On Tuesday, the Tory Peers assembled at the residence of
Lord Lyndhurst, who has been regularly installed chief of the faction.
The Ex-Speaker, Lord Canterbury, has received notice to quit the Speaker's house in September. This step has not been resorted to be- fore it was necessary. There are some people who will never take a hint. ....Morning Chronicle. [Has the Chronicle anything to tell us of the old furniture, originally paid for by the public, which Lord Canterbury offered to sell to the public, and which the Tory Lords of the Trea- sury, during the pure Administration of Sir Robert Peel, agreed to fake on the needy and greedy Lord's own terms-5001. ?]
Captain Hindmarsb, of the Royal Navy, the Governor of the new colony of South Australia, attended at the King's Levee on Wed- nesday. Captain Hindmarsh was presented to his Majesty by Lord Olenelg.
The Lords Committee on the Great Western Railway Bill have, after an inquiry that has continued for the almost unprecedented period of forty-six days, determined on their report. The report, contrary to expectation, is in favour of the bill ; which now will, without doubt, pass into a law. Such was the interest felt in the measure, that up- wards of fifty Peers voted. The majority in favour of the bill was twelve.—Chronicle. On Thursday, Lord Brougham delivered the judgment of the House of Peers in the case of Sir George and Lady Warreuder, con- firming the decree of the Scotch Courts, by which the parties were divorced.
Last night's Gazette contains the following account of the average assets and liabilities of the Bank of England, from the 2d of June to the 2,5th of August.
Liabilities. Assets.
Circulation £18,340,000 Securities £26,964,000 Deposits 12,303,000 Bullion 6,:3211,000 £30,648,000 .£33,290,000 The sentence of the Court-martial .held at Galway on the 8th of June, on Lieutenant Sir James Douglas Hamilton Hay, Acting Pay- master of the Thirty-sixth Depot, has been just promulgated. Sir James was arraigned in four charges, the substance of which was, that he had overcharged the officers in their wine-accounts ; that he had fraudulently charged the mess-fund with a sum of money, and had torn out the leaf in the ledger to prevent the overcharge from being detected ; and that he had entered to the private account of an officer a larger sum than had been actually paid. On these charges he was found guilty, and sentenced to be dismissed the service ; but recommended to mercy, on account of length of service, and the unprovided state of his numerous family. The King has affirmed the sentence, but al- lowed the prisoner, the value of his commission.
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