The Convocation of tha Prelates and Clergy of the Province
of Canter- bury was yesterday. prorogued, in the Jerusalem Chamber, to Friday, 17th November.' ' The Gazette of last night contained the following announcement—.
"TheQneenhai been pleaked to direct letters patent to be prepared under the Great-Seal of the United Kingdom" appointing the Reverend Frederic Barker' Mader in Divinity,, to be :ordained and consecrated .Bishop of the See of Sydney" and to be Metropolitan Bishop in Australia, subject to the general superintendence and revision of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, and subordinate to the Archiepiscopal See of the Province of
Canterbury." -
It is stated that the screw-steamer Queen of the South will depart from England for the Crimea on the 25th instant, with 252 officers and men of the Guards, 1.24 of the Pint, 103 of the Seventh, 102 of the Nineteenth, -136 of the Twenty-third, and 83 of the Ninety-fifth Regiments, total 800. The next cavalry regiment for service in the East will be the Life
Guards. .
We understand that the Admiralty have ordered Mr. Deane, the chief -of marine divers, to proceed to the Black Sea immediately, to place him- self under the orders of the Commander-in-chief on the station.—Morn-
ing Herald. '
. Lord Canning, accompanied by Mr. William Page, the head of the Fo- reign and Colonial branch of the Secretary's department of the General Post-office, left London. for Paris on Thursday last, to enter into nego- tiations .with the French Government on the subject of a new postal treaty.—Civil Service Gazette. .
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