Iftistellaneous.

By an Order in Council, dated " At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d February," it is directed that in future, on all occasions of Divine service "where the Royal Family is appointed to be particularly prayed for, the following form and order shall be observed, namely, 'Adelaide the Queen Dowager, the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family."

It is worthy of remark that her Majesty never travels by railway. Prince Albert almost invariably accompanies the Queen ; but patro- nizes the Great Western generally when obliged to come up from Windsor alone. The Prince, however, has been known to say, " Not quite so fast next time, Mr. Conductor, if you please."—Morning Post.

Prince Esterhazy continues to suffer much from gout, at Ratisbon; but he is getting better.

Mr. Charles Kean and Miss Ellen Tree were married on Saturday, at St. Thomas's Church, Dublin. The marriage was kept quite secret,

seemingly, till it got into the papers on Tuesday. The happy pair finished their engagement at Dublin Theatre on Saturday evening, playing in the Honeymoon ; appropriate, it is to be believed, only in name.

We were barely able to mention in our second edition, last Saturday; that the Duke of Cleveland died that morning, between six and seven o'clock, at his residence in St. James's Square. His death had been hourly expected for many days. William Henry Vane was born on the 27th July 1766. In September 1792 he succeeded to the Earl-

dom of Darlington ; in 1827 he was made a Marquis ; and in 1833 he

was created Duke of Cleveland. The Duke married, in 1787, Lady Katharine Powlett, daughter of the last Duke of Bolton ; by whom he had three sons and four daughters ; and that lady having died in 1807,

in 1813 he married the daughter of Mr, :Robert AmsseU, of Newton House, in Yorkshire. The Duke was Lord-Lieutenant and Vice-Ad-

miral of Durham ; and he was made a Knight of the'Garter in 1839.

In politics he was a Whig. He is succeteled by his eldest son, the Earl of Darlington ; whose succession to the Peerage makes a vacancy in

the representation of Shropshire. The present Duke is a Tory, and one of the leaders of the Corn-law supporters. He was born on the 16th August 1788; and was married in 1809, to Sophia daughter of Earl Poulet. The Duke has no children ; and therefore the heir Pre- sumptive to the Dukedom is his brother, Colonel William Frederick _ John Powlett, who took that surname in place of Vane.

Sir Peter Laurie met with a dangerous accident on Saturday, at his own house, in Park Square, Regent's Park : he fell down a whole flight of stairs, dislocating his wrist and severely bruising himself.

The Bradford Observer describes an attempt on the life of Mr. Lister, on Wednesday last, at Fairfield House- " Mr. Lister was disturbed by some noise, and perceived a man with some instrument about to strike him. Mr. L. immediately sprung up and said, 'You have no occasion to murder me : what do you want ? He replied, he had come on purpose to murder him. Mr. Lister seized him, wrenched the instru- ment out of his hand, threw him on his back, and was about to strike him Cu the head with it, but threw it to a distance, and then let him get up. He im-

mediately made another spring, and Mr. Lister again threw him down. One of the servants then came in and said, It is the butler.' Mr. Lister exclaimed,

'Oh, Tames, what could induce you to do this?' He replied, a man with large black whiskers had haunted and tempted him to do it. Mr. Lister perceived that he was deranged, and had a surgeon sent for ; who bled him ; and he then expressed his sorrow, but reiterated the statement about the man tempting him. He was an old and confidential servant, and has for the last ten years been in connexion with the Wesleyans. He has since been removed to the York Lunatic Asylum."

Mr. Robinson, state coachman to Queen Victoria, died on Tuesday, at his residence in the Royal Mews, Pimlico. Mr. Robinson was in

the 83d year of his age. He received his appointment from George the Third, and has thus served under four Sovereigns. The emoluments of the office are not inconsiderable, and the occupant enjoys an " offi- cial " residence.

Full-dress Parliamentary dinner-parties were given on Wednesday, by the Duke of Wellington, as Ministerial leader of the Upper House, to a large party of Peers, and by Sir Robert Peel, at his residence in Whitehall Gardens, to a numerous party of Members of the House of Commons, principally consisting of official gentlemen. The Queen's Speech on opening Parliament was read by the two Ministers to their respective guests.

