JUDICIAL Com. Core.—This description of actions has lost much of
its eclat of late years, as it is understood that the fashionable circles determined on displaying forbearance towards each other from the time that green-grocers and publicans began to enter the lists. A remark- able exception, however, is confidently talked of An eminent Judge, now on the Bench, distinguished as much for his gallantry as his splendid talents, has not, it seems, been so fortunate as to find the forbearance which lie himself would have shown in a similar case; for lawyers have actually been feed upon a crim. con. on account of an alleged intimacy with a lady living separate from her husband in Paris. —Morning Chraticle. We have seen a correspondence which opens a "very pretty quarrel' between the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Bishop of this diocese and one of his clergy. We know that we leave his Lordship in good hands, and we think that in the present instance he has " caught a tartar." For our own parts, we are determined, as far as our columns are concerned, that they shall have " an open field and no favour;" though, unlike the Lord Bishop, we shall not in this case allow any "anonymous" communications. We understand that the Reverend divine attacked by the Lord Bishop is in possession of number of curious and well authenticated "facts," r:Jt derived from anonymous authority, which though, from the well-known character of Bishop Blomfield, they will not surprise, will, however, much edify. and amuse the clergy of his diocese, and the public at large. We un- derstand further, that the names and full details. respecting all the parties will be given, exemplifying what we have always maintained, that by the present ecclesiastical laws too much irresponsible power is intrusted to the Bishops.—Chronicle.
Sir Williain Koppel, who died recently in Paris, :left his relation, the Earl of Albemarle, residuary legatee to his property, by which it is said the noble Earl will succeed to upwards of 100,000/. in cash. Sir William appointed Mr. Stephenson, who married a daughter of Loud Albemarle, his executor, with a legacy of 1000/.—aronick.
By a decision lately come to at the Admiralty, it would appear that the project for a steam communication with India, by the way of Egypt, is about to be revived, with the especial support of the present Admi- nistration. Orders have been given that a regular comtnunication with Alexandria, through the Mediterranean steam-packets, is to be kept up. A steam-vessel is to be in readiness at Malta for the arrival of the mail from England, and start with the letters for Alexandria, whence she will return immediately to Malta, bringing the letters to go to England by the next packet. This arrangement will be on foot on the 1st of March next, and will remove one of the great impedimenta to the long-talked of communication with India. It is expected that a company will be formed in Liverpool for this purpose.— Times.
Lady Dinorben died suddenly in a fit of apoplexy on Wednesday week at Kinmel Park, in Denbighshire. The Duke of Sussex, who was on a visit to Lord Dinorben, and whose birth-day was about to be celebrated by the fanily, hastened his departure in consequence of the melancholy event. Her Ladyship was about fifty years of age. The friends of Sir Thomas Cochrane, the late candidate for West- minster, intend giving a grand dinner within ten days or a fortnight.
We are authorized to state, that Sir Peter Laurie, in making the observation in the Common Council on Thursday last, that " the mast who would write a deliberate lie would pick a pocket or rob a church," had not the slightest intention of applying that observation, in the most remote degree, to the present Lord Mayor.—Herald. [The disclaimer is not unnecessary ; for certainly the remark of Sir Peter Laurie might be supposed to be intended by him for Lord Winchester.]
By the death of the Honourable P. H. Abbott, the Recordtrship eI
Monmouth, to whir h he was elected in September 1831, on the death of Mr. C. Bathurst, is again vacant.
The clerk of the parish oF Keinton Mandefield, John Bailey, died last week in his ninety-second year. Ile and his father before him per- formed the office of clerk iu the parish for more than a century. The individual just dead offered in his eighty-eighth year, for a wager of twenty sovereigns, to walk twenty miles a day for six days, to jump a five-burred gate at the end of the sixth day, to ring the three church. bat himself, and afterwards officiate as parish-clerk on the seventh day. Ile never once missed performing his duty for fifty-six years, from illness or any other cause.—Sherburne Journal.
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