The prorogation of Parliament is definitively fixed for Tuesday next;

the Lord High Chamberlain having issued his orders for the usual preparations to be made for the reception of the Queen on that day.

The Lord Chamberlain issued notice, on Wednesday, that the House of Lords will not be open to visitors during the recess.

The Queen Dowager, it is said, instead of contemplating any foreign tour next winter, will probably pass the cold season at Mount Edgcombe, near Devonport.

Lord and Lady John Russell left town on Thursday morning, for Ban- gor, en route to Dublin.

The Count and Countess Neuilly, the Prince de Joinville, the Duke and Dutchess d'Aumale, and a large party accompanying them, visited the Chinese junk on Thursday. The party were recognized by one of the servants on the quay, who raised his hat, and said aloud to the bystanders, " This is Louis Philippe, gentlemen." The crowd pressed inconveniently dose; but the Count and Countess appeared to be rather pleased than otherwise with the eagerness of the people to see them; and the Count Neuilly, taking off his hat, bowed repeatedly.

It is said that M. de Montalivet is now in Paris, charged by the Ex- /Bug Louis Philippe with a mission having for its object to obtain from the Government pecuniary assistance. The Government, it is said, is resolved to grant to the Ex-King such a portion of his revenues as to enable him to live in a becoming manner, but not sufficient to give the means of exciting civil war.—Afessenger.

The Prince Louis Napoleon has left town for a few days, for Ostend, on a visit to his uncle the Prince Jerome Bonaparte. —Ckbe.

At the public entertainment given last week at Great Yarmouth, after the reopening of St. Nicholas Church, M. Guizot, who had been staying at Lowestoffe, was present; and on his health being drunk by the chairman, spoke as follows— "1 have come but twice during my life to England. The first time I came as the ambassador of a powerful king; the second time I came as an exile from my native land. When I came the first time to your country, Europe was in a state of perfect tranquillity and prosperity; there was peace present, and confidence in the future. The second time, some months ago, when I came, my own country —Europe generally—was involved in much sadness and fears for the future: but I found England perfectly quiet, enjoying in the deepest tranquillity her liberty, her constitution, her moral, intellectual, and material prosperity; and I was re- ceived as an exile, as I had been when an ambassador, with the same kindness, the same sympathy, and, I dare say,* with the same friendship, * * * I have hitherto refused myself to every invitation—declined every invitation to feasts and to great meetings. Far from my dear country, and deeply sad, it is my in- clination as well as my duty to live in retirement; and this I am doing. But this occasion is one of a very different kind. The restoration of a church of God, the piety of an immense people, the eloquence of two worthy Bishops, these were the motives that attracted me to your town after I had refused every other invitation. • * * Only one word more. Allow me to say, keep your faith— keep your laws—be faithful to the examples, to the tradition of your ancestors; and 1 trust God will continue to pour on you and your country His best, His most abundant, His most fertile blessings."

• A Gallichtm, we suspect, not meant to convey the sarcasm that it will to English ears : M. Gnizot probably means, "I venture to say."

The Massager de Gand of Monday recounts M. Louis Blanc's adven- tures in Belgium.

"A French gentleman who was in a magazin de nouveaut6s in the Rue des Champs, at about five o'clock, saw an individual pass whom he immediately pointed out as 31. Louis Blanc, of the French National Assembly. Every one was eager to catch a glimpse of the man who took so prominent a part in the events of which France has been recently the theatre, and the news of his arrival at Gand spread like wildfire. 'Van Wanzeele, a police agent, who was crossing the street at the time, followed the stranger, and accosted him near the Pont des Chauderonniers. On being asked for his name and papers, he replied that he was Louis Blanc, the Representative of the People, and that he had no papers with him. The policeman took him to the nearest station • where he was interrogated by the Commissary of Police, Versluys. He declared that he left the sitting of the National Assembly on Saturday at six in the morning, In consequence of the vote authorizing his mise en accusation—that he proceeded to a friend's house to draw up a protest against the decision which had Just been taken, and to announce to the publics that his sole motive for quitting France was to avoid two or three months' imprisonment before trial. Having no documents to prove his identity, M. Louis Blanc was temporarily locked up in the town prison, until instructions re- specting him should be received. M. Louis protested against his arrest ; and declared that it had been his intention to leave by the last train for Ostend, there to embark f'or England." The Massager also informs us that the prisoner "sent to a circulating library for M. Alexander Dumas's romance of Monte Christ°, with the intention of sitting up all night to read it."

[AL Louis Blanc was liberated on Monday. He embarked for Dover on Tuesday evening, and came to London by an early railway train on Wed- nesday morning.] The same paper says that M. Caussidiere was also seen at the railway station at Ghent on Sunday night.