Wednesday's Morning Post accompanied the announcement, that the Duke of Buckingham had resigned his seat in the Cabinet, with some explanation- " It was only yesterday that this termination took place, of a discussion which, we believe, had endured for eight or ten days, between the noble Duke and the First Lord of the Treasury ; in whose proposed measure upon the pub- lect of the Corn-law every member of the Cabinet is understood to concur, with the single exception of his Grace. • • • The Duke of Buckingham secedes from the Cabinet, not because his late colleagues are less convinced. than his Grace of the importance of upholding the interests of British agrse. culture, but because his Grace is not so fully convinced as they are that cee- tain proposed alterations, supposed to be favourable to British commerce, may he effected without injury, or the risk of injury, to the agricultural classes. That no question of principle is involved in this change of the personnel of her :Majesty's Government, will be evident when we state that the Duke of Buck- ingham, in ceasing to be a member of the present Administration, continues to be its friend ; and that no Parliamentary opposition on the part of his Grace is to be anticipated, except on the specific points of the specific measure with respect to which it has been the misfortune of the Cabinet to differ from his Grace.

The Duke of Buccleuch's appointment to be Keeper of the Privy Seal has already been mentioned.

It is understood that the two vacant blue ribands will be conferred upon the Duke of Beaufort and the Duke of Buckingham.—Morning Post.

It is rumoured in legal and political circles, that Mr. Pemberton, the distinguished Chancery barrister, is about to accept the office of Presi- dent of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. We have great pleasure in announcing, on authority, that an official communication has been received from Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, stating that the Privy Council have decided to advise her Majesty to grant a charter of incorporation to the borough of Shef- field.—Sheffleld Independent. A letter has been addressed by Lord Ashley to the Short-time Com- mittees of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, announcing that Sir Robert Peel has definitively declared his intention to oppose the bill for shortening the time of labour in the factories. Lord Ashley does not despair : he says that he shall persevere in the cause, although he knows that such a course will exclude him front office ; and he c,Ils upon his followers to give him energetic and combined support.

It is said, that Mr. Rickards, of Queen's College, and Mr. Senior, the Master in Chancery, have each withdrawn from the contest for the chair of Political Economy at Oxford. Dr. Twiss, of University Col- lege, who on a former occasion was defeated only by a few votes, is at present the only candidate ; but the Newman party are discussing the propriety of bringing forward Mr. Roundell Palmer.

An important circular on the state of the cotton-trade has been ad- dressed, by sixty of the leading firms at Manchester, to the wholesale houses in London interested in the trade. It is observed, that the advo- cates of the manufacturing interest have attributed their sufferings to the falling- off in the foreign demand for British manufactures; and the agriculturists support the present Corn-laws on the ground that they benefit the home trade ; while neither party, in considering the diminution of consumption, has drawn sufficient distinction between the foreign and home demand— "it appears from the returns, that the quantity of cotton-wool entered for consumption in the years 1840 and 1841 was as follows :

1840 1,274,729 bales.

1841 1,118,717 bales.

Decrease in the latter year 156,012

- "We learn also that the exports of cotton goods and yarns for the year 1841 have exec. ded those of 1840 by the following quantities :

Increased exports of Yarns 8,208,908 pounds

IP Thread 2,038,400 pounds Printed calico 25,077,132 yards

Plain calico 65,106,416 yards.

"We find by the above statement, that although during the last year, as compared with 1840, there was a diminished consumption of raw cotton, to the extent of 3,000 bales a week, yet the exports of yarns and cotton goods, but particularly of the latter, were greater in the latter than in the preceding or any previous jear; thus demonstrating the important fact, that the whole of the enormous decrease in our cotton-manufacture has been owing to the falling.off in the demand for the home trade; the truth of which could, we fear, be pain- fully corroborated by those through whose hands this trade has passed." The dearth of food is ascribed as one cause— "in looking for the cause of this great depression in the business of the country, we cannot shut our eyes to the influence which the price of food has upon the consumption of clothing. Experience has shown us that when pro- visions are cheap the home trade in manufactures is prosperous, and vice verso?. By applying the test of this principle to the last three years, it appears to us -that the high price of subsistence accounts for the great diminution in the cotton-trade ; and that if we go back to 1834, '5, '6, the prosperity of those years is attributable to the cheapness of the first necessaries of life. "The average price of wheat for the three years 1834, '5, '6, was 2/. 4s. &I. a porter, and for the three years 1839, '40, '41, it was 3/. 8s. a quarter, being an increase of more than fifty per cent ; and other provisions were in proportion. If we suppose that the whole of the food of the people cost in tbe cheaper period eighty millions sterling a year, (any other sum will serve equally well for illustration,) the same quantity would have cost one hundred and twenty millions per annum during the latter period ; and as the means of the con- sumers underwent no increase, but were, on the contrary, diminished owing to the consequent bad state of trade, it follows that, during the last three years, one hundred and twenty millions of money less was expended in the purchase of manufactures and other necessaries ; which is sufficient to account for the falling-off in the cotton-trade."

