21 SEPTEMBER 1850, Page 10

• Last night's Gazette contains the Speaker's notice preliminary to

a new writ for Herefordshire, in the room of the late Mr. Joseph Bailey junior, at the end of fourteen days after the 20th September.

A Committee of the -whole Court of Aldermen was held yesterday, to consider the appointment of a Recorder in the room of the late Mr. Law. The meeting was secret, but it is understood that the office has been of- fered to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Crowder, Mr. Page Wood, and Mr. Stuart Wortley ; that the first three gentlemen have declined it ; but that "Mr. Wortky's friends consented to take it for him if the conditions were such as were suitable to him." The Committee resolved to "report accord- ingly" to the Court.