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The Queen has conferred the Deanery of Carlisle upon the Reverend Dr. Hinds, an eminent clergymen of the English Church, although for some time past he has been engaged in the Irish mission, where he was -Vicar of Castleknock, near Dublin, and First Chaplain to the Lord-Lieu- tenant.
Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen has appointed the Hon- ourable Anthony Ashley Cooper, commonly called Lord Ashley, and Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C.B., to be members of the General Board of Health.
Three cases of cholera having been reported to have occurred on board of a vessel now lying at Sunderland, the Government has sent down Dr. Sutherland from the General Board of Health to inquire and direct.
By one of those blunders that our legislators excel in, the Health of Towns Bill cannot be applied to Gateshead without a special application to Parliament. The lower parts of Gateshead are the filthiest of all England; and when the cholera last broke out in the North, the number of deaths in Poplegate was greater, we believe, than in any other part of the country.— Manchester Examiner.
A new line of monthly communication is about to be commenced be- tween Liverpool and several of the principal ports in the Mediterranean, including Malta, Constantinople, and Trebisond. The first steamer will be the Sir Robert Peel, of 320 tons, to be despatched on the 18th proximo. She will be succeeded by the Earl of Auckland, a splendid ship of 450 tons.—Liverpool Courier.
Mr. Luke Hansard has been dismissed from the office (a most lucrative one) of printer to the House of Commons, in consequence, according to his own statement, of his having made some strong personal reflections upon one of the Members.—Globe.
The funeral of Lord George Bentinck took place yesterday morning, in Marylebone Old Church. The body was brought from Welbeck by a special train on the North-western Railway, and was taken first to Har- court House; whence the funeral procession started soon after nine. All the proceedings were conducted with studied plainness and an avoidance of ostentation or publicity. The aged Dake of Portland did not accom- pany the procession; the Marquis of Titchfield acting as chief mourner: there were also present Lord William Bentinck, Mr. Evelyn Dennison, M.P., Colonel Bentinck, and many personal friends of the deceased. The coffin was placed in the family vault under the altar; and lies beside that of Lord George's mother, the late Dutchess.
Tributes of respect of a somewhat national character have been paid to Lord George's memory. The Newcastle traders and colliers lying off the Tower in the Thames, the shipping of Ipswich, and of Limerick, hoisted their flags half-mast high during the morning of Tuesday last; and the shipowners of Sunderland and Greenock concerted to make a similar mani- festation on the day of the funeral.
The Morning Post recommends Lord John Manners to the electors of King's Lynn as Lord George Bentinck's successor.
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