The lucrative Colonelcy of the Seventh Dragoon Guards has be-
come vacant by the demise of Lieutenant-General Sir R. Bolton, G. C. H. He had been Colonel of the corps since December 1822.
Frederick Hawkes Hawkes Nottidge, Esq. of' Berden Park, Essex, has had a large fortune left him. The testator directs that the money shall be paid only when he is actually returned as an M. P. An open- ing is to be made immediately. Mr. N.'s aged friend, Sir Gerard Noel Noel, is expected to resign in his favour for the county of Rutland.— Standard. Why, this would be giving up a seat in Parliament in order to enable Mr. Nottidge to obtain a large sum of money. The " traffiL and agreement" takes place under very suspicious circum- stances. Is not Mr. Hardy alarmed? Where is the praiseworthy jealousy and abhorence of any thing that has the appearance of cor- ruption, which lately animated the Tory journalists ? But perhaps the Standard has been hoaxed, and the whole story is false.]
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