26 SEPTEMBER 1835, Page 9

The Commissioners for inquiring into the affairs of the Post-office

are now engaged in an investigation relative to the steam-packet esta- blishments, and have directed their Secretary, accompaided by a naval officer, to make a survey of the different stations, for the purpose of collecting information on the spot, and inquiring into the present system of management. —Falmouth Packet.

Mr. Charles Kenthle, who has been playing some of his favourite characters at Cambridge, was on Monday last elected an honorary member of the Cambridge Garrick Club. The society was established in 1833 for the encouragement of ti.e drama.

Bellini, the composer, died on Wednesday at Puteaux, near Paris : he was only N years old.

Madame Malibran has just reappeared at the Scala, at Milan, where site was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The performance was Otello, in which she sustained the part of Desdemona with all her ac- customed talent.

Munich and the surrounding towns are filled with persons flying from the cholera in Italy. As the cholera did not, during its last ap- pearance in Europe, penetrate into Bavaria, the Bavarians persuade themselves that they are safe from its ravages, which the peasants at- tribute to the special intervention of the Virgin on their behalf. Why she should be so particularly solicitous about Bavaria does not appear. The King of Prussia was presented for two days from joining the exhibitions at Kalisch by an unfortunate accident. The immanage- ahle horse of a gendarme ran against his Majesty and severely bruised his knee. One account says that he was struck on the same limb which a few years ago he had the misfortune to break at the ankle, and that the contusion was very severe.