31 MARCH 1838, Page 7

Upwards of a hundred applications have been made to the

Middlesex Magistrates fur the offices of Superintending Physician and Matron of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, vacant by the resignation of Sir William and Lady Ellis.

A new street is to be made from Holborn Bridge to Clerkenwell Green.

A party of eighty gentlemen went on Wednesday in the Great Western steam-ship from Blackwell to three miles below Gravesend. The steamer got aground soon after leaving Blackwell, and waited till the returning tide floated her. The motion of this vessel is scarcely perceptible.