• SATURDAY NIGHT.
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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Duke of Buckingham and Lord Wharncliffe are both named as likely to succeed to the distinguished honour of being created a Knight of the Garter, a vacancy having occurred in that noble order by the demise of the venerable Earl of Westmoreland.—Standard, Dec. 18.
The Globe of this evening copies the report of a Hull paper, that Sir Walter James is about to be called to the House of Lords.
Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed Lieute- nant-Colonel George Macdonald to be Captain-General and Governor- in-Chief of the colony of Sierra Leone and its dependencies. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentlemen to be Masters Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery—John Alderton Bush of Bradford, in the county of Wilts ; Oswald Cheek of Evesham, Worcester ; Evan Thomas of Brecon: Joseph Denison Cort of Black- burn, Lancaster ; Saunders Nash of High Wycombe, Bucks ; and John Jones Bush of Trowbridge, Wilts.
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