A Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, on Tues- day; when Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Peregrine Maitland, K.C. B., the new Commander-in-Chief of the Forces on the Madras establishment, was unanimously appointed second member of Council at the Presidency of Fort St. George.
His Majesty's ship Buffalo was commissioned at Portsmouth on the 23d, by Captain Ilindmarsh, Governor of South Australia; to which new colony this ship will take out settlers, and remain with them until they are securely located.—Hampshire Telegraph.
The Archbishop of York has placed at the disposal of the Ecclesi- astical Commissioners the stall in the Collegiate Church of South well, vacant by the death of Dr. Barrow.
Mr. Crick, of St. John's College, Cambridge, was elected Public Orator on Thursday, by a majority of 359 to 318 over his opponent, Mr. Thorp, of Trinity. 'Giulietta Grisi Was married on Sunday last, to a French gentleman of moderate independent fortune, M. Auguste Girard de Melcy. A public subscription has been opened in Edinburgh to defray the expenses to which the Bath Guardian has been put by its exposure of the pretensions of Mr. Peter Bortliwiek, M.P. for Evesham.
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