Bitisetllarteous.

We understand that a Privy Council will be held at Windsor Castle on Thursday next, the 20th instant; when a proclamation will be agreed upon for further proroguing Parliament from the 27th to an early day in Ja nuary, then to meet for the despatch of business.—Standard.

On St. Martin's Day, (Wednesday,) a Privy Council was held in the Exchequer Chamber, the Judges attending; and the list of gentlemen eligible to the office of Sheriff for the year was made out.

Clerks of subdivisions are now being called upon for the date of their appointment. This is supposed to be preparatory to a ballot for the Militia—Globe

A London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail has "every reason to believe that Government here are taking the most active measures to be prepared for the worst, in ease the apprehensions entertained about the de- ficiency in one portion of the crops in Ireland, and the failure in another should unfortunately be realized"— "The Chancellor of the Exchequer takes a prominent part in the preliminary proceedings; and a Commission has been actually appointed, to consist of prac- tical men, capable of carrying out the objects contemplated, under any circum- stances, and well acquainted with the wants and resources of Ireland, her defi- ciencies and capabilities. * * The object of this Commission will not be one of mere inquiry. * * * The duty of the Commissioners will be to act, not debate—and to act promptly. * There will be no jobbing."

The Times states that the Honourable Edward Lucas, Under Secretary of State, has been appointed Chairman of the Commission.

The Globe mentions a rumour that Government are about to spend 3,000,0001. on works in Ireland.

Meanwhile, the scientific Commissioners have made two more reports on the potato disease. In one they briefly state that very successful results have attended the immersion of diseased potatoes in bog-water, which appears to arrest the progress of the distemper. The other report, which seems to be the last of the present series, is more comprehensive. We compress its principal points together— In its present form the disease is certainly of modern origin. The original cause does not appear to have been well-established; but it seems to be connected with the cold, cloudy, ungenial weather, which has this year characterized the North of Europe; to which region, with North America, the distemper appears to be limited. Potatoes planted early in the season, or in dry elevated districts, are more healthy than those planted later. Presuming these conclusions to be right, there will be no cause for alarm as to the crop of next year, except in the remote chance of an equally unfavourable season occurring. In providing seed for a future year, such potatoes as have resisted the tendency to decay during the winter may safely be used; though it would be better not to employ them unless it be necessary; and they should be rubbed with lime-dust. 'There are no satis- factory evidences in support of the prevalent opinion that the potato has arrived at a state of general debility, and that the crop will continue liable to disease like the present, until new varieties shall have been raised from true seed. Concur- rent testimony points out the Irish " cup" variety as that which has suffered least from the attack. The replenishing of the diminished supply- of potatoes by seeds formed in the flower is an operation only to be carried on successfully in a garden, and is unsuited to the small cultivator. The practice of autumn-planting is earnestly recommended, as offering additional advantages of security. The planting may be performed at any time before the end of January-. The Commis- sioners promise hereafter further reports on the more abstrusely scientific branches of the subject.

The reports from the Continent are more favourable than they have been. It is now said that France, Greece, and Italy, are safe from the appearance of the disease; and though the other countries of Europe have suffered more or less from the cold and wet of the late season, there appears to be no ground for apprehension of a positive dearth in any country of the Continent. Among the suggestions of remedies, Father Mathew recommends the substitution of oats for potatoes- " There are oats enough in Ireland to feed the whole population until the next harvest. If landlords allow their tenants to thrash their oats, postpone their demand or rent, and let distillation from grain be prohibited, all anxiety and fear lest there should be a famine will vanish. The distillers can manufacture rotten potatoes into brandy, and leave grain, the merciful gift of a good God, to he for the purpose designed by Divine Providence." Meetings for the purpose of petitioning Government to open the ports have been held; all over the country; and in the following places among others—St. Paul's Covent Garden, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sun- derland, Belfast, Glasgow, Hamilton (for the county of Lanark), Dundee, Hawick, and Leith.

We have just received the following important letter from Dantzic, 4th November—" The Polish Government has prohibited the exportation of rye, spring corn, and pulse. The Warsaw papers state that a similar pro- hibition with regard to wheat is in contemplation."—Glasgow Argus.

The price of bread is reduced in Glasgow Id.; fine bread selling at 9d., and household bread 8d. the four-pound 1(141—Glasgow Argus.

The best household bread is now selling at Oxford, by those bakers who are satisfied with a little profit and a quick return at bid. the four-pound loaf. The regular price is 7d.; but some of the more aristocratic customers pay their bakers Id. for the same article.—Morning Chronicle.

The Gazette and its Supplements contain almost daily lists, each one very numerous, of railway projects for which bills will be introduced in Parliament next session.

Tuesday's Gazette contained the following notice- " Mee of Ordnance, 7th November 1845.

