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Earl Grey and the other Cabinet Ministers are expected in town about the middle of next week, to attend a Cabinet Council W-hich is summoned by direction of Lord Palmerston. The Secretary of State for the Foreign Department has been engaged in his official duties till between three and four o'clock every morning this week.-Standard.

Lord Durham has/reached Berlin on his return homeward.

The Dutchess of Gloucester is sojourning at Bagshot, and continues to improve in health.

Joseph Bonaparte visited the Bank of England on Tuesday, and was conducted through the different departments of that establishment by some of the principal clerks.

The Duke of York's creditors are about to bringl, their case before Parliament. Do they wish the Nation to pay them?

The Marquis of Clanricarde performed a great equestrian feat a fetv days ago. He rode from Boulogne to Paris in eighteen hours, resting two hours in the course of the journey, purposely to participate in a grand dinner given by Lord Granville, the Ifritish Ambassador. Rothschild's estafette, with all the appointed change of horses, is never less than sixteen hours in going over the same ground.-Herald.

The Bishop of London, in a late discourse delivered at St. James's Church, alluding to the subject of duelling, described the seconds as engaged "in defining the punctilios of mutual murder."

It is reported that a duel has taken place between Mr. Osbaldiston

and Mr. Gully, in consequence of a dispute arising on some subject connected with the Doncaster Races. Neither of the parties was hurt, though it is said Mr: Oully:a hat was pierced by his adversary's ball.—Macclesfield Courier.

Laporte, the Globe says, is about to fit up the dress circle in Covent Garden with stalls. We see no reason why he should not, if he can find calves to occupy them. The Globe says, John Bull will resist. What cares John Bull if Laporte were to set fire to Covent Garden, provided he did not burn his neighbours ?

We regret to state that a rather serious accident has happened to Count Matuszewie, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary to our Court. The Count, while on a sportiv excursion in the country, was acciden- tally shot in the thigh. It is believed that this lamentable accident will not lead to any very grave consequences. The wound is doing well; 1 but it occasions the absence of the Count from the Conference.— Cthirier.

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An American musket is well fabricated, and costs twelve dollars. A. new rifle has been introduced this year, called " Hall's Patent." It loads at the breech, which is elevated for this purpose by touching a spring ; when a flask with a double head, one containing powder, the other a magazine of balls, loads it expeditiously. It might be worth while to experiment with this rifle, as it saves the tedious operation of loading with the ramrod ; mid with a percussion-lock, and a light rest In heu of a ramrod, would, it is s:iggested, be an improved weapon for the British rifle corps.—United Service Journal GROUSE. —Grouse appear to have been little known, or at least they are little noticed, in former times ; nor are they ever mentioned as

forming part of the great entertainments then given by Princes and Nobles, where almost every bird known in the island, from a swan to a lark, was served up for the wonder, if not the epicurean delight, of the guests. Indeed, previous to the introduction of fire-arms, and for long afterwards, while they continued in a comparatively rude state, it would be scarcely possible for the sportsman who went a shooting

with his bow and birdbolts to kill grouse ; and as to netting them, sup- posing that mode practicable, there was certainly little inducement to follow it, looking at the haunt of the birds. Long after hand-guns were employed to thin the human species, the sportsman still con- tinued, in his pursuit of the denizens of the air, to use the bow—an engine, however defective, much more suitable for the purpose than the former, which was something like the duck-gun of modern times, though with a bore like a six-pounder, and so heavy that it rei,airell to be fired from a rest. With such a fowling-piece much sport eould not be expected, as it was only used for a chance shot at game sitting ; for to think of employing such an article to shoot flying would be about as feasible as to recommend a boat carronade to shoot wild ducks. Long after fire-arms were rendered more portable, and the old match-lock was superseded by the flint and hammer, they were only used to kill game sitting, which the cautious sportsman stole upon behind the friendly shelter of a hedge, or approached by means of a stalking -lierse, or a sort of " Birnam-wood" contrivance, not unlike that new exclusively appropriated on the hat of 1VIayfor sheltering the gentleman NV110 enacts a Jack in the Green."—New Sporting Magazine.

