the age of eighty-two. By his death Mr. Fox Maule will succeed
to his title and great estates.

MR. FRANK FORSTER, recently the engineer to the Metropolis
Commissioners of Sewers, died suddenly on the 13th inst. He
was in the act of writing a letter when he was struck with
apoplexy, and almost immediately expired.

MARSHAL GERARD, the Senior Field Marshal of France, died
at Paris on the 17th inst., in his eightieth year.

PRINCE PAUL OF WURTEMBERG, brother of the reigning King
of Wurtemberg, brother-in-law of Jérome Bonaparte, and uncle
of the President of the French Republic, died in Paris on the
16th. On the day before, when the Prince was supposed to be
dying, the Papal nuncio, to the surprise of everybody, entered
the chamber of the hotel where the nearest friends and relations
of the deceased, whose family is Protestant, were gathered.
Madame de Montessuy, the Prince's natural daughter, then
announced to the company that the Prince had abjured
Protestantism and embraced the Roman Catholic religion. A very
painful impression was caused by this sudden disclosure, and
the members of the family of Nassau protested energetically
against the clandestine abjuration snatched from the Prince in
a moment when he was in the grasp of death, and stated, which
was the fact, that the Prince had not for the last fortnight been
in a fit state of mind to take so important a step. They
remained, however, in the room till the Prince died. The
nuncio administered the sacraments and then withdrew.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Bombay
to the 15th of March. The expedition against the
Burmese was to start from Madras for Rangoon
between the 15th and 20th of March.

The Calcutta papers state that intelligence has been
received of the accidental smothering of 50 coolies out of
a cargo of 234 in the hold of the Futtay Salem, during a
hurricane off Madras, on the 22nd-25th December.
The hatches had been battened down, and cries for relief
were unheard during the fury of the storm. On the
2nd March, Calcutta was visited by the first nor-wester
of the season—a furious storm of wind, thunder, hail,
and rain. The electric fluid passed in large quantities
along the wires of the telegraph, detonating in loud
explosions at the stations; but beyond a little interrupting
the communication, and endangering the attendants,
it did no harm.

There was a great earthquake in Goozerat, Cutchee,
and Upper Scinde, on the 24th of January. In
Cutchee the fatality was great. The following
description is given:—"At Khangur, at 3 45 A.M.,
three smart shocks of an earthquake, following each
other in rapid succession, were felt. The direction was
from west to east, and the time occupied in all
amounted to about 45 seconds. There it was attended
with no danger to any of the houses; but in the Murree
hills its effects have been very severe, and attended
with great loss of life and property. Accurate accounts,
which have now been received, state the number of
killed belonging to the Murree tribe to amount to 340
individuals, and, as yet, an unknown quantity of cattle
and other animals. The majority of the houses, and
the greater portion of the walls of their capital
(Kahun) fell, burying men, women, and children in
the ruins; and in a large cave, a little to the north,
which was inhabited by a number of families, the
sides also fell in, and almost all perished. The city is
now totally deserted; and so great is the terror prevalent
amongst them, that they are said to be anxious to
remove from the hills altogether. The effects of the
shock were such, that large masses have fallen from the
mountains, and the Nuffoosk Pass, leading to Kahan,
has become blocked up. Amidst such havoc and
desolation, the only advantage which has accrued is, that
the river Lheree, which, unless rain falls, is lost
immediately before its exit point from the hills, has suddenly
extended many miles further than usual at this season.
It is now flowing past the town of Lheree, and the in-
habitants are busy cultivating from it; for there, as in
all the alluvial soils of this country, the rule holds good,
as the supply of water, so are the capabilities for
growth."

There are accounts from Port Philip to the 21st of
January, brought by the ship Brilliant, which arrived
on the 22nd, having on board about two tons and a half
of gold, valued at £217,000. The day the Brilliant left
Port Philip, twenty-one vessels were entering the
harbour, most of them freighted with emigrants from the
adjoining colonies. New diggings had been discovered
at the Muddy Creek and the Hume River, promising as
fertile a field as the most productive spots. The
"Melbourne Argus" of the 17th of January states that up to
the 20th of December, 163,414 ounces of gold had arrived
at Melbourne and Geelong, and 80,000 ounces still
remain in the hands of the diggers, making the total yield
up to that date 243,414 ounces, worth £730,242.

Advices from Jamaica to the 2nd of March, state that
the island Legislature was prorogued by Governor Grey
on the 26th of February. The governor had disallowed
the loan bills passed by the two Chambers; and he
stated that he had received from the Colonial Office a
dispatch approving of his intention to withhold his
consent. In his speech on proroguing the Chambers,
he said, "The drooping and decaying position of the
planting interest, is still the most prominent object in
the affairs of Jamaica." Maintaining the principle,
that the compensation given by the mother-country
from the resources of her whole community to relieve
any portion of it which may suffer by the introduction
of improved institutions, should be adequate, but
stating that "it is notorious and certain that the relief
of the planting interest has neither been complete nor
even proportionate to the effort and sacrifice which
were made for the purpose of affording it," he hinted
his own notion that relief might still be rendered in a
manner that should be advantageous both to England
and Jamaica:—

"It would be a source of great and lasting joy to me
if I could in any degree be instrumental in advancing
this fine island and its inhabitants to the state of
prosperity of which I think they are capable, and still more if
this were to be effected by measures which might serve
as a basis for that union of England with her colonies,
which is all that is wanting to make the British empire
an example to be followed by the whole world."

The question of sending delegates to England to
represent the state of the colony was agitated: subscriptions
had been raised, and three persons had been
chosen for the mission. These persons were Messrs.
Thompson, Girod, and W. Smith; but after they were
chosen, three other gentlemen were added to them,
Messrs. Jackson, Franklin, and Vickers. The last was
a man of colour, and the three delegates first chosen
declined to accept him as a colleague, on the ground
that he was not sufficiently acquainted with the
history of the colony to enable him to act; they said
they would act with any man of colour properly qualified
by education and knowledge.

The West India Mail brings dates to the end of
March. There is no intelligence of importance. In
British Guiana a favourable account is given of the
sugar crop. There is every prospect of the present crop
being larger than even that of last year, which again
was an improvement on the crop of 1850. The yellow
fever was prevalent at Demerara. At Antigua, the
weather continued distressingly dry. The young canes
were burned up, and the older ones were suffering sadly.
The manufacture of the present crop was progressing
rapidly; but in many instances the yield of the canes
was far below the expectations formed of them. At
Barbadoes the weather had not been very favourable for
reaping, the principal operation of the month. The old
cane crop continued to yield well, and to give sugar of
an excellent quality. The young cane crop was clean,
manured, and partially trashed.

Intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope has been
received to the 3rd of March, no military operations of
consequence had taken place during the preceding month.
General Somerset's and Colonel Eyre's patrols were yet