SCART.ETT'S Pern.s.—Thursday being Grand Day at the Middle Temple. the
King's health was toasted and received by benchers, bar,
and students, with the most enthusiastic acclamations. It is the usual custom of the Hall to drink the health of his Majesty in profound silence, without any such unequivocal demonstration of popular feeling.
ARCII»EACON Bursee.—We understand that the Lord Chancellor has lately presented the Archdeacon Butler, of Shrewsbury, to the valuable
living of Langor, in Nottinghamshire. This presentation was entirely unsolicited by the Archdeacon ; and the Lord Chancellor, we have reason to believe, was guided in his selections of Dr. Butler solely by his well-known high character and distinguished merits. —Morning Herald.
BANKRUPTCY CO3IMISSIMERS.—The Lord Chancellor has now another Commissionership of Bankrupts at his disposal, vacant by the death of Mr. John Calthorpe Gough, barrister-at-law.
THE Dueness OF WELLINGTON.—This lady died on Sunday, at Strath. fieldsay, after a lingering illness, which has long prevented her from joining in the gay circles to which her rank naturally entitled her.
THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTI.E.—This noble dame has not, it appears, resigned her pension. The Lincoln Times says that "the necessary cer-.
tificate to enable the Duchess to draw her pension has been signed by the clergyman and churchwardens of Babworth, near Retford, the parish in which her Grace resides, within the last twenty days." The Duchess knows how to look after her own, as well as her son does.
TILE ARCH ANTI•REFORMER.—The late King had an insuperable aversion to any thing approaching to vulgarity in manner ; it is said that
he never forgave one of his confidential servants, who, on the occasion of a set dinner at Windsor, was observed, by the critical eye of the Sovereigns, to eat pease with a.knife ! The individual was Sir Robert Peel. He always eats with the knife, not from being unable to use the fork, but because his fathers ate so, and because, admitting reform in one particular, there is no saying where it might stop. Eating with the fork is, in fact, a vile, French, tri-colour, revolutionary practice ; and had its origins, as is well known, in the circumstance of the French knife hieing occupied at all times in attempts to stab the constitution and its defenders, and having no leisure to give to its legitimate employmen t.
ROYAL JAUNT.—The Portsmouth Herald says, " We have been in- formed that our Lieutenant-Governor has been summoned to London, to attend his Majesty to receive instructions as to some necessary ar- rangements preparatory to the King's paying a visit to this garrison."
COURT NEWS FROH EDINIWRGII.-0a Tuesday last, Charles X., at-
tended by the Duke de Polignac and several other noblemen of his suite, on horseback, proceeded through several streets of the city. The Royal party left Holyrood Palace a little past two, and returned at four o'clock. Charles appears to have improved both ins health and spirits since his arrival in Edinurgh.—.Edinburgh Observer.
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