iftfiltellialtratiti.
The Colonelcy of the Second Battalion of the Sixtieth Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of General the Honourable Ed- mund Phipps.
The Commander.in-Chief has been pleased to recommend for the consideration of Government several meritorious officers who have not been provided for according to their rank and services in the late war. The Master-General of the Ordnance also will forward some grievous hardships of officers belonging to the Commissaries of the War
field train department. —Post. difficulties of meritorious officers result mainly from jobbing in commissions, sanctioned at the Horse Guards ; whence the enormous amount of pay to men who never saw a shot fired against an enemy.]
Lord and Lady Stanley and Mr. Poulett Thomson are on a visit with the Earl and Countess Grey, at Howick Hull, Northumberland. The Attorney-General and Lady Stratheden are on a visit to Lord Abinger, at Abinger Hall, Surry.
The Marquis of Waterford will leave town in a few days for Cur- raghmore, county of Waterford.
It is confidently stated by those connected with the families, that the Marquises of Westminster and Anglesey are to be raised to Duke- doms, the patents for which are in the office. —Chester Courant.
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