We may state that the vacancy caused by the lamented
death of our late Minister Plenipotentiary at Florence is not likely to be filleting. The duties will most probably, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Salaries, be annexed to those of our Envoy Extraordi- nary at Turin.—abbe.
The Scottish Press quotes a current rumour that Lord Rutherford " is about to be removed to London in connexion with the proposed changes in the Court of Chancery, and especially the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords."
The Lord Chancellor has made a batch of Queen's counsel. The names of the gentlemen are as follows— At the Common Law Bar—Mr. Ingham, Mr. Warren, Mr. Pashley, Mr. Atherton, Mr. Hugh Hill, of the Northern Circuit; Mr. Phillbnore, of the Oxford Circuit ; Mr. Slade, of the Western Circuit; Mr. Bramwell, of the Home Circuit ; Mr. Wilmore and Mr. Mellor of the Midland Circuit. At the Equity Bar—Mr. Elmsley, Mr. Wilcock, idr. Glasse, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Daniell 31r. Follett, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Coulson, Mr. (landless, Mr. Craig.
By favour of the beautiful weather, the pastimes at the Scottish Fete in Holland Park were yesterday carried on with brilliant success. The gathering was large, and everybody joined in the games, or looked on, with the zest of sportsmen. Englishmen were entertained by displays most amusing, and not a little formidable, of French boxing ; in which the aim seems to be not to floor your opponent with the fiat, but kiek him in the eye, or under the ear, with a heavy shoe, till he bolts. Today the admission falls from half-a-crown to a shilling.
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