The progress of the harvest is slow, but hopeful. In the North of England' corn has remained cut, but nncarted, for the extraordinary time of twenty days, and not been ruined; the lowness of the temperature checking all tendency to sprout. Storms have done harm, but the intervals of fine weather have been seized to secure the produce of a great breadth of land throughout England and Scotland—on the whole, too, in fair condition. The yield is so varying as to defy the estimate of an average. The accounts of the potato crop are very contradictory, but on the whole they are less gloomy.

The following notice has been issued from the General Post-office-

"It having been officially notified to the Postmaster-General that the blockade of the river Elbe by the naval forces of Denmark will be strictly maintained against all vessels navigating between that river and the United Kingdom, with the sole exception of the regular packet-boats plying between London and Hamburg, all letters from the United Kingdom for or through Hamburg and places In the Elbe, unless specially directed to be forwarded by any other foreign route than that of the Elbe, must, for the present, be transmitted by these packets, and must be treated In all respects as packet letters.

"Postmasters will therefore, until further orders, transmit all letters for or through Hamburg or places In the Elbe, described as above, to London. in order that they may be forwarded by the regular packets."

The Hanoverian Government has recently declared the harbour of liar- bourg a free port, and a notice to that effect has been published in the offi- cial Gazette. Harbonrg is situated on the confluence of the Sieve and the Elbe, opposite the port of Hamburg.

Subscriptions have been commenced for the relief of the families of the shipwrecked fishermen at Peterhead. The lives lost at that port are gi- ven at 19, whilst the destruction of boat property is estimated at 3,000/. The Harbour Trustees of Peterhead have commenced the list with a dona- tion of 2001.

The French papers announce the death of Admiral Turpin, at Toulon; where he commanded the Marine.

M. de St. Aldegonde, was accidentally shot dead by his brother-in-law, the Prince de Beauveau, at the seat of the Duke de Mortemart, on the 23d August.

It would appear that a letter was received on Monday by some of the friends of Mr. J. B. Dillon, stating his safe arrival in some part of the Continent, and expressing a wish that his wife should at once join him there and that his farni tare, &c., should be peremptorily disposed of.—Cork Recorder.

The Paris National says that Mr. P. A. Byrne and Mr. James M'Cormack, two of the Irish insurgents, have arrived in Paris, after having escaped with great difficulty the pursuit of the English police.

The guillotine was erected for the first time since the Revolution of February at Rheims, on the 22d August, for the execution of a murderer. The wretched man was more dead than alive when brought on the scaffold.

A Dr. Dufonr has just died at Orthez at the very advanced age of a hundred and four. He preserved his faculties to the last.

The Basilisk, a fine steam-sloop, was launched at Woolwich Dockyard on Sa- turday. There were no elevated platforms for the accommodation of favoured parties on this occasion.

A new lead-mine, of unusual richness, has been opened on the surface of the earth near Winster in Derbyshire.

At the annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodists, at Hull, just concluded, it was stated that there had been a very large decrease of members in the Corn- wall district. The reason of this was said to be that, according to returns made last May, about twenty mines had been abandoned, throwing several thousands out of employ. Of these, it was said, upwards of 1,800 members of the Wesleyan Methodist Society had emigrated to Australia and America consisting of those who had a little property. Since the above return was made, it was stated that twelve other mines had been abandoned, and that 300 persons more had emigre. ted.—Yorkshiremen.

It was stated in the papers on Wednesday, that Sir Thomas Wilde had refused to sit at Judges' chambers during vacation, though he was the rotation Judge; and that suitors bad been denied justice since the 21st of August. On Thurs- day, it was stated that representations to Government had produced an effect on Sir Thomas's mind, and caused him to issue a notice of his commencing the usual sittings on that day. The French Government has appointed a medical commission, composed of MM. Gueneau de Mussy, Chomel, Andra!, Husson, Bouilland, Bally, Girardin, Comae, and Gauthier de Claubry, to apply themselves to the discovery of means to prevent and to mitigate the effects of Asiatic cholera.

The Cornwall Gazette recounts an interesting surgical operation performed in the Royal Infirmary, under the local use of chloroform. "A young man from the parish of Breage had been suffering for seven years from a very painful tapioca in the sole of his left foot. The pain had been gradually increasing with the size of the swelling since December last, so that he could not make a step without greatly aggravating his sufferings. An operation being determined on, folded lint, saturated with chloroform, was applied to the tumor, over which a piece of oiled silk was placed, to prevent its too rapid evaporation and a few turns of a roller were made around the foot to retain the lint in contact with the skin. After a quarter of an hour had elapsed, more chloroform was added to the lint, but the quantity used was rather less than two tea-spoonfuls; and in about half an hour from its first application it was found that the skin, which would not before bear the slightest touch without pain, might now be compressed with impunity. The operation was then proceeded with; the patient betraying no sign of suffering; and he afterwards assured the gentlemen present that the only part of the process at which he felt pain was in the deepest part of the incision, but that was so little as to be 'not worth talking about.'

