Last night's Gazette announces the appointment of the Right Honourable
the Earl of Harrowby, the Very Reverend William Rowe Lyall,D.D., Dean of Canterbury, William Page Wood, Esq., Robert Baynes Armstrong, Esq., John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., C.B., and the Reverend Richard Jones, M.A., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring how Episcopal and Capitular Estates and Incomes in England and Wales can be most benefi- cially managed, with due regard to the just and reasonable claims of the lessees; and also how fixed instead of fluctuating incomes can best be se- cured to Bishops and members of Chapters.
The Gazette also states that the Queen has appointed John Bowring, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in the city and district of Canton, in the province of Kwantung.
Truro election took place on Wednesday. The numbers at the close of the poll were—for Willyams, 239; for Smith, 225; majority for Willyams, 14.
Lord Palmerston was prevented from attending a Cabinet Council yes- terday, by an accident which occurred at Broadlands: it " was at the moment considered trifling," but " now confines him to his residence," and has compelled him to "seek medical aid from Dr. Holland."
" Emeritus" continues his letters in the Times on financial reform for the Army. This morning he proposes three kinds of economical saving,—first, a reorganization of the Infantry regiments, at home and abroad—which, by diminishing the number of officers, will effect a reduction in the expense, of 100,9791.; second, a thinning of the number of brevet Generals (by not fill- ing vacancies)—a reduction of say 6,0001.; third, a lightening of the mili- tary pension-list, by the civil employment of retired officers and private soldiers-182,500/.; total of the three items, 289,4791.
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