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In a late publication of the Gazette of Friday last, appeared a notifica- tion of the Royal command of a Court mourning for the late King Ernest of Hanover : the mourning to begin on last Sunday, the 23d instant; to change on Sunday the 7th December ; and to end on Sunday the 14th December.

Earl Marshal the Duke of Norfolk also issued from the College of Arms, on Saturday, his notification that "it is expected " that "all persons" do put themselves into mourning for ten days, to commence on Sunday the 23d instant.

Sir George Grey is expected to return to town on the 1st of December, to attend the Cabinet Council on the 2d. Sir George's health is said to be much improved.

As we expected, a supplemental charter has been granted to the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, authorizing them to dispose of the surplus in their hands.

Captain Booth has been appointed Lieutenant. Governor of Montserrat

We have been authorized to state that all proceedings in the matter of the Attorney-General versus the London Dock and the St. Katherine Dock Companies have been compromised ; the defendants paying 1001. by way of penalty, in acknowledgment of the cause of action. The goods seized are also to be returned to the defendants, after they have been charged with the usual amount of duty.—Morning Post.

The Literary Gazette has published the main provisions of a convention for mutual copyright between England and France, which has just been negotiated between the two Governments. The convention is in four- teen articles.

The first article stipulates, that "the authors of works of literature or art, to whom the laws of either country now insure, or shall in future in- sure, the right of property or authorship, shall be authorized to exercise the said right on the territory of the other country, during the same time and within the same limits as would be allowed in the latter country to the right attributed to authors of works of the same nature if published there; so that the reproduction or piracy by persons of one country of any work of lite- rature or art published in the other shall be treated as if it were the repro- duction or piracy of works of the same nature originally published in the former country."

[In other words, Englishmen will enjoy French copyright in France, and vice versa.] The second article protects translations, but not against other transla- tions of the same originals.

The third article lays down the following terms, under which—subject to the provisions in the following article relative to dramatists—an au- thor may secure his work, during a period of five years, against unau- thorized translations.

1. Within three months after the publication of the original in one coun- try, he must register and deposit it in the other. 2. He must declare, on the titlepage of his work, his intention of reserving the right of translation. 3. At least a part of the authorized translation must appear within a year, and the whole within three years, of the date of registering and depositing the original. 4. When the authorized translation has been published in one country, it must be registered and deposited in the other.

The fourth article protects dramatists and musical composers against the unauthorized performance of their works. To the former, when de- sirous of issuing authorized translations of their plays, it allows only three months' protection, to be reckoned from the registration and deposit of the originals ; nor does it in any case protect them against adaptations. The distinction between "adaptation" and "piracy" is to be left to the tribunals of the state in which the cause of action arises.

The last article provides that the Queen of England shall present to Parliament a bill to ratify such clauses as require legislative sanction; that the Governments shall fix a day for the convention to come into force, and shall publish that day ; and the convention shall be applicable only to works published after that date ; and that the convention shall last for ten years.

It is said to be now understood that those officers holding staff appoint- ments who, by their recent brevet promotion, will have to vacate these ap- pointments, are to continue to hold the same until the end of the financial year-31st March next, Colonel Rawlinson, her Majesty's Consul at Bagdad, is promoted to the rank of Consul-General.

The Hampshire Advertiser of Saturday states that Mr. Andrews, the Mayor of Southampton, has just been offered the honour of knighthood. The Council of King's College, London, have appointed Mr. James Ste- phen, the son of Sergeant Stephen,' the learned author of the " Commen- taries," to the Professorship of English Law and Jurisprudence, vacant by the resignation of Mr. E. Bullock.

It is proposed to raise a general subscription for presenting Mr. Justice patteson, on his approaching resignation, with a testimonial of public re- spect

The Duke of Northumberland has given orders for the construction of no fewer than a thousand new and comfortable dwellings for the labourers on his estates in Northumberland.

Sir Coutts Lindsay and Mr. Galton have been thrown out of their carriage on the Civita Vecchia road, at Palo, through the habit of the postillions of going at full gallop round a sharp turn in the road. Mr. Galton was deeply wounded in the scalp, and Sir Coutts Lindsay's wrist was sprained; but, under the care of Dr. Pantaleone of Rome, both were doing well on the 15th instant.

