A Cabinet Council, which sat two hours, was held on

Saturday after- noon, at the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne in Berkeley Square.

An Anti-Educational deputation from Leeds, headed by the Mayor and Mr. Edward Baines junior, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Thursday, to state objections; Lord Lansdowne, the President of the Council, having been laid up with an attack of gout. There was a long conversation, and various documents were handed to the Minister. Lord John was courteous and attentive, and he promised "due consideration."

It has been definitely settled by the Committee for the management of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, that the present diocese of Australia shall be divided into three separate sees; the central portion being superintended by the Right Reverend Dr. Broughton, now Bishop of Australia, but whose title will henceforth be Bishop of Sidney. The district of Port Philip it is intended shall also form a separate see, under the name of the Bishopric of Melbourne. To this diocese the Reverend Charles Perry, M.A., of Trinity College, has been appointed. Out of the Northern coast of New South Wales another diocese, with a name to be derived from one of the principal settlements (Newcastle or Maitland probably) will be formed. The colony of South Australia is also forthwith to be erected into a new diocese; and its first Bishop will be the Reverend Augustus Short, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, now Rector of Raveusthorpe, Northamptonshire. So soon as the Colonial Bishoprics Fund shall admit, the Cape of Good Hope and Sierra Leone, with other places, will be con- stituted separate sees.—Morning Chronicle.

In the Standard we find a curious correspondence between certain resi- dents of Dublin and the Archbishop of Canterbury, written a few weeks back, but only just published. The residents are " members of the United Church of England and Ireland"; and, referring to the appointed national fast, they make suggestions to the Primate as to the form of prayer, which he had not yet promulgated. They enumerate "a few of the overt acts of national sanction to the Popish idolatry of late years "—Catholic Emanci- pation, the national system of Education, Parliamentary grants for Roman Catholic purposes at home and abroad, propagating " blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits," the Charitable Bequests Act, the acknowledgment of " the titles of the false Prelates of the Man of Sin," and the Maynooth grant— "Now, we beg to submit to your Grace, what we deem a most important and striking fact, namely, that before the Maynooth Colleg'i Endowment Bill passed, an innumerable multitude of the clergy of the Established Church, and pigni ministers of various Christian denominations, and legions of their respeclave- flocks, unitedly and separately, at conferences and public meetings, and through petitions, addresses, letters, &c., gave it as their opinion, founded on their know- ledge of God's dealings with mankind as revealed in the Scriptures, that if the bill passed, and the nation were thus involved in guilt of so dark a dye, it would be followed by judicial punishment, speedy, fearful, and destructive; and that when the bill passed, these men appointed a day for humiliation and prayer, thus anticipating the scourge that has come, and now about to be acknowledged by the whole nation.

" Britain scarcely put her seal on that national act of apostacy ere the food of millions was rotting in the ground; and the strong Government that passed the bill was broken up, scattered, and overthrown.

" The year 1846 gave a season for repentance; but it was not embraced, and the close of that year saw the scourge more awfully, more fearfully, more terribly. "And we now respectfully, firmly, and beseechingly implore of your Grace, to cause an acknowledgment to be made of the nation a great guilt in establishing idolatry, and thus to lead the people in the first step to get rid of the sacrilege. If this be not done, we deem our prayers to be only a mockery: we should know our guilt, and yet conceal it from Heaven."

The Archbishop briefly acknowledges the receipt of the memorial, and replies to it in this wise- " The form of prayer appointed for the 24th of this month had already been printed when this document reached me. In the prayers confession is made, cor- respondently with our duty as Christians, of our manifold sins and iniquities, to- gether with the acknowledgment of the justice of Providence in visiting them with such a grievous calamity as that which has been inflicted on Ireland and some parts of Great Britain. But I should not have thought it right to introduce, on such an occasion, any particular allusion to subjects which could create a feel- ing of political or religious animosity, and thus disturb the current of charitable feeling, which alone ought to occupy the minds of those who are humbly implor- ing the Almighty to stay his judgment—in the consciousness that, though exempt themselves from the general suffering, they would have no right to complain of injustice if their own sins were visited with chastisement equally severe."

The Morning Chronicle describes the widely-spread sympathy manifested in the United States for the distress in Ireland by the universal subscrip- tion. " We hear of senators, clergymen, railway directors, merchants, lawyers, doctors, shopkeepers, actors, policemen, (as at Boston, where the police force threw a day's salary into the common fund,) and the other sections and sub-sections of a vast community, actively and heartily uniting their several contributions of money, or money's worth, into one enormous subscription for the alleviation of calamity and destitution in another hemisphere."

We have again the gratification to announce the approach of an event calculated to increase the domestic happiness of our Sovereign and the Prince Consort. Her Majesty's accouchement, it is confidently stated, will take place in August next.—Morning Post.

