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'The appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, C.B., to be Governor of St. Helena, was gazetted on Tuesday.

Mr. More O'Ferrall, having resigned the government of Malta, em- barked homewards on the 13th instant, and arrived at Marseilles on. the 16th.

Sir Andries Stockenstriim, Mr. Fairbairn's colleague representing the colony of the Cape of Good Hope as claimants of justice from the Im- perial Government, arrived at Plymouth on the 16th, and immediately came to London.

About six hundred rank and file of the Second (or Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot, now at Cork, are preparing to embark by the Megrem war-steamer for the Cape of Good Hope : drafts from the depot companies of the regiments already at tho Cape will also embark, 4 ±0 complete the service companies of each regiment to the augmented establishment of 600 rank and file."

It appears that the partisans of the Government and of the Custom- house have been unable to prevent Mr. Mitchell's Committee from en- tering systematically into the whole of the questions which have been raised by the recent persecution of the Dock Companies. The Chancel- lor of the Exchequer and the Commissioners of Customs wished to have no inquiry into the transactions out of which arose the proceedings now pending in the Court of Exchequer : but the party opposed to a thorough investigation have been defeated, and there is now every probability that Mr. Mitchell will be enabled to render the inquiry he has undertaken of the greatest possible service in its results to the commercial community both of the metropolis and the outports.—Morning Chronicle.

Among the events of the week is the liberation of Captain Somerset from the House of Correction, to which he had been committed for flog- ging a Policeman in the discharge of his duty. A controversy has been raised on the merits of Captain Somerset's sentence ; one party extolling it as a heroic exercise o' magisterial impartiality and heroism, another deprecating it as unduly severe upon one in the Captain's social position. In fact, however, the Captain's seclusion appears, under the contagious influence of the great Crystal Palace carnival, to have assumed a good deal of the character of a new fashionable amusement. To visit their friend in his strange lodging-place, and condole with or joke him upon his appearance in the convict garb, became the order of the day. The House of Correction was transformed for the nonce into a place of resort for the gay and idle : four or five carriages might be seen waiting at its doors at one time. The soene reminds one of the days of George the Second, when the world of fashion used to flock to Newgate to see some interesting highwayman. Horace Walpole has recorded, that when the footman of a noble lord was sent to Newgate for murdering the butler, George Selwyn exclaimed, apprehensively, " Good God! what an idea he

will give the felons of us!" The present inmates of the House of Cora rection will have had an opportunity of judging of the class to which Walpole and Selwyn belonged, by personal inspection. If credit may be given to the on dita of the day, the authorities of the House of Correction have evinced a praiseworthy disposition to promote the education of their interesting inmate. It is affirmed that they intercepted some French novels that his friends attempted to convey to him, but offered to trans- mit any works of useful knowledge, such as Macaulay's History.—From is Correspondent.

The Great Exhibition will perhaps do more then the French Revolution o f 1848 in abolishing French passports. The Boulogne Gazette contains the following communication from the Minister of the Interior to the Sous- Prefet, partially abolishing the nuisance of the permit system. To the Sous-Prefet of Boulogne-sir-!tier. " Monsieur le Sous-Prefet—You have already been invited to take every measure in order that travellers on their way to England may not be sub- jected to delay at their embarking. I have recommended that travellers arriving at Boulogne might be allowed to depart for England on the simple exhibition of their passports. I now confirm and renew these instructions it is therefore to bo well understood that travellers furnished with regular passports are not compelled to provide themselves with a special permit of embarkation. This formality, which should not have been maintained so long, is henceforth abolished. It is likewise expedient for the future to exempt travellers on their way to England from having their pas-ports re- vised and registered. A simple examination of these rights of travelling is all that is henceforth required, without obliging the bearers of the same to give them up. These formalities occasion great loss of time, and may be abolished. I beg of you to see that the agents and servants of the ad- ministration charged with the service of embarkation conform strictly to these instructions.

