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Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week, one on Monday and another on Tuesday. All the Ministers except the Marquis of Lans- downe were present at both Councils.

Sit James Outram K.C.B., left Southampton on Thursday, for Bom- bay, in order to take the command of the British force destined to operate against Persia.

The Gazette of Tuesday notified that the Queen had directed " letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto James Baron Talbot of -Malahide, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ire- land, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten' by the name, style, and title of Baron Talbot de Malahide, in the county of Dublin."

Sir Alexander Cockburn accepted the office of Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday afternoon. Sir Richard Bethell succeeded him as Attorney-General ; and the post of Solicitor-General, thus vacated, was offered to Mr. Recorder Stuart Wortley, and accepted by him.

The Ministerial organs state that Mr. Pressly, Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, has been selected to succeed the late Mr. John Wood as Chairman of the Board; and that Mr. 'C. J. Harries suc- ceeds Mr. Pressly.

- The Bishop of St. Asaph has addressed a letter to the Marquis of Westminster on the endowment of poor livings and church-extension in general. He thinks there is no practical danger in those days of church- men being made-too rich. He is of opinion that "the whole income of the Church is inadequate for its wants." He believes " that it would be wise for the State, as a State, to supply this deficiency." ; but "that it would be better for the Church, as a Church, that we should go on as we have ever done, supported by the voluntary endowments of our own members." What he wishes to impress on Lord Westminster, and through him on the laity of England, especially on those who are pos- sessed of great property, is this—that if they wish to have a •Church establishment adequate to the wants of the country, they must endow the unprovided portions of it.

The mortality of London' which in the two previous weeks stood re- spectively at 969 and 1006 deaths, rose last week to 1090 ; and the Re- gistrar-General refers it to the causes usual at this season, "the cold weather and fogs" of November. The rate of mortality, however, is still below the corrected average; which, making allowance for the in- crease of population, reaches 1166 deaths,—a difference of 66 in favour of the present rate. Fort '-two persons died at the age of eighty and upwards ; and of these six were upwards of ninety, one reaching ninety- seven.

Count de Persigny has been on a visit to the Earl of Derby at Knowsley Hall, this week. On Wednesday, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Derby, he visited Liverpool to see the lions" ; • on which occasion the Mayor treated him to a luncheon at-the Town-hall. The Duchess of Athol has joined the Roman Catholic communion. This is the fourth perversion or conversion among the Scotch Duchesses : the others were the Duchess of Hamilton, the Duchess of Buceleuch, and the Dowager Duchess of Argyll.

The Tinges in an article highly complimentary to Mr..Briglit's eminent Parliamentary abilities, states that he is better in health, but that by the advice of his physicians he will not appear in Parliament next year. Ile has gone to Pans ' • thence he will proceed 'to Algeria, and afterwards pass -some months in Italy. He tendered his scat to his Manchester friends, -but they pressed him to retain it. His last visit was to Mr. Cobden, who is re- siding in Wales.

Mr. Horsman, the Irish Secretary, is a great hunter and a bold rider: last Saturday, while hunting with the Ward hounds in the county of Dub- lin, he was thrown, and his horse fell and rolled over him. Though Mr. Horsman was considerably hurt, he is almost well again.

The Emperor of Russia has sent the decoration of the White Eagle to Ismael Pasba, general-in-chief of the Turkish army in Asia, for his hu- manity towards the Russian prisoners at Kars. The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, presumptive heir to the Austrian throne, is to marry the Princess Charlotte of Belgium when she shall attain her seventeenth year : she was born on the 7th June 1840. The young Archduke is a very popular person, being extremely affable and. good- natured. Queen Maria Christina left Paris for Rome last week. It is said that she has received 240,0001. from the Spanish Government on account of her pro- perty which had been under sequestration. Baron Ilannuer, the well-known Orientalist, is ill at Vienna : he is eighty-three years old.

Prince Leiningen, whose death we mentioned last week, was the only son of Enrich Charles Prince of Leiningen and the Princess Victoria Marie Louise of Saxe-Coburg, now Duchess of Kent. He was therefore half- brother to the Queen. It is understood that her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent have taken his death much to heart. Prince Leiningen was born on the 12th September 1804, and succeeded his father in 1814. He entered the Bavarian army, and attained the rank of Lieutenant-General. He is succeeded by Prince Ernest,—an officer of the British Navy, who distin- guished himself in the Black Sea, and is now serving as second Lieutenant of the steam-frigate Magicienne.

