Dr. Southey was yesterday elected by the Gresham Committee to
the situation of Lecturer on Physic. The place is worth, we believe, about 1001. a year; but the duties it imposes are nut onerous.-31orniner Post.
A report was prevalent on Thursday morning, that Windsor Castle had been set on lire, but there appear to have been nogrounds whatever for the story. At a 'fleeting of the Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, it was resolved to instruct their clerk to write to the Secretary of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests on the subject of time unanswered memorial of that body praying that the Regent's Park might be thrown open to the public.
At the final close of time poll in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, on Tuesday, there appeared—for adopting a report reflecting upon the Commissioners of Paving, 16; against it, 541 majority, 523.
A meeting of the parishioners of' St. Margaret's, Westminster, was held on Tuesday, in the Vestry-room, at which It was resolved to com- municate to the Very Reverend the Dean of Ripon, the regret they entertained at the manner in which the Church service had been per- formed, and to beg (as lie had returned to town to resume his duties) that lie would appoint proper persons to insure an efficient discharge of the sacred duties in future.
The first half-yearly meeting of the Belgrave Literary and Scientific Institution, was held on Monday evening last; the Earl of Munster in the Chair. It appeared from the reeort, that the number of members is 220; that the library, which is daily increasing. already contains up- wards of 1500 volumes—.a large portion of which had beem presented by • members of the Institution, and are of a select and valuable character. The report made particular mention of a recent present of the " Yverdun Encyclopaedia," 58 vols. 4to., from the Earl of Munster, and of a curious Oriental manuscript from Lord Byron. The list of lecturers announce d for the present season included the names of many indivi- duals most eminent in si ience and literature ; among these'may be men- tioned Doctors Grant, Turner, Birkbeck, Hope, Ritchie, and others.
The roof over the Concert-room of the King's Theatre being found extremely defective, is undergoing a complete repair. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Patrick Grant, of the True Sun, has been confined to his bed by severe illness for the last week, in the King's Bench prison.—Srandard. [Mr. Grant's imprisonment, be it remembered, is for the non-payment-of-taxes advice, of which Lord 1"itzwilliam and the Chancellor's brother were the exemplars, and of which the Chancellor himself, in his evidence before the Libel Com- mittee, said that it ought nut to have been prosecuted.1 Complaints are made in all quarters of the prevalent custom among hackney-coach and cab proprietors, of intrusting their management to striplings little more in reality, as well as appearance, than children. There is, unhappily, no provision in the act of Parliament to restrain them from employing whom they please.
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