Iflistellaneous.

It was ordered by the. Queen in Council, at Osborne, on Saturday, that the Parliament, which stood prorogned to Tuesday the 9th October instant, be further prorogued to Tuesday the 20th day of November next.

The pro forma " meeting of Parliament ":for its further protogation took. place 'on Monday. The Commissioners were Lord Chancellor Cottenbam, the 'Earl of Carlisle, and Lord Campbell; and these noblemen wore the only Peers present. The Commons were represented by -Mr.-Raphael, the sin- gle sttey Member, and Mr. W. Ley, the Assistant Clerk, with several mes- sengers. The. Parliament was prorogued to the 20th day of November. The House presented a' dreary aspect; most of the benches were covered up, "resembling so many of Pickford and Co.'s covered Vans;rather than the gorgeous crimson-covered seats of hereditary senators." On a high scaffold- ing near the throne, one of the artists intrusted with the, execution of the frescoes was busily engaged in his work by the aid of candle-light.

It is announced that Prince Albert honoured Mr. Charles Kean with an nterview, at Osborne, on Thursday'week; relative to the private theatri- cid.s to take place at Windsor Castle next Ckttistraas, 'by command of her :Majesty • - • Mr. Abbot Lawrence, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, has arrived in London with his wife and family, and bits 'entered upon hie 'official duties. '

Sir E. S. Baynes, bar Majesty's Conshl at St. Petersburg, has been ap- pointed Agent and Consul-General at Tunis, in place of Sir, Thomas Reade, deceased; and Mr. Charles Eastland Michele has been appointed 'Consul at St. Petersburg, on-the'removal of SinE. 5.'Baynes.—Morning Chronicle.

- A void in the list of the .Queen's Household is made by the sudden death of Mr. George Edward Anson; who was attacked by an apoplectic fit on. Monday at noon, and,breathed his last, after a few hours of unconscious- ness. Mr. Anson had been pi's-ate secretary to Lord'Melbourne,. and on his Lordship's recommendation,' received the appointment of private secre- tary to Prinee Albert at the Prince's marriage to Queen Victoria. On the death of Sir Henry Wheatley he became Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Purse to the Queen, and was very useful in the confidential concerns. Of the Palace. -Accounts received at the Deanery of St. Paul's on Thursday evening, from rdwicke. gay' that o'no fr‘vesireible change had taken place" the Allop of Llandaff's health. He was." considered in a very precarious mu_ - ■It is stated by tius,010Agutk, pautigghippe, " who officiated as private 'set-rotary to- Prince. Albert under the Itett,Mr. Anson, will ad interim dis_ °barge thekluties 'of that gentleman in the Prince's household."

Letters from Worsley HilI" do not hold out the slightest prospect of the retoirery " of "Viscount Beackley.

'14esults of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in IMberetroogpoliaAufotor:e . • ::. ■I' ,1:', Week ending on'Saturdaylist—': ' • ;,H li ii bluow Learns. Aye-rage, Zsinotte urcum.70_CAILe.e,!,,al,,d , • . ewer-awe seat.. 44 •ot,iiiid;tzwic....gtaiiev -awe at.. 44 • TIlikittlIge-PISeSt044 14 Mi.:V-1:a Diseases of the Strain, SIO141895469096•Plrictit tY;Ld sepses tot • • • • 125. - . 1.n,sepses cif the Heart and' Blood.ressels , 23 44, 'Diseases' hf the'Langs,•ant5oflhe 'other Omani. of Respiration 123 214

' Tastes& alihe'Stomaeb• Urea', bpd other Organs of Digestion 75 .. • • 65

Disonten of the rhadason, 40.• 9 • • • • 11 ChildtStrth, diseases of the 'Uterus, &e a ••■'• 10 feriellinatiam, die6ssesi if the'llones, Joints, etc Dionne& ontbe Skin,Qtfitsior Tissue, &e. 5 • • • • 1

