PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

On the evening of the 12th, the Queen gave the first of
a series oi Dramatic Entertainments at Windsor Castie
under the direction of Mr. Charles Kean. The play
was the First Part of King Henry the Fourth. The
veteran Bartley, after a long retirement from the stage
re-appeared in tlie character of Falstaff.

Viscount Ponsonby has Resigned the Embassy at
Vienna, and Mr. Magenis will continue to act as
Chargé d'Affaires until the arrival of his Lordship's
successor.

The Honourable George Jerningham, now Secretary
the Embassy at Constantinople, is appointed Secretary
of the Embassy at Paris.

The place of Deputy Ranger of Windsor Park, vacant
by the death of Sir Thomas Fremantle, has been
conferred on Captain F. H Seymour, one of the Equerries
in Waiting to Prince Albert.

The Rev K J. Butler, M.A., of Brasenose College,
Oxford, and Chaplain to the Lord High Commissioner
of the Ionian Islands was received into the Catholic
Church at Rome on the 23rd of November last. This
gentleman was formerly Warden of the House of Charity
in Rose Street, Soho.

Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, Vice-chancellor, has been
raised to the Peerage of the  United: Kingdom, by the
title of Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth, in the county
of Norfolk.

Mr Joseph Hume having visited Southampton on the
3rd, to start a son for the West Indies, the mayor of
Southampton and about four hundred citizens of the
town gave him a public entertainment. It was remarked
that the admirers of the veteran economist were not
solely of the Radical class, but included a good sprinkling
of frugal Conservatives. Mr. Hume made a speech of
encouragements, founded on the reminiscences of his
long political experience; a marked feature of which
was his declaration of opinion that Lord John Russell
would willingly be a more liberal minister if supported
by a more liberal house of commons.

Pensions on the Civil List of £100. a-year each have
been granted to George Petrie, Esq., LL.D., and to
J. Kitto Esq., M.D. Mr. Petrie is a member of the
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, and Vice-President
ol the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences. He is author
of the well-known treatise on the "Round Towers of
Ireland," and of many other antiquarian works. Dr
Kitto has been deaf and dumb from an accident when a
boy, in spite of which difficulties he travelled through
many lands in connection with the Missionary Sociefy
With his physical failings he has done much for the
cause of bibhcal literature, and is the author of many
works, such as the "Pictorial Bible," "History of
Palestine," "Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature," &c.

The committee of subscribers to the monument to the
memory of the late Lord Jeffrey have decided that the
memorial shall be a work of sculpture. The subscriptions
in the hands of the committee amount to £2200.,
a sum which, it is hoped, will suffice to defray the cost
of the statue, and to leave enough besides for the erection
of a slight monument over the grave in the Dean
Cemetery, at Edinburgh. The statue will probably be
placed in the Outer Parliament House.

At a Sheriff's Sale at Derrynane some time since, the
whole of the splendid furniture and other household
goods were sold for the sum of £364. 3s. 8d., and were
bought in by the National Bank of Ireland. The
purchase has been impeached as fraudulent, and on
application to the court, an issue has been granted to
try the fact by a jury. The prices at which the National
Bank bought the furniture may be imagined from the
fact, that the entire furniture, &c., of the "Liberator's
Room," state bed, &c., sold for £3. 8s. 6d.

A young lady has Escaped from the Convent at
Banbury. She was known there as sister Antonia; her
"worldly name" is unknown, but she is understood to
be very highly connected. The local newspaper gives
the following particulars:—" Her dissatisfaction with a
conventual life was first made known out of the house
by letters, which she contrived to have conveyed by
children in the school, to parties of the Protestant faith
in Banbury. An English New Testament, which by
chance came into her possession, disturbed the opinions
in which she had been educated; she determined on
getting away from St, John's, and resolved to do so
early on Monday morning, and again on Tuesday
morning; but at the moment of the contemplated escape
her heart failed her. Shortly after nine o'clock, the
school hour, on Tuesday, while the other inmates were
engaged, she took an opportunity of getting away
unobserved; and, for some reason, instead of going to
the parties in Banbury, with whom she had been in
communication, and who had offered her shelter, set off
on the road for Oxford, At Adderbury, three miles
from Banbury, she became tired and inquired for a
Protestant minister; she was taken to the house of the
Rev. Mr. Crickett, an Independent minister, where
she was kindly received, both by Mr. and Mrs. Crickett,
with whom she was remaining yesterday. She has been
supplied with clothing, and the garments peculiar to the
sisterhood, in which she went away, have been returned
to the convent. Before she left St, John's, we believe
an application was made by the parties with whom she
had been in communication, to a neighbouring magistrate,
for his aid to remove her; and he wrote on the
subject to Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State; but
she did not wait for their interference, but took an
opportunity of acting alone, as we have described."

The Will of the late King of the French has been
proved at Doctors' Commons, The personal property is
sworn at under £100,000. The will is dated at Claremont,
October 10, 1848, and is very concise. He bequeaths
his house and gardens at Palermo to Queen Marie
Amelie for ever. He gives all his property in England
and America to the Queen, for her life, with revereion
to her children, subject to such provisions as her Majesty
may make in her life-time, and in the case of any
informal or incomplete bequest of it by the Queen, it
is to be divided into nine shares. Two of these
shares go to the Duc de Nemours, and one to the Comte
de Paris and the Duc de Chartres—to be held by them
as joint tenants—that is to say, to be divided between
them. The remaining shares are divided, one each to
Louise, Queen of the Belgians, the Prince de Joinville
the Duc d'Aumale, the Duchess de Saxe Coburg Gotha,
the Duc de Montpensier, and Phillip Alexandre (a grandson),
Duc de Wurtemberg. The ex-monarch bequeaths
all his money in the house at Claremont, and in the
bank, at his death, to his Queen, subject only to the
payment of his just debts and funeral expenses. The
Queen is appointed executrix of this will during her life-
time; and after her decease, Mr. W. E. Marjoribanks
Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., Mr. W. M. Coulthurst, Mr. E.
Marjoribanks, jun., and Mr. J. Parkinson, of Lincoln's-
Inn Fields, are to act as trustees. The dispositions of his
property in France are not proved in England.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

Colonel R. M. JOHNSON, Vice-Presidcnt of the Republic under
the Van Buren administration, died on the 19th ult., at his
residence in Kentucky state, in the 70th year of his age.

Lieutenant LORIMER, one of the senior military knights,
died at Windsor on the 25th ult. He entered the army in 1805,
and served in the Peninsula, at Walcheren, and at the siege of
Flushing, he was severely wounded at Corunna and Flushing,
and had received the war medal and clasp for Corunna.

Sir WILLIAM WHYMPER, M.D., died on the 28th ult. at Dover,
aged 65 years. He served in the Coldstream Guards as Surgeon,
throughout the Peninsular war, and was present at Waterloo.
He had received the war medal with five clasps. In 1825 Dr.
Whymper became Surgeon-Major of the Coldstream Guards,
and in 1836 he retired on half-pay. He was in 1832 knighted
by the late king.

Mr. K. GiLFILLAN, well known as the author of several beautiful
songs in the Scottish dialect, died suddenly on the 4th inst.
from a fit of apoplexy, with which he was seized while in
attendance at his office as Collector for the Commissioners of
Police in Leith.

General The Hon. Sir WILLIAM LUMLEY, G.C. B., died on the
l5th inst., aged 82 years. He was son of the fourth Earl of
Scarborough. At the age of eighteen he entered the cavalry
service, in 1787, as a cornet in the 10th Dragoons, and served in