HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. FOREIGN NEWS. The Empress Eugenie has suffered a miscarriage, which for the present has disappointed the hope of an heir apparent to the Bonaparte dynasty. On the 29th April it was announced that she was "no longer in danger from the accident which threatened her health." In Holland a recent change of ministers and an abrupt closing of the Chambers have been followed by their dissolution. The session is to be opened on the 14th June. The cabinet, whose programme has not been favourably received, has been completed by the creation of a new minister, that of Public Works. A partial change has taken place in the Danish ministry, into which the Councillor Oersted has been admitted. It is thought that at the elections shortly to occur, consequent upon the dissolution of the Chambers, men similar to the late members will be returned; a modification of the constitution is therefore anticipated. The last intelligence from Burmah relates that Sir John Cheape, having marched out from Prome with a force of 1,500 men, in quest of the robber chief Meeah Toon, came in front of his principal stronghold on the 19th of March. The resistance was determined and protracted, and Meeah Toon unfortunately escaped. Operations commenced at nine a. m. and lasted four hours. We had 18 killed and 84 wounded; amongst the former were Lieut. Taylor, 9th Madras N. Inf. and Ensign Boileau, 67th Bengal N. Inf.; amongst the latter Majors Wigstone, Reid, and Armstrong; Lieuts. Cockburn, Rawlins, Wilkinson, Clarke, Woodwright, Magrath, and Trevor; and Ensign Woolley. This heavy loss was caused chiefly by the brass three-pounders which were abandoned by the lamented Capt. Loch's expedition, on the 5th of February, and which falling into Meeah Toon's hands, were mounted by him on his stockades. The young Maharajah Dhuleep Sing was formally admitted into the Christian Church by baptism on the 8th April at Futtyghur, by the Rev. W. Jay, the chaplain of that station. The young prince is now sixteen years of age. The insurrection which commenced in China about three years ago appears to be making rapid progress. The last accounts represent the left wing of the insurgents, or perhaps more correctly their army of the West, to be at the city of Wosung, and their right wing, or army of the East, besieging Nankin, four hundred miles distant. Both cities lie on the Yang-tseKiang, a great river, navigable for 450 miles, or as far as the tide reaches,-far superior therefore in usefulness to any other river of Asia. Running from west to east it divides China into two almost equal parts, leaving the largest portion of the population and most of the seaboard to the southern half. The insurgents are represented as already in possession of this better half of the empire, a slip of seaboard excepted, and of the grand navigable canal which connects the Yank-tseKiang with the second great river of China, the Hoang-ho or Yellow River, and afterwards with the capital of the empire. The insurgents are, in fact, on the high road to Pekin, from which their' left wing is distant 750, and their right 700 miles. In its distress and humiliation the Imperial court has called upon the "outer barbarians" to come to its rescue; and the representatives of England, France, and America, with a considerable naval force, have repaired to the port of Shanghai, which is but 160 miles distant from the right wing of the insurgent army. The Tartar government of China has been tottering for many years, and indeed it is only by dexterous yielding that it has lasted so long. The Mogul dynasty of Tartars had endured only 132 years in the northern provinces of the empire, and but 82 in the southern; but the present has lasted 237 years. Although the fall of the Manchoos was perhaps inevitable, there is not the least doubt but that we ourselves, by our victories over it, and by our exaction of near 6,000,0007.-depriving it of the resources for defence, and forcing it upon unpopular means of getting others to replace them,-have contributed most materially to hasten it. