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At a Council held at Balmoral on ',Monday, it was ordered that the Archbishop of Canterbury should prepare a form of Prayer and Thanks- giving to Almighty God "for the signal and repeated successes obtained by the troops of her Majesty and by those of her Allies in the Crimea, and especially for the capture of the town of Sebastopol" and that it should be used tomorrow in all churches and chapels in England and Wales. [A similar course of prayer and thanksgiving, with the usual difference in the form of the order, was agreed on for Scotland.]

TIIE PRAYER.

"0 Lord God Almighty, the Disposer of all human events, in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand, we, Thine unworthy servants, desire to approach Thy throne with the tribute of praise and thanks- giving. We bless and magnify Thy name for the successes granted to our countrymen and the armies allied with them, now engaged in a mighty war- fare and defending the rights and independence of nations, and especially for the signal victory by which the stronghold of the enemy has been over- thrown. We acknowledge, 0 Lord, that the wisest counsels and the strong- est arms, without Thee, cannot but fail: for Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the victory, and the majesty ; and therefore, not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name, be all praise and glory ascribed. "Continue, we beseech Thee, Thy favour to the allied forces both by sea and land ; let not the glory of their progress be stained by ambition or sul- lied by revenge ; but let Thy Holy Spirit support them in danger, control them in victory, and raise them above all temptation to evil. And grant that this and all other successes which have crowned the bravery and re- warded the endurance of our armies may issue in the return of peace and the restoration of Christian brotherhood among nations. "Finally, 0 Lord, we entreat Thee so to dispose and turn our hearts that Thy mercy, now manifested towards us, may engage us to true thankfulness, and incline us, as a nation, to walk more humbly and devoutly before Thee, by obeying Thy holy wordy by reverencing Thy holy day, and by promoting throughout the land the knowledge of Thee, the only true God, and of Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent, to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen."

The Queen has been pleased to appoint 'Victor Houlton, Esq., to be Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta.—London Gazette, Sept. 25.

The Earl of Clarendon having forwarded to the Turkish Missions Aid Society an extract from a despatch of Lord Stratford, showing that two persons executed at Adrianople and Aleppo were executed not for apes- tag but blasphemy, the Society has supplied Lord Clarendon with state- ments to prove that the contrary was the case. The correspondence has been published, and Lord Clarendon promises to transmit the allegations of the Society to Lord Stratford.

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The Morning Post publishes a belligerent correspondence between g Mr. Alfred Hamilton and his friend Major Green on the one side, and the Duke of Somerset on the other. Mr. Hamilton represents that he called on the Duke to speak about the borough of Totness; that he sent up his card, and was ushered into the presence of the Duke; that the Duke roughly asked what he wanted, and that before he could speak a dozen words, the Duke first motioned him out of the room, and then opening the door bade him retire. Unable to obtain by writing any explanation, Mr. Hamilton consulted a friend, Major Green. This gentleman asked for an explanation ; and the Duke replied by stating, that "Mr. Hamil- ton was shown by mistake into a private room. The Duke had never seen nor heard of him before, and declined all communication with him, as any matter of business should have been transmitted by letter. Mr. Alfred Hamilton," continues the Duke in explanation, then wrote a letter, but did not state his business: the Duke is still, therefore, at a loss to understand why that gentleman intruded into his room, to which he only obtained access from the belief that he was a Mr. Hamilton with whom the Duke is acquainted." Major Green is referred to the Duke's solicitors. The correspondence closes with a demand from the Major upon the Duke, "either to apologize to Mr. Hamilton, or appoint a friend to make such arrangements as may be necessary to afford Mr. Hamilton the satisfaction which is due from one gentleman to another under such eircumstances."&„.The Duke returns no answer, and Mr. Hamilton publishes.

Our obituary records the death of General Henry D'Oyly, Colonel of the Thirty-third Regiment, which took place on Wednesday, near Tun- bridge 'Wells. General D'Oyly was in his seventy-fifth year, and.had been fifty-eight years in the service, which he entered in 1797. He served in Flanders, in the Peninsula under Lord Lynedoch, and at Water- loo, and attained the rank of General in the early part of this year. His death places the Colonelcy of the Thirty-third at Lord Hardinge's disposal, and creates a vacancy on the list of general officers ; to which Colonel John Cox, an officer who was present at almost every important engagement during the last war, succeeds.

