Extensive alterations and improvements will shortly be made in the
immediate neighbourhood of the Palace at Pimlico; the office of Woods and Forests having purchased the houses in James Street and part of Stafford Place for 45,000/. A large space will thus be afforded to the Palace, and the remainder of the ground will be appropriated ta the building of houses of the first class. When George the Fourth wished to purchase the same ground, the Office of Woods offered 70,000/. for it, but the money was refused.—Globe. Liu what form is the public to pliy for this addition to the cost of the Palace ? Is the money to be smuggled out of the revenues of the Crown lands, of whose relinquishment to the public by the Sovereign so much has been said?] A considerable portion of the Duke of' Sutherland's magnificent gallery of paintings have been removed from Bridgewater House to Stafford House. A very fine collection still remains at the new house of Lord Francis Egerton.
Colonel O'Connell, who succeeded to the command of the British Legion in Spain after the departure of Colonel Evans, has been in town for some time, making arrangements for the conveyance of the last remnant of this ill-fated body to the shores of England. We be- lieve vessels have been despaebed by Government for that purpose, and their arrival may be expected in u few days. From a letter of General Evans to Colonel Wetherell, in the Chronicle this morning, it appears that the privates and non-commis- sioned officers of the Britich Legion have received the full amount of their pay up to the 10th of June, when their period of service expired. There is still a heavy arrear due to the officers.
The Paris papers announce the death of 31. Tessier, the senior member of the French Academy, at the advanced age of ninety-six.
La France states, that in one day 224 unmarried ladies of Cologne signed a resolution not to accept any Protestant as a husband ! Them ages are not given.
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