ECIIiinco us. There is a rumour that the Dutchess of
Sutherland has resigned the office of Mistress of the Robes to the Queen. The Marvis of Waterford is much indisposed at Limmer's Hotel. Earl Grey met with an accident on Tuesday sennight, which might have been productive of' serious consequences. After the fatigue of dressing for dinner, his Lordship placed himself in a recumbent posture on the 'sole in his dressing-room, immediately above which a large pictitre. by Hawley, we believe, of Lady Grey and the scions of this noble house, hod hung- for many years. The picture fell upon big Lordship's forehead, which it (nit severely, but happily did not fracture. The noble lord was stunned by the blow, and some slight temporary indisposition followed but we sincerely rejoice to say that from the first no apprehension of danger has been enteriained.—Morning Post. Captain Marryat, in a letter to the Morning Past, contradicts a re- port that he has been offered and has accepted the command of the Braziiian Navy. The Captain so vs he is not in the least hit:titled to serve under any other flag than that of his own country. The new Persian Envoy, 1 lussein Peelle, who is now en route to town from Marseilles, is said to be the bearer of fifty Cashmere shawls, of exquisite workmanship, as a. present from the Shah to her Majesty Queen Victoria.—.11ora;ny Herald. plow many to the Baroness, and how many to Lord Melbourne's sister?] The Limerick Gefot;e1:: says that information has been obtained,
which leaves no doubt that Lord Norbury was murdered at the insti- gation of two men who live within five hundied yards of the spot where the shot was fired. They hod been ejected from their holdings by Lord Norbary. The actual imuussin ran off in the direction of their dwellings. It is said that one of the instigators and the actual assassin are in custody. The butter is a " Tipperary boy."
The ensuing Assizes are likely to be, we regret to learn, the heaviest in point of' heinous offences which have occurred for sonic years.— Ahura iffy lieraid.
The Lancashire Magistrates having been convened by the Earl of Derby, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, to ctmsider the propriety of in- troducing it system of rural police, about ei:Jity gentlemen assembled at Preston, on Thursday week, and passed resolutions in general approbation of the plan.
The labourers on the Bristol and Exeter Railway are getting three shillings and eightpence per day. The works are now proceeding with great spirit ; no less than 800 men lire employed on this line.—sSbnaim Comely Ga z.'-lie,
Captain INloorsom has resigned his situation as Secretary to the Lon- don and Ilirniingham Railway Company.—Ginhe. A few days ago, a tremendous fall of' chalk took place at the facing of the rock ibrining the entrance of' the west tunnel through Shakspere's Cliff, Dover ; by which, had not some warning been given by particles falling, seventy-eight men must have been crushed to atoms, so lofty was its pitch, and forming as it did a mass of several thousand tons.— ellaidsOnte Gazette.
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