18 AUGUST 1838, Page 10

Mr. John Jervis, father of the Member for Chester, died

at his son's house in Beuumaris, on Wednesday week. Mr. Jervis was for !rimy years a leading counsel on the Oxford circuit, and distinguished for acuteness and honourable conduct as a barrister. He was subse- quently appointed to a Welsh Judgeship; and when Wales was added to the general circuits of the Judges of the Courts at Westminster, he retired on a pension of 1,1001. a year,—which must have been but a small fraction of his former professional income that pension has of course now fallen in. Through a long life, and amidst many tempta- tions under a Tory Government, Mr. Jervis firmly adhered to his Liberal politics.

Lord John Russell left town on Thursday, for the Isle of Wight. Lord and Lady Howick departed for Antwerp on the same day, in the Princess Victoria steamer.

The Morning Post informs us, that at a late marriage of distinguished parties in Cavendish Square, the bridegroom had forgotten the licence, and was obliged to go in haste to Doctors' Commons to procure one. In the mean while, the father of the lady went to a jeweller's and pur- chased a ring ; saying, " Perhaps the silly fellow has forgotten that too."

A correspondent of the Chronicle says that Mr. Pistrucci is to have 8001. for his wretched coronation medal.

It is rumoured that Mr. Stephen Edward Spring Rice, son of and private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been, or is to be, appointed a Commissioner of Customs.

The adopted son of Rammobun Roy has taken his departure for In- dia. The Directors of the East India Company refused to sanction his appointment to a Writership.

The Bristol Gazette, alluding to the clause of the Imprison pag Debt Bill which directs the proprietors of newspapers to insert all ad, vertisements required by the act for the payment of 3s., gives the fai,

lowing exemplification of the hardships to which newspaper pro Moon

are subjected by a similar enactment in the Insolvent Debtors am- " So far as regards insolvent debtors' advertisements,. the above law has been in force for some time ; and a great hardship it is upon newspaper proprietors, especially as the slightest e. rror may subject the plinter to a vexatious action. We speak from painful experience. It is not lon since, by the remissness of the compositor, a figure was trammel and the date of the insolvent's hearing inserted for the 13th of the

month instead of the 31st. The Commissioner held the variance to

be fatal ; the insolvent was remanded; threatened us with an act" for the additional imprisonment he had to undergo ; and, knowing the tender mercies of the law, that if even a shilling damages were accorded we should be visited with heavy costs, we were glad to compromise the matter by the payment of' 15/. And this for an advertisement for which only 3s. is allowed, and the composition of which costs nearly half the money."

The Lords of the Treasury have resolved to institute an immediate and minute examination into the disposal of the sums of money granted through the two Societies for the Erection of Schools. In ()Hem carry this design into effect, it has been proposed that each Society should appoint inspectors to examine its own schools, the expense to to be defrayed by the Lords of the 'treasury; but the Inspectors to Le entirely under the control of the Societies. That this method of effecting the object could be satisfactory we cannot for a moment ad. mit ; and we are, therefore, highly gratified to learn that the Commit- tee of the British and Foreign School Society have stated to the Lords of the Treasury their conviction, that no inspection could be satisfac- tory to the country which was riot carried on by parties unconnected with the schools they were to visit and report upon.—Morning Chronicle.

A Court-martial held on board the Admiral's ship at Lisbon, on Mr, Boxer, Master of the Scylla, on a charge of insubordination, laid against him by her Commander, the Honourable Captain Denman, lasted five days, and terminated on the Gth instant, by the finding of the Court, that " Mr. Boxer is honourably acquitted of thischarge;■■ and on delivering up his sword, a high compliment was paid Lime by the Court, to the satisfaction of the whole fleet. A charge of drunk. enness was preferred by Captain Denman before the same Court, against the boatswain ; who was directed to be admonished.