To COURT NEWSMEN AND Osnaus.—The reported conversion of " George"
into "Ernest," in the case of the young Prince of Cumber; land, has not taken place.
SIGN or RETRENCHMENT.—We are assured that Lord Grenville has resigned his sinecure, worth 4,0001. a-year, as Auditor of the Excite quer. Whether the office continues we are not aware : it is well known to be one of the useless ones.-Times.
LENT LECTITILES.—The Bishop of London preached in the Chape Royal on Ash Wednesday ; and he will deliver a course of lectures, during Lent, every Wednesday, at St. James's Church. SURGEONS OF THE Navx.—The members of the Royal College of Sur- geons, assembled on Monday, in their Theatre, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, to hear the Hunterian oration, took the opportunity of passing resolu- tions, by which the Council were requested to memorialize the Lords of the Admiralty, that they might rescind an order lately issued excluding surgeons of the navy from the King's levees. Mr. Wakley took an a.c. tive part in the proceedings ; and Mr. King of Hanovei Street was de- puted by the meeting to address the Council on the subject. Accord- ingly, as soon as they entered, a conversation ensued, which ended in the President consenting to receive the resolutions as official documents. • Ressras STEam-SmO.-011 Tuesday, a steam-vessel of considerable . size, said to be the largest ever built in London, ordered by the Empe- ror of Russia, and to be used, when completed, as a packet between St. Petersburg and Lubeck, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Wallis, Blackwall. Five flags decorated the deck, the centre one of which was the national standard of Russia, inscribed "Nicholas I." The length of the vessel on deck is 175 feet ; breadth 32 feet ; tonnage 755 tons; and she is to be worked by two engines of seventy-horse power each.
SuEir..—It is confidently stated that Mr. Sheil is about to enter Parliament as the representativeof an English borough. We understand that he does so, completely independent of the Ministry, or any party in the House ; and will, of course, be at liberty to advocate his own views on the important political questions which must come before the Present Parliament.—Dublin Morning Register. SWAN RIVER.—Mr. Dud, of Mark Lane, has just received letters from his son at Freemantle, dated the 24th of September, giving plea- . sant accounts of the progress of the settlement, and the discovery of "a remarkably fine country and a very fine stream, on the other side of • the Darling Range, about ten miles from its base, and within sixty miles of Freemantle—the route accessible to any thing." This news will probably give a great stimulus to emigration. The correspondent the City, who supplies the above, suggests that "it might be worth the 'consideration of persons interested to induce the Government to send out a ship load of the Incendiaries as servants to the settlers."
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