Last night's Gazette contains several annonncementv—from the Privy Council Office,
that Parliament will be prorogued from the 27th instant to the 16th December; from the Speaker, that a writ will Dime for the elec- tion of a Member to represent the County of .Antrim, in the room of Mr. John Irving, deceased; from the Poor-law Commissioners that Mr. Goolge Grenville Wandisfort Pigott, of Doddershall in Buckinghamshire, has boa appointed an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner; and from Means. Stillwell and Son, agents, that prize-money will be payable at No. 22 Arundel Street, Strand, to the officers and crew of the steam-ship Growler, for the capture of the slavers Enganador and San Antonio El Cayman.
The Queen has commanded the College of Chemists to assume the title- of " the Royal College of Chemistry"; and Prince Albert, who has accepted the Presidency of the College, has made to it a donation of 100/.
It is said that Sir Horace Seymour, a near relation to the Marquis or Hertford, will offer himself for the county of Antrim.
For a week past there have been rumours that another seat for Windsor Is to be vacated, and they are renewed this morning: it is said that Mr. Neville will be made a Commissioner of Customs; and that either the Ho- nourable Mr. Lawley or the Honourable Mr. Tollemache, both of the Second. Life Guards, will offer himself to the electors.
The Church and State Gazette announces that "the Reverend Frederick
William Faber, M. A., late Fellow of University College, and Rector or Elton, Huntingdonshire, joined the Roman communion together with eight others, (names unknown,) at Northampton, on Thursday sennight"- also, "upon authority which, though we cannot name, we consider indisl putable, that one of the Chaplains of the Bishop of London is on the point of being admitted into the Romish Church."
The Lord Chancellor has been confined to the house by a cold ; but we believe the attack has not at any time been serious, and the latest reports are very favourable.
Duke Ferdinand of' Saxe Coburg and Prince Leopold left Plymouth, is the Black Eagle steamer, yesterday morning.
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