Colonel the Earl de Grey has issued a regimental order
to the mem. hers of the Yorkshire Hussars, in which he begs to assure them that he has not accepted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty without deeply considering how it would affect him as Commander of the said Hussars. He feels confident that no difficulty can arise, and that he will be able to give the same attention to the regimental business and to attend the annual meetings in the same way as be has hitherto done. His .Lardsliip states, that an imperious 6011a: of duty has compelled him to serve his Sovere ign in melba, an I a new cagacity ; but the duties of that office will be much lightened by ufreling that they do not separate him from the olilea of his carli, St and fondest ajlection. [This Earl de Grey must be a ninny to waste his tine sentiments on the fart Yorkshire graziers.'
Lord Spencer has died much less wealthy than had been supposed, and since his demise the greatest economy prevails at Althorp. All the servants have been discharged, much of the park has been ploughed up, and the present Peer contents himself with a single servant. The library is to be preserved from the hummer.— Globe. [There must he some joke in this.]
In the course of the last four years, no fewer than sixty, three Admirals and seventy-eight Generals have paid the debt of nature.
Mr. Malthus, who died a few days ago at Bath, is regretted by all who knew him, for the amiable and excellent qualities of his head imd heart. The virulent abuse with which he was honoured by the ignorant and bigoted, never for a Moment ruffled his benevolent temper, or led him to retaliate on his calumniators.
On Sunday last, near two o'clock in the afternoon, the humble vehicle of Mr. Henry Hunt was observed standing in charge of his boy in livery, at Apsley-house, the splendid end spacious mansion of the Duke of Wellington. Some persons, who were curious enough, waited to see the result, and they saw Mr. H. Milt resume his seat in the chaise after a short visit to the house ; but, as a matter of course, they did not learn whether the visit had been paid to the Duke or his do mest ics. —Morning Advertiser.
Thirteen men and two women were drowned on the 27th ultimo, by the upsetting of a boat in a heesy sea near Tenby.
A case was tried last week before the Correctional Chamber of Paris, involving a serious charge of homicide by imprudence. A medical man was called in to u child, three years and a half old, which was suffering under fever. A prescription was written, in which it was intended to order for a lavement eight grains of sulphate of quinine, with a few drops of laudanum. But the prescriber having just pre. Nionsly been engaged in a warm conversation with a medical friend • concerning acetate of morphine, inadvertently wrote down that potent drug instead of the quinine in the prescription. The apothecary who dispensed it did nothing towards rectifying the error, except reducing the quantity to five grains. Scarcely was the lavement administered, when the child experienced a sinking sensation ; the skin became of a violet hue, and was covered with large drops of perspiration. Convul- sions ensued, and death with great agony in a few hours. The Court severely censured the conduct of the apothecary for making up a pre- scription so palpably incorrect ; but, owing to the mitigatory circutn- stances, the accused prescriber was let off with a fine of 600 francs, and costs.—Medical Gazette.
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