. Idalfessnations, .. rruspature Ihrth •

Atniphy 39 • • • . 18

Aito 48 , 22 •

Sudden 5 • • • • 12

Yiu:ence, Privation, Cold, and lutemperanee • 1182 ye,

Total (including unipechlea causes) Leso " Since the first week of Septeniber, when the total' deaths were8,133, the mot_ tidily has steadily declined, and is now, happily, not much 'in enema of the rate that usually nrevails in the last quarter of the/ear. Cholera has fallen more rapidly that' it increased ; for during last week the deaths registered were 288, a number in the fourth week of its decline which differti not much from the number returned about eight weeks before it attained its Lereateet fatality: Diarrheas and dysentery also decrease, but more slowly. It will be observed, however,•that the deathsfrom these two forms of disease hist'week, namely .146, are hardly less nurnerous:than thOSe of Part of the' years 1846 and 1847, when the periodical increase was un- usually great. In St. Giliesoely einedeath from cholera was registered last week; in East 'London,'West London, and City of:London, the-deaths were ,12, those in the previous week from cholera:having been 264 in. Lambeth the deaths in twa weeks' haVe-fallen from 60, to! 2L It lingers in Fulham, and in some other dis- trictslhe ,recent improvement-is not remarkable. Other epidemics, with the.8.1‘

ception of typhus are near the average. .

The diminished fatality of the cholera is still manifested by the daily returns. Yesterday-the-deaths returned in -Leaden were 15; those .in the Provinces, 138;

in Scotland, 42. . .

.6t'llemeanibeight of the barometer in the week was 29.374; the mean tempe- rature was 51° 2'—less than the average of the same week in seveayears by shoat The temperature was, .coneicierably lower than in previous weeks; and 'on some days rain fell heavily."

-Mr.- Browno- son of Mr. W1lliernI3rowit„, M.P. for South Lancashire, died of cholera on Tuesday afterneon.,, at Lancaster, On hia journey fromthe Lakes to

Richmond. till. . .

Reports having appeared in the Board of Health returns stating that seven deaths had occurred at Eton from the cholera, Dr. er/trey,. Head Master of Eton School, has forwarded alist of specifie questions` to the medical and sana- tory officers of the place, with the answers, proving the inaccuracy bYthereports. It-appears that only one/peel:ire-het *cl-pfteNtra Eton parish since the 15th September and only eigkt pedrmi ~her, emcee the cholera appeared there. ThereJ*8'4:ra, no fatal case in a class a classes; and no case fatal or otherwise has appeared on,the School side 4Barnspool Bridge.- error in theltteird' -of" Health Antis; hail originated irethe filet tharEton nieeigives its.name to nineteen other parishes besides itself, the deaths in which have been 'ascribed to Eton:parish. T.0 - The exemption enjoyed by Ilireninghent has been interrupted. A letter from tliarteten, dated on Monday, stated that six, deaths from decided Asiatic cholera had occurred in the IniOne ward of the Workhense. - An intinist was held on Monday on those cases, .and the verdict. Maligned delete, as the einte of" death. The surgeons stated, however, that the Workhouse' was -then free froth •thedisease. The writer adds—" Since then, I believe;three -other inquests have been held in various parts of the town upon persons said to have -died from the malady. A

medicril assistant fell, after a few hours' illness, on Saturday." '

The Sanatory Committee of the Town-Council of Nottingham has lately pre- sented to that body every interesting report, showing how much has been effected , in staving off, such a visitation of the cholera as ravaged that town in 1832:- In ,the.papelation being then 53,000, 1,100 cases of cholera occurred, and 289 deaths: in the preaent.risitation of the disease, only 8 cases have occurred;. and each .of. t.hese has been traceable to very distinct individual causes. There- port .akeitchee, in detail the measures by which this great improvement in the healthiness, of :Nottingham bas been effected. Briefly enumerated, they were-1. An unlimited supply of wholesome filtered water; forced, by day and night, at bighPreesure, through all the streets to the tops of 'elniost all the houses; at a cost foram dwellings of the poor of about lid. per Week'. 2: Clean, well-drained, and paved streets. 3. Large extramural burial-gronnds. 4. Active and en- lightened foresight on the part of the municipal authorities. 5. The coiipemtion of a favourable opinion created by thecirctilatimi of thousands of copies of handbills containing sanatory warning and instruction. 6. Prompt medical aid.

