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A Royal proclamation " for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another" appeared in a Gazette Extraordinary on Thursday evening. The late Parliament is thereby discharged from meeting on the 20th of August next ; and writs for calling a new Par- liament are to be issued in due form, returnable on the above-mentioned day of the 20th of August next.

The sixteen Representative Peers of Scotland are summoned by a sepa- rate proclamation : the election to take place at the Palace of llolyrood on Thursday the 15th July.

Mr. Joseph Bailey of Glanusk Park, Breconshire, has been created a Baronet.

Father Newman, in a letter. to Mr. Secretary Walpole, dated the 18th June, put a question suggested by the Royal proclamation against the appearance of Roman Catholics in their religious Vestments-

" It is now four years since, under legal advice that they were not breaking any law, and without any apparent scandal and annoyance to the population, certain Roman Catholics, ecclesiastical and lay, have ordinarily appeared in the streets of Birmingham and in the neighbourhood in cassocks and cloaks. I be to be allowed to inquire whether the recent proclamation is directed against this practice, as well as against the processions of which it distinctly makes mention, so that, if they continue it, they are in danger of being pro- ceeded against as disturbers of the public peace ? "

The Home Secretary, on the 24th June, replied, through Mr. W. I. H. Joliffe- "I am to inform you, that her Majesty's proclamation is directed against all violations of the 26th section of the statute 10th George IV. c. 7, anhd that if you feel any difficulty in theed2hstraction of the enactment, your proper course will be to consult your legal adviser. The Secretary of State would not be justified in pronouncing an opinion on the question submitted to him ; for if any doubt exists on the point, the decision of it must rest with the courts of law, and not with the Government."

The Naval and Military Gazette observes—" Prince Albert has during this week been put several times with the brigade of Foot Guards at morning drill in Hyde Park. The circumstance escaped general notice, in consequence of the Prince being in the uniform of the Guards. We were much gratified to see the steady and skilful manner in which his Royal Highness handled the brigade ; the movements being, without exception, of the practical and not the showy character usually practised. The wise heads at the elutes shake them and wag their tongues that all this savours of an early appointment to be Commander-in-chief, In spite of all the rumours of law objections. We do not, however, think so, but are of opinion that the Prince is rubbing off some military rust so apt to visit soldiers more in courts than camps."

It is stated that the Prineeas Gauromma, daughter of the ex-Rajah of Coorg, has been formally placed under Queen Victoria's protection, to be educated in the principles of the Church of England ; and that her Majesty has appointed Mrs. Drummond to the care of her ward.

The Duchess of Orleans and her sons are in Switzerland; travelling as the Countess de Villiers and family.

The ceremony of fixing the key-stone of the noble arch over the Western portal of Cologne Cathedral was performed on the 26th June, by the King of Prussia, with extraordinary pomp.

Letters from Rome state that the Pope is threatened with dropsy, and that the state of his health gives great uneasiness to his physicians.

Lord Campbell was thrown from his horse on Southwark Bridge on Thurs- day : his head was cut, but not seriously.

Sir James Macadam, the originator of the modern system of "macadamiz- ing" roads, died on Wednesday, at his residence in Finchley Road.

M. Beeamier, the eminent French physician, died at Paris on Sunday night.

There has been just found in the neighbourhood of Annecy, in Savoy, an empty balloon lying on the ground. The car and all the cordage were per- fect, and there was every appearance of the balloon having fallen solely from the gradual escape of gas. At the bottom of the car were found a gentle- man's cloak and a lady's bonnet and shawl, and in the latter a very hand- some album was wrapped up. On the first leaf of the album there was a pencil-drawing of the panorama of the mountains of the country, signed " Eliza de R." There was nothing to indicate the origin of the gmys- terious balloon, From the direction of the wind, it is supposed that it came from France, but beyond that all is a mystery.—La .Presse.

A tragical event has occurred at Genoa. While a couple, who had been married the day before, were walking in the Piazza dell' Annunziata, which was full of people at the time, the rejected lover of the lady, a man of the age of fifty-three, suddenly fell upon her and stabbed her, though not danger- rously. He then immediately palled a razor out of his pocket and cut his own throat with it. He was taken to the hospital, where he died two hours after.

A sergeant in the Ninety-ninth Regiment sends home a good story from the Ballarat gold-diggings of Australia. A Pensioner had a son born to him at that place : as it was the first birth at Ballarat, the father bethought him that ho would make a " collection" for the infant ; and it is said that he got as many " nuggets" as amounted in value to 30001.

A Parliamentary return has been printed which shows the population and inhabited houses according to the census of 1851, returning or not returning Members to Parliament. There are numbers of towns, containing upwards of 2000 inhabitants, not returning Members to Parliament. The following "'unrepresented Metropolitan parishes" appear in the return : Chelsea, with a population of 56,238, and 7691 inhabited houses; Kensington, with 44,063, and 6136 inhabited houses ; Hanimereraith, 17,760, and 3115 inhabited houses; Fulham, with 11,886, and 1797 inhabited houses. In the county of Middlesex, the population is 1,886,576, and 239,362 inhabited houses. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Synsotle Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases

Disease, of the Brain, 6_pipel Ma1m1., Nerves, and Senses

Diseases of the Heart and BioOd-vessels Maws of the Lunge, and of the other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the ]tlaineyi, Ac Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, de Rheumatism, diseases of the Beath, Joints, de es of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Ac Diseases Premature Birth Attiophy ..

SuAgedden Vieleace,Privatlon,Cotd, and Intemperance Total (Including unspecified causes) 462 2,•57 476 1,836 1,192 287 918 641 97 104 86 16 17 231 177 255 659 9,920 ....

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