"Sleepers, awake" was chanted—and the ceremonial
terminated. When all was ended, the soldiers marched
off to their quarters by various ways, none returning
through the route traversed in the morning.

The Rev. Robert Whiston, who has been Re-instated
by the judgment of the Bishop of Rochester in the
head-mastership of Rochester school (see Household
Narrative for Sept., p. 225), has addressed a letter of
thanks to the press for the support given to his cause by
its principal organs. He says that, though convinced of
the illegality of the decision, he has determined to accept
it in so far as it affects his own rights and claims;
"but," he adds, "the important question, whether the
dean and chapter have or have not 'illegally taken to
themselves a disproportionate share of the cathedral
revenues,' still remains to be decided; and I do not
doubt that, if I desire and deserve it, your support for
the future will be given as readily and powerfully as it
has been in the past."

Out of the property bequeathed by the late Mr. Neild
to the Queen, amounting to £250, 000., her Majesty has
made an ample provision for the two domestics of Mr.
Neild, whose interests were totally disregarded by him
in his will."

           Obituary of Notable Persons.

Sir W. NEWBIGGING, the eminent Scottish physician, died in
Edinburgh on the 30th of October.

Captain T. WENTWORT BULLER, one of the tithe commissioners,
died at Wimpole, in Devonshire, on the 30th of October.

Sir EDWARD STANLEY, for many years inspector of city
prisons in Dublin, has died in that city, in his 83rd year.

Admiral ZACHARY MUDGE, died on the 26th ult. in his 83rd
year.

DANIEL WEBSTER, the great American statesman, died at
Marshfield, on the 24th ult., in his 70th year.

MAX JOSEPH EUGENE AUGUSTUS NAPOLEON, Duke of
Leuchtenberg, second son of Duke Eugene of Leuchtenberg, and
grandson of Viscount Beauharnais and Josephine, afterwards
Empress of the French, died at St. Petersburgh, on the 5th inst.,
aged 35. He was Adjutant-General of the Emperor, a
Lieutenant-General of the Army, and President of the Academy of
Arts at St. Petersburg.

DR SCHOLZ, one of the most eminent oriental scholars in
Germany, has died at Bonn, where he was a Professor.

The EARL OF SHREWSBURY died at Naples, on the 9th instant,
after a short illness.

GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL, LL.D., F.R.S., for some time
one of the Vice-Presidents of the Geological Society, died at his
house in Chester-place, Pimlico, on the 10th inst., very suddenly.

         COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

There are accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to
the 9th of October. In consequence of a general order
issued from Fort Beaufort on the 20th September, the
Waterkloof is cleared of the Caffres under Maccmo.
General Cathcart with 3000 troops superintended the
operations by means of which this desirable result was
effected. The enemy was panic-stricken, offered little
resistance, and many who tried to conceal themselves
were killed. The Commander-in-Chief speaks highly of
the "energy and admirable conduct of the troops,
Burghers, Levies, and Fingoes." The rebel Hottentot
leader, Uithaalder, had made overtures of peace to
General Cathcart; who replied, that be would treat of
nothing but "unconditional surrender." The non-arrival
of the Constitution had caused much dissatisfaction.

The Canadian legislature, on the 15th of October,
resolved upon an address to the Queen, praying for the
imposition of duties on the produce of foreign nations
entering English ports, equivalent to those which
said nations impose on the produce of England and her
Colonies; also, for the repeal of laws conferring on
American vessels advantages the Canadian vessels do
not enjoy in American waters.

Advices from Corfu of the 12th inst., state that the
Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands has
published a limited amnesty in favour of the participators
in the Cephalonian outbreak. Seventeen prisoners
are restored to liberty, and four exiled.

       NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

The French President has been proceeding with the
steps preparatory to his formal assumption of the
Imperial Crown. The Senate, convoked on his return
from his progress through the provinces, after several
sittings, passed on the 7th inst. the following Senatus-
Consultum:—

Art. 1. The Imperial dynasty is re-established. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte is Emperor of the French, under the name of
Napoleon III.

Art. 2. The Imperial dignity is hereditary in the direct
descendants, natural and legitimate, of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
from male to male, by order of primogeniture, and to the
perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants.

Art. 3. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, should he not have any
male child, may adopt the children and descendants, natural
and legitimate, in the male branch of the brothers of the
Emperor Napoleon 1. The forms and conditions of such adoption
shall be regulated by a Senatus-consultum. If, at a period
posterior to such adoption, Louis Napoleon should happen to
have male children, the adopted sons cannot be called to the
throne until after the natural and legitimate descendants.
Adoption is interdicted to the successors of Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte and their descendants.

Art. 4. Louis Napoleon regulates by an organic decree,
addressed to the Senate, and deposited in his archives, the order
of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, in case he
should leave no direct, legitimate, or adoptive heir.

Art. 5. In default of any natural and legitimate or adopted
heir of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and of the successors in a
collateral line which shall derive their right in the above-
mentioned organic decree, a Senatus-consultum, proposed to the
Senate by the Ministers assembled in council, with the adjunction
of the Presidents, acting as such in the Senate, in the legislative
corps, and in the Council of State, and submitted to the
people for acceptance, shall name the Emperor, and regulate in
his family the order of succession from male to male, to the
perpetual exclusion ot the females and of their descendants. Up to
the moment when the election of the new Emperor is terminated,
the affairs of the state are to be governed by the Ministers then
in functions; who are to form a council of government, and to
deliberate by a majority of votes.

Art. 6. The members of the family of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
called by circumstances within the line of succession, and
their descendants of both sexes, form part of the Imperial family.
A Senatus-consultum will regulate their position. They cannot
marry without the consent of the Emperor; and their marriage,
contracted without such authorisation, involves the privation of
all claim to the succession, both for him who has contracted it
and for his descendants.

Art. 7. The Constitution of 15th January, 1852, is maintained
in all the enactments which are not contrary to the present
Senatus-consultum; and no modifications can be made in it
except in the forms and by the means provided for the purpose.

Art. 8. The following proposition shall be submitted to the
people for acceptance in the forms determined by the decrees of
the 2nd and 4th December, 1851—The people desires the
re-establishment of the Imperial dignity in the person of Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, with the succession in its direct descendants
natural and legitimate, or adopted; and gives him the
right to regulate the order of succession to the throne in the
Bonaparte family, as provided for by the Senatus-cousultum of
the 7th day of November, 1852.