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The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Can- terbury was prorogued on Thursday, by Dr. Twias, the Vicar-General, =ill the 8th October.

The Gazette of Tuesday contained the announcement that her Majesty hag regpointed Mr. Eastland de Michele to the post of British Consul at St. Petersburg.

Sir William Temple, the younger brother of Lord Palmerston, whose recent departure from Naples attracted some notice' died on Sunday last, at his lo gings in Dover Street, Piccadilly. He had returned to England in a bad state of health, which did not improve here. He drove out on Thursday as used. On Saturday afternoon Lady Palmerston called on him previously to her departure from London; and late in the evening Lord Palmerston paid him a visit. Next morning about nine o'clock, Sir William died quietly, without apparent pain. He was born in 1788, and was eduoated for the diplomatic profession. He went to the Hague in 1814, and to the Congress of Vienna in a subordinate capacity. He was afterwards Secretary of Lega- tion at Stockholm, Berlin, Frankfort, St. Petersburg ; in 1832, after serv- ing his brother as precis-writer for a year, he went as British Minister to Dresden, where he remained a few months. He then proceeded to Naples, at which court he remained until within the last few weeks. He was much liked at Naples. In 1852 Sir William Temple was nominated a Civil Knight of the Grand Cross of the Bath, for his diplomatic services.

Cholera has broken out at Stockholm. The Russian General Andreas Beflisco, who had just joined the Russian Legation, was an early victim.

Lindpainter the musical composer died at Nonnenhorn, on the Lake of Constance, on the 21st instant.

Staudigl is reported to have died in a lunatic asylum ; the place not mentioned.

The remains of the Earl of Shrewsbury were interred on Tuesday, in the chapel of Alton Castle.

A cenotaph has been erected in St. Paul's, in the nave on the right of the ,great Western entrance, to the memory of e cielit officers of the Coldstream Guards who fell at the battle of Inkerman. The monument consists of an entablature on which the names are inscribed, and above it a small repre- sentation of the tomb, with its simple tablet, which covers the bodies on Cathcart's Hill in the Crimea. On each side of these is the effigy of a sol- dier of the regiment leaning mournfully over them. Above are the words "And the victory that day was turned into mourning." The inscription is from the pen of the Dean of St. Paul's. The whole is surmounted by the colours of the regiment, presented by the surviving officers.

The Lords of the Admiralty have returned from Ireland, and are now inspecting the Government Dockyards in England.

An extension of the facilities of the book-post comes into immediate ope- ration. The Postmaster-General announces, that "on the 1st September, and thenceforth, the privileges of the inland book-post will be extended so as to include printed letters like other printed matter."

On the 6th September, mails will be made up for the first of the new line of screw-steamers to the Cape of Good Hope and thence to Mauritius, Point de Gene, and Calcutta. A mail will be ;nude up on the 5th of every month. The postage for a letter to the Cape not exceeding a half-ounce, will be is.; for a packet of books not exceeding a half-pound, 6d. ; for each newspaper, ld.

The Pasha of Egypt has ordered a new expedition to be organized to as- cend the Nile, under the Comte d'Escayrac de Lauture an experienced African traveller, and the author of a recent work on Sudan, and of other treatises on African geography. The expedition is to be accompanied by twelve Europeans, eight of whom have already been engaged, including three Frenchmen and three Austrians ; and the chief is desirous of pro- curing the assistance of English officers accustomed to astronomical and meteorological observations and the management of boats. The Count has just left London, having been in communication with the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society on the subject of the expedition, which is in- tended to start from Cairo in October.

The great bell for the Westminster Palace clock has been raised from the pit in which it was cast : the founding appears to have been quite successful. The bell is supposed to weigh fifteen tons ; it has been tried with a clapper of seven hundredweight ; the note is E natural. The bell stands 7 feet 10i inches high; its diameter is 9 feet 5i inches.

When the electric cable, about 130 miles long, had been laid down from Cape Spartivento nearly to Gallia Island, to form a link of the European and African line, a violent storm arose, and to save the lives of the people on board the Dutchman steamer, it was found necessary to abandon the cable. It had been insured for 30,0001. This lathe second cable lost in at- tempting to carry out this enterprise.

Mr. E. S. Whitfield, resident medical officer of St. Thomas's Hospital, states that the Corporation of Antwerp now receive 120,000 francs a year for the sweepings of the streets and the contents of the cesspools, contract- ors-converting the nuisances into powerful guano. Formerly the Corpora- tion used to pay 20,000 francs yearly to get rid of the city refuse. At Paris and Milan "town guano" is manufactured which has extraordinary powers as a fertilizer.