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. The Second Reading of the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill passed the House of Lords on the 25th April by a majority of 117 to 77. On the 29th the Jewish Disabilities Bill was thrown out (for a fourth time) by 164 to 115, a majority larger than on any former occasion. On the 19th May the first stone of a new edifice for the Diocesan Training College at Exeter was laid by Sir John Kennaway, Bart. in the presence of the Bishop of Exeter. At the dinner which ensued, the Rev. Mr. Chancellor Martin remarked that this school had been first founded by Sir Thomas Acland in the year 1838. Sir John Kaye Shuttleworth, in a recent work, had made a slight mistake in stating that the first training college was at Battersea. It was in Oct. 1838 that the establishment of the Training School at Exeter was arranged at a large and influential meeting held in that city. In Oct. 1839 Dr. Martin was appointed to the office of Principal, and in Feb. 1840 the school commenced with several students, so that they anticipated the Training School at Battersea. The Exeter School, though not established in accordance with the directions of Government, had been favourably reported upon by her Majesty's inspectors, and is now the training school for Devon and Cornwall. On the 19th May the opening took place of the united lines of Railway from Thirsk to Malton, and from Malton to Driffield, the result of a combination of two schemes first set on foot more than seven years ago. It passes through the very heart of the Yorkshire wolds, along the western side of the great vale of Pickering, and through the vale of Gilling and Mowbray, to a junction with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick main line near Thirsk. It effects a saving of twenty-two miles by rail between Hull and Whitby, thirty between Hull and Malton, and brings Beverley ten miles nearer to York, and twenty-two nearer to all the North Riding and Newcastle. The country it passes through is peculiarly picturesque and interesting, as perhaps no other district of England has its geographical and geological features more distinctly marked. The late Duke of Wellington's Will.In consequence of the determination of the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, to renounce the executorship of the late Duke of Wellington's will, letters of administration have been granted by the Prerogative Court to the present Duke. The will was written upwards of thirty-five years ago, with that promptitude and decision which marked almost every act of his Grace's life, but at the same time displays evident traces of the agitation under which it was drawn up. It is dated Feb. 17, 1818, and was written in Paris by the Duke himself, who accounts for that circumstance in the following remark, which forms the preamble:"An attempt having been made to assassinate me on the night of the 10th inst. (Feb. 10, 1818), which may be repeated with success, and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs, and there being no professional person in Paris to whom I can entrust the task of drawing my will, I now draw it myself in my own handwriting." His Grace directs that an annuity of 1,000. shall be paid to his second son, Lord Charles Wellesley, who, however, has the option of claiming a sum of 20,000/. as an equivalent. Money is directed to be laid out in the purchase of an estate, which, together with Apsley House and its contents, are given to the present Duke for life, with remainder over to his issue, and in default of issue to Lord Charles Wellesley and his issue, in like manner. In case of the death of both without heirs male, the property is directed to pass to the descendants of the brothers of the testator. Certain personal estate, which his Grace designates as "money given to me by the nation," or any estates which may be purchased with such money, are directed to pass under trusts very similar to those of the foregoing property; Apsley House first going to the children of the Duke, and on their deaths, leaving no issue, to the children of his brothers. The wording of the will is very involved; and the residue, which, owing to the lapse of time, must have greatly accumulated, is undisposed of. PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c. GAZETTE PREFERMENTS. March 20. Sir William St. Laurence Clarke, of Rossmore, co. Cork, Bart. and Dame Elizabeth Barbara, his wife, to take the name and arms of Travers, in compliance with the desire of John Moore Travers, late of Clifton, in the said county, esq. deceased, father of the said Dame Elizabeth Barbara. April 29. 