To COURT NEWSMEN AND OTHERS.— We understand that the young
Prince of Cumberland is now called Prince Ernest, for the sake of distinction, the name of each of the young Princes being George.— Brighton Gazette.
LORD Esnox.—This aged statesman has had a smart twinge of the gout, but does not suffer in his general health. It is expected that he will be able to meet Reform by the time it goes up to the Lords.
THE Dux E or RUTLAND.—HiS Grace at his late audits returned 10, 15, 20, and 25 per cent. to his tenants ; and he has appointed a sur-
veyor to go over his farms, that the rental may be set according to the present times. In addition, also, to the usual annual gift, his Grace has ordered that another 1001. be applied to purchase provisions and clothing for the poor round Belvoir.—Newark Times.
INTERNAL EvinEgeE.—The Duke of Biickingham, on Thursday, said of a petition for the repeal of the Union, presented by Lord Radnor,
that all the signatures but two appeared to be of the same handwriting. Lord Radnor did not deny the similarity, but still he thought the peti- tion was a bond fide petition. Its language bore no marks of its having been got up. It described Ireland as—" the Bulwark of the Consti-
tution—the rendezvous of Great Britain—and the granary of Europe— though the poorest country on earth." Their Lordships were convinced. COmmITTEE ON THE CHINA Tnans.—Sir Henry Parnell has been voted into the chair of this Committee ; and the cause of fair and free inquiry
cannot but be benefited by so proper an appointment.
THE GREEN PARK.—This enclosure is to be laid out in walks and shrubberies similar to St. James's. Is Mr. Nash to have a commission off the shrubs and bushes, as he had in the other case, in addition to his charge as landscape gardener? THE Earn MORNING JOURNAL.—The term of imprisonment to which Mr. Alexander was sentenced by the Court of King's Bench, for the three political libels on members of the late Administration, expired on Thursday.
THE YACHT CEun.—Captain A. Corry, with his yacht, the Dolphin, arrived at Jamaica on the 23rd December last, on a visit to his relative the Governor. The natives, especially the blacks, are said to have ex- pressed the greatest astonishment at being visited by so small a vessel. We believe that the tenders, which used to accompany 'West India traders in their voyages out, were generally of not more tonnage than the Dolphin, and they had not more men—the Dolphin had four men. The members of the club are to be permitted in future to visit the Ba- learic Isles without paying port-dues.
S/R ROBERT Wmit.tx.—The will of the deceased baronet has been proved in Doctors' Commons, and probate granted for 400,000/. personal property, besides freehold estates. This enormous amount is in addition to the large fortune given during his lifetime by the deceased to his nu- merous (we believe twenty-two) children by two wives. TYPOGRAPHICAL WONDER:A work, very truly described as "typographical wonder," was presented to their iikesties en Monday
last at the Pavilion. It is the New Testament, printed in gold on porce- lain paper ; and it is the first instance where such printing has been successfully executed on both sides. Two years were employed in per fecting this work, of the costly nature of which an idea may be formed from the fact that the gold it contains is of no less value than five guineas. Only 100 copies are printed.—Brighton Gazette.
LOCKE'S MONUMENT.—On. Wednesday, a meeting of the subscribers to a fund for the erection of a monument to John Locke, was held at the Freemason's Tavern. The subscription for the undertaking com- menced in the year 1808, when a small stun was collected. In 1816 the amount in hand was 455/. 8s. 6d., which was invested in the Funds, and, with the accumulations, now amounts to 8401. Os. 3d. In conse. pence of the large sums demanded for fees, the monument could not be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey; and it was there- fore proposed that it should be placed in the Hall of the London Univer- sity, to which it was stated there would be no objection. The monu- ment is to be similar to that of Lord Erskine, in Lincoln's hut Hall, the expense of which was 1200/. Mr. Westmacott is the artist. The subscription has been augmented by a donation of 100/. from Lord King, the faithful biographer of the great metaphysician.
CONVERSIONS FROM POPERY.—A letter from Chingleput, about thirty miles from Madras, mentions the conversion to Protestantism from the Catholic faith, of no fewer than four hundred persons. To die south of Chingleput, it is said that three thousand families, chiefly Catholics, have solicited Missionary instruction.
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