6 AUGUST 1836, Page 10

There is a vacancy in the office of Chief Clerk

to Christ's Hospital, by the resignation of Mr. Thomas Wilby, after having passed more than half a century in the service of the charity.

The Marquis of Clanricarde accompanied Mr. Green in his balloon ascent on Tuesday last.

A young lady of eighteen, a pupil at "a finishing-seminary" near the Regent's Park, was walking with her governess and companions in the Zoological Gardens on Wednesday ; when she contrived to slip away unseen by them, and get into a cabriolet with a gentleman, who immediately dashed off at a furious pace through the Gloucester Gate.