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SATURDAY.
Mr. Loftus Wigram was yesterday elected, without opposition, as a "fit and discreet burgess" to represent the University of Cambridge in the House of Commons. About fifty members of the Senate were pre- sent: Mr. Wigram attended, and entered into conversation with his sup- porters.
The statement of a weekly chronicle, said to enjoy a certain amount of Court influence and favour, that the Reverend Henry Wilberforce had sot joined the Church of Itome but had returned to his late living of East Farleigh, is quite incorrect. Mr. Wilberforce (my informant was an eye-witness of the proceeding) was confirmed by the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Mechlin last Saturday week, and his children have been re- ceived along with him, Mrs. Wilberforce having been received before they left England. Mr. Wilberforce was received at Brussels—his children at Mechlin.—London Correspondent of the Oxford Herald.
We exceedingly regret to state that his Grace the Duke of Newcastle still continues in the same precarious and unsatisfactory state of health as we have already described. Indeed, his recovery is now considered very doubtful. Prayers for his Grace's recovery are offered up on the Sabbath at Worksop and other churches in the neighbourhood of Clum- ber.—Lincoln Gazette, Oct. 4.
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