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The Council of India is now completed. The four members nominated this week are, Sir John Lawrence, Bait, G.0.13., Sir Henry Montgo- mery, Bait, Sir Probyn Cauticy, K.C.B., and Mr. Arbuthnot, formerly of Madras.

The Council now, therefore, stands as follows-

1 Mr. PRINSEP.

( MT. MANGLES. Madras Civil Service Sir H. MONTGOMERY.

Bombay Civil Service MT. WILLOUGHBY.

Bengal Army and Public Works Sir P. CAUTLEY.

Madras Army General Sir R. Vivraar. Bombay Army Captain EASTWICK. The Punjaub Sir J. LAWRENCE. The Affghan Frontier and Persia Sir If. RAWLINSON. Native States Sir F. CURIUE.

Law f Sir J. HOGG.

t MT. MACNAGHTEN.

Shipping Interest Captain SuEnnenn. Finance Mr. Mims.

Indian Commerce Mr. ARBUTHNOT.

There is to be a "Great Exhibition" at Toronto in October. Who should open it ? Could the Queen be prevailed upon to cross the At- lantic and visit her loyal subjects. Evidently the said subjects thought not, but in default of a Queen' why not her eldest son ? Thus thinking, Mr. John Norris, a native of Toronto, drew up a petition praying her Majesty to show some favour to her subjects by giving the Prince of Wales, or some other members of her family, to proceed to Canada and represent her at the opening of the Toronto Crystal Palace. Mr. Norris obtained many signatures to this document, on his own responsibility, and at his own expense, and he has come to England to present it to the Queen.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has for some months been staying with his tutor, Lieutenant J. C. Cowell, R.E., at Alverbank, (the resi- dence of the late Right Honourable J. W. Croker,) near Gosport, pur- suing the preparatory studies for the naval service under the instruction of the Reverend W. It. Solly. His Royal Highness underwent a special examination before the Reverend Thomas Main, Professor at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, in the presence of Admiral Sir George Sey- mour, K.C.B., Rear-Admiral the Honourable George Grey, and Captain R. S. Hewlett, of her Majesty's ship Excellent, Captain-Superintendent of the Royal Naval College. The examination lasted during Friday, Sa- turday, Monday, and the morning of Tuesday last, and comprised the subjects of arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, Euclid, sacred his- tory, and history of England, geography, Latin, French, German, and English dictation. His Royal Highness having been declared to hkve passed satisfactorily in all these several branches, has been appointed a naval cadet, and joined her Majesty's ship Euryalus, Captain J. W. Tarletort, C.B., on Tuesday afternoon, the 31st ultimo. After a leave of absence for two months, his Royal Highness will rejoin the frigate for permanent service, and will mess and live with the midshipmen on board. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., Governor to the Prince, who will accompany him in his voyage.— Times, September 3, A remarkable memorial has been handed to Count Platen, Swedish Ambassador, for presentation to his court. Some time since six women in Sweden were converted from the Lutheran to the Roman Catholic faith. For this they were imprisoned, tried, banished, and deprived of all civil rights. Several English gentlemen, among them Mr. Hadfield, and Mr. Adam Black, and certain representatives of the religious societies, drew up and signed a memorial on the subject. "We know well the conflict which you had to sustain in former days with the power of the Court of Rome. We can understand the hereditary feeling of horror with which Sweden regards the hierarchy from which by God's mercy she succeeded in the sixteenth century in liberating herself. We can sympathize with the countrymen of the noble Gustavus Adolphus in all their recollections connected with the battle of Lutzen.

"We need not impress upon your Excellency that Protestantism will never succeed by treading in the footsteps of Popery. One chief secret of our moral power lies in thoroughly carrying out our own principles, one of the most prominent of which is the right and liberty of private judgment. It is incumbent on Protestants to concede, even to their strongest opponents, the same freedom of conscience which they demand for themselves. Nor can we disguise from ourselves that depriving Roman Catholics of their liberty in Protestant countries tends to strengthen the restriction of Pro- testant rights in Roman Catholic countries. At the present moment, per- haps, if there is any Christian object to be desired in Europe it is that the trammels of religious freedom should be removed from Protestants in France. How ready and unfortunate an answer to the demands of French Protestants on their own Government does the persecution of Roman Catholics in Swe- den afford !

"We hope that we shall have your Excellency's sympathy in our object, and that you will kindly represent to your Government the interest we take in it. We are sure that nothing will more tend, under God, to bind the hearts of Englishmen and Swedes together than our possessing and prac- tising in common the great principles of civil and religious liberty." The signers of the memorial are purposely few in number ; but the names of those who concur in it, and who would have signed it, had that course been deemed respectful to the King of Sweden, fill the greater part of a column of the Times. Among them are those of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin and eight bishops, eighteen Peers, including John Russell, Brougham, Lyndhurst ; forty two members of Parliament, and a host of laymen and ministers of all sects.

