ng the day, the Prince and cess Hohenlohe arrived. The cess would have knelt to Queen oria; but Her Majesty preed her with an embrace. e was another banquet in the el de Ville; and after that the y went to the opera. 5.) The Queen and Prince ert proceeded to Bruges, and received in great state at the son de Ville, where the royal y had refreshment. They then Fired to the Palais de Justice, Chapelle du Saint Sang, the rch of Notre Dame, the Cathe, , &c. In the evening Her esty returned to Ostend by the vay, and reached the Palace at six o'clock.

16.) Her Majesty and the Prince ired to Ghent, where they e received by the Governor gomaster, Bishop, &c. On a mphal arch were inscriptions ating out the fact of the city ing been visited by Philippa of nault, Queen of England in 3, and after the lapse of exy five centuries by another een of England. She visited cathedral, through which she conducted by the bishop and a in of ecclesiastics. Here she the splendid chiselled bronze delabra placed in the choir on h side of the grand altar, which merly belonged to our Charles I. which were sold by Cromwell the Dutch. She then proceeded the Beguinage, where she was comed by the lady superior and erhood of the nunnery. After collation at the Government ouse, the Queen attended a con-t at the theatre, and then rened to Ostend.

(17.) Being Sunday, neither the een nor the Prince left the lace, where service was performed

by the Rev. Mr. Jessop, British Chaplain at Ostend.

(18.) The royal party proceeded to Brussels, and having been entertained there during the day, repaired at night to the palace of Lacken.

(19.) They went by railroad to Antwerp where they visited the cathedral, and witnessed the antique pageant of the Giant, before the palace in the Place de Mer.

(20.) At one o'clock to-day, the Queen and Prince Albert, attended by their suite, and accompanied by the King and Queen of the Belgians, embarked on board the Victoria and Albert, which immediately got under weigh, and proceeded, under a roar of cannon, down the river. At Liefkenshoet King Leopold and Queen Louise took leave of their guests: and, entering a royal barge, returned up the river to Antwerp. The yacht went forward on its voyage; saluted by a royal salute at Flushing, where the Dutch authorities, and some English officials, stood ready to pay their respects, on account of a rumour that the yacht would lie off the town; which it did not. Salutes continued to be fired by batteries, and shipping, as the yacht and its attendant vessels passed, until it stood fairly out to sea, The yacht lay to during the night in Margate Roads; and Her Majesty landed at Woolwich on the morning of Thursday, the 21st.

12. CASTLE RUSHEN, IN THE ISLE OF MAN, BROKEN OPEN.SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE OF SIX CRIMINALS. This act of desperate hardihood took place this morning, about the hour of one o'clock, and in the following manner :-

A lad of the name of Hughes

was confined in a room, along with an idiot, in the western tower of the Castle. Immediately beneath was the kitchen, in which the prisoners' food was usually cooked. Hughes's door was strongly fastened on the outside, but that of the cooking room was not. Both communicated with the great staircase, upon which all the prisoners' cells open. He had torn up some of the flooring boards of his own apartment, broken through the ceiling, and had, by the aid of his bed-clothes, descended into the room below. From this his passage to the staircase was both easy and direct. It appears he had then taken a long table out of the cooking-room, and by placing one end thereof on the iron hand-rail of the stairs, and inclining the other against the wall, he had suc. ceeded in reaching a small square hole which communicated with the garret or cockloft immediately under the roof. Nothing but the removal of a few lathes and slates was necessary to enable him to reach the leads. It would seem that he had gained possession of a vast quantity of blankets, sheets, &c., as they enabled him to descend from the giddy parapet into the fosse, a height of no less than sixty feet. A door opens from the foot of the staircase into this fosse or yard; it was strongly fastened on the outside by a heavy padlock. This lock he had wrenched asunder with a piece of an old poker. Having thus gained possession of the staircase from the outside, he had only to tear away the locks from the cell doors of the following prisoners: John Kaighan, Henry Tyson, George Rowley, R. Magee, and W. Trafford. These These being liberated, brought down with

and other materials, which they piled together upon the roof of a small outhouse, and thus succeeded in surmounting the high wall which divided the prisoners' yard from the space leading to the ramparts; these they finally ascended and traversed till they reached the ruined ivy-covered bastion which abuts on the quay. From this they descended, being assisted by some fishing nets which happened to be drying thereon.

