Lest night's Gazette notifies the appointment of the Earl of
Morley as a Lord-in-Waiting, in the room of Lord Glenlyon, resigned.
It contains the following announcement- " The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having reason to believe that the scheme of retirement, dated the 31st August last, and which is intended to ex- tend to all Captains of the Royal Navy of seniority prior to 1827, who shall be fifty-five years of age (and in particular cases above the age of fifty), notice of which was only communicated to the several officers by letter, dated the 7th Sep- tember, may not have reached such officers as are residing abroad (or at a dis- tance) sufficiently early for their replies to have been received, their Lordships have determined to extend the time for officers sending in their names until the 1st November next; it being understood that the list will be closed on that day, and that the retired pay will commence from the 1st October, as originally in- tended."
The Gazette also announces the extension of the International Copy- right Act to Saxony.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of Lord John Russell. It sat two hours.
We have reason to think that the Marquis of Ormonde and the Earl of Morton will shortly resume those appointments in the Royal Household which their Lordships resigned on the retirement of Sir Robert Peel's Ad- ministration.—Morning Post.
The French Minister of Public Works, M. Dumont, who has been making a brief tour in the English and Scottish manufacturing districts, has returned to London.
The accounts of the poll at Guildhall, today, present the following gross totals—Wood, 1,248; Carroll, 858; Hooper, 260.
Captain Stanley, just appointed to the Rattlesnake, 26 guns, now at Portsmouth, is immediately to proceed to Torres Straits, Australia, the Coast of Guinea, and Solomon's Islands, to select which of them may be fowl most eligible to form a new penal settlement for male convicts. It has been. erroneously stated that all the male convicts are to be removed from her Majesty's dockyards and arsenals and shipped off for the penal settlements, and that the work is to be done by free labour. It is stated upon official authority, that Government does not intend to abolish these establishments or to remove the convicts. The new settlement will obviate the necessity of sending more convicts to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land, as they are becoming overstocked with these unhappy creatures.—Globe.
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