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The Morning Hioeth/ says there is no truth in the report that the Queen.intends to visit Scotland next year.
The old Earl of Clarendon, who died on Saturday, is succeeded in his title and estates by Sir George Villiers, Ambassador at the Court of Madrid. The late Earl held the valuable sinecure of Chief Justice in Eyre, North of Trent ; which dies with him. He was also Prothono- tary of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
The health of the Princess Mary of Orleans, wife of the Duke Alex- ander of W'urtensburg, continues to improve.
Prince George of Hanover is suffering from the measles.
The marriage of .Mlle. de Hammer de Purgstall. daughter of the celebrated Orientalist, and of Baron 'Fonder den Trenck, great gramisen of an officer who obtained much celebrity in the Seven Years' War, was solemnized at Vienna on the 5th instant. Upwards of three thousand persons attended a soiribe which Baron de Hammer gave on the occasion. The bride's trousseau was exhibited to the public : its value is rated at 20,0004 ; it includes eleven Indian shawls, given to the Baron by various Eastern princes—one, the gift of the Sultan, is worth 3.000/.
The French papers contain a long letter from Gisluet, formerly Prefect of Police in Paris, to a Madame Foucault. It is adduced by the Mess«ger des Clundaes to prove a charge of immorality against Gisquet ; for making which, as well as accusing him of peculation, that person has prosecuted the newspaper. The letter recounts the annoy- ance the writer suffers from the persecution of his mistress, a Madame Nicol, and the reproaches of his estimable and affectionate wife, who is aware of the Lamm ; and its of jest is to persuade Madame Frew:mit to pretend affection for Gisquet, in order to irritate Nienl, who then, it is assumed, would renounce all connexion with him, in a fit of jealous fury,—a consummation which Gisquet deelaree he most earnestly de- sires. The letter is a sufficient proof of the charge of immorality.
It is said that Dr. Southey is going to he married to a "literary lady of considerable eminence," twenty years younger than himself.
From a published correspondence between Lord Melbourne and Sir Francis Head, it appears that Sir Francis requested permission " tot mike known to the public the reasons which induccer him to declare to Lard Glenelg his disagreement with the Canada Commissioners of
" who preceded I.ord Durham," and with ivl: bin he "hurl not an Lea in common." The Premier refused to sanction the publication : and Sir Francis Head hopes that this refusal will be accepted as an apobT.r.y for the non-fulfilmeut of his pledge to " naihe known the eaus.:s of :as abandonment of the goverument of Upper Canada."
31r. Starkie and Sir 'I'. Erskine arc !taw aided to the list of lkirris- ters destined to furnish a successor on lite beliell to Sir Janus
Park.
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