A telegraphic despatch from Odessa states that Prince Woronzoff died in that city on the 18th instant. If this be correct, Russia has lost one of her worthiest sons. All the travellers in the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Transcaucasian possessions of Russia, testify to the moderation and en- lightenment of his views, both in dealing with the natives and developing the resources of those countries, and in giving considerable relaxation to the restrictive mercantile regulations which prevailed in the ports of the Cir- cassian coast. Prince Woronzoff was born in 1782, shortly before his father arrived in London as Ambassador from Russia. With the exception of the interval during which England was at war with Paul, Prince Woronzoff's father resided in England, until 1832 and his sister married the Earl of Pembroke. Mr. Sidney Herbert is her son. Prince Michael Woronzoff entered the Russian army in 1801, and served in several campaigns, in- cluding those of 1812, 1813, and 1814. He held the office of Governor of New Russia from 1823 to 1853. He retired from public employment on the outbreak of the Turkish war.

Lady Stafford, wife of the present Lord Stafford, and cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, was found dead in her bed on Thursday morning, at Costessy Park, near Norwich. She had suffered recently from the rupture of a blood- vessel, but was believed to be returning to convalescence.

Sir William Trelawny, Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall, died on the 15th, at Harewood House, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Mr. John Salus- bury Trelawny, formerly Member for Tavistoek, succeeds to the baronetcy.

Mr. Bogue, the well-known publisher in Fleet Street, died suddenly on Wednesday morning. He was in sound health on Tuesday night when he went to bed ; about eight o'clock next morning, he complained of a sense of suffocation; almost immediately afterwards he became speechless, and died in .a few minutes. Mr. Bogue was forty-five years of age, and has left a widow and five children.

Considerable anxiety has been felt for some time past respecting the James Baines, which sailed from Melbourne on the 6th August; and no tidings whatever having been received of her, insurances on her gold had risen this week in London to 15 per cent many persons, however, ascribed the lengthened voyage to unfavourable winds. This week the ship has ar- rived. The Lightning, which sailed on the 28th August, gained -Liverpool on the morning of Thursday ; she brought news of the James Baines ; and the latter vessel arrived in the Mersey the same night. The two ships have brought nearly 1,300,0001. of gold as freight, besides much in the hands of the numerous passengers. The James Baines seems to have been retarded in her course by her heavy cargo—part of it consists of 1000 tons of copper and tin ore,

The Grand Trunk Railway line is now opened from Montreal to Toronto.

Some doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs : the Board stated in reply, 'that on the 6th April next the duty will be reduced from le. 9d. to la. 3d. per pound.

It would seem from the brief accounts received from Australia to the 2d September, via Panama, that the former reports of a very rich gold-field having been discovered in New South Wales were correct : seamen could not be got at Sydney having all "rust for gold " at the new field, and minerawere quitting Victoria on the same errand.

At the last advices no fewer than three hundred vessels laden with grain, principally from the ports of the Danube, had passed through the Bos- phorus for the Adriatic, Marseilles, and England.

The Government have resolved to adopt Mr. Francis's metallic army floating waggons for use in our Army. They are to be constructed at Wool- wich Arsenal. Mr. Francis is an American.

The other day, a case respecting a defunct cemetery company came before the Court of Exchequer. In. the course of the proceedings, Mr. Pollock stated, that at a particular period five new directors were appointed, two of whom were prisoners for debt in the Queen's Bench; Mr. Baron Bramwell, when this fact was stated, interrupting the counsel, said—" My brother Watson suggests that the last named two persons, at all events, were not qualified to be directors of an _Extramural Interment Company."

A second Daniel Lambert recently died at Debden in Essex—Mr. James Mansfield, who was nine feet in girth, and weighed thirty-three stone. He was not above the ordinary height. Mr. Mansfield was a butcher ; he was of a sanguine and happy temperament ; and he lived to the age of eighty- two.

A severe snow-storm has visited the North of Scotland ; and it is feared that this early winter would be very fatal to the sheep in the hills.

The first snow of the season fell at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Osivego, and other places in the 'United States, on the 31st October.