afildteTIMOUd. The Directors of the East India Company have confirmed
the ap- pointment of Lord Auckland to the Governor-Generalship of India. Lord and Lady William Bentinck have left town for the Continent. Lord William's health is happily much improved.
Lord and Lady Canterbury and family are on the eve of departing on a Continental tour. [Having once got Lady Canterbury out of the Speaker's house, which has been most indecently retained by her Lady- ship for so long a period after all claim to occupancy ceased, it is to be hoped that Lord Duncannon will bar the doors against her return to it.] Last night's Gazette contains the appointment of Mr. John William. Birch to the Assistant Clerkship of " the Parliaments," in the room of Mr. Courtenay, now Earl of Devon. The Honourable Captain Frederick Grey bas resigned his appoint- ment of Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, having been appointed to the command of the Jupiter of fifty guns, late a troop ship, which is to carry out the new Governor-General to India. The Honourable Captain George Grey is to take the command of the Cleopatra frigate, which is to convey the Countess of Durham and family to St. Petersburg. The ill-fated ci-devant Countess of Roseberry expired recently at Nice. She was the second daughter of the late Honourable Bartholo- mew Bouverie, and cousin to the present Earl of Radnor.
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