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The Marquis of tleadfort is to have the rilnusl of the order of St. Patrick, worn by the late Marquis of °monde.

Mr. Binning, a Commissioner of Customs, is about to retire; to make way, it is supposed, for Mr. Stephen hire. 'I he rumoured ap- puintment of this latter gentleman stirs up the bile even of Ministerial toadies.

There is some talk in "fashionable circles" of a legal investigation Omit to be made respecting the rialit of succession to a dukedom. The disputants are two brothers; and we presume that the Marquis of Blandford and Lord John Churchill are the parties alluded to.

From au ammuncement in a Glasgow paper last week, we learn that the busy President of the Beard of Trade lied reached Glasgow, in company frith Lord Ossulston, On their way to Skye, " on a shoot- kg excursion." [Mr. 't hontson is, is no doubt, quite delighted to be the companion of a Lord, who is also son of that fashienable and ex- clusive lady, the Countess of Tankerville.) There are very general rumours afloat in Dultlin that an Irish peer, recently married to the daughter of a noble Eat!. anti wlu inherited, opals the death of his father, 13,0013/. a year, and malls. 1i 0,000/. in the Funds, has lost every shilling over which lie had Conti ()I, filed tiding even the life-interest in his magnificent estate, in gatillilieg debts. It is said that he has been thus fleeced by two other members of the Pen- age. At present it would be premature to go into particulars.—Letter in Mc 7'imes.