14 SEPTEMBER 1839, Page 7

Lord Minto and three other Admiralty Lords have been to

Chatham, to inspect the Erebus and the Terror, previously to their voyage to the North Pole.

Lord Lyndhurst has taken Belle Vue Hall, Brighton, for six months. The. Earl and Countess of Durham are expected to leave Cowes, for Lambton Castle, towards the end of the month, Lord Brougham is gone to Brougham Hall. His wife and daughter have left town for Brighten, where Lord Brougham will join them in about a month.

The good people of Kelso are much delighted by the birth of a Mar- quis of Beaumont, heir to the Duke of Roxburghe.

Miss Burdett Coats went to the Brighton Theatre on Saturday. Whilst her carriage was waiting to take her home, the horses took fright and ran with great rapidity through the New Road, and dnslicd in the front windew of the Loan Fund Society, to the great terror of the inmates. No person was hurt.

The Duke of Norfolk is about to give up farming. His Grace has given instructions to his agent to sell off all the live and dead stock at Arundel Park Farm, including his Grace's Southdown flock.

It is said the subscriptions for defraying the expense of the grand entertainment given to the Duke of Wellington at Dover, were not suf- ficient for the purpose, but have fallen short to the amount of more than 1,0001.—Globe.

For some time past, very considerable improvements have been !taking at Claremont House. Nearly three hundred workmen have been engaged.

The Honourable Edward Jerningbam is still suffering in some degree from the effects of the accident he net with at the Tournament. The scratch extended from the wrist to the elbow.