Without further daring, all this ingenuity and prowess would have been of no effect. They had escaped from the prison, and their next step was to escape from the island. This they effected with a skill and decision no way inferior to that manifested in the commencement of their enterprise. They knew that Mr. Gawne had pleasure-boats constantly on the beach, at the southern end of the rabbit warren, and where the stream that passes Kentraug enters the sea. Thither they repaired, and succeeded in launching his smallest one. They stored her with a quantity of fish which they found drying at the doors of different cottages in their line of march, and put in a pig trough for a tank, and supplied themselves with oars and spars, wherever they could be found.

They had no sooner got fairly afloat in the bay, than they discovered Mr. Gawne's fine large pleasure boat at anchor. Here they found everything that they wanted for their escape; they therefore trans-shipped their fish, and abandoned the small boat, and were last seen sailing away past the Chickens with a brisk breeze and a flowing sheet, in the direction of Ireland.

YEARS OF AGE CONVICTED OF MURDER.-At the autumn sitting of the Justiciary Court in Stirling to-day, Allan Mair was accused of the murder of Mary Fletcher or Mair, his reputed wife. The interest of the case lay in the age of the parties; Mair being eightyfour years of age, and the woman a year older. It was stated, that he kept her short of food, although he did not want for it himself; and he had been heard to abuse her, "wishing she was in hell and her soul burning." On the night of the 14th May last, a neighbour heard him striking Mary, as if with a hammer, and saying that he would "make her put in the sneck of the bed;" it was a box bed, probably let into a recess in the wall, like a cupboard, and closed with a door; of which the "sneck" would be the hasp. The old woman was heard to say, "Let me lie and die in peace, and don't strike me any more." Next day he went to the Manse, as he said, 'to tell the minister to make a snuff box of Mary." The old woman was discovered crouched up at the foot of the bed, covered with bruises and with blood; and she died of her wounds. Mair was found guilty, and sentenced by Lord Moncreiff to be hanged on the 4th October. [See p. 140.]

LOSS OF THE DUNCANNON STEAMER.-The Duncannon was considered a very fine steamer, though of small tonnage, and was the property of a company at Hull. To-day she was engaged by a party of ladies and gentlemen for an excursion down the Humber to the Spurn light. She left Barton, a small village, at an early hour in the morning, and during her passage she called at Hull and other

which amounted altogether to about 130 passengers, including a military band. The whole party spent a delightful morning, it being a very fine day, and on the steamer reaching the Spurn, which was about eleven o'clock, the company were landed on the sands, which are quite high and dry at low water, similar to the Goodwin Sands, and are a great resort for pleasure parties along this part of the coast during the summer. The steamer was run stem on to the sands for the purpose of more safely landing the company, and it appears that proper precautions were not adopted to get her off before the tide fell much lower. The consequence of this neglect was, that her stern kept lowering as the water receded, whilst her bow was firmly imbedded in the sand, until she slipped completely into one of the steepest parts of the spurn. In the meantime the party was enjoying themselves to the utmost on the sands, little dreaming of the sad calamity which had befallen their conveyance, and on their returning to the vessel about three o'clock in the afternoon, they found to their surprise that the sea was rushing in at the aftercabin windows with great violence. The crew failed in altering her position, and as the tide rose she gradually filled, and was soon lost to the eye. The unfortunate company were rescued from their perilous situation by a sloop called the Hope, and were safely landed at a late hour the same evening at

Barton.

16. SHOCKING SUICIDE.-The Rev. Mr. Hare, of Liddington, had been for some time indisposed with a low nervous affection. This morning, when Dr. Maurice,

was confined in a room, along with an idiot, in the western tower of the Castle. Immediately beneath was the kitchen, in which the prisoners' food was usually cooked. Hughes's door was strongly fastened on the outside, but that of the cooking room was not. Both communicated with the great staircase, upon which all the prisoners' cells open. He had torn up some of the flooring boards of his own apartment, broken through the ceiling, and had, by the aid of his bed-clothes, descended into the room below. From this his passage to the staircase was both easy and direct. It appears he had then taken a long table out of the cooking-room, and by placing one end thereof on the iron hand-rail of the stairs, and inclining the other against the wall, he had suc. ceeded in reaching a small square hole which communicated with the garret or cockloft immediately under the roof. Nothing but the removal of a few lathes and slates was necessary to enable him to reach the leads. It would seem that he had gained possession of a vast quantity of blankets, sheets, &c., as they enabled him to descend from the giddy parapet into the fosse, a height of no less than sixty feet. A door opens from the

