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It is confidently repor:Rd that Lord Hill, in consequence of the state of his health, has expressed a wish to resign the office of Commander- in-Chief of the Army. We understand that the Duke of Welling;on will, on Lord Hill's retirement, be invited by her Majesty to reseme the command of the A rmy.—Standard.

We are informed that extensive preparations are in progress at Red- castle, the seat of Colonel Baillie, M.P., in expectation of a visit from Sir Robert Peel immediately after the prorogation of Parliament.— Ross-shire Paper.

Sir Robert Inglis and Sir Thomas Fremantle embarked on Thurs- day for Antwerp.

Ministers ate their annual fish dinner at Greenwich on Saturday ; that day being the last Saturday of the session. Their arrival at Greenwich was attended by the unusual pomp of the discharge of cannon ; the effusion of gratification by some steam-boat company at the honour of conveying such freight. Of the party, which numbered about fifty, was the ex- Minister the Duke of Buckingham. The Duke of Wellington and the Lord Chancellor were kept away by indisposition.

The Limerick Chronicle announces the recovery of Mr. Senior, the Poor-law Commissioner, who has been indisposed.

The Salopian Journal announces the death of William Noel Lord Berwick, at Redrice, his estate in Hampshire, on Thursday week. He succeeded his brother, the late Lord, in 1832; and is himself succeeded by his youngest brother, the Honourable and Reverend Richard Noel Hill, 111. A., Rector of Berrington iu Shropshire. Lord Berwick was a Conservative ; but he never, though he once sat in the Lower House, took an active part in politics.

Mr. John Frost, a veteran Reformer, died at Holly Lodge, Lyming- ton, on the 25th, in his ninety-second year. He was the Secretary and one of the founders of the Corresponding Society. In 1792 he har- boured Gerrald. In 1793 he was elected, with Joel Barlow, Deputy from the Constitutional Society to France. After his return he was sen- tenced to the pillory, for seditious words in commendation of the pro- ceedings in France, drawn from him by a spy ; but the pillory was pulled down by the people, and the sentence remained unexecuted. In 1801 he was elected for East Grinstead ; a pardon from his sentence as a felon being obtained by the influence of Sheridan, to remove an objection to the validity of the election. He married early ; but, living unhappily with his wife, they separated, after two daughters had been born ; who survive their parents.

The Kilkenny Journal announces the death of Mr. John Banim, the popular Irish novelist, at his residence, Windgap Cottage, near Leinster, in the forty-second year of his age-

" Mr. Banirn was a native of this city, of the parish in which he died, and which owes to him its celebrity as the scene of some of the most exquisite of his tales. At a very early age—so early as to have been almost deemed an un- healthy precocity—his genius began to be developed; and there are still in ex- istence manuscripts of his prose and poetry written in the fresh bloom of boy- hood, which contained ample promises of the excellence to which he afterwards attained. But whatever expectations of literary fame might have been created in the minds of his friends at that early period, they were exceeded by their hopes of his success as a painter; for he displayed considerable taste and skill in that sister art, and was for some years resolved on making it his regular pro- fession. When scarcely seventeen years of age, he became editor of the Lein- ster Journal. When about twenty years of age, Mr. Minim married ; and proceeded to London, where he became immediately editor of the Literary Register. However, he abandoned the comparatively unprofitable work of edi- torship in a few years when the great success of the first series of The O'Hara Tales opened the way to certain fame and fortune."

He died in poverty ; his pension of 150/. a year, augmented by 40/. for the education of his only daughter, not sufficing for his necessities, broken down as his health had been for many years by incessant exer- tion.

The Jamaica mail of the 8th July conveys melancholy, news : the Countess of Elgin was so ill that her death had been reported. On the night of the 6th July, however, she slept well, and she was somewhat better on the 7th.

