Lord Brougham, it is said, has not allowed the natne'
of a clergyman to be in- serted in any commission of the peace since lie has held the seals; and it is in- tended to omit them in all future renewals of commissions.—Herald.
Major-General Miller has been appointed Director-General of the Royal Artil- lery, with a salary for that office of only 100/. a year ; and Sir A. Dickson, Deputy Adjutant-General, has been appointed Master-Gunner of St. James's Park', with the additional pay of 3s. per day, and no allowances ; making a saving of about 2,000/. a year to the public. • .
Reductions are still going on in the Ordnance Department at the Tower, principally among the seniors, where it will not be so much felt.— Tintes. -
The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for 1832 is ascertained to exceed 47,500/.
We take the following from the Journal eln Commerce of Lyons, on the 27th ult.—" Two days ago, a mercantile house was opening some bales of cotton, when, to the astonishment of those engaged in the operation, there-was found in one of them the body of a Negro, bent double and carefully packed in the middle of it." [This story is not incredible. Some years ago, Mr. W. Gray, of Boston, at that time the largest shipe.wner in the United States, and engaged extensively in the West India trade' found a young "tugger" snugly preserved in a hogshead of rum. He ordered his cooper to head up the cask immediately, and not to mention what he had seen ;. adding this truly mercantile remark- " If I buy the Devil, 111 try to sell him."j
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