The Commissioners for Inquiry into the opportunities of Religious Worship,
means of Religious Instruction, and Pastoral Superin- tendence afforded to the People of Scotland, and into the Funds available for the purpose of the Established Church of Scotland, are— the Earl of Minto, G.C.B., Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, John James Hope Johnstone, Esq., Robert Bell, Esq., Procurator of the Church of Scotland, James M. Nairlie, Esq. of Dunsinnan, Tho- mas Henry Lister, Esq., John Shaw Stewart, Esq., John James Reid, Esq., Andrew Coventry Dick, Esq., Henry Baxter, Esq, Edward Horseman, Esq. The majority of the Commissioners are members of the Scotch bar, intelligent men, and of some eminence in their profession. We have no doubt of their fitness to discharge the duty they are called on to perform.
The Hertford Reformer states, that at the late meeting at Apsley House, " not a word was said by any one but the Duke of Wellington; and he confined his exhortations to a recommendation not to go out of town,' because, ' whatever was done with the two bills about to be sent up to them, must be done in Committee, when proxies are of no use.'" Air. Otway Cave is disabled from attending to his Parliamentary duties, by a fall from his horse ; and Mr. Gisborne has been obliged to leave town for St. Petersburg, in consequence of the illness of a near relative in that city: he has paired off with Sir W. Wynn for the remainder of the session.
The recognizances in the Ipswich petitions against Messrs. Wason and Morrison not having been completed, the matter is at an end.
By the death of Mr. Lewis Alsop Lowdham, the Secretaryship of Lunatics has become vacant ; the gift of which is in the Lord Commissioners.of the Great Seal. The Solicitorship to the Dutch), of Cornwall Board is also vacant by the death of Mr. Lowdham.
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