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We understand that 'the French frigate taking out the French Envoy deputed to arrange with our own Envoy the affairs of La Plata has been detained at Madeira by casualties. Sir Charles Hotham will therefore have to remain at Bahia until the French Minister anive there. We are informed, however, that Urquiza, the President of the Argentine Repub- lic, has evinced an anxious desire to meet the wishes of the British and French Governments, and that we may reasonably hope that the waters of La Plata will soon be opened to the traffic of the world.—Morning Herald.

We understand that the Government have taken means to prevent by our naval power any efforts that may be attempted by American ad- venturers against the Virgin Islands.—Morning Herald.

We are informed that the mode adopted by the present Government for making places, or rather vacancies for their friends, in various public. offices, has been this : they have raised the superannuation allowance— giving the whole income, after a certain number of years, where before only three-fourths was given—with a view of at once inducing all who can claim superannuation to retire. This proceeding may perhaps be legal, but it is obviously done to create vacancies for party purposes.— Daily News.

The Gazette of Tuesday contained the following Proclamation by the Queen.

" Victoria R.—Whereas by the act of Parliament, passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty Bing George the Fourth, for the relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, it is enacted, that no Roman Catho- lic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the religious orders, communities,'

or societies of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows, should exercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits of his order,. save within the usual places of worship of the Roman Catholic religion, or in private houses ; and whereas it has been represented to us that Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, wearin,, the habits of their orders, have exercised the rites and ceremonies of the wearing Catholic religion in highways and places of public resort, with many persons in cere- monial dresses, bearing banners and objects or symbols of their worship, in procession, to the great scandal and annoyance of large numbers of our people, and to the manifest danger of the public peace ; and whereas it has been represented to us, that such violation of the law has been committed near places of public worship during the time of divine service, and in such a manner as to disturb the congregations assembled therein ;—We have therefore thought it our bounden duty, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation, solemnly warning all those whom it may concern, that, whilst we are resolved to protect our Roman Catholic subjects in the undisturbed enjoyment of their legal rights and religious freedom, we are determined to prevent and repress the commission of all such offences as aforesaid, whereby the offenders may draw upon themselves the punishments attending the violation of the laws, and the peace and security of our dominions may. be endangered.

" Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this 15th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1852, and in the fifteenth year of our reign.—God save the Queen."

The following is the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education, as recently modified ; printed by order of Parliament.

"At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th day of June 1852. By the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education. Their Lordships having had under their consideration various representations from pro- moters of Church of England schools, objecting to portions of the management- clauses as settled in pursuance of the minute of the Committee of Council on Edu- cation dated 28th June 1847, and of the subsequent correspondence between the Committee of Council and the Committee of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout Eng- land and Wales :

