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According to the Times, the Queen's visit to Paris is now definitively flied for the 17th August, after the prorogation of Parliament.

A Cabinet Council, summoned on Wednesday morning, was held the same afternoon in the Foreign Office. All the members were present. The Council sat from half-past three to twenty-five minutes to seven.

The remains of the late Lord Raglan are expected to arrive in this country some time next week ; they will be landed at Bristol, and will be deposited in the Beaufort family-vault at Great Badminton.

The Committee of the Protestant Alliance have recently brought under the notice of Lord Clarendon several cases of religious persecution abroad, requesting his interference therewith. In Florence, Domenico Cecchetti

is imprisoned for possessing a Diodati's Bible - in Austria, John Bonin- sky, a converted monk, who complied with all the legal forma in embrac- ing Protestantism, was seized and imprisoned by the Police, on his return- from Prussia, where he had professed, to his home in Moravia. Ilhaldus,. his brother, a monk, is also imprisoned for expressing an intention to em- brace Protestantism. Dr. Gomez, a Spanish subject, formerly a priest,. now a clergyman of the Church of England, residing at Lisbon, recently announced a discourse on Protestantism in his own house. Be was ac- cused in the Senate, and the Prime Minister declared he should be punished. Lord Clarendon, replying through Lord Wodebouse, promises that no amount of occupation shall ever prevent his immediate and best attention- to such cases of unmerited suffering. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has been made aware that he could do nothing more agreeable to England• than liberate Ceechetti. With respect to the cases in Austria, the neces- sary application will be made to the Austrian Government. As Gomez, is a Spanish subject, Lord Clarendon cannot interfere officially in his behalf; but the British Minister at Lisbon is to afford such protection to- Gomez as may be in his power.

The Pacific squadron, under Admiral Bruce, sailed Northwards from the Sandwich Islands about the middle of May. It consisted of the Pre- sident, 50, the Pique, 40, the Dido, 18, and the Brisk. The French fri- gate Alceste, 32, also sailed with the fleet ;. and the Monarch, 84, was on its way from Valparaiso to the North, to join the fleet and carry the.. Admiral's flag. It is anticipated that a joint squadron from the China station will also be detached to the North.

Mr. Walpole's Committee appointed to inquire into what improvements. may be made in providing for the execution of the office of Speaker in the event of the Speaker's unavoidable absence have submitted their Re- port. They recommend that a bill be passed declaring that all acts per- formed by the House with a Deputy-Speaker in the chair shall be as. "valid and effectual as if the Speaker himself were in the chair." ,A standing order regulating the appointment of the Chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means as Deputy-Speaker, is also suggested.

It was complained in Parliament that the Royal Military College at Sandhurst was conducted on a scale of expense which rendered it difficult for the widows of officers in straitened circumstances to avail themselves of the institution for the education of their sons. Into this, and other matters connected with the course of study, a Select Committee was ap- pointed to inquire; and their report has just been issued. The main_ recommendation is that an appeal be made to Parliament for funds to provide for the gratuitous education of twenty cadets, the sons of officers in the Army, Navy, and Marines, who have died in action or of wounds, or of disease contracted on active service,—ten to be appointed this year and ten the next ; and on receiving commissions the cadets to have the same outfit as is granted to officers promoted from the ranks. The suggestions, offered on the educational departments point to closer adherence to studies bearing on the military profession, and to a more extended as,, practical course of instruction as a preparation for staff appointments. "

Six deaths in London were ascribed to " cholera" last 'week. Registrar-General raises a warning voice against the foulness of -ffia. Thames, the bad water-supply, the defective sewerage, and the inialtient cleansing, of the streets—if an improvement is not effected the population may be afflicted by a great epidemic.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last. .

Ten Weeks Week of 1843-'54. .of 1815.

Symotic Diseases 232.6 .... 223

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 44.0 .... 41 'ubercular Diseases 189.7 •••• Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 113.6 106 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 35.1 • ...

Diseases of the Lunge, and of the other Organs of Respiration 95.2 ....',,, 109 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 64.8 .... 58 Diseases of the Kidneys, &v. 11.6 .... 10 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, 4tc. 7.3 .... 9 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, dm 6.8 .... 9 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tirane, dm. 2.2 Malformations 2t.:2.6 :::: 3.1 Premature Birth Atrophy 27.0 .... 23, Age 83.4 •••• 35.

Sudden Vloience,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3345.15 ....: 17 Total (including unspecified causes) 962.1 898 There was much festivity on Saturday. Lord Palmerston gave a dinner; amongst the guests were Count Persigny and other foreign ministers: Lady Palmerston afterwards held an assembly. The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meeklenburg-Strelits, were to have dined with Lord Lyndhurst, but as they received an invitation. to meet the King of the Belgians at the Royal table at Buckingham Palace, they could only attend Lady, Lyndhurst's assembly later in the evening. Amongst the other hosts of the day were the Duke of Northumberland, at Sion House ; the Earl of Wilton, who entertained the Duke and Ducheris D'Aumale ; and Sir Charles Wood. The Fox Club bad their annual ash- dinner at Greenwich.

