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It was stated early in the week, that an adjourned meeting of Con- servative Members, two hundred in number' had been held at the house of Lord Derby, to consult on the present state of political affairs. The Horning Herald announced the fact, and spoke of Lord Derby's sug- gestions as having given "great satisfaction," but abstained from pub- lishing, "lest a knowledge of the course to be pursued might prove ad- vantageous to our political opponents." The London correspondent of a Tory Dublin paper, the _Evening Mail, has not been withheld by the same discretion, but has given a full account of the meeting.

"Being the first meeting held since the change of Ministry, (the death of two near relatives having prevented Lord Derby from communicating with. his friends until now,) and the circumstances being at present so critical, the meeting acquired a peculiarly interesting character. Lord Derby, as I am informed, was loudly and most enthusiastically greeted ; his address to his party occupied nearly an hour and a half; and he advertedto the general course taken and to be taken, by the Conservatives, with the greatest ear- nestness andeloquence.

"He expressed his gratitude to his party for having supported him so.. zealously in government, and having adhered to his counsels in offering no vexatious or factious opposition to the present Government since he had last addressed them. Mt adverted to the instances in which the present Govern- vent had been given a majority solely through the votes of the Opposition, ni in the case of the withdrawal of the third clause in the Canada Reserves Bill. The present Government had enjoyed peculiar advantages in the Christmas and Easter recess for preparing their measures ; and the country had rightly expected much from a Ministry so preeminent in talent and ex- perience. But what had they done ?—They had reproduced the Jew Bill, and reproduced the Assurance of Deeds Bill, two measures which had been repeatedly proposed, and always defeated. "He adverted to the disappointment which the country had experienced, and the grefehig: l'Inerularity of the Ministers, and characterized them as a Government without' a party, because without a principle to maintain it. He then referred to the present position of affairs, and a rumour of a dissolu- tion of Parliament being in contemplation : but upon what could they dis- solve 1—Not upon a Reform Bill, for they had proposed no measure of Refersa. The opinion of the present House of Commons had ndt teen taken upon it; and Committees and Commissions Were HOW engaged most sedulously in in- quiries respecting borough corruption, which a dissolution would cut short. 7.he only other question ;Ton whItti they could dissolve was the Income and Property Tex, !t1,6 Suould like to see the present Chancellor of the Bi- ch'''. .jaer going to the country upon the cry of 'The Income-tax, the whole Income-tax, and nothing but the Income-tax.' On Monday the Budget was benroduced. If the Income-tax was to be reenacted in its present unjust shape; he called alive; Lis party to raid it, be the consequences what they might to the Government. This expression of opinion was received with the loudest cheers : and it is obvious, therefore, that on Monday the fate of the Ministry will be decided ; and the result must be—in the event of the Chancellor of the Exchequer standing by his opinions regarding the Income- tax—either an immediate dissolution, or an immediate change of Adminis- tration, and reinstatement of Lord Derby's Government, with such modifi- cations as he may think desirable."

Preparations have commenced for forming a camp on Chobham Com- mon, between Bagshot and Ascot Heath. The regiments who are to oc- cupy it are expected to march upon the ground at the end of May or be- ginning of June. On Monday morning the first small party of working soldiers left Windsor for Sunningdale.

The Count de Revel, Sardinian Minister at Vienna, arrived at Turin, "on leave of absence," on the 13th instant.

Count Appony, the Austrian Minister at Turin, had not quitted that city when Count de Revel arrived. The Sardinian Government has issued a memorandum to the European Courts on the confiscations in Lombardy, and detailing the relations be- tween Austria and Piedmont from 1848 to the present time.

. Count Rechberg has been appointed Imperial Commissioner in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, as a kind of civil assistant to Marshal Ra- detzky. Up to the 12th instant, Admiral Dundee and the British fleet remained in harbour at Malta, but ready for sea.

Seven hundred bushels or about 1,000,000 of dead letters have been destroyed at Washington in accordance with the usage of the United States Post-office. They were carted to Monument Square, and'spread over a line of 200 or 300 feet, when the match was applied.

On the 2d instant there was a rain. storm before day-dawn in Cincinnati, and when daylight came the pavements throughout the entire city were- found to be strewn with a yellow substance resembling sublimate of sul- phur. Several scientific gentlemen examined it, and pronounced it to be the pollen of flowers, which, they suppose, must have been gathered.up in large quantities in the far South, and betel° Northward by the wind. /deny earth-worms were also found on the pavements.

Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Dladises Diseases of the Brain. SPIPaUdarrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lung*, and °Me other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

Diseases of the Kidneys, etc

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Mc Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Az

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Mane, as

Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy

Age

Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intel:venue*

Total (including unspecified causes)

Ten 0( Weeks 1843.52, 1,926 ....

514 ....

1.96i ....

1,150 ....

1,609 535 118 111 91 13 24 236 162 511 81 242 • -•—•

9,719

Week 0( 1855, 219 57 230 135

1 251 69

0

4 10 1

4

37

28

51 3 46 —

1,243

Seventeen ships, of the aggregate tonnage of 7353, left the Thames last week for the Australian .Colonies.

The Government bill to consolidate the London and Edinburgh Gazettes is printed. After the passing of the bill, "The London and Edinburgh Gazette" will be published in London, with a permanent agency in Edin- burgh.

The Court of Inland Revenue was engaged for several hours on Wednes- day, in hearing charges against grocers, for violating the recent Treasury order forbidding the sale of coffee and chicory mixed together unless under a label informing the purchaser of the fact of mixture. The Court inflicted small penalties in about twenty cases, but intimated that after the notice the law would be put in full force against offenders. The full penalty is 100/.

The Manchester Detective Police have taken advantage of the daguerreo- type process to issue a portrait ',hue and cry" : an offender's portrait is taken by the daguerreotype, this is copied in lithography, a verbal descrip- tion is added, and the pictorial Hue and Cry is circulated among constables.

The Queen has presented the executors of the late Mr. Neeld, who left his large property to the Crown, with 10001. each : Mr. Neeld had left them only 100/. The Queen has also granted an annuity of 1001. to Mrs. Neale, who saved Mr. Neeld's life on his making a rash attempt on it during a stay at North Marston where he now lies buried. Mrs. Neale is a daughter of the late Reverend Mr. Pinned; who was incumbent of the village.

Taking the cube yard of gold at 2,000,0001., which it is in round numbers., all the gold in the world at thia estimate might, if melted into ingots, be contained in a cellar twenty-four feet square and sixteen feet high. All our boasted wealth already obtained from California and Australia would go into- an iron safe nine feet square and nine feet high. So small is the cube of yellow metal that has set populations on the march and roused the world to wonder.—New Quarterly Bwiew.

It was stated in the _Plymouth Herald seine months since' that Admiral Tremlett possessed a powder, given to him by a gentleman onthe Continent, which was a certain cure for hydrophobia. The same journal now mentions that the notice has led to a good many applications to the Admiral for the powder for the use of persons who had been bitten by rabid animals ; and a number of names are published of individuals who were (need by the medi-

e. The preparation of it is a secret, and the discoverer has not yet resolved whether he will divulge it ; if not, he will send a fresh supply to England. the week ending on Saturday last. Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for