15 NOVEMBER 1845, Page 9

Last night's Gazette contains the formal announcement of some appoint-

ments already known,—those of Mr. Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton to be the Fourth Poor-law Commissioner; and of the Reverend Samuel Wilber- force, D.D., now Dean of Westminster, to be Bishop of Oxford.

By the death of Mr. John Backhouse a considerable pension reverts to the Crown. Mr. Backhouse was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Administrations of Lord Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Lord Ripon, and Lord Grey.