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The health of the Metropolis continues to grow less satisfactory. In consequence of the progress of the cholera, the number of deaths last week, 1456, exceeded the calculated average, 1196, by 260. Cholera has tripled its victims since the previous week.

"Cholera," says the Registrar-General, "which was fatal in the last three weeks of July in 5, 26, and 133 cases, destroyed last week 399 lives ; viz. 145 children under fifteen years of age, 213 persons between fifteen and sixty Tears, and 41 who had reached sixty years of age and upwards. The disease had made greater progress at the same date in 1849 ; for in the week that ended 4th August of that year the number who died of it was 926. From diarrhcoa and dysentery the deaths in the last four weeks have been 51, 63, 87, and 146. Of the 399 deaths from cholera last week, 23 occurred in the West districts, 12 in the North, 14 in the Central, 60 in the East, and so large a proportion as 290 on the South side of the river." In 1849, the cholera began in May and June ; when the deaths rose from 10 to 36, and onwards to 52, 62, 143, 206, 483, 740, 783, and 952 an the first week of August. It will be seen that this year it began seri- ously in July, and sprang in four weeks from 5 to 399. The cholera has raged with great severity in the South of France ; but as the journals have been forbidden to speak of it, little has hitherto been known. At Marseilles, especially, it has committed great havoc, and a recent decline of the deaths to 50 per cent was held to be favour- able. It has been equally severe at Arles, Toulon, and other towns. In Paris, last week, it is stated that 150 died on Friday ; but one-third of these deaths occurred in the cases of persons previously wasted by disease. Among the victims of the cholera in Piedmont, was M. Adrian de Revel, formerly Minister at the Court of Vienna. The deserted condi- tion of Genoa made a deep and painful impression on King Emanuel dur- ing his recent visit.

In consequence of the outbreak of cholera, it has been ordered by the respective authorities, that vessels from Marseilles entering the ports of Genoa, Nice, Leghorn, Naples, Civita Vecchia, and Spain, are subjected to quarantine.

The authorities of Stockholm have also declared Liverpool infected, and impose quarantine on vessels coming thence, as well as from ports extending from the border of Scotland to the Southern border of Wales.

Lord Mostyn has been appointed Vice-Admiral of North Wales, in the room of the Marquis of Anglesey. Sr Henry Young, the Governor of South Australia, was offered the Governorship of New Zealand ; but be has subsequently more lucrative Governorship of Van Diemen's Land„ xabiini=

moval of Sir William Denison to New South Wale/I..' j L.„.

Sir Benjamin Hall, late Member for Marylebone, has been antdellId President of the Board of Health, under the new bill brought in by Sir William Molesworth for the reconstitution of that Board.

We have reason to believe that the Colonelcy of the Third Buffs, va- cant by the death of General Sir Henry King, will be conferred on Lieu- tenant-General the Honourable H. E. Butler, father of the gallant de- fender of Silistria.—Globe.

Sir George Cathcart, the Earl of Lucan, and Sir Richard England, are to have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in Turkey.—.Daily Kam It is stated that two more regiments of cavalry and six regiments of infantry are to proceed to Turkey, and that the whole of the Militia are to be embodied.—Idea.

Sir James Graham has, we regret to say, been suffering from an attack of pleurisy. He was a little better yesterday evening, but is still confined to his bed. The labour of his office has of late been very severe.—.Daily News, _August 11.

14. de Persigny, who arrived in Paris from Switzerland, started on Wed- nesday for Biarritz, on a visit to the Emperor.

Count Walewski, the French Minister at our Court, with the Countess, arrived at Florence, from Milan, on the 2d instant.

Madame St. Aulaire, mother of the French Marquis of that name, lately died on the very day she attained her hundredth year.

It is stated that the Queen intends to erect a monumen.; in the Isle of Wight to the memory of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles the First, who died in captivity at Carisbrook Castle, a year and a half after her father was beheaded, in her fifteenth year.

Professor Airey, the Astronomer Royal, has visited the Tyne district with a view to making arrangements for taking observations on the pendulum simultaneously at the bottom of a deep coal-pit and on the surface of the earth, to determine the weight of the earth and planets. On Saturday he descended the Horton pit, which is 1260 feet deep : the proprietors have ten- dered him every assistance in his proposed undertaking.

The withdrawal of the Government grant of 20001. is expected to put an end to the " Lawson Observatory " project : if the fund cannot be raised to a sufficient amount, the money already paid will be returned to the sub- scribers.

