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Tuesday's Gazette contains the form of prayer ordered by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury " to be used in all churches and chapels throughout the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, on Wednesday the 24th in- stant, being the day appointed by proclamation for a general fast and humi- liation before Almighty God, in order to obtain pardon of our sins, and that we may, in the most devout and solemn manner, send up our prayers and supplications to the Divine Majesty for the removal of those heavy judg- ments which our manifold sins and provocations have most justly deserved, and with which Almighty God is pleased to visit the iniquities of this land, by a grievous scarcity and dearth of divers articles of sustenance and neces- series of life." The service is an adaptation of that appointed for Ash Wed- nesday; but is too long, for our columns.

The Reverend Dr. Adler, Chief Rabbi of the Jews in the United Iran4- dom, has issued a form of prayer to be used in the synagogues within his control on the 24th instant, the day of the general fast.

The Committee of the British Association for the Relief of extreme Dis- tress in Ireland and Scotland have made a report of the sums received; which now exceed 240,0001., including 50,0001. received from the Home Secretary as part of the collection under the Queen's letter.

A letter from Cairo, of the 16th February, reports that the corn crops of Egypt for the present year are of the most promising appearance: in some parts of Lower Egpyt the ear is beginning to form, and the harvest will be got in by the end of the next month.

According to a letter in the Cologne Gazette, Prince Metternich has inti- mated that he is dissatisfied with the policy of Prussia in the matter of the constitution; and that the effect on his mind has been to induce him to make overtures to Russia for a closer alliance with that power.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office.

We are informed that, after long deliberation, the United Wesleyan Committees of Education and of Privileges have resolved upon a decided opposition to the Government scheme. Resolutions to that effect will be published as soon as they have received the requisite sanction.—Stariderd.

The Herald and Pandora surveying-vessels, now at Panama, are to pro- ceed in the course of next month to the Northward, to endeavour to meet Captain Sir John Franklin with the Erebus and Terror discovery-ships, who may be expected about the end of the year. It is understood that Captain Sir Edward Parry and Dr. Sir John Richardson have been to the Admiralty, to afford all the information they can of the route and the pro- bable time they may be expected, should they succeed in making the voyage to the Pacific.—Globe.

Viscount Torrington, the new Governor of Ceylon, has quite recovered from his recent illness, and has arrived at Fenton's Hotel. He is expected to embark for Ceylon about the middle of April.

We are informed that Mr. Newman, acting under the advice of his Holiness the Pope, will return to England as a member of the order of Oratorians, and be employed in preaching and other missionary labours. He is to receive the order of sub-deacon, deacon, and priest, towards the close of the present or the beginning of the next year, previously to his return to England. There is not the slightest foundation for a report which has appeared in some papers, of a question having arisen at Rome on the subject of his ordination.—Times.

The obituary of the week announces the death of Colonel Gore Langton, one of the oldest Members of the House of Commons. He was the son of Mr. William Gore, who assumed the surname of Langton on marrying an heiress. The Colonel was in his eighty-eighth year: he had sat in Parlia- ment, with one interruption, for fifty-five years; and had been the constant and unswerving supporter of Liberal measures, being a Whig in opinion. He is said to have been one of the wealthiest commoners in England. He is succeeded in his estates by his grandson, Mr. Langton; who recently mar- ried Lady Anna Grenville, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham.

All the attempts to prevent Mademoiselle Jenny Lind from appearing at Mr. Lumley's theatre have failed: this is set at rest by a letter from the lady to Mr. Bunn, written, it is said, after she knew that the Attorney- General had given an opinion against Mr. Bunn's claim. We subjoin the English version, published this week in the morning papers-

- Vienna, February 28th, 1847.

" Sir—I had the honour of receiving your letter of the 19th of December 1846, in which you pretend to have to claim from me damages for my non-arrival in 1845. You are perfectly conversant with my reasons for not coming, and which rendered impossible my appearance at your theatre. Besides, my arrival would have been fruitless, since you had not at the time the opera of the Feldlager translated into English, nor the music which I was engaged to sing. It is more than probable that this affair, brought before a court of justice, would yield you nothing; but I am determined you shall not tax me again with bad faith, how- ever little I merit such a reproach; and I offer to pay you the sum of 2,0001. (two thousand pounds) on your returning the paper signed by me, to the person I shall appoint for the purpose. "As I shall in any event come to London, I should prefer coming with the consciousness of having done all that depended upon me; and I leave it to your choice and judgment whether you will prefer this amicable arrangement to a law- suit, from which you would probably derive nothing. "I have given to Mr. Edward Jennings, of 9 Chancery Lane, all necesaary and further instructions on the present subject. " Jesuirr Liwn.

