" I continue to receive from all my nei g hbours assurances

that they are my most and the leaves will fall ; but I ant not without confident hopes that the return of spring sessed ; and my people must consequently be satisfied with the pleasures or the CIIIMIL

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Commissioners of Woods and Forests; and Sir W. Parker as a

of 'he Admiralty. Mr. Robert Grant was knighted, previous to his departure for Bombay.

Mr. Brodie, the eminent surgeon, is to be made a Baronet.

Mr. Cresswell received a silk gown just before the Cumberland Assizes.

A Court-martial is ordered to assemble to try Mr. A. Lawrence, surgeon of the Buzzard, on a charge of drunkenness, preferred against him by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

In one of the clauses of the Poor-Laws Amendment Bill, it is enacted " that crphan children shall be educated as the parents shall direct !"

A correspondent complains, apparently with justice, of the manage- ment in the State Paper Office. He says—A gentleman having gone through a tedious and useless form with the Secretary of State, and the person who has the management of the State Paper Office, at length obtained permission to see the papers he desires. This accomplished, he thinks it is all very simple and straightforward. Ile very soon finds

Out his mistake, however ; every obstacle seems to be thrown in his Way. As 80011 as he commences, instead of the papers he desires to see, and which ought to be produced as soon as asked for, he has sent to him a number of unarranged packages most of which have nothing at all to do with the subject of search ; and there is no person to apply to, but a man utterly ignorant, a mere chamber.keeper or porter. If it be really intended that these papers should be useful to the public, they ought to be properly arranged, and the office placed upon a more respect- able footing than it seems to be at present : if not, let it be shut up altogether, as an useless establishment.'—True Sun.

The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley House on Monday night, from a visit of condolence to Mr. Arbuthnot. His Grace is still in town.

It is related by the veritable author of the Castle qf Otranto, as well as by other romance-writers, that the sudden fall of arms or armour was always looked on as the precursor of some extraordinay catastrophe. 'Did we not know his Grace of Wellington to be superior to such vulgar prejudices, even his soldier spirit might quail on reading what we write. Amongst the various banners which flout the ceiling of St. George's Chapel, at Windsor, that of his Grace has for some years occupied a conspicuous and elevated position ; a compliment due not less to the distinguished rank of the Banneret, than to his zealous advocacy of the Church. On Saturday morning, when the persons who have charge of the Chapel, entered to prepare it for the Sabbath service, they dis- covered, no doubt with much surprise, that the ducal crest and helmet which surmounted his Grace's banner had fallen from their high place, and lay scattered on the floor in brilliant ruin, having broken part of the carved woodwork of the pew beneath in their i1e-Tent—Essex and Herts Mercury. [There is one omission in this narrative : though the

• " brilliant ruin" was undiscovered till Saturday, the fall happened early on Tuesday morning, at the moment when the Duke of 1Vellington gave his vote on the Irish Tithe Bill. The fracture of the ducal crest and helmet denotes that the Duke "lost his head" at that moment aml forfeited his honours : the damage to the "carved wood-work " is typical of the blow which the vote of the Veers has dealt to the sinecure Church in Ireland, and in fact to the sinecureism and useless pomp (" carved wood-work" carrying this mystical meaning) of the English Church itself.]

It is obvious that James would have read with horror, had he lived down to August 1834, the announcement, by us long ago foreseen, of " The Society for the diffusion of Political Knowledge—Chairman, the Lord Chancellor." This Society is of course substantially the same with that for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : the time has now come for dropping the mask ; and any one who considers Lord Brougham's evidence before the late Committee on the Law of Libel, together with this new prospectus, will perceive that the grand scheme for which all this machinery was originally set on foot and organized, was that of concentrating the whole management of the Newspaper Press throughout the empire in the hands of a snug Committee of Bellenden Kers, and Le Merchants, mixed up with Unitarians, Ike.— under the tranquil superintendence of the Lord Chancellor Brougham! The stamp-duty is, of course, to be removed forthwith.—Quarterly _Review, just published.

Prince Talleymnd has left London for Paris.

Miss Martineau sailed on Saturday from Liverpool, in the United States, for New York.

It appears from a letter by Mr. Ilayne to the Morning Chronicle, that this gentleman intends shortly to publish a "pamphlet of facts" relative to the jewels presented by him to Miss Foote, and now retained by Lord Harrington. The pamphlet will contain particulars "hitherto from delicacy withheld from the public." We think the public has had tore than enough of this simple person and his amour.