6 OCTOBER 1838, Page 7

Lord Maryborough, brother of the Duke of Wellington, is appointed

to the Captaincy of Deal Castle, vacant by the decease of Lord Car- rington. The office is in the Duke's gift.

Mr. Law has been selected from the numerous candidates for the situation of Treasury Clerk, and has received his appointment accord- ingly.— Globe.

Mr. William Wilberforce Bird has been appointed, provisionally, third member of the Council of India, in the room of Mr. Henry Shakspeare, who died at Calcutta on the 2:1d of March,—Globe.

It is said that Sir John Herschel does not wish to succeed the Duke of Sussex as President of the Royal Society.

The Bishop of Carlisle has been entertaining Lord Brougham, at Rose Castle, near Carlisle.