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A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the Foreign Office: the - sitting lasted two hours and a half. Another Council assembled at the Foreign Office on Tuesday.

The Gazette of Tuesday contains the following announcement under the head of " Datchy of Lancaster, February 13"—

" At a Council this day, the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, commonly called the Earl of Lincoln, Charles Philip Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Honourable Frederick Earl Spencer, Edward Berkeley Lord Portman, the Right Honourable Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart, and George Edward Anson, Eaq., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of the Council of the Datchy of Lancaster."

A correspondent informs us that the four Bishoprics to be created, ac- cording to the proposition of Lord John Russell, will be conferred on the Honourable and Reverend Montague Villiers, M.A., Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury; the Reverend Thomas Dale, M.A., Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's; the Reverend J. Slade, M.A., Canon of Chester, and Vicar of Bolton-le-Moors; and the Reverend Benjamin Par- son Symons, D.D., Warden of Wadhan; College, Oxford, and Vice-Chan- cellor of the University.—Morning Chronicle.

We understand that the Queen has decided that the Garter vacant by the decease of the late Duke of Northumberland shall be conferred upon his Grace the Duke of Bedford.—GloLe.

At the levee held last week the Queen knighted Mr. Henry Edward Fox Young, Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope.

An address is in course of signature by some members of the University of Cambridge, soliciting Prince Albert to allow his name to be proposed for Chancellor at the approaching election. Meanwhile, Earl Powis has ac- cepted the invitation to stand, from another party.

A story is going the round of the press relating the " noble conduct of Prince George of Cambridge." The phrase smacks of the hyperbole of syoophancy, and mars the recital of what was really characterized Tr...- manly kindness. While a number of persons were skating in the Zoolo- gical Gardens in the Phoenix Park at Dublin, the ice broke and several skaters fell in. The bystanders exerted themselves to save the sufferers; and among them Prince George was conspicuous for his energy, and his forgetfulness of petty etiquettes. These exertions were successful; but Policeman Dunn was drowned in the endeavour to secure others. At the inquest, the Jury included in their verdict an expression of warm ad- miration for Prince George's " intrepid, humane, and noble conduct."

Accounts from Berlin, of the 8th instant, state that a very favourable change had recently taken place in the health of the Queen of Prussia.

The marriage of Don Juan, son of Don Carlos, with the youngFat sister of the Mike de Modena, was celebrated at Modena in the beglllnmg,ef. February.

A paragraph has been going the round of the daily papers stating that young Prince Hatzfeldt of Silesia is about to dissolve his present marriage, for the purpose of contracting another. As the Pope seldom grants the dissolution of a marriage, the Prince intends to become a Protestant, in order to qualify himself for getting unmarried and remarried.

The Times quotes a valuable piece of information from the Union Mon- archique, under the heading " a mare's nest": it is, " that negotiations still continue relative to the marriage of the Count de Montemolin with the Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke of Cambridge"; and it is added, that to remove the only obstacle, " the Princess will embrace Catholicity."

A report of Mr. O'Connell's death was circulated in London on Thurs- day; but the answer to inquiries at his hotel was that he was " quite well." We presume that this is not to be taken literally. His indisposition is said to arise from an affection of the heart. It is said that he has serious forebodings; for his constant exclamation after conversation with any of his old intimates is, " Pray for me, pray for me!"

Among the deaths recorded is that of Mr. Macvey Napier, for twenty years editor of the Edinburgh Review; he died on the 11th instant. Mr. Napier was Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh, and also one of the Principal Clerks of the Court of Session. He was for many years connected with the Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which he edited the seventh edition. He had attained the age of seventy, and had given his custcmary lecture at the University on the Monday previous to his death.

Captain Dillon, the celebrated French navigator of the Indian Seas, died last week in France. Captain Dillon was the discoverer of the rem- nants of the Astrolabe, the sole relics of the unfortunate La Peyrouse and his companions.

We learn by the report of an inquest in the Nottingham Review, that Mr. Charles Hooter], author of Colin Clink and some other pleasing fic- tions, has met his death in a very distressing manner. In Texas he con- trasted a jungle fever, which revisited him every year, and he palliated its attacks with opiates: an over-dose of morphia—four grains—proved fatal.

The Church and State Gazette announces that Mr. George Renorden ringdon, B.A, Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, has seceded to the Church of Rome. Trinity College has furnished many such converts.

The Reverend Edward Caswell, late of Brazenose, has been recently re- ceived, with Mrs. Caswell, into the Church of Rome, in that city. It ap- peares that in June last Mr. Caswell addressed a letter to the editor of the Oxford Herald, in contradiction of a report that was then current in Oxford of his having gone over to the Romish Church. Mr. Caswell is the author of the Art of Pluck and Examination Papers, humorous publications well known at Oxford.