The Swedish Chambers have approved the proposition of the Minister of Marine, which fixes the strength of the Swediah and Norwegian fleets for 1857 as follows. Swedish fleet-10 sail of the line, 6 frigates, 4 schooners, 4 brigs, 9 steam-schooners, 77 gun-boats, 122 armed boats, 6 mortar-ves- sels, 22 steam despatch-boats, 2 royal yachts, 21 transports, 594 armed row- boats. Norwegian fleet-2 frigates, 2 schooners, 2 eteam-schooners, 1 brig, 43 gun-boats, 6 tugs, with a steam-frigate and a despatch-boat, both of which are now being finished on the stocks at Christiania. All the vessels of war are ready to go to sea, but in time of peace they are laid up in or- dinaeY. Only the vessels strictly required by the Government are kept on serrice.

There seems to be no doubt that there is a most abundant crop of wheat in nearly all parts of the United States. Last year the good crop followed a scanty one, but this year one large crop succeeds another ; and no doubt the effect on prices will year very considerable.

Incredible as it may appear the hay orop of the United States is very nearly as valuable as the cotton crop : the census returns of 1850 proved this.

• The editor of the ArinOtilat the ultra-clerical organ of Turin, was con- demned on the 21st to four months' imprisonment and 1000 francs fine, for an article which appeared in his ,paper on the day of the anniverdary of the Piedmont constitution, and which was conceived in a spirit of violent animosity to free institutions.

Some of the towns of Algeria—Philipville, Bona, Constantine, Grime— suffered considerably from a smart shock of an earthquake on the 21st in- stant. The shock was also felt on the opposite European coast.

The recent ascent of Mount Ararat was not the first: in Kitto's "Scrip- ture Lands" will be found an account of a successful ascent by Professor Parrot and party in October 1829.

Spite of the exertions of the Sans Slick race' the Yankee clockmakers have for some years past overstocked the market with cheap time-pieces : a number of the large manufactories have been closed, and others work only short time : vast losses have been incurred.

Toulon has quadrupled its population in half a century : the increase has been from 20,500 in 1801 to 82,705 in 1856.

The directors of the United States Mint propose that in future the cent shall consist of 88 parts of copper and 12 of nickel, and be one-third lighter than the present cent.

A curious case has been tried by the Civil Tribunal of Rouen. In 1843, an old lady named Godefroy died at Havre, leaving a fortune of nearly 700,000 francs. She made no will ; heirs were with difficulty found ; one of these was an old woman named Lucet, of Rouen and she received half the fortune. On her death, two men, Bouquet and Vincent, the former re- lated to her by marriage, got possession of her property ; some portion they had got into their hands by trickery before her decease, and she made Bouquet her heir. But subsequently, Mr. Camroux, a merchant of London, claimed the whole of the wealth from them, on the ground that he was more nearly related to Madame Godefroy than Lucet was ; and he has made out his case : going back to 1665, he traced the descent of himself and Lucet, and proved that he was in the eighth degree of relationship, Lucet in the ninth. The court ordered Bouquet and Vincent to refund all they had re- ceived from Lucet, or pay 337,000 francs damages.

A young man residing in Bordentown, who was under an engagement of marriage with a young lady, died on Friday last. Both the gentleman and lady, as well as their families, were firm believers in the doctrines of the Spiritualists ; and notwithstanding the death of the former' it was deter- mined that the marriage should take place between the disembodied spirit of the young man and the living breathing body of his affianced bride. .Ac- oordingly, on Sunday the marriage ceremony was performed between the clay in corpse and the warm blooming bride. It is understood that this was n compliance with the directions of the spirit of the bridegroom. The devotion of the lady to the spirit or the memory of her lover carried her through this ceremony without faltering ; but it must lead to unhappiness, for she no doubt considers herself as the wife of one whom she shall meet in the body never more. Her heart lies buried in the grave with him who should have been her guide and protector. Among all the singular things recorded of the Spiritualists, we havemet with nothing parallel to this.— l'renton (U.S.) Gazette, Aug. 5. Two girls in the island of Funen, Denmark, have caught the warm blood of a criminal who was beheaded—and drunk it ! Such a draught is held by some of the Denmark people to be an infallible preservative against epilepsy and apoplexy.