The time fixed for the operation to be performed for
the restoration of the sight of the Duke of Sussex is the middle of April. The .complaint has progressed as well as his oculist and the medical atten- dants of his Royal Highness could have wished ; and the cataracts are rapidly approaching to that state when they may be removed without difficulty, pain, or danger. —Herald.
Mr. Goulburn, of Trinity College, whose name appeared as Second Wranpler in the Cambridge list of honours, is the son of the Secretary for the Home Department. —Standard.
The action brought by Mr. Gully, M. P. for Pontefract, against Mr. C. 31. Westmacott, for a libel, published in the Age newspaper, which excites great interest in the sporting world, will come on for trial, in the Court of Common Pleas, next week. The Court take Special Jury causes on Monday next, and the above case stands No. 4 on the list. The charge against Mr. Gully in the Age was, that be lad been concerned in drugging Mr. Batson's horse, Plenipotentiary.
The London Scandalous Chronicle declares that an action for crirn. con. has been commenced against no less a personage than the Tory Lord Chancellor, by Sir Francis Sykes. The lady Is said to be a na- tural daughter of a Mr. Villebois : her mother afterwards married Sir. II. Smith, just elected as the Tory M. P. for Colchester. The noble and learned Lord is said to plead connivance on the part of the hus- band. All this must be "calumny," as the parties are Conservatives-, and belonging to the upper classes of society. —Kent Herald. [ The Morning Chronicle now says that no action is pending in this affair.] A footman named Ralph, in the service of the Duke of Cumberland, has within these few days, by a decree of the Court of Chancery. become entitled to a fortune of 27,0001. There was 80,000L to bee- vided between him and his two brothers.
Some months :ago, seven Spaniards were captured by a British vessel, and delivered up to the United States Government, on the sup- pueit ion that they were the pirates who plundered the Mexican schooner, and murdered the crew. These men have been tried at Boston, found guilty, and sentenced to death; but circumstances have been discovered which lead to the belief of their innocence. They have been respited by the President, till the 11th of March ; and the aid of our Govern- ment is sought by their counsel to discover the real facts.
Louis Boswell, King of the Gipsies, died last week, at the " Royal Encampment," in the vicinity of Nottingham. He was buried on Sunday, in the presence of a great multitude in No Man's Heath. The Nottinghani Journal says—" The deceased succeeded to the regal dignity on the death of his father, which took place a few years ago in Lincolnshire ; and lie has left his only daughter, a fine looking per- sewage, a quartern measure filled with gold for her fortune."
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