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We believe that the meeting of Parliament for the despatch of business will not be delayed more than a week beyond the time to which it is pro- rogued. The 19th of January is said to be the day fixed for the opening of Parliament.—Times.

A Cabinet Council, which sat two hours, was held at the Foreign Office on Monday. Most of the Ministers were present.

The Globe has furnished an explanation, so far as it goes, of the myste- rious arrangement for managing the affairs of the Dutchy of Lancaster- " Some time ago, it was deemed advisable that the management of the property of the Crown in the Dutchy of Lancaster should be submitted to the supervision of a Committee, similar to that already organized for the ultimate decision of questions affecting the management of the Crown property in the Dutchy of Cornwall. Neither the powers nor the duties of such a Committee have anj connexion whatever with the political relations of its members. They are nomi- nated as gentlemen having personal experience in the management of landed property, and willing to use that experience in the service of the Sovereign, as they might in the capacity. of trustees of a friend's estate. The need for such service is obvious enough, in the trammels which in this country surround the personal actions of the Sovereign. Lord Campbell, as Chancellor of the Dutehy, is entirely unaffected by the arrangement; and the Commissioners, as such, have no more political connexion with the Ministry for the time being than the mem- bers of the Church Commission, or any other." The arrangement, says the Globe, had been determined upon, and in pro- gress, before the late change of Ministry: the men had already been chosen, solely on the ground of their fitness for the duties; and it was deemed inex- pedient to exclude them on mere considerations of party.

The Reverend Dr. J. Griffith is to be the new Bishop of Soder and Man, vacant by the translation of Dr. Short to the see of St. Asaph. By the last returns, the income of the vacant see was 2,0001. per aunum—ifors- ing Post.

We understand that Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lientenant-Governor of New Zealand under Captain Grey.—Times.

Captain Sir Edward Parry, the celebrated Polar voyager, is to succeed Captain Carter as Superintendent of Hasler Hospital.

Major-General Brotherton, it is understood, will be the Inspector-Gene- ral of Cavalry, in the room of Lieutenant-General Lygon.—Globe.

Mr. William H. Cooke, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed by the Dean and Canons of Hereford to succeed the late Sir Charles We- therell as counsel for that cathedral.

Mr. J. M. Morgan, who has visited Wirtemberg and the chief towns in Switzerland, for the benevolent purpose of exciting attention to the plan of Christian colonization throughout Europe, in which secular affairs will be subordinate to the religious and moral improvement and to the general wellbeing of the colonists, has, we understand, met with much success, and is now in Italy for the same object—Standard.

Dr. Newman, accompanied by Mr. Ambrose St. John, arrived in Rome on the evening of the 28th October. On the following morning he visited the tomb of the Apostles. His promptitude was rewarded by an interview in the crypt of the Basilica with the Pope himself: the Pontiff was engaged in the performance of high mass. It is said that Dr. Newman and his com- panion would enter the College of Propaganda, and undergo a preparatory course of discipline, previously to being reordained in the Church of Rome.

N. P. Willis, the well-known American writer, was married at New Bedford, in the United States, on the 1st of last month, to a daughter of the Honourable Joseph Grinnell, Member of Congress. The fair bride is named Cornelia, and is described to be petite, spirituelle, and an heiress.— Morning Post.

A pamphlet on " Sir Robert Peel and the Corn-laws " is making some stir in the Scottish capital: it is in the shape of "A Letter to the Conser- vatives, with a Postscript on the recent Article in the Quarterly Review, by a Conservative of Edinburgh." The writer's aim is to show that Sir Robert Peel's conversion to free trade in practice—he had always ad- mitted it in theory—was a genuine and honest change of opinion; that it was a more sagacious view than that of Conservatives, like the writer, who were slower to adopt it; that after all, the party cannot do without their leader and their best men; and that they ought to set about a complete reconciliation with Sir Robert and his immediate followers. The spirit Of the letter may be gathered fron the subjoined perserize-

" Political economy, like other sciences, is most satisfactorily developed by ex- periment; but, unfortunately, the interests involved are generally too great to be subjected to such a test. But in taking away protection from wool in rendering the protection on live cattle and fresh meat almost nominal, and in greatly re- ducing the protection on corn itself, Sir Robert evidently adopted the most scien- tific and satisfactory mode of ascertaining the tendency and effect of reductions on the protection heretofore extended to the products of the soil. We all re- member the mischievous panic in regard to cattle which the reduction of duty produced ; and we have lived to see the complete fulfilment of the predictions, or rather assurances, then given by Sir Robert Peel on that subject. On that occasion much abuse was lavished upon the Minister by the Protectionists, for which they have for some time owed himan ample apology; but they have not been generous enough to tender what he is too highminded to require. But, although unacknowledged, the experience of that occasion and of the subsequent results has produced a very marked effect on the phamomena of the present cri- sis. The repeal of the Corn• laws has been followed by no panic, but rather by an increase of confidence and a rise in the rent of farms; at least such is the present state of matters in most parts of Scotland. This fact throws a strong reflex light on the prss of Sir Robert Peel's own ideas; for it shows that in truth the public mind has been silently but strongly tending in the same direc- tion, and undoubtedly on the same grounds, as those which weighed with Sir Robert himself. Thus, the public has become in a considerable degree converted that very experience of three years which it is called sheer hypocrisy in Sir B&ftt to refer to as justifying his own change of opinion!"

