Iftistellaneous.

The Courrier Francais says that the Duke of Wellington has written a letter of condolence to Louis Philippe on the death of the Duke of Orleans.

The Lord Chancellor, during the judicial proceedings in the House of Lords on Thursday, was obliged to leave the House in consequence of illness.

Lord and Lady John Russell arrived on Friday night at Minto House, the seat of the Earl of Minto ; where they purpose passing seve- ral weeks with the Countess of Minto and family. Sir Charles Metcalfe last week went under the operation of having a tumour removed from his cheek, from the inconvenience of which he has suffered for many years past. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Chambers, and Mr. Martin, attended at Mivart's Hotel, on Sir Charles, when the tumour was skilfully removed by Sir Benjamin. Sir Charles is going on very favourably.

It is said that Sir Charles Napier, now commanding the Poona division of the Indian Army, is to proceed to Afghanistan in October next.

The Church Intelligencer authoritatively contradicts the rumour that Miss Gladstone of Liverpool has been converted to the Roman Catholic

Church. The statement, it is said, is entirely without foundation. ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean left town on Sunday, for Antwerp, on their way to the Rhine and Switzerland.

The grief of the Royal Family of France has recovered from the first shock on the sudden loss of the heir to the throne. The King has

never lost his bodily health ; and he helps to preserve it by assiduous attention to business, interrupted occasionally by brief fits of emotion. The Queen is better. The Duke de Nemmirs arrived at Neuilly on Friday ; the Dutchess of Orleans on Saturday ; the King and Queen of the Belgians on Monday ; so that all Louis Philippe's surviving children are with him, except the Prince de Joinville, who is with the fleet in the Mediterranean. The meeting of the Dutchess of Orleans with the parents of her husband was marked by the most poignant grief. As many as 5,000 persons inscribed their names as callers at the Palace of Neuilly on Sunday. On that day, M. There paid his re- spects to the King. Innumerable addresses of condolence are for- warded to the King and Queen from all parts of the kingdom.

The lifoniteur of Saturday published a Royal ordinance, dated from the palace of Neuilly on the 14th July, which commands as follows- " Article 1. The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies, which by our ordinance of the 12th of June 1842 were convoked for the 3d of August following, will ',amble the 26th of July instant.

"Article 2. Our Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present ordinance."

The same official paper announced that the King would go into mourning on the 14th, for four months ; and it contained a letter to the Prefect of Paris from M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, who says- " Monsieur he Prefet—France is in mourning for the heir to the throne. No festival can take place on the anniversary of the days of July. The funeral- service in honour of the victims will alone be performed." The Journal des Debate says that the King will open the session of the Chambers on the 26th instant, in person. The Debate adds that he will present his grandson, the Count de Paris, to the Chambers. The Count will thenceforth assume the title of" Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal."

The question of the Regency is warmly discussed ; an attempt being made to set up the Dutchess of Orleans against the Duke de Nemonrs. The opponents of the Dutchess raise the analogy of the Salle law, and the fact that the Constitutent Assembly of 1791 set women aside from the office. The Courrier Fran pals thinks the "least dangerous and most worthy" outht to be selected as Regent, and scouts the idea of setting women aside. This may be well, it says, in an absolute govern- ment, where the sovereign is the active and really responsible chief- " In a constitutional country the monarch wands not in need of a manly arm and wilL His mission is that of a mediator; that of discerning the will of the country and executing it. This providential part, requiring more wis- dom than courage, may well be filled by a woman."

To these general and theoretic arguments the journal adds special ones, as follows-

" The Dutchess of Orleans is a woman of superior merit, uniting lugedes' of intellect to nobleness of heart. The Duke de Nemours, on the contrary, has not conciliated the sffections of either the people or the army in the same degree that his brothers have. His nomination will be received with coldness, perhaps with mistrust. And it will be remembered that the Minister who pro- poses him for Regent is the same who brought forward his dotation." It is said, however, that M. Thiers has calmed down the eagerness of the Opposition to make a party question of it : "the Regency, says his organ the Constitutionnd, "is not an Opposition question.' It is by some supposed that while the Duke de Nemours will be Regent, the Dutchess will be Guardian of the two children, the Count of Paris and the Duke de Chartres. The coffin containing the remains of the Duke of Orleans will remain in state in the chapel at Neuilly until the 30th instant ; and on the 1st and 2d August the body will lie in state in the cathedral of Notre Dante, where the public will be admitted. On the 3d, the funeral cere- mony will take place, in presence of the church and civil and military authorities ; on the night of the 3d, the body will be removed to Dreux ; and on the 4th, the final interment will take place in the family-vault, in presence of the King and all the Royal Family, as it is expected that the Prince de Joinville will have returned before that time from the French squadron, last heard.of off Naples.

From the following extracts from the papers, it will be seen that much doubt is thrown on the supposition that the Prince attempted to jump out of his carriage.

