COURT IVIonminso.—An order for the Court going into mourning ap.
peered in Wednesday's Gazette. The death of a cousin of her Majesty is the cause. THE LORD-CHANCELLOR'S FAnewEEL.---The Court of Chancery was closed on Wednesday. The Lord Chancellor, however, was in his
private room, where Mr. Horne had an interview with his Lordship. On Mr. Home's return to the Vice-Chancellor's Court, he communi- cated to the bar the purport of his conversation with Isis Lordship.; which was, that his Lordship had intended to take leave of the bar in person, but feeling that it would be extremely distressing to him to do so, he requested Mr. Horne to communicate his farewell.
111n. JUSTICE ALDERSON.—The new Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas is the son of Robert Alderson, Esq. of Norwich ; who was
many years one of the ministers of the Unitarian congregation in that city. He afterwards quitted the pulpit for the bar, and has been for some time Recorder of Norwich and of Yarmouth. Mr. Justice Alder-
son was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, and has long been one of the leading counsel on the Northern Circuit. Mrs. Opie (the daughter of Dr. Alderson, of Norwich) is his cousin ; and he stood in the same degree of kindred to the late Robert Woodhouse, Esq. the Cambridge Astronomical Professor.
THE LATE MIL Huserssox.—The will of this distinguished states- man has been proved ; and the personal property is sworn under 60,0001.
An estate at Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire—left to Mr. Huskisson, it is said, by his maternal great-uncle, Dr. Gem—is bequeathed to his- brother, General Huskisson. All the residue, with the exception of a pecuniary remembrance to his other brother, Mr. Charles Huskisson, and a few trifling legacies, is left to Mrs. Huskisson.
GENERAL BOURNONT.—This officer, and his three surviving sons, are residing at Hampstead.
PREVENTIVE SERI:rim—The number of men in the Sussex blockade is about 1,200. These occupy, upon a line (following the direction of the coast) of 120 miles and which reaches from Chichester to six miles beyond Rye, seventy-five stations, forming three divisions, the Eastern,. centre, and Western, each of which is under the superintendence of a divisional Lieutenant ; the whole being commanded by Captain Mingaye, and reporting to his Majesty's ship Hyperion, stationed in Newhaven harbour. The number of men employed-in the Kent blockade is about 1,500, under the command of Captain.Pigott„ R.N. of his Majesty's ship Talus-era, seventy-four, which is statioeed in,the Downs.—Briyhtort Gazette.
Dosinsica.—A return has been made to the governor of this island, to be transmitted to the Colonial Department, "exhibiting -a list of 606 manumissions, between the 1st of January 1825, and the 1st of August 1830; of which 481 have been by Government, 119 by bequest, and only six by purchase.
AMERICAN DESCRIPTIVENESS.—The minuteness with which an assassination is described by our Transatlantic brethren is horribly amus- ing. The nicety with which the effects of the blow on the gentleman is traced—the precise angle of the stumble it occasioned—the accuracy with which the course of the ball is traced, in the following account, are very characteristic. It is addressed to the brother of the deceased; who, no doubt, received great comfort by being informed of all the parti- culars of the outrage. "It becomes my most painful and melancholy duty to inform you that your brother, Ferdinand Morgan, was on the 7th instant, murdered in the public street of Monroe, by a base and infa- mous assassin. The circumstances are these :—On the 6th of September, he (General Morgan) had some words with a man of the name of Hem- kin ; who immediately sent him a challenge by one Colonel Morehouse, Register of the Land Office in this place—which he refused to receive. On the following morning, he had business with a gentleman ; on his way to see him he had to pass the office of Blorehouse ; not finding the gentleman he went to see, he returned, and on passing the Register Office again, Morehouse called to him, and in the street presented him the same challenge again. Your brother refused to receive any commu- nication from him or his principal ; when he turned and walked off—ten paces perhaps ; when Morehouse observed, You are a — coward ; ' your brother wheeled instantly, and advanced towards Morehouse with a sword-cane in his hand ; Morehouse presented a pistol and snapped it, but it missed fire. Morehouse then struck at him with the pistol, and then threw it at him and struck him on the head, which brought him very near to the ground—say more than half bent ; at the same instant, the Right H. Sterling, brother-in-law to Morehouse, was in the office, concealed behind the door; he saw an opportunity at the instant above, and shot your brother from inside of the door. The ball entered aboua Iwo inches and a half left of the back-bone, between the fourth and- fifth ribs, and came out between the nipple and the breast-bone on- the same side; he fell and expired instantly."
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