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St. James's Palace is about undergoing, by command of his Majesty, an extensive and thorough repair, internally and externally. The de- cayed and insecure portions of crick and stone work in the walls are to be removed, and replaced with sound materials. The range of frontage opposite St. James's Street is to be new pointed ; and the whole, when completed, will present a gay and freshened appearance compared with its present sombre and prison-like aspect. The right-hand turret over the principal archway entrance to the main court-yard will be taken down to a considerable extent, from the top being in an unsafe state, and will be rebuilt in its original form. Scaffoldings are already erected, and a number of workmen are busily employed in commencing the pro- jected alterations and improvements. The work will not be completed until the latter end of the winter.—Globe. [We trust it will be com- pleted then. It would be a sorry sight to see our Sailor King entangled in the snares of jobbing architects, like George the Dandy.] The great barrier or wall which separates Kensington Gardens from Hyde Park having given way, numerous workmen arc now employed rebuilding the same upon arches of a new construction, composed of brick and cement, upon the old Roman plan.
Lord Leveson Gower, second son of the late Duke of Sutherland, by his father's death, becomes possessed of the vast estates of the Duke of Bridgewater, amounting to nearly one hundred thousand pounds per annum, arising in part from extensive canal property in the North of England. The Duke of Sutherland had the foresight to guard against the depreciation of original canal investments, occasioned by the intro- duction of railroads, and accordingly subscribed two or three hundred thousand pounds in the Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham spe- culations.
The Duke and Dutebess of Sunderland are expected in town in a few days; when the alterations intended in the interior of York House, and suspended at the time of the death of the late Duke, will be recom- menced. The Dutchess Dowager of Sutherland is arrived in town from the North.
A considerable portion of the Yorkshire estates of Mr. T. W. Beau;
moat, M. P., is announced for sale by auction in the course of the pre- sent month.
The dormant spirit of the patrons of British pugilism is again roused, and It challenge has bees put forth to match a man against any pugilist in England, for one thousand pounds 300/. a-side to be put down on the first deposit, and the party to be then named. It has been felt that the Championship of England should not devolve upon a man who does not stand matchless among his countrymen ; and this noble stake is offered in the hope that a fit competitor may be obtained.—Belts Life in London. [Three cases of death at pitched battles have occured within a few months in this country—one of them only last week, at Stratford-on-Avon. The Magistrates have a sufficient warning given them in the above notice, that another of these horrid exhibitions is about to take place, for the benefit and gratification of brutes and black- legs. We trust that Lord Melbourne will not allow any Justice of the Peace, who suffers the fight to take place within his jurisdiction, to re- main in the commission : he should be ignominiously expelled.]
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