10 APRIL 1847, Page 9

Miss Eleonora Blackburn has presented to University College the valuable

lot library belonging to her brother, tbe let() Mr. William Blackburn of Lincoln's Inn. Miss Eleonora Blackburn has presented to University College the valuable lot library belonging to her brother, tbe let() Mr. William Blackburn of Lincoln's Inn.

Pertinacious Mr. Alderman Gibbs held his Select Vestry meeting yesterday, in St. Stephen's Church Walbrook, and reelected his two Churchwardens and his Vestry-Clerk.

Guildhall had a narrow escape from being burnt down yesterday morning. A fire was discovered to be fiercely raging in one of the cellars filled with coals and faggots. It was put out with some difficulty.

Letters from Scotland received today advise of a most extraordinary event. The Lord-Lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a member of the Scotch Peerage, has suddenly absconded, leaving behind him a mass of bills and securities bearing the forged names of his own son and other relatives. The signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties. It is reported that large amounts of charity funds are involved in this wreck of the party in question.—Daily News.

Mr. Wyld, the eminent map .and chart seller at Charing Cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin, in anticipation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are also spoken of as can- didates.—P/ymouth Journal.

Major-General W. F. P. Napier, C.B., vacates the Staff appointment of Lieu- tenant-Governor of the Islands of Guernsey and Alderney.