A Cabinet Council was held on Monday afternoon at the

Foreign Office. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, and the Earl of .Harrowby. The Council sat two hours.

Mr. Robert Lowe has been appointed Paymaster-General.

Mr. J. D. Coleridge, of the Western Circuit, will be the new Recorder of Portsmouth, in succession to Mr. Massey M.P., appointed Under-Se- cretary for the Home Department. Mr. A. I. Stephens has been appointed Recorder of Andover, in the room of Mr. Bellenden Ker, resigned.—Globe.

Certain medical officers of the Turkish Contingent have sent in a me- taorial to Lord Panmure, praying that they may have field allowances similar to those enjoyed by other officers of the force, in accordance with what they allege to be the terms of their agreement. Their case seems to be a hard one—on twenty-five shillings a day they have to maintain their position as gentlemen and their efficiency as officers.

The public will, no doubt, have remarked that the Empress Eugenie has taken but little part in the public festivities celebrated last week in Paris. For this care of her Majesty's health there is every reason to be- lieve that there is a most satisfactory cause ; and, indeed, it is known that Queen Victoria was most anxious and pressing in her kind advices to the Empress, to observe every precaution on which so important a future may depend. We expect confidently that, at no distant date, the official Moniteur, according to the etiquette of France, will announce to the na- tion the pregnancy of the Empress.----Morning Post, August 28.

Some discussion has arisen respecting the case of Acting Assistant- surgeon Bakewell, the medical officer cashiered for writing a calumnious letter to the Times. Mr. Bakewell complains, that while he was on sick leave at Scutari, he was summoned to attend the Court of Inquiry sitting in the Crimea to investigaterhis allegations. He represented to Dr. Cum- ming that he was ill, but that he would be ready to start for the Crimea by a given day. In the mean time, the Court had investigated the case, and given sentence. Mr Bakewell, considering that he had not had a fair trial, appealed to the authorities; and subsequently his father wrote to Lord Panniure. The answer was, that the inquiry was instituted solely to ascertain the truth of the charges. They were conclusively dis- proved ; and "Acting Assistant-Surgeon Bakewell having admitted him- mil to be the author of them, he has been visited by General Simpson with the public dismissal due to a calumniator ; in which step the Com- Mender al the Forces has Lord Paumure's entire support." Whereat the Tann, in whose columns the anonymous letter originally appeared, is very irate.

Another incident has attracted some attention. Two labourers, George and Thomas Collin, went to the recent yeomanry review in Razing Park. They had left their work, and their employer caused them to be taken before the Reverend George Hemming, of Little Parndon ; and he, as a Justice of the Peace, sentenced them to fourteen days' hard labour. Ma- jor Palmer, of Nosing Park, took up the matter, and applied to the Go- vernment for the remission of the sentence. But the Government, after inquiry, sustained the decision of Mr. Hemming. The defence of the latter against the charge that he had passed a harsh sentence was, that he had appealed to the prisoners to say they were sorry, and that his ap- peal was ineffectual ! Major Palmer has collected some money for the young men.

Major-General Torrens, the British Military Commissioner at Paris, died there yesterday week. It is said that his death was accelerated by the loss of a beloved 'sister, exertions too great for his strength, end the wound he received at Inkerman. He was buried on Monday in Pere la Chaise. Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens was the second son of Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, and godson of the Duke of Wellington. He was born in 1809. In 1819 he was appointed Page of Honour to the Prince Regent. He received his military educa- tion at Sandhurst, and in 1825 obtained a commission in the Grenadier Guards. From 1829 to 1838 he served as Adjutant ; in the latter year he was promoted to Brigade-Major, and served with the second battalion of Guards in- Canada. Subsequently he served in St. Lucia ; and in 1854 he went to the East in command of a brigade of the Fourth Division. He was present at Balaklava, and received a severe wound at Inkerman.

Major-General Sir Robert Nickle, Commander of the Forces in Victoria, died in that colony in May last. It appears that during the Ballarat insur- rection he had exposed himself incautiously to the sun ; riding among the diggers without an escort, exhorting them to peaoe, and combining concilia- tory with vigorous measures. He never recovered from the effects of those exertions. General Nickle was under seventy when he died, but was not twenty-one when he first led a forlorn hope. His military career was ardu- ous, extending over many parts of the world, and was distinguis bed by re- peated proofs both of calm judgment and impetuous bravery.

Captain William.Hay, junior Commissioner of Police, tdied_on Tuesday. Re was a Peninsular veteran.

Archbishop Holmstrom, Primate of the Swedish Lutheran Church, died on the 27th August, at Upsala.

The remains of the Duke of Manchester were interred at Kimbolton on Tuesday, in a very unostentatious manner, agreeably to the deceased's ex- „veined desire, it is said.

Captain William Peel, of the Diamond, has arrived in London, forced to leave the East by ill health.

The French Orleans- Family, who had been staying at Beaumaria,.have returned to Claremont and Twickenham.

TackThe, King of Wurtemberg is travelling in Switeerland, as "Count de .” .

The wife of Don Miguel haegiven birth to a daughter,' at the Palace of Heubaeh, in Germany. Lord Panmure has just directed. Mr. Rawlinson, the civil engineer of the Crimean Sanitary Commission, to select such men and materials as shall, in his judgment, render the British hospitals in the East as complete as sanitary knowledge and engineering skill can devise. The first effort to be made 10 for the cure of the abominations which abound in the Turkish quarters of our establishments. For this purpose, Messrs. Dalton, of Lambeth, are making 200 soil-pans, with 30,000 feet of drain-pipes and junctions. The men to set these, and aid in introducing the needful hygienic alterations throughout the sphere of our operations on the Bosphorus, will consist of about thirty-four, divided into masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and assist- ante; and will be attached by Mr. Rawlinson to Sir Joseph Paxton's Army Works Corps, or selected from that body, and intrusted with the special care of the hospitals, &c. in these respects.

