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Tuesday's Gazette announced that Major Graham, private secretary and brother of Sir James Graham, had been appointed to the office of Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in the room of the late Mr. Lister. Captain Donates O'Brien has been appointed Sir James's private secretary.

Mr. F. Graham, Postmaster of Carlisle, (cousin of the Right Honour- able Sir James Graham.) has, we hear, been appointed Consul at Bayonne. The successor to Mr. Graham in the Post-office here has not been named : we hear that numerous applications have been made for it.—Carlisle Journal.

W. Wordsworth junior, Esq., has been appointed Distributor of Stamps for the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, in the room of his father, the great poet, who retires upon a pension.—Globe. It is rumoured that the Navy Board is to be revived ; but, instead of a Comptroller it is to have a Chairman, for which Rear-Admiral Ross is named.—Plymouth Journal.

The Duke of Wellington gave the annual entertainment on the 18th of June, Saturday, at Apsley House, to celebrate the anniversary of Waterloo. The Marquis of Anglesey, the next senior officer to the Duke at Waterloo, sat on his left, and Prince Albert sat on his right : the Prince and the Marquis of Exeter were the only persons there who had not been present in one of the actions of the 16th, 17th, or 18th June. The Duke of Wellington's health was proposed by Prince Albert.

The Standard says that Sir Joseph Littledale's bodily infirmities are such as to give pain to his friends, though his life is in no immediate danger.

Mr. Moscheles's concert yesterday, in aid of the Hamburg Fund, was immensely crowded, and the receipts must have been very great. Prince Albert and the Dutchess of Kent " assisted " among the audience ; Adelaide Kemble, Rubini, Moscheles, Thal berg, John Parry, and other favourites, among the musicians. Hulluh's third choral exhibition of his classes at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday evening, was honoured by the unusual presence of the busy Premier.

Miss Kelly, the actress, is ill of a rheumatic fever ; and her little theatre in Dean Street has been temporarily closed in consequence.

Mr. Frederick Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre, has died from the effects of the broken blood-vessel which alarmed his friends three months ago. About a fortnight back, he was advised to return to London from Dublin ; and he arrived by the Birmingham Railway at the Euston station ; but there he was taken so ill, it is said with cramp in the heart, that he could not be removed to his own house aeBromp- ton, and he was c.arrieit into the neighbouring hotel. Surgical aid was summoned, andiremained in attendance upon him until Tuesday after- noon, when he expired. Mr. Yates was born in 1797 ; the son of a tradesman East of Temple Bar ; and was partly educated at the Char- terhouse. He was for a short time in the Commissariat Department ; but soon after the general peace took to the stage, under the favourable introduction of Mathews. His first appearance at Covent Garden was in 1818, in the character of Logo: he afterwards played with success at Edinburgh, Bath, and other places ; and became lessee of the Adelphi, in conjunction with Terry, in 1825. He married Miss E. Brunton, daughter of the late Mr. John Brunton, and niece of the Countess of Craven. With his widow, Mrs. Yates, he has left an only son.

A numerous meeting of the London Statistical Society took place at their rooms in St. Martin's Place, on Monday evening. The Marquis of Lansdowne, President, was in the chair, and Prince Albert, Patron, attended. The discussion was on a paper by Mr. Joseph Fletcher, " On the Municipal Institutions of the English Towns " ; and the Prince, it is said, took an active interest in the proceedings.

The following table shows the several divisions in the House of Commons on the Ballot. The tellers are included in the numbers— 1833, April 25 1835, June 2

1836, June 23 1837, March 7 1838, February 15

1839, June 18

1842, June 21

The average price of wheat, for the last six weeks having risen to 62s. 3d. per quarter, the import-duty on fo -eign corn is now reduced to 108. per quarter.

The Spitalfields ball at the Opera-house produced about 1,000 nett. The tickets sold at a guinea each were 2,4021; the Queen contributed 1001., the Dutchess of Gloucester 101., the Duke of Northumberland 301., the Earl of Errol 25/. The total expenditure was 2,2001., of which 1,800/. was spent in remodelling the theatre!

A subscription has been set on foot on behalf of the wives and chil- dren of the army in Cabul. The list is headed by the Queen, with 2001. ; Sir Charles Forbes has given 100 guineas ; the Honourable Mr. Elphinstone 50/. ; and a number of other charitable individuals have sent in to the Committee saws of less amount.

An instance of the joint insubordination and personal recklessness that prevail in the French army occurred on Tuesday. A soldier of the Sixty-eighth Regiment was tried before the permanent Court-mar- tial sitting in Paris, and capitally convicted of a deliberate attempt to bayonet his captain on parade, in presence of the whole regiment. The officer was wounded in the hand. When informed, after conviction, that he might appeal against the sentence, the prisoner coolly replied, No, it is better that the sentence be carried into execution!"

Advices from Madrid, to the 17th instant, announce the formation of the new Ministry. The following are the members of the Cabiuet- Rodil, Minister of War and President of the Council ; Almodovar, Foreign Affairs ; Zumalacarregui, Justice ; Ramon Calatrava, Finance ; Capaz, Marine ; Torrez Solano, Interior.

A Republican movement was made at Barcelona on the 16th ; which, however, led to no serious results. The mob attacked the prison with cries of " Viva la Republica!" but they were soon dispersed by a charge of cavalry. A republic was proclaimed at Figueras (Catalonia) on the 17th. It is thought, however, this violent movement would be easily suppressed.

The extra Indian mail, from Calcutta, has arrived at Marseilles ; but it is said that it brought no news, though the bearer of despatches for Government mine off immediately by express.

Letters have been received in town, dated Cape of Good Hope, March 17th, from Lord Saltoun ; who had arrived flare in the Belleisle, with the troop-ship Apollo. The vessels had encountered a severe gale on the 9th February, and the Belleisle lost several sails. The health of the troops was excellent.

The British Queen arrived off Cowes on Thursday morning ; having left New York on the 7th instant. A correspondent of the Times says that Lord Ashburton had some time ago acceded to all the points of the North-eastern Boundary treaty required by Mr. Webster, except one; and that recent instructions had enabled him to accede also to that- " There is also a point in this new treaty by which an arrangement is to be made yielding us all that we have desired in regard to impressment and the right of search ; which is to be a separate and distinct arrangement from the present treaty on this subject between England and the other European Powers. The great difficulty will be, however, in getting the Senate to agree to any treaty ; for the two extremes in Congress arc so hostile to President Tyler that they will oppose any and every measure calculated to redound to the credit of his Administration."

There is no other news. The money-market remained unaltered. Exchange on London was 71 to 8 premium.

The Medway steamer has arrived at Falmouth, with the West Indian mails ; having left Nassau on the 3d instant. Lord Elgin arrived at Jamaica on the 16th May, and was sworn in as Governor on the 19th. Sir Charles Metcalfe took his departure for England in the Queen's ship Vestal, followed by the regret of all parties.

The worst accounts of the earthquake in St. Domingo are confirmed. Mr. Thompson, the British Consul, had ridden out of the town of Cape Haytien, and on his return he found that his house, his wife and family, were involved in the general destruction. Few of the respectable inha- bitants escaped ; and the survivors were exposed to rapine from the reckless populace, while the numbers of the dead filled the air with pestilential effluvia. The number of those who perished is now esti- mated at between 4,000 and 5,000.

During last week, four vessels sailed from the West India, London, and St. Katharine's Docks, for the lately-acquired British settlement in China, Hong Kong.

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