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Tuesday's Gazette contained several official announcements-

" The Queen has been pleased to order a cone d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield to elect a Bishop to that see; the same being void by the death of Doctor James Bowstead, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also been pleased to secommend to the said Dean and Chapter, John Lonsdale, Clerk, Bachelor of Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the said see." :"rhe Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend James Robertson, Minister of Elba, in the county of Aberdeen, to be Secretary to her Majesty's sole and only Master Printers in Scotland, in the room of Doctor David Welsh."

"The Queen has been pleased to nominate, constitute, and appoint James Walker, Esq., advocate, to be one of the Ordinary Clerks of Session in Scot- land, in the room of George Joseph Bell, Esq., deceased."

"The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Right Honourable George Tohn West Earl Delaware, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, and to Elisabeth Countess Delaware his wife, her Royal licence and authority that

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they and their issue may, out of respect to the family of Sackville, (the said Elizabeth Countess Delawarr being sister and co-heir of George John Frederick Sackville, fourth Duke of Dorset. deceased.) henceforth take, use, and prefix the surname of Sackville before that of West ; and that the said George John Earl Delawarr may bear the arms of Sackville quarterly, in the second quarter, with those of his own family ; and that the arms of Sackville may, in like manner, be borne by their issue."

The Gazette contains the Nankin treaty of peace, announces the ex- change of the ratifications of that treaty, and publishes the new Chinese tariff and regulations of commerce.

It also contains an order in Council, revoking a previous order, issued in February 1832, which prohibited the importation of fresh and salt meat, dried or salted fish, and oils, fins, and skins, the produce of crea- tures living in the sea, into the Cape colony ; the new order substituting duties.

An Extraordinary Gazette, issued on Wednesday, contained an order in Council constituting the Archdeaconry of Manchester, and authoriz- ing the Bishop of Chester to appoint the Archdeacon.

Sir Robert Peel has appointed the Reverend John Sinclair, Treasurer of the National Society for the Education of the Poor, and Vicar of Kensington, to the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, vacated by the promo- tion of the Reverend J. Lonsdale.

A War-Office circular and warrant for establishing and regulating regimental savings-banks has just been issued, with the necessary forms for deposits.

The Dec de Bordeaux, attended by the Due de Levis, the Duo d'Es- cars, Admiral Villaret Joyeuse, and his suite, arrived at Alton Towers, the Earl of Shrewsbury's seat, on Saturday. M. Berryer and a distin- guished party are invited to meet the Duke ; who is expected to stay for some days.

Prince Alexander of the Netherlands embarked at St. Catherine's Dock on Sunday, in the steam-ship Batavier, for Rotterdam. M. Dedel attended his Serene Highness to the Dock.

It is said that Lord Campbell is devoting his leisure to a lego-literary work, "The Lives of the Lord Chancellors, from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time."—Morning Chronicle.

The Morning Post had a leading article on Wednesday eulogizing the hospitable, judicious, and impartial conduct of Alderman Humphery in the civic chair ; and the eulogy is copied by papers of all parties, as "a well-deserved compliment."

General Duff Green has written a letter to the Times to combat the views of the American correspondent of that journal, and others, as to the impracticability of a commercial treaty between England and the United States. The General enters into calculations, from which he infers, that although the Whigs have gained at the late elections, there will be a majority against the high-tariff opinions both in the Senate and the House of Representatives: that the effect of those elec- tions will be to stimulate and unite the Democrats, so that the Presi- dent elected next year will not be the Whig Henry Clay, the author of the present exclusive tariff, but either Mr. Calhoun or Mr. Van Buren, his opponents. Some have imagined that Congress would reject a com- mercial treaty as an infringement on the right of taxation: but it never was intended to fix the tariff by treaty. The object was, while the Congress should have the tariff under discussion next session, to have a special commission sent from England to give assurances of mutual re- laxations in the British tariff, and to settle the points of dispute that remain at issue. General Green urges the expediency of sending such a commission ; otherwise he prophesies serious interruption to the friendly relations of the two countries.

The Reverend Sydney Smith's letter to the Morning Chronicle was first printed with some errata, of which that journal subsequently fur- nished the corrections ; and they were duly incorporated in our edition on Saturday. Thus, the word "stripling," which puzzled us not a little, was altered, in conformity with the correction in the Chronicle, to "stripping," which seemed not less enigmatical. The following note to our contemporary, on Monday, set all right- " Sir—Your table of errata, published the 4th, for my letter of the 3d, is a good indication of the modes of English education. I have twice endeavoured to write the word skipping= skipping spirit.' Your printer first printed it 'stripling,' and then altered it into stripping. The fault is entirely mine. I was fifteen years at school and college: I know something about the Romans and the Athenians, and have read a good deal about the prseterperfect tense ; but I cannot do a sum in simple addition, or write an handwriting which any- body can read. I am, Sir, SYDNEY SMITH." [Education in England is indeed very imperfect ; as where is it not? but decently-legible writing is not so vast a difficulty that bad handwriting need be charged upon "education." Some of the neatest hands we know are those of men who never learned writing at school ; and there are many who profit but little by the writing-master whose hand gets " formed " into a very fair one. The fault generally is in the imperfect will of the writer ; who often thinks it "no matter," or has a private notion that a "vile scrawl" is rather an intellectual-looking thing. We dare say that Mr. Smith was not guilty of that affectation ; but it is too much to say that he can't write well because he never was taught. Why, there are hundreds of more difficult things that men do without ever having been "taught." Everybody has an interest in this ; for there are few greater sources of trouble and hindrance than illegible manuscript : yet the man who would be ashamed to keep you waiting two minutes at his door, will not scruple to detain you half an hour in deciphering a note.]

The Exeter Hall Concerts recommence on Wednesday next, the 15th. Handel's Deborah is the work selected for performance. It is one of the great composer's earliest oratorios, having been produced in 1733; and, although it has not been performed entire for a long number of years, it contains some of the finest choruses he ever penned.

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 12th August to the 4th November 1843—

LIABILITIES. ASSETS.

Circulation £19,314,000 Securities £21,392,000 Deposits 10,980,000 Bullion 12,098,000

£30,294,000

£33,490,000