The corn-harvest has commenced in many parts of Devonshire ; the pro- mise is good. Oats have also been cut in some places.

The hop season generally throughout:the country is expected to be the worst that has occurred for thirty years.

The arrivals of the precious metals last week—principally from Australia —amounted to 700,000/. ; the exports were about half that sum.

It is noted as indicative of an improved state of things in Ireland, that the Bale of Yorkshire cloths there is increasing.

In consequence of the embodiment of a portion of the Militia for active service—fourteen regiments in all—there have been a good many desertions ; and active measures are taken to discover and arrest the fugitives.

The General Screw Steam Shipping Company are about to open a service between Bremen, Havre, Southampton, and New York ; five of their vessels of 1800 tons each are to be taken from the Indian route to be put on this new line. Six of their ships are in the Government employ.

Workmen are now engaged in constructing a large sewer to run from Cop- pice Row to the old Fleet Ditch; and it is intended to cover over the ditch from Peter Street, Saffron Hill, to Castle Street, Clerkenwell, as soon as the sewer is completed. This will be a great improvement.

The new Beer Act comes into operation tomorrow no tavern can be open for the sale of beer or spirits, on Sunday, except from one o'clock to half-past two, and from six to ten in the evening ; nor can it reopen till four o'clock on Monday morning.

At the opening on Thursday last of the new place of worship erected by the Roman Catholics of Preston on the Maudlands, the priest who preached the sermon gave the following as the origin of the erection of the edifice. " Many of them might have heard of a servant-girl in Preston who lay dan- gerously ill, but who, when apparently past all hope of recovery, had been miraculously restored to her accustomed health by being anointed by a priest who visited her with the oil of the blessed St. Walburge, and that, too, in a manner almost instantaneous. Struck with so signal a miracle, two priests had conferred together ; when one of them proposed that they should evince their gratitude for such a mercy by raising subscriptions, to be devoted to the erection of a church, dedicated to the saint by whose in- strumentality, under God, so striking a cure had been performed. Subscrip- tions were commenced, and the fruits of them were the edifice in which they were then assembled."

George Risby, who was tried at Chelmsford for murder in 1835, but ac- quitted on the ground of insanity, has just received a pardon, and has been liberated from Springfield Gaol after nearly twenty years' imprisonment.

A letter has been sent to the Times on behalf of the enginemen and fire- men of the North-Western Railway, explaining that the present dispute between them and Mr. M'Connell, the head of the locomotive department, is not about wages. They say that he wants to introduce a contract system which would overtask the physical powers of the men : they do not want more wages, but leas work and wages in proportion ; at present they are required to work too long at a stretch. An instance is mentioned of a driver having been on his engine for thirty consecutive hours, with no time even to take food, except as he was riding on the locomotive. Men thus overtasked are seen asleep on their engines while in charge of long trains of waggons. A deputation of drivers and firemen waited on the Directors on Wednes- day, and laid statements before them. The Directors passed a resolution, unanimously, that the complaints should receive immediate consideration, with a view to the removal of any real grievance, and the " satisfying all reasonable claims."

Five Sisters of Charity have left Paris to join the French hospital-ships in the Baltic.

A French steam-frigate has arrived at Marseilles from Alexandretta with sixteen beautiful Arab horses for the French Emperor. They are valued at 10001. each.

The Varna correspondent of the Times asks where are English merchants and English enterprise, when the British at Varna pay 3s. 6d. a pound for ham, 2s. a pound for bacon, 11. for a flannel shirt, and similar exorbitant prices for other things. A downward tendency is observed in the corn-markets of France, Belgium, Holland, and the North of Germany. After a vain attempt by speculators to keep up prices at Paris, there has been a heavy fall.

The crops of wheat in Canada are considered to be below the average per 1, acre, but the breadth of land in corn is unusually large.

Things have changed from what they were at San Francisco. Flour is now "a perfect drug," and is reshipped to other ports iu search of a market : Liverpool is to be favoured with a cargo of "sour and very ill- conditioned flour." The crops of wheat and barley in California this year will supply nearly the whole of the demand in the country.

Haas or Kemper, who was arrested in London for murders at Amsterdam, has been identihed there by two of his five victims who yet survive.

A great "shoe question " in India has been decided. Natives are required to take off their slippers when they enter the presence of the Governor- General ; but many adopt European dress—are they to pull off their boots? This is the last regulation—Natives wearing boots, pantaloons, and straps, will not be required to appear barefooted.