The King presented the Princess Victoria, on her birth.day, with
a magnificent grand pianoforte, made by the Member for Bridgewater, of the value of two -hundred guineas.
By the death of Sir Alexander Hope, which took place on Friday last week, at Chelsea Hospital, the appointment of Lieutenant- Governor to the Hospital, and the (Montle,' of the Fourteenth Reg ment of Foot, become vacant.
No sooner has the report of the Committee of Privilege, arising out of Lord Denman's address to the Jury in.the case of " Stockdale versus Hansard," been published, than a second action, we learn, is brought by Mr. Stockdale against Mr. Hansard, the printer, for a libel, grounded on the publication of it !—Morning Chronicle. (Now let Lord Denman" show fight," and stand up for law and liberty.] Dr. Gilbert, of Britzennose College, Oxford, has withdrawn the notice to the students of his college, prohibiting them from attending Dr. Hampden's lectures. It seems that the Bishop of Salisbury, as well as the Bishop of Lichfield, refused ordination to applicants who could not produce the certificate of the Regius Professor of Divinity. The foolish and discomfited Doctor says that he has been met by " a power which he did not expect, and will not oppose." He has, how. ( ver, managed to inflict a very serious injury on many young gentlemen committed to his care.
The sum of 3001. has been subscribed by the United Service Club. towards the erection of a new church in the parish of St. James. Rumour says that the motion to this effect, which was mude by Lord De Grey, produced an animated discussion, in which Sir H. Vivian, Sir T. Troubridge, Sir R. Ferguson, and other naval and military offi- cers connected with our Church-supporting Administration, distin. guished themselves by opposition to the grant. The vote was, how. ever, ultimately carried ; his Majesty's Ministers in the Club being left in a minority of 88 to 124.—Morning Herald.
The Herald says that the members of several other clubs were ap- plied to by the Bishop of London for subscriptions ; but they refused, and some of them in not very courteous terms; whereat the Herald whines and preaches.
The rumoured marriage in high life between Lord Frederick Reacts clerk, the brother of the Duke of St. Alban's, and the wealthy Miss Brown, is entirely broken off. Many causes are assigned.—Mreing Herald.
The Carlton Chronicle, a weekly ricketty bantling, which has been advocating Tory principles for almost a year past, gave up the ghost last week. It had groat pretensions, and, like all pretenders, it would have gone out of the world unknown but for this passing notice, which tnay he considered its epitaph.—Globe.
The Opera-house on Thursday was a scene o' the gn a'est con. fusion, in consequence of the majority of the subscribers supposing it was one of their subscription nights,—a mistake which probably arose from some peculiar wording of the advertisements. From eight o'clock until half-past nine, parties continually arrived to occupy their boxes, which. however. they found were let to others: and thn enrriagps having generally driven away after setting down, nothing could exceed the inconvenience and confusion among the disappointed subscribers. Within the theatre also discord reigned instead of harmony. The promised Don Giovanni had been changed to the Cenerentola, in con- sequence of the indisposition of Madame Grisi, and the audience were loud and boisterous in their indignant disappointment.—Morning Chronicle.
The Fourteenth Report of the Committee on Public Petitions, delivered yesterday morning, brings the statement of petitions pre. sewed this session clown to the 2(1 of May, at which time the total number amounted to 6,139. The petitions against the pro- posed Church- rate regulation measure amounted to 2,642, with 253,613 signature s, and those in favour of the plum to 1,505, to which
44(4,945 signatures were attached. It appears from this statement, therefore, that, up to the 2(1 of May, though the petitions against the measine exceeded by 1,137 those in favour of it, the number of signa-
tures to the petitions favourable to the Ministerial plan exceeded those against it by 195,332. The petitions in support of the bill for the
better observance of the Lord's.day amounted to 186, with 23,233 signatures; fur the abolition of tithes in Ireland 252 petitions, 130,822 signatures ; in favour of the Irish Corporation Bill 322, signatures 154,615; alndf7o7rtbe amendment and repeal of the Poor-law Act 171, signatures oto
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