The Gazette of Tuesday formally announces that Earl Mulgmve is

appointed Governor of Jamaica. The salary paid by this country to the Governor of Jamaica amounts to about 7,000/. per annum ; but the total emoluments, including the munificent allowance of the House of Assembly, will, it is understood, augment his Lordship's revenue to 18,0001. per annum. The Honourable Captain Charles Beaumont rhipps, of the Scots Fusileer Guards, and next brother to the noble -EaripsViiecompany him in the capacity of Secretary.—Globe.

• In thnouricil of the Political Union, on Wednesday, a long dis- cussion on the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill took place. The sum of the objections against the petition - was, that petitioning was of no use, as the House of Lords was the same in sentiment and in number now as in October last. Ultimately, the petition was put to the vote, and carried by a considerable majority.

A meeting of the Greenwich and Deptford Political Union was held on Monday evening, at the Globe Tavern, Greenwich, to petition the . Lords to receive and pass unmutilated, the Reform Bill; and also to vote an addressof thanks to Earl Grey for not having disappointed the hopes of the People by a less efficient bill than that which had been rejected by the Peers in the last session. The petition and address were unanimously adopted.

The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick was celebrated 011 Saturday, at Freemasons' Tavern ; the Duke of Northumberland presiding. The meeting was not so nu- merous as usual ; no member of his Majesty's Government attended, and few or none of the Betbrming members of either House of Par- liament. By some oversight, the King's ordinary donation was not made at the meeting ; it has been made since. There has been a con- troversy on the subject of the dinner ; the Times blaming, and the Globe defending the absence of the Ministers and Reformers. The truth seems to be, that a few of the more violent Anti-Reformers had determined to give the meeting a political colouring if they could ; and the Reformers, who get quite enough of these gentlemen's eloquence elsewhere, determined to let them have it their own way.

A Court of Directors was held at the East India House, on Thurs- day; when Captain H. L. Thomas was sworn in to the command of the ship Berwickshire, consigned to China direct.

The banking-house of Duckett, Morland, and Co. has stopped pay- , ment. Their business was by no means extensive; and the failure will, it is said, be attended with no permanent loss. Their liabilities .itre stated to amount to 200,0001.; their assets, with the private fortunes of the partners, to 300,000/. Some of the literary clubs, which banked .with the house, will be exposed to considerable inconvenience. Why a club, which, from its very nature, requires a deposite account only, should bank anywhere but with the Bank of England, we leave trea- surers of clubs to explain.

A numerous meeting of the supporters of the Minor Drama was held in the New Strand Theatre on Thursday; Mr. T. Duncombe, M. P. in the chair. Resolutions to petition against the monopoly of the large theatres, were unanimously adopted. Among the gentlemen who ad- dressed the chair, were Colonel Jones, Colonel Evans, M.P., Mr. Mahon, Mr. Serle, and Mr. Swift.

The following pensions and allowances have been recently granted on the Naval establishment : IOU per annum to Mrs. Bingham, wife of Captain Bingham, drowned on duty in the Thetis ; 91/. per annum to Commander Paul Bagwell, for wounds; .501. per annum to the widow of Lieutenant E. Dillon, R.N. ; 30/. per annum to the widow of Mr. Browne, boatswain of the Prince Regent, mortally hurt while on duty; 3001. per annum each to the widows of Commissioners Hartwell and Bentham.

The total annual expense of the Milbank Penitentiarylor 1831 was 17,7151. 11a. 10d. ; from which, however, is to be deducted 1,8011. 10s. 2d. --,the earnings of the prisoners and the profit on manufactured articles. The number at present within the walls Is 576, being 435 males and -141 female. . Immediately after the death of Mr. De Tastet, the Spanish and SbutIv American merchant, which took place a few days ago, his executor went- to the banker of the deceased, to inquire if there were any securities or deposits belonging to Mr. De Tastet ; when one of the clerks brought from the strong room a large box, which the executor opened, and in which were found 400,0001. in notes of the Bank of England.—Daily Paper. [There was another box, in which were 4,000,0001. of Ex- chequer bills. The executors intend, it is said, to hold them in re- serve until Lord Grey create the Peers, when they. will come down- with the whole at once, and arrest every man of the Cabinet for pay. meat.]

