Attliscellantous.

It is now understood that Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday next, by the Queen in person.

In a Committee of Privileges, on Thursday, the House of Lords de- cided that the Earl of Erne had established his claim to vote in the election of Irish Representative Peers.

Lady Peel and family left own on Wednesday afternoon, and pro- ceeded to Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, for the season. Earl De Grey left St. James's Square on Sunday afternoon, for Ger- many, attended by a limited suite. The Earl proceeds at once to Ant- werp, and intends to make a sojourn at Baden-Baden and Ems. It is said that his absence in Germany will not exceed six weeks, or at latest not more than eight, as he fully intended to return to Dublin at the close of the ensuing month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Fitz- isiaurice left town on Saturday, for Dover, on their way to Germany. They embarked on Sunday.

The Honourable Henry Petre and his lady, with their servants, em- barked on Sunday, at Portsmouth, in the Thomas Sparkes, bound for New Zealand.

General Bustamente, ex-President of Mexico, arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Friday evening, from a tour in Scotland and the manufac- turing districts.

We copied from a Glasgow paper a paragraph stating that the banns of marriage between M. Sartoris and Miss Adelaide Kemble had been ublisheci in that city : this we believe to be the case, but a correspond- ent informs us that there is no truth in the report that the lady is a widow, having two children at Milan. She was engaged to be mar- ried to Signor Cartegenova, her instructor ; but he died. Cartegenova was a bass-singer, who paid this country a visit a few years back. Ros- sini's Semiramide will be the first novelty at Covent Garden Theatre in the operatic way : the two principal parts will be supported by Miss Adelaide Kemble and Mrs. Alfred Sbaw.—Morning Post. The Glasgow Chronicle states that Miss Kemble was married to Mr. Sartoris on the day following the publication of the banns, by the Reve- rend Mr. Almond, of St. Mary's Episcopal ChapeL The accounts of the harvest from all quarters are most favourable. Reaping proceeds rapidly and well in the South of England, and the crop is abundant. The harvest has commenced in the North, and even in Scotland. In Ireland, North and South, the grain is described as ripening fast, and likely to yield abundantly.

The mercantile letters received from Lancashire this morning are of a very gratifying character : business is reviving rapidly, the demand for yarn and manufactured goods being increased to such an extent as to enable the sellers to obtain higher prices ; and these again assist the Liverpool market by laying in a sufficient stock of the raw material to enable them to replace the goods sold at Manchester. Business in London is firm, with a better demand from buyers; but we do not find that prices of imports have yet rallied materially. There is little or no appearance of a speculative movement in any branch of trade.—Globe, City Article, Aug. 5.

Sir James Graham received at the Home Office, on Monday, the committee of the grocery, oil, and wine and spirit trades,—namely, Mr. Ralph Price, Chairman ; Messrs. William Hawes, John Travers, George Warner, J. P. Gassiott, Valentine Morris, and William Nicholson, at- tended by Mr. John Curtis, solicitor, and Mr. Wryghte, honorary secretary ; the object of the interview being a conversation on the Bankruptcy Amendment Bill. Messrs. Lyall and Masterman, Repre- sentatives of London, and Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P. for Lambeth, were also present, as well as the Solicitor-General and Mr. Commis- sioner Holroyd. A deputation lately waited on Government to repre- sent that the mercantile community were opposed to the bill : the pre- ent deputation declared the very reverse to be the fact, and urged Government to push it forward. Mr. Lyall said, that he had been in- trusted with a petition numerously signed, which, though not expressly approving of this specific bill, yet prayed for an improvement of the law forthwith ; to which all admitted this bill tends ; and he should support it Mr. Hawes said, "The petition asks for this bill and some- thing more ; if you do not pass this, you must go back to the law of arrest : a remedy for the present state of the law must be provided." Sir James Graham assured the deputation, that he would go carefully over the bill with the Solicitor-General and Mr. Holroyd ; and that without endangering it by too great alteration every endeavour should be made to meet the expressed wishes of the mercantile community. The deputation then took leave.

