29 DECEMBER 1849, Page 7

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SATURDAY.

We understand that at the next Council the order authorizing trans- portation to the Cape will be revoked.—Times.

The Queen has presented the Reverend William Corbet Le Breton, MA., to the Deanery of the Island of Jersey, void by the death of the Very Reverend James Hemer,y.

The death of the Venerable Philip Jennings, D.D., Archdeacon of Nor- folk, has caused deep regret amongst the clergy of the diocese of Norwich. It has been generally stated iu Norwich that the vacant Archdeaconry will be conferred by the Bishop (Dr. Hinds) on the Reverend Robert Eden, AL.A.., his Lordship's Chaplain, at present incumbent minister of St. Mary's Church, Lambeth Butts. No official communication, however, has yet been made on the subject.—Morning Post.

Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, a stanch Protectionist, was elected Member for Shoreham yesterday, without opposition.

At a Protectionist meeting in Ripon, yesterday, the chairman, Mr. Edwin Lascelles, M.P. for the borough, declared that he believed it impossible to pay the rents and taxes and other payments which come upon the farmers of England and compete with the foreign grower.