Another cause, the derangement of the currency, is illustrated with considerable force-

" The wholesale trade has, at the same time, suffered great losses, owing to the restricted state of the currency and the consequent high rate of discounts, the continued depreciation of stocks, and the increased number of bankruptcies in the retail trade; a state of things which, however profitable in some respects to the banking and moneyed interests, has pressed with peculiar severity upon the wholesale dealers, and calls for their serious investigation.

"The present contraction of the currency was caused by the importation of

corn in the autumn of 1838; and it has been continued, in consequence of repeated drains of gold to pay for foreign wheat, down to this time. This con- traction of the circulation we attribute entirely to the fluctuating scale of duties, which prevents a regular exchange of the manufactures of this country for foreign corn. Such derangements of the currency are never occasioned by the importation of articles free of duty, or on which fixed and unvarying ditties are levwd. During the last twenty-five years, whilst the sliding-scale has been in operation, this country has imported commodities from abroad, exclusive of grain, to the value of upwards of a thousand millions sterling, which have been paid for with the produce of its labour, without any sensible effect having been produced upon the currency ; but during the same period corn to the value of about forty millions has been imported, the payment for which has occasioned the most serious shocks to the circulation. We therefore attribute the sacrifices to which the home trade has been subjected by the enhanced rate of interest, the fall in the value of stocks, and the increased number of failures, mainly to the operation of the present Corn-law." The Police Commissioners of Edinburgh have sent queries to the Superintendents of Police in England on Sunday railway traffic. The gist of the queries is indicated by the replies of Sir Charles Shaw, the Superintendent of Manchester. Sir Charles says that drunkenness and rioting have decidedly not increased in Manchester in consequence of the trains running on Sunday. He does not believe that any incon- venience has arisen from parties visiting adjoining parishes on Sunday, and becoming drunk, rioting, or committing other offences. Railway- trains afford facilities for the escape of depredators, but not so much on Sundays as on other days of the week. He considers that there has been a complete revolution in police matters since the establishment of railways ; 9,000 passengers daily arriving in Manchester by railway. As a matter of police, his own opinion, supported by that of the very oldest officers of the force, is, that the more facilities there are offered to the labouring classes for innocent recreation, the fewer are the cases of crime brought before the police.

The Police Commissioners have directed that Police-constable Wheat- ley, of the V division, who some time ago was so brutally ill-treated by " gentlemen " at Hampton Wick, and for a participation in which out- rage the Earl of Waldegrave was punished by fine and imprisonment in the Queen's Bench, shall be allowed twelve months' leave from duty upon full pay ; and at the expiration of that period the Commissioners intend taking his case into their further consideration.—Standard.

The last paragraph of the address of the French Chamber of De- puties was disposed of on Friday ; M. Leshbondois's amendment re- specting the survey of taxes having previously been rejected. A dis- cussion arose on the late persecution of the press and the decision of the Peers in the case of Dupoty. M. Isambert vehemently attacked the conduct of Government, rapidly enumerating some of the most remarkable facts connected with the late prosecutions ; and be disclosed a new enormity— The list of jurymen in the department of the Seine is 1,500, which 1,500 are taken out of 22,000. Now, of the 1,500 jurymen chosen for 1842, 1,100 have been struck out of the original list, and replaced by others. And in order to this, all the clerks usually employed on this work have been sent away to other offices, and replaced by other and more confidential ones. The result is, that out of 1,500 jurymen for Paris in 1842, one-third held places under Govern- ment. Such being the facts, allow me to prove to you the hopes that Ministers derive from them. Among the documents laid before the Court of Cessation relating to the late trials at Riom of the parties accused of riotous opposition to the census, was a letter (left, no doubt, by mistake among those papers) front the Attorney-General at Riom to the Keeper of the Seals, in which he gave his opinion that if the trials of those persons were pressed the accused would be acquitted by the jury then on the panel; but that if the trials were post- poned to the January Assizes, measures could be so taken, by arranging the jury-list, that acquittal would be next to impossible.

This revelation caused the greatest excitement in the Chamber ; and for the rest of the sitting no other subject occupied it. M. Martin, du Nord, the Minister of Justice, charged M. Isambert with calumny ; and amused the House by declaring, that if he had seen the letter he would have suppressed it. On Saturday, M. Martin gave the fullest contra- diction to the existence of the letter : he denied that the letter was written on the occasion spoken of; he denied the words cited ; and he said that he had consulted the judge and the lawyer, and neither recol- lected any thing about such a letter. Another letter was written, and he would not say how M. Isambert had procured it.

