Lord AIelbourne has had a fit of the gout, but
was in the house of Lords again iast night.
Mrs. 'rrollope lies dangerously ill at the house of her brother, Mr. Milton, in the Fulham Road.
It is rumoured that a new and distinct uniform will be given to the Deputy Lieutenants of Counties. The uniform they now wear is ett- tirt•ly tnilitary.
A report from Mr. James Walker, the eminent engineer, laid on the table of the House of Commons, recommends perseverance in the Themes Tunnel project, " if it be the resolution, to complete the works without present inquiry as to cost." The report seems to be fatal to the continuance of the work, if Parliament is not prepared to sanction an unlimited expenditure.
Parliamentary electors in cities and boroughs, entitled under the Reform Act, will lose their votes for the next year, unless they pay on or before the 20th of July instant all the pour rates (and window- tax, if any) payable from them in respect of their premises previously to the lit) of April last. County voters must send in their claims by the 20th of July instant.
The Patriot says, that Dr. Wardlaw, of Glasgow, has accepted a formal invitation from the Three Denominations in Loudon, to deliver at mare of lectures in the ensuing Spring, on the Voluntary question. This is one of the first consequences of the late crusade of Dr. Chal- mers on the other side.—Glebe. [It is curious that both Churchmen and Voluntaries should send to Scotland for champions, and sympto- matic of lack of zeal or talent in both parties in England.]
A letter from Mr. Deckhouse, Under Secretary in the Foreign Office, to the Chairman of the East India and China Association, states, that no intelligence bad been received of the closing of the Chinese ports in consequence of the contraband trade in opium, but that the Canton authorities bud sent a memorial to the Emperor, re- commending that the ports should be closed unless the opium-ships were removed from the Chinese coast.
A line of packet-ships between Liverpool and South Australia has been laid on ; the first ship to sail hence on the first of August. We understand, that the emigrants from London to this new and flourishing colony ate so numerous, that, though ships are despatched at stated periods, there are always parties who cannot be accommodated with passages in them. Mr. Waddell, the proprietor of the line, in order to prevent disappointment to persons intending to emigrate to South Australia, as well as to accommodate those who reside in the North of England, and particularly in Scotland and Ireland, has formed the Liverpool line of packets ; and we have no doubt, from his well- known character, that the vessels will be first-rate and their despatch punctual. It is an unprecedented circumstance, that a line of packet- ships should be despatched to a colony so recently formed as South Australia, when many old colonies have no such mode of communica- tion with the mother country.—Liverpool Paper.
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