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The Datchess of Kent arrived at Geneva on Sunday ; and took up- her abode at the Hotel de l'Ecu de Geneve, where apartments had been prepared for her. We are informed that her Majesty the Queen Dowager will leave England for Germany on the 2d June, on a visit to her illustrious res- latives.— Times.
Among the passengers by the Great Liverpool steamer was Lord Saltoun, who has returned from the military command in China.
Admiral Bowles, recently commanding on the coast of Ireland, has been appointed to the vacancy at the Board of Admiralty, occasioned by the appointment of Sir George Seymour to the command in the Pacific. Admiral Bowles's appointment was gazetted on Tuesday. A ballot was taken at the East India House on Wednesday, for a Director in the room of the Honourable Hugh Lindsay, deceased. The election fell upon Mr. John Clarmont Whiteman.
Mr. Alexander Johnston, the Member for Kilmarnock, and well known in the West of Scotland as an active Liberal, died at Rothesay, on the 9th instant. Mr. Johnston had been for some time in a melan- choly state of health ; but we believe his death was as unexpected as- sudden. Mr. Edward Bouverie, son of Lord Radnor, is a candidate for the vacant seat.
The Members for Edinburgh have replied to the resolutions of the Anti-Corn-law Association in that town. Mr. Gibson Craig points to the fact that he had voted for Mr. Cobden's, and says that he shall vote for Mr. Villiers's motion. Mr. Macaulay says that be will vote with Mr. Villiers, and that he agrees with the Association in theory ; but he. still thinks that, under some circumstances, a corn-duty might be imposed for revenue purposes; and he lectures those who threaten to elect none but Total Repealers, on the inexpediency of standing upon extreme opinions,—which would have defeated the Reform Bill, and all. measures requiring combined movement. It is stated," on good authority," that Mr. Frankland Lewis is pre- paring, by the direction of the Government, a bill for regulating Turn- pike Trusts in Wales, in conformity with the Commissioners' Report.
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