The Sentaine gives an account of Queen Christina's proceedings since her arrival in Perla She applies herself to devotion-

" She scarcely ever quits her house, attends Divine service every morning in her apartments, and keeps religiously all the observances of Lent. She receives but little company, and has as yet been visited by only two of the Diplomatic body- tbe Minister of Portugal and the Belgian Ambassador. Nevertheless, she occupies herself much with her private interests, and transacts business every day with her stockbroker, her notary, and her judicial council, composed of three persons, a magistrate of the Court of Caseation, an advocate of the Royal Court, and a member of the Council of State. It is even said that the Queen has sub- mitted to her council several questions relative to her rights to the succession of Ferdinand the Seventh, as well as the famous guardianship accounts, which have given rise to so much discussion in the Cortes."

The King of Sardinia has been dangerously ill: on the 17th instant he was twice bled with leeches; and on the 18th his physicians thought it necessary that he should be again bled, with the lancet.

Accounts from Italy mention that the King of Naples had made an effort at reconcilement with the Prince of Capua. A proposal was for- warded by one of the officers of the Court to Malta, conceding that the Princess of Capua should be received at Court, and have the title of Dutchess of Muesli; the Prince to be allowed an appanage of 60,000 ducats and arrears to the amount of 150,000 ducats; his sons, as princes, to receive the annual income of 6,000 ducats, and a marriage-portion of 30,000 ducats. Letters from Malta, however, say, that the overtures were not such as "the Vince could accept, and that he had in fact rejected theta. According to this versioti, it would' seem, the Prince declined because his wife was not to be recognized by the title of "Princess of Capua," their children were not to be recognized as qualified for the regal succession, and a residence at Naples was not permitted to the Princess.

Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived at Rome on the 9th instant, travelling under the title of Count de Tulgarn. It was expected that he would stay a week in Rome, and then proceed to Leghorn, where a Swedish ship was to be in waiting to receive him.

We last hear of Mr. Cobden at Naples; where he had been entertained at a banquet by one of the ubiquitous Rothschild family. Prince Oscar was also of the party.

Mr. O'Connell left Hastings on Saturday for Folkstone, on his way to the Continent, accompanied by his medical attendant and a priest. Al- though be is said to have benefited by the change of air and life, his con- dition is believed to be very critical. He arrived at Boulogne on Monday.

Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated actress, expired at Paris on Saturday night. She was the daughter of M. Monvel, an actor, and of Mademoiselle Mars, who played for some time at the Republican Theatre. Their daugh- ter Hippolyte was born in February 1779; and she appeared on the stage, at the Vent:ads Montansier, when she was only thirteen years of age ; playing the son of Jocrisse. In 1793 she came out at the Salle Feydeau; thence she went to the Theatre de la Republique, now the Thaltre Fran- cais; which she never quitted. She led a simple and retired life, and was happily exempted from the troubles that usually visit her profession. The immediate cause of her death was a liver complaint. During the de- lirium of her last illness, she frequently recited, with emphasis, passages from her favourite parts.

The Dowager Baroness of Natorp, Mariana Sessi, lately died at Vienna, after a short illness, aged seventy-six. During upwards of thirty years she had tilled with unbounded Eclat the part of prima donna on the thea- tres of San Carlo at Naples, of the Scala at Milan, and the Odeon at Paris.

M. Cochelet, many years the French Consul-General at Alexandria, has been appointed to succeed M. Durant St. Andre as Consul-General resident in London. M. Cochelet has just arrived in town from Paris.

The Courrier de Marseille, of the 20th instant, asserts that the English Government has ordered the steamer Ardent, lent to Lieutenant Wag- horn, back to Malta; having definitively adopted the Marseilles in pre- ference to the Trieste route for the Indian mails.

The recent financial convention between France and Russia has Onge, gested to a correspondent of the Times an historical parallel- " In the panic of 1825-6, a City millionaire, who had not been on the best of terms with some City bankers, called on them unexpectedly, and, after expressing his fear that they might have an inconvenient run on them, and his anxieettyy serve them, begged them to accept a deposit of (it was said) 1,000,0001 in Ex- chequer bills and notes. The deposit was accepted, with many expressions of thankfulness. In the bank parlour the circumstance was discussed, and it was resolved that the bills and notes should be sealed up and put in the strong-room till called for. When the run on the bank came, the millionaire called, as had been expected, for his deposit; and had the mortification of finding that he was baulked of his intended revenge by being paid off with his own sealed packets. Will Louis Philippe seal up Nicholas's two millions? will Nicholas call for his de- posit when the run comes?'

