Last night's Gazette notifies Lord Clarendon's appointment to be Lord-Lieute-
nant and Governor-General of Ireland.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Foreign Office: Lord Clarendon was present. At Mark Lane yesterday there was a tendency towards a fall in the price of wheat.
Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Bath.
Reports received today from the civil authorities in the recently disturbed dis- tricts of Cornwall, Somerset, and Devon, confirm our anticipations of the preser- vation of order by a timely and judicious exertion of the civil power. The high price of food seems to be the only cause of complaint among the peasantry. The common price of bread (now a shilling for the tour-pound loaf) is most severely felt under an average rate of wages not exceeding eight shillings a week; and disturbance, wherever it has occurred, has been readily traceable solely to the cause of suffering here indicated.—Globe.
The Bishop of London has this morning forwarded a notice to the " Office," that the Assessors are, with himself, of opinion that the Sub-Dean, the Reverend Mr. ,Knapp, has wog proved his right to be appointed to the Vicarage of St. Giles, Cripplegate. The appointment of Archdeacon Hale is thus confirmed.
This being the first day of term, the Equity and Common Law Courts were opened at Westminster, at ten o'clock.
. A rumour of Mr. 0"Connell's death reached town last night. The authority for the rumour seems to be the following announcement in the Moniteur Porisien- " On ecrit de Nice que O'Connell est mort en arrivant a Genes." Previous ac-
• isbunts had represented him to have been slightly indisposed, but the truth seems to be that he was seriously ill. However, there are direct accounts of him for five days after his arrival at Genoa; and the statement of his death may be regarded as premature. The Marquis of Normanby left Paris on Thursday, and arrived in London last night.
The Courrier de Mar seilk of the 17th instant mentions that Queen Chris- 'tine arrived at Marseilles on the 15th; that Don Enrique came from Toulon ex- pressly to see her; and that the conference lasted till a late hour of the night. ,Ilia bride was with him.
• Letters from Barcelona to the 5th instant report the death of Tristan)', the Carlist chief. lie was surprised by Colonel Baxecos, his band rooted, zed himself conveyed prisoner to Solsona; where the Captain-General caused hint to be shot. Further accounts are given of the secret society just detected in Paris. It appears to have systematically made a profession of robbery, on the social principle of equalising property ! The principal is said to have been a pmprietaire: he re- ceived, and distributed, the stolen goods. One object of the ateomation was to as- sassinate the King. Among the conspirators is AL Considers, who has twice be- fore been tried for attempted regicide.
The French telegraph gives the heads of the news borne by the coming overland mail from India. Lord Hardinge was at Simla.. In the Punjaub all was quiet. Serious disturbances are reported in Onde.
The French papers have intelligence from Tahiti, to the 7th February, an- nouncing that Queen Pommy had submitted to French authority.
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