Miscellaneous.
Tuesday's Gazette contained the following important announcements-
" The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Honourable Thomas Frank- land Lewis, the Honourable Robert Henry Clive, and William Cripps, Esq., her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the present state of the laws, as administered in South Wales, which regulate the turnpike roads; and also into the circumstances which have led to the recent acts of violence and out- rage in certain districts of that country. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Kettilby Richards, Esq. to be Secretary to the said Com- mission."
"Tire Queen has been pleased to appoint James Pennethorne, Esq. to be lei Majesty's Commissioner fur making a special inquiry into the execution of the original contracts for building certain of the Union Workhouses in Ireland."
The Gazette also announced, that the Queen had appointed the Marchioness of Douro to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary, in the room of the Dutchess of Norfolk, resigned ; and the Dutchess of Norfolk to be Extra Ludy of the Bedchamber to her Majesty.
Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Corfu on the 19th September.
The Duke of Bordeaux is in England. Attended by the Duke de Levis, Count Loemarin, Marquis de Chambannel, and Captain Villaret de Forgeuse' be embarked at Hamburg on the 4th instant, and landed at Hull on Friday. On Saturday, his Royal Highness and suite left Hull for Leeds and York ; in which city the Duke stayed to view the different objects of interest. On Monday, he set out for Scotland, with the intention of making a brief stay at Durham and Newcastle, where he is to visit the Duke and Dutchess of Northumberland. He seems to suffer even now from the effects of the accident he met with some time back.
The Marchioness of Townshend's eldest son, who assumed the title of " Earl of Leicester," has formally resigned his pretensions ; having, by Royal licence, taken his mother's maiden names, " Dunn Gardner." We are happy in being able to state on the best authority, that the venerable Earl Grey, respecting whose health much anxiety has been lately manifested, is very greatly better than he was three weeks ago. The noble Earl has been suffering considerable pain from an attack of gout in one foot ; but his general health is much improved.—Berwick Warder.
The Queen has conferred a pension of 1001. a year on the widow of Sir Charles Bell; whose circumstances were not so good as might have been expected.
Sir Robert Peel has contributed 4,0001. to the fund for building churches to be endowed under an act passed last session ; stipulating that 1,5001. shall be allotted to Lancashire, 1,5001. to Staffordshire and Warwickshire, and 1,0001. to the Metropolis.
After indinantly rejecting a report that Mr. Henry Balwer was ap-
pointed British Minister at Madrid, the Morning Post authoritatively denies it ; adding—" We believe that, under existing circumstances, her Majesty's Government do not intend to name a successor to Mr. Aston, but that the business of the Embassy will be transacted for the present by a Member of the Legation, as Chargé d'Affaires."
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