Some unnecessary alarm has been occasioned by the statement that
the sight of the Duke of Sussex is worse than it was when he left town. This was expected by his Royal Highness's oculist ; but no operation will take place until the cataracts are sufficiently ripe to be extracted with safety and without much pain. The general health of the Royal Duke is good, and this is the great matter to be attended to at present. — Globe.
Considerable progress has already been made in the new constitution of the Exchequer Office, rendered necessary by the recent change in the law. Sir John Newport is appointed Controller ; Mr. Bulky. First Clerk to the Controller ; the other clerks in the same department, Mr. Bedford and Mr. Foster, are to be superannuated.
Sir Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay, accompanied by his lady and Mr. Charles Grant, left town at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday morning, for Portsmouth ; where Sir Robert and Lady Grant embarked in the Buckinghamshire, for the East Indies.
Rear-Admiral Sir Graham Hamond, K. C. B., is appointed to suc- ceed tire late Sir Michael Seymour in the command of the American station.
We are assured that the Lord Chancellor received "by the night's post," after the arrival of his Inverness speech in town, no less than half-a-dozen letters from his colleagues, the pith of all which may he expressed by the old adage, " the least said the soonest mended."— Morning Herald.
A reverend gentleman, returning from a Highland tour, arrived a few days ago at an inn not fur front BRIM!. Askit g for a tire, he was te:d the only one in the house sifts in the kitchen ; and that it was already surrounded by a party, consisting of three gentlemen and a lady. A civil application for permission to share in the general warmth, met with a polite and prompt acquiescence. On entering the kitchen, the traveller observed one of the party—a tall spare figure with a glazed travelling-cap—leaning, upon the chimiley-piece, with his face to the fire and his back to the company, eagerly lied anxiously questioning the kitchen-maid respecting the process of cooking a dish of ham and eggs, in which appetizing process she was then engaged. Edging himself towards the fire-side, and turning to retch a glimpse of the curious unknown, he recognized the ur:rhed physignotny of the Lord High Chancellor of England, the President of the Society for the Diffusion of !Neill' Knowledge. This was indeed labouring in his vocation.— Glasgow Argus.
The name by which Arr. Joseph Hume is known in tl e naval service appears a very appropriate one—the revenue cutter.—Globe.
It is said that Sir James Searlett's fees in the great will cause, which has occueied so need, time at Lancaster, have amounted since its vornmencement to little short of 5000 guineas.
Sir Chitties Wetherell has left town, on a short visit to the French capital.
There is not at present a single occupant of any of the houses in Grosvenor Square, and one family only in Belgrave Square ; so entirely is London deserted by the high aristocracy, who are either spurting in the country or driving about the Continent.
The celebrated Edward Irving is said to lie labouring under a severe pelnemic affi (elm', brought on by his professional exertions. Certainly no man of the present age has put Iris lures to a severer tese—lleratti. Lady Gardener, au Ettglish lady, fell with her horse down a precipice of two hundred feet. The horse was killed, but the rider escaped with merely a leg broke:IL—Extract al a Letter from Naples, in the Augs- burg Gazette.
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