Lord Jobn Russell has appointed Mr. Charles Lechmere Deputy Keeper
of State Papers, in the room of the late Mr. Robert Lemon. This office seems almost.to have " gone a begging :" it was-offered to Mr. Thomas Moore, and, we believe, to Professor M'Culloch, but refused by both. Mr. Moore objected to being kept constantly in London, which the performance of the duties attached to the office requires. The Times falls foul of Lord John Russell—unjustly—for not offering the aopointment to some literary friend, of the Whig party. After all, it was but a paltry thing to offer to a person of Mr. M'Cul- loch's powers of usefulness. Surely Ministers might place that gentle- man in some post worth his acceptance, and in which the country might benefit by his extensive practical knowledge, The sum of 110,000/. appears this year in the Miscellaneous Esti- mates, to defray half the expenses of prosecutions in Englund and Wales, at Assizes and Quarter-sessions, and to defray the whole ex- penses of the conveyance of transports. These have been met hitherto out of the County-rates. -
A large quantity of corn, of prime quality, has been reaped and housed throughout England and Ireland ; but in Scotland the corn harvest is not expected to be finished before the second or third week in September. It is in excellent condition, and promises a productive crop.
The ship Walter Scott, from New Orleans and on her voyage to Liverpool, was struck by lightning, en the 21st June, off Charleston. The crew took to the long-boat, and landed at Norfolk. The ship, together asitli her cargo, consisting of upwards of 1700 hales of cotton, were entirely consumed by the fire. The value of the cargo is esti- mated at about 25,0001., the whole of which was insured in Liverpool. • --Liverpool Standard.
The last arrivals from New York bring intelligence of thedeTh.....ilrn7t Chief Justice Marshal, author of the Life of Washington ; which Jefferson, whose treatment of Washington was severely exposed in it, used to call the "five-volume libel."
M. Mendizabal left this country for Madrid on Sunday night. He goes via Paris to Bordeaux ; whence he embarks in an English Go- vernment steamer, placed at his service to convey him to Lisbon.
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