The London Gazette announces that the Queen has constituted Rupert's

Land, in North America, a Bishop's see and diocese, to be called the Bishopric of Rupert's Land; and her Majesty has appointed the Reverend David Anderson, D.D., to be Bishop of the said see. The Morning Chroni- cle adds some information relative to this, and to the other new Colonial see, the Bishopric of Victoria in Hongkong. -Ilse new diocese of Priece-Rtmert's Land- will comprise the whole of the ter- ritory which- was granted to the Hudson' Bay Company, by a charter from Charles the Seeondain the_year 1670. This territory extends from the frontier of the United States, in North latitude 40, to the limits of exploration North- ward, and from the Western boundary of Canada to the Pacific. Its extent is stated to be 370,000 square miles, its population about 103,000. The Reverend David Anderson, is a graduate of Exeter College, Oxford; he was fognerly theo- logical tutor of St. Bees Divinity College, Cumberland; and has lately held the perpetual curacy of All Saints, Derby. The endowment- for the bishopric of Prince Rupert's Land is provided partly by a bequest of the late Mr. James Leith, who 'pawed many years of his life there, and partly by a salary allowed by the Hudson a Bay Company to the Bishop as chaplain to one of the churches in the settlement. The new diocese of Victoria will comprise the colony of Hong- konga sad alt the chapels and clergy of the Church of England in tie various parts of the Chinese seas. The Reverend George Smith, DD., was educated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford. - One of our evening contemporaries favoured its readers on Saturday with a list of Ministerial changes of a very startling character. Those that we have to announce as being really about to take place are sadly inferior in interest, and will exbite no surprise whatever. Mr. J. Parker, who has been with Mr. Tufnell joint Secretary of the Treasury, will succeed Mr. Ward as Secretary of the Admiralty; Mr. Hayt,er will replace Mr. Parker at the Treasury; and Sir David Dandas [late Solicitor-General] will be- come Judge-Advocate.—Times.

General Sir George Anson, G.C.B., will succeed the late Sir Edward Paget as Governor of Chelsea Hospital; and General Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.B., will be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of that institution.—Morn- ing Chronicle.

Orders have been issued for the immediate abolition of the mounted Coast Guard service. The horses are to be disposed of, by sending the best to London for sale, while the worst class are to be sold at the out- port-Daily News.

The Board of Ordnance have appointed a Committee of military and civil officers to draw up a "report on the best means' that can be adopted for economizing the various departments in the Royal Arsenals without impairing their efficiency."

The General Post-office repeats the announcement that the packets heretofore conveying the mails between this country and Sydney, New South Wales, have been discontinued; and that all newspapers for that colony, being now transmitted by private ship, are liable to a postage of one penny each, which postage must be paid in advance, or the newspapers cannot be fortaarded.

A report in a Montrose paper, that Mr. Joseph Hume has been seriously attacked by water on the chest, is contradicted by the Daily News; which adds on authority, that Mr. Hume is so far recovered from a severe attack of influenza, that he is expected to reappear in Parliament in a week.

Mr. Thomas Dunoombe took his seat in the House of Commons on Thursday night, shortly after Mr. Berkeley commenced his speech on the ballot. He appeared in lively spirits, though he bore about him the traces of ill-health, and coughed a little. Many Members shook hands witfi him very cordially.

The illustrious Irishwoman Maria Edgeworth died on Monday morning, at Edgeworth's Town, after a few hours' illness. Her age was eighty-three. A very regent visiterof Miss Edgeworth lately described her inconversa- tien as exhibiting in advanced years "all the features of her Marked cha- racter. She was still uncommonly active and obliging, without any of the spleen of old age. Her disposition to be useful and of service to others was shown to the last."

The obituary also notes the decease of Mr. Robert Vernon, the patron of art., and the donor of the collection of pictures to the nation. Mr. Ver- non was in his seventy-fifth year. He had amassed an immense fortune as a breeder of horses; • and spent many years of his later life in liberally . dispensing that which he gained by an honourable industry. It is said that he spent at least 100,0001. in the selection of his gallery of modern paintings. '

The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelias Beauclerk, was able to leave Greerthithe at two o'clock p. in. on Wednesday last, with the North Star in tow, for the Arctic regions.— Woolwich Correspondent of the T'irnes.

A new war-steamer, the Megiera, was launched on Tuesday, from the ship-yard of Messrs:Fairburn and Sans' at Millwall. The Megasra is one of the largest screw-steamers afloat: 1,391 tons, 14 guns: her length is 207 feet, breadth of beam 27 feet, depth of hold 24 feet.

Papers from Melbourne, Port Phillip, to the 8th of February, have been re- ceived, which announce the discovery of a large field of gold in the Pyrenees, by a shepherd's boy; and as specimens of the ore weighing from 22 to 24 ounces each had been purchased and exhibited, the excitement of the colonists is said to have become intense. Great numbers of persons, although unacquainted with the exact spot, had set out in search of the mine. It, is also stated • that a fine silver mine, the lode two feet in width, had been investigated by Mr. Vigors and Lieu- tenant Helpinan."

Mr. J. It. Hind announces to the Times, that at Naples, on the 12th April, Signor de Gasparis discovered "the 10th planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter." This new member of the ultra-zodiacal group of planets" is "hardly brighter than the stars of the 10th magnitude." It is not named. The names of the other members of the group are as follows, in the order of discovery—

Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Astriea, Hebe, Iris, Flora, and Metis. •

The effects of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, which furnished his house in St. James's Square before he was elected President of France, were sold by auc- tion on Monday and Tuesday.. There were 208 lots. Lot 43 was apiece of Gobe- fia tapestry, said to have been the property of the Emperor Napoleon; it sold for 200 gnmeas. A grand chimpey-piece of Egyptian granite sold for 300 guineas. There were several paintings by Venetian and French artists—one by David, which brought 100 guineas.

