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The reaignetion of Mr. Justice Gaselee is announced; and Sir Robc...t Rolfe, the Solicitor. General, is mentioned as his probable sueciasoi.—Sir John Cana:'..all aiming at higher game than it Puistre Judg..:Xp. But if Sir Rolaat Rolle eseend to the bench, there will be a v..•ancy iri Pony mm and Falmouth, which may be filled by is Tory. This is unpleasant. St:igen:It Wilde is talked of as the new Solicitor- General ; but his elevation would create a vacancy in Newark, and that would be unpleasant also. We can now state, upon authority, that the Duke of Roxburghe, has avowed himself a decided friend to the Liberal cause.—Kelso Chronicle. [The promise of an English Barony is said to have decided his Graceei
Mr. Scholefield, the Member for Birmingham, bad set out for Lon- don to attend to his Parliamentary duties, but had proceeded no fur. thee than Coventry, when he was taken so seriously ill with the pre- vailing epidemic that he was obliged to return home.
The Earl of Denbigh has written to the Leamington Chronicle, denying that Gubbins, the old man, 104 years of age, who died in War- wick Debtors' Prison, was confirmed at his suit. The noble lord states that the dispute of the freeholders of Pailton was with Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, and not with him.—Globe. [We said last week, that Lord Denbigh was not the man to do any thing of the harsh nature imputed.]
Lord Ranelagh has got himself into a disagreeable scrape. He has been writing letters to Lord John Hay, to assure his Lordship that he was not aware that his Majesty's forces were actively employed in the defence of Bilboa ; but Lord John, in the following passage of his reply to Ranelagh, makes it pretty evident that his Carlist and cone- sponding Lordship must have known against whom he was lightingI have to acquaint you, that I received information that several British subjects,
amongst tt horn your Lordship was named, were ircting with the insurgent army during the late Ell'ge of Bilboa and the operatious on the banks of the Nut', ion. Those opera. lions lasted several weeks ; and during the wiwir if which period, six vessels lalonying to his Majesty's squadron, and many toots, th their flags alanys displa.,ed, wire actively aadenda,,,all °wood in co4eruting w:th her Catholic Muje.sty's forces against the Iii. surgeons, for the relief of Wilma and the protection of the persons and property or British subjects. It therefore became my duty to direct the senior officer iii command of his Majesty's ships stationed in that river, to make every inquiry us to the authen- ticity. of such reports. The result has been, to prove that your Lorship tool, an active part sir the aria, h on Bill,ca nod the (iterations on that river."
In a letter to the Morning Chronicle, Colonel Napier repeats the material part of his statement relative to the Spanish plans said to have been taken from the Quartermaster. General's office by Sir George Murray. Ile was certainly told at that office, when he applied for the plans, that Sir George Murray had taken them away the day before; • and he never could get the plans he wanted from that office. Colonel Na- pier also intimates, that Captain Mitchell was prevented by Sir George Murray limn making copies of his plans for the Colonel. Sir George made a great fuss about the necessity of not interrupting Captain Mitchell in his valuable labours; but says Colonel Napier- "Captsiu Mitchell was himself anxious to make the reduced plans for my work as lr" proceeded with his own ; and the effort, to a man of his practised powers, and with his materials, would not have cost much more than three weeks' labour, or a few extra hours. There was no interference proposed, and there would have been no interrup. than ; for let the reader mark these facts—Captain Mitchell was not allowed to work diligently at his own plans after he came home from the Peninsula between that period mai his departure for New South wales, he commanded a dept of reel
trunk all the calculations and proofs, and all the drawings Mr the of tLe late Sir
Henry Torrens' book ot Tactirs : he it rote and published his own :11 Mill. tory Surteying; and he trail cliii ti to inveut several in0 ahati iii: go relative to his cm ii pursuits and to execute and exhibit several very bettil:fol product imls of pic- torial art, irtni ire lint many spare Marrs besides. Indeed, he oil-a expressed I, me his chagrin that he wits not per mittei: to finish those beautiful drawings ; fer 5% 1(11 he expected, and with MIAMI, cutisil.nitile lame. Tim?, it appritts, something is still isanri ii to the brier histtity dill Mitchell's draw logs.
It appears front a return just published by the Stamp.ollica that the aggregate amoulit of bankalotes circulated between the 9.4th of Septem- ber and the 31t of December by Joint Stock Banks, was 4,23!!•.197/. ; and by Private Batiks, 7,733,C00/. together, 1-2,010,97/
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