29 OCTOBER 1836, Page 7

The Spectator and the Examiner continue their controversy. The truth

lies in a very few words : during the past year the Spectator has written as a Radical, the Examiner as a Whig : this is the simple fact divested of its mystifications.—Kent Herald.

It is said that Mr. James Kennedy, who gave up his seat for Tiver- ton to make room for Lord Palmerston, has been appointed to an office in the West India Islands, worth 1800/. a year. Mr. George Henry Freeling, who was reported to have succeeded Colonel Mabelly, the newly.appointed Secretary of the Post-office, as a Commissioner of the Customs, has not only not entered upon the duties of the office, but we learn, from what we believe to be good an-

tbority, that no such appointment, although talked of, has taken place. Consiihaional.

The two patent places of Receivers for the Dotehies of Cornwall and Lancister, held by the late Sir W. Knighton, have been conferred on Sir Henry Wheatley and Colonel Fox ; the former being in the gift of the King, and the latter in that of Lord Holland.

The Lords of the Treasmy have, for the present, suspended the payment of the annual grant to the Royal Dublin Societe, which was, as usual, passed in the Irish Estimates of last year._Giote.

George Colman, so long " the younger," and in his latter days Play. licenser, died at Brompton on Wednesday, aged seventy-four. The Gazette of last night announces that Charles Kemble is to succeed him as Examiner of all Theatrical Entertainments " of what denomi- nation soever."