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Mr. E. J. Littleton, late Member for South Staffordshire, has been appointed Secretary for Ireland, in the room of Sir John Hobhouse. Mr. Littleton having consequently vacated his seat, is again a candi- date for the votes of his former constituents. He is threatened with an opposition by the Conservatives ; and Lord Ingestrie, Sir Thomas Boughey. and Mr. ,Inge, of Thorpe, are all mentioned as likely to stand against him—with what prospect of success or defeat, we have as yet no means of stating.
The Duke of Orleans and suite left Grillon's Hotel, in Albemarle Street, on Tuesday morning, on a short tour in the provinces. His Royal Highness proceeds direct to Manchester and to Liverpool, by the rail-road. Preparations have been made by the authorities of both towns to receive the young Prince with all the honours due to his rank.
Lord King is, we hear, a little better. His Lordship remains, how- ever, in a very precarious state.—Glebe.
A Reformer, expressing his disappointment at the result of the de- cision on the House and Window duty, said, the people had not gained what they expected by the Reform Bill. A wag replied, " They have got all they asked; they have the Bill, the whole Bill, and no- thing but the Bill.'" The late Mr. Kean is to be buried at Richmond this day. His funeral will be attended by his son as chief mourner, by Mr. Braham, Mr. Macready, and others of his fellow actors. Kean's reputed mother, Mrs. Carey, went to see his body, when lying in the coffin ; she gazed upon it in silence, retired to her chamber, and died on Thurs- day evening. On the same day that Kean died, a lady who had been his wife's bridesmaid at his wedding died at Cheltenham.
Mr. Bunn, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, has also become the lessee of Covent Garden for the next season. The strength of both companies is to be united, and play at either house as their services may be required. On a recent occasion, as Pasta was warbling one of her most splendid passages, Sir George Smart, who sat just behind her at the piano, blew
his nose so loudly as to atfo.rd a rather discordant triimpet ticeompai& meat, to the no small annoywhY of the prima doina ; who shrugged up her shoulder, as much as to say 31-il"—Heruid•
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