The Government has agreed to grant a pension to the mother of Dr. 7=00 Thomson, of the Forty-fourth, who distinguished himself so signally in wait- ing upon the Russian wounded after the battle of the Alma.

Experiments have been made on Pembrey Sands, Carmarthenshire, of the explosive power of a new kind of gunpowder invented by Mr. Alexander Parkes. Shells were burst by means of charges of common powder and Ms. Parkes's explosive : the result was greatly in favour of the latter.

More than three hundred recruits for the Foreign Legion have arrived in this countryfromyalifax, Nova Scotia.

The Government has issued a circular to the Colonels of Militia regiments in billets desiring them to allow a number of each regiment, not exceeding two-thirds of the whole of the men embodied, to return home till the end of September, for the purpose of assisting at the harvest.

From all parts of the United Kingdom the accounts of the progress of the harvest, the state of the crops, and the weather, are on the whole very fa- vourable. It is true that there have been showers and partial storms, but little'clamage has resulted. The potato disease has appeared in some places. The recent rise in the price of grain is the customary movement during har- vest-time, increased by a foreign demand for wheat.

From a Parliamentary return it appears that 239 joint-stock comma:dee were provisionally and 133 completely registered in the year 1854. Of those provisionally registered, 51 were assurance offices, 38 railway companies, 4 companies for subsidiary purposes connected with railways, 30 gas companies, 12 home and foreign mining and quarrying companies, 28 for working patent inventions' &c., 5 shipping and steam navigation companies, 1 land convey- ance, 4 trading, 1 company for the use and occupation of land, and 16 for establishing buildings of a public character.

There is a rise in the price of sugar in the wholesale markets : the advance on Monday was 18. per hundredweight. This is caused by the low stock at present in the country, the large consumption, and short crops in Louisiana, Cuba, and Brazil. The prices of coffee and tea also have an upward ten- dency. The price of saltpetre is rapidly rising, owing to the consumption for gun- powder and short supplies. The quotation waa 41s. per hundredweight 011 Thursday : it is Ns. in St. Petersburg,—a great temptation for unpatriotic merchants to export to the Continent ; even in Hamburg and Holland 4. an be obtained.

A report got abroad that M. Alexandre Dumas had a legacy left hint (51' 300,000 francs. He wrote to the journals sorrowfully to contradict the story ; and he says that it had led to applications from creditors for 163,000 francs. Probably some friend, he remarks, invented the tale, to hint to any aged person with money how it could be well disposed of.

We hear at length of the termination of the Perry testimonial business. Young Mr. Perry is about to emigrate to Australia, and the balance of the subscription for him-20101.—has been transmitted thither through a bank. Mr. Perry's father came from India to arrange his son's affairs ; he failed to obtain a commission for him in the Turkish Contingent, and it was settled that he should try his fortune in the Southern Colonies.

Every week paragraphs "go the round" of the old-established newspa- pers announcing, without any affectation of sorrow, the early decease of great numbers of halfpenny, penny, and three-halfpenny journals, that sprang into a rickety existence when the new act on newspapers came into force: as yet, experience teaches that penny newspapers, as a rule, cannot exist in England.

Italian opera, French vaudeville, and ballet, are to enliven Constanti- nople this winter.

The recent Royal visit to Paris, and the hundreds of thousands of persons drawn to that city by the event, are said to have given a great impetus to French trade : the tradesmen have sold off their stocks, and in consequence large orders have been sent to the manufacturing towns.

At the last advices the Mint of Sydney was very busy coining Australian sovereigns.

The Sentinelle du Jura announces that the oidium, which last year com- mitted such great ravages in the vineyards of the department of the Jura, has scarcely been noticed this year ; owing, it would seem, to the great heat of the summer. All the vineyards in that part of France are represented as being in a most promising state.

• 'A letter from Florence says—" The cholera is raging badly here. There are 200 cases a day, which is a good deal ; and of course most of them die, They have, however, turned up a wretched Madonna, who has not been un- covered since the plague • and it has done, as a matter of course, immense harm. But the priests have it all their own way."

Mn. FRA10:1118 O'CONNOR. —" This gentleman, so well known to the public for many years, in connexion with his singular and deplorable delu- sions about land schemes and the rights of labour, died on Thursday last. In 1853, Mr. O'Connor was declared, by a commission de lunatic° inquirendi, to be of unsound mind ; and by the kind interference of a few friends he was placed with Dr. Tulre, of Manor House, Chiswick. It appears, however, that Miss O'Connor, the sister of the deceased, took some objection at his remain- ing in Dr. Tuke's establishment, and, about a week ago, accompanied by some friends, she proceeded to the asylum and effected his removal. Mr. Feargus O'Connor was born in 1796, at Dargau Castle, county Meath ; and was the second son of Roger O'Connor, Esq., of O'Connorville, Bantry, and who became, subsequently, the last tenant of Dargan, the celebrated seat of the Wellesley family. The deceased was a member of the Irish bar, and is well known as the editor and proprietor of a now defunct newspaper called The Northern Star. He sat for Cork county from 1832 to 1835, and, after.* general election, was unseated, on petition. In 1835 he unsuccessfully con- tested Oldham. He has suffered at least a dozen Government prosecutions for seditious speaking, and will be remembered in connexion with the Chart- ist disturbances of 1848. He was returned for Nottingham in 1847."L— Horning Post.

• ORY0TkI, PALACOL—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday August 31st, including aeason-ticket-hoiders, 72,458.