The following letter has been received by Mr. Luccock, of Leeds- - Whitehall, 25th July 1842. " Sir—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 234 July, transmitting a memorial from the merchants and manufacturers of Leeds, requesting my assistance in preventing the imposition of the duties contemplated by the Prussian League. I have had more than one inteview with the Prussian Minister at this Court upon the matter referred to in this memorial, and it has been the subject of communication between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and her Majesty's representative at the German Courts. I will, however, transmit this memorial to Lord Aberdeen, and confer with him upon the subject.

"I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "Mr. J. D. Luccock, Leeds. ROBERT PEEL."

A most remarkable instance of the effect of the new Tariff has been afforded in the port of Exeter. A mercantile house entered at the Customs a cargo of hides, and paid about 401 for the duty according to the new scale ; but had duty been paid on the same cargo two days before, it would have amounted to 4001. It is easy, therefore, to antici- pate the extensive influence which the change must have on the affairs of commerce.—Devonport Independent.

Mr. E. G. Flight, of Adam Street, Adelphi, has written a letter to the papers to deny the statement in the report of the Election Com- promises Committee, "that certain documents were given up to Mr. Cochrane's agent 'in consequence of a quarrel between Mr. Mitchell and his legal agent at Biidport. ' " The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland held their annual show at Edinburgh on Monday and Tuesday. The competitors for prizes were numerous, for there were a thousand entries of stock, the largest number yet entered ; and the exhibition of new implements was very extensive. After the show, on Tuesday, there was a banquet in a pavilion on the Castle Hill. The Duke of Richmond was Chairman ; the Earl of Roseberry Vice-Chairman; and several noblemen and gen- tlemen of influence were among the guests, 2,000 in number.

The colliers at Airdrie, Coatbridge, and the other coal districts in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, have nearly all turned out for higher wages. They are holding large public meetings, to which they generally go armed with sticks. Their proceedings created much alarm on Tuesday and Wednesday. A year ago the colliers earned 9s. a day : they now earn 2s. 3d. to 2s. 94cl. The labourers, who earned 12s. a week, now obtain only Sr.: they desire to return to 10:.; and the other classes of workmen want a similar rise.

The French Ministers are already menaced with some formidable attacks. M. Dufaure and M. Passy have seceded from them ; and M. Dufaure has actually been proposed for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, in opposition to their candidate, M. Sauzet. The Paris cor- respondent of the Times explains the effect of the contest--

. The consequences of this resolution will be important. Instead of a mere contest between the Government and the pretensions of M. Odillon Barrot, the election of President will, it is feared, become a conflict between the Conserve. tives on the one side, and the Republicans, the Gauche, the Centre Gauche, the Legitimatists, and the party of AIM. Dufaure and Peril-, on the other. Among these latter parties are many men upon whom the Government had reason to rely ; but the error committed by Ministers in persisting in their intention to support M. Sauzet against all other candidates for the Presidency, has caused the defection of so many of their friends as to render the approaching struggle a fearful one. The course of events will be this : the election of President will take place on Thursday : on that day, the votes of the Deputies will be divided among MM. Sauzet, Dupin, Salvandy, Odillon Barrot, and Dufaure; none will, con- sequently, have the required majority (one over a clear moiety of the voters) : a second election will take place on Friday ; when the contest will be between M. Dupin and M. Dufaure only, for M. Sauzet will be thrown aside. It will be extremely close. If M. Dufaure be elected, M. Guizot will, it is said, re- sign ; but if the struggle be between these two, the chances are and ought to be in favour of M. Dupin."

A smaller question has occasioned Ministers an ominous defeat. The debate on Monday related to the validity of M. Pauwel's election for Langres ; and the adjournment of the debate was carried against Ministers, by 205 to 191.

