The Reverend Thomas Hall Lowe, the Precentor, has been finally
installed Dean of Exeter. The Morning Herald says- " To the last moment, it appears, Lord John Russell indulged in the boy: hig rds ivould effect his obect (the nomination of his brother, Lord to the Deanery); tor on the morning of the installation letter from him, which he read to the Chapter, pro- 111 oilTe snlw,e:y ttebsetil3figish4cerecinore. against the interference of the Chapter. or of theā¢Bishop, oth the right of the Crown to nominate, and giving the Bishop no- 13,4"ir I they did interfere, the Crown would take early legal proceedings ftna ---aoct'stle its rights and dignity." r.V ir late editor of the Glasgow Argus, is delivering a course of lectures,et 'the Mechanics Institution, Liverpool, upon the " Origin alopment of the European notion of Civil Government." Few 811- Ines" e-so well qualified to deal with this interesting and extensive Pers.Ā°ā arm Weir ; and the Albion, Liverpool newspaper, devotes se- subject as r.
l columns to a report of the first lecture of the course. R. Wallace, of Blythswood Hill Mathematical Academy, Glas- Ift.
gew, has sent us a letter to correct a mistake in a paragraph into the Spectator of the 3d instant, from one of the ;epic- d
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daily papers, d which stated that Mr. Wallace, M.P., had ad- dressed a letter to the Members for Glasgow, recommending the es- tablishment of a Professorship of Civil Engineering in Glasgow ljni- .,ersity, Our correspondent tells us that he, not his Parlitunentary- mamemdee, is the author of the letter in question ; a copy of which lie has forwarded to us. Mr. Wallace's recommendation is not confined toGiasnow: he suggests that Civil Engineering Professorships should be established in all the Fuiversites of the kingdom,āprincipally on the ground that precise scientific knowledge is especially wanted in a profession daily becoming snore important. Ile says, what is true, that erea works of high authority contain gross mistakes. Lord Brougham alluded to the imprisonment of Gilbert Wakefield. Herne Tooke, and Major Cartwright, for political offences, when pre- senting a petition to the House of Lords from Mr. Vincent, complaining of harsh treatment in Monmouth Gaol; and asked, what would have been said if the gentlemen first named had been subjected to such treat- ment? This remark has called forth a letter to the Morning Chronicle from Mr. Henry Wakefield, of Lansdowne Place, Brunswick Square, who says- " As regards my father, the late 'Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, I beg to say, that unless he had been possessed of the means of purchasing at an exorbitant price the privilege of a single room from the Governor of the prison, and furnishing himself with his daily provisions, he would have been subjected, during this two long years of his imprisonment in Dorchester Gaol, for the political libel which he was found guilty of; to the same treatment in every respect, with the exception of hard labour, as the felons who were confined there. I may also add, that the Government of that day, with a refinement of cruelty whirl) is almost incredible, considering the daily meetings with his family too great an indulgence, restricted their visits to him during the latter period of his impri- sonment to once a week."
Richard Carlile has published a pamphlet, denouncing the Chartist leaders as a designing set of knaves, who delude the people, in order that themselves may revel in luxury and idleness.
The Great Western arrived at Bristol on Wednesday, from New York, after a voyage of twelve days and a half. She performed the outward voyage in sixteen days. The British Queen was the same time on her outward passage. She reached New York on the 28th of Judy, left it about half an hour after the Great Western, on the 1st of this month, and arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday.
The contract for supplying the Navy is this year nearly double the ordinary amount. The notification from the Admiralty requires 9,000 tierces of beef and 17,000 tierces of pork. Last year the contract was for 5,000 tierces of beef and 10,000 of pork.
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