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The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Can- terbury sat for a short time on Wednesday at Westminster. The sub- jests discussed in the Upper House were a petition praying that the diocese of Calcutta might be subdivided ; and a petition from several hundred clergymen against alterations in the liturgy. The Bishops were unanimous in expressing their concurrence with the petition, and in fa- vour of maintaining the Book of Common Prayer untouched. In the Lower House, there was a discussion on the proper measures to be adopted in the ease of the retirement of Bishops. The House was of opinion that Bishops should retain their sees, and that Coadjutor Bishops should be appointed to assist them. The Lower but not the Upper House sat on Thursday. It was chiefly busied in framing an address of congratulation to the Queen on the mar- riage of the Princess Royal ; into which a fruitless attempt was made to introduce a paragraph reflecting on the Divorce Act. The passage which Canon Wordsworth and Archdeacon Denison desired to introduce was the following- " We thankfully believe that this illustrious alliance has brought in a solemn manner before the mind of the nation the sanctity and blessedness of Christian marriage ; and we humbly hope it will have the beneficial ef- fect of strengthening the endeavours of those who earnestly desire and la- bour that the law of this realm on holy matrimony may be in harmony with those of the Christian Church."

At a meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thursday, it was resolved that the bills before Parliament affecting the privileges of the Corporation should be referred to a Committee. This decision was coma to in opposition to a proposal that the Court should not express its opinion until the House of Commons had pronounced.

A meeting was held at Willis's Rooms on Saturday to promote sub- scriptions to a fund for the endowment of the schools for the educatiorts of British soldiers, established by Sir Henry Lawrence at Kussolee an

Aboo, and known as the Lawrence Asylum. In his will, Sir Henry left these schools to the fostering care of the East India Company. Lord

Panmure occupied the chair ; Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Hardinge, Lord

Stanley, the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, Mr. Arthur Kinnaird, Sir Fre- derick Currie, and others connected with the East Indian questions, took

an interest in the meeting. The resolutions distinctly recognized the services of Sir Henry Lawrence, and warmly urged the claims of the in- stitutions he founded ; and a considerable sum was at once subscribed. But the interest of the speaking was in those parts that related to Sir Henry Lawrence. Lord Panmure said he was " a Christian soldier, a Christian statesman, and a Christian gentleman," a benefactor to the empire and his race. Lord Hardinge described how when Major Broad- foot was killed at Ferozeshah, the first Lord Hardinge summoned Cap- tain Lawrence from Nepaul to negotiate with the Sikh chiefs ; how he became first Resident at Lahore, then head of the Board of Administra- tion in the Punjaub, next Commissioner in Rajpootana, and finally Com- missioner in Oude. Sir Frederick Currie said that Sir Henry, when

Resident at Nepaul, devoted the whole of his salary to defray the ex- penses incurred in founding the Lawrence Asylum. [He read a despatch from the Court of Directors authorizing the Indian overnment to de- vote 20,000 rupees per annum to the Lawrence Asylum.] Lord Stan- ley paid a distinguished tribute to the memory of the deceased, based on personal observation. " I knew Sir Henry. Lawrence six years ago. Travelling in the Punjaub, I passed a month in his camp ; and it then seemed to me, as it does now, that his personal character was far above his career, eminent as that career has been. If he had died a private and undistinguished person, the impress of his mind would still have been left on all those who came personally into contact with him. I thought him, as far as I could judge, sagacious and far- seeing in matters of policy ; and I had daily opportunity of witnessing, even under all the disadvantages of a long and rapid journey, his constant as- siduity in the despatch of business. But it was not the intellectual qualities of the man which made upon me the deepest impression. There was in him a rare union of determined purpose, of moral as well as physical courage, with a singular frankness, and a courtesy of demeanour which was some- thing more than we call courtesy, for it belonged not to manners but to mind—a courtesy shown equally to Europeans and Natives. Once know him, and you could not imagine him giving utterance to any sentiment which was harsh, orpetty, or self-seeking. There seemed to be in his tem- perament nothing of vanity and nothing of selfishness, but a moral ele- vation, a disintelested devotion to duty and to country, such as is not cow- men even in the public service of England. He looked at Indian affairs, I think, in a larger and more imaginative spirit than has always been usual among those concerned in their administration. It was not his habit to give way to any of those feelings of dislike or contempt for the subject race which everywhere and always will be the characteristic fault of a conquering people ; nor did he ever flatter himself with the common illusion of over- rating the merits or the popularity of a Government caned on by an alien pee." Lord Shaftesbury said that when Sir Henry left the Punjaub, he was asked what he would like best as a testimonial : his reply was—" A wing to be added to the Lawrence Asylum ; I should think more of that than thousands expended on myself."

A very large meeting held at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday resolved to raise a fund for the relief of the wives and daughters of the soldiers who are now fighting the battles of their country in India. The Duke of Cambridge occupied the chair; and he was supported by Peers, other distinguished civilians, and military officers. All the wives and children of the men recently sent to India have remained at home, and the con- sequence has been very great distress and privation among them. The Duke of Cambridge put in a strong protest against the giving of any encouragement to soldiers to marry ; but he heartily concurred in the proposal to relieve the wives and families left behind by the married men.

There is a hospital in Great Ormond Street for sick children. Since 1852 it has accommodated 1860 in-patients, and relieved 47,100 out- patients, all under twelve and above five years of age ; and besides these, it has aided 28,500 infants under five years of age. It does not lack public support. At a dinner in aid of the funds on Tuesday night the sum of 30001. was subscribed.

