19 JULY 1856, Page 11

At a meeting of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol

Cathedral, held yes- terday morning, in pursnance of her Majesty's conge d'elire, the Reverend Charles Baring, M.A., was elected, to the vacant see of Gloucester and Bristol.

The Gazette of last night states that" the Queen has been pleased to erect the district of Natal, in South Africa, into a separate colony, to be celled The Colony of Natal' ; and to appoint John Scott, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the said colony."