"To Alfred Bunn, Esq., Director of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London.'

The Trustees of the National Gallery have purchased a small Raphael, from the representatives of Lady Sykes. The subject of the picture, reckoned an early one, is not well known. A knight in full armour is lying asleep, and on either side of him is standing a female figure: one of these would seem to represent Religion; the other holds an olive-branch in her hand.

The exhibition of painting, engraving, and sculpture, at the Louvre, opened on Tuesday last. It is described as being unequal to several of its predecessors; eight or ten of the leading artists having, on various grounds, declined to send in any of their works.

The Courrier Francais gives a humorous account of the result attending one of Marshal Bugeand's attempts at military colonization. About a year ago, he founded the village of Fouka, settling on it sixty soldiers. They were all bache- lors; and to provide them with wives, he sent them by steamer, in a body, to Toulon; where they found sixty virgins, all warranted ofgood character. The ladies had dowries furnished by the State, of sums ranging from 24/. to 481., and distributed in an inverse ratio to natural charms. Three interviews were allowed between the matrimonial bands,—one, a distant and synoptical view; the second, still silent, an allotment of the brides and bridegrooms by name, the gentlemen, apparently, being allowed some choice; the third, the wedding. There were fifty-nine marriages; one soldier being quite unable to reconcile himself to the remaining maid. The heroes returned with their brides and the bachelor to Al- giers; and the double column was reviewed by the Marshal, each husband behind his spouse. "The sixtieth stood solitary and trembling in the rear of his line of comrades. The poor fellow quaked when the Marshal put him the awful goes- tion—' Where is your wife?" Monsieur le Mardchal,' replied the soldier, ' all the others have wives." Aliens!' returned the Marshal, 'you are not such a fool as I thought you were.' Ho was pardoned for his celibacy. Alas 1 how fared these military marriages? A year had scarcely elapsed, when most of those ladies fled from Fouka to the seducers of the army of Africa; shamelessly betraying husbands, homes, and drums, without even regretting the ten hectares of land. Marshal Bugeaud had forgotten to include conjugal fidelity among his orders of the day."

Part of the Amiens and Boulogne Railway was opened on Sunday—the portion between Amiens and Abbeville. The opening of the remainder is fixed for August next.

The Austrian Government have ordered electric telegraphs to be formed between Vienna, Prague, Pesth, and Milan.

A letter from Liege states that the Belgian Government has authorized a com- pany to establish in that town a large factory for the fabrication of fulminating cotton.

The American papers mention a machine, invented by one Elias Howe, which sews " beautiful and strong seams in cloth as rapid as nine tailors ! "

At the Trowse station of the Norfolk Railway, an abiittoir, consisting of two sets of slaughterhouses, has been built and fitted up with every accommodation and convenience for slaughtering 100 beasts and 300 sheep daily. The buildings and yards are enclosed within high brick walls, and the yard has been divided into compartments or pens for the beasts and sheep. Adjoining the slaughter- house there is a large tank, above a brick structure, to supply water. Close to the open end of the houses there is a siding from and to the railway, on which tracks run to be loaded with carcases. The directors intend to let both sets of slaughterhouses, either separately or together.—?1orfo& Chronicle.

A new kind of cab was introduced into the streets of London on Sunday. It is something like Hansom's cabs, only that the seats are arranged omnibus- fashion—sideways. The chief novelty is the absence of springs, and the substi- tution of a caoutchonc tire to the wheels: an elastic tube encircles each wheel, neutralizing every jolt, giving a singularly smooth and steady motion, deadening the noise, and having the further advantage that in case of accident the wheels may pass over any one without much hurt—many suffered the wheel to cross their feet without experiencing a worse sensation than a little numbness !