Lord Haddo is now staying at the Ranger's Lodge, Blackheath, the PArl of Aberdeen's residence. He continues in a very delicate state of health, and is quite unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties.

Miss Nightingale is at Therapia, and does not intend to return to England unless obliged by the state of her health.

The Duke of Newcastle has gone to the Crimea : his arrival at Vienna was noted at the end of last week. Is Prince Menscbikoff dead or alive ? The German Journal of .Framtfort states that he is expected at Berlin on his way to one of the bathing-p, on the banks of the Rhine.

The King of Portugal and his brother, and the Duke and Duchess of Era- bent, are at Rome.

While Lord Howden was travelling from Madrid to France, he writ stopped near Burgos by a band of armed Carlisle. They parleyed with him and ex amined his luggage, but otherwise they do not appear to have behaved with- discourtesy. After a short detention he was allowed to proceed.

Sir William Edward Parry, the distinguished leader of four expeditions la- the Arctic regions, died at Ems, in. Germany, on Sunday: Sir Edward served in the Baltic in 1808-'9, as a Midshipman in-the Vanguard; the American coast, as Lieutenant of the Hogue, in 1814. His frstexpe- -dition to the Arctic regions was as Commander of the Alexander, with Cap- - tain Ross, in 1818. In 1819, 1820, 1824, and 1826, he commanded four several expeditions, the last by land. For his services he was knighted, and received 10001., a portion of a reward offered b' the Government for reaching the meridian 110 degrees W. within the Arctic circle. In December 1853, Sir Edward was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital—a post now at the disposal of the Government.

Sir John Ommaney, an Admiral of the Red, who had seen twenty-seven years of full-pay service, and who had been on half-pay for forty-three years, died on Sunday, at the ripe age of eighty-five. He was Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte, 100, in Bridport's action, and commanded the Al- bion, 74, at Navarino.

Captain Lyons, it appears, died at Therapia, under an operation on his wounded leg. His remains were buried in a lonely spot in the adjacent val- ley ; Lord Stratford and all his staff, the Capitan Pasha, the aides-de-camp of the Seraskier, and many officers of the Army and Navy, followed the body ; while the Miranda fired minute guns, and Admiral Grey spoke the funeral oration.

Agriculture has lost one of its greatest benefactors, Mr. Philip Pusey, of Pusey, Berks. He has been some time ailing, and, it is stated, never re- covered from the shock occasioned by the death of his wife, Lady Emily Pusey. In November last he suffered severely from an attack of paralysis, while on a visit to his brother, Dr. Pusey, of Christchurch, Oxford. Mr. Pusey never rallied from the attack, and died on Monday afternoon, at the early age of fifty-seven. He was the eldest son of the Honourable Philip Bouverie, half-brother of the first Earl of Radnor, who assumed the name of Pusey. He sat for Chippenham in 1830, and represented Berk- shire from 1835 to 1852. His great services to the true interests of agri- culture did not exempt him from the hostility of the Protectionists ; they combined against him at the last general election, and he retired from the contest.

"He was universally beloved, for there was a natural frankness and warm- heartedness with him that developed themselves in every relation of life ; and among his tenantry it was impossible for any one to be more highly esteemed. Since his connexion as a Member for the county of Berke closed, -he appeared to have lost many of his old associations, and was no longer .mixed up with those with whom he had taken an active public part in relation to agricultural matters ; and it has been thought by some that he felt this separation very deeply, and that it affected his health and shook his constitution."

One of the relics of the old Irish Parliament has 'just departed—Mr. John M'Clintock, of Drumear, Louth ; who died at an age worthy of an an- nuitant—eighty-five years. For more than half a century he enjoyed a .pbtision of 2000/. a year.

The Welsh papers announce the death of Mr. Richard Roberta, the cele- 'bested Welsh harpist, who for upwards of fifty years enjoyed the title of .4i Prince of Song, ' and the distinction of being the chaired monarch of harphift In Rose Bank Cemetery at Edinburgh there is now a slab covering the grave of Miss Ida Benanomi, on which it is recorded that "this atone Las a'--pliteed by Queen Victoria as •a mark of her regard." The lady was dresser to the Queen; her Majesty's presence she uttered a wish, while looking on the cemtery, that she might be buried there ; last year, when the Royal Family arrived in Edinburgh, Miss Benanomi was seized with a. mortal sickness: after her decease the Queen directed that her at- tendant's wish to rest in the Rose Bank Cemetery should be fulfilled.

The bust and mural tablet to the memory of Mr. Justice Talfourd, sub- scribed for by the members of the Oxford Circuit, and executed by Lough, have just been placed against the wall of the Crown Court, Stafford, the scene of the lamented 'Judge's sudden death.