"Whereas John Bates [and sixty-three other persons here enumerated] being persons hitherto employed m this department, have left the same, for the purpose of assisting in the survey of projected railway lines and other works; and have in their possession appointments from the Board of Ordnance, enabling them, for the purpose of the Government surveys, to enter lands without being deemed trespass- ers: Notice is hereby given, that the above-named persons, having ceased to be em- ployed by this department, such appointments have become cancelled; and any use being made of them, for the purpose of entering lands after this notice, sub- jects the offender to a penalty of 501.; and all persons to whom any such appoint- ments may be presented are authorized to detain them, and forward the same to Mr. R Byham, Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, London."

The proprietors of Southwark Bridge have sanctioned an agreement for the sale of the bridge to the North Kent Railway Company.

The Railway plot thickens; and as the 30th November approaches, payers of deposits look shyer. The Times says, in its commercial part- " We find the persuasion is becoming a very general one in the City, that by the end of the month. a large proportion of the new railway projects will disap- pear, as they must then either assume a substantive form or be abandoned so far as any prosecntioa of them during the next session is concerned. This is the best thing, probably, that could happen to many of them, even to those which are re- spectably supported: the deposits will be returned, and the parties will take time

to oonsider before another movement is made. * • Of the mere bubble companies the doom is without doubt absolutely fixed for the 30th instant; and with them, if there be a few respectable men found among them, the day of reckoning will be an awful one. No possible harm can happen if the greater per lion of the new lines projected within the present year are allowed to stand over for another since there was work enough cut out in the last session to employ all the capital could with propriety be spent on such undertakings far at least two or three years to come. For the restoration of the money-market to a sound and healthy condition this is the best result that could happen."

The circular of Messrs. Colemann and Stolterfoht of Liverpool contains a startling assertion-

" These speculations have been indulged in to an incredible extent among all classes, down to the most humble; and there is some reason to apprehend that the great home demand which existed for the consumption of produce as well as of manufactures has been partly caused by the country shopkeepers extending their orders to larger amounts than usual, in order to gain additional sums for their share-speculations. Thus we find the wholesale dealers unable to get their outstanding debts paid, and they limit their own purchases in consequence."

The head of the Passport Office at Ostend, says the Times, has announced that in future persons entering Belgium either by that route or by Antwerp will not be required to produce passports This remission is understood to have arisen from the difficulty of keeping up the old regulations, now that travelling by railway has come so much into use; and hence a further relaxation of it may be soon looked for.

Last Tuesday, three tons of bullion were transmitted, in three covered Vans accompanied by clerks, from the Bank of England, via the Birming- ham Railway, to the banking-houses in Manchester and LiverpooL—Globe.

The quarterly return by the Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, contains the following comprehensive remarks on the " State of the Public Health in the Past Quarter "— " The quarterly returns are obtained from 115 districts, subdivided into 576 subdistricts: thirty-four districts are placed under the Metropolis, and the re- maining 81 districts comprise, with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and cities of England. The population was 6,578,912 in 1841.'

" The public health during the past quarter ending September 30th was good; for the deaths, notwithstanding the increase of the population, were only 36,008, or 1,870 less than the average of the corresponding quarters of five former years, (1840-44.) This favourable state of things was general, and was observed in the majority of the town-districts of the kingdom. The Southern coast has been unusually healthy through the summer; the deaths in Brighton, on an average 262, were only 219; in the Isle of Wight, the deaths, on an average 183, were 121; in the Portsea Island, (Portsmouth,) the deaths, on an average 299, were 239; in Exeter, the deaths, on an average 200, were 160; in Plymouth, the deaths, on an average 224, were 191; in Penzance, the deaths, on an average 292, were only 166 in the quarter ending September 80th 1845.

" The mortality has been below the average in every district round the South- eastern and Southern coast, from London to the Land's End; yet the average mortality itself is low throughout that part of the country. In the last Report,

(p. it will be seen that only 1.9 per cent or 1 in 52 of the inhabitants die annually in the South-eastern and South-western divisions, while the annual mor tality of the whole kingdom is 1 in 45.

"In Austria, including the Northern parts of Italy, the annual mortality is 1 in 33; and the mortality throughout Italy is not less than in Austria. In the cities of Italy, the mortality, according to official documents, varies from 3 to 4 Per cent. In France, the annual mortality is 1 in 42. " The mortality was above the average of the corresponding quarter in the foi- l.? _wing districts: Northampton, Bedford, Yarmouth, Kidderminster, Leicester, zoadak, Halifax, Bradford, Pontypool, Newtown, Holywell, and Anglesey. " Leicester is an unhealthy district; the average mortality is high; the average number of deaths in the summer quarter is 325, and in the last quarter no less than 457 deaths were registered. The registrar of the East district renuirks--. Since that time, [1840,1 vaccination seems to have been totally neglected ; hence the great increase of deaths for this and the preceding quarter. I have registered 73 deaths from natural smallpox, and only 4 persons that had been vaccinated; and those only very doubtful. Measles lois been very fatal; I have registered 57 deaths from that epidemic.'