" Resolved, that it shall be optional with the promoters of such schools, in applying for aid from the Parliamentary grant towards the cost of the buildings, to adopt the following paragraphs in the clauses A, B, C, and D, either as they stand at present, or with all or any of the alterations shown in the margin. And in case any differ- ence shall arise between the Minister or Curate and the Committee of Management hereinbefore mentioned, respecting the prayers to be used in the school, not being the Sunday-school, or the religious instruction of the scholars attending the same, or any regulation connected therewith, or the exclusion of any book the use of which in the school may be objected to on religious grounds, or the dismissal of any teacher from the school on account of his or her defective or unsound instruction of the children in religion,+ the Minister or Curate, or any member of the said Committee, may cause a written statement of the matter in difference to be laid before the Bishop of the diocese within which the school shall be situated, a copy thereof having been previously communicated to the said Committee or Min- ister or Curate, if they or be shall not have been parties or privy to the making of the statement respectively; and the Bishop may inquire concerning, and determine the matter in difference; and the decision of the Bishop in writing under his hand thereon, when laid before the said Committee, shall be final and conclusive in the matter. And the Committee of management for the time being is hereby expressly required to take all such measures as may be necessary for immediately carrying the said decision into complete effect.; And in case any difference, other than and except such difference as last described, shall arise in the Committee of manage- ment, the minority thereof (being not fewer in number than one-third of the whole of the Committee) may make request in writing to the Lord President of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council for the time being, and to the Bishop of the diocese wherein the said school shall be situated ; and thereupon the said Lord President may nominate one of the Inspectors of Schools ap- pointed as aforesaid to be an arbitrator in the matter in difference, and the said Bishop may nominate one of the beneficed clergymen of the said diocese to be an- other arbitrator in the same matter ; and the said arbitrators so nominated as afore- said shall jointly select one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, being a lay mem- ber of the said Church of England, as another arbitrator ; and in case they shall not jointly select such third arbitrator within the space of thirty days next ensuing their first meeting, the Archbishop of the province within which the said school shall be situate and the said Lord President may jointly appoint a third arbitrator ; and the three arbitrators so nominated as aforesaid shall inquire concerning the last- mentioned matter in difference, and the award in writin., under the hands of the said arbitrators, or of any two of them, when laid before the said Committee. shall be final and conclusive in the matter. And the Committee of management for the time being is hereby expressly required to take all such mea- sures as may be necessary for immediately carrying the said award into complete ef- fect. And it is hereby further declared, that if the said Bishop or the said arbitra- tors, upon any such reference as aforesaid, shall direct or award that any master, mistress, or teacher in the said school, shall be dismissed, such direction or award, when a copy thereof shall have been served upon the said master, mistress, or teach- er. personally, or by the same being left at his or her place of abode, or at the school aforesaid, addressed to the said master, mistress, or teacher, as the case may require, shall operate as a dismissal of the said master, mistress, or teacher, so as to prevent him or her thenceforth from having any interest in his or her office, or in the said school or premises, under or by virtue of this deed, and so as to dis- qualify him or her from holding thenceforth any right or interest under this deed, by virtue of his or her previous or any future appointment."

• " Moral or " + " Or on other moral or religious grounds "

4 " Provided that it shall be lawful for the Minister or Curate as aforesaid to exclude such book or to suspend such teacher pending such reference as aforesaid to the Bishop."

Mr. William Henry Willes, one of the members of the last Common Law Commission, has been appointed by the Inns of Court, lecturer on the branches of the Common Law which are not included in constitu- tional law, the law of real property and conveyancing, devises and bequests.

Mr. John George Phillimore, Q.C., has been elected by the Council of Legal Education, representing all the Inns of Court, to the chair of Con- stitutional Law and Legal History founded by the four Inns of Court.

At a meeting of the friends and admirers of the late Thomas Moore, held at Lansdowne House on Tuesday last, a letter was read from Lord Charlemont, stating that at a previous meeting it had been resolved to erect a public monument to the memory of the poet in his native city, Dublin. It was then resolved that a subscription should be raised in Great Britain in furtherance of the object; and the following noblemen and gentlemen were appointed a Committee to carry it out—Lords Lansdowne, Clarendon, Fortescue, Wicklow, Carlisle, Shelburne, John Russell, and Monteagle, and Messrs. Macaulay and Longman: Mr. Longman con- sented to act as treasurer.

Owing to the abundance of money, one of the principal discount- houses has not only signified its unwillingness to receive any fresh deposits at per cent, but has declined to continue holding large amounts at that rate even in existing cases. In one instance today a sum of 50,0001. was thus refused.—City Article of the Times, Monday. The Cunard Company, with characteristic enterprise, has decided upon establishing a first-class line of steam-ships between the United States, Panama, and Australia, in conjunction with their mail-steamers to New York. Not only are the arrangements completed, but the vessels are nearly ready to commence running, even before the railroad between Panama and Chagres is completed.—Liverpool Correspondent of the Times.

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

Zymotic Diseases of 1811-50. of 1831. Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 453 ,... 41 Tubercular Diseases ' 191 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,072 .... 115 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .....33 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration . 1,026 .... 11:' Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 544.... is Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 101 .... 9 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus de 96 7 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, de Is 9 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue,22e.. a .... s Malformations 28 3 Premature Birth 239 23 Atrophy 153 2 l Age 421 41 Sudden 106 c Piolence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 327 • • • • 24

Ten Weeks wets

1,859 .... 243

otal (including unspecified causes) 8,720 538

M. Otto Goldschmidt and Madame Goldschmidt arrived in London from Liverpool early in the week.

In consequence of recent events, the Lords of the Admiralty have placed Captain Hawkey and Lieutenant Swain, of the Royal Marines, upon perma- nent half-pay.