The remains of the Duke of Orleans were removed, in grand sion, on Saturday, from the Chapel of the Palace of Nenilly to the Ca- thedral of Notre Dame. The procession began its march from the Pont de Nenilly ; and was headed by the Gendarmerie of the Seine, fol- lowed by numerous bodies of troops. Six mourning-coaches preceded the car which contained the heart of the Prince, on each side of which rode an officer. After it came the Archbishop of Paris and his clergy, and then followed the funeral-car containing the body. The cords of the pall were held by Marshals Soult, Molitor, Gerard, and Vallee, and by the Chancellor of France and the Minister of Justice. The insignia of the Prince's orders were borne on cushions by three of his Aides-de- camp. Next came the Ministers of State, the Marshals of France, and the deputations of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, the Aides-de- camp and orderly officers of the King and Princes, the Secretaire des Commandemens, and other officers of the Household of the Prince. The Duke's charger and his carriage closed. The Princes and the Mar- shals and Admirals were in two mourning-coaches ; ten more contained the Household officers of the King and Princes. Several bodies of troops terminated the long line. After passing through the Arc de Triomphe, the cavalcade passed along the Champs Elysies, the Place de la Concorde, the Quays of the Tuileries, of the Louvre, of L'Ecole, the Place du Chatelet, the Pont Notre Dame, the Quay Napoleon, and the Rue d'Arcole, to the opening in front of Notre Dame. On the arrival of the procession before Notre Dame, at three o'clock, a salute of twenty-one guns was fired by the battery of artillery stationed at the back of the cathedral. The body was placed on the superb catafalque erected in the church. Vespers for the dead were then performed ; and the Princes returned to Neuilly, where the King remained with the rest of his family. Although not announced as a public holyday, the day was kept as such by the people, crowds of whom assembled to -view the procession. A hundred francs was given for a single window. The funeral service was performed by the Archbishop of Paris and his clergy, in Notre Dame, on Wednesday morning, in the presence of the constituted authorities. Forty thousand tickets were issued for spectators, and every place was occupied. The cathedral was adorned with funeral decorations within and without-

" A range of massive square pillars, at equal distance, run from the church, seven at each aide; the lines being terminated by two masts 120 feet high, forming the open space into a quadrilateral entrance. The pillars were deco- rated on the top with large copes of black, embroidered with silver and sur- mounted with bronze vases destined to burn incense. The two masts, orna- mented above with silk streamers of white and black stripes alternately, en- riched with the Prince's coat of arms. On each tower of the edifice was erected a staff fifty feet in height, bearing the abbatial banner in black crape sprinkled over with silver stars."

The portal and other parts of the exterior were elaborately decorated with black and silver; and the inside of the church was covered with various designs in the same colour and metal, with black banners, and inscriptions of the names of places where the Prince had fought in Barbary- " In the centre of the church, in the part called the Cross, rose a continued pedestal, fifty-eight feet on each side, on which were placed fourteen cariatides of silver, supporting with their colossal dimensions the raised platform on which was placed the coffin. Au immense canopy, one hundred and six feet high, of embroidered velvet, lined with ermine, descended from the top of the vaulted ceiling on the sides of the catafalque. The curtains were tied up to the pillars of the cross by tricoloured flags. An enormous black En hung over the raised Boor of the catafalque, and bore the single word Mascara. A flight of twenty- five steps, decorated with candelabras and urns for incense, ascended to the entrance of the catafalque, and three hundred tapers burnt round the body."

The total number of the lights in the cathedral is computed at 6,000. The blaze of light, chiefly in silver lamps, the black and silver hangings, and the black dresses of the spectators, relieved by the military dresses of the attendant troops, presented a strange spectacle of mingled mag- nificence and sombreness.

Salvos of artillery, fired at six o'clock on the morning of the 28th, an- nounced the twelfth anniversary of the Revolution of July. A fune- ral service was performed in all the churches, at which the civil authori- ties and National Guards attended.

The overland Indian mail has brought intelligence from Bombay to the 18th of June.