Twenty years ago, Jacques Balmat, a noted Swiss guide at Chamouni, perished in attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc : his corpse has only just been found. It was discovered in the broken-up ice which forms the arch (vale) of Aveyron. [Mr. Albert Smith states in a letter to the Globe that the body found must be that of Pierre not Jacques Balmat. In support of his conjecture ho goes into particulars.] On the 15th of April the total number of Militia in the United Kingdom was 52,835. Though 16,269 left the ranks after Lord Panmure's circular of the 27th March, no fewer than 11,909 reenlisted and received 11. extra bounty.

The Ifoniteur states from official documents, that the number of military men who have fallen on the field of battle, or who died in the ambulances and hospitals, in consequence of wounds, cholera, or other diseases, amounts i

for the army in the East, from its departure from France up to the 1st of June 1855, that is to say during a period of thirteen months, to 14,205 men ; and that, according to reports already received, the number of killed during the recent combats in June may be estimated, at the highest, at 2300.

The public having failed to attend to the Postmaster-General's instructions respecting the prepayment of postage on newspapers to British Colonies and foreign countries, Mr. Rowland Hill has issued a fresh notification that papers for all the colonies and most foreign countries must have the requisite amount of postage prepaid in the shape of stamps, or they will not be for- warded ; but papers for France or Algeria, Belgium, Prussia via Belgium, and any foreign country (except Turkey) via Belgium and Prussia, New Granada, and Peru, do not require any prepayment of postage.

In consequence of the recent change in the conveyance by poet of letters to Victoria—by which the postage must be paid in this country—no fewer than 10,000 unpaid letters have been returned from the Dead Letter Office to the senders, causing great inconvenience and discontent.

Newspapers posted with a cover that obscures the stamp have the words "stamp invisible" impressed on them at the post-office, and one penny post- age is charged.

The Queen has granted apartments in Hampton Court Palace to the widows of General Strangways and Admiral Boxer.

The use of the picture-gallery of Gronenor House was granted by the Marquis of Westminster; on Monday, for a worthy object. A committee 'of gentlemen got up an entertainment for the benefit of the Hospital for Women, in Soho Square. There was a vocal and instrumental concert, fol- lowed by a comedietta by Mr. Tom Taylor—The Late Lamented ; both con- cert and play being supported by a combination of amateur and professional peyformers. Mr. Albert Smith sang "The Country Fair." The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Duchess of Gloucester, were . among the audience. No less than 800/. was netted for the charity.

Mr. Faraday, the celebrated chemist, has been experimenting on the state of the Thames at low-water, and demonstrating that at that time it is a sewer and nothing else. While on a steamer he dropped pieces of moistened white Bard into the turbid stream, and in an instant the white fragments were lost to sight in the filthy mixture. The odour was so overpowering that he could not have made a long journey along the sewer. He warns people in authority of the _perils that may arise from this state of things. [A correspondent of the Times explained last week why the river has re- cently been more nauseous than usual—the accumulated filth of the Brent- ford Canal has recently been turned into it. The water supplied to Chelsea and Walworth of late has been abominable.]

The Reverend Berkeley Addison, Rector of Collyhurat, Manchester, has joined the number of clergymen now practising open-air preaching. The Reverend Dr. M'Neile was also to have preached in the streets of Liverpool last Sunday ; but Major Greig, the head of the Police, requested him not to do so, lest there should be a disturbance—apparently, he feared the Doctor would wander into irritating controversy unfit for the public ways of a city swarming with Irish Catholics.

Popular wit in Berlin furnished many years ago, the following catalogue raisons of the characteristics of the Princes of the Blood Royal in Prussia.

" The King—Good and clever.

Prince of Prussia—Good but not clever. Prince Charles—Clever but not good. Prince Albrecht—Neither clever nor good."

I cannot say that I have ever heard anything that tends to invalidate the correctness of the above estimate, due allowance being, of course, made for the terseness of expression so essential to the epigram.—Times _Berlin Cor- respondent.

The Revue Contemporaine is to become a political organ, with the French Government writers, MM. Troplong, de Parieu, &c., at its head. The Revue de Paris is also to be political, but in the Democratic direction. Dr. Veron is said to be forming a new journal, to be called Intelligence.

A French chemist says that he has discovered that by grinding tea in the same manner as coffee, before infusion, the quantity of exhilarating fluid ob- tained is nearly doubled.

The last fire at Constantinople destroyed no fewer than a thousand houses and about as many shops. Of course the little fire-engines were of no avail in staying the ravages of fire in a city of wooden buildings.

At Bombay, and at Broach, some two hundred miles from it, spinning- mills are in course of construction : by-and-by coarse cotton-cloths will be manufactured on the spot where the cotton grows, and thus cave 24,000 miles of travel, from India to England and back again.

The foreign community at Fow-chow-foo, English and American, have made arrangements for establishing a cemetery, a hospital, a book-club, and to improve the river and port.

The Supreme Court of New York, in full bench, has decided that the Newhaven Railroad Company is bound by the acts of its late agent, Schuy- ler, and is liable for the fraudulent stock issued by him.

The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed a law obliging the public schools to admit Negroes among their pupils.

Carsrar. PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday, July 13th, including season-ticket-holders, 48,463.