5 DECEMBER 1835, Page 6

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The Duke of Montrose is, we learn, dangerously ill. his Grace is a Knight of the Garter, and Lord-Lieutenant of the counties of Dum- barton and Stirling.—Standard.

The King has given orders for a new library on a magnificent scale to be immediately constructed at Windsor Castle.

The Marquis of Lansdowne is to be the new Knight of the Garter, and Lord Segrave the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, in the room of the late Duke of Beaufort. Mr. C. Hanbuay Leigh will probably be the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire : he is a Liberal.

It is said that Mr. Croker was the instigator of Sir Francis Burdett to attack O'Connell. The "foolish and fading" Baronet has only paid one visit to Brookes's since the publication of his letter ; and at that visit he was cut. He makes no secret of his regret at having been made a tool of—or rather, at having the Club against instead of with him.