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The Queen received on Saturday a deputation, consisting of the Archbishop of Canterbury, six Bishops, and several clergymen, who presented an address from the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury in Convocation assembled. After condoling with her Majesty on the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, the address proceeds to speak of subjects of much interest that have, since 1862, been brought under the notice of Convocation ; especially church-extension and public education. "The attention directed towards the instruction of the young is a marked feature of the present age; but we deeply deplore the difficulties which in too many cases induce the labouring classes to remove their children from school at a very early ago, before they have received the full advantages of a sound education and been properly instructed in their duty towards God and man. It is difficult to suggest the remedy; but if it should please your Majesty, in accordance with the spirit of that general summons in your Majesty's writ to treat of certain difficult and urgent atihirs concerning your Majesty, the security and defence of the Church of England, and the peace and tranquillity end public good of your kingdom and your subjects of the same,' to commit to our special deliberation this or any other question affecting the interest of our holy religion or the usefulness of the Church, we trust that we shall not be found unmindful of the solemn character of the functions we are called to discharge, and shall conduct our proceedings in a spirit of reverent dependence upon the Divine blessing, and with the diligence which would become us in obeying your Mujeety's commands. Hitherto the shortness of time given to our consultations has in a great measure frustrated the advantages which we humbly trust would result if fuller opportunity were afforded for ascertaining the opinions of the clergy by discussion in Convocation." The Queen thanked the deputation for the renewed assurance of loyal and affectionate attachment to her throne and person, and prayed that the zealous endeavours of the clergy might tend to establish national prosperity on the surest foundation, and promote the permanent welfare and highest interests of all classes of her People; but she did not allude to the suggestion that Convocation should be endowed with increased. powers.

The Commander-in-chief has issued a general order making education the test of promotion in the ranks. Ile directs that "for the future every soldier, after being dismissed from drill, shall attend school as a duty until he is reported upon as sufficiently advanced in reading, writing, and arithmetic." No fees are to be charged. Each man is to have four hours a week for school.

"No man is to be considered eligible for promotion to corporal, unleas in the field, who has not been dismissed the above class."

For promotion to the rank of sergeant higher qualifications arc expected. Without laying down an absolute rule, the attention of commandingofficers is directed to "the importance of carrying tho education of noncommissioned officers to a higher point than the mere acquisition of the arts of reading and writing. With this view, it must be well understood that those men who avail themselves most intelligently of the means of improvement within their reach will be generally preferred for promotion, where, in respect to conduct and soldierlike bearing, they are eligible for it; and that neglect so to do will be regarded as a disqualification. It is not, however, intended hereby to fetter the discretion of commanding-officers in the promotion of men who display conspicuous courage, or show the tact and moral influence which give noncommissioned officers weight with their comrades."

The number of deaths registered last week was 987; an increase of 53 over the preceding week, but the total is still less by 76 than the corrected average. Five nonogenarians died in the week, all, with one exception, women and widows. One was ninety-two years of age, one ninety-four, one ninety-five, and two had attained the age of ninety-six.

Lady Eversley, wife of the late Speaker of the House of Commons, died rather suddenly, at their residence in Eaton Place, on Saturday. Four days before, she had caught a severe cold; it brought on sole throat, and. terminated fatally. Richard Pepper Arden, third Baron Alvanley, born in 1792, died on Wednesday, at his house in Bruton Street, Berkeley Square. He had for some time been suffering from gout. The that Baron Alvanley was a lawyer, and obtained his peerage on becoming Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in 1801. -He was successively succeeded in the title by his two sons. As the last left no issue, the peerage is extinct. The oldest Baronet in the United Kingdom, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, who had reached the age of ninety-six, died on Thursday, at his house in Bryanstone Square. He was created a baronet after the Union in 1301; and is succeeded by his grandson, Thomas Lennard, born in 1826.

The Reverend G. C. Gorham died recently, after a long and painful illness. The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge attended an afternoon fête given on Saturday by Lord Ravensworth, at his villa residence at Fulham.

The Earl of Derby, Sir Benjamin Hall, and the Marquis of Donegal, had dinner-parties on Saturday : the Duke of Cambridge was one of the guests at the Marquis's.

Mr. John Bright returned to Rochdale on the 19th, improved in health.

