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Lord Palmerston has issued the usual circular to his supporters, urging them to be present in their places on Tuesday, the 5th of February. The missive is not in any way remarkable.

Mr. Charles Paget, Member for Nottingham, will second the Address, which Sir Edward Colebrooke will move.

It is confidently stated that the Bankruptcy Bill will be introduced into the House of Commons on the first night of the Session.

One of the offices held by the late Lord Dalhousie was that of Lord Clerk Register of Scotland. He has proved to be the last, for the Go- vernment have resolved to abolish the place.

The Dean and Chapter of Worcester formally elected Dr. Philpott, Master of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, as Bishop of the diocese, on Wednesday. Dr. Philpott was chaplain to the Prince Consort

"It is notified now," says the Army and Navy Gazette, "to all officers applying for leave to travel on the Continent, whether for pleasure or for the study of their profession, that they will not be permitted to volunteer Or mix themselves up in any way with the forces or auxiliaries of any foreign power, so long as they hold a commission from the British crown." ' The war in South Italy, we suppose, has led to this order.

Mr. W. Davenport Bromley, in the Times, mentions a remarkable fact, intended to show the unwillingness of the parish authorities to afford the poor relief during the severe weather-

" In a rich parish the accredited agent of our society informed me that the Poor-law authorities had refused relief where it clearly ought to have been given. Acting on my advice, he next day appeared with the appli- cants themselves before the authorities, and asked them, notebook in hand, their reason for refusal. They looked at him, at each other, hesitated, wavered, and—relieved them !-150 persons. What does this prove ? That the law by which the starving man is entitled to be kept alive is evaded, and that in many eases it requires a powerful interest to enable him to en- force his right to existence."

During the past year there has been a profit of 2501. on the working of the reformatory hulk, Akbar, at Liverpool ; a profit of 2881. on the working of the girls' reformatory ; and a loss on the farm held by the Liverpool Reformatory Association at Newton, of 3741., but against this is to be set farm-stock worth 2001. Since the introduction of the refor- matory system, crime in Lancashire has decreased 44 per cent.; juvenile crime all over the United Kingdom, 35 per cent) and adult crime 14 pad[ cent.

The Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, discharged the rule niai granted on Mr. Sylvester, Coroner of Wilts. The effect of this decision is to prevent a second coroner's inquest on the death of the child sup- posed to have been murdered at Road. The decision is obviously sound, as the charge of corruption against the Coroner utterly broke down, but it involves a failure of justice almost unprecedented in England. Mur- ders have remained undiscovered before now, but we cannot recall a case in which, while suspicion was confined to a single house, inquiry Win suspended by defects of form. The murder, it seems certain, was com- mitted by some one of Mr. Kent's household, but the actual criminal must remain undiscovered till accident or remorse reveals his name. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to remember that, as more than one person must be aware of the truth, the murderer, however callous to remorse, must at least drag out an existence embittered by incessant terror.

The Earl of Carlisle returned to Dublin, on Monday, from a visit to this country.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry St. George Ord, R.E., at present Governor of Dominica, is to succeed Brevet-Colonel Freeman Murray, as Governor and Commander-in-chief at Bermuda.

Mr. Turnbull, a Roman Catholic, was a year and a half ago, appointed Calenderer of the Foreign State Papers. Immediately, he was assailed by the Protestant Alliance and other societies of a like kind, who argued on his unfitness for the task, and imputed to him improper conduct. Mr. Turn- bull, wearied out, has resigned, and Sir John Romillv has accepted his re- signation " with much regret," and accompanied it by an eulogy on Mr. Turnbull's character and fitness, and a rebuke to his " persecutors."

The officers and crew of the war-ship Sanspareil, moved by the cries of distress from Coventry, have contributed a day's pay to the fund Lord Leigh is raising to relieve the weavers. Jack Tar is still the same. No de- generation there.

