Referring to the postponement of the Budget by Lord John
Russell, the Daily News says, despairingly—" We fear that the session is lost, even for the castigation of admitted abuses. At a meeting held by the Conservatives at Lord Stanley's on Thursday, the Conservatives who voted with Lord Duncan were blamed for seeking to precipitate a prema- ture crisis."
Last night's Gazette notifies the issue of orders from the Lord Cham- berlain's Office for a Court mourning, in respect to the memory of the- late Princess Hohenlohe Langenbourg—to begin on Sunday the 16th, and end on Sunday the 30th instant. The Queen has appointed Dr. Hibbert Binney to be Bishop of the see of Nova Scotia, void by the death of Dr. John Inglis.
The Aberdeen Journal has announced that the Prince Albert is again to be fitted out in prosecution of the search after Sir John Franklin, by a party who will traverse the Isthmus of Boothia, in kyacks which are to be rolled up and dragged across the ice. Captain Kennedy, a brave and experienced Arctic explorer, has arrived from America to take the corn-_ mand, and is now in the Orkneys picking his crew.
We also learn, with pleasure, that the Admiralty have decided to send a steamer into Barrow's Straits this summer, for news from Captain Aus- tin, of the success met with last year, in following up the hopeful vestiges then discovered.
A letter from Rome, dated the 5th instant, states that the captain of an Austrian ship of war has captured a British merchantman that ran foul of him during a fog in the port of Ancona, and refused to pay for the damages done; and has "snapped his fingers" at the remonstrances of our Consul, Mr. Moore.
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