.;
oats, 2s. 8d.

At the monthly meeting of the council of The
Queen's College, Birmingham, it was announced that
the Rev. Samuel Wilson Warneford had paid over to
Mr. Chancellor Law, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, and
William Sands Cox, F.R.S., in trust, the munificent
sum of £1400, in addition to his former noble gift of
£3000, towards the endowment of the professorship of
Pastoral Theology, such appointment to be vested in
the Senatus of the Arts department. A donation of
£25 was also recorded from the Right Hon. Lord Leigh,
towards the completion of the new buildings. At the
same board, Dr. James Johnstone, the Senior Physician
of the General Hospital, was appointed Joint Professor
of Medicine, and Dr. Samuel Wright, Physician, of the
Queen's Hospital, Joint Professor of Materia Medica
and Therapeutics, in the medical department of the
college.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Lord Langdale took his leave of the bar practising in
the Rolls Court on the 25th ult. Mr. Turner, in a few
appropriate words of farewell eulogy, expressed the
sincere regret of the bar at the retirement of a judge
equally distinguished by legal erudition and moral
dignity. His lordship died on the 15th.

Sir John Romilly was sworn in before the Lord
Chancellor, as Master of the Rolls, on the 28th.

Sir Alexander Cockburn has been promoted to the
office of Attorney-General, in place of Sir John Romilly;
and is succeeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. Page
Wood.

The new Vice-Chancellorship has been given to Mr.
Turner, M.P. for Coventry.

Dr. Hibbert Binney, Bishop-elect, or Bishop-nominate
of Nova Scotia, was consecrated by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace on the 25th ult.

Mr. John Kerle Haberfield, the Mayor of Bristol, has
obtained from Her Majesty the honour of Knighthood.

Colonel George Griffiths Lewis, C.B., Royal Engineers,
has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich, in place of the late
Major-General Parker.

The new Member for Coventry, Mr. Geach, was
formerly a clerk in the Bank of England at £80 a year;
then he was director of a banking establishment at
Birmingham; and being now an iron-merchant, his
income has lately been returned at £30,000 a year.

Miss Talbot is about to be married to Lord Edward
Fitzalan Howard, M.P. for Horsham, second son of the
Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Earl Marshal, and Premier
Peer of England. His Lordship holds the office of
Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen, and is in his thirty-
fourth year. He is a Roman Catholic.

The Earl of Howth has been appointed Lord-
Lieutenant of the county and city of Dublin, and the
Earl of Wicklow, Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Wicklow, in the room of the Earl of Meath.

Lord Truro has received an address from the
Incorporated Law Society of Solicitors and Attornies,
congratulating him on his elevation to the Woolsack; and
requesting him to sit for his portrait, to be placed in
their hall. Lord Truro replied with cordial affability,
recurring to the period when he himself was a solicitor;
and of course acceded to the flattering request in
reference to his portrait.

The Marquis of Londonderry has published an
account of an interview he lately had with the Emir,
Abd-el-Kader, in the chateau of Amboise, on the Loire,
where the Arab-chief is imprisoned, and of the Marquis's
attempt to intercede in his behalf with the President of
the Republic. Lord Londonderry, on being admitted
into the chateau, was ushered into the presence of the
captive. "We followed our guide to the most elevated
part of the chateau, when, passing through an outward
ante-hall or guard chamber, we came to a door where all
shoes, &c, were left. Upon this door being thrown open,
the interesting old warrior stood before us—his burnous as
white as the driven snow, his beard as black as jet, his
projecting large eyebrows of the same hue, with teeth
like ivory, and most expressive dark eyes, showing
peculiarly the white liquid tinge surrounding the pupils.
His stature is tall and commanding, his gestures, softness,
and amiability of expression almost inexplicable.
Upon my approaching him, the Emir held out a very
large, bony, and deep-brown hand to me, which, when
I grasped, he turned to lead me to the sofa and the seats
prepared at the head of the room." The conversation
was carried on by means of an interpreter. The Emir
expressed his desire to see and converse with the
President of the Republic, a boon which Lord Londonderry
said he would do his best to obtain, though he
acknowledged that he had no hopes of success. "I
think," says Lord Londonderry, "this indescribably
interesting and noble old chief was much pleased and
greatly affected by our visit. During the whole period
of our stay he had my hand grasped between his two
large skinny palms, and on my departure he gave me
two such affectionate hugs that my neck and shoulders
ached lor some time after. Immediately previous to
our departure, two pretty children, like Moorish
mummies in habiliment, were ushered in; and we saw some
attendants hovering about, but we fell in with no others
of the family, of the wives, of the brothers, or of the
children stated to belong to Abd-el-Kader's tribe, and
incorporated with him in his captivity, and in the
habitation of this dreary, dismal old chateau. I may add
that the loss of their sunny clime, and their azure sky,
appeared to me to be not the least of the miseries which
the captives undergo in their present cruel bondage."
Lord Londonderry then proceeds to describe how he
wrote to the President to prefer Abd-el-Kader's request.
Prince Louis Napoleon's reply will be sufficient to
explain its tenor:—

"Elysee National, March 29, 1851.
"My dear Marquis,— I have not sooner replied to your letter
written to me from Tours, because I did not know where to
address my reply, and I hoped soon to see you in Paris. What
you tell me of the Emir Abd-el-Kader has greatly interested
me, and I find markedly in your solicitude for him the same
generous heart that interceded some years since in favour of
the prisoner of Ham. I confess to you, that from the first day
of my election, the captivity of Abd-el-Kader has not ceased to
occupy me, and to weigh like a burden upon my heart. I have
also often been occupied in seeking for the means that would
permit me to place him at liberty without risking a compromise
of the repose of Algeria, and the security of our soldiers and
colonists. To-day, even, the new ambassador, who is about to
repair to Constantinople, is charged by me to study this
question; and believe me, my dear marquis, no person will be more
happy than I, when it will be permitted me to render liberty to
Abd-el-Kader. I shall be very glad to see the Emir, but I can
only see him to announce good news; I am, therefore, until that
period arrives, deprived of the possibility of granting his
request."

Obituary of Notable Persons

LORD DACRE died at his seat in Hertfordshire, on the 21st ult.,
in his seventy-seventh year.

GENERAL THE HON. SIR A. DUFF, G.C.H., died on the 21st ult,
at Fulham, aged seventy-three years. He was brother and heir-
presumptive to the present Earl of Fife.