The Premier, in the present stirring juncture, will:not leave town for any lengthened period.

The Duke of Saxe-Coburg is on a visit to Paris : the Emperor has called on him.

The Duke and Duchess of Brabant are expected in France about the middle of next month ; the King of Sardinia and the Viceroy of Egypt at the end of the month.

The Archduke William of Austria has been named by the Emperor Alex- ander a General of Artillery in the Russian army.

The former chief engineer of the Russian navy was Mr. Johnston, not a Mr. Chambers as recently stated. Mr. Johnston is a Scotchman ; when the war broke out he patriotically threw up his lucrative appointment and re- turned to this country : he is a skilful man ; our own Government, for the encouragement of others in a similar honourable course, have given Mr. Johnston—nothing • though it is believed they might have had little diffi- culty in providing him with a suitable post.

The increase in the receipts of customs-duties in France seems constant as well as large: in August there was an increase of 4,755,559 francs, compared with the same month last yesr.

The Turkish Government has notified that the formation of a railway from Constantinople to Belgrade is open for public competition.

There have been fatal eases of cholera in the Escurial, Madrid, while the Queen and Court were staying there.

Rome suffers a great deal from cholera : the peculiar remedy there for the epidemic consists of daily religious processions. The Melbourne hangman has been Sent to prison for stealing a pair of boots : examples of punishment had no more effect on him than on Mr. Dickens's Dennis.

The report of a disaster at Honolulu shows how the Sandwich Islands are "going ahead" : a fire has destroyed the "Varieties Theatre," and "the police-station," besides three large stores.

A regular establishment for the manufacture of spurious gold. dust has been discovered at San Francisco. The partners, a Turk and a Frenchman, have been committed for trial.

Farmers near Nebraska City declare that they have fields of corn which will yield 100 bushels an acre.

It is said that the Emperor of Russia intends to negotiate a loan in the United States—if he can.

Burglars—supposed "ticket-of-leave" men—have carried of a rich booty from Airthrie Castle, the seat of Lord Abercromby. Among the property were many articles of verta having a great fano), value.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten Weeks Week

o(1845-64. 011855.

Zyntotle I/licence 622.3 ••••• 253 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 42.8 .... 4 Tubercular Diseases 169.8 •••• 159 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Harrow, Nerves, and Senses 111.6 .... 100 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-veasels 81.4 .... 48 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 93.4 .... CS Diseases of the StomaCh, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 60.6 .... ad Diseases of the Kidneys, &c

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14 Child hi, th, diseases of the Uteras,&e 10.; .: .. . .. 6 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones,Joints,&e. 7.7 •••• 6 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, de. 1•8 .•••

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Premature Birth .... 1

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Sudden 8.9 .... 10 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 32.8 .... 25 Total (including unspecified causes)

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The Chevalier Francois Hamoniare de Chapuset, Aide-de-camp to the Emperor Soulouque of Hayti, has arrived in Paris with a suite of three Negroes.

- The last intelligence from the Birman empire announces that an extraor dinary embassy was on the point of setting out for France, being the first that the Emperor of Birmah ever sent to any power in the world. General d'Orgoni is to be at its head.

By way of San Francisco we have an account of the journey of the crew of the Russian frigate Diana, after shipwreck, from deddo in Japan, to Petro- pauloveki. They had bargained for a passage with the captain of the American ship 'Young America, from Woosung ; but as that officer had no protection against a French schooner and frigate, which he afterwards per- ceived near the bay of Jeddo, he landed them again. The Young America was afterwards boarded by a French officer, but the Russians had made a lucky escape and got away.

The Norwegian steamer Norge has been lost near Christiania, in conse- quence of a collision with another steam-ship. She sank directly in deep water ; some thirty of the crew and passengers escaped to the other steamer, but no fewer than seventy persons were drowned.

The following incident is related by the Gazette of Trieste as having taken place during the battle of the Tchernaya. "While the struggle was at its hottest, a large dog belonging to Colonel Mettmann, of the Seventy-third Regiment of the line, broke his chain, and rushed into the midst of the com- batants. Having saved the lives of a sergeant and a soldier, and made three Russians prisoners, he received a severe bullet wound in the leg; notwith- standing which be continued in the field, and grappling with an officer among the enemy, brought him to the ground, and secured his capture. After the battle, the leg of the animal was carefully dressed by an army sur- geon, and it is said that he will receive ainedal, in token of the fidelity and prowess which he displayed."