The French papers mention a curious trial. In 1845, Madame Lastitia Wyse, wife of Mr. Wyse, M.P., and niece of Napoleon, being in want of money, induced. M. Zenowicz, formerly a Colonel in the Imperial armies, to endorse four bills of ex- change amounting to 11,500 francs, which were drawn upon M. Alexandre, banker, of Rouen, and passed to the order of a M. Lire, who discounted them. The bills were not taken up when due; and M. Zenowicz was in consequence condemned to pay them, under penalty of imprisonment. On Wednesday, N. Zenowicz appealed against this judgment in so far as regarded the liability to imprisonment. It was stated by his advocate that he had only put his name upon the bills from the interest he felt for a niece of the Emperor; and that in fact they were not com- mercial bills, inasmuch as they were improperly drawn upon M. Alexandre, his

name being used for no other motive than that it happened to appear in the di- rectory. The Court held that the last reason deprived the bills of their commer- cial character; and that consequently, though M. Zenowicz, as endorser, was liable to pay them, he could not be subjected to imprisonment in case of default.

A Frankfort paper states that the damage done by the fire at the Carlsruhe Theatre is estimated at 250,000 florins; 100,000 florins of which is covered by the Phoenix Insurance Office at Frankfort; which, two days previously, had ceded half the risk to a company in Cassel.

News has arrived of the loss of an emigrant-ship, in the Gulf stream, on her way to Canada from Hamburg. The master and four seamen were picked up in a boat; the rest of the crew, and upwards of a hundred and sixty emigrants, pe- rished. The vessel is reported to be the barque Stephani.

Very early on the morning of Friday week, a Coast Guardman stationed near Folkestone observed a vessel on the rocks, the hull covered by the sea. He raised an alarm, and with other four officers put off in a boat, though a heavy sea was running: the brave fellows gained the wreck, and found all the crew—six men and a boy—in the rigging; all were saved, and conveyed to the Lydden Spout Coast Guard station. The vessel was bound from Swansea to Newcastle, laden with iron.

An Alderman of Charleston, South Carolina, absconded some time ago, on ac- count of money difficulties. He left behind him a Mulatto wife and six children: it has been discovered by the creditors that the Mulatto is a slave; consequently the children are slaves; and the Alderman's family is to be sold to pay his debts. Three brothers named Glover, two of them woollen-cloth-scribblers and the other a manufacturer, who had long been engaged in their trades at Leeds, re- cently became bankrupt; and while investigations were going on into their trans- actions, they absconded: it has now been found that they have committed a number of forgeries, by affixing counterfeits of the signatures of their correspond- ' ants to bills of exchange, which they got discounted. A reward of 5001. has been offered for their apprehension.

Hervey Leach, the dwarf who figured on the stage as a monkey or beetle, and recently exhibited as an animal of an unknown kind—" What is it?"—died on Tuesday, at Shoreditch. He was a native of America, and was in his forty-sixth year. His last request was that his body should be presented to Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, not to be buried, but embalmed and kept in a glass case.

The United States has just lost her " oldest inhabitant" by death. John Shepherd, of Akron, Ohio, was nearly a hundred and nineteen years old. He fought at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown Flats. Having lost his papers by a fire, he was refused a pension by Congress: but he was comfortably supported by his children.

. The personal property of the late Mr. Clowes, the eminent printer, has been valued at 90,000L The printing establishments and business are bequeathed to two of his sons, William and George; provision is made in other ways for his sons Winchester and Edward, and for his four daughters. Last year, the House of Commons ordered returns to be make respecting Coro- ners' inquests on gamekeepers and offenders against the Game laws in England and Wales, from the 1st January 1844 to the period of the order, 4th May 1846. Those returns have just been issued. The inquests on gamekeepers were nine in number : in three, verdicts of " wilful murder" were returned; two, "natural death"; one, "manslaughter "; one, " concussion of the brain"; one, "suicide"; and one was "found dead from a gunshot wound." The number of convictions at Assizes for offences against the Game-laws were 283; at Quarter-Sessions and Petty-Sessions, 11,179.

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 Contagious) Diseases 128 .. . 183 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 105 .... 112 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow. Nerves, and Senses 178 ... 170 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 368 .... 354

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 48 .... 32

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 76 .... 70 D.seases of the Kidneys, de 8 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &e 12 .... 12

Rheumatism, diseases of the Roues, Joints, Be. 7

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c . . 2 Old Age Ell

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperaace 18 ..-. 90

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Mal (including unspecified causes) 1026 1068

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 67.0° in the sun to 9.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 5.9°. The general direction of the wind for the week was North and South-west.