Last night's Gazette contains an order in Council, dated Windsor,
Oc- tober 31, 1848, signifying the Royal approval of an act prepared by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly of Prince Edward's Island, entitled" An Act to regulate the Importation of Books and to protect the British author, whereby provision is made for securing to British authors a certain remuneration in _respect of unauthorized copies of works under Copyright imported into the said island."
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a circular 1 of his province, referring to a "general apprehensio which has been mercifully spared the political and prevalent, should suffer from a pestilence." The Primat of the prayer appointed for such cases in the Liturgy," e actual appearance of the disease in any neighbourhood. The postscript is added— "Since writing the above, I have received a communication from the Board of Health, desiring me to remind the parochial clergy of the important benefits which they may render to their people by a regular visitation of their respective districts for the purpose of enforciug cleanliness, ventilation, and strict temperance. Pub- lic measures can only be applied externally, and will be of little avail if unwhole- some or insufficient diet, (which the wealthier classes should be exhorted to pro- vide against,) or if close and over-crowded apartments, expose the inhabitants to the first attacks of epidemic disease." .
The Committee for conducting the annual Polish Ball and Concert at Guildhall have arranged that they shall take place on the 16th instant; and the gratuitous assistance of many distinguished artists has been pro- mised for the concert. M. Chopin, the great pianist, will there make his first public appearance in England.
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