The Queen holds levees, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday

the 26th instant, and on Wednesday the 3d of March, at two o'clock.

Tuesday's Gazette notified that the Queen has appointed Lord Stanley of Alderley to be her Majesty's Paymaster-General.

The Queen has appointed Sir Alexander Malet, Bait, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Wur- tpmberg, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary to the Germanic Confederation.

The recommendations made in the First Report of the Chancery Com- missioners have been published ; and they seem to justify the expecta- tion of sweeping and practical amendments in Chancery procedure. We briefly epitomize the most important recommendations, in the order in which they are made. Creditors or legatees may apply to a Judge sitting at chambers for a sum- mary order of administration as against the estate of a deceased person. Par- ties to suits shall be reduced in number, by permitting one legatee, one de- visee, or one coheir, &e. to institute a suit, and obtain a decree without join- ing other parties having like interests. Misjoinder of plaintiffs shall be no ground for dismissing .a suit. The Court may adjudicate on rights, and declare them, without requiring the whole of the trusts to be executed. Bills of reviver are abolished, and for certain bills of supplement the power of amend- ment is substituted. The existing system of examining witnesses upon written interrogatories shall be abolished, and any party shall have the power of examining witnesses viva. voce : but the examination is to be by an officer of the court, who reports the evidence as a narrative ; and the writ- ten interrogatories themselves are not abolished, as affidavit evidence is in general to be admissible. Office copies are to be abolished, and prints of proceedings are in some cases to be available. The time for proceeding is to be much shortened. The practice of sending cases from Chancery to Law shall be abolished, and both law and fact be determined wholly in Chancery, the Judge being empowered to get the assistance of a jury when he requires it. The Masters Offices shall be abolished ; the Judges shall perform some of the duties of the Masters in court, and some of them by sitting at chambers; the other duties shall be performed by officers equivalent to the present Masters' clerks. In accounts, the technical system of charges and discharges shall be abolished ; books of account shall be prima facie evi- dence ; and merchants, accountants, engineers, actuaries, and other scienti- fic or professional persons, shall be available pro hdc vice as assistant officers of the court. The system of warrants shall be abolished. No vacancy in the office of Masters shall be filled up ; but an account of pending business shall be taken, and a competent number of Masters to despatch that business shall be retained for a limited time to despatch it.

We understand that a meeting of merchants, planters, and others in- terested in the Colonies, will take place in a few days, to impress upon the Government the propriety of including in the new Reform Bill a pro- vision for giving to the West Indies, the Cape, and other Colonies, the rights of Parliamentary representation in the Imperial Parliament.— Liverpool Albion.

The Tagus fleet, under Commodore Martin, entered Cork harbour on Monday evening.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Zyraotie Diseases 1,983 .... 191 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, . 509 • • . • 36 TuberenMr Diseases 1,794

180 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,212 .... 124 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 395 .... 44 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2.132

185 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 694 ,... Si Diseases of the Kidneys, &c

Cluidbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c

118

4 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ate 83

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Jte.

10

2 Malformations

Premature Birth

24 232 ....

6

32 Atrophy 172 .... 19

Age

650

43

Sudden

133

7

liTolenee,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance

288 .... 29

•••—

Total (including unspecified causes) 10,477

970

As Baron Martin was riding to the Guildhall yesterday morning, to preside at Nisi Prius, his horse fell down, in Cheapside near King Street, and threw him on the pavement. He got up in great pain, remounted, went to his court, and commenced a trial ; but as the trial proceeded, he nearly .fainted, and was taken out of court by members of the bar. Surgeons arriving, it was found that his shoulder was dislocated. The dislocation was reduced, and he was conveyed home. The mishap was only painful, not dangerous, and its effects should disappear in a few days. Chief Baron Pollock arrived and took the seat of his son-in-law on the bench.

Her Majesty has given apartments in Hampton Court Palace to the widows of the gallant officers Pennycuick and Cureton, who fell in the Seikh war.

'The United Service Gazette states—" The Ordnance Committee, on Tues- day last, unanimously approved of Colonel Hawker's new double carbine."

The Russian force in the Baltic at the present moment numbers forty- two sail of the line, all powerfully equipped, ably manned, extensively stored, and ready for action.—.Portsmouth Tunes and 11ravad Gazette.

A new rifle, invented by Mr. Jones, an American, is thus described by the Morning Post. " The rifle has the appearance of an ordinary double- barrelled gun, with the exception that the barrels are placed one above the other, and the lower barrel is rather shorter than the upper. In the lower barrel are placed twenty-five bullets of a conical shape, each about an inch in length. The upper part of these bullets is charged ' d with powder, and by a alight movement of a small lever they are brought into the upper barrel one after the other, as the previous one is discharged from it. In the stock there is a small box for holding a number of detonating pills, very small, which one by one fall under the hammer of the trigger, and do the duty of the ordinary copper cape. Last evening, the operator discharged his gun twenty-five times in about a minute, and he informs us that he can load and reload his gun and fire it 125 times in less than five minutes. The gun has been submitted to and is under the consideration of the Board of Ordnance."

A Committee-room in the Parliament Palace was set on fire on Saturday, -by an explosion caused by the escape of gas out of a defective pipe. The Are was extinguished without much damage.

Prior to 1830 there were only 40,000 metres of sewers in Paris ; all of which were constructed by the Emperor. From 1830 to 1832, 2277 metres were added ; from 1832 to January 1842, 73,000 metres; and from 1842 to the end of 1851, 44,500: so that the capital is now cleansed by 159,777 metres of sewers, or nearly 100 miles.

Ten Weeks Week of 1841-50. of 1861.