In reference to the reported intention of the Earl of
Shaftesbury to re- tire from the office of Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, and the Standard's announcement that Lord Redesdale will be put forward as his successor, the Globe correctively rejects the claims of an "active and bitter partisan," and announces that "should a vacancy occur," the Earl of Chichester, one of the most able and impartial men ever Called to the chair," w.11 be proposed, and "will receive the cordial support of the Go- vernment, and the votes and good wishes of a large majority of all parties," The address of Mr. F. Calvert., Q.C., to the electors of Aylesbury, will, we understand, appear tomorrow, [Monday?) The other candi- dates are Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. J. Houghton, who were at the bottom of the poll in 1847.—Globe.
Last night's Gazette contains the Speaker's notice of a writ for the election of a new Member of Parliament for the borough of St. Alban's, in room of the late Mr. Raphael, at the end of fourteen days after the 29th instant.
The place of Duputy Ranger of Windsor Park, vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Fremantle, has been conferred on Captain F. H. Seymour, one of the Equerries in Waiting to Prince Albert..
The Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr. Joseph Humphry, soli- citor, to the office of Master in Chancery, in room of Mr. John Edmund Dowdeswell.
The will of the lateKing of the French has just been proved in Doctor'? Commons. The personal estate is sworn to be under 100,0001.
Notice has been given by the authorities of several of the Metropolitan parishes, "that the cholera having entirely ceased, burials will take place as heretofore" in the burial-grounds attached to their respective parishes.
Fifty-three of the sixty members composing the new Corporation of Dublin requested Mr. Arthur Lee Guinness, the great brewer, to be a candidate for election as Lord Mayor. He has consented, and will no. doubt be elected.
We have heard it stated, on what we consider excellent authority, that Dr. Newman one of the most distinguished converts from the Anglican Establishment to the Roman Catholic Church, will at no very distant period be consecrated Bishop of the newly-created see of Nottingham.— Notts Mercury.
A Roman Catholic cathedral, convent, and college, are to be erected at Edinburgh, says the Builder. The cathedral is to be 350 feet long, and to have a spire 380 feet high : the two buildings are to be connected. The funds required for the erection are said to be 400,000L; more than half of which has already been obtained through large donations and be- quests."
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