It has been said, that their Majesties will hold their
first drawing,. room at the new Palace ; but it is not, perhaps, as well understood that Buckingham Palace is not at all adapted for state occasions. At St. James's, there is ample accommodation for 3000 or 4000 persona, without inconvenience : at Buckingham Palace, there is only one grand staircase, and that very narrow, with tio separate entrance for the nobility arid ambassadors entitled to the entrke. Buckingham Palace is certainly most magnificently fureished ; but as Mr. Blore, the architect, has expended the grant for the completion of the building, implication must again be made to Parliament for 40001. to supply bells throughout the Palace, as also to furnish it with gas.—Constits. &nal.
Lord Lyndhurst and one of his daughters have gone to Paris.
It is rumoured in the circles of fashion, that a reconciliation has bees brought about between parties whose differences were last year the source of to more than ordinarily interesting investigation in West- minster Hall—Morning Herald. [Mr. and Mrs. Norton, of course.] Lord Melbourne is expected to leave town on Monday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger.
Several of the Cabinet Ministers will leave town the beginning Of next week, on to visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey.
The body of the late Duke of' Montrose was removed on Wednesday from the chapel in North Audley Street, in a hearse, taken down So the Tower-stairs, and embarked on board the Dundee steam-vessel.
Lord Ranelitgli has written a letter from Rome, which appears in the Times and Post this morning, denying the truth of the story given by a correspondent of the Courier, that he pined admission to General Evans's table at Sun Sebastian in the character of a Liberal. He says that his Carlist opinions were well known, and that he never professed any other : he never had any conversation with Juuregui, and never rode General EVailleb horses : he only partially inspected the out- posts Ilt Suit Sebastian, and then it was in company with General La Merchant, whose horse he rode. What Lord Runelagh states may be true ; but Evans and bis officers must have been precious blockheads, to have received him as they did, and given him every opportunity of inspecting the condition of their camp, if they knew that he was s Carlist and about to join the Pretender. 03eneral Sir John Harvey has been Hepointi d Governor of New Brunswick, and Mr. Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of Prince Edward's Island.
Mr. J. B. Greenwood has been appointed Police Magistrate in the room of Mr. Clarkson, deceased.
Professor Musgrave. of Cambridge, says the Chronicle, will probably be the new Dean of Bristol. On Monday, the Reverend Walter Hook, son" of the late Dean of Worcester, was elected Vicar of Leeds. In some of the newspapers, Mr. Hook, who must be upwards of forty, was called the son of Mr. Theodore Hook ; and the Post this morning assures its readers that this is not the case ; and moreover, that there is but little difference in phew and uncle. No—uncle Theodore cannot be far the age of the ne
on the wrong side of sixty yet.
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