... ILLNESS OF THE DUCHJESS or GLOUCESTER. | . -- I X We r-gret to announce the illness of ths Duehess of Gloucester, the only surviving member of the family of George III., and the one who, during the monarch's e long illness, was the most assiduous to her royal parent. Dr. Ferguson was in attendance upon hor Royal High- I ness s-veral times on Saturday, and Dr. Hawkins has d not left the mansion ...

... WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1867. B. *MERCANTILE KAZOOF, - - day --eirsg. id ALl the driest English wheat at Mfark-lane on Monday was sold at previous prices, and other sorts were not so pressingly offered. trade closing with rather more firm- ness generally. There was no quotable change in the X value of any description offoreign. Theimporterawere not disposed to sell freely, in the hope ...

... (na Ionday the troops on board the Beflerop/oon re- enbarked o X board the Transit, screw troop-ship, Coin- lnacder Chambers, (from which they had disembarked, a Eve stated last week, on the Transit's putting back. Aoing to the mishap by which she knocked a hole in her bittom off Hurst Castle), and on Tuesday morning she vent out of harbour and anchored at Spitheads. The took her powder and ...

... m I I WHITEZilmi,. APRL . .. The Queen has beau Seaeod t direct letters patent to be'pased under the G rt Sealgranting tho dignitiesof Viscount anid Earl of e United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland un the Right Hon. Henry Richard Charles, Baron Cowleyi G.c.Br., Her Majesty's Ambas- sador Extraordinary anl Plenipotedtiary to His Majesty the Emperor of the lrjnch, and to the heirs male of ...

... ODDITIES OF LONDON STIEET LIFE. At the Brighton Athgnseumn last we ek, Mr. Henry Mayhew gave a lecture On the 0 ,dities of London lb Life. After giving a picture of the 1podon markets on, ya Saturday night, Mr. Mahiew introdiced a faw of his id, Btreet acquaintances. ,The first was Punch and Judy - man, a dark pleasant-looking man of 6hout 50, who dis- Of closed to him (Mr. Mayhew) a few ...

... MILITARY EDUCATION 'AND PUBLIC' - I SCHOOLSI i ;, . 1 .I I - . D f In aletter tostan offic-r, Dr.1,Vaughan, of-Harrow, in B expresses by requesohthe results of his experience on the en rel~tions between military education end public schools. Bi Dr. Vaughan Strongly condemns the. prematur with ret Idrawel of boys in order to subject thenk to a6 epecial and r.private coutrse of preparation foi ...

... VISIT FROM SIR F, BARING. Sir James.Elphinstone promised 'o visit the Boroiigh frequently and soon, but after all Sir F. Baring has been beforehand with him. The sailmakers and ropemakers in the Dookyard had felt aggrieved at the recent altera- tion in the scale of pay on the abolition of task and job work andthe reverting back todaypay. The new scalehad resulted in the painters and carpenters ...

... CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH,REhATIVE . TO PORTENDIC AND ALBtEDA. . di' N in. The text, of this Convention, concluded on the 7th L 1p* ult., and ratified on the 25th ult., is given in Tuesday, a Da night's Gazette., The following are the preamble and, St the several articles I Yr Gfl Her Majesty the Qaeeu of the United Kingdom of el ,,he Gra Britain and Ireland, ...

... ST'. JAMRSS PALDCE, MARCH 30. The Queen has been: pleased to appoint the Rev. F. C Cook, MA.., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and one of B her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, to be one of the t Chaplains in Ordinary to ber Majesty. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. W. e Rogers, incumbent of St. Thomas, Charter-honso, to be ii one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty. The Queen ...

... A,,junts have been received here from Constanti- ?? up to the 12th. At the close of the investigation j5t the affair of the Kangaroo, the Sultan pronounced hemat Bey, Chief of the Expedition, with Ferhad and ,mail, guilty, and has sentenced all three to banish- t The Journal de Constantinople says that Me. he,,t Bey is organising regiments, and adds that the tusi, fort of Salish had been taken ...

... FIGHTING IN PERSIA, 3 Geneaal Outram has sigunalistd his aF umptiln of the * command at Bushire by obtaining a decisive victory over the Persian army under the Prince of Shirez. It had been known for somne time in the camp that a con- a siderable force of the enemy was established at' the foot of the bills, as a nucleus, it was believed, for the forma- tion of a large army to recapture Bushire ...

... ISLE OF WIGHT, SATUEDIY, APRIL 18, 1867. VESTRY MEETING. t The annual vestry meeting for the parish was held on t Tuesday last, in St. Thomas's Church, the Vicar, the t Rev. B. D. Scott, in the assertion of his right, taking t the chair, but immediately vacating it again in favourI of the Senior Churohwarden, Mr. Richard Pittis, jun., t who, at the request of the parishioners, at once ...