Anxiety has been created within the last ten days by the rapid and steady advance in the price of a heat. The highest price quoted on Mon- day last, in town, was 78s.: the average of the six weeks was 70s. 7d. We observe that at Bristol the highest price quoted, on Thursday, is 828.; and the average must now be abont 71s. The Globe, however, sets to work, with much ability, to show that the prospect is not so very bad. The rigour of winter is past; stocks in the farmers hands are known to have accumulated, in the hope of high prices; the navigation in America will soon be opened; at the season when prices are usually highest—that is, in the spring and early summer—large supplies may be looked for: on all these grounds, it seems probable that prices have touched their highest point, and that there will be a reaction.

Official information was received on Monday last that the Emperor of Russia has prohibited all further exportation of corn from his dominions.

Stimulated by the interest which his soup-kitchen project excited, M. Soyer has sent another letter to the papers, giving receipts for two kinds of cheap soup. One, relishing and nutritive, can be made, even in London, at a cost of three-farthings per quart. The other, also a good soup, is still cheaper: a hundred gallons could be made, in andon, for one pound. A model-kitchen on a small scale, capable of supplying forty or fifty gallons at once, is already begun; and a list of subscribers to the needful funds, which make rapid progress, will shortly be published.

The bill relative to limited enlistment, intended to be laid before the House of Commons, will probably provide that for the future these enlist- ments shall be confined, fer the Infantry, to ten years; for the Cavalry, to twelve; and for the Royal Artillery, to fourteen; with the option, if fit for further service, of enlisting for a renewed period at the expiration of the first, or of becoming enrolled for occasional duty, upon the same plan as the present embodied out-pensioners, receiving a pension, two years for one of such enrolment, added to their service as soldiers. The men already enlisted ale, we believe, to a certain extent, to be allowed their discharge under the same regulation.—United Service Gazette.

We rinle:ctand that Mr. Barry has intimated to the Marquis of Lans- downe th..t the House of Lords will be completed for the reception of their Lordships after the Easter recess, with the exception of the fresco paint- ings and the statues in the niches. The new House of Commons is not expected to be ready for some time.—Standard.

Mr. Bickham Escott's individual report, as one of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of Milbank Prison, is now before the public. Mr. Escott remarks, that although the report signed by his colleagues expresses an intention to report the evidence in full, in the report as printed in Par- liament none of the viva voce evidence is given. The substance of Mr. Escott's own report is, that the general condition of the prison is good for order, cleanliness, and ventilation; the only exception being the dark cells, which are unfit for the confinement of prisoners. The general diet is wholesome and ample, and the prisoners' health good. There are, how- ever, faults in the discipline and ordering of the prison; particularly in the enforcement of the Silent and Separate systems, and in the infliction of cruel punishments by orders of the Governor and Inspectors, regardless of the health of the prisoners. The merits and demerits of the Governor are described: he enforces order and discipline, is personally courageous, and anxious to improve the management of the prison; but on the other hand, he has an insufficient knowledge of the elementary principles of conducting judicial inquiries; and exhibits a hasty, boisterous manner, in issuing orders, which is offensive to others. The Inspectors of the prison have "'not always manifested that attention to the established principles of judicial inquiry required from those intrusted with the power of punish- ment." Although some of the accusations laid against the Governor and officers have proved exaggerated, and others remain unproved, enough has been established to show the necessity of an impartial and • searching inquiry.

Arrangements are in progress for fitting out the Mina and Teaser steam- vessels, of 100-horse power each, and light draught of water, and two other steam-vessels, the Rifleman and Sharpshooter, of 200-horse power each, one of each class built of wood and the others of iron, and all fitted with screw-propellers, for the purpose of proceeding to the Bight of Benin, on the West coast of Africa, to survey the extensive Lake Lagoon, at the mouths of the Niger or Nun river, as it is named by the natives of that part of the coast.—Correspondent of the Morning Post.

The barque Earl of Harewood arrived on Tuesday night from Madras, with the first cargo of sugar ever imported into Greenock from that Pre- sidency.—Greenock Advertiser.

Mr. Richard Oastler, in his unbounded and enthusiastic delight at the progress of the Ten-hours Bill, has sent a letter to the Morning Post, com- mencing in this fashion- " Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to offer to Almighty God the grateful thanks of an overflowing heart for His gracious interference in behalf of the poor oppressed factory children and women [This peculiar choice of a channel for the thanksgiving seems to pre- suppose a very exalted circulation for the Morning Post.] A Naval Court-martial was held at Portsmouth on Friday and Saturday last, to try Commander Craggs, Mr. Wallis the Master, and the officers and crew of the Sphynx, for negligently running the steamer aground. It came out in the evidence, that Commander Craggs had left the charge of the ship during the night to the Master; who altered the course on his own responsibility, and also neglected to keep the lead going. The decision of the Court was, that both Com- mander Craggs and Mr. Wallis should be dismissed the ship; also that the former should be placed at the bottom of the list of Commanders, and the latter on the list of Second Masters. The other officers and the ship's company were acquitted.

