The Reverend Sydney Smith, to whom rumour had assigned the
task of preparing the Ministerial Bill for the Reform of the Church, has contradicted the assertion, in a letter addressed to the Globe.
" Combeflorny, Taunton, November 4. " Sirt—A paragraph has appeared in several of the London Newspapers, which I shall be obliged to you to allow me to contradict through the medium of your paper. "in this paragraph it is stated that the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Sydney Smith are occupied iii drawing up a bill for a Reform of the Church. " I have not seen the Lord Chaucellor for two minutes for the last twelvemonth, not ever communicated with him on the snbject in the course of my life. " I am occupied with no plan of Reform, nor do I know any one who is so. I dare say there will be such a reform, and I thinkthere ought to be; bat I have nothing atoll to do with it. If it be effected by the present Administration. it will probably be done as men of sense and statesmen go about such great objects; if it falls into the hands of madmen and Revolutionists, it will be a scene of robbery, villany, and plunder. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, SYDNEY SMITE."
Major-General Nicolay left town on Tuesday night for Plymouth, to embark for the Mauritius. It is said that a regiment is to be with- drawn from Ireland, and embarked for the Mauritius ; and that Sir William has instructions to see that the most complete obedience is yielded in the case of Mr. Jeremie.
The long-projected christening of the young Marquis of Dumfries- shire, infant son of the Duke of Buccleugh, on which occasion the King and Queen are to stand sponsors, will undoubtedly be performed at Montagu House, in Privy Gardens early in the spring, on the re- turn of the Duke from Dalkeith.—Morning Herald.
Beethoven's Mass will be performed at the Catholic Chapel, War- wick Street, to-morrow.
The Monarch, a fine ship of 84 guns, will be launched from Chat- ham yard on Saturday the 24th instant, about noon.
A survey of the best line of road for the Bristol and London Rail- way is now making.
The last detachment of a cavalry regiment composed of English, Irish, and Scotch discharged cavalry men, amounting to 500, embarked at Woolwich on board a steamer, for Oporto. This regiment is said to be as well disciplined as any in the British service. Their tudfonn is a scarlet jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, with yellow braidings, the jacket turned up with yellow, yellow stripes down the sides of the trousers : the whole dress has a military appearance. Don Pedro's agents are busy raising an infantry regiment.
A magistrate of the canton of Hondschoote being lately called to affix seals upon the effects of a person who had recently died, was with his assistants making the usual examination of the apartments, when ha came into a dark room of onlya few feet square, and there found, alive, the wife of the deceased, who had not been heard of for upwards of fifteen years, during which time she had been shut up in the place where she was discovered.—Dunliirk Joura4
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