foot of the staircase into this fosse or yard; it was strongly fastened on the outside by a heavy padlock. This lock he had wrenched asunder with a piece of an old poker. Having thus gained possession of the staircase from the outside, he had only to tear away the locks from the cell doors of the following prisoners: John Kaighan, Henry Tyson, George Rowley, R. Magee, and W. Trafford. These being liberated, brought down with

and other materials, which they piled together upon the roof of a small outhouse, and thus succeeded in surmounting the high wall which divided the prisoners' yard from the space leading to the ramparts; these they finally ascended and traversed till they reached the ruined ivy-covered bastion which abuts on the quay. From this they descended, being assisted by some fishing nets which happened to be drying thereon.

Without further daring, all this ingenuity and prowess would have been of no effect. They had escaped from the prison, and their next step was to escape from the island. This they effected with a skill and decision no way inferior to that manifested in the commencement of their enterprise. They knew that Mr. Gawne had pleasure-boats constantly on the beach, at the southern end of the rabbit warren, and where the stream that passes Kentraug enters the sea. Thither they repaired, and succeeded in launching his smallest one. They stored her with a quantity of fish which they found drying at the doors of dif ferent cottages in their line of march, and put in a pig trough for a tank, and supplied themselves with oars and spars, wherever they could be found.

They had no sooner got fairly afloat in the bay, than they discovered Mr. Gawne's fine large pleasure boat at anchor. Here they found everything that they wanted for their escape; they therefore trans-shipped their fish, and abandoned the small boat, and were last seen sailing away past the Chickens with a brisk breeze and a flowing sheet, in the direction of Ireland.

RS OF AGE CONVICTED OF RDER.-At the autumn sitting e Justiciary Court in Stirling ay, Allan Mair was accused of murder of Mary Fletcher or r, his reputed wife. The inst of the case lay in the age of parties; Mair being eightyyears of age, and the woman ear older. It was stated, that kept her short of food, although did not want for it himself; he had been heard to abuse wishing she was in hell and soul burning." On the night he 14th May last, a neighbour rd him striking Mary, as if ha hammer, and saying that would "make her put in the ck of the bed;" it was a box , probably let into a recess in wall, like a cupboard, and sed with a door; of which the neck" would be the hasp. The woman was heard to say, "Let lie and die in peace, and don't ike me any more." Next day went to the Manse, as he said, -o tell the minister to make a aff box of Mary." The old woin was discovered crouched up the foot of the bed, covered with uises and with blood; and she ed of her wounds. Mair was and guilty, and sentenced by ord Moncreiff to be hanged on e 4th October. [See p. 140.]

LOSS OF THE DUNCANNON TEAMER.-The Duncannon was nsidered a very fine steamer, ough of small tonnage, and was e property of a company at Hull. o-day she was engaged by a party ladies and gentlemen for an exarsion down the Humber to the purn light. She left Barton, a nall village, at an early hour in he morning, and during her pasage she called at Hull and other

which amounted altogether to about 130 passengers, including a military band. The whole party spent a delightful morning, it being a very fine day, and on the steamer reaching the Spurn, which was about eleven o'clock, the company were landed on the sands, which are quite high and dry at low water, similar to the Goodwin Sands, and are a great resort for pleasure parties along this part of the coast during the summer. The steamer was run stem on to the sands for the purpose of more safely landing the company, and it appears that proper precautions were not adopted to get her off before the tide fell much lower. The consequence of this neglect was, that her stern kept lowering as the water receded, whilst her bow was firmly imbedded in the sand, until she slipped completely into one of the steepest parts of the spurn. In the meantime the party was enjoying themselves to the utmost on the sands, little dreaming of the sad calamity which had befallen their conveyance, and on their returning to the vessel about three o'clock in the afternoon, they found to their surprise that the sea was rushing in at the aftercabin windows with great violence. The crew failed in altering her position, and as the tide rose she gradually filled, and was soon lost to the eye. The unfortunate company were rescued from their perilous situation by a sloop called the Hope, and were safely landed at a late hour the same evening at Barton.

16. SHOCKING SUICIDE. The Rev. Mr. Hare, of Liddington, had been for some time indisposed with a low nervous affection. This morning, when Dr. Maurice,