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Lengthened Cabinet Councils have been held at the Foreign Office this week. The Reverend W. Jecobson, MA., is gazetted to the office of Regius Profealpar of Divinity at Oxford.

John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., has been appointed to be Clerk-Assistant o the Parliamans.

General de Chabannes, Aide-de-camp of Louis Philippe, has addressed a letter to the Journal des Debats, denying that his Ex-Majesty had purchased an estate in England. "So far from being able to make such an acquisition, Louis Pbilippet" says the General, "lives in the greatest distress, at Claremont, wader the hospitable roof of King Leopold."

It is affirmed that M. Galata, who had at first expressed the intention of giving public lectures on :History in London, has renounced that project, at the request of the Princess de Lieven; who, it is added, is to adopt M. Guizot's children, and marry him.—L'Union.

The Precurseur of Antwerp says that Prince Metternich has arrived at Ant- helm, the first Dutch town on the Rhine, on his way to London, via Rotterdam. Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris, and is daily expected in London. The Prince of Glacksberg and his. brother, both officers is she Prussian army, have taken service underthe Provisional:Government of Schleswig-Holstein.

Sir Samuel Bush Meyrick, K.ELL., the antiquarian.of armour, has departed; he died on the 2d instant, at his seat, Goodrich Court, Herefordshire. .

Mr. John-Burke, the author of varionshooks on the Peerage and other cognate subjects, died on Monday week, at Aix-la-Chapelle. It is said in Zurich that General Sails Soglio, late General of the Sonderbund army, has committed suicide at Bergamo.

The Philomela, bound from Monte Video to England, took fire, and was aban- doned by her people: they were forced into a small open boat, with less than a cask of water and two begs of biscuit for a voyage of 1,500 miles. After fourteen days of tossing between life and death, the crew fell in with a Surinam ship, and were rescued.

The Arrogant and the Plumper, steam-frigates of 46 and 12 guns respectively, were launched at Portsmouth on Wednesday. The inhabitants of the port were The arrivals from America, to the 15th of March, bring at last the definitive acceptance, with unimportant alteration, of the Mexican treaty as already de- scribed.

Indian letters confirm the belief that the ship General Wood has foundered in the Chinese seas, with the loss of 150 lives. The General Wood was on a voyage from Singapore to Penang; and had on board 91 convicts, a party of soldiers, and some passengers. admitted without tickets, and there was a large and gay concourse. Everything passed off well.

It has been discovered that coal worth 10,000/. has been removed by stealth from under the town of Wigan, by one Bleasdale, who occupied a small exhausted mine.

While the son of Mr. Dennison, of Shrewsbury House, Shooter's Hill, was firing at a target, the other day, a ball struck a post, and glancing thence hit a child of Mr. Dennison's gardener, killing him on the spot.

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

Zyrnotic Disessea Dropsy, Carets, and other diseases of uncertain or variable neat .• Tubercular Diseases. Diseases or the Brans, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses. Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lures, and of the other Organs of Resplration— Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc. Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, fig-

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular I issue, Sc Malformations Premature Bath Atrophy Age Sudden Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) . 1294 1107

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 89.5° in the sun, to 30.0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the mean average temperature by 8.3°. The mean direction of the wind for the week was South.

Number of Winter deaths. average.

289 .... 184 62 .... 59

223 108•

161 .... 188 191 .... 225 62 9 13 8 1 3 23 16 70

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