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The Marquis of Bath died on Monday. He is succeeded by his son Lord Henry Thynne, a Captain in the Navy, and married to a daughter of Lord Ashburton. The Earl of Weymouth, the late Lord Bath's eldest son, died a few months ago, without issue. The real mune of the Bath family, as is well known, is not Thynne but Botte- ville. One John Botteville their ancestor, was called John o'th'Inn, because he resided in one Of the Inns of Court. The change front the vulgar name of Botteville to the aristocratic appellation of Thynne was very easy. By the death of the Merquis, another Garter, arid the Lord-Lieutenancy of the County of Somerset, will be at the disposal of Lord Melbourne.
Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Dunkin is to succeed, it is said, to the Coloneley of the Eleventh Regiment of Foot, vice General Mon- t reaor, deceased.— Courier.
It is reported in military circles, that Lieutenant-Colonel Burdett, only son of Sir Francis Burdett, is likely to succeed Colonel Lord Bing- ham in the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Seventh Lancers.—Times. L What are Colonel Burdett's services ? where did he distinguish him- self? His old father has gone over to the Tories, and that is the rea- son perhaps why the son is promoted.]
The appointment of Colonel ,Franeis Cockburn to be Lieutenant- Governor of the Bahama Isles, appears in the Gazette of last night.
The report of the death of Dr. Butler, noticed in our second edition last week, was incorrect. On Monday, the Courier contradicted its pre- vious paragraph, ou authority.
The celebrated Mrs. Fitzherbert, whose Catholic conscience was appeased by an illegal marriage with the late King,—which marriage Charles Fox declared in the House of Commons had never taken place, on the authority of the Royal liar,—died at Brighton on Monday. Mrs. Fitzherbest to the last retained traces of the beauty for which she was once so famous. Her maiden name was Smythe, amid her tirst husband was Mr. Weld, of Lulworth, brother of the Cardinal.
"A member of the Travellers' Club," in a letter to the Morning. Chronicle, says that the grasping Dean of Westminster demanded 160L for permission to erect in the Abbey a tablet, executed by Cbantrey, to the memory of Sir Humphrey Davy.
Prince and Princess Polignac left town on Thursday, for the Con- tinent. They intend to go to Carlsruhe, and thence to Prague. The Morning Post says, that " previous to the Prince's departure he had the honour to be received by his Most Gracious Majesty King Wil- liam time Fourth at Windsor, and to bear from the lips of the British Sovereign assurance of the great sympathy which be felt in his misfor- tunes."
By the last accounts from San Sebastian, we learn that Colonel De Lancey has died of the wounds he received in the battle of Hernani.
Time Standard has given grievous offence this week to the Carlist portion of the Tory pal ty, by speakiim of Don Carlos as a monster, a brute, a rebel ; terming his famous Durango decree, a " butchcrly decree ;" and praying Heaven to preserve Spain from the tyranny of such a wretch. The Herald and Post are quite shocked at this denun- ciation of a personage whose proceedings they are in the habit of eulogizing, and whose piety and wisdom, as well as undoubted right to the Spanish throne, they mitimain with intrepidity. A correspondent of the Post, whose letter is conspicuously printed, Lints that the Standard is the organ of certain traitors to Toryism in the Opposition camp ; and in tbe following passage lets us understand on whom sus- picion fails— It is time, Mr. Editor, that we should know on what authority these doc- trines are in oinulgated. Do they proceed from Sir Robert Peel and others, who may he considered the heads of the Conservative party ? Let us be told the whole truth, in order that we may beforehand Ire bet right as to the value of such leaders, and to where they would conduct us. For my part, Sir, my mind would be made up at once—I should devise them for ever ; and thousands, I think, would join Inc in that sentiment."
There are other indications of Tory dissatisfaction with Peel. A writer in Fraser's Magarine of this month, after observing thaz, by some infatuation, the fury leaders make choice, year after year, of m‘ untenable positions," adds-
. Sir 11,bert Peel 1!:is tlat reputation of being a very prudent man, ao ex- ceedingly c &winos le cler. Is it any proof of caution or of judgment to be con. stint !y t mind omtilinig ground which he cannot maintain ? amid to have signa- lis.,1 eve: y year of his public life, since lie tiist assumed the lead of time Mot,. of Commons iu I 62S, by SOW poi tentous euumces.mumm of a position which lie had previously professed, at least, to be desirous to niaiutain ?"
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