Count Platen replied to the memorial by promising to make the Swe- dish Government acquainted with its contents. In doing so he drew at- tention to the position of the Government and of the people.

"The Government did not institute the suit at law that has given rise to these feelings of uneasiness and apprehension ; it is a Government that neither could nor would have interfered with the course of the courts of justice. The Court could not but deliver judgment in accordance with the existing laws, and the Government proposed a change in these laws whichit had reason to expect would come into operation before the case was to be

Bengal Civil Service . decided. The assembled Diet, on the other hand, the representatives of the people, in accordance with their undoubted right, rejected the proposition. The result may be deplored ; it may be hoped that it may be different an- other time ; but I claim for the facts a thorough knowledge before they are jndged, and I think that some allowance is due to a country with the ante- cedents of Sweden, if there is a state of feeling that lends the nation to re- flect well before it adopts new laws, more in accordance, perhaps, with the ideas of our days."

It may not be uninterestimg to our readers to know that in the course of November next a general meeting will be held in Paris for the pur-

pose establishing a company for finally carrying out the project of the Itllsmus of Suez Canal. The capital has, we are informed, been nearly all subscribed in the following proportions ..

His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt £1,280,000 Turkey, Egypt, and Syria 840,000 France 1,600,000 Austria and Lombard-Venetian 800,000 Russia 480,000 North of Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Hanseatic Towns, Prussia, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium 600,000 Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece 400,000 United States of Americo 400,000 Leaving the portion reserved for England 1,600,009 8,000,000 The whole capital to be represented by 400,000 shares of 20/. each.— _Daily News, September 3.

The report of the Select Committee on East India railways was pub- lished on Tuesday. The subjects inquired into were the supervision at home, the supervision in India, and the delays incidental to the con- struction of railways in so distant a country as India—delays from poli- tical causes and the delays arising from the natural features of the coun- try. The Committee arrive at the opinion—lst, That the Government has acted wisely in committing to private enterprise the execution of the public works ; 2d, That a guaranteed interest on the requisite capital was indispensable to induce the public to invest their money in under- takings of this magnitude and novelty ; and 3d, That in order to protect the Indian revenue from undue expenditure, Government control over the railway operations is requisite, and even when valuable to the inter- ests of the shareholders themselves. "At the same time, your Commit- tee," says the report, "would observe that under a system complicated in its character, and necessarily somewhat cumbrous in its machineg,— a system, moreover, the greatest defect of which is the facility it affords for the evasion of responsibility,—clear and distinct definition of the du- ties, responsibilities, and extent of jurisdiction of all heads of depart- ments and those under them, is essentially requisite for its smooth and successful working, always assuming that due care be taken to intrust discretionary power only to men who are to be relied on as competent to distinguish an effective general control from too minute interference in details." The Committee feel assured that by a judicious adherence to the spirit rather than to the letter of the contract, arrangements may be . simplified, united action for one common object secured, and railway en- terprise may, in India, before long assume proportions commensurate with the vast commercial, agricultural, and mineral resources of that country.

Major-General Sir james Outram' returned to Calcutta on the 11th of July, by the steamer Nemesis, from Galle, whither he had gone on a sea- , trip, in search of health.

The Queen has granted the dignity of a Knight of the Milted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Mr. Frederic Hughes, late a captain in the 7th Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry.

Mr. Alexander T. Galt, whose name stands in the list of the new Cana- dian Ministry as "Inspector-General," is the youngest son of the novelist, whose family have all for a long time been resident in Canada.

The Atlantic telegraph informs us that "Sir William Williams of Kars arrived at Halifax on Tuesday. He was enthusiastically received. There was an immense procession. To an address of welcome he made a feeling reply."

The appointment of Government Inspector at Spike Islands worth 300/. ayear, has become vacant through the sudden death of Major Atkins, at his country residence, at Waterpark, on the evening of the 26th August.

The Daily News is authorized to state that the new work advertised under the title "Sam Slick in Texas," is not the production of the author of" The Sayings and Doings of San: Slick the Clockmaker," and that he is in no way whatever connected with it.

The Jfoniteur announces the following diplomatic changes : "Marquis de Target, Ambassador at Madrid, has been appointed to the Swiss Con- federation, vice Count de Saliguse Fenelon ; M. Barrett, French Minister at Brussels, replaces the Marquis de Turgot as Ambassador' at Madrid, and is succeeded at Brussels by Count de Iriontessuy, Minister to the Germanic Confederation and the free city of Frankfort, who is in his turn replaced by Count de Salignac Penelon."

The King of the Belgians is on a tour "up the Rhine," and will thence proceed to Switzerland, visiting a sister, who resides in that country. His Majesty will also, before his return to Belgium, stay a short time at the Villa Guilin, a property which he possesses by the Lake of Como.