The Standard reports that a new mode of defrauding the revenue has recently been brought to light. It has been the practice of certain wharfingers who possess bonding warehouses to deliver goods in their charge to the merchants, without payment of duty; giving credit for it until it might suit the convenience of the owners to pass the necessary entry for home consumption. The system of bookkeeping observed in the Custom- house does not admit of stock-taking, and affords therefore peculiar facili- ties for these irregularities. Now and then these bonding warehouses are burnt down, and in such cases the Crown waives the duties altogether: when this happens, the merchant who has received the goods improperly is compelled to pocket the amount of duties which he owes; because, as it has been assumed that the goods were in the warehouse, it would be dan- gerous for him to confess the fraud.

The Manx Liberal mentions a rumour, " that a commission has been ap- pointed to revise and alter the laws of the island; and that the commission is to consist of three gentlemen selected by the House of Keys, and two appointed by Government." The journalist fears that the news is too good to be true. [Certainly nothing is more absolutely desirable than a thorough change of the absurd " constitution " of the island. The Liberal hopes that Lord John will fulfil for it his declaration that all " colonies" ought to have representative governments: but Man is not a colony, and it ought at once to be made an English county, with its due representation in Parliament. The commission might be formed in a more satisfactory way than the one indicated by the rumour: why should the Court of Keys ap- point a majority of the judges on its own case?]

Memorials have been addressed to Lord Palmerston, both by the Man- chester Chamber of Commerce, and the Manchester Commercial Associa- tion, on the subject of the expedition now organizing by General Flores against Ecuador, as likely to prove injurious to the trade of this country with South America.

According to a statement in the Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, the en- terprising Lieutenant Waghorn is again agitating a third route for the In- dian mails. He proposes now to proceed by Ancona, Lombardy, and the Splugen; and it is said that a new road will be constructed along the Southern shore of the Adriatic. The Austrian Government is disposed to second Lieutenant Waghom's efforts. [This new proposal is surely a con- fession of the failure of the Trieste route.]

The last advices from the United States settle the question as to the supply of corn from that quarter—there is no fear of any deficiency. On the receipt of intelligence from England, prices rose, but fell again directly; of coarse, because of the abundant supplies pressing on the market. We have further accounts, too, of corn accumulated at Odessa, for want of ships to bring it away. Freight has been quite unattainable at that port for the last month.

The price of bread in Paris during the second fortnight of November was raised to 46 centimes the two-pound loaf of the first quality, and that of the second quality to 38 centimes. Corn, however, was declining in the provincial markets of France.

"""A letter from Paris has the following. " Such is the demand for Irish labourers on railways in France, that they can earn 5 francs to 6 francs a day, while the native workmen only receive 3 francs to 3} francs."— Dublin Evening Mail.

Letters from Ceylon of the 9th September state that the cholera was rife at Candy: several soldiers of the Ninety-fifth Cegiment had died of that dis- order. The sittings of the Supreme Court had been removed from Candy to Colombo, on account of the sickness.—Lancet.

The Gazette of Tuesday contains an official announcement of the block- ade of Oporto by the ships of the Queen of Portugal. English vessels of war are to be allowed to enter the port unmolested; the mails are to be re- ceived and delivered; and British subjects may land and embark.

Some time ago, an expedition was fitted out by Mr. Jamieson of Liver- pool, and others, to ascend the Niger and establish a trade with inner Africa: a paragraph has been going the round of the papers which represents this expedition as having " failed a second time." There has been no failure; but only such an accident to the vessel, the Ethiope, as might happen to any steamer. Last year, the Ethiope ascended the Niger as high as Rab- b* about five hundred miles from the coast, and traded with the Natives. Subsequently, the steamer entered the Gaboon river; and while there, the boilers suddenly gave way. The engineer succeeded in repairing them sufficiently to complete the exploration of that river; but they afterwards burst so frequently as to render it altogether unsafe to reascend the Niger with a crippled power. Mr. Becroft, the commander, took the vessel to Fernando Po; and Dr. King, the surgeon, is on his way home for instruc- tions. The defect can easily be repaired in England, though not in the Bight of Biafra. The Gaboon river was found to be of no importance as a highway to the interior; not being navigable further than the limit to which the tide ascended, say fifty or sixty miles from the coast.

The Scotsman mentions that Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, who was formerly a shipbuilder at Wick, and has had very great experience in recovering stranded vessels, has been appointed to take off the Great Bri- tain—if he can.

