_Miscellaneous.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday afternoon, at which nearly all the Ministers were present, and which sat throe hours.

The Turkish Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign Office on Tuesday.

We understand that the Admiralty have directed an inquiry to be made as to the number of unemployed seamen in the port of Liverpool, and also what proportion of them have been in her Majesty's service—Times Cor- respondent.

In a letter to the Times, Mr. William Crawshay offers his subscription towards a Turkish subsidy in aid of a defensive war against the Czar— "A Turk denies the gratification of the bloodthirsty vengeance which is re- quired by the Autocrat of All the Busies! May God bless the Turk in his su- perior humanity, I pray. But there is more to be done than this. Let England support the Turk in his Christian benevolence and mercy. I for one am ready to do so; and without calling a meeting of my countrymen to join in the measure, I subscribe my name for 500/. towards a fund to be handed over to the Sultan of Turkey, to assist in defending himself and his country against the hostility of Russia, if any is shown in consequence of her humanity. And let every one re- member, that upon such an occasion, Qui dat cito, dat Ms."

Copies of two recent despatches on Sicilian affairs have been published by the foreign correspondents of the morning journals. The first, dated Naples, 16th September, is addressed by Mr. Temple to the Chevalier Fortuuato, Foreign Minister at Naples. Historically recounting the facts of the late intervention by Great Britain between the King of the Two Sicilies and the Sicilians, undertaken at the King's urgent request, and on the condition that the constitution of Sicily was revived as in 1812, it re- minds the King, that the surrender of the Palermitaus was conditional on -a general amnesty, and it expresses a confident hope that the King's pro- mise will not be broken. Moreover, the British Government cannot re- frain from submitting, that the Sicilian people should not be deemed to 'have forfeited their right to the constitution [of 1812] by reason of the efforts which they have made to recover the practical enjoyment of it. The Sicilian Minister's reply is dated Naples, 20th September. It re- jects the conditional basis of the good offices offered by Great Britain; saying—" This subject, and everything connected with it, have been already discussed at great length, fully argued, and finally recognized to have no weight or value "; asserts that the insurgents had yielded before the King's Victorious arms; and claims the right of -every independent sovereignty to regulate the internal administration of its own country: but it declares that the King " is still well disposed, of his own free will, to establish such forms of administration as are suitable to that part of the kingdom and are desired by the inhabitants themselves." In fine, "if no foreign agent at- tempts to disturb the peace now actually prevailing in the island, his Majesty ascertain that all his subjects will be united in an indissoluble bond of

love and, loyalty to their legitimate Sovereign." .

A letter from Malta announces the more humanetreatment of the refu- gees, under the rule of Colonel Rice. Jones of . the Royal Engineers, the

ay'ting Governor during Mr. More OlFelealllsatbeence-

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" Immediately Colonel Jones was sworn into office, he ordered a supply of medicines to the sick on board the Gennaro, and that they should land all the re- fugees in the Lazaretto, and supply the sick with beds from the civil hospital. On the 21st, he went to the Lazaretto in person, to see how the refugees were situa- ted. He found that a great number were sleeping on straw, and without any cover- ing; that many were suffering from disease contracted whilst cooped up in the Gen- naro; and that others again had no clothes but what they had on them, and those mostly in rags. The Colonel distributed amongst them the contents of his purse, and gave orders for them all to be immediately supplied with beds and everything that was requisite for their cleanliness and comfort from the civil hospital stores. This has been done; and the poor creatures are now, comparatively, in a state of Elysium to what they were under the humane rules of a Catholic and Jesuit Go- vernor. The generality of the people of Malta are quite delighted with this act of Colonel Jones; so that the cafes and even the streets resound with panegyrics on his conduct."

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen has ordered a conge to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of Norwich to elect a Bishop of that see, vacant by the death of Dr. Edward Stanley : and that her Majesty had been pleased to recommend the Very Reverend Dr. Samuel Hinds, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle, to the choice of the said Dean and Chapter.

The Reverend Arthur Penhryn Stanley, Fellow of University College, Oxford, second son of the late Bishop of Oxford, was offered the Deanery of Carlisle, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Hinds to the see of Norwich. In offering him the appointment, Lord John Russell intimated that it was not only in compliment to his own talents, but in respectful memory of the worth of his late father. The reverend gentleman declined the preferment. —Norfolk Chronicle.