An Ostend paper narrates an adventure which happened to the Duke of Saxe Coburg, while shooting sea-gulls, on the 2d: be escaped the fate of the Master of Ravenswood-

" The Prince set out at four in the evening in his carriage, to proceed along the strand towards Blackenberghe. Whenever a sea-gull appeared, the carriage stopped and the Prince fired. The tide was coming in fast, and consequently the carriage was frequently in the water. After one stoppage a little longer than usual, it was found impossible for the horses to move the carriage, which had sunk up to the axletrees in the sand. The Prince vias obliged to get out, and reach terra firma on the shoulders of the postilion. Additional horses were procured after some time, and the carriage was dragged out. The Duke returned to Ostend the same evening at a late hour."

The accounts of the crops are no less favourable than they were last week. In the South they are abundant, and throughout the coun- try the harvest proceeds well. Reaping has fairly commenced in several districts of Scotland; and even the John o'Groat's Journal says that barley will be generally ready in the neighbourhood about the middle of this month.

When the Duke of Wellington declined to receive a deputation of Anti-Corn-law Deputies, he offered to receive written communications ; and "the Anti-Corn-law Deputies now in London" have accordingly addressed to the Duke a lecture on the Corn-laws, which they have published in the papers.

The ballot for President of the French Chamber of Deputies took place on Friday last, at three o'clock. On casting up the votes, there appeared—for M. Sauzet 210, M. Odillon Barrot 131, M. Dufaure 39, M. Gros Preville 22, M. Dupin 16, M. Berryer 3, lost votes 5. None of the candidates having obtained an absolute majority of votes, (one over a clear moiety of the members voting,) another ballot was had ; when M. Sauzet obtained 227 votes, M. Dufaure 184' giving to M. Sauzet a majority of 43. M. Sauzet was consequently declared duly elected.

The Vice-Presidents of the Chamber were elected on Saturday : all four were Conservative. Three of the Secretaries are Conservative, the fourth is of the Left Centre. The commission on the address corn- prizes seven Ministerialist and two Opposition members.

The Ministry sustained a slight defeat in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, when, on the proposition of M. Odillon Barrot, an inquiry was ordered to be instituted into the circumstances of the elections of M. Pauwels, M. Floret, and M. Allier, the decision upon whose admis- sion had been adjourned. M. Teste, the Minister of Public Works, vainly opposed the proposition, which was ultimately agreed to by a majority of about fifty votes.

The following is an abstract of the Regency Bill given by the 31orning Chronicle- " Article I. The King's minority ceases at eighteen years accomplished. "Article 2. At the moment of the King's death, if his successor be a minor, the Prince nearest the Throne in the established order of succession, according to the Charter of 1830, if he be twenty-one years of age, becomes invested with the Regency throughout the minority. "Article 3. The full and entire exercise of the royal authority, in the name of the King, belongs to the Regent.

"Article 4. The 12th Article of the Charter, and all the legislative dis- positions protecting the person and constitutional rights of the King, are applicable to the Regent.

"Article 5. The Regent makes oath, in presence of the Chambers, to be faithful to the King of the French, to obey the Charter and the established laws of the kingdom, and to act in every other respect in the sole view of the interest and happiness and of the glory of the French people. Should the Chambers not be sitting, then the Regent is hound to convene them within three months.

"Article 6. The guardianship and tutorship of the young King belong to the Queen, or to the Princess his mother whilst unmarried; and in the event of the demise of the Queen, or Princess, or both, to the nearest female branch on the father's side not married."

The National states that more than fifty thousand mattresses are at present deposited in the Mont de Piete. "This simple fact," observes the National, "demonstrates forcibly the distress which prevails among the industrious classes."

The heat had become almost intolerable in Paris: at nine o'clock on Wednesday the thermometer, (Fahrenheit,) in a northerly aspect, marked eighty degrees; at two o'clock, ninety-two degrees.

The Orthodox party at Chatham have had a glorious revenge for the refusal of a church-rate in the town : they have published a list of voters for and against the rate, and they have stopped two church- clocks.