The Gazette of yesterday announces that the Queen has conferred
knighthood on John Romilly, Esq., M.P., Solicitor-General; John Liddell, Esq., M.D., levee_ tor of Fleets and Hospitals; Captain William Bellairs, Senior Exon of the Queen', Yeoman Guard; and Matthew Wyatt, Esq., Lieutenant of the Corps of Gene, men-at-Arms.
The Reverend Dr. Kyle, Bishop of Cork, died on Wednesday evening, at his house in Dublin. Cork is the first Irish Bishopric that has become vacant under the present Administration. Dr. Kyle was a Tory of the old school, and an op. ponent to the National Education scheme.
Captain Blair, a sufferer by the recent railway accident, died at Shrivenhans an Thursday evening.
Yesterday information was received by the Police that one of the clerks in the Stamp and Tax Office, Somerset House, had gone off, stealing between 9001. and 1,0001. worth of medicine stamps and licences, the property of her Majesty's G. vernment.—Daily News.
At Liverpool, yesterday, an application was made to Mr. Rushton, the Stipen.. diary Magistrate, to swear one Billing to some testimony respecting the charges made against Lord Leigh. Billing is the son of that Billing who was alleged to have been crushed and buried under the great stone of the bridge abutment. 5k. Rushton refused the application, as concerning a matter not in his jurisdiction; but the affidavits offered were read aloud in court. Billing deposed that his father was alive in 1825; and he produced a letter written by him in 1822, both dates being by years posterior to the date of the bridge transaction. Other facts of the story were also contradicted and circumstantially refuted by Billing.
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