ed in Scinde, and, on the 17th of February, 1843, with only 2,800 British troops, attacked and defeated, after a desperate action of three hours duration, 22,000 of the enemy strongly posted at Meeanee. On the 21st of February, Hydrabad surrendered to him; and on the 24th of March, with 5,000 men, he attacked and signally defeated, 20,000 of the enemy posted in a very strong and difficult position at Dubba, near Hydrabad, thus completing the entire subjugation of Scinde. Early in 1845, with a force consisting of about 5,000 men of all arms, he took the field against the mountain and desert tribes situated on the right bank of the Indus to the north of Shikarpore, and, after an arduous campaign, effected the total destruction of these robber tribes. In 1849 Sir Charles was appointed commander-in-chief of the forces in India, but this position he did not long retain.

The Earl of Carlisle is about to make an excursion to Egypt, via Constantinople; not, it is understood, in any political capacity, but in order to make himself personally acquainted with these interesting countries.Mrs. Howard, it is said, never was in the United States, but was the daughter of a baker and pastry-cook, in Drury Lane, London. Some years since, Miss Howard married an attorney's clerk, named Gurley, from whom she separated in a few months. Louis Napoleon saw her on the stage, and became enamored of her; hence the connection between them.

The Leicester Mercury has an account of a general tea-gathering of the working-classes of that town held to celebrate the name of Eliza Cook, by recitations, &c., from her works. A full-sized portrait of the favorite authoress was placed over the chair, encircled with a wreath of roses, intertwined in a very tasteful manner with various other flowers. In the course of the evening between thirty and forty recitations and singings, all from Miss Cook's works, were given by about a dozen working men.

Thackeray's new serial, to be entitled The New comes, is on the verge of publication.

Mr. Lockhart, the editor of the Quarterly Review, son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, author of Valerius, and translator of the Ancient Spanish Ballads, one of the cleverest men there were in Britain has been compelled to depart for Italy for health. In noticing his absence the Critic says, "They say that his departure from England is coincident with his departure from the editorship of the Quarterly Review. If so, 'tis pity: pity 'tis, 'tis true. Our last man of high talent then has departed from the Quarterlies. The Edinburgh has now for editor Mr. Cornewall Lewis; the North British, Professor Fraser; the British Quarterly, Dr. Vaughan; the Westminster, the tres juncti in uno of Chapman, in the Strand, Bray of Coventry (what an appropriate name! what an appropriate locale !) and "Miss Evans," translatress of Strauss's Life of Christ. These are thy trimestrial Gods, O Israel."

Dr. Waagen's work on the Treasures of Art in England, will form one of the early publications of the ensuing season.

A new work by M. Proudhom, entitled Philosophy of Progress, or the Program, is announced to appear.

Chevalier Bunsen's Hippolytus figures in the last

The new Duke of Saxe Weimar has ordered the castle of Wartburg, in which Luther was secreted after being placed under the ban of the empire, and in which he worked at his translation of the Bible, to be decorated with appropriate mural paintings. Professor Encke, the Astronomer, has been appointed Rector of the University of Berlin.

Mr. Leone Levi has had the honor to receive from the King of Prussia the Gold Medal for Science, in appreciation of his work on the Com mercial Law of the World.

German journals announce that Professor Gervinus has been deprived of his title of Professor by a ministerial decision :-he has also been interdicted from giving lectures.

A new English expedition for the exploration of the Niger is contemplated. It will be directed to the promotion of civilization in Africa, and the opening up of new sources of commerce.

A deputation, headed by the Earl of Rosse, President of the Royal Society, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen, at his official residence in

Downing street, to recommend the establishment of a telescope of great optical power in the southern hemisphere, for the purpose of increasing our knowledge of the nebule of that region of the

heavens.

The tomb of the Tradescants in Lambeth churchyard has been restored. These eminent naturalists and antiquarians, who resided in South Lambeth, and whose quaint old mansion is still preserved, on the left side of the road from London that leads to Stock well, died in the period 1638-1652. tomb in St. Mary's churchyard was originally erected in 1662.

The

Alexander von Humboldt speaks highly of the projected oceanic canal between the Pacific and the Atlantic. "It will render the whole globe more easy to be travelled over; this little globe, of which Christopher Columbus, in one of his letters to the Queen of Spain, said, 'El mundo espoco.""

M. Arago, whose health has so far improved that he is able to peruse the correspondence of the Academy of Sciences, has just announced that a new and very fine comet was discovered in the

evening of the 19th simultaneously by several

observers.

The Industrial Exhibition at Moscow had been closed after attaining great success; 568 exhibitors had contributed, and the Exhibition itself had been visited by 35,000 persons altogether. The arrangements of the whole had been made by a German architect of the name of Richter.