• "Dr. Pasquier, first surgeon of the Prince Royal, assisted by M. Pasquier, his father, who is first snrgeon to the King, and Messrs. Fouquier, Auvity, Moreau, Bland in, Blache, Destonche ,s Stowe, and Seguin, the eminent physicians and surgeons, proceeded on Friday, in the presence of General Baron Athalin, the King's Aide-de-camp, specially delegated by his Majesty, to perform the au- topsy of the body of the Duke of Orleans. It commenced at seven in the morning, and lasted till eleven. The results were—first, that the death of the Prince was caused by a fracture of the posterior part of the skull, extending from one ear to the other, and ascending to the frontal-bone, which was almost entirely severed from the head; secondly, that all the other organs of his Royal Highness were perfectly sound, and in such a state of preservation as to admit of a belief that the Prince, whose constitution was excellent and whose mode of living was admirably regular, would have lived to a great age. An- other result from the autopsy is a conviction in the minds of the faculty, that the bead of the Prince had sustained all the force of the fall, as no other part of his Royal Highness's person was seriously injured; and hence they infer, that he did not jump out of his carriage, but was thrown out suddenly by some vio- lent shock while he was standing up."—Galignani.

The treaty between France and Belgium relative to the importa- tion into France of linen-cloth and thread has been brought to a. satisfactory conclusion.. Belgium will continue to enjoy the benefit of the former tariff. Bat, in order to protect the French manufacturer from British competition, the French tariff• respecting linen-cloth and thread will be enforced on the exterior frontier of Belgium. The French spinners and weavers will by that means have full security against the invasion of their territory on that side by the linen-thread and cloths of Great Britain. Belgium, in return, has consented to reduce the existing duty on French wines by one-third, and to make an alteration in the Navigation Act, which gave an undue advantage to British salt over that of French produce. Al- though we must not exaggerate the importance of an isolated act, we cannot but see in this convention the first step towards the realization of an idea which was received with delight by the Belgians, and which found numerous supporters in France. We allude to the plan "for gradually reducing the commercial barriers between Belgium and France." It is for Belgium now to show by the care she will take to guard her frontier that she is worthy of the confidence reposed in her. —Journal des Dibats.

The French Government has 'received a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, announcing that the session of the Spanish Cortes was closed on the 16th. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 12th, S. Gonzales, the late Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared that it was not true that he had accepted the propositions of Sir A. Aston for a commercial treaty with England. Sir A. Aston had, he said, invited him to enter into negotiations on the cotton question ; but he had constantly refused to do so until the opinion of the Cortes should have been taken on the subject.

One of the Madrid journals of the 12th mentions, that the Republicans of Valencia endeavoured to get up some disturbances on the 5th; but they were promptly repressed by the authorities.

The Portuguese Cortes were opened at Lisbon on Sunday the 10th instant, by the Queen in person. The brief speech mentions the de- claration of the Charter ; the Queen adding, "Your mission is to con- solidate it, and I trust that you will fulfil it.' Foreign Powers continue is give friendly assurances. The recently-concluded treaties are men- tioned in somewhat dry terms—" Two treaties, which I have concluded with her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, have been signed, and will be presented to you immediately after ratification. One of them is for the repression of the Slave-trade, the other to strengthen the mu- tual relations of commerce and navigation."

According to the Augsburg Gazette of the 15th instant, the Circas- sians had gained an important advantage over the Russians. It states that a division of the army of Circassia, under the command of General Grabbe, had been attacked in a forest by the Lesghians, and cut to pieces. The Russian loss is estimated at fifteen hundred men and twenty-five officers. The artillery, which was in the rear, was pre- served from falling into the hands of the enemy.

• By the Great Liverpool, from Alexandria, we have received private letters from China, which mention the return of Sir Henry Pottinger to Hong-Kong, from Macao, and his intention to join the expedition in the North in ten days, and proceed with it to Pekin. The general opinion at Macao and Hong-Kong was, that the Plenipotentiary was resolved to take all responsibility on himself, and direct the most de- cisive measures to be adopted to bring the war to a close by a simul- taneous attack on Pekin by the land and sea forces.

The Britannia mail-steamer left Halifax on the 5th instant, having been detained a day in entering from Boston by a dense fog at the British port ; and arrived at Liverpool on Saturday. The latest date from New York is 1st instant.

The President and the Congress had come to an open disagreement on the question of the revenue. As the Compromise Act would expire on the 30th of June, a temporary bill had passed both Chambers, extending to the 1st of August the duties in force on the 1st of June, and the laws for collecting those duties. Upon this temporary bill, which was called " the Little Tariff Bill," the President put his veto. As there were not two-thirds in either House to carry the bill notwith- standing the veto, the measure was defeated. The first effect of the veto would be that the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands weak take place immediately ; and the Executive had also determined to attempt to levy the duties of 20 per cent on all imports, in pursuance of the Compromise Act. The collection was to commence on the 5th, at 'the United States Customhouses. The proceeds would not, however, it Was maintained, go into the treasury : the regulations required by the Compromise Act to be made for a home valuation were to be pre- cribed by law; and regulations prescribed by the Executive Power alone are not, it is contended, law. Whatever duties were exacted would be paid under protest.

