It is now understood that Parliament will be prorogued either

on Thursday or Friday of next week. The former, we hear, is the more probable; and her IL% . jesty will leave England on the following day.—Morning Post.

A correspondent fancies that our omission to notice Mr. Hume's postponement of his motion about Lord Ellenborough till next session meant something. It meant nothing, but that we accidentally omitted an announcement of no great importance. That affair is out of date now.

It is reported that Prince George of Cambridge, who has lately been promoted to the rank of Major-General in the Army, is to succeed Sir Hercules Pakenham as Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, and Commander of the South-western district. It is understood Sir Hercules will not give up the command until the end of the year.

Lord Mahon, we understand, will succeed Mr. Emerson Tennent as one of the Secretaries to the Board of Control. Mr. E. Tenneut will visit Egypt on his way to Ceylon, in the hope of being able to conclude with the Pacha the postal treaty, in respect to which Mr. Bourne has so lamentably failed.—Times. Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen had appointed Sir Thomas Hastings, B. N., to be Storekeeper-General of the Ordnance. The Standard announces that "Sir Robert Peel has appointed Mr. Archibald Campbell, nephew of the poet, to an office in the Customs, as a token of his re- spect for the memory of 3a. Campbell." It will be remembered that Mr. Camp- bell. was a Whig. His nephew, we believe, was one of the earliest secretaries to the Anti-Com-law Association, which since merged in the great League. Mr. Louis Al.Lane, appointed to succeed Mr. Everett as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday. His Excellency is expected at Thomas's Hotel, in Berkeley Square, today. It is supposed that Mr. Everett will set out on his return to America on the 4th September.

The papers announce the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence, of Studley Park, near Ripon; long reputed to be the constituent of that borough. Herkind- ness is said to have been as vast as her wealth. Mrs. Lawrence was born in 1761; she was never married; and her only near relation, a brother, died young. It is understood that the bulk of her fortune will go to three distant relatives—Earl De Grey, the Earl of Ripon, and Sir Lancelot Shadwell, the Vice-Chancellor.

A correspondence has passed between Lord Sandon, Sir Robert Inglis, and Mr. Kingscote, as the representatives of a numerous body of petitioners, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the subject of a large increase in the effective force of the Clergy, as well as the employment of an auxiliary force in the shape of Lay Scripture Readers, which was strongly recommended to the Archbishop in a memorial. In his reply, dated "July," the Archbishop observes, that "no con- siderable addition can be made to the existing number of clergymen without ad- ditional funds for their support;' and that " the salary required for Curates at present is not greater than must be paid to Deacons under the proposed scheme. The funds, therefore, which must be raised for the new class of Deacons would suffice for the maintenance of an equal number of additional Curates," which would be better. He thinks the Bishops would not object to such an increase in their several dioceses, if necessary. To the Bishops also he leaves the question of ap- pointing Lay Readers.

An Act of Parliament to abolish the separate Seal-office of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas was published last week. From the 31st December next, the Seal-office in Inner 'Temple Lane will be closed, and the writs issued by the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas will be sealed at the respective offices in the same manner as they are sealed in the Exchequer. The offices of Receiver-General and Comptroller of the Seal will wholly cease and determine on the day named: the Duke of Grafton will be paid an annuity. of 8431., which will, be continued under the letters-patent, and his deputy 8001. a year for his life.

Orders have been transmitted to New South Wales to detach six companies belong- ing to the 58th, 96th, and 99th regiments, to New Zealand. Six companies of the 11th Regiment, at present on passage to New South Wales' are also ordered to be de- tached to New Zealand; and four companies only of each of these regiments are to remain at head-quarters. This arrangement on the part of Government will give twenty-four companies of British soldiers to protect the interests of our

countrymen in New ZealancL The twenty-five gunners and drivers of Captain Turner's company have not yet left Woolwich for New Zealand, but they are ex- pected to embark in a few days; and the company has been withdrawn from its turn of foreign swam, which would have been to proceed in about a fortnight hence to Halifax Nova Scotia. There is reason to believe the whole company will

proceed to New Halifax, although they may not all embark in the same vessel.— Yereneleg Chronicle.

The war between the Bar and the Press continues, and even extends. The barristers of the Western Circuit have resolved to exclude from their society all members of the bar reporting for newspapers; and as there is no pretest for this aggression like that which the Times afforded to the Oxford Circuit bar, the morning papers have resolved to resent it by omitting the names of all the barristers employed on the Oxford and Western Circuits.