" More favourable news " of the Bishop of Llandaff's health is received from Hardwick Hall, near Chepstow. " Most sanguine hopes," says Ed- dowels Journal, " are entertained of his ultimate restoration to health."

The Archbishop of Canterbury has negatived a memorial forwarded by several hundred clergymen, desiring him to authorize a day of humiliation for the Province of Canterbury. Ile says, it is a matter of much gratifica- tion to perceive many proofs of so much pious feeling throughout the land; but beyond his own diocese be could not "recommend, much less author- ize, such an observance, without encroaching on the jurisdiction of the diocesan Bishop, and without claiming a privilege which only belongs to her Majesty in Council."

The interest on behalf of Sir John Franklin's expedition has been curiously agitated during the week. It was first revived by the announce- ment that Mr. Paterson, the master of a wrecked Newcastle vessel, who had landed at Kirkwall, had brought to the Admiralty one of Sir John Frank- lin's cylinders, which had been picked up by the resident Governor of a Danish settlement. Hope was disappointed: the letters in the cylinder prove to have been dated on the 30th June 1845, arid the Admiralty al- ready had information of a subsequent date.

More authentic information was published in the Times yesterday; a briefer form of the same facts having been forwarded by the Admiralty to the evening papers of Thursday. 'Hull, 4th October 1849.

"-Last night, the Truelove, Captain Parker, arrived here from Davis's Straits, bringieg-important news relative to Sir John Franklin's expedition; a summary of which has already teen telegraphed to the Admiralty-by Mr. Ward, the owner. The following is an outline of the sews brought by the Truelove. "In July last, in Pond's Bay, the natives were on board the Chieftain, Captain Kerr, and of their own accord drew a rough sketch of four ships which they stated were frozen up in Prince Regent's Inlet; two on the East side, which had been there four years, and two on the West side, which had been there one year. These natives stated, that they had been on board the whole of these ships in March last, and that they were all well and safe. " On the 221 of July, Captain Parker, of the Truelove, left the fishing-ground, determined to eudeavour to reach Sir John Franklin and his crews. The whaler Advice accompanied the Truelove in this attempt. They proceeded into Lancas- ter Sound, as far as Croker's Bay; but an entirely solid body of ice stretched across from Croker's Bay to Admiralty Inlet, and compelled them to retrace their steps."

A letter to the Admiralty, from Mr. Ward, the owner of the Truelove since published, gives the same information in a more expanded form; and adds the additional point of interest, that the Natives volunteered their in- formation "without questioning."

The Marquis of Anglesey sanctioned the publication of his correspond- ence with Lord Cloncurry in a most characteristic way. He first gave permission to Lord Cloncurry to print the letters, without referring to them specially; and on the work being sent to him previously to its publication, Lord Anglesey observed, " There is not a single letter I ever wrote about public affairs which I would feel ashamed of being exposed to all the world."—Daily News.

Lord Denman was lately thrown out of a small "hand-carriage" in which he was taking an airing: he received a wound on the head, which "bled pro- fusely," but, so far from being damaged thereby, he is said to have been soon after in "improved health."

A Continental rumour, that Prince Metternich was about to make Flo- rence his residence, is contradicted " on the highest authority ": it is stated that the Prince and his family will pass the winter at Brighton.

Strauss the composer died, at Vienna, on the 15th of September, after a short illness. The Morning Chro:dcle's correspondent says that his com- plaint was scarlatina. "I was mistaken in asserting that he performed at Radetzky's banquet. His band was present, but he himself was unable to preside, through indisposition. This event has thrown a shade of melancholy over our city; for his loss is meurn- ed by all, and the blank thereby occasioned will not easily be filled up. Ever since the death of Lanner, his great rival, now eight years ae, Strauss has reigned su- preme in the saloons of Vienna. Whether musical genius in this case be heredi- tary or not remains still to be proved. The compositions of his son, who, disowned by the father, established a rival capelle 'some years ago, are not without me- rit; but all persona of taste and true judges of music patronized the father in pre ference to the son, whose conceited air and dandified manners were the reverse of attractive."

"According to the usual custom in Catholic countries, the body of the departed is laid out in a kind of state, for the benefit of all friends and relations who may wish to take a farewell look at the corpse. Open house is kept on these occasions, no.one being refused admittance. I understand the residence of the deceased hokapelle.meister has been crowded by vi.aiters. There he lies, asleep in his

coffin, surrounded by the outward and cidble signs of the spell he exercised over _