At the King's College annual meeting, yesterday, it was announced
that the Council have resolved to establish a Military department of education, for the in- struction of students intended for the Cavalry, the Guards, and the Line, and those purposing to enter the East India Company's service. The services of Captain Walker of the Fifty-ninth Foot have been secured as first Military Professor. A professorship of the Law of Nations has also been determined on.
There is not the slightest truth in the report of the marriage of Mademoiselle Lind, copied into a morning contemporary from a provincial journal. Made- moiselle Lind has not even visited Bath since her last professional engagement in that city.—Morning Chronicle.
In the Court of Chancery, yesterday, the Lord Chancellor dismissed the peti- tion of Mr. Dyes Sombre, praying that the commission of lunacy now in force against him might be superseded.
Sarah Thomas was banged at Bristol yesterday, for the murder of her mistress, Miss Jeffries. The girl had confessed her crime; attributing it to the cruel treat- ment she received from Miss Jeffries. The final scene was of a most revolting character. "The prisoner, instead of being resigned to her fate, contested it with the officers, and literally had to be carried to the gallows and executed amid screams for life, which did not cease until the fatal bolt was drawn."
The storm of Thursday so damaged the electric telegraph on the South-eastern Railway, that communications cannot be sent further than the Pluckley station.
The Epsom "Spring meeting" was to have occurred yesterday, and a vast crowd of persons assembled on the Downs; but the races were rendered iroposaible, without danger, from the depth of snow over the whole course. They were post. penal till this day; and Mr. Darling employed 300 men during the uigja sweeping away the snow.
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