The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle describes a measure which has had a smoother progress-

" The Appointment Bill, which has at length finally passed Congress, is popular and satisfactory. It fixes the future ratio of representation at a popu- lation of 70,680 for each member of Congress. This bill will reduce the House of Representatives from its present number, 242. to 223 members. 1 subjoin the future representation of each State. Maine, 7; New Hampshire, 4; Mas- sachusetts, 10; Connecticut, 4; Vermont, 4- New York, 34; New Jersey, 5; Pennsylvania, 24; Delaware, 1; Maryland, 6; Virginia, 15; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 7; Georgia, 8; Alabama, 7; Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 4; Tennessee, 11; Kentucky, 10; Ohio, 21; Indiana, 10; Illinois, ; Missouri, 5; Arkansas, I; Michigan, 3; Rhode Island, 2. This bill has been duly signed by the President of the United States."

The papers are without any specific information respecting Lord Ashburton's mission. " In our foreign affairs, referring especially to Lord Ashburton's negotiations," says the New York American, "the confidence of a favourable result is still unshaken." The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says in a postscript,' I have this moment heard, and that too from pretty good authority, that the negotiation between Mr. Webster and Lord Ashburton has become somewhat per- plexed. I fear that any change in the Cabinet will not mend the matter." Among the passengers by the Britannia is Mr. Cook, a spe- cial messenger from Lord Ashburton, bearing despatches for Govern- ment.

A little rebellion had broken out in Rhode Island. the second within these few mouths. It is thus related by the Genevese Traveller of The Timer— "The pretended Governor Dom returned to Rhode Island under the pro- tection of a military escort, principally foreign vagabonds and citizens of other States. Burr's head-quarters were at Gloucester, about sixteen miles from Providence, near the imaginary line which separates Rhode Island from Con- necticut. Here he encamped, and caused temporary breastworks to be thrown, up. This bold revolutionary movement excited universal indignation among the yeomanry of the State. After encamping, he issued, on the 25th June, two proclamations; one convening his Legislature, and directing them to assemble at the town of Gloucester on the 4th July ; the other directing the military of the State, who are in favour of the People's constitution, to repair forthwith to head-quarters, there to wait further orders.'

"On the same day, Governor King issued his proclamation, declaring the State of Rhode Island under martial law,' and • warning all persons against any intercourse or connexion with the traitor Thomas Wllsan Dom, or his deluded adherents, now assembled in arms' ' Am. "From the 24th to the 27th, the clouds of war and carnage seemed to be fast gathering. Some excesses were committed by the insurgents, whose force was variously represented—say from 800 to 1,100 men, said to he well armed, with. ten or fifteen pieces of cannon. On the morning of the 26th, the troop!I Providence, by order of Governor King, were paraded for immediate service; and in the course of that day, the whole army, amounting to nearly 3,000 men, were in motion, with the intention of surrounding and cutting off the retreat of Dorr and his adherents; but during the night Dorr made his escape. A. great part of his fume had previously deserted. him ; and on the 27th the remnant of his troops surrendered without firing a gun. About a hundred prisoners were taken in the fort. Nearly an equal number were captured on the roads. Some half-a-dozm were killed or wounded by random shots or ac- cidents.

"This second movement of Dom is more ridiculois, if possible, than the first. GovernorKing, by proclamation, has offered a reward of five thousand dollars for his apprehension. The United States troops were not called upon to act.. Thewhole force employed to suppress the insurrection were volunteer militia of the State of Rhode Island. Under date of the 27th, Dorr issued a proclamation disbanding his army." Nothing remarkable had occurred in the money-market. Money is represented as abundant. The demand for bills on England for the Britannia had not been large. The rates had, however, slightly im- proved. The remittances of interest on money borrowed in Europe had affected them, but not to such an extent as mould have been the case had all the States met their engagements. On England the rate was 7 to premium ; on France, 5 37i to 8.

Accounts from Port-au-Prince, of the 17th June, had been received at New York. They contradict the account previously received of a rebellion having broke out in St. Domingo. President Boyer was seriously ill, and not expected to recover.

Advices from Ascension to the 29th of May say, that the Niger Ex- pedition awaited the termination of the rainy season to make a second ascent up the river; the water not sufficing for the purpose at that date..

The first importation of horned cattle under the new measure passed the Customhouse on Monday. It consisted of four bulls from Switzer- land, of the celebrated dun breed which is produced in that country, and during the summer months is pastured upon the lower acclivities- of the mountains. They reached London from Rotterdam, and had been brought down the whole course of the Rhine. Their value was estimated, of coarse for the purposes of the breeder, at about 80/. per heath—Globe.

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 23d April 1842 to the 16th July 1842—

ASSETS.

Circulation £18,279,000 Securities £21,713,000 Deposits 8,565,000 Bullion 7,818,000

£26,844,000

.829,531,000