A successful use of ether in a surgical operation is detailed by a corre- spondent of the Morning Chronicle at Constantinople- ' A sailor of a merchant-ship. had his hip dislocated and his hip-bone frac- tured, and had received some intestine injuries by the fall of a heavy bale of merchandise, from a crane in which it was suspended, upon him. Dr. Glascott, of the British Hospital at Pera, performed the operation with great skiiL The man was utterly insensible during the very difficult, and but for the ether most painful setting of the joint. There were as many as half a hundred people on board the ship to witness the performance and the effect of the ether. Both were completely successful. Though the man is in great danger from his internal in- juries, there is good hope of his recovery. Nolittle sensation here has this proof of the virtue of ether in surgical operations caused. Orientals honour the medi- cal and surgical science above all others."

The Board of Admiralty has awarded annuities out of the Compassionate Fund to two of the daughters of the late Lieutenant W. P. Green, R.N.; the neglect of whose long services had created very general indignation.

A return has been printed of the number of non-commissioned officers of the Army who have been appointed to commissions from 1836 to 1846 inclusive: the total is 376; classed thus-14 Comets, 182 Ensigns„20 Adjutants with the rank of Cornet, 29 Adjutants with the rank of Ensign, and 131 Quarter- masters.

From a Parliamentary paper just issued it appears that the number of visitors to the British Museum was larger in the year 1846 than in any preceding year, namely, 750,601. In 1841 the visiters numbered 319,874.

Accounts from the Fame Isles state that on the 14th and 15th of January a fall of fine ashes took place there. It was first observed on the wool of the sheep, but was very slight compared with the fall of ashes in 1845; yet, as the wind was blowing South and South-east at the time, it is supposed that some considerable eruption of Mount Heels was the cause of phienomenort—Prussian Gazette.

Sunderland was visited by an unusual phwinomenon for March, at noon on Tues- day—a violent thunder-storm, with torrents of hail and rain.

A partial eclipse of the moon, visible in this country, will take place on Wed- nesday the 31st instant. The first contact will be at 8h. 3m. in the evening the middle, 9h. 6m.; and the last contact 10h. 9m. by the mean time at Greenwich.

During the past two or three week; a number of persons have been going round the streets on the Surrey side of the water, wearing belts like those worn by the fire-brigade, on which passages from the Scriptures are painted, carrying with them an ink-horn and long sheets of paper soliciting signatures to what they pre- tend to be a petition to Heaven, for the binding of Satan, the Prince of Darkness. So eager are those persons to get the paper signed, that men, women, and children are stopped indiscriminately and requested to sign. Those who are too young to sign, or unable to write their names' have the same done for them by the men; who do not attempt to disguise the fact of belonging to the followers of Joanna Soutbcote. Upon several occasions a deal of confusion has been created by the parties, for they generally manage to go about with knots of forty or fifty persons; and occasionally discussions ensile, which are calculated to bring the Scriptures into perfect ridicule. One person, more intelligent than the men who are hawk- ing the petitions about, inquired who it is that will present the petition? when the man replied with the greatest coolness, that as soon as a sufficient number of names are attached to the petition, it will be presented to the Throne of Mercy by Joanna herself. Surely it is high time that such exhibitions were put down by the police.—Times.

A Naval Court-martial hassbeen held at Portsmouth, to try John Barton, a private of the Royal Marines, aged about thirty, for mutinous language and strik- ing Colour-Sergeant Miles Sager. The misconduct occurred on board the steam- sloop Salamander, when at Antigua, in January last. Witnesses proved the case against the man: he was of violent disposition; his abuse of and attack on the Sergeant originated in the latter reporting some misbehaviour. When called upon for his defence, Barton said he had no witnesses, nor could he call any one as to his character: be had no recollection of the circumstances contained in the charge, and threw himself upon the mercy of the Court. The charges were declared to have been proved; and the Court sentenced the prisoner to be hanged, at such time as the Commissioners of the Admiralty shall appoint. This sen- tence has been commuted to transportation for life.

A double murder has been committed in a chapel near Namur. The young Count de Liedekerke entered the chapel armed with a gun; his two sisters were engaged at their devotions: he fired; and killed one; fired again, and mortally wounded the other lady. The murderer then made off, vowing vengeance against other members of his family. At night his dog returned alone to tne chateau, and it was supposed that the Count had destroyed himself: it is stated that he was subject to fits of insanity.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last- • • Number of Winter deaths. average. Britain (or Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions) Diseases 135. .. . 183 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 107 ....- 112 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Narrow, Nerve., and Seneca 171 ... 170

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Iteapimtfon 378 .... 354 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 41 .... 33 Diseases of the Stomaih, Liver, and other Organs of Blgealsa ea .... 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, Se 8

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 18 12 Rheumatism, damns of the Bones, Joints, Sc. 7

Diseases of the skis, Cellular Tissue, he 2 Old Age 9D . .. 81

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 39 .. . 30 — _ Total (including unspecified causes) 1114 loss

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 77.3° in the sun to 20.8° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the average mean temperature by 6.8°. The general directIon of the wind for the week was Sonar South-west.