23 JANUARY 1847, Page 12

The Balance Sheet of the Public Income and Expenditure, just

issued, shows an excess of income-over expenditure of 2,846,3071.

Mr. Charles Lushington has sent a reply to the Secretary of the West- minster Reform Society, consenting to stand as a candidate for that city at the next election.

It is rumoured at Cambridge and at Oxford, that a Royal commission has actually received the sign-manual of her Majesty for a general inquiry into the state of education in England and Wales, to include a visitation of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and London. The Church and State Gantt's, however, says that the Royal sign-manual has not yet been affixed.