Fishermen declare that they have seen several sharks on the coast of Achil Head and Clare Island. Last week a boat proceeding from Achil towards Newport laden with turf, and having a crew of two men and one woman, was suddenly capsized, and the woman was drowned, while the men held on by the boat. The peasantry declare that the boat was upset by the one of those voracious monsters, and that the woman was earned off,—a fact which her father also positively affirms.

A horrible story comes from Florence. Eleven thousand persons have died There of cholera ; the burials are very hasty ; it is said that one man who had been buried alive forced his way through the thin covering of earth, and reached his friends alive after living on roots in a forest surrounding the cemetery for three days. He reported that he had felt other supposed corpses move ; they were subsequently disinterred; life had then departed, but there were terrible evidences that they had been interred while living.

An instance of very careful carelessness occurred the other day at Elstree. A person who keeps an inn received legacies for herself and a brother amounting to 2501. in five bank-notes ; she very carefully sewed these in a piece of flannel, and stitched this in a petticoat ; by and by she sends this garment to be washed ; the laundress washed it, pulling away the flannel, rubbing the notes to pieces, and then throwing the "dirty rags" of paper away !

The Honifeur of yesterday published some anecdotes from the camp.

"One of the brave soldiers, in passing before the redoubt in which we were, asked us whether we could give him something to drink. We hastened to him, and were happy in having A in our power to offer him a little brandy. Gentlemen,' said he to the officers who stood round him, 'you must also have the kindness to put it to my mouth, for you see my left arm is broken by the splinter of a shell ; the bone will scarcely hold together, and I am compelled to support it with my right hand' : and in fact he was holding up his bleeding and mutilated limb with the other hand. When he had drunk, we endeavoured to give him a few words of comfort ; to which he re- plied, 'Oh! I know the end of it—an arm the less is but of little conse- quence since we have the victory.'

"General Bourbaki, who was wounded by a ball in the breast, WU seen returning towards his tent, giving his arm to a wounded soldier ; and, in a short time after, we saw General de la Motterouge' who had been wounded in the head by the explosion of the curtain which unites Malakoff to the Little Itedan,• arrive at the Lancaster redoubt with his face covered with blood, accompanied by a colouel and a captain of the Imperial Guard, also wounded. They were walking, and notwithstanding their severe sufferings, would not allow themselves to be carried. "Another fact well worthy of mention took place near the Careening Port. The ambulance is situated in the deepest and most abrupt part of the ravine, surrounded and commanded by enormous rooks, in the hollows between which habitations for the surgeons and officers attached to the am- bulance had been prepared. A number of wounded soldiers might be seen slowly descending the steep path leading to the ambulance carrying others of their comrades more severely injured than themselves. When, in the night, the first explosion was heard from the Russians blowing up the works previously to their retreat, all the wounded who were passing at the time halted on the summit of the plateau to contem- plate the view of Sebastopol in flames. Forgetful of their sufferings, they remained there the whole night looking at the imposing scene. Among them was a sergeant of infantry, who was being conveyed to the ambulance in a litter. He felt assured that his wound was mortal, and although me- dical assistance might perhaps have prolonged his life for a day or two, 4s: insisted on being set down to die on that spot. He was placed in re sitting position, the upper part of his body supported against a large atone, and his face turned towards the burning town. He contemplated the scene with the utmost delight ; and soon after, feeling that his life was fast ebbing away, he rallied his remaining strength, took off his kepi, and waving it in the air, cried, 'Adieu, my friends, Sebastopol is ours! Vive la France! Vivo l'Empereur !' and in a few minutes afterwards expired.

"A fact strikingly characteristic of the good feeling of our troops also took place. On the morning of the fire, a Zouave was seen proceeding towards the ambulance. He had received a ball in his leg, and was limping along, supportiug himself by his musket. He was accompanied by two Russians more seriously wounded than himself, and to whom he was paying the utmost attention, and from time to time making them drink from the gourd slung at his back, accompanying the offer with these words, 'Come, drink, my poor fellow : what has happened is not your fault ; you have done your duty as soldiers, and you are as brave as ourselves I'"

CRYSTAL PAIACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday September 28th, including season-ticket-holders, 45,398.