Earl de Grey and Ripon has intimated to commanders of Volunteer corps that, with a view of promoting as much as possible a knowledge of the rifle among all classes of Volunteers, he will be prepared, after the 1st of April, i 1861, to sanction the gratuitous issue of rifle ammunition to Volunteer corps. His lordship does not intend that this grant should be in addition to the quantity already allowed to be purchased by corps, but that the difference between the proportion issued gratis and the quantity which has hitherto been allowed to rifle corps may be continued to be issued to them at cost price.

The February general meeting of the National Rifle Association will be held at Willis's Rooms on the 16th of that month, at one a'clock. Lord Herbert of Lea, Secretary of State for War, and president of the Association, will preside.

Sir Robert Peel, who made himself notorious by his opposition to the Rifle Volunteer movement, has become a convert now that it is successful. He has courageously given 1001. to the Staffordshire Rifle Association.

The sword of La Tour d'Auvergne, "le premier grenadier de France," whose name is still on the roll of his regiment, and called over with the rest, has been given to Garibaldi.

Francis North, Earl of Guilford, the renowned pluralist, and principal in the great scandal of St. Cross, of which he was Master, has just died. Up to 1850, he derived no less than 60001. a year from the fat things of the Church,' holding four rectories and other preferments, and deriving suffi- cient money from St. Cross to pay off the mortgages on his ancestral castle near Dover. He was the eldest son of the brother of the Lord North, and all his family were well eared for.

Mr. Macgregor Laird, well known in connexion with African exploration, a comrade of Edward Lander, died on Sunday. He sent two expeditions to Africa at his own expense, which were completely successful.

Lieutenant Nares, of the Royal Navy, has successfully applied the kite to the purpose of saving life on the coast. The kite has been used before, but only with one line. Lieutenant Nares uses two. One attached to the kite as usual, the other fastened to the right angle of the kite. Thus, a stranded ship can pass a life-line ashore by sending up a kite, and when it has passed over the beach or cliff, hauling in the second line so as to pull it it down to the earth. He also attaches his line to a carrier in the water, by which a hawser can be sent ashore. He has presented the invention to the Shipwrecked Fisherman's Society ; and, in addition, fifty guineas awarded to him for the invention.

The Danish Diet sanctioned on Monday the government contract from the 18th of December, 1860, with Mr. Pete, relative to the railway through Fin- land, the east coast of Jutland, from Aalborg, to the South Schleswig Rail- way, and from Aarhuss towards the West coast.

The Reverend Dr. Giles, curate of Perivale, sold a leaden coffin, found by the sexton, when digging a new grave. Dr. Giles, with the consent of the rector, sold the old lead, to pay the expense of putting up the tablet on the coffin in the church, and reverently reburied the human remains. The churchwarden indicted the curate for felony, but the Brentford magistrates decided that they had no jurisdiction.

A man, who distrusted all the Glasgow banks, deposited his savings, 661., under the turf in Glasgow Green. When he wanted it, he could not flnd it, and applied for permission to dig for it. Permission was granted; and, after three days' labour, the money was found. Then the police retained it to make inquiries.

The mortality of the last week of cold weather was very great, 1926. Last week, the deaths were 1783, an excess of 453 over the calculated ave- rage. One death from frost bite is recorded.

From the Custom-house returns of the French Empire for the past year, 1860, we learn that England has received from France the following very respectable contribution to the comforts of the perfidious Albionites, to wit, 64 millions and a half of kilograms weight butter ; 151,686,000 eggs, the produce of 40,000 French hens ; 11,000,381 gallons of wine ; 431 quintals cubic measure of vegetable substances ; 350,000 pairs of boots and shoes ; 7 million pairs of gloves.

It is understood that Mr. Gladstone has abandoned his attempt to extract double income-tax from the holders of Indian securities. According to a notice from the Inland Revenue Office, it now appears that the opinion both of the Attorney and Solicitor-General is, that the double tax cannot be en- forced, and the claim has accordingly been given up. The amounts already deducted will, of course, have to be refunded.—Titnes City Article. A movement is in progress for the restoration of the old and picturesque Market-cross of Edinburgh, which was removed from its situation on the High Street above a century ago, and the destroyers of which are the sub- ject of the "minstrel's malison" in Scott's poem of " Marmion."