16 DECEMBER 1848, Page 7

The death of Lord Dunsany, on Monday last, at his

residence at Cleve- don in Somersetshire, occasions a vacancy among the Representative Peers of Ireland. Edward Wadding Plunket, fourteenth Baron Dunsany, was born in 1775. He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Meath. He is succeeded in the Earldom by the Honourable Randal Edward Plunket, who was born in 1804.

The Queen has appointed the Reverend George Augustus Frederieft Hart to be one of her Chaplains in ordinary.

At a special general meeting of the Oxford and Cambridge Universitt Club, yesterday, it was resolved to adjourn the question of excluding Mr. Smith O'Brien, till the annual general meeting of the Club. Mr. O'Briert is thus allowed an opportunity of resigning or allowing his membership to lapse by non-payment of the annual fees. He is not a member of an$ other club in London.