" The fatality of smallpox is mentioned by the Registrars of Yarmouth, North- ampton, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Coventry, Basford, Liverpool, Bury, Pres- cott, and other districts, in their remarks.

" Metropolis-76 deaths from smallpox were registered in the quarter; the average is 130. In the week ending September 13th no death from smallpox was registered. Such an exemption has never before been observed since the new tables were published. Measles has been epidemic; 688 deaths have occurred from that disease. Hooping-cough has been prevalent. Of scarlatina, only 194 persons, chiefly children, died; the average is 476. Only two deaths from priva- tion were returned; the average of the quarter is 5.

" The weather presented this remarkable peculiarity, that the mean tempera- ture of every week of the thirteen was below the average. The mean tempers- ture of the quarter at Greenwich was 57° 1'; which is nearly 4° below the average of the season. The month of August was 5° below the temperature of the same month on an average of 25 years. Seven incises of rain fell at the Ob- servatory. The results varied considerably in other parts of the country.

" The temperature of summer last year (1844) was 2° below the average: but the state of the crops, and particularly of the potato crop in 1845, and its possible effects on the public health, render a comparison of the whole meteorological phial- nomena of 1844 and 1845 important."

It is reported that the Earl of Lonsdale has resigned the office of Post- master-General, and that the Earl of St. Germaine has accepted it.

It is said that Mr. Charles Ross, one of the Special Commissioners of the Property and Income-tax, will have the Comnoissionership vacant by the death of Sir John Mortlock.—Globe.

We understand the Duke of Sutherland has resigned the Lord-Lieute- nancy of Shropshire, and that Lord Hill will be his Lordship's successor in that important office.—Globe.

The Queen, it is said, has bestowed a pension on Lady Shee, wife of Sir Martin, President of the Royal Academy.

The Senatus Academicus of Edinburgh University have conferred upon Lord John Russell the degree of LL.D.

Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the Deanery of Westminster upon Dr Buckland, the well-known Professor of Geology, and at present a Canon of Christchurch, Oxford. The Canonry will, in consequence of an arrange- ment under the Ecclesiastical Commission, devolve upon the Archdeacon of the diocese.—Standard.

Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg sustained. a dangerous accident on Tuesday. He was hunting with a party who followed Sir John Cope's fox-hounds in Windsor Great Park: soon after he had left Cumberland Lodge, his horse ran away ; a bough struck the Prince on the head, slightly cutting the forehead, and throwing him from the saddle. He returned. to Cumberland Lodge; but speedily recovered, and mounting another horse, again took the field.

The Dowager Lady Holland is dangerously ill. Sir Henry Webster and Colonel 'Fox her sons, arrived in town yesterday, summoned in great haste from Paris to attend their mother.

The Bishop of Carlisle has been so ill that the worst fears for him wars entertained; but he is now much better.

Bad accounts of Lord Metcalfe's health again reach this country. They are precisely like those which we received many months ago, with this dif- ference, that at last even his fortitude has yielded to the slow but inevitable progress of the disease—cancer in the face—under which he sinks; and for the first time he had been unable to bear the pain and fatigue of re- moval to the Council-room.

The mercantile world has lost one of its most eminent veterans, Mr.. John Irving, M.P. for Antrim; who died on Monday, at Richmond Ter- race, in his seventy-ninth year. " The death of Mr. Irving," observes the commercial writer in the Times, " is an event which belongs to the history of the commerce of London, and it has formed today one of the principal topics on 'Change. For honourable conduct, strict fidelity to his engagements under the most adverse circumstances, and for s kind disposition to those who have had their way to make in the world, he has had few equals in mercantile life. The importance of the house of which he has been so many years a partner is well known. Their transactions have extended to all parts of the world, though they have lain more particularly in the West Indies. Mr. Irving was a stanch supporter of the Colonial interests, and took the lead in forming the Colonial Bank and Royal Steam-packet Companies. More than once he received the thanks of the inhabitants of Mauritius for his attention to their welfare. For nearly forty years he was a Member of the House of Cony' mons; where he sat for the last two Parliaments as representative of the county of Antrim. In politics he was a steady and consistent Conservative. His loss is as much regretted by Isis private friends as it is by those who during a long course of years have had business to transact with him."

