Last night's Gazette contains an order for the Court to
assume mourning to- morrow for the Archduke Charles of Austria; the mourning to change on the 23d, and to cease on the 26th instant.
A Cabinet Council sat at the Foreign Office this afternoon.
In a Convocation, held at Oxford yesterday afternoon, hlr. Nassau Senior took the oaths, and was admitted to the ease of Professor of Political Economy, on the' foundation of Mr. Drummond.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland remains in a very precisions state. In the, alternations between rallying and sinking, he was said to be slightly better on Thursday.
The accounts from the Irish provinoes continue to record tumultuous assem- blies of the people, who destroy the soup-kitchens.
The Lord-Lieutenant has issued a proclamation, remonstrating with the dis- turbers of the public peace, and waning them of condign punishment.
From all the accounts received today from the various districts of Stafford- shire, it appears that there has not been any general disturbance in any part; but the Irishmen are still prohibited from working in any of the pits or brick- yards. This morning some of those who had been employed many years in the neighbourhood of Walsall were driven from work and ill-used.—Standard.
The Journal des Ddbats of Thursday quotes from the Journal de St. Peters- burg the explanatory statement that the chief object of the Russian Government in its recent purchase of French stock was to induce France to purchase corn in Russia rather than in the United States.
Cyprus has been suffering from the ravages of large flights of locusts.
A private letter from Madrid mentions, that since the departure of the Queen for Araninez the King has not appeared in public. He shoota rabbits in the Casa de Campo, and in the evening plays some musical instrument; retiring to bed at midnight. Don Francisco de Paula's younger children are residing with the King.
The Times of this morning notices a breach of confidence committed by HOMO one in the office of the Income-tax Commissioners. The contents of returns con- fidentially made by mercantile firms have been divulged
A fire was discovered in the kitchens of Trinity College, Cambridge, on Thum, day night, and the flames spread so rapidly and fiercely that the utmost alarm was felt for the whole college. Ultimately the fire was quelled, but not until it had done great damage.
A triple murder was committed on Wednesday last, at Mirfield, near Dewsbury, in Yorkshire. About one o'clock in the day, blood was seen to flow from under the door of a house occupied by Mr. Wraith, an old retired clerk. When the house was entered, the bodies of Mr. Wraith, Mrs. Wraith, and a young maid- servant, were discovered with their throats cut. M`Cabe, an Irish hawker of earthenware who had been to the house, is in custody on suspicion; and he gives a very confused account of his movements.
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