filtisttlIantous.

All doubt as to one Ministerial change is at an end: it will be seen by Parlia- mentary proceedings that Mr. William Forbes Mackenzie becomes the Scotch Lord of the Treasury, in the room of Mr. Pringle; who voted against the Maynooth Bill, tendered his resignation, and found it accepted. Mr. Mackenzie formerly opposed the grant, but sees better now.

It is now said, and we believe the surmise to be correct, that so soon as Sir Robert Peel carries his bill, and effects a little more damage upon Ireland and Protestantism, it is his intention to resign office, and retire into private life.— Dublin Evening Mail. [By whom is it said, and on what authority2] Lady Charlotte Dundas has resigned her situation as one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Dutchess of Kent.

The Lords of the Treasury have addressed a letter to the Commissioners of Excise, authorizing them to forbear to charge the duties on auctions after the 8th April, on the usual condition that the parties consent to abide the ultimate dea- den of Parliament.

A paragraph going the round of the papers states on good "authority, that the office of Chief Justice of New South Wales' vacant by the recent death of Sir James Dowling, is to be filled up by one of the learned gentlemen already in the colony, and not by any member of the English bar."

The Bishop of London has suspended the Honourable and Reverend Mr. Monckton from officiating as a clergyman for the space of twelve months.—Tinies.

A disagreement, we regret to learn, is said to exist between the Directors and the principal students of the Government School of Design at Somerset House. All the students taking part in the affair are, we believe, suspended during its consideration by the Council, to whom the matter in dispute has been referred.— Standard.

Lord Melbourne met with an accident a few days ago. While getting out of his carriage, he entangled his foot in the folds of a cloak, and fell, le

his side. -He has been confined to the house, and has suffered from an attack of the gout.

Letters from Bourges, of the 17th instant, announce the dangerous illness of Don Carlos's wife. She had been visited by Dr. Recamier and Dr. Cruveilhet, who considered her state alarming.

On the 8th instant, the King of Denmark had a fall whilst walking, whereby he severely bruised his knee; but leeches being promptly applied, no serious result was feared.

The Globe states that Messrs. Chalon, Stanfield, Leslie, Christall, Stump, and Ward, departed from England on the 20th instant for New York; "it is under- stood, to paint the Hall of Congress of the United States."

The Clamor Public° of Madrid tells this anecdote, under the date of Toledo 15th April. "Yesterday, in the afternoon, the son of the celebrated English Minister, Sir Robert Peel, one of the Attaches of the British Embassy at Madrid, arrived here. Just as the carriage was passing before the post at the gate of Alcantara, the carabineers on duty approached it to ascertain whom it contained. The son of Sir Robert Peel, without any more ceremony, presented to the cars- bineers a brace of double-barrelled pistols. The latter, wishing to acknowledge that delicate attention, ran to their arms, in order to repay the •oung foreigner in the same coin, and tomake him understand that under such circumstances Spa- niards are not people to remain in the background. This friendly interview might

have had fatal consequences but for the interference of some civil officers. The Poli- tical Chief, on being informed of the occurrence, summoned before him the En-

glishman; who told him, with the candour that characterizes his nation, that he did not understand Spanish, and that he had merely shown his pistols to the carabineers to know if they were subject to duty. The Political Chief, deeming the reply satisfactory, allowed the innocent foreigner to depart. Had he been a Spaniard!—"

Among its periodical gossip about the lyric drama on the Continent, the Morn- ing Post mentions some characteristic facts respecting the drama in Spain.

"Nothing can be more marvellous than the dramatic fecundity of Spain amidst such a constant and fearful commotion of society as prevails in that wretched country. Spain reckons from 110 to 120 living authors; 82 new dramas have

been brought out in the course of 1844, most of them original; 29 new play- wrights have made their debut within the twelve months! Our attention has been called to this curious state of things by the publication of a tragedy by

Gonzales Bravo, late Prime Minister of Spain, and now Ambassador to the Court of Donna Maria. Gonzales Bravo was previously celebrated for his composition of Andaluzadas—Andalusian national songs; when all at once, betwixt two insurrections, he brought out this play in Madrid. The drama of Gonzales Bravo reflects an ill-conditioned country and an ill-regulated mind. It is entitled, Ad el Amor venga sus Agravios; Thus does Love avenge its Wrongs.' The heroine, a young lady of quality, makes the most indelicate advances to the object of her fancy; all obstacles disappear betwixt them; but one day a rival runs his sword through him—the lady in despair becomes a nun. The lover, supposed defunct, however, suddenly appears restored to life, and the nun at once harbours him in her celL A hue and cry is set up. She pokes her lover into a convent boo, or convent trunk; but when the danger is over and she opens it, she finds he has died

suffocated. Vengeance then absorbs her mind, and she goes about most religiously armed with dagger and poison to smite the rival, the cause of all the evil. She manages at last to entrap the doomed Don; gives him a glass of poisoned water, of which she takes the -half herself first to encourage him, and they both die poisoned: such is the play of the late Minister Gonzales Bravo—such is Spain!'

The Royal frigate Alarm, 26 grins, was launched on Wednesday, from Sheer- ness Dockyard. There was another launch, that of a large Indiaman, named the Lady Petre, at Limehouse, the property of Mr. Somes, M.P.

The Wladimir and Preussischer Adler, steam frigates, were launched on Wed- nesday, at Liverpool. They are both splendid vessels, built of iron; one for the Russian and time other for the Prussian Government.

On Saturday last, between sixty and seventy men, with their wives and fami- lies, left the Metropolis for Brighton, where they embarked in a steam-tug for Havre and Rouen. The band comprised railway navigators and smiths, who were engaged to work on the railway between Rouen and Dieppe.

Experiments have been made, at glass-works at Bishopwearmouth, to test the practicability of making pipes of glass for the conveyance of gas, water, &c.• and the experiments have confirmed the statement of the Premier, that pipes stronger than those now made of metal for such purposes can be formed of glass.

A gentleman who was proceeding from London to Bristol by the Great Western Railway, on Saturday last, discovered just before the train reached Slough that he had lost his purse, containing 9001. ()n arriving at Slough he had the electric telegraph put in action- and in five minutes after he received the happy gence that the purse had been found at the Paddington booking-office, by a Police. man who had searched for it on the news of its loss being received.

The debts of Messrs. Allsop, the ale-brewers of Burton, are much leas than were reported; and their creditors have given them the time they ask to enable them to fulfil their engagements, in the expectation that they will be fully able to per- form them.

We are informed that the Reverend F. Cox has forwarded a copy of Tawell's confession to Sir James Graham, and one also to the Judge who tried the culprit. —Globe.

A would-be robber has been foiled, at a farm house in Longton Moss, Lanca- shire, by the resolution of a number of children. The farmer and his wife went to Preston market the other day, and left seven children in the house under the care of the eldest, a girl twelve years old. In the evening a man entered, with his face covered with crape; and, amid the outcries of the children, lie searched some drawers and a closet for money which the farmer had recently received for a cow: he could not discover it, and the children, who knew where it was, would not tell. Excited by the opposition which the eldest girl made to his entering an inner room, the man knocked her down. Upon this the children made so much noise, that the fellow left the house to see if any one were near. A little boy,foue years odd, instantly shut the door; and the rest fastened it by means of a spade. The robber attempted to enter by a window; but the juvenile defenders made such a demonstration with axe, spade, and hook, that he soon shrunk away, fearing the return of the farmer During a heavy gale of wind, on the night of Friday week, several vessels were wrecked QII the Goodwin Sends; and it is feared meal-lir. ,have been lost.