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We are enabled to state that Lord Palmerston has conferred

the Deanery of Ripon, rendered vacant by the death of the Honourable and Reverend Dr. Erskine, upon the Reverend Thomas Gamier, B.C.L., Rec- tor of Trinity Church, Marylebone.

The Globe states ;that Mr. William Cowper has succeeded Mr. James Wilson as Vice-President of the Poor Law Board.