17 MAY 1851, Page 8

Mr. Duncan M'Neil is gazetted a Lord of Session, in

room of Mr. Joshua Henry Mackenzie, resigned.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal says that Mr. Martin Burke, the dissen- tient juror at the trial of Mr. Gavan Duffy, has written to Lord Clarendon for an authentication of his letter to Lord Shrewsbury, as the foundation of an action for libel.

The Peace Congress assembles in London on the 22d July, for a session of several days.

Count Thome; the expelled Premier of Portugal, has arrived in Londoir, at the house of a private friend.

General Durrieu, the Government candidate officially recommended by the Home Minister of i'rance to the department of the Landes, has been returned by a large majority.

William Plamplin, the tailor out of work, who is charged with being con- cerned in the robbery of gold-dust from the goods-train on the South-western Railway, was again examined by the Winchester Magistrates, yesterday.. There is strong circumstantial evidence against him : a bag has been found in his possession which is marked very clearly with the shape of one of the to r boxes of gold still missing, as if it had been set down on the chalk embankment with the heavy box in it. A person resembling him, carrying two parcels, such as would be one of the large boxes and one of the small boxes missing, has been traced from Winchester to a house in Shorediteh, London. He was remanded. The value of the three boxes stolen was 70001.