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We have good reason to believe that one of the projects of the Melbourne Administration is to provide for the Earl of Munster in India. The Governor-Generalship has long been the object of the Earl's ambition, and he is now sedulously preparing for it. Need we suggest to all who have an interest in the well-being of our Indian posses- sions, to be on the alert for preventing an appointment that would in all probability be attended with the most disastrous results ?— Tree Sun. [This cannot be true: no Minister would venture on so odious an appointment. Lord Brougham may have promised it, without con- sulting his colleagues ; but the Chancellor is not remarkable for keeping his promises, and be is not yet Premier.]
A ribbon of the Order of the Garter has become vacant by the death of Earl Bathurst.
Mr. Roebuck, M. P. having obtained leave of absence in consequence of ill health, is gone to Boulogne ; where, on his arrival, he was severely attacked by a spasmodic affection. The last accounts received are favomalde.—Bath Journal.
Earl Grey, it is said, is about to cormnit to paper some memoirs of his own political life and times.—Herald. [He should get Lord Brougham, "much meditating," to write a chapter, or at least to add a postscript, on the intrigues of the last four years.]
A beautiful marble statue of Canning, by Chantrey, has just been erected in Westminster Abbey.
Lords Castlereagh, Kimmird, Rokeby, and Gardiner, and the myste- rious Russian Count, are off to the moors of Invernessshire, to shoot grouse.
cane income of the Society of the Inner Temple is stated to be nearly 20,0001. a•year, and ; that of the Middle Temple 400/ a-year, with upwards of 40,000/. in the Funds.
Gravesend pier was opened Ott Tuesday by the official authorities. A temporary pier at Greenhithe was also opened for the first time
Several gangs of ballast-heavers are now employed in removing some of the banks n bleb so much impede the navigation of the Thames be- tween Putney Bridge and Richmond. Joseph Bonaparte, with his brother Jerome, have taken a house near Uxbridge, called Denham Place. M. Caesar Moreau, the founder of the Universal Statistical Society of France, has arrived in London on a special mission of that Society; and Dr. Bowring has again left London for Paris. Sir John Milky Doyle has been restored to his rank in the Portia. geese service. The recent conviction of General Baron, on the charges preferred by Marshal Saldanha, led to the revocation of the order which deprived Sir John of his post. The Lords of the Treasury have extended the privilege of ware- housing tea, in bond, to the ports of Greenock and Port Glasgow. The bunking-house of Kinnears, Smith, and Co. of Edinburgh, stopped payment on the 23d July. Their debts are stated to amount to :150,0001., the assets to 281,000/.
A Calais paper states, that the Spanish General Moreno, who accom- panied Don Carlos to England, having arrived in that port on the 25th July, was detained, in consequence of being the bearer of a passport that was not his own. The authorities intend to keep him in custody till they receive instructions from Government respecting him.
The responsible editor of the National has been found guilty of a libel against Louis Philip, and cendemned to the minimum penalty of SOO francs fine and six months' imprisonment. The article incriminated professed to attach individual responsibility to the King on account of his participation in the deliberations of the Cabinet Councils, and therteare in the measures of the Government. [Louis Philip is said to 1.. popularity bunting at present. Suppose he were to !emit all the sentences imposed upon editors and printers of newsaapers : this .Would be a direct and easy road to find his game.]
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