It is undarstwsl flmt the Chief Josticeship in Eyre north
of the Trent, 'held the last forty years by Earl Clarendon, will be abolished Oil his death or resignation.
It is rumoured that Alajm-General the Honourahle Sir C. (4 reline, brother to Earl Warwick, will have the vacant regimeet.—Globc.
An application has been made to the assignees of a city bankrupt, that his rave-horses should be kept and MO for the hcoicu'.lt of the estate, taking up all their previous el:as:genic:tits, by which the estate is to reap a golden harvest.
The Beverend E. Bury, husband Id Lade Charlotte Bury, lets been
F.L,i zed with an alarming illness at A id lie the seat of Lord J. tou,this Campbell, lien- ladyship's brother.
Vim Thursday, the election of Lord Rector of the Marischal College, Aberdeen, took place ; when Sir M. Bruce was by an immense ma- jority of students elected to the office, the Nations of Mar, l3tiehan, and Angus voting for him, and the Nation of Moray for Sir J. Mack- intosh. In the three first-mentioned Nations, the friends of Sir C. Forbes proposed that gentleman.—Aberdeen Chronicle.
The celebrated Champollion died a few days ago at Paris, in his forty-second year. Our countryman Young, his learned and successful fellow-labourer in the attempt, not altogether unsuccessful, to decipher the hieroglyphical writing of the Egyptians, preceded him to the tomb. It is hardly to be expected, for some years at least, that any one will be found to take up the same laborious line of study.
A few days since, a voltigeur of the 9th Legion being on guard, ob- tained leave from his commanding officer to go home and take a little rest about the middle of the night. On his arrival, anxious not to dis- turb his wife, he took off his uniform in the dark, and slipped quietly into bed, when he was terrified at finding himself in icy contact with a corpse. He alarmed the neighbourhood; and, on lights beiag brought, it was ascertained that the body was that of a young medical student, who was in the habit of paying frequent visits to the soldier's wife. It appears that the young man had fallen a victim to a fit of apoplexy ; and the guilty wife finding it impossible to conceal her fault, had rushed out of the house, laid, in despair, thrown herself into the Seine. —French Paper.
A London correspondent, in writing last week to a friend in Sheffield, concludes his epistle with—" Retnember there will be No Reform Bill this YEAR ! ! that is All ll known to a se/y.1.1%w in the metropolis, and no mistake ! "—Sloffieht Iris.
CoNeNmtum.—Why is the Bridge front the Strand called Ilrater/on Bridge? Because it is like the victory of Waterloo—a very splendid affitir, and cost a great deal more than it was worth.
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