The Queen has appointed Captain the Honourable Joseph Denman to
be one of the Grooms in Waiting in ordinary on her Majesty, in room of Admiral Sir Ed- ward Codrington, who has resigned.
The Post-office authorities have announced that from the .1st instant, the French mail packets which leave Marseilles on the 9th, 19th, and -29th of each month for the coast of Italy, will touch at Genoa and Messina, both on their out- ward and homeward voyage. All ktters for Sicily, forwarded from the United Kingdom by the way of France, will be transmitted from Marseilles hy them pack- ets, unless otherwise directed; but letters for Sardinia will be forwarded, as at present, by land, unless specially addressed "by French packet rid Marseilles." The postage upon letters forwarded by French packet to Sicily and Sardinia ea Marseilles, must be paid in advance, as far as the port of disembarkation.
The cholera appears to rage with great intensity at Moscow. From the 12th be the 19th of June there were 1,724 new cases and 728 deaths. On the last- named day not less than 327 persons were seized with this dreadful malady, and 153 others died. The cholera is gaining ground at Kasen, Nijni-Novogorod, Kos- tome, Jaroslaw, Wologda, Smolensk°, Tonle' and Kelm& It has also made its appearance at Peesa Twer, Tarkow, Olonetz, Witbka, and Orsa.
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