M. Laurent Franconi, the oldest and most celebrated equestrian performer in Europe, died last week, in Paris. His funeral, on Saturday last, was attended by a great number of his friends and the whole of the troupe of the Hippodrome.

The capital sentence against Hannah Senates, who was recently convicted of throwing her infant into a well near Lewes, has been commuted. The Jury re- commended her to mercy, on the ground of her destitution at the time of the crime. She is to be imprisoned for two years, and then to be transported for life.

After an interval of twenty years, Aberdeen witnessed a capital punishment, last Tuesday: James Burnett was hanged, pursuant to sentence, for the murder of his wife by poison. He had confessed his crime, and appeared to be penitent for several days before his death. Gillespie and APCallum, who were sentenced at Annan Circuit Court to be transported for shop-breaking, have made their escape from Dumfries Gaol. With a piece of iron hoop, a bit of cast metal, and their blankets, they managed to pick lucks, break through strong doors, descend from the roof of the prison, and sur-

mount an outer wall covered with chevaux-de-frise. Directly after they got away, the pair of worthies began business again by a burglary at an inn, a little distance from the town. Gillespie has been recaptured at Springfield, in a cutting of the Caledonian Railway, after a severe struggle with a Dumfries constable.

Miss Ellen Price, a young girl from London at school near Bristol, died last week from inflaronoatiou of the brain induced by terror at the lightning and thun- der of the storm on the 4th instant.

During a recent thunder-storm at Chesterfield, the lightning struck a clammy, entered the house, and passed through various rooms—running along bell.wires, a clock, and other metal articles—and eventually struck a young woman on the head, darted along the steel busk in her stays, thence down her leg, and into the ground. She was stunned, and remained insensible for an hour, but surgical aid restored her. Her breast was marked at the top of the steel.

Eighty out of one hundred and fifty pupils of the Seminary at Bruges have been poisoned, and four have died; one of them, named Marquet, a pupil of great promise. The poisoning is attributed to the negligence of the cook of the Seminary. ; Ayouth has been suffocated, in a cottage near Havre, by tobacco-smoke. Ile visited an uncle who lived in n small and ill-ventilated room; in the evening he went to bed and fell asleep; his uncle and some companions smoked in the place: at midnight, the uncle found the youth very cold, and he died soon after, from congestion of the brain produced by respiring the smoke during sleep.

Rotterdam suffered great damage by fire on the 12th instant. The fire broke out near the river-side, in the Leuven-haven, and destroyed about thirty dwelling- houses, warehouses, and offices, worth altogether "about 3,600,000 francs, [300,0001.] "

The Operahouse at Dresden has been destroyed by fire; nothing but the walls remain. The loss of the wardrobe alone is estimated at 400,000 francs. This event took place at the time when the condition of the establishment was most prosperous.

Near to Leicester there are settled forty individuals known as the "Forty Monks." These forty monks, who belong to the Cistercian order, had, thirteen years ago, 280 acres of very bad land given to them; upon which they entered, and have at the present time 130 acres in cultivation. Notwithstanding the time occupied in their religious services, and although they are only forty in number, they have cultivated 130 acres of land with their own hands; and besides raising corn grain, and roots of various kinds, they possess horses cattle, sheep, and implements ' ements of agriculture. Last year these monks relieved with food 32,000 persons, and gave occasional lodging to 7,000 more. In 1847, they relieved 36,000 people with food, and gave lodgings to 12,000 more —Leicester Chronicle. [Potter's History of Charnwood Forest states that the original foundation, in 1835, consisted of but five brethren.] There is DOW living at Scalpa, in the Isle of Harris, a woman named Marian Morrison, who has attained the age of one hundred and eight. She hears and sees well, can walk on a good road ten miles in the day, and can knit and darn without spectacles, which she has never used. She has paid rents to a succession of seven proprietors. She has never indulged in dainty food or ardent spirits, but has lived on "good wholesome Highland fare."

A curious circumstance is mentioned by the Exeter Gazette in connexion with the "Exon Domesday " in the Exeter Cathedral Library. In 1810, it was dis- covered that a single leaf of the work bad been abstracted, and a note was made of the fact. Subsequently, Mr. Trevelyan called to see the book, and producect from his pocket the missing leaf: it had descended to Mr. Trevelyan from Dean ,Willoughby, who was Dean of &der in the time of Henry the Eighth, and who .doubtless abstracted the leaf. Thus a leaf lost-at the .rera of the Reformation has been reatored in the present age. ---

An unusual circumstance occurred at Spithead on Tuesday the 15th, when the Athlone steamer, from Southampton to London, passed through. The Superb, 80, had the guard, and hailed the Athlone; which showed no colours, and did not answer. This refusal or neglect was followed by a ball-cartridge being fired at her from the Superb (80 gun ship); upon which she hove to, and her papers examined, hoisted colours, and proceeded on her voyage.—Hants Telegraph.

A water-spout burst on Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, on the 10th instant, anti did considerable damage. Stone walls were washed away, gardens destroyed, furniture carried out of the windows of Kemerton Priory, while half the houses in the village of Kemerton were flooded. From marks on trees it is evident that the flood at one time must have been sixteen feet deep.

On the morning of Thursday week, upwards of thirty martins and swallows were picked up dead in the field that surrounds the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, supposed by naturalists to have been occasioned by the coldness of the weather.—Norfo/k Chronicle.