A letter from Brunswick; dated 30th September, says—" The cholera has just broken out in 'a part of the country where it was least expected; namely, at Hid, tenrode; a village not vt.y fat from Blankenburg, but at a height nearly equal to that of the Bracken. • The sanatory authorities have sent a medical commission to the spot." ;There-was a -fall of snow in the neighbourhood of Glossop last Friday, which was succeeded-by a very violent thunder-storm. The snow was lying in elrins on the hills.' • . ,

Discoursing on Mr. Disraeli's project, the Times says—" The liquidation, of the debt by; a revival of protection, for such it is in effect, is a good end tacked to ill means, a public pretence for a private advantage. We hive heard of a scheme for raising money to build new caurches by selling Dissenters to the Turks; which of course would be a double gain.- On the principle of the end sanctifying the means, no true ram of theChtirch could object to the plan, but we could searcely expect the other party to come into it. As little do we think that the mannfac- taring mercantile population dile country will accede to Mr. Disraeli's sug-

gestion." •

'The Siecle says, that when Abd-el-Kader beard Of the death of Marshal Bugeaud, he expressed great regret, and addressed a letter of condolence to his

family. • • • • -

The Jockey Club have received, through the medium of the English Consul- General in E ypt, a challenge, from the Pasha to run, a match for 10,0001, to °One Off in r, tit, ten miles: the Clab to send as many horses, and to put Up

what weight t ey please. _ •

A captain in the Eighth Regiment of Hussars, stationed at Castm, threw him- self, a fart days since, from a window of a third story. A peasant, who was pass- ing with a donkey at the moment the officer fell, was literally crushed to death by his weight; and his spurs touching the animal, it went off at full speed knock- ing down and killing. a child in its course. The fall of the officer bad been some- what broken by coming in contact with the unfortunate peasant ; but he died in afew hours after, in the hospil to which he bad been carried in a state of in.sen. sibility. The cause of this suticaide is not known .—Paris Paper. A Lincolnshire man living near Blyth has bought some "smuggled brandy" rather dear. Certain rogues had been trying in vain to sell pretended contraband goods; at last they met a man on the road, gave him a t nue of real good brandy from a bottle, and induced him to buy three bottles of the precious spirit. When be got home, he attempted to pour some out of a bottle; about a wine-glassful came from it, and then the full bottle would yield no more. His wife thrust a skewer down the neck, and a quantity of coloured water flowed out. The cheats had nearly filled the bottles with coloured water, poured on the water melted deer suet, and over the partition they put a little real brandy. No fewer than three cases of defalcation by railway officers are reported. Robert Jones, station-master at Chesterford, has been committed for trial by the Ilketon Magistrates on charges of embezzlement. The deficiency in his accounts is said to amount to 2001. On one day he received 251. 16s. &L, but transmitted to the accountant only 121. 10s. A clerk at the St. David's station of the South Devon Railway has absconded, and is supposed to have sailed for Australia. He is a defaulter, but not to a large amount Mr. Wilson, a cashier at the Waterloo terminus of the South-western Railway, died recently: it is reported that his ac- counts show him a debtor to the Company.

Miss Durie, otherwise Mrs. Ellis Norris, the lunatic lady who was married about a year ago to a groom, has succeeded in escaping from Burgh Hall asylum, where she was confined. Some one evidently assisted her in her flight; as the window-frame of her room had been prepared for taking it out, and the descent to the ground, some fifteen or sixteen feet, was effected without leaving any marks of a fall or a leap. Ttie Police immediately searched for the fugitive in every direction, but in vain. Norris was acting as groom to a gentleman in the neigh- bourhood, who immediately discharged him.

The "father of France" has just died. Jean Baptiste Robillard was a hue- dred and thirteen years and four months old; having been burn in June 1736. He retained the use of his faculties to the last moment.

James Buckley,. a young workman of Leeds, has died this week from wounds inflicted by assassins so far back as the night of the 30th November last year. A charge of shot was lodged in his right arm and back; surgical aid could not reettablish his health, and he had several attacks of inflammation of the luugs. Coroner's Jury has given a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person unknown."