7th Dragoon Guards, Major-Gen. Lord Sandys to be Colonel.-56th Foot, Capt. A. W. Byles to be Major.-59th Foot, Major H. H. Graham to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Major A. E. Burmester to be Major.-80th Foot, Major R. G. Hughes to be Lieut.-Colonel; Capt. S. T. Christie to be Major.-Brevet, Captain H. Hebden, of the 1st West India Regiment, to be Major and Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.-James Meade, esq. to be Provost Marshal for the island of Montserrat.-John Pownall Dale, esq. to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands. May 2. John Guthrie, esq. to be Sub-Collector of Customs and Landing Surveyor at the port of Geelong, in the colony of Victoria, and Richard Down, esq. to be Landing Surveyor for that colony-John Wardlaw, esq. late Lieutenant in East India Company's service, to be Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Capt. W. L. Grant, resigned. May 3. Henry Francis Howard, esq. (now Secretary of Legation at Berlin) to be Envoy Extr. and Minister Plenip. to the Emperor of Brazil. May 6. 80th Foot, Major-Gen. Lawrence Arguimbau, C.B. to be Colonel. May 11. Sholto James Douglas, esq. to be Substitute-Procureur and Advocate-General for the island of Mauritius.-Charles Pasley, esq. Lieut. R. Eng. to be Colonial Engineer for the colony of Victoria. May 12. Lord Belhaven to be High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.-Frederick William Slade, esq. Thomas Chisholm Anstey, esq. and Thomas Borrow Burcham, esq. to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last election, and at previous elections, for the city of Canterbury.-Frederic Solly Flood, esq. John Deedes, esq. and William Baliol Brett, esq. to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the last election, and at former elections, for the borough of Kingston-uponHull.-Robert Williams, esq. to be an Inspector of Coal Mines, in the room of William Lancaster, resigned. May 13. 71st Foot, Capt. Robert Francis Hunter to be Major.-Brevet, Lieut. John Pitt Kennedy, 14th Light Dragoons (local Major in the East Indies), to have the local rank of Lieut.-Colonel in that country. May 14. John Gardiner Austin, esq. to be Immigration Agent-General for the colony of British Guiana. May 17. 76th Foot, Major-General William Jervois to be Colonel. May 20. 42d Foot, brevet Major Thomas Tulloch to be Major.-Brevet, Capt. John Macdonald to be Major and Lieut.-Colonel in the Army. 2d Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, Capt. Brownlow Knox to be Major.-Cornwall and Devon Miners Militia, Sir Colman Rashleigh, Bart. to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant.-2d or North Durham Militia, Lord Viscount Seaham to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant; John Eden, esq. to be Major.-Essex Rifles, Capt. John Richard Groves, late of H.M. Rifle Brigade, to be Major-South Herts Yeomanry Cav. Capt. T. P. Halsey to be Major.-Hungerford Yeomanry Cavalry, Capt. G. Willes to be Major. --Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery, Viscount Sidney to be Colonel; Major J. F. Cator, from West Kent Militia, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Hon. C. S. Hardinge to be Major.-East Kent Militia, William Monins, esq. to be Major.West Kent Militia, Capt. G. R. Stevenson to be Major.-Artillery Regt. of Royal Lancashire Militia, Capt. James Bourne, from the 2d Regt. to be Major.-4th or South Middlesex Militia, Lieut.-Col. Edward Richard Bagot, half-pay unatt. to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant; Major Charles Tyndale, Major unatt. late 51st Light Inf. and John Scriven, esq.,, late 51st Light Infantry, to be Majors.-5th Middlesex Militia, Hon. Fred. W. C. Villiers to be Lieut.Colonel Commandant. - Royal Monmouth Militia, Alexander Rolls, esq. to be Major.Nottingham Sherwood Rangers, Capt. Samuel William Welfitt to be Major.-East Suffolk Militia, Artillery Corps, Robert Alex. Shafto Adair, esq. to be Lieut.