An announcement of some interest, if correct, is made today
by the Morning Chronicle—" We hear that it is the intention of the Government to issue a Commission to inquire into the condition of the Cathedral Chap- ters." But the Chronicle protests against Downing Street as the source of such a measure; claiming it for Convocation.
Two professorships of Practical Art in Woven Fabrics and Metals have recently been established at Marlborough House, with a view of directing the studies of the pupils in classes, affording assistance to manufacturers and workmen who may seek it, and giving information to the public by lectures, &c., on the examples collected in the museum. Mr. Octavius Hudson is appointed to the office in the specialty of woven fabrics of all kinds ; and Professor Semper to that of metal-working of all kinds, in- cluding jewellery and enamels.
At the meeting of the Nottingham Board of Guardians on Tuesday last, it *as announced by the clerk that the number of paupers in the work- house (395) was the smallest since the union has been in existence.— Nottingham Journal.
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