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Cabinet Councils, fully attended, were held on Saturday and Wednes- day. They lasted three hours and a half, and two hours and a half, re- spectively.

It was stated early in the week, and has not yet been contradicted, that the Duke of Wellington has resigned his office as Master of the Horse, because he had voted against Ministers in the matter of the Wensleydale Peerage. It was at the same time stated that the Lord Chancellor had resigned; but that has been contradicted.

The Honourable and Reverend Montagu Villiers will, we have reason to believe, be the new Bishop of Carlisle, in the room of the late Dr. Percy. Lieutenant-General W. G. Moore, an old Peninsular and Water- loo officer, who has been for forty-five years in the service, will succeed Sir W. Davy as Colonel of the battalion of the Sixtieth Rifles.—Globe, Feb. 15.

It has been incorrectly stated that Rear-Admiral Sir dames Stirling., commanding on the East India station, had been recalled; at his own solicitation. Mr. Ross D. Mangles, in a letter to the Times, states that Admiral Stirling has not been recalled—he has resigned ; "a course he had for some time contemplated, in consequence of ill health," Earl Granville entertained at dinner, on Wednesday, the American Min- ister and a distinguished party of guests; afterwardsillwintess Granville held a reception, very full attended : the Duchess, DukeTlEd Princess Mary of Cambridge, honoured her Ladyship with visits.

The Speaker opened his series of Parliamentary dinners on Saturday, by entertaining a Ministerial set, including the Premier.

Lord Haddo M.P. isgreatly improved in health, and is able to attend in the House of Commons for the first time since his election for Aberdeenshire in 1854.

At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, on Saturday, the Empe- ror of the French was unanimously elected an honorary member of the society.

The French Emperor has nominated General Bosquet to be a Senator.

It is officially announced at Vienna that a second accession will at no dis- tant day be made to the family of the Emperor.

The nurse selected for the coming heir of France is a bonny young woman from Normandy—Pont Audemer, in the Eure.

The King of Bavaria has presented Mr. Cockburn Thomson, of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, with a valuable gold medal, destined to mark his Majesty' appreciation of Mr. Thomson's edition and translation of the Bhagavad- Gitii, the sacred philosophical poem of India.

A Civil List pension of 100/. has been given to Mr. Samuel Lover, the popular author of Irish songs and stories.

Messieurs Carlyle, Dickens, and Forster, announce that they have re- ceived subscriptions sufficient to purchase an annuity of 251. a year for "Dr. Johnson's goddaughter," Miss Lowe ; and that " an ardent and renowned admirer of Turner," having discovered that Miss Lowe's father "befriended and saved to art" Turner, when he was a barber's boy, has bestowed 51. a year more on Miss Lowe and her sister.

The Parliamentary reporters of the London daily press complain that their galleries in the two Houses are often inconveniently crowded, and that it is intended to make them more so by admitting reporters for provincial journals. The Times contends that the reporters for the daily press and those engaged for the telegraph companies are all that ought to be admitted —surely the reports in the London morning papers are full enough in all conscience !

Portsmouth garrison presents just now the appearance of a town be- leaguered from the sea and the garrison preparing busily for its defence. A large fleet of ships and gun-boats is at anchor in the roadstead off the town, and new batteries and quarters for soldiers are being constructed rapidly within the walls of the fortress. At the top of the town a large range of dwelling-houses and the theatre have been pulled down to create more room for military accommodation ; while at the bottom a heavy battery of sixteen 68-pounder pivot-guns is in course of completion, having taken the place of the old platform of 6-pounder saluting-guns. In the rear of these has been erected a large shell-magazine, flanked by a high earth mound to protect it from the shot of an enemy seaward ; new embrasures for heavy 32-pounders have been cut in the curtain of the ramparts at various points commanding. Southsea, where a mud fort has been built near the old stone fortress) Southsea Castle, to strengthen that defence. A new double drawbridge is in course of erection in lieu of the old single one at St. James Gate Point, where a battery and Royal Artillery quarters in rear have for some time.

been built to protect the mouth of the harbour on the right of the entrance.

The Government are also endeavouring to negotiate for a large the of house property in Green Row and the rear for further enlarging the barrack accommodation; and this to the extent (says military rumour) of 30,000 men ! If so, Portsmouth and its adjacent dependencies must become almost exclusively a eitadel.—Times.

Troops continue to leave England for the East. The steamer Great Bri- tain left Liverpool on Sunday with drafts of regiments amounting to 530 men, to call at Cork for some 600 more. The steamer Ripon has embarked at Eenthampton 685 men of the Swiss Legion.

A. girl of seventeen has enlisted in the Ninety-seventh Regiment, at Windsor. When her sex was discovered, she was arrested on the charge of obtaining the Queen's money under false pretences. It is said that she has a sweetheart in the Crimea, and hoped to be able to join him by enlisting as a soldier.

Total (including unspecified causes) 1156.7 1151 said Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, who is supposed to be hoarding money for pet projects, is plundering all his subjects with great impartiality, ex- cept his private soldiers, whom he pets. He hasjust intimated a great re- duction of the grant to the great and renowned free school of Cairo, El Azhar, which will have the effect of almost entirely stopping the proceed- ings of the school. The original grant was made by Mehemet Ali, as a sort of compensation for 14,000 acres of land " appropriated" by him.

The Patriarch of Venice has ordained that, "in order to avoid unplea- santness (scandal), all those persons who do not fast on the appointed fast- days are to be served in a private room."

Two professors and twelve students of the schools of Law and Medicine at Paris have been tried for rioting at the lectures of M. Nisard. One student was acquitted. The two professors were sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, five students for three months, four for one month, and the rest to 100 francs fine each.

The vines of France present a favourable appearance this year.

A. monster blast has been fired at the Holyhead harbour quarry, which consumed ten months in preparation, and is supposed to have displaced 60,000 tons of rock.

CurerAr.. PALACE.—The Directors have elected Mr. James Fergusson, F.R.A.S., &c. to the office of general manager of the Crystal Palace. Mr. Fergusson is already well known to the public by his various works on the fine arts, and on architecture, fortification, and other practical subjects, as well as in connexion with the Assyrian Court in the Crystal Palace, which was erected from his designs and under his superintendence. The Directors have made arrangements with the manager and the other principal officers of the Company, by which their remuneration will in some degree depend for the future on the commercial success of the enterprise.

Return of admissions for six days ending Friday February 15th, in- cluding season-ticket-holders, 5833. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten Weeks Week of 1846-'55. of 1856. Zymotic Diseases 226.7 Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat 47.1 Tubercular Diseases 190.0 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 132.5 .... 145 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 44.1

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 248.0 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 65.1

Diseases of the Kidneys, Se. 11.9 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 8.2 Rheumatism, Diseases of the Bones, Joints, Sc 8.5 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc 2.1 Malformations 4.6 Premature Birth 31.2 Atrophy 25.0 Age 57.5 Sudden 9.8 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 29.7