. The Times having refused to publish Mr. (rantley Berkeley's last and longest epistle, otherwise than as an advertisement, the journal has re- ceived the customary " punch on the head" from that gentleman, in the shape of the following letter- . " In reply to your refusal to publish my letter, which appeared in the Morning Post of Friday last, I have only to say: that if I desired to indulge in scurril- ity and abuse, falsehood and detraction, judging from your remarks on my cor- respondence with Mr. Harman V4.,er, &c., I might hire a space in your paper, but not otherwise. Your refusal to make known my reply to and castigation of one of the most disreputable meetings at Gloucester that oppression ever induced, stamps the fact that you are literally unworthy to hold the position in the daily press that you have, by the force of accident, attained."

The Times makes merry with Mr. Berkeley's expressed wish to " in- dulge in scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction."

Mr. Grantley Berkeley, however, conceiving that he has used stronger terms towards Mr. Harman Visger than tit, points of difference between them called for, has made a very frank and public apology.

A paragraph in the papers recently announced that the Duke of Marl- borough was accompanied in a shooting-excursion by his lately-married Dutchess, and that the latter personally took'part in the amusements of the day, and with her own hand killed several head of game. Of the fact there is, we apprehend, no doubt; but it has been followed up by conse- quences little apprehended at the time. Informations, it would seem, have been lodged against the Dutchess for shooting without a licence. It is sup- posed that this unusual step, which if followed up must in all probability lead to a conviction, has been adopted in retaliation for sonic severe mea- sures recently taken by the Duke to punish certain trespassers upon his manorial rights.—Country Paper.

We understand that it has been arranged between the counsel for both parties that Mr. Ferrand shall show cause in the Queen's Bench on Tuesday the 24th, against the rule obtained by Mr. Lewis, the Poor-law Commissioner, for libel— Times.

On the 9th, at Koenigsberg, six ounces of explosive cotton having become heated to 60 degrees centigrade, (140 Fahrenheit,) spontaneously exploded in the laboratory of Dr. Keich, and blew out the whole of the window-frame and ghee.

An account is given in a French journal of a gentleman's committing suicide by cramming his ear full of gun-cotton and lighting it with a cigar!

The City of London steamer ran down a Woodbridge trader on Monday night, while the trader was at anchor on the Essex coast off Walton. The steamer succeeded in getting the crew on board before their ship sank, with the exception of the masters son, who was in his berth when the collision occurred, and went down in the vessel.

The tunnel now forming for a railway at Moncrieff Hill, near Perth, has been very fatal to human life. Last week, a portion of the arch gave way while four men were at work beneath; two escaped with slight hurts, one was buried in the rubbish and taken out dead, and the fourth died some days after. This makes twelve lives lost in constructing the tunnel. Samuel Jackson, an Irishman, who had entered on board the United States war-sloop St. Mary, has been banged from the yard-arm of the sloop, off Vera Cruz, by the sentence of a court-martial, for striking his lieutenant. It is said that the man had suffered great provocation.

Dr. Reis, the oldest musical composer in Germany, and father of the late cele- brated Ferdinand Reis, died at Bonn, in Prussia, on the 4th instant. The Doctor was in his ninety-first year; and was for a long time Master of the Chapel of the Elector Maximilian Frederic of Cologne, which has reckoned among its members Beethoveen, Reicha, the two Rombergs, and many other artists of transcendent merit. Dr. Reis was not only the writer of numerous vocal and instrumental compositions, bat also the author of many recondite works on the history and theory of music. He was made a doctor by the University of Bonn on the in- auguration of the monument raised to the memory of Beethoven, whose intimate friend he was.

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

Number of Autumn Annual average. average. 206 ... 1811 10i ... 104 151 ... 167 313 ... 294 29 ... 27 70 ... 72 . • • 11 ... 10 27 ... 26 1,000 ...

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 60.0° in the sun to 34.6° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 0.4°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was East- north-east.

BANK OF ENGLAND. An Accrunt, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cep. 32, for the week coding on Saturday the 14th day of Nov. 1946. ISSUE DEPALTMEET.

Rotes issued Z28,246,293 Government Debt ...... E11,015,100

Other Securities 2,084,900

Gold Coin and Bullion 11,739,837

Silver Bullion 2,606,458

828,246,295

£28,246,295

RANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprletors'Capttal Rest £14,539,500 3,474,606 Government Securities, (in- eluding Dead WeightAnuulty)412,808,1111 Public Deposits* 6,777,777 Other Securities 12.625,905 Other Deposits 7,095,422 Notes 7,836,335 Seven Day and other Bills 972,112 Gold and Silver Coln 802,456

£33,772,817

453,772,817 • banding Exchequer, Savings llanks,Commissionersof NationaiDebt&DIvidend Accounts. deaths.

Zymotie (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious) Diseases.... 150 ...

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 88 ...

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses .... 154 .. • Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 282 ...

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 39 ...

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 78 ...

Diseases of the Kidneys, Ac

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Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &e 19 ...

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Re

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Ac.

Old Age

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 27 ...

Total (including unspecified causes) 916