• It will give some idea of the immense extent to which banking transactions lave recently increased in consequence of railway business, when we state that the amount sent to the clearing-house recently by one firm in Lombard Street was 2,500,0001.; and as nearly the same amount would be drawn upon them, this p"ves the enormous sum of 5,000,0001. for the business of one firm in one day ! 101lnder ordinary circumstances, the amount sent to the clearing-house by any of the largest bankers did not exceed 1,000,0001. daily.—Banker's Magazine. - On Thursday morning, two large steamers arrived from Holland in the river Thames, having on board 150 oxen and 300 sheep; all of which were consigned to carcass-butchers in Newgate Market. The oxen and sheep are of remarkably fine quality.—Standani

Apprehensions begin to be entertained for the state of the crops; but as yet the accounts from the several places present nothing very fearful. About Eng- land the weather has been unsettled, cold, and showery; but no great damage is yet recorded. In Wales they speak more cheerfully. In Scotland the weather is said to have been positively good, and the harvest promises well. Rain and cool weather have been felt in Ireland, but still the accounts are "highly favourable." Nevertheless, the probable continuance of ungenial weather for a little longer is regarded with foreboding.

The following is extracted from Messrs. Fowler and Tunnicliffe's Circular for July 29th-

" STOCK OF BONDED CORN AND FLOUR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 5TH JULY 1845.

Wheat, 365,702 quarters. Pease, 13,455 quarters.

Bailey, 47,318 quarters. Indian Corn, 6,977 quarters.

Oats, 95,566 quarters. Flour, 226,605 hundredweight.

Beans, 46,528 quarters.

"Casting an eye at the above official statement of wheat and flour in bond on the 15th of this month, it will be seen that in case of need we have only there about twelve days' supply of bread-provision to fall back upon ; a perilous state for this kingdom to be brought to, which is mainly attributable to our most impolitic and unholy Corn-laws- they feed the few, but endanger the many.

The stock of United States Sour in Liverpool, under lock, this day, consists of 96,386 barrels ; of which about 15,000 are sweet, the remaindersour ; and should the new wheat want help, this article, owing to the low coarse quality of the Baltic wheat, will be of unusual value, as it will give strength and colour also : as yet it has advanced very little the last few weeks, but its value may be better known soon."

The English experimental squadron, which lately left Portsmouth, is cruising on the coast of Spain. A letter from St. Sebastian states that it had made its ap- pearance off that port; and that from the Chateau de la Mote the crew and Ma- rines on board might be distinctly seen.

A N. Martenez, of Paris, states that he has discovered the means of carrying on the daguerreotype process on a gigantic scale. He can, he says, daguerreotype an entire panorama, embracing 150 degrees His process consists in curving the metallic plate, and causing the lens which reflects the landscape to turn by clock- work. The lens, in turning, passes over on one side the whole space to be da- guerreotyped, and on the other side moves the refracted luminous cone to the plate, to which the objects are successively conveyed.—Mechanics' Magazine.

A dog which was chained in a garden at Paisley has been killed by a swarm of bees. The animal snapped at one or two of the bees and killed them; where- upon the whole hive set upon him, and stung him to death.

A boy has been killed at Northwich in a very singular manner. He was teaz- ing a horse with the butt-end of a hay-fork; the animal ran forward, and drove the points of the fork into his breast.

Mr. Graham of Mabin Hall, his wife and daughter, and an infant of the latter, had a most wonderful escape last week. They were returning home from Caton, near Lancaster, to Ileversham, in a vehicle called a shandry; and while stopping to pay the toll at a bridge which stands at an immense height over the river Lune, the horse suddenly became restive and ungovernable, _backed the shandry to the brink of a precipice, and in a moment the horse, vehicle' and passengers, were tumbled over the height, to the depth of twenty-seven feet. In falling, the shandry came in contact with a projection of earth which jutted out at the depth of Mx feet; the whole of the party were thrown out of the vehicle by the shock, and fell to the bottom; the horse, with the shandry, was thrown backwards, feet up- wards, and appeared to be flying in the air. The animal was cast to a considerable distance, and was killed on the spot; but Mr. Graham and his family found them selves uninjured by the fall.

The Italians say, "Every medal has its reverse." The Iron Duke seems re- solved to illustrate the truth of the proverb. Hence, the Waterloo fighters have as the medal," and the Peninsular veterans "the reverse."—Punch.