Letters from Munich state that Professor Liobig has at length yielded ti the inducements held out to him by the Bavarian Government to leave Gies- sen and settle at the University of Munich. He is to commence his labours there with the winter session.

When the Income-tax returns for the year ending April 1852 are produced, we believe that they will exhibit a falling-off of twenty millions (! ! ) in the national income in one year.—Horning Gerald.

The Commissioners for the Great Exhibition have reported that the value of all the articles exhibited, exclusive of the Koh-i-noor diamond, the worth of which is fanciful, did not exceed 2,000,0001. It was supposed at the pe- riod of the Exposition—when everything pertaining to it was exaggerated and puffed—that the value was not under 12,000,0001.

Sir David Brewster has discovered, and placed it beyond doubt, that the diamond in the Queen's possession, which last summer figured so prominently in the Great Exhibition, is not the genuine Koh-i-noor that belonged to die Great Mogul. It is a very fine diamond, however, and is the one which Shalt Soojah surrendered to Runjeet Singh as the real "Mountain of Light"— Fifeshire Journal. -

It is said that Messrs. Fairbaim, of Manchester, have contracted with the North-western Railway Company to supply a number of engines that shall take express-trains from London to Birmingham, 113 miles, in two hours.

The famed Great Britain screw-steamer is to be transferred by her owners, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. of Liverpool, to their " Eagle line " of Aus- tralian packets. She is announced to leave Liverpool for Melbourne, Port Phillip, on the 21st of August next. She will carry three classes of passen- gers—upper saloon, 70 guineas ; fore saloon, 40 guineas ; second cabin, 2.5 guineas. The Great Britain will have accommodation for about 1000 pas- sengers.

Last year, two new companies were started at Frasersburgh and Banff, who each fitted out one ship as a modest beginning. The one sent the new ship Me- links, and the other the little schooner Felix, which had safely carried Sir John Roes to and from the mouth of Wellington's Inlet. Both ships were absent some three months at the fishing this spring, and were the first ships home, with full cargoes both ! The Melinka had 140 tons of seal-oil, worth 42001., and seal-skins worth 20001.—in all 62001. at least for three months voyage! Hear this, ye shipowners, and, like good Captain Cottle, take a strong note of it.—Inverness Courier.

The last number of the Literary Gazette for Sweden contains some in- teresting statistics of Swedish literature, journalism, and science in the year 1850. In that year 1060 books and 133 journals and periodicals were pub- lished in the country. Of these books, the works on theology muster 182; next come, jurisprudence, with 123 law-books ; history, philology, medicine, mathematics, average from 30 to 80 works; and the number of treatises on the fine arts dwindles down to three ; 156 novels were published, chiefly translations from English and French works. Of the 113 Swedish newspapers, 16 were published in Stockholm.

The Akhbar of Algiers states that the silk crop in that colony has been greatly injured by the frequent storms in the last month, and by a sirocco wind on the 17th of May.

The thread manufacturers of Lille and the neighbourhood are making ex- ertions to obtain from the Government a law to regulate the length of the skein, in order that it may be uniform, and thus put an end to a ruinous com- petition which exists, one house underselling the other by means of curtailing the skeins.

Mr. Coroner Brent held an inquest in Gray's Inn Lane yesterday, on the body of Jonathan Nicholls, aged fifty-one, a decayed schoolmaster who perished from disease hastened by starvation. Latterly the poor man had been reduced to writing window-bills for tradesmen, and with all industry he sometimes only realized a few pence a week. The parish allowed a loaf a week for the support of himself and his wife, who is paralyzed. On Monday morning, his wife found him dead in bed at her side. The following day h.. beePme entitled to 1201. cash, and 601. a year. Mr. Lutheron, surgeon, deposed that death resulted from want and disease of the lungs. The Jury found a verdict in accordance with the evidence ; and made an addition which implied a strong censure on the parish authorities.