Mr. Rowland Hill is appointed principal Secretary at the Post-office,
in the room of Colonel Maberly, who goes to the Audit Board. It will be remembered,that Colonel Maberly was a decided opponent of the new system ;. and although no male fides is laid to his charge in administra- tion, it is not to be supposed that the development of the system was fostered as it might have been by the author. The appointment of Mr. Hill will be hailed with satisfaction by all who take an interest in Post- office improvement.
The death of the aged Marquis of Anglesey, which occurred yesterday, withdraws another of the renowned soldiers of the last war. Henry Wil- liam Paget was born in 1768: as Lord Paget, and subsequently Earl of Uxbridge, he saw and acted in the great scenes of the Revolution war, from the Flemish campaign of the Duke of York to that of the Hundred Days. It is noted as curious, that our most dashing cavalry officer should have first served in an infantry regiment, the Eightieth, of his own rais- ing. Lord Anglesey was Master of the Ordnance under Mr. Canning, and twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Since 1834 he has taken little part in public affairs, and his last public appearance was as perhaps the most conspicuous mourner at the funeral of his great chief.
A correspondent complains that our allusion to the Reverend Mr. Jowett, of Balliol College, Oxford, was of a kind to do injustice to a most accomplished and amiable man, whose services in University Reform are acknowledged. We had no intention of imputing any illiberal feeling to Mr. Jewett, or of implying any personal disrespect. He happened to stand the solitary example before the public, just now, as the designer of a species of literary examination which furnished the nearest approach in this country to that established, or rather designed, for the press in Cuba : but perhaps we too hastily seized an illustration furnished by a recent blue book, into which Mr. Jowett's letter ought never to have been placed.
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