" Receive, Monsieur le Sous-Prat, the assurance of my sincere consider-

ation. LEON FAUCHEIL"

The following is the most recent form of the Papal Aggression BilL The insect measure seems to be abnormal in the order of its metamor- phoses : instead of beginning as a legislative ovum, and passing through higher developments till it arrived at the powers of flight and aggression enjoyed by the perfect creature, it was started in life upon the wings of a speech that swept over Europe ; it then fell into the chrysalis state, with- out members and almost without life ; and now, receiving little legs and mandibles through Mr. Walpole's attention, it ascends to be a creeping and gnawing grub.

" A bill (as amenthx1 by the Committee) to prevent the assumption of certain ecclesiastical titica in respect of places in the United Kingdom. (The clauses marked A and B were added by the Committee.) "Whereas divers of her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects have assumed to themselves the titles of archbishop and bishops of a pretended province, and of pretended sees or dioceses, within the United Kingdom, under colour

of an alleged authority given to them for that purpose by a certain brief, rescript, or letters apostolical from the See of Rome, purportino.' to have been

given at Rome on the 29th September 1850; and whereas, by the act of the tenth year of King George 1V, cap. 7, after reciting that the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, and likewise the Protestant Presbyterian Church of

Scotland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, were br the respective acts of union of England and Scotland, and of Great Britain and

Ireland, established permanently and inviolably, and that the right and

title of archbishops to their respective provinces, of bishops to their sees, and of deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in Ireland, had been

settled and established by law, it was enacted that if any person after the commencement of that act, other than the person thereunto authorized by law, should assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop of any pro- vince., bishop of any bishopric, or dean of any deanery, in England or Ire- land, he should for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hun- dred pounds : And whereas it may be doubted whether the recited enact- -mut extends to the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a preterit:W. province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory, or dan_of any pretended deanery in England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or iiiacese of any archbishop or bishop, or deanery of any

dean recognized law • 'not the attempt to establish, under colour of au-

thority from the See of kome, of otherwise, such pretended sees, provinces, or dioceses or deaneries, is illegal and void : And whereas it is expedient to

prohibit the assumption of such titles 7...n respect of any places within the United Kingdom : Be it therefore declared-and enacted by the Queen's Moat Excellent Majesty, by aud with the advice and .Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that- " Clause A. I. The said brief, rescript, or letters aposid1:04 and all and every the jurisdiction, authority, preeminence, or title conferreiriliNfire„e tended to be conferred thereby, are and shall be and be deemed unlaWiP1 and void.

" II. And be it enacted, that if, after the passing of this act, anyper- son other than a person thereunto authorized by law in respect of an

archbishopric, bishopric, or deanery of the United Church of England and Ireland, assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean, of any city, town, or place, or of any territory or district (under any de- signation or description whatsoever) in the United Kingdom, whether such city, town, or place, or such territory or district, be or be not the see or the province, or coextensive with the province of any archbishop, or the see or the diocese, or coextensive with the diocese, of any bishop, or the seat or place of the church of any dean, or coextensive with any deanery, of the said United Church, the person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds; to be recovered as penalties imposed by the recited act may be recovered as under the provisions thereof. "Clause B. III. This act shall not extend or apply to the assumption or use by any bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style, or title in respect of such district or place. But nothing herein con- tained shall be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title, which he is not now by law entitled to assume or use."

Prince Albert has contributed the sum of 251. in aid of tho subscription intended as a provision for the declining years of Mrs. Ward, the daughter of Lord Nelson.

The Sleds has the following paragraph in reference to Abd-el-Kader. "A short time since, a detachment of the Seventh Chasseurs were sent to the garrison of Atuboise, for the purpose of escorting Abd-el-Bader in the pro- menade which the Emir has been authorized to make in the country sur- rounding his place of confinement On Tuesday, for the first time since

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his arrival at Amboise, (says the Progres d'Indre-et-Loirej the Emir left the chateau. His Highness rode in a small carriage, drawn by two white

horses, and was escorted by sixteen chasseurs in full uniform. The party left about three o'clock, drove as far as Chennonceaux, and returned to the chitteau at seven o'clock." A blind student gained one of the principal prizes for Greek at a recent examination in the University of Edinburgh. He was a native of Dunkeld, and had used in his studies extracts from the books he was examined in, printed in raised characters, which he traced with his fingers.