jecled to law, and restrained from undue assumption of authority. Mr Wade says the missionaries should he thoroughly supported or restricted in powers. Earl Granville desires that a sufficient remedy for the alleged assumption of protective jurisdiction by the missionaries over na tive Christians should be offered by trea ties, and missionaries behaving improperly should be handed to the nearest Consul for punishment.—The Duke D’Aumale and the Prince Joinville have decided to sit in the Assembly.—The Times states that Lesscps is endeavouring to induce a com bined purchase of the Suez Canal, by great powers. The Sublime Port and the Khe dive disapprove of it.—The Dutch Cham ber passed a Redemption Bill ; Engle wart’s resignation is accepted, and Brock is appointed ad interim Minister of War. A dispatch from Bismarck to D’Artium, threatens henceforth to seize hostages from the French, if the aggressors on German soldiers are not surrendered.— The Londonderry apprentices paraded on the Bth December, and refused to dis perse ; tbe cavalry and constabulary charged the crowd, and several persons were hurt. There was only temporary excitement in town. —General Hogarth is gazetted Colonel of the 10th Hussars, vice General Key, transferred to the 15th Hus sars. General Thomas Galloway, Colonel of the 49th Infantry.—The Army Gazelle says that no officers have applied to the Purchase Commissioners for compensation on retirement. —The steamer Delaware, bound to Calcutta, foundered off Scilly; only the first and third officers were saved. Obituary. —Sir Joshua Walmsley, Tho mas Greenwood, Q.C. ; Rev. Dr. Wynter, of Oxford ; Colonel Sanderson, manager of the Langham Hotel ; Mr Pork, of the Court of Common Pleas; Mr Natfield, proprietor of the Cambridge. Independent Press; Hon. Charles North, Prince Maxi milian of Tours and Texas, Dowager Countess of Listowel. December 19. The Prince of Wales was dangerously ill all last week. The Queen and Royal Family were summoned to Sandringham on tbcßth; national prayers were ordered; the anxiety is intense, and the general sympathy is un precedented. Business is neglected ; all public meetings are postponed, including the Nonconformist Conference at Man chester. The complicated symptoms have abated. The Prince’s recovery is ex pected by the last bulletin on Saturday, though it is cautious.—The Prince’s groom died yesterday of typhoid fever.—The Queen and Princess of Wales exhibit wonderful fortitude.—Royalty is trium phant, and Republicanism is checkmated. 