The first thing that attracts notice is a report that Lord Ellenborough bad recalled the troops in the North-western provinces within the Indus. The report is circulated, contradicted, and reiterated, in the Indian papers ; and the Bombay Times, on the authority of advices from Simla, asserts it most positively. The Delhi Gazette adduces evidence of the fact- " The first open symptom of the intention to leave Jellalabad for the provinces, seems to have manifested itself in the recall of the party which had been ordered towards Peshawur to bring up the baggage left there ; the next, the construction of rafts fitted for the conveyance of heavy baggage down the river; and perhaps the most unequivocal, the very great pains taken by General Pollock to counteract the effects the rumour might produce the moment he became aware it had got afloat in the camp." The Bombay correspondent of the Morning Chronicle thus explains the circumstances- " The Commander-in-chief had, it appears, received instructions to make arrangements for the immediate recall of the Jellalabad force; but, mistaking or misconstruing the orders of the Governor-General, issued directions for the withdrawal of the whole of the army beyond the Indus General Pollock, on receiving these directions, refused obedience, on the ground that they were directly opposed to those he had received from his Lordship. It is lucky that he has used his discretion well; and it is to be hoped that General Nott, if similarly instructed, will act with equal prudence. But what can be said of the carelessness or obtusity of Sir Jasper Nicholls ? The most extensive preparations were actually commenced at Delhi, Meerut, Barnard, and other places, for the retirement of the troops ; and orders founded on the error of the Commander-in-chief have no doubt been disseminated half over India. Lord Ellenborough has, it is said, expressed great indignation at the blunder; and angry he may well be. The announcement respecting the withdrawal was made in such a positive tone, that few entertained a doubt on the subject; and so monstrous does it appear that an officer of so much ability and experience as Sir Jasper Nicholls should commit the enormous blunder laid to his charge, that the report of his having done so almost staggers belief. That Lord Ellenborough intends, however, to preserve the honour of his country by retrieving our position in Cebu!, there cannot be the slightest doubt. It is reported that an army of observation is to be assembled at Allahabad [where Lord Ellenborough was] during the ensuing cold season, and that eight new regiments are to be raised."

In India generally, matters remained pretty much in state quo. Sir

Robert Sale and Sir Frederick Pollock remained at Jellalabad ; where the remains of General Elphinstone arrived on the 30th April, and were buried within the walls on the same evening. The troops, up to the beginning of June, were quite inactive ; supplies, however, coming in pretty freely. But officers and men suffered much from the heat. "The former have had recourse to what may appear a singular expedient for the purpose of attaining a more moderate temperature—digging holes some four feet in depth, under their tents, in which to sit during the day." The idea of attempting to advance and occupy a post at Gun- damuck was given up, on the threat of Akhbar Khan that if it were done he should take away the prisoners. Of them nothing further was known : negotiations had been carried on with the chief by means of Captain Mackenzie, whom we left on his return to Akhbar Khan, and the prisoners in the Teezeen valley-

" He was not allowed to see them, but within a few hours of his arrival sent back to Jellalabad with a further proposal on behalf of the Afghan chiefs. He reached his journey's end on the 8th May, remained with General Pollock

till the 146, and then returned once more to the Teezeen valley,' bearing with him our final answer to these propositions. It is said that Akhbar Khanrs

last demand was a sum of eight lees of rupees (80,000/0 paid down an annuity of two lace (20,0001.), and secure possession of the throne of Cahill, as a con- sideration for the release of the prisoners."

Other prisoners, however, had arrived at Jellalabad-

" Sepoye, camp-followers, and other stragglers, who belonged to the ill-fated Cabal division, have reached Jellalabad in great numbers. On the 7th May, as many as fifty, it is said, arrived at once ; and among them was a drummer of the Twenty-seventh Native Infantry, who had effected his escape from Ghuzni. Two Sepoys of this regiment subsequently came in. Nearly all of these un- fortunate men—and the number, on the whole, must have been considerable— were more or less maimed or crippled from the effects of cold, some having their toes and fingers frozen completely off. They had begged their bread on the road, being utterly helpless and destitute. Sixty-five men of the Fourth Irregular Horse, and four of the Twenty-seventh Native Infantry, have also reached Ferozepore; so that the massacre happily turns out to be far less ex- tensive than was at first supposed."

Colonel Monteath had arrived with the detachment under Colonel Bolton. A random kind of personal warfare was kept up with the neighbouring tribes, and a European soldier had been murdered close to the camp.

