Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has recommended the
Dean and Chapter of Wells Cathedral to elect to the vacant see of Bath and Wells the Right Reverend Richard Begot, D.D., Bishop of Oxford. It LS now said that the Dean of Westminster will be Bishop of Oxford.
The Gazette also states that the Queen has appointed Sir Henry Hart, Knight, Captain in the Royal Navy, to be one of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, in the room of Captain Robert Maunsell, deceased.
The Speaker notifies that the writ for an election at Windsor will issue at the end of fourteen days from yesterday.
There is every probability that the militia throughout the country will be called up for drill and exercise early in the new year.—Globe.
The proceedings of the Court-martial on Lieutenant W. Augustine Hy- der, of the Tenth Royal Hussars, have terminated in an acquittal. It will be remembered that Mr. Hyder was charged by his commanding-officer, Colonel Vandeleur, with attempting to pass off a borrowed horse as his own, and that the defence consisted in a denial of the imputation with the declaration that the charge was vindictive.
It is said that Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B., the Commander- in-chief of the Experimental Fleet, will be ordered up to town by the Ad- miralty, to explain to their Lordships personally the results of the late experimental cruise under his superintendence, and the discrepancies be- tween the report and the diagrams.—Morning Herald.
The Dublin Evening Post, a Whig paper, mentions an absurd report that there is an irreconcilable difference of 'minion between Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, about Irish affairs—the Duke inclining to the summary use of the sword; that both have tendered their resigna- tion; but that the Queen has refused to accept it from either, at least for the present.
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