Charles the Tenth arrived in the Elbe on the 21st instant. Ile baited at Rainville's Hotel, in Altona.

The Duke of Brunswick, in passing through Troyes, on Tuesday evening last, was still in his robe de chumbre, as he was taken away in the morning.—French Paper.

The health of M. de Polignae has suffered much lately from his cap- tivity. Madame de Polignac is at Ham, and is permitted to visit him from noon to half-past four every afternoon. Government has de- prived Peyronnet of his newspapers, on account of his being addressed as Count. This is wondrous pitiful. The fault, if it be one, is not the prisoner's. He does not address his own letters.

A general revision of the monetary system is about to take place in Switzerland. The variation of the standard value of' the coinage at different periods and in the different cantons is felt as a great evil.

The periodical comet, discovered on the 27th of February 1526, by M. Biela, of Joscphstadt—which performs its revolution round the sun in about six years and three-quarters, and whose return in the present year has been made the subject of elaborate calculation by mathema- ticians of the first eminence—is already visible with superior telescopes, and maybe expected shortlyto be seen in its approach to the sun, if not by the naked eye, at least with instruments of' moderate power. Its place on Monday morning before sunrise was about a donee and a half to the south-west of the star Theta, in the constellation a Auriga; and its actual course is directed nearly towards the star of the same name in the constellation of Gemini. Its motion is rapid, and it will speedily assume a more southern direction.

Poor Pellegrini, so long the charm of the Italian stage, and who since his retirement was supposed to be doing well as a master, died in the greatest distress. I saw his funeral, wind' consisted of a eorbillard of the commonest kind, the mourners following on foot ; and even the moderate expense of such an interment was defrayed by a subscription of his friends, there not having been enough money found in his house to pay it. His illness was of some duration, and appears to have en- tirely exhausted whatever little funds be had laid by from the proceeds of his lessons. The veteran Martin, who, in his sixty-fifth year, has just reappeared at the Opera Comique, succeeds him as professor at the Conservatoire.—Paris Correspondent if the Globe.

M. Von Sienen, the censor, has prevailed upon the Senate of Ham- burg to issue a decree, forbidding to every newspaper editor the leaving of blank spaces, or the calling in any way, by any typographical device, the attention of the public to passages to which the imprimatur has been denied. For the. first infraction of this arbitrary enactment, the re. fmctory editor is to pay a fine of thirty marks (about 2/. sterling).

The house of William Brandt and Sons, of Archangel, has equipped two ships at its own expense, commanded by officers of the Imperial Navy, to sail on a voyage of discovery to the great gulf of. the Icy Sea, between the government of Archangel and Tobolsk, to explore the entrance of the river.Jenissey.. Along withlhis day's Number of the Spectator, we publish the first of a series of Moriumr SUPPLEMENTS, of which we some weeks ago gave notice. It will be seen to be the result -of very great labour. Probably some inateuracies. in the more mechanical parts, will be detected—no work of the kind can be made perfect at once. From the use, in the first instance, of an incorrect list, and the accidental falling aside of a revised proof-sheet, two or three names are retained in the Table of Activity, which ought to have been struck out ; but these errors do not at alt affect our conclusions. The Supplement exhibits the House of Commons in a new and useful light. Those who are honestly desirous to render it a responsible body, as it ought to be, and to contrive means of checking its responsibility and seenring its efficiency, will find in our statements and suggestions ample mailer topist ify anti guide them in the attempt. We have endeavoured to show WHAT THE nOUSE in its aetual Working, and to lay tiOWII a plan for making it wuaT IT OUGHT TO BE, If any of or fellow-labourers in t he work of Retinal have more Kati icable seheines, e shall rejoice to give them publicii y and support : it' not, we hope we may ask the same service we are prepared to render.