A Parliamentary return of the accidents on railways in the United Kingdom, for the half-year ending 30th June last, shows that 90 persons—passengers, rail- way-servants, and others—were killed, and 99 wounded by such disasters during that peried. Thirteen of the deaths were from causes beyond the control of the sufferers, while 57 resulted from misconduct or want of caution in the victims themselves; 18 trespassers and others met their death by crossing or standing on the railway; one person was killed at a crossing by the misconduct of an engine- driver; and one committed suicide. Nearly all the passengers who were wounded suffered from circumstances they could not control. The passengers for the half- year numbered 26,330,492.

Herr Harrwitz , the celebrated chess-player, being on a visit to the different chess-clubs in the North, gave a soiree to the chess-players of Glasgow on Wed- nesday evening, at the Athenreum. Upon this occasion he played two games at the same time blindfold, against four of the strongest players of the Glasgow Chess Club, two playing at one board and two at another, and the separate parties consulting together upon the moves. The result was, that M. Harrwitz won one game, and alter a hard fight (the play extending to sixty-one moves) drew the other.—Glasgoto Citizen.

Two collisions are reported at sea. The ship St. Lawrence, bound for New York, and the schooner Cosmopolitan, on her voyage to Bonny, struck off the Mizen Head, the ship running into the other vessel with great violence. The crew of the Cosmopolitan—with the exception of one seaman, who was knocked overboard and drowned—scrambled on board the ship, and were carried to Kings- town. The steamer Prince of Wales, from Belfast to Fleetwood, came in contact with the sloop Jane, of Liverpool; and the latter was wrecked: crew saved. The steamer afterwards went ashore, near the Point of Ayre lighthouse, and lost the second mate and two seamen.

The city of Zell, on the Moselle, was ravaged by a fire on the 22d August. A South-west wind rapidly urged the flames; and the greater part of the place— some too hundred houses—was destroyed. Two thousand people are houseless, and have lost nearly all they possessed.

A child fell out of a window thirty feet high, at Bury St. Edmund's, on to a pebble pavement; and, though insensible when taken up, sustained no fracture, and is likely soon to recover from the shock.

On Wednesday last, a singular effect of lightning occurred at Moulton, about three o'clock in the afternoon. A flash struck a shock of oats in a field be- longing to Mr. Woods, consumed one sheaf, completely thrashed another, and moved a third to a great distance. On examining the place afterwards, it was found that the electric fluid had entered the earth in three distinct placea—Bure and Norwich Post.

A labourer and his wife, of Drax in Yorkshire, having taken refuge during a thunder-storm in a shed standing in a field, the lightning struck the place, killed the man, and partially paralyzed his companion: fortunately, the woman had strength enough to crawl out of the shed, which was soon burnt down; while the young man's body was nearly consumed.

Captain Thomas Smith, Fifteenth Bengal Native Infantry' alias Tiger Smith, who was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction for defrauding Mr. Bishop of Bond Street, was liberated on Thurs- day morning, but was immediately after arrested for debt.

In the course of a trial for forgery at Warwick Assizes, on Tuesday, it was ascertained there had been, by some error, thirteen jurors sworn throughout the morning, and they had decided upon the cases submitted to them. The forger was convicted, and the point was raised in his favour. It was, on the other hand, suggested, that the maxim " inntiles non nocent " would apply in this instance. The Judge directed that the juror last sworn should be withdrawn. The cases proceeded, without going through the form of reswearing the twelve jurymen who were left in the box.

An elderly person, "in a sort of half clerical garb," has been attempting to im- pose on the people of Brechin. He pretended that he was the Marquis of Bread- albane, and that he bad made a wager with another nobleman to travel as a mendicant for a year, not touching a farthing of his rental during that penal. He hinted, that those who were charitable to him in his character as would not be forgotten when he resumed his position as noble. Though the Ira-

poorhad had some success elsewhere, he found Brechin "too far North" to be auped by such a tale. Holmes, the keeper of an eating-house at Leeds, has been affording "a good deal of amusement to the mob by a tarring and feathering which he had richly deserved. The fellow is a bad character; though married and with a family, he courted a young widow, describing himself ass gardener of Meanwood, unmarried; and they were about to be wedded, when the widow discovered his real character. &Imes was invited to a tea-drinking female party; while sipping his tea, the fair ones suddenly pinioned him, poured coal-tar over his head, then feathers, served his hat in the same way, and turned him into the street for the derision of the multitude. He was glad to allow a policeman to take charge of him.

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

lymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other &senses of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration— . Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion ...

D/66111611 of the Kidneys, ete

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c. Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c. Diseases of the Skin, Cellular lissue,Itc Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, end Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) 931 972 The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 88.7° in the sun to 33.5° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than (the mean average temperature by 2.5°. The general direction of the wind for the week was Smith- south-west and West-south-west. Number of Summer deaths. average.

363 .... 237

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