Tuesday's Gazette mentions the appointment of " Henry V. Hunt-
ley, Esquire, Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant-Governor of her Majesty's settlements on the Gambia."
We are happy to learn from a source on which reliance may be placed, that the chiefs of the Conservative party have at last determined to adopt what the country has long called for, a vigorous course of action on the meeting of Parliament. In a short time, therefore, we doubt not that we shall be able to congratulate our readers on the overthrow of the " traitorous" Ministry, as it has been fitly termed by the Duke of Buckingham, that now disgraces and degrades the councils of the Sovereign.—Brighton Gazette.
Lord Abinger took the opportunity of sending to Lord Ashley his first subscription to the National School Society, to state the grounds of his supporting that Society, and his opinion generally on the application of state-funds to the education of the people. His Lordship maintains that national funds ought never to be used for the propagation of any but the national religion, unless a deviation from the principle is re- quired "by some obvious political necessity or expediency." He con- siders that the grant to Maynooth, and the Regium Donum, are justi-
fiable on this ground. [Having abandoned " principle" and admitted " political expediency," Lord Abinger may consistently support the Government scheme.]
We are authorized to contradict the statement in the Spectator of yes- terday, that " Mr. Alcock, the Liberal Member for Ludlow, would not defend his seat." Mr. Aloock will defend it to the last, and without the slightest doubt of doing so successfully.—Glehe, Monday. [The Globe was dilatory in procuring authority to contradict the rumour about Mr. Alcock ; which had been circulated in the London and Pro- vincial newspapers without contradiction some days before we noticed it. Was it only when it appeared in the Spectator, among the elec-
tioneering gossip of the week, that it was deemed necessary to set the public right as to Mr. Alcock's intentions ? We could hardly have ex- pected so high a compliment from the Globe, of all papers.]
The Morning Post states that a deputation has arrived in London from Verdun, to obtain a settlement of the long-standing claims of the inhabitants of that town on the Englishmen detained there after the rupture with France following the peace of Amiens. It is said that at length the British Government are disposed to discharge the claim ; although the arrangement made in 1814, by which the prisoners of France and England were restored to their respective countries and their debts paid, would not, if strictly interpreted, apply to the persons detained at Verdun, who had been released before the Convention was signed, as not being prisoners of war.
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