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A circular has been sent to all the incumbents, by the Commis- sioners appointed by his Majesty's letters patent under the Great Seal, to inquire into the revenues of all Ecclesiastical benefices, donatives, pelf:ewe) euraeies, and chapelries. The circular contains thirty-two articles of inquiry relative to each incumbency.

The Cinmaissioners of the Board of Taxes having been petitioned by Henry Baly, postmaster of Warwick, and several others, in opposi- tion to a surcharge for apprentices, on the ground that they were chargeable with duty as shopmen, have returned an answer to the effect, " that the petitioners are not liable to charge for their apprentices ; and the surveyor has been desired to withdraw the charges accord- ingly." - Notice has been given from the Post. office, that the mails for Ham- burg, which had been limited, on the breaking up of the Harwich station, to once a-week, will be made up twice a-week as formerly.

The sinecure of Registrar of the Consistory Court has become va- cant by the death of the Right Honourable Richard Ryder, brother to the Earl of Harrowby. Mr. Ryder sat for Tiverton in mime Parlia- ments, as the nominee of Lord Harrowby he finally retired from pub- lic life at the election of 1831.

By the death of Field-Marshal Sir Alured Clarke, the Colonelcy of the 7th Fusiliers has become vacant. Sir Alured entered the Army as an Ensign seventy-three years ago.

For two or three days this week, there was an active rumour of Lord John Russell having been attacked by cholera, and an improved edition killed him off without ceremony. The Devonshire Tories would fain bury Lord John ; but there was no truth in the story of the attack, or of its pretended consequences.

Charles the Tenth, the Duke of Angouleme, and Henry the God- sent, as the Quotidienne calls him, left Leith on Tuesday. An address was presented to the Ex-King on Monday, by Dr. Badenoch and Baillie Sma'—Small enough. The Ex-King embarked in the United King- dom at the Chain Pier,—a road which was begun long ago, in honour of George the Fourth's landing, being finished in honour of Charles the Tenth's departure.

The Edinburgh Evening Post has published an article. in which, after telling that Somerville(Major Wyndham's Somerville) was re- commended to Mr. Tait of Edinburgh by Mr. Hume, the Member for Middlesex, it goes on to insinuate that he was discharged by the worthy bookseller for embezzling the money he had been employed to collect. Soneerville's reply, in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday, is brief, but, apparently, quite conclusive. He was recommended to Mr. Tait by Mr. Dickson, the nurseryman, of Edinburgh. He left him, for reasons of which the remotest suspicion of dishonesty could not well be one ; for it so happens, that his successor in Mr. Tait's service was recommended by him, and that successor was his own brother. To another charge of the Evening Post, which might with some people pass as a compliment—namely, that Somerville, while with Mr. Tait, was a great spokesman at Reform meetings—he answers very naively-

". I never made, nor ever attempted to make a speech in my life, and in all probability never will; for this very good reason, viz. that I cannot do it." We confess we never could see the use—laying the morality of the practice out of the question—of such haphazard assertions as those of the Evening Post. Had Somerville done all that the Post alleged, that all would have left Major Wyndham precisely where it found bine ; it would have left Mr. Tait where it found him ; it would have left the Reformers where it found them. If being sue, the story could do nothing ; being false, it could effect as little. We are all gobe- anouches more or less, we folks who deal in news; and we are, from fellow-feeling, disposed to make large allowances for editorial credulity; but surely a little scepticism is called for when a tale is to be repeated that goes directly to charge a man with being a swindler and a thief, for no better reason than because he is poor, and has been persecuted.

What will our friends in the North say to the following? We take it from a notice in the Chelmsford Chronicle of "an important sale of live and dead stock" at Thorndon Hall, Brentwood ; where it forms a prominent item- " 21 fat Scots, fit for the butcher."

The following paragraph has run the round of the journals— "A petition from the Anti-Slavery Society, signed by Mr. Fowell Buxton, Lushington, and Mr. Macaulay, has been presented to the Congress of the United States, praying an immediate abolition of slavery. It produced a debate, in which the members for the Southern States declared, that 'should there ever appear a disposition to consider the question seriously, they would not dispute it an that House, but in the open field, where powder and cannon should be their meters, and their arguments lead and steel.' The petition was not entertained."

Mr. Macaulay denies that he ever signed any such petition, and ex- presses his belief that Dr. Lushington and Mr. Buxton know no more oft than he does.

The Government of the United States have given notice that a por-

don of their 3 per Cent. Stock will be paid off at par in October, and the remainder in January next, by which time the whole of the public debt of the Union will be extinguished.

A prospectus has been issued by the house of Baring, for a loan of 7,000,000 dollars, for the State of Louisiana. It is to bear 5 per cent. interest, payable in London, and to be issued in bonds of 1,000 dollars each ; and the whole is to be paid off, by certain portions at a time, at fixed periods, in twenty years. The whole of the payments are to be completed by the 17th of June next, and the interest will commence from the 1st of February.

A letter of the 6th instant from Rome, gives details of the new will made by the mother of Napoleon, in consequence of the death of the Duke of Reichstadt. After giving comparatively trifling legacies to her younger children and grandchildren, and to some pious foundations, she directs that the great bulk of her property should be formed into a majorat, to be held in perpetuity by the eldest male of the Bonaparte family. If the family should become extinct, she devises this property to the capital of Corsica. She recommends her sons and her brother Cardinal Fesch to follow her example, and thus increase the majorat, so that the name of Bonaparte may to the latest posterity be attended with distinction and lustre. She directs a plain monument to be erected to her memory at Ajaccio, with no other inscription than—"A la Mere de Napoleon."

The Duke of Modena, it is said, refuses to admit into his presence any ladies, having dreamed that he was assassinated by a woman. [The Duke should be instructed, that as dreams are interpreted by contraries, he is destined to be saved from assassination by a woman.]

During the month of August, there were performed in Paris twenty new pieces at the different theatres ; one tragedy, one melodrama, three dramas, and fifteen vaudevilles.

On the 2d instant, a rumour having prevailed at Strasburg that a publichouse-keeper in the Rue des Tonneliers had murdered his wife, a magistrate, accompanied by some police-officers, proceeded to the house, and found the body of the woman, dressed in her clothes, lying on the bed, and the husband in deep mourning, on the point of going out, to make, as he pretended, a declaration of her decease. On ex- amination, it was ascertained that the woman had been stabbed with a knife in two places in the temples, and in one in the throat. The hus- band, who maintained the most complete sang-froid, was immediately taken into custody. This crime is attributed to jealousy. They had been married only nine months ; the assassin is twenty-five years of age, and his victim only twenty-two.—Paris Paper.