15 SEPTEMBER 1849, Page 9

Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has granted to

"Sir Albert Denison Conyngbam, commonly called Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order," leave to take the surname of Denison only,-. in lieu of his present surname. Lord Albert is the second surviving son of the Marquis of Conyngham, by Eliza- beth, sister of the late Mr. William Joseph Denison; and he takes the new name in twoordance with a proviso in his uncle's will, by which instrument considerable property was bequeathed to him.

The death of Lord Methuen is announced. Paul, the son of Paul Cobb Methden, was born in 1779; married in 1810 the daughter of the late Sir Henry St. John Madman represented Wiltshire in various Parliaments; and in 1838 was created a Baron of the United Kingdom. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick Henry Paul; born in 1818. The family is descended from John, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the negotiator of the "Methuen Treaty' with Portugal.

Mr. Layard, author of Ninereh and its Remains, left Constantinople on the 29th August., in a Turkish steamer, for Trebizond, on his way for the scene of his late discoveries. He is accompanied by an artist, a medical man, and a secretary. Mr. Layard will extend his visits to Mount Ararat, and the whole of that part of the East, which abounds in religious and his- torical associations.