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The 'Duke of Sussex, as President of the Royal Society, held a Con cerzatione on Saturday, at Kensington Palace, which was attended by five hundred of the most distinguished in science, arts, and literature.
The Lord Mayor gives a grand dinner at the Mansionhouse to-day to his Majesty's Ministers and the Foreign Ambassadors.
In the Court of Admiralty, on Wednesday, Sir C. Robinson, in the case of the Cognac, which had b,,iven a bottomry bond in France for 15,000 francs, with a premium of 20 per cent. pronounced judgment in favour of the bond, on the ground that no collusion or fraud had limn made use of.
Another meeting of the Friends to Irish Protestant Education was held at Exeter Hall on Wednesday. It was very numerously attended. Captain Gordon described the new school-books as translations from the Douay Bible, and as having Catholic comments appended to them. There were a great many other speakers ; the most noted was a Mr. Browne, a Scotch Dissenting clergyman, we believe of Swallow Street Chapel.
Proposals are circulating in the City for the establishment of a mer- cantile club on a large scale.
A meeting was held in the school-room, Princes Square, on Tues- day night, for the purpose of establishing a mechanics' institute in the parish of St. George in the East, in connexion with the East London Reform Association. Upwards of twelve hundred people assembled. It was expected that Mr. Hume would have taken the chair; but a note from him was read, stating, that under the circumstances of the cholera having broken out in London, he deemed it not prudentfbr large assemblies to take place. Mr. Offar, one of the county magistrates, took the chair. He observed, that he did not think there was any danger of contagion : out of ninety-seven nurses engaged with cholera patients in the North, only two had shown any symptoms of the disease. Several resolutions to promote the objects of the meeting were adopted, and a great many names enrolled.
Tuesday's Gazette contains the appointment of Lord de Saumarez to be General of the Marines, in the room of Sir Richard Bickerton.
It is understood that Admiral Lord Gambier will succeed the late Admiral Peere Williams Freeman, as Admiral of the Fleet.
At the East India Company's sale of drugs, which took place on Thursday, about eighty eases of camphor were put up—the taxed price was 16/. per cwt.; but there were no bidders at this price, and the whole quantity was bought in.
The house of Messrs. B. A. Goldsmid and Co. stopped payment on Tuesday.
The Garrick Club, for the support and encouragement of the le- gitimate drama," held their opening dinner on Wednesday, at their house in King Street, Covent Garden (late Probatt's Hotel); the Duke of Sussex in the chair. Upwards of two hundred were present.
The remains of Dr. Bell were on Tuesday deposited in Westminster Abbey. In the funeral procession, were the carriages of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Landaff, Lichfield and Co- ventry, of Lords Wynford, Eldon, Kenyon, Amherst, Sir J. Park. The pall, in the procession, was borne by .Lord Kenyon, Captain Mac- onoehie, the Rev. S. Philips, and Mr. IV. Cook. The funeral service was read by the Dean of Westminster.
Munden left a widow, a son, and a daughter. His remains were deposited in their narrow home on Monday, at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury. The funeral was quite private.
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