The vote was taken on the entire address on Saturday ; when it was passed, by 240 to 156.

The Monitcxr of Monday publishes Louis Philippe's reply to the Deputies' address. It is merely complimentary : he says that he is "profoundly touched" by the sentiments which the Chamber express in the address.

The Deputies met in their monthly bureaux on Monday, to exa- mine three important propositions. One, made by M. Ganneroo, was to increase the number of official disqualifications to sit in the Cham- ber. Another, by M. Ducos, was to add the second jury-list to the electoral colleges. A third, by M. Golberg, was to have a journal printed by the Chamber itself, containing an authentic report of its proceedings, and to be edited by the Secretaries of the Permanent or Sessional Bureaux. The object of this is to prevent the practice of Ministers and Deputies correcting or rather altering their speeches in the official Moniteur, as they are now said to do. The Ministers, in their respective Committees, declared that they would not oppose the reading of these propositions at the tribune, but that they would re- serve their opposition for the public debates. On Tuesday, M. Humann brought forward his Budget for 1843. It is considered satisfactory, inasmuch as it exhibits receipts and expendi- ture nearly balanced. The deficiency is only 28,000,000 francs, (1,120,0000 : in 1840, it was 244,000,000 francs ; .1841, 116,000,000 francs.

Forty-eight of the principal printers have issued a declaration against the recent application of the law which makes them responsible for articles printed by them although the authors shall be made known. On this subject the Commerce says- " The attacks directed against the printers of papers begin to bear their fruits. The censorship rejected by the Charter of 1830 has been reEstablished in fact by the fears and despotic refusal of the printer of the Journal du Bour- bonnais. In the paper of the 22d ultimo, a whole article was struck out by the printer, and the paper appears with the blank space. In that of the 30th ultimo, a sentence relative to the restoration of Charles the Seventh of France was left incomplete, because,' says the editor, 'the censorship of our printer discovered three words here which he has forced us to suppress.' To this pitch has come the liberty of 1830."

The Independent of Brussels says that the owner of the Hotel des Bains at Ostend had the impudence to charge the King of Prussia, for stop- ping one night and breakfasting with his suite of twenty persons in that house, 5,0001'. (200/.) It adds, that the King could not, of course, stoop to bargain about the matter, and therefore submitted to the ex- tortion.

The Stutgard Gazette of the 30th January mentions a report that a Prussian Envoy had been sent to the Germanic Diet for the purpose of proposing to that Assembly a general amnesty for all political offences, and less rigorous press-laws for all Germany. And a letter from Berlin of the 24th says that it was generally believed there that the liberty of the press would receive a great extension in Prussia ; the Government being

convinced that all public journals edited in a violent sense would die away for want of subscribers.

Intelligence has been received from New York to the 12th January. The important preliminary debate in Congress on the Tariff question had been brought to a close, by consigning the subject to the Committee on Manufactures to report to Congress. The result appeared to indicate that the duties on imports will be raised, and that the majority of the House of Representatives favour a higher tariff. The votes on several amend- ments averaged a majority of nine in favour of the Committee of Ma- nufactures—enough to prove the feeling of the House upon the whole question. The Committee consists of six Northern and three Southern members ; and the bias therefore, in the Committee, is towards a high tariff. The feeling out of Congress, through all the Northern and Middle sections of the Union especially, is said to incline the same way. The Senate had been engaged during six days in debating the Presi- dent's plan of finance, and the debate was expected to occupy several days more. The speeches were dull and heavy. The deficiency in the treasury of the United States was increasing. Its amount was estimated at 14,000,000 dollars, between two and three millions sterling. A bill was before Congress for supplying the defi- ciency. On Thursday the 6th, Nicolas Biddle, Samuel Jaudon, Joseph Cow- perthwaite, John Andrews, and John Dunlop, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Stockholders of the United States Bank, and carried before the Recorder of Philadelphia for examination ; and they were liberated on bail of 10,000 dollars each, to appear again be- fore the-Court in a few days.

Intelligence has been received from Paraiba, in Brazil, to the 28th September. It was reported there that the whole province of Ceara was in a state of insurrection against the existing Government. The Vice-President had been shot whilst looking out at a window of his house, his wife being also at the same time fired at. A great number of the wealthier inhabitants had gone to Pernambuco to avoid the ex- citement which existed. The intelligence caused a great sensation at Paraiba ; and it was believed that the whole of the Northern parts of Brasil would join in an insurrection against the Government.