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

Ten Weeks Week of 1611-50. of BM.

zymotic Diseases 2,236 240 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 537 .... 37 Tubercular Diseases 1,569 191

pores of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,152 .... 123

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 328 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1,887 255 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 579 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Sc 110 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Se 77

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, Jr.c 11

Halliamations 32 Premature Birth 210 Atrophy 155 Age 550 Sudden 98 Violence, Privation, Cold, andIntemperanee 243 Total (including unspecified causes) 9,9241,132

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A further and important increase in the mortality is an indication that the public health has suffered to a considerable extent from the coldness of the weather. The deaths registered in London, which in the last week of October were 861, and in the first two weeks of November increased to 989 and 1022, rose in the week which ended last Saturday to 1132. The present re- turn is heavy as compared with corresponding weeks of the ten years 1841-50, the average of which did not exceed 992. If the average be cor- rected for increase of population, it becomes 1091; on which last week's mortality shows an excess of 41. During three weeks of October the weekly mean temperature at Greenwich exceeded 52' ; in the last week of that month it fell to 46'; in the first two weeks of November to 40' • and last week it exhibited a further decline to 35'.—Registrar-General's Report.

Notice was issued on Saturday at St. Paul's Cathedral, that the public will be admitted on Sundays only during the morning and afternoon ser- vices, and on other days from eight a. /n. till four p. fn., (gratis,) the same as Westminster Abbey.

Lately the genteel Londoners were rejoiced at reading an advertisement that Mr. Thompson, of Southampton Row, an enterprising cab-owner,. was about to start the whole of his well-known vehicles at the reduced price of sixpence per mile. But at the beginning of this week there were doleful paragraphs stating that the body of cab-owners and the fraternity of cab- drivers had combined to put down the attempt, and had succeeded in their combination. On Wednesday the Times launched an article at the owners and their comrogues the drivers; arguing that the cost of conducting this trade has diminished at least as much as the cost of the omnibus trade, and that therefore the fares of the cabs should cheapen proportionately with the fares of omnibuses ; and offering Mr. Thompson all the aid of its thunders to make an eightpenny "cabby" as unpopular in London as a Roman Catholic bishop of an English diocese. But Mr. Thompson had already thrown down the gauntlet. On Tuesday his cabs "commenced running at 6d." ; on Wed- nesday they advertised themselves on the ranks by showing_placards in- scribed " Two persons carried for sixpence a mile" ' and on Thursday Mr. Thompson responded to the Times, by a brief note formally announcing the debut of his cheap vehicles, and "trusting that the same will be satisfactory to the public."

The "high price of beer" has been amusingly but vigorously assaulted by the Morning Chronicle. Correspondents on both sides have given estimates of cost, which make out, on the one side that the brewer gets no less than 158. 9d. profit per barrel, and on the other side that he loses 3s. 6d. per bar- rel. Each statement carries conviction one way ; and accordingly a league has been formed at Bermondsey, by working men, to reduce the present price.

The Thames Police Magistrate put one of the provisions of the Mercantile Marine Act in force, for the first time, last Saturday. William Seaborne shipped at New York in the Ellen Simpson under a false name, with the object, apparently, of avoiding the discovery that he had deserted from another ship. The new law affixes a penalty of Si. for the offence, to be paid to the Board of -Trade from the wages due to the seaman. Mr. Ingham in- flicted the fine.

William Blunt, a youth of eighteen, has killed his elder brother, Joshua, at Liverpool. William is a shoemaker, and supports his mother; but Joshua whenever he came to their lodgings attempted to assume authority over William. The other day the brothers quarrelled, and the elder struck the younger ; the latter caught up his working knife, and plunged it into the breast of the aggressor ; who died before a surgeon could arrive.

The premises of Messrs. Lawson and Sons, the extensive seedsmen of Edinburgh, whose specimens of seeds at the Great Exhibition were of con- spicuous excellence, have been greatly damaged by fire. Part of the exten- sive building was occupied by the Highland and Agricultural Society, and some of their property was destroyed.

The schooner Emma, from Newfoundland, has been wrecked on the Burbo bank, near Liverpool. The boats were destroyed in the heavy sea, the ship heeled over, and the crew were obliged to take to the rigging ; one by one they were washed off, and at length only the mate remained : he was res- cued by a steam-tug. Eleven people belonging to the ship, and a Liverpool pilot, perished.

The Daniel Webster, Boston packet-ship, has brought to Liverpool 175 persons rescued from the Unicorn emigrant-ship, which was discovered in a sinkine-'s state on the 9th instant : the brig Harriet, from Bordeaux to New York, took the rest of the passengers and the crew. The Unicorn was on her way from Liverpool to St. John, New Brunswick. There were three hundred poor Irish emigrants on board. Complaints are made of the savage

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manner in which the crew of the Unicorn threw the helpless passengers from the wreck into the boats—in several cases breaking limbs ; one died on board the Daniel Webster from the hurts he thus received. The conduct of the crew and passengers of the American ship was a pleasing contrast to this : every effort was made to find clothes, bedding, and food for the swarm of destitute emigrants ; all on board were obliged to be put on short allow- ance of water from the unexpected influx of consumers. Some of the res- cued people have given Mr. Howard, the American skipper, all that was in their power—an address of warm gratitude.