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Mr. Kennedy, Clerk of the Ordnance, is appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury, in the room of Lord Nugent. Colonel Fox succeeds to the Clerkship of the Ordnance.
By the Gazette of last night, Mr. Brodie is to be Sergeant-Surgeon to the King, in the room of Sir E. Home. It is said that his late Ma jesty had made this appointment a matter of special request to his Royal Brother, then Duke of Clarence, when it was all but certain that he would be his immediate successor to the Crown.—Medical Gazette.
The valuable appointment of surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, which was held by Sir Everard Home, is to be conferred on Mr. Keate.— Medical Gazette.
Sir Howard Elphinstone has been appointed to the command of the Engineers at Malta, in the room of the late Colonel Morshead.
Sir Robert Wilson is said to have been offered the command of Pedro's army; and to have declined, from respect to the Duke of Wellington. General Romarino is also talked of.
The celebrated Hafod estate was on Thursday knocked down by Mr. George Robins at 75,0001., the reserved price fixed by the Master in Chancery. .
We understand that Charles the Tenth and suite will shortly take leave of Scotland. Germany [Gratz] is mentioned as the place of their destination.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
Several ancient Roman coins, and other remains of antiquity, were found last week by the workmen employed in digging out the foundation of an old house which has been pulled down, in South Street, Chichester.—Hampshire Telegraph.
There is now in Abingdon an individual whose father was either in his 16th or 17th year at the death of King Charles the Second ! The Daily Papers have published a long rigmarole story of a player named Clare; the whole of which amounts to this, that he married a
farmer's daughter, brought her to London, and being disappointed in getting money as well as a wife, abandoned her there. One of Mr. Irving's disciples created no small alarm on Sunday, in a meeting-house in Church Street, Blackfriars, by exclaiming aloud, during the administration of the Sacrament, "He will come! he shall reign, he shall reign for ever !" One lady went into fits.
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