A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at the Foreign
Office.
Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has directed that the forts and settlements on the Gold Coast do cease to be dependencies on the colony of Sierra Leone; and has appointed Sir William Winniett, Knight, Commander in the Royal Navy, now Lieutenant-Governor of those forts and settlements, to be" Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the same."
After some cross-statements on the subject, it is now circumstantially averred that Commander John Charles Dalrymple Hay has been pro- moted to the rank of Captain, for his services in China; Lieutenant George Hancock, who served under Captain Hay, is promoted to the rank of Commander; and Lieutenant William John Samuel Pullen, of the Plover, is promoted to be Commander.
The Right Reverend Samuel Hinds, D.D., was "inducted, installed, and enthroned" as Bishop of the Diocese of Norwich, on Thursday.
The Morning Herald of Thursday announced that, "the decision" of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has been made and is against the Bishop of Exeter." The Globe of the same evening staled that it was authorized to give a positive denial to this statement. The Herald of this morning firmly reiterates its assertion "that the members of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council have agreed upon their report, and that their judgment is against the Bishop of Exeter" and adds, that 'Mr. Gorham's institution will be the duty, not of the Bishop of Exeter," as erroneously assumed on Thursday, "but of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust." The decision, "if not unanimous,' will be "undisturbed by a dissentient voice," and may be expected in the course of the first week in February.
By the death of Mrs. Chalmers, widow of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, a small pension lapses to the Crown. The original sum was 2001.; but it appears to have been portioned out among the widow and her seven -daughters.
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