La France contained on Tuesday this enigmatical announcement- " Yesterday, at ten o'clock in the morning, in all the churches of Paris, nu- merous of the faithful crowded round the altars to thank God and send up their ardent prayers. Religious faith and monarchical faith possess mysteries of coal solation and hope." [The meaning of this is, that on Monday the sister of the Due de Bordeaux was married at Fohsdorff.] The whole story of the elopement from Brighton, last week, is now pub., lic, and it ends in the expected denouement, the young lady's mairiage. We can now narrate the incidents in their natural order. Lady Adele Villiers was seated in the drawingroom at East Lodge, with her father, the Earl of Jersey, on the Wednesday afternoon; and she left theroom about five o'clock, ostensibly to dress for dinner. The story of an affectionate leave-taking on her part, in some of the earlier accounts, seems to have been a fabrication. Six o'clock came, and dinner; but Lady Adele did not appear. Anxious inquiries were made, and by slow degrees these facts were elicited. The young lady wrote two letters, in the afternoon, for her mother and sister, and left them on her dressing.. table. She rang the bell, and called for her dressing:case, presumed to have been the parcel which she was observed to carry. Her jewels she left on her bed. She dressed herself very plainly, and went out. The gardener opened the gate. and Lady Adela thanked him as she passed. She entered a fly, and proceeded be the Railway-station; where a tall gentleman assisted her to alight, and paid the fare. Next we learn, that a tall gentleman, holding a handkerchief to his face, obtained tickets for two in the Railway-office. While doing so, he coo lied; and removing the handkerchief, disclosed a pair of light whiskers and a

moustache. As he left the counter, he was joined by a lady, closely veiled, who had stood apart; and they set off with the train for town. Meanwhile, the Countess had been summoned home, and stricter inquiries were made on Thursday morning; the head of the Police at Brighton being pre- sent! Lady Adela's maid now confessed, that in her walks her young mistress had been met by a tall gentleman, of military aspect; but as he always conversed with the lady in French, the maid could not understand them. It was presumed that the couple had fled Northwards—to Gretna Green; and Captain Villiers, Lady Adela's brother, set out in pursuit, from town. But it was now Thursday after- noon; and besides that loss of time his progress was delayed by untoward accidents. All the trains for Carlisle had left town except the mail, which does not leave London till nine at night. The Captain took first the four o'clock ,express-train to Wolverton, and thence proceeded by a third-class train to York. Here he endeavoured to obtain a special engine; but the locomotive power at this station was at so low an ebb that none could be had for love or money, and he was compelled to undergo the annoyance of waiting for the mail of Friday morning. . On reaching Gretna, he learned that on Thursday afternoon a marriage had been performed, between Captain Charles Parke lbbetson and Lady Adele .Cotisanda Maria Villiers; and that the couple had repaired to Edinburgh. At .this news, Captain Villiers returned to town. . Captain Ibbetson is described as about ten years older that his bride—that is, about twenty-seven. He is the son of Mr. Henry Ibbetson, of Chester Terrace, Regent's Park—a member of the firm of Ibbetson and Son, proctors and notaries, in Great Knight Rider Street. Lady Adela's husband holds a Captain's com- mission in the Eleventh (Prince Albert's) Hussars.

It is understood that the young. officer first met Lady Adds at Almack's, last season. He had recently lodged with his mother at Lower Rock Gardens, a set of houses which command a view of East Lodge; and he had been observed looking towards the Lodge with an opera-glass. A letter from the family to the Horse Guards elicited a very favourable report of the bridegroom's character; and it is said that he is generally esteemed in society. He is absent from his regiment on leave; but it is expected that he will join it on the 14th instant, in Ireland.

Some of the papers, with a kind of bull, mention as a" singular fact," "that the maternal grandmother of Lady Adele Villiers also eloped with her husband, the late Earl of Westmoreland, in the spring of 1782. Mr. Child, the opulent banker, father of the lady, pursued the fugitives on that occasion, and was on the point of overtaking their carriage, when Lord Westmoreland, from the window of his post-chaise, shot one of Mr. Child's leaders; and in the confusion arising from the fall of the horse, pushed on, and was married to the lady at Gretna before her father reached that place."

Charles Goddard, D.D., Sub-Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, has directed the of- ficers not to admit to the stalls orpews any person who has not " the character of gentleman."—Morning Post. [All men are equal in the sight of God, but not of Goddard !] Sir Richard Vyvyan, M.P., has authorized the Times to state that the " Ves- tiges of Creation," the authorship of which has been attributed to so many persons, was not written by him. The further intimation that the honourable Baronet is engaged in another work of a not dissimilar character we are still dis- posed to believe.—Falmouth Packet.

Dwarkanauth Tagore, the Indian banker, has commissioned Mr. Edward D. Leahy, a native of Cork, to paint the portrait of Father Mathew.