-Colonel. George Deas, esq. (late Solicitor-General for Scotland) to be a Judge of the Court of Session. John Lewis Ricardo, esq. M.P. has been elected a Director of the London and Westminster Bank. Mr. George Shield to be Depute Clerk of the Court of Session, vice Hay, resigned; and Mr. Wm. Hamilton Bell to be Assistant Clerk, vice Shield. J. Templer, esq. to be a Master of the Court of Exchequer. Graham Willmore, esq. Q.C. to be Judge of the Wells district of County Courts. Members returned to serve in Parliament. NAVAL PREFERMENTS. April 22. Rear-Admirals W. Ward and R. Elliot to be Vice-Admirals on Reserved Halfpay; Rear-Adm. the Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, Knt. C.B. and K.C.H. to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue; Capt. W. J. H. Johnstone to be RearAdmiral of the Blue. Lieutenants John O. Bathurst (1838), Edmund H. Gunnell (1841), of the St. George 120, ordinary guard-ship at Devonport; Matthew Connolly (1842), and Robert Jenkins (1846), to the rank of Commander. Capt. George William Conway Courtenay (1828) to be Captain Superintendent of the Royal Hospital, Haslar. Comm. J. M Niell Boyd (1850) to command the Nerbudda 12. Comm. William Abdy Fellowes (1850) to command the Comus 16. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. A. P. Saunders, D.D. to the Deanery of Peterborough. Rev. E. Bickersteth (V. of Aylesbury), to the Archdeaconry of Buckinghamshire. Rev. J. Goss, to be a Vicar-Choral, Hereford Rev. F. T. Havergal, to be a Vicar-Choral, Rev. W. W. Berry (V. of Stanwell, Middlesex), Rev. W. B. Bennison, St. Paul P.C. Balsall Rev. R. Bowcott, Llanllwny V. w. Llanvihangel- Rev. B. Brooke. Killeevan R. dio. Clogher. Rev. J. Fortescue, St. Anne P.C. Bewdley, Rev. W. Gill, Pulloxhill V. Beds. Rev. J. R. Griffith, Llangeler V. Carmarthensh. Rev. E. J. Green, Leintwardine V. Herefordsh. Rev. E. P. Henslow, Nether Ham P.C. Som. Rev. S. Hobson, Tuttington V. Norfolk. Rev. J. Jenkyn, Cawood P.C. Yorkshire. Rev. C. B. Lowe, Duddington P.C. Northampt. Rev. A. C. Neely, Ashton V. Northamptonsh. Rev. W. F. Rawes, St. John P.C. Wembley, Rev. H. S. Richmond, Rissington-Wick R. Rev. T. H. Siely, Lackford R. Suffolk. Rev. T. F. Stooks, St. Anne P.C. Highgate- Rev. J. Turner, Titfield R. Northamptonshire. Rev. M. Vaughan, St. John P.C. Angell Town, Rev. E. Walker, St. Mathias P.C. Salford, Lanc. Rev. T. Westmorland, Leominster V. Heref. To Chaplaincies. Rev. J. Cohen, to the City Prison, Holloway. Rev. W. W. Harvey, to Viscount Falmouth. Rev. M. Kinsey, British C. at Dunkirk. Rev. H. P. Wright, to H.M. Forces. Rev. A. J. Maclean, Head-Mastership of Bath Rev. E. R. Pitman, Head-Mastership of Ruge- Rev. W. H. Thompson, M.A. Fellow of Trinity H. Callendar, B.A. Mathematical Lectureship, E. W. Rowden, M.A. (New College) to be E. A. Scott, B.A. Assistant-Mastership of R. A. Whalley, B.A. Second-Mastership of the R. G. Williams, B.A. to the Professorship of Rev. P. L. D. Acland (V. of Broadelyst) to be Rev. R. Frost, to be one of the Secretaries of Rev. G. Martin, D.D. (V. of St. Breward, Corn- BIRTHS. Feb. 23. At Agra, the wife of Major E. Kaye, a dau. April 17. At Stirford house, Corsley, Wilts, the wife of Fred. W. Curteis, esq. a son.-19. At Holne chase, the wife of Major Coker, a dau.-20. In the Close, Lichfield, the wife of Capt. A. P. Ryder, RN. a son-The Hon. Mrs. Edward Upton, a son and heir.-—At Woolwich, the wife of Major Stransham, a dau. a son.-25. -22. In Tavistock sq. the wife of Gerard W. Lydekker, esq. barrister-at-law, a son.23. In Brook st. the Hon. Mrs. Proctor Beauchamp, a son.--The wife of William Mark Fladgate, esq. of Eaton sq. a son.--In Gloucester pl. Portman sq. the wife of J. D. Savinon, esq. a son and heir.--At Bitterne, near Southampton, the wife of Robert Hesketh, esq. late Consul at Rio de Janeiro, a son and a dau. 24. In Brunswick sq. Brighton, the wife of Beaumont Hankey, esq. a dau.--At Wood court, Ilminster, the wife of Robert W. Palmer, esq. a dau.--At Bromley, Kent, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Chase Parr, Bombay Army, At Bruges, Belgium, the wife of the Baron Elphege Van Zuylen, a son-At Brighton, the wife of Heneage Dering, esq. a dau.-In Wilton cresc. Mrs. Eric Carrington Smith, a dau. 26. At Windlestone hall, co. Durham, Lady Eden, a dau.-27. At Lochnaw castle, N.B., Lady Louisa Agnew, a dau.