The street-keepers are about to be extinguished in their last strong- hold—the City. They are to be superseded by a new police, which is

to patrol the streets by day only, and to be paid and regulated on the model of the county police. A hundred men have been chosen, and measured for their suits of blue.

On Wednesday, the out-door paupers employed by the overseers o St. Margaret's, Westminster, were informed that they must not work on the day of the fast. The pittance they are wont to earn-9d. to Is. per day—was consequently denied them, and a portion of bread and cheese served out at the workhouse instead. One poor fellow, a hard- working stonemason out of employ, who has a wife and six children to support, received a piece of bread, weighing eleven ounces, and some cheese, barely one ounce. The value of the two was W.—True Sun.

At the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Monday, Mr. Chapman, late manager of the theatre in Grubb Street, was remanded for six months, for paying several favoured creditors, to the detriment of the rest. The opposing creditor was the holder of a dishonoured bill, granted to Mon- ereiff the dramatist.

On Tuesday afternoon, as two men named Bates and Carter were employed in pulling down an arch at the Piano Gardens, near Battle- bridge, the whole of the arch suddenly gave way, and they were buried in its ruins. They were extricated, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, covered with blood; each of the sufferers had a thigh broken, their arms were disabled, and their heads dreadfully cut and bruised.

A respectable tradesman, named Spencer, was killed on Sunday, in Spanish Place, Manchester Square, by a kick from a led horse belong- ing to Mr. Sturges Bourne.

A poor waggoner was killed on Monday, near Charing Cross, by the wheels of his cart, loaded with corn, passing over his head. His horses had taken fright, and he fell in their way in his attempt to stop them: On Tuesday night, a woman named Connell, residing in Francis Street, New Cut, Lambeth, was murdered by her own son. It appears that about ten o'clock, the son, a man between twenty-four and twenty- five years of age, came home, and requested to have some bacon for supper ; but his mother, being somewhat in liquor, refused to allow him to cook his supper by the fire. A quarrel ensued; and the young man, who was blowing the fire at the time, threw the bellows at his mother, with such violence, that the none entered the temple close to the left eye, and penetrated to the brain. The son ran to his unfortunate pa- rent's assistance, and attempted to pull out the instrument of death ; but it had penetrated -so deep, that his father was obliged to assist in withdrawing it. The woman died almost immediately. The Inquest Jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter only.

Mr. William Peyton, a gentleman of considerable property, residing in Gloucester Place, Regent's Park, attempted, on Tuesday night, to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a rezor. About half-past eleven, Mrs. Peyton, it appears, awoke, and feeling the sleeve of her night-dress wet and cold, got out of bed, and, by the light of tile chamber-lamp, discovered that it was saturated with blood. Mr. Fey-- ton was then lying with his face towards her, and was as she thought, asleep. Mrs. Peyton immediately rushed to her husband to see what had happened, and was horror-struck on pulling down the bed-clothes to find him weltering in his blood, which was flowing profusely from a large wound in his throat. A razor, covered with blood, was clenched in his right hand. Mr. Ainslie, a surgeon who resides in the same row, was in attendance in a few minutes. On examining the wound, it was found to be a very extensive and dangerous one. Mr. Peyton is- sixty-four years of age ; and though his state is dangerous, hopes ax entertained of his recovery.

Mr. Glover, the husband of Mrs. Glover the actress, died in the Marshalsea on Sunday. The disease bore the appearance of the epi- demic cholera. Mr. Glover was about sixty years of age, and had for thirty years been subject to attacks of diarrhcea.

On Thursday, Mr. James Turpin, timber-merchant, residing in the Commercial Road, Lambeth, suddenly dropped down dead in his own - garden, where he was found by some of the inmates.