iThetrIfancritil, The Thistle vacant by the death of the Marquis
of Queensberry will be given to the Marquis of Breedulbune.--Morning The Earl of Fingall has been appointed a Lord in Waiting.
Mr. Carey, translator of Dante, has got a clerkship in the Registry- office.
The Eleventh and Seventy-third Regiments, now stationed in the Mediterranean, have been ordered home in ships of war instanter, and without any relief, it is supposed in consequence of the aspect of affairs in Canada. They are to land in this country, where their depots will join them from Ireland.—Times.
The correspondence between Lord Melbourne and Dr. Phillpotts, published in the Times last Saturday morning, was incomplete. Lord Melbourne sent another letter, and the Bishop a rejoinder to that also ; but the question remains just where it was. Only one part of the Whig Premier's letter requires notice : Lord Melbourne denies any knowledge of the Lichtield House compact, and disclaims " having been a party to any such compact."
In the House of Lords; on Tuesday, the Lord Chancellor gave judgment in the celebrated cause of Morris and Davies, which has been before three juries and the Lord Chancellor, and been pending for nineteen years. The decree of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst for the defendant was confirmed. By this decision it is settled, that possi- bility of the husband's access does not of itself give to the children of a married woman the rights of legitimate offspring. The evidence in this case left no doubt of the possibility of the husband's access to his wife, the mother of the plaintiff; but this favourable presumption was rebutted by full evidence that the plaintiff was the son of a person with whom his mother Lad an adulterous connexion. The estate, about which there has been so much litigation, was originally m orth '2.0001. year ; but it has been greatly reduced by law expenses. The plaintiff had no property of his own, and was merely an instrument in the hands of an adventurous attorney of Whitchurch in Shropshire.
The final decision of the House of Lords in the great cause of Small and Attwood, is to be given on the 2.2d of February.
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