The finding of the Court-martial in the case of Captain Bull, who was tried forputling his superior officer under arrest at Simon's Bay, has been published. The Court declared him guilty, and sentenced him to be cashiered; but recom- mended him to the gracious consideration of the Queen, on account of the high character he received from the officers with whom he had saved. This judg- ment was approved by the Crown: the Queen commanded that Captain Bull be restored to the functions of his commission, removed to another regiment of the line, and seriously admonished as to his future conduct.

News has arrived of the total wreck of the Creole, a French emigrant-ship, on the coast of Cuba, on the night of the 19th December. The Creole, a crazy old ship, sailed from Bordeaux to New Orleans, having a hundred and twenty Frerch and English passengers on board. She struck on a reef of rocks, and speedily went to pieces. The boats were got out, and every exertion was made by M. Cayal, the master, to save the people; but he himself and fifty others perished. Among those lost were eighteen females and twenty children. Some of the crew behaved in the most inhumane manner, robbing the living and chopping off the fingers and ears of the dead to get possession of trinkets. The survivors of the emigrants were hospitably received by the citizens of Nuevitas: the poor people had lost everything.

The new entertainment of " dramatic readings " gains ground. Mr. J. Russell, the comedian, has been delivering such readings at the Westminster Literary Institution, on Thursdays. Last week he read The Merchant of Venice, this week Weill; and both gave great pleasure to an intellectual auditory.

Mademoiselle Rachel, whose health has long been in a precarious state, has suffered a relapse; and her reappearance at the Theatre Francais is postponed till next month.

Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble) has made her first reappearance on the stage at Manchester; where she is said to be engaged for six nights, at 5001. She i

played Julia in Sheridan Knowles's Hunchback on Tuesday, to a crowded house.

We are requested to contradict the report of the marriage of Miss Susan Cush- man, and to state that the account of such a marriage in the Liverpool Albion is entirely without foundation.—Dublin Pilot.

The late Mr. Byng's estate has been valued for probate-duty at 400,0001.— Globe.

The late Mr. Benjamin Winthrop, the barrister, has left funded and other per- sonal property to the amount of 850,000/. His will, with eight codicils, all in his own handwriting, was found in the cellar of his private residence.

A Hong-kong correspondent of the Hampshire Telegraph mentions that a Chinese junk has started from Hong-kong for England, for the purpose of exhi- bition-' London to be her first port. " She is 600 tons, measures 150 feet in length, and more than 50 in the beam. To portray her externally is as follows— she has a large red stern, with two large eyes and stem, white bottom, and blue sides, and nine painted windows in each side. Her internal fittings have been got up very fairly for the time; and I dare say, as they carry Chinese artists, she will be much more decorated on her voyage. You may expect her in less than six months, if she lives. She is nearly new, and teak-built. She carries tea English sailors, and Chinese. Her stern is higher, and her main-mast larger at the top, than those of the Agincourt 74." An old man, an agricultural labourer has been found dead in the snow on Brentree Hill, near Bristol. A loaf of bread was found under his arm; and he appears to have been ascending the hill after buying it, when the cold overpow- ered him, he lost his way, and so perished.

A man has been found in the snow in a field at Morcbard, in the West of Eng- land, frozen to death. Those who first observed the man lying in the snow thought he was drunk, and pelted the corpse with snow-balls I Ballard, the son of a publican at Higham, between Rochester and Gravesend, tried to shoot out a load of chalk from a barrow into a chalk-pit; but the chalk having frozen to the barrow, the weight pulled the man into the pit; he fell a depth of 150 feet, and died in an hour.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the

week ending on Saturday last— Number of Winter

deaths. average.

Zymotic (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagion") Diseases 134 .. . 183 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 54 .... 112 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 171 ... 170

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration

468 .... 356 Mimeses of the Heart and Blood-vessels 63 .... 32 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 71 .... 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, do

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Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ,fic 23 .... 12 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, JoInts,Ro.

7 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc.

2 Old Age

75 .

.. 85

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 22 .. . 30

— — Total (including unspecified canoes) 1147 1068

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 41.9° in the sun to 16.7° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mesa temperature by 13.7°. The direction of the wind for the week was South-west..