The Austrian Minister and the Countess d'Apponyi had an assembly on Saturday evening, which was attended by the Archduke Maximilian.

The Austrian Archduke concluded his visit to England on Thursday. He left London for Woolwich, embarked in the Black Eagle, and got on board his own steamer at the Noro.

The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier and their family arrived at Plymouth, in a Spanish frigate, on Tuesday afternoon.

The King of Portugal has announced his intention of marrying, but has not named his bride. The House of Deputies have unanimouily approved a hill placing 22,000/. at the disposal of the King for marriage-expenses, and settling a dowry of 13,000/. a year on the new Queen ; a liberal sum for such u country as Portugal.

The arrangements at the Queen's Drawingroom on Tuesday were so far improved that there was less discomfort and disorder than usual. So great an innovation is fitly placed at the opening of the Court Circular's report" The ladies upon their arrival were conducted up the staircase to seats in Queen Anne's room, which was divided, and afforded seats for fifty in each division. The two adjoining ante-rooms were filled, each containing seats for fifty. The Guard Chamber to the East of the top of the staircase was filled ; and the remainder of the company were ushered to seats in the Banquet-room, the most capacious saloon of the Palace."

Two Russian guns from Sebastopol have been presented to the Corporation of Bradford by the Government : they have been placed in the Peel Park.

Advices from Gibraltar mention the arrival of the American ship Nevada, on her way to Genoa, having on board the first of the guns to be presented by American cities to arm the fortress of Alessandria. This gun-8i inch bore, weight 9600 pounds-is given by Boston.

Far from dreading the Russian Company's steam fleet in the Black Sea, the people of Constantinople rejoice at the prospect of its early coining into operation : competition, instead of monopoly, will now rule in the Black Sea ; the Busman company, the Austrian Lloyd's, and the French Messageries Imperiales, seeking custom on its shores.

A scheme of a great spinning and weaving mill on the island of Kronhiilm, between the two cataracts of the Narova in Russia-to employ three thousand hands-is got up by a joint-stock company ; and the director of the technical parts is an Englishman, Mr. Barlow.

Another detachment of Woolwich artisans, thrown out of employ by the peace, have left Liverpool in the Henry Cooke for Quebec-276 men, women, and children.

A community of English nuns of the order of St. Benedict left their convent at Winchester on Tuesday, to take possession of more commodious lodgings at East Bergholt in Suffolk. The community was founded at Brussels in 1097; in 1794 it had to flee from the persecutions of the French Revolutionists ; arrived in London, Dr. Douglas, a Roman Catholic Bishop, offered an asylum at his house in Winchester ; there the community of nuns have resided since, gaining a good name for their exemplary and pious conduct. Sixty nuns migrated on Tuesday.

The New York Herald tells the people of Liverpool to "keep a sharp look-out" about the 8th July for a novelty-the Charter Oak yacht, of only 23 tons, in which the owner, Mr. Webb, a young ship-carpenter, purposed to leave New York for the Mersey on the 15th of the present month. The yacht is forty feet long ; the "officers" and " crew " number five hands.

The Queen's yacht Victoria and Albert was in the Mersey at the end of last week, and Captain Denman allowed the Liverpool people to visit her : the crowd was so great that a young lady suffered the painful accident of a broken leg, and other persona were hurt.

The number of members of the Wesleyan Society in Great Brstafri, exclusive of the North Wales district, is 24961.

The revenue-accounts of the United States for the year ending 30th June are expected to show a surplus of no less than 4,400,000/.

The grape-disease is making severe ravages in the Oporto district. The operation of sulphur applied to the vines to stop the disease has been very uncertain in its effects : the (Actium is slowly invading every vineyard.

The number of marriages at the offices of the Superintendent Registrars has with one exception increased every year since 1837-'8, when the law authorizing them came into operation : in that year the total was 1093; in 1855 it had augmented to 7441.

On Tuesday last a native of Oldham wont to the Art Treasures Exhibition, at Manchester, and seated himself on one of the settees, where he sat patiently for a length of time. At last he beckoned a policeman to him, and addressed that funotionary-" Aw say, owd chap, when's this exhibition gooin' to begin ? reeve waited here an heawr and a hauf on't."-.Preston Chronicle,

The members of the Junior United Service Club inaugurated their new club by a banquet on Monday, at which the Duke of Cambridge attended as a guest, Major-General Sir Ames Scarlett presiding.

