The pensions of 100/. a year, formerly settled on Sir
David Brewster and Mr. James Ivory, have, we are glad to hear, been raised to SOUL a year. Miss Stewart, the daughter of the late Honourable James Stewart, who was, a few months ago, obliged to resign his situation as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, owing to bad health, and who lately died, has got a pension of 2001. a year.—Courier.
A paragraph has been going the round of the papers to the effect that Mrs. Norton has commenced proceedings against her husband for a separation.
Off the coast of Norway, the magnificent yacht belonging to the Duke of Portland, in a full gale of wind, nearly foundered. The facts are as follow. The Duke of Rutland was in his berth, when he awoke and found the bedclothes drenched with water. His Grace threw himself out, and found the cabin floor deluged : ascending the deck, after alarming his son, he was the first person to communicate the circumstance to the man at the helm. All hands were ordered up, and they worked at the pumps all night—even the noble Duke and the Marquis, in their shirt-sleeves only. By the constant exertions of the captain and crew, the vessel was brought home without touching at any port. This event happened about a fortnight ago ; and their escape, as the Captain said, was miraculous. The Duke of Rutland arrived in town on Wednesday night, at Sir Frederick Trench's, in Bolton Row, Piccadilly.—Standard.
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