The King of Denmark, the Hereditary Prince, the Ministers, and other dignitaries, attended the inauguration of a new veterinary and agricultural school at Copenhagen on the 24th.

The Duchess Helena of Bavaria, sister of the Empress of Austria has been married to the Prince of Tour and Taxis.

King Otho is on a visit to his father and brother, the late and present Bing of Bavaria.

The future Duchess of Malakoff, has 'says a Paris letter in the Nord of _Rrnasels, already arrived in Paris, and has taken np her residence at the hotel of the Countess Montijo, in the Champs-Elysees. Mademoiselle de Paniega is said to cultivate the arts with great taste. She has a brother who a few years ago was engaged in diplomacy, and who now occupies the functions of chef de division in the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Madrid.

A letter from Berlin of the 27th, in the Brussels Independance says, that "the Hotel du Nord was the scene yesterday of e singular recontie. Prince Gortachakoff found himself placed at table by the Bide of Lord Lucan, and the two quondam adversaries amicably discussed together the cavalry en- gagement of which they were respectively the heroes in the valley of Bals.. °lava." [This report has been contradicted by Lord Luean himself. The Belgian papers are too fond of these inventions.) Baron Gros is to be made a Senator, in reward for the diplomatic services he has rendered in China. In conunemoration of the treaty which he bas assisted in concluding, one of the new streets lately opened in Paris iato hear the name of" the Rue de Tiers-sin."

Letters from Berlin state that Chevalier Bunsen was unable, on account of ill health, to accept the invitation of Queen Victoria and the Prince Con. sort to visit them at Babelsberg. M. Bunsen will probably pass the minks at Nice.

The Emperor of Austria has decreed that the National Bank shall regime its cash payments on the 1st of November next.

The Java papers publish a copy of the treaty concluded between the Dutch and Persian Governments. It is couched hi very friendly terms; she contracting parties have the right to nominate three representatives at Am- sterdam, Rotterdam, and Batavia, and Teheran, Benderbushire, and Tabris respectively. The treaty is to be in force for twelve years, and to be pro. longed by mutual consent.

The proprietors of a French law journal, the Audience, have been fined a hundred francs, and the paper has been suppressed, because it primed a full report of the trial of Orsini. That trial was political, and to publish a report of it in the Audience was to violate the law, by treating of political matters without a specific authorization. Sharp practice !

The number of deaths in the Metropolis last week, 1,108, was much below the number that would have occurred if the average rate of mortality had prevailed. London, in short, has been growing progressively healthier for the last month. The most fatal disease at present is diarrhcea.

Two ladies have been killed in a steamer on Lough Neagh in Ireland.... Miss Morrison and Miss Hunter. In going below, their dresses caught in the machinery, they were drawn round a shaft and crushed.

The explosion of a powder magazine, containing 96,000 kilogrammes, at Astrakhan, has destroyed the half of the town, a portion of the other half became the prey of the flames. One dare not calculate the number of un- fortunates who have been victims of such a disaster at an epoch when the activity of the navigation on the Caspian Sea augments so prodigiously the floating population, always very considerable in this semi-Asiatic city. The environs of St. Petersburg have also been the scene of a disaster—the burn- ing of the forests.

The Albion Cooper, a brig hailing from Portland, Maine, disappeared at sea. Three men were picked up by a barque, Fakey an Irishman, Williams, born in Belgium, and Cox, a negro. Fakey told how the other two had murdered the captain and mates of the Albion Cooper, had fired, and than abandoned the brig. It appears that the first mate, following the fashion of American mates, treated Williams with horrible barbarity. The murders were the consequence. Williams and Cox have been hung.

A piece of brass cannon captured in China has arrived at the Admiralty in Paris. It is of the calibre of a 30-pounder, and weighs 1,740 kilogrammes. It is eight feet long from the mouth to the extremity of the breech. It bears an inscription, which has been translated as follows by IS. Julien, of the Institute : "Cast in the province of Kiangsi, in the fourth month of the twenty-first year of the Emperor Tae-Kouang, (1816), with the assistance of Louthing-kie, Sou-hiem-thing, Li-Youg-thai, Hoang-youen-lun, Ou-ming- yaw, of the company of founders of the copper statues of Budha in the pro- vince of Canton. Weight 3,000 Chinese pounds."

The bank at the Cursaal of Wiesbaden was broken last week by a Prus- sian gentleman. In less than half an hour the bank encountered two heavy series, which, being backed with spirit, resulted in a loss to the establish- ment of 260,000 francs. The Prussian played the highest stakes (8500 francs) authorized by the bank, and his example was followed by other players. This success will doubtless afford immense consolation to those whose hard cash had contributed to the accumulation of the quarter of a million thus rapidly swept away.