BIRTHS.

On the 20th April, at Barrakpore Cantonment, near Calcutta, the 'Wife of Major General Hearsey, C.B., of a son. On the 7th June, at Quebec, Canada East, the Wife of Major-General Trollope, C.B., of a son.

On the 17th, at the Rectory, St. Petroc Minor, Cornwall, Lady 3Iolesworth, of a son, who survived its birth only a few hours.

On the 20th, in Upper Seymour Street, Lady Lavinia Dutton, of a son.

On the 22,1, in South Audley Street, Lady Olivia Ossulston, of a daughter. On the 22d, at Tlfford Hall, Northamptonshire, Mrs. Arthur William English, of a daughter.

On the 22,1, at Crondall, Farnham, the Wife of Captain the Hon. L. Addington, Of a daughter.

On the 23d, at Chelsea, the 'Wife of the Rev. R. H. Davies, Incumbent of the Old Church, Chelsea, of a daughter. On the 23d, at Littleton Rectory, near Chertsey, the Hon. Mrs. G. R. Gifford, of eon.

On the 23d, in Lowndes Square, the Countess of Antrim, of a son.

On the 25th, in Belgrave Square, the Wife of thc Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., of a con,

MARRIAGES.

On the 15th June, at Gibraltar, the Rev. J. A. Crozier, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces, to Frances Elizabeth, younger daughter of the late William Frederic Chambers, M.D., K.C.H., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen.

On the 20th, at St. Pancras Church, T. H. Butler Fellowes, Lieutenant Royal Navy, son of Sir James Fellowes, to Constance Fanny, daughter of Charles S. Hanson, Esq.' of Cons-tantinople.

On the 22d, at Enfield, Francis Clare Ford, Esq., First Attaché to her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon, to Anna, daughter of the Marquis Garofalo.

On the 23d, at Walcot Church, Bath, Boscawen Trevor Griffith, Esq., of Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire, and late of the Twenty-third Royal Welsh Fusiliers, to Helen Sophia, eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Norwich Duff. On the 24th, at Worley House, near Halifax, Ernest, second son of the Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel, to Louisa Hope, only daughter of Thomas Milne, Esq., of Warley House. On the 24th, at the Catholic Chapel, Hethe, the Hon. Bryan Stapleton, of the Grove, Richmond, Yorkshire, to Mary Helen Alicia, only daughter of J. T. Dolman, Esq., of Souldern House, Oxon.

DEATHS.

On the 16th June, at the house of the Rev. Allen Fielding, Royal Dockyard, Chatham, Ann Lady Fagge, relict of the late Rev. Sir John Fagge, Bart., of Mystole, near Canterbury. On the 17th, at Southampton, Thomas Brown, Esq., Admiral of the Blue ; in his 80th year.

On the 18th, at Peckham, Catherine Rennell, widow of the late Thomas Rennell, Esq., of the Bank of England ; in her 91st year. On the 18th, at the residence of her father, Dunolly, Argyllshire, Lady Campbell, of Dunstalfnage. On the 19th, at Brighton, Sir Orford Gordon, Bart., of Embo House, Sutherlandshire.

On the 19th, at Bridehead, Dorset, A. II. D. Troyte, Esq., of Huntsham Court, Devon, second son of Sir '1'. D. Acland, Bart. On the 20th, in Eaton Place, Emma Laura, wife of Charles Viscount Eversley ; in her 60th year. On the 20th, at Harewood, Cornwall, the Dowager Lady Trelawny ; in her 69th year.

On the 21st, at Lesketh How, near Ambleside, Elizabeth Mary, youngest daughter of Dr. John Davy ; in her 24th year.

On the 22d, Catherine, widow of the late James CulTerwell, Esq., of Rodney Street, Pentenville ; in her 90th year.

On the 23d, the Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, second daughter of Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton ; in her 86th year. On the 24th, in Bruton Street, the Lord Alvanley ; in his 65th year.

On the 25th, in Bryanston Square, Sir Thomas Barrett-Leonard, Bart., of Belhus, Essex, Horsford, Norfolk, and Clones, County Monaghan; in his 96th year. On the 25th, from the effects of an accident, after leaving the house of her son, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mrs. Isabella Hedgeland.