18 MAY 1850, Page 10

Last night's Gazette notifies that the Queen has appointed the

Reverend Richard Dawes, M.A., to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, void by the death of Dr. John Merewether, late Dean thereof.

We understand a commissim is about to issue to inquire into the expee dienoy of making extensive alterations in the practice and procedure of the Common Law Courts, with a view of simplifying the proceedings and re- ducing the expenses.—Legal Observer.

The inMncled Protectionist meeting et Liverpool will be held, says the Morning .rterald, in the Amphitheatre, in the first week in June, under the chairmanship of the Earl of Wilten. A requisition for a Metropolitan meeting, at once grand and "significant," is also in process of signature.

The sixtysfirst anniversary of the Royal Literary Fund was celebrated at Freemasons Tavern, yesterday, with great conviviality and pecuniary suc- cess. Mr. Justice Talfcand presided, and Sir James Emerson Tennant and Major Edwardes were guests.

Master Litton, of the Irish Court of Chancery, has delivered the ueenimans decision of the Irish Masters, never in any case to accept the security of guarantee society for a receiver under the 'Courts.