-In Westbourne terr. the wife of Charles Lyall, esq. a dau.In Wilton place, the Hon. Mrs. Ralph Dutton, a dau.-28. At Stafford house, Lady Constance Grosvenor, a son.--In Eaton square, the wife of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, Bart. a son.--At Clipston house, North'pt. the wife of W. H. Harrison, esq. a son.29. At Overbury court, Tewkesbury, the wife of Robert Berkeley, esq. jun. a son and heir. -30. At Ruddington manor, Notts, the wife of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. a son and a dau. May 1. In Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, Lady Walker, a son.In Great Cumberland pl. Hyke park, the wife of the Hon. H. Brand, a son. At Edinburgh, the wife of C. G. Du Pré, esq. M.P. a dau.--2. At Warthill house, Aberdeensh. the wife of William Leslie, esq. of Drumrossie, and younger of Warthill, a dau. 1853.] Births-Marriages. -In South st. the wife of the Right Hon. E. Strutt, M.P. a dau.-3. At Guildford, the wife of Henry Weston, esq. of West Horsley place, Surrey, a son and heir.--4. At Olton hall, Warw. the wife of the Rev. B. Jones Bateman, a son.-7. At Potter Hanworth rectory, Lincolnsh. the wife of the Rev. A. H. Anson, a son. In Norfolk st. Park lane, the wife of Captain Bruce, Grenadier Guards, a dau.-8. At Waldron castle, Torquay, Mrs. Henry Carew Hunt, a dau.--At Ilminster, the wife of James Stayner, jun esq. banker, a son and beir.--In Albany terrace, Regent's park, the widow of F. M. Medhurst, esq. Kippax hall, Yorksh. a son.-At Henbury court, Glouc. the wife of the Rev. George Butterworth, a dau. -The wife of Burton Archer Burton, esq. a son.-10. At Leamington, the wife of Hampden Clement, esq. of Snareston lodge, Leic. a son.-13. In Carlton house terr. Lady Londesborough, a dau.-14. In Portland pl. Lady De Lisle and Dudley, a son and heir.-15. Lady Charles Wellesley, a dau.-16. At Park house, Selby, the wife of J. H. Harrison, esq. of Brandsburton hall, a dau.-19. At Danesfield, Bucks, the Hon. Mrs. Scott Murray, a dau. 20. At Greenwich Hospital, the wife of RearAdm. Sir Watkin Owen Pell, a son.-21. In Nottingham pl. Marylebone, the wife of Lancelot Shadwell, esq. a dau.--In Whitehall pl. the wife of J. Tollemache, esq. M.P. a son.-23. In Belgrave sq. the Lady Isabella Stewart, a son.-24. In Portman sq. the Lady Leigh, a dau.In Berkeley square, the Lady Alfred Paget, a son.--25. At Chiswick, the wife of John Turner, esq. a dau. MARRIAGES. March 15, 1852. At Auckland, New Zealand, John Watson Bain, to Madaline, second dau. of Alexander Mearns, esq. of Montrose, Scotland. Feb 1. At Poonah, East Indies, Frederick Conybeare, esq. Bombay Horse Artillery, son of the Very Rev. the Dean of Llandaff, to Fanny, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Hallett, C.B. of the Bombay Army. 7. At St. Thomas's, Stamford hill, the Rev. Henry H. Methuen, to Frances, widow of the Rev. Henry Wyndham Jones, late Rector of Loughor, Glamorganshire. 23. At St. James's, Garlick Hythe, W. N. Tanner, esq. of Boscastle, to Clara, eldest dau. of William Coulthard, esq. granddaughter of T. Coulthard, esq. of Farleigh, Hants, and niece of Sir George Barlow, Governor-General of India. March 8. At Boolundshur, Allan, third son of Joseph Hume, esq. M.P. to Mary-Anne, second dau. of the late R. F. Grindall, esq. C.S. and granddau. of the late Adm. Grindall, K.C.B. 21. At Madras, Thomas Wolrich Stansfeld, esq. Lieut. 51st Regt. N.I. elder son of T. W. Stansfeld, esq. of Jersey, to Elizabeth-Jane, only dau. of William Beauchamp, esq. surgeon, Madras Art. and niece of Lieut..Col. Cole, commanding Royal Eng, at the Cape. 29. At Culham, Capt. Kanquier J. Cannon, R. Art. to Augusta-Emma, youngest dau. of the late John Phillips, esq. of Culham, Oxf.--At Exeter, John Hichens, esq. Madras Medical Service, to Mary-Medbury, eldest dau. of the late Henry Parkin, esq. M.D. F.R.C.S., Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets.--At Chew Magna, Somerset, Ashfield Church Hope, esq. of Frederick's place, Old Jewry, to Elizabeth-Jane-Mary-Ann, youngest dau. of the late Rear-Adm. Grossett, of Clifton, Gloucestersh. 30. At Buscot, Berks, Capt. Geo. J. Hudson, 67th Regt. B.N.I. to Catherine-Sarah, eldest dau. of the Rev. Charles A. Brook, M.A. of 31. At Streatham, the Rev. Vincent Raven, |