Yesterday afternoon, at h...
Yesterday afternoon, at'half-past one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign'-office, Downing-street; which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earls ot uarreawy, Liverpool, lWestinorland, and Bathurst, the CharcelPor of the Exchequer, Mr. Peel,.Mr. Canning, Mr, 1ussicsson, Viscount Sidniouth, &c. The Cabinet broke mpAbout halfpiast three o'clock. e brk On Monday night Prince Leopold gave his second grand wntertainment for, the season at Afsrlborough,-ihouse. A Lisbon mail arrived yesterday with- lItters to the Ist instant. It is stated that the day before the packet sailed, A Coundl was held, at which it was r'esorvc tbat Lisbon xhouIt be made a free port. The terms, .hbowevek,' by *whicea its freedom was to be regulated; ona*bich the great adsntages of the measure to merchants would depend, had 3ist transpired. , Two arritaliwere y6sterday annouRced at Lloyd's; direct 3mrom Cape Coast Castle, viz. the Bor6dino.trahsport at -3'otsmouth; ind the Pitt merchant-vessel, at Bristol. By -tese ship3 a confirmation is received of the melancholy Taut of Sir C. M'Arthy, with the defhat of the ERglish troops by tde Ashantees, and: the ~ atih 'rn'most aot the sffisce and merchants who accorpanied the expedition into abei jtrier. Tielatest.dates-are the 29th. o March, at 'which time we do npt learn that anv.new evcits had oc-. cu=rd. The body of-Sir Cbtarls-MArthy had not beeni -found. Preparations were making at Cape Cdast Castle for 3f attack on the Asbantoes, who were understood to be tollected between Dixcovd and the Dutch settlement. of llmint. ' A Mr. WUiams, Who was-believed to be' the 43nly lgnlish officer who eacapegl after the attack, hid taen rc(uge at LElmima. Letters are expeted.-in town to ay, from which further details rmay be obtained + and' it is supposed that offiicial despatches from.Calonel Chisholm have reachd Government. - Preparations are goinS forward to enable His Majesty 70 protle the Parliamient in per.on. Mr. Wharton's (M.P. for Beverley) name was omitted in the list of the tinorit) aen Ar. Brutghanms motion onPriday *t,for ani4asdes, , WpiF tt 4tti gf T ?mi:th, :the