The celebrated Bishop of Charleston, the Right Reverend Dr. England,
has been appointed a Cardinal by the Pope. He is the first
Irishman that ever attained that dignity. — Dublin Morning Register. [Dr. England is an excellent and accomplished man, and one of the best argumentative preachers of the day. He kept a school in Charles- ton for several years, in order that his congregation, which though nu- merous was poor, might be enabled to pay off a debt contracted by the building of a Catholic church. We hope that his Cardinal's hat will nut effect any change fur the worse in his apostolical habits and cha- racter.] It is stated in a letter from Paris, that the Havre and Bordeaux mer- chants have many of them been Carrying on a very lucrative commerce with India of late. On receiving intelligence of the great failures in Calcutta, and anticipating others, as in fact turned out to be the case, '
they carried out large shipments of specie, and amidst the general em- barrassment that prevailed, were enabled to make purchases of indigo
and other articles of native produce nearly on their own terms.— Times.
A meeting of the British and Foreign School Society was held at Exeter Hall, on Monday ; Lord John Russell in the chair. His Lord- ship announced that he had that morning received a letter from the Duke of Bedford enclosing a donation of 100/. to the Society. The report stated, that the number of schools in this country bad increased one-third within the last year, and that they now amounted to 3,445; at which 166,600 children were educated.
A coat, made entirely by a woman, was exhibited in a shop in Cheapside on Saturday, and attracted the attention of the curious in such matters, the workmanship being in every respect scarcely distin- guishable from that of a first-rate journeyman. The coat was ticketed at a low price.
There are about four hundred and fifty different trades carried on in London. The shoemakers are the most numerous class, and the
tailors next ; the former, idiotic twenty years of age, amounting to 16,502, and the latter to 14,552. The carpenters amount to 13,208, and if the cabinet-makers are included, to 19,629. The bakers, butchers, bricklayers, and blacksmiths, come next; but they average little more than a third of those trades.
Mr. Richard Thornton, and other friends of M. Mendizabal, have subscribed 1000 guineas fora piece of plate, which they intend present- ing to that gentleman at a dinner to be given at the Albion Tavern on the 21st, as a token of their sense of the services rendered by him to the cause of Legitimacy in Portugal.
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