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From a letter addressed by the Duke of Wellington to the Kentish Gazette, it appears that his Grace has no claim upon the Belgian Go- vernment for any arrears of pay, and of course has never preferred any.

Mr. Charles Phillips' the barrister, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor to perform the duties of Public Prcsecutor, under the new Criminal Court Act, with a salary of about :!;100/. per all1111111. Mr. Phillips will discontinue his practice at Cleskenwell and o‘her inferior courts, where he has recently realized more than the average amount of the sa.ary that he will receive as l'ublic Prosecutor. It is intended to confer on Mr. Phillips the honour of a silk gown. He was previously offered a Chief-Justiceship in India, with a salary of IOW/. a year.— Standard. [This appointment is only prospective, a bill authoriziog the creation of the office will be introduced into Parliament next ees- sion; and if it pass, Mr. Phillips has promised to take the office.]

Mr. 'William Robertson, of Glasgow, late private Secretary to the Honourable Vice-Admiral Fleming, 111.P., has been appointed Col- lector of his Majesty's Customs at Shelburne, Nova Sec tia. [The Admiral is a fortunate man, to be able to provide for his friends as well as himself. Ile still retains his seat and his vote : how many candi- dates are there for the office of his private Secretary?]

The Secretary at War has been entertaining at his shooting quarters at Inverness-shire' the Earl and Countess of Durham, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Captain Gordon, Captain Balfour, Mr. Rich, &c. [Why does not Mr. Ellice return to his official duties ? Even Sir John Hobhouse has come back.]

Dr. Dodson will succeed Sir Herbert Jenner as King's Advocate.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel left Dover for Calais and the Continent on Tuesday.

" The old Exchequer, with its antiquated machiner,o," says the Globe, "has ceased to exist." Is this an ironical slap at poor Sir John New- port? or is it what the Globe calls "backing one's friends ?"—Herall

The separate fund for enabling the British and Foreign Bible So- ciety to supply the emancipated Negroes, who are able to read, with Psalters and Testaments, falls very tar short of the expectation gene- rally entertained. The sum wanted is 20,0001. ; but not more than a fourth of this has been subscribed.

It is said that something unpleasant has occurred in a family of dis- tinction, which threatens a "break up" of the establishment. We know ino particulars, and merely repeat a report in circulation, without being able either to state the tacts or decide upon its authenticity.—Morning Post.

In the Courier of October 3d, it was stated that the literary market was so much depressed, that Mr. E. Lytton Bulwer had only obtained for his last two novels the same sum he formerly obtained for one. We have now learned, from undoubted authority, that this statement was incorrect ; and we are happy to be able to announce, for the sake of literary men, as well as because Mr. Hulwer never wrote a work which deserved more to be rewarded than the last, that, both for that and the Pilgrims .1 the Rhine, he received larger sums than for any of his former tictrons.—Courier.

Sheridan Knowles arrived safe and well in New York on the 5th of September. He did nut, however, make his appearance.at the theatre, in consequence of the serious illness of Miss Phillips ; who, it appears, had most unfortunately contracted the measles, under which alarming

malady she was suffering - when Mr. Knowrea wrote home to Ms venerable f er. — Courier.

h is confidently whispered that the act to prohibit poor Sooty from calling out " Sweep ! " o: iginated in a waggiall wager at one of the club-houses. A gentlenian boasted that, in these Reforming days, he could get a clause introduced into any act of Parliament of the most absurd nature. Just at that moment a little black urchin squeaked out " Sveep, sveep," under the window. " There," observed one of the company, " stop that nuisance, if you can." " That I will," was the reply. A wager was made and won.—Morning Post.

Captain Richardson, of the Belsey Castle, which arrived in Sligo on Friday week, from Quebec, on his passage across the Atlantic, near this coast, descried a ship at some distance, which appeared to him to be in distress : on approaching this vessel, he found she was burned down to the water-edge, and completely water tied. The weather being moderate, he lowered his boat, and sent some nien on board, when they found the vessel was loaded with timber; but no vestige of any thing that could lead to any discovery could be traced, save a branding. iron, which contained the words " The Two Brothers," and a napkin, supposed to belong to the Captain, marked " Gifrard." She was drift- ing fast to the west coast of Ireland.—Moyo Constitution.

Mr. Villiers has procured a reversal of the unjustifiable order by which Mr. Mitchell, the correspondent of the Morning Herald, was commanded to quit Spain.

It appears from several reports of the Factories Inspectors, which have been printed by order of the House of Commons, that the act for the regulation of factories and limiting the hours of work has been very satisfactory in its operations. At the present average price of wheat (to say nothing of that bought below the average) the present price of the 41b loaf is full Id. more than it ought to be, giving the baker a profit of nearly 20s., or 30 per cent. upon every sack of flour which he inal-es into bread.

Many large distillers are now using coarse wheat in lieu of barley, owing to the extraordinary disproportion in the prices of the two coin. modities.