The Government have granted a site in Trafalgar Square for a statue to the late Sir Henry Havelock. It will stand on the East side of the Nelson column ; so that Nelson will be flanked by two Indian officers, Napier and Havelock.

The members of the Royal Geographical Society met on Monday to fake an official farewell of Dr. Livingstone. Sir Roderick Murchison, from the chair, summed up the great traveller's services, pointed out the objects of his new enterprise, and announced the dinner that will take place in his honour today.

In the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on Saturday, Lord Justice Knight Bruce delivered judgment on the appeal in the case of Ditcher versus Denison. It may be recollected that the Court of Arches had reversed the sentence of deprivation against Archdeacon Denison passed by the Diocesan Court at Bath, on the ground that the suit had net been regularly instituted in point of time. Mr. Ditcher appealed against the decision of Sir John Dodson. The Judicial Committee confirmed the decision of the Court below, and dismissed the appeal, without costs. "Of course," said the Lord Justice, "it must be understood that upon the question of hetero- doxy, the question whether the respondent has at any time uttered heretical doctrine or committed any ecclesiastical offence, their Lordships have inti- mated no opinion."

In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, damages to the amount of 3501. were recovered from Captain Wilkinson, formerly of the Military Train, now of the 68th Regiment, for breach of a promise to marry Laura Killick, the daughter of James Killick, a jeweller living at Knightsbridge. The case was perfectly clear against the defendant.

At the beginning of the week a good deal of indignation was excited in the City on the discovery that several fishmongers in Thames Street were using Income-tax returns as waste-paper—the returns, among others, of bankers and merchants in Lombard Street. It was thought that the officials had sold these papers, which should have been sacred from the public eye. But the police were set to work ; and it was found that the documents had been ibstracted from the office of Air. Till, the tax-collector, by a charwoman, and told by her : it is still thought that sufficient care was not taken of the tapers. The charwoman, Eliza Winslow, is in custody.

Joseph Valentine Hollingsworth has been committed by the Lord Mayor on a charge of feloniously uttering six bills of exchange, for nearly 2001. in the aggregate, with forged acceptances, with a view to defraud the London and County Bank. Hollingsworth applied to Mr. Mg:tee-an, the manager of the bank, to be permitted to open an account ; he deposited 4301. in cash, and produced the six bills, requesting that they might be discounted at once. Mr. M'Kewan made inquiries, and discovered that the persons represented to have accepted the bills were nonexistent—they could not be found at the addresses given. Hollingsworth was brought before the Lord Mayor on Fri- day, and remanded till Monday.: in the interval he drew all the money de. posited in the bank except a pound or two. M. Guillaume Sachs, a German merchant, has been fined 51. by,the Marl- borough Street Magistrate for " a most monstrous proceeding." He ad. dressed Miss Huntley, who keeps her brother's house in Hemming's Row, as she was walking in Leicester Square ; she made no answer ; he followed her, declared that he knew her, made her improper proposals, touched her arm, and obstructed her progress. A snob collected, and a policeman ar- rived ; Miss Huntley went home ' • the pertinacious German, the policeman, and the mob, in attendance. Miss Huntley's brother thrust the German out of his shop, and gave him into custody. Mr. Lewis pleaded for the de- fendant, that he had laboured under a delision as to the young lady's iden- tity.

During the night of the 10th October 1856, a burglar entered the mansion of the Earl of Suffolk, Charlton Park, Wilts, removed ten paintings from their frames, and got clear off with them : the paintings were valued at 100001. Inspector Whitcher being called in, pronounced a professional opinion that the robbery had been effected by some person well acquainted with the house ; but he could not detect the culprit. Recently, advertise- ments were issued, offering a reward of 1001. for the discovery.of the robber and the paintings ; and this proved successful. Mr. Luff, a picture-dealer, informed the police that he had bought two of the paintings,—one of them a Leonardo da Vinci of great value,—of John Farbon, a messenger at the War Office. Whitcher apprehended Farbon ; who confessed that he was the burglar, told where some of the paintings might be found, and produced pawnbrokers' duplicates for the rest. Ten years ago Farbon was valet to the Earl of Suffolk, who got him the situation at the War Office ; which kindness was repaid by this ingenious robbery of the patron. Farbon was produced before the Westminster Magistrate, who gave the necessary authority for his removal to Wiltshire.

Christian Settler, who murdered Detective Thain, was hanged at Newgate on Monday morning. Since his condemnation he had behaved with pro- priety, and expressed contrition for his crime. He was very firm, without bravado, in his last momenta. He begged that his face might not be covered, so earnestly that the hangman did not draw the cap over his eyes till after the drop had fallen ; and the crowd hooted the considerate functionary, thinking that he had omitted part of his duty.

While on the bench at the Mansionhouse on Saturday, the Lord Mayor called the attention of the public to the present destitute condition of the family of the son of the late Sir Henry Bishop ; and he did so in consequence of a representation which had been made to him by a friend of the family, that, owing to the sudden death of their father, five young children had been left entirely unprovided for. He felt that the case was one in which benevolent persons, especially in the musical world, would gladly interest themselves ; and personally he should be most happy to undertake the ap- plication of any sums which might be sent to him in the way which might appear most conducive to the interests of the family.