If rumour was to be believed, Akhbar Khan had gone to Cabul, whither he made Major Pottinger accompany him ; and after attempts to cajole Futteh Jung and enter the Bala Hisser by guile, he made an unsuccessful attack, and subsequently an equally unsuccessful attempt to raise a rebellion among the religious fanatics. The writer already quoted contradicts another adverse rumour- " Rumours have been very rife respecting the Blockading of the passes be- tween Cabul and Jellalabad, and the assemblage of large bodies of Afghans in them, but these cannot be traced to any satisfactory source ; and a Sepoy of the Thirty-seventh, who arrived a short time ago at Jellalabad, and has traversed these defiles, states that there are very few Afghans there."

There is a report that Sir William Macnaghten fell by a just retribu- tion, because he meditated some "act of treachery" towards the re- cusant Afghan chiefs. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle assumes that the particulars have already been published in England ; but the accusation appears to be generally disbelieved.

The combined force under General England and Colonel Wymer reached Candahar on the 9th of May, and arrangements were made for detaching a force to Khelat-i-Ghilzie and Ghazni. Sufter Jung had collected a body of 6,000 men, for the purpose of assaulting Candahar on the 29th; and General Nott intended to sally out and attack him on his approach, should he persist in his design.

The enemy besieged Khelat on the 21st of May, 2,000 strong. The conflict lasted two hours ; and they were driven back with the loss of 104 men killed, and numbers wounded. The British had but one killed, and three badly wounded. It was, however, a well-contested and courageous fight.

The Agra Ukbar says, "We are informed, on the very best authority, that a very large force of Chinese, supported by Nepalese are in full march on Ladak." It is explained, that the " Nepalese " alluded to pro- bably come from some tracts of laud lying between Nepaul and China, whose inhabitants, as occasion demands or interest induces, yield their military services to either state.

Sir George Arthur, the new Governor of Bombay, arrived at the seat of his Government on the 8th June.

The latest date from China is the 12th of April. There had been more fighting. After the attack on Ningpo, of which we heard by the last mail, the Chinese began a system of annoyance, and endeavoured to prevent the supply of provisions-

" In the course of a few days, too, Sir Hugh Gough received intelligence of the encampment of a large body of the enemy (amounting, in number, it is said, to 6,000) at a town called Tsee-Kee, ten or eleven miles from Ningpo ; and as there could be no doubt of their hostile intentions in thus congregating, he determined on an immediate attack. Accordingly, on the 15th of March, a force composed of detachments of the Eighteenth, Twenty- sixth, and Forty- ninth Regiments, and a naval brigade, in all about 1,100 strong, was assem- bled, and conveyed by the Nemesis and Phlegethon steamers to the neighbour- hood of Tsee-Kee. The walls of the place were scaled without resistance ; and the British troops marched immediately to the Chinese encampment, which was situated in a strong position to the West of the town. The enemy fought rather more boldly than usual, and kept up a tolerably good fire for a short time ; but as soon as the whole of our men got into action, order was at an end, the whole gave way, and mingled in a confused and disastrous flight. Their loss is variously estimated at from four to nine hundred killed; that on the British side was three killed and forty wounded; among the latter a marine officer, Mr. Hambly, and Captain Reynolds of the Forty-ninth, slightly, and Lieutenants Montgomerie and Lane, of the same regiment, severely." The Chinese troops were subsequently rallied by some Mandarins, and large reinforcements collected near the city of Shon-hing, to the North of Yu-yaou ; whence Sir Hugh Gough expressed his intention to expel them. It was rumoured that the Mandarins, at the head of 30,000 men, had contemplated an attack on Ningpo ; but their views were anticipated by the British General, who in return was making preparations for a movement on Hang-chow-fou, the capital of the province of Chekeang. The Friend of China and Hong Kong Gazette, a new paper, gives it as an on dit, "that Yang, an Imperial Commissioner, is en route to offer 40,000,000 dollars, as compensation to the British for the expenses of the war and the surrendered opium ; also the cession of Hong Kong

as the price of peace."

This is another on dit- “ During the last month, the most stringent measures have been taken by the Mandarins for the suppression of piracy in the Canton river and its em- bouchures; which have issued in the capture of nearly one hundred offenders, of which number forty-four were decapitated at Canton in one day ; since then sixteen more have been executed. Rigorous measures are still pursued by the Mandarins against piracy."

The authorities